The Billboard 1909-11-13: Vol 21 Iss 46 (1909-11-13)

NOVEMBER 13, 1909. The Billboard 45 new pantomime, Tragic Love, for which she engaged her own company. Y After a tournee of seventy-five weeks in tbe United States, the Bruno Kramer Trio started on their return trip to Germany, November 6. The Trio is re-engaged for 1910 and 1911. SAVANNAH, GA. There will be a dozen plays presented in this | e n on tter | Manner, the versions used being those of | Berlin Letter Georges Duval. ‘The mise-en-scene will follow | English traditions, and will be produced in col| laboration with CluLarles Lenormant Samary. (Continued from page 12.) ; ; Here is a list of the plays as chosen: yoets a chance of witnessing two great fights Timon of Athens, Romeo and Juliet. HamPietro Mascagni is working industriously on vhich occurred in the rakish days of Beau jet Antony and Cleopatra, King John, As You his new opera Sibilla. It treats of the romanBrummel—one on Crawley Downs and the oth-| Like It, A Winter's Tale at ‘‘Watier’s,”’ the haunt of reckless. IV., é nloods’ ‘and dandies, where, in 1813, Brum (Continued from page 12.) scenes from Henry | tie life of the gallant hold-up men in the and the Merry Wives of Windsor, MidAbruzzi mountains. The authors of the lisrmmer Nigit’s Dream, Macbeth, Richard II., | bretto are Aristides Sorforio, a Roman painter, nel was one night so lucky at “‘hazard,’’ that) and Cymbeline. who as a playwright was very successful, and ; ‘ e decided ty give, with Lord Alvaney and a Rehearsals are already in progress, under the | the young poet, Mario Bueci. The new op| Carnival Week in Savannah a Great few others of his acquaintances, that “‘Dandies guidance of Camille de Sainte Croix, and the | era will not be brought out this season. | Big Success. Ball,” = —— an — x # —— other man wmentioned. The promoters offer *+ aig through being ve scene of the eaus insult) a season ticket, which includes the right of | i strube irshi 5 to his former patron, the Prince Regent. I re| reduced railway fare to the Stniveneanenn FesSie¢fried Wagner's last opera, Banadietrich, flights. P yy ee ae aaa fer, of course, to the *‘Who's your fat friend?’’ | tival at Stratford-on-Avon some time next year. | the libretto of which is based on the story of | outdoor exhibitions twice ‘daily and the } ae = episode, which sealed the incorrigible Brumiio 1m Ros Dietrich of Bern. will be brought out at the ville houses having special features this week mel’s doom. AT THE CHATELET. Carlsruhe Court Theatre. It seems, that SiegSavannah is in the grasp of the most popular 7 The Chatelet, at the moment, is dark. It is. fried Wagner is at odds with the Hamburg | | a : week of amusements ever in this city. There are a number of minor attractions, too npumervus to mention, and the Savannah Theatre has twe . losed for cnly a matter of three fe day ity Theatre, for in this prominent playhouse ai “ks ‘ cing 8 _ |< y a matter o airee or four days, A aan anes oe ee * eye Fo when the premiere of La Petite Caporal will his works had their premieres for a good pee Stevenson's story of The Suicides’ Club, take place. This is a sort of historical tray| any yeurs. a tack : P : + Winning attractions for this week, they being . : ener le —_ -. esty-spectacie, and, of course, as the name imFritzi Scheff in The Vrima Donna, and Florence French version of which was given at the As . ‘ : in F : 4 Shaftesbury Theatre: here a tly of years -_ takes place under the first Empire. Also, The Parisian adultery drama, Der Skandal, | Grear in Fluffy Ruffles, the advance sale for ‘go. The story is very gruesome. Herbert | °f, Course, the principal figure will be trav-| », wenry Bataille, had a partial success in the | both shows being immense, assuring big at esty—by a shapely yc 4 J é Forbes, a young fellow, but newly elected a een. Benshar deatents dashes be oa ~~ mon ga tae gl — oa duce several novelties and expects the piece to | on “ee fatal ace of sondee. “One er es ws ai 7 ha at a is poor and not interesting enough to become the members is so overcome with the horrors | flenri de aa, It is 2 nr to Peery od cone a favorite of the Berlin public. if apprehension that he suddenly dies at the r aa “ as ebbel Theatre, especially on account of the | tendance, splendid acting of Friedrich Kaysler. The perTne Aindome is opened again for this week, formance was a good one, but the drama itself | William Tripplet presents Sylvia Summers and “ her excellent company in a repertoire of popu lar royalty plays. and the attendance thus far i : : + hes — quite satisfactory. The Airdome was his attraction doesn’t catch on as well as leased for this week from the Bandy Brothers. table of heart disease. All think he must have pono oa Pasgpstras soe Eg acs » crow > mre y Mis “ drawn the fatal card and a great sigh of reay ened to be put on a revival of Le Voyage