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THE SHOW WORLD
October 8, 1910.
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The Show People’s Newspaper CHICAGO, OCTOBER 8 . 1910. For Jill Kinds of Show People
THEATRICAL MAN
KILLS ALLEGED RIVAL
BUTTE GAELIC LEAGUE
AFTER STAGE IRISHMEN
Wealthy Oil Operator the Victim of Menlo E. Moore’s Pistol
in Vincennes, Ind.
Agitation Begun Five Years Ago with Sensational Effect Has
Just Been Revived
Vincennes, Ind., Oct. 6. — Menlo E.
Moore, proprietor of the Red Mill theater
and well known In vaudeville, early
Monday morning shot and instantly
killed C. Edward Gibson, one of the
wealthiest oil producers in this part of
the country.
The shooting occurred on the Union
station platform as a Baltimore & Ohio
South-western train was pulling out.
Moore fired five times, each shot taking
effect, and then boarded the train. He
left it at Washington and gave himself
up to the officers in that city.
Gibson was dead when physicians
reached him. The shooting was the
^le^^attention^pai^Mrs.
cause of t _ __ _ ....
plicated. Mr. Moore operates theaters
in Washington, Bedford, Mitchell and
Vincennes and is a member of one of
the most prominent families in Mitchell.
He is thirty-three years old and popular
In business circles.
His wife is one of the most beautiful
women in the city and is a daughter of
Arnold Padgett, a well known attorney
of Washington. She is a leader In Vin¬
cennes society. Mr. and Mrs. Moore
have one child, a boy five years old.
Gibson came here from Pittsburg
about five years ago and made a for¬
tune in the Illinois oil fields. He was
about forty years old, popular in society,
stylish and handsome.
He leaves a widow and a son seven
years of age.
The shooting occurred just after Gib¬
son had bought a ticket for the Illinois
oil field. Moore was seen to follow
him from the ticket window; walking,
within a few feet of the oil operator.
He suddenly drew a revolver and fired
five times. Gibson fell forward dead.
After the shooting, Moore boarded the
train as it was pulling out, and it is
presumed that his intention was to join
Mrs. Moore, who went to Washington
yesterday to visit her parents.
He first heard of the talk connecting
his wife’s name with that of Gibson
a week ago and friends say he had
brooded over the matter.
After his arrest in Washington Moore
showed no concern over his predicament
and calmly smoked cigarets while at
the station waiting for his return to
Vincennes. Moore’s wife is at the home
of her father in Washington.
Butte, Mont., Oct. 3.—At a meeting
of the Butte branch of the Gaelic League
recently a motion was introduced and
carried to the effect that all theaters
staging acts or plays in which the char¬
acter of the Irishman is reviled, insulted,
or held up to ridicule be condemned, and
that an ultimatum be issued to them
to take notice that the Gaelic League
will use every means of preventing the
abuse of the Irish character by this
means. A committee was then appointed
to formulate a resolution to that effect,
to be read and considered at the
League’s next meeting, a week hence.
Five years ago, or to be exact, Decem¬
ber 18, 1905, an agitation was started
by Irish-Americans who had taken of¬
fense at a poster advertisement of a
burlesque company which was considered
as an insult to the Irish race; this agi¬
tation furnished sensational country¬
wide newspaper copy for several days.
The movement rapidly spread until about
show time, when such a lively demon¬
stration was made in front of the the-
play, that the mayor of Butte appeared
on the theater balcony and addressed
the crowd, the company’s engagement
was cancelled, and a close watch was
kept on later posters.
About a month ago a team was can¬
celled at the Empire theater here after
the first performance of its act, which
contained a feature considered by the
management to be an adverse reflection
on the Irish race.
Eddie Girard was last season com¬
pelled to eliminate part of his enter¬
taining work in a sketch in which he
appeared at a local vaudeville theater.
Butte might be called an almost ex¬
clusively Irish city, as that race pre¬
dominates in the matter of numbers,
and local managers have kept pretty
close watch on acts and plays since the
disturbance above noted. Whether the
movement commenced by the Gaelic
League will become a national one, and
how far their censorship will extend
is not yet known, but it begins to look
as though the Irish comedians would
better look over their acts very care¬
fully in the future before the first cur¬
tain rises on them in Butte.
SINGLING BROS. TO PACE
SUIT FOR $5,000 DAMAGES
Logansport, Ind., Oct. 4.—William
Somsel will bring a suit for damages
agamsf the Ringling Brothers for the
death of his son Emmett Somsel. accord¬
ing to the local papers. Emmett Som¬
sel. aged sixteen, was killed on the
Forepaugh-Sells show lot September 8.
it is claimed by counsej for William
Somsel that the passage-way there Is
fifteen feet in width, leading down a
steep incline, and is fenced on either
side with wire. They say that on the
night in question, the performance by
the shows just having ended, the pass¬
age-way was crowded with people. A
heavy wagon, drawn by six horses, was
sent up the incline at a gallop, with
no one in advance to give warning of
danger. Young Somsel was struck by
hoi ; se s. it is said, and hurled
against the wire fence on one side, and
in the rebound was thrown under the
He received injuries from
which he died the next day. The de¬
mand is for $5,000.
William Somsel is old ‘hnd feeble, it
aLfn* an< l hIs son was managing a
sman farm for him In Cass county. He
received a high school education
and is said to have been a young: man
r*™ uch Promise. The Somsel family,
Inrun oM yea I S a * 0 ’ llved ^ Clay
to* nshlp, Howard county.
SHUBERTS GET DECISION
IN BIG DAMAGE SUIT
b«vl b i ny ’ Tr ° ct - 5.—The Shuberts
K.?. n , ont through a decision of the
Court Of Appeals In the litigation which
pl,„ . UKht against them by Frank L.
*2 rec ° vcr *25,000 damages for
?n e J . b t ea , ch of contract, the court
Judgment of the lower courts
iiiSSf’S the com D'aInt. Perley had
nrlo? e ,„ »i at Shuberts had agreed
prior to v.v i in each year for a flve
set aside for him six
hookings <
prouucuon or
^tractions Perley might de-
routea Shuberts claimed that the
but has - heen mndo ready for Perley
0n‘ be , en demanded by him.
recoveredT^t- 1 . traction Perley
afterwards
Division.
WpKc < f?*^.T‘ lnly TrIe * Suicide.
Mahet b n n C1 S’ Iowa - ° ct - 5.—Miss
b ri C , U ”! n ' th f actress who attempted
has hL las .* , week at Portsmouth, Neb.,
HoanH. e i n . tak <? n 1° the Wlse Memorial
Hospital in Omaha. Reports are that
cover P ns ana win Probably re¬
SYNDICATE AND INDE¬
PENDENTS ROBBERS
_— AL. FIELDS
Minstrel Man Unloosed Rank Heresy When Haled Into Court
in Memphis, Tennessee
Prior to May 1
eons ?? r L 0<1 to asluB ror mm six
booWna= Ute ? CBVBrlnfr all theaters, the
h w which were under the Shu-
*— the production of
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 6.—A1 G. Fields,
the minstrel king, preached all kinds
of dire heresy here the other day when
appearing in chancery court in an
action which had been brought to pre¬
vent his playing the Lyceum, the Shu-
bert house In this city. Local theatri¬
cal men and others familiar with the
complicated condition of affairs in the
show business this season as the re¬
sult of the split between the K. & E.
people and the Independents are chuck¬
ling to themselves, voicing "Amens” and
delighting that enough pressure has at
last been brought to bear upon a prom¬
inent manager to have him utter a great
and growing sentiment.
Mr. Field’s piece de resistance came
when he was asked to explain to the
presiding judge just what the present
theatrical war meant and he replied:
"Your Honor, there Is a bunch in
New York that In recent years has made
millions working the local theater man¬
agers and the traveling theatrical man¬
agers. But other people got onto this
line of graft and started an opposition
combine to get a share of It. They
offered to help the local managers and
the traveling managers, but now that
they are getting a foot-hold, they prom¬
ise to be as big robbers as the others.”
Concluding his statement, Mr. Field
said: “They have got me In a place
where I presume I will have to pay
damages, and I’ll pay them, but I don’t
propose that the other fellow shall fix
the amount of the damages.”
Mr. Field’s appearance in court re¬
sulted in his having booked his minstrel
show in both the Lyceum and Jeffer¬
son theaters In this city, the former
controlled by the Shuberts and the lat¬
ter by K. & E. On the witness stand
in answer to the bill which had been
filed against him, Mr. Field gave this
explanation: His show had been booked
in the Lyceum when K. & E. controlled
it. When the break came and It seemed
as though the syndicate would have
no house in Memphis, Mr. Field in¬
structed his personal agent to book the
Field show in the Shubert houses In
cities on the route to which there were
no K. & E. houses, and the minstrel
show was booked a second time in the
Lyceum. Then K. & E. secured the Jef¬
ferson and Mr. Field thought himself
in duty bound to fulfill his original con¬
tract with the K. & E. people and booked
the Jefferson.
The minstrel man was much wrought
up last Wednesday when he was hailed
Into court as the result of the suit
which the Shuberts had brought against
him to prevent his playing the Jeffer¬
son and the hearing was attended with
not a few comical features. There was
a big gallery and when A1 Field was
on the stand the crowd seemed to think
of him as a minstrel end man and not
as a mighty serious and mighty sore
theatrical manager.
The judge in chancery ruled that the
Field show could go on wherever Mr.
Field wished to have
offended house ha<
through an action
L that
its recourse in
n damages. The
the Jefferson,
Field show _ „.....
the K. & E. house. Klaw & Erlanger
and the Shuberts were both represented
in court by local attorneys.
In Atlanta, on the date just preced¬
ing the one here the Field show was
presented at the Grand, the Shubert
house, in opposition to the K. & E. peo¬
ple who insisted that it be put on at
the Orpheum which they control. Con¬
ditions there were just reversed. The
minstrel show’s booking had been com¬
plicated by the defection of the Grand
from the K. & E. ranks, but In such a
way that the minstrel manager felt him¬
self bound to abide by the Shubert con-
STILL FIGHTING FOR idan and the case is now In the Federal
NORRIS & ROWE DEBTS Court at Indianapolis. The court re-
Creditors are still fighting in the Nor- '-ently held that the Donaldson Llth-
rls & Rowe bankruptcy case. The ograph Company has a preferred claim
minor creditors have taken an appeal and this claim is more than the funds
from the decision of Referee Harry Sher- on hand.
“SUMMER WIDOWERS” GIRD
MAKES GREAT CATCH
New York, Oet. 6.—-John Moller, Jr.,
son of John Moller, millionaire sugar
refiner and former commodore of the
Indian Head Yacht Club, and Daisy
Dumont, of the “Summer Widowers”
company, have been married. The groom
Is prominent as a golf player.
Miss Dumont is to leave the stage
at the conclusion of her present engage¬
ment. Mr. Moller was recently divorced
and his wedding to Miss Dumont, whose
Conn.
“WINNING MISS” PEOPLE
TO MARRY IN GRAND RAPIDS
Toronto, Ont., Oct. 1.—Johnnie Gil¬
more, assistant stage manager, and Ella
Heinsley, a chorus girl, with the "Win¬
ning Miss” company are planning to
- - A - Gretna
-e Grand Rapids. Mich.,
Green tomorrow and be married.
“A Winning Miss” is this season un¬
der the direction of Boyle Woolfolk who
is featuring Max Bloom. Forty-four on
the stage, four musicians, and a work¬
ing crew of four make up the announced
roster. The company has been playing
“BOBBY BURNITT” FLAY
NOT FOR THOMAS BOSS
New York, Oct. 5.-—Arrangements
whereby Thomas Ross, formerly of “The
Fortune Hunter” company was to star
in “Bobby Bumitt” under the manage-
fent of A1 H. Woods have fallen
through.
REVIEW SAYS “BEN HUB”
IS BOOKED IN OPEN DOOR
The New York Review Is the author¬
ity for the statement that Klaw & Er-
langer’s own prize production, “Ben
Hur,” has been booked in a number
of theaters whose managers have sub¬
scribed to the open door policy. The
bookings, it is said, have been made
directly with the managers.
The Review points to this as a tri¬
umph for the Independents in that the
heads of the theatrical syndicate are
themselves doing just what they have
previously prohibited the producing
managers associated with them from
doing.
Small Profit at Nashville.
Nashville, Tenn;, Oct. 6.—Receipts of
the recent State Fair from all sources,
were about $57,000, and the expenses
about *50,000, leaving the net profit
around * 7,000 for the association.
4
THE SHOW WORLD
October-3, 1910.
RELIABLE RECORD OF VAUDEVILLE ACTS
(E. E. MEREDITH NEWS SERVICE, ROOM 216, 167 DEARBORN ST.)
TOM BRANTFORD.
Billing- —"The Human Band.”
’ No.
: Min-
Seen —Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Oct.
2, 1910. '
Place on BUI —Next to Closing.
Scenery Required —Olio in One.
Remarks —Richard Henry Little, in
the Chicago Tribune, told of Brantford’s
success this way:
"People who saw the accomplished
KELCEY & SHANNON.
Billing —"Bearding the Lion.” (One
Act Comedy.)
Class— "A.” No. 407. Time—16 Min-
e audience. The
policemen seem to have uncovered tal¬
ent that the regular houses have been
overlooking, for Mr. T. Brantford is de¬
cidedly interesting. He does a Scotch
monologue which, in spite of the fact
that he is to remain in our fair city
a week, will not under the most unusual
conditions set the Chicago river on fire.
But he strikes his gait when he returns
to the fpotlights and gives imitations of
everything from a train of cars to the
' o of a bugle call.
“Not content with imitating single
instruments the accomplished Mr. Brant¬
ford steps back again in response to
a frantic encore and gives a graphic
representation of an entire brass band.
It was almost a sacrilegious perform¬
ance in a place sacred to the Thomas
orchestra and people who have sat in
the boxes and listened in rapture to
the "Symphonic Variations” by Stock
EDDIE LEONARD.
Billing— Minstrel.
Class —“B.” No. 410. Time—21 Min¬
utes,
Seen —Majestic, Chicago, Oct. 3, 1910.
Place on BUI —Eighth in Eleven-' ‘
TROVATO.
Billing— Violinist.
Class— “A,” No. 414. Ti:
ETHEL WHITESIDE AND “PICKS.’
Billing —“Ethel Whiteside and Those
e—26 Min- Pickaninnies in the Pollies of Coon-
Seen— Majestic, Chicago, Oct. 3, 1910.
Place on BUI —Headliner.
Scenery Required —Interior in Four.
