The Billboard 1909-07-10: Vol 21 Iss 28 (1909-07-10)

ye ta ree a 9 ce Se me Oe ~ ‘ : 4 The Bi llboard JULY 10, 1909. T.M. A.GRAND LODGE TO MEET AT MINNEAPOLIS MOST IMPORTANT IN ITS HISTORY The Week of July 12-17 will See a Large Gathering of Members Intent on Legislation of Great Moment to the Order---Elaborate Preparations for Entertainment. The twelfth biennial Grand Lodge and Conven. tion of the Theatrical Mechanical Association will be beld at Minneapolis, Minn., July 12-17, inclusive. The headquarters of the Association during the meeting will be at the Nicollet Hotel. It is expected that this meeting will be the most largely attended in the history of the organization. Several important matters will be decided among them being the selection of a location for the home of the aged and infirm of the order; the advisability of instituting lodges in Enrope; also the changing of the name of the Association. An election of officers will take place, and the question of holding annual meetings will also be considered. Between thirty-five and forty delegates from the Fast and Middle West will meet at the Saratoga Hotel, in Chicago, July 9, and leave on a special train over the Burlington Route, Saturday morning, Juy 10, for Minneapolis. This special train will be in charge of Wm. T. Butler, of New York, and Chas. W. Schweitzer, of Cincinnati. Wheeling, W. Va., is after the next convention, as is also Detroit and Baltimore. Big dele gations will be sent from these places and a strenuous effort will be made by these delegates to and the prize for their respective cities. The cities bidding for the home are Los Angeles, Cal.; Denver, Colo.; Mt. Clemens, Mich., and Oklahoma City, Okla. The Minneapolis Lodge has announced that it is prepared to spend $10,000 for the entertainment and comfort of visiting delegates It is estimated that there will be in the neighborhood of 150 to 175 delegates and grand lodge mem| bers present. The meetings wil' be held in the public as| semby halls of the Court House and City Hall. | POLI'S WATERBURY THEATRE CLOSED; STOCK COMPANY DISBANDED. Poli’s Theatre, at Hartford, Conn., has been closed for the summer, in order that extensive alterations may be made. This is the frst time this house has been closed for even a single day since it was opened six years ago, and Mr. Poli it should be given a complete renovation. The Stock Company which was playing there has been disbanded, as as possible companies August with being assigned to Mr. Poli’s other The house will reopen early in its usual high grade vaudeville. ‘ST. LOUIS, MO. Amelia Pingham fs in her closing week at the Suburban Theatre, presenting her first success, The Climbers, and it is useless to add that she is pleasing the same big business that has ebaracterized her stay of five weeks Monagers Oppenheimer have found Miss ham a most profitable attraction, as she Is {mmensely popular in St. Lonis, and her conscientions, artistic work has brought big audiences to every performance. She is to depart for Tondon, to play an Bing has decided that it is time that | many of its members | here. | indefinite engagement, so ' the Messrs. Oppenheimer got her signature to a. next summer contract, which will insure St. | Louis that she will be seen here again next season Raymond Hitcheock will close his three weeks’ stay at Delmar Musical Theatre this week, as Ko-Ko in a revival of The Mikado, and a rich nerformance it is. He has been a success here, and Manager Dan 8. Fishell had them stand{ng up at last Wednesday’s performance. DeWolf Hovper follows for two weeks, beginning Sunday night, playing El Capitan and Wang. James O'Neal in Monte Cristo will close his two weeks’ run at Delmar Dramatic Theatre, and has pleased all. The performances were all splendidly cast aand staged, and were played with great effect. Manager D. E. Russell will next Sunday have Nat Goodwin in The Gilded Fool, with a change each week of his engagenent, which will number five in all. Forest Park Highlands has done brsiness, and this, the second week of the Police Relief Penefit, finds no let up. The Vaudeville bill this week includes Carter DeHaven and Co. Hopkins Sisters, Clifford and Burke, Eight Kitabanza Japs, Bob Adams and Rob Alden, Alpha Troupe. The hit of the performance is Carter DeHaven and Co., who are eas{ly the best in their line seen here. In_ the Garden, Cavallo’s Band is assisted by the Verdi Quartette, which made such a distinct hit a few weeks ago. Mr. Leo McManus has gotten together a quartette that ranks No. 1 with any we have heard in the Verdi. West End Heights has Rice and Cady in My La@y’s Maid. and again a splendid performance. This week’s bill will mark the closing of musical extravaganza at West End Hleights, as the attendance did not come ap to the expensiveness of the plays put on, and as the