The Billboard 1911-04-29: Vol 23 Iss 17 (1911-04-29)

The Billboard in Mre. Patrick Campbell's Engiish company, and | peared with Miss Cline in a dance at the finish of Miss Cline’s act. Chicago, and has booked a number of high-clas | side show features. i APRIL 29, 191: DR. DE LUXE LIGHT. Pau! Stephens. wire walker, has been booked | Jack Stoddard and a dozen aldes enclosed the John Hart's brigade, with the Barnum » over the Keith & Proctor time. |} animal within a wall of canvas. After several | Bailey a consisting of H. Nelson, PP» (Co ” | St. John-Bridges and Company, {9 Handker. | "nsuecessful efforts, the lion was finally secured. | Langan, H ohnsen, B. C, Connors, W. Beck: Pe Tee ee Op chief No. 15, will play the Sullivan «& Considine | During the excitement, Mr. Rollins’ left hand | L. Waite, Chick Hess and Harry Newman, le of the frothy characters of the frivolous perCircuit next season. With the company are a severely lacerated by the lion. New York last week for St. Joseph, Mo, form ance . Allen St. John, Winona Bridges, Garfield Thomp anagem — —_ Geo. F. Donovan has been engaged to manag The World criticizes according to this fashion: son and Erma June nal | LEACH-LaQUINLYN WITH BAR. | the side show with the Robinson's Famous Show “Ralph Herz, who began his career in this| Tom Nawn, assisted Maggie Cline during her | NUM for the coming season. He is at present | country several years ago as a promising actor | engaged at the Colonial this week. Na‘wn al . by degrees reached a large print status in his | rofession at the beginning of the season in| adame Sherry launched himself as a star at | the Knickerbocker Theatre by impersonating an | eccentric dog doctor, in a nondescript musical piece, entitled, Doctor De Luxe. Although his | artistic progress to a stellar orbit has been | steadily downward, Mr. Herz proved by his last | exploit his ability to overcome his own limita | tions, for he bas at last appeared as a singing | ijuminary, without divulging as much as the shadow of a singing voice. *tAs for Doctor De Luxe, it would make not the slightest draft upon the mental processes of a eix-yearold mind. It is guiltless of either plot or story. Therefore, it may bring joy to the | beart of the tired business man, and it may also | qualify as a fair example of that unclassified style of entertainment, which is known in general terms as the ‘summer show.’ ”’ The Tribune contributes the following: “This latest work of the authors of The Three Twins, Madame Sherry and The Girl of My Dreams, is a simple little piece, in which there is nothing of the spectacular. The comedy, which is light in nature, predominates over the music, which is tuneful and sweet, inclining rather toward the sentimental. Whenever this sentiment is mushy, however, Mr. Herz comes to the rescue with his comedy. There are some very clever lines in the play, and the situations are fairly amusing. Mr. Herz, in the character of clerk in a dog store, and later as assistant to a doctor, finds plenty of opportunity to be funny in bis own peculiar way. He also sings in amusing fashion two songs, No One But You and It’s a Lie.” The production period of the year. UP AND DOWN BROADWAY. (Continued from page 8.) is very eeasonable for this Mr. Konrad Dreher, in The Jolly Peasant, amused the audience with his capital portrayal of Bavarian peasant manners and dialect last week at the Irving Place Theatre. Mr. Dreher has for years been the leading spirit in the per formance of peasant plays upon the German stage. Mrs. Leslie Carter will play one, two and three night stands for the remainder of the season in her successful play by Rupert Hughes, Two Women. Monday night, April 24, Mrs. Carter was the attraction at the Park Theatre, Bridgeport, and for two weeks will fill engagements in.the principal cities in New England. An Eye for An Eye, a new sketch from the pen of Hale Hamiiton, the J, Rufus Wallingford of Geo. M. Cohan’s