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

APRIL 17, 1909. The Billboard 15 ~— and before long he files through the alr. ie passes through the clouds and makes the long trip up through the sky, finally arriving at his destination, where he alights and looks things over. he is curlous to know pipe, what Is inside, so dives right in. To his horror, however, he fads bim self in a veritable Inferno. where he sees all sorts of strange Objects and funny looking peo ple, who dance around him and endeavor to ex Coming to the mouth of the moon | bachelor as his new housekeeper. The bachelor is glad to have found such a treasure, bat when the Irish woman makes goo-goo eyes at him he runs away. Stepping out of the house he meets a young couple flirting. Going into the park he sits | on a bench and is soon joined by another couple tend thelr hospitality to the odd looking strang| ordeals, he makes er Finally, after many again, and bis escape and dives ont into space is precipitated to the earth below, We see him as he comes flying head first through the air, and just as be lands on terra firma, he wakes up and finds himself kicking on the floor. So thankful is be that it is only a dream that be smashes the wine bottle and swears off OLIVER CROMWELL.—This richly colored picture delineates some Important events In the life of Oliver Cromwell subsequent to his conquering the throne of England. is in the Palace of White Hall, where news has just arrived that the ‘‘Roundheads” gaining strength and the fall of Charles is imminent. Queen Henrietta is getting ready to flee, but Charles is determined to remain steadfust and stand by the Cavaliers. The next picture shows us Cromwell's camp, | where the latter’s daughter, Elizabeth, is begging her father to give up the struggle against the King. but Cromwell remains inflexible and orders his daughter out of camp. dresses In the costume of a Cavalier and presents herself to the King, to whom she | bachelor. The first scene | are bourly | | him to be shunned by the majerity of Spanish Elizabeth | offers ber services; she is accepted and rides forth to | battle to fight for her King. The Cavaliers have just lost the Neseby, and a party of the latter, endeavoring to aid the King In put to death by the enemy. The unknown cav battle of who are ling that until a woman's black eyes awakened his filght are | alier (Elizabeth), seeing that the King Is in great danger, begs him to change costumes, | which the monarch does and the latter makes his escape, while the young cavalier in the robes of the King faces the enemy. arrives and thinking that he has captured the King, orders him to dismount, and great is his horror when he recognizes his own daughter, One of the soldiers draws from the King's pocket the papers which will bring Charles’ head to the block. After the occurrence the Scotch offer their hospitulity to King Charles, and he goes to Newevstle. Cromwell, however bribes the Srotch, and the latter betray the King and give bim up to his enemies. Charles is then con demred to death, and on Jan. 30, 1649 he is Cromwell soon | | Spain. executed in front of the Palace of White Hall. | LUBIN MY FRIEND, MR. DUMMY.—-Philip good time at his club. While going home he passes a clothing store. He runs into a dummy, excuses himself and immediately sees great fun ahead of him. He invites the dummy to a glass of beer. Enraged through the refusal wv the dummy policeman interferes but fares badly. my is run over by an automobile is paid bush money. The servant girl cleaning the windows drops the bucket from the third story. It hits the dummy. A lady of the house, thinking somebody was killed, faints. Many more incidents and accidents happen. At last the proprietor clothing store discovers the loss of his dummy. A chase ensues. At last the dummy is discovered, but in a badly battered condition. The Storekeeper’s sorrow, however, is turned into joy when he finds in the pocket of the dummy’s 4 the hush money which he had paid to * GOLD.—While The dumand Philip THE CURSE OF daughter receive the tailor to clothes, the miser enters. out of the room end scolds the women for being so extravagant. He then sends them out of the room and sits down to count Hearing steps. He takes the money, which he loves more than anything else on earth, and carries it down to a secret vault in the cellar, which is securely protected by a heavy iron door, The miser enters the room of a poor family. The husband lays on the death bed. The wife with four children has not enough to feed the little months. ‘The miser enters with two gendarmes. He wants money or his money's worth. There being no money in the house, he takes mother and order some He throws the tailor the furniture and what else he finds in the room While walking down the street a poor beg gar woman asks the miser for alma her aside, Unfortunately she falls, her pennies roll over the sidewalk. for money, the miser picks up a few and walks away. The miser is visiting one of his titled Indebtors He presents a note for payment, but the nobleman can not meet his note. He tells the miser that he will be forced to kill himself He pushes whereby Greedy pennies if he insists on immediate payment “Do it, do it.” says the miser. The nobleman lifts a pistol to his forehead Just then the young wife enters and shows the miser the “door, Threatening, he leaves The mixer returned home Hle goes to the cellar to store away his gold Hie enters the Secret vault Accidentally the door closes, and as there ts no possibillty of opening the door from the Inside, the miser ts buried alive, Upon his knees be offers his gold to God. Still the door is closed Hie offers more and more. He Is mad with fear, Sudde nly the visions of those whom he coerced pass through the cave . endless procession, Senseleas he drops to the oor + APTER THE BACHELOR'S RALL A bach flor after the ball is somewhat troubled with , adne te Ile lays upon the lounge and sud . ly seem the statue of Venus, which ts snding in his room, getting alive When he w ate fo embrace her, she vanishes Ile is so — ‘bont this that he discharges the butler bo bas Just entered As he ts not able to at tend to the hours ke eper at lo a " house himself he advertises for a to call upon him the next morning At 10 a. m., besieged hy housekeeper follow bim they are why the residence of the bachelor ts women all anxious to serve as They break Inte the house, they from room to room until at last held at bay by a fat Irish woman, drives them ont and presents herself to the | to the church became more frequent. had a to drink, he starts a fight. A) of the! his money. | | Caesar. making g0o-goo eyes. Going to a restaurant two lovers sit at his table. The love germs) have taken hold of him and he puts an adver| tisement In the paper as follows: ‘Bachelor of means wishes to marry beautiful and highly intellectual young lady. To avoid | the emberrassment of the first meeting will see applicants to-morrow between two and three at the Queen’s Inn entrance. Kindly carry a | rose." | About fifty women have come to answer the | advertisement. Every gentleman that passes | is accosted by the women anxious to meet the | When he at last appears, he is driven to filght by the love-crazy women, and | some exceedingly fine chases take place. At! last he is caught. , SELIG | LOVE UNDER SPANISH SKIES.—Don Caesar | de Castro was a young vagabond nobleman, whose gambling and fighting propensities caused | aristocrats and loved by the reckless plebianblooded spirits who were wont to inhabit the inns and grog shops of old Madrid, where nightly revels beld sway, where all or nothing was staked on the turn of a card or the throw of | the dic>, and where the sword was man’s best | friend, ever ready to leap from its scabbard to back up a play or refute a He. | In such an atmosphere this swashbuckler | thrived and found the life so much to his lik a new light in his soul he would not have | changed places with a king. Don Caesar had in| him that something (in spite of his otherwise | rugged nature) which made him reverence a | woman, and be ever ready to shield one of the | weaker sex from any oppression that to his) knowledge might be placed upon her. | Near the city there lived a proud nobleman | with but one daughter, Dolores, his hope and | pride, whom he wished to unite in marriage to | Don Sallust, a most powerful and influential po| tentate, whose estates were of the finest of all | Now Dolores despised her father’s choice and | rebelled at an alliance so distasteful to her, | partly hecause she did not love the man, but | mostly because her heart was given to another, | and that no less a person than the reckless Don | Caesar, the hero of our story. On her way to the cathedral she had by chance met Don They looked into each other's eyes and Again and again the es Dolores’ visits Her love | she confided to her companion, who, good soul | that she was, advised the headstrong girl} against the danger of losing her heart to so poor a gentleman. But her warnings and fears were of no avail to the determined senorita. who found many opportunities to communicate | in secret with her lover. One day while driving along an ancient street of the city