The Billboard 1908-11-21: Vol 20 Iss 47 (1908-11-21)

SSeS NOVEMBER 21, 1908. The Billboard trated songs: Lew Sully, tenor, and the Cameraphone Talking Moving Pictures, Big busi ness is the rule. A change of bill will be made next week, The bill at the Dream World, week of November 2consisted of Larry Norlea, coon shouter; Miss Eunice Levy, in illustrated songs, and the latest moving pictures. The program was an excellent one and drew big = crowds. Change of bill next week is made each week. Wonderland bad a fine bill week of No vember 2, in The Lights and Shadows of Chinatown, Prof. Daniels’ Royal English Punch and Judy Show, and illustrated songs and moving pictures. Big business was recorded for the week. The big Winter Garden Hippodrome, which opened November 7, offered the following program: Fountain of Youth, Miss Lena Carleton, vocal soloist; The Marvelous Melis, equilibrists and horizontal bar performers; Lesseke and Lannetta, Turkish performers; F. Clarenz Rivers, and Patsy A. Mafera, singers and dancers. and others, Col. Charles A. Dunlap promises to present nothing but first-class attractions at bis Hippodrome. Josef Lhevinne, the great Russian planist, will give one recital at the Athenaeum November 28, under the auspices of the New Orleans Phil harmonic Society. The Lid Lifters were the attraction at the Greenwald week of November 2, and lifted things In a lively manner The show as a whole is an excellent one and drew big crowds. The Golden Crook Extravaganza Company is the next attraction. The 0. T. Crawford's talking moving pictures, vaudeville and Ulustrated songs was the bill at the popular Shubert week of Nevember 2. The program was an excellent one and big business was the rule. Moving pictures, vandeville and illustrated” songs made up the offering at the Elysium week of November 2. Col. Cody's Buffalo Bill's Wild West will give six performances here at the Fair Grounds beginning November 13 to 15. The city is being billed to its capacity The bill at the new Grand week of November 2. consisted of vaudeville, talking moving pic tures and illustrated songs. All the moving picture and electric theatres are presenting the latest and newest moving pic tures and running in some excellent vaudeville acts and illustrated songs All report fine business The penny arcades are also putting on some fine records and pictures and are doing a big business. Local No. 39, International Association of Theatrical Stage Employes, gave their first grand fancy dress and calico ball, November 5. at the Odd Fellows’ Hall The hall was beautifully decorated and illuminated for the occasion Some of the guests were Lester Loner gan and his Stock Company, which is playing a season's engagement at the Dauphine; The Wizard of Oz Company, which played at the Crescent; The Lid Lifters. who were at the Greenwald: The Merry Widow Company, who played their second weeks’ engagement at the fashionable Tulane; Mr. Theodore Gamble, of the New Lyric Stock Company at Blaney'’s Ly ric, amd many other prominent theatrical people. The affair was a grand success from an artistic and financial standpoint. The Committee of Arrangements consisted of the following: C. Scanlon, chairman; A. J. Sharren, ex-officio; E. Berberich, J. Gros, J. Riehl, T. Glucksman, D. W. Mason, Botte, A. J. Hamilton, E. J. Mather, N. Tariton and A. Alley. WILLIAM A. KOEPKE. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. A beavy sale marks the appearance of The Three Twins at the Metropolitan Opera House, the first balf of this week. The company is headed by Victor Morley and includes a large cast and an attractive chorus. The scenery, mechanical and electrical effects, and many novelties are all of the highest order and very elaborate and the performance is most enjoy able. The last half of the week Miss Florence Roberts will be presented in the new English drama, The House of Bondage and a heavy advance sale has already started. Several notable bookings are scheduled to appear at the Metropolitan, including The Top O° Th’ World, Way Down East, The Man of the Hour, The Virginian, Rip Van Winkle, Girls and many others. The Lieutenant and the Cowboy, the new Western milifary drama, in which Theodore Lorch is being starred, is drawing excellent houses at the Bijou Opera House this week, and bas so far proven himself a great favorite. Next week Wine, Women and Song, with Bonita, will be presented at this theatre and other near dates Include Johnny Hoey in The Boy Detec tive, Ben Hendericks in Yon Yonson, Miss Beulah Poynter in Lena Rivers, William H Turner in The Governor and the Boxs, The Creole Slave and From Sing Sing to Liberty. The Lyric Stock Company at the Lyric Theatre is this week presenting, with great suc cess, George Arliss’ English farce comely, There and Back. The plot is clever and the company is well cast. The Lyric management intends to put on several interesting and new plays, among them The Marriage of Kitty, probably another week's run of The Devil, later in the season, and one of the Blanche Bates plays, If it can be secured. The Sam Devere Company is the attraction at the Dewey Theatre this week and crowded houses have prevailed. The company presents “ two-act musical comedy, entitled What Happened East and What