Remarks —“Bearding the Lion” is an
ideal comedy to display the talent of
Effie Shannon. It was written by James
Clarence Harvey. It shows the office
- theatrical manager, whose present
n BUI —Next t-
Class —“B,” No. 411. Time—20 Min¬
utes.
Seen —Sittner’s, Chicago, Oct. 3, 1910.
activities are made plain by several
phone messages. An actress enters. She
has forced her way in. When the man¬
ager speaks of the intrusion she quiets
t her father had
_ by insisting ..
advanced him $100___
he sorely needed it. She gets the
ager’s attention and tells him how
she is of show girls roles and tha._
wants to be an emotional actress. The
manager laughs at her and says she
could not play an emotional role. The
actress then starts on another line. She
tells the manager of a husband who
has neglected her and a child in the
hospital. A plea, which arouses his
sympathy, gets the promise she sought.
When they have shaken hands on the
matter, the actress tells him that she
has fooled him, that she has no husband
and no child. The manager, satisfied
l '~ has found a genius, phones to
his stage manager to have
his office the next day for a “find.”
The actress exits as this message is
“Symphon.. - _
,_ the "Academic Overture”
Brahm, played on that stage, shuddered
as they watched the daredevil Brant¬
ford march back and forth tootling his
own orchestration of "Casey Jones” and
other depraved melodies. If the police¬
men get Orchestra hall next year for
another vaudeville show, the manage¬
ment will probably put them under bonds
to keep Mr. T. Brantford, the human
brass band, off the stage, unless he
makes his mouth behave and renders
classical selections.
"But be that as it may, Mr. Brantford
had the time of his life and concluded
his thrilling performance by taking oft
his hat, disclosing a distinguished look¬
ing head, and with great gravity and
one hand upraised, he said in deep chest
tones, ‘If at first you do not succeed
then run, run again.’ If Mr. Brantford
indulges in this little comedy in Lin¬
coln, Neb., he is liable to get into serious
trouble with the leading citizen of that
community.”
' the wire. Returning, for
been made in Trovato’s offering since
he appeared at the Majestic last Feb¬
ruary and was given this classification.
At that time his salary was estimated
at $350. He was not getting it then; he
is now. At that time the managers did
not recognize in him an attraction of
such wonderful drawing powers, as is
accorded him today. Trovato really
makes a violin talk. He makes it carry
on a conversation with those in the
audience,- or rather speak for him to
those in front. He can make those who
hear him weep. He almost does so.
Just as the tears gather, he switches
from a melody inclined to bring “ '
some ragtime tune with word
are appropriate and the te
changed to laughter. Trovato switches
from one melody to another so often
that there is a pleasure in following him.
He starts on the introduction of some
standard overture and changes it into a
popular song with such ease that it is
easy to believe that he, himself, does
not know what he is going to play, and
changes his medley as the mood strikes
him. Trovato is a great actor as well
great violinist. His facial expres-
i delightful one-act comedy.
EXAMINATION DAY.
Billing—School Act.
Class—"C.” No. 413. Time—24 Min-
PIVE CYCLING AURORAS.
Billing —Cycling.
- ..— „ -- Time—12 Min-
“B.” No. ■
Girls, ..
Scenery Required—Interior in Four
(21 Minutes); One (3 Minutes).
Remarks—There are many points of
difference between this and other school
acts, The song “School Days” is not
* ll! "- That is one improve-
it adults,
used in this _
ment. The school HHI „
which Is another point in la ,„,.
There is a young woman student who
° nt - „„ *■•*— the absence of the
a .rew boy who pro-
ledy and a “Sis
teacher. There is
vides the most of t.._ JHJL., „
Hopkins” sort of a girl who shine*,
a comedienne. The girl who plays
teacher does an imitation of George M.
Cohan which is different from all others,
“"a does not announce it, being content
1 organ and
to vocalize through her n
Seen —Majestic, Chicago, Oct. 3, 1910.
Place on Bill —Closing Eleven-Act
Scenery Required —Full Stage.
Remarks —This act is a combination
of head-to-head balancing and cycling.
A head-to-head stand is made on the
wheel. After riding around the stage
the understander dismounts, lays down
on the floor, arises, finds his wheel and
mounts again and rides around the
stage, without the head-stand being bro¬
ken. For a climax four cyclists lay
on their backs and a circular platform
is made to revolve by their wheels. On
top of this a fifth cyclist rides, going
daringly near the outer edge of tne
platform. There were five wheelmen
and a sixth party who directed the plac-
platform, —
ing of the pla
i, etc., Monday after-
Show. Number of men, 1; number- of
women, 1.
Scenery Required —Exterior in C
Leonard must have
gotten a wireless message from the
American Music TT ~” h,a
for when the audiendce applauded he re¬
marked: “I don’t know whether you
are kidding me or not.” It had been
rather a cheap appeal for applause.
Mabel Russell had promised her Ivus-
band a kiss if he would sing “Ida. The
audience just had to applaud. In the
first place everyone likes to hear Eddie
Leonard sing. In the second place they
like “Ida.” Leonard asked if the
audience was kidding. The close i
_ _ _ ived was his answer. When
the Leonards get to love-making on
the stage it looks like they were get¬
ting in deep water but they are rescued
by the laugh Leonard gets by blacking
’ ’ : wife’s face. Eddie Leonard sings
i peculiar way and holds '
warm place in the hearts of theater¬
goers. Mabel Russell sings a .song
in which a chorus girl claims to have
a “live one.” If the musical editor ever
heard this one he would pronounce it
vulgar. The Majestic audience did not
feel offended for it looked upon Miss
Russell’s efforts as merely holding the
stage between her husband's songs and
Fables in Vaudeville No. 21
"THE BLACKFACE WHO CHAHGED HIS MIHD."
By FRANCIS OWEN of Owen G. Hoffman
Once upon a TIME there was a BLACKFACE COMEDIAN who had NOT
been in our MIDST for many moons and did not know that you had to have
a PERMIT to go to WORK—unless you belonged to the ACTORS’ UNION.
When he first heard it, he threw a fit, and got black in the face talking about
PERSONAL LIBERTY being part of that FOURTH of JULY oration CALLED
the “DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE.” Then ’he started in to be a
little DECLARATION all by himself, and just for a JOKE, sent ignorant
NEWSPAPER boys, bootblacks, .aid HOTEL porters over to UNION head¬
quarters to ask for PERMITS. It was so FUNNY to him, he would stop
people on the STREET and ask them if they had a PERMIT to let the SUN
„„„„„ ,, ... . . any one gin g jng . ln a private house, he
;hem it was not PERMITTED unless they
intimate associates he confided the START-
a PROFESSIONAL—not a LABORER—and wouldn’t
he NEVER played Chicago. This was HARD on
._ tj-ki wo,, ... —- -pared a lot of real
;nd try to point
SHINE on them. If he heard
would ring the bell and tell
belonged to the UNION. “ ' ’
LING fact that_
ask for a PERMIT .
Chicago, but of course she didn’t KNOW _
PAIN. Some were foolish enough to ARGUE
t his FELLOW
— - ... - standing in his OWN light, and that
WORKERS, but HE couldn’t see it, and booked some WOTK uux or town.
It was a long JUMP and cost him a lot of money to arrive at his first
house, so that after he had worked two nights, the CHEERFUL news that
the ACTING MANAGER had skipped with the COIN, was an awful JOLT,
1 this t
nearly broke. Now there were three other ACTS
ana iwo of them belonged to the UNION. They hustled up tne head
DELEGATE of the town, and flashed their CARDS, at the same time calling
attention to the fact that the CONTRACTS were signed by TWO men, one
of whom was still in town, in the GROCERY business. The LOCAL UNION
lawyer said the GROCERYMAN was responsible as PARTNER for ALL of
the salaries, so the Labor Delegate had an interview with him, but he
REFUSED to SETTLE, saying he would carry it to the SUPREME COURT
first. The Delegate said THAT was up to him, but there were SIX hundred
members of HIS UNION who would go somewhere else for their GROCERIES
in the meantime. After TAPPING his bone head with a STOGIE three times,
to make believe he WAS thinking, the GROCERYMAN gave in, and SIGNED
a CHECK for ALL salaries in full. When the BLACKFACE was handed his
BUNDLE by the DELEGATE, he shook hands WARMLY with him and said
NOTHING about being a PROFESSIONAL and NOT a LABORER. One of
the UNION ACTS smiled as he saw this, and said “Well KID, see things
kind of different NOW, don’t you? Take my advice and JOIN something that
offers some protection. If YOU don’t need it, remember there are always
OTHERS who do, and it’s the WEAK part of the BRIDGE that needs the
t WATCHING and CARE, because if that goes, it drags the REST down
h it.
. T BE SOMETHING; WHITE RAT or . T
MORAL UNION, it’s all the same. “ONE for all MORAL
and ALL for ONE.”
Place on Bill —Headliner; Number of
Women, 1; Number of Picks, 4.
Scenery Required —Full State. Special.
which prevented Ethel Whiteside a
“those Picks” from ending their act be¬
fore the final encore Monday night was
good to hear. It was genuinS applause.
There was no suspicion of a booster here
and there. Everyone clapped hands and
with such earnestness that it would
out of question for the :
r to r
_ _ Whiteside remained oft stage
so long that it was easy to believe her
offering had been concluded. The audi¬
ence would not have it. When the act
went on it was recognized that this en- <
core was a part of the offering and that
Ethel Whiteside preferred to let the
audience take a part in the show (which
theatergoers should be allowed) rather 1
than force encores which were not in¬
sistently demanded. Ethel Whiteside's
act has been previously reviewed in
these columns. All that can be added -
is that it is the best act of the kind in ,
the world. Miss Whiteside is a good
singer, wears beautiful gowns and ir
a great showman for he switches
from classical numbers to popular num¬
bers in a way that pleases any kind of
an audience.
Billing —"The Mystery Girl.”
’ No. 415. Time—13 1
Seen —Trevett, Chicago, Oct. 4, 1910.
Place on Bill— Sixth in Eight-Act .
Show. Number of Women, 1; Number
of Men, 1.
Scenery Bequired —Olio in One.
Remarks —Ethel May’s drawing pow-
evidenced by a capacity audi¬
ence at the Tuesday matinee. She h
without an equal in her line.^ She an¬
swers questions, propounded by people
questions, propounded by people :
in me audience, with a rapidity which is -
remarkable. She gives her “impres- «
sions” so fast that she deserves a medal i
as an accomplished talker. Ethel May, ■
does not represent herself as anything
but an entertainer. This is made plain
in a few remarks by Jack Allen, her
manager, before she comes on the stage.
Mr Allen has previously announced the
nature of her act and the questions have
sh°e W make's^such^offerings "interesting. :
when there is a disposition to overdo
' ' style of work in the theaters,!? 1,
her “mvsterv.” It must be tha
another “mystery.” .. ——- -i,
she works in full view of the audience,
without a cloth covering her, for that i
is the most striking difference between
hers and similar acts. Miss May is a
beautiful woman, appears before the au-
prettily gowned, and
THE ELLIOTTS.
Billing— Harpists and Singers.
Class —“D.” No. 406. Time—12 hi
Seen —Majestic, Chicago, Oct. 1, 1910. ,
Place on Bill —Opening.
Scenery Required —Interior in Three.
Remarks— The Elliotts’ have so ar- :
ranged their offering that it is equally i
well suited for either the c
the vaudeville stage. There need not
necessarily be any difference between
the two but other vaudeville acts, where
the harp is introduced, have set a pace
which holds The Elliotts’ down in their
classi”cation, at present. The concert^
stage atmosphere is noticeable from the
rise of the curtain until the encore
concluded. The harpists ar
woman and both sing. They play all
kinds of music. The gentleman an¬
nounced one overture as a “medley-
grand opera to ragtime.” The
join in the chorus of a coon s
It is awkward where the lady
She is ill at ease while he is singing
and this detracts from the value or,
‘“o act from a critical standpoint. Harps
always be depended upon to please
a large percentage of every theater
crowd, so The Elliotts are su™ nr *
reasonable amount of applause
BELLE BAKER.
Billing —Songs.
Class— “B.” No. 408. Time-
Seen —Majestic, Chicago, Oct. 3, 191
Place on BUI—Sixth in Eleven-A(
Show.
Scenery Required —Olio in One.
Remarks— Belle Baker’s •- “ •“«
... the Majestic. She sings four songs
and could sing more. “Under the Yum.
Yum Tree” introduces her. An Italain
song follows. These two numbers are
along usual lines. A song
mmmmmmmmmL r
He Was a Business Man” brings the
audience to realize that a singer
than ordinary ability is hearj.
inure man ordinary auimjr w
This number scores heavily. It is Wi;
lowed by a “rag” selection, “Lovey Joe,
which establishes her as a favorite.
THE SHOW WORLD
6
PAUL SITTNER SUES
MORRIS AND ASSOCIATES
Charges Criminal Conspiracy in Case Started in Superior
Court by His Attorney, Adolph Marks
SIS SSJ
GLORIA DARE.
—16
Seen—Ontury. Chicago, Oct. 4, 1910.
Place on Bill —Third. Number of
women, 2.
Scenery Required—Interior in Four.
Remarks—Evelyn Weingardner Blan¬
chard has supplied Miss Dare with quite
a clever vehicle. Her assistant is a
maid who has no lines. There are
several features in connection with the
act which make it difficult to say how
It would be received on big time. In
the hands of some actress with a big
reputation it would be certain to be ac¬
ceptable. As it is, it attracted atten¬
tion at the Century. The character is
a girl about to be married, who tries
on her trousseau in view of the audience,
plays the piano and sipgs and for a cli¬
max receives a letter from an old ad¬
mirer, whom she still loves, which
changes her mood and leaves her weep¬
ing as the curtain falls. Miss Dare is
not sufficiently clever as an entertainer
to make the pianolog part of the act
CHRISTOPHER & PONTE.
Billing—Songs. Talk and Instrumental
Music.
^COass—"C.” No. 418. Time—16 Min-
Seen— Verdi. Chicago, Oct. 5, 1910.
Place on Bill—Next to Closing.
Scenery Required—Street in One.
Remarks —This act is comparatively
new. Tt would not be surprising if the
hoys are heard of on the big time in
the future. Joe Christopher does the
bulk of the singing and Jimmie Ponte
Plays the guitar and accordeon. They
open as street singers. One carries a
guitar. The opening song is followed
by talk about manners. It is along
usual lines, but is novel for an Italian
Jr.,, The boys ma<Je a hit at the
Verdi, running clear away from anything
else on the bill.
JOHN E. YOUNG
IN THE
Sweetest Girl
in Paris
MANAGEMENT HARRY ASKIN
REPORTS ON ACTS NOW IN CHICAGO
E. E. MEREDITH NEWS SERVICE, ROOM 216, 167 DEARBORN ST.
second a
Ayres, Grace —Opened the show at the
Grand the first half; skating; liked.
