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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1902
Page
3
The Denver scene centers on Eugene W. Taylor as a U S theater row erupts over misadventure and alleged miscommunication with the Boston Bijou tour. Critics, managers, and actors debate Taylor’s authority and the show’s fate amid travel woes and contractual disputes.
New York reports Mrs Patrick Campbell opening her season at the Garden Theatre in Aunt Jeannie by KL Benson. The plot centers on a protective love between women and sacrifice, with Campbell delivering a superb performance as Mrs Horton. Other reviews praise King High Fall at the New York Theater and The Mummy and the Humming Bird at the Empire, highlighting Drew’s acclaimed leading role and the ensemble’s strong staging.
Muitwurne McDowell recalls early stage work as he played Pindarun Ast in Julian Cassar with Laurence Barrett. He improvised Egyptian makeup, grease paint peeling onto Barrett’s robe, provoking laughter and Barrett’s anger. The mishap led to discharge after the first rehearsal and later humor about the error.
A fragmented OCR excerpt describes a recital by Mie Zelle Oe Lowen, with mentions of audience, songs, and a musical matter linked to Albee Wy Poet. The text references Martina and Nacilee, and hints at personal charms and performances in a grand context, with garbled names and dates.
The New York Post notes Pietro Mascagni will open the Metropolitan season on October 3 with several of his operas. At 27 he won the Sonzogno prize for Cavalleria Rusticana, a work once wildly popular but later deemed an operetta by critics. The article discusses Mascagni’s place among Italian composers and references German music historians.
A scathing editorial condemns Arthur Pinero’s daring English drama in New York produced by Virginia Harned as offensive indecency and a blow to American stage morals. It argues the play is a harmful intrusion on decency and urges audiences to boycott the theater box office to starve such work out of existence.
The New York Press previews Corse Payton's return with his Lee Avenue stock company. He appears as Lucille Carlyle in My Kentucky Home with a southern heroine, northern soldier romance, and a cast including Carter, Etta Reed Payton, Kirk Brown, Buss Fox, Hoey, Mrs Williams, and Miss Fields. A souvenir footje is slated for Monday's matinee.
A messy telegram chain shows Manager Brady opposing 600 bill posters for a women’s exhibition in New York. He orders 690 posters from Strobridge in Cincinnati but confuses the Biographing company with an employment bureau named Strobridge. A correction arrives, revealing William A. Srad in New York.
Mr. Brady, perplexed and angry, learns where the mistake lay after calling the local office of the graphing company. He telegraphs to cancel his extraordinary demand on the employment bureau. The cancellation is received, while the woman's league has not been called to pay rail fare for posters from Cincinnati to New York.
A flurry of casting and production news from New York and London outlines Stanislaus Stange’s new play The Daughter of Hamitene, Henry Dixey in Franklin Fyles staff moves, and Mrs. Barah Cowell Moyne’s concert plans. James Sparks joins Mr. Reiily in a new piece with the Sire brothers set to star, while Elsie DeWolfe returns home to rehearse Spotless Town. Henry Miller eyes Washington for The Master of the King’s company, and Dorothy Verné rights secure with Charles Frohman.
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