Dolores was thrilled by the sight of | her hero, who single-handed was defending | with his sword a poor flower girl who had been set upon and insulted by a crowd of young ruf| fians. The fight was of short duration, however, for the dreaded blade of Don Caesar was | known and feared throughout the city. Scat-| tering the roysterers in all directions, he turned at the sound of a sweet voice that bade him approach the luxurious carriage in which reposed his lady fair. Complimenting him on | his brevery and receiving in return a rose which the grateful flower girl had pressed into his hands, Dolores drove on, leaving our hero gazing after the fast disappearing carriage, his | heert throbbing with mingled regret and de light. Plot and counterplot between the parties to} the story follow, resulting in the triumph of the hero and heroine. it was love at first sight. two were brought together KALEM THE ORANGE GROWER'S DAUGHTER.— A story of Reautiful and Sunny Florida. | Stella, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy or| ange grower, has promised her hand to a fine young fellow, Jim Carroll, the son of a neigh| bor. But Stella has aroused the passions of a | Cuban, her father’s overseer, and this man, taking advantage of the father’s absence. attempts to carry Stella away to Cuba by force. He nearly accomplishes his desperate purpose bet is frustrated by Jim, who rescues the girl after a fight against almost overwhelming odds, | All of the scenes were taken by the Kalem | Company's Stock Company on the St. John's} River, Florida. CHICAGO FILM EXCHANGE THE DFACON’S HOLIDAY—Saturday, a day | of work, sees the deacon in his office taking things easy He ts sitting in his comfortable chair, smoking a cigarette and life is a dream. Sunday, however, his day of rest, soon starts, | The first thing in the morning the children wake up about four o'clock and raise a big nolse, blowing horns, beating drums, ete., etc. The poor deacon next has to wash the dishes and then the family go out for a ride in the park They all get into one carriage. After riding a short while, the horse is unable to pull the load, and the deacon must get out and push on the carriage. Then one of the wheels break. The deacon runs off a shert distance aud bor rows a push-cart from a peddler. All the chilIren pile om the push-cart and the wife gets on the deacon’s back, and be carries them home in this manner. He reaches home, exhausted by his day of rest Monday, another work day, finds him at his office again, asleep in his chair. + NURSING ROTTLE.—A _ baby's leaving it with its grandfather, AUTOMATIC mother goes out an olf knife saarpener, who has a large rotary vrindstone in his room The baby starts to ery and the old man goes for its bottle of milk, but unfortunately, drops it, and all his efforts to amuse the child and attract its attention away from the dinner are without avail, Ile finally bits upon a seheme of putting some milk in a can connected with a hose to the baby's mouth, and also puts a jumping jack on the grindstone to amuse the baby He then makes the grindstone go fast and the milk is automatically pumped into the baby's mouth, (Continued on page 40.) Outdoor Amusements the Booking of Attractions at | discourage | of their best people. | of a life time te build and equip a show of | schemes that deprives the showman of his hard | fairs in America who have ruined the midway | as far as money making for a showman is Ccon | her of shows like they do In Atlanta, Augusta, Captain W. D. Ament Contributes an Open Letter Concerning to Open at Marysville, Tenn., May 3—Mrs. John Shields Confined in Hospital—Other News. Fairs—Greater Southern Shows OPEN LETTER RE FAIR ATTRACTIONS. Jackson, Tenn., April 5, 1909. . Editor of The Billboard. Dear Sir:—In reading over the special number of The Billboard a few weeks ago, I read the artical of some gentlemen’s opinion that the only proper thing for fair associations to do, was to throw there midway bookings into the hands of a promotor or middle man. The writer evidently has never been a hard working, recognized legitimate showman whose soul object was to give the public a square deal for the money and put the amusement up to the standard where the intelligent people would recognize them as real showmen that were a real benefit to the community instead of a disgrace and detriment to the business interests of the fair, or he would take an entire different view of this most important subject. The time has come when fair managers should fakes and immoral exhibitions if they want to build up the high standard and reputation of their fairs