The Billboard 1904-02-20: Vol 16 Iss 8 (1904-02-20)

THE BILLBOARD ——, Theatre, Alexandria, La. Mr. Edwin H. Flayg will succeed them. Will Allinson, formerly stage manager at the Metropolitan Opera House, lowa Falls, lowa, has gone to Atlanta. Ga., where he will work for a lyceum bureau. B. F. Keith has made the announcement that he has changed his mind about building a theatre on the property recently purchased in Pittsburg for that purpose. A benefit performance was given Mr. Robert Elifott at Payton’s Lee Avenue Theatre, Brooklyn, Feb. 7. Mr. Elliott was for a long time connected with that house. Pierce’s Opera House at Phillipsburg, Pa., which had been closed for repairs since Jan. 28. was reopened by Manager J. Albert Walton Feb. 18, wis The Game Keeper. The Trocadero Theatre of Chicago was not opened Feb. 7 as announced by the manage Warren and Blanchard are a team that have scarce an equal in their line In vaudeville. Fred Warren is beyond doubt one of the funniest comedians before the public. while Mr. Blanch ard is the possessor of a voice good enough for grand opera. Their act is in great demand They are booked solid until next July. ment, but wag delayed four days, as the authorities insisted upow roof tanks being placed in. Mr. NN, L, Hackett, manager of Hacke..'s Theaire at Port Gibson, Miss., will lease nis theatre in April and retire from the theatrical business, ag his time ig al) taken up Wiis cotton. : The new opera house at Plattsburg, Mo.. opened Feb. & with the Beggar Prince Opera Company. It is claimed to be one of the neaiest little country playhouses in Northwest Missouri. Grand Onera House, Madison Square Theatre, Princess Theatre, Vaudeville heatre, Hurtig & Seamon’s and the theatre part of Huber's Museum in New York City were temporarily closed Feb, 4. The Grand Opera House of New York City opened in deflance of Mayor McClellan's order and on Feb. 5 it was closed by force. The Ear] ot Pawtucket, with Lawrence D’Orsay, was the attraction playing. Paytou's Fulton Street Theatre at Brooklyn has been leased by Mr. Frank A. Keeney, who will present retined vaudeville twice daily. The house opened Feb. 15 and will cater especially to women and children. The performance of Caught in the Web, 2 was the last show given in the Tuscola (IIL) _ Opera House this season, and perhaps longer, as the owner of the property has ordered it closed for an indefinite period. May's Opera House at Piqua, Ohio, has 26 exits. On the stage are constantly kept two barrels filled with salt solution and provided with buckets. The house is provided with asbestos curtain and six lines of hose. The work of tearing down the old Court Street Theatre at Buffalo. N. Y., ig completed, and the foundation for an up-to-date family theatre will soon be laid. This will, when completed, be the handsomest playhouse in the city, It is said. Mr. Charles H, Sickard has secured the contract to build the new Greenwald Theatre at New Orleans, La. He has given bend for the completion of the theatre by Aug. 15. The theatre will be a ground floor bouse and will seat 2,500. Cc. M. Valentine has assumed charge of the opera house at Clayton, Ala. Clayton has 4 population of 1,500 and the opera house seats 300. One show a week can be played to advantage. The Pickets Company, Jan. 25-27, played to good business. Work on the reeonstruction of the Girard Avenue Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa., hag been started. This house was destroyed by fire in October, but the work of rebuilding was checked by the fire scare. It will be made thoroughly fireproof. The present season in theatrical Hnes in Loulsville. Ky., will not be interrupted by the making of repairs this season. The ordinance passed by the council requiring certain Improve ments allows the managers until August 1 (o complete the same. Manager Theo. L. Hays and Assistant Man ager T. B. McCormick of the Grand Opera House, St. Paul, Minn., were arrested for crowding their theatre during a performance of Foxy Grandpa Feb. 6 The affalr may become a test case In that siate. Mr. Chamberlin, of the Chamberlin-Harring ton Company, of Peorla, iil., bas made a proposition to build @ new theatre in Moline, IIL, to cost $140.000. The common council of that city has concluded to allow Sunday night performances hereafter. Charles Emerson Cooke, In regard to the Tumor that David Belasco intended building in Louisville, stated that Mr. Belasco has not made definite plans