The Billboard 1912-12-21: Vol 24 Iss 51 (1912-12-21)

38 The Billboard DECEMBER 21, 1912. CIRCUS AND WILD WEST ; CIRCUS GOSSIP. The LeClair Do~ Pony and Monkey Circus will again take the road next season with one of the most cemplete outfits of its kind. The company will carry a complete new outfit, con sisting of a @-foot round top, with two 40-foot middle pieces and 12x18 main entrance, 30x60 horse tent, 20x30 cook house and 30x60 dressing room. The show has recently purchased ten new baggage wagons and three new ponies, making @ total of 12 ponies, three mules, 20 baggage horses, 30 doge and ten monkeys. The show's winter quarters at Crompton, R. 1., consists of three separate buildings. The ring barn and stables are under the same roof, and the blacksmith and paint shops adjoin the storage and canvas lofts for wagons and canvas storage. The baggage stock is turned out on the show's 40-acre farm, which supplies the show with grain and hay for the winter The show will open early in the spring, and will play the smal) towns. Charles Sparks, manager of the Spark’s Shows, in winter quarters at the fair grounds, pury, N. C., has re-engaged James Caskey, canvasman, who is now at winter quarters intending the rehabilitation of the outfit. cher Smith and six assistants are at work painting and redecorating the rolling stock. T. W. Ballinger has been re-engaged as general nt. C. 8S. Clark will handle the No. 1 Car. es Randolph will be special agent and James y boss billpester on No. 1 Car. Other bosses ized for the coming season include Jim ys. boss hostler; Tom Jacobs, train master, Jack Loraine, chandelier man. Manager will remain in Salisbury for the next at completing his roster for 1913 before going North, very few of the acts having bee n contracted for at this time. The season will open the latter part of March. Backman’s Animal Show, after spending last winter at Lewiston, Idaho, opened in April, fur nishing the wild animal show with the Parker Bhows No. 1. The show traveled East thru Can ada as far as Ft. William, Ont., and then workt West to Vancouver, B. C and again East thru the States to Leavenworth, Kan. The season bas been the most profitable in the his tory of the show. The show is now comfortably housed for the winter. Suitable training quarters have been procured in the old street car barns. The quarters are the best the show has ever had. Among the trainers who will re main at the winterquarters breaking new an! mal acts are Captain Curley Wilson, who is in ebarge, and Johnny Miller and Harry Brooks, each having one assistant. They have four mew acts to break. The Thomas Bros. R. R. Show continues to éo big business in Southern Texas. The show carries a six-piece orchestra and a complete line of scenery under tent. Mre, Rachel Schode, an aunt to the Thomas Brothers, will join the show in San Antonio on an all-winter visit. The roster of the company is as follows: Mrs. Susie Thomas, owner; Clifford, Carl and Earl Thomas; John T. Hopkins, actor and ecenic artist; Owen B. Harrington, (Crack, the Pianist); Al Thurban, Billy Hanley, Jack E. Harris; Edw. J. Carr, stage director; Will and Myrtle Lock wood. P. J. Clancey and three assistants has charge of the canvas. Albert Roseman and wife joined the show at Yoakum, after closing with the Burk Show in Denver, oO. Re! enn Bros.’ BR. R. Show closed a fair ar Trinity, Texas, December 9, and shipt the car, tops, etc., to winterquarters at Normanna, Texas. Only two accidents occurred during the season, namely, the backing of the M. K. and T freight into the show's car, knocking Mrs. C. C. Kennedy to the floor and injuring her, and the shooting of Ellis, the wire walker {in the leg at New Willard, Texas, by an out sider. The show closed with the following people: W. T. Kennedy and wife, John Kennedy, c. ¢. Kennedy and wife, Ed Edwards, Jack Cavanaugh, Will Coonts, Vick Shock, Emma Corrigan, Ellis Family, Dan Hollman, Richard Tarrbar and Mexican Band of six pieces. Bonheur Bros.’ Greater Golden Mascot Overland Shows have ended e season that was suc: cessful with but one exception, that being the sustaining of considerable loss thru the horse plague in Kansas, not #0 much by losing horses of their own, but by the resulting depression among the stock owners, who lost many horses, withholding patronage for a period of several weeks. The show will spend the winter South. November 30 it crossed the line into Texas. The show has been provided with new tents, several new wagons, $1,600 electric light plant, one animal cage and a pony carriage. Three ponies Charlie Thompson writes that he has been deluged with applications for positions since the appearance of the Two Bills’ advertisement in The Billboard, and requests that all future applications be made to Major G. W. Lillie direct, as the engaging of people is not in his province; and that he has forwarded all mall received to Major Lillie for his consideration. Mr. Thompson adds that according to present plans the formation of the Wild West and Far Fast should prove a revelation to patrons of outof-door amusements for 19153. J. Augustus Jones, wizard of the two-car tent show business, has been recuperating at Hot Springs for the past month. At the present time Mr. Jones bas four complete tented exhibitions in the South, the King and Tucker Circus, and the Alabama Minstrels, both two-car outfits, the Jones Bros.’ Circus, a three-car show, and a 40horse wagon show. All are said to be tarred with the proverbial J. Augustus luck and one There Is but One BEST—Those Made by WELDON, WILLIAMS & LICK FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. making money. Christmas, dD. P. White, agent, is now of a number They will stay out until after well known circus in Jacksonville, Fla., in charge of aeronauts, with aeroplanes, hydroplanes, gas bags, ete. He expects to fill some big contraets in the state of Florida and Havana, Cuba, during the winter. . Before leav ing New York he completed a big picture for the Universal Film Company Fred L. Owens was the aeronaut. Mr. Owens will also be in Jacksonville for the winter. The Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Shows closed the season at Obion, Tenn., December 5, and shipt to winter quarters at Harrisburg, Ill. The weather was good up te the last day. Many additions will be made to the show for next season. More than half of the people have been engaged for next season, practically all of the advance. Joe C, Donahue will be general ad vertising manager; E. L. Brannan, traflic man ager and Parson Miller, special agent. The Billboard is in receipt of Howe's Great Tendon Shows 1912 souvenir route book, showing contracting cities and states played, railroads and miles traveled, shows missed and other items of In terest. It also gives the career of the shows, executiy staff, advance, personnel, etc., and a biografy of Ike Streibig, who passed away at the New Grand Hotel, New York City, July 28. The book is very handsomely illustrated. In a box at Talbot’s Hippodrome, St. Louis Mo., recently were seen: Samuel McCracken, manager Barnum and Bailey’s Show; Jerry Mugavin, manager Howe's London Shows; 1 A. Robbins, manager Frank A. Robbins’ Shows; Charles Mugavin, manager Sanger’s Shows: Rhoda Royal, manager Rhoda Royal Shows, and John Agie, equestrian director of the Ringling Shows. It is rumored that Earl Burgess, manager of Primrose & Dockstader’s Minstrels, wil] be bus! ness manager with Edward Arlington and Fred Beckman’s California Frank Wild West, which goes on the road again next season. Mr. Beck man will bave the activ management back with the show. A strong advance staff hase already been engaged, and the outfit for 1913 will be considerably enlarged. Al. W. Martin, of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, is contemplating a trip to Australia to spend the winter months with H. 8. Rowe, who {s there with the Bud Atkinson Circus. Mr. Martin bas secured the etate rights for Kansas for the exhibition of the Wallace-Hagenbeck moving pictures. . B&B. Martin reports big business for the Yankee Robinson Show in Texas, where it recently closed the season. The latest reports from Chicago state that three younger children of Ralph Peckham are unaffected. Mr. Peckham lost his fourth child on the morning of December 2, and altho he is deeply grieved by this terrible loss, he is bearing up very well to the circumstauces. Friends in Chicago claim that Mr. Peckham demonstrates indomitable courage by the way he held up under the loss. King’s Wild West Show is now in the Ostrich Farm, Jacksonville, Fla., making good. Among some of the old-timers with the show are Jack Rinehart, rope spinner; Jack King and his three and four-horse catch and fourhorse Roman ride, Wild Tom and his famous bucking horse, Carrie Nation; Slim, trick rider, and little Florence King, one of the most daring trick and Roman riders in the