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International Projecting and Producing Compeiny Schiller Building.CHICAGO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMUSEMENT WEEKLY Published at 87 5oatb Clark 5tr€et, Chicago, by The iShoiu IiIorld Entered as Second - Class Matter WA RREN A. PA TR/CK , OenERAL D/RECTOR. Office at Cbj^blSS , • June 25,190?

Volumn IV—No. 25 CHICAGO June 12, 1909

morris boston house MIKE ROONEY TRIES LEASED FOR STOCK CO. MURDOCK BUYS ALL TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE. Lindsay Morrison Gets the Orpheum Circus Rider Attempts Suicide While for the Summer and Will Put in Depressed by Illness.—Found Strong Company. iASSOOATION STOCK by Father-in-Law. Boston, June 8. Corry, Pa., June 10. lind.say Morrison, the present resi¬ Magnate Becomes Sole Owner of Western Vaudeville Man¬ Michael Rooney, principal rider dent manager of the Orpheum theater, with the Cole Brothers, until forced lias leased that house from the Will¬ agers' Organization and Abandons Thought to leave the show a week ago on ac¬ iam Morris Co., Inc., for the summer of Retirement. count of illness, attempted suicide at season, to present his all-star stock Harbor Creek, Pa., Wednesday morn¬ company. Mr. Morrison is the best ing. Martin Beck Together With C. E. Kohl and Fred Henderson Take known stock producer in Boston and The windpipe was severed but he has been for 14 years. His success Over Theater Interests. missed the jugular vein. He will re¬ three years ago at the Empire theater, cover. now the Orpheum, gave the Empire J. J. Murdock is now the sole owner ress, resolved itself into a machine of stock company a wide reputation, and of the entire stock of the Western clock-like regularity. Each depart¬ His father-in-law found him and he his success with the Boston theater Vaudeville Managers’ Association. ment is so constituted and is in such was rushed to the Hamet hospital at Erie, Pa. stock company last season is fresh in Such was the outcome of the sev¬ splendid working order that Mur¬ the public mind. Mr. Morrison’s big eral' -meetings held recently in New dock’s attention will only be called to Harbor Creek is his home, and the favorites, formerly associated with York city and-the meeting held at the the most important details of its con¬ winter quarters of the circus. His him, including Howell Hansen, Mary Majestic headquarters in this city last crete operation, thus permitting him wife, who is with the show, has been Saunders, Rose Morrison, Walter Tuesday afternoon where the board plenty of time to devote to his motion notified. — BERLINER. Walker, James L. Seeley, will again of directors of the association met in picture interests, which are daily as¬ join his forces. Under Mr. Morrison’s secret session. suming a broader form. It would ap¬ management the Orpheum has proved It was a friendly and well attended pear that it is Murdock’s intention to • New House for St. Louis. gathering, and developed into a sort make -of the International Projecting a success on three different occasions. St. Louis, June 9. He.-ts publicly well liked, genial and of give and take proposition. Mur¬ and Producing Company a structure accommodating.—LOU. dock sold his interest in the several similar to that which he has been in¬ Plans for a new theater to be lo¬ theaters which have been under his strumental in erecting in the vaude¬ cated on the southeast corner of McConnell spectacles control to Martin Beck, C. E. Kohl ville field. He left for Washington Grand and Olive streets have been and Fred Henderson of Coney Island last Tuesday, following the meeting submitted to the building commi.s- TAKING BIG MONEY. fame. , It is understood that Beck and expressed himself as being highly sioner for approval. This theater will Seattle, Wash., June 8. bought the bulk of the Murdock gratified at the turn of affairs. be of first class construction and will The Monitor and Merrimac did holdings and paid a goodly sum for be used for a first class stock com¬ $:i,250 on the opening day of the ex- their possession. pany. The principal owners of the Airdome to Open. piisitioii. The admission was fifty By this transfer the question of building will be Storm and Parish and cents. The battle of Gettysburg took Murdock’s retirement from active op¬ Flint, Mich., June 10. Ben Aiseman. They contemplate fin¬ $2,700 at fifty cents. The Igorotte eration in the vaudeville field has been The airdome will open Monday next ishing the theater by early August. village and Thompson’s scenic railway definitely settled. The W. V. M. A. with The Three Armstrongs as the The name of the new manager has also did well. has, through its many years of prog¬ headline act. not yet been divulged.--WEBB. ' SHUBERTS ACQUIRING KLAW & ERL ANGER GREAT MANY HOUSES SECURE THE OLYMPIC

High Street in Coltimbos to Play Mary Mannering.- New House i Report From New York That Future of Music Hall Has at Last Been Indianapolis.—Developments. Determined.

Columbus, Ohio, June 9. It is stated here to-night that the New York, June 10. mar, while Harry E. Reynolds as¬ C W Harper, manager of the High Shuberts will have many houses next It is reported upon good authority sumes the heavy role, Dave Cook. Street theater, received a telegram season which have heretofore been that Klaw & Erlanger have secured Exceptional care has been exercised from Mr. Dickson, of Dickson & Tal- affiliated with the syndicate. the Olympic theater, Chicago, on the in choosing the cast, which gives Iwtt, who is in New York, to the The report on the streets is that the same terms that they have the Chi¬ promise of doing full justice to this effect that Mary Mannering in The “open door” will stick with the West¬ cago opera house. clever little act. Sendent Miss Gower would play ern Theater Managers. It is more than likely that musical igh Street theater June 16. attractions will be seen there next Woods Gets Theaters. This i.s taken to indicate that the season. New York, June 7. I Shuberts have arranged with Dickson Springfield, O., June 7. The future of the Olympic has been A. H. Woods has purchased the Talbott whereby independent at- Although Manager Daily of the a source of speculation for some time Liberty theater in course of construc¬ Itractions plav the High Street instead Grand opera house says he has signed and there have been numerous ru¬ tion and has leased the Amphion in "f the Colonial. no contracts and that his theater will mors, none of which have apparently Brooklyn. J. V. Howell, rnanager of the Co¬ book shows independently, it is re¬ been so well substantiated as this. ported about town that the Shubert Don’t Like American Show. lonial, is out of the city and no defi¬ London, England, June 4. nite information can be obtained from attractions will be seen at the Grand New Vaudeville Act. next season.—GOODFELLOW. The Woman in the Case was pro¬ In.'! representative.—GRAFF. Cleveland, Ohio, June 8. duced at the Garrick Wednesday night Charles F. Young, Cleveland repre¬ and while the English players were Indianapolis, Ind., June 8. PANTAGES SECURES sentative of THE SHOW WORLD, well received the critics pronounced A lease has been signed for a new will produce this week at one of the the play crude and garish. Yi'W.OOO theater to be erected here. It MINNEAPOLIS THEATER. local vaudeville houses a vaudeville Minneapolis, Minn., June 9. "■ill be built by the Murat Temple As- novelty in the shape of a tabloid West and Willis Score. Western melodrama. A Triple wriation, and will be so arranged that The Orpheum and the Princess the¬ Lexington, Ky., June 10. aters closed their season Sunday Round-up was successfully produced be used for grand opera. It will West and Willis opened on the Sam night. F. C. Priest, manager of the ^^^ked by the Shuberts in addition in the East under the same direction DuVries time here Monday and the ^Sises in Toledo and Columbus, Princess, announces that his house as the Cleveland production. It is act is scoring a hit. recently acquireu. will open Aug. 30, on the Pantages the intention to send the act on the circuit with two a day vaudeville. road as soon as it is in the proper In Vaudeville. New York, Jmje 9. This will be the first Pantages book¬ shape. Josephine McIntyre, who was eIB# Shuberts are acquiring houses ing in the Twin Cifies and marks the Florence Beilis will interpret the formerly with the company playing sf' rapidly that it is out of the ques- beginning of stronger opposition for character of Virginia Stuart, daugh¬ A Broken Idol at the Whitney, has hon to keep track of them. Even the Sullivan and Considirre in the popular ter of Franklin Stuart, ranch owner, gone into vaudeville and is said to be H^deparlment of that firm some- price field than they have heretofore played by Louis Komandt. Arthur meeting with much success. She is «im£ets confused. had.—BARNES. B. Elliott plays the part of Bob Del- singing several Scotch songs. 4> THE SHOW WORLD June 12, 1909.

HEILIG MAY BUILD A GREAT NORTHERN CO. PORTLAND THEATER. ARE SALACIOUS PLAYS TO PROTECT ITS FILM. Closing of His House By Building In¬ Offers Legal Protection to Users of spectors Cancels Many Valuable Its Product in the Event of Pat¬ Bookings—Baker to the DONE FOR ALL TIME? ent Litigation. Rescue. The Narrow Path Lasts One Night and President Taft Signifies His New York, June 7. Portland, Ore., June 8. Disapproval of Shobert Show. The Great Northern Film company The Heilig theater, which was closed is determined to protect its clientele by order of the building inspector last The narrow path of the salacious by the city authorities, and which thus in the event that the Patents Company week, has not and is not likclv to re¬ keeps its promises to sue alleged in¬ open again, and unless a suitable spot is play has narrowed into a night. gained for Woods a reputation as a If you have any doubt as to how the producer of licentious plays. fringers of its patents on projecting selected and a first-class playhouse is machines. erected at once this city will probably managers, who, in former years, would Woods Wanted to Think. have clambered over one another in an The following bulletin issued by the be without good road attractions. It is Great Northern company is self-explan- said that Heilig has an option upon a effort to buy, rent, stage and produce Woods, so the story goes, conferred plays of immoral tendencies, are sensi¬ with Harris and asked for two hours piece of property at Taylor and Seventh “We are advised that patent litiga¬ streets and is likely to build there. A tive to the progressive spirituality of to think the matter over. At the end public opinion, you have but to know of that time. Woods, with commendable tion is threatened to the users of cefrain dozen or more first-class bookings have films and wish to notify each and ev¬ had to be cancelled for this season that The Narrow Path, a play by an enterprise, decided to call the play off ipiknown author, who calls himself and notified the management to that ef¬ ery one of our customers that Great while many more than that number will Northern Films are fully protected not appear, according to contract, next John Montagu, was shelved after one fect. Woods lost by the deal, not only the cost of the production, but the from such litigation. We have engaged season. night’s performance at the Hackett the¬ ater in New York city. chance of making many thousands of the following attorneys, MacDonald & In speaking of the closing of the MacDonald, 50 Church street. New Heilig, the Portland Morning Oregonian Furthermore, the ^resident of these dollars through his bookings. United States signified his disaoproval Woods said: “I atn of the same opin¬ York city, and McDonogh, McDonogh says; & McDonogh, 80 Wall street. New “The elimination of Portland as a of a play written by Charles Richman, ion as Mr. Harris. I do not want to called The Revelers and produced in be identified with unclean theatricals.” York, and Louisville, Ky., to attend theatrical vantage point for the finest to all litigation brought in connecKin theatrical attractions in the country will Washington, for the first time on any But this statement in view of Woods’ stage, by the Shuberts. President Taft, connection with The Girl from Rector’s with the use of our films. We do not work a serious disadvantage to thou¬ believe our customers will be harassed sands of people and will redound very together with his narty arose and left would seem to indicate that Woods had rather grown weary of working in the by such litigation, but in case they are, badly to the credit of the city. It their box after the conclusion of the first act. Just what action the Shuberts face of public opinion, and it is quite they are immediately instructed to no seems incumbent on the enterprising tify our main office in New York city moneyed citizens of the city to see that will take in the matter is problematical, probable that so far as his conscience but with discredit reflected bv the head is concerned in the matter, he would and steps will be taken to protect their we are supplied with a theater of the interests. This applies to Great North¬ very best construction and the most ern films only, which are purchased modern conveniences. In all '"'obabil- from the American office.” ity Mr. Heilig will succeed in his ef¬ HAVE YOU VOTED YET ? forts to give, the town such a theater NEW THEATER BUILDING as is worthy of it and it is expected AT JACKSONVILLE, FLA that the actual work of construction If you have not yet voted, do it now. The Actors’ Society of Amer¬ will be commenced at once. In discuss¬ ica is offering a handsome loving cup to the theater in the United States Jacksonville, Fla., June 8. ing the matter last night Mr. Heilig and Canada which receives the greatest number of votes for having the Ground has been broken for one of said: cleanest stage and finest dressing rooms. the largest and best equipped vaude¬ The contest will close June 26, 1909 at 6 p. m., and the cup will be “No Warning,” Says Mr. Heilig. .. ville houses in the South at the cor¬ awarded as soon thereafter as possible. If you have not voted sign the " ‘We had absolutely no idea that any ner of Bay and Laura streets. James attached coupon and forward it at once. Any reader of the SHOW Hoyt, the present owner of the Pas¬ such action on the part of the authori¬ WORLD is entitled to a vote. ties was probable. At frequent inter¬ time theater, is the builder, and from vals Eire Chief Campbell had required the description it will be seen that he me to make certain alterations in the is endeavoring to give the people ol building and had been most assiduous in (Date) . Jacksonville a cool and delightful his efforts to see that the public was SANITATION COMMITTEE, place of amusement. It will be 110 properly safeguarded. To his direc¬ feet deep by 28 feet wide, will seat tions 1 have scrupulously acceded arid Actors’ Society of America, 450 people, including the balcony, and have spent several thousand dollars in 133 West 45th street. will be equipped with two air e.x- improvements within the past year or New York City. hausts under the floor with two five two. There has certainly been no laxity by five gratings as a means of es¬ on the part of Chief Campbell, and all In my opinion the (name of theater) . cape. Twenty revolving fans will be of us connected with the theater have distributed along the sides. The stage at (name of city and state) . done everything possible to protect the will be 28 by 18 feet and the dressing lives and contribute to the comfort of which is managed by (name of manager) ... rooms will be on the second floor in the building adjoining and w'ill be con¬ our patrons. has the cleanest stage and the finest dressing rooms of any theater in nected with the stage with a stair “ ‘It is not the fault of myself that the United States or Canada. we arc evicted from the Helig. We case. The opening will be on July 4. have been doing the best we could to (Signed) . —ELLIS. interest capital in a new theater, one which would reflect credit on the city, (Address) . A FOOL THERE WAS but up to this date without success. Of TO CLOSE THIS WEEK. course, I regret that the authorities THE SHOW WORLD Ciupon. .. New’ York, Jun^ deemed it necessary to fake the drastic action they have and feel that I should The advent of hot weather anSfee have had a more considerate notice, of the nation upon this salacious play¬ still be drawing down a goodly portion sudden exodus of a large portion of but I have no complaint to offer. I am thing, it is more than probable that the of the receints of The Narrow Path, metropolitan theatergoers who have now going to work with renewed vigor producers will not attempt to stem Uic had not Harris taken so decided a already started for the mountain^if to build a theater of which we can all tide of nublic disarmroval by continuing stand against it. seashore and Europe, have be proud and hope to succeed in ac¬ the production on the boards. William Winter, in commenting upon Erederic Thompson to announce^ne The Narrow Path, in the New York 12 as the closing date of Robert Hil¬ complishing the result I have been Manager Harris Objects. working for so long.’ Tribune, has this to say; liard in A Fool There Was, whiclUws “George L. Baker was consulted m According to the best reports, it ap¬ “The complexion of the time is chang¬ been the theatrical attraction a#%e regard to the effect the closing of the pears that Henry B. Harris, manager of ing. The shopkeepers have become Liberty for the last four months.Tfr. Heilig would have on his plans and the Hackett, was the first to discover alarmed. There is a sudden managerial Hilliard and the principals of his com¬ said; the uncleanliness of The Narrow Path. clamor for purity and the legitimate. pany will rest throughout the, hot “ Tt comes as a complete surprise to It is said that he wrote the following The dramatic season that opens next weather, and will report for rche^lls me, this closing of the Heilig, and I letter to James K. Hackett. lessee of autumn will be the stormiest, most try¬ early in August with the idea '4( a know nothing about the future except the theater, after reading the opinions ing and most eventful that the Ameri¬ continuance of the New York run and that after the closing of the present of the New York newspapers, the can stage has ever known; and it will a subsequent tour of the principal season of the Baker stock company the morning after the initial production, and involve, and will decide, the question cities of the east and middle west. attractions booked for this summer at said: whether there is to be a living theater the Heilig will be presented at the Bun¬ “Sir:—I desire to give you notice that any more, or whether the stage is to Hammerstein in Accident. galow. But promptly on September 5, I consider the performance, now being become, exclusively, the corner grocery. New York, June 9. the reorganized Baker company will op¬ given at the Hackett theater a nuisance The presence of its champions will be Oscar Hammerstein, the New York en at the Bungalow and the Heilig at¬ being maintained on my property in vio¬ imperative for the cars were damaged. come of the big offerings which for¬ ervation of public morals demand it.” Mack company will play straight char¬ Mr. Hammerstein suffered contusions merly played the Heilig.’ ”—LARRI- Hackett’s lease has about two years acter parts at the Belasco this autumn. but no bones were broken. MORE. yet to run, and Hackett, whether he ap¬ Mr. Murray is admittedly the posses.sor proved of Harris’ stand or not, did not of dramatic ability of a high order, and Just Talk, So Far. Opening Successful. care to have the matter carried into has jong had the ambition to appear in Minneapolis, Minn., June .’>. court with the probability of a cancella¬ Fort Dodge, la., Juue^. Wonderland park, midway between tion of his lease as the penalty which There is no prospect of a th^ter Minneapolis and St. Paul, opened mifirht be imposed. Hackett conferred Grace Elliston to Star. building being started this suniiner. .Saturday evening and Manager Camp with A1 H. Woods, who oroduced this New York, June 8. Many rumors are current regarding a announces a larger business for the play, and also produced The Girl from Henry B. Harris will star Grace El¬ new modern play house for th«*^ first two days than for any previous Rector’s, which was closed at Trenton, liston in An American Girl from but nothing definite has been opening.—BARNES. during the week of its first performance out.—K. E. B. June 12, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD i

S R 0. AT FOREST MORE NOVELTIES AT ■ In LITTLE ROCK, ARK. GREATER DREAMLAND. • “Billy” Layton, of the Layton SHOWS ON PAY-STREAK New York, June 5. Mighty Fireworks and Carnival com¬ Not content with its heralded slo¬ pany. who is conducting the popular gan “Everything new but the ocean,” Lyric at Little Rock, Ark., has leased ATTRACT GOOD CROWDS the Greater Dreamland management the big Summer theater at Forest is providing more novelties for the p^, the only park open at the Ar- Standard of Quality of Attractions Is Higher Than at Chicago or crowds that come within the gates. tensas capital city this summer. St. Louis, 'Tis Said. The ocean promenade has been en¬ .The Forest Park theater is being tirely redecorated, while up the beach 3,000 new bath houses await those screened on its three open sides and Seattle, Wash., June 8. trail. It is a ride behind the ox team completely remodeled. Refreshment who will inaugurate the surf season. The Alaska-Yukon Exposition opened that crossed the contkient under Mr. paflors in full view of the stage are Meeker’s guide, the hospitality of a A new ride, called the “Rigamarole,” Tuesday last with an attendance of has been installed, and in the lan¬ being fitted up and the capacity en¬ pioneer’s cabin, the life as it was when larged to three thousand. 100,000 people. The shows on Pay- the patriarch of the concession him¬ guage of the barker, it is a “long ride A twenty-piece Forest Park band Streak have since done very well. self came into the West and helped on a hearty laugh.” Manager Sam isl»eing organized, also orchestra and Gumpertz has introduced a novelty in The exposition is a $10,000,000 trib¬ to make it. stock company, in addition to vaude¬ E. W. McConnell’s huge spectacles, the new ball room in vocal features. ute to the achievements of the Pacific ville and free act booking for the en¬ the Monitor and Merrimac and the This week Emma R. Wagner is the tire summer season. Northwest. A situation of rare nat¬ Battle of Gettysburg, are likely to soloist. To the already big free cir¬ Mr. Layton has been doing an S. R. ural beauty and an architectural duplicate their success elsewhere. cus the Five Piroscoffis, novelty jug¬ 0; business for the last two Sundays glers, were added Monday. Greater scheme on lines that are distinctive Thompson’s scenic railway has been since his lease began and expects to one of the best bets at every world’s Dreamland is on the wave of pros¬ and original are features of the fair. open with daily afternoon and night fair. On the Pay Streak he has put perity and all of its new shows are performances on June l.S. “Thirteen The exposition was financed by the up the biggest structure he has ever said to be playing to crowds. On is no jonah, but brings Billikin dreams Northwest. The State of Washing¬ built and it leads by devious ways and Saturday of this week the eighth an¬ Miino ** cn\rC W/ Q T DtrfrMi nual dog show of the Long Island ton contributed $1,000,000 and the mysterious caverns of much beauty and startling effect, overhead and un¬ Kennel Club will open in Greater Puget Sound cities gave in propor¬ list.” derground. Dreamland. tion. From fertile soil to rich min¬ Almost next to it on the Streak is OPEN AIR THEATER ing veins, the products of a little the Mountain Slide, an all-fun attrac¬ FORMER PARK MANAGER DESTROYED BY FIRE. known domain are shown to the tion that was' so good it nearly closed GIVEN SMALL FINES. Newton, Mass., June 4. Coney Island. It is just what its Wabash, Ind., June 9. The open air theater at Norumbega The foremost countries of the world name implies. J. A. Ervin, former manager of park, one of the largest in the coun¬ have lent their co-operation to as¬ N. Salih has spread the largest Boyd park, pleaded guilty to Sabbath try and seating 3,000, was destroyed sure 'the 'success of tire undertaking. ■“Streets- of c-airb’* and “Turkish Vil¬ desecration on three different grand by fire early today together with a The “Pay Streak,” which corre¬ lage” that has ever been shown at jury indictments. He was fined $2 nearby cottage. The loss is $38,000. sponds to the Midway at Chicago, the any exposition. He employs more and costs in each case. The other The cause of the fire is unknown. The Pike at St. Louis and the War Path than 150 people. seven cases against Ervin have not theater had a steel framework, with at Jamestown, is a hit. The number The “Old Mill,” always one of the been settled and are still on the rustic furnishings. It will be rebuilt docket. The strongest cases have immediately. been ended and the weakest may be dismissed. Ervin is now retired from IOWA FAIR DATES. the management of Boyd park. Far¬ mers there objected to Sunday shows Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, Aug. and caused the arrest. 27 to Sept. 3. Jones County Fair association, Celeron Park Opens. Monticello, Aug. 30 to Sept. 3. Jamestown, N. Y., June 5. West Liberty fair. West Liberty, With many new features Celoroii •Vug. 23-26. park opened its season Saturday. A Jackson county fair, Maquoketa, new cement walk the entire length of Aug. 31 to Sept. 3. the park along Chautauqua lake is Anamosa fair, Anamosa, Aug. 24-28. one of the first improvements noted. Grinnell fair, Grinnell, Sept. 6-8. Shows are numerous about the Buena Vista fair, Alta, Aug. 17-20. grounds and there are many conces¬ Big Four Fair association, Nashua, sions. Victor’s Royal Venetian band Sept. 6-10. is playing its third engagement at the Marshall county fair, Marshalltown, resort. James J. Waters is manager Sept. 7-10. of the vaudeville theater which opened Cedar county fair, Tipton, Sept. May 31. He is playing five acts and pictures. Celeron has a large dance- Wright county fair. Clarion, Sept. hall, baseball grounds and other pleas¬ ure providers and is an attraction for Hardin County Agricultural asso¬ of attractions is not as great as at big money makers, is established on thousands from Ohio, New York and ciation, Eldora, Sept. 14-17. either Chicago or St. Louis, but the the south bank of the Pay Streak in Pennsylvania, excursion bding run on Mitchell county fair, Osage, Sept. standard of quality, cleanliness and an ideal position. all roads every season.—BERLINER. 14-17. educational value is estimated to be The Klondike Mine is another of Kossuth county fair, Osage, Sept. higher than at any exposition ever the wholly new ones. It reproduces Ashman Has Concessions. 14-17. held. a placer mine of the Dawson country, Minneapolis, Minn., June 5. Iowa City fair, Iowa City, Sept. 6-8. So far as individual features of the in full operation, and visitors may see Forest park, under the efficient North Iowa fair. Mason City, Sept. Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific Exposition are the daily /clean-up of real gold dust management of S. H. Kahn, formerly 21-24. concerned, the Pay Streak is the big¬ from real Klondike gravels. There of Chicago, opened May 22, and has Wilton fair, Wilton, Sept. 14-16. gest thing at the fair. The whole is a stretch of the Yukon trail with been drawing well considering the in¬ Bremer county fair, Waverly, Sept. exposition is predicated upon the its road house, malamule dog team, clement weather. Harry Ashman, the 21-24. many times demonstrated principle reindeer and moose teams and all of well known Minneapolis amusement Franklin county fair, Hampton, that, when the world turns out to the rest that goes to make the north- man, has the refreshment concessions. Sept. 28 to Oct. 1. make a holiday, it is fun it is looking land romantic and intensely interest¬ Mr. Ashman was with the Cole & Worth county fair, Northwood, for. Life, motion, color, a lot of ing. Cooper circus last winter, taking their Sept. 27-30. music, the unique and bizarre are de¬ Carlo Marchetti, the A. Y. P. Com¬ No. 2 show (King & Tucker) to the Brockton fair, Brockton, Oct. 5-8. sired above dignity and the sober missioner to Europe, brought back Bahama Islands. Forest Park’s new side, wherefore has the world been with him a colony of the natives of musical director is Frank N. Potter of “Colored” Park to Open. combed and three-quarters of a mil¬ the tiny republic of San Marino, in this city. The vaudeville theater un¬ Little Rock, Ark., June 9. lion of Seattle money invested in the the heart of Italy. He reproduces the der the personal management of Mr. The opening date of the Highland newest and most, effective fun pro¬ Palace of State, a cafe, theater and Kahn is running three vaudeville acts Park for colored people has been set ducing features that were to be found. other features of the life in the queer furnished by the Northwestern for Monday, June 14. The annual union There is a sermon to be read, if little land. A San Marinian orchestra Booking Agency, illustrated songs picnic of all the churches will be held one cares to read it, in Captain A. M. plays and San Marinian actors look and moving pictures.—BARNES. at the park on this day. Little Rock Baber’s village of Siberian Eskimo. across the footlights and the cafe of and Areenta have a colored pooulation There is education in their history, the only Italian restaurant in Seattle. Saginaw Park Opens. of 40,000; it is estimated that fully ten valuable information in the trinkets “Dixieland,” a magnificent southern thousand will visit the park on that day Saginaw, Mich., June 5. they make and have for barter and spectacle and reproduction of south¬ Riverside Park with free gate opens L within easy reach, being cen- fun in quantity in their dances, their ern plantation life, is an attraction of Jflfe located and on the car line. tomorrow. The grounds are looking play and their own amusements. It much human interest. good, every building has been re¬ Among the attractions are, inde¬ is new in every feature and always pendent moving pictures and vaude¬ “Aladdin’s Magic Swing” is count¬ painted and put in first-class shape. intensely interesting. ed one of the best illusions and The Jeffers theater will close with to¬ ville in a beautiful little theater of 500 The same may be said of the Igor- gating capacity and containing over “thrills” produced ill recent years. It night’s performance and the Jeffers rote village. It is the first view, close occupies a prominent place on the stock company and the house staff electric lights. Arrangements are at hand, that the west has had of its My being made for an electric merry- Pay Streak and is financed by Cap- will move out to Riverside park brown, head-hunting little brothers ain A. W. Johnston, the Nome mil¬ Casino, opening at the matinee in Jgwound. electric circle swing and from the Philippines and there is an blher park concessions. lionaire who has builded a handsome Divorce.—TRAVERS. afternoon of fun and study in the home at Medina. This is considered the finest colored bunch of them. .park in the south. W. V. Hettiger, W. J. Derthick, well known member Jack Rose Engaged. ^Jatec manager of the Crystal and Lyric Ezra Meeker’s Ox Team. of the Chicago theatrical colony, was Indianapolis, Ind., June 7. theaters, has been appointed general Ezra Meeker has crowded the ear¬ present at the opening. H. P. Hill and Jack Rose, owner and producer of manager of the Highland Park Amuse- liest, tensest history of the Northwest Teddy Spencer, of Denver, Col., were Texas Pals, has been engaged as stage tnoit Company.—ANDREWS. into his reproduction of the Oregon also seen along the Pay-Streak director at Wonderland Park. THE SHOW WORLD June 12, 19^,

