The Billboard 1910-07-09: Vol 22 Iss 28 (1910-07-09)

Liem + 40 The Billboard JULY 9, 1910. NEW YORK VAUDEVILLE. (Continued from page 8.) FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.—An auspicious holiday week bill included Mrs. Eva Fay, Howard and Howard, Harry Breen, Harry Tighe and Iillian Fitzgerald, Catherine Hayes and Sabel Johnson, Leslie Leigh and Company, the LaVeen Cross Co. and McDevitt and Kelly. BRIGHTON BEACH MUSIC HALL.—The current week’s offering included Marguerite Haney, Ralph Lynn and Ed. Coleman, in a musical playlet, The Leading Lady, with a chorus of twelve; Mile. Minnie Amato and Company in a spectacular pantomime, In the Latin Quarter; the Five Musical Avolos, Bowman Brothers, | Potts Brothers and Company, Julia Frary, Tom Smith and Marr and Evans. NEW BRIGHTON THEATRE.—A gala holiday bill headed by Eva Tanguay, was the offering at the New Brightcn Theatre at Brighton Beach for the week beginning July 4. Another favorite was Frank Tinney. Others were the Gollen Troupe of Russian singers and dancers; Beatrice Ingram and company in Porter Emer son Brown's playlet, The Duchess; Kelly and Kent, the Gasch Sisters, acrobats; Ed. Morton, the Three Donals, and Moffat and Claire. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL.—The American Music Hall at Seaside Station, Rockaway Beach, under the management and direction of William Morris, Inc., opened for the summer season on Saturday night, July 2, with a gala vaudeville bill which included Molasso’s sensational dance pantomime, La Robe de Nuit, with Miss Nina Payne; Miss Lucy Weston Cliff Gordon, the Mysterious Balloon Girl, Miss Bertie Fowler, | Fifi Ronay’s Toy Terriers and several other. acts. The same bill was presented during the ensuing week. | CHEATER PRODUCED. (Continued from page 4.) There is little distinction. of the cast save Mr. Mann and Mme, Cottrelly, though Emily Ann Wellman, which provides unusual opportunities for a good | comedienne, looks well and acts prettily. Johu | Bunny's ample proportions fit well the part he is cast for, but DeWitt Jennings, generally a very able actor, is here badly miscast and acts accordingly. The others ‘“‘get by,’’ which is as much, perhaps as one should expect in a farce which runs mostly to lean portions once the star has been served.”’ “The company is nicely balanced,’’ another daily says. ‘“‘and its members acted with remarkable energy. Mme. Mathilde Cottrelly, as the wife, gave an excellent performance, and Miss Emily Wellman acted the charmer with much pert originality. As the porter and orchestra leader at the.Orpheum, DeWitt Jennings and John Bunny contributed amply to the fun, while the roles of Plittersdorf’s sundry daughters, sons-in-law and other relatives, assumed by Miss Parke Patten, Miss Ethel Conroy, Melville Stewart, E, H. Kelly and Albert Parker, though rather colorless, met all the requirements.”’ The Sun in commenting, says: ‘‘Mr. Mann, as adapter, had not succeeded in divesting the play of its thorough Teutonic nature, and its situations seemed strangely at variance witu the supposedly local surroundings in which it passes But it is such frank farce that this element is not important. Mr. Mann's personal humor was not diminished by this incongruity, and that was all that really counted in the success of The Cheater, if one except Mathilde Cottrelly’s artistic and natural performance as | the German Senator’s wife.”’ This little play would undoubtedly enjoy a long run at its present location, but the sizzling weather and the fanless theatre will have a tendency to keep even the enthusiasts away. If it ean hold the boards until the warm wave has passed, and that will be well into August, Mr. Mann’s little adaptation, with its jollity and absurd situations will probably grace the Lyric the greater part of next season. the acting of any NEW YORK CHATTER. —_— (Continued from page 8.) Cole and Kelly are meeting with good success with the Trainer and the Girl sketch. Jesse Barrington, of Allor and Barrington, sailed for London on the Adriatic. She contemplates visiting Paris and Berlin. She will spend the last few days of her summer vaca in a part) tion with her folks at Belfast. Crawford and Barnes accompany her on the trip across the pond. Miss Barrington will return to the states early in Sentember to open on the Sullivan and Considine time. | Eillen Nibla and Co. were one of the biggest hits that ever played at Canarsie, L. I., last week. The act is booked on the Peck time and open this week at Glens Falls, from where they go to Rutland, Vermont. Miss Nibla and her company are making a big hit singing Haviland’s song hit entitled, Cupid’s I. 0. U., and Leo Feist’s Cavallier song hit, also When Mr. Yankee Doodle Comes to Town, published by Haviland. Harry Blair, the congenial stage manager of Keith and Proctor’s 23d Street Theatre, is one of the most interesting persons you ever