The Billboard 1910-12-03: Vol 22 Iss 49 (1910-12-03)

DECEMBER 3, 1910. The Billboard 15 =| NEWS -=|IN ris people are the principal contenders for the theatre of Bieury and St, Catberine. The second prospect has behind it the company that owns and controls the Orpheum and theatres in Ottawa, Hamilton, London, and | Quebec, It is headed by Jas. Duffield, of Londow, Albert Dyment, and others. Grand opera, now in its fifth week, has been, so far, a buge sucecss, making arrangements so as to guarantee another season in 1911. N. W. SHANNON. TORONTO, CAN. Last week Peter T. Griffin, manager of the — Circuit, was made a life member of the 4. Jobn Griffin, the president and general manager of the Griffin Amusement Co., Ltd., has recently returned home after a business tour of three weeks over bis large cireult of vaudeville theatres, Mr. Griffin is going to dispose of his picture bouses and has sold two so far to a stock company for $50,000. The company intends having an up-to-date theatre in every town of importance in Canada, where it is represented at present. Besides popular vaudeville it will book the big shows. Harvey Gaban, who has been leader of the Gayety orchestra during the long Iliness of W. J. Oberneier, Sydell's Th Wheel left town this week to join London Belles as musical director. censor committee of the Eastern Burlesque visited this city recently. JOSEVH GIMSON. Rose ————-——» NEW ORLEANS, LA. A big international held December 1.4. take part in it are: K. Hamilton, aviation meet will be Some of the aviators to John B. Moissant, Charles Claude Grahame-White, Glenn H. Curtiss. Robert McCurdy, Frank Ely. C. J. Mars, three French aviators, Simon, Barrier and Garros, and some of the Wright students. Many big cash prizes have already been the best flights. 8S. J. Berger is handling the Meet. Wilton Lackaye was the guest of the Mercantile Club, November 18, at a sumptuous luncheon iven in his benor. Mr. Lackaye and Frederick Farde were made honorary members of the club Prof. Henri Webrmann, a local masictan and composer, will soon have his latest opera. The Swimming Girl, produced in New York by John Cort. Prof. Wehrmann is the latest addi tion to the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, and master of the Beethoven String Quartette. WM. A. KOEPKE. KANSAS CITY, MO. Rehearsals are the rule for the young folks who sre going to take part in the Kermis to be given at the Shubert Theatre, the week of December 5. for the benefit of the Kansas City Humane Soclety and the visiting Nurses’ Assoclation Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske will be fo Kansas City the week of Dec. 5 and will lend her assistance to the success of the Kermis. J. J. Shubert, who is in Kansas City on busness, announces that December 25, Christmas Day. will see Convention Hall in gala attire for the scenle spectacles presented at the New York Hippodrome by the original Hippodrome Company Louis Shouse, manager of the Hall. States that the stage will have to be enlarged three times its present size to accommodate the company. The engagement will last two weeks with etpecialiy elaborate features for Year's Day. The newsbors of Kansas City were guests of the management of the Auditorium Theatre, Nov. 22. Glenn Fields, business agent of the Theatrical Electricians’ Union of this city, died at the General Hospital, Saturday night, Nov. 19, of poeumontia. WM. W. SHELLEY. TOLEDO, O. Doc, Jas. Culver, is with us and making great parations for the arrival of his esteemed pal, try McLean, the receiving end of the Cin cinnati Reds. A great time is anticipated. Popular Geo. Schoettle, of that city, is expected to bear great things. Harry Birch and Fannie Seigel are here re hbearsing a new electrical novelty’ act. Chup Kipple and wife are home for the hollGays. They have played considerable time in Indiana and their barn-yard novelty is the teal headliner. Of all the creations of Rube type, manager Burton, of the Lydell-Vanehn Company, came tn the «pot light last week, playing the bit of Dannial Tibbetts, in The College Widow He is a wonder in the constable of the college town. It is thought that one of the vicinity villages will get an option on him If Alton, business manager of The Millionaire Kid, does not make this town, a report wil! have to be sent into the Stair & Havlin office It is reported that Anna Eva Fay will return to the Areade in ai month Girls, get your questions ready. Many of the popular old-time agents paid me visits last week, among them Joe Edmonds, ad vance of The Thief: John Glenno, The Girl in the Taxl; John Rrohaney, Paid in Full, and last but not least, Tom North, with his stories of the Gentry Shows of the summer, and of what he will do for The Newlyweds the coming r. Jas. Mitchell, BE. J. Enright and Jimmy Sprags are doing some tombling stunts in the rear of the Wayne Hotel each day. It ts said that The management is | offered for | New | A complete list of attractions appearing in the cities mentioned on this page is given in the department beginning on page 18. | they are going to join out in the winter