The Billboard 1924-01-19: Vol 36 Iss 3 (1924-01-19)

q. ANUARY 19, 1924 The Billboard 79 FAIR ACTS AND FREE ATTRACTIONS, NOTICE! WANTED AT ALL TIMES, FOR LONG SEASON AND BEST ENGAGEMENTS ON PACIFIC COAST Acts of every description, communicate immediately, giving full particulars, salary; if more than one act give details of each; permanent address and full set photos in first letter. Can use two more Elephant Acts, Aerial Return and Flying Act, Perch Acts, two Riding Acts, Arab Acts, Risley Acts, Casting Acts, Bar Acts, Japanese Troupes and Novelty Acts of all kinds. BUCK BAKER, we can use your Auto and Clown Novelties. Acts appreciating courteous treatment, consecutive and long season, here is your opportunity. Riding Davenports, Flying Moores, Aerial Tom Nelson, Casting Campbells, Pichiannis and all my former acts and old friends, communicate at once by wire if possible. and is busy at the winter quarters of the DeRECAT-BOSTICK AMUSEMENT SERVICE ASSOCIATION, Inc., 302-4 Metropolitan Theatre Building, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA All communications to C. W. NELSON, Booking Department. (Lena) had received aq letter from Bill € ing the winter at his home in South Bend, ) Davis (still at home In Pineville, Ky.), stating a ho PICKUPS Ind. He will be back with the show in the that his arm, badly broken last fall, le comspring. ‘ 7 ing along nicely. AND NEW Merritt Belew ig back to his first love again Replying to several letters inquiring upon J oe NOTES ABOUT Christy Show breaking stock for the coming gy BR ON Oe os >) PEOPLE VOU FE Srice several weeks ago after sciling hie Denes: Ft. Worth will bave the annual cowboy conof annual contests what they intend to” do by Rowdy Waddy A / LEA RNOW iN low and his racing car to Jack Chase. Jack a : ay eect ied writes that the car has run up about all the test im Mareb. ‘This is always a good ene, = CONS climate basis. Hope to hear from [ THE SHOW FF ieiephone poles in Hollywood, but it still russ alt —_ ety . . | BUSINEZ* sometimes on the ground. With his full dress Guess Bebee’s contest this month at San i = 4 suit and tall hat, Merritt is @ picture on @ ¢ Paso: & norse, Antonio will start the 1924 season. Fred Beebe for his futhoening th rd Fad ts FLETCHER SMITH Elmer Meyers and wife, who were with the Another bey that many of our readers ask = “oan gw ky ferwand aaa te ~ BOW no oxen > cong Show the past summer, coming there bout is Neal Hart. Drop a few lines, Neal. artongance. Says it is under the auspices of the roms the Compeell, Bailey & Hutchison Show, a x en ge Say 8 Unde! ; aus} are going to spend the winter in Sparta, Ky. lan ne at ft y are nguring on r t . 2 toth ‘ si hej yarents > “3 One of our readers would like to hear from special trains from practically all large Raggy Od a roy ® Remy = eens = loam ae Bertha Blancett thru this column. of Texas. was wu! _to Salisbury, N. C., doing his Kentucky city. ; t mas g. Jethro has his trucks Jack Fenton (‘Liberal Jack’’, as he is known Contest committees, promoters and managers, John A Stryker wrote that while directing d s ¢ stored away at Albemarle, twenty around the Christy Show, where he bas the remember we are waiting te publish FAC TS the ypteown Chamber of Commerce Rodeo in ( miles from Salisbury, and says that while he advertising banners again next season) was regarding your 1924 activities. Let's have ‘em. cago last A st be was asked to in r did not have a wonderful season, he averaged given a hig reception by his New York friends the Corral, for the sister of Frank Re« up about as usual. He started in the show ©n his arrival in the big city. His partner, Sammy Garrett—Let’s have the news from William Letto), what has become of Frank? bus ness a few years ago with a Bible show, Sydney Page, was in charge and there was @ you. How about Denver for a contest this Poss bly Frank or some friend will supply the using jllustrated songs and selling Bibles after banquet and a general good time. Besides act year? information. the performance, Then he branched out and ing as Wastern representative of the Christy es menetnns id a three-car vaudeville show and a carload Show, Jack will find time to make a trip te Fog Horn Clancr—Know you are busy raising Almost daily we receive letters stating that of animals. He was headed for a eireus Detroit to visit his old home, and he also plans a Wild West family, but let us have the news some contestant of note will be with some when the high cost of transportation made a trip to Montreal later. of your district. show, free attraction outfit, and that so and him think twice and he went back om wagons. Harry Seymour, legal adjuster with the Maina ‘ —_—_— so will be doing so and se. Let us have the Now he is using trucks and has the neatest Shows, made a big success of his auctions is that plays thru North West Virginia and also his Christmas sales ig summer. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He will spend the regeneral superintendent of mainder of the winter at his home in that ters. a started in city preparing for another strenuous season Player and with the Main show. Art Acord used to be a name that stood ace news regarding each of you over your own high at contests. Understand he is doing well sig™ature and then we can publish the faets in the movies. Let us hear from you, Art. as they are. Barney Hopkins, Dick Merchant. Jack Davis From Ponca € ity, Ok —Me mbers of the Ponca to let the managers, committees and promoters Other buildings on the preserve. The meal was know what you intend doing this coming sum‘Served them at 1 o clock in the morning and and Bud Johnson are contestants who travel City fire®depa ent we served with buffalo ; tae oak — mF. %.... _—— > ay, 8 under the banner of the State of New Mexico. meat at the Mill r Brothers’ 101 Ranch, near : is ho own success ore an aeee . this city, after they had prevented fire from ays the sight that most delphia that he never thinks < the a8 on : ‘ in Boaian dias” men . : the see Oe .im was the fellow playing a yellow under the white tops only when some friend Now is the time for all yon boys and girls ‘spreading n tar a ranch to ° Ba By the ier aoe pent lolee be. a Ge Gas Gee oe ce ee, = ee ad was with James R. Waite, was Winona Robbins, who, with her mother, : soloist in the band be was drove down from New York with Elsie Miller , » ao hj og Ww! besid pin mer. was from a buffalo born on the ranch in 1906. put on the front deor. Waite was one of the and gave Bill and Eunice a pleasant surprise. 7 _ é first managers to play thru New England with Miss Robbins tells me that the store ie a Pv yeu notice where Be snterese ant Ge ss f sawerth, . — ury eo “a popular-priced repertoire, From that show two-story brick one on the corner of Daupia Millerix trothers ha orm a contes =80er < owboys e ash.. advised he went to the Cole Bros. under Martin Downs, and Memphis streets in one of the nicest neigh ciation out on the Pacifie Coast? Let us have that the Cowboys and Cowgirls’ International where he was auditor, and from there to the borheeds in Philly. On the second floor is a the official dope on it, boys. ° Congress, whic sad been —planne d for January show and now with Christy. With J. studio where Eunice teaches dancing. Miss _—Fh atti had been wa —, ms Tf Au Jones he was his right-hand man Robbins adds that she, her mother and Mrs, date yet t be a n e eta n 3 One of onr South Dakota readers wants to me ae poms ° r took charge of Elmer Jones’ minMiller were most cordially received, as well hear from Tuck Reynolds thru this column. ** ter that 1 postponement was Decause of srry pretests 8 et heliine the effete Gusta & hows. 3 r Sent oe Atkins—that’s Winnie’s pet dog. The last we heard of Tuck he was in pictures PTOtes's Sean ae ee Shey Sura rhat good oldtimer, John (Tubbs) Burnhardt, Bill told them that the only thing he hadn't pig He dy @ . P winter month, also because of the fact of varwho used to play tuba with Brownlee & Reed trained so far was the new furnace and that — ious important cattlemen’s meetings during Janwi) Herb Swift as band leader, closed his sevsometimes ran over the ring bank. More power uary. nth season with the Christy show and is spendto you, Bill. Eddie McCarty, of Wyoming. is a name well anaiae ‘ ason W 3 = known Ip contest circles. Besides being a good ‘ . : j BE. 0. (“Jimmie”) Logan, who was assistant man in the riding and reping competitions, he ae ~y Ril — a a. boss = nee y~ the ote ory a > an = . 2 : original Buffalo Bill Show, and the foster son — es , . a is in Chicago for the winter and meets bas quite a bunch of good contest live stock. of Col. W. F. Cody, has arrived in New York ™aking flivvers—he is handling a bunch of ee tae Geet ab etten. up H. ©.. st ia—Dea’t blame you. We can’t with Mrs. Baker for a visit to Eastern fri lends real horses). George Hubert, well known to Repertoire shows are still making some . o Ot. Loui e . 