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TOPEKA! STATE JOTXRXAI,, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1900
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THEATRICAL NEWS
3Iaad Adani3 Pleases "ew York
ers in "L'Aiglon."
Plays the Hole of Son of Na
poleon. ACTION IS THRILLING.
Frodnctlon Promises to Be an
Interesting Success.
Facts of Theater Folk Which
Will Interest Playgoers.
The anpearanee of Maud Adams In
Rostand's play'IAitclon" or "The Eag
let" at the Kniektrbuiker theater, New
Tork.this week was a a pronounced suc
cess. A Xrw York dispatch says:
Much interest has, been manifested
here not only in this new effort of- the
author of "Cyrano," but in the radical
departure Miss Adams was to make,
from her general line, even more radical
than her successful Juliet in the as-
Maud Adams, Who Has Scored
eumption of the character of the Eaglet, or
the Duke of Reiclistadt, that unfortu
nate son of Napoleon and Marie Louise,
with the soul of a warrior and a disease
eapped system.
The initial performance of "IAiglon"
was given in Baltimore, in which city
the star and her company have, for a
week, been fitting themselves to their re
spective roles with the view of winning
the praise of the critical audience that
filled the Knickerbocker theater.
S?he was perhaps at her best in the
opening act, where light comedy pre
vails and where situations full of wit.
humor and satire abound. Though the
great scenes of the battlefield of Wag
ram were undoubtedly more in Bern
iiardt's line, nevertheless the tragic is so
pronounced in act IV. that the interest
of the audience did not flag throughout.
In the closing scene the deathbed of the
Iuke of Keichstadt, Miss Adams' act
ing, though good, was largely conven
tional. The part of Flambeau, the veteran,
M-as assumed by J. H. Gilmour, while
Edwin Arden figures as Prince Met
ternieh, chancellor of Austria. Ida Wa
terman assumed the role of Marie Lou
ise. In minor respects the company was
evenly balanced, and the production was
well handled.
The action of the play besrins in Marie
Louise's salon, where is revealed a bevv
of pretty women, who give themselves
up to laushter, chatter and snatches of
music. But intrigue is in the air, and
while Prince Metternieh is keeping a
keen watch upon all that is going- for
ward, sympathizers with the young Na
poleon II, the duke, find their way to
his side and urge him to redeem France.
One of these, the Countess Camarata.
who is of Corsican blood, appears in the
guise of a modist". This woman comes
especially from Paris to persuade the
duke to attempt a coup and return to
the faithful partisans of his father.
Keichstadt hesitates; he is not sure of
himself; he will not promise. This act,
the first, is brought to a close by a sud
den appearance of the dancer Fanny
Essler. who mounts a table and declaims
the latest bulletin of the grande armee,
which she has learned by heart for love
of the duke. This wakes Keichstadt
from his reveries, and he holds forth
before the astonished court, showing
that he knows a good deal of the history
of his father, the Emperor Napoleon,
more than it was intended he should.
Next we see the duke in his study at
Schoenbrunn. about to take his lesson
in the art of war. lie discovers that
the little wooden soldiers which usually
figured as Austrian marionettes, have
been painted by some friendlv hand in
semblance of the grande armee. Met
ternieh enters, and a stormy dialogue
ensues. I'pon his departure, one of the
servants, supposed to be a spy in the
service of Austria, discovers himself to
the duke as Flambeau, a former grena
dier of Napoleon's guard, who has in
troduced himself into the court of
Schoenbrunn for the purpose of escorting
the young- Napoleon back to France.
The duke promises he will go. but not
until he shall have asked his grand
father's leave. This failing, he will
escape.
Then came an interview between
Keichstadt and the Emperor Francis, in
which the former pleads with charming
grace to be allowed to go to France. The
old emperor is about to accede when
Metternieh. as usual, intervenes and
puts a stop to any such plan. Failing
by all the methods he had tried to dis
suade the son of Napoleon from his de
sire to return to the land of his father.
Metternieh takes another course and
tries moral suasion. He leads the young
duke before a looking-glas, and there
bidding him to Itok at himself, reproach
es him for his blue eyes and fair hair,
his unmistakable Hapsburg features,
and tells him he is rot fit to succeed to
tie tin-one f his father-. After failing
to win the emperor's consent to his re
turn to France t-ie duke determines to ac
cede to the requests of the Bonapartists,
and go anyhow.
The escape is made during' a night fete
given by Metternieh. The duke has
promised to meet his Iriends upon the
battlefield of WagTam. In order to facil
itate his escape, he changes cloaks with
the Countess Camarata, who, of many,
is in love with him, and while she min
gles with the throng- of merry-makers,
Keichstadt makes his way out of the
park of Schoenbrunn.
He goes direct to the field of WagTam.
It is night. However, the court has been
warned of the duke's escape and that
of his companion. They are pursued by
the soldiery of Metternieh and. Flam
beau, rather than be taken alive, stabs
himself and dies in the arms of his prince
amidst the wails of spirits supposed to
be those of the slain In battle.
The final act of the play presents the
deathbed of the duke. He expires, sur
rounded by his friends and family of
the Austrian branch his hand upon the
silver cradle which had been presented
to him by the City of Paris when he was
hailed as King- of Rome while General
Hartmann reads the bulletin of the
Orande Armee by way of prayer for the
dying. When he is dead Metternieh says
without a show of feeling: "Bury him
in the uniform of an Austrian colonel."
And that is the end of the poor pathet
ic little hero, the Eaglet.
DEFEATS THE TRUST.
Effort to
Shut Mrs. Fiske Out
Denver Fails.
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The decision in the Denver theater
case, briefly chronicled by the Associated
Press, covers interesting- details, and is
in effect a notable victory for Mrs. Fiske
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a Success as "The Eaglet."
in her figrht for the independent conduct
of her business against what is known
as the theatrical trust or syndicate.
This actress for several seasons has
successfully maintained an independent
stand, declining to -submit her business
to syndicate dictation in any respect.
She has played in independent theaters
of the first class in the few large cities
in which there are such theaters, and
in other cities she has played in "popu
lar price" theaters at first-class rates
and to first-class patronage. In isolated
cases she has gone into vaudeville
houses and for the periods of her engage
ment in such houses has transformed
them into houses of the first class. In
making out her itinerary for this season,
it was desirable for Mrs. Fiske to play
in Denver on her way to the Pacific
coast. To that - end her management
booked an engagement w-ith F. E. Car
starphen, a well known lawyer of Den
ver, who on his own account undertook
the local management of Mrs. Fiske for
a week, and rented for her use for that
period the Denver theater, a popular
price house, the first-class theaters of
Denver being under syndicate control.
When it became known that Mrs.
Fiske was booked to appear at the Den
ver theater an attempt was made on
the part of the trust to shut her out of
that theater and thus out of Denver.
To that end the Denver theater was
forced under the Control of the "booking
agency" of the syndicate in New Tork,
and Mr. Carstarphen was informed in
effect that Mrs. Fiske would not be per
mitted to appear at the Denver. Mr.
Carstarphen had a legal contract with
the management of the Denver theater
antedating any new contract that might
have been made that would conflict with
his agreement, and he at once sued out
in the district court an injunction to re
strain the management of the Denver
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in "Marcella."
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theater from in any way Interfering
with Mrs. Fiske's appearance. The op
position to Mrs. Fiske filed a demurrer
to this injunction and made a motion to
dissolve It. Elaborate arguments were
submitted by counsel on both sides, and
the court has declined to dissolve the in
junction, thus in effect deciding in favor
of the legality of the contract under
which Mrs. Fiske is to appear in Denver.
FACTS ABOUT MARLOWE.
Her Fads, Superstitions, Pets
and
Treatment of "Johnnies."
'A stage enthusiast, who has devoted
much time to the collection of quaint
data concerning eminent players of Eng
land and America, recently sent Julia
Marlowe's management a printed form
in which there -were questions a-bout
facts and fads relating to Miss Marlowe,
with blank spaces left for the answera
The inquiries concerned such divergent
matters as Miss Marlowe's attitude tow
ard the genus "stage Johnnie," her am
bitions, her jewels and her religion. Af
ter members of Miss Marlowe's execu
tive staff, her secretaries and her maids
had contributed such information as
they possessed and had drawn on the
subject of the inquiries herself for more,
the printed form read thus:
THE REAL JULIA MARLOWE.