Belmonts, The —Opening the show at
the Trevett; gymnastic, well liked.
Berliner, Vera —On next to closing at
the Star; violinist, well liked.
Bramsons, The —Opening the show at
Sittner’s; novelty hoop act; good.
Belmars, The —Opening the show at
the Majestic; Roman ring artists; liked.
Belmont Sisters —On second at the
Apollo the first half; good.
Bowers, Fred V —On fourth at the
Apollo the first half; very good.
Conklin, Billy— On fourth at the White
Palace the first half; blackface com¬
edian; good.
Century the first half; fair.
Craigs, Musical —On third at the Lin¬
den Monday night; opened show rest
of first half; good.
Carlos Circus —Closing the show at
the Trevett; good.
Darr, Ethel —Opened the show at the
Linden Monday night; dancer; replaced
on Tuesday night.
Donita Sc Co .—On second at the Ma¬
jestic; singing comedienne and accom¬
panist; Donita is talented.
Ellsworth & Linden —On fourth at
Sittner's; sketch, “His Day Off”; good.
Earl & Curtis —On fourth at the Ma¬
jestic; chatty duolog; pleases.
Ergotti & Lilliputians —On fourth at
the Trevett; risley novelty; good.
Flynn, Jo® —On third at the Trevett;
gets many laughs.
Fetterer, Harry —Opening show at the
Star; ventriloquist; fair.
Florence Wilson —On fourth at the
Grand the first half; fair.
Hennings, John and Winnie— On third
; the
at the Kedzie; man plays a slide and
woman cornet, in burlesque encore; en¬
tire offering is good.
Hardy, Helen—On fourth at the Star;
a female Joe Callahan, well liked.
Hall Sc Thaw—On third at the Apollo
the first half; presenting a sketch some¬
thing like that used by Rice & Cohen;
liked.
Hickman Brothers & Co.—On sixth at
the Star with "A Detective Detected”;
Imperial Four — On second at the
Trevett; good.
Kramer Sc Williard—On second at the
Linden the first half; Jew comedians;
Lambert Brothers—Closed the show
at the Linden the first half; athletes;
g °Le3Page Sc Mahr—On third at Sittner’s;
sister team; closed after Monday night.
Lopez Sc Lopez—On third at the
Majestic; musical; elaborate setting
and gorgeous costuming main features
Lelands. The—Appearing at the Julian
this week; this act was reviewed in
these columns recently and the types
made the classification “D” when it
should have been “B.”
Boulevard’ _
Butterfield tim
as “a continue. —___
dons play at Lansing, Mich., n<
The a
La Zelle, Ed —Opened the show at the
Apollo the first half; liked.
Leach, John “Chinee” — On next to
closing at the Linden Monday night;
put on a monolog in full dress; re¬
placed.
McKee, Richmond Sc Co. —Closed the
show at the Verdi the first half; trav-
Mann & Franks —On third at, the
White Palace the first half; good.
Morris & Kramer —On fourth at the
first half; blackface singing
' ish— On fift’ --
_ _ _ Head Frolic
Morati Opera Company — O:
at the Majestic; good.
Mitchell, Ethel— Opened the show at
the White Palace the first half; cor-
netist; good.
Person! & Halliday —Closed the show
at the Century the first half; good.
Reiff Sc Reiff —On second at tne Grand
the first half; Miss Clayton out of the
act owing to illness; good.
Rifner Sc Dove —Opened the show at
the Verdi the first half; novelty club
swinging; liked.
Somers Sc Storke —Presented “Jack-
son’s Honeymoon” in third place at the
Grand the first half; good.
Sanford, Jere —On fifth at Sittner’s;
yodeling and singing; good. .
Somers & Page—On second at the
White Palace the first half; singing and
talking; very fair,
and dancing; good.
Stewart & Mercer —On second at the
Verdi the first half; acrobatic; pleased.
Smith Sc Campbell —On next to clos¬
ing at the Majestic; good.
Valdare, Bessie, Troupe —Closing the
show at the Star; bicycle, good.
Williams, Lottie Sc Co _On fifth at
the Majestic; one-act play; good!
Wheelers, The —Closed the show at
the Apollo, novelty act; good.
Zanfretta & Mansfield— On third at the
Verdi the first half; comedy sketch; very
HICKS ™ l
TRANSFER CO.
Wm. ECKHOLM. Manager
GRANT HOTEL Phone
Madison & Dearborn St. Randolph 31
Baggage Stored One Week FREE.
Group of Four Leopards
and One Panther
..-nod to work together; also Lions, Beara,
Wolves, Binturong, Llamas, Ostriches, Casso¬
waries. Monkeys, and other animals and birds
—w on hand. 20 Polar Bears for August and
ptember deivery. Orders taken now.
WENZ & MACKENSEN,
Dept. S. W„ Yardley, Bucks Co., Pa.
Gagnouxs Billed at Music Hall.
Several acts billed for the American
Music Hall last week did not appear.
Two acts were closed. Others had routes
changed. The Gagnouxs were billed for
an appearance at the Music Hall but
their route was changed. They did not
even know they were billed at that
HARRY W.SPINGOLD
Acts Bought, Sold or Produced. Acts Managed
Address Suites 72S-727 Chicago Opera House Bldg.
CHICAGO, ILL.
The Langdons Scoring Hit.
The Langdons in “A Night on the
-proving a big hit on the
""■* 's described
The Lang-
Western Bureau
WM. MORRIS, Inc.
J. C. MATTHEWS. Western Rep.
167 Dearborn Street CHICAGO
Phones Rendolph 3301-2-3
lug more first class
Middle West than
International Theatrical Company
and United Theatres co « J ™ c ™"
SULLIVAN & CONSIDINE CIRCUIT
Playing the Best in Vaudeville
PAUL COUDRON, ACENT, NO. 67 SOUTH CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINIOS
PLAYING THE BEST IN VAUDEVILLE
SULLIVAN and CONSIDINE CIRCUIT
General Business Office
Sullivan and OoaekHne Bldg., Third
and Madison Streets,
SEATTLE, WASH.
General Booking Office
Suite 9 end 10, 1440 Broadway,
NEW YORK CITY.
4n, Cen. Mgr. Chris. O. Brown, Mgr.
BRANCH BOOKINC OFFICES
PAUL GOUDRON.
MAURICE J. BURNS.
1117 and 1136 Market St
American Theatre Bldg.,
Sen Fmoofeoo, Cal.
W. P. REESE.
London Office, No. 16 Green Street, London, Eng., B. OBERMAYER, Representative.
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THE SHOW WORLD
October 8, 1910.
October 8, 1910.
THE SHOW WORLD
7
VAUDEVILLE NOTES.
Special paper has been gotten out for
Pelham, the hypnotic scientist, which
announces that he plays "exclusively for
Sullivan-Considine Circuit."
Sherman, Hyams & Van have been
booked for eight weeks at the Holland
hotel in Duluth, by Sullivan & Consi-
dine. The act was placed through Lee
K Coney Holmes begins booking the
Family theater at Indianapolis next
Dum,” by John and Winnie Hennings,
are copyrighted. The fl™* '*’“*■
righted May 26, 1910, a
named on May 21, 1910,
Next week's bill at the Star, Chicago,
is: Gruber’s Animals, “Examination
Day,” Mullen & Corelli, Nellie Burt,
Bovd & Veola, Faynetta Munro and
Paulding & Duprez.
Business was rather light at the out¬
lying vaudeville houses Monday night
owing to the rain.
Nat Wills and La Titcomb return to
America shortly and open at the Colo¬
nial in New York, Nov. 21.
Paul Spadoni sailed for Europe this
Alf. T. Wilton has been commissioned
to get vaudeville time for Ollie Mack.
Walter C. Kelley has recovered from
an attack of blood poisoning and is en
route for Australia.
Many were turned away at the first
performance Tuesday night at both the
Apollo and Grand theaters.
Roy Sebree owns an act, known as
the Stanley Sextet, which appears at
the Colonial, in Indianapolis, next week,
for Sullivan & Considine. Lee Kraus
placed the act with that circuit.
Lenore Jackson is to succeed Jean
Jurende in the “Rah, Rah” girls after
this week. The manager of the act left
Chicago Wednesday night for Vincennes
to call on M. E. Moore, having received
a letter from him, written in the Vin¬
cennes jail.
Fitzpatrick & Theodore, managers of
the Verdi theater, are adding a balcony
to the house which will seat 360 people
and make the house hold 1,150. The
Verdi is doing big business and some
pronounce it a second Wilson Avenue.
Kenneth Fitzpatrick was in ‘‘front’’
Wednesday night welcoming a crowd
which tested the capacity.
Cook & Carroll and McDonald &
Huntington closed at the Majestic in
Des Moines on Tuesday night of last
week through a misunderstanding with
the management.
Steps are about to be taken against
Diamond & Du Voll, and it is said that
the Labor Commission will be asked
to revoke their license. It is all over
a judgment obtained by Walter Stanton
for *300 for services rendered.
Owen & Hoffman are playing at Fond
du Lac, Wis., this week for Walter F.
Keefe.
MAY LIMIT POWERS
OF TEN-PERCENTERS
By E. E. MEREDITH
It is likely that both the White Rats Fisher, who
and the Actors’ Union will take steps
concerning the contracts being offered
artists by ten-percent agents and that
players will be warned to limit the
powers of the agents to booking the
acts only, with clauses so that the
agreement cannot be taken to give the
ten-percent agent the right to change
the dates or accept cancellations.
It is said that advantage has been
taken of the acts in this way; that
agents have accepted cancellations on
behalf of the people they represent and
that the artist’s only recourse has been
to sue the agent and it is intimated that
in some instances the agent is not re¬
sponsible.
There have been a great many com- pat Casey 1
plaints recently owing to acts not being «.
kept working and the White Rat officials
are particularly interested just at this
Interstate Affairs.
have held it, according to _
information that can be obtained. E.
F. Carruthers is now at St. Louis. It
is believed that he aspires to represent
the circuit in Chicago. There are stor¬
ies to the effect of E. P. Churchill or
Walter Keefe representing that circuit
but little faith is put in them. If either
of these gentlemen took the bookings
the office would probably have to be
removed from the Western Vaudeville
Managers’ Association and this would
be in violation of a contract said to
There is talk of a combination includ¬
ing Churchill, Keefe and B. A. Myers,
of New York. Whether it will go
through or not is a question. Myers was
here last week and there was big talk.
Cox on Outs With Union.
The Actors’ Union Is not happy un¬
less. it is fighting some agent. Now
it is Earl J. Cox. The union has served
a thirty-day notice of cancelling the
existing agreement with him and the
present arrangement ends October 29.
In the meantime, other forces are cen¬
tering against the Actors’ Union until
it begins to look possible that the activ¬
ities of the Chicago local will be re¬
sented.
It has been pointed out that the Chi¬
cago local has done more to bring the
Union into recognition than any other
local; The activities have been so
numerous that there are powers that
feel the union workers are entirely too
Trick Clause In Contract.
There is a clause in the contracts
being used by one Chicago agency which
is looked upon as a catch one. It pro¬
vides that the act must appear “to the
satisfaction of the manager” or some¬
thing along that line. It is in clause
five or six of the contract, if information
received is correct. There were can¬
cellations of acts this week under this
clause and it is likely to lead to a
serious break between the White Rats
and that particular agency. The matter
has been handled by telephone, so far,
without any agreement being reached.
Sol Lowenthal represents so many
theatrical interests .that it sometime
leads to amusing complications. When
Consul, the Monk, bit a Grand Rapids
fellow last season LowenthaJ repre¬
sented E. P. Churchill in the case and
dealt with Dr. Buckley, representative
of owner, Bostock. Consul was held
over at Grand Rapids and could not
apnear at the Crystal at Milwaukee on
time. Lowenthal represented Chester A.
^Yc E £ Ingenue Lead
FOR HIGH CLASS (3 people) VAUDEVILLE
ACT. Must be first class singer. Also Juve¬
nile Leading Man and Straight Military Heavy
Man, Must be A1 people. This act plays the
best of time and carries everything. Address,
V. D. McDONNELL, Business Manager, 3036
Lake Park Ave., or Phone Douglas 1278.
Battle of San Dago,” is playing in Chi¬
cago this week. Sherman & DeForrest
headline one of the Sullivan & Considine
road shows which makes the tour of
t at circuit shortly. It will have spe¬
cial paper for each act, which is some¬
thing new. The show opens at Cincin¬
nati November 20.
White Rats and Actors’ Union Feel That Artists Are Often
Imposed Upon — Resume of Vaudeville Situation.
e manager
house. A day or two later Wal¬
ter F. Keefe got into an argument with
Dr. Buckley regarding Consul’s services
and Lowenthal represented Keefe. Paul
Goudron and F. M. Barnes then had a
tilt on the subject of Consul and Low¬
enthal represented Barnes. Dr. Buck-
ley talked to Frank Q. Doyle about
placing Consul and was surprised to
find that Doyle must consult his attor¬
ney and that his legal adviser was
Lowenthal. "What’s the use?” inquired
Buckley.
BIGGER SUCCESS THAN EVER
Mollie Williams
With “The Crackerjacks” Co.
THE IRISH MILLIONAIRES
Troxell & Winchell
2 REAL xl.'lkl , ”dCome C d?a‘ f nr d
WARDROBE UNEXCELLED
Neat and Refined in One
There is likely to be a legal wrangle
over the services of Trovato, who is
appearing at the Trevett theater this
He was formerly under the manage¬
ment of Bissing & Solmon and cancelled
his arrangement with them some time
ago, announcing that from that time on
he would fill no dates arranged by his
former managers.
The Western Vaudeville Managers’
Association took advantage of this and
filled his open time in Chicago. He
headlined the bill at the Kedzie the
last half of last week with remarkable
success and held the stage as long as
he cared to. It was only by motions
showing that his arm was tired that
he got off at all.
Now that Pat Casey is filling his time
there are rumors of injunctions and the
like for such a hit as he is making
cannot pass without some excitement.
A. E. Meyers, western representative
of Casey, admitted that Trovato was
getting $350 a week, when approached,
and said that his salary would he *500
DUNBAR'S GOAT CIRCUS
BERT TURNER
SHERMAN AND DEPORREST
TO HEADLINE S. & C. BOAD SHOW.
Dan Sherman, deputy sheriff of
Nassau county, New York, real estate
dealer, and showman, is in town this
week. Sherman & DeForrest are head¬
lining the bill at the Kedzie theater and
remain all week at the most wonder¬
ful of Chicago’s outlying houses. There
is no limit to attractions at that house.