carniVals. Mac McCormick has turned his garden saloon into a vaudeville house and now the Superior place is playing to large houses. Tom Murray does some stunts and is the general stage di rector of the other acts. Word bas been received that Morris Caine, the Irish Thrush from Jersey, is in advance of Panama, a weekly booking for the Lyceum soon. Cy Schwab, one of our old-town boys, was with us last week with the Howe’s Love Cure | Girls. Cy is watched closely by his guardian _angel, (wife) who is also with the same com pany. Some of the principals were his guests at the homestead and an evening in home cook ing as the treat for the members. Walter Moore, of the Lyceum Theatre, has | been requested to have Bob Lathan and Fred | Kessler join The Thief. Things move when they come around. Joe Hurtig is stringin, of the Arcade Sundays. he usual large crowds fre tearing down the exits. Otti Klives is reporting that owing to the great success of the Lydell-Vaughn Company in their six weeks of stock at his theatre, they are to return here Yor a summer engagement. Rachel May Clark, of the Paycen Stock, is spending many idle moments in her dressing room at the American, making up little trink ets for the little waifs of our city for Xmas. Several natives of the old town are with us. Among them are Cross and May, ators of the famous song, Casey Jones. JACK TIERNEY. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. John Webber, who appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House, November 20 to 23, in Is Matrimony a Fallure, is a local boy whose parénts moved bere from Massachusetts when he Was three years of age. He was prominent in berhood in public readings and recitations from which he entered upon a thespian career, his first appearance having been with the late Clay Clement in stock at Denver, Colo. Another well-known actor to Mill Cityites. although not a native of Minneapolis, is Wilfred Clarke, who is appearing at the Unique Theatre this week in his own Farce, What | Will Happen Next? Mr. Clarke appeared in this city in 1889 at the opening performance of | the old Hennepin Avenue Theatre (now the Lyric) playing at that time with Booth and Barrett. In 1891 he was leading comedian with Jacob Litts' Stock Company, which played alternately between Minneapolis and St. Paul. Manager Chas. P. Salisbury, of the Lyric Theatre, announces as additions to the Lyric Theatre Stock Company the engagement of Jos. Remington, formerly leading men with Barriers Burned Away and also of William Grew, the ‘latter a well-known local boy who has had considerable stock experience. On Monday evening, November 21, during the engagement of Miss Consuelo Baily in Baby Mine at the Shubert Theatre. the University of Minnesota foot-ball team attended as guests of the management. The boxes were reserved for the players and the entire house decorated with the University colors. During the engagement of Bob Fitzsimmons and his wife at the Miles Theatre, week of November 14, a novel souvenir was given away through a drawing. The novelty was none other than a picture of the pugilist framed in a horseshoe which he himself welded at a local forge. Capacity houses all through the week testified to the enormous popularity enjoyed by the ex-champion. The Unique Theatre has discovered a new and novel means of advertising. ‘Bill’ Raynor, Twin City representative of Sullivan and Considine, bas his headquarters at this theatre. Bill also has a Boston bull-dog named ‘‘Mac."’ and with the coming of cold weather Mac has acquired a new blanket which bears the lettering, “Unique Mascot.” and when Mac ts given his dally airing—well, needless to say he attracts no little attention. RODERIC STE, FLEURE. SEATTLE, WASH. While in Tacoma, Nov. 13, I had an inter view with the managers of the different pic ture houses and other theatres and found bus! hess very good, especially at the Sullivan & Considine house—the Grand. John W. Cook, acting manager, states that Sam Haller will re Heve him as manager, December 15, he (Cook) returning to Seattle as manager of the Ma tie. Mr. Haller ts well known on the coast. le was formerly with the Norris Bros.’ Circus and later manager of The Monitor and Merri ;mac during the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposi tion. Owing to a derailment of a sleeper on the Northern Pacific between Portland and Seattle. Virginia Harned and Company did not arrive in Seattle in time for their scheduled performance on the evening of Nov. 10. C. Harrison Green, business manager of the Seattle Daily Star, who bes been with the pa per eleven years. has resigned. Nearly every advance agent and manager of theatrical road companies visiting Seattle during the past twenty years, knows Arthur Calder. passenger agent of the Canadian Pacific at Seattle, will be gled to learn of his well-de served promotion to the position of assistant general passenger agent of the Canadian Paci® at Chicago. Previous to his departure the local transportation and press clubs banqueted him. Corbett Morris, fuvenile man of the Rus sell and Drew Stock