met, as he always has a good story to tell whenever you see him. Harry says the hot weather does not bother him, as he knows how to keep cool, all he has to do is listen to the hot air that is shot out by the bunch that hang around waiting for their next show. One of the most popular managers around town these hot days is H. M. Hockheimer, manager for the All-Star Booking Agency in the Knickerbocker Building. Hockheimer has spread glad tidings over the Rialto for he wants five hundred girlies and three hundred boys. The All-Star must have something big on if figures count for anything. Gregg Patti, the little comedian, and Johnnie | Carroll, the Brooklyn boy, as he is called, have been entertaining the Elks and other friends at the Elks’ lodge rooms in Brooklyn, for the past week. With Jesse Winne at the piano, these three boys are always on the job and are always pleased to make things merry Sor | the visitors. The open air Hippodrome at 57th and 8th ave., seating 3,500 persons, will receive the full re-| turns of the Jeffries-Johnson fight by telegraph. | Joe Bernstein and Kid Griffo will illustrate blow | for blow and Terry McGovern will referee, while | Joe Humphreys will do the anneuncing. Ladies and children will be admitted. Mike Scott, the Roving Irishman, has a new card out in green and black ink with the following heading: The Public Favourite of Five Countries. Mike claims to be Ireland’s Original Dublin Comedian, so if you see the roving Irishman and want to know any more he will gladly give you all the information desired. Marshall Montgomery is certainly making some name for himself in the short space of time he has been doing his new act. While at Keith and Proctor’s Fifth Ave, Theatre, last week, he was actually one big riot, and certainly deserved all the applause he received. The Times Square Theatre, a new moving picture house, opened last Saturday. This is one of the first picture houses around this neighborhood giving pictures and illustrated songs only, being located a few doors above The Billboard | office on Broadway, New York. Jack Driscoll is managing the Monticello Airdome in Jersey City, playing acts and giving the latest moving pictures. Jack says business is fine. Jack formerly used to sing the illustrated songs at the 14th Street Theatre in New York. Luckie and Yost are spending the summer months around New York at the different seashore resorts. Having severed their connections with the Four Garnellas, they will open this | fall with a new singing and dancing act. Felix Adler, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, was one big hit, and, no doubt, will be going for some time. He is original and funny, and knows how to entertain an audience, as he proved that last week. Reid Sisters, those two charming young acrobatic dancers, were one of the hits of the show at the American in New York, last week, and were received with rounds of applause at every performance. Albert Newhoff has been appointed to take charge of the slide department at the Music House of Remick’s and will be glad to treat the singers with the best of courtesy. Tom Smith is spending these hot days riding down to Coney Island on the Smith street cars as they seem to agree with him because, perhaps, they are a namesake of his. Jack Inglis and Miss Reading, one of the | Reading Sisters, are now breaking in a new act for next season, Jack is still around town handing out his comedy patter. Carlos and his Dogs went out West to play the parks but had to return on account of the bad weather, their time being canceled, but will shortly start out again. Tommy Dugan, the Messenger Comedian, will go to Sullivan County this summer and rusticate, for a short while, and on his return will open on the Middlewest time. Louis Jordan, one of The Flying Jordans, who was ill last week, is on the road to recovery, and will shortly be with us again. Walters, of Bennet and Walters, says he has a cauliflower ear from agents whispering, how much for next week. T. Arthur Baker, the clever comedian, will rusticate for the summer at his folks’ home in Canada. Ned Norton is on the Gay White Way looking like a prince. The Quartette are laying off for the summer months. Edgar Forman has just closed twelve weeks on the United time, and is now rusticating for the summer. He will open next season with Anxious Seat. Harry Jolson writes that he is being treated like a lord on the other side of the pond, and sends his best wishes to the boys along the line. Prince Kanacaive Japanese Troupe playing their sixteenth are going very big. are now consecutive week, and The act is very good. Bell and Richards are more than making good on the Sullivan and Considine Circuit. The act is a decided novelty. Rose and Severn are still playing the United time, and are meeting with great success. Harry Hirsch. in his new act, was a decided favorite with the audience at