The New York Clipper (August 1914)

THE NEW YORK CLIPPER. August l MARRY VOIM TAKES GREAT PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING TO THE PROFESSION THAT HE HAS JUST FINISHED THE GREATEST COLLECTION OF NOVELTY SONGS HE HAS EVER WRITTEN. SONGS TO SUIT EVERYONE. WE WILL LET YOU DO THE PICKING, fHERE IS NOT A BAD ONE AMONG THEM. SA.TJ1E BURT'S BIG HI- BABY LOVE Introduced in The Follies. Was the HITof the show. ALREADY POPULAR IN NEW YOR1 DON'T GO AWAY One of those Melodious Songs that just seems to Get the Audience HEKE IS A GREAT NOVELTY SONG FOR MALE AND FEMALE THEY ALL HAD A FINGER IN THE PIE This Sooe. Looks Like a; Sure-Fire Hit. A Brand New Idea A NEW IDEA IN RAG THEY ALL LIKE THIS ONE JOHNNIE ON THE SPOT Full ot Ginger. Full ot Melody. Can be used as a Great Double The Best Female Song in Years. Also Great Double Version". WE CONSIDER THIS SONG BETTER THAN "SNOOKY OOKUMS" I KNEW HIM WHEN HE WAS ALL RIGHT A„ Great Single. A Wonderiul.Double: A Laugh in Every Line!; WATCH THIS SONG GROW LEAVE ME ALONE Everybody' seems to pick this song for.a suie FIREHIT WHAT A NOVELTY COMIC MARCH SONG WONDERFUL LOVE Lots-of Extra Catch Lines- THAT WOULD BE THIS IS OUR BALLAD HIT FOR. THE SEASON THE SONG THAT STOLE MY HEART You can't keep a good Song doy/n^ and this Ballad just'.""went out ianA made good' by itsel 1 Sl.des BEAUTIFUL HIGH CLASS BALLAD AS LONG AS THE WORLD GOES ROUND Great Clirnax; Published in Seven Keys. Better than "LAST NIGHT WAS THE END OF THE WORLDS- GOING BIGGER THAN EVER A REAL MOVING PICTURE FROM LIFE ..The best descriptive Ballad on; the market HARRY VON TILZER MUSIC PUBLISHING CO., - - - 125 W, 43d St., N. Y. City Chicago Office: Grand Opera House Bldg. AL. BEiLEN, Mgr. Western Office f. NEW THEATRES. M.'Mludcn, of 02G Broadway, Brooklyn. N. V.. will erect u two-story theatre, roslaurunt and office building in Brooklyn, N. V. A, l'nul Ki-IlU iuhI H. I''. Albeo. l'uiuce Theatre Building, New York, will erect lu the Kail a theatre mid otllco building In Syracuse, N. Y. Albert 11 Wciiover, Hid Chcsluut Street, Ptilla- iliirhln. la the architect. Alexander It. Boyd, St. James' Hotel, Philadel- phia, !'«.. will build a. $50,001) theatre In Hint city. Ileuou & Boyle, ot Philadelphia, nro Ibe srcMtecbJ. Dr. K. 0. Elbert, ot Wilmington, Del., will erect an M. 1'. theutro in tunt oily to cost ».<HH). Thomas Lamb, Hie architect, of 044 K.lKiitli Aveuue, will soon prepare plana for a theatre lo lie built la Baltimore, Md. The house will coat I1B0.0OO Cluster M. P. Co., QUO W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md., will erect a one story theiilre In that city, to coat $1,000. Oliver II. Wight, 100S Muusey Dl.lt;., Baltimore, Md., la Uic archi- tect. 'llio Southern Maryland Agricultural Fair Awo- clarion, 102 K. ],cxliigioii Street, Baltimore, arc about to build several one atory fair buildings In Baltimore. Md. Thomas Moore, 423 Nlntb Street N. W., Wash- ington, D. C, contemplates the erect Ion of a four story theatre, lo coat 150,000, In that city. A. P. dark, 810 Fourteenth Street N. VI., of that city, la the architect. Louis Fuelling, Woodburn, Inil., ta to luilld a theatre lu Hint town. Johnson A Miller, of lirnill, liiii,, are (lie architects. Eacnnnba, Midi., Is to have n now theatre. John Oleary. of '.hat town, will build It. The architect la Jehu 1). Chubb. MH) X. Dearborn Street. Olilcago, 111. A 175,000 M. P. house will Iw constructed In Milwaukee, Wis., by Uie Vatidotlc Theatre Oo., 183 Tlilnl Street, that city. II. O. 1 otter, BOS W. Water Street, tlmt city, will draw lbs plana. L. M, * Roy Crawford will remodel the Majes- tic Theatre. Tcpckn, Knii. 1' C. Squires, 028 Kansas Avenue, Unit city, Ig tilts architect. MOROSCO PLAY CONTEST. Oliver Moroaco announced, July 23, the winner In the play contest which be Inaugurated early taat Mcaaou. The prise effert la a modern comedy, outitlod "Lady Eileen." by "Geralillue Bonner and Ilulcheaon Boyd, of 101 Scvcnty-flftb Street. New York Olty. The committee of award consisted of Elmer Harris, Klohard Barry and Oliver Moroaco. The obolce was unanimous. The verdict of uie judges it moat nattering lo the now piece, which they Lrronounce the avmausat play written since "Peg o' Sly Heart.'