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Volume I—No. 1. CHICAGO June 29, 1907 SMART SET APPROVES VAUDEVILLE

AjDVANCED vaudeville is the sort Popular Entertainment is Cordially Supported by Best People, unique, entertaining and original that that Mr. Keith, of the East, Mr. the small cost of attendance is more than repaid. ■ Kohl of the Central West, and and the Excellence of Bills Offered at First Class Theaters Best Artists Employed. Mr. Beck of the trans-Mississippi re¬ Shows Advancement Made in Recent Years. The advancement in vaudeville gions, have been giving for years. which has won the favor of the most They have advanced this form of en¬ intelligent*classes has led to the em¬ tertainment from season to season, BY LYMAN B. GLOVER ployment of nearly all the musical often doing pioneer work ahead of and dramatic stars in the world. the demand, and always endeavoring trials and tribulations exhibited on a dramatic performance disappoint- the stage. ing, the evening is lost, but in vaude- Only a few grand opera and dra¬ to provide smart, clean and skillful Vaudeville is frankly recreative. It ville nothing of the kind is possible. matic artists have resisted the appeal performances at prices within the from this big, popular field. Most of reach of all. them have listened to the call of the vaudeville manager and of the satisfy¬ Those who remember the vaude¬ ing honorarium which he holds out. ville, or variety, as it was then known, All departments of the entertainers’ of twenty years ago and can intelli¬ art have contributed to the new vaudeville. Artists with a genuine gently contrast it with the offerings specialty have been recruited In all of today in the same field and with parts of the world. Without waiting the (theaters in which those offerings for the spur of competition and anx¬ are | made, need not be told that the ious only to be worthy of the gener¬ ous patronage received, such estab¬ advance in form, quality and environ¬ lished managers as Keith, Kohl, and ment has been not only constant, but Beck have offered continuously the astonishing. Handicapped at the out¬ best of everything. set,; and along the road, by the un¬ Record One of Advancement. savory reputation of the old-time va¬ There can be no more advanced riety which was a synonym for vul¬ vaudeville at this moment than they garity, progress was for a time slow. and their associates have given and are giving. If there were anything Fight for Recognition Strenuous. better to be had they would have it. Well-founded prejudices cannot be Their entire record is one of ad¬ broken down without persistent and vancement. They have encouraged intelligent efforts and thus for years and developed both refinement and after the “ten, twenty and thirty” novelty in vaudeville, with so much of liberality towards the artist that banner appeared, the fight for gen¬ the best people have been attracted eral recognition was strenuous in the towards this class of amusement. extreme. The masses to whom low Not only was the disputed trade¬ prices were something of an object mark of “Advanced Vaudeville” orig¬ inated by this long-established, man¬ first discovered that the entertain¬ agement, but the actual fact of con-’ ment offered by the “continuous” was stant advancement was realized be¬ worth their while. Not being under fore any thought of competition dis¬ bonds to fashion and preferring gen¬ turbed the ambitious dreams of amusement Alexanders who sigh for uine amusement to the shadow of it new worlds to conquer. offered in the average drama, with Best People Vaudeville Patrons. its padding, verbosity and false pre¬ That this most creditable fact is tense, they learned not only the ar¬ recognized by the public needs no tistic merits, but the recreative con¬ special proof. In the leading met¬ sequence of vaudeville long before ropolitan vaudeville houses the aver¬ their fashionable brethren woke up age audiences are quite equal In qual¬ to the fact that they were paying a ity to those in theatres where high lot ®f money to the so-called legiti¬ prices inadequately cover a multitude mate, for mighty little wool. of sins. Doctors, lawyers, literary lights, bankers, and representatives Vaudeville Grows in Favor. of the smart set in general find in But intelligent efforts along popu¬ vaudeville the little nonsense which lar lines could not be resisted and we are told is relished by the best of LYMAN B. GLOVER. Eykes Photo, Chicago. men. And ft is not nonsense alone, during the past ten years the vegue There are few men better qualified to discuss the subject of advanced hut expert skill, originality and di¬ of vaudeville has increased rapidly. vaudeville and matters affecting amusements in general than Lyman B. Glover, verse art that attracts them. It has quite emerged from under the manager of the Majestic theater, Chicago. Mr. Glover is a man of wide exper¬ Only the other day the bankers of ience. a thinker and a fit spokesman for the great vaudeville interests he ban and now is regarded by smart represents. His article on vaudeville, which was written especially for this Chicago selected the Majestic The¬ issue of TH]E SHOW WORLD, is timely and comprehensive. Before engaging ater as the most interesting amuse¬ people of all classes as a legitimate in the theatrical business, Mr. Glover Was la newspaperman, in which field he ment resort in Chicago for their and desirable form of entertainment. made an enviable record. guests, the Texas Bankers’ Associa¬ Even the shrill falsetto of the faddist tion. During the same week the Na¬ clamoring for problem plays and dis¬ has no other purpose than amusement When one feature does not suit tional Credit Men’s ’ Association at¬ some particular taste, the next is tended the Majestic in a body, hav¬ mal dramas in which the social ul¬ and has not participated in the hum¬ bug of an educational intent which likely to make amends. In a modern ing reserved the entire theater. With cers and woes of humanity are has often made the dramatic stage vaudeville theater one cannot be such indorsements as these, vaude¬ Placed on view, no longer serves to ridiculous. It ranges from grave to bored for an entire evening as he ville is well content. It is making mislead the intelligent public, anxious gay, from lively to severe In a well- often is in the legitimate and that no apologies for the sins of its youth at a much higher price. Of the doz¬ which have been fully atoned and Is to escape its own woes for a time ordered manner, the purpose being to provide a menu which will include en or more expert acts in every bill, confident that its mission of recreat¬ and by no means willing to pay ex- features to suit every respectable most of them international in fame, ing the public and making the people »j»yagant prices for a replica of their taste. If a drama is displeasing or he is certain to find several so happy is worthy of commendation. June 29, 1! 4 THE SHOW WORLD

THE dramatists of Chicago, past The Fast Mail, Heart of Chicago, The literary merit and of unusually well Sergei, play publishers, of Chici and present, although they num¬ Tornado, The Defaulter, Down Mo¬ conceived situations. Mr. Banks is and all are in active demand. ber less than a score, have done bile, The Flaming Arrow, Remember a man of untiring energy and unusual Preston Gibson, well known in Cl and still are doing much for the ele¬ the Maine, Under the Dome, The ability and all his works find a ready cago literary circles, is author of Mi vation of the American stage. Chi¬ Eleventh Hour, The Darkest Hour, market. Erskine’s Devotion, which was pi cago is rapidly taking its place in the Her Only Sin, Too Proud to Beg, Two Will D. Eaton, author of All the duced by Anne Sutherland recently front rank as a producing center and Little Waifs, On the Trail and last, Rage, in which William H. Crane He is a strong, virile writer and hi this will ultimately spur the play- but not least, Bedford’s Hope. Car¬ starred for many years and which plays give promise of better work to • wrights of the metropolis by the lake ter knows life and what is better, he was a remarkably successful play, is come. He is a deep student of hu¬ knows the people to whom he caters one of the best known of the coterie man nature, a keen observer and his and therein lies his success. He is of Chicago playwrights. He is author characterizations are true to life. his own producer and as a result also of Iscander, a tragedy, a poet¬ wealth has rewarded his efforts. ical work of massive proportions and a drama based upon the life of the Bounds Into Fame. William Lightfoot Visscher, King of Navarre, which met with suc¬ round writer and sometimes actor, is William Vaughn Moody, a profes¬ cess when presented by Melbourne author of Across the Continent aq sor in the University of Chicago, McDowell in San Francisco two years other plays which met with leaped into fame at a bound when his ago. Mr. Eaton is a scholar of rare in their day. He is an excelh sterling play, The Great Divide, was attainments and his plays, measured story teller and he writes as well produced under the title of The Sa¬ from the standpoint of literary merit, he talks. Although not a your bine Woman, by Margaret Anglin last are readable as well as actable. man, Mr. Visscher is youthful in spij year. The play, while it is typical of A Dramatist of Power. it and his future performances ai the west, is a philosophical master¬ looked forward to with interest piece and its characters are drawn John McGovern, a well known Chi¬ his admirers. with rare power. Prof. Moody’s de¬ cagoan, is a writer of classical plays, but as a playwright was so successful all of which stamp him as a dramatist Charles T. Dazey, author of Ii Old Kentucky, is one of the that he will now devote his sole time of- marked ability and power. He is known of the Chicago colony of plaj and effort to the preparation of plays author of Joan of Arc, Patrick Henry, wrights. Although a Quincy, Ill., man of the higher class and it is safe to David Lockwin, Burritt Durand, and he makes Chicago his headquartd assume that his work will be in ac¬ The Lord of Como, which latter and many of his successes were pri tive demand for many seasons to drama he wrote jointly with Jesse duced here. His most recent pr< Edson. One of his more recent plays duction was Home Folks, i Opie Read, the novelist whose de¬ is Sam Houston, recently produced comedy. He is author of The Lin Kiln, The Suburban, War of Weal! and Erma, the Elf, which was Kat Putnam’s vehicle for many seasoi He is a good writer and clever drai atist. Con T. Murphy, now a Chicago n lice magistrate, finds time to wrij plays, several of which scored sijj cess. He is author of Ivy Leaf, Til Witch of Baby Farm, Karl, the Pei on to the performance of better and ler, Father Land and McKenna’s more enduring work than they have tation. done in the past. Many of the best plays, comedies, and musical productions now before the public, are the work of Chicago writers. In the legitimate drama, melodrama, musical extravaganza, and in vaudeville, the fruits of their genius and perseverance nightly de¬ light thousands throughout the coun¬ try and as long as their pens are active the American stage will not lack material of the best class nor will it fail to reflect credit upon themselves or the city in which they reside. George Ade Leads the List. George Ade. although an Indianian by birth, probably is the best known of the playwrights who make Chicago their headquarters. It was while working on a Chicago daily news¬ DRAMATISTS WHO ARE MAKING CHICAGO FAMOUS. paper that the inspiration to write for the stage came to him. His rec¬ lightful stories have been a source of by Clay Clement. Mr. McGovern also ord, successful as it has been in the intellectual enjoyment to thousands is author of A Southern Gentleman, past four or five years, is part of the of readers for many years, is a play¬ which met with success. history of the American stage. The wright whose work has met with rec¬ Charles Ulrich, a Cincinnatian, but creation of The College Widow, The ognition and substantial reward. He now of Chicago, won his spurs as a County Chairman, The Sultan of Sulu has assisted in the dramatization of playwright in California ten years ago and a host of other eminently1 suc¬ several of his more successful novels. when he produced his Chinese play, cessful comedies have placed him on These include The Hark Riders, The A Celestial Maiden, which still holds a high pedestal in the affections of Starbucks, The Governor of Mississip¬ the boards and in which Guy Bates the amusement loving public. Mr. pi, and The Kentucky Colonel, the Post, Sarah Truax, Sylvia Lynden, Ade, like many another playwright, latter long a vehicle for the late Alma Chester, Robert Downing and William L. Roberts is a noted play whose work is in active demand, has Frank Mayo and others. Much of his others have toured the country with wright who has produced severa recently put forth several failures, collaboration has been done with success. He is author of more than notable works, chief among which ar( but he is capable of doing better work Frank Pixley of Prince of Pilsen a score of plays many of which are Valley Forge, On the Bridge at Mid than he ever has done and that he fame. All of his characters are well known. Among these may be night, The Commodore, Big-hearte< will be heard from periodically in the strong, manly and thoroughly enjoy¬ mentioned The Man From Nevada, Jim, Human Slaves, Honest Hearts years to come, may be positively able and the plays mentioned have The Honor of a Cowboy, Nugget, The Four Corners of the Earth, an< counted upon. been uniformly successful in the vari¬ Robespierre, Nell Gwyn of London a dramatic version of Parsifal. Mr In the field of the melodrama, Lin¬ ous cities in which they were pre¬ Town, In Virginia, The Bank Wreck¬ Roberts has a realizing sense ofwha sented. coln J. Carter’s name shines resplen¬ er, The Dawn of Liberty, etc. He also constitutes a dramatic situation an< dent as a star of the first magnitude. A Poet Playwright. is author of The Deserter, After the all of his plays have been winners What an array of “thrillers” his per¬ Charles Eugene Banks, poet, journ¬ Opera, and other sketches which have Several new productions are prom severing energy has produced! alist and playwright, is prominently met with success in vaudeville. He ised by him during the coming sea< Countless thousands have wept and identified with the drama. He is has written numerous plays for ama¬ son. laughed over the vicissitudes of his author of An American Woman, and teurs, many of which have been pub¬ David Higgins, the actor who it heroes and heroines in such plays as In Hampton Roads, both plays of rare lished by T. S. Denison, and Charles starring in his own play, His Las June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD

Dollar, has turned away many a dol¬ There are few women playwrights several strong sketches which have wrights named, several dramatists in lar from the box office because of its living in Chicago, but chief among been printed by Charles Sergei. She Chicago whose work has been suc- drawing power. He wrote The these is Grace Griswold. She has is a writer of excellent monologues, cessfully produced. Harry L. Newton Plunger, which was long used by written several meritorious plays and and is a good reciter. She is the only is author of numerous sketches well Oliver Doud Byron, and his Piney sketches, but her best known work is woman who has been honored with known in vaudeville. Elwyn A. Bar- Ridge and Kidnapped scored real hits. Billy’s First Love, which was pro¬ the title of “The Daughter of the ron, an old Chicago writer, now in duced by Valerie Bergere. She is a Press Club,” by the Chicago Club. talented writer and will be heard Harriet Monroe is a writer of lit¬ from in the seasons to come. erary plays of high merit and her Mrs. Frieda P. C. Hall, wife of O. L. work, notably a ‘ playlet of the Res¬ Hall, dramatic editor of the Chicago toration period entitled, “A Court Journal, is the brilliant author and Comedy,” is much admired. Annie composer of “The Voyagers,” a two Mitchell, who dramatized Under Two act musical comedy produced at the Flags, is a writer of signal ability. La Salle Theater in Chicago in 1903 Prof. Louis Block, a well known and which made the first long run at Chicago educator, is author of a book that playhouse. Mrs. Hall is author of plays of high merit. Lem D. Par-

GEORGE HARRISON. As manager of the Bijou Vaudeville theater at White City, Chicago, George Harrison is meeting with unqualified success. Mr. Harrison is a valued mem¬ ber of the Western Vaudeville Man¬ agers’ Association staff, and this cor¬ poration books all the attractions for this theater. Mr. Harrison has an en¬ gaging personality and is popular among vaudevillians. London and manager for E. S. Wil¬ When not acting, Higgins makes his lard, is author of Mountain Pink, a home in Chicago. highly successful play. Burns Man¬ Philip R. Kellar, an editor on the tle, dramatic editor of the Chicago Chicago Examiner, finds time occa¬ Inter Ocean, Ms written a number of sionally to write spirited lyrics and excellent sketches, but with becoming he is author of an excellent musical modesty he makes no claim to dis¬ comedy, Mr. Robinson Crusoe, which tinction on this account. Frank L. will be produced next season. He is Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz, author also of A Modern Miracle, a is a writer of note, and W. W. Dens- musical comedy, and Lucky Liz, a low is responsible for several notable drama. Associated with him in his creations. Messrs. Pixley and Luders, work is Robert H. Moulton, a strong of Prince of Pilsen fame, belong to and witty writer. Mr. Kellar will be the Chicago colony. heard from shortly. All of the writers named have done Stanley Wood is a veteran play¬ much by their skill to elevate the wright whose work has attracted at¬ American drama and as every sea¬ tention. He is author of Black Vi¬ son produces a new crop of dramat¬ pers, The Homeseekers and Dr. Dope. ists, the list promises to be an ex¬ This latter production, a musical com- traordinary one within the next few

of numerous dramatic and musical ker is a prolific writer, whose most playlets used in vaudeville, among successful plays are Dora Thorne and them being “The Debutante,” “The Thorns and Orange Blossoms. T. S. Eshah” and “Fifty Years Hence.” She Denison, a play publisher, is author Sykes Photo. Chicago. Sykes Photo, Chicago. is a credit to the Chicago colony of of a score of dramas which are quite GEORGE H. ROBERTSON. EDWARD HAYMAN. dramatic authors. popular with amateur players and No railway man with which the “ward Hayman, the genial booking Mrs. W. A. Clayton, better known many of which have been seen pro¬ people of the show world have to do associated with the Western as Kathryn Glenn, a vaudeville ac¬ fessionally en tour. is more popular than "Pop” George H. If th?VKlle*3Sfanas’ers’ Association, is one Robertson, Chicago city passenger ”3® P,®st known men connected with tress of note on the Orpheum circuit, Paul Potter was for years a report¬ agent of the Wabash railroad. He is the ^tV lie ln Chicago. Mr. Hayman is a daughter of Col. William Light- er on the Chicago press and his earl¬ dean of passenger agents and his popu¬ ias held this position for a number foot Visscher and author of several ier dramatic work was done in Chi¬ larity is due to his uniform affability Lyears satisfactorily to the per- ormers. honso „ - y - strong playlets, one of which, The cago. Harry B. Smith began his ca¬ of temperament and strict attention to ■ ™ the business of his clients and the Matador, has been booked solid in reer here years ago when he wrote company he so capably represents. vaudeville for the coming season. extravaganzas with David B. Hender¬ edy, recently was presented with suc¬ She is a woman of ability and a com¬ son. James B. Runnion, now dead, years. It is safe to predict that with¬ cess In Chicago while The Home- poser of no insignificant merit. wrote many excellent plays for the in a brief period the bulk of dramatic u! which was the joint work of The plays of Marjorie Benton Cooke, old McVicker’s theater stock com¬ and musical creations to enrich the p.r: Wood and Mr. Samuels, also a also a Chicago writer, are attracting pany, several of which still hold the stage will be the work of writers from bnicago author, met with success en much attention. Miss Cooke is a well boards. the big city on the shores of Lake known entertainer and has written There are in addition to the play- Michigan. June 29, 1907, THE SHOW WORLD YIDDISH DRAMA IN UNITED STATES Glickman and Thomashefsky as mem¬ THE history of the Yiddish drama Founded Thirty Years Ago, It Has Developed Artists of bers of his company. After playing in the United States is replete a short engagement at the Bijou the¬ with examples of painstaking Marked Power and Playwrights of Wondrous Ability ater, the Yiddish actors repaired ft the Standard theater on the west side, toil, , bitter disappointment and bril¬ An Important Branch of Amusement. where they appeared in Queen Es¬ liant achievement. Founded here in ther, Shulamis, The Greenhorns aw 1880, the Yiddish stage has risen to other standard plays. Their appear¬ a high place in the field of amuse¬ BY CHARLES ULRICH ance created a furore and so eager ments in this country. Supplied with were the Jewish theatergoers to wit¬ ness these performances that vast plays of remarkable merit, the works entrenched themselves in popular fa- however, for with each production cf crowds nightly paid $2 for standing of Gordin, Goldfarden, Thomashefsiky vor and the success with which they high class, the Yiddish taste for the room. From that time, the Yiddish met, gave a powerful impetus to the best grew more acute so that today and others of lesser note, the drama became a recognized institu¬ development of the Yiddish drama mediocre plays will not be tolerated tion in Chicago. Yiddish drama has developed many and operetta in this country. New by Jewish audiences. players of marked genius whose rise Glickman’s Rise to Fame. -I to international fame has been ar¬ Ellis F. Glickman, one of the great* est actors on the Yiddish stage, was rested only because of their reluc¬ born at Zsitomir, Russia, in 1869. He tance to master the English language. began to study acting with Jacob Such players who did learn to speak Adler in London in 1887 and after suf¬ and act in English, however, notably fering numerous bitter disappoi® Bertha Kalich, now stands in the front ments, came to the United States jjj rank' of the exponents of the higher the following year. He made his dramatic art and are reaping the bene¬ American debut as a star at Troy, fits therefrom. N. Y., in Goldfarden’s comedy, Kuni- The Yiddish drama in the United Lemels. This was followed by an States had its birth in a hall in New eastern tour and in 1890 he first ap¬ York in 1880, when Abraham Gold- peared in Chicago. He was received farden’s drama, “The Witch,” was with marked favor and his exquisite produced by Boris Thomashefsky, the art lifted him to a high place in the latter playing the leading part, that affections of his Jewish audiences.® of a woman. It was an humble be¬ The first Yiddish stock company ginning, and there were numerous organized in Chicago was establish® predictions that the Yiddish venture by Glickman in Metropolitan hail at inevitably must fail, but since that Jefferson and O’Brien streets, ■ time there have been successfully es¬ 1894. After two seasons at this tablished no less than ten permanent house, he went to the more commo# Yiddish stock theaters, all of which ious Lyceum theater where he re¬ are prosperous. Five of these play¬ mained until 1903, when he toured houses are located in New York and the country with great success. He one each in Chicago, Philadelphia, was in San Francisco at the time Of Boston, Baltimore, and Cleveland. the great catastrophe of 1906, and Plans now are formulating for the his extensive wardrobe, valued ® establishment of Yiddish companies many thousands of dollars, was <8- in Pittsburg, San Francisco and St. stroyed. He then returned Louis. cago with his company and secured Jewish Actors are Artistic. a lease of the International theater, The stock system in vogue at the where last season his record was Jewish theaters has been the means marked by numerous notable artistic of developing numerous actors of re¬ achievements. Glickman is a strong markable power. The Jew is tem¬ actor and whether he essay comedy peramentally a capital actor. He has or tragedy, he is the thorough artist the faculty of so skillfully merging to the core. Many ShakespearM his own personality and character¬ scholars pronounce his concept® istics into that of the creation that and portrayal of the character ’w engages his attention as to deceive Shylock as being without a peer ® all alike. In no two parts is he the any stage. same man apparently; but each is a Notable Yiddish Players. ] distinct character, vibrant with life Aside from Adler and Glickman, and pulsating with true art. The there are other artists of note db player’s identity is lost in the char¬ the Yiddish stage. Boris Thoinashef- acter he portrays and his manner¬ sky, who after a long absence ap¬ isms vanish as by magic under the peared at the International theater spell of his genius. Where, on any stage, are there here early in June, is one of the more consummate artists than Jacob best of Yiddish players. He is man Adler, Ellis F. Glickman, Elias Roth- ager of the People’s theater in New York and finds time when not acting stein, Boris Thomashefsky, K. Juve- or managing, to write meritorious lier, Jacob Frank, Mme. Lipzin, Mme. Regina Prager, Mme. Thomashefsky, plays which he produces with a fidel¬ or Bertha Kalich? With the excep¬ ity to details not surpassed even by tion of the last named these players Belasco himself. His wife, Mme. now are the flower of the Yiddish Thomashefsky, is one of the best stage and equally versatile in the soubrettes in New York and is fields of tragedy, comedy and oper¬ prime favorite with the audiences etta, they are to Jewish theatergoers that nightly throng her husban® what Mansfield, Mantell, Skinner, playhouse. Thomashefsky was the Sothern, Marlowe, Walsh, Adams and first Yiddish actor to play Shakes- Bates are to the patrons of the Eng¬ perian roles in his native tongue am lish stage. his Hamlet is said to be a remark¬ It was in 1883 when the first Yid¬ ably fine artistic effort. dish company of players arrived in The history of Bertha Kalich, who New York from Europe. This aggre¬ now is a star under the managem# gation was headed by Silvermann, of Harrison Gray Fiske, is well Karp, Mme. Chaimowitch and Mme. known. It was her work in the Karp, and their success was so em¬ Kreutzer Sonata, written by Gordin, phatic that they played for three plays capable of the best artistic in¬ Jewish King Lear Strong Play. that first attracted attention to her years in the Bowery Garden, almost terpretation were necessary and the Gordin’s most celebrated play, The marvellous talents as an actress. without interruption. Mme. Chaimo¬ man of the hour was Jacob Gordin, Jewish King Lear, a modernization Another actress of remarkable emo¬ witch, who is in private life, Mrs. probably the most noted of Yiddish of Shakespeare’s great work, was tional power is Mme. K. Lipzin, w® Jacob Adler, won distinction as one playwrights. A classical scholar, pos¬ written in 1891. Jacob Adler was is manager of the Thalia theater f of the strongest emotional actresses sessed of wide learning, delicate lit¬ first seen in the title part, but the New York. Mme. Regina Prager, on the Yiddish stage and Mme. Karp, erary taste and the power to express honors of its artistic interpretation known as the Patti of the Yiddish a woman of marked talent, also be¬ himself tersely—a man of ideas and later were shared by Elias F. Glick¬ stage, is remarkably versatile, J came renowned as an artist of supe¬ the skill to drive them home, Gordin man, now manager of the Interna¬ her forte is emotional work in cm rior ability. wrote classic after classic until now tional theater in Chicago. This pro¬ etta. Elias Rothstein is a trageefl he is termed the Shakespeare of the found play, filled with situations of of force and ability who stands hta Notable Yiddish Dramatist. Yiddish - drama. His first play, Si- remarkable strength and its charac¬ in the estimation of Jewish audiences In 1887, a second company arrived beria. was so exalted, so far above ters drawn with wondrous skill, K. Juvelier, of New York, probably from Roumania. This was headed the.heads of his auditors of that pe¬ promises to live for many generations is the best known leading man on the by David Kessler, now under Lieb- riod, -ak to excite ridicule and pro¬ to come. Yiddish stage, while Jacob Frank ler’s management, Sigmund Fein- voke the prediction that plays based Jacob Adler was first seen in Sam manager of the Baltimore theater, * mann, Sigmund Mogulesco and oth¬ upon the high Gordin standard never T. Jack’s theater, Chicago, in 1888, mittedly is the best comedian in He ers. These capable actors .at once could succeed. The prophecy failed but two years later he returned with wide range of the Yiddish drama.I June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD n i With the number of artists con¬ the first spade was sunk into the site commencement of the vogue which Charles B. Dillingham and W. F. Con¬ stantly on the increase, the artistic and everything was complete to the American parks are bound to have in nor of New York, proves the claim future of the Yiddish drama in this smallest detail. Europe, and it is safe to predict that that Chicago is rapidly becoming the country is most promising. The day producing center of the country. is not far remote when every city of prominence numbering among its Both Mr. Connor and Mr. Dilling¬ I population the highest type of Jew- ham are men of sound judgment and ishfe citizenship and culture will be they promise that none but the best provided with its Yiddish theater and attractions will be offered at their be adequately supported. The great newly acquired playhouse. It is their progress made by Yiddish art within intention to produce new plays and thirty years gives abundant promise keep them on at the Studebaker for of still greater achievements in the long runs. near future. No student of the best Mr. Dillingham at present has un¬ that the drama affords, be it Yiddish der contract several well known stars, or otherwise, can afford to ignore the and Mr. Connor will be remembered Jewish school of acting mor withhold as having directed the remarkable hisjFclosest observation of its meth¬ tour of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, which ods and aims. netted him a profit of $200,000. In days past we flocked to study the best that Prance, Germany or Italy offered us while we overlooked the pearls lying at our feet. Condi¬ tions are changing, however, and as the Yiddish drama advances to high¬ er planes, the earnest student of the best the drama affords will find in the Yiddish playhouse a place of sat isfying recreation and profitable study such as he will seek in vain else¬ where. True art finds recognition in every clime, be its environment New Chicago Theater Ready Jan. 1. what it may, and the Yiddish dramat¬ ic art is destined to rise to greater The new theater which is building heights and to win the admiring in Chicago for the home of the La¬ plaudits of the English-speaking race. Salle Theater Stock Company, the producers of “The Time, the Place Believes “Girl” is Lucky. and the Girl,” “The Umpire” and half Mr. Harry Askin, who owns “The a dozen of the other big musical suc¬ Time, the Place and the Girl,” is a cesses of the past five years, will be very strong believer in the benefits to ready by January 1, 1908. It is sit¬ be derived from the word “Girl” in uated on Clark street at the corner the title of a musical play. So strong of Adams and will have a seating ca¬ is this idea that he will probably pacity of 1400. change the title of “The Umpire” to “The Umpire and the Girl.” Askin to Tour Six Companies.

