The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-05

that laughter of the heartiest kind is
assured. The principals include the
choice funmakers of the stage and a
chorus of petite misses selected with |
great care and trained to perfection.
From the rise of the curtain until its
fall there is amusement of the best
grade, always clean, always refined.
At the Grand.
Roy Crawford announces the book |
ing of My Home Town Girl with |
Hyams and Mcintyre, who will come
to the Grand January II. Follow
ing is an article from Mondays st. |
Louis Post-DiSpatch:
If the average theater goer, who is |
looking for entertainment, will take
out a pencil and write down, one un-
der the other. the words, Dainty. |
Pleasing, Tuneful and Refreshing, and |
then draw a line and add them up, the
result will be MY Home Town Girl |
a musical comedy of the Chicago
brand, which came to the Olympic
theater last night with John Hyams
and Lelie Mcintyre as the stars, and a
company of more than ordinary merit. |
AS a matter of fact, this little-herald-
ed Offering, which did not originate in
New York, and is not even headed
that way for the present at least, is
one. of the best musical shows which
has come to town in many a day.
My Home Town Girl abounds in
CdGChY little songs ana SITUATIONS, ana
while the story is as thin musical
comedy plot is supposed to be, it car
ries out the idea that Dorothy May
Dawn has come to New York from
Michigan. meets a gilded city youth. |
hero of a thousand or more love af- |
| fairs, and, at the end of the second !
act, has him so completely under her
spell that they both give up the White
Lights and start for home in the, town I
where the furniture comes from.
Twin Beds.
The distinction of nfty-two weeks
of incessant popularity on Broadway
attaches to Twin Beds" the laugh !
festival by Salisbury Field and Mar |
garet Mayo which Selwyn and Com
pany will present at the Grand on to-
morrow night with all the merits of
the farce enhanced by their presenta-
ton by an admirable cast.
At the Novelty.
The bill at the Novelty theater
| changes Thursday for three days of
high class vaudeville. The numbers
will be put on by the Bonnie Sex
tette,'' Newhoff and Phelps. Oswald
and Jarnigan, Freddy James, the two
Irmenas and Pathe News. The pro-
gram for the first half of the week
will conclude with the two shows to-
night. 1t has met with great ap-
prevail
Little Lost Sister.
"One of the strongest stage ser
mons ever presented in Cincinnati
started weeks engagement Sunday
afternoon under the title Little Lost
Sister. The theme of the play is
most powerful and the company an
excellent one."-Cincinnati Times
Star October 20, 1918. Little Lost
Sister comes to the Grand Saturday
matinee and night.
At the Hip.
To-day will be presented at this
theater for the last time tonight by
the Oliver Players. This play has
made a wonderful hit here and has
made many new friends for this clever
stock organization To-day" is
startling play Starting tomorrow
night the feature stock production of
the entire stock season will take place
when 1.-THE Rosary is produced. In
the Oliver Players are four people that
originated the parts in THE Rosary
when it was first produced in the larg-
er cities and the best presentation of
this great play that has ever been
seen in Topeka is promised. The mat
inees on THE Rosary will be'on Fri
day and Saturday afternoons.
At the Orpheum.
The story of a brilliant but dissi-
pated lawyer who becomes the wor-
shipped member of South Sea Is
Orpheum. Willard Mack is the lawyer
and Enid Marley is the chieftain's
daughter, whom he marries 1t be-
gins with the turmoil or a great trial
The lawyer crazed by drink and the
strain or his labors, is shipped by his
friends on 4 sailing vessel so that he
may recover his manhood in a new
environment The vessel is wrecked
and he is the only survivor. being res
cued by the natives on a South Sea
, Lot he fc CHI
as a worthless drunkard, who knocks
down native and takes away a bottle
of liquor. He escapes to the noun
to the other side. He is awakened
cano, and while making his escape
taIn's daughter. She has been tied to
a post. where the flowing lava will de-
stroy her, because the natives believe
that by this sacrifice they will appease
the wrath of the divinity of the noun
tain. Mack takes the fainting girl to
a place of safety and on her recovery
thinks he is the son of the god of the
mountain which is in eruption. He
, soon tires OF the idyll-like life and re-
!. turns to civilization. As he is passing
. a restaurant he hears the song Of
aloha De" (Farewell''), and is so
homesick for the life he had left
among the palms and flowers that he
ships back to the island. There his
return is hailed with joy by the simple
daughter of the chieftain and the wor-
| SHINING Of firth