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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATS JOUl?AESATURD AY EVE2TIHG-, NOVEMBER 10,1903.
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? Arthur Pryor's first appearance in
Topeka as a band leader will be made
at the Grand opera house next Tues
day, when he will be heard in two con
certs, presenting his fine organization
of fifty musicians, including Miss Stella
fThomas, contralto, and Mr. Simone
Jvlantla who will render soios on an
instrument known as the Pryorphone.
Arthur Pryor first came into promi
nence as trombone virtuoso, with
Sousa's band and soon came to be
known as the wizard of that instru
ment. During- the earlier tours-of the
Sousa organization, the young artist
received several royal summonses to
appear before European rulers, and
when the illness of the black-bearded
band master necessitated his tempo
rary retirement, Arthur Pryor was se
Jected to wield the baton over the
Sousa aggregation.
'It was in this capacity and on the
tour which covered all the foreign
capitals that Pryor's great ability as a
conductor came to be recognized. , On
bis return to America, where his new
found fame had preceded him, several
music-loving capitalists, waxing en
thusiastic over his foreign conquests,
organized and financed his brilliant
military band. That was over three
years ago, and since that time, Ar
thur Pryor and his band have come
to be known as the, best organization
of its kind in America. Mr. Pryor in
Jiis endeavor to kee his band on a
purely national basis has adhered
strictly to his original determination to
recruit" his men from American talent
exclusively. Military bands as a rule
attract nearly exclusively lovers of
that class of entertainment only, but
in the case of the Pryor band lovers of
all forms of theatrical and musical
performances find healthy and satis
factory recreation, largely from the
reason . that legitimate concert forms
cnly one portion of an evening with
Arthur Pryor and his band. The sec
ond portion of the programme dis
closes the patriotic musical spectacle,
The Triumph of Old Glory," an al
legorical, military, musical and histor
ical history of vital Interest to all
Americans.
The programmes for Tuesday's con
certs will be:
AFTERNOON.
Overture, "II Guarany" Gomez
Fryorphone solo, air and variations
Mantia
Original suite , Pryor
(a) "A Spanish Dance"
b "An Arkansas Husking Bee"
(c) Tarantelle paraphrase on "Pop
Goes the Weasel"
Contralto solo, "Nymphs and Fauns"...
Bemberg
Miss Stella Thomas.
Grand scene, "Night of the Classical
Sabbath." from "Mefistofele" Boito
Introduction and bridal chorus "Lohen-
grin" Wagner
(a) "Fairy Dreams" Von Blon
b "The Whistler and His Dog"... Pryor
Trombone solo, "Valse Caprice" Pryor
Arthur Pryor.
"Our President," march from "The Tri
umph of Old Glory" Pryor
EVENING.
i. Overture, Maxmillian Robespierre.Iitolff
S. Pryorphone solo. Garden of Roses. Gattl
Simone Mantia.
g. Three Numbers from "Scenes Pittor
esque" Massenet
a. "March Militaire."
b. "Air de Ballet." .
c. "Angelus."
4. Contralto solo from "Samson and De
lilah" Saint-Saens
5. a. "An Egyptian Love Dance"
b. "The YVhitler and His Dog" Pryor
C. Grand Scene and tnsemble, "Andrea
Chenler" Giordano
During the concert Mr. Prior will ren
der one of his world-renown trombone
olos.
Intermission.
THE TRIUMPH OF OLD GLORT.
Depict incidents of American History.
Prflude.
British in camp. , ,
Te Boston Tea Party. . ; l-c'l
Washington on Horse. ' ;
Battle of Trenton.
Marquise de Laayette.
Paul Jones' ship "Richard" Defeating
the British ship "Serapis" First Naval
Battle.
Washington in prayer.
Betsy Ross, Showing First American
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Liberty Bell.
British Evacuating New York.
Famous American Gerals.
McKinley's Cabinet Declares War with
Spain.
Volunteers Enlisting.
Assembling of Soldiers from North and
South. .
