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16 Xtiee ill board NOVEMBER 4, 19h| :W. H.; DONALDSON,- Pobllsber. ~ ISSUED \rEEKt>T( and catena a Second-claas Mail Msner at Pan-office., CIiKiBintt.:P.. . . Addiess-aU commnnicatlons foi the edltodal or bDSlnea-aepartmeat ti» ~ * THE BILLBOARD PUBLISHiNG CO^ 416 Elm Sb, Cincinnirti, 0« U. S. A. I.aiig IMataaee Telepbone, Main STO. . CaUe addreca (B«sisteiiea) '■BIDjImB'.'*- . - .NEVy,YORK.- BsoiE 5. i Honand ikifiNR^, . 1440 BTDidwar. Telephone I630*^^ast. • CHICAGOA 'ISOS ScMner Bid?.. M W. ^dolpb' Street. : i Tt^tboae Central jS934.. ST. LOUI&^ Boom 803k Xiasonrt Ttmt Bldldliic. SAN FRANCI^6.- KAIs anS Chaaa BU^.. Boom 007,^28 OTattd! Street. LONDON, ENGLAND. : 179 Xtmple Cbamteis, 1L ^. PARIS, FRANCE. ' 121 Bne Montmartre. Telephone janVESaOBXSO bates— Twenty ekita per loBB. agata moaimTement. Whalft - pwnL^9140; ka]£ pace. 970; qnarter ftW, W* '*> ■^Ter- tiiement mennriiig leaa tnas n*a Usei accepted. ioa, too a year; 6 mratbi, tS.OO: 3 LOO; fegraUa in adnnca. k jTo eztn ehaic* to Cinailiaii atjglieintlanb- aciiberB..' ; . itrg BUXBOARD is for lala on mil traii^ and new«.itand« throssliont the ITnited Stata% and Cana<1a. which axe mpplied tr the Amer-* icsn Vewa Co., and ita teaaches. Xt la alao onl ■ala at Sraatano'a, ST Amne de I'dgMxa. Eana., mmce. When ast ea aale, pleaae m/titr tH-^ ' Bemittanees ilumld be made hy expxesa numer order, or re gi i t erad letter ad- dxesaed or made pijable ts Xhe BiHhnard Pah- lifMng Companr. The editor can not nndertake to tetnn muo- BeitBd manawript; coneapondaBts aheoU keep Saturday, November 4> 1911. THE MARY ANDERSON I KNEW. By BO BEBI GRATT. Mary Anderiisii Mte KaTarro—after an Inter- val of twenty-twio yeais spent in the e3cel<rfiTe- ti<>» of her b<>xatUnI home at Woreesteishlre, Broadway. T^nyT^nrt—^is oQce more in the lime- li^fat. as a result of her return to the enrlron- mrnt oC the ^tage. thonsh she has come hither Yolely for the purpose- cf attending the pre- irUere of a play, the prodnction of. which shf bM snscested and in the dramatization of .wmch slie had coDaborated with tb^ famoas -'"DOTelist of today. Rotiert Hicbens. ' Dnrins- an tlwse twenty-two years onr Mary ■sluts lieyer lor ittae; fraction of a second wavered ' iK ber^'deteimiiutton to retire fr<mi the stage— . tbODKb It is a fact that slie is the only ceiel>- rily of the era in wlilch she lived that gare sp a career at Its zenitli, never to resnme it. despite ioducemeacs of an almost unparalleled < nature. Others - bare retired from the stage In tbeir zenith, bnt they all came back, generally ■with their talents greatly impaired., and find- ing the pnblle Intewarm In Its reception. In : striking cantnat to tbe forore witb whldi they ■' .irere .wont to bald sway. ■i:;':^:SSxry .-J^admcB. left the stagie at a period '-la. bier career vben sbe bad achieved triumphs Aeo-great tbat she was In receipt of the largest !; hoaorarinm- ever paid, to any player in tbe .-r:-wiKld*s history up to that time; moreover. .■ thrse trinmiAs were tbe resnlt of a survival . ttoEi a serin of vicissitndes and hardstilps socb as has never lieen recorded in stage Iiistory- Bom In Kentocky In moderate dicomstances, .tbe tan. awkward girl with the resonant voice assumed to Inaugurate her career at tbe top of the ladder. A veritable ba i ustwui lng tour was undertaken and more than once "our Mary" . was. forced to pawn her Jew^ in order to defray ' tlie cost of transportatim for lierself and com- ' pany fnm town to town. It was under socb ^conffitloiiK U these tSsat .JtAn IT. Mortem, an '«raetoF4nanager of a digniOed though not pn>- " Pitiana period of the theatre, found the yoong girl he afterward helped to make famous. Nor- ton was jcreatly impressed with the possibilities revealed In the Jnllet of tills crude American girl. He took her to St. Louis, Interested the .:^reat Boi de Bar in lier fntnre. and then snr- : rounding her with an organization of real actors. Invited the poblic and the critics to i pass Judgment upon her—with a tesnlt so favor- . able that in a single year tlie name of Ifaxy - Anderson was one to conjure with. ' Tien tbe late Henry E. Abbey—a manager 'Who did more for tbe theatre In this coimtry " than Ins ever been credited to bim—assnmed diarse of the young actress—now a stellar Bgnre of Sieat renown. Under liis gnldaoee Uary Anderson, became, next to Henry Irving, tbe most compelling boxaOee attraetloD In tbe c uuu l r .v and tbe nrst Americas player of eltlier sex whose drawing power JnstlSed a scale of prices maintained up to then Ivy only two for- eign celebrities. Madame Bemhaidt and Henry Irving, Two weeks before her retirement Mary. Anderson played a week la "oae.nlght atanda." ■with fkot a ,^Bgle- aodtcttee reptesentlag lees than 13.500, aa napreceteated aefaleremeat In that day. Such - was .tile statns sf Mary Anderson when, in 1SS9. she became the* wife of Antonio de Xa.- rarm: Htnry E. Abbey held a five-year eon- tract with her at this time. This contract was regarded as ' liaving a valne to Abbey of alwut a half-miUIon dollars, yet there is no record of any litigation on liis part after the now-great actress-notified blm that -she was. throagh with the stage for all time, / A yiar'later Abbey visited Mme. de Navarro In her. home at £roadway. Ent^and. and like so many In later years pleaded with her to n^me her arUstic career, bnt, thooEh deeply gratemi to ber~manager,. sbe refused. Abbey asked her then to promise bim that, in the event she would ever chan;;e her mind, be should bare the preference over all otber macasfrs. "1 will never remm to the stage as long as I live; my life-is-mapped ont .before me— and tbe stage will remain a beautiful memory only,"'.^-'-'.. . Thus spoke"onr Maiy^' twenty years asro,' and almost the same words were mttered a few days—ago Lby. her wben. as eo-aatbor of The Garden of Allah, sbe reached these shores sur- rounded by a gronp of newspaper reporters. ' Mary Anderson was a devoted Catholic through- out her stage career. I have known ber to brave a bBzEard of . intense proportions to attend five-o*clock mass, and it was a condition in all her tlicatrical contracts that' the. itinerary. was to lie :laid oat in such a. manner that this procednre on her part was not to be interfered with..' At tier retirement from the stage Mary An- derson was .by no means wealthy. Her "fat" years were few in number. Xor did her mar- riage bring ber great riches: in fact, more tlian one- American manager, cognizant of this finan- cial condition, loumeyed to her home at Broad- way In the hope that the extraordinary terms ofiTered. wonld induce the retired actress to break her resolntlon. - - - • "I will pay yon ?207,000 for one himdred Shakespearean readings.** one of these managers pleaded; *'$50,000 a month for foor months.** Madame, de Xavarro responded tbns: "I am deeplr sntefOI lor your offer, bnt weie It ten times as teinpttng it wonM bare no elfect on- me:.** .; . . ■.. i - ' - V ; Aj>d then tills manager—a 'Ms. Morrissey— thinking to toneh hex heart, saldt "And I win also devote half the iiroats of tbe entire tour to any charity that yon may be Interested in.'* 1?ut all this was in vain. The manager returned to tills country disappointed, but convinced that no rival would sncceed where-he bad failed. In 1901 the present writer made a quite «milar offer to -Madame de Kavam^ and tbe Readers' Column Anyone knowing tbe present address of El- ders* Show, known as 3*ezas Minstrels, kindly communicate vrltb. Mr. Carlo Salvato. Steele's Store. T«r. " - • * 5Ir. J'ames Alfonso. 