The Billboard 1908-11-28: Vol 20 Iss 48 (1908-11-28)

NOVEMBER 28, 1908. { The Billboard George Fuller Golden will be heard in Ay Short Talks With Long Laughs. Junie McCre+, the man from Denver, is announced in «| Character Study From Life’s Subway, and the Davis-Gledbill Trio will be seen manipulatio their cycle-racing machine. Then there wil be Charles Barnold's Dogs, George Wilson, ~ minstrel comedian, and Jolly John Larkins In his own songs. The Star Theatre this week will have for * attraction the Rice & Barton Gaiety Company, which will present a program filled with jovial and mirthful extravaganza and vaudeville hig. The roster includes some old favorites, nota Charles Barton, big, jolly and good-natured; John E. Magee, Frederick Eckhoff, Frank Pier¢e and Frank Murphy. Annie Dunn Mullen, M Seavey, Tessie Burns and Lavern Healy le the feminine contingent. e The sixty ‘‘Rollickers’’ appear at the Empire this week In a two-act musical farce comedy, Bankers and Brokers, with Will H. Cohan a: Nat 8S. Jerome, comedians, and Hazel Sanger, prima donna; Violet Pearl, W. J. Patton aly! others. The Gay Masqueraders appear at the Gayety this week in a two-act farce comedy, wit Garry Emerson, chief fun maker, and a good company around him. A feature of the olio, the Piroscoffis in juggling. ’ At the Olympic this week the Blue Ribb Girls in two jolly pieces, Blue Ribbons En Rou and The Raw Recruit, with any number of ¢ iginal musical numbers. dances, ete. The Columbia Theatre, which bas been t home of melodrama since the present sea started, will be changed this week into a va¥deville and moving picture house. It bas been found by the management that the Columbia patrons like this form of entertainment, hence tite change. The pictures will be up-to-date, the {ilustrated songs tuneful and catchy, while the vaudeville will be the best obtainable. Charles Seymour, who bas been the popular local manager, will still remain in charge. A new play, and one that comes with t stamp of success, will be the offering at t Folly this week. The Life of An Actress, Langdon McCormick, has caught the popul fancy, and is playing to record business ever. where. It is a sensational romantic melodram in four acts and seven scenes, written arouml the life of a famous woman in the theatrical profession and depicting the struggle of a pretty country girl to attain the ambition of her eareer in stageland. A large and excellent cast has been selected by Manager Aubrey Mi tenthal and he has given the piece a mammot production. That charming little comedienne and dance Cecil Spooner, one of the cleverest in ber li on the stage, will be seen in the latest b success, The Girl and the Detective, an ela rate production by Chas. E. Blaney and Searle Dawley, which comes to Blaney's t week of November 23. It is said to excel any thing from the pens of these playwriters. T lay is in four acts, thrilling in its fullness « uman interest. Miss Spooner will also at eacp performance introduce her own spectacular version of the celebrated Salome dance. ¢ Perey G. Williams announces that he has en; gaged the famous Scotch comedienne and character singer, Jessie Preston, who is known in Europe as the female Harry Lauder, and who will sail from London‘shortly to appear on the Williams Circuit. Miss Preston will shortly ap pear at the Orpheum Theatre. Her “"wtoried consists of Scotch songs and dialect storie which are told in a style that has suggest her sobriquet. J Miss Grace Merritt has accepted an engag ment for another season in hen Knighthoo} Was In Flower, her manager, Stephen T. King. having persuaded her to lay aside for the nt a new production. This young star won an enviable success during the past tw seasons in the exacting role of Princess Mar Tudor. Miss Merritt will ~— her Brookly season on December 7 at the Majestic Theat Carroll McComas, the dainty ingenue of The Gay Musician eee wee bh was named after Geo Carroliton, of Revolutionary fame, who was on¢ of her ancestors. Her li name is George Carroll McComas and she is a daughter 0; Judge McComas, of Los Angeles, Cal., a di tinguisheq member of the judiciary. The Vindobonas, known throughout Europe a The Mad Musician, will shortly be seen at th Greenpoint. This act is the most talked 0 musical novelty in Europe, and it was wit some difficulty that the two clever musician were persuaded to fill engagements in America. The Vindobonas combine melody with eccentrig comedy, and while their music is of the high, est order, .their humor borders on the grotesque, and has earned for them their sobriquet. Among their musical conceits they will present the Bassoon virtuoso, An Unfortunate Violin Concert, and The Canary At School. The Park Theatre, that burned here las@ week, was built in 1863 and was thus the borough's oldest playhouse. Its builder, Felix Campbell, had made a fortune selling iron to the Government for the war. It pa throughs several hands ang had many owners after Col. William E. Sinn of Baltimore took charge.’ Among the last lessees were the Shuberts. e cently Mrs. Spooner, head of the stock company of that name, sublet it. The great stars of the theatrical world had shone there. Booth and Forrest trod its boards and Sir Henry Irving held forth there, with many others whose names are remembered although their day is long since, st. Week of November 23 Joe Weber and his entire company will present two burlesques, The Merry Widow and The Devil. There will be an augmented orchestra. over one hundred. The company numbers Eliza, which crowded the Metropolitan Opera House upon the road presentation here. Oscar C. Apfel scores a success and the balance of the company are well cast. Among the attractions which the Lyric Stock Company will produce in the near future are Are You A Mason, The Road To Yesterday and The Other Girl. Manager Archie Miller, of the Dewey Theatre, announces for this week's bill an exceptionally strong attraction, The Merry Maidens Company, who present a novelty burlesque, entitled Cafe Boulevard, by Sam Rice. The music is new and original and there is also a handsome chorus and ballet. The vaudeville bill is of extra worth and includes Patti Carney, Lewis and Gilday, The Minstrel Four, Tyson and Brown and Harry La Mount. The burlesque, At Coney Island, is new and Interesting. The Baker Troupe of cyclists is the beadiine feature at the Unique Theatre this weck and present an act which is difficult and enter taining. They are followed on the bill by Earl Flynn, late of Al. G. Field’s Minstrels, in songs. clever stories and new jokes. The Harry Dreaves Company of Mannikins present a clever burlesque absurdity in a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Rochester and Rives, talented Australian vocalists, provoke much enthusiasm, Paul, the Mystifier. presents Mad Miller, a handcuff and shackel king, who is mysterious, skillful and entertaining. Inez Montague has a new illustrated ballad and the Kinetiscope closes the bill. The Gem Family Theatre continues to pack in the patrons, and this week presents a vaudeville bill worth the seeing. It includes such numbers as The Two Scotch Macks, Harvey Langdon, Grandin and Lewis. There is also an illustrated song by Irene Stanfield. and a series of interesting motion pictures. The Penny Arcade upstairs is also well patronized and the management is highly pleased with business. Miss Violet Black and her company are headliners at the Orpheum Theatre, this week, pre| ‘capacity”’ not have a regular matinee will have a special performance on Thanksgiving Day. Wood Theatre is giving Kansas City ere of that much-talked-of play from the pen of Booth From Home, the week of 15, and its comedy and homely wit and Pike’s drawling ways and patriotism pleased theatre every performance. KANSAS CITY’S THEATRE PLANS FOR THE THANKSGIVING WEEK Excellent List of Attractions Booked Engagement of Madame Bertha Kalich Extended for Another Week by Special Arrangement---Nance 0’ Neil Booked for an Early Date---Amusements in St. Louis. ANSAS CITY theatres always make special observance of Thanksgiving week, by offering the playgoing public the best line of attractions to be had, and this year is no exception. Every house expects to do that week, and the theatres that do The Willisits premi Mr. Wilson, The Tarkington and Map that crowded the Mr. Henry Hall, as audiences MME. HELEN NOLDI, — Prima Donna in the comic opera, Algeria. senting Edgar Allen Woolf's comedy, In The Subway. They are followed on the bill by the Trapnell Family, acrobats, and other numbers are Jewell’s Mannikins in Toyland Vaudeville: Helen Bertram, the American prima donna; Bernard and Seeley, Ragtime Paderewski and the Eccentric Comedienne;: Reiff Brothers, The American Dancing Boys, Fonda, Dell and Fonda, intricate club manipulators, and the Kinodrome. Next week the bill will be headlined by Charmjon. a Parisian gymnast and aerialist, and he GEO. H. HAKES. ‘| will be followed by a bill of exceptional merit. —— a On Wednesday evening, November 25, there ‘| will be a prize masquerade at the Casino MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. | Roller Rink, at 18th avenue north and WashingCrowded houses are greeting every perform-?