comedy, Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, will be presented in vaudeville for giz or eight weeks this spring by Emmett Corrigan. An Eye for An Eye had its initial presentation at a Lambs’ Gambol, Sunday, April 2. and scored a tremendous hit. When Mr. Corrigan presents it in the halls his company will include his son, Emmett Corrigan, Jr. The Pink Lady will be seen in London during the coming autumn with an American company. The successful McLellan and Caryll musical comedy will be produced in the British metropolis’ in association with Mr. Charles Frohman and Mr. George Edwardes Arrangements have also been made by which the play will be seen in Australia, and negotiations are under way for Germany and France. otiations were completed by which the Lambs Club Ladies Public Gambo) will be given at the New Theatre on Friday afternoon, May 12. The Metropolitan Opera House has always been the choice of the Lambs for their public gambols, but in this instance, and in order to make the first Ladies Public Gambol a distinc. tive function, the first Ladies Public Gambol will be given in the famous Central Park playhouse. This will be the only performance given in the New Theatre before possession is taken next season by Liebler & Company, the new lesees, and it is the intention to make the event a gala function. The company that will in A Certain Party at include John T. Kelly, ley, Harold Hatsell, Garrick, Louise Grace Edmond Lillian Preston, support Mabel Hite Wallack’s Theatre will Mike Donlin, James SeeArthur O'Keefe, Richard Dempsey, Beatrice Moreland, Esther Missett, Marie Ashton, lAllian Herbert and Grace Nel n. The Follies Bergere Company, which will occn py the stage of the New Folies Bergere Theatre, beginning April 27, gave its first performance at the Apollo Theatre, Monday night, April 17, before the largest first night andience in the history of the house. The program consisted of two revues and a ballet, entitled Temptation The revues were Hell, by Rennold Wolf and Maurice Levi, and Gaby. A, review will accompany in next week's edition. The new features at the Winter Garden last week were the Bell Family, introducing char macter songs and dances of Mexico, a new ‘‘chair’’ Sapumber by Sunshine and chorus, thy Jardon dances. Miss Viola Allen appeared tn the late F. Marion Crawford's drama, The White Sister, at the Manhattan Opera House last week. Miss Minna Gale and Mr. James O'Nefll gave her efficient support. Behind the Scenes, a new play by Miss Mararet Mayo, was produced at the Walnut Street eatre, Philadelphia, Monday night, April 17 for the first time on any stage. Differing widely from either of Miss Mayo’s previous plays, Baby Mine anf Polly of the Circus, {t tells a story of stage life. Miss Edna Baker has a leading role The play w well received. The wer” Werba and Leuscher attractions Christle MacDonald in The Spring Maid, and Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth in Little Miss Fix-It, are still drawing heavily at the Liberty Theatre and Globe Theatre, respectively. ; and Miss Dorand Mile. Dazie, in new songs and PERTINENT PATTER. ‘(Continued from page 9.) New York, April 22 (Special te The Billboard).—Doc Kealey. with his Animated Circus, closes his season May 6. He will summer at Lake Champlain. Miss Ste'la Arlington Is now with the K. Harris offices. Joyce and Donnelly. tuneful juveniles, finfish their Keith & Proctor time. May 29, then open Chas. in the Family theatres booked by the United Tom events is now act, who Wilks ers. Faust Brothers, pantomimic comedians, still playing the Keith & Proctor Circuit. Nilsson’s Aerial Ballet is playing Keith & Proctor houses. The ballet is led by Mme. Nilsson, who doing a derivation of the ser pentine dance. Other members of the act are: Little Miss Melba Nilsson, Miss Frances St. Clair, Marjorie Miller, Senora Mercedes Suarez, Senora Marnjosa, Miss Schmettering. Car! Nils son, who is the owner of the