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THIS WEEKS NEWS THIS WEEK 


Vol. IV No. 20 CHICAGO May 8, 1909 





























































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THE SHOW WORLD 


MINNEAPOLIS PORTLAND 


CHICAGO 


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Volomn IV—No. 20 


CHICAGO 


May 8, 1909 


Frank B. Carr Slashes His Own 
Throat With a Razor at Rich¬ 
mond Hotel Tuesday Night. 

|< F ra nk B. Carr, well known in the 
L£k world, attempted to take his 
own life at the Richmond hotel Tues¬ 
day night at 11 o’clock. He was des¬ 
pondent over the loss of large sums of 
InSPln recent years. 

Carr had not been traveling with Ins 
companies for some time as the man- 
lagWlt of the western wheel had ob¬ 
jected to his appearance at the front of 
the house while intoxicated. He had 
ken drinking for several weeks. For a 
itime ifae stopped at the Commercial in 
I Chicago, then he moved to the Conti- 
j natal and Tuesday he moved to the 
Richmond, seeking to avoid his barroom 
j friends as he told Al. J. Flynn, the man- 

j| Arriving at that hotel Tuesday after¬ 
noon late he was shown to his room. 
I At eleven o’clock that night a noise was 
heard and Mr. Flynn forced an en¬ 
trance. The room was dark. After 
striking a light he found Carr .with his 

I throat cut. He did all in his power to 
save his life and then ’phoned for an 
ambulance and the burlesque manager 
was taken to the Passavant hospital 
where he may die. 

Carr is 55 years of age. He leaves a 
wife said to be about 38. He owns the 
Indian Maidens, which closed the sea¬ 
son recently, and the The Thorough¬ 
breds which are still on tour. He 
planned organizing some air dome com¬ 
panies for the summer. Carr is an Elk, 
in Eagle and a Mason. 

GERTRUDE HUTCHINSON 

AT WEST END HEIGHTS. 

Gertrude Hutchinson, prima donna 
with A Knight for a Day during the 
winter season, is now in St. Louis, 

; add will be prima donna of the musi¬ 
cal organization which opens at West 
i Hid Heights, in that city. May 17. 

Mfl Hutchinson is one of the 
cleverest of singers, of the Chicago 
theatrical colony, and her engagement 


_ colony, and her engagement 
St. Louis musical stock indi- 
■Klie care which is being taken 
secure the very best artists who are 
liberty at this time. 


, HARRY SHELDON BACK; 

HAS FULLY RECOVERED. 

. Harry Sheldon is back at his desk 
jWBp Wildman’s office, having com- 
recovered from a siege of 
IPheumonia. He was away from the 
office just a month, being taken ill 
I Ml April 3 and returning to the office 
on May 3. 


I The Gollmar Route. 

The route of the Gollmar circus 
was obtained too late for classifica- 
i'bh.’Tt is as follows: Baraboo, Wis., 
% 8; Rockford, Ill., 10; Dekalb, 11; 
Momence, 12; Tuscola, 13; Shelby- 
vule, 14; Mt. Vernon, 15; Cape Girar- 
oeau, Mo., 17; Poplar Bluff, Mo., 18; 
Gampbell, 19; Blythesville, Ark., 20; 
Unithersville, Mo., 21; Sikeston 22; 
action, Ill., 24. 

n „^ cKinne y on the Road. 

McKinney, vice-president of 
“ie International Projecting & Pro- 
, WKreompany, is making a tour 
^^^Bnia, Colorado, Idaho, Ore¬ 
gon and Washington in the interests 
ot bis company. 


SHUBERT QROJIT 

GREATEST EVER 


According to Present Agreements Eighty Attractions are to 
be Included in Plans. 


The Shuberts will have a circuit 
next season which will be the strong¬ 
est ever organized in the history of 
American theatricals, and backed up 
by 54 attractions of their own and 26 
provided by Liebler & Co., will be 
in a position to fill all time to ad¬ 
vantage. 

Such will be the meat of an an¬ 
nouncement which will be given the 
press as soon as J. J. Shubert reaches 
New York. He arrived in Chicago 
this week after a six weeks’ tour of 
the west, where he was given such 
a gratifying reception on behalf of his 
firm, that the success of the invaders 
on the Pacific coast is no longer a 
question in his mind. 

A list of the theaters obtained can¬ 
not be secured at this time, but it is 
known that J. J. Shubert signed three 
leases Wednesday, and that there is 
much activity. Before this week is 
out a theater will be secured in De¬ 
troit, and the list of houses to he 
published sooner or later will astonish 
those who have been watching the 
rapid growth of this firm. 

The loss of Belasco and Fiske does 
not change the plans of the one-night 
stand managers who were friendly to 
Shuberts, as they say that Belasco 
always watned all of the money to 
play them, and that Fiske provided 
so few attractions that they will not 


be missed in the season’s booking. 
This is taking it for granted that 
those managers will confine them¬ 
selves to Syndicate houses next sea¬ 
son, which is a matter of doubt. 

St. Paul, Minn., May 3.—Before 
leaving here J. J. Shubert' made a 
proposition to the auditorium man¬ 
agement for the use of that theater 
for his attractions.—BARNES. 

Salt Lake City, Utah, May 3.—Fol¬ 
lowing the announcement that the 
Shuberts had secured the Grand 
comes a list of the attractions to be 
seen this summer. Mrs. Fiske com*,. 
May 31 and The Blue Mouse will foV 
low her. M,ary Mannering comes to 
Denver and may come on here.— 
JOHNSON. 

Denver, Colo., May 4.—The Shu¬ 
berts will probably take the Curtis 
theater here temporarily. Lee Shu- 
bert had a consultation with Pelton 
& Smutzer and this action is said to 
have resulted.—BROWN. 

Spokane, Wash., May 4.—J. J. Shu¬ 
bert promised to build here if no 
house could be obtained. He states 
that Mrs. Fiske will open the new 
house in Seattle.—SMITH. 

Seattle, Wash., May 3.—The Shu¬ 
berts have leased the new Alhambra 
theater, in course of erection by Rus¬ 
sell & Drew.—MILLER. 


IS MORRIS TO GET 

TWO LOCAL HOUSES? 


Hurried Call From New York Starts Rumors Regarding; Acquisition 
of Loop Theaters. 


It is again rumored that negotia¬ 
tions are under way between William 
Morris and the owners of two the¬ 
aters in Chicago, one of which is lo¬ 
cated in the loop district, by which 
the independent vaudeville magnate 
may become one of the greatest fac¬ 
tors in the western field. No one 
would admit the reason for the hurry 
call sent to New York for Morris 
during the past week, which brought 
him to this city Tuesday, but it is 
generally believed that before the 
week is out an announcement of a 
settled deal may be made. 

Morris, it is said, was preparing for 
an European trip at the time he re¬ 
ceived the Chicago call and that he 
postponed his ocean journey to 
hasten to a conference here. 

One thing which he has definitely 
accomplished in the past few days 
was to appoint Elmer F. Rogers as 
general manager of his New York 
interests and to select W. T. Grover 
as Rogers’ successor in the manage¬ 
ment of the American Music Hall. 

Rogers for New York. 

Rogers has won an enviable repu¬ 


tation for himself during his short 
term of management and has evi¬ 
denced to the local theatrical colony 
that he could take a threatened 
“lemon”—and, like Burbank—could 
make an orange of it. The American, 
under his direction, has arrived at the 
outs” are frequent at that house. 

He has made a host of friends 
very too notch of success and “sell- 
during his tenancy of office, not only 
among performers but among his 
patrons. W. T. Grover, who is to 
succeed him, is a well known show¬ 
man, having been associated with the 
profession of entertainment for the 
past thirty years. He was at one 
time manager of'the Brighton Amuse¬ 
ment Hall at Brighton B<each, and, 
later, was manager for Klaw and Er- 
langer’s G. O. H. in Brooklyn during 
the Advanced Vaudeville war. 

It may be remarked in passing that 
W. T. Grover formerly lived in this 
city—in the year 1877, when he was 
a resident of Peck court and when he 
thought nothing of going over to 
Michigan avenue and from its beach 
jump into his sail boat and take a 
trip on the lake. 


THE GOLDEN GIRL YET 

AT LASALLE THEATER. 

Mort Singer Secured an Injunction 
Restraining Other Parties from 
taking the House Away. 

The Golden Girl continues at the 
La Salle theater, Mort Singer having 
secured a temporary injunction re¬ 
straining Harry Askin, Charles W. 
Murphy and Mrs. Anna Sinton Taft 
from taking possession of the house 
on May 1. 

Singer claims an oral option on a 
five-year extension of the lease at 
$8,500 a year, which he says he noti¬ 
fied Mrs. Taft last fall he would ex¬ 
ercise. This Mrs. Taft is alleged to 
have repudiated and ordered him to 
vacate by April 30. 

Harry Askin, formerly a partner 
of Singer, and Murphy and C. H. 
Dillingham have organized theif firm 
to make the La Salle a producing 
house. They base their rights on the 
written contract of Singer with Mrs. 
Taft which expired at midnight on 
April 30. 

Singer’s petition avers that he re¬ 
fitted the house at great expense on 
the supposition that his lease would 
be extended and that he recently 
staged The Golden Girl in such a 
manner that if he is now ousted from 
the theater he will make no profit on 
the show. 

Herman Fehr, of Milwaukee, own¬ 
er of the Princess theater, is alleged 
also to have been given oral assur¬ 
ance that the lease would be extended 
when he bought 375 shares of stock 
in the La Salle Theater company. 


COMPANIES CLOSING. 

The Thief, with Kyrle Bellew, 
May 1. 

The Candy Kid, with Ray Ray¬ 
mond, May, 1. 

The Cow Boy Girl at Nashville, 
Tenn., May 8. 

The Lyman Twins at Merrill, Wis., 
May 6. 

Buster Brown at Chicago, May 8. 

De Wolf Hopper in The Pied Pi¬ 
per, at Chicago, May 8. 

Rosar-Williams stock company, at 
Bedford, Ind. 

The Three Twins at Altoona, Pa., 
May 1. 

Texas Jack at Detroit, Mich., 
May 15. 

When Knightwood was in Flower 
at Milwaukee, Wis., May 1. 

The Queen of the Moulin Rouge 
in New York, May 8. 

The Girl Question at Topeka, Kan., 
May 8. 

The County Sheriff at Newburg, 
N. Y„ May 1. 

The Blockhead at Racine, Wis., 
May 2. 

Al. G. Fields Minstrels at Sandus¬ 
ky, Ohio, May 13. 

Brewster’s Millions at Terra Haute, 
Ind., May 2. 

The Angel and the Ox at Detroit, 
Mich., May 1. 

Stetson’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin at 
Minneapolis, May 1. 

DeWolf Hopper in The Pied Piper 
at Chicago May 8. 


Streyckmans in New York. 

Secretary H. J. Streyckmans, of the 
International Projecting & Producing 
company, is making his temporary 
headquarters in New York city. 
























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THE SHOW WORLD 


M ay 8,1909 


REPERTOIRE METHODS 

CAPTURED CHICAGO 

Jack Bessey’* Success at the Criterion Makes It Certain That Plan 
Will Become General. 


BILLPOSTERS’ ASS’N. 

TO MEET AT ATLANTA. 

Week of July Twelfth Selected After 
Strenuous Appeals by the 
Georgia Authorities. 

The City of Atlanta, after strenuous 
efforts, has at last succeeded in con¬ 
vincing the Associated Billposters 
and Distributors of the United States 
and Canada to hold their nineteenth 
annual convention in that city, during 
the week of July 12. 

President Chennell states that it 
will be one of the best attended and 
most important meetings the organi¬ 
zation has ever held, since its incep¬ 
tion in July of 1891. 

Atlanta has certainly worked hard 
to bring about this meeting, and its 
accomplishment reflects great credit 
upon the enterprise of the city. An 
invitation, which was sent to the as¬ 
sociation was signed by the governor 
of Georgia, the mayor of Atlanta, 
members of the Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, the Board of Trade and many 
prominent business men and presented 
to the association by a committee of 
three members of the city council of 
Atlanta. 

In addition to the three thousand 
or more members of the organization, 
the advertising agencies representing 
the association as solicitors and the 
poster printers who are in various 
ways interested in the proceedings of 
a billposters’ convention, there will 
be special invitations to every national 
advertiser and to every publisher of 
a trade publication to be in attend¬ 
ance at the meeting, where it is as¬ 
sured in advance by the Chamber of 
Commerce of Atlanta and the city 
officials, that there will be such a 
welcome extended as will tend to 
make the affair a veritable love feast. 


Repertoire companies are invading the 
big cities with a degree of success which 
makes it reasonably certain that stock 
companies, organized on the plan of the 
traveling repertoire company, will be 
seen in many of the big theaters next 
season. 

The first proposition of this nature in 
a large city was inaugurated under con¬ 
ditions which may be said to have been 
unfavorable—unfavorable because the 
Criterion theater in Chicago had not 
been doing a big business and favorable 
because the stock company installed was 
one of the best known on the road and 
with a leading man of personality, whose 
success in the past has endeared him to 
theatergoers throughout the middle 
west, and whose work entitles him to 
first rank among stock players. 

While similar ventures had met with 
success in centrally located theaters of 
averaged sized cities, Jack Bessey’s ven¬ 
ture in Chicago was taken as the test by 
which to form a conclusion of the draw¬ 
ing powers of organizations of this kind 
and when a crowd was attracted to the 
Criterion last Sunday night which would 
have filled the house twice over, and 
that on a stormy night, the man who 
would not' be convinced gave up in dis¬ 
gust and went away muttering “It’s a 
go, alright.” 


is under the personal direction of Jack 
Bessey, is now in its fourth week at the 
Criterion and the business has increased 
so rapidly that there is no longer any 
question of the success of the venture. 
Jack Bessey has proved the same big 
favorite in Chicago that he is in Daven¬ 
port, Rockford, Eau Claire, and dozens 
of other middle west cities. 

The large crowds drawn to the thea¬ 
ter have not been of the same class as 
those attracted by melodrama earlier in 
the season. It is no uncommon sight 
to see half a dozen automobiles in front 
of the Criterion at night and evening 
dress is as common at that theater as 
at any of the down-town playhouses. 

The picture which appears upon the 
front page of this issue is a good like¬ 
ness of Jack Bessey, the star of the 
Criterion stock company, who has be¬ 
come a great favorite at that theater, 
being received with" more enthusiasm 
than any stock leading man who has ap¬ 
peared in Chicago for some years and 
whose name has already become a 
household word on the North Side. He 
started in the show business twenty 
years ago with Senter Payton and has 
been associated with some of the best 
stock companies in the country. Bor 
the past nine years he has been at the 
head of his own company playing leads 
and managing the same. He is now 
under the management of the Rowland- 
Clifford Amusement Company, _ which 
will no doubt locate Mr. Bessey in a big 
stock house for next season. 


KLIMT PLAYERS TO MOVE 
TO ACADEMY NEXT SEASON. 

Season Has Been Fairly Successful at 

the Bijou and Company May R e . 
main There All Summer. 

The engagement of the Klimt 
Players at the Bijou, to fill the spring 
weeks left open by the closing of the 
Stair & Havlin attractions, has been 
fairly successful and it is possible that 
the company will continue throughout 
the entire summer. 

Instead of remaining at that house 
next season, as was the original plan, 
the company will open next fall at 
the Academy the Bijou reverting to 
Stair & Havlin combinations. 

Klimt & Gazzolo have given up 
their offices in the Grand opera house 
building and have removed to Suite 
1002, 226 La Salle street. They will 
have two or three attractions on the 
road next season, in addition to the 
stock on the west side. ; 

In speaking of the outlook, Frank 
Gazzolo said: “We look for a profit¬ 
able season. While the circuit for 
popular priced shows may not be so 
large as it has been, it will, by very 
reason of its shorter limit, assure 
those who are fortunate enough to get 
in, a larger profit than heretofore. I 
do not believe that melodrama is 
dead. The masses will always demand 
an entertainment along mel^^^B 
lines. Many of the houses which have 
gone into pictures will probably con¬ 
tinue pictures for next season. The 
field was becoming overcrowded and 
competition was too keen. The ap¬ 
parent disruption of the circuit will 
be the means of accomplishing a great 
amount of good.” 

Florence Huntington has replaced 

Adelaide Nowak in The Writing on 
the Wall, with but one rehearsal. 


The Hickman-Bessey company, which 

ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW IN CHICAGO 


Fred Raynolds is .here, having 
closed with The Angel and the Ox. 

Frank Weed, late of The District 
Leader, is here for a rest. 

Pauline Coons, who recently closed 
with the Morgan stock company, is 
now in Chicago. 

Albert H. Graybill, manager of 
Himmelein’s Franklin stock company, 
is here engaging people. 

Ogden Wright is home after his 
tour with The Time, the Place and 
the Girl. 

Matt Sheely is located at his “old 
stand” in the office of the National 
show print. 

Walter Rolles will go in advance of 
The Flower of the Ranch next 
season. 

James Bradbury has been compelled 
to withdraw from the cast of The 
Golden Girl at the La Salle theater on 
account of illness. 

Frank O. Ireson, who has been 
with W. B. Patton in The Blockhead, 
is here renewing acquaintanceship 
with his many friends. 

Cecil Kirke, who plays Bob Rick¬ 
etts, the cowboy lead in In Wyoming, 
is making a big hit at the Alhambra 
this week. He is a very clever actor. 

Fred G. Conrad is moving his office 
from the Tribune building to the 
McCormick building at corner of 
Dearborn and Randolph. 

Alfonse Goetler, manager The 
Time, Place and the Girl, is spending 
a week in Chicago visiting Meyer 
Cohen. 

Thompson Kress, who recently 
closed as business manager of The 
County Chairman will manage a 
summer show for Wm. H. Swanson. 

Harry Todd returned last week 
from Los Angeles, having closed with 
the stock company which is securing 
pictures for Selig. 

George C. Denton, who has closed 
with James J. Corbett, has decided 
to spend the summer here in prefer¬ 
ence to New York. 

William F. Pfarr, who has been 
with The Cow Puncher for two sea¬ 
sons past, is here undergoing an op¬ 
eration for his throat. 


Blanche Edwards spent a few days 
this week at her home in Grand 
Rapids, Mich. She will join the Mar¬ 
tin stock company. 

Mary Mannering and her company 
are here this week rehearsing The 
Miss Gower, which opens at the Gar¬ 
rick next week. 

Gertrude Barcklay has been in Chi¬ 
cago since Will Cooper left for Eng¬ 
land. She had been associated with 
him in vaudeville. 

Countess Olga von Hatzfeldt suc¬ 
ceeds Georgia Caine at the Princess 
theater, where The Prince of Tonight 
is the attraction. 

C. H. McKinney, who piloted Texas 
Jack for its tour of the Stair & Havlin 
time, is back in town. The company 
ends its season at Detroit May 15. The 
season has been fairly successful. 

Harry Guys, who has been in bed 
for the past four weeks following an 
accident in a Waldorf-Astoria eleva¬ 
tor, is now on his feet and anticipates 
resuming work in a very short time. 

Lee Parvin will remain in the city 
for some time. He states that In 
Wyoming opened at the Alhambra 
last Sunday to the biggest business 
the theater had had in three months. 

George Alison will be the leading 
man with the Neill Stock company 
at St. Paul this summer. His wife, 
Gertrude Rivers, will also be with 
the organization. 

Edna Marshall, who was featured 
as Salome in Clarence Bennett’s 
eastern Holy City company for the 
past two years, has joined the Wood¬ 
ward Stock company at Omaha, Neb. 

Frank Sardam, who had The Dis¬ 
trict Leader the past season, has an 
office in the Schiller building, and will 
put out The District Leader and a 
new musical comedy next season, ac¬ 
cording to present plans. 

Harry Prentice, of the Prentice 
troupe of acrobats, met a lot of his 
old friends at the Sherman House this 
week. He is widely known in the 
profession, not only for his acrobatic 
ability but for his goodfellowship. 

George J. Elmore, here earlier in 


the season as manager of Mittenthal 
Brothers’ Wanted by the Police, is 
stage manager of The Catspaw, which 
opened at the Studebaker Sunday 
night. 

Tom Morrow is engaged in selling 
corset forms to corset manufacturers, 
having accepted the position when 
Selma Herrman closed the season at 
the Alhambra in A Bad Man’s Wife. 
Mr. Morrow had been in advance of 
that attraction. 

Marie Flynn, who recently was a 
member of the McLean stock com¬ 
pany at South Bend, Ind., is here ac¬ 
companied by her mother. They 
were joined here by her father, and 
the trio will go to New York in a 
few days. 

Don McMillan was to have gone 
on the road with the Hickman-Bessey 
company, under the direction of Guy 
Hickman, but there was a change in 
plans and he is still with the Hick¬ 
man-Bessey company, which is in 
stock at the Criterion. 

Christian G. Kiessling, treasurer of 
the Chicago Opera House, has caught 
the Cupidian contagion which has 
been spreading rapidly among the box 
office men of this city. Chris has an¬ 
nounced that he will soon become the 
happy husband of Florence Norman. 

McLain Gates played the heavy in 
The Irish Rebel, a sketch by J. Rey¬ 
nold Davis, author of The Cowboy 
and The Thief, which was tried at 
the American Music Hall last Sun¬ 
day night. It ran 23 minutes and was 
well received. The act will probably 
play the Pantages time. 

Frank Winninger is in the city 
every day or two, as his company is 
at Hammond this week. Last week 
the organization did $1,000 gross at 
Kenosha, with two stormy nights. 
The weather was so bad one night 
that the gross was but $18. When 
this is taken into consideration the 
week’s business was excellent. 

Bobby Gaylor, who has been ill 
with a severe attack of the grip, went 
back to work at his desk in the White 
Rats office last Saturday, facing one 


of the worst storms of the - 

Bobby is the sort of man who won’t 
be kept down. He has laughed t 
doctors and medicines for so long 
time that it has become a habit 

Leslie Hunt, who is with Clifford 
Dempsey in vaudeville, is here this 
week, as the act is laying off. The 
recent trip over the Sullivan ■& C 
sidine time was successful and the 
is likely to secure more bookings 
from that office. Mr. and Mrs. Clif¬ 
ford Dempsey (Bertine Robinson) 
and Mr. Hunt are in the act. 

M. W. McGee and Eva M. Hays, 
who were with The Cow Puncher 
(eastern), are now at their home in 
Chicago. They are planning to spend 
the summer at some lake resort ana 
will leave the city when they feel that 
warm weather is here to stay. Mr, 
McGee was manager of The Cow 
Puncher and reports 36 weeks oi 
fairly successful business. He will 
occupy the same position next season. 

W. M. Brown, who has been alien 
of the Cow Puncher (eastern) an< 
who is signed for the same posits 
next season, is_ spending a short time 
in Chicago, fie says that he went 
all season wfthout getting® cross 
word from either the home office or 
the manager of the company, whict 
would indicate that an advance agents 
life is not always so bad ah 
been represented. 

Will Kilroy will have two . 
panies next season—The Candy Kjt 
and The Cowboy Girl. His Candy 
Kid company closed the season at the 
National last Saturday, doing 
on the week. If the weather had been 
favorable the receipts would have 
likely equalled those of any attraction 
which has yet appeared at that the 
ter. On Wednesday night, when the" 
was a terrible storm, more than 
worth of reservations were uncalie 
for, and on other nights the weatn 
was so bad that the Englewood to 
would have been foolish Hventt 
out. The show made a big hit 
the National, as it does everywhere 
Kilroy’s The Cowboy Girl 
ay 8 at Nashville, Tenn. 1 






May ft I 909 ' 


THE SHOW WORLD 


5 


ganization to Better Condit. 

Among Acrobatic Acts. 

[ Ar thur Hill, of the team of Hill and 
I Svlviani, intends to inaugurate a com- 
I bination of gymnasts throughout the 
I fountry, according to his present 
■ Mans "believing, as he stated, that a 
union of acrobatic performers would 
I rve to remedy many evils now ex¬ 
iting in the placing of such acts on 
vaudeville bills and would establish, 
|jf possible, a central gymnasium 
‘where the performers could rehearse 
I their stunts. . 

I Hill was in Chicago during the past 
week and attended the meeting of 
the White Rats which was held at the 
Sherman House last Friday night. 
Preceding the meeting he talked to a 
number of Rat gymnasts of his plans 
'and managed to interest several well 
(known acrobatic teams in the move- 

I m Mr. Hill said: “I think the time is 
J about ripe for the gymnasts to get 
together for their own good. We 
have to face conditions in this coun¬ 
try which would not be tolerated 
abroad. We are given the worst 
. places on the bills and our merits are 
not permitted to be proven to the au¬ 
dience. Europe is way ahead of 
America in its appreciation of acro¬ 
batic acts. Here, where every man 
i apparently works for himself and a 
(standing army is unknown, very little 
, attention is given to physical perfec¬ 
tion or feats of acrobatic skill. I be- 
however, that the American 

B e would appreciate gymnastic 
, if such work were once called 
jto its attention in a proper manner. 
iThe circuses are our best friends, be- 
- cause they will give us due credit for 
rwhat we accomplish. Vaudeville 
jrhich is supposed to be a pot-pouri 
all sorts of entertainment, should 
at least class us with other ‘talent.’ 

' “I cannot quite believe that the 
American public has no appreciation 
! of the amount of gymnasium work 
■ which is necessary to make our acts 
presentable. While a dramatic sketch 
” may be put on after two or three re- 
1 hearsals—as I have known them to be 
1—we have to work many weeks; 
fej WMg a several years to attain a 
’ degree of perfection. I think this 
; ' : work should be appreciated here. 

1 “What the performers need is a 
- union of'some kind, which will take 
care of their interests and which will 
1? afford them an opportunity to use a 
11 gymnasium for their rehearsals. Such 
* an institution should be established in 
“(New York city, where by paying a 
:; nominal sum per hour we could go 
' and get our acts in trim for public 
(presentation. As the matter now 
f stands we are charged a high fee for 
■ the use of such an institution.” 

Mr. Hill left for New York last 
'f Thursday, after having talked his 
:l *#lans to Fred Herbert and Abner Ali 
M the White Rats, both of whom are 
^keenly interested and will do all in 
weir power to further the organiza- 

;; f Asa parting word Mr. Hill said: 
( “I wish that every gymnast in the 
«(country who is interested in this pro¬ 
mpt would address me in care of the 
it White Rats, New York city. The 
order, if it is finally formed, will 

I bably be known as the Interna- 
tal Association of Gymnasts. It 
I have its headquarters in New 
rk city and will establish a nerma- 
jyflent gymnasium for rehearsals there. 
- It will be aside from the White Rats 
organization, and any acrobat of good 
may become a member.” 


3 .standing m 


Broadhurst in Spokane. 

:* Spokane, Wash., April 30. 

George Broadhurst is here to su¬ 
it Pcnntend the production of his new 
i W The Mill of the Gods.—SMITH. 

; Nordica in Law Suit. 


suit to break the will of the late 


" s «'t to break the 

Mrs. Allen.—LOU. 


CHAPPELL-WINTERHOFF 
COMPANY GOES TO LIMA 

Opens at Hoover’s Park on May 15—Mabel Paige at Richmond— 
Stock Company Notes. 