other goods, that the time would come LITTLE GAMBLING IS X-. A TIMELY TALK ON CONFIDENCE when they would regret such trade FOUND AT STATE FAIRS. • tactics. Disloyalty to a cause cost Benedict Arnold and his family many Marked Advance in the Tone of Ex¬ By J. J. MURDOCK. generations of disgrace. I have at hibitions in Pennsylvania Accord¬ my finger’s end a list of these treach- ing to Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. While I am frank to admit that dragging anchor chains of those who erous exchanges, and I am also aware co-operation are more would profit at the expense of i' that exhibitors are becoming familiar confidence and Harrisburg, Pa., June 7. or less synony¬ schedule. with the fact that “independent” does mous, that the A surprising number of letters have not mean International,—that the ex¬ In announcing the list of county one could reached me, following my talk on bug¬ change which would endeavor to foist and other agricultural fairs to be held scarecly exist aboos in last week’s issue of THE inferior grade of “independent” in various counties of the state this without the SHOW WORLD, assuring me that good® upon a patron 1 endeavor year. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture numberless exhibitors are confident deceive him into believing that he A. L. Martin, states that in the last tremely grati¬ that my attitude is correct. My only was receiving International reels, is two years there has been noticed a fying to me to purpose in these talks has been doomed to an early extinction. Neither marked advance in the tone of the have an exi¬ inspire confidence, because I aware campaign will brook the exhibitions, gambling being almost gency occur to that many exhibitors are easily ...... interference, of. traitors, . , to the cause.. eliminated. demo nstrate led or intimidated by false promises The International intends to fight fair “We note a marked improvement in the confidence and empty threats. and this fact is being realized, more the manner of conducting fairs,” he o f exhibitors The letters of intimidation which and more each day, by the army of writes, “in that all games of chance, and exchange were recently sent broadcast by the exhibitors. gambling devices and questionable men in the In¬ trust had at least one beneficial ef- It has been clean, fair fighting shows have been practically elimin¬ feet: they served to further develop which, up to date, has invited the con- ated. The attendance for 1908 at the movement. the strength of the International al- fidence of the clients of the Interna various fairs was 1,559,000, showing Bear in mind liances. From almost every point of tional. We have not sanctioned f an increase of 368,704 over the pre¬ vious year. Over $21,000 was paid from I do not say compass this company has re- changes placing junk-ii-j “ the “independent” movement, but the ceived reassuring letters • letters dependent” films upon the market the state funds and $95,517.91 paid in “International” movement. There is f”" premiums, while $102,665.30 was of¬ a distinction as well as a difference fered in premiums.” between the two. The list of exhibitions for this year The word “independent,” during the includes this vicinity as follow.-,: current campaign, has fallen into Lackawanna county grange at -Madi much abuse. Originally, the word sonville September 21 to 25. was intended to distinguish between Susquehanna county Harford .\gri- those who were on the side of the cultural societv at Harford, Septem¬ ber 22 and 23. “trust,” and those who were not, but as with all words in the English lan¬ The Allentown fair will be held Sep¬ guage, this word has been found to tember 21 to 24. possess rubber-like qualities and has The Tioga county fair will be at been stretched beyond its primary Wellsboro, September 29 and iiO.— meaning. In fact it has been so BUXBAUM. stretched during the past few weeks as to have passed beyond all identity AT SUMMER PLACES. to its original form. Gertrude Hoffman has gone abrt^d The International is an independent to make a tour of the continent in her company, but it does not include all automobile. the “independents.” The Interna¬ Bobbie and Hazelle Robinson, who tional issues independent films, but have been playing in vaudeville the it does not include all “independent” past season, are summering in Min¬ films in its issues. The distinction be¬ neapolis, where Mr. Robinson has tween these two words is quite plain charge of the big vaudeville theater to a majority of exhibitors and ex¬ at Wonderland Park. changes, but not to all of them. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mehay who have Warning to “Independents.” been playing in stock at Sioux Falls, To some of the exchanges who S. D., have returned to their home in should be able to distinguish between Faribault, Minn., for the summer. the two words and who either will not Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Crawford and or have not, I can only say that the Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Oviatt are spend¬ time may be near at hand when they ing six weeks in London. will learn to their dismay that their Eleanor Robson came to the conclit- self-imposed ignorance may cost them .sicn that after all she would prefer a dear. sea trip and a summer in Europe to I do not intend this as a threat. an automobile excursion through the It is meant, rather as a prediction Maine roads, so she engaged passage which should be heeded by those who on the St. Paul, sailing from New mean to profit from their experience York for Southampton on Saturday of in the film field. this week. The time is not far distant in the James T. Dunbar, press agent of past, when the so-called “independ¬ To her hundreds of acquaintances in the profession of entertainment, the Al G. Field, is spending the summer ents” were without a leader; when announcement that Nellie Revell has again joined THE SHOW WORLD at his home at Huntington, W. Va. they were so at sea that they did not staff, will come as a pleasant surprise. Beginning with Monday next. Miss Revell will take up her duties as New York manager of this publication, with know whether to push their rudder to Maywood to Celebrate. the port or starboard side of their well equipped offices at 201-203 Knickerbocker Theater Building, 1402 Broad- ship. Without throwing bouquets at Maywood, Ill., will celebrate on July myself, I am aware that I was the Miss Revell enjoys the distinction of being one of the best known women 5th, which is the first time in about man who gave them courage,—gave in the world of amusements. She has gained an enviable reputation as a eight years that this suburb of Chi¬ them confidence in their impending vaudeville artist, where her original monologue won her splendid bookings cago has attempted to do anything in fight against the “trust.” Had it not and a host of followers among the public. She is not only a clever writer but the amusement line, and consequently been that I took a firm hold of the a raconteur whose stories are always in demand. In her new capacity it is much interest is being manifested. situation a few weeks ago, I cannot believed that she will readily place THE SHOW WORLD in the forefront The encampment of the 7th Battal imagine what would have become of of eastern as well as western journals of its field. lion of Modern Woodmen will lake the “independent” movement. place there at the Maywood park Under the ample banner which I proceed,—letters which ; written intend to permit the trust to inter- July 3, 4 and 5. The committee, com¬ spread for the “independents,”’ many by exhibitors and exchanges who had fere with our plans and, as stated pre- posed of C. J. Gruschow, J. G. Poul- exchanges__ and exhibitors_ have_e gath- faith and trust in the International viously, we shall fight for the rights ton and H. C. Kendall have billed the _, . invited and without welcome, company,—faith for its future and exhibitors to a finish,—and by surrounding towns along the C. & N. The confidence which the Internation- trust engendered by its past perform- our exhibitors we mean those exhib¬ W. Ry. and it has stirred up the old itors who are using International films timers considerably. Maywood lies just west of the beautiful Desplaine.s -Confidence is the breeder of capital. exclusively, — those exhibitors believe themselves sufficiently Without the first the latter cannot be have had confidence in our product river, 11 miles from Chicago. Conces¬ equipped to act alone. Perhaos they attained, and it often happens that and have refused service from such sion bids for this celebration will close about June 20. _ I hope they _ - T fact,, because without the...^ latter,.c, the former cannot exchanges^ the time has come when I cannot look be engendered, To Make World Tour. out for the interests of those. whoI I would not boast of the capital of have not vowed allegiance tne in- International, -but I am proud to Minneapolis, Minn., June 7. ternational company. boast of the confidence it has bred. George McManus, a former member International Stands Alone. But to those who, hiding under the of the Frawley Stock company here, No ship can sail smoothly when International cloak and calling them-- was in the city last week. Mr. Fraw¬ hampered with a mass of barnacles selves “independents,” there is a fate ley ■ has been stage director of the Pantages Stock company in Seattle for the last two yehrs, and is now, ac¬ timber from its keel,,and while I i cording to McManus, about to make Traitors Unwelcome. Wheeling Park Opens. master of the International ship I another world’s tour with a stock intendintenu thattnaj ...... n:it ^Wll-,^ail ... .vfitl),wjilij jls i u.ivc icpcaicuij.repeatedly vwauled those ex- Wheeling, W. Va., June company, playing every large city splendid cargo into.,,tlie tiarjior of changes who insist on mingling the Wheeling park opened May 23 and where there is an American nr an greater success, unhampered by the product of the International with insiness has been good to date. English colony.—BARNES. June 12, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD 7 WHO IS THE BEST CLOWN IN CIRCUSDOM? An "wen confession is good for the He has been with dramatic and bur¬ :1 and generally provides interesting The Question is a More Difficult One Than Was First Realized lesque shows where he played charac¬ billing. ter roles and did his specialty. He is An acknowledgment of a hesitancy so the Circus Editor Begs For Time. not unfamiliar with park w )rk and I determining the best clown with for three years was half owner of the facITSrcus will not be greeted with La Rose Electric Fountain, making BY E. E. MEREDITH scorn those who have given the all the openings and announcements. iiiaiii'lKhought and while those who are He has in preparation a novelty com¬ interested will be disappointed Rex Roselli, best known as a lion “Slivers” make-up last season with edy musical act with special scenery jnllBbrolonging of the agony still it tamer until he became connected with the Hagenbeck-Wallace show and the and mechanical effects, and will be jjilP^be denied that thorough Con- the dramatic profession, was formerly clowns with Polly of the Circus have seen in vaudeville next season. silflBbn of the good and bad points a clown and his judgment is worthy of followed his idea of make-up. clown will serve to make the respect. He saw the Barnum show Miscellaneous Mention. The Miacos are said to have orig¬ Raleigh Wilson, who is boss clown the more widely respected and when in Chicago but cannot make a inated several good entrees. One ,vill therefore be of greater value to choice between Horace Webb, Harry La aud mail man with the Campbell called “Water ■ through - the - ears” Brothers, has received many favor- Ac ^usement profession in general. Pearl, George Baker, Eddie De Voe, comes to mind. It is now used by a Incriminate assaults of a personal and “Spud” Gerome. abel mentions in the newspapers of dozen clowns. The little dog on the North Dakota, Nebraska and Minne¬ i;alur«r which relieve the monotony of How “Worth” Is Figured. big rope, which has been seen with iiic io the dressing rooms of tented en- sota. His work is being highly spok¬ It might be well to take the reader medicine shows for many years and en of by every one who sees the per¬ ■erprists, at first created a desire to re- with old-time musical acts, is used by ircvc the misconception under which into confidence in regard to the way formance. the “worth” of the various clowns is Fred Egner and others. Egner de¬ Homer B. Day arises to suggest the ome few clowns and their friends are serves credit for digging up this an¬ ' tioring. As the days go by these mur- estimated. Letting 100 represent the name of Max Hugo, who will be with perfect whole, twenty-five points are cient tickler. It must be confessed Col. M. H. Welsh’s circus. Mr. Day njirjnjs—when reported by those who that it receives much applause. ^i^Ptheir action as an indication of allowed for the winning of public ap¬ asserts that Hugo is well worthy of irien^Eness, or when evidenced by per- proval, twenty-five points for the num¬ The Miacos brought out a “break¬ consideration when the “best clown” .mialKncounter with the disgruntled ber of offerings, twenty points for orig- away-woman” with the Ringling show is being selected. Hugo is well known, ieitjm longer cause the circus editor inalitv, ten points for personality, five one .season. The following season it according to Mr. Day, in both Europe ;ii hTstirred to any emotion whatever. points to the clown who doubles in the is said that George Hartzell came on and America, The clowns being considered in this concert and fifteen to the one who dou¬ with one exactly like Miacos and that Bert Davis, of the Buffalo Bill & .cries bf articles have answered for the bles in the circus performance proper. he actually worked it despite the pro¬ Pawnee Bill show, writes: “1 have circus editor by their commendation of This table has been prepared after tests of AI Miaco, who claimed to often asked the question (who is the i!if fajrness cropping out in ever'- par- carefully weighing the advantages to have originated the “gag.” best clown?) and it is a very hard igAiand one of a number of tele- the circus proprietor of a clown who The difficulty in awarding points thing to decide.” which is printed on this page in- doubles in a circus oerformance as Art for originality is that the stories told :s the spontaneous kindly assur- Adair did when he was with tented en¬ by the clowns themselves cannot be HAD A SPLENDID TIME which greets the writer in every terprises. He not only acted as prin¬ believed. The thief often talks AT R. M. HARVEY’S TOWN cipal clown with various shows but per- straighter than the originator of a A letter from Horace Webb has Circus Folks with Hagenbeck-Wal¬ created astonishment as well as pleas- lace Enjoy First Dance of the iire, far he actually admits that he is :K WESTERIV UMIOMT TELEORAPH COMP ANT. Season at Perry, Iowa. 14,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. "cABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. ;r:‘. funnv. Mr. Webb, however, is not Perry, Iowa, June 8. the only clown who is not funny. The first dance of the season with There are dozens of others. In musical the Hagenbeck-Wallace show took mmedy and vaudeville, more than in place at the Elks’ home at Perry, last i! ’ circus arena, men pose as comedi- RECEIVED It Saturday night. Automobiles were j'K who are not funny. Mr. Webb furnished the dancers to travel to las the advantage over many musical 222CH Hq CS 19 aid,. and from the hall and a good orches¬ 1 :nedj and vaudeville cut-ups inas- tra, a large crowd of congenial peo¬ inch as he is not un-funny. The Perry,l»wa, June 5tX-o9 ple and' splendid refreshments made aaraci; of a score of musical comedy ,X.E.lIeredith the evening enjoyable. •i.rrs who are absolutely un-funny Another dance will be given at ' .iirt me typewriter to tick down their CirCus editor Show world North Platte, Neb., June 12, accord¬ laruts; but as space is valuable it will ing to present plans. 'iiftw-to let the readers of these ar- Grand opera House chgo. licles know that the writer realizes that Your fairness In Doteralnlnf the best COOPER BROTHERS ARE i i.iuiinincss is not uncommon. IN RUN OF HARD LUCK. Comical and Funny. elreus clown Is jenerally comended. I am wllllnf to abide by Fulton, Ky., June 3. In the meaning of these articles a your decision, After the performance of yesterday I'l'mn may be comical without being the band of Cooper Bros, shows quit. fcnny. Horace Webb is as comical a Jloi P.Rutherford They had not received any pay for r'.:,p as one would wish to see. His three weeks and they could not see s team is not exactly new but there 128 Pm as to when they would receive any, not^ clown feature (outside of Ted- formed (with Dot Adair) a perch act “gag.” For this reason only twenty according to report. iVs ranting trin) which contributes so and played a musical instrument while points can be assigned for originality. The two cars are still here and your much to the Barnum performance. It standing on his head, providing an ex¬ correspondent is informed that the i;e,cr fails to attract attention. traordinary concert number. Were he The Wallace Clowns. shows are deeply in debt to the I. C. T agree with you that I am not R. R. company for transportation. still in the field he would be entitled A friend of Arthur Borella, of the tunny," confesses Mr. Webb in his let¬ to at least nineteen points out of a pos¬ The management attributes the bad ter. “I found that out several years Hagenbeck-Wallace show, points out sible twenty for .“doubling” in circus that he reservel credit for having made business to the fact that this section aju," he adds. “That is the reason I and concert. good in years gone by with a one-ring of country has had rain nearly every make my dresses as elaborate as possi- Under the table which will regulate day for the past two weeks and that ilc and my makeup as neat as I can. show and adds that that is something the merits of clowns in determining many of the clowns now with the big on several days prior to reaching this 1 ofteii use prop gags that other clowns their rank, it would be wisdom to place shows could not do. The writer points town the lot was too wet to unload ar.Sgjl tired to bother with.” Art Adair like this; the show. There is a confession, as frank as out that interesting the spectators with Public approval .17 a ot^e-ring show is different from aid¬ The animals and horses are in bad " It made by the circus editor in the Number of offerings.15 ing a number of clowns with a three- condition.—THOMAS. Originality .15 ring enterprise. This point is well tak¬ Personality . 7 en, but could not be taken into consid¬ Ed Cullen Dead. How a Clown’s Value Is Being Cincinnati, O., June 8. Estimated. Doubling in concert.. 5 eration in making this decision without Doubling in circus.14 undoing what has been accomplished in Edward Cullen, for thirty-five years Points connected with the John Robinson Public approval .25 determining the relative merits of the Total .73 comedians of the sawdust ring. shows, most of the time as business Number of offerings .25 manager, died yesterday at his home Originalitv .20 Borella’s versatility is well known. in this city. In deference to a wish Rpisonality .10 Originality. He is equally at home clowning in expressed just before death. Colonel 'Donbling in concert . 5 Clowns who purloin the business the circus arena, spieling at a park, John Wilson, the bareback rider, was Doubling in circus .15 originated by others in the same line occupying the end in a minstrel first of work are plentiful with the circuses part, or doing his specialty in a vau¬ called to his bedside. Mr. Cullen had and it is doubtful if enough points are deville theater. He has been in the an extensive acquaintance throughout lining paragraphs. A clown com- given in the foregoing table for orig¬ profession for twenty years. He was the United States. ncndi.the fairness of the circus editor inality. No sooner does an original with the Welsh Brothers show when W.AT.TKR L. MAIN IS j'lyn he, hirnself, is adversely criticised. clown produce an offering or spring it was a one-ring, one-horse and one- MARRIED TO RIOH GIRI, It i»4ft condition never before encoun- a make-up than some less brainy chap car show and spent three years with .Pittsiburg-. Pa., June 10-, tired in the show business and were duplicates the number to his best ad¬ the Barnum & Bailey 85-car circus. Walter L. Main, the circusman, wa.s united in, marriage last night to Louise tks series of articles aimed to deter- vantage, a condition which also exists He is original both in make-up and Kath,ryn Schneider. The bride Is [I’l'c the frankness, honesty and man- in vaudeville. entrees when clowning and has been twenty'-eiight years of age and worth T“d of the various comedians of the “Slivers” Oakley, who has gradu¬ a circus musician, clown lecturer and half a mdllloin in her own right. The groom i'9 forty-five. utcus ring, the honor would go to Mr. ated from the circus and is now a announcer, ticket seller and concert ■•ebb without any more quibbling. successful vaudeville artist, is proba¬ performer. He remarked not long ago RICE BROTHERS TIED Stantz, of the same show, bly the most widely imitated clown. that he copied nor imitated no one, UP BY A MORTG.4GE am more than pleased with His baseball gam-e is being done by which is a point in his favor. St. Louis, Mo.. June 10-. A mortgEUge from, John H. Garrett to I l^Wtg of me in the clown articles. Lon Moore with the Sells-Floto show Borella has been with Burt- Shep¬ W. H, Pomeroy for $1DIO|00 is said to ~ thank you a thousand times and his costumes are imitated more- ard’s and the original Barlow- min¬ have tied up the Rice Brothers’ show l^ow you have used good judg¬ or less by Horace Webb, of the Bar¬ strel companies., where he-held' down at East St. Louis. ment. num show. Lew Nichols used the an end and did his musical specialty. Additional Circus News on Page 21 8 THE SHOW WORLD June 12, 1909,

ELLIS GETS VERDICT BATTLE IS EXPECTED AGAINST ROBINSON. Louis E. Cooke, General Agent, Here Contractor At Last Gets Judgment in This Week, and S. H. Fiedler, Suit Which Has Been Pending Contracting Agent, in Town. BETWEEN CIRCUSES Since October, 1907.

The Buffalo Bill Wild West and Hagenbecfc-Wallace and ScIli-FIolo Routes Are So Laid Out That Lancaster, Ohio, June 8. Pawnee Bill Far East, combined, is There Is Likely to Be Opposition. The suit of H. I. Elli.s against John to play Chicago within a few weeks. F. Robinson, the circus man, tfi=re- Whether it will make one, two or cover $300 claimed due as balanct oi three lots is as yet undecided. Westward, the eyes of showmen show Ben Wallace that he could not Salary as contractor for the Robinson Louis E. Cooke, general agent of turn their way! get along without him. show, after he had been reliev^^e- the Two Bills show, was in the city Satisfied that there will be no clash Harry Earl, general agent of the fore the close of 1906, re.sulted^^ a again this week and S. H. Fiedler, between the Buffalo Bill-Pawnee Bill Sells-Floto show, was formerly press verdict bv the jury for $280 and Mer¬ contracting agent, is now located at and the 101 Ranch until late in Sep¬ agent with Hagenbeck-Wallace, so his est aggregating $299.65 in favor Mwr the Jackson hotel. It is understood tember at least, the eyes of those who reputation is at stake when he clashes Ellis. that he is working here now. The se¬ enjoy watching the evidences of the against R. M. Harvey, who was given cretiveness of show men generally bitter feeling which abounds to some the general agency of the Hagenbeck- was evidenced when he was ap¬ slight extent in the circus world turn Wallace show, a position which should season, but Ellis proved otherwi.se. proached for he declined to be inter¬ towards the west where there is a by rights have gone to Mr. Earl, Ellis begun the suit by attaching viewed. possibility of opposition between the were he qualified to fill it, as his se¬ six head of horses of the show on Oc¬ The Buffalo Bill show plays Platts- Hagenbeck-Wallace and Sells-Floto lection by Mr. Franklin would indi¬ tober 19, 1907, when the circus was in hurg, N. Y., June 19 and then goes cate, and his relations with the man¬ this city. The case was appealed from into Canada. It does not play Boston, The Sells-Floto circus is under the agement such as to make such affilia¬ Squire Parido’s court and has Tetn so the 101 Ranch will have everything management of W. E. Franklin, who tion advisable. bitterly fought in several hearings in its own way in New England. for a number of years was general Not only managers and general common pleas court, being continued George W. Connor, secretary to from time to time. Major Gordon W. Lillie, writes this An effort to continue the trial again paper: “We have had excellent busi¬ on the part of the defendant faihd. ness to date—playing capacity all of WHO IS THE BEST CIRCUS CLOWN? Robinson was not present, but the the time at Philadelphia and having

Ringling Brothers, Barntim & Bailey, Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill Negro, Who Tried to Force His Way into the Tent, and Shot Circus and Other Shows Prospering. Man, is Hung by a Mob.

