New York Clipper (Oct 1915)

October 2 THE N;EW YORK CLIPPER AI/BEHT & OBTCBBU. are dolnr extra bosl- nesB at the Princess, Des Moines, 'With the atock company with Chas. Gunn and Vaj B«Inter. jIt PACKARD, of the. Empire Stock Co.. FaterEon. iccentlr made hla patrons; a unlqae proposltloD. 'A117 time they're.-nof satisfied with the show they can go to ~ die box office and get tbelr money back—and not only that, but Mr. I>ackard offers to give them |1.S0 additional. >'o Joke aUtut It. Simply /In4 Mr. Packard. THE MAN FKOM HOMIB saw the New Minister spcndlog Brewster's Millions on Qnlncy. A<tams Sawyer Three Weeks ago at Shore Ac^es. - Believe Mc. Xontlppe. It whs Bis Last Dollar. . ALL denominations recently saw "The Sign of the Cross" at the old Walnut' Street Theatre, .tn Philadelphia. . "MOTHER" Is looking for you at the Hudson Theatre, Union Hill, N. J., this week. . AT tHK Wigwam, San Francisco, they have "Confessions of a Wire"—some of- them. ' MIND YOUa OWN BUSINESS I" • Pardon' us, 'we didn't mean you;' Simply referring to the at- traction at the Colonial, in Plttsfield, Mass., last week. , . "THE GREAT DIVIDE'* has nothing to do whatever with the proposed loan of 1500,000,000 to the Allies. It's tlila week's attraction at 'the Prospect Theatre, - in Cleveland.- BRUCE BINaLdO and HELSNB DEIL MAR, who have been playing.the leads with the Walter Savldge Players since the company's opening In May. report splendid business in . the Mld-'West. TiJO company -will terminate Its season Oct. 23. .'VIOLEXr BARKET. one of our beet known lea4k- . Ing stock women. Is playing the lead In A. H. 'Woods' "Potash & Perlmntter" Company- this sea- son, and Is receiving mistlnted praise from the press. EDDIE A. MoHUOH JH. has been oigaged by Wllmer Sc Vincent as stage manager of their Utica, N. Y., stock company. Mr. McUugh was last with the Felbcr & Shea Stock Company, in Akron, O. JA.NB ACBREnr and LOUIS BOLLINGER are heading the Oliver Flayers Is Kalamazoo, Midi., and have already won scores of followers. -. KIIANK G. BAND and wife have' signed with the Mack-Mae Stock Co. for this aeason.'and ex- pect a very pleasant and profitable engagement. They have worked for A. E. McNutt,- the manager of same company, and his wife before 'and are therefore vpltn old friends. The sbicw' has been dclDg fine business through Oklslioma end :1b on Its way North, through Kansas and Missouri, for the Winter. HELEN K. MAT was called to Vinton, -Ia.,^re- ccntly by the death of a couala. Miss May. had just returned from a trip to Alaska with the Ma- jestic Stock Co., of Moose Jaw, Can., of whldi company she has been a member since last Novem- ber. The company closed at Seattle,. Wash.,, on their return from Alaska, and Miss May was. on her way to Chicago, and on reaching St. Lou's W.13 summoned to Vinton, as stated above. "WIFE SHOULD HAVE} INDEPENDiBNT IN- COME" is a heading In The Playgoer, a neat little booklet telling of the doings of Poll's company in Hartford. W'e 'wish to concur with the editor. Wife «AouId have an.Independent Income. It would ' save us a lot of worry. \ JOHN M£IEHAN. the leading nan of the Loner- . gan Players Lynn, Mass., Is said-to be'a golfer - of repute Fond of tee, as It were. ALFRED CROSS, leading man of the Temple Stock Co^Hamllton, Can., gave a manly. Imperson- ation of Thaddeus Strong, In "The- New iMInlster," last week. It was difficult to realize that:he was an actor, not a divine. "THE TENDERFOOT" brought thrills and laagbter to the patrons of the Orpheum Theatre, McKeesport Pa., laat week. The Beadlck' Flayers caused the thrills, ditto the laagbter. . DID you know that - Joseph Sweeney,: of the . Addltorlum All-Star .Players,: Baltimore, was a cotton merchant? He via* last week, while playing Emlle Plock, in "The LUy." EVA LONG Joined.the Denham.Players at,the Denham Theatre, Denver,' Sept. 20, in "Dlvo'rcons." TU£> Uaryland SuditoHum AVtos,-an-Interesting little booklet, keeps Baltimore theatregtierB In full touch with what is, and''What Is going to happen at those popular houses. MAYBELLE DAVIS, the ingenue of the Aodl- torlum All-Star Players, Baltimore, - says she would love to be commanding and dignified. Miss Davis can command ns any old time she feda like It. MONBYI MONEY I MONSTI Theresa lots ot It In the bonk. But for "Beady Money" make ap- plication to Auditorium All-Star Players, Balti- more. This week only. BDWARD MACKAY, of the AndltoTlum All-SUr Players, Baltimore, used to be a song and dance boy witb Harrlgan and Hart, this city. Unless Mr. Mackay is