AMERICAN PARKS IN ENGLAND. Harry Askin, manager of the Grand Opera House1 in Chicago, will have no John Calvin Brown Reports Success¬ less than six companies touring the ful Opening at Manchester. country under his direction the forth¬ coming season. They will include In a recent communication to The Ezra Kendall, who will divide his Show World under date of May 22, season between “Swell Elegant John Calvin Brown, who recently or¬ Jones,” his last year’s success, a new ganized a company in England to one of the most popular of the many prima donnas . ,,0.0 ,RR mini lO delight the music loving world. Miss Eoekwell has been featured with a number of the best know operatic organizations and has sung with several of the principal bands of the United States. Her finest artistic suc¬ cess has been won as operatic soloist and along this line she has scored the greatest triumphs of her remarkable career. Gifted with a remarkabje temperament and a splendid voice Miss Rockwell has the faculty of swaying her audiences at will. She has never played an engagement where the management was not anxious either to prolong the time of her appearance or re-engage her for an early return date. Miss Rockwell has been specially engaged for a season of sixteen weeks this sum¬ mer as soloist with Lambise’s Royal Venetian Band, which is now appearing at the White City. Miss Rockwell is considered as one of America's greatest singing' women with bands.

The English people have taken to within a few years all of the coun¬ the American style of summer amuse¬ tries on the Continent will have ments in a wonderful manner and American outdoor parks as regular Mr. Brown states that the Manches¬ amusement features. The Show ter park promises to be one of the World will present in an early issue most profitable in the world to both a number of views of features of the management and concessionaires. Manchester White City Park.

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Sykes Photo, Chicago. Sykes Photo, Chicago. ADOLPH LINICK. ■ H. T. STEVENSON. FIRST CASH SUBSCRIBER TO THE SHOW WORLD. Adolph Linick has become a power Mp. Stevenson is the local manager of Within two hours after Warren A. Patrick had announced his intention in amusements in Chicago and together the Majestic Vaudeville Theater, at of establishing THE SHOW WORLD, J. A. Sternad, booking agent of the with Peter J. Schaefer and Aaron J. Bittningham, Ala., and looks after the Western Vaudeville Managers’ Association in the Majestic theater building, Jones is interested in many park and interests of the Inter-State Amusement Chicago, issued his check for $4 in payment for one years’ subscription. Always theater enterprises. His interests are Company. ” ■ - first to act when promptness is esential, Mr. Sternad showed his faith in the large and diversified, but he manages future of the new publication and its founder by sending for Mr. Patrick to them with singular skill. whom he presented the check, a fac simile of which is shown herewith. The operate a series of high class amuse¬ presentation was made in the presence of Kerry Meagher, of the association, play by George Ade which is at yet ment parks, tells of the successful Walter P. Keefe, manager of the Bijou Circuit, Edward W. Carruthers, man¬ unnamed, and another comedy on opening of White City, the first park ager of the Inter-State Circuit, Miss 'Ethel Robinson, manager of the Fair which Clyde Fitch is at work. Two at Manchester, England. The day of Department, David Beehler, manager of the Band Department and the general companies playing “The Time, the office staff. The check has been framed by Mr. Patrick and always will Place and the Girl” and one playing the opening was a cold, rainy one, but remain a tangible asset of THE SHOW WORLD office. according to Mr. Brown, the turn¬ “The Umpire.” Another of his at¬ stiles recorded 58,000 people and the The electrical display at the park Is Dillingham Leases Studebaker. tractions will be Joseph Howard and Hale’s Tours, Fun Factory and Fig¬ said to be especially fine and without -- Mabel Barrison in a new play by ure Eight broke all records. The being dazzling, is extremely effective. The recent leasing of the Stude- Howard, called “The Flower of the Park opened just eleven weeks after The opening of this park marks the baker Theater for' ten years by Ranch.” June 29, 1907, 8 THE SHOW WORLD CHICAGO CRITICS BEST IN THE LAND journal, in which particular field he HE dramatic critics of Chicago T Writers on Dramatic and Musical Topics on Chicago Press stands without a peer. His knowledge rank among the highest to be of dramatic (literature of the past found in any metropolitan city in are Known all over the United States—Reviewers are and the newer plays of the present the world. The importance 'theatric¬ Conscientious, Fair and Impartial. is most extensive and as a result his reviews are both instructive an ally of Chicago to which the eyes of entertaining. the amusement public everywhere Amy Leslie Brilliant Essayist. ■ are turned as a producing center for BY A STAFF WRITER Amy Leslie, the reviewer for the big productions of every character, Chicago Daily News, is one of the call for the best critical ability and the theater going public and which though young in years. He was for foremost dramatic critics of her set the Chicago newspapers are supplying is largely guided by his judgment. a long time press agent for the Grand in the United States. She writes Mr. Bennett is a caustic writer and Opera House, Chicago, and he is en all that can be asked for in this most entertainingly and her style js his imagery is brilliant. He is deep¬ rapport with all that pertains to the marked by clearness, depth, thougM regard. ly versed in dramatic literature and art. His criticisms are virile and his and high literary finish. Her judg¬ Many of the dramatic critics of the his standards of criticism cover a style is highly refreshing and con¬ ment of plays is unerring. Her Chicago press have gained interna¬ wide range. He is a Shakesperian vincing. criticisms are strong in praise add tional reputation in the field of con¬ scholar and has an intimate acquaint¬ Mantle an Authority. kindly in censure so that when she servative criticism. All of them, with¬ ance with the old dramatists whom Burns Mantle, whose weekly dra¬ deals a blow, it falls lightly and when out exception, are men and women he is fond of quoting. Being a stu- matic reviews in the Inter-Ocean are she has occasion to commend, it is

FRANK X. FINNEGAN CHICAGO EXJLMINEFZJ W'»°i BURNS MANTLS

PERCY HAMMOND. THE T^OST- Chicago Daily News

REPRESENTATIVE DRAMATIC CRITICS OF THE CHICAGO PRESS truly merited and appreciated. In of, 'culture, with the critical faculty dent, he studies every branch of the samples of fine writing and who is highly . trained and developed. When higher dramatic art, and his knowl¬ regarded as an authority in his special private life, she is the wife of Frank they pass judgment upon the merits edge crops out in all his writings. field, came to Chicago from the west Buck, of the Western Vaudeville -As¬ of a production their dictum may be His dramatic page is eagerly read ev¬ several years ago and soon estab¬ sociation. • I lished himself as a critic of the first relied upon as being free from bias, ery Sunday by his admirers. Hubbard Ranks High. competent and trustworthy. Hall a Strong Reviewer. rank. He knows plays and players intimately and his extensive knowl¬ Major W. L. Hubbard, the talent4 pities Ignore Box Office. O. L. Hall, dramatic editor of the edge is evidenced in all his writings. essayist of The Chicago Tribune, t Chicago Journal, is a brilliant writer The box office consideration which He is himself an author of several one of the best known critics in the on dramatic and musical topics. He so often tempers criticism as to mis¬ meritorious plays and other works of United States. He is highly distif lead the public into fancying a play works with painstaking care and all high literary merit. guished as a writer on musical topi# his writings bear evidence of a vig¬ is a howling success even though the as well as a reviewer of plays. He orous mentality and strong grasp of Miclntire Sharp and Breezy. audiences repudiate the attraction has made his department in the Tri¬ his subject. His reviews are a pow¬ Warren Mclntire, dramatic editor and it fails to draw, is totally lacking bune, one of the most talked of of erful arraignment of all that is false of The Chicago American, writes in the makeup of the Chicago critics. with a trenchant pen and his criti¬ any in the country and it ranks high in dramatic art and he is quick to with the theatrical and musical pro¬ They are given free rein by the perceive and appreciate merit where- cisms are sharp, breezy and brilliant. publishers and while none is need¬ fessions everywhere. He is a deep ever it may be found. He has more He is well liked in the profession, lessly bitter when he condemns, all student and all his vacations are than average ability in his line and with whom his criticisms rank high. are frank in their expressions of spent abroad in visiting points of in¬ he is rapidly advancing to the front Finnegan Man of Parts praise or censure. A criticism that terest on the continent and primiiffi rank of American writers on the Frank X. Finnegan, known to the himself afresh for the arduous tasks does not ring true fails of its mission, drama and, music. His daily dramatic but the average Chicago criticism profession as Forest Arden, is a of the coming season. column in'the Journal is a feature strong writer of dramatic reviews usually is sound and if favorable, be¬ which long since has merited and comes a valuable asset to managers combining humor and pathos with no won the commendation of the amuse¬ inconsiderable skill. He is connect¬ Puccini’s New Opera. and players, and the open sesame to ment loving public. success elsewhere. ed with The Examiner, in the col¬ Hammond Knows the Game. umns of which his reviews are eager¬ Giacomo Puccini, composer of “MS Bennett a Caustic Writer. Percy B. Hammond is dramatic ed¬ ly sought after. During the summer dam Butterfly,” is now at work on hife James O’Donnell Bennett, the critic itor of the Evening Post and this is seasons when most members of the new grand opera. The libretto t for the Record-Herald, is a gentleman saying a great deal. He is an old theatrical profession are resting Mr. founded on the life of Marie Antoin whose opinion of a play is of value to newspaperman in experience, al- Finnegan reports baseball for his ette. June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD 9

New York, June 23, 1907. appearance as a star under the direc¬ and who has since appeared in every The songs are all new and the scen¬ Broadway awaits the show tion of Mr. Harris at the Savoy the¬ continental capital and before almost ery is, of course, brand new. With WORLD. The news that Chi¬ atre a week later, in a new American every crowned head, will return to the exception of the Cohans, the cast comedy by Martha Morton Conheim, America in September and make a cago is to send forth a high- is also new, although Ethel Levy, entitled “The Movers,” while during tour of the country, opening in Chi¬ who was Mrs. George Cohan before class amusement weekly has been the the first part of September Mr. Har¬ cago. It is Mr. Harris’ present inten¬ the divorce courts severed the matri¬ subject of gossip along the Great ris will offer at the Colonial theater, tion to produce another play by James monial bonds, is conspicuous by her White Way for several weeks, and its Boston, Edwin Milton Royles’ latest Forbes, author of “The Chorus Lady,” absence. Gertrude Hoffman however play, “The Struggle Everlasting.” and in January next a character com¬ initial issue will find hosts of read¬ atones for this, and see res with a Arthur Byron, who is at present ap¬ edy with Edmund Breese in the prin¬ number of imitations she made fa¬ ers who are curious to see the jour¬ pearing as John Burkett Ryder in cipal role. mous in A Parisian Model. Her im¬ nalistic newcomer out of the west. “The Lion and the Mouse” at the <» ❖ personations of Eddie Foy, Anna If THE SHOW WORLD accomplishes Hudson, will have the principal male There has been a great exodus of Held, and The Gibson Girl in the what is expected of it, the verdict on role. Mr. Harris will have four com¬ Broadway productions to Chicago for Belle of Mayfair, were especially fine. “Pat’s” enterprise will be, “Great!” panies of “The Lion and the Mouse,” summer production and you folks out All in all, The Honeymooners is “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody the definite tours of which have not by Lake Michigan either are now wit¬ worth while, and has struck the fickle good,” and so the hot summer breezes as yet been decided upon. The two nessing or have in store the very best New York summer playgoers just to which have replaced the cold winds of principal roles, however, in the piece of our successes. Rose Stahl in The the proper degree. It is inevitably the late spring bring their welcome to destined to last until the dog days the New York roof garden and park or later, unless the busy young play¬ management in the way of a volume wright is compelled to take it off in of business to these places. order to attend to duties elsewhere in Half a dozen of the regular thea¬ the entertainment field. ters, however, still hold out. The Garrick, with William Collier, who Now that the days of negligee and gave the two hundredth performance torridity have reached Broadway, of “Caught in the Rain” last Satur¬ there is a notable absence of the peo¬ day night, “The Man of the Hour” at ple whose names figure prominently the Savoy, “The Boys of Company in the public prints. Every manager, B” at the Lyceum, and “The Lion and star and agent who could possibly the Mouse” at the Hudson, which steal away, has done so and they are Henry B. Harris has put on for a scattered far and wide, at summer summer run. The two musical-com¬ resorts and summer homes, on both edy* record breakers are still at the sides of the blue pond. Among the Knickerbocker and Broadway, the notables who are in Europe for the “Red Mill” and “A Parisian Model,” summer are Chas. Frohman, Oscar while Eddie Foy is still drawing Hammerstein, David Belasco, Clyde crowded houses at the Herald Square Fitch, Wagenhals and Kemper, Henry in “The Orchid,” and at the Casino, W. Savage, David Warfield, Ethel "Fascinating Flora” has last none of Barrymore, William Gillette, Wm. H. her charms. “The Red Mill,” by the Crane, Arnold Daly, Grace George, way, is to be sent to the Studebaker Annie Russell, Mary Mannering, Dal¬ theater, Chicago, later on in the sea¬ las Welford, Fritzi Scheff, Kyrle Bel- son and will be one of the star pro¬ lew, Dorothy Donnelley, Edgar Sei- ductions under the new management. wyn, Flora Zabelle, Helen Hale and Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe have Gertrude Quinlan. Mr. and Mrs. Rob¬ just completed a very successful en¬ ert Mantell are at Atlantic Highlands. gagement at the Academy of Music, Wilton Lackaye and family at Shel¬ where they have been presenting ter Island, Francis Wilson, New Ro¬ their reperjoire of Shakespearean chelle, Blanche Walsh, Great Neck plays. Both these players, it is re¬ Long Island; Elsie Janis, Shelter Isl¬ ported, will be seen in separate pro¬ and; Robert Edeson, Sag Harbor; ductions next season, but under the Henry Blossom on his yacht; George same management. Broadhurst at Virginia Beach. Among Perhaps the most important of the those who will go to the farm or are roof garden attractions at present is already in the region of hay and clov¬ George M. Cohan in “The Honey- er are: Blanche Bates, Hattie Wil¬ mooners” at the Aerial gardens and liams, Otis Skinner, Sam Bernard, the long list of “follies” at the Jar- Frances Starr, Max Figman, Florence din de Paris and Hammerstein’s. Roberts, James K. Hackett, Montgom¬ William Courtleigh in George B. ery and Stone, Frank Daniels, Paul Hobart’s “Peaches” seems to be the Armstrong, James Forbes and Gus one best bet of the vaudeville houses Edwards. Then, too, there are mans at the present time. According to re- well known players whose vacation the present sketch is to be amp¬ will be spent right on Broadway and lified in four acts and presented next hard at work This latter list in¬ season by J. Fred Zimmerman, Jr., cludes William Collier, Sarah Truax with Mr. Courtleigh as a star. Other Victor Herbert, Gustav Kerker, Geo names that have been in prominent KITTY GORDON. M. Cohan, Lee Shubert, J. Fred Zim black-faced type on the Keith & Proc¬ merman, Sam Harris and Henry B tor programs during the past week One of the most popular musical comedy actresses in London is Miss Kitty Gordon, whose “Cigarette” song delights vast audiences at the Pavillion. It is reported that she Harris. have been the pretty Bessie Wynn, will be seen in New York next season. Paul MacAllister, who, by the way, billposteTTtcTmeet. 's.11a “ephew of he late Ward Mac¬ will be played by the following peo¬ Chorus Lady, at Powers, and Brew¬ Allister, Stella Mayhew and the now ple: For Company A, Edmund Breese ster's Millions, at the Colonial, are Imporant Convention Will be Held at famous Houdini. and Miss Gertrude Coghlan; Com¬ two of the great big hits of the sea¬ Niagara Falls, July 9. pany B, Mr. Oliver Dowd Byron and son and now I understand that The The first manager to announce his Miss Flora Juliet Bowley; Company Red Mill, with Montgomery and Stone, Secretary Charles Bernard an¬ Plans for the season of 1907-8 is Hen- C, Mr. Paul Everton and Miss Joseph¬ will go to your city August 19. nounces that the Cataract-Interna¬ tu B«Harris- Mr. Harris will open ine Lovett, and in Company D, Mr. tional Hotel, Niagara Falls, N. Y., has „ . York season by presenting Walter Edwardes and an actress yet George Cohan’s new summer piece, been selected as headquarters for the itooert Edeson in a new play by Wil- to be decided upon. The Honeymooners, which is current Annual Convention of the Associated *mC- DeMille, author of “Strong- After the Chicago engagement of on the Aerial Roof Garden, over the Billposters and Distributors which is and as yet unnamed, on Aug- Miss Rose Stahl -in “The Chorus New Amsterdam Theater, is one of to convene Tuesday, July 9. hl TT Mr- E(Jeson will appear at Lady,” Miss Stahl will be presented the best hot weather attractions on The Board of Directors of the Nat¬ rr Hudson theater. On the same in a number of the largest cities of Broadway, and is receiving its just ional Association will convene on =7 the same manager will launch the United States, and in May, 1908, and proper share of the summer pat¬ Monday, July 8th and transact such w ,elwyn as a star in Mr. Ede- will be sent to London, where she ronage. Supposed to be a revamped business as is brought to their atten¬ \ „ ast year’s vehicle, “Strong- will appear at one of Charles Froh- version of the Yankee Doodle Boy’s tion for consideration at this their last ueaMn ^r’ Selwyn’s Premier ap- man’s theaters. old piece, Running For Office, The meeting of the fiscal year. ' aIanc® lu a stellar capacity will be Miss Ruth St. Denis, whose East Honeymooners proved to have very The meeting promises to be of much de at McVicker’s theater, Chicago. Indian dances created a furore in little of the old, and much of the importance to the future of bill-post¬ «race Elliston will also make her New York something over a year ago very newest musical comedy fabric. ing interests in the United States. THE SHOW WORLD

Summer Amusements

Prospering.

: New Acts at rr_J The Majestic. News Notes. T

LD SOL triumphs at last. The the piano frontwards and backwards, in the way of caricature. This of parts, and his impersonations were O most enjoyable. He makes up in full gods up at Medicine. Hat have with gloves on and the keys covered, proven by Imhof, Conn and Corinn in and finally pecked out a tune with his a screamingly funny play. The Doings view of the audience and thus enables ceased their frosty frowns and nose while the lady assisted him with of Dr. Louder. Dr. Louder is a deaf them to understand what wonders cat Chicago,-after waiting two months, at a French horn and otherwise made the physician and his experience with an be accomplished by grease, paint and last basks in real old-fashioned shirt¬ act more enjoyable. Irish patient furnished the fun basis powder. The best of his impersona¬ tions was that of Chas. Warner in the waist and straw-hat summer. And, Morgan and McGarry proved to be for the sketch, which went well. adherents of the old type of variety, Take four vaudeville performers, powerful playlet, Drink, and his acting strange to say, there has been little and demonstrated that the time-hon¬ dress them all to depict widely vary¬ here was deserving of the highest bad effect upon the Chicago theaters. ored clog and wooden shoe dance, if ing characters in life, and turn them praise. He personated Mark Twain ® With one or two exceptions the loop carried through neatly, is yet good fun, loose to sing and dance and you have one of his after-dinner toasts to per¬ district theaters are still blazing forth for they received applause in plenty. the stock comedy four of vaudeville. fection, and reproduced one or two Of with myriad lights, the names of en¬ Following them came one of the newer Such a one is the Rialto Comedy Four, Dickens’ most famous characters. Ifls ticing attractions within. The hard¬ fads in vaudeville, DeOnzo and Mc¬ which offered a refreshing twenty mo¬ act was hampered the afternoon I wit¬ working La Salle Stock Company, af¬ Donald, set down as barrel jumpers. ments at the Majestic last week and nessed it by improper handling of the ter presenting The Time, The Place While the title sounds simple, yet the was heartily applauded. house lights, but this defect was easily and the Girl 450 times, subsided to team exhibited considerable skill in An act somewhat different from the remedied. It must be embarrassing Jo summer resorts and country homes, an actor who has just died, in his roll, but will return with a new piece in to be compelled to scramble to his fait the middle of August. Frank Daniels in the glare of a spot light, befo® has hied him from the Grand with his bowing to his applause, and this was “How Is Every Little Thing?” and what Mr. Fletcher was forced to do.1 “Are We Downhearted?” and the rest Geo. B. Reno has gone to consider¬ of his Tattooed Man jokes, and for a able expense to fix up a big act and > week Manager Askin’s house was dark. he has all the ingredients, minus the Next week, however, he promises a proper vehicle. He is clever hims fine revival of The Mikado, that mag¬ and has a quartette of clever peoj nificent relic of the good old comic Three of hfs company are as wi' opera days. different characters as could be ii Patricia O’Brien, queen of burlesque, ined, ranging from a midget to a 7 and known in private life as Rose slim man, and including a 300-pojpound Stahl, still rushes through farm house, man. The sight of these three go!going dressing room and bachelor apart¬ laboriously through a military drill ments, to the delight of big audiences was ludicrous in the extreme. Yetet the at Powers, for be it known that The act didn’t go very well at the MajMales- Chorus Lady is a great hit. It will tic and a well-written sketch seemamis to take a managerial summons from be the feature needed most by r] Henry B. Harris to end the run and his company. R“ of the Forbes piece, for it is just what Chicago people want. The Three of A new mystery act is presented] Us is still at the Garrick and in its Volta, who says—or at least his quaint, homelike way is teaching its nouncer does—that a current of ma® salutary lessons. Monte Brewster, thousand volts passes through A the disciple of prodigality, is showing body. I am unacquainted with tfie Colonial audiences how to spend a technical details of electricity, but It million a year at the Colonial in certainly was startling to obser® Brewster’s Millions, and succeeding Volta shoot a crooked blue spark ft® remarkably well. inches from his finger tips and to m The Round Up, plentifully peopled a handkerchief applied to the sole] with cowboys, Indians, soldiers and his shoe or his naked arm burst ii everything dear to the heart of the flame. He had an exhaustive appa romanticist, continues its blissful way tus and employed the usual stunt at McVicker’s. Miss Pocahontas, an getting a trio of scared looking au Indian maiden, who has at last tors up on the platform to make; reached the high position of star in a “thorough investigation” and see tL musical comedy, gathers in the wam¬ he did not have an electric light plant pum at the Studebaker and returns in hidden in his shoe. exchange considerable entertainment. Jack Wilson and Company A Knight for a Day defies the ther¬ Upheaval in Darktown present „ __ mometer at the Whitney, and withal and snappy black-face act. Wilson causes a continual smile to wrinkle dresses in female costume in the lat¬ Manager Gerson’s countenance. The ter portion of the sketch and gets ofi Volunteer Organist, a rural comedy some new comedy Tines which went drama of parts, is the current piece big. The Flying Gregolatis, the fa¬ at the Great Northern, and is proving mous aerial ballet seen at the Coli¬ a worthy successor to The Wizard of seum last spring with Riitgling’s C§- Oz, according to all reports. Outside cus, concluded the Majestic she of the loop many of the houses con¬ The spectacle of seven beautifn tinue to entertain their patrons de¬ formed women apparently flyl spite the heat, and Chicago’s title to through the air, with many-cold a 52-week play season city therefore lights thrown on them, is a beautij remains secure. act, and the finale, where a gr< flock of white doves is turned lot <$> CHICAGO WELCOMES THE SHOW WORLD. The fire fiends took things in their from the gallery and flies to i own hands a fortnight ago and de¬ leaping in and out of the barrels, turn¬ ordinary run of vaudeville and yet so women, alighting on their heads ami creed that the Olympic should go into ing somersaults and doing general old that it afforded entertainment for arms, is very effective. The mecli- retirement for the summer, so that acrobatics. our ancestors many generations back, anism, of course, is a simple arrange¬ last week, only the Majestic presented When Do I Eat? an expression which was the Marionette Theater of Prof. ment of invisible wires, but it do vaudeville fare for the lovers of this is in the stock vocabulary of many Bernar. By means of cleverly manip¬ not prevent the act from being one most popular form of entertainment. persons, furnished many laughs when ulated wires he produced an entire the prettiest eveff seen in vaudevil However, this week by an arrange¬ repeated by a member of the team of play in miniature with jugglers, acro¬ This week the headliners at 1 ment which forced Captain Careless McIntyre and Bennett, who are black¬ bats and a whole ballet. His puppets Majestic, all of which will be | out upon the road, there are again face artists. They opened with a long afforded more entertainment than viewed in the next issue of TI two vaudeville bills, and the Chicago dialogue Which contained a great deal some of their human counterparts, and SHOW WORLD, are Ethel Ardj Opera House has been once more con¬ of new and no small amount of old followed the prompter and took their Geo. Abel and Company, Grace V$ verted into a vaudeville temple. comedy. But they made the mixture cues in a manner which should be an Studdiford, Eight Vassar Girls, ~ Torrid winds and dusty streets made go and ended with a catchy song which example to human performers. Ray and Company, Ben Welch', the cool confines of the Majestic a won them several recalls. and Clark, Ethel McDonough. welcome relief last week. Surazal and The Irishman will always be a hu¬ Charles Leonard Fletcher’s act is a Razall opened with a full stage act in morous stage type, in whom a clever remarkable and highly artistic thirty Rose Stahl, according to her which a man, a woman and a piano artist can embody plenty of clean, minutes of entertainment. He is not ager, Maynard White, received ol figured prominently. The man played wholesome fun without going too far only a master at makeup, but an actor opening night of her engagement] June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD 11

Powers 209 (count them) telegrams formance bolstering up the seats will spend all of his time making his wonderful opportunities offered in of congratulation. Of this number 42 which had been weakened by the load own productions at the house. this field, has changed his line of were from parties she had met but imposed upon them. The gross weight effort to the park. For two seasons he owned and operated two of the once and 7 from persons she had for the performance is rumored to SYKES’ ARTISTIC PHOTOS. never seen. Miss Stahl’s appreciation have been -2,000,000 pounds—but why leading features at White City and this year he has branched out still of these favors was so strong that turn press agent? Work of Celebrated Poser Finished by Chicago Engraving Co. Speaking of figures, the aggregate sum realized by Mort H. Singer of With few exceptions, the photo¬ the La Salle Theater during the past graphs reproduced in this number of season from The Time, The Place THE SHOW WORLD are the work of and The Girl and his road attractions Melvin H. Sykes, the famous theatri¬ must have made a bank roll that cal photographer, Randolph and State couldn’t have been wormed into a streets, Chicago. Mr. Sykes is an steamer trunk with a shoe horn. artistic poser of subjects and in exe¬ Those who may know and who, at cution and finish his work is unriv¬ any rate, are good at computing, say aled. Mr. Sykes is the official pho¬ that his profits were in the neighbor¬ tographer for THE SHOW WORLD hood of $150,000. This is not bad at and specimens of his skilled handi¬ all. work will be regular features here¬ after. A chorus girl sewing school Is the But good photographs, unless they latest Chicago novelty. It’s down at are well manipulated for publication, the Whitney, where a score or more are valueless. This journal is fortu¬

Sykes Photo, Chicago. Sykes Photo, Chieagu. AARON J. JONES. PAUL D. HOWSE. The Napoleon of Chicago amusements The general manager of White City, is Aaron J. Jones, secretary and treas¬ Chicago, is Paul D. Howse than whom urer of White City. He is financially none is more widely known in the interested in numerous amusement en¬ amusement world. When it is said he terprises and with Adolph Linick and is an amuseemnt magnate, nothing Peter J. Schaefer he operates several need he added, except that he is as motion picture theaters. He is now popular as he is powerful in his field. building the Orpheum, a new theater opposite the Palmer House.which will she insisted on answering every one be devoted to high class vaudeville. in person. In consequence the chorus lady rises at 8 every morning and more extensively and now has six spends several hours writing letters. shows in operation at Riverview. Miss Stahl’s father, by the way, once Gifted with a winning personality, was dramatic editor of The Chicago engaging and congenial, yet thor¬ Inter Ocean and he is now proprietor oughly businesslike, he has a re¬ of a sheet in Trenton, N. J. Hence markable capacity for executive ef¬ Miss Stahl’s often stated longing for fort and there is no man who has a newspaper life is easily explained. come in contact with Mr. Hines eith¬ er in a business way or socially, <$> <$> who is not his staunch friend. His They had a fat man’s night over at liberality is proverbial and there McVicker’s one evening last week as never was a request by the needy to a sort of tribute to Maclyn Arbuckle, the sheriff in The Round Up, whose which he was not the first to re¬ mournful plaint, “Hell, nobody loves spond. In fact, so well is this trait recognized that he has been termed a fat man,” Is fast becoming a Madi-

