Five Cents the Copy—Pay No More For An Amusement Paper FIVE CENTS 0 TpMW , THE COPY " mi ^ i-Kuixa: THIS WEEKS NEWS THIS WEEK 2 THE SHOW WORLD July 23, 1910. We Own the Illinois State Rights Three Fast Daily Jeffries-Johnson Trains Pictures from St. Louis to CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST TAKEN AT RENO, JULY 4,1910 >tion Pictures ever made e TexasOklahoma Via BEWARE OF FAKES We shall prosecute anyone showing fake pictures to the fullest extent of the law. Why not arrange to play the isiif real thing on a percentage basis? Write, wire or ’phone No agents—Deal direct Leaving SOLE OWNERS ILLINOIS RIGHTS MORNING NOON NIGHT 9:00 A.M. 2:30 P.M. 8:25 P.M. JONES & SPOOR 174 STATE ST. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Fred Harvey Meals /f^Of THE MANY ATTRACTIONS TO BE SEEN ATT THIS YEAR’S IlNNESOTA STATE FAffim, 'pSumsIncreased#15,000 <jp£^r] BEST FILM ... F^Total Amount Now Offered oO,000?'., • I-5J NORTHWESTERN CORN SHOW AND LIBERAL ARTS EXHIBITS{ PROGRAM ADDED SPACE IN AGRICULTURAL# HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS spectacle WONDERFUL /MUSEMENT PR0grAm : YOU EVER SAW! ■' nirlL^°vuli;,C'’MlLYFUGHT5orWRIGMT BROS. 'CURTISS The Laemmle Film Ser- t#A®ANPNAT10N5 -aeroplanes- I JvnP- %0000RaciwSProiram - Automobile Race* ' WOOKacin$ 3 MILLER BROSLOl W/LDWEST RANCH Mu™w I rill* ti ft 30 High5 * Class Americanu.an emuand European Vaudevillevaua Acts S\korjeousDisp^Rrewofeeach -..-- /?AfEEtOAOSevenirL SEPT. 5ZHSTM TOTf IOXH Industrial Alcohol Stills 6 gal. Tax- Free $136.00, pays for itself every THE MUSICAL COMEDY STAR month. 76 to 600 gal. Stills instated TO PARK THEATRE MANAGERS: under guarantee. Alcohol solidified 33 samples Solid Alkaloid Cubes 194 The Laemmle proof, post paid for $1.00. FRED MACE Wood Waste Distilleries Co. Wheeling,W.Va. Film Service -i TO ANNOUNCE that he is ready to accept contracts for this Sum¬ HEADQUARTERS mer Season, to produce and play in the following MUSICAL COMEDIES: 196-198 Lake Street, CHICAGO Chinese Honeymoon, Riff - Raff-Pouf, THE BALL SS» MINNEAPOLIS - PORTLAND - OMAHA- SALT LAKE CITY - EVANSVILLE The Umpire, Time, Place and Girl, Etc. STENOGRAPHERS The Biggest and Best Film IN WHICH MR. MACE HAS STARRED THEATRICAL WORK Renter in the World Address FRED MACE,—The Show World, CHICAGO Grand Opera House Building J The Show People’s Newspaper CHICAGO, JULY 23, 1910. For Jill Kinds of Show People SELLS-FLOTO CAPTURES FIGHT PICTURES TO BE KANSAS CITY BY STORM EXHIBITED IN CHICAGO Turns Away Ten Thousand People in Two Days’ Engagement Jones & Spoor Arrange for the Jeffries- Johnson Fight to Be —Creates Biggest Furore Ever Seen in Missouri Metropolis— Shown Here—Fakes to Be Prosecuted Trust Opposition of No Avail If They Are Presented Kansas City, Mo., July 19.—Twenty All in all the Sells-Floto engage¬ Arrangements have been made by fakes were attempted to be shown, thousand people attended the two per¬ ment in Kansas City will go down in Jones & Spoor, owners of the Illinois that the public itself will resent being formances of the Sells-Floto circus in the annals of circus history as one of rights for the Jeffries-Johnson fight imposed upon. The audiences in .his city yesterday, and half that the most remarkable achievements in pictures, for their exhibition in this Rosenberg’s theater, New York, and nany were turned away unable to this field of amusement endeavor. city, bookings having already been the American Music Hall, in the same secure admission. The parade yes- made. It was expected to show them city, nearly caused a riot when they Ifcrday morning was witnessed by City Officials Attend. this week but in the absence of Chief found the management trying to palm thousands upon thousands of our citi¬ As the city council was in session Steward his subordinates would not off faked pictures as the genuine films. zens who blocked the thoroughfares issue the permit. He will return from Noted Men Filmed. ilong the route. last night, the body headed by the mayor and the chief pf police did not a vacation in a few days, at which The film is 5,500 feet long, and will Driven to desperation, agents of the time the pictures will be shown. run about an hour and a half. They tircus trust set loose ten of their best attend the circus until this evening. The city officials, without exception, The pictures controlled by Jones & show Jeffffries at the training camp; nen to program the Sells-Floto par- Spoor are the only genuine films of Jim Corbett, the trainer; the recon¬ \de. But it availed them little. The were enthusiastic over the excellence of the performance and the general the big fight at Reno, Nev., July 4th. ciliation with John L. Sullivan; pan¬ natinee audience taxed the capacity They are the most expensive