The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-25

Free Theaters Will Be Organ
lied in Time.
Stories of Players Popular in
Topeka.

Free theaters, houses where plays
neglected by Broadway will be pre-
scented, are coming in time so de-
clares Donald Robertson in an inter
view in THE Dramatic Mirror" Da-
vid Wallace writes the article:
TT sounds visionary, but Donald
Robertson believes that the time 5
soon coming when not only New York
and Chicago, but many other cities,
will have free theaters. And why not:
he asks. We have free libraries, We
have the great museums where any
one may stroll in and enjoy paintings
to his hearts content, and we have
concerts in the parks. Why should
the drama, most vital Of all arts, not
be furnished by the city? This would
not conflict with the commercial the
ater of course any more than free
concerts detract from the popularity
of paid concerts, because the plays
would be notable dramas which the
public would otherwise not have a
chance to see My idea is to give plays
ranging all the way from Aeschylus to
Ibsen. No lectures, no explanations,
but simply put the dramas before the
public, and let it take out what it can.
Mr.. Robertson has been working on
this idea for years. He had it when
he organized a company in Chicago
to present standard plays. After long
experience in the theater, both here
and in England, convinced that COM
mercial producers would not put on
the standard plays which he thought
the public should have an opportunity
to see, he undertook to present these
plays with the Donald Robertson Play
ers."
Emma Bunting, who made many
friends during her stock enga cement
in Topeka last spring, is playing at
the Dauphin theater in New Orleans
n
Madame Louise Homer, who opened
the Radcliffe concerts in Topeka, pre-
scented the same program at the open
in Kansas City.
Pavlowa and her Russian dancers
will give only two performances in
New York before starting on their
western tour. They appear at the
Metropolitan Opera house, November
8, then commence their transconti-
mental trip.
Although Her Little Highness" has
been described as the worst opera
Reginald De Koven ever wrote, Mizzi
Hajos, who has the title role, is max
ing a distinct sensation in New York.
The little authenticated Austrian
pleased Topeka in 1.-The Spring Maid"
The dramatization of Longfellow-s
'tEvangeline'' was not appreciated on
Broadway. Arthur Hopkins, mana
ger with an ideal" producer of THE
Poor Little Rich Girl" arraigns the
critics for their abuse of it, declar-
ing it the most significant production
of the decade.
Margaret Ang1in. in Topeka in 1.-The
Awakening of Helena Ritchie,'' and
Green Stockings" opened this week
in Los Angeles opposite Ian MacLaren
in Antony and Cleopatra"
The Metropolitan Opera season be-
gins in New York November II with
Caruso, Farrar and Scott in the prin-
cipal roles of Massenet's .Manon."
comedy by c. NJ. s. Mcclellan and Ivan
Caryll. authors of 1.-The Pink Lady
and "Oh, OH Delphine'' has achieved
an instantaneous success in Philadel
phia-
stars in Young Wisdom at the Apo1-
10 theater in Atlantic City.
Lavender and Old Lace" Myrtle
Reeds widely read novel, has been
dramatized by David G. Fischer. and
opens in Washington next week.
Fritz Kreisler. who plays in Topeka
under Parkhurst management October
80. is in Chicago, in concert with
Whitehall and Farrar-
Miss Ada Lewis, who Is playing in
1.-THE Honeymoon Express" is a most
frugal person, and it was only recent
ly that her friends could understand
what she has been doing with her
money She had erected a modern
apartment house in New Rochelle.
Just as she was ready to open the