The Billboard 1909-10-09: Vol 21 Iss 41 (1909-10-09)

Z ~ Se ae = ne ove Tien 20 The Billboard OCTOBER 9, 1909. NOTES FROM 101 RANCH SHOw.. The show is now in its 24th week, and at — touring the Lone Star State, and play g to phenomenal business at every stand. At Shawnee Okla., where we exhibited September 17, opposing three of the largest, we played to packed tents both afternoon and bight, and gave such a realistic exhibition of frontier life that the papers all unanimously acknowledged it to be the greatest real wild west show that ever exhibited at Shawnee. At McAlester, Okla., where we exhibited September 20. we opposed two leading organiza tions, and ‘‘packed them’’ both afternoon and night. Since entering the state of Texas our business has been Immense. The only opposition that ef fects us being bad weather, of which we have had very little this season. Jceseph ©. Miller, who was called to the Ranch on impertant business, has returned and his commanding figure is seen leading the grand cavalcade on his superb Arabian charger, Ben Hur. at each performance. The foot-ball game played by the Indians and cowboys makes a decided hit da‘ly, numerous wagers are made on each side as to the outcome of the game, and the amount of enthusiasm displayed by each side keeps the audience in a continvous uproar. We have purchased the celebrated high-school horse, Skyrocket, whose performances are second to no high-school horse in this country. Edward Arlington, associate owner, is arranging his itinerary in will play continuously the close of the season. tures will be including Sundays until A number of new fea added to this show for the senton of 1910, and some novelties unheard of in the wild west line will be produced by this organization for the first time. The show will be greatly enlarged tn every department, and will exceed in cars, horses, per formers and paraphernalia, any sirailar organization now traveling. OWEN W. DOUD. DOWNS’ LEG AMPUTATED. Martin J. Downs, proprietor of the Cole Bros.’ Show, and who has been suffering for several months from the results of having been kicked in the knee by a horse at Erie, Pa., last May, underwent an operation at a hospital in Toronto, Canada, October 1, by which the injured member was removed, As we go to press reports Indicate some doubt of his recovery from the shock of the operation to his very much weakened vitality. His son James Downs and Mrs. Martin Downs, left the show and returned to Toronto. SELLS-FLOTO WINS SUIT. The United States Circuit Court for the District of Northern Texas, rendered a decision In favor of the Sells-Floto Shows in an action brought hy Joe Huston, who claimed an Inter est in the show, and attached the same at Amarillo, Tex., last fall. Not only did the Sells-Floto people win their case, but all costs which followed, some fifteen hundred dollars were against the plaintiff, : John T. Rottom, general counsel, assiste E. R. Waldron and V. RK. Hoggatt, ag ease, while H. H. Tammen, Otto Floto and Ray Hampton helped look after their interests. Mr Tammen left immediately for Austin, Tex.. where he brings suit against Ringling Brothers in the name of the State of Texas, fo § , for alle back licenses due the state. — EARLY FUTURE CLOSINGS. Cole Brothers’ at Danville, Ind., Gellmar Rrothers’ at Dexter, Mo.. Hagenteck-Wallace, November 8, October 9. October 14, MIDWAY COMPANIES. (Received too late f 1 Sun Bros.: or classification.) Natchez, Miss., 4-9 TENT SHOW ROUTES. (Received too late for classification.) Davis, W. H., Show—C —Okmulgee a oh ow—Correction—Okmulgee, 8s, Johnny J., Expositi ; x eS position Shows: Suffolk, St. Lonis Amusement Co., E. W. : Burlington, x. Cc. Weaver, mgr.: 16. 4-9; Batesburg, S. C., 11 WAY DOWN IN DIXIELAND. By JACK AUSLET. The storm that swe pt the coast of Louis and Mississippi last week did oie ao age, but the damage to the Sugar and rice crops is not near as bad as it was first stated. RBusiness is again to its normal state and the thea tres are doing nicely at ev » — nd y every place where they The Grand, at Gulfport, Miss unde . 