The New York Clipper (May 1914)

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Say a bottle of Bl Bado and test It on yoor arm; If you are not entirely pleased with the results your money will be refunded without question. In SOc. and SI.00 sizes, at all leading drug and department stores, or direct 'from the Pilgrim Mfg. Co.. New York. Write - for valuable Information on the anatomical growth of hair, and why it can be safely removed. Can be had at JAMES DRUG STORES, KNICKERBOCKER PHARMACY, CAS- WELL-MASSE Y CO. OUT OF TOWn HEWS WASHINGTON. Columia (Fred Q. Berger, mgr.i—The Columbia, Players gave on excellent perform- ance of "The Charity Ball" May 11-10, to big business. The mountings-were all- uj> to the high standard-of thus house. Earlc Brown, George W. .Barbie?, Wlllard Robert- son, Everett Butterfleld, John M. Kline, Car- rie Thatcher, Jessie Glendennlhg, Marie Orof- nah and little Edna Kocntt were all excel- lent "Sweet Lavender" week of 18. "Mrs. Temple's Telegram" next. Alberto L. Godoy, Mexican consul at this city, gave a very interesting lecture on "Mexico," Sunday, 17. Many photos displayed, never seen before. The entertolunent was enjoyed the more a* as the lecture was by a Mexican. National {Vim. H. Bapley, mgr.)—Miss Shreve's May Carnival with ner Interesting pupils, in "The Fountain of Touch," scored a big hit 11. 12. The audiences were large and enjoyed the performances, and the many graceful dances given reflect much credit on Miss Sbreve. Aborn English Grand Opera Company open 18 an engagement of several Poll's (James Thatcher, mgr.)—The Popu- lar Players fully demonstrated their abilities by glvirg performances of "The Littlest (Rebel" 11-10, the play has been seen here before, but no better performance was given than that given by the Players, Richard Bonier. Dudley Hawley, Cecil Bowser, Win. D. Corbett, Stanley James, Izetta Jewel, Ger- trnde Bondhill, were nil good, but the star was. little Grace 'Sbanley, ns Virgte. Director Bdwia H. Curtis had his abilities tested, and produced the play in one thorough manner. '•Little Miss Brown" week of 18. "The Gov- ernor'a Lady" next. May 17, Snnday evening Kathleen Jtithew gave "Beautiful Ireland,' which was enjoyed by a large audience. "Casino (A. Julian Brylawskl, mgr.)—Bill week of 18: The Aders, Charlotte Balnbrldge and company, Macaleavy, Clara Roberts, the Three Troubadours, and new pictures. Cosmos (A. Jnuan Brylawskl, ■mgr.)—BUI week of 18: Mr. and Mrs. Perkins Fisher, Parisian Visions D'Art, the O'Neill Sisters. George. Landers Dummies, the Flying Car- veils, with new pictures. Sunday- concerts, well featured, and music by "That Orches- tra." do capacity. * ' „ Gaysty (George Peck, mgr.)—Harry Hast- ings' Big Show had good business, week of 11. ■ The Ginger Girls week of 18. The Country' Store continues a big hit This show closes the" regular season 23, a seasoi which has been highly successful. Kuril's (Roland S. Bobbins, mgr.)—-Bill week of 18: Mr. and Mrs. Carter Be Haven, Marie Shaw, Adelaide Herrmann and com- pany, Swor and Mack, Andrew Kelly, the Three Collegians, Irene and Bobby Smith, the Tuscano Brothers, lie Hesrst-Sellg Re- view of Current Events, the pipe organ re- citals. -Sunday concerts, well featured, do capacity. NOTES. Hash? Ckandall has secured the Casino Theatre, which opens week of 25, with "Sam- eon" pictures. These high grade- pictures win be seen at the Casino regular prices. 10, SO and 80 sents. New fans will he installed- and everything will be done to make it a cool epot Fox the Summer the highly successful dan- mntet, given at the Keith's, a* every per- formance, have been discontinued. "Cmatiok," the Tpootodrama, is now In Its second week at Belasco'?. The lecture is given by a talking machine and the enter- tainment is appreciated by all that witness the pictures, and it is deserving of success. The- Shriners' Band, on their way to Georgia, woke up one popular attache of the Columbia, William Shaffer, who has longed to become a Bhriner, but has let his application rest But on hearing that band his friends got busy, and he received his notice that bis time had come to Join