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Off for Cuba.
Dewey at Manila.
Our Soldiers in Camp near Havana.
Roosevelt Charging up San Juan Hill.
Victorious Troops Returning.
Grand Tableaux.
The Star Spangled Banner.
Attractions Coming fo tlie New Grand.
Tonight "Ikey and Abey."
Sunday, Nov. 18, matinee and night
"A Bunch of Keys."
Monday, Nov. 19 Ezra Kendall in
"Swell Elegant Jones."
Tuesday, Nov. 20. matinee and
night Arhur Pryor and his band.
' Thursday, Nov. 22 "Foxy Grand
pa." Friday, Nov.. 2 3 Jane Kennark in
"The Toast of the Town."
Saturday, Nov. 24, matinee and
night "In Old Kentucky."
Sunday, Nov. 2 5, matinee and night
West's minstrels.
Monday, Nov. 26 Wonderland.
Next week's offerings at the thea
ter include amongst others three or
four attractions of the better class.
Ezra Kendall, popular with Topeka
audiences, comes Monday night in a
comedy called "Swell Elegant Jones."
Arthur Pryor, one of the foremost
bandmasters of the world, comes Tues-
Ezra Kendall in "Swell Elegant Jones."
day night, and Jane Kennark, who
has been seen In Topeka in Blanche
Bates' "Under Two Flags," comes
again on Friday night in Viola Allen's
recent New York success, "The Toast
of the Town." The much-talked of
"Wonderland" comes to Topeka for
the first time on Monday evening, No
vember 2 6.
"Swell Elegant Jones" was written
for Mr. Kendall by Herbert Hall Wins
low who wrote Mr. Kendall's laughing
success. The inegar - Buyer, in
which he was playing upon the occa
sion of his last visit to Topeka.
tewell Elegant Jones" is a million
aire, not by birth but through kind
Providence and an investment in a
mine. He is called away to look af
ter his mining interests, and the first
scene opens after his return.
A former admirer of Mrs. Jones, a
plotting lawyer. learns that Jones has
become penniless and that Mrs. Jones
is about to fall heir to a large fortune
left by an uncle; he schemes to sepa
rate Jones and his wife. He places
Jones in compromising situations,
with the assistance of a female detec
tive, and persuades Mrs. Jones of his
unfaithfulness, who starts proceedings
for a divorce, furnishing opportunity
to develop several amusing situations
and clever repartee during the re
maining acts.
Mr. Kendall is not the finest com
edian we have at present, but in a
race for position as the most popular
comedian he would stand an excellent
"show," because there Is a personal
quality In his work which makes
everyday people regard him affection
ately. He has acquired all the me
chanical helps to the actor, of course,
but his work seems spontaneous and
natural, and If he hasn't a heart of
gold, every feature of his work be
lies him.
Among the people with Mr. Kendall
are Charles Mylott, Harmon MacGre
gor. Douglas Joss. William McKay,
George Neville,. George T. Welch,
Genevieve Blinn, Grace Gibbons, Caro
line Eckert, Mat Wells and Margaret
Shaw.
One of its most important attrac
tions of the season is "Wronderland,"
the musical fantasy, by Victor Her
bert. Glen MacDonough and Julian
Mitchell, authors of "Babes In Toy
land." Eight princes, who live in an
enchanted castle, by the love philters
of Dr. Reuben Fax. a specialist in af
fairs of the heart, win the affections of
eight charming daughters of the King
of Hearts. The incidents that follow
are numerous and interesting, and the
scenes range from Dr. Fax's cottaee
in the king's park, a sauare where the
houses make fiees and a lake by the
enchanted castle to the ballroom of
the castle itself.
