Show World (May 1909)

May 15.1» 09 - THE SHOW WORLD 7 SAWING - AND - JAWING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW IN CHICAGO Eddie Black is now playing the ] comedy roles with Jack Bessey’s :] company at the Criterion. ■ Ed. T. Elliotte, who has been with Ma’s New Husband, which closed at Dubuque, Iowa, last Saturday, is here •indefinitely. ' Lazar and Lazar are laying off in Chicago this week, having returned from a trip over the Michigan vaude- 1 i ville circuit. j Evelyn De Foliart, the new leading ,1 woman at the Criterion theater, is J rapidly becoming a favorite with Jack | Bessey’s admirers. Wilson Melrose, who was with The | Catspaw at the Studebaker, has been 4 engaged as leading man for Virginia | Harned when she opens her season in Iris at the Sans Souci Park the- t: ater. Weber Brothers, lessees of the Ma¬ il sonic theater in Louisville, Ky., have I lost possession of the theater, through . a decree handed down by the United ■ : f States Court of Appeals in Cincinnati »j last week. 1 Frances Venita Gray has arrived in Inicago from Butte, Mont., where sne was producer at Dick Sutton’s -ulu theater. She will produce the lances at the Trocadero theater in Chicago the coming summer. | Elsie Ferguson, appearing in James | j comedy, The Traveling Sales¬ man, at the Illinois theater, will play i J leading part next season in Such a • “ ltl « Queen, a new production that | U«nry B. Harris will make. E. L. Rice and Tom Lockwood 1 j nave returned from Muskegon, Mich., "mere they spent two days this week , selecting a camping point. A party ' l C ? m P ers . wil1 make headquarters a60u t six miles from Muskegon. Janies A. Feltz, who has been man- i 8ln f one of the Stetson’s Uncle i „r„ ms . . * n companies, is here, the FiSt 0 *? 011 having closed at Grand ork s> N D The ghow w . n open l m u ™ er canvas within a week or J SO, pt^ably in Michigan. James K. Hackett comes to the American Music Hall May 24. George Klimt’s Players will offer Fanchon the Cricket next week at the Bijou. P. C. Wheeler, who was in advance of The Typewriter Girl, is in Chicago for a visit. Ray Samuels is recovering from an operation for tuberculosis of the glands of her throat. She was con¬ fined to her room for nearly three weeks. Frank Chapel and Napoleon Gay are here, having closed with E. H. Perry’s Kidnapped for a Million, which completed its tour last Sunday night at St. Charles, Mo. Ed Anderson displayed two bank books on a public street Wednesday, but did not give Gus Cohan, or the other men who had managed one- night stand attractions, happening to be near, a “look in.” Mabel Vernon may purchase a hat, gown and shoes made of rattlesnake skins for use in her snake dances. She is dickering with “Rattlesnake Pete” at Rochester, N. Y. He wants $700 for the outfit. Vernon Bestor is using strenuous methods in boosting the publications of Cario Portello. Mr. Bestor has charge of the professional department. He was formerly associated with Chas. K. Harris and the Thompson Music company. Edith Ellis, author of Mary Jane’s Pa, is in Chicago and will remain until after the invitation matinee to be given next Tuesday. She got the dates confused and arrived in Chicago for Monday night, thinking the mati¬ nee would be given this week. Harry Rowe is here. He was man¬ ager of Why Girls Leave Home, which closed at Janesville, Wis., last Saturday night. Harry Darlington, agent of the company, Anna Tripp, Hedda Lorentz, Billy Champ and Arthur and Byron Walton, of the company, are also in Chicago. Tack Mahara is in Chicago from Hot Springs, Ark. Howard Lyman has returned from Milwaukee and will be here until the middle of next week. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lyman have returned from a brief visit to their home at Spring Lake, Mich., and will be in the city for several days.' Max Weber has opened a stock company at the Alhambra. Down Mobile is the bill this week and The James Boys will be the offering next week. Frank E. King and Jessie A. King are in the city, having come from Kansas City where the Woodward stock company ended its season last Saturday night. C. Jay Smith displays the box office statement for A Pair of Country Kids at Eau Claire, Wis., last Sunday, on the least provocation. The show did more than $300 on the day. Bob Martin, business manager of the National opera company, will leave Chicago next week for the west where he will arrange for. the appear¬ ance of the company next season. Powell & Cohn have moved their offices from 236 La Salle street, where they have been located for four years past, to more commodious quarters in the Real Estate Board building, 59 Dearborn street. Martin Sheely is well pleased with the reception given the National opera company at the Marlowe. He states that business has been very satisfactory. Next week the company moves to the People’s, where it will remain some time. Gus Cohan and Kate Watson are appearing in vaudeville and the one- night stands might as well say good¬ bye to this funny pair. They were the headliners at the Orpheum in Kansas City last week and are a big hit everywhere. There are five peo¬ ple in the act and a condensed ver¬ sion of A Hoosier Girl is given. Sam Morris is a member of the stock company at the Alhambra. Lew Silvers is a member of the stock company at the Alhambra the¬ ater. Kip Elbert, manager of the Unique at Des Moines, Iowa, is in Chicago for a visit. Marie Nelson was taken ill last week and Agnes Blial took her part at the. People’s theater without no¬ tice. Frank Rhinock, son of Congress¬ man Rhinock, who is interested finan¬ cially tvith the Shuberts, is in Chi¬ cago. Harry Wolff is in Chicago, having been with the Lyman Twins in The Yankee Drummers. He will go into vaudeville. M. C. Lester, manager of Zeke, Europe’s sensational novelty, is lay¬ ing off here for a short time, prefer¬ ring to rest rather than play. Ethel May, “the mystery girl,” who is at the Bijou as a special feature of Klimt’s Players, purchased a touring car last week and she and her mana¬ ger, Jack Allen, are seen daily driv¬ ing around the boulevards. Miss May is contemplating a tour of the Morris circuit. E. L. Rice arrived in the city last week, having completed his work in advance of Tempest and Sunshine (Eastern), which ends the season May 15 at Clinton, Ky. Mr. Rice piloted a four weeks’ spring tour of the company which turned out to be fairly successful. Harry Hilgert, a well known bass singer, is seriously ill at his home, 1179 North 43rd avenue, this city, and is not expected to live. Hilgert is a Chicago boy and is very popular in the profession. He has been prom¬ inently identified with many quartets for the past several years, and has recently been with the Diamond Com¬ edy Four, playing Western Vaudeville