yet regarding new playhouses outside of New York. He is not ready yet to announce his plans, The Chicago Star Dramatie Company, composed of Jewish actors, is now playing an encecement in Minneapolis owing to the closing of the Gilkman Theatre in Chicago. Thetr presence in the city hag been the cause of a Jewish playhouse being proposed for Minneapolis. Robertson Smiley, secretary of the Verbeck Construction Company, of ON City, Pa., secured a site for a new ground floor theatre at Tito Oblo, Feb. & An architect will commence on the plans at once. It is hoped that the theatr« will be ready by the first of next season, The theatres of Philadelphia, Pa.. have sue ceeded In forcing dally papers of that elty ti: come to time in regard to advertising thelr attrac. ons. The papers have reduced thelr tn creased advertising rates and things are re — to be moving along more smoothly thau ever, Plans ate being made by W. U. Gumm, of Washington, Ind., for the erection of a fine. new opera house at Linton, Ind. he structure will be built of stone and will be up to date in every particular. The cost of the building will be about 5,000 and it will be strictly fire proof, The New York City theatres which give Sunday night performances are ag follows: West End, Victoria, New York, American, Circle, Harlem Opera House, New Star. Metropolis, Third Avenue, Dewey and the Eden. Sunday nigh. attractions are well patronized in the metropolis. Ex-Governor Royd of Nebraska has organized and is president and attorney of a new insurance company that proposes to insure the theatres of the country on a mutual Insurance basis Each member of the association must pay inio the organization not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, Miss FE. Robinson, manager of the opera house at Cherokee, Iowa, has sued the management of Walker Whiteside for damages on account of the cancellation of a date at that plece. claim ing $60, which is estimated would have been the percentage had the engagement for Feb. 2 heen fulfilled. Dover's (Del.) new ground floor opera house will be completed abont May 1. The size of the stage will be 25x55 feet and the seating caparcity 70O. It tg sald that it will be the best equipped theatre In the state South of Wilminge ton, and will be managed by H. Blackiston, the present manager of the opera house and People’s Theatre. Mr, C, J. Stevenson has resigned his position as manager of Shea's Empire Theatre. Cleveland, Ohie, and is to take charge of affairs for Mr. Chase whose headquarters are at the St. James Rutlding, New York. The emplores of the Empire presented him with a beantiful gift is a token of high esteem and regard in which ie wags held. The manager of Noble’s Opera House. Tiffin. Ohio, which was closed by the state fire in spector several weeks ago. canceled the following attractions for February: Black Patti Tronhadours, 12: A Night Pefore Christmas, 16: The Sultan of Suin. 19; Howe's Moving Pictnres 28: Inln Glaser, in Dolly Varden, 26; Royal Lilliputians, 29. It is reported that David Belasco will build a new theatre at Toledo. Ohio. It ts also atatel that he will butld a theatre at Memphis. Tenn. to form a ling in a contemplated theatrical chain throngh the Sonth. The site of Rroom’s Opera Flonse, the first theatre bnilt In Memphis is mentioned as the possible location for Belasco's plarhonse. The «nit of Mr. William H. Meffert. of Lontsville, Ky.. against Weber Rrothers. of Chieszo lesseen of the Masonic Theatre at Lonisville. was compromised. The snit was for $2.300 and the plaintiff claimed that be had contracted with the defendants to manage their honse for the season, which they denied. Meffert received S100 hy the compromise. . Roth the Metropolitan and the Grand Opera houses at St. Paul, Minn.. have been passed on by city officials and everrthing found correct as to aafety of patrons. The Star and Empire theatres willl be compelled to make manr chances before officials are satisfied. They will he left open for a time to give the, owners a chance to put In the Improvements. Miss Margaret Donovan has been made Mr Shea's personal representative in Cleveland. 