the Fifth Avenue Theatre last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Reynolds have another new postal out on the agents, so their Tel. can be read Red. Bessie Wynn is still the same big hit as ever, and is certainly one of the hits at the Fifth Avenue. Did anybody Loney Haskell, Joe Fields, now one College Joe here see Loney? Who? with his new green suit. formerly of Fields and Wolly, is of the principal comedians with the Girls. and is certainly making good. is some comedian. William Schilling is meeting with good suc Why, cess featuring his short versions of dramatic sketches. George Delmore is getting the fever of be coming a Marathon runner, since his partner, Lee, has been covering Central Park lately. No doubt they will challenge each other shortly. Mike Kelly was seen carrying a grip on Will H. Cohen will be one of the features with Miss New York, Jr., again next season. Shearn and Gallagher will have the big ban ner show next season. Robin, the tramp juggler kept the house in good humor with his comedy and responded to several encores, Earle Reynolds and Nellie Donegan have argg in London and opened at the Palace, July 4t Felix and Barry are rusticating for the summer at the seashore at Bensonhurst, L. The Three Cycling Cogswells are doing nicely on the Morris time. IN PUBLISHERS’ ROW. (Continued from page 13) Rossiter had an entire act over at the Majestic last week in Miss Florence Reid and Mr. Frederick Santley, late features of The Gay Hussars. The Rossiter fixtures which oiled the wheels of Reid and Santley’s vehicle were How'd You Like to Marry Me and Have you a Kiss to Spare, two pretty melodies by Gus Kaln and Grace Leboy, authors of I Wish I Had a Girl. Put Me in My Bath Tub, and When the Balmy Breezes Blow, two other songs used by Santley and Reid helped cool the audiences and boosted the Rossiter Music Company into popularity for having done the public a warm weather good. * Clifford and Burke opened at the Orpheum, Spokane, June 26, jumping from Birmingham. They stopped over in Chicago to listen to Ros siter’s new coon song, You Can Go In, Mister Friend of Mine, But I'll Stay Outside. They thought so well of it that they will put it on in place of You Ain’t Talkin’ to Me, their big hit for the past year and a half. Therese Jacobs, who has been featuring Bonnie, My Highland Lassie, In the Garden of My Heart, and Where the River Shannon Flows, three Witmark publications, is meeting with pronounced success. + The Temple Quartette, which will be at the Majestic sometime in August, are featuring Meet Me To-night in Dreamland and When the Balmy Breezes Blow, two popular Rossiter numbers. + Rosalie and Edward L. Nelson, who have just closed a very successful season with Scribner’s Oh, You Woman Company, are meeting with much success at the Folly Theatre, singing Love Sick, published by Witmark. + Gilday and Fox, who open at the Tivoli, London, prior to a tour of the Continent, are featuring Yiddisha Love, Where the River Shannon Flows, and Able. Take An Example from Your Fader, three big hits published by Witmark & Sons. WANTED-Candy Floss Machine Must be in A-1 conditon. Address E. SHAPIRO, 1732 W. Monroe Street, Chicago, I!l. Wanted, Combination 70 ft. Sleep BUY—ROLLER SKATES—SELL All makes; also rink floor powder. AMERICAN RINK SUPPLY CO., Sandusky, 0. WANTED, REPERTOIRE COMPANIES for the NEW AUDITORIUM THEATRE. Vaudeville Musical Comedies and high-class shows, send in your open dates, season of 1910 and 1911. Add. Manager Auditorium Theatre, Fairfax, Okla. WANTED—Moving Pictures for Patrons Union Fair. Aug. 2 to 9. Cannot furnish electric Also some good acts or musical special Address FLOYD LOPER, Secy., Lake, Mississippi. WE WANT a first-class Carnival Company for « solid week; city of 12,000; show in center of city; a good, clean company preferred: for August or September. Address G. F. REMER, Secretary C. L. D. Club, St. Charles, Mo. WANTED—Carnival Company, 6 to 10 shows, and other attractions; city of 3,000; fine farming country; money plentiful; had nothing of the kind for 4 years; Aug. days; under aus pices of M. W. of A. Address OTTO 8S. BEILSMITH, Assumption, Il. Outdoor Acts Wanted For Annual Autumn Fiesta, Aug. 1910. Tell all in first letter. Secretary, Clarksville, Iowa. AIRDOME Located right in heart of city of 12,000, with good interurban railway service, wants to book for season of 1910, some first-class stock conpanies. Address A. E, JOHNSON, Secy., Mon WANTED Useful Performer For small tent show. Burt, Ia., July 11; Fenton, 12; Ringsted, 13; Graetinger, 14 HARRY WINTERMUTE. WANTED FREE ATTRACTIONS and Shows at Horse Show and Home Coming at Clinton, Ind., Aug. 17-18-19. Respond at once. Good terms. Address J. F. ADAMS, care The Commercial Club, Clinton, Ind. ATTRACTIONS WANTED & FOR NEW AUGUSTA ROLLAWAY RINK Write at once. John H. O’Melia, mgr. Augusta Rollaway, Augusta, Maine. 