The circus season of 1909 promises ness has been good with the John Frankfort, Ky., June 9. Bower, who is also an Elk, is the l^rove one of the most profitable in Robinson show “where conditions superintendent of the train. were right.” Bert C. Bowers, who was shot last atlecadc. How the Trouble Started, Wednesday night by a drunken negro, The reports which reach this office Just about half an hour after the Dode Fisk Prospering. is doing nicely at the King’s Daught¬ indicate that the majority of the tent Minneapolis, Minn., June 7. performance began a fusillade of shots er’s Hospital in this city and there shows are doing well, with the possible Dode Fisk’s circus is showing in the was heard in the direction of the men¬ now seems no doubt about his re¬ agerie. At first the crowd thought eileptioii of “grifting outfits” and the smaller cities around the Twin Cities. They have ten sixty-foot cars and an covery. He is a member of the Val¬ it was a clown act, but the circus men small shows now in the south. began to run in the direction of the advertising car, and have one ring and dosta, Ga., lodge of Elks. The Ringling Brothers had a nice two stages. J. H. Eschman, the well shots and those immediately around business in Boston last week and after known Minneapolis amusement man The shooting was unprovoked. For the entrance where the shooting oc¬ a few more stands in New England visited the show last week at Still- curred, began knocking down peanut stands in their frantic rush to get out rapidly work west, going to the of the way. The crowd saw then that the shoot¬ '^^Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill have ing was not in fun and that there was been doing nicely in the east and have trouble. The people rose to their some little time there yet before break- feet and several started to leave, but -.iqg.jnto Canada and coming west. The the attaches of the circus quickly saw cjr^ strike at Philadelphia interfered that a panic was imminent and with business for the last two days of rushed among the people, quieting tlie'«igagement. them. Barnum & Bailey made its most The band played on and in a few easteni point last Saturday and is minutes the crowd had settled in their seats and the performance continued. ONLY OPPOSITION It was a dangerous situation for a OF THE 101 RANCH few moments, and the showmen IS BAD WEATHER. showed that they were competent and thoughtful. By George Arlington, Tried to Rip Tent. [(General Manager 101 Ranch The shooting began as a result of ^ Wild West.) the negro’s effort to rip the tent to “We have had but very few enter the show without a ticket. Mr. stands this season where we Bower stopped him once or twice and have not had opposition, but in sent for officers who were called upon the face of this we have done to arrest Maxey. The negro tried a wonderful business and the again to get into the tent and when performance has been giving ex¬ Bower stopped him, Maxey pulled a cellent satisfaction. Barring bad revolver and began to shoot. Mr. weather or accidents we expect Bower caught the weapon after the 'otrowded tents to witness our first shot and prevented any more performance during the remain- bullets from striking him. -der of the season. Remember The crowd then gathered and some this: Bad weather is the only one cut a rope loose from a tent flap, onposition we admit.” a noose was made in it quickly and some one threw it over the head of the negro. headed toward the west with business The other end was thrown over a such as to encourage the management tree and the negro’s time seemed to and gladden the hearts of the perform¬ have come, but the two policemen ers) went promptly to the rescue and saved The 101 Ranch has had remarkable him. They secured a buggy and basiness since the summer weather op- brought the negro to the county jail. etlrtl and when Louis E. Cooke was Maxey was taken from the cOunty entertained at a performance recently jail at 2:30 o’clock the next morning he could not help but be impressed with by a mob and hanged on the bridge Ac fact that he has opposition which passing over the Kentucky river from is iwpular with the public. the north to the south side of the . The Hagenbeck-Wallace show- is “ city. likely to have the best season since the The hanging was done by a mob of circuses were combined. Business to seventy-five or eighty men, who were date has been immense. That show is closely masked and the identity of getting west ahead of the Ringling the participants Is unknown. The mob Brothers, which will be to its advant¬ was several hours in forming. age. The Sells'Floto show is still out WILL SHOW A CITY west, Some stands are good and some WITHOUT DAILY PAPER. bad. Failing to get a report from that show the natural conclusion is that ■ Baraboo, Wis., June 10. business is nothing to brag on. Tomah has unexpectedly come in¬ Business has been fine recentlv with to circus prominence and La Crosse the Gollmar Brothers. Those who wit¬ people are wonding how it happened. die and during that time a mob took nessed the big crowds attracted to the water and says they have the best Tomah is only a country town with show in South Dakota predict that the small show he has ever seen and that the negro from the jail and hung him. small population and no daily paper northwest will be “great” this summer. they are doing big business. Mr. Esch¬ John H. Stewart, yet the Barnum & Bailey show will be The Yankee Robinson show was ahead man is in charge of the refreshment -Sec’y Lodge 530, B. P. O. E. there on June 22. It came about in of the Gollmars at three stands recent¬ privileges at Forest Park this summer this way. The show will be in Mil¬ ly, but it did not appear to lessen the and will probably manage one of Cole Frankfort, Ky., June 7. waukee on the previous day and on Gollmar crowds. and Cooper’s shows next winter as he Bert C. Bowers, aged thirty-five account of the high license fee decided _^e Haag show has not had tremen- did last season.—BARNES. years, for eight years an employe of not to go to La Crosse. The run to business in the south, owing to the Howe Circus, was shot down St. Paul is too far from Milwaukee IM farmers being so far behind with Ida Leon’s Luck. Wednesday night on the show so it was decided to stop at Tomah. La Crosse thought the show must their work. Ida Leon will have Mabel Tali- grounds by John Maxey, a bad, local Howe’s Great London show has had negro. The bullet entered the ab¬ stop and after the date had been fixed ferro’s role in Polly of the Circus it is understood the business firms more than its share of business, consid¬ next season, opening on June 29. Miss domen, penetrating some of the in¬ ering conditions in the south, and a testines. He was hastily carried to proposed to come forward with a Leon is but 17 years of age and is a bonus in order to get the show, but it bank-roll is being accumulated for the member of the Leon Family. She has the King’s Daughters’ Hospital, where immagernent. he was operated on. was then too late. La Crosse is proud been with the Polly of the Circus com¬ of her streets, it is said. Winona is like The Gentry No. 2, under the manage¬ pany as a circus performer. Mr. Bowers is an Elk, and as soon ment of W. W. Gentry, had nice busi¬ as it was learned that he belonged to La Crosse. Tomah is not far from ness in Milwaukee, showing on Sunday the order there was a delegation head¬ these cities and the people will go by Billing Gloversville. m the south end of the city. The night ed by Secretary Jack Stuart, Exalted train to see the big show, and the performance at Savannah, Ill., and the Gloversville, N. Y., June 8. Ruler, George Payne and others went cities will lose the business. Tomah afternoon show at Cedar Rapids. Iowa, The No. 1 advertising car of the to the hospital and offered their ser- people are only touching high places w^^ lost on account of rain, but other Ringling Brothers show'was here bill¬ ices and the services of the lodge. His now.—COLE. have been profitable. ing the show for June 28.—LOCK- wife was employed taking tickets Punch” Wheeler writes that busi- ROW. with the show, and his brother, Ard Additional Circus News on Page 21 THE SHOW WORLD June 12,

NO PERFORMANCES LOST WILL W. P. HALL PUT BY THE DAMON SHOW. Stricken with Cancer Three Years Ago W. W. Powers Now Has Charge ot She Has Resided at Davenport, the Advance.—Corresponaent Iowa, where Death Claimed A CIRCUS ON ROAD? Says that Ghost Walks Her. Regularly. Horse King of the World Adroitly Dodges the Issue in a Statement Davenport, Iowa, June 8. for the Public. South Fork, Pa., June'7. Mrs. Jessie Matthews, better known The Howard Damon show has been to the circus world as Mile. Dair, rec¬ out six weeks and it has raine^^ “I only expect to buy and sell show ity of Mr. Hall has been a subject ognized during her active career as snowed fully two-thirds of the flR one of the most sensational aerial property. I do not think I will go on much discussed among showmen. His Business was a little off the first two artists in the business, is dead at her the road.”—William P. Hall. liking for the circus business is well weeks, but lately the show has pro^ pered. The afternoon houses a^^ home in this eity. The above statement evidences the known. He makes no attempt to con¬ ways good and the nights have^BI Death was due to cancer of the stom¬ tact for which W. P. Hall, of Lancas¬ ach from which she has been suffering ceal it in private conversation. His quently been capacity. Performaf for the past three years. For two- ter, Mo., is famous. familiarity with the details of the busi¬ and musicians frequently help seat the and-a-half years she has made her It is sufficiently clear to satisfy cir¬ ness makes a proposition with him crowds. home in Davenport with her husband, cus proprietors that immediate oppo¬ behind it loom up as a prominent fac¬ Everything is handled on the big C. C. Matthews, who was also a fam¬ sition need not be feared, yet Mr. Hall tor in the show world. ous aerial performer and the orig¬ William P. Hall enjoys the title of inator of many startling aets. Mrs. has not gone on record to the extent “The Horse King of the World,” but Matthews’ illness and death brought that he might he embarrassed later posterity may possibly know him as to an end a career that made Mile. on, should he decide to launch a mam¬ more than a dealer in circus horses; Dair one of the most talked-of women moth tented enterprise. it may be called upon to give him rec¬ in the profession, and a scrap book ognition as a circus proprietor along now in the possession of her husband Since his recent purchase of the with the names of Barnum, Fore- tells of her many hair-breadth es¬ Pan-American show (the Lemon paugh, Sells, Bailey, Ringling, Royal, capes and thrilling adventures. Brothers’ property) the future activ¬ Wallace, Robinson, etc., etc. Mile. Dair stood alone as the only circus performer who had ever suc¬ cessfully essayed what was known as the “cloud swing.” Many have at¬ WHO IS THE BEST CIRCUS CLOWN? tempted to rival her daring trick, but all have failed. Mile. Dair performed BY HERBERT S. MADDY. ♦ his death-defying act from a single rope swinging forty feet and suspend¬ To select the best clown in the Barnum & Bailey circus is a hard ed 50 feet in the air. The trick was proposition because there are several corking good ones. I would in¬ one invented by her husband, Mr. clude Horace Webb, Henry Stantz, Baker & De Voe, Henry Sylow and Matthews, and since her retirement Fred Egner among the “best” ones, but I would hesitate to pin the from activity has never been attempt¬ badge of superiority on any particular one because they are all fine and ed. Mile. Dair’s last great public con- dandy fun-makers. (|uest was at the Madison Square gar¬ My selection at the Ringling show is George Hartzell, first, last den in New York at the time she gave and all the time. I think he is the best all around producing and pan¬ an aerial exhibition from a trapeze 65 tomimic clown in the United States. And in addition Hartzell is one feet in the air. At that time, she was of the finest circus performers it has been my privilege to meet. conneeted with the noted P. T. Bar- Cole Bros, have a clown in the person of Dick Ford, who will be num show. in the front rank when the general roll is called and 'THE SHOW Three years ago in July she was stricken with cancer, and after her WORLD man pins on the medals. Ford was the boss clown with the operation in a hospital at Albany, N. Rhoda Royal circus last winter. Y.. she was brought by her husband The clowns who are entered in this contest must not forget that to Davenport, where she gradually they will have a strong competitor in Joe Sherry, a versatile young man grew weaker until death brought an now with the Sparks show. Before another season passes I predict end to her sufferings at 4:15 o’clock that Sherry will make his mark with very black ink among the “Joeys” yesterday afternoon. of the United States. Mrs. Matthews was forty years c

m.-. IS THE SHOW WORLD June 12, 1909. FACTS, FANCIES AND FRIVOLITIES A publication known as The Gale, is not a brother of the famous Cherry which booms the W. F. Mann enter¬ Facetious Familiarities Featuring Famous Folks and Fre¬ sisters—no, indeed! prises, in announcing that Harry Mack The Candy Shop ought to be a is to succeed E. F. Maxwell as “gen¬ quently Filled With Fulsome Flattery for very sweet show, and it ought to stick eral manager” states that “Mr. Mack the Favored Few. here awhile, although let us hope wishes it annbunced to all friends and there are no sticks in it. business acquaintances that he can be Inquirer is informed that The Blue found at his office at 226 La Salle By WALLACE PEPPER. Mouse is not an animal act. street from 8 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. daily.” The Hurdy Gurdy Girl didn’t ap¬ What on earth does he mean, when he Dick Merriman, a performer on the if some one else dropped in two pear to make very much of a mash intimates that he intends to get to the weeks ahead, arrived in Chicago last on the critics. office at eight o’clock in the morning? suit case circuit, constantly inquired of those in front at the Union theater Saturday and will go to Wisconsin Mabel Barrison, who is now playing No one will be up to call at that un¬ in The Blue Mouse, will next season earthly hour and there is no mail de¬ one night recentb' • “Can’t you see a this week, where he will spend the joke?” He would tell some gag summer months at the lakes. He will play in The Mouse Trap. Gee! livery so early in the morning. Is this They are calling it The Cheesiest a big bluff or is someone trying to kid? which was familiar and thought that begin his ninth season in advance of the audience was incapable of com¬ the Lyman Twins next August. Dietz Way in the east, but of course that is prehending his point because there studied out a scheme to get money at very, very unkind. An actor just off of the small time was no laughter. The audience was matinees last season and it contrib¬ Anxious is informed that The Ser¬ in the south says he saved $400 in all right; the jokes were all right. The uted greatly to the success of The vant in the House is not a play about twenty weeks at a salary of $40. He fault, if fault there was,, lay with Mr. Yankee Drummers. He would arrange a cook, and also informed that the found good hotels at a dollar with cof¬ Merriman himself, who does not get to give away a $25 hat to the lady Russell Brothers are not starring in it. fee that was fit to drink. He states off a joke like a regular comedian holding the lucky number and this The Narrow Path seems to have he never did over six shows a day, never failed to interest the women. been pretty broad after all—o* at either. Anyone going south should be The hat would be on display at some least, the reviewers thought so. willing to pay a neat sum for his list Marc Klaw produced Eunice it millinery store and wherever the in¬ The new Blue Mouse hat is made in of hotels. Good hotels are hard to London recently with Fannie Ward it novation was tried the matinee ex¬ ;he shape of a large cheese, with a find in the south, if one tackles the cluster of blue velvet mice nibbling $2.50 up variety. It is consoling to delicately into the crown. Icam that the dollar places are better than the high priced ones. “With Teddy clamoring fori kids and the janitor putting his heck upon Eva Tanguay will be a headliner or them the woman who lives in a flat nothing. A tale comes from New York is between George Arliss and' the to the effect that Montgomery & Moore deep sea,” according to Elbert m- were featured to some extent at the the Philistine. Alhambra and that Miss Tanguay packed her clothes and “went” when Do you remember— she saw that the management was in¬ When Roy Feltus posted show bills tent on dividing the headline honors. from a step ladder at Bloomington, When Henry B. Gentry, a barefoot The “House Next Door” number of boy, ran off with a dog show? The Spotlight is disappointing. If When Harry M. Howard played George Cohan wrote the column headed Rube characters at one-night stands? “Spot Lights” (to which his signature it attached) his fund of humor is at an ebb. Perhaps Walter J. Kingsley does not make so good an associate editor Alva Magill is using Swanee Babe as Eddie Dunn! and I’m Awful Glad I Met You with fair success. The songs are published by Haviland. Mary Garden is very ill in Paris, ac¬ cording to dispatches. Her eves have Eddie Foy is featuring You Never Miss the Water at the American Music been affected from the use of a new Hall. hair dye, if reports are true. The dye Lina Clare is making a biv hiL^l was supposed to give a reddish tint to the Julian this week with Poni^ov the hair. She was billed for appear¬ (Remick.) ances there and announcements have Ruby Harris is singing Sugad Pic. been given out that she was “indis¬ At the Orpheum one night last week it posed.” did not make much of a hit. It is pub¬ lished bv the Swastika music company. James T. Corbett will not be seen in • I Love My Husband but 01m You The Girl Question next season. He Henry, by Herbert Ingraham, is a new will go abroad in August, plaving at Shapiro publication. London, Dublin and other cities and up¬ Clara Cubitt and her Girly Girlies on his return to America will be seen are using Under the Irish Moon.jjySIth in vaudeville again. It is said his sal¬ has met with only an average recep- ary is $750 in vaudeville and even H. H. Frazee cannot make that much out Babe Russell is singing Victor of his services with a one-night stand Kremer’s I Love My Wife, but'Uh, troupe. Corbett will be seen in the You Kid. Some prefer the KrOTcr first-class houses in a year or two if he song of this title but the majorll^of attains his ambitions. singers interviewed think the Von Til- zer song is the best. The Man from Home began its New SAYS LEE TO JAKE: “NOW LET US TAKE Doc Rice is singing his own songs York engagement on Aug. 16 last and A BRIEF RESPITE—THE BASKET’S FILLED.” and they are well liked. Lew HaPdns is still running. A Gentleman from SAYS JAKE: “DON’T FEAR, THE PLUMS ARE HERE would enjoy his act. ' _ Mississippi started on Sept. 29 last AS LUSCIOUS AS WE COULD HAVE WILLED.” Hazel Lynch is at East Chicaial^ and is still going. The Blue Mouse week where she is singing NaugFty was produced, in New York Nov. 30 Eyes’ (Remick), Don’t Take Me Home and remains popular. the title role. It was not well re¬ ceeded $200. This, too, when other ceived. Miss Ward is said to have attractions were complaining of the (Von Tilzer) and I Remembe^jfou worked hard. The critics complained bad business. (Von Tilzer). ^ An Englishman's Home was not tak¬ that the play did not provide the op¬ Ila Granon is singing Let’s Go Idome and Hang Out the Front Door Key at en seriously in. America. During its en¬ portunities she needs. When Henry Miller, who was in gagement at Powers, which came to an the Majestic this week. Both are pub¬ Chicago recently to superintend the lished by Remick. end last Saturday night, there were sevr The time which the acts run at the production of The Servant in the eral rows occupied on several occa¬ It is predicted that Bill'- Boy, the Majestic last week is given in the fol¬ House at the Bush Temple theater, sions and so many of “those present” Kidnapped Child, will be the big hit of lowing table: was asked how he stood in the big kidded the offering that James O’Don¬ the year. It has received the unquali Afternoon.Evening theatrical war now being waged be¬ nell Bennett frequently referred to the Minnie Kaufman .2:14 7:43 fied approval of Little Billv’s father, tween the Klaw and Erlanger forces who is a gentleman of wealth and cul¬ reception of the play in Chicago in his Mabel McCane .2:23 7:52 articles in the Record-Herald. on the one side and the Shuberts on ture and a good judge of musk ana Chinko .2:38 8:07 the other, said: “I am fighting—^yes— lyrics. The chorus alone stamps-it the Fanny Rice .2:49 8:18 but I am fighting to find good plays. “child” song par excellence, a brand- Fiddler and Shelton ....3:04 8:33 The back of the program of Chase’s That is my biggest fight.” new idea. Read it: , theater in Washington recently bore a Mack and Marcus .3:23 8:52 “I want to go home to my mamn*^ oh, heart-to-heart talk concerning vaude¬ Marie Dainton .3:34 9:03 Is there a difference between won’t you please take me away! ville which, among other things, sug¬ Circumstantial Evidence. 3:50 9:10 I want my dear daddy to hear me when gested that it were well to “let the R. C. Herz .4:12 9:41 “news” and “facts”? There is a line in Keegan’s Pal, in which the “pal” I kneel down to pray. , . public pay $1.50 and $2 for its lugu¬ Will Rogers .4:36 10:05 I know that they both will be grievfflg- brious drama, its insipid comedy, its Kinodrome .4:46 10:15 remarks: “What I see in the papers I read as news, not as facts.” They heard not his pleading cry. weak spectacles, for vaudeville’s support I’m so lonely alone, won’t you is from the home and hearth, and Sa- O. J. Dietz, who has been with take me home. lomish suggestiveness finds no habitat the Lyman Twins for so many years Will Reed Dunroy springs these: Where they call in the household.” that local managers would look askant No, gentle reader, Charles Cherry Boy. June 12, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD 18

