The Billboard 1909-05-22: Vol 21 Iss 21 (1909-05-22)

sw are ae et one —ath aN eli ee + MAY 22, 1909. The Billboard 53 whom remained there for any length of time purchaser can be found willing to inv ) . nve a and . ly » vn . . Se ee ae a ar tle Guitry made the house a big success large « sum. If the building {s not a ene rd and family left last week by R. M. S. | full houses. Hiis pictures are good, and while probability is that it will rd ra a a en awe ey 3 annual trip. to England, and net quite so up-to dute as some of the others, large grounds sold for building lote, It ts ait a Mag mms for back in time for the Mel-| he gives a good, clean show, with good films L'Assommolr (Drink), which the late Charles uated in a thickly inuablted neighborhood, and 2 Sf = ; an all T) > 7 : 4 , = etor all he é spies et reg . Warne made so well known all over the | the heirs will no donbt realize a good sum for, BRENNAN'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE = Con cscs dace Cea ee eae taseon English speaking world, is still running at the’ the lots The building was last used by a , soar cia ee SSS 2 ee Ambigu clreus two years ago, but the undertaking This house has become one of the standard | ™@Ving pictures and illustrated songs, and has % could not make any money and soo a ‘DE | houses in vandeville. and packed houses are eld open continuously longer than any place ; down y money and soon closed | the rule. Mr. Bain, the business manager, | 9 Sydney. It has good films and one of the itoudint, the Handeuff King, has just closed * looks well after the »atrons and sees that a €St machines in the city. » successful engagement at the Alhambra, oi ‘ good bill of fare is nightly served, with trimMr. King, the proprietor, has another place were he was the headliner for a month solid. The following figures represent the receipts mings, to all and sundry. The artists are now i® Prisbane, and is doing well there Clay's Hie ix now in England, after which be crosses °f seme of the best known variety houses and ‘‘made at bome,”’ ‘and as they cater for AusVaudeville Company. and several othet pl Ces Germany for three months, Follee B a ga, ——s mg Yesr 1908: | tralian talent, they get some turns at “this that are run .on nightly, are all doin well. Ohes Bergere, $32 1: Olympia, $228.000Al| hall ¢ ‘ pa . ; 7 and while they bide their ligl m F shel hambra. $168,000: La Cigale, $146,006 Seasie i “—S .-4 are in any part of the te not sdiwaniiathcer. oe —_ -— po, * sl Miss Emma Banks, a young American plan$135,000; Eidorado, $134.00: Apolle 107.000: | +) . < a eons, acrobats, are in) 7. a . . : ee #... ~ = a ’ o : Apollo, $107, J; | their last nights; Daisy Harley, queen of the | "6" ist, has Just made a most successful first ap ta Ta Clan $100,000; Ambassadeurs, $88,000; wire: Mel , : tat Anderson’s Wonderland City is open to the pearance at the Salle des Agriculteurs. Galte Rocbechouart, £72,000: Jardin "de Paris. an ‘i 1 a ae stint "ae on oo ge public in the eves ng valy ‘and they vase n . ~My : Tides —— . ris, nd pipers; Bartlett, the singing fireman; Con) ©". ; er wal ashe a % + remand § Nouveau Cirque, $138,000 de Carroll. eccentric comedian; Flora and Stella | @0ing a very fair business, but it is became The motion picture people have invaded an T age : ayes irque Medrano, $100 all Ral | Ranger, cumediennes and balladists: The Dris| t®®Y have a regular place for giving what to other field This time a cinematograph com a gga i o; Cirque de Paris, $45,000; Bul| coll Brothers, patter comedians; Joe Charles the Austrailan mind is the very greatest of pany has closed a contract with Gabrielle | ;: . oh 7 ”). The receipts of twenty-| singing comedian; Pearl Smaill, acrobatic serio; | SPOTtboxing matches, and that would draw WAnounzio to furnish it with six scenarios a!) '“° ©f the bigger theatres amounted in 1908 | Jack Kearns, Charles Pope, Goldie Collins, and| ® Crowd to the North Pole—if they could get t not h i j 1 1 > . vear for two years, From time to time the | '? "t much less than five million dollars, | others, with the great Miorama, in moving picthere—to see a good go. inoving picture companies have been encroaching about $60,000 less than in the year previous. tures, make a lung bill. Mr. Brennan is on his Mr. and Mrs. _Anderson leave for their Eu further and further upon the grounds of oper way to Europe and the United States to pick | Topean and American trip on April 20. and Jack atie and dramatic territory, and from the looks The Intime Theatre, Berlin, has commenced | "”, good turns, and intends to introduce foreign — — _— —— tse Reggae rtnny — of things these extremely enterprising people | the summer season with operatic, dramatic va ‘lent into his show, and give support to native hour og sac Tipe ty he King’s Tt after Bie er will soon be cabbaging the entire eutpet 66 fa-| riety and vandeville. The specialties are little talent as well. | — usiness at the King’s Theatre, his new vorite dramatists anc composers generally. 