Billboard advertising (Jan 1921)

The Billboard MANAGER 41 | New Theaters A theater ts being completed at Sherman, JANUARY 29, 1921 MINSTRELSY CORDSUNICATIONS TO CINCINNATI OFFICR — OF VAUDEVILLE, MOVING PICTURE TREATRES AND TRAVELING SHOWS Have “Aeroplane Day.” and etre the Riddles and ‘Tex., to sow tab. shows and pictures, Popular nae aoe | SSS oe eat 2 ce a en ont ses posiness? Jimmle Cooper saya Parson John Tris" acropiate has Giee tem oe Ese ‘A new theater will be erected at Gustine, Healy. Belght, 7% inches, Who wears the) Guin meal seuaniy goxlany, atts Tex., by a Mr. Kelly, and tho very latest euulpDigest shoca??’ Assistance! Si Srer to, and other consti, hd Sad ‘meat will be installed, z ss i se they. Saad ‘cose ¥. A. Jones & Son anndunce work on thelr ~ | a Sy Bosca! Joo () Salth was a caer at wuiy. Ste tls Bs ond, nd a, Gea new morie theater tn Cusahioga Falls, 0. The te bendauarters last weak and recalled come potas, Ser are coneroctnd Ge PeCeSS Rouse will offer plctres, exclusively. remiaiscea minstrel days stitoe rao Ganen ar Weanan. “ose: xa iss é akan in zofice Dallding and theater combined is of this department. Smith is playing vaudeville Bt yrs ‘Rend 250 for six Deing planned for Valparaiso, Ind. Work will be ‘FEEME—39 per, coat with order, balance C, Q. D. If add ts printed on them, 60 pet cent must gin a8 soon as the weather is settled. A modern fireproof theater will soon be bullt at Hannibal, Mo. The new house will be called the Orpheum, and will cost at least $125,000. ‘A. H. Goldman is planning a motion pleture theater of the higher class for the east side of Cleveland, O. The bouse will cost approxAmately 75.000. ‘Lens & Carlton, of Navads, Mo., have been ‘awarded the contract to erect a theater for MeAfee & Sandberg, at Parsons, Kan., to cost at Teast $20,000. ‘A theater will be opened at Trenton, Mo., to show mories exclusively. M. W. Hubbet ‘nae Dought a building and will convert it into « Photoplay house. © G. A. Stella will build a new movie house at Kenosha, Wis., to be known as the Lincotn, with a ‘senting capacity of 600. It will be & two-story structure. Edward Creedon has purchased a site for the erection of 2 modern Sreproof theater at Chil‘Tcothe, Mo. Plans are belng drawn now end ‘the construction will begin soon. ‘The Crystal Theater, Gilmer, Tex., will open fm the near future. ‘It is a very ‘nicely farished theater and modern thruout. The proBrietors are Boyd Crosby and J. Latch. A. H, Branapan will erect a summer theater at Mexia, Tex., to seat 1,600 people. Work will Degin at once on the building anf Mixtures, 00 At will be ready for opening by spring. . Charles C. Pyle and Richard A. Porter, of the Rialto Theater, Champaign, M., bare bought site in that city, upon which they will build @ “Address E MFG. CO., 1579 West First Ave., Columbus, Ohio, souNwoozLs ate rin show Fe Black and White Revue BAND AND ORCHESTRA LEADER ‘Act, two, 20d ‘quently around the thea! foteresting the “muscle chatter, “immediate engagement” siattne LOWEST Leones ‘nd tansportation afer “you join. Furnish wardrobe FREE. SiO W: VOGEL, No, 246 East Male St, Lancaster, Obie. TERRACE GARDEN CHICAGO'S MOST BEAUTIFUL RESTAURANT-THEATRE, BOOKING HIGH-CLASS, REFINED ATTRACTIONS DOUBLES. TRIOS. QUARTETTES, ETC. Act must be refined and meagre up to a standard which will be azoreciaiad by the Richest class of patron age If your act meets with the requirementa abore communicate and etate full particulary t0 FRED HURLEY, Stage Director. STAGE DANCING TAUGHT BY WALTER BAKER ‘Theatre and assistant to feld Follies. the West, tells us that George (Daddie). Wade {a io Kansas City at the head of the Wade ‘Transportation Op, Jim Hall and Willy James, who bave back of formerly daticing master at Capi i Ned Wayburn in Zi ‘team, stopped the show, it 1s eald, at least four minutes after taking two encores, George W. Englebreth, who thinks its greater hooor to have bis name appear in the ‘minstrel columa than to servo a terdi in the ‘Howse of Commons, dropped around “Billybos” headquarters last week for a chat with the editorial staff. George has been under the ‘weather for the past few weeks, he says, hence Bis silence. However, be feels much improved, ‘and promises an article real soon, ‘We apologize to Innes (Doc) Brent, taterpretor of Ethiopian characters, for having mistakaly failed to mention bis ‘name in the list of ‘ast and present Durntcork celebrities which ppeared in the Christmas edition, We also extend our regret to éther minstrel boys whose ‘ames were not mentioned. As we bave already explained in another issue the lst was given us by an advocate of the blackface art during 4.rislt and be promises an installment from to time With the outdoor season not far off many amusement