The SHOW WOfflD 4rt/st Jf£^ A NSW AMSS/CAN PLAY. Emmeff Corrj^nn. 14 THE SHOW WORLD June 12,190J

editors is known to those who are re¬ readers, to those more intimately ac¬ Corbett-McLaughlin—Harry J. ceived in the private offices of the quainted with the rapid advances in cir¬ bett, treasurer of the Whitney theater magnates. That they smilingly ac¬ culation and adverti.sing made by us in Chicago, and Irene McLaughlin, were united in marriage June 1. cept favors and frowningly return during the past year, the establishment Hill-Green—Edwin C. Hill, a New them, is, we regret to say, a condition of eastern headquarters will be accepted York newspaper man, and Helen which exists and one wliich this ar¬ as a foregone conclusion,—a vital neces¬ Green, of the Morning Telegraph, ticle aims to rectify. sity, forced by progressive conditions. were married June 3 in Camden,^, j' When such organizations as The What we have accomplished for the Leason-Lee—Ray Henry Leason, Lambs are criticised on this score by vast western field of amusements we right hand man of Gus Sun, has cap¬ tured one of the belles in Kentucky The Show World Pablishiog Go. such a paper as The Chicago Tribune, intend to do for the east, give it the and was married June 8 at Newport Qrand Opera Houie Building we repeat that it is time -for the so¬ best and most reliable of journals, thus Elsktx S*v«B Sautb Clark Straet to a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fitz- ciety for the prevention of cruelty to making it a publication of national im¬ hugh Lee of that city. The Lees Chicago, Illinoia the newspaper geese to take action: portance. In an early issue further belong to the best known family in LONO DISTANCE TELEPHONE CENTRAL 1077 the south. CABLE ADDRESS (REQISTERED) "SHOWORLD” Ijast month the Lambs came here to plans of our development will be an¬ gambol. They came to fill New York nounced, which will tend to establish Barrett-Rinch—John J. Barrett, an WARRBN A. PATRICK, pockets with Chicago dollars. To get the actor, 33 years old. who played the Gcaeral Director dollars they needed big audiences. To this paper as one of international character of an Irishman in the sketch WALT MAKEE, get the audiences they needed reportorial value. The Battle of Too Soon, was married aid. They begged for it insistently and We are glad to announce that we at Bridgeport, Conn., June 1, to Miss E. E. MEREDITH, they got it generously from the man have obtained the services of Miss Estelle Ella Rinch, a non-profession,al. then hailed as the reportorial BERNARD F, ROLFE, “fri< Nellie Revell as our New York man¬ Adrertlalna Manaser But when nothing mote could be got ager. We feel that Miss Revell does NEW INCORPORATIONS M. S. PATRICK, out of him they dropped him. When the not need an introduction to the pro¬ Secretary and Trcaeurer Missouri. curtain rose on the gamboling of tiie fessional colony of the great metropolis. I.ambs, and they could have helped him The Grand Avenue Amusement Her friends are legion from coast to company, St. Louis, amusemegH; It of Ccngrui of March I, lt7*. in his work of describing the show for his paper, they refused to do it. They did coast. We are sure that we could not capital $10,000; incorporators—James H. Bicker, R. H. Bailey and others. not want him around. He suddenly be¬ have made a better choice, not only by Victor Amusement and Mercantile came the reportorial “nuisance” and a reason of her wide acquaintanceship, t of i company St. Louis; moving pictures: but also because of her intimate knowl¬ capital $7,000; incorporators—Joseph If the Lambs shall ever return t edge of professional conditions and the Lange, 20 shares; Edward C. Closter- NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. cago to gambol for dollars on the merit of her journalistic .style. meyer, 16 shares: Otto J. Krieg. 8 torium stage they might as well shares; Geo. J. Melloh, 24 shS^' The Last Advertising Forms Close away from The Tribune office. Robert T. Haines. Gottfried Hauri, 90 shares; Lonis Bauer, 13 shares; Henry Menzen- Wednesday at Noon. Amou" the leading men of this coun¬ werth, 24 shares; Christian Schu¬ try, the name of Robert T. Haines, Is “Open Door” Shut? macher, 16 shares. First meeting to whose picture graces the front cover be held June 15, 1909, 10 a. m., afee Adv«rtl»am*nti forwarded by mall muet The same lack of consideration of this week’s issue, holds an enviably be accompanied by remittance, made pay¬ office of the company. * able to THB SHOW WORLD PUBLISHING which has characterized the Syndi¬ high place. Mr. Haines last season was leading man with Olga Nethersole. In CO., to whom all bueinese communicatlone cate’s treatment of one-night stand the past decade he has played leading CHARTER AMENDMENTS.- managers in the past prevailed last parts with many of Am.erica’s most The Dallas Amusement company Saturday when a delegation of man¬ prominent stars, including Viola Allen, has increased its capital stock from agers went to call on A. L. Erlanger. Mrs. Fiske, Blanche Bates and Grace $45,000 to $65,000. Dallas, Texas, If reports which reach this city are Among his best remembered success¬ correct, Mr. Erlanger pulled out for es are Prince Kara in The Darling of THE GOOD OLD MELODRAM’. DISTRIBUTma AGBNTS: Atlantic City, where he wished to the Gods, which part he plaved for oversee the production of a play which thrqe seasons; Don John of Austria in I’m sick of moving picture In the Palace of the King, with Viola vaud’ville weak and iight, is expected to be salacious (The Fol¬ Allen; in 1907 he starred in Once Up¬ For joke and lest and ali the rest I havt lies of 1909), and did not extend the on a Time. He is now filling an en¬ no appetite; courtesy of an interview to men who gagement as a stock star in the east, The sleight-of-hand or high tiapez.^lM' traveled hundreds of miles to sec him playing at Springfield and Hartford, V the liaving onened in Springfield Mav 24. The s( d dance Not only this, but the columns of the Morning Telegraph, which is be¬ Erratum. Light opera I now taboo, and comet lieved to be edited under Mr. Erlang- In the story concerning the Actors’ __ but In epecla) Fund Report printed upon page 4 of The singing stunts I worshipped o ■ wUl conelder contributions bear- er’s supervision, made light of the “open door” policy and held the rep¬ last week’s issue, it was erroneously f entertainment. stated that Treasurer Henry B. Harris’ There’s only o resentatives of the theater managers report showed the total receipts for the froth and sham; * of several states up to ridicule. year to be $34,728.43, and the disburse- tonight, with rant and fight,^e good The Telegraph says: “Should the merts were $9,394.18. This should have i meiodram’. ten or twelve theaters of the Middle read $49,394.18, the overdraft amount¬ ing to $14,172.24. Ah! give me sword and wooden gun&nd West that are worthy of consideration plot and counter plot; " The stress and strife, the flashing Itnifr in this connection decide to open their BIRTHS SATURDAY, JUNE 12. 1909. doors to one fadion and close them and battles waxing hot; I want to hear the villain's laugh, ant^e to the Syndicate- attractions?” etc.. Pitou—To Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Pitou, a boy on June 2. Mrs. Pitou is heroic strides. EDITORIALS known on the stage as Gertrude Cogh- And hear him rant because he can’t dis¬ Must it be concluded that the Syn¬ cover “where She hides.” Ah! give me blood, and prison scenes, The Repertorial Nuisance. dicate considers the cities which are Klimt—Born to Mr. and Mrs. and “agony of woe.” represented in this organization of no George Klimt, Sunday, June 6, a boy. That the newspaper goose which The hero’s “Hold!" the villain “colc^Be importance? Must it be believed that Mr.s. Klimt is a non-professional. fiddle’s tremolo. lays the golden egg of publicity is after a dozen af them have been Tonight no vaud’ville for me, or moTing being killed has been contended for picture sham. picked out, the remainder are un¬ OBITUARY some time, and when leading papers But one good show of long ago! a^d worthy of consideration? Must it be of the United States give attention to Joseph L. Tracey, of Brooklyn, an old meiodram’.—Boston Herald. “ believed that Oklahoma City, or Da¬ actor, playing with a summer stock the failure to appreciate courtesies ex¬ venport, Iowa, are cities too small to company in Binghamton, N. Y., was tended in the editorial columns it is found dead in bed at his hotel May 27. Lillyan Shaffner Hotel Manager. be seriously considered by the Syndi¬ time for the real friends of the show He played the night before hut com¬ Lillyan Schaffner, who was recently cate? business to take action. plained of feeling ill when he retired. seen in vaudeville in her sketch^A If so, it is time that the Western That there are many ingrates in Pair of Corsets, has taken the man¬ Theater Managers severed the bands MARRIAGES agement of the Oak Park Hotel and the show business we shall not at¬ which connect them with an organiza¬ annex, on Brown’s Lake. Burlington, tempt to deny. Anv one who has en¬ Hearn- des Londes—Lew Hearn Wis. .^he extends a cordial invitation tion which not only gives them no countered any number of showmen and Pauline Louise des Londes (Bo¬ to her WKiny friends to visit this beau¬ consideration, hut pokes fun at them nita) were married in New York, realizes this to his cost. That in¬ tifully situated hostelry, which is only when opportunity offers? June 2. two hours’ ride from this city. grates predominate in the theatrical Collier-Loutenberger—Dan Collier, business we are inclined to doubt, Jr., son of the old time minstrel, and although the weight of evidence some¬ Our New York Office. Olga Loutenberger. of Easton, Pa., Murdock in Washington. times indicates as much. Beginning with Monday next we will were united in marriage June 2. J. J. Murdock left this city ia^ That many managers employ press open our New York office, located in Rector-Hunter.— George W. Rec¬ Tuesday afternoon over the PsnSli vania R. R. for Washington wit™ agents believing that they will secure Suite 201-02. Knickerbocker Theater tor, only son of Charles E. Rector, founder of Rector’s in Chicago, was party of the newly-elected Sew^lit a great deal of publicity for very little Building, 1402 Broadway, married May 21 to Maud Hunter, William Lorimer’s friends, to attend money is generallv admitted. That While this announcement will come whose real name is Bertha Ellen Cur- the installation of the Senator. W they laugh when they impose on the as a happy surprise to many of our party left in a private car. 12, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD 15

PHONOGRAPHS NOT EXHIBITORS REPEAT ALLOWED IN READING. Chester Park Also Swings Its Gates Pennsylvania Town Passes Bill Pro¬ and Both Places Have Everything hibiting Use of Condensed in Their Favor. INTERNATIONAL FILMS Music for Theatoriums.

' ■ Cincinnati, O., June 7. Managicr of a St. Louis Exchange Says His Clients Are Proud of the Reading, Pa., June 7. ihc Lagoon opened their season Imported Product. Mayor William Rick has affixed his jgjterday to a tremendous crowd, signature to a bill preventing the use of phonographs as a means of flre Passenger Balloon Wanderer did St. Louis, June 7. American manufacturers. I feel con¬ attracting business for picture lu uses. a splendid business, at an average Manager James R. Edwards, of the fident that it is only a matter of a few The provisions of the bill are as fol- height of one thousand feet. Wm. H. Swanson St. Louis Film weeks when the independent ex¬ The' New York Musical Comedy Company, is gratified with the present changes will not only have the grand¬ company opened the theater with The “It shall be unlawful for any per¬ condition and the outlook for the in¬ est films in the world but the most son, firm or corporation to use a Skating Rink Girl, which was a de- dependents who handle International varied line of subjects both American phonograph, musical organ or other cided success. Both matinee and films in this section. Edwards has and European. musical instrument in the uninclosed ^ij^lng performances drew large the honor of being one of the first “If the independent film situation front or immediately outside of any crowds, the house being crowded to men to put a film exchange, handling in the East is anything like it is here building, or part of any building, used its utmost capacity at night. The independent film exclusively, on a in St. Louis and the entire West, the as a theater, opera house, musical Sitting Rink Girl is a musical farce sound financial basis. When seen at trust will soon be negotiating its own or show place, or place where exhi¬ Sedy, which was made famous by his office Mr. Edwards said: finish. Yes—we are doing a nice busi¬ bitions are given, in order to attract Goodwin last winter with a four “The independent film situation in ness: in fact, more than twice as the public to the same. months’ run on Broadway, New York. St. Louis is perhaps about the same much as we were doing last February “Any person, firm or corporation Tit is the first time that this show as Chicago, New York, or any other and our business is increasing daily. violating this ordinance shall forfeit is being presented in this vicinity. city—good. This I consider due to independent any license held by; him, them or it, The honors of the performance were “Exhibitors seem to like the Inter¬ films and a constant endeavor to' co¬ and shall in addition thereto, upon easily carried off by Miss Marie national films and especially the feat¬ operate with our customers.”—WEBB. conviction before the mayor or any Barry, who was formerly understudy ures, of which we get a larger portion alderman of the city of Reading, be to Fritzi Scheff. She was compelled each week than we formerly did from The Hearn-Bonita Romance. to respond to numerous encores, mak¬ the trust manufacturers. Strong evi¬ sentenced to pay a fine not less than New York, June 8. $50 or more than $100, and costs of ing a decided hit with the audiences. dence of the superiority of our inde¬ The announcement that Lew- Hearn prosecution for each violation of this B. F. Forbes, as Roland Delmane, pendent service over that of the trust would wed Bonita, (Pauline Louise sang the principal role, and was also ordinance, and in default of payment very well received. Bradley Martin, of said fine and costs shall be com¬ Edith Rabbrini and Gertrude Au- mitted and imprisoned in the Berks gaurde proved excellent seconds and county jail for a period of thirty came in for a larcfp share of the ap¬ plause. A strong chorus of twenty- All of the amusement places com¬ fiids filled out the entire cast. plied with the above ordinance.- Qiester park began its summer en¬ STIRL. gagement in grand opera, presenting Madame Butterfly. Adelaide Nor¬ Laemmle Branching Out. wood, who is a favorite in this city, Burlington, la., June 7. and has on former occasions been The finest theater in Iowa devoted the prinia donna at Chester park, but exclusively to moving pictures will never with such associates and elab- be opened in Burlington about July 1' or^ surroundings sang the role of under the name of the Palace. This Matome Butterfly with rare feeling handsome playhouse is riov-f being fit¬ iflidramatic power. Hers is the star ted up by the Laemmle Film com¬ Mk but the other members of the pany, of Chicago. It has a marble casf Henry Taylor, a fine actor, as front with heavy canopy, equaling in Lieutenant Pinkerton; Ortley Cran- appearance any of the houses in the ton, as United States Consul Sharp- east. The seating capacity of the Coro, the marriage broker, well house will be about 500. sung by Arthur Deane; Miss Ellen The Laemmle Film company now Taws as Suzuki, the maid, were equal operates the Lyric theater in this city t?*Re demands of the occasion and and has been meeting with grea.. suc¬ assisted adequately in the excellent cess. With the new theater Burling¬ pifcination. Miss Louie Collier and ton will be equipped with three mov¬ Mm Norwood will alternate during ing picture houses, 'one exclusive the week, as the character of Madame vaudeville house and one larger the¬ BTITRrfly is a very trying one. Next ater under the direction of the Chain- wjljc the company will offer Aida.— berlaifi-Harrington circuit. ■ffSEY. Coliseum Season Opened. Vaudeville War in Cinci. The summer season of the Coli¬ seum opened June'r under the direc¬ Cincinnati, O., June 8. tion of Levi Moses. The Boston The daily press of this city sees a houses is the fact that we get con¬ des LondesJ, did not come as a sur¬ Ideal Opera company presented the bii. vaudeville war approaching, by stant requests from our customers to prise to their many intimate friends. Mikado and Said Pasha to large au¬ reakoii of the fact that William Mor¬ repeat on certain subjects. It was known that Lew Hearn had diences during the week. ris, who was here recently, and whose “For instance, the Italian Cavalry, fallen in love with the pretty little act¬ The bill this week was vaudeville. presence was denied, is discovered as we have shipped this subject to some ress when they were, both playing in the This is the first season that the Coli¬ the contractor for the bookings of the of cur customers no less than six Wine, Woman and Song company, seum entertainment has proven a t newsOrpheum theater and roof gar- times, and each time we shipped at the three years ago. Some of their friends success, although if has been tried 1 den.' I. M. Martin, of Avondale, is request of the exhibitor. I could name are joking the pair about the fact that every summer.—BROWN. I the owner of the house. The Times- twenty subjects released by the In¬ for three years they sang together “No I Star of this city believes that this is ternational company in the past few Wedding Bells for Me.” They were the first gun in a great vaudeville weeks for which we have received re¬ married June 3 at the home of the Picture Managers Meet. I war. The new Orpheum will be quests to repeat. Such requests were bride’s parents, 967 East 167th street, Oxford, Ohio, June 8. this city. erected on McMillan street near Pee- unheard of in this office previous to The managers of independent five- I Hipcorner. It will be modern in Mr. Swanson joining the independent McIntosh Goes Launching. cent picture shows in a score of Ohio f every particular, according to the ranks. I have read some remarks The' Dixon, Ill., papers gave an in¬ and Indiana towns met here for the M.-RUNEY. published in the trade papers about teresting account of the experiences purpose of forming an organization foreign humor not being appreciated of Marvelous McIntosh and Ben for mutual benefit and to protest Contracts for New Cinci House. by that portion of the American pub¬ Bromley while in that city recently. against the manufacture of objection¬ Cincinnati, O., June 7. lic patronizing motion picture shows. It happened that on a sunny day able pictures. Those prominent in the You no doubt remember the exhibi¬ they decided to take a little trip up movement are J. G. Reynolds, of Co¬ atracts for the erection of the tion of Independent films at the Gem ;rpheum theater in Walnut Hills the river and took a launch which was lumbus; L. C. Gordon, of Middletown; theater last F’ebruary and that the conveniently waiting on the shores. Peter Blum, of Miamisburg; J. C. ! signed by I. M. Martin and the audience consisted of about 300 men, factors. TThe house will have a In the meantimerSte swirer'of the Norris, of Liberty, Ind.; J. E. and F. all owners, managers or otherwise boat came down aTrd, disco'vering its M. Wheeler, of Connersville, Ind., and sealing capacity of 3,200. The roof connected with the moving picture garden will be used for vaudeyille in loss, notified the police and ordered E. R. Murphy, of College Corner. J. theaters. You will also remember the arrest of the supposed robbers. E. Wheeler was elected president, E. summer and as a skating rink in win- that there was considerable enthusi¬ ter.-RUNEY. About this time the vaudevillians were R. Murphy secretary, and J. C. Duerr, asm displayed when the comedy pic¬ five miles up the river and the elec¬ of Oxford, solicitor. tures were being shown as well as tricity ran out, compelling McIntosh Frederick Smith to Star. loud outbursts of applause at the and Bromley to paddle back to town fording to reports, 'Frederick dramatic and educational subjects. where everything was satisfactorily New Picture House. will be starred as Bud Larra- “Well, any time you produce pic¬ explained and patched up with the ex¬ Mt. Carmel, Ill., June 7. westerner, in The Lost Trail, tures that will make 300 moving pic¬ ception of the blisters on their hands. Douglas and Peters, owners of the character which he created three ture men laugh and applaud, you need The boys are now recuperating. y>'ars ago, and it is said he will later not worry about the show going pub¬ Bijou and Theatorium, have decided J^ar in a new play now being writ- lic. There is but one thing lacking to Panama to Have Fair. to abandon the Theatorium and will ^Bior him by Anthony E. Wills. make the Independent film service the It is reported that Panama will have construct in its place a theatorium in Mi.ss Isabel Gould will head The Lost greatest in the world, and that is a fair in 1915 marking the comple¬ the Kamp block, the dimensioyis of Trail cast. stories of American life fnade by tion of the Panama canal. which will be 26 by 110 feet. 16 THE SHOW WORLD June 12, 1909.