2 ' Pa ote P P ‘ . a 4 had ‘4 I + Dleylets, as usual rather loud and pepTHE GLACIARIUM Wirth Brothers’ Greatest Show on Earth op * _ This is the largest place of amusement in the | ¢m@d April 3. at the back of St. Barnabas” ° , : : Southern Hemisphere, and is nightly filled by | Church in George Street, West. to capacity, r tter 1 a omen Welssback and Bernhard Muel-| the regular patrons of West's Pictures. The | 224 bave been playing to overflow ever since er heve leased for the summer the well-known prices paid for admissio ante They lost a $5,000 giraffe on the ag r + ios ; : pri pale r a sion would be amply reA a Fe, xiraffe on the voyage from — the Landsberger Allee, Berlin, for a| warded by hearing Louis de Groen’s Vice-Regal Auckland te this port, the day before they (Continued from page 16.) Volks Theatre and specialty. The theatre seats Band of thirty performers, who nightly render, *"Tived. and it is now being stuffed and will 2,000, the concert pavilion 500 persons. the works of the great masters. As far as. %* added to the collection in the menagerie. did their utmost to make the farce as Jaugh+ Australia goes. the name West when coupled April 10. nearly all of his company were re able as possible But it was really the social The event of the season and a financial success of | ;,, the first water Think of it, $50 for a box . i 10vi ie is & ‘ laced with new artists, but they give : 1 United States i , with moving pictures is the best known to-day. | ? : ists, bu hey give a gooe i tates is furnishing from year ,,, Australia they nightly give performances show and «are very popular with the masses. year more stars for the operatic stage in ;.. : ter Theil “§ i F Germany. Berlin reports Aha pom of in the following cities: Melbourne, Adelaide, Their season will have ended just about the with six seats; $15 for a single seat in the yw Hele : Verth, Kalgoorlie, Brist f in New Z time that you get this letter, and if it keeps ‘ ; A. *s Helen Allyn for the next five years by the . oriie, Brisbane; four in New ZealBE te ~ aa. i front rows! All the iadies appeared in “en | Komische Ope ce aad os —— —,,, owen and, and aré starting out another company to | UP t¢ enything like the high water mark that grande toilette,"’ the gentlemen in full dress, 7 +s tour = mall places, while at Bournemouth, Eng it has since they arrived here, they will have land, and Edinburgh, Scotland. Messrs. West ®**T) cause to congratulate themselves on their keep in constant employment over five hundred Sydney venture. closed a three year contract with the theatre in Dusseldorf, Rhenish Prussia, while Emma Gates has been won over by the Royal Opera and tue receipts, including money realized from the champagne sale, amounted to no less than 30.000 marks Berlin ’ ; * bands, and their show is right up-to-date. The _Mr. Phil Wirth will no doubt be seen in the But the unwelcome aftermath of the affair : program generally includes about twenty films| United Stetes during the coming summer, as 1 is the thinly disguised irony with which those each evening. am informed that he intends to pay a_ visit connected with circensian affairs speak of the SYDNEY, (AUS.) LETTER. Mr. C. Spencer has also a very fine show | tO the United States for the purpose of engag sumateurish performance, and the fact that it at the Lyceum Theatre, and, nightly shows to| ing talent for next season's shows, but be it could draw such an immense concourse of peo large andiences. Mr. Spene¢r has also made | Understood that the circus never goes into win ple, although being of no artistic merit what, _ Sydney, N. S. W., April 9, 1900. arrangements in Europe for the sole right of | tet «Guarters here.as it plays all the year around ever. It is a fact that the very best circus ue Easter holidays are on us, the city is | <ctain films, and they can only be seen here. | The coldest day in midwinter here would be performance in Berlin could not begin to draw crowded with people down from the country He has also branched out in the films and, like a spring day in the Northern States. The anywhere as large a house as the actors had. 8" surrounding states, to pay a visit to the | Machines supply, as well es having a right uplowest that we get it here in midwinter is The artists of the manege now feel somewhat reat annual show that is held here every | to-date factory for the taking and the making