The Billboard 1905-04-15: Vol 17 Iss 15 (1905-04-15)

The Billboard Sig. Sautelle & Welsh genial Phil. all the Brothers Shows. The is Al in advance and is known by newspaper men along the route. Frank Loyal is managing Professor Haw’s Horse Taming Exhibition, now touring eastern Washington, with a 40x60 canvas. The roster of the show is Prof. Haw, horse tamer; Mrs. Haw, ticket seller; Dr. Procter, surgeon and lecturer, and H. W. Nelson in charge of canvas with two assistants. Mitchell Bremer, while en _ route from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, March 28, was struck by a fallen ventilator window at King’s Mountain and rendered unconscious for two hours. Mr. Bremer, familiarly known as ‘“‘Peanuts,”’ is all right now, and will be with one of the big ones this season. The Pawnee Bill winter quarters at Carnegie, Pa., have been purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad, to be used for new freight yards. Next fall Pawnee Bill will open new winter quarters near Philadelphia, having purchased a large farm in that vicinity on which new and commodious buildings will be erected this summer, Bonavita, Frank C. Bostock’s famous lion tamer, who lost his arm last year in a fight with one of his twenty-seven lions, received a benefit recently at the Hippodrome, Paris. The interpid dompteur apeared with his large troupe of jungle monarchs, and the redoubtable Frank C. personally introduced ‘‘Wallace, the man-eater.’’ Harry Lake, for four years superintendent of the St. Louis Billposting Co., and last season advertising manager for Crawford's Theatre in St. Louis, leaves this week to join the Sells & Downs Shows. He takes charge of car No. 2 and his energy, practical experience and close attention to business insures him a most successful season. Harry VanAuken, late of VanAuken & Vannerson, has joined Frank Ellet and will work with the Great Ellet Troupe this season in their aerial bar act. Mr. Ellet has returned to Grand Rapids, Mich., after a pleasant visit to his family at McKee’s Rocks, Pa. Master Willie Ellet received some nice presents in celebration of his eleventh birthday. Notes from Brown’s United Shows: Everybody is busy at winter quarters. Horses, new Wagons, canvas and paraphernalia are arriving daily. The parade and band will be a feature. ‘Ten men ahead will advertise the show. Most of the paper will be special. The route has been carefully gone over and indications point to a successful season. The roster of the advance of Gentry Brothers’ (No. 1) Show is as follows: Eddie Jackson, local contractor; Geo. Cable, manager ear No. 1; Harry Beltz, boss biliposter, with BE. A. Robey, Chas. Lindblade, Harry Pitney, W. A. Lane, Fred. Dick and O. H. Menimen, as assistants; Allen Pierce and Fred. Green, programmers. C. 8S. Primrose is general gczent and railroad contractor, son with that show. making his ninth sea To the Great Barlow Shows have been added three new menagerie wagons, and all the wagons of the show have been painted yellow with a red and green decoration. The roster is as follows: Ed. P. Barlow, manager; Elia Barlow, treasurer; Theodore Bates, advance agent; G. Watson, privileges; Edna and Erma Barlow, singing and dancing; LaDeal and Hepner, aerialists; Howe and Decker, jugglers; Guy Tailor, principal clown; James Wiley, boss hostler; Clarence MeGoughn, master of properties; Frank Speidler, Leo Wilson, Ledger Pontions, Clinton Warrior and Gorman Blair. The Rollo Fox Show opens at Appleton, Wis., April 24. They will carry a sixty-foot roundtop with one fifty-foot middle piece, side show 40x60 and dressing tent 35x60, with everything new. The roster, in part, is as follows: F. W. Frazer's troupe of educated dogs, ponies, goats and monkeys; Clark and Stonebaker, double traps; F. A. Carro, juggler and hoop roller, and Clark Ridgeway’s band. J. H. Walsh will be boss canvasman with six assistants. The show will make two and threeday stands in Wisconsin and northern Michigan. Billy LaPearl and James 0. Contel are proprietors. The Gentry Brothers Famous Shows United, No. 1 and left winter quarters (Bloomington, Ind.) Monday, April 3. The two shows traveled as one as far as Memphis, Tenn., where they separated and immediately left for their respective opening stands, Jonesboro, Ark., and Greenville, Miss. No. 2 show arrived at its destination Tuesday night, after each member of the troupe had received a good shaking up. We had the pleasure and experience of having a man as engineer who believed in going the limit, and the first sixty-eight miles out of Memphis was made in seventy-five minutes. The season opened at Greenville, Miss., April Notes from the Lucky Bill Show: We started from winter quarters at Quenemo, Kan., March 25, with one of the finest wagon shows on the road, many times larger and better than ever before. Business is big and the weather is delightful. The show is composed of the Whitlarks, traps and rings; Clyde and Lottie Rialdo, sketch artists and