Show World (October 1908)

4 THE SHOW WORLD October 24, 1908 CHATTANOOGA IS A VAUDEVILLE CENTER MARGARET ILLINGTON SUFFERS BREAKDOWN Opportunity for Live Booking Agent in Tennessee Town—Managers Now Doing Their Own. Frohman's Wife Forced to Leave Stage and Seek Two Month’s Se¬ clusion for Nerves. Chattanooga, Oct. 19. Towns surrounding Chattanooga are beginning to depend to a great extent on . ' ) furnish acts for the vaude- 5 state - 11.. i inder ] l 3,000 ville Chattanooga dat . towns, ranging : to 15,000, within _ this city, that have their moving picture and vaudeville houses. But few of these are booking through agencies, the most of them taking chances and doing their own bookings. Hence, Chattanooga, with her always good supply on hand, is being called on almost every da ‘ One enterprising vaudevi] is booking independent, with three other houses By this arrangement, he four weeks’ engagement, l this section. ral reduction i the secures through “Chattanooga Circle” there is oDDortunity for the man who e towns into an associ handle their business.— TOM NORTH’S CHAT tion, listed with Peister Printing Co. a an excellent, accommodating gentleman ^ Really, I must compliment C. R. Boston, Oct. 1' Suffering from nervous breakdoi brought on by playing the leading rol in The Thief, a highly emotional charac ter. Miss Margaret Illington, wife Daniel Frohrr ~ * —” 1 - ”— veil-known theatri primeval wood. Today, mark ye well, today it is this wise: 52 handsome brick structures rearing their heads on high, town; a town of 4,500 people; a water¬ works system; electric lighting system; a $25,000 bond issue for a school house has been voted; a church building to cost $10,000 actually under construction, while several other congregations - have elegant places of worship; steam laundries, stocks of merchandise equaling towns twice the size and many years older. The tax valuation of Teague is $1,285,000; stocks of merchandise and farms form a valuation of a trifle less than $6,000,000; with the development of fruit, truck and farming industry which nature has be¬ stowed so bounteously this will be in¬ creased marvelously. The location of the general shops and roundhouse of the Trinity & Brazos Val¬ ley railroad and also its divisional junc¬ tion makes Teague a great railroad een- Ralph Root has charge of publicity department at the Majestic theater, Buchanan's—Best in the Middle West— Des Moines, Iowa, is a clever man in a good position.—TOM NORTH. The world owes you a living. This, of course, does not refer to the whole world, but merely to those select few Skating Rink News. During the past two weeks the. num¬ ber of letters which have been coming in from the Dakotas "and the north spqak as nothing has ever spoken before of the great rink situation that is now open¬ ing up in and around that territory. At a low estimate there will be anywhere from 150 to 200 new rinks in operation between the Mississippi riyer north of the Iowa line, and as far west as Mon- new, this being the first season for their operation, and although a groat many of them are small and will not use more than from 75 to 150 pairs of skates, there will l ( fro 500 I do not want to lend the impression that this is the only territory that is developing new rinks', for all through Canada, under southern boundary, and every one of our states bordering on the coming to the front this season with hundreds of new rinks from towns rang¬ ing from 1,500 to 100,000 population, and even in suburbs of Greater Manhattan you can hardly pass through a, village ETHEL CLAYTON Miss Ethel Clayton who plays the part of the artist’s model in Henry W. Savage's Devil, with Henry E. Dixey. The professional advantage of this large new 1 go into details as how to direct communication with these as^far as^it is poss||^^^| reputation and won theii voting all their time el professional roller skatlS the same time to build „ .v„-„ exhilarating sport1 md childre s bein just opening matter that is po^H > obtain either from the *-r by reading THE gj printed manufacture. ... . WORLD each week, so doing there are a great many Ml ers and views obtained in this way wh they would never think of otherwise f which will help them to keep their sk ing rink on such a high standard t! they will have the loyal support! of ev resident they : their city < few i i either make or