The Billboard 1902-09-13: Vol 14 Iss 37 (1902-09-13)

THE BILLBOARD / yy Why LILATA 44 a adyep, ORCUS WIAD WEST 3 TWN NUSEUM MENAGERIE IN THE CYCLONE’S VORTEX. Bonheur Bros.’ Show in the Terrible Whirl. At Dexter, Kan., on Saturday night, Aug. 30, while the Bonheur Brothers’ Show was in full blast, a cyclone dipped down from the darkened sky, lifted the tent high above the heads of the audience, tearing the ropes from the stakes and breaking many of them off like pipe stems. The large audience in attendance became panic stricken and some people were knocked down and trampled upon. That no one was_ seriously injured was miraculous. The Bonheur Brothers sustained less than $300 damages to their property, and everything was repaired and ready for the next stand at Cedarvale, Sept. 1. A partial roster of the show is here given, and all of these members’ were slightly injured in the calamity: Eddie brennan, Baxter Johnson, Frank Yates, Albert Baugh, Samuel Huff, Mike Fay, John Wyatt, Will Showalter, Lawrence Sullivan, Harley Way, Maude Brennan, Liddi Dorance, Margarette Dayton, Clara Niblo, Gilbert Murray and Clarence Laflower. MABEL HALL RECOVERING. Miss Mabel Hall, daughter of Geo. W. Hall, the circus proprietor, is rapidly recovering from injuries received in the circus arena, although it may be some time before she wil! be able to rejoin the show. Miss Hall is a superb equestrienne, and her injury is the result of being struck in the stomach by a horse’s head. She is at Hartford, Ind., where she will remain until fully recovered. GOLLMAR BROS. CLOSE. The Gollmar Bros. and Shuman closed their season Aug. 30, at Anamosa, la. The show enjoyed a fairly good business, and made some money, but the weather encountered was something fierce. All the country seemed a sea of mud, and rain and wind were incessant. Finally, disgusted and worn out by the floods and storms, the Messrs. Gollmars decided to terminate the season early, return to Baraboo and get an early start on the work of converting the show in a railroad show. This is a big job, and involves much labor, and especially time, so their determination to close early will doubtless prove a wise move. Shows A SOCIAL DANCE. While the Walter L. Main Circus was playing at Cape May, N. J., Aug. 29, a social dance was given by Mrs. Maggie Gable to all the performers, after the night show. The platform of the depot was decorated with lanters, and Colonel H. Harrison's cining car stood near by for refreshments. The nusic was furnished by Johnny Nalon, the trick violinist. Bernice Bernard acted as floor manager, and Billy Hart as promoter, while Rose Munroe kept the crowd in good humor. The grand march was led by Eugene Foster and Mrs. Mary Abram. This was followed by cake walking, square dancing and walzing. The cake walking contest was conducted by the ‘‘Governor”’ himself, and the prize was won by Fred. Judd and Bernice Bernard. A jolly time Was enjoyed by everybody, as the dancing was kept up until after midnight. CIRCUS GOSSIP. W. H. Gardner is in New York. Business with Sells-Downs continues very vig. The Wallace Shows will close their season at Springfield, O., Sept. 30. All of the circuses are now either South or headed in that direction. Clay Lambert will be ahead of the Barnum & Bailey Shows next season. The Buffalo and Wild West show closed at Marshalitown, Lowa, September 5, *. C. Archer attended the meeting of the Southern Passenger Agents, at Atlanta, Sept. 2. Hl. A. Morrison, late of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, is now in advance of “A Mother’s Heart’? Company. Wm. Davis has the privilege car with the Buckskin Bill Wild West Show. John W. Revnolds is the manager. The Main Shows have opposition with the Forepaugh & Sells Brothers at Lexington, Ky., and Chattanooga, Tenn. Kill Boyd has been engaged as general agent of the Forepaugh-Sells Bros,” Shows, so a well-defined rumor has it. BE. C. Knupp spent a few hours in Cincinnati last week, in company with C. C. Wilson and Geo. Chennelle, of Columbus, 0. A lion cage broke down in the Robinson Show's parade at Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 1, and caused a panic among the spectators. Mr. B. E. Wallace announces the re-en gagement for next season of W. Emory Franklin, J. Patrick Fagan and R. Miche!) Harvey. The Cincinnati colony will have its first opportunity of witnessing the Main Shows in several years Sept. 18, when they make Newport, Ky. Jack Boering, in charge of the No. 1 Car of the Main Shows, and his jolly crew, spent Sunday in Cincinnati, Sept. 7. They bitled Newport, Ky., Sept. 8. John G. Robinson writes that business Js the biggest in the history of the show at this time of the year, and that everybody is well and ready for the South. A man giving the name of Decker was arrested at Connersville, Ind., Aug. 27, on | suspicion of having robbed Mrs. Philip Ells worth, of the Great Wallace Shows. Fk. ¢. Archer, excusion agent of the