his fellow. Shriners, If ho could comply with orders. He started, but he was on the rocks at once, as he was ordered to be on hand at such an hour with a real live baby, up to this time he has hot been able to secure that baby, although he has visited all the found- ling hospitals and institutions, and lu each case he has been turned down. He says ho will yet be a Bhriner and get the baby, but he has not found out who sent the order to be on time. With Keith's and Cosmos still givin| vaudeville, Columbia and Poll's In Block, and all the "movlei" doing their regular,work, there are at present plenty of amusements for the Summer at the nation's capital. The Gayety and Casino closed. . A wis's move, and one appreciated by aH, was made by A Julian urylewakl, of the Cosmo* by discontinuing lie score board dnrrasr the games of the club at home. Word has been received from K. M. New- Own, who gtreetts annual travel talks at the Columbia £ now In Egypt getting some new «nd interesting material for the coming Win- ter. Maxaoeb Fibo G. BeBOsn' Is in a deep •tody at present as to the selection of the most successful stay to be given on July 4— that being not only th« glorious sane .fourth, hut toe day set for the re-union of those two boyhood chums and fast friends of over sixty yearn—Teppe Detain and Fred O. Berger. Mr. Berger says when Seppo presents nls tickets he himself will tie at the door to take them. Manager Jakes Tttatcitfr Is full of bard work now selecting his popular and successful plays from a long Hst, and be has some big surprises on rurrtf So much no that Director Edwin H; Curtis has now to get up with the cxdckeni to keep up with Thatcher. -,..i T P IS c °uTON will.be numbered and attached to your contribution, and a certificate win be returned to you as an acknowledgment, and for future reference. The contribution should be signed plainly by the person or firm sending in same, and should be endorsed by tnc stage manager ot the show or of the bouse whero_ the act is being used. Further acknowledgment will te made by the names and numbers being published each week as received. Address jour contributions to . THE REGISTRY BUREAU, NBW YORK CLIPPER, 47 W. 28th St., New Tort. Date. "!" Vi: NEW YORK CLIPPER REGISTRY BUREAU Enclosed please find copy of my • entitled-.. : .,- ...........,...;.. ,'..■; for Registration.' ' NAME. Address. When you register a play or scenario that you intend to submit for reading to- any pro- ducer, we will furnish a label to be attached to the original, showing that the same has been entered in Tub Cmppli. Registry Bureau. Get the local r ccccoccoooooocccoccccceecccccoocooooccccooco TOD'S TIPS VW-W ■vHsv*«****j#w«a«Ss*\ l f Si -* * i * * * M * * * ■ * * ^ ^ * * *^i^ i *" *"*i ~~> r J ^J*^j^jTj"\J~>-f*Lrvi~u~i_f~u*v~ i '*u*1j*I_i*X » * %sf% Jl cess oa the orpneum circuit 7 it's getting; to be nloe weather to be playing-on the bill with monkey acts? BenEum'ley Is playing the l/Oaw tlmo DO YOB KNOW— That- Homer. Lind's new twenty-five mlnuto playlet, ■ "The Singing Teacher." written by'Delavan liowland and Mr. Llnd, looks like the best thing he has given vaude- . Tille in many seasons," and that Frank E. Lambert is being featured in it with . Mia, Lind? (Direction of Jimmy Plunk- etc.) That Duns and Dean on the Harlem Opera House bill last half of last week, equalled anything on the program for making real live entertainment? That It's good to see Rose De Young. "Tho Million Dollar Doll," back In vaude- ville after a .successful season in bur- lesque with Jake Qoldenberg's Gay New Yorkers? Tftof Sam Meyers, a youngster pianist from East New York (Brooklyn), made me do a "can-can," with his artistic mauling of the ivories one "dark" night last week? (Sam has stubby dlgets, hut he sure does get a "full hand out ot every little movement of 'em.) That Minnie Blauman, of Harry Williams' house of 'melody, nearly had pianoltifl trying to satisfy my greedy love for music up there in front of 164 West Forty-sixth Street, recently? (Crippled! two fingers end wore out three copies each of "By-gones" and other Grant- Young productions—and then put me out.) That Violet