The Billboard 1908-08-15: Vol 20 Iss 33 (1908-08-15)

C4 ‘ P AUGUST 15, 1908. The Billboard easier fact that his famous plano built | weeks before beginning rehearsals in. The Little Otis Harlan has arrived in Chicago an 8 to of — — a o— at Le + s wel h will be the opening at| busily engaged in oe The Sechen tal Parks, Fairs, Privilege People! bulk coessiul muse so destroyed, raction a x Chicago Opera House. the new music . ais , ome In a lost a large portion of bis ward The Wolf, which has had a successful run of Whitney ong nome Pann ‘2. The po Look Here! Somethin New! robe household goods, a8 did his partner,|a month at the Chicago Opera House, has been | principals in the cast will be Alice Yorke, Chas 9 Sa H. Harris noe had been living in the mosed over to the Garrick Theatre, where it] J. Bowers, Violet Dale, George Richards, A Bi M ! ame t it the seashore. will run for two weeks before going ist d Dean) Hee ; ¢ . one -Getter ™ ve Thateber, the veteran minstrel, has | road. ng ee ee Sn es Kennedy, Paul Hoffman and Madge g y pres u M. Coban with the bones and Matinee girls have besieged William CourtThe Monarch Amusement Company are to tambourine ed by Christy, the first minstrel | ney, the handsome young leading man with The | erect a theatre costing $125,000 with a seating at , irtist who created the art of black-}] Wolf, for so many bits of the red silk sash capacity of 1.800 at the " eouner of Milwaukee ng . , face uinent; Whose latest phase is shown) he wears as the voyageur that he has been com-] and Oakley avenues It will be a fireproof ‘ ae, by ( & Harris’ minstrels which opened at|pelled to lay in a stock of those romantic ar-| structure, three stories high, of re-enforced conBALL GAME the New York Theatre on Monday. the -~ He says that he thinks reciprocity | crete construction, and will have ground dimenath might go well with this, and that the girls os ? =A foe et ae eae NEW INCORPORATIONS. might donate him their red kimono sashes in sions of SSx156 feet. The plans are being pre? “4 Certificates of incorporation for the following amusement companies have been filed with | Secretary of State: Inter-Ocean Amusement Company, New York; capital, $5,000 Directors—George C, Germond, 221 Park Vlace, Brooklyn; Angelus Stuart, 46 W. Twenty eighth Street; John J. Atkinson, 42 W. Thirty-fifth New York. The Garrick Management, New York (theatri, to advance the interests of Florence Davis as a theatrical attraction in a certain play; capital $5,000. Directors—Florence Davis, Kyan Maud H. Walker, 209 W. Twenty-sixth New York. Kay Amusement Company, New York; capital, Street, Street $2,000. Directors—Tobias A. Keppler and Abrafam Beck, 250 Broadway, New York; Agnes Breiterman, 660 Leonard Street, Brooklyn. Amusement Specialty Company, New York; capital, $75,000 Directors—Welcome H. Mose ly, 151 Hayward Street; Frank W. Norris, 235 Hooper Street; Joseph F. Blaisdell, 53 Woodbine Street, Brooklyn. Felix Blei Circuit, New York (Amusement); capital, $1,000. Directors—Felix Blei, Catskill. Green County; Robert Blei, 11 Broadway; Mary Biel, 122 W. Forty-ninth Street, New York. The National Theatrical Transfer Company, New York, bas also been incorporated; capital, $5,000. Directors—Frederick H. Barker, lu Howard Street, Newark, N. J.; Frank Fritsch, 1123 Rodger Avenue, Brooklyn; Johan J. Sullivan 203 Broadway, New York. ; The Voegelin Costume Company, New York: capital, $25,000. Directors—Frederick C. Voegelin, and George W. Voegelin, 224 East Houston Street, New York; George W. Kutscher, 4 Tomp kin Avenue, St. George, 8S. 1, New York. Chicago Amusements (Continued from page 7.) Ezra Kendall will shortly return to the scenes of his earlier triumphs, Vaudeville, making an appearance at the Majestic Theatre early in the Season. He will bave a new sketch, filled with Sayings and witticisms of the Kendall brand. Among the Chicago productions this year will one in which Tim Murphy will star. The hg be called My Boy, and is by Ruppert Miss Clara Belle Jerome, for several y lesding figure al years & in musical comedy, is the latest addition to the cast of The Broken Idol at the Whitney Opera House. The Gates of Eden, by the Rev. William Garrick pe rformance the great Shaker play, Lis Danforth, was withdrawn k Theatre after last Saturday's yay The play will go on the road and oo ~ Season will be brought back to uicago for a short run of night performances. The Haymarket Theatre, which has been run— moving pictures all summer, will reopen ot vaudeville house at the end of the month, aving all of the leading acts that will make a loop houses be Invader, the play that made its first a — at McVicker’s Theatre early in the are ak will be the opening bill at the Peoee — ‘tre out on the West Side. The house een placed in first-class condition and it is now said to be : to be as pretty Smaller houses in the “— as any of the The Ashlan i. wen