Trovato was there for the four days
ending October 2 and Dan Sherman’s
“A Jay Circus” is at that house all this
week. Another act of Sherman’s ‘‘The
Extra=Al Edition
Thomas H. Dalton
Editor of “The Daffyville News”
SOW PLAYING for W. V. M. A.
LACEY SAMPSON
-A Ml-
MABEL DOUGLAS
SOMERS&STORKE
LPRESENTIIIC —
JACKSON’S HONEYMOON
NOW PLAYING ASSOCIATION TIME
THE ELLIOTTS
HARPISTS AND SINGERS
N0THINC OPEN JUST NOW - ASK ADOLPH MYERS WHEN
Just a Few of BOWHiatl
Bnnjolst (iii<l Comedian "- -
Address, Henry Brown Amusement Co., SO Bearborn Street, Chicago
Re-engagement over the Sullivan &, Considine Circuit
PELHAM
Direction CHRIS O. BRONN
Playing S-CTime—Direction of Ray Merwin
WARD & STONE
SINGERS AND DANCERS JOYESQUE
THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF COXEY S ARMY”
w. j. McDermott
“THE GENIUS HOBO”
“NUMBER44”
A. DRAMATIC RAILROAD PLAYLUT
1 t.v LANGDON MoCORMACK
Special Feature—SULLIVAN & CONSIDINE CIRCUIT
DIRECTION FRANK BOHH, 1547 Broadway, New York Clly
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THE SHOW WORLD
October 8, 191 J
BUSY WEEK IN CHICAGO THEATERS
_
Four Openings Keep Reviewers on the Jump—Mrs. Fiske’s Arrival in Itself
Constitutes Event of Exceptional Importance.
By WILL REED DUNROY
‘MISS NEW
'JEW YORK, JR. ’ ’ mvssir? - “
PL EASES PATRONS |g;||§jSg|
“Beauty Trust” Company Holding Forth at Western Wheel
House—In the Field of Burlesque
October 8, 1910.
THE SHOW WORLD
9
WRITTEN ANO
PRODUCED ey
John J. BLACK.
VYITHAN OUTBURST
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The Show World
WARREN A. PATRICK
Great Interest in Xmas Number of The Show World.
Xo. /(f'
•^lurtxT tyhiMjJ (F^ Qy Si
“sHSSS«
October 8, 1910.
THE SHOW WORLD
11
IN THE FIELD WHERE
ORPHEU S WORK S FOR PAY
Review of Current Stage Music and Gossip of the Music Publishers and Singers.
By c. p. McDonald.
Rags, Torn and Other¬
wise.
One of the besetting sins in the music
publishing business:
"THAT INDIAN RAO.”
"THAT YODLIN’ ZULU RAG.”
"THAT CHINATOWN RAG.”
"THAT PECULIAR RAG.”
"THE YIDDISHA RAG.”
"THE GRAVEL RAG.”
"THE ROUND UP RAG.”
"SWEET ITALIAN RAG.”
"DUBLIN RAG.”
"COTTON BABES RAG.”
"WAIMAN RAG.”
“GOIN’ SOME RAG."
“RICHMOND RAG.”
"BUZZER RAG."
"CARBOLIC ACID RAG.”
“SURE FIRE RAG.“
“TEMPTATION RAG.”
"BROADWAY RAG."
"CANNON BALL RAG.”
"CHILLY-BILLY-BEE RAG.”
"RUSTY-CAN-O-RAa.”
"OH. YOU BEAR CAT RAG.”
"PARISIAN RAG."
“DILL PICKLES RAG.”
"BLACK AND WHITE RAG."
"BOLO R*G.”
ad lib.
High as The Moon.
Isn't it about time to come down
earth for a short period and ease
on this moon thing?
“DREARY MOON.”
"STINGY MOON.”
"JUNGLE MOON.”
“SUGAR MOON.”
"LAZY MOON.”
"SMILING MOON.”
"PEKIN MOON."
“RUBBER NECKING MOON.”
"TROPICAL MOON.”
"SILVERY MOON.”
From the Press Agent.
J. FRED HELP COMPANY.
J ins ! e I* scoring his usual big hit
Lewis Muir’s Italian love song,
B Wljen My Marie Sings Chilly Billy
Fre . a Half's love story march song,
V. hen A Boy From Old New Hampshire
Loves A Girl From Tennessee," (words
by Robt. F. Roden and Wm. Cahalin),
is being successfully used by hundreds
or f ln S? r ®- It continues to be the big-
SRtMt of the Dockstader show, in
which it was first sung by Harry Jin-
*81®, formerly with “The Quartet."
Ai Jingle and dozens of o'ther artists
Ms on the Pacific Coast
’ Play That Barber Shop Chord,”
——-greater
■ may mat Harder
(the popularity of which s
xxr ,, L ° v ? ls Greater Than the
World, Arthur J. Lamb and J. Fred
ES*? semi-high class ballad, has been
called the most melodious song: of the
ZJKL 11 f on immediate favor when first
" "dueed, and is now being success-
”* Iy SU "S by many of the most promi-
ne "t artists in the country.
.tJ M T . l ? ree • Ji "S le s now playing on
the big time in Greater New York, are
tl l elr >i sual success with “Play
That Barber Shop Chord.” The new
“” yel ty hit, “The Oklahoma Twirl,” is
*‘ ielr biggest encore winners.
R»m h / en „ M / Marie Sings Chilly Billy
Bee (called "Chilly Billy Bee Rag,” in
kina «5 trumtntal form ) is the biggest
•la ,°f. a .success for hundreds of artists
musical* 561 "? Played by many Prominent
CLASSIFICATION OF SONGS AND INSTRUMENTAL NUMBERS
For the Guidance of Performers and Music Dealers
CLASS E—EXCELLENT
CLASS G—GOOD
CLASS M—MEDIOCRE
CLASS P—POOR
CLASS A—AWFUL
CLASS Z—Should be Ignored.
Numbers Reviewed in this Issue, and their Classification
“IMAM” (instrumental)—Claes E.
“DANCING STARLIGHT,”—Class G.
“MANDY JANE,”—Class G.
“PUT ME IN MY BATHTUB,”—Class P.
“IN ALL MY DREAMS I DREAM OP YOU,”—Class M.
“PK AWFUL GLAD I’M IRISH,”—Class G.
“I’M A-BRINGING UP A FAMILY,”—Class M.
“SOMEBODY ELSE, IT’S ALWAYS SOMEBODY ELSE,”—Class G.
“BELOVED,”—Class G.
“TEDDY DA ROOSE,”—Class P.
“IP THIS ROSE TOLD YOU ALL IT KNOWS,”—Class E.
“A KNIGHT OP THE ROAD,” Class G.
“STARLIGHT SIOUX,”—Class E.
It isn’t often
Mann writes a
number. He is o:
writers with w
quainted who is i
Perhaps this
hat Nathaniel D.
new instrumental
e of the few good
er-productive.
.. jump m BMP _r the salient
reasons why his work bears a dis¬
tinction which is at once perceptible
and gratifying.
Hence a reviewer who has to wade
through a mass of new publications,
few of which are characterized by
careful study or construction, finds
an added zest in coming across a
number bearing Mr. Mann’s name.
“IMAM, a Mohammedan Serenade,”
is his latest and, if we are not at
fault in our recollection, his greatest
bit of work. It is in a class by
itself, original, tuneful, and abound¬
ing in grace and finish of touch. -•
The title word, “Imam," is apropos
of the music Mr. Mann has given
us in this number. Its derivation
is perhaps best described in a note
which is printed on the first page
of the composition:
“During certain ceremonies in the
Mohammedan religion a high priest
of an order was selected as Prince
or Potentate to serve the order and
rule same. He was given supreme
spiritual and temporal power, mak¬
ing his word the court of last re¬
sort. And during his lifetme he
ruled with an iron hand; hence the
name ‘Imam,’ meaning power.”
The music is in entire harmony
with the title. It is powerful, yet
delicate, refined, and of a quality of
which we should enjoy to have far
more. “Imam” ought to be good
for the half million mark in point
of sales. It is worthy of It.
Robert Roden’s words to “DANC¬
ING STARLIGHT" are well written
and praiseworthy. Jack Glogau’s
music is not so finished but is fair
enough to complete what we call
a good song. Indian numbers,
calamity howlers told us years ago,
soon would die a natural death, yet
we continue to receive them, and,
as a rule, they are good examples
of the art of songeraft. Of course,
the music to most of these so-caltea
"Indian" songs is as indianesque
comparatively as hog Latin is to
Greek, but it represents what w»
for years have accepted as the gen¬
uine article. Charles Daniels and
Leo Friedman have come nearer to
producing our notion of Indian music
than any of the other popular music
composers. But we’re transgressing
and hurry back to the particular
song under discussion. “Dancing
Starlight” doesn’t sparkle with new
thought and musical phrases, but it
nevertheless is a neat little song.
(Leo Feist, publisher).
As a quartet song, “MANDY
JANE” is exceptionally adaptable.
As a song for a single person, it is
but fair. The words and music are
revamped, but this is a pardonable
sin these days, when we’ve ceased
to expect novelty. This is no re¬
flection upon the merits of “Mandy
Jane,” for “Mandy” will hold her own
with songs of her kind. (Words by
Karl Tausig, music by Ed. Gallager
and Al. Shean. Chas. K. Harris, pub¬
lisher.)
We’ve become so accustomed to
the phrase, "Writers of,” that it no
longer bears any special significance
nor does it carry, we hardly believe,
much weight with the music dealers
or buyers of sheet music. It most
cases it tells absolutely nothing. The
obvious mission of the phrase un¬
doubtedly is to lead the unwary and
unsophisticated to believe that the
writers of a new song have, at some
time in the near or remote past,
written a very successful song. There,
perhaps, was a time when this linej
printed beneath the caption of a new
song meant something to the pur¬
chaser and. possibly to the music
dealer. In the last few years, how¬
ever, it has, peradventure, lost caste
and now is passe so far as prospec¬
tive buyers and the dealers them¬
selves are concerned.
This condition never was more thor¬
oughly exemplified than in the case
of "PUT ME IN MY BATHTUB,” bn
Irving B. Lee and W. R. Williams
(Will Rossiter, publisher), quoted as
“Writers of “When Teddy Comes
Marching Home.’ ” We don’t know
a thing more after reading this an¬
nouncement than we did before.
"When Teddy Comes Marching Home’*
is obsolete and, so far as we are
aware, always has been. This same
publisher also has done this identi¬
cal thing for us. Our song “Twilight”
came out brazenly and declared that
we were the authors of "Eternity.”
Well, ask anybody in the business
if they ever have heard our “Eter¬
nity” and they’ll answer, almost to
nity ” and they’ll answer a per¬
son, in the negative. We now
are and always have been against
this false boosting. We now see no
advantage in it or to be derived
therefrom. To beftttingly close this
short harangue, we wish to announce
that "Put Me in My Bathtub” is a
helovaspasm. W. R. Williams, who
wrote the music, has done his part
well and conscientiously. But the
words—we pass and reach out for
the chloroform.
THEATER MANAGERS, SINGERS, MUSIC DEALERS
THE SHOW WORLD, in furtherance of its crusade for clean amuse¬
ment, condemns the following songs because of their salacious words, in¬
decent lines, or suggestive titles:
“GRIZZLY BEAR.”
“THAT LOVING MELODY RUBENSTEIN WROTE.”
“ANGLEWORM WIGGLE.”
“FIDO SIMPLY SAID BOW BOW.”
“OH, YOU BEAR CAT RAG.”
------PARLOR.”
2 SOME MORE!”
The Music Editor will be
pleased to reoeive, for review in
the columns of THE SHOW
WORLD, new publications printed
by any music publisher in the
It is the aim of the Music
Editor to review new issues as
soon after publication as possible,
but publishers or writers wishing
their publications reviewed imme¬
diately are invited to send in a
written request for such courtesy.
Address all communications to
C. P. McDonald,
Music Editor THE SHOW WORLD.
We met Max Stone on the elevated
train a few nights ago and Max, who
always is lauding 1 ” *
SL __Mi — ...3 skies Leo
; and the publications of said
r eist, confided to us that "IN ALL
MY DREAMS I DREAM OF YOU”
was one of the best high class bal¬
lads published in recent years. We
hurried home and dug out this
Joe McCarthy-Al Piantadosi creation,
and gave it close scrutiny.
We are not opinionated and we
want to play fair. With this senti¬
ment overriding our friendship for
Mr. Stone, we grudingly confess our
enthusiasm isn’t as combustible as
is his. We’ve got our own (perhaps
narrow) idea of what a world-beat¬
ing high class ballad should be, and
therefore beg to differ, in all due
candor, with the views expressed by
this capable western representative
of the house of Feist. Not, we ad-
fit, that this ballad hasn’t its good
points, for it has. But its qualities
to us are vague and mystical, like
blurred reflections in a purling brook,
and we therefore must pray an ap¬
peal from Mr. Stone’s verdict. Pressed
for an opinion, we’d say "In All My
Dreams I Dream of You” is medi¬
ocre and not any better than a lot
of others of its category. It wouldn’t
arouse a theater manager to tha
pitch of compelling a performer to
abandon the song, and, by the same
token, it wouldn’t prompt him to ex¬
tend or renew bookings.
Quiescently v
AWFUL GLAD
IRISH,” another Feist publication.
Here, indeed, is a song in which Mr.
Stone might well indulge his imag¬
ination. Our verdict anent this pro¬
duction is irrevocably in its favor. It
is clever, fraught with up-to-the-min¬
ute phraseology, and tuneful. An
Irish song of first magnitude. Wri¬
ters, Edgar Leslie and Al Piantadosi.
Irene Franklin and Burt Green,
writers of "Redhead,” in their new
effort. “I’M A’ BRINGING UP THE
FAMILY,” haven’t written anything
startlingly clever. Any song words
which resort to the expediency of
rhyming “home” with "alone” and
“own,” even in a “kid” song, imme¬
diately arouse our caustic comment.
Were this, however, the only thing
about the song which does not ap¬
peal to us, we might easily pass it
over without further ado, but the
song in its entirety doesn’t stir our
enthusiasm. Perhaps we expect too
much in some concoctions. Leo Feist,
the publisher, has furnished the cre¬
ation with a title page which is
unique and extremely artistic. This
is good for we earnestly believe it
will help the sale of this song to a
considerable extent. Mr. Stone, Mr.
Feist’s genial Chicago representative,
informs us that the song already iij
in much demand. Which leads us
to digress for the moment.
We have several times been asked
if we wouldn’t feel just a little cha¬
grined if a song which we failed to en¬
dorse turned out to be a big seller.
