The billboard (July 1916)

MLV1,im The Billboard Drama y Opera Onif'f LaM Book Dramatized Jattfb BhuIu Bu CODtncted Wlib Aatbor of tito Bonier Lc«too Kaw TotK 'un* t*.—JoMph Brooka bM gommmM wllh Zmm OMr. ~ Omt WMtm ■Mnln a Ml MOM MirMMlMMb QyMllbiide'i ZTewMt of frndl town CiBSdlan IU% <■ tba btrbtr •hop i* th* eaniar of all '•MMir. 'Tlia piMe trill b* flnt prw- .M«*d In Amarlu. and (akan ta Job Uur U tba war anda tiatan RO BERT GR AU Intimate and. Important Revelations Appertain- ing to tbe Larger and Finer Phases Of the Business TUB NATIONAI, VAUDBVILllB ASTUTfl wllti the publtahed anuuncnnent ot lt» araanliadsa of tba Mw body of playcn known aa tba National Vaodavllla Artlati tbara ap- paarad Id the pliuea wh*r* tiage folk conrrasata a ckesp-lmlOM card abont tba dapth and nidlh at an old-time thaalar Uekot bat wbleb waa apparaBir iBtaadad to ba a vliiting card tar the naw orsanlivion of aeton, not laauad 1 anyooa connseictl iherewlili, but platnly ahowlnc tbat It waa coacmirta by tl oldar orcBDiuiiDD of vaudeviila acton known to tana aa tka mita Rata. Tha purpoM of ilili card, which la prlDMil In a wUta liaek«roimd wfi black laliera, Hupt tha nama of National Vaudevllta Artlata, wUeh la In daap rcltDw. i* to impro* ths R»ra than twclva kundrad wall-known playan witti a aann of humiliation, baaad on tba axtraordlnan' Idaa tliat an orvanlaa- tWn eomprlalnf the aane and profraaalra alamania of sMAara vaadarllla will. Wm- Ba !■ 1K * K I Ibam wllUn tha oaat ■ 1 Utlla Ulm Sprinstlma, a .._ ■Mo of which twa baan written br Bollan. Tba aaoand la Kabnan*! wtatMr. T a tba ^fM 1 Mm nUsgtint in Varae Ihw York, JuB* **. —Hmrcuot B- "Mtnn.Ia to bava a friTolona nlo Id AVMT HapgDod'a aaw faroa, Jnat lar .MUwankaa. Wla.. Juna U. ■ ■BmU XmtmaaM. haaao with tha MetropoU- U* Opan Compaar. baa raeantlr vn- MMM an oparalloB for nppandlelUa « tba Bmlana HoaplttO. etariaoa thua atayad tbera wtll coma a dar of raekonliw that ... ... _ _ bafora tba naxt Hiaatneal aaaaon la (alrlr Inansnrated. HaTaover. It ana jnar ]iidse fTMn the attltnda of tha ■O'Calted powan of praaanl-dar vaudevlUa, a peaceful aolnllon of ironblona eoadlUona In tbla moat propitloua field of en^ dauor la manacad br Jiut aueh proeadara aa tha one tba wrttar now retan to. Aa loDc aa tba White Rata* orcanlaatfon cHoea td atisroatlza "tha Unona aa antit and dialoyal baeauae Ibaj' arlahed to caat their lot in a tlva anvlronmant. tbe aflernuth would n conduct of vBudevllla on althar aide, but when In two DivBBlaatlon lodndaa namaa ao nnnuFona and ao potant aa - Id that wtthoBt taUor eosnlaanc - -of tbe ._ . _ and raoUtiida wara aadly cencnl achema of booMns*. in thoae dare the writer protested Keith, to Hr. Back and to Ur. Albaa. but ae Iheaa santlamen beeama - artm in ibair domain tha prosraaa from alnwat overr atandpolnt kai wMh tbalr own InlluaBee nnin today aboot all that Is wmna ' (ho manari of an ovarcrowdad amnaaDiaBt pcoftaalon, whidi tutnralir to lilaiaii tba ieaa lit to the rear, haaea wa wHnam tba apaeta^ of Idio who Teniae to iMrtlelpale In anr retroctada moramanL It i> whoHr and aWiiAeIr Joel thai the pinma ahall fall tar tha acton who are both Mpabia and co-opcraUre tor vaudevUla development but It la Juit aa trne and ■ "" — orsanUaUan be eompoaed of actors who raallr ■ reprwBt Ihowt wheas motiva tor atrtfe la the (Ml oC fiaidnj the managara to ancaca them whether ther have lonr aince o deerr tba'"backalldcn" as long aa they were In ■ hava as an entity a verltaMa army of mbwa and of aneh preatlsa aa to naka tMIg Waahiii^oa Buxuen Flayen They trill raopan at tha Comadr la Annit wBJi the aama bill at onc-Mt pluv. A nnmbar or noraltlea are In proparatloQ for nest aaaaoiL la. OOwra who turn b« ara Franeea TonnMi RMidar, lyMter Mowo, Strtla E Kew Tork. June H. —Hanry Kol -IT, who Bupporled Blllle Burko U the aiorla'a Romance Mrlal, will b the comtnK season In a nimantl la ■ fcf B dMw akv BtMa ■ III I III! 1 IflT VMbawtMP d HuTf Oiar Biuar ai asa Mm Mb aaa »n.^ Mto ^