The Billboard 1920-10-02: Vol 32 Iss 40 (1920-10-02)

50 The Billboard OCTOBER 2, 1920 WANTED—Band Men who have had experience in printing business, Steady positions in big plant tn small town. Write for particulars to KABLE BROS.’ CO., Mt. Morris, Illinots. WANTED OCT 15th—Dramatic People in all lines. Those doing specialties or doubliog orchestra given preference. Piano Player, to double stage. Long eugagement through Arizona and California to right parties. Tickets if known. T. J. Connally (Blackie write. Other useful people write. C. Dillard Dramatic Co. Address C, DILLARD, Box 48, Silt, Col. MY SPECIAL COURSE on Voice Culture, Personal| THAYER'S Voice From Beyond, Spirit Bell, on stand; ity. Stage Training Monologues, etc. All for $5 00 Passe Bottle large. Vanishing Alarm Clock, finest Including one Monologue. complete DON PEN-]| Feather Bouquets, Candle to Fiacs Horpmann large NOCK & CO., 623-24 Lyon-lealy Bidg., Chicago. Production Cabinet. Appearing Bird in Cage; also oct? | lot more Magic and large stock cf Illusions Prices reasonable, ZELO, 198 West 89th Street, New York, PROFESSIONAL FIRE KING ACT—Twenty Tricks, | Nsw York. ‘ormulas, Jiustructions $1 Carwon Act Flectric Girl, Mind Reading Contortionist complete iostruc tions, $1 each act Drawings and instructions for Manuscripts, Sketches & Plays any illusion. Stamp for prices. PINXY MAGIC 20 WORD. CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25c. CO., San Antonio Texas. : WANTED—Pianist. for Singer in cunieetie; man or lady, exxperienced. Send photo. care iliboard, Chicago. oc > 7 -1 VAUDEVILLE MATERIAL ASSURES BOOK SAXOPHONE AND CLARINET JAZZING SIMPLIa a = nothing but big-time, original ma FIED—Guaranteed 50¢: STERLING SYSTEM tertal, order a pew act now and start the season STUDIOS, Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. oc2 ‘ WANTED—Young Men and Women, on all instruments for musical act: one to do vocal solo. State our double. G. M., care Billboard. New York. WANTED—A-1 Drummer, with all Traps and Tym panies Vaudeville and Pictures. Four hours dav seven days. $3500 per week. A. F. of M. LEADER J. H. LUTZ, Hippodrome, Joplin, Missourt. WANTED—A real Med. Performer: must fake organ and change for week. State salary. pay own. LELAND AND LEE, 212 N. 16th St., St. Louis, Mo. WANTEDA-1 Trap Drummer. Begin work October 2, Temple Vaudeville Theatre, + N. Y. Salary, $53 weekly. FRANK LE FURE. WANTED—Four-Piece Orchesira, for vaudeville and pictures. Steady work ‘opea shop.” Address f1. B. C., Box 32, Fargo, North Dakota. oc2 richt (Interview by appointment.) PUILIP J. LEWIS, 121 West 116th, New York. SAY. do you want a real photograph of a real vaudeville performer? bave some actual photos. per sonally indorsed Beautiful girls or handsome men These are regular &x10 size and are wonderful pic “A LONG HIT” a three-minute burlesave comedy poem, inspired by Babe Ruth's batting stunt. $1.00 gets it. Monev back to anv act that can't put it tures. Fine for your room, office or studio. Fool} 2. ic. OTTIE E. COLBURN, 138 Clinton Ave., your friends. Write at once Send bill or money Brockton, Massachusetts order. Price, $1.00. D. PENNOCK & CO, 623-24 . ee ee O21 ACTS OF QUALITY—New and oricinal (manu Straight and Blackface. $200, Straich STOP. LOOK, LISTEN'—Can you beat it? Here is Deh g2 00 Bla: kface and Tramp Monologue, your chance to learn Buck and Wing Dancing by mail No books. I will typewrite you eight of the best steps in the business. including the time step which is the key to Buck ard Wing Dancing: also Buck and Wing Break. price $3.00. 