| _ . ., = ance of The Top tan Opera House the first half of this week. Ralley and Austin win new laurels each per-} formance and Kathleen Clifford pleases every-; one, and makes a decided hit. e end of the week Girls, the new Clyde Fitch comedy will’ be the offering and among the near bookings are The Virginian, Way Down East. The Man of the Hour, The Servant in the House. Rip Van Winkle, The Squaw Man, A Knight For Day. and many others. Wine, Women and Song Is enjoying a recordbreaking week at the Rijon Opera Honse, and Bonita {is wnnsnally clever and entertaining. The comedians are good, the songs are new and catchy and the chorus fs acefnl and attractive. Next week, Johnny Hoey will be seen in The Roy Detective. Other Bijou dates tn clude Strongheart, Yon Yonson, with Ben Hen dricks; Beulah Poynter, In Lena Rivers: Jack Dorris. in From Sing Sing to Liberty: The Creole Slave, Willlam H. Turner. tn The Governor and the Boss, and Fiske O’Hara, the wellknown Irish singing comedian. At the Lyrie Theatre, the new Lyrie Stock 0’ Th’ World at the scoteeget| the popular advertising agent of the Lyric Theatre, was presented with a live owl by the Ernest Fisher Company, which is out on the road playing The Devil. The owl was sent from Wheaton, Minn... and the inscription read as follows: “To Zack Luck ns, Lyric Theatre, Minneapolis, Minn.. from The | Devtl."’ Minneapolis Lodge No. 50. T. M_ A., will ¥ attend the Thanksgtving services of Rs o &. “+ the Morrill, chaplain of the Actors’ Alllance People’s Chureh, in_a_ body. RODERIC STE. FLEURR. LaSalle and Lind are playing the Michigan time for the Western Vandeville Managers’ Association for the second time and sre a bigger hit than ever with their speedy club Juggling. DeCleo and LavVellie, sensational aertal equilibrists and gymnasts, are meeting with great success over the Columbus Vauide Company {fs presenting this week the famous and successful road-show, All On Account of ville Cirenit. over which they are booked for nine weeks, 7 Daniel Voorhees Pike, The Man From Home, Is really a ‘“‘man from home,’’ as Missouri has many of his relatives. He is a nephew of Judge Hall of this city, and although Mr. Hall has net been seen here for about eight years, his versatility and genuine ability have won him many friends in his professional capacity. The dramatization of Gilbert Parker's great book. The Right of Way, will be the Thanksgiving week attraction at the Willis-Wood Theatre. Owing to continued popular demand for ‘‘more of a good thing."" Madame Kalich has been secured for a second week at the Shubert Theatre by the management thereof. Madame Kalich, the week of 16. gave her new play, Cora, in which she scored such a success her first week in this city. Madame Kalich packed ‘em in the second week the same way she did week of the 9th. She has many admirers here and we all want the opportunity of enjoying her talent. An interesting announcement at the Shubert fs the coming of Nance O'Neil, the eminent tragedienne for two weeks. Her eng°gement commences the week of 23, Thanksgiving week. Her plays have not been decided upon but they will be Miss O’Neil’s successes. The management of the Orphenm Theatre is offering another interesting bill for the week of 15. ang they have succeeded in drawing the crowd their way therewith. The feature nomber fs Lasky’s musical comedy. A Night On A House-RBoat. and is well given by nine lively young people. O’Malley Jennings has the lead ing pene: a part and did it cleverly. and the Misses Shaw show their whistling ability. The rest of a pleasant bill is as follows: Seldom's Venus, an ertistie posing act: Frank Ryron and Louise Langdon, before seen here in their Dude Detective. but are as funny as ever: The Murray Sisters. American singers: Mile. Pertina, danseuse: Esne, Dutton and Espe, comedy gymnasts: The Harvey Family. with a marvelous wire-walking act: the Kinodrome, in new moving pictures, etc. The opening matinee and evening performances of Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway, at the Grand Theatre, the week of 15, saw the S. R. O. sign out and the patrons of this house by this time used to capacity at the Grand cheerfully bought standing room to enjoy a good show. Scott Welsh is seen In his old part of Kid Burns and Miss Frances Gordon is a pretty and talented Mary. The same company that is presenting Forty-Five Minutes From BroadWay at the Grand Theatre is the same as was seen last year throughout the West at