MacMillan, under the direction of John H. Folger, 1b continuing her suc- cess on the Orpneum Circuit? That if That _. with a big girl act headed by Harry Stepp? • That Lillian Mortimer has purchased the estate of Lawyer Mark Zabel, of Peters- burg, Mich.? That Major O'Lbughlin finished ten- weeks on the S. & C. time and opened, May 14, at St. Paul, Minn., for eleven weeks for .George Webster? •■ _ ■ That when you play the Harlem Opera House you can feel safe about your numbers being -properly bandied by. those' clever piano leaders, 'Teddy" Barlow and AL I Av%py ? That a K. Nadel, producing manager of tho Pat Casey Agency, still appears to oe one of the busiest good fellows In the world ? That It was tuf to see what little apprecia- tion was showered on that "all of won- derful'' dancing girl of the Ward. Bell and Ward act at Loew's Seventh Avenue Theatre, the show we caught last week? (There are-few who class with her for terpslchorean clevernesa) That Oscar Hoffman, head usher at the Union Square, looks more like a regular akter every week, and did a pose In the tea house of the Ralph, Bayle .and Mellen act down there last week that would do credit to Charlotte Dories? That Grayce Connell has quit the Anderson, Gaiety Co. and was immediately grabbed up to put on special girl attractions at the Portola Louvre Cabaret place in San Francisco at pippin figures? (Meaning salary, of course.) That the Melody Monarchs and a Maid were •the mop-up trick on Proctor's One Hun- dred and Twenty-nftn Street bill one half of last weak? That Belle Kloter Is going to "stick to the ehlp" as special dkts/tlonce for Billy Atwell up In the Heidelberg Building, and remain on the payroll of the New York office of the Sullivan & Consldine Circuit? (Some one is lucky for re- taining her, and it isn't Belle.) That Burns and KIssen almost considered returning as cabaret entertainers at the Alamo recently? That I nearly got put in the cooler trying to) make an entrance into College Ion about fifty-nine and a half minutes after twelve one morning last week? (The next night I gave the Comstock cop the big giggle about ten v. « , and found) Madamemolselle Georgette, Doris Pepper Page, Mae Dance Wallace. Davo Parody Fox, Jack Hesitation Duffy. Marty Mighty Voiced Keary. and not to for- St that feller, Abe work Frankel, doing lugs up in good sbape to increasing business, and all smiled on by Managers. Wilson and Levy.) That business at Max Voll's dance and song place on Seventh Avenuo and One Hun- dred and Twenty-sixth Street Is big enough to make Max and the competent Mrs. V. look like "the little millionaire couple"? (I'm gunna drop in on you this week, Mr. and Mrs. Max, so bare your gold teeth all scodred, for I expect to see as regular a time as I've seen in your place before.) That Harlem's recently organized Rug Club attended the dance carnival as guests of Manager Billy Matthews at Proctor's One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Theatre Tuesday evening, and Captain Bug Daly now thinks he is well enough op in the dip thing to challenge Lieut. Bug Specht to a contest in the near future? That I caught Nat Vincent, of the Broadway Music Co.: Ed. Abeles. of iReoick's, and Sam Levy, of the Watersoo. Berlin Jc Snyder's shop plugging numbers at their same old 100 horse power speed up backfstsge In Harlem last week? (Gee. Tod, don't you go any place but Harlem? Jim KEiVlVEDYA-iDKRAMKR Haade Direction James Plunkett BURT AND MALVENE - nAPID-FIRK VAUDEVILLE —'Right back "Oh, sure. I was down In fourteenth Street orice—■only onre.) That Ethel Whiteside must have been leary of our uptown population when sho tlsyed Harry Swift's II. O. H., because libel only wore'"the dear gold band" during her "pick" let? (We are harm- less, Ethel, even If Sol Levoy does ttnd nse for extra shekels he collects to sing- ing a number at each show besides man- aging things on the stage. Some Sol, too. Is getting him right.) That Mary Bruce, the prima donna soprano, has been offered a stunning contract to aing in a lead with a new Laskv ace being fitted up and beaten into shape for next season? Tfcal Freddie Becque Is packdng 'em In.at bis picture shows hi Bockland Lake, New City and Congers, Thursday. Fri- day and Saturday of each week with the Mexican war pictures?