Show World (June 1909)

ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW IN CHICAGO Ned Barron has joined the compa¬ ny playing The Blue Mouse at the in Be theater. George Kent arrived in the city last, week from Seattle, where he has been in stock. Leroy Young has a big deal on just now- in connection with an opera Sly at Winnipeg. Walter Harmon, who was manager of Parsifal for Martin & Emery, ar¬ rived in Chicago last week. Robert Clarke, night city editor <pf the Inter Ocean, acted as dramatic editor of that paper during the recent illness of Charles W. Collins. Eddy & Tallman are at Hagedorn’s -audeville theater at White City this week, and have been in Chicago for limit four months. Thomas Murphy, who is playing ^mall vaudeville theaters around the city for Jerome H. Remick & Co., is featuring The Umpire Goat. Ralph Daly Krebaum has been ap¬ pointed door man for the Whitney theater, and is smilingly taking the pasteboards at that house as the peo¬ ple come to witness The Bachelor. Ben Simpson, who has been in ad¬ vance of Carey’s Montana, which closed at Beloit, Wis., last Saturday night, is here for the summer. He is stopping at The Palace. Bush & Earl arrived here recently and are doing their singing and danc¬ ing act in this city, having six or eight weeks booked. They came from a tour of Illinois cities. The Four Woods, an act including Bills Woods,. May Woods, Wayne Nunn and Grace Valentine, is playing amusement places around Chicago and is well spoken of. George Bedee, who has been with Frc| Raymond’s The Missouri Girl for 'a great many years, arrived in Chicago recently and reports another successful tour for that company. He may break away from Raymond next season, having several fine offers. Dan Ricardo, secretary and treas¬ urer of the associated vaudeville artists, has his office at 164 Randolph where a great many profes¬ sionals gather. Ricardo is a well known performer, one of the old school, with a wide acquaintance which fits him particularly well for his present position. “Kid” Connors, who has been at the Criterion with the Hickman-Bessey company, also assisted in the build¬ ing of The Destruction of Messina, WgRopened at White City last Sat¬ urday night. He was carpenter with The Kandy Kid for two seasons and is now trying to decide between two splendid offers for next year. Sam P. Gerson has organized his forces at the Bush Temple theater for the summer. Merle E. Smith, who has been one of the most popular treasurers ever at that theater, has been retained in the box office, and Karl Randolph is his assistant. Les¬ ter D. Jenkins is Mr. Gerson’s secre¬ tary and assistant manager of the theater. Fred Adams, who recently injured his knee cap in the east and who got a fall at the Revere house before he was 1 able to get around without his crutches, is out of the hospital and is doing nicely. He was coming down stairs a|, the Revere when his crutch slipped and his limb was broken this time, making it necessary to take him to ■hospital. He has had quite a , streak of hard luck. 1 Virginia Lawrence & Co. opened at Calgary, June 14 for 33 weeks on tK<K"Pantages circuit. The company includes Charles A. Schory and Charles B. Hawkins. They have an act hy Arnold Reeves, author of The Shep¬ herd. ^King, which met with success for six weeks of association time and i lor six weeks on Ed Lang’s Michigan time. The members off.the little com¬ pany leave the city npjci week for St. i^^Kwhere they will rest a few days before making the jump to Calgary. Marie Dainton is making her initial bow to a Chicago audience at the Majestic this week. Ed Newell and Minnie Niblo are in Chicago, having returned from a trip abroad, where they met with great success. They are taking a well earned rest at present. John M. Cooke, manager of The Alaskan, gave the Elks a permit to snowball to their hearts’ content on Wednesday night when a large dele¬ gation of Chicago Elks attended the performance. Virginia Harned will remain at the Sans Souci park theater for one week after this and will be succeeded by a musical show, according to an an¬ nouncement made by H. E. Rice. Anna Woodward is contemplating an excursion in vaudeville with a pianologue which she is preparing. Her success as a soloist with various well known bands and more recently in vaudeville makes it certain that her reappearance will be