The Billboard 1909-07-24: Vol 21 Iss 30 (1909-07-24)

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The landlord of the hotel has put her out and retained her baggage even to her small handbag. Misfortunes crowd upon her, and while she is cressing the street she is run down by an automobile. The people who crowd about her as she lays insensible upon the ground, refuse to aid her. She is an actress, and the strong prejJudice against such bar her from their consideration. The young curate of the village is passing and seeing the uncharitableness of the people, appeals to two ladies of his congregation to care for her. They indignantly refuse to shelter ‘‘an actress."’ The young parson carries the girl to his mother who receives her. She is nursed tenderly back to health, The girl’s patient forebearance and gratitude has won the affections of the mother and the heart of the young parson. In the meantime gossips get busy. A committee waits upon the parson and demands that the actress be sent away at once and ‘“‘end the village scandal.”’ The parson resigns his charge, begging the girl to marry Sim. Agnes, though she loves him, can not bring further trouble on him and she refuses him The young parson decides to make one last |} in the very zenith of ecstatic bliss. appeal to the committee, and goes to the house | of one of the ladies who demanded that the actress leave the parsonage. When he enters he finds the old ladies playing bridge. Weeping, they beg his forgiveness, declaring they will Tenounce cards forever, but he leaves denouncing them as hypocrites. Calling st the home of | approaching in @ deacon, who was also one of the committee, he finds this dignitary half intoxicated with | od accusing decanter of whisky at his elWw The young preacher returns to the parsonage, fully resolved to marry Agnes. They prepare to leave the village when the penitent and shamefaced committee call upon him, begging | him not to leave, and offering no objections to bis marriage to Agnes. Thus the story ends happily. EDISON THE MISSIONARY AND THE MAID—It was the love of a dusky damsel that drove Henry Herbert from the African missionary field. He could stand for the hot pots and the cannibalistic soup tureens of those who were living in darkness and the dinge of their own color, but when it eame to receiving an osculatory print from those Merry Widow lips of soft cushion dimensions and an embrace from the huge arms attached to her four hundred pound form, that was too much. He could serve the heathen even thongh he was tortured, but not when he was the object of such pachydermal passion. The innermost core of the hottest hot pot was infinitely preferable to the love. A comedy of much quality. * McGINTY’S SUDDEN RISE.—McGinty is the foreman of a rock gang. Feeling the pangs of thirst he sends a youth for a bucket of potable refreshment, but, the youth spills the contents of the pail. blasting | again soon for the fun of making up. | heing lifelong im| | This decided Jim, lady's | } Having red hair, Me. | Ginty was not dilatory in administering phys| ical punishment to the vouth, and the latter | planned revenge. He had it by setting off a keg of powder on which the foreman sat to eat his noonday meal. Up went McGinty toward the blue sky, and | he didn't have a chance to know the reason. | Far up he sailed, but he came down like a whale His crash was heavy enough for such a ponderous mammal. He hit a church steeple, likewise a few other objects before he finally struck the hard earth and was minus an arm and a leg when his sorrowing work men found him unconscious on the ground. The workman wheeled him to a surgeon expecting little, but they got much. The doctor made a few mysterious pa with his and arms, the missi anatomy appeared and connected themselves and McGinty returned to his cheering men as sound as he ever was, as fiery of temper and as full of strenuous vituperation. sses + THE RRIDEGROOM’'S DILEMMA.— Lord Quex placed the final touches upon his tollet preparatory to the wedding ceremony with Miss Gladys Vanderpool. He must have a cup of strong coffee to quiet his nerves. The old servitor brings the beverage and at that moment an unlucky accident causes the upsetting of the tray on a dresser full of his lordship’s shirts. The coffee stains fall on them all. Lord Quex has no others save some at a Chinese laundry, taken there several days previously by the old servant. It looks easy. Secure the shirts at the laundry Certainly. Put Lord Quex has mislaid his laundry ticket’ and the slant-eyed sons of Cathay will yield the laundry to neither his lordship’s messenger nor himself. Madly Tord Quex dashes about to solve the problem. It is a holiday. The stores are all closed. He ie going frantic. What can he do? A friendly tip from a passer-by. There is a little store open down the street. Thither the nobleman flies to find he must choose between a blue shirt or a dickey. He selects the latter and returns to his rooms. hands | ig members of the McGinty | | Young Ned Gets a Snubbing | resistance is but mild, Meanwhile the bridal party has had opportunity to learn what nerves are. The hour for the wedding arrives and is passing. The bride is near collapse. A scouting party finds Lord Quex, rushes him into his coat and off to the bride’s home. At this juncture the fat Irish servant finds the laundry ticket, has no money to pay the bill, but takes the laundryman to the bride’s home, and here in with his bundle upon the astounded party. The cord breaks as he demands his money and Lord Quex turns to find his shirts, collars and cuffs in a heap at his feet. BIOGRAPH SWEET AND TWENTY—'Tis late spring, the flowers are in bloom and the birds are in tune te the lover's song, when Alice and Frank romp among the wild flowers. Frank is des perately in love with pretty liftle Alice, but she, while loving him in return, is a tantalizing mite of femininity, and enjoys the sensation of keeping him guessing. However, as faint heart ne’er won fair lady, he persists so stubbornly that he finally wins her response. Frank is now They part at the door and Alice goes inside. Frank is too happy to lose her company so soon, so follows after. Entering the drawing room he espies what appears to be the object of his visit, standing at the window, closing the shades. Approaching stealthily, he kisses the braids of her hair, and then turning her head around, imprints a kiss on the lips of—‘'Great Scott! her sister."’ Here is trouble, for Alice had entered just in time to see the performance. It is all off between them, despite his explanation, and in desperation he resolves to go and throw himself into the lake and end it all. At the lakeside his determination receives a chill, and he is cogitating, when he hears Alice pursuit to dissuade him from his dire design. He now makes the biuff at self-destruction, which goes; Alice doing her utmost to drag him from the spot. As his she succeeds, and they are once more folded in each other's arms; she acusing herself of being unreasonable and hasty, while he is proudly slapping himself upon the back, with the assumption that he is simply irresistible. They are just a couple of kids who will kiss and make up, only to quarrel + JFEAIAUSY AND THE MAN.—Jim Rrooks, a painter, and his wife, have boarding with them their best friend. John West. Jim and John chums, Jim is amazed at what he imagines te be blatant perfidy in his wife and friend. He espies them whispering together on several occasions, but the apparently convincing evidence is the slipping of a note into the hand of John by the wife, while she visits their place of work, with their luncheon. and he rushes home, arms himself with a gun, declaring they both shall die. You may imagine his surprise when, as he is about to assassinate the pair, they load him with presents, it being his birthday, which he had forgotten. Their little intrigues were in making the arrangements, and the note was a list of things for John to get. KAL THE TCOMBOY.—The charming story of a Tomboy. At the time of the opening scene she is just budding into charming womanhood. Left motherless at an early age, her father, a life long invalid, in his desire to give her those pleasures denied him, has encouraged her to live ber life out in the open air. She has grown up on the beavtifnl estate more like a boy than a girl. Her favorite companion and play mate is young Ned, the son of a neighboring horhood friend of hor father’s. It is the one desire of her father’s heart to see young Ned and herself safely married before he dies. The only other member of the family is a ne'er do-well nephew to whom the Tomboy’s father nas given a home and education. This nephew noting the growing feebleness of the invalid father, has been planning and scheming to mar ry the Tombcy in order to secure the fortune that will be her’s on her father’s death. Scene 1—The Tomboy is Unwilling to Be come Enugaged—Death of her Invalid Father. Scene 2—The Nephew and the Adventuress Plan to Disgrace Young Ned. Scene 3—A Sinister Meaning Given to a Kind Deed. Scene 4— Scene 5—The Fi nal Plot te be Rid of Young Ned Overheard by the O14 Gardner. Scene 6—The Plot Frustrated by the Tomboy's Heroism. Scene 7—The Lov ers Reunited and the Plot Revealed—Retribu tion. SELIG WON IN THE DESERT.—A story of thrilling | interest, located in the Arabian desert. It tells of the vicissitudes of the daughter of a wealthy Chicago pork packer, who Is captured by an Arabian Shiek and held for ransom In the adventure a young naval lieutenant and lover of the girl is involved. The latter aids in the rescue, and later weds the maid. VITAGRAPE INSTRUCTION BY CORRESPONDENCE,— Bertram Brown, a weak-minded young man, is hard up. He reads in the newspaper an advertisement of “how to make a fortune quickly, taught by correspondence,”’ and sends for par ticulars. The first lesson tells him to earn the gratitude of a mililonaire by saving bis life. He picks out euch an Individual, a Mr. Money begs, and tracks him all over town In the hope | (Continued on page 42) _HARRISBURG'S AMATEUR MINSTREL The Suburban Club, of Harrisburg, Pa., gave a pleasing minstrel entertainment Wednesday evening. July 8, to a large audience. A fine program was given, and included in the ollo was Uncle Joe Frank, the popular manager for Moses Reiss at Harrisburg. He gave a fine bone solo that won much applause, and demon strated the fact that Uncle Joe can do other things besides successfully managing a theatre. Floyd Hopkins, resident manager for Wilmer & Vincent, at Harrisburg, was a guest of the evening. ALLIANCE O., THEATRE CHANGES HAND the celestial bursts | | her friend in the temple, shattering The Suburban Club, of Harrisburg, Pa., has been sold by John Dee Collins to Stanley Smith, of Huntington, W. Va. The consideration was $60,000. In part payment Mr. Smith turned ever to Mr. Collins the right to the musical comedy, The Tourist. Mr. Smith is a practical theatre manager, formerly of Pittsburg. and at the present time manager of a theatre to Huntington. Mr. Collins has purchased the Park Theatre, Henderson, Ky., and will leave AlIlance as soon as his affairs are arranged. VAUDEVILLE SINGER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. Miss Alice Robinson, a vaudeville singer, of Kansas City, stopped over at Shreveport, La., July 9, to see some friends who were playing at the summer park. While she was walking behind the scenes a fancy shot turn was being performed by the Neill pair. A bullet fired by Miss Neill hit the skull and penetrating the brain. No hopes are entertained for her She was on her way to New Orleans engagement. recovery. to fill an DIXEY’S SISTER, AND DRAMATIC CRITIC, TO WED. Robinson Locke, famous dramatic critic under the nom de plume of Rodney Lee, was married to Miss Mabel Dixey, sister of Henry E. Dixey, at the home of the bride’ mother, Mrs. Mary Dixey, Bronx River road, Yonkers, N. Y., on the afternoon of July 21, at 3 o'clock. Mr. Locke and bride will spend their honeymoon on the Massachusetts coast. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Manager Abe Cohen, of the American Theatre, announced a summer stock season. Herche! Maryhall and Harriet Worthington will have the leading varts. The opening play will be The Duel. The Shubert season opens with The Witching hour. Dainty Dorothy Dayne, a very popular vaudevillian, is going to retire from the norofession after this season. The reason is that she is to be married to Dr. Walter E. Wright, of Tulsa, Okla. Miss Dayne’s real name is Dorothy B. Ford. and she is the daughter of Rev. J. J. Ford, of San Francisco. A wedding tour of six months through Europe is planned, after which they will locate permanently in Kansas City. Recent Billboard callers included C. L. Edwards, owner of that wonderful educated horse, Bonner, who is making a phenomenal success on Pantages’ Circuit. This is his first appearance on the Coast. The Terry Twins, of London, come callers. They look so we could not tell them apart They are at the Empire this week, and one big immense bit. D. Makarenko, of the Russian Troupe of the were also wel much alike that sume nome, playing on the S. & C. Circuit; Guy A.Torley. of The Torleys, and E. W. Murray, of Murray's Dogs, were also Billboard callers. Tama Hanlon, Francisco Redding and Co., Mobel McKinley, Petroff, Cook and Rothert, Nadji, Weston and Young, Saona, Siebert-Lind ley Co., Martynne and Kessler and Dunn are all playing Los Angeles and San Diego houses on the &. & C. Circuit James BRackoff and Helen Grey, both members of the Makarenko Russian Troupe, were mar ried on the stage of the National Theatre, Wednesday, July 7. at 1 p. m., Just before the matinee. All the troupe and many performers, also Mr. D. J. Grauman and Zick Abrams, were present at the unique ceremony. The following Saturday the happy couple were tendered a ban quet, where one hundred sat down to an ele gant spread. Petroff, a young Russian violinist, Is one of the classy hits on the S. & C. Circult, and has heen booked for a long season The Peerless Potters, after a long season at Idora Park, Oakland, closed and are now taking a much needed rest of four weeks, and are put ting in their time camping where hunting and fishing is good Gus Bruno arrived to join Fischer's principal comedian here this week. He came Musical Comedy Company as Carlton Chase, late under the Kolb and Diil Company, will also join the above company, and open next week Manager Walter Hoff Seeley, of the Valencia Theatre, is at present In Sew York, arranging tor new people and plays for the coming season J. Charles Green, president of the Valencia The atre Company, and the big billposter, ia also in New York Right next door to the American Theatre, on Market street. will be the site of the new Pan tages’ Theatre, such is the report, and that the house will be finished Inside of a year Fred Lincoln, one of Considine’s chief off cials, ie at present In this city. The New Chutes positively opened July 14, and ‘es a grand affair, located right on one of the principal business streets, where thousands pass by at all hours, and there is no reason why it will not be one big success. For the open ing attractions the loyal Banda Roma, a fine Italian band, was the principal attraction. Mme. Ermini Arnolde, soprano, furnished the vocal selections. Desparado, Florence Spray and Dem4n furnished the sensational acts All the concessions are completed and everything was ready for the grand opening An liamense search light, high up in the air is now being installed. Another moving picture house with two vande ville acts, opeaed this week on Meret atreet, near Seventh It is called the Gold | capable; Palace, | and is a perfect dream, Admission Is 10 and 5 cents, A large church pipe organ is one of the big attractions, The Gem Theatre, on Montgomery avenue, opened this week with vaudeville and moving pictures. This is a Class A theatre, seating about 500, and is a very pretty and up-to-date house The much heralded Merry Widow ts playing a three weeks’ engagement at the Van News Theatre, and will easily keep the bouse brim full all through the three weeks. The advance sale is the best that ever took place at this house, and this show will make a new record for money getting. The company ie ea strong one Mabel Wilbur as the Widow is very George Dameral is more than satis. factory; Oscar Figman is an excellent comedian, Thomas Leary, an old 'Friscotte, is funny. The mountings and costuming are all Class A, Three Weeks, dramatized by the author of the book of the same nawe, Elinor Glyn, ts the bill at the American Theatre for the week. This plece was first presented In Los Angeles, and fared well It was advertised in a catchy manner which helped very guch to swell the receipts. Such phrases as ** the red cover,’ “For people with red blood,’’ and “Positively no tickets sold to children,” were used with advantage and served to catch a certain lMne of theatregoers. Murray and Mack come next week in A Night on Broadway. The Valencia Theatre, In spite of the rumers that it would close after the Fiske engagement, continues running along with no thought of closing. This week the stock company appeared in What Happened to Jones, and again proved the versatility of its several members. Mrs, Temple's Telegram is next week's bill. The Itallan opera season continues doing well at the Princess Theatre, and the press agent loses no opportunity to boost the show along almost daily keeping the interest up. Florence Roberts in Sapho is at the Alcasar this week, and proves by the big attendance that she is a magnetic drawing card here. The Frisky Mrs. Johnson goes on next week. Fischer's Theatre continues with musical com e new plece with edy, and next week several new faces appear. Ren Dillon closed and joins the Murray and Mack Conpany immediately after their Amer licen Theatre engagement. Dillon plays Mack's part Tracy McDermott and Will King also closes at Fischers. Nellie Montgomery, who is an established favorite, remains. The Orpheum program offered this week found Laddie Cliff still keeping on top, although o8 his second week. Armstrong and Clark, always a big hit here, repeated as of yore. Redpath’s Napanees, a school-room farce, like several others seen here, was featured. Three Sisters Atheltas are a trio of well formed and graceful acrobats Londe and Tilly, a foreign gymnastic act, introducing a novelty in 4he ladder line. The holdovers were the Bight Madcaps, Singing Colleens, Ollie Young and Brothers and Laddle Cif. Manager Grauman had three dumb acts on bis Dill this week, and all of them good, bat, of course, too many. Kelly and Reno were the first to open the bill with thelr comedy t&nockabont acrobati: act Martinez and Martinez, a musical team, followed with the usual musical act Leo Cooper and Co. In his dramatic sketch. The Price of Power. Although this ts the fourth time he played this house with the same sketch, he scored as well as ever. The PDumitresene-Vermette Troupe of four experts on the horizontal bars, have an excellent act. performing difficult tricks on seven bars. Their act was much liked. Anna Golde offered a straight singing turn. The Daring Darts closed the bill In a novelty ladder act, introducing jug cling. fancy shooting, bag punching and bicycle riding while balanced on a ladder. It is an entirely new act and by far away from all others Manager Sam Harris, of the Wigwam, bas no cause to complain about patronagge. This week Clara Thropp, Miss Mabel McKinley, Fran cisco Relding and Co.. Cook and Rethert and tonner, the Wonder Horse, kept the house every show Pantazes’ Empire had a real smart bill this all good numbers, not a weak spot. The Rards were the headline act, and they put up a great gymnastic act, performing many secmingly impossible feats which the audience was not slow to recognize Adams and Mack presented a very nice magic act, with special scenery, and everything looked clean and bright. Miss Marla Hodlicka is a real Iyric soprano, and was a bic hit. The Terry Twins, first time out here, kept the house In good humor, try ing to figure which was which of Educated Rats, Cats ecard The rats, which Mierent breeds, did Roberts’ Troupe and Dogs proved a big Included sabont forty of several stunts and showed how smart they were It Is Indeed a novelty. Two reels of moving pictures were added to the above big bill The Star Theatre, the honse, continues doing a most marvelous bust nese Thtlis week Herzog’s Horses Rooney end Richerds, Lolo Fawn, Linden and Wren, Mad allne LaSar, Billy Veet, Georgle White and 0} ive Reed are keeping them coming Turner and Dahnken, the big film are busy as bees taking care of hosivuess, which extends all They cerry an immense stock understand their business. IN OAKLAND The Orpheum'’s patronage does not seem to grow any emaller during the hot weather This week Joe Hart's big act, The Futurity Winner; mammoth Mission exchange. thelr Immense over the Coast. of goods, and James Thornton, The Camille Trio, Clarke and tergman Flizabeth Murray, La Petite Adelaide, Warren, Lyon and Meyer, Sisters Gasch are all making hits, At the Bell Theatre the Dill Is made up with Makarento Rouselan Troupe, Carroll Johnsen, Fanet Brothers, Mann and Franks, The Torleys and two reels of moving pictures, The big crowds are in evidence every pleas ant day at Idora Park, and the evening attend ance ia phenomenal The management never allows the public to lowe Interest, and are pro viding a big program Rert Morphy is an im mense hit, and lives up to hie trade-mark, ‘‘The man who sings to beat the band." Prlanger'’s Band are a clever lot of musicians. Pederson'’e Brothers, novelty gymnaete, and Toto Ducrow and his company of clowns are all to the good, X. I. T. Ranch, the Wild Weet Show, and all the high class concessions, are all running te goo business Miss ‘irace Wishear, the scenic artist of Ve liberty Theatre, had a narrow escape from fire a few days ago, and was forced to jump from a window in her house In order to save her life. She escaped with some bruises, RUBE COHEN. aa, eintnnnee Cannan. seein Ln aah ent AN cn el ip mane Hae a epeenetas De let AP Fmt ta en in eB licen ne eee» Bhan