The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-28

Ity Bill for Next Week.
! Virginia. The piece contains at least
| fifteen original song ensembles and
| chorus contributions and enough dis
! tinct features and novelties to lift it
! into a division by itself. Those who
have seen Mr.. Dudley this season say
! that in the present play he has the
part of his successful career. Among
the artists supporting Mr.. Dudley are
Talbot, Roley Gibson, Bessie Payne
Lottie Grady and Alberta Ormes.
Eddie Foy,, having most Of his band
of little Toys in "Over the River" is
just at present the joke of New York.
Many tales are told about him, but in
the following story, the Dramatic Mir
| ror seems to have found the funniest
of all:
AS the Usher hears it. Eddie Foy
was hurrying his numerous family
home to New Rochelle last Monday
night. They had assisted him at the
opening performance of over the River
in Newark, and Eddie felt in duty
bound to get all the kids on board the
last train out of the Grand Central
for home, sometime about 1915 a. m.
There was a wild dash between the
Hudson terminal and the Fulton stree
subway station, Papa Foy leading
then the seven kids in diminuendo,
and Frank Payne, ]. Louis .. hite and
A W. Bachelor bringing up the rear
Papa had a long lead, but just as he
reached the subway stairs a burly blue
coat stopped him to ask: Hey, what's
botherin' your"
Me? Nothing. Why?" stammered
Foy. The policeman waved his club
toward the associated Toys. Then wot
crowd a-followerin' yer fer?''
The much talked-of toast in the Mer-
ry Countess, which, Of course. does not
make Broadway even gasp is as fol-
lows: ITO wine, woman and song. May
the wine and the songs always be
good
The best of US have our superstitions
Sarah Bernhardt, to make another
farewell tour" has with her tEe
grewsome talisman she always carries
"a wee jeweled skull said to have be-
longed to the wonderful Rachael.
Within the Law" which just OPP
ened on Broadway. is reviewed at
length by the First Nighter." The
play, it seems, has thrilling, strong.
if incredulous plot. and an unusually
good cast. This play is later coming
to Topeka.
The New York papers are giving much
space to ''Everywoman,' being produced
SO successfully in London at Drury Lane.
The following story is attributed to Hency
w. Savage, who has reaped a rich har-
vest from this sensational production:
In the fourth act there occurs an in
cident of such direct appeal that instances
have not been infrequent when members
OF the audience have >5rgotten their SUI
roundings long enough to make immediate
and audible response to it. In the New
Years scene, when Everywoman, desert
ed by Youth, Beauty and Modesty. real
Might n
and with tremulous voice thus addresses
the skies:
fer such as I? I cry for help! Help! Who
will anwser?"
Up from her place among a Londen
audience of four thousand persons, d
woman with tear-stained face rose, and
excitedly waving her handkerchief at tao
stage age cried in reply: Il will help you:
A quick glance at the plays that are ap-
parently proving popular in the east in
cludes the following names: Officer 66s,
George Arliss in Disraen Little Miss
Brown. The Governors Lady Within the
Law, When Bunty Pulls the String, The |
Perplexed Husband. The Girl from Mort !
martre. The Meier Do Well and Fanny's |
First Play
Tim Murphy, favorite Topeka actor. |
Jim Broncho in The Man from Mis- |
souri," and comic star in "A Corner in
Coffee" THE Texas steer" and The |
Carpet Bagger," is making a big hit on |
Broadway in Honest Jim Blunt TT IS |
a pleasure to watch Mr.. Murphy at |
work. says the New York Mail 'he is |
literally comic genius. We smile at the |
lift of a shoulder or the elevation of an
eyebrow"
One of the biggest shows to be played |
in New York this winter is William /
Faversham's all-star revival of Julius !
Caeser." In the company of IS able actors |
are Tyrone Power, Frank keenan,, Fuller /
Mellish and Julie Opp. The play opens |
the first week in October.
Oliver Morosco, in the New York |
Tribune. has foretold the end of the |
punch play and the advent of a new |
and better play. Punch plays" accord /
ing to Morosco, place intolerable matters |
before the public, in a form and in Ian
guage that will not be too great a shock /
to sensibilities.' AS typical punch |
play of the Inilder sort, witness tie |
Common Law" which came to Topeka |
this week