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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1900.
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THEATRICAL HEWS
Farewell of Mme. Helena Mod
jeska in "King John."
Will Be Seen Next Season in a
Big Production of the Play.
TYLER AND 3PLEAX.
Shakespearean Actor and "Wife
Will Support Modjeska.
Attraction lias Already Been
Booked For the Crawford.
The announcement that Mme. Helena
Modjeska.supported by Odette Tyler ar.d
R. I). McLean, will make a' farewell
tour next season in an elaborate revival
of "King: John," is of particular inter
eat to Topeka. theater goers because of
the fact that the famous Polish actress
and her company has already been
booked for the Crawford theater in thU
city. .Next year, it is stated, Mme. Mod
jeska will return to her native land, a
trip that has been deferred several
years because of the exceptions taken
by the Russian government to the ac
tress' outspoken statements at the
World's Fair.
The revival of "King John" will be
under the direction of Wagenhals and
Kemper, the young firm of theatrical
managers that exploited the James-Kidder-Warde
and James-Kidder-Kan-ford
triumvirates and is now preparing
a revival of "The Midsummer Night's
Dream" for Kathryn Kidder and Louis
James. Mme. Modjeska will, of course,
play "Lady Constance." a part which it
is said she has long admired, with Miss
Tyler as "Prince Arthur," and Mr. Mc
Lean as "King John."
Mme. Modjeska was last seen here at
the Grand opera house in "Mary Stu-
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art." It was not her first visit to To
peka. as she has been here several times
in different characters. Miss Tyler and
Mr. McLean were here the season be
fore last presenting a Shakespearean
repertoire in conjunction with Charles
VS. Hanford and a large company. Last
year they were seen in the dramatiza
tion of Anthony Hope's "Fhroso."
The contract that Wagenhals and
Kemper have with Miss Tyler and Mr.
McLean extends over a period of five
vears, and next season, it announced,
thev will be featured in a new play now
under construction by a well known
dramatist. Miss Tyler, by the way, is
Mr. McLean's wife. She attained con
siderable notoriety early in her stag.
career by jilting the third son of the
late Jay Gould and afterward married
the actor.
Several thousand dollars will be spent
in preparing "King John" for the stage,
and scenically it will be complete. With
Mme. Modjeska in the role of "Lady
Constance" much may be hoped of it
artistically, and the enterprising firm
cf managers will probably be hand
somely repaid for any expense they may
go to in giving the great actress a fit
ting farewell.
OtT3A SET THEM! "WILD.
Famous Conductor and His Band Re
ceive an. Ovation in Germany.
The German Times of Berlin speaks as
follows of the engagement cf John Phil
ip Sousa and his band in that city:
The past week at Kroli's Garden,
which served to introduce to the Berlin
public Sous;i and his famous American
band, was one of remarkable interest.
Mr. Sousa. who is a born leader, is a
man of many talents. It is not given to
every successful conductor to be an
equally successful composer and libret
tist besides. John Philip Sousa is all
these, and more. He never fails to in
spire his men with his native energy
and unbounded enthusiasm. The disci
pline in his band, every member of
which is an artist, is perfect. Their pre
cision, correct intonation, tone coloring
and rendering of the various numbers
of their extensive repertoire resemble
the work of a virtuoso on his instru
ment, so complete is the ensemble. The
band is composed of young men prin
cipally, who infuse into their perform
ances a snap and vigor which is con
tagious. To use an Americanism, Sousa
and his band have caught on here and
no mistake about it; they have taken
Berlin by storm. Germans everywhere
are fairly wild over Sousa marches, and
tffey are bound to become as popular as
the Strauss waltzes. Mr. Sousa's con
ducting of his marches is unique. Our
German friends admit the plaving of
this band is different from anything
they have ever heard and confess them
selves completely captivated, and in
dead I know of no band its equal.
On Thursday I heard them play over
tures of Tannhauser Wagner, and
scenes from the same composer's Loh
engrin; the smoothness, beautiful effects
and quality of tone they produced in
these selections were surprising and
must be heard to be appreciated. Those
who did not hear the Sousa band play
Wagner have missed a wonderfully ef
fective performance. The Thursday
program was a musically interesting
one, and besides Sousa's, suite, "The
Last Days of Pompeii," were played his
"The High School Cadets" march and
"The Stars and Stripes Forever," de
stined to become one of the most popu
lar marches. With the audiences that
filled Kroll's nightly to over-flowing the
Sousa marches were chief favorites, as
was attested by the applause and ex
pressions of delight which greeted the
first few bars of every march played,
and nothing would do but a frequent
repetition of each in turn. As was the
case when this band appeared in Brus
sels, the people went wild with enthusi
asm, many of the men throwing up
their hats and the ladies waving their
handkerchiefs and cheering; encore fol
lowed encore on a program of eighteen
numbers, and the last piece was given
with as much vigor as was the first one.
