Show World (July 1909)

4 THE SHOW WORLD July 3, 1909.1 WITH THE CHICAGO THEATRICAL COLONY Jack Lodge goes to New York next Willis Jackson is at Fox Lake, Wis., for his vacation. W. B. Patton is at Rochester, N. Y., for the summer. Sam Burton visited his sister at Franklin, Ind., last week. Frank Mandeville is musical di¬ rector 'at' Sans Souci park. William Macauley left Saturday for a month’s stay in Wisconsin. W. D. Campbell, of Campbell & Drew, was in Chicago this week. Will Kilroy and Sue Marshall are at Granville, Mich, for the h.ot weath- 25. Louise Willis and Ethel West are at the Airdome at Athens, Ga., this week. IJthel Tucker, who had her leg broken last November, has about re¬ covered. “The Traveling Salesman” contin¬ ues to do a splendid business at the Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Quigley spent last Saturday in Michigan City, Ind., making the boat trip. The Chicago Opera house is “dark.” The engagement of “Keegan’s Pal” ended last Sunday night. Ralph T. Kettering is back in town, having returned from Lake Brady, where he had a stock company. “Going Some,” now at the Maxine Elliott theater in New York, will be an early attraction at the Garrick. John W. Moore, advance agent for “Si Plunkard” last season, arrived in Chicago recently from Kansas City. Rose Watson, last year with the stock company at Peoples’, has signed with “Lena Rivers” for next season. Fred Julian is back in Chicago from Toledo, where he was with Fred Kim¬ ball’s Stock company at the Lyceum. Ethel Hollingshead passed through Chicago last week on her way from New York to her home in Wisconsin. Edgar Allen Conway has been en¬ gaged for Joseph Callahan’s “Satan,” which opens in Menasha, Wis., Sun¬ day. Chic Perkins is in Chicago selecting people for “The Little Prospector,” in which she will star again the com¬ ing season. Merle E. Smith has been made busi¬ ness manager of the Bush Temple during the tenancy of the Herman Lieb players. Horace Newman left last week for Jackson, Mich, where he will spend four weeks with relatives before going to New York. Jack Hoskins opened his “Texas Ranger” company under canvas at Libertyville, Ill., and is reported to be doing a nice business. Lew Elliott is managing some mov¬ ing picture theaters for W. H. Swan¬ son down in the state and is reported to be getting along fine. Raymond Hitchcock has arrived in Chicago and is rehearsing for “King Dodo,” which opens at Sans Souci park theater next Sunday. A1 W. White, who was in advance of one of W. F. Mann’s “Tempest and Sunshine” companies last season, is in Chicago for the summer. Rich’d Trevelick, contracting agent for the Western Vaudeville Associa¬ tion, was in Chicago for a few days after a long trip on the road. “The Alaskan” will end its summer run at the Great Northern this week. “The Golden Girl” will also close at the Princess on Saturday night. Otto Henkel is down in the state billing for “The Gentleman from Mis¬ sissippi.” He will go as far south as Evansville, Ind., before he returns. “Erminie” is presented at the Sans Souci park theater this week and Frank Moulan, Edith Helena and the other players are being well received. Harry M. Strouse has engaged the prettiest crowd of Chotus girls ever seen in burlesque and will call “The Lady Buccaneers” — the “Girlesque Burlesque.” - Bailey Koerner, brother of Otto Koerner, is talking in ’ front of the Wild West show at Luna park, hav¬ ing recently clowned with the Parker show No. 1. Louise Glaum, who is now connect¬ ed with Selig’s stock company, signed last Saturday for the ingenue role in “The House of a ‘Thousand Candles” for the coming season. Fred P. Belmont, Jean De Caussin and Charles Calder, have been engag¬ ed by Messrs. Martin and Emery for the working staffs of their several en¬ terprises for the coming season. Charles A.. Sellon, who will have “The Cat and the Fiddle” again the coming season, - is spending a few weeks with John B. Hogan at . Rose- land farm, near Lawrence, Mich. Richard Carle revived “The Tender¬ foot” at the Colonial theater on Wednesday night. The theater was dark for several days after “The Hurdy-Gurdy Girl” was withdrawn. he goes to bill the musical .comedy company which Powell & Cohn will open there next Week. . This is the last week of the stay at South Bend. Karl McVitty is busily engaged on the advertising matter of “The House of a Thousand'Candles.” As he will travel thirty days in advance 'the work is attended to earlier than where rep¬ resentatives travel. seven days .ahead. Maralynne Fink left Saturday night for Fort Wayne, Ind., where she will visit relatives for two weeks. She will later spend three weeks with friends in Detroit before returning to Chicago to begin rehearsals for the coming season. ’ • Thomas Richardson has 1 sighed as manager of the No. 2 Flora De Voss Cpmpany the coming season. Early in the fall he will be in advance of the No. 1 show for a couple of weeks be; fore assuming the management of the second company. Julius Buchbinder. is making the various towns and cities on the Chi¬ cago & Alton in the interests of “The Traveling Salesman,” with which-he has been connected since its run be¬ gan at the Illinois. He will do news¬ paper work and billing. He will re¬ turn about the middle of next week. The reading circle at the “Palace Camp” at Wolf’s Lake* Michigan, is shown above. The man behind the pipe is Tom Lockwood, the man behind The Snow World is “Doc” Gardner, the man behind The Gale is E. L. Rice, and