The Fight About the North Pole is the name a ae lat ee ps Brgy aren lief goes around when it is found that such : te oe of the latest play at the Luisen Thestre. | In| nigntty “ is not the case. Finally the dreaded ace falls MARY GARDEN, this burlesque, besides Cook and Peary, there The Criterion has ten acts for a first-class to the newly elected member, and when he is otie 1 aad ee si will be seen a big chorus of Eskimo girls. . } “anyprssa : ' left alone with the president, whose duty it is ian sere 8 a ig el pg ag aed ang Mr. Wieher, of the Apollo Theatre, wrote the ———, sents, sates ae Se AL to have him safely conveyed out of this world, | o, declaring that it is probable that after this music. " drich, character change and singing; Will Eske, Bagg BaF og —_ ee gene Rn op cae sesson in New York she will return to France + magician; Reo Sims, character comedian, Chas. Club 5s vhs 8 ¢ ewspape e searc stay wie le . +} . _ ‘ati P Madeline D ar, 4 -e ° of copy, and that where the final formalities {,, boar thin, Pus save,” tine oath ae tee York | n.2t® Rest novelty of the Kemmerspiele is Bor King gy ang ag hy ey wen of the sport are concerned he would rather be | this week.” sees SNE EES ROE New OFS | nard Shaw's comedy, Major Barbara. The | jey” comeds sketch; Frank Hamilton, barrell excused. ‘‘Impossible!’" says the president, . snbject of this interesting product of the Lonae > i i co TENG CAG : 4 . . umper, pictures and songs. — A AM gs Mh er rule “4 — * INTERESTING CASE. — ceeding SS ee poop 7 — j The ieteuns. the al slehhe. has engaged nexorable re = presiient goes Out ni A rather interesting decision has been handed| <8 SETS Feligious & “la "© | seven Inter-State acts for this week, featuring room, locking the door behind him. “This 18 gown by the Paris Bree in a case oe . ment. | Zenda, the marvel wonder, in her mystifying absurd,’’ laughs the young journalist, hyster manager and an actor. M. Tarride had been | act, and her work is excellent throughout. The ieally; and he rushes from one door to another, engaged by the management of ian Vaudeville + other acts are: Ray W. Snow, return engageonly to find himself barred in on every side. | for one hundred performances, at sixty dollars Ernest Hardt’s Tantris der Narr bad its| ment after a big hit in this city; The Harrahs, The curtain rolls slowly down and slowly up : a perfor ; > . priemiere at the Lessing Theatre, in Berlin, and again. Fortes is going slowly mad in the dark, ean a. ae oe a met with a tremendous applause. But the} Kinnard Sisters, song and dance artists; Carl throwing himself against the walls and doors, ping one hundred days, ran cnly twenty-nine, !itic is not satisfied, and says that the success | and Emma Gath, character act, which is one of shrieking at the top of his voice. He hears a when it was taken off. Just at this time the '% “(ue only to the splendid work of the actors. | the features of the bill; Farley and Prescott, noise in the passage without, and thinks the 3 : 2 x skatorial artists; Elaine Von Teihle, balladist: eo ol . ) : Porte Saint-Martin was making ready to pr singing and dancing teams, moving pictures other members are going to kill him. He | duce Lauzon. Tarride had an omer? , + | and ae draws hie revolver and shoots himself; and the “Let me accept it,’ he told the Vaudeville Professor Hans Sitt and Professor Carl Wend The Grand is quite successful with vaudeville final curtain of this cheery little piece goes | management, ‘‘and as the pay will be fifty dol| ling. the first of the violin and the secon| | 29d moving pictures, the acts for carnival down on the scene of the president standing in the doorway of the room, in which all the lights are now fully up, and observing, as he lars a performance, you will lose only ten| of the piano faculty of the Leipsic Conservatory, | Week being as follows: Gilmore and Delauey, dollars a day. I agree to accept the Lauzun/ recently celebrated their 25th anniversary 2s comedy team; DeGraff Sisters, singing and money as part pay from you.’ | instruetors at this famous institution. dancing; Harry Wane, violinist, who is the looks at the body of the suicide: ‘‘I knew it. Tarride Neat ae a * ey Saint-Martin. But | ; ss . : P gs feature of the bill, and Edna Erskine, balladist. No one can bear the agony of apprehension for} Lanzun lasted one day less than the Vaudeville | * With illustrated songs and moving pictures the long. play, and 29 plus 28 don't make a hundred, | And there is where the trouble came in. The | | Vandeville management contended that as Tar | bill is a good one | The Barnum and Bailey Cireus, November-3, | to big atten-lance Therese Kurmann, a violinist of Cologne, won | the Mendelssohn prize for executive artists. | ‘The prize for composition was awarded to Max Captain Stanley Vaugban, assisted by Fred P . tt | em > edgy | ee —— po ge