The Billboard 1910-05-14: Vol 22 Iss 20 (1910-05-14)

44 The Billboard MAY 14, 1910. BRIEF PERSONAL PATTER. (Continued from page 9.) Brown and Cooper are cutting up some on the Orpheum, reports having it that they were the hit of every bill they have played so far, although not headlined on all of them. They were in Denver last week and the critics there handed them several real nice bouquets in the way of press notices. W. S. Hart, who is known as a player of villain parts in western melodrama of the better class, has been called back to the arena of vaudeville. In the variety houses he will be seen in a short sketch called The Hold-Up, the title of which indicates that Hart still favors the melo. The Perf-Eck Producing that they will soon send fantasy, replete with pretty girls, catchy musical numbers and clean-cut comedy, handled by an able cast of five. It is expected that this act will be ready sometime during the early fall. Company out a clever musical announce J. Brandon Walsh, one of the foremost writers of real vaudeville sketches to-day, has-a loop office in the Majestic Theatre Building, having joined Dolph Meyers in office space, although J. Brandon is a mighty busy man to be found very often in any particular headquarters. Ed. Walsh, of baseball fame, and Gene Green, one of the best entertainers before the public to-day, will be known as the team of Walsh and Green In vaudeville at the close of the baseball season, contracts for the Orpheum Circuit having already been signed to that effect. Mile. De Vonn’s military novelty comedy act | of Cats and Dogs opened last week on the Frankle Brothers’ time, at the Colonial Theatre, Oklahoma City, and it was pronounced one of the biggest and most entertaining acts of this | kind ever seen in the Southwest. Sternad and Conklin, who are booking the Congress Cafe, report that vaudeville is proving such a success over at the Wabash establish ment that Manager David Lewinson is contem plating installing a complete new stage equip| ment, with drops and footlights. Frank Q. Doyle has secured the booking of the White City Theatre, and an excellent bill has been arranged for the opening, which is scheduled to take place Saturday, May 14. Five big acts will be given, including moving pictures. Joseph B. Callahan, in impersonations of great men, past and present, was the headliner at the Marlowe last week and the enthusiastic manner in which he was applauded placed him in the class of best top-notchers in the pro fession. Miss Adele Ritchie closed with The Girl In the Taxi in this city and has re-entered vaudeville, and is appearing at the Majestic this week, a new song or two being the feature of her contribution to the bill The Union Theatre, Halsted street, will hereafter be booked politan Booking Agency, Mr. having closed a contract of that theatre last week Halley's Comet Lecture, with slides, the feature this week at the Merit Theatre on South State street, is proving a drawing card for that little show house, and stamps Mr. A. Grant a live attraction manager. Miss Blanche DeRex, one of the clever lit tle chickadees with Cal DeVoll’s new Chante cler act, is one of the Harry Armstrong favorites who is always working and a booster in the popularity of any act. Tie Vaudette, a ten and twenty-cent house. which has been dark for some time, reopened Sunday, April 24, under the management of I. Woods The house is booked by the United Booking Association. Harry Millard, and Sixty-third by the MetroEugene Elkins formerly manager at the Ellis Theatre for the Louise Amusement Company, is now manager of the Monroe Theatre, another Southside house belonging to the same company. Mabel Hite is rehearsing a new song called Get the Hook, which will be added to her repertoire of numbers shortly. The music Is credited to T. W. Kelly and the lyrics to Vincent Bryan. Tim McMahon's Pullman Porter Girls, a scenic production with eleven people, and the Saad Dah Duh Troupe of whirlwind acrobats, opened on Sullivan and Considine’s coast time May 1. Roy and Manning are now playing with the Bama Rama Girls and are more than helping to build up this new creation of Gus Sohlke’s with their inimitable scarecrow dancing. Harry Weber, Art Adair, and Gus Goudron all “trode the goat’? Into Masonry at the Medinah Temple recently. They are ing all taken the thirty-second degree. McKenzie, Shannon and Co., on the Doyle time and who played the Lyceum and Apollo last week, will return to the Morris Circuit, opening May 15 in Cincinnati. Eclaire, the burlesque female {mpersonator, who