The Billboard 1915-05-29: Vol 27 Iss 22 (1915-05-29)

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. MAY 29, 1945. The Billboard 19 , With the closing of Elsa Ryan's company Theatre For Sale Or 8 Year Lease Tem Hodgeman will now Geen ke Seneeeal ‘ school Just what curriculum Tom wil! adopt Frank W. Green, late advance representative of the Downle & Wheeler Shows, has settled bimset? comfortably down in Des Moines, Ia., with bie family, and is putting in bis waking hours in the interest of The American Press Association. We are indebted to Mr. Green for a most interesting letter, in which be sets forth highly enthusiastic views of the theater situation in bis city, and, incidentally, encloses a word of praise for the managers of Des Moines as well as the artists who are fortunate enough to appear there. Best wishes, Green, and remember to drop a line once in a while. Charles MeClintock was seen recently in Toledo, O. doing bis usual excellent work ahead of the big show, Barnum & Bailey. We certainly do envy some people. Especially so do we envy these who can fill a rusty can with worms and hie themselves off to the lakes and cast for a few of the finny tribe, Since being the recipient of a@ letter from Wolfe Lake. Mich., written by Jack Reilly while he was dividing bis time between bauling them In on bis Mine and keeping one optic on the lookout for the game warden, we have almost contracted the fever ourself, and all we need to complete the trip is a lake, a reel and line, the worms, & canoe and a round-trip ticket. Harry Mac, who was ahead of September Morn during the regular season, was chaperon for Jack Reilly’s fishing excursion, and, although some would not believe it, it was rumored that the pleasure-bent couriers had other dishes of appetizing proportions to devour in addition to the ‘‘cateh."’ With the latter item subtracted we would more readily vouch for the veracity of the rumor, F. 8. Reed. who has teen ahead of one of the Pee o My Heart shows, is in Chicago and will assist Mr. Frawley, who has charge of the “song birds” at the Grand, and also the ‘Peg’ company Which comes into the Cort for a sum mer run, We bave it on good authority that the most enjoyable feature of the Exposition in Cali foruia, as far as Walter 8. Duggan fs con cerned, is the surf at Santa Monica. fhat oné can find enjoyable about standing waist ¢-e¢p in the ocean and waiting patiently vuotil a huge wave comes along and takes exception to the particular peaceful expression on one’s face, and then proceeds te go down etairs via one’s open mouth, we fail to grasp. But, the lifesavers must live and the sea must be pushed back from the shores occasionally to keep it from irrigating the main thoroughfares, and, as a capable epecimen of the aforeanentioned “pusher” we respectfully nominate Walter Duggan. To get back now to the point where we left the article of Fletcher Smith we will necessarily: make an explanation in order to connect the chain, When we left the agent in the last article be was left in a town with a depleted purse, and unable to raise any coin. He still bas one resort left, according to Mr. Smith, and there we will begin: REFLECINONS By Fletcher Smith If the agent was ahead of a repertoire company he stayed in town several days. He could touch the advance sale, giving an order on the show. If he was ahead of a one-night stand show, and the attraction failed to show up ia some town down the line angi he could get no won! from the boss, he would oftentimes touch the landlord or leave his bill trunk with the local manager and thus get money for his fare back to Boston. Then down to The Job Print and out egain ahead of some other trick of the same sort. In course of thne the landlord and managers got to koow him and called the agent by his first name—and sometimes other names, rticularly if be bed on a previous visit unoaded a show on the manager or landjord that failed “‘to take." No show was booked ahead except in rare instances. The agent would make one town, bill it, and go on to another, taking chances on being able to secure the hall on the date desired. f the date was filled he would go and dig up enother, and thus it was not long before his mileage was exhausted. Once in @ while it was necessary for the agent to return to the ehow to replenish his ‘‘exchequer,"” and bis return was the occasion of a commotion — the members of the company. Wort was quickly circilated that the show was coiling to close and it was up to the agent to calm their fears and jolly the folk along with tales of forthcoming big business. or of a certain big opening at the next Monday's stand. The manager always appropriated the agent's time as soon as he hove in sight and kept him closeted most of the time in his room, I remember once going back to a little repertoire show which I was piloting through Maine in hopes of reaching New Brunswick. I needed a Palr of shoes and was out of tobacco: also was “il out of money, It wae a case of MUST with me and it was either ‘‘dough’ or a new agent on the job. The manager walked me up town to a little show store on a side street, bought me a cheap pair of shoes and a paper of tobacco. Then we took a stroll down on the beach for what purpose I could not imagine. ‘Wade in and get your shoes wet,’’ said the manager. and added, “rub some sand on them so they will hot look new. If the rest of the bunch see that you have a new pair of shoes they will all want ® pair.’ The tobaceo he poured lose In my cout pocket. Now, this same manager kept this show. out for nearly a year, hung up landlords, and never had a salary day from the time he left Boston, His people stood for it and received an occasional dollar, shoes, hats or laundry money. Fortunately, for him. he managed to get the shew so far away from Roston that his people, fearful that they would never see Howard street again, stuck to him in hopes of some time getting enough money to ket back. Another time, ahead of a wagon show playing Uncle Tom's Cabin, the manager, lke a freat many others, imagined that the agent could make money whenever he needed it, and consequently pald no attention to a request to have “the needful’ meet him in a certain town. T had a bill wagon, a pair of horses and a check book full of orders,. Late on Saturday night I drove up to a hotel in a small New only five years old, 40x100 ft; furnished; opera Seats 600; capacity $14,000.00 investment per year. The city over 100% im the past ten years, and still increasing. good will and established business for $16,000.00. to suit purchaser. to be guaranteed by cash deposit in our bank. electric Good chairs, steam heated, 740; ground floor. light O. L. MITCHELL, Mor., Lyric Theatre, bd Iyric Theatre, Crisfield, Md., fully equipped, moving pictures, vaudeville and road productions. covers best location; corner lot on Main Street. plant paying Net profits of business for each year, average for the past five years over 30°% records show an increase in the value of real estate in this locality to be Will sell building, lot, electric piant, full equipment, One-third cash; balance secured by mortgage; easy terms Or will lease for five years at $2,500.00 per year; rent payable monthly im advance; lease Crisfield is a booming town on Chesapeake Bay. of house upon request. Owner and manager inexperienced and poor health. Building Population 10,000. Modern only two years old. Two Power's Machines; established business for five years. Annual sales, om a $16,000.) Photograph CRISFIELD, MD. THE “A World Wide Circulation” THE OLDEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL THEATRICAL AND VAUDEVILLE JOURNAL ERA ESTABLISHED 1837. Published every WEDNESDAY AT 5 TAVISTOCK ST., Strand, London, W. C. 2,000 Advertisements Appear Every Week in ‘“‘The Era.” _ Professional Advertisements, £15 per Page, £3 per Column, 4s per Inch, Single Column. American Artists visiting England use THE ERA Offices as their permranent London acdiiress. ‘The Era”’ is sold at Brentano’s, 5th Ave. and 27th St. NEW YORK CITY. Single Coples, by mall, 7 cents. Subscription Rate, with Postage, $3.20 a year. DELIVERIES For All Theatrical Merchandise QUICK Phone, Central 6292. Costumes Made To Order. quam 121 <¢st 2nd Most Complete Merchandise and Costume Catalogue, 10ce for mailing—TIGHTS. CHICAGO COSTUME WORKS Manufacturers of Wigs. 143 N. Dearborn St., CHICAGO, U.S. A. tion. of references. AT LIBERTY June 3. Who can produce, promote and compel business. Have experience at Circus, Carnival, Feature Films and Road Shows. Write ime. R. J. BRANIGAN, care Billboard, Cincinna i, 0. Manager Press Agent Contest Promoter Will consider any live proposiSest Wanted for Al. G. Field Greater Minstrels Clarinet, band, to double viola, orchestra; dancers to double altos and clarinets in band; bass drummer who can read music. Address AL. G. All must be experienced and reliable, FIELD, 50 Broad St., Columbus, O. aeaeiiaiememeiiiaaaeaeatiaial Premier AT LIBERTY Athletes BERWALD —— BROTHERS PRESENTING NEARLY A STRONG MAN. G. T. V., cor. 55th St. and Harlem, CLEVELAND, OHIO. ~ FT. WAYNE THE ATRE FOR RENT Temple Theatre. Most popular and centrally iocated. First-class in every respect. Will rent to responsible parties for term of years. Suitable for Vaudeville, Combination, Stock or Pictures. W. W. ROCKHILL, Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Hampshire town where I had been with another show the year before. The landlord knew me and met me with a smile. Luckily, for me, the last show to step with him had paid up in full, and he also knew the manager of the show I represented, and for once I put in a Sunday with my mind at rest. (To be continued.) Now that the weather is waxing warm we would appreciate a line or two from the various couriers throughout the country. An agent once said to us, “A press representative or courier whose business it is to secure publicity for others should not permit his name or picture to appear in print."" He was entirely on another track, and his argument carried no logical meaning. An agent is as much in the profession as the actor whom he represents. The Rillboard is for showfolk, right or wrong. and if an agent is not a showman he is sadly misplaced ahead of a show. You can keep in touch with friends, and they can keep tab on you, through the Press & Advance Agents’ column, and it can not be called ‘‘press agenting”’ one’s self, as the worthy agent informed us. He was merely mistaken—and we might add, too est. Admiral H. B. (Punch) Wheeler it is now. He is threading a tortuous way down the Ohio on a submarine. He will endeavor to locate his real estate at the bottom of the river at Evansville when he reaches there. Forty city lots it was, and he never was able to sell any of them becanse the river never fell low enough to stake them out. The nominating committee of the Friars’ Club, which will hold its annual election on June 4, has submitted the following ticket: For abbot. George M. Cohan: dean, Ralph Trier; corresponding secretary, John J. Gleason; recording secretary, Rennold Wolf; treasurer, Richard J. Hatzel; governors, Jerome Siegel, Irving Berlin, Channing Polock, Fred Block Leo Frank, D. Frank Dodge. Members of the Roard of Governors holding over are Sam H. Harris, John W. Rumsey, George 8S. Dongherty, Michael Selwyn. Mr, Cohan {fs renominated for the office of abbot. WALTER DUGGAN'’'S NOTES To farewell the feathers at sunrise and fitney along the ocean front to attend the anties qf Shorty Hamilton in the New York mo tion picture camp at Inceville, portion of Santa Monica, christened by that alert Kenneth O'Hara, press representative par excellence fur aforesaid camp, furnishes the visitor with a good insight of historical points of Bunker H!!l. Reader may be troubled in reckoning where Bunker Hill hae any legitimate connection with a moving picture camp, but ah, that's for these who don't know how to discover f themselves. Hailing from New England, the home of Buirker Hill, as all us histerica! students well know, we have always thought our knowledge of said historical monument was completed. Shorty brought us to the Sunset li brary, where, lo, and behold, we mauve discoveries that proved our shortcomings in estimating the number of steps that lead to the top of Bunker Hill. If you desire to improve your country’s history ave Shorty Hamilten ehaperon you up the Bunker Hill steps at Santa Monica. The whole picture world knows Shorty Hamilton via the film. He's no bigger than a peanut, but he’s a Hercules in ideas that make his stay around the picture camp wortn watie. Was discussing the death of John Bunny—bdig ger heart there never existed in the snow world, and we had ample opportunity to discover it last fall—with a crowd of movie men. and the interesting question arose of ‘‘Who’ll be John Bunny's legitimate successor?’ Imi tation of established characters never satisfy. no matter how clever, but our way of thinking brings the thoucht that Shorty Hamilton will be the nearest appreacn to John Bunny's funny screen characters of any that will he attempted. Shorty Meeting the Milkman is going to give the pride of Santa Monica his first chance in this respect. Rest of all, Kenneth O'Hara will be right at Sheorty’s heels, to see that he doesn’t lose that famous langh. Our jitney ride along the ocean front alse showed us that Truly Shattuck is not only an early riser. but is also exceedingly enthusiastic over her moving picture debnt. She jumped into our jitney, accompanied by some five dozen new bonnets and a disposition that always makes it pleasant fer advance agents who have been in advance of her shows. The tale of the sea shells at Venice beach involves the whereabouts of one Hank Smith, who Mugered hereabouts last summer while waiting for the opening of Nat Goodwin's season. Now that we have seen an afternoon crowd at Venfice beach, we don't worry any longer as to where Hank gets his color schemes. One more announcement, Hank, and you'll have a Ty Cobb batting average in the matrimonial league. this season is a matter the boys are all anxious t hear. Tom Henry, Toronto's censorship com mittee of advance agents’ lives, sends word that Tom should christen his school “The Martin,"* Not hearing from departed from Ft Urbana to Grainger Dodge, fear he's spend the summer, 2 Johnnie Daly will confer a big faver by writing us immediately as to what form of exercise Hy Pennypacker has adopted fer the sum Jimmy since he gone to mer morndugs now that he’s net on speaking terms with the ice man of 108th street. Harry Rowe is already showing uneasiness because he