The Billboard 1910-08-06: Vol 22 Iss 32 (1910-08-06)

ea REE . « re Ly ‘ oy ey pitta om . Pr Sata y AUGUST 6, 1910. The Billboard The Maids of the Mist, a dainty musical fan | good. Mabel Valentine Moore is a muscular woALBANY, N. Y. tasy, produced by M. F. Trostler, continued as | man and a graceful trapeze performer. Sprin — the big free attraction In the concert gardens, | gold and Gerard introduced Harry Springold as (Continued from page 10.) supplemented by Gugliatti’s Military tand, giv a clever quick change character actor. Four | . ; ing concerts daily. io Brothers, skilled gymnasts. close » bill. | The rush for seats for Lytell’s last night. "hatanionen os 5 has been exceeding 4 excels. ponte Franks William: ~ tn voix July 30th, gave some speculators the idea of ly good the past few days. This has been great | Roma Juggling Girls, Fitzgerald and O'Dell, Bo buying up blocks of seats and holding them for ly due to the convention in Cleveland of the | vis and Darley, MeMahon'’s Watermelon Girls and fancy prices. Manager Gilbert Gordon got L. C. B. A., and on the oceasion of their formal Willard was the bill at the Wigwam last wind of this plan and stopped it by warning visit to the park the attendance was 50,000. | week. the public through the press, and selling small Pain's Fireworks showed a set piece. a pic Three Nevarros. Haverly and Wells. Queenie lots_of a —. ke all right in New| ture of the President of the Association. Mrs. | Tilton, Rose and Rose, and Dean and Price “This spe ulating — a valelicie MeGowan., and motion pictures were the offerings at th. York,” he said, “but it won't go at Harmanus Riley & Fleming, the Irish-American dancers, | American last week. Bleecker Hall who made some loud noise at the Orpheum, are The Portola Theatre presented MeBreen and Maple Beach Park continues to have the ban renewing old acquaintances in Cleveland. They | Murnhy. Ryan and Woolford, The Martins, Mar| ner year of its history. Manager . “ae has have just returned from a trip through Nova | tie Golden. Bosworth and Otto, Irving Jones and | certainly gathered together some attractive Conc.itia) having been absent for over two years. | Lucille and Ellsworth throughout the week. | cessions, and his free show and fireworks are of DON HOLBROOK. At the Portola Cafe. last week were Suzanne the best. The week of July 25th he presented Rocamora. Pob Albright. Daise Thorne, Lindy the Four Dancing ea 7 Arizona — and Flynn and McLaughlin and La Estrellita. : the Big City Quartette, for the open-air theatre, : 2 : Proctor’s is having a prosperous summer with ST. LOUIS, MO. IN OAKLAND. vaudeville and pictures. ra ‘ inue re 10 Bevini’s Grand Opera Company had a most WILLIAM H. HASKELL, (Continued from page 10.) suspicious opening at Idora Park Theatre Sun a Lansdowne Park, East St. Louis, Ill., has an— a ae Bi ees poe tp nounced that The Fall of Jericho will be put on a , ae expe = Ae PM Rp eg BALTIMORE, MD. the week of September 4. This will be the first neve —a ——_ i yee tM scr Merry-Go-Round Organs. Write for cata(Continued from page 10.) of this class of attractions that has played East | ©®S*fu! season Js predicted, as popular pr logues and prices. North Tonawanda MusiSt. Louis. and should be a big success. prevail, from thirty-five cents to one dollar. cal Instrument Works, N. Tonawanda, N. Y. Electric park is now enjoying great prosperi The Metropolitan Company filed articles of rhe company consists of the ee a ty. The open gate has attracted a multitude incorporation here on July ‘ with a capital of known artists: Eugenio gg ere oars of patrons. The numerous shows on the grounds | ¢15.000, The stockholders are Orion S. Miller, tegina Vicarino, soprano; Signor attore am are enjoying bigger profits, and everybody is de| Geo pania. baritone; De Dreux, contralto: Giaditta lighted The Oxford Girls show is getting big business The bevy of pretty girls disport themselves in a manner that pleases the boys and they spend their movey freely for this en tertainment The vaudeville bill at the Casinu is very interesting and the patrons are pleased. Miss Melanie Miller is a clever soloist. Rice and Walters are great fun-makers. The Greai Mitchell is a clever wire artist. The Musical Sharplies entertain splendidly Pielert and Howard have an excellent juggling act. The New York Marine Band is rendering delightful musi Robert W. Beach is trying to get the Frankin Clifferd Associate Players, a stock company of prominence, now playing in an Eastern city. Mayor Mahool announced last Saturday the names of the committee which will have charge f the preparing for the proposed Ban ner Expo n. to be held