E FIVE CENTS THE COPY—PAY NO MORE FIVE CENTS THE COPY ISSUED FRIDAY DATED SATURDAY VoL VI. No. 8. CHICAGO August 13, 1910 ~ A Charming Member of the “Jumping Jupiter” Company Now Playing at the Cort Theater 2 THE SHOW WORLD August 13, 1910 Mr. Vaudeville Theatre Manager THERE are NO BUMPS on the “ASSOCIATION SPEEDWAY” BUSINESS.0CR X y*V) Our Booking Service Ranks First has assumed LET US PROVE IT enormous propor¬ tions. We have passed all competition, and now stand alone as THE LARGEST and BEST AFFILIATED WITH ORPHEUM CIRCUIT EQUIPPED BOOKING 1 WESTERN KOHL 6 CASTLE GUS SUN CIRCUIT INTERSTATE AMUSE¬ ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD. MENT CO. Vaudeville Managers and UNITED BOOKING OFFICES OF | ASSOCIATION AMERICA We Furnish Acts For THEATRES FAIRS PARKS CIRCUSES CLUBS ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO C. E. BRAY, General Manager and EVERY KNOWN Majestic Theatre FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT ‘THE PAT CASEY OF THE WEST’ ADOLPH E. MEYER ATTENDING PERSONALLY TO THE WANTS OF ALL GOOD VAUDEVILLE ACTS SUITE 1205 WRITE ME AND LEARN WHAT 1 CAN DO FOR YOU MAJESTIC BLDG., CHICAGO PLAYINC THE BEST IN VAUDEVILLE IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF and SULLIVANGeneral Bueineee Office CONSIDINEGeneral CIRCUITBoo*In* Office Vaudeville Acts—Platform Shows Sullivan and ConekHne Bid*., Third Suite 9 end 10, 1440 Broadway, Attractions for County or State Fairs, *9®ATTLe|'WASH*’ YORK CITY. Let us hear from you. Fred Lincoln, Gen. Mgr. Chrla. O. Brown, IR*r. BRANCH BOOKINC OFFICES MID-WEST VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT 2 16, 2 18, 220 West Liberty Street, - - CINCINNATI, OHIO 67 South CM St., Third «nd Madison St.., HIT ud 1136 Mirtnt St. New Location one block from Music Hall and Exposition CM.MO.HL Settle, Wuh. PAUL GOUDRON. MAURICE J. BURNS. W. P. REESE. Booking First Quality Acts for Vaudeville, Parks and Fairs. We furnish new paper for all attractions and deduct from weekly salary.. Keep us posted on your open time. Our own private wire connected with main line Postal Telegraph. Open Day and Night. Long Distance Telephone. Good Diving and Swimming Girls; Male Net Jumpers, Char¬ WANTED acter Actors and Comedians | STATE ALL IN FIRST LETTER | GREATPARKER SHOWS CON T. KENNEDY, General Manager X O SUNDAY S II O W S CAN USE TWO MORE GOOD FREE ATTRACTIONS C. L. HAGAN, Director of Amusements ROUTE OHIO VALLEY EXPOSITION CO. 12TH and PLUM STREETS AUGUST »TH to SEPTEMBER MTH CINCINNATI, : : OHIO Winnipeg, Manitoba, Aug. 8 to 13 Brainerd, Minn., August 15 to 20 International Theatrical Company WANTED FOR UNITED AMUSEMENT CO.-Free Acts of all kinds. and United Theatres -4™- -1™ Can give ten weeks booking to TWO FIRST-CLASS NEW IDEA SHOWS. SULLIVAN & CONSIDINE CIRCUIT 8how property of ell kinds for sale and exchange. Will trade for Playing the Best in Vaudeville anything. wHAT HAVE YOU? Permanent address of United Amusement Co., Rooms 20o-20o PAUL GOUDRON, AGENT, NO. 67 SOUTH CLARK STREET, GHIGACO, ILLINIOS DeCraw Bldg., 319 West 9th St., Kansas City, Mb.__ HAVE YOU “CAUGHT” OUR LIVE VAUDEVILLE DEPT. _WARREN A. PATRICK, GENERAL DIRECTOR The Show People’s Newspaper CHICAGO, AUGUST 13, 1910. For All Kinds of Show People More Than Your Money’s Worth but Pay No More. Get All the News in THE SHOW WORLD-Red-Hot, Nothing Doped, Just Plain Facts. Spend a nickel a week and keep posted. 4 THE SHOW WORLD RELIABLE RECORD OF VAUDEVILLE ACTS August 13, 1910 THE SHOW WORLD 5 BOB ROBERTS IS DROWNED; BYRON JAMES SAVES GIRL GUS SUN BOOKING EXCHANGE GO. OCn Houses Address all letters to ncfl Houses Second Tenor of the Clipper Quartet Hero at Wilson Bathing ZUU Booked NEW SUN THEATER ZOU Booked Beach Last Friday Afternoon. 75 Large Theaters springfield, ohio 75 [arge Theaters Branch Offices ARTISTS A Season’s Work. Short Jum™ Byron James, second tenor of the himself to getting tjie young lady No Loss of Time if Salary and Clipper Quartet, saved a young- girl’s ashore. Carrying her to a place of PITrSBURC, PA. Act Satisfactory. State all •life at the Wilson Avenue bathing beach 630 Wabash Bldg. Z7:v;ZE First Letter No Tihie for on Friday afternoon of last-’ safety he turned to see how Roberts Warren Todd. Mgr. Lengthy Correspondence. A ■—he realized the seri- was getting along and was surprised to SPRINGFIELD, O. Blanket Contract Issued for srts’ position, would find he had gone under. Returning he CINCINNATI, O. .... lives to his credit. dived several times but Billy Mann, a American Theatre Bldg. Executive and Lowest Terms Should Be Men - Bob Roberts, a singer of songs at minstrel, was also after the body and Harry Hart, Mgr. Consulting Staff