- That George Moore, formerly of Vanderbllt and Moore, and Francis Yates, the fe- male Impersonator, will be seen in a double act next season? That Dddle Weston, of Weston and Fields, is about again after a critical slcgo ot uieumonia in a local hospital? That Eileen Rosar, she of the dimples,.and being strongly featured with Haltoa Powell's "tab." show "Dollars and Dimples," is.kept so continually on the move that sho doesn't find time to' Tula any hotel stattoncsy' In letting her friends know how things arc, and what's Which and why? That If you advertise in most of the theat- rical sheets—"you've got a good act," and if 7ou- don't advertise—you got the . Ug "chain?" (Yes—wot?) That Peggy Daagherty, "Erin's doll girl iprtea donna," is now playing the South- ern United time at present, and hopes to sit 'em up in (Mexico If things don't settle up down there soon? That Abe Frankel looked sad standing out in front of "his old love," the Nemo, up at One Hundred and Tenth Street ami Broadway, last Sunday afternoon? ■ That Bunce. Frazcr and Moran can ho beard •warbling In stylo at Whiting's, down at Coney Island, for the Summer? That Happy Benway and Pearl Dayton will open at the Colonial, in Chicago, next Monday, for a tour on the Jones, unlet . A Schaefer Circuit? This Is the Life. Eugenie de Lafayette, tho "Llttlo Musical Doll," wants her friends to know that sho baa just been granted a divorce, once more, from her non-professional husband. "So glad to feel myself all myself, and bo free again," says Eugenie. She's playing a "happy tour" of the Association tlmo Just now. George Cadli vs. Pot Pie, Had a very unpleasant evening with Georgo Cadis, assistant props of tho Thli-ty- nlnth Street Theatre, Tuesday evening, Miy 12. Unpleasant for the simple reason thnt George had devoured most ot tho pot pie (with heavy crust) for supper. What's that fpA to Jo with evening, yer tint? Pardon. You see, George falls for pot nlo like I do for •crullers. Well, he and hlj charming wife had a special Invite to sup with friends above evening, end a corking pot pie adorned ibo table. Ocorgie drove in and ate equal to half his weight before vamp- ing and going to work where "Too Many Cooke" is running along smoothly at tho Thirty-ninth Street Theatre, and before tho rain outdoors began to re-soak Broadway all over again that evening, George was strick- en with an attack of acute indigestion chit compelled his leaving a Sixth Avenue "LT train and summmonlng his physician right there end then. First aid—relie-f—and Georgo and Mrs. Cadiz resumed their journey homeward up on Macombe Place hn tbe Bronlx, a wiser boy to tho extent of letting pot pis rest somewhere else than on bis chest, and con- tbvno to act as competent assistant props at tho Ibirty-nlnth Street without further such interruptions, Palisades Park Opens. Out-of-door amusement* were put In full swing at tbe Schenck Bros.' Palisades Amuse- ment Park, over on the Jersey side across from Ono Hundred and Thirtieth Street, last Saturday, and the playground atop of those mighty Palisade* looked more attractive than ever in Its blanc of light from the New York side this particular opening night. After the ferry and trolley trip we launched Into this freshly painted park that Joe and Nick 'Schenck thrust upon Jersey to "love up" as tlie!r Coney Island, and the past few months of laboring of tho landscape gardeners also showed as wonderful results as the wlelders of tho colored brushes. A true Summer day crowd were on hand sll day, and although the chill air of even- Send for New Catalogue Stating Kind Desired IHEAIRICAl. CATALOGUE of Sho* Print- MAGIC PRINTING. Hypnotism, Illusion]. Ing. Reecftoiro. Slock. Cifcils. Wild Mind Reading, Elc.- Will. Tint Showi, Etc, FAIR PRINTING, fain. Racai. Avialion, Auto.".H'orie.