The Billboard 1908-08-01: Vol 20 Iss 31 (1908-08-01)

[| = ; j t ’ t i ‘ The Billboard AUGUST 1, 1908. Greater New York (Continued from page 6.) since the which he are those of the offering called In which is causing Paris; a new act the Eldorado; The ists and posing act, featuri Four Harveys in Paul Sandor, who Schafer, who was musicians; famous Fregoli. thinks will The something by th ng Tl The please Saytons, e Five Vindobonas, 1e Birth ec a remarkable ll known is we at th for seven consecutive months: Valadon, a Alhambra Other engagements Orpheum who present a novel Realm of the Alligator, of a sensation in Salvaggis, centric Soldoms is a classic of Venus, patrons from vocal The act; Severus in London mugi casting here; cian and illusionist, who has attracted a great deal of attention in Germany; Londe and Tilly, equilibrists; Carl Nobel, an equilibrist, who rivals Arthur Prince in London; Katie Loisset and her remarkable animal show, and the Cadets de Gascogne, a classic singing number. While in London Mr. Beck also arranged tours for several American acts now playing there, including McDonald and Huntington, Gardiner and Vincent, and Willie Howarc He also secured ian, well known toured here, short dramatic dressed as men will be added to Frank and Jen Latona and Eugene the newest act of Herr Mer The tech f the layed women. roster of the animal trainer, called ske and entirely by This novelty who has often Elopement, which is a dogs also road show. THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE. While in Germany, Mr. Beck, met a rs, who had been assembled by Director Steiner of the Berlin Wintergarten, number of manage for the purpose of discussing an international alliance, and the American manager explained the method and plan of the United Booking Offices here, pointing out the advantages of concerted action and harmonious organization. He again urged their forming a co-operative office booking all houses through one channel, and this organization in turn working in harmony with the United Booking Offices here. As nearly every music hall abroad is operated by a board of directors this result is dificult and almost impossible to obtain, but in the meantime it was decided to co-operate ganization in tion to that to the other fices here. Mr. Beck returt ever leadi effect y was 1ed an possible in with the way conveyed by ng factors the American orand a resoluMr. Beck United Of enthusiastic aeronaut, although he has lost none of his devotion to au tomobling anck he model Fiat rager. first trip in an nothing to looning. He addc you for speeding.” broug ht with him the latest While abroad he enjoyed the he airship compare wit “dd: and h the ‘And t sen hey K. & E. NOTES. the author of The Bar Rex Beach, rier, a dramatic ing his country. summer One of t which the reading on the will be of Mr. Beach's Lillian Russell, in the fire, is at shopping in will purchase has made American prese Lond such public. seve version duced next season by hunting of which Klaw & Erlanger, bears says sation can't there is of balarrest will be prois spendin the Yukon he strongest plays of the coming season has been constructed from the novel, stage a and vivid Six of the strongest actors one needed to interpret the principal figures mental im creation. ipression upon clever woman who will be seen next season Broadhurst-Hobart nt enjoying on and ral ne racing th Paris. w gowns for use in the comedy, Wilde delights of Miss Russell play. Her stay abroad must be brief, as she will begin rebearsals the first week in August. The season of Wildfire will open at Asbury Park, September 5. Miss Russell will then go to the Liberty Theatre, New York, for a long the naval drama, Erlanger Septembe completed, up at his In Time of Peace target lavishly A great her last appearanc City before she She had Miss Lloyd went will be fitted for in Klaw & Erla Bonnie Belle pear in the fall. appear in the same boat, to Seotland to en will make up a dian says the sively of men wh wear trousers. Rehearsals of Little Nemo, cartoon spectacle, but Mr. country practice and in Hampton Roads promise effects of the production, for realistic a reception same but Tom ri. > will wa ‘e in sailed to sing five direct nger’s of Scotland, The gage Scotch band w o hav the The play deal Armstrong place nd light s given vaudeville for Paris songs and make a speech. Par gowns which ly to musical twenty chorus ill be hi Alic she and composed Paul Armstrong will deliver the manuscript of In Time of Peace, to Klaw & is practically is polishing it near Annapolis, with and sailors in a new and vigorous fashion. fleet riding at Md. topics The anchor naval to be the big scenic which is to be staged effects. Lloyd at in New York and London. is, where she will wear comedy, The in which she will apMecNaughtons, production, McNaughton will go direct who sailed on will the These the come exclu llmen. e never been known to Klaw & Erlanger’s will begin August 24. Harry B. Smith has delivered the completed first act. It is the duction that has c tion. No player will be the production. best constructed ome The starred offering act of a musical prounder their long observaor featured in itself and the enormous effects which will be used in the three acts and cess. The Cawthorn:; Nemo, Harry Kelly: a cat, Dave Abra be given an early cast n Little ow st Nemo, Rose Beaumont: Flip, Bill ms. fall ten scenes will carry ands: the Dr. Master Gabriel; show to sucPill, Joseph Mrs. the Dancing Missionary, y B. Van, and Gladys. The entertainment will production. | World. Sir Gilbert Parker, the author of The Right of Way, has returned to London after a conference with Klaw & Erlanger, under whose management the dramatic version of his famous novel will be toured next season. Sir Gilbert spent only two weeks in New York. Speaking of the American people, he says: ‘‘The American thinks quickly and acts quickly, but more remarkable than anything else is his supreme patience with annoyances of all kinds. Hle endures meekly, good naturedly, to the breaking point, and then settles accounts with astounding justice and swift penalty.’’ The Right of Way will open its season in Brooklyn, September 7. Theodore Roberts and Guy Standing remain as co-stars. May Buckley will play the role of Rasalie and Paula Gloy returns in the part of Suzon. Mr. Joseph Brooks, Erlanger, returns from in London he obtained a contract with Joseph O’Mara, whom he will star in Peggy Machree. He also met Lillian Russell in Paris and passed an expert opinion on her selection of gowns for use in her play Wildfire. Arrangements were made by him for the production in London of the Herbert opera, Victoria, in which Marie George will be starred. Mile. Genee danced before the King and Queen of England last week at Lady Lonsdale’s garden party at the personal request of the Queen. Her highness held a long conversatiog in Danish with the dancer, congratulating her on her wonderful talents and talking of their native land, Denmark. Mlle Genee appeared in the ballet, The Dryad, which she will use in her coming American tour. Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger have secured for her also Delibes’ ballet, Coppelia, which sets off to such advantage all the varied attributes of her dancing. Through tbe valse and grand ball of the first act, with broken rhythm of the Salvic theme, Mlle. Genee foots it with exquisite art. The humor of the ballet lies in the mechanical doll number laid in old Coppelius’ work shop of automatic dolls. of the firm Europe of Klaw & July 30. While The valse Coppelia and the grand galop offer the fullest opportunity to Mlle. Genee to display her matchless art. Her return to the Empire, London, proved a triumph for the dancer. For the coming tour of Ben-Hur, under the management of Klaw & Erlanger, an entirely new production is being built in the New York work shop of the firm. This will be the tenth season of the greatest Biblical play ever staged. When it opens in Elmira in September, scenery, costumes and staging will be as new as were the paraphernalia of the play on its first night on Broadway, almost a decade ago. Most of the tour of the company will be spent west of the Missouri River and on the Pacific Coast. Loyala O’Connor, who will play the role of the mother of Ben Hur, is a Californian. She made her debut with the Joseph Grismer-Phoebe Davis Company. In that cast were William A. Brady, Tom Wise and Edgar and Harry Davenport. She next played with Frederick Warde and Frank Mayo. After a brief experience in stock she returned to Brady & Grismer, appearing in the first production of Way Down East. She remained with this play until last season. The War Department has ordered out the troops at Forts. Wingate and Grant to suppress an Indian uprising in Arizoua, in the land in which the scenes of The Round Up are laid. The troops will go through the same experiences as are depicted in the big Klaw & Erlanger drama of the plains. It searcely seems prob able.that in these days Indians would defy the Government, but there is the order and the In dians are out in the desert, and the troops are rounding them up to chase them back to the reservation. The Round Up will open its season at the Academy of Music, New York, August After a stay of several weeks in the Metropolis, the company returns to Boston and Phila delphia to continue runs which were interrupted last year to fill contracts. The big drama of the Ariozna desert will be staged lavishly and naturally, as it was last season. Maclyn Arbuckle will play the part of the fat and loveless sheriff: Florence Rockwell returns as Echo, but Minnette Barrett will play the part of Polly. But few changes, however, have been made in the big cast which interpreted the play last year. The stage picture of The Round Up, with the bucking ponies and bits from life on the range and the battle remains vastly entertaining to lovers of dramatic representation of a phase of American life which is quickly passing away. HENRY B. HARRIS NOTES. Henry B. Harris will begin the New York theatrical season by the offering of three attractions in that city during August. The Traveling Salesman on August 10, at the Liberty Theatre, Henrietta Crosman on Angust 13 at the Academy of Music, and Robert Edeson in The Call of the North at the Hudson Theatre on August 24. Miss Olive Oliver has been engaged by R. Harris for an important role with Edeson in The Call of the North which tion opens at the Hudson Theatre on of August. Henry B. Henry Robert attracthe 24th Harris, who for seasons has had charge of the Asylum Benefit at Arverne, L. I., has again accepted the responsibility of taking charge of the affairs of this benefit. which is to be held on July 30. Miss Gertrude chief feminine role in the past Hebrew Orphan several Coghlan, who will play the James Forbes’ comedy, The Traveling Salesman, has just returned from Prince Edward Island, where she and her husband, Mr. Augustus Piton. Jr., have been spending a part of their vacation. The book story of The Chorus Lady, from James Forbes’ comedy of the same by John W. Harding, and published by the G. W. Dillingham Company. is at present appear ing in serial form in the New York Evening written name, Mistress Frances Fuller, two of the Master Martin best-known stage children in America, have been engaged by Henry