Show World (December 1910)

10 THE SHOW WORLD December 10, 1910. THE Entered u second-class matter, Jane *», 1807, The Show World Publishing Co. GRAND OPERA HOUSE BUILDING CHICAGO LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CENTRAL 1077 Cable Address (Registered) "Showorld” WARREN A. PATRICK Managing Editor. ADVERTISING RATES Fifteen cents per agate line. Fourteen lines to the inch. Fifty inches to the page. Last advertising forms close Wednesday at midnight. SUBSCRIPTIONS (Payable in advance.) Two dollars and fifty cents the year. De¬ livered anywhere on earth. On sale at all news stands, five cents the “balers send orde rs through your news com- Western News Company, general distributors. * liability lanuscripts, articles, letters o "The Show World” are ---- risk, and The Show World ibhshmg Company expressly repudiates any vm! onsibility for their safe custody December 10, 1910 It was a happy thought of the man¬ agement of “The Mayoress” to select a woman press agent. You will have a merrier Christmas if you have an advertisement in the Christmas issue of the Show World. Do your ad writing early and avoid the rush. Count that day lost whose low, de¬ scending sun Sees not the Count DeBeaufort put o’er another one. In the case of the “Fascinating Widow,” it is certain that this is the first time in history when the lead¬ ing lady is a man. A New York writer suggests that Father-in-law Kilgallen and Count De Beaufort ought to get into the ring and put on a good bout. Not a bad idea, and all the fight fans would be on hand for the mill. The worst feature of all this “Salome” business is' that Mary Gar¬ den has reaped big advertising bene¬ fits from it. She ought to be ashamed but she is not. The fun of it all is that Chicago’s 400 sat and applauded and revelled in an opera that was so bad 'the police had to interfere. Good joke on the best society. You have kicked up quite a row, Mary Garden; Quite a muss, we all allow, Mary Garden; But the vigilant police Had to come and make you cease, Mary Garden. . Sarah Bernhardt is still farewelling in the east, but it is dollars to dough¬ nuts that she will totter back again next year and try it again. If those vaudeville magnates keep on their rivalry in the east they will probably arrive at the time when they will show day and night in continuous performances. This is the time of the year when the “turkey” show is being fitted out to fill the Christmas stocking. MOVING PICTURES DIGNIFIED M OVING pictures are to be extensively used within the next three weeks in the furtherance of the nation-wide fight against tubercu¬ losis which has been in progress for the past few years under the direction of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. There has been made for release December 16 a 1,000-foot film entitled “The Red Cross Seal,” which it is estimated will be shown in 7,000 theaters where moving pictures are shown, having an average daily attendance of half a million people. The picture is a dramatic story of settlement work in which the principal characters are a beautiful young artist whom adversity has made quite familiar with life in the tenement district of a great city and a wealthy young chap who has been aroused to the necessity of making something of a life which he is prone to waste in useless occupa¬ tions. The young artists aspires to win a prize which has been offered for the best design for “The Red Cross Seal,” and in getting the local color for her work which enables her to win the prize becomes so imbued with the spirit of charity that she determines to give the money of which she is herself so much in need to her neighbors. Interest in settlement work which has led the young scion of wealth to lay aside his frock coat for the old clothes pi the tenement district brings him into contact with the young artist and provides a love interest. It is significant that moving pictures have been so dignified by one of the greatest charitable organizations in the world as to be chosen as one of the best means to a glorious end. The fact that “The Red Cross Seal” is expected to accomplish wonders in the furtherancce of this great charity should make those who rabidly talk of the abolition of the present day picture show stop and think. It should also provide food for thought for the manufacturers and purveyors of moving pic¬ tures who may never have thought of the powerful influence for either good or evil which they have in their control. In their efforts to promote the sale of the Red Cross Christmas seals, which are expected to net $1,000,000 for the charity this year, the national association has asked those who conduct picture shows to exhibit between their regular numbers a slide calling attention to the seals and their purpose. The favorable response to this request to date has been astounding and is indicative of the fact that the moving picture people are charitable. Look out for a big breeze, “The Whirlwind” is headed toward Chi¬ cago. By and by there will be a neighbor¬ hood vaudeville