Show World (May 1909)

THE SHOW WORLD May 15, 1909, PITHY PERSONALITIES OF THE PLAYERS Kyrle Bellew sailed for Europe last Tuesday. Ada Rehan will spend the summer in England. Gerald Griffin is enjoying a rest at Mt.' Clemens, Mich. Robert Edeson will summer at Sag Harbor on Long Island. Henrietta Crossman promises a re vival of The School for Scandal. Henrietta Crossman has made her own way since she was 16 years old. Rosie Green has been engaged for The Follies of 1909. Joseph De Grasse will end his sea¬ son this week in Reno, Nevada. Clara Pitt is recovering from an op¬ eration for appendicitis. Otis Skinner has bought a residence in Philadelphia. May Irwin secured the decision in her legal battle with Flo Irwin con¬ cerning Mrs. Peckham’s Carouse. Edna Wallace Hopper will appear next season in a new play, The Har- rigan Girl. Edmund Breese appeared in black¬ face at the Actors’ Society benefit in New York May 7. James E. Fennesey, the Cincinnati amusement magnate, is making a three weeks’ visit to Eastern cities. E. H. Sothern closes his regular season at the West End theater in New York May 15. Lew Field’s new summer produc¬ tion, The Midnight Sons, opened at New Haven, Conn., May 12. Clyde E. Granger has been ill for several weeks and may not be able to resume his stage work. Anna Little took Christina Nelson’s role in The Mayor of Tokio when Miss Nelson was ill recently. The Boganny Troupe will be with Cohan & Harris’ Minstrels next sea- Irene Lee and her Kandy Kids are back from Europe, after a very suc¬ cessful tour over the Moss & Stoll tour. Frank Losee has joined the cast of The House Next Door at the Gaiety Theater in New York. He is playing the role of Sir Isaac Jacobson. John E. Henshaw is now with The Boy and the Girl, succeeding R. C. Hertz, who tendered his resignation after one week with the company. Mr. and Mrs. R. Long are visiting friends in Davenport, Iowa, where they became great favorites while with the Hickman-Bessey company. Carrie Elmore has been engaged by the Rowland and Clifford Amusement Company for The Minister’s Daugh¬ ter. She will have one of the prin¬ cipal feminine roles. Willard Francis is denying a story printed in the daily papers to the ef¬ fect that he had tried to commit sui¬ cide at Iowa City, Iowa, because May Gibson failed to reciprocate his af¬ fection. He claims the story is with¬ out foundation. De Wolf Hopper, who has just closed his season in order that he may go to New York to rehearse for the Lambs Gambol, will play a short Ed. Wynn, formerly of Wynn & Lewis, and more recently of Wynn & Co. in Mr. Busybody, will return to his old double act for a long iascm in the west. His new partner is A1 Lee, who is not a Chinamam as the i rnllpo-P ~.l Jane Anita Byron, comedienne and vocalist, is playing association time with success. Cecil Lean and Florence Holbrook will make their first appearance in The Mandarin at Boston some time in June. Mary Shaw will head a company of players to be seen at a new stock theater to be opened in New York next November by Butler Davenport. Will J. Dean, stage director of David Belasco’s The Easiest Way, re¬ cently visited his mother at Colum¬ bus, Ohio. Oliver Doud Byron is worrying over the renting of twelve summer cottages which he owns at Long Branch, N. J. Blanche Ring’s new play for next season will be called The Yankee Girl. It will open at Philadelphia on Sept. 15 next. Truly Shattuck was pronounced the most popular principal boy in London pantomime by the voters in an Eng¬ lish newspaper contest. Grace Merritt will have a new play next year; the name of the play and the name of the author is, as yet, a Joe Garry was given quite a recep¬ tion when he played Marietta, Ohio, in The Clansman. He formerly re¬ sided in that city. Herbert Kelcey will have the role of the husband in The Thief next season and Effie Shannon will con¬ tinue as the wife. Ethel Levey sang Waltz Me Around Again, Willie, to a Paris audience which included King Edward of Eng- Rose Royal and her beautiful steed, Chesterfield, are being well received in the southwest, where they are fea¬ tures of vaudeville bills. Lawrence Comer was entertained when A Broken Idol played South Bend, Ind. He formerly resided there. John M. McGuinness has been dis¬ charged as manager of the Royal the¬ ater at New Bedford, _ Mass., and is succeeded by Oza Tesier. Charles Richman opens in The Rev¬ elers shortly. His company will in¬ clude: Katherine Florence, Leonora Oakford, Vera H. Finley, Emma But¬ ler, Cecil Korn, Reeva May, Jane Rogers, George Pauncefort, Charles Harbury, Frank