Show World (June 1907)

June 29, 1907. THE SHOW WORLD 9 New York, June 23, 1907. B roadway awaits the show WORLD. The news that Chi¬ cago is to send forth a high- class amusement weekly has been the subject of gossip along the Great White Way for several weeks, and its initial issue will find hosts of read¬ ers who are curious to see the jour¬ nalistic newcomer out of the west. If THE SHOW WORLD accomplishes what is expected of it, the verdict on “Pat’s” enterprise will be, “Great!” “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good,” and so the hot summer breezes which have replaced the cold winds of the late spring bring their welcome to the New York roof garden and park management in the way of a volume of business to these places. Half a dozen of the regular thea¬ ters, however, still hold out. The Garrick, with William Collier, who gave the two hundredth performance of “Caught in the Rain” last Satur¬ day night, “The Man of the Hour” at the Savoy, “The Boys of Company B” at the Lyceum, and “The Lion and the Mouse” at the Hudson, which Henry B. Harris has put on for a summer run. The two musical-com¬ edy* record breakers are still at the Knickerbocker and Broadway, the “Red Mill” and “A Parisian Model,” while Eddie Foy is still drawing crowded houses at the Herald Square in “The Orchid,” and at the Casino, "Fascinating Flora” has last none of her charms. “The Red Mill,” by the way, is to be sent to the Studebaker theater, Chicago, later on in the sea¬ son and will be one of the star pro¬ ductions under the new management. Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe have just completed a very successful en¬ gagement at the Academy of Music, where they have been presenting their reperjoire of Shakespearean plays. Both these players, it is re¬ ported, will be seen in separate pro¬ ductions next season, but under the same management. Perhaps the most important of the roof garden attractions at present is George M. Cohan in “The Honey- mooners” at the Aerial gardens and the long list of “follies” at the Jar- din de Paris and Hammerstein’s. William Courtleigh in George B. Hobart’s “Peaches” seems to be the one best bet of the vaudeville houses at the present time. According to re- the present sketch is to be amp¬ lified in four acts and presented next season by J. Fred Zimmerman, Jr., with Mr. Courtleigh as a star. Other names that have been in prominent black-faced type on the Keith & Proc¬ tor programs during the past week have been the pretty Bessie Wynn, Paul MacAllister, who, by the way, ' s . 11 a “ ephe w of he late Ward Mac¬ Allister, Stella Mayhew and the now famous Houdini. The first manager to announce his Plans for the season of 1907-8 is Hen- tu B « Harris - Mr. Harris will open „ . York season by presenting itooert Edeson in a new play by Wil- * m C- DeMille, author of “Strong- and as yet unnamed, on Aug- hl TT Mr- E(J eson will appear at rr Hudson theater. On the same =7 the same manager will launch w , elwyn as a star in Mr. Ede- \ „ ast year ’s vehicle, “Strong- ueaMn ^ r ’ Selwyn ’ s Premier ap- ' a I anc ® lu a stellar capacity will be de at McVicker’s theater, Chicago. «race Elliston will also make her The songs are all new and the scen¬ ery is, of course, brand new. With the exception of the Cohans, the cast is also new, although Ethel Levy, who was Mrs. George Cohan before the divorce courts severed the matri¬ monial bonds, is conspicuous by her absence. Gertrude Hoffman however atones for this, and see res with a number of imitations she made fa¬ mous in A Parisian Model. Her im¬ personations of Eddie Foy, Anna Held, and The Gibson Girl in the Belle of Mayfair, were especially fine. All in all, The Honeymooners is worth while, and has struck the fickle New York summer playgoers just to the proper degree. It is inevitably destined to last until the dog days or later, unless the busy young play¬ wright is compelled to take it off in order to attend to duties elsewhere in the entertainment field. Now that the days of negligee and torridity have reached Broadway, there is a notable absence of the peo¬ ple whose names figure prominently in the public prints. Every manager, star and agent who could possibly steal away, has done so and they are scattered far and wide, at summer resorts and summer homes, on both sides of the blue pond. Among the notables who are in Europe for the summer are Chas. Frohman, Oscar