The Billboard 1909-06-12: Vol 21 Iss 24 (1909-06-12)

The Billboard JUNE 12, 1909. The Week in Chicago | to Instruct the | in Chicago. under fourteen years. number of great Mr. This has plays from Savage's manager was ar | rested and in danger of a jail sentence as well | a8 a fine | appeared (Continued from page 7.) Mr. Edward J. Adler, theatrical lawyer, is this week associated with James T. Milligan, 224 Long Acre Buliding, New York City. Parvir who was in advance of H. E. Pierce & « s In Wyoming, reports that busihess has been good, and that it is their intention of next year putting two companies on the road. | I’ ) eXpects to stay in Chicago during the summer. Frank and Will Hovgh sre on their farm ‘n where they are putting the finish'ug to the plays which will be | seen at the Singer theatres next fall. Henry B. Harris was in town to confer with Miss Ethel Ferguson, who is playing the leading role in The Traveling Salesman at the I!tinois Theatre, about Such a Little Queen, a Channing Pollock play, in which Mr. Harris will | star Miss Ferguson next season. Once more it reported that Cecil Lean and Florence Holbrook have left a new musical comedy on account of unsatisfactory parts. They have decided to again enter vaudeville. The bill at the Julian Theatre, J. G. Conderman, owner and manager, last week included the Three Mitchells, Earl Girdeller and Company, Muriel Window, Four Gardners, George W. Day and Carlson Brothers. The Holdworths, banjo players and entertainers. are in Chicago after a successful season, coming direct from New Orleans. They will possibly leave this week for New York. Elmer Edwards, known by the profession as Elmer Aristo, has joined hands with his father in taking out a show to play Chicago and immediate vicinity. The show opens here on June 12 and will carry about sixty-five people. The Week in New York (Continued from page 6.) ness’ Is a command which even reform Rabbinism ought not to have outgrown, and I am surprised that such a statement could have been possible in the Free Synagogue of my friend, Stephen Wise.’ TYLER AT PERA. A cablegram received at the offices of Liebler and Company announces the arrival at Pera, just outside of Constantinople, of Geo. C. Tyler, managing director of the firm, with his automobile party. This is the first time a motor car has made Pera over the roads selected by the theatrical manager. Mr. Tyler expects to return te the United States the middle of next month. PROTECTS CHILDREN. One of the most encouraging bits of ne ws that has reached the Producing Managers’ Association in New York comes from Chicago, where Henry W. Savage has won his case against the Factory Inspector who attempted to prevent little Gretcben Hartman from appearing in Mary Jane’s Pa. A unique law point was sprung by Mr. Savage’s attorney. Hereafter every manager sending to Chicago a show that requires a child actor will be able to protect hinself by following Mr. Savage's lead aml make the child a partner in the enterprise. Little Miss Hartman, a clever child actress, who divided attention with the star, Henry E. Dixey, plays Mary Jane in the big comedy success, None bat a child could take this role, | but Chicago bars from the stage any player | of the Eastern Burlesque Wheel. of $100 for every time on the Chicago Opera At the trial last week it came out that the law was only against the employment of children, but did not hold against a person who took part in his or her own show. It appeared from the evidence that Miss Hartman had an interest in the company. She held a partnership agreement that entitled ber to ten per cent of the profits or ten per cent of the losses. She was being paid $50 weekly as an advance on her contract. When Jndge tertained the Miss Hartman House stage. Fry heard this evidence he enmotion by Attorney Adolph Marks jury to return a verdict of ac quital. For years the child actor*has dreaded Chieago on account of the certainty of arrest. Henceforth managers will take the youngsters into partnership and avoid a silly law that was never intended to apply against the stage in the first place. Miss Hartman travels with her mother, her lessons regularly each day and is as carefully looked after as if she were in her own home in Harlem. She is much better off than if she were selling newspapers on the street which, under the Illinois law, she would be permitted to do without being molested. law against stage children has always been an imposition and all theatrical managers are con gratulating Mr. Savage for having found a way to protect them. ASSOCIATION’S GOOD WORK. As the date of the second annual meeting of The National Association of Theatrical Producing Managers approaches, many of the theatrical profession are reviewing what has been accomplished by this organization of the leading producers of the United States, its officers and directors. The Association, during the past year, has | been particularly active accomplishing many things which the individual producer has heretofore been utterly unable to do. It was par ticularly fortunate in its choice of officials and | directors, the board comprising as it does, Mr. Henry W. Savage, one of the most widely known of producers, as its president: Mr. Hollis E. Cooley, perhaps possessing the largest and most personal acquaintance with theatrical folk of any man in the theatrical profession, as secretary; Mr. Samuel A. Seribner, the head as treasurer; known and attorneys, Ligon Johnson, one of the best cleverest theatrical and corporation as general counsel, and Messrs. Wm. A. Brady, Henry B. Harris, Wm. F. Conner, Gus Hill, Harry Martell, Daniel Frohman, Joseph Brooks, Al. H. Woods, Jules Murry, John A. Himmelein, Herry Doel Parker and Alf. Hayman, as members of the Board of Directors, all well known in their various branches of the theatrical pro | ducing business. Perhaps the most important accomplishment of the National Association during the past year has been the securing of the new copyright law, which now so thoroughly protects the owner of a dramatic copyright that any infringer on a copyright may be fined or im prisoned at the option of the court. So far reaching in this new law that the piratical producer, the theatre owner allowing the pro duction, the party selling the manuscript, the Stenographer who procures it, and even the bill poster putting up the paper for a piratical production may be fined and imprisoned. Immediately upon securing the the new act in the United States, the tion, through its executive head, Mr. and its general counsel, Mr. Johnson, attempt to obtain a similar act in Ca has long been the paradise of the of AssociaCooley. made an nada, which play pirate passage prevented a being presented | has | The | “The Bi the thee mu ‘tres In the United States They are used In 318 of the furnished wit! Over 75 per cent finest and Canada are of the 405 moving picture theatres in Chicago. To meet the growing demand for LOW PRICED OPERA CHAIRS we have originated a number of styles which, though Inexpensive, ure characteristic of ANDREWS QUALITY Write for our large catalogue, (ustrated in colors, which will suide bw assist you, When contemplating the purchase of Opera Chairs. qHe WMPCM: CS (aun tumis( ROLL TICKETS : 14 S|: A . 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