- Slock Showi. Etc. MINSTREL PRINTING. White or Colored. With or Without Title. Elc amoving Picture printing^eic. WESTERN PLAYS. Etc. FOLDERS ol Non-Roy«ily Pliyi with Printing. Stiow'an ., Printers lithographers; Engravers .Nationai it*. YOUFI/Ml^^ CHICApi Sidek. H a n g e/5 a n cj Post cr s on Hard for every Kind of ' "Amusemeni;Enterprise write St. Louis office - 7th and Elm sts. log thinned the visitors out <)ulto some, there was gathering enough present nt 8.;i0 1-. m. to enjoy the band coscerta, hot dugn, dancing and a "million" other attractions. The Midway was initiated Into another season by tho march of the "blooms of youth" in their nxtile Summer silt creations, and every little soul behaved as though they were glsd there existed such two regular fellers us Joe and N'lok Schenck, In giving them a place to spend their pleasure money to the best advantage all Summer long. Others strolled Into too grove after a wnlk on the beautiful esplanade, and workvd their noses overtime inhaling what a ufty-acre fior.ii iMs- play had to offer, In its gcorgcous blending of brilliant hued Sowers. Fifty now attractions grace the Midway. ranging from the ever popular "flshlnir imkiiI to the latest baseball crate. That thrilling "roller coaster" Is still a favorite fcntiire. while the "take ot Mystery" continued to draw expressions of awe from the "friends' 1 ot Joe and Nick. These Schenck boys have been generally conceded to be two of the most enterprising outdoor - amusement promoters in America. Let us hand It to 'em before going any further, even If you do have to carry your own drsplee across tile river if you care to Indulge between "eating up" the attractions at l'allaades Amusement i'ark. They have In- stalled a pumping station at their park which is connected with a pipe line running from the mammoth natatorlum to (n<>t (leorge Khret's place) but tho Atlantic Ocean, which makes it possible to hove real sea water bathing fifteen miles from the orenn and five hundred feet above the level of the sen. There Is a wonder ot a pool in the park, and when it is considered that those Schenck boys give the paddlers real seu water and Installed a wave machine, why, it can be classed as tbe largest artificial sea In the world. • ■ Tbe Messrs. Schenck hive also ■provided their park with ono of the most elabor-ilo dancing pavilions In their "Dance riancher," which covers a floor space of 25,000 square feet. Band concerts will be given twice dally, and two performances of vaudeville is offered free on tho plaza overlooking tho Hudson. Addltlnal boats will be In <>p"ru- tlon for the rest of the season from the i»io Hundred and Thirtieth Street ferry, and extra car BervLce on the Jersey side. l'aliaades Park should be even a greater Since of amusement for New Yorkers tli's ummer, for with the numerous new sur- prises and additional beauty of It alt, the enjoyment rings "money's worth" loud ami true when you hike your little self toward your crib after the day of frolic In Nick and Joe's playground. George. Henshalt la m and it need not be. but we do repeat that fircss representative, the Schook Bros, could not have found a more competent, congenial fellow for the Job. Bag Club Elections. At the first regular meeting of tbe Huff Club, on Tuesday evening, May 12, tho fol- lowing elections were posted: - William Matthews, president. Ilobert iSpoCht, vice president. Arthur l.nvcry, financial secretary. -Frank Kallln, recording secretary. Dr. Slevin, treasurer. Wm. I'rantner, scrgeant-at-arms. -Board of governors: Wro. Dnly, Chief Mor- gan, -Hon. wm. Duggan, John Kohrman, Wm. Becker, John Haggerty and Thomas Mills. Entertainment'Committee: Dr. Wellington, Harry Hunt, Hugh Cassldy, Ale*. Oollfngc, A. McCarthy and Wtn. Wagner. New members to complete tho limited mem- bership of this organization, ot nuts, admitted at this meeting were: Harry Hunt, Fine Bug; Alex. Coollnge, Savage Bug, and Hugh Cassldy, KUarney Bug. Lillian Sieger on Coast. Lillian Sieger, who has made herself a great favorite out in San Francisco with her staging and cornet work. Is playing a re- turn engagement at I'ortola Louvre Cafe there, and repeating former successes. Lil- lian's services aro so much In demand, how- ever, that she is compelled to cut her atay at tbe Portola short la order to continue her vaudovllle bookings. Miss