act, has invented and patented an electric device by which he can reduce six lamps into two, each lamp giv ing stereopticon, spot and flood lights simul taneously Harry Nilsson is the electrician with the act and Steve Kelly is the mechanic. Ecks, and in now are and the veteran promoter manager of many charge of Tom Ecks’ Bicycle Girls | playing in vaudeville. The girls— Elsie Rogers, Anna McCann, Ruth Jessie Stalter—ride on home train of athietk famous athletes. are is In all ten people are carried. Grace Francis was compelled to cancel her time in the Southwest and return to her home in Brooklyn, breakdown. The Stubblefield Trio has just returned from a tour over the Sullivan & Considine Circuit, an eight weeks’ engagement over the United time They will probably play a few of the big parks this summer. | SUN BROS. OPEN AT MACON. | (Continued from page 7.) where she is ill from nervous Clown Section—*'Doc’’ Keene and Fred Kenno, principals; Walter E. Young, Bill Farmer, Wm. E. Foster, Buster Marsh, Chas. Hilderra, Sig. Guilmette, Earl Vardell and Bill Vardell. Concert Acts—Arnold and Boyd, Miss Mona Barnett, A. E. Green, Bill Farmer, and Foster and Kenno. Supplementary Shows and Annex—J. 8S. Rob ertson, manager; William the Great Becker, German magician; Allison Sisters, fencing girls; W. H. Schooley, novelty musician; Held, ing, comedy juggler; Dudley De No Komos (fea ture act), presented by Mr. Robertson; Captain Peter Cardona’s mixed group of trained wild animals; Miss Josie Rex, serpent act; Allen Bryan’s Punch and Judy comedians, and Sash ki and Washki, renowned Japanese wrestlers. Big Show Band—Frank E. Masek, Gus Barnes, Dave L. Lheurix, H. Fournier, Dave Jakes, Chas. W. Lucia, W. Yates, V. H. Napier, Eddie | Kingsland, Chas Demuth, W. H. Schooley, Al| bert E. Greer, Howard Wartluft, H. Young, and John Shel.y, director Privilege Department—Oscar Rodgers, mana| ger, with a bunch of twelve men, } Ticket Sellers—Sam Morris, Jack Deschenes, | W. E. Chambers and J. P. McCormick. Working Department—Fred Sauers, boss can| vasman; Arthur E. Webber, supt. of lights; | James C, Cherry, train master; Buck Purnell, side show boss canvasman; J. P. McCormick. manager dining tents; Ross Minard, boss property man; Ralph Kirkpatrick, boss hostler; B. L. Neel, harness maker; A. E. Webber. official barber; George Boyd, chef; George Arnold, privilege car chef: Dad Ringer, night watch: John Roberts, poler; Jack -Benson, stake and chain man; William Randolph, supt. of ring stock; Frank Glassbrook, blacksmith: Doctor W. P. Sampson, physician; Red Johnson, carpenter, and Bill Greenwood, painter. LONDON FOLLIES DISPARAGED. (Continued from page 6.) Ne boar: est addition to the Circus. & walk Bailey 1). York, ing novel April The Leach LaQuiniyn Trio are the lat list of acts with the Barnum feature ty. volves on a wire They durin (Special g which which is held t to aut The Bill their Jack Leach wire re across the | ring from the mouths of two young ladies; also a slide for life. The act previous to join ing the Barnum Show was playing vaudeville dates in the South. READERS’ COLUMN. Would like to have the address of Buddy Robb, former advance agent for John Shea. Ad dress 409 Vine street, Cincinnati, 0. Mrs. Belte Webb, 308 E, 33rd street, Chicago is very anxious to hear from her son Wal ter Thomas Webb, last heard of with the Sells Floto bell will ville, Brothers’ communicate with Harry Epstein, will learn Tex., vantage. Mr E. H Show two he Sh Huge. low years ago. last someth 27 Ww. season ing of to California If Jake Friedman, who sold tickets for Camp in Spokane, Kirbyhis ad street. Oklahoma City, Okla., would like to know the whereabouts of Paul Ww. Barbour, la st eard of playing vaudeville in a singing and talking act. De ar * Dunkirk, 0., April 18 Editor The Billboard, Cincinnati, Ohio. Sir:—Please Rounde through The he is telling about me. nights. the third thre e answer act did not take to the people. for cities, right 1,200. ing here now. refer them to you as 0. K. Mr. not work and I refused to pay last night. Mr. J. L. Burris, Stockdale, like to know the whereabouts of Thos. field, and whether he is still following the show’ business. Mr her son, but to Vivian Billboard as to I booked him He worked two nights and one show and sent word would not work the next show just because h fc me 1911 De La the story wv three that iv His act is all not for a little The Dillah and Mack Company is work town o They showed me the letter they got from Rounde and said I served him right. 