Born In Cheswiek, England. Came to
America when 4 years of age.
Age Twenty-nine years.
First stage appearatics As a child at
the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati.
First appearance in New Tork when 17
years old in "Ingomar" at the Bijou the
ater. "Johnnies" Gives notes to her busi
ness manager. A Boston Johnnie wrote
her a note last season, signing it "John
son, alias Orlando." The business man
ager wrote "Too Much Johnson" across
the back and returned it to the writer.
Superstitions Some years ago while
in the south she bought a small cross
marked with the initials "J. M." She
bought it because the initials were the
same as her own and has worn it ever
since for good luck.
Fads Copies all the plays In which
she appears. She engrosses them on vel
lum and illuminates the initial letters
in red and gold. All these copies are
kept in the library of her new home on
the Riverside drive, New Tork.
Pets Has an Obo spaniel, which, be
cause of its long, whiskerlike ears, she
calls Taffy Obo.
Jewels She is making a. large collec
tion of turquoises.
Ambitions To play every role well.
Her last play is always her favorite,
- Religion She is a high church Episco
palian and is a member of the Church of
England.
Characteristic anecdote There was a
Marlowe club in Philadelphia. It was
composed of 15 university students who
admired the actress. They sent her a big
bouquet from the gallery. On the card
was a line from Kit Marlowe, the poet.
Last month Miss Marlowe learned that
the president of the club was dead. She
ordered that his grave be covered with
flowers and sent a substantial gife to his
mother.
BELIGIOUS DRAMA.
Wilson Barrett Was an Advocate of
Sacred Flays.
Charles Dalton, the leading man of
"The Sign of the Cross" company says
regarding the influence of Wilson Bar
rett's celebrated religious play on the
modern drama:
"When Mr.Barrett announced an elab
orate and costly production of "The Sign
of the Cross" at the Lyric theater, Lon
don, some five years ago, the unanimous
prophecy of those considered an author
ity on theatrical matters was that the
piece would be a dire failure. 'The pub
lic does not want religion in its amuse
ments: it goes tothe theater.not to learn
a lesson but to be amused' tney assert
ed. Had his prophecy been realized I
do not believe that such books as 'Ben
Hur1 and 'Quo Vadis' ever would have
been dramatized, while thousands of
cletgymen and religious people wouid
still be strangers to the inside of a the
ater, instead of commending, as they
now are, the production of plays that
amuse and instruct at the same time.
'Theatrical managers, like other
shrewd business men, invest their mon
ey where they think it will bring the
largest returns. They produce the kind
of plays that, in their estimation, will
best please the public. The men who
would not have considered for a mo
ment the production of 'The Sign of the
Cross' when it was unknown were im
pressed with the desirability of catering
to the large class of people known as
'non-theater-goers,' who packed the
house wherever it was played. What
was the result? Managers at once set
to work to obtain plays that by their
title and subject would appeal to those
who knew only of the stage what they
have learned from 'The Sign of the
Cross;' play writers began reading sa
cred history in search of material for
dtamas; one of them turned from the
writing of comic operas to dramatize
'Quo Vadis," clergymen not only com
menced to attend performances of pieces
whose titles suggested a religious sub
ject, but in many cases to preach and
write of the wholesome influence of such
plays: and. most important of all for the
future of the religious drama, the box
ofTice receipts proved to be much more
satisfactory and the runs longer than
BRILLIANT BEAUTIES OF THE BOARDS.
Miss Grace George
in "Her Majesty."
during the days when faree comedy
monopolized the stage.
"Of course this is my own opinion,
which, like all matters that are purely
conjecture, cannot be proved.but I firmr
ly believe that the success of 'The Sign
of the Cross' Is directly responsible for
an influence on our stage that by nO
means as yet has reached its limit."
w THE DRAMATIZED NOVEL.
Theatrical Manager Gives His Views
on Its Popularity.
'A New Tork Sun reporter asked a
New Tork theatrical manager what, in
his opinion, were some of the causes of
the present popularity of the dramatized
novel, and the manager delivered some
interesting opinions on the subject.
"The vogue of the dramatized novel,
so far as I can say," he said, "seems
likely to continue for some time to come,
and it will be limited only by the number
of popular novels that the authors turn
out; I was about to say, so long as they
continued to write novels that could be
dramatized, but apparently no such dis
tinction as that exists any longer. It
has begun to look as if any book might
be made into a play nowadays, and the
old distinction of dramatic or undra
matic . plots has been entirely swept
away. - ' "
"I will give-Kome reasons for he pop
tilarity of. the novel as a source of dra
matic inspiration among managers. In
the first place, the book supplies the
imaginative characteristics of a play.
The period, place, costume, characteriz
ation, and every similar feature can be
found in the book. If these have ap
pealed to a large number of readers in
a novel there is no reason why they
should not be equally well liked on the
stage. The book also supplies the story,
which is to be followed with more or
less closeness. - Generally, the departure
from the lines of the original story is
great, but the main points are at all
events provided.
"All the manager has to do Is to hand
the book over to some man who under
stands the stage r. d tell him to do the
best he can with it to get a play out of
it. Usually it is not necessary for this
man 'to know anything but stagecraft.
Dialogues are likely to be abundant
enough in the book, and were they not to
be found they can easily be provided.
The dramatist goes to work, and, as a
rule, turns out something which is
neither the book nor the play. Persons
who go to see the book on the stage will
be astonished to find how little of the
story is there, while those who have
gone merely to see a good play will be
guessing as to the why and wherefore
of what is going on all the time."
JAMES O'NEILL TALKS.
Says "The Legitimate " is Not Dying
Out.
In a recent Interview James O'Neill
remarked: "The possibility of the legiti
mate dying out is absurd. There is one
great trouble about Shakespearian roles
which exemplifies the old - saying that
fools step In where angels fear to tread.
Amateurs and incompetent actors will
essay these roles in preference to the
lighter ones for which they are perhaps
better fitted. Twenty years ago the same
cry was raised about the legitimate. I
hear the same cry about every seven
years, but it invariably comes in hard
times. When McCullough came from
San Francisco to play 'Virginius' and
other roles the east was wallowing in
hard times, and he lost all of $50,000 in
that tour. In "the third year times began
to grow better, and in the fourth he
turned money away.j It is the old story.
There are few people playing Shake
spearian roles now- as they should be
played. To speak blank verse a man
must have the voice. We try now to
avoid being pedantic as they were years
ago, and this of course is trying to the
majority. I remember in '76 or '77, when
Mr. Booth came to New Tork for a stay
of four weeks. He lost easily $20,000 in
that time, although he was looked upon
as America's greatest tragedian and ac
tor. Times were hard then, and yet a
few years later, when times were good,
he played to as high as $96,000 in four
weeks."
O'NEILL'S REVIVAL.
Again Playing Monte Cristo In New
York.
On Tuesday the initial performance of
the revived "Monte Cristo," with Mr.
James O'Neill as Edmond Dante3, was
given at the Academy of Music, New
Tork. Liebler & Co. make the claim
that of all the productions they have
ever made this represents the most care
ful, artistic and expensive one. The ver
sion which Mr. O'Neill uses is by Charles
Fechter, and is the same one in which
he has appeared for the last fifteen years.
A Mansfield Speech.
A few years ago in a speech after the
fourth act of "The Merchant of Venice,"
Mr. Mansfield said, in substance:
"Applause is to the actor what the sun
is to the flower. An actor can tell only
how he is appreciated by the applause
tie receives, and only by that means can
he measure his success. If he receives
none, he falls by the wayside of his pro
fession. Take a plant down into a dark
and dismal cellar, and it bleaches and
wjthers up and dies. Take it out into
the glorious sunshine, and it sends its
roots deep into the earth, its branches
up into the heavens; it blossoms and
tells how glad it is by giving forth beau-
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TheatricalNotes.