circus world. Dave Jarrett, manager of The Two Bills’ opposition car, having removed his family to Au rora, Ill., is now a Chicago suburbanite. Dave will be with the Wild West and Far East again next season. Prof, William Sweeney, leader of the famous cowboy band, will shortly leave for one of Col. Cody’s mine holdings in Arizona, where he will put in the winter months and begin bis education as a mining expert. Tom Kelly, manager of Kelly's ‘‘Colored 40,"" was a guest at the Saratoga, Chicago, last week. . He closed his minstrel season under tents the later part of September and has since been playing theaters to very good business. The show is bookt in Michigan for the next 20 Frank days. Mr. Kelly manages the Opera House, Mount Pleasant, Mich., where he makes his headquarters. Frank O'Donnell, recognized as one of the top-notch circus press agents and one of the most welcome in editorial sanctums, for years connected with Ringling Bros., Forepaugh-Sells, and the past two seasons with the Wallace Hagenbeck Show, is successfully managing the Columbia Theater, Grand Rapids, Mich., playing vaudevil. Rhoda Royal, who is appearing at the Hippo drome, St. Touts, with several of his anima! acts, will follow this engagement with two weeks at the Great Northern Hippodrome, Chicago, directly after which he will re-open his annua! winter indoor circus, ending the tour with a week in Denver prior to opening with Sells Floto, for the tenting season. The Billboard desires to thank Louis E. Cooke, proprietor of the Continental Hotel, Newark, N. for the handsome Thanksgiving menu ecard which was sent. Thanks is also extended the Sun Bros’ Shows who remembered old Billyboy with a copy of their bill of fare served to employes of Advance Car No. 2 on Thanksgiving. Duffield Neff, of the financial department of Ringling Bros.’ enterprises, has been engaged as auditor for the Barnum and Bailey Show. Sam McCrackin, business manager of the big show, who has been at winter quarters, Bridgeport, since the close of the tenting season, was a vis itor to the Western offices of the firm itn Chicago last week. Jake Posey, the well-known boss hostler re cently arrived in Cincinnati, 0., where he wil! winter. Jake hag been connected with the Yankee Robinson Shows for the past two seasons in charge of the etock, and has been re engaged for the season of 1913. He reports the past season the most prosperous in the history of the show. J. Henry Rice, general agent of Frank A Robbins’ Show, ig busy securing vandevil book ings for three of the Robbins’ trained anima: acts. The menagerie hes been placed in one of the large department stores in Bt. Iouis a8 a special holiday attraction. The show is win tering there. J. W. Beatty, manager of the side show with Wideman’s Kit Carson Wild West, in company } years the with Wm. Harrington, assistant mavager, arrived in Chicago recently from Obion, Tenn., where the show closed its season December 5 Ed L, Brennan had charge of the advance thru out the Southern trip. Billy and Lola Jameson will again be with the Ringling Bros. Show next season. Billy will have something new and original in clown en tries and will also continue to use his of the man prize fight act entitled The Fighter's Review, which he is now using in vaudevil Jameson will be at home for the winter. Park B. Prentiss, the hustling circus master, did not lose much time after the of the Conner’s Indoor Circus, having immediate ly put his band on the train for Cleveland, 0., where he joined the Robinson and Spellman Hip podrome shows, which opened in that city De cember 9. band close thé most the motley, in some of the productions of Polyscope Company, Chicago For genial John was principal clown with Main, the Wallace Shows, and othe John Lancaster, one of clowns that ever donned fully taking part the versatile is suc Selig Walter L prominent circuses, Bernerd . who was scheduled to ‘isco, Cal., to Australia, No in Frisco too late to make and played the Pertolo and Princess the steamer | Theaters in that city while awaiting the sail ing of the next steamer. Trains for various news companies. Doc No lan, of the Ringling Bros.; Red Lumpkin, of the Barnum Show; Earl Nelson, down town tieket seller, and Sam Guske, of the Two Bills, are running on trains out of Sioux City, Ia. Seair’'s Animal Show and Museum will take the road, season 1913, greatly en nl re constructed Several cages of rare n have been added to the already