7 u iy is the owner of Pahaska Tepee je many of the Wild West folks, also called and tions of Texas to good returns despite the hi eee it either. The reply you received, “No, mus um on Lookout Mountain, near Go hn ow-wowed. He has four head of bucking jj conse Foo Recently, at Pee Ag Tex, bot we have The Billboard,’’ tells the story, (oJ. ‘This is the last resting place of Buffalo horses that he secured from Ed McCarty that | witnessed a performance by Brunk’s Comedoesn't it? Bill, and the register book at the Tepee shows have rounded out into great shape, One bronk, Gians. They have a fine outfit, a well-heated that 600,000 persons registered there in 1923. called Doublebeart, especially is im fine shape ‘ont and have had @ good eeason. They will Smok sends a poem on a real snaky Sure proof that thousands upon thousands of 254 rearing to buck. George says that the (15.6 soon and open again im the spring. They bronk A the Southwest and known to many motor cars make the annual pilgrimage to the borse & il be at hiberty to buck in a good string have a novel method of getting around the contestants. It's a nifty getup. but because old scouts crave. this @ming summer. Texas license by selling medicine between the of its length must hold it for a future acts. From Los Angeles—Of the thousands of peo| 4!tho barely a dozen persons followed the ‘The Crescent Comedy Company, under canvas, Mrs. A, M., Omaha—Write the party a letter ple remembering the old Kit Carson Buffalo Te™mains of the veteran clown, I ete Conklin, js still out in Louisiana and intends to remain etre The Billboard, Cincinnati, ©0., and the Kanech Wild West Show and the many members *? (ve stave in Map “ont ive Cemetery, Kew out all winter. It is cagrying a band and or c ’ } ba a. Ee hief Deer and his son, ¢hest a f se tee ] name will be placed in the weekly published of the profes«ien having friends and acquain' . chestra and a company of seventeen people. — Letter List. The show you mention is wintertances Keres th, many are doubtless wondering . Were among them, bare-headed in Eddie Brodie writes me from Atlantic City ing at Phoenix, Ariz. what has become of the still surviving * hands”. ztling rain P that he is having a big time at the famous ed Tiere are a few names: Harry Bogs and wife. As the body was lowered into its last restresort and sees Frank B. Hubin almost daily. ‘ . . . ° Henry Morr «, Hugh Strickland, Herb (Buffalo) i2& place, the old chief (he is 111 years old) Eddie will be with one of the big ones in the ofterating pone KOK we > , a, Hust. ¢ do Cotton, Harry Walters and Col, ‘2V° — gras da toe ¥ oR. ~~ spring. A not in Atlantic a he is th . . x W. T. Flemit g (Kit Carson) are at present here ®°™! to jim y Preside -ucnanan, putting in his time in Philadelphia aly A Oe Og A By A in Los Angeles. Joe Moran and Jim Lynch are sadly said to his = vas 90, with a = That friend of all showmen, George Duffy, ‘tiled from New York for “England —alone at McCook, Neb., and Hank Linton is at Cherry©'S, °3°*The troupe they" gone. 1 hope he of Fort Plain, N. ¥., did not forget anyone uate 8 dale, Kan. : , Bere ‘th ae gone. ' and all received valuable gifts for Christmas. H. F., San Angelo, Tex.—Guy Weadick is in — ~ nd | the € a Indian “yy a he writer is among t! me who extend thanks Jeville. : " 4 necol a . , . i th were members 0 icKapood for a most acceptable gift Bilives a te —_ oer pacestion ie on McLain Annual Roundup at Sun City, Kan.. vi dicine Show and their friendship ever reTexas is proving great territory this winter will reach him antl April ™ when be Sotuans to Will this year be held three days the latter mained @ warm one. for the theatrical branch of the business, as hie Stampede office ae Calgary. Alberta, Can 0B pe ee» ey . a “> Rang my . ¥ well as for tent shows. All of the houses r ° ° judge and official rules for even ” es P Z ylaying one-night stands are doing a big busi Write him direct regarding the matter. like e nld be row L. B., Cheyenne, Wy., writes: I would sugP!4ying one-n : x, big & t os pe » _ — 4 £ ~~ gest that Cheyenne, Pendl eton, Calgary, Boze"ess and leading in the list of attractions thing. I am f ~— } ace . ; is State is “ It is remored that celebrities in both the better each year, and I feel sume the foregoing mam, Prescott, Salinas, Ft. Worth, Dewey, Las that have mopped up im this State is “The . -ap lefourche organize . Bat’, which is playing return dates in many worial and political Hfe of both the United also fair judges and timekeepers, and the prise Vegas a _ Belle hah ome M. enn” ya places. ‘‘Lasses’’ White and his minstrels are States and Canada will be visitors to Calgary, money in a bank the night befor starting tional Cow ot Contest , .