Show World (April 1909)

THE SHOW WORLD 29 April 24, 1909. AMUSEMENJ notes. A carnival will be held at Austin, r‘ xas , from April 27 till May 4. Daniel' Frohman sailed for Europe Tuesday. William Courtleigh is chairman of the committee appointed to arrange ior the benefit for the Actor s society. The .Vernon stock company opens m the Jake Wells circuit next Mon- S Z Poli has been elected a direc- tor 'j n the City National bank at Bridgeport, Conn. Blanche O’Neill, formerly a well known opera singer, is at a hospital Ej^HMence under treatment tor illness due to hunger and exposure. Albert West is the author of a nameless drama which was produced i! the Elite theater in Davenport, Iowa, last week. James J. Jeffries drew an attend¬ ee at the American music hall in few York last week which has been •xceeded only by Harry Lauder. The Queen of the Moulin Rouge nay be transported to Paris. Thom- is W. Ryley is to go abroad and is seriously considering such a project. Julia S. Mackay asks a divorce Tom Edward Mackay, who was re- :ently leading man of the Crescent hock in Brooklyn. Emma Bunting has moved over to lie Grand opera house in San An¬ do, where her stock company is loing nicely. She retains several of her old company. Gibson and Rainey are rehearsing everal new songs, including: Down i! Sunshine Alley Sally, Oh, You iving Gal, Let’s Go Back To Baby lays, Swanee Babe and I Want A lirl From A Yankee Doodle Town. James Ward, who preferred a thea- er position at his home at Madison, ,Vis., this season, to traveling, de¬ igned a circus bill for an amateur lerformance by the University of iVisconsin students which does much :redit to hi's word-slinging ability. The Holden stock company opened u the Park in Indianapolis this week n Secret Service and will remain at hat house as long as the patronage varrants it. The Holden company his season includes Cecil Owen and Vlarie Curtis, both of whom were ex- eedingly popular with last season’s I tudiences at that house, and consists K k Margaret Hagen, Maud Holden, kanor Le Croix, Elizabeth Murray, high Dillman, Arthur Rutledge, (Imund Flaig, Rollo Lloyd and T.aw- ence Conover. Paul H. Liebler, whose production ■i The Conflict caused so much com¬ ment, has closed negotiations with bchard J. Jose, the well-known con- ra tenor, to star him in a new com¬ ply drama. The piece is of the home¬ s' type and deals with the fortunes of mine named Silver Threads. Dur- "g the action of the play, Jose will ing several of the old songs which lc ma de famous and will introduce «° new ones. The production will C , e ' a , borate an d the season will oast y ° Pen neXt montb 011 tbe On the afternoon of Monday, May s Messrs. Shubert and Anderson will : ‘\ e . a monster professional matinee " tlle Hippodrome in New York. On .mount of the numerous requests ■ ron ? members of the theatrical pro- ^■ott playing j n an( j a )-, out ]\j ew .j,?’ the management of the big 'ayhouse has decided that the best y ;° e ptertain the many applicants jfbve this performance. As the ‘f WB jjftn seats nearly six thou- ,.:i| e : il !S expected that this . ‘ ce ‘he largest professional mati- £ A11 the boxes will lear V Pled v by , stars Paying in and 'f' tbs tW ^ or *'> ar| d will make one heatri ca r«l k v aWe § atherin g s of tethe h New^Ynrf T" g ° tten y ork. Every member York Ei anie , s at tllat time in New ork will also be invited. BOOKINGTOGETHER Western Vaudeville Managers’ Assoc’n Majestic Theatre Bldg....Chicago, III. United Booking Offices of America St. James Building....New York City Cfl Booking in conjunction with more than three hundred of the first-class vaudeville theatres in the United States and Canada, and now giving good acts routes for from one to three years. Moneys advanced to parties capable of pro¬ ducing first-class acts, when desired, or will purchase first-class novelties outright. It will be to the advantage of managers of Fairs. Parks, etc., to communicate with these Offices regarding their vaudeville and outdoor attrac¬ tions. Address Eastern or Western Office, as may be most convenient. FILMS FOR RENT Everything Ne to (Except Eugene Cline) EUGENE CLINE 59 Dearborn Street, Chicago DISTRIBUTING OFFICE EUGENE CLINE, J68 S, STATE $T„ - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH THEATRE FOLK. The American theater in Elyria, Ohio, was destroyed by fire last week. The new city hall being erected at Lomita, Cal., will contain a theater. Edward Hayne and others may build a new theater at Ottawa, Ill. The season at the Orpheum in Sioux Citv will end on May 15. The Jeffers’ theater at Saginaw, Mich., is now playing stock. Wind blew the roof off of the opera house at Hannibal, Mo. The Palace theater (vaudeville) at Hazleton, Pa., has re-opened. A fine vaudeville theater will be erected in Cambridge, Mass. The Victoria theater at Lafayette, Ind., opened Monday night with a splendid bill and fine attendance. The Shuberts’ lease of the Du Quesne in Pittsburg, has another year George E. Gilman, formerly mana¬ ger of the Weisner opera house at Eldora, Iowa, is seriously ill, suffer¬ ing from cancer. The regular season at the Grand in Fairmont, W. Va., will close April 26 with the presentation of The Three The Arkansas Amusement company plan to build a new theater at Hot Springs Ark., to cost $40,000. It will be devoted to vaudeville. The fifth annual benefit for the Ac¬ tors’ Society of America,. will be held at the Hudson theater in New York on the afternoon of May 7. The Alhambra theater in Houston, Texas, closed April 17, after a two weeks’ attempt to make musical com¬ edy stock a go. M. B. Curtis of Sam’l of Posen fame is at the head of a movement look¬ ing to the erection of a new opera house in San Bernardino,' Cal. Felix Isman takes possession of the Broadway theater in New York on May 1 and after that time it will be a Shubert house. Lew Fields will be the lessee. Charles Tiede, Jr., and Ed Wester- gand have taken the management of the Orpheum theater at Racine, Wis., The theater at North Yakima, Wash., is to undergo repairs. The Columbia amusement company will abandon the south and the bur¬ lesque theater in Birmingham, Ala., will be turned into a moving picture Charles W. Porter is once more managing the Academy at Saginaw, Mich. W. G. Gilbert, president of the Associated Theaters company, has returned to New York. The Superior Grand opera house at Superior, Wis., capacity 1,500 peo¬ ple, was destroyed by fire April 13. The loss will probably be $40,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. The Gillette theater building at Findlay, Ohio, not having been sold because of lack of bidders, after being twice offered for sale Judge Duncan has ordered the property re-appraised. Work on the excavating for the new Landers theater at Springfield, Mo., which is to take the place of the Baldwin theater which burned January 6 last, was begun this week. Harry J. Ricker, formerly business manager of the Metropolitan at St. Paul, is to be released from state prison, where he has been for two years on the charge of embezzlement. The state board of control has de¬ cided to grant him a parole as soon as a suitable position can be found for him. The Anderson-Ziegler Amusement Co., which controls the Columbia, Olympic and Walnut theaters in Cin¬ cinnati, held its annual meeting and re-elected Max Anderson, president: George B. Cox, vice-president; Henry Ziegler, secretary-treasurer, and Har¬ ry Shockley and Ben Heidingsfeld, directors. The question of mak¬ ing alterations in the architecture of the Columbia was not decided at this meeting.