The billboard (May 1911)

8 Xtie Billboard MAY 6, 1911. PRINGIPAL AMUSEMENT EVENTS THEIR FIR ST APP EARANCE Acts New to New Yoilc Reviewed and Critically Commented Upon—Performers who have Recently made Alter= ations in their Acts Included. bwyer John Sbarp, at 7 in the eTening. Mrs. dazk Bean fa&s come at tlie request of ber at- toniej to relinqolsli tier bnsbaiid, after a stormy uetat !n court, wlierein hli nilt for dlTwce few teen ■nceewfol, owing to the lefnul of In^^'taCTdf^ 'uS^^awTer, who'to'^'^haia ■Bd OBteiMlIng in character as he i« laspins and Bessoa, In a purple and sable mantle iblmmerinip white evenins drese. was in the role of Mrs. Bnrbank, and plajed a tbanJcless and nnsympattaetic part Dodaworth was as bard as nails as the lawyer, while Myra Batcheller as Mrs. Dean, and Qara BCBled twice before, and both ^ _ flte alao tells of the death of ber Inby while *e was dlnlns wltb an attentlTe gaUant at a coon try dob. Flayinar npon ber lore foi her ehUd. the old lawyer tells her that bn Iot< tor Dean wOI depiire bis baby of a father, ani la an ImpolslTe mood she promises to reliiuiniat tbemui Air the sake of his child. nddy declines as the 5th Ave. Theatre Features Attell Manager Irwin, of Keith and Pmctor'a Fifth Ate Attell. the world's champion featherweight .».<.<.. „ _ .*— —M— .» jijg blstorlc hter made his a snccemfnl prima ™ "^""'le^honghtfany dlstrib- d'e¥Tered'a"blnilant A LE NGTHY BILL Program at Hammeistein*s Victoria Theatre Last Week of such Length, that Two Omissions were Necessary- Headline Honors go to Harry Von Tilzer Xew York. April 29 (Special ( (Oantinned on page 49.) TERESE DEAQLE. entitled ■ The ■> Hme. Besson. Ango-Parislenne interpreter of Zaaa. Camllle anfl other similar roles, created ketrt^by Jhe late SSswSth.' M^'^BatcheSer and^^Ux^Eddyf'*" Wnia Holt Wakefield. beantlfoUy attired in pale green with a plctme bat of black with flowing black ostrich plnmes. rendered a series of pianoloiralc ballads with her nsoal magnetism. Her repertoire tndnded She Is the Girl That nioagbt She Wonld, She Bad a Lot of Things 'When She Got Back, Some of These Days, If Too Want to Kiss Me. Help Toorself. She Showed Her Independence, and Everybody Knows lt?» There. For encores,' she rendered In her l^il^te^way. Stay In Tour Own Back Yard, Oiarles and Fanny Van and Gbmpany pre- •ested their langhable sketch of stage Ufe. A Case of Emergency, in which a vandeTllle ■enbrette enlists the serrlces of a stage . car- penter In her sketch, after an altercation with an fat hnsband, with the resnltant swapping Of careers and domestic obligations _on__fte " ° > the ri^ni'tles. IS Jean Aylwin. billed as the female Harry •jBuuer, pleased with Scotch dialect songs, in- tsnreted In plald kilts. ; Croach and Welch, a nimble pair of acrobatic ilrd poaltlon. Linden Beckwith. t fonnd, circumstancei a little more faTorable. She sang her opening sons to a well-filled houiie. held attention tnroashont herfact. and Abont Jl'^^^^'^**^'' could make lo "lied.'*Ali* — which they rendered splendidly. . —' ——jn xo. 5 posltloi r Might, which has had a snccessfol run a Taylor Opens. New Office is also working on two new proiluctions ti^r fomia, opens next week at the Fourteenth Street Theatre. Miss Margaret Bennett, who is under CANCEL ALHAMBRA DATE. New York. Anrll 29 (Special to The B board).—BUIy Gaston and MiniTvn Coverd New York. April 20 (Special to The Bill' board).—Mildred Holland closed her season at the. Garden Theatre last.Saturday nisht. Next Hoaday (May 1) she opens In Tandevllle at the Praspeet Theatre In the Bronx. She will give a tabloid Tersloii of one of her plays. s songster for first honors. Ts'wer^onl; beaming t^anlre w^^ S^und- : was finishlns hii act. Sharp and Wllks. I. the boyg are well sup- Staflord and Stone, i , as they usually do. No. 6 brought c One of the bits of the erening (in So. ere the Courtney Sisters, singers. The nui erg used were Sweet Italian Waltz, Some hese Days,- By^e Ught of the SIlTery Mm ny nlgbt the girls were >n. who sang several numbers acceptably. McMahon and Chapelle. with their Pullmun lalds. reaped tbair taU quota of Ungbs. Harry Tea Tllnr sans I I<<we It. BasebaU lide and hla latest Ut, AU Alone. In the lat- ;i numter be empfaved several "plants" In the ndleuce to sing the choms of tbe song. Nat WtUa, with an entire new line ut gags, was the langhlDS Ut Of the evening. His ma- terial abont England and Its people la the beat " Gosse, a story of the Paris underworld, . - Edne Molloa, Horbert HoUister. Arthur RIPBle. Mrs. A. T. Hendon. Walter liong and < Bm at Golo- nial Theatre followed 'l t Drean I, whUe the three' plaooa were loudly — . r iimagau and Edwards. In On and Olt. seeni< to please the audience aa of yore, getting the full share of the laughs. Beth Tate, foUowin sang some catchy songs rery well and with a pretty face, pretty costumes and sly mannt Sohlke has NoverPlan New York, April 29 (Special to The BIII- play the Eastern Circuit, and one to play the Western CIrcnit.-aa Mr. Sohlke's acts have been ta such demanj: that he could not fill the time that has been OTered him. He will have four- iHss Maude"LnTan'Berri'' In' hi"'^' elty, Cupid In Kilts, two joyland companies, "wo Bama Bama companies, two Summertimes, twu Chrlrtmas.^ two PastiineB In Alaska, two On every ifetail, hayiDg 100 "people'under*hlg^ma'n" DALY VICE CLEVELAND. Daly to occupy the managerial chair of the dentlal Vaudeville Exchange, so that durini time of Mr. Cleveland's vacation, the cllen.. .. the Prudential Vaudeville Exchange will be as- sured of the same excellent service th'at they have iK-cn accnsiompd to since the origin of near-iH-rfect Imoking office. Miss Tate's Well, Look a —anner most precisely anv "»» — gs. (Uiarles Bichman and his com- wn The Fire Escape, kept the audl- ler made an imprenlTe teU-twy. lolan and Lenharr present a new hlnd^^of » id-readtng one and with a splendid burlestiue r'wa8''the'feature*of Se'bn'l'and was comiietled I- ^. — Iler new Impersonation, The Xoagh a <;anu' went best. Miss Janis told tt ' '■ - 1 natural and F digging Trtlch" pleased'. while the older part of their act met with Its accustomed favor. , The Polo Players. Shamrocks and Thlstlei' chJsed ^ the reguUr blli^ '"'^i, ""itoraler bi- cycling Oct. The motion pictures conclnde the SPENCE THEATRE CO. CLOSES. 1 Hnanclal standpoint. Ibey r> closed Is as follows: Sobns & iBavis. manaS'''": Ixiratne Spence^ tulu Nethawa.v.- Effle Dair.i la- pie. Frank L.' Redner. Miles 0'C!onnell. >orviil V. Walker. Monty Myers. Clyde Bosecrans. 'i-