The role of Dr. Fax Is played by
Little Chip, the dimutlve comedian
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who was here last as the private In
Hoyt's "A Ml!k White Flag." Little
Chip's real name is SamCornbloom. He
stands about four feet high, and admits
that sixteen of his twenty-two years
have been spent in the glare of the
footlights. His first effort was a Dutch
comedy stunt in vaudeville. Shortly
after his debut he went to England
with his father. In that country he
attracted general notice by his mimi
cry of Albert Chevalier and the coster
song, "The Little Nipper." Upon his
return to America, Little Chip becarrle
associated with the Harlan-Dunne-Wells
stock organization. The part
of Dr. Fax in "Wonderland" was writ
ten around him by Glen MacDonough.
Mary Marble, who shares stellar
honors with Little Chip, playing as
Phyllis, a country girl, comes of the
famous Marble family of actors. She
was a cousin of the late Joseph Jef
ferson and grand niece of Boston's dis
tinguished comedian, William Warren.
Her uncles. John, Ed and Billy at
tained considerable reputation as ac
tors, and her father, Dan Marble, was
quite an important character In his
day. Perhaps the most conspicuous
of Miss Marble's early successes was
the orphan in "A Milk White Flag."
She was with the Harlan-Dunne-Wells
company for a time, starred with Lit
tle Chip in "Babes in Toyland" season
before last and visited Topeka
about a year ago as Nancy Brown in
the musical comedy of the same name.
Comparisons are odius, but it can
truthfully be said that Mr. Sanford B.
Ricaby need not apologize for the man
ner in which he has perpetuated the
West name in minstrelsy, says the Du
luth News Tribune. The show has a.
strong singing first part, a good olio,
an orchestra that pleases and one of
the best bands that has ever visited
this city. The costumes are all new
and bright and the show is apparently
starting out on another successful sea
son. Mr. Wright's "Somewhere," Mr.
Mitchell's laughing song, Mr. Renoud's
Robin Hood selection and Mr. Bren
nan's singing are far above the aver
age. "A Bunch of Keys" is a screaming,
screeching comedy, brimful of excite
ment, laughter and enjoyment. It was
written in Hoyt's best vein and the
years have not dimmed its brilliancy.
Edward R. Salter claims to have in
corporated into his latest farcical cre
tion "Ikey and Abey," a large amount
of the cleverness and bright scintil
lating wit that has made his former
productions so successful.
In melodrama there are none so
good as the old favorites and Jacob
Litt's production of "In Old Ken
tucky," though it has been seen here
on former occasions, will undoubtedly
attract the same generous support
from all classes of theatre-goers when
it comes again this year. ,.
"Foxy Grandpa" is one of the pop
ular priced shows of the week.
Attractions Coming to Kansas City.
Shubert, all week -Virginia Harned
in "The Love Letter."
Willis Wood, all week Jess Dandy
in "The Prince of Pilsen."
Grand, all week "The Mayor of
Tokio." ,
At the Shubert theater next week
Virginia Harned will appear in Sar-
dou's brilliant comedy, "The Love Let
ter." Miss Harned's personality is
likely to brighten anything she cares
to play. In "The Love Letter" she has
a double opportunity. Sardou's lines
are full of literary cleverness and dra
matic directness. Miss Harned clothes
them in a fascinating color of life.
There are complicated situations and
unexpected contradictions of evidence
in which two husbands, a cynical
bachelor, a divorced sister, who is al
ways trying to fix things and in doing
so makes them worse, a lawyer who is
kept busy reconciling incidents, keep
up a whirl of amusement. The play
is beautifully presented and by an ex
cellent company, which includes
William Courtenay, AV. J. Ferguson,
Albert . Gran, Eleanor Moretti and
Dorothy Rossmoie.
"The Prince of Pilsen," which con
tinues under Manager Henry W. Sav
age's directing care, is announced for
Marie Quinn aa "Msdee" la "In Old
Kentucky."
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Jr.ne Kennark in Viola Allen's
the week of November IS at the Wil
lis Wood theater. The popularity of
this delightful musical comedy has
carried it through many seasons and
over a world-wide range of territory.
It is to its credit that it has lost noth
ing of its charm and potency by fre
quent repetion. Its fifth season has
especial distinction in that the cast is
in many respects the bes yet seen in
the play. Jess Dandy continues at the
head of the company, and Pauline
Guzman is playing the widow.