Happened West, and the Staging and accessories are far above the or dinery, while the plot contains many original specialties and features an attractive chorus of twenty graceful girls. The ollo is also of high merit and contains the following numbers: Krown and Bragg, Four Banta Brothers, Belle Gorton, Sam J. Adams and Misa Gladys St. John and Mile. Rartolett!., In conjunctien with this show the Great Leonard will present at every performance the famous Houdini act. The Rennee Family, European performers of bho mean ability are headliners at the Unique Theatre this week. They are followed on the bill by Harry Lukens’ eight performing pontes, Including Kansas, the educated equine. Other humbers are the Shaar-Wheeler Trio, Eva That cher, Julia Romaine and Company, Inez Mon tague, and the Kinetoscope with motion ple tures At the Gem Family Theatre this week the bill Is: Chinese Harry Walton, Barry and Barry, La Vine and Alma, Irene Stanfield and the mo tlon pietures The week's bill at the Orpheum Theatre ts headlined by Wilfred Clark and Company Other numbers inelnde the Military Octette, Melville and Stetson, Rooney Sisters, Pero and Wilson, Les Salvaggis, Hibbert and Warren, and the Kinodrome. Next week the headline fea ture will be Miss Violet Black appearing in a sketch by Edgar Allen Woolf, entitled In The Subway. Manager Archie Miller, of the Dewey Thentre, inaugurated a novelty in the way of ad vising his patrons of the results of election returns on election night. Instead of throwing the returns on a full curtain during the Intermission or after the performance, he suspended a smaller curtain from the grand-border of the stage and threw on the returns with the stereop ticon during the course of the regular perform ance. In this way the audience was kept post ed all during the performance of the election returns without interfering in any way with the going on of the act. This was done both at the regular evening performance and also at the nightinee. Miss Kate Blancke, who is playing character parts with the Lyric Stock Company of this city was formerly a partner in the stock company that R. L. Giffen and James Neill projected for a limited time in Denver. Later, in conjunction with her sister Anne, she started two com panies for stock work, which they owned joint ly Wright Kramer, who is delivering the Holmes Travelogues around the country at pres ent, was then one of their leading men. RODERIC STE. FLEURE. LOUISVILLE, KY. To prove the growth of the moving picture business in Louisville, Miss Ethel Bradley, a baritone songster. formerly of the vaudevile troupe of Fonda, Dell and Fonda, 1* now singing at the Bijou Theatre om Porrth avenue, Lear Market street. Her singing proves quite an at traction for this theatre. San Francisco Letter hh By Oar Own Correspondent y, New Washington Square Theatre Opens---Demise of Burt Haverly---Construction of New Columbia Theatre Begun---Tivoli to be Rebuilt---Other Notes. readiness for the ening of the new Washington Square The spared no expense whatever in the fittings and two reels of moving will appear in next issue. OSCAR S. BURNS, Manager San Francisco office of The Cary E. Taylor, another vanieville ertist. who used to be one of the Falls City Quertette, is the baritone singer at the Superba Tnratre on Market street, near Fourth avenue. Chas. Sylvester, of Sylvester. Rernolds Company, is also connected with the Superba Thea tre The big noise last week was the opening of the season for the Louisville Symphony Orehes tra on November 13. This orchestra is composed of fifty musicians, and is under the dirction of Gratz Cox. S. W. Pascoe, manager of Lineotin J. Certer's In At The Finish, also owner of Just A Wom an’s Way, reports that the last named show is scoring quite a success. At Duquoein, Il... the receipts were $400, for one night only. Frank Byron, of Byron and Langdon, in vaudeville, began his career on the historic stage of Robinson's Museum, New Orleans, in 1886, as a contortionist Later he became a descrip tive singer. and, forming an association under the tithe of Byron and Bell, he toured the country in The Hottentots. After that Mr. Ry ron went to England and played comedy in some of Geo. Edwards’ musical productions. In one of these he was given the part of a “dandy” detective who thought more of his clothes than trapping a thief and from this character Mr. Byron built bis present vandeville offering, which, prior to the American presentation had run for two years in London and throughout the English provinces . A. W. HERR. Richard Crolius and Company opened at the Olymple Theatre, Chicago. on Mondar. November 8 with their sketch. Shorty. a new comedy sketeh of the race track It is being presented by Billie Burke, not the dainty star of Love Watehes. but by the Billie of that name, who was formerly of Burke and Dempsey. Western States Vaudeville Association. musical director; Sheppard, scenic artist; MecLinn Brothers, Roland West and Company, have gone to Los Angeles to play the Sullivan and Considine houses. the Lyceum Thea will be devoted to moving pic makes seven in that section of the city. who promoted the White Palmoving picture house. of the store forside of Market street, installing a ten foot entrance on the easterly