Show World (May 1909)

15, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD BRIEF NEWS NOTES GATHERED IN CHICAGO Sid Euson’s Closed. — Sid Euson’s theater is closed for the summer. Stock at Trocadero. —The stock company at the Trocadero will open with a matinee next Sunday. Paul Gilmore Coming.—Paul Gil¬ more comes to the National next week in The Boys of Company B. Richard Carle’s Opening.— The opening of The Hurdy Gurdy Girl at the Colonial has been postponed from May 30 to June 6. . Eddie Leonard Coming. —Eddie Leonard will come to the Majestic nex t week. Edna Wallace Hopper will also be on the bill Cowboy Girl Has Closed.— J. Lind¬ say Eaton brought The Cowboy Girl company to Chicago, when it closed last week, and will go to his home ,i Mn-1 • ■-■ ■. « . -{•••'•'!> Pete Raymond’s New Act.—Pete Raymond & Co. tried out a new act, The Postmaster, at Bloomington, Ill., last week, and it is reported to have ^Typewriter Girl Closed.— The Type¬ writer Girl closed a five weeks’ sea¬ son at Benton Harbor, Mich., last Sunday night and F. Luverne, the manager, is now in Chicago. Broken Idol in Boston.—Whitney s Broken Idol opens at the Tremont theater in Boston May 31, and goes to the Herald Square in New York later in the summer. New Acrobatic Team.—Frank Der- rill and Gertrude Barcklay have joined hands and opened at South Bend, Ind., this week in an acrobatic Yiddish Actress Here. — Mme. Ken¬ ny Lipzin, the famous Yiddish act¬ ress, who heads the Edwin A. Relkin Ml Star Yiddish company, opens at the Academy today (Friday) and will give five performances here. Sue Marshall Here. —Sue Marshall, who closed with The Cowboy Girl at Nashville, Tenn., last week, was here in Chicago a few days this week, go¬ ing to her home in Grand Rapids, Mich. Studebaker to Reopen. —After ex¬ tensive repairs on the stage the Studebaker will reopen May 28 with Beverly of Graustark, a dramatiza¬ tion of George Barr McCutcheon’s novel of the same title. Girl Question Closed. —The Girl Question closed at Topeka, Kan., last I Saturday night and many members of the company are now in the city. Harry Hanlon, the stage manager, left Monday for his home in Boston. The Family to Close. — The Family "ill end its season this week. The talk about a return engagement at Chicago will certainly come to an end I with this announcement. The com¬ pany passed through Chicago Sunday eii route to Grand Rapids, Mich. | Four Made Round Trip. —Some one has figured out that only four of the 1 popular priced shows starting out of Chicago last fall made the trip to I the coast and return in safety. The quartette includes: A Farmer’s Daugh- I ter, Why Girls Leave Home, The Holy Cify and Jane Eyre. In Thirteenth Week. —With 120 per- I t? its credit. The Prince I of Tonight is in its thirteenth week | at the Princess theater. This musical , fantasy displays the authors, Messrs. | Hough & Adams, in their most fan- i ciful mood, and provides Joseph How¬ ard with an unusual opportunity to I display [some of the most catchy 1 m ”sical numbers of his career, i Ride's Vaudeville Bills.— Jos. G. Rhode, manager of the theater at j Kenosha, Wis., is playing Morris vaudeville and business has started ™ "Rely. The artists divide the week with the Bijou- in Milwaukee, the first half of this week Manager | K «ode offered Dick and Barney Fer- Rison Eddie Badger, Leon and Ber- i > e Allen and Charles H. Allen and | ae last half of the week the bill is i composed of the Ishikawa Japs, Jose- | !®me McIntyre and the Brahams. > Me prices are 15 and 20 cents. Dave Seymour at Mt. Clemens.— Dave Seymour, manager of Rowland and Clifford’s Phantom Detective the past season, has gone to Mount Clem¬ ens for a few weeks. Beginning week of May 24 he joins the Murray and Mackey comedy company under can¬ vas as treasurer and concessionist, and will be with that organization during the summer. Good Joke on Swanson.—In an en¬ deavor to be metropolitan the Deca¬ tur Herald in its issue of May 10, presented a two column cut of Wil¬ liam H. Swanson. While the pose is one that characterizes Swanson’s pho¬ to, upon close investigation it was found that the picture was one of a promising and soon-to-be a famous actor. It is a question which is to be complimented. Vaudeville Next Week. —Next week the Bush Temple theater will open as a vaudeville house, with Hilda Thomas and Lou Hall in a sketch and with Nellie Revell, especially en¬ gaged for a short season, as head¬ liners. Miss Revell will play several weeks in vaudeville before going to Michigan to begin her worK as press agent for that state. W. N. Selig’s Guests.