Ilackett and Mannering Join Shuberts.
Two more prominent stars have
gone over to Uhe .-Shubert syndicate.
They are James K. Hackett and Mary
Mannering, who in private life are
husband and rwife. . Their contract
with the independents begins with the
new year. Mr. Hackett was one of
the members of the first anti-syndicate
movement, which included Harrison
Grey Fiske and Maurice Campbell, be
sides himself. Last season, however,
he returned to the big syndicate. It is
the intention to star himself and his
wife in separate plays. Mr. Hackett
also owns the theater which bears his
name in New Tork and is, therefore,-a
valuable addition, to the Shubert
forces. i' , .
Ezra Kendall Would Like to' Know ,
If a heri lays tnWhtfndred eggs a
year, which sell foti three 'cents each,
what 'is the hen vorth?
If a man drinks a glass of beer
through a straw, will he contract hay
fever? ; " ''..
If a widower married his mother-in-law,
would he be considered a sane
man ?
If Adam was nDt the first to see the
dawn of day, who got the first sight
of Eve?
Why traveling through space is not
practicable when so many people flit
ter through life on (hot) air?
When a man sneezes is it because
his brain is dusty?
Do you get a run for your money by
traveling the pace that kills?
Kendall says jokes are valuable. He
found them to be especially valuable
in one stage of his career, for by their
aid he managed to pay off a debt of
$15,000. It was in 1892 that he tried
to manage three shows and failed. He
had some assets, but he alio had the
additional responsibilities of a,wife and
six children. Three show bill printers
were among his creditors, so he went
to them with a proposition to get up
a book of jokes from the sale of
which enough profits would accrue to
wipe out the debt. Two of tlve three
saw nothing in the scheme, but the
third was duly impressed and under
took the orintinjj of the book. "Spots"
was the first book. Before the de
mand for it ceased V million copies
had been disposed of. The second
book, "Good Gravey," was even more
popular than the first, and 350,000
are floating around the universe.
DID YOU KNOW
That Madame Modjeska has begun
her road tour in "Macbeth"?
That James K. Hackett began a road
tour in New England last week in "The
Walls of Jericho"?
That Charles Klein's new play, "The
Daughters of Men," is to have its first
production in New Tork the middle
of the month? Mr. Klein is the auth
or of "The Lion and the Mouse."
That Tvette Guilbert and Albert
Chevalier will travel 38.000 miles on
their present American tour, which
has been extended to the Pacific coast?
That Amelia Bingham is making a
tour in her new play, "The Lilac
Room"?
That Isabel Hall has been engaged
as prima donna with Harry Bulger in
"The Man From Now" ?
That Thomas Jefferson is to make a
tour of the southern cities in "Rip
Van Wrinkle"?
That Denman Thompson contem
plates a return to the stage next sea
son in his old pole of Josh Whitcomb
in "The Old Homestead"?
That the Rose of the Alhambra has
been secured by the Shuberts, for pro
duction later in the season?
That the famous Joe Jefferson farm,
near Hoboken, N. J-. where the actor
made his home for many years, was
sold at sheriff's safe? Dr. Horace
Enos, a resident of Hoboken, Is the
new owner.
That three stars have been added to
Lew Field's new musical melange,
"About Town" Blanche Ring. Peter
F. Dailey and Kate Condon. The two
latter have been playing "The Prest
Agent."
The first presentation on any stage of
"Caught in the Rain." the three-act com
edy. In which William Collier if to star,
was given in Atlantic City. The play
will be seen at the Broad Street theater.
New York, for two weeks, beginning De
cember 3. The plav takes its title frnm
the fact that the bashful hero is caught
bv Cupid wh!l seeking shelter from a
rain storm under an awning where he
finds a very nrpttv e-lrl. Charles Froh
mnn hs surrounded the star with a com
nanv lnclud!ng Nonette Comstnok. Louise
Drew, Jane Laurel. Helena Collier. Georare
Nash. Grant Stewart co-author. with Mr.
