Show World (August 1908)

August 8, 1808. THE SHOW WORLD actors warned i (Continued from Page 3) know that the managers have good acts in every town of the United States, which have been tried out and are kept in reserve for emergency. “It has been stated by some perform¬ ers that the public loves actors. A few of the public may ‘jolly’ them, but no love is extended to those who cannot deliver a dollar’s worth of entertain¬ ment for a dollar in cash. “IVhat can performers expect from the managers, when they are continually trying to destroy their business? The performer should not forget that it was due to the vaudeville managers risking their money in building finer theaters than the legitimate managers have, and in paying enormous salaries to the legiti¬ mate people to enter the vaudeville field, that the better class of the public was attracted to vaudeville entertainment, and made it possible for the average performer, who is not capable of mak¬ ing a living in any otht : line, to re¬ ceive a banker’s salary. “The possibility of the White Rats becoming our competitors may sound good to the ears of a few who are ig¬ norant of the difficulties encountered by the managers during the past season, who have had to run to the bank on Saturdays to draw out of their savings •enough money to_ make" up the de¬ ficiency in the receipts to meet the pay roll. But I don’t think the managers will do much running to the bank to pay any White Rats’ salaries, who might use that money to try to ruin their business. Nor will they forget the disposition displayed, and the will will be taken for the deed. “As an indication of how successful vaudeville is at the present time, eight of the big houses have gone out en¬ tirely,., and we are trying in every way to frame some other policy for the Olympic and Haymarket, in Chicago. Men do not make changes in the policy of'their business when that business is successful, and if the performers would spend their time agitating something for the success of the business, instead of acting to' its detriment, they would be better off. “Of course, the agitators are always ■ few, but loud. Conservatives saw wood, say nothing and keep working. “In the small towns, I do not believe that more than two-thirds of the houses will open up this season, and about one-half will survive.” ^Edna^Luby sails today for a short season Williams &' Walker" in Bandanna Land. Auf. B 14, At* Saratoga! 1 N.^T^'Frfday, 'SHSSSiiS! srS Sw ar £ ia , for an important role in The Trav- . Sites. whl0h ° pens at in^h^K^th^ifl^octo Siglied f 9 r a PP® arance theater 116 ° P6nS ™ uCg -° ri0 ^atTh^m^h^sV^t Aug 17 Hammersteln’s during the week , of „ S- Bray left his offices in the Orpheum !?“?• ft- J? mes Bldg., last Saturday to ar- Or/heum nSthwelt* aCqUired °t Mistress Nell in which Miss Aug™3 ° pen at the Academy of Music . George Walker, manager of the op ,0 ° at Austin, Texas, is ~ + * 11 1 - MM^ ' The Frlar ’ s Cluh - W in The : t Friarly ] who Seated t SUN CIRCUIT United Booking Offices of America Western Vaudeville Managers’ Assn. Gus Sun A little information for the benefit of those artists who have not as yet played the time. Booking all first-class family vaudeville theaters in Ohio, Indi¬ ana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia and contiguous states. Booking 134 theaters, includ¬ ing: Sun & Murray Chain, Or¬ pheum, Zanesville, O.; Orpheum, Chillicothe, 0.; Orpheum, Can¬ ton, O.; Orpheum, Portsmouth, O.; Orpheum, Newark, 0.: Or¬ pheum, Sandusky, O,; Orpheum, Lima, O.; New Sun, Springfield, O.; Murray, Richmond, Ind. All houses 1 —three a day. Playing on Circuit A. (18 weeks), the biggest and best attractions vaudeville affords. Gus Sun Pittsburg, Pa. NEW SUN THEATRE Springfield, O. We start to book season 1908-9 first two weeks in August. All houses open Sept. 7. To facilitate the handling of correspondence kindly— 1. State lowest possible salary. 