The billboard (June 1911)

6 . X tie B 111 boar d JUNE 3, ^911. EVENTS OF THE AMUSEMENT FRISCO PARK IN RUINS Several Lives Reported Lost in Big Blaze, which Swept Over Chutes Park Alay 29—Property Loss Said to Exceed $250,000 Sin FtameUeo. Hay 29 (Special to The BUI- ; Iwaid).—SeTeral IItcs are beUered to.luTe bees Onrine the blaze fliemen. dynamited, sarrbtincl- mi . .. - . . ing bnudlDgs to prerent the flames fi^An spread- «_ 1 a_' ^t. » ^ . i -. • Ins tb* havoc. Scores of animals In the Cbotes lamt in a are that .nartea jn tne. Cnntea Amqie- j menaserles were burned to death. Pour, persons uteatMPaik early todv. eanaliig k lou- ot np- j are mlaslns. The fire started In the Chutes res- wtM'Ot fSSOiOOO, I'taarant at the FUImore street entrance. NEW COMIC OPERA. Pike, tbe librettist?of the latest ;: oper«. . Tlie Red Cion Princess, tbe music ;«t .whlcn bas been fomlshed by r. Ernest Law- fence; of' New Tork .City, has completed the book ot lyrics of a new comic opera,. The Prince ot Amazonia, the plot of which is laid In Amer- : lea. and a mythical Sonth America country. Iplot Is very ingenions and lends itself to highly vthnmorons treatment, as well as beantlfal mu- sical and scenic setting, Tbe title role calls tor an actress of the type of Grace Tan Stnddl- teta, who can combine male and female imper- •oaatlonB in a daln^ arttstle manner, while tbe vXtthec prlnelpala win bave doging and business uta 'aaBatT Hm moit »'«»*«"if ot ogeratie art- COL. CODY ON PROPOSED LEGIS- LATION. Colonel'Cody, wben questioned regarding the proposed legislation regarding the exclusion -of S?S'?5f '^^d West performances, made the Miowing- statement: "It's all rot. The same ' thing was tried some twenty-five years ago. :, Jm without success. The Indian Is perfectly - gau to do as he pleases In the matter. He must •JS!*; ™ •ome way, and why not have him well cued tor and well paid with a responsible show "Company,- rather than working on some ranch or taUroad'. The people who ptopoae the legislation ne^people who know little of the Indian, and wBo iroold do nothing for him were he in need. Ballet Dancers Get Shower Bath 5^ ^^"l- J^P"*"^ "> Billboard). ^^-The ballet at the Folles Bergere was treated IO_a shower bath and the andience to a new iS?*"*.*""^ week when an , ntomatic sprinkler over the stage was accl- : doltaUy get off. It happened Just as the eor- Jaln was falline on the finale of the ballet when the leonited lovers In the center of the stage are sprinkled with rose leaves and the TinouB Temptations stand around In serried ranks. , With this sprinkling of rose leaves came the JJower of water, right over the heads of Lea ■M Sovotna. two of the principals, and over 151,.^™"' sUk-tlghted dancers '^ i^ f J^^ i*"** ^L"^"^' who was watch- SS_^S ' , ''"■'■Bs, slKintea to the girls to ?2!l taking the weWng as ^isJ""* * P"* ""6 performance fi.2wv i succeeded in stopping the floOd. 2s "S* was aorongUy wet md very sllppety. The audience took^te nUs- Sf» 2S fhJ'SSf .l"**-, wm be remembered £!SL°^*^? opening night a water pine over the ttS.'h.S'J^S and that > the carpet and l^e ot tto^ats and coats In the coat-room were_dam- ATLANTIC CI TY A MUSEMENTS. ^t'l^,^ reports, AtlanUc atr win enloy one of its biggest seasons In the amoseme^ field ^'^J- Nearly ten mniion dolllS^Ss expended on improvements. Many new and !!C2 t^nf^^S,*.""' *»Te^lW" erected, new Plers^ bnilt, and a new troUey and steamboat Use has been instaned. "leamnoar °' expected to be the big- gest ever known, when tbe B. P. O B wfil 5?2?~2!**' I^se reunion there.* XearlT 100,000 people are expected, and aU the botS ire_booked solid for that month. .* .«''^^,*''*«P'« events that wiU be pnUed off af Atlantic City In August, and ttafwm tt- SSS,..*^??™'^®."*"""^"'';,. will be Vanniman's •econd attempt to cross the AtlanUc Ocean In .ou air-anlp. Dnilng the months of July and Aagnst. tba eOOTentlon of America's foremost aviatorT will Sf^^x,'^ bold dally flights. '^^^.^S*?! *'en's As«oclatlon have raised a nurse of W90.000 to be distributed as priiM for : -ous .nigots. GARRICK STOCK SEASON ENDS. iM^"i?"*^5?- M«r 2T (Special to The "•"board).