The Billboard 1910-11-19: Vol 22 Iss 47 (1910-11-19)

op eee The Billboard NOVEMBER 19, 1910. 1G F{TO\ BROOKLYN, N. Y. Election week was a big one for the theatres in Brooklyn, the week having proved to be a record-breaker for some of them. Marie V. FitzGerald has received a contract from Corse Payton to write a new play on the order of Madame X. Miss FitzGerald expects to have this new play ready so that it can be proauced at the Bijou, week of Nov. 28. The Imperial Russian Dancers, which is a big foreign act brought over here by Percy G. Wiliams, has proved to be a big drawing The work on Percy G. Williams’ new theatre, the Bushwick, is gradually being pushed and the theatre will no doubt be ready early next spring. Barney Gilmore, in Isic, waich appears at the is featuring Witmark’s great “They've Won Every Nation's Their Own,’’ and it has made the to open Kelly From The Amphion here this march song, Battles But greatest hit card. | along, | |; ment of the Emerald | of any song sung in Brooklyn for some time. Frank Fogarty, Brooklyn's popular vaudeville artist. is also using this song. This week Brooklyn is favored wiih five first class Broadway productions, with original com panies and casts: Helen Ware in The Deserter, is at Teller’s Broadway; H. B. Warner, in Alias Jimmy Valentine, at the Sam S. Shu bert Theatre; Bessie McCoy in The Echo, at the Montauk; Blanche Ring, in The Yankee Girl, at the Majestic; May Robson; in The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary, at the Grand Opera House, This idea of bringing original comPanies or casts to Brooklyn is graduaily getting impressed on the minds of Brooklyn theatre| goers. Most of the Brooklyn theatres are giving Sunday night concerts, and drawing excellent crowds. The first appearance of Ellen Terry as a reader in Brooklyn of Music on election night, under the of the Twentieth Century Club, of Her programme, devoted to the Shakespeare, was recently Hudson Theatre. At that time Miss Terry had an unusual reception, with an address of wel come, signed by President and Mrs. Taft, Mayor and Mrs Gaynor, and all sorts of social nota bles, and a poem by Percy Mackaye. Corse Payton was one of the first to secure for stock, David Higgin’s American racing drama, His Last Dollar, by his Bijou Stock Company at was made at the Academy auspices Brooklyn. heroines of given at the the Bijou last y and Austin, week in Two Men Shubert Theatre, outcome artists who appeared here last and a Girl, at the Sam 8. were greatly interested in the of the recent election. Both of these had friends on both tickets, and when and it was presented | the returns were announced from the stage and | the figures favored Bailey’s friends, bulle tins, and when they favored Austin’s friends, he announced the returns. While Ida Stanhope, of A Gentleman From Mississippi, was playing in stock at the Theatre Francais, Montreal, it was destroyed by fire. The players lost everything. To each of them the late Sir Henry Irving, then filling his last engagement in Montreal, sent his personal check for $50. Miss Stanhope never cashed hers. She needed the money, but valued her souvenir more. The moving picture business in Brooklyn is booming, several e having recently opened up. J. Fred Helf’s great song hits, I'd Rather Say Hello Than Say Good-bye, and When a Roy From Old New Hampshire Loves a Girl From Tennessee, made a great hit in Brooklyn, and are used by many of the vandeville acts in the big theatres, GEORGE H. HAKES. PITTSBURG, PA. With the election over it is to be hoped that Whas has been anticipated by the different Managers throughout the city will be r alized. At any rate the feeling seemed to prevail that with the passing of the election, there would be a general spurt in attendance. The most noticeable Was the sudden switching of bookings at the Luin Glaser was to have appeared, howThe Midnight Sons was substituted. and it Was undoubtedly a good move, as a strong bill Is necessary with The Follies of 1910, which the Nixon had hooked. The All-Star German Company of Cincinnati, played a very satisfactory matinee during the past we k. Mr. Schmid’s company has appeared here before and as heretofore has met with good iesuits. The election returns were read from the different stages throughout the city Tuesday night, November §. The applause in each