MARCH 7 1908 10 CENTS m I 2 THE SHOW WORLD March) Sngland’s Sreat Sharks White City, Manchester . •. New Brighton Tower, Liverpool Under the Direction of John Calvin Brown The Park business is not overdone in England and your devices and shows that have lived their useful lives in the States will run profitably for years in England. Don’t you know that your old shows are novelties here? Don’t scrap them. We want help—American Energy, Ability, Ideas and Shows. It takes a week to come over, costs less than $100. Freight is low and you won’t be lonesome. We have already arranged for over 200 American Showmen this season. No financial trouble over here. Everything booming. White City, Manchester 16 Acres. No other competing | 2s Parks. Population over seven million. * Splendid train and street car li service. Fare from the heart of ' ? the city, 3 cents. This is the Park that hung out j ? the first Full House sign last 1 9 summer and had 16 acres full of > I people and turned thousands 1 j* away. Every concessionaire here made ' $ money last year. Hales Tours and Fig. 8 broke all j cash records. We need two illusion shows 1 and two spectacular shows- This park cost over $1,000,000. I and is filled with beautiful trees, plants, palms, etc. Col. Fred T. Cum¬ A Signed Tip. mins, our agent, will I came to England as the pioneer and have had rhe greatest of hard¬ give all particulars if ships proving that the people vi anted a park and all you showmen watched for the result before you came. seen en route: My advice to you big ones is to come over at once and bring your Green’s Hotel, Philadelphia show. The chances here never were equaled any place. Feb. 29 to March 2 & April Cities of millions have never seen a modern park show, and the first Scenic Road and Fig. 8 were built in England less than a year ago. Windsor Clifton Hotel, Chi¬ Next summer will likely be a hard one in the States, but times never cago, March 3 & 4; April 3 were so good here. I will gladly look after your interests or furnish any advice you require. JOHN CALVIN BROWN. Planters Hotel, St. Louis, New Brighton Tower, Liverpool 1 This park is in the midst^of over 2,000,000 people, contains 32 acres and has al= ready cost over two million dollars. The highest structure in England (621 feet) adorns the center, and elevators run to its top, from which a splendid view of England, Wales and Ireland can be seen. Gorgeous Ball Room and a Theatre with staging for a circus. This park is one of the world's show places. Every ship entering Liverpool must pass within shouting distance. Beautiful Promenade, Bathing Beach, and a Racing and Athletic Track costing over $175,000. All American Park*Shows are unknown here and will do very well. Street car fare 2c; steamship ferry 4c; splendid train, ferry and car service. Address all letters to JOHN CALVIN BROWN, White City, Manchester Watch for Cummins’ Wild West Cable Address, Exposition^Manchester] Call. m # (twenty-eight pages PRICE TEN CENTS The lShotit HXorj-iD I THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMUSEMENT WEEKLY Published at 87 South Clark Street, Chicago, by The iShozuHIorld Publishing Co. * Entered as Second-Class Matter WARREN A. PATRICK , GENERALDlRECTOR, th® Chi^t?6 ^ i June 25,1907 under the Act of Congress of March 3,1879. II—No. II. CHICAGO March 7, 1908 PLAYS AND PLAYERS The Davies School BY JOHN PIERRE ROCHE. Dramatic Artf ■I^SK1 asssfei S;|S,SeS hsss: Wanted Woman Good Teeth Worker on Twisting Rope; ‘K? Address J. fl.S..Ili6 Snow MM FOR SALE L F. GEN ILL FOR SALE CHEAP j^uTFILM « = S'» Objectives, Etc. KAHN 4 CO, FEET I ^/eTtena/h4nSrSr^^ ft ^^rwhTThWf g?ace. ha, no --;- g j^SlsIiSOi fllpt izsMiMi p#5Epii§l» rsy&2rsa| “Srs—S dasfesews THE SHOW WORLD March ?, IJft ^ won all the money and Diamond Medals at the recent World's Championship R0|=i ler Skating Races at Pittsburg and Cincinnati. First, second and third in every final event. The same old story. Have held all World’s records for 24 years. Our regular rink skates embody the same scientific construction as our racers. All promil nent skaters, fast or fancy, use the Richardson, and all of the largest and most success ful rinks in America are equipped with them. We supply everything pertaining to the' rink business. Write for catalogue. Ms if Richardson Ball Bearing Skate Co. 499 and 501 Wells Street, CHICAGO VALUABLE POINTERS TO ROLLER RINK MANAGERS BY EDWIN B. BARNES BEST AND CHEAPEST 3SS3rUSH-“ j LYON 6 HEALY CHICAGO, ILL. Henley Roller Skates March 7, 1908. THE SHOW WORLD 7 DON’T MISS THE BIG ONE QUEXNS COUNTY FAIR., ASTORIA, L. I. 6 BIiTdAYsT—° OPEND AY AND NIGHT! — 6 BIG NIGHTS! MAY 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 1908 SENSATIONAL FREE ACTS - Nothing too Big for the Big One ’■“^WSS8^S8HBA0H- " ' Queens County Fair Association SUITE 510, 1402 BROADWAY, ]VEW YORK CITY JENNIE HOUGHTON ROLLER SKATER r of high order. Pittsburg V- World, Chicago HECTOR DE SILVIA AS22XttS!S«-. "DARE DEVIL OF THE AGE” tmmsm W.E.GENN0 AND MISS KATHLEEN PATTERSON Team Skaters from start to finish. PI «ssss,f^«?ai No. 999 r‘Hy=Spede” Racer The Fastest Skate on Earth 2|£soH1S' RINK NEWS £SWSr.t*S!S “HSSSkfSH 8 THE SHOW WORLD Mal-ch 7, 1908, OPPOSING MOVING PICTURE INTERESTS FIRE S FIRST GUNS IN GREAT WAR FOR SUPREMACY! 