The Billboard 1913-03-22: Vol 25 Iss 12 (1913-03-22)

Saletan an! mei —_. OTE + Rn oR go oe age tt x a 52 The Billboard MARCH 22, 1913. BURLESQUE NEWS OF THE WEEK SAM HOWE SHOW SELECTED Will Play Indefinite Summer Engagement at Columbia Theater, New York City—Trials of Billy Watson and Company, Arrested at Instance of Cincinnati Reformers, Set For April 10th New York; March 16 (Special to The B*'. teard).—It is definitely decided that the Sam Howe Show will hold the boards at the Colum bia Theater here for the summer run, opening May 26. The show, which has been selected as the best of this season’s Eastern Wheel offerjogs, will close its recular season at the Colum bia in Chicago, May 10, after which it will play an extra week at a theater yet unanneunct. It will then lay off a week ft rehearse ani strengthen fur an indefinite run at the Broad way shrine. Six girls and eight men will added to the show. This announcement wii! to several managers come as a disappointment be selected. who have been expecting to WATSON TRIAL SET FOR APRIL 10. The bonds of Billy Watson, Billy Spencer. Mergaret Newell and Ida Walling, of the Wat gon’s Beef Trust. were ordered forfeited by Police Judge Fricke of Cincinnati, on March 10 after the quartet failed to appear in Policc Court to answer to charges of giving an im moral and indecent performance at People’s KRIEG TO MOTORCYCLE TO CHICAGO. Brooklyn, March 17 (Special to The Billboard).—Louis Krieg, the versatile manager of the Gayety here, is preparing for a motureycle tour which will represent his vacation this sum mer. The run will include a visit to Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and Chicago in which Leuis will be accompanied by Joe Mullen, carpenter of the Robinson Crusoe Girls, and Will Cohen, electrician vf the Gayety Theater here. All are enthusiastic motorcyclists and are anxfously looking forward to the trip. ALICE BLAIR TO STAR IN SKETCH. Ind., March 17 (Special to The Blair, who has been making in her realistic impersona tion of a girl ‘‘dope’’ in the sketch with Sim Wiliams’ Girls from Joyland, is contemplating an essay at vandevil and with Joe Woodman and a small company will produce and offer a new underworld playlet, in which Miss Blair will appear in the title role. The title vf th new act is At the All-Night Drug Store and its story will be characteristic of the hop emokers and cocaine fiends of the lower world. Indianapolis, Billboard) .—Alice such an impression JOE EMERSON OUT. New York, March 16 (Special to The Bill board).—Joe Emerson. the tramp comedian, wax compelled to leave ihe Columbia Burlesquers thru sickness and ts now in New York. He has been replaced in the show by one of the other members of the company. LUELLA TEMPLE. New York, March 16 (Special to The Bill board).—Luella Temple, who threatened to leave the cast of The Girls From Happyland, thru some scandal which has been going the rounds of the company, has been pacified, and is stil! handling her old part with the shuw, which is at the Park, Bridgeport, the last three days of th< present week. HIEPODROME FOUR JOIN T. M. A. Kansas City, Mo., March 14 (Special to The Billboard).—Among the recent candidates for membership into the local lodge of the T. M. A. No. 13, were three members of the Hippodrome Four, the quartet now with Hurtig & Seamon’s Bowery Burilesquers. The three members of the team who became T. M. A. members at the initiation held last week were: Fred Meek, Billy Kelly and Victor S. Plant. Jim Davey, also a member of the Hippodrome, is also a member of the T. M. A., which makes the whole four T. M. A. members. ASTOR QUARTET SHOW VERSATALITY. Paterson, N. J.. March 17 (Special to The Billboard).—RBilly Arrington. who has been ont vf the cast of the Sam Howe Show for the past few days. owing to sickness, has been replaced by Ned Silvers, of the Astor Quartet. who has made an excellent showing in the part Fred Rith, also of the Astor Quartet, and who is playing the German character part of Baron Blottstein. is also making good in the part Edward Smith, another of the teyvs with the versatile four, is now singing That Old Gir! of Mine in the show while Earl Woods is now leading Syncopated Boogy Boo. which is one of the biggest chorus number hits with the show. FOLEY AND MURRAY WRITE NEW SONG. New York, March 15 (Special to The Bill board).