~* 4 Se Stace th’ Geaenten Cenieeen anh seaed th on Can, next July, while the big ‘‘frontier week'’. would make t g* better all around Then 7 oe = al con nt sy a. im Beaumont on Christ mas day at both shows as exemplified im the Calgary Exhibition and the contestants would know t wae oot & cows Whee they feces Ge & ‘ation a “Sally, Irene and Mary" and “The Gingham Stamne square deal. an ad atten more of Shows te * | ey form an associat the aun Ss 4 tetas « mpede, is im progress, quare deal, and y would a 1 more of ° © thes te the known worth-while promoters Girl’ are drawing good ‘business, Weather ha -—_— the smaller contests while en route from one ‘et them a ‘let ry contest, large or been very unfavorable and cold t after Ss » “*k > ve «€Cbig affair to anether,"’ to join ae ove beta Be he , we i ; od up cor ably. ry en Henry Howe and Jack Csiden tare ng ea. small, everrwhere, that can put up the necesthe new year it has gon : u Fang om orse-Dreaking camp near Orrville, Calif., this aS on sary proof that they are eligible. These are On my way back to Beaumont tr } , r. Ty saye he would like to hear from EB. B. Syracuse, N. ¥.—Pendleton, Ore., bolds t es that started cowboy sport as an anStopped over in New Orleans for a y days “uy Weadick, also asks: ‘Slim Cropley, of its cowboy confest annually. Always some© ‘al t ng. These are the cities at which the 88d was very sorry to be obliz to d ne 8 Cheyenne Days’, let us know how you are.” time around i b : ~ A is a onto, Propoisiority ‘of contestants got their start in the cordial invitation from that forme : se — sition owner finances an con < ‘ bv rap toe _ronn on ne itie J. N. Wisner, to pay him a vis " « h ‘ HO J., Kansas City—Charies (Ruck) Jones, “tens of Vendletor They own their own . moters oe a [ieee ceteeie Bay St. Louis, Miss. He was form: connected ith the Fox Film Co... used to be with the sreunds, which, by the way, are adapted espePy’ : se =ae chane eeveral with many Eastern shows and at present ‘s enI'M Raneh Show and Julia Allen's Wild West, cially for the contest, They vn consideral 8 snow and decide the best way to or£@ged in cotton brokerage business and is & Known then as “Buck’’ Gebhart. We have live stock used i the product Chey eall scot Ones Rater 1e ss? Why don’t you get the member of the New Orleans cot n —— .» . tle tound "? nu el $ ~ . . , : ’ ont stonp f in } eans > Ay cord of him contesting at cowhoy contests. = aon tee n L-“4 _ . vs =~ ~ . oie eads of the contests held in these cities to Showmen w ho nae pt ae anon neate ney O08 write Bien Gizect? va tt : tart bat one that ha " wn with organize? That's the proper way to start. sie ~“‘ t S11 .— ile pr et where there ne star ot ne as gro , ts . > . on hese e the hangout a erville stree According to press reports from Arizoua, Tex each succeeding year. As to your other quesae by oa my ae ge a is always a bunch of real fellows on hand to \Ustin bad al time my arsived in that State tion write to President Collins, of the Pendlenel A — 4 —— a onoeul make it Pleasant. Bob Levy and Henry Holley. th the ebject in view ef purchasing a cattle ton Roundup, and be will give you detailed fr oa — pla ~y hy th _ in “4 ear with a suitformer circus men, also extend a welcome from ‘ . ‘ ‘ or one § e anotbe ir é ar re e Su = — ied . ar in =. Tonton Basia, on Ss ub he would !"formation. ease, copping the thunder of the sound business The Little Corner at Iberville and Bourbon ee real Western atmosphere for the «special nstitutions that have put real money in cowstreets. “ate ainment of touring and “invited West Guy Weadic® posteards: “See where you imboy sports for years? Let's call a spade a spade Howard Barry. whe, Saicee’ season : ners, quire as to the w bouts of Johnay and and be done with it. The cities I have menlegal — _ aa a trip to Philadelphia to Ethel Metracken While playing Detroit Jast tioned represent the business community of with bis W ry oat at bic heme tase " Al Fantk returned to Newport, Ky., last week week Johuny and his wife paid us a visit. their respective locations, not just a promoter sp nd some time . 7 ‘rom 8 two weeks’ visit to his parents and They say they have quit the read. Johnny bas dying from one place to another trying to Mrs. yy City. recently on the other relatives in Western Ilinols, Mrs. Faulk an excellent position with Henry Ford (no, not pick up some soft change.’ walk at Atlantic City.