December PRICE 18, 1909 10 CENTS SHflHi THE SHOW WORLD December 18, 1909. Sffiliaied Vaudeville Theatres Of AMERICA Majestic Theatre, Chicago, Ill. New Columbia Theatre, Cincinnati, Ohio. « Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, Cal. Keith & Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Theatre*. Keith's Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa. New York City. Percy G. Williams' Colonial Theatre, New Orpheum Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah. J York City. Proctor’s Theatre, Albany, N. Y. Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, Cal. Orpheum Theatre, Sioux City, Iowa. Hammerstein’s Victoria Theatre, New York Keith’s Theatre, Utica. N. Y. City. Olympic Theatre, Chicago, III. Proctor’s Theatre, Newark, N. J. Harry Davis, Grand Opera House, Pittsburg, Orpheum Theatre, Spokane, Wash. Pa. Percy G. Williams, (ireenpoint Theatres Orpheum Theatre, Oakland, Cal. Brooklyn. Shea’s Theatre, Buffalo, N. Y. Orpheum Theatre, Seattle, Wash. Mary Anderson Theatre, Louisville, Ky. Moore’s Temple Theatre, Rochester, N. Y. 1 Moore’s Temple Theatre, Detroit, Mich. Orpheum Theatre, Portland, Ore. Orpheum Theatre, New Orleans, La. Kernan’s Maryland Theatre, Baltimore, SO. S. Z. Poll’s Theatre, New Haven, Conn. Che Season’s Boss Compliments Orpheum Theatre, Des Moines, Iowa. J Grand Opera House, Indianapolis, Ind. Proctor’s Theatre. Troy, N. Y. Keith’s Theatre, Columbus, Ohio. Orpheum Theatre, Birmingham, Ala. | Orpheum Theatre, Kansas City, Mo. Percy G. Williams’ New Bronx Theatr*| Bennett’s Theatre, Montreal, Can. OFFICES: :: Long Acre Building, :: NEW YORK Majestic Theatre, Milwaukee, Wis. Keith's Theatre, Providence, R. I. " ‘ Orpheum Theatre, Omaha, Neb. Orpheum Theatre, AVinnipeg, B. C Percy G. WiUiams’ Orpheum Theatre, Or pheum Theatre, -Minneapolis, Minn. Orpheum Theatre, Harrisburg, Pa. Broadway Theatre, Camden, N. J. ase’s Theatre, Washington, D. C.- Orpheum Theatre, Puluth, Minn, Grand Opera House, Evansville, Ind. Grand Opera House, St. Louis, Mo. Or] pheum Theatre, Memphis, Tenn. Orpheum Theatre, Allentown, Pa. S. Z. Poli’s Theatre, Waterbury, Conn. 1 Shea's Theatre, Toronto, Ont. S. Z. Poll’s Theatre, Hartford, Conn. Colonial Theatre, Norfolk, Va. Orpheum Theatre, Lincoln, Neb. Orpheum Theatre, Denver, Colo. Be nnett’s Theatre, HamUton, Can. Hathaway's Theatre, Lowell, Mass, Dockstader’s Theatre, Wilmington, Del. S Keith’s Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio. Be nnett's Theatre, Ottawa, Can. Hathaway’s Theatre, New Bedford, Mass, Lyric Theatre. Mobile, Ala. Orpheum Theatre, St. Paul, Minn. Col lonial Theatre, Lawrence, Mass. Auditorium Theatre, Lynn, Mass. S. Z. Poli’s Theatre, Scranton, Pa. Percy G. Williams’ Alhambra Theatre, New Tn ;nt Theatre, Trenton, N. J. Lyric Theatre, Dayton, Ohio, Hudson Theatre, Union Hill, N. J. York City. Or] pheum Theatre, Reading, Pa. 8. Z. Poll’s Theatre, Springfield, Mass, Orpheum Theatre, Atlanta, Ga. Haymarket Theatre, Chicago, Ill. Or] pheum Theatre, Easton, Pa. Majestic Theatre, Johnstown, Pa. S. Z. Poli’s Theatre, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1 Chicago Opera House, Chicago, III. Christmas Greeting—Good Will and Prosperity to All the Folks. The Show With a Christmas Spirit. Enormous United Anti=monopoly Shows. WANTED=; People in All Branches of the Circus Business. Horse Breaker January First. .. ADDRESS — W. E. FRANKLIN, Symes Bldg., Denver, Colo. ten CENTS „ VU|P * the copy ISSUED FRIDAY JH ill DATED SATURDAY Vol. IV. No. 26. CHICAGO December 18, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD December 18, 1909. Start Off the New Year RIGHT! Resolve, that as a “top notch” performer you will make 'art J. K. SlCHWlilC, President ItOY CS. SEBHEE, Gen’l Mgr. EOUIS JEXG, Asst. Mgr. HOTEL your “home” when in Chicago Nearly all the good artists are here join them The Saratoga Hotel and Restaurant is Chicago’s Professional Headquarters Special weekly rates. Our rooms are all equipped with modern conveniences—our staff will give cour¬ teous treatment and unsurpassed service. Our Restaurant Facilities Are Such That We Please Every One Vaudeville every night by a bill of headliners The SARATOGA is Chicago’s one “Up-to-date” Hotel THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMUSEMENT WEEKLY Published at 87 South Clark Street Chicago, by The 5MOWLQORLP Publishing Col En'ergdjis^Sgcond-Cl^ssUatter WARREN A .PATRICK, GENERAL P/RECTOR. Volume V—No. 26 CHICAGO December 18, 1909 JUDGE DUPUY FINDS “ST. ELMO” THE CAUSE FOR THE TAFT ESTATE CHRISTMAS AND THE THEATER OF SUIT FOR $15,000 Confirms in the Superior Court the Boyd Nolan Seeks to Recover that Report of the Master in Amount on Bond of Manager Chancery. Who Secured Injunction at By MARTIN BECK LaFayette. Judge George W. Dupuy of the Su¬ perior Court, Tuesday confirmed ab¬ Here we are in December again! How quickly one more year has LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec., 15.