Show World (November 1908)

THE SHOW WORLD November ii, 19ft NEW INTERSTATE COMMERCE RULING Manager Carroll, of the United States Carnival Company, Rons into Legal Snag in Endeavoring to Jump From One State to Another. KIRALFY SHOW A BIG SUCCESS IN LONDON American Attractions are Bringing English Dollars—Calvin Brown Still in France—Fifty Million Attendance Predicted for Nancy Park. Lake Charles, La., Nov. 19. When Manager R. L. Carroll, of the United States Carnival Company, en¬ deavored to secure transportation for his performers and freight, from this town to Orange, Tex., he bumped into a new ruling of the Interstate Commerce Com¬ mission. He was told that it would be necessary for him to obtain a permit from that august body of law makers be¬ fore he could secure professional rates for his people or paraphernalia. Mr. Car- roll sought legal advice in the matter, but learned that the ruling could not be abrogated. He was told that it would require three or four days to obtain the permit from the Interstate Commission, and he accordingly arranged to play this town another week. He left his company be¬ hind him and hurried across to Orange to explain the cause of the delay.—L. L. LUEHM. exhibition contest reproduction of the s formers. Tenn., where they opened this week in their comedy acrobatic act. They are booked for over 20 weeks solid over the Considine-Sullivan circuit. MIDNIGHT FOOTBALL AT N. Y. “HIP . 1 Employes of the Huge Amusement Pal¬ ace Will Give Gridiron Play on Stage. Experiment May Be Continued as Reg¬ ular Feature If Successful. New Tork, Nov. 22. The possibility of playing football at night on a stage is to be tested by the team of the New York Hippodrome. While the game has been successfully played on dirt enclosures indoors, a trial of playing it on a stage covered by a grass mat will be new. The team has arranged for a game to take place one afternoon next week, date to be an¬ nounced, between it and another eleven to be arranged among Hippodrome men. The game will be played on the stage of the Hippodrome between the matinee and night performances on a grass matted stage, the dimensions of which are 200x 112 feet—the largest stage in the world. Every sporting writer and football ex¬ pert In the city will be invited to wit¬ ness the exhibition. Should this prove successful the Hippodrome will issue a challenge to some well-known team to play them a game on the stage any night, the game to commence at 11:30 p. m., after the night’s performance. The Hippodrome team is made up of men who play every variety of parts in the show, most of which require athletic ex¬ perience. J. Parker Coombs, baritone, himself an old football player, is the coach, and N. M. Cills is captain. J. J. McGraw, of the New York baseball ‘ will referee the Keeps Pabst Theater. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 25. Leon Wachsner, dean of theatrical managers in Milwaukee, has made no¬ table the closing year of a quarter cen¬ tury as manager and director, by renew¬ ing his lease with the Pabst Brewing Company for five years from Aug. 30, 1909. The action on the part of Mr. Wachsner demonstrates his faith in the future of German drama in this city. Mr. Wachsner launched his first enterprise in Milwaukee in 1884, since which lime he has supplied German-Americans of this city with drama in the tongue of the fatherland. The present Pabst the- Staad by fire. Ketcham Turns to Art. Toledo, O., Nov. 25. As a holiday surprise, George H. Ketcham has arranged for the complete re-decoration of the Valentine theater lobby, with magnificent reproductions of the art treasures of the world. Mr. Ketcham has closed a contract for the first twenty-one pictures, all of which will be in place by Christmas week. Still Another. Lake Charles, La., Nov. 25. Jack Auslet, of Alexandria, who is well known in base ball circles over the state, is now advance agent for the Western Carnival Shows.—LUEHM. Manchester, England, Nov. 14. Just returned from a month’s vacation, which I wound up with a week at the Franco-British Exposition in London. This Kiralfy show has been a big success and mostly due to the American attrac¬ tions such as scenic railways, Katzen- jammer Castles, etc., etc. The place dif¬ fered very little from the Luna Park and White Cities in America, or the White City in Manchester, except in size and by the presence of a number of exhibits of milliners, dressmakers, jewellers and machinists. What drew the fifteen mil¬ lion of visitors was the flip-flaps, figure eights and the shows that have been features upon American parks for a dozen of years past. The English people have simply gone wild over these things and wherever any park is established and gives these riding devices and shows, it is certain to make money. John Calvin Brown, who recently bought all the stock of the White City in Manchester, has the best plant in Eng¬ land, and his success proves that the Britisher wants this style of amusement. Manchester is the center of population of this island, and six million people live this million dollar park, which combines all the features