The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-09
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THEATRE
CONING ATTRACTIONs.

Saturday, December 1 6, matinee and
night-"Alrna. Where Do You Live p
Saturday, December 23-"Get Rich
Quick Wallingford.
| Christmas-Max Dill
December 30-Blanche Ring.
January 1.-THE Fortune Hunter"
January 2-s"The Gambler
Crystal.
The Troubles of a Butler-Edison.
A Busy Cupid-Gaumont
A Woman -Biograph Monday
and Tuesday.
Majestic.
Dorothy Vernon of Hadden Hall"
Oxford
Moving Pictures and Vaudeville.
Moving Pictures.
Coy.
Iris.
Crystal
Best.
Uncle Toms Cabin will be the Of
fering at the Grand tonight.
George V Hobart, one of the best
known humorous writers of the
American stage, is the librettist of Joe
Weber's production of Alma, Where
Do You Live?" which will be seen at
the Grand Saturday matinee and
night, December 16- The Oklahoma
City Times says: What do you call
it2 Is Alma Where Do You Live 2
is its real technical name?" This was
the first question that seemed to arise
in the minds of those who saw the
play at the Overholser Thursday night
This combination of comedy, music
and drama grasps and holds you in a
way that few productions ever do. The
best evidence of this was a house filed
to the doors Thursday night, while
the first night the house was small
one Alma Sweet Alma" has a
fa1 no ic vim a
a face ever dimpled over with smiles
and a personality that is captivating
Charles A. Murray has long been rated
as a great comedian, having been
starred as the leader of the Murray
and Mack aggregation. In this play
he comes near occupying the center
of the stage, and not without the APP
prevail of the audience, Aubrey Yates.
the unsophisticated youth who is to
receive a great fortune If he is able
to Withstand the wiles of Sweet Alma,
is clever, while Edwin Carew is ever
intruding with his jealousy and vol
canic explosions at the inopportune
moment The novelty, the music, the
veaied in this unusual production
ombine to give an evenings enter
tainment-fun that one can i'll afford
to MISC. P. Sturm.
The senior class of the high school
will present THE Dictator for their
annual play. 1t is a farce comedy in
three acts made famous by Willie Col
lier. No more difficult play has ever
been attempted by a high school class
and a large cast under the direction
of Miss Helen Morrow will appear at
the Grand December Is in Richard
Harding Davis most famous play
All lovers of good, clean comedy will
welcome the announcement of the com
ing Of -~orge NJ. Cohan's much her
ford which will be presented here at
the Grand Saturday, December %. 1t
is doubtful if any purely American
play produced in the last decade has
been the recipient of such unanimous
approval a ) has been vouchsafed this
pen product of young Mr.. Conan whose
many laugh provoking plays in the past
have been the means of securing him
g following sufficiently enthusiastic and
numerous To fill any playhouse in which
they are scheduled for a hearing. In
view of this, and also to the fact that
Get Rich Quick Wallingford' has been
New York city and Chicago in recent
years, il is safe to predict a big de-
rnand for seats when the sale opens on
Thursday, December 81
The Chicago Examiner says: Heavy
lidded persons searching for a cure for
sleeplessness viii do sagaciously to
stay away from Blanche Ring and 1.-THE
Garrick doing a wild and wicked night
work
It was a quick performance last
night on a dry, cool track and those
that were at all leisurely in laughing
at Exhibit A found their mirth assail-
ing Exhibit Cat which rate a deal
of the audience must have gone home
and laughed in it's sleep.
It is a good bit of fooling to take
horne with you Miss Ring is the veri-
table snake-charmer of unrrosperous
thought. Go with a murder on your
conscience, and she will make you see
YOUR dead in heaven. Go with larceny
and she will impel you to refund.
OF course her wicked night work
isn't that at all. She is all hearty.
healthy, happy, the visible example OF
the new idea that health and felicity
are hope
But. for a blissful change, it is Wall
street rather than poor old Broadway
And when the scene is widely shifted
everybody goes to honest Reno. Yes,
honesti For it is the fistic instead OF
the divorce mill that attracts them
After the innocuous cowboys and the
innocent girl gamblers and the sylvan
play of the sixshooter, they can go
back to Fifth avenue and rough things
For this little touch of peace and
quietude in Reno one must be bend