the best theatres. It is a first-class show at popular prices. The old favorite, In Old Kentucky, is coming Thanksgiving week to draw crowded houses to the Grand. The Creole Slave’s Revenge, a melodrama of thrills, interest, pathos and comedy, filled the Gillis Theatre the week of 15. The audiences were large and enthusiastic. Sold Into Slavery is the Gillis’ Thanksgiving week attraction. Tae Woodward Stock Company, at the Auditorium Theatre presented an able and interesting production of Mrs. Fiske’s great success, Leah Kleschna, the week of 15. The stock company seems to gain more admirers with each week of its existence. Caught in the Rain, Willie Collier's comedy success, will be presented by the company the week of 22. The Lid Lifters opened the week of the 15th, at the Majestic Theatre, and have the usual Salome dance. Maude Ellison, assisted girls, did a much more pleasing dance; Ma je ay Golden Majestic the week of the 22d. The Cherry Blossoms opened at the Century with two bright burlesques and a good olio. The comedy is furnished by Frank Hollis, John Kenney and Ed. Mack, Laro and Payne have a good comic athletic act. The Brigadiers next, at the Century. The Pantheon Roller Rink is continuing to eater to the pleasure and amusement of Kansas Cityians. Convention Hall is now open for the season under the management of Mr. Louis Shouse. WILLIAM W. SHELLEY. Kansas City, Mo. ST. LOUIS, MO. Jno. G. Sheehy spent last Friday in the having closed his season with Ringling Broo! Circus, he left for Denver to take care of Floroe a which will tour the Coast s winter. e reports that R sound season. ‘po: ingling had a e an and Harris Minstrels di week here last week and deserved it al a ager D. W. Cave has been making almost every week by this season, and his attractions have been above previous years in quality. H. E. Rice spent the week in St. Louis and nee ag 20 to ge Chicago his pé nent home. s energetic ability w from theatricals in St. Louis. 7 Nineteen thousand dollars is the business done here last week by David Warfield, and the only reason it was not more was that on oe Ve eo —_ big enough. succession of turnawa jusiness has oneal BR y at the Garrick Col. Jno. D. Hopkins is again up and around after a most severe illness; every one is pleased at the outcome of his siege, as he was a power in summer park amusements. It is interesting to look into the career of our American actors, and see what they have done to amuse us. Last week we had occasion to review the work done by Mr. E. H. Sothern and we find the thirty-seven characters he has offered have an immense scope including: The Highest Bidder. The Great Pink Pearl, Edith’s Burglar, Lord Chumley, Maister of Woodbarrow, I Love The Dancing Girl, Capt. Letterblair, Sheridan, Disreputable Mr. Reagon, Victoria Cross, Way to Win a Woman. Prisoner of Zenda, An Enemy to the King, Change Alley, A Colonial Girl, Adventures of Lady Ursula, Lady of Lyons, King’s Musketeer, Markheim, Song of the Sword, The Sunken Drifting Apart, If I Were King, The Proud Prince, The Fool Hath Said, Don Quixote, Lord Duandreary, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, John the Baptist, Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Jeanne D’Arc, Richelieu, Richard Lovelace and in preparation for next sea son, Macbeth and ing Lear. An enviable repertoire. he St. Louis Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert last Thursday evening under the leadership of Prof. Max Zach, and proved a big e season of concerts this year are covered by the subscriptions and all efforts have been directed to the artistic end of the orchestra. Mrs. Dan MacAvoy, Harry Davenport, Phyllis Rankin, Dick Crolius are the bright hits of the vandeville bill this week at the American. Leo. McManus, the popular treasurer of Forest Park Highlands, is spoken of as head of the New Coliseum box-office and will handle the Targe sales of the big productions booked after January 1. Mr. Dewey Hickel will present his Hot Time Minstrels at the Odeon on December 11. This is an event looked forward to annually by all St. Louis. the sale of season at the means reports that seats for Burton Holmes’ Lectures here, Odeon, is tn excess of last vears, which that we will have to fight for seats. Mme. Calve will sing at the New Colisenm on December 4. under auspices of Knights of Columbus Choral Club. A monster Automobile Show ifs under way for the New Coliseum early in January. and from interest manifested. will eclipse our last Horse Show, which artistically was an tmmense oi WILL J. FARLEY.