about eight degrees above freezing. Letters burt: the caricatures of themselves, as given Easter, and which grows larger each year. of films, and it is to their credit the fine ntended for him had better be sent to the by the actor-folk, received more recognition All the theatres are open, and are reaping Work of the Burns-Johnson films, which were | Cincinnati office of The Billboard. than the real artistic circus act. It is doubt-| & harvest, as the visitors seem to have plenty 21] taken by Mr. E. H. Higgins, who gained At the Stadium can nightly be seen a very ful. therefore, whether either of the two cirof money and to burn. — ge te — experience under the | large crowd to witness the antics of real Aus cuses here would ever again lend its aid in an writer, and | am proud to see so fine an ar-| tralian buckjumpers, and as they have rire enterprise of this sort. AT THE THEATRE ROYAL tist. Mr. Higgins has just returned to Syd-| number of wilde and hard animals tg Rae The performance brought not one thing new, The Julius Knight Company closed their "ey from a trip to his native island, Tasmania, | take kindly to having men astride their hacks. although one had the right to expect that such | S¢ason with A Royal Divorce, and open at where he took some very fine views. Mr. Spen-| lots of fun is to be had for little money. This an array of dramatic talent should be able to Adelaide to-morrow night, at the Theatre Roycer is prepared to furnish either positive or | show would do well in the United States. They invent something really original. al I am not aware if the new theatre that | negative films at a very low price, and his! are suortly leaving for the old country, or The foremost comedians of the Berlin stage ‘s being built is ready for occupancy or not. Work will astonish the people of the United | home, as every Australian speaks of EF: sland, appeared as clowns, but their efforts were nothTo-morrow night Mr. J. C. Williamson will | States if they are permitted to see it, which | no matter whether he has seen the countrs ing short of lamentable, if one is to believe Produce for the first time oa any Australian they will co in the Rurns-Johnson films. or not. ; what the real circus clown has to say about| Stage, An Englishman’s Home, the play that Mr. J. L. Goodman looks after the front of Mr. Harry Kolker and Miss Ola Humphries it. The bit of the evening, however, and the | !s creating so much excitement at the present the house Mr. Goodman's play, The Secret/ are in the cast at the Royal in An English only ‘bon mot,’’ which is accepted at full val| time in London. 5 or et was produced at the Palace Theatre | man’s Home, and, as the Governor-General will ue, even by the circus people, came from pret ’ — een pay a command night visit to the show to ty Else Lehmann, who, as female clown, re7 az = reget tes aeaemgene , The management of the Bijou Theatre have | Might. all the hangers-on of the Goveroment irked: “O, yes, I am stupid, but there are The Royal Comic Opera Company closed its no cause to complain of the patronage accorded | House are sure to be there. others, without mentioning all those who have | S¢ason at Her Majesty's Theatre April 2, to a them since they built and opened this theatre, The many friends of George H. Titherage will paid their good money to get in here!’ full house, and sailed on the following day for which was specially constructed for moving pic-| >? Pleased to know that he has fully recovered — where it will open, 11, at Wella and while they have most of the star fTom cn operation for appendicitis, and can , . . oo ; films as shown at the other large places, they | 9°W consider himself as qualified for member ec death of Joseph Alt, twenty-one April 3, the Pantomime Company opened also have some ths ‘ 7 var | Shi e¢ Appendicitis C riter look ze. who had just accepted an enhere in Jack and Jill with the saent successful a = te ee hold 7 the other places never pin the Appendicitis Club. The writer looks : sion aa They are strong on -| 0m Mr Titberage as one of the most polished with a well-known a circus, production that Mr. Williamson has ever prebin filras, more so than oar an the pond a actors that ever stepped on the stage. and his at Munich, Bavaria Alt, a very | sented to the Australian public. They are almost ne loss frem it would be a great calamity acrobat, was practising with his y are aime next door to the Glacsrium. me a great calamity. I beg ‘ > _ os _ ‘ onde i rs ‘ere cong ons o* is the rooms of the Artists’ Club, Mu AT THE CRITERION THEATRE Patronage keeps well to the top all the time. | to tender him my sincere congratulation i hi ri , Herr Thiele looks after the nageme