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

pee a: wegen eX ee Pie ee 7B “Pes The Billboard JULY 10, 1909. THE WEEK IN NEW YORK UTH ST. DENIS, the American dancer whose East Indian dances have cre ated a sensation in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and other Continental centers, will return to America in October under the management of Henry B. Harris, and will be seen at a series of matinees at the Hudson Theatre, in her famous dances of East India. Miss St. Denis will also display some new and novel Terpsichorean effects. It is the intention of Mr. Harris after this dancer has completed her performances in New York, to send her on tour, visiting the principal cities of the United States’ giving the performances that have been voted the most artistic ever seen in the dancing line, both in America and in Europe. PLANS FOR ARLISS. Mr. George Arliss greatly enhanced his already strong hold on the public last season by his work in The Devil, and everywhere excited wonder and admiration for the qualities he disclosed in this role, following a series of impersonations during previous seasons that stamped his personality as unique in the theatre of this period. Mr. Arliss will continue as star under the management of Harrison Grey Fiske, that manager having signed contracts with him covering a period of years, and Mr. Fiske’s plans already place Mr. Arliss in two plays of exceptional opportunity and promise. ere was a lively competition among Amertcan managers for the dramatic rights to W. J. Locke's novel, Septimus, as the book has enjoyed a wide popularity and its suitability for stage use has been generally recognized. Mr. Fiske, however, has secured this work with the purpose of placing Mr. Arliss in the title role, and the dramatization, which is being made br Philip Littell, is well under way. Mr. Littell made a skeleton version of the play to submit to the novelist, who, approving it, wrote to Mr. Fiske congratulating Mr. Littell on his dramatic ingenuity. In its dramatic form the lead. ing characters will be retained. but the structure of the story will be materially changed. Mr. Locke will retouch the play after Mr. Littell’s work has been finished. Mr. Fiske has also secured for Mr. Arliss a new play by Ramsey Morris. This is a comedy drama, with strong dramatic elements, presenting phases of life in New York that have not been treated on the stage, and, affording to Mr. Arliss » fine opportunity for contrasting impersonation, as he will play a dual role in it. Mr. Arliss has been holiday making in England since the close of his successful tour in The Devil, and will consult with Mr. Fiske dur ing the latter’s sojourn in London on matters relating to his appearances as Septimus, which will be made in New York in the latter part of October, ATOP AERIAL ROOF. A Gentleman From Mississippi, after its long run of ten months at the Bijou Theatre will now be found in its cool new summer home, the Aerial Gardens, atop the New Amsterdam Theatre. Arrangements have been made whereby this comedy will remain in New York throughout the heated spell with exactly the same cast, headed by Messrs. Wise and Fairbanks. It is good to laugh in the summer time and this play. which is credited with being the best American comedy yet written, will no doubt continue to amuse theatregoers seeking relaxation from the heat and cares of business. A leasant innovation will he the concerts given m the garden between the acts by the large orchestra of the New Amsterdam Theatre. A PERSONAL HIT. Mr. Dore Davidson, who is touring The Man on the Box for a preliminary season in the English Provinces has met with unquallfled success, the play showing a marked increas® in receipts at each performance. Mr. Davidson made a personal hit as the old music teacher in his one-act play, The Musician’s Daughter. which he uses as a curtain raiser. The Man on the Box warrants booking an autumn tour which will be conducted by Mr. John Donald in t@ interest of Mr. Davidson. who returns to New York for his regular winter engagements. WANTS ATMOSPHERE. to put in a couple of weeks at Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation Agency at White Rocks, Utah. The mannscript of Mr. Royle’s new play, In The Blood, the sequel to The Squaw Man, which Liebler & Company will produce next fall, has been completed, but Mr. Royle feels that he wants to confirm his impressions before giv ing them to