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The Billboard 1909-12-04 CHEAP -THE LATEST MUSIC SPECIAL FOR PLAYER AND ELECTRIC PIANOS AbaoluUljr Voa-BreakabU ON SPOOLS AND ROLLS Suitable for amaL tbe4tT« and morlnf picture abona. W. PRICE, 50 to Per Roll. H carrj tbeae chalra In stork and cai ship Immrdlatelj 60 pieces, so new every month, that Serood-baod cbalr. also seatloc for oa< they are old by the time others produce | of door use. Add r>.pt. R.. HTEEl them. Send for Catalogues Bulletins. : n RSMTURi; C<». n r a D d Rapid. Mirbixan. Bnatoc UIMITEID S'T/K'TE.S MUSIC CO., nIBre. 224 Cooxreaa L.art«st Makar* in tha World. I at., Boston, Mass Mooadnork Blk 4S N. V\ e»lem Ave., CHICAGO, U. S. A. Ran FTanrlsco. Cal.; S. Y. offire. 44 Park Place i — LOOK — 1 This Trunk id mnda of : AT THE PRICES . $10.001 S-ply B. B. a B. Trunk 1 ** $0 . 11.001 WoM, hMYT Duok Oov- WANTED . is.ool ! $t erinc, Hieiory SUta, 1 *4 . i$.ooi 1 $6 . 14.00 MallMbU SeroU-Bouna 1 $8 Hand-Riveted Tip^ng . 16 00 For Moving Picture Stock Company 40 Tray. 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The Light That To those wlinm we engage ami who prove satisfactory. It mean* a .VJ we< k engag< inent right In go-rounds Washington. Ex|>ens.a are not btgti and It Is a delightful plac“ to live. State salary desired. Address Never FailsII^n Amusement Outfitters WILBERT MELVILLE, General Manager. Capitol Producing Company, ... Washington, D. C. INDEPENDENT EXCll.VNtlES—tbd your name on our mailing list as quickly at possible, Sw99i9y St, N. T9MW9nd9, N. Y., U.S.A you may have ttrs: notice of isir releases. Y’otril want them—Itecniiae they sill be BRST AMERICAN MADE EIL.M OBTAINABLE." This chair, though spaced to gain 20 per cent, SKEE-BALL in your seating capacity, wiU give more room A most profitable than any other. This is the and easily managed Bowling Game for Only Self-Righting Chair on the market, on which we liave Patents in PIEISURE RESORTS, all civilized countries. Any other firm adver PARKS AND tising or ofTering a self-righting chair is misrepre AMUSEMENT PARLORS senting, for they dare not make them. We Make All Grades for All Uses. SKEE-BALL Establlahad irfS Send for Catalogue. ALLEY CO. O^gea and Hydrocca Oaa faralakcd ta taaka for StersopttcoD and Moving Picture Macblaaa PHILADELPHIA, PEHH. .411 orders to any part of tba L'altod Statss THE A. R. MILNER SEATING CO ailed. Send for Catalogue B New Philadelphia, O. Aganta for all makaa of MotIbc Plotara Maohlaa. AUTOMATIC MOVING SEBB FOB TEBMa SHOOTING GALLERY CINCINNATI CALCIUM LI6NT CO. l08W.4thSt.. Cincinnati. O. 52nd and Halsted Sts., Chicago, III. 4th season. Situated in the heart of the city. Trans¬ Church and Aohool Furnitar* portation •ime.xcelled. 500,000 {lopiilation within a radius CHiaP AND GOOD Keod for Tataloc of one mile. §200,000 expended on improvements. For EXCELSIOR FURNITURE CO.. full particulars, address 6th and Vine Sts. Cincinnati, 0. Luna Park Co., 4183 S. Halsted St., Chicago, III JAMES O’LEARY, President =: WANTED = A.VT> B.AKKHAIX NOVKlTTIKb. Write for priee lUt. WM. WtJRFFLEIH. Mgi. Good Attractions t06 N. Secend St.. Philadelphia. Pa., D. 8 A At the Lurluor Opera Hunae. Lorlmor. Iowa. Good acenery, piano, gaa llghta. Capacity 400. One of tbe greatea l'»pulatli>o (Mil. amuwment rldlnc devli-ea and man-., VAriiEVIl.I.E ACT KDR .SAI.F^I’airlik faaey, getters. $L070.k<i r» Jr., a llietlblack lie'ective—characters: a Tad. celpta at one fall Char. Wtmiaii and Versatile Juvenile (niuat do I'JV) in dve hours a' a iMMdblaek, a Jew (Mal.ller ami an Indian); another. $4iai In on- written f<w the bigh-elaas bmiMMi and for ■ day In a (lark Ab wi'll-kiiosn trill that epllt (original price. ; other carried 20.116. Ironclad, 32 inch $10.00 will sell for f.liMi; terms, half down and half pae»enger» at #»• In ten weeks; fully proteete,! by late copy atreet fairs; I1.2A* . right; with mialel for *|M-ctal dri>p; will send 7." clear profit. Writ- for InsiHTibin u|i«n re«-elpt of 12 to pay ex for new I** page ca' ‘ 36 ** 11.50 [ire*, charges, etc., liolh ways. (lEoROS aligue full of fact* KINGSBI'RY. care Tbe Billboard, ('tncinnail. O. figure* and plioi, 38 “ 12.25 graph.. Eli Bridg< Co.. Box 143 B 40 “ 13.00 Park Settees, Opera Chairs Roodhonie. Ill. None iM-tter. Illglit prlci-a. W. A. CHOATE THE BELBER TRUNK & BAG CO. SEATING CO.. Albany. N. Y. _ OAKS DOUBLE MYSTERY The King of all trick* No. 1641 N. Hancock St. • Philadelphia, Pa WANTED How to get out of any ordl nary trunk and sack. A Ageata. I.egliliiiate siit>atltate for Slot Ms clilni-a; palenieii; mII, hq sight for $1. Par challenge feat which cat tie t<erformi-d on any stag* ELGENE COX ticniar*. OISHA CO., Andoraon. Ind. or In any (irlvate boi.