Forepaugh & Sells Brothers’ Shows, moves on to Atlanta this week, and will make his headquarters there until the end of the season. Ilarry W. Semon, general agent of the Buckskin Bill Show, bought four buffalos and ten head of stock from the Great Buffalo and Wild West Show, at Marshalltown, la., Sept. 5. On Sept. 4 and 5 the people of the Main and Robinson Shows exchanged visits, the former being at New Bloomfield and Huntingdon, Pa., and the latter at Hanover and Gettysburg, Pa., only twelve miles apart. Rumor has it that a new show will take the road manage next season, under the ment of Fagan, Peckham & Meagher. The combination would be a strong one. ‘The rumor, however, has not yet been contirmed. S. W. Ray is now manager of Brigade No. 2, Howes’ London Shows, with the following assistants: Ed. Mathews, banners; Wm. Coor, programmer; George Henry, Ed. Wilson, Wm. Dohaney and Pete Strong, bill posters. Col. Wm. Murphy and crew, of the Walter L. Main advance car No. 1, are taking in the sights of the Bluegrass, but will hardly neglect to let the natives know of the big show, to be at Lexington, Ky., Sept. 27. Christopher, the necromantique enter tainer, having closed his summer season of parks week of Aug. 31, at Lake Erie Park Casino, Toledo, O., joined the Hall & Long Shows as a special feature, it making his second season with this show. The Harris Nickel Plate Shows will winter in Atlanta, Ga., at the Exposition Park. Arrangements have been made with the management of the grounds. The circus will quarter its stock and animals in the horse show building, while the working men who are to remain during the winter will live in the cireus cars. Charles Stow, a representative of the Buffalo Bill Show, was in Cincinnati ast week on a visit. Before Mr. Stow entered the services of the Wild West Show he was with Barnum’'s Shows as press agent, which ylace he held for twenty years. Mr. Stow fs the author of Jumbo’s biography, that enthralled the imagination of the children ef a decade ago. During the concluding performance of Gentry’s Show at Jeffersonville, Ind., Aug. 27, one of the attaches was badly hurt. The performance ends with a fire scene, in which monkeys are the principal actors in manning diminutive apparatus. The hose reel is driven by a young man, and when it came into the tent on a dead run that night, the front and hind part separated, throwing the driver against a stake, and he was injured internally. Roster Advertising Car No. 1, Howe's London Shows: W. 8. Dunnington, manager and press agent; Harry Hoyoboom, boss bill poster; T. F. Dawson, assistant boss bill poster: E. N. Clarke, lithographer; cliff Guy, lithograph boards; Wm .Gee, programmer; A. Carnegie, Louis Henry, David Nyhan, Wm. Ross, Ike Kelton, Sam MeFarland, Al. Newton, Arthur Redbank and Chas. Vaughn, bill posters; Homer Hogoboom, paste maker. Punch Wheeler writes as follows: “It is said by experts that I am the best press agent ever in Angola, Ind. I will send you the weekly paper of Ebensburg, Pa., containing a full account of how I liked the tall buildings in that city. If I keep on improving in the circus business, next sea son I will be able to drive six horses. Yesterday I was fifty years old, and went through myself and found 49 cents, and wrote my wife it looked like a man should be able to save at least 1 cent a year.” Mrs. Phil. Ellsworth, of the Great Wallace Show, was robbed of a valise containing $300 in cash, a pair of diamond earrings, and a diamond brooch, valued at S600, and $1,600 in express money orders. The theft oceurred at Connersville, Ind., Aug. 27. Mrs. Ellsworth had retired to the ladies’ dressing room to wash her face and hands. She set the grip down for a moment. Instantly a hand was reached under the sidewall and grabbed it. Mr. Ells worth screamed and gave chase, but the thief secured a good start before she could raise the side wall, and being a good sprinter made good his escape. Notes from Reno’s Allied Shows: We have just finished our Wisconsin trip and entered Illinois once more. Wisconsin gave us our banner business. It was a case of pack them in every stand; not a losing exception. And although the drives are long and hilly, business makes up for the tiresome trip after we arrived at our destination. We have encountered but little opposition, and they certainly did us no harm. We have five more weeks to “astonish the natives," and Manager Reno is very well satisfied with the season. Our performers and band remain the same, with the addition of Lewis. contortionist, late of the Buffalo Wild West Shows. TWO WOMEN WHOSE COMBINED WEIGHT IS 1,173 POUNDS. Near Pharos P. O., Wayne County, W. Va., were born and reared two sisters, whose combined weight now tips the scales at 1,173 pounds. They are the daughters of Joseph and Mary Davis, who are only of the average weight, and where the sisters got their enormous advoirdupois is a mystery. Nannie, aged 21, is the largest of | the