THEATRICAL CIRCUS BILLPOSTERS FAIRS THE BILLBOARD Price, 10 Cents. Volume XVI. No. 11. CINCINNATI, MARCH 12.1904. Per Year, $4.00 o KATE CONDON. Prima Dorvrxa Boston Opera Company. _ BILLBOARD under Charles Frohman'a management since he The new opera house at Dover, Del., will made his great success there in The Only Way. be completed May 1 and will be up to Gate Mons. Dumas-King, the head of the French in every respect. dressmaking department of 'John Wanamaker's, Lake View Theatre, at Sheboygan, Mich., was is now in Paris, where he has gone to purchase finished March 10, and will open for the summer certain fabrics for the costumes of Wright Lori- some time in May. mer's production of The Shepherd King, which Steinway Hall, Chicago, has been closed. could not be obtained in this country. While Hedda Gabler was to have been played Feh. there he will also have made the canopy and 29 by Mary Shaw. drapery for the throne of King Saul. An asbestos curtain and many other improve- Dave A. Wois' Paul Revere Company has One of the best theatre orchestras on the ments are the latest news from the Grand Opera TWO SUCCESSES. been playing in Massachusetts, around Boston, Pacific Coast is at the Baker Theatre at Port- House at Akron, Ohio, the past few weeks and the company is making laud, Ore. It is under the direction of Mr. Sullivan, Harris & Woods have secured con- It does appear as though this season is the good. Frank Griffith, who was secured by Manager trol of two Yiddish theatres in New York City, forerunner of a change; that European artists George. M. Cohan, of the Four Cohans, an- George L. Baker upon the arrival of the former the Grand and People's. will not receive in America in the future a very nounces his starring tour next season in a new from Ohio two seasons ago. The musica! l pro- IP. M. Peterson, manager of Peterson's Opera much larger compensation than is customary on musical play, Little Johnny Jones, written by gram arranged by Mr. Griffith is one ol the fea- House, Escanaba, Mich., will build a new $30,- the other aide. himself. tures of a Baker performance. 000 house at that place. The theories extant in European artistic The 500th performance of Robert Emmet \ The following is roster of The Earl of Paw- The opera house at Suunton, Va., closed circles that Americans ought to be made to pay given at the Grand Theatre, Brooklyn, Feb. 29. tucket Co.: H. B. Hotter, Harry B. Hall, R. C. March 11 for extensive alterations. All at- fabulous prices for their visitations has been Handsome souvenirs were carried home by the ilk-hards, John Adolfl, Charles Mason, Herbert tractions have been cancelled. rudely Jarred by Heinrich Conreid in starting off patrons. For tier, Frank Monroe, George Wright, Jr., The gallery of, the Avenue Theatre opened his season without the usual list of great names 10. S. Willard is now playing the smaller Marie Pettes, Florence Hobinson, Marguerite Fob. 27 for the first time after its closure, im- and winning the greatest success in the history cities of England with The Cardinal and The U;t;vdon, William H. Pringle, Wedgewood Now- mediately after the Chicago disaster, of grand opera financially and artistically in Professor's Love Story, and meeting with good ell, William A. Evans, A. Piper Thomas Mil- A massive spectacular extravaganza, Louis- New York City. Moreover, Herr Conreid's success. ton B. Pollock, A. P. Hall and M. B. Pollock. iana Purchase, will be put on in the Odeoii present reign of order in the Metropolitan Opera Miss Clara Lapsfleld, recently a member of A performance was given at the Mason Theatre at St. Louis during the World's Fair. Co. seenis to bethe sign of a more rational man- the At Cozy Corners Company, joined the Frank Opera House in Los Angeles, Cal., : Feb. 29, M. Melville has opened seven new opera agement of great musical companies. Order la E. Long Stock Company at Janesvllle, Wis., for the purpose of raising a sum to be added houses this season in Arkansas. Mr. Melville heaven's first law. Ita non-compliance by art- Feb. 29. to the funds already collected for the estab- is also interested in the Melville Dramatic Com- ists is not an exception sanctioned by nature. Honolulu seems to be in a bad way theatri- lishment of the Robert E. Bell Sanitorium Jit pany, Whilst the volatile artistic temperament must cally. James Neill lost much money there, and Denver. All the companies playing Los An- Albert Odett, of Polk County Minn., has be given due recognition, yet as Herr Conreid the Elleford Company has cancelled the town geles on