instance was more favorable than handed the respective performances. Between the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, Burton Holmes and Dwight Elmendorf, Carnegie Wall will be a very busy place for the next few weeks. The opening of the Duqvesne Garden Roller Rink is being looked forward to with much in he read the | new moving picture theatres | | Guttenberg, and also put all the air machines out of commission. The storm tested the courage of the committee in charge of the meet. The weather cleared and everything was put in Shape to begin all over again, November 6. Sunday was the banner day for attendance. There were at least 75,000 people present. The Baltimore Sun offered a prize of $5,000 for Hubert Latham to cover a 20-mile course over the city. The Baltimore American offered a prize of $2,500 to the aviator who makes the world record of 10,000 feet in the air. The meet has aroused much rounding country. The aviators were the guests of the manage Academy of Music Thursday even ing and they saw the play, Arsene Lupin. Blanche Bates, in Nobody’s Widow, appear ing at Ford's Opera House, November 7, gave an extra matinee during her engagement. A\lthough her contract calls for one matinee weekly, in each city, she and Mr. Bel interest throughout the sur asco thought they would try an extra matinee on election day. Special matinees on election days in New York and other large cities, have proved successful. SYLVAN SCHENTHAL. ALBANY, N. Y. Manager J. Gilbert Gordon, of Harmanus Bleecker Hall, has blossomed out in a new role—that of impresario. He is to become manager of Bendell’s Orchestra, a local organ ization of superior merit, headed by Prof. A\l fred S. Bendell, a violinist and leader of note. Prof. Bendell’s orchestra has been playing at Harmanus Bleecker Hall since the season opened and the leader’s good taste in selection, as well as his own violin solos, has invariably won applause. So impressed was the astute manager Gordon with the orchestra's work that he made a business proposition to Mr. Beandell, which resulted in the incorporation under New York State Laws of Bendell’s Orchestra, with Mr. Gordon as manager. The organization comprises thirty pleces and a series of concerts is planned. Later a military band will also be a feature of the enterprise. A notable booking secured for Bleecker Hall will be the first on any stage in this country, lier, the famous coster singer, in his new plav. Daddy Dufart, written by himself. This will mark Mr. Chevalier’s first appearance in Amer ica in a legitimate drama. wo. Harmanus performance of Albert Cheva i. HASKELL. NEW JERSEY GOSSIP. Vaudeville at the Hudson Theatre, Union Hill, N. J., has somewhat improved and again lovers of high-class acts will be given an opportunity to catch some good things. Manager Peebles has been fortunate enough to catch at least a big bill of novelty acts and he therefore promises his patrons several new acts that will make their American appearance at the Hudson. Maclyn Arbuckle, in the initial performance of the one-act play, The Welcher, at the Hudson Theatre, last week, made a decided hit, immediately after the first matinee every New York vaudeville agent of prominence was trying to talk contract to Arbuckle, Agnes Redmond, six years old, made a decided hit, as well as Vaughan Trevor, the butler. The cast: Dan Gassaway, a Gambler......... Mr. Arbuckle Retin, BO BURR. covcccccsccesss Vaughan Trevor Rosie, Dan's Niece.............4 Agnes Redmond Burnell and Quigley, two clever actors of are making arrangements with their agents to produce their new act, Electric Venus, and judging from the amount of scenery and costumes the act requires it should find some big time. Dunlap’s Horse and Miss Thoma, both from Newark, made their initial appearance at Hammerstein’s Roof during week of November 7. After his first appearance Mr. Dunlap was | offered some big time. happening of the week terest, already applications have been made for lockers and arrangements made for private | skates. Dir ctor Emil Wolf. of the Nixon has entirely recovered from ptomaine The Harry Davis Stock age on put on several Shakespearcan pla LOUIS L. BALTIMORE, MD. Orchestra, poisoning. will shortly KAUFMAN. Vaudeville has been discontinued at the Savoy Theatre, and a repertoire company be the attraction commencing