ETHEL ROBINSON. Few women are better or- more favorably known in the theatrical world than Ethel Robinson, the talented and energetic manager of the Fair Department of the Western Vaudeville Managers’ Association. Possessed of an engaging personality, and a complete knowledge of her business in all its branches, Ethel Robinson has risen to an eminence in her profession accom¬ plished by few women in the country.

of fluffy-haired chorus women from nate in having the most skilled assist¬ A Knight for a Day have been organ¬ ance in this regard, and the half¬ ized, and under the skillful tutelage tones on every page herein were made of Mrs. Arline Falls, warbrobe mis¬ by the Chicago Engraving Co., 350 tress of the Whitney, they may be Wabash avenue. The output of this seen any day mending and cleaning great concern is in the highest style the costumes in which they caper on of the art and reflects credit not only the boards. Manager Gerson has fit¬ upon the firm, but upon Chicago. ' " " .~ Sykes Photo, Chicago. Sykes Photo, Chicago. ted up a department with sewing ma¬ COL. WILL A. DUDLEY. chines, etc., and he says that it saves FRANK L. ALBERT. PROMOTER GEORGE H. HINES Among show people few are as highly Prank L. Albert, manager of Ex¬ bills in many ways and in addition esteemed as Col. Will A Dudley, pro¬ ploitation for White City, Chicago, Is gives the young women good train¬ Showman Prominent in Amusement prietor and editor of The Owl, a Jour¬ well known as a manager, owner and ing. If logic has its way down at Park Enterprises. nal devoted to theatricals in the pub¬ Promoter of amusement enterprises. lishing of which he has met with ™ has been twenty-one years In this the Whitney, the matrimonial wave should soon flow around in the di¬ George H. Hines, whose likeness ap¬ success. neld and his experience embraces pears on the sub-title page of the every branch of outdoor amusements. rection of the toy playhouse on Van “Prince Bountiful” by his associates. He. was one of the pioneer promoters Buren street. premier issue of THE SHOW of carnivals in the United States and WORLD, is one of the best known Mr. Hines is one of the most pro¬ J® known to everyone connected with of all out-door amusement managers. gressive men in the amusement busi¬ that line. (Mr. Albert has complete Whisper.—George Cohan is to have ness and his enterprise and fore¬ charge of press, excursions, special his own theater in New York. He His career as an amusement promot¬ er has been eventful and embraces sight, combined with exceptional tipped it off to a friend in the lobby business sagacity, are inevitably des¬ of the Colonial when he was in town many years of service in an execu¬ tive capacity with the larger circus¬ tined to create a still greater future son street classic. The fat men came, a few weeks ago, and the janitor for this prince of showmen. too. Rumor has it that Mayor Busse overheard him and told his uncle, es. who told my brother’s friend, and Since the summer amusement park headed the list with his 200 and more has advanced to the pinnacle of all Percy Wenrich wrote “Under the Pounds of avoirdupois, and it is said somehow or other it got to me. It’s hot weather entertainment features, Tropical Moon” while searching for that it kept the ushers and attaches going to be the real noise and. rumor the North Pole with Peary. busy for many, hours after the per¬ has it that the flaxen-haired George Mr. Hines, who realized at once the 12 THE SHOW WORLD

The EDITOR WILL BE- PLEASED TO ANSWER ALL| QUESTIONS RELATING TO, OR TENDING TO BETTER,THE | MUSIC PUBLISHING BUSINES ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND MANUS- I Cff/PTS SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY I 13y> C.P. McDonald SUFFICIENT POSTASEr FOR THE/f\ RETURnX j

HE Music Department of THE The installation of pianos in police cessary adjunct. If it is, put your erected at 10 Witherell street, Del y SHOW WORLD will be Icon- courts certainly presages a revolu¬ money on Remick or Kremer con¬ troit, and from these premises (ocl tion in the dispensation of justice. trolling it. 1 ducted on a basis that has been cupied ever since by Mr. RemickS One can well imagine the presiding A Representative Music Publisher. firm) some of the largest genuin* heretofore ignored,—i. e., orig¬ jurist disseminating pardons and ver¬ Jerome H. Remick, — a name to instrumental hits ever known have* inal, fearless, unprejudiced and im¬ dicts to the lilting strains of an ap¬ conjure with in the popular music been launched. partial. A song or musical composi¬ propriate concoction of popular fren¬ publishing world. In 1903, one of the important epoch* zy in manner following: tion of merit will receive its full Less than seven years ago Mr. Re¬ in the history of the Remick enter® John Jones, arraigned on a charge mick was unheard of as a publisher prises was recorded,—the consolidM quota of praise and commendation, of wife beating, is addressed per¬ of music. In 1900 he was a modest tion of Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. an« and a publication of inferior work¬ emptorily by the court: cashier in a Detroit bank. It was The Whitney-Warner Publishing Col manship will be given the criticism “Jack, the game’s all off. Your in this year that he bought out into the firm of Shapiro, Remick & it deserves, regardless of the name wife is a small woman, and therefore Messrs. B. C. Whitney and A. W. Co. of the writer or publisher. We are probably deserves the punishment Warner, proprietors of The Whitney- The year 1904 was productive < neither iconoclasts nor idol worship¬ you inflicted. At the same time I Warner Publishing Co., Detroit, Mich. far-reaching results. Much of the! ers. must give you ninety days in the After this purchase, he sold part of twelve months was devoted to the§ Before judgment is passed upon a house of correction.” Then, turning his interests in that firm to Messrs. general building up of the businesg new print, the publication will be re¬ to the agony-box player, he says: George Engel and Emil Yoelker, tell¬ and in this year a vast sum of viewed by several competent critics, “Professor, while Jack’s being es¬ er and collector, respectively, of the was invested in advertising, thus obviating the charge of favorit¬ period, perhaps more than any otheij ism being brought against the Music served to place the firm more prorj Department editor. inently before the public and the mu¬ Our Music Department will not ca¬ sic dealers, mainly because of the! ter to the trade alone, but to per¬ judicious advertising campaign formers and to the general public. augurated. While The Show Wobi.d will cir¬ In 1905, owing to his purchase c culate freely among dealers, jobbers Mr. Shapiro’s interest in the Shapird and publishers, it is not the purpose Remick & Co. concern, Mr. Remicj of the management to deceive or mis¬ again became the sole proprietor c lead buyers by pronouncing every¬ the then flourishing business, and the! thing written and published a merit¬ present firm of Jerome H. Remick & orious “hit”; but it will be our sin¬ Co. was incorporated, with large pro J cere endeavor to point out to the erty holdings in New York, Bos toil trade what is likely to command a Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Newark® legitimate sale, and prevent the over¬ Brooklyn, Buffalo, Cincinnati, ClevJ stocking of shelves and counters with land, Louisville, Detroit, Chicago, Mill issues that cannot be disposed of. waukee, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis There is no bias or ill-feeling ex¬ St. Paul and other cities. isting on the part of the management Last year proved to be one of thl or The Show Wobld’s individual writ¬ best years from a financial point on ers. We will start with a clean slate view that has been enjoyed by thil and work for the establishment of an representative house. With a greate* unimpeachable record. No favorit¬ growth than ever before in a singlfl ism will be allowed to creep into the year, it again became necessary to! lines of this department; but equal arrange for enlarged quarters, wit I liberality and progressive spirit will the result that the entire building atl be accorded to all. The musical col¬ 10 Witherell street was eventual™ umns of The Show World always will turned over to the firm, after mimes be open to the discussion of anything ous alterations and the addition oa and everything that has a tendency to one story thereto. This new build! improve where improvement is neces¬ ing is perhaps the most complete ofj sary and possible. its kind in this or any other countrs The Music Department will not devoted to exclusive publishing anti wantonly assail a song or instrumen¬ the operation of a music business tal number, an individual member of Equipped with every late device fol any publishing or jobbing concern, a handling a gigantic business, it coni particular author or composer, or any tains a thoroughly modern printinl branch of the business in general. plant and the finest of presses fol No editorial review will be vindictive color and beautiful plate work. or written to vent a lugubrious spleen, To give a chronological list of thl for none exists. successful publications fostered bn In the course of events, a review the Remick company would fill atl may occasionally appear in the music least a page of The Show Woni.nl columns which has the semblance of Therefore the more pronounced sue! an unwarrantable attack. Be broad¬ cesses are given: minded; look at an adverse criticism calmly and dispassionately. We are 1900. —“Dance of the Brownies* not cynics, but Cyclopean optimists, “When Knighthood was in Flower,”! working with indefatigable energy for “My Ragtime Baby.” the general' betterment of the busi¬ 1901. —C onspicuous among thil ness, bringing together as far as pos¬ years’ crop of good numbers may bel sible, the writers, producers and mentioned the tremendous populajl makers of song and music into one JEROME H. REMICK. “Creole Belles,” followed by “Cloris da,” “Mississippi Bubble” and “Prayl supreme council of sagamores, with One of the most conspicuous figures in the music world is that of Jerome H. The Show World its unprejudiced Kemick, of Detroit, who, within seven years, rose from the position of cashier of er and Passion Waltzes.” scrutineer for those things which a bank to the eminence of the foremost music publisher in the country, if not in 1902. —Purchased the catalogue of§ stand only for the welfare and ad¬ Daniels & Russell, publishers in Sil vancement of the music publishing corted to his cell, kindly reel off banking concern with which he for¬ Louis, Mo., which catalogue contained business. ‘Because I’m Married Now.’ ” merly had been connected. Within the great intermezzo “Hiawatha! Music and Justice. The second case happens to be an a few months thereafter he repur¬ The sum of $10,000 was paid for thil Judge McKenzie Cleland, presiding ordinary drunk. The culprit gets chased the Engel-Voelker interests, composition, the largest amount evel over the Maxwell street police sta¬ thirty days and costs, while the “pro¬ and again became sole owner of The paid for a single number in the his! tion in Chicago, has installed a piano fessor” soothingly tears off “You’re a Whitney-Warner Publishing Co. tory of music. With this phenomenal in his court room, ostensibly for the Grand Old Jag.” Prom its inception the house of success came “Stella,” “Lazarrl purpose of charming the wayward Pound guilty of vagrancy,- Anton Remick was a success, viewed from Waltzes,” and numerous other goocj with harmonious strains of melody, Burk is led away to the refrain of any standpoint. Occupying two small sellers. thereby doing away with the present “What’s the Use of Workin’ When rooms at the beginning of 1901, the 1903. —The W. C. Polla Co. . Maxwell street melody of beliger- Your Health is Good?” And so on business soon grew to such flattering lished the beautiful Venetian inter] ent gun practice and belching shoot- through the never-ending list of mi¬ proportions as to necessitate more mezzo entitled “The Gondolier.” in’ irons. The piano was installed in nor crimes. commodious quarters, and an entire started out as a second “Hiawatha,! the Judge's court on the dedication It is questionable whether his hon¬ floor of a large building in Detroit and was purchased from the Polla Coj day of the new courtroom. The in¬ or will permit pluggers to ply their was leased. In 1902 it again became by Mr. Remick for $5,000. Thil strument has become a permanent vocations during sessions of court. It necessary to seek larger quarters to number proved to be one of the great* fixture, and is now an asset of the is also a matter of conjecture if a municipal court. accommodate the ever-increasing est sellers ever published. It wad sheet music department will be a ne¬ business. A three-story building was also in this year that those sterling June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD

songs “Bedelia” and “Navajo” swept tinue on the vaudeville stage to earn the country. a living, for she will get about $130,- 1904—“Moonlight,” “Just Kiss 000 from the estate of the late Presi- Yourself Goodbye,” and “The Trou- dent. Mrs. Baer, President McKin- badour.” ley’s favorite niece, is the daughter of 1905. —Williams and Van Alstyne’s Ab“?r McKinley, who died in 1904. Bands ^ Orchestras big ballad success, “In the Shade of *flss McKinley, a vaudeville singer the Old Apple Tree,” “My Irish and P°Pular song writer at that time, Molly 0,” “Silverheels,” “Wedding of was married in 1900 to Dr. Hermanus The- Editor will be pleased to the Winds Waltzes,” “Poppies,” L‘ Ba?r’T?.el)llew °f tbe railroad mag- RECEIVE COPIES OF MUSICAL PROGRAMS •Back to Baltimore,” “In Dear Old ne* of, Bivine n£ht claims. Georgia,” and Jerome & Swartz’s mu- Sbe is the composer of suchpopular AND TIMELY AND INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS, sical comedy, “Piff, Paff, Pouf.” combers as Anona, Karoma,” S^iUCH AS FORMATION OF NEW BAND5*”° ORCHESTRAS./ iQn«_“whv Dnn’t Ynu Trv?” GoIden Rod- and many others, all ^meetings of local federations, engagements^ 1906. Why Don t You Try published by Leo Feist, New York. Happy Heme, Cheyenne,^ Iola, It is claimed> and has long been , Cherry, Chicken, Chowder, Alice, derstood among those on the inside, NCE more we have had Brooke master, he is always just, and the Where Art Thou Goingr Two popu ^ Bob fQp ^ iO and his peerless Chicago Marine conviction that his judgment is as lar music comedies The Vanderb It wlth the Feigt house> ig the composer band with us this season for «>rrect as his art is a prevailing sen- -1 m the company of artists Mil of the hlts accredited to Miss McKin- chased from Rohlflng & Sons, Mil- j but that her e wag em lo d - he holds under the spell of his waukee, Wis the concert number ag the author for advertiging purPpJeg. City, but with a most comforting baton, and this absolute confidence in teaching piece and June Bugs Mr. Keiser has made this claim in a string of bookings to follow his de- bis leadership goes far in the success T ini wPaI recent advertisement and has prom- parture. b® has made. h ^ ’ jsed to give us some interesting ma- No leader east or west has ever Popular Music King, and $3,000 for the latter. tenal in an article he_ is preparing____ made for himself„ a more secure place His__ shrewd estimate_ of what the 1907 —“ Somebody’s Waiting For der the caption of “Composers Who in the estimation of the people, with” public really wants and the skill with You,” “San Antonio,” “The Tale the Are Not, or Living Lies.” I defer com- out whose affection and regard the which he alternates the people’s Church Bells Told1,” and "He Never ment until receipt of the articld, at greatest musician will always fail, choice and the musician’s choice in Even Said Goodbye. .. the arrangement of his program ‘ Mr. Remick has surrounded himself another of the main-springs of his with a coterie of assistants whose success. No leader has ever before names stand for all that is progres¬ succeeded in achieving precisely this sive and up to date in the music result. The sobriquet, “The Popular business, principally among whom Music King,” which he earned during are the following: his first season (1894), and which Frederick E. Belcher. — Has been ha? clung to him ever since, was a connected with the firm since it was popular and spontaneous tribute to an in swaddling clothes, as manager of artist who always evinced a disposi¬ almost every department of the tion to please a too often disregard¬ house. He is, with few exceptions, ed public by giving them the kind of the best posted man in the popular music they could understand and en¬ music business today, having had a joy. thorough schooling in the inside Mr. Brooke is convinced that the workings prior to his connection with organization now bearing his name is Mr. Remick. This knowledge, coup¬ the crowning effort of his career, and led with a keen business judgment, a he confidently believes it will be so pleasing manner, and untiring ef¬ regarded by his friends, the Ameri¬ forts, which have greatly aided in can people, for whom he has labored bringing the house of Remick to its so faithfully and so earnestly. present enviable position, has placed Mr. Brooke stepped into the field him in the responsible office of man¬ handicapped seriously by the fact ager of the company’s New York of¬ that he was an unknown quantity. fices, general representative of the However, as was subsequently de¬ eastern territory, and Mr. Remick’s monstrated, this only served to ac¬ confidential assistant in all branches centuate his sudden and almost mir¬ of the business. aculous popularity. His band is one Mose Gumble.— “Happy Mose” has which appeals to lovers of detail, charge of the professional department “every lineament finely finished,” the in New York. His knowledge of de¬ reeds in exquisite balance, the brass sirable songs for any kind of an act toned down to the very perfection of is almost incomparable, and he is re¬ mellow harmony and program ar¬ sponsible in a great measure for the ranged to bring to the fore the best many song successes published by the points of the organization. concern since he became connected He has his own ideas about the with it in 1903. He is a splendid, proper size of a concert band, main¬ hard-working, digging, indefatigable taining that thirty-five players are fellow, and one of the firm’s main sufficient. Some managers insist on pillars. a larger aggregation, but there is no Harry Werthan.—Almost every one doubt that Brooke with thirty-five, or m the music business knows this even thirty men, is much better than '‘Knight of the music satchel.” Mr. some other band leaders with fifty or Werthan for years has represented one hundred pieces. Remick on the road, and most suc¬ Gentleman as Well as Musician. cessfully, for through his efforts the As the director of a superb body Remick publications have been kept of musicians he is singularly free on the counters of all the music deal¬ from conceit or self-consciousness. ers in the United States. He also He is not only charmingly graceful has charge of all the company’s prop¬ when wielding the baton, but is a erty interests in the west, his terri¬ fine, well-bred gentleman. He never tory reaching from Pittsburgh to the resorts to any clap-trap in order to Pacific Coast. gain applause. His programs are Homer Howard.—This is the i e favorably known than uniformly replete with good music, who makes the songs in Chicago He S / Thoraas Preston Brooke, head of the Peerless Chicago Marine band, much that is popular and light, but has been connoetld li af This is an exceptionally well trained organization and reflects credit upon Mr. ‘ een connected with the Rem- Brooke’s capability as musician and leader none that can be decried as either Warne°USe .Slnce. tbe old whitney- vulgar or trashy, and by this judi¬ cious arranging of programs, he has ness man^and’ a1Scong^°Il,USuntWng SjJS ^ntti ffu'Lretview J?11 b® Pub‘ °.f magnetic personality fine phy- demonstrated^ fellow. He has charge of the profes- thatt t™e Miss McKin- sique, utterly devoid of the manner- ship in the limited guiid of capable sional offices in Chicago, and has y ‘ continue to be what she has isms which mark the public appear- artistic conductors placed the Remick publications with Yf be®n sm??. her initial appearance ances of too many conductors, he is Mr Brooke and innumerable performers leading before the Public>—a clever composer withaliuiai a musician to hisms fingernnger tips.ups. Brooke3 and his, band~— “-„have < shows, bands and orchestras. He wb° bas T.on tbe Plaudits of »•’ rrThomas'*’—-- Preston DBrooke,- although*- the k b^°blnfs ,for holds one of the most responsible po- lniring “ultitude- young in years, nashas byDy virtue otof all 2L “L ar]vQr.lTr *h ®~ —-- suions in the concern, and works day 3> . . this taken his place in the front rank f ly the entlre present season. and night, his every effort meeting Rose Melville, starring as “Sis Hop- among the leaders of the day. with success. kins” in the play—- of—-—, that name, is—- said seems superfluous- at this time to Gennoro’s Band, the famous gondo- Mr. Remick was born m uetroit,-~Detroit, t0 be nightly***=>—j encored— in her splendid speak in detail of his work, which is liers musical organization of twenty inirty-seven years ago, and hasbo livedh„„j rendition of her new song,snn? “I’“T’m lvint o now so widely and so favorably men, presenting “A Night in Venice” m that city all his life, with the ex- BIt Like Other Girls." known. Just how he has brought his is playing to delighted audiences at band to its present state of artistic AT ~ - - - - bfmhiiiry.ii °f three years Spentspent lnm theme zs> <$> -- uunaio, N. Y. Gennoro and his men He wLWf S’ .and a year in Eur°Pe- Bunge and his Metropolitan Band Pf fec«on Y a. secret kn2™ °nly to have been in this country but a few He was for nine years president of „<• . “ I,bimself ffld hls men. That his in- weeks, and they created a furor inin, SsSmfnt ^Pabslfp^k^ Milwaukee! 3””'™“ V^mee„ „ ‘ "*»• New York. The Italian leader is said mous capacity tqv work, as well as to have all the originality of Sousa bis mnsirianlv tpmnprampnt aro fan. ^ , — ’

> win not neea to con- Highlands, St. Louis. tion will question. A severe task of the gondolier. June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD FAMOUS WHITE CITY IN FULL SWING r band shell during the months a WHITE CITY is one of Chicago’s Beautiful South Side Resort, Offers Superior Features to Visit¬ come. Brooke’s Band opened the” e sea- most beautiful South Side ors—Sans Souci and other Amusements Attract Vast son with a three weeks’ engagcrae® amusement parks and stands and proved as popular as ever. Frank among the first and greatest of its Multitudes to their Gates, T. Alberts the new manager of exploi¬ tation, has been the busiest man f kind. The third season opened at the South Side since the late winter White City' May 10, and although the months and so well has he accom¬ weather was frigid, the board walks BY A STAFF WRITER plished his duties that the name ani were crowded and thousands were attractions of White City are to be seen on every hand. present. White City stands pre-emi- nomenal. The attractiveness of the Robert E. Lee. A scene on the Missis- • nent in the matter of illumination and park is not confined to any one por- sippi river is shown with a steamer Sans Souci Enjoyable. tion for there is enjoyment and pleas- coming up to the docks where the it is admitted it is the most beautiful¬ Chicago’s pioneer amusement park, ly lighted park in the world. Millions ure in every nook and cranny of the boiler explodes setting fire to the boat big resort. The great plaza with its and adjoining buildings. The new ex¬ Sans Souci, threw its doors open to the of candlepower are utilized nightly public on May 25 and as usual t$s and the entire resort from the tip of hippodrome stages, offers as free en- hibition is much more realistic than tertainment the finest acts that can the old and attracts crowds at every management had a number the great tower to the outermost con¬ ties ready for its patrons. fines is one blaze of white light illum- be secured. Surrounding the plaze is performance.

INTERESTING VIEWS OF CHICAGO’S WORLD FAMED RESORT, WHITE CITY.

inating not only the park but the skies the famous Board Walk, which is bor¬ A Flea Circus in which these infini¬ Leonard H. Wolf has deviated this year from his usual policy in regard for a vast distance. dered by half a hundred attractions of tesimal animals laboriously perform strange feats is another unique feature to the music and he will play a nun Make Park of Cornfield. every sort, ranging from the big fire of the big park. Mundy’s Animal ber of the best traveling bands m The handsome catalogue which Di¬ spectacle, employing hundreds of people, and car loads of scenery, to Arena has been introduced this year stead of retaining one organization® rector of Exploitation Alberts has is¬ and consists of Percy J. Mundy’s big summer as he formerly did. The Ca¬ sued for White City, states that the the Flea Circus which, while micro¬ collection of wild animals and their sino formerly utilized as a theater, big park was transformed from a corn scopic, is still far from the least inter¬ trainers in novel and exciting feats. has been remodeled into a concert It field to its present state within a few esting feature of the park. One of the 1907 novelties which is New Casino a Feature. ditorium and bandshell and has;: a months, and this is literally true. In capacity of 3,000 persons. The resta£- September, 1904, the present site was attracting more than the usual share Another change of considerable im¬ of attention is the Devil’s Gorge, a portance is the abolishment of the ant also has been greatly improved covered with golden grain, when the and fitted up with Oriental boxes giv¬ three men who brought White City new water ride which is one of the College Inn and the establishment in most exciting ever devised and com¬ its stead of a great Casino which is ing it bizarre effect pleasing to the into existence took hold. These three eye. A new Roller Skating Rh* men, Joseph Beifeld, president of the bines a score of sensations in its beautifully decorated and is so ar¬ mazes. The Coaster, which gives a ranged as to be thrown open in warm covering 25,000 square feet with ample park, Aaron J. Jones, secretary and accommodation for 1,500 skaters, ® treasurer, and Paul D. Howse, general smooth, exhilarating ride' of about a weather or completely enclosed in quarter of a mile and runs directly case of rain or cold. There are dozens been installed and is said to be the manager, undertook the seemingly im¬ finest in Chicago. Other new features possible task of building a monumen¬ through the Igorrote Village, is also of other features at White City, which a safe and popular device which is de¬ will be described in a subsequent is¬ are Shooting The Rapids, a new pla¬ tal and magnificent park on this field ter ride, House of Nuisance, Midget and were so successful that the fol¬ lighting White City patrons. sue of THE SHOW WORLD. The Fire Show which has always The musical portion of the enter¬ Circus and Hereafter. The dance® lowing spring White City, complete in vilion has been enlarged and in every been the prime feature of the park tainment at the park has been well every detail, was thrown open to the way Sans Souci is blossoming forth® public. has been elaborated upon this year cared for and the best traveling organ¬ Since then its success has been phe- and is now termed The Burning of the izations in the country will occupy the new garb. June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD 15 RIVER VIEW PARK SCENE OF BEAUTY RIVERVIEW has been appro¬ Beautiful Streets in the Woods, Brilliantly Lighted, with Splen¬ of the unique features at the Park in priately termed “The Park in the woods. It is enclosed by an old The Woods.” It is a park that did Feature Attractions Delight Immense Crowds—Sum¬ fashioned fence of logs chinked with clay and the interior is surrounded lives up to the title in its entirety. mer Amusements in Park Prove Popular. by the cages containing Big Otto’s Imagine if you can, a vast expanse of ferocious proteges. The arena in leafy and grassy greenness, sprinkle which the performances are given is it with thousands of twinkling incan¬ large and roomy. BY A STAFF WRITER George H. Hines has half a dozen descent lights, rear up countless clever shows at Riverview, including structures of dazzling white through¬ away from the main plaza on all the great number of rides of every his famous Paris By Night, which is out, place a sparkling lagoon in its sides and one is lost in bewilderment, description, from the time honored said to be doing the banner business center, then add to this the soft unless he be familiar with the figure eight which has been elaborat¬ at the park. The exhibition includes music of a great band and you will grounds. As a modern fairyland, ed into a long series of fascinating a number of high class dancing acts

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

LEADING FEATURES THAT MAKE A VISIT TO RIVERVIEW PARK A DELIGHTFUL RECREATION. have only a meager idea of this gi¬ Riverview has certainly galloped dips and curves to the Scenic Rail¬ together with the wonder Dance of gantic enterprise, not to mention its away with the palm this year and its way, and including a new Water The Seven Vails, which created such recreation features. airy daintiness should make Aladdin Carousal, Double Whirl, Velvet Coast¬ a furore last winter when given in Riverview is a new park this year. and his business staff of genii feel er, Chutes with Water Lagoon, and the opera Salome. It covers just double the amount of like the proverbial quarter and half Messrs. Paul W. Cooper, W M. John¬ ground it did last year, and has more dime. The great big feature at Riverview, son and N. P. Valerius, compris¬ than double the number of attrac¬ On entering the park one of the however, is The Train Robbery. This ing the management of Riverview, tions. The beautiful shade trees first new features to catch the eye is is the same big spectacle which Fred are well satisfied with the present which always were the predominant Hell Gate, which fronts the main en¬ Wright presented at Coney Island outlook in spite of the fact that the feature of the resort have been re¬ trance. Lest the uninitiated be mis¬ last year. He has put on the same prolonged spell of cold weather held tained, but almost everything else led by the name, we will explain that show at Riverview, only on a more back the crowds for weeks after the has been remodeled or entirely re¬ the attraction has no connection with magnificent scale. Everything is life usual commencement of the rush of built. There are now 65 distinct the anthracite-heated regions whose size and real. More than two hun¬ the crowds to the parks. Thos. W. places of entertainment, and a tour name it bears, but is merely a unique dred take part. There are real Prior, the publicity representative, of all the concessions, means that and cleverly conceived water ride mountains, a real lake, a big engine has been kept busy singing the one must come out early in the morn¬ modeled after the famous maelstrom and a string of coaches which wouldi praises of the park and so well has ing and remain until late at night, on the Norwegian coast and affording stand service on any standard rail¬ he done his task that there is scarce¬ and in addition, hire a guide to take one as nearly as possible, the sensa¬ road. The Train Robbery is certain¬ ly a man, woman or child in Chi¬ you about. tion of being caught in a great whirl¬ ly the acme of realism in outdoor cago or vicinity who does not know For the park is a great maze of pool. shows and it is having a great run of of the advantages of The Park in The features. Glittering electric lighted Passing along the main drive, the patronage at Riverview. Woods. Various attractions will be streets, lined with shows, stretch first attractions to greet the eye are Big Otto’s Animal Show is another published in a later issue. THE SHOW WORLD June 29, 1907.