side of the buikling in marble and plate glass, barber shop, ete. main floor will be ocen teen-foot arcade entrance to the theatre proper, containing 10.000 square feet, $30,000 Is to be spent in decorations and equip Messrs. Turner & Dahnken have opened their on Market street, between Fifth and Sixth Streets. It is a very beautiful affair, containing some five hundred seats. It is called The Elite, and opened last Saturday evening witb a flourish and continued doing a good business. Mr. Dahnken bas just returned from an extended visit East. While singing in a cafe on Golden Gate avenue last week, Burt Haverly, a well-known minstrel and comedian, dropped dead from a sudden attack of heart disease. Haverly was at one time with Charley Reed’s Minstrels and other well-known organizations. Rioting that brought the police, an exbibition of actresses in undress, rivaling the sparse costuming of a Salome dancer, and a play without music or scenery, were among the unbilled attractions presented to the patrons of the Victory Theatre last Sunday night. Mem bers of the Largarmon Yiddish Opera Company Were presenting If I Were a King, when delegations from the stage carpenters’ and musicians’ union invaded the house and de manded payment of $100, which they claimed the management owed them. Leo Larzamen disputed the claim of tbe unions. Captained by Antonio Cassassa, president of the Musi cians’ Union, the union men began to dismantle the scenery. The uproar raised by the audience threw the actresses, who were robing in the dressing rooms into a panic, and they fled in undress across the stage for the street exit. Then came the police, and the play was resumed, minus music and scenery. The Vivians, H. Vivian and Miss Leon Vivian Dupreese, famous rifle shots, who are filling dates on the S. and C. Circuit, were Billboard visitcrs this week. They are much pleased with their reception on the Coast, and are fea tured all down the line. M. Paap Morelly, manager of the Three Sis ters Yilerom, the sensational revolving globe artists, who were imported direct from Ger many for the Barnum and Bailey Big Shows, Was a pleasant office visitor. His act is ere ating a furore all over the circuit, and return dates are offered. Tops, Topsy and Tops, also Mae Sheftels dropped in and registered. Don Carlos bas just returned from a seven months’ trip throughout the Coast, where he had his own show, comprising his trained mon kys. dogs and giant baboons, and did a tremendous business. He came in our office with his pocket lined with the yellow stuff. and says, “‘No more vaudeville dates for me. AlWays my own show hereafter.” He is now preparing to go out with a much larger show next season. The Norris and Rowe Circus closed its sea son at Salinas, November 6, and went into win ter quarters the following day at Santa Cruz The contract for the construction of the new Columbia Theatre, to be erected at the corner of Geary and Mason streets, bas been recorded, and work has already been commenced. ‘The building, fully eqnipped, will cost in the neigh borlhood of $300,000, fhe Tivoli Theatre is to be rebuilt on the site of the old opera house, on the north side of Eddy street, between Powell and Mason streets. The projected building will be «a Class A, combining steel frame with reinforced concrete, and finished in fire-proof material throughout, as required by the building laws Present plans contemplate a popular opera house, like the Tivoli of past days. The Western States Yauaeville Association will establish a booking office in Chicago. The Milk Can Mystery is produced at two houses this week. Hardeen at the Empire, and Fravolo at the National, and many patrons see both. The Clansman is the Van Ness Theatre bill this week, and most of the local papers did not treat the play as was expected, calling it a lurid melodrama, and not an attraction for a high-priced theatre, but in spite of all these criticisms, the house did a good week's busi ness. Next week Rose Stahl in The Chorus Lady is the attraction for a two weeks’ stay Little Johnny Jones, at the American Thea tre. is repeating the big success it made at this house last season. It seems the public is not tired of it, and the cast this year is equal to and up to the standard of former visits Charley Rrown in the title role is well liked, and William Keongh as The Unknown is, as usual, the real hit of the show. All the other principals made hits. Ada Gifford as Flor able Fly became a prime favorite at once, also Amy Mortimer and Dan Simmons. All of the song hits were enthusiastically received, and Manager Abe Cobn is full of satisfactory smiles Kol and Dill, in Playing the Pontes, now on their second week, continne smashing the box office records of the Princess Theatre. So successful is the play that it is up for an in definite run. The Rocky Mountain Express !s the Novelty Theatre attraction this week, playing to fair business. Next week Richards and Pringle’< Minstrels play the house, and prospects look for a very good business. The town is billed like @ cirens. A Navajo's Love was given its premiere at the Valencia Theatre last Sunday, and judg ing from the constant applause bestowed at each performance, the new play is voted a sue (Continued on page 48.) —_— om