3 = r the management of Fdwin Lang, opened on Saturday. pt. 25, with The Lion and the Mouse t large and appreciable audience The ‘and Players were well received, _ A, A Andrew Robson, with a capable company, scored heavily at the Grand on the 27th in The Wolf. “Manager Lang has #n elegant line of attractions for the Beason. The Soul Kiss did a tremendous business ‘ ess at the Tulane Theatre in New Orleans last week. The niinisters of Jackson, Miss.. tried ~ =e, of this play on the ailed, as Mayor Crowder woul with it. isla York and Adams, the popular comedians. ar in the South playing to capacity Gesiecss. sg Blanche Walsh, in The Test, was at Hattiespare. oo last — to capacity. She will ye Offering at the Tulane ve Drie Bs Ke | ane in New Orleans The Vaudette, a new vaudeville theatre, was opened in Gulfport, Miss., Oct. 1, in connection with the one at Biloxi and Scranton, Miss. to stop 27th but interfere The ‘Fair, at Jeanerette, La., this week Is a big hit and drew tremendous crowds from Sonthern Louisiana. A feature of the Fair ae an anto race from New Orleans to Jeanerette. W. L. Swain Show Co., the largest and best equipped tent dramatic show in America today, fs in the South playing to tremendous business. Mr. Swain, by keeping up the standard of his show aad by making it one of the best of its kind, has won the confidence of the people of Dixieland and he is looked for every season the Same as the natives of Virginia look for the such a manner that we , easy it would be for Germany to lick the stuf Robinson Show. The Swain band is a big drawing card this season. It has been the special feature of a number of fairs in Tennessee and Alabama. Col. A. J. Trone, an old time showman, who | the past several years has been a director and member of the firm of the H. A. Ridell Invest ment Co., of Denver, Colo., mine operators, re| turned to his home in Thibodaux, La., from an extended trip to Denver and the mining district of Colorado. Many friends in the profession will bc glad to bear of the success of Col. Trone since he left the business. He is a member of the State Legislature and ranks as Colonel on the staff of Gov. Sanders, of Louisiana. Frank Hoffman and Sons are again managing _ opera house at both Thibodaux and Houma, Me. Tne New American Music Hall, under the direction of William Morris, in New Orleans, has caught the town, and excellent business is reported every week since its opening. his popular resort and has more for dates than he cares to accede to. He has the three biggest dog shows of the North of England and the great chrysanthemum show of the Royal Botanical Society, to be held before the first of December, and after that they come fast and thick, so that the winter applications will not be an idle time at this summer park. For the closing date of his summer season, Mr. Brown hus arranged for the Militant Suffragists to hold a great demonstration in | favor of votes for women, and you can depend on this being the liveliest day in the history of any park. Women will be here from all parts of the Kingdom and, as they are of the fighting kind and the same ones who have been break ing windows, etec., In regulation political meet Supporting Boyd B. Trousdale in The Man on the Rox are the following: Bdwara Russell, © BB. Archer, Jock Champion, E. & Treasdale, C. L. Lawrence, C. . Cox, Wm Gilman, Grace L. Bryan, Bernice Trousdale, Genevieve Morton and Jean Ward. Henry Woodruff, who is to make a coast tour this season in The Prince of To Night, is to be the star in a new production at the Princess Theatre, Chicago, next season, under the management of Mort H. Singer. Rehearsals of Augustus Thomas’ new play, poetically denominated, The Harvest Moon, begga. last week. Like The Witching | Hour, this latest of Augustus Thomas’ comedies ings it is generally thought that perhaps the boys may believe {tt a good day for making | | reprisals. If so, then lookout for fun. A gor | geous display of fireworks is on the bill for the last night, and five bands, including that of the , ¢ Seots Greys ’ . sic. J. V. McStea has an excellent stock company | famous Scots Greys will furnish the music at the Lyric in New Orleans. Mac is a popular boy in the Crescent City and he deserves the success he is receiving with the Blaney show, with Cecil Spooner, who has won the hearts of the theatregoers of that city. Joe LeFort is the advertising agent and keeps a good live showing for every bill. Monager Salisbury is busy getting the Rapides | playing to fine business in Theatre, at Alexandria, La., ready for the opening. the West. known and liked managers in the Erlisch Bros. and Coleman Circuit. Al. Frazee will again be | witn the same theatre as advertising agent, and Harry Weber as dvor-keeper. The billposters of both Louisiana and Mississippi are Jules Garlick, loser down, heavy. The big shows have made their way to the South. The Ringlings are billed at New Orleans early in November; Hagenbeck-Wallace are billed in Louisiana and Mississippi and several others are to luvede the two States. The of New Orleans, was a heavy | in this storm, with miles of his beards Hugh Wadill, at Baton Rouge, also lost Sun Bros. are billed at Hattiesburg for Oct. 12. |! ward Walsh, A. L. The members of the Graustark company spent the storm in a baggage car on the tracks of the Southern Pacific, at Morgan City. billed to appear there on the night of the storm, | but were unable to leave the station. The roof of the Corde Opera House, at Nopoleonville, La., was blown off in the recent | storm and the damage to the building was considerable. It is being repaired ready for the opening of the season. The Sunny South Show Boat passed the storm at Bayou Goula, La. For a time it was thought that the boat and the members of the company were lost. They were lucky to escape with | little loss. MANCHESTER, ENG., LETTER. September 22, 1909. Dear Billyboy: Henry Miller has had more and better praise for his acting in the Great Divide than I ever knew to be given an American actor on this side, but every notice impresses on the reader the fact that Miller is an Englishman, although | he never sew the stage in his own country and | learned all he knows about it ‘‘across the pond."’ The evident desire of the critics is to give high praise to the pley end the players but still there Is a tone running through all the notices that shows at least a halting disposition and a reserve that prevents any real genuineness from manifesting itself. The public, however, seem to have decided that The Great Divide is just about the right kind of fare for them, and it looks like the success of the play is beyond question. heartily glad of this for Miller is a real man and a sure enough actor. Frohman deserves the biggest kind of a success, also, for he spends more money and takes more chances in presenting novelties and good plays to London than any seven managers in this country. Caruso was here for one concert last week and took more money out of town in one night than all the theatres in the city played to gross for the entire week, and there are twenty-three show-shops here at that. Last night, at Warrington, a city fifteen miles south of Manchester, a play called A Nation in Arms, was produced for the first time on any stage. It is being financed by a League of Defenders of the country, with several titled men as members. The play has as its object the waking up of England to the danger of an invasion of the country by Germany. It is a plain showing-up of the unpreparedness of England for war and also demonstrates how | fings ont of John Bull at a moment's notice. The English public seem to like to have their weaknesses put on the stage. In this piece the papers, this morning, all state that sixteen thousand blank cartridges are used at each per formance. It should read hundred and I can quite belleve this for there is more powder burned than in an ordinary sham battle of country soldiers, and the theatre is simply black with smoke half the time. Theatres have been rented in several of the biggest towns of the country and this play is to be seen In them whether money is made or not. Press Cuttings, the play that the Censor refused to allow Bernard Shaw to produce, and which he printed In book form, has been altered to suit official ideas of the nropricties and will be seen at the Galety Theatre, Manchester, September 27, for one week. In the play, as originally written. Shaw, who is a socialist of the extreme kind, took shots at some of his political opponents in a way that the Censor objected to. The sting has now been drawn. Twelfth Night is to be the Shakespearian production for Christmas, at the Queen's Theatre, and already the work on the scenery and costumes is well advanced. Manager Richard | Flannagan has engaged his company, and while | they are playing elsewhere at present and are widely separated, still they are all studying and getting ready for this big production, which it is confidently expected will run at least 150 nights. Isn’t it a fine thing to think that, in this town of less than a million population, Shakespeare can get a run of such length. These productions are annual occurrances with Manager Flannagan, and he would quit the business rather than forego them. The outdoor season is fast drawing to a close He just returned from a pleasant trip to | Manager Salisbury is one of the best kept busy rebuilding their billboards | that were Mlown down during the recent storm | They were | manager, I am | SMALL. DRAMATIC. The Great Williams-Hughes Dramatic Company is featuring Edith Spencer and Western Iowa, Ne and South Dakota The roster of the company is as follows: J. S. DeForest, man ager: Chas. Hoover, advance representative; Art Williams, stage director; Dell McDermott, stage manager: Lewis Smith, master of prop erties; Miss Alma Patterson, musical director. The balance of the company includes Miss Edith | braska Spencer, Miss Maud Huston, Miss Helen Lig gett, Miss Florence Lambert, Mr. Al. Patter son, Mr. Carl Von Higey, Mr. 0. B. Nair and | Mr. Butler Powers. its feurth successful week in stock at the Fam lly Theatre, Butte, Mont., September 26 with The Punkin Husker. The house has thus far played tu ecspacity at every performance. In the company are Harry Cornell, Alfred H. Freeland, Kalph Belmont, Don Churchill, Ed Fanshawe, Miss Lulu Sutton, Miss Irene Lorton, Miss Elsie Wrenn and Miss Fannie Keeler. G. H. Crawford is business and Miss Mae Wilson, musical di rectress. Plays are given full production, Ben Hodges, of Seattle, having been engaged as scenic artist. William Wamsher writes: “I opened my Bille of Japan Company at Hastings, Minn., August 28 with a cast of twenty-four people, headed by that laughing kid soubrette. Mento A. Everitt, who I am featuring in Titi, the title role. She is a real box-otfice her catchy smiles and beautiful wardrobe are the talk of everyone. I am carrying a complete | outfit of scenery, electrical effects, and proper ties and the show never fails to make them say ‘the best ever." I am booked through to the coast and return, my dates taking me up to July 1. Business so far has been excellent.” Roster of Our New Minister Company: Joseph Conyers, proprietor and director: Arnold F. Kinzie, manager; H. H. Leavitt, advance representative; Chas. F. Adams, stage | manager; Will Randall, carpenter: James U1. | Waltham, properties; Ed. Kennedy, electrician; Jay Wellington, M. H. Harriman, Chas. Adams, Richard Nesmith, Fred Clarke, Eugene C. Brockman, Lee J. Kellam, Cal Dix, Master Hazelton, Edith Millward, Alice Washburn, Lovell Oldham. The Donahue Players, managed by George Donahue, are playing the larger cities of the Northwest and enjoying very satisfying business. At Helena, Mont., the week of September 26—state fair date—they turned ’em, ac cording to reports. With the company are R. E. Wilkins, Eddie Black. Miss Claie O’Donnell, Miss Hallie Myers, Miss Stella O'Donnell and several others. The company has a repertcire of eight plays and carry a car load of scenery. On Wednesday David Warfield began his season, opening in the South with The Music Master and later touring the West. “Next season,’’ sald he, “I will have a new pley, and after that I will appear in The Merchant of Venice. Yes, I am going to try to play Shylock. It is a sure thing that I will make the attempt, but the time hasn't yet arrived.’’ Clay Clement has received a promotion at the hands of William A. Brady, for the excellent work he has been doing in The Dol lar Mark. Mr. Clement now is acting the Senator in one of the A Gentleman From Mis sissipp! companies. His role in The Dollar Merk has been assigned to Frank Hatch, one of Brady’s general stage directors. A promising event of the winter season ix a production of a new farce, which bears the striking title of Seven Days. It is from the pen of Avery Hopwood, who starred jointly with Channing Pollock In the authorship of Clothes ani who performed a play-writing solo with This Woman and This Maa. The Harry Cornell Company opened | Prima winner and | | Exclusive Songs. | new is an expansion of a one-act play. William F, Croucher, formerly manager of the Auditerilum Annex at Auburn, N ¥Y.. left Saturday, September 25, for New York City, where he will take the management of a production, Neighborly Neighbors, Miss Janet Beecher, who plays the young stepmother in The lIutruder, has been placed under contract as a star by William A Rredy. who will soon put her forward In a new comedy. INTERNATIONAL s IMPORTER OF LIFE MOTION PICTURES 233 N. 8th St., Philadelphia. Films from all the leading studivs of Europe. 0c per ft., C. O. D., subject to examination and projection, This week's releases— **Repentance,’’ 645 ft. Drama. (Lux. ‘Pig and the Thief,’’ 436 ft. Com. (Lux.) “Foster Brothers,’’ 757 ft. (Lux.) *“‘Mummy of the King,’’ 596 ft. Drama. (Lux.) “Shipmates,’’ 680 ft. Drama. mag) eR “Kidnapped King,’’ 757 ft. Drama. (Continental, *‘Lover's Honor,’’ 780 ft. Drama. (M. F. A.) “Consequence of a Lie,”’ 585 ft. Dram. (LeLion.) ALVA JANIS Donna Comedienne Now in Vaudeville Special Costumes. Perma. address, The Billboard, New York. nent Wanted at Aurora, Ind. Population 4,500, Lyric Theatre, (only theatre). seats 500. Want popular-priced clean shows for 1 to 3 nights. Can book good Uncle Tom's Cabin. RUSHWORTH & KYLE, Managers. « AROUSELS And single animals, the finest work fn the market for the lowest price. Send for catalogue. —_ & GOLDS , 66 Gerry St., Brookyn, ° Wanted—One Lady Violinist at the Hotel Nickel, South Bend, Ind. WANTED TO BUY-<Calliope with or without wagon, for delivery before Jan. 1. State exact size. make and condition. Address ‘Calliope Repair Man,’’ care Mrs. Geo, Lord, 1533 Grand Ave., Chicago. FILMS FOR SALE—In A-1 condition, from §§ per reel and up. 99 reels of excellent films, to be sold at once in Canada, “DUTY PAID". $1,200. Write for lists to J, HARDSTEIN, 296 Snediker Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Vaudeville Theatre For Sale—In wealthy Ohio city of 17,000. Only vaudeville theatre. Cap. 300. Nice room. On Sun time. Reason for sell ing, other business. A bargain. Don't write onless you mean bnresiness Address Manager Star i) WANTED—First-class, second-hand moving pic. ture machine, two reels comic film; one pin Edison preferred. Give cash price. F. ©, ADAMS, Plainwell, Mich. FOR SALE—One Herschell Merry-go-round, com plete, consisting of 24 horses, 4 chariots, pipe D organ, steam engine, tent, and all fixtures, good running order. Machine ia worth fully $1,000, but will sell for $400 cash, f. o. b. Rock THill., 8S. C., at which place the machine | is now located. Address J, B. Brown, Bl | stone, Va. I Can Offer Anything in the Line of | HAGENBECK HAMBURG, GERMANY S. A. STEPHAN. American Agent. WILD ANIMALS And Can Import Them on Short Notice. Hay Eating, Carnivorous and other Large Animals a Specialty. Address All Inqutries To S. A. STEPHAN, Zoological Garden, Cincinnati, Ohio. All the other parks are putting up their shntters. October 2, John Calvin Brown will lock up all the riding devices and outside attractions | at his White City, and will for the winter, { only keep open bis big skating rink and his | cross-lined to any title desired. Of Interest to Managers We have just completed our NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, showing Cute and Prices of over 400 stock bills ranging in size from % sheets to 20 sheets, Mailed free for the asking. Every piece of this paper can be immense Yall-room, but he has arranged for an ‘National Printing and Engraving Co., Dept. D, Tribune Bidg., Chicago —_ geen