Collier, of the play), John Saville and
Wallace Eddinger.
success, "TheJV.ast of the Town."
ABOUT PLAYS AND PMYERS.
"Brewster's Millions" has been sold to
the Shuberts, it is reported, by Thompson
& Dundy, Winchell Smith wrote the play
and it was said to be quite successful
when produced. It is said Thompson 61
Dundy were unable to obtain satisfactory
bookings.
Jesse Lynch Williams' newspaper drama
'The Stolen Story," was last week pur
chased from Henry W. Savage by James
M. Allison, and will hereafter appear in
houses controlled by the Shuberts. "The
Stolen Story" made a great hit in New
York.
. Albert McGuckin has been engaged by
Jefferson de 'Angells and specially selected
by Julian Edwards, the composer of "The
Girl and the Governor," as musical di
rector. Arnold Daly is playing "How He Lied to
Her Husband" in a New York vaudeville
theater. . It is the first appearance of a
Shaw play amid such surroundings, but
since Mr. Daly is in trouble witli both the
trust and the independents, there does not
seem to be any other place for. him.
Tim Murphy recently won a long, hard
fount iegi Dattle for an unpaiu portion
of uie insurance on his celebrated collec
tion of plays, play bills, prints and por
traits lest in the nre whicn destroyed ins
Long Island home tnree years au.
-The, Savoy theater in Ne'w"Tork is hav
ing a series ot failures that is becoming
appalling. Firrst Lillian itussell, in "Bar
bara s ftlUliona," went, awry; then fol
lowed "The Muuse .o Mirth," with Pay
Davis, which was a sad anair, and now
it is announced that ivyrie iseiiew and
his new piay, "Brigadier Geraru," is not
impressing as " it was expected, and will
enu its present run tonigiit. A new play,
"Sir Amhony," is to fouow.
Henry W. Savage has achieved a sensation--with,
.his production in Lnglish of
Puccini's Iuilo-Japitiiese opera, "Aiadame
Butterrly." Critical Boston has bestowed
its entire approval. There is nothing more
to desire.
"The Mimic and the Maid" is the title
of a new musical comedy by Allen Lowe
and A. Baldwin Sloane, to bo played in
the Shubert houses, lhe cast will include
W. G. Mandev'ile, Victor Rosaire, 'Oilman
Low, Maurice D'Arcy, Harry ii. Watson,
Alice Craft Benson, Melville and Stetson
and Dorothy Russell. The - production is
to be made by the Hermann Oppeuneimer
company.
An attractive advertising novelty used
in the cities where "The Red Feather"
plays is a gratuitous distribution of red
leathers. They are given away by the
thousands, and are ot such an attractive
rich color tiiey are eagerly adopted and
worn in hats and button holes. So far
Manager Joseph M. Oaites has used one
car load of feathers and has already bar
gained for two more.
Henry Woodruff was arrested in Pitts
burgh on Halloween night for remon
strating with a policeman who was trying
to curb some alleged unseemly revelry. At
the police court Mr. Woodruff was fined
id, and the re'eiler was sent to the
workhouse for ten days.
Because Edith Shayne, the niece of the
late C. C Shayne, the New York furrier,
and who is a prominent member of "The
Lion and the Mouse" company, preferred
a stage career her uncle cut her off in his
will with SI, 000 instead of giving her the
intended portion of JJOO.uOO. Miss Shayne
is at present using her spare time be
tween performances in trying to force her
claim in the courts to what she considers
her just due.
Daly's, one of the best known of New
York's theaters, is to pass from the pres
ent management to that of the Messrs.
Shubert. After several weeks of negotia
tion, which aroused all sorts of rumors as
to the property, the independent manag
ers have made arrangements by which
they will get control of the playhouse
next May, when the leases now held by
Mr. Frame McKee expires.