0. with headquarters at Shea's Empire Theatre She fs a handsome girl inst past her teens. and seems to know her business. She has had the past seven rears experience In theatricals. The place as manager, which Mr. C. J. Stevenson made vaeant to take charge of Mr. P. BR Chase's affairs, ig being admirably filled by Miss Donovan. Marshal Grover. of Greensburg, Ind.. hes purchased the old Grand Opera Honse at that place and is receiving bids on remodeling same. The house {fs a three etory building. the theatre he ting on the third floor. This will be lowered to the second floor. stage will be built on the ‘round floor, with all the latest improvements The theatre will have the Istest modern chairs snd will be one of the most up-to-date In the atote of a elty the size of Greensbure. Lincoln J. Carter writes from Chicago under date of Feb. 5: “It is with a great deal of nleasure I ean inform ron that the Criterfon Theatre opened last nicht to an enthustastic ndfence with The Charity Nurse as the attree tien. The Criterion {fs the second of the thirty seven theatres in Chicago to onen its doors <tnce the Iroquole fire. The steel enrtain wes prononneed br all to be a erand success. It ean he lowered tn three seconds from five differ en places fn the honse. Fverrthing has beer fone to asenre the safety of fits many patrons To make the necessary fmprovements I was ‘ompelled to purchase the property, which | lid. at a eash price. During the next summer 1 will make ft one of the handsomest theatres in Chicago. which fs now the safest.’’ MUSICAL. Jere Sanford. of Gorton’s Minstrels, has fonnd a aplendia number tn Herwitz & Power's famon hallad. Fwery Day fs Sunshine When the Heart Reata Trne A. J. Desmon writes from Rnffalo. N. Y.. ef the fremendons enceesg he achieved with Monroe It. Rosenfeld’s latest story ballad, There’s One —Only One. Tee Orean Smith, the well-known composer arranger and mnusteal director, hea hecome an etive element fn the professional department f Tos. W. Stern & Co. Max FB. Feberger, mnateal director of the Grand Onera Honse Orchestra. Toe Angeles, Co! frequently programmes the selection from Ran ken & Tiedler’s Nenev Rrown. The dtrectora of the New York Sremnhon: Orchestra are trving to rafse a fond of S10. to fnanre the permanency of the Inst!tntion. an’ te fa generally helleved thet ther will encceed Favorite nambers with Mox Heller and bia exeollent orchestra at Chieeeo. TN. are Perrr Prady and The Gon-Goo Man, from the enceess ful Towe-Sehindler-Jerome musical comedy, The tele of Spice. Fadie Teonerd hae fotned the atock companr st the Creecent Theatre. New Orleans, Ta. an? tea etneing his own composition Ida and Sem Tewte’ Never Do Nuthin’ for Nobody That Doe: Nothin’ for Yon. The Toetontone new comte oners. vf Tanehter The Oneen wae aeen for the first time on an: atace a¢ Spokane, Woeh Tt fe sata to he o very prette opera, full of eateche and trnefn! mate The new comnosttion wae written hr “Mee Kanlen and Vr Rrede of Cinetonatt The ~amnodera are awaiting with much Interest the 'nitial performance At # recent entertainment of Fidelite Connect! 195 Kntebte of Columbrn< fn Rrookirn Roxe Weir sang Hobert and DeKoven'’s My Dear Old Jersey Home, Loretta Scully sang Cole & Johnson Bros.’ Congo Love Song. Geo. W. Kavanagh rendered Clare Kummer’s I’m Going to Chanve My Man, and Marion O'Connor sang J. Hayden Clarendon’s & Geo. Bell’s Sweetheart’s Eyes. _Frederic Belasco, homeward bound from New York, will soon give up the San Francisco Aleazar the first reproduction, upon any stage, tn purely dramatic form, of Wagner’s famous religious opera first done at Ravreuth, and more recently the art sensation of the deeade at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Edna Wallace Hopper will appear early In the spring In Fantana, a new musical play to be produced by the Shuberts. Miss Hopper’s last appearance was at the Broadway Theatre, New York, tn the Silver Slipper. from which company she resigned to fight for the millions of the late Alexander Dunsmuir. her stepfather The courts of Victoria, B. C., again decided against Miss Hopper, but her counsel, former Judge Coyne, is to continue to the fight. A correspondent writes: Mr. Robert Gran fs spending a few days at Hot Springs, Ark looking after the Interest of his star. Wme. Adelina Patti, who will appear here March & at the new theatre which is now being con structed. Mr. Head, manager of the theatre deserves considerable credit for booking this at traction. Mr. Head and Mr. Grau went to Memphis this week to hear her sing, and everyvbod) here {gs taiking about the star, who no dow't will turn them away. Mr. Head has made ar rangements with a firm in Little Rock to sel! tickets for this performance. King Dodo, traveling by special trains, has reached the extreme Southern limit of fits tom Playing In Florida this week. The route now leads due North, touching Montreal the Isst of March. ‘‘I’ve had to earry enouch kinds of p sonal wardrobe this yeaer.’’ writes Richard Golden from the orange belt. ‘‘to go aronnd th world We've hit every known climate and tackled every weather freak from a blizzard to a simoon. Sometimes we've gone to sleep wit! five feet of snow around ns and waked up amovg hlooming flowers. If variety fs the spice of life. the King Dodo company is the spiciest ever.’ George Ade'’s Peggy from Perris. with music by William Loraine. has entoved quite the most prosperous week of the year et the Amphien, New York Citr. This companv has traveled some 6.000 miles since the last week in November, apnerring In most of the large cities he tween New York and Denver and winning unqualified apnroval everywhere. “A Toast’’ of the first class and one which will make a hit everywhere Is the title of song just pnt on the market .» the Pittsbhure Vinsie Company, of Pittsburg, and by reports received has had a great run in that Ineality The music fis very catchy and hes a good swine to it which will make ft popular as a walty niece: then the words are fine for a toast so as the five verses deal with Friends, Our Con» try. Women, College and onr Future. The front cover is very attractive, being In red and show Ing the DeLong family coat of arms. The mu sie Is by Chas. Wakefield Cadman, qa well-knowr organist of Pittsburg, who has composed severs! a » Denver, Col., Feb. 8, 1904. } The Billboard Pub. Co., Cincinnati, 0. ‘ Gentlemen—‘‘The Billboard’’ is ini teresting and well goften up and deserves success.. With best ROBERT E. BELL. every wishes, popular pieces, such as the Carnegie Library March and Country Dance: also higher celuss nieces as a Meditation in D-flat for pipe organ Pastorale Reliciense, a violin and piano purchased by Fisher & Co., and a Caprice. en titled Youth and Old Age, purchased by Theo Presser. Chas. F. DeLong, who was so success ful In putting ‘‘A Toast’’ to mnsic, is a well known business man of Pittsburg, and he has made a good start as this ig his first in the music line. solo MINSTRELS. The traveling men of Marshalltown, flown. gave a minstrel show Feb. 13 for the benefit of a ward In the city hespital. After reorganization the Bryant Minstrels wil! again make a spring tour of Ohfo, Kentucky and West Virginia, with a complete company of celebrities. Fd C. Hays {fs in his twenty-fifth week #s< principal comedian with the Great Barlow Min strels, and is meeting with success everywhere He has been engsced for the summer seaso: with the same company. Andy Jinkins, the Enropean agent of John W. Vogel's Rig Minstrels. cabled Mr. Voge! last week that he had engsced Marsails, the most marvelous of all eqnilibrists. In the on! iet of the kind in the world, and it will be me of the features of John W. Vogel's Rig Cit: Minstrels next season. Marsafls will errive tn Amerfea about Jnne 1, and will probably mek: his first appearance in New York City at one if the bic vandeville theatres. Notes from the Who What When Minstrel! lL. M. Royer, manager: In spite of the heaviest kind of opposition and the mafling of deroce tory press opinions manufactured by our onne nent we have not lost a day or played to a sincle losing week's business since our openings We strenethered onr show Iast week, whic! was already strong. by adding Mr. Nat Plosse the Crandall Rrothers and the Tallahoe Onartet Onr city dates commence March 9 This i without donbt the banner season. Mr. Walte Stock. onr mail mon. never fails to have a nnm her of copies of ““The Rillboerd’’ every week and the ghost never fails to materialize «n Sunday morning. VAUDEVILLE. Norris and Rewe will take the road abont the middle of March. Tt fs reported thet the Four Mortons will close with Fivde’s Comedians. Walthour & Kraemer are reported as makine cool on the Casto Cirenit. Zarelie ard Vernon will new amusements this season, The Leonerd Sisters will shortir open a spring sneerement in and aronnd Prffalo Willle Shnlds, heon roller and slack wire ertiat, opens on the Tony Subiski! Novelty Circuit Feh, 92. at Onkland, Cal. J. F. Livingston. of the team of Addison and Tivingston, was made a member of Actors’ Protective Union, No. 4. Chieavo, IM. The Pacific Coast Vaudeyille Circuit hag seYE eee so East In their cured San Jose, Cal., and a continuous performance house will be opened. The Duffin and Redeay Troupe of acrobats are still resting at St. Paul, Minn., owing to accident to one of them at Milwaukee. Mrs. Sid Winters, of the team of Summers and Winters, has been very {ll in Los Angeles, Cal., but ts now on the way to recovery. The Esmeralda graceful dancers in vaudeville today. geod to look at and costume their act beautiful Sisters are two of the most They are ly. For the coming summer season they are hooked for twenty weeks at the principal halls In England and Germany. Me. D. Herbert Moore, formerly a member of the team of Dailey & Mack, which ceased to exist about a year or so ago, is now editor of *‘Judicious Advertising.”’ Madame Schelle lost her two valuable trained lions recently on the Joy Line steamer Tremont that burned at her dock shortly after the arrival in New York, Feb. 8. Fred C. LaDelle has launched a vaudeville show from Chicago. The company’s first stop will be at Lake Geneva, Wis., after which they will tour Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota for three months. Russell and Dunbar commence their Western tour by opening at the Duquesne Theatre, Pitt+urge, Pa Feb. 15. They are booked to the coast until September, when they sail for England with Fostell and Emmet and daughter. Leah Bouleh., known as Leah Dancourt, a character vocalist and vaudeville star, was served Feb. 9 with an injunction restraining her from appearing at the Moore Theatre, Lima, Ohio. The papers were secured by Joseph F. liller, of the theatre of the same name, who had billed her under contract for last week at his hall. ‘Casad and De Verne, Charles and Grace. comedy musical artists, finishe dtheir Western ‘irenit at St. Joseph. Mo... on Feb. 15 at the Crystal Theatre. They have received praise from managers and the press all through the West. Mrs. Casad was presented with a handsome pair of diamond ear rings by her husband in St. Joseph. Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre of Varieties at New York City Is said to have begun well with its new form of entertainment. Its bill for the second week included Gillett’s Pantomimic Dogs, Williams and Tucker, James Richmond Glenroy, the Three Dumonds, Sterling and Revelle, the Three Crane Brothers, the Fleury Trio. Swan and Bambara, the French Brothers and Nora Bayes. Moung Mya. Burmese foot juggler, who opened at the Kansas Midwinter Exposition witb De Mora and Graceta in Topeka, Kan., died on Feb. 9. He was taken fll on Feb. 2 with grip, which developed into pneumonia, at the Christ Hospital in the above city, and while in a_i delirfous condition he made lis eseape from the hospital on Feb. 7 t 2:05 a. m., clad only in a light night dress. He was exposed to a severe cold, 9 degrees ibove zero. for seven hours, he was discovered. Mr. De managed to bring him back to the hospital. The exposure cansed donble pneumonia from which he died on Feb. 9. Mr. R. Brigham, secretary and general manager of the Exposition, and De Mora and Graceta gave him the best possible care but to no avail, and they sincerely mourn his death. Moung Mra ts a RFritish subject and a native of Rangoon, Lower Purma., Fast India. about 22 years old. and only one vear In this country. He was without a doubt one of the greatest cards and most skillful artist In his line that was ever brought to America. Mr. R. S. Brigham has been appointed administrator and the British Consul has been notified and will take charge of what remains of Moung Mya’s property. tinw officers after which Mora and FARCE COMEDY. The farce Saucy Sally received its first Ameriean presentation at the Hollis Street Theatre. Roston, Mass., Feb. 8 by Charles Hawtrey and company. Gus Hill's Western Happy Hooligan Company has broken all records on the Northwest circuit under the able management of Al Dolson and Walt Leslie. The company numbers forty people and are on the road to success. BURLESQUE. Mr. Kennedy. second T. Jack’s Company, spots. Alf G. Herrington. ‘companies as the at Seranton, Pa., for Sam good in advance agent reports business well known to burlesqne manager of the Star Theatre will manage a baseball team for the anmmer Sullivan & Kraus’ new theatre, the Gotham, at New York City, opened recently the Gay Masqueraders. I: is said to be an attrac tive and up-to-date house. MACOMB, ILL.—Chandler’s Opera House (C. F. Smith. Mer.) Just Struck Town, 5, pleased fair house. They carry ten people, special scenery, good paper and wardrobe. Cominz: ge & Bowman, 17-18; Way Down East, 26.