Show World (September 1909)

September 18, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD Phone Randolph 1363 Private Wire Postal Telegraph WALTER F. KEEFE & CO. Schiller Building, Chicago Booking Acts Everywhere Every Day ADTIOTO. Send us route °* time booked, open time d your per¬ il K Min .-manent address. No time for extended Ct an spondence, . 11 U name lowest salary, and state ail in f t 1,%-er. BAGGAGE SMASHING IS BONDING COMPANY IS STOPPED IN KANSAS SUED BY THEATER CO. Railroad Commissioners Call a Halt on the Practice of Wrecking by Careless Employees. TOPEKA, Kas., Sept. 14.—Bag-gage Thursday evening and caused the can- smashing as it is practiced on the rail- celling of the date for the week. She —-in Kansas has reached its limit. was replaced on the bill by Hennings, ilaints without number have been Lewis & Hennings, a singing and dane- ..ig in to the State Board of Railroad ing trio, whose most excellent work Commissioners from travelers and the gave good satisfaction to the large au- ->oard has taken action. It sent out diences.—FRAMER. A Matter of $4,500 is Under Dispute in Construction of a Maryland Playhouse. i,, Sept ‘ i 4 -"T tain - The show was greatly enjoyed by Judges Boyd and ICeedy gave a deci- the prisoners, and this led to Sheriff Hi® smt c °J, th ? Maryland Thea- Moffatt and Manager Bannon arranging °^„ Cuml ?^rland, of which for weekly repetitions. The prisoners Thomas Footer is president, against the who misbehave during the week will be American Bonding company, of Balti- prevented from enjoying the weekly more, for the defendant. The plaintiff shows as a punishment. letters to all of the railroad compa¬ nies operating in Kansas yesterday, in- strucing them to exercise greater care in the handling of baggage. The letter also states that unless greater care is shown within thirty days proceedings the by l* 16 attorney for "You are hereby instructed,” reads the letter, “to issue to your baggage agents and depot agents such instructions as will secure to the traveling public the careful handling of their baggage and the discontinuance of the practice of said employees of dropping trunks di¬ rect from the cars to the depot plat¬ form. If your company has rules cov¬ ering this matter you will kindly insist on an enforcement thereof. You are hereby further notified that unless the action Indicated above is taken within thirty days from the date of this no¬ tice, the board will instruct its attor¬ ney to file proper complaint in the prem- M T. Clark, general agent for the S. W. Brundage carnival attractions, is the man who started the agitation against baggage smashing, and his ef- rorts with the Board of Railroad Com¬ missioners seem to have home fruit at Erickson Green Swoons Uni Strain and “A Minnesota Romance’ Stopg for a Week. WIs ” Sept 10—Miss Em .["S" Croon, portrayer of the Sw LyJ- n racter ln tlle sketch, " A Min Romance,” while under a sev stall Sickness, fainted on i stage at the Bijou theater in this c Flans Made to Put Movable Stage in the Coliseum to Accommodate Season of Singing. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 13.—Manager Gol- terman of the Coliseum called a meet¬ ing the other day to consider the in¬ troduction of a movable stage at the Coliseum so as to admit of a possibility of grand opera being staged there. The meeting was attended by Mayor Kreiss- man and Building Commissioner Smith, as well as the board of directors of the Coliseum. The plan was thought favor¬ able and plans will be submitted to Commissioner Smith for his approval. Manager Golterman has already been in communication with most of the New York impressarios and has received fa¬ vorable replies both from the Metropoli¬ tan and the Manhattan Grand Opera companies.—WEBB. Oh, Yon Fosters! MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 14.—The mayor of this city has issued orders for all posters for “The Soul Kiss” to be covered, claiming them indecent for la¬ dies to look upon. The manager of this attraction states this is the first time that he has ever been served with such a notice. He made haste to comply with the order.—L. The c which erected the Maryland theater! failed, it is said, to pay about $4,500 in¬ debtedness contracted in its construc¬ tion. The Maryland Theater company, it is alleged, was obliged to pay the amount, which was secured by liens. The company sued the American Bond¬ ing company, the bond of the contract¬ ors, to recover. The court, in its opinion, says the plaintiff did not give notice of the de¬ fault of the contractor in the time re¬ quired under the bond and it waited to bring suit after the right of action ac¬ crued. They waited over six months to bring the suit. Ex-Judge Ferdinand Williams, of Cumberland,; ex-Judge William J. Wit- zenbacher, of Hagerstown, and Fred Cushwa, of Baltimore, represented the American Bonding company, and Ben¬ jamin A. Richmond and Austin A. Wil¬ son the Maryland Theater company. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 14.—By agreement entered Into Saturday be¬ tween Sheriff Jack Moffat and Manager Isadore Bannon of the Grand theater at Wallace, Idaho, performances will be given weekly by artists from the Grand bill in the county jail. The first pre¬ sentation was given Saturday evening, when three vaudeville teams gave their turns before twelve prisoners. An ac¬ companist came with a portable piano and the actors brought along their cos¬ tumes. A bed sheet was used as a cur- characterized as both delicate and de¬ lightful. No dates are mentioned, but it is said that Miss Barrymore's annual starring tour under the direction of Charles Frohman, would be a short one, at the close of which she will quit the stage temporarily and devote herself to certain lines of interesting needlework. John Drew is said to be quite enthu¬ siastic over the prospects of being a nas on new venture in vane viUe and Other Bookings. ■ST; I '°, UI S Sept - 13 -—Oscar Dane of the Gayety theater has opened a vaude¬ ville and dramatic exchange on the sec¬ ond floor of the Lyceum theater build¬ ing on Sixth street. Dane is booking acts for Frank Talbot’s Gem theater and several other St. Louis theaters, as well as houses ln Missouri and Illi¬ nois. The office conducts a general booking business for vaudeville acts and books repertoire companies and musical comedy companies in this ter¬ ritory. Dane is also making a specialty Si, boo £ ing . tailing picture companies. This office is the headquarters for the new IUinois-Missouri Theatrical Man¬ agers’ association. Acts desiring time in this locality would do well to com¬ municate with Dane.—WEBB. _ Crab Feast for Actress. BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 13. — Irma La Pierre, leading lady with the Al. H. Wilson Company, gratified her one long¬ ing desire during her visit last week. All summer she was looking forward with great interest to her visit to this city as she had a desire to indulge in the many delicacies of the Chesapeake Bay and for which Baltimore has a uni¬ versal reputation. Crabs and oysters were the objects of her desire. One bright afternoon last week a crab feast was given in her honor and she enjoyed it immensely. She was also escorted to the docks on the water-front where the oyster boats are moored. She had quite an interesting chat with the men on the boats.—CALVERT.