76 Webster Street. New- ark, X. J., vroDid like to know tbe present -wberrabonta of Georse W. Tombs. ♦ ■ - - ■ ■ Anyone knowing the present whereabonts of Mr. Leo Stevens, kindly commnntcnte with J.' G. Barnes, Lock Box Peterboro, Out., Can. Anyone knowing the present address of Miss L. V. Morris, also known as Princess Sirrlngs, kindly communicate with Mr. W. Albert TMpP. New Bedford, Mass. Last ht-ard Of .was In Pennsylvania, about a month ago. .. . Harry McKee. Kindly commnotnte witb your mother, wbo Is very anxloux to bear from yon. Address ber at SO W. Superior Street, Cliicago, 111. ■Mr. Schooner of the Wm. Tyl*r Wild West Sbow, kindly commnnirate with yonr mother at Ko. 9 Plscbine Avenue. Newark, N. J. She Is very tick and woold like to see yon. . Tbe Billboard has an Inquiry concerning the date and place of the opening performance In America of the plays. A Stranger in a Strange Land and House of a Thoosand Candles. Any Infurmati'ia concerning same will be reiy mneta appreciated by Xhe Billboard. Mr. Boy Bobbins, cowboy with Kit Canon's Wild West .Sbow, season of 1011. kindly com. mnnleate at once with \L M, Galvin, 729 7tb Street, K. E., UtUe Vails. Ulmi. Ur. J. H. (Hnghl Strickland, cowboy witb Kit Carson's Wild West Sbow, season of 1011, kindly commimlcate at once with ••OeCella." care of Mrs. M. M. Galvln. 729 7tb Street, N. G., Little Palls, Minn. Tour friends and rela- tives fear that sometfaing has happened to you. Mr. Joe Donaldson, cowboy with Kit Caison** Show, season lOU. also please write. -NEW SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE- The new San Francisco Office of The Billboard, in Sehaige of IMr. John Hahn, is Room Ko. 907, Kohler& Chase uilding, 26 O'FarreU Street. A Bureau, such as is maintained by The Billboard New York and CMcago, is now established in San Fran- sco, where professional people in all lines of the amitse- ent business wiU be welcome to visit, to receive their ail, to avail themselves of the accommodations for writ- ig letteiB, arranging appointments, etc. etir letfler which this offer elicited is now reproduced fort the first time. In this "onr Mary** cliarac- tertetically gives her reasons for declining. I A TOUCHY MAYOR. After a run of several weeks Get-Kleb-Qnick Wajlingford has lieen criticised by Mayor Fitz- gerald of the Hnb City. _He.bases his objec- tion on the personage of.Mayor Battles of tJie play, which be says Is a base slander, and Insnlt to every mayor of every tlty of the conntry. He ordered'.tile character changed and the, management reduced tbe rank of Mayor Battles of Battlesbnrg to Alderman Battles, wWth office after a three days* delay he was forced to Earrrnder, and he bas now adopted the title of Major Battles. Those wbo have seen tbe play have a hard time realizing how anyone comd find anything in it to give ofCense. and it was only tlie keen sight of tbe most wor thy mayor wliich was able to see this lu- dicrous objection. . ^ . Tbe censure bas been received on all sides as a good joke and a credit to tbe powers of tbe antliors. This is by far tbe most popular comedy wiiich has been seen' In Boston for some-time. MARRIAGES. FAI-AUBEET.—DoUy Fay and Balpb Anbert were tmlted In wedlock Oetbber 21. In Kansas City, Mo. They were members of the Pay Sta- ters Associated Players, a company of eight neople. playing vaudeville tbeatres in tbe Sontb- west. • CARATT-JOHXSON John C. Caraty and Miss Mildred Olive Johnson were married Oct. 2S. at the home of the bride's parents In Chi- cago, ni. Mr. Caraty Is well known in tbe sbow business, having operated concessions at White City. Chicago, for years, and also as a singer and lecturer In vandeTlIIe theatres. He bas recently returned from a anmmer tonr of Eraope. ACTO RS M ARRY. Ogdensbnrg. N. T.. Oct. 2S (Special to The Billboard).