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Vol. IV No. 15 CHICAGO April 3, 1909

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April 3,

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Volume IV—No. 15

CHICAGO

“ssssmb-Sd. SHUBERT AFTER NE1

April 3, 1909

NELLIE REVELL WINS

A RARE DISTINCTION.

MORE HOUSES?

New York Magnate and Cincinnati Congressman Go
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f r e . 8lr%u« ha ““co^tion n n £35? I'ZSZ&’^SS SrS

GREENWALL HOLDS
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and the Published Reports of the Tra

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April 3,

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CHICAGO NOTES

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THEATER INJURIES

CHICAGO PERSONALS

THE STOCK COMPANY,

CHICAGO, A PHIL 2, 1909

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FRISCO BUSY WITH

FILM ORDINANCES.

It is Now Proposed to Censor Subjects
by Means of Councilmanic Decree
Against “Criminal Tendencies.”

•il 3, 1909.
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International Campaigners Are Greeted by Representative Gathering
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INTERNATIONAL FILMS JOINS INDEPENDENTS

Prominent Exchange Man Grills Trust and Asks Exhibitors to Main- Big New Orleans Film Company Quits the Trust and Enrolls Many
tain Their Individual Freedom. Exhibitors Under New Banner.

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April 3, 1909.

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Chicago, Hi —Frank Neul of Edgewater
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, Frank Bacon, Earl Sanford, Midge

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the feature of the second and
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the Marathon race held here
name is Willie Schatz. He outc
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sting events

Cincinnati, Ohio. — The New Music Hall
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final week was one of interesting
which were well patronized.

Jeffersonville, Ky.— The Delmar rink,
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Made Over Drama of Business Life Meets With Hearty Chicago Re¬
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his son, with ideas widely differing from
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seated prejudice..

The first and third acts are located in
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elusion of the play responded to insistent
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New Park at Joplin.

Joplin, Mo.. March 30.

A new park is in course of erection
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THE SHOW WORLD

April 3

An ILntirely New Invention
In Motography

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will be equipped with oil cups to all bearings, which will only require filling about every ten days.

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April 3, 1909-

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April 3, 1909,

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THE HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL DISCRIMINATING PLAYERS
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Curzon Sisters a “Hit” in New York, Ty- The New Spotted Horse which He Will
bells “Feature” with Mugavin and Ride in the Wild West the Coming

Mrs. Turner “Great” with Sparks. Season, Is a Dandy.

For Sale

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THE SHOW WORLD

SHOW IS THE THING; CIRCUS BEE AGAIN IN
CARS DO NOT COUNT JOHN HAVLIN’S BONNET

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April 3, 1909.

INDEPENDENT

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Write for OUR SPECIAL PRICES

—All I tie Feature Productions in Stock lor Shipment.--

CINCINNATI FILM EXCHANGE,

THE BARNUM CIRCUS SELLS-FLOTO SHOW

OPENS AUSPICIOUSLY A CREDIT TO ROYAL

Wonderful Performance at the Coliseum is The 1909 Pacemaker for The Wonderful Equestrian Director Makes Splendid Showing at the
Tented Enterprises. Opening in Denver This Week.

^somersaults

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EXHIBITOR ?

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may be toward the fight
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April 3, 1909.

BEAUTIFUL CATALOG

ON PARKS AND FAIRS.

lanager's Association

..._ outdoor __

tured and otherwise described from page-
to page, the splendid half ' ’ "

highly artistic '

dealing with responsible parties, particu¬
larly in a line of business which has of¬
ten been damaged in reputation by parties
of no financial or business standing. The
W. V. M. A. has exclusive contracts with
the foremost European agents and this,
together with the long established offices
in London, Paris and Berlin, enables the
Association to provide, at first hand, and
at legitimate prices, attractions which
minor agencies are never able to handle.

Value of Special Attractions.

