The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25

vocally difficult musical numbers, the
chorus has been recruited for singing
ability as we'll as good looks.
personal letter from A. G. Della
| mater, who manages the Countess
1 Coquette." to Mr.. Crawford, reads in
part as follows: Il positively guar
! antee the play to be the equal. if not
the superior, of any similar attraction
| that has ever played your city. If
the audience does not pronounce it so
! after the first act, you are at liberty
to keep the gross receipts
| The Countess Coquette" plays one
| night stands only between Denver and
Kansas City. Topeka is seeing it af-
| ter Paris, but before either Chicago
| or New York.
| Miss Kitty Gordon, the beautiful
prima donna who comes to the Grand
1 February 10 in the "Enchantress,' -
was educated to be a pianist and
( den.
! While there she had the honor of
playing before the king of SaXony a
number of times, and began her pro-
| feSsional career under the most aus
picious circumstances. But the con-
cert stage in England is over-supplied
with pianists and Miss Gordon found
herself barely able to make both ends
meet. During one of the few con-
certs she played her first season, nine
! y
offer from George Edwards to take
q small part at the Gaiety in London,
and so immediate was her success
that she has followed her adopted
| profession ever since.
! The program which Lyman Howe
| will show for three days at the Grand
contains many comparisons which are
| striking, especially for Americans
who, living in an environment that is
RI to I1o 1nSf
ciate all the more the strange scenes
| of foreign lands that are not as pro-
gressiVe our own. Such reproduce
| tions cultivate the power of observa-
ton. This in turn aWakens new
thoughts, for the more one sees the
| more accurately one thinks.
The four vaudeville acts, billed for
the Majestic next week, promise to be
exceedingly good For the first half
of the week Johnson and Hendricks,
late principals of the Madame Sherry
company, will present variety de
luxe" and Douglass and Douglass will
endeavor to make people laugh. The
last half of the feature act comes di-
rect from the Garden theater in Kan
sas City-H- S. Whitney's operate
dramas and comedies from we'll
known com panies, is one of the best
in the city.
will be headliners for next weeks bill
at the Novelty. The special feature is
lara Garments troupe of hoop-rollers
and jugglers, and Shaw and Wilson
in a vaudeville sketch. Frank and
Door, billed as Those Entertaining
Boys" are said to be excellent must
clans with harp and violin. Bert
Jordan is an eccentric dancing come
dian. An added feature will be Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Young in a Spectacu-
lar sketch called early Days-East
and West" The entertainment closes
/ with especially good Essanay film.
Mrs. Leslie Carter will make her
first New York performances of the
season during the week of January 81
al the West End theater.
The most i'm Dortant opening of the
current week will be the New York
premiere of Franz Lehar's latest oper-|
eta 1.-The Man With Three Wives
under the management of the Messrs.
Shubert at Weber & Fields new thea
ter in West Forty-fourth street.
The one hundredth performance of
Mile. Emma Trentini in THE FREELY"
took place at the Casino theater JAM