Show World (October 1909)

THE SHOW WORLD 9 closed oi his act was well received. Delmore and Darrell are negotiating with the Orpheum office and expect to play this time in the near future. Roberts, Hays and Roberts, after leaving the Kedzie Theater at the week’s end, will play the Western Vaude¬ ville Association time, over which they are booked solid. Bobby Carroll and Lillian Brevort, comedy sketch, are laying off this week. Monday they open at Kenosha over the Western time. Orpheus Comedy Quartette left Tues¬ day to play Minneapolis, after which they play Pantages time. Shaw and Sargent tried out their new act at Blue Island last week, where it and they met with much favor. Bernard and Gladys Dawson are in the city resting up after a strenuous season on the road. Mark Monroe and Wife, society sketch artists, are showing the natives of Ra¬ cine, Wis., how to take a joke in the way of an act. Trolley Car Trio are laying off in the city prior to working hereabouts soon. Murray Bennett and Company assisted by two girls, open at Madison, Wis., under the management of Jake Sternad. West and Otto returned from East t -m,. _ there. St. Louis. The boys „, s The press notices they show a._ toini„ i boys _ you must “The Admiral” a Success. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 8.—Will¬ iam F. Hawtrey opened at the Hype- non in ‘The Admiral and immensely p]cased a large audience. “The Admi¬ ral is playing on the road for a few weeks preparatory to opening in New y ° rk - sh ould make a success there. The wholesome fun and good nature of the play should come as a relief to poor metropolis, surcharged as it is with problem plays, unbfblical and hetero¬ dox dances and comedies of questiona¬ ble quality and decency. The play is nnd a tb k « ab A 1 ^ u11 , of amusing situations, and the Admiral as played by Mr. Haw¬ trey is full of good nature and start¬ ling bursts of humor. There is no great n?^ pI ii Ca - ti0 . n; no , entangled plot. The pl « y i s I?®? ffood clean American fun. S. Z Poll has purchased the site and Panned the erection 0 f a new play house at Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Poli intends that this house shall surpass m beauty of architecture and modern- W?odi ny ° ther hoUSe on hls cir cuit.—J. Knights Bury Blanchard. SALT LAKE, Oct. 9.—Harry Blanch¬ ard, a member of the Willard Mach company, who died of apoplexy in th« ?P me da ys ago, was buried here p£?hL= he Tr auspioes of the Knights ol Pythias. He was a member of Susaue- hanna Lodge No 199, but no inform!- “cn couid be obtained from the home ’edge as to his standing. Through the good offices of Manager A. B. Jensen, of the Grand, himself a K. of P, the iccal lodge undertook to stand the ex- ?*£?*» of interment Willard Mack will £ake it upon himself to provide a purse for Blanchard s wife, Eleanor Everett, to enable her to return to Chicago, where she has relatives. Miss Bertha tn! 1S Pi» 0 ^. lead * in -l lady of the Arrlng- ton Players at the Bungalow theater, thf mtv, a *?°* rde ™ honorable mention at ^c Utah State Fair for a collection of very fine photographic studies made by herseif. These were mainly portraits of women and children taken in the ^ es ,^ na ^ fir l isheci ln artistic sepia he?! hj ls !^?} ght0 . n may °P en a studio work.-JOHNSON. ^ professt °” aI Gus Sun Acts Succeed. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 14- Whiie the Park theater was undei going improvements in the electrici equipment week of Oct 4, Managlr Joh Elliott experimented with “family vaudeville, playing four Gus Sunact tw ^! tIo S P lctur es. Despite the fa< ‘hat the Princess theater did an ta mense business directly across th free*. the Park which siatsabm 7 ras Packed to the walls and man were turned away at nearly every nei formance. Fairchilds and Van Bure pretty society playlet; the M< Donald Brothers, clown acrobats; Jac rw,? 8, ™ on ° lo S*st; and Kershaw a! fln e e n !nt C e°rS!