The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-19
GRAND REVIEW

Topeka's theatrical alarm clock, 1T
night Topeka stretched her arms,
rubbed her eyes and leaped from her
dramatic nightmare.
1t paid to ADVERTISED is hoped
that Manager Crawford will join with
the Grand patrons in reaping the
benefits.
The Conan & Harris farcical fact,
at Pays to Advertise" although pre-
coded by two high class attra actions,
"Kick-In'' and MY Home Town Girl; :,
just about filled the Grand to. the
roof last night. And it sent away
after the last curtain the most highly
satisfied theater crowd that has. at
tended this playhouse in years.
''KickIn,' with Norman Hackett,
was so good that Roy Crawford. dis
regarding the cruel experiences of the
past. brought it back for two per-
formances. He acted wisely. Then
Hyams & Mcintyre IN MY Home
Town Girl" stole into town and our
village hero, Reckless Roy, has
booked it again. Now if he is able to
bring back 1T Pays to Advertise .
he can be classed with the rest of the
pluto plungers.
The play last night was a ripper
Resorting to the circus Hngo-it was
a scream. And it wasn't necessary to
bring in silk stockinged leg, or a
piston, or a black-capped villain, or
slap-bang p-drummer-tune tonnake
it a go. Clever situations, red-blood
acting, up to date and every day man
nerisms Joined in keeping the Grand
in continual uproar.
Realizing that women are not de-
handing rm-poor-but-pure stuff to
compose theatrical entertainments
and coming to the fact that Tired
Business-Men do not always require
the female form as a means of an
evenings delight Conan & Harris
all. Women read advertisements
more closely than men, anyway. and
the 80 per cent pure talk found a
quicker home with the fair sex than
with their sterner companions.
1T Pays to Advertise deals with
the efforts of the son of a rich soap
manufacturer to make good despite
his pearl gray trousers and his lip
tickling mustache. He meets a pub
licity agent, an advertising man. who
points out the value of sensational
and diversified use of printers ink.
The boy enters the same business as
his fathers but advertises. The pub
licity man wins over the son to the
advantages of ads-and the son in
turn wins over the father. OF course
there is a girl-tTle old mans secre-
tary who falls in love with the son and
oh, well, that doesn't matter. The
story of the play isn't its asSet-the
play must be heard to be enjoyed.
Daniel A. Anderson as Cyrus Mar
tin. the soap millionaire. held up both
ends of a deucedly clever part. Ander-
son had the voice and the makeup and
the avoirdupois-and the goods"
James I. Mitchell took the part of the
son who was trying to make good. He
was just as good in his gray trousers
as out. He made love naturally, acted
the spoiled son admirably and didn't
take up too much time saying hello"
to central when on the telephone.
James j. Gardner as Ambrose Peale,"
the publicity and advertising agent,
made Charlie Lagerstrom and Marco
Morrow and Carl Younggreen and
Frank farrell and Bill Kercher and
Phil Eastman ct al step bacl-until
the show left town. The scene depict
ing Gardner and Mitchell (alias Peale
and Rodney sitting the edge of the
desk trying to figure out name for
the new coap. was the best piece of
fun making witnessed in the Grand
this season. Elsie Glynn as Mary
Grayson, the ary-stenographer.
looked so much like Enid Stricken at
the state house that the local celebri-
tvs friends took a second look. She
was good all the way through the
play-and a Pair of Skies never was
necessary to divert attention. Geor-
gette Leland the French countess
apparently talked the language flu
ently-the writer flunked three times
| in the d-stuff in college and he is no
| judge. Outside of her display of the
madame" business. her part seemed
unnecessary. other parts were taken
most creditably by NJ. J. Sullivan and
Ruby HERMAN and H. n. Dudgean
and Felix Mcclure and Doris Jordan
! and Page Spencer and Mason Emer-
| son.
1t was we'll acted, we'll staged and
brightly written farce. A few more
| performances similar to what Manager
| Crawford has given Topeka in the last
week and this talk about Wake Up