a Theatrical Company is the name Sasinens oe that has incorporated to do mae ee the State of Illinois, and they will Cc Cohan. ra their stamping grounds. George ple Vorhees and C. J. Appell are the Me et, the, Hew organization. a. Rg Backus arrived in Chicago this at the Gra: © the role of J msy in Paid in Full Decme Tene Opera House, replacing Mr. Albert the other comnnsu® to New York to join one of will be hee aieenans playing the drama. There 80n and one in an _ —e thie eeeSenator | aFollette’s brought suit in Blox k Amuse ment Was eng ized tled Honor t daughter, Fola, has Chicago against the Will J. Company, claiming that she to play the lead in a play entiRright, at a salary of $50 per _ y usement company not only failed la F + ~~ ‘ne play. but forgot to release Miss ette from her contract, and the season ore the young actress was able to employment. phens : who has written the book of Idol, which is to be seen at the “ re House late this month, is comi lw comer in the playwriting fleld has written a few sketches for *. Mr. Stephens has only one other The Broken Idol, that being My steep ‘ty, & farce, which met with success ’ ro The Lyceu Cated af mat & new ten cent theatre, lo nue. wae Tt¥ ninth and Cottage Grove ave “9 opened last Sunday evening It is pact ’ one little theatre, with a seating ca ado ses One thousand electric lights and tron Uomed lobby. The house fs modern as wens throughout, and a good grade of the st: J Pwo shows a week will be owne vones, Linick and Sehaefer are the Mr. Jamoe editor of rhe © Donnell Rennett, the dramatic a fow a... Record Herald, has been spending per : among the Wisconsin lakes, recu M Mare © for « be mre Cecil, who has been understudy The Wor } Walker in the role of Hilda In has gone East, and will rest for two return for the vomentos he gives them. Helen Ware and Albert Brown recently stood sponsors for a little incubator infant at River view park The tiny mite of humanity was christened Jimsy Smith, after the part played by Albert Brown in Paid in Full. A clergyman officiated at the christening. Jobin Pierre Roach is spending the summer at Orinoco, Minn., and writes that he is finding much sport among the lakes in that region. ©. R. Henkle, the ubiquitous press representative of Paid in Full, bas been landing some good stories in the Chicago papers. He recently superintended an outing of his company at Riverview Park, which was a great success. Ralph Kettering, manager of the College Theatre, and publicity manager for all the Marvin houses in Chicago, Is sojourning in the wilds of Michigan until the opening of the season. Although The Gates of Eden have closed at The Garrick Theatre, this fact has not kept fhe Wolf out of that playhouse. George Kingsbury, who carried The Man from Home through such a successful run at the Chicago Opera House, is now at the helm again, while Frank Rivers is resting. Percy Hammond, the well-known dramatic critic of The Post, has returned from Europe, where he had a great and glorious time. He is back at his desk once more. Lew Fields will come to the Garrick Theatre Monday, August 24, with his big company in The Girl Behind the Counter. Jack Hargis, who has a wide acquaintance on the Rialto, has opened a new cigar store in the Princess Theatre, on Clark street, just South of Jackson Boulevard, where all the leading brands may be found. The role of Harry Benton in Mr. Clay of Missourie,, the new play by David Higgins, which opuhs the season at McVicker’s Theatre, has been assigned to Jack Wyatt, a clever young act@r, who starred in stock in Milwaukee last season. Harvey Steele, a well-known figure on the Rialto, packed up his fishing tackle and journeyed to Grass Lake last week. The question of the weight of the fish will be the main topic at the Schiller cigar stand for months to come. Jim O'Leary is ambitious to beceme a theatrical magnate. In addition to the new Englewood Theatre, which he is building, Mr. O'Leary has purchased a roller skating rink in Luna Park and ordered it to be changed into a vaudevglle house. The theatre fronts on Halstead Street, off Fifty-second street. It is planned to open it the latter part of September, and to operate it through the winter months after the park Is closed. Patrick F. Ludwig, of the Garrick Theatre office force, has returned from Paw Paw Lake, real Mich., where he has been spending a week, recuperating and getting ready for the coming season. Owing to the fact that The Wolf will move over to the Garrick Theatre, Lew Fields will not arrive at that playhouse with his big company in The Girl Behind the Counter until Monday, August 24. Miss Mary Ryan will play the leading part in the comedy, That Little Affair at Boyd's, which is to open the Klaw & Erlanger season at the Chicago Opera House. Miss Cecelia Loftus was originally retained for the part, but as indisposition prevented her from doing the role