The billboard (Oct 1918)

Vfltanib Miufltxel Dies stm BtrmUtm Vtmv Awa; In wbanWlHiaiivadalBMlSBO, tha year 'ki wbkli th* lata "h"^ Trohman, ar iMM>*t>aC ^TVI«r^ 'C)Htlnal Maats- am lflii»li«l» took hfan ta IdOdOQ. H«! •MMM DC tta* WB^ftM Quartet known ' ai tha nmr Afnolte 'who Joitwa the luvnw MnpaDr U'Ura. idism.U)« VnAvaiira muiMMiiaBt. The neit Britain. M tf a tta m,' wfao— nal nanM vu Boim AvgBDtaE mdiUnan, iraa 'hora of AIMlUn i«ranu In BnDWa, N. Un. appearlnv aa ona of Two WealeyB In a dariiT BkMeb. eajkd Tha Bis and Littla of It. BcdBBloB when ha waa fltufah be tTOTeled tor years with n dicns nnoer the name ol uaater Jcai^ nntU he tMCune one of the Fonr Ar- nolds. StrattoD niBiTled the dan^ter of Pony Moore, of the Moore £ BargeSB UlnstrelB. BROADWAY BITS New Tork, Oct. 19.—The spirit of optlmlHin which haa alwnya heen aa of the actor. In spite of all Hetbaclu, layoflB and pacnnlary em- haa In all prohehlllty never been so apiurent on Broaaway an OarlDK t&e past week or so. The closlns of so many theaters, with the re- sultant l^liiK oS of many hundreds of artists of drama, musical comedy, hnr- tesqne and 'vaodevine, bas crowded Broadway with a verltahle hoteroseneous eoBtOnmeratlon of repreasntatives of the emUBement and antertainlnE w " sU mingling, lauKhlae, talklne. perhaiiS' bouttnlly, but, nevertheleBB. olncere, and. In the vernacular of vaudtartsts. 'lauBhinc tt np." nie actor enjoys life under ^1 tondltlODS and takes bis pleasnres, his tronUaa; hla Joys and his pi plealtles aU 'in the aanie spirit of happiness and contentment. What is it the actor, to ha.n an enforced layofC of sereraj weeks on aecoont of the I QueaniT In no dtsrespactfBl attttnde we beltsre' that ttia fiiajority of acti are ao naed to oifMcaa Idtanass that OOa kuxe of afbtn ts taken tor giaxa and Oiey malca tbe ImM at the attnstton. Vtaat n atonr tbe Uvea at aictora could be weaved Into, thair stmnlea fOp bma and fortune and their subsMnunt diarUabla affarts towards their less successful brothers and alstsrsi Did yon, Wrights, prOdDcers, booking agents, theaters and circus equtpments In the world today there would be no shows It there were no actors? l«t this kind the period the thaatw has baan doaad a new draloace system hsa baan •■- tabllahed. A. good pkrt of the Interior of the theater has heen palntad. ad> aide of staga dltionat r rora put In all dressing rooms, thru courtesy ot Qamewell fire Alarm Tel^nim Company. All ot the stovas ■ twenty-dye cold apeli. New been built for tl and sone leader, ■the theater wh< "flu" were: Ma ^^eady f. e dramatic director Among tlie staff of sutlerEi from tha .seer Chsppell. Sa- him by John Cort. B adtmUslne In our vandevme department .ot'.tbDse: ehaps who came to New York and itlmost In- s 'sraat teyorlte. The result of his ex- Men a live-year contract Jnst banded f England Sco Zoncoln Play The Repertory Theater at StrmlnE- iHun. In Engfland, plans the production tbls autumn of Abraham Lincoln, a play by John Drlnkwater, tiaversioK opl- sDdes In the life of the President from nomination to Bssasa[nation. Mr.Drlnk- Witer is one of the directors of the BIr- | minBham Theater. Thus far in the ] theater, on eiiher aide of tbe Atlantic, Eiaee. In America tbe lata Banjaniln Chapln, relylnic primarily upon a pbytl- i H. Grayson Bell ts Id. town stopping at tbe Hemiltiige HotaL Mr. Ben one time was a minstrel man with Al G. Field, but eyentBoUy decided there waa more money In oil than In burnt cork, so migrated.to TuIsk ok., and Is now representins Tha Bell Petrolemn Company. Bell says that TuIsa Is tba bl^^est Uttle town In^the world,.one.Indian resident havlns pmhassd f 2^)00,000 worth of Liberty Bonds. A new Orphenm TbeaMr Is belc tropolls In which will be a cale—a duplicate of Tcmca Sell has been attending the Independent end will return to bfs borne nezt'wet^ er LoQdlH, Privates Walab, Charland, Addison and Song I^eader Archer. During the period the theater was closed all of the sign boards btaied forth with BloEsns of the FOurtli Ub* erty Ixisn. Corporal D. T MnnraMT secretary of Manager ChappAC -kW certf training school- Theatrical Men HI New Tork, Oct. zi.