The Billboard 1912-12-14: Vol 24 Iss 50 (1912-12-14)

me Poe . t ae ot ee a we z= + ey - Pt ra ee ag oe 8 as a? — +". 7 The Billboard DECEMBER 14, 1912 $200 A MONTH Be Your Own Boss If you are makDing less than $50 vealth and independence by our plan. You oney and the means of making barrels more of it. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE to start out from home on a combined business and pleasure trip, stay at the best hotels and live like a lord and clean up $10 svery day? Work at amusement places, crowded street corners, manufac.uring institutions, anywhere and everywhere, ten minutes’ walk from home or on the other side of the ,lobe. Just set a machine up any place you happen to select, and clean up $10 abore oper ‘ing expenses each and cvery y. My proposition is the WONDERFUL NEW COMBINATION CAMERA, with which you can take and instantaneously develop six entirely different styles of pictures, including Buttons, Post Cards, and four styles of Tintype Pictures Every plate is Ceveloped without the use of films or negatives, ang is ready to deliver to your customer in less than @ minute after making the exposure. THIS REMARKABLE INVENTION takes 100 pictures an hour. Everybody wants pictures and each sale you make advertises your business and makes more sales for you. NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED. Simple instructions accompany each Outfit, end you can begin making money in fifteen minutes after the outfit reaches you. A trifling investment will get this WONDERFUL OUTFIT for you and put you in @ position to make $2.500 a year. If you want to be independent, and &bsoluteiy your own boss, write me today, and I will send you by return mail full free information regard ing this WONDERFUL PROPOSITION, a cluding letters offering positive proofs from part of the world. DON’T DELAY. ANSWER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY. t. LASCE can work when you | LLE, Meor., 627 W. 43d St., Dept. 653, New York, U. 8. A. ] S2e So Ww EE i zEFs qe 2 6 Fizs Erm "a. Ose = cw 5 at 3 a ol £5s a. Zz ste JOHN MUZZIO & SON 178 Park Row, NEW YORK Established 1860. Eugene C. Bristol Violin (Leader) Ist class Alto in Band, Travel or Locate. Library of Standard and Popular Music. Ticket? Yes. Per Address 624 Jefferson St., Paducah, Ky. Up-to-date Picture SHOW in best Georgia town of 5,100 live people clearing 300.00 monthly. Good opening. E. C., care The iMboard, Cincinnati, Ohio. AT LIBERTY PREFER TO LOCATE TRAP DRUMMER A. F. OF M. Drums, Tympani, Bells and Accessories. EUGENE V. CLARK Middlesex Theatre, Middletown, Conn. Sober Orchestra Leader AT LIBERTY! VIOLIN AND BARITONE FIFTEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE in Theatre and Road Work. A ticket would be appreciated. Address AL. MORSTEAD, 400 Russell Ave. No., Minneapolis, Minnesota. VIOLINIST AT LIBERTY As Leeder or First Violin. All-round experience. Age 35; thoroughly reliable; good references. State best offer. Can open at once. Good Itbrary of music. A. F. of M. . PHIPPS. $10 No, 24th 8t., Birmingham, “I'LL DARE YOU TO TALK ABOUT ME” FERED GRIFFITH, “The Tricky Monologist.”’ CONTENTS RR OE ee ere ee Victor Herbert -Discusses Light Opera . . Patti’s Successor at Last nie se btaei eb sss se kee ae one TOO a oe an wei Sin 0d Bae unin b GAA 6468 © What's the Matter With the Park Business NE CSE FEEL Ring Stars of Fitty Years Ago TE i ee Oe tic wk hoo alee asl & 5:0 0 4a ks ee ee he Screen versus The Stage nn Re rear Pee Minstrel Overtures of ’68 and ’69 What the White Rats are Accomplishing The Chicago Theatrical Season Small Time Vaudevil Today EC nnn Cn alanis p's bie'e'b'oW Gb bine el aus acess The Educational Value of the State Fair The Career of Frank C. Bostock A Glance at Burlesque Conditions ee et sa eee tabs wen’ wakok ox ee rr oe Css oc week's wb.n-00s'e vs ce. ce<c'sebian das ee es vn witinn Mis bambi Whe mle SMA © OA 6 o's “Reel” Facts About Moving Picture Advertising a Tere se PORTER... duwscnncesescoecvevssccesacvess Fifteen Minutes With New York Critics Review of Reviewers EE RGR 2 ok ec bin bos a cis ch cctateetts «enh o's 6s ons aoe b aia 0'gk State Fair Secretaries’ Convention Christmas ee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eeeeeeeeeeeene sede eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee ee eennee a Ce es Ceres eeee eres eee ee eeeeeeeese ceoeeeeeeeeeseseeseeereeeseeeeeae eet eeeeeeeseseseseeeseses The Amusement Week in New York The Amusement Week in Chicago ‘ Amusement Events of the Week Thruout America.................. 2-53 Burlesque News of the Week coerce s es eseeeesesreseseseseeeess ase iia © Sai = Giiip sais ook s vs + sadn op + bam « 64 Music News and Critical Song Reviews ...............cccccuccccee 55 Vaudevil and Burlesque News of the Week in New York 2 ae 56-57 Vaudevil and Burlesque News of the Week in C hicago Pr ee eee 58-59 Motion Picture News of the Week Thruout America ............... 