large collection rhe show is wintering at Reading, Ia. The Billboard is in receipt of information to the effect that the Hagenbeck-Wallace will be enlarged next year as formerly repor and that the seating capacity will be increast at least 3,000. Louis Roth, animal trainer, was back wit! the Al G. Barnes’ Circus before it closed, after being tn the hospital for a long time Hie was badly hurt by a lion on the Hagenbeck-Wallece Shows. Harry Walker, of Detroit, Mich., and George Chenell, of Columbus, Ohio, members of the Na tional Poster Advertising Association, are spend ing a few days in Jackson, Mich., where they are guests of a local member, W. R. Solomon. Lampe Bros.’ Newest Shows are now In winter quarters at Absecon, N. J., where their black smith shop bas been enlarged and another build ing is in the course of construction. C. W. Lewis has again signed with the Quire United Shows as general advertising agent for next season. He is spending the winter at Read ing, Pa. J. L. Springer, car manager with Sun Rros.’ Shows, was the guest of Frank E. Butler and wife (Annie Oakley) while playing Leesburg Fla Charles (Shorty) Prettrman was seen at the Ostrich Farm, Jacksonville, Fla., recently. Shorty is a midget clown rube with the Nebraska Bill Show. W. R, Elliott closed with the Jones Show recentiy, and left for Rochester, N. Y. where he will winter. Elliott will again handle tickets with the show next season. After the closing of the Sig Sautelle Show Rose Reynolds, the lion trainer, left for her home in Cleveland, Ohio. She expects to leave for California in the spring. Al Swain (Montana) will again be with Goll mar Bros.’ Shows, season 1913, as ringmaster, trained ponies. menage and races, making his third consecutiv season. Jim Marrow, of the Al G. Barnes’ Circus, left for his home in Fresno, Cal., after the closing of the show. The Aerial Derbys have closed their fourth season as free attraction with Buckskin Ben's Wild West recently. M. C. Service, formerly car manager with the John Robinson 10 Big Shows, has purchast a moving picture show at Newport, Ky. G. H. Williamson will be superintendent of properties with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows season of 1913. LaBelle Clarke is now In her twelfth consecutive week for the Western Vandeville Man agers’ Association, and is making good. A. L. Harvey is now running a moving ricture and vanudevil show in the small towns of Penn sylvania and New Jersey. R. G. Piper has closed as local contractor with Sun Bros. Shows, and is spending winter at San Angelo, Texas. Barney Shay closed with the John H. Sparkes Shows and joined the Kadell-Kritchfield Shows at Plant City, Fla. It is rumored that Willlam Dale will age ag advertising car with the inson Nhows next season. FE. M. Nichols has joined Merle H Missourt Girl (Eastern) Company as agent. Joe Berries, anjmal trainer and equestrian director, 1s handling in vaudevi) the six Schu mann Stallions belonging to Frank A. Robbins Many of the tent show candy butchers and ticket sellers are filling in the winter ‘‘butchering’’ on railroads, Charlie Mugavin, one of the proprietors of the Sanger Shows, and Hosea Moyer, agent of the Sanger Shows, were in Cincinnati! recently. man Yankee Rob Norton's genera)! James M. Beach, special agent for Sun Bros.’ Shows, will winter a Macon, Ga. Bert Davis and wife were seen In Jacksonville, Fia., recently. Richardson's Jesse James, under canvas at Iake Butler, Fla., recently. Jake Newman, of the Rarnum and Ralley Shows, was in Cincinnati! recently. Arch Donaldson. of the Donaldson Lithograph Company, was in Chicago on business recently. closed 8ST, PAULI. A. B. P. B. A. NOTES. The billposters held their first annual dance Thanksgiving eve, which was a tremendous suc cess. Over 1,000 people were present, and thru the excellent management of the members of mn heart gall | | Ringling | is cirens —y No. 45, over $400 net receipts were rea)zed. Bert Wheeler was a delegate to the convention in New York. There is a rumor that Fred Stewart is gol to be married in a few weeks. Mr. Stewart is at present agent of the Grand Opera House. Pat Langan is not going with George Good the coming season. Earl Scott is to have a brigade on the Floto Show. He has signed up the following men: George Singleton, Pat Langan and Billle Witts. MINNEAPOLIS I, A. B. P. B. A. NOTES, lou Ritt, second man with Lew Johnston ahead of V’rimrose-Dockstader’s Minstrels, was in