The Chappell-Winterhoff company, 
featuring Helene Carral and Carl 
Winterhoff, will open at Hoover’s 
park in Lima, Ohio, on May 15, for 
an indefinite stay. The organization 
is now three summers and one winter 
old and has a splendid reputation 
which the company engaged for the 
summer of 1909 is well qualified to 
sustain. 

The company was organized here. 
It includes Helene Carral, Carl Win- 
terhoff, Mrs. Lida Hall, Earl Elver- 
son, Lucy Wagner, Donna Rich, Ben 
Greenfield, Curtis Benton, Joe Schae¬ 
fer and Charles H. Eastman. Harry 
Chappell, the manager, left Chicago 
Monday night for Lima. The com¬ 
pany left the city Thursday with the 
exception of Miss Elverson who 
closes with Eleanor Gordon, who is 
in vaudeville, at Indianapolis, May 8. 

The opening bill will be A Soldier 
of the Empire. 

STOCK NOTES. 

Clara Turner will play a season of 
summer stock at the Mishler theater 
at Altoona, Pa. 

Many of the favorites of Dick P. 
Sutton’s former resident repertoire 
company at Butte, Mont., have left 
the big copper camp for more lucra¬ 
tive fields of endeavor and where 
chances are better all around. Irene 
Lorton goes to the Curtis at Denver, 
Lulu Sutton accompanying her for a 
visit to Miss Lorton’s mother; Rilla 
Willard comes to Chicago; Frances 
Gray, who was engaged for but four 
weeks to put on her celebrated danc¬ 
ing chorus numbers, also comes to 
Chicago, where she will open with the 
Zinn Travesty company May 9. A1 
C. Newman is said to be going to 
Denver to join the Curtis stock, which 
will be directed by Frank T. Lindon. 
Sutton’s musical comedy company 
has been strengthened by the addition 
of Comedian J. W. Clifford, very 
well known for his work in the west 
the past five years; also by Clif¬ 
ford’s wife, Luella Temple, who comes 
to assume soubrette roles. 

The Mabel Paige company opened 
in stock at the Academy in Richmond, 
Va., April 26. 

The Baldwin-Melville company will 
occupy the Bijou at Birmingham, 
Ala., this summer. 

Arthur Lewis, of the Manhattan 


FIFTY-SIX ATTEND 

WHITE RATS MEETING. 

Fifty-six members attended the 
meeting of the White Rats held at 
the Sherman House last Friday night 
and all evinced great interest in the 
various matters which were brought 
up for debate. The announcement 
that the Voss bill had passed the New 
York senate and was in the hands of 
the governor for his signature aroused 
great enthusiasm, as the Rats have 
urged the passage of this measure 
since its inception, believing that it 
would better many conditions with 
which they have to contend, par¬ 
ticularly in ’the matter of booking 
agencies. 

Gillen Visits Home. 

Oswego, N. Y., April 29. 

Fred Gillen who for the past sea¬ 
son has been managing the Earl Bur¬ 
gess theater in San Antonio, Texas, 
is visiting his parents here. Mr. Gil¬ 
len has been very successful in the 
theatrical profession. He expects to 
remain in Oswego about two weeks. 

—DODGE. _ 

Hearn Arrives for Duty. 

Charlestown, S. C., April 29. 

Harry B. Hearn, formerly manager 
of the Altoona, Pa., Orpheum has 
arrived here to take up his duties as 
manager for Wilmer and Vincent’s 
Academy of Music. Keith vaudeville 
will be continued.—PLANK. 


stock company,' was taken suddenly 
ill at Findlay, Ohio, on the night that 
the company closed its long engage¬ 
ment there. He has recovered. 

Harry McKee will open a stock 
company at Millbrook Casino in 
Portsmouth, Ohio, on June 6. 

The Conness and Edwards stock 
company at Bayonne, N. J., holds re¬ 
ceptions on the stage every week. 

Frank G. Long and wife, Nettie 
Long, who have been playing leading 
business with the Grace Hayward 
company this season, have organized 
the Columbia stock company which is 
to appear at Hyatt park, Columbia, 
S. C., the coming summer. 

Louis Von Wietoff will be featured 
as the star of the Armory stock com¬ 
pany which begins a summer season 
at the Armory theater in Binghamton, 
N. Y., on May 10. He will be sur¬ 
rounded by a cast of superior excel¬ 
lence. The rehearsals were held at 
the Gotham theater, Brooklyn, where 
many of the cast had had a long and 
successful run. High class produc¬ 
tions will be played at Binghamton 
opening with In the Bishop’s Carriage 
and followed by Strongheart, The 
College Widow, Brown of Harvard, A 
Texas Steer and At Piney Ridge. 

The stock company at Poli’s in 
Waterbury, Conn., opened Monday 
with Held by the Enemy. J. An¬ 
thony Smith is leading man and Min¬ 
nie Radcliffe the leading woman. The 
company includes: Carroll Daly, 

Thornton Friel, J. J. Fitzsimmons, 
Anita Zorn, Edith Bowers, Gene La 
Motte, W. F. Clennett, Thomas Ma¬ 
her, Ruth Handforth, Marie Coleman 
and E. J. Caldwell. Walter Dashiell 
is stage director. 

George Osburne opened with the 
Valencia stock in Frisco this week. 

True S. James, late of The First 
Violin, who is at his home in Minne¬ 
apolis, played Morgan in The House 
of A Thousand Candles at the Lyric 
last week. 

Cedar .Point, Sandusky, Ohio, will 
open June 12, under management of 
Geo. A. Boeckling. Jno. A. Himme- 
lein has leased the Cedar Point the¬ 
ater and will inaugurate the theatrical 
season on June 20 with a first-class 
stock company, playing all well 
known plays, with a semi-weekly 
change of bill. 


CECIL SPOONER TO STAR 

IN MY PARTNER’S GIRL. 

Brooklyn, N. Y., May 7. 

Cecil Spooner will be seen as a star 
in My Partner’s Girl, a new play by 
Charles T. Dazey, at the Majestic 
in this city on May 17. It will be 
the first production of the play on 
any stage. The scenes are laid in 
Oklahoma and the “big effect” is the 
shooting of an oil well. 



Des Moines, Iowa, May 5. 

The Family played here last Thurs¬ 
day night to a grievously small au¬ 
dience. The majority of the women 
present used their handkerchiefs 
freely. 


Ethel Barrymore’s Husband Sued. 

New York, April 29. 

Russel G. Colt, husband of Ethel 
Barrymore, is being sued by W. U. S. 
Thompson to recover $1,000 upon an 
alleged gambling debt said to have 
been contracted during the Yale days 
of Colt. A check dated Feb: 8 1904, 
marked “Not sufficient funds,” signed 
by Colt is the evidence of non-pay¬ 
ment offered by Thompson. Colt says 
the money was lost at roulette, but 
claims that the amount is not collect¬ 
ible because he was then a minor, 
and because the check was given to 
pay a gambling debt.—WALTER. 


DEL SMITH ENCOUNTERS 

MART FULLER’S FIST. 

White Rat Has Bloodless Battle with 
Elgin Manager in Hotel Over 
Money Matters. 

Del Smith; a manager from Elgin, 
Ill., came to Chicago late last week, 
and during his stay he had a lively 
set-to one night in the Sherman 
House bar, in which he got the worst 
of it. 

There was a large gathering of 
White Rats at the Sherman indulging 
in a friendly little booze-fest, includ¬ 
ing Caron and Herbert, Mart Fuller, 
Abner Ali, Max Millian, Tom Waters, 
Harry C. Prentice and Arthur Hill. 
Fuller was helping a schooner across 
the bar when Del Smith arrived on 
the scene. Smith was exclusive and 
sought an unoccupied position at the 
farther end of the juice counter. 
Fuller spied him in the mirror, ex¬ 
cused himself from his friends and go¬ 
ing over to Smith reminded the latter 
that he would like to collect a certain 
sum of money which he, Smith, owed 
him. Smith is alleged to have told 
Fuller to go where money doesn’t 
grow except in a molten condition. 

Fuller Scores One. 

Fuller who is short of stature and 
light of weight looked up at Smith 
who is in the two hundred and twenty 
pound class, and locating a vacant 
portion of Smith’s jaw, placed his fist 
against it with much force. Then 
Fuller dodged behind a table, while 
Smith, threatening vengeance, rushed 
into the hotel corridor looking for a 
cop. Before he had returned Smith’s 
friends persuaded him to get out of 
the place. Smith returned white with 
rage and is said to have had his hand 
in his handkerchief pocket. Finding 
that Fuller had gone, Smith went out 
in search of him. Later, Fuller, hav¬ 
ing eluded his pursuer, returned and 
joined his friends. Suddenly Smith 
reappeared with two burly bluecoats 
and pointing out Fuller, demanded his 
arrest. The Rats scampered to the 
rescue and were willing to accompany 
Smith and Fuller to a police court. 
At this juncture, however, Frank 
Behring, manager of the hotel ap¬ 
peared and parleyed with Smith, who 
withdrew his complaint and de¬ 
parted. 

Fuller left to play the Majestic, De¬ 
troit, last Monday, and it is said he is 
not likely to play Elgin for some 
weeks to come. 


ONE NIGHT STANDS. 

The County Sheriff closed a season 
of 37 weeks, at Newburg, N. Y., on 
May 1. 

The Blockhead closed a season of 
35 weeks, at Racine, Wis., last Sun¬ 
day. The company traveled 14,185 
miles during the season. 

A baseball team has been organ¬ 
ized with the Polly of the Circus 
company, which is on tour in the 
one-night stands. James Jenkins is 
captain and plays second base, Fred 
Leet plays first base, A1 Trueshell 
is found in center field, Gil Henchey 
is on third base, Walter Milton is 
shortstop, Tommy Leonard plays left 
field, Joe Vernotsie is catcher, Toby 
Saxton the pitcher, George Cole 
right field, and Clint G. Ford mana¬ 
ger. Fine uniforms have been se¬ 
cured by the team. 

J. M. Campbell, late manager of 
the Lyric Stock company, is arrang¬ 
ing to put his own company, the 
Campbell Stock company, on the 
road again next season. A new line 
of plays with paper is being secured, 
and it is the intention of Mr. Camp¬ 
bell to present a company that will 
be first-class in everv respect. 


To Offer Vaudeville. 

Webster City, la., May 6. 

William Foster’s lease on the Au¬ 
ditorium in Des Moines expires June 
1, at which time I. Ruben will take 
over the building. It is understood 
the latter is acting for an eastern syn¬ 
dicate and that vaudeville and stand¬ 
ard attractions will be offered every 
day in the year.—TUCKER. 













6 


THE SHOW WORLD 


May 8,1909 


A TIMELY TALK ON RESULTS 

By J. J. MURDOCK. 


MOVING PICTURES IN 
NEW YORK DANCE HALLS 


On next Monday. May* 10, the In¬ 
ternational Projecting and Producing 
Company will make its seventh re¬ 
lease. 

Let us pause 
for a moment 
and consider 
what has been 
accomplis h e d 
since our first 
release was 
made March 
22 . 

During the 
past six weeks 
I have repeat¬ 
edly assured 
exchange men 
and exhibitors 
that under no 
circumstances would the Interna¬ 
tional supply more than one-third of 
the American'trade. In this connec¬ 
tion it might be just as well for me 
to briefly reiterate my reasons for 
determining to confine the supply of 
our films to one-third of the trade. 

It was to create a healthy compe¬ 
tition and to eliminate a ruinous op¬ 
position. It was to encourage a 
profitable rivalry and to make it pos¬ 
sible for the enterprising exhibitor, 
who was willing to pay a fair price 
for the best films, to maintain a high 
standard of service and thus build up 
and hold a lucrative clientele. I fig¬ 
ured that in supplying but one of 
every three moving picture exhibit¬ 
ors in America, with our product, 
that the International would most 
certainly create a condition which 
would prove beneficial to all con¬ 
cerned—give the moving picture in¬ 
dustry that impetus so necessary to 
its welfare and eventually place it 
upon a plarte second to no other 
amusement interest in the world. 

A Reconstructive Period. 

I am also free to confess that in 
bringing about this most desirable 
state of affairs; in solving a problem 
which had harrassed the minds of 
many engaged in the profession of 
motography, that I had in view, al¬ 
though only supplying one-third of 
the trade, of placing the International 
company upon an overshadowing 
pedestal for the general welfare of 
the moving picture industry and all 
worthy members identified therewith. 

The amusement world is passing 
through a reconstructive period. Mod¬ 
ern ideas are displacing the antiquated 
methods of the past. Was it not high 
time indeed that this reconstructive 
force should be apolied to the film 
business which has experienced such 
enormous strides during the past dec¬ 
ade? 

The story of the moving picture 
reads like a romance. One would al¬ 
most think that its pioneers had 
rubbed Aladdin’s magic lamp, so mir¬ 
aculously have they amassed wealth. 
But blinded by the golden showers 
of shekels, which poured upon them, 
not through, but in spite of their en¬ 
deavor, they have stumbled in the 
path of their own progress, and have 
brought about a condition which must 
and will be remedied. 

Just what the International has ac¬ 
complished in this direction it is 
hardly meet for me to say, but it is 
well known that one of the mosc 
menacing conditions was that of an 
over burdening opposition; that is, 
the forcing of all exhibitors to secure 
their films from one common source 
of supply, without discrimination, thus 
compelling all of them to exhibit the 
same subjects. 

Refers to Statistics. 

My attention was recently called by 
an actor to an article which appeared 
in the special spring number of an 
Eastern dramatic paper, dealing with 
the moving picture situation in this 
country as viewed by their corre¬ 
spondents, which, as they declare, are 



located in almost every city and town 
of consequence in the United States. 
In this special spring number this 
dramatic publication endeavors to out¬ 
line the conditions as existing in ev¬ 
ery field of amusement and has much 
to say regarding the moving picture 
situation. In order to obtain this in¬ 
formation the correspondents of this 
publication were instructed to report, 
as far as possible, the class of film 
service used by the different motion 
picture houses in their towns, to¬ 
gether with such other information 
as might be of interest. In summar¬ 
izing the reports, provided by its rep¬ 
resentatives, the following statement 

“Numerically the licensed houses 
occupy nearly, if not quite, 75 per cent 
of the entire field. The percentage is 
much greater in the east, exceeding 
90 per cent in many localities As 
we move toward the west the percent¬ 
age decreases until we reach the lo¬ 
calities tributary to Chicago, where we 
find the two forces very nearly even¬ 
ly divided. Further west, toward the 
Pacific coast, the proportion of li¬ 
censed houses increases until in some 
localities they are almost as strong 
as in the east. In the south, also, the 
licensed houses are the more numer¬ 
ous. . . . Chicago being the center 
of the independent strength, presents 
a larger proportion of prominent pic¬ 
ture houses exhibiting independent 
films than any other city in the coun¬ 
try, although many of the larger the¬ 
aters are licensed.” 


Loosely Conducted Exhibitions Led to Many Bills Being Introduced 
in the Legislature. 


Albanv. N. Y„ May 6. 

The hand and seal of Governor 
Hughes, which has been set on the 
bill introduced recently in the legisla¬ 
ture by Assemblyman Charles F. Mur¬ 
phy of New York city, marks the first 
step in important reform of the rules 
governing the giving of moving pic¬ 
ture performances. 

Assemblyman Murphy’s bill, just 
signed, provides that it shall be a 
misdemeanor for the manager, pro¬ 
prietor, or in fact any person con¬ 
nected with a moving picture exhibi¬ 
tion, to admit a child under sixteen 
years of age unless accompanied by a 
parent or guardian. 

There have been several bills along 
the same lines introduced in the legis¬ 
lature this year and several of them 
were passed by both the senate and 
assembly. These additional bills, 
aimed to restrict operations, are still 


under executive consideration and ii 
they do not conflict in purport with 
Assemblyman Murphy’s measure there 
is little doubt but that they, too, will 
be signed. 

The moving picture proposition was 
singled out this year for attack, per¬ 
haps with the hope of reform. Re¬ 
ports of loosely conducted exhibitions 
and the existence of dance halls in 
which the moving picture machine 
found its way, is believed tfflbe the 
cause of the attack. The general ef¬ 
fect of the dance hall moving oictnre 
project has been a great detriment to 
the cleaner and more legitimate en¬ 
terprise, hence the new law. 

The moving picture reform is j 
spreading to many cities of the state 
and ordinances have been passed in 
many municipalities, including this 
city, restricting the admission of 
children.—CARDOZE. 


Favors the International. 

The report in detail covers several 
hundred cities and towns, and what 
does it go to prove? Their statement 
proves that the International is now 
supplying 25 per cent of the trade 
throughout the country, and that has 
been accomplished in less than six 
weeks. Bear in mind that the Inter¬ 
national company only asks for 33 1-3 
per cent of the trade. 

Candidly, I am proud of the show¬ 
ing, and all who are at all conversant 
with the existing situation must admit 
that the International has kept every 
promise and is living up to its stand¬ 
ard for honorable dealing and integ¬ 
rity. 

To the army of co-workers who 
have assisted us in inaugurating the 
International campaign, which is daily 
taking on added strength and which 
must perforce become the vital pow¬ 
er in the moving picture field, I em¬ 
brace this opportunity, through the 
columns of THE SHOW WORLD, 
of extending my sincere thanks and 
felicitations upon the sturdy spirit 
which has been infused into the move¬ 
ment through their efforts. 

Of course no regenerating move¬ 
ment was ever inaugurated and car¬ 
ried to complete success without its 
interruptions and annoyances, but 
happily the International campaign 
goes on with ever increasing vigor, 
building up a tower of strength for 
the future and brushing aside the idle 
frothings of maligning individuals, 
who, either through spleen or for per¬ 
sonal gain, or to court the graces of 
the Trust, endeavored to place imped¬ 
iments in our path. 


NEW PICTURE THEATERS. 

North Dakota—Grand Forks, Mrs. 
L. Feldkirschnerm, mgr.; another in 
the same city, W. J. Hawk, mgr. 

Wyoming—Cheyenne, V. F. Park¬ 
er, mgr.; Cody, W. S. Greenleaf and 
Dan Schofield, mgrs.; Rock Springs, 
C. L. Hogle, mgr. 

Wisconsin—Janesville, Edw. Mantz, 
mgr.; Shawano, J. F. Kocian and P. 
C. Diedrich, mgrs. 

Minnesota —■ Minneapolis, H. H. 
Green, 307 Hennepin St., mgr. 

New York—Antwerp, M. H. Bent, 
mgr. 

Iowa—Mt. Ayr, L. Hoover and Ed 
Ray, mgrs.; Audubon, A. L. Bliven 
and George Fuller, mgrs. 

Indiana—Logansport, Fred Nelson, 
mgr. 

New Mexico—Artesia, D. S. Loon¬ 
ey, mgr. 

Pennsylvania—Chambersburg, M. R. 
Webber, mgr.; Emaus, Lehigh amuse¬ 
ment company, mgrs. 

Kansas—Iola, Thomas Parker, mgr. 

Missouri—Marshall, W. T. Carroll 
and Son, mgrs.; Slater, W. T. Carroll 
& Son, mgrs. 

Illinois—Champaign, J. W. Lyman, 
mgr. 


New Film Making Concern. 

Salt Lake City, May 6. 

Articles of incorporation were filed 
last week in Ogden of the Progressive 
Motion Picture company, capital 
stock, $25,000, divided into shares of 
$100 each. Ogden is to be the prin¬ 
cipal place of business, and the com¬ 
pany is to run for 100 years. Some 
films have already been made by this 
concern, and work will begin at once 
to get out a good line, western pic¬ 
tures being the main product. The 
incorporators are: Albert Scowcroft, 
president; Charles Zeimer, vice-presi¬ 
dent; W. W. Hodkinson, secretary; 
H. A. Sims, treasurer, and Susie Sims. 
—JOHNSON. 



New Film Company. 

Iowa Falls, May 5. 

The Clinton Film Service Company 
is the name of a new company at Du¬ 
luth with a capital of $20,000. The 
company will handle picture machines, 
films and other annaratus as well as 
equip and operate theaters.—FOS¬ 
TER. 


Mankato, Minn, May 3. 

Has Mankato’s Sunday “lid” warped? 

Is there really a show > for Sunday 
shows in the local show sho^s^Hf 

These are the burning questions of 
the hour in Mankato. The big climax 
was looked for last night, inasmuch as 
Manager Ruerup of Wonderland, a 10c 
vaudeville and picture shop, had an¬ 
nounced in the papers a continuous per 
formance from eight until ten o'clock 
and Mayor Meyer had predicted Mr 
Ruerup’s arrest if he opened his place 
Mr. Ruerup late Saturday afternoon re 
marked that the Minneapolis Symphony 
Orchestra had been permitted to give 
afternoon and evening concerts Iasi 
Sunday under the auspices of St John's 
Catholic church at the theater, and on 
the same day a big ball game had been 
pulled off at the fair grounds,, and be¬ 
cause Mayor Meyer, who entered upon 
the duties of his office only a couple of 
weeks ago, had permitted these things, 
why not moving pictures and vaudeville 
on Sunday? He proposed |jf bring 
about a test case. 

But when people passed Wonderland 
last evening, the doors were locked and 
a big poster in the window explained: 

"Hon. Mayor has asked me not to 
open theater tonight as he wants deci¬ 
sion of the people if he should enforce 
the law to the letter as he cannot half 
measures. Watch the papers and help 
decide.’ - 

Mr. Ruerup cannot be reached at this 
writing, and his plans are not generally 
known, since his conference with 
mayor yesterday. The matter 
ing much attention 
RICHTER. 


ot generally 
■e with tM 

"•=] 


MOVING PICTURE NOTES. 


Engage in Picture Business. 

Hyman and Hirsch, well known as 
candy manufacturers in this city, 
have obtained a site at Larrabee and 
North avenue and will erect a theato- 
rium to seat 200 persons. It will be 
an elaborate affair and the cost is said 
to be something like . $24,000; ten 
thousand for-the building and four¬ 
teen thousand for the lot. The policy 
will be five cent vaudeville and pic¬ 
tures during the week and ten cent 
vaudeville and pictures Saturday and 
Sunday. 


Ishpeming, Mich.—The Bijou the | 
ater, conducted by C. A. Crinnian, w-a-, 
destroyed by fire. 

Champaign, Ill. — Matt Kusell has 
sold the Crescent to Marcus Henm" 
Cambridge City, Ind.-W. D. Wags' 
has purchased the Bijou. 

Chicago, Ill.—Henry Comus’ theato- 
rium was damaged by fire. 

Temple, Texas.—Kennedy and Wy¬ 
ler have purchased the 

Peoria, Ill.—The Crescent; owite 
by W. F. Robinson, was destroyed 


fire. 


New Local Theatorium. 

Schaeffer and Schindler have brok¬ 
en ground in North avenue near 
Sedgwick for a ndw moving picture 
house which will seat 1,100 persons. 


Racine, Wis.—The Orpheum 
added vaudeville to its program 1 
moving pictures. — PRAMER. 

Osage, Iowa.— II. G- BaiimgarW' 
has sold the Lyric to W. I- ''em 
and F. C. Atherton. 

















May 


1909. 


THE SHOW WORLD 


7 


Additions to the Independent Circuit 
A Bring Made Every Day and All 
Eyes are Turned Upon 
New Factor. 


That William Morris has made 
himself a strong factor in the field 
of vaudeville, no well versed person 
could deny, for the proofs of the con¬ 
stant expansion of his circuit are so 
evident that they need no witness. 
Scarcely a day passes that he does not 
add a new houseor several houses 
to his chain. 

During the past week, Morris closed 
a deal, through J. C. Matthews, his 
Chicago representative, by which he 
will book the houses controlled by 
,he Washington Amusement com¬ 
pany the operators, and builders of 
the American Music Hall, Seattle, 
Wash., of which Paul Sternberg is 
. director and manager. A deal was 
also closed for the bookings of Luna- 
| don Louisville, which was built by 
the’American Lunadon company, of 
which James L. Glass is general man- 

I ^As the Morris list of theaters and 
parks now stands it includes: 

American Music Hall, Chicago, Ill.; 
Dominion theater, Winnipeg, Man.; 
Miles theater, Minneapolis, Minn.; 

I Empire theater, Grand Forks, N.. D.; 

Auditorium theater, Crookston, Minn.; 

| Majestic theater, Rockford, Ill.; Vic¬ 
toria theater, LaFayette, Ind.; Julian 
I theater, Chicago, Ill.; Family theater, 
Clinton, la.; Family theater, Moline, 
Ill' Lyric theater, Des Moines, la.; 
Grand theater, St. Paul, Minn.; Bijou 
theater, Minneapolis, Minn.; Bijou 
theater, Milwaukee, Wis.; Rhode 
1 Opera House, Kenosha, Wis.; Frank- 
i lyn theater, Chicago, Ill.; Krug thea¬ 
ter, Omaha, Neb.; American Music 
Hall, Seattle, Wash. Parks and Luna 
Domes—Electric Park, Kansas City, 
Mo.; Idle Hour, Chicopee, Kas.; 
White City, Dayton, O.; Chester, Cin¬ 
cinnati, 0.; Luna Dome, Louisville, 
Ky.; Luna Dome, Memphis, Tenn.; 
White City, New Orleans, La.; Luna 
Dome, Indianapolis, Ind.; Forest 
Park, Little Rock, Ark.; Lyceum 
theater, Hot Springs, Ark.; Vaudeville 
theater, Guthrie, Okla. 


Aborn’s Enormous Business. 

Newark, N. J., May 1. 

The Aborn Grand Opera Company 
opened a spring season of six weeks 
■ at the Newark theater on April 26, 
producing Carmen the first half and 
Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci 
the latter half of the week to enor- 
r mous business. The company plays 
,| here until the regular summer sea- 
I son opens at Olympic park, where 
■/! both the Aborn Grand and Comic 
; Opera companies alternate in the.giv¬ 
ing of first-class musical productions. 
The companies have been appearing 
at the park for the past four seasons 
; and are contracted to appear there 
tor the next five. In the companies 
; : are such artists as Bertha Shalek, 
! ; Nedda[Morrison, Aileen Hodgson, 
!1 Alma Stetzler, Hattie Belle Ladd, 
1 Adele Martin, Bertha Davis, Howard 
1 Chambers, George Tallman, Charles 
Phillipps, George Shields, Frederick 
Chapman, Sol Solomon, Roland Paul, 
| Harry 'Luckstone, George Gordon 
1 i White, Harry Davies, George Cramp- 
1 ton and Homer Lind, assisted by a 
I chorus of 75 and an angmented or- 
! chestra.—O’B. 


Majestic Theater Sold. 

I Lafayette, Ind., May 6. 

The Majestic theater, which was 
opened several years ago by the Co¬ 
lumbia Amusement Company at La¬ 
fayette, Ind., with vaudeville, and 
which later was turned into a mov¬ 
ing picture house, has been sold to 
W. F. Richardson, a wood and coal 
dealer of Lafayette. He will exhibit 
three films and feature the illustrated 
song daily. The Columbia Amuse¬ 
ment Company now controls the 
Family vaudeville theater and Mana¬ 
ger David Maurice will devote all his 
time to the Family bookings.— 

VANCE. 


