The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-06
AT THE THEATERS



Mary Pickford in The Founding
will be shown AT the Iris today and
tonight in 4 return engagement This
feature production was scheduled at
the Iris last winter during severe
weather and so many were unable tc
see the picture that q return perform
ance was planned
At the Orpheum.
THE Flying Torpedo" is look into
the future in the probabilities of war
fare. It is also a Triangle production
planned along the lines as is The
Birth of a Nation" John Emerson Is
starred in The Flying Torpedo"
Conspicuous in the picture are the
views of submarines in operation. air
crafts in flight and altogether very
instructive and interesting film fea-
ture.
The comedy for the last half of the
week centers around Fred Mace and
Anna Luther in The Village YAM
pire." The vaudeville act promises to
be good one. Fifteen minutes with
the Irish songbirGs, Shannon and Nc
Cormick. should be worth while
Washburn Play.
The Washburn College Dramatic
clubs production of You Never Can
Tell" a rapid-fire comedy by George
Bernard Shaw. produced under the
direction of Prof. E. D Schonberger.
ought to be of interest to the general
mass of Topeka theater goers a s well
as to the special patrons of college
activities. For the special convenience
of down town patrons matinee per-
Torrance has been added 10 the even
ing one.
Shaw's personality never fails to
provoke discussion whenever it Is
mentioned. All his traits have been
discussed and rediscussed time and
again by critics all over the world.
To some people he is prophet; in the
eyes of others a mere clown; some en-
JOY his work for the sake of its keen
humor: others profess to find in it the
profoundest observations upon all
manner of subjects; many regard him
as a knightly crusader in the cause
of modernity and intellectual freedom;
many of the orthodox consider MIN
blasphemous servant of iniquity, only
lacking in horns and tail to be a per-
feet replica of the Master of All Evil.
No doubt Shaw gets d great deal of
amusement out of the analyses of his
character which keep appearing in the
press. and can be pardoned, indeed
for what is a slyly mischievous habit
of deliberately provoking some of the
comment. He has a queer knack of
always appearing on the unpopular
side of every question. and enjoys i'm
mensely poking fun at all the sacred
traditions of British responsibility.
IN Trying TO express SfdW unique
relation to his contemporaries. some
one said of him that he is the Jay
House of English drama.
Critics generally agree that the best
and most impartial criticisms that
have been passed upon Shaw's char
acter and work have come from his
own pen,
One of the features of next Satur-
days performance will be a special
souvenir program. containing a brief
Shaw himself. other features of the
of the characters of the play, a sketch
literary significance, an account of the
picture OF the organization.
They Like the De Havens.
1t is doubtful if there has ever been
a team of legitimate or vaudeville
players who have ever broken into the
motion picture game and in a short
time made so many friends among the
older photoplayers as did the De
Ravens. Carter De Haven and his cIev-
er and beautiful little wife. Flora
Parker De Haven. the stars in the
BlHebird photoplay THE Wrong
Door" which comes TO the Coy thea
ter tomorrow.
Coming to the Hip.
a three days engagement of the
Dancing Widow musical tabloid
company will be opened at the Hip
theater Monday with a forty-minute
comedy and musical production. In
addition to the tabloid three reels of