ae if} Robloft of Berlin, a pupil of Professor Fried| @uume is in » oo lll of the airship flights, which Le cue 2 Orke = SAlDt-Martin s play fale was | rich Gernsheim. | are sive es eve , aris er rarride’s loss and not theirs. ‘Tarride, on the *| — a three times every day during carnival other hand, held that when he went to the _ 7 . > (Continued from page 12.) other theatre it was simply that he had rather | Leoneavallo has nearly completed the par| ARTHUR M. ROBINSON. he. working than idling, and felt that for the| titur of a new opera bouffe, Marlborough. oe | Vaudeville to pay him sixty dollars a day for | libretto is written by Beaucaire; the work w the unplayed ie hundred perfaresences. een | be produced early next year in Rome and BerCOPPED THE GIRLS TIGHTS. he a hardship. He was helping out the man-| in. agement by going to the other play. | oo The judge upheld Tarride, and he got a judg — for $2,580, this sum representing $60 a Mrs, 9lga Levinsky Prescheisen, widow of the performance for the remaining 43 performances, | late Burg Theatre actor, Levinsky, is instructor iiaiaaen di . ’ after both the Vaudeville’s 29 days and the | a! the University of Vienna; she teaches rhetSome one got access to the dressing rooms of Port Saint-Martin’s 28 days were subtracted ee . the Auditorium Theatre. Baltimore, and _ stole F , a ee O. ESSE aesee CFSE. an overcoat and other clothes belonging to em SOME NOTES. + ployes. Worse than that. he got away > MME. REJANE. AN PR > he > ap y a good man airs of tights, and when the aft i> Gente ’ tet rr gg come, I understand, is making ’em | AMERICAN ROLLER RINK IN GERMANY. pa Pens dress for the night performer a summer in Sou America (of covnr « ‘ustle in London. In front ef the theatre e ie: olle ink Company rhie ance of The Golden Widow. a number of blush it was winter on that side of the equator), | they’ve wot the usnal sigys! “Pit Full.” The American Roller Rink Company, which : = i rm : ” controls more the fifty rinks in England, Amer| ing women declared they would not go on. sone, Seuene ant Der company this week seems | “tewe Fell, “Gallery Full.” A wag who iea and France, and intends to build a numFor a while it looked as though there would to Paris. They report a very excellent season | runs the bar across the street, keen to the sit| jor of them in some of the larger cities of Ger-| be a serious shrinkage of the chorus, had not and propose to reopen the Theatre Rejane next | uation, put out his sign. It read: ‘House Not many, has leased a large tract of property at | the wardrobe woman, who was equal to the ocTuesday. Le Refuge, a revival, will be the) Full. Come In and Get.’’ At least that’s the! tne ‘corner of the Kurfuerstendamm and Cicero; casion, found some old tights that had been bill, with La Fille de Jepthe accompanying It. | stery a Londoner told me. And it'll be a good | stree see y a te “mn years he | Stored by another production. Rene Fugere makes his debut in thie latter) one, if our London man doesn't hear it, too. 1 Senaeen ae ace phe pe Baggy piece. A new piece, named Madame Margot, + nificent roller rink palace, which is to be by Fmile Moreau and Charles Clairville, and | | | plece, Les Emigrants. is a bit melodramatic. It deals with low life, the principals being a man, his wife and a friend, who are en route to Sonth America to live. The husband ie a stoker on the ship, and the friend (7?) hae the unkindness to chuck him into one of the furnaces, probably mistaking him for a lump of coal. Such scenes as this are vividly shown in the play, and the patrons of the house appear pleased. Members ot The Golden Widow were up Against it. ° . : MAY ENTER SPRINGFIELD. described as historical, will probably follow Mme. Bartet, one of the most beloved of Se — Pe nae og = beer get gle _-—— Le Refuge at the Rejane. It is in four acts| French actresses, makes her season's debut Oc| ~ Mute. 2 . st likely ; > kv runs that the Selli and Considine with a prologue Reh sals will beg! t an| tober 30, at the Comedie-Francais r rival esi activity, it is most likely that the open umor runs tha mw Sellivan and Consi¢ 4 ask gue. ehearsal: gin a . c 7 tol edhe ancaise, In a revival | ing of this latest American establishment will | interests have taker option on a Springfield, early date. = peace take place before the end of the month. The | Ill., site and will erect a large new vaudeville AMERICANS IN PARIS. floor of the rink is constructed after a pat-| house there next spring. Two legitimate, two ent which is controlled by the American com| vandeville and eight picture houses bid for At the Folies-Bergere The Harmony Four are Much interest is manifested on the stages of | making a great big hit. The Figaro s any. patronage there at present. The latest dithe various operatic houses here, over the anthem: “Than Bis Rag PAE on pln of | pany + rectury (Polk) places the ponnlation at 72.000, nouncement that the artists from the Metropol3 7 | _| With abont double that number to draw from. {tan Opera House, New York, are to sing in + | The leading lady of an opera company, play| Jefferson street. between Fifth and Sixth is Paris during May and June, 1910. At the Olympia revue a very funny scene | ing at Crimmitschau, Saxony, had been arrested | given as the location decided upon. a zs . shows a duel of Peary and Cook, with the | by order of the authorities and placed in jail, SHAKESPEARE LOVERS. North Pole as a background. | which put the director of the company in a MARY GARDEN RETURNS Paris is shortly to have its Shakespeare com + — a eS = was ao 4 any. P or is Y case > q | no able 0 procure a substitute C e ac Gcomeny vy ickemmene welai at thee L’Eteile du Nord, the comic opera of de| tress who was to sing the Comtesse Josephine Mary Garden, wearing a long seal coat, stepped ers for some time. Now Paris is to get in line, | Scribe and Meyerbeer, is the attraction at the! in the operetta Foersterchristle. Realizing the off the White Star line Adriatic, looking younger and even now, under the high patronage of the | Jardin d’Acclimatation. | predicament of the director, the police auand more vivacious than ever. Mary comes back Minister of Public Instruction, a strong com Be | thorities permitted the actress to play her in sealskin and humility, for she says that next pany is being formed, the players being chosen The Kinema-Gabka motion picture theatre bas | = ~~ a = yoo — ae peg Bh en ay Bd mn ge = ite aun at large from among those whose temperament! hed some very fine aeroplane films on view and after the show she was accompanied back cis ae enix Ger Chatetie aia P and abilities especially fit them for Shakes-| this week 7 , . to prison. Needless to say, the prima donna . perean work. P ‘ + | played before an overcrowded house. The performances begin in December, and Will) pritanicus is the name of a play put on for | + | JAMES H. PURCELL—NOTICE! Tun we nto next spring. yhe verPaton vt ape ae ; +. “ee ee formances are terminated. this "aul tees up TR pone matinee at the Theatre Bernhardt In celebration of the success of the new reMra, PF. Etiacketh until June, sometime—they are going to be cals week. vue staged at the Kursal, in Geneva, a banquet | ayenne, Schenectady. . is endeavoring allowed to go to England for a series of matin + | was given by the management to the artists | to ascertain the present whereabouts of her son, ees and nignts, when the French provinces will The first performance of La Petite Chocolatier | 82¢ employes who took part in the production. Pureell, of 614 South > ? Jas. H. Purcell Anyone possessing this in see them. After this a trip abroad is planned. | takes place Saturday night of this week. | Two hundred and seven persons participated | formation ix kindly requested to communicate The plan for the Paris performances is rather | | in the celebration of what, perhaps, is the most! with her. an odd one. They are to be matinees only + | suecessful revue that has yet been produced in | a _ and will occur only twice a month. They will| Tarasford’s Alhambra has a new olio. It's | Switzerland. | be preceded by q short lecture—a sort of in-| 4 dandy. . co Sweeney and Rooney bave accepted structive prologue, with a little history of the + twenty weeks’ time from Walter Keefe, openplay about to follow, and so on. Even limelight | Mme. Jolly Violetta, having finished her Or | ing at the Family Theatre. Muscatine, Iowa. is doing a fine | pheum tour with Martin Beck through the | They have just finished ten weeks for Wm. United States, returned to Berlin with her | Mortis. IF YOU MISSED THE GREAT SCHOOL EXPOSITION AND STREET CARNIVAL in the City of Wadesboro. N. C., you would miss the greatest moneymaker. We teld the truth, The showmen are happy, because they have pockets full of money; the people yre happy, because they are enjoying themselves. There are still two weeks and a half and the opening is for any good shows. Recollect there are to be no exclusives. The showmen are having the greatest sport of their lives. Their expenses are almost nothing. Everyone camps out and eats possum dinners a sunners, No use to write, you can telegraph what you have and want. If you care to, just come right along and join ‘‘The Greatest onting oF rt views will be sometimes employed, and dances The E.ippodrome Roller Rink are announced a~ part of the general scheme. | business — : See Billboard of October 30, page 88, or November 6, page 26. : : WADESBORO. NORTH CAROLINA WE RENT NEW FILMS INDEPENDEN een ‘INTERNATIONAL P. & P. COMPANY’S FILMS JOHN T. PA*RICK. President Southern Savings Bank. EXCLUSIVE FEATURE SERVICE ; WRITE FOR PRICES CINCINNATI FILM EXCHANGE, 214-216 W. Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio