Show World (June 1907)

June 29, 1907. n THE SHOW WORLD i With the number of artists con¬ stantly on the increase, the artistic future of the Yiddish drama in this country is most promising. The day is not far remote when every city of prominence numbering among its I population the highest type of Jew- ishfe citizenship and culture will be provided with its Yiddish theater and be adequately supported. The great progress made by Yiddish art within thirty years gives abundant promise of still greater achievements in the near future. No student of the best that the drama affords, be it Yiddish or otherwise, can afford to ignore the Jewish school of acting mor withhold hisjFclosest observation of its meth¬ ods and aims. In days past we flocked to study the best that Prance, Germany or Italy offered us while we overlooked the pearls lying at our feet. Condi¬ tions are changing, however, and as the Yiddish drama advances to high¬ er planes, the earnest student of the best the drama affords will find in the Yiddish playhouse a place of sat isfying recreation and profitable study such as he will seek in vain else¬ where. True art finds recognition in every clime, be its environment what it may, and the Yiddish dramat¬ ic art is destined to rise to greater heights and to win the admiring plaudits of the English-speaking race. Believes “Girl” is Lucky. Mr. Harry Askin, who owns “The Time, the Place and the Girl,” is a very strong believer in the benefits to be derived from the word “Girl” in the title of a musical play. So strong is this idea that he will probably change the title of “The Umpire” to “The Umpire and the Girl.” AMERICAN PARKS IN ENGLAND. John Calvin Brown Reports Success¬ ful Opening at Manchester. In a recent communication to The Show World under date of May 22, John Calvin Brown, who recently or¬ ganized a company in England to operate a series of high class amuse¬ ment parks, tells of the successful opening of White City, the first park at Manchester, England. The day of the opening was a cold, rainy one, but according to Mr. Brown, the turn¬ stiles recorded 58,000 people and the Hale’s Tours, Fun Factory and Fig¬ ure Eight broke all records. The Park opened just eleven weeks after Charles B. Dillingham and W. F. Con¬ nor of New York, proves the claim that Chicago is rapidly becoming the producing center of the country. Both Mr. Connor and Mr. Dilling¬ ham are men of sound judgment and they promise that none but the best attractions will be offered at their newly acquired playhouse. It is their intention to produce new plays and keep them on at the Studebaker for long runs. Mr. Dillingham at present has un¬ der contract several well known stars, and Mr. Connor will be remembered as having directed the remarkable tour of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, which netted him a profit of $200,000. New Chicago Theater Ready Jan. 1. The new theater which is building in Chicago for the home of the La¬ Salle Theater Stock Company, the producers of “The Time, the Place and the Girl,” “The Umpire” and half a dozen of the other big musical suc¬ cesses of the past five years, will be ready by January 1, 1908. It is sit¬ uated on Clark street at the corner of Adams and will have a seating ca¬ pacity of 1400. Askin to Tour Six Companies. Harry Askin, manager of the Grand Opera House 1 in Chicago, will have no less than six companies touring the country under his direction the forth¬ coming season. They will include Ezra Kendall, who will divide his season between “Swell Elegant Jones,” his last year’s success, a new the first spade was sunk into the site commencement of the vogue which and everything was complete to the American parks are bound to have in smallest detail. Europe, and it is safe to predict that one of the most popular of the many prima donnas . ,,0.0 ,RR mini lO delight the music loving world. Miss Eoekwell has been featured with a number of the best know operatic organizations and has sung with several of the principal bands of the United States. Her finest artistic suc¬ cess has been won as operatic soloist and along this line she has scored the greatest triumphs of her remarkable career. Gifted with a remarkabje temperament and a splendid voice Miss Rockwell has the faculty of swaying her audiences at will. She has never played an engagement where the management was not anxious either to prolong the time of her appearance or re-engage her for an early return date. Miss Rockwell has been specially engaged for a season of sixteen weeks this sum¬ mer as soloist with Lambise’s Royal Venetian Band, which is now appearing at the White City. Miss Rockwell is considered as one of America's greatest singing' women with bands. The English people have taken to the American style of summer amuse¬ ments in a wonderful manner and Mr. Brown states that the Manches¬ ter park promises to be one of the most profitable in the world to both management and concessionaires. within a few years all of the coun¬ tries on the Continent will have American outdoor parks as regular amusement features. The Show World will present in an early issue a number of views of features of the Manchester White City Park. CHICAGO._wopL y<> - fFEDERAL NATIONAL BANK (j _ft FIRST CASH SUBSCRIBER TO THE SHOW WORLD. Within two hours after Warren A. Patrick had announced his intention of establishing THE SHOW WORLD, J. A. Sternad, booking agent of the Western Vaudeville Managers’ Association in the Majestic theater building, Chicago, issued his check for $4 in payment for one years’ subscription. Always first to act when promptness is esential, Mr. Sternad showed his faith in the future of the new publication and its founder by sending for Mr. Patrick to whom he presented the check, a fac simile of which is shown herewith. The presentation was made in the presence of Kerry Meagher, of the association, Walter P. Keefe, manager of the Bijou Circuit, Edward W. Carruthers, man¬ ager of the Inter-State Circuit, Miss 'Ethel Robinson, manager of the Fair Department, David Beehler, manager of the Band Department and the general office staff. The check has been framed by Mr. Patrick and always will remain a tangible asset of THE SHOW WORLD office. The electrical display at the park Is Dillingham Leases Studebaker. said to be especially fine and without -- being dazzling, is extremely effective. The recent leasing of the Stude- The opening of this park marks the baker Theater for' ten years by Adolph Linick has become a power in amusements in Chicago and together with Peter J. Schaefer and Aaron J. Jones is interested in many park and theater enterprises. His interests are large and diversified, but he manages them with singular skill. play by George Ade which is at yet unnamed, and another comedy on which Clyde Fitch is at work. Two companies playing “The Time, the Place and the Girl” and one playing “The Umpire.” Another of his at¬ tractions will be Joseph Howard and Mabel Barrison in a new play by Howard, called “The Flower of the Ranch.”