Show World (August 1910)

The Show People’s Newspaper CHICAGO. AUGUST 6, 1910. For Jill Kinds of Show People A storm struck the Young Buffalo Wild West Show at Owosso, Mich., Wednesday evening during the course of the night performance which was wit¬ nessed by an audience which packed the canvases. The wind played havoc with the show property levelling everything ilat except the reserved seats. Heavy rain followed. No casualties resulted, although a panic was narrowly averted. The management has ordered a new canopy. To a Show World reporter Thursday, President Vernon C. Seaver of the Young Buffalo Shows said: “Col, Lavelle has severed his connections for evermore with the Young Buffalo Wild West. The Colonel seemed to think that the show could not get along without him, es¬ pecially after the very flattering pub¬ licity given him by The Show World. Still the show moves on regardless of railroad strikes, storms or colonels and will do so till the snow flies. This tip to the wise ones—opposition cuts no figure. Two days behind the Ringling Bros, in Owosso and played to capacity.” Bernxrdi, Italian protean artist, and other capable performers will appear on the same bill. TOTING CIRCUS PROPS WITH “UNCLE BEN” Calloused Hands Proclaim the Artist with the Indiana Enterprise months There is little doing in the booking line in the Chicago vaudeville agencies Just now. The houses which '- mained open during the summei are being booked, a few out „ - houses are being supplied with bills, and park bookings are in progress. Contracts for next season have not been issued in any great numbers as yet and it is thought the agents will get busy about the middle of this month. With the exception of the Inter-state bookings there has been little activity as far a~ ' ’ ’ the er ing. Pat Casey may come here next week. There are a number of players looking forward to his visit, who think that the season in the middle west cannot open until he shows up. If Casey does not get here next week it will be because the United Books are thrown open and because he is so busy routing acts out of New York that Chi¬ cago is forced to wait for him. CIRCUS TROUBLE POSSIBLE IN TEXAS Dallas, Tex., Aug. 3—A. H. Barkley, of the Sells-Floto Shows, is here con¬ tracting Texas. Barnum & Bailey will show Dallas Oct. 3, providing the fair association does not object. The rule has been that no circus could exhibit two weeks before or two weeks after the fair. The fair opens Oct. 15 so it looks as if the Ringling outfit might be in bad. Louis E. Cooke, general agent of the Two Bill Show, is here looking over the field and says they are going to play Texas, paying only the nominal license whether the authorities like it or not.—Wilson. VESTA VICTORIA HELD OVER AT THE MAJESTIC Complimentary to the hosts of Knights Templar visitors which will be in Chi¬ cago next week the Majestic theater management has retained 1 A great many of the artists of the Hagenbeck-Wallace show visited Chicago last Sunday, as the show exhibited at Hammond, Ind., on Monday. A number of the ticket sellers and bosses also vis¬ ited the big burg. The Hagenbeck- Wallace people were easily recognized that day by those who shook their paws by the calloused hands. Nearly every artist with that show is acting as a property man Just now and when an act is completed the performer begins to tear down his rigging or assist in the removal of some prop used by another act. gw i tented enterprises it is nothing ‘.he artist and the it in the erection o _ __ ___ placing of material _ sionally during the season when some accident occurs but for the high salaried performers tp {ie forced to handle the . ..‘biSi. _which no one but B. E. Wallace would attempt. The circus had a big day at Hammond. No tented enterprise ever had bigger business at that point. The performance gave complete satisfaction. The Hagen¬ beck-Wallace show of 1910 is fully up to the standard of previous years as far as the performance goes. How such high salaried acts can be Jollied into performing the work of flfty-cent-a-day laborers is a puzzle to showmen. The complaint heard about the front door is that the harvest fields make such a strong call for laborers that property men cannot be held with the show. It is reported that eighteen of them were engaged at Indianapolis and left after a day or two with the show. Of course it is very unfortunate for the management that property men can¬ not be secured. If there is a nice fea¬ ture about it, it is that the pay roll is lighter and the cook house expense is reduced. Of course, this would not fig¬ ure with the show. It is laughable to see the Delno troupe arranging the rigging of their aerial act while a statuary act is opening the show following the grand entry. It is still more laughable to see the artist of the troupe take *•--*- "— *“ *—* *' its and tl f^their handkerchiefs and mop t honest perspiration from their brows. Sometimes in acts which follow, there is a doleful look on the face of the artist. Perhaps he is thinking that after turn¬ ing his somersaults he must do a Jug¬ gling act with sections of the big steel cage in which the animals exhibit. Oc¬ casionally the clowns forget to be funny in those moments when the activity of other artists call to mind that there is more to their work than fooling; that after the clowning comes real hard labor. Jim Rutherford is not too good to help, neither is Arthur Borella, nor Henry Stantz. No favorites are played; ev¬ eryone must take a hand. It is told around the show that C. E. Cory some¬ times helps in the work. The ticket sellers are also seen helping. Circus life is a merry one and there are many phases that the ambitious boy in a country village is not familiar with. Even vaudeville artists, who complain about small stages at some points, will learn something after a season with the big Indiana show. When the show arrived at Hammond, it was found that some kind of local im¬ provements made it difficult for the show-goers to reach the lot. The only way to get there was to cross a creek in a ferry boat. Mr. Wallace Joined hands with the authorities and built ft bridge and this probably saved the day from an attendance standpoint. Owing to the location of the lot, "Big George," the hippopotamus, was not exhibited in the menagerie. In spite of being short of working¬ men in his department, “Whitey" Oldnow manages to put up the canvas on time every day. "Whitey” has handled the tops with Uncle Ben’s show for the past seven years and knows his business. Boss Hostler Bob Abrams has the stock looking fine and the menagerie in charge of Bill Winner is in excellent condition. Among the visitors at Hammond were: John Ringling, C. C. Wilson, Tom H. Adams, of Milwaukee, Rhoda Royal, J. P. Fagan, Dick Jeffries, Mr. and Mrs. John Lancaster and daughter Ina, Char¬ lie Banvard, Charles Albion, Bill Webb and a number of the homeguard from CINCINNATI EXHIBITORS ARE NOW INCORPORATED Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 3.—The organ¬ ization of local exhibitors and renters is now incorporated under the name of the Exhibitors & Renters Association. They meet in next regular session at the Palace Hotel, Cincinnati, at 2:30 P. m„ Wednesday, August 10. The as¬ sociation has a membership of sixty- five and outside exhibitors and renters are always welcomed at the meetings. Campbell Bros. Men in Chicago Al. Campbell and Ab Scott, of the Campbell Bros.’ Shows, are making their headquarters at the Wellington hotel, Chicago, this week. According to Mr. Campbell, his shows turned them away at Calumet, Mich., Tuesday night of this LASALLE’S OPENING _ POSTPONED UNTIL AUG. 39. The opening of the La Salle opera house, Chicago, with “The Sweetest Girl in Paris," has been postponed until Monday, August 29. It has been found impossible to complete the extensive alterations to the house in time to per¬ mit of the opening on the earlier date which had been announced. The com¬ pany’s plans for their opening perform¬ ance are not to be materially changed, however, as Manager Harry Askins, of the La fealle, has booked “The Sweetest Girl In Paris” for a week at the Da¬ vidson theater, Milwaukee, beginning Sunday evening, August 21. Rehearsals of the play began Wednes¬ day of this week. On Tuesday Trixie Friganza. Adele Rowland, Kathryn Rowe Palmer Zoe Barnett, Alexander Carr, John E. Young. Robinson Newbold and Francis Gaillard, the cast of principals, were present at an advance reading of the script by Addison Burkhardt, the author Gus. Sohlke, secured from R C. Whitney, to stage the son ni™*« has had the chorus In. rehearsal fc.- Billy Sunday to Quit the Pleld. Billy Sunday, the "baseball” evangel¬ ist. is, according to a press dispatch, to retire from the missionary field and tp settle down on a California fruit ranch which he recently purchased for the sum of sixty thousand dollars. CIRCUS PARADE IMPEDED BY RUNAWAY HORSE Sioux City, Iowa. July 29.