The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-13
AT THE THEATERS.
AL. G. Field Thursday.

Al. G. Field Thursday.
That he really has been conducting
one of the greatest health agencies OF
F'ield,the unrivalled minstrel manager
has just made. He has the word OF
science for it-none other than the
famous DR.. Naiglix of Liege univer-
sity, Belgium. In his most recent
work, the Belgian professor declares
that good laugh does more than any
thing else to dispel the depressed feel
ings that follow various diseases, and
that all the vital organs of the body
are more or less influenced for good
by laughter
AL. G. Field, after reading the most
recent volume of the Belgian profess
sor, thus became conscious of the fact
that he has been one of the country s
most beneficent physicians through
his foremost position as a minstrel
manager.
With all this true, where can you
buy so much of natures remedy
laughter-for so little, as you can at
the performance of the AL. G. Field
Minstrels. You will get more for your
money this year than ever before,
DIR" Field assures.
Miss Billie Burke in Jerry"
Miss Billie Burke will visit the
Grand next Friday, appearing in
FERRY" the American comedy by
Catherine Chisholm Gushing in which
she scored one of her biggest successes
at the Lyceum theater, New York, last
season. This is the play in which Miss
Burke wears the pink pajamas that
New York admired SO much. The
piece tells an amusing story of how a
breezy young Chicago girl upsets the
routine of a staid and proper house
hold in a quiet Philadelphia suburb
and eventually elopes with the man to
whom her aunt has been engaged for
twenty years. The role of the girl
ought TO fit Miss Burke precisely and
they say it does.
William H. Crane.
Five big stars in a single play
that is what Joseph Brooks is giving
the theater-going public this year in
his superb revision of Bronson How
ards 1.-The Henrietta" which, re-writ-
ten and modernized by Wincheil
Smith and Victor Mapes, has been re-
christened 1.-THE New Henrietta. The
stars are William H. Crane, Thomas
w. Ross, Maclyn Arbuckle, Amelia
Bingham and Mabel Taliaferro, names
too we'll known to the theater-going
public to need introduction.
Hip Review.
Annette Kellerman, in "Neptune's
Daughter" is the attraction at the Hip
this week "Neptune's Daughter is
ranked today as one of the great mo-
ton pictures
Miss Kellerman, the worlds greatest
swimmer and diver, was able to show
her prowess in the water in this pic
ture, interviewer with romantic love
and fairy tale. The diver ran through
her repertoire of dives in one reel and
in several instances showed her abil-
ity as a swimmer.
1t was a fantastical story. Annette
Kellerman was at her best in the
dance of the morning glories and the
dance of the jeweled dagger, with the
exception of her diving and swimming.
A large audience saw the picture Mon
day. 3 j.
Novelty Review.
Comedy was the leading feature at
the Novelty the first half of the week.
The first act was given by the kru-
saders. musicians and dancers, dressed
in colonial fashion. The gentleman
Krusader is an excellent violinist and
his cute looking better half" was
pleasing dancer.
Hong Fong, Chinese comedian,
was the first of that species that has
been here this season, at least in COM
edy Hong Fong is different from a
Yankee comedy man and his pleasant
tries and songs were so picturesquely
odd that they proved popular.
Will H. Armstrong and two pretty
women, Maudie Smith and Geraldine
Field, presented 1.-The Baggage Man."
a. farce in one act. The antics of
assisted by the smiles, the
giggles, the singing, the dancing of his
two partners, kept the audience in
lively good humor throughout
Kennedy and Hollis were the ia
vorites on. the bill, if applause and
laughs had anything to do with it.
Kennedy is a comedian. No one like
him has ever appeared here before. 1t
would be a waste of words to describe
him; the only thing that can be said
IS that he was accorded four bows
asst nights and more at the matinee.
Mile. Techow, with an outfit of
rained cats. closed the bill. Her cats
we're mighty well trained and the act
lid not drag. Instead, the felines were
10 intelligent, knew their parts so
we'll, performed their difficult feats
With such swiftness and ease, that
everyone last night was pleasantly dis
appointed. There were two or three
cats in the troupe. Mile.
rechow spoke German to them.
The picture that was presented is
we'll worth seeing, The Magic Bottle
high class comedy. s. J.
Orpheum Review
Happy Doc Holland, opens the
at the Orpheum with a
snappy black faced comedy act Doc
s sure cure for the "blues, and his
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