appeared at the head of his own company recently at the Great Northern, ts the latest addition to the Doyle bookings. Mr. W. P. ple. Comedy Harry and Columbia theatres,, started booking through the Western Vaudeville Managers’ Association May 2. Frank Jewell, ‘‘king of talkers,”’ will feature Helen La Noire, a sensational barefoot dancer, with a company of ten dancing girls at Sans Souci this summer. Reine Davies, who is known outside the profession as Mrs. George Lederer, is one of the feature attractions over at the American Music Hall this week. Phil Castang has just closed with the Dode Fiske Shows and, in all probability, will be found with the Robinson Shows the remainder of the season. Sarah Bernhardt is booked for a long run of vaudeville appearances In this country upon the completion of her fall tour of the standard theatres, . “Anybody smart®r den me, I don’t want to do no bizness wid.’""—Ben Welch at the Majestic Theatre last week. Gifford is in town, trying to book his aeroplane at some one of the local parks for the coming | summer months. Bert Lennon, the Impersonator, has recovered from his recent illness and is now playing on the Churchill time with the management | now Shriners, hav| who have been | Shaver, manager of the Bush Tem| | great men CHICAGO VARIETY BILLS. (Continued from page 9.) who has presented us with a wholesome thought of a common occurrence, replete with plenty of flat laughs, but there is no special demand made for good acting, making the sketch better fitted to a quiet little family theatre, where Miss Kelm’s appearance would be out of place. As the story goes, Miss Bright wins back the affection of an old flame of hers by proving she had been misrepresented in the past, and by her generous and winning style of making the best of circumstances. The acting of Albert Kenyon, who took the part of Kennith Brice, a love-sick youth delayed in marriage on & **ten-bucks-a-week"’ salary, was particularly well handled, and made him the recipient of plenty of individual applause. LEAVITT AND DUNSMORE, in THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR. Franklin Theatre. No. 2; full stage; interior setting; 20 minutes. A clever little sketch, Smith is made the in which one Susie victim of circumstances. many funny incidents are worked out through this mistaken identity, in which Mr. Leavitt assumes many character roles. The story of the clever comedy playlet runs through a chain of peculiar circumstances, which are caused through another Susie Smith, living next door to the real Miss Smith in the playlet. Many letters and bills go astray in the mix-up, as well as doctors, enraged Italian organ-grinders and policemen. The funniest incident, which lends real snap to the plot, is the mistake of Alkali Ike, known as the ‘“Terror of the Plains,”’ | who enters upon our Susie Smith, thinking she is the other, and endeavors to win her as his bride and take her to his western ranch. He comes to his senses when his Susie's picture is produced and after an embarrassed apology, he leaves, to serenade his own Susie In the next house. The five characters presented are ably introduced by Mr. Leavitt, who is marvelously |} authentic in each portrayal. The sketch is cleverly written and ably enacted by Leavitt and Dunsmore, who put over the comedy in a | side-splitting manner. TOM SWIFT, MONOLOGIST. Marlowe Theatre. No. 4; ollo in one; 13 min utes. Seen evening, May 3. | A new vaudeville recruit from the ranks of | stock, and one of merit. This pleasing young chap will make good, whatever branch of theat| ricals he may decide is his lot, for there is a magnetism about his appearance and speech which holds interest, even though he does pull some things foreign to successful monologues. The Girl From My Home Town, Aint it Funny? You Bet it Is, and My Mamie Rose, all his own songs, were the sum and substance of the musical end of his offering, while a characterization of a rube opera house manager and a dra| matic recitation, which should be omitted, at once, served as slices of dialogue between his |} songs. Tommy, with his stick-to-it-iveness, is | a welcome invader. May there be more like | him. CHANTECLER AND THE CHICKADEES, WITH WALTER STANTON. Americus Theatre. No. 6. Headliner. In one and full stage; special setting; 24 minutes; six people, Seen evening May 4. A breezy little barnyard musical comedy, well constructed, equipped with costumes and scenery, sufficiently good to carry well the idea of the piece, and played in a manner which shrouded the effort in the proper