Fifty Sioux Indians, under the command
of Chief Sweet Mouth, will leave Ne
braska in a few days en route to New
York, to appear in the new spectacle to
be produced at the New York hippodrome
Thanksgiving week. They all come from
the Pine Ridge Agency, and not one ha
ever been in a city. Nearly a dozen
squaws and ssveral papooses are In the
party.
The scene on board of the yacht Flitter
in the big Thompson and Dundy produc
tion, "Brewster's Millions," is claimed to
be the most startling scene of its kind
ever disclosed. Among the novel devices
in adding realism to this scene are three
enormous blowers, each propelled by a
ten-horsepower motor. The full force of
the gale is thus made apparent when
these machines are at work.
Charles Bradford, business manager of
"The Flower Girl," the' third of the Shu
bert shows to come to the Lyric theater,
explains why the present title of his
opera was substituted for "Veronique," its
original name. "The towns we play en
route to the cities weren't equal to the :
word 'Veronique,' " says Mr. Bradford.
"Most people thought it referred to a hair
tonic or new breakfast food. In one town
the hotel clerk asked me where Mr. Ve
ronique was going to stop. I said to my
self, 'He'll stop- right "here, and I stopped
him. I changed the name and ordered i
new printing at once. The change cost
my firm about $2,0u0, and nearly drove
the authors of the play to the madhouse, '
but an Increase of nearly double our re
ceipts has pacified everybody."
Owing to the misunderstandings arising
from the confusion of titles of the dra
matization of Marah Ellis Ryan's ro
mance, "Told In the Hills," and a melo
drama touring the country under the title
of "As Told in the Hills." it has been de
cided to change the former production to
"Genesee ot the Hills," in wnicn r-awin
Arden and his company will appear in
New York November 13 for an extended
run.
Wilton Lackaye is to go into New York
with Ms "The Law and the Man" Christ
mas week. By the way, Mr. Lackaye has
Just been elected the new Shepherd of the
bamtiB ciuo.
When vivacious Helen Hale, the Welles
ley college girl who is with Harry Bulger
in the "Musical Man irom now, was in
terviewed concerning her reported engage
ment to blushing George Ade, she ex
claimed: "I don't believe it. I had my
foot read by a fortune teller In New York
and he told me I was not to be engaged
again for two years." Helen always did
have a pretty fair sense of humor.
Owing to the number of failures in New
York ia the last few weeks several the
aters have endeavored to get Henrietta
Crosman to cancel her tour and oaen in
New York immediately, but Maurice
Campbell, her manager, has decided to
remain on the road until January at least.
James O'Neill produced "The Voice of
the Mighty" at Milwaukee. The play is
based on events chronicled in Biblical his
tory in the rele-n of Tiberius Caesar.
James O'Neill, Jr., Ethel Dunn and Te
resa uale were in the cast.
John E. Kellard made his first appear
ance as a star under the Shubert man
agement in "Taps at Kansas City.
The Shuberts' new metroDolitan theater,
the Lincoln Square, at Sixty-sixth street
and Broadway, New York, was opened re
cently with Guy Standing in Edward Pe
ble's play, "The Love Route." The new
theater marks an advance in uptown piay
houses, being 52 city blocks north of the
old Rialto, at Fourteenth street, which
but a few years ago was the centre of
theatricals in isew lork.
Some Idea of the measure of Fritz!
Scheff's Boston and New England suc
cess, in "Mile. Modiste," tho new Blos
som-Herbert comic ODera. is suggested by
the report that the authors' royalties 5
per cent of the gross receipts amounted
to J2.700 for the brief Boston engagement.
Henrietta Crosman in "All-of-a-Sudden
Pegey" has just finished an engagement
at the Broad Street theater in Philadel
phia to the two biggest weeks' business
in the History or that theater, ui course,
the receipts were not as great as when
Miss Crosman played "The Sword of the
Klnir" at the Academy of Music in that
city, owing to the size of the theater, but
then that engagement was proDaDiy tne
greatest ever played by a dramatic star
anywhere, one night alone bringing in
J4.075.
