Show World (May 1909)

30 THE SHOW WORLD M ay 15, 1909, NOW BOOKING FROM COAST TO COAST WM. MORRIS « NEW YORK BROOKLYN BOSTON NEWARK-BUFFALO CHICAGO J. C. MATTHEWS, Chicago Representative, 167 Dearborn Street JACK ALLE.N, Manager V J. K. SEBREE, Pres. ROY S. SEBREE, Mgr. CHICAGO’S PROFESSIONAL HOUSE '//iv i/Jart Hotel THE HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL DISCRIMINATING PLAYERS SPECIAL WEEKLY RATES. ETHEL MAY Bijou Theatre.^Chicaso, “Th C MyStCfy Gifl” OPERA HOUSE MANAGERS Let me book your theatres for the summer with vaudeville and motion pictures CASINO VAUDEVILLE. BOOKING AGENCY Republic Building, Room 924, Chicago, 111. ’Phone Harmon 2959. CONEY HOLMES, Mrnitt. FIELD SUGGESTED FOR MAYOR OF COLUMBUS. A1 G. Field has been suggested for mayor of Columbus, Ohio. His- name is being discussed among the repub¬ lican leaders with an enthusiasm which is gratifying to his friends. The minstrel has been communicated with and it will be known in a day or so whether or not he will permit his name to be mentioned in this connec¬ tion. In several ways Field would make an ideal candidate. He has lived in Columbus for the last 40 years, is an Elk, a 32d degree Mason, a Shriner, and a man who makes friends at sight. He has had an exceptional business experience and his calling has made him a snapshot reader of character and men. This season will probably be his last in the minstrel game. He is gradually yielding his hold upon the active management of his troupe and it has been understood for nearly a year that he contemplated an early and final retirement. Actors Beat Opponents. Sioux City, Iowa, May 12. The first baseball game of the Sioux City Actors’ league, pulled off at Riverside park between the Orpheum “Stars” and the Orpheum “Em¬ ployes,” resulted in a score of 20 to 18 in favor of the “Stars.” Leander de Cordova and Harry Gartell comprised the actor battery, and for the employes William O’Brien and Verne Spencer were in the points. The game was spirited from start to finish, although the cheering from the crowd in the bleachers, consisting of Miss Jeanette Adler, Mrs. Guy Hoppe and Miss Gladys Clark, was all for the “Stars.” Sol Goldsmith acted in the capacity of official scorer and Jasbo Lorenz did the umpiring stunt. Another Remick Hit. Remick has landed a song hit with the Alaskan which is playing at the Great Northern. Lawrence Coever is singing The Face of the Girl I Love, which is Phil Schwartz’s latest effu¬ sion in the song line. Phil’s smiling face is on exhibition all day long now at the new Remick headquarters in the Grand Opera house building, and since his debut in the song writers’ contest at the American, he has been deluged with requests for professional copies of his song. TO LEASE HILAND THEATRE PITTSBURG, PA. Very attractive; 1100 chairs; long lease; #6,000 per year; splendid opportunity, W. M. LAIRD, Owner, 622 Liberty Avenue. SALT LAKE NOTES. BRIEF STOCK NOTES. The Salt Lake has been dark for The Casino at Roanoke, Va., opens a couple of weeks, such a long period May 31 with a stock company, of inactivity seldom occurring at the The Tri-City stock company “father of inter-mountain playhouses.” opened a summer engagement at Dav- The Burns-Johnson pictures are there enport, Iowa, last Monday, this week, and an excellent business The Breton-Runkel company is anticipated. opened this week at the "Casino at At the Colonial, Daniel Sully Durham, N. C. pleased good houses all last week with Jewell Kelley opens at the Chil- The Matchmaker, which is a splendid bowee park theater at Knoxville, vehicle. The Climbers, at the Bunga- Tenn., next week. low, with Mary Hall, was very favor- - able received. A Bachelor’s Honey- The Marriage Record, moon at the Grand was the piece de Iowa Falls, Iowa, May 11. resistance last week, and fair houses Iowa friends are advised Edmund greeted a company of clever people, McCray, of this-state, who is a mem- including Alice DeLane, William ber of the Savage Merry Widow Winterhoff and J. G. Anderson. company was recently married to The Eight Palace Girls sang and Florence Brooks of the same com- danced themselves into favor at the pany at Duluth. Orpheum, headlining a bill of unusual Tbhn Carmichael, manager of the merit. Ray L. Royce made a laughing Dreamland theater at Dows, was mar- hit with his clever imitations, ' and l ied recently to Elsie Sheplee of Evans and Lloyd enacted a very Clarion, who will sing the illustrated catchy playlet. The remainder of the songs in the future at the Dream- bill includes: The Blessings, McDon- land. aid and Huntington; Rosaire and Jay Poland, a vaudevillian, and Doreta; Post and Russell, and the Ruby Gavin of Clarion, were married kinodrome.—JOHNSON. _ at Des Moines April 24,—FOSTER. !- GET YOUR-1 ^ Independent Film Service -FROM- W. E. GREENE FILM EXCHANGE The Oldest and Largest Independent Film Exchange in New England. 228 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. SYNDICATE IS BOOKING HIPPODROME FEATURES. Columbus, Ohio, May 12. C E. Miles, general manager of Indianola park, has returned from New York City, where he attended the first meeting of the National Park Syndicate, and has announced that next summer there will be built at Indianola a first class theater play¬ ing standard attractions. As the Shuberts are identified with the Park Syndicate the theater will no doubt be booked with their productions. \ The out door attractions for the pres¬ ent season will include many New 1 York Hippodrome features, which the Park Syndicate is booking. The small theater now at the park will offer Keith vaudeville. General Man¬ ager Weaver, of the National Park Syndicate, will be in Columbus .’next Saturday, when Indianola opens.- GRAF. AIRDOME NOTES. Little Rock, Ark.—The airdome opens May 17 under the management of Frank Head.—ANDREWS. ■ Ardmore, Okla.—The Franklin stock company opened the airdome. —MASON. Augusta, Ga.—Rose & Severn’jpmu- sical com.edy company opened the airdome May 3.—MILLER. Des Moines, Iowa.—C. U. Philley has petitioned the city council for a permit to operate an airdome ol the site of the old Iowana park. Macomb, Ill.—Messrs. Skinner & Thompson, managers of the Bram- land theater, are making arrange¬ ments to erect an airdome here& Louisville, Ky.—-Preliminary plans for the Lun-Dome theater have been filed with the building inspector.- SHALLCROSS. Kansas City, Mo.—Roy Briant will have a stock company this summet i Kansas and Oklahoma airdomes. The company opens on the Crawford circuit in May. Mason City, Iowa.—Work on the lew airdome which was to have been built on the corner of Fourth-and Main streets will have to be aban¬ doned, according to a ruling c© the fire commissioners, rendered ffl tne last city council meeting. The city ordinances strictly forbid the erection of the proposed structure within the fire limits. Newell & Beltz, the pro¬ moters of the scheme will undoubt¬ edly transfer their plans to one ot the. parks at Clear Lake—BULL. To Go to London. Racine, Wis., May pi John Wingfield, who has had charge the Racine theater for the past o years, will leave for London on ne 1. He will be succeeded W , illiam Armstrong, formerly city irk. The Bijou theater in this city s one of the strongest bilk this lek ever put on in this city- i “Miror Vitae” Products IEBERHARD SCHNEIDER