Frankly, we confess we would not
be at all disconcerted, but, on the
contrary, would be highly pleased and
gratified. At heart we wish the pub¬
lishers nothing but success and for¬
tune. And if a song which we can¬
not freely recommend branches out>
into a hit, it doesn’t alter our opin¬
ion of the song. Many a publication
has been immensely popular that
were we called upon to express our
candid opinion, we’d call mediocre or
poor. A recent example which might
well serve as a citation is "Has Any¬
body Here Seen Kelly.” That wasn’t
at all our notion of a good song. The
public, however, took a different view
of it. It accepted it. Therein the
public and we differed.
(Continued on page 18)
12
THE SHOW WO RL D
WHEN CIRCUS ANIMALS HAVE TO DIE
Human Ingenuity Sometimes Taxed to the Utmost to End the Existence of Jungle Denizens
When Their Lives Become a Burden or a Menace.
October 8, 1910.
THE SHOW WORLD
13
Injecting Embalming Plaid Into a Menagerie Chimpanzee to End Its Suffer¬
ings from That Dread Disease of the Human and Monkey
Race, Tuberculosis of the Dungs.
__ _ _ _ . _ si of
home—of mother and sister. This great
strata of men will suffer keenly and
lose all rather than say one word against
wife or womankind. They believe that
If a husband treats his wife like a
splendid creation she will fill his life
with joy. These men would under no
circumstances strike a woman. To them
there Is no excuse or reason for such
an act. Neither do they believe in
whipping children: they f sveta-* 1 —
make the little ones
hat no day can be s .... .
_ .... happiness and laugh of a
child will make it holier still. ‘Strike
with hand of fire, oh, weird musician,
thy harp strung with Apollo's golden
hair: fill the vast cathedral aisles with
symphonies sweet and dim, deft toucher
of the organ keys; blow, bugler, blow
until thy silver notes do touch the skies,
with moonlit waves, and charm the
lovers wandering on the vine-clad hills;
but know your sweetest strains are dis¬
cords all, compared with childhood’s
happy laugh, the laugh that fills the
eyes with light and every heart with
joy; oh, rippling river of life, thou art
the blessed boundary line between the
beasts and man, and every wayward
wave of thine doth drown some fiend
of care; oh, laughter, divine laughter
of joy, make dimples enough in the
cheeks of the world to catch and hold
and glorify all the tears of grief.’
"The judge, who is not a father, de¬
cided against Mrs. Taggart. The oldest
son swore he would not go with Capt.
Taggert and hurled at him: “You know
you struck my mother.” Mrs. Taggert
was prostrated. Congressman Smyser
is her leading counsel. Wooster is the
old home place of ‘Monk’ Wilson, James
Caskey and William Fisher. They were
given a ‘whirl of pleasure.’ Their
people are well-to-do and prominent,
and formed a box party.”
Bostock’g “Rajah” a Tiger with “Nine
Dives
of a
_,_of a tiger being put to
death in captivity. "Rajah," the man-
eating tiger in the Indianapolis Zoo,
when Bostock had it, devoured a boy
attendant. Showmen and merchants
near, with guns, shot and shot the
monster. “Rajah” exemplified the “nine
lives” proposition of the cat family,
and lived for seven years after the
bloody Incident, dying a natural death
of old age. “Rajah” murdered a lioness
at the Pan-American Exposition in a
jealous frenzy by lacerating her jugular
The lioness bled to death in less than
. in twenty-one minutes and a few
seconds from Rough-on-Rats fed it by
some wolf of the human race just to
see if rat poison would kill a big bear.
charging admission to witness its death
was put in force. The means was to
be electricity, the place the Stadium at
the Pan-Am, and the price to get in and
have a"Seat fifty cents. The r- ---
pert electricians
s employed. The
Stadium was packed to
at the sensational electrocution. The
pachyderm was led forth and placed
upon the heavy plates. The immense
voltage was turned on. If the electric
current passed through the elephant,
the big thing didn’t mind it. for the
huge body swayed to and fro coo-chee
Kit , ? nd electricity as a means to
kill elephants was voted a failure. A
few days afterward this elephant was
hauled up in the air by the big derrick
lift* 3 ! by th f Penns y' vani h railway to
Thompson, when he had Luna Park,
successfully electrocuted an elephant.
If so it is the first and only one to
go that way. I know that the first ef¬
fort of the kind was made by Bostock
and failed.
Dambrigger Python’s Battle Was a Re¬
markable One.
When with Gus Lambrigger’s Wild
Animal Show I saw a gorilla ape put
away in three minutes and parrots and
Birds of Paradise in less than four
minutes by the use of chloroform. The
Dambrigger python, the largest snake
I ever knew, died shortly after feed¬
ing at Logansport, Ind., last season.
The monster fought something awful.
It writhed and hissed all over the In¬
side of the tent. This was the fiercest
death of a menagerie subject I ever saw.
It was over thirty minutes dying.
I saw a chimpanzee sent the long
route. An end was put to it to ter¬
minate its sufferings from tuberculosis.
It was killed by injection. The fluid
used to solidify the body after death
was shot into the “Chimp” just under
the left knee. Death was almost in¬
stantaneous. The fluid took immediate
effect and before a half hour elapsed
the “monk” was turning to stone.
The late William Worthington told
me that in a western town a lion es¬
caped from its cage and was about to
do him when his pet elephant came to
the rescue and felled the “King of
Beasts” with its trunk and then crushed
the lion with its front feet. The lion
died in less than a minute.
Ed. Holder writes that a trick mule,
meeting with an accident, had to be
put to death; that it was bled, the
jugular being reached and c
__off and it was dead in a shade
over five minutes: Gruber says there
is nothing in the tale that snakes live
until after sundown.
Mike Alexander, assistant in the Neil
House Bureau of Information, this city,
a former elephant attendant with cir¬
cuses, says that when he was with
Ringling Brothers, at Buffalo, an ele¬
phant went crazy, ran away, and
plunged over an embankment into a
stone quarry. Alexander was following
closely and reached the elephant imme¬
diately after the plunge. Death was
almost instantaneous.
John Robinson’s “Chief” Defied Death
in Many Forms.
When Ed. Morgan was with the
Charles Ames show, or Crescent City
Circus, in New Orleans, he got away
with a Numidian lion that was a bad
actor, by first spraying it with chloro¬
form and then shooting it through the
brain. The beast was dead in ten
minutes.
Morgan relates the quickest death of
an elephant known. “Chief,” the old
John Robinson elephant, was the vic¬
tim. At one time, to conquer him,
“Chief” was swung up with chains on
an island in the Mississippi river and
an intense fire built under his body.
This did not master him. The punish¬
ment seemed to make him worse. Later
he was put in the Cincinnati Zoo. Mor¬
gan says he had 500 pounds of iron
shackles and martingails on him, and
with all this, he grew worse and worse.
Morgan tried to poison him with strych¬
nine and fed him apples, one of which
was loaded with the poison, and this
particular apple “Chief” promptly tossed
side, eating the safe ones. Next.
then devised to kill “Chief” with cyanide
of potassium. He kept the pachyderm
off -water for two days, and thus made
him very thirsty. Placing one-third of
an ounce of the poison in the drinking
water “Chief” was led to his doom. The
bad brute drank without the least sus¬
picion, immediately fell over, and was
dead in one minute. Morgan also tells
of the killing of “Lallah Rooke,” male
elephant of the Barnum & Bailey show,
at Bridgeport, Cohn. He says a chain
was placed around the elephant’s neck
and two female elephants, one on each
side, were sent in different directions,
thus strangling "Lallah Rooke” lifeless.
It took from twenty-five to thirty min¬
utes to bring death in this manner.
Ostrich in a Straight-Jacket Succumbs
to Chloroform.
for chopped feed that he used o.. —.
animals he broke and trained and
handled. I notice asafetida was an in¬
gredient. Evidently, he believed in the
diet plan. It is true that a woman can
win a man through his stomach. A good
cqpk is a prize, indeed. If diet is true
as to people, why not as to animals?
I find also that David Hahn killed a
lion by chloroforming it and death re¬
sulted in eleven minutes. He put a
goat to death in fifteen minutes by
cutting its throat. A lion that escaped
disembowled it. To relieve 11
DAVID HAHN
Doc Waddell's Grandfather, Oldtime
Circus Animal Handler and Trainer
suffering the pony was injected with
cyanide of potassium; and death came
in two minutes. He put an ostrich in a
straight-jacket and injected cyanide of
potassium into its mouth and at the
same time applied embalming fluid.
Death was instatantous and the ostrich
was rendered so stiff it almost stood
alone as if still alive.
card daemmde home.
After several months’ sojourn in Eu¬
rope, Carl Laemmle returned to the
States last week, arriving at his Chicago
offices Saturday. Mr. Laemmle reports
a splendid time abroad and is the pic¬
ture of vigorous health. He predicts
rosy times for the moving picture busi-
:e 8)
terest to burlesque people:
“ 'The Lady Buccaneers’ is sure one
good Burly-Q show. Saw it the other
night in Newark, N. J. Joseph K. Wat¬
son is one of the best, cleanest-cut Jew
comedians I have ever seen work; he
has a good singing voice and knows how
- “ Harry Strouse, the manager,
'— -'-o big weeks thus
,’ at the
says he 1
far t' '
somewhat of a disappointment in view
of the previous shows which I have
seen at that house. The olio was saved
by the Farrell-Taylor Trio, who had
been engaged as a special feature; they
were immense.
“Fred Irwin’s ‘Majesties,’ which
opened at the Columbia Monday, comes
close to being the best Burly-Q show on
either wheel. The cast is headed by
Gus Fay, who is “some German com¬
edian.” He is ably assisted by Joe
Hollander who, by the way, is respon¬
sible for both the lyrics and the music.
Fred West is introduced as the chal¬
lenger of Jack Johnson for the heavy¬
weight pugilistic championship; West
is a big fine looking fellow in ring cos¬
tume. He also possesses a corking good
singing voice, which he uses to excel¬
lent advantage in the first burletta.
Florence Bennett is the female star with
the show. Dolly Sweet, Emma Siegel
and others make up a clever company.
“Here's one for you Burly-Q comedi¬
ans and others who delight in using a
lot of big words for the extraction of
laughs; it is a short bit of luminous in¬
formation on aniline dyes: Betaamidoal-
izarin was the reduction product of one
the oldest alizarin colors, namely,
alizarin orange which, chemically, is
nitro-alizarin. When betaamidoanthra
quinone is subjected to the identical re¬
action which produced from anthra-
quinone sulphonic acid, the first syn¬
thetic alizarin—that is, melting of the
product with caustic alkali at high
temperature—then a dihydroanthra-
quinoneazine is obtained.^ (With a
; should be <
BURLESQUE NOTES.
Ashner Sisters, Marr & Evans, The
Six English Romas and Brady & Ma¬
honey comprise the olio with Fred
Irwin’s Big Show.
The Moulin Rouge Burlesquers used
indecent advertising in the newspapers
of Kansas City, according to Rennold
Wolfs interpretation of morality. The
line was: “Come and see the girls;
they’re easy to get acquinted with.”
The "New Ducklings” are at the Peo¬
ple’s in Cincinnati this week and give
fair satisfaction.
The Young Brothers are in the olio
of the “New Ducklings.”
The Bowery Burlesquers are at the
Gaiety in Milwaukee this week with
“Too Much Isaacs,” last year’s vehicle,
and a burlesque on “Madame X.”
called "Madame Excuse Me.” The
burlesque is last year’s court room scene
whipped into shape. Ben Jansen and
Lizzie Freleigh are the principal enter-
"The Passing Parade” is voted the
most pretentious production seen this
season at the New Star in Milwaukee.
Sam Sidman handles a brand of humor
seldom encountered in burlesque.
(Special to The Show World.)
New York, Oct. 5.—Frazee & Lederer’s
prize good thing here in New York,
“Madame Sherry,” is not wheeling along
to its big business without its troubles.
Saturday night on the stage of the the¬
ater, Elizabeth Murray and Jim Darling,
the stage manager, had such a serious
argument that Miss Murray refuses to
appear until Darling has been dis¬
charged. George Lederer’s reputation as
a “fixer” leads to the belief that the
quarrel will be adjusted.
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PHIL SCHWARTZ
refuses bribe
„o would gladly present, if n
had the price of a cut and tt
necessary .""
Utaaess wil
1 be recalled by
seen life-size i
of Sir Gallahad,
__i bribe.
Honestly, he dh
honestly, which e\
via «■ fabulous outlay.
•'The Melody Swiping Trust
nearly disorganized when one
of its principal members was
'’Something must be done, or
I’ll be done. I can’t understand
why they waited so long with
the exposure. But, since they
are hunting us, it’s our hide
or theirs. Come, me brave
pirates, we must have some
new ideas."
At this point a young man
arose and said that he was a
personal friend of Mr.
Schwartz. That he knew that
dotmbddy had presented
Schwartz with a new system
for stealing melodies that
could not be detected arid that
required but little effort on
the part of the composer. That
Schwartz had learned the new
system, but refused to use it.
All were interested and in¬
duced the friend to invite- Mr.
Schwartz to attend the next
meeting. . .
Mr. Schwartz came, but,
when he was offered the presi¬
dent’s ,chair, if he’d disclose
the‘System, he declined.
Various sums of money were
offered and spurned. Mr.
Schwartz left the hall amid
cat-calls, but maintained his
manly determination to scorn
the prbffered bribes.
Now the question is: Did
Schwartz refuse the bribes
through manliness and strict
integrity; or did he refuse
to divulge his secret because
he wants to confine the new
system of ‘‘melody borrowing”
o his o
i compositions?
RAT INSPIRES
GREAT CLIMAX
The story of a great climax
of a greater play, yet to be
written, inspired by an ordinary
rodent, was disclosed by Mr.
Augustus Thomas, writer of
‘‘The Member from Ozark,” in
an interview with a Throbbing
Throttle reporter.
"while traveling in Eng¬
land," said Mr. Thomas gen¬
ially, “I was strolling through
an alley, looking for a plot,
when, suddenly, I saw a rat
attack the contents of a gar-
. ^fhstantly, I conceived of a
great climax. Just picture a
hero, penniless and defeated at
every turn, on the eve of_UA
wedding day, compelled t
from a garbage car
act of the play.
“Just as he is about to be¬
gin his repast, a rat enters and
endeavors to secure food from
the garbage can. As he does
so, a piece of silk drops from
his mouth. The hero picks up
the remnant and cries:
‘“’Tis a part of Lucy’s
wedding dress, of which yon’
rodent has partaken. It brings
pleasant mem’ries. I cannot
eat the garbage. I’ll reform and
win Lucy!’