color blind, he must have seen Billy Gray and Charley White. TERESA 'DALB, of the Auditorium Players. Baltimore, began her stage carieer at the age of seventeen, It Is said. Miss Dale, to Judge by ap- pearances, must be a« comparative newcomer m Thespian ranks. KENNETH BRADSHAW pUyed the black face part of the porter in "Excuse iMe" most creditably, last week, with the Balnbridge Players, Minne- apolis. ALBERT ROSCOE makes his re-appearance as leading man with the Sbubert Stock - Co. In Mll- ironkee, Sept. 27. Mr. Mlntum retams to Evans- tnn as leading man of the stock company recently acquired there by Hr. Nlggemayer. ' SHAKESPEARE an actor T Why, certainly, and a-good one.- He played Harold Wedgewooa, In "EicQse Me," with the Balnbridge Players re- cently In Minneapolis. ' Will Shakespeare? Cer- tainly, not. Eugene Shakespeare.' ' THE stock star system, which In the pabny days of the drama engaged such luminaries as Foricst, Booth. Davenport, Lawrence Barrett and ecore'a of others equally famous. I.s now In vonie . at the historic old Walnut, In Philadelphia.. ThU week the Walnut .Theatre Players are-snpportlng Edith Taliaferro In "Bebecca ot SonsybrooK Fann.".'. BOOST YOURSELF! With the audience by singing the songs they've been read- ing about—"Feist Songs!" ^ 66 million tffta have read about them In the ''Batarday Evenlax Poet," " I tftdi e e* Home JooniaI,' 22 ITational Sunday Uagaslnes and innumerable ITewspapera, and there are 66 million ears -who 'want to hear them I FOR a nnmber of seasons the Auditorium Stock Co., at Kansas City, Mo., has been very popular, and not a little of this popularity is due the boys In the box office. Taylor L. Bowen, the treasarer, has been, there for a nnmber of years, and has been with the Willis Wood Theatre, that city, and several others. The Auditorium has one of the largest (season) ticket subscriptions ever known in Kansas CU.v, and Mr. Bowen knows every sub- . ecriber (Just as the grocer knows his customers), and Is as much a favorite as any member of the company. Arthur I. Franklin, of San Francisco, is the assistant treasurer, and also deserves credit. MAUD BLAIK, the versatile and talented sec- ond woman of the Walnut Players, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, has become very popular since the opening of the company, and the flood . of letters received by her commenting favorably on her work as Berenis In "The Sign of the Cross^' tan quite reconciled Miss Blair to the heavy Borman type of roles. ISADORE MARTIN, of the Grand Opera House Flayers. Brooklyn, was born In Salem, Mass. This accounts for her witching beauty. BERNARD STEELE, of the Walnut Street Thea- tre, is one of the few directors in stock -who figure two weeks ahead on his shows. Mr. Steele always has from two to three scripts In his mind, and . the result speaks for Itself. Up to date he has produced three big 'winners In as many weeks: Robert Edeson, In "Fine Feathers;" Emma Dunn, In "The Governor's Lady," and Richard Buhler, in "The Sign of the Cross," the latter having Just finished Its second successful week. Mr. Steele's production for < week of Sept 27 Is Edith Talla- Icrro, in "Bebecca of Snnnybrook Farm." LJk. ROY STOCK CO. NOTES. We closed our Summer aeabon under canvas to one of the most. sarcesaful seasons the La Roy Stock Co. has ever known, and we opened up our regular season Sept. 27. Tliomas Duncan, new member of the company, .made a Jump from Hot Springs, Ark., to' Fostorla. O.. to do the lends opposite Marie Hayes, and at once made a decided hit. Roster ot the company Is as follows: Thomas Duncan, leads; H. Cooper, characters: Vlv Ross, Juveniles; Willis Holmes, heavies; Ralph Wilson, general business^ Paul Lynn. Bob Eggerston and Harry La Roy, Edna Holmes, general busineifG: Elolse Adams, heavies and character<<: Florence Reed, pianist, and Marie Hayes, the little favorite, leads. The company will play one and two week stands throuKh Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. Mr. La Roy will fenture ola dog. pony and monkey act with the company this season. Arthur Crawford Is again with us this season. We hope to have a good season, and be visited by The Clippeb every week. nut, with the Walnut Players, with Richard Buhler as visiting star. WATCH th^t little Ingenue at the Hudson The- atre. Union Hill. .N. J. Her name Is Mildred Florence, and she Is certainly making them Uke her on the HIU. THEY persist In spelllnghls name O-L-I-V-E-U 'over In Phlliy. at the old Walnut. Hal'Oliver In- sists that the correct way