20 vears in the business. guarantee satisfaction. Also will typewrite eight steps Waltz Clog as one — — Shoe. Jazz, Chorus and Irish Jig Pull particulars and details explained with each ‘step. You can eet ass Plays. Sketches, Bones and Parodies pares make a failure. Address EQUITY SERVICE BU-| Comedies ——— ~ ay EL. GAMBLE REAU, 202 Majestic Theatre Bldg., Waterloo, Jowa.| | to order erms fc . : $100 screaming two-minute End Gags. $1.00 each; three late Parodies free with each order Acts of all descriptions written to order Rie povelty Minstre] Acts my specialty. BERT WILSON, Vaudeville Writer, 1432 Blavis Street, Philadelphia, -. Hotels (Theatrical) 3c WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25c. CENTRAL HOTEL, Grafton, W. Va.Etuin, Mer. European plan We make you feel at home. Chas. Theatrical rates. Ask your friends. nové6 Information Wanted So WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25c. BILLIE WALKE, or anyone knowing her where abouts, will do her a good turn by letting me know Money ie involved and cannot be settled until her whereabouts is known. B, WALKE, care Billboard, New York. MADGE VONTELLO RICHARDS—Please remit or explain. FRED CHANT, Box 72, Archie, Mo. -OF THE PRESENT ADDRESS of Fred or Madame Sa-Hera, who were last heard of in Cane Town South Africa, where they gave a mindreading act Address MRS. NELLIE W. COREY, 727 Betts Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, U. 8. A. oct9 TO MR. JOHN FINN, of Butler, Pa—Won't You drop me a line and let me know where you are and if you are going South? And if you are I would like t© go along. Answer. DAVID L. OGDEN, for marty £< Clearfield, Pa. Wetter in care of Billboard, ew Yor WANTED—The Name of a good small town where a picture show would pay. $19.99 for information that ts accepted. TROUPER, Box 804, Salem, Ark. WILL “IONE JACOBS,” or anyone knowing her address, please communicate with BOX 505, Malden, Missouri, Instructions and Plans 20 WORD. CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25c. A WINNER—I'll teach vou a business that can be carried on at home during spare time by which money can be made easily and rapidly Complete instructions 25c. Address CHARLES DYNES, Winchester, Indiana. ACT NOW—We instruct you for the stace. Acts written, coached staged BROADWAY STUDIOS, 1431 Broadway, Room 214, New York BATON JUGGLING—: omplete course, one lesson Graduate in half hour No mechanical appii ances. 59c. ERNEST LEWIS, 434 No. 14th st. Lincoln, Nebraska. oclé6 “BECOME A LIGHTNING TRICK CARTOONIST” —Entertain in vaudeville. at clubs, schools, fairs. ete. Send $1.00 for 23 Comic Trick Drawings with Patter and Instructions, by professional cartoonist BALDA ART SERVIC E. Oshkosh, Wisconsin. oct9 BIG pi a ATION L IGUTNING TRICK CARTOON IT—24 large stage drawings, instructions sobby "lon lay, etc., $1.90, Particulars, stamp. Art Paintings, $3.00. PROF. HAFFNER, 2902 Sta. S. Philadelphia. oct2 DO YOU WANT TO BE a Vaudeville Performer? Then let someone who knows the game from A to Z train you Special Course. $2.99. Contains one Comedy Recitation, Jokes, How To Be an Actor, What You Must Do, etc. DON PENNOCK & CO., 623-24 Lyon-Healy Bidg., Chicago. EAR PIANO PLAYING taught in four simplified lessons, only $1.00. STERLING SYSTEM STUDIO Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. oc? ENTIRE COLLECTION, $1.90 (typewritten). offer (reason, repeat orders): Remove Tattoo Marks, Clearglass, Auto Windows, Universal Glue, Itch and Sneeze Powder, Soft Drinks. Silvering Mirrors, Enlarging Photographs, Chop Suey, Clean Carpets, Copying Pads, Perfumes, Polishes, etc, CLIFFORD (Headquarters for Instructions, Plans, Receipts, etc.), 1554 No. Clark, Chicago. Special GET INTO VAUDEVILLE—Complete Course prepares you for the stace Explains full detaiis. $1.90 prepaid. WM. BOHN, 301 E. 83d St., New York. oct? Vaudeville GREAT STUFF!