MOVING PICTURES INDUSTRY. Salutatory The importance of the moving pffl tures as a factor in the educationH THE SHOW WORLD makes its formal bow to the well as entertainment of the young, no longer can be ignored. The n- public with apologies to no class, clique or individ¬ dustry has made such rapid progr® The Show World Publishing Co. ual for its temerity for springing into being. It is bound within the past five years, that it now WARREN A. PATRICK, General Director has become one of the leading feat¬ CHARLES ULRICH, Editor by no ties to foster the interests of one as against those ures of the amusement field. 61 Grand Opera House Bldg;., 87 So. Clark St. It is a fact that nearly every ham¬ CHICAGO, U. S. A. of another, but it will seek to remain from the beginning let in America has a moving plctu* what it purports to be—a journal devoted exclusively show and that this enjoyable enter¬ All communications for the Editorial or tainment is rapidly winning the favor Business Departments should he addressed to matters affecting the well-being of that large and grow¬ to The Show Would Publishing Co. of all classes, not because of the ing community affiliated with the world of amusements small price of admission charged, M SUBSCRIPTION, Payable in Advance Year.*4 00 because of the diversified interest® Six Months..... 2 00 and to provide the amusement loving public with Three Months. LOO the subjects presented. Thanks® Foreign subscriptions $1.00 extra per year reliable and entertaining news of the people in that field. the inventive genius of the film man¬ Trade supplied by the Western News Com¬ ufacturers, these views cover a wide pany, General Offices, Chicago. <$> <$> <$> '$> range and the trend of selection* ADVERTISING RATES; Fif teen cents per line agate measure. Whole While THE SHOW WORLD does not claim to fill subjects constantly is in the direcL^ection page, $105, half page, $52.50; quarter page,$26.25 of educational and moral advajvance- a long felt want, it may be said parenthetically that the ment. tremendous territory of the Middle West supplied by That the moving picture Indus® SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1907. is on the higher plane, recently w Chicago with all the things needed in life, hitherto has demonstrated in Chicago when of all the pictures displayed in 158 movim FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. been without an organ devoted exclusively to amuse¬ picture theaters in this city, only tm ments. While it is not designed by THE SHOW objectionable, films were discover® It is with some pride that we call The managers heartily assisteded fliin attention to this number of The WORLD to encroach upon the field occupied by its the investigation and volunteereired :to Show World, filled as it is with feat¬ older contemporaries issued in New York, it is distinctly remove all films that were deeieemeil ures of a high class and illustrations harmful to public morals. Whiljhile, a of a beauty and finish never sur¬ the purpose of this journal to become the standard few pictures bordering oi passed, if, indeed, they have been authority on all amusement matters in the section lying gestive were found, the investigate equaled by any similar publication between Pittsburg and San Francisco, and the Canadian declared that on the whole the mov¬ in the United States. The dramatic, ing pictures on display in Chicai vaudeville, music, moving picture, line and the Gulf of Mexico. were not only a pleasant diversiffi summer parks, sports and special fea¬ for youthful auditors, but they were tures have been provided by experts of an elevating character and served in their line and they furnish much The policy of THE SHOW WORLD will be to educate them as no other agen@ valuable data to readers. Owing to primarily, to furnish all its readers with good, reliable could hope to do. the unprecedented demand for adver¬ The makers of films are as anxid® tising space in this issue, it was found and entertaining news of the stage in all its branches. to supply uplifting subjects as tie impossible to present features which managers of the theaters using this It will be fearless in its advocacy of all things which are had been previously planned. These commodity are desirous of securffi include exhaustive reviews of the designed to uplift amusements and place them on a them. This is a combination of in¬ Jamestown Exposition, the War Path terests which cannot fail to result® at the exposition, and others,, all of higher plane. It purposes to be the organ of the show advantage to all concerned. To tffi adopti:n of this sound policy is whol¬ which will appear in succeeding issues. people of every degree, subserving the interests of the Of the features contained in this ly due the phenomenal progress tfl issue may be mentioned, a history manager as well as the humblest of his employes and at industry is making, for by furnish* of the Yiddish drama in the United only the best and most wholeso® no time to neglect these of the public without whose States, a thoughtful review of advan¬ entertainment, the moving pictu® ced vaudeville by Lyman B. Glover, patronage amusements would soon become a dead letter. theater managers have won publ| approbation and are reaping gold® the story of playwrights who are mak¬ It will represent no faction, nor favor one class and ing Chicago famous, the producing returns. ignore the rights of the other. Its aim will be to speak managers of Chicago, on the Chicago Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, of Sap Rialto, on the Great White Way, truthfully at all times upon topics of interest to the pro¬ Francisco, who has been convicted If review of the great moving picture fessional and layman. Above all, it designs to be a grafting, was for years leader of t® industry, exclusive Gaumont films from; journal to which not only the people of the show world, orchestra of the Columbia theater If Paris, correspondence from Denver, that city and he prides himself upon St. Louis and other points, reviews but the general public interested in their affairs, at all that fact. If he is as had a fiddl# of current attractions in Chicago and times may turn with confidence, interest and respect. as he proved to be a public officii, many others. A notable feature is the the profession will have little cause jo sporting department which is edited regret his early removal to San Quen¬ by Ed. W. Smith, one of the foremost With the earnest desire to win the hearty co-opera¬ tin prison. What the gentlemB authorities on sporting matters in the boarders at that Institution think if United States^ if not in the world. tion and support of all alike, THE SHOW WORLD the matter, will be made known later- The illustrations accompanying most begins its career with a full consciousness of the weighty of the feature articles are of the E. J. Sothem declares that his highest type and they hereafter will responsibilities it has assumed. It will not swerve from don engagement was an arl z though not a financial success, be extensively used in these columns the pathway it has laid out for itself, and come what so that every issue will be a feature he is proud of it. Certain Ameril number. may, it will invariably seek to be on the side of truth, managers who care more for finain justice and progress. than art, should learn to curb the temper and sing paeans to the It was indeed “23” for Abe Hum¬ mel when the other day he entered when footing up their losses hi after. cell 23 in Sing Sing prison to do pen¬ THE SHOW WORLD always will print the news ance for his misdeeds. He carved and EVERY ISSUE WILL BE A FEATURE Signor Caruso has removed this finish to his career years ago mustache and society is on the # NUMBER. By a steady adherence to this broad policy, when he engaged in theatrical litiga¬ vive. The United States immigratffl tion of which many professionals be¬ THE SHOW WORLD will win and maintain a leading officials have been notified of the flft fore the public today have sad recol¬ and if the disguised tenor succei lections. Verily, the mills of the gods place;, as the representative amusement weekly of the in eluding them, he will have c grind slowly but exceeding fine. United States. congratulate himself. June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD 1? FINE BILLS AT CHICAGO THEATERS THE Colonial theater has been ex¬ Brewster’s Millions at the Colonial a Brilliant Melodramatic influence for good while it entertains tremely fortunate of late in,the as few plays of the past season have character of its entertainments, Farce—Man of the Hour at the Illinois a Sermon Against succeeded in doing so effectively. but I doubt if any offering at this Graft—The Chorus Lady at Powers an Excellent Comedy. Chorus Lady is Delightful. house in the past season has enjoyed I may he a trifle late, but I cannot more popular favor than will Brew¬ refrain from adding my humble trib¬ ster’s Millions, which is now tickling BY CHARLES KENMORE ute to the encomiums which have been showered upon Rose Stahl’s su¬ the public palate. To witness this perb work as Patricia O’Brien in performance is like injecting the wine effective arraignment of politics as we a refreshingly natural manner, but Forbes’ The Chorus Lady, which is of life into the veins of a man dying wfho read the daily newspapers are they appear so timely and apropos crowding Powers’ theater at every from ennui, like a glass of'sparkling acquainted with it, and while it tells that they fail to shock tender ears. performance. In my career, covering us nothing especially new, it neverthe- As Phelan, the inveterate enemy of so many years that I shudder when I water to the wayfarer in the sun¬ les displays in the most convincing baked desert. It is essentially a sum¬ Horrigan whose downfall he finally think of them, I have never seen a manner the evils attending existing mer show par excellence, vigorous accomplishes to the accompaniment more artistic portrayal of a character systems the slogan of which is boss of laughter and keen witticisms, Harry and refreshing. of which the public at once knows What an angel Brewster might have rule and spoils. Mr. Broadhurst, the Harwood is exceptionally good. His so much and so little, than that of been to some Chicago stage aspirants, author, has drawn his characters humor which bubbles as a spring at Miss Stahl in this relishable comedy. had he really had a tangible exist¬ We laugh at Patricia’s stage slang, ad¬ ence and not been merely a figment of mire her spirit and weep when the the fanciful McCutcheon imagination. agony of fear that her only sister has Fancy yourself being forced to spend been betrayed, stirs her to emotion. a million within twelve months as he We applaud her wit and slangy as it was forced to do in order to enjoy the is, we forgive her because she ex¬ inheritance of seven millions thrust poses her inner nature to our view, upon him by a whimsical uncle. fearlessly and honestly. Near me, as Brewster found it the most difficult I watched her every movement, I task of his career and his efforts to beheld scores of men and women win the struggle serve to make the laugh, sigh and cry by turns, and any show highly relishable and captivat¬ player who succeeds in accomplish¬ ing. ing this, bears the ineffaceable stamp To my mind, Winchell Smith and of genius on his brow. I might write Byron Ongley, the dramatizers of the columns about The Chorus Lady, its novel, have not accomplished their brilliancy and the high moral lessons task in a manner exempting them it teaches without exhausting the from criticism. They have lagged in subject, but perforce, I must content too many characters and it keeps one myself with saying that it truly mer¬ dizzy tacking tags to all of them. its all the laudation it has received. Necessarily, this large cast entails too It is the proper vehicle for Rose much talk at times, especially in the Stahl and it fits her precisely as The first act, but when Brewster appears, Music Master fits David Warfield. all the deficiencies of the farce which, The excellent work of Alice Leigh as strangely enough, is of the melo¬ Mrs. O’Brien is worthy of commenda¬ dramatic sort, are forgotten. Then tion. The support generally is good. the big storm scene in the third act As for the play itself, I congratulate follows and caps the climax with the Mr. Forbes upon his modesty in stat¬ most realistic storm effect ever wit¬ ing that but for Miss Stahl his play nessed by any audience. would be impossible. With due re¬ I have seen the storm scenes in Cle¬ spect for Miss Stahl, I venture the pre¬ opatra, The Prince of India, and Way diction that the play is powerful Down East, not to speak of The Girl enough to carry even a woman not of the Golden West, or the racing so distinctly talented as herself to scene in The Vanderbilt Cup, but for success and renown. I say this fear¬ perfected realism and nature personi¬ lessly because I entertain the absurd fied, if such an expression is permis¬ notion that the most capable artist in sible, the Mediterranean storm scene the world is powerless to vitalize a in Brewster’s Millions surpasses any¬ play which fails to give him oppor¬ thing heretofore presented on any tunities for the expression of the best stage. The heaving yacht, the scud¬ that is in him. Forbes is fortunate in ding clouds, rising sea, plaintive dis¬ having Rose Stahl as his professional tress, whistlings, raging elements, mouthpiece, but, on the other hand, mad shouting of the captain and crew, Miss Stahl may congratulate herself the fear of the passengers, all these that Mr. Forbes has given her a ve¬ combine to make a scene of unex¬ hicle so eminently worthy of both. ampled impressiveness. Miss Pocahontas Blase. To extoll the stage mechanic is a I dislike very much to sing the re¬ pleasure in this instance, for that quiem to a performance which is not hard-worked individual at best gets entirely devoid of merit, but frankly, scanty recognition. But his good Miss Pocahontas, who is seeking to work is supplemented by that of sev¬ dance herself into public favor at the eral capable actors in the production AGNES NOLAN. Sykes Photo, Chicago. Studebaker, is absurdly blase. The among whom, of course, Edward Ab- When George Cohan approaches the marriage altar on July 4, it will be to music of Dan J. Sullivan is at times eles is in the lead. I have never espouse Agnes Nolan, a charming and beautiful member of the George Wash¬ tuneful, but the libretto of R. M. heard of this actor, but that is not es¬ ington Jr. company who made many friends in Chicago when that attrac¬ Baker and R. A. Barnett—well, the pecially to his disparagement. He is tion was crowding the Colonial. Miss Nolan is pictured in a characteristic attitude which caught the fancy of the author-player as the sequel proves. least said of it, the better. We have a good comedian and his technique progressed too far to accept gags often reminded me of Nat Goodwiu. deftly and with the precision of touch the fount, his sincerity of purpose “to that fairly totter with age, and even He at once ingratiated himself in the a choice lot of chorus girls, in the good graces of his audience, who re- of which only a master knows the down Horrigan” only to win political secret. Yet, while I cordially indorse honors for himself, and above all, his romantic attire of Indian maidens, will W»r * **is artistic mirth-provoking his play, I maintain that Horrigan, pardonable pride over the success of not serve to make us swallow them efforts with genuine applause. With without a grimace. Much extraneous °r fwo exceptions, the support is the boss, and Phelan, the alderman his picnics for the women and children who finally vanquishes the political of his ward, serve to make him a matter has been dragged in to lighten satisfactory. Mary Ryan, as “Peggy,” the story of Miss Pocahontas, but this upon whom the heart interest of the colossus in a battle royal, and not character who looms head and Bennett, the mayor, are the stellar shoulders above all in the play, even succeeded only in deepening the farce centers, worked earnestly, but gloom with which the new extrava¬ tne part gave her few opportunities roles and that their importance in this Horrigan himself. enjoyable melange of politics, love and Frances Ring looks the part of ganza was received by a more than for effective work. With the army of indulgent audience. There is an am¬ duty, has been overlooked. Dallas Wainwright, hut her listless¬ men and women in the cast, individu¬ plitude of scenery, but scenery does It would be idle for me at this late ness and evident lack of force impress al mention at this time, even if it not always insure success of a pro¬ were essential, were impossible. As date to dissect this play from the tftemselves inevitably upon her audi¬ duction. Without attempting to dis¬ a wnoie, the farce is an agreeable di¬ standpoint of an unprejudiced critic. ence. I will not insist that these defi¬ sect Miss Pocahontas, or seeking version and it will drive away the ciencies are glaring, but it appears to The drama has demonstrated its draw¬ to indicate its shortcomings, I will nmnf ’ f?r, which reason I heartily rec- ing power, the people enjoy it hugely me that handsome^ costumes and artis¬ merely say that Its authors have an¬ fo the favorable considera¬ as the managers can testify, and on tic poses are not the sole requisites of other try coming and that they have tion of Chicago theatergoers. the whole, it is as instructive as it is so trying a role as that essayed by my best wishes. Walter Jones, Man of the Hour Popular. entertaining. Orrin Johnson makes a Miss Ring. Alice Martin as Cynthia George Le Soir, Neil McNeil, Elgie ,Man of the Hour who nightly manly mayor, his physique is impos¬ Garrison was excellent and Kate Bowen and Clara Palmer did their entertains hosts of Chicagoans at the ing, his reading impressive, but at Lester vested the part of Mrs. Bennett best to forward the interests of the Illinois theater is the central figure of times he fails to be convincing. De¬ with quiet dignity. The support gen¬ production, but their combined efforts °ne of the strongest and most whole- spite his embonpoint, Robert A. erally is far above par, and all alike were unavailing. Yale, Miss Poca¬ i me Plays which has been seen here Fischer, as Horrigan, is capital. He contribute to make The Man of the hontas, to the limbo of dramatic “ a decade. It is a powerful and uses oaths to emphasize his speech in Hour a play that should exert great forgetfulness. June 29, 19071 18 THE SHOW WORLD

\/SlD HP 'N> ■Sporting Lines br Ed.W.Smith. N PRESENTING a sporting resume The patronage will be big, that is al¬ fortune and honor in pugilism but alas a back room, the first out to take t] I and alack, there are none coming up. to theatrical folk, let us say that most certain. Burns, hot from a nas¬ ty mixup with Jack O’Brien in Los Bums looks good for a time till he ad¬ Johnson is looking elsewhere forj we do so with a feeling of assur¬ Angeles, is rushed into a fight with mitted faking with O’Brien. It is true match. ance that all show businesses are a man from Australia and the public is he faked to win but what’s the differ¬ Many Quitters in Ring. closely allied, if not actually at least going to pay the usual prices to see ence? The tarnish is on his name A clever little local man, who and a major portion of fight followers in a moving spirit of go’od fellowship the struggle. Queer, don’t you think? beer pumps and such for a real liviJ will find it hard to convince them¬ and spends much time and a world' and sympathy. Few are the lines of Frisco Survives All Shocks. What other community in the coun¬ selves that he wouldn’t “listen to rea¬ brain tissue on fighters in his sps sport in which some portion of the try would tolerate having such a son,” even if he had to lose to get the moments, asked me a few days ag< theatrical profession is not interested match flaunted before its face? When money. I ever had figured out how i and a kindred feeling always is dis¬ Terry McGovern and Joe Gans in¬ Just how good is Mike Schreck? kinds of quitters there are in the played, sporting leaders and their fol¬ dulged in a little mixup at Tattersall’s You think you know and then you The question stumped me for I hadj lowers and the enthusiasts of sport here, the inside facts of which never don’t. Mike makes good with every thought to arrange a classification being in the main ardent admirers of were aired, the boxing game was battle, but after it’s over you still yellow streaks. Straightway he the different theatrical branches. killed in a jiffy and remained dead not guess. After he beat Wille at Tono- me a little incident as illustrate It would be idle for THE SHOW only in Chicago but a large section of pah, the talk was that judgment had what one sort of a yellow streak wB WORLD to attempt to give its readers do to one sort of a quitter. a complete sporting review from week A Chicago fighter he was handlii* to week. The daily papers have pre¬ was boxing an eastern man in India* empted the field and cover it with apolis, I think it was. The easte* such a degree of thoroughness and man had a fair shade the better of tM§ have such attentive readers that we work for a time and seemed to bp are going to content ourselves with winning along cautious lines, his ojj merely what will be a diligent outline ponent being a desperately - h ar# here and there. The aim will be to puncher. pay attention to the lighter side with Suddenly the Chicago man slamm* a forecast in spots that may appeal to out with a vicious right and catchii* everybody. Mr. Easterner on the chin, floored him Far be from us to take sides in any at full length cleanly as if he had usedf argument or to pick over any mess of a broad axe. Mr. Easterner pull* dry bones or to fight anybody’s battles himself together and at the Count jf or to bring up the disagreeable. There “seven” was dragging himself to hfe is enough at all times to the brighter feet, pretty wobbly. Just as he gqt side of sport to make palatable and about half way up, the Chicago man' even delectable a page that contains made a wild rush at his fallen oppo* a little comment, a few news items ent and with one well directed wall* and perhaps a mild sermon, disguised, again floored him. During the wilreferee prow moral. erly disqualified the Chicagoan. 1 And having made this little bow, “What did you foul him for whfl aimed to be unpretentious, we are go¬ you had it won,” his seconds den i an* ing to ask just one little question that ed of the fighter when they could as is meant to be irrelevant to this par¬ heard. ticular department, but covering THE “Aw, what did he want to try to gef SHOW WORLD as a whole. It is ex¬ up for,” was the surly reply. tremely apropos of the general situa¬ And that shows a type of quitter, a|£ tion. How do you like our general cording to my friend, who is satisfies appearance? Don’t you think you are with second money at almost ana going to like us pretty well after a stage. more extendedo-rt ended acauaintance?acquaintance? You Tactics of Quitters Vary. needn’t answer just now. We feel that There are other types, too, many you can not help saying nice things them. Some lose deliberately about us later on. make no fuss about it. Others try make believe they are eager to figj Squires in Spot Light. after the decision has been They are making much ado Pacific Many and unique are the methi coastwards about a fight that they are adopted of quitting and trying to mai going to decide at the Colma club, WM. SQUIRES AND HIS MANAGER, BARNEY REYNOLDS. it “look good.” over in San Mateo county, on the af¬ Jimmy Bardell, a veteran of rinj ternoon of Independence Day. Bill the middle west, for a considerable best be reserved until he whipped a and mat, now trainer of the champii Squires, a. hearty looking chap of time. Yet Frisco survives shocks like other good man. white sox, was astonished one nig', much preliminary eminence in the that just as it survived the big fire Then they asked Mike the question to suddenly come face to face with sporting pages, is booked to clash and quake, laughs at the medicine wjth Marvin,-Hart of Louisville as his quitter in a most unexpected mann? with Tommy Burns, a young man who forced down its throat by the daunt- opponent. Mike disposed of Marvin in Jimmy was refereeing a slambang prj has been much in the spotlight late¬ less pug and hurrah for the pug, comes a rough battle and yet many were not liminary bout in which the ly whether or not recent actions on back for more. satisfied. But Mike is cheerful. He getting about $20. It went into tl his part justify his being considered Mind you, there is no chance for knows he can fight and fight well and third round and one of the youngstej in a favorable iight. anything “funny” at all about this js keeping a^ittle quiet, merely wait¬ had all the better of it, knocking hi Calmly picked apart the coast sit¬ coming match. This is one time mg for another head to bob up. All opponent down several times. Suddi uation presents . peculiar angles. No Tommy Burns must _ fight his level Mike wants is a chance at the money ly and without any warning, he got! sporting following in the country best if he would win. Squires is and he promises to deliver every time, -clip on the chin and fell flat on hj knows the fighting game better than backed and managed by a man who is Guess we’ll have to give it to Mike, back as if dead. the public of San Francisco. They of some high grade in the ranks of He delivers and that answers most Bardell hurriedly knelt beside tl have had fights and fights for years sportsmen in Australia, Barney Rey- questions boy so that the count could be heal and years, all kinds, good, bad and in¬ nolds by name, a thorough going man Mjke Makes Johnson Quit. and was paralyzed to hear the lad different and crooked. Every boy one of affairs in pugilism. Reynolds thinks „„ “You needn’t count, I ain’t going meets on the street can give you off¬ he has a world beater in Squires and Mlke Was pestered by Jack Johnson is matching with Burns merely as a *or some time after Ins fight with get up.” hand the records of leading pugs and And nobody in the crowd knew stepping stone to higher things. There Hart- The lo?g b,ack wanted some not a few of them know the inside Jimmy laughed till the tears stream! facts of some of the jobs that have is no possibility of defeat for Squires lonS &reen and asked the sturdy Ger- in his mind. “Boshter Bill” is going m?n If he wouldn’t be a party to a down his face. been pulled off, for there is no use try¬ Nelson’s Good Form Doubted. ing to gloss over a game that has to win and then fight the next custo- ™ixuP- Jimmy Britt, noted for clever fist more than its share of the tinges of mer offered, the man undoubtedly be- “Show me the money,” Mike an- and pretty looks, is going to tempt fat rottenness. ing Mike Schreck. swered. “Where’ll we fight?” again with Battling Nelson. They ai! With all of the jobs and fakes and Game Needs New Men.. Johnson didn’t know but allowed he to hook up in the city of San Frai frameups, San Francisco is still en¬ But how about Burns? With the was hot for a match and must have cisco the night of July 3, the supervil tirely friendly to fighters. Of course tarnish over his name just now, will it one- sor having admitted they have notl Colma, where Squires and Burns are now be a great thing for fighting in “Tell you what I’ll do,” Mike said ing against the issuance of a permi to clash, is outside the city proper, general if he is beaten? I think so. calmly, laying down a roll as big as Great for Jimmy and the Dane. but the fight patronage will have to be The game needs new men. Young his thigh—and Mike has thigh aplenty Bat is as good as he was before Jo< attained from the coast metropolis. athletes of a clean makeup will find —“let’s put up $5,000 apiece and go in Gans started in to kill him off at June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD 19