"AMERICAN BEAUTY" FAILS.
American Campaign in London This
Year Disappointing.
The annual American spring cam
paign in London may be adjudged more
or less a failure this year, says a Chi
cago exchange. "Quo Vadis" was es
teemed for itstrueworth at the Adelphi
and failed outright, enrolling Robert
Taber among its' victims. Inasmuch as
the play Lawrence Irving wrote for Mr.
Taber. "Bonnie Dundee," failed at the
theater immediately before "Quo Vadis"
arrived, it is likely the actor's grasp
on the rank of actor manager is ex
tremely feeble at present. Taber, how
ever, is merely an incident. The heavy
losers are Manager Whitney and his
backer, though it would seem they are
in a position to stand some mishaps.
The American production of the play is
still running at the Xew York theater
in New York, and no closing date is an
nounced. As William Gillette has end
ed the season of "Sherlock Holmes" at
the Garrick theater, the religious melo
drama is New York's sole theatrical at
traction apart from vaudeville offer
ings. Other American managers who have
felt the London blight are George V.
Lederer and. in a somewhat lesser de
gree. Charles Frohman. The former's
venture, the light opera, "An American
Beauty," has been unable in theatrical
pariance to "make good," and though
Mr. Lederer hangs on to the Shaftes
bury theater he is arranging to make a
change of operas, probably presenting
"The Casino Girl," which ran for sev
eral months in New York, but did not
reach Chicago this season. Mrs. Carter
has balanced a considerable amount of
popular favor against critical disap
proval, and as an actress undoubtedly
has added an English to her American
triumph, whatever may be the final
judgment rendered concerning the play.
Her engagement ct the Garrick, never
theless, is drawing to a close, and there
is no reason for believing the financial
rewards will be exceptional, though in
view of the other advantages reaped
from the trip Mr. Belasco and Mr.
F'rohman probably will not Be dissatis
fied with the outcome.
Mr. Frohman's separate venture,
"Miss Hobbs." which has been played
by an English company at the Duke of
York's theater, has had a pleasant
career. Madeline Lucette Ryley's farce,
"The Mysterious Mr. Bugle." which
Miss Annie Russell was prevented by
illness from introducing to London a
year ago, a.lso has been put on at the
Strand, and seems to be going fairly
well.
NOVELS ON THE STAGE.
Many Dramatizations Will Be Seen
Next Season.
The following stars will appear next
season in dramatizations of famous
novels:
Mary Mannering in Paul Leicester
Ford's "Janice Meredith."
W. H. Crane in E. N.Westcott's "Dav
id Harum."
James K. Hackett in Winston
Churchill's "Richard Carvel."
Henry Miller in Mary Johnston's "To
Have and To Hold."
Viola Allen in Marlon Crawford's "In
the Palace of the King."
Henry E. Dixey in Dr. Mitchell's "The
Adventures of Francois."
Wilton Lackaye in "Jean Vaijean,"
dramatized by himself from Victor Hu
go's "Les Miserables."
"Ked Pottage.' by Mary Cholmondely,
for the Daniel Frohman's stock com
pany. "Caleb West," by F.Hopkinson Smith,
will have a production by Jacob Litt at
the Manhattan theater, with George
Fawcett in the title role.
Marie Burroughs in "A Battle-Scarred
Hero."
Otis Skinner in Robert Louis Steven
son's "Prince Otto."
Sol Smith Russell in Martha Mor
ton's dramatization of a famous novel.
Julia Marlowe in "When Knighthood
Was in Flower."
WHY NOT TOPEKAP
The Grau Opera Company "Will Be ii
Kansas City in December.