atmosphere. with the result that the audience at all times was quite in harmony with the work. As an entertainment, this sketch is far above the average and easily reached the top rung of the ladder of first-night excellence. The fowl] plot opens In one, with Miss Abeantes singing the latest popular song creation, Chantecler Craze, which gets a good hand and is burlesqued by the chickenman, Walter Stanton, who ably handles a few impersonations of barnyard res!idents. Now comes the bright part of the skit, for a bunch of chickadees, horrified at the chickenman’s invasion of their domain, seek Mile. Chantecler’s protection. She tells them he has come to fight for the supremacy of Farmer Smith’s barnyard, and after being assured they will be good little chickadees, she promises to allow them to be present when the affair takes place. This al! happens in one which is now changed to full stage, in which Walter and a real live game-cock are given opportunity to afford considerable amusement for the audience and with the death of the chickenman, a fitting climax to this peculiar little poultry plot. Mr. Stanton, as the chickenman, is at his | best in this new creation of Cal DeVoll’s, and | the opportunity to display his versatility fifty per cent. better than when last seen at the Ma| jestic, two weeks ago. Miss Maude Abeantes bandied her lines and songs in a very creditable | manner, while the chickadees are all pretty and clever dancers. One of the features of the act Is an original melody called Won't You Be My Chickadee? which was played upon to the extent that the audience left the house whistling and humming It, reflecting a memorized account of the good points of the comedietta, and sweeping into forgetfulness the few weak ones, COLUMBUS. The Royal Minstrel Four, presenting a minstrel first part, was the big type attraction at | the South State street house last week, and | with their black-face comedy and harmonious | melodies proved they deserved the position, and | then some, The Two Hardts were reason enough | for fun and laughs with their burlesque acro batic feats but Jimmie Kayne, the ventriloquist, | shared honors with them In the mirth-provoking | department. His talking dummies and block| head jokes stamped him an artist of more | than ordinary ability. The ZinGaras, gypsy | Singers, with their unique offering of inter| mezonating strains, were applanded loud and |} long until they had responded with sufficient |} encores to satisfy the transient audience which | is generally found in Weber's house. Donald | Graham put over some Scotch witticisms and | melodies which pleased those Interested in this national department of vandeville and completed |} a bill which might be considered a good one |} in the location of the Columbus. | MARLOWE. | Manager Montague is resting on easy | these last few weeks, for business is keeping | apace with the bills he Is offering, and these last are coming thick and fast under the ‘‘hest| yet’’ list. The first half was a most excellent show, consisting of the following acts: Joseph | Callahan, with his remarkable impersonations of past and present: Lane. Goodwin and street —— Lane, in a new bit of nonsense, In which little Miss Goodwin is featured, and Mahan makes good with her eccentric character meddling, and Chris Lane and his wife are given opportunity to assist materially in the laugh-producing predicaments; Darrette and White offered some singing and piano playing that appealed to the admirers of lyceum entertainment and Tommy Swift, an account of whose efforts appears un der New Acts, was applauded enthusiastically both because he was booked by Mr. Montague as a local favorite, and because his ability ts deserving of such: The Arisato Troupe of Acrobats pleased after their own fashion with their clever performance. taking several bows of acknowledgment at the close of thelr work. The bill for the remaining half was programmed as follows: Joseph Callahan as a_ holdover; O'Neil and O'Neil, queen pins of vaudeville; Jones, Williams and Co., comedy sketch; Tommy Swift, another holdover from the first half. and Capt. Jack Smith, in a revolver shooting novelty act. HAYMARKRT. A splendid show was ruined at this house last week by a long drawn out lecture by Clif ton R. Wooldridge, a Chicago detective, who lectured on the marvelous deeds of bravery en acted by himself during his twenty years of service. Wooldrige opens his lecture with an announcement that he is selling a book at fifteen cents which he claims is a wonderful bargain, and then attempts to interest with