The Billboard 1909-04-17: Vol 21 Iss 16 (1909-04-17)

; 3g The Billboard APRIL 17, 1909. ber, a ballet (from Brussels) of thirty-six, and tien.” She has written several books on the an orchestra of one boowdred lostrumentalists. subject, and her ‘curtain ralser’’ is one big Mme, Tetrazzini will prebably cootinne to be thrill from start to fluish e Oo n oO n the bic draw, but personally it gives me greater Monday, April 19, has been selected for the pleasnre to know that Mme. Destinn is re proluetion of The Cho I er in t rus Lady at the Vaude curning To bear and see this great dramatic vilie, by Messrs, Gattl and Charles Frohman et ee ee rtist in Madame Putterfly is to receive an Rosie Stahl is to play the leading part. 179 Temple Chambers, E. C. impression that nothing can efface. A new ‘ wahitas arte gg ER singer, Mme, Maria Kousnietzow, comes from omorrow, at the lace heatre, J “ il? 7 ¥ . . St. Petersburg, with an extraordinary reputa Butt will present Harold Montague with tt . . novel entertainment at the plano, while a week . ° ° or ywreeeding ° m ix o be hope she Bi i ‘ Outlook Brightening in Lon} «i \ ee oe eee se eee ee ee hewee, Mr. Richard Golden, the American ae Another Actor Passed to the her. Judging by ber photographs she is very or oO made such a gre success in Mw ‘ “ don After a Frightful SeaJ) iteaine in aprearance. | Tie chief tenors for Eytttn “Mntitied A Case for Divorce, Miss, Mant Great Beyond—Festival the season are wrs Anselmi, Dalmores, Me: % F . ° ° Cor . and Slezak. Allen will terminate h r h “| ly suecessful cae > 1 ” son——Vulgarity Dying in The Pe for ee enether rew London the saemaee ~ bat yom , nee " pe —_ — hee Plays in Munich New ‘ ° ° atre has been fe do and secured at the Oxford hat date ‘ ¥ > N the English Music Halls. J) Streettna'of Siuttesiury avenues at the cor At ante 5 eee Plays on Various Stages. ner of Broad street. The ehief promoter is Mr Since ovember last he charming and melo HB : : dons sles ) The w of Cadonia, . William Holles, whose intention is to open the ~ _— pes oy al : lay, of KI ~ : a a house with a holding capacity for 3,000 sitters ecn BENE © Umes cco, Soe oe 1 . . . 2 F > , lay night when a photographic souvenir was W ITH spring, more genial weather and ten) **. 8 Hen for first-class melodrama at popular riven away in honor of the two huodredth per ADOLF VON SONNENTHAL DEAD. : prices, similar to the Lyceum Quite a series 4 new productions all coming along, Lon formance : : of pieces in anticipation have heen secured, . enthusiasm by hich greeted Bae NE of the greatest actors of the Vienns don theatres are hoping to recelve @)/ written by such practised playwrights as ince and ale agar Indicated that it ts stege, Adolf von Sonpenthal, died of bear: very much needed filip within the next month Messrs. Shirley and Lanleck, Messrs. G. R, still 1 the ul tide of pros oerity Bertram failure at Prague, Bobemla, on April or two Not for the last fourteen years bave | gine ang Shirley, and by Mr. Sims: also a A} a ters, as the masquerading king, Is quite 4) porn at Pesth in December, 1834, he showed managers had such a frightful winter to con| nocsthmons play of Robert Ruchanan, entitled | (’Uehtful, both as singer and actor _ se *" when a boy of only 12 years, a remarkable de tend against as has been the case with this Father Anthony, and another with Garthaldi aa) #h cious if somewnat cold, |p incess in Ina bel sire for the stage, but his parents compelled one. Just recently for about five weeks right | its pero. The name of the house will, under 7%: who only Reess SO Taree © metre mere him to become an apprentice in a tailor shop off there was scarcely a single night: when one | royal permission, be King Edward's Theatre. warmth into her efforts to make hh r perform In fall, 1550, Sonventhal applied to Drgunil) wouldn't have far preferred to stay indoors in : . nce In every way acceptable. The humors of pawison, the celebrated virtuoso of the Burg comfort rather than go out to see the finest Fannie Ware returoes to London in June with rhe evening in the hands of Huntley Theatre st Vienna, for a job and engaged as 6 play ever put on Of course the result has a new play called The Higher Law, which Is) Wright and irrett, while the tuneful) coner. After bard and untiring study Sonnen been that this, coupled