Show World (October 1909)

4 THE SHOW WORLD October 2, xsoa. Mobile Lodge Members Charter Steamer and Ride on the Bay with Numerous Guests. MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 30.—Thursday night, September 16, the Mobile lodge, No. 104, Theatrical Mechanics’ associa¬ tion, gave a moonlight ride on the new¬ ly built steamer “Caloosa,” and had as their guests all of the attaches of the different theaters of the city and all performers who were playing here that night. The committee of arrangement lels and Jimmie Cooper, had previously sent Invitations to all of the above to meet at the Skydome theater, of which President E. W. Goss is manager just after the various shows, for the purpose of marching to the boat in a body, and at 11 o’clock it looked like a murder had been committed in front of the Skydome—there was such a mobi At 11:15, under the leadership of Harry Knox, of the Knox-Alvin Comedy com¬ pany, and Dr. J. G. Thomas, chairman of the committee, the mob marched by twos through Royal street to St. Mich¬ ael, and down to the river front, where all boarded the boat for a sure enough good time. This being a prohibition city and state, for this reason they took no beers and wines along. How¬ ever, they had casks upon casks of soda water and good things "* dance - 3 *~ “■* ' Miss Mercedes Alvin, of Knox & Alvin company, assisted by “Jim Grey,” whose wife didn’t know he was out. The soda water made Harry Knox, Professor Din- kel and Charlie Kuehle feel so good that they kept the crowd in ~ laughter from __i uproar of „uu, ..... ....... —e boat left un¬ til its return, and had President Goss giving - - - me Salome dance. After all the refreshments and elevating songs and sayings had given out, it was about 3 a. m., w uen we landed at the foot of Government street, and the crowd scat¬ tered, some going to hotels, some taking cabs, some to the various property rooms, and one or two went home. Ev¬ ery one expressed himself a glorious “— — J -*• “ „ __Ju£”and much credit is due Mobile Lodge, No. 104, '-*■ g - cessful affair.—WILLIAMS. W. A. Kelley Saves a $6,000 Car from Mob in Omaha by His Presence of Mind and Bravery. WEBSTER CITY, la.. Sept. 30.—W. A. Kelley, of Memphis, Tenn., known in vaudeville as “Whistling Kid,” and who A appearing in Council Bluffs, was the hero in an episode that occurred the other day during the big street strike in Omaha. A car on the Ii side of the Missouri river was just •cending the grade to the bridge when it was attacked by a mob of strikers. They had thrown the motorman partially demolished Notre Dame Dramatic Club. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 28.—An or¬ ganization to be known as the Notre Dame Stock Company has been formed from among the dramatically inclined students of the university. The aim of the company is to unite the best local entertainers for the purpose •filling all available “ Tilling an iivaiittMic mus ^S^* literary and dramatic programs. The plans as outlined by Professor Spiess Includes three or four plays and an occasional vaudeville performance to fill in minor dates. The following officers were elected. President, Claude Sorg; vice-president. Night Horse Show Planned. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., September 20.-r- A niaht horse show at the Coliseum will 4 one of the features of the Illinois state Fair here, October 1-9. The rac¬ ing and agricultural exhibits are iarger than in former years, and will be well represented. A novelty will be the display of multi-colored game birds from the state propagation farm Auburn smd exhibit of fish from the _ rds from the state propagation iarm at Auburn and exhibit of fish from the Illinois State Fish Hatchery at Havana. Ten bands are on the JJst^Happy^ Hoi- Ten Danas are uu me low, the midway, will be c —MADISON. Hew South Bend House. South Bend, Ind., Sept. 23.—It is stated that the auditorium of the Elks temple is to be turned Into a vaudeviUe house. Barry Scanlon of the old Olym¬ pic theater will be the manager. The -—t curtain will go up Sunday, Octo- THEATRICAL FIGHT IS RAG ING IN MICHIGAN. MOVING PICTURES ARE NOW RIFE IN LONDON Klaw & Erlanger Forces and the Shu berts at Loggerheads in Volver- ine State. Two More Big Houses Have Been Taken Over ^by^Bioscope Companies in British Metropolis—English News and Reviews. BY FRED MARTIN. West London in Edgware Road and Mortons at Greenwich. These picture shows, which exist everywhere now, are providing food for thought in vaudeville circles. Pictures are going better than ever over here and since one or two variety turns of refined character are being introduced into the program of almost every establishment the people don’t attend the music halls in anything like the numbers they did. The picture people work two shows a night and three pickle merchant who brings his son and daughter up in luxury only to have dirty water thrown in his face when he seeks their sympathy. The characters are very stagey and the piece suffers con¬ siderably by comparison with “The Walls of Jericho,” Mr. Sutro’s first play, which was produced at this theater sev¬ eral years ago. _ Saturday. The artists’ salaries at these establishments range betwen twelve and fourteen dollars weekly. It is understood, if you have any considerable distance to go, the man¬ agement pay your railway fare. The slump in music hall attendance and the small wages in the favored field look had for the vaudevillean. The imperial International exhibition at the White City and “The Golden West” at Earl’s Court will be closing pretty soon. The White City Show has _ _ anything _ was last year. For one thing It is noth¬ ing near so good as the Franco-British exhibition and, secondly .