—Make your friends think you are visiting California. Send two dimes for 10 San Diego post cards. You stamp them, address and write your message. Return them to me for mailing with 5e each card for service. It’s a goat getter. CHRISTIE STUDIO, 2321 Sth St., San Diego, Cal. octy IT CAN'T BE BEAT!—New Mindreading Act, silent code; can be learned in an hour. One dollar. HAS. BUSH, 416 Denniston Ave., E. E., Pittsburgh, yivania, VLEARN MIND READING—My complete copyrighted act for two people covers five different ‘effects’ only $5. Send stamp for particulars to PROF. ZALANO, Tyrone, New York. MEN, STOP GROWING OLD—Reocover your youthful vim, vigor and vitality without drugs Information free. W. P. MOYER & CO., Box 115 Freeburg, Pennsylvania oc2 MIND READERS—One hundred questions, with com edy answers, for male and female. for sealed letter reading, $200. MAE-LOUISE PUB. CO., Saranac Lake, New York. 0c3 Playwright, East Liverpool, Ohio. octg X. LA RUE'S Short Method of Hyprotizing. ten lessons, for beginners. including aie ce a System; both one dollar. no books. A, RUCH, Publisher, Winchester, Tennessce. octl6 ACTS. PLAYS COSTUMES. Free Cataiog. Professional references. AL FLATICO, 1780 East 9th St.. Cleveland, Ohio ocw About This Season’s New York Productions DAVID BELASCO Presents FRANCES STARR “ONE” To a certain class of showgoers the Belasco Theater occupies the eame affectionate place in the amusement world as that held a generation ago by the Eden Musee. Mr. Belasco is to them the producing Homer who never nods. These people enter the showhouse on Forty-fourth street as reverently as Brahmins a holy shrine. Whatever they see inside is both inspired and artistic. The utterances of the High Priest, which in this case happens to be the stage entertainment offered by Mr. Belasco, are infallibie, heaven born, and not to be questioned. The hocus-pecus that surrounds ~ idol worship is present when the gong booms to warn the worshipers that the ceremonies are to begin. The lights are lowered slowly to get the desired receptive mood and then the services begin. It is all quite like the bunk gone thru by the clairvoyants whom tbe police chased off the East Side some years past. The dreary pastime of sitting thru Edward Knoblock’s “One,"* which for the time being is occupying the stage of the Belasco, heightens the spiritualistic seance im pression, Certainly no blindfolded, fat trance medium ever let loose such a mess of preposterous bosh as that which is seriously offered in ‘‘One.’* The story in a mustard seed is that of twin sisters who have only one soul between them, a kind of psychic ‘arfand-‘arf. Neither Pearl nor Ruby, for so are the twins named, is anything but a demitasse spiritual entity. In order to function properly and happily they must get into communication with each otber, when seperated, by gazing into the heart of a red, red rose and calling out the front window: “Are you theyah?” If there is no red rose a red flannel petticoat might do, but no one could dream of such a crude thing as a flannel petticoat in a Belasco production, Both sisters are in love with the same man. They both cannot have bim any more than they can have a full portion soul. So Poil decides to deed over her half of the soul estate to Ruby, or Ruby does to Poil, it doesn't make any difference about the names, by dying. It would never do to commit suicide, because the effect on the living ‘‘twinnie’? would