The Billboard 1913-09-20: Vol 25 Iss 38 (1913-09-20)

SEPTEMBER 20, 1913. as 3 ots of = 7) “ i ; , . ibiti t j : ai j ] t and | f us who don’t know for exhibition at the Minnesota State Fair, Playing return dates with a slum jewelry night in Phila.? Have , i = between being with a carnival Prank will not put his new acquisition under package, requires nerve. Eh what? : a a Bae Be 25 i ave you any more Persian ‘ath sit. canvas until next week. The pureuase price “ig waiae ese soanny Cempini would like to have one al as ci conte 4 $1,000 ‘ ' . for Jack Kenneth. : : approximated $1,000. happ ned (guaranteed fact, too) hey Doc Barnett, do you remembers Mobile, the eee amadder you Beso. Me no wanta disa! Mec ae Re Mystery, the sleigh ridir and the | Ww ( Huggins—I know who got these razor: wan is « nuf a for ave (om iit lookt . ~ ir 3 H mi = os Ton coe Eee nee oe s ad? | s re ng ’ . ns ; " — — aan son #1) 1 amiton an ronto ‘fore ae a : ad % 47 heen | a ut Weyburn and I also know where they for a while. w h Six or seven of fis country. show. Some werkes shat b Le : ~ — , ; ’ ¢ ; ; wen wien to bak him up). Mr. Jam Man would 4 ? It's gratify > note that the managers are | ee eS r) ster hav been in bad had } 5 " ‘ And D ' Pa wir] } . in . : . wen 8 ‘ ( ‘ dot wecome a Am iwey is neo selling Oxs oy . . putting the ou girl shows. Ne Xt to the; ID in Jennings is among these prosent at paymaster (with real money) and mighty quick r ow selling dogs, not cement. ; pass system, they are the worst things the ' Knoxville, at that ; ; H wi : i uanagers have to contend with. | see. | ' that o said Correr paid five bucks a day for . La Wihde eri ‘a? P ees 0. M. Hunt is now handling the Harry Some pitchmen seem to think that a kaowl | 7 er re Sandy Billings. the other member of the! Lukens Animal Show front. Charl.s McDonald « ce of guit.r snipe hog latin is necessary to ! ‘oe Nadell is in Sioux C team Sanford and Sanford would like to hear | ‘> With the big on at Knoxville. he Dus ness—it’s not : ! Sioux ty with tlansferjne. from you ees Miek Chsfee—Weat fe the 2 y bet f : Mike Whalen sez he has cut the show biz "i 7 3 wef hi: 8 the junior ; to we? Mike Shea is one of the most Versatile and ‘cause it is teo damn hard for an «ld ff rs Carnival Showmen—When you build that. “llboard expert > a bicycle rider? emt railing of pipe shooters in the business. Is warming chairs at a Ty edo } ‘ ven swell front, don't forget that people who at | > t ¢ tee bvury of Mike's pipes is that they shops at neon and sho ting : ” be, ot, making tend carnivals don’t carry lanterns Put lights James A. 1 alterson says 2 y.ars old and are never s If boosts Let's hear some of ‘cm : i on it—plenty of them This also applies to Pinched for the first time, you've Wait Mike Sam Murdock —He % hinki 7 concessions. | ed a long time for it carnival manager, _ tuking on i able hb nol aay ar ~~ — ees ** . , . , . ATUCE and going into the Kd Owens—How much d'd you get from the bake-sbop busi | a : . , . P teCur ; ; ; , . = : rake « usin . Mike y s » A girl and her first beau is like a boy and]! Charles Met urren is’ Ww histlin a ne W oseng. rallrord company Is Al. Cronin still the man give ye : ne ae ce Waa . . ‘ye be will his first long pants, Aud ‘They Rowe'd, Rowe'd, Rowe’d. r of your case against the rajlroad com. present ' a © ei ‘ * ** **** pany ? : raj : . Huh. 1 don't see nothin’ on that wheel that Ra ol Noyes—For that noise try a bottl | Verpolett is making a killing with at ii ; . fee, Ps: : cee | Of 3-in Pp d aking 4 ek with a big mec aM ~~ hey ain't nene of them things as sé | Ola Doe Burdette Moon, one of the r-al old. Cite show in Waterloo, Lowa, : ‘ . eee Andy Nolan can make openings as well as ane — on the road. He is 78 years | Sam Murdock \ ' vry > " ‘ ig § > *The g . *¥ i ‘ es ‘ ck a ° s ~~ o ra " > What kind of a show “does not conflict’? | 82nouncements. 4 u & Re 1 puts enough team into a pitel Pe te noe ¢ ' Sa! ir Watson of razor paste " 4 ] a , i eee 6 make some of the young fellows sit up an! i ’ the K.P. last week and made him a and what is a legitimate joint’? Somebody . ine . teke notic ;prescnt of a nice charm He 1} ole slesee advine. For tuberculosis of the bank roll: One dose lceal of We-x . e thinks a great w “ee of Dis Moines followed by an application of | shat Thomas Moss says, “I told you, if it rained | Minneapolis, but) be very careful of the It's an ill wind that blows no one good. When There may be others but ther : i 1 would wait until 7:30 p. m."’ Sir Thomas climatic conditions for 2 month following or if rains on the fair grounds the raincoat: men Old Man Stu > W hon gs Mi — lo is in K. C. having a ‘chiro’ work him over, | Youll suffer a_ re lapse. eet the money; also the boys in the buildings. over on the bors t ous the. se gg Boe Moxs is the guy that put the “‘jug’’ in juggiing. a 4 | re oe an. . orth = 0} veir a ag gling Bill Herringtca—You sure write some let Amos Matthews—What has become of those n ¥ rap nny = . pumpkin shows. : : , | ter. lead reading machine om mt i : mat acid e oe man Aimselt, : Come on away from there, Henry, you can’t eae | ; onl = ! ina hines x pa one out in ¢ = F ¥ ring . 4 » x » , . ‘ ox oe ‘ pone art . wn oe8 © “ha s ¥ . 4 ; 4 ring none of them knives, When you meet a knocker hit him where nection business? t forms always did fe. tt n ae i My my nny ee . his brains ought to be and kick him where his get the ne 1% w al : storevels < ® hi ures me that pipes have made Col. M. A. Gowdy, did you ever fish that | prains a x ( < 0 ere ay _* yond de By Hid that motoreyel a hit with him, and to ask us to wait until ‘wat’? out of the M ssissippl River? Se | ‘ . ; i | be gives us some of his. Says he saw lot of about the than the A patient seldom knows any more 2 medicine he buys at a medicine show, Doctor’ does, ese Did the party who wrote the gards to the use pretest in reof fonetic spelling in The Billboard stop to think how much space this way of spelling saves? Thus enabling our most valuable informant to print at least 25 per cent more good live news each week, than they would be able to do otherwise. ef * Clyde Cass, I mean Clyde W. Cass, pardon me, Clyde old seck, for forgetting the **W’’, is still looking for a bargain in a_ solitaire. love of Dare we guess? No, mention it in this coumn. . Clyde, we impiore you, please, for the Mike, tell us who she is. honest, I won't The courts have held that a wife has a right to use her busband’s false teeth. The only recourse left for husbands who wear made molars, is to go back to ‘“‘fine cut.”’ es e+ * lt is rumored that the Krause Greater Shows are going to stay out until February and then winter in Tampa, where Mr. Krause owns quite a lot of property, which he bought while touring the South last season. It has not been Wtety Nears ago that Bennie was a_i proud possessor of just one concession, and from this time on he gradually workt his way up until he gained the tithe of concession several years Mr. Krause owned concessions with some of the king. For strings of larger outfits, and } soon mustered up nerve enuf to start a trick of his own, and with the aid of a good executiv staff came out on top and to top it all off he is going to build winter quarters in | Fierida on his own personal property. Go to it, Bennie, we all have a warm spot in our earts for you on the Liberty Shows. The best luck in the world is the worst we can wish vou et + © You can not convince a divorced show girl that rhtning never strikes twice in the same piuce, but she ix ready to adm't that ‘‘while wre'’s fe there’s hope.’ ee These shadoewgraf skits the girls are wear ng are even more Seymourish than the split artic) Luke McLuke calls them silhouette skirts *e es © Spent a week Halton with the Powell Stock any'’s merry agent, e Stokes, som boy, From the quality of the talkers at Knoxville, t+ would seen be the Nation Conversation Expositi At any rate it’s a winner. Hats off to Harry Wright Again I write, Wright is right *e et * Tom Iles is making St. Louis famous by foisting his presence upon it fer a few days. 7. * : Heerd upon reliable authority that Califor nia Frank intends to play one-nighters shortly. 