and demand the respect They will never be able to do so until they take the reins in their own bands and draw the line on the moral standing of their midway. There is no showman with as much brains as a chicken that is going to spend ten or twenty years of his | life in learning his trade and invest the savings high standard and let some hot-air faker, who has suddenly become wise that he can rent a desk in some back room in a large city for five dollars per month and get out a cheap, flashy letter-head and put in the cold winter months writing to the fair managers making them believe that he is a second Barnum and give this gent 35 to 50 per cent. of his gross receipts, pay extortionate railroad fares, accept the poorest locations to be had upon the grounds, be dictated to and abused by this same faker who imagines he has become a real showman, and is a king upon a throne, when these same showmen can get all the fair dates they want at half the per cent, travel upon a first-class passenger train with a free baggage car that he would pay the promoter $75 as a side graft, $4 a load for hauling from the cars that only cost the promoter $2, and many other grafting earned money. Any big fair with a clean reputation can spend a few dollars in The Billboard and secure all the good shows their fair will support. They can pick the shows and know just what they will have before they open. They « easily protect themselves by demanding a reasonable bonus to show good faith if they do not know the showmen they are contracting with, and by booking good showmen protecting them with only a limited number of shows and giving them all kind, square treatment, the future would cause no worry upon the part of the fair manager. I could name a number of the biggest state cerned, by giving their exclusive bookings into the hands of hungry promoters. who fill up | every available foot of space with fakes of | every description regardless of the merits and | the consequences are they have poisoned the | entire public against patronizing the shows, for | they have been stung so often and so hard that the public simply refuse to be persuaded to let | | | go their money. Ths standing of the midway in such places have been so completely demoralized that I would not give them five cents per foot for the choice of space. They have only themselves to blame, for any fair association that is not capable of conducting their own midway don't deserve good shows. I have | played fair dates for the past twenty years and | know the repntation of every fair of promi| nence from Winnipeg to Tampa, Fla. It has | always been my ambition to outclass all com| petitors if I conld, and do everything within | | | my power to elevate my profession, and I have taken particular note that where the midway is | conducted by the fair managers themselves and where ther keep out gamblers and immoral fakes and limit their midway to a certain num| Tampa and a number of other prominent fairs I can mention the showmen all made money and went away happy and anxious to return | another year. If there is any profit to he derived over and above a reasonable percentage the hard-working showman who Invests all the money and does all the hard work is certainly deserving of every dollar he gets. Yours truly, CAPT. W. D. AMENT. NOTES FROM CAPT. W. OD. AMENT’'S SUMMER ATTRACTIONS. Capt. W. D. Ament, the well-known showman, has located permanently in Jackson, Tenn., having bought out the old Gem Theatre there, January 1. He has completely remodeled thee same and has named it the Elite Theatre. By a big expenditure of money and careful management he has completely revolutionized the | moving picture business and put it upon a paying basis, something that no one else had ever been able to do as eight picture shows before him had made a miserable failure. He is now building an up-to-date airdome theatre and will open Mav 3. This amusement place also promises to be a great success as it ts located right on Main street and all the mer chants are boosting it along. Through the medinm of The Rillbeard such companies as The Reggar Prince Opera Company. North Bros.’ Dramatic Company, Grace Cameron Company, Ethel Morton and others have been booked. Prospects for a big business never looked better. | purchased Capt. Ament’s Independent Fair Ground Shows, three in number, are being offered the best fair dates in the United States and he looks for the biggest season in history. NOTES FROM THE GREATER SOUTHERN SHOWS. Mr. Arthur De Armond, proprietor of the Greater Southern Shows, announces the spring opening to take place at Marysville, Tenn., for one week commencing Monday, May 3. The shows have been newly equipped, in keeping with Mr. DeArmond’s policy of ‘‘all new every year,’’ and will carry a 70-foot round top with a 40-foot middle piece, fifteen lengths of blue seats, ten tiers high, and 240 reserved chairs. The performance will be in keeping with the excellent character shown in the past. e show will have a newly equipped 70-foot car, and will make week stands only, giving six night performances and one matinee, and will give stage productions of only the very best in vaudeville, farce comedy and drama. There will be thirty-five members of the company, including a band of sixteen pieces under the direction of Prof. Carl Neel. John Morris will be stage director and George Gardner producer. Mr. DeArmond also announces that L. S. Barrett will be manager of this company, J. B. Morton, superintendent of canvas, and M. F. Sexton, master of transportation. WRITE A WORD OF CHEER. Bearing date of April 5, the following letter is self-explanatory: The Editor, Billboard: Dear Sir:—To-day I visited Mrs. John Shields who has been confined to the Woman’s Hospital, Nasnville, Tenn., for the past three months. Mrs. Shields bas undergone two operations, and although the attending physician speaks encouraging from my personal knowledge and observations, I do not think Mrs. Shields’ condition is very favorable for quick recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Shields are both old-timers, and wellknown in their profession. They have at all times been ready to help those in distress, and, although they do not require any financial help I think their friends near Nashville should call on them, or at least with a letter. Such kindness would help to cheer the heart and give some relief to one who is suffering. A letter addressed to the Commercial Hotel, Nashville, Tenn., will reach Mrs. John Shields. Trusting you will : our valuable paper, am yours, “4 — DR. HORACE GRANT. SUMMER RESORTS AT ERIE, PA. The warm weather of the past few days has started things moving pretty fast around the summer resorts. The new vandeville theatre being built at Waldameer is being pushed along rapidly and Manager Suerken says he wi’! open on May 30. A $22,000 scenic railway is also being built and when completed will “be one of the finest and longest in the country. Thomas Maloney, the manager of the park, has a full list of excursions booked for the season. The Four Mile Creek Park has again for its manager, this season, H. T. Foster. Mr. Foster has been manager of this park for several seasons past. He is having the vaudeville theatre in this park remodeled and redecorated and will open June 6 on the United time. Miss Ida M. Beatty, who has been musical directress at this popular vaudeville house for the past three seasons, will again occupy the same posi tion. CARNIVAL NOTES. The Lachman’s Hippodrome Shows closed their fourth week in Texas at Bonham on April 3. This is their first visit to Texas and the management states that the prospects are flattering for a good season's business. | The company consists of eight clean, up-to-date | attractions with numerous concessions. The Marvland Amusement Co. No. 1 played a week’s engagement at Manning, s. C., March 29 to April 3. The weather has been fine and all shows did good business. The free acts were Capt. Wm. Kanell, high diver, and the Two Mitchells, with their break-away re volving .ladder. Paul’s Penny Arcade Shooting Gallery is now located at Archbold. O., after touring Ohio and Indiana during the winter months. A new merry-go-round has been and other attractions added te Mr Paul's carnival company. The Jones Family, with their Georgia Minstrel and Plantation Shows Combined. have booked for the season, enening May 22. at Ambridge, Pa... with the United Amusement Co., managed by W. H. Brown. The Police Relief Association, of Knoxville, Tenn... is billing the city for their earnival to be held April 19-24. The Greater Smith Shows will furnish the amusement fea tures for the Association The Parker Amusement No. 1 furnish the attractions for the Fort Scott, Kan sas, Carnival, which will be held the week of May 10. under the auspices of the Bourbon County Fair Association and Rifle Yeo. LaRose, manager of LaRose Electric Fountain, is spending a few weeks at his home in Fort Scott, Kansas. Mr. LaRose will open his summer tour in Cincinnati, May 1 (Continued on page 43.) make this known through, are Ah aN Ia A tee nn NPE EE mi 9 Ay Dh RARER NA ete gag me cee T ee eS a ee hw fg eee gupnit minty =| anew wate rgimane ed eat RO a LED Nite be RS age { a