November 21. Mr. Sol. Saphier left for New York, November 5. to negotiate with a company for his house. The company he was desirous of booking was recently playing at the Plaza Thestre in New York. The Roston Players. under the direction of Geo. C. Wilson, is announced as the prospec tive attraction. The aviation meet at Halethorpe started well with favorable conditions November 2, but the next day it rained and this paved the way for a young blizzard which mede life miserable for two days. The weather broke up the meet J. P. BARRETT. NEW HAVEN, CONN. The Hyperion Theatre had as its feature at traction, last week, hes seen in years. It Philip H. Bartholomae, with a cast of Broad way’s biggest and brightest entertainers. It played New Haven, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, with a matinee on Wednes day. From New Haven it went direct to New York. It is not unlikely that New Haven may have a chance to see its old vandeville favorites, Barrows and Lancaster, in a new sketch before long. They opened in Meriden a farce called Buncoe, that is really a great Both Mr. Barrows and Mr. Lancaster ae splendid in their parts and Miss De Vaux, who supports them, and who, last year, was a member of Lillian Russell’s company is most hap the best farce New Haven was Over Night, by by Leander Richardson, pily cast. | JEAN PARDEE CLARK. PROVIDENCE, R. The many friends of Miss Helen Reimer, a {ment with the New will | life member of the Albee Steck Company, of this city, will be pleased to hear of her engageTheatre Co., of New York. For the first time in the history of the house, Manager Reilley has held over a reel of film, that of th» baseball series between Chicago and Philadelphia. It was so popular that hundreds could not be accommodated the first three days. On Friday afternoon, November 11, a “profes sional. matinee’’ was given by the management of Keith's Theatre, and the house was packed | by the actor-folk playing this and surrounding | cities. Miss Dunwoodie, better’ known as Mile. No vit, who appeared at the Empire Theatre, last week, In The Soul Kiss, is a Providence woman, and her reception was a most cordial on”. W. E. GREENFP and | last week, in | STs MM Ss MI SS Sc x wenn OWN AMUSEM SYRACUSE, N. Y. | The Shuberts are booking the Wieting Opera House; K. & E., Chas. Frohman, and Stair & Havlin the Bastable Theatre. The Grand Op era House is devoted to Keith's vaudeville. Snowdon Smith is erecting a new theatre, the Empire, which is already leased to Klaw & Erlanger. B. F. Keith is also planning to commence work on his new theatre early next spring. Now that K. & E. played at the attractions can Wieting, it was first again be thought that Keith's might be able to secure the lease from K. & E., and not build their new theatre, but that has been forgotten as the new Em pire Theatre is leased to K. & E. derstanding that they are to plays booked by them. Prominent Syracuse waiting to see the lease. Messrs. Klaw make any statement when interviewed in with the un book legitimate theatrical men are outcome of the K. & E. and Erlanger declined to regarding the situation New York. It is believed that when the Keiths leave the Grand, that theatre will go into the burlesque wheel. The new Empire Theatre, which is now under | construction, is progressing very rapidly, and may be ready for occupation late in the season. The house will be booked by K. & E., and when completed, will be one of ‘the most maguificent | recognize theatres in Central New York. | Theatre. its first anniversary, The Crescent soon cele| brate which will has proven most successful theatre of its kind in Syracuse. This house plays five high-class vaudev acts and motion pictures. It has a seating capacity of about 1,000, and throngs of people times be seen patiently awaiting LEO M. CLEVELAND, oO. Election week was productive of particularly enhancing results to all of the down-town thea tres. ‘Ihe Hippodrome had a bill of exceptional merit in advanced vaudeville, particularly well balanced. The opera house played to 8S R ©. houses, while the burlesque houses reported a record business. The Star and the Empire gave an extra show on election night and the Star was compelled to seat over 100 on the Stage in the wings in order to take care of its patronage. The Orpheum Players were strengthened by the