neg¬ oramic view of Reno; arrival of the ■of the Sells-Floto canvas and at night deportment of the show. Inspector of detectives, Edward P. Boyle, de¬ atives taken in the history of motog- Lou Houseman special, with the well bedlam reigned on the lot when thou¬ raphy, having cost more than $200,000. known sporting men; erecting the sands of people found it impossible clared that in all his experience as a police" officer he could not recall a Ten cameras were used, and the best arena; the gathering of the crowds; to gain entrance to the show. negative from each utilized for the the arrival of Jeffffries and Johnson The newspapers today teem with circus engagement so absolutely de¬ void of .unpleasant incidents. different scenes. In view of the enor¬ with their trainers; the introductions matter covering the Sells-Floto en¬ mous cost of production, and the high of Sullivan, Corbett. Sharkey, Fitz¬ gagement and to quote one of them: Among the visitors who attended price paid for the state rights, Jones simmons, Battling Nelson, Abe Attel, "It would take a week to describe the the Sells-Floto performances here & Spoor are prepared to resent most Frank Gotch, Senator Tim Sullivan, features of the show in detail and to were: George D. Steele, contractile forcibly the attempt of certain parties Hugh McIntosh and other noted jjick out the best thing that made a representative for the Rhoda Royal to foist upon the public so-called sporting men. bit. It can all be summed up in say- Indoor Circus, who left Kansas City “reproductions,” in which mediocre Every move of the fight can be seen f.g that it was the best show at any for Denver, Seattle, San Francisco pugilists posed for the famous fighters. as plainly as if one were sitting at the rice ever given in Kansas City, that and Pacific coast points, Monday ringside in a $50.00. seat. Each round |iot one person in all that multitude night; Mrs. W. T. Spaeth, who will Jones Is Aggressive. is shown and announced. The fif¬ 'vas hurt or robbed, molested or an- spend a few days with her husband, “Any attempt to fool the public teenth and last round shows in the loyed. That’s a wonderful record, the auditor of the show; H. S. Noyes, with these fake reproductions will be pictorial reproduction, many things >ut the Sells-Floto people believe in general agent of the Great Patterson summarily dealt with,” *aid Aaron J. which escaped the eyes of tne news¬ laving a high class show and high Shows; Mrs. Foster Burns, wife of Jones to a representative of The Show paper reporters, and the knockout is lass employes.” the genial treasurer, Foster Burns; World. “It would appear from re¬ perfectly clear. The crowds are then Long before the circus arrived wise, R. F. Brainard, formerly associated ports from the east, where these shown dispersing. bowmen predicted that the Sells- with James Patterson, the carnival Toto people would experience a fall- map, and now in charge of the con¬ ig off in business on the second day struction of new attractions at Elec¬ were enthusiastic over the excellence Bills show, and will resume the posi¬ ■f their engagement here, but the tric Park in this city; Bert Scott, wife of the entertainment and the wonder¬ tion formerly occupied by him as :eneral rule did not hold good. The and daughter; Major Gosney, formerly ful business. It was a complete New York representative of an amuse¬ act of the matter is the tents were identified with the Sells-Floto and knockout and discounted even the ment weekly. iterally packed at both performances other leading circuses and who now is most sanguine expectations of the oday. located in Kansas City with a bunga¬ management, who fully realized that PATTERSON TO CHANGE . Circus Trust Baffled. low at Fairmont Park; H. S. Rowe; the Kansas City engagement was to CARNIVAL FOR CIRCUS. Mr. Wilson, manager of the circus The circus war has been bitterly be the supreme test in the opposition department for the Baker & Lock- with the circus octopus. Kansas City One of the most important news 'aged in Kansas City. The trust has wood Co.; Joe Quigley, G. A. Byrne pent a ton of money with the news- business has demonstrated that the items of the current week is that and Vincent Byrne of the Ackerman- masses appreciate the popular price James Patterson, proprietor of the apers and in bill posting, but the Quigley Lithograph Co.; Manager Great Patterson Shows will forsake pposition had absolutely no effect and your correspondent is free to pre¬ Turney of the Willis Woods theater; dict that nothing in the way of op¬ the carnival end of the business and pon the Sells-Floto attendance. Fred S. Ward, formerly of the Camp¬ The Kansas City engagement was position can retard the progress of will put out a 14 car circus in 1911.