The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-13

Mr.. Hale Hamilton arrived in Iopeka
on Wednesday, and is the guest OF MS
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. NJ Ham
ilton. AIS Topeka avenue. He travelled
from New York with Mr.. David War
field who has Just closed a second sue
cessf1l season in 1.-The Return OF Peter
Grimm" and is on his way to spenu
the summer at his home in San Fran
CISCO Mr.. Hamilton has appeared for
two years in the ever popular Get
delighted audiences in New York, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia. Next year ne
will present a new play, Charles Klein
dra matization of Rex Beach's Ihe
Meier Do Well The play is essen
TALLY different from the book, for the
Spanish girl, Chitiqua, does not appear
at all, and the dauntless hero Kirk
Anthony, is married instead to Mrs.
CORTLAND. Mr.. Hamilton will spend a
quiet month in town, then leave for
New York to take up the study OF
Klein's new production, which will
have its first performance at the
Lyric Theatre, September 2. There
was an extremely interesting point in
Mr.. Hamilton's mention of the two
plays. I've read the Ne'er Do Well
study it all summer. Kirk isn't a
character study, he's what We call
straight AS for 'Get-Rich-Quick,' he
is a repulsive character, 1 believe, in
tho book. 1 wanted my own conception
of his looks, actions, ETC., and have
never read 'Wallingford' story in my
life"
Mr. Hamilton sketched briefly and en-
tertaingly the way in which a large
New York play is produced.
Everyone in the Ne'er Do WelP
cast" he began, will be called to re-
hearsal at a certain time in a certain
theatre, and the parts will be given out.
The play will be read by it's author
Mr. Klein. oh. Lord, yes he smiled,
in answer to query, "a lot depends
upon him. Pronunciation, interpreta-
ton, everything. After you've heard
his reading, you're not supposed to ask
questions. You're supposed to know.
Its an interesting thing that in a
New York theater, you never hear
words mispronounced. The stage di-
rector has a dictionary, and the pre-
ferred pronunciation is used. In this
play Mr.. Klein will give the correct
pronunciation of the words peculiar to
Panama-he'n give them to us once,
and.we won't dare to forget them.
well. After the reading we start
the rehearsing of the first act. The
scene is described by the author, and
the entrances and exits are marked off
by chairs. You show by crosses in
your own part every tim you cross
a character on the stage. After the
first act is in fairly good shape, you
move on to the second; the rehearsals
last. in all, thirty days. At the first
rehearsal your clothes are told you,
what you have to wear; after the sec
ond week you are supposed to be
dead letter perfect and the stage di-
rections begin. The final points are
touched upon, the acts, one by one, are
set up, and the last week the dress
rehearsals, each a perfect perform
ance, time and all, are given
Mr.. Hamilton stretched his legs, clad
in ice cream trousers, puffed thought
fully at his cigar, and concluded:
1.-The Meier Do Well is a mammoth
Notwithstanding. There are fifty
speaking parts, and Arthur Bowdoin,
the great scenery painter, is setting it
up. Cost US about $4,000 he sighed,