Co., at the Alhambra, has accepted an engagement with the Lyric Thea tre Stock Company in Minneapolis, Tentative plans for the new Metropolitan * whieh Klaw & Erlanger of New York, bulld at the sentheast corner of Forr' avenue and University street. were received November 15 by the Seattle office of Howell and Stokes, architects. A representative of Stone and Webster, the contractors, who will hare this work in charge, | ferring with Mr. Klaw, } cable in the foyers John W. Considine sent word from New York to the general offices of Sullivan and Considine Circuit here, that he had purchased a new theatre in San Diego for $250,000 and another in St. Louis for a price considerable higher. The St. Louis house is considered one of the most important links in the S. & C. chain. It breaks up the one long jump they had on the Southern time and gives them a house which will seat 1,400 persons. On November 16th Alex. Pantages purchased the Plymouth Church property at the northeast double corner of Third avenue and University street for $325,000 and will immediately improve the property with a new theatre to cost $200.000. It will be the home of high-class dramatic and operatic stock companies—six months of each year to be devoted to each class of theatrical amusement. LEM A. SHORTRIDGE. OMAHA, NEB. The American Music Hall is dark this week, owing to a dispute between the two wings of the William Morris Circuit. No advertising matter was ordered by Joseph Pile, manager, and no advance notices sent out, which situation would naturally lead one to believe that the house of Morris would be dark. Manager Pile denied, through the columns of the newspapers, igi | that his house would close. the origin| “arthur Brandeis, of the J. L. Brandeis & Sons, owners of the theatre, said in an inter| view: ‘“‘We are so far from both the San | Francisco and New York offices of the William Morris interests, that we are not well informed of their intentions. The local management | of the house will probably remain the same and Mr. Pile probably will continue as manager, no matter who furnishes the shoes. We cannot will continue to furnish us There may be some other firm to take up the house, as we have several offers from companies awaiting to come into Omaha. We can assure the Omaha public that the house will not be dark for more than a week or two.”’ | It is rumored that the Pantages Circuit are j | | pany of Nebraska, | ris mighty anxious to slip into Omaha and take the Morris people’s location. The Pantages are strong in the West and putting up good attractions. The orders to close came from Walter Hoff Seeley, manager of the western wing of the Morris interests. The local house is leased for several years by the American Music Hall Comin which the William MorCompany, western, owns seventy-five per cent. of the capital stock. If the Morris Com pany gets new leases for the building. they will have to get someone acceptable to the owners of the building or be obliged to y rent on the building for the term of the lease. Also there is a strong rumor that the Orpheum in teresta are after the Morris house, color lent to | this argument by the fact that Martin Beck, general manager of the Orpheum Circuit, twice visited Manager Pile, of the American, when he (Beck) was bere recently. Manager Pile claims the patronage is steadily increasing. Hap Ward. Harry Vokes. Lucy ‘Doc’? and Mrs. Breed have for the past twelve years eaten their Thanksgiving dinner together in this city at the home of Doc. Breed. Ward and Vokes always play annual engagements in | this city about Thanksgiving time when they meet at the home of Doc Breed and have a “family’’ reunion. This year the dinner was held at the Strehlow, one of the swellest apartments in the city. Needless to say, the wit and bumor that floated over the bones of the turkey would suffice for many a comedy. The songs of the “other days’’ sang that night carried the five back into the past, where they met old friends now gone to the beyond. Commencing this week, Edwin Lynch replaces Averill Harris as leading man of the Woodward Stock Company, which is playing at the Boyd. Mr. Lynch has played with Amelia Bingham and other well-known people. Mr. Harris returns to New York. Other changes include the adilition of John J. McCabe and A. M. Keller, to fill vaeancies. Lioyd Ingraham, lowe ass «iatel with the Woodward Stock Company, has resigned to give his whole attention to the running of a dramatic school with Prof. W. C. Chambers, an expert dancing teacher. The Orpheum has increased its patronage in this city despite the competition of the American Music Hall. Vacant seats at the evening | performances are rare occurrences, is now in New York con| Outside of writing the music and lyrics and the score to his musical comedies, staging them and rehearsing them, revising and revamping and playing the principal part himself, Richard Carle has absolutely nothing to do with his musical comedies. Also, he takes ai wise and knowing squint at the box-office sheets once in a while. Probably this accounts for the success of Carle. How strange we should think of thet! I'll bet that’s the answer. Frank Phelps, formerly treasurer of the Krug Theatre, has gone out in advance of the Ward and Vokes attraction, The Trovble Makers. HARRY J. ROOT. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. San Francisco electors voted almost unantmously to issne City and State bonds to ther amount of $10,000,000 for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and in addition $7 500 OO) hes been subscribed. With a capital of $17.500.000 ‘Frisco expects congressional en dorsement, as we do not ask a penny from the Government and in the event of winning th’ battle the world is promised the greatest fai ever held, as we have the climate, the location the grit and above all the money. Hollingsberry’s Opera House tn Hollister, wae | destroyed by fire November 11. at an early hour |in the morning. The Gay Widow Company. which plaved the house the previous evening lost twenty-eight trunks with $3,000 worth of wardrobe. Total loss to theatre, $6,500. with $2.°00 Insurance. Al. G. Barnes’ Wild Anim] Cireus closed its | season at Peasanton, Saturday, November 19. say as yet whether the William Morris Circuit | with bills or not. | Daly and) —| BRIEF } De NE MN a the animal acts have been booked to play r ‘ We have some seventy-five or more exclusive moving picture houses all charging five cents admission, and this week another—the most elaborate and classiest of them all—opened its doors. It is called Hansler’s Theatre, and was built expressly for the purpose by F. O. Hansler. It is located on Fillmore street near Sutter, with an established nickelodeon on each side, making three side by side and one on the opposite side of the street, thus making in ali four on the block. MHansler bas established a new policy, firstly admission for evening is ten cents and afternoon five cents. In addition to four reels of pictures, a lady string orchestra with Madam Sophia as soloist, and a_ high-class lady singer, is offered. Another feature is the high-priced, leather-covered opera chairs, also heating plapt and ladies retiring rooms. Mr. Thomas Leahy, one of the proprietors of the Portola and Grand Theatres, will leave next week for a trip to Mexico to visit his brother, after which he journeys to Cobalt, Can., to inspect some silver mines in which he is interested. From Cobalt he goes to New York, thence to Boston, his old home. Reports from Seattle mention that Alex, Pantages purchased the site of the Plymouth Church, adjoining the post-office and will at once demolish the building and erect in its place a theatre to cost $200,000. A long program was offered Friday afternoon, Nov. 18, at the Columbia’ Theatre for the benefit of the charity fund of the Associated Theatrical Managers of San Francisco. The Columbia Theatre orchestra, enlarged, furnished the music for the overture, after which Shubert’s Company played an act from The Blue Monse. Blanche Walsh and Company presented the third act of The Other Woman; William Faversham offered a coster recitation; Julia Opp, a Roumanian folk lore. Others who contributed were: Bessie Bariscale, Howard Hickman and Thomas | Chatterton, in a sketch, Lora Lieb; Max Dill, Beatrice Michelena, Nelson Downs, Billy Van, Grant and Hoag, Alfred, the Great, the trained chimpanzee, and two numbers from the recent Kirmess. Packed house at $2.00 per head, attended. The Valencia Theatre will reopen December 5 with the Perry Girton Stock Company, presenting The Cowpuncher. This will be followe’ by The Missourian. It is the intention to offer a season of melodrama. George D. MacQuarrie will be leading man, and Miss Iva Shepard leading woman. Popular prices ranging from 10 to 50 cents will be charged. George Beban, after an absence of some fourteen years from here (his native city), opened at the Orpheum and received an ovation as well as many floral offerings. Billboard callers this week included Carpos Brothers, sensational hand balancers; Weisser and Deam, black-face team; Frank Voerg, com|} edy musician; Perry and Berry, comedy acro| bats; Zeradés Brothers, novelty equilibrists; | Billy McBreen, comedy acrobat; Siberian RusSian Dancers, Four Sensational Olivers, wire | walkers; George Dalbenie, Australian balancer. |and Miss Maisie Rowlands, society entertainer, ja recent arrival from Australia; Garcenetti | Brothers, acrobats and hat throwers: Vard| mann, impersonator; Senzell Brothers, ring performers, and Con Foster, general manager Great | American Shows. The Musical Watsons, after playing some | ten weeks independent time in California, de| parted for Victoria, B. C., this week. | Bertha Foltz, a well-known and popular coast actress, was married November 18 to Walter | Henry Newman. Both have been at the head | se the Newman-Foltz Theatrical Company for several years, playing repertoire along the coast. (Continued on page 22.) EDWARD ELSNER, As Father Junipero Serra, which role he will originate in the Mission play to be produced | this month at Riverside, Calif., by Gustave Frohman. a3 ance eer a aes ener Se ee ee eed Ln Te eee NNR Tid STA