house on every cor¬ ner in Chicago, if the trend that way continues. It is not every son-in-law who gets kicked out by his father-in-law, who gets $2,000 a week for it. Count De Beaufort must have been born under a lucky star. Not even the common or garden variety of burlesque would tolerate “Salome,” and yet Chicago’s high¬ brow contingent thought it “artistic. ’ Ah, art, what crimes are committed in thy name! Good shows are doing well in Chi¬ cago and on the road. The flivers are having a hard time of it, as they should. We do not hear very much this sea¬ son about Chicago as a production center, but if she couldn’t do better than New York is doing in some in¬ stances, it would be a shame. The smut song and “Salome”- have been chucked into the limbo where they belong, where they can fester and rot as they deserve. “The Girl in the Train” ought to make a big hit on the road. Hah! It is said that catnip is not Mary Garden’s favorite flower. She has taken a very sudden antipathy to it. Chief Steward may be illiterate, but he knows how to write a police order. Suggestion to Mary Garden: Why not give a series of catnip teas. An advertisement in the Christmas issue of The Show World will mean a full stocking. Now is the time to Obituary Note: “Our Miss Gibbs,” “Your Humble Servant” and “The Seventh Daughter” are dead in Chi¬ cago. Interment was in the store¬ house. A complaint which registers the good health of the show business is a communication to The Show World to the effect that Klein & Clifton find that the salary pickings for an act made up largely of other peoples’ material are rather slim. Looks like the opening strain of a plaintive Swan Song. TO THE EDITOR Corry, Pa., Nov. 30. Warren A. Patrick, General Director Show World, Chicago, Ill. In view of The Show World’s fight against suggestive songs, I want to say a word regarding the turkey burlesque shows which are touring the country. We all know that the wheel shows have censor committees on the look- M | 3 below the status required, the sugges show cannot con- ■ on wheel time, editorial from the Corry, Pa., Evening Journal, following' e ap¬ pearance of the Monte Carlo Girls: “The management of Library theater last evening, treated Corryites- to an¬ other one of those performances that de¬ pend on their very rottenness for their attraction. On the same stage where three or four evenings ago, a church organization held an entertainment, in which the innocent children of the city took part, where wives, sisters and daughters of our most prominent busi¬ ness men appeared, a creature heralded as “Fatima,” her act being advertised as “better than a tonic, hoys,” was hired to wiggle through the disgusting evolu¬ tions of a stale dance. This and other equally suggestiye^performances, inter¬ spersed with smutty, jokes, n hardly be blamed highly elevating bill.” The management car. ........., for playing the attraction. . _ that this show and the Moulin Rouge Girls, earlier in the season, hold the record for paid admissions. A very fine line of attractions has failed to get the patronage deserved, yet the two shows appealing to the passions and baser elements of mankind, have made money for the show and manage- The Show World’s One Best Bet of the Week Julian Eltinge. A “fascinating widow,” when In skirts you grace the stage, But you have quite a punch, they say, When manly arts you wage. What is the c burlesques come rule, they play 1 wer? These turkey - - __ —j audiences s the house management tell them ti ' , for they k-| — The dance cial would permit, and would which the editorial r. that no fair ground offi- i ' prompt¬ ly closed by the authorities,_.... stage of a theater the police allowed it to go on. The actions of the comedians and dancing of the chorus girls was disgusting in the extreme. But the shows are out for the money and get it. I do not believe the actors, dancers, or chorus girls relish the disgusting actions they have to go through. It is a case of bread and butter with them. The male portion of the public wants the smut and the turkeys are surely giving it to “ -‘tj||- - - T. Berliner. s season.—Lawrence Looking for “Phasma, Goddess of Light.” The Show World is in receipt of a i query as to the whereabouts of “Phasma, the Goddess of Light.” The query comes from Etta Louis Blake, Philadelphia, under date of November 22. and says that~Phasma’s mother is ill. Nov. 29. The Show World Publishing Co., Chi¬ cago, Ill. Dear Sirs: Please advise if you can furnish me with addresses of firms that can furnish costumes for carnivals, etc. Thanking you in advance for your prompt attention, I remain, Yours truly, (Signed) R. B. ERHARD, Galveston, Texas. EXECUTIVE OFFICES THE Young Man, Have You a Nose VW Amusement News? IfSo-GetBusy ENERGETIC CORRESPONDENTS WANTED T HE SHOW WORLD is desirouiM^secur- Umtel Sta“and S CanldZ, Md°to°that end correspondence is invited from young men of good personal address in all com¬ munities not yet covered by this journal. 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