The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-01

season established him as an interna-
tional favorite; Joe Carey. tenor; Ar
thur Blake, baritone, and Ward Bar
ton, the yodler, with many new faces
in the chorus and among the dancers.
The orchestra of fourteen selected
musicians will be handled by Frank
Fuhrer.
Madame x" that great mother
love drama with Miss Alice De Lane
and Boyd B. Trousdale in the leading
roles, will be the attraction at the
Grand theater on November IL.
JacQueline, the wife Of Louis F1Oriot,
driven from her home of luxury be-
cause size fOOlishly left her husband for
another man. repents and comes back.
but Floriot relentlessly orders her out
of the house. keeping their young son,
Ramona, with him. A scene, twenty
a miserable woman, compelled to seek
fOrgetfulness in the use Of Opiates and
drugs. LarOque. an adventurer, with
whom she is living, enters on scheme
with two others to blackmail her hus-
band, a clew to his identity having
been found by them. Rather than
have her son learn Of the infamy of
his mother in a quarrel with LarOQue,
she kills him and for the crime is ar
rested and placed in Jail. and is after
wards given a trial. Ramona, her
own son, defends her. Recognition
comes in the last act the great court
room scene. His eloquent plea to the
jury save the woman, but not her life.
it. but fate to punish her grants only
a few moments of a wrecked life.
An unusual musical event will be the
performance at the Grand on Saturday,
November Is, when local theater-goers
will have their first opportunity to en-
joy the captivating music of last years
New York success, THE Rose Maid.'
This delightful operetta had the rec
ord of an all summers run on Bread
way when it's catchy" numbers took
the town by storm.
THE Rose Maid opens with a gay
dance. switches to a series Of haunting
melodies. and from time to time be-
tween the laughable comedy scenes.
there are introduced waltzes, tango and
turkey trotting gallops until the OBJ
server is at a loss to say which of the
attractive numbers is his favorite. The
Rose Song is said to have sold nearly
a million copies throughout the United
States and Canada during the first six
months of the operas run at the Globe
theater, New York city.
In "Officer $685." which appears at the
Grand November q, Augustin Mac
Hugh has made his characters fit the
lightning like rapidity of the plays ac-
ton. The wealth of incident, comic.
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scattered through the three acts with
lavish prodigality by the hero who
loves at first sight, defends his home.
foils the villain and wins the lovely
girl, who is the booty coveted more
than the priceless paintings the mas
querading thief attempts to steal.
These central figures are aided and
abetted by loyal friends, whose devo-
ton, not always judiciously shown. in
wolves them in apparently hopeless tan
giles which, about to be righted, are
suddenly and unexpectedly thrown into
still greater confusion.
The nire reel production Of the IA
nous feature picture, Les Miserables,''
will be presented at the Grand the
week OF November IT.
The Edison ''Talkies'' will return to
the Grand for a two days stay COM
mencing November "a. with an entire
change of program.
George NJ. Cohan's successful farce,
broadway JONES'" will come to the
Grand November %
The Novelty.
The management has exercised much
care in selecting the vaudeville pro-
gram to be shown the first three days
Of next week at the Novelty theater.