Kansas City, Jure 23. S. Kronberg,
who so successfully managed the en
gagement of the Grau Opera company
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In Kansas City last fall, spent a day
in Kansas City this week arranging for
the appearance of the great organiza
tion in Convention hall on December
11 and 12. Mr. Kronberg has now be
come the western agent for Mr. Grau,
and he is returning from California,
where the Grau company will open its
season next November. The first ap
pearance will be at Los Angeles and
then San Francisco, Denver, Kansas
City, Lincoln, Neb., Minneapolis, Minn.,
and finally New York will be given a
chance to hear the greatest body of
singers who were ever associated with
Mr. Grau. Chicago and St. Louis, on
account of the lack of appreciation
which they displayed last season, will
have to do without the company this
year.
The most interesting feature of the
tour, from the standpoint of Kansas
City next season, will be the aDear
ance here of Jean De Reszke, the fa
mous tenor. De Reszke will not go
any farther west than this place, and
he comes here largely at the sugges
tion of his brother, Edouard, who has
never forgotten the reception given him
when he sang Mephistopheles in
"Faust" last November. Only in Kan
sas City and New York will Jean de
Reszke be heard, and for the one per
formance here he will receive the cosy
sum cf $3,000.
The prices of seats in Convention hall
will be $3 for a single performance, and
J6. $7 and $S for season tickets.
The company will include Mme. Mel
ba, Emma Fames, Lillian Nordica,
Mme. Ternina, the famous Wagnerian
soprano: Mme. Sehumann-Heink, Su
zanne Adams and Susan Strong, eight
prima donnas; Jean de Reszke, Edouard
de Reszke, Pol Planeon, Mile. Olitzka,
the contralto; Guiseppi Campanari, Dip
pel, Bonnard. Muhlman, Prir.gle, Ber
tram, the baritone, Bond and La Tour,
and others of note. The entire company
will number 225 people.
Stage People Superstitious.
The peoale of the stage are super
stitious, says an exchange. When Mary
Marnering signed the contract to star
for five years under the management of
Frank McKee her husband, James K.
Hackett. accompanied her to Mr. Mc
Kee's office in the Madison Square the
atre. The papers were prepared in ad
vance, ar.d all that remained was to
fix the signatures. Mr. Hackett asked
that a quart of champagne be sent for,
and it was brought. The cork was
f " v
drawn, and at Mr. Hackett's sugges
tion Miss Mannering spilled some of
the wine over the contracts after she
had signed them. "What was that
done for?" Fratik McKee was asked.
"Oh, just an idea, I suppose," he re
plied. "What was done with the re
mainder of the wine?" "That wasn't
wasted," laughed Mr. McKee.
The Original "Tilly."
Myron P. Rice will take "My Friend
from India" on the road next season, the
tour opening in August and extending
to the coast. May Vokes will be fea
tured in her original role of "Tilly."
Among others engaged by Mr. Rice are
Walter Colligan, William Peters, Luke
Vrohman. William Gaunt. Mrs. Chase
and Hattie Vera, most of whom have
played in the comedy before. Wr. J.
Block will go in advance.
Mantell's New Play.
M. W. -Hanley will manage Robert B.
Mantell in a new play, entitled "A Free
Lance," the coming season. "A Free
Lance" is by W. A. Tremayne, who
wrote "A Secret Warrant" and adapted
"The Dagger and the Cross" for Mr. Man
tell's use. The locality of the new play
is Wolfsberg. North Germany, the per
iod 1450, and it is romantic in story. An
excellent supporting company is prom
ised by Mr. Hanley. and the production
will be carried complete.
Theatrical Notes.
It is said Mrs. Langtry has secured
R. C. Carton's comedy, "Lady Hunts
worth's Experiment," and will bring it
to America in the fall.
Jefferson de Angelis will make hi3
next season's tour under the manage
ment of his son, Thomas de Angelis.
Delia Stace- was awarded in Mil
waukee last week a det-ee of absolute
divorce separating her from her hus
band. Thomas H. Burchell.
Macklyn Arbuckle will tour the south
ern and western states in "The Gentle
man from Texas." the new play by Au
gustus Thomas, before presenting it in
New York, where it is hoped it may
have a long stay.
Edmond Rostand has regained his
health, and is resting at Montmorency.
His royalties from Sarah Bernhardt's
production of "L'Aiglon" are said to
have reached t32.000 on the first hun
dred performances.
William Young's great dramatization
of "Ben Hur" will be resumed, after
a summer of rest, in the "roadway
theater. New York, or September X
Manager Teal will begin rehearsals for
It on August 6.
