The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-30
At the Grand.


'iITitehy Koo." When one explains in
advance to the cash customers for the
Grand next week that they're not sup
posed to know what ''Hitchy Koo''
is all about, he goes to a lot of I'M
necessary trouble.
But the best feature Of -'Hftchy
Koo" is that after it gets to going |
good, no one cares what it's all about.
All one wants is more-and he gets it. !
Even without a plot or Raymond |
Hitchcock, the 1920 "Hitchy Koo" is
one of the best shows that has come to !
Kansas City this year. And even a
critic knows it's about time.
Hitchcock is missed, of. course. But
who can think of him when Stan Stan
ley is nutting, John Haw is singing or
Baby Josephine is lisping in her own
dear little way?
TunefuI melodies. pretty scenic eff
fects, a lot of speed in putting on the
numbers and episodes and some ire
sistible comedy combined Sunday night
to keep laughing an audience that
filled the lower floor and overlooked
comfortably into the balcony. J
'Hitchy Koo'' has been renovated, |
restocked with jokes and songs brought
up to date.
You'll like it,
''Alice-Sit- by-the-Fire.' The WASH
burn Dramatic club stages its first play
Of the 1920-1921 season Friday night, |
when James Barrie's notable success,
'Alice-Sit-b y-th Fire" will be pro-
duced with one of the best casts the
club has yet appeared before the To-
peka public. 1t is a pure comedy con- |
tanning characters so human that they |
make mistakes and the mistakes make |
the comedy. 1t is all based on the
problem of the grown up daughter
who has learned life as it is and the |
mother who has never grown up. |
Georgia Neese is cast in the part of
Alice and is ably supported by Marie |
Moore and Leslie Forney |
At the Orphcum.
Two of the Paramount'S most joy |
Gus stars are on the bill for the COM |
ing week. They are Wallace Reid and |
Dorothy Gish, both of whom have
been featured this time in stories that
are sure to please. Roid appears the |
first part of the week in What's Your
Hurry" and Miss Gish finishes the
week with Little Miss Rebellion
The hare and tortoise of the auto |
mobile world-the racing car and the |
truck-figure prominently in What's
days commencing Monday.
The star has the role of a racing |
driver in love with the daughter of a |
motor truck manufacturer. The latter |
spective son-in-law. To get intos the |
old mans good graces, Wallie deserts |
racing to act as publicity man for |
trucks. He only succeeds in getting Gin |
bad and it is not until he risks his |
life to bring a Gordon of trucks to plug
the breach in bursting dam that he |
is able TO win the girl of his choice.
When a grand duchess runs away
to play baseball with a gang of Ameri- |
can doughboys and later becomes chief |
flapjack mixer in a New York quick |
lunch emporium, you can expect some |
highly interesting and humorous do |
{ ings. Little Miss Rebellion Doro- |
thy Gish's latest Paramount Epicture |
is said to set new record for laughs |
induced by this chic little coincidence. |
In addition to the feature for the |
first part of the week a reel of the |
Pathe news will be shown andAone of |
the popular Mutt and Jeff comedies. |
I With the Gish feature the latter part
of the week win be shown a two-reel |
Mack Sennett comedy.
At the Isis.
With 1.-The Right to Love- his sec
ond independent production. George
Fitzmaurice has definitely established |
his reputation as a motion picture
producer who can combine lavishly |
artistic backgrounds with dramatic ac- |
ton. This picture opens weeks run
at the Isis theater Monday.
Mr.. FitZmaurice has taken drama |
of mismated husbands and wives, with |
scenes laid in Turkey. and made a |
picture that holds the interest thruout. |
Lovely Mae Murray is the ill-treated /
wife of Lord Falkland, the British |
representative at Constantinople. The |
climax is reached when he insta1ls his |
mistress in their home and at the same
time imports a Prince Stanislaus, |
whose mission is to compromise Lady |
Falkland. Colonel Loring. well played |
IvrT 10 417O A
foils Lord Falkland. tho not until he ]
has killed the nobleman in row. But
the story ends happily.
Miss Murray is an excellent emo !