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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1902
Page
3
A broad sweep of performers from stage and screen are scouting new drama roles. Casting offices report heightened interest from actors seeking substantial parts and fresh projects across theaters and film.
The coming season will showcase Shakespearean comedies and revivals from major stars. Casts and tours include Eleonora Duse, Robert Edeson, Maxine Elliott, Goodwin and Faversham. Sothern, Sykes, Robson, Crane and Walsh. productions of The Comedy of Errors and Hamlet, and new or revived works by Jones, Ryley, and others across New York and London stages.
Maude Adams plans revival of As You Like It with Rosalind. Viols Allen and company lead The Eternal City. Ketel Barrymore stars The Flirt. Blanche Bates to headline an unnamed Belasco piece. Kyrie Bellew in A Gentleman of France. Amelia Bingham tours with A Modern Magdalen. Elizabeth Kennedy to portray Mme Trentani in Captain Jinks. Charles S. Hanford to perform The Old Guard. Dertha Creighton tours in A Colonial. Eddie Foy stars Mr Bluebeards. William Gillette tours Sherlock Holmes and seeks Hamlet. Glaser to extend Bally Varden. James K. Hackett to debut The Crisis. Harned stars Iris. Mertie Harvey touring in Cigar maker’s Romance. Chats Hawkey in a London hit. Anna Held to stay in The Little Duck. Verne new romedy by Glen McDonough.
Ezra Kendall, famed vaudeville monologist, varies act length by audience laughs from 20 to 30 minutes with longer showings at night. He performs with minimal makeup, carries a newspaper, and cues the orchestra with Auld Lang Syne. Kendall has published two books, Spots and Good Gravy, earning about 4000 dollars in profits. He plans a third collection while preparing for Liebler drama.
A Topekan visits Chicago to see The Wizard of Oz at Grand theater.Dorothy Gale portrayed as a Kansas girl sparks laughter and local pride while the satire exposes Kansas to eastern audiences. The act features Kansas farm details, a lean calf and a scarecrow, with Dorothy’s Kansas origin provoking bewildered reactions.
The New Crawford Theater opens Monday with the Imperial Stock Company in a three day engagement featuring Uncle Beth Haskins Wanted A Wife and A Game of Life. Nettie DeCoursey leads as Jennie with a large scenic cast and the season’s first musical, Nancy Brown, to follow. The Grand Opera House also opens August 25 with Madison Square Theater company and George Ade’s The Sultan of Sulu planned for September 22.
Tommaso Salvin, 73, long retired from professional life, will perform twice at the Alessandro Manzoni theater in Milan. He will act in La Morte Civile and in his famed Saul impersonation, with both performances for charitable institutions and his aid given gratuitously.
Zoe Matthews remembered at Manonee S fen in Chicago this week. Daniel Sully debuts rural drama The Old Mit Stream. Tutal comedy Old New Ireland. Bijou Fernandes stages Meares Admane ae SE aeederes Ta eats version of Shylock. Robert Emmet production features a surpliced male choir amid 12 companies. Maude Lambert joins Sally In Our Sey. J Cheever Goodwin discharged in New York court. Nate Goodwin celebrated 4th birthday with a barquet in London. J Toole marks 72nd birthday in London. Pauline French to Europe for six months of language study. Klaw Extender Sleeping Beauty and the Beast to Chicago. Weatua Grosamiit to New Zealand October tour. Early production planned for The MAGNOTete Autar. Elia Snyder rests in Milwaukee amid legal issues over Bing Hight. Grace Livingston and Mauger Parris tied to Fhirn Save edits. rehearsals underway in New York.
A sensational advertisement touts Dr James W Hind and Dr James William Kidd offering a mysterious Elixir of Life to cure rheumatism neuralgia stomach heart liver and numerous other ailments. The offer claims free samples with no risk and urges sufferers to state their illness for a cure mailed to them.
Unclear reports place Uncle Joe Drew on Log Island with Mise more. Rose Coghlan seeks divorce in South Dakota from Jabr Bullivan, who will not oppose. James Jefferer and Robert Fitzsimmons offered large weekly sums for a return to the stage. Maude Adams may not appear in Toby Claude’s production until late November. Annie Russell to step in if needed. The theater scene features many reshuffles including The Belles in rehearsal, Maude Adams sidelined by overwork, and Dowling’s San Francisco divorce case drawing attention.
The Burlington Route renews low one way settlers' rates from Missouri River to California Portland and Puget Sound country during September and October with proportionate rates to interior Missouri Kansas and surrounding districts. Through coaches chairs and sleepers available to Tyre Helena and Tacoma with night connections from Denver meeting Northwest trains at Alliance Nebraska Also tours to Chicago St Louis and other points offered by the Burlington and agents.
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