Goldfield, there seems to be no chance he rests them up and switches the men a spill from which they will take Stewards of the English Jockey for Britt. But Bat doesn’t look as if other squad into the action, always in a long time to recover. And the worst. club might find a way if they con¬ he had another good fight in him. this way having fresh, well rested of it all is that Croker was utterly sulted the stewards of the Henley re¬ When he left Chicago for the coast pitchers, no matter how tough or how impervious to the cheap snubs the gatta. American sportsmen are about there was an unnatural look about easy the series in sight. cheaper snobs aimed at him. More as welcome as an inside bunion. him that bespoke ill condition. Jones has enough pitchers for this. power to the ex-Boss. <®> To my mind Bat’s numerous lick¬ Headed by Ed. Walsh, acknowledged <$> <8> <8> Boston’s American league club al¬ ings, even in defeat, have told on him generally to be the greatest of spit “Muggsy” will have to go and get ready has had four managers thus far at last and while I do not think Britt ball artists, the squad contains Frank a reputation before we even grow flur¬ this year. Like the Uncle Tom’s has guns enough to whip him in a Smith, himself a whale in any sort of ried at his approach. He never opened Cabin company that ultimately was twenty round engagement, 1 share the company and constantly getting bet¬ his mouth during the series here. made up of deputy sheriffs, it doesn’t opinion of many others who have ter, Dr. White and Nick Altrock, two seem to have done much good. talked with Nelson that the first good of the .best day-in-and-day-out left An Eastern writer says Ned Hanlon <$> <$> man who fights him will give him handers it would be possible to secure, looks ten years short of his fifty years, what a noted general suggested as a and Frank Owen and Roy Patterson. has a wise head and a fat pocketbook Bill Squires is a remarkable fighter. synonym of war. Even Louie Fiene is regarded as and can afford to give them all the He has been in San Francisco almost strong enough to take his turn in a laugh. As Hanlon’s Cincinnati reds three months and nobody has accused him of anything. BASEBALL pinch. He showed good form last again are proving a false alarm, it is fall. hard to see how Hanlon is going to <8> <$><$>' - Really a Question of Pitchers. squeeze in many laughs. But that may Hundreds of skat players took part So really there isn’t any great dan- be a Cincinnati joke. in a tournament at the Coliseum, but a £3 ssr, **<* *»• <**», >»* » they didn’t find out till two days after way hut the cold facts bob up always. such a way as to alarm the natives Harry Harris, once a Chicago boxer it ended who won. Nobody but a Ger¬ It’s a momentous question too, if you man would have stopped short of find a question in it. Just here—Chi¬ tearing the building down. cago is going to monopolize the 1 <$> <®> world’s baseball championship anoth¬ It is a case of off again, on again er fall. down in Tennessee. Turfmen see hope All right, yell about the luck of the today and nothing but blanks tomor¬ sox and the hitless wonders and other row. All of which is fine for the law¬ things, but don’t get twisted about yers who are handling the test cases. this. The sox in the aggregate are a <$> <8> mighty shifty baseball team and can Strange, isn’t it, that Roger Bresna- beat most anybody’s baseball team. han of the New York Giants should be They did beat the best team in the the first catcher in the business to see National league last year, a team that the necessity of shin guards. He is going to display the same accuracy claims they are a good thing although of class another season. So what’s to there is no record of any broken legs prevent a recurrence of the wildly or other serious injuries among catch¬ palpitating scenes of last October? ers. It might be argued too that the Only Cleveland and a mess of tough man who invented brass knuckles was luck. That’s the answer. a benefactor of the boxing game. In the popular words of the ball What fine inspiration Christy Math- players, What do you know about ewson must find among his baseball Cleveland? Ah, that’s the gang to players when he takes on a match at make trouble, if trouble it continues checkers! to be. Larry Lajoie, for years on the verge of winning a pennant, has a short clutch on a fine chance right One Chicago fighter, arguing with now. Can he hold it? Well, it looks another over a match, wound up by like a gamble. offering to stop the other chap* and his Something always happens to Larry manager in the same ring. This was and his band at the wrong time. He no more than right. Managers always has everything under his managerial say, “I’ll fight you” or “I’ll make the rein that goes to make a great base¬ weight,” in discussing matches, ball club. Perhaps if he had another i <3> <$> <$> strong pitcher or two he could be set Jimmy Britt thinks Nelson has gone down as a sure enough winner. But back so far that the Dane will be no outside of that the Naps look all over match for him. And it might be said a strong crowd. that would be going back some. But then, how are you going to fig¬ ure Detroit as being out of the strug¬ gle? You can’t very well and this Status of Racing Here. means more trouble for the white sox. One of the really strange situations But then any way you take it there is constantly showing itself over the will be trouble and even at this stage country regarding the status of racing the Chicago Nationals could be put in in and about Chicago. Every little distress by a single accident that while a story will crop out in some would deprive the team of the ser¬ section that the tip is out that racing vices of one of its good men. will be resumed “at Chicago” in the Must Fight for Flag Here. fall and that certain turfmen have re¬ But that flag must be fought for ceived the tip not to prepare to go here. It just must be. Those sox have anywhere but the northern part of got the idea fairly steeped in their Illinois. The strangest part of this is minds, just as the old lady steeps her the fact that nohody whose opinion is tea and then lets it sink in. Having worth anything feels that way about a strong taste of honors and big re¬ it in Chicago after canvassing the sit¬ ceipts the players do not want any¬ STAR TWIRLERS OF CHICAGO'S WHITE SOX TEAM. uation. John Condon, perhaps more body but themselves to get a crack at heavily interested in race track prop¬ the lusciousness of it all. erties than any man in the west, of this great burg. And believe me of accredited cleverness, proved a bit takes a cheerfully gloomy view of the There is one thing absolutely neces¬ of a frost not long ago when against sary about a winning baseball team. it is a question of pitchers alone. prospects, if such a paradoxical view I have been told often that anybody the real thing in a New York ring. It might be taken. It is such a hopeless The pitchers must be kept in great needn’t worry any of Harry’s old shape all the time. This does not could pitch great ball for either the case to him that he is moved to quiet White Sox or the Cubs. So strong is friends. As a legitimate procurer of mirth about it. mean that one man is expected to go ready funds, Harry stands out in a the fielding of the two teams that a “Think there is any chance?” he “rough the entire system winning class by himself, alongside of which with anything like regularity. But pitcher gets support of a dazzling was asked the other day. character at all times and thus has “Kid” McCoy and the others are play¬ “Oh, yes, I think so,” he replied at all the different stages of the long ing the dollar book. season of 154 games a manager must little excuse for not winning a large gravely, "in about 1913.” majority of his games. In a measure have some of his pitchers in that con¬ Mayor Busse Looks Good. dition that is called dependable. this is true but another point must not Won’t it look just too cute to see be overlooked. Runs are obtained by If Chicago is to be denied racing— Jones Has Good Pitchers. “Sox vs. Cubs” on the printing it seems certain there will be noth¬ Fielder Jones of the white sox has good batting, braced up by smart and again? Looks familiar and entirely heady base running. If you get a ing started here for many months— enough good pitchers to enable him probable, don’t you think? there is optimism by the peck meas¬ to establish a rest-up system. It was team that can help along in this way, then you have the ideal baseball club <$> ure full over the boxing angle. Mayor a system of this style that permitted ’Tis said “Muggsy” McGraw is in¬ Busse, the first republican in many Jrank Chance of the Chicago Nationals and one that is reasonably sure to take down the money and pennant and terested in a book on the eastern race years and the most democratic of all 1? ??, a'ong last year and break a honors any old time. track. And it’s just as well that John of them, looks mighty good to the pro¬ world s record for the number of moters and close followers of the Chips off the Bat. has something to take his mind off games won. And Frank bids fair to his present company. swatters. “In the fall,” is the slogan , “ls team eclipse even this aston¬ It was the Dutch as well as the of those directly interested in a re¬ ishing mark of 116 victories. Chance Irish that raised Cain among English sumption of ring contests in this city, uses a certain number of pitchers as horsemen. Along came Ex-Boss Crok- That chap Orchard seems to be referring of course to the fall of the jong as they are in winning condi- er with a derby winner and then Col. something of a Jack O’Brien. He has year and having no thought of the a?'..Then when their power lags Pabst of Milwaukee, with a champion confessed to everything but letting many falls different chief executives ana their control and ginger are gone hackney stallion, gave the Bnglish- the other fellow stay. have taken out of the boxing game. 20 THE SHOW WORLD DENVER SUMMER SHOWS BOOMING Denver, June 23, 1907. Parks and Outdoor Entertainment Win Popular Favor— subjects and used up-to-date projeffi BY way of explanation. The writer ing apparatus. Those at present® has taken hold of the Denver Theaters are in Renovaters’ Hands — Chicago Singer use “flicker to beat the band.” The pioneers in 5-cent shows in Deni® end of making THE SHOW Meets with Success — Entertaining Professional Gossip. have much to learn. The idea of put¬ WORLD a wildfire success. He has ting a man in the ticket office instejfi permission to write what he believes of a pretty young girl! Why, in my proper and in his own way. He has BY H. H. BUCKWALTER opinion, they are throwing away dm lars in this one thing alone. A pret¬ no friends to reward nor enemies to ty girl always draws business and punish and will present the facts as some gentleman who told her she ranged and are doing the good busi¬ costs less than a man. he sees or understands them. He is could sing. Then she went’ to Chica¬ ness they deserve. “Fighting the Makes Fortune with $55. J Flames” is one of the new features not looking for favors and realizes go and got in with Mrs. Brown’s Stan¬ Miss Mabel Corlew, who won a dia¬ dard Opera Company. The “crool” and it is exceedingly well worked up. mond medal at a Chicago musical that facts don’t always make friends. world did not seem to appreciate the At the Tuileries, a resort at the It has been his experience in news¬ school, will be one of the city pari prima donna and Paulyne came home Southern edge of Denver, a fine lot of soloists with Forman’s band. M paper work that success lies over a and sang at some benefit. She pulled park attractions are offered and all road paved with curses. The writing Corlew’s initial appearance in puj out her tremolo stop until it got stuck are taking in plenty of spare change. was at the Orpheum where she si of the weak, flattering individual who and her notes came in bubbles. Next This resort is only a couple years old praises everybody and everything one week two years ago, filling a morning Foster Henchman, the Rocky hut it is letting patronage. cancy. The young woman was s bears no weight and earns no subscrib¬ Mountain News critic, said Paulyne’s A new park is soon to be opened ers; while bald facts, coldly present¬ ing music in a department store wfl ed, may arouse antagonism, they also an offer of a try-out came from Mr command respect when truthfully ager Carson. Without preparation f told. The fellow who “wouldn’t buy went on and made a great hit, finj that dam paper” because the truth ing the week and getting $55 in had been told about him will soon get money. And, what do you think? into the habit of stealing his neigh¬ $55 was the start of her fortune. Moj bor’s “to see if there is anything in er and daughter were struggling al< it” and that will soon make him one trying to make a living. They of the strongest supporters THE $40 in debt and the mother was SHOW WORLD can have. So, if to go to work in a laundry to you don’t like what I -write, “smile, enough to pay off the debt. No darn you, smile,” for I might do er had the young girl earned the than a letter came from a rich u worse. Parks Are the Thing. who had lost track of mother daughter. He read Mabel’s nam The summer season is at hand and, a local paper and, without knoi of course, parks and outdoor places anything about the girl’s strugi are the thing. The Broadway and sent a check for $40 and offered] Tabor Grand are closing a most pros¬ pay all expenses if Mrs. Corlew s perous season. The weather man has Mabel would go to Chicago. So t] done his worst so far for the parks went and Mabel won the diami but his stock of cold and' rain is “al¬ medal, and everybody hopes she y® most all,” as they say in Pennsyl¬ marry a prince and live happy ev$t vania. During the vacation both after. houses will he thoroughly renovated That sounds like a fairy story, tflt and they will open in the late sum¬ it isn’t. mer as strictly trust houses. In the Good Talent in Denver. 1 past the higher class attractions have Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughS been hooked at the Broadway and the of William Jennings Bryan, isH cheaper plays at the Tabor. There is sketch writer of some ability. Mrs. a rumor that next season some other Leavitt wrote a sketch for Mrs. Ois arrangement will be made for the Spencer, the Denver society worn®, second-class shows and Klaw and Er- who thought she was an actress afl langer vaudeville will go to the Tabor. who tried vaudeville and is now wifi The writer has had no conversation a legitimate company. The Leavft with Mr. Peter McCourt on the sub¬ sketch had some merit and might ject, hut it seems probable that the have made a hit in better hands. H only change will he one of the K. & Denver, by the way, has sent (rat E. vaudeville shows at the Tabor oc¬ some good talent. The Millman Tflo casionally, say once a month, espe¬ of slack wire artists and Prohst. tie cially when the Orpheum has on a imitator, are easily at the heads If strong bill. their classes. Joe Howard was fp Orpheum Profits Are Big. merly of Denver. Maude Fealy is And speaking of vaudeville, the Or¬ here waiting for an engagemer pheum net profits for the past season Elitch’s gardens. There are other will run almost $120,000. That is not course. bad for one house. Manager A. C. Denver, in my opinion, has Carson is an experienced newspaper received the representation in drs man and he has established a patron¬ tic journals it deserves. Why, a tna age at the vaudeville house that equals ful account of some of the try- grand opera for high class people. would set all the world laughing When Mr. Murdock or Mr. Bray send ruin the lemon crop of California. him good acts the street in front of Denver is on the map, all right, W the Orpheum is blocked with glitter¬ H. H. BUCKWALTER. is it not near a celebrated gold mine ing automobiles. When the hill is of One of the most prominent newspaper men of Denver and the .Pacific that is being advertised extensivffl the citrous variety, Carson works the Coast is H. H. Buckwalter, the Denver representative of THE SHOW WORLD. as for sale among the profession?® He is a distinguished contributor to the magazines and is general western One feature of Denver should At papers for fictioneering space and representative of the ©elig Polyscope Co., of Chicago. He accompanied saves the box office report. Perform¬ President Roosevelt upon his celebrated hunting trip to the Rocky Mountains be overlooked and that is Lodge 22,|T. ers tell me that working at the Den¬ and won the hearty friendship of the nation’s executive. M. A. Frank Gaudy is president Mid ver Orpheum is one of the pleasures the organization is not only flouris¬ of a season’s bookings. Everybody, voice “bordered on the offensive,” and by a number of German capitalists ing but is using its funds for the cap from stage hands to manager, is pleas¬ thereat many society dames and miss¬ headed by Godfrey Schirmer. Beer is of members who belong elsewhere apo ant and agreeable and Max Fabish, es laughed in their kimonos. Paulyne to be sold but no rowdyism will he came here to recover from ills whlcb the treasurer, is a diplomat at fixing is now singing nearer Broadway, far tolerated. “Rous mit em” will be the only the glorious sunshine and dim# up the little misunderstandings that from the banks of Cherry Creek. German translation of “Hey, Rube” of of Colorado can heal. arise. Oswald Richter, leader of the Attractions at the Parks. circus fame. Children Attend Matinees. I orchestra, runs Fabish a close second The park attractions at Denver offer Free Attractions for Denverites. I can not overlook the one big f«a for popularity, while Seth Bailey, stage tempting bait for the wary and nimble Denver will have free attractions ture of the Orpheum that most ap manager, is well up in the bunch. dollars. Mrs. Mary Elitch Long has a for the masses at, City Park. Fred peals to me and that is the childre Interesting Personal Gossip. Walter Clarke Bellows stock com¬ Forman, late of Brooke’s Chicago band, matinee every Saturday. It must I feel like gossiping a little. Pau- pany at Elitch’s Garden. Also a num¬ has a musical crowd discoursing mel¬ seen to he understood. Two th lyne Perry Woolston is no longer Mrs. ber of the usual park attractions. ody every night. July 14 Gargialo sand happy little tots thoroug Woolston but now chops off her name Lawrence Giffen has a Daly company will come for a month. Then, For¬ pleased and highly appreciative, in the middle. The courts gave her at Manhattan Beach and the class of man will finish the season. Between if I was a vaudeville artist, the husband a decree last week. Paulyne musical attractions seems td please musical numbers, Polyscope pictures plause of an Orpheum matinee cri is one of several Denver young ma¬ Denverites well enough to furnish will be shown on an immense screen. would please me more than the pli trons whose longing for the stage be¬ packed houses. Larry is not a diplo¬ And, speaking of Polyscope pictures, its of all the adults in the land! came too strong. Somebody told her mat and may possibly need lessons in reminds me that two weeks ago Den¬ she could sing, so she started forth courtesy, hut he certainly knows -what ver did not have one 5-cent picture More than $4000 in prizes will with a local barnstorming bunch and fashionable Denver wants during the house. Now there are three. Twen¬ offered by the Stafford County b played to the farms and the mines. summer. The out-door attractions at ty more could easily make money, pro- Association for the event at St. Johi Incidentally she caught the eye of Manhattan Beach are very well ar- viding^they showed only clean, pure Kan., from August 28 to 30. June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD 21 LADY GODIVA CONQUERS ST. LOUIS

St. Louis, Mo., June 22, 1907. for a few weeks’ sojourn. It’s a wise Amelia Bingham Finds Excellent Starring Vehicle in Schrod- agent who saves his expense account. HE most important event of the T ers* new Drama—Summer Gardens Are Having Their current summer theatrical sea¬ Mr. and Mrs. John T. Powers, two son was the presentation for Inning—Entertaining Amusement Gossip. of the most capable and earnest play¬ the first time on any stage last Sun¬ ers in vaudeville, are the topliners at Mannion’s this week. They appear day night of “The Modern Lady Go- in a sketch called “The Players” and diva,” at the Suburban Garden Thea¬ BY STEVE O'GRADY are delighting large audiences. ter. Amelia Bingham appeared in the leading role, supported by the entire brand of weather this resort ought to is meeting with favor at the Chero- Dick Ritchie, assistant treasurer of the Olympic, will depart for Atlantic Suburban Stock Company, and the break all records for attendance. This kee Gardens, is the first appearance of Duss, the <8> <8> <& City in a few days. Dick has re¬ new piece won high favor from a millionaire band leader, in St. Louis, “The Telephone Girl” was revived mained with us for an extended pe¬ large audience. The local critics are and he has made a most excellent im- by the Delmar Opera Company this riod this summer and would have re¬ generous in their praise of the new pression. week. This piece, seen many times mained another week had not the play, which is from the pen of Fred¬ <$> ^ <$• in St. Louis and often revived by the Board Walk sent a most urgent tele¬ erick Schroder, a well-known Wash¬ Delmar company, proves as big a fa¬ gram for him to pack up and hurry ington newspaper man who is now in vorite as ever. “The Wedding Day” the New York offices of David Be- lasco. Mr. Schroder was in St. Louis John Sheehy, the popular manager to attend the premier performance of the Grand Opera House, is doing and was immensely pleased with the a summer stunt opposite Delmar interpretation. The play is founded Garden. Johnny calls it the Grotto. on the old story of Lady Godiva, an Picture machine, illustrated songs, Irish woman of high degree who rode etc., and at least 100 shows a day if through the streets of her native vil¬ the crowd justifies. lage in just the same kind and degree <$><$> <8> of raiment worn by a fish in its proper Dan Cahan, the smiling treasurer element. of the Garrick, is still on deck. Man¬ Mr. Schroder has employed the ager Fishell is spending a short va¬ original Lady Godiva idea in a figura¬ cation with the Barnum and Bailey tive sense only. The historic Lady show. He will visit New York before Godiva did a bold deed in a noble his return to St. Louis and it is ex¬ cause. This modern Lady Godiva pected (hoped, anyhow) that Daniel takes a chance with her reputation will be able to tell us just what the in order to help her husband. In fact, Garrick is to have next season when she consents to pose as a model for he ends his cruise. a painter who finds in her his ideal. The posing isn’t included in the price of admission. No, the posing is done William Courtenay has been espe¬ off stage, but after the painter has cially engaged to support Miss Har- finished his work we see the painting ned during her four weeks’ engage¬ on a darkened stage, with the spot ment at the Suburban. light correctly and effectively direct¬ ed toward the ideal picture. Miss By special correspondence from F. Bingham has the sole rights to the C. Payne, via New York, I learn that new play and it is said that she will Mr. Henry W. Savage will be home use it as a starring medium next sea- from Europe about the last of June. Madison Corey, Mr. Savage’s new pro¬ This is the last week of the Bing¬ ducing manager, has already been on ham season at the Suburban, by the the job for several weeks, while Mr. way. Beginning to-morrow night Payne, the general press agent of all Virginia Hamed is to inaugurate a general press agents, has not been season of four weeks. idle despite the cold spell. The Sav¬ age general exploiter, by the way, will And speaking of bands, we are hav¬ spend three or four weeks in Europe ing a fill of ’em these days. Creatore after Mr. Savage’s return. P. S.— has been holding forth with pro¬ Don’t like to butt in on the New York nounced success at Lemp’s Park. He correspondence, but can’t take any is to continue until June 28. It has chances when the Savage interests are been a fine compliment to the fame at stake. and ability of the noted Italian band¬ master, this summer visit to St. Louis, Col. P. Short, the ever popular man¬ for in spite of inclement weather and ager of the Olympic and Century, Is a gate admission of 25 cents he has spending his vacation at the St. Louis drawn the largest crowds that Lemp’s ball parks. Chas. Cavanagh, Mr. Park has ever known, and he prob¬ Short’s strenuous assistant, is suffer¬ ably has given Lemp’s the banner at¬ ing even a worse fate—living in a tendance of the season. family hotel at Kirkwood. Whoo!

The summer gardens are having Edward Campbell, the original of their inning, even though the batting Henry M. Blossom’s successful com¬ rally was inaugurated well into the edy drama. Checkers, drifted into the season. The last four weeks have city a few days ago. Checkers In¬ been the worst from a weather stand¬ forms me that he dropped $3,000 in point ever encountered by promoters stocks during a ten minutes’ visit in of summer entertainment in St. Louis, STEVE O'GRADY. Pittsburg. He has now bought out a and everyone is glad the sun has con¬ There are fewi better known press representatives in the country than Steve complexion establishment and hopes O’Grady, who fills an editorial position on the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. to recoup on cold cream. sented to smile just a little bit. Last Mr. O’Grady has been connected with theatrical enterprises for many years and week saw fair crowds at all the gar¬ last season was a member of the general staff of H. W. Savage in the exploita¬ dens; this week the business is as¬ tion of Madam Butterfly. Billy Seymour, who is playing im¬ suming fair proportions. portant parts with the Delmar show, For a town that is subjected to such West End Heights Sunday afternoon, proved the biggest hit of the Delmar is to succeed Geo. M. Cohan in “Lit¬ threatening weather Col. John D. Despite avordupois the role of Cig- season thus far, and aided and abet- tle Johnny Jones” next season. They Kopkins is certainly exhibiting a deal arette is one of Miss Fuller’s fine sue- ted by good weather got more money don’t make lads any better than this of nerve in putting on such an ex¬ cesses and the annual revival of the than any of the light operas thus far same Billy, either, and I predict a pensive entertainment as the line-up Ouida romance is always a money- produced. This week the honors are big success for the boy. at the Forest Park Highlands repre¬ getter at St. Louis’ most “elevated” divided between Cacelia Rhoda, sents this week. There is Duss and summer garden. The Heights has a Blanch Deyo, John E. Young, Herman The Yiddish plays from the People’s his Band in the open, with concerts varied line of fine attractions, which West and Frank Rushworth. Theater, New York, gave four per¬ every afternoon and evening, while in includes a free band concert after- <«><$•<♦> formances at the Century last week, the theater he is offering such high- noons and evenings. This band thing Mr. Harry Alyward, the globe- presenting “The Chosen People.” priced artists as Grace Van Studdi- is really getting to be the fad in St. trotting advance agent who closed They did a surprisingly good business ford, St. Louis’ favorite comic opera Louis. If you haven’t a band you just with the Weber show during their and Col. Short was almost sorry that star; Tom Nawn, the quaint and ever have to close up shop, that’s all. recent visit here, is spending two he rented. Popular Irish delineator; Charlotte <$, weeks at French Lick. It was indeed Lapelle in a new sketch, “A Touch of The Kilties are holding forth some- a sad blow when the genial Alyward Billy Cave, treasurer of the Century, Nature”; Belle Hathaway, Foster and where on the East Side, Belleville, I left our midst and Homer Bassford recently purchased an automobile, t ester and .the Wilson Brothers, Ger¬ believe, and as the lid is clear off and Bill Bloss of the Times haven’t while Bud Mantz, treasurer at the man dialect comedians. This week over in that section of the United been keyed to the right pitch since Olympic, is constructing a string of and next the Police Relief Associa¬ States their engagement should be a his departure. Mr. Alyward will go modern flats. And yet these treasur¬ tion will have its annual benefit at profitable one. Delmar Garden has to New York from French Lick, ers are always cussing fate and talk¬ the Highlands, and with a reasonable its own band and Heim’s Orchestra thence for a jump across the pond ing about quitting the business. 22 THE SHOW WORLD June 29, 1907, CHICAGO MECCA FOR PRODUCERS THE importance of Chicago as a Many of the Leading Theatrical Attractions are Sent Through¬ titled. My Boy Jack. Other pro<9 theatrical producing center is tions in preparation are. The Hicfl emphasized by the permanent out the Country From Headquarters in this City, Adding Hand with Van Murrel and Corol ■ min, Monte Cristo with E. C. W® location in this city of nearly a score to the Wealth and Fame of Local Managers. ruff in the leading part, A Danger® of enterprising managers whose pro¬ Friend, with Harry Brown and wife ductions, made here at various times, The Two Orphans, The Girl from Chili are now touring the country with sig¬ BY HENRY A. GUTHRIE and A Wise Woman. nal success. It is only within the Lincoln J. Carter in the Lead.l Chicago can boast of Lincoln J past three years that the importance to success numerous amusement en¬ Emery’s name was associated with Carter, who has gained a reputatm of Chicago in this regard became man¬ terprises from the Atlantic to the many of the Hoyt successes.. both as manager and author of the ifest, the result being constant addi¬ Pacific, and since the incorporation W. F. Mann in Melodrama. most conspicuous melodramatic J tions to the managers’ colony, whose on June 1, a new impetus has been sations of the past twenty years. J given to this widely known company. One of the youngest of Chicago’s headquarters are in this city. producing managers is W. F. Mann, Carter’s picture is shown among tW Where in former years, a manager For several years the firm had of other Chicago playwrights J quarters in the Tribune Building, but who by his keen judgment has come was content with one or two plays on to the front ranks of melodramatic where in this issue. His attract^ tour, he now is not content unless he recently the offices were removed to comprise the following: The their present location in the Grand producers. Among Mr. Mann’s attrac¬ Opera House Building. A dozen tions may be mentioned, Shadowed by clerks have been pressed into service Three, a new production: Tempest to properly handle the various enter¬ and Sunshine, two companies of The prises of the firm. Cow Puncher, two companies of As Among the attractions announced Told in the Hills and the Moonshin¬ for next season are: “The Original er’s Daughter. Cohen,” and the “Mysterious Burg¬ Peterson is Successful. lar,” both along entirely new lines, Another manager who has won repu-

