The Billboard 1910-07-02: Vol 22 Iss 27 (1910-07-02)

40 The Billboard JULY 2, 1910. THE FOLLIES OF 1910. (Continued from page 6.) pool. Harry Watson, as a _ harassed piano) mover, whose comicalities had elements of real humor; George Bickell, impersonating Maurice Levi, the composer; Lillian Loraine, Bobby North and various other people making quick changes from one costume and make-up to another, afforded plenty in the way of beauty, variety and comic effort to keep things moving between songs, dances and specialties. Grace Waters, a clever woman, with a peculiar manner of babying her lines. contributed one or twu funny songs, and Julian Mitchell, emerging from the obscurity of stage management in a Scene in a pantomimic specialty, The Vampire, to which Miss Louise Alexander contributes her temperament and beauty. Rosie Green also danced neatly. As one critic viewed it, *‘The pecially elaborate and there are fourteen distinct settings, the costumes are beautiful and the girls within them are young and frolicsome, | and there are no end of stunts and tricks, which | put almost as much of the performance among the audience and up and down the aisles as on the stage.’’ “Even the mammoth stage was not nearly large enough to show off all the nretty girls.’’ says a morning daily, ‘‘and the countless novelties packed into the thirteen scenes required for Mr. Ziegfeld’s annual review, and surprises were sprung constantly from all parts of the aerial garden. Several thousand persons made the flight toward the stars to witness the production. The Follies of 1910 is more than a year ahead of its predecessor in everything that | goes to make a successful summer show.” | “It begins with a sudden burst of originality, it keeps on in a thoroughly unconventional way of surprises, and it ends in a spasm of | excitement. “Flo Ziegfeld has spared nothing in making the production a success, least of all his audfences. The only congenial thing that you ean think of as you descend from the roof and | the Follies is a convenient rest cure. | “The Follies this year (they have become a | summer institution along Broadway, just the | | scenery is es same as the summer season) are, to say the least, faster and more furious that any that have gone before. They have not the slightest | respect for anything but having a joyous time. They mix up the stage and the audience in a | hopeless way from the very beginning. Part | of the action occurs right next to your orches| tra seat. You get suspicious of every waiter that appears with a tray. He is likely to be one of the leading actors, that will the next moment climb over the footlights and sing a song. As to the man next to you in a dress suit, you are sure, after the first few minutes that he is soon to tumble into some tank on the stage. “The chorus? They never enter by the wings. | Not a bit of it. They come out of a trap door that is right in front of the main box, or near | the elevator in the back. The suspense is awful. But perhaps that is one of the best things about the Follies... Thus another paper cites | i t. All in all. the Ziegfeld concoction for the season of 1910 is just long enough, good enough and filled with enough variety to make it one of those enjoyable entertainments for a summer evening atop a Broadway house. THE WORLD OF BURLESQUE. (Continued from page 14.) Mul Clark, the German comedian, has signed with Harry M. Strouse’s The Lady Buccaneers for the coming season, to do his single speclalty in the olio and work opposite Joe K. | Watson in the first part of the burlesque. Mul | is playing a few weeks in vaudeville, after which he will rest for a short time before com. | mencing rehearsals. } Joseph K. Watson was united in marriage to | Anna Taube at Toronto, Ont., June 15. Mr. | Yatson is well known in vaudeville aad burlesque and was until recently the star of the | Harry M. Strouse Lady Buccaneers. He oes | with the same show again next season. Miss Edythe and Sig. Franz, unicyclists, closed with Hurtig and Seamon’s Ginger Girls at the Gayety, Brooklyn, N. Y., and are taking a well-earned rest. They have signed with Hurtig and Seamon for the next two years. | Miss Azalia Fontaine is back in vaudeville, | after a season of thirty-eight weeks with Jesse | Burns Empire Company. She has contracts for twenty-five weeks over Western time. Chas J. Fox, treasurer and assistant manager | of the Gayety Theatre (Eastern Wheel), MiIlwaukee, is spending his vacation in Plymouth. | Wis. + The Sam Scribner franchise will be leased by | Messrs. Rice and Cady. and their show will be named The Beauty t ¥ | The Clark Sisters (Babe and Irene) late of | Weber & Rush’s Dainty Duchess Company, have joined The College war Dick Rider is on a visit to his old home in | Baltimore after which he will spend a few | weeks in Detroit. The Merry Whirl is still playing to big bust| ness at the New York Theatre and will remain | there indefinitely. | Virgie Royden and the Six Dancing Comets, sre playing vaudeville in and around New York | City. le | Stock at Miner’s Bowery is doing excellent business in spite of the hot weather. BURLESQUE NOTES. A uumber two Dolly Dimple Girls Burlesane | —_ “7 will be put out by Manager W. W. | ussell. ‘Wm. McCabe’s Georgia Troubadours, efter » season which has lasted nearly two years. will close June 18, at Genoa, Wis. The management reports business uniformly good. Mr. McCabe intends to enlarge his show for next | season, which opens about Ang. 16. }can usually learn something from it, | attitude towards | hit | the chorus and sing. LONDON LETTER. (Continued from page 15.) | In the next scene—the salle of a Spanish posada—Femina is once again overcome by her | besetting weakness, and in the last scene of all—The Kingdom of Vanity—which is revealed through a magnificent lace veil, she is represent| ed as inextricable enmeshed like a spider in the web of vanity. It is difficult to resist the temptation to employ superlatives in describing the gorgeous settings of the various scenes, the magnificence of the costumes, and the color scheme in general. Nothing finer has ever been seen at the Alhambra. Mlle. Britta and Mlle. Leonora, in more than usually exacting roles, won further distinction both by their dancing and acting, while the entire corps de ballet, including the Spanish dancers, Senor Faico and Senora Flamenca, acquit themselves with huge success. The music also helps to contribute to! the triumph of one of the most unconventional! and splendid divertisements London has ever seen. + Lewis Waller has now cried off his idea of | visiting the United States this autumn, but | now I hear that Fred Terry has arranged with Klaw & Erlanger to pay a visit of eight weeks to your side with The Scarlet Pimpernel and Henry of Navarre. He will open at the New Amsterdam Theatre on October 24, and will stay there six weeks, afterwards going to Philadelphia and Boston for a week each. It is) hoped that his wife, Julia Neilson, one of the | most charming actresses on the English stage, who has just undergone a long illness, will be | well enough to accompany him. + Rumors were afoot a few days ago that The | Dawn of a To-Morrow was to be taken off for) good from the Garrick Theatre. I am giad to say, however, that instead of the piece being | withdrawn, it is only to migrate to another theatre—The Duke of York’s. Taking things | all around, the play has been very successful here, and although Miss Gertrude Elliott is not perhaps the ideal heroine for it, still it has done very well. We here are always especially | glad when an American enterprise is a success | in London: first. because the native playwright and. secondly, because we are tired of the continual accusations made with regard to the English American plays, despite the generous tribute paid by Charles Frohman and other American managers to the London public and the London newspapers. } IN PUBLISHERS’ ROW. (Continued from page 14.) Your face so fair, your golden hair, your smile | that lights the day; Your eyes that tell me, dear, so my own for aye. | All these I see when blissfully to dreamland I depart; | low, sweet airs sound everywhere, now I dream, dear heart. well, you are/ And when | Blanche Lavigne made a big hit while playing on the United time, singing Remick'’s big song hits, which often called for several encores, as Miss Lavigne has a splendid voice and knows | how to deliver them. One of her moet) successful hits was the song entitled I’m Afrald of You, with the following refrain: j | I’m afraid of you, I’m afraid of you, For you're so sweet and you're so neat; You’re making me love you whenever we meet. I'm afraid of you and your dreamy eyes of blue; I'm afraid you will take me then break me then shake me. I'm afraid of you. Yes, Lamb and Henry have a new song hit. which | has been published by Jos. W. Stern & Co., en| titled Night Brings the Stars and You. The | chorus follows: | creep: | After the lark in the meadow sings the red_ rose to sleep: After the day is ended, my longings are ended too— Then, happy, home, For night brings the ._ and you. } I roam, to my sweetheart and | with Remick’s big song hit, entitled I°ll Make a Ring Around Rosie, on their tour of the Western Vaudeville Circuit. chorus: Albrazar and Baby Athlone are making a ble) This is the I'll make a ring around Rosie, I'll make a ring around Rose. We will be comfy and