be as unpardonably rude as for an actor on the Belasco stage to speak or act like a real human being. Under the counse] of a satanic old physician one twin decides she will expose herself to pneumonia and die and all will be well. Mr. Knoblock overlooked a grand idea when he didn't make the lady go on a McSwiney hunger strike, profiteering days! There is not a line of sane sound thinking, a bit of real drama, or a vestige of reality in the play. For expressing sentiments not half so loony as those in the piece a man has recently been extradited from Canada and put in a mad house. To waste time considerimg seriously such a hopelessly undergraduate attempt at psychological theorization would be even more exhausting than watching the play. The program describes “One as “A play of immateriality transmuted into terms of the real thru the medium of the theater.” If you stop after the fourth word and accent that one you have the real description of the whole affair. from Leonardo da Vinci, That would have been intelligent in these The program also contains quotations Bulwer-Lytton, Sir William Crookes, Camille Flammarion and W. K. Clifford. The only other great philosopber omitted is the well known and justly esteemed citizen of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Mr. ‘‘Butch’* McDevitt, whose theories are of far more importance than Mr, Knoblock’s and vastly more diverting.—PATTERSON JAMES POSSESSES SOSSESSESSSESSSOSSS SS ESOOEOG6646664666666 666 monev-maker.| ACTS. PLAYS. SKETCHES, MONOLOGUES. MINCut wood with razor STRELS Tabloids, Musical Comedies. Songs and for demonstration. then apply a small amount of | Parodies written to order. Terms for stamp. L paste on strop. Then strop two or three times and | GAMBLE, Playwright, East Liverpool, Ohio. you will have a razor that will cut a hair. Also will enclose formula for cleaning carpets without taking up. Send me a one-doliar bill for both formulas. F. J. BRINK, Grove, Oklahoma. STREETMEN. NOTICE!'—Here’s a “Never Hone Razor Paste.’’ 0c30 ANY KIND OF AN ACT you DESIRE FOR $10— Singing Talking Acts: Sketches. Monolocues with Pep. Musical Comedy Tabloid Sctipts that are real box-office attractions same price Real material at MY TRAINING COURSE on Motion Picture Acting | little money Act pow Send stamp, meney order sent by mail for $5.90, complete. Contents Ex-| DAVIS-DIAMOND PLAY COMPANY. 1431 Broad pressions, Art of Makeup, one Motion Picture Plav| way Room 215, New York. let for rehearsal. my_ personal advice DON PEN NOCK, 623-24 Lyon-Healy Bidg., Chicago. oct] ARTISTS. STOP! LOOK! READ'—Have just comr ple _~ — | ot nologs four Man-Woman Acts and < ‘cour Two-Men Acts Positive riets every one. Price, Magical Apparatus $100 each. I know I have just what vou've been . looking for, Place your order with me and score @ FOR SALE. 7 Sure-fire Parodies with every order y ISS nwe s , , (Nearly New and Cut Priced) A R CRC 31 Evelyn St.. Boston 26, Mass. 3e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25c, “BITS OF BURLESQUE” No 1—Twenty manuscript sides of comedy bits for two and three people. Old, FOR SALE—Lot of small Magic. cheap. Black Art| new. surefire No. 2. twenty sides of bits for four Table: red, white and blue Flag Trick. Chinese | people Postpaid S| 15 “Nutsar Iho.” musical Rice Bowls, Wine and Water, Pudding in ~‘ Hat. | tabloid: cast. three and three. a riot of fun $1 50 Cards on Glass Plate, the Chinese Ring Mind| The Red Wolf's Trail” a melodrama tn four Reading Act List for stamp ARTHU i HAAG arts, cast four and thrice’ three simple seta: deals Willard St. Ext., Jamestown, New York. with Boelshewik Russia script $5. BOUL, 25 Twelfth St., College Point. New York, FOR SALE—Velvet Table Drapes and Tables, cheap. BAILEY, Box 416, Troy, New York. DO NOT CHEAT YOURSELF! Your ability demands good material If vou are working in this vicinity new, including] shall be glad to catch you No obligation or ex Vanish. $30 00.] pense. Or write, stating your needs. and let me WOOLEY, Ma-| quote prices and terms — Interview by appointment Leavenworth, Kansas.J/only. GILLICK. 