The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-23
At the Novelty.

It is hard to tell what the final re-
suit would be if the quality of vaude-
Vile performances would continue to
increase. There must be a limit some
| time, for, as a rule, when quality goes
/ up, likewise does the cost of produc-
ton. The quality of vaudeville so far
| this season at the Novelty has met
! with general approval and if that con-
dition should remain throughout the
season the public would no doubt be
satisfied. For the coming week there
are several novelty acts, among which
for the first half will be Norriss
I Balloons. Emperor and Empress, that
present pantOmimic drama called "A
Monkey Romance" in which it is said
they play their parts as well as many
real actors. Marble Gems is a high
! class posing act reproducing with
wonderful results many masterpieces
of the sculptor's aft. Fields and
Brown will offer a refined singing and
dancing act with which they have re-
Gently met success on the Pacific
coast. The youthful prodigies, Master
Dave SchooJer. 1.-The Boy Paderewski,'
and Miss Louise Dickinson, 1.-The Girl
Soprano" will offer a miniature
musicale. Lew Wells is billed for
monologue embellished with saxa-
phone eccentricities and the Para
mount TraveIogue will make further
advancements on South America by
passing through the Panama Canal.
Al the hip.
The highest priced vaudeville bill
that has ever been offered at the Hip
this season will hold the boards for
the coming week. The first half will
see the Tetsuwari Japs in an Oriental
Novelty: Fiske and Fallon, 1.-The Mel
ody Maid and the Man. For the last
half of the week something new in
vaudeville act will be offered when
the Paris Fashion Shop" is seen.
Four handsome girls will show the
latest in Paris fashions. Chabot and
Dixon in "a Musical Variety will
complete the best two act vaudeville
that has ever been seen in Topeka.
The photo productions are as follows:
On Monday the Get Rich Quick Wal
ingford" series, with Max F'igman,
Burr Mcintosh and Lolita Robertson,
and the eighth chapter of Meal of
the Navy" Tuesday and Wednesday
the Pathe Gold Rooster days. will
have Arnold Daily in IAN Affair of
Three Nations that will be mighty in
teresting. Thursday and Friday,
known as Vitagr Blue Ribbon
days. will have Charles Hoyt's great
est comedy, "A Bunch of Keys" with
John Slavin in his original role. Sat
urday another Vitagraph Blue Ribbon
day, THE Wheels of Justice" Anna
teur night will happen on Wednesday
night. Coming old fiddlers' contest.
Miss Nielsen Draws Crowd.
MISS -Al1ce nielsen, VINO Is TO appear
here Wednesday of next week, is a
large hearted woman who expresses
her philanthropy in a very practical
way. One of her most recent public
appearances in this cause was in Kan
sas City. Mo, this past winter, when
she appeared. with other artists, at
Convention hall, in benefit enter
tainment for the Red Cross fund for
the Belgians. She made the trip from
Chicago to appear in this program,
and sang to a crowded house. Her
gown for that appearance was a Red
Cross costume furnished by a leading
musical club of Chicago. The Kansas
Cityans seemed to appreciate what she
was doing, for the house was crowded
and she was forced again and again to
respond to encores, which she did III
her usual generous and gracious way.
At the Electric.
In Divorced" five-part photo
play which is coming to the Electric
theater on Monday and Tuesday, the
Equitable Motion Pictures Corporation
has produced a striking series of il
Illustrations of the untoward results
which follow the dominance of a siren
of the stage over the better nature of
a man with a lovely wife and infant
child Hilda Spong, who has sup
plemented her English reputation by
achieving success on the stage in this
country. has given of her best dra-
matte art in the portrayal of the de-
serted ard wronged, and later erring,
wife. who after unjust suffering