The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24

IRIS-Photo features. ..,.os
NOcfVEI,TYSVaudeville and pictures.
ORPHEUM-Photo features
COZY-Photo features
Daddy Longlegs.
DADDY LongleSs,' whlch 90
auch a distinct hit here ye@ 60,
last Christmas, returns next mGii has
an anpeal all its own, being a pleaS sen,
little comedy with an unusual 81
story Frances Cat son, who secu u.aor
a following in her enactInen. 3Iav.
ago of the orphan-heroine OF ln me- 70 Cor
Is back again, which is 1ha entire
COMPANY of the first preS St,lI La
hare has been kept in act Inc Ptbai
vas founded upon the oooK W hook
name by Jean Webster ne the
ran originally as a serial "
Ladies Home journal
Hanford at Grand Tonight
Gov, "shakespeare" to the average
+heater goer in Topeka ana the lii he
Ia that his next asSocldtIOh - hos
charles Hanford. For HANOI -, u - a
appeared in Shakesperian roIe saarance
score of times, his first apP 1911.
SotrS at the old Crawford IN 10 80 ..
yo1re,er Hanford for the flrst - Ia
does not appear at the head Oh niS
own company, but in the suPpo1t Of
John z. Kellerd. Ihe - after-
yo,jca" is the attraction TINS aL'e
~ and tonight Macbeth" one "
tha greatest of all dramas VIZ
rose1+ed OF the Shakespeare tLas ,
edies none is more popular hei
s.NEacbeth" unless it be HaIlllet.
large advance sale for ootn 'iie
inee and tonight Is reporteo-
Fair and Warmer Soon.
,. I'll na ..Fair and Warmer" here
Uarcf ~ and 13 for Topeka is scnSu
Mad for a two days showing u 90
most popular farce OF the p aee
aon The gales of laughter ocGa &c
vSrv roots according to eastern p -,
notices in fact it made even the On 70
noranera tremble There has oeen %
much inquiry concerning II eNet a+ of
the first tentative announceHi0t -
49, 1IIxelthood of its showing heI
t tne - management of the Grano
bas been encouraged to give aii
and warmer spell of two days
LYMAN Howe in March
Lyman Howe, travel pictures and
all. will arrive at the Grand March
IA For a two days' stay. Needless to
saw Lyman Howe is the theatrical
event of the year for the little folk:
and 1t must be confessed for many OF
their parents, too. Thls time Lytila man
that have never yet been screened
and can only be found with difficulty
upon the map. Featured especially is
the polar voyage showing Natures
funniest comedians-the BABY pen
Rllins" In addition there will be ma
ture study pictures and comedy or
two or three.
Novelty.
Sweets for the Sweet" a genuine
comedy tab is one of the topline acts
at the Novelty with Mr.. and Mrs.
Norman Phillips as the fun-makers
An old-time ventriloquist act is pre-
scented by walters and Walters'--a
ventriloquist act of above the ordl-
nary. Goldie and Mack present the
dancing act of the bill and Frank
Carmen shows that there are plenty
of new tricks in the familiar pastime
of "hoop-rolling."
The real feature of the bill, how
ever, is 1.-The Seven White Blackbirds,"
in Fun in Dixie Land" Novelty fans
warm towards ''black face comedians
more than they do to almost any other
class of act and seven of them work.
ing simultaneously should cause a So
mile gale of laughter. The second
chapter of Pearl of the Army will
also be shown.
Mary at Orpheum.
Commencing Monday the Orpheum the
alter viii present Mary Pickford in her new
photoplay produced BY her own company
and released by AIRCRAFT, THE Pride of the
Little Mary" has selected the role of
''Marget MacTavish" as her next screen
4mpersonatton- For a long time Caledonians
have hoped to see perhaps 1.-THE most pop
ular girl in the world" characterize the
charming lass of the heather The heart
appeal as well as dramatic finesse display
ed in THE Pride Of the Clan" makes it an
offering that will prove of universal ap-
peal During her long career on the screen
Little Mary" has portrayed characters
Of number Of different nationalities her
having met with favor turnout the entire
country: 1t is a long way from the banks
of the Gauges to the wind blown fields of
Scotch heather, but 1t is a trip that Miss
Ptckford has taken in the interval between