—EFEddie Foley, the dapper and popular straight man with The Merry Whirl. is putting out a new song which was written and com posed by Foley and Billy Murray. another Bgston boy. The song, with pleasing lyrics and catchy melody. is entitled Underneath The Same Old Moon. Mr, Foley is nuw negotiating with Messrs. Gordon and North for next season when he may be featured with one of their Columbia attractions, Theater week before last. The arrests wer made on complaint of a member of the Cincin nati Vigilance Society. The bonds were $300 i: each case. Attorneys for the actors stated that Watson and his show people were in Chicago and had to fill an engagement. The judge set the cases for hearing for April 10, when the show has an open date. WITH THE MERRY MERRY. By Michie O’Brien. There was a notice on the call board at the Olympic the other week, and it read as follows: “All members of the chorus who wish to sign for next season should call at the offices at the Columbia Theater Building, where they wil receive contracts."’ Directly under the above. someone had written in pencil: “‘We decline — thanks.”’ Signed: THE CHORUS, Ha a. It's funny how some girls will kick, and then, after swearing by all the gods in the mythological encyclopedia that they wouldn't go with the show again, turn right around and sign. It’s strange, but they do, again and again. I was on the stage at the Casino, Brooklyn, one day last week, when I ran into Viola Lam bert, who was with me in the cherus of the Rose Sydell Show last season. Vi is looking grand, and is evidently thriving on married life She married the electrician of the Cherry Blo» soms, the show she is now with. ° Up stairs down stairs, ten encores, and ther some more stairs Off with the make-up and Stage clothes and into the street clothes and off to the hotel. Supper; wash drapes and ribbons; an hour’s ironing, and back to the stuffy old theater for the same up-and-down routine. Re hearsal after the night show, and then—nothing to do till tomorrow. TOM ROBINSON A popular character comedian who has been featured with burlesque attractions on both circuits. Mr. Rob(Eastern Wheel), and is more than making good. inson is this season with Al Rich's Jolly Follies BILLIE HILL SICK. ge —: O., March 12 (Special to The Bill rd).—Benjamin Bergman is now musica! direc tor with the Sam Rice and His Daffydills Show, having replaced Al. Pearl, who closed with the show to join Chauncey Olcott. Billie Hill, the leading woman with the show, has been indis posed, and is out of the cast this week, ber part being now handled by Mable Lynest, who is d-ing nicely with the lines, while Kitty we Temple, another chorister, has been singing Miss Hill’s songs, and has surprised everybody with the show by the wonderfu! improvement in her voice and style of rendition. PASSING OF GARDEN THEATER. Buffalo, N. Y.. March 14 (Special).—Man ager Middleton, of the Garden Theater, on the Eastern Wheel, has just made the announce ment that the Garden, housing attractions of the Columbia Amusement Company. known a> the Eastern Wheel, will close its regular sea son April 26, with The World of Pleasur« Company. This will mark the passing of the old Garden Theater as a place of amusement. Mina Graham, who is one of the liveliest of all of the lively choristers with the Ben Welch show, has just bad an offer of marriage from a wealthy Philadelphia lawyer. She hasn't yet decided whether she will take the risky step, and the whole show is waiting anxiously to bear the verdict. When Kitty Watson was sick a few days ago, Pear! Livingstone jumped to the front and helpt out in the numbers. They tel] me that Pearl made a swell showing with, It's Great To Be In Love. She should, as Pear! certainly ought to know what it feels like. She's been there, believe me, and if my word don't go, ask the bunch around the Jay and Willoughby corner, tu dear old Brooklyn. Oh, you Sigrid Moore: I know a certain news paper man that thinks pretty well of you. At least he is always talking about you, and he declares that you are the prettiest chorus girl on the Eastern Wheel. Of course, this is only one man's opinion. How about It, girls? Girls, if you can’t get a stageband or an actor, what's the matter with marrying a regular man, one who earns money and who can make you a home and a living? (Continued on page 134.) Spokes in the Wheels Only a few more weeks and the birds will be singing, the trees blooming and the sun pushing thru the dark cleuds of winter, while the people on the road will be burrowing into the deepest recesses of their trunks in search of spring wearing apparel, while it will not be long ere the straight man will be able to wear his straw hat to and from the theater as well as during the show. Those who have signed for next season are happy and care-free, and their only thoughts are of the vacation at the seashore or in the mountains, while others, of