— solutely and unconditionally, the re¬ rolled around, with another series of routine duties performed, and, let Boyd Nolan, who operated a stock port of the Master in Chancery, filed us hope, some worthy achievements completed. And how welcome is company here at the Victoria theater, some time ago in the litigation that this last month on the calendar,—for it brings us that holiday in which has begun suit against Leopold Dry- has been in progress for the past three the theater plays so important a part, and which is first in millions of fus, proprietor of the Dryfus theater months between the Taft estate, own¬ hearts,—Christmas. for the sum of $15,000, the amount of ers of the LaSalle theater property, the bond he put up in the injunction and Mort H. Singer, its present oc¬ Go where you will, search the history of any country you choose suit in the “St. Elmo” case that came cupant. and you cannot but be startled not only at the antiquity but the similarity up recently. “St. Elmo,” was to be This decision means so it is averred of the various Christmas customs, in all quarters of the globe. Of course, played at the Victoria by the stock by the Askin press department that these customs vary, more or less, according to the climatic and other con¬ company, and Vaughan Glaser was the Taft estate will come into im¬ ditions and environments, but the central idea of the occasion and the booked to play it at the other theater, mediate control and that as soon as spirit which dominates the entire Christmas season is the same the hence the latter got out an injunction, the owners come into possession they world over, and, in each community this air of holiday festivity pervades preventing the former from playing will turn the theater over to Harry the theater. it. The injunction was obtained just Askin. Attorney Rosenthal, repre¬ Here in America, where representatives of every people on earth are to before the curtain went up on the senting Mr. Singer, applied for a stay opening night of the piece. The re¬ in proceedings until Monday next, be found, our Christmas manners, customs, observances and entertain¬ ments, are culled from the traditions of many nations,—and a very sult of the matter was the disbanding which was granted by Judge Dupuy. of the Boyd Nolan company. It is Mort H. Singer, in commenting on happy result has been obtained, for we have retained, as a class, only the best and merriest customs and discarded everything formal and rumored that another suit for dam¬ the status of the case said: “The ages will be filed later. case is still in court. It will take the prosy. usual course and an appeal will be had in the near future. ‘The Flirt¬ In a general sense Christmas in the United States is more like the DOWNS IS AT HEAD OF ing Princess’ will continue its run English form of the festival than that of any other country or nation. NEW COLE CORPORATION. uninterruptedly.” We have our English Christmas plum-pudding, mince pie, turkey, punch, holly, mistletoe, gifts and greetings; still, we have adopted the German Organization Formed for the Pro¬ GILL IS EXONERATED Christmas tree and the German Santa Claus who goes with it, to say motion of the Famous Circus FROM LARCENY CHARGE. nothing of other things and features gleaned in other quarters of the and Officers are Selected. globe, which help to make a merry American Christmas. JAMESTOWN, N." Y., Dec., 15.— Affidavit is Offered Showing that the But there are many entertaining features of the season abroad, which The future of Cole Bros, circus was Ring in Question was Given Into have been regarded of the utmost importance for many generations gone His Possession by Owner. by, that we have not, thus far, adopted. One of these is the Christmas decided last week, when it became pantomime, that “Paradise of Childhood.” known that the property was to be in¬ Charles Gill, who was arrested corporated under the management of some time since at Grand Rapids, One well known English writer recently wrote: James Downs, son of the late Mar¬ Mich., on the charge of the larceny tin Downs, who owned the enterprise. of a diamond ring has been exoner¬ “One of the most pleasing sights of this festive season is the group James Downs is to be the president ated, by those who made the com¬ of boys and girls returned from school. Go where you will, a cluster of the new company; E. C. Knupp, plaint, and the young woman, whose of their joyous, chubby faces present themselves to our notice. I am vice president; H. B. Potter, secre¬ ring was in controversy, has made an more delighted in watching the vivacious workings of their ingenuous tary and the board of directors the affidavit that the ring was given into countenances at these Christmas shows, than at the sights on the stage above officers and George E. Robin¬ ms possession by her of her own free themselves.” son, Louis Heineman, Sol Waxel- will.