—Endanger¬ ing the safety of hundreds who were gathered to watch the Sells-Floto parade yesterday and disrupting the course of the parade at two corners, a runaway team made the people, gathered at the corners of Fifth and Fourth streets and Pierce, wildly scramble for safety. Oc¬ curring as it did when the crowds con¬ gested the corners it was little^ short of miraculous dren bolted for places of safety, first band wage- Baa * —* ‘ cross the street, doubling - ; Just starting t ..... ... Fourth street and go- ,„ s The driver swung the six attached horses to the right, allowing the runaways to pass. This action was the cause of avoiding one dangerous col¬ lision. but it resulted in the injuring non. « of four-year-old Louis Kane. One of numbers; the wheels of the band wagon passed over his right foot and crushed it badly. The boy was taken to the office of Dr. Warnock’at once, where the inuries were cared fori- The loss of the toes of his right foot may result.—E. D. Hamilton. James Jay Brady is to guide the destinies of the Colonial theater, Chi¬ cago, during the coming season; he as¬ sumes the management, replacing George W. Lederer, on Monday, August 22. Mr. Lederer will go to New York with the “Madame Sherry” company when it concludes Its engagement in the Windy City, August 27, and will become one of Klaw & Erlanger’s pro¬ ducing managers. Mr. Brady, who is to succeed Mr. Lederer, is a well known and experienced theatrical man. For a number of years he served Klaw & Erlanger in the capacity of general press representative and later he was with Ringling Brothers’ Circus doing the same work. More re¬ cently he was in the employ of B. C. Whitney. The Colonial has prospered under Mr. Lederer’s direction and its continued success is insured by the ability of Mr. Brady, the new manager. THEATRICAL MEN IN POLITICAL SCANDAL Theatrical managers in Chicago have been dragged into the Illinois legis¬ lative bribery scandal which is being aired in court. Harry Askin and Lin¬ coln J. Carter have said that an effort was made to mulct the Chicago amuse¬ ment men to the tune of 315,000 when efforts were afoot to have the child- actor law in Illinois changed for the advantage of the theaters. COLORADO THEATER DESTROYED BY PIRE La Junta, Col., Aug. 4—The La Jiufta opera house was struck by lightning and ensuing fire destroyed the building and caused a loss of 3100,000. Allmon & Nevin, vaudeville artists, lost all of their personal belongings and 3350 in cash in the blaze which was the most disastrous this city has ever had.— Porter. HALL, OP LANCASTER, MO., in the sale of the Greater Nor¬ ris & Rowe Circus property which is to be held in Peru, Ind., Saturday morn¬ ing August 6. It is fair to presume that spirited bidding will prevail, and the wise ones who are supposed to be “in the know,” predict that William P. Hall, of Lancaster, Mo., will capture the prize. Just what Mr. Hall will do with the show in the event that he comes into the possession of it is to be determined. SMITH & PERRY TO enter circus field Smith & Perry, the well known sport¬ ing men, contemplate putting “”*■ ° twenty-tw-.—" cording t „ „„r circus next spring, I _„ .o reports which t-- v The Show World and it *“ • _ reached W P Hall of Lancaster, Mo., will fur¬ nish most of the stock and equipment. The JOHN RINGLING AND WIPE _ ATTEND COLUMBUS WEDDING Columbus. Ohio. Aug:. 4—Miss Duley E. Burton, sister-in-law of John terday F afternoon £|fueg *"> e h r . c 8 h ^fe^am^herein taeirprfvat! car. “Wisconsin," to attend the wedding and after the ceremony took the newly married couple away with them ror tneir honeymoon trip.___ W. E. Fergruson arrived in Chicago Sunday morning and left that evening for Spokane, Wash., on a special circus mission. GUS HILL TO STAR tt ^ JEpp „ “Mut” and “Jeff,” whose antics in the Hearst service newspaper cartoons have been convulsing thousands of peo¬ ple with laughter each day for months, are about to break into the theatrical game. Gus Hill, who was among the first producers to recognize the value or plays with newspaper cartoon charac¬ ters. has purchased the sole rights to the “Mutt and Jeff” stuff and will pro¬ duce a play featuring these two charac- , ters late in October. Mr Hill has set a well known author ’ to work providing a book and music and scen'c 'investUure^'^it "i^annoimced that £e°n "enaggeff 1