—^MIss Aleln Brotberlck. known on the stage as Aleln Usrtin, and D. H. Pnmro«, both members of tbe Forty-Five MInntes From Broadway Company, playing at the Opera House here tonight, were married this afternoon by Ber William O. Mclntyre. DE MORA AND GRACETA WRITE. Frank De Mora of DeMora and Graceta, or- iginal acrobats, begs to state that he has no- ticed in last Issue of The Billboard and fither theatrical pajiers, an act called De Mora Trio, and also De Mora Duo. • Now for tbe benefit of tbe profession at large De Mora and Graceta have not changed their name or title to either DoMora Trio or De Mora Duo. Any one nsing any part of the name of De^ Mora and Graceta are lnfrtn;;tng on our rights, name and renntattoo. besides creating a great deal of confusion In business transactions, as we, De Mora and Orareta are under con- tract to appear at the Merchants* Bxpoaittnn, St. Joseph. Mo., November 8 to 18 next, and also under contract with Rlngllng Brotbers tor the coming season of 1012. Bespeettnll.v, DE MOBA AND GRACETA, . per Frank De Hon. . DEATHS. DAVIS.—^bohert Davis, a member of the col- qrod band with the Toune BufTaalo Wild West, dropped dead at Bamnvllte, Ga.. Oct. 21. from heart fanure. He was 32 years old. His re- mains were sent to bis home at Carthage. Mo MYERS.—Mrs. Elizabeth A. Mevers died at Alameda. Cel.. Oct. 18. She was M years of age. and the mother of The*. J. Uyen, aanaser of t>antages* Theatre at Spokane, Waah. ■ B IRTH S. Mr. and Mrs. Bart Teedcr'niaennee the ar- rival 6f a ten-ponnd aoa.' Sept. 94, at Bald. Oklahoma. Tbe new atrlval ma ehrlateaed Cbarln WHUtin. DRAMATIC NOTES. Tbe Polly of tbe CIrcns Company, while plavinc at the Tabor Theatre. Denver, Colo., was toned to put np a S2.000 bond for one of Ita cbOd actors to Insure the enforcement of the com- palBory edacatlon law. A nnmber of chlldmi irm >lM appearing at the Andltorlnm In that city bi emmectlan with tbe Hectrie Sbow, and the tteatrical company engaging them was also forced to put op a bond. A clipping from a Wlaston-Salem, N. 0., paper states that tbe Brown dc Blcbardaon Jrase lames Company played to the biggest crowd of the sea- 100 at the Andltorlnm In that city, October IS. Chas. Dal.v. Elsie Hart and Company are re- Mtnlng a new Western drama written by Chas. A. Taylor, called Tbe Bandit's Beform. Tbe act will be pnt out some time this month. MINST REL NOTE& _D<x: Bacoa la priadpal ceoMdiaB with Heny'o Wnabela. STOCK COMPANY NOTES. Tbe Maud Henderson Company openi'il sixteenth season October C... Only one cimni bas brrn made In tbe roster, tbe new arrlvl being D. May, wbo Is now ahead. We own f] two .weeks* stock at. Family Theatre, ijntti Mont., November 6. .Our company Inclu.i.s C. Parent, manager; Dawnvn May, n-im-sem fire: E. S, Primrose.-director; Gi-o. !■ Grat stage manager: B. Iven pro|M.: Maud iU-Brter iKHi.-,Anua Bogbes. Sylvia Allen, Ireuo iiim more. Jack llaosfleld ami Harry McLfod. S, erythlng poiots to a surcessrui. setumn. Mon tana. Idaho,. Dtata and Washington are bootw tor-a long,season,.: .Wonld be gisd to beat fron Old Eastcra friends, " The TrI-Clty Stock Company, now dUvIm the Tri-Cltles. Bock Island and MollnJ, n" and - Davenport, la., wblrb rormnll.v <iiii'n<>d It! eugagi ment October 22, is co.-jposed of ilie foi lowing mi-mbers: tbe MiBn■^ J.-iin-iii- i„m], JlUly- Fn-emon, Nvola Newton, Doily Oalv uJ .Mary Daly, Mesars. Tho». Krueger, Daniel 11?. Guire, Prank Condon, Jlans ilorlnrt. INriy Sor man. Homer Goulet, Frankie Readlck Jr. jolii Cuunor and Frank M. Beidick. All ot tli above are well-known »to<-k iiriistii selictoa from tbe Chicago, stock bouses, , W. A. Origg. leading man: and director ot ili!/ Whittaker Stock Company, baa closed with tli> organization to take charge of the Grand Oiun Boiise and The-Alrdome, at Carthage, Mo.. baVln leased same for-two ><^nj. ''Mr. Urigg Is batiS tbe house nmodeleil.-- and '-with - tbe boaklnES b has, 'IookS'f6rward .to a irnid season. The following Is tbe roster of tbe Ilarvcv stoci Company (Southern): Walter D. Orr, minoset O. K. Boyd, agent; Chas. Nenman. Maurice We) dron, Percy Warren," Wm. Slellman, FhmI Wil tera, Guy FHU, Eugene Botham, Corlnne Cir penter. Effie Uanlin. Lois Murray and Elhm Fay.. Business tbe beat in four years. WlUard Green, who 'has distingulsbed bim self In a nnmber ot bome-talent plays Biveo li Webster city, la,. In tbe last two or tto J'"^- expects soon to go to Des Moines, wbra be bas been given a'DIaee witb the iwrmaneii Stock company playing the Princess Theatre. VAUDEVILLE NOTES. —H'C ■5''.,"S'.