The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30

one would expect from the best of musical
instruments.
introducing creations of their own:
The Geralds, Gypsy Serenaders: in when
same time. and the Orpheum Travel Week
ly showing views of Parrots of Australia
Tea Plantation in Java, and the Chutes OF
Slvasarudrun Hindustan.
U. of NJ. GIee Club.
The University of Michigan Glee and
Mandolin club, which comes to the Audi
torium Monday afternoon and night, is well
known in the west as it has made several
In 1859 the first Michigan Glee club was
organized, and from then on to the present
between 1870 and 1879. the organization has
flourished as perhaps no other college
h cup b IN cine 1ne nd Tanio elnh as It
was then called, consisted in a. visit TO
Jackson, Michigan, some thirty miles from
the university.
In 1892 the annual trip of the Glee and
Banjo club included St. Louis. Kansas City
amd omas st ana IN fsS they Tear the
Glee and Mandolin club, as it is now deslg-
mated, toured the far west touching at
Chicago, and other northwestern cities
The versatility of the Glee club is shown
at one moment, and at the next to present
such number as the Toreador song
from Carmen" The club will not confine
will also burst forth with the latest rag
hits, done in the irresistible, sweeping,
melody style of popular music. For TINS
part of the evening the Midnight Sons and
Varsity quartettes will conspire to make
the occasion one of linked sweetness, long
drawn out.
The Mandolin club not to be outdone by
its colleague, will offer The Blue Danube
the other extremity, college music at us
best, and popular airs of the day. The
selections, but the exact nature of these
has not been learned as the seXtette Will not
divulge it's repertoire, but it is a foregone
conclusion that this number will be sue
cess, judging from its reception in the other
concerts so far on this years trip.
Taken altogether this years club far
exceeds in quality, tone, and rendition any
of the clubs of former years. and the pro
gram arranged by the director of the club;
Prof Theodore Harrison, is one that will
bring entertainment to lovers of all var1e-
ties of music from the heavy to the light
Fresh from its history making run of
one full calendar year to crowded houses OF
delighted & at the Gssno th mos
delightful and popular of recent Viennese
operettas, will be. presented by the Messrs.
The much heralded and massive drama,
The Garden of Allah," which comes to
| the Grand is a dramatization of the novel
Mary Anderson de Navarro.
Prominent in the large cast are William
Gould as Count Anteoni," Miss Sarah
Truax as "Domini Enfilden,"' Mr.. Albert
AndruSS as Father ROuDler, ME- > dnes
Mason as Captain de Trevignac." Mr.. Leo
de Valery "Batouch" and Miss Pearl
Gray as suzanne" together with host hosses OF
goats, pigeons, etc.
The records at police headquarters have
furnished the plot for great many in
teresting dramas, but never one that sue
ceeded in holding an audience under the
spell of suspense that enters into The
House of Glass" In this powerful play
which ran all last season in New York
and which will be seen at the Grand, Mar
| garet Case, the prosecuted victim of cir
cumstantial evidence, is pursued by the re
! lentless arm OF the law thru four OF the
most exciting acts that have ever been
woven into dramatic form.