that date were represented on the bought the opera house property at Esthervillo, has demonstrated, it ean be given successful altogether. program. the consideration named in the transfer being direction, and brought into an observance of the Miss Grace Hull, of the Sky Farm Company, William Bernard, of the Baker Theatre Com- $18,000. law. lias signed a three years' contract with Mort W. pany at Portland, Ore., has been secured by the The new Neill Morosco Stock Company gave What would, seem to mark a notable change Sanford to be featured in, Dick Ferris' produc- Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, of that city, Its first presentation F&b. 29, at the Burbank in theatricals is the attack of Ben Greet and tion. Way Out West. to .stage The Ameer for the club. This club js Theatre, Los Angeles, Cal., in When We Were his companies on the theory of modern dra- Clayton Legge, who starred in Bobert Burns, the swell organization of Oregon, and gives a Twenty-One. matic production. The play is no longer "it." has .iust completed two new plays. One is comic opera each year. Last year Mr. liernaru Col, Futterer, of Hagerstown, Md., is now modern, tho other is founded on Longfellow's staged The Wizard of the Nile for the club in booking rapidly his time for May. The honso beautiful poem, Evangeline. addition to his work with George L. Baker's will in all probability close about the middle of s, or e snes roug e mcompeency o Tut? company presenting The Governor's Son, Stock Company, June. his supporting company. The stage picture the under the management of Mr. Fred Nlblo, has Leigh Bruckart, who left San Francisco a year Messrs. Dixon and Talbott, who control tbe producing manager turns out is fit to hang on made such an excellent reputation that its sea- ago last summer in advance of Daniel Frawley, Park Opera House at Indianapolis, Ind., are the walls of the Art Museum, and engulfs the son has been extended until June 1. has returned to tbis country. He says that the touring Mexico and California accompanied bv play. Ben Greet aims to put the play para- Mine. Franeesca Januschek, of Saratoga, N. company did well in the Sandwich Islands, in their families. mount above -actors and stage settings, whicii Y.. who has been seriously ill for several days Japan, China and Manila, but badly in Austra- Tile Association of Theatrical Managers met lie says hold a foremost place in modern the- with fi heavy cold, is reported to be gradually lia. It made money in India, and is now in Feb. 24, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New atricals. improving. 'She is 74 years of age. Cape Town, South Africa. Jack Amory, Wal- York, and drew up a 'constitution and by-laws Ueiurich Conreid and Ben Greet have success- Miss 'Suzanne Santje, of the Baldwin-Mel- lace Shaw, Christine Hill3 Mary Van Bur en and for their organization. fully vindicated their theories by the indicia ville Stock Company, was called from New Harrington Reynolds are still with Mr. Frawley. Since the closing of the Neilsen Opera House of success upon which all good Americans agree Orleans to the bedside of her father, Judge Una Abell Brinker was awarded $1,325 dam- at Sandusky, Ohio, the business men of that city — C. S. Keyacr. of Philadelphia, March 1. ages last week in Brooklyn for breach of con- are advocating a new opera house upon a more Charles Montgomery, writing from Regiua, tract by Corse Payton. Miss Brinker said she centrally located site. Can., states the temperature in some of the signed a contract with iMr. Payton last March James P. Tibbetts, owner of the opera hou^c time-—is It novelty that bears them on .' On the towns is 50 degress below xero. He has en- by whdc'h she was to receive $135 a week for and billboard plant at Preston, Minn., died Fe!>. one hand Ilerr Conreid started off with a novel- tered 100 acres under tbe Canada Homestead thirty-live weeks. In defense Mr. Payton said 27 at the age of 74. He leaves an estate worth ty Parsifal aiid he personally is gifted with laws. that as the contract was not effective until about one million dollars. some strong exceptional ideas how to manage The Empire Stock Company, of Hoston, Texas, August, 1903, he could not have broken it last The Gennett Theatre ait Richmond, Ind., will an opera company and make European artists of which Harry Corson. Clark is leading man, June when Miss Brinker first filed notice of be greatly improved before next season. The observe the law. Ben Greet's old morality play closed its engagement at that place March 2. her suit.