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HE20™ CENTURY AMUSEMENT WEEKLY I Erc-rnrcra PRICE JUNE 29 190T 10 CENTS General dti DrvnTFn FvriuciVFiYToTHF Pr A SQUARE DEAL FILMS FOR RENT THE BEST ALWAYS CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS FOR MOVING PICTURE MACHINES EUGENE CUNE & CO EUGENE CLINE, Sole Proprietor 59 DEARBORN STREET CHICAGO j SOUVENIR NUMBER FIFTY-TWO PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS THE SHOW WORLD June 29, 1907. 25 WEEKS wanumiBooked by and Affiliated with the Western Vaudeville Managers’ Association Majestic Theatre Building, CHICAGO, ILL. Now Booking Season 1907=08 Artists desiring Fall and early Win= A FEW Advanced Vaudeville Acts ter time should communicate at that appeared on Circuit, Week, June 17th === once with W. F. Keefe, Booking Allen Doone & Co. Representative, care of above Book= Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Robyns ing Association. A courteous and J. C. Nugent & Co. Ann Hamilton & Co. definite reply positively assured. Mr- & Mrs. Perkins Fisher Francis Hoyt & Co. Joseph Lehman & Co. Geo. A. Beane & Co. Harry Garrity & Co. Three Troubadors. Here Are the Rouses: Milton & Delong Sisters. Lockhart Sisters. KENOSHA ESCANABA Dillon & Moore. Mr. & Mrs. W. W. O’Brien. RACINE KALAMAZOO Couture & Gillette. MILWAUKEE BATTLE CREEK Lewis McCord & Co. SHEBOYGAN Five Tetsuwari Japs. JACKSON Four Malverns. FOND DU LAC LANSING Cardonna’s Lions. MANITOWOC Five Lovelands. BAY CITY Dawn of Day. OSHKOSH SAGINAW Four Olifans APPLETON Odell & Kinley, GREEN BAY FLINT De Camo’s Dog. Tops & Topsy. MARINETTE MUSKEGON Renee Family. CALUMET ADRIAN American Newsboys Quartette Devlin & Elwood. MARQUETTE PORT HURON Burke’s Dogs. HAMMOND MICHIGAN CITY Spaulding & Dupree. Anna Eva Ray. Kaufman Sisters. Barry & Wolford. Joseph Callahan. Orgerita Arnold. Jimmy Lucas. Now building Five New Modern Billy Beard. Hans Wagner. Houses, ready September 1st, at May McDonald. Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Bay City, John A. West Glen Burt. Kenosha and Green Bay. More to Esmeralda. Lew Wells. follow. Art Fisher. Edward Kellie. Great Railroad Facilities = = Short Jumps = = Small Fares The lShotit IUorliD THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMUSEMENT WEEKLY’ Published at 87 .South Clark Street, Chicago, by The iShquj HIorld Publishing.Co. Wa RREN A. Pa TR/CK, General Director, 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 <OY GEODES 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.