in this city in 1914. One hundred citizens, prominent in the commer “ial and finincial activity in this city have been chosen The object of this exposition is t commemorate the writing of The Star Spangled Ranner I exposition will be held at Home vood, the future site for the Johns Hopkios University The buildings will be permanent structures, so that after the closes exposition they will he o by the University. The trustees and hy the University will co operate with the Citizens’ Committee In formu lating the plans for the celebration All patri oti societies nd organizations such as the Society of the War of 1812, the Sons of the Ameri volution, the G. A. , ete., have annour wir intention of taking an active interes the event The wives of several officers stationed at Fort MeHenry, have succeedes in arousing the interest of the War Department in this project Edward A. Relkin. of New York, has leased the Princess Theatre The contract runs for a term of five years Improvements will be made at once, and ‘t will be devoted to the production of Jewish plays The Moos mvention promises to be a bla event The Superintendent of Lamps and Light ing MeCuen is very for the Court of Hono streets a. es busy r and yaseball preparing the plans general illumination f the game will be a strong feature of the convention. A picked nine of the Camden, N. J., Lodge is issuing a chal lenge oss bats with any Opposing team. The » will assemble here August 22. Jack Flood and his park down at Curtis Bay is the best known place about the city. Many boating parties from the fashionable yacht clubs along the Patapseo River tle up at the moorings and enjoy the sights on shore. It is a matter of regret that this park does not enjoy the patronage of a better class of people than it does because it affords one of the finest trolley rides out °o the city on a warm evening It is the only park in the state that presents a musical pro duction in the summer The chorus is never less than forty of the prettiest girls. W. H. Truehart is manager of the park. He goes on the road every season with a high-class bur lesque troupe, but returns to Flood’s every sum mer, where his services are garded as Indis pensable Some of his comedies and productions would do well amid better surroundings He has chosen a company this season that defies improvement in any instance Great crowds flock to River View during thes eweltering happy smile The place habit of days Manager Fitzs'mmons wears a when he that great throng. s so popular that the people have a going there in preference to other sees places. The best class of people are seen among the great gathering. The Royal Artillery Band {s the chief attraction, and a great assemblage gathers about the grove to enjoy the charming music The band has a reputation for its rendition of classical music, and many numbers are played by special request. Its liberality in responding t« encores has made the band very popular 7 Luna Park is very popular with the patrons, and there is a great multitude present every night The rebuilding work is progressing, and it will rise from its ashes a greater park than ever, George Bryan deserves much credit for his share in the success of the enterprise. His geniality and affable disposition have made him very popular with all whe have had the pleas ure of making his acquaintance He has lead many an exhibition in the pursult of game and rare animals SYLVAN SCHENTHAL. CLEVELAND, O. (Continued from page 10.) The Orpheum bill included Todd and Nard, tilt board artists; Lew Glick In character songs and stories; Riley and Fleming, champion Irish clog dancers; The Great Miltair, in Visions of Patriotism; Geo. Clay, the man who talks and chalks, closing with the Three Koebers, gym hasts and contortionists, Keith's Hippodrome continues to pictures Mr. Keith secured the exclusive rights for the pietures of the Elks’ convention to be shown in Cleveland, and they were shown last week for the first time At Luna Park. Pain's pretentious aerial spectacle. The Rattle of the Clouds supplemented by a big display of fireworks, continued to draw run moving large crowds. Frank Oakes Rose, the man who Staged The Black Crook and Shenandoah, is “tage manager of the production. George L. Menk, and Alfred Bertrand. Last week marked the close of the opera season at Delmar Garden Musical Theatre, the rea son being given that the principals must leave the company to join their rehearsals for their winter Not wishing to conduet the local company with inferior people, the decision to close it was reached. Beginning July 31, vaudeville, booked by William Morris, will be put on. Tim MeMahon’s