FRANK KEENAN SIGNS HUNTINGTON THEATER . WITH HENRY HARRIS. UNDERGOING REPAIRS. New York, June 8. Huntington, W. Va., June 10. Contracts were signed today be¬ GREAT! GREATER!! GREATEST!!! During the present season of ftc tween Henry B. Harris and Frank year when the theatrical busing' “That’s what Everybody says!” about ou: throughout the country is in a state Keenan, whereby the latter will star of inocuous desuetude a great many under Harris’ management for a term FILM RENTAL SERVICE houses are undergoing repairs, and of five years. Mr. Keenan will first numbered among them is The Hunt¬ be seen in a play entitled The No repeaters—No dark houses—in dealing ington. The house has been rewired Heights, by William Anthony Mc¬ with us—^We maintain a thorough busi¬ throughout in conduit, repainted and Guire, an hitherto unknown play¬ ness system—that’s why. BE A decorated and recarpeted with hand¬ some new gold and red Wilton. New wright. The play will be produced in ‘ LIVE ONE” AND WRITE US chandeliers have been installed. A New York in October. Mr. Keenan, TODAY. who has been under the management costly new steel woven asbestos eftr- of David Belasco, attracted consid¬ We Handle AU Meket of Meckinee and Supplies tain has been swung. A comple'te sprinkling system has also been in¬ erable attention by his performance in stalled reaching every part of the The Rose of the Rancho, and in The house, which has a seating capacity Warrens of Virginia. Mr. Keenan has JOSEPH HOPP, President for years been known as an actor of of 1,500. The lobby has been covered unusual ability, and by adding him with inlaid rubber and a brass railed Standard Film Exchange entry constructed in front of jpe to his long list of stars, Mr. Harris Licensees Motion Picture Patents Co. has secured an artist whose worth is ticket window and at the foyer en¬ universally acknowledged. Until the 79 Dearborn St., Unity Bldg. Chicago, III. trance. The ladies’ parlor has been production of his play, Mr. Keenan handsomely furnished and enlarged. will act as general stage director for Manager Joseph Gainer will practi¬ Mr. Harris, and as such will stage all cally throw open to his patrons a of the new plays produced by this new house for the season of 1909-10 —DUNBAR. manager during the summer and early MOVING PICTURE NOTES fall. The author of The Heights is a Chicago newspaper man but 24 years NEW YORK. WISCONSIN. Logansport Notes. old. He wrote his first play when he Gloversville—The Pearl opera com¬ Menasha—The Crystal opened June Logansport, Ind., June 9. was 15. Another of his efforts. The pany has closed at the Darling the¬ 5, under the management of Thomas Boyd park opened May 24. People Walls of Wall Street, is to be pro¬ ater. The house has reopened-with R. Vaughn. from Peru, Logansport and Wabash are patrons of this park, whick is duced shortly by the Shuberts. moving pictures for the summer— Ft. Atkinson—T. C. Notbohm and LOCKROW. reached by trolley. Vaudeville and W. L. Hunt, who dissolved partner¬ moving pictures are offered every af¬ ship recently, have again joined in¬ MICHIGAN. ternoon and evening. Small Bros. terests and will run the Empire the¬ the managers this season. * Get the Film Steadier Muskegon—Work has been started ater as before. McDaniel’s Atlantic City band gave on a new theater here, which will concerts at Spencer park in this city It Prevents Motion Pictures have a seating capacity of 800 people. PENNSYLVANIA. from Affecting the Eyes. June 6, 7 and 8, under the auspices Adrian—H. H. Dickson has leased Philadelphia—Plans for a new pic¬ of the Logansport Deutscher Verein,, ASSURES A GREATER PATRONAGE. the Strehlow building at Chillicothe, ture theater 50x60 feet, to be located for the benefit of the new St. Joseph PROLONGS THE UFE OF FILMS. Mo., and will install an up-to-date at Forty-ninth and Woodland avenue, hospital fund. moving picture theater. PREVENTS THE WEAR AND TEAR for Arthur Blackburn, are in the hands Lew Dockstader’s minstrels plajj^ OF MACHINES. of the builders.-Fay & Son are es¬ here June 3. He has an Al organiji- MARYLAND. timating on plans for a new moving tion of singers and comedians, aM- Baltimore—N. E. Parsons & Son picture theater to be built at Broad business was good.—WARD. “ have awarded the contract to P. J. and South streets. Cushem to erect a new moving picture Robins at Buffalo. theater at 910 Third avenue.-Archi¬ MASSACHUSETTS. Buffalo, N. Y., June 8. tect H. C. Aiken has completed and North Adams — Ludger Cadeaux, David Belasco has allowed Edward is receiving bids on plans for a new proprietor of Dreamland, the moving Haas Robins, leading man in The moving picture theater to be erected picture theater on Main street, leased Easiest Way, to come to the Star at the corner of Eastern and Milton the theater at the Hoosac Valley park theater, Buffalo, for a limited engage¬ avenues.-Theodore Doukas and for the summer. He will there install ment as leading man with the Bon- George Konstant have decided to a moving picture machine and will stelle stock company. Mr. Robins erect a new moving picture theater at introduce some vaudeville features. will make his Buffalo debut on Mon¬ the corner of Fulton avenue and Fran¬ Springfield—Van Zant & Babcock day evening, June 14, succeeding Rob¬ cis street. have sold the Palace moving picture ert Dempster, who has resigned, j theater on Masonic street, to George INDIANA. Bishop and John Torpey. ling froiL _ _ Marion — Starting Monday the Send for list. MAYER S_ GERMAN. Pulton Grand theater changed its policy for NEBRASKA. Building. Pittsburgh, Pa. the summer months, and is giving a Ravena—Dr. Albert Gehrke has TRAVELING EXHIBITORS—We have tor combination of vaudeville and moving awarded the contract for the erec¬ sale special feature films at 2. 2H and 8c pictures. tion of a new moving picture theater per foot that will prove box-ofllce winner*.— ECONOMY FILM COMPANY, Room 314 Kentland—Chesney H^tch is build¬ here to George Roberts. Shephard’s Hotel, 6th St., Pitteburg, Pa^ ing a new theater here which will Kearney—Moran Brothers are mak¬ have a seating capacity of about 600. ing arrangements to open a new mov¬ It will have elevated floors and he Motion Pictures. Exhibitors us ing picture theater on Twenty-first modern in every particular. Especial street. “Miror Vitae” Prodacis of children because the Juvenile Cc^ts arc passing attention is being given to the dress¬ Stromsburg — Soule & Batterson laws to prohibit the young from attending Motion ing rooms, which will be 18x20 feet Ieberhard sghneider Picture Exhibitions. This little device is assi have sold the Elite theater to Messrs. each. The stage will be 20x20. The ance against any such legislation affecting your Shroder & Zimmer. business. It positively eliminates the great objec¬ house will play pictures and vaude¬ tionable feature—injuring the eyes —in : ville, and will open about July 15. pictures, by stopping the jumping and qu IOWA. THE of the pictures on the screen, and it does mi Mr. Hatch wants a good show for the IT PROLONGS THE LIFE OF FILM FULLY DOUBLE opening, and is out to book shows for Fort Dodge—Despite the unusually warm temperature prevailing last and makes it impossible to project anyihir^ el the next season. Kentland is a county but a perfect picture, no matter tuheihe- seat with a population of 1,800, and week the Magic and Delight theaters VIASGOPE SPECIAL were filled each performance. Jules be neyp or ^orn. You can exhibit an-j ought to be a good show town. FIRE PROOF I NOISELESS I Walters and wife at the Magic pleased lent picture when you use the^Film Ste. the crowds.-—K. E. B. FLICKERLESS I NO VIBRATION!; No Exhibitor should be without th little dev: ILLINOIS. It wiu pay lor itseu in a very snort time, in Des Moines—1. Ruben is making ar¬ wear and tear it saves your machine, to say no Morrison—L. F. Shiery is making rangements to open a new moving Guaranteed forever against defective ing about the increased business you will derivi arrangements to open a new moving picture theater at 606 Walnut street. workmanship or material. picture theater here. THE FILM STEADIER Monticello — C. W. Fletcher of Chillicothe—^J. F. Lynch and W. J. Osage has opened a new electric the¬ IS YOURS FOR $7.50 Brenner, of Rock Island, will open a ater here in the Stirton building. Yiascope Manafactaring Co. new moving picture theater here. Farmington—Leo Hassler has pur¬ Room 6,112 E. Randolph 5t. Villa Grove—P. A. Root, of New¬ chased the Orient theater from Guy man, has leased the Heacock building M. Carr and has taken possession. CHICAGO here, and will convert it into a thea- torinm. Rushville—Messrs. R. E. Jackson and B. R. Phillips have commenced the erection of a new moving picture ANTI-TRUST FILM CO. CHICAGO FILM EXCHANGE, theater on East Lafayette street. FILMS FOR RENT (Sole Distributors) St. Charles—John Bogart, who has 49-50 Jackson Blvd., CHICAGO. resumed the active management of the Machines For Sale Parquette theater, has announced that in the future the theater will he oper¬ WRITE FOR OUR BIG FILM LIST ated on Saturday and Sunday even¬ ings only. Vaudeville is to be a new Anti-Trust Film Co. ”Ss.., Chicago, Ill. feature at these entertainments. June 12, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD 17 AMUSEMENT EVENTS IN ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS OFFICE OF THE SHOW WORLD.—BASIL WEBB, IVIanager-20 I GEM THEATER BUILDING A New Vaudeville Act. SUMMARY OF THE WEEK. Raymond Hitchcock Arrives. St. Louis, June 9. St. Louis, June 8. Ajoew vaudeville act of an elabor- Raymond Hitchcock arrived in St. atftjature is being staged in this city By Basil Webb. Louis last night. He has been con¬ Patory to its going over the tracted by Manager Dan Fishell to star rn Vaudeville circuit next sea- St. Louis, June 9. the house by her winsome acting and at the Operatic theater at Delmar Gar¬ den. Hitchcock will open in his great¬ It takes the form of a comic The theatrical sensation of the week really splendid singing. So enthusi¬ opera in a nutshell form. It is a con¬ astically is Miss Tasker received that est success. King Dodo, and is bound has been the magnificent production densed form of Mrs. Newly Rich, it looks as though the audience would to draw capacity. This is the first which was staged at the Operatic the¬ of Kassa at the Delmar dramatic the¬ be content to let this little singer time that Hitchcock has fulfilled a ater it Delmar Garden at the begin¬ ater. The’ lavishness of the settings sing on and on till it was time to close summer engagement since he ap¬ ning of this summer season. The and the wonderful scenic effects the Garden. Carl Hadyn’s singing is peared in a minstrel show at Lowell, words of the playlet are written by Mass., when he was a boy. Un¬ proved an eye-opener to St. Louisians. also a marked feature of the show. Alfred Bertram and the music is At the West End Heights, Rice and doubtedly he will have the satisfaction furnished by Oftar Condon. The Mrs. Leslie Carter has never appeared Cady are repeating their success of of having as strong if not stronger j operetta is being staged by that ac- in any production to such advantage last week, and the business is now support than he has ever had before, fcomplished singer and dancer, Fred as she does in this play. It is the beginning to get really good. Up to for the aggregation at Delmar is par- Silberstein. There will be eleven in first time that this play has ever the present season this theater has al¬ excellent this season. He will have the ffBipany, and the scenery and the been seen in this city, and it has been ways been something of a white ele¬ the additional advantage of having a stage effects will be singularlv elab¬ a long time since any production has phant and it reflects great erfedit on leading lady who is way above the orate. Silberstein made the hit of his average. Miss Ada Tasker has all the life in the Bellboy number in Mrs. attributes of a star, and has the Newly Rich. It is more than proba¬ crowning glory of vouth, it is almost ble that Miss Julia Brewer will fill the safe to predict that before many prima donna role. One of the fea- A5AN /IKTKSr moons Miss Tasker will rank as one uj^^f the operetta will be a waltz of the greatest comic opera stars in S^^hich is reported to be quite as "IS the business. Treasurer Rose of the alltiring as that of Merry Widow Operatic theater, states that the ad¬ fame. FULL HOUSES vance sale for the Hitchcock engage¬ ment is enormous, and that the open¬ Dailey Loses Out. muRBAN ^ ing house is already S. R. O. St. Louis, June 9. - (^jAROEN Popular Actor in New Role. Erank Dailey, the advertising agent St. Louis, June 9. of the Imperial theater, has up to the Oscar Dane, the eminent tragedian, Idst week been officiating in the same who at one time was pointed out as capacity at the Delmar Garden the- the actor on whom the mantle of attb However, the management of Mansfield had rightly descended, now thf^rden has decided to dispense appears in an entirely new role. He with the services of an agent, and has started a theatrical exchange in is at present out of a position. the Gayety theater building, which he He TOS not regret the fact, however, calls the Motion Picture Vaudeville siiW'it gives him an opportunity of Exchange. Mr. Dane is a brother-in- gfftting his show, The Casino Girls, law of O. T. Crawford, the owner of t^eifter and routing it for next sea- the film exchange of that name, and SJHfDailey is one of the hardest also the lessee of the Gayety theater. woffig agents in the city and has He has been struck with the great made’good with every manager with opening of a theatrical exchange of whom he has been connected. this kind in this City, and he has tem¬ porarily given up the stage to pro¬ St. Louis Personalities. mote the enterprise. He has been more than successful up to date, and Jaj^ Kearney, the Delmar Garden not only is the financial outlook te^fcltative, has just returned from bright, but Mr. Dane relishes the idea Inmanapolis, where he has been busy of home life with his family. Mballoon races in his official ca¬ ls secretary to the St. Louis Vaudeville Bookings. lub. It is claimed that the suc- St. Louis, June 9. MS^f the meet was: lan-gely due to his The following acts have been rt^Rand that despite the fact of booked out of the Motion Picture there being so many balloons around Vaudeville Exchange, Gayety theater he did not go up in the air once. building, for week commencing June Dick Ritchie, the guardian of the ■ 6; Magnolia theater, St. Louis, Sybert hux office at the Olympic theater, left Trio; Creation, St. Louis, Claud Rif- today for Atlantic City. He goes ner; Benton airdome, St. Louis, Huke ‘‘■!l'®annually, he claims, for the Trio; Family airdome, St. Louis, The thtffg. It is not known at present Great Gassing; Texas airdome, St. whete the bathing or the bathers are Louis, Williams and Weston, Dollie thr^rpetion, but Manager Billy Russell; Arlington theater, St. Louis, Carer will probably tell the story made such a sensation. Manager the Oppenheimers that they are build¬ Hague and Zella; Palace theater, Col¬ when he returns. Russell’s policy of elaborate park pro¬ ing up a nice patronage. linsville, Vogel and Wandas; Airdorne, Superintendent Wallace of the Co- ductions marks a new epoch in the Forest Park Highlands continues to Jerseyville, Ill., Conley Bros., Lillian 'himbia theater, is connected with the summer amusements. do the business. There is a very Cassell; Airdome, Virden, Ill., Jerry Delmar staff this summer. If he in¬ Amelia Bingham at the Suburban, strong vaudeville bill at the theater, Herzell. stills ^the military discipline at the appears this week in Mme. Sans Gene. the performing seals probably being summer garden that exists at the Co- In the eyes of the playgoers of St. the feature act. Tonight for the first John Havlin in Town. i"* jt will be well for the summer Louis this popular actress, like time the new amusement device called St. Louis, June 8. Caesar, can do nothing wrong, and The Witching Waves will be put in John Havlin arrived in St. Louis I®tasper and his wife leave for the theater is crowded nightly. action. today. He has been looking over his «w York via Chicago today. Mrs. The role of Lilian Leigh, in the En¬ Lemps Park, with their new vaude¬ theatrical interests in this city and Usper will have to keep her eye on glish comic opera entitled The School ville house, is doing nice business, and has ordered extensive repairs and re¬ Jeff when they reach New York, for Girl, is far better suited to Edna Wal¬ if the present weather continues, the decorations in all of his local houses. he might take it into his head when lace Hopper than the role she under¬ management will make a great deal of He believes that next season will be ht visits the docks to jump on a took last week. Miss Hopper’s work money this season. very good financially speaking, and is steamer and visit his old haunts in does not stand out so pre-eminently Ellery’s Band is drawing better and making preparations to meet crowded blooming, bloody hold hengland.” as it might if the work of the sup¬ better every day, the music is excel¬ houses. Jack Walsh went on a (fishing?) porting company were not so sys¬ lent and every care is taken to insure ip the other day. He was accom- tematically excellent. With the ex¬ the comfort of the patrons. A New Contemporary. .-rued by most of the staff of the ception of the fact that there is no Mannions Park is doing nearly all St. Louis, June 9. ^dard theater. They took with one capable Of taking the places of the business down on the Southside, Geo. E. Brashear is editing the the¬ ^If a dozen barrels which they Billie Burke and G. P. Huntley, the and will easily have its record year. atrical page of the new St. Louis ^titained bait. But it is said Delmar production is said to be The Gem theater has proved that weekly. The Sunday Telegraph. This n j on seeing- a snake killed by every bit as good as the original providing the house be cooled suffi¬ paper is devoted exclusively to wdifonovan nearly had fits. It presented at Princess theater, Lon¬ ciently well that moving pictures can amusements and baseball and is is-' '«ms%)robable that he must have don, with Edna May in the stellar do big business on the hottest sum¬ sued on Sunday evenings, giving the wn trying to drink some of that bait. role. Again Ada Tasker brings down mer days. Sunday baseball scores. USE GREAT NORTHERN FILMS ms SHOW WORLD

BRIEF NEWS NOTES GATHERED IN CHICAGO On Broadway.—George Samuels May Get Wyndham.—Harry J. Pow¬ George Gordon Here.—George Gor¬ Rice on the Pan.—Manager H. E. left for New York last week. He will ers is trying to get Sir Charles Wynd¬ don and Mae Dudley returned to the Rice, of the Sans Souci Park theater, spend a month on Broadway. ham to come to Chicago week of city Sunday. Mrs. Gordon leaves for was ordered to appear in court' New Player with Blue Mouse.—Sam June 21 and present The Mollusc at the country the last of this week. 10 on the charge of violating the* Edwards succeeded Albert Grau with Powers. Powers Gets Climax.—The Powers labor law in permitting Lola Li The Blue Mouse on Monday night. Came Out in the Rain.—Fully six will reopen Aug. 1 with The Climax to appear at the theater after 7 hundred people attended Virginia which will have its engagement before Sam Gerson Back.—Sam P. (_ May Join Candy Shop.—May De Henrietta Crossman comes in Sham. Sousa may succeed Louise Dresser Harned’s performance at Sans Souci who is associated with Gilbert] At Same Old Place.—William Anderson in the Bush Temple ti in The Candy Shop for the second park Monday night, even though it Franklin Riley will manage the west¬ and Sans Souci park theater ht. .. week of the engagement in Chicago. was raining very hard. ern Human Hearts again the coming turned from New York where.-iie If the negotiations are successfully Formerly with As Ye Sow.—Frank season. This will make his fifth year went to make the final arrangements completed Chicago will have an op¬ Gillmore, playing the role of the vicar in the same capacity. The company for musical comedy at the latterAe- portunity to witness the performance in The Servant in the House at the will open at Peoria on Aug. 20. ater. Several of the most protnineni of this local girl who has made such Bush Temple, began his stage career Sam J. Burton in City.—Sam J. Bur¬ luminaries in musical comedy|i|fc a hit abroad. in London. He has been in companies ton arrived in the city last week and obtained for the venture. with Beerbohm Tree, Forbes Robert¬ Laurette Taylor Will Star.—Lau- has been busy renewing old friend¬ Officially Closed.—The LaSalle-^ son and other noted stars. He was rette Taylor, who made such a hit ships and looking over Riverview. He ater has been officially closed bjWc seen in Chicago several years ago in in The Great John Ganton at the Gar¬ will be with Lillian Russell next sea¬ building department. Notice^” As Ye Sow. rick theater this season, will be with son in her new play. served by Building Coramis^ the Shuberts for the next three years. New Manager for Blue Mouse.— A Trip to Niagara.—Ed. Rowland Murdoch Campbell that the housn After the close of her present en¬ Eugene F. Wilson, who has been the and Eddie Morrison have a concession not be allowed to reopen until gagement in New York she will try manager of the company playing The at Riverview which is known as A structural changes previously or« out three new pieces at the Lyric the¬ Blue Mouse at the Garrick, has gone Trip to Niagara. The place opened are made. The house was clos«_ ater, and the one she finds best suited east, and Frank P. Rhinock, who has last week. The trip is very cleverly the management several days before to her talents will be used as a starring been looking after The Bachelor at arranged and is an original idea with the department’s order became effec¬ vehicle. the Whitney, has assumed the man¬ its builders. There is the trolley car, tive and The Golden Girl Removedlfo May Enter Vaudeville. — Wright agement of the show at the Garrick. the boat ride and then a splendid view the Princess. Huntington, a well-known leading Three Years on Stage.—Jessie of the falls. Conrad’s New Offerings. — Fret man in stock companies and who is Glendinning, who is seen in the role Red Cloak La3nng Off.—^The vaude¬ Conrad will have two biblical play; at present leading man for Virginia of the daughter in The Servant in the ville act known as The Red Cloak, next season. One o'f them is callei Harned at Sans Souci, is about to House at the Bush Temple, is the which rehearsed here week before Saul of Tarsus and is by Henry revive a vaudeville sketch entitled daughter-in-law of Henry Miller. She last, played at Oshkosh last week and Throne Hum, the editor of a paper The Stolon Kiss, which he used with is the wife of Gilbert Miller, who is is laying off here this week. The act called The Beacon, published ■ in a some success about five years ago. the business manager of the company is said to have been well received, but little inland town of Milton, III. The During h.is spare moments since vis¬ playing The Servant in the House Manager Lenard had some disagree¬ play has to do with the life of St iting Chicago, Huntington has revised through the west. Miss Glendinning ment with the house manager which Paul, and is said to be intense % t:ie slit and he is now negotiating was formerly with Amelia Bingham led to the lay-off. The book and style. Eugene Moore will prol with William Morris and may possibly and Mme. Kalich. She has been on lyrics are by Stanley Woods and the be starred in this piece. The" open at the American Music Hall. the stage but three years. music by Phil Laffey. play is called Moses, the LawgK

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HAS HENRY E. DIXEY MAXWELL-HALL STOCK GOT MARRIED AGAIN? IS NEW ORGANIZATION. TEMPORARY OFFICERS That Is the Rumor Which Comes It Will Have Seven Weeks at Craw- from New York and It Is Gen¬ Wm. H. Swanson A. F. Powers Eugene Cline fordsville, Ind., Before It Be¬ erally Credited in Chicago. Chairman Sec’y Treas. gins the Regular Season. Has Henry E. Dixey been wed to Edwin F. Maxwell, late general Marie Nordstrom for three weeks manager of the W. F. Mann enter¬ without Chicago catching on? prises, and Jefferson Hall have joined Has Mary Jane’s Pa been united to hands and will put out a stock com¬ Mary Jane’s Ma while the reports pany which will open at Crawfords- have connected her name with an¬ ville, Ind., shortlv. After seven weeks other man entirely? in that city it will take the road and That seems to be the case. Dixey a season has been booked which looks confessed to it, according to rumor at like the new firm was certain of suc- the Lamb’s club in New York, where Independent Film the famous comedian reported this Mr. Maxwell knows the country so well that he is said to be able to book “It was a secret marriage and we’ve a forty weeks’ tour for a one-night- come back to soend the first oart of stand organization without referring our honeymoon. That’s all I pre to to a map and Jefferson Hall is a well say about it,” is what Mr. Dixev is Renters’ Protec¬ known actor, formerly of the Mann quoted as saying. forces. Mr. and Mrs. Hall (Gertrude Mr. Dixey, whose stay at the Chi¬ Maitland) arrived in Chicago recently cago opera house came to an end last from Mason City, Iowa. week, was exuberant with joy during Miss Maitland is said to be the only the performances which marked the' woman musical director who ever termination of the engagement. On conducted a comic opera in New one occasion he emerged from the tive Association York. She was with Japan by Night corner where he was hidden by the at the Madison Square roof garden printing press with his hat on cross¬ four years ago and it will be remem¬ wise, which broke up Miss Nordstrom bered she was styled by the news¬ and the company. Other evidences of TEMPORARY OFFICES papers as “a Duss in Petticoats.’’ his joy now lead to the conclusion that the report from New York is Room 204, 59 Dearborn Street PERPLEXING QUESTION well founded. HAS SOLVED ITSELF. What shall be done with the ex- PAUL GOUDRON BOOKS one-night-stand stars, like the query ACTS FOR COAST TIME. regarding the ex-President.s, seems to Paul Goudron booked some acts for have solved itself. the Sullivan & Considine coast time Mr. Exhibitor: — Gus Cohan, who for so many years this week, through Chris. O. Brown. You will receive a letter directed to you by a firm of New York delighted the theater-goers of the Among them are; Will Rossiter’s A lawyers representing the Motion Picture Patents Co., commonly known small towns with The Hoosier Girl, Bunch of Kids, which is said to have as the Trust, suggesting that you are liable to become a party to an has entered vaudeville with clever made a big hit in Des Moines this Kate Watson. V. E. Lambert, who week; The McLallan-Carson Duo, Infringment Action and Injunction Proceedings. has been appearing in The Girl and the Stampede for several seasons, is which plays Des Moines next week; Our inference is that they are, in DESPERATION, endeavoring to Harry & Kate Jackson, who are well back at his home at Waukegan^|[^ known performers; and Sully Guard force you into PATRONIZING the so-called Film Trust and fearing after seven or eight weeks in V9B8P & Co., who are said to have a sketch that any of the exhibitors using Independent film or prospective users ville, where the sketch made from the of extraordinary merit. of Independent film are liable to be intimidated by such tactics, we melodrama was well received. Hugh Emmitt & Co. will play Ft. have organized a NATIONAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION and have Other one-night stand starsi arc Dodge and Mason City, Iowa, for Mr. flirting with the vaudeville game Goudron to break their jump to retained the services of the best legal talent available. The object of George Gordon asked twelve well Seattle, where they will spend the this Association is not only to defend and to protect all of its members, known actors on the smaller circuits summer. but likewise extend its good offices and legal services without charge what their plans were and says.ten Alice Davenport & Co., who are to any user of Independent film patronizing its members. out of the dozen replied that ^ey just off of the coast time, will play were considering vaudeville offers. seven or eight weeks of Mr. Goud- We are confident that a concerted action at this time will call this ron’s time in this vicinity. RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN latest bluff of. the so-called Film Trust and put a stop to its harassing HURTS PARK ATTENDANCE. “WHEN YO’ COMIN’ BACK” methods. We will not only be able to protect the interests of members Last Sunday was a beautiful day MISTER JAKE SHUBERT? and exhibitors using Independent film, but we invite definite action and the parks did a splendid business Bill Beard is the porter in the bar¬ against us or any of our members by the Trust. This is to be a up to 9:30 at night, when it begaii;to rain. The large throngs at Rivervfew ber shop in the Schiller building, National body and we invite the legitimate Independent Film Ex¬ scattered at just the moment when where all the Garrick theater people changes to become members. A call for a National Convention will get shaved and shined. Not long ago the concessions needed them! the J. J. Shubert dropped in to have his be issued in the near future. most. Monday night it rained again. tan shoes polished and his whiskers Tuesday night it rained. Wednesday Whether you decide to become a member or to act independently amputated. After the two operations night was cold and threatening. ^ The Mr. Shubert slipped a very liberal tip of it, our Secretary will, at all times, be pleased to furnish exchanges discouragements for park meid are to the dusky shiner of shoes. Bill and moving picture exhibitors with any information they may desire many. The good days have been so prosperous for the majority of the looked at the money, and a smile in connection with this movement. spread over his countenance like mo¬ attractions, however, that the rain’s victory has been modified. lasses over a slice of hot bread. Look¬ We request the Independent Exhibitors who may be annoyed in ing up at Mr. Shubert he asked with any manner by the Trust representatives to get in connection imme¬ eagerness: WHITNEY THEATER DARK “When yo’ all cornin’ back again, diately with our Temporary Secretary, providing him with full details. AND AUTO WAS BLAMED. The Whitney theater was dark last Mr. Shubert?” Saturday night and Charles Cherry’s MARTIN BECK WINNER automobile got the blame. OF RAFFLED WATCH. He took a trip to Milwaukee! and came in contact with a farm wagon Bobby Gaylor states that Max Mil- w’ith such dire results that he was un¬ lian’s watch was won by Martin Beck able to report at the theater. at the raffle last week. The lucky EXHIBITORS—Stand Pat—Don’t number was 2,128. Abe Jacobs, stage Sporty Gambler Remembered manager of the Majestic theater, did Be Bluffed by the Trust George Gaston, playing the bishop the drawing. in The Servant in the House al'the Bush Temple, was last seen with John Stock at Muskegon. Mason in The Witching Hour- Mr. The Cora E. Levey stock company The Laemmle Film Service Wm. H. Swanson & Co. Gaston played the role of the sporty will open at Lake Michigan park at The 20th Century Optiscope Co. Eugene Cline gambler. Lew Ellenger. Muskegon, Mich., June 27 for a ten weeks’ stay. E. L. Martelle will be Madison Film Exchange Glohe Film Service New Manager at Danville,! leading man; Miss Levey leading wo¬ Harry Paul Smith, a Chicago man. man, and M. Alice McKenzie will Royal Film Service U. S. Film Exchange has been aopointed manager of the offer her specialties. Ray & Water¬ Columbia Film Exchange Unique Film Co. Grand opera house at Danville; man are managers of the park. Carl Mr. Smith is the brother of Merle E. Ray, of the firm, was in Chicago re¬ Smith, treasurer of the Bush Temple cently, concluding the arrangements. theater.