EACH KNOCK A 
SAYS CARL 


BOOST 

LAEMMLE 


SHUBERT CIRCUIT IS 

NEARING COMPLETION. 

J. J. Shubert Reaches Chicago After Six 
Weeks’ Tour of the West.— General 
Announcement Forthcoming. 


Prominent Chicago Exchange Man Grateful for Attack of Eastern 
Film Paper. 


THE SHOW WORLD is in receipt 
of half a dozen requests from moving 
picture exhibitors, asking that an in¬ 
terview be se¬ 
cured with Carl' 
Laemmle, presi¬ 
dent of the" 
Laemmle Film 
Service, for the 
purpose of deny¬ 
ing an article 
which appeared 
recently in an 
Eastern film pa¬ 
per; a weekly 
publication de¬ 
voted to the in¬ 
terests of li¬ 
censed films and 
manufacturers thereof. 

“But, my dear boy,” said Mr. 

Laemmle when THE SHOW 

WORLD reporter stated the case to 

him, “don’t you know that I* would 



ever known in the history of moving 
pictures. It was the grandest ‘pass¬ 
ing’ that has ever happened to me. 

“Tell them that I am. guilty of the 
charge which that periodical makes 
when it says that I am the man who 
is responsible for conditions as they 
now exist in the moving picture busi¬ 
ness, in Chicago, for example. I am 
proud of the guilt. If I am the man 
who broke up the ring of renters in 
Chicago or anywhere else, thank the 
Lord that I am to get credit for it. 
Before I came into the moving pic¬ 
ture business, the exhibitors were 
paying absurdly high prices and get¬ 
ting rotten service. If I put an end 
to this, then my efforts have not been 

111 “Tell them that the paper is simply 
sore because I don’t give it any of 
my advertising. True, I advertised in 
Producing Company I have passed 
into the greatest era. of prosperity 


“WHAT I THINK OF THAT MAN MURDOCK.” 

By Carl Laemmle. 

It’s a pleasure to talk on the moving picture subject with a man 
like J. J. Murdock, organizer of the independent film movement. 

It’s a rattling good thing for the. business as a whole that he has 
come into it. 

It’s great to know that he has the same optimistic view of the 
future of the business as I have. 

I’ve said a hundred times in my advertisements and in my letters 
that the moving picture business is still in its infancy; that it is destined 
for wonderful things. - . ' 

The other day, Mr. Murdock in the course of a conversation said: 
“Why, Mr. Laemmle, do you know that the moving picture business at 
present is absolutely nothing compared with what it will be in five years? 
That it hasn’t been developed as it will be? That it is enormously rich 
in possibilities?” 

That’s what he thinks of the business. 

And he knows every little detail of, it. 

Physically he is not a big man. He’s' about my size, and 1 never 
won any gold medals as an athlete. 

He never uses flowery language when he talks. He never soars 
into flights of oratory. No matter how seriously he may be driving 
home his point, the most exciting gesture he makes is a little flourish 
of the lead pencil which he always has in his hand 

This man Murdock who built up the Western Vaudeville Managers 
Association—this man Murdock who organized the present independent 
film movement—this man Murdock is a very plain sort of business man. 

He has none of the magnetism which magazine writers love to talk 
about in describing big people. He is not a hypnotist. He does not 
depend on effects. He doesn’t have to have an orchestra accompaniment 
to charm his hearer. , 

Then how on earth does he accomplish .the big things that he does? 

Why, bless your heart—it’s very simple. 

Murdock is honest. He is sincere. He is plain spoken. He loves 
his honor. He would rather lose every cent he has than break his word. 

But is that all? . 

I should say not. He is a born organizer, a man who has the brains 
to map out work for other people and then hire the right kind of people 
to do the work in the right way. ... , , 

So, I say, it’s good to know, that a man of that caliber has jumped 
into the moving picture business. He can’t do it-’all alone—this great 
uplift that must come sooner or later—no, he can’t do it all alone, but 
he’ll do a mighty lot of it. . 

He’ll fight for what he wants. But he’ll fight fairly and squarely. 

That’s what I think of this man Murdock. 

And if Mr. George Cohan will kindly loan me the American flag 
for a few moments, I will wave it back arid forth and exclaim as dra¬ 
matically as I know how: , , r 

“Murdock is a true type of the best kind of 


in'—the American!” 


NOW GOING AFTER. 

The Shuberts are going after public 
sentiment. They believe that the pub¬ 
lic has been in the dark as far as 
theatrical matters have been con¬ 
cerned and a press sheet is to be es¬ 
tablished in Chicago with the title, 
The Open Door, which will show the 
Shubert side of the controversy re¬ 
garding the status of theatrical affairs. 

Herbert C. Duce, who was made 
western representative of the Shu¬ 
berts on Wednesday of this week, 
will have general charge of the new 
press sheet, which will go to news¬ 
papers generally, and Will Reed Dun- 
roy will be associate editor. 

It is barely possible that The Open 
Door will attempt to show that Klaw 
& Lrlanger is not even a Syndicate— 
a title which most combinations avoid, 
but which Klaw & Erlanger gracefully 
accept. The paper will also show the 
real power of the Syndicate, if it is 
one, and will do all in its power to 
take away the mystery which has 
clothed theatrical affairs. 


New Airdome at Cedar Falls. 

Cedar Falls, Iowa, April 23. 

C. W. Champlin, of the Lawn City 
Bill Posting and Distributing Service, 
is building a new airdome here, which 
will seat about 800 persons. It will 
open, according to the present plans, 
about May 10 and will play dramatic 
and comic opera stock. 

This city has been without a the¬ 
ater for three years. The old Pack¬ 
ard opera house has been closed for 
good. 

It is said that Champlin is in the 
market for a good repertoire com¬ 
pany to open his airdome. 


New Park Theater. 

Cleveland, May 4. 

The new theater at Luna Park seats 
more than 1,000 people and is pro¬ 
vided with comfortable opera chairs. 
It has a stage adequate to production 
of spectacles or comic operas..— 
YOUNG. 


Keith House Closed. 

Cleveland, May 4. 

Keith’s Hippodrome closed after 
the performance Saturday night, and 
the vaudeville shows were transferred 
to the Prospect house, where they 
will continue until the Hippodrome 
opens in September.—YOUNG. 


Start Off Well. 

Minneapolis, May 3. 

Continuous vaudeville and pictures 
at the big houses for the summer 
opened up good Sunday. The Bijou 
showed to about 5,000 during the day, 
and the Dewey to about 3,000.— 
BARNES. 


Vaudeville Player Ill. 

Milwaukee, Wis., May 2. 

John Girard, who played here with 
Grayce Scott in a condensed version 
of Divorcons at the Majestic, was 
taken ill with pneumonia and was re¬ 
moved to a local hospital, where he 
is still confined. 


rather have that paper jump on me 
than praise me? Doesn’t everybody 
know that it is a trust publication, 
pure and simple, and that the harder 
it roasts me, the stronger it will make 
my standing with independent exhib¬ 


itors r 

“Nevertheless,” said the reporter, 
“we would like to have you make a 
statement for our readers.” 

Mr. Laemmle smiled and replied: 
“Very well; tell this to all my friends 
who read your paper. 

“Tell them that that paper unin¬ 
tentionally hit the nail on the head 
when it spoke of ‘The Passing of 
Laemmle,’ for since joining hands 
with the International Projecting and 


it for a while, but found that it was 
a losing game, so I quit. I won’t 
advertise in any paper that does not 
bring returns. I won’t be bluffed by 
any man or set of men on God’s 
green foot stool, for I have nothing 
to conceal, nothing to regret, nothing 
to excuse. 

“Tell them that my joining the In¬ 
ternational ranks has accomplished 
more good for the exhibitors at large 
than anything that has happened 
since the Independent'movement was 
organized; that it was a body blow 
to the trust and that no one but a 
man totally ignorant' of film affairs 
(such as the present editor of the 
Eastern sheet), could deny it. 


New Opera House. 

Kennett, Cal., April 30. 

Work has been begun upon a new 
opera house for this place, and it is 
expected that it will be ready for 
opening next fall. 


For Moving Pictures. 

Cleveland, May 4. 
The Cleveland closed its regular 
season Saturday night, and will open 
Sunday, May 9, with moving picture?. 
—YOUNG. 


J. M. Stout arrived in town this 
week, and will be here some time. 

John Cort is in the city, stopping 
at the Annex. 



















THE SHOW WORLD 


May 8,1909 



MAJESTIC THEATRE 

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VIC’’ HUGO 


LE55EE and MANAGER 


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'TAD/E'S RETIRING ROOK 


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May 81 1 *®®' 


TELE SHOW WORLD 


9 


■SYNDICATE” EXTENDS OLIVE BRANCH TO 


^'^^K-langer, able general that he 
has'strengthened his position in 
-coming theatrical war (if there is 
be one) by. extending the olive 
anch to David Belasco and Harri- 
'n Grey Fiske. 

tlarmedfat the grovving strength of 
e Shuberts, overtures were made to 
1 1S<!0 and Fiske, who have been in¬ 
dent for several years, and while 
h a thing as an agreement was not 
jested, the doors of the Syndicate 
iies^K* vere thrown open to these 
Inagers and they availed themselves 
: theopportnnities of playing Syndi¬ 
cate houses when they cared to. 

The new agreement is apt to lead 
othjST managers securing the "open 
(doodBpngement with the Syndi¬ 
cate. George C. Tyler, representing 
no firm known as Liebler & Co., is 
' aid to possess this right at the pres- 
Lj time, and with the throwing down 
|d the bars every indication points to 
a condition in the show business 
Click many have dreamed of but few 
| ;l red to hope would come to pass. 
Heretofore Belasco and Fiske could 
ant secure time in the houses booked 
iv Klaw & Erlanger. When the Shu- 
icrt company arranged a working 
agreement with the Syndicate, about 
no years ago, Klaw & Erlanger 
nere most unwilling to book Mr. Re- 
asco’s attractions, and Mr. Belasco 
efused to play in any houses owned 
at controlled in any degree by Klaw 
t Erlanger. 

What This Means. 

This latest move means that if Be- 
isco or Fiske desire a date in a the- 
ter booked by Klaw & Erlanger they 
nay secure it in the event of the at- 
raction being welcome, and a com¬ 
pany managed by either of these pro- 
' tcers is’nearly always welcome. 

A contract will be made out by Da- 
(1 Belasco, for instance, and will be 
awarded to Klaw & Erlanger. If 
he date sought is available, tile con¬ 
tact will be forwarded to the house 
lanager for signature, and if the 
arms are satisfactory to him he will 
ip and return the document to Klaw 
& Erlanger, who will place it in an 
tnd send it to the office of 


S'-' 


THE “INDEPENDENTS” 

Makes Important Concessions to David Belasco and Harrison 
Grey Fiske. 

By WALLACE PEPPER. 


IfflH® and Fiske must be anxious 
play some of the Syndicate thea- 
s. David Warfield in The Music 
Belasco attraction, is con¬ 
ned the greatest theatrical offer- 
I ever produced, and there are cit- 
in which the production has not 
Other attractions con- 
_Belasco and Fiske are de- 
Ftheater managers and the 
11 be welcomed by the pro- 
lianagers. 

Where It “Hurts.” 

one point which must have 
Erlanger if he was hon- 
mins announcement that salacious 
.tows would be barred from theaters 
traer his control. Under this ar- 
P 1 Belasco should decide 
oplay The Easiest Way in Syndicate 
meaters Mr. Erlanger has little to 
m the matter. He will be forced 
l() forward the contracts to the local 
fianager and if that individual hap- 
Ws to beta man who thinks more of 
TOiey than morality the show will be 
pn in cities where the Syndicate 
povides the bookings, if the local au- 
L°, n . tle t# not arise in their might 
".'. ‘Orb'd, such an offering. 

» h t 1 Erlanger stood willing to 
t ■ .? n ^' s an nounced determina- 
' " ■n this matter shows his able gen- 
i .'yP- P e was unwilling to Ft bis 
1 sinon-as a moralist stand in the way 
ls **® s P cr ity as a showman. 

What Lee Shubert Says. 

S myself and my asso- 
mcerned,” says Lee Shu- 
linot, disprove of a devel- 
ich shows advancement of 
t ’ le ‘open door’ for which 

,. 'we -fought. 

I ' t l , s rea ».vgratifying to us. to note 
j Pudency toward a general 
“ lng down of the bars, which were 


up so long and so unjustly against in¬ 
dependent producers, is so emphati¬ 
cally in evidence in the change of at¬ 
titude both on the part of Erlanger 
and Belasco and Fiske. It is true that 
Mr. Belasco and Mr. Fiske have been 
able to exist and to carry on their en¬ 
terprises only through the activity of 
the Shubert company in providing 
them a field of operation. But their 
contributions to the number of plays 
which we have had for our houses 
have — especially in the last two sum¬ 
mers—been comparatively small. The 
truth of the matter is that both the 
syndicate and ourselves always feel 
the need of good attractions. 

“We have produced and procured 
our own attractions, and will continue 
to do so with such measure of suc- 

“I have contended always that the 
time would come when the bars must 
be let down and successful producers 
welcomed wherever they were willing 
to play their attractions. 

“Even if at the end of our booking 
contract with Mr. Belasco (a year 
hence) his attractions are no longer 
played in our houses it will make 
little difference to us. 

“Conditions change rapidly in the 
theatrical world, and all of the re¬ 
cent changes have; I am glad to say, 
been due to our efforts to establish 
real independence among producers 
and managers. 

What the Shuberts Have Done. 

“As I said in the beginning,” Mr. 
Shubert goes on, “I have fought for 
the ‘open door’ and it cannot be too 
wide to suit us. The fact that Klaw 
& Erlanger are now willing to play 
Belasco’s attractions in their houses 
and that Belasco is willing to clasp 
the hand of the octopus which he 
has so long and so valiantly assailed 
is simply an indication of the trend 
of theatrical events. Art is one thing 
and business existence another. 

“Belasco owes his scope and his 
past and present opportunities to the 
efforts of our company. So does Mr. 
Fiske. We are independents and 
they are independents. Whatever 
steps they may take in an independ¬ 
ent way, we cannot, with consistency, 
disapprove. It is really of little mo¬ 
ment to the public, which cares little 
about whose attractions it may pay 
to see and in what theaters it may 
see them, so long as the attractions 
are worth the money. 

“I am entirely satisfied that we are 
able to fill our own theaters with first 
class attractions, and to supply an ex¬ 
cellent season’s backing to all of the 
numerous one-night-stand houses with 
which we are to book in the coming 
season. We have over forty attrac¬ 
tions now and more are to be pro- 

How It Happened. 

From the “official statement” issued 
it would appear that this “understand¬ 
ing” was due to the action of one of 
the syndicate’s legal advisers, who 
acted “upon his own initiative.” There 
is no law which compels the readers 
of this paper to believe that state¬ 
ment, and if any one chooses to con¬ 
clude that Mr. Erlanger was unwill¬ 
ing to make these concessions unless 
it was agreed that he was to be 
“humbled” as little as possible they 
have a perfect right to such an in- 

It will be noticed in the “official 
statement” which follows, that no 
formal agreement was entered into, 
nor none demanded. It will also be 
noticed that NO WRITING OF 
ANY KIND WAS PREPARED, ex¬ 


cept the statement from which a 
quotation is being made. 

“THE ■ OFFICIAL STATEMENT.” 

The contribution to stage literature 
referred to above is printed here: 

“After several meetings of Messrs. 
Klaw & Erlanger, Mr. David Belasco 
and Mr. Harrison Grey Fiske, and 
as a direct result of these meetings, 
Messrs Klaw & Erlanger and Messrs. 
Fiske and Belasco will hereafter, 
whenever mutually agreeable, play at¬ 
tractions in each other’s theaters. 

“Acting upon his own initiative, 
Mr. David Gerber, who is one. of the 
legal advisers of Messrs. Klaw & Er¬ 
langer, and also of Mr. David Belasco, 
recently wrote letters to Messrs. 
Klaw and Erlanger and to Mr. 
Belasco asking them if they did not 
think it would be possible to reach 
some common ground of business re¬ 
lationship which would be compatible 
with their established principles and 
business policy, and remove unfortu¬ 
nate differences and misunderstand¬ 
ings that hitherto have existed fin the 
theatrical field. Mr. Harrison Grey 
Fiske was notified of this correspond¬ 
ence, and he was invited to join the 
others in a conference upon the mat¬ 
ter. Mr. Gerber promptly received 
replies from all the parties stating 
their willingness to discuss the sub¬ 
ject. 

“Several meetings ensued. As a 
result of a free and frank discussion, 
and a mutual interchange of opinions, 
the several parties found that they 
could enter upon business relations 
for the betterment of the American 
stage without any sacrifice of prin¬ 
ciple, dignity or integrity. An under¬ 
standing was accordingly reached. 

“No formal agreement was entered 
into, and none was demanded by any 
of those taking part in the confer- 

“At these conferences nothing was 
discussed that would or could inter¬ 
fere with the fulfillment of any exist¬ 
ing arrangements or contracts by any 
of the parties concerned. No writing 
of any kind was prepared, except the 
foregoing statement, which fully sets 
forth the origin, nature and results 
of these deliberations, and which 
bears the joint approval of all the 
parties concerned.” 

George Tyler’s Position. 

George Tyler, representing Liebler 
& Co., will book with both the Syn¬ 
dicate and The Shuberts next season. 
An announcement to the effect that 
the Liebler attractions will play the 
Shubert circuit comes from the Shu¬ 
bert office, and at least one route has 
already been laid out with Klaw & 
Erlanger. 

The Liebler attractions next sea¬ 
son will include: “Eleanor Robson in 
The Dawn of a Tomorrow, Viola Al¬ 
len in The White Sister, William 
Hodge in The Man from Home, Wil¬ 
ton Lackeye in The Battle, Dustin 
Farnum in Cameo Kirby, Walker 
Whiteside in The Melting Pot, Will¬ 
iam Farnum in a new play. Ezra 
Kendall in The Vinegar. Buyer, 
Madge Carr Cook in a new play by 
Booth Tarkington and H. L. Wil¬ 
son, In the Blood, with H. B. War¬ 
ner; Miss Philura, with Chrystal 
Herne; The Lady of Dreams, by Ed¬ 
mund Rostand; Foreign Exchange, 
by Booth Tarkington and Harry 
Leon Wilson; The Deliverer, by 
Louis N. Parker; For Better, for 
Worse, by Cleveland Moffett; A Lit¬ 
tle Brother to the Rich, bv Joseph 
M. Patterson; Esther Frear, by 
Cleveland Moffett; Vera, the Me¬ 
dium, by Richard Harding Davis; 


The Ordeal, a new play by John 
Loughran; The Renegade, by Paul 
Armstrong; a new play by O. Henry; 
The Squaw Man, company A; The 
Squaw Man, company B; The Head 
of the House, by Edward W. Town¬ 
send and Frank O’Malley; Mrs. 
Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, com¬ 
pany A; Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage 
Patch, company B; The Man from 
Home, special company.” 

FAIR NOTES. 

The Eastern Maine state fair will 
be held at Bangor, Aug. 24-27. Al¬ 
bert S. Field, of Bangor, Me., is man¬ 
ager. 

The date of the Scott c >unly fair at 
Scottsburg, Ky., has been fixed for 
Sept. 13-17. 

The big street fair and carnival to 
be given by the Woodmen of the 
World in Dubuque, Iowa, has been 
postponed one week. The new dates 
are July 12 to 19, inclusive. 

The Minnesota state fair manage¬ 
ment will erect a grand stand which 
will cost $200,000. 

Fire at Wee’s Opera House. 

Orfordville, Wis., April 29. 

Fire, which originated in the la¬ 
dies’ dressing room of Wee’s opera 
house, threatened for a time to de¬ 
stroy that structure yesterday. The 
blaze was not discovered until 5:30 
in the morning, although it is be¬ 
lieved to have been smouldering for 
some hours before that. P. F. Nolty 
saw it and turned in an alarm. After 
a half hour’s hard work the flames 
were subdued by the fire department. 
The damage is not sufficiently great 
to interfere with attractions.— 
SMITH. 


Actor Sues on Color Line. 

Minneapolis, May 1. 

W. S. Ellis, manager and member of • 
the Hawaiian quintet playing at the 
Princess theater last week, has brought 
suit for $25,000 damages against the 
Crombie Cafe Co. and Max Stearns, 
proprietor. _ Ellis, who claims to be an- 
American citizen and native of Hawaii, 
alleges that the color line was drawn 
against him and another member of his 
company at the cafe and that the man¬ 
agement refused to serve them. Ellis 
and his company are playing at the Ma¬ 
jestic, St. Paul, this week.—BARNES. 

New House for Superior. 

St. Paul, May 1. 

Superior, Wis., is without a large 
playhouse since the burning of the 
Grand in that city recently. J. E. O. 
Pridmore, the Chicago theater archi¬ 
tect, has been commissioned to draw 
plans for a new house. It is possible 
that the Elks, the Commercial Club 
and the Trades and Labor Assembly, 
all of which have been considering 
building for themselves, will join with 
the theater men and put up a large 
building for the use of all.—BARNES. 



THE GREAT NICHOLI, 

Appearing to success on the Morris Circuit 

















10 


THE SHOW WORLD 


May 8, 1909. 


PATENTS CO. KILLS 

TWO BAD MEASURES. 

One in New York Senate Prohibiting 
Use of Celluloid Film and An¬ 
other in Jersey Legislature. 

New York, May 3. 

Last week the Motion Picture Pa¬ 
tents Company accomplished a very 
important work for both exhibitor, 
exchange and the picture-loving pub¬ 
lic, when it succeeded in killing a bill 
in the state senate which, if passed, 
would have closed every picture thea¬ 
ter in New York state. The bill made 
it a misdemeanor to use celluloid 
films in any moving picture machine, 
apparatus or device. 

Now comes the announcement from 
the same concern that it has brought 
about the death of a bill in the New 
Jersey Legislature which would have 
made it a misdemeanor for an ex¬ 
hibitor to admit girls under 16 be¬ 
tween the hours of 6 p. m. and 8 
a. m., and girls under 14 at any time 
of the day unless accompanied by 
parent or guardian. The Patents 
Company contends that, under the re¬ 
forms which it is bringing about, such 
as the “censored” films, clean, well 
ventilated theaters, and lights on dur¬ 
ing the show the motion picture of¬ 
fers advantages of education and en¬ 
tertainment especially desirable for 
children, and believe this principle 
should be encouraged.—WALTER. 


Jay Mastbaum in Cincinnati. 

Cincinnati, O., May 5. 

It was erroneously stated in these 
columns last week that Jay Mastbaum 
was manager of the four Harry Davis 
picture houses in Philadelphia, a posi¬ 
tion which he occupied since their in¬ 
ception, but which he gave up a few 
weeks ago to take the management 
of the Bijou here, a combination vau¬ 
deville and picture house, operated by 
the Lincoln Amusement company. 

The Bijou has been highly success¬ 
ful under Mastbaum’s management; so 
successful indeed that the Lincoln 
Amusement company will probably 
make him manager of the new house 
which they are ready to build in New 
York city, where a site has been se¬ 
lected in Eighth avenue between 
Fortieth and Forty-first streets. Ac¬ 
cording to the present plans this 
house will cost $200,000, and will no 
doubt be the finest combination pic¬ 
ture and vaudeville' house in Gotham. 


To Secure Views. 

Webster City, la.. May 6. 

Omaha business men will begin a 
tour of western and central Iowa in 
a special train May 18. They will 
carry with them a moving picture out¬ 
fit and will take moving views in 
every city they visit. The Chicago 
Film Exchange has arranged to use 
the pictures in all the principal towns 
in this section. In the fall all of them 
will be used at the big Ak-Sar-Ben 
festival in Omaha.—TUCKER. 


Pictures at Myers Theater. 

Janesville, Wis., April 29. 

Myers theater opened yesterday 
with what is claimed to be the finest 
moving pictures and illustrated songs 
ever presented in this city. New pic¬ 
tures will be presented every even¬ 
ing, each entertainment to last one 
hour or longer and the price of ad¬ 
mission, 10 cents.—SMITH. 


Kleine Shifts Gotham Office. 

New York, April 30. 

Monday the offices of George 
Kleine and the Kleine Optical Com¬ 
pany will be moved from 662 Sixth 
avenue to 19 East 21st street.—WAL¬ 
TER. 


Will Use Swanson’s Films. 

The Grace Hayward Stock com¬ 
pany, which opens a fifteen week’s 
engagement at Lincoln, Neb., May 
24, will use Swanson’s films as a fea¬ 
ture of the added attractions. 


Hackett in Vaudeville. « 

William Morris has secured James 
K. Hackett, who will open in New 
York on May 17. 


PICTURE SHOWS MAY 

OPEN SUNDAYS NOW 

Judge Carr Decides Against New York Mayor Regarding This Point 
But Concert Licenses Are Still Doubtful. 


New York, May 1. 

Mayor McClelland, who acted in con¬ 
junction with Commissioner of Police 
Theodore A. Bingham in closing local 
picture houses on Sunday and inserting 
a six-day clause in the license of new 
houses since the edict went forth, has 
lost out in the Supreme Court, where 
Judge Carr decided that the mayor was 
in the wrong. The Moving Picture Ex¬ 
hibitors’ Association, the International 
Vaudeville Company, the People’s Vau¬ 
deville and the William Fox Amusement 
company applied for and were granted 
injunctions restraining Mayor McCel- 
land from revoking licenses of the mov¬ 
ing picture places which kept open on 
Sundays some time ago. Following this 
every applicant for a license was com¬ 
pelled to agree not to open his house 
on Sunday. Most of the applicants 
asked for a concert licnse in conjunc¬ 
tion with the regular show license, in 
order to operate vaudeville and songs. 
The mayor instructed that no concert 
license should be issued to such as had 
been granted a license for show pur¬ 
poses and later he agreed that concert 
licenses might be issued to such as held 
show licenses, provided the concert li¬ 
cense contained the non-Sunday clause. 

The Fox Company Case. 

The case of the William Fox Amuse¬ 
ment company was the first to be called. 
Its license expired January 9. It re¬ 
fused to accept the form of license ap- 
■ proved by the mayor. The company 
entered into mandamus proceedings, 
Judge Thomas of the Supreme Court of 
Brooklyn decided against the company. 
The decision was handed down March 
26. Thereupon the Fox company began 
action to compel the mayor to issue a 
seven-day license without restriction. 
Judge-Gaynor issued a temporary in¬ 
junction. This case related only to the 
show license and in order to test the 
concert license a case known as San- 
wick vs. Bingham was instituted. A 
temporary injunction was also granted 
in this case. It is probable that an ap¬ 
peal will be taken in the matter of the 
.concert license, but otherwise, the pic¬ 
ture house may run on Sundays and it 
is quite probable that the regular thea¬ 
ters will take advantage of Judge Carr’s 
decision and will open their doors on 
the Sabbath. 

The decision by Judge Carr, was 
Cullen Bill is Killed. 

Albany, N. Y., April 30. 