a more Saving nature, will be on the look-out for a few weeks of vaudevil to improve the shining hour, and to enable them to make money while others are loafing. .t is certain, however, that the per former or chorister who has put in a full bur. lesque season, is well entitled to a brief rest and those who have saved their money and are in a position to enjoy a well-earned vacation are surely to be envied. , eee Dick Maddox, who is with the Lady Buccaneers this season, and who has been so successfy! witb his clever portrayal of the Denman Thompson style of “‘rube,"’ is arranging for a vaudey!! tour at the end of the burlesque season, and wi!! be seen in @ new one-act rural playlet, called, The Village Jack Of All Trades. Mr. Maddox is a capable and all-round performer, and |» sure to make good. The Astor Quartet send their regards to the Hippodrome Four, and wish to thank the boys for their kind wishes. P . * George A. Sweeney informs us that he wi)! Prepare an act with Trixie Ayres for next season. fe If you must have an olio in your show, be sure that it's a good one. Never mind about the cost, and remember, that with the plentiful ten-cent vaudevil houses al] over the country, you can easily make your show look like ten cents. Be careful. a June Millis, who is now making such a bit with the Queens of Paris, and who has been signed by the Jacobs & Jermon people for the next five years, is the same popular little entertainer who, as Julia Millis, was the bit of the team of Besnah and Miller, the well-remembered blackface, singing and dancing act in vaudevil. Miss Mills, who is now developt into a buxom but clever woman, is the daughter of Sebastian Miller, the once famous wrestler and athlete. fe Joe Adams, the comedian geld miner, has signed fourteen bobunks to excavate 250 feet of work at the Starrett mine in the Butte Haystack district. Mr. Adams is the owner of some valuable gold-mining property in that section, and the present season will be bis last appearance on any stage. . .* . Hughie Shubert is still wielding the baton with the Taxi Girls, and is maintaining bis reputation as one of the best leaders in the business. Hughie is the husband of the famous _ Bayton, the principal boy with the same show. Fred Fillett, manacer at Miner's, in the Bronx, is to have a benefit April 20. An alistar bil] of vaudevil and burlesque performers will make up a big program. ef Sarah Hyatt, one of the prancing choristers with Peter 8. Clark's Runaway's, is said to be contemplating a trip into vaudevil with Eddie Lewis, who is connected with one of the large New York music houses. The act, which wil! censist of singing and talking, will be ready for the close of the burlesque season. eee There are few stage car known along the line of t Joe Burgess, with Peter 8S. Clark's Runaway Girls, and there are few men who have beld down a traveling stage mechanic's job for as long a period as Joe. He has been with Peter 8S. Clark for thirteen straight seasons, and is signed indefinitely. Joe, always activ, is now building an entire new set for the Runaway's first part, and you may find him at the theater at all times. It was Joe who bullt the scenic structure for the famous Diamond Palace scene, which is making such a bit with the Clark Show. . . nters who are better Eastern whee! than There are few more attractiv women principa’s in burlesque than winsome Zella Ruasse!!, whose work with the Al. Reeves Show is creating 4 sensation among managers all over the country Zelia is neat, demure and refined. She can sing like a veritable nightingale, and her piano specfalty is a real masterpiece. Always amiling, ever lithe and full of dash and vim, pretty Vera George, 1s another bic favorite with the Reeves Show, and her « lightful impersonation of an hilariously intext cated female is proof of her genuine ability A big flash of bright scenery and wardrobe lots of numbers and a stage full of pretty giris, is Al. Reeves prescription for a burlesque show, and if box office receipts are any criterion, you may bet he's got the right idea. The reason why show leaders enjoy their wees at the Gayety, Newark, is because ft usua'y means a week of delightful pleasure in the company of one of the most popular house leaders on the Bastern Wheel, who, with his bap bunch of ‘‘musickers,”’ does all he can te make the traveling leader's life happy Edward Mueller is the man who tells the funny stories. and it is the same Ed., who, in the days of the Miaco’s and Sam T. Jack, was himself a road leader, during which period be pickt ap a wor’ (Continued on page 134.) ADDITIONAL BURLESQUE NEWS ON PAGE 134