Show World (June 1909)

18 THE SHOW WORLD “Advertising Slides’ Make Merchants Pay Your Rent 3 Slides, 3 colors, 25 woi for making your own at h 3c each, for a Dollar Bill. H.W. AMUSEMENT SYNDICATE 8 ^ without paint LIVE NEWS TOPICS OF THE WEEK TENNESSEE. Memphis — The Royal opera com¬ pany is being well received at the Lyceum. Nashville—The Glendale park casino is having big crowds with the Vernon stock company as the attraction. INDIANA. KANSAS. MINNESOTA. Chisholm—A. T. Kramer, of Bluff- ton, Minn., will erect a vaudeville thea¬ ter here. Hibbing—John A. Burrichter, of St. Paul, will erect a theater here which will cost $50,000. Evelyth—P. E. Dowling and others will erect a $20,000 theater. Olson & Magney, of Duluth, are the architects. Austin—The United States carnival company is here this week; the first carnival of the season.—DIAGNEAU. Mankato—Daniel F. Fager, the past season with Brewster’s Millions west and now the guest of parents in Man¬ kato, put on “Professor’s Love Story,” with an amateur cast, auspices Elks, to fair business June 10 and 11.— RICHTER. Hanover—William Schropp has pur¬ chased the interest of Doc Jones in the Electric theater. Manhattan — The contract for the erection of the new Marshall theater has been awarded to George Hopper, of this city. It will cost $32,000. COLORADO. Denver—Sullivan & Considine have purchased the lease on The Queen. NEW JERSEY. New Brunswick—The Bijou closed last Saturday. It will reopen in Au¬ gust. Bridgeton—Tumbling Dam park is offering exceptionally good vaudeville bills. Business is satisfactory. Atlantic City—Vaudeville is offered at the Criterion, Steel Pier, Steeple¬ chase Pier, Young’s Pier and Million Dollar Pier. Boulder—The Park committee held a meeting June 11 and decided to build a handsome entrance to the Chautauqua costing between $500 and $600 and accepted the plans submitted by A. E. Saunders. MONTANA. PENNSYLVANIA. Pittsburg — W. W. Blackburn will erect a theater on Tenth street at an early date. Pottsville — John Hersker, of Ma- hanoy City, is planning to erect a $30,000 vaudeville theater here. Philadelphia — The Vaudeville and Animal Show Company will erect a theater at Fifty-second and Ludlow, with 1,500 seating capacity. Mishawaka — Ashling and Bercheit have leased the opera house here and opened it with moving pictures. A. E. Ashling remained to manage the theater. He is winning many friends by his enterprising methods and has begun to build up a strong patronage. The house seats 600 and plans are un¬ der way to increase it to 800. • He is using 21 reels weekly. Lafayette—Arrangements are being made for remodeling the Grand opera house and $25,000 will be expended. Alexander & Sons, of Lafayette are the architects. Madison—The Grand opera house will be converted into a wholesale grocery, provided, the plans of A. M. Graham and Joseph S. Deloste, the owners, do not miscarry. This will leave Madison without an opera house. The house has been losing money is the cause of the proposed change. It was built in 1886, and is modernly equipped and arranged, with a seat¬ ing capacity of 1,000. Evansville—On account of the street car strike which is still on, Oak Sum¬ mit park is still closed and will re¬ main closed until the strike is over. At the Orpheum theater business is fine for this is Elks’ Week here. Heading the bill this week is Miller and Atwood in their comedy sketch, “A Warm Reception.” Kelly and Lewis, novelty gymnasts, also receive much applause. Ah-Ling-Foo, the Chinese Magician, is also on the bill. —OBERDORFER. Vincennes—The Sunday feature of the Red Mill is a drawing card cou¬ pled with the advertising scheme of “Three good places to go—Church, Red Mill and Home.” Eddie Adair and his Four Girls hung out S. R. O. last week and by special request Mr. Moore held them for an extra per¬ formance Sunday, June 13. The Three McKees, Comedy trio, Nic and Lida Russell in Professor and Maid, and Hamlin and Noyes in Just Girls in comedy open the week.—BELL. IOWA. Sioux City—David Beehler is con¬ templating erecting a new theater here. Columbus Junction—G. G. Peck and A. Wecott, of Marshalltown, will open a new moving picture theater here. Davenport—It is said that Kyle On- stott lost $3,600 in four weeks in try¬ ing to make the Tri-City stock com¬ pany a “go.” Dubuque—The Bijou theater, which has played vaudeville for five years under the lease of Sigfried and Rosen¬ thal, with Jake Rosenthal as manager, closed its doors forever as a theater on Monday evening, June 14, with the performance of “Cindy,” by the Jane Babcock stock company. The stock company moved to the Airdome on Tuesday of this week. The wrecking of the Bijou has already begun. The new Majestic theater, to be owned and managed exclusively by Jake Rosen¬ thal to stand on the site of the old Bijou, is to be completed by October 15. Rapp Brothers, of Chicago, are the architects and Wiley Brothers, of Chicago, are the builders.