The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-18
AT The THEATERS
Fields MinstreIs Here This
Week-EverywOman Coming.
News and Gossip of StagedOm
and the Movie World.

At the Grand.
Tonight-A Little Girl in a Big City
March 23-Al G. Fields Minstrels.
March 31-Twin Beds.
April S-Shaw's You Never Can
Tell" by Washburn Dramatic Club.
Week April 1O-Battle Cry of
April s-Everywoman.
May Taylor Holmes, in His
Majesty Bunker Bean.
At the Orpheum.
Triangle Productions and Vaude-
Vile.
AT the Novelty.
Vaudeville and Feature Pictures
At the Hip.
Mack Moody stock Company.
At the Iris.
Photodrama.
At the Orphcum. Kansas City.
Vaudeville.
At the Movies.
Best-Motion Pictures
Crystal--Motion Pictures
Princess-Motion Pictures.
Cozy-Motion Pictures
Aurora-Motion Pictures
Apex-Motion Pictures.
The life of any great modern city
is revealed in the drama. "A LlttIe
Girl in Big City" being shown at the
story of the play concerns the templa-
tions the lures and the pitfalls whlch
surround a young girl left alone IN d
great city It's incidents and the use
the playwright has made or ms chdr
acters are said to be dramatic IN tne
extreme and there is said to be much
truth hidden in all the hideous detaiIs.
1t points a moral lesson far stronger
than that which might be preacheo
from the pulpit on the same supJeSN'
Members of William Walters Ban
ner band. a musical organization that
has been a feature with the a.. "
Field Greater Minstrels the past sew
eral years, nave ADDED 10 tLieIi ~ az a.
attractiveness by the purchase OF an
entire set of solid gold instruments
Even the drums are gold trimmed y
G. Conn, who furnished the lnstru-
ments, declares that in tone ana nm
ish thew surpass any set OF lnStru-
ments on the market. With the
uatty red and white uniforms, Wal
ters band is a striking feature OF the
minstrel parade. Concerts at l:5V
a. m. and 1900 p. m. will be given by
the band daily.
Return of ''Evcrywonlan."
One of the Worthwhile events of
the near future is the return to this
CITY of Henry W. Savages dramatic
spectacle "Everywoman, which
comes to the Grand April 8. Since this
impressive play was last seen there
have been countless inquiries as to
the probabilities Of a return engage
ment Many people who were unable
to see it before will soon be gratif1ed-
The company is fully as strong as
when seen here before, but the pro-
duction, costumes, scenery and cleo
trical effects are all new. The or
ganization is accompanied by the
same splendid orchestra.
Selwyn s. Co. the enterprising the
atrical firm which gave the stage such
conspicuous successes as within the
Law and Under Cover" will pro-
vide another treat for local theater-
goers on Friday, March 81 at the
Grand when they will present the late
popular offering, Twin Beds" an ir-
resistibly humorous play of life
among the apartment house jewellers.
Twin Beds" is clean and adroitly
woven farcical exploitation of the do
nestle difficulties, the jealousies, the
suspicious and the amazing adven-
lures of three married couples who
occupy apartments in the same build
ing in a fashionable section of New
York city.
For it's local engagement Twin
Beds will be interpreted by an eX-
cellent cast which includes: Juliette
Dav j. Morrill, Morrison, Marian
Lord, p Paul Forecast, Editha Max
ham, william Weston, Eleanor Wilton
and others.
Lee Wilson Dodd the young play
wright who wrote His Majesty
Bunker Beam which will be seen at
the Grand Opera house for one per-