The Billboard 1911-12-16: Vol 23 Iss 50 (1911-12-16)

‘ ~-weed are new and the chatter clean and pright.. ; ‘ 60 The Billboard DECEMBER 16, 19) |. ACTS NEW TO NEW YORK. {Continued from page 9.) ve Miss Guerite’s present offering. Thipes were all] wrong from the start, even to the Ww scal tered friends that Miss Guerite had in the house who applauded at the wrong time. T singer ls assisted in her present offering by George Moore. We have seen Mr. Moore d@ better. However, the only remembrance of thefact that one carries away is the dancing of t§is same He is undeniably clefer with the act needs is me new songs for Miss Guerite, some new pstter and some lessons for Miss Guerite in how put it over in vaudeville. THE PARRAOFFS, Flying Rings. Ten minutes; full stage. Hammerstein's, In the closing spot on the bill at } stein’s last week The Parraoffs, with Sheir fiying ring offering, made good to an extent that will undoubtedly get them further bo9king on the big time. The comedian works Pard and gets the greater part of his business er with effect. The straight man is a mighty «jever acrobat, and his work received frequent gpplause. There were one or two spots in the a@t where it seemed as though a little more s would have helped materially. THE NINETY AND NINE, Tabloid Mq@odrama. Twenty-four minutes; full stage;¥ special. Colonial. if in booking this turn the manager@ took it seriously they weie surely bunked, but® if they were shy a comecy turn and took it in that sense they avhieved their desire. > ik ago, ammer when melodrama was originally produc at the Academy of Music, the locomotive and its run through the tire-swept forest was the talk of New York. Last week, when the act s given ite Mattia? *waudeville showing at the |Colonial Theatre; loca! managers were given full opportunity to..pote the decline of the a al of the “Meller’’' at first hand. Whoever prepared thig ‘tabloif version tried to get the fguts of the story into the acceptive vaudeville {time of presentation. He succeeded fairly well bat left the ending rather weak. The first .acene is devoted to the telling of a story which Jeads up to the spectacular locomotive ride thr@éugh the forest fire. The second scene shows fhe trip, and the last takes but a brief second yof time showing the locomotive’s arrival. The Colonial audience accepted all the serious work of the actors ,with lauthter, and as a ‘nsl “tig scTeam,”’ they reserved the right to filss the villain ‘as he walked across the stage When the company took their bows, one by one, in approved melodrama gtyle. CARLTON, Comedy Magician. Fifteen Raia in one. Hammerstein’s. Carlton is an Englishman and works very much along the line ef one or two English comics that have preceded him on this side. We keeps ap a constant chatter during the entire time that he is showing his tricks. His principal asset at present is a burlesque on hgpnotism with which he closes his act. For thig bit he ases a plant from the audience. There was a lot of comedy in this and it really got\the act ever. Previous to this some card irfcks and other bits of burlesque magic were shown. A WOMAN POLITICIAN. (Continued from page 12.) | William McVay or Frederick Burton. The review of the play itself was favorable Percy Hammond, in the Tribune, said “n part: “Ne doubt the ladies and gentlem¢n most interested in Standing Pat are at work fre this remolding it so that it will be less of speculation and more of an investment for fits producer, Mr. Gaites It really has chan as a cold, business proposition As a play it }will inspire no transports among that serious g@nd contemplative portion of our theatregoers "who do not go to the theatre. But as an artful pilatien of t‘icks eld and new it has poss'bilities, and v-u later it has undergone a ss of ne Ps p. add a to = exchequer of its projectors, who perhaps w bear with fortitude its aesthetic Rertiomings, in view of its commercial advantages.’ ! The Inter Ocean review concludes with: “Despite Miss Sears’ excellent porfraiture, however, Standing Pat is not for the Mbsenite or the Bernard Shaw crank. It is f those who fell in love with The Fortune Hunter and Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford. As they were legion in number, it is not impossible fancy the same good luck for Standing Pat. lor it is & goed enterta'nment.’’ Record Herald headed a review ‘‘Standing Pat Almost Balks,’’ and said in part: “The author of Standing Pat aims te infuse the ancient fabric with zest and novelty vy making his reform candidate a woman, laying his scene in a Colorado town, where womenfare accorded the suffrage. His heroine is a ppery, confident, resourceful person—but she will talk. She talks a reasonably good story tc death, for by no exercise of chivalry can her conversation be regarded as momentous. It is clack.’’ Frederic Hatton, in the Post, sumg it up in this manner: ‘ “Mr. Veilier tells his story leisurely, not neglecting numerous little touches of background and character which save his play from being mere melodrama, though some of his book might be pruned out to the improvement of thp unity of his dramatic structure and a child The has interpolated could be disp: nsed with. e combany is imposing.”’ . CAST ‘ ES os 0ncnpeasenseete William $McVay i: ip cch bn oenéee ee bmaied Eri¢ Blind William Thomas ...............+-. George Tobin Helen Thomas Ruth Che tterton Tom Davis .... Sills Sallie Thomas Zelda Sears 2, 2 enceesbectnetteses.cne Frederick “Burton Gertrude Davis Mersch . Edward Weston ............ Victor | Beno!t Amos Judson ... 1.26. e cc eeeeeeee Henry eaver ON Andrew ilkins DE SOND on ver vpescesececenes Arthur “inden FOO TEGUEEE 2 vc vccccesascivccsvoces Ralp: Dean ACTS NEW TO CHICAGO, (Continued from page 13.) ' advantage for their respective needs, The songs ’ The dancing is graceful and, though there is but little of it, scores very well. They made oe to, they might have stopped the shew completey. For their last song, the orchestra took up the introduction of Ted Snyder's Mysterious Rag. The song has been a “life saver’ for a number of big acts over at the Majestic and might have been the same for this team. But in stead of putting on the number as they should have done, they proceeded to hand out a silly medley without the least semblance of meaning. The audience was plainly disappointed and plainly showed their disapproval and applauded the medley in a not too enthusiastic manner. Another case of losing the chance to make geod when it’s thrust under your nose—and we're not necessarily “plugging’’ for Ted Snyder, either. The team responded to an encore and took four bows, THE DENUNCIATION, Dramatic two scenes. Majestic, Chicago. nine-act show. Time, 24 minutes; in full stage. Number of ladies, 3. Number of gentlemen, 5. Playlet in Fifth in Denunciation is a rather empty and climaxless playlet. The opening scene is in the dressing room of one Edmund Kean, an actor in the Drury Lane Theatre. A stage manager and call boy are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Kean. He arrives and is visited in his dressing room by the Countess Felsen, whom he has protected from the attack of a bully. Incidentally, he has fallen in love with her and the object of her visit seems to be to bid him forget her. Here as in many other spots in the playlet, the meaning is not clear; it is a jumbled and. confused mass of words that resembles a jig-saw puzzle and a tone of ‘‘put-them-together-if-you can.’’ During the visit of the Countess in the dressing room a kneck is heard, the Countess leaves by another door and Kean admits her husband and the Prince of Wales. More confused talk and exit one of those gentlemen after having picked up a fan which the Countess had dropped. The call boy informs Kean that it is time he were on the stage. Kean dresses for the part of Romeo and joins his Juliet on the stage in the second scene. The Countess, her husband, and the Prince of Wales are seated in one of the house boxes. Romeo makes love to his Juliet and suddenly bursts out in a terrific denunciation of the Prince. The curtain dreps and leaves us just where we were in the beginning, with the exception of twentyfive minutes to the bad. ELIZABETH D’ORSEY, Vocalist. Wilson Theatre, Chicago.. Second in five-act show. Time, 14 minutes; in one. Here is another example of lost opportunities. Had this great (yes, that’s just the word to use) artist been given her chance a year ago, she would have been a singer of national reputation long before this time. Elizabeth D’Orsey has the mest wonderful voice ever beard in any vaudeville house in Chicago this season. Now to some that may seem like a pretty strong statement, but to those who doubt, the management of the Wilson or Willard Theatres will be glad to affirm this assertion. She makes a stunning appearance. She is young and truly beautiful. She opens her act with that old favorite, The Answer. Persons acquainted with this beautiful composition will admit that only an artist can render it. Her second number is The Soul of Love is the Red, Red Rose. This number is one of those rarities in semi-classic popular ballads and with it Miss D’Orsey scores well. Your Heart, her third number, proved the one best bet of her act. The song has a high and dramatic finish which this clever soloist takes with perfect ease and cleverness. There were two solid minutes applause following this number when Miss D’Orsey came down from her classic perch and gave her hearers Oh, You Beautiful Doll. The number is put on without the offensive suggestiveness with which some performers use it. It preved a riot for Miss D’Orsey and greatly assisted her in stopping the show. She toek two encores and five Hg at the evening performance on Thursay. CHIEF BENDER, JACK COOMBS, CY MOR. GAN, KATHRYN P AND EARL VIOLET EARL. The First Lesson. Majestic, Chicago. Seventh in nine-act show. Time, 27 minutes; in full stage. The great popularity and hero