the public. He said before leaving. “‘I am the Indian country to freshen my recollections. IT have shown the manuscript of InThe Blood to several persons who have recently come from this part of the States and they tell me that it is all right, but I want to get a first hand aasurance of this When I wes a boy 1 used to spend my vacations at White Rocks. and fit was from observations I made then, that I wrote The Squaw Man That was some time ago and I am going ont to find if the Indian as I knew him then is the Indian of today. While at White Rocks I shall be the guest of | Capt. Hall, 7. S. A.. who is the agent at that t One of the particular features of Indian ife that I want to see is the Sun Dance of the tribes. which begins June 25th and lasts 9 week. This fs an annual religions ceremony After leaving White Rocks I am going to San Francisco, where Miss Florence Roberts will open July 19th in my play, The Struggle Everlasting When I put The Struggle on in New York it was not a success, but when London at the time of the production of The Squaw Man I found some time on my hands and re-write the first two acts of The Struggle I think it makes a better story and form we are going to try it again.” SAYS MR. PRESS AGENT. In the first mail of yesterday morning received at the offices of Liebler & Com any, was a letter signed by every member of e Man From Home Company at the Astor Theatre, and reading as follows: “We have been playing at the Astor Theatre since Ancust 1908. The temperature is 90 des officially, and worse than that most of the time. We are very tired and we want a va cation. Do we get it?’ The petition was signed Ruth St. Denis to Return---Plans for Geo. Arliss. Aerial Garden has Winter Success---Edward Milton Royle Goes West for Atmosphere---Show Closed by Actors’ Request---Robert Edeson Gives Novel Party. HARRY FIELDS SS ° yeh > W “| Nea Starring under the management of Mr. A. H. Woods. by Henry Hall, Olive Wyndham, Alice Johnson, | Herbert McKenzie, as one of the most gigantic musical comedy en the four wells of that is a dash of daring and high-life implied in the title of The Midnight Sons, the character of the Guere, Harry L. Lang, Anthony Asher, Antonio Salerno, A. Montegriffo, Edouardo Ferraro, Ciro Edward Milton Royle left New York | different songs and seen in the performance lies in their n tel dances which are | Pike in the company playing the cities outside rest than others in the cast at the Astor. looked at the thermometer. to the theatre that the request had been granted and that The Man From Home will interrupt its run of nearly a year at the Astor. players make up the ute to the succcess of The Midnight Sons. THE BEAUTY SPOT At Lew Field’s Herald Square Thea going out to} will be called together again of the run of the Tarkington-Wilson comedy. ALL SUMMER RUN. for a resumption DeKoven-Herbert The Motor Girl has caught the popular fancy to so great an extent that it will continue its mile Jefferson DeAngelis a-minute clip at the Lyric Theatre, all summer, : Girl marks the return to popular fancy of the type of light opera of the Gilbert and Sullivan It is without any trace of salaciousness, but the comedy element Is so strong and whole music so original enterteinment as to be seen on Broadway. BLAMES IT ON TOOTH On the advice of his physician, Mr. | and James Carson, Robert O’Connor, eostume production NOTFS FROM ACTORS’ FUND BUREAU Thomas McGrath othusiasm among members of the profession for in its new i SECURES MUSIC. S. Taylor Coleridge English composer p lay something only hinted makes his production of Herod in New York next THE MIDNIGHT SONS Lew Field’s production of The Mid Burean’s existence, made thelr arrangements personally, without the assistance of any outside agency. Seventy-five members have registered since last week's report. Fifty-five new annual members have been added, and the following names were added to the life membership list during the month: John B. Park, Bessie Taylor Bennington, Harry Hl. Campbell, Frank Keenan, James Forbes, Norman Tharp and William Collier. ROBERT EDESON GIVES PARTY Robert Edeson, who will be seen the coming season under the management of Ilenry B. Harris, in W. Somerset Maugham's Victorian farce, The Noble Spaniard, will give a house party the fifteenth of July at his beautiful summer home at Sag Harbor, L. I. Mr. Edeson wil! have as his guests the members of the company who will support him in bis new