Show World (November 1908)

November 14, 1908. THE SHOW WORED 5 NICKEL VAUDEVILLE ; MAN FLAYS EVANGELIST ) "Billy Sunday's Skin-Flint Brand of Hypnotism Is a Money-Getter," Says Ottumwa, la.. Manager,Who Tells Citizens Not to “Give Up." Ottumwa, la., Nov. 6. The local opera house had opposition Sunday when Billy Sunday, the famous SHUBERTS CONTROL TWENTY-SIX THEATERS According to Their Press Department Their Interests a Any Other Single Theatrical Firm. i Larger Than baseball player and evangelist, came here enmo nf the local siuners. Man- _ of the Grand Opera however, took a different view ager J. B. Jersey, ( In a circular letter he roasts Sunday to a fare-you-well. Here is the circular In which Mr. Jersey flays the evangelist: “Do you propose to iet ‘Billy’ Sunday come here and hypnotize Ottumwa for ?4,000 or 15,000? Are you going to rush to his so-called tabernacle and hand out your hard-earned money just to hear him say 'Hell' fourteen times in three sec¬ onds and throw in a lot of dirty adjectives for good measure? Is it right to ask your grocer, your butcher and your dry goods merchant to give you credit, then pass over ali your money to ‘E Sunday? ■Billy’ “Sunday’s skin-flint brand of hypnotism Is a money-getter to the sorrow of many a town. Let’s make Ottumwa the excep¬ tion. Sunday uses religion as his method of hypnotizing people for he knows that in the heat of religious fervor people will give up money when you can’t get it from them any other way. So he uses ' "They say Sunday can do a town good. ' I believe it, only with emphasis on ‘Do.’ “I am a taxpayer in Ottumwa. I’ve worked hard for what I own. I don’t want Sunday to come here and hurt my business or that of any other taxpayer In this city. If he takes $4,000 or $5,000 out of Ottumwa it hurts us all, for Sun¬ day’s kind of religion is a good deal like getting drunk—it’s alright while it lasts, but it leaves a bad taste, a headache and : an empty pocket-book. There’s a lot of men in Ottumwa who feel just as I do, but who haven’t the nerve to say so. ’Self-preservation is the first law of nature,’ you know, and the fellow who hasn’t gumption enough to know that, and say so, is the fellow Sun¬ day IS looking for—he’s the easy money. “Smoky Row would turn sick if one of I Its denizens should cut loose like Sunday does from the platform, and if the vulgar language he is brazen enough gospel -.—- - ” ui ocuc vo me penitentiary. Make your protest against him now and save your souls the taint of Sunday’s slimy slang that he seeks to turn to gold. In the meantime remember the 5-oent vaudeville performance every afternoon and evening at the Grand Opera house. It s clean and wholesome, and I don’t ex- ropt —-ry five weel ■uu n. in Ottumwa. J. F. JERSEY, Manager Grand Opera House. Actor’s Society Notes. Ihomas A. Wise, president of the Actors SocieW, has arranged with W. A. hrady’ Joseph Grlsmer and Deander Sire to give a special performance of A Gen¬ tleman Prom Mississippi on Friday afternoon, Nov. 13, at the Bijou theater, hi™!.! entire proceeds are to aLJ- “ Actors’ Society of nuniber of young women f?minent in New York theatricals will ushers. The actors on ffiis oc- fallacy of the old superstition in regard to Friday the ijtn, •which by the way is the anniver- sary of the birth of Edwin Booth. Bmmet-o King and William T. Kelly .i^® -^tt Internationa’ " gar George Broadhurst’s new Which opened in Hartford, Conn Leona T.phIio io ..„!!-!, ixr x play Swain Davis, hav _________ risen for the light comedy and ingenue parts for his stock company which is to open at the New Jefferson theater, Mem¬ phis, Tenn. John Morrissey who has been playing leads in the Burgess Stock, Prescott, Ariz., has returned to New York. The votes for the silver cup for the theater having the cleanest stage and dressing rooms and the most perfect sanitary conditions are coming in every day. All the members of the Western Man of the Hour company sent in votes last week. The cup is on exhibition at the Society. Florence St. Leonard for the past three seasons with Leslie Carter, has been, engaged for the part of Iris in Ben Hur. Miss St. Leonard left for Topeka, Kan., Monday, where she is to join the company. New York, Nov. 7. While there was no foundation for the recent rumors that a rupture was im¬ minent between the interests represented by Klaw & Erlanger and Shubert Brothers, things unexpected frequently happen. This gave rise to some specu¬ lation as to what position the Shuberts would be in should they become inde¬ pendent of Klaw & Erlanger. The press department of the Shuberts furnishes the information that that firm now controls and directly manages twenty-six first- class houses; nine houses in New York, two in Philadelphia and Boston, and one each in Brooklyn, Washington, Pittsburg, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Providence, New Haven, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica. The list of leading players under their management or playing their houses ex¬ clusively includes E. H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe, Mary Mannering, Alla Nazi- mova, Maxine Elliott, Minnie Dupree, Nance O’Neil, John Mason, DeWolf Hop- GAMES OF GRAFT. THE SOCIETY OF THE STUNG. GAME NUMBER EIGHT. This is a neat game, but is sometimes detected by one of those agent fellows who don’t know how to mind his own business. He arrives in a strange town and loiters in the lobby. He meets the show manager and they repair to a nearby caravansary to invest in a package of wet goods. They discuss the delirious difllculties of three-night standing and tell each other what good shows they are working for. The manager shows the friendly agent his con¬ tract. It reads: “The prices agreed upon, entire lower floor seventy-five cents.’’ But later in the evening when the agent repairs alone to the lobby and the show manager is not about, he hears the ticket seller taking one plunk apiece for lower floor pasteboards. Which should further increase the membership of this society.—J. B. N. upenea n Leona Leslie is . ... °®™Pany again this season. 'bS" “b McCann is engaeed with the Mamhester Stock Company, Manchester, the Shakespearean ac- in Mgaged to play Mephisto : rin Play Mar|a fn^r-sax^e^^'o^du^c^ti^n."'"' is playing with the Wm A Norton“L'^^en ’^'‘“hing Hour, dtles playing^ ^he 'Western ■ vllfe^'^ver'^th?"'®’’^!™ vaude- . b^5"|‘£S£hHereng^a|ld RoaT’^co^Jlt"^ Old Cross Paris, Nov. 9. Victorien Sardou, the famous French dramatist and member of the French Academy, is dead from pulmonary con¬ gestion.- He was born in Paris, Sept. 7, 1831, the son of Leandre Sardou, an edu¬ cationalist and the compiler of several publications. At first he studied medi¬ cine, but was obliged, in consequence of the embarrassments of his family, to give private lessons in literature, writing ar¬ ticles for several reviews and for the minor journals. His first comedy. La Taverne des Btu- diants, was produced in 1864 in the Odeon, then the second state theater, but it proved a complete failure. He later wrote the comedy, Les Pattes de Mouche, which was produced with great success in 1860, and subsequently adapted for the Eng- Ush stage under the title of A Scrap of At the age of 75 Sardou witnessed the production of his latest drama, L’Affaire des Poisons, at the Porte St. Martin the¬ ater. This play, which has to do with the infamous poisoning camarilla, which existed under the reign of Louis XIV, and which was presented for the first time on Dec. 7, last, is still running to crowded In tfie year 1857 Sardou was in a state of abject poverty and extreme distress. He was living in a garret and was pros¬ trated by typhoid fever, but a neighbor. Mile, de Brecourt, nursed him with ten¬ der care during his illness from which he slowly recovered. He married her in the following year and was by her intro¬ duced to Mile, de Jazet, who had just es¬ tablished the theater which was named after, her. M. Sardou’s earlier pieces, after his first failure, were performed at this theater. Nine years after his mar¬ riage M. Sardou was in possession of a handsome fortune and a European re¬ nown, when a gloom was temporarily cast over his career by the death of his wife. Sardou’s principal works, with their dates of production were as follows;- Da Taverne, 1854; Les Gens Nerveux, 1859- Monsieur Grant, 1860; Les Pattes des Mouche, 1860; Nos Intimes, 1861; Can- dide, 1862; La Famllle Benoiton, 1865; lish and Sir Henry ___ were seen in it at the Lyceum. English actor also appeared i X _x, ... products of per. Lew Fields, Sam Bernard, Lulu Glaser, Louise Gunning, Eddie Foy, Jef¬ ferson DeAngelis, Camille D’Arville, Emma Carus, James T. Powers, James Young, Marguerite Clarke and William Faversham. From this it would se.em that the Shu¬ bert Brothers’ interests are larger than any other single theatrical firm. Land of Nod In Verse. This is the way J. M. Lewis, of the Houseton Post characterized the opening attraction of the season at Houston (Tex.) Opera house: Hired Help. This starts the game The “Land of Nod’’ Gives sleeping summer Time a prod And wakes it up. And light bulbs glare. And dancing cory—■ Phees are there. And funny men; And all their quips Are done for what The cashier slips To them each week; Now on the stage The sheath skirt will Be all the rage. Blinked at tights. Will go wild over Them, and nights And afternoons. We’ll gladly go And perch down in The bald-head row. And every clown ^ And coriDliee Thus works lor me; With sheath skirts. Powder, puffs and curls. They’re all of them My hired girls. SARDOW, NOTED FRENCH DRAMATIST IS DEAD Sarah Bernhardt Won Her Greatest Triumphs in Roles He Wrote for Her—His First Fla’s? a Failure. RUBY RAY TO BE MRS. NEWLYWED. New York, Nov. 12. The Leffler-Bratton Co. has engaged Ruby Ray, an English comedienne, to create the role of Mrs. Newlywed in their new production. The Newlyweds and Their Baby. In London, Miss Ray ap¬ peared in The Country Girl, The School Girl, Three Little Maids, and The Belle !.T„„!.„!_ e.,..-X. America to The Dairymaids. Thennidora, 1891; iGs- Fedora, Divorcons, La Tosca and Cleo¬ patra, have been produced with success on the stage of the United States and England. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has won her greatest triumphs in roles he wrote for her, such as Tosca, Fedora, Theodora and Gismonda, Mme. Sans Gene was written lor Mme. Rejane, in which she portrayed the outspoken, good-hearted wile of Mar¬ shal Lefevre. It was translated into Eng- ’ing and Miss Terry The Show World Cartoons. With this issue THE SHOW WORLD resumes the publication of its weekly The Prominent Negro Minstrel Accorded Warm Reception by Lake Charles Lake Charles, La., Nov. 8. Billy Kersands, generally conceded to be one of the world’s greatest colored comedians and minstrel stars, and who by the way is a native of this (the Peli- 5 f>-n state), -was accorded a magnificent Inent colored citizens and tendered a ic- ception and banquet at the home of one of their number. It was a gala occasion, in which all the delicacies of the season were served, intermingled with toasts, jokes and witty sayings in which the only original “Billy” was at his best, and needless to say he enjoyed it to the fullest extent. It was a rare treat to all who participated, including several other members of the company besides ■ the banquet and that it ended aUogefher Z. A. HENDRICK Photo by Sykes, Chicago sketches last season appealed most for¬ cibly to the profession of entertainment and gained for him a widespread reputa¬ tion as an artist of keen humor and deep discernment. All branches of the profession of enter¬ tainment will be covered from week to week in these cartoons, and an endeavor