“John Bull,” a most powerful London weekly, made a slashing attack — “ L ~ 3 -**■ “The Golden - -„-— - an exhibition of American industries. Well, a bale or two of cotton, one or two lumps of metal and a stall or so of canned fruit don’t strike me as repre¬ senting America’s industries. Though Earl’s Court is only a small place com¬ pared with the White City it has a bet¬ ter variety of amusements. “The Red Man,” a wild west show presented in the Empress theater, is quite a neat, well stage-managed affair. After the performance an Indian camp "" _ _ •, when they a delegation after axes, so they might complete the job. Then it was torman’s place, turned on the current, and before the astonished mob realized what was going on, had the r-" *" _ __ __ fixed . where the show has been given. I don’t think that the announcement of the dls- a play of native dances and customs, to- i- gether with the remark that the men will make a collection and the greater the number of coppers they receive the more interesting the performance will be, is the most dignified way of running an attraction which has been advertised all over London as the feature of a high class exhibition. It sounds too much like a street performer’s appeal. .e of speed. His . __j $6,000 car for the company. Kelley, however, was half an hour late to his theater.— TUCKER. i-resiueni., wauuc ’.J Frank Madden; treasurer, John Dally, press agent, John C. Tully; business Committee, Messrs, Havican, Brennan and Johnston. W. C. Fields is achieving his cus¬ tomary success at the London Coliseum. Next week he goes to the Arkwlck Em¬ pire, Manchester, where he will produce a new act which he proposes to bring to your side directly. ■"*-*- __ _ __ its demerits :— — opening under the heading of “The Great White City Sham.” David Warfield Is spending the week in London looking over the programs. In the course of an Interview he said: “Your audiences understand the theater so perfectly. They applaud with dis¬ cretion and they are so calm, never los¬ ing their heads ... I hope to ap¬ pear before a London audience before 10 This and Rose Stahl’s recent state¬ ment viz.: “You can not put in too large type my opinion of the English i comedian’s Brandy Williams is at the Tivoli, Lon¬ don, after an absence of four years. He goes to America at the end of the B. A. Roye’s “Paradise Alley” has made a big hit on this side. Miss Mar¬ guerite Haney, who plays the leading Willette Whittaker is at the Stratford Empire this week. No turn over here is more appreciated than this lady. And the beauty of it is that her songs are clean and her dresses extremely modest. theater-going public. . . . You may say for me that we do not understand the English people. They have no feel¬ ing against us. . They are not ‘cousins. They are much closer; the English peo¬ ple love us, and love us because we are Americans” should serve as contradic¬ tions of all the spiteful things Marie Dressier said about * ~ apearance i " " SAGINAW, Mich., Sept 30.—Kollo* ing the coming of Eddie Foy i n ‘ Mp ', Hamlet of Broadway" to the MieW™. circuit there has cropped out more tf,” ble between the Klaw & Shubert forces which may rSU! for Saginaw for its independent W ings which had been planned for tk! i Auditorium. In speaking of the matter, a man w»it acquainted with theatrical enterprise! I “The Shuberts are not what miirh- be termed a very big factor in Mich I gan theatricals, hut Saginaw had V taste of their shows this year wh»!' Eddie Foy played here in ’Mr. Hamlet character is really good, and is obtain¬ ing many appreciations from papers that aren’t in the bouquet business. Harry First is creating a most favor¬ able impression on this side with his Hebrew sketch, “The Matrimonial Fee.” Bijou Russell is an attraction at the Colchester Hippodrome, which is one of the thirteen halls operated by Walter De Weece, Vesta Tilley’s husband. _the Palace when she said she was going to make her home in London, but after her failure at the Waldorf and subsequent flit to America. This has not been a year remarkable for American successes^ 3 “ J l '* _several artists who have failed to register a hit ready to offer strenuous contradiction' to the statements of Rose Stahl — * “ * “ week, that she has arrived t i late. otaui tutu Warfield, but -— — lengthy knowledge of European enter¬ tainment I can assure that the American act stands a very fine chance over here, because so many phenomenally success¬ ful turns have come from the U. S. A. that English booking agents regard each performance r~ - “**- -- ___which Is unsulted to their requirements, but, if an act is any good from the English standpoint I don’t think that, all things considered, there is a better place than England for a half a dozen years, anyway. In racing. Of course, the’y King, first tenor; _ ia, r. ? xTs-x. __ „.,**■** nnr1 tannr’ On Monday a new ballet entitled “On the Heath” will be produced