Show World (August 1910)

August 0, 1910. THE SHOW WORLD 5 VAUDEVILLE NOW AT MILWAUKEE Milwaukee, Wis., Aug-. 2.—Vaudeville is offered at three theaters this week, a sing booked into the Alham- It. Stevens Harmony Quartet, Bimm, Bomm Burr, Wilson Brothers, Montambo & Bartoli, Grace Orma, and Cavanna make up the bill. The Crystal reopened Monday night. It has been remodeled during the summer. Herman Lieb & Co., in “Dope," is the headline attrac¬ tion. He has a better company than when seen at the Majestic. Lee Beggs is doing the policeman now and gives that role the careful character shading required to make the sketch stand out. Evelyn Walls plays the wealthy settle¬ ment worker, Francis K. Lieb plays her lover and the other roles are in capa- 51? hands. The Six Musical Spillers, The O Brien Troupe, Pearce Sisters and Glenn Burt complete the opening bill. aUer Keefe, of Chicago, who books me crystal shows, was here for the opening Caesar Rivoli, who sprained his ankle when appearing at the Em- weeks ago?" s° head!fnkfJ^he^S. 11 & C. bill this week. Louise Stickney offers a dog “J!,, p ” n - v T a , ct built up from her offering with the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus last season, Elliott & West prove a popular dancing team, the Mullini Trio enter¬ tain with a musical offering. Hazel & HestonLucas get a few laughs and Sherman (extra added feature) gives her familiar imitations of types Photograph gallery. The Ma- *® T . n °w housing the Alhambra could not make vaudeville VAUDEVILLE NOTES. Owen & Hoffman will revive "The Benediction” early in September. Les Junts arrived in Chicago last Floto’ s bow! nJr Cl ° Sed Wlth the Sells - r Francis Murphy is still p s are spending many summer after- —ins at Wilson Beach. Barry & Nelson will play fairs in the early fall before beginning on their vaudeville engagements. Dorothy Vaughan’s press agent has suggested that C. K Kohl adopt 'lie name of Vaughanville if tired of vaude- A. E. Meyers returned last week from ®„ tay , ln New York where he helped in framing up the vaudeville sit¬ uation for the coming season. BURLESQUE SEASON OPENS IN THE WEST ..... .... New Star Theater Milwaukee, last Saturday night am If the business can be taken as a criterion by which to judge the coming season, the theaters are to be liberally patronized. The show did be¬ tween $1,700 and $1,800 on Saturday night and at the two performances Sunday. All records r ’—'— j|r The Lady Buccaneers Having Big Business at Milwaukee—Other Shows Rehearsing By WALLACE PEPPER e management cared t Show Ban Along Smoothly Such a successful first night had never before been known in Milwaukee and that city has been honored with the original presentation of many mu¬ sical comedies in recent years. The show moved along as smoothly as though it was the middle of the season. indicated Ifs satisfaction with the play- The title of “The Lady Buccaneers” offering this season is “There’s One Born Every Minute.” Laughesques of the same high grade, however, are not born often in a season. The aim is to obtain laughs, to entertain, and Joseph K. Watson struck the bull's eye—a jolt Which is expft 1--.1 i" l"udlv ring t If Chicago bell when the show comes to the Folly, opening next Sunday. The plot deals with the efforts of a Hebrew comedian to get into the show business. The first part sees his dip into theatri¬ cals and the burlesque shows the com¬ pany at the conclusion of a successful season. The comedy skits are well done, the numbers are entertaining and the olio pleasing. Strouse and Martin, the managers, and Joseph K. Watson, au¬ thors’ producer, and principal comedian, come In for much deserved praise and. by the opening of the regular season at the Casino, in Brooklyn August 29, should have a performance running along at a gait which will set the season’s pace for 1910-1911. .... _ season. That portion of the performance introduces Mile. Emerie, billed as an “extra added attraction,” George Martin and Rose DeMar, a newly organized team,- Mul Clark, and a min¬ strel quartet. Mr. Watson introduces his parodies in the burlesque and scores strongly. Miss Van Buren has several songs which she sings splendidly and the pair work together charmingly for comedy effect. The Ladies of the Chorus The chorus consists of nine ponies and nine show girls: Marjie Merrill, Lizzie Rogers, Lillian Draper, Cleo Marshall, Stella Hilliard, Marie Gray, Elinore Grace, Mona Howard, Holdia Gilmore, Marguerite Harris, Gene Howard, Cor- inne Reeser, Babe Gilmore, Della Ro- maine, Larne Barton, Della Mann, Grace Whitman and Dorothy Armstrong. Ele¬ gant costumes, elaborate stage settings