Gheen, Frederick Truesdell, M. H. Weldon, Baker Moore, W. S. Martin and Mary Cecil, Sadie Raymond writes that the re¬ port that she was ill at Palestine, Texas, was without foundation and her many friends will be glad to know it., She says she is enjoying the best of health and after May 15 will be in St. Louis, where she will spend the rest of her vacation. Miss will be with The Missouri Girl again next season, under the management of Merle H. Norton. James K. Hackett filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy last Saturday giving his liabilities at $126,457 and his assets at $744. He has been “hard up” all season and the action is no surprise. There are 140 creditors, of whom the actor’s wife, Mary Man- nering, has the largest claim, $60,000. Daniel Hanna, of Cleveland, is named as a creditor to the extent of $ 10 , 000 , for money loaned. THEATER TALK. GENERAL EDWARD LAVINE The man who soldiered all his life and infantry. Alice Hamilton, who recently closed a long season on the Sullivan-Consi- dine circuit, visited friends at Woos¬ ter, Ohio, last week. Otis Harlan enjoyed his stay at Elkhart, Ind., recently, meeting some friends of his college days at Ohio- Wesleyan university at Delaware, Ohio. Murray and Mack travestied The Dollar Mark, which has caught on wonderfully, at Los Angeles, Cal., running several weeks instead of one, when produced in stock. Rose Melville will spend the sum¬ mer at her cottage on Diamond lake near South Bend, Ind. She recently purchased some real estate in South Bend for which she paid $85,000. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Whetten lost wardrobe valued at $500 and a mov¬ ing picture machine for which they paid $165 in the fire which destroyed the Crystal theater in Alliance, Neb. season in St. Louis this summer, where he will revive Wang and Happyland. Mrs. Leslie Carter closed Kassa after the production had cost her $82,- 000.. “I am done with it,” she said. “It was too big entirely to lug around the country and now I know it. The first act I have given away; I couldn’t sell it. The rest I shall keep, for a time at least, as it is too beautiful to sacrifice.” W. H. Thompson opens on the Or- pheum circuit in the fall with a sketch, new in America, called Pride of Regiment. It is an unusual success in London, where at Beerbohm Tree’s His Majesty’s theater, it has passed its 500th consecutive performance. In the cities where Mr. Thompson is booked two weeks he will probably open with Pride of Regiment and present that other classic by Conan Doyle, Waterloo, for'the second week. The Rhode opera house at Keno¬ sha, Wis., is playing vaudevilles! A new opera house is to be erected at Boise City, Idaho. The Capital theater at Little Rock, Ark., has closed for the season. The opera house at Savannah,.'Mo, will be remodeled. A modern opera house will be , erected at Mt. Sterling, Ky. • A new theater will be erected on the west side of Saginaw, Mich.. The Jewell theater at Hamilton, Ohio, opened May 1. The stage employes of the Grand at Fairmont, W. Va., gave a minstrel show on May 3. This is the last week of the Fore paugh stock company at the Majestic in Indianapolis, Ind. The Valentine theater, at Toledo, Ohio, is playing vaudeville by the week and is ready to discontinue it when it fails to draw. The theaters at Springfield, Ohio, are featuring 5 and 10 cent vaude¬ ville and pictures for the coming sum¬ mer season, and are playing to good business. The regular picture shows continue to crowd their houses., . The Family theater at Missoula. Montana, the only theater of that pol¬ icy in western Montana, opened May Day with a splendid bill, playing to I, 421 paid admissions. According to the daily newspapers the opening was the most noteworthy in the history of amusements in Missoula. The new Family is one of the Sullivan & Co"- sidine booked houses and breaks the jumps from Spokane, Wash., to Butte J. A. Baxter is the owner and mana¬ ger of the new house. H. H. McVity is treasurer, W. H. Lang (of Ro" Island, Ill.) superintendent, Charles Johnson stage manager, R. E. Ham¬ ilton musical director, and Robert V. Hardon publicity agent. New Repertoire Show. One of the new repertoire-organi¬ zations for next season is Hyde 5 Theater Party, which has been or¬ ganized by L. H. Cunningham for a tour of the middle states. Jack war- burton will be featured and the play- to be presented will be a distinct ad¬ vance over the ordinary repertoir offerings. For the business n J an ?5® of the organization Mr. Cunmngna has selected J. Rus Smith, formerly of the Murray Comedy company.