17 and 18, FRED SEITZ, 75-ft. Turtle Back Oar, Wagons, Cages, Fine Band and Ticket Wagon and other good erty. Nothing but the best. J. ALEXANDER, Box 275, Eaton, Ohio Send description and price to T. F. HARVEY & CO., 100 Boyiston St., Boston, Mass. WANTED QUICK—B. F. Comedian or Team: Medicine Show; week stands; hotels; salary sure; long engagement; tell all; disappointment cause of this ad. CAPT. G. W. SMITH, Pickerlng (Nodaway Co.), Mo. WANT—Med. Perf., Novelties, Comedians, P. Player, Sketch Team; state if you play plano; join quick. J. J. DASHINGTON, Cheska, Minn. Will buy James Boys Film; can use small Band. WANTED AT ONCE—Character Man and Pian ist, lady or gent; must joln at once. SAM BRYANT, Winfield, W. Va. WANTED—A-1 Sketch Team and Single Novelty Performer; must change for one week; work under round top; stop at hotels. State all, Join on wire. Tickets if guaranteed O. K. Address WALTERS & KIRBY, Ferdinand, Indiana. CORNET PLAYER Broadway the other day, and while doing so he | had a cane in the other hand and was contin | no Sunday or matinee, | mentioned. ually beating it like a drum, while walking | along with Miss ?. = Frank Morrell is leading the simple life at Freeport. L. L., this grand place: Joe Edmonds, with the rest of the actors at the Franklin, Ohio. boy wonder, and Master Jack Sheehan, are trying to dodge the Gerry Society, and are now playing the summer time | around Connecticut and Massachusetts. Harry Breen had the audience at the Acad emy of Music with him last Sunday, and scored a tremendous hit with his peculiar style of en tertainment. Sullivan and Chapman are making good along the different houses they are appearing at with their clever race track story. Charley Raymond says he is going to try mus ical comedy next season. Charley did very | nice with the Rialto Rounders last season. Rurns and Fulton are becoming one of the shining lights. Their clever dancing has kept | the act working, and the costumes are the finest. Conroy and LeMaire, in their new act, are one riot, and this is no bull. W. E. Browning is doing very nice with his single singing and talking specialty, and is meeting with good success all over. Sam Collins, who was seriously {11 a few weeks ago, is now on the road to recovery, and in a short time will be with us once again. and Trap Drummer wanted; picture house. Join on wire. A. C. GOURLIE, Bonita Theatre, Tampa, Fla. WANTED—A-1 Person to SING and PLAY PIANO; James Boys in Missouri, Great Train Robbery with privilege of renewing. BOWEN MANTS, Broken Bow, Neb. 2 gorges WANTED—Piano player and singer for 5e show; ; Tell all first letter. No attention given correspondence where salary not lady or gent. CHAS, HOUSER, WANTED—Bass and trombone players to double stage and band. Mention salary in first letter, otherwise letters not answered, Must join on wire. Don’t misrepresent; just got rid of some. W. G. WREN, Mgr. Texas Stock Co., Vanburn, Ind. HARPIST WANTED Want to correspond with Harpist for dance orchestra for fall and winter. Address C. L. HENRY, care Henry's Harp Orchestra, Spartan WANTED Hoffman-Weiler Amusement Co. Musicians; baritone, others write. Easy work; money every Wednesday. State lowest; pay your own board. Also come dian, suitable for ballyhoo; must help with top. lowest and all in first letter. LEON POM MIER, Ellendale, N. D., till July 9; Ledgerwook, N. D., till July 16. snare drummer; Road Photo Frames Wanted | show, F. dolin attachment, for Skating Rinks, Merry rounds, Tent aod . P. Shows, etc. New music to order. Specialty im secondhand pianos with new music at reduced prices. EVERYBODY INTERESTED Wanted for the week July 18, A-1 Rep. Co. carrying their own scenery; high-class Vaudeville Co. or a Musical Comedy Co. on percentage. You will get the money. Big County Fair held 6 blocks from Opera House. NO MIDWAY. 10,000 visitors daily. Write or wire, quick, MGR. TABB OPERA HOUSB, Mt. Sterling, Ky. N. B.—Want good attractions at all times. HOPPE Atrophied Man Can offer you immediate engagement. est salary, Wire lowCan use curiosities suitable for pit AL. PEARCE, care Buffalo Bill-Paw nee Bill Show, July 11, Adrian, Mich.; 12, Yps! lanti; 13, Detroit; 14, Jackson; 15, Battle Creek; 16, Kalamazoo. BALLOONIST At Liberty At all times. 14 years’ experience, Guarantees satisfaction. THE TENNESSEE BALLOON CU., Prof, Charles Swartz, Aeronaut Mgr., permanent a Humboldt, Tenn. Ref.: Merchants’ State ank. Spieler at Liberty Age 35; born and raised in the show business. At present manager of the F. J. Rogers Dog and Pony Circus (wagon show), Will accept advance of small show, railroad or wagon show. State your best for A-l man. Must be allowed time to give a fair notice. Address GRO. 8. FREED, care Rogers Shows, care Billboard, Cincinnati, O,. Friends—Regards from York'e. At Liberty Strong Man Anything that pays. Sober and reliable. Add. STRONGMAN, care Billboard, Cincinnat!, Obie.