spectacular Southern Review is the first headliner. seasons. The vaudeville acts playing the various gar dens here last week were as follows: Highlands Our Boys in Blue, the Three Ernests, Harold Forbes and Carrie Bowman, Five Musical Suffragettes, J. K. Murray and Clara Lane. West End Heights—Joe Reed and Jesse Mack, Aimes and Carr, Dollie Bender, Leo Dulmage. Delmar Garden—Daltas, Frees and Co.; De Mar Sisters, Claire Maynard, Black and Leslie, motion pictures. Mannion’s rk—The Mack-Dugal Co., Frank and May Luce, Rowland and Francis, Harry Adler Again is Marguerite Clark at the head of the Suburban Stock Company for a two-weeks’ en gagement, with The Wishing Ring as the first attraction The theatre has been crowded at all the performances for this popular favorite, and it looks as though will duplicate her last year’s success, when she drew capacity for two weeks, with Peter Pan. The personnel of the new Havlin Theatre Stock Company, which will open on August 7 with ] Creek, includes Jessaline Rodgers, Charlton, Anna Layng, Alice Gilmore, Daven, Raymond Capp. Harry Bewley, Pine, William Harris and Edward Denwho will direct the stage. pyro-aero spectacle, The Battle in the will show here for two weeks at the University campus, under the auspices of the she Million Population Club, August 2 to 13. One of the biggest attractions at the Pythian Carnival last week at Handlan’s Park was Leachman’s eight-legged horse, Limit. Besides being a curiosity, it is an educated horse that has never been equaled here. We can say that the performance is much superior to that of Jim Key, which we admired on the Pike at the World’s Fair The visitors to the carnival were loud in their praise of his work, and his tent was one of the favorite spots on the Midway Manager D. E tre, and Russell, of the Imperial Theais having his the ted throughout will be ready ig, August 14. as a combination rill play most of the musical comedy attractions on the StairHavlin Circuit. The Yale Film Exchange, of Kansas City, has opened a suite of six offices in the Navarre Building. This exchange has become the sole distributors of the Patents Company's films io this vicinity. WILL J. FARLEY. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. (Continued from page 11.) Julian Eltinge and all-star vaudeville company are the announced attraction to open the seasin at the Savoy Theatre in August. James K,. Hackett is playing a successful engagement at the Alcazar as a stock star. L. R. Stockwell’s company is presenting Miz pah this week at the Princess Theatre, with a company gathered here. Henrietta Crosman and capable company, in Anti-Matrimony, at the ated considerable of joyful comedy. Columbia Theatre. cre favorable comment. It is full The Spendthrift is the fol lowing attraction. The Orpheum offered another good bill last week, Professor Apdale’s Zoological Circus, which included the best trained bear in the ant-eater. All and carried off business, dogs, monkeys and an showed wonderful intelligence the henors of the bill. The Imperial Musicians presented a most ambitious act, with splendiu scenic effects. Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, presented by Edward Davis, Adele Blood and Templar Saxe, was received with appreciation James Thornton, a frequent visitor here for many years, still makes good. The holdovers were Jolly Fanny Rice, Pringle and Whiting, Marion Murray and Co., and Signor Trava to, whose turn went as strong as previous week, which was big. The Chutes Theatre last week offered an other excellent program: Brenck’s Parisian Models (eight people) proved the big headliner. and was a most pretentious and expensive act for a popular priced house, The Bransons, novelty hoop rolling act, was indeed a novelty, partic ularly their electric hoops. Billy Inman, Bob Cunningham and Lydia Carlisle, in a_ sketch called Recognition, based on a basketball game, was full of laughs, and just enough pathos to prove a big winner. Four Musical Luciers have /a nice straight act. Rogers, Stewart and Elwood seored heavily as a singing trio. At the National last week Watson, Hutchings and Edwards created considerable laughter with their offering, which being so old is entirely new to the vaudeville followers of to-day and registered a big hit. It is in many Instances much better than the modern stuff in this line offered nowadays. Ward and Weber are a pair of clever dancing youths, but suffered «appre elation as they are the fourth team doing sim! lar work in the past four weeks. Billy K, ' Wells, billed as ‘‘The Hebrew Orator,"’ made Francini, soprano: Achille Alberti, baritone: Umberto Sacchetti. tenor: Alexander Bevini, basso; Estelle du Vivier. contralto; Joseph Flo.ian basso, and Estelia Burgess, sonrano. Twenty-five people are in the chorus. Manager Miller nao the lobby of the theatre newly decorated. new carpets and new hangings installed, making ev erything look very inviting. RUBE COHEN. NEW ORLEANS, LA. (Continued from page 10.) Theatre, which is now being opereted by ager Thomas C. Campbell. of the Tulene and Crescent, is doing capacity business under the new management. The policy is mov The Shubert ing nietnres and vandeville. Colonel Tom has apnointed his secretary and treasurer, Mr. Ahe Seligmrn Shubert of the Theatre. Crescent, as manager for his Prof. Bravn's Naval Prigade Band and Or ehestra is viving the outdoor concerts et Audu bon Park this season, and are meeting with bfx approval. The band is an excellent one. The outdoor concerts at the City Park are given by Veazey’s Military Pand. one of the best in the city. All the concessions report biz business The local Elks’ Lodge No. 30 is to give a big burlesave cireus some time in the early part f September Col. John P. Sullivan has the affair in charge. The painters and decorators are putting fhe finishing tonches on the Crescent Theatre. which «fill open some time this month with Human Hearts The New Orleans Herd of Buffaloes will cive a big festival at the Fair Grounts September Nest No. 1014 Order of Owls, will give a big Owlfest st the Southern Park, August 14. Josiah E. Pearce and Sons are to open a new moving piets theatre on St. Charles, near Canal street This is one of the best locations in the city. When completed it will be one of the finest here. Herman Fichtenber has opened up a new mov ing picture hovse on Canal Roulevard, near Dry ides street Wonderland is the name of the new niace The very latest and best Imp are heing presented here tig business the rule since the opening Vandeville and moving pictures are now bein nresented at the Victor by Manager Jndah B Levy WILLIAM A. KOEPKE. honses pietures has been MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (Continued from page 11.) The former leading man and leading lady of the Lyrie Theatre Stock Company here. Mr. Corliss Giles and Miss Frances Neilson, have accepted new positions, Mr. Giles playing leads with a stock company which opens in Des Moines, Ia., in September. and Miss Neilson heading a company with William Ingersoll in a season of stock at Salt Lake City. As the Burleigh bi-plane, which was a feature of the bill at the Unique Theatre last week. is something of educational value. Manager Jack Elliott invited the pupils from the Motley. Pea body. Schiller, Rosedale and Pillsbury schools to attend as guests of the management. Banner Lodge, Degree of Honor, A. 0. U. W., will give a benefit at the Unique, August 1 to 6. inclusive. Mrs. Charles Albert, wife of the Mill City ar torney, and better known to Miss Sarah Truax, who has been absent from the boards for over two years. appeared for one week, that of July 31, in the role of Mrs. Erlvnne in Lady Windemere’s Fan with the Neill Stock Company at the Grand Opera House, St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Albert states positivelv however, that she will not return permanently to the stage. ‘ The present leading lady with the Neill Stock Company in St. Paul, Eleanor Montell. will an the profession a pear as leading lady next season with Dustin Farnum in Cameo Kirby. One of our former stock actresses, Miss Jessa line Rodgers, who formerly headed her company at the Lyceum Theatre here. will be leading lady of a St. Louis stock company next season, whicu will produce melodramas. Local stock patrons will be pleased to learu that Miss Kate Blancke, formerly character ac tress of the Lyrie Stock Company here = and mother of Miss Helen Wilton. the popuiar Inge nue. is rapidly recovering from her nervous col lapse brought on bv ill-health and overwork. and has been removed from the sanitarium to her home, where her complete restoration is now merely a matter of brief time. RODERIC STE. FLEURE. / WANTED ---CAPITAL \ TO PROMOTE ELECTRIC BALL GAME DEVICE And handle city rights for same. Something entirely new: reproducing play for play. strike for strike and ball for ball, and showing every runner and fielder inaction. Simple and easy to operate, and the only one so far in use now. playing to crowded houses, Write for full particulars. JOHN F. SMILEY, 206 S. Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. This is our 75-cent Half-Tone, or a 3x4 for $: -ash with order. Knoxville Engraving Co. 515 Bate Street, KNOXVILLE, TENN. 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