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

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Grand next Wednesday, matinee and
night.
Irwin Beds
/ That life in a crowded apartment
I house is a fertile field for farce COM
/ plications, which shall have not only
/ the melancholy charm of familiarity
| to many sufferers who are forced to
/ live it, but the exciting appeal of con-
/ tinuOuS and unexpected happenings to
/ those who live it with a sense of hui
! NOR, and those who look on, has been
established to the final word by Sails
/ bury Field and Margaret Mayo with
their deliciously funny farce, Twin
Beds" which Selwyn and Company,
sponsors for within the Law and
Under Cover" Under Fire" and
Rolling Stones The Lie" and
The Show Shop" will send to the
with an ideal company of comedians
for its Interpretation.
But Twin Beds has more than in
| calculably amusing situations, though
rare degree of success by virtue OF
their novelty, the rapidity of their de-
velopment and their uncommon nat
uralness. 1t possesses the value, al
most never found in farce, of fine
| characterization. and the added value
of witty lines. slangy dialogue which
virtually reInade the current speech
of Broadway during the tifty-two
weeks of its run there, and dencate
real feeling. which pops out when it is
least expected, and helghtenS the Ell
| feet of the comedy.
| Little Lost Sister,
| Honest in its appeal and far reach
| ing in its moral is Little Lost Sister,
the Illuminating white slave play
which comes to the Grand January s.
| Miss Virginia Brooks, the Joan of Arc
of West Hammond, Ill, who made the
town fit to live in, is responsible for
the book. E. E. Rose put the book
into stage form. Every member of
the company spent the summer in Chi
Cages levee district studying condi-
lions there before the play was pro-
duced.
Perhaps there is no girl in the coun-
try who has had such vast experience
in the underworld of a big city as Miss
Brooks She has depicted what she
has seen with the kindly aid of Mr..
Rose.
pulpit, and public. 1t has achieved
nationwide plaudits. One Chicago
minister declared every person should
see the play. Let it be hoped that
every person shall have this chance.
At the Orpheum.
| Thomas Ince's production, aloha
Oe," will be shown at the Orpheum
theater the first half of next week
Spectacular effects that surpass any
thing that has ever before been
achieved are credited to this play.
There is a storm at sea, where the
waves gradually rise higher and high
er and higher and finally surge over
the ship, dashing men over its sides,
and where the terrible blasts of wind
tear the sails to shreds and demolish
the spars and rigging. How the ship
, rocks and how the men fight for their
: lives and how all their attempts are in
vain, and the stanch vessel is cast on
the rocks and utterly wrecked II
is a masterpiece of reality and makes
the audience shudder and almost be-
lieve that they are actually in peril OF
their lives from the treacherous 81
moon of the southern seas.
Another awe inspiring spectacle is
that of Mount Pele, where first APP
pear the gradual breaking Of the crust
on the crater and the escape of steam
and smoke gradually becoming more
and more violent till it is smoking and
burning most frightfully. The panic
of the natives. who have been living
in fancied security, but now flee in all
directions; the overwhelming show
ers of ashes that fall, and the great
streams of lava that run down the
mountain streams are communicated
to the audience in thrills and sus-
pense which could only be surpassed
by being actually in such a place al
an eruption
But there are other scenes that
soothe and please after these violent
spectacleS. There are the superbly
built men and women in their scanty
but picturesque native costumes, en-
twined with leaves and adorned with
flowers. Their graceful walk and ges-
lures naturally lead TO swaying, light
some dancing, which reminds the au-
dience of the easy grace and charm OF
wild things rather than of anything
that is seen in the civilized world oil
white men and women. The chieftair
of the tribe in his regalia of rare
skins and all manner of beads, charms
and amulets brings to Innid another
and alien world AL the superstition
and worship OF the unknown charac-
teristic of the savage come out in the
ceremonial at the eruption.
Led by some misshaped dwarfs. the
beautiful daughter of the chief pre-
cedes her father and his medicine man
followed by all the tribe, consisting OF
warriors with their spears and blow
suns and the women carrying palms