—VERA. MICHIGAN. Coldwater—The Tibbits opera house will be remodeled during the summer. cattle Creek—The Bijou has closed for the season. The Post is also dark. rloughton—The Savoy is now un¬ der new management, and has under¬ gone improvements. Lansing—The Jo-Jo vaudeville thea¬ ter opened June 9. It has 850 seating capacity. Fred Swan is manager. Grand Rapids—The Cathrine Coun- tiss stock company closed at the Ma¬ jestic Saturday night. Miss Countiss is now visiting friends in Denver, Colo. Manistee—George Fletcher, who is just home from a successful year as manager of the road show “Ma’s New Husband,” has leased the Ramsdell theater, and will open in a few days with vaudeville and moving pictures for the summer. Kalamazoo—Oakwood park, which opened the season Decoration Day, has been playing to record crowds. The Majestic will be closed for one month this summer for redecoration and the Bijou, during that period, will be used for vaudeville—MEISTER- HEIM. CASINO VAUDEVILLE BOOKING AGENCY 924 Republic Bldg., Chicago, Ill. satistied with TRYmI™* NOW BOOKING FROM COAST TO COAST WM. MORRIS INC. NEW Y0RK-BR00KLYN-B0ST0N-NEWARK-BUFFAL0 CHICAGO J. C. MATTHEWS, Chicago Representative, 167 Dearborn Street WISCONSIN. Watertown—Arrangements a., ing made to build an addition --and - H Roundup — W. C. -Jones has just opened a moving picture theater, known as the Lyric. Miles City—R. F. Warren, of Dick¬ inson, N. D., is contemplating the erection of a vaudeville theater here. Roundup—William Haight, of Liv¬ ingston, is making arrangements to erect a moving picture theater in this Red Lodge—W. C. Parker has made the arrangements to open a moving picture theater in the Ben Smith Building at Miles City, Mont. otherwise improve Tivoli park. Grand Rapids—John E. Daly is of- ) fering vaudeville at Daly’s theater. I Beloit—H. G. Helgerson has sold the Colonial theater on East Grand avenue to D. W. Parkinson. M Menasha—The Crystal opened June 5 under the management of Thomas R. Vaugn. It gives an hour’s enter¬ tainment. Superior — The Superior Theater Company is completing arrangements for the rebuilding of a theater on the site of the Grand opera house. Appleton—The season ends June 23 j with Hortense Neilsen in “A Doll's j House.” All records were broken last ! week when the Frank Winninger' 1 company played here. NEW YORK. Schenectady —The board of trade is considering a carnival for one week in October.—HEALY. Oneonta — Fred Gillen has taken charge of the Oneonta theater, reliev¬ ing H. M. Dunham, who will take a vacation until the opening of the sea¬ son in September. Ogdensburg — The Star, with 850 seating capacity, opened Mav 24 with Ed Vinton as manager. Three acts are olayed. The >~ity opera house closed the season on May 13.— MER- < RILL. Middletown — O. S. Hathaway was elected president of the Bill Posters' J and Distributors’ Association of New York state at a recent meeting held I in Troy. Mr. Hathaway owns about I a dozen of the most valuable til the I many franchises listed. ILLINOIS. Rock Island—A general refinishing I of the Illinois theater is contem^^H Waukegan — The Barrison theater ! will be remodeled this summer! and the vaudeville will be played a| the | Schwartz during the time that the im-1 provements are under way. Elgin—The Star is doing a S. R. 0. business with three vaudeville acts and I 2,000 feet of pictures for a dime. jThe Coliseum Gardens had Kryl and his band of 35 pieces and eight grand opera singers last week and gave seven concerts to 8,000 paid admis¬ sions. The Dolly RandolTi burlesque orchestra is the attraction this week.— BARTLETT. Bloomington—George W. Chatter- ton of Soringfield, who owns opera i houses there and at DanvilleJ and whose playhouse at Bloomingtonjwas recently burned, was in Bloomington last week trying to arrange fotj the construction of a new opera house. Plans for a three-story structure which will be one of the best playhouses outside of Chicago, if built, have been drawn. Mr. Chatterton proposed to build the structure provided the citi¬ zens of Bloomington will agree to buy all of the seats on the first night it is opened, at the high priced charges for the occasion. If he gets support on this, the work on the building will be commenced at once.