The Cullen bill, which aimed at the 
extinction of all moving picture 
houses in this state and which was 
rushed through the Senate, was killed 
today after strenuous work upon the 
part of the Board of Censorship and 
other moving picture interests. 

Its opponents pointed out that it 
was the most dangerous measure 
which had been introduced into the 
State Assembly for some time, and 
they had no hesitancy in intimating 
that its sponsors either had their 
“hands out” or else were behind some 
inflammable film concern which was 
as yet unknown. 


A $20,000 Picture House. 

Minneapolis, May 1. 

Harry H. Green, a local jeweler, has 
obtained a 15-year lease on property 
at 305-307 Hennepin avenue this city 
and will erect a moving picture house. 
It is designed by Harry Carter, archi¬ 
tect of the Metropolitan, Princess and 
Lyric theaters, will cost $20,000 and 
seat 500. 

The building will be 44x115 feet 
with 29 foot ceiling. They expect to 
open about Aug. 15. D. J. LaBar 
will be the manager.—BARNES. 


handed down in the case of Robert J. 
Cluse vs. Theodore A. Bingham and 
said, in part: 

“Most of the moving picture shows 
are classifiable as dramatic perform¬ 
ances, verging from their most common 
form of farce comedies to the grue¬ 
some tragedy. This much has been held 
by the United States Circuit Court of 
Appeals under the copyright law in Har¬ 
per Brothers vs. the Kalem Company 
(New York Law Journal, April 13, 
1909). 

“Of course there may be and doubt¬ 
less are moving picture shows which do 
not constitute dramatic representation; 
but in any event the Penal Laws of this 
State should not be so construed as to 
discriminate between different forms of 
the same kind of public entertainment, 
for apart from the statute one is as in¬ 
nocent as the other. A person should 
have such legal right to give a public 
dramatic performance on a Sunday with 
living speaking personages as actors as 
another has to employ for the same pur¬ 
poses either lay figures or photographic 
representations. 

“In the granting of a license the may¬ 
or is vested with a proper discretion 
with which the courts should not inter¬ 
fere. This discretion, however, ex¬ 
cludes the idea of the exercise of the 
power in such manner as to be arbitra¬ 
ry. Wherever such discretion is exer¬ 
cised arbitrarily the courts will inter¬ 
fere for the benefit of those seeking 
licenses. The issuance of a license in 
this case imports that both the plaintiff 
and his place of business satisfy the re¬ 
quirements of law. 

Mayor Partly Right. 

“The mayor, however, thinks that the 
plaintiff’s business should not be con¬ 
ducted on Sundays. To the extent 
wherein the business may be unlawful 
the mayor is right. To the extent in 
which it may be lawful the mayor should 
not interfere by the exercise of arbi¬ 
trary power. The things which cannot 
be done lawfully on a Sunday are all 
enumerated in the Penal Law of this 
state. It is not for any power other 
than the Legislature either to enlarge 
or restrict the scope of this law. 

“There are nearly a dozen similar ap¬ 
plications for injunctions now before 
this court, and which are decided here- 


First Independent Theatorium. 

Minneapolis, May 4. 

The first strictly moving picture the¬ 
ater here to run the Independent films 
will be the Milo started Sunday under 
the independent banner with films fur¬ 
nished by the Laemmle Co. This cozy 
little house is well located on upper 
Hennepin avenue and is owned by John 
F. Garner. Dreamland, located on 
Plymouth avenue and owned by Mr. 
f’relein, will also turn independent next 

The People’s (Reed & Weigle, pro¬ 
prietors) is a new moving picture house 
opening this week at Washington and 
21 avenue N.—BARNES. 


Good Picture Business. 

St. Paul, May 1. 

Continuous vaudeville and pictures at 
the Grand Opera House opened to big 
business last Sunday. Three Morris 
acts and independent films furnished by 
the Laemmle Film Service are being 

The last show of the regular season 
last week, Stetson’s Uncle Tom’s Cab¬ 
in, played to more business than many 
of the higher class attractions of the 
past season.—BARNES. 


Sunday Shows at Buffalo. 

Buffalo, May 2. 

Judge Hodson went against the 
city of Buffalo in his decision that 
Sunday picture shows were lawful. 


FRANK RICHARDSON LOSES 
HIS AIRDOME AT OMAHA. 


Strause & Cochrane’s Company Odok 
M ay 23—Birmingham Airdome 
Opens May 15. 


Frank W. Richardson left Chicago 
Monday night for Excelsior Springs 
where the Jefferson stock company 
opens on the Crawford airdome cir¬ 
cuit on May 9. He planned to have 
an airdome in Omaha but found at the 
last minute that there was some ques¬ 
tion about the title of the property 
which he had leased. The airdome 
had been erected last spring and 
everything went well last year. Rich¬ 
ardson did well at that city last sum¬ 
mer and he was surprised when 
legal developments made it impos¬ 
sible for him to have a company there 
this summer. 

The Martin stock company, under 
the management of Strause & Coch¬ 
rane, opens at Excelsior Springs, Mo., 
May 23. The company was organ¬ 
ized here and includes: Lester 
Cuneo, G. G. Wright, Chris Nelson, 
Homer Dickinson, George Cochrane! j 
Billy Devere, Ada Zell, Theresa Mar¬ 
tin, Blanche Edwards and Dorothy 
Devere. The company will have five 
specialties. 

The airdome at Birmingham;.Ala, 
will open May 15. 

Allen and Kenna will open an air-; 
dome on Crawford street at Norfolk, 


Va. 


The Lyric stock company will close 
its road season at Austin, Minn, 
Thursday, May 20, and will jump from 
there to Leavenworth, Kan., where it 
opens on the Crawford circuit of air- 
domes on Saturday, May 22 


PARK NOTES. 


Fontaine Ferry park at Louisville, 
Ky, opened last Sunday. The Three 
Richardsons, Orth and Fern, Harry 
Webb, Pero and Wilson and Besson- 
ette and Wilson make up the vaude¬ 
ville bill. 

Electric park at Bristol, Tenn, 
opens May 15. Many new atMUj|ns 
have been added. 

A shoot-the-shutes may be secured 
for Wheeling park at Wheeling, W. 


Va. 


Delmar Garden at St. Louis, opened 
May 1. Matiello and his band fur¬ 
nished the music for the opening. 

There will be two theaters, at Del- 
mar Garden in St. Louis this summer, 
One will offer light opera and musical 
comedies, the other dramatis attrac- 


Luna Park in New York will open 
May 15. 

Lakewood park at Vincennes, Ind., 
will open May 23 with balloon ascen- j 
sions by Jack Casselle, of Louisville,: 
and music by the First Regiment 
band. 

Bryant’s Minstrels open at Coney, 
Island. Cincinnati, May 22 for a 
month’s run. They are booked over 
the larger park circuits for the sum-1 


Ashland, Ky-! 


Clyffeside park 
will open May 19. 

Dreamland in New York will open 
May 15. 

James McCormick, late advertising! 
agent of The Three Twins, has ac¬ 
cepted a position as advertising agent 
of the park at Allentown, 


Celeron Opens May 29. 

Corry, Pa, May 6. 
Celeron park, at JamestovjfeN-j-| 


opens May 29 and Victor’ 
again supply the music.—Bt 
LINER. 


Three Twins Loses Ball Game. 

Wheeling, W. Va. AHg* 
Picked teams from the Three 1* 1 • 
.mpany and the Court theater m 
gether upon the diamond and, 
use they had no opportunity » 
eliminary practice, the game wa 
ritable slugging match from , 
art. Earl O’Dell, property™" 

„ A\A fVlP tWH 


rl O'Dell, properiy 
Twins, did the twirling f 
nine, and Bessie Clifford prov«j 
oor mascot, for the final sc 
id 17 to 10 in favor of the Court 






















8 , 1909 . 


THE SHOW WORLD 


It 


BRIEF NEWS NOTES GATHERED IN CHICAGO 


Charles A. Holden has leased the 
Wallace theater at Peru, Ind. 

Edna Marshall left last week to join 
the Strwood stock in Omaha, Neb. 
Martin & Emery left Thursday for 

MewBork. 

Robert O’Connor left last week for 
\'cw Orleans to j'oin the Blaney stock 

company- 

Cecil Lean and Florence Holbrook 

will be seen in a play called The 
Yankee Mandarian. 

R. Pfiel, representing the American 
show print at Milwaukee, was in the 
city this week. 

Hans Greve, representing the Greve 
show print at Milwaukee, was in the 
•ity this week. 

John Stockdale, of Wm. H. Swan- 
& Co., left this week for New 


Tom Waters left town Thursday 
after having “made good” at both the 
Olympic and Majestic theaters. He is 
always on the lookout for good ma¬ 
terial for his introductory monologue, 
and during his stay here he changed 
his chatter almost daily. 

Lee Kohlmar left Sunday for New 
York, where he will begin an engage¬ 
ment in vaudeville. He will star next 
season under the management of 
Martin & Emery. The play has been 
completed but the title is yet to be 
decided' upon. 

Harry Holden and Georee Ed¬ 
wards are driving to this city from 
Detroit, where The Angel and the 
Ox closed last Saturday. They are 


xpected to arrive Saturday. They 
are driving the horse which was with 
the show; not the ox. 

Roster of Company.—The stock 
company at the Criterion now in¬ 
cludes—Jack Bessey, 'Ira Herring, 
Fred Walton, Don McMillan, Harry 
Thomas, Berry King, C. S. Winn, 
Belle Barcus, Maude Truax and 
Grace Baird. 

Will N. Rogers, who closed with 
Too Proud to Beg at Kansas City, 
April 24, came to Chicago for a short 
stay and left last Saturday for his 
home at New Philadelphia, Ohio, 
where he will spend the summer. He 
was accompanied by his wife, Leota 
Clyde Rogers. 


af 


Thelma Next.—Thelma will be the 
offering at the Bijou next week by 
the Klimt Players. 

Mart Fuller left Chicago last week 
to cover the Coney Holmes circuit 
and opened at the Majestic, Detroit, 

last Monday. 

E. P. Jerome left last week to join 
the Jesse Fulton stock company in 
lincoln, Neb., being engaged as light 

comedian. 

Ethel May, “The Mystery Girl,” 
will appear at the Bijou commencing 
May 9 as an extra feature with the 

Klimt Players. 

Eugene Moore passed through Chi¬ 
cago Sunday with his company, being 
en route for Burlington, Wis., where 
lie played Monday- night. 

Slides for Baseball Song.—Henry 
P. Smith has written a new base ball 
song, of which fine slides are being 

Arthur Hill, of Hill and Sylviany, 
bought a green hat to match the ver¬ 
biage of spring, but he evidently for¬ 
got that April is the blizzard month 
in this man’s town. 

Melville Russell, manager of the 
Mell Dramatic company, which opens 
May II at Cpmden, Ind., was in the 
city|$atufday engaging musicians and 
actors for the company. 

Willis Hall left the city last week 
for San Antonio, Tex., where he will 
play leads with the stock company at 
the Grand. Fred Herzog left at the 
same time and will pjay the heavies. 

Pete Raymond & Co., left town 
Sunday and opened in vaudeville at 
Bloomington, Ill., this week. The 
company includes George Lang and 
Ray Baker. 

James Grady left Chicago recently 
for Rochester, N. Y., where he will 
SjteSd the summer. He was in this 
city for four weeks following the 
close of The Heir to the Hurrah. 

To Offer Pictures. — The Towle 
opera house, Hammond’s magnificent 
. theate'r, will offer Swanson’s pictures, 
"•itff change every day, during the 
summer. 

Caron and Herbert have been hav- 
f ing.ajaste of the suit-case circuit in 
I this city, having played the Julian last 
I week. Both of the boys apparently 
I uked the work and more than made 
1 good. 

! W. J. Derthick, who had' Bunco in 
I Arizona _ out west the past season, 
| arrived in Chicago last Friday and 
^ a little later for Seattle, where he 

( "i W conn ected with a concession at 
the exposition. 

G. G. Wright arrived in the city 
I last week from Omaha, and after a 
short visit to Grand Rapids left the 
c 'ty with the Martin stock company, 
™ich opens in an airdome at Excel- 
I Sl ® Springs, Mo., on May 23. 
i George Gates, manager of the Grace 
Hayward company, was in the city 
Hus week engaging people for his 
company, which is now at Joliet, and 
which goes to the Oliver in Lincoln, 
•Neb., for the summer. 

Jimmie T. Hennegan, manager of 
•iibins theater, Cincinnati, spent 
> m J?. e ° a ys in Chicago recently, and 
[ "ere engaged Mrs. L. H. Mil- 
KM a special attraction for his 




HAVE YOU VOTED YET ? 

The loving cup to be presented by the Actor’s Sqciety of America 
to the theater receiving the greatest number of votes for having the 
cleanest stage and the best dressing rooms. 



If you have not yet voted, do it now. The Actors’ Society of .Amer¬ 
ica is offering a handsome loving cup to the theater in the United States 
and Canada which receives the greatest number of votes for having the 
cleanest stage and finest dressing rooms. Up to date the voting stands 
Vancouver, first; So. McAllister, Okla., second, and Pittston, Pa., third. 
The contest will close June 26, 1909 at 6 p. m., and the cup will be 
awarded a£ soon thereafter as possible. If you have not voted sign the 
attached coupon and forward it at once. Any reader of the SHOW 
WORLD is entitled to a vote. 


(Date) . 


SANITATION COMMITTEE, 

Actors’ Society of America, 

133 West 45th street, 

New York City. 

In my opinion the (name of theater) . 

at (name of city and state) .. 

which is managed by (name of manager) . 

has the cleanest stage and the finest dressing rooms of any theater 
the United States or Canadh. 

(Signed)* . 

(Address) . 

THE SHOW WORLD C >upon. . 


Wagenhals & Kemper _ ... 

Chicago for twenty-four hours last 
week. They witnessed the production 
of The Whirlpool in Philadelphia, ar¬ 
rived in Chicago Thursday and left 
Friday afternoon for New York. 
Lincoln Wagenhals is planning a 
trip abroad and Colin Kemper will go 
to the Pacific coast shortly. 

A .New Department.—Wm. H. 
Swanson & Co. have opened a new 
department for handling exclusive 
Chicago film business. This concern 
has always found that it is difficult 
to handle city and country trade, as 
the bookings were conflicting. The 
department will now supply films to 
the city only, which insures an ex¬ 
clusive service for Chicago exhibi¬ 
tors as well as prompt attention. 

Bonnie Belle Le Compte, late of 
Holy City, was in Chicago several 
days last week, en route to Akron, 
Ohio, where she will visit for some 
time. Miss Le Compte has just con¬ 
cluded her first season in the theatri¬ 
cal business and has met with re¬ 
markable success. She was called 
upon to play Salome in The Holy 
City on one occasion and appeared in 
the part on a few minutes notice but 
gave a creditable performance. 

Earle Elverson, who is said to own 
the prettiest dog in the show business, 
was here last week, playing in a 
vaudeville sketch. “Queenie,” which 
is the name of the beautiful dog, has 
won all kinds of prizes at dog shows, 
and once took $250 at Denver when 
her mistress was just out of the San 
Francisco earthquake and much in 
need of ready money. “Queenie” is 
quite an actor and has no rival as the 
canine with a broken leg in In Mis¬ 
souri. 

Leo Donelly arrived in Chicago 
Monday and left the city Tuesday, for 
New York city where he is billed to 
play one week at the Fifth avenue, to 
be followed by one week in Philadel¬ 
phia, where his bookings close. Don¬ 
elly opened on the Orpheum time 
Aug. 31, and played twenty-five con¬ 
secutive weeks. He was offered six 
weeks time at the Palace, London, 
but decided that he would not, accept 
it, preferring to rest in Atlantic City 
during the summer months. 

New Officers.—The Moving Pic¬ 
ture and Protective Machine Oper¬ 
ators Protective Union Local 145 has 
elected the following officers: Presi¬ 
dent, Clyde Moore; vice-president, 
James Cole; secretary, W. W. Rieker; 
treasurer, M. A. Cohen; business 
agent, E. L. Nikoden; trustees: Frank 
Clifford, Louis Riner and C. J. Gil¬ 
more. The local now has 260 mem¬ 
bers. It has rented an office at 59 
Dearborn street, suite 615 and meets 
on the first and third Thursdays of 
each month at 105 East Randolph 
street. 


SODINI SELLS INTEREST 

IN MINNEAPOLIS HOUSE. 

Minneapolis, May 1. 


Princess, the new east side house which 
has been a part of the Family theater 
circuit since its opening, passed from 
the control of B. Sodini, who has sold 
out his interest. The house is now 
owned by the Samuel H. Chute Co., 
owners of the building. 

Mr. Chute stated to the representative 
of THE SHOW WORLD that no pres¬ 
ent change was contemplated in the op¬ 
eration of the house or make up of the 
staff. F. C. Priest remains as manager. 
They have gone back to the hour and 
a half shows, three a day plan, after 
running a few weeks as a two a day 
house. It is understood that the house 
has not been a profit payer since its 
opening but with the Chute Bros., who 
are popular east side capitalists, in 
charge, it is believed that business will 
be better. The White Rat bookings 
have been discontinued and the greater 
pvt of the acts are being furnished by 
Hal Goodwin of the Northwestern 
Booking Agency.—BARNES. 























12 


THE SHOW WORLD 


May 8, 1909 


NEWS FROM THE CENTRAL WEST 


ILLINOIS. 


Moline—H. A. Sodini is arranging 
to build an airdome. 

DeKalb—Gus H. Warren, of Chica¬ 
go, opened the Armory theater May 3 
as a vaudeville house. 

Keithsburg—The Sixth Street opera 
house was completely destroyed by 
fire. 

Alton—The airdome will open May 
16 under the management of W. M. 
Sauvage. 

Fairbury.—Lough & Ellis have de¬ 
cided to move their picture theater to 
the Blivens building. 

Havana.—The Varsity theater has 
been sold by E. F. Dorrell to Bert 
Newberry and Will Taylor, of Mar¬ 
shalltown, Iowa. 

Galesburg.—The general talk is that 
this city will stand a five and ten- 
cent theater. There has been no vau¬ 
deville house here for nearly two 

Watseka.—Ed and Clarence Hays, 
Connelly and Connelly, and Jav Fitts 
make uo the bill at the Family this 
week with Anna Kamp singing illus¬ 
trated songs. 

Ottawa.—Majestic park opens June 
20, with C. A. Willoughby as mana¬ 
ger. The principal attractions will be 
a vaudeville theater. Band concerts 
and dances will be given occasionally. 
—CAIRNS. 

Peoria—An explosion in the film 
room of the Crescent Nickelodeon 
Sunday night, resulted in the death of 
William W. Robinson, city editor of 
the Peoria Star, and Walter Wood- 
row, a moving picture machine oper¬ 
ator, was badly injured. 

Decatur—Wm. H. Swanson’s- mov¬ 
ing pictures will be the summer at¬ 
traction at the Powers’ opera house, 
opening Monday May 10, and con¬ 
tinuing until Sept. 4. An extensive 
program will be offered, the pictures 
being changed each day. 

Marion.—Geo. J. Stanley, after fill¬ 
ing a ten weeks’ engagement in the 
South in vaudeville in some of the 
principal cities, including Nashville, 
Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., Montgomery, 
Ala., and other cities returned home 
last night for a visit with his wife who 
is making her home in this city with 
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Rice. 
—JENKINS. 

Bloomington—The Grand opera 

house was destroyed by fire May 1. 

Elgin—The Yankee Drummers ap¬ 
peared April 26 and Graustark 28. 
The Lion and the Mouse came 29, 
and A Stubborn Cinderella May 3 at 
$2 top price. The storm on May 1 
wrecked many of the buildings at 
Trout Park, two miles east of Elgin. 
Damages are about $2,000. 

Aurora—John G. Berscheidt has 
leased from the Chamberlin-Harring- 
ton syndicate the theaters at Aurora, 
Joliet and Ottawa. The Joliet house 
opened under the Berscheidt manage¬ 
ment May 1; the Ottawa theater op¬ 
ens May 15, and Aurora house May 
22, at the close of the regular season 
in each. Mr. Berscheidt intends to 
put on high-class vaudeville and mov¬ 
ing picture shows. 

Rockfcrd—The summer attraction 
at the Grand opera house will be 
Swanson’s moving pictures and illus¬ 
trated songs, augmented by refined 
vaudeville. The pictures will be 
changed three times weekly, and the 
vaudeville twice a week. The acts for 
all of the summer theaters to be op¬ 
ened by Wm. H. Swanson are being 
booked by Meyer Cohen at Swan¬ 
son’s Chicago office. 

Harrisburg—The Arcade Amuse¬ 
ment company which leased the fair 
grounds to open it up as an amuse¬ 
ment place and advertised to open 
last Saturday, were forced to post¬ 
pone the opening date until some time 
this week on account of the inclem¬ 
ency of the weather. They had ad¬ 
vertised a running race on the fai$ 
ground tracks as a starter, besides 
several other attractions, but on ac¬ 
count of postponement in the date 


some of these cannot be given and a 
new program will have to be ar¬ 
ranged.—BARTON. 

Marion—Manager C. F. Roland has 
just perfected arrangements with the 
Western Vaudeville Association of 
Chicago, by which he has leased them 
the New Roland for the season and 
on May 3 they opened the house with 
vaudeville and moving pictures. The 
leasing of the New Roland gives the 
Western Vaudeville Association, now 
a circuit of houses in southern Illinois 
and Indiana, including Mt. Vernon, 
Ill., Marion, Ill., Vincennes, Ind., and 
a few other towns near by. A. L. 
Byers, representative of the Western 
Vaudeville Association, has been in 
the city for several days and has been 
the one who has closed the deal 
which places the house in the hands 
of the Association. 


IOWA. 

Osage.—W. L. Kennedy and F. G. 
Atherton bought the Lyric theater of 
H. E. Baumgartner. 

Mason City.—Chas. Dillingham’s 
production of The Red Mill played at 
the Wilson theater April 30 to the 
prize house of the season. The S. R. 
O. sign was hung out long before the 
curtain rose. The Bijou theater was 
..forced to close two nights last week 
on account of illness of two vaude¬ 
ville performers. The house re¬ 
opened Friday with three numbers, 
which drew capacity crowds.—BULL. 

Des Moines.—Negotiations have 
just been completed for the erection 
of a new $75,000 theater in Des 
Moines opposite the Grand. It will 
be devoted to stock companies and 
operated by B. F. Elbert and J. A. 


INDIANA. 

Marion.—The Star theater recently 
underwent improvements. ! 

Shelbyville.—H. S. Bailey! is i n - 
stalling a moving picture machine in 
the City opera house and will offer 
pictures and vaudeville this summer. 

Huntington.—Harry F. Weber will 
discontinue vaudeville here until he 
can get some other city to split the 
week with. 

Vincennes.— The Red Mill closed 

as a moving picture theater on May 
2. It will open May 17 with vaude¬ 
ville. The Gilpins, hypnotists, oc¬ 
cupied the Grand last week to fair 
business.—BELL. 

South Bend.—The Flints played the 1 
Auditorium April 26-May 1 to good 
business. A1 Wilson appeared 7 and 
Tim Murphy 8. The Broken Idol 
had capacity at the Oliver April 27. | 
Old Heidelberg was last week’s bili i 
at the Indiana.—DUNKLE. 

Peru.- —The Grand here, and the 
Grand at Huntington, are now book- ! 
ing through the Sullivan and Consi- j 
dine office. Sometime since they se¬ 
cured the Western Vaudeville book¬ 
ings, but after a few weeks deter¬ 
mined to try the S. & C. acts. 

Vincennes.— The Grand has en- | 
joyed the best season it has had in ! 
several years. Geo. B. Fletcher, man¬ 
ager of the Rove' some weeks ago 
conceived the idea of devoting, one 
section of seats for ladies who do not ! 
wish to remove their hats; he says it 
works like a charm and has made 
many converts to the other sections. I 
—BELL. 

Logansport. —The moving ; picture 
shows are doing a thriving business 
in this city now. There are at pres¬ 
ent the Ark, the Lyric, which are 
regular moving picture houses, the 
Nelson, which has started 1 moving 
pictures, and the Broadway, which 
has always had moving pictures in 
connection with the vaudeville. They 
are now featuring moving loictures 
owing to the competition in that line. 
—WARD. 

Bloomington. —The Harris Grand 
opened last Saturday with motion pic¬ 
tures to big business, and will con¬ 
tinue as long as profitable. Wonder¬ 
land was billed to open Monday night 
but the weather was too bad. The 
vaudeville people are here ready to 
open the latter part of the week if 
conditions are favorable. The Air¬ 
dome is waiting for the weather to I 
settle, when it will open with a stock | 
company. — FELTUS. 

Terra Haute. — The Lyric theater 
(vaudeville) closes May 31 and opens i 
June 1 with George K. Spoor’s mov- I 
ing pictures. The Varieties theater 
will play vaudeville until July 1. when 
the house will close for remodelling- l 
The feature acts at the Lyric next 
week will be Burt Weston & Co., and i 
Hilda Thomas and Lou Hall. _ The 
feature acts at the Varieties- will be 
Castellane & Bro., White & Simons 
and Lopez & Lopez.—J. H. j ' 

Evansville.—Creatore and his band 
played at Oak Summit Park May 2 
to two good houses. As usual the 
band gave splendid satisfaction and 
responded to quite a few encores. 
The Governor. The Girl and the Wise 
Guy, a musicrfl plav presented by the 
Wayne Musical Company, did good 
business both matinee and night May 
2 at the Welt-.-Bijou Another strong 
hill is being presented at the 0r- 
pheum this week. Bingham and 
Gable, Fonguere and EmersonyiM^ 
Hoffman, and Dawson and 
make up the bill. Another well bal¬ 
anced bill is Manager Raymond’s of¬ 
fering at the Majestic this week 
Business is more than satisfactory at | 
this plav house. Leffingwell and 
Louise Myers & Co., sketd^Ro 1 ” 
Mahoney, The Great Delzaro,_ ano 
Victor Faust make up the bill — 
OBERDORFER. 



. MARVIN, 

and Peoples’ Theaters, Chicago. 


MICHIGAN. 

Traverse City.—J. H. Rounding has 
bought The Star of A. R. Neuman. 

Lansing.—Fred Swan and O. L. 
Johnson have secured an eight-year 
lease on property on Michigan ave¬ 
nue and will open a vaudeville the- 


Gretchell, the present owners of the 
Uijjque theater. Oscar Lpftquist will 
own the building, but gives a long 
term lease to the gentlemen named. 
The location is easy of access from 
the business district of the city.— 
TUCKER. 


OHIO. 


MISSOURI. 


St. Louis.—Helen McLeod fainted 
and was carried off the stage after 
singing the leading part in Babes in 
Toyland April 26. Physicians report 
that she must retire from the stage. 

Sedalia.—Jas. Capen will open a 
moving picture theater at 100 East 
Fourth street. 

To Head Opera Company. 

Cleveland, May 4. 

Tom Doreen, Cleveland’s second 
chief of park police, will leave his 
present position at the first of the 
month to become owner of the Brown 
opera company.—YOUNG. 