226 Eert &7th St, New York. oc23 GREAT PARODY on “ tn Lu Lion.” 2he, Snarpy as a turtle CRITERION PC BLISHERS Kansas City. Missouri, PIGEON VANISH, for two piceons, table, $10 00 Thayer's Piccor What have vou for sale or trade? W gician, S. W. Brundage Show, TRICK PAPER MONEY. with new illustrated list, one dime, postpaid. C. HESING, 527 Main St., Cincinnati. In Answering Classified Ads, Please Mention The Billboard. DO YOU WANT PICTURES of real Vaudeville Performers; actual photos, personaliy endorsed, beautiful girls or handsome men. Price. $1.00. Movie Star Postcard Photos, 50c DON PENNOCK. 623-24 Lyon-Healy Bildg., Chicago. oct EIGHT PAGES Jokes, Bits, Gags, etc., Exclusive Material ig to order. if it doesn’t suit. M. Chicago, Mitnois. one dollar. Money back KUKAR, 3011 Indiana Ave., EXCLUSIVE VAUDEVILLE material written to order by America’s well-known Vaudeville Author, RAY HIBBELER, 4040 Dickens Ave., Chicago. oc? MINDREADERS—Opening = your act with Crystal, with @ line of comely viter, for sealed letter reading. $5 00. MAE-LOUISE PUB. CO., Saranac Lake, New York, ocg MONOLOGUE ARTISTS—One dollar brings you a Monologue absolutely new, original and different. Real class. No junk. Also Parodies on “‘Let the Rest of the World Go Wv." “All Thru the Night.’ Riots. Send today. PAUL N. LEWIS, Box 15 Brookfield, Missouri. oct23 ACTS, Plays, Sketebes, Monologues, Musical Comedies, Minstrels Tabloids, Songs and Parodies written to order. Big time Acts a specialty. Terms for a stamp. List of Wigs, Published Plays and other Material for a stamp. L. GAMBLE. Playwright, East Liverpool, Ohio. MUSICAL COMEDY SCRIPTS, with Lithographed paper, for advertising, from one to twenty-sheet Sizes. Best proposition ever offered. Send for particulars. CARTER, 919 7th St, San Diego. Calif. ocd NEW SKETCHES—“Not a Rit as He Thought,” “Widow and Widower,” “Servant Problem Solved,” “How She Got a Husband.” “‘Not a Criminal After All”; Minstrel Book Number Five, just out. 25c each: five Monologues, 75c. 921 Catalogue Plays. Farces, Monologues, Makeup, Tuccage, 2c; free with order. STANTON AMUSEMENT CO., Y ‘Norwich, N, marl9 NEW STAR ACT—Monolor. Recitaton, $5; Exclusive A DR. SULLIVAN, Playwright, 195 N. ct, $200. Franklin, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. NOTICE!—I am offering something that may mean 100% improvement on your act, Mr. Performer. 1 have an up-to-date Monologue t at would cost you at least $50 00 if it was written especially for you. Not smal] time or junk material, but a real Monologue. My original material, part of which I have used myself in vaudeville, so I guarantee it to be O. K. However, do not buy on the blind. Below is a small part of it: Well, I'm certainly glad to get back to your town once again, This is my home town; in fact. my father was a Baker here, @o you see I was very well Bread. T was the Flour of the Baker's family, that is, with the exception of my Brother Bill. he’s in the Yeast. He turned out to be the Prosperous one; he was the family Bootlegger. 1 won't forget the time that, ete. All sure-fire materia. Price, $500. complete. DON PENNOCK, 623-24 Lyon-Healy Bidg., Chicago. ‘“‘Always on the square.” PARODIES—Three positive riots for nella, Daddv, Ob, by Jingo. 