is to leave the out, ' and surely Hal ought to know. THE BAKER PLAYERS are giving "The For- ■ tune Hunter" at the Baker Theatre, Portland, Ore., ' th is w eek. THE WAD3WORTH THEVATRE CO. has been incorporated by Edward Ornstein, Sam Futoranaky ' and Jacob Roth. EDWARD EVERETT HOBTON Is playing Christopher Dallas with the Crescent Players, Brooklyn, this week. THE underline for tho Grand Opera House Flayers next week is "The Phantom Rival." REAL HORSES In "His Last Dollar," at the . Gotham, Brooklyn, this week. LYNN (Mass.) patrons are expressing much .'satisfaction for the productions which Manager William De Wolfe Is offering by the Lynn Flayers, . at the Lynn. (MISS) "BILLY" LONG, although only four weeks la Hartford stock circles,. Is smiling to a . nice little applause twice dally, at her Inlual en- trances. KEEPING UP 'WITH KIUIT. L. B. ICliby, who Is In charge of the destinies of the Hudson Players, Union Hill, N. J., was until qnlte recently engaged In tbat capacity with the Keith Stock Co. In Portland. Me- lt is no easy matter to build a new organiza- tion from the' ground np, such as Mr. Kllbv has done; barring only. the services of Frederick Webber, of last season's company. That he has succeeded, and admlrobly succeede<l. Is shown by the business that the Hudson Is get- ting, and has been getting, from the start. Not even the unbearable hot ncd sultry weather of the past few weeks had much bearing on the attend- ance- Mr. Kllb.T has made an auspicious start. LEAHY 'WILL NOT CL^MB^ COMPAXV. The statement In a. theatrical paper last week that W. H. Leahy was to close his star stuck com- pany at the Walnut Street Theatre, In l^illadel- phla, last Saturday night, has been branded as absolutely false and utterly without foundation, by Mr. Leahy himself. As the proof of the Tuddlng is In the eating, Mr. Leahy's denial of the story Is backed bv the conclnsive fact that his company Is still running, for this week he has Edith Taliaferro (herself) and Earl Browne In a big production of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." Mr. Leahy stated em- Ehatically that he had no intention of cloarng, for is company has a five year lease of the Walnut Street Theatre, with a small fortune paid to tbe owners as a guarantee that the lease will be' car- ried ouC Contracts have already been signed with some of the biggest stars on the American stage to.appear In Philadelphia at his theatre, and from the pres- ent outlook a most successful season Is in sight. The stars who liave already appeared In atock there with, success, despite the hot weather, are Robert Edeson, Etema Dunn and Richard Buhler. EJcson did t big business and Is planning on a return engagement later In the season, "rlie hot wave hit Dnnn and Buhler, and the drop in busi- ness probably caused the rumor about closing, bnt from Leahy's present llne-up such an event need not be looked for for a long time to come. PRIBTCESS PLAYERS' NOTES. We closed our Summer 'season of twenty snS cessful weeks Sept. 8 at Advance. Md. Although the weather has been very bad, the season was a successful one- Manager Sydney Elchman 'Will open bis Winter season Oct. 14. Every play will be staged with special Bcenerv, and all productions will be roy- alty plays. The scenic artist at the Lycenm. 'In- dianapolis. Is working night and day to get scenery ready. The show will play Indiana and Illinois. On our arrival In Indianapolis we were enter- tained by Fred Schafer and wife, two old memben of the company. "A RIOT ACT FOR A DOLLAR' Funniest Act in Vandevllle, Charlie Cbsplln Monologue. I Eight minutes of ContlnnoDS Sure Fire COMED'r. I : OtTARANTEBTHIS ACT TOCLF.AN UP ON ANY BILL. - If it dont I'll RETURN YODR DOLLAR. CHAS. LANDON CARTER. CsbOOl, Mlsionrl, I WANTED. EXPEBIENCEO PIANIST & VIOLINIST I For Dance Orchestra. Stst^ all In flmt letter. > I KIVtiAHAN ORCHESTRA, Caba. Wis. For GEO. C. ItVKH ARO 8BIITH BB08.' HODBRRIZED filllVBTBEli REVIEW, Sister Team or Trl.—Dnncers or Singers. No costumes to pay for, no cork. 40 weeks or more. Dont fool. Use common B«nj>e fsalaiT. Send photo (retnrned). Mnat have UdleR, gentlemen and real performers. MO AHATEtTBS. State everything quick, tteferences required and given. Mnslcal artists (male) write. V GEO. C. NCNN, Box 2«, Brocton, N. Y. I carry Best Band and Orcheatis on the Road. A Beantlfnlly Costnmed and Scenic ProdDctlon. AT LIBERTY FOR STOCK OR ONE PIECE JUVENILE LEADS OR BENL. BUS. Height, t fL 11 in.; weight, leo; age, at. Wardrobe, ezpeiUnee and ability. Addicts TAMAROA, ILU