The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-29
Coming to the Grand.

GINNING TO tnc SErdnu.
Today-'"rhe Stacker" Metro patri-
October 4, ; and 6-''The witching
Hour"
october s, and 1O-"The Garden
OF Allah"
october llama Held.
October 24-Neil O'Brien's Min
october S1-"The Flame"
The Novelty.
First half-Five acts of vaudeville,
four If which come from the Fox &
Keith circuit. and the seventh episode
Of The Neglected Wife" Last half
Five acts Of vaudeville and the Hearst
Pathe News
The Majestic.
First half-The 1917 Vode Revue in
Soul Kiss" Last half-The 1917 Fol-
lies in "Follies of 1917"
Auditorium.
Elks' concert course. Paul Alt
house, alternate tenor with Caruso,
October / 3.
Other Theaters.
Orpheum-Photo features.
Coy Feature pictures.
Gem Feature pictures
Iris Feature pictures.
Best Motion features.
Equalization features.
-Four Of the acts which open Mon
da > afternoon at the Novelty will come
direct from playing a number of east
ern big houses known as the Fox &
Keith big time, it was announced by
Manager Crawford today.
Seventh episode of THE Neglected
Wife" will open the program and will
be followed by Hayataka Bros, Jap
anese, and Haley and Haley will occu-
Ply third position. The latter act is a
singing effort. Will Stanton and COM
pany will appear in His Last Drop"
Hubert Dyer and company, comedy
acrobatics, will close the bill.
The offering for the last half of the
week will be comprised of Pathe
News. Leon and Madeline, comedy
Panto9mimic novelty; Carney and
talking and dancing; De Meyer and
DAME, in a sketch AT Wisteria Cot
tage;" Morris and Allen, comedy sing
ing and talking, and the six musical
HarVardS, instrume ntaliSts.
The 1917 Vode Revue, the musical
comedy company which has brought
the Majestic back to life, will play
one more weeks engagement at the
theater, changing the bill Monday
and Thursday. The attraction begin
ming Monday will be Soul Kiss and
for the last half, The Follies of 1917"
After next weeks run the 1917 Vode
vue company will leave to fill a
date at Chanute and it's place will
taken by another of Seaman's COM
MES The Ches Davis Musical
-vue." The Davis aggregation will
Den October 8 here and Seaman de-
lares the company to be as good as
the 1917 Vode Revue. 1t is possible,
the management announces, that after
the engagement of the Davis attrac
ton expires the present company may
return for an indefinite engagement.
Suppose on one of these chilly
mornings about o'clock you awoke
find yourself facing a line of
inches and rifle in your hands
udy to charge. Then you suddenly
Iealize you are dressed in B. V. D.
This happened, it is asserted in the
Seveuty-third New York infantry one
night when a private, Richard Simp-
son, aroused the camp and later, be-
fore a board of inquiry, Simpson
swore it was only a dream and got
away with it.
1t is upon similar instances that
the film The Witching Hour" as
adapted from the play by that name,
is builded. The production will ap-
pear at the Grand October 4, 5 and 6.
Advance criticism gives it credit for
being one of the most peculiar stories
ever filmed.
The Flame" which will play at
the Grand for one evening, Wednes-
day. October 81, is given credit for
containing some of the most bewitch-
ing and unusual scenic features. In
one of the scenes. a moonlit banana
grove, is shown. Thru it passes a band
If negro worshipers ON their way to
"a secret ceremonial These ceremon-
ials are the old voodoO rites which
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