clowns; McCoy Family, slack wire; Sid DeClairville, human spider; Jas. Wing, aerial artist; Wm. Newton, jr., unicyclist: Blonde Dunlap, buck and wing dancer; Mary Dunlap, pianist; May Newton, moving pictures; Roy Thornbren, chef; W. V. Fox, boss hostler: John Curley, boss canvasman, and Chas. McCoy, electrician. Notes from winter quarters of Geo. W. Hall’s Circus and Menagerie: Everything is about completed for our opening, which will be early in May. The finishing touches are being put on the cages and wagons. The stock is in fine condition and the elephants, horses, dogs and pigs are in daily practice. Dan Costello is finishing a manage horse and a number of pony acts, which will be a feature for the coming season. Prof. Pearl Grinnell will have charge of the band; Wm. Cook of the stock, and J. H. Simmerson of canvas. Among the performers recently engaged are The Whitlarks, aerialists; Three Powells; Wm. Milliken, principal clown; Evangeline Metcalf, soubrette, and Sim’ Holloway, comedian. The Billboard is eagerly looked for every Friday. The roster of the George S. Ely United Shows and Trained Animal Exhibition ee is as follows, viz.; Geo. 8S. Ely, sole proprietor and manager; Mrs, K. S. Ely, treasuerer in charge of ticket wagon; Lee Howard, equestrian director; Howard Family; Gertie De Ment, fiying trapeze; Sophia Howard, flying rings; Wilbur Brothers, horizontal bar; Miss Mac Wealty in Roman standing races and menage act; Prof. Grace and his school of dogs, ponies and goats; the Hamburg Brothers, acrobats and gymnasts, and Professor Zadell and his four performing steers. Blacky Jones is boss canvasman with twelve assistants; Swift is boss hostler with Ben eighteen assistants; and Prof. Rau has charge of the band with eight pieces. Mollie Leon, in private life Mary Anne Leon, for many years known in the circus ring and at one time a feature of the John Robinson Show, died at her home in Springfield, Ohio, March 28, convulsions. Mrs. Leon was the Leon, a former circus gymnast. She received an injury several years ago while doing a trapeze act that put her out of the business completely. She was born February 19, 1855, and twenty-five years ago was married to Ed. Leon. Their two children, Maud and Ed., are still living. Maude having retired from the vaudeville and settled down to private life. Young Edward is said to possess a wonderful singing voice. The funeral was held March 30, from St. Mary’s Church, Springfield. The roster of the Pubillones Shows is as follows: The Escamillos Family (2), wire act; The Segundo Garcinetti Family (8), acrobats; Miss Bertina, The Todd-Judge Family (3), acrobats; The Clarke-Clarkonians (4); aerlalists; Mr. Toki Murata, Japanese; H. Higuchi and Son, Japanese; Miss Beatrice, contortionist; Dr. Clarke, loop the gap; Mr. Ostrado, trapeze; Mr. Scatinelly, rings and trapeze; Mr. Flexmore, clown; The Three Pouriers, bars and rings; Mr. Tome Eck and Miss Florence, loop the loop; Mons. Jolly and Mlle. Velia, Parisian dancers; Alfred and Rowan Banack, European clowns; The Three Bottomleys, parallel and triple bars; The Ryan Family, equestrians; The Feres and Griff, hercules acts; Mr. C. Eggers, loop the gap; Mr. Broad and Mr. Rose, bicyclists; The Lawrent Family (3), strong acts; Messrs. Pito and Chocolate, clowns; The Barnes Family and their animal collection; Mr. Delgado and wife, and their animal collection; Mr. Chachito and Loila, colored minstrels; Pancha and Modesta, equestrians; The Ortelaza Sisters, contortionists; Peter and Lou, Chinese acrobats; Messrs. Lasaro and Jiminez; gymnasts; The Castrillon Famils (6), acrobats; Mr. Mendez, clown; Jose Pino and Wife, comic songs: Eugenio Gomez, equestrian; Roman and Daniels, comedy barrel act; Mr. Maximus, bull act. Antonio Pubillones, proprietor and general director; Manuel Pubillones and Isidore Rabogo, directors; Benito Gutierrez, general administrator; Manuel Garcia, Enrique Maseda and Johnny Harrison, secretaries; Pancho Veritia, Mario Maspose, Jose Duarte and Horacio Lianso, interpreter agents; and orchestra of twenty people. The property men in charge with the three different companies are Gervasio, Santago and Perico. wife PARK NOTES. Avon Park at Niles, Ohio, now has a big zoo annexed. Electric Park, Parsons, Kan., opens May 18 with a big vaudeville and dramatic production upon the stage of the new Casino, just completed. West End Park, New Orleans, La., has been opened by the New Orleans Railway Co., which will run the resort until December 1, when its lease expires. E. H. Johnson will open Electric Park, Waterloo, Ia., June 1. A vaudeville the | } | | | | | Manila | Maqua, after a week's suffering with | of Ed. | atre is being erected where nine performances © will be given each week. The work of clearing up the debris and making excavations for Steeplechase Island, Bridgeport, Conn., has begun and the resort will be finished by May 30. Sylvan Beach, La Porte, Ind., has been secured by Chris. Mortensen and L. Beck under a