- Katherine Grey, who recently mar
ried John Mason, has announced she
will leave the stage for a year. Flor
ence Rockwell has been enaed to
take her place in the Liebler" forces.
Miss Cissie Loftus is likely to be a
member of the company of the English
actor. Forbes Robertsor.. next rear.
Mr. Robertson has cabled asking her
terms, and she has replied, but" time
for his answer has not elapsed.
After a run of thirty-three weeks
"Sherlock Holmes" closed its season at
the Garrick theater, New York, last
night. Next season Mr. Gillette's com
pany will be much changed, Bruce Mc
Rea and Miss Katherine Florence, who
have had leading parts, both leaving the
organization, Ethel Knisht Moilison
will succeed Miss Florence.
Ben Teal, stage director for some of
the Klaw & Erlanger attractions, has
engaged 100 chorus girls for "Foxy
Quiller," SO for "The Roger Brothers
in Central Park," and 60 for the new
McNally farce with the Agoust family!
And yet the employment agencies can't
find any kind of girls at all, black, yel
low or white, for more than about one
in five of housekeeping employers.
Sol Smith Russell is regaining his
health and will return to the stage, but
he is planning for a season limited to
twenty weeks. He will begin in Wash
ington late in October, presenting a
dramatization of a novel of which the
title is withheld. It is said Martha
Morton is making the book into a play.
Richard Mansfield continues to ac
quire plays. The newest one he is said
to have secured is by Harriet Ford and
Beatrice De Mille, authors of "The
Greatest Thing in the World." Mrs. De
Mille is the widow of the late Mr. Henry
C. De Mille, who collaborated with
David Belasco in many plays.
James K. Hackett and his wife, Mary
Marnering, have gone into the wild
woods region near Quebec and will re
main there until the middle of August.
Following the close of the former's sea
son in "The Pride of Jennico" at the
Criterion theater. New York, comes the
announcement that Mr. Hackett will
depend solely upon the play next year.
"Richard Carvel," in which he was to
have appeared, will be produced under
Daniel Frohman's directi. n. but with
some other player in the t'tle role.
Besides "The Greatest Thing in the
World" Mrs. Lemoyne has been sup
plied with two other plays for next sea
son, "In a Balcony," in which she will
play the Queen, and "Pippa Passes."
the latter an episodic play with
both prologue and epilogue. Pip
pa is a factory girl and she furnishes
the only link between the different epi
sodes, passing through them at critical
moments of her life. It is probable that
Wilton Lackaye will support the actress
in one or more of the plays, though he
is announced to star as Jean Vallea.i in
a dramatization of "Les Miserables."
Alfred Klein has been engaged for
"The House That Jack Built."
William Faversham is not to appear
as a star until season after next.
Lottie Gilson has been engaged to
support J. K. Emmet in "The Outpost."
a new play to be put on next season. It
deals with the Boer war.
"The Isle of Champagne" is to be re
vived in London, with Arthur Roberts
in Thomas Q. Seabrooke's original role.
"The County Fair" is to be revived,
with Neil Burgess in his original role
of Abigail Prue.
Helen Bertram is to be seen in the ti
tle role in the production of "Little
Faust," which is to be made in Boston
in July. The piece is a travesty on the
opera.
Madeline Miranda, the wife of Eddie
Foy.the comedian, has dramatized, with
the aid of her husband, an Italian musi
cal farce, in which Foy is to appear. It
will be known as "A Night in Town."
Jefferson De Angelis will go a-star-ring
next season in a musical comely.
the book of which is from Charles
Klein's pen. The composer of the score
is not yet announced. Jessie Mackaye
will have the soubrette part in the pro
ducticn and will be "featured."
THE RUSSIAN JEHU.
From the London Field.l
The cab driver of Russian towns dif
fers in many ways from our own Jehu,
although in the matter of having a
ready answer, which does not turn away
-vrath, for both friend and foe, he seems
to be closely related. There are no
large cab owners, and, if those of the
tram companies be excepted, no large
stables in either Moscow or St. Peters
burg, and almost every driver owns or
has at least a share in the lot he drives.