— A1 Gillig- ham, manager of the Vaudette Film Exchange, Grand Rapids, Mich., Phil Gleichman of the National Film com¬ pany of Detroit, and Messrs. O. T. Crawford and Kane of the Crawford Enterprises, St. Louis, were in Chi¬ cago last week and visited the Selig Polyscope and Essaney plants and were guests of W. W. Selig at a din¬ ner given at the Union. Kiefer & Kline—Majestic, Houston, Texas. Alpha Troupe—Majestic, Ann Ar¬ bor, Mich. Noodles Fagan & Co.—Grand, At¬ lanta, Ga. Beauvais - Maridon Co. — Duval, Jacksonville, Fla. Four Fantastic La Dells—Majestic, Evansville, Ind. MONUMENT PLANNED FOR CHARLES DIMMITT. Buffalo,. N. Y., May 13. Plans are being considered for the erection of a monument to Charles Dimmitt, better known as Ridge Waller, of the Lafayette theater, who recently committed suicide on his mother’s grave in Baltimore. In the circular sent out by the committee in charge of the affair it is stated: “To leave the grave of. such a prince of good fellows as Ridge Waller un¬ marked would be a stigma on all those who claim to know the meaning of good fellowship.” White Rats Convention.—The big convention of the White Rats will be held in Chicago week of June 21 and many members of the order are plan¬ ing to get here. There will be initia¬ tions, public meetings and a general jollification. Still Doing Well.—Charles H. Ross- kam was up to Milwaukee Sunday to see how the Van Dyke and Eaton company was doing and states that they had a well-filled house on Sun¬ day afternoon and capacity at night. He says the company is an excellent one—better than many which he has seen at dollar top prices. The Van Dyke and Eaton company has reached the middle of their twenty weeks’ en¬ gagement in Milwaukee and up to this point has been very successful. Powell & Cohn’s Plans. —Powell & Cohn will put out a musical organi¬ zation next season which will be rath¬ er pretentious. It will open Sunday, Aug. 15, in Kenosha, Wis., and will have a season of 45 weeks. A reper¬ toire of musical plays will be pre¬ sented, the company playing the larger towns and cities and remain¬ ing a week at a place. There will be 25 people in the organization, accord¬ ing to the present plans. The prices will be 10, 20, 30 and 50. A Daughter of America, another new enterprise, opens Sept. 3 at Mendota, Ill., and forty weeks’ time has been booked. The Yankee Doodle Boy, which opened Aug. 16 last at Waukesha, Wis., will not close until May 30 at Quincy, Ill. It opens next season on Sept. 10. The company is claimed to have had but two losing weeks so far this season. _ THEATRICAL ROUTES. Aborn Grand Opera—Grand Opera House, Brooklyn, N. Y., indefinite. Don C. Hall company (Don C. Hall, manager)—Mansfield, Ohio, 17-22; Mai , 24-29 The Alaskan (William P. Cullen, manager)—Great Northern theater, Chicago, indefinite. Old Arkansaw (L. A. Edwards, manager)—Clarence, Mo., May 15; Gillis, Kansas City, 16-22. Mary Jane’s Pa (Henry W. Savage, manager)—Chicago Opera House, Chicago, indefinite. The Merry Widow (Henry W. Sav¬ age, manager)—Colonial theater, Chi¬ cago, Ili., indefinite. Van Dyke & Eaton company (F. and C. Mack, managers) — Alhambra theater, Milwaukee, Wis., indefinite. Hickman-Bessey company (Row¬ land & Clifford and Jack Bessey, managers)—Criterion theater, Chi¬ cago, indefinite. Mary’s Lamb, with Richard Carle (Charles Marks, manager) —- Grand Forks, N. D., May 15; Winnipeg, Man., 17-19; Duluth, Minn., 20-22. Field’s Minstrels (A1 G. Fields, manager)—Tiffin, Ohio, May 15; Del¬ aware, 17; Urbana, 18; Soldiers’ Home, Dayton, 19. The Merry Widow (Henry W. Sav¬ age, manager)—Billings, Mont., May 19; Helena, 20; Butte, 31-22; Spokane, Wash., 24-28; North Yakima, 29; Seattle, 30. Polly of the Circus—Goshen, Ind., May 15; Hammond, 16; Dowagiac, Mich., 17: La Porte, Ind., 18; Elk¬ hart, 19; Peru, 20; Wabash, 21; Hunt¬ ington, 22. The Burgomaster (William P. Cul¬ len, manager) — Bakersfield, Cal., May 16; Santa Barbara, 19; Monterey, 21; Petaluma, 25; Vallejo, 28: Oakland, 30-June 1; Chico, 2; Red Bluff, 3; Albany, Ore., 5; Portland, 6-9. Lena Rivers, Western (Burton Nix¬ on, manager)—Iowa Falls, Iowa, May 15; Marshalltown, 16; Webster City, 17; Rockwell City, 18; Humboldt, 19; Eagle Grove, 20; Algona, 21; Mason City, 22. Aborn Grand Opera—Newark the¬ ater, Newark, N. J., indefinite. Aborn Grand Opera—New National theater, Washington, D. C., indefinite. Aborn Grand Opera—Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich.