The Billboard 1906-04-14: Vol 18 Iss 15 (1906-04-14)

The Billboard 9 * appears at the above house. jinap started the seat dollars for a box. is said that the National Theatre, vayton, Ohio, which has been drawing rec vusiness all season, will be run a8 a vau le bouse during the summer months. Man Hurrows announces that he will book only high-class artists. W. MeVay, of the firm of McVay tundell, bas disposed of bis half interest Savoy Theatre at Columbus, Ind., to I Lule, who has had considerable theatri Mana sale off by giv ‘ eo! experience. Mr. MeVay retires because of il vith, | W. Huftle, who was engaged as manager of the new theatre at Tarentum, Pa., at the beginning of the current season, condueted the affairs of that Institution so successfully that he has been given a three years’ contract. Sunday performances will hereafter be the rule in Burlington, Ia. Manager Hugo gave three performances at the Garrick, April s and for the remainder of the season that playhouse will be open on the first day of the week. Among the list of successful playhouses is to be found the Star Theatre at Augusts, Ga., under the management of H. Barnard Mitchell. This house is playing the best of vaudeville talent and is turning people away. Perry, lowa, is to have a new $75,000 theatre to take the place of the Grand Opera House which was recently destroyed by fre. The beilding permit was issued to Ed. Millaird, of the Foster Amusement Co, M. J. Sullivan, of Lima, Ohio, has purchased a ae interest in the Marion, Ohio, opera house, a $100,000 structure, and it is understood that Manager Burt, of Toledo, will bave charge of the new purchase, The Casey Brothers, owners of the Academy and Lyceum Theatres in Scranton, Pa., are contemplating keeping both of their theatres open after the regular season. Their lease on these houses expires May 1. Chas. Hogue, manager of the Mattoon Theatre, Mattoon, IL., is on a trip which extends through the southwest. During his absence Edw. Boruff will have charge of the theatre. A movement is on foot at Eagle Grove, lowa, to build a theatre to lace the one that was burned down last fall. business men of the town are promoting the enterprise. F. W. Hartford, manager of Music Hall, Portsmouth, N. H., and of the Auditorium Theatre, Concord, is canvassing for local capital to bulld a first-class theatre in Manchester. The Century Theatre at Jackson, Miss., has been leased to Messrs. Ehriich Bros. and Coleman of Shreveport, La. This frm also controls several other houses in that territory. Goude & Ebel have opened their new opera house at Odessa, Wash., a town of 3,000 people. The house seats between three and four hundred and the stage is 16x18 feet. The new vaudeville house at AmSterdam, N. Y., opened March 26, under the management of P. P. Craft. It will be a popular priced theatre and its future is assured. Richard Shortridge, formerly owner of the New Brunswick Opera House, New Brunswick, N. J., will probably build « new opera house at Perth Amboy, N. J. V. T. Combs, manager of the Crawford theatrical interests In El Paso, Texas, has resigned his position. He was succeeded by Mr, Rich of the Rich Stock Co. The Janecek Theatre, Schuyler, Neb., has been remodeled. NELLIE REVELL fo Nellle Revell, pictured above, belongs the ‘isUnction of being one of the very few women ‘ assume the dificult role of press agent for @ circus. She has been making mn vaude this season, but she will very shortly her work to become press agent for the ‘ook & Barrett Show. Miss Revell was born ‘" (ve south In 1878 and received her educa“on at Springfleld, Il, afterwards taking up ‘ewspaper work, She ts known to vauderille a the woman who says things and she never . ‘‘racts her billing. Her natural wit and ‘hor and her engaging manners make her equally entertaining before the footlighte or before the city editor's desk. In private life ‘se subject of this sketch is the wife of @ vell known Chicago business man, and her two ville Franklin Campbell and Harry Smith have accepted the positions of property man and billposter, respectively, at the Grand Opera House, Ottumwa, Ia. Jim Gibson, of the vaudeville team, Gibson and Nash, writes that he bas been appointed to the management of the Bijou Theatre at Davenport, Ia. Omer J. Kenyon, business manager Kerkhoff-Hillman Co., will have the management of the Auditorium Theatre, Bethany, Mo., again this season. Maurice J. Cunningham is building a new vaudeville theatre at Excelsior Springs, Mo. J. E. Jackson, of Sioux City, Ia., will do the booking. The Bijou Theatre at Flint, Mich., will be opened to the public April 2. It is under the management of W. 8. Butterfield of the Bijou Circult. Preparations are now under way for the erection of a new theatre at Joplin, Mo. The policy of the new house has not yet been determined. The Family Theatre at Silver City, N. M., has closed for the season, in order that its managers might prepare for their tenting season. Fred Smith of Leavenworth, Kan., has sold his interest in the Gem Theatre at Council Bluffs, Ia., to his partner, Mr. Winchester. The Hardesty Theatre at Canal Dover, O., did record business, March 22, when The Babes in Toyland Co. played