The Billboard 1910-10-22: Vol 22 Iss 43 (1910-10-22)

12 The Billboard OCTOBER 22, 1910, Profession of Vaudeville Amusement NOTES OF THE ROAD TONY Items of News and Bits of Gossip Concerning the Vaudeville Profession and the Performers Identified Therewith, Gathered by The Billboard's Corps of Correspondents The Millman Trio, writing from the Central Theatre, Dresden, Germany, under date of Sept. 12, state that they opened at the Central, September 1, and have been doing fine. Three American acts are on the same bill and they are carrying away the honors. But one show a day is given at this German theatre. The vaudeville situation in Germany, according to the Millmans, is only fair, but far better than in America or in England. The Belvedere Hall, Cumberland’s (Md.) old est theatre, closed as a playhouse for more than a score of years, has been reopened as a vaudeville and moving picture theatre, by Chas. and Frank Fisher. In the old playhouse Mary Anderson, the elder Jefferson, and many players of renown, now dead and gone, appeared, from shortly after the civil war until the old playhouse was closed, following the erection of the City Hall. The Howard-Dayton Vaudeville Road Show leaves Kansas City, Oct. 15, for a tour, playing one-night stands. With the company are Loudinae, magician; Billy Allen and Co., black face; Mrs. Henpeck’s Husband, comedy sketch; Adelaide Thorman, soubrette; Gertrude and Pltha Havens, musical act; The Dramatic Director, farce; The Busted Minstrels, farce; and a number of specialties. L. S. McNutt is manager of the company. Bonita and Lew Hearn, who played the Or pheum Theatre in Nashville, Tenn., week of | Oct. 3-8, are now featuring Irving Berlin’s latest song craze, Stop, Stop, Stop Come Over | and Love Me Some More. In an interview with the Nashville Billboard correspondent, Mr. Hearn stated that he and Miss Bonita were the first to bring out this big novelty song, which was first introduced at Hammerstein’s, New York, on September 5. The Lyric Theatre, Bayonne, N. J., opened its doors for the first time on September 29th. Ed Mason, owner and manager of the house, was formerly owner of Washington Park, Bayonne. The house has a seating capacity of 1,300, and plays two shows in the evening, with an after noon matinee. The acts are booked through the Woods Booking Agency. Amos Harker is stage manager, and William Longstreet is property man. Norman Ed. Beck, formerly agent of Dominion Park, Montreal, and later with Col. Francis Ferari’s Shows, has been appointed advance agent of the Empire Dramatic and Vaudeville Company, playing out of Boston, Mass. The company is booked througb the province of Que bec, in Canada, and New York State, playing repertoire and vaudeville at two and three night stands. Adelaide Keim, who packed the Julian Thea tre, Chicago, for two weeks, returns October 31, for a third week with Manager J. G. Conderman. Miss Keim’s plans are uncertain. She may appear in a production in Chicago shortly. Paul Sittner offered her $1,000 to play Sittner’s Theatre week of October 17, it is reported. She declined, being under contract to the Morris office. The Western Vaudeville Managers’ Association is rapidly increasing the scope of their activities in the State of Iowa since a branch office was opened there. The routes are laid out in Chicago, but a great deal of booking is done in the Des Moines office. Recent Iowa houses to join the combination are The Empire, at Ft. Dodge, and The Crystal, at Waterloo. Terry and Schultz, The Montana Outlaws, now playing the Keith houses, have closed with the Ringling Brothers’ Shows for a novelty rope act next season, using a genuine Mexican Burro with a $250 saddle, won by Terry at the frontier celebration at Cheyenne, Wyo. Cora Miskell was called home to Davenport, Iowa, by the sad news of the death of bor father, Joseph Cary, which occurred Sept. 19, 1910. He is survived by a wife, Cora Miskel, of the Miskel-Hunt-Miller, Bernice, of Bernice and Boy, and two other children. The Benardos are meeting with great success on the Pantages’ Circuit in their rural comedy, At Nine O’Clock, by William A. Quick. They are now playing Idaho and have fifteen weeks to follow. After playing this time they may go to the Coast. After two years of sunshining and making more friends than ever, dainty Josephine LeRoy has returned to New York. Miss LeRoy is the original ‘‘little lady with the big voice,’ and is decidedly popular in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Carl De Mayne and the former's brother, bave arranged to put on a comedy act of twenty-five minutes over the Canfield Circnit, the first date being the Auditorium Theatre, Cincinnati, Oct. Louis M. Granat. formerly a Western Wheel shows, is now appearing in W. V. M. A. houses, booked by A. E. Meyers. Granat is billed as ‘‘the whistling virtuoso.”’ Albert and Frieda Ketz closed a season of ee weeks with the Hoffman-Weller Carnival Company at Sleepy Eye, Minn., October 1. They will rest for a few weeks before going into vaudeville. Sam Morris, late of Saxonia Brothers, has oined hands with Jack Elliott and Walter Re air, the new trio being known as Elliott, BeLair and Elliott. They are now on the Association time. Bobby Gossans has solid bookings for some to come. He is now touring the Provof Canada. In April he opens on the 9 ~~ manager of in vandeville, ces Sullivan and Considine time for twenty weeks. Harry G. ‘‘Hap’’ Moore and Miss Edith Mack have formed a partnership and will appear in vaudeville in a new act called A Little of Ev + They will be known as Moore and Mack. Ed. Harley opens at San Francisco, Oct. 23, for six weeks with Ed. Shayne, holding an op tion of fifteen weeks more. He was placed through Tom Brantford, who manages the act. PASTOR’S FORTUNE Friends and Intimates Not Surprised That the Great Pioneer of American Vaudeville Left Very Meagre Estate—Description of His Easy Methods and Liberal Disposition New York, Oct. 15 (Special to The Billboard). ~The statement published October 7, that the estate of the late Tony Pastor amounted to only $6,153 caused little surprise among the theatrical manager's old friends. Some said that they had not expected there would be that much. Mr. Pastor’s will was probated in 1908 and the statement was from the schedules filed on Wednesday by Mrs. Pastor, administratrix the will. ARTHUR PRINCE, Playing William Morris Time. The Actors’ Union served notice on E. J. Cox that the present agreement is canceled. The thirty days’ notice expires on October 29. The Union is now at peace with other Chicago offices. The Brahams and Company, now on the But terfield time, open on the Interstate Circuit in November. The act has just been returned from a tour of the Orpheum coast houses. Wm. Hilliar has joined hands with Chas. LeVette, formerly of LeVette and Doyle. They are doing a comedy magic act entitled The Best and Worst Magicians on Earth. The Sensational Boises are meeting with much success playing fair dates. Week of Oct. 2 they play the Brockton Fair, Brockton, Mass., their seventeenth fair date this season. Little Lew Gleason will be featured as prin cipal comedian with Duncan Clark's New York Comedy Company this season. recently with The Honeymooners. Miss Marie Bennett (Marie Mack), Gleason was of the team of Mack and Bennett, mourns the loss of her father, who died suddenly in Pittsburg. Pa., Sept. 23 Lloyd Spencer, who appeared in vaudeville for many years, billed as Lioyd Spencer and his Chinese stories, is now manager of the Royal Theatre, San Antonio, Tex. After an absence of two years from the East, J. Ducrow has returned to New York where he opens the last week in October for a tour of Eastern vaudeville houses. Kitty Edwards, wife of Tom Edwards, Eng lish ventriloquist, is making a hit over the Sul livan and Considine circuit, in English char acter songs and changes. Harry Clemens, formerly stage carpenter at the Majestic Theatre, Erie, Pa., will accompany the DeWolf Hopper Company on its tour to the Coast as electrician. Swann and Roberts, A Night tn featured in The Matinee The case formerly with Eittner’s Bohemia Company, are now being Chas. T. Fales’ musical comedy, Girl, . in which Mark Monroe obtained Judgment of $125 against the Family Theatre, at Rockford, TM., ! be heard again. has been appealed and will | “Almost all his life Tony Pastor was the original ‘easy mark,’ "’ said one of hig oldest friends. Any one, actor, manager, agent, could ‘touch’ bim successfully; and how he ha to leave more than $6,000 when he died tg a mystery. He never seemed