William Gillette is considering an ap
pearance next season as Hamlet.
"The Girl With the Auburn Hair," may
next season sing in comic opera.
Augustus Cook has a one-act play In
which he will again Impersonate Napo
leon. Paul Kester is dramatizing W. D. How
ell's novel, "The Rise of Silas Lapham.'
"Richard, the Lion Hearted," is the title
of a new play produced by Robert Down
ing. Henry Miller intends to conduct a sum
mer stock company in San Francisco
every year.
A production of that old but amusing
piece. "The Spider and the Fly," will be
taken to Mexico and Cuba.
James K. Hackett and Mary Mannering
may play a joint starring engagement in
London next spring.
The Frank Daniels' Opera company, in
"The Ameer," may next year go to Lon
don for a six weeks' summer season.
- Louis James' next Shakespearean rr'le
will be Caliban in "The Tempest." Kath
ryn Kidder will probably be the Miranda.
Maude Odell has made a success in her
new capacity as leadying lady with the
Imperial Theater Stock company, St.
Louis.
Stanley Rignold, a son of George Rig
nold, of "Henry V." fame, is to be John
stone Bennett's leading man in vaudeville.
"The Girl from Calcutta," a comedy of
modem high life and manners, written by
the late Charles Coghlan, is shortly to be
taken on tour.
"Unleavened Bread," by Robert Grant,
Is the latest novel to undergo dramatiza
tion at the hand of Leo Dietrichstein, in
collRbcration with the author.
"The Scarlet Sin," by George R. Sims
and Arthur Shirley, produced at Liver
pool, deals to some extent with the Sal
vation Army and its mission,
Walter Perkins, now touring in "The
Man from Mexico," will be later seen in
a dramatization of Mary E. Wilkins'
novel, "Jerome, -a Poor Man."
E. S. Willard and his company are to
sail direct fcr Boston Ortober 26. The first
play to be given here will be "David Gar
rick," followed by "Tom Pinch."
Francis Wiison is scaring the greatest
success in his career in the new comic
opera. "The Monks of Malabar," in which
he will be seen at the Broad Street theater
D- 1 ml" r 3.
The ktoss receipts of the "Passion Play"
atOberammergau last summer are report
ed as having reached $;nt.'H.m, -while from
all sources the simple-minded villagers re
ceivea about Sl.'.ioiy'Oij from visitors.
Some comic opera singers must make
money. Frank Daniels, who is playing
"The Ameer," has just purchased, for $35 -003,
some twenty acres of hind in the vil
lage of Rye. N. T., adjoining his already
handsome estate.
The "New Gibson Girl," Georgia How
ward, the young woman selected by
Charles Dana Gibson to pose for his new
series of pictures, will be seen this sea
son with Hurtig and Seamon's new pro
duction of "Aunt Hannah."
Ninety-five drops are required to show
the tableaux in "Ben Hiir." The scene
representation of the Grove of Daphne
alone requires more scenery than was
used in Augustin Daly's entire produc
tion of "A Mid-Summer NiR-ht's Dre:ttii."
Gustav Salvini, one of the sons of the
Miss Jane Kennark
in "Arizona."
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greater Tomasso, is still trying to arouse
in Italian audiences an interest in the
rlassical drama. He is traveling through
Italy with a company that gis performances-
of the works of Sophocles and Al
rieri. "Marcelle" has only been a half-hearted
success, and Blanche Walsh's managers
have secured the right of "More Than
Queen" from Julia Arthur, In which their
star will appear.
The legal proceedings instituted by the
Hashims against the Liebler company on
account of the postponement of "The Ad
ventures of Francois," have b en amic
ably settled, the latter guaranteeing the
former against loss. ,
It is truthfully stated that the sun
never sets upon the performance of
George H. Eroadhurst's "What Happened
to Jones." The farce is being played in
some part of the edobe every one of the
twenty-four hours of the day. There are
four companies presenting it in America,
three in England and one each in France,
Germany, Italy, Denmark. Holland, South
Africa, and Australia. There has nevtr
been a record made by any farce to equal
or compare with this.