Sieger Is one of those damseli! with a goodly endowment of looks, ambition, voice, cleverness r.nd personality, who should blos- som out Into one of tbe bcatcxt kind of n big time "single." She's booked for a fly over the Orpneum circuit, boys, so place your bets for tier "to win," and I can guaran- tee she'll cash for you. Still aaesslns; About Farlncllt. It has been a month cow since the Info about some "mysterious contralto" by the title of 1'nrlielll was thoved nut to us to "beef" on—and still "he" or "she" remains in darkness as far as what Is what, or showlug us anything further than that "it's" a sensation. Then why hold us la suspense? Sensa- tions In' vaudeville aro welcome. It Furl- nelU is a sensation, then why all this pro- longed secrecy In giving "her* or "him" to us, and a thousand and one other foolish Goldberg questions In regard to this mys- terious party. Surely this gobfest Isn't going to continue the main topic of Broadway all Hummer. Maybe we'll get the looked-for wonder down at the beach where Doc. Breed and Ham Me- Kee aro again to be seen ns managers of tho Brighton Ilcacfa Music Hall and tho New Brighton- Theatre. Heave "it" at us, Bo. heave "ll" us, and we'll flop for "her" or "nlm" for the sake of the Mexican warriors or anything you say. Alamo Aninnltlon. TJbereia a pippin new ballad singer up at tho Alamo Cafe In Ada Hoffman. And Ada Is one ot the beit looking, biggest bets who have warbled tho sentimental numbers in this "downstairs" place la a heap of mooiii. Sho posseMes a corking soprano voire. Is an attractive, winning looking gIrHe, and—well, she's Just all of what you d want to wish for In a r^pcrtolro of song birds and you'll have to hear for yourself, because Vm a dummy when it comes to explicitly tailing about her Tho old favorites, Jo-Jo and Delancy, are rapping out hits everytlmo up, and on last Saturday night we caught 'em shootin' Keirt's "Who Paid -tho Bent for Mrs. Kip Van Winkle" and F. A, Mills' "Mooobin' Alone." Irving Dash got going right after Mghting up a home talent stogie, and accompanied by tho cleverest of bsnlolsts, Oennaro Cal- darclll and Ixwis Marutta and ono of tho best trap drummers on Cabaret Lane, la Harry Btlrman, why their work with "I'll Do It All Over Again'* set Kddie Delaney and Hattie Visiting Harlowe adancing in style. Al. Ilaymond and ftmlUng Jack (Jlogau dropped In long enough to allow Irv. DaMh a few moment* rest, and plugged "Celebration Day In TenneRscc" and the question about "V\ ho raid Mrx. Hip's Bent" for I^o Feist, to further iwpnlarlty. i Then Ada UoiTiaaa mng "You Tiroko My Heart to Paai Ihe Time Away" as well a* she had sung "My Hero" earlier In the even- big, and alt the folk took the way it was sung so realistically tlmt wo felt Hire scout- ing up n now -throb thing" for Ada. But Ada is the healthiest looking sort of a girl, and we decided her heart was all there and needless of repair. (Rut ah, to whom can she have the hinrt to sing so?) Rut Jo Jo and M. censed our weeping all over the ■sfasaa place by following right Is with "Honey, How I I.oitg for You;" That the ''soaeon cloaeu" sign was hung up was evidenced by the too numerous to mention crowd of theatrical celebrities mak- ing merry here this evening, ami from ap- pearances of doings on the dance floor there were a dosen rival couples pulling dips and lifts to sucelul applause. Al -Meraeyet's. Found new faces la Nletneyer's Restaurant, over on Kast One Hundred and Twenty- fifth Street, last Friday evening. In Billy Iterkes, of tho vaudeville team the Rerkc. running things In the cabaret entertainment for this place, and assisted by Marcclle, billed as "The Belle Baker of Cabaret," and Ethel Van Arden, a deucedly dainty rag singer. Kthsl Van Arden sang "Smother Me with Kisses and Kill Me with Love" and "Tbe High Cost of Loving,' and ofarcelle and Illlty Rerkcs diiettcd^'If I Had Someone, at Homo Like You," etc., and then the clever three put over "They're On Their Way to Mexico," with flags and. march buslnccs enough to have it repeated three or four . tltnes, accompanied by Dick Long's famous tango orchestra, who play everything In equal good