—The season of the Garri<A Stock Oompany doses tonight with The King of tbe Cowboys. A most profltable -season waa ex- perienced. ; Alme Todd Jr.. wbo was ahead of one of Bow- Iaod-;« Clifford's attractions earlier'In the-^. ■on. has been resident-manager of tbe Gsrrick neatre for the past few weeks. Be returned to.'U* home la -OtneUmatl.--O.. whore he -wfl] ■eecM an engaceauot at one-oC tts suuer re- Tbe Buffalo Bill, and Pawnee Bill Co., and other wnd West shows ate perfectly responsible and take good care of all the people connected with them. We have do fear of Government legisla- tion. SUNDA Y CLOSI NG LAW Indorsed by United Stated Senator, who Proposes Bill, which if Passed, will Abolish Sunday P'erformances in the Capital City TrasWuBton. May 'JO iSpecUl to «»« BiU- board).—Senator Johnston ol Alabama submit- ted to tbe senate on May 22 a report on hto bill proviaing for proper Sunday observance In «>e District of Columbia, he having been author- ised by the full committee to draw up the re- •"in his conitentiob-s Senator Johnston declares that California is the only state In U» O"'"" in which pracilcallj- no^law is 1° «<^« sovera- ing the observance of Sunday, that TOudi- tims are practically the. same in tbe District of Columbia. FRED W. BUSEY, Besldent manager of the Savoy Theatre. San Francisco, one of John Cort's houses. Alderman Opposes Female Ushers Chicago. May 28.—Alderman Frederick Brit- ten l>elleves women ushers In Chicago theatres are a menace to the theatregofng. public, and urges the passiag' of an ordinance to compel the general Installation of men. In giving reasons to the Conitcil Committee on Buildings be said: ' "Take 10 or 12r'eood-loofcIng ushers between 20 and 23 years. -Wouid yon want any better material for starting a panic? At the first scare they -would scream, and before the scream had died away they would be mfhlnr- to the exits, dlmbine over seats or over anybody that happened to get In their way. "Their fright would be all that would be nec- essaiy to start everyone In the audience fighting to get out of, the tbeatre." STIFF SWING SAVES HIS LIFE. Memphis. Tcnu.. Mav 25 (Sneclal to The mil- board).—^Wben Snpt. B., E. Rletmeyer entered the cage of one of the large leopardii at tbe Overton Park Zoo, recently, to administer medi- cine to the sick animal. It sprang at bim. and .the. superintendent showing rare presence of -mind, swnng at the animal with all bis might hitting It with his fist hehfn-l the ear. tit then stepped to the door and jnmned nut. Either the blow deltvered by the niDerintnident nr Its Ill- ness cansed the leopard's deatb. It lived bnt a few horns after. New Vehicle for Hitchcock New York, May 26 (Sj.eclal to The Billboard). —One of the most pretentious prodoctlons to be made by Messrs. CoLan and Harris next season will he a musical play for Baymond Hitchcock entlUed The Red Widow. ^..5''^??"""'' '•'™.''^ lyrics of The 5^5.^''!2Z' Channing Pollock and RennoUl Wolf. Charles J. Gebest has furnished the mnslcai score, which contains no less than twenty-two special numbers. The scenes of The Red widow are laid In I>ondon and St. SLrfJ'^Sv i'k Hitchcock's role In the new play la that of Cicero Hannibal Butts, a wealthy retired American, whose fortune • was accumu- lated In the manufacture of the C. H. B. cor- .jP"? contained In The Bed Widow Is said to be _ coherently told and to contain. i»»idf» a fascinating love theme, a panicnlaf- ly melodious musical score "v.^». The prodoctlon of The Ited Widow will enlist ami J^n™.'^" l^""'" of principal^ \,'"' ""6 «cenlc snrronndlDgs pUnned elab^at ' '° "Vrin most THEATRE COMPANY IS INCOR- PORATED. . xueatre Co.. the capital being tSMO, The m- porppratOTs are George Kuhn. BdwaM Peaty, O. M. Lawsoa and Cecil B. Wood. What In tuore complained of than anjrtUgi else la that contractors who are putting vp buildings, laying pavements and doing sewen work and other things in'connection with tbi improvements going on, compel their men to labor on Sunday In order to complete their cgn- tracts on time. Tbe chief opposition to tbe bill has come traa the owners ot tbe many moTlng-pIcture showi In Washington. If the Johnston bill