and capable principals, together with this chorus, made up a performance of sufficient merit to win high praise in Milwaukee from both regular theater Principals Not i: Watson, the principal comedian, and A band plays :n front of the theater each afternoon and night and this with red-fire at night, may be to a degree responsible for the crowds. Staff of Star This Season The New Star has been slightly re¬ modeled and redecorated during the summer. This season’s staff Includes: F. R. Trottman, manager; John Schrap- pacasse, assistant manager; William Streitt, press agent; Walter Hildebrand, treasurer; Arthur Huff, assistant treas¬ urer; Walter Houlehen, stage manager; Fritz Hummer, props; Frank Irish, electrician, and Arthur Dunn, advertis¬ ing agent. OTHER COMPANIES REHEARSING Rice & Cady began rehearsals of their company at the Alhambra theater this week and the company will open its sea¬ son in Kansas City. The rehearsals have started off very well, and those who have been around the company say that the costumes are going to be the nicest seen in burlesque in some time. Allen K. Foster is staging the production. Rice & Cady were the principal comedians with the Star & Garter show the last part of last season. I. H. Herk is rehearsing his Edmund Hayes company at the Folly this week. That show opens its season at the Star at Milwaukee next Sunday and comes to the Folly week after next. The burlesque is called "In Society.” Frank Weisberg began the rehearsals of The Star & Garter show in New York this week and it will open in ’the east, on Aug. 15. Harry M. Strouse, manager of “The Lady Buccaneers," was in Chicago Mon¬ day. He engaged the Melrose Comedy Four while here and the quartet opened this week at Milwaukee. Murray Livingstone, last year with the Star & Garter show, will be in vaudeville the coming season. The new Gaiety theater, which was to have opened next December according to announcements, will not be ready to open before June 1911. Jake Sternad Is back from New York and leaves about Aug. 15 for a tour of the western wheel houses. He is to book the added attractions and se¬ cure chorus girls for that circuit from The Star & Garter theater, Chicago, opens Saturday night, August 20, with Vanity Fair. August 28 “Fads & Follies.” Euro. ... The Three Dierick Brothers will be featured at ^the Ashland theater the first Braham’s Shadowgraphs are now play¬ ing the Orpheum circuit and are at Seattle this week. Walter Stanton has been engaged for a New York production which opens the second week in August. Harry F. Weber Is in New York where he has formed a partnership with Reed Albee, son of E. F. Albee. 7 Cottren & Hamilton, who went to St i-souis to fill two weeks, remalnpri civ and returned to Chicago this week. * 1 Edith Talbot has been givln a few 0De e ns S on” u'® f Irl r te I stat ® after which she ^"H^S^Waterman^opens^is^ Michigan houses on Sept. 5. and the bookings will be ?r? a n°H t if® ml ^ dIe of this month. daughter InA r went out L ?o C Himm„ a n n H d Waliace St .sho 0 w day *° 868 a t^Ure * Aircmme 11 at^Stf 5 Joe >U Sfhffi rS this rh^cou^d 5t„” lEht * rala8d -a “The Tie That Binds” was especially theater* 1 *° ‘VJP®?® the Bush Temple night/of Jn thiJwee e k y and Thursday A German comedy trio with an art entitled “Something Just as Good,” was listed to appear at the Bush Temple try- ass?St-swa "ii. .is vaudex llle houses some time this month. S. L. and Fred Lowenthal, the Chi¬ cago attorneys, are to spend their vaca- n „ p i rt , y of ftiends on the lakes. A . r p , to Buffalo and return is planned. Louis Stone, Emmett & Laura, and De Rossi's Models, three of the acts which appeared at the Bush Temple tryout' last week, have been given time by the W. V. M. A. The case of Joseph E. Shea vs. God- lewsky Troupe, in which Shea sues for $1,100 alleged commissions, comes up lri the Municipal court in Chicago today (Friday) before Judge Walker. J. G. Burch, manager of the Wilson Avenue theater, has had no vacation this summer. He may be able to get away this month. He well deserves a couple of weeks rest for he has been on the week V6ry minute for the last «ty-five Ben Bomstein. western manager of the Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company, returned Tuesday from New York and Morey Stern, who is with the same company, came back last week from a vacation on the lakes. The office of the firm is now at the Grant Forest Park is running big shows on Sundays. Last Sunday there were nine acts on the bill and eight acts are pro¬ grammed for the coming Sunday. Both the Forest Park and Sans Souci theaters — doing a satisfactory business, s office"*" ”-* --