—Joseph Klaw. son ot M«rc Kla-W. ts serial)^ m at his hona and no tras but nam and fAiysIelans are permitted to see blm - Aboot ten days ago he was strlckeii' with influensa and seemed on tbe road Bathaway.the Ulnsloulst,writes tl log beard of, let alono seen, ai today. Bad Cr«h c^gs shock!"" Ben AtweO, advance representative "Vothav- Seven Dass' Leave, contracted In- flnensa while In Kansas City and Is now my III In tbst city. Word eoinea from London tbat R. Ck Kew Theaters Ibboo TFntU After Wsi—Work M Vn^ Onlffhnl Banding To Stop Hew TOA. o«t. IS^-TU* otty aaO the mr maBBtriaa.Baard tbat no TUi:'(%;nntllattar4 dUan' t> tut lb Uayor^. Commlttaa < Damaged hj Tire —Boston Is not ."Jew Vork, OoL II. to see the Polllas a epring. Tbu big apectacle will remain St ihe Olobe Tneater for another seek, atler which It will move to city In which It bos not yet appeared this season. K. & E, Engage Wanda Z^n Boston. Oct 21.—Klaw & Brlanger havf« ensHged Wanda Lyon for an Im- porlant role In Sha Took a Chance, 'Milch opens bera tonight. MIsa I^n *s> formerly wltb. Al Jolson. H. Ooy Woodward, now playing metropoUtan vandSTlIIa With a WbolBsome ' little play, Tbe Crisis,. celebnted his birthday today. Woodward «' owned tbe. Woodward Warren Block Company, wblcdi'In Its'day. <) tb* Standard .tnVellng stock companies la America, since, tbat time any bas * manaawd Faidages .Theater in San FrsnclsEO^ posed In the movies Imt now seems to bava asonred'a, permanent success In The Crisis. . I Leaffoe Offer 1 r[ Sbmm^vf:my, from peiry, la, attar tm n . -]Macp has Its Market street. ■-»nt Broadway's the o lasJtsEocUd. ' K. C. Its Usln street, as wen aa McGee^ ' Detroit has Its Woodvrard. ' But Broadway's good enough*-for me. aahlnetoii, Oct. 21-—Interest of a nationwide character la b^ng shmrn In the DlTer of tbe Drama League itf prizes of tlOQ and tMI, reapactfvelr.. he beat two one-act plays dealliw tbe problem of food canasrsa- colUded yesterdt^ at the comer of Forty-second s meat vender's push cart. Tbe automobile got the seemingly ennged. oteppad out ot his his number. The Italiun. while rescuing some of his torpedoed cargo, looked up In blank astontstunant, saying; "T. gotta a ninnlMir T got' ~ ~ Lwith produced his registration card. and Broadway with a e worst of tbe encounter, and tl car, and, probably from ft mber"—and ti lese days wool) like to take the Chief of New York's Board of HeaJUi by the band and per- Bonally thanlE blm for keeping the thealers open here. Old Doc Copeland'S Soothing Byrop bsa done wondeis for the profession in general; In thc^ Va nU Ibat tha etteet of his tonic has caused a tooeenlng up «t tbe tbsatrteal b Infotmatlan neadad their Ideas. Thasa an II made on tbe Dranta I«agna. Tlw contest closaa DeeanONr Nadndlat Tsnn., Oct. l*.—Uanagar Csmon Kadtord, ot tbe Strand nM«> tor, la bavjBg bis thaatar ftavtr r*- p^rad and remodeled ditrlnKtt* MB-' pBUorr eiotUig down, mdnon, in a. Oct. 21.—The Nlicn t over tlt^aOS by smoke a proofreader on a New York 4 id Incidentally Injure him physically, a 1 Tba New Tork Tribune: TUty ttaa