Sandusky.—Al. G. Fields Greater 
Minstrels will close the regular season 
of the Sandusky theater on May 13. 
The theater will remain open during 
the summer months, offering vaude¬ 
ville and moving pictures at a five and 
ten cent admission.—J. J. M. 

Canal Dover.—Dan Reiss will erect 
a moving picture theater on Factory 
street. 


Wittig After Chorus Girls. 

Minneapolis, May 1. 

The Chicago chorus girl market was 
looked over by W. W. Wittig while in 
that city last week as he is thinking of 
running some musical comedy at the 
Lyric this summer.—BARNES. 













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If there has been collusion between 
the managers and the politicians it is 
to be sincerely regretted. The spec¬ 
tacle is indeed uninviting to well inten- 
tioned men who are interested in the 
profession of entertainment. 

It should be remembered that thou¬ 
sands of men, women and children, 
yearly patronize the theaters of this city 
and that it is necessary for their safety 
and well being that all reasonable ordi¬ 
nances referring to building construc¬ 
tion should be complied with. The 
manager or the politician whose-influ¬ 
ence he can bring to bear to obviate 
his observance of such laws are equally 
guilty of a flagrant breach of civil and 
moral duty to the citizens of Chicago 
by whom their support is furnished. 

If the now existing authorities are 
over-burdened with their work, our sug¬ 
gestion of last week, that a Department 
of Public Safety be inaugurated, should 
find early action. Such department 
could establish a standard of safety and 
be surrounded by men thoroughly 
versed in the office of inspection and 
equipped with a complete knowledge of 
modern structure protection. 

The official who can be bribed to 
wink at dangerous violations of the 
civil regulations, or the manager who 
would attempt to force a bribe upon 
such official, are equally guilty and 
should be shown no mercy by the public 
at large. 


in Faribault where Mr. Campbell is 
arranging business matters for his 
company, the Campbell stock com¬ 
pany, for next season. 


Silver Star Amusement Company 
Rochester; capital, $10,000; directors' 
Albert E. Burrell, John Baker ami 
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EDITORIAL* 


Another World’s Fair. 

New England has never had the 
habit of big celebrations. It has waited 
patiently, almost since the days of the 
landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth 
Rock, before it ventured upon a “big 
noise” in the way of celebrating any¬ 
thing. True, the Old Guard still has its 
annual parade in the Hub City, but 
otherwise there has been nothing really 
amusing in the center of New England 
for many years. Now, however, New 
England has come to the conclusion 
that it is entirely safe to operate a 
large and tumultuous spectacle, exhibi¬ 
tion, show, representation and so forth, 
to commemorate the fact that the May¬ 
flower really struck its shores in 1620. 

Since the event is not to be celebrated 
until 1920 there is plenty of time, and 
the mere fact that the ball has been 
started on its roll at this early date 
should not be accepted as a possibility 
of the failure of the affair; New Eng¬ 
land has always been cautious. 


Geo. E. Gilman, for years manager 
of the opera house at Eldora, Iowa, 
and who did more to improve that 
town than any other one man, died 
April 28. Ellis D. Robb has succeeded 
him as opera house manager. Many 
of the onc-nighters and stock people 
will miss Mr. Gilman.—TUCKER. 

Josie Dupree, formerly well known 
as one of the three Gary or Gerry 
Sisters, died at Butte, Mont., from a 
tumorous growth. She leaves a little 
daughter who is with relatives there. 
The T. M. A. members, as usual, did 
their best in adding to a fund which 
was badly needed by the Dupree fam¬ 
ily. 

Frederick Willson, manager of 
Miner’s Empire theater in Newark, 
fell dead of apoplexy April 24 in his 
home, at 27 Thirteenth avenue, that 
city. He had had rheumatism for 
some time. Mr. Willson had been 
manager of the Empire theater for a 
year preceding his death. Before that 
he was manager of the Trocadero 
theater, in Philadelphia. He was one 
of the founders of the Theatrical Me¬ 
chanics Association in that city. He 
was born in Washington-, D. C., thir¬ 
ty-nine years ago. He is survived by 
his wife and one son. 

Herve P. McKone, 18-year-old son 
of Thomas McKone, of the South 
Bend, Ind., Poster Printing Company, 
died April 29, following a 10-weeks’ 
illness with typhoid fever and pneu¬ 
monia. He recovered from the fever 
and seemed in a fair way to improve 
and regain his former state of health 
until a few days before his death, 
when he suffered a relapse. Pneu¬ 
monia was then encountered and his 
condition became gradually weaker 
until death came. The young man 
graduated from the South Bend High 
School a year ago, and was a popular 
member of his class. He was born in 
St. Paul, Minn., but had resided in 
South Bend three years. Besides his 
parents the boy is survived by two 
sisters. 


Ohio. 

The Inter-State Amusement- ggn- 
pany, with a capital of $100,000, was 
incorporated at Columbus. The in¬ 
corporators are Thomas J. Cogan, 
Charles F. Williams and Edward p' 
Ryan, brother of John F. Ryan, and 
Senator William G. O’Brien and H. 

C. Robertson, Chicago. This is tile I 
company which will build the new I 
theater on the site of the Vine street 
Congregational church, and it will 
form a new link in the chain of the 
Considine-Sullivan circuit of New 
York City, ft is understood that the 
work of construction will commence 
in a few days, when the plans have 
been perfected so as to have it ready 
at the opening of the theatrical sea- 


The American Vaudeville company 
of Cincinnati, was incorporated in 
Columbus and capitalized at $25,000. 
These are the incorporators! Alfred 
M. Cohen, Alfred Mack, j Milton 
Hurtig, George A. Mehring and Wil¬ 
liam A. Vallman. The launching of 
-- enterprise revolves I around 


the Hart property on Walnut street, ! 
on which a new theater will be erec- I 
ted. Attorney Alfred M. Cohen, one 
of the incorporators stated last night 
that as soon as the improvements 
have been completed the new com- i 
pany will lease the property for a 
term and become the managers 'Mere- ! 
after.—RUNE Y. 


NEW INCORPORATIONS 


More Politics. 

Perhaps no city in the country is free 
from political interference in the man¬ 
agement of its theaters, but it is more 
than probable that Chicago is surfeited 
with trickery upon the part of its pub¬ 
lic officials in conjunction with rival 
theatrical interests. 

It would appear that managers of 
Chicago’s theaters are catering to a 
certain political coterie believing that 
salvation, not only for existing wrongs, 
lies in that refuge, but that they may, 
through such influence, be in position to 
dominate competition.- 

Is it that the managers fear the pow¬ 
ers that be? Or are they evading the 
law and need the assistance of those 
appointed to administrate it? 

The exchange of threats, which have 
passed between politicians and managers 
tire by no means edifying to those who 
have either the city’s best interests *t 
heart or the welfare of its homes of 
amusement. 


An Indiana manager who found dif¬ 
ficulty in compelling his lady- patrons 
to remove their hats during a perform¬ 
ance has inaugurated a plan of segre¬ 
gating those ladies who desire to retain 
their headgear. When purchasing tick¬ 
ets at the box office the ladies are now 
asked: “With or without the hat ?” The 
manager states that it has helped his 
business considerably. 


MARRIAGES 


Campbell-Bull—Lt. Alan Patrick 
Campbell, son of Mrs. Patrick Camp¬ 
bell, and Helen Bull, of Chicago, were 
married at Quincy, Ill., April 29. 

Schindler-Michelena—Vera Michel- 
ena, prima donna of The Soul Kiss, 
and Paul Schindler, musical director 
of the entertainment, were married in 
Jersey City, April 30. 

Campbell-Hall—J. M. Campbell, 
representative of this paper at Fari¬ 
bault, Minn., was married at Blue 
Earth, Minn., April 21 to Iiayzel 
Adrelle Hall, of Faribault. Mr. and 
Mrs. Campbell are now at their home 


New York. 

Syracuse Amusement Company, of 
Syracuse; capital, $16,000; directors, 
George Kress, Jacob Nann, Jr., and 
Frederick C. Sembeck, of Syracuse. 

The Girl From Yama Company, 
Inc., New York; capital, $5,000; to 
carry on the business of theatrical 
proprietors and present all sorts of 
amusements; incorporators, W. G. 
Gilbert, Emporium, Pa.; Jay H. 
Herschfeld, New York, and Alfred 
E. Aarons. 

Pages’ Aeroplane Railway Com¬ 
pany, Brooklyn; to manufacture cars, 
railway, tramway or aeroplanic for 
passengers and freight and for amuse¬ 
ments; capital. $100,000; incorpora¬ 
tors, C. H. Pages, E. D. Kenyon of 
Brooklyn, and W. W. Heroy, Bronx. 

Brandon-Courtney (Inc.), New 
York; to conduct theaters and 
carry on amusement enterprises; cap¬ 
ital. $2,000; directors, E. Hepburn, G. 
O. Dean, P. K. Stuff. 

Sigmond Amusement Company, 
Freeport, County of Nassau; capital, 
$15,000; directors, Marie Sigmond, 
Charles A. Sigmond and Edith R. 
Sigmond. 

Premier Theater Company, New- 
buryport; general theatrical business; 
capital, $20,000; president, Isaac 
Poor; treasurer, Charles C. Fullerton; 
clerk, Lyman A. Eldredge. 

The Sonntag Amusement Company, 
New York; to construct amusement 
contrivances: capital. $100,000; incor¬ 
porators—William Hotchkiss, H. L. 
Zeigler and W. J. Price. 

Starrett’s Shows. Brooklyn; to con¬ 
duct a theater and circus business; 
capital, $10,000; directors, Howard 
Starrett, Adelaide S. Star'rett and Les¬ 
lie Abberly. 


Virginia. 

The Human Roulette Wheel Cor¬ 
poration (Inc.), Norfolk;! capital 
stock, $500 to $15,000; Ottd Wells, 
president; Moe Levy, secretary; L. J. 
LeFaucher. 

Maryland. 

The Wilson Amusement Company, 
Baltimore; capital stock, $100,000; in¬ 
corporators, Joseph W. Hoover, 
George C. Wilson and Myea Rosen- 

Minnesota. 

The Clinton Film ServiceJDuluth: 
capital stock, $20,000; incorporators, 
J. B. Clinton, Prank Berman, H. C. 
Carter and' others. 

Washington. 

) Western Film Exchange;, capital 
stock, $25,000; incorporators, L. W. 
Hutton, E. G. Sherman and others. 

Illinois. 

Creative Producing and Exploit¬ 
ing Company; conduct theatrical en¬ 
terprises; capital, $10,000: incorpora¬ 
tors, Sylvester J. Simon, H. A. Simon 
and L. B. Simon. 


Rosemary Glosz, of the western 
Merry Widow company, saw the per¬ 
formance of the eastern company at 
the Colonial Monday night.. Miss 
Glosz is here for medical treatment. 


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 


Thanks for Assistance. 

Some time since Captain P. D. 
O’Brien, commanding the detective 
bureau of the city of Chicago|sought 
the assistance of this paper in locat¬ 
ing a missing girl, who was thought 
to have run away with a theatrical 
company. The following letter from 
Captain O’Brien explains itself: 

DEPARTMENT OF POLICE, 
CITY OF CHICAGO* 
Chicago. April 28, 1909. 
Editor, THE SHOW WORLD: 

I wish to thank you for the assist¬ 
ance rendered Sergeants Conroy ana 
Harrington in the matter of, Laura 
Magill. who disappeared from Keno¬ 
sha, Wis. I have always found mat 
with the assistance of such a talualie 
advertising medium as THE SHU 
WORLD we locate a great many per¬ 
sons who otherwise would probaot. 
not be found. 

Again thanking you for your kina 
ness and wishing y° 1 ’ su ^ ces Aw rie:1 
main. Yours truly, PD. 9®'.’ 
Captain Commanding, Detective^ 




























May 8, 1909. 


THE SHOW WORLD 


15 


Harrisburg, Ill., May 3. 
gy order of the mayor, the the¬ 
irs moving picture shows and all 
oiaces of amusement have been 
closed for twelve (13) days on ac¬ 
count of a few cases of smallpox in 
the city. The Goodell Carnival com- 
nany which started here last Monday 
ran for two nights and was forced to 
shut down on account of the order. 
At the meeting of the city council part 
of the license paid by the Carnival 
company was refunded. During the 
time they showed here however, they 
had big crowds in their shows. They 

I left Friday and Saturday for Mt. Car¬ 
mel where they are billed for this 

,eefc-BAR TON. _ 

Hold-Up Men Active. 
Logansport, Ind., May 5. 
The Hagenbeck-Wallace show was 
here April 27 and had a good atten¬ 
dance both afternoon and evening. 
Owing to the fact that Wallace al¬ 
ways plays Peru on Saturday, a 
large number of Peru people came 
here to witness the performances, be- 
. cause they could not get away from 
their work when the circus opened 
there. The circus was the result of 
| much excitement in this city when 
' two bold hold-up men started to do 
a wholesale hold-up business, after 
the show in the evening, having as 
many as six men lined up, hands up, 
at the same time. One of the des¬ 
peradoes was killed by policeman 
KlSftr, while the other was captured 
by the local police after a hard fight. 
Patrolman Kroeger is now lying at 
the point of death from a bullet 
wound at the hands of the other ban¬ 
dit, who is now in jail. — WARD. 

False Alarm Sounded. 

Brooklyn. N. Y., May 6. 

It was reported last week that the 
| animals used in the Missing Friend 
act in the Ringling Brothers show 
had been stolen, but it developed that 
one hostler put them one place, an¬ 
other moved them, and a false alarm 




“BILLS” WILL BATTLE 
WITH THE 101 RANCH 

Routes of the Various Tented Enterprises—Hagenbeck-Wallace to 
Tour the West—Ringling’s Coast Trip. 


The routes of the various tented en¬ 


terprises for the summer and fall 
months have been determined by the 
management but as the territory to be 
covered is a secret well guarded the op¬ 
position agents are now engaged in 
guessing where the fights for billing 
space are to take place and where rival 
enterprises are figuring on springing 
surprises. 

In this connection it is almost certain 
that Buffalo Bill and the 101 Ranch will 
have some battles. The direction in 
which the 101 Ranch is headed makes 
this reasonably sure. Some time since 
it was announced in these columns that 
the Miller Brothers would spend the 
most of the summer in the east and 
Joe Miller is reported to have confided 
to Oklahoma friends that Boston is the 
objective point just now. The 101 
Ranch may follow the Ringling show 
in Boston, or it is possible that Buffalo 
Bill will follow Ringling, making the 
101 Ranch third. It is rumored that 
Buffalo Bill goes into Canada and if 
this is correct he might play Boston, 
following the route of the Ringling 
Brothers. 

The Ringling Brothers will go to the 
Pacific coast. The route has already 
been laid out and will probably be as 
follows: Portland, Ore., Aug. 34-25; 
Salem, 26; Roseburg, 27; Medford, 28; 
Redding, Cal., 30; Chico, 31; Marys¬ 
ville, Sept. 1; Sacramento, 2; Santa 
Rosa, 3; Mapa, 4; Oakland, 5-6; 
Salina, 7; Santa Cruz, 8; San Fran¬ 
cisco, 9-13; San Jose, 14; Stockton, 
18; Santa Barbara, 20; Los Angeles, 
21-22; San Diego, 23; Santa Anna, 24; 
San Bernardino, 25; Phoenix, Ariz., 
27; Tucson, 28; Bisbee, 29; Douglas, 


30; Deming, Oct. 1; El Paso, Tex., 2; 
Abilene, 4. 

Keeps ’Em Guessing. 

The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus con¬ 
tinues to keep showmen guessing. It 
makes several stands in West Virginia 
which ought to be fine if the weather 
is good. Charleston has not had a 
show for two years and Hagenbeck- 
Wallace had an $8,000 day there in 
1907. 

John Ringling is said to have believed 
that Hagenbeck-Wallace was going into 
Canada. Bv this time he must have in¬ 
formation which has changed that con¬ 
clusion. Edward Arlington insisted 
some time ago that the show was to 
make forty stands in Pennsylvania, but 
he was also wrong. The show will not 
go further east than Fairmont, W. Va. 
It will play Fort Wayne, Ind., shortly 
and make for the west in advance of 
other shows. 

The route of the Gollmar Brothers, 
which was printed by this paper for 
two weeks past was incorrect. Fred 
Gollmar stated as much over the phone 
the other day and word comes from 
Tuscola, Ill., that the show is billed 
there for May 13. 

The Norris & Rowe show will play 
Seattle May. 24-25, and then go into 
Canada. It appears at Calgary June 
3, according to advices received at this 

office. -■ 

Damon Show Pleased. 

Ashtabula, Ohio, May 1. 

The Howard Damon circus pleased 
several thousand people here yester¬ 
day, and while the show is not a large 
one, the performance is good. The 
spectator is enabled to see all that 
goes on as it has but one ring. The 
admiss.ion price was a quar ter. 


COMING SOON BILLING 

EFFECTIVE IN THIS CASE. 

Logansport, Ind., May 4. 

The “coming soon” billing of the 
Barnum show counted against Ha¬ 
genbeck-Wallace here. Several hun¬ 
dred patients at Longcliff see a circus 
every year coming to Logansport by 
special train. Instead of seeing Ha¬ 
genbeck-Wallace the superintendent 
learned of the Barnum show’s com¬ 
ing later in the summer and took the 
advice displayed on the posters and 
“waited.” 


Warning to Cole Younger. 

St. Paul, May 1. 

Cole Younger, the famous ex-bandit, 
who went in the circus business after 
being paroled from the state prison at 
Stillwater, will be wise to stay outside 
of Minnesota. Younger is now on the 
lecture platform in Kansas. Gov. John¬ 
son, in speaking of the case, said: “One 
of the conditions under which Younger 
was given his freedom was that he 
should never exhibit himself publicly, 
either on the stage, lecture platform, or 
any side show or circus. He violated 
one of these conditions almost as soon 
as he was liberated. We can’t go out¬ 
side of the state to take him, but if he 
ever sets foot in Minnesota he will be 
taken into custody and returned to 
Stillwater.”—BARNES. 


Kick Made on Banners. 

Altoona, Pa., May 3. 

The merchants started a crusade 
against the use of banners for cir¬ 
cuses but were placated when Cole 
Brothers agent promised to take down 
the “rags” used for that show when 
the performance was over. The Cole 
Brothers certainly had the town deco¬ 
rated and there is no surprise that 
merchants filed an objection. 


Frank O’Boyle Sweeney left Chi¬ 
cago for the opening of the Hagen¬ 
beck-Wallace show and will be with 
that enterprise another season. 

Mike Fagan has joined the John 
Robinson show and will have the 
paper on “Car No. 3” as he puts it. 


















































THE SHOW WORLD 


M ay 8, 1909, 


INDEPENDENT 


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Weather Was Bad Last Week but 
Business Was Fair in Spite of Un¬ 
favorable Conditions. 

Philadelphia, Pa., May 4. 

The Welsh Brothers’ show opened in 
Camden April 24 with good weather. 
Last week a series of storms made the 
stay disagreeable but business was 
good, everything considered. No per¬ 
formances were lost. The show will 
be in Philadelphia nearly all of the 
summer and is this week at Fourth 
and Ritner streets. 

The roster of the show follows: 

Big show performers: Three De Ho¬ 
man Brothers, aerialists and acrobats; 
Prince Tonku Kishi, Japanese acts; 
The Aerial Leons; Clo Farland, aerial- 
ist; George Whittier, bounding wire 
act; Andy Thumser, comedy juggler; 
Manchester’s Comedy and Musical Pon¬ 
ies; Prof. John White’s Trained Animal 
Congress; John White, Jr., “Pete Jen¬ 
kins” specialty. The following clowns: 
Vincent Harig, Harry Foster, John 
Murphy, Andy Thumser and John 
Write, Jr. Walter De Homan, di¬ 
rector of amusements. 

Concert programme: Misses Bur¬ 
ton and Primrose, Mr. and Mrs. Har¬ 
ry Foster, John Murphy, Andy Thum¬ 
ser and Madame Yucca (feature 
strong woman). 

Side-show and annex: Madame Irv¬ 
ing, Elanor Grace, Eli Bowen, Capt. 
Tattnall, Miss Lawrence, Butler’s Al¬ 
abama Minstrels and Jubilee Singers, 
Master Bertie Howard, George H. 
Irving and the Neapolitan Brass Band. 
George A. Manchester and George H. 
Irving are lessees and managers of 
this department. 

Carresica’s band furnishes the music 
for the big show. The executive staff 
consists of John T. Welsh, manager; 
Clinton Newton, business manager; 
George B. Beckley, agent; Will _ T. 
Adams, special agent; George E. Law¬ 
rence, superintendent; J. P. McCor¬ 
mick, treasurer. The Welsh Brothers’ 
Amusement Company (Inc.) are the 


WHERE TO ADDRESS 

YOUR CIRCUS FRIENDS 


The routes published 

are not “official.” They „ r _ 

independent of the management of many 
circuses. It is safe to address letters 
as indicated in these columns, however. 
The fact is that the routes printed here 
are the most reliable published. 

Gentry No. 1.—Fayetteville, N. C., 
May 7; Wilson, 8; Rocky Mount, 10; 
Suffolk, Va., 11; Norfolk, 12; Peters¬ 
burg, 13; Richmond, 14; Fredericks¬ 
burg, 15. 


this paper 11; Baltimore, Md., 12-13; Wilming¬ 
ton, Del., 14; Atlantic City, N. J., 15; 
Trenton, 18; North Adams, Mass., 29; 
Allentown, Pa., June 3; Easton, 4; 
Scranton, 5; Wilkes Barre, 7. 


Gentry No. 2.—Maysville, Ky., May 
7; Paris, 8; Lexington, 10; Shelby- 
ville, 11; Jefferson, Ind., 12; Colum¬ 
bus, 13; Greensburg, 14; Martinsville, 


Hagenbeck-Wallace.—Ashland, Ky., 
May 7; Huntington, W. Va., 8; 
Charleston, 10; Athens, Ohio, 11; Mar¬ 
ietta, 12; Parkersburg, W. Va., 13; 
Clarksburg, 14; Fairmont, 15; Wheel¬ 
ing, W. Va., 17; Uhrichsville, Ohio, 18. 

Frank A. Robbins—Westfield, N. 
J., May 7; Plainfield, 8. 

John Robinson.—Uhrichsville, O., 
May 12. 

Norris & Rowe—Moscow, Idaho, 
May 10; Lewiston, 11; Rosalia, 12; 
Coeur d’ Alene, 13; Spokane, Wash. 
14-15. 


The show carries a full complement 
of working men in all departments, 
the show being handled in a fine 


manner.—C. N. 


THE BEST MONEY-GETTER 

IN THE MOVING PICTURE LINE 



M. L-. Clark—Conroe, Texas, 7; 
Montgomery, 8; Navasota, 10; Som¬ 
erville, 11; Bellville, 12; Wallis, 13; 
Rosenberg, 14; Alvin, 15. 

Great Patterson Shows — Fort 
Smith, Ark., May 17-22; Joplin, Mo 
24-29. 

Barnum & Bailey—St. Louis, Mo., 
3-8; Indianapolis, Ind., 10; Danville, 
Ill., 11; Cincinnati, Ohio, 17-18; Co¬ 
lumbus, Ohio, 20; Coshocton, '21; 
Wheeling, W. 'Va., 22; Pittsburg, Pa., 
24-25; Uniontown, 26; Greensburg, 27; 
Johnstown, 28. 

Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill— 
New York until May 15; Brooklyn 
17-22; Philadelphia, 24-29. 

Campbell Brothers—Geary, Okla., 
May 7; Elk City, 8; Clinton, 10; 
Washington, Kan., 19; Wymore, Neb., 
20; Fairbury, 21. 

Ringling Brothers — Philadelphia, 
Pa., May 3-8; Washington, D. C., 10- 


Parker Carnival Company—Baker 
City, Ore., May 10-15; Huntington, 
17-22; Pocatello, Idaho, 24-29; Logan, 
Utah, 31-June 5; Ogden, 7-12; Idaho 
Falls, 14-19. 

Greater Parker Shows—Leaven¬ 
worth, Kan., May 31-June 5; Creston, 
Iowa, 7-12; Ottumwa, 14-i9. 

101 Ranch—Danville, Ill., May 7; 
Indianapolis, Ind., 8; Cincinnati, O., 
10-11; Dayton, 12; Columbus, 13; 
Newark, 14; Wheeling, W. Va., 15; 
Pittsburg, Pa., 17-18; McKeesport, 19; 
Monessin, 20; McKees Rocks, 21; 
Youngstown, Ohio, 22; Cleveland, 24- 
25; Painesville, 26; Conneaut, 27. 

Sells-Floto—San Francisco, Cal., 
May 6-9; Sacramento, 10; Reno, Nev., 
11; Colfax, Cal., 12; Oroville, 13; Chi¬ 
co, 14; Redding, 15; Montague, 16. 

Gollmar Brothers—Baraboo, Wis., 
May 8; Tuscola, Ill., 13. 

Honest Bill’s—Alma, Kan., May 8; 
ways shows in Peru on Saturday a 
Wamego, 10; St. George, 11; West¬ 
moreland, 12: Oldsburg, 13; Randolph, 
14; Leonardville, 15; Clay Center, 17; 
Morganville, 18; Clifton, 19; Clyde, 
20; Cuba, 21; Bellville, 22. 

Cole Brothers—Canton, Ohio, May 
8; Cleveland 10; Warren 11; Grove 
City, Pa., 12; Meadville 13; Erie 14; 
Corry 16; Oil City 17; Warren 18; 
Ridgway 19; Brookville 20; Dubois 


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NICK PETIT “DECIDES” 

TO PLAY NORTH ADAMS. 

North Adams, Mass., May 6. j 
N. J. Petit, contracting agent for 
the Ringling Brothers show, has 
finally decided to bring his show here ! 
on May 29. He hesitated for a time | 
whether to make Pittsfield |r this 1 
city. As he could secure a lot for 
$100 in Pittsfield he was rather in- ] 
dined toward that city, as local par- J 
ties asked $200 for the use of the , 
show ground. A few business men 
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17 



MULLIN FILM SERVICE 

Corner South Satina and East Fayette Sts., = Syracuse, N. Y. 


Factory and Studio, WATERTOWN, N. Y. 
KANSAS CITY, MO., 215-216 Argyle Bldg. 


Business Done at the Early Stands 
of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Show 
Would Indicate as Much. 

Tfe business done by the Hagen¬ 
beck-Wallace sideshow at the open¬ 
ing stands of the season would indi- 
cateithat the public never tires of 
giants and midgets, for those are the 
most talked of features of the annex. 

AfTafayette, Ind., April 28, with 
the weather very cold, the side show 
took $500, and Indianapolis went 
over $800 with weather threatening. 

Arthur Hoffman has charge of the 
side'show and the features include:. 
Tarver, the giant; Princess Nouma, 
midget; Lano’s monkey circus; The 
Gomzallis, knife impalers; Andrew 
Sturtz, tatooed boy; Millie Violette, 
snake charmer; King Cole, lecturer 
and Punch and Judy man; Princess 
Starlight, Indian sharpshooter; Millie 
P er f° rm 'ng birds; Mile. Cor- 
ana (Mrs. Kid Hearn), mind reading; 
and Prof. Lowery’s minstrels. 