“The curtain closes on the
hero kissing the piece of silk
and he and the rat take seven-
n the third
IT ISN’T NECESSARY
To open an office just be¬
cause you’ve had a couple of
song hits to your credit.
To quit your job because the
Shuberts have promised to pro¬
duce one of your plays.
To, tell everybody your song
The value of a two-thousand
dollar act in vaudeville.
The plot of a musical comedy.
Melody in a popular song.
Sympathy, when you’re a
Honest competition in the
music publishing business; or
profit in ten-cent popular
A bank open on a Jewish
holiday.
A rich man in the show busi¬
ness; or a really poor one out
of it.
A beggar on Madison street
who was never ahead of a
A leading lady without a
past, or a chorus boy without
a splendid future.
ME-O-G-RAMS.
By definition, a Me-O-Gram
is the philosophy of a fool.
Mothers, DON’T let your
daughters: see plays—-write
plays — in plays.
Just as the paramaecla can
point to the omoeba in scorn
tho’ they both occupy a small
space in a drop of stagnant
water, so does everybody in the
show business point down the
ladder to his less successful
brother.
The producer of a tomorrow
is Vie chump of today.
Swagger and brains never
did agree. So, young fellow,
if you think you’ll amount to
something, some day, clothe
your brains more carefully
than your body.
Go in the show business
right—as a stage hand.
“there,"—
POSITIVE ASSERTIONS.
J. C. Matthews is as white
as a booking agent c~~
Elsie Janis 1~ “**•
ways around.
“I’ll Change the Thorns to
Roses” is “the” hit of the
Dockstader show.
Joseph E. Howard and C. P.
McDonald are not lodge fel¬
lows.
Max Stone, of Feist's, like
his name, is a hard proposition
when casually considered, but
to those who know him, he’s
one Prince Chap who’d go a
mile to do a friend a favor.
The producers will have to
put on better shows if they
want their share of the sea-
S °H’enry°Fleckles is getting a
reputation as a theatrical
MAUD MILLER’S PLAY
Maud Miller, on a summer’s day, sat in the
hay and wrote a play. Her hero was a hand¬
some chap who never had a chance to map
his life out as he thought he ought, and cheap
cigars were all he bought. For what right
had he to prefer the other kind on “ten bones
per”? The heroine she pictured as a pretty
charming girl, alas, betrothed to one wasn’t
worth the space he occupied on earth. Old,
mean, decrepit, oft’ times drunk, a man who’d
made his coin on junk. Her father was the
kind of man that plays have shown since
they began, willing enough to sell his child
to get the coin the villain piled.
■ Maud went ahead and wrote her play. Like
playwrights do, in some strange way, she beat
the Desmond to it and gave Claude Eclaire
the maiden’s hand. Not only that—but fixed
it so that the cold villain, in his woe at finding
Claude had won the bride, went off and very
quickly died. And left this note: “Dear
Claude:—Your spunk prompts me to leave you
all my junk.” The curtain hid a happy pair
in Rosamond and Claude Eclaire.
Now, in the town where Maud had writ’,
there lived a judge who knew a bit ’bout plays
and how they ought to be, and Maud was
overjoyed to see him in his auto that fine day
go tearing gaily through the hay. She stopped
him and he read the dope in which Maud
Miller placed her hope. AHd, as he read, Maud
Miller thought how nice the auto was he’d
bought; and how content she’d be with life,
if she could be the judge’s wife and sit within
a cushioned chair and write her plays ’bout
Claude Eclaire, not with a pencil, or with ink,
but just as fast as she could think, and with
a good stenographer to grab her thoughts at
fifty per.
And, as he read, the wise judge thought
that girls like Maud most surely ought to be
sent up for sixty days for writing such in¬
sipid plays. For he could find no trace of plot,
felt sure that Maud had written rot. “Pooh,
pooh,” he murmured in despair, “A wash-rag
Chap is Claude Eclaire.” They ought to find
a handy pond and drown the likes of Rosa¬
mond. E’er father is the only one who seems
to know just what is fun. And what she terms
the villain is a man who strictly minds his
biz. “Maud, dear,” declared the knowing
judge, “that play you wrote is all poor fudge.
Who ever told you you could write must go
‘a-seeing things’ at night.”
He shoved the play in Maud’s soft hand and
. to beat the band. And all that day
the maiden wept and all that night she hardly
slept. Next day she took the needed fare,
went to New York with Claude Eclaire and all
the rest in her great play and cried: “This is
the only way.” She found a great producer
and, when he got next to her soft hand and her
brown eyes and pretty hair, he said: “Read on
’bout Claude Eclaire.” And, when she read
her simple play, her sweet way carried him
away. When she told of the judge, he cried:
“That gosh-darned fool. I’ll show he lied.”
The play, of course, was soon produced. As
Rosamond, Maud Introduced real depths of
feeling in the part and critics raved about
her art. And soon the daily papers said:
“MAUD MILLER AND PRODUCER WED.”
The play ran two years in New York and in
that time a welcome stork brought them a
handsome baby boy that filled its parents’
hearts with joy.
Maud’s written many plays since then. Tho’
all went big, none of them’s been as great,
as grand, well earned success as what the
judge had called a mess. But, in the country
town, the judge still claims her first play was
“poor fudge.” “I’m only sorry,” he would say,
"that I returned her play that day; had I but
torn it into bits, Fair Maud’s ambition would
be quits.”
But Maud is happy, you can bet, and hasn’t
much cause for regret. The gladest words
that she can say are these: “I wrote a dandy
play that ran a year in the big town, after
a wise guy ran it down.”
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.
With a feeling of pardonable
pride, The Throbbing Throttle
herewith presents its first
authentic circulation state¬
ment, carefully compiled from
official records, the originals
of which are on file at our of¬
fices for inspection of those
inclined to doubt the figures.
Number of copies sold—None.
Number of copies purchased
by the copy or in 100 lots—
None.
Number of copies, called for
in airship—One. (By Wal¬
ter Brookins.)
Number of paid press notices—
Number of passes received for
favorable notices:
From American Music
Hall—None.
From Colonial Theater—
None.
From Garrick Theater—
None.
From Lyric Theater—
None.
From Power’s—None.
From Illinois—None.
From Princess—None.
From Studebaker — None.
From Majestic—None.
Number of copies distributed
free to the victims of our
slams — One Million.
Number of copies used by Jan¬
itor to start fires—Five Mil-
Total receipts to date, as rep¬
resented by bank statement —
$.000000000000000.
BETWEEN THE ACTS.
If Julian Eltinge could get
out in front, at the American
Music Hall, he’d hear some
mighty pleasant things while
his act is on.
Here goes for a few:
“I’ll bet he’s really a girl.”
“Wonder what he looks like
on the street?”
“Off the stage, he’s such a
“You can’t tell me any man
could have those shoulders
and elbows.”
“They say he’s married.”
“I understand he’s divorced.”
“I hear he gets ten thousand
dollars per week.”
But Julian doesn’t mind these
things. While he admits that
there is some truth in all these
assertions, he told mg confi¬
dentially that he’s not mar¬
ried and that the only thing
he has running around the
house is a bulldog.
, Barnes, the stage manager
at the American Music Hall,
tho’ one of the busiest men in
one of our busiest theaters, al¬
ways finds time to talk to a
Here’s a story with a moral:
In the cigar store of the
Oneonta Building, writers of
whom, nobody has heard, out¬
side of themselves, and of
whom, in all probability, no¬
body will ever hear, congre¬
gate daily in the vain endeavor
to mix with boys higher up
on the ladder of success. They
invariably open a conversation
by asking:
d which the boy higher up
win respond by mentioning one
of his own songs. They de¬
clare that quite another song
is a hit, always taking care to
mention a number written by
somebody outside of the group
—and an interesting discussion
is started.
Disgustedly the boy higher
up withdraws, but the craw¬
fish continue their heated dis¬
cussion for hours at a- time.
Few of them buy cigars and
fewer still would know how to
smoke them if they did.
But they talk, talk, talk
about the hits.
Then they go home and in¬
form their proud parents that
they beat “Jenkins, the prom¬
inent writer,” to a frazzle tn
a discussion regarding music
and, on the strength of their
declarations, get ten cents car¬
fare for another day’s discus-
fellows live. Royalties L which
few of them collect at any time
for obvious reasons, are de¬
clared but four times a year.
Or, better still, ask yourself
how they would get along if
their parents should suddenly
leave for realms unknown.
We’d like to have the for-
“GIVE CHICAGO BOYS A
CHANCE.”
History will show that sec¬
tionalism and its petty prej¬
udices have always existed.
Way back in the days of the
Medes and Persians, those two
nations, of the same root,
within a stone’s throw of each
other, were great rivals—in
fact, great enemies.
Today the same spirit exists
between Chicago and New
York. Can you blame us if
we are provincial in, the belief
that • our boys can write as
well as the youths of New York
and that all they need is a
chance? Particularly, when
New Yorkers who .handle the
pen look upon Chicago as a
sort of suburb, a good place
to get royalties from, build
reputations on—but that’s all.
Over at Clark and Randolph
streets, there are plenty of
young men who can write any¬
thing from a parody to a
musical comedy.
Yet, whenever a new Chi¬
cago theater is opened, our pro¬
ducers rush to New York for
writers. They want to be.able
to put forth billing to the effect
that “The Umpty-Umptdom is
by Plank, Blank, . and__3ank,
writers of thirty great New
York productions of which one
(the first one), was a great
success, e' " ”
Chicagoans expect great things
from the great names and,
when they do not get them,
they quit coming.
They don’t know the details
of production, but the pro¬
ducers do. We’d respectfully
ask that they give Chicago boys
a chance. It’s simple business
honesty and it’s bound to prove
the best policy in the long
AGAIN WE ASH.
What is Jack Foley’s real
vocation?
Do you know whether a show
is good or bad after reading
the criticisms in the daily
papers?
Who first sang “Silver
Threads Among the Gold”
with great success?
How do people become stars
in musical comedy when they
can neither sing nor dance?
Bert Peters; next to your
salarv what do you love?
How much did Kettering and
Block lose on “Are You a
Mason?”
Did Charles Frohman have a
chance at the first American
production of “Alma Wo
Wohnst Du?" and turn it
down for patriotic reasons?
Have you left an order with
your newsdealer for the
Christmas issue of The Throb¬
bing Throttle? Did you re¬
serve advertising space?
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October 8, 1910.
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HAGENBECK-W ALLACE
TROUBLE IN THE SOUTH
Wholesale Arrest of Circus Crew Follows Affair in which
Young Man Lost His Life
climbed up on the wagon under which
they had been riding. Weekly says that
just as he was about to make a run
for it to the extreme rear of the train,
he saw a group, of men whom he be¬
lieves to have been white make for
him and Williams with the exclamation,
“Now we’ll get the -Weekly says
a shot was fired. Weekly crawled under
a bundle of canvas and from his place
of hiding heard the marauders demand
money from a man who had been sleep¬
ing on the top of this same bundle of
canvas. Weekly never saw Williams
alive again. The scuffle had occurred
about 2 o’clock in the morning and when
day broke Weekly, in his search for his
companion, found a splotch of blood on
the side of the car where the fight had
taken place, found Williams’ watch fob,
and a letter which Williams had had
in his pocket. Weekly left the train
at Warrenville and wired the Augusta
chief of police. The local authorities
were on the lookout for the circus train
and made wholesale arrests when it
Felton Gilbert, a negro, sought the
aid of City Physician Rice on Monday
for treatment of wounds about the head.
He said that he was the man whom
Weekly had heard asked for money and
says that the men who held him up
and threw Williams from the train
were negroes; he also says that he
thinks he will be able to identify them.
Officials of the Hagenbeek-Wallace
show, when interviewed relative to the
murder and near-riot Sunday morning,
said that Weekly and Williams were
certainly riding on the train without
authorized permission and that trips of
this kind were particularly dangerous
because of the character of the men
who do the work with circuses. They
say that they certainly cannot be held
sponsible or blamable for the un¬
fortunate affair.
SYNDICATE PAYS
$12,000 IN TEXAS
Back Circus Tax Suits in Lone Star State Adjusted—
$30,000 Original Claim
Shows, represented the defendants in
the settlement of the suits. State Rev¬
enue Agent McDonald has been working
on these suits for the past year or two
and he feels that he has earned $12,000
for the state which would otherwise not
have been collected.
The Barnum & Bailey Show, owned by
t he Ringlings, is playing in the state
at the present time, and others of the
syndicate circuses will be here soon. It
is not known just what effect this con¬
fession of liability under the existing
revenue laws will have upon the circus
management during the present and ap¬
proaching tours. The back taxes piled
up when the shows which were sued
attempted to evade the law by cutting
their admission price and representing
their afternoon and evening perform¬
ances as only one continuous perform¬
ance. Newspaper publications, In other
sections of the state, are to the effect
that this continuous performance dodge
will be resorted to again this season.
used for patrons to sit on. Shortly
after the performance a nice shower
came up, but only enough rain to lay
the dust. The sun came out again and
business tonight was good. Loaded
early as we have ninety-eight miles to¬
night. Quite a lot of adverse criticism
has gone the rounds since the note re¬
garding Fred Ledgett and Dorcas Avery
came out. The writer thinks there is
no wrong in telling the absolute truth
and had it not been for a streak of yel¬
low in several of the male members of
the dressing room. Miss Avery would
never have had to take the beating she
hardly deserved, especially by a man.
The article was written with the knowl¬
edge of the management and is sanc¬
tioned by them in every line.
Cleburne, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 27.—
The long run was made in record break¬
ing time, for we were in and unloaded
before 6 o’clock. Forepaugh-Sells had
every available board and pasted their
"coming soon” paper five weeks ago.
This is quite interesting as they do
not show here until October 22. Talk
about opposition; I guess that is going
some. Very light crowd on parade, as
we had a poor showing in the rural
districts. Weather extremely hot.
(Continued on page 20)
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sponsors, is a commendable little
song which we Joy in reviewing. We
don’t know know just exactly
it is in Mr. Drislane’s lyrics that ap¬
peals to us, but somehow or the
other, we like them. Certain it is
that songs bearing his name as the
lyrist seldom prove a drug on the
market, which shows that Mr. Havi-
iand is sagacious and knows what
he is doing.
“BELOVED,” one of five semi¬
classic ballads by Robert M. Stults,
issued by the P. B. Haviland Pub¬
lishing Company, is meritorious and
melodious. Mr. Stults, who gave us
"The Sweetest Story Ever Told,” evi¬
dently takes his work seriously and
pays considerable attention to de¬
tail. “Beloved,” is refined and neatly;
turned, showing that Mr. Stults long
ago was graduated from the rank
and file of the brazen amateur.
