Show World (July 1910)

July 23, 1910. THE SHOW WORLD 5 (Will Dunroy Reed, Continued.) It is now announced that “The Girl from Rector’s” will open at the Chi¬ cago Opera House, August 7. Phew! Walter Busse, head usher at the Princess theater, has a new auto¬ mobile. The tips must be generous down that way. • Both the Whitney and the Princes^ theaters were crowded to the doors last .Sunday night. All it takes is a cool night to fill the play houses even in Jjitly. _ , Our old friend Morris McHugh, formerly the comic idol of the Bush (Temple theater, is now in St. Louis playing funny roles at the Suburban 'Gatdfens.' Thurston Hall, also a well kno^n stock actor, is down there also.1 It may not be widely known, but Frank Miller, the affable treasurer of theh Princess theater, is closely con¬ nected with the police department of Milwaukee. His father is lieutenant of police there. Emory Iliffe, assistant treasurer of the princess theater, underwent a se¬ vere, surgical operation the other day. The young man is able to be out, how- ever, and is on the road to recovery. Col. Cody should copyright his face, and then try to enjoin Col. Lavelle, from looking like him (Col. Cody). It was Wallace E. Smith, I believe who said that a merry widow had “He Can’t Come Back” carved on her late but unlamented husband’s tomb¬ stone, which in these degenerate days is considered some humorous saying. Merle E. Smith, treasurer of the Garrick theater has gone to Flint Lake, Ind., wherever that is, to be gone until the house opens up again. Mr. Smith is a good example of what can be accomplished in the show busi¬ ness in a few years. It is only a short while ago that he was a camjy boy at the Bush Temple, and now he is treasurer of one of the most promi¬ nent theaters in Chicago. You can’t keep a good boy down. Richard J. Finnegan has been edit¬ ing the dramatic department in the Chicago Journal during the absence of 0. L. Hall. Mr. Finnegan is a good writer and has a good nose for news. He is also one of the best press’agents in town, and has been taking mighty good care of the Singer publicity for the past two or three years. He was once an office boy on the old Chicago Chronicle, now but a happy memory. Gee, but time whizzes! Wajter Lipman, a Chicago boy, and a violinist of some little talent, has re¬ cently turned his hand to musical com¬ position. The other day two of his new compositions, entitled “The Rag- ovitch” rag and “If I Ever Get My Hand on a Dollar Again,” were issued >rom the press. Mr. Lipman is now making his home in San Francisco but he drops into Chicago once i» awhile to see old friends. Eric DeLamater is doing the dra¬ matic stunt on the Inter-Ocean now that Charles W. Collins has severed his connection with that newspaper. Mr. DeLamater was formerly musical critic of the paper, and was called back from the north woods where he was fishing, to take up his new work. Bert Jacoby, advertising agent for the Whitney Opera House, says there is superstition even among thieves. He >ays that Manager Frank O. Peers came downtown the other day with F13 with which to buy Mrs. Peers a new gown. He .left his coat con¬ taining the money in his office and some thief entered and abstracted the cash. The next day he received a lote from the thief which read: “Dear curt I stole $13 from you yesterday. • ai m superstitious. I herewith re- mrn you $ 1 .” Nellie Revell, who is one of the loudest noises in the press agent game in Chicago’s eastern suburb—New York—ha$ been in the city calling on some of her friends. It is a curious thing about the critics and the public. Nearly every dramatic writer in town lambasted the stuffing out of “The Girl in the Ki¬ mono” at the Ziegfeld. It is running right along, and doing a fine business. Likewise, note our old friend “My Cinderella Girl” at the Whitney. What the critics did to her was a caution. The piece has been given over .200 times now, and bids fair to remain until the frost is on the pump¬ kin. Hermann Lieb is going to play “Dope” once more in its vaudeville form. This time he will offer it in Milwaukee at the Crystal, for one week, beginning August 1.. A week later he will produce his own sketch, “The Japanese Actor,” in the same house. Those who have read the Donaghy that he engineer a benefit performance of his show for some maternity hospital. Billy (Single) Clifford will star this season in a new musical play called “The girl, the Man and the Game” which will go out from Chicago about the middle of August for a short try¬ out on the smaller towns before it opens in the American theater in St. Louis for a run. The piece is spright¬ ly, so the advance man says, and there are some unusual features in it. A good company is promised. It is now announced that Harry Singer will be the manager of the Al¬ hambra theater in Milwaukee this coming season. The Singers are Mil¬ waukee people and are very popular in that city. Mort H. Singer and his family have been guests at Long Branch during the past week for a summer outing. Mr. Singer is expected home shortly to begin preparations for the new play that will be offered at the Princess. FRANCES AVERY, IN VAUDEVILLE. latter sketch say that it is a tense and moving one-act play, which is des¬ tined to make a commotion on the variety stage. Mr. Lieb, has been busy during the summer expanding “Dope” into a three-act play, which will probably be offered by Felix