Hammerstein, David Belasco, Clyde Fitch, Wagenhals and Kemper, Henry W. Savage, David Warfield, Ethel Barrymore, William Gillette, Wm. H. Crane, Arnold Daly, Grace George, Annie Russell, Mary Mannering, Dal¬ las Welford, Fritzi Scheff, Kyrle Bel- lew, Dorothy Donnelley, Edgar Sei- wyn, Flora Zabelle, Helen Hale and Gertrude Quinlan. Mr. and Mrs. Rob¬ ert Mantell are at Atlantic Highlands. Wilton Lackaye and family at Shel¬ ter Island, Francis Wilson, New Ro¬ chelle, Blanche Walsh, Great Neck Long Island; Elsie Janis, Shelter Isl¬ and; Robert Edeson, Sag Harbor; Henry Blossom on his yacht; George Broadhurst at Virginia Beach. Among those who will go to the farm or are already in the region of hay and clov¬ er are: Blanche Bates, Hattie Wil¬ liams, Otis Skinner, Sam Bernard, Frances Starr, Max Figman, Florence Roberts, James K. Hackett, Montgom¬ ery and Stone, Frank Daniels, Paul Armstrong, James Forbes and Gus Edwards. Then, too, there are mans well known players whose vacation will be spent right on Broadway and hard at work This latter list in¬ cludes William Collier, Sarah Truax Victor Herbert, Gustav Kerker, Geo M. Cohan, Lee Shubert, J. Fred Zim merman, Sam Harris and Henry B Harris. billposteTTtcTmeet. Imporant Convention Will be Held at Niagara Falls, July 9. Secretary Charles Bernard an¬ nounces that the Cataract-Interna¬ tional Hotel, Niagara Falls, N. Y., has been selected as headquarters for the Annual Convention of the Associated Billposters and Distributors which is to convene Tuesday, July 9. The Board of Directors of the Nat¬ ional Association will convene on Monday, July 8th and transact such business as is brought to their atten¬ tion for consideration at this their last meeting of the fiscal year. The meeting promises to be of much importance to the future of bill-post¬ ing interests in the United States. appearance as a star under the direc¬ tion of Mr. Harris at the Savoy the¬ atre a week later, in a new American comedy by Martha Morton Conheim, entitled “The Movers,” while during the first part of September Mr. Har¬ ris will offer at the Colonial theater, Boston, Edwin Milton Royles’ latest play, “The Struggle Everlasting.” Arthur Byron, who is at present ap¬ pearing as John Burkett Ryder in “The Lion and the Mouse” at the Hudson, will have the principal male role. Mr. Harris will have four com¬ panies of “The Lion and the Mouse,” the definite tours of which have not as yet been decided upon. The two principal roles, however, in the piece and who has since appeared in every continental capital and before almost every crowned head, will return to America in September and make a tour of the country, opening in Chi¬ cago. It is Mr. Harris’ present inten¬ tion to produce another play by James Forbes, author of “The Chorus Lady,” and in January next a character com¬ edy with Edmund Breese in the prin¬ cipal role. <» ❖ <S> There has been a great exodus of Broadway productions to Chicago for summer production and you folks out by Lake Michigan either are now wit¬ nessing or have in store the very best of our successes. Rose Stahl in The will be played by the following peo¬ ple: For Company A, Edmund Breese and Miss Gertrude Coghlan; Com¬ pany B, Mr. Oliver Dowd Byron and Miss Flora Juliet Bowley; Company C, Mr. Paul Everton and Miss Joseph¬ ine Lovett, and in Company D, Mr. Walter Edwardes and an actress yet to be decided upon. After the Chicago engagement of Miss Rose Stahl -in “The Chorus Lady,” Miss Stahl will be presented in a number of the largest cities of the United States, and in May, 1908, will be sent to London, where she will appear at one of Charles Froh- man’s theaters. Miss Ruth St. Denis, whose East Indian dances created a furore in New York something over a year ago Chorus Lady, at Powers, and Brew¬ ster's Millions, at the Colonial, are two of the great big hits of the sea¬ son and now I understand that The Red Mill, with Montgomery and Stone, will go to your city August 19. George Cohan’s new summer piece, The Honeymooners, which is current on the Aerial Roof Garden, over the New Amsterdam Theater, is one of the best hot weather attractions on Broadway, and is receiving its just and proper share of the summer pat¬ ronage. Supposed to be a revamped version of the Yankee Doodle Boy’s old piece, Running For Office, The Honeymooners proved to have very little of the old, and much of the very newest musical comedy fabric.