The value of special atractions for fairs
has ceased to be an open question. The
conclusion is unanimous wherever such

repaid the cost many times over in en¬
larging business and pleasing the multi-
.tudes

s have

high ■

WALKER GETS CONTROL
OF SAN ANTONIO PARK.

• San Antonio, Texas, March 29.

The Electric Park is now under the
control of D. A. Walker and his asso-
.ciat.es and will be operated under an

Park

Rebul

eing F

_ Lake, Pa., Ma_

Exposition park on Conneaut Lake, de¬
stroyed by fire last December, is being
rebuilt on a much more elaborate scale.
It will open May 30.

Pair Association Incorporates.

The Illinois Valley Pair Association of
Griggsville has been incorporated by
Charles W. Sleight, T. M. Yates and Wil¬
liam Harvey.

Dixieland park at Jacksonville. Fla-
opened last week. The only special at¬
traction at the opening was Prof. Grun-
thal’s orchestra.

YORK HAYMAKERS

TO BUILD A PARK.

3 Wonderful Line of

The Park and Fair department of the
Western Vaudeville Managers’ Associa¬
tion, in conjunction with the United
Booking Offices of America, has excelled
all past records in the issuance of the
1909 catalog, not only in the number of
excellent attractions announced therein,
but in the general make-up and interest-
arousing qualities. The cream of the pro-

York, Pa., April :

Makusu Forest will be the name oi
new park and recreation j

will be opened along the _ _

l roller line near the Big Conewago creek
this summer.

The committee which negotiated the
purchase of the land from the York Rail¬
ways Company for the association is com¬
posed of Perry J. M. Heindel, E. V. Rau-
hauser, Augustus Fackler, W. H. Al-

_ and the

__ _ r of their presenta-

s to make this catalog a sou-

worthy of pres-“—-iff

nt value may

... introducing the - - —

called to the following facts: The fair
department was established two years ago
with headquarters in the Majestic theater
building, this city. The bureau has rr~*

ture the association will apply for :
charter. This is one of the most im
portant deals of the kind ever made b;
a York secret society. The Makusu as
sociation is composed of members of Ma
kusu tribe, No. 13, I. O. R. M., the larg
t tribe of Red Men in this section, and
ce the tribe, the association is a hustler

Union County Fair Incorporates.

Little Rock. Ark., March 31.

Articles of incorporation have been filed
with the Secretary of State for the Union
County Fair Association. The capital
stock is $10,000, of which $425 has been
subscribed. The officers are L. L. Decou,
president; G. H. Justice, vice-president;
J. F. Poole, second vice-president; M. W.
Hardy, secretary and treasurer. To these
officers, F. H. Kettering is added to make
up the board of directors.

l Bay.

Improvements a _

Green Bay, Wis., April 1.

It is said that the Green Bay Traction
Company is contemplating many addi¬
tional features at Ridge Point this sum¬
mer, such as are to be found in the well
regulated White Cities. Sunday will be
one of the big days of the week this
season.

The g_|_ _

letes, skilled trick cyclists, funn„ -

■wire walkers, high divers, balloon ascen-
sionists and other sensational artists who
are famous in the world’s great centers,
mlay always be depended upon to add new
interest to the already important pro¬
gram of an Agricultural fair.

From present indications the coming
season will break the records of the Fair
department which, during - * *

.„3 been issued for the e .

3 vaudeville theater in Wondei-
rk, which is to cost $2,500. It

rectors of the company. At this meet¬
ing it was announced that Mr. Walker,
wife and son, had purchased M. D. Op-
penheimer’s interest which is under¬
stood to be the controlling one and the
members of the old board have tendered
their resignation, effective at once. Mr.
Walker is president of the Midwinter
Fair and Racing Association and general
manager of the S. A. Telephone Co.—
WILLEY.

inipeg to Have Big Fair.
Winnipeg, Man., March 30.

Winnipeg has decided to have a world's
exposition in 1912. A committee of citi¬
zens, which had been sent to St. Louis,
Chicago, Seattle and Portland, reported
favorably on the prospect at a mass meet¬
ing last night and it was decided to raise
$2,000,000. for the exposition.