! lta chief recommendations are Hue construction, a froah view point, an unusual ap- peal in lta bland of heart Interest and team, aud an abundance of natural comedy. Tiio successful authors will receive a bonus of $1,000 as tho original prlae award, and In addition will be paid an advance of $1,000 on the foreign rlghta of tho play, and $500 In advance royalties to guarantee Its early presentation upon the stage. Under the terms of the contest Mr. Morosco Is to produce the plsy In Los Angeles within six weeks f ran the time of making the award. This will be followed by • production In New York Olty not later than Oct. IB. Mr. Mo.vhko Is expected to Teach Now York to-morrow or the next day, at which time he will select a theatre for the metro- politan presentation of the prise play. The committee read over three thousand manu- scripts which had been submitted lu the contest, and the rerrltlc amount of work this entailed caused the decision to be delayed Iwo months later than the tune aet for making the award at the lime the contest oioecl »s » — KLOKLIC MEN OUT FT. MADISON HOUSE. O. II. Dodge mid J. K. Baker, of Keokuk, were In Ft. Madison, la., lrst week as authority for the announcement that tbe Dodge Theatre (Xnu- imiiy, of Keokuk, had taken over tbe niannitcmeut if the Grand Opera House, of Ft. Madison, from the former holder, M. 3. Acklea. Tlie ileal Is an Important one, at It secured the entire circuit bill for O.-ilesbure aud Keokuk. Those two cities are uow operating together, and with Ft. Madison and probably another city or two added to It, will make the conditions such that every play of Importance will be presented Uiere. The Messrs. Dodge and Baker are connected with the theatre company. They alate that local tookiiuta will be announced at an early dale and will be composed chiefly of Klnw A Erin tiger and Sbubert productions. The Dodge company operated In the Crown The- alre, now the Orpheum, la Ft. Madison, for some lltne, with Chaa. Fry as resident manager. •»-•-*• Paul Tidnbki, who wrote the roerry niualo for "Tho Wlrard ot Oa." and other works, snd then went lo Berlin to live, arrived la New York hut week for a urlcf stay. J. J. Riiubut arrived from London July 27. bringing with him many Important contracts aud playa for tbe coining season. A NEW TRIO. Win. II. Hallctt, lata ot Al. O. Field's and other prominent minstrel organisations; 'Walter Sherwood, also long with the Field troupe, and George Scbllchter, who has done considerable high class oratorio work, have Joined hands in a sing- ing act which will be known as the Brandrwlne Trio. They open at tlio Savoy Theatre, Atlantic City, week of Aug. 3, and a successful season seems ussured these top notch vocalists. WM. F. PUSH-SON, Frnuklyn-Plcnon Comedy Co. NOTICE HALF TONB PICTl RES In the read- Ins; pages of THE CLIPPER will be Inserted at these prlceai Front Paire Cnt MS.00 Doable Colanan f 1O.O0 Single Column f 5.O0 BUCKSKIN DEAD. On Monday noon, July 20, "Buckskin," Go- Won-Go Mohawk's beautiful Indian pony, died In his stable at Miss Mohawk's home la VrUkbVs Park, Bdgcwater, on the Hudson, N. J. He was one ot the most Intelligent horses ever on tbe stage, and had toured Great Britain for ten yean with Miss Mohawk's theatrical company, and had traveled all over the United States, and had been four times across tiio Atlantic. Miss Mo- hawk was tbe drat woman to ride astride in Cen- tral Park ra In Hyde Park, In London, Eng.. and it was on "Buckskin." During the last hours of his life Miss Mohawk sat on the floor ot his stall with his heud In her lap, iuhI evcrytlme she started to leave him lie would neigh and whlunle for her to stay. She loved him as a child, aud be loved l.tr and understood every word she saJd to him. They were companions tor over twenty years. Ho was burled Tuewlay morning beside her other two horses, "Wongy" and "Daisy," near to her home on the estate of John YYatkins, who bos kindly allowed Miss Mobawk the place to bury them side by side. This Is tbe last of her three beautiful, Intel.Igent, Utile four-legged friends that she loved so much snd that loved her fondly. The Kennedy Bros., the noted blacksmiths of Edge- water, have offered her the use of n beautiful sorrel pony to take her to and from tbe