eagerly wel¬ comed by theatergoers. Gretchen Hartman, of Mary Jane’s Pa, travels with her mother, has her lessons regularly each day and is as carefully looked after as if she were in her own home. She is much better off, according to Henry W. Savage’s press agent, than if she were “selling newspapers on the street which, un¬ der the Illinois law, she would be permitted to do without being mo¬ lested. The law against stage chil¬ dren has always been an imposition and all theatrical managers are con¬ gratulating Mr. Savage for having found a way to protect them.” Julia Gray arrived in Chicago re¬ cently from the west. She had been with Lillian Mortimer in vaudeville for several weeks. Miss Gray will rest in Chicago for a time. Frank Hamilton, who was with Roger Imhoff during the regular sea¬ son, is in the city again and found an engagement with Selig’s stock an hour after he arrived in Chicago. Thomas B. Hoier, who was with the Edith Taliferro company in Polly of the Circus until it closed on May 15, is in Chicago with his wife and eight-months-old daughter. He went to New York when the company dosed, arriving here last week. Harry Woodruff, who has for many years been looked upon as one of the foremost juveniles and matinee heroes of the stage, is by no means as young as he looks, if all accounts may be credited. Woodruff, according to the best estimates, is easily forty-five years of age. An old actor friend of his recalled that Woodruff had played a boy’s part in The Black Flag in 1886. ■Henry Miller, who arrived in Chi¬ cago Sunday to direct the perform¬ ance of The Servant in the House at the Bush Temple theater, will not be a star in The Great Divide when that piece opens in the Adelphi thea¬ ter, London, September 9. He will simply be a member of the company and will not be even featured. Edith *Winn Mathison will be seen in the role of Ruth Jordan, and Laura Hope Crews will play her former part. Wil¬ liam Vaughn Moody will be in Lon¬ don to assist in the production of the piece. INJUNCTION OBTAINED BY PATENTS COMPANY Complete Copy of Preliminary Order of Court Provides Interesting Information. New York, May 31. In view of the great interest taken by film men throughout the country in the case of the Motion Picture Patents Company against the Okla¬ homa. Natural Mutoscene Company for alleged infringement of camera patents, the order, granting a pre¬ liminary injunction to the Patents company may prove of great interest to the trade. THE SHOW WORLD has ob¬ tained a complete copy of the order and offers it herewith in full: “ORDER GRANTING PRELIMI¬ NARY INJUNCTION. Filed May 21, 1909. J. R. Young, Clerk. Tn the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Motion Picture Pat¬ ents Company vs. Oklahoma Natur¬ al Mutoscene Company. In Equity No. 28,533. “This cause coming on to be heard on complainant’s motion for a pre¬ liminary injunction and on the affida¬ vits of Frank L. Dyer, Thomas Ar- mat and George F. Scull, and the ex¬ hibits annexed to said affidavits in support of said motion, and on a cer¬ tified copy of a decree of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York in the cause entitled Thomas A. Edison vs. Ameri¬ can Mutoscope & Biograph Company, dated March 25, 1907, also exhibited in support of said motion, and on proof of seryice of said affidavits and de¬ cree upon the defendant herein, and having been argued by Melville Church, of counsel for complainant, and considered by the court, it is now, by the court, this 21st day of M^y,, 1909, ordered, adjudged and de- c^fcQhat the said motion be and the game Ts hereby granted, and it is fur¬ ther' ordered, adjudged and decreed that an injunction be issued out of this court against the defendant, Ok¬ lahoma Natural Mutoscene .Company, enjoining and restraining the said Oklahoma Mutoscene Company, its officers, servants, agents, attorneys, employees, workmen and confedera¬ tes, and each and every of them, until the further order of this court, from directly or indirectly, making, constructing, using, vending, deliver¬ ing, working or putting into opera¬ tion or use, or in anywise counterfeit¬ ing or imitating, the invention set forth in the letters patent to Thomas A. Edison, Reissue No. 12,037, dated Sept. 30, 1902 (as particularly claimed in claim 1, 2 and 3 of said patent), re¬ ferred to in the bill of complaint herein, and particularly from making using or vending the aparatus, (or any apparatus similar thereto), de¬ signated in the complainant’s moving papers as the Warwick Camera, and described in detail in the affidavit of Said Frank L. Dyer and Thomas Ar- mat herein above referred to. “Wright, Justice.” ‘To Open the Season. ' Boston, Mass., June 3. Robert Edeson will be the first star of next season at the Hollis Street theater. He will be seen in the pro¬ duction of a new play by W. Somer¬ set Maugham, The Noble Spaniard. This will be the first time in years that Mr. Edeson has played a charac¬ ter that has not been American.