three years’ lease, and improvements have begun under their management. The Flagstaff, Mauch Chunk, Pa., will feature band concerts the coming season. The traction company will inaugurate a_tenminute schedule when the season opens. Among the chief improvements at Park, between Mauch Chunk and TaPa., will be a new vaudeville theatre. A. C. Fritsch, of Lansford, will be manager. Alexander Park is to be established near Cairo, Ill., by the Cairo Electric and Traction Co. Mr. Geo. H. Lewis, of Chicago, is promoting the enterprise, which consists of an extension of the railroad company’s tracks. A. Jack Faust will again be manager of Matt Kussell’s Circuit of parks this summer, which opens about May 29, and includes parks in Champaign, Springfield, Mattoon, Bloomington and LaSalle, Ill., and Frankfort, Ky. Central Park at Center Square, Pa., has been remodeled and refitted. Prof. Charles H. Williams and Nellie LaTeena, in her slide for life, will be free attractions. The Will C. Sites Stock Co. will play at the resort all summer. The fourth season at Electric Park, situated on picturesque Kinderhook Lake, midway between Albany and Hudson, N. Y., opens June 5. A vaudeville entertainment will be given twice, daily, and other attractions of an up-to-date park have been well provided for. Luna Park at Pittsburg, Pa., is said to be booked almost solid for picnics and outings for the summer. W. W. Jimeson is manager and y. C. Little advertising manager of the new Ingersoll resort. The park will erect its own billboards and will test the merits of advertising on a large scale. Harry Bonnell, formerly of the Newark (N. J.) Evening News, has canceled his engagement with Hulburd’s Wild West and will succeed Clark Ball as press agent this summer at Greater Electric Park, Newark, N. J. Mr. Bonnell will also do the press work for the Hillside Pleasure Park in that city. Goguac Resort at Battle Creek, Mich., has secured the Capitol Amusement Co, for an eight-day stand, beginning May 28. This opens the season. Leases has recently been closed by the resort association for merry-go-round, shooting gallery, cane and knife rack, doll throw, arcade, bowling alley, etc. Hopkins’ Fontaine Ferry at Louisisville, Ky., opens its season May 1. Among the amusements will be a scenic railway, loop the loop, circle swing, Mills Edisonia, laughing gallery, baseball gallery, postal card photo gal lery, automatic shooting gallery, miniature railway, Chilecoot pass and a new casino. | Sans Souci Park, Wilkesbarre, Pa., | under the management of Mr. J. O. Welch, is fast assuming a very neat appearance. Mr. Welch has just closed a contract for the bringing of a double-decker carousel of German make to be placed in the park. It has a carrying capacity of 450 people andwill be installed in a beautiful building. Fairmount Park at Kansas City, Mo., will be open this season,, having been leased by Benj. Rosenthal for a period of ten years. For the past five years the park has been closed, but a theatre will be built where vaudeville will be put on regular, and all amuse| ment devices to be found at the up-to-date re| sort will be installed in Fairmount. No intox| icating liquors will be sold upon the grounds. | Wonderland, at Minneapolis, Minn.., | wil open May 27. Among the attractions that | the G. J. Prescott Booking Agency are furnishing are Miss Mary Vokes, doing a thirtyfive-foot gap jump, and Mr. Guy Toley in his high-wire bicycle act. The scenic railway for, Wonderland is almost completed, and the mystic swing will be ready in due time. The company has contracted for 21,000 electric lights. The shoot the chutes, a fairy theatre, old mill, together with all of the free attractions will make Wonderland one of the strongest amusement places in the northwest. Col. Wm. Gabriel, of Gabriel & Langan’s Wild West Exposition, will personally select the Indians that have been loaned his attraction for the coming season. The Indian ponies will be some of the best in the circus business. The Gabriel & Langan Wild West will open its season at Farm Garden Park, Newark, N. J., early in May. Wm. Langan has closed some contracts with outdoor concessions that will present something new to the amusement world. Clark Ball has engaged a competent staff of advertisers and will start to work the middle of April billing the entire State of New Jersey. The grounds selected in Newark are centrally located, and a big plot of adjoining property is added to Farm Garden. Painters and carpenters are remodeling this resort which has the reputation of being one of the most respectable in Newark. George Armstrong, the popular treasurer of the Wm. Greason Co., is now permanently located on the grounds and is making a world of new friends. He was located at Dreamland last summer. Scenery and Show Paintings ! JOHN HERFURTH, No. 2183 Boone &t.. Cincinnati, 0, HIGH GRADE PAINTINGS FOR SIDE SHOWS CLARENCE FAGG, 40 Bond 8t., N. Y. 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