2. If not known send programs or reference. 3. Particulars of act and open All acts will be booked from ten to twelve weeks in advance with short jumps, consecutive time and no change from original routing, except in case of neces- We want good singles, feature acts and novelties. Will use 300 acts weekly, commencing Sept. 7. Gus Sun NEW SUN THEATRE Springfield, O. A few acts that have played on the Sun Circuit since September 1,1907. Eldora & Company, Ora Cecil's Leopards, Hickman Brothers, Matsumoto Japanese Troupe, Captain Webb’s Seals, Eva Ray & Company, Velare & Clark, J. A. Claxton and Company, Louis Chevalier and Company, Zella Covington Company, Hilda Thomas & Lou Hall Varno Valdare Troupe, Conn Downey & Willard, Gary Owen and Company, Spessardy’s Bears, Thomas Potter Dunne, Rogers & McKintosh, Great Richards, Webb & Connelly, Three Ronoldos, Josephine Gossman and Her Picks, De Velda & Zelda, Hubert Duveau, Jimmy Wall, Cliff Dean Company, Three Troubadours, Lamont’s Cockatoos, Klein, O. W. Brothers and Michelson, Petchmg Bros., Tegge & Danials, Gypsy Fortune Tellers, Lizzie Wilson, Edwin Adair and His Four Girls, and others too numerous to mention. Gus Sun Cincinnati, O. own right y Merry Widow ” in her Wesley Rosenquest enters upon his 26th ter on Aug^l^^hen^he 14111 Street Thea ' Blaney^prod * n Tennesse^Tess^a York Thurs- write for Coh City £ ha P- * he new play he and a thp & 'ia^^aney^ufandl’^.Ued^jionah whale swallowed Jonah ° t0 Know tlie ”9 rninagSrem ° t f Henry B. Harris, includes Harrison Arm- gaorfe sJSer AufDMkev^obn Arthu?' man ty < r!! bs ' F sie Fer 8hson and Minna Adel- -2Ss ■ The nlav rniptis in Tomuto 01 a . Rave S r ne of Wm^H^ el hurried trip^Aug.^3 Los Angeles Notes. Los Angeles, Cal., July 31. The Los Angeles will re-open week cf Aug. 2 with Kolb and Dill in Lonesome ; Town for two weeks.—The picture houses and the chronophone theaters are doing a good hot weather business. C. Wm. , Bachmann left for San Francsco th3 first of August to superintend the re¬ hearsals for the road show of Under the Bear Flag which opens its season at the , American Aug. 9. ■r wuos, jsiste s££ he N i , t la y c v York engagin'! °] ™ Of Schloss, San Diego Notes. San Diego, Cal., Aug. 1. Brandon Evans has Instal ed a most competent stock company at the Pick¬ wick, which he has recently leased from Palmer Bros. The Union theater, formerly the Elec- trodom, has changed hands and is now under the direction of Wm. Rolfes. Jackson McKormick of this city Is working on a new western play w'.Tch will be presented next season.—Doelle. Norfolk’s Theaters to Open. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 2. The Colonial, Academy of Music and Granby, all throw their doors open to the public during the latter part of this month.' The former with Keith & Proc¬ tor Vaudeville and the latter two with Klaw & Erlanger and Stair & Havlin attractions, respectively. All expect good results notwithstanding this being presi¬ dential election year.—Heller. Dubinsky Bros. Plans. Oklahoma-City, Okla., Aug. 1, 1908. ' The Dubinsky Brother’s musical com¬ edy, Pickings From Puck, will open its season about Oct. 1, near Kansas City. This show was out forty weeks last sea¬ son under their management. Maurice M. Dubinsky will manage the show this season. Their new musical show, The Yankee, the German and the Girl, will take the road about Nov. 1, under the management of S. J. Gould, and goes to the coast. Their Wallaek’s Theater Co., featuring Miss Irene Daniel, will not close, but will continue winter and sum¬ mer. This show closed on the Bell Cir¬ cuit of Airdomes last June at St. Joseph, Mo., and opened in Oklahoma, playing Independent Airdomes, where it has been doing a good business. It has broken six house records. It is said that this show has made more money for Its man¬ agers in the past six weeks than it did all last summer. Edward (Yiddle) Du¬ binsky will manage this show. f New York.. ducti