^e S n k t etCh artiStS > fUrnlshe Manager Cancels Show. HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 14.—After ' P° ste d and thoroughly adv “fd M a H. H. Jennings of 1 SHL fl °rd theater cancelied “The Gi From Happyland and, In answer a guery why he had called off the da ,, * ot JJP to m y present stai . Ins tead, Manager Jennings gt nls^patrons a rattling good vaudevi “G'rls From Ham but uooKea no appear here Oct. 9, bu nouncement of the cancellation made on Thursday, prior to the si Manager Jennings promised his ell tele at the beginning of the season t “Ive it the best af —AL HARRIS. MORELAND NOTES. ..Sjrt’ett & Collins, novelty sketch L rP £ ts ’ ar f, ln Chicago after a pleasant nlwg 1 th ® Domlnlon Theater, Win- ioln!? and Joe Cauley have & a ?«W'L a, rt are meet lng with •access In their bookings. Ist , *u a ?!. Pf nton i character change art- 8 jerking at Manistee, MichT, with other Michigan time to follow. rlvedMn character singer, ar- 3e!ed h„ th ! c t , y and was literally be- he r g act. b7 b k ng agen ts who wanted Alvins, twelve people com- Theat C er m ?! n Mii 8re . wor klng the Iowa ineaier on Milwaukee avenue. •tach*’ C°. in their new rig£. The Dalian,” open on the Mor- ™ e ln the near future. ol&ro?h?“a e c?’ln B i^ an K d Mike, the still nleMl?? a ®i *5 show business, are 40 ^“lyyeaft t c°om C e°. nt,nUe t0 P'ayln^er?^ 1 !!,^*’ Musical Act are Clncln - playe seein The Gamells, comedy sketch artists, -yed the Julien last week, and after —ing their act the Morris foreign agent offered them European time. Joe Withers, of the Mellroy Trio, has at a great sacrifice finally run away from his noisy clothes. The Bowery Trio, piloted by Sam Du Vries, have opened at the Jacksonville, Fla., Majestic Theater. The Hippodrome at Memphis, formerly the Casino, gave up the ghost after four weeks. L. H. Ramsey was the angel. Allen and Vane, Irish sketch duo, are working the city time booked solid for the winter. Hall & O’Brien, comedy singing talking act, were at Towles O] House last week. Resting ’ ■ Kid Wilson, the Agitator and Wife, keep working, though the Kid tells the Agent where to head in at. Peel and Prancis, sketch artists, are in the city looking hale and rosperous. Linn and Perry, comedy singing and talking act, are back in town after a disastrous engagement with W. B. Hoyt’s Stock Company. They had no trouble in getting work. Chas. Hecklow is playing on the Mor- The Western Vaudeville Association have moved into their new offices on the eleventh floor of the Majestic Thea¬ ter building. Their present suite is by far the most sumptuous ever occupied as booking offices. The new system of interviewing performers is more satis¬ factory to everyone. Moigan and McGarry are going to play the Interstate-Orpheum, with the Kohl and Castle time to follow. William Pox has returned to the Western Vaudeville Association. Fox will be assisted by Joe Ruby. Edythe Stanley, the Piano Girl, is one of the big hits on the Pantages time at spokane, where she is this week. The ipera papers are all boosting her a " motor ataxia. , cetliu 164 East Randolph street, city. Meeting—The Actors’ Union will hold an open meeting in conjunction with the White Rats at Koch’s Halls, 10 South dark street, Friday afternoon. Carbury and Stanton, sketch artists, are in the city after closing at Dekalb, Ill., the finish of their time over the Western Vaudeville Association. warren Is doing an eccentric white face comedy act in one. Just (October 18, 1 p PEACE NOT IN SIGHT IN ACTOR S’ STRIKE 'Union and Managers Still Keep Up the Struggle—Affiliation | of Moving Picture Operators a New Feature. goes merrily on between the „nd the Actors’ Union with- gt any likelihood of peace in the near 'PI, D 3 A. MORELAND. Morrissey Sc Proctor, singing and dancing act, returned from St. Louis Monday prior to going out on the West- Manager Hardeman, of the Gem, Gary, Ind., must have a keen sense of humor, as I have been informed that he fined ~'t 90c for being late at rehearsal. of livelihood