worship of these three great ball players could mean success without a word being spoken by them. But when a delightful and appropriate little act has been written around them they prove a small riot. The surprise of the act was the singing of Cy Morgan, the minstrel] man of the baseball world. Mr. Morgan has a clear and sweet high baritone voice and renders Harry Von Tilzer’s Mr. Dream Man in a clever and pleasing manner. The story or plot of the act deals with a girl who has come into possession of a big league team and doesn't know ‘‘beans’’ about the national game. The other girl, however, is a ‘‘bug’’ and with the aid of the three baseball stars succeeds in explaining the ‘‘inside’’ of the game. Bender, Coombs and Morgan demenstrate their pitching methods and each is applauded long and loudly. The act is closed by a song and war dance by the chief. The act responded to three encores and took five bews. PATRONS GET REAL THRILLER. (Continucd from page 13.) it off but it wouldn't come. One of them said, ‘Hold his hand, and I'll cut his finger off,’ but I beggec them to let me get the ring off. I wet my finger and they tore the ring from it. Then one of them cut off nv necktie with a $700 stud in it. They then noticed the two reels of film and took them along, too. I had a hard time getting here, but here I am.”’ The total loss of Mr. Harding through the hold-up amounted to about $1,400. The audlence left the house without asking for the return of its money, UP AND DOWN BROADWAY. (Continued from page 8.) Lederer. Harry Mestayer, Charles Dickson and Miss Emma Littlefield will be seen in his sup port. Charles Klein has decided to make the dramatization of Rex Beeeh’s book, The Ne’er Do Well. Mr. Klein will sail on the Olympic on December 9 for a two. months rest in Europe. He will return home by the way of Panama and visit places invelved in the action of the play. a big mistake in their closing. however, tor, | had they done what we thought they were going | & Luders for the rights to their new opera, | John Cort has signed contracts with Pixley The Gypsy. Mr. Cort will produce the opera next season. Eight-year-old Vera Beresford, daughter of Captain the Honorable Henry Beresford and niece of Lord Decies, will sail December 16 from Liverpool for a fortnight’s holiday visit to her mother, Kitty Gordon. The child who has frequently been called the most beautiful child in England will make the 8,000-mile trip under the chaperonage of ber governess and her maid. THE WILSON AVE. BILL. (Continned from page 13.) Peerless leader of the White Sox, Jimmy Callahan, was held over for the entire week. Callaban appeared at the Majestic two weeks ago. He is. booked at the Wilson the current week and goes to the Willard for the entire week of December 11. He is far from a success as an “actor,”’ but his faithful ‘‘fans’’ make it poss!ble for his act to go over very well. The show is opened by Laypo and Benjamin, Hebrew acrobats. One of the gentlemen does a comedy character while the ot*er works straight. The acrobatic work is fast and very clever, while the comedy is actually refreshing. The act is overflowing with good laughs and is justified in claiming to be ‘“‘something out of the ordinary.”’ The boys responded to three bows at the Thursday evening performance. Elizabeth D’Orsey, soprano phenomenal, appeared second. Miss D'Orsey stopped the show for two and a half minutes. She is a newcomer to Chicago vaudeville. Her offering is reviewed under the heading of Acts New to Chicago. The Bama Bama Girls appeared in spot ‘‘No. 3." The song numbers of this offering are fairly clever, but were weakened by the phenomenal success of the preceding act. The act is worked in full stage showing the interior of a toy shop. Of course the girls are the dolls, but it would be possible to find prettier and even more clever ones. There is a comedian in the act who does a sort of silly kid part and gets away with it very well. The songs are not as new nor as well chosen as might be, and the cancing might be improved with a bit of rehearsing, as some of the girls seem a trifle amateurish. However, the action throughout is fairly fast and sent the act away very nicely. Jimmie Callahan, the new leader of the Chicago White Sox, appears fourth in the bill. Jimmie tells a few Irish stories in a good brogue and closes his act with a sentimental bit of rhyme. He responded to an encore and took three bows, The show is closed by a comedy vehicle called A Day in a Vaudeville Agency. Some good singing is introduced and goes over nicely. The Stage setting is novel and clever, and the really funny comedy which is introduced, served to make the act a success. Three curtain calls were taken. Wanted for Whitney, Texas, First-class Shows, Thirty-three miles from Waco on the T. C. R. R house. Address A. P. BOESCH, Manager, WHITNEY, TEXAS. —WANTED— Good Show Companies For town of 1.000 population. 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