cafes and moving picture theaters, met the black-faced man reached It first. LOUISVILLE. KY. MANAGERS IfNot’Satisfied GiveUsaTrial. a young lady at the beach and the two The young lady called upon Mr. James Walnut Theatre Bldg. President and One Salary—Exclusive Service. were wading along the sand bar. They Split Weeks Arranged. at the Wilson Avenue theater last Satur¬ John Ward, Mgr. Amusement WANTED Girls that Can Sing and Dance stepped off into nine feet of water. The day afternoon and thanked him again to Work m Productions—Min¬ girl became excited and threw her arms and again. James was made much over Representatives John McCarthy around Roberts' neck. He could swim at that house the remainder of the week, strel Talent for Sun's Own and she could not. CHICACO. III. Vice President Show that Can Double in when It was learned that he had saved Majestic Bldg. O. G. Murray Olio. First Class Comedian Among the bathers that afternoon was a life at the beach. “I could have saved Treasurer for Act. Parties Having Acts Byron James. He saw the bathers’ them both, had I realized that the boy Booking in Conjunction Submit Same to Our Producing danger and hurried to the rescue. Know¬ was so near gone,” said James. “His with The Western Vaude¬ Ray H. Leason Department. Piano Players ing that Roberts could swim he devoted heart must have failed him.” ville Mgrs. Assoc. Secretary that Can Read and Transpose Charles Crowi, Rep. National Vaude¬ at Sight. First Class Producer ville Managers for Girl Acts, Dramatic and NEW YORK Comedy Sketches. Long Acre Bldg. GENERAL All Houses Three Thows Daily Fables in Vaudeville No. 13 Booking in conjunction Producing with The^United Booking 'NF0RMA. STIC? Large* Er^hTo Departments TI0N Play Any Act in Vaudeville. We Book in Harmony with the The Old Timer Who Came Back — But Went Away Again Fred Hilton. Rep. Biggest Circuits East and Wesf. By FRANCIS OWEN of Owen & Hoffman NOTICE uW?WpMSE?J.5 notice — CE upon a TIME there was a SOUBRETTE who chewed GUM op A FEW ACTS THAT WORKED SUN TIME LAST SEASON Street cars, talked loudly in HOTEL, . - —o big last night the MANAGER Itolfe’H <•oloni.ll Septette Harvey Case A Co. tins Williams offices about HER ACT, and made quiet, had to make a SPEECH and tell ’em I just COULDN'T do any MORE.” The l.asky n Seven Hoboea Gypay .rrenaders Childhood Hnv- retiring, SHOW people blush for the PESSIMIST winked at the rest of the A Might With The Poet- M’lU’S Singing twirls Arthur Hu-Ion A Co profession! every time her LOUD hats BUNCH, and told them to wait for him PAve McGregors Jewell’s M»n.kin- Sunny South and frocks came SCREACHING up the that NIGHT after the SHOW,—he was llr.Larl Herman Happy Jackkarduer Arthur Homing street. A PESSIMIST who lived in the Arthur Klgby Mr A lira. Dowling Fondollr.-Troupe going to look over this WONDER, and Bachman’s Lions Lillian Mortimer Co. Corlia P same HOTEL, listened patiently for a then they could all CALL her next day Great Henri t reneh Soli Marimba Hand Juggling Xorman- time to her SELF-ADVERTISING and make her BEHAVE herself in Watson-Cohan< o. La Kstellita Runth 1 Kudi .a HOTEL LOBBY, and determined PUBLIC. That night the PESSIMIST F ive .Musical McLaren- Golden A Hughe- Zingarl Singer- the first chance he got to go and see if sat in front and grqw SMALLER and Heidelberg Four Alpine Troupe Herbert Llojd Co. she were the BIG NOISE and RIOT she SMALLER as the SOUBRETTE rolled Tli«» K.iiirlo mid Thp 4.iil um.i. ■_/. .claimed to be. He told the rest of the up enough HANDS to last some ACTS Keiff Bros. A Murrai y The Mozart- TIioHaiiciogllaiiilim disgusted BUNCH that it was an old the rest of their lives. She took SIX or Amy Itutler Co. Ten Hark Knights Boys In Blue — ‘rue saying that a BARKING dog hKVfflW bows—they rang up on AN¬ Vk'at-on'M Farmyard 'Circus Sun’s Minstrels Luken's Features BITES, and he believed the SOU- OTHER act, and rang down again be¬ 4 oakley, McBride A Suiters Keno. Welch A Melrose Real Widow Brown BRETTE was just an ordinary person cause the AUDIENCE wouldn’t let the Vera He Ha—iiil The Fourth Act Kolllns A Klifton with nothing but NERVE, and a good SOUBRETTE go. Then sh<» made a nice bunch of assurance to help her out. MODEST little speech, thanking them Several ACTORS who listened to this for APPLAUDING her poor efforts. The WRITE — WIRE—Call to Fill Time flow of WISDOM said they thought the PESSIMIST walked home in a dazed SAME thing, because THEY never condition, ran up to his room and locked talked about themselves, although the door. The GANG waited in the OF¬ THEIR ACT was always a SCREAM, FICE for him, and then sent a delega¬ ind SAM DU VRIES had been just tion up to see if he was in.