engagement of John Chinese Leach, who is a refined character entertainer different from the rest. A musical treat was accorded to lovers of grand opera at Euclid Gardens on November 9, when the German Stock Company of Cincinnati, sang Weiner Blut, at which time Lilly Marlow, leading soubrette from the Court Theatre of | Mannheim, was introduced to a Cleveland audi ence for the first time. The Wm. A. Carr Stock Company has ac cepted twenty weeks under Gus Sun's booking when they will work to the coast. The roster of the company this year is: Wm. A. Carr, L. | W. Grimes, Chas. Carroll, of the Man of the Hour Company, last season; Daisy M. Moore, late of the Woodward Stock Company, of Kansas City, and Patsy Cortez, of the Euclid Garden Stock Company of Cleveland, last sea | son. can at all admission ARNOLD. A new publication of the Chas. I. | Music Publishing Company, be a big success, is I Was Lonesome Till I Found You, by Geo. L. Cobbs, the author of Moonlight Makes Me “Lonesome, Lovers’ Lane. by Melville J. Gideon, is reported having a big sale. While playing at the Star Theatre, Youngs town, 0., two weeks ago, Miss Elsa Graf was seriously injured by the s#cond curtain which had two and one-half inch iron poles on the bottom, striking her on the head in its de scent. The operator lost his head in lifting the curtain and she was raised four feet from the floor by her hair. She was unconscious | for two days, but was able to resume her con | tracts last week. | The Prescilla Theatre makes the i | Davis which promises to announce of November bill in two | ment that commencing the week 17 they will work their vaudeville shifts. There was a recent feature story in Cleveland local papers regarding the team of Shannon and Morris, a sister team, who were the hit of | Keith's Prospect Theatre some three weeks ago. This team afterwards accepted time with the Cleveland Vaudeville Company and while work ing at Newark, 0., the announcement was made that one of the team was engaged to Jack | Montpelier, one of Cleveland’s best-known sporting men. They had contracts for a return to Cleveland, which they were obliged to cancel on account of the newspapers and lawyers be ing after them. A short time afterwards, the DeHaven Sis | ters were registered at one of the leading hotels in Cleveland, and they were not troubled at all | with street cars as there was a constant array of from six to ten autos lined up in front of | thelr hotel at their disposal. They left for | New York. (Continued on page 40.) ST. Louis, MO. | | Last week in St. Louls opened with |stronger attractions and consequently stronger business. Tue excitement of the election, and the assurance that the old town will not be un der the ban of prohibition did much towards stimulating business. This season, and espe clally last week, found St. Lou's, like her bigger sister cities, playing her attractions for more than a one week's stay. honse will play all her attractions for | weeks’ run, as will the other houses. The important event of the week was the appointment by the Messrs, Shubert of Mr. Harry D. Buckley as the business manager of the Garrick Theatre. He is the youngest man | in that official capacity in the country. He is | a practical, all-around theatrical man, and has made his advancement in the profession step | by step. He first began as an usher, and hix much two to be the | | panies playing the | ada, |} to duty, aptitude and judgment being recognized, he was made the assistant treasurer of the Garrick The atre,. When Dan 8. Fishell was nominated as the manager of the Garrick Theatre, Mr. Buckley Was promoted to the treasurership, and while in that capacity, his personality and obiging manners made for him a host of friends. After the Shuberts determined to build a new theatre in St. Louis, the management of the Garrick went to Melville Stoltz. So much of his time had been taken up in superintending the erection of the building and arranging for the opening of the new theatre, the duties of the house management at the Garrick fell upon the shoulders of Mr. Buckley, and so well did he acquit himself that J. J. Shubert was quick to the young man as a valuable asset. Ellen Terry will be seen at the Odeon Theatre here on November 23, in what she styles a Shakespearean Discourse with Illustrative acting. She will give a