play, and which includes Verner Clarges, Cyril Chadwick, Macey Harlam, Gertrude Cogh lan, Ann Murdock, Ella Hugh Wood, Cordelia Macdonald and Dessrie Lazard. Boating, fish ing, swimming. automobiling, golfing and tennis will be among the diversions indulged in, and In the evenings a round-table conference will be held, at which time discussions will be In orAer as to the proper methods to be employed in playing their respective parts. This will mark a new departure in staging plays. Each member of the company will be made familiar with the part he or she is to take, and thereby insure perfect easemble work, which Is sbsoIntely essential to a well-balanced performance. Mr. Edeson will sit as the arbiter ip the discussions that will be made. It is hoped br Mr. Edeson that the result of this week's conferences will make its influence felt when the actual rehearsals begin, and the public will reap the benefit of this unique method of staging plays (Continued on page 40.) OMAHA, NEBR. About the only places of amusement in Omaha at the present time are the moving picture theatres, and they are all doing a good business. Since the closing of Krug Park last year, we have been without an amusement park in this city, and while Courtland Beach has opened as a pienic park, there is really nothing out there tu attract people. and it will take a large expenditure of money to put this place in condition to make it a paying proposition. The Woodward Stock Co. closed a very successful seven weeks’ season of stock produetions at the Boyd the past week. Merely Mary Ann was the play presented as the final offering of this season, and it was a fitting climax of a successful summer season. Manager Woodward has given the people of this city some of the best plays ever presented by a stock company, and capacity business was the rule at practically every performance during the engxgement The Rurwood Theatre, which installed a moving picture show and big pipe organ, has now arranged for vaudeville acts playing on the cirenit, including Des Moines, Lincoln, ete., which wi!l appear in cenjunction with the moving pictures Wattles and Warren, comedy | sketch team, and Harold Cushman, Dutch come dian, appeared the past week. Business continnes on the increase While at Detroit recently I had the pleasure of again meeting Doc Waddell, who is now general manager of The Lambrigger Animal Show Doc was one of a five hundred class {fotiated in the Woodmen of the World during | the head meeting in that city. Lake Manawa is becoming more popular than ever with Omaha people, and thousands visited this beautiful lake resort the pas week. The dancing pavilion and skating rink have been well patronized, and = are proving more of a success than was expected A few more warm doves will attract the bathers to the beach, and ample provisions in the way of new bathing suits have ben provided for this season The Manawa Concert Band, under the direction of Charles Jones, is meeting with popular favor. Manager Byrve is well pleased with the attendance since the warm weather set ft. The Hillman Stock Co. at the Air Dome prescented The Burglar’s Wife the past week to good business Albert Morrison, leading man of the Woodward Stock Co will next season play leading roles In a steck company at the College Theatre, Chicago Seymour Lake Park is a new place of amusement recently opened about elght miles from Omaha It is drawing a fair business from South Omaha H. J. ROOT. TORONTO, CANADA. Chas. W. Denzinger. manager of the Majesth has bullt up a large clientele for his house through his endeavers to give the biggest and heet in vendeville and pletures. This week Ger trode Miller vocalist The DeCostinos The Mead-Mernt? Duo, and J. C. Creighton'’s Trained Animels. with the latest motion pictures, form a gilt edged bill Puffalo Rill ot Pawnee Bill's Combined Shows drew capacity crowds to Sunlight Park Searboro Reach. the big elty of Mgebt, had a ’ nd I ot of splendid new attractions this week D the Hinnoedrome Rese Wentworth, the famous mestrienv scored strongly with her novel wid oprotty aet, added te which were Lilfan Albright nd White and Lamarte, pantomimic comedians The big free attraction was Flo Irwin's Trained leopards At Hanton’« Point. the famous La Rell Troupe | headed a good et of attractions. The Elmwood | Ladies and was retained for another week The County Chairman was presented by local talent at the Princess 20 JOSPPIT GIMSON, ae