full justice, it was transferred to Miss Ryan Thomas A. Wise, who it will be remembered played in Miss Hook of Holland and The Invader, is to star under the management of William A. Brady in a play written by bimself and Harrison Rhodes. The play, which deals with national politics, is called The Gentleman from Mississippl. A bear cub has arrived at The Top 0° Th’ World and now is making his appearance in the second act, in a special scene which has been prepared for him. In an effort to find a name for the youngster, the management oeffered a night off and a box in front to the member of the company who made the best suggestion. One chorus girl wrote on her slip of paper, ‘“‘anything but Teddy."" The cub, which dqges a dance with Arthur Hill the Friendly Bear, is in reality a 17-year-old mid get, the son of one of the principals of the company. WilHam Lorraine, musical director, and Arthur Evans, stage manager, at the Princess Theatre, fre about to form a singing and dancing class.to prepare pupils exclusively for the musical fomedy stage, as a sort of an em ergency class to prepare its members to take the roles in any of the Mort Singer produc tions on ghort notice A cir fas The Helm, the new musical com edy by Shhith and Hubbell, which will be pro duced at Jthe LaSalle Theatre early in Septem ber, will Skeep up the records of the Madison street playhouse as the ‘‘girlie’’ theatre. Re fore it have been The Time, The Place and The Girl, and The Girl Question. Cecil Lean and Florence Holbrook have re turned from Lake Koshkonong, Wis., where they spent a few weeks recuperating, and are now busy rehearsing the roles of A Girl At The Helm at the LaSalle Theatre. William Faversham will open bis season at the Garrick Theatre in The World and His Escherhazy’s Spanish play Wife, a play from Gossip is the theme ealled The Great Geleoto. handled in the drama The Ster Theatre, out on Milwaukee avenue, which was opened last season by Charles E Kobl, will be ready to reopen the first week in Septembe It is a neighborhood theatre, designed f the home patronage of the great northwesf side. pared by Architect David 8S. Klafter. Announcement has been made that the Garden Theatre at Wabash avenue and Peck Court, will be ready for occupancy about the middle of October. The house, which occupies the shell of what was Brook’s Casino, will seat about 1,250 persons and will consist of the main floor and one gallery only. It will be made a producing center for musical plays. Florence Townsend, who was one of the chorus in The Flower of the Ranch, has joined the company which will play The Broken Idol at the Whitney Opera House. And by the way, Florence claims that she invented the famous broilers. Louise Kelly, one of Hyde Park’s belles who is an understudy in The Top 0’ Th’ World, at the Studebaker Theatre, was given a chance last Wednesday evening when she played the part of Princess Tinymite which is regularly played by Helene Montrose. She played the part very well and it will not be long before she will be among the top notchers of the profession. The William H. Swanson Amusement Company was organized last week with a capital stock of $30,000 to operate a theatre. Thomas J. Lynch, A. P. Holleb and L. H. Mithen are the incorporators. Mr. Mort Singer returned from New York last week to begin work on his several attractions. Accompanying Mr. Singer were Mr. Robert Smith and Mr. Raymond Hubbell, composer of the new musical play, The Girl at the Helm, which will be the opening attraction at the LaSalle Theatre Wilson Avenue Bathing Beach is the favorite with the theatrical profession and all of the members of the leading companies that are now playing in Chicago this summer are daily visitors, Helen Ware, of the Paid In Full Company, being a daily attendant. The beach is under the general direction of H. J. Handy, one of the champion swimmers and instructors of the United States. Edgar Allan Conway, formerly soloist in Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis, and later a member of the Delmar Grand Opera Company in the same city, has joined the A Stubborn Cinderella Company that will play on the road this season. The company is now rehearsing at the Princess Theatre. Rast Wednesday afternoon was Crippled Children’s Day at the Studebaker Theatre. Between SO and 100 maimed and deformed tots, in charge of Mrs. Emma S. Haskell, witnessed the performance of The Top O’ Th’ World. Afterwards they were given a ride in buses around the city on a sight-seeing tour. Many of the cripples had never been in a theatre before. Mort H. Singer, manager of the Princess Theatre, was slightly injured last Tuesday evening when his automobile collided with a street car. The machine was badly damaged. Mr. Singer was able to resume his duties the latter part of the week. Francis Ring will succeed Charlotte Walker in the role of Hilda in The Wolf at the