an engagement. Manager Bernstein, of the Academy, Roanoke, Va., is recuperating from illness which has confined him to bis bed for the past month. The Shuberts will secure the Worcester Theatre, Worcester, Mass., after June 1, when Felix R. Wendelschaefer’s lease expires. Ann Arbor, Mich., is to have a new theatre. The proprietors of the theatre at Ypsilanti will put up the Ann Arbor house. Manager H. P. Fox, of the Wilder Theatre at Perth Amboy, N. J., will manage the Gardner Vincent Stock Co. next season. Elson Hommel, of the Hommel Brothers, billposters, has secured a long lease on the opera house at Brownsville, Pa. The Grand Opera House at Greenfield, Ohio, will remain open all summer under the management of Brown & Fulz. Bert Black, a popular young man of Birmingham, Ala., has become advertising agent of the Bijou Theatre in that city. Mart Seward has succeeded C. P. Cummings as manager of the Grand Opera House in Beardstown, Ill. Managers Johnson & Nichols have installed a new box-office in the Electric Theatre, Waterloo, Ia. The city hall at Frederick, Md., is to be remodeled into an up-to-date opera house at a cost of about $17,000. The New Eagle Theatre at Wabash, Ind., was opened March 27 by Bertha Galland in Sweet Kitty Bellairs. Klaw & Erlanger and the Shuberts will each have a new theatre in El Paso, Tex., Bext season. Beginning April 1 there will be Sunday performances in Beardstown, Ill., the rest of the season. Manager J. B. Price, of the Park Theatre at Hannibal, Mo., is recovering from a sick spell. Business men of Cedar Rapids, Ia., are discussing the matter of building a new theatre. B. F. Keith has leased the Manchester Opera House, Manchester, N. H. The new opera house in Harrodsburg. Ky., will be opened July 1. It is rumored that the independents will enter Lexington, Ky. § Dramatic Pedley & Burch, of Evansville, are very much in earnest in thelr contention that the Sothern and Marlowe management did not heed the request of the ple regarding the selection of a ar in Evansville. Advance Agent Ramsay orris contends that the scenery for the other productions of the repertoire was in St. Louls and The Taming of the Shrew was the on one that could be put on in Evansville. e Evansville managers contend that the scenery for the entire repertoire was in Evansville the night of the perioemeanse. Manager Burt Imson, of the MasonImson Co., writes: We are in our forty-sixth week playing to good business. At urden, Neb., we celebrated the event of our season, the marriage of Howard Case and Irene Imson. They were married upon the stage and a banquet followed. Our roster: Burt Imson, manager; Mrs. Burt Imson, treasurer; Harry Burton, advance; Howard M. Case, Edgar rrell, Arthur England, Harry St. Clair, Irene St. Claire, Winona Addington, Irene Imson and Master Rob St. Claire. The Metropolitan Players open in the one and two night stands April 17, playing A Life’s Mistake, When We Forget and A Broken Heart, under the management of W. H. Van Cleve. Following is their roster: Walter Sanford, leading man; Julius Kreiger, heavies; Royal C. Stout, comedy; Herman Land and Chas. Menger, characters; Ana DeLisie, ingenues, and Helen Ross and Marion Marsh, characters. The productions will be under Mr. ford’s direction. P. J. Kennedy, who has purchased Charles Frohman's production of Mizpah, is ne Coughters are declared to be pocket editions of herself, J 4 vule wit lens mast an” new —— vaude gotiating with several well-known players fot the important roles for next seasons’ tour. Miss Elizabeth Kennedy will play the part of Esther, The season will open Sept. 2, at Me Vicker’s Theatre, Chicego, and will afterwards go to the Academy of Music, New York. The massiveness of the production will not admit of one night stands during its tour. The three Swedish plays, Yon Yonson, Ole Olson and Hans Hanson are very close together on the Coast, and all are playing to good business. The roster of McAlpin’s Hans Hanson Co. is as follows. Jas. T. McAlpin, proprietor and manager; Louis Reis, business manager; Martin Bowers, business manager; E. L. Eaton, advance; Wm. Amann, master of properties; Lee Buroker, electrician, and John P. Elsin, leader of band. Charles B Hanford was recentiv asked what Shakespearean play he next meant to make a revival of. “Il am afraid of the expression,"’ answered Mr. Hanford. ‘‘Shakespearean plays do not need revival, they are not in a comatose state. Whenever I hear a Shakespearean revival announced I suspect that the real subject of resuscitation is a manager’s exchequer or a star's diminishing vogue."’ The Girl Patsy, a clever little comedy by Jane Mauldin Feigl, was given Its pre mier performance at Parson’s Theatre, Hartford, Conn., March 19. ‘The plot of the play TRAVER AND UZZELL We present herewith the photographs of two young men who have made remarkable progress in the amusement business during the past few years, They have been associated together since childhood when they attended the same school at Davenport. Neb. Upon graduating went to Denver to work for the Denver Tramway Co. Mr. Traver soon went to Cripple k, where he entered a machine shop and took a course in mechanical engineering. Mr. Uzzell entered the University of Denver. Af terwards they drifted to New York—Mr. Uzzell connecting himself with the American Sight-Seeing Cars, and Mr. Traver becoming mechanical superintendent of the Harris Safety Co. Mr. Traver labored so hard that he was forced to take a rest. He accordingly went to England and on his return on the ship his observation of the sea gulls so majestically soaring around th steamer caused him to ponder why man could not do the same thing meehanically. Thus he conceived the problem of aerial navigation as a pleasure evice. A wooden model proved to him that it was practicable to hitch the airship to a device which turned at a high velocity, causing the airship to fiy off at a tangent. Soon after reaching home Mr. Traver applied for patents and began to build the first plant. The Traver Circle Swing Co. was organized to exploit the invention. Mr. Traver is the president and Mr. Uzzell is treasurer. Sixtyeight plants have been built, or authorized to be built by this company in the United States, and contracts have been closed for more than thirty more this year. These young men are also bullding swings in Canada, England and France. They began business In a very modest way, and are rapidly teking rank with the foremost amusement men of the day. They have gained a host of friends for their square dealing and faithful performance of contracts. THE DEVAWTER TRIO The Devawter Trio, Ora, Lillie and Clarence, whose pictures appear abcve, are club jugglers, ‘ing some of the most astonishing feats mpted. One feature of their act ia ap exchange of clubs while two are on the floor and the third is on the slack wire. Last season this trie was the leading act with Snyder trothers & Dowker’s Circus, and the past winter they have been making good in vaudeville, playing over the Ammons and the Sun ctrcuits and meeting with the greatest of success. They are open for engagements after May 1. Permanent address 50 Jackson street, Huntington. Ind. hinges on the exchange of babies by a designing nurse and the complications which result therefrom. Miss Mary Ryan in the title role did excellent work and she was ably supported by a competent cast. The movement for the celebration in Loudon this menth of the fiftieth anniversary of Ellen Terry’s connection with the stage is being taken up with great enthusiasm. * committee now has an enormous list which includes every person prominent in the world of art and letters and has opened a shilling subscription fund in order to enable the humblest person to participate Harry Dull played his company, The Four Huntings in The Fool House, in his eld home tewn of Shelbyville, Ind., recently, and his old schoolmates filled the house. The Four Huntings are in their thirtieth week, and will remain out ten weeks longer. Next year the company will carry a chorus and introduce some musical numbers by Lew Hunting. H. J. W. Dam has lost his suit in the United States Circuit Court at New ‘York, charging piracy against Paul Armstrong, 2uthor of the Heir to the Hoorah. The judge held that the similarities of plot and characters in The Heir and The Transmogrification of Dan were not such as might not occur merely through coincidence. Miss May, of Beecher and May, special attraction with the Winter Stock Co., is calling forth rounds of applause on her rendition of the new song entitled, My Billy Boy, a new song by Felix F. Feist and Joel P. Corina. This song is dedicated to “Old Billy Boy,” and is destined to be immensely popular. Lillian Blauvelt, now starring in The Rose of Alhambra, was presented with a massive loving cup by the members of her company while playing in Elmira, N. Y¥., March 16. It was Mme. Blauvelt’s —? birthday, and she responded to Eugene Cowles’ presentation speech most feelingly Vivian Naftzger. who closed with the LaVerna Moore Stock Co., several months ago to enter Jenning’s Seminary at Aurora, ll., narrowly escaped serious injury duripg the fire which destroyed that building March 16. She bas rejoined the LaVerne Moore Co. for the balance of the season. John O. Hewitt, author-actor now playing in A Woman’s Power, has completed a new romantic comedy drama of the present day, entitled For Millions and a Crown. There are four acts and the three scenes are laid in Bavaria. The new piece will be given a production in September. Jack Kennedy and Helene Leslie Warde, the well-known leading man and leading lady, are favoring their friends with a neat little booklet containing their photos end impersonations and a number of the many press notices they have received. Tom North, manager of Julia Gray, is much improved in health and is again on the road. ‘om deserves success. He is one of the best agents on the road, and he is full a the life and energy necessary to make «a iw. Fred. R. Wren, who appears as Col. Bell in the Arrival of Kitty, ares and fell near the stage door at the V " Niles, Obio, recently and sustained severe bruises. He is about sixty years of age. Reports are plentiful just now concerning Anna Held, sald to be wanted im vanudeville, opera, musical comedy, drama, and «a few other branches of amusements, She probably is coming to America. a a na wo we ec