Park Management is Busy.

Minneapolis, Minn., March 29.

Manager S. H. Kahn, of Forest Park,
is getting concessionaires and attractions
lined up for this season at his new park.
Several local capitalists have become in¬
terested in the company.—BARNES.

Youngstown, Ohio, March 30.

On account of his resemblance to pub¬
lished descriptions of “Billy” Whitla’s
kidnaper, Joseph Wess, well known as
a park manager and amusement promot¬
er, was detained here for a time in con¬
nection with the case. He was exoner¬
ated by the lad himself.—C. ARMOR.

Park and Fair Notes.

Forest park, Chicago’s wonderful
amusement place, opens May 8.

The season at Alameda park at Butler,
Pa., will open early in May.

It will cost $50 for a round trip ticket
to the Alaska-Yukon exposition which
opens at Seattle, June 1.

Baldwin park, at Quincy, Ill., will open
Easter Sunday. Henry Geschwinder has
leased the amusement resort.

It is announced that West End park,
at Champaign, Ill., will not be opened
this year as an amusement resort. It
has been under the management of Matt
Kussell several years and last year
proved a losing venture for the street
car comapny.

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among the players.

Lotta Crabtree, the retired actress, has
aught the Hotel Brewster in Boston.

Rose Evans is now playing the leading
,ele in Mrs. Temple’s Telegram.

KTlieiSghf of Way at Los Angeles for
wo days, owing to illness.

Florence Roberts has resumed her tour
ifter laying off a short time at Kansas

ay.

Oscar Eagle w
Morris.

Speck Brothers have been engaged for
Madden’s Flats another season. Next
season’s tour will open on August 14.

Frederick Warde will conduct a school
of oratory next summer at Wardesden,
'North White Lake, New York.

Earle Williams succeeds Francis Byrne
» Robert Underwood in The Third De-
s ree. Mr. Byrne has returned to The
Chorus Lady.

Berta Mills succeeds Mile. Glacia Gallia
i the title role of The Queen of the
Moulin Rouge, a salacious play which is
very popular in New York.

Grace Van Studiford was taken ill one
night in Baltimore recently and her sis¬
ter, Marv Quive, who is also her under¬
study, was pressed into service.

Frank Bond, a member of the recently
disbanded Coming Thro’ the Rye Com¬
pany, is singing illustrated songs at the
Hgte In Davenport, Iowa.

s Gibson, who replaced Letty
as Maggie Mason in E. J. Car-

_At Cripple Creek company, has

been receiving some good press notices.

William L. Gibson, playing the part of
Jjooks in Paid in Full, left the company
r&ently at the close of its engagement at
New Orleans.

Vaughn Glaser was compelled to give an
xtra matinee last Friday to accommo¬
date his Cleveland admirers, who were
crowding the theater.

Bob McLaughlin, now playing in The
Wolf, will return to Cleveland, Ohio, at
the end of the season and go with the
bona Park company.

George B. Wakefield, playing the heavy
i» The Cat and the Fiddle, was forced
by contract considerations to refuse ar
offer to support Mantell in King John.

Evelyn Dunmore, who appeared at the
Princess in Minneapolis recently, is laying
off in Chicago this week. It is probable
‘hat she will play twelve weeks of vaude-
tUe time in the South.

James K. Hackett made a speech in
.Cleveland recently, and seemed to be net
tied over the fact that he was playing ii
a popular-priced house. Mr. Hackett ex
plained that he was really giving a two
dollar show for a dollar.

Harry Wilson, who was with Joe
Tinker's company, joined James J. Cor¬
bett in Facing the Music at Hamilton,
Ohio, March 21. His wife, Bessie Haw-
”iorne, has been a member of the com-
any for several weeks.