Fred Sosman in Country. Big Business at Omaha. Fred Sosman spent a few days this Omaha, Neb., June 8. week in the country, visiting his Address All Communication to A. F. Powers, Temporary Secretary In spite of the rain and threatening mother at Lake Bluff, Ill. He plays weather the Hageifiback-Wallace at Detroit next week. Show had big business here Monday- THE SHOW WORLD 21 USE GREAT NORTHERN FILMS CONCESSION BIDS ECHOES OF THE CIRCUS Will be received for The Buffalo Courier, in reviewing venders purchase them for two cents the performance of the Cole Brothers a string, or such a matter. The Wat¬ show, says: “The eagerness with erloo (Iowa) Reporter cannot credit which the people of this and surround¬ this statement and at once jumps to JULY 5 ing towns sought tickets demonstrates the conclusion that the seller is a Celebration at that they were more desirous of see¬ short change artist. Here is what the Maywood Park, ing a real circus than they were a Reporter of June 3 says: Wild West performance or some “Many wondered how it was pos¬ other sort of a performance. On Sat¬ sible for the shell-bead man to sell MAYWOOD, ILL. urday the Wild West 101 Ranch came his wares at 5 cents a strand. The along and played to two fairly good stringing of the material could not be Send for our Stock List of ylaction: Encampment of 7th Batal- lion of Modern Woodmen. crowds. But that show did not satisfy done at that price, let alone gathering the desires as- did the circus that fol¬ the shells and making the beads. The T E IN T S I C. J. Gruschow, lowed. The circus drew four times solution is found in the two words, Committee x J. G. Poulton I H. C. Kendall the number of persons, it is estimated short change. Several instances are United States Tent & Awning Co. MiClouJuM ZOih. by the police who handled the crowds known where a purchaser tendered a Desplaines and Madison Streets, CHICAGO. under the observation of Supt. Regan.’’ quarter and the vender placed the coin in his pocket, swearing it was a The same paper of May 31 said: nickle. The game probably was business is to leave a good impression n4th of July Posters “Buffalo Bill in his palmiest days worked innumerable times and a fair with the newspaper boys and have TODAY never had a show like the 101 Ranch profit was realized in that way.” good notices appear when the show list of some attractive, new designs ready. Wild West, from the first number to leaves town. An after notice from the base ball posters in one sheets and the last the audience was kept con¬ But that is not all. The balloon-man Vancouver World is reproduced in larger, any quantity and very cheap. stantly on edge and a continuous also got his. Listen: another place in this issue. BERNARD BRUSH COMPANY round of applause greeted each dar¬ “Ever the man with the balloons Kector Building, CHICAGO ing feat of the performers.” got in his crooked work. Ralph Storm Friends of Ed. Brennan take watched one transaction which took umbrao-e at Mr. Myer s statement. MOTHER THINKS SON Buffalo newspapers are liable to say place just under his real estate win¬ They say Ed. Brennan is far from a dead one, which indicates that they in¬ MAY HAVE BEEN KILLED. anything. One of them actually said dow at Fourth and Lafayette streets. that “Manager Cole is a strict ob¬ A girl tendered the fellow a dollar for fer that the “slap” is meant for the Columbus, O., June 10. server of the Sabbath and will permit a balloon and while he fumbled in his late general agent of that show. A letter from Mrs. Laura Lively, of only such work being done as is ab¬ pocket to make change the crowd Bowling Green, Ky., has been received solutely necessary.” If there was a gathered in and when the purchaser Fred C. Gollmar, general agent of by the local authorities, asking for manager named Cole he would not turned her head a moment the balloon the Gollmar Brothers, is wearing a care for the laws of God or man. A man disappeared with the dollar.” particulars regarding the death of the plaster on one ear and is kept busy reporter who would write such rot as explaining to his friends the nature of man who was killed with the Barnum this ought to be tarred and feathered. A correspondent from the Howard the injury which made it necessary. and Bailey show here May 20. She Damon show states: “We weeded out It appears that Gollmar was busy with thmilcs he was her son, Harry Car¬ The provincial views of the circus every disturber and every employe is a lawn mower in his front yard at penter, who was with the show and are always interesting. The prejudice now loyal to the cause.” Baraboo and ran across the sharp end whom she has not heard from for which imbues the writings of the ten This is the way with a circus. If of a limb of a tree which had been cut some time. The police department is dollar a week reporter never fails to there happens to be a difference of off early in the spring. Ed. Burke making an effort to certify his identity. prove good reading for the circus opinion in regard to some matter and says Gollmar is muffled on one side -GRAFF. folks. some one resigns he is always handed and suggests that this is the advantage The question of the price at which a “knock” like this for a finish blow. the opposition has long sought. CIRCUS NOTES. beads should be sold to realize the Dick Collins is now press agent of largest profit for the “bead man” is Thomas J. Myers writes from the When two suspects were brought I the No. 2 Gentry show. one which has been widely discussed Norris & Rowe show that “the dead before Desk Sergeant Jones at Scran¬ Abe Aronhart is equestrian director among privilege people and is not ones, who have failed to make good, ton, Pa., Monday, that worthy re¬ I with LaMont Brothers. yet settled. The beads are sold at are about weeded out now and as the marked, laconically, that it is the cus¬ Lon B. Williams is now general a nickel with Hagenbeck and Wallace season is still young we have much to tom in Scranton to “do circus folks agent of the No. 1 Gentry show. and at a higher price with the 101 be thankful for.” Mr. Myers is the before they do us.” Some of the Ralph Hayward is now on the front Ranch. It is hard to believe that the press agent back with the show. His local contractors who have secured I door of the Norris & Rowe show. lots in that city will agree with" the W. H. Roddy witnessed a perform¬ statement of the officer. ance of the Norris & Rowe show at Seattle. Fred C. Gollmar, general agent of The Scranton Times of last Monday remarked editorially, that “the circus the Gollmar Brothers, was in Chicago SHOW PROPERTY Wednesday. does not lose any of its popularity W. E. Ferguson, the new general and if we see less-of the ‘elephant and agent of the Norris & Rowe show, clown’ that we used to, it is because was in Chicago this week. like other good things, the circus has FOR SALE been ‘cornered’ and a trust dictates W. W. Gentry was ill with pneu¬ monia when the show was at Milwau¬ the routes, dates, etc.” kee, but is now completely recovered. W. E. Ferguson is now press agent Buffalo Bill spent last Sunday in of the Norris & Rowe show, a change SHOW PROPERTY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION: Atlantic City, remaining over a day Sasted in these columns several to try a game of golf. It was Col. s back. Cody’s first introduction to this game W. Duff Neff, treasurer of the No. Trained Horses, Animals, Cars, Wagons, Tableaux but his-skill was evidenced to the same 2 Gentry show, was entertained nearly extent it is in shooting in the wild every evening of the week the show Wagons, Ca^es, Dens and everything carried with a west performance. spent in Indianapolis, that being his home. First-Class Show. Frank Gentry left the No. 2 Gentry TENT SHOW ROUTES. show at Milwaukee and rejoined at A1 G. Barnes—Idaho Falls, Ida., Des Moines, Iowa, last Sunday. He June 14-19. was transacting legal business at Honest Bill—Rising City, Neb., Louisville. June 12; Garrison, 14; Brainerd, 15; Jack Sutton’s acts are said to be Dwight, 16; Valparaiso, 17; Weston, making a big hit with the Gollmar W. P. HALL, Lancaster, Mo. 18; Wahoo, 19; Malmo, 21;_ Sprague, show. The Tasmanian-Van Diemans 22; Linwood, 23; Morse Bluff, 24; are spoken of in nearly every news- Cedar Bluff, 25; North Bena, 26. P^^l review and the teeth act is Cosmopolitan Carnival Company— giveti unusual praise. Ft. Atkinson, Wis., June 14-19; Ne- Harry Wirtz, equestrian director for nah, 21-26; Ripon, 28-JuIy 3. me Gollmar Brothers, lives at Fair- Specialties, Staple Goods and Novelties Parker Shows (Western)—Idaho wld. Iowa, and when the circus ex¬ Suitable for Prizes, Souvenirs, Premiums and favors Falls, Ida., June 14; Butte, Mon., 21. hibited there recently was given a for Skating Rinks, Games and 5c. Theatres. We have sreat reception. He has been in the big variety J* Send For FREE Catalogue. show business twenty years. Gollmars Encounter Hail Storm. Homer B. Day, the general agent of Clarion, Iowa, June 9. the Col. M. H. Welsh’s Great Amer- The Gollmar Brothers, with 23 cars, jwn circus, was for many years in the had a big crowd in the afternoon here hoxq)ffice of the Euclid Avenue opera June 1. At six in the afternoon there house, Cleveland, and is well known in was a rain and hail storm which in¬ hotfi'the circus and theatrical world. terfered with attendance at night. 22 THE SHOW WORLD iNnFPFNnFNT —i iiiwki kiiuuii I Cincinnati Film ExchaniSel —214-216 W. FIFTH STREET, •:• CINCINNATI, o B

BUTTE ORPHEUM FOR SULLIVAN-CONSIDINE. Montana House Formally Turned STOCK NOTES Over to Vaudeville Circuit and Good Bill Inaugurates Opening. The Grace Hayward stock com¬ cazar stock company last Saturday pany, under the management of Geo. and will go to his extensive farm in Butte, Mont., June 5. M. Gatts, which opened an engage¬ Napa county, accompanied by his Sullivan & Considine have formally ment at the Oliver theater, Lincoln, wife, Effie Bond. taken charge of the former Orpheum Neb., recently, for the summer, has theater here, and this afternoon will been accorded the greatest welcome JACK WILLIAMS NOW open with a bill of five first-class at¬ ever given a summer stock company HAS A STOCK COMPANY. Makers of Novelties tractions, at a new schedule of prices at that theater. For the opening bill. Faribault, Minn., June 9. —15 and 25 cents, with box seats at Miss Hayward presented David Be- J. W. Williams, who had Fatty Fe¬ 50 cents. They have rechristened the iasco’s The Girl of the Golden West, lix out for a short spring tour, has house the Majestic. Chester N. Sut¬ which was greeted with capacity organized a stock company which will ton remains in Butte as the S. & C. houses from the first performance. open at Faribault Monday, June 14. representative for Butte. Miss Grace Hayward is presenting It is Mr. Williams’ intentions to al¬ Sutton’s Lulu theater will now un¬ the very best bills obtainable for ternate every third week between dergo a complete remodeling, the Or- stock purposes, the bill for last week Faribault, Rochester and Austin. The phetim interests having a 10-year lease being Victor Sardou’s comedy on di¬ company is composed of sixteen peo¬ on it. It is expected they will ex¬ vorce, Divorcons. The bill for week ple and is featuring a ladies’ orches¬ THE FOOTBALL DOGS pend many thousands of dollars in of June 14 is to be the farce comedy tra of six pieces under the personal LATEST STAGE GOAL, the work of changing the theater to by H. A, DeSuchet, The Man From direction of Mae Wright. Besides the New York, June 10. suit their purposes, and will open Mexico, the latter being the present acting company which Mr. Williams Among the distinct novelties to be about the middle of August with the!'- vehicle of William Collier in New has gathered together he has been presented in vaudeville here in the regular bookings. Thereafter the York city and was secured for Lin¬ fortunate in securing five vaudeville near future is one purchased in Eu¬ house will be known as the Orpheum, coln by special arrangement with the acts, headed by Williams & Glazer, rope by Joseph Hart. It is known as with Chester N. Sutton as the resi¬ owners. The underline for week of who have just finished a tour of the The Football Dogs and is said to be dent manager. June 21 is Mrs. Dane’s Defense. western houses. The company will one of the most laughable and ex¬ Fred Lincoln, general manager for In the company supporting Miss be known as the Williams stock com¬ citing acts to be found on the vau¬ S. & C., has been in the city for sev¬ Hayward are Miss Lucille La Vali- pany and will go on tour at the be¬ deville stage. eral days conferring with Suyon as erre. Miss Lola Axtell, Miss Marie ginning of the regular season.^ The act consists of twent]^^ to the new arrangement of things Phillips, Miss Bessie Gordon, Baby CAMPBELL. English bull terriers that play a reg¬ theatrical in Butte. He will prob¬ Dodo La Vallierre, Mr. Earle Sim¬ ular game of football on the stage. ably leave tomorrow.—BILLINGS. mons, Mr. Joseph Lawrence, Mr. Jo¬ ERNEST FISHER STOCK Mr. Hart saw the act several times seph La Valicrre, Mr. Monroe Hop¬ AT SIOUX CITY, IOWA. at the Folies Bergere when he was Butte Personals. kins. Mr. Lew J. Welsh, Mr. John Faribault. Minn., June 8. recently in Paris. So impressed; was Butte, Mont., June 5. Beck;» Mr. Frank Estes, Mr. Thomas Ernest Fisher, who had a stock he with it that he bought the Ameri¬ Cora Morris, one of Dick P. Sut¬ C. Wilcox. Mr. Earnest Leroy Harri¬ company in Sioux Falls, S. D., but can rights. The act was a decided ton’s soubrettes, was married in son. Mr. Robert Jones, Mr. Herman which closed a very successful season sensation abroad and Mr. Hart ate- Great Falls Wednesday afternoon to Norwood and Mr. Herbert Graham. a short time ago, has made arrange¬ lieves it will prove equally popular George Cook, a non-professional man B. B. Vernon, associated with his ments with Maurice Jencks to install here. of that city. brother, F. F. Vernon, has the Vernon a company in his house at Sioux City, George Donahue’s players will Stock company at the Glendale Park la., at the beginning of the regular SUMMER THEATER FOR open this afternoon for a season of Casino at Nashville, Tenn., this sum¬ season to fill in all dark nights.— FORT DODGE, IOWA. repertoire at the Family theater, just mer. Mark Swan’s comedy, A Run¬ CAMPBELL. Webster. City, la., June 9. vacated by Sullivan & Considine. away Match, is the bill this week. H. S. Hopping, agent for the Short- Newton Crawford remains to repre¬ A resident stock company has been STOCK GAVE WAY FOR ridge shows, announces that Fort sent Donahue as house manager. assured for Terre Haute, Ind., bv the PRINCE OF TONIGHT. Dodge, la., is to have a summer Edna Sorensen, recently treasurer signing of a contract between T. W. Milwaukee; Wis., June 7. ater. One of the Shortridge sliros at the Orpheum, leaves shortlj' for Barhydt and Wright Huntington. The Van Dyke & Eaton company is under canvas will make the town their a vacation; Percy Crawley will occupy The deal has been under way for once more at the Alhambra, after giv¬ headquarters for the heated season, her place at the window. three or four months and has just ing way last week to The Prince of with a change of bill nightly. Tlllre For the next ten years Dick P. Sut¬ been closed. By its terms Mr. Hun¬ Tonight. The Van Dyke company will be forty in the company, in¬ ton will have nothing to do with tington will engage a capable com¬ went to Oshkosh for last week, where cluding dramatic performers and vau¬ vaudeville in Butte, but it is under¬ pany and will be prepared to put on it met with only fair business. The deville artists. Ground has been stood will have a part interest with a large repertoire of modern plays company members report that fishing leased at the corner of Twelfth «»- George Donahue at the Family in whenever the house is not otherwise was fine. Jack Ward Kett proved the nuc and First street,—TUCKER. ^ his repertoire enterprises. — BIL¬ filled. Mr. Barhydt had his house champion in catching the members of LINGS. dark so manj' nights during the past the finny tribe. Archie Schatz a Hit. season that he felt it was necessary Archie Schatz is making good in Billboard Decision. to make some special move to get Platt Is Engaged. his new act. Recently when he ap¬ Webster City, la., June 10. attractions. New York. June 9. George Foster Platt has been en¬ peared at the Majestic, Detroit, “Don- Judge Miller of Des Moines, in a lin” said: “Those Two Kids (ASK case from Valley Junction, has de¬ Will R. Walling to “Rest.” gaged to stage a number of the mod¬ San Francisco, Cal.. June 7. ern plays for the New Theater, open¬ Schatz and Bessie Jackson) in a conr- cided that cities and towns in Iowa edy singing sketch certainly are a live Will R. Walling closed with the Al¬ ing about the first of November. do not have the right to prohibit the pair. Both have good voices and are erection of billboards next to side¬ fine singers and clever dancers. walks. Valley Junction had passed an Schatz’s Scotch dancing and dialect ordinance prohibiting their erection singing are great and in his imita¬ within twenty feet of the lot line. tions of Eddie Foy’s Mr. Hamle^f The case has created much interest Broadway he almost out-Foys TOl and especially in Des Moines, where Their whole act is live, breezy|J|B more than $12,000 in damage suits up-to-date—it is a winner.” Schat^s are now pending for iniuries received booked to open July 18 at K. and P.’s from billboards. In the event that Fifth Avenue, New York, as the^to Valley Junction’s ordinance was de¬ of Kiddieland. He played that bnV clared legal, there would have been last season for two consecutive a general movement over the state to move billboards back from the lot Hold Your Horses. ^ line.—TUCKER. Faribault, Minn.. Jun^ff L. H. Dibble, manager of the ren- Billposters’ Call. bault theater, has purchased a new All road members of Local No. 14. Overland Model 30 automobile and is, Kansas City, International Alliance of very busy shovving his many friends Bill Posters and Billers, are request¬ in and out of the profession, the won¬ ed to address their communications to derful control he has over it.—CAMP¬ that Local to Lock Box 727, Kansas JACK ALLELN, Manager BELL. City, Mo. George Ade Back. To Play a Benefit. ETHEL MAY George Ade is back in this counto’- Lockport, N. Y.. June 9. He showed up in Chicago several d^S The 101 Ranch will appear here o„v„Tta.j,=.^u«o|„,N=b. Mystery Girl” ago, Mr, Ade denied that he wasj» Aug. 5 unler the auspices of the Elks. gaged to marry any actress. "

L. June 12, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD 23 MULLIN FILM S E, R V I C E, SYRACUSE, N. Y. SCRANTON, PA. KANSAS CITY. MINNEAPOLIS. WATERTOWN, N. Y.

VAUDEVILLE ROUTES AIRDOME NOTES. NOW BOOKING FROM COAST TO COAST Tasmanian-Van Diemaii Troupe— The airdome at Wheeling, W. Va., |.'n route with Gollmar Brothers cir- which opened Decoration Day with the Harcourt Comedy company, has "Godfrey & Henderson—Lake Park INC. been meeting with success. It is op¬ iheK, Canton, Ohio, June 13-19; WM. MORRIS erated by the Airdome Amusement LakeSde park Casino, Akron, 21-26. company of Washington, Pa., of The* Three Hillyers — Peoples’, NEW YORK BROOKLYN-BOSTON-NEWARK-BUFFALO which F. R. Hallam is general man¬ rhiladelphia. Pa., June 7-12. CHICAGO ager. It is located in the center of American Newsboys Quartette— the business district and the pros¬ ('an be addressed Richmond Hotel, J. C. MATTHEWS, Chicago Representative, 167 Dearborn Street pects are good for a big summer’s ChicMO, June 13-19. business. William Gilman, who for McCallum’s Sunny South—Oakland, the past five years has been employed C. P. GRENEKER GETS in an executive capacity with the CaL, till June 19; Los Angeles, June DESERVED PROMOTION. 2I)-Jllly 3. Campbell Brothers circus, is the local Scott & Davis—Unique, Minneapo¬ Harry Chappell will manage The C. P. Greneker, whose good work manager. He is using some circus lis, Jnne 14-19. Honeymoon Trail for Mort Singer with The Blue Mouse brought him tactics for the airdome and believe Lee J. Kellam—Orpheum, Oelwein, next season. He has been released into prominence in Chicago, has been these will make it a big success. nva, June 14-19; Vaudette, Boone, from the contract he had with W. F. promoted to the general press offices North Brothers are presenting Zira 1-26. Mann to manage Pinky, the Pinker¬ in New York, and has gone on to as¬ at Des Moines this week. Robisch & Childress—Collin’s Gar- ton Girl. Mrs. Chappell (Sarah Ma¬ sume his new duties with the Messrs. The Chappell-Winterhoff company denfiiColumbus, Ohio, June 13-19; rion) will not go on the road next Shuhert. goes to Wheeling, W. Va., for two RiTaade park, Findlay, 20-26; Ar¬ season, unless there should be a weeks at the airdome and later play cade, Toledo, 28-July 3. change in present olans. Large Seating Capacity. Steubenville, East Liverpool and Fox & Evans—Harlem park, Rock¬ Boston, Mass., June 9. Youngstown, Ohio, and Washington, ford, Ill., June 14-19; Family, Lafay- OLCOTT THINKS HE Work on the new Boston opera Pa., for two weeks each. :tte,Tnd., 21-26. IS ATTRACTION ENOUGH. house is progressing rapidly, and it is The airdome at Clinton, Iowa, Gilroy, Haynes, Montgomery— opened the season Sunday, May 30, New York, June 9. expected to be ready when the opera Crystal, Milwaukee, Wis., June 14-19; season opens in October. It will be and turned away at least five hundred Bijoa?Oshkosh, 21-26; Bijou, Fond du Chauncey Olcott thinks he is at¬ one of the best appointed theaters in people who were unable to gain ad¬ Lac, 28-July 3. traction enough to supply the lovers the east and will seat about 2,900. mission. The Earle stock company Schrode & Mulvey—Ingersoll park, of Irish plays who look to Augustus Every seat is promised to afford an has been engaged for a season of Des Moines, Iowa, June 14-19. Pitou to fill their demand. When excellent view of the stage.—LOU. fourteen weeks. Morgan & McGarry — Ingersoll Pitou considered starring Fiske park, Des Moines, Iowa, June 14-19. O’Hara Olcott objected so strongly Talked Matters Over. To Remodel Airdome. that the deal fell through. Van Hoven—Bijou, Jackson, Mich., Lima, O., June 10. Mt. Carmel, Ill., June 8. June 14-19; Majestic, Indianapolis, Harry Martin, manager of the Or¬ (114^41-26. This week is the last of the four MUSICAL COMEDY WILL weeks’ engagement of the Chappell- pheum, iiends to make it one of the James and Lottie Rutherford—E’n OPEN AT SOUTH BEND. finest airdomes in this section of the route with Hagenbeck-Wallace show. Winterhoff company at Lima. Lou Powell Cohen’s musical comedy will Cunningham, Rus Smith, Bill Regan, counti»r, for he is not yet satisfied Dave and Percie Martin—Derby, lo- with his house, and, according to his ) (R. F. D. No. 2) for the summer. open at South Bend, Ind., June 14. Jake Vetter, Charles Eastman, Harry After three weeks at the Auditorium Chappell, Carl Winterhoff and other present plans, he will begin to re¬ in that city the company will go to well-known professionals got together model it about July 1. The seating SAM HARRIS IS BACK; capacity will be enlarged to 1,200; SAW MEDIOCRE SHOWS. Waukesha, Wis., for six weeks. The one night recently and speculated in regular season opens Aug. 15 at Ke¬ regard to the future of the show busi- new scenery will be installed. The New York, June 9. nosha, Wis. Mary Taylor and the Guy stock com¬ Sam Harris, of the theatrical pro¬ panies as well as the Wilbur Opera ducing firm of Cohan & Harris, has company and North Bros., comedians, returned from a six weeks’ business are already booked. The admission tou^ Europe. He said: price is to remain as it is, 10 cents. T^w everythinsr in London, Paris and Berlin, and found them all medi¬ GET YOUR COUNTESS IS ENGAGED ocre. ^ We are away ahead of Europe FOR THE NEWLYWEDS. iMheatrical productions and we are The Countess Olga Von Hatzfeldt Wlpo increase our lead. I arranged has been engaged for the role of Mrs. in London for J. E. Dodson’s appear¬ Newlywed in The Newlyweds and ance there in The House Next Door, Their Baby next season. Her hus¬ opening in April next. I also secured band, Irving Brooks, will continue in options on West End houses for the role he originated. George Cohan and for our minstrels. Independent \Vyiave been offered our own terms Easiest Way Closes. Cohan’s appearance there.” New York, June 8. MARGARET ILLINGTON Frances Starr has played the part NOW SEEKING DIVORCE. of Laura Murdock in The Easiest It is said that Margaret Illington Way in the Belasco Stuyvesant the¬ i^iow at Reno, Nev., and means to ater for the last time this season. The fctnain six months to acquire a resi¬ company will rest until the first week dence with the view of asking a di- in September, when the show will be Film Service presented in this city again for sev¬ from her husb&nd, Daniel S FROM- eral months before going on the road. FITLI. BAND OABDBOABD INDIANAPOLIS CINCINNATI DAYTON ORGANS For SUMMER PARKS, Shows.Camlval Go’s., -TAKE THE- Dance Halls, Skating Binks and Merry-GO- W. E. GREENE Rounds. 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Write for List. 235 N. 8th St., PHILADELPHIA Titcomb, Helolse Wright, Lillian. Taylor. Blanche. Wilde, Madge. Does everybody Ethelle Walters, Clara rd, May Waters, Nellie Nells, Geo. Williams, Miss Mae. Wood, Francis A know that I have Norton, W. C. ..1, Rusell Williams, Mildred. Walters. Dellci Nicol. Al. Solar, Chillis MAIL LIST Nash, Ed. Smith, Percy, Esq. become a film manufac-- Nundor. Harry Seeley, M. THE YANKEE MANDARIN Mailing List. Onetta, John. Smith, Forest WILL OPEN NEXT WEEK. turer as well as a renter? It' Alpha Trio Glenn. Julius Oran, Robt. Sullivan, Fred Boston, Mass., June 9. Arnoldo, Arnt. Georgittos. Musical Orth, Frank. Shale & Cole The Yankee Mandarin, the new Appelgate and Haggerty, Francis Ott, Matt . Smedley, Geo. seems so. Last week was the very Hahn, Will. Orr, Mr. Straus, J. B. DeKoven-Paulton musical comed3’, Hall David. Oindacomas, Neu- Bheek, Eugene will have its initial performance at first announcement I made, but it Harris, Frank. Santee, Wilbur the Majestic theater, June 14. The Harris, I. D. Orans, The Turner,lurner, W.w. G.cr brought out an avalanche of mail, Harvey, Wallace Tvler, W. A. piece will have entirely new scenic Pankleb Co. Thompson, Lu. and costume effects, and is to be pro¬ filled with congratulations, proposi ' Bannock Bros. Hastings, Harry. Patrick, Kirk Trapnell, August Bassett, Mortimer Hathaway & Siegle. Thompson, Frank duced by the Ray Comstock com¬ Bell, Pete. Hayes, Sully. Thompson, James pany.—LOU. tions and suggestions. It was a dandy • Bissetta & Scott. Healy, Tim. Travato. Signior Blessings, The. Heilman, Magician. reception and it looks as though Bowen. Harry. Higgins & Phelps. Reed Joe. Usher, Claude & MISCELLANEOUS ROUTES. Bowers, Frederick Horton and La .Morgan-Pepple Co.—Saline. Kan., Bronston, EfHe. Treska. Reehan Frank. Fannie. I would have glorious support and Rogers & Deeley. Vulmore, Louis. June 13-26. Bryant & Seville. Hughes, Gene. Russell, Nick and Van Bergen. Martin. patronage from the very jump. Oneoftht Bull & Marshall. Hunt, David B. Leda Von Metzel & May- Great Hickman-Bessey Co.—Dallas, Burndt, Grant. Huntington, Val. Tex., June 14-19. things that tickled me clear to the innermott Besham & Miller. Russell & Church. Hutchlnson-Luby Rice Bros. Vindabona, Neuman Culhane’s Comedians—Cairo, III., Brydon, Prof. Co. Rhodes, Ellis M. Valmore. Phonagaph inners of my insides was a telegram from an Buckley, J. J. Henry, Arney T. Vandine. Lewy June 14-26. Burgess, Nell Herman & Rice. Cutter Stock — Benton Harbor, eastern film renter, who said: “We will bt Brenon, H. Holland, Baby Welch, Ben. Buckley, J. George Rialto Quartet Welch, Jimmy and Mich., June 20-July 24. the first to order films from your new manu¬ Reese, Harvey Celia. The Burgomaster—Spokane, Wash., Baker, Harry (Mu- Holland, Alferreta Renaud. Wm. elch & Earl. Hahenadel, Joseph June 13-15; Lewiston, Ida., 16; Pull¬ facturing concern. Success and lots of it.." Burtc.., - - Harvey, John Ruse. Dave Wells, George. Boyd and Allen _ivelock. _ _ Max Roby. Dan VVestln, William. man, .Wash., 17; .Colfax, 18; Wallace, Ryan. J. J. White,- Jack. 19; Hamilton, Mon., 20. Bond and Benton Harris■ " "lllfard Rutherford. James Wlggln, Boyd, Robert Hami_ Sampson, Roy. Wllliai- , Lyford S. Barlow, Billy Hargraves. Thomas Sanders, Charlie H. vvngiu. Edward Burlesque a Hit. In addition to all Bonelli, Wm. H'ammond. Walter Santell, The Great. Williams, Copeland Boden, Edmund H. Haskins. B. F. & Thompson. New York, June 10. Blackson. Harry Hillar Lrthur Sawyer, Jay M. Whiting and Russee The Battered Bride, a travesty on this I was fairly del¬ 1. Simon Harlow. Jack Sidons, The. Williams, Jack The Bartered Bride, was given at the Irving, J. E. Silver, Willie. Wolf, Harvey Burk & Farrow Jennings & Jewell. Some, Little Wlnchell, C. J. Lincoln Square theater by the cast uged with suggestions for Byron. Chas. Jerome, Elmer. of the Follies of the Day. It proved Josselin Trio. Spellman, Frank Weston, S., The Barry. Geo. & Co. Wine , Mr. a great success. a company name. You’ll re¬ Benamon. Arabs Jullon & Dyer Sullivan, John L. Brooks. H. Johnson, Julius Stuart, James H. Zouboulakls Clark. M. L. Theater Changes Hands. member that I offered $25 for the Connors, Geo. Kalehl, Jape Sheck, Jack. Connelly, Mr. and Keene. Billy. Ladies’ Mailing List. Oklahoma City, June 10. Mrs. Irving. Kennedy, Fred C. Adams, Isabel. Kresky, Marian M. The Metropolitan was sold to H. best name for my new company, Conser, Ellsworth King, Tom. Adams, Mabel. Kenny. Margaret M. Harper for $60,000. Cash was paid Cooper, Lee S. Kltchie, Si Adams, Mrs. G. W. Lena, Lilly. which I am incorporating under the- Cuse, Harvey &. Co. Kitter, Joe. Arnold, Florence, Leonard, Mildred. for the property. G. H. Jordon re¬ Clancy, Geo. E. Kramer & Sheck .rs. Ollle. Lucler. Lucy. tains his lease on the property. temporary title of “ Yankee Films Christopher, Gage Keeley Bros. _ C. J. Chouteau, Azby Kalacratus ,Le. Pelletiers. Company.” Jt*s going to be a Copeland, Carl Keith. Eugene LaVerne. Evelyn Florence Roberts Recovered. San Francisco, Cal., June 8. Connolly, Robbie Kinzo La Delle fierce job to pick the winner, but 1 Churchill, Donald La Belle Trio. Martyn, Katherine Florence Roberts, who is to play a Cooper & Brown La Salle, W. F. Bergere, Regine Milton, Mabelle Ceballos, The Leeds & Lemar. Bayes, Cordelia Moran, Minnie stock engagement at the Alcazar, has will make a public announcement as Cruster, Aud. Leohard, James and Black. Violet Meyers, Louise completely recovered her health, to Clark, Billy Sadie. Barker. Edith judge from her appearance and what soon as possible. In conclusion, I am a Dalton, James Leslie & Grady. Carlta, Mile. Monohan, Cora Davidson, Walter D. Lewis & Chapin. Chadwick, Ida May. May, Lola her friends say. million times obliged to the whole bunch Davis, C. A. Lewis & Lewis. Coate, Marguerite Co Marks, Lou of you and will exert every possible elforl Davis & Wheeler. Linnle, Hans S. Cummings, Grace. Murray Sisters Dean, Al. Locke, Russell and Camnbell. Edna & McNiel. Grace to live up to the things you expect of mc- Dlerickz, Arthur. Norton, E. S. Douglas, E. E. Louis, king Case. Helen Noren, Stella. My ambition will be to reach the point Dwyer, Phil. Curtiss, M. I. Doyle, Thomas Church, Grace E. where I can honestly term myself iht Dunkhurst, Ed. Chapman. Lillian Bldg., Springfield, O.,Headquarters and Booking Dreano, Josh. Lavlne & Leonard Delberg, Ada. Offices. Gus Sun Booking Exchange Co., Suite greatest and best film manufacture^in iht, De Silva. Prof. Lind, Homer Dunmore, Evelin. Palmer, Catherine 605LyricTheatre^g.,Cinc‘-^ ^ — Laypo & Benjamin Deming, Arthur Booking Exchange Co. ,Suitecte 4415 Ferguson ^g., world," just as 1 am now actua'ji^e ' Delzaros, The Great Ducas, Jeming Pucks. Betty Pittsburg, Pa. Call and while in either of these cit. greatest and best film renter in the world. ^ Davis, Harry H. Dupee, ’ Helen Raine, Dorothy P. ment wiU be assured, We ^ Downs, T. Nelson Manning, Arthur. Dabigne, Mamie Petroff, Mary & stantly opening u] Dorseh & Russell Martin, Chas. H. _, _ clown iiu 111 wpvii lime, late prograni; Dulmage. Geo. Martin, James Davenport. Blanche Prushae, Josephine writing for time. Eckhoff & Gordon. McGarvey, Bert Elliott, Helen Pill. ''-Margaret Errol. Leon. Meehan, Wm. A. Elnore. Mable. Parker, Rose A. Ewing, Clifford. MenvlIIe & Stetson. Everett, Clara Puget, G. E. Robinson, Felice CARL Ebrlght, Prank L. Montgomery, Ru- East, Fred Rock, Mrs. Wm. Edmunds. Geo. Morosco. Chas, Ery Fred. Morris, Fred. " ■ 1. Florence i Farrell, Geo. O. Mago, William Nor- Foster. Louise Co. Ferraris, The. Fav. Annie Robinson. Blossom Foy, Edwin. Mlllar, Arthur H. Gardner, Mrs. and Revell, Nellie LAEMMLE Franklin & Williams. Mlllman Trio children. Rooney, Kitty Franks, Prof. Chas. Mulvey,' Ben L. Goldie, Anna H. Russell, May Foley, Frank McFarland&Murray Gardner, Luciel. Rassman Taskine The best moving picture photographers, Faul, George McCarnack & Wal¬ Gilkev. Ethel Searles, Mrs. Arth. F(mda^ Dell and lace Greenfield. Caroline Seitz, Carrie D. stage managers and playwrights in the McCabe, W. J. Gordon. Alma Seligman, Minnie. McPherson, Walter Heclow, Marie. Seymour. Donna. business who write to me in connection Fredricks, Charles Moore, Mr. Charles Hlrsch, Hilda. Shields, Mrs. Frank. Mahoney, Tom Holllngshead, Ethel. Simpson, Cherlda. with my new venture should address their Manhattan News- Harnish, Mamie. Staley, C. Hertig. Mrs. Stevens, Clara. communications to me personally and mark Farrel, Taylor Maning. Frank Hamlllen. Bessie Sylvester, Mrs. Joe. the letters “ private,” 196 Lake Street, Pay. Prank Majestic, Singing. Hughes, Mrs. Jack Smith, Forrest. Gardner, Walter Henny. Katie Salisbury. Cora Glaes, Geo. Mack. Tom Johnson, Sabel. Stock, Alma IckMifiriiittiVficaii. Gilbert, R. H. McClellan. Geo. B. Judge, Mrs. Ger- Svengale, Mrs. A. Geddes, Charles R. McNultv. James trude Sullv Estelle Gordon. Harry McGruders, Sunny Jarvis, Earnest St. Clair. Dollle Garvard & Platt South Minstrels Jackson, Ed M- Theo & Her Dandies MUNN & New York McKeee Jolv. L. Toona, Mile. Branch Office. 626 F St, Washington, D. C. J June 12, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD 25

