The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-30
AT The THEATERS
At the Hin.

Ioday and tomorrow will be Selig
Red Seal Comedy days at the Hip
theater. The feature picture for these
uays VIII be "A Texas Steer,'' a visual
Yea version of Chas. Hoyt's great
stage success Mr. Tyrone Power will
play the part of Maverick Brander. the
representative from Texas who creates
suGn a sensation m Washington.
Ihc two acts of vaudeville will be
headed by Mile. ellis & Co. Mile
ellis is billed as a modern lady Her
cuies and is said to be very attractive
IN noth face and figure. The Three
M1sSour1ans, known as masters of
melody will complete the vaudeville
end of the program
AT the Novelty
There will be five different nations
represented by the five acts of vaude-
VIIle at the Novelty for the last half
Show"
America will be represented by the
TWO Loves, who will incidentally rep
resent the west with typical cowboy
stunt, the Musical Gordon Highland
erS come from Scotland and will rep
resent that country in a strictly
Scotch style with bag pipes, songs and
hlghland fling dancing; the name of
Billy 'Swede" Hall tells on him where
he is from and they say he represents
Sweden admirably; Hirshel Hendler is
a Russian moHologist, and Granville
and Mack are Italian organists. The
Pathe News Will represent a few of
the nations not represented by the
vaudeville acts.
At the Grand.
Every one who has witnessed the
Chinatown pictures, being shown at
the Grand this week, are walking ad-
vertisements for the pictures. They
are being shown from till 5 in the
afternoons and from 7:20 to IL at
night and it is worth while to see in
picture form the ways of the Chinese
and at the same time get glimpse of
the Frisco exposition.
At the Electric.
George Kleine's recently completed
film version of Owen Davis THE
Woman Next Door," which visits the
Electric theater on Friday and Satur-
day, is a rare example of the cameras
ability, properly directed, to reflect
the strongest emotions of the heart.
Miss Irene Fenwick, the dainty, slen-
der, little star of AL Woods great
Broadway success, 1.-THE Song of
hicie so we'll suited to her powers or |
0ne in which she felt so much at home !
as the role of Jenny Gay in THE |
Woman Next Door,"
The timid, gentle, pathetic figure of |
he socially oStraciZed actress appeals /
strongly for sympathy and early in the /
action wins for Miss Fenwick a warm |
place in the heart of the audience. In |
Miss Fenwick's work in 1.-The Woman
Next Door marks her great an
artist of the screen as she already is
If the so-called legitimate stage.
At the COzy.
Emily Stevens, whose wonderful
Nmotional powers have won her such
lotable distinction in stellar roles on
he speaking stage, and whose superb
york in Cora" found such high favor
With Metro audiences will again make
a q !
heater today in Destiny or 1.-The
oul of a Woman" the latest release
# the B. A Rolfe company in the
Program of the Metro Pictures cor
oration.
Destiny" or 1.-The Soul of a WON
H." is an allegOry of unusual power
reduced by Edwin Carewe from the
riginal document by Anthony P. KEEL
Y, and contains a wealth of striking
nd artistic Photographic effects. It is
1 five acts, more than three hundred
Genes and has superb cast of dis
lnguished players, including, in adj
-uere, Henry Bergman, Efingham
into and others equally notable.
At the Iris.
One of the most novel introduce
ions to a photoplay ever presented
shown in 1.-The White Sister," Ess-
nays six-act photop1ay. The novel, |
7ritten by F. Marion Crawford, glides
ut the stage, apparently without
uman agency, presents its back with j
ne title of the book. turns around and |
pens to the frontpiece, showing a full
.ngth picture of Viola Allen, the IA
lous stage star who leads in the play j
Iiss Allen is then seen to step right {
ut of the page in diminutive form
nd increases to natural size, when
ne makes bow to the audience, and
he play is on. This great feature
reduced by Fred E. Wright, will be
lown at the Iris today and tonight