92 Burgess Place 50c—DardaCHARI IE WATERS, Passaic, New Jersey. PARODY SINGERS=—1I have written three positive screams On ‘“‘Let Kest of the World Go By,” “Rose of Washington Square,” “My Baby's Arms.’ Suitable for straight or any character. Mark my word— positive screams. $1.00 each, or three for $2.50 America’s Well-Known Vaudeville Author, RAY HIBBELER, 4040 Dickens Ave., Chicago. oc? PERFORMERS. TAKE NOTICE!—I will furnish you an A-l Blackface. Irish, Dutch. Jew. Rube or Straight Monologue for $1.00. Sketches. male and female or two males, $1.00. No junk. Comic Hokum Songs with lead shevt. 50¢ each. Parodies on late songs, such as Let the Rest of the World Go By. Rose of Washincton Square, Dardanella, Oh, By Jingo, SOc each. Guarantced positive hits: screams. Address EQUITY SERVICE BUREAU, 202 Majestic Theatre Bidg., Waterloo, Iowa, PLAY OF LOVE AND REVENGE— With a1 Biblical moral. ‘Son of Bath-she-ba.”’ Acting richts granted to every porchaser “Miracle of a Mother’s Heart.”’ “‘Lisison,”’ “Heloise and Abelard,” and twenty comedy “Happy Howls’’ and Dramatic Recitations. Valuable book for every performer. Get this dazzler. $100. TREND PUB. CO., 652 Thirtybinth St., Brooklyn New York, oct23 SUMMER STOCK PLAYS—Musical Comedies and Tabloids; Vaudeville oag +P a in manuscript form. Stamp for catalocue Vv YORK PLAY BUREAU, 2665) Decatur Ave. P .‘You oct? STOP! LOOK AND WRITE—Actors. Managers. Pro fessionals and Amateurs, for lowest prices on Vaudeville Acts, Monologues, Sketches, Songs, Novelty Minstrels, ete. HARRY A, GLYNN. 40 Palisade Ave., Yonkers, New York. oct? THE TAB. SHOP, Home of Real Material. Musical Comedy Manuscripts, $3.00 each Book of Bits, $10.00. Special Vaudeville Material written to order. We write for the best. HARKY J. ASHTON, 517 N. Clark St., Chicago. THREE KNOCK-OUT PARODIES Gace 50c VAUD 5 paces sure-fire Rillboard 5 EVILLE PUBLISHING Cincinnatl, Ohio TO PROFESSIONALS—Are you looking for new, orig inal and exclusive material? Here's your creat opportunity. Have your act. song. dance, dialogue or business coupled up with an original, pen drawn, animated cartoon. Our talented staff of humorists and pen artists will devise the film to meet every eulyect Seize this innovation in puttine an act over Write or call. THE &C KEEN SKETCHING SERVICE. Studio, 802. 145 W. 45th St.. New York City. $100 SPECIALS—(Reason, repeat orders) Swell Opening, also Closing Number, with 3 Encore Speeches Screaminely comic, with the kick sure-fire $1.00 Original bie-time 8-minute Monologue (big show stopper). just finished. $1.00 8&8 pages Exclusive Original Jokes. Gages, Stories, Patter, et Bulid up material, You'll want more $1.00. 2 Parodies, 3 paces Jokes Stories, 3 Assorted Recitations, $1.00. Recitations (ne lists), 50c¢ each, 10 for $3.00 Suitable for exclusive Sincle Acts le orignial, some not): ‘Mother’ (pathetic), Ww estern) , “Christmas Dav in Workhouse,’ “Spell of Yukon,’ “Gambier's Tale.” enon Evidence.” “Jim ‘Kids Last Fight.”’ Blue Velvet Hand,"* Tate Fiend's Dre am," “Mickie (comic), “‘Rosa,”” “Black Sheet." “Gunga Din,” “Swore Off,”" greet dramatic recitation (formerly priced $1000) Personally rceeommended $200. All typewritten. Money-back guarantee My reference Your agent. Fetabished Headouarters for Original Material ELBERT BOLLYN, 1554 No, Clark Chicago (Interview by Appointment.) 150 NEW PARODIES. Zhe; 100 Recttations, 25¢, New Joke Book, 25c. 10 different Acts and Monologs. Sic. Or send $1 for all. Catalog of Sketches, Plays, Wiga, free, A, B, KEIM, Station B, Milwaukee, ware,