end of the Chicago engagement. This is the third person to play the only female part of the show since it came to Chicago. It opened with Ida Conquest, who played the role for three weeks and then Miss Walker finished two weeks at the Chicago Opera House and she will play two weeks at the Garrick Theatre. Miss Ring will make her appearance after the close of the run at the Garrick. San Francisco Letter. (Continued from page 11.) The carnival will be the most spectacular feature of the exposition, On the Happy Path, which will be a reproduction of the famous Midway Plaisance, will be side shows of all sorts and, to heighten the carnival effect, all the attendants will wear gala costumes. The park will be brilliantly illuminated each evening. Special carnival rates of one fare for the round trip to Oakland, from all parts of the state, will be sold by the railroads to parties of forty or more, and one and a third round trip rate will be made to parties of smaller numbers. Manager James Pillings is leaving nothing undone to make the affair a most bril liant success, and hopes to beat last year's record. RUBE COHEN, 1439 Fillmore st. NEW THEATRE CIRCUIT FORMED. At a meeting of theatre proprietors from fourteen cities in Oklahoma and Kansas, in Tulsa, Okla., July 21, the Kansas-Oklahoma Booking Association was organized. The object of the association is to create a new circuit and a booking agent, who is to receive a hand some salary, will be employed at once to book attractions for the coming season. Tulsa is to be the headquarters of the association. Among the cities included in the new cireuit are Tulsa, Enid, Bartlesville, Pawhuska, Sapulpa, Muskogee and McAlester in Oklahoma and Coffeyville and Independence In Kansas. The circuit is open to new members, Don Briggs, drummer for the Goodman Band, has been engaged by Manager Ronan of Powers’ Theatre, Decatur, Ill., for a forty five weeks’ engagement at his house. (Patent pending.) The above cut fs a reproduction of our NEW AUTOMATIC HAPPY HOOLIGAN HEAD; earved out of select hardwood; no strings to ull or delicate mechanism to get out of order. hrow baseballs, knock can off, bell rings and ean returns automatically; knock eyes out, return by gravity, ring bell and give winking effect. Painted in natural colors. Will last @ lifetime. We positively guarantee nothing will break or get out of order. Price $28. Backstop $6.50. Three dozen balls $1.50. Complete $36. Terms, half cash with order, balance (©. O. D.; state what you want when ordering. NOTICE!—We also have the Automatic Taft and Bryan Heads. Big money getters during the campaign. Price, $75. A big hit! For full particulars, address 204 W. 15th 8t.. CINCINNATI NOVELTY CO., Zh.WiwteeS. WANTED Sober man to play leads and heavies. State INA all first letter. GEYER’S 10 NIGHTS BAR ROOM CO., Logan, Iowa. poster and Cornet for B. & O. WANTED Attractions of all kinds for Labor Day, and Merry-Go-Round for balance of season, at_ Tipp City Park. Address PERRY BUCKLES, Tippecanoe City, Ohio. WANTED For W. R. MARKLE’S NEW SUNNY SOUTH FLOATING THEATRE, a distinct Novelty Act; also good Irish Comedian. State lowest,; expenses after joining. Address Per Route. WANTED All kinds of Tent Shows on a percentage, for Also want Bill the Freeport Fair, Sept 1-4, 1908. JAS. REZNER, Secy., Freeport, Il. McINTOSH OPERA HOUSE, Kalispell, Mon tana. Stage 50x37x40; opening, 17x22; seating capacity 700; steam heat; electric light. County seat. Population 6,000. Best attractions; none too good. One of the best towns in the State. W. J. RENNIE, Manager. WANTED—The following amusements at the K. of P. Home Outing at Harmony, Aug. 26. Doll Racks, Strikers, Cane Stands, Knife Stands, Picture Galleries, and all other small amuse ments. RAHISER & CUNNINGHAM, Mgrs. of Amusements, Evans City, Pa. : WANTED : For Southern Trip, 2 Dancing Girls for Fairies In the Well Show. Salary $10.00 and carfare. Write or wire, but pay for messages. L, J. DAVIS, Staunton, Ill., week Aug. 10-16. FOR SALE—Two thoroughly educated horses for stage. A beautiful black saddler and pure white Arabian. Write for particulars. Address JENNIE GATES, 614 14th St., Denver, Col. WANTED—Music of some kind for moving pic ture show. Must be extra good. What have you? Also Trap Drummer with effects. Must be fine. Steady work to right parties. CRYSTAL THEATRE, Frankfort, ky. 16 CAROUSEL HORSES, Also frame and Organ, $75.00. ‘“‘WATERS,”’ 350 W. 37th St., New York City. WANTED Military Organ. Must be in good BOX 353, Midland, Ontario, Second-hand condition; at once. Canada. SPECIAL FEATU RES— Quebec Tercentenary Celebration; William Jennings Bryan; William H.Tafit; ‘a Sth Floor, American Trust Bidg. Clark and Monroe Streets CHICACO AME — Catholie Centennial Celebration; Gans-Nelson Fight (Reproduction) RICAN FILM SERVICE BEST SERVICE IN AMERICA SOUTHERN BRANCH 158 Worth Main Street MEMPHIS, TENN.