60-61 ny er mUUEUEN NO BUOOMEUDE . cn. ccc cccccccccccnce cacceacaccecs 62-63-68 SRSA ge SS aR ec 64 ee ine an cw Kies Biot Sk ch aa ebea bile .cemdiomclaceniod 65 eS ESI ae Oe ee 2 On an 70 EE SE a SPC ae gg ae rR a 72 EE EERE SE SO ee EES 74 ae on SA o's wb oS baw Le us wn ie Linc gkulin om 75 I eh ie iss 0G 45k 55-« oats a Gwe wiouiie o Oik o/b kloan, 76 ae ee be ee i ae Nate 82 ROUTES— ne ree &5 Stock & Repertoire .................. 150 Miscellaneous .......... 150 Carnival Companies .. 150 Circus & Wild West . 150 Additional Performers 150 DD c<sssnabevdsus 150 SE cisintharbolbhstablsbieve beh sbtseheoesvacalscerccrccess 151 Dae GAE ER CEReh Ken ebagh ee sintachbudeuneciecitndsd caokecscebarsihcuccc ceed, 151 List of Films and their Release Dates . 91 SS | AER See ae Remit t.newe as ius one aks s bes & 108 The Season’s Premieres ................. 127 (RRS ISS ee SANE Ee BT Cates 140 Opera House Directory ............... 150 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS MORT H. SINGER’S ATTRACTIONS a. “A MODERN EVE” (Kastern.) in Conjunction with A. H. WOODS. a Las. GEORGE DAMEREL §“MissNobody fromStarland”’ “THE HEART BREAKERS” IN PREPARATION “A WIDOW’S HONEYMOON” By ADDISON BURKHARDT. (In conjunction with AL H. WOODS.) SAMUEL THALL | BOOKING MGR. “A MODERN EVE” With MISS AJSELE ROWLAND. (Western.) MISS OLIVE VAIL GENERAL OFFICE: Palace Music Hall, CHICAGO. BOOKING OFFICE: Princess Theatre Bidg., CHICAGO. THE NEW REGENT HOTEL ST.LOUIS, MO. ~The Only Exclusive Theatrical Hotel in the City, Wishes Its Friends and Patrons A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Elmer E. Campbell, PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER. 101 N. 14th Street ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Merry Xmas «npipll oe Happy New Year SLIDES Handsomely Colored, two for 50c, prepaid. Send for our catalogue of new feature lectures. MAKE YOUR OWN LOCAL FILMS. Our Ajasee Camera is designed especially for exhib itors and those who desire to make films of interest. It's a scientific instrument, not 8 toys. Will do as good work as an expensive machine Price $75.00. Send for circulars and full information. SPECIAL ULIDAY OFFER. Passion Play and Life of Christ, excellently colored, 50 slides, with lecture and posters, $20.00. A. J. CLAPHAM, 130 West 37th Street, New York AT LIBERTY STRING BASS PLAYER Many years experience in opera and vaudeville; locking for a location; playing 5-4 size bass. FRANK SOMMAR, 410 N. 8th St. Ft. Smith, Ark. FOR SALE—PROJECTION MACHINES One Edison Exhibition Model, complete as shown ip his catalog on page six. Almost new. Retail price, $176.00. Our price, $100. oc. oO. D. Guaranteed in perfect condition. One “Little Foss” Home Picture Machine complete. Ready for showing any standard perforated film. Our price, $50.00 C. O. D. Guar. anteed in perfect condition. Two *“*Motiographs,” ‘brand new’ mechanisms and magazine arms only. Has re-wind attachment, all as shown on page Motiograph Catalog. Their price, $128.50 (with > wind attachment.) Our price, each, $1 et Cc, 0. Guneamieed perfuct condition. Address C. WouLo: , 905 Chemical Bidg., St. Louis, Mo. FOR SALE 1 Powers No. 6 Moving Picture Machine com plete with Slides, Calcium, improved Burner, 10x12 curtain, all packed in traveling trunk and in first-class shape. First $80 takes It; send $10 to Am. Express Co, to arantee charge* and will ship subject 7 — nation. Write to E. IWE WAN f Specialty —_ for wee © —w Company; those willl t » wethe? aise ~ a Bremmer, I have trap drums. = booze soem. Week stands, stop et hotels, ay all winter under ae warm comfortabd ~ rooms. your wire. rickets Wf you arnt 109, Habira, , Dee 16 to 22. WM. DELAPORTE. A NNN ene ren tc ae —THOS. QUINCY MR. AND MRS. THOS. QUINCY WISH THEIR FRIENDS A MERRY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR On a honeymoon with the Johnny J. Jones Shows. MARGARET STANTON— FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT, MENTION THE BILLBOARD WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS. FOR SALE Round Top with two 80 ft. middle pieces, com4-5 with poles, seats eH og Al for reserve seats, stage and scenery, shape for the road, will take $250.00 for the outtt. Address FE. MOTT, Earle, Ark. Four or be in perfect condition; Give lowest price, make, Clinton, lowa. WANTED FOR Robson Bros.’ Show for 1913 Performers, Musicians and Working Men in all departments. Address JOHN A. DORNARD, Manager, 1816 Green St., Reading, Pa. “LL DARE YOU TO TALK ABOUT ME” FRED GRIFFITH, ‘The Tricky Monologist.” screem examination. ‘nan 8. A. KENNEDY, j ; 4 ig toe,