hasn't run across F 3 Gas oe oe cress any flat movers Brightly Dayton has called in all the fishes from the war zone. The n Rockaway skipper has hriste = Ww : Sune ned his new zren beat “The Expense ; John Wilstach claims the is very low, considering the mer at certain agents’ flats. Bobbie Yost is deing the Morosco press work in Los Angeles. and is doing it very brilliantly. Ping Bodie’s batting sh mp with the San Fran. asparagus market supply of last sum cisco club is credited to PF. P. Shan , checked suit. The Continental an ee threatens to have a torch igit parade for the famed outtit one of these nigats Jullian Eltinge’s visit to Les Angeles this week had the theatrical world Suessiog. Mr Eltinge simply visited these parts te chaperon his mother through tue Exposition at San Fran cisco. All sorts of moving picture steries, involving sensational offers for the services of Mr. Eltinge, were printed. If there is a the atrigal star more popular in these parts than Julian Elt.inge we'll have to claim We wear smoked glasses _ Eck Ban h, after visiting the Automat dining service in New York, wished he was back in Everett, playing baseball, AS an exponent of shirt tacking Shep Fried man is in a class by himself, so we are t ld out Not having been informed of the ‘ “eo Sid cket Messer hi as . postpone thie se serial anotler week. However, Vi leighton is fully convinced Walter is back in New York Willie Wilkens has started off like a muse me ff he’s pullins anead rens sights of the spring ful irds elm for aspirants in great showing gave one house We're awfully of the candidates a ca glad to hear the advance age world at last sheuting ¢ A, peaisce of Ril Steege, manager of the Grand in Great Falls Mont. It would do many one-night stand managers much good to learn why the boys all unite in claiming Bill Steege is the best one nicht-stand manager in the « untry. Ned Holmes and Bill Plack have purchased from a painter named Kelly a bevutiful oil painting of “Gross Receipts.’* They paid $965.00 in cold cash for it. Dan Wright was the only other bidder. Will the maauma hold out for the summer? Why worry! The bathing at Venice is great! Corp. Wallie Decker is at home in Chicago. Ed Baker is homeless at Toronto. Princess Theater burned. Poor typewriter! THEATRICAL NOTES Helen Rook, lately of the Winter Garden and the Palace Theater, has joined the cast of Experience, Olga Cook, daughter of Detective Sergeant Edward Cook, made her debut May 14, in Nobody home, at the Princess Theater, Selwyn & Co. have engaged Robert Fraser to play the part of Jerry Belden in The Show Shop next season. The Montrose Players closed the 0 Theater, : > agg in Zanesville, 0., for the season on May 22, when they ended a week's engagement in whch tabloid musical comedies were staged. Miss Ethe! Stoddard, who has been a popular member of The Juvenile Bostonians for «several fears, was recently married to D. P. Stowe, of Ronbam, Tex. Mr. Stowe is organizing another big show this season in which his wife is to appear as one of the prince pals. The Province of Ontario, Canda, has reduced the provincial license fee for theaters from $200 to $200 in cities with over 25.000 population; from $200 to $100 with a population more than 10,000 and less than 25,000 and from $100 to $50 in places with less than 10,000 population, The Scace of Texas has come forward with the claim to the youngest actor in the United States. Master Norman Moxley is even such a young acter that he dees not walk ento the stage when he gets his “ene.” He is only two and one-half months old, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jobn H. Moxley, of Dallas, Texas. His father is property man at the Jefferson Theater, and it is at that playhouse where the infant son has been appearing in Tess of the Storm Country. For the benefit of the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris the Garrick Players presented Interior, by Maurice Maeterlinck: The Maker of Dreams, by Oliphant Down, and The Post Office, by Tagore. en Monday afternoon, May 24, at the Booth Theater. S$. A. Lynch, of Asheville. N. €.. bought Mrs Schloss’ interest in the Schloss Cirenit of North Carolina. Lynch will have practically a » why of all the best theaters in ¢ rar Heel State. The consideration was not rude known Mark Harris, the comedian, was operated on for a rupture by Dr. R. J. MeClellan, at the Grace Hospital, Detroit, M Paul RB. Goss and Twentieth Century Or chestra are aga on t read and are furnishing the music on , t of the Streckfu sissipp!. rhe (Gasoline) Bill Werre Collins and Paul B, Mary Avery desires to thank, through The Billboard, he Actors’ Fund of America, the attendants of the American Hospital in Chieago, where she was recently confined, and Dr. roster is as follows: Russell Lowe, (Hank) Henry Sater, Bob Goss. 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