Show World (July 1910)

■ July 23, 1910. THE SHOW WORLD 9 The II it of London A. Sensation in New York Impersonations Portraying Episodes of Life GILBERT SHORTER and LILLIAN ADAMS cure THE SII()\V WORLD Pinaforte Musical Settings There is no excuse for players to 1 be discouraged if they feel they have i ability. And the player can tell when ihe is the possessor of talent! When vou look out and see eager faces in Tfront, or if the footlights make it im- I possible to see your audience, but you hear outbursts of applause so insist¬ ent that nothing will satisfy but your return, you are good and being good, there is no excuse to be discouraged even though your time seems slow in coming! There are some players who are not good! Some players who are never mentioned in a review of a legitimate show, excepting as “members of the company!” There are vaudeville actors whose mention immediately precedes the reference to the pictures! There are vaudeville actors who get applause so seldom that they conclude a fair reception is a “riot!” A tumultous disturbance of the peace bv three or more persons is an unusual experience in a vaudeville house and when the cause is the wonderful merit of an act, the occasions are so fre¬ quent that not a single one comes to mind readily. Hedges Brothers and Jacobson at the Majestic this week ; or Dorothy Vaughan at the Colonial, illustrate the treatment of a “good act” by the audience. Players out of engagements will do well to measure the amount of applause these artists receive, if there is uneasiness in their own minds regarding what constitutes a hit. And, by the way, while speaking of i Miss Vaughan, what better instance is there of a capable olaver coming into her own. Miss Vaughan’s rapid rise in the last few months is the talk of Chicago and succeeding Elizabeth Murray at the Colonial in “Madame Sherry,” she has proven beyond per- adventure, that the many nice things said of her by the space writers were more than deserved. YANKEE ROBINSON SHOWS HAVE TROUBLE Secure Lot in Austin, Minn., Only After Wildest Kind of Skirmishing. Austin, Minn., July 17.—The Yankee Robinson Circu$ showed here under the most trying circumstances, to good business last Wednesday. The date seems to have been a “wildcat,” and as it came on the big day of the local chautauqua, somebody must have whispered to the mayor that a circus on that day would hurt business for the chautauqua; at any rate he re¬ fused to grant the circus a license to exhibit. The circus management se¬ cured a lot just outside the city lim¬ its, and billed the town heavily. At the very last moment, the owner of the lot decided that he did* not want the show to exhibit on his property, and the twenty-four hour man was kept busy until late the night pre¬ ceding the date securing another lot. The directors of the Brick plant of¬ fered several acres of their land, and it was gladly accepted; the circus gratefully entertaining the entire force of the plant at the evening perform¬ ance. Business was good at both per¬ formances and the show seemed to give satisfaction, although the fre¬ quent doubling of the performers de¬ tracted from its merit. The mayor’s attitude toward this show was caused probably by the fact that he let in a carnival company early in the season whose immoral shows caused a roar of protest from the press of the city, and have since been the cause of the refusal of license for sevaral reputable circuses and carnival companies.— Daigneau. H. E. Grampp, manager of the Joliet theater, Joliet, Ill., is going to put on a musical novelty, an act con¬ sisting of nine people,—eight girls and one comedian. A complete pro¬ duction will be in three scenes and carry a stage manager and musical director. The title has not been de¬ cided upon. In the act there is de¬ picted a revolving globe showing six countries, Japan, Spain, England, ‘■ranee, Germany and India. Back h0m \r t0 A r ! ler ' ca ' s the finale. Rob¬ ert Norton is building the production. Donnegan & Curtis are furnishing the scenery. Aubrey Stauffer and Ernie hrdman are writing the music which c °" s,sts s ' x numbers. Miss Pearl Allen is featured in the act. OPEN SUNDAYS „ i . IN MICHIGAN, •i Va “deviUe theaters controlled by the Michigan Vaudeville Managers Association will open their season early in August and the Sunday towns will all open on Sunday with mati¬ nee and the new bill. Most of the houses will confine themselves to four¬ teen and seventeen shows weekly, they are all operated in about the same manner and are booked by C. ♦ utnphreys, of the Western Vaude- ru Managers Association, r ®utterfield has just purchased V ■ Bryce’s interest in the Bijou t I S USement p°- which controls the letters and Bijou theaters in Saginaw. The Pantages theater in St. Joseph, Mo -» nas closed for a period of four weeks; the closing date was July 10. GREAT PARKER SHOWS CON T. KENNEDY, General Manager CAN USE TWO MORE GOOD FREE ATTRACTIONS Grand Forks, N. D., July 18 to 23 Minot, N. D., July 25 to 30 A QUARTER OF A CENTURY OF UNINTER¬ RUPTED SUCCESS GENTRY BROS. FAMOUS SHOWS EN TOUR SEASON 1910 Playing the Principal Cities of America Executive Offices: Bloomington, Ind. IT IS A FACT, whether you know it or not, that the BIG ELI WHEEL is one of the absolutely reliable everyday money getters among riding devices, improved down to the minute. Receipts for three days, $730; one day, at a fair, $260; at another, $400; at a Fourth of July celebration, $208; at another, $304. We built the Bill Wheel at Seattle Exposition last year, one of the dreatest money getters there. Our new «8-page catalogue tells it all, send for it. ELI BRIDGE CO., Box I43S.W., Roodhouse, III..U.S.A. When the renovated La Salle the¬ ater opens with “The Sweetest Girl in Paris” Monday evening, August 22, it will have for the entertainment of the Chicago public one of the strong¬ est casts which has ever been given a musical show in this city. The place of honor among the principals will go to Trixie Friganza, who has but re¬ cently been placed under contract by Harry Askin, acting for the firm he represents. With Miss Friganza will be Adele Rowland, who charmed La Salle audiences last season in “The Flirting Princess”; Catherine Roe Palmer, John E. Young, and Alex¬ ander Carr. Active preparations for the opening of the new show are in progress. Re¬ hearsals of the chorus which will run the number of people in the com¬ pany up to fifty have already begun. The principals will begin rehearsals in Chicago about Wednesday of next week, probably under the direction of the authors of the piece; Addison Burkhard and Collin Davis wrote the book and lyrics and Joe Howard, the music. Gus Sohlke has been engaged to stan-e the song numbers. PRESS CLUB OUTING. The Chicago Press Club will have an outdoor carnival at Forefct Park, Chicago, on Thursday, Aug. 4, or on the next day in case of ram. The management of the park has supplied the club with 20,000 tickets for the occasion and “big doings” are an¬ nounced by the entertainment com¬ mittee. _ Gentry Bros. Play Around Chicago. Tom North, general press repre¬ sentative of the Gentry Bros. Famous Shows was in Chicago today contracting the papers for Gentry s shows at Evanston, Oak Park, Mel¬ rose Park, and Maywood. 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The groom lives in Peru, Ind., and Miss Rutten’s home is in East St. Louis. H. B. Gentry, the real boss of the Gentry show, arrived in Chicago Mon¬ day night after a visit- to his home at Bloomington, Ind., and rejoined the Gentry show a day or two later at a stand in Iowa. D II U C V SH0W n I) ll t T PHOTO ENGRAVERS . BL0CK type, zinc Window Cards, Muslin, Paraffine Signs, Park Print¬ ing, Heralds, Posters, Photos. Half-Tona 26i40 a specialty. Designers, Engravers, Show Printers. RUHEY PRINT, SBaaSSSa, ARCOLA&Co. THAT CLASSY MUSICAL ACT