Lew Morris is assistant announcer, 
JJfMLGeorge Tarbox, Charles F. 
Jffl|“Doc.” Lano and J. Gondy are 
the ticket sellers. Mr. Mack is the 
only;ticket seller of previous years to 
he found in front of the annex. He 
has been with Wallace since 1901. 

The Barnum show only made three 
'SB between Chicago and St. 

and as the weather was bad 
the business of the side show could 
not be taken as a criterion by which 
to estimate the chances of that style 
entertainment for the season. The 
opening in St. Louis Monday was big 
and Thomas Rankin is encouraged 
with the prospects. 


LARGEST ENTERPRISES 
ARE FREE FROM GRAFT 

Encouraging Condition Found in the First Group of Tented Enter¬ 
prises, Now Considered. 


Strong Opposition? 

The 101 Ranch onnosition brigade 
a t Springfield and Danville, Ill., con¬ 
sisted of one agent and two men. 


The four largest tented enterprises 
in America are free from “graft.” 
That is to say that the four most im¬ 
portant amusement enterprises which 
come under the head of a circus or 
wild west, share to no extent in the 
robbery of patrons. There may be 
an occasional “walk-a-way” and 
doubtless is, it is possible a little 
“short-changing” is indulged in by 
ticket sellers on the quiet, but there is 
no “graft” as the term is used in the 
circus world, no splitting of illegal 
gains by criminals and the manage¬ 
ment of the Barnum & Bailey, Ring- 
ling Brothers, Buffalo Bill’s Wild 
West and Pawnee Bill Far East and 
the Hagenbeck-Wallace show. 

“Things are so clean around here 
that I look to hear the jingle of a 
contribution box any moment,” was 
the way Col. B. E. Wallace described 
affairs with the Hagenbeck-Wallace 
show on Thursday of last week at 
Indianapolis. A thorough investiga¬ 
tion of the enterprise would prove 
such a thing were one inclined to 
doubt the word of the Sage of the 
Wabash. Even the sixty-cent ticket 
wagon, which there might well be 
hesitancy in styling as a “graft,” has 
disappeared from the lot of the 
Hagenbeck-Wallace show. 

Careful investigation of the Bar¬ 
num & Bailey show brings the same 
encouraging report. The Ringling 
Brothers have always maintained a 
cleanliness in their enterprises which 
makes it unnecessary to even consider 
the Ringling Brothers show in such 
a connection. 

It is known that when Buffalo 
Bill’s Wild West and Pawnee Bill’s 
. Far East leaves the Garden it will be 


conducted along a line which deserves 
commendation for its owners and 
managers. 

There are doubtless many other 
“clean” enterprises touring the coun¬ 
try. This article is not meant to i-e- 
flect on those to whom no credit is 
given for cleanliness. Its purpose is 
to touch on the first group, including 
the five most important tented enter¬ 
prises, and to show that there is 
nothing in the line of graft with these 
shows—a condition which must be 
gratifying to the real friends of the 
circus profession. 


JOHN IS NOT IMMUNE; 

GETS IN OPPOSITION. 

Uhrichsville, Ohio, May 4. 

The John Robinson show has been 
avoiding opposition so successfully in 
recent years that it is surprised to 
find itself in a fight with the Hagen¬ 
beck-Wallace show at this point. The 
John Robinson show comes here May 
12 and Hagenbeck-Wallace May 18. 
The Wallace forces got the town 
billed first. E. . C. Nonce was in 
charge of the work. Jess Springer 
has the Robinson brigade and suc¬ 
ceeded in getting a good showing 
when the fact that the Robinson show 
uses no banners this season is taken 
into consideration. 


Summer Theater to Open. 

Chickasha, Okla., May 6. 

Convention Hall, Chickasha’s sum¬ 
mer theater, will open next Monday 
with vaudeville.—-BARNES. 

Alice Sullivan took Pearl Elaine 
Roberts’ role in The Alaskan Sunday 
afternoon, Miss Roberts heing inca¬ 
pacitated.' 


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 

Query: “How many ‘Golmar Broth¬ 
ers’ are there?” 

Answer: The Golmar Brothers’ 
show is owned by Charles A., Fred C., 
B. F., and Walter Gollmar. 

Query: “What animals are to be 
found in the Hagenbeck-Wallace me¬ 
nagerie?” 

Answer: There are six polar bears, 
ten lions, seven tigers, thirteen ele¬ 
phants, six camels, two zebras, two 
zebrulas, two sacred cattle, one hip¬ 
popotamus, one cage of monkeys, one 
black leopard, five leopards, two 
llamas, one biscia antelope, one nyl- 
gau, one axis deer, one white bearded 
gnu, one white tailed gnu, one sanbur 
deer, one screw horned antelope, three 
kangaroos, thirty parrots and macaws, 
and two lion cubs. 

Query: “Will the Campbell Broth¬ 
ers come into Montana this season?” 

Answer: Yes. If information at 
this office is correct the show will play 
Grand Forks July 15, Collyille 16, Spo¬ 
kane 17, Sand Point 18, Bonner’s Fer¬ 
ry 20, Kalispel 21, Cutbank 23, Havre 
24, Great Falls 25, Helena 26 and 
Butte 27. 

A query from Durham, N. C., reads: 
“I enjoy very*much the inside infor¬ 
mation and questions and answers de¬ 
partments in your paper. Will you 
please write something as to salaries 
paid in the circus profession, such as 
clowns and performers with a show 
about the size of John H. Sparks, 
Ringling Brothers, or Hagenbeck- 
Wallace.” ■ . 

Floyd King, who signs the above 
query, opens up a department which 
may be touched upon later in th# sea¬ 
son. Salaries are much less than the 
figures in the minds of the unknow¬ 
ing, but for various reasons it is al¬ 
most out of question to obtain the 
correct figures. 






























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Ed. S. Martin has the privilege car 
with the Yankee Robinson show. 

Coco Herbert plans to put out a 

Tom North is press agent of the 
No. 2 Gentry show which is now in 
Kentucky. 

Joe Rosenthal contracted Newark, 
Ohio, for the 101 Ranch and did ex¬ 
ceptionally good work. 

Edward Arlington had a confer¬ 
ence with the various agents of 101 
Ranch at Columbus, Ohio, last week. 

W. O. Tarkington is railroad con¬ 
tractor with Yankee Robinson this 
season. 

Kid Wheeler is boss billposter with 
the opposition brigade of the Cole 
Brothers. 

William Sands has charge of the 
No. 1 car with the Frank A. Rob¬ 
bins show 

A1 W. Martin did not stop at Des 
Moines to join Yankee Robinson but 
went right on west and joined Norris 
and Rowe. 

“Chick” Bell joined the Barnum & 
Bailey show when it went under can¬ 
vas and is selling reserved seat tick- 

Adele Von Ohle, one of the cow¬ 
girls with Buffalo Bill and Pawnee 
Bill, won in a jumping class at the 
Brooklyn horse show last week. 

Charles A. Temple’s band with 
Campbell Brothers’ show, is receiving 
praise from Oklahoma newspaper 

Fred Jenks is clowning with the 
Ringling Brothers rhis season and 
plays cornet with the clown band in 
parade. 

J. G. Bennett, who was with the 
Wallace show from 1893 to 1900 was 
a visitor to the exhibition wljen it was 
given at Indianapolis. 

Joe Daly, of the Daly Hotel at 
Peru, Ind., well known to circus 
folks, visited the Hagenbeck-Wallace 
show last week at Kokomo, Ind. 

Dick West, the balloon man, win¬ 
tered at Cincinnati and is now ped¬ 
dling the toys with the Hagenbeck- 
Wallace show. 

Fred Bates, formerly manager of A 
Thoroughbred Tramp, is now con¬ 
nected with the advance of the Cole 
Brothers’ show. 

Mrs. D. V. Tantlinger, expert rifleist 
with 101 Ranch, is receiving much 
praise from western people, who 
know what good marksmanship is. 

H. C. Haines, owner of the opera 
house at Starke, Fla., is dickering 
with two or three big shows to pre¬ 
sent a slide for life as a free feature. 

Jay Thompson, who‘spent the win¬ 
ter months in Denver, is with Ha- 
genbeck-Wallace again, having a po¬ 
sition on the privilege car. 

Charlie Hite is once more with the 
Hagenbeck-Wallace show, having 
spent the winter months at his home 
at Ironton, Ohio. 

E. C. Monce, formerly with George 
Schoffins brigade with Hagenbeck- 
Wallace, will be in charge of a new 
brigade being organized by General 
Agent R. M. Harvey. 

Joe Miller bought a spotted Arabian 
team when the 101 Ranch played 
Lawton, Okla., paying $400 for it. He 


also purchased a team of blacks in 
that city. 

Younger Brothers, hand to hand 
balancers, say that they will be seen 
with Don Valeos’ circus in South 
America next season. They will 
leave this country on Dec. 20. 

Fritz Drahn, formerly a well known 
zebra trainer, formerly with the 
Hagenbeck show and with Hagen¬ 
beck-Wallace in 1907, is running a 
saloon in Indianapolis, Ind. 

Lottie Rutherford is playing sax¬ 
ophone solos with Merrick’s band 
with Hagenbeck-Wallace this season 
and was loudly applauded at Indian¬ 
apolis, Dayton and Columbus. 

Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Slinkard are in 
their third season with the Hagen¬ 
beck-Wallace circus, having spent the 
winter months at their home at Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. 

Doc Springer is once more the head 
porter on the Hagenbeck-Wallace 
show train. Gene Maloney again has 
the “Governor’s Car” and Lew Hard¬ 
ing is again found at the bosses’ car. 


Lillian Jordan, of the Flying Jor¬ 
dans, with the Ringling Brothers, cel¬ 
ebrated a birthday in Philadelphia 
this week. She was born in Reading, 
Pa., and has been a performer since 
she was three years old. 

Kid St. Clair’s opposition brigade 
with the Barnum & Bailey show, is 
composed of Ben Hasselman, Cliff 
Guy, George Davis, Ed Baird, John 
Connors, William Burns, George Petit 
and Leon Reeves. 

Ernest J. Lister, at various times 
with the advance of John Robinson, 
Wallace and the Gentry Brothers, 
died at his home in Weston, W. Va., 
on April 9 from stomach trouble. He 
was 27 years of age. 

Mrs. William Rodden is very ill at 
her home at Indianapolis and Mr. 
Rodden has not been able to leave her 
as yet. He will join the Hagenbeck- 
Wallace show when his wife recov¬ 
ers to such an extent that he can get 

a 'w/ H. McFarland has sold the two 
cameraphone theaters he had in Chi¬ 


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ment enterprise of the same kind 
shortly. He disposed of the ones he 
did have to advantage and is doing 

Clarence Johnson, who has been as¬ 
sisting with the programs ion the 
Hagenbeck-Wallace show, joins the 
Gollmar Brothers for the opening at 
Baraboo, Wis., May 8 and will have 
charge of the programs with that 

Bill Wiley, cook in the privilege car 
of 101 Ranch and the Walter L. Main 
show in recent years, died atjlndian- 
apolis, Ind., April 16, of heart disease. 
He was to have gone with the How¬ 
ard Damon show and was expecting 
to join it on the day he died. jC 

William Henchey, one of the circus 
entertainers with Polly of the Circus, 
went from Tipton, Ind., to Indianap¬ 
olis, April 29, to witness the afternoon 
performance of Hagenbeck & Wallace. 
He was accompanied by A1 True- 
shell, John Jenkins and George Cole. 

Harry Goodman, a nephew of Buf¬ 
falo Bill, had his leg broken at Mad¬ 
ison Square Garden in New York 
while playing football on horseback. 
Goodman has been with the Buffalo 
Bill wild west fpr 15 years and is a 
well known rider. 

Albert Murray (“Front Door 
Whitey”) is to be found at the main 
entrance of the Hagenbeck-Wallace 
show again this season, making Ins 
seventh year with that show. He 
spent the winter at his home at Alton, 


Ill. 


E. Garrettson, who was in ad¬ 
vance of one of the Tempest and Sun¬ 
shine companies during the winter 
season, was in Chicago recently and 

fnr TTairmniint. 


left Monday night for Fairmount, 
Minn., to join the brigade lof the 1 
Yankee Robinson show. | 

Henry George has charge of the 
programs with the Hagenbeck-Wal¬ 
lace show, and is assisted by Chap 
Howard, Herbert White and Joe 
Sparenberg. When the show played 
Indianaplois April 2 Mr. George en- I 
tertained a host of friends, that being ^ 


ms nome city. ^■ 

J. P. Fagan, railroad contractor ?t 
the Hagenbeck-Wallace show, was in 
Chicago this week. He was at Peru, 
Ind.. for the opening and at India¬ 
napolis a few hours on the day tha 
his show exhibited there, but has not 
yet had a chance to see the circus n 
represents. , 

J. D. Newman is kept busy these 
days being general agent of both ° 
the Gentry shows. He was in Ur 
cago on Wednesday of last weeK, 
went to Indianapolis Thursday to see 
the Hagenbeck-Wallace citcus and no 


the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus 
telling where he has been since that 

time. He reports that both the Gen¬ 
try shows are “doing fine.” 

Charles Hott, “the bead man, 
once mere with Hagenbeck-Walla 
and states that the bead crop on 
Hagenbeck farm promises to 
splendid one. He traveled with tha 
show for months before he tumble 
the fact that beads raised on « 
Hagenbeck estate would find a rea 


sale than those disposed of j as 
nary souvenirs. 




































THE SHOW WORLD 


19 


last DAYS OF APRIL BUSINESS IS VERY GOOD 
HARD ON CIRCUS FOLKS FOR NORRIS & ROWE 


Vankee Robinson Opens at Des Moines—Barnum in Storm at Cham- Everything Considered, Show Has Done Well—Change Contemplated 
paign—Wallace Comes Out Lucky, In Advance Force. 


The last days of April were very 
<m circus folks and May day of 
1909 w as hardly what it has been rep- 
f jl ra to be in the story books. 

The Yankee Robinson show opened 
April 29 at Des Moines, Iowa, and 
a circus never exhibited there on such 
a cold dav before. If it had not been 
|hat the show has winter quarters in 
that city and played under the auspices 
„f the firemen, the crowd would cer- 
jaiAr have been small As it was 
there were probably 3,000 people under 
the tent. 

Thff Barnum & Bailey show was at 
Champaign, HI, on April 29. The 
crowd was not iarge. Those who braved . 
the elements to attend at night sat ter¬ 
rified as the tent swayed and rocked 
in the wind and sagged with the weight 
of water. As that was the first stand 
tinder canvas it seemed hard luck to 
have K appearance of the parapher¬ 
nalia marred by the storm. Blooming¬ 
ton afid Springfield gave the show big 
business considering the weather. 

The Hagenbeck-Wallace show cer- 
tainly^fared lucky on April 29. The 
weather at Indianapolis was very nice 
in the afternoon and the circus got a 
fair crowd. At night it was threaten¬ 
ing, but the big tent was completely 
filled. Half a dozen displays were giv¬ 
en before it commenced to rain. Such 
a downpour of water is unusual. For¬ 
tunately the wind did not blow to any 
great -extent. The tent withstood the 
water for a long time but at length 
it began to trickle through. Umbrellas 
went (ip and the remainder of the per¬ 
formance was given with foLks stand¬ 
ing around the rings with hoisted um¬ 
brellas. 

Th|Hagenbeck-Wallace show opened 
at Peru, Ind., April 24, to a nice busi¬ 
ness with weather fair. At Kokomo 
the weather was nice and business was 
good. ' At Logansport the same condi¬ 
tions prevailed. The day at Lafayette 
was very cold but in spite of that there 
was a good crowd at night. B. E. Wal¬ 
lace stated that the receipts for the 
first three days on the road exceeded 
thoseof the first six days that the show 
was out last season. 


Norris & Rowe at Eugene. 

Eugene, Ore., May 3. 

Eugene sustained her reputation as 
being a first-class circus town by 
heavy attendance at the two perform¬ 
ances given by the Norris & Rowe 
show here last Wednesday. 


doned. W. H. Barnes, who is slated 
for manager, favored it, but it was 
not looked upon by the balance of 
the board as just the sort of an at¬ 
traction with whom to open an amuse¬ 
ment house of the kind. Barnes will 
be remembered as the owner of the 
famous horse Trixie, recently killed in 
a railroad wreck.—TUCKER. 


Ticket Speculators Show Up. 

New York, May 5. 
Ticket speculators annoyed the 
Ringling Brothers at Brooklyn. Men 
were stationed on the street to warn 
the public against being fleeced. 


The Norris & Rowe circus has doni 
exceptionally well so far this season 
when it is taken into consideration tha: 
California is in bad shape, thar the cir¬ 
cus has encountered much rain and cold 
weather, that crops generally have been 
bad and that the show has had opposi¬ 
tion. The circus has gotten its shart 
of the business to date and it had sev 
eral very good days recently in North 
erfi California and Southern Oregon. 

The performance was gotten togethei 
in five weeks and H. S. Rowe is being 
congratulated on all sides on its su¬ 
periority. The task of organizing a 
show in this short time would have 


HAVE YOU SEEN THIS? 



Ringling Brothers Draw. 

Brooklyn, N. Y., May 5. 

The Wednesday night crowd 
which greeted the Ringling Brothers 
in Brooklyn was so large that the 
hippo'drome track had to be cleared 
before the races could be given. 

Did Not Approve Plan. 

Webster City, Iowa, May 5. 

The plan to have Campbell Bros, 
circus open the auditorium at Sioux 
City did not meet the approval of the 
board of directors and has been aban- 

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A clipping from the Denver News which is being mailed from one 
show to another. It has attracted much attention among circus folks and 
has been pronounced interesting reading. 

W. J. Hanly, press agent in ad- been sufficient to stagger the average 
vance of Kagenbeck Wallace, saw the man, but it did not phase that showman, 
show for the first time at Springfield-, The staff with the show is: H. S. 
Ohio, Tuesday. In order to get Rose, general manager; Thomas My- 
“back” Hanley went direct from Par- ers, treasurer; Harry Moore, assistant 
kersburg, W. Va., to Wheeling and treasurer; Walter Shannon, legal ad- 
did not “make” Clarksburg and Fair- juster; Ben Bowman, manager side 
mont. show; Thomas Ryan, lot superintend- 

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ent; John Hickey, in charge of front 
door; Max French, superintendent of 
canvas, J. C. Murphy, assistant; George 
Stumpf, superintendent of stock; John 
Easely, superintendent of ring stock; A1 
Henderson, boss property man; Chris 
Zietz, superintendent of menagerie, 
Blakesie Boyd, assistant; Arthur Da¬ 
vis, steward, William Muldoon, assist¬ 
ant; Shorty Long, master of transpor¬ 
tation, and T. Getsell, superintendent of 
lights. 

The Advance Forces. 

The advance staff as listed by the 
show is: Joseph Cahill, general agent; 
Sam Haller and William Gilman, spe¬ 
cial agents; James C. Stuart, contract¬ 
ing agent; Harry Graham, manager car 
No. 1; William Alder, manager car No. 
2; George S. Roddy, manager car No. 
3 : Ralph Hayward, excursion agent; 
Arthur Dunn, checker-up; Joseph Hyde, 
programer, and Tom J. Myers, general 
press agent. It is not believed that 
there are three advance cars with the 
show, so the list sent out is probably 
incorrect to that extent. 

A change, or rather an addition to 
the advance force, is being considered 
and if the engagement is made it will 
greatly strengthen the advance and put 
the show in a better condition to make 
money. 

The Performers. 

Ben Bowman is manager of the side 
show, and Prof. Hornemann is assist¬ 
ant. Earl Hearn and Fred Griffin are 
the ticket' sellers. The show is com¬ 
posed of Turner’s Georgia Minstrels 
(18 people), South Sea Island Joe and 
his wife, Beno; Montana Jack and Mar- 
atina, impalement act; Nina, snake en¬ 
chantress ; La Belle Carmen and Bessie 
Hart, Salome dancers; The Musical 
Smiths; The Davis Family, spotted peo¬ 
ple ; Mr. and Mrs. Bowman, mind read¬ 
ing; and Danger—the “largest snake in 
captivity.” 

Charles Dockrill is equestrian direct¬ 
or and the following performers are 
found in the dressing room: Baker 
troupe of bicyclists, The Orton Troupe, 
The Hollands, The French Sisters, 
(iron jaw act), The Glasscocks (tra¬ 
peze), The Costellos (riders), William 
Crook, principal clown and 10 assist¬ 
ants, Prince Lucas and five cossack 
riders, and a band of 24 musicians in 
charge of C. Z. Bronson. 

The show has 22 cars, 175 head of 
stock, and there are 375 people with it. 

The candy stands are in charge of 
Harry Lyons with 16 assistants. 

There have been no changes with the 
show with the exception of the Peer¬ 
less Potters, who left at Oakland, Cal., 
owing to previous contracts. 

Ralph Hayward, son of the well 
known theatrical manager at Spokane, 
Wash., is spending his vacation with 
the show, learning the business. He is 
acting as excursion agent. 

Bert Carroll, who was advertising 
agent of the Empire at Indianapolis 
the past season, has joined Yankee 
Robinson as special agent. He has 
not been with a circus since 1905 
when he was with the Ringling Broth- 


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THE SHOW WORLD 


May 8,1909 


COLE BROTHERS SHOW 

HAS FIRST BLOW DOWN 

No One Was Injured and No Dam¬ 
age Was Done—Bad Weather 
Proved Hard on Billers. 

The first “blow down” of the sea¬ 
son was with the Cole Brothers at 
Latrobe, Pa., on April "0. Fortu¬ 
nately no one was injured and no 
serious damage was done. The big 
top tent toppled over in the storm, 
alighting gracefully and giving those 
inside plenty of time to get from un¬ 
der it. 

The bad weather of that week was 
hard on the billers who were in the 
central states. Men with onoosition 
brigades found the work especially 


OPPOSITION BRIGADES; 

WHAT THEY ARE DOING 

The Ringling Brothers’ opposition 
brigade is billing Erie against the 
Cole Brothers who are at that place 
May 14. 

The Barnum & Bailey onoosition 
brigade billed the Ringling Brothers’ 
show at several stands in Indiana. 

The opposition brigade for the Cole 
Brothers billed Cleveland, Ohio, this 


RICE BROTHERS STILL 

PLAYING ST. LOUIS 

The Rice Brothers show is still 
playing St. Louis and surrounding 
towns. It was billed to go on the 
road last week but there was a change 
in plans and it is making the lots 
near the big city at ten cent prices. 


Performer Got a Fall. 

Washington C. H., May 5. 

During the afternoon performance 
of the John Robinson show a per¬ 
former slipped from aerial bars and 
when he struck the net, broke through 
it to the ground. He was carried to 
the dressing room unconscious, but 
it is understood he was not seriously 
injured. 


To Join Fry Show. 

Iowa Falls, Iowa, May 6. 

Prof. Ralph Fitts and his trained 
dogs left April 28 to Johnstown, Pa., 
to join the Fry railroad shows for 
the season.—FOSTER. 


License Fixed at $200. 

Gloversville, N. Y., May 6. 

When Ringling Brothers exhibit 
here June 28 the license will be $200. 
A representative of the show was here 
this week and closed up the deal. 

How Paper Reads. 

The Howard Damon show paper 
reads “The Great Howard Damon 
Australian Circus under the direc¬ 
tion of M. H. Welsh.” 


To Make Michigan. 

The Barnum & Bailey show will 
probably make ten stands in Michi¬ 
gan in July. 


Plays Buffalo. 

It is reported that the 101 Ranch 
plays Buffalo, N. Y., late in May. 


CIRCUS NOTES. 

Ed C. Knupp, general agent of the 
Cole' Brothers’ show, was in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio, last week. 

Kid Hearn is back with Hagen- 
beck-Wallace, having spent the win¬ 
ter in Kansas City. 

Clem Murphy is doing his comedy 
bottle act with Hagenbeck-Wallace 
again this season. 

Jack Sutton and The Tasmanians 
troupe left Chicago Tuesday for Bar- 
aboo, Wis., where they will join the 
Gollmar Brothers’ show. 

Harry Mann, formerly general 
agent of John Sparks, is now doing 
local contracting ahead of the John 
Robinson show. 

Frank Hubin, popular boardwalk 
merchant at Atlantic City, is anxiously 
waiting for the coming of the Ring¬ 
ling Brothers show on May 15, as he 
was with that circus in 1894-5. 

A. C. Bainbridge, who will be the 


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manager of the Shuberts’ new houses 
in Minneapolis and St. Paul, has 
joined the staff of the 101 Ranch 
show for a part of the circus season. 

Percy Phillips is having the Hag- 
enbeck elephants go through the same 
stunts they did last season with 
Hagenbeck-Wallace. There are 13 
pachyderms with the show this sea- 

F. H. Beaty has charge of the re¬ 
freshment stands with Hagenbeck- 
Wallace, Don Wilson is cashier, Har¬ 
vey Jones is boss butcher, and his as¬ 
sistants are Charles Hite, Kid Zim¬ 
merman, Norman Kapels, N. McKen¬ 
zie, L. W. Rickerts, L. O. Riggin, G. 
Ryan, Harry Bordens, Ed Conway, 
Tom Walters, J. W. Morgan and Ed¬ 
die Crawford. Henry Lee has his old 
position as general handy man. 

R. M. Harvey, general agent of 


AIRDOME NOTES. 

The airdome and palm garden at 
Chattanooga, Tenn., opened Monday 
under the management of Will S. 
Albert. 

The airdome at Jonesboro, Ark., 
will open May 10 with North Broth¬ 
ers company. 

The Airdome Amusement Company 
will establish an airdome at Wheeling, 
W. Va. 

R. H. Taylor and Roy Kindt will 
erect an airdome at Galesburg, Ill. 


Carnivals Prosper. 

Athens, Ga., May 6. 

The Cosmopolitan carnival com¬ 
pany showed here to good business. 
The K. G. Barkoot amusement com¬ 
pany appeared under the auspices of 
the city park committee and also did 


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Hagenbeck-Wallace, was in Canton, 
Ohio, this week, where he has oppo 
sition with Cole Brothers. He has 
been on the go lately, often visiting 
three brigades in a day. He left Co¬ 
lumbus at three o’clock one morning 
recently and was back at two the 
next morning, having visited four 
cities. The show has opposition at 
nearly every stand. 


Electric Park Opened. 

San Antonio, Texas, May 3. 

Electric Park opened May 1 under 
the management of D. M. Walker and 
the inauguration of the season was a 
great event. The shows include the 
fun factory, shooting galleries, Baker’s 
touring car, human laundry, vaude¬ 
ville theater, shoot the chutes, old red 
mill, figure eight, Tryer’s bridge, and 
a bad broncho. The Edwin Barrie 
stock holds its own at the Empire.— 
WILLEY. 


Good Business in Spite— 

Roseburg, Ore., April 28. 

Manager H. S. Rowe reported a 
good attendance at the circus here, as 
well as elsewhere along the line, “de¬ 
spite the libellous articles published 
by a few unprincipled papers defam¬ 
atory of some of the people accom¬ 
panying the show.” 


well. The committee realized $400. 
One of the concession men of the 
Cosmopolitan was fined $50 for 
knocking the Barkoot shows in the 
presence of the mayor. The company 
refused to pay his fine or aid him in 
any way.—KELLY. 


Amusement Company Gets Charter. 

Omaha, April 30. 

Articles of incorporation were filed 
by the Courtland Beach Amusement 
Company. The articles provide for 
big improvements at this popular 
place. The incorporators are W. H. 
Gourley, H. H. Knapp and H. L. La 
Flesh. Mr. Gourley is also heavily 
interested in the moving picture busi¬ 
ness here. The company is incorpo¬ 
rated for twenty years and the capi¬ 
tal stock of $25,000 is divided into 
the same number of shares at $1.00 
each. 

It is planned to throw open the 
gates on Decoration Day. The bath¬ 
ing houses are torn down and a brand 
new model pavilion will be erected. 
Extensive embellishments in the line 
of artistic flower beds will be a fea¬ 
ture. Beer can be sold at this resort 
till 10:30, as it comes under the Iowa 
law. Omaha, after July 6, closes sa¬ 
loons at 8100 p. m.—SMYTH. 


NEW BOOKING FIRM 

MAKES GOOD IN SOUTH 


International Amusement Enterprise 
Rapidly Gaining Ground in South- 
ern Vaudeville Field. 


The International Amusement En 
tc-prim. comprising H. J. William: 
and Charles kuehle. which has estab¬ 
lished its headquarters in this city 
has begun to make an enviable name 
for itself in the southern M &K'L 
livid, having already made arrange¬ 
ments to book the Wells circuit the 
Star circuit and the Parker ITexas) 
circuit, and having an equitable agree¬ 
ment with other well known circuits 
permitting it to supply vaudeville for 
upwards of thirty-seven houses, aside 
from those comprising the circuits 
named. 


The International Amusement En¬ 
terprise claims that it has more than 
three hundred artists listed upon its 
books and an idea of its operations 
may be gained from the fact that its 
expense account for correspondence, ) 
telephones and telegrams amounts to \ 
nearly $1,000 monthly. - 

The offices of the company arc lo¬ 
cated in the ninth floor of the Van 
Antwerp building. 


Cort Gets an Ogden House. 

Salt Lake City, Utah., May 5. 

John Cort, whose lease on the 
Grand theater at Ogden expires June ’ 
1, and who has been supplanted there 
by the Orpheum company, has just 
concluded an agreement with the 
Peery Brothers, owners of the Utah- 
na, whereby he leases that house for I 
ten years. It is announced that $75,- 
000 will be expended by the North¬ 
western Theatrical syndicate in re- I 
modeling the building, work to be be¬ 
gun at once. E. F. Houghton, of Se- 1 
attle, who has constructed more than 1 
fifty houses for Cort, is on the ground 
and he is authority for the statement 
that the above amount will be neces¬ 
sary to transform the present building 
into a modern structure containing 
three stories. Architecturally, it is 
to be constructed on the lines of the 
Colonial in Salt Lake. R. A. Grant, 
manager of the latter house, is Cort's 
representative in this section.-SJOHN- 
SON. 


Mention Omitted. • 

Butte, Mont., April 30. 

Either THE SHOW WORLD or 
its Butte correspondent omitted to I 
mention Countess Rossi and Paulo as 
one of the volunteer teams which par- I 
ticipated in the big T. M. A benefit ' 
performance, April 13. The corres- , 
pondent therefore wishes, o® behalf I 
of Butte 78, to mention the services ! 
extended by this team, and if any j 
other names were omitted which 
should have been mentioned, tnay the 
actors kindly consider this an humble 
apology for the omission. Jp 

Butte’s Elks lodge produced a light 
opera called The Elk’s Tooth, at ^ 
the Broadway, May 3 and 4,JIt was 
staged by H. L. Browne, who has 
produced it in other parts of the 
country. Home talent was assisted 
by Mrs. Creighton Largey, or Ursula 
March as she was known while phy¬ 
ing the leading role in The Land of 
Nod.—BILLINGS. 


Trouble With “Prop” Horse. 

Mankato, Minn., May 1, 
Simply because a big, red, luxurious 
touring car was commissioned and >n 
waiting to carry away the .beautiful 
heroine, Old Dobbin, a “prop horse 
reared, and Miss Whipple,! of tne 
Whipple Sisters, twins born ana 
raised in this city, and engaged to 
specialty turns for the Lyric com¬ 
pany, in her haste to get away from 
the plunging animal, missed her to 
ing and fell down the basement stai ■ 
but escaped without injury.i Ut 
members of the company had narrow 
escapes.—RT CHTER. 

Cleveland. 


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PERSONAL MENTION. 

George S. Van, who has been out 
' ,, season with Van’s Imperial Min- 
srels under the direction of J. A. 
Ski will go to New York City 
a few weeks to make an extended 

Harry Granton of Huntington, Ind., 
as accepted the position of stage 
carpenter of the new Victoria theater 
at Lafayette, Ind. Raymond Hamil- 
ion of Lafayette, is the chief electri¬ 
cian and Jesse Eldridge has been se- 
mred'as waster of properties. Charles 
Deets, of Lafayette, is head usher. 
Dollie LeGray, contralto soloist, has 
hands with Master Harry 
Baernstein, the small boy with the 
large voice, in a sketch entitled The 
Newsboy’s Luck. They will open at 
Marinette Wis., on June 21, and have 
i#enty-eight weeks booked with the 
Western Vaudeville Association. Miss 
LeGray has been in Racine for the 
past two years at the Bijou theater 
(Danforth & Campbell) singing illus- 
irated songs. __ 

Arthur McWatters, of McWatters 
ind Tyson, and Charles Carter, of 
Carter, Taylor and company, had an 
exciting experience during their stay 
in Lafayette, Ind., during the week of 
April 19, where they were on the 
(opening bill of the new Victoria the¬ 
ater. McWatters and Carter got a 
canoe and took a long ride down the 
Wabash river. When below the Ger¬ 
man National Park, Carter attempted 
to shoot at a duck and the gun ex¬ 
ploded. Carter was knocked flat and 
considerably bruised, but escaped seri¬ 
ous injury. 

Roberts Gets Opera House. 

Jacksonville, Ala., May 1. 
Edward F. Roberts, secretary of the 
Southern Amusement Co.,' Bogue 
Chitto, Miss., has secured control of 
(the opera house here. The house will 
/be opened Sept. 1. Moving pictures 
I and vaudeville will be put on nights 
no regular attractions 


The Southern Amusement Co. will 
do the booking. Mr. Roberts and his 
associates are also contemplating the 
erection of an opera house at Pied¬ 
mont, Ala. The proposed house will 
have a seating capacity of 500, and 
will be operated in connection with 
the Jacksonville house. 

The Southern Amusement Co. has 
recently added the opera house at 
Blockton, Ala.; Elks Auditorium, Tus¬ 
caloosa, Ala.; Folmar’s theater, Troy, 
Ala., to its southern circuit making 
about forty theaters booked by them. 


T. M. A. BENEFIT. 

j Spokane, Wash., May 6. 
The Spokane Lodge No. 47 T. M. A. 

I save their second annual benefit at the' 
Auditorium theater this afternoon. The 

I Richard Carle company contributed sev¬ 
eral numbers. Mike Donlin and Mabel 
j Hite, who appeared at the Orpheum, 
also aided, and all the theaters closed 
ind sent the pick of their talent. — 

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STOCK COMPANIES 


Beulah Poynter opens a season of 
stock at the Cleveland theater in 
Cleveland, Ohio, May 10. 

The Star theater at Cleveland, 
Ohio, opens with a seasbn of stock 
burlesque May 17. 

The Morey stock company con¬ 
cluded its engagement at Danville, 
Ill., and will go over the airdome cir- 

The Harvey stock company, south¬ 
ern, opens at Peoria, Ill., next Sun¬ 
day. The northern company has been 
at South Chicago for two weeks past 
to fair business. 

Ray Raymond, Flossie Baine, Fred 
Mershon, Ernest Rosemund arid wife, 
Fred Pfeifer, and Dave Young left 
Chicago Tuesday for McGregor, 
Iowa, where they will join a travel¬ 
ing repertoire show for the summer. 
The attraction will play towns off of 
the railroad. 

The Gaiety theater at Galesburg, 
Ill., occupied by a stock company for 
the past 42 weeks, has changed its 
policy and reopened May ‘ with a 
company of 40 people headed by Kil¬ 
ly Watson, formerly of the Isle of 
Spice, presenting popular operas. 
Grace Belmont is the prima donna. It 
is the intention of the management to 
put on a different opera every week 
during the summer. 


Stock Company Record. 

Spokane, Wash., May 1. 

The Jessie Shirley stock company is 
now playing in its two hundred and 
eight consecutive week; United States 
record. They are playing this week 
When Knighthood was in Flower to 
large business. The cast includes the 
following: George D. McQuarrie, Jack 
Amory, Charles P. Clary, Frank Mc¬ 
Quarrie, Less C. Green, Daniel Edson, 


Byron Louck, Jessie Shirley, Laura 
Adams, Ethel Von Waldron, and Mable 
Dalton. The Shirley stock has been 
very popular during its stay of over 
four years, and Spokane regrets very 
much to see it close its engagement 
here, which will be May 15. The com¬ 
pany will disband. Miss Von Waldron 
closes her engagement May 1, Mr. Clary 
8, and Mr. Amory 15. They will join 
the James Neil stock in St. Paul, C. F. 
Ralston, who opened with the company 
eleven years ago, and who has been a 
member until a year ago, is here on a 
visit and may appear the closing week 
in The Baby Chase.—SMITH. 


Willard Mack Ill. 

Salt Lake City, May 3. 

Ralph Stuart, last seen here in 
Strongheart, has accepted the place in 
the Willard Mack stock company 
made vacant by the illness of Willard 
Mack, who is now in a local hospital 
recovering from the effects of a severe 
attack of pneumonia. Stuart will first 
appear in By Right of Sword, of 
which he is the author.—JOHNSON. 


Last Performance a Benefit. 

Cleveland, May 4. 

The last performance of the season 
•by the German stock company was 
given at the Hippodrome Sunday 
night. The performance was for the 
benefit of O. E. Schmidt and was the 
last appearance of Eliza Kramm in 
this country.—YOUNG. 


Chenet for Euclid Garden. 

Cleveland, May 4. 

Geo. Chenet, manager of the Em¬ 
pire theater, will be manager of the 
Euclid Garden this summer. A stock 
company will probably play there 
this summer.—YOUNG. 


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Oil City (Pa.) Notes. 

Oil City, Pa., May 3. 

Messrs F. S. Frazier and F. N. Mc¬ 
Cullough, proprietors of the Orpheum 
vaudeville theater here, have just com¬ 
pleted a unique building feat in entirely 
rebuilding their theater without missing 
a performance. This was accomplished 
by building over the old house and mak¬ 
ing any great changes at night after the 
performances and on Sundays. The 
house originally seated 400, but the in¬ 
crease of business warranted the addi¬ 
tional seating capacity, which now to¬ 
tals 700. The location of this theater 
is considered to be the best in the city, 
being next door to the office buildings 
of the Standard Oil Company in the 
heart of the business district. 

Another vaudeville theater owned by 
O. H. Royer, is nearing completion and 
expects to open prior to Memorial day. 
This is located next door to the Or¬ 
pheum on the site of the Star moving 
picture house, and when completed will 
take on the shows now being offered at 
the Grand theater, this city, the picture 
show occupying the Grand, which makes 
an excellent picture house, seating 225, 


but has inadequate stage room for 
vaudeville. The new theater will he 
known as “The Star” and will seat 700. 

Vaudeville war has been declared in 
Franklin, Pa., which is located about 
eight miles southwest of Oil City and 
connected therewith by trolley line. The 
Orpheum theater there has been doing 
a big business, offering three vaudeville 
acts, song and pictures for 5 and 10 
cents, three shows an evening. On May 
3, the Legitimate theater there which is 
controlled by M. Reis, opens for 
vaudeville, offering four acts, songs and 
pictures for the same price and giving 
two performances an evening. As 
Franklin cannot support two theaters of 
that class, the outcome will be watched 
with much interest.—CONTINO. 


Aborn in Cleveland. 

Cleveland, May 4. 

The Coliseum theater, on 55th St. 
East, will he opened June 7 by one 
of the Ahorn opera companies. There 
was some talk about changing the 
name of the theater but it has been 
decided not to.—YOUNG. 


COLORADO SPRINGS NOTES. 

Colorado Springs, Colo., May 9. 

The Grand opera house will continue 
to have shows until June 8th. After 
that a stock company will take the 
house for the summer season.—The 
Majestic theater is doing very good 
business, having packed houses for 
nearly every show during the week.— 
Fairyland theater formerly owned by 
Henry Lubelski, but now owned by 
Dan Tracy, is doing a good business 
and having fairly good shows.—The 
Crystal M. P. theater is doing a good 
business.—The roller skating rink at the 
Temple theater will continue business 
through the summer. This rink is man¬ 
aged by J. J. Coughlin also manager of 
the Zoo.—STARK. 


Winnipeg Notes. 

The theatrical world in this city is 
topsy-turvy at the present time, the lo¬ 
cal stock company in the first place 
breaking up. James Durkin, the lead¬ 
ing man has closed his engagement and 
has gone to St. Louis where he will 
join the company of the Suburban Gar¬ 
den theater as leading man. 

J. Gordon Edwards, director of the 
Winnipeg will also go shortly to St. 
Louis where he will become general di¬ 
rector of the Suburban Garden theater. 
He is taking with him Angela McCaul 
who has made a great success as the in¬ 
genue of the Winnipeg company. 

Maude Fealy closed her contract 
Monday and has been succeeded by 
Amelia Bingham who has made a most 
favorable impression as Blanche Stirl¬ 
ing in The Climbers. 

No leading man has been selected to 
fill Mr. Durkin’s place yet. 

Lucy Weston scored a great success 
in the Dominion theater here, hut her 
naughty songs led to trouble with the 
management and W. B. Lawrence 
would not stand for anything that 
might seem suggestive. Consequently 
Miss Weston was forced to cut her 
repertoire very short. Her songs with 
the audience however, made a great hit, 
and she had to make a speech at nearly 
every performance. 

W. J. Gilman, who made a miserable 
attempt to establish a first class theater 
in Winnipeg and whose efforts failed, 
has gone fifty miles west to Portage la 
Prairie with a proposition for the 
merchants of that burg, to establish 
a first class theater. Gilman has met 
several men who are interested in the 
project and the scheme is being taken 
up. 

It is reported in theatrical circles, 
that William Morris has a representa¬ 
tive in the city looking for a site on 
which to erect' a big vaudeville house. 
It is also understood that the Orpheum 
syndicate will build a big vaudeville 
house here. 

William Morris vaudeville is draw¬ 
ing. crowded houses to the Dominion 
every night.—MATHER. 


Quigley a Hit. 

Thomas J. Quigley, singing Sha¬ 
piro’s Song, took ten encores at a 
matinee at the Haymarket last Fri¬ 
day afternoon. His big success is 
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Kenosha, Wis.—Harry Goldberg 
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skating rink in Ashland avenue. 

Jersey City, N. J.—Charles R. 
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Chicago, Ill.—Clarence Hamilton 
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raced at the Metropolitan; the first 
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Scofield second and Bert ana Card, 
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as Green and Bert fought hard to the 
last ditch. Green crossed the line 
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Chicago, Ill.—Frank Neul holds two 
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Butte, Mont. — The ten-mile race 
was held at the Holland rink. Sco- 
feld, Card, Bert, Holt and Schatz 
started and Scofeld led for the first 
two laps, when Card passed him, 
until the sixth lap he led, and the 
skating was slow. Bert then took the 
lead and Holt was the only one who 
could follow his pace. Holt got tired 
in the second mile, and almost fell in 
the fourth lap and finally quit in the 
eighth lap of the third mile. In the 
seventh lap of the second mile, Card 
fell and gave up shortly afterward. 
Scofeld quit the race at the end of 
the sixth lap of the third mile leaving 
Schatz and Bert to fight it out to a 
finish. Schatz caught Bert in the 
third lap of the fifth mile. From that 
point on to the sixth lap of the ninth 
mile, both men took things easy, and 
then Bert sprinted and won out. The 
time was 30 minutes and 53 seconds. 


The Alaskan (William P. Cullen, 
manager)—Great Northern theater, 
Chicago, indefinite. 

The Burgomaster (William P. Cul¬ 
len, manager)—Sacramento, Cal., May 
9: Stockton, 11; Fresno, 13: Bakers¬ 
field, 16: Santa Barbara, 19; Monterey, 
21; Petaluma, 25; Vallejo, 28; Oakland, 
30-June 1; Chico, 2; Red Bluff, 3; 
Albany, Ore., 5; Portland, 6-9. 

Tempest and Sunshine (W. F. Mann, 
manager)—Paris, Tenn., May 10; Un¬ 
ion City, 11: Dyersburg, 12; Fulton, 
Ky., 13; Mayfield, 14; Clinton, 15. 

Don C. Hall company (Don C. Hall, 
manager)—Akron, Ohio, May 10-15; 
Mansfield, 17-22; Marion, 24-29. 

Old Arkansaw (L. A. Edwards, man¬ 
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Mary Jane’s Pa (Henry W. Savage, 
manager)—Chicago Opera House, Chi¬ 
cago, indefinite. 

The Merry Widow (Henry W. Sav¬ 
age, manager)—Colonial theater, Chica¬ 
go. Ill., indefinite. 

The Merry Widow (Henry W. Sav¬ 
age, manager)—Winnipeg, Man., May 
10; Billings, Mont., 19: Helena, 20; 
Butte 21-22; Spokane, Wash., 24-28; 
North Yakima, 29;- Seattle, 30. 

Hickman-Bessey company (Rowland 
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CHRIS O. BROWN, 1358 
ARCHIE LEVY, American Theatre me 
H. L. LEAVITT, Sullivan & Considine 


.San Francisco. Ci 


Van Dyke & Eaton company (F. and 
C. Mack, managers) — Alhambra theater, 
Milwaukee, Wis., indefinite. 

Ben Hur (Klaw & Erlanger, man¬ 
agers) — Jackson, Mich., May 10-12. 

Harvey stock company (Northern)- — 
Hammond, Ind., May 10-15. 

Harvey stock company (Southern) — 
Peoria, Ill., May 10-15. 


Carnival Company Opens. 

Corry, Pa., May 15. 

Woodford and Elzor’s .carnival I 
company opened their seasosl May 3 
at Falconer, N. Y., for the benefit of ] 
the local firemen. — BERLINER. 


School Days Sold. 

Stair & Havlin have purchased 
School Days from Gus Edwards. 


Murray and Mack Open. 

Los Angeles, Cal., May 3. 
Murray and Mack openette at tl 
Grand yesterday in A Night < 
Broadway. 


Roller Skates and Organ fa 0 ie 

4 0 pairs Winslow & Rich. *1.50 a pair, part 
or all; O. K.: New Wurlitzer Organ. fine motor 
and 50 pieces. 8450: cost $1 .050. 

Address ELITE RINK, Evansville, Ind. 


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original act beautifully costumed. 

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JACK FOTCH 

Wonderful all-round Skating, introduc- 
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The Laughing Hit. Artistic, Graceful 
Fancy Skating. Beautiful Costumes, 
Changes of Programme. Address 

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Renowned Fancy and Trick Skatorlal Ar¬ 
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skating. 

Tho Show World, Chicago. 

JOHNSON & HANHAUSER 

BOY WONDERS 

In their many novelties and feats 
of daring skill and balance 

Ad„H.W. English,Bkg. Mgr. Brook ville, Pa. 

STRASBURGER, the Great 

and BABY RUTH age 9 

America’s Favorite Skaters and Dancers, 
j featuring Buck and Wing Dancing, Hur- j 
die Jumping and Backward Speed Skating 
Rink and Vaudeville Mgrs. write quick for ! 
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Featuring—The Coast of Detth, Blindfolded. 

Featuring—The Cteat "Rube Perkins” *«■ 

Act and costumes' changed nightly^ Busy all Ik' 

Something New—Original—Startling 

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The phenomenal boy wonder, doing diffi¬ 
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Now playing the Middle States. Address 
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8, 1909. 


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ACTS WANTED 


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All Playing Vaudeville and Booking Through 
This Association. 


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BURLESQUE NOTES. 

I Birmingham (Ala.)—The Gayety the- 
1 ater which has been playing the Colum- 
I bia Amusement company’s attractions, 

, will shortly open as a moving picture 
house with vaudeville. The lease on 
the house ran out this season and as 
1 burlesque was not to be brought south 
I again the house was secured for pic- 
tures.—AUSTIN. 

New Orleans (La.)—Henry Grcen- 
[ nail expressed his relief at being rid of 
I burlesque shows at the Greenwall. “It 
I has been a successful season,” he said, 

) “but if it had not been for the contract 
I with the Columbia Amusement company 
on my hands I would have been out of 
the business long ago. The shows got 
to be too much for me.”—MILLER. 

St Paul (Minn.)—Sam T. Jack’s 
I Burlesquers close their season at the 
' end of their engagement at the Star 
I next Saturday night. The theater to¬ 
gether with the New Star at - Milwau- 
| kee and the Dewey, Minneapolis, will 
put on a summer season of vaudeville 
and motion pictures at 5c and 10c ad- 
' mission. It is reported that Hal Good- 
1 win of, Minneapolis will book the acts 
I for the three houses.—BARNES. 

; Indianapolis (Ind,)—There was quite 
I a great deal of excitement at the Den¬ 
nison hotel one night last week when 
I the Princess Rahjah brought her mon- 
I ster snake with her to the hotel. She 
was performing at a local burlesque the¬ 
ater and brought a basket home with 
her which she handed to a darky bell 
hoy to guard while she had lunch in the 
cafe. Upon her return she called the 
bellboys and porters around her and 
opened the baskets. Such a scattering 
| " as not been seen in a long while.— 
1 PEPPER. 


milt J. REYNOLDS WILL OPEN 
HIS MINSTRELS MAY 15. 

Milt J. Reynolds New York Min- 
-Gels will open the season under can- 
v asi4t Gilman, Ill., on May 15. The 
company, which is made up of white 
performers, is expected to be very 
successful. H. J. Wallace will be in 
advance. 


Mabel Bunyea will play Annette in 
King Dodo next season. 

John Cort has secured the rights to 
King Dodo for next season. 

Vincent Seaville has been re-en¬ 
gaged as manager of the Weller the¬ 
ater at Zanesville, Ohio, next season. 

Dick Mack, formerly of Mack and 
Coulter, is spending the summer at 
his home in Belvidere, Ill. 

Adeline Genee tendered her com¬ 
pany a farewell dinner at Brooklyn 
last Saturday. 

Paul M. Potter has written another 
play for Thomas W. Ryley, with the 
title The Dancer of Cairo. 

Harry Kelley has been engaged for 
a role in The Follies of 1909, and will 
not be seen in The Boy and the Girl 
as had been planned. 

J. M. Campbell has resigned his 
position as manager of the Lyric 
stock company and has returned to 
his home at Faribault, Minn. 

Frederick V. Bowers has signed a 
five-year contract with John Cort and 
will be starred next season in Com¬ 
mencement Days. 

Capt. Stanley Lewis is swapping 
stories with natives of Terra Haute, 
Ind., this week. He plays the Lyric 
at Danville, Ill., next week. 

T. W. Barhydt, the Terra Haute 
(Ind.) theater manager, will sail for 
Europe June 15, where he will spend 
the summer. 

William Courtenay has been en¬ 
gaged by Charles Frohman for an im¬ 
portant role in one of next season’s 
productions. 

Bertha Julian was transferred to 
the central The Cow Puncher com¬ 
pany April 24, when the eastern com¬ 
pany closed at Danville, Ill. 

The Frozo Trio played the Miles 
theater in Minneapolis, which made 
the eleventh time in that city within 
20 months. Next week they make 
the Majestic at Des Moines, Iowa. 


Joe Weber will have five The Cli¬ 
max companies next season. The se¬ 
lection of the casts will be difficult, 
as two of the players must be good 
musicians. 

Mart Fuller was under the impres¬ 
sion th'at a fat man’s jaw was a soft 
place to put his fist until he met 
Del Smith. Fuller is wiser now, al¬ 
though Smith may yet be suffering. 

Jack Hoeffier, who is located at 
Terra Haute, Ind., will leave that 
city the middle of June for Fair 
Haven, N. J., where he and his fam¬ 
ily will spend the summer months. 

Mabel Fenton is reported much 
better. She is suffering from a com¬ 
plication of pneumonia and typhoid 
fever, and for a time was dangerous¬ 
ly ill. 

William Gillette will sail for Europe 
on May 8 in hopes of regaining his 
health. He will play a brief farewell 
season next fall and then retire from 
the stage. 

James Gorman will be general 
stage director of the Follies of the 
Day, which opens at the Lincoln 
Square theater in New York next 
Monday. 

Charles H. Gribel, manager of the 
theater at Mankato, Minn., will have 
improvements to the extent of $3,000 
made in the building the coming 
summer. 

Voelckel & Nolan will split up next 
season. R. Voelckel will have the 
Black Patti show and John Nolan 
will take the Dandy Dixie Minstrels, 
and in addition will put out a No. 2 
Smart Set. 

Beryl Hope produced Three Weeks 
at a one-night stand near Kansas 
City Monday night with a view of 
offering it at the Willis Wood the¬ 
ater in that city next week. Miss 
Hope has the leading role, while 
Harry Brown is leading man. 

W. E. Anderson, the well known 


dramatic critic of the Des Moines 
Capital, will sail for London, May 19. 
He will also visit Paris and Berlin. 
The Capital will make a feature of 
his letters on European theatricals 
during his trip. 

S. H. Dudley closes the season in 
The Smart Set at Pittsburg this 
week. Dudley has been ill all season 
and frequently his understudy ap¬ 
peared in his stead. During the re¬ 
cent engagement at the Alhambra in 
Chicago, the understudy appeared at 
every matinee. Dudley is suffering 
from consumption. 

Black Chambers, who was with the 
Cow Puncher (eastern) went on to 
The Red Mill at the closing of the 
season, and is coaching Fred Stone 
into the tricks of rope spinning 
which he is to use in the new Ade- 
Luders musical comedy in which 
Montgomery and Stone are to be 
seen next season. Chambers is an 
Oklahoma cow boy. 

Earl Flynn, the original Little Boy 
in Green, was forced to cancel part 
of his time on the Orpheum circuit 
owing to illness. He was taken ill 
while playing in Kansas Citv. and 
was in bed for two weeks. He has 
recovered and resumed his bookings 
at Louisville, last week, under the di¬ 
rection of Harry F. Weber. He 
states that he has signed with a mu¬ 
sical production for next season. 

Alice Fischer’s attorneys are pre¬ 
paring to bring an action for separa¬ 
tion against William Harcourt. who 
is leading man with Fritzi Scheff. 
Friends of Mrs. Harcourt say that 
the actor’s acquaintance with a 
chorus girl in the Fritzi Scheff com¬ 
pany has caused the trouble in the 
Harcourt home. “It grieves me to 
confirm the truth of the report,” said 
Miss Fischer, “but it is useless to 
deny that Mr. Harcourt and I have 
separated. The kindest thing I can 
say about it is that the Mr. Harcourt 
1 have known for sixteen years is not 
the Mr. Harcourt of the last few 
weeks.” 
