'Mrry a1^' ENTERPRISING MANAGERS WHO ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THE THEATRICAL SUPREMACY OF CHICAGO. has six or a dozen. This condition each necessitating a cast of more tation with one attraction, is F. V. Mail, Chattanooga, Under the Don is to be attributed largely to western than 30 people. The players have Peterson, who is located in the Trib¬ Remember the Maine, The Heart energy and push, which characterize been engaged and rehearsals will une building. Mr. Peterson after much Chicago, Tornado, The Eleventh Hoi all the operations of these enterpris¬ commence next week. Other attrac¬ difficulty secured the rights to Sol The Flaming Arrow, Two Lit ing producers. tions that will be sent entour this Smith Russell’s greatest success, A Waifs, The Madman, The Darki With abundant natural resources season are “The Phantom Detective,” Poor Relation. The coming season Hour, Too Proud to Beg, Her Oi Chicago will increase in this regard two companies of “Thorns & Orange will make the third for this play un¬ Sin, The Eye Witness, Bedfon more and more each year. It is the Blossoms,” “The Old Clothes Man,” der his management with Lee D. Ells¬ Hope, While Frisco Bums, Shadows natural railroad center of the United with James Kyrle MacCurdy, and worth in the leading role. An inno¬ the Past, The Cat and the Fiddle a States, and equipped with ample many •■more. vation will be introduced by Mr. Pe¬ On the Trail. scenic studios, costumers and show No two young men have won such terson this season, however, he de¬ Klemt & Gazzolo Amusement CoJ print houses and every facility for distinctive success as Edwin Rowland signing to produce two plays at every One of the most enterprising pi business. Chicago will soon enjoy the and Edwin Clifford. Both number performance. A Poor Relation will ducing firms of successful mel producing honors of the English their friends by the legion. be preceded by a costume play enti¬ dramas is the Klimt & Gazzolo Amd speaking stage. Martin & Emery’s Enterprises. tled, Luckless David. ment Co., composed of Frank Gaz¬ Rowland & Clifford Enterprises. Although Martin & Emery now con¬ Conrad Has Long String. zolo, George Klimt and Frank Bel Among the local managers, Messrs. trol only one attraction, they have Fred G. Conrad will produce a long ero. Mr. Grazzolo and Mr. Berne Rowland and Clifford occupy a lead¬ gained an enviable reputation by their list of successes this season, his busy were associated with the manageme ing position. With amazing strides fine production of Richard Wagner’s office presenting a scene of much act¬ of the Alhambra theater a few ye^ the Rowland & Clifford Amusement Co. sacred festival play Parsifal, in Eng¬ ivity these days with a force of eight ago and their branching out as p has become foremost in the theatrical lish. The coming season will be the people preparing for the coming sea¬ ducers is responsible for the folia field of Chicago. The names of Row¬ third for this religious drama. The son’s work. Heading the list of Mr. ing plays: Four Corners of the Ear land & Clifford are familiar to every members of the firm have been iden¬ Conrad’s attractions will be Eugene The Rocky Mountain Express, Que actor and manager in the United tified with the amusement business in Moore in a new play by Edwin Milton of the Cattle Range, Working H< States, as for years they have piloted Chicago for a number of years. Mr. Royle, author of the Squaw Man, en- Way in the World, The Great Ea June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD

supply all of the amusements for the ern World, On the Bridge at Mid¬ and Joe Howard and Mabel Barrison GREGORY, FIREWORKS KING in a new musical play entitled. The fair this year. It is safe to state that night, James Boys in Missouri and when the big fair opens this fall, the Big Hearted Jim. All of these plays Flower of the Ranch. Mr. Singer is Chicago Young Man Head of Great were written by William Lynch Rob¬ engaged at his prosperous little play¬ Business Enterprise bill to be preseented never will have been surpassed anywhere. erts with the exception of the James house in preparing for the opening of Boys in Missouri. Mr. Gazollo is also a new musical play by Hough, How¬ B. E. Gregory is a Chicago young Some of the principal acts will be ard and Adams, which will have its man whose rise in the field of fire¬ the Six Glinserattis, Eight Jacksons, premiere at the La Salle theater on works and outdoor spectacles has Eight Bedouin Arabs, Marzello and August 17. Cecil Lean, Florence Hol¬ been scarcely less meteoric than the Mallay, Wills and Hasson, Howard’s brook and Georgia Drew Mendum rockets he manufactures. Mr. Greg¬ Dogs and Ponies, Jean and Marie have been re-engaged. ory is the head of the Gregory Fire¬ Weitzman, Somersault Automobile, Lindsay’s New Attractions. works Company with offices at 167 Five Salveggis, Prof. Fink’s Trained Walter Lindsay, known in Chicago Dearborn street, Chicago) and the Mules, LaMothe Trio, Zamona Family, amusement circles, who last season company’s manufacturing plant is Norman, The Frog Man and Chas. had charge of the tour of Joe Howard located at Franklin, Ill., 15 miles Stroebel’s Air Ship. In addition, Mr. and Mabel Barrison in The District from the city. He owns and pro¬ Gregory’s new spectacle, The Fall of Leader, will have a number of attrac¬ duces the great pyrotechnic spectacle, Jericho, will be the featured attrac¬ tions on the road next season. One Moscow, and now has in preparation tion. of the best of these will be a new a new and more costly spectacle en¬ This spectacle, which will be pre¬ comedy drama in which Mabel Mc- titled, The Fall of Jericho. sented for the first time at Lake Cune will be the star. Mr. Gregory was born in Bingham¬ View Park, Peoria, Ill., July 2, is now ton, N. Y., and for ten years was in I. M. Weingarden, Big Producer. in course of construction and un¬ the business of jobbing fireworks in doubtedly will be the most magnifi¬ I. M. Weingarden has won a repu¬ that city. Later he came to Chicago cent outdoor spectacle ever placed be¬ tation as a producer of summer stock and for many years was prominently fore the public. No expense is be¬ burlesque, and for the past few sea¬ identified with a famous fireworks ing spared to make the biblical de¬ sons his busy theater on State street concern, severing his connection tails of the famous siege of Jericho has done excellent business during therewith about two years ago to em¬ complete and a fortune has been the summer months. bark in the fireworks trade for him¬ spent for costumes alone. Some 350 Frazee in Musical Comedy. self. people will be employed and more Musical comedy is the forte of H. His manufacturing business is than 400 feet of scenery will be util¬ H. Frazee, one of Chicago’s youngest heavy at all times, although he con- ized for the spectacle. A display of fireworks said to cost $1000 will be used at every performance. The Moscow Spectacle, which represents ■ the famous Russian city during the strike and rioting of 1905, is also a remarkable exhibition and gives an¬ Sykes Photo, Chicago. other opportunity for display of fire¬ WORTHINGTON BUTTS. works. Worthington Butts, general western manager of the Morgan Lithograph Co., of Cleveland, with offices at No. 62 Grand Theater for Sale. Opera House building, Chicago, is com¬ paratively a newcomer to Chicago, but F. E. Rutledge & Co., 234 La Salle his experience in the poster trade has street, Chicago, a .prominent real es¬ been varied and thorough. He lqng rep¬ tate firm, has a neighborhood theater resented the London house of the Morgan Lithograph Co., and he succeeded in for sale and offers are invited. The building up a foreign business that has house is in an exceptionally good'lo¬ spread to every corner of the old world, cation and the income of the buildjng necessitating the ' establishment of branch offices at Sydney, N. S. W., and now is $2,000 a year, met. The thea¬ Melbourne, Australia. Aside from Mr. ter is in operation with exceptionally Butts' pleasing personality, he is a man good returns, and Mr) Rutledge, who of ability, originality and sterling integ¬ rity. is receiver .for the property, promises the purchaser a fine bargain. one of the directors of the Central States Theater Company. Walters Favors Comedies. George C. Tyler, of Liebler & Com¬ Another prominent Chicago produ¬ pany’s force, has gone to Europe on cer ris Elmer Walters. For the past fifteen years his attractions have been sent broadcast from Chicago and this season he announces the following: An Irish Honeymoon, A Thoroughbred Tramp, A Millionaire Tramp, Raffer¬ ty’s ^Flirtation and The James Boys. Holland & Filkins’ Big Shows. The well known producing firm of Rusco & Holland has been changed to that of Holland & Filkins, and for the B. E. GREGORY. Sykes Photo. Chicago. coming season announce the following Foremost among the manufacturers of fireworks in the United States is B. E. attractions: Richard & Pringle’s Min¬ Gregory head,of the Gregory Fireworks Co., 167 Dearborn street, Chicago. He is strels, For Mother’s Sake (eastern), Droducer and owner of the mammoth spectacle Moscow and is now preparing a new and For Mother’s Sake (western). spectacle The Fall of Jericho, which will command attention. Mr. Gregory has been in Chicago for many years and has risen to a conspicuous place in the business The minstrel show has not closed for and manufacturing community. the last fifteen seasons, playing 52 weeks annually. producing managers, and during the fines his efforts almost entirely to Spofford, Powell & Cohn. season of 1907-8 he will launch the fol- great public displays and does not Eight attractions will leave the of¬ lowing musical successes: The Yan- handle to any extent the small retail fices of Spofford, Powell & Cohn next kee Regent, The Royal Chef (east- sale of pyrotechnics. His catalogue September, these embracing the Ra¬ ern), The Royal Chef (western). The is devoted mainly to the story of big jah of Bong, Honest Hearts, Weary Isle of Spice (western). Numerous combination displays and in this field Willie Walker, To Die at Dawn, Al¬ other important dramatic productions he has become famous. Today, when phonse & Gaston, The Homeseekers, ; in preparation- for the season-- of great corporation, a city or state, A Human Slave and Si Holler. i«08-9. amusement enterprise desires for any purpose to make a pyrotechnic Kilroy & Britton. Sid'J. EusoTis 'another* stock "pro- display, in almost every instance Ml Kilroy & Britton, from their suite of ducer, and with his theater on North Gregory is the man who ultimately offices in the Grand Opera House building, are organizing the following list of attractions for the coming sea¬ wp£ son: The Cowboy Girl, The Candy the patrons of the popular burlesque Mr- Le the Minnesota Sta?e GEORGE U. STEVENSON. Kid, The Trust Busters (eastern and For ten years the “Chicago Weekly °There are other attractions leaving Fair at g-g**--* Iowa ^te Amusement Guide” has been faithfully western), and An Aristocratic Tramp. serving the interests of local playgoers Harry Earl, general manager of the S'blL^ouLet'hut^lomplete County Fair at BeHeville lH Wild- and the large touring element that makes firm, announces that they will pro¬ ii

MILLE 101 RANCH Wl THE LEAVING FEATURE AT

UNDER DIRECTIOI

/IS LEADING- CHARACTERS -MILLER 0 500 Indians, Cowboys, Cowgirls and Mexicans! REALISTIC FRONTIER SPECTACLES! THRILLI Indian War Dances! Cowboy Sports! Buffalo Chase! Pony Express! Rifle $

A distinct triumph achieved at the Coliseum in Chicago and pronounced bp the press to be the 'BEST WILD WEST SHOW NOW BEFORE THE PUBLIC June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD 25

Z. T. MILLER H. E. THOMAS, M. D. BROS. 9 WEST SHOW E JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION! fHE C. W. REX CO.

*>• 101 RANCH-WILD WEST SHOW? 300 Wild Steers, Buffalos and Bucking Horses! CONFLICTS BETWEEN INDIANS AND SETTLERS! ng! Roping Wild Cattle! Broncho Busting Contest! Attack on Emigrant Train!

COMMENTS OF THE CHICAGO PRESS

• rn!?e only £enuine Wild West Show that has ever appeared A high-class show in every way; instructive and not of the in Chicago, and has made a tremendous hit.—AMERICAN. slip-shod kind—CHICAGO POST. ,An excellent and realistic Wild West Show.—CHARLES W. COLLINS in the RECORD-HERALD. A Wild West Show of high moral tone, interesting and The best show of its kind that ever struck Chicago.— instructive, and one that mothers can be certain will have no DAILY JOURNAL. detrimental effect on their children.—CHRONICLE. 26 THE SHOW WORLD June 29, 1907. A FAMOUS RESORT IS 101 RANCH

ITUATED 750 miles southwest of the words of J. C. Miller, “made® S Miller Bros., Proprietors of Immense Oklahoma Property of plumb tramps out of them.” Chicago, 500 miles west of St. 100,000 Acres, Employ an Army of Men—Its Acquire¬ It is not likely that Miller Bros.® Louis, and 300 miles west of will again be compelled to start at B Kansas City, is a small station on the ment in Pioneer Days Forms a Romantic Story. the foot of fortune’s ladder. The eld-® Santa Fe known as Bliss, Okla. It is er Miller lived until April; 1903, when S he died, leaving the big ranch to his S a mere speck on Rand & McNally’s three sons, J. C., Zack T. and George L. fl maps, yet thousands of people alight BY A STAFF WRITER Miller, Jr. In 1905 Dr. H. E. Thomas, 9 from the through trains every year a wealthy physician of Chicago, vis- 9 at the little station and the passenger chased 250 cattle at $7.00 a head and he returned to Gonzales county, a ited the 101 Ranch and purchased ® a one-fourth interest, so that he, to- 9 traffic to and from Bliss, Okla., is no started to drive them north to a ship¬ distance of 1,000 miles, and pur¬ ping point. Texas was full of roving chased as many cattle as his capital gether with the three Miller brothers, ® inconsiderable item to the Atchison, Indians at the time and • they were would permit. These, he drove 1,000 comprise the quartette of proprietors. J9 Topeka & Santa Fe line. The attrac¬ always ready to take a potshot at any miles to Baxter Springs and sold, this While Dr. Thomas is a typical city fa tion is the 101 Ranch of Miller Bros., stray white man, especially when he time succeeding in eluding the rob¬ man, nevertheless he spends all the * covering a monster tract of 100,000 had a likely bunch of long horns with bers. He continued making these time he can spare on the Ranch and \jl acres, which is just now limed him. However, the elder Miller suc¬ trips for many years and amassed a takes the keenest interest in his prop- -M brightly in the’ public spot light, and ceeded in dodging the predatory In¬ considerable fortune. But ‘he never erty. which will continue so indefinitely dians and reached Baxter Springs, forgot his desire to secure the lux¬ Army of Men Employed. because of the big Wild West Show Kan., safely, where he disposed of urious cattle country near Bliss, and Statistics regarding this tremend- g which has been sent east from the his cattle at $35.00 a head, making a finally there came a time when the ous enterprise will be of interest to Ranch to be the feature attraction neat profit. Indian Reservation at that point was the public. The Ranch itself com- ® of the Jamestown Exposition. opened for settlement. The land had prises 100,000 aerts. There are more B The remarkable features of the Robbed by Road Agents. been owned for years by the Indians, than 100 miles of fences on the prop- fl I Wild West Show have been admired It was on this first trip north that but a provision was made that, when erty, and 50 miles of telephone lines. 1 by thousands, and those who have George Miller, attracted by the lux- an Indian died, his heirs could sell A force of 200 cowboys and 500 farm'll

1 ^ARKANSAS RIVER. SCENE ON RANCH-* |

Saddling

r 101 Ranch—

THE ROUND UP. BEAUTIFUL AND ROMANTIC SCENES OF MILLER BROS.’ CELEBRATED 101 RANCH NEAR BLISS, OKLA.

not had the privilege of witnessing uriant country where Bliss, Okla., his property. By this time Miller had hands is employed and it requires the the most realistic Western exhibition now stands, decided to locate there. brought his sons west and they be¬ services of 25 foremen to supervise now before the public, have doubtless He left Baxter Springs with his mon¬ gan to buy up the lands about Bliss. the departments. Some 12,J)00 acres read many columns regarding it in ey, all in gold, but had not gone far They bought piece after piece and are under cultivation, .and the re¬ the press. The history of the 101 when he found himself looking down many years elapsed before they had mainder is devoted to cattle raising. Ranch Wild West Show extends back the black tunnels of several six- secured the big tract of 100,000 acres Alfalfa, wheat, corn, oats and feed to the days of the canvas-topped prai¬ shooters, and was compelled to hand which now comprises their holdings. are raised in abundance. There are rie schooner, now displaced by the over two-thirds of his wealth to a Broke Many Times. in the neighborhood of 1,000 Indians palatial Pullman, and to the period band of road agents. These gentle¬ on the Ranch and they reside on the when the rifle and six-shooter consti¬ men of the road belonged to the old¬ It is a notable feature of the rise Ponca and Oto Reservations, which tuted the proverbial nine points/ of er and more chivalrous regime of of Miller Bros, that they lost their are included in the Ranch and for bandits, for instead of taking all his all half a dozen times through turns which Miller Bros, pay annually a It was in 1870 that George W. belongings they left Miller a few hun¬ in the market, yet they have always rental of $30,000 to the Indian own- Miller, father of the Miller Brothers, dreds for expense money and a new started anew and worked up rapidly, left his home at Crab Orchard, Lin¬ start in life, figuring, perhaps, that until today their property is worth, Many of these Indians live in their coln county, Kentucky, and drove with a nest-egg he would earn more together with their liye stock, nearly natural state in wigwams, but there westward. He went direct to Gon¬ for them at a future time. $1,000,000. The panic of 1893 gave are hundreds more civilized, and some zales county, Tex., where he pur- At any rate, with his few hundreds. Miller Bros, their worst jolt and in of them have homes worth $5,000

1 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD 27

showing the evidences of thrift. Mil¬ were 50,000 people on the 101 Ranch during its visit, scoring one of the are allowed to roam the Ranch and ler Brothers have always done every¬ for the grand barbecue and spectacle. biggest hits ever made in Chicago by hunt and fish at their leisure, and thing in their power to help the In¬ The Millers entertained this vast as¬ an attraction of any sort. there are few more ideal spots for a semblage, entirely at their own ex¬ summer outing than on this magnifi¬ dians and their efforts In behalf of A Success at Jamestown. the red-skinned race entitle them to pense. A grand barbecue was given cent demesne. much credit. They have built and then followed the spectacle which At Jamestown the 101 Wild West Run by Telephone. churches for them and have in many was gotten up in much the same has 450 feet frontage and the show manner as the Show now being given is given in an open air arena with The system by which such a monster at Jamestown. Every stage of prog¬ a covered seating space which will enterprise as a Ranch covering 100,- ress made during a century was easily accommodate 15,000 people. 000 acres is run, is a puzzle to many, shown, from the time the settlers first The show has proved a wonderful but Miller Brothers have reduced it came West in their prairie schoon¬ success at Jamestown, and is without to a science which makes the prob¬ ers to the present day. Among the doubt the big feature of the Exposi¬ lem comparatively easy. Everything guests on this occasion were the ter¬ tion. is divided into departments with a ritorial governor and his staff and There are about 500 people with man in complete charge. Miller many notables. The editors were the Show at all times and in order Brothers remain in the central of¬ greatly pleased with the affair and to keep the exhibition in tip-top shape fice and issue orders by telephone, the consequent publicity the 101 Miller Brothers change cowboys and the Ranch being equipped with a Ranch received made its name and Indians at regular intervals. When complete system of wiring to every history known to every reader in the the cowboys and Indians commence portion. , land. to lose their tan and to grow slug¬ Frequent trips of inspection are Was a Quiet Day. gish from city living, they are sent made, but this system of telephone The affair took place on a Sunday hack to the Ranch and a new lot is enables them to direct any portion of the big property easily. The Mil¬ lers come of a hard-muscle, far¬ sighted stock and they impress you at once as men born to lead. Leav¬ ing aside their individual success, it must be admitted that their work in Oklahoma has been an uplifting mis¬ sion. They have aided the Indians In every possible manner and their army of workmen is given every possible comfort and recreation. Their life is wrapped up in the big Ranch and when the Jamestown Exposition be¬ comes a matter of history they will return to Oklahoma and shuck corn. They have undoubtedly been a strong factor in the movement which Sykes Photo, Chicago. brought statehood to Oklahoma and Z. A. HENDRICK. as successful business men and pub¬ The illustrations In this issue are the lic-spirited citizens they command work of Z. A. Hendrick, one of the the respect of all who admire pluck, best known, artists and cartoonists in the country who now is connected with perseverance and indomitable energy. THE SHOW WORLD. Mr. Hendrick is a man of ideas and keen artistic taste as his work in this issue indicates. He was for a considerable period con¬ D’Annunzio Designs Own Tomb. nected with the Globe-Democrat of St. Louis, and was cartoonist for The Besides having more than a dozen Woman’s National Daily, published by plays under way at the present time, the Lewis t'liMisI, i mu < . "i tli.it 'it' Gabriel d’Annunzio, the noted poet, In Chicago and St. Louis he was for eight years a valued member of the is now engaged in designing his own artist staff of the Barnes-Crosby En¬ tomb. While in Berlin the other day graving Co. he took great pride in showing his other ways assisted the government In educating the aborigine. As a matter of fact, the work of Miller Brothers in behalf of the Indians is said to be in no small way resprn- sible for the statehood that Oklaho¬ ma now enjoys. While their exhibi¬ tion is typically western, yet many of the braves with the Show only don buckskin and war paint during the daily performances and at all other times wear the habiliments of civilization, thus showing that they have learned well the lessons of ad¬ vancement taught them by the Mil¬ lers. The annual output of the 101 Ranch is tremendous. In round numbers, about 15,000 head of cattle, 5,000 hogs, COLONEL CHARLES W. PARKER. 1,000 horses and 500 mules are raised Colonel Charles W. Parker, of Abilene, Kan., is founder of the Parker on the Ranch. Carnival Supply Factories of that city and also owns and controls the Parker Hosts to 50,000 People. Shows. From a small beginning, he has worked up an extensive trade and manufactures a great many of the best carnival novelties now before the All of this is however recited to public. His shows are well known and he has done much to elevate the show how Miller Brothers have been carnival to a high plane. In addition to the factories %nd traveling shows, enabled to exhibit in such typical which he superintends Mr. Parker recently opened a large skating rink at fashion life in the great West. The Abilene which is metting with success. manner in which they were induced and in some quarters Miller Brothers brought east. Each week a carload to go into the show business was the were criticised, but there never was of Texas steers and a carload of outcome of a social event when Mil¬ so large a public gathering as this, horses are shipped east to replenish ler Brothers entertained more than which was as quiet and orderly. No the Show and in this manner the ex¬ 60,000 people. During the St. Louis intoxicating liquor was sold nor was hibition is kept snappy and up-to- World’s Fair, J. C. Miller attended gambling allowed on the Ranch, and date at all times. Two of the Broth¬ the meeting of the National Editorial the Brothers actually refused one of¬ ers remain with the exhibition, while Association, and when the time came fer of $10,000 for the privilege of sell¬ the third stays on the Ranch to keep for selecting the place of the next ing beer on the grounds for the ocea- things moving in their proper form. DAVID BEEHLER. annual meeting, invitations from al¬ A Tourist Resort. David Beehler has been connected most every state in the Union were S1°On September 16 of the following with the press department of the vau¬ received. Mr. Miller supplemented year a similar fete was held in com¬ The 101 Ranch is one of the great¬ deville firm of Kohl & Castle for five the invitation of a fellow Oklahomite memoration of the opening up of the est Meccas for tourists in the coun¬ years. The first of the current year he to meet at Guthrie, by stating that was selected to organize the Band country to settlers. About this time try and thousands of city-tired East¬ Department of the Western Vaudeville if the session were held in that city the directors of the Jamestown Ex¬ erners are entertained annually by Managers’ Association and as Manager he would entertain the entire delega¬ position were searching for some Miller Brothers. Up to the time of of this department has heen successful. tion for a day on the big Ranch and great national feature for their Ex¬ the big barbecue for the National Recently he took charge of the Lyric show them the evolution of civiliza¬ Theater in Sioux City, la., one of the position and several of them were Editorial Association, the occasional new houses of the Orpheum Circuit. tion of the West by means of a great strongly in favor of securing a show guests were entertained free of He will Organize the staff and have spectacle which he would arrange. of this sort. It ended In Miller Broth¬ charge, but after the widespread pub¬ the new theater in running order His invitation served to turn the ers finally accepting a proposition to licity which this affair gave the before returning to Chicago. meeting in favor of Guthrie. In June, put on the most complete Wild West Ranch, the tourists increased in num¬ 1905, the editors met and Mr. Miller Show ever attempted, as the big fea¬ ber so rapidly that Miller Brothers friends a large number of elaborate not only kept his word, but made an ture of the Ter-Centennlal Exposition. were compelled for self-protection to designs which he had prepared. The arrangement by which the railroads The Show was first put on at the make a nominal charge for the en¬ one which the poet seems most en¬ ran excursions from all over the coun¬ Coliseum, Chicago, where it ran for tertainment of guests. This charge thused over is In the style of old By- ty to Bliss for the event, so that in three weeks to capacity business, and covers board and lodging and the use zantaz, the sides of which will show, addition to the 3,000 editors, there delighted more than 100,000 people of a Tiding horse daily. The guests ■allegorically, the art of poetry. * THE SHOW WORLD June 29, 1907. MOVING PICTURE INDUSTRY GREAT IF you ask any man interested in Manufacturers of Films and Users of Product Have Millions strange, therefore, if the moving pic general entertainment what con¬ ture did not bring in its wake a fey Invested and Employ an Army of 50,000 Men—Enter¬ who brought their pessimistic endow stitutes the most popular feature ments into play in viewing th< of all amusements at the present prise Fast Becoming an Educational Factor. growth of this industry. Not long time, there is little doubt, especially ago a Chicago newspaper inaugurate! if he is well posted, that he will at a widely advertised campaign agains the moving picture theater, working once reply: “The moving picture.” BY A STAFF WRITER on the old theory that because ther< In the history of theatricals the are a few bad features connected phenomenal rapidity with which this city. That such an enterprise will supply by the present manufacturing therewith the whole should be con form of entertaining the masses and do an enormous business can be re¬ equipment in the country. demned. the growth of its resultant industry alized when it is known that the to¬ The moving picture is in its infancy A representative of The Show have advanced, is unparalleled. A tal output of new films in the world is today. Only the outskirts of its util¬ World has talked with half a dozen few years ago the moving picture was far too small to supply the constantly ity have been reached. It is slowly, of the leading film renters of Chicago a mere experiment to be gazed at increasing demand. In the United but surely coming into commercial and has ascertained from every one with wonder by scientists, as one of States the weekly output runs up life. It is inevitably destined to be- of these gentlemen that they are un¬ the freaks of the age, but no one had hesitatingly in favor of the better any idea that it would ultimately be¬ ment of the moving picture. In cer¬ come a means of entertaining more tain districts the public demands sub¬ e jects, more or less of a sensational people than al the theaters, parks, fairs, circuses and every other form nature, and in order to retain busi¬ -“IS ness it has been necessary to supply of amusement combined. Moving Picture Supreme. such films. But these cases are far The moving picture stands supreme in the minority, and if an investiga¬ today as the great popular entertain¬ tion be made today, it will be found er. Its price is within the reach of that the film renters are pushing only! all, yet its patrons are not confined the highest class of films, and will* to any class. The millionaire rubs not send out sensational subjects, un® elbows with his ten dollar a week em¬ less forced to do so by their custom® ployee at the moving picture show, ers. The public must be educated® and finds just as much enjoyment in up to the best moving pictures. It® the rapidly flitting film on the white has been pandered to for so long by® sheet in front of him as his humble unscupulous persons who, were will® neighbor. And although there are ing to supply any sort of entertain® those who will insist to the contrary, ment in their mad scramble for dol-l it is nevertheless a fact that the mov¬ lars, that it has grown to expect that® ing picture is one of the greatest sort of thing. The film renters are® popular educators of the day and age. working in every way for the better-® Its subjects are rapidly becoming ment of the moving picture, and if® more of an educational character. their present campaign meets with® They represent the processes of in¬ popular approval, it will. only be a I dustries and professions, the details matter of a few months when pic® of which could only be presented to tures of a sensational nature will® certain classes of people through its have entirely disappeared. medium. It reaches a class of peo¬ Army of Men Employed. ple who are unable to secure the The moving picture business now proper amount of knowledge neces¬ employs approximately 50,000 people sary for their betterment. In fact, the entire year. The 5000 moving it has been whispered, and is prac¬ picture theaters in the United States tically understood in some quarters employ on an average seven people that the moving picture will soon be each, making a total of 35,000, while more generally recognized as a ped¬ the manufacturing and renting con¬ agogical institution. cerns also take care of a great army May Reach Universities. of workers. The average salary paid The Show World firmly believes to the employees is probably $15.00, that it will ojnly be a matter of a so that the amount of money dis¬ short time when every educational in¬ bursed in salaries alone by the film stitution will be equipped with one and moving picture industry ap- or more moving picture machines, proaphes $1,000,000 a year. and professors and instructors will be using the moving picture to illus¬ Carl Laemmle Talks Pictures. ] trate their lectures before their class¬ In discussing the moving picture! es. And why not? They are now industry and its future, Carl Laem-| doing the same thing by means of mle, president of the Laemmle Film-J charts and stationary objects. Would it not be much better, say for in- “This is the age of moving pictures,1 Stancfe, in schools of electrical engi¬ and it has only begun. I have been neering, for the instructor to have a asked repeatedly, what would happen film showing the workings of the if the United States were to experi¬ various machines in operation, and ence a financial panic and what effect thus give his students the best prac¬ this would have upon the moving pic- tical demonstration of his subject? CARL LAEMMLE. ture industry- New Chicago Figures. Carl Laemmle, a leading dealer in moving pictures and president of the / T,9 hfnrd h^ tifis^time^^Yoii’85 Chicago leads the world in the Laemmle Film Service, Chicago, is a representative man in this important a oy uns time. IOU rental of moving picture films branch of public amusements. Mr. Laemmle sailed for [EJurope on June 18 in probably heard the same thing over company with his wife and daughter and in his travels over the continent he and ov and in the general patronage of the will be constantly on the lookout for the latest and best film novelties. He , America is the soon will be largely increased. A As the vaudeville features of popular graphically and realistically. lea(L movement is already in tangible entertainment are iwnwnoMwo-increasing « “j am told by the representatives of shape which will result in the forma¬ similar ratio, and no vaudeville bill is Anent The Detractors. the world’s largest makers of mov- tion of a great syndicate for the ex¬ complete without a moving picture Every business, and every profes- ing pictures that while Europe buys clusive manufacture of films in this number, in another year there will be sion has its detractors It would be enormous quantities, yet America 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD SALOME MOTION PICTURES STIR PARIS Latest Gaumont Film Productions Are Magnificent. IN this issue of THE SHOW The pictures here illustrated are re¬ The comic subjects presented are WORLD is preseuted for the first markably clear and they show the most interesting. The illustration marvelous advance made in this de¬ showing the effects of an icy day in time anywhere exclusive picture partment of public amusement. The the streets of Paris is an admirable films made hy Gaumont, the celebrat¬ views of Salome embrace four of the illustration. What has happened here, ed manufacturer of London and Paris, principal scenes of the Opera which it is not difficult to surmise. A mov¬ presenting views of Salome and sev¬ recently created so much public dis¬ ing van meets with a mishap and all cussion and the presentation of which the persons seated thereon together eral comical subjects. It Is recog¬ was interdicted in New York. The with their impedimenta are thrown nized by film users everywhere that comic subjects presented are realis¬ into the street. This is an excellent can furnish you with the the Gaumont films, in the matter of tic and when seen in the theaters of view and affords many laughs. best film rental service The difficulties attending the pur¬ in the country. chase of necessary things in Paris is illustrated in the two pictures headed WHY? “Buying a Ladder.” This gentleman, who has just purchased a ladder, is Because we know the making it interesting for everybody en business from A to Z. route to his home, and after meeting with numerous mishaps, he is taken We are specialists in our in charge by gendarmes. Before he line. We have had years finally reaches his home, however, he is a prisoner tied up with his ladder, of experience in this line. and thus removed on a wheelbarrow We did not spring up in to his home. a night. No, we have The two views of the dog and tramp shshown give only a slight idea of this had a hard climb up the hill, but at last we are on the top and there we are to stay.