-ae wheri they are oiitaloed. Trunk b (New No. 1528 Van Buren Street, CHIC180. SCENERY SP0RTI^G GOODS ..iTiirely IiMk'-il. Bag Is tlei and sealed. .No confederate. Krw. NATIONAL SUPPLY CO., Boa 100. Price fl. The Oak, Noselt' Edina. Mo. Co.. Dept. 68. Oahkoth Wi*. STAGE HARDWARE RIGGING LOFT EQUIPMENT STEEL CURTAINS At 2t4. S and Stt.r per foot, to feature atrong 216 and 217 West Ontario St. Why buy Jiink? ECONOMY FILM CO.. Removed FOR ANY SIZE THEATRE CHICAGO . - . ILLINOIS $I2S rinemaiograph M. P. Machine. $(!•: new to Fulton Bldg., Sth St., Pittsburg, Pa. MinIi-I It’s, $2.*i; Wi slides Arpiinil Wis-ld. $12.60, •Ml \i¥-|li I’.ile. $7 «ai; llOv Elec Plnin.. $36 If Yon See It in The Billboard, Tell Them So. I F. L. SMITH. Amsterdam. New York. ilFi >sh»i^^&ig:q] Volume XXL No. 49 CINCINNATI-NEW YORK-CHICAGO December 4, 1909 On Amusement Life and Environment ^l(gID)©TE| Joe 1). Carroll relates an incident which recently happened while playing In a town In Indiana on one of the Western Circuits: believe it, you say? It’s decidedly brief, so we’ll reproduce it, "I was at an alrdome where the music consisted of piano, and. as it is generally accepted that no essentials are lacking, but th was an open-air affair, me piano wa judge for himself. -j - -—7 v/->reJ . ' t n but just low enough in Here it is: : I < )|,5- 1“ front of the footlights to allow a slot With dignified gait and head erect, I Oh PIUS? ' ^ to be cut in the front of the apron so the woman descended the front steps co«c ’Tis .Pi^JplfcCRy^ir''I'li they could slide a contrivance which and proceeded slowly down the street. they called a top. Its purpose was to In one hand she held a hat box. in the slide out and cover over the top of other a large paper bundle, and In her the piano at night and then slide it eyes was the liglit of battle. back under the stage when they The man ran distractedly after her. '_t -■ "f opened it again. “Come back!” he cried. “For heav¬ "At the rehearsal, the stage man¬ en’s sake do not leave me thus.” ager sat around and was observing things and I noticed as I rehearsed my But the woman turned upon him with a withering glance of scorn, and first song the piano was very low in pitch, and I said to the player: ‘Let’s the corners of her mouth dropped contemptuously'. try it again;' and I again complained of it being too low. I said: 'That “Y’ou don't know what this means to me,” the man continued, in a piano is certainly low.’ Just then our friend, the stage manager, said: frenzy of despair. “ 'Wal, if you raise her much higher you can’t git tha top on.’ But In vain. Her retreating figure had turned the corner, and the "I didn’t argue any further, but just walked over to him and said. woman, deaf to his entreaties, was now out of hearing distance. The man ‘You win.’ ’’ re-entered the house and threw' himself on a divan. “What is to become of us?” he groaned. “Our cook is gone!” Harry Moore, the rapid ticket selling treasurer of the Norris & Rowe_ Circus, says he was once with a small dog and pony show. The manager wanted a clown to liven things a bit and advertised for one, putting in the ; Wilhelm Sommer the far-famed Austrian conductor, was sailing for ad the stereotyped phrase, “long season South,” “salary low, but sure.” Out i Germany for a flying trip before taking charge of one of the big new show of a number of answers received, the manager picked what he thought was | places of New York, a few days ago.
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