at the “Making a uenueman, aiucu sjuuvs latest play, now In Its first week at the Garrick theater certainly would not have ^ Un TntVinr it hften his initii iher 3. made its autnor nao n. u effort. It treats with The Moss and Stoll firm now feature the overture in the billing of their numerous houses. You are told the name of the composition and its com¬ poser, also the name of the leader of the orchestra. The public is not cheated out of a turn by this Innovation. Oran, obtained release from her cage by a frightened horse kicking the front in. She clawed a workman, killed a dog and gave no end of trouble before she was recaptured and shot. the idolatry of the ancient Egyptians, and was adapted from the French of M. Brleux by J. B. Fagan. made a trip through Michigan am played several of the K. & E. houses! Now the situation appears that the t & E. people after hearing that Eddie Foy played the independent houses is¬ sued a statement to them that if the? I played any more of the lnd^penden bookings they would cancel all the L & E. and allied shows. As the Shuberf shows are not playing very much Mich¬ igan time it looks as if K. & E. woulfl be successful in attempting to stop the Shubert shows in some of the other cities of the state. Practically the only two showhouses which the Shuberts have In Michigan are the Auditorium in Saginaw and the Garrick in Detroit’ the latter they own.” Secretary Ed. H. Hartwick of the Atk. ditorium stated that he did not knovi how it would affect the Auditorium, but was under the impression that he would he able to secure the shows from De¬ troit as was first planned by him. It will be some time before it is finally that the Eddie Foy production had done a.,4.1.— ”"' 1 “ather con- good per- in Saginaw made them__ fldent that if they sent ar formances to Detroit they _, ably hook them for Saginaw, as this city showed they appreciated the high- class perform; Amelia Bingham, Monohan the skater, and Tom Hearn, “the laziest juggler on earth,” are contributors to the concert program at the Manchester Hippodrome. Bertha Fiebach Markbreit of Cincbu Will Produce Her Own Play in the East. CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 36.—Mrs. Bertha Fiebach Markbre^^^ 3 of the late Mayor Leopold Marl of Cincinnati, who died less than months ago, will return to the stage this season. She Is now In the 6 “ ranging for the production of hi play, “A Royal Romance," and ing her company. She will be known on the st Miss Bertha Fiebach, the nan_ used before she married Colonel Markbreit. She Is going to tour principal cities of this country this son, beginning in Philadelphia in vember and ending on the Pacific c in the spring. She will play a w< engagement in Los Angeles some in May, going from there up the San ’Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Tacoma. „ , Before she married Colonel Mark- breit she was the ingenue of the Qer- _ Stock company in Cincinnati and was considered one of the best German actresses in this country. It is said she will he under the management of Wag- enhals & Kemper. Adeline Boyer, the classical dancer from California, gave a brief perform¬ ance at the Aldwych Theater on Tues¬ day. “The Princess of Israel” is the title of her dance. The scenery and the dresses are exquisite and accurate, but as this lady offers very little that *“ He Believes in Dr. Cook. BROOKLYN, N. Y„ Sept 30.—Johr B. Cook, of this city, who origiM™ Adelphl on Wednesday, is a big success. New Quartette Scores a Hit. KANKAKEE, Ill., Sept. 28.—Scoring a big hit on Its debut at the Bijou theater last week, the Empire Quartette, which was recently organized in Chicago, made an unusually favorable impression. The quartette, which Is comprised of Jack King, first tenor; John McDermott, sec¬ ond tenor; George Puget, baritone, and Harry O. Cressey, bass, receives Its - and principal comedy features me part of “Senator -- . “The Clansman,” and who is now play¬ ing it on the fifth tour of the dram Is not one of the doubters wmcernuig Dr. F. A. Cook’s discovery of the Norm Pole. Dr. Cook Is the actor’s cousn and fellow townsman. The men were raised together In Callicoon, N. t Speaking the other day of his cousin « exploit, John B. Cook said: “I known the explorer from boyhood as a man of integrity and character, hi has never been a notoriety seeker. awi has in fact endured even more defiriw tions and hardships than Peary. testimony of the Eskimos who acco panied Dr. Cook will verify the of his journey, while his observations, when submitted to scientific men, prove his claims of prior discovery. through the courtesy of Harry Cooper, the “big noise” with the Empire City Quartette. The boys will play big time Ing their route. The Kankakee dally paper commented on the quartette’s work as follows: “The Empire Quar¬ tette Is undoubtedly the best that has ever appeared In Kankakee. All the voices are good and the singing Is more than ordinary. The comedy part Talk of Shubert House. WEBSTER CITY, la “ep‘ Fred E. Wright, special representa i ^ of the Shuberts, was ge de¬ week on business for his' flr ®’ 1 “their dared that the Shuberts have me eyes on Sioux City with the ®“ AU . erecting a new theater th ® re _)L using, ditorium, which they are now ln proves unsatisfactory as a ^. j ns _ which to give theatrical attraction