“TEDDY DA ROOSE,” words by
Ed. Moran, music by J. Fred Helf, is
exasperatingly poor and void of any.
merit. We reiterate, it is poor. (J.
Fred Helf Company.)
There are ballads which are high
class—using vernacular of tinpan al¬
ley—in name only, and then there are
ballads which are not only so-called
“high class,” but which merit the
classification in every respect. The
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ballad of love and of heart throbs
ever has been with us, and, we be¬
lieve, ever will be with us so long as
we have popular writers in our midst.
A goodly proportion of the high class
version of ballads now being written
contain some flaw or the other
which works to the detriment of the
complete success of such songs. Per¬
haps the words limp, perhaps the
melody is not representative. Again,
the words may be all they should be
and the melody also may claim this
distinction, and yet words and music
may not be happily wedded. We’ve
noticed one or more of these defects
in several high class ballads which
we have before us. But it is our
mission to temporize and not go too
deeply into the analization of these
creations. We desire to say, in pass¬
ing, many of these ballad writers are
pure tautologists, unabashed and cas*
hardened.
Theodore Morse has been among
tion. _„ _ „„
stigmatized with plagiarism, s_
It has been dainty and original, and
much of it has been of highly fin¬
ished workmanship and caliber. KiS
successes have been plentiful, his
speak plainly in type,
taken keener delight in reviewing a
song than we do in Mr. Morse’s latest
high class ballad, "IF THIS ROSE
TODD YOU ADD IT KNOWS.” Mr.
Moree har excelled himself in this in¬
stance. Purity of composition and
simplicity it has in superabundance.
Mr. J. F. Mahoney, who furnished
the word setting for this masterpiece
of popular song writing, is no mere
rhymster or word juggler. His words
to the song under discussion are ex¬
tremely poetical and beautiful. They
are as delicately fragrant and sweet
as it the rose of which he speaks,
“If This Rose Told You All It Knows”
is as perfect a song as has come to
our attention since "O, Promise Me.”
(Theodore Morse Music Company.)
“A KNIGHT OF the ROAD,” is>
the title of a song that just hag
reached us. It is published by E. J.
Burdick (who wrote the words) of
t x w v 0 rk, and the music
is by E. J. Washbon. Mr. Burdick’s
lyrics are entirely original—a good
Direction JOHN CORT
Mrs. Leslie Carter
Will Begin Her New York Engagement November 21,
at the Nazimova Theater, in a New
Play by Rupert Hughes,
TWO WOMEN
The Authors’ Producing Company
ANNOUNCE THE SEASON’S DRAMATIC TRIUMPH
CHARLES KLEIN’S
“THE GAMBLERS”
NOW PLAYING at the LYRIC THEATER, CHICAGO
At the Maxine Elliott Theater, New York, beginning
October 31. In Preparation—A New Play by Henry
Arthur Jones; a New Play by Margaret Mayo.
MAX FIGMAN
In The Best Play He Has Ever Had
“Mary Jane’s Pa”
BY EDITH ELLIS
“JINGA BOO”
A New Musical Comedy
Book Adapted from the German by Leo Dietrichstein.
Lyrics by Vincent Bryan. Music by Arthur Pryor.
Will Receive Its New York Presentation in November.
THE SHOW WORLD
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THE SHOW WORLD
UNDER THE WHITE-TOPS
Where Your Circus and Carnival Friends are to
Found in the Near Future
CARNIVAL ROUTES
YOUNG BUFFALO SHOW
CLOSES FIRST SEASON
Col. Vernon C. Seaver’s Wild West Enterprise Proves Profi¬
table—Bigger Next Year
Young: Buffalo’s Wild West and Texas
Rangrers closed its first season at
Duquoin, Ill., Monday, October 3, and
the show has gone into winter quarters
at Peoria. Flushed with what has been
an almost sensational success, Col. Ver¬
non C. Seaver, president and general
manager of the show, has already be¬
gun the assembling of his forces for the
next season which will open consid¬
erably earlier than did the one which
has just closed. Mr. Seaver's main of¬
fices at No. 108 East Madison street,
where all contracts for the coming
season will be arranged, are already
teeming with new circus business.
The history of the Young Buffalo
show to date has been a rather re¬
markable one. The decision to" launch
the show was not reached until May 7
and the business of securing 250 people
to man an eighteen-car outfit repre¬
senting an expenditure of $50,000 was
no small matter. That Col. Seaver ac¬
complished it is proof conclusive that the
reputation he has for doing things is
not without foundation in fact.
The show opened in a perfect deluge
of rain and thereafter for thirty days
there was scarcely anything but rain,
sunshine prevailing on but seven days.
With - ' •' - ’ " - ’
ss, attempted to blast it by maiiii
-- citizens in the towns billed lette
declaring that the Young Buffalo c
— - disreputable and n
ganization
worth while.
closing of the season on Mon-
resulted a few
d been planned
day, Col. Seaver t __j
weeks sooner than h: _ __
because of dissension in the ranks w
-making things hard. In viev
of
all of these difficulties ...„
the show feel especially gratified with
the financial success which was
achieved.
During the season Col. Seaver spent
considerable time with the show, dis¬
playing the energy of a man of twenty-
" which his photograph,
five years of a„ _ ,_ r „,
to be found elsewhere in The Show
World, would indicate him to be; as a
matter of fact, the Colonel has passed
his forty-seventh birthday. Little Ver-
-C. Seaver, aged seven years, was
with the show a considerable por-
taking his vacation
in Chicago i
considerable attention through h
ity as a rider.
Speaking of the prospects for next
season Col. Seaver said yesterday: "I
With a daily expense bill of approxi¬
mately $1,900 it is needless to say that
during this bad weather the show lost
money right and left. But when the
sun came out in the heavens it also
came out in the ticket wagons and
from that time on it was a case of re¬
couping previous losses and adding to
better Young Buffali
the features commonly used v..... „,
west exhibitions and others which a
|gr *"i W iia west and circ
1 how many ca
- „ both t ._ ..
world. I cannot
the show will carry.”
iSlflSs
cook house, fell in a friendly tussle to¬
night and fractured his collar bone. No
other accidents occurred. Spader John-
company $24,000. He has also si
endered $14,000 to the company.—O'
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October 8, 1910.
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THE SHOW WORLD
October 8, 1910.
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FOR SALE
SALES COMPANY IS
MAKING RULES
The Motion Picture Distributing &
Sales Company, the organization of the
independents in the moving picture busi¬
ness, has .lust sent out a circular let¬
ter to exhibitors and film renters la
which is set forth the following rule:
“Any application for a wholesale con¬
tract for the purchase of film shall be
accepted provided the applicant shall
execute our exchange agreement and
place with' the sales company a standing
order for twelve or more reels per weeK.
which standing order must become ef¬
fective and shipments commence thereon
within one week from date of contract,
and the said contract be accompanied by
a certified check for $1,200, or at the
rate of $100 per reel, payable to the
sales company, which amount shall be
considered a permanent deposit to guar¬
antee the acceptance and payment for
the last week’s shipments under a two
weeks’cancellation, or for the last
week’s shipments under a cancellation
for violation of said contract. The de¬
posit to draw 6 per cent interest an¬
nually.”
The New York Morning Telegraph
comments upon the rule as follows:
“Again is this organization of inde¬
pendent manufacturers following out a
rule established by the Patents Company.
The only difference, however, is that the
Patents Company exacts that itsTicensea
exchanges purchase six reels of new
films weekly, while the sales company
demands that independent exchanges
purchase at least twice as many.
“The sales company is going into the
banking business, too. They demand
that all new exchanges leave a deposit
of $1,200 to guarantee payments, which
• will always be in the hands of this com¬
pany as long as the exchange will do
business with the sales company.”
Winsted, Conn., Oct. 3.—The Winsted
opera house is open for the season of
1910-11 under the management of Mills
E. Norton, playing first class dramatic
and musical productions. The house is
showing moving pictures on nights when
there is no show booked. The Scenic,
M. J. Carroll, manager, is showing pic¬
tures and songs exclusively. Mr.
Nickolas, of New York, is singing the
illustrated songs. Both houses are usihg
licensed service of four reels, changing
three times a week, and are drawing
good houses, the S. R. O. sign being
frequently displayed.
MONTREAL EXHIBITORS
HA VE BIG FIGHT ON
Minister Heads League Which Seems to Have for Its Object
the Suppression of Picture Shows
A campaign against the moving pic-
*”—5 theaters in Montreal, Canada, has
i started and is being waged with
vigor. The Rev. F. J. Day, pastor of a
Montreal church, has placed himself at
the head of a league of young men and
is attacking the shows at every turn,
the league, apparently doing everything
in their power to stir up bad feeling be¬
tween the moving picture managers and
the general public upon whom the shows
depend for their support.
A Show World correspondent com¬
ments upon the situation as follows:
“Looking at the matter from a fair and
unbiased standpoint there does not seem
to be any vantage from which the ’re¬
formers’ can honestly and fairly attack
the moving picture shows. The only
possible offense, legally, is their opening
on Sunday. The legitimate houses are
bound by law to keep dark on that day.
“The tax gainst moving picture shows
here is very big, in fact, it is almost as
large as the regular theater tax, when
taking into consideration all the expense
necessary to the running of a picture
house. The local city council and the
aldermen never lose an opportunity ot
attacking the picture men and fining
them heavily for the Sunday playing. It
is, of course, regrettable that there
should be Sunday playing at all, but
there should be decent, fair, open legis¬
lation to that end, and not continual
concerted personal attack.
“Further developments are awaited
with interest by the show men.
“When the Jeffries-‘Blackjack’ John¬
son fight pictures were here, the legal
lights and the church cranks got very
busy. Mr. Hooley, who is local manager
for the Brock enterprises, Canadian
lessees of the fight films, was running
the films at a local house. The local
authorities, incited by the enemies of
showdom arrested Mr. Hooley and his
helpers and held them until they got
bail. Mr. Hooley was afterwards re¬
leased for want of proof but was fined
at a later date.
“That is but one example of the law
here, and your correspondent would be
glad if The Show World would sound
a note of warning in time to any in-
--are thinking of
MOVING PICTURE NEWS
General Manager of the American Film
Manufacturing Company, Which Has
Lately Shied Its Caster Into the Mov¬
ing Picture Arena, Allying Itself
h the Independents.
Colorado—A. C. Cook of Denver has
purchased a half interest in the Idle
Hour theater in Colorado Springs.
District of Columbia—H. H. Elliott
has secured a permit for a new moving
picture theater to be located at 1402
Church St., Washington, D. C.
Illinois—Apple River is to have a new
motion picture house. A Mr. Estorf is
to be the owner. J. Colson has secured
a permit for a new moving picture the¬
ater to be located at 1436 Fullerton ave¬
nue, in Chicago. F. Berd will erect a
moving picture house at 6137 Lincoln
avenue, Chicago. F. Logan has pur¬
chased the Gem moving picture theater
leased the Sedalia theater in that
Columbus, Ohio, Oot. 4.—Permanent
organization was effected at a meeting
of the Exhibitors’ League. It will take
steps to bring into the fold all the pic¬
ture exhibitors in Ohio. One reason for
organization is the need picture men
feel of combination against the power¬
ful film exchange combination.
Another reason is the insurance ques¬
tion. Exhibitors believe they are being
robbed under present insurance pre¬
miums and want to take some action to
assure themselves a square deal. If
they can’t get it any other way, they
purpose to form an insurance company.
The old Ohio Film Exhibitors’ Pro¬
tective Association was absorbed by the
new organization and all the money in
the treasury was turned over to the Ex¬
hibitors’ League.
Officers chosen are: President, M. A.
Neff, Cincinnati; first vice president, W.
A. Pittus, Conneaut; second vice presi¬
dent, F. P. Reichert, Port Clinton; sec¬
retary, C. C. Carter, Cincinnati; treas¬
urer, G. O. Dupins, Lima. Pennsylvania
and Indiana were represented at the
session.
St. John. N. B., Can.. Oct. 5.—Keith
& Albee’s motion picture theater known
as The Nickel, has been completely re¬
modeled and renovated, and it is safe
to say that St. John now has one of the
finest motion picture theaters in eastern
Canada. At present J. W. Myers and
the MacBrady Children are looking after
the vocal end of the show. Another
strong drawing card to this house is
the excellent music furnished by a pro¬
fessional orchestra of eight pieces under
the direction of Alfred Jones.
- —moving picture theater on South
Main street, in Kendallville.
Idaho—Messrs. Butler & Lunn have
purchased the Crystal theater in
Moscow.
Iowa—Mr. Clyde B. Rainey has pur¬
chased the Lyric moving picture theater
in Marengo. C. Conner has purchased
the interest of F. I. Williamson in the
moving picture show at Hillsboro.
Kansas—M. Rumgay and H. Jones
have purchased the Edison theater at
Garden. W. H. Sears of Macon, Mo.,
is planning to start a moving picture
theater in Independence.
Kentucky—Mr. J. H. Settle has opened
a new theater in P~*-*—
Minnesota—V. P.
theater in Eveleth.
Michigan—C. S. Sullivan of Hancock
has opened a new moving picture theater
in Ishpeming.
theater in Aurora to E. L. Burney. J.
J. McCartney —” A TT -- L —
ing arrangemc
picture theate
Grand Island.
North Dakota—W. D. Kirkman has
purchased the moving picture theater in
t a moving picture theater in Med-
Miller have purchased the Lyric Nickel¬
odeon in Irwin.
Texas—D. Simon of Chicago will erect
a new theater in Houston.
Wisconsin—F. D. McCarthy of Beloit
is making arrangements to start a mov¬
ing picture show in Edgerton. H. S.
Miller has secured a permit for the erec¬
tion of a new moving picture theater
at 514 Twelfth street, Milwaukee. Mil¬
waukee is to have another new theater
which will be located on Lincoln avenue
and owned by Max Kantak. Will Holz-
miller has purchased the Electric theater
Moving Pictures at Terry’s, London.
The moving picture craze has resulted
in turning that historic playhouse, Ter¬
ry’s theater, over to the purposes of
the cinematograph. Old playgoers will
feel a twinge of regret in the announce¬
ment, for many pleasAnt memories are
connected with the theater, which was
opened on October 17, 1887, with “The
Churchwarden,” one of Edward Terry’s
established triumphs. ft was at Terry’s
that “Sweet Lavender,” which attained
a run of nearly 700 nights, bloomed
and proved one of Sir Arthur Pinero's
most enduring successes. Later came
the same writer’s clever play “The
perhaps have enjoyed equal favor. Here,
too, “Little Lord Fauntleroy” first ex¬
ercised its charming influence. The thea¬
ter is at present in the occupation of
Miss May Robson, ‘ *- — — 1
Oklahoma City, Okla., Oot. 5.—Moving
picture machines are in demand ail over
Oklahoma and scores of them will be
kept busy until the close of the cam¬
paign. They are being put to use by
many of the candidates. In addition
to the picture machines, some of the
campaign committees have obtained
good singers for songs. While this
kind of campaign will not be seen all
over the state. In several of the coun¬
ties it will be the most theatrical cam¬
paign ever witnessed.
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October 8, 1910.
THE SHOW WORLD
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WHEN WAS THAT FILM RELEASED?
Licensed Films.
Independent Films
DmM. Title. Kind. Feet.
Mon., Sept. 19 A Summer Tragedy.Drama 987
Thur., Sept. 22 The Oath and the Man.Drama 997
Mon., Sept. 26 Rose o’ Salem Town.Drama 998
Thurs., Sept. 29 Examination Day at School .Drama 991
Mon., Oct. 3 The Iconoclast .Drama 992
Thur., Oct. 6 A Gold Necklace .Comedy 676
Thur., Oct. 6 How Hubby Got a Raise.Comedy 416
LUBIN.
Thurs., Sept. 15 Resourceful Robert .Comedy 450
Mon., Sept. 19 Zeb, Zeke and the Widow.Comedy 990
Thur., Sept. 22 Love’s Old, Sweet Song.Drama 990
Mon., Sept. 26 The Sheriff’s Capture .Drama 990
Thurs., Sept. 29 The Path of Duty.Drama 990
Mon., Oct. 3 The Baggage Smasher .Comedy 990
Thur., Oct. 6 Woman’s Vanity .Comedy 600
Thur., Oct. 6 The Golf Fiend .Comedy 350
Sat., Sept. 17 The Vagaries of Love.Comedy 950
Mon., Sept. 19 The False Friend.Drama 658
Wed., Sept 21 An Arizona Romance.Drama 990
Fri., Sept. 23 Max'in a Dilemma.Comedy 446
Frl., Sept 23 The Mexican Tumblers. 476
Sat, Sept 24 A Simple Mistake.Comedy 950
Mon., Sept. 26 Max Is Absent-Minded .Comedy 551
Mon., Sept 26 Colombo and Its Environs .Scenic 426
Wed., Sept. 28 The Hoodoo .Comedy 920
Fri., Sept. 30 The Sick Baby .Drama 984
Sat., Oct 1 Who Owns the Rug?.Comedy 690
Sat., Oct. 1 Southern Tunis .Scenic 302
Mon., Oct. 3 Betty Is Still at Her Old Tricks.Comedy 490
Mon., Oct. 3 Molucca Islands .Scenic 459
Wed., Oct. 6 Mirth and Sorrow .Drama 575
Wed., Oct 5 Different Trades In Bombay .Indus. 410
Frl., Oct. 7 Slipper Tim .Trick 633
Frl., Oct 7 A Life For Love .Tragedy 351
Sat., Oct 8 An Indian’s Gratitude .Drama 990
EDISON.
Fri., Sept. 16 Bumptious as a Fireman .Comedy 996
Fri., Sept. 16 From the Arctic to the Tropics.Educational 995
Tues., Sept. 20 An Unselfish Love.Dram*. 1000
Frl., Sept. 23 A Jar of Cranberry Sauce.Comedy
Fri., Sept 23 Almost a Hero. 980
Tues., Sept. 27 Over Mountain Passes.Scenic 275
Tues., Sept., 27 The Footlights or the Farm.Drama 725
Fri., Sept. 30 Ononko's Vow.Drama 1000
Tues., Oct 4 More Than His Duty .Drama 1000
Fri., Oct 7 Bumptious Plays Baseball.Comedy
Fri., Oct. 7 The Farmer's Daughter .Drama
▼ITAGRAPH.
Sat., Sept. 10 The Three of Them.Drama 986
Tues., Sept. 13 The Sepoy’s Wife.Drama 990
Fri., Sept. 16 Two Waifs and a Stray .Drama 985
Sat., Sept. 17 A Lunatic at Large .Comedy 997
Tues., Sept. 20 Jean, the Match-Maker .Comedy 1000
Frl., Sept. 23 A Modern Knight Errant .Drama 967
Sat., Sept. 24 Renunciation .Drama 999
Frl., Sept. 80 A Home Melody .Drama 907
Sat, Oct 1 The Bachelor and the Baby.Drama 995
Tues., Oct. 4 Ransomed; or, a Prisoner of War.Drama 998
Frl., Oct 7 The Last of the Saxons .Drama 1007
Sat., Oct. 8 The Sage, the Cherub and the Widow ....Comedy
ESSANAY.
Wed., Sept. 14 He Met the Champion.Comedy 455
Sat., Sept. 17 Hank and Lank—Joy Riding .Comedy 233
Sat., Sept. 17 The Pony Express Rider .Drama 750
Wed., Sept 21 A Close Shave .Comedy 553
Wed. Sept. 21 A Flirty Affliction .Comedy 416
Sat, Sept. 24 The Tout’s Remembrance.Drama 1000
Wed., Sept. 28 Hank and Lank—They Dude up Some.Comedy 307
Wed., Sept. 28 Curing a Masher.Comedy 660
Sat, Oct. 1 Patricia of the Plains .Drama 1000
Wed., Oct. 5 All On Account of a Lie .Comedy 1000
Sat., Oct. 8 The Bearded Bandit.Drama 1000
Wed., Oct. 12 Hank and Lank—They Get Wise to a
New Scheme .Comedy 302
Wed., Oct. 12 Pap’s First Outing.Comedy 698
GAUMONT.
(George Kliene.)
Tues., Sept 20 Tactics of Cupid .Drama 896
Tues., Sept. 20 Sunset ....Scenic 102
Sat., Sept 24 The Reserved Shot.Drama 741
Sat, Sept. 24 The Times Are Out of Joint.Comedy 252
Tues., Sept. 27 The Sunken Submarine.Drama 646
Tues., Sept. 27 Too Much Water.Comedy 351
Sat, Oct. 1 A High Speed Biker .Comedy 401
Sat., Oct. 1 The Diver’s Honor .Drama 591
Sat., Oct. ’1 A High-Speed Biker.Comedy 401
Tues., Oct. 4 Her Fiance and the Dog.Comedy 525
Tues., Oct 4 The Llttle Acrobat .Drama 466
Sat, Oct. 8 The Dunce’s Cap .Drama 895
Sat., Oct. 8 A Skier Training .Scenic 100
Mon., Sept. 19 Big Medicine .’.Comedy _
Thur., Sept. 22 The Sergeant .Drama 1000
Sun., Sept. 25 The Old Swimming Hole.. 1000
Thur., Sept. 29 A Kentucky Pioneer...Drama 1000
Mon., Oct. 8 A Cold Storage Romance.Drama 565
Mon., Oct. 3 My Friend the Doctor.Comedy
Thur., Oct. 6 For Her Country’s Sake .Drama 100»
Mon., Oct. 10 The Sanitarium .Comedy 1000
URBAN-ECLIPSE.
Wed., Sept. 7 Military Kite Flying at Rheims.Scenic 256
Wed., Sept 14 The Artisan .£ ram J
Wed., Sept. 14 The Tramps .Comedy 625
Wed., Sept. 21 A Corsican Vendetta .Drama 699
Wed., Sept. 21 Scenes in the Celestial Empire..Scenic 269
Wed., Sept. 28 The Quarrel .Drama 607
Wed., Sept. 28 Reedham’s Orphanage Festival 1910.Scenic 894
Wed., Oct. 6 The Dishonest Steward .• •. .Drama 699
Wed., Oct. 5 City of a Hundred Mosques, Broussa, Asia
Minor.Scenic 296
KALEM.
Frl. Aug. 26 The Canadian Moonshiners .Drama 975
Wed., Aug. 31 A Game with Fame.Drama 975
Frl., Sept. 2 White Man's Money .Drama 980
Wed., Sept. 7 Mamma’s Birthday Present .Comedy 985
Fri-. Sept. 9 The Cow Puncher’s Sweetheart.Drama 972
Wed., Sept 14 The Little Mother .Drama 980
Fri.. Sept. 16 A Leap for Life.Drama 985
Wed., Sept. 21 The Japanese Spy.Drama 975
Fri., Sept. 23 The Coifjpiracy of Pontiac.Drama 975
Wed., Sept 28 The Heart of Edna Leslie.Drama 965
Fri.. Sept. 30 Spotted Snake’s Schooling .Drama 885
Wed., Oct. 5 The Engineer’s Sweetheart .Drama 1000
Fri., Oct 7 Big Elks’ Turndown .Drama. 930
Thur., Sept. 8 Baseball, That’s ^All*?*™?.’.Comedy 950
Thurs., Sept 15 In the Mission Shadows.Drama 950
Thurs., Sept. 22 The Salt on the Bird’s Tail.„ 55®
Thurs., Sept. 29 A Plucky American Girl.Drama 950
Thurs., Oct. 6 Billy’s Sister T.Drama 950
Mon., Sept. 26 Pressed Roses . Drama
Thur., Sept 29 Annie .Drama
Mon., Oct. 3 All the World’s a Stage.Drama
Thurs., Oct. 6 The Deciding Vote .Drama
Mon. Oct. 10 Jes’ Plain Dog.Drama
Mon. Oct. 10 A Game of Hearts .Drama
Wed. Oct 13 The Garden of Fate .Drama
GREAT NORTHERN.
Sat., Sept. 17 Danish Dragoons .Scenic
Sat., Sept. 24 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Drama
Sat., Oct. 1 The Flight Across the Atlantic.Scenic
Sat. Oct. 1 Bird’s Eye View from World’s Highest
Buildings.Scenic
Sat. Oct. 8 The Storms of Life. -
N. Y. M. P. ITALA.
Sept. :
Sept. :
Sept, r
_Foolshead as a Policeman.
Sat., Sept. 24 The Bad Luck of an Old Rake..
" ' " ' " Foolshead Employed ’ - •
Oct. 1 Foolshead Has Been Presented With
.Comedy
i Foot-
.Comedy
Wed., Sept.
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Thurs. Oct.
N. Y. M. P. AMBROSIO.
4 The Iron Foundry .
1 The Last Friend.
1 Molly at the Regiment.
8 The Virgin of Babylon .
: The Pit That Speaks .
Tweedledum’s Duel .
NEW YORK MOTION PICTURE.
) For the Love of Red Wing.
! A Cattle Rustler’s Daughter.
7 A Cowboy for Love.
0 The Ranch Raiders .
Young Deer’s Return .
The Girl Scout .
POWERS
9 A Husband’s Sacrifice.
) Aunt Hannah .
t His Lordship .
7 The Taming of "Buck”.
7 O, You Wives.
The Music Teacher .
The Beechwood Ghost .
LUX.
2 Only a Bunch of Flowers.
2 That Typist Again.
9 How Jones Won the Championship.
Kindness Abused and Tts Results.
! Auntie in the Fashion.
: Mother’s Portrait .
1000
500
1000
1000
1000
. .Comedy
. .Drama
. . Comedy
. .Comedy
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. .Drama
. .Comedy
Mon., Sept. 26 The Street Arab of Paris.Drama
Fri., Sept. 30 Giovanni of Medici (Cines) .Drama
Mon., Oct. 3 Through the Ruins of Carthage.
Mon., Oct. 3 Behind the Scenes of Cinema Stage.
Fri. Oct. 7 Giorgione (Cines .Drama
Mon. Oct. 10 The Carmelite .Drama
Mon. Oct. 10 The Order Is To March .Comedy
A. G. WHYTE.
Wed., Sept. 14 The Law and the Man.Drama
Wed., Sept. 21 Strayed from the Range.Drama
Thurs., Sept. 28 Where the Sun Sets .Drama
Wed. Oct. 5 The Golden Hoard .Drama
TKANHOUSER COMPANY.
Fri., Sept. 16 The Stolen Invention .Drama
Tues., Sept. 20 Not Guilty .Drama
Fri., Sept. 23 The Convict .
Fri., Sept. 23 A Husband’s Jealous Wife.Comedv
Tues., Sept. 27 Home-Made Mince .Comedy
Frl., Sept. 30 Dots and Dashes .Drama
Tues. Oct. 4 Leon of the Table d’Hote.Comedy
Fri. Oct. 7 Avenged.Drama
SALES COMPANY-PILM D’ART.
Thur., Aug. 26 In the Day of the First Christians .Drama
Thur., Sept. 1 King of One Day.
Thur., Sept. 8 The Ministers’ Speech.
Thur., Sept. 8 The Conscience of a Child.
Thurs., Sept. 15 The Temptation of Sam Bottler.Drama
DEFENDER PILM CO.
Thurs., Sept 8 An Athletic Instructor .Comedy
Thur., Sept. 15 A Game for Life.-Drama
Thur., Sept. 15 An Attempted Elopement.Drama
Thur., Sept. 22 The Cattle Thief’s Revenge.Drama
Thurs , Sept. 29 A Schoolmarm’s Ride for Life.Drama
Thurs. Oct. 6 Wild Bill’s Defeat .Drama
ATLAS FILM CO.
Wed., Sept. 28 Levi-the Cop.Comedy
Wed., Sept. 28 The Laugh’s on Father.Comedy
Wed., Oct. 6 When Cupid Sleeps .Drama
Wed. Oct 12 Curing a Grouch .Comedy
Wed. Oct 12 The S. S. Mauretania .Scenic
YANKEE FILM COMPANY.
Mon., Sept. 19 The White Squaw .Drama
Mon., Sept. 26 The Yankee Girl’s Reward.Drama
Mon., Oct. 3 Women of the West.Drama
Mon. Oct 10 The Monogramed Cigarette .Drama
CHAMPION.
Wed., Sept 14 A Wild Goose Chase.Comedy
Wed., Sept. 21 The White Princess of the Tribe .Drama
Wed., Sept. 28 A Western Girl’s Sacrifice.Drama
The Cowboys to the Rescue .Drama
Wed. Oct. 12 How the Tenderfoot Made Good.Drama
CAPITOL.
Sat., Sept. 24 Bill Mason’s Ride ..Drama
Sat. Oct. 1 All’s Fair in Love and War.Drama
RELIANCE.
Sat. Oct. 22 In the Gray of the Dawn.Drama
FIVE CENTS THE COPY—PAY NO MORE
WARREN A. PATRICK, GENERAL DIRECTOR
The Show People’s Newspaper CHICAGO, OCTOBER 8, 1910. For All Kinds of Show People
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