The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12
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! Folks, there's a lot of you who are to
hear bad news. The large crowd which
| stayed away from the Grand last night
| missed one of the niftiest performances
| that has been here in some few moons.
| THE Man Who Came Back proved to be
all that its author intended it to be, a
| humanity and sermon all in one.
This is the about the. fourth season for
i this play, but one would not know it from
! the stage settings and the actors who
| brought it to the Grand. Paul Gordon and
AIDA Gleason, who carried the leading
roles are finished artists and they both had
about the most difficult parts that have
| been played here in some time, they played
them =, fiawiessly Not only that. but every
| or she belonged.
| The story of the play is an unusual one,
| a trifle melo- dramatie, but the theater-
going public likes thrills, especially when
| they are developed from human material.
! Paul Gordon, as a rich mans son, starts
out. like the common garden variety of
| rich mems sons and is cast off by the
indignant parent. He rapidly sinks to the
very lowest levels and on the way falls
! In love with. cabaret girl, whose love
| falls to put the brakes on his mad career
| so she follows him downward until the
| climax Is reached when the two meet again
in :one of the lowest opium dens in Shang
| hal The one spark of manhood left. then
flames out in the prodigal's breast and
| every odd the world can afford By sheer
| force of character bolstered by an abid-
ing love the prodigal returns home bring
| Ri at the Orpheum.
There are two stars in Below the Sur
] face" The producers OF the film have
| played up Hobart Bosworth and one will
have to admit he is good, but those who
have already seen the production which
i started a three days run yesterday after
| noen.~ rather favored Lloyd Hughes as be-
| ing the real star of the piece. B6sworth is
but the Topeka public leans to Hughes,
/ who greatly reminds one of Charles Ray,
but Who. IN many ways has It on the
| well known star. Hughes is the star who
put over the Griffith production Home
| spun Folks" here recently:
| The screen play is Slightly melodramatic
In its treatment but the producers were
careful not to overdraw any OF the human
| interest stuff and have kept it well within
water thrills, especially at. the opening
! are capable of stirring even the most
is in the fact that it introduces in Grace
Darmond an entirely new type of vampire
I-one of those baby-eyed oh. SO innocent
Special s 50 Mention sea should ou Bs given this
l week to the reel of lPathe news films
They include scenes OF the Galveston fire
last week, the burning Of Balbriggan by
the Black and Tan police of Ireland and
| the return to the tinted States of the
Olympic athletics.
l At the Isis.
| Nazimova in an entirely new role opened
a weeks run in The Heart of Child
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one thing with which one can never ac-
tcuse. Nazimova, and that is lack of YER
satlity. In this picture she has some
thing none of her fans have ever seen her
lattenpt. without a doubt, she has scored
a new triumph Sally Snape,' the girl
| of 4he London cutters who by her simple
faith in mankind raises herself from the
Ilowest level to the highest,
l. It. is beautiful story and is enhanced
by the contrasts which like light and
| shadow run thru the piece, linked to-
gether by some OF the best natural COM
/ edyt that has been shown a local screen
L for a long long time. Cannot think whole
I lot of the leading man Nazimova has but
did not think a lot of him when he played
Whoever it is. who plays the part of the
old earl is good het he was the same fell
low who played the part of the colonel in
| If you are NAzi1nova fan, this picture
is lots and away better than her last one.
production that outdoes "Suds" In every
| department
At The Novelty.
l You can get quite a bit of amusement
| as well as entertainment out of the bill
which started yesterday afternoon and
without stro al your sense Of humDr to
Eare several acts which could be improved
a bit, but where did you ever see perfect
The istr VIII Who gathered unto himself the
most laughs and the best round Of applause
Twas Pat Barrett, who does monologue
Tho this is his second year on the stage
and his first in vaudeville. he has it all over
| a lot of them when it comes to makeup.
| Wellington and Sylvia fill the stage and
Twenty minutes at the start with about the
same sort OF stuff we have seen many
time by .burlesque jugglers. Fielding ant
| Boomer have one of Those matrimonial
warfare acts which wouN be lots better il
!! the prologue was cut entirely. An actor
well known to Topekans appears in I'm
door. Sports skit presented by. Ma
Phillips. He is Ira Herring. who took ths
fdf1d afnp and vi Infr rH1 Zr4ift
Sport North at the old Majestic. Herring
| Is doing comedy now and got across witt
lit yesterday. Rose, Ellis and Rose com
plete the bill with a barrel jumping act
that is speedy enough to give the audience