1 Martha Dreler, Y., is very anxious to know the whereabouts of Ernest C. last heard of with Parker, Rounde h im woul for th Cc. MASON, Mgr. Theatre + Box 84, he Lily Te formerly and xas, Middleport, of the woul Spring N, Roston, Prince Company, at Somerset, Pa., in September, 1909 + Billboard Friend East Fourth 238 -Wright’s Dancing Academy, street, Cincinna ti. CIRCUS GOSSIP. Wednesday, Shriners, with April their wives some and fifteen On) hundred children, paid their compliments to Ring Brothers’ Barnum and Baile Gard -y Show, en. Most Masonic Order of the State stil of 1 pla the ving chief at were in m Madison dignitaries atte Square of the ndance James Belknap, Saram Duncan The clowns performed a num including Wm. Homans, R. Ellison, Wm. J. Mathews, W and E. M. Ehlers. ber of stunts that were Greek but intelligible to the Shriners Walter and Roy Cairns left to Decatur, themselves April 17, for Joplin, Mo., to join Stone's King of the Cattle Ring Company. Walter will play Norman A. Blume, George E. Mack, Charles 0)baritone in the band and also put on his black cott, Agostino Baci, Natalie Alt, Laura Jaffface comedy, while Roy plays cornet and sec ray, Gladys Archbutt and’ Helen Lalor, were | 004 heavies Harry and Alva Cairns will introduced to the metropolis at Weber's Theatre | leave Decatur April 30 for Indianapolis to on Friday night, April 21. These New Yorkized | Join F. C. Schmelz’s Cowboy, Indian and Lady Follies, of course, suggested The Follies Pelis| Choir. Harry will lead the orchestra Geo sier, which are still on the beards at the Apollo Cairns, the oldest of the brothers, is at present Theatre in the British insular metropolis, Bonheur Bros.’ Show had a good turnout on Norman A. Blume was for several years a mem-j| the night of April 12, while a cyclone Was in ber of the original company, and is the only | progress, which destroyed the town of Bigheart one of the New York company who has played | and partially wrecked Tahlequah, Okia not in the London prototype, all the remaining cast | Over ninety miles away. The horse tent went being of American extraction, with the excep| down In the terrible strain, but the big top tion of Gladys Archbutt and Helen Lalor. Like | Weathered the storm. and the exhibition was + a one from which the New York London Fol| siven complete as programmed, ies have been copied, they consist of three | . ate * parts, a number ve specialities, some comedy | Harold H. Gramm, form rly press agent for | which in London they would call ‘‘potted play,’ which they burlesque on a popular piece and an Americ an Amus ement the Western company of The Barrier by the Company, controlled a nd for three years connected v »§ an 4 ; original sketch All Broadway looked forward | sidine Cirenit mp "1 with interest to the opening of this European | Denver and Seattle, has been appointed x... ferm of entertainment, but the critics by ne | agent for the Al. G. Barnes’ Cheoas muvee means took kindly to Jos. Weber's new offering Alferdo Cadc -. The Tribune was perhaps the most lenient in its) wrict last sence eaters © shghtly sprained discussion, finding the fitst part of the enterss Saturday night. Cadona tainment, the minstrel musical part a success proclaiming the burlesque on The Balkan Prin ’ : . Boon . hippodrome track when he stumble 1] cess, called The Balky Princess, quite stupid ; . ambled and fel oad