Although at first sight cab driving in
the capitals of the empire can hardly
be considered as a village industry, yet
in Russia it is considered as such. The
"isveshtchiks," as the flymen are call
ed, are nearly always members of far
distant village communes, who spend
the whole or part of the year at town
work, but who remit the greater por
tion of their earnings to their native
place, and themselves return to it when
agricultural work or fishing is at a
premium, and when city work or health
gives out. This connection between
farmer and factory hand, townsman and
tiller of the soil, is characteristic of all
Russian industry; it is no uncommon
Eight to see a cotton or linen factory
empty during harvest. The coachman
of the city is generally a member of a
peasant family, whose males outnumber
the females, so that some of the former
are forced to forsake the allotment,
which proves insufficient to provide sup
port or Jabor for them all, and turn to
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One hundred of its stenographers holding positions in Topeka.
Cement's famous system. Instruction strictly Individual. Actual expertenes
pupils receiving their own earnings. Day and nig tit sessions. Position guaranteed
to its graduates. Lessons by mail a specialty. ANNA E. CAN AN,
Estaolisned In 1887. 628 and 630 Kansas Avenue.
the town for a living-. He cornes to the
busy center, learns his way about it,
buys a droshky, a small but not uncom
fortable vehicle on runners, and a four
wheeled chaise of about the same size
for summer use, takes out a license
from the police and makes a start. His
horse (for, unlike the London brother,
he seldom has more than one) he brings
with him from the farm, or, perhaps, to
be literal, it brings him; and often the
possession of the animal is the reason of
the driver's change of fortunes and of
scene.
This isvoshtehik Is a strange object
as he sits on the narrow board which
serves him as a seat at the front of his
droshky, clothed in a long blue gown
which reaches to the ground, is heav
ily quilted with down, and tied in at the
waist with a strap or ornamental cord
and a heavy sheepskin cap over his
ears. He lives a nomadic life, seldom
having any fixed residence or stable
in the town, and is thus often to be
seen asleep in his droshky while his
horse feeds at the public troughs, which
the local authorities put up in almost
every side street. One may see him,
when he has put down a passenger and
earned his fare, go to the nearest coin
merchant, buy just sufficient hay and
corn for one meal for his horse and
place It in the manger. Then he gets
fodder for himself from the ambulant
venders of black bread, tresoa (odori
ferous codfish) and weak, milkiess tea,
who stand at the corner of most Rus
sian streets, and afterward he sleeps
peaceably in his sledge, until his horse
be rested and fit for another journey.
Then on he goes again, until, some
hours later, he repeats the process at
the other end of the town. At night he
plays "Box and Cox" with his partner,
with whom he forms a limited liability
company. At a fixed time he must meet
hin in some tavern yard, take out hl
own tired horse and surrender the
droshky. The second man, whose horse
is fresh, now takes his twelve hours,
and at the appointed time in the morn
ing must meet In the same tavern.
After a week they change over, the
nisht man takes the day work and vice
versa; thus one vehicle, with no lodg
ings or stable for the men rest in the
pothouse, the horses In the yard or
sheds adjoining it supports two men
whose sole object in life is to earn and
save enough to enable them to leave
the city and return to the land, the
mistress of every mujik's affections.
The isvoshtehik is an excellent ex
ample of that absence of fixity of
tarifr which is so prevalent throughout
Russia, for in the matter of charges he
is a law unto himself. When yon show
signs of wanting a droshky all the
drivers within hail assemble and bid
one against the other for the custom:
this one will take you for so much, that
ore for less and so on. One takes one's
choice, a good, fast horse and smart
sleigh at a good price, or a bad one for
a fraction of It. Phould one, however,
select a poor looking beast, the drivers
left behind will make encouraging re
marks as one drives away. "He is
lame." ' "Ke stumbles." "The driver is
drunk," they will shout m chorus until
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Figure it up and see.
The Shawnee Building
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Tou can pay It back
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Go talk It over with
Eastman, at
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Why suffer the
pangs of rheumatism
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X AH Druzzisls. Price Si.03.
one is orit of earshot. One natural re
suit of this elastic system is that thi
old law of supply and demand makes
itself felt: for while fares are low !ur
ing slack hours, they are apt. at close
of play or beginning of storm, to at
or.ee "rise several points."
The Isvoshtehik if not a bad coach
man, generally driving with a tight rem
and somewhat furiously. He shouts at
everything in his way. and constantly
encourages his not unwilling little steed
with si?ch remarks as "Now, Vanka
(Little John), earn your dinner." . "It
is not far." "The day is cold." "At the
end are food and rest." "God is good-