The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-23
AT The THEATERS
Novelty Review.

The program at the Novelty the nrst
half of the week is an excellent one,
with five acts of standard vaudeville
of these acts, the five Satsudas showed
other Jap acts into the background
The Orientals were nimble with their
feet
Making a dummy yodeI was the
ventriIOquistic feat presented by a
pretty blonde Winona Winter The
feature of her entertaining number,
however, was her pleasant singing and
her short stories. Quigg and Nicker-
son put over some ripe comedy in a
| skit, The AriStocrat and the Big
Eyed Coon
One of the most impressive parts
| of the bill was the rendition of old
melodies by two men who have at
| tanned mellow age. Col. Samuel Holds
worth, the tenor, is "a, and Joseph
E. Norcross, bass singer, is 76- De-
spite the fact that they were born in
| the 3O's the two men sang with
scarcely "a quaver-
I Delmore and Moore introduced their
| Behind the Scenes" All of the acts
were DOGGY Paramount trav-
telogues of Peruvian scenes were up to
| the standard. 5. ].
Orpheum Review.
King B1ackface, a good looking
pony, with a good looking master,
captivated Orpheum audiences last
night. Blackface showed his knowl-
edge in an unmista kable way. Harry
Rowland and the Lasweu sisters were
we'll dressed. They sang and they
danced.
Equitable film, The Cowardly Way"
It taught a powerful lesson on the
suicide evil and was directed with that
view in mind. 1t will be repeated for
the last time tonight. s J.
HIP Review.
TT LII - s~rI, Of
in its vaudeville career for the first
three days of the week The Alpha
troupe offers one of the neatest hoop
rolling acts that has ever shown here
The stunts" appear to have been
chosen with idea of meeting with
popular favor and care has been ex-
ercised in choosing a setting that
shows every effort of the performers
TO best vantage-something that
has much to do with making an act
success. Archer and Carr, in song
and patter,' inject enough pep into an
ordinary turn to lend it new color.
a third active Prayer sisters 1
was walked after the first show last /
night. The act was the first to be +
turned loose by the Crawfords in ten /
years, Roy Crawford. manager OF the /
theater, announced last night We (
have demanded a higher grade of /
vaudeville, Mr.. Crawford stated, /
and by turning the act back I believe .
we propose to get it. Three acts will .
be shown regularly hereafter, and 1
have no doubt about their. quality
The two surviving numbers are
vastly superior to Tany acts that I
have preceded them at the theater
this season and may be taken as an
indication of an era of higher class
at the house A-L-G-
Radcliffe Series
Miss Case will be an attraction of
the Radcliffe series at the Grand
evening, November %, at 8
Q. m The Washington Post has the
following to say of a recent appear
ance in the national capital:
Miss Anna Case made her first
public appearance in Washington
yesterday afternoon in the third con-
cert of the ten-star series under the
of T Arthur Smith, and
captivated an audience
hat filled the National theater-
To the activeness of a we'll
full and flexible soprano
voice, Miss Case adds the charm of
striking beauty and gracious person
atty Although yesterdays program
was predominantly one of subdued
ind plaintive ballads, there was in
reduced a sufficient number of
;prightly songs to offer a consider
.bIe variety and demonstrate I'M
power and ability to create an at
nosphere' for each number that
.arries interest well beyond mere
onal quality
The first group of four songs in
luded Rubinstein's "Es Blinkt der
7hau.'' Chopin's 'Lithauiches Lied"
Synnoves Song, by KjeruIf and
;pross' That's the World in June"
he first three, of which the first
vas sung in German, being of some
Ehat sober tone. offered effective
for the sparkling. spring
lme anthem of joy to the blossom
Month of the year, with which the
roup closed So fully did the artistic
ncompass the spirit of the song that
n encore was inevitabI The Songs
Iy Mother Taught Me- being offered
4 recognition of the persistent an
lanse- Another number was the &