harmony. , : Kvcry Wednesday evening Is long wrlten' night here, and at the contest last mid-week were: The happy-go-lucky kldi, Sam Levy aod Jack Stern, representing Wnterson, Berlin k Snyder Co., ami using "They're On Their Way to Mexico" and "He's a Devil In Ills Home Town." llerr Orant, Joe Young and Joo Schwab sang "I Will Always Follow Yon," "I*t Hy- Oones Re lly-llnnes" nnd "At That Reuben Tango Huskln' Hoc," for the Harry Williams Pub. Co. Paul Cunningham anil lien Rornsteln used "A Ileal Moving Plctura from Life" and "Unuds Off," for the Harry Von Tllscr Co., Harry Buby, Dorothy Herman and l-l.ldls Corln tang "They Don t Hesitate Anymore" and "California and You," In behalf of the Knlmar 4 Puck house. Ham Collins warbled "The Bom of tho Mountain Trail" and "I Want to Uo to Mei- lea" for Jerome II. Ilemlck, i Al. White. Sidney Falk and Dave Dreyer were' on hand In the lniL-c«t of Usuries Abrahams Co.. with "Pleniw Do Sly Familj a Favor nnd Love Me," "All Ho Does la Folkw Them Around" -^/ Dave Mcl'MrMen, Bert Claar and a com- Bnny of pluggcra were strong with "By the eautWul Sea for the Hhaptro-flemeteln Co. Dave Weston .and Kd. Hmallcy were op hand for the Broadway Music Co., using 'If I Had Homo Ope at Homo Like You I Wouldn't Want to Oo Out." IMck Moss and Dave Joaeliln mr*r "If I Were tho Ocenn and You Wero tto Shoro'' and "He Was Always Fooling Around," for tho Maurice Richmond Co., and Dick I.o/hj and Hchuyler Greene were In wttili 'Uiy Life Belongs to Uncle Sam, but My Hoar* Belongs to You" and "There's n Lopcsonro Little Olrlle In a Loncsomo Little Town," for the Joe Morris Pub. Co. Kustncfw has picked tu> surprisingly since Billy Rerkcs blew In, and It should continue. for bo'e one of the "best of llttlo fellows,' 1 aud has established himself a solid favorite since settling at Nlemeyer's five weeks ago. OUT OF TOVVTI HEWS Portland, He.—Jefferson (Julius Cahti, mgr.) the Jefferson Htu>:k Co., supporting Ilobert Conness and Justiaa Wayne, prescut. "The Fight" May 18-22. Maude Adams, st "Peter Pan," appears matinee and night, 2:1. Tho satin souvenir photos presented lad/ Lntrons of the stock tali week aro of Ralph Jngley. Kkitii'h (I. M. Moshcr, mgr.)—Rill week of 18: FredrlkOi Slemons and comnony, Joe WhlMicad. Ucre and Dcliney, tho Sterling Four, Lewis and Albertson, Lumzo ana Mack, Williams and Wolfus. Nkw Portland (M. C. Blumenbcrg, mgr.) —Vaudeville and motion pictures, with con- cert orchestra. Bill 18-20: Callonctte, Bur- rett and Dunn, Werden and Oearln, Oscar and Anita, Kelsev Conboy and company. For 21-23: Hunnv IMnklne, 1'ons and Pons, Ward and Roy, Williams and Sterling, Morton Wells and Norworttt, Ghkej.y'8 (James W. Areoly, mgr.)— Vaudeville and motion pictures. Bill 18-20: Howard and Mason, Louis Illemel, and Ana- strong and Odcll. For 21-28: Cotton's Com- edy Donkeys, tieorgo Murphy, and Maley and Mack. Cabco (Carl 'Bcrantou, mgr.)—-Motion pic- tures week of 18 Include; "Broken Vows,". "The Nation's Peril," "Napoleon" and "The Anlmati-d Weekly." • Bio Nic-KKL, (Wm. B. Reeve*, trier.)—-Mo- tion pictures week ot 18 Include: "Tho Rrute, r * "The Wheels of Destiny," "Not Guilty," '«Our Mutual <Mrl" and "The Mutual Weekly." Kiu'int: (D. D. Leader, mgr.)—'Motion pic- ture features week of 18 Include: "Toils of Villainy," "Tho Perils of Pauline 1 ' and "War U Helf." Pavilion (Barron k O'Brien, mgrs.)—This resort closes the season tho current week, nnd tho management opens Its Summer Pavilion, nt Greenwood Garden, - Peak's Island, 23, with tho Arlington Orc/hcstro, song numbers and dancing. Lynn, Mass.—Otympfo (C. H. Coee. mgr.) motion pictures and voudevUle. CBiitxai, HqtMBB (Col. WiUUrd J. Stan- ton, mgr.)—Motion pictures and vaudeville CoHiqnn and Dreamland. — Motion pic- tures nnd Illustrated songs. Notb. —Manager Al. Formery, of the audi. torlirra Stock Co.. of tills city, has been se- lected manager of the New Strand, In New York- Meridian, Miss,—Crand (W. 1". Jones, mgr.) Is dark. Dm <H. Frank Isaacs, mgr.) — Feature films. May 11. Mary Itckford, m 'Teas of the Storm Country." Capacity houses. Princess (Sol M. Hiigerman, mgr.—Gen- eral Film Co.'s service.