you satisfied with your present service? We know you are not unless accuracy of detail and realistic repro¬ you are on our books. duction of subjects are superb. The WHY? pictures herewith presented are quite new and never heretofore have been Because we have the only seen in any other publication. The perfect service in the Kleine Optical Co., 52 State street, GAUMONT SALOME AND COMIC PICTURES. country. We render the Chicago, and 662 Sixth avenue. New this country doubtless will excite film and its possibilities for winning service that never fails. York, is sole American representative much discussion. good laughs from an audience. That Our films are always on of this firm. While it is not the intention to re¬ the tramp has surprising adventures It will be the purpose of THE late in detail the story of Salome, it with the animal is shown by the illus¬ time, what you order and SHOW WORLD to present from time will be interesting to know that the trations. They are sufficient to whet never duplicates. to time the most famous European- pictures here displayed were arranged public curiosity as to the outcome of American film subjects in the original. by Gaumont from actual scenes taken this nomad adventure, and it is prob¬ This will constitute an important feat¬ from the much discussed Wilde pro¬ able that this film will be illustrated ure of succeeding issues. duction. in Chicago in the near future. buys more, yes, very much more than stuff, too—not dry, uninteresting mat¬ thing for you, but I haven’t worked all of Europe combined. ter, but good, live heart-interest pic¬ out the details of it as yet. Here’s “The moving picture business is tures. the outline: still in its infancy. If you have been “A little sentimental stuff now and “Why wouldn’t it be a good plan straddling the fence, fearing it is only then wont hurt anyone. I read the for all the men in your town or city, a fad of brief life, you’re wrong. It’s other day a story in which the author who use moving pictures, to form a going to keep on growing and before said, ‘if you take away man’s senti¬ sort of association or clearing house. another five years have passed, we ment, nothing but the brute remains.’ The principal purpose of the clearing will look back on the present state Sounds pretty good to me. house would be to prevent duplica¬ may seem as if we are of affairs and smile at our fears, if Clean, Snappy Comics Needed. tion of pictures on the same days or we ever had any. “In my opinion there should be at¬ nights in any two or more of the blowing our own horn “But we’ve got to ‘clean it up’ and tached to every reel at least one show houses in that city. pretty hard, but we can put It on a good, substantial, legiti¬ good, clean, snappy comic. There’s “The clearing house could be run mate basis to keep it growing. And another way of reaching a man’s by a board of managers who would back it up. We are to right here is where the film-manu¬ heart except through his stomach. have to be chosen for their integrity be depended upon and facturers can do some boosting. Give him a good, genuine laugh and and their absolute impartiality to¬ can prove any thing we "If the manufacturers will only do it will leave him feeling as fine as ward any one of the theaters in the their part—if they will only produce he does after eating a good square association. say. We have everything pictures that can be enjoyed by all meal. Discussion is Invited. needed in the moving classes and masses—if they will read¬ “If the film-makers wish to make “At present you are cutting each ily take a hand in the uplift move¬ this game a positive and lasting suc¬ other’s throat and your own as well. picture line from films ment, the whole public will stamp the cess (and certainly they must) I But, as far as films are concerned, to admission tickets at business with the seal of approval by think they ought to feel the public this should not be the case. You attending the shows more frequently pulse and do a little doctoring. don’t want to show the same film prices that are right. than ever before. And to be fair “Let them go to some busy film- on Saturday night, for example, that WRITE about it, I’ll say that some of the renting concern, look over the mail the other fellow up the street is show¬ manufacturers are showing a decided carefully, and they’ll find a nice little ing. And your clearing house could inclination to boost. case of astonishment. Where the prevent this demoralizing nuisance. “Let’s cut out once and for all time mail shows one call for ‘something “Think it over. If you have any The New Era anything and everything that might sensational,’ they will find twenty-five ideas on the subject, write to the look the least bit suggestive. Let’s for ‘something amusing.’ Need I say Show World and have a general dis¬ Film Exchange cater more to the happy side of life. more on this line? cussion of the matter. There may I here’s enough of the seamy side Film Users Should Organize. be some objections to such an asso¬ 95=97 Washington St. "Ittont exposing it to further view. “Now just a word to managers and ciation, but it seems to me the good CHICAGO Let’s ‘make ’em laugh right out exhibitors. I’ve been thinking over would more than overbalance the lcud.’ Let’s give them educational a little scheme that looks like a good bad.” 30 THE SHOW WORLD June 29, 1907.3 -- !

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WHY NOT BECOME YOUR OWN MANAGER? R-U=A Leading Man— I will furnish you with Woman Soubrette c p p r I A I PLAY=PRINTING NEWS OF THE TENT SHOWS Comedian r LvlAL SCENIC PRODUCTION Vaudeville Star ON SMALL CAPITAL HE modem circus Is one of the phony of gold and red with hundreds T Manager Extraordinary Inducements to Stock most wonderful of all up-to-date of horses and hundreds of people. and Repertoire Companies. institutions, and when one is un¬ Campbell Brothers’ Shows. Treasurer? Secretary C. E. Whitney, of the EDWARD R. SALTER, acquainted with the mysteries of Its THEN LISTEN ! 1 Campbell Brothers’ Consolidated Suite 120-121 KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE BLDG., NEW YORK operation the mere fact of its ex¬ Shows, writes THE SHOW WORLD istence, let alone the marvelous ma¬ as follows: chinery necessary for the moving of “Saturday, June 15, ended the sev¬ the whole, seems almost beyond enth week of Campbell Bros, tour of human accomplishment. Of course, Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, THE KILROY-BRITTON ATTRACTIONS Wisconsin, and North Dakota. Dur¬ ing all this time but seven days of circus weather have fallen to their lot. Their first parade was given in THE COW=BOY GIRL AN ARISTOCRATIC a blinding snow storm, and the next day it was necessary to scrape some TRAMP eight inches of snow from the lot in THE CANDY KID order to erect the canvas. Two stands have been lost, viz: South Omaha, Neb., owing to a blizzard, and Glen- SURE SHOT SAM THE TRUST BUSTERS wood, Minn., on account of rain, and several night performances have been abandoned for the same reason. Not¬ For time address CHICAGO OFFICE withstanding the unfavorable weather, the treasury shows several thousand Suite 40 Grand Opera House dollars better than for the same period STAIR & HAVLIN, HARRY EARL, General Manager 1 last season. Not a head of stock has been lost, nor any serious accident occurred. “The death of ‘Doc’ Campbell came Any dead fish can float down stream, but it takes a live oi as a sad blow, not only to his broth¬ ers, but to every one connected with the show. For years he had been the E. J. CARPENTER active manager of the show, coming into direct contact with the people of OFFERS: 1907-8 SEASON all departments. While a man of “At Cripple Creek” Main Office, 601 New Times Bldg., quick temper, he was strictly just, “Why Girls Leave Home” and as tender a heart as ever beat “For the Honor of Old Kentucky’ ’ NEW YORK CITY in the breast of man. It is greatly “POP,” S. H. SEMON. owing to his ability and judgment that From the old John Robinson Shows the Campbell show grew in a short back in the early 70’s to general con¬ tracting agent in advance of Buffalo twelve years from an aggregation of Bill’s Wild West Show, this is the re¬ one wagon and two horses to the cord of S. H. Semon, or “Pop,” as show it is today. He is greatly missed he is known in the realm of tent and wagon. After a number of years in but his brothers announce their in¬ the services of the elder Robinson, Mr. tention of carrying on the business as Semon cast his fortunes with the Adam heretofore, and make the Campbell Forepaugh show, during which time he name, if possible, an enduring monu¬ made a good record as a contracting agent of shrewdness and ability. At ment to the memory of the brother the death of the veteran Forepaugh, Mr. who has gone ahead, to the far ad¬ CIRCUS LIGHTS Semon joined the Bamum forces, and vance. for the past eighteen years he has been USED BY ALL LEADING SHOWS constantly on their executive staff. “The principal features with Camp¬ bell Brothers’ Shows this season are I Barnutn & Bailey i Burke’s Uncle Tom Cabin 1 Ringling Bros. ) Leonard Coleson's Merry Go-Round to the old circus man who under¬ Sie Hassan Ben Ali’s troupe of Bed- 3 Forepaugh & Sells Bros, 1 H. Willert s Merry-Go-Round stands the inner workings of the cir¬ uoin Arabs, ten in number; Mizuno’s i Hagenbeck-Wallace ! Terry's Uncle Tom Cabin Co. Royal Japanese Troupe (7); The 5 Buffalo Bill's Wild West ! Andrew Downey McPhee cus machine, it is not so wonderful 5 John G. Robinson’s i Redpaih Lyceum Bureau after all, but becomes merely a mat¬ Lamy Troupe of Acrobats (4); Capt. 7 Cole Bros. Dimitri and his Company of Russian 3 Sells-Floto ter of several hundred persons ac¬ 3 Norris & Rowe complishing their individual tasks at Cossacks (4); The Gentry Aerialists 3 Gollmar Bros. the right moment. However, there is (3); Orrin Hollis, Fred Costello, Net¬ 1 Sun Bros. > Gentry Bros. Two Shows nothing more amazing in the growth tie Hollis and Norma Davenport, rid¬ of amusements than the upward ers; Chas. Barnett and Win Wallace, climb of the circus. mule hurdles. These acts, with a The increase in the number of acts large number of smaller acts, make up is another thing which tends to fur¬ a varied and snappy program, which ther bewilder the circus patron. He seems to give universal satisfaction. was able some years ago to go to “The seven elephants and ten cam¬ the tented arena and witness every¬ els which bring up the rear of Camp¬ 1 Gran Circo Trevino bell Bros, parade, make a strong fea¬ 1 Bodkin Bros, thing. Now he can only see a small i Pat Chappelle portion of it, for there are always at ture. the results of which are daily j M. L. Clark's Show shown at the box office. 1 Cincinnatus Amusement Co. least three performances going on at 7 Cozada Dog & Pony Show once. In each of the rings and on “Campbell Bros, showed to their 3 Cummins’ Wild West the platforms there are nimble acro¬ first turn-away of the season at Du¬ 1 Charles Geyer’s Show bats or intelligent animals going luth, June 5, and a ‘near-turn-away’ ) Fashion Plate Show through their stunts, while over his at Superior the day before. This i Heyer Concert Co. head on many bars and trapezes aer¬ show does not get as many turn- ! J. Augustus Jones away s as some others (on paper), 1 McDonald Bros. ial performers are flying to and fro > John H. Sparks and an army of clowns is distracting but the wise ones in the circus busi¬ 3 Seibel Bros. ness notice that the Campbell Show 7 John F. Stowe his attention on the Hippodrome 1 Al. F. Wheeler Shows track. To take in everything in the comes out each spring a trifle strong¬ J Frank Adams’ Shows modern circus a man must have as er than it was the year before. It is ) Bobby Fountain Shows many eyes as he has fingers and toes. the steady, average business that And take, too, the parade, that brings the lasting returns to the box time-honored institution without office.” which no- circus is complete. Time Gollmar Bros.’ Show a Hit. was when a few wagons, a few Success, both financially and artis¬ mounted performers and an elephant tically, is being met by the Gollmar or two, with a clown tagging behind, Bros.’ Shows, now met by the Gollmar satisfied us completely. Now there F. E. Tryon, mail agent of the show, THE BOLTE &, WEYER CO. must be more than a mile of glitter¬ sends to THE SHOW WORLD the ing panoplied pageantry, or we turn following complete roster of all em¬ 223 Michigan Si., CHICAGO, ILL up our noses in disgust. The mod¬ ployes and the entire executive staff. ern circus parade is a monster sym¬ Chas. Gollmar, general manager; June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD 31 United States Tent and Awning Co.

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B. F. Gollmar, treasurer; Fred Goll- charge of the William iSells Show mar, R. R. contractor; Wallie Goll- this month. Young Sells recently mar, equestrian director; Harry completed hisi education at St. Wirtz, equestrian assistant; F. E. Johns Military School, Saline, Kas., Tryon, press representative; R. W. where he has been studying for Baker, band director; Lew Aronson, the past four years. His portrait manager side show; Ed. Jamison, will be on the lithographs, along with charge of commissary department; that of the late Allen Sells and of Doc Parkhurst, charge of canvas; William, the one-time famous bare- Geo. Holland, boss hostler; Frank hack rider. Other members of the Dial, first assistant; Bert Krotz, executive staff will be, C. B. Fred¬ second assistant; John White, charge ericks, general manager; James Mc- of front door; Geo. Parsons, charge of privileges; Bert Gribble, leader of side show band; Emery Stiles, charge of animals; Steven Smyth, charge of ring stock; F. J. Warrell, legal adjuster; Howard Anderson, boss of properties. The main features on the big show are: The Flying Nelsons (six peo¬ ple) ; The Nelson, Maxwell & Hill troupe of aerial bar artists; Wooley & Pierce, aerial bar performers; the Parker's Perfect Pleasure Producer Smith family of acrobats; Tlie Judges, aerial teeth swing; The Ashtons, comedy acrobats; Oliie Gustard, hurdle; Chas. Rooney, hur¬ JumpingI1orse*CARRY"US"ALL' dle; Geo. Wood, menagerie act; Ray BUILT IN DIFFERENT DESIGNS.RANGING IN Spike, menagerie act; Delia Royal, PRICE FROM $ 3.000.00 TO $ 20.000.00. menagerie act; Lizzie Rooney, prin¬ cipal riding act; Linda Julien, prin¬ cipal riding act; C. Vancello, barrel The Largest Exclusive Manufacturer of Amusement Devices in the kicking; Geo. Wyman, Stanley Fer¬ guson, J. B. Gagnier, Ed. Allen, Pop | World. For Full Particulars and Information Address . Smith, Harry Ashton, Vaudelle and C. W. PARKER, ■ * ABILE.NE., KANSAS Joseph Lafferty, clowns; Madame Yetta La Velle and ballet of 25; A1 A ULAl K1UAL. Newton, clown; Eddie Rooney, bounding wire. LEARN Members of the big show band, ScenerY with R. W. Baker as leader, are: John Vaudeville and Production. Largest Scenic Everything in NEW and S. H. F. Dusch, G. C. Loomis, Harry Knight, Concern in the World. Water Color, Silko and Dye. DANIELS SCENIC STUDIOS, Chicago. Gus Doreman, Pete Thordeson, L. J. Motion Picture Johnson, Emmet Dougherty, Lars •START IN SHOW BUSINESS. Stage In- Larson, A. Mosstadt, H. B. Bundy, HUGH COYLE. >n. What B Machines Edwin Beck, L. H. Davis, Bob Allen, One of the America’s best known Ralph Willits, Frank Pike, Geo. Har¬ publicity promoters for amusement I»ept!r^?27o'w Sth's^ w York"r-“^ enterprises is Hugh Coyliel general ris, Ed I Cobette, Chas. Rowlande, agent of Mackay’s Circus, now in Chi¬ Wante Fred Lane. cago. lick. HARBACH & CO., 809 Filbert St., Phila., Pa, In the side show tent the follow¬ ing performers amuse the crowds: G. Elroy, assistant manager, and Charles E. Towns, magician; The Cliffords; Coleman, advertising manager. It is Geo. Mellivan, Macey, Chas. La the intention of Mr. Sells to winter HAVE YOU SIGNED YET? Noive, Millie Margi, Harry Moulton, his circus at the Fair Grounds at Silvia, Ralph Bailey, first box; B. F. Wichita, Kas., every winter, and to Amery, second box; J. D. Anderson, open there each spring. The show third box. now travels on 32 cars. EOPLE’S Music is furnished in the side P THEATRICAL show by the following of the band: Bart Griffle, director; Jean Rolf, The management of the Sells- Washington Street 1 EXCHANGE Lester Green, Branson Wood, Art Floto shows is at present engaged in Jargoson, Chas. Carpenter, Howard defending a suit for $5,000 damages, Chicago, Ill. WM. T. GASKELL, Manager Murphy, Archie Harris and William brought against them by S. E. Rozell, Morse. of Twin Falls, Idaho, whose daugh¬ Conducted on High Class Lines by Experienced and Reliable Management. Allen Sells, Jr., began his career ter, it is alleged, was killed by a as manager of a circus, when he took tiger belonging to the show.

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12 Park Place, NEW YORK PAIN PYRO CO., 1320 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 32 THE SHOW WORLD June 29, 1907. MIDDLE WEST MANAGERS ORGANIZE MANAGERS of theaters of the Important Association is Formed for the Protection of Man¬ middle west met at the Mid¬ land Hotel, Kansas City, Mo., agerial Interests By-Laws Are Adopted and Officers June 17, and in one of the most im¬ Selected—Written Exclusively for The Show World. portant gatherings in theatrical his¬ tory, organized the Middle West Man¬ agers’ Association, with W. W. Bell, BY GEORGE F. OLENDORF of Pittsburg, Kan., as president, and George F. Olendorf, of Sedalia, Mo., Secretary and Treasurer; they shall con¬ stitute part of the Board of Directors, as secretary and treasurer. The fol¬ and they shall hold their office for a period of one year or until their suc¬ lowing managers were in attendance: cessors are elected and qualified, and the L. M. Crawford, El Paso, Texas. officers of Secretary and Treasurer to be W. W. Garth, Jr., Columbia, Mo. held by one party. The duties of said Charles Ralfe, Nebraska City. officers shall be defined by the by-laws of E. L. Martling, Wichita. Kan. said association. W. W. Bell, Pittsburg. Kan. Section 1. The Association shall be Z. B. Meyers, Chillicothe,. Mo. governed by by-laws to be adopted by W. E. McGhie, Columbus, Kan. the Board of Directors of said Associa- C. A. Lick, Fort Smith, Ark. John A. Tyler, Nevada, Mo. ' Sec. 2. The following managers of va¬ J. C. Harrison, Fayetteville, Ark. rious theaters are hereby reported eli¬ George F. Olendorf, Sedalia Mo. gible to become members of said asso¬ Harry E. Ernich, Fort Scott, Kan. ciation, and were present, viz: C. E. Harman, Holdredge, Neb. L. M. Crawford, El Paso, Texas; W. Jas. Wingfield, Chicago, Ill. W. Garth, Jr., Columbia, Mo.; Charles S. B. Harrington, Peoria, Ill. Ralfe, Nebraska City: E. L. Martling, B. C. Campbell Chicago. Wichita. Kan.; W. W. Bell, Pittsburg, Charles T. Kindt, Davenport, la. Kan.; Z. B. Meyers. Chillicothe, Mo.; F- C. Zehrung, Lincoln, Neb. W. E. McGhie, Columbus, Kan.; C. A. W. P. Jarvis, Clinton, Mo. Lick. Fort Smith, Ark.; John A. Tyler, Roy Crawford, Topeka. Kan. Nevada, Mo.; J. C. Harrison, Fayette¬ L. F. Ballard, Joplin, Mo. ville, Ark.; George F. Olendorf, Sedalia, Lou D. Eppinger, Burlington, Kan. Mo.; Harry E. Ernich, Fort Scott, Kan.; Geo. H. Olendorf, Springfield, Mo. C. E. Harman, Holdredge, Neb.; Elbert Earl Woodruff, Parsons, Kan. Payton, Centerville; A. J. Busby, Mar¬ J. B. Butler. Vinita, I. T. shalltown; Mr. Gluck, Dodge City; Jas. M. J. Cunningham, Leavenworth, Kan. Wingfield, Chicago; S. B. Harrington, C, H. Wheaton, Iola, Kan. Peoria; Geo. H. Johnston, St. Louis; C. U. Philley, St. Joseph, Mo. Charles T. Kindt, Davenport, la.; F. C. Geo. H. Johnston, St. Louis, Mo. Zehrung, Lincoln Neb.; W. P. Jarvis, A. J. Busby, Marshaltown, la. Clinton, Mo.; Roy Crawford, Topeka, W. L..Busby. Waterloo, la. Kan.; L. F. Ballard, Joplin, Mo.; Lou B. Eppinger, Burlington, Kan.; Geo. H. Robert C. Campbell was chosen Olendorf, Springfield, Mo.; Earl Wood¬ chairman on motion of C. U. Philley. ruff, Parsons, Kan.; J. B. Butler, Vinita, D. W. Stuart was named temporary I. T.; M. J. Cunningham. Leavenworth, secretary, and W. W. Bell as tempor¬ Kan.; C. H. Wheaton, Iola, Kan.; C. U. Philley, St. Joseph Mo.; W. L. Bus¬ ary treasurer. by, Waterloo. Organization is Perfected. Respectfully submitted, W. W. BELL. Chairman. The chairman appointed the follow¬ CHARLES KINDT, ing- committee on permanent organ¬ I'. C. ZEHRUNG, ization: W. W. Bell, chairman; F. C. H. WHEATON, W. W. GARTH. C. Zehrung and Charles Kindt, W. W. Committee. Garth and C. H. Wheaton. The com¬ The report of the committee was mittee later submitted the following unanimously adopted. report: Officers are Elected. We, your committee on permanent or¬ The following officers were elected ganization, beg leave to submit you the for the ensuing year: following report, viz: W. W. Bell, president; H. C. Er¬ NAME OF ORGANIZATION. The name of the organization shall be nich, vice-president; and George F. "Middle West Managers’ Association.” Olendorf, secretary and treasurer, Section 1. The object of said associa¬ and also to serve as a member of the tion shall be for the mutual protection and benefit of Managers of Theaters, Board of Directors for the ensuing general advancement of business interest, year. The president then appointed and to keep members advised of matters the following directors: C. T. Kindt, affecting their interest and to take ac¬ tion thereon in order to produce harmony F. C. Zehrung, C. H. Wheaton and C. in business and to secure the mutual ad¬ TJ. Philley. vantage of an organization. The newly elected officers were duly Jurisdiction. installed and on motion of C. XT. Phil¬ The Jurisdiction of the association shall ley, the president was authorized to extend through the states of Illinois, In- call a meeting for the purpose of adopting by-laws.

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Ye merry press agents, put a pin J. F. McGRAIL, Pres, and Gen. Mgr. R. 712, 167 DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO, ILL. in this: “You can’t tie the newspa¬ pers of the Clover Leaf League, let Booking feature acts and attractions for THE BIG FAIRS in the middle West. Fourth of alone beat them.” Talk about ex¬ Tuly Celebrations, Street Fairs, Home Comings, Carnivals and Chautauquas our Long Suit. cellent managers, editors and at¬ taches? Yea, verily, ’tis a revela¬ tion! Here’s the list; you can’t go Secretaries and Managers Notice: If you need an act, outside attraction or a carnival, write to the reliable booking office wrong; all “Daily News,” Minneapo¬ lis, St. Paul, Omaha, Des Moines, Sioux City and St. Joseph. The writ¬ WANTED AT ALL TIMES-FEATURE ACTS, NOTHING TOO BIG. er had the extreme pleasure of mak¬ ing the entire round and wishes to Address: J. F. McGRAIL, Pres, and Gen. Mgr. express his gratitude and thanks, through THE SHOW WORLD to the R. 712, 167 Dearborn St. Chicago. Amusement Booking Association Presidents, Managers and Editors of each of the above mentioned papers for many favors extended. Smooth out the creases with the hand. Having selected the article, A farmer in Nebraska, driving to place it in the center of the paper, market one day last summer, was carefully turn the edges over, fold¬ ing them so as to make a neat pack¬ age. Now, with a strong cord, take a turn about the parcel lengthwise; FILMS FOR RENT then one crosswise. Knot securely with a square, round, oval or conical NEW, LATEST AND BEST. knot and the task is completed.”

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PROGRAM

End Men Stockdoder and Tackenrnyer Gags and Jokes

Tenors Richard O’Say.Chauncey Oilcloth Dangwhoodel Colored Quartette “Punkin” Center Stories..Cal Stewart Grand Opera Selection.Enrico Crewso German Dialect Song and Stories.Frank Wilson Finale The Grand Old Flag Byron Monzello and Company

NOTICE, MANAGERS AND AGENTS.

This act cost to stage $1,000. These figures are life sized and each one dressed for the part represented; for instance in the Crewso Grand Opera Number the figure is in all appearance Crewso, wig, mustache, dress, build, eyes, and wears the costume for the part sang. In the Cal Stewart you see Cal Stewart in Rube make-up and voice. All character numbers are dressed in character costume. Any character can be put on, Jew, German, Irish, Male or Female, Singles, Doubles, Trios, Quartettes, Monologues, Cross Fire Jokes, Gags, etc. When the curtain raises 14 life sized mechanical figures and interlocutor are standing. “Gentlemen, be seated,” and each figure seats itself by the aid of invisible wire pulls. Then the regulation minstrel first part act is given, commencing with Gags and Jokes, Tenor, Bass, Baritone, Monologue, Quartette, Grand Opera, etc. Each figure when introduced raises, bows, gives the number and sits down. This is done by assistants behind drop with invisible wire pulls. Comedy is worked in by figures shaking hands with interlocutor and each other, nudging each other and pointing to people in the audience, etc. All straight numbers in full evening dress. An added feature will be a mechanical doll number, to walk off as finale to this number. This act made possible by the eighth and ninth wonders of the world—(theatrical) the Victor Auxetophone, as clear and louder than any human voice and BYRON MONZELLO PRICE, $500 PER WEEK

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Hon. TIMOTHY D. SULLIVAN, JOHN W. CONSIDINE, NEW YORK. Circuit The Circuit Your Friends Have Spoken to You About. Real Time for Real Acts. Have You Noticed Some We are Playing 25 Weeks Owned and Controlled by this Circuit?

RECENT PURCHASES AND ADDITIONS: BIJOU THEATRE.La Crosse, Wis. \ THE NASH / BURWOOD OPERA HOUSE.Omaha, Neb. UNIQUE THEATRE.Eau Claire, Wis. ) i PEOPLE’S THEATRE.Los Angeles, Cal. CIRCUIT BIJOU THEATRE.Duluth, Minn. ( LYRIC THEATRE.Ogden, Utah BIJOU THEATRE. ...Superior, Wis. I CONSISTING ) LYCEUM THEATRE.Salt Lake, Utah BIJOU THEATRE.Winnipeg, Man. ) OF ( NOVELTY THEATRE.Denver, Colo.