with a plague of in| to be produced for her by Mr. Charles Cart| wumber of Sidney Jones’ score adds greatly [9° thal made his debut on October 30, 1851, hardly fiuenza and the advent of Lent, has given the wright the delight of the performance The coronition 17 years old, as Phoebus in The Sexton of Notre ‘ theatres the worst shaking up they have expeA very remarkable little play was produced = scene reminds one of the most brilliant and ef | Dame at the City Theatre in Temesva, Hun rienced for many years. But still, all things, it the Kingsway, on Friday afternoon, called fective yet produced in musical comedy and from this time on, the young actor including winter and illness, have to come to| In the Name of the Czar. It is from the pen The Nelle of [Prittany terminated its run at ared on different stages in Austria and Ger an end at Iast, aed just at the moment the | of Muriel Carmel, and, as its title indicates, the Qneen’s Theatre, Shaftesbury aveoue, last until he came to the Burg Theatre ip m otitlook is beginning to brighten. Within the deals with events in “‘Holy’’ Russia. Miss Saturday night. Yom B. Davis has put into) Vienna, which was then under the directior next two or three weeks we shall have half a | Carmel who acted in it, hes traveled exten-iveLaube, and this marked the beginning dozen new plays going, and this onght to crely in Russia, and is ‘a student of the revolu(Continued on page 48.) at career, ate sufficient excitement te buck things up genwhen he celebrated bis 25th ann! erally. tut the worst feature about a really versary as a member of the Burg Theatre er semble, he was made a knight by Emperor honored with the order of le was well-known and hon inent stages of Europe and twenty years ago at the bad speil is that people lose the theatregoing habit, and then it takes some time to edu . eate them up to it again. To do this one usually has to find some big boom. Another piay for instance, like The Merry Widow, coming along at Baster, would ctr up laterest grat Paris Bureau The Billboard, 121 Rue Montmartre. T New York, as the Father ip ally and do everyone good. It is a curious " ° Pere Prodigue, Marquis of Villemer and Rister thing in this town that so far from a really big he took the public like a whirlwind and bis success hurting other theatres, on the contrary, last tournee in 1008 In New York, while playing it seems to help them all correspondingly. But . r . . T . Lear and Nathan, bronght him the greatest in this respect, Tain wonterite whether the | Modern Amusement Park Costing $500,000 is Going Up in the att “offered a German actor. : expected iovasion of American plays this year 3 ° *s . : STIVAL PLA 4 in June or July—apart from Charles Frohman's Gay City—Frank C. Bostock and Gaston Akoun, Americans, PA omar pberge ctor yy eye — w ~ w, Ra -% a.’ something / ‘ . : , 2 bs s a s ,~A —“. m Artists’ rm oes come an * lke eKy, oo 2 an . li “~ Oopenhe ‘ * « we os ai ’ 7 ager in London will object—he will welcome are Head of it—Anna Held Coming—Ovrher Show Gossip— by the enn mble of the Deutschen Theatre of it rlin, under management of Max Reinhardt, . . . . , “ri English music halls seem to be rejoicing in a Motion Picture and Film News. will bring a number of classic plays in an en reguiar festival of high-class vocalism at the tirely new scenic arrangement. Of the promi present momeut. I think it must have been nent masters, who made the designs for the Albani’s tour that started the rage. She seems seeneries of the various plays, may be named just as popular as ever, and although her range HE biggest, most modern, costliest and best) be a wireless telegraphy exhibit and many elecir f. Julius Dietz, Robert Engels, Fritz Erler is more restricted than is was twenty years T constructed amusement park in all Europe | trical novelties of un educational kind and the | Prof. A. Hengeler, Prof. Max Kruse, Prof ago, yet her technique is still as fine as ever will soon be a reality in Paris. It will be| @irectors are now negotiating with the Wright Emil Orlik, Ernst Stern and Engineer Custar and she stlil retains the knack of catching the | eajied Luna Park and will open May 1. And trothers for at least a model of their flying Kinna affections of the audience as she did when she | two Americans are the big men in the