Gectgenting tha etek gotten = di om . rest over Saturday brought him back to work tainment, The Land of Delft, a former Lambs’ | "= shape. Gambol, too delicate in its satire to be appre-|_ The Barlow Show, opening at Sonth Milford clated by the audience which attended the pre| 10d.. April 29, will tour Indiana, Illinois eand mier. The remainder of the papers, however, | 10wa. Rose Stickney has her dogs and ponies are quite cruel in their criticism. The fact |!2 good shape. The program this season will that the show was closed after the Initial per. | mclude Howe, Decker, Jack Sulla, Erma Howe formance indicates that this form of amuse. | #94 Mr. and Mrs. Hall. ment, while being well liked in Bngland, is net to the taste of America’s theatregoers, : t to join the | uate 9 — Show, which opens at Vincennes nd. r. Jennier is a clown with the show. LICN ESCAPES RECAPTURED. — Mr. Parker is connected with the side show. One of Sig. Santelle’s circus lions escaped | — , into the open the afternoon of April 18, and for | — eee ae ~ ~ ‘Senge of the several hours the little village of Homer, N. Y., |cinnati, this season goes may Ry was panic-stricken A car load of animals, | wallace Shows at the ‘lose of . squaseds shipped from Macon, Ga., by George W. Rollins. ll make BAP A eeedlng By was being unloaded, when one of the shifting boxes fell In with the Barnum & Bailey Show, had finishe« who is his act and was doing a little tumbi ng on the George Jennier and Harry Parker were callers at The Rillboard while on their way season, will make White's third season with the show. such a manner as to break open | . Bert E. Rickman, who was with the 101 Ranch its top. In a twinkling ‘‘Man-killer,” a large Shows for several seasons, goes out this year black-maned beast, was free, and he lost no time | With the new Cole and Rice Show, in the priv in taking full advantage of his liberty. With | ese department. His wife, Mile. Ina, goes a single bound the animal gained the open door. | “ith the same show, working in the annex way of the car, where it stood motionless, seem-| E. E. Whittington wishes to thank all man ingly undecided what to do, as more than two | gers for their offers in answer to his ad in hundred men, women and children who had been | The Billboard. Whittington has again signed interested spectators, fled in all directions, | With Steiner's King of the Long Horn Ranch as geen aa all the natives had reached places | bandmaster of Arizona Joe’s Cowboy Rand ; of safety before ‘‘Man-killer’’ leaped to the Steve I —_— + ae Seem enset disnethe a ened — pies pd 5p J Susiragette numclaimed the lion’s attention, and while he was jarnum & Ralle me , eo Getreres with the enjoving the feast. Mr. Rollins. Jake Wi n alley Show. He has a number of mm aes, Oins, Jake limuth, | other “‘gags’’ that are sure cure for the blnes It | Honest Maloney will be porter on the No. 2 ear of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows this season Maloney has been suffering for a number of year with sore eyes, but states that he is bimselr again. Lou Stumpe, assistant treasurer at People’s Burlesque Theatre, Cincinnati, will have charge of the programs with the Gehtry Bros.’ Shows this season, which open at Bloomington, I). April 29. | Brock Bros, and Edna Trio caled at The Bil Brock Bros, and Edna Trio callled at The Bil board last Saturday on their way to Nashville. Tenn., where they join the Robinson Famous Shows, The No. 1 advertising car of the Hagenbeck Wallace Shows left Peru, Ind., April 15, under the management of James Eveson. The opposi tion brigade will be in charge of Babe Whalon The big top of the Great Clifford Circus wil) consist of an eighty-foot round top witb a forty foot middle piece. It will have » seating capacity of one thousand people. Advance car No. 1, of the Frank A. Robbins Show, in charge of Chas. A. Chapman, left Jer sey City April 14. Mrs. Chas. A. Chapman ie contracting press agent. . Hart