New Houses now under course of construction at Kansas City, Mo., Denver, Colo., Sioux City, la. Above houses a booked in connection with the following Sullivan-Considine houses: Olympic Theatre .... South Bend, Ind. Grand Theatre.Vancouver, B. C. National Theatre ..San Francisco, Cal. Family Theatre.Scranton, Pa. Grand Theatre.Victoria, B. C. Globe.San Francisco, Cal. Lyric Theatre.Cleveland, Ohio People’s Theatre ....Vancouver, B. C. New House.Ogden, Utah Family Theatre, NewVork City, N. Y. Star Theatre.Tacoma, Wash. New House.Salt Lake, Utah Unique Theatre ..Minneapolis, Minn, Grand Theatre.Tacoma, Wash. Bijou Theatre.Anderson, Ind. Empire Theatre.Des Moines, Iowa Star Theatre.Portland, Ore. Grand Family Theatre ..Fargo, N. D. Family Theatre.Butte, Mont. Grand Theatre.Portland, Ore. New House.Madison, Wis. Cinegraph Theatre ..Spokane, Wash. Star Theatre.Astoria, Ore. Grand FamilyTheatre SiouxFalls, N. D. Columbia Theatre .. .Spokane, Wash. Majestic Theatre ... .Indianapolis, Ind. Acme’.Sacramento, Cal. Washington Theatre .Spokane, Wash. New House.Davenport, Iowa. Unique ....San Jose, Cal. Star Theatre.Seattle, Wash, Bijou Theatre..Lincoln, Neb. Novelty.Stockton, Cal. Orpheum, Theatre_Seattle, Wash. New House.Denver, Colo. Novelty.Vallejo, Cal. Grand Theatre ....Bellingham, Wash. People’s Theatre ... Los Angeles, Cal. Bell.Oakland, Cal. Get in the Band Wagon While the Band is Playing ( FREEMAN BERNSTEIN. 1358 Broadway, New York Booking Offices, Agents and Representatives: ) .A :67 S£utk ^,®rk Street, Chicago j MAIN OFFICES.208 American Bank Bldg, Seattle, Wash. (.ARCHIE LEVY.1207 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, Cal.

of 950 people. Sosman and Landis, Mid-Summer Festival, Carniv the Chicago scenic artists, have been awarded the contract for the scenery. and Street Fair * * An innovation in the film renting DEGREE TEAMS ASSOCIATION OfI trade has been started by the man¬ agement cf the Gus Sun circuit of vaudeville theaters which has organ¬ Red Men ized a film renting exchange with IVIUINGIE, IIND. headquarters at Hamilton, Ohio. This exchange will furnish films to seventy theaters, parks and motion picture JULY 8th TO 14th shows. Mr. John McCarthy has been made manager of this department. Daily Street Parades. \ ARTIN BECK, general manager cuit of vaudeville theaters. Wanted High Class Shows. of the Orpheum drciyit, re¬ Churchill will continue to make his The new theater to be devoted to Concessions For Sale. headquarters at the association offi¬ turned to Chicago from New high class vaudeville, now building ces in the Majestic Theater Building. at the comer of 92nd street and Address York June 19, after a six weeks’ so¬ Commercial avenue, South Chicago, by journ in the eastern metropolis. C. John T. Conners announces that the a corporation headed by C. E. Kohl, J. F. MILLER, Headquart E. Bray returned from New York Calumet Theater in South Chicago will be thrown open to the public some days previous, and Max Ander¬ will open August 29 with David Hig¬ about October 15. The new vaudeville son, manager of the New York Hippo¬ gins in His Last Dollar, to be fol¬ temple will cost $50,000, will have a BILLY CROSS lowed by popular and medium priced seating capacity of 800 and will be drome, and prominently identified attractions under the direction of managed by John T. Conners. It is SINGING AND DANCING COMEDIAW with large vaudeville interests, also Stair and Haviland. The Calumet excellently located in the heart of the arrived in Chicago on the 19th. An heretofore has been devoted to stock. business district of South Chicago. ALWAYS WORKING important meeting of the Western The future policy will be three and The bookings will be made by the Vaudeville Managers’ Association was four night stands with prices ranging Western Vaudeville Managers’ Asso¬ held at the general offices in the Ma¬ from 15 to 75 cents. ciation. jestic Theater building, on the after¬ noon of June 19, at which time mat¬ Jack Hoeffler of Terre Haute, Ind., A. E. MEYERS I ters of considerable import were dis- By an arrangement concluded last week in the offices of the Western and Danville, Ill., was a SHOW VAUDEVILLE REPRESENTATIVE cussed. WORLD caller on June 19. Mr. Hoef¬ Vaudeville Managers’ Association, ten Booking Acts with All the Largest As- ■ of the thirty houses controlled by Gus fler was on his annual vacation and sociations and Circuits in the World. Kerry Meagher has assumed charge went from Chicago to New York by of J. A. Sternard’s department at the Sun in Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and boat. Suite 618, 167 Dearborn St. I Association offices during the latter’s Pennsylvania will be hooked in the future by the Association. John Mc¬ Phone Randolph 711 CHICAGO, ILL, absence, to recuperate from recent A. Siegfried, manager of the Bijou illness. Carthy, of Hamilton, O., M. C. Murray, of Richmond, Ind., and Mr. Sun him¬ Theater at Decatur, Ill., and direc¬ tor of Dreamland Park of that city, Walter F. Keefe has assumed the self constituting the executive hoard of the circuit, were in Chicago last was a SHOW WORLD caller June position held by E. P. Churchill in 18 th. the booking of all houses affiliated week to perfect the details of this with the association, excepting those new management. owned by the members of the asso¬ New Theater Opens in August. ciation. Some two months ago Mr. Messrs. Murray and Son awarded Fred Felton, manager of the Bell Churchill resigned his position on ac¬ contracts Monday, June 17, for a new theater at Benton Harbor, Mich., vis¬ count of Ill health, but the resigna¬ vaudeville theater at Springfield to ited Chicago last week. He is en¬ tion was not accepted until recently, be erected at a cost of $35,000. The thusiastic over his new theater which when he insisted on this action in new house will be located in the heart will be opened the latter part of Aug¬ order that he might give his personal of the business district of Spring- ust. High class vaudeville will be 100 MAGIC TRICKS 10c attention to the Davis-Churchill clr- field and will have a seating capacity given at the new house. Otto ^atde CoC,aDep

WEEKLY WORDS TO THE WISE SOMETHING NEW AND ORIGINAL (Or Otherwise) Rialto Gossip Commencing withBMB^H Jwo EXCELLENT PLAYS ’he ShowWor'-’ will try and put you wise. f you happen » De in the “otherwise class,” FOR THE PRICE OF ONE Stine and Evans are conquering songs; the wise ones are sing- ng them now: the oThen eastern audiences and receiving most .. trying to reach. You can' t get away from flattering press notices all along the s—we have a long reach.reach, “Napanee; the In line. lian war-whoop: -Montana,” the latest Cow- oyyell: “Boom to Bent in My Heart,” Sou- pet: Let me Down Easy,” Coon odd- The Dunedin Troupe, who were ‘Kid that Built the Pyramid,” great classic, and “Since You Called Me such a success at the New York Hip¬ __ s,” “Clover Blossoms“Everyone Was podrome, are booked solid for the next iennt for Someone,” the three hallad suc- eighteen months over the Keith- AI1 slides, $5.00 per set. Professional Suite 42 GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Staff, Proctor, Orpheum and Poli Circuits lorry Newton, Hampton Durand and Brinley with a twelve weeks' return engage¬ ■ yd—all hustlers and gentlemen. ment at the Hippodrome by a lot of When you write, address, the best time in England. WILL ROSSITER “The Chicago Pub'isher'’ Will H. Ward will produce a big dramatic act, using five people, with 52 LAKE ST. - CHICAGO, ILL. Edwin D. Miner’s Americans next Moon were a Coon” season. Special scenery and elec¬ s House. Dr. Fred trical effects will be carried, making the act a miniature production.

Jake Rosenthal, busy as the pro¬ verbial bee, was in town for a few Coasters- hours recently, transacting business. The Harris Trio have opened on the Western Vaudeville Association igure 8 time with a new act. The Three Poirirs, with their nov¬ elty ring and bar act, opened at Man- nion’s Park, St. Louis, June 23rd, Scenic Railways and are being enthusiastically re¬ ceived.

Bill Isaacs, of the Weber and Rush We invite you to inspect plants forces, was in town recently looking we have recently completed at for new acts. Luna Park, Chicago; Wonderland Park, Boston; and Riverview The Wm. Morris office furnished the Park, Aurora, III. following people for the Elks’ enter¬ tainment June 13th: Techow Trio, We build ourown cars. Arthur Careta, Joe Clark, Grace Wilson, Bell Jarvis, engineer in charge of Trio, Miss Lee White, A1 Burton, mechanicaldevices at White City, Valmore, Ferguson and Mack and has charge of our construction Mabel Barra. forces on all our construction. The Three Kellys have canceled We Regard First their summer vaudeville time for a stock engagement at the Majestic Safety theater, Galesburg, Ill. Tim Healey will spend his summer and STABILITY on Long Island, resting up from the strenuous season he has had with the “Brigadiers Co.” His contract calls for two more seasons with the same AN ACT THAT ALWAYS PLEASES company. Coaster Construction Co. M. St. Julian, whose head dance 6244 South Park Ave. Chicago and novelty athletics are a feature on GRAY’S MARIONETTES any bill, is constantly adding improve¬ ON THE N. Y., N. H. AND H. PARK CIRCUIT ments to his act. He appeared at the Bijou Theatre, White City, Chicago, Address W.J. PLIMMER, Agent, N. Y. week of June 16th. General Amusement Promoters, Organizers, Builders and Managers of Exhi¬ bitions, Street Fairs, Novelty Fairs, Carnivals, Firemen’s Promotion Company_ _ Tournaments and Original In and Out Door Entertainments. J. FRANCIS MILLER, Gen’l Mgr. I \ye Furnish Big Sensational Free Acts and the Highest Class Shows that Oet the Money. Suite 61 Grand Opera House Bldg. I WANTED at All Times, Big Acts and High Class Shows. Can Use Good Promoters. CHICAGO, ILL. *-■-

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Randolph St., CHICAGO Scarcely two months have elapsed since the launching of THE SHOW WORLD suggested itself, and it was impossible within that time to arrange so that the broad field embraced in its policy could be covered satisfactorily. But Rome was not built in a day. We only ask that what has been done in this first issue shall be accepted as ari, earnest of what the succeeding numbers will accomplish. Department A. The scope of THE SHOW WORLD is world-wide. Its aim is to chronicle events in the entire amusement field. The drama, opera, music, vaudeville, burlesque, minstrelsy, the circus, the summer park, street fair, carnival, coun¬ FIRST CLASS SERVICE GUARANTEED ty fair, skating rink, Chautauquas, and polite sports will receive comprehen¬ sive treatment in its columns. WRITE FOR TERMS. It will be our special care to make the reading matter and news as inter¬ esting, timely and trustworthy as possible, so that the information offered in every department may possess a real value for readers. Correspondents and other contributors will be required to exercise critical ability, as well as the ability to praise. This policy will serve to make the reading matter of THE SHOW WORLD reliable. Department B. THE SHOW WORLD is the first publication of its character ever pub¬ lished in Chicago. There is an undefinable sense of security and success in One Reel of about 1,039 feet, changed weekly = i $7.00 the mere fact that it has been, born and., will he cradled in the great metrop¬ Two changes weekly of about 1,009 feet to each change, 12.00 olis of the West. The very atmosphere, whose every breeze bears the record of great achievements, cannot fail to bring the youngster, now in swaddling Three changes weekly of about 1,090 feet to each change, 17.00 clothes, to the lusty vigor of manhood. Four changes weekly of about 1,000 feet to each change, 21.50 “Westward the course of Empire takes its way.” Fivechanges weekly of about 1,000 feet to each change, 25.00 Since THE SHOW WORLD project was launched, I have received Six changes weekly of about 1,000 feet to each change, 28.00 hundreds of congratulatory letters fromi well wishers and the public Seven changes weekly of about l,000feettoeach change, 30.50 generally, for which I hereby extend my heartfelt thanks. These expressions of good will convince me that THE SHOW WORLD will, in time, accomplish the mission, that of presenting all of the news in which show people are interested, to which all its energies will be devoted. I do not promise extraor¬ dinary performances in this regard, but the .people of the show world may rely Hpon this—that their interests will not be neglected in its columns. Department C. What I have said repeatedly in the past, I repeat again, so that you may not lose sight of it, and it is this—Chicago is fast becoming the pro¬ ducing center of this country. During the past season many theatrical pro¬ ductions of note won their laurels here and their number will be trebled in Wholesale Rental Only the coming season. It will be necessary for those interested in this There is an indefinable something in the atmosphere of Chicago which Proposition to furnish ample Security. whets to a keen edge the critical capacity of her people. The show that will withstand the test of popular opinion in Chicago will cut a dash in any city on the globe. Wide-awake managers are conscious of this fact, so that now a Chicago approval of a play or any attraction of prominence is a val¬ uable asset. Meanwhile the number rf theaters in Chicago is on the increase to accommodate the demands of ea:te:n managers who desire the earliest Edison Univorsalf complete, $75.00 and most competent verdict upon the value of their enterprises. EDISON EXHIBITION, Complete with Fire THE SHOW WORLD is desirous of securing correspondents in all parts Proof Magazines and Take-Up $135.00 of the country, and to that end the co-operation of the people of the show world is earnestly solicited. Reliable news pertaining to amusements and EDISON EXHIBITION, Complete without the people connected therewith is wanted at all times. Fire Proof Magazines and Take-Up, $105.00 , The extraordinary weather which has prevailed throughout the country POWER’S CAMERAGRAPH, Complete with in the past two months has been a severe blow to the business of amusements in all branches. 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Princeton, Illinois " ' ' arg, I”' ’ Suite 62, Grand Opera House, Spring Valley.,ii. Illinois Belvide CHICAGO TELEPHONE 3047 CENTRAL Figan City, Indiana nammond, Indiana Directors: Logansport. Indiana La Porte. Indiana leorg-e H. Nicolai James Wingfield FROM two-a-day to star in a big utes in vaudeville goes. Any time Edwin Clifford Ed. W. Rowland I musical production—such is the you think this is a cinch, come Frank Gazzolo Philip RosentM __ Counsel I phenomenal jump made by Joe around to my dressing room and Collinsville, Illin, watch me do the quick-change act.” Whitehead, of the Captain Careless Stair & Havlin, Representatives Yet they sent for Artie Dunn and company, this spring. Joe is a funny the little comedian, after watching man, in fact he is a comedian from a performance, refused to follow head to toe. When not entertaining Whitehead, in spite of the fact Eat Bissonette & Newman he was looking for an engagement his audiences, he is making fun for Joe will do, all right, all right. THE WEST POINT CADETS I the gatherings in the Sherman House lobby. Rose Stahl was sitting in her room Last spring Whitehead was playing at the Annex. It was a big room, week stands in vaudeville with the and afforded a beautiful view of Lake One of America’s Greatest Grierson Sisters (one of whom is Michigan. The writer knocked with Novelty Gymnastic Acts; Mrs. Whitehead) and while he was fear and trembling, for was not this Now Playing their Second the star who had created the sensa¬ making good, his name was unknown Season with Gregory’s Moscow tion of the year on Broadway and to the great majority of playgoers who was he to walk where angels (celestial, not theatrical) feared to tread? But it was not any haughty, Leslie Carterized, distant woman Permanent Address who opened the door, but just plain Rose Stahl, the daughter of a little 167 Dearborn Street, . Chicag old German editor in New Jersey. You were made to feel at home in an instant, and invited to sit down and Care B. E. Gregory Fireworks Co. I look at the lake. While the writer racked his brain for some conversa¬ tional wedges weighty enough for the creator of Patricia O’Brien, he com menced to answer questions, and anon woke up to the fact that Rose Stahl—the great Rose Stahl —was KLIMT and GAZZOLO asking him about the newspaper business. Then, by degrees, he real¬ Amusement Company ized that after all a star is only a -(INCORPORATED)- human being and he sat up and took notice. ( FRANK GAZZOLO The lady who, as Patricia says, “it Managing Directors: -I GEORGE KLIMT is always a bad season for bad (JOHN BERNERO shows,” was complaining, for all the world like an eighteen-year-old mati¬ nee girl, of the smoky dirty Illinois Suite 64 GRAND OPERA HOUSE, CHICAGO Central tracks, which she said re¬ moved the charm of her view of the STAIR & HAVLIN, New York Representatives.

HARRY ARMSTRONG. “I’m saving my money,” she said, One of the most conspicuous figures “and when I get enough I am going in Chicago Theatricals is Harry Arm¬ strong, the booking agent. Mr. Arm¬ to buy up the Illinois Central Rail¬ strong is popularly known as the road and throw it into the middle of “Man with the corner on chorus girls.” Lake Michigan.” He has a list of 1,080 bewitching sing¬ The writer laughed, and thanked ing and dancing "show girls” on his London Dime Musee books. Of this number more than 600 his stars that'this star was quite a (INCORPORATED) were given engagements last season. talker, for he had only to listen, and For the coming season Mr. Arm¬ did not need to trade $25 a-week re-' 314-316 State Street, CHICAGO, ILL. strong lias orders for talent for the following musical attractions: The porter talk for $500-a-week leading Royal Chef, The Isle of Spice, In Com¬ lady conversation. Miss Stahl likes Performers and Freaks Wanted at all Times. WILLIAM J. SWEENEY, mand, two companies of The Time, Chicago audiences better than those Open all the Year Round from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. Manager The Place, and The Girl and two com¬ of New York, for which we thank panies of The Umpire, The Isle of Bong Bong, Piff, Paff, Pouff, and two her. She also likes the manner in companies of A Knight for a Day. which Chicago people accept “The Besides these company bookings, Chorus Lady.” We had a nice little fourteen of the prominent bands talk and I left delighted. Moral: the country r HfeMr. Armstrong's*: I list. Don’t think because her name is in big letters on the bills, that she is for the reason that vaudeville com¬ more to be praised than chatted with. edians are not press agented—they stand on their merits. B. C. Whitney JOE WHITEHEAD and Kohl and Castle put their heads Mike Donlin, assistant manager of PRINCIPAL COMEDIAN together when they were selecting the Whitney Opera House, and Mabel the cast for Captain Careless and de¬ Hite (Mrs. Mike Donlin) the clever CAPT. CARELESS cided that Joe Whitehead was the comedienne in “A Knight for a Day,” CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE comedian to create, fjie part of Big¬ are one of the most devoted couples amy Little, the man ivho is sent to in the profession. Mike gave up a Europe to paint an advertisement on high-salaried job with the New York the Rock of Gibraltar. And Joe made Giants to be with his wife, and they good. are inseparable at all times. The While Gus Sohlke’s chorus maidens other day Miss Hite stood in front are tramping about and doing the of the Whitney for half an hour prior time-honored stunts, Joe is always to a matinee performance, waiting striving for a laugh. As a dancer he until Mike could get away and run ia immense and his bits of stage across the street to a little restaur¬ business are clever and unique. He ant to eat lunch with her. “Where is THEATER FOR SALE bears his honors meekly and accepts Mike?” is one of her stock expres¬ Building on corner lot 50x125 with Eight Stores and Large Auditorium, ij the fact of his being a star as a huge sions, and it is heard every day by first-class neighborhood. Seating capacity 800. Complies in every resped joke. the members of the company and at¬ with Chicago city ordinances. Rents, $2,000 a year. Worth $20,000. Offer! “Say, take it from me,” he said the taches of the popular little Van Bu- invited. Address, Main Office. other day. “This comic opera biz ren Street house. “The Romance of may be all right for Frank Daniels, Mable and Mike” is one of the dain¬ F. E. RUTLEDGE St CO„ receiver but for mine that little twenty min¬ tiest in the history of the local stage. Real Estate and Renting Experts 234 la skllb st„ chickoC THE SHOW WORLD 45

Have You THE recent engagement in this city of Miss Willette Kershaw and Henry Woodruff, reminds me Chris Lane, who has been playing of the only company I ever heard of Pastoria the second in the “Wizard Anything which was forced to close because of Oz” all season, was an interesting of too much business. office caller and informed me that he Several seasons ago, Albert Mor¬ will return to vaudeville next season with a comedy singing and dancing rison and Miss Kershaw, on the trio to be known a's Lane, Gordon and strength of a considerable following Lane. They open on the Sullivan and they had gained during a limited sum¬ Considine circuit at Butte, Mont., New? September 2. mer engagement, decided to give Pawtucket, R. I., a stock company Nat Young and Fred Clark have which they would head. The best joined hands and are producing their house they could find was a ram¬ new act with the Great Alexander shackle old building with the Jonah show. name of “Temperance Hall” and a hopeless reputation for being unsafe. John Byrne, “Not a Liar, but just An hour before the first performance, a Story Teller,” who runs his own the janitor earned for himself the fun factory and is a trooping repre¬ everlasting enmity of the players by sentative of the same, is giving the White City playing (?) “Nearer My God To “please hand us a laugh” audiences Thee” on what he called the “Pie- throughout Indiana all they are look¬ ana.” Miss Marcelle Forreste walked ing for and incidentally is educating under a yellow ladder and Phil some of the dead ones to the fact Bishop whistled in his dressing room. that even they have risibilities. The Chicago As a result the company opened with Western Vaudeville Manager’s Asso¬ a settled conviction that the hoodoo ciation is booking him. had already arrived. However, it so happens that we America’s Greatest Park, always finds room for cannot always count on signs, and Riddle: When is a disaster not a somewhat to the surprise of all con¬ disaster? Ans. When it’s Rose and Meritorious Shows and Devices. WRITE US cerned, the venture was an imme¬ Severance’s “Automobile Disaster.” diate success. Miss Kershaw and Mr. Morrison become immense favor¬ ites and within a few weeks chairs were placed in the aisles and stand¬ ing room was being sold at every performance. An offer of such financial impor¬ tance that it could not be overlooked finally was made to Mr. Morrison and Miss Kershaw by the Keith people, and they consented to bolster up the attendance at Keith’s by closing their and producing one act plays at the THE VARIETY PAPER Keith playhouse.

Hughey Conn, formerly of Imhoff, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Conn and Corinne, has joined Down¬ ey and Willard “for better or for worse until something do us split” SOMETHING ABOUT EVERYTHING and the three of them are to start on a hunt for big game—the best work Out Saturdays Price Ten Cents and big money. For ammunition they will use “The Doings of Dr. Loud- Correspondents wanted wherever there is a Variety Theatre or Summer Park. Address the paper at Knickerbocker Joe Pazen, proprietor and editor of Theatre Building, New York City. the “St. Louis Ghost,” was a visitor recently. Pazen was reminiscent of the days some ten years gone, when he also was a Chicagoan, and was as¬ DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS & BLUTCH. sociated with W. F. Henderson in the After closing a successful season on booking business. He told me a the Western Vaudeville Circuit, this -IF YOU WANT A SURE WINNER- trio of comedy acrobats will play the story which is characteristic of Hen¬ parks this summer, entering the field derson’s dry style. It seems that in of burlesque next season. i Never Loved Another Girl As I Love You” their office was a blackboard on which was daily written a list of just --IS THE ONE- what they desired in the way of pro¬ The Prettiest Love Ballad Published in Years. fessional talent; as for instance: WANTED— Billy Cross knows where he is go¬ 10 chorus women, ing and he is on his way, which is rHE JOHN FRANKLIN MUSIC CO., - 127 W. 40th St., N. Y. City 2 character comediennes for stock, more than a lot of other singing and Comedy Sketch Team, for out of town, etc. dancing comedians can say. Mr. One day, a number of performers, Cross has the Gus Sun circuit. shine and otherwise, were in the office, and during the brief absence of Hen¬ <•> derson they, thinking to have some Rawls and Von Kaufman, are still EUGENE COX SCENERY CHICAGO. serving the Pacific Slope folk with fun with him, erased the sign and substituted their own chalk talk the best dish in the show business— which ran something like this: their own brand of “Mush.” If Western papers are to be believed WANTED— -GENUINE BARGAIN- 10 kitchen mechanics, the audiences along the slope find the 10 scavengers, dish more than “Tasty.” :°R SALE OR EXCHANGE 1 Mahogany and 1 Oak Regina Corona 5 hod carriers, etc. ^- Music Box, piano style, mandolin attach¬ On his re-appearance, Henderson’s Raimund and Good are at their ments, automatic sheet lifts, late models, cost $450.00 each, sacrifice attention was called to the writing splendid new home at South Elgin, for CASH or EXCHANGE for,MONEY SLOT MACHINES. Write or wire on the blackboard. He read it with Ill. They are more highly elated care, and after surveying the bunch over the fact that their garden is now COIN AUTOMATIC SPECIALTY COMPANY of performers critically for a moment yielding asparagus and pie plant, than 76 Franklin Street, CHICAGO, ILL. he turned to Pazen and remarked in they ever were over taking six bows. 46 THE SHOW WORLD June 29, FOR SUE ADMISSION TICKETS TICKET OFFICES SPOT LIGHTS CASH BOXES TICKET REGISTERS RHEOSTATS ELECTRIC GLOBES TICKET CHOPPERS Moving Picture Machines ELECTRIC SIGNS TURNSTILES LENSES ELECTRIC FANS MUTOSCOPES Moving Picture Paper FLAGS PHONOGRAPHS CARBONS Supplies of Every Description for THEATERS and PARKS Moving Picture Department The most modern, most complete outlay of Moving Pictures in the world. NEW GOODS that’s the whole secret. We stand to=day, head and shoulders above all others—WHY? BECAUSE we have ample cash resources, which allows us to BUY all the good Films that are manufactured. Others talk about the new Films. WE BUY and RENT THEM.

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CHICAGO Branches: - $10,000.00 MONEY TALKS. Photograph of Certified Chech.

The original of this facsimile, signed by Jas. H. Maher, partner in the firm of WM. H. SWANSON & COM¬ PANY, deposited with The Billboard Publishing Company for the purpose of substantiating the following challenge, and is open to all Chicago competitors. We are more than anxious to wager all, or any part of it, that we can prove the statements we make below: First.—That we are the largest film renting house in Chicago. Second.—That we have more customers on our list than any other concern in Chicago. Third.—That we have bought nearly $60,000 worth of film for our rental department since April 1st, 1907. Fourth.—That we are still buying more than ever this month. Fifth.—That we have the largest number of employes in our office force and inspection and shipping depart* ment in the film business in Chicago.

Sixth.—That we are taking on more new customer* and growing more rapidly than any two film houses in Chicago. Seventh.—That we have accomplished the above by courteous, business-like methods, prompt shipments, not duplicating, fair distribution of new film subjects, and always assisting our patrons to make their business a success. Eighth.—That we are to-day buying from three to fifteen prints of the entire output of sixteen (16) different manufacturers, throughout the world. Ninth.—That we have the most perfect office and shipping system in existence. TENTH.-TO OUR WOULD-BE COMPETITORS : THIS IS NO BLUFF. PUT UP OR SHUT UP. Isn’t it worth while to connect with an establishment of this kind, one on whom you can absolutely depend in all emergencies and does not endeavor to secure your patronage by hot air, advertisements, and flickering attachments? We will gladly furnish you our film list upon application. Remember that we were the first film house to sell tickets, carbons, chairs, electric fans and accessories of all kinds. We also pay one-half your transportation expenses to Chicago and return, within a radius of 700 miles of Chicago, if you contract with us for film service, providing you come to see us. WE ARE NOT THE CHEAPEST, BUT HAVE ABSOLUTELY THE MOST RELIABLE AND BEST FILM SER= VICE TO BE SECURED ANYWHERE. POWERS AND EDISON MACHINES IN STOCK. REPAIR ALL MAKES OF MACHINES. HALE’S TOUR FILMS, PHONOORAPHS, CHAIRS, TICKETS AND ACCESSORIES OF ALL KINDS. WM. H. SWANSON <3 CO. 79 South Clark Street, CHICAGO, ILL.

AI-A i- mruirn r__ u..,.nrn morton building, H6 Nassau street GEO. F. PARKER, Eastern Manager, - new york city. ORDER THROUGH EITHER HOUSE. Congratulations,“ Pat!”

HERE’S the glad hand for the first issue of The Show World! That it may live long and prosper; that it may gain the success deserved by its founder, Mr. Patrick; that it may prove to be a show-me as well as a Show World;—all this is the earnest, sincere wish of the Laemmle crowd. If it will carry out its intentions of giving the moving picture business the atten¬ tion and boosting that it is entitled to, then it’s a foregone conclusion that Mr. Patrick’s magazine will gain and retain the ardent support of every man interested in the moving picture business. So again it’s a case of “Congratulations, Pat!”

And a Word With You, Mr. Manager!

WHEN this reaches your eye, I will be in Europe, in my line. Naturally my customers are going to get the doing a little scouring on my own hook. I am benefit of this scouring expedition. You ought to be my looking for new films, new machines, new acces¬ customer. You need a bang-up service, the newest films, sories, new schemes to boost the moving picture game. the quickest shipments of machines and other supplies. I don’t know that Europe has got anything on America in I’m the one who will turn the trick for you—I’ve got the this line, but that’s what I intend to find out. I am going fastest growing film renting business in America, and there’s to establish Laemmle representatives in Paris, in London, a cracking good reason for it! Write to my Chicago or New in Berlin, and anywhere else where there’s anything doing York address today and see what sort of an answer you’ll get.

CARL LAEMMLE, President

I Give Free Newspaper Ads and Illustrations to My Film Customers. They’re the Greatest Business-Getters and the Best Proposition in the Moving Picture Business