The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
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Ferne Rogers will make her first
appearance in the title role of ''Prin-
cess Pat" the delightful musical play
by Victor Herbert, next week, prior to
her engagement in Chicago.
A performance which has beer
rated high by the reviewers, in New
York, was that of Bertha Mann, in the
role of Alvilde Hall, in when the
Young Vine Blooms" the comedy by
the late Bjornstjedne Bjornson, which
had it's first performance in America
Miss Mann won great success in New
York in To-day" where she played
THE Philadering Wife,
Miss Bessie Dainty, the pretty stock
actress who headed her company at
the Novelty last spring and early in
the summer, is now playing an in
definite engagement at a theater in
| Waco, Tex.
The discovery was made on Novem-
Der IS that "Hobson's Choice" con-
| tains thirteen letter and so does
| Comedy theater' in New York, and
there are thirteen in the company and
so on. 1t was also discovered. that
Frank Wilstach, who is present
agent, has the mystic number. as well
as Whitford Kane and Harold De
| Becker, who contribute much to the
success which it has achieved in
Gotham.
Ramona Wells. who originated the
jitney movement in Topeka last spring
as manager of the Crawford Jitney
company, and who later started a
concern of his own, Is now playing in
Triangle pictures. In "Old Heidel-
burg" which comes to the Orpheum
shortly, Wells is wounded in a duel
with a prince (Wallace Reid after he
has kissed a country lass dorothy
Gish). In films Wells makes a for
middable villain, but personally he is
likable fellow. His jitney bubble in
Topeka, however, fell to the earth.
Hale Hamilton recently appeared
before the state censor board in a
Triangle film, Her Painted Hero"
in which he is starred The picture is
soon to be shown here. Hamilton is
Topeka man, the son of the late J.
D. NJ. Hamilton, claims attorney for
the Santa Fe, and Mrs. Hamilton.
In addition to his regular duties as
dramatic editor of the Topeka High
School World, "Pilr' Bowman finds
considerab bile time to play golf Pill
is considered a likely man to fill the
title role in the coming high school
play.
In a titular role Mr. Bowman's ex-
perience will prove fruitful.
Meanwhile, the question arises,
what has become of the Ferguson
brothers? These two actors conquered
the patrons of a local theater last
season by their masterful presentation
of such productions as "A Bucket of
Blood" etc. The villain in the COM
pany had the distinction of always
sported riding whip. He had the
rumbling voice of an actor of fifty
years ago. After their Indefinite"
engagement of two weeks here, the
No NH Vnd to ftaka
In sharp contrast to the Ferguson
brothers are the Edward Lynch play
ers, now at the Grand. Lynch and
his company are artists of the high |
est degree and are putting over their
show in a manner far different from |
the Fergusons.
We quote with pleasure from the
pleasant letter written to this column |
from Mr.. Joe F. Fields, of Fields and |
Brown, a vaudeville team that ap- |
cared at tt Novelty recently.
You couldn't clean the cuspidors |
on the newspapers where 1 served ap-
You'll probably grow whiskers
later in life. 1t will only be a ques-
ton of time when you are driving a
truck or shoveling snow, your proper
sphere. You can go where Sherman
said"
MI Fields, IN the course OF MS IN |
teresting letter, mentioned that PreSi-
dent Mckinley was shot by the Chi
cago Examiner. He also threatened
to come to Topeka to knock this col
umn's dome" off. In portions of the
epistle he used rude language. Mr..
Fields wit was noticeable throughout.
Charlie Chaplin took Topeka by
storm again this week in his newest
picture. If Charlie Chaplin, Theda
Bara, Marguerite Clark, Mary Pick
ford, William Farnum and Eva Tan
quay appeared on the same bill in
the city auditorium would be
packed at two dollars a throw.
1.-THE Birth of a Nation is closing a
engagement at the Grand
in Kansas City. The picture has been
all over the country the
most wonderful film ever produced
Topeka people are waiting impatientIy
for the action of the state board of
censorship on the picture. Rumor
has it that on account of the possible
negro prejudice the board members
will not allow the picture to be shown
in Kansas. From other sources comes
the word that they have no such in
tentionS.
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