an illustrated talk, while an assistant attempts to gather in the shekels. This is followed by Veda and Quintarouw, who introduce a neat act, consisting of globe rolling, juggling and serpentine dancing. the dance being used as @ finale, when it should be replaced by a more startling feature in order to make an improvement in the act. Pauline Arthur sang songs, I'm Afraid of You, as her closing number, winning favor. Pearl Allen and Mathews and Mathews made up the last half of the show. Pearl Allen, as a singing comedienne, and Mathews and Mathews in a refined comedy sketch. which made a decided hit with the West Siders. PRESIDENT. The bill at the President last week was one of unusual merit, being headlined by Fred, Walton and Co., in a fantastic pantomime, Cissie’s Dream. in conjunction with three high-class acts, Stuart Kollins and His Banjo Girls, Five Juggling Jordons, and Alfred K. Hall Stuart Kollins, assisted by his pretty Banjo Girls, rendered some very pleasing numbers, and proved to be as popular as when last seen at the American Music Hall. at which time a more detailed account of their efforts was run in these columns. The Five Juggling Jordons put over several new wrinkles in the manipulation of Indian clubs, etc., and Alfred K. Hall, that slim fellow, whose work was reviewed under round of applause and laughter with his unique manner of eccentric dancing. The bill as pro grammed for the last half of the week, consisted of Hamilton Coleman and Co., in their Colonial sketch, entitled The Man Who Dis covered Chloroform, an account of whose efforts will be found under New Acts in this Issue; The Two Mascots, singers and dancers; Claude Golden, coin manipulator, and Fred Wal ton and Co., as holdovers from the first half. With such offerings as this, I. Levinson may rest assured that the patronage of his pretty little house will remain on the increase though the days continue to be warmer and the parks offer their summer form of diversion. MAJESTIC. Another high-class dramatic star has been secured for the Majestic Theatre this week, the Same being Arnold Daly, who, in spite of, or perhaps, in consequence of his temperamental peculiarities, is one of actors in America. He is playing the principal role in George Bernard Shaw's wonderfully entertaining play. How She Lied to Her Husband. Not a few critics have pronounced this the best one-act play of modern times on account of its clever construction and scintillating humor. A big new production on the bill will be The Twentieth Century, one of Jesse L. Lasky’s musical comedy acts, with twenty-four people and three elaborate scenes. In fact, except for the padding. it is exactly the sort of a bright show that usually occupies an entire evening, and there is a novel effect at the close, showing the Twentieth Century Limited in motion. The bill further includes Howard and North, the fun makers who are in a class by themselves; Arcadia, the charming violinist: Thurber and Madison. smart entertainers; Freeman and Dunham, clever singers and dancers; Peterson Bros., novelty artists, and a lot of other skilled speclalists. the most talked-about AMERICAN MUSIC HALL. A splendid bill of big features and novelties of all nations is being presented by the Amertcan Music Hall for this week's attractions. Among the offerings are Joe Welch, the dialect comedian and chara¢ter interpreter of international renown, heading a company of fifty In a new drama of immigration, Ellis Island; Sophie Tucker, the young woman who In one season has become famous through her personality as injected into topical songs: Herman Lieb. the famous actor. heading a splendid company in Joseph Medill Patterson’s sensational one-act play of the Chicago slums, Dope, which has proven the eradicator of the cocaine traffic in a dozen American cities; Reine Davis, a Chieago girl, proclaimed by the critics in New York as the new American beauty, in dainty and fetching songs of the day; Adelaide and a bevy of girls in a fetching dancing ensemble; Cartmell and Harris, in their screaming song and dance success, Nearly an Actress, introducing The Dope Fiend; Hi Greenway. the favorite comedian, and the first appearance on any American stage of Prof. Martin's Canine Randits, a troupe of educated dogs, who are not tricksters, but who act ont in full costume a train robbery with every effect required, except the buman voice. three | New | Acts last week, kept the house in a continuous | Merry-Go-Round lo and prices. cal Instrument Works, N. 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