shebang.) machines to pnt on exhibition, All kinds of was the great prima donna of the day Where Now this is big cant age A month ago, even, | American mechanical devices will be shown, THE CIRCUS SHOW OF THE STAGE ACTORS ever she has gone in this tour her turn has | 7 was wondering when, if ever, such a thing | giving the park the air of a small exposition At the cireus festival of the German stage been the success of the show. Knowing her) would be tried out here, and I was dving my | principally Yankee, right in the middle of ctors’ society, which will take place on April audiences, she bas confined herself solely to | best to figure out to just what extent it | Paris. lv, in the Circus Busch, Berlin, the following timple ballads, known to all, and, of coures, | would succeed. Paris has never bad an amuse The scenic railway will not be a jumble of | ™* mbers of the stage will take active part bas invariably finished up with Home, Sweet | ment park in the American sense of the word, i : . Home, which never fails to bring the house | and every device which will be installed at this | puilt in imitation of precipitous mountains and flich, Helene Ballot, Hilda Herterich, Klare down. Put her competitors seem also to have’) Lona Park, will be a novelty to these people, gorges and valleys. The traveler dashes across UCTBOT. Tilly W aldige and the actors Basser been commanding a great success. Miss Esther) of absolutely the first water. It'll be fun treatle spanning a go at the bottom of ™*"2ampietro, Thielscher. Erich Schroth Palliser and Mile. de Noce, who last week were | watching how they take hold. : : ~~ aul Otto and Reinbold Koestlin In regard appearing at Manchester, both gained hearty Luna Park. La Ville Enchantee. (The En| tunnel then out again on the other side of the to the various acts, which are to be offered by appreciation from their andiences although they chanted Village) is going up on the site of a mountain down the side of which he plunges the actors, deep silence is observed, in order present a rather more ambitious program than | ¢o-mer open-air concert, Printania, as it was | like a rocket For a time he rides throngh a o make the surprise so much the greater during that which Albani gives her audience. called, but which never made any great hit. It | green valley, by the side of ruvning water che perrommenss — —ee Sek, Sew tut this new feature in music halls rather! certainly could not have been the fanlt of the | then he begins an ascent. Up. up, up, he goes ao i. a gene ry will produce himself as draws attention to the noticeable change which | location, for I’ve never seen a better, To all | until finally he poises, in his car, on the very | % Phenomenal acrobat and Thielecher as a won . : Mi xse "Ilse ? me “te uprights. cromz beams and braces It is being lisses Else Lehmann, Ida Perry, Lacie Hoe 4s coming over English vaudeville houses. A | intents and purposes, it is in the heart of the | top of the range from which be can cateh a derful clown. Rehearsals are in full blast now few years ago, ove or two astute managers | city, being about six minutes from the Arch de | bird’s-eye-view of the entire park and surround SEEK EMANCIPATION, TOO. saw that their receipts might be enhanced if, Triumph straight ont Avenne de ja Grande Ar ing country Then he drops again like a shot I ! : . . they could induce a man to bring bis women mee. Just outside the fortifications of the city, | and so swiftly that he gasps for breath. None n their fight of the German stage actors folk with him instead of merely coming him| it is at the principal entrance to the Bois de | of the structural work of the scenic railway will society against the German theatre managers self. The big syndicates, like Mosa and Stoll, | Boulogne, at the point where the Avenne de show; there will be only the track and the © vont ae the actresses have joined the actors MacNaughtons and Gibbons, were especially , Nevilly joins the great thoronghfare mentioned | mountain. This part of the park is now nearly So far the actresses stood back and walted for struck with the idea. and when they started | above. Porte Maillot is the official nomencla| complete. deve opments and as everything points favor building new theatres. all over the country | ture of this location and it is reached by nine An Avernus wheel, a variety of the Ferris ®bly to the knights of the foot-light, the act it was always before their mind. Of course, | different kinds of transportation lines The | wheel, will be one of the attractions, this on a Tesses come forward. Their meeting at the carrying it ont meant a distinet change in the | Metropolitan (nnderground) has a station right | scale sufficient to get a crowd used to high ele hall of the theatre school of the Deutecheo character of the shows. The word went out at the entrance to the park sand so have the vations, for it must be remembered that the beatre was well attended and resolutions that any suggestion of vulgarity was to be omnilnses and automuses. The Chemin de Fer | Fiffel is much the highest th ng in the world passed, soventes the emancipation of the act stamped ont withont any exception. An artist de Cipnture (a belt line running passenger nd that near this sky raking affair is the — Mrs. Heding Wangel and Adele we offending against this rule was to be discharged | trains every five minntes) likewise has one of Grande Bone, exactiy like the Ferris wheel in ond wees the most prominent speakers at the at once. In consequence, practically through its most important stations at Porte Malllot. | Chicago There fore the small affairs serving at occasion out England, in every town of any size you In fact the promoters are in every way lucky , some places would hardly be an attraction at PECHSCHULZE AT NEW SCHAUSPIELHAUS ean find a well-built music hall, where a | at least in the matter of location a perk in Paris , man can take his family for a night's amuseThe actnal mansging head of the venture Is Already Luna Park is ouite a show ground, : Every theatre in Berlin, except the Roya) ment aml be snre that from one end of the Gaston Akonn, well-known in America as having | people thronging about the edges—of course, , Schauspielhaus, has taken hold of some old show to the other they will hear nothing which been a prominent concessionaire at all the big | they are not permitted inside—watching the farce The latest in this line was offered by would offend. The wisdom of this policy is expositions from Chicage down the line An! | work progress, This ix a revelation to them tn the New Schausplelhans in Salingre’s musica shown Jn its snecess, In London. the Colisenn the second leading spirit in the organization | jtcelf. for of all the slow workers In the world, faree, Peetschulze. The play is very enter which is run selely on these lines, is doing is Frank C. Bostock and everybody In the show | ¢he French laborer has them whipped to a! ‘#ieing and reacl ed the climax when Glisels more businesk then any other hall in London, , business on this side as well as in Englané Rooseveltian frozzle. The American cirens man Selim ider and Albert Borees sang a parody of Similarly, from all the big towns thronghont 22 America. knows bim, The third and last | would tear bis hair in despair if he had to work Strauss’ latest opera, Electra. Englant comes the same tale. Of course, of member is John Henry Hes, of England. and if | them. for If he should set f the old trpe of entertainment It means death, O7® tried, he'd have to go a long way to beat | ming « stake Into the r of them at slam . Bese pgretirs pron (Continued on page 48.) but, at all events, to the manager and propri-| Mis trio. Tles knows the Engilsh end of the | five minutes, then, to the of a grand opera | — ee eee re: etor it means money. Rut apart from anything | © tee to a fare ye well and ho ° Bostock and | selection, bit the stobh a couple of whacks, and else, the change is one of the most Interest Akoun are there with the Amer can informn aton to see what effect the hiows hed bod ADOLPH Von SONNENTHAL. ing featnres seen in the English musie hall ‘0. And the latter is fust as much at home | They'd finish, if properly urged, within 45 min world for many years, in France as he is in America and speaks the | ntes—marhe tnt 75 per cent. of the laborers tert Panva l, . th the Six Fiving Ranvards language like a Parisian. He also knows the | now setting up Luna Park, are Americans and French public and is in every wav qualified to!) poelixh. the big mafority being Americans. and left London this week for Belgium, where they ascnme the duties of managing