The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-27

And we waited an hour and half to
see 1.-THE odd and vociferOus noises which
issued from the Grand last evening need
not have alarmed the passing wayfarer, for
they were merely (comic) dissonances
sounded by the performers in 'Oh, baby
The show was late, an hour and halt
late, getting started last evening and it was
a IL 30 drop for them. They tore into 1t,
cut lines. songs. scenery any DID most
| am SO glad that We didn't get it all
handed to us. What | did see was quite
terrible. The little they did present was
violent hallucination of hokum, jazz. "6luc
gags" gray gags. old gags: dead gags, bad
actors. skinny chorus girls, and some
scenery and its acting required, Il seemed
the bang. the thwack. the thrill shrek
and the ,quiyering burble OF a summer
The players vaulted over furniture,
kicked furniture out of the way, they bel
other, cOughed. aud 1 feared that in the
pandemonium that it would never be over.
There one little performer in the
name, but he was the little bird with the
stutter and the cymbals. He was very
funny and deserves special mention. There
nothing else to redeem the show from
the worst of its kind.
A very far-fetched meaningless mess of
dances were put over by Mile. Anna Valla
and Mons. Zermain. Both were very bad,
the man awful and the young lady with
no rythmic motion that resembled said
terpsichore. AS far Mick Sacks being
the feature comedian, he should never be,
probably ten years ago he was when after
pieces and burlesque was doing better. but
Sacks out of chin piece and in last nights
proceedings, he never could star. Deduct
ing for the lack of scenery and deducting
for the hurried performance what we did
see was awful and as l said before, l am
glad that 1 did not have to sit thru all OF
Isis
Dorothy Phillips. in her greatest play,
"The Right to Happiness" swept criti-
cal audience off its feet at the Isis last
night with her superb art and marvellous
acting. Lavishly produced, wonderful
story converted into a wonderful picture
and with a surrounding cast OF artists that
depreciation assigned to them, THE Right
to Happiness" is by far the most absorb
ing dramatic offering that has been seen
in this section in many moons. A lot of
folks had idea that the play was So
cialistic, 1 thought the same, but l find
don't like to give plots of stories as that
some times weakens the desires of others
who might want to see the picture. but in
this case 1 may have to tell some of it.
to get II entirely out of every ones head
that the picture is Socialistfc. 1t is a pic
ture outlined for another purpose entirely.
TO create and visualize thoughts and
characters deep in the bosoms of mankind.
To cure forever the labor unrest that is
agitating nation.
To establish in us all the undying. burn
ing love for humanity which is the only
medium that can make 1t possible for all
the people of the earth to pursue and find
happiness.
The seeds of radicalism cannot grow In
contented soul and every mortal has Il
God given right to know the right to hap
piness which is to know the way to
eternity
There. I got away with out telling the
story, .you go to see it. If you do not find
it to be one of the greatest dramatic Of
the best stories you have ever seen, one of
the best acted pictures and the best enter
tainments you have ever seen-then I'll
buy. n. s. A