'CrvrQirYRT CLAIMS ABSOLUTE RIGHTS BY T>^T CTISJC TALKS “ BIOGRAPH COMPANY OJIOVJIN VIRTUE OF CAMERA PATENTS IVi^ELlINCi DENIES VALIDITY OF PATENTS gust, 1914. We are advised by counsel that no practical and satisfactory ^camera^ can Victor Talking Machine Case. fringe the Edison camera patent, and that no motion picture film is now made that does not infringe the Edison film patent. Every motion picture film in use today, whether produced in this country or im¬ ported from abroad, is undeniably an In¬ fringement of the Edison film patent. Suit for Infringement. THE. Picture Operat< ><53 CjEORGE J.QlLMORE. site characteristics to enable a man to be- hlhft movtmr pictures rnkml by the AFFAIRS AT SAVANNAH, GA. irsanysKas ““I- &ss*“ THE SHOW WORLD March 7, Ijoj, | ^FilingsTjhcnirrcnXin^nx]lircOtihi^ |lj agj^aaa:li ®mmmi 12 THE SHOW WORLD BIOGRAPH FILMS BE. ASSURED, a a, THIS IS NOT Trade Mark A LEMON The Yellow Peril” Vf nothing--„ for ,publication —icatlon beyond ththe ai nouncement that they had commouv suit against the Edison Manufacturii Co., under the Latham ioop patei and that they hold other paten We will protect our customers and those of Sid Euson Enjoins Amuse Kleine Optical Company. our licensees against Sid J. Euson, manager Wiilliams, Brown & Earle. patent litigation in the leater, Chicago, last wee: use of our licensed the Columbia Amusement Society Italian “Cines.” claiming -violation o_ American Mutoscope & Bio- of The Star and Garter, t] & Behman burlesque hous_. Who said “Lats”? comes up before Judge Kohlsatt, Mi Write for Our Descriptive Circulars. Get on Our Mail List and Keep Posted All Piotures are Made with Our Celebrated llograph Cameras. Our Films Run an any Machine THE KANSAS & OKLAHOMA American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. GRAND CIRCUIT 11 east 14th street, new YORK city Starts at Blackwell, July 28,29,30 and 1 PACIFIC COAST BRANCH 116 NORTH BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Wanted, a few high-class attractions. M KLEINE OPTICAL CO., CHICAGO, SPECIAL SELLING AGENTS h. PECKHAM, Sec., Blackwell, Oklaj | LODEAN’S 16 PAGE, 9x12 RICHMOND HOTEL’S WANTED, PARTNER SONG BOOK, Is Now selling at 75 cts. per 100 $5.00per M .OOO.^Samples.Jor Mcenw^ BoneJreeJy WHERE ALL PROFESSIONALS STOP 1 Show ready for roadWa3Oj>en'early° Everything practically newu^Cars exceptionally good; Clark: and Kinzie Sts., CHICAGO APLAYS 1 SSS3Monologues, Minstrel Mate AL. a. FLYNN, Proprietor logues, Make-up Goods,etc. Catalogue ft#. WILD WEST, 435 Boas Ave., Memphis, Tenn. tTs.^Je NISON, Pub., Dept. 22. Chicago. RHEOSTATOCIDE Attention! Theatre Owners! Will You Wear the Trust Collar?—I Guess Not! ^APPROVED BY THE! Three- weeks ago S week for seven changes of film was con-1 sidered good money; but all at once the exchanges of Chicago have a hard luck story and say they must have $10-2 tor the same service. (New film anything under eight days; old film J65 a week.) •33 I ■ Would I sit calmly by and see myself, with seventy-five per cent of NEW YORK BOARD OF other Chicago exhibitors, put out of business? I guess not. Three days at the above price, then Yours Truly had TOO reels of good, new film in our vault, and thirty of the best theaters in Chicago with us to sink■ ’ • swim. “Sink,” says the big com.*-'—" |UNDERWRITERS fix you when you come back, t of “put you out of business” talk. • " we are not asleep. As a result, Dm amamm •GUARANTEED TO SAVE have accomplished far: $30,000 of brand new film, choice subjects ot kes that you have never seen or heard of. why. Because the price was too high for the greedy renters. They can t get, them. .... now, as.. they_ have_ agreed=_ not to buy from_janufacturers -J’"~t—" outside™™ of the so-called Big Combination of Seven. ,, . 50*to75i of the M. P. Current Did your exchange tell you that the price is to be higher Marcn^LI Nix! He waited"until'you"I you had sTarte"d~on‘your"’ ’ new week, then gently gave you the “hot air stuff,” at least in hundreds of GIVES A PERFECT CLEAR WHITE LIGHT and ELIMINATES tells you to get in line; be a good fellow; there ' ’ "L “ ie price, and the that HORRIBLE BUZZING so ANNOYING to YOUR PATRONS th7ou^ will : .