and Iliff, in their new comedy revolving lad@r act, will be seen this season with the Great Clifford Circus. They are at present play ing vaudeville dates. Wm. J. Richards, bookkeeper of the Al. G. Barnes’ Circus, and formerty of the act of the Dancing Richards, is the proud father of ap eight pound boy. The 101 Ranch, which appears in Brooklyn week of May 1, has the most paper up of any outdoor amusement that has ever pleyed Brook lyn. Jimmie Powers, last season on Jobn Hart's brigade, goes back with the Barnum Show te take tickets on the main door and pull banners Major Del Fontaine has signed contracts witb the Seibel Bros.’ Shows for the season of 1911 to do his baton and gun-spinning and wire acte Jno. Henry Rice is general agent; D. P. White special agent, and Dr. Gordon, press agent, witb the Frank A. Robbins Show, Harry DeAlvin joins the W. H. Coulter R. BR Shows this season for the up-town wagon witb his den of snakes. Lew Mitchell will be connected with W. H Coulter's R. R. Shows as manager of the up town wagon. The Frank A. Robbins Show will open its thirty-first annual tour at Jersey City, N. J. April 26-29. J. Flynn has assumed the duties of assistant head usher under Mr. Thompson with the Ring ling Show. Jack Klippel been has engaged as principe! and producing clown with the John Robinson Shows. J. H. Kridler, slack wire artist and clown juggier, has signed with Frank A. Robbins’ Shows. Geo, Bernardo King joined the Hagenbeck Wallace Shows at Peru Ind., last week. Chas. C. Clark and Vernetta are with the Hagenbeck-Wallace James DuVal son's Ten Shows thie season. clown, will not be with Robin Big this season. SMALL THEATRICAL WAR. New Richmond, A small theatrical war has been for the past few days between Hagan’s Oper? House, the old standby; Lynch Bros.’ new Ly ceum, and W. 8. Shannon's Gem Family Thea tre (motion pictures) Hagan’s has The Gir} from U.S, A., a musical drama of a good dea) of merit, Saturday, April 15, followed by Al W. Martin's Uncle Tom's Cabin on Monday with the Perry Amusement Company's Indians Folks at the Lyceum on the Tuesday following Mr. Shannon put on several vaudeville acts, and he and Hagan's secured the major portion of the business. the Perrys striking a rainy night in the new theatre Business generally good Sis Perkins is underlined for the 26th New Richmond's population made quite a gait according to the census reports, from 1,600 Ip 190) to 1,988 In 1910. with a large number just outside the city limits, who properly belong t the city. New Richmond one of the big smaller shows Wis.. April 22 (Special).— raging here is looking for a visit from circuses and one or two of the AIRDOME NOTES. The first of May, D. F. Spears and A. Gro baker, will open one of the largest and most complete airdomes (on the G. & S. Park), in Tennessee, at Greenville. Mr. Spears is man ager of the Auditorium Theatre. A. Grobaker is how manager of the Palace of Pictures, run ning motion picture shows and vaudeville, and is giving the people first-class pictures every | night. DEATHS. H. Wheeler died at Fer Island, N. Y. He was an Park for many years, and at its superintendent of admissions He is survived by his wife and son, BLACKWELIL—Rilly Blackwell died home in Bowling Green Ky., April 17, of ty phoid fever, after an illness of a few day* For the past two seasons he has been end man with the Coburn’s Greater Minstrels. He very popular, and his death will be a shock to his friends. WILSON Joseph consumption at the home of his annt, at Chatham, N. R. At the time of his illness he was connected with Gilson and Rradfield’s A Bachelor's Honeymoon Co Mr. Wilson was 32 years old at the time of his death, and was well known among the profession, having been with Vaughan Glaser for three geasons. He | Was also seen in The County Chairman. and | the Dorothy Stock Co WHEELER | ris’ Hotel, Coney attache of Luna one time was Davis at hie was great rn Wilson died of hasty April 6,