Billboard advertising (Jan 1921)

JANUARY: 22, 1921 oPThe Billboara NT AND OTHERFACTS, PLEASANT 2 profession. We recogaice a, greater repoosiiey ession than the mere vendlog of news, Rous meamure upto. the. qsablisea ‘This page, in commen pleasant sort So preferable: yet at times the greatest good for the greatest number demands ‘the makiag public of the facts that may be ex ‘@eredy stigmatizing the profession. ‘Agents who conduct thelr business upon a basis of misrepresentation of facts to artists. Hoose managers who permit claques and ‘grafting employees to sponge upon the pocr artfet under pain of having thelr act rup out of ‘Be house by subsidized rowdles. ‘Actors and-managers of ‘acts who accept ad‘vances 20d fail to appear and deliver the contracted performances. Enuthless exposure ie certain if somo marked Smprovement is not discernible im the con ‘¢act of some people. ‘This declaration of principles should serve as 4 mort émpbatic notice that the time to iscootinne shady practices has come, As a nmedian of beloved memory once aaid: “When OUTDOOR ENTERPRISE ORGANIZED ‘The Mutual Amutement Company bas been Sncorporated in New York with ‘a capital of ‘5.00. carnival type. tae 2 I ty ‘Theater in 7 il H Hy “BROADWAY RASTUS” Hits "Em In New Orleans Company in New Orleans, ‘Was unable to come to terms with the maneger J. A. JACKSON'S PAGE .. In the Interest of the Colored Actor, ; De and Musician of America COMMUNICATIONS TO OUR OFFICES, 1493 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. ‘of the Lyrle Theater, 0 he rented the Temple treatment for a serlous'case of laryngitis. After ‘Theater and played to standing room only for the ilness the act reopened for the week of ‘The managers of January 1 on the Keith Time in Philadelphia. SCOTT AND WHALEY. A Riot in London ‘The London Daily Telegraph of December ig ‘8 complete equipment of new scenery as well as with a strengthened company. At present ‘ray the show is making a prosperous bunch of tno ‘Kansas towns. BROOKS AND POWERS A Hit at Proctor’s Shelton Brooks and bis big partner, Mr, Pow xa, were the hit of the Dill at Proctor’s Fifth Avence, New York, first half of last week. CREAMER Place Song With Jack Mills, Inc. BIG THEATRICAL INVESTOR IN ; NEW YORK Lnclus Wiltiams, President of the | Wage Earners’ Bank, of Savannah, Ga., and a heavy stockholder in the Quality “Amusement Cx, is im New York, accompanied by bis wife. Mr. ‘Williams reports that the ‘new house being erected for the Quality in Savannah by Tandy, the New York architect, will soon be finished. NOBLE SISSLE x Laid Off by Illness ‘(While piaying the Keith Jefferson, New York, Noble Sisale, of Sissle and Blake, ‘was obliged fo lay off om January 5 and undergo medical HERE AND THERE AMONG THE FOLKS Maude Nooks Howard, the only woman pubUsher of the race, has added @ service division to her business for the purpose of assisting ‘orices to put their writings into proper shape for handling. Her “Little Brown Daddy” eoog f= findiog new markets constantly. HL. ©, Washlogton of the Taylor Bidg,, Cin cinnatl, to keeping two quartets busy in the Jyceum field. ‘One of them is in the Centra? States and the other fa the new England terntory. He is the composkr of several Blue numbers, Edward Steflo, the colored tenor, has been Sects exgaged by Manager J. W, F. Leman to appear on’ the Steel Fier at Auantic Gity. next sexeon. ™ PROLOG Hate H g H i i aceaey Hole z B aH a » ‘Tracy Blagbarn and %, J. Shelton are the owners of 2 nico lttle theater at Des Moines, 4a, ‘Thele house, the Lincoln, has a seating “ARTS CLUB” Designed To Assist Aspirants Having Artistic Talent ‘or instrumental), for the benefit of local charities, Gustave Frohman, the great theatrical manager, who has recently retarned from Paris, will be the artist this clab, ‘which’ fs the only organization with which he ts atiliated. ‘The prominence of Mr. Frohman in the dra THE PERSHING Playing Big Attractions op-Picka” was the attraction last week and ‘the Brown & Gulfport show needs no comment. ‘This week the big Harvey Minstrels are holding forth. ‘This show carries fifty people and the whole bunch are artists, FLORIDA BLOSSOMS CLOSE. Oscar Rogers has closed his “Florida “Bloo‘soma’ Company at White Springs, Fis., after ‘soccessfal 44 weeks? season, playing thro Gosen Southern States. During that timo 17th season will open March 8. As last year the company will travel in its own steel man car and thirty-two people will agatn carried, While most of the old cast will ‘be back there are a few openings to be filled. “CHARLIE ’ Pl ‘Pho Lyrle tn New Orleans again had # torn GAINES’ VARIETY LAYERS”