to keep any account of the money he loaned, and I know he must have passed out a good many thousand dollars during his career without a slip of paper to show for it. Here's an example: “I was having lunch with him one afternoon in a Fourteenth street restaurant and T saw a story in an afternoon paper about a theatrica) company being stranded in Salt Lake City. He went across to bis theatre and had his manager get the details. When he learned that it was a bona-fide case of stranding, with a business manager who had skipped, ony had his own bank wire to Salt Lake City enough money to get the company out of debt, pay their fares to New York, and feed them on the way. How many times he did that sort of thing knows. His friends used to remonstrate with bim about his generosity, but it did no good, He simply could not be kept frem lending his money. “He was constantly helping variety actors. In the old days those fellows were always broke, and they always came to Tony for help. A chap would come to him and ask for $25. Tony would ask him to play his house in return, and the fellow would promise. Maybe one in ten kept the promise. “When he used to go on the road with his own company it was a shame to see the way stranded actors used to wait for his arrival. It was worst in Chicago. They would meet him at the train with bard luck stories, and Tony would always stand for them. were not only actors, but business managers and agents, and every sort of person connected with a theatre. “When Keith took the Union Square Theatre and began to present modern vaudeville there, Tony's business began to fall off and his profits to shrink. This did not seem to effect his lending to any extent, however. It only curtailed bis own spending money. In the last few years before his theatre closed, he made comparatively little money. I am surprised that lis estate amounts to as much as it does. He must have made a million dollars in his time, and thought he bad given away almost that much.’’ Some time before his death Mr. Pastor bought a house in Elmburst, L. 1., on Fifth street, in one of the most attractive parts of the village. He died there, and his widow, Mrs. Josephine M. Pastor, still occupies the house. What incumbrance, if any, ig on this part of the es tate could not be learned. NEW THEATRE FOR MOLINE. Moline, Ill., Oct. 15.—By a deal recently concluded, Moline will have a new vaudeville and picture house. Plans are now being drawn for the promoters, L. K. Cleaveland, W. J. Talty and T. I. Stanley, calls for a one-story brick building, same to cost approximately from $12,000 to $15,000. The site secured has a frontage of 34 feet and is 125 feet in depth. Building operations will begin at once, and the building rushed to completion. The opening will occur about the first of the year. MY CRIMSON LINED WITH WHITE. By MADELINE HUGHES PELTON. Ob, my heart am beating sadly, _And my eyes are brimming wet— For my Emmeline has left me And I never can forget. Oh she could have stole my chickens, Or my razor that'll fight, But to take my coat for dancin’'—ob! My Crimson lined with white! If I only could have known it, I'm so mad that I could die. Now I've got to find another— And there isn’t one so fly. Then you see I looked my finest In the calcium at night, When my feet were drunk with dancin’ In my Crimson lined with White! And that isn’t half the worry There is something else beside, And I'll search the city over Till I get that sinful bride— For she'll give the other fellow, Just aS sure as this is night, All that wealth of shinin’ glory, My Crimson lined with White! 8.-C. IN FT. WORTH. Forth Worth, Tex., Oct. 15.—The Sullivan & Considine Cireuit has procured a lease of three years on the Royal Theatre RBullding, which will be remodeled and opened soon under the name of the Empress. G. V. Brown, of Cleburne, will manage the house. NEW THEATRICAL CO. FORMED. Evansville, Ind., Oct. 14 (Special to The Billboard).—The Majestic Co. filed articles of incorporation last week. The capitalization is $6.000 and the stock is owned by Henry Me F. Roy Comstock, J. J. Coleman, Phil W. and Adolph Decker. live In New York and three in | The stock is divided Into 120 shares. | pany operates the Majestic Theatre. On! y Two of the stockholders Evansville. The com