recovery. W. H. H. LANE. Alt's partner was in a kneeling position, The “Big Four’ Company opened with an this theatre, which is owned all pny ey Ml _— which he threw the former upward for entirely ocw cast April 3, in The Hypocrites, ited mpany, known as The Bijou Amusements the salto mortale. The young man evidently and have been playing to capacity ever since. Limited. : J . ‘ N. S. Burlew, owner and manager Bs Ss. 3 nanage became nervous, be could not make the turn in The Harcourt Beatty-Madge MacIntosh ComMr. Jack Rowan, of Sweep > the air, and instead of landing on his feet, pany closed season April 2, with a farewell Queen's Hall under a long struck with his forehead on the floor, breaking to the leading lady, Miss MacIntosh, who has ceeded in making it one eep fame, has the | of the Burlew Opera House, Charleston, W. Va. lease, and has suc-| has been reappointed by the Governor of West ‘ n of the regular stock mie bot his neck, which caused instant death left for her home in England. They gave &@ places of moving pictures, and nightly sees heya ooh Pay nanges ss neral of the State Militia + mixed performance, consisting of one act from ; 3 ‘ e our years. TY l t f Berlin recently tried the four productions during their season. The we crimina courts o cents audience were very enthusiastic and Miss MacIntosh was simply smothered with flowers and SELL WITH ONE HAND, MAKE CHANGE WITH OTHER BOOK STRIP TICKETS an interesting case, dealing with the forgery ? pion be ne Hirene Se 5 of adm m tickets to the Circus eae tokens of affection when the curtain had been the city named. A. young engraver was ciate rung down on tne last act. The orchestra reery, fraud and ilegal sale of tickets; plaed Say Aurevoir and Not Good-Bye, and the —— + et ; ‘ites © Bag! oa. — audience dispersed after singing the national 1 Wee tee lege: ome ‘> | snthem. TH “ON HAND” TICKET last two months of the past year the Her season has been very successful, and it = =' = nt of the Circus Schumann noticed is to be hoped that she has not paid her last AS FAST AS HARD TICKETS PERFEC NUMBERING rid Surprise an extracmsine ly ieee “bo | Visit to this side of SAFER THAN ROLL TICKETS PERFORATING \entanee 2s Se, Seley the pale bad| tet. Bie Four’ are a very strong CHEAP AS THE CHeAPEST STOCK AND SIZE tg Pe _s _— = lees Clean belnet he premier position In theatrical vaste WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES © micstere Ww seep EO wr — age ment nd ‘he F , will have to hustle serch “iat Bec at, Chow | 4° 2ute eae tt eh bas Bk WELDON, WILLIAMS & LICK so grea aA Sak ane i ' agement ‘ ‘ u ; ' past. ——— vineed that some one had sold forged admis } w: sions, Shortly after the two persons mentioned AT THE PALACE THEATRE Minseapolis. Mie. FORT SMITH, ARK. _ Seo Frascisco, Cal. ‘hove were arrested and hundreds of forged en Ha s Dramatic Company are tickets found in their possession. Roth were g the ul Palace Theatre at the Ds. SYSTEM time, having opened April 10 in Queen ? onvicted and sent to prison for one year. ht, and the sign ‘‘House Full’" was before the rising of the curtain. The Edinburg Kurbaus near Riga Kurland, Kussia, has been sold for the sum of $50,000 to The papers speak of this pr ae ects as on all Directors Nicolat Fedor Barzeff and Alexander | around good ene, and that the 8 ecen » fects = Johann Tunkoff The intention is to present | are right up to the latest in stagecraft YOU CAN EASILY OWN A DIAMOND OR A WATCH, or present one as a gift to some loved one. st the theatre operetta, at the Pavilion concerts HARRY RICKARD’S TIVOLI THEATRE. Send for our beautiful descriptive catalog. 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It is free t viow During ois seven weeks in the Mel Following suits by one of the heirs and part t Opera House he packed the theatre whers of the Cireus Renz, the courts in Vi and at all the matinees, so all that are enna, Austria, have ordered a sale of the big ted with the management have worn bullding in Vienna belonging to this circus il faces eS eo ® For quite a while have the heirs of the founder ls nd Capt. Grade, tn > Re = = M of this enterprise attempted to dissolve partare the nm eadliners on the bill, while Tom TI, nership and settle the large estate. The ome Wootwell l, Pitt, Mlle. Adelle and the anager Coney Island Park, CINCINNA OHIO. have put a valuation of 440,000 crowns on the | Two Bells, besides a host of other artists, go Can book fifty qualified vaudeville acts, minstrel co’s, novelties etc, etc, weekly. 12 shows per cireus building, and it is very doubtful if a/ to make up a very long program. Mr. Rickweek, Pleasant engagements, practical managements. 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