B. Harris for The Traveling Salesman, which he will present at the Liberty Theatre on August 10. Robert Edeson is one of the very few Amer ican actors who designs his own printing. The Strongheart and Classmates posters, both of which were immensely attractive, being originated by the actor. Many of his leisure hours Golden and during the past two months have been devoted to designs and colorings for the advertising matter for his new play, The Call of the North, in which he will appear at the Hudson Theatre on August 24. Miss Edna Archer Crawford has been engaged by Henry B. Harris for the role of Shirley Rossmore in one of his companies of The Lion and the Mouse, The many thousands of persons who have enjoyed Sir Gilbert Parker's fascinating stories, Pierre and His People, will welcome the announcement of the presentation of a play by Henry B. Harris, founded on this delightful boon, and entitled, Pierre of the Plains. The new play was written by Edgar Selwyn, who will appear in the title role, opening at Toronto on September 21. Miss Helen Hilton, who for the past two seasons has been appearing with Rose Stahl in The Chorus Lady, has been transferred by Henry B. Harris to the role of Kate Roberts in The Lion and the Mouse. ELECTION IN THE ACTORS’ SOCIETY. Mr. Thomas A. Wise, one of America’s representative comedians, was elected president. Miss Fannie Cannon, a well-known actress, vice-president. After many adjourned meetings and numerous candidates the board of directors of the Actors’ Society of America have finally elected George Seybold, secretary for the ensuing year. Mr. Seybolt is an actor of twelve years’ ex perience, last season leading man with the Checkers Company. The secretary in the Actors’ Society of Amer ica is an important position owing to the fact that his business is that of a business representative for the entire institution: upon him involves the responsibility of keeping the entire organization within the bonds of its by-laws. The object of the society is not that of a labor organization, but to promote and further the interests of the theatrical profession in general without antagonizing managers or the laymen of the profession. Mr. George T. Meech, a villain on the stage, but the profession evidently has great confidence in his good character off the stage because they elected him treasurer, HENRY B. HARRIS OPENS SEASON WITH THREE PRODUCTIONS IN AUGUST. Henry B. Harris, whose outlook as to theatrical seasons in general is always of the most optimistic nature and whose attractions generally exceed the time run of most amusement organizations, will begin the theatrical season in New York with three productions in August. On the 10th Mr. Harris will offer James Forbes’ latest comedy, The Traveling Salesman. with a cast of well-known players, the chief of which are Miss Gertrude Coghlan, who has appeared for the last three seasons as Shirley Rossmore in The Lion and the Mouse; Mr. Frank MelIntyre, who became prominent as an exponent of light comedy through his interpretation of Billy Saunders with Robert Edeson in Strongheart, and Bubby Dumble with the same star in Classmates. At the Academy of Music, on the 13th, Mr. Harris will present. in conjunction with Maurice Campbell, Miss Henrietta Crosman in a repertoire of her former suecessful plays, chief among them being The Country Girl. At the Hudson Theatre, on August 24, Mr. Robert Edeson will inaugurate his sixth season as a star under the Harris management in a new play by George Broadhurst, entitled The Call of the North, and founded on Stuart Edward White's story, Conjuror’s House. Miss Marjorie Wood, who has been with Mr. Edeson since 1904, will this season become leading woman for this star. Mr. Harris’ next production in New York will be on the Tth of September, when Rose Stahl opens her third season in James Forbes’ comedy, The Chorus Lady. STATEMENT ABOUT LAUDER. My attention has just been called tu several recent publications under London cable date line, of an article referring to the forthcoming reappearance in this country of Harry Lauder, the asts grave upon the to reach great Scotch comedian, doubts, intentionally or possibility of Mr. this country in which otherwise, Lauder being able time to fulfill his contracts in the fall. Prominence was given the story, and headlines to the very misleading statement that Mr. Lauder was ‘“‘In a Queer Fix’’ and an ‘‘Awkward Position’? by reason of the fact that he had failed in an attempt to ‘“‘buy off the contract held by Robert Arthur for the comedian’s services in Cinderella at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, even after offering a bonus of $12.500 spot cash in lieu of the $1,000 a week salary. The truth of the transaction is that, or not Mr. Arthur eventually accepts Mr. Lauder’s extremely liberal offer or adheres to his original declination, Mr. Lauder will sail for America according to original schedule under contract to Wiliam Morris, Inc., and make his reappearance in New York City, at the Circle Theatre, on Monday evening, October 5, 1908. This probably will be Harry Lauder’s farewell American engagement, for, barring the eight weeks of which he is under contract to William Morris, Inc., at the world’s top salary of whether GRAVITY Shooting Galleries AND — Cat Racks AT BARGAIN PRICES Send for Catalogue. DIAMOND NOVELTY CO., SYRACUSE, NEW YORK. WANTED FIRST-CLASS, CLEAN CARNIVAL COMPANY For County Fair, Sept. 16-17-18, 1908. CHARLES BERINGER, °GONZALES, TEXAS. AGENTS WANTED ALLEN’S KNIFE OF THE WORLD Wooden handle, $3.75 per g1oss, KNIFE SHARPENERS, the best on the market. $3.75 per gross. 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