director of the | the way they make things hem ia wivard-like are open at the Novean Cirque, Gand. They company. for a company ft is. entitled Luna | to the natives here As a matter of fact even have had a most snecessfn! time of it in EngPark Paris, Limited It has a London office at | in America the work would be regarded as snap land, and Bert vard describes the World's 210 Strend W. C. Of course the Paris address) ny for it has been but mighty few weeks Fair, Dy epee BO aga ther tepped the bill—as, is Tuna Park. Porte Maillot. Parte since ground was broken one of the nicest shows he has ever plared in The park already ts entirely under wav and | . Sided ° . -o_m 3 Their turn c: en from the very first, and! in ae gf cance se. Apert Ine AM seggene cals A funny thleg t me ihout ~~ oe eo ot received the highest praise from the public and = most miserable bateh of he me ey hi lye oy f tl y ~ ‘ an the press, After leaving Relgium ther go to : wanted a bird’s-eve-view of the park made vw the Cirens Pekitor, Budapest, where ther re spring weather the of Paris ever experienced, with rain falling . poster purposes and eo called to his assistance everlasting]: More than 450 men are emploved : , ; " “ : rene artist of fir reputation. and turned main until May 15, returning through England on the buildings alone, one of these to be 350! hh, —_ st gd .. aieiheed ms oe — on to the United States. feet long by 100 feet wide. tan She ao en bag Eg A aiid ham” Gel venice ShiaRdeiieeds. wetinis Shen. Back reactions, explaining exactly where this, that tt wat iin he wiht ~ I ful = ‘ Among the mirth-makers which the park will | and the other thing won'ld be located when the in Lond. ‘ cia sone I 9 4 siggy acer > tr 3 show to the peonle of Parle are the water |) park «tood complete The artixt went to work ws = ~se c . ' a — 1 ~ . pra 4 : _ chntes, the tickler, babw tnenhbator, Galveston and after some dave turoved over a most remark | comparative obscurity o ame. she is f© £0 Piond, seenie railway helter-«kelter the old able composite Ile had never seen a enmmer | upon a long tour in the provinces at a salary 5)) a midget city, temple of mirth, palece 9 park of the kind Americons know under that no theatrical artist as touched, and no oper | of follies. and so on. This Inet will eceupy the name, and the resnit of his work wae something / atic stars have r alized as anything but & hnge building referred to above and in Itself weird The chutes showed a lot of people to dream. The amonnt is not yet stated. ont tis) witl be a regular summer park For Inside heod first Inte a pool of water and | said that for two nights in Manchester itself. wit he found al! kinds of fun devices anch as railways showed a sedate car of a if ther eould be arranged, she was offered the pbump-the-bomps the humen rontlette, an railway type, ambling s«tatels | £2,900. This may be teken as an indication earthonake or. a cave of the winds. «lide the : . | of the size of her ealary. Sides ond ell kinds of other attractions ae well onn wae in despair, There was really noth Covent Garden plens for its summer season, These sre merely some of the attractions to be ing In all the drawing coming np to his ides | which begins on April 26, embrace a repertory | ceon tn this building. erongh to show the class of things. «6 he called In another artlet. after of twenty-five operas, five of which are new to. of entertelnment ta he foun nelle cr anes ing 7 ' .| ; f en ' ’ »1 fo 1 Ineid r examining abont twenty to find one who this country. ma Ww eg he only ee The Bostock animals will have a handsome claimed to heve at leset seen a real amreement 2 opera that w be given the others consti<t o building for performances end Parisians have nark Evidently what the eeeend artist had + sixteen Italian works and eight French. Of the already sampled the exeellenctes of these | . 2 shows seen hed been a Puonceh and Judy show and a | new operas, four are French and one Italien. Rostock used to have the Hipnodrome here In | street fair of some sort or other, for his prod | There will be an Italian chorus of seventy-, Montmartre snd there he made the «tonte ef | The great German artist whose death tf» | five voices, a French chorus of the same numhis animals the talk of the town There will } (Continued on page 48.) Widely deplored,