series of scenes ip costumes of Shakespeare’s heroines. The Russian Dancers, Mile. Anna Pavlowe and M. Mikal! Nordkin, gave one performance at the Odeon Theatre here on November 7, to an immense audience, and proved to be an extraordinary attraction. Although we had to pay (Continued on page 40.) NEW ORLEANS, LA. The past week, many agents from all over the look after the passenger Barnum & Balley Circus, closing season. Impresario Jules Layolle, of the French Opera Company and the French Opera House, an nounced that the opening night wiil be Nov. 23, when Les Huguenots will be presented. Mr. traveling passenger States were here to business of the great which is nearing its Layolle states that this is one of the best companies ever brought to New Orleans. Mr. Wilbur Arthur, an Orleanian, gave an excellent interpretation of Tarkington's Beaucalre, at the Athenaeum, Nov. 3. The reading was given under the auspices of the New Orleans Cotlege of Oratory. A large and fasbjonable audience was present. Mr. Arthur was given a big reception upon his first appearance here. New Orleans is to have a big Agricultural Fair and Automobile Speed Carnival, lasting four days, Nov, 24 to 27. The exhibit is to be one of the biggest held here in many years, as entries for exhibits, horses, and automo biles are being received from all over the state. Manager Thomas C. Campbell, of the Tulane and Crescent Theatres, has charge of the auto mobile end. The New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Prof. Severin O. Frank, will give their first musical concert, Nov. 20, at the Athenaeum. The soloists will Livaudais, and Mr. Rene Solomon, violinist, Mr. Harry L. Newman, music publisher and song-writer of Chicago, is spending a few weeks here with his wife. One of Mr. Newman's be Miss Aurora | latest compostions is being sung at one of the |local theatres. Aviator Stanley Vaughan, while making a flight in his bi-plane at the Shreveport State Fair. Shreveport, La., met with a mishap, twisting a shaft on his machine, and came tumbling down, smashing the bi-plane. Aviator Vaughan escaped without injury. The Southern Louisiana Land Show Association are having moving pictures taken of reclaimed lands at Raceland, Lockport, and Beulah, La. Many moving picture views are being taken throughout the State and New Orleans, and will be exhibited with a lecture at the United States Land and Irrigation Exhibition, to be held at the Coliseum, Chicago, Ills., Nov. 19 to Dec, 4. The International Association of Stage Employees will give their fourth fancy dress and calico ball. Nov. 17, at Odd Fellow’s Hall. In vitations have been sent to the theatrical comlocal theatres. The com mittee on arrangements are as follows: A. J. Hamilton, chairman; John King, ex-officio. The ball is for the benefit of their relief fund. Mme. Schumann-Heink gave one recital at the Athenaeum, Nov. 7, under the auspices of the New Orleans Philharmonic Soctety. A _ large, fashionable and appreciative audience was present. WILLIAM A. KOEPKE. TORONTO, CAN. Mr. John Griffin, Amusement Co.. Ltd., the Maritime Provinces, president of left town last week for where he will construct a chain of houses In the largest centers. Under Mr. Griffin's supervision are now no less than 300 «picture and vaudeville theatres, strung across Canada and the Northern States, and the list is constantly expanding. A_ new office Is being established in Seattle. Mr. Peter F. Griffin, manager of this big circuit says, that if the Ontario Government appoint a board of censors for passing the picture films, it will be a boon to the picture house proprietors. As the law stands, Mr. Griffin states they never know from day to day what pictures the police will prohibit. Winthrop Ames, director of the New Theatre Company, of New York, stated here last week that Canada needs a big permanent stock com pany. .« When a show comes across the border to Canit comes high in some respects in regard as all paper used in fence posters, etc., costs 15 cents a pound duty, That means to | most shows $75 a week and upwards. Miss Reasie Eckhardt, of this city, left last week to join one of Hurtig and Seamon's shows GIMSON. The new Shubert | in New York. JOSEPH A complete list of attractions appearing in the cities mentioned on this page is given in the department beginning on page 23.