two sisters and weighs 673 pounds; her height is 5 feet 4 inches, waist measure ment, 7 feet: Her sister, Girdia May Davis, is 14, weight, DOO pounds: height 5 feet; waist measure ment, 6 feet 3 inches; arm measurement, 26 inches. The sisters were never sick a day in their lives. LITERAL FLYING MACHINE. Cc. M. Mallory, of Norwood, a suburb of Cincinnati, O., who recently made an unsuccessful attempt to launch a flying machine—the third he had built in the last few years—has begun work on another machine that is expected to be a great improvement over its predecessors. The inventor, having watch the flight the mud larks, quail and turkey buzzard, has come to the conclusion that the problem of aerial navigation will be quickest solved by a machine propelled by wings. If the mud lark can arise from ground by a sweeping motion of its wings, the quail skim along with such rapid beat ing of the air as to be almost imperceptible and and turkey buzzard soar high in heaven with scarcely a motion of its outstretched pinions, Mallory believes that a machine with wings can be made to do the same. He scouts at the idea of using balloon or gus floats, as they, owing to their volume, can not be propelled against air currents. THE FLORODORA SEXTET. A full thousand girls there are in the country to-day who claim to have been members of the original ‘‘Florodora”’ sextet. Press dispatches nearly every day contain stories of one kind or the other in which some young actress is the center, and in almost every case the principal was “one of the original sextet.’ With the knowledge that Fisher & Reilly have employed fewer than twenty girls in the sextet in the No. 1 company since its organization, it seems a bit odd that all of these girls could have had their sextet experience. In a runaway here, a diamond ring theft there or some girlish prank in another place the maidens claiming ‘Florodora”’ affiliations have been busy all through the summer, and would lead the general reader to believe that changes must have been made in the personnal of the sextet with remarkable rapidity. But the fact is that there are in the company now three girls who have been in the cast since the first production in New York, and the other three have had months of experience coming into the combination arly last year. A NEW STAR. Miss Perey Haswell, who spent the whole of last season at Chase’s Theater, in Balti more, Md., as the leading lady in the stock company under her own name, will begin her career as a full-fledged star at the Columbia ‘Theater, Washington, D. C. Mr. Henry B. Harris wiil manage her tour. She will be surrounded by a company of capable and talented players, including Poyd Putnam, Master Walter Robinson, Harry Burkhardt, Nicholas Walker, James T. MeDonald, Rh. C. Turner, Frank Roberts, Walter Crosby, Charles Halton, Edward M. Dresser, Miss Nancy Paget, Miss Maude Granger and Miss Jeannette Northern. DENVER, COL. The attendance at the various theaters has been good. The season promises to be a successful one. Broadway Theater, (Peter MeCourt, Mgr.)—‘*Corianton,” with Joseph Haworth in the title role, is holding the boards at this theater. The scenery and equipment are all new, and the piece is given a very good scenic production. Korihor, the antiChrist, is well acted by James H. Lewis. Walter St. Clair appears to advantage as Bostal Agnes Rose Lane is seen in the role of Isabel. Miss Magram makes a sweet and lovable Relia. Current attraction: “The Strollers.” Tabor Grand, (Peter MeCourt, Mgr.)—At this playhouse, “The Penitent’” is being presented. Frederick Lane is seen to advantage in the dual role. W. F. Ryan also does good work in the role of Sol Gablor. John Byrnes does fairly well. Miss Edith Dombey’s work in the role of Mercy Fisher = mention. Next attraction, ‘‘Hello, tt. Elitech Gardens, (Mary Elitech-Long, Mgr.) This is the third week of the engagement of Miss Maude Fealy in ‘*The Christian,” she adding another star to her crown of glory. Mr. John Mason as John Storm ap peared to an advantage. Mr. Wheeler's work is good, as also is Harry Tooker’s. Miss Rial and Miss Herold deserve mention. This week closes Elitch Gardens for the season. _ Curtis Theater, (R. Pelton, Mgr.)—‘‘Lost in New York” is the bill this week, and opened to a good business. Special mention is due Nettie De Coursey in the role of Jennie Wilson. Her songs were roundly applauded. The play is given a very good scenic production. Next week: Girard Inter-Ocean Vaudeviiles. Aleazar Theater, (Frank Bradstreet, Mer.)-The Two Hobbs produce ‘Little Miss Frisco’ for a curtain raiser: Irene McAlister; Clennings and McGreevy, com edy team: Mamie Lawrence, singer: Fred and Mazie Hobbs: May Crawford: Stanley and Camnettie, sketch: Myrtle Hennessey: Domette, and Odell and Hart, comedy acrobatie sketch. Business is very good NOTES. The Empire Theater opens Sept. 7 in “The Stowaway.”’ Robert E. 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