The billboard (Sept 1911)

SEPTEMBER 16, 1911. XHe O ill board 15 or tttt^, CINCINNATI, THE QUEEN CITY OF THE WEST CINCINNATI, O. ^ 'ollowiii!.- llie pstalilislicil cDstoni, tho theiit-' »I «, .is.in ill tUe Qucca City was Inauitaratixl th',. iiurli-siiao houses—People** Tbentrc and . stauiiar.l Tlicntre. Tile opening of iheno , tli.'uirre (iccniTOd two weeks aiw. and from . verv start business, conglilerlnii tho warm iftcr has bpon excpntlonally go«l. The first tic k-Bitlroate houses to open was the Wnl- r now In Its second week. The Grand The- p the locnl Klaw & Erlanger playhouse, be- 1 its seiisim Sept. 3 with Nora Baves and t Nmvorth in Little Miss Fix-It. For the t time lu the recollection of the oresent sen- tion of tlieataregoers, the inansmral prodiie- 1 bc^nn tho season with two weeks' book- Si-arcelr ever do productions fill loncer n a hebdomadal ensagemcnt In Cincinnati, I then only when business Is » great the t week that a-second week Is arranKiMl as accommodation tor the public. While the sent eneaKement of Little Miss Fix-It at the ind Is fioanclallr successful, seats are ob- Bsbie at the regular prices. Lew Dock- aer, the inimitable, will again usher In the son ai the Lyric Theatre. The posters an- ince that Xelll O'Brien Is aKain with the fa- troupe of minstrels, which promultcatlon I be kindlv received locally, as Mr. O'Brien well liked here. The season at the Lyric ned Sept, 10; Last season the Ol.vmpic Thc- p was nm as a'stock house by Geo. L, Fish, h the Forepaugh'"Stock Company fnmlshine entertainment. Whether or not Mr, Fish Dd Cincinnati unprofitable, ii; not known; WM. A. BRADY'S PLANS. (Continued ft«m page II,) borate production of Shakespeare's Much ) About N'othlnjt, witli Miss Georee as Bea- :e and Mr. Aynceworth as Benedict. X oinent Broadway star will Join the com- I.T for this pmdnctloD. appearinB as Dog- r.r, Inrlng the season at the Playhouse new plays GearKe Broadhurst, l^ompson Buchanan, rib Carb, Granrille Barker, Cicely Hamilton 1 ilarnHret Maj-o will be presented: revivals nivorcons. costnmed In the period; Pyemal- anrt Galatea, School for Scaixlal, old com- i.s..of Mollere and <3onfirreve: and a new fairy S. at Christmas time. Special matinee ■ trial formances .of new,plays will be a feature of season. Mr. Brady hopes to establish, a' ertory theatre' wltli:.;«Diist»at -dtangeg i-of le brines over with lilm the finished' mana- Ipt of a new play for Robert Mantell, tten by lustln Huntley McCartby, The play railed Charlemasne the Conqueror, Mr. Man- will province the play on tour early in the ^n, appeariUK as -Charlemagne, and will w the production into New York early t year. With Lee Sbubert Mr. Brady will Ince The O'Flynn. another play by McCarthy. Daly's Theatre late In August, Holbrook Blinn I make a long tour In The Boss, and later luce a new play written for blm by Bdward Idoo. Harrison Rhoades and Thomas A. !e. who have been hwDed to ■ Charles Dil- :i>«iii for a new production, Hare agreed lollvpr a new American comedy by lannaty In which Mr, Wise Is to play a new Amcr- 1 type. or the use of James K, Hackctt he has se- Ml two new plays, one by the author of The rid and His Wife, and the other by James »n, iirly In Oclol>er the first Jfew York protluc- I of George Broadbnrst's latest play. Bought Paid For. will be made wltli Cliarlea Rlcb- > in the leadlnn male n>Ie. Use SSMECS'I^ In Xovember, at the Manhattan Opera House in association with the Sbiibert£, be will pro- duce a big American melodrama, the scenes be- In laid in New York City and the Far West, an American drama similar to the ones that are siren at Drury Lane. London, every year. It will have over fifty speaking parts and twenty changes of scene, Dnrlng the season he will offer Who's Who; a facvlcal comedy, Tbe Best People, by Fred- erick Lonsdale; The Right to Love, by Jules Eekert Goodman; In God's Country, by Hayden Talbot; and new plays by George Broadhurst, Margaret Mayo, Philip Bartholamae and Jules Eckert Goodman. The usual Brady