"The Strength of the Weak" is the title
of the play in which Florence Roberts
will appear at a Washington theater next
week. The role of Pauline Darcy in "The
Strength of the Weak" marks an innova
tion in the matter of types in problem
plays in that the woman, from her grad
uation day at a university to the tragic
ending of the play, is called upon to run
the full gamut of human emotions and
carrv a certain element of comedy with
which the play is replete in its earlier
stages.
Everybody knows that Francis Wilson,
the comedian, is a man of literary in
clinations, but it is not so generally
known that he is an art collector, too. At
any rate, he is suing a picture dealer
named Collins for working off on him an
imitation Mauve. Wilson claims he paid
the dealer $5,375 for it, and that it is not
worth anything. He wants the money
back.
Tim Murphy has sold his Long Island
estate and has bought a tract of wild land
in the Berkshires, where he is going to
build a new villa. He will repeat, with
improvements suggested by experience,
the happy scheme for stage, studio and
storage, which was a feature of his sum
mer place destroyed by fire three years
ago.
Miss Camille D'Arville, who married and
retired from the staae three years ago,
made her reappearance as a Snubert star
in a new musical play in Newark, N. J.,
November 12. The authors of the new
play are Messrs. Stanislaus Stange and
Julian Edwards, jutuI is called "The Belle
of the Town." Miss D'Arville made her
debut in America at the Broadway the
atre in "The Queen's Mate" in June, 1S8S.
Lillian Russell was a member of the
same company. Three years ago Miss
D'Arville wedded and temporarily retired
from the stage. The company engaged to
support her includes Carl Stahl, Robert
E Cavendish, Frank Farrington, Orville
Harold, Hal Pearson. Arthur D. Wood,
Herman Steinman, Edmund Stanley, Jos
eph Frehoff, Ruth Peebles, Belle Thorne,
Alice Knowles, Hilda Hollins and Kath
leen Clifford.
David Belasco's new theater in New
York, the Stuyvesant, the first to be
erected under that city's new building
laws, will be opened in September of next
year. It is purposed to present David
Warneld there in a new play. .
Percy Mackave, the son of Steele Mack
aye; H. W. Boynton, the editor of the At
lantic Monthly; Herman Sudermann and
Gerhardt Hauptmann, the two greatest
writers of the drama In Germany; Mau
rice Maeterlinck, the great Belgian dra
matist, and William Shakespeare, are the
authors whose works will be presented by
E. H. Sothern and Miss Julia Marlowe
this season on their first tour under the
management of the Messrs. ShuDert.
The company of 125 people which Klaw
& Erlanger has formed to present Frank
Plxley and Gustave Luder s new opera,
"The Grand Mogul," has begun rehears
als in New York. This company includes
Frank Moulan, Sager Midgeley, Will H.
Macart, John Dunsmuir, Maude Lillian
Berri, Ethel Marie Parker, Phoebe Coyne
and Edith St. Clair.
Grain Inspector Collects S 1,4.15.
John W. Radford, the state grain
inspector, has reported to the state
auditor on his work for October.
During that time he inspected 4,4 7 7
cars of grain; weighed 5,296 and col
lected in fees $4,435.35. He retained
from this sum $864 to pay the ex
penses of the suit of the Midland
Grain company against the state grain
inspector and turned over to th i state
treasury the sum of $3,571.35.
Transmisslssippl Commercial Congress,
Kansas City, Mo.
The Union Pacific has made a rate
of $2.70 for the round trip. Tickets
on sale November 18 to 21, good re
rive at Topeka 10:30 a. m., 11:50 a.
turning till November 28. Four fast
trains daily to Kansas City, leaving
Topeka at 7:05 a. m.. 8:15 a. m., 3:10
p. m. and 5:20 p. m.. Returning ar
rive at Topeka 10:35 a. m.. 11:50 a.
m., 6:20 p. m. and 7:55 p. m. Avail
yourselves of this opportunity to ride
over our magnificent new double track.
Rock ballast all the way. No grades
and straight as the crow flies.