Is passed these sbows will bare to close on Sunduy iinlen the police authorities of Washington were to bt lenient In enforcing the law. The movlni. picture show owners claim that SS,00O men, women and children attend these exhibltioas «s Sundays. It would also result, they claim, Ui the shutting up of nearly 70 per cent ot tht shows, for without the Sunday business tber would not. be able to {un their places. In the last Congress a. similar liill was te, ported favorably and passed by the Senate, bat It was never acted n|>6a one way or the other by the House Committee on the District of Co- lombia. The preachers ot Washington, on the con. trary, in what they have had to say in advocacj of the Johnston Bill, regard the dosing of the shows as one ot the best tbings that could bt accompUsbed froin the moral and rellgloos standpoint. IDA CONQUEST CO-STAR WITH MARSHALL. New York, May IS (Special to The Billboard). —Ida Conquest will play a stock engagement at the Colonial Ttieatre, Cleveland, Ohio, next month as co-star with Tally Marshall. During the season they will produce a new play, caned The Talker, by Marlon Fairfax, with the in- tention of playing it on toar next season. Miss Fairfax is the wife of Mr. Marshall, and Is the author of several plays, including The Chap, eron, in which Maxine Blllott starred for two seasons. Therapeutic Thea- tres in Germany Berlin. May 20.—TberapenUe theatres, the lat- est phase of the nsture cure In Germany. Tbe theory Is that acting and reciting are cures for mental and neirons dlseaiei. An Aoitrlan doc- tor named Lack professes to liaTe cured mw persons by forcing them to act before audi- ences af their friends in the open air. The explanation given is that acting takes tbe pstieuts out ot themselves, and thus pre- vents them from thinking of their own maladies. All over the empire are being founded theatrical organizations to produce plays in the open air, and during the coming summer nature perform- ances will be given more or less regularly near every large town. At Potsdam the municipality Is leading tbe movement, and It proposes to bniid an openalr stage in a pletnrraqne part ot a nelghhorlng forest. The movemeot Is nnder the patroDage of the Princess Eltel Friedrlcb, one of iHa Kaiser's dangbters-ln-Isws, who is an amatenr actress. DEATHS. THOMPSON—Joseph W. Thompson, better known In tbe show world as Montana Joe, died at tbe City Hospital at Richmond. Va., April as from cancer of tbe tbraat. He wu bnrted In Blverview Cemetenr. TUB iRTlces were con- ducted by Rer. Hickman. Iff. Thompson wo* once owner of the famous 8-footed horse "Blllle." and has trouped with nearly all of the big carnivals and shows. He was well- known as a man of a pare temperament, a man whose hesrt and purse were slways open to those who seemed to need comfiirt and cheer, a man who always carried a pleassnt face and a kind word thtongh all of his troubles and trials. Anyone knowing the whereabouts or Mrs. Jos. W. Thompson kindly address Ed. Myers,'care The Bortoa System, Inc.. BIchinonil. Vs. . . ONRI—The mother of Mrs. Archie OnrI (Mrs. Betbea Teaklns) died In LlTcrpool, Bug.. MM 2. ■ MARRIAGES. BACKLBT-OILL—S. T. Hackley aad Del>* GUI wen married at Flint, Mich.. May IT. Both are members of the Kelley * Brennan Stock Company, playing three-BlgU (tands through Michigan. DAMR0SCH-FRI8BEI!!—rrsnk DBIDrosch Jr., and Mian Dorothy Frlsbee -were msrrlert week at Bridgeport, Conn. . OOLnRN-DeWlNTRBS—Morris Golden and Grace DeWInlres were married In MHwrniliw, May 17, by Judge Backus. Msnnger Bnym""" of the Crystal Theatre, end District Atlnrncr Kehr, *ere witnesses. IIAMi-BTUAnT—Mrs. Josephine Stuart of PorllaBd, Ore., announces the msrrliKte i'< datfjthler, Helen Btosrt. to Mr. Alfred n'"fj n«n. T»bo has .played the W.'V. Jl. Time and solemnised at the rectory ot the St. Jainen I :""- copal Church by Ihe Rev. Jsnirs 8. Btono. M™; Hall, who has played the W. V. H. A. tlm;> 8. * 0. Circuit during the last year witli.' «' welLknown specialty, Polly Wlggfes In Bo--'r- will contlnne In vandeTllle with nrr hnnbn;^ !. >^ their act. Comicalities, whieli will Ineluil' foriner spselslty.