management did not care to cheapen the Shows. it will put on high-class vaudeville for the balance of the season. The Messrs. Oppenheimer promise the same standard in vaudeville as they have given us in extravaganza. Blanchard and Foster are the headliners of Sig. Reinfeldt’s Minstrels. at Lemps’ Park, having been engaged at the request of the patrons of Lemps’. and they are proving big business getters for Manager Bachman. A new motion picture show house ts to be erected in St. Louis at a cost of $50,000, and will be the finest in the city. It will seat one thousand people. This is within a few feet of the New Theatre that is to be erected at the corner of Grand avenne and Olive street, which will seat 1,600, and is to cost $200,000. This immense | is the first step for St. Louis for uptown the atres of any siz Col. Jno. PD. Hopkins is spending a_ few weeks In St. Louis, and stopping at the botel n Forest Park Highlands and his welcome is clearly Landsdowne Park, East St. Louis, Ill, has heen running to big business since its opening. and, under the management of Hugh Morrison, has been a big The park His health is good visible at all times. success. for parade will be given on a more extensive scale, The committte has offered $7,500 for a dem onstration f their ae ane to the Wright during the balloon races The Edu Parade is rapidly gaining the lead The railroads will fer extremely of $67.50 for round trip from the Pa cific Coast Roland Vogelsang, former treasurer of Havthe Nebraska State Penitentiary, they were den, committed suicide last Sunday at his home in § No cause was assigned, as he was in |] th and all his surroundings were | pleas lis wife survives | Iie was very popular with all who knew well dre times. being algentleman FARLEY. ssed and a tl ~ WILL J. GRACE HAYWARD STOCK CO. Excellent business was the result of the pre senting of the faree comedy The Man from Mexico last week to the patrons of the Oliver Theatre, by the Grace Hayward Stock Company. Located as the company is in the city with the Nebraska Stane Penitentiary, they were able to secure the regulation prison uniforms, and while doing so it happened to occur to the members of the company that they might somewhat lighten the lives of the prisoners by giving them an entertainment f ai different nature than they have had in » past. The matter was suggested to the and he was in hearty accord So } after noon the entire company visited the MAUDE _——— $< —— Se ee aes ow: Fr | & hy As she appeared in the character of Joan of Arc, at the Stadium, Harvard University, June 22 ADAMS. several seasons past has been under prohibition restrictions, and it became difficult to make money. ‘This year the lid has been raised, and the park. as well as the concessions, are doing well. The Blankall Stock Company are playing a repertoire of comedies and dramas in the theatre and are also doing well. The theatrical situation In St. Louis has always, at this time of year, been uncertain, an¢ this year more than ever. The only the atres that have their future fixed at this time, are the Olympic and Century, which will play Klaw & Erlanger shows. The Grand Opera Honse and shows. as will again Havlin’s will play Stair & Hevlin usual. The Standard and Galety play vaudeville, opening Aug. %. The fact that Mr. Louis Cella has purchased Mr. Middleton’s interests in the St. Louis heuses will unsettle the situation until near the openings. The New Grand Avenue Theatre looks like a sure thing, and this also will heighten uncertainty in the field. At any rate, we are al! enjoying the summer, just the same. Preparations for the big Centennial Celebration of St. Louis are being rapidly whipped into shape, and the city is to hold the biggest event in its history. The latest feature of the program for the week of October 3, the histor jeal parade, will contain a tribe of genuine Osage Indians, one hundred from the Government Reservations. The annual Velled Prophet and a vaudeville show TaValierre, Baby Dodo LaValierre, Le Welsh, and Hopkins and Axtell. The shops were shut down an hour earlier, ery man was allowed to assemble in torlum to see the vaudeville acts It first vaudeville entertainment ever given in Nebraska State Penitentiary, and was the acts ever seen by some of the prisoners, had spent the major portions of their lives behind the big walls. The entire company were shown through the prison, which is of the most up-to-date and best maintained As she walked through the prison, Miss Hay ward gave many a prisoner a cheering was given by Joseph w J. prison and ev the audi was the the first Produced by prison, NAMELESS Play by Unknown Author Belasco ‘Theatre Stock Company, Makes Favor able Impression in Washington Belasco Theatre, Washington, D. C.