— LOU. Race Meet This Month. Fairmont, W. Va., June 2. The Fairmont Fair Association will hold the first of its annual spring race meets on June 15, 16, 17. Nothing less than $400.00 purses are offered, and already the stakes are well filled, while enough' entries for the other events have been received to assure the success of the meet.—McCRAY. Leo Dumont, who was carpenter with Texas Jack up to the time of its closing at Detroit recently, is now 1 employed on the stage at the Grand opera house, where A Gentleman from Mississippi is having a prosper- Harry M. Strause has returned from a business trip to Erie, Pa., and announces that the two airdome com¬ panies in which he is interested open¬ ed the season at Excelsior Springs, Mo., and Barttlesville, Okla., with ex¬ cellent prospects. Karl McVitty, general director of the W. T. Gaskell enterprises, is well pleased with the fine route he has booked for The House of A Thousand Candles. The company will open at Muscatine, Iowa, on Sept. 5. Mr. McVitty will travel thirty days in ad¬ vance of the company. It will play at high prices and the company will be a capable one, it is announced. Wright Huntingdon, of stock fame, came to town last week after a suc¬ cessful stock engagement at South Bend. He is here to begin rehearsals with the Sans Souci theater company for his part in The Dancing Girl, which, strangely enough, he played with Miss Harned at the Lyceum the¬ ater, New Y r ork (the original com¬ pany), in 1891. The part is that of John Christensen. While walking along Randolph street last Saturday he accosted Eugene Wilson, manager of the The Blue Mouse company, and recalled the fact that Wilson was head at the Lyceum at the time he played there in The Dancing Girl. Sully Guard & Co. tried out a new act by J. H. Hoffman at the Ameri¬ can Music Hall last week, and it was so well received that William Morris arranged for bookings over his cir¬ cuit, and the act will open at Milwau¬ kee June 7. The playlet is on the same general lines as Leah Kleschna, and is called Fagan’s Pupil. Instead of the pupil being a boy as might be concluded from the use of Dicken’s character Oliver Twist, the thief is a young society girl of an uncle who has taught her to seal, by her uncle. The society girl is played by Elsie Crescy, the uncle by Harry E. Allen, and the butler by John Coombs. Mr. Guard’s role is that of Sothern Da¬ vis, a detective, in love with the so¬ ciety girl. The act might well be called Twixt Love and Duty. When Woodruff Went Gunning. Wright Huntingdon recalls the time when he and Harry Woodruff were playing together in stock and felt so flush that they decided to take ad¬ vantage of a week’s opportunity for a gunning trip. They had contracts with a certain stock company, which seemed as certain as the paper upon which they were written. They went upon their trip, during which they spent every cent they had. When they finally reported for duty they re¬ ceived- two blue envelopes notifying them that the company would close. They had enough money to take them to Chicago, and landed here with so little of the coin of the realm that they were almost ashamed to look a real landlady in the face. They final¬ ly obtained a room for $2.50 a week and lived on free lunches and other inexpensive luxuries. At the end of the week their united expenses amounted to $4.35. One night Wright Huntingdon was watching a performance of Woodruff in the Boys of Company B. Hunting¬ don sat in the front row. At a con¬ venient moment, Woodruff whispered to Huntingdon under his breath: “Re¬ member the $4.35?” And Huntingdon almost fell off his seat with laughter. At that time Woodruff was making $300 a week and Huntingdon did not know what poverty looked like.