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

NOVEMBER 21, 1908, The Billboard ARE WE SO SOON FORGOTTEN? Dedicated to Miss Maud Cex, who died in Fort Smith, Ark., July 12, 1907. Her grave has been entirely neglected although ber husband still lives and is in vaudeville somewhere. I stood to-day by a lonely grave, In a town In the great Southwest. The birds sang clear, the sun shove high, And the world was at its best. But one sad line came te my mind As 1 stood on the grave-yard lawn: Are we then s0 soon forgotten When we are gone, when we are gone? { knew the maid who was buried there And her grave was all unkept. But a lone wood cross, with a penciled name Marked the spot, where a true heart slept. And the busy world, she once had known Rushed on, and on, and on. Are we then so soon forgotten When we are gone, when we are gone? stooped and plucked away the weeds And cleaned the grave as best I could. brought a slip of ivy green And twined it on the cross of wood. thought of the day when I should die And a grave for me would yawn. Will I be so soon forgotten When I am gone, when I am gone? Will sobs that are beard as I'm lowered down be heartfelt and sincere? And will my memory be preserved for longer than a year? For this poor maid's soul passed away just one short year ago, Yet no kind hand has checked the weeds that thickly o’er her grow. It seems a shame, the gross neglect of this land of brain and brawn. Are we then so soon forgotten when we are gone, when we are gone? R. H. LAWRENCE, of Lawrence & Russell. A small headstone is now being erected. The manager of the Lyric has charge of it. Why not have a better one: ten dollars more would help. Let the actors do something. THE ENDOWED MUNICIPAL THEATRE. Few people are aware that the experiment of an endowed theatre has been tried in Amerlea. There is at least one snch and it is in successful operation In Red Wing. Minn. Red Wing is a town of only 10,000 persons, forty down the Mississippi river from St. Paul, end to it, several years ago, a citizen left $89,000 to found a municipal theatre. A citizens’ committee. under the terms of the bequest, manages the playhouse, and so well has it done its work that for the last three years .Mr. Lane's a dividend on the capital imvested has been paid to the town. Prof. Richard Burton, in a lecture on the drama, using the Red Wing experiment as a criterion, predicts that ‘‘in ten years probably, and in twenty-five years certainly, every considerable city in the United States will have its municipal theatre. MAJESTIC THEATRE, ANN ARBOR, MICH. The Majestic Theatre, which Is one of the most beautiful and perfectly appointed theatres in the country, has been leased by Col. W. S. Butterfield, of Battle Creek who controls the Bijou Circuit of vaudeville bonuses. Arthur Lane, who also manages the Bijou Theatre, Battle Creek, will have the direction of the Ann Arbor house and divide his time between the two cities. Under management the new theatre has been playing to capacity business since the opening and is an assured success. AUGUSTUS THOMAS TO RECEIVE AN L. L. D. DEGREE. The University of Missouri has notified Augustus Thomas, the orator-playwright, that at its next commencement a degree of L. L. D. would be conferred upon him. A similar degree was recently conferred upon Mark Twain. The president of the university, in introducing Mr. Thomas at a recent meeting of the society, declared him to be ‘‘the most distinguished son that Missouri has produced, with the exception of Samuel L. Clemens."’ EMIL G. ARMBRUSTER CINNATI. Ann Arbor, Mich., IN CIN Emil G. Armbruster. of Matt Armbruster & Sons, scenic artists, Columbus, O., was a Billboard caller recently Mr. Armbruster was at the Music Hall, Cincinnati, painting the Palace and College Grounds scene for the musical play, Prof. Napoleon, which was presented by local taent. THE MARRIAGE OF THE STAR. At the end of the present season Charles Frohman will produce a new comedy in three acts by Alexander Bissouri, well-known as the an thor of The Masked Ball and other successes. _ title of the new play is The Marriage of the Star. GERTRUDE QUINLAN IN VAUDEVILLE. Gertrude Quinlan has signed a contract for an appearance in vaudeville. She will be seen in a sketch called Zaza’s Hit. THE SEASON ENDS. There is nothing so melancholy in all of this world to-day, As a closed up place of amusement, where the people were wont to play. The theatre, with seats all covered, and all of the lights turned off, With the curtain raised on the cold, bare stage, Where the “‘Heavy’’ once ranted and stamped in rage, At the ‘‘Lead’’ and the cute. plush-panfed page, And at virtue and honor scoffed. The “Big-top’ down at the circus with its long, long line of ‘‘blues,’’ When deserted makes us wonder at the life that the ‘‘Kinkers’’ chose. The piny smell of the sawdust and the heavy quiet that’s there. Make us long for the crack of the ‘‘Master’s” whips (As the rider throws from her finger tips A kiss that is meant for the whole world’s lips, ) And the circus band’s shrill blare. But of all the cold, drear grave-yards, where the ghosts of the past abound, The worst is the ‘‘Pike’’ or ‘‘Midway,’’ and the bunch of the ‘‘Bally-hoo.”’ (And the lights so gay on the great white way.) And the 'fetti bors and the laughter gay. And the three-piece bands that once did play Don’t sound as they once did do. Well Life is a season's playground and it has its smiles and tears, And the days may come with their good, good times. or lengthen to sad. sad years. And the friends we make this season, we may meet no more on earth, But still we work as the years go by ‘Till winter’s snows gray hair, dim eye, And showmen come, and live, and dle. And another one has birth. WRIGHT WALKER. Press Agent, Forest Park, Pine Bluff, Ark. ROBERT BURGESS STOCK CO. After a most successful season of ten weeks stock at the Empire Theatre. San Antonio, Tex., the Robert Burgess Stock Company, under the ownership and management of Joseph D. Glass, will take the road. beginning at Galveston, with Houston, Austin, Waco, Dallas and Fort Worth following. The American Theatrical Exchange of the Theatre Building, New York, is directing the tour. NEW THEATRE FOR RICHMOND. A large theatre is now in the course of construction in Richmond, Va., for Lubin, of Philadelphia. It is about ready for occupancy. 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