F. A. Lewis, City Ticket Agent, 525
Kansas avenue.
J. C. Fulton, Depot Agent.
A Year of Blood.
The year li3 will long be remembered
in the home of jr. N. Tacket, of Alliance.
Ky., as a year of blood: which flowed so
copiously from Mr. Tackefs lungs that
death seemed very near. . He- writes:
"Severe bleeding from the lungs and a
frightful cough had brought me at
death's door, when I began taking Dr.
King's Nev Discovery for Consumption,
with the astonishing result that after
taking four bwttles I was completely re
stored and as time has proven perman
ently cured." Guaranteed for Sore
Lungs, Coughs and Colds, at Arnold Drug
Co. arug tuie. -i.e 0c and iLiK. Trla.
bottle free.
Go to New York on the Lehigh.
Double Track Scenic highway. Con
nects at Buffalo or Niagara Falls wltft
all lines from the west. Write Passen
ger Department, Lehigh Valley R. It,
Z18 South Clark street. Chicago. IU.
"I wonder what that Chinaman is do
ing ud so late." "Shirts, I suppose."
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
AMUSEMENTS.
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TItiI F
1
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Bill for WecK Coinmeflcin
Sunday, Nov. 18, '08
One Matinee Every Day at 3
p. m. except Sunday, with
Matinees at 2 and 3 p. m.
2 Performances Every Night,
8 and 9 o'clock.
Ladies' Souvenir Matinees
Tuesdays and Fridays.
Children's Five-Cent Matinee
Every Saturday
NEW PEOPLE
AND NEW PLAYS
EVERY SUNDAY
Overture
"THE POLICY KING "
Miss Faye Pohlman.
The Pierces
Refined Musical Entertainers.
C. B. Marty ne
Illustrated Song, Presenting
"Sweet Maid of the Sunset
Sea.
Clifford & Orth
Hebrew Dialect Comedians
and Singers.
CLARK'S
Dog & Pony Circus
Twelve Dogs and Two Shet
land Ponies.
Kinodrorne
loving Pictures
"LIFE IN INDIA"
A BIG BILL
All Clean, Polite Vaudeville
I0C-0NLY-0C
NEW GRAND
CPSP.A
HOUSE
Jackson St.. I A three day ndvance sale
bet. eth & Tth at l.owiey's for each play.
8:15 TONIQHT
8:i5
Prices 25. 36 and SOc.
Look Who's oerct Let's All Ea Happy I
IKEY and ABEY
Musical Fares With Gtrly Chorus
?'!VnYMat 1 :S0 15, 25, 35c. Reserv'd
OUilUft I Night 8:15-25, 35 and 50c.
Hoyt's Record-Breaking Musical Fares
A BUNCH
OF KEYS
Now Songs, New Dtncss-AII New
lionlay Nijht, ITovemtor 13
Floor $1.50, $1; bal. 75, 60, 35c; mea. 35c;
gal.. 25c.
EZRA -KENDALL
America's Most Unique Character
Comedian in
S WELL ELEGANT JONES
TllPQnAYMst- 2:3025 and 60 cents.
lULOUM I Night 25, 35, 50. 75c and II.
ARTHUR PRYOR
AND 1)1 VH Pryor's Trombone Solos
HIS lMilif 60 Famous Artists 50
in Concerts and The
"Trinmnh ftf ftM Rlnpy" t
ths Flag.
Thursday ITlgfct, ITov. 22.
Look at these prices 25, 35, 60c.
FOXY
The Clever
Musical Cartoon
uomeajr.
GRANDPA
FrUiT ITizht, ITov. 23.
JANE 2IS1T2TAHS
in Clyde Fitch's Costume Comedy, The
TOAST ime TOWN
Floor $1.50. $1; bal. 75, 50, 35c; mez 75c
gal. 25c.
Kansas City & Kcturn $2.70
Santa Fe.
Tickets on sale Nov. 17, IS, 19, 20.
Good returning aa late as November
2Sth.
State Journal, 10c a Weelv
t