- .^'■Si* ^^'^ Claytm S"* Sclls-FIoto Shows are In St. Lonls til week. They are preparing for tbelr winter s« son, which will open in Memphis, Teno,, abon Jan. 1. They will play twelve solid weeks ei tour. Mr. Boyal: wUI not a number of his act In the RIoDodiome. St: Loola. when It opens I November. The Wixlardc Trio will clpse their engagemeo over the Crawford Circuit here, where ther bir been playing for tbe last six weeks, and so di reel to Kansas City. After a brief stay i their home, they will tonr over tbe larger cii cnlts for the winter. Robert Skniman, manager of the profenloni department of F. C. Taylor Agency, was awi nom bis desk a few days last week, aliendii the wedding ot bis only daughter at BaltImo^ Md.. where bu family resides. George Toahey. sllver-tom-d tenor. Is now I eated at the Sew Olympbi Tbeatre, ElgSt Avrnne and 31ih Street. Uls lateat sons dlllun Is the Wltmark tinmber, Killarnev an Too. Osnlenx, wbo bas been successful In his elm acterlzatlons and sonea over tbe Western di cnlts. leaves St. Lonis this week for Erie. I'a to begin his season over the Orpbenm Circuit. Ab. Johnson and . Mr. and Mrs. John Carroll o , the SeJIs-Ploto. Shows, are In SI. I.ooi» this wm» , and will join tbe Bhoda Royal comhlnatlon. Mr. Mason of tbe Consolidated Film Exchan; . of Memphis. Tcnn.. is in'St. Louig looking on I the territory. ' BURLESQUE NOTES. BI I t ■ Geo. F, Bpltrage's ^'Champagne Bells" Ei I travaganza Company la provlug to ho a bii i winner, and la being booked for return date > everywhere. Tbe comnanv is beaded by Arlhii I Clamage. with Ed. Smalley, Frank lloey. Jar I Bolllns, J. Pred Arnold, Mabelle llabhini, Loral ■ Mathlcu, Anna DaTi»i Alica l*erry, and a U beamy cborus. MUSICAL COMEDY NOTES, HIII A Edmund's Musical Comedy Compinl mite they are miklnir good In their tonr of tli , Bonihem states, . Tbe.v are now iiloylnp Mlwls sinpl. While playing the Opera boose at Tupelo Miss., tbi entire eompaur had tho pbasnre c t visiting Buiralo Bill and Pawnee Bill Show, as I were shown every courtesy. The Two Bills* Sbn played to Immense business at Tnpelo. PLAYHOUSES. The Bnrklen Theatre ot KIkbart. Ind.. wWd f has been remodeled this summer at a cost ol «-S2.0a0. Is to be formally opened Fridn.r ete * ning, Nov. ,1, with Joe Weber*s prorturtlon ol , Alma Where Do Tou Llvel Tbe Interior dec * oration bas been done by Mitchell anil nalhtd ' of Cblrago. Tbe Rnrklen Theatre can now boi* J ot aeveniern dresalng moms seven of niilcb in ^ on the stage Boor. Hie opening on Frlilnv rtt nln» Is a little out of the ordinary, mh low" Harry O. Sommera, of tbe Ktilckerhofkpr The aire, Kew Tork. Insists that Prbl-u- Is W ? Incky day. Bis first birthday fell upon Prldiy l! his twent.v-ftrat hlrthdsr tell upon a Frlil«.v. 1» J came to New York City first npon a Fflil"? ' and be signed the lease for tbe Buctlen TliMtn « on a Friday, so he derided to open the theitt « on the day that la considered ao nnlin-t.v bj < » great many people. Among tbe earl.v ntlftt c turns at tbe Bneklen will be The Deep Pan>l« » Tbe Prince of Tonight, with Henry WoodrjS « and Dockatader'a Minstrels, treeal MannKcr fte U 8. Timmens la looking fktrward to tbe gretW " season In Elkbart's theatrlral hlatory, J It was sn anspteton* anenlng, that of Hie S« Theatre, Chamhersbnrg, T». The largest. B« representative and most fashionable audl< ncc IM ever graced an amnsemenl boose In ChamW « bnrg, packed the bandseme new playhouse (» pit to dome, on October IB. Many espreia|« ti of admiration escaped the Ilpa of the later «« * lence. wbo pronsnnred tbe bouse a model In • pi ery respect, and Manager Sblnebrook rirel; '« ^ngratnlailon from Indlenre aad players forj " enterprlae In establlrtlng mrh ■ modem P" nonae. Madame Sherry was the opealng atn tion.