Isham early in the fall. Asher Levy, the general treasurer of the Garrick and Lyric theaters and Rollo Timponi, assistant treasurer of the Illinois theater, have gone to Ot¬ tawa beach, over in Michigan, where they will spend some time in fishing and boating. Messrs. Levy and Tim¬ poni have purchased some very fetch¬ ing bathing suits also, and it is quite possible that they may disport them¬ selves on the sand to the delectation of the resorters who flock to that watering place. Ashton Stevens, of the Examiner, paid a great deal of his valuable at¬ tention to the Russell Brothers while they were in town. He not only gave them a very nice send-off when they opened at the Majestic, but on Sun¬ day he devoted much space to their pictures and some of their talk. Oh, you Ashton Stevens! Frederick Donaghy, who is sun- >sed to be the highest browed press rent in all the world, has arrived in e city, and is now managing the impany playing “Baby Mine” at the -incess. We merely suggest to Mr. Someone asked someone on the In¬ ter Ocean, just why Charles W. Col¬ lins, recently the dramatic editor of the Inter Oceans, was separated from that paper. “Don’t you know?” queried the someone. “Why, it was because Col¬ lins used words in his critiques that the owner of the paper couldn’t un¬ derstand.” Which may, or may not, be the rea¬ son why Mr. Collins is not now con¬ nected with the I. O. “FORTUNE HUNTER’S” RUN ENDS BEFORE SEPT. 5 The end of the long engagement of “The Fortune Hunter” at the Olym¬ pic theater, Chicago, is in sight The delightful Winchell Smith comedy is to give way in time to permit of the opening of Laurette Taylor in “The Lady in Waiting” on September 5. The new play is a comedy by J. Hartley Manners. When “The Fortune Hunter ’’closes it will have established a new Chicago record for non-musical shows. It is now in its thirty-first week and is nearing its three hundredth perform- Marvin to Try Stock Again. Charles B. Marvin, at one time “the stock trust” in theatricals in Chicago, is to take another fling at his chosen game and will open his Marlowe the¬ ater in Englewood the third week in August. MOSE REISS SECURES SAGINAW (MICH.) THEATER Saginaw, Mich., July 18, 1910.— Mose Reiss, of Syracuse, N. Y., has leased the Academy of Music for the coming year and next season’s shows will be under the new management. Former Manager J. T. Carpenter has returned to Pennsylvania, where he has entered upon other lines of work. The Academy during the past two years was under the man¬ agement of the National Amusement Company, its owners. The company will this year release the active man¬ agement of the house. Mr. Reiss has playhouses in the New England states and is planning a circuit for Michigan, his aim being to get into Owosso, Bay City and other points if possible. The new management will book both the independent and syndicate shows and promises a good line of attractions. Michigan Theaters Change Hands Paw Paw, Mich., July 18.—The Idle Hour theater in this city, until re¬ cently owned by O. R. Thayer, has been purchased by L. W. Peck and son, of Dowagiac. The ’same pur¬ chasers have also taken over Mr. Thayer’s theater in Decatur. Offered Savage Contract. Des Moines, Iowa, July 18.— Mrs. Maybelle Wagner-Shank of Des Moines, known widely over the mid¬ west as a singer of renown, has been offered a contract by Henry W. Sav¬ age to sing in grand opera. It is said she will accept as the offer is a good one. NEW MORRIS THEATER IN SACRAMENTO, CAL. Sacramento, Cal., July 18.—The new William Morris vaudeville theater in this city is to be ready for occupancy by November 17; it is so stated in the contract for the building which was recently let to Robert Troast, the San Francisco builder. The theater is to be called the American Music Hall, following Mr. Morris’ general plan, and is to cost $75,000. CHICAGO GIRL IN “THE GIRL FROM HOME” Mary Carew, a Chicago gprl, has been engaged for “The Girl from Home” next season; the play was given its copyright performance at Albion, N. Y., last September and will be seen in the one-night-stand cities. Chicago Boy in Grand Opera. Basil Millspaugh, son of Prof. C. F. Millspaugh, of the University of Chicago, has been engaged as a mem¬ ber of next seaso.n’s Metropolitan Grand Opera Company, and will like¬ ly appear on a Chicago stage. Mr. Millspaugh is a basso, is versed in thirty grand operas, and speaks four languages. Ina Claire With “Jumping Jupiter.” Ina Claire, whose departure from the ranks of vaudeville into the musi¬ cal comedy field has been predicted for some time, is rehearsing with Richard Carle in “Jumping Jupiter” at the Cort theater and has an in¬ genue role, singing two songs. The show opens August 7. WHITE CITY NOTES. A film reproduction of Custer’s Last Stand on the Little Big Horn is to be made a White City attraction; real Sioux Indians have been engaged to do a bally-hoo in front of the theater and to add realism to the moving pic¬ tures by giving war hoops during the exhibition inside. Madame LeBrun, soprano, and Fritz Huttman, tenor, are new members of the Lombardo Grand Opera Company, which is pleasing daily at the big south side park. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs¬ day, August 9, 10, and 11, have been set as the time for the second annual baby show at White City, Chicago. There are to be seven classes with a suitable prize for the winner in each class.