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Don’t Let the Trust Independent American Films PI I ill Y^ll protect you We are in position to now offer you not only the choicest European Pmil I vU in every respect. We productions, but also the finest American subjects ever produced. have just doubled our orders and are purchasing every Indepen¬ Films Full of American Spirit, Life and Vigor dent Film manufactured. Our rates are most reasonable, considering the high quality of service you would receive, and we will be pleased to submit you our special summer proposition if you will write us, advising number of changes and reels you Write Now for Our use to the change. Special Summer Rates Globe Film Service Co. Extra inducements on Machines and Sup¬ 105=107=109 E. Madison Street, CHICAGO Branch; 210 Enterprise Building, DENVER, COL. plies. Write for particulars. -Royal Film Service CURTAINYLINE will Improve Your Picture lOO Percent. A S3.CK) carton will cover 1,50 square feet. It accentuates and brightens your picture. We SHIP PROMPTLY, PREPARED CURTAINS, READY TO HANG, AND BUILD SCENERY 186-188 Madison Street, - CHICAGO TO YOUR ORDER. Write us for estimates, and if your exchange does not carry CURTAINYLINE, tell us. CURTAINYLINE CURTAIN CO., 401-403 Ashland Block, Chicago, III. the week, is a Columbus boy, who is son, will have tw’o companies out making good as a dancer. His act also playing The Red Mill and two ooin- 51LLPOSTERS GATHER includes impersonations of stage panie.s will offer Parsifal. celebrities, among them Richard STREETMEN. CARNIVAL AND FAIR FOLLOWERS! Carle, Ralph Hertz, George M. Cohan AT COLUMBUS, OHIO and -\lbert Chevalier. His cowboy The PEEPOSCOPE dance is a novelty and never fails to liiejanis at Home—Joe Weber’s Company Drawing Big Houses — bring applause. Other Columbus News. The Southern theater, operated dur¬ ing the summer by the Casino com¬ / 1l pany of Detroit, has abandoned vaude¬ I i Columbus, Ohio, June 8. New York Tuesday to spend the sum¬ ville and the performance is now The eighteenth annual convention mer months. They started to make confined to pictures and illustrated the Association of Ohio Billposters the trip in Miss Janis’ touring car, held at the Hartman hotel in this but on account of the sudden illness The British Guards band, with La About sixty members of Mrs. Bierbower they were obliged Manita, sensational barefoot dancer, representing over one to finish their journey by rail. Miss and Jean Haldane, Scotch soprano, i(tgto\^towns throughout the state. Janis owns a cosy cottage opposite were the principal attractions at In- $ for the ensuing year were Ohio State University, which she has dianola park last Sunday. rtte^as follows: W. W. Rugg, christened “El-Jan.” Charles A. Schory, of Columbus, ev:arPpresident; C. E. Perry, Ma- J. V. Howell, manager of the Co¬ writes from Chicago that he is booked m«4iK president; S. E. Riblet, lonial theater, leaves next Monday to over the Pantages circuit for 33 treasurer (re-elected); E. W. attend a meeting of the National Stock weeks. The sketch in which he is ap¬ d|fc;ence Grierson, Gilbert and ent bills each week, by making a shift iliaJKora Monahan and Muriel with the National theater at Dayton. Joe Palmer Improved.—Joe Palmer, . The performance also in- The same arrangement applies to the formerly of Palmer & Jolson, who has iidf^gctures and illustrated songs. feature moving pictures. been suffering with locomoter ataxia Janis and her mother, Mrs. Carl Randall, who was on the bill and who could not get out of his wjwer, arrived in Columbus from at the High Street the first part of chair for a time, went to a sanitarium at Muskegon six weeks ago, and is now able to walk. Will Have Five Companies.—Martin >-Brilt Fijht Pictnres and Emery, who will star Lee Kohl- mar in a new comedy the coming sea- Chicago film Exchange Park Film Co. CASINO VAUDEVILLE BOOKING AGENCY 924 Republic Bldg, Chicago, Ill. Telephone Harrison .51;18. Handling exclusively subjects of the CONEY HOLMES, Manager. Standard acts wanted at all times. Managers, are you satisfied with your present service:- very best Independent Manufac¬ IF NOT, TRY ME turers. In the market for Owning and Operating 3 ) Pirst-CIass Vaudeville Theatres, East, Northwest customers who only de¬ Pacific Coast and West. ■-■j sire excellent WANTED acu'c^au service. kinds (hat can deliver the goods Amusement SOLE BOOKING AGENTS: Gem Theatre Building, St. Louis, Mo. Company PAUL GOUDRON ,. .*7 South Clark Street, Chicago 28 THE SHOW WORLD June 12,1111,

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WHO’S YOUR FRIEND? JACK DARLING WILL HARD TO DETERMINE. LIKELY GET BRONCHO. The season at the National theater Vincennes, Ind., June 8. closed on May 30 with Harry Beres- AIRDOME NOTES Jack Darling, the baritone cowbny ■ ford in Who’s Your Friend? The singer, reached here May 24 frora”^* star did not have many friends to Rain interfered with business in Kan¬ $100,000, with headquarters at Indianap- Louis. He is singing his way fr^l judge by the attendance during the sas airdomes last week. Phoenix, Ariz., to New York on a wa- ’ eight days the attraction was at that Dwight Pepple is sole owner of the The lowa-Illinois circuit of airdomes, ger that between April 10 and June 10 house. Morgan-Pepple company. under the management of C. Roy Kindt, he will make the distance without finan¬ The play was seen in Chicago be-, The airdome at lacksonville, Fla., is including Davenport, Rock Island, Mo¬ cial assistance other than railway fares fore under the title of Weather to undergo many improvements. line, Galesburg, Muscatine and Ke- and hotel bills provided bv the differ¬ Beaten Benson. The Manhattan stock company opened wanee, opened Decoration day night ent theaters that may engage him. The The poor patronage was due to the the airdome at Charleston, S. C. and every one of the airdomes reported Airdome (moving •'ictures) kept him waning season and not to the lack The airdome at Pensacola, Fla., con¬ turn away business. The Great Hick- until June 7 when he left for the Mw of merit of the attraction. It gave tinues to draw big crowds. Vaudeville man-Bessey company opened in Daven¬ York Journal oflSce, where he has tir' fine satisfaction to competent critics is offered. port, Mae La Porte company in Mus¬ report before June 10. He has^y^ but was admitted to be out of the H. A. Sodini’s airdome at Moline, catine, the McOwen stock company in melodious and well cultivated voice, class of attractions which will pros¬ III, was opened by the Bannister- Rock Island, Calicotte stock company and was a strong attraction for two per at the National. Greenwood stock company. “A” in Galesburg, Calicotte stock com¬ weeks. If successful he will receive a The performance on that night The airdome at Athens, Ga., reopen¬ pany “B” in Kewanee, and the Metro¬ highly trained broncho valued at $400 ended the season of Who’s Your ed May 31 with R. P. Whitehead as politan stock in Moline. The outlook —BELL. ■ Friend, which was sent out by the manager. this season is far better than any pre¬ Edgar Forrest company. The airdome at Cairo, Ill., opened vious year over the circuit, according to NEW STAR THEATER , May 31 with a production of Just Be¬ Mr. Kindt. He also adds that all the OPENED ON MONDAY. John Wingfield Appointed. fore Dawn. companies on the circuit are giving the Webster City, Iowa, Jane 8. Waukegan, Ill., June 7. The airdome at Youngstown, Ohio, best of satisfaction. The new Star theater in Des Moines John Wingfield, brother of James opened June 1 with the Clara Turner was opened Monday. It is a vaude¬ Wingfield, who is one of the lessess of company. Soliciting Aid. ville and moving picture house and ir said to boast the most beautiful par¬ the Schwartz theater here, has been The airdome at Evansville, Ind., con¬ Webster City, Iowa, June 9. appointed manager and will assume his tinues to have nice crowds. It offers lor of amusement of its kind in the : duties at the beginning of next season. moving pictures and vaudeville. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. West, who claim country. It is fireproof and seats Me was formerly manager for his The airdome at Leavenworth, Kan., to have been with a stock company 385. The picture films are*thrown brother’s house at Racine. opened Sunday night with the Boston which went broke in Omaha, have from a steel vault entirely outside the Roy Emery, who has been manager Ideal comic opera company. The open¬ been here soliciting aid to get to Chi¬ body of the theater. The foyer is of of the Schwartz for the past several ing bill was Said Pasha. cago. West is an expert banjo player. Italian marble of rare richness. The months, has been made manager of a The Airdome theater company will The Elks helped the couple on their walls are of ivory and gold ornamen-. house at Hammond, Ind., whidi is on build an airdome at the corner of Jef¬ way, though West was not a member tal stucco and the entrance arch of the Central States’ circuit. ferson avenue and Third street in Mem¬ of the order.—TUCKER. the same material, grilled Ih'd em-- It is understood that many improve¬ phis, Tenn. bossed. The auditorium is a palace of ■ ments will be made in the Schwartz William Lee Gilkey. who last season Wilson’s New Play. enchantment and its acoustic quali¬ during the sumrner. conducted the aiidome at Crawfords- Francis Wilson will appear next ties so perfect that a whisper may Ic rille, Ind., has sold die popular amuse¬ season in his own play. The Bach¬ heard everywhere.—TUCKER. ; Vaudeville at Academy. ment place to the United States Amuse¬ elor’s Baby, under the management of Baltimore, Md., June 5. ment company, that is capitalized for Charles Frohman. STREET CAR STRIKE The vaudeville season at the Acade¬ CLOSES PARK THEATER. my of Music began Saturday. The Evansville, Ind., Jhaieh. ■; headliner this week is Mile. Rossini. On account of the street c^trike| Others are the Mitchell Sisters, sing¬ the Herald Square opera dsimpaiif: ers and dancers: the Burnetts, comedy booked to play at Oak Summit Part" cyclists; the New York Newsboy was cancelled as no cars were nmmng. Quartet, with popular melodies, and in that part of the city and it vwl im- > Kaiser and his dog circus. New mov¬ possible for people to get to the park. ing pictures and illustrated songs will The park is closed until the-Striicri^ make up the program. declared off.—OBERDORFER.

Plenty of Scenery. SHORTRIDGE SHOWS Three car loads of scenery arrived ARE AT FORT DODGE. in Chicago, recently for use in plays FILMS Fort Dodge, la., June S, that are to be offered at the Bush The great Shortridge shows, a dra¬ Temple theater by the Henry Miller matic company playing under canvas, Associate players. Among the pro¬ opened Monday night for a week’s en¬ ductions are those of The Servant in gagement during the G. A. R. state the House, The Family, Mater and encampment and conventionthe The Great Divide. Sons of Herman. It presents the usual line of plays.—K. E. B. Has Job in Cleveland. FOR RENT Cleveland, Ohio, June 8. Harry Rennels Found. Max Davis, who has been with a Utica, N. Y., June 7 Chicago theater for the last four Harry Rennels, who was manager of years, has accepted the assistant the Majestic theater and stock company treasurership of the Euclid Garden at Findlay, Ohio, and who, it is alleged, theater. He will have charge of the Everything NeW left a number of actors stranded there, down town office.—YOUNG. has been found at the homesof hs (Except Eugene Cline) mother in this city. It is believed tliat To See The Love Cure. some of the actors are about to beg< New York, June 7. attachment proceedings against proper^ Lina W^barbanell sailed for Euroue said to be owned by Rennels in Find¬ Tuesday. She goes to Berlin en lay, 1 route for Vienna, where she will wit¬ ness a performance of The Love Cure Jack Bessey Opened Fine. which Henry W. Savage will produce Davenport, Iowa, j in New York next August. Jack Bessey’s own compan^direci from a very successful stock engage¬ To be Reconstructed. ment at the Criterion theater in Chi¬ The American Music Hall will be cago, opened its summer season at the closed and turned over to the archi¬ Eugene Cline Second Street Airdome in Davenport tects on July 5. The general appear¬ to capacity and turned over 500 PW"- ance of the playhouse will remain away on Decoration Day. This is Mn unchanged, but a balcony of large Bessey’s third season at Davenporj capacity will be built and the boxes 59 Dearborn Street, Chicago and the prospects are for bigger rcj toward the front of the house will ceipts than ever before. | be lowered considerably. Raymond in New York. | Blaney’s Closed. Evansville, Ind., Pittsburg, Pa., June 5. EUGENE CLINE, 268 S. STATE ST., ■ SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Idwin Raymond, manager of Ca The season at Blaney’s closed last nmit Park, left for New York aiio Saturday night. It will reopen in er points in the east on a busino| August. mA 12, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD 29