Bobby Barry will be a member of the
iurray & Mack show at Los Angeles
Ms spring. The season will last eight
r ten weeks after which there will be a
twelve weeks' session of Rogers Brothers
plays w uv *»'— ------ -

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i Rice & Cady featured.

George D. Baker,

seasons appeared in the stellar role of
Brady & Grismer’s production of As Ye
sow, and is at present featured in the
part of Grenfall Lorry in Graustark, will
star next season in a new romantic play
W unnamed under the management
°‘ ™ Graustark Company, Ine.

. rd ?, arle * s & oin g to the Coast this
spring for the first time since he has at-
mined prominence as a musical comedy
siar. He has not been there since about
nrteen years ago, when he appeared with
ft® T -, Powers and the late Peter F.

Playing very small roles in their

Margaret Dills,

'h'Q.Jas written f._

" '"’“‘'' entitled, Recollections of Rich-

of Columbus,
Magazine

lard ’Mansfleid‘“°Mi?s Cl- DiTls LI ™as C
3 e .rn. n i. ember ot Mansfield’s company
Hen™ i b * re jn em bered by all who saw
!the tor her beautiful recitation of

■ine prologue.

somewh 8 ? ,iss ’ famili arly known as “a
Maed from coast “Ks an" exceS
new a stoFk COme<Jian ' is a member of the
St Tom? “JJPany at the Imperial in
the wS im n Thls com Pany is headed by
novnTef'tu?? f es . te , rn actress, Beulah
-uatkt amTtv, * s . best known as the dra-
W if„ a , tbe star of Lena Rivers.

Rennet fu Lackaye has sent to William S.

sjfipps'ss

other mnnov the Unlted States from
wrated Mr ’ Hackaye has re¬

measure el' ® e nnet to introduce this
bill “The emendment to the tariff
Protection bbrw! 03 , 1 n la y wr >ght needs
said Mr T a f a A nst forei Sn competition,"
.!“■ Jfokaye, “and Con areas, dot

give uVo hhn“ aye ’ “ and Congress <

has e J irtuall Y broken
Would L many of his friends feared
will f case » a nd his trip to Europe
long stand rest * No one could

ira P0sed unon h M^e a ?3 OUI ?i t °1 work as he

greater part” nf elf "T a il day and the
, went to bed „li h , e night. He seldom
as the hours of r!!JU°L 4 lathe morning,
he applied^,!?! h ? w ® re fhose in which
Dlays P He livUJ® 1 * , to the writing of his
i interruption ? nd freedom from

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Western Vaudeville Managers , Assoc’n

Majestic Theatre Bldg....Chicago, Ill.

United Booking Offices of America

St. James Building....New York City

Nfl Booking in conjunction with more than three
hundred of the first-class vaudeville theatres in
the United States and Canada, and now giving
good acts routes for from one to three years.
Moneys advanced to parties capable of pro¬
ducing first-class acts, when desired, or will
purchase first-class novelties outright. It will
be to the advantage of managers of Fairs.
Parks, etc., to communicate with these Offices
regarding their vaudeville and outdoor attrac¬
tions. Address Eastern or Western Office,
as may be most convenient.

WESTERN OFFICE

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St. James Building

CHICAGO

NEW YORK

THEATER MANAGERS.

Harry G. Somers has returned to New
York after a trip to South Bend, Goshen
and Elkhart. Ind.

Ed Lampson, manager of the Palms
and Fern theaters at Leavenworth,
Ivans., was a recent visitor in Chicago.

Earl Sipe, manager of the Broadway
theater at Logansport, Ind., disconnected
vaudeville for one week and provided a
return of the Orpheum stock company.

L. J. Delamarter promises to have a
fine line of vaudeville acts at the Ra¬
mona theater near Grand Rapids, Mich.,
the coming summer. The opening bill
will run eight days and after that the
acts will remain there a week.

M. C. Ward, formerly manager of the
Academy'of Music at Sterling, Ill., and
favorably known in the profession, is a
candidate for mayor of that city at the
coming spring election. Mr. Ward is said
to stand a good chance of winning out.