town six days ahead of the big troupe and billed i it like a cirens, Ritt, is from Kentucky aud is known as Colonel Ritt. He belongs to Scranton Local No, 39. Wilbur Holmés, deacon in the show business was in New York to the Billposters’ Convention, and reports a good time In fact New York Local did all it could to make the visit a pleas ant one, Kid Wheeler, delegate from St. Paul Local 45 stopt off for a two days’ visit in Erie, Pa., on his way back. The tournament, started some three weeks back, remains unchanged. lenford McDonald and Dorte are only five points bet ween them January 1 will finish the tournament, and the bets are even Lloyd Kro which the Bijou billroom, and Smutty Smith was the first victim Word has been received from Winnipeg that awels Esterwild Davidson, better known as tusty, will never return to Minneapolis to live as a littl Winnipeg girl has captured him. | That will be the fourth wedding in the ranks of Local No. 10. Howe, treasurer of the season at St. Paul, is now treasurer at the Majestic Theater, Los Angeles. Merrill wil) marry a Minneapolis girl in spring. Fred Riley says be can hardly wait for the Bros.’ Advertising Car No. 2 Ever since the are is over all that Riley talks e expects toe be the firs with Tom Dalley. a a Ed L. Jones is touring the Eastern States advertising Foley’s Medicine, and has a crew of 16 winter billposters working under him. Shubert last TENT SHOW NOTES. The Girls From Gay Paree show, which has been playing the Middle and Southern States under canvas during the past season, closed their tenting season at Covington, Le. The show has enjoyed very good business during the entire season altho they have played to strong opposition in many places. Most of the performers have been re-engaged for next season and Manager Baskins, who is at present touring South America and Panama, will opes his show about the first week of March. Mgr, Baskins featured Royal Ruby, who has a number of burlesque engagements under considerstion for the winter months. VIA WIRELESS. By Hunter Bennett. David Ramage, of Arizona fame, and last season manager of The Third Degree, ig mam aging Rowland and Clifford’s Rosary (Westera) this season. @ur eld pal, Frank Raleigh, of Bloomingtona, Il.., is now exploiting North Bros.’ Stock Compee at the Metropolitan Theater, Oklaboms y. Next to the Golden Gate, Shaniy'’s smile at the Continental Hotel, is Frisco’s greatest drawing card. Ed. Haines say, ‘“‘back to the farm for mine, boys." Watch and see who is contracting agent for the Sells-Floto Circus again next season. Lou Rose is the official fixer of the Greeawall Theater, New Orleans, Lou cut quite Fae a8 announct at the Wolgast-Mandot J. Franklin White is doing great work abead of The Spring Maid. White used to sell carloads of stove polish. Where is Asron Laskin? We missed him is Waco, Tex. Our agent friend, has the correct dope op Paris Texas. Agents, Beware! Margaret Anglin’e Southern tour, under the management of Louls Nethersole, {s proving one, big success, House managers in the South and Southwest say it is a pleasure to do business with the old school road managers. such as Dave Ramage, of The Rosary; Fred Williams, of The Girl, and Ormond Butler, of Alma! Where Do You Live? Note that Joe West Is at liberty, after 89 weeks with the Mollie Ralley R. R. Shows. We certainly deplore the untimely death of Chas. H. Abrahams, His unique advertising stunts, and clean methods as a showman, wos him the admiration of all visitors to the State Fair, at Dallas, Texas, this year. Paul and Marmion Stone, in a pianolog ené tinging act, have completed thelr tour of the interstate Circult and will soon open on the ‘ . M. A. time, under the direction of Alf, T. Wilton. . . = WANTED MUSICIANS to work as attendants. Must be sober and reliable. capable of handling the Barb Standard Music. Thirty-five ($35.00) doll i, ollars and all found. A. F. TERPINITZ, MUSICAL DIRECTOR NEBRASKA STATE HOSPITAL, INGLESIDE, NEBR. MODERN THEATRE FOR SALE In town of 12,000. with a‘ditional drawing populstion of 15,000 within radius of six (6) waew in New Jersey, thirty-five (35) miles from Philadelphia New house, three years old, modern and up-to-date in every particular, Playa all big city produetions. Seating capacity, one thousand (1,000). oad reason for selling. Do not answer unless you have at least six thousand dollars ($6,000) cash. Address A. B. C., care The Billboard, Cincinnati, Ohio. —s