wlil f Harrison Brothers left for New York last week to open on the Eastern time under the direction of Alf Wilton. Agent .Y ehicle ls name d "A Matrimonial J. P. Walker, magician and allusion- lst, is working the city time. J. Brandon Walsh, armed with seven¬ teen letters of introduction to Vincent Bryan and others, has gone to the Home of the Fulton Hudson celebration, to show the Broadwayites that there are comedy writers in the West, and real ones at that. - one irrespective of affiliations, union and . non-union, the two organizations seem to think they can make house managers see the light and employ entertainers HWho show their willingness to live and , let live by belonging to the union and stanchly upholding its principles to the .letter, ■ I The Western Vaudeville Association, : which heretofore has not been in the field , ss an active competitor of the small ) booking agent is now reaching out for the bookings of the 10-cent houses, and l has added numerous city theaters to t Its lists. Should the present situation , continue to be so troubled, many picture a houses will be forced to cut out their (Vaudeville entirely and adhere strictly to the picture business. Those few , agents whom the actors’ union has still ■ on the unfair list are determined to fight to the last ditch and the managers • for whom they are booking, with the , exception of a very few who suffered from the premature chill, seemed deter- i mined to stand by the agents. The latest developments in the fight promise a long and determined scrap unless in the interim some unforseen thing hap¬ pens that will be as oil on the troubled waters of this bitter controversy. As to the new contract which has been one of the factors that kept the flame of this fight alive, it is thought is .perfectly fair and equitable, and those I sspnts who adopt it will find that the i only drawback will be that they must t J® “ore careful in the future in regard I™ class of the acts they book. Should they adhere strictly to the letter of the new contract, its tendencies will be for the better, and those “actors” who have taken up the art of entertain- resort, and an easy means — they must seek ly acts that have 1 m “—“““s, uwing to the gall gand Incompetence of these people will I h?jL condI i io , n3 much Improved, the field large, and less cause for apology for the poor showing of the “nearly artist” who has invaded the field of , vaudeville knowing that the restrictions were so slight that mere words sufficed to procure dates. Thus both agent and real artist suffered through managers becoming skeptical about everyone the agent sent to their theaters. Under the !ST.n 0ntract th 8se conditions cannot L™™'’ an act sent to the theater be kept for the entire engagement, . the a 51 nt know t0 a certainty ? h ° Is sending as he can’t keep the - house should he persist In send!ng U out bad 8 ! Richards is best remembered a_ __ _ team of Reno and Richards. Louise Montrose led Joe Hart’s reindeers. Vida and Hawley, novel comedy act, after the week at the Criterion, were booked for twenty-six weeks over the Western Vaudeville Association time. Tom Ripley is in the city looking for Louis Chapelle, singing act, after sev¬ eral weeks is in the city prior to work¬ ing^ twenty-six weeks on the Western Ferguson and Passmore, who were to open on the Inter-state time in October, have had their booking rearranged and must wait until January to play I. S. wheel. Tom Finnegan, formerly of Tom and May Finnegan, has been adjudged in¬ sane, after trying to commit suicide by jumping from a third story window. Mr. Finnegan was committed to Dun- Lee Barth, the man of many dialects, is back on the job at the Grand Theater, 43d and Garfield. The Four Belmonts, dramatic sketch, have had many offers over small time, but are hanging on until the big time managers see fit to play their act. Nip and Tuck, after playing several weeks of the Western Vaudeville Asso¬ ciation time, arrived in the city tr