The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-08
AT The THEATERS
Seven Keys to Baldpate.


After a successful six months en-
| gagement in Chicago and one year in
| New York, Seven Keys tC Ba1dpate,' -
| George NJ. Cohan's latest effort of fun
an6 mystery, will be presented at the
| Grand Friday matinee and night, De-
| cember 10, with the original produc-
ton and a big New York cast.
Earl Derr Biggers, a well-known
writer of best Sellers is responsible
for the book, which has had enormous
sales throughout the civilized world.
Washburn Play.
A story of English society, evening
| clothes, brilliant lights, pretty women.
and clever speeches, all combined in a
subtle comedy. That is Oscar Wilde's,
| AN Ideal Husband" which the Wash
burn College Dramatic club will pre-
sent at the Grand Saturday, December
IL. The play is a well known drama
from a well known pen and is sure to
| be good The acting, while by anna
tours, will be better than that name
usually implies and the whole produce
scenery throughout will furnish an
evenings real entertainment for To-
| peka's theater-goers.
The Only Girl.
THE Only Girl" which ran for an
entire season in New York, is to be
the attraction at the Grand Tuesday
night December IA under the man
L 4
| cal comedy of a superior order with
| book and lyrics by Henry Blossom.
music by Victor Herbert and was pro-
duced under the stage direction of
Fred G. Latham. Not in long time
| has there been offered in the great
| city n musical play which provided
| such sane and wholesome amusement
as did 1.-The Only Girl and the critics
We're unanimous in praising it to the
sky.
At The Aurora.
Nine Sarah Barnhardt in Queen
| Elizabeth is the Aurora offering for
today. Anyone that has not seen this
| brilliant picture should be sure and
avail themselves of this opportunity
Thursdays program is that ever popu-
lar player, Dustin Farnum, who has
| made such a success in big produce
ton under the management of Jesse L.
| LaSky of the Paramount program
Mr.. Farnum will appear in that ever
| interesting play of western life. The
| Squaw Man.
At the Orpheum.
Round. joviaI Roscoe Arbuckle gets
| a congenial role in "Fickle Fatty's
Fall" the Triangle comic play at the
! Orpheum today. His hosts of admir-
ers in previous keystone plays will
welcome with joy his appearance in
| this new comedy, which shows him
| in amusing complications with wife
and mother-in-law. This is splash
| ing, dashing comic picture of life on
the coast. full of diving and swimming.
and rescues of men and women who
| have been hurled into the water by
| runaway autos.
Arbuckle is no made up fat man.
| He is the real genuine fat man, weigh
ing at present 2S5 pounds. In his ex-
| tensive experience Arbuckle has
played many parts. He has done sing
| ing and acrobatic stunts all over the
country and has even broken into
| opera. He was a hit the first time he
was filmed by the Keystone Studio in
| THE GangSterS.'
At the Novelty.
1t has been long time since the
Novelty stage could boast of a better
act than the Olga and Mischka Trio of
Russian dancers who are now play
ing. The dances which they do are
both classical and modern. They APP
peared on previous visits in Topeka
with Madame Pavlowa, the famous
Russian dancer. and for several years
danced at the Petrograd opera house.
Many remarks of praise are heard re-
garding the Novelty bill for this first
half.
AT the Hip.
A picture of unusual interest is
1.-THE Print of the Nails shown at the
Hip yesterday and today. 1t is a Selig
political drama and is a masterpiece
in point of production. The three acts
caused much favorable comment, espe-
cially Lala Selbini who is called the
cycling Venus. She does several
daring feats on the bicycle and Incl
dentally does a disrobing act while on
the wheel.
At the Iris.
For the first time in its history the
motion picture screen is to reflect the
humor and pathos of the incompara-
BILE Mark Twain. when Marguerite
Clark appears in 1.-The Prince and the
Pauper."
Though 1.-The Prince and the Pau
per- has frequently been seen on the
stage and in this form of public pre-
Sentation has been extremely success
full, the limitations of the theater
made it always necessary to so con-
struct the story that only each of the
characters-either the prince or the
pauper-should appear or the scene
at one time, as both roles were invari-
ably played by the same person, due
between the two characters, so vital to
the story.
In the film version this difficulty is
entirely obviated by the use of the
double exposure, Miss Clark appearing
on the screen in both characters 81
simultaneously. The production is con-
ceived and executed in the same spirit
that SO distinguished Mark Twain's
tale, the delicioue descriptive qualities
of which have been adhered to as ac-
curately as human ingenuity renders
possible 1t is sumptuously exquisite
and yet rarely simple, playing over the
lights and shades with the masters
touch.
1.-The Goddess Over.
From now on the Orpheum theater
will run the Triangle program without
a a-ia hat no ioI