The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-23
DOLLS BY DOZEN
Unique Matinee Entertainment
for Topeka Children.
Ruth Robinson Will Give Re-
ceptiOn at Grand Saturday.

If there is anything in all the world
that Miss Ruth Robinson, the pretty
Car-ROb Stock company's leading wO-
man cares for besides her manager
husband. Frank Carter. and her work,
it's a doll.
Almost any kind of a doll will do.
Rag dolls, china doll. Teddy bears and
little woody haired "darky" dolls. They
all, share equally in her affections.
From the time she wore Bingham
pinafores and pigtails and traded gum
with her playmates at recess Miss
Robinson has been doll crazy she
smilingly admits.
A view of the actresses bedroom
would send the average little girl into
ecstacies of admiration and envy.
They smile at you from the top of
dressing table and chiffoniers. They
'dangle by daitny ribbons from cretOn
curtains and bob saucily out to dance
on the head of the unsuspecting visit
or who leans backward in his chair. .
OF course there are some actor dolls
in Miss Robinson's family. Madame
Butterfly, a little Japanese lady with
a soulful expression that reminds you
of Sara Bernhard in one of her emo
tiOnal moments, hangs by the side of
the dressing table mirror.
Madame Butterfly came from San
Francisco Chinatown and was pre-
sented to her owner several years ago
by an actor returning from a Pacific
coast engagement.
little individual named after the jockey
in "Wildfire," one of Miss Robinson's
favorite plays.
A Grandm. ther, Too.
Louisa M. Alcott is the grand
mother" Of the family. Louisa's age
is-but it isn't polite to discuss ladies'
ages. Anyway she was the dearest
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son when the latter was wee little
girl. In Louisa's younger days there
were no dollies with "sure enough"
! hair and shoes and stockings made es-
pecially for them. So her sleek black
hair is painted upon her china head
and her blue stockings and gold shoes
are painted upon her china feet.
! own, special bedstead and a COM
plete wardrobe. Miss Robinson
named her after the author Of "Jo's
Boys" and Under the Lii So
| Just rag doll. with Aunt Jemima
! face, is Topsy. dignified inmate of
Miss RObinsOn's mother when the act
ress was a high school girl at Topeka.
and helped her mistress win first prize
, at tacky party given at Hudson's
| hall.
Two years ago at Fort Worth, Tex
as Miss Robinson first discovered
Lamar" big. bouncing, brown eyed
youngster almost as large as the rest
Of the family put together. Dressed
in a sweater jacket, mittens and
bOOtees, Lamar" was occupying a
prominent place in a down town store.
/ Ooh look at him." squealed Miss
Robinson, turning to her manager
on shopping trip. "I wish I had
him." wis-fully. ''Uh-huh," grunted
Mr. Carter. intent upon certain other
exhibits in the window that appealed
| to him as suitable properties for a
coming production.
Doll in Cast.
And right then and there Miss Rob-
inson mace a firm resolve to own the
doll. Shortly afterwards with the aid
of the company property man she
made this resolve good. Two babies
were needed in a certain production
Miss Robinson saw her opportunity;
she held a whispered conversation
with the property man; he went to
Mr.. Carter saying. I'VE don't need two
live babies for this bill. I know where
/ can get one, and there's a big dol
up at Blanke's store that will do fol-
the other" he said craftily. "All
right, get it," responded Manager Car
ter. The property man obeyed and
after the doll had served it's useful
ness as a member of the cast it was
taken home to the leading woman's
nursery There are thirty-five mem
bers in all to Miss Robinson's dol
family. The actress is their laundress
and dress maker.
On Saturday afternoon a doll re-
ception will be held on the stage OF
: the Grand Immediately after the mat.
inee performance of 1.-The Fortune
Hunter" and Miss Robinson invite.
all the little girls of Topeka to brins
their dolls and meet her entire fam.
} lily. They will all be there and joir
Miss Robinson in a cordial invitation