of an American park with the addition of acres of flower beds and glass houses, where the finest speci¬ mens of flowers in the Kingdom are to be seen. Brown Still in France. Calvin Brown is now in France, where as previously announced in these col¬ umns, he has just completed the deal for furnishing all the amusements at the East of France Exposition to be held in Nancy from May 1 to Oct. 31, of next year. This is a great opportunity for NOTICE TO NEWSDEALERS. THE SHOW WORLD is the only weekly, covering the entire field of enter¬ tainment, which presents the news of the week in which it is published. The news in these columns dates from Thursday noon until the following Thursday noon. The entire weekly edition of this publication, excepting the local Chicago circulation, is shipped out of this city by fast mail or express, on or before midnight each Thursday. THE SHOW WORLD should therefore be displayed on all news-stands not later than Saturday, with the possible exception of dis¬ tant Pacific Coast and Gulf State territory, where it should be displayed not later than Sunday of each week. Failure to receive THE SHOW WORLD at the proper time should be brought to the attention of the publishers. A NEW PAUL POTTER PLAY. Philadelphia, Nov. 19. The Queen of the Moulin Rouge, the new Paul Potter musical comedy, was produced here for the first time on any stage at the Chestnut Street opera house, by Thomas Ryley. ■ |__JR _j* King° of Orcania is in Paris to finish his art edu¬ cation. While there he falls in love with the atmosphere of the Quartier and be¬ comes a spendthrift, forgetting meanwhile that he ever loved the Princess Marotz Rakovitza. She follows him, and dis¬ guising herself as Rosa Pompetta, Queen of the Moulin Rouge, wins him back. Cartr De Haven plays the king and Flora Parker the princess. William Courtleigh handles the comedy role, aided by Edward M. Tavor. John T. Hall and Vincent Bryan furnish the songs. The costumes are daring. Fighting Sunday Shows. Dallas, Tex., Nov. 25. Both the city and county authorities appear to have declared war on Sunday theaters and are evidencing the utmost activity for their suppression by the fre¬ quency of arrests of the managers and employes of the places of amusement in Dallas, which give performances on the Sabbath. Joined Elsie Janis. Cleveland, O., Nov. 25. Miss Bessie Brennan went to Chicago Sunday to take a part with Elsie Janis in The Fair Co-Ed company. Miss Brennan, a childhood friend of the young star, was offered the position by Man¬ ager Chas. Dillingham, who saw her in an amateur turn recently at Keith’s. Notice to song publishers! You who are paying high salaried press agents to boost your output—also you who are paying singers to sing your songs into popularity. There is a better way. Sh! This is it: Buttonhole the organist of some staid old church; convince him that “Rig Rags,” your latest number, is su¬ perior to Mozart as a recessional! Presto, the thing is done. Simple, isn't it? And yet no one seems to have realized that it would mean front-page-top-column- display-head publicity in the daily pa¬ pers, until Percy Wenrich and Alfred Bryan wrote “My Rainbow,” an Indian intermezzo. Remick published it. Al¬ bert Davis, organist at St. John the Bap¬ tist Catholic church, used it on the big pipe organ last Sunday as exit music. Nor were the Monday morning dailies shy of other news. There were interna¬ tional complications, murders, suicides, political wrangles and the usual what¬ not that goes to make up the pages of the Chicago press. But, oh, my, how they ate up that story! Indeed, it is quite probable that the thing appears sufficiently serious to them to invite eru¬ dite editorials upon the ethics of the entire procedure. Mose Gamble, Camp¬ bell Casad and others please note. Your weekly press sheets should be relegated to the rivulet. New Vaudeville Act. Muskegon, Mich., Nov. 25. Jack DeGraw and John Fuller, two young Muskegon acrobats, who prac¬ ticed all summer and fall preparing for a vaudeville engagement, are at Nashville, “Fairies in Well” Had to Come Out. Lake Charles, La., Nov. 19. The United States Carnival Company, which failed to leave here at the end of its engagement, owing to a difficulty with the Interstate Commerce Commis¬ sion, and remained another week with "many new features added,” has aroused the mayor, by reason of the alleged im¬ morality of one of its attractions, which was last week known as the Fairies in the Well, and this week, under the “added attraction idea,” was called “Yankee” showmen and owners of rife devices, etc., for the expected attendant* ■ at this great exposition is fifteeii «E < and every one of them will have to pass through the “Midway Pleasure Grounds 11 in order to reach the Exhibition Palaces and again to leave the grounds. This is a splendid proposition and Mr. Brown is ready to let others in with their de¬ vices if suitable. He has also opened about ten acres of ground in White City, where the hr- gorrotes and the circus were last sea- son and as these are the best locations in the park they offer chances to Ameri¬ cans who have good park shows and want to exploit them over here where all such things are the craze now and are sure to make money. “Hustling” W. W. Kelly, (American) manager of the Theater Royal in Birken¬ head, and various traveling companies was on Monday re-elected a member of the city council, which is a great honor over here and is sought by the solid men of each city . Kelly is popular erery- where.