A fact not widely known Is the way In
which "Florodora," soon to be produced,
received its title. Owen Hall, the libret
tist of the opera, has two lovely young
daughters. Flora and Dora so now one
sees where the title came from, with a
change of only one letter.
It Is stated In several Italian papers that
an opra company formed in Milan, that
started a year airo in South America, had
such bad luck that the prima, donna liajs
taken a situation as maid servunt at an
inn. and the tenor has cast his lot with a
trainer of animals.
The official censor of plays in Kngland
has refused to permit exhibitions of a
melo-drama. entitled. "The Women of
London." He objected to a massage scene,
pointing out that as attempts were mak
ing to suppress all massngeries in Lon
don he could not officially countenance
ucb, a show on the stage,
James A. Heme has settled down for a
New York run in his new piay. "Sag Har
bor," at Hammerstein's new iheatr. Some
of the critics who have, takn several good
looks at the play, say it is really a re
written edition of his first great success
in this line, "Hearts of Oak."
Sarah Cowell Le Moyne has been estab
lished as a star through th medium of
"The Greatest Thing in the World," and fs
preparing a one-act play from the pen
of Israel Zangwill, entitled "The Moment
of Death." or "The Never-Never Ijand."
This little drama will enlist the talents
of Mrs. Le Moyne, John Glendinning,
Robert Kdeson, Charles Stanley and Al
phonz Ethier.
The mysterious suicide of Mme. Senk
rah, the American violinist better known
in America by her real name, Harknes
which occurred in Germany a few weeks
ago, proves to have been caused by men
tal unresr. the result of a systematic
blackmailing plot against her. The Ger
man police are investigating the author
ship of a number .of anonymous letters
which were found after the unfortunate
woman's death.
Charles Frohman will present Barrle'9
"The Wedding Guest" in New York about
next February.
The last survK-Ing member of the fam
ous Rossini family committed suicide re
cently at Milan.
Henry Clay Barnabee has sung the role
of the Sheriff of Nottingham in "Robin
Hood" over 3.500 times.
Burr Mcintosh has taken up colored
photography as a side line to his work
in "Janice Meredith" while in New York.
William Humphreys, who plaVfd "Na
poleon" with Julia Arthur in "More Than
Queen." has been signed for the same role
with Blanche Walsh's company.
Sothern's success in Boston with "Ham
let ' has been o great that his manager.
Daniel Frohman, is trying to get his star
back to New York for an extended run.
It Is said that the Rrince of Wales has
saved all his theater and concert pro
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1015 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kas.
them awav in blank books. A he has al
wavs bfm noted as a per-latent mu e-ment-sker
at theaters, and con-l.l'-rlnit
his age h collection must be g-i and
Interesting
E. H. Sothcrn Is said to have put tV. '
of his own money in his production of
"Hamlet."
Savre and Munro havw soour'il thr
rights to present "The Pride of J'nnlc..'
next sewsori, when .lames K. H:tktt
drops out of the Frohman nm tmt;"m'"H .
Gustav Kerker has arrived in N - Ynk
from Ixmdon. He has u new pii-cf, vt
unnamed, in which Kdna May ili prob
ably be starred.
James ljin Allfti, author of "Tbt choir
Invisible." Is In Kurope. : I hiring lied
coloring for a. new strv upon which h
Is soon to commence work.
Jessie Rnrtlett Davis h sient-d with
Martin Beck for an ext.-ndc-d tour ,ti
vaudeville next season. This wouid pe m
to indicate that she has forsaken the le
gitimate entirely.
"Tyrannv of Tears" in to take the r ad
n"xt month with llfrxr fmih, 11 n i.n
Klish actor, taking John Drew's old pa t.
The company will be an exceptionally
iitrong one.
Mrs. I-Moyne's opening In Nw York In
"The Greatest Thing in the World" was
not a success.
A movement has heon started In pirls
for the establishment of a popular th-w
ter. where the mae may have tin op
portunity of hearing the txt tnttslnii and
dramatic works at reasonti hi" prie s. At
lsst ac-nunti mure tUan i,0 W had
subscribed.