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Newspaper

Topeka State Journal

Location

Topeka, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Oct 20, 1900

Page

3

Theatrical News and Shows in Topeka for Week

The paper previews upcoming entertainments including Ameer by Frank Daniels at Crawsons Opera House and Marshall's Band concert to support a formal uniform fund. Daniels brings a strong company with Ithys Thomas and William Corliss noted in cast. Band concert features red trimmed black regalia and blue trousers with a gold Marshall stripe.

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The Stage Mother In Dramatic Critics View

Alan Dale discusses the stage mother archetype in theater with sharp critique. The piece examines her social role, costume, and effect on star performers, noting a conflict between maternal drive and stage propriety in fashionable productions.

Alan Dele Alan Dale New York Journal

Melbourne McDowell the actor and his tumultuous career

Melbourne McDowell, famed Toorka theater figure, rose from stage carpenter to leading man. He faced a divorce suit from his wife for extreme cruelty after a turbulent marriage. The narrative tracks his romances, infidelities, and career moves across the Davenport era and touring circuit.

McVowell Melbourne Paris Biancee Walsh Giamondis

Turbulent Theater Stars End In Publicities And Scandals

Reports detail a stormy era in American stage life with Melbourne McDowell and Fanny Davenport clashing over marriage infidelity and control, culminating in separations, arrests, and divorce suits. Davenport rises amid triumphs while McDowell's brutal conduct and drinking mar his career, as the couple’s Newport News wedding, shipboard turmoil, and European honeymoon unfold amid ongoing legal actions. The piece traces Davenport’s later triumphs and McDowell’s decline, along with casts, tours, and new productions shaping a volatile theatrical epoch.

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Popular stage belles featured in latest photographs

Latest photographs showcase Miss Mary Sanders as Ora in Lost Rivers and Miss Maxime Elliott in When We Were Twenty-one, with Miss Isabelle Evesson of the American Stock Company also highlighted.

Mary Sanders Ora Maxime Elliott Isabelle Evesson American Stock Company

Indian and Grizzly Fight in Hetch Hetchy Valley

Mustang the Indian guides a party of twelve hunters into the Hetch Hetchy Valley where a colossal grizzly attacks. Mustang battles the bear with a knife after his rifle fails, the bear mortally wounds him, and the fight ends with Mustang surviving and the bear slain or driven off in a spectacular clash of will against nature.

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