The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-11

benefit for the Grenados children.
Paderewski, Kreisler, Pablo Casals,
the famous Spanish 'cellist, Madame
Barrientos. an eminent Spanish singer,
and Mccormack, furnished the music
Thus the numbers were given by rep
resentatives of Poland, Austria, Ire
land and Spain. All of them gave
their services, and the amount realized
from the tickets was s12, 00O- a hun
dred programs, signed personally by
the artists, were sold at SIS each.
Madame Paderewski gave a hundred
of her dolls to be. sold at the concert
Casals, the 'cellist. was a personal
friend of Grenados, and the other
Kreisler played many of the accom-
paniments and it was wonderful The
sale of the programs was such a sue
cess, that they took orders for many
more. AS a part of the program
Paderewski played the Chopin Flu
neral march on the darkened stage"
Miss Sweet continued: II am taking
daily horseback rides in Central park
and on Riverside Drive 1 expect to
start home this week.
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The Topeka Avenue club will meet
Friday, May 26, with Mrs. A. o. Ros-
ser. The club does not meet with Mrs.
Rosser Friday of this week, as former
ly announced.
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The Junior Atlantean club will meet
Tuesday of next week with Miss Caro-
Ign Thomas. in Harrison street.
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A Wichita girl Miss Capitola
Holmes, has been chosen to take part
in the great presentation of the
Shakespearian play, Julius Caesar, to
be given in Los Angeles, Cal, as a
part of the celebration of the Shakes
peare tercentenary. This play is to
be the greatest production of a
Shakespearian play ever given, and it
will be a tribute of American artists
to the greatest dramatist the world
has ever seen. All the American
Shakespearian players of note will
take part, and will give their services
free 1t is to be given May 10. and
there Will be 5000 actors. The scene
is being prepared, hills cut down and
other hills built up to represent the
Palatine and Capitalize hills of
Rome, making room for the repre-
duction of the Forum and the various
temples surrounding it.
Miss Holmes will play the part of
Lucius, in the body of the cast, with
Tyrone Power as Brutus, DeWolf Hop
per as Casca, Frank Keenan, as Casius
William Farnum as Antony, Douglass
Fairbanks as Octavius. Sarah Truax
as Portia, and Constance Crawley as
Calpurnia. Miss Holmes will also be
premier danseuse in the court of
Caesar. and on account of her beauty
has been selected to lead in the luxury
scene of Roman life in the garden of
Caesar.
When Miss Holmes was a little girl
she developed remarkable talent for
dancing and dramatic work. She went
to Chicago. and at an early age be-
came known as a dancer of ability.
She is now about IS. a beautiful young
woman and a favorite in the art
world.
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A lot of the western club women
are seeing red these days. 1t seems
that some tact1ess New York woman,
with the best intentions on earth, re-
Gently sent out some delicate hints to
the women of the provinces or less
politely, the sticks on the sort of
costumes the women should wear
and take with them on their trip to
the Great City to attend the biennial
Press dispatches have been numerous
since then. describing the effect of
the suggestion on the women outside
of New York. The women west of
Philadelphia occasionally have oppor-
tunity of looking through Vogue, the
Delineator, and The Elite, and it not