Show World (November 1909)

THE SHOW WORLD VAUDEVILLE artists )Don’t be caught in the agent’s trap by allur- I ing letters and advertisements. Chicago is already overcrowded with idle acts imported hereunder false promises. Be sure you are booked and secured with an Illinois State contract before coming. S. D. RICARDO, Secretary, | Actors’ National Protective Union No. 4. Chicago. Ill. I =- . — BEST SHOW TOWNS IN THE WEST Practically every good show town between Chicago, St. Louis, Mem¬ phis and Denver, and between St. Paul, Minneapolis, Ft. Worth and El Paso is on Hook Island Lines For information about any of these towns, rates and routes, address Rock Island representative at CHICAGO. ILL.. 91 Adams St. KANSAS CITY, MO., 412 Bryant Bldg. BOSTON, MASS., 288 Washington St. NEW YORK, N. Y., 401 Broadway CINCINNATI, O., 38 E. 4th St. ST. LOUIS, MO., 900 Olive St. DATE BOOKS We have ready for distribu¬ tion the finest Date Books _ ever issued. Write for one to-day. Enclose 4 cents in stamps to help cover packing and post¬ age. Specify whether night or week stand book is wanted. HTML PRINTING 8 ENGRAVING CO.. Dept. C., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Pacific Coast Amusement Company I CHRIS O. BROWN, - BOOKING MANAGER J5tH3roadway, Suite 8, BOOKING AGENTS: PAUL aOUDRON, - - - 67 So. Clark St.. Chicago W. P. REESE. American Theatre Bldg.. San Franchco Cal. [ MAURICE J. BURNS Sulllvan-Consldlne Bldg., Seattle, Wash. US NOW. Plenty of Work for the Right People DALTON & NEVILL’S BOOKING OFFICE JAS. A. DONNELLY, Mgr., 414 Wilson Bldg., Dallas, Tex. GOOD VAUDEVILLE FOR GOOD THEATERS MANAGERS EVERYWHERE: We want good houses and can guarantee the best talent for the money. ARTISTS: Good houses, good treatment, good money. EUCENE ELKINS, ELCO AMUSEMENT CO., s^^sSV^uoTk.chicacq UNION CARDS PREVAIL IN GA RY PL AYHOUSES 'All Artists, Operators and Stage Employes Connected with Theaters in Indiana Town Are Now Unionized MANAGER OF ORPHEUM SUED F OR PER CENTAGE Representatives of Interstate Amusement Association Claim Money is Due Them from Orah H. Smith I 1 , As a result of the controversy In Chi¬ cago between the Actors’ National Pro¬ tective Union of America, Local No. 4, 1 wd the agents regarding the payment the union scale for the services of .all artists, the theaters of Gary, Ind., flave become unionized and the artists, who do not have paid-up cards, will be Uiuble to secure any engagements in j that city as the unions there have de- 1 creed that If the houses do not recog- n ze the union artists that they will be placed on the unfair list, but none of the managers are willing to take any [chances. I Pour Houses Flourish. I Four houses in Gary, the Broadway, I Gem, Princess and Derby, are playing .•union acts and are doing a splendid l business, according to all the reports ll? ce i ved from that Indiana town this 1 ’*"• Ed. Stout, business manager of i he Actors Union, who visited the city, m conversation with a Show World epresentative, said that Gary was nourishing under the union regime. Nothing but union cards are being am «ng the artists, machine • operators, musicians, electricians and I atta °hes and so far no trouble i ’SSL. “ chronicled among any of the "f‘« r , s as the booking agents are send- wgunlon acts to the Gary houses. The H“ e f are booked by the Mills, Dout- Cox. agencies. Gary is now 1 thoroughly unionized and harmony pre- > 'ails at all the houses. cation for a third injunction against other companies comes up ” T — ^—'- Friday.—FRYE. ... „„_ OIL CITY, Pa., Nov. 8.—George H. New York Verbeck and John H. Farrell, of Oil City, representing the Interstate Vaude- NEW INCORPORATIONS City, amusements; capital, $125,000; In¬ corporators, T. F. A. Griffin and others. HEW YORK. Pilgrim Amusement Company, Roch¬ ester, amusements; capital, $25,000; In¬ corporators, William D. Bredstreet and Aeroplane Amusement Company, New York, amusements; capital, $3,000; in¬ corporators, Thomas J. Gillen and others. Bnilding Operating Company, New York; capital, $10,000; Incorporators, Norman E. Wiggins and others. Euna Park Pair Company, New York, amusements; capital, $50,000; Incorpo¬ rators, A. Jahn and others. Pulton Amusement Company, New York, amusements; capital, $6,000; *- The St. Elmo Litigation. ^VELAND, o., Nov. 10.