Franklin Brooks, for the past five
months manager of the Cascade theater
at New Castle, Pa., has opened a new
theater, The Auditorium, in Latrobe, Pa.
George Clay succeeds Mr. Brooks in New
Castle.

J. E. Powell, manager of the Grand at
Fairmont, W. Va., bought out The Time
‘’"Girl, which played there
-- cleared

*450 c

the engagem

liberal guarantee. Earlier in the s
he cleared $500 on Follies of 1907.

Crawford has closed a deal for
ie new vaudeville
Wichita, Kans.,

a half interest ... „.
house which opened a. ,........

April 1. L. M. Miller retains a half in¬
terest in the theater and will be the man¬
ager. Mr. Crawford announces that he
has abandoned his plan of erecting a
new theater in Wichita now that this
deal has been consummated.

Jean Kernan, manager of the Auditori¬
um at Baltimore, is to become business
rnager of Eva Fay, whose husband
ieif on the Pacific coast some
Mrs. Fay is the daughter-in-

killed t

law of Anna Eva Fay. Kernan will r
turn to Baltimore next season. Will A.
Page will have a stock at that theater
commencing Easter Monday.

E. Smith, formerly manager of
~ —otion picture
Youngstown,

the Princess theater,

and vaudeville house,_(BHHRMH

Ohio, has lost a bitterly contested
against the owners of the playhouse.
^ a L?°i? g L.?’.“ turnawa y” business

. Jencks, owner of the Elgin
) opera house, filed an answer in the
V Tiouit court denying that Clara E. Jencks
is his wife or that she is entitled to a
decree of separate maintenance. He ad¬
mits that he was married to her July
1(, 1883, but avers that in 1899 he was
granted a decree of divorce in Kings
county, Washington. After obtaining his
decree, Jeneks declares, he contracted a
second marriage with Mary E. Jones
with whom he now is living.

Wiliiam F. Lipp has had the Academy
at Sterling-, III., handsomely redecorated,
making a number of changes that are
pleasing to patrons. Early last season a
fine new curtain was installed and the
interior of the house was redecorated,
but the effect failed to please Mr. Lipp
who has had the side walls gone over
again and painted a dark, rich green
The trimmings are now of a dark rich
creamy green which blend well with the
remainder of the decorations, the whole
making a very pleasing effect.

ON THE PACIFIC COAST.

The Right of Way has made a big hit
on the Pacific coast.

Frank Moulan is making a great hit in
The Sultan of Sulu at the Princess in

s destroyed by fire.

time it __JRR

Daniel Sully is appearing a- ........

lean in Frisco this week in The Match¬
maker.

Jules Murry visited Paul Gilmore, who
Is presenting The Boys of Company B
in Pacific coast cities.

Arthur C. Alston assisted in the stage
direction of Pretty Peggy at the Valen¬
cia theater in San Francisco.

President Meyerfield, of the Orpheum
circuit, will move his offices to the new
theater in San Francisco on April 10.

Blossom Seeley, soubrette of the Kolb
and Dill show, Playing the Ponies, has
retired from the cast owing to illness.
The show is at Los Angeles this week.-
From Redwood City comes a wail of
disgust. It seems that the Bell Boy
company, which has been playing one
night stands in the smaller towns, ar¬
rived there coincident with an article in
the San Jose Mercury which was one
of the worst roasts ever given a show.
T. Herbert Ealand, manager of the
troupe, stated that the roast was occa¬
sioned by a disagreement between him
and the manager of the San Jose thea¬
ter and that the latter used his influence
to have the show condemned. The man¬
ager of the Redwood City house sent
out dodgers stating that he would re¬
turn the money of any dissatisfied per¬
son after the third act The play was
well patronized and it is said no one was
found who made a claim for the return
of his money.

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New ORLEANS] LA, Mar. 24/09.

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Dear Sirs:*

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You will refrain from so advising our customers, as we
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