enterprises, having long. since satis‘fled themselves with the economy and dependaDility of motor convesance, are either placing ar ders for new equipment or rebuilding thelr old “feet” John R. Van Anam advises The BillDorrd that he has fust purchased two tracks, ‘one for passenger and the other for baggage to transport the Hi Henry Show ae soon as the roads will permit. He also states that the show Ma booked until September 2. Again we extend » cordial invitation to those Mentified with or to those interested in the Call CAPITOL STUDIO, tc, Van Dyck Bidg., 939 8th Ave., near 56th St., N. Y. City, Circle 6138. Gus Hil told a New York Billboard cepreeentatire Inst week that the George (Honey Boy) Evans Minstrels and the Gus Hill sin~ atrels Will form a combine, effective in time to send the one big show on the road next fall. ‘The Honey Boy Minstrel Show is ten years old and the Gus Hill Minstrels about half that age. Mr. Hill says there will be about sixty people, in the combined show and the production ‘will cost about. $50,000. Mr. Hill added that gay He RE a gs 1 2 During tho engagement of the Al G. Field ‘Minstrels at the Lyric Theater, Allentown, Pa, ‘a grand “mugging” contest took place on the rostrum of the aforesaid theater between the two rival Ethloplan delineators, the Famous Parson Jobn Healy and the celebrated Gov ‘vocalists, mirth’ provokers, terysichorean artsista and musicians of the company. 50 ex‘citing were the participants that Goversor DanJel made a basty exit for a second, the veteran returning with hig famous fright wig, on which he had a heavy waxed string dttached, and, needless to say, the string worked overtime. ‘The contest was closed somewhat abruptly by the appearance of Bert Swor, who threatened to ent the string if the delineators of Ethlopian pecallarities didn’t cease thelr maneuvers. The fracas ended immediately with Governor Daniel Baving an exhaustive supply of gravy in his ‘vocabulary. Sufficient time has now elapsed to make © General survey of tho Iasscee White All-Star ‘Minstrels, under the management ofSpaeth & Co, When Mr. Spaeth concelved the idea of organizing a minstrel company many of the seemingly Knowing ones predicted that a min souvilie (Fia.) Metropolis, under date of October 4, had this to say, after'a twoday eoragemedt: “asses White has long~been Wentited with heralded a8 a new attraction, making a bid of the generations ago, bat is billing strove the novel features with the attraction. ‘The slogan, ‘Something New in Minstrelsy," 4 B SRARECRER ati Bd I i iE g g of enter of the Al G. Field Minstrels at the ti of the accident. Ho is not yet out of danger, it fo sald. ‘modern house with a seating capacity of at Teast 1,800. H, J. Selmer Co, has contracts to bulld two ‘houses in Green Bay, Wis, the Royal, for the Sexe Amurement Co., to cost approximately $50,000, and tHe Haggerty, for D. M. Haggerty, to cost about $25,000. A group of prominent business men at Mingo Junction, O., have purchased a alto on which « ‘modern moving pleture theater will be built. ‘wo pleces of property have been bought, and ‘the theater will occupy. the entire space. Dixon, TH, will ave a modern playhouse tn the near future. Leonard G. Rorer, manager of the Family Theater, of that city, ts having Plans drawn for a house with a geating tapacity Of 1,500, and which wil” be fieproof thruoat. Edward Colligan, Sr., has bought a site tn Carthage, N, ¥., and will immediately start ‘work on & new $60,000 thegter. Tbe bouso wilt be of brick constroction, capable of seating 1,200 people. Bulldings now occupying the site ‘will be torn down. ‘The work of Snishing the new $25,000 picture Playhouse at Camden, Ark., the Hauber-Gem ‘Theater, 1s practically completed. The house ‘will be formally opened early in February. The theater ts owned by a company headed ty 0. ©. Hanber, of Pine Blut, Ark. E. H. Rawley and H.R. Robb, of Dallas, ‘er., have purchased a lot at Booham, Tex, ‘and will at once erect a modern, up-to-date theater. A pipe organ thet will cost aboot $65,000 will de installed, as well as the very Iatest generators, and high-grade pictures will de shown. The theater will be ready to open about July 1. ‘The Liberty Theater, belng erected at Great Falls, Mont, by tho Jensen-Von Herberg Co., owners of a string of theaters on the Coast, ‘will bo open about May 1. Tho exstiog capacity of the new amusement house will be 1.850. The faterior decorations will be of the most elabor‘ate sort, and finished in the oroate design of ‘the Renaissance period. Tho orchestra will be seated on a terrace, which will accommodate 40 plasert. “SANDOW” FIBRE ‘THEATRICAL TRUNKS TRUNKS MADE IN DALLAS, ‘Write for Catalogue. WILKINS TRUNK MFG. CO. “Makers of the Goods ‘We Seti" ‘tn Daller, Toxes, 29 Yours