—A play in four acts, unnamed, by a nameless author. THE CAST. Mrs. Norah Dakon ...Beatrice Morgan Bath DeReR...ccccesses veonens Laurette Taylor Lawrence Brundage...... ....A. H. Van Buren Charlie Wix....... :aveeesae eee Edward Emery Colonel Gunning....... .....George Tlowell Simon bake bee & ok wate ie Charles D. Pitt Mrs. *‘Puasy’’ St. Leger.........:. Caroline Locke | **Babe’’ Benson........ cosscncces Elsie Esmond Marie Antoinette.............+++: Marion Ballou The novelty of witnessing a play without a name, written by en author who is preserving his anonymity, was granted a laege audience at the Belasco Theatre, Washington, D. C., June 28. The production occurred in the second week of the Belasco Theatre Company's stay, who | one | word. | At the conclusion of the trip, the warden pre| sented the members of the company with a set of resclutions drafted by the convicts, express ing their gratitude for the entertainment given them. SHUBERT’S ART STUDIO IN DAYTON. It has been decided by the Shuberts to estab lish their studio in Dayton, Ohio, from which point all scenery will be shipped. Fred Me Gowan, stage manager of the National Theatre, which house is booked by the Shuberts, will have charge of the studio. John Herfurth, who has designed most of the scenery used by the Frohmans, will manage the art department jas “Judge and the play seemed to meet with favor, possessing much that goes to make up a successful effort. The comedy is in four acts, being located in New York, city, ten years later, the later and the fourth is months after The action of the play involves the mixed relations of the mother, step-mother and daughter and step-daughter, a suicide father and an ardent suitor. Throngh a strange power of a subtle sixth sense all is worked out to the happiness of the heroine and lover. As before intimated, the play is well constructed, Is possessed of much fine comedy, and should emerge from its namelessness without fear. the first scene the second in that third is a day still laid in Paris a few THE UPSTART. New American Comedy Has Premiere at Hartford, Conn. “The Upstart,’’ a new comedy by Tom Barry, was given its first performance on any stage at the Hartford Theatre. Conn., June 28, by the Cook Stock Players. The play, which treats in a humorous way of the theory of divorce, is well construed and filled with clever lines of the G. Bernard Shaw type. It was mounted in three acts but with only one setting John Westley played the title role, that of a youth, filled with theories and enthusiasm, but lacking In common sense, with the greatest success. The part fitted him well and he made the best possible use of it. Florence Barker, the only woman in the cast, appeared to excellent advantage, as the wife of the minister, who put some of the upstart's theories into practice and Robert Haines played the rector well Frank Munroe, Mitchell."’ was exceedingly well cast and shared with Mr. Westley the honors of the evening The Upstart was received with great favor by a large audience and it looks like a success There some talk of Mr. Westley starring in it during the coming season, and if he should do so. the play ought to be good for a long run Several New York managers were present at the premiere and it is said the play has been booked for a metropolitan pro duction. F. G. RLAKESLEE. DAVENPORT'’'S NEW THEATRE. As a closed new cess resut of a deal which has fust been Davenport, Towa, ts t»o have another fine theatre. which Is to be known as the PrinTheatre Chamberlir Kindt & Company having secured a ten-year lease on the Orpheum will be entirely remodeled, gbout $4.000 being spent in Improvements, which when completed will make {ft one of the cozfest little play houses in the West When the improvements are completed, whiah will. be about the first of October a first class «tock company with Jack Bessey as director will be installed. WILLIAMS CO. AT WILMINGTON. The Walter Kruegers New Music Hall. ware, June 28, offering Angel of Angle Guich Kleda Sivad, Miss Rie Marion, Miss Williams. George ford, John Taney Williams Stock Co. opened at Wilmington, DelaFrank Dumont’s The The cast Included Miss Reatrice Dusenberry. Mise Parker and Messrs. Walter Winn. Al. Findley, Lew Wel and Tom Blaney. NASHVILLE HIPPODROME OPENED. The Hippodrome, Nashville's (Tenn.) newest vaudeville house, opened its doors to the puablie on July 5 The new horse is under the management of B. B. and F. F. Vernen who are managers of the Vernon S‘ock Cony any. MARRIED SECRETLY. Wm. TD. Gilson. singer and composer, who has appeared tn illustrated songs at Pantages’ Theatre, Spokane, Wash., for over a year, has annonneed his secret marriage in Seattle, to hie former vaudeville partner, Miss Toland. GERTRUDE VANDERBILT SUES FOR DIVORCE. An action has been Vanderbilt, against Ralley, for an instituted by Gertrude Robert L. her husband, absolute divorce ee Aen aston