ferry ns Bhe Duds dllllculty In walking at present. Go- y on-Go thanks her friends and neighbor* for their kindness, ri.il Ouy Hackney and Frits Kohler for their untiling attention to "Buckskin" during bis Illness ever sleeping la the next stall to him to attend to his wants. "Buck" died of para- lyels of the spine. «» » BOOST FOR LAMONT'S COWBOYS. From Vorl-aairc Evening Neat, June 27. The manascment of the Victoria Palace are al- ways on the look-out for new musical taleut, and usually tbey are very successful In this dlrectlou. This week tbat Is particularly the case, for the program, In addition to containing a new revue, Includes Bert Lament's Cowboy Minstrels, who ore seen for tbe flret tune In London. The latter have Just arrived from America, snd If one csn Judge from the enthusiastic reception accorded them last evening. It shouldn't be many months before they return. In their opening chorus. 'Way Down West," some beautiful harmony Is besrd, and «U the songs are admirably rendered. At the end of their performance the minstrels were compelled to bow their acknowledgements no fewer than six times, and then gave a short en- core. The management are to be congratulated on being the first bo secure this Interesting snd ■marinai aot. i g 4 » » Sahqk* sWoidak. on behalf of the Interna- tional Copyright Bureau, Ltd., of London, have leased to AL H. 'Woods al! American and Cana- dian rights to Arpad Pastsor's original plsy called "Innocent," which George Broadhnrst has adapted for Immediate production here in New York City. WORCESTER NOTES. S. Z. Poll's Worcester (Mass.) Theatre Is mak- ing strenuous efforts to attract the Summer parrcnajsa ond is aucceeilliitf. too. Two weeks ago the raatmseineiit held u "Circus Fete" will'. six all-circus acts on the Nil and 'he lobby trans- formed Into a marquee helped In the Illusion. The ushers were dressed as clowns, and In tbe Inner lobby animal cages were constructed, where- in parts of a circus twenty-four rheet stand bad been mounted on cardboard. The affair "got over big" with the press and Uic public. Lust wcck a dancing carnival for the cbampl insblp of Wor- cester is belsg; held, with Mr. sud Mn. Itoivley Downes giving exhibition dances as tbe feature. Silver cups will be given to tbe winners. The week of July 27, an nil-Worcester minstrel act will be slated. Professionals laying off and Summering la Worcester will participate. Frank Whltbeck Is tbe local malinger. Mae Harrington, last season with tbe musical stock at Winnipeg. 1b visiting her sister. Laurelle Harrington (Mra. Frank Whltbeck), at Worcester, Mass. Miss ilarrlngton goes to tbe Coast over the Orpheiim time the coming season, with a new set. Worcester theatres are all doing well this Sum- mer, with Poll's Kim Street house getting the Isrgest share of the business. Six acta of vaude- ville and six reels of pictures, twice s day. is the policy. Tbe bouse la booked by the James Olancy Office. #-»-«* SUSS TAN.VEIIILL FOR "A PAIR O* SIXES." H. H. Frarce announced hist week tbat he had placed Myrtle TanneblU under contract for ibe principal feminine role, in "A Pair of Sixes. Mie will make ber first appearance in the part ot Florence OoU. ,n Mr. Pepie'a force, in the Ixing- scre Tlieatre, New York, <u Monday evening. An* 3, which will also be her drst appearance here since retunilii-r fiom I-on don. Miss TanneblU. who Ig one of the best known of the younger leading women, lias not been seen here since she created the ;irinilral feulnlne role with Ooorae M. Cohan, m 'Broadway Jones" and in "Get- Klch-Qulck Walllngford." She also was Frank Mclulyre's leading woman In "Snobs." In the cast of "A Pair of Sixes," Mi's Tan- neblU will aucu.il Ann M unlock, who bas been released from lier contract with Mr. Frasec. to accept an engaimment under the management of Charles Froaman. a ■» McNALLY-DE WOLF. Stephen McNally, of the MeNally Acrobatic Troupe, ami Lanier De Wolf, an actress, wcro married In New York 'one Sunday afternoon" re- cently. ♦ »» Oroblks Hopkins has secured from Sanger k Jordan the Amerlcsn and Canadian rights to "The Marriage of (JolumMne." P«tx Risusn, Ibe composer, arrived In New York July 23. Ills light opera, "Spring Girls," will be prodsced in America by Andreas Dlppei,