people in CHICAGO CHICAGO NOTES. Louis Kelso broke in his new mon- Would Become Notary.—W. J. Pat¬ ,Hiic at the benefit for Joe Pilgrim, terson is circulating a petition with .if the People’s theater, last the idea of becoming a notary public. crk. His character impersonations Harry Watson Visits Mother.— ire {Pronounced “great.” He is ar- Harry Watson, Jr., of Bickel and iijfing vaudeville time. Independent Films Watson, is visiting his mother at Sully Guard & Co. have just signed Saginaw. Mich. antracts to appear upon the Sulli- The Muellers Are Home.—Frank jii-C'oiisidine circuit with the dra- and Will Mueller, vocalists, are visit¬ 'alidhct formerly called Fagan’s Pu- ing their home at Saginaw, Mich., for ;|. but now renamed Southern Davis, FOR RENT the summer. hey will open June 21 at Des Reynolds’ Minstrels Close.—The Milt J. Reynolds Minstrels closed the Fiddler and Shelton were in the city season at De Kalb, III. Mr. Reynolds .rt-jfjek. after having played almost All Subjects personally selected byWm. H.Swanson and H. J. Wallace «re now in the city. wo sdlid years, losing but five weeks Open in Detroit.—Burton Nixon and 1 tlattinie. The act is booked until INDEPENDENT SERVICE Beulah Poynter are in Chicago. They „,vl May. Fiddler and Shelton are will open at the Lyceum in Detroit on !u ownators of the phrase, “Suffo- MEANS INDIVIDUAL SERVICE Aug. 15 with Lena Rivers. aod with delightness,” and as mim- Salome a Money-Getter. - The h.ivc earned an enviable reputa- All of the Swanson Offices receive a full supply Salome show at White City continues ;,,n for llicrasclves. to get big money. Fifteen perform¬ D. M. Henderson, stage director for of New Independent Subjects Weekly. ances were given last Sunday. It is na Klimt’s Players at the Bijou, is reported that the gross receipts were . lliiig of an experience he had during nearly $500. iic recent production of Sapho. He Herrman on the Job.—The Star and playing Flamont, and in the final ALL MAKES OF MACHINES Garter theater closed week before ■anc where he greets his son with last and U. J. Herrman, the manager, !'. words, “My boy, my boy!” an in- Supply parts for Edison and Powers machines, 20 per ce is engaged in watching the progress ni hr one of the front rows called discount. Send for descriptive pamphlet of the made by the builders of the New Cort la to him “Da, da. da, da. dal” The Swanson Lamp House, Rheostat, and theater. Tri-City Stock Closed.—The Tri- niiso was in an uproar instantly and Picture Machine Stand. ' was some time before the perform- City stock company at Davenport, •Kc proceeded. BEST [ON THE MARKET Iowa, closed Saturday night after a Nathan Aronson has changed his four weeks’ season. Albert Fox, line to Xate Anderson, the name Henry Gesell and Hazel Moy, of the liiidi his brother. Max, uses. Max organization, are now in Chicago. ;,s (fever quite convinced that Nate "To Join Stock.- Frank Richardson as a really good actor until Wm. and Elizabeth De Witt, late of the iirliett. who was to have played Wm. H. Swanson & Co. Tri-City stock, and Rex de Rosclli, \lcsSKarenine, was taken ill, before AMERICA’S LARGEST FILM EXCHANGE Charles Clark and Edna Marshall left he performance at Sans Souci the- Chicago recently to join a summer 160-162-164 Lake Street, Chicago, Ill. itcr, of the play, Anna Karenina stock at Portsmouth. Ohio, which is fate jumped into the part at short managed by Arthur Berthelet. i.iticc and the audience as well as Wm. H. Swanson New Show Going Out.—A company Wm. H. Swanson has been formed in Chicago which iiaiwgement congratulated him upon Omaha Film Co. he clever maimer in which he hanclled St. Louis Film Co. will put out a new musical play calleft 200-202-204 North Seventh Street 106 South Fourteenth Street . Mistakes Will Happen. The piece is August Froebel, formerly auditor ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI OMAHA, NEBRASKA made from the farce of the same •r the .Show World Publishing Com- name by Charles Dickson. The com¬ laiiy and more recently acting in the pany will contain twenty people. The :mie capacity for Carl Laemmlc. in- show will open in Joliet, Ill., Sept. 8. .Tcledsome time ago in a preparation It will be a complete scenic produc¬ idiicluhc says, will produce the bc'-t tion, and it is said the one night stand rc.'ulfsion picture screens. It is a managers will not have to furnish ^reparation which e.xhibitors may anything but the stage. piintiupoii their screens and it is BOOKINGTOGETHER guaranteed to not .only remove the “DOC” GARDNER HAD .How' from a film, but to add 50 A BIRTHDAY PARTY. r ceiU to its brilliancy. This was a Word comes from a point eight li’ veiilure with I'rocbel at the time miles from Muskegon, Mich., where :t so successful has he been that Western Vaudeville Managers^ Assoc^n Tom Lockwood is steward, E. L. Rice has! recently formed a corporation Majestic Theatre Bldg....Chicago, 111. fixer, “Doc” Gardner master of table- r it» manufacture. The corporation setting, and Harry F'arley “the Royal lia.s obtained a charter under the laws Chef” of a camping party, that Gard¬ of Illinois under the name United Booking Offices of America ner celebrated a birthday last Friday. ainyline Curtain and Pro- “Doc” claimed that he was 21 on that St. James Building....New York City f Chicago, with a day. Will Kilroy believes “Doc” is will 1 HI, a crowd of men at the Palace ho¬ r. moving picture films tel who broke into his trunk and took The incorporators are a look at the family Bible vow he 1. .\ugust Froebel and was 41, while Harry F'arley insist.s .‘klcs. that the two are the same age—51. ^ Booking in conjunction with more than three ■' Church Alliance Election. hundred of the first-class vaudeville theatres in WILLIAM MORRIS HAS annual meeting of the Chi- RENEWED THE LEASE. Jf^^haptcr of the ,\ct:irs’ t'liurch the United States and Canada, and now giving New York, June 9. Mliancc. held Friday. May 2'.i, the fol- good acts routes for from one to three years. William Morris has renewed his .'mving ofticcr.s were elected for tlu lease on the American theater, which fii.MiiiiK year: Moneys advanced to parties capable of pro¬ was purchased from William T. Honorary President. Rev. Wm, Keogh. William Morris and Felix Is- White Wil.son. ducing first-class acts, when desired, or will man were known as the principals in :ffii(lent. Mr. Jehu T. Prince, Jr. purchase first-class novelties outright. It will that transaction. Now the same par¬ Hrst Vice-Pre?idcnt. Rev. Tas. Vila ties have taken an additional twenty nbijr years’ lease from the ZboAiwski es- Sciond Vicc-Prc.'iulent, Rev. Fred V. be to the advantage of managers of Fairs. Parks, etc., to communicate with these Offices T’feasiircr. Mrs. Frank Warren Hol- Charles W. Marks Is Sued. iler. regarding their vaudeville and outdoor attrac¬ ^.^fnftticial Secretary, Mrs. Edw. N. New York, June 7. tions. Address Eastern or Western Office, Charles W. Marks, partner of Rich¬ bortespnnding Secretary, Miss Mary as may be most convenient. ard Carle, is being sued for divorce 'liRhl. by his wife, Mrs. Lydia Marks. She Recording Secretary, Miss Ellen M. asked Supreme Court Justice Guy to allow her $100 a week and $1,000 coun¬ Miss Ellen AT Sanders will also act sel fees pending trial. The court al¬ '■ th#.capacity of press representative lowed her $50 a week. Mrs. Marks the .Mliancc. says her husband is part owner of The WESTERN OFFICE EASTERN OFFICE Boy and the Girl, and the Hurdy Gnrdy Fined for Sabbath Breaking. Girl, and Mary’s Lamb. She also Little Rock, Ark., Jnne 7. Majestic Theatre Bldg. St. James Building claims that he receives $150 a week, ^ A'ter considerable argument bv tlic drawing account. Her charges were SL'ers, Manager C. A. Bandv of the CHICAGO NEW YORK that Marks had absented himself from '.7'tal moving picture theater was home for almost a year and had paid tied one dollar for keeping his house her but $15 a week at intermittent '“".on Sunday.—ANDREWS. 30 THE SHOW WORED June ! CHOICE OF ATTRACTIONS CHRISTY HAS SUPPLIED AT HARTFORD, CONN. KEEGAN’S PAL LOOKS DRAWINGS FOR PRINT1N6 Three Summer Stocks, One Vaude¬ .W. T. Gaskell and Karl MeVitty ville House and Plenty of A1 Working on a Series of Adver- ^ Fresco Entertainments are LIKE SURE WINNER rising Matter of Great Offered. Beauty. Paul Wibtach's Detective Play Well Received at Chicago Opeea House. Hartford, Conn., June 8. —Joseph Gaites is Producer. It is unusual for an artist of Hr™- Hartford is bubbling over with sum¬ ard Chandler Christy’s reputajjiMta mer amusement.s. Three summer design the printing for a If the well wishes of Emmett Cor¬ “pal” to escape. The “pal” has re¬ comnanv. stock companies, one vaudeville house, rigan’s host of friends, of Joseph M. formed and has just attained the en¬ one amusement park and many sur¬ Gaites’ fellow managers and business viable position in society to which he Th; rounding parks where band concerts has aspired, when Keegan once more House of £ _ season, however, and w8 and other events come to attract. associates and of Paul Wilstach’s ad¬ comes into his life. Cook stock players with Clara mirers count for anything Keegan’s The scenes between Keegan and his kell and Karl MeVitty ha^ wVtiJ busily engaged this we.ek arranging Blandick, Florence Barker, Frank Pal, which opened at the Chicago “pal” need strengthening. Keegan is Monroe and John Westlcy are at the for cardsr.arrls andpnH lithographsliilino-ranlic for whij opera house last Monday night after made to see that the “pal” (Peter Hartford theater, while at Parsons’ Raeburn) lives greatly for his daugh¬ original paintings have been supplied by this famous artist. the Hunter Bradford players hold a few trial performances on the road, ter, too easily to suit the student of forth with Marion Lome and Edmund will be a success. the drama. A remark dropped by the The likeness of Marian which ii Elton and Eugene O’Brien in the stenographer, who meets Keegan be¬ familiar to those who have The theater was crowded on the book will be used for a window card night of the premier with Corrigan’s fore he sees his “pal,” would rectify Luna park has been taken over by this. The fact that Raeburn is made which is expected to be oniflR^ the Connecticut Fair Co., and is now friends, and were one to judge from to confess his past life to his son handsomest pieces of adveftisii.g matter ever displayed. being run on a paying plan. the applause he received when forced takes away the heart interest to some Poll’s has a capable stock com¬ to pay his respects to his admirers at extent and the entrance of the daugh¬ pany with Arthur Maitland and the conclusion of the third act, a ter and Raeburn’s partner a moment Minneapolis Notes. Blanche Shirley and are doing a won¬ statement that the house was crowd¬ earlier would avoid this. The young Minneapolis, June 7. | derfully fine summer business. man whom Raeburn has taken into ed with his personal followers Notwithstanding annoimceiaeatl'| The Scenic, the cosy little play¬ might be penned. But when he made the firm is inclined to suspicion his house with its regular vaudeville bill, associate in the practice of law which earlier in the season that all wnuldj: reference to the producer who had remain open for the summer, the; is also having a successful summer thus promoted him to stardom there is unusual and unnecessary. He is season.—HARRIS. often forward to the point of impu¬ Unique and Gem are the only dosn- was another outburst of enthusiasm town vaudeville houses now Ppm which indicated that many of those in dence. Raeburn turns on him in one act, but he should sit down on him and both are doing good business in KATHERINE GOODWIN front were there on Joe Gaites’ ac¬ consequence. , earlier to give a portrayal which ASKS FOR A DIVORCE. count or possibly because of star and Ametta the fire dancer, is the head- i Minneapolis, Minn., June 8. manager. A moment later when Cor¬ would be common to real life in law offices, where circumstances are sim¬ liner at the Unique this week:' , Mrs. Katherine Goodwin, wife of rigan sought the author and found The Dewey’s summer venttte in I him conveniently near the reception ilar. That Raeburn and his partner ILal L. Goodwin, who was shot a are lawyers alone is confusing. Law¬ vaudeville and moving pictures is pay- i month ago by J. Keller in the latter’s he received made .it plain that triple ing. They have discontinued local honors were intended. yers would not undertake a criminal home at 1121 Hennepin avenue, filed quest as the junior member of the booking and are getting their acts.! suit for divorce last week. Keller has Mr. Corrigan referred to the fact from the Milwaukee 'Vaudeville Ex* i that the majority of his successes had firm did in this instance. It would be been released by the grand jury as better to make Raeburn and North change, it is understood. - ’ Goodwin did not appear against him. been attained here. His remarks were Eugene Willard, the monologuist, is j interesting and gave every evidence of detectives in the first place, or else Mrs. Keller is at liberty on her per¬ explain that they combined the two lecturing for the travelogue^HM i sonal recognizance, and Goodwin’s sincerity. Mr. Gaites did not speak Bijou. “ ■ .^1 but Paul Wilstach, the author, professions. present whereabouts are unknown. Ogden Crane as Keegan makes the Dick Ferris will make his fir.st local. i Mrs. Goodwin is conducting the showed himself to the admiring first- stage appearance this week in k ( nighters and displayed a satisfaction hit of the olay. His work at all times Northwestern Vaudeville Booking is excellent. Mr. Corrigan gives an Stranger in New York. His new lead- i Agency, of which she was the real in the reception given the play which ing man, Thurston Hall, haS'^osed was thoroughly justified. admirable performance. If his part owner.—BARNES. does not give an opportunity for an his season with Lillian Russell in Keegan’s Pal is first of all interest¬ Wildfire, and will appear in next ing. The author, who was personal endorsement equally strong it is the author’s fault. Bertram Marburgh as week’s play. Brown of Hfovanl NATIELLO DIRECTING representative of Richard Mansfield Other offerings promised soon by tit THE COMBINED BANDS. for many years and later his biog¬ a money-lender scores individual suc¬ cess so marked that it is widely com¬ Ferris stock company are The fir! St. Louis, June 7. rapher, is well qualified to write a With the Green Eyes and Zaza.-i play and while Keegan’s Pal needs a mented upon. The remaining mem¬ A committee representing the bers of the cast are satisfactory.— BARNES. Shriuers’ national convention at few changes there is so much good material that careful pruning seems E. E. M. I.ouisvillc, June 8, 9 and 10, called on Leave for the Coast. Signor Natiello, ai Delmar Garden, certain to whip it into a fair degree of success at least. Actor Tries Suicide. World & Kingston left Chicageu where his band is engaged till Sept. Middletown, N. Y., June 8. Wednesday for Spokane, Wash,,' 4, and requested him to go to Louis¬ As to the Plot. Clement Hopkins, formerly stage where they open next week. The)' ville to direct the massed band con¬ Keegan is a criminal who has re¬ manager for Blanche Walsh, and a played Indianapolis last week pd lail cert of the fifty-seven bands that cently been released from a Colorado member of the Lambs club, of New off here for the first half of this wce’x would be present at the conclave. prison. His “pal” is a well known York, attempted suicide yesterday at The consent of Manager Jannapoulo, lawyer in New York, whose recent his country home in Montgomery, N. of Delmar Garden, being obtained, victory in an important case has Y., while temporarily deranged. He Natiello consented and will have brought his name forward until he is stabbed himself in the breast, pene¬ charge of the musical events of the mentioned for political honors. Twen¬ trating his lung. The wound will notable gathering. ty years before Keegan was “nabbed” probably prove fatal. Hopkins had by the officers and permitted his been ill for several weeks. Edward Faulte Marries. Bloomington, Ind., June 9. As a happy climax to the engage¬ ment of the Harris-Parkinson com¬ pany which closed its two week’s stay here last Saturday night, Edward PREMIER ROLLER SKATING ATTRACTIONS Faulte, musical director of the com¬ pany and formerly musical director RINKS VAUDEVILLE PARKS for Hi Henry’s minstrels, was mar¬ Tilts department is not afflliated with any organizations, all professional skaters are invited to send in their press notices and reports of the condition of business in that part of the country in which they are playing, and any items of news occuring along ried Sunday to Oneta Allen, a grand¬ their route. Address THE SHOW WORLD Chicago. r v j s j daughter of Capt. Allen, the wealth¬ iest citizen of this city.—FELTUS.

(ffeveland Park Opens. BERTHA DOUD MACK JACK FOTCH -ORIGINAL- Wonderful all-round Skating, introduc¬ TAYLOR TWIN SISTERS Cleveland, Ohio, June 10. Anna Held Premier Dancing Girl on Rollers ing Heine Gabooblie first time on Skates. Renowned Fancy and Trick Skatorlal Ar- 17 Months with Anna Held Parisian Model The Laughing Hit. Artistic, Graceful Cleveland Beach park will open to¬ Com^pany\J^timingMme. r "■ ' Fancy Skating. Beautiful Coatumea, tiati. Featuring their Vlollnf while day. The park was formally The aka ting. White City, but has been remodeled, tlfuliy cost_ The Show World, Chicago. t, Seneca Falls, N. Y. and many improvements made, in¬ cluding open air acts, fireworks, band JOHNSON & HANHAUSER STRASBURGER. the Great OLDUS a MARSH concerts, vaudeville and dancing. and baby BUTH age 9 Bath houses will also be erected, mak¬ BOY WONDERS America’s Favorite Skaters and Dancers, ing it a good beach for bathing.— In their many novelties and feats featuring Buck and Wing Dancing, Hur¬ YOUNG. dle Jumping and Backward Speed Skating Rink and Vaudeville Mgrs. write quick for open time. Back in the Cast. Something New—Original—Startling Harry Stone, who went cast to take Master HARLEY A. MOORE VAUDEVILLE RINKS MARVELOUS John Barrymore’s part in A Stubborn FIELDING G CARLOS Cinderella resumed his role in The Juvenile Skatorlal Artist The phenomenal boy wonder, doing diffi¬ Skaters and Danoars. MeINTOSH Golden Girl at the Princess recently. cult feats on his original triangular stilts. Hans Roberts will now take the vaca¬ Now playing the Middle Slates. Address HARRY WEBER, 67 s. Clark St.. Chicaeo SHOW WORLD tion he has been looking forward to Chanute, Kansas. so anxiously. THE SHOW WORLD 31 RICHARDSON ROLLER SKATES frnnfl largest, and most successful Rinks in I lie \1UUU l\lllll America and by all prominent Skaters of the world. We have everything-pertaining to the Rink business. Write for catalogue. RICHARDSON BALL BEARING SKATE Messrs. J. C. PLIMPTON G CO., £.uropeaa Agents. Liverpool and London OVER 2000 OF OUR MACHINES TO HURDY GURDY GIRL SURFACE FLOORS IN USE IS A DISMAL SHOW

Amy Leslie Thinks The Thing Will go to Pieces. Other Critics Condemn it UnmercilfoIIy. *'®”free trial'proposition.*”'^ '

Ricluird Carle appears to have a M. L. SCHLUETER at the bills and put the following 32 S. Canal Street. CHICAGO. cst :it the Colonial. An evening is sign in his window, which was read 1 long, if spent at the Colonial dur- by thousands of persons this week: g tile stay of The Hurdy Gurdy “Mr. Richard Carle advertises on our liri, that no one on the staff could property in the alley in violation of 1C' llmid who would willingly endure the notice Post No Bills and of a SKATING RINK NEWS ture of witnessing this play written request to the theater mana¬ scored such a failure in the ger, as follows, ‘Well, If Carle Isn’t We have repeatedly called attention Chicago, Ill.—A meeting of the year or two ago. Back Again I Hope to Die!’ I cheer¬ to the fact that roller skating has board of directors of the new Ice Rink Excerpts from the criticisms of the fully give Carle and the Colonial taken a new lease of life in England. company was held and it was decided local press will tell the story: (Iroquois holocaust) theater the bene¬ Rinks are going up in all parts of the to break ground June 30 for the ice .Amy Leslie in The News: “T must fit of this free,. and on State street, British islands. These rinks are not palace to be erected at Paulina and |)ic|iup the plot,’ said Richard Carle to say that the Hurdy Gurdy Girl, of the cheap,-temporary sort, but are, West Van Buren streets. in ibme despair, stooping to rescue a judging by the notices in the news¬ in most cases of concrete or brick Chicago, Ill.—Freddie Harris, the necklace which a violent soubrette papers, is as idiotic, inane drivel as construction. They are being built by skate dancer, is appearing at the Pas¬ liad danced to the floor just as the his advertisement and that his act¬ companies heavily capitalized and it time theater this week to big success. necklace was most needed to agitate ing matches both. The idiot who would appear that roller skating is Chicago, Ill.—Tyler and Berton a scene in The Hurdy-Gurdy Girl. ‘I hopes to die will probably have his destined to a long lease of popularity have about completed their act for use in^pick up the plot or the whole wishes gratified if he witnesses the abroad. No better indication of for¬ upon their new portable floor and are iliiHg will go to pieces,’ repeated Dick. Carle show. Chas. H. McConnel, an eign interest in this department of arranging vaudeville time through the The lines were not in the summer of- old theater manager.” amusements could be found than in Western Association. It is saiii that iering brought out courageously in all the establishment during the past with this floor, their act will be better itsigreenness at the Colonial theater American. month of a magazine devoted exclu¬ than ever. l:isf* evening, but in them Mr. Carle Chicago, Ill.—The .\dams Brothers If anyone imagines that Morris is sively to roller skating. The periodi¬ really uttered the wisest sort of criti¬ cal has started off with a splendid dis¬ are playing local time with their acro¬ cism pos.sible to form about his en¬ getting “cast off” acts from other cir¬ cuits, it would be well for them to play of advertising matter and gives batic skating act and arc doing nicely. tertainment in its present condition.” Cleveland, O.—Adelaide D’Vorak inspect the bill at the American Music promise of a long life.—Ed. Note. 0. L. Hall- in The Journal: “In The Gary, W. Va.—The Gary Skating is resting in this city after boating all Htttdy-Gurdy Girl, which he pre- hall this week. True, most of the acts have been seen on other circuits, Rink company has been formed here the soeecl wonders in Pittsburg last »d at the Colonial theater last with a capital of $5,000. W. N. Wood¬ week. for the first time in Chicago, many of them have been seen many times on other circuits, but the fact bury, E. M, Esser and others ase be¬ Pittsburg, Pa.—John Bell, one time Richard Carle braves the public gaze champion speed skater of the world, remains that they could yet be play¬ hind the project. I less excuse than at any time Sioux City, la.—-The Riverside roller is forming plans to null off one ot the sinfiB he first established himself in ing the other circuits if they so elected, Delmore and Lee, Nicholson rink opened its season of 1909 to ca¬ biggest races and hang up the largest iawr here. We now find him at his pacity. It is using 350 pairs of Hen¬ purse ever offered to skaters, at the (initet, both as author and comedian, and Norton, Edith Helena, Eddie Foy, DeBiere,—these are names to ley skates and 350 pairs of skates from Exposition rink, which, today, is faster iv show is an imbecilic and another manufacturer. C. E. Wether- and better than it ever was. affair, a mere collection of conjure with in vaudevilledom and they are all collected into one bill at bee is back in the skate room and is Chicago, III.—Marvelous McIntosh ^ and ends, without plot, without assistant manager. The rink is run is going on the Pantages time with .and without the tone and fresh- the Auditorium this week. Eddie Foy is billed as the headliner. by MaeSarty and Toy. Many im¬ his big act, which includes the skat¬ that made his earlier entertain- provements have been made since last ing doll, auto and mysterious barrel welcome. Carle himself lazily Foy is funny,—famously funny and really funny, but his fuq is generally season and everything augurs for big tricks and which finishes with buck ! some of the things he has and winir and iron jawed balancing before, but he never is really of the burlesque order. For genuine legitimate humor—the kind of humor Dennison, Tex_Fielding and Car¬ this show. He seems fagged los who are playing the Hodgkins Chicago, Ill.—Little Gracic Ayers is uninterested. He is not the Carle that can be extracted from the com¬ monplace of every day life—Nichol- time are meeting with big success. A framing up a new act to go out on of The Tenderfoot, of The Mayor of the road with her father next season. ■son and Norton are deserving of the local paper said of their work:—“At Toltio, of The Spring Chicken or of The act is somewhat similar to that highest praise. The act isn’t new, in the Woodlake Casino just now there -Mary's Lamb.” now being used by Prof. Franks and the sense of first productions, but the is being presented a most marvellous W. L. Hubbard in The Tribune: Baby Lillian. act will always remain new even to exhibition of what can be done on roll¬ •'i#but that’s a Mull one! If Rich- er skates. There is nothing in the .ird, Carle can reshape the show he those who have seen it many times. Edith Helena has a wonderful so¬ nature of an effort to excite one’s O, YOU KID ST. CLAIR; offered at thcn||Monial last night YOU STILL KEEP AT IT. prano voice of wide range and clear, nerves in the entire performance, but under the name ot the Hurdy-Gurdy Fielding and Carlos are artists in the Des Moines, Iowa, June 7. Girl,-into ^uccess, then he will show certain tone. She wins by her voice alone. Had she but the magnetism of higher sense ot that much misused There were three shows billed here 'liimself ofW^f the master wizards of at one time—Barnum, Hagenbeck- Edna Wallace Hopper or Willa Holt word and are masters of their art in the theater world. He may be able to some of the most difficult feats one Wallace and the Gentry. The Bar¬ do it, but if so, he should hasten, for Wakefield, what a wonderful combi¬ nation she would present! can imagine. This feature is a treat num show had so much the best of it evenings of such boredom as that there was no comparison in the An act called Those Four Girls to those who love the poetry of mo¬ s one spent by the audience last showing. The Gentry show used the opened the bill, a dancing number tion as was demonstrated last even¬ will make the saving of the Foster boards and it required diligent which proved most satisfactory. Mr. ing by the constant rounds of applause and the engagement impos- search to find a bill. Kid St. Clair and Mrs. Clarke, banjoists, followed by a large and representative audi¬ with some rare stunts upon their ence.” They are playing Dallas this had charge of the Barnuruiopposition , ;s O’Donnell Bennett in The week, and are booked until Aug. 1. brigade. |rd-Hprald: “The lament of Rich- chosen instrument, including a solo irle relative to the time he selection from Sarasate. Delmore and a lemon in the garden of love, Lee with their gymnastic offering, A wuSEe he thought only peaches grew, Study in Black and White made theit ■s familiar to the public. That mourn- usual, unavoidable hit. DeBiere. , nil-^perience was duplicated at the magician-extraordinary, offered that Colonial theater last evening in the range of mysticism familiar to vaude¬ Jiiatter of a new musical comedy that ville enthusiasts and to which iTt was"passed over the footlights to a added numerous novelties which were , loyal band of Carlists-. They received mystifying as well as entertaining. >t more in sorrow than in anger-.” Fred Fisher and Maurice Burkhart appeared in a pianosongologue which was very well received. Most of the The Enterprising Billposter. songs were of Fischer’s own compo¬ A billposter for the Colonial theater, sition and included some of the re¬ ^ifity, stuck up some one sheets to cent popular hits of the hour. The ^wWise the Richard Carle Hurdy Young Brothers closed the bill with Gurdy Girl show, in an alley running an interesting acrobatic number off of State street. A druggist, who which won them considerable ap¬ occupies this property, took umbrage plause.—W. M. I Don’t Blame Those Exhibitors who were inclined to worry a little because they received threatening letters from the film trust last week. I will confess that I was fooled myself for a short time, but it didn’t take long to uncover the game. The full force of the monumental bluff revealed itself when I found that these letters were not only sent to exhibitors who are using independent films, but also to users of licensed films as well! In other words they are threatening their own customers in a roundabout manner, trying to make them believe that if they ever do quit using licensed films, they will be drawn, quartered and made into human hash. This is only another instance of the blundering methods of the worst managed trust in all America. I have some respect for a good blufifer. I have some respect for a smooth liar. But I have infinite contempt for any man who tries to make a bluff and hasn’t brains enough to carry it through. This last effort of the worst managed trust in America is proof enough that we have got them on the run. If I did not know just where we stand, do you suppose I would have announced last week that i am going to become a film manu¬ facturer as well as a renter? Do you think I would invest thousands of dollars in a film manufacturing game if I did not know positively and certainly that the independent movement is as safe as government bonds? Get into the Laemmle band wagon in time for the next big release of new independent subjects and see how it feels to breathe free air again ! By the way have you paid $2 for a license to kiss your wife this week ?

CARL LAEMMLE, President

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