melodramatic revival will be made next spring. Way Down Bast will begin Its seventeenth confiecutive season in Septemlwr. Baby Mine is to be played on tour by four companies, and Over Nigbt is also however, this year stock will be given at tlic Olympic by Harry Davis, the PIttsburjr tbeat- : rical magnate. Mr. Davis does not need iiitro- duction to The Billboard readers; his ability as a theatrical man Is well known, therefore. If enterprise and business saj^acitv count for anything, the Olympic should be'a big pay proposition under his regime. The New Lv-' cenrn Is now being run as a «toek bouse bv Harry Han, a shrewd' bnsiness man, vrbose rise ill local theatricals has been steady and rapid. He now bas control of two first-class moving picture tbeatres in addition to the Xen- L.vcenui .Mr. Hart has a8-soeiate<l with him as gennrnt manager of his enterprises, a well-known Ognre in the person of Andy Ilettesbelider. for yeatM. treasurer at the Walnut Theatie. Aniiy Is a favorite with the tbeatregoing public in Cin- cinnati, and under his guidance a lietter class, of patronage mnst certainly result for tlie New Lyceum. The policy of Kelth'^ C<>Innibi,i remains the same as last season. 1. e,. first- class vaudeville. This house draws the'larg- est* transient patronage of any tbeatn^ Id CIi- clnnati. Heuck's Theatre remaiu..> the sole- home of melasma In Cincinnati. If the kel- son contlnnee as good' as It has started at Heuck's, this theatre shonld again eiijov oiip i<r .the most prosperous years of its career. There are several smaller theatres espeeiallv <levoi.-,i to TBUdeTille and moving pictures, tbe most important of which are the Aiiierlean.- R»l>- Inson's and Auditorium. Tlie fate of the Or- pbenm Theatre, erected on the hllltous several seasons ago, basnot as yet bei-n determini-l: however, there Is-some talk of the house hein:; used as a popular price vandevlile theatre. to be presented all over the United States by a.' similar number. Both of these' farces ate to lie sent to Australia, vrttb one company beaded, it is expected by Barry Coonor. opening in STyil- ney early In Marcil. In connection with Greet and Bngelbacb, Lee Shubert and Mr. Brady have entett'd Into an agreement with the Gatti 'Brothers to supply the attractions at the Vaudeville Tlieatre : In Iiondon'for the next two years. From Herbert Trendi of the Saymarket The- atre, London, he has secured the .\merlcan ri{^ts to The Gods of the - Mountain, a s4>nsatlonaI short play by Lord Snsinay. which has beeit muaing at that theatre for six montliK past. During the season' two musical productions. , The Violet Widow, by Dorothy L'sner, and Thi^ Kerr.v Bachelor, by two well-known writers, will also be made. LEFFLER-BIRATTpN'S , PLANS. (Continued from page 11.) such a success as the waiter in The Xewlyweds. will play George, and bis principal female sup- port will be Miss Leoua Stevens. A big chorus will lie a feature, and the scenic equipment, especially the second act, it Is promised will he unusually and strikingly beautiful. Later In the season Tbe Dingbats and tho Family T7pstairs, from the carto<ins of Herri- man, DOW correDt in tbe New York Journal, win be produced, with Misses Catherine Hayes and Mattie Lockette in prominent roles. In this, as In all their other offerings.'the'Lelller-Brat- ton Company will spare no effort or expense to~ make the production complete In every deull. Buster Brown will lie sent out early, rs well' as an. Eastern and Western The Xewlvweds. which will torn: the Pacific Coast for the first time, where Miss Olga Von Hatzfeldt. Leo Hayes, D. L. Don, James E. Rosen and the rest of the big company will be sure of a rousing welcome. Botb the Buster Brown and The N'pwi.vw«hi will be provided with complete new nroiluctioner this season, and. of course, new song numbers and recent adaptations of the cartoon elassles will be added. RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME OF THE SEASON'S BIGGEST PRODUCTIONS. "OATnt 11.1108. •BOMB CMUUr. >MDr coax.