—Miss Alice kauser has returned to New York after . m. . nc ? wlth Vaughan Glaser. She representative. Details of it, ga , t , 1 ? n affecting the rights to Elmo, the play of Millard Holcomb, " " ” ‘-the appli- ldeman Amusement Company, Chl- _ = _, amusements; capital, $2,500; In¬ corporators, Alice M. Condeman and Northwest Amusement Association, amusements; capital, $160,000; incorpo¬ rators, T. C. Eichenbum and others. Orchard Theater Company, Chicago, amusements; capital, $2,500; incorpora¬ tors, Stanley Kubreener and others. Savoy Theater Company, Chicago, amusements; capital, $2,600; incorpora¬ tors, William J. Gilman and others. Theatrical and Vaudeville Association of America, Chicago, advancements of business interests; incorporators, Edwin R. Lang, Harry Sheldon and Frank Primrose Amusement Company, Chi¬ cago, amusements; capital, $15,000; In¬ corporators, Phillip R. Fraser and Union Co-Operative Theater Company, Chicago, amusements; capital, $25,000; incorporators, L. Goodman and others. George Amusement Company, Chicago, amusements; capital, $2,000; incorpora¬ tors, Phillip Rosenthal, E. C. Stearns and others. rsoston, amusements; capita:, ?j.u,uuu; incorporators, Frederick Nichois and others. NEW JERSEY. The Hunter Arena Company, Jersey corporators, James’ Madison and others. ville Association, have entered suit against Orah H. Smith, former manager of the Orpheum theater here, to recover an alleged percentage due them from salaries of performers furnished by Mr. Smith. The plaintiffs set forth that they were the owners of the Lyric theater, which they leased to Mr. Smith for a period of thirteen months from March 1, 1908, the latter making a number of altera¬ tions and renaming the house the “Orpheum.” The plaintiffs also state the defendant agreed to secure his at¬ tractions from the vaudeville associa¬ tion, for which service 5 per cent was to be retained from all wages and sal¬ aries paid the performers; that he switched over to the Gus Sun Booking Agency and ran their time until Dec. 2.6, 1908. It is stated that the minimum cost of a Gus Sun attraction is $115 a week and the highest $146, while the defendant agreed to run no attraction costing more than $100 a week, unless with ten days’ notice. The sum of $202.25 is asked by the plaintiffs with interest from Dec. 26, 1908, taking $140 a week as the basis of figuring their commission of 5 per cent.—CONTINO. Colonial Amusement Company, Okla¬ homa City; capital, $20,000; incorpora¬ tors, Florence H. Burnett and others. Muskogee Amusement Company, Mus¬ kogee, amusements; incorporators, J. O. Lieber and others. OHIO. Straus-Frowine Company, amusements, Columbus; capital, $25,000; incorpora¬ tors, Simon Straus, Henry Frowine and others. Cineograph Theater Company, Cleve¬ land, amusements; capital, $1,200; in¬ corporators, Emma Wadsworth and S. D. RICARDO Will build Theatre in Peoria, Ills., for re¬ sponsible tenants. WEBB’S BANK, Peoria, Ills. Pianist Fruden Here. tion“c„ players J_ _ __„„ ___ _ the “glad hand" to the Chicago vaude- villians at the local office of the Albert Von Tilzer Music company, at the Sara¬ toga hotel. Pruden, who is widely known among the “perfesh,” is an ac¬ commodating chap, and is never too busy to do the artists a good turn. Pru¬ den has been a familiar figure at the Von Tilzer office in New York for a long time. Secure your Acts through the Associated Vaudeville Artists of Chicago and be protected. Attention 164 D R^ndo^h St nS -Ro P om 7 ntlUII IIUII p hone Main 1887 CHICAGO tnp CAIE —Film released Oct. 1st, lc per ft. rUn oft LL Edison, Lubin, Power’s inachines S60, new $100; new Motiographs *125; Model B gas out¬ fits *25. Paying moving picture theatres cheap. Fort Wayne Compensates *30. For Rent—6,000 ft. film, 3 sets slides, one shipment *12; 12,000 ft. *20. Will Buy- machines, film. H. Davis, Watertown, Wis