The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-30
AT THE THEAIERS
The Orpheum.

The Orpheum management has news
of special importance relative 10 the
next big feature which will be form
ally announced in few days. In the
meantime The Thoroughbred" will
end a three days engagement and
THE Social Secretary with Norma
Talmadge as the star will be pre-
scented.
The bill for the latter part of next
week will be 1.-The Bugle CALI with
Willie Collier, jr., as the principal
player.
In the play which comes to the
Orpheum Monday. THE Social Sec
retary," new face is seen in Triangle
productions when GLADDEN. James ac-
cepts the part opposite Norma Tai
madge.
At Orpheum, h. c., Week Oct. 4.
One of the most pretentious bills
of the season will be offered at the
Orpheum for the week commencing
October 1. OF the seven acts picked
for Stock Show week no less than
four are of headline caliber. Anna
Wheaton and Harry Carroll are one
of the newest vaudeville combina-
tions and they have achieved a decid-
ed success in their present offering.
A list of the plays in which Miss
Wheaton scored includes many of the
biggest contemporary successes, hav-
ing been in the support of De Wolf
Hopper, Sam Bernard and in many
other musical comedies. Mr.. Car
roll is probably the youngest COM
poser contributing his wares to the
stage. He collaborated in composing
the music for THE Passing Show of
1914" and has written many of the
latest popular songs. including The
Trail of the Lonesome Pine" There's
a Girl in the Heart of Maryland"
by the Sea" and many others.
John B. Hymer has written many
vaudeville playlets, but more has
been so universally successful as his
latest offering, "Petticoats," in which
Grace Dunbar Nile is featured. The
story is of youth as youth really is
and is something new IN the way of
plot. The scene is unconventional, but
is as funny as it is bold, and as a
whole the contribution to vaudeville
is one of the most thoroughly delight
full sketches that the Orpheum has
presented in some time
Leah NJ. Herr is another newcomer
to vaudeville, having deserted the So
cial life of Augusta, Ca, for the foot
lights. Her vaudeville offering is ex-
tremely odd and is entitled, Il Wish L
Knew" written by Miss saba Gowan.
The piece is far and away from the
beaten path of vaudeville playlets and
gives Mrs. Herr an opportunity to dis
play her rare qualifications. She acts,
dances wears a number of fashionable
sesses an unusual amount of talent.
One of the most beautiful and thrill
ing of diving acts is offered by the Six
Water Lilies, a sextette of six young
girls beautiful of face and figure and
unusually accomplished in diving and
swimming. The act was one of the
features of the New York Hippro-
drome and this fact is the best tribute
to its quality. The girls are undoubt-
edly the finest collection of aquatic
experts ever seen in Kansas City, each
one having gained international repu-
tation by her swimming feats.
Other acts on the bill include:
The eminent italian pianist. G. Ado
| Randegger, who has been featured on
| the leading concert tours of America
and Europe, in an international re-
| pertoire. Mary Melville, formerly of
the we'll known team of Melville &
Higgins, in a humorous and novel
monologue. The Gomez trio, opponents
of the peasant dances of Spain, and the
| Orpheum Travel Weekly, with views
of picturesque Caucasia and scenes
among the FskimOs of Siberia