—EFFAYESS. Walter Westcott Dead. Walter F. Westcott, the well theatrical agent and manager, Denver, Colo., Nov. 14, after a_ ness with consumption. The body „„ brought to ^ Chieago_ on the following J. veil known a brie? ill n in Denver for only tw Westcott had... weeks preceding his demise, and was there with a view of regaining his health, He is survived by a wife and a five-year-old son. Mr. Westcott was formerly asso¬ ciated with Chicago producing firms and SONGS MADE POPULAR BY SIMPL E PROCESS How to Obtain a Front Page Display Head Reading Notice in the Dailies Folly Set Forth. The Advance Agent, , Myles McCarthy, the well known “sketcher,” has written a slang novel entitled The Advance Agent, waB£;l a being published by the Excelsior Publish¬ ing House of New York. The Advance Agent deals with the vicissitudes of a one-night stand advance agent who encounters a character styled Bowery, who knows nothing but slang, and his humorous sayings are scattered broadcast throughout the novel. There is a little vein of romance running j through the story, which contains: ma¬ terial for sketches, gagging turns and ; monologues, not to mention the repartee. . The price of th hook, with paper cover, will be twenty-five cents, and Mr. Mc¬ Carthy says that every one is welcome to - — anything or every- “The Garden of Eden.” The mayor’s letter follows: ”L. C. Dees, Esq., Chief of Police. Lake Charles, La. “Dear Sir: Upon my return to Lake Charles, after a day’s absence from the city, my attention has been directed to the communication of Mr. Crosby relat¬ ing to “The Fairies in the Well,” or "Garden of Eden” show now being con¬ ducted on the Bunker lot. “From further information I have gained by- an investigation, I find the conduct of the attraction contrary to the good morals of the community and In violation of an ordinance. “You are therefore directed to cause such show to he discontinued at once and in the event of the failure to com¬ ply with your instructions, to arrest all parties in connection therewith. “C. H. Wlnterhaler, Mayor.” - —LUEHM. Kansas City Man Writes Play. Kansas City, Nov. 20. According to dispatches received by the re'atives of “Hal” Donahue, who was formerly employed in the advertising de¬ partment of The Star, but who is now a success In vaudeville in his own play¬ let, The Story of the Street, a play written by him entitled The Upstart has been accepted by the manager for Henry Miller. The latter Is now in Europe. - Students Shut Up Gallery. Austin, Tex., Nov. 19. The gallery of the Hancock Opera House here was practically closed by two hundred students of the Texas Uni¬ versity, who marched to the gallery en¬ trance and demanded admission at 25 cents a head and upon being refused crowded about the entrance and shut out others who wished admittance. The po¬ lice force did not disperse the crowd un¬ til long after curtain rise. Billy Link has filed a suit fw . in the circuit court from his wife, Wil- letta Charters Link, charging unfaith¬ fulness. The separation and divorce proceedings follow closely the family troubles at Huntington, Ind., where the minstrel man is said to have discovered his wife making love to another mem¬ ber of the company. Mr. Link names Sonny Lipman, a member of the troupe, in his divorce complaint. Link asks for the custody of their son. They were married in Xenia, O.. 13 years ago. Actor Attempts Suicide. Springfield, O., Nov. 25. Bert Swan attempted suicide in Gus Sun’s theater after being driven to des¬ pondency by hard luck. His wife left . Cincinnati, as the story goes, one J of the alligators he ... an d to cap all his father died in Eng¬ land and he did not receive word of the death for several months. Gus Sq a bottle of laudanum from the ad® did all in his power to cheer him Raymond Hitchoek, who was h The Merry-Go-Round Nov. 19, said the piece would close at GTand Eapids 1 Nov. 21 and announced that he would return to New York to rehearse a new I part. Catherine Rowe Palmer and some of the chorus girls are to join the mu¬ sical comedy company at the Olympic music hall in Chicago.—DUNKLBfe Divided Honors With Star. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 25. George Ade, who was here Nov. W to see the production of The Fair Co-Ed, with Elsie Janis as the star, attracted as much attention in the box as she aid on the stage.—DUNKLE. L. Lawrence Weber Recovering. New York, Nov. 25. L. Lawrence Weber, of Weber & Rusli. is slowly recovering from an attack 01 appendicitis, which his physicians treated successfully without operation. m The spinster knoweth how to t> rin ’ up children and the bachelor how “ rule a wife. It is well that they remain single.—James Jeffries Roche. I