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THE SHOW WORLD 


May 8, 195 s 


A NEWSPAPER PLAY 

BY NEWSPAPER MEN. 


Sam Gerson Arranges Benefit for Lo¬ 
cal Press Club With Many 
Novel Features. 


Sam Gerson, manager of the Bush 
Temple has arranged a most unique 
performance for that theater begin¬ 
ning next Monday, May 10, when he 
will present to the public many of 
the foremost newspaper men of the 
city, for the benefit, not only of the 
public, but of the Chicago Newspaper 
Club. The play is called The Stolen 
Story. 

Two of the acts are supposed to be 
in the editorial workshop of a great 
newspaper on an exciting night. 

Richard Henry Little will appear at 
each of the seven evening and four 
afternoon performances in the role of 
the dusty rider who arrives bearing 
dispatches from the front. Plain and 
fancy reporting will be done by C. D. 
Hagerty, Sam Kiser, G. S. Wilcox, 
Burns Mantle, Charles Collins, Bar¬ 
rett O’Hara, and twenty-five other 
men actively engaged on local jour¬ 
nals. James Keeley has consented to 
appear one evening as the managing 
editor and James P. Bicket, a city 
editor in real life, will be seen at each 
performance. During the opera house 
and newspaper office acts between 75 
and 100 persons will be on the stage. 

Cartoons will have their place in 
the production, the committee on pos¬ 
ters including John T. McCutcheon, 
Ralph Wilder, Harold R. Heaton, C. 
A. Briggs, Arthur Bowen and P. N. 
Llanuza. 

The executive committee consists 
of James Keeley, Andrew M. Law¬ 
rence, H. H. Kohlsaat, George W. 
Hinman, John C. Eastman, Arthur L. 
Clarke, Leigh Reilly, Charles M. Faye, 
Harry Beach, John Carroll and A. H. 
Laidlaw. 


ROYAL OPERA COMPANY 

TO OPEN AT ELMIRA, N. Y. 

Elmira N. Y., May 6. 

A theatrical announcement of much 
importance is made by Frank E. 
Tripp, press agent of the Mozart 
theater and the entire Mozart circuit, 
to the effect that he has assumed the 
management of the Royal Comic 
Opera company, which has been fill¬ 
ing an engagement of several weeks 
at Gloversville, N. Y., and will bring 
the organization to the Mozart May 
10 for three weeks of opera. Mr. 
Tripp will reorganize and "reatly 
strengthen the company for the en¬ 
gagement in this city, having already 
signed Josephine Isleib, prima donna 
at Rorick’s last season, for the leading 
soprano roles. Charles Van Dyne, 
manager at Rorick’s last season, will 
continue as director .of the company 
under Mr. Tripp. At the close of the 
Mozart engagement, Mr. Tripp will 
take his company for a tour of the 
summer theaters. It is believed this 
means a departure from the existing 
policy of the Mozart circuit houses 
next season and that such houses will 
alternate opera and legitimate attrac¬ 
tions with vaudeville instead of vaude¬ 
ville exclusively. Mr. Tripp’s organi¬ 
zation will compete against the Ror¬ 
ick’s opera company here May 24-29. 
—BEERS. 


A Complicated Marriage. 

Minneapolis, May 1. 

Ernest Charles Meeck, who appeared 
at the Miles last week as pianist with 
Dolly Toye, was a principal in a com¬ 
plicated marriage at Stillwater Friday. 
The bride was Miss Carrie E. Camp¬ 
bell of St. Paul and strenuous efforts 
were made by her people to stop the 
ceremony, the bride’s mother announc¬ 
ing that she would bring action to have 
tire marriage annulled as the girl was 
not of age and married without the 
consent of her parents.—BARNES. 

Opera Company Closed. 

Gloversville, N. Y., May 5. 

The Royal opera company closed a 
ten weeks’ engagement at the Darl¬ 
ing May 1. Eleanor Mead Miller, of 
The Witching Hour, visited relatives 
here last week.—LOCKROW. 


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Ethel May Is Rewarded. 

Ethel May, The Mystery Girl, held 
over this week at Rockford, Ill., is 
packing the house at every perform¬ 
ance. The daily papers are replete 
with her praise. Her act is far differ¬ 
ent from so many other, acts of simi¬ 
lar kind that it can be called new. 
There are many who had confidence 
in her and one was so grateful after 
he had found a lost diamond ring 
that he acknowledges his thanks by 
writing Miss May a letter and en¬ 
closing an express order for $10.00. 
The letter follows: “Willow Springs, 
May 3.—My Dear Miss May: When 
in Rockford Friday evening I asked 
you to locate my diamond pin. I was 
dumbfounded to get home and find 
the pin exactly where you stated I 
would, in the tonneau of my touring 
car. I value the pin as a keepsake 
and heirloom. You are certainly a 
marvel. Please accept my profound 
thanks and $10.00 your reward. 
Yours truly, H. W. Abbitt.” 

Miss May will begin a two weeks’ 
engagement next at the Bijou theater, 
Chicago. The entire west side has 
been billed like a circus, and capacity 
business is anticipated. 


Hal Goodwin Busy. 

Minneapolis, May 1. 

Manager Hal Goodwin of the North¬ 
western Booking agency, has his hands 
full of local business this season. He 
is booking locally the Princess, the Gem 
and the Dewey.theaters, and will fur¬ 
nish the acts for Forest Park’s vaude¬ 
ville house as well as for an air-dome 
which it is expected will be built here 
this summer. — BARNES. 


Minneapolis Parks to Open. 

Minneapolis, May 4. 

Wonderland park (F. H. Camp, 
manager) opens May 29 with a large 
number of new attractions. Forest 
park (S. H. Kahn, manager) opens 
May 22 with many new buildings and 
attractions, including a vaudeville and 
M. P. theater.—BARNES. 


How Ida Fuller Began. 

Webster City, la., May 5. 

Ida Fuller, the world-famed dancer, 
has been at the old family home at 
Forest City, la., the past week, called 
as a witness in a case being tried 
there. A1 Adams, editor of the Hum¬ 
boldt Independent, recalls that years 
ago Ida and Frank Fuller started out 
of Forest City with a small theatrical 
company, which “went broke” at 
Humboldt after playing in the old 
Russell Hall. Adams was interested 
in the show to the extent of a job 
printing bill and after the show called 
upon the Fullers. Being apprised of 
the financial condition of things, Ad¬ 
ams advised Mrs. Fuller and her hus¬ 
band to return to Forest City. Con¬ 
sidering Ida Fuller all there was to 
the show he advised her to work up 
a novel and catchy specialty. She 
followed his advice, studied the ser¬ 
pentine dance under her sister-in-law, 
Loie Fuller, and soon distanced her 
talented relative.—TUCKER. 


Faetkenheuer’s New Scheme. 

Cleveland, Ohio, May 1. 

Max Faetkenheuer is in Pittsburg 
negotiating for property to build a 
hippodrome there. 

He says he means business, and to 
prove it, already has 100x283 feet 
under option with good prospects of 
getting adjoining property. . Mr. Faet¬ 
kenheuer would not say where the 
property is, but declares it is' as good 
as any down town theater site in Pitts¬ 
burg.—YOUNG. 

Marathon Race for Chcrus Girls. 

Wheeling, W. Va., April 29. 

During the engagement of the 
Washington Society Girls at the Ap- 
pollo theater a Marathon race was 
instituted. Six of the girls entered 
the race, which was a thirty-one lap 
affair. Hester Waters won out, she 
having gone around the stage 31 times 
in sixteen minutes. Maud Gallagher 
was second and Madeline Webb third. 
One girl fainted. Prizes of $5, $3 and 
$2 were awarded.—SEYBOLD. 


TOM WATERS, JR., MAY 

RIVAL HIS FATHER. 

Makes His Initial Appearance on 

Amateur Night and Wins a Prize 
of Five Dollars. 

Tom Waters, Jr., aged eleven, is a 1 
comer; his father says so and Tom )• 
Sr., is acknowledged to be a man ofil 
his word. But if you do not care toll 
accept the father’s say so, you maybe 
shown written evidence that the -8 
youth is destined to fill the fatherly ; fl 
shoes before many weeks have'll 
passed by. 

This is the way Tom tells it: “If I p 
have had any conceit about the man- i. 
ner in which I have made good in 'i 
vaudeville, I have lost it all since the I 
receipt of a letter from my son, who I 
is at home in Shenandoah, Pa. The )j 
boy intends to beat me to it. Listen B 
to this: ‘Dear Papa — I went on the 
stage the other night at an amateur | 
performance. I wore the red wig | 
you gave me and I sang an Irish I 
song. I got the first prize of five 1 
dollars. P. S. Steiny Meluski, aJ 
Polish kid from the First ward, got I 
tlie hook.’ So what chance have I i; 
got?” the comedian queried, with a 1 
smile. 


MRS. MALLOY’S ILLNESS 

CLOSES COUNTY SHERIFF. 

North Adams, Mass., May 5. I 
John F. Malloy arrived in - this city a 
in response to a telegram informing ;| 
him of his wife’s serious illness. He I 
left The County Sheriff to come here, 
and as the season was only booked to 1 1 
last one more week the company was J 
closed. Business had not been good 
since Holy Week, so there was no ■ 
great loss in the judgment of the 1 
show folks. 


Reis Gets Oil City. 

Oil City, Pa., May 6. I 
The Oil City theater, the only “legi- 3 
timate” house in this city, has been 
leased to M. Reis, and will be placed 
on the Reis circuit. It is understood j 
the lease dates from May 1, 1909, and 1 
covers a period of five years. The I 
propertv is owned by the Yerbeck 
Amusement Company, who leased the 
theater to three Oil City parties last 
summer. It is alleged the Oil City I 
men lost considerable money operat¬ 
ing the theater, and they, consequent- 1 
ly, turned the house over to the 
amusement company the other day, j 
when it was immediately leased by j 
Mr. Reis —J. H. C. 


Buys Grapewin Show. 

Sandusky, Ohio, May 6. 

Lewis H. Cunnineham, manager of I 
the Faurot opera house, at Lima, con¬ 
summated a deal with Charlie Grape- 
win for the scenerv. properties and 
effects of that well known comedian’s j 
production of The Awakening of Mr. 
Pipp, in which he has been starring j 
for several seasons. Mr. Grapewin j 
retains the rights to the manuscript i 
and music. Mr. Cunningham will use ! 
the pharaphernalia acquired on the 
road next season. He expects to put! 
out a repertoire company early inAa- 
gust and is already booking in Ohio, 
Indiana and Michigan. Mr. Grapewin j 
closed his season here. 


Attractions Scarce. 

Marion, Ill.. May 5. j 
Vt present one night stand attractions I 
very scarce here, it being almost nn- j 
sible for the'local managers to se- 
e them. Manager Roland has been 
ible to secure an attraction for the 
t half of the present month and has 
hing booked until May 6th, this be- 
Tempest and Sunshine. Manager 
land is considering a proposal 
m some Chicago parties to put w , 
ideville and moving pictures. 
Manager E. E. Clark of the Marion 
:ra house has no one night stand au¬ 
ctions booked for the future but con 
res to show moving pictures ad® »- 
lrated songs each evening. 

Phe Star theater which opened a tew 
eks ago, under the local management j 
Mat. Lawrence, is doing nice business 
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May 8,1® 09- 



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M ay 8, 1909 


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GLEANINGS FROM CHICAGO RIALTO 


Fred Le Compte is organizing a 
repertoire show which will play un¬ 
der canvas. It will have 35 people. 

Mike Sullivan, who was taken ill 
while in Chicago with The. Girls from 
Berlin, was able to go to New York 
Tuesday. He is about recovered. 

William Morris was in Chicago for 
a couple of days this week. 

W. B. Patton, who closed in The 
Blockhead Sunday, was called to 
Rochester, N. Y., this week by his 
mother undergoing a paralytic 
stroke. He expects to return here 
Sunday for a conference with his 
partner, William MacCauley. 

Frank Brewster Smith and Phyllis 
Mackey, who closed with The Block¬ 
head, were here early in the week, 
leaving for Ontario Beach. 

Harry Farley is back in the city, 
having resigned as agent of Fatty Fe¬ 
lix. Jack Williams takes his place 
ahead of the show and Ed Adams is 
now managing the company. 

Ralph Erroll is the tenor with the 
National Opera company which is 
presenting The Mascot at the Mar¬ 
lowe this week. The company moves 
over to the People’s shortly. 

Ralph Kettering is organizing a 
company to play at Lake Brady, 
Ohio, the coming summer. Margaret 
Pitt will be leading woman, Cuyril 
Courtenay leading man, Bryant 
Washington juvenile man, Virginia 
Barrett ingenue, Joe W. Walsh 
stage director, Tommy Swift come¬ 
dian, and Louise Willis character 
woman. 

Harry K. Duffy is here rehearsing 
with Mary Mannering’s company. 
Two or three times each day tile 
company gathers at the Garrick and 
the people are all working hard to 
make her offering go well when it 
opens next week. 

W. M. Brown, who has been in ad¬ 
vance of one of the W. F. Mann at¬ 
tractions, was a caller at this office 
Wednesday. 

Mabel Vernon is here for a week 
or two stay, being registered at the 
Revere. 

Otto Koerner will play a part with 
the Bush Temple players next week 
when The Stolen Story is presented. 

Frank Carnegie, who was in ad¬ 
vance of Dan Cupid the past season, 
left Wednesday for Maquoketa, Iowa, 
where he will spend the summer. 

Jack Mahara is due to return to 
town from Hot Springs the latter 
part of this week. 

Maimie Epps, who was with The 
Two Merry Tramps the past season, 
left Chicago Tuesday night for her 
home in Memphis, Tenn., where she 
will spend the summer. 

Wanted! Wanted! 

Novel Shows for Season 1909 

All must be clean. Positively no 
Skin Games. Amusement stands 
of all classes. Will stand for a 10 c 
ground limit. Clay, Ky., May 10 to 
15 , followed by good ones. 

S. C. WEST, Mgr., 

American Amusement Co., Clay, Ky. 

Bennett’s Theatrical Exchange 

Suit 406. 59 Deaborn St.. Cor. Randolph, Chicago, 
A. Milo Bennett, Mgr. Oldest established exchange 
in Chicago. Does more business than most of the oth¬ 
ers combined, in handling pla 
royalty plays and Book plays. / 
or Catalogue.We please others. 


Wilson Melrose, of The Catspaw, 
is reported to have been married a 
few days ago in New York to a sis¬ 
ter of Acton Davies, dramatic critic 
of the New York Sun. The engage¬ 
ment of the couple was announced in 
these columns several weeks ago. 

Marie Nordstrom, leading woman 
of Mary Jane’s Pa, is reported to have 
been married to William Litchfield, of 
New York. 


here from Leavenworth, Kan., where 
he was in stock for 35 weeks. 

Grace Reals, who had sued A. W. 
Adamick, a druggist at 233 North 
Clark street, for $25,000 for an injury 
to her vocal chords, alleged to have 
been caused through a mistake in .the 
filling of a prescription for her by one 
of his clerks, was awarded $5,000 by 
the jury which heard the testimony in 
the suit this week. 


J. Holmes Travis is writing an In¬ 
dian number for the Two Merry 
Tramps next season, which will be 
entitled Geronimo at Tishimingo. 

James Jeffries comes to the Ameri¬ 
can Music Hall next week, and the 
advance sale for the first two days 
exceed the advance sale of the first 
two days of the Harry Lauder en¬ 
gagement. 

W. B. Fredericks and wife, Wanda 
Ludlow, left this week for Howell, 
Mich., where they have a summer 
home. They have been with The 
Candy Kid for two seasons. 

Fred C. Stein was in Chicago this 
week. He will open his stock com¬ 
pany at the Family theater at Terre 
Haute, Ind., next Sunday. He came 


Tim Murphy opens at Powers next 
Sunday in My Boy. A Sabbath per¬ 
formance in English will be a novelty 
at that theater. 

Earl Burgess is in the city again 
after a ten days’ stay in New York. 

Rosemary Glotz, who has been here 
under treatment for her voice, has so 
far recovered that she will leave Fri¬ 
day for Winnipeg, where she will join 
The Merry Widow (western). 

Fred Wright, advance representa¬ 
tive of The Blue Mouse company, in 
which Millicent Evans is featured, 
was in Chicago this week. His com¬ 
pany goes to the coast. 

George Murray, advance representa¬ 
tive of the western The Red Mill, 
was in Chicago Wednesday. 


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Tom Hodgeman writes friends 
from Kansas City that he will not 
get to Chicago or New York this 
summer; that he is to do press work 
for Electric park, in that city. 

Eddie Lovett, who’ is at the Star and 
Garter this week, is a prominent figure 
on the North Side Rialto. . t 
Kitty De Lorme is in Chicago hav¬ 
ing closed with the Chicago stock 
company last Saturday. 

John Graham fell on the stage at 
the Gayety theater in South Chicago 
Wednesday night and cut his hand 
very badly. He is with the sketch 
known as Norton & Co. 1 
Belle Devine, who is at the Sid 
Euson theater on the North Side, is 
said to have been in the room with 
Frank Carr and his wifi when the 
burlesque manager attempted suicide. 
The hotel manager denies the story. 
Nevertheless it is being printed in 
local journals. 


JOKER MASQUERADES 

AS “MR. DILLINGHAM.” 

Webster City, Iowa, April 26. 

Little Lillian Gohn was the princi¬ 
pal in a queer deal at Omaha. Some 
man with a peculiar sense of humor 
and barrels of money is hiring act¬ 
resses to break their contracts in the i 
west and paying their car fare east to 
“take important parts with big com¬ 
panies.” He gives his name as Mr. 
Dillingham and “hired” Miss Gohn 
for $125 a week to take the part of 
the clown kid in The Candy Shop in 
New York. She was given $50 on | 
account, but learned of the deception 
before leaving for New York. This | 
same stranger recently sent Doris 
Pieper from Seattle to New York to 
take a part in one of the Klaw & 
Erlanger productions. Efforts are 
being made to locate the man and 
identify him. His two “jokes” have 
cost him $150 and would hardly seem 
to be worth the money.—TUCKER. 


Another Morris Circus. 

It is the intention of William^Mor¬ 
ris to “circus” James J. Jeffries in the 
same manner that was adopted in the 
case of Harry Lauder and the gen¬ 
eral belief is that Jeffries will make 
more money than his Scotch com- 


Mclntosh Is Booked. 

Marvelous McIntosh, whose act was 
tried out at the American Music H* 11 
last Friday, was immediately given 
fours weeks’ booking by William Mor- 


New Ventilating System. 

The International Projecting ana 
Producing Company is experimenting 
with a new system of ventilation fo 
moving picture theaters, which w 
eliminate the annoyance of vitiate 
air in theatoriums. This system c 
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such a low cost that there is no ao 
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gANY PROFESSIONALS SEE THE D1XEY PLAY 


;■ jffiofessional matinee was given 
t the Chicago opera house Tuesday 
Hi and a gathering of actors 
and actresses which tested the ca¬ 
pacity of the theater loudly applauded 
ii pnr v E. Dixey and Marie Nord- 
Itronrs work in Mary Jane’s. Pa. 

Such An appreciative audience has 
not been assembled in a Chicago the¬ 
ater for a long time. The play is 
one which strikes home to everyone, 
but it appeals to the profession lcl 
stronger than to the average theater¬ 
goer because of the introduction of B£ 
an actor into the play. 

Walter Floyd, Maurice B. Kirby 
and George H. Kingsbury had charge 
of the affair and they found it out 



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at the invitation of Mr. Floyd, who Hate Sumvan manager of the' 

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M ay 8, 1909 


BOOKINGTOGETHER 


Western Vaudeville Managed Assoc’n 

Majestic Theatre Bldg....Chicago, Ill. 

United Booking Offices of America 

St. James Building....New York City 


IJ Booking in conjunction with more than three 
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the United States and Canada, and now giving 
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Moneys advanced to parties capable of pro¬ 
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EUGENE CLINE, 168 S. STATE ST., - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 


CARTER COVERS GLOBE 

WITH HIS MAGIC SHOW, 


Magician Writes Book of His Travels 
—Has Wonderful Experiences 
in Many Countries. 


NEW MAJESTIC THEATER 

AT C EDAR RAPIDS, IOWA 


Vic” Hugo’s Playhouse, Built at > 
Cost of $75,000, Is One of the 
Handsomest of Its Kind. 


Charles J. Carter (Carter, the 
Magician), was in Chicago this week 
for a brief- stay, after having com¬ 
pleted a tour of seventy-five thousand 
miles, occupying two years. He ar¬ 
rived in this city Friday, and left for 
New York on Monday. 

In speaking of his trip, Mr. Carter 
said: “This has probably been the 
most remarkable theatrical venture 
ever conceived. We have covered in 
our travels, every country on the 
globe; covered seventy-five thousand 
miles of territory,—a distance equal 
to three times the circumference of 
the globe and have had adventures 
which are so remarkable that I have 
set them down in writing and hope to 
have my book published while in New 
York. It will be illustrated with some 
of the most startling photographs im¬ 
aginable and will relate a story such 
as I daresay no showman in the 
world could tell. It would take up 
too much space for me to begin to 
tell you the adventures through which 
we passed. These adventures include 
performances before an audience of 
cannibals who believed me to be a 
deity. In Benares we met Anne 
Besant. Her home is located on the 
sacred Ganges River, where all the 
great or so-called great men of the 
country come to die. If they die upon 
the right bank of the river they go 
to heaven, while if they are so unfort¬ 
unate as to pass away on the left bank 
they go to eternal perdition. In Fuc- 
how we bumped into the Bubonic 
plague and had one man die of it 
while he was watching the show. We 
buried one of our company in 'India, 
of scarlet fever. 

“The one thing which impressed 
me most, however, was the cry about 
the Yellow Peril, for I found that it 
really had foundation in fact. Take 
the Malay race, it is increasing at 
the rate of one hundred per cent in 
ten j'ears. Particularly is this true 
of the Dutch possessions in the South 
Seas. 

“We have been successful in nearly 
every country that we visited; and I 
have returned, satisfactorily re-im- 
bursed, not only in money but in rich 
experience.” 


FIGHTING OVER CHILDREN; 

HAVE COMMERCIAL VALUE. 

Webster City, la., May 6. 

Marie and Babe, infant vaudeville 
stars, who have been seen at many 
towns over Iowa and have been earn¬ 
ing $50 to $100 per week for their 
father and mother, are said to be the 
direct cause of family difficulties be¬ 
tween the parents, which landed the 
father in jail at Des Moines. The 
wife will sue for divorce and there will 
be a hard fought battle over posses¬ 
sion of the tots, who have excellent 
commercial value. 

The parents and Mr. and Mrs. M. J. 
Downes and the wife accuses the 
husband of continual intoxication and 
of having committed an assault upon 
her. The children are 4 and 6 years 
old, respectively.—TUCKER. 


Season Has Closed. 

Huntington, W. Va., May 8. 

The season has closed at the Hunt¬ 
ington theater and considering the 
hard times, the lack of attractions and 
the bunching of good companies when 
they were secured, Manager Joe Gai¬ 
ner had a very successful season. The 
house did not show the large profit 
it has in previous years but this was 
not because the local management 
was not always alert. 

Farrar Rumor Discredited. 

Boston, Mass., May 5. 

The payment of $34,000 by Ger¬ 
aldine Farrar to Mrs. Webb, of Mel¬ 
rose, discredits the rumor that the 
late C. H. Bond advanced the money 
for her education.—LOJU,. 


d lay-out ot photographs 
showing the new Majestic theater at 
Cedar Rapids, la. The photographs 
are so eloquent of the modern equip, 
ment of this western houseathat it 
would seem unnecessary to dwell upon 
its up-to-date advantages. It js 
worthy of note, however, that it was 
the original intention of “Vic” Hugo 
lessee and manager, to have a theater 
cost forty-five thousand dollars, but 
that when the house was half com¬ 
pleted, it was decided to expend an 
additional thirty thousand dollars and 
as it stands today, it is without a 
doubt the best equipped and hand¬ 
somest theater outside the metropolis 
tan cities. 

The color scheme is old gold and 
the entire theater is painted in oil 
The carpets, light fixtures, draperies 
furniture and other details were all 
made to order. Special attention has 
been given to the performers. A 
large, handsomely furnished green 
room is for their use, while each 
dressing room,—all of large dimen¬ 
sions, is equipped with french plate 
mirror, a large velvet rug, make-up 
lights and hot and cold running water. 

The house has a seating capacity of 
1,570, divided as follows: Lower floor, 
712; balcony, 476; gallery, 342, and 
boxes, 40. The stage dimensions are; 
Width from wall to wall, 59 ft; depth 
front curtain to back wall, 34 ft; open¬ 
ing, 33 ft.; floor to gridiron j 60 ft.; 
floor to fly gallery, 24 ft.; between 
fly galleries, 46 ft. 

The policy of the house is high 
class vaudeville. Two performances 
are given daily. An orchestra of 
seven pieces is engaged. The house 
is located one block from the center 
of the city. 


Rockford Majestic Re-opens. 

Rockford, Ill., May 3. s 
The Majestic vaudeville J house, 
which has been closed for Se&djH 
months, re-opened under the manage¬ 
ment of Ralph Carter today. The 
bookings are secured from William 
Morris. 

Two shows are given daily, with 
evening prices 15, 25 and 35 cents, 
and afternoon prices 10 and 20 cents, 
in place of the former plan of three 
shows at 10 and 20 cents. The new 
Majestic is putting on eightjacts, a 
plan never attempted here before.— 
SCHUSTER. 


Washington (D. C.) Notes. 

President and Mrs. Taft attended 
the single performance of IE. H. 
Sc>thern in Richelieu. 

Messrs. Metzerot and Berger an¬ 
nounce that they will begin a summer 
Reason of stock at the Columbia the¬ 
ater next week at popular prices. The 
first play to be. presented is The 
Three of Us, by Rachael Crothers. 
As yet the itinerary of the east has 
not been announced, but it is said 
that none of them have as yet been 
identified with a local stock company. 

At the National theater the Aborn 
Opera company will commence their 
third summer engagement. The first 
opera to be presented is Robin Hood, 
which will be succeeded by musical 
comedy and comic opera. The man¬ 
agement announces that they will not 
present any grand operas here this 
summer. The engagement will last 
for an indefinite time.—IDElft I 


Change of Management 

Boston, Mass., April 29. 

The Geo. W. Smith Amusement 
company, George W. Smith, manager, 
is now in control of the Beacon Park 
theater at Webster, Mass., the Hoag 
Lake theater at BellinghamJ Mass., 
and the Chauncy Lake theater at 
Westboro, Mass. It is putting on 
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Vol. 4 


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(Office under the editor’s hat) 



Henry W. Dixey says he is not 
Henry W. Dixey S isT «Ter. SPeeCheS ' 


Kg In the. first act^ of Mary^ Jane’s ^Pa 

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