the man behind the whiskers is Harry Farley. Fred Smythe, who managed the Nelson opera house at Logansport, Ind., last season, is in Chicago for the summer. He has a position with the Messina spectacle at White City. “The Alaskan” company has dwin¬ dled down during the last two weeks of the engagement. There are eight less girls and six or eight fewer men in the company now than at the start. Gilbert Clayton, stage director for Montgomery and Stone for three sea¬ sons, has been engaged by Messrs. Martin and Emery to stage “The Red Mill.” Rehearsals will begin August 1 . Zelda Sears’ mother, Mrs. Roxy Tyler Paldi, died last Sunday from heat prostration. Myrtle Cosgrove played Miss Sears’ role in “The Blue Mouse” during her absence from the cast. Sid Pascoe is booking two “Just a Woman’s Ways” for the coming sea¬ son and will be located here during the winter. One company will open September 12 and the other Septem¬ ber 18. When “Parsifal” goes on tour this season it will be the fifth that Messrs. Martin and Emery have had this at¬ traction on the road. During the past four years the organization has trav¬ eled over 84,000 miles. Joe Cohn left at 2:30 last Monday morning for Waukesha, Wis., where - Girl” and “The Spanish Girl” (rele,a: ed July 1), which are put on the mi 1 f the Phbenix Tilm Cpnipa-i-j,. Sidney PascOe is looking after-the ad¬ vertising for the Phoenix company. “'j'he' Cat and; the- Fiddle”, will opeitj August 15 at the National in Chie^grf and/will play twenty-five weeks 1 oi return dates, W. E.- Gaynor will-ba advance representative and Georgy, F| Moore advertising- agent. The EW more sisters have been re-engaged and 1 Carltofi Colby will again be musical® director. A new. “Mother Goose;® number and “My Maid in the Moon,”® an electrical novelty, will be introduce ed into the spectacle-. “The Circus Man,” the play by* Eugene Presbrey, based on Holman® Day’s stories, will open at McVicker’s® theater on August 28. This play will‘|, employ thirty-five people in the cast® not including Imogene, the elephant® and the. parrot Maclyn Arbuckli® will play the role of the circus man,*! The play is one of fun and human in- [' terest with a good strong love story* running throughout. Arbuckle will have the part of his career in the pro* duction, which promises to be oil l lavish scale. William Anthony McGuire, authojH of “The Devil, the Servant and the.I; Man,” which is being offered by the'- Herman Lieb players at the Bush, Temple theater, has a play called “The Heights,” which has been ac® cepted for Frank Keenan next season® He is also author of a new play en¬ titled “The Walls of Wall Street,” and has a one-act piece in preparation® caled “The Absinthe Fiend.” Mr. Me-* Guire has retained George S. Cullen,./ The Holden Brothers opened an air- dome in Chicago last Saturday night and offer vaudeville and moving pic¬ tures. It is at the baseball grounds at Sixty-ninth and Halsted. There is a band with the airdome. No mati¬ nees are given. Harry and Charlie Holden and George Edwards are in R. H. Brollier has leased the south¬ ern and eastern rights to “A Pair of Country Kids” and will open his com¬ pany at Linton, Ind., August 28. He will have the territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio. C. Jay Smith will send a company into the northeast and may let the rights west of the Mississippi to Miller & Marion Redlich, leading woman with the Herman Lieb players, has been engaged by the Shuberts and will next season be seen in an important pro¬ duction. Miss Redlich has been play¬ ing for three years with the Donald Robertson players, and in that time has been doing some remarkably fine work. She has received the highest praise from some of the best known dramatic reviewers. Lincoln J. Carter is introducing the same ingenious methods into the mov¬ ing picture business that made him famous as a showman. He has pro¬ duced “A Brave Girl of the Fifteenth Floor,” “It Takes Gasoline to Win a J. W. WILLIAMS TO HAVE NUMBER OF COMPANIES FARIBAULT, Minn., July 1 .—M new theatrical exchange, which is to, be known as the Northwestern Amuse-* ment company, has been organize® here. The directors ,of the new com-! pany are Wm. Kaiser, president; J. W. Williams, general manager, and L. H. Dibble, secretary and treasurer. A suite of offices have been fitted up in" the Faribault theater building for th® purpose of producing and booking* theatrical attractions of all kinds. The new firm will put on the road two stock companies, six one-nighters and? four musical comedies, all of which* will be organized and rehearsed her® in Faribault. The Williams stock* company, one of the Northwestern! Amusement company’s attractions, i® showing at Rochester, Minn., this,, week.—CAMPBELL. Tour of Inspection. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 30.- Sam Harris, of Cohan & Harris; Tom Love, of the Nixon & Zimmerman* combination; Dennis O’Brien, legal, adviser, and E. K. Frank, part owneM of the Park theater, were in this city* last week on a general tour of inspec-f tion. To Have New Play. Adelaide Thurston will have a new play next season by Edith Ellis, au¬ thor of “Mary Jane’s Pa.” It may be called “Mary, Mary Quite Contrary.! Tom Phillips Engaged. DENVER, Col., July 1.—Tom I.f Phillips, formerly in advance of “The Spoilers,” has become chief promoter! of publicity for Lakeside park. “Boy and Girl” Closes. “The Boy and the Girl” did not meet with much success in New York and the company has closed.