7 e ft © While the banch at Coney Island always conceeded Omar Sami to be a wonderful park showman. ihey were skeptical about him hit ting the sticks. Take the beam out of your eyes, bunch, he is the real dough-getting kid. ~ *-e ee * ; A real press agent is one that can make a newspaper believe he is representing the best show on earth and at the same time tell ennf good live stuff to make them want to run it 4 passes In payment of your notices. Make them believe hat vou have news of real value and that it will interest the'r subscribers. Always try to make them like it. Get in with the ive ones ees Razer—What are you Moines for? Seott i around . ‘ Tes hanging Times—At Fifth and Locust Miones: “A Fink Tailoring Co.”’ > ef Signs of the streets, Des Frank Wallick—Get your band, ’ “ee California Frank (Hafley) able white high school horse at the Des Moines Fair As the steed was on exhibition in the horse stable and was furthermore already bookt those white trousers on purchased a valu Don't make it appear as tho you are giving them ! Ilarry Tammen says he does not like to elimb greased poles any more. He 5 Thus do the fit pleasures of youth, misfits in the autumn of life, s 57. become s-e* te Felice Bernard, the king concessionaire of the Kline Midway, made a flying trip to Chi cago over Thursday and Friday of last week. as | Harry Luken made a trip to his winter quarters at Reading, Pa., Saturday night, re maining away from the show at Huron this week, but rejoining the outfit at Sioux City, the week of September 15. es ee iW. ©.) these days, congenial Spike Huggins is taking on boys Spike is one of the fellows on the outfit. weight most with the show has a glowing word of praise ‘for him. eee Omar Sami posed for the Gopher Weekly, a typical reel put on the market by the Lammle Film Service of the Twin City. Omar was filmed pulling off one of his far-famed and deservedly well-reputed bally-hoos. Now he, like Sarah Bernhardt, James K. Hackett. Mrs. Fiske and Nat Goodwin will be pictorially pre served for posterity. . . Don’t think that the local newspaper man is a grouch because you don’t get any notices, To get good results bring him some stuff that is werth while Do not expect him to both write |} and putlish your stories—hire a press agent. and for goodness sake get a real one. Pay a real salary. You will find that your money will be well spent, see E, D. Morris, better known as the Pirming ham Wid, closed the week on September S with Cora Beckwith Big Swimming Show to start on bis winter tour, lecturing on white slavery jan? Mormonism with Dr, Andre Langdon the | well-known lecturer at the Titanic, River View Park, Chicago They open at Aurora | Ill.. week of September 15. and have 12 solid weeks bookt in the Southern States. Friends }of Morris and Langdon wish them success on their venture They are using 48 slides and a | big swell lobby display and it should go big. | “se J Cumonow, one of our old-timers, is out of the ‘“‘racket."’ and is now running a cigar store and news stand in Winnipeg, Can. Old Rilly»or ig always on sale and if you want to boys just stick around a little. es *# © I have received a letter from Beatrice How rd who is anxious to hear from her old friend Ida Rathburn Where are you, Ida’? oe .eo 8 Earl If Lonis is an eracker-jack? agent, is Mitchell a ee e¢ © In order to be ai full tribesman. it is not accredited Arab or absolutely necessary to be a skilled knocker. | “ee | Mr. Talker ston savir “Ladies and Gentle jmen’’ and *“‘My Good People’ so often during ‘your opening. it sounds as if you don’t know anything else to Say. Fred Millivan looks fat and prosperous ac cording to reports received from Portland Ore., j Fred visited Rice and Dore recently. *e Ringling Brothers wl “I day and date with Rice and Dore at Portland, and put quite a crimp in the carnival for a day or two. ! **e ef Is it be a necessary to lay an egg before you can chicken? | “ee | Mister Merry-go-round Manager. pleas’, get , Some new music for that organ, not only for the benefit of the members of the show, but for the benefit of the community in which you are doing busineces. Even th chumps know good music when they hear it. Make your orgen look like an attraction. . Why does Pete Thompson wear a_ smile? Yes, Ruby came back. ee © Lois MeAlee, that agent. with the Macy Olympic Shows, has been going some, only 17 weeks ahead. Did you notice Williams’ Cow boy Band? Mose says ‘‘Howdy."’ | (Continued on bit page 62.) Everybody | | | Joe Lowenthal knows what ut With a man best Put it don’t pay to fly off The reasons sticking in the But the real that pitch reason is some busir Filth Mike Heggarty with le Where are you? We haven't} the boys at the N, Randall Fair ; | last week, — alr at it is to be donbled Cleveland ts of tempcrament the handle Are Anderson and D nahey still stan eel |} double? When last heard of they were see *'ecem nt in stores It's great to be rich and mgenuous. hove an office and stationery, Denalbey says be is the greatest bally in the world: he can ride the full length of the main street on a becycle working pitehmen working SS are iy Luere withor 4 $ ? 7 heard from you in a dog's e Wherea yon a Sel. Gome trick zo when you left Putte? at's the last we T re te Saline co oie ®: The n tables present at the Forest City Fair. } is Sot keveland = Obie. wer, John Shand, E ; ann! Soyder, Dr. Miles, Jack Williams. Harry AM Did you ever get a location in the building singer, Morris Fintrac ht alias Pee-Wee. Every of a fair grou’. with a do menstratioy re-jine got someth 's mor g . ; ot so ling. and some some » j g confidentt«! ta’k ond fin! four foneg-afs | ~s sence Se ee ond t automatic planes grinding stead all Get Dave Blair to tell about his secret tin Qay long? to the Indiana town to trim the chumps; it's great , Al. Westlake, with his mammoth jew: Iry gr ee ‘a-out in Tilne’s was getting the cusn = rv . Phe last seen of Morris Eintra ht was in ating Judging f-om smonnt of hol in Springfield, Ohio. s-rambling with the rummies the front one evening dongh was drifting in Dr. L. EB. Cooper's push for aacoase’y He got in. Tell us about it. Al four bts . Some While the bors “were. s “ g ‘king for roo j come o se ** in™* ’ SHOooting pipe at the ‘« tn os oe fel > s ee punkin Cleveland Fair, Doe Sims walkt aw ms a th 0 , ‘ ing air wee not only requlies pa hon rs Let's have some of *e . > tience, but infinite courage Yes? — s hi some « em, Dec; let's lave vir ro » mve s . of a . nr ae v — ta Mt : po En a. fr : t ps 5 1 | Compton—How about Johnstone's 1.009-mile booth on a fair ground? % ‘ "| trip to Canada? Heard those tin badge con i Stables were dreadfully rude Slick Fort Pete, alias the information kit aig. a < : Jetty Myers, the Plant Ki . a a om ust -t mie: ag reste: yers, ar Ning has fumpers weet ue valet, are now in the watch business, down to a most sefentific standpoint. If 7 1 n muking towns with a four-cylinder motoreycle Lew ever did pen his littl ! k k ; Mt Pete says it's great after ¢ = oh, ; es seat: an iwete werd centr (40 ot | took a pe ep he'd vell infernal machine when h Verne Juiging by the w ay j saw Jetty’s little batterh s Jetty lete is getting the money says ho more thread after this: let lit ie water wagos thie Year aatre a emaunaedt the Thomas Edison work I should men’s suit. and a business man’s afr rn, | WORrY. Jetty’s wi rking Buffa's on a push-cart ratet plays the benio «v nines end from th | in aig .; at off He's going into \ utevil this | coke of thins theve wilt be anietty fee open . nites ay th Gert w th an act, entteda Before t}wns in New York next spring j and A : Bet it's about a streetman Ti us Off, Jetty Here's a bunch of old-timers the bers hav Warn heen asking for anyone secn “em? Jovnny | Murray, of You-Can-Plate fame has nothing (Curler) Deniels of St Louis, Feank Ehes. | but bank books. He's a hard persistent worker, Tv. Hirem Rumbleback Dee Swiss | 90d the Mrs. can certainly put up the fiukum Ohta: Doe Jackson of Sea’oleum | Murray plated a hunk’s watch at a Detroit shep Swain, Doe Baxter, Dee Cuonmias, | 89d Sam Murdock went there later on and the Killy Pattee, of Hartferd ¢ E. Mathows lost bis w bas doubled un with Harry Rerystem hunk tere ont square himself the Pan Club? ity Ind and D « Sam had all he could de te Wonder if Sam still belongs to Doc Fady had a hot one, and had to lam hove been working the Nerthwest wt] Thomas Frances Heeney was with him and ine of nt *« makirge still tewns and | also ran Whoever heard of Toc Fady having a rood to hear from the hers Ad | het one, says Johnnie A’Connor, the Fack man dress | Proadway w Yo How did ft Who said Findlay, Ohio, | s whet happered to one of his wif made «a 100. mi'e oomned with «a bie line of n vine the oush «teod away i eastic smiles Turned the nd got $5.60 “Will happen Say we all. ' k ('t: impossible : Dor, I'm with you, Put us J:rry 1 fall for most auything Morean street Dona erstwhile of tions n the eve is deing work race in Wiscons'n, horse fame, int on the full line A man who can stand a little joshing without getting a sore ear is a man who has the right mater’al in him, no matter what his position in Pitet men So rule venearry my grip] life, Of course, this isn’t mean for the piteh to ‘ horel? men “Wall reckon s unt, ws th pite ba s wif stept un Bob Hewlett, of Providence, is working tle ow a ear? = te T, it wn aeons Saat, shields During the winter Bob goes In for the ee on Wey ” gO contract'ng business What's what, Rob? ‘Wall if your gotn’ to call onr town lowses ‘ you ean earry your own gin” wi { 1 , ; 1. Is the gink that asks Say, brother And it oniv weighed 100 nnds m ad nah ’ on gg gy ine pra i. r And Fin Where is the e'ty clork’s office?” Guess again Did you ever try to do a little quie ‘ng os — , 2 aa . ’ ! quiet think'ng fies a aoe sia scent tie with ab while riding on a train and have a hiek tell n you a long-winded story of his family affairs? har! We'deo ix ork y ol e ; . ame ey We'dron Is w Ing medicine in N Get Dick Richards to tell you about the . Japanese student he put in the Rad, business ders. Cir ll tens Made Gees, dena var And the price he got for the formula Ouch! same T got th for my bit. I think wou eri A © 2107 avd not &7 Ss! » mot unintentional dney. an lewis and Ellis. you are three of the terre fdo'ne gon* W " von be pore | Dest trick workers I know of. Let's hear from reno Rewarte ¢ Nias tell bien T « lithe you. is a gyp but he couldn't hand it to me iad test regards—J, C. Compini What ‘s the best way to get rid of the boob trying to get an ear full? Give it to bim Morris E'ntracth—Write J. © Cemniog: b a has some news for you. Yes, Morris from N Doc Dodge when last seen, was cleaning up Y. C. Hep? in a window in Cleveland, Ohio. Where are Worder 'f Harry Ansling r wants to bet ant "i thonsands or was it Simnson’s tnice that Doc? you camp'ng now, \