cozy, some place where nobody knows. Rose didn’t grow in the garden—she grew on | ten little toes. I'll make a ring around Rosele, Rosie, my rosiest ose. | Om } The Four Musical Huehns are using, with great success, Macdonald and Carroll’s big song Snecess, entitled Nix On the Glow-Worm, Lena The following is the chorus: Nix on the Glow-Worm, Lena. Please play something else on your concertina. If the maf’ that wrote it heard her, It’s a cinch | there would be murder— Cnt out the Glow-Work. can It, can It. We'll go dipny soon. concertina And that Glow-Worm tune. Beat It, Lena, with your | Selly Brown has heen booked for the whole | season at the Morris Music Hall at Coney Island, and 's certainly making the songs go over the | plate. He Is featuring Joe Morris’ big song, hit. | entitled Waltz Me Till I’m Weary, Dearle. And Solly has no trouble to get the crowds to join in Solly ts aleo mak'ng some | impression with Feist’s song, I’m Awful Glad | I’m Irish, by Leo Feist. NEW YORK MUSIC NOTES. SECURE THE PURLISHING RIGHTS FOR THE GIRL IN THE TRAIN Witmark and Sons have secured the ex M. elusive rights to publish the music of The Girl The rights Charles In the Train, a new musical comedy. were obtained through Hans Bartsch. with much | the early in the coming season In its original form, The Girl In the Train was known as Die Geschiedene Frau (The DIvorced Wife), and, as such, was a triumph in Berlin, as it also is in England. The Girl In the Train is an adaptation from the German of Victor Leon, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and music by Leo Fall. One musical number has completely captured the audiences in London. It is known simply at The Waltz Song. THE DARLING DOCTOR. Otto A. Hauerbach, who wrote the lyrics of Three Twins and Bright Eyes and the book and lyrics of Madame Sherry, and Karl L. Hoschna, who wrote the music of all three productions, are at work on a new musical comedy for Victor Moore, of which Mr. Hauerbach will write the book and lyrics and Mr. Hoschna the music. The latter will be published by Witmark and Sons, who also published the three productions above mentioned. The name of the new musical The Darling Doctor, and Mr. Moore will substitute it for The Talk of New York, in which he has been starring until recentiy. Meanwhile he is in vaudeville temporarily. The Darling Doctor wil! receive its premiere play is in Grand Rapids, Mich., on August 22, and then go to the Cort Theatre for a run. The reorganized and rejuvenated Longacre Quartette is singing Just For a Girl, My Heart Has Learned to Love You, Now Do Not Say Good-bye, and In the Garden of My Heart, all compositions of Ernest R. Ball. ; + Just For a Girl is doing particularly well with the Trocadero Four. They are also singing two other Witmark songs, In the Garden of My Heart, and When Hop-Scotch Mary Took Her First Highball. + Coogan and Parks, at the Auditorium Theatre, Newark, Ohio, made a profound impression with Shaky Eyes, You Don't Know How Much You Have to Know to Know How Little You Know, and Temptation Rag. Boston, Von and Co. are singing, effectively, | There’s Nothing Else in Life Like Love, Love, Love, and Just for a Girl, two Witmark winners. They are making an exceptionally big hit with the latter song. + In their dancing act, Bissett and Scott are using Henry Lodge's brilliant Temptation Rag, success. CHICAGO MUSIC NOTES. The Chicago Federation of Musicians are to hold a meeting this week to consider the propo sition of making a demand upon the Chicago theatres for an increase in the number of musicians in the orchestras. They propose that the minimum number of players in the orchestras in the first-class theatres shall be eleven; in the second-class, eight; in the burlesque house, nine, and six in the vaudeville theatres where the ad| mission fee is no higher than fifty cents. This proposition comes from the Trombone Club. The trombone is the last instrument added to the theatre orchestras, and in all orchestras in firstcless houses employing eleven musicians, there would be a trombone. It is expected that many of the violinists and leaders will vote against the plan. + You’re Just Too Sweet to Live, Avery and Hart’s latest popular offering, and recently sung by them at the Majestic. is now being published by the Ted Snyder Music Company. and is ready to go in the hands of the other performers who favor pretty coon melodies. When You Play on Your Piano, Bill, the latest from the ever popular writers, Irving Berlin and Ted Snyder, writers of Ogalala, Mendelssohn Tune, and Grizziy Bear, is also on the shelves in the Chicago office, and both of these songs are reported to | After the sunset shadows over the wide world | "© *°ms the regular ey of Snyder riots. Hampton Durand, composer of Rossiter's Baby | Grand Song, is now musica] director at the Zieg feld Theatre, which reopened with The Girl in Kimono on June 25. A few scored heavily with the Baby Grand number are Sidney Grant, Kathryn Miley, Frankie Drew, Hardie Langdon, John Baxter, May Wentworth, MEET US FACE TO FACE % m L AM of those who/| Hines and eccentric dancers, hearty laughs with a good stiff finish and Fenton, two versatile comedians Twelve minutes of good, Perman ent address 151 W. 63d St., or Weber and Allen, Columbla Theatre Bldg., New York City. | Dillingham will produce the comedy in the States | FANS—To close estate, sacrifice three Peerless | Ceiling Fans, running order, 4 blades each, 30 | inches, 220 volts, direct current; used 3 months, | sacrifice, $9.00 each. V. J, Carlton, Westfield, | . . | CONDERMAN FERRIS WHEEL, with Engine, for sale. Fine running order. Outfit Uke new Located pear Pittsburg. Must sacrifice; $600 | cash. | Address Bargain Ferris Wheel, o Billboard, Cincinnati, 0. = 'PICTURINE BUTTON CAMERA, | M. P. Machine, Elec.. with $20 new, $60, Lunettes and Cabinet, | Machine, $59. 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Piano can be used with | player or automatic. Also 1 automatic printing | Press, 14 full fonts type, all different, 1 type | cabinet, all brand new, used two weeks; cost $275; $150 takes it. These are a snap for some one. WESTERLAND ADV. SERVICE, Chelsea, Michigan. FOR SALE—Model B. Gas Outfit, used 1 week; | burner and tubing, 23.50; pair new Edison | Fire Magazines, $10; Power's Lamp, $4; Lang Rewinder, $4; 75 Grand Canyon Slides, new, | $18. C. J. MURPHY, Elyria, 0. | FOR SALE—Amusement proposition paying $5.000 | yearly. Opera House lease and equipment; | $1,500 buys it. For particulars, address W. VA. FILM EXCHANGE, Piedmont, W. Va. | FOR SALE—Somersault Trick Dogs and Doves, B. C. Phonograph, Soda Fountain, Bottling Works, Will exchange for Films or anything | ; can use in Restaurant, Pool Room or Park. | Prof. Harry Smith, Gratz, Pa. FOR SALE—30 Hilo Peanut Machines, lavest style, $3.50 each; 20 Advance Peanut Machines, $2.00 each. Address J. E. Nelson & Co pany 3517 S. Halsted St., Chicago. —s _ For Sale---High Dive Outfit | Complete. consisting of 6-15ft. ladders, side rails of ladders are white bass-wood, rungs are white oak. Electric wiring complete for tank and ladders, consisting of four strings of lights. with the sockets one foot apart. Also cluster of lights for dressing room with 50ft. of cord for same. Complete switch box for lights. Every string of lights has its own switch and they all lead to the main switch. 350 eightcandle power globes and box for same. Portable tank and new canvas for same used two weeks, l20z. Army Duck. One Taylor trunk for tool | box and two property boxes with all necessary | appliances for outfit. Have special one-sheet | five color litho. and twelve-sheet block of act. | This act is booked for twelve weeks at Hip| podromes and Fairs all close to New York City. The name, bookings, paper and outfit for sale. cheap. Give complete possession of act on July 9, 1910. Terms—One-half cash, F. 0. B. New York and mortgage on outfit for balance. Ad dress all mail to Harry Six, high diver, 1440 Broadway. New York City. FOR SALE | One three octave, steel bar Deagan Marimbaphone, good as new, concert pitch; reason for selling, retiring; cost $150 new, will sell cheap | if taken at once. Also have complete line of Magical Goods for sale, suitable for amateur entertainments. Write at once. & OC. GARDINER, care Gas Co., Springfield, Ml. A LIVE FREAK, $40.00—A healthy Ram witb six legs. You can make that in one afternoon at any old fair. $10 cash, balance C. 0. D. J. J. BARTON, P. 0. Box 173, Detroit, Mich. WANTED.—Piano Vlayer and Illustrated Song Singer combined, Good wages, permanent posi tion, State salary and give references, Three shows, night and matinee on Saturday. Address FAMILY THEATRE, O. H. Fisher, Manager, Clifton Forge, Va. Snare Drummer WANTED Snare drummer and printer wanted. Bert Robb, please write. THE DISPATCH, Columbus, Miss. GOODELL SHOWS WANT ood Cornet and Slide Trombone Players. Must be able to read music at sight. State low est salary and pay your own. Address C. : Goodell, Wilton, Iowa, June 27-30; Tipton, Iowa, July 1-4. | WANTED | BEST TROUPE{OF LEAPING GREYHOUNDS About 6 or 8 and Miniature Cages, Chariots and R in Miniature line I can use, , Dever: DEVEL, Manager, Deuel Bros. Show, 621 Luttrell 8t., Knoxville, Tenn. Want 300 Opera Chairs Steel framed; second-hand. Send picture of mime and state price. Also second-hand stage implements, BOX 313, Natrona, Pa. G. R. & Pony