Show World (August 1909)

August 7, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD 7 (THE CHICAGO THEATRICAL COLONY Richard J. Finnegan, assistant dra¬ matic editor of the Chicago Daily Journal, and press representative of 1 the Princess thea- Show World ter, has returned Is from a vacation urgtly Quoted. ■$£*£>££‘3 the Ringling circus Mr Finnegan spent some time at Devil s lake where he caught some fish. Mr. Finnegan says that the Show World is quoted freely by the Barraboo News. i never saw anything to beat it,” said Mr. Finnegan. “Every time I picked up the paper I saw something from The Show World. It was nearly al¬ ways on the front page, too, and once in a while it was accompanied by a cartoon or a picture, also copied from the well known Chicago theat¬ rical paper. It looked very much as though the editor had taken his scis¬ sors and paste pot and made up his sheet from The Show World.” Frederick Donaghey, who has for ' the past fourteen weeks been in charge of “A Gentleman from Missis¬ sippi” at the Frederick Donaghey Grand Opera Goes to house, has been New York. called back to New York to look over the Brady-Grismer inter¬ ests at their general offices. Mr. Dohaghey, during his stay in Chi¬ cago has been a very busy man and has contributed largely to the local press, and his fine Italian hand could be discerned in many of the theatrical columns of the daily papers. Mr. Donaghey did yoemen service on the Evening Post while Percy Hammond was away and his special column in the Post called “Oddments and Re¬ mainders” caused no little discussion among theatrical readers of the pa¬ per. Mrs. Carrie Beecher, who is a vaudeville actress playing in the cheaper theaters, was fined $25 Tues- d a y in Municipal Woman Fined Judge Gemmill’s for court for beating Beating Child. her 4-year-old baby because the child could not learn certain lines in a vaudeville sketch. Mrs. Beecher was arrested Monday on complaint of some neighbors who saw her beating the child from a window opposite. In fining the woman Judge Gemmill said: “No 4-year-old child needs to learn a piece. She doesn’t need to take part in vaudeville shows for years to come. You can’t keep the child. I am going to turn her over to the juvenile authorities.” Mrs. Beecher wept when she was told that the child was to be taken from her. She ? a 'd she and her husband had been m Chicago appearing in 5 and 10 cent theaters for four weeks. Her home is in Philadelphia. • Ward Baker, one of the picturesqi figures around Chicago for sever years, has entered the vaudeville fie w „, n i ? nd has s >g ne d np f< Ward Baker Interstate time. M v J® Baker will go out wit Vaudeville, two new acts. One 1 . „ ,. ealls “The Music Ma; ter, which consists of moving pi, tures and music. Mr. Baker ll violinist of exceptional ability, and 1 appears m this in the makeup of garb' M r aS n r ,’. wi , th , the ^gulatic wWl, Bakcr als0 has a violin ac which he offers by way of variet known° U - ng was for merly we whereY" i th V tr L eets of Chicag, . he Piayed the violin in ord< He wa?;n f0 7 h , is educatio, he habit of play ng in th ^"Portions of the city a! nigh and attending school in the day tim well 'knovm stock actor. 6 * ^ th Little Items Concerning People or Attrac¬ tions Now in this City or Out of it. BY WILL REED DUNROY. Ruth Tomlinson gave a dressing- room party last Saturday night on the stage of the Garrick theater to the members of Miss Tomlinson the company Gives playing “The Dressing-Room Party. Blue Mouse.” The occasion was the farewell of Miss Tomlinson, who has gone to New York, to play a role in one of the new Shubert attrac¬ tions. The dressing room was deco¬ rated for the occasion, and Miss Tom¬ linson, assisted by Miss Katherine Adams and Miss Catherine Clark, served refreshments. The members of the company all called during the evening to pay their respects to the young woman, who has been a most popular member of the company. Sans Souci Park theater, which has had a strenuous history since it was launched this season by Gerson and Anderson, has now been turned into a vaudeville theater. G. B. Mills, of the Mills Novelty company of Chi¬ cago, has taken charge of the house and has installed vaudeville. The first show was given last Sunday night to good business. The venture into opera made by the Oppenheimers did not pay, and the company singing standard comic operas closed last Saturday night. There had been some trouble with the musicians, who claimed they were Eda Von Luke is rehearsing with “Graustark” in New York. This at¬ traction will open at the Great North¬ ern theater in Chicago, Aug. 15. Geo. Cole, for two seasons with “The Man of the Hour,” is in Chi¬ cago where he will remain for a few days before leaving for New York. Edith May Hamilton, who has been enjoying her vacation at Dennison, Iowa, arrived in Chicago this week. Arleigh Williams arrived in the city Tuesday from San Francisco. Mr. Williams has been identified with several companies on the coast. William Glover, who will be re¬ membered as musical director for David Henderson when he produced the large extravaganzas, is in the city and will direct all of Frank Wade’s musical productions. Gertrude Hutchison, who has been in Paris, has returned to Chicago. Miss Hutchison will remain in this country for a few months, when she will return to resume her studies. A. W. Zinn, the well known musical director, is in the city. Mr. Zinn is known to be up in more than sixty; operas. Williams & Gordon, the well known singing and dancing comedians, ar¬ rived in Chicago from New York Wednesday. They have been filling some dates in the east. Bert Walker, last season musical director of “The District Leader,” is in Chicago. E. A. Warren will send out this season “A Race for a Widow,” which will play through the Central States. R. W. Albright is in the city and Miss Sallie Fisher, who was taken sick with ptomaine poisoning before the opening of “The Goddess of Lib¬ erty” in Milwaukee, re- Sallie Fisher covered sufficiently to Did Appear make her appearance In the Cast, in one of the best roles she has yet had and scored a decided hit. Miss Fisher was poisoned through eating canned sar¬ dines at rehearsal and it was thought at first she would not be able to ap¬ pear in the new offering. The Mil¬ waukee dramatic reviewers were en¬ thusiastic in praise of the young wo¬ man's work, and stated that she had made the^biggest hit of her career. Harry Cheates will go ahead of one of Harry Scotts attractions. not being paid union wages, and, with lack of business and other untoward circumstances to combat. Manager Joseph Oppenheimer decided to quit. It will be recalled that the house was first opened as a summer dra¬ matic theater with Virginia Harned. Later the management switched to musical comedy with Edna Wallace Hopper, Raymond Hitchcock and other stars, and still later the com¬ mon, or garden variety, of opera was tried out. It is reported that from present indications the house is go¬ ing to be made to pay. has signed to go with “The Burgo¬ master.” Chester Williams will be seen in the cast of “The Burgomaster.” This will make Mr. Williams’ second sea¬ son with this attraction. George B. Hill, who will manage “The Alaskan” for John Cort this season, has just returned from a trip with “The Burgomaster.” Mr. Hill is the brother of Alice Yorke, who will be seen in “A Broken Idol” in New York this season. Joseph E. Howard is planning to put out two companies in his new piece, “Lower Berth No. 13.” One will play the eastern time and the other will be seen in the one-night stand districts of the middle and far¬ ther west. Jacques Kruger, who will play in “The Beauty Spot” at the Garrick, played in an old farce called “The Photograph Gallery” at Powers’ thea¬ ter when it was known as Hooley’s. Ned Barron, of “The Blue Mouse,” has invented a brand new summer drink. It is called “The Beauty Spot Highball,” but it is not nearly so harmful as the name sounds. The drink consists of a long glass of gin¬ ger ale with a chunk of ice floating frigidly in the liquid. Lillian Hazel, the smallest pony in “The Beauty Spot,” which will soon be on view in Chicago, says that the best beauty spotters are to be found in the bald-headed row. “They never overlook a bet,” says Miss Hazel. Charles E. Kohl, of Kohl and Cas¬ tle, has gone up in the country to re¬ main for a few weeks to recuperate. Bill Beard is the porter in the bar¬ ber shop in the Schiller building. He not only shines shoes, but he is the source of many a good Bill Beard laugh to the patrons of Causes a the shop, and is also the Laugh. author of a vaudeville sketch, which, by the way, has not yet been produced, with the title of “Ham and Bread.” Bill looks like Bert Williams, and there is nothing that will make his white teeth shine any whiter than to tell him of this fact. Recently when J. J. Shubert was in the city, William Klein, an attorney, accompanied him. Klein went upstairs and got his shoes shined. Thinking to have a little fun with Bill, Mr. Klein insisted that he had paid for the shine before he got it. Bill looked at him a moment, and then, with a cynical edge on his voice, said: “Ah don’t know who yo’ all is, Mistah, but if yo’ all don’t pay me right now, we is gwine to git well acquainted right here on de spot.” Mr. Klein paid his dime and everybody laughed. Bob Clark, night city editor of the Inter Ocean, who has signed up with the Shuberts to take “The Blue Mouse” out on the Clark Has a road when that Fitch Nom farce leaves the Gar- De Plume. rick, was met by a friend the other day who seemed to have a grievance. “I thought you told me that you were going out with ‘The Blue Mouse,’ Bob,” he complained. “Well, I am,” exclaimed Bob with emphasis. “But I saw in the Show World where Robert R. Clark was going. out in advance of that show.” “I know,” laughed Bob, “but you see, Robert R. is my nom de plume.” John Cort, one of the most widely known theatrical men of the far northwest,, was in the city this week looking over the new John Cort Cort theater, which is Visits in now in process of. con- Chicago. struction in Dearborn street. Mr. Cort is one of the owners of this theater. He is at the head of a great circuit in the northwest, with headquarters in Seat¬ tle, where his theater, the Moore, is one of the finest playhouses on the Pacific coast. Mr. Cort is associated with Harry H. Frazee in several en¬ terprises, and Mr. Frazee represents him in Chicago. Walter J. Keefe, of the Western Vaudeville Managers’ association, has returned from a yachting trip on the lake. He is back at his desk in the Majestic theater, hard at work. Ned Barron, of “The Blue Mouse,” has received a flattering offer from a big eastern theatrical firm and may possibly accept it later in the season. Mr. Barron is a Chicago young man, who is gaining rapid recognition. J. T. McArty, formerly doorman at the Garrick and more recently super¬ intendent of the Hippodrome in New York, has arrived in Chicago to at¬ tend to some matters of business. John Pierre Roche, formerly with the Show World has been added to the list of contributors to the Open Door, the organ of the independents published in Chicago. Frank Buck, has taken over the management of “The Devil, the Serv¬ ant and the Man,” the new sketch by Wm. Anthony McGuire which will be put out shortly in vaudeville. The piece is based on “The Devil” and “The Servant in the House” and is a novel vaudeville offering. The “devil” and the “servant” from these two well- known plays, appear in the offering. E. H. Jones, who for the past five years has done the booking for Fred G. Conrad, has resigned his position and will probably go on the road later in advance of some attraction. SANS SOUCI THEATER NOW RUNS VAUDEVILLE House That Has Had a Varied Career This Season Comes into the Hands of G. C. Mills.