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

et ee ae © Pm * mgt a a. Re mae a “dl > ie . 40 The Billboard JULY 10, 1909. The Week in New York (Continued from page 6.) On July 2 The Climax goes back to Webers, replacing The Girl From Rectors which closes this week. Frank C. Payne is in Paris on a short visit. Frank Kee nan sailed for London this week. The Columbia Amusement Co. held its see ond annual outing at College Point on June 30, Wally Decker leaves the press department at Dreamland this week. On August 3rd Decker goes to Chicago in the interests of Mort Singer, one of whose shows, The Prince of Tonight, Decker will be in advance of. Millicent Evans, who just closed with The Blue Mouse at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, left last TLursday for her summer home, South Hero, Vt., in her automobile. E. J penter will produce ! Cs a new melodrama this coming season entitled The White Man. The Week in Chicago (Continued from page 7.) a It is reported that on July 2 Jules) Ireat concluded an arrangement with Richard Carle whereby the latter becomes the sole owner of the book lyrics and music of an original mu sical comedy entitled The Promised Land. This is the second play and fourth vaudeville act Treat has sold since December last. He will produce this fall a new farce comedy entitled My Wife’s Baby, also a new version of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. Offices have been opened with Mr. E. E. Shannon, general manager, at 13 Jackson Boulevard. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND LETTER. Manchester, My Dear “Billy-Boy:’ One of the most spectacular feats of the entire season was pulled off at the White City this afternoon when 3,000 Homing Pigeons were turned loose at one time to start on a time and distance handicap race. Some of the birds had only about ten miles to fly in order to reach their lofts, while others were more than 300 miles from their homes. The sport of racing pigeons is an institution in England that oc cupies the attention of more people than perhaps any other single sport known. There are actualIv registered in the various clubs and federations more than 25,000 homing pigeon fanciers, and the number of birds utilized in the sport is more than one million. These figures seem incredible, but they are verified by the National Association, and it is well known that there are more than 6,000 fanciers in this one county alone, and almost any morning in the outskirts of Manchester between the hoars of five and seven o'clock hundreds of men can be found in poe epee streets and vacant lots training their rds The race started from the White City today was for some large money prizes offered by Mr. John Calvin Brown, the proprietor, and the liberation of the birds was the prettiest sight that has been seen at any race in England. Heretofore large areas have been covered from which the start was made, but today all of the birds were liberated almost simultaneously on the edges of the Chutes lake. and practically all rose at one time. The Water Chutes struecture, the gallery of the White City Press Club and the structure of the Aero Flight were all ocenpied by good pictures of this extraordinary sight. year the race was made frem the London, but only about and the efforts of the r, Eng., June 26, ’09. Stadium in Association have been to make this the largest in their history and they | have succeeded. The affair attracted an extra large attendance at the White City, with the result that all of the various attractions were well patronized, as the actual time occupied in liberating the birds and seeing the last of them disappear only occupied the space of evout two minutes. On July 6th the King and Queen visit Manchester for just one hour passing from one big royal military review to another, and stopping that one hour for the ce of opening a magnificent new infirmary that has just been completed. In leaving the city they motored past the White City, and Mr. Brown in recognizing the royal visit has by special efforts and expenditure secured the services for that week of His Maiesty’s favorite band, that of the famous Coldstream Guards, and will erect a bandstand just ontside the main entrance where the band will play the national anthem as His Majesty and suite pass the park. On Wednesday afternoon just at 3 o'clock, and during the prevalence of a very severe storm, lightning struck the top of the White City Water Chutes. and set fire to the little house from which the motors are controlled. Fortunately the storm had kept the crowds from patronizing the Chutes temporarily, and the motorm:n was not in his accustomed place the »reby The midst of alarm for the his the of their real fire saving “Fighting more or less precious life. Flames’’ Show was in the performances when the was given, and they immediately abandoned their mimic work of fire fighting and life-saving to attend to the more serious damage threatened by the real article. Very quickly the hose was run up the incline of the Chutes and the stream turned on the burning structure with the result that in a very few moments the fire was extinguished and the Chutes were in a condition to operate again. The wonderful quickne ss with which the ‘‘Fight* ing the Flames’? boys did their work caused most favorable remarks from several hundred spectators. The damage would run between two and three hundred dollars. Harley Moore, the champion skater, has a vacant week in his long string of engagements, and has been putting it in practising skating on the big floor of the White City. Mocre has an entirely new act that is startlingly sensational in every detail. and inelndes a shooting the Chutes, table, barrel and 18-chair act all combined In practising last week he spent 18 minutes in dreamland, as a result of a fall while engaged in practising his new act, but latterly he has been esble to go through the stunt very accurately and apparently without any danger to bimself. On July 2ist the Annual Roval Botannical Society will be held Palm House and Ferneries of the White end a most magnificent display of these f flowers is expected. the one Rose Shew of the in the City. qneens entries coming from all parts of the kingdom. and especially will Ireland be well represented. as several of the best florists of that evergreen isle have made trance deposits press photographers trying to get | Last | 500 birds were liberated, | On July | be Leld, will | fered Ov and 30 of the best bands in England contest for the two thousand prizes ofby Mr. Brown. ertures have been made ond talks are al most daily being bad looking toward the ad Jition to the White City of several acres of adjoining land and the erection thereon of ad ditional buildings to those already in contempla tion, and the holding of a big specialized Exposi” tion either in 1910 or 1911. Ample capital has been offered, and it looks as though the pro ject would be carried out, still, nothing more than talk bas so far occurred. Mr. Brown has just returned from Nancy, France, where he has at last succeeded in getting every one of his shows and devices in drst class running shape, and it looks now as though the Exposition there would prove a great success not only as an Exposition in Itself but as a pleasure garden in which Mr. Brown and his enterprises form the principal feature. There is not one first class theatre open in Manchester; the entire field of indoor amuscments being given up to various shows in the Music Halls and they are not doing anything extraordinary in the way of cash business. The | regular season at theatres begins here on what is ordinarily known as Bank Holiday, which is the first Monday in August, falling this year on the 2nd, and usually continues uatil after Easter. Application has been made to the Courts to throw the Crystal Palace in London into liquidation, and a counter application has been made by the holders of three or four millions of dollars in bonds of a second mortgage character asking that some sort of compromise be made by which all classes of creditors will be protected propcertionately, and a re-organization effected that will prevent this magnificent piece of property being sacrificed and cut up into building sites. There is some talk just now of another specialized American Exhibition being held at Earls Court next season, and from talks recently had with some of the directors I look for an early announcement of completed plans for such a show, and if those of a tentative character that have been submitted to the directors are adopted it will without question prove the most popular Exposition possible to give of American affairs and industries. One idea that will commend itself strongly to the better class and better money-spending people will be the placing of the entire affair on such a high plane that it is bound to commend itself to all. It is proposed to do away with all the cheap side shows and put in only those that are in a way in keeping with the general idea of the Exposition. and as this can be done very nicely and very successfully no doubt the idea will be adopted and the entire affair prove a very great improve ment on past shows of a similar character. The bad weather in London has affected very adversely the Exposition engineered by Imre Kiralfy at Shepherd’s Bush, where the most attractive features are out of doors, while on the other hand the attractions at Earl’s Court | are equally as numerous under cover as outside and people flock to the latter place because weather conditions will not interfere with their comfort. r. A. 8. CONVENTIONS (Continued from page 29.) 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