The Billboard 1924-03-22: Vol 36 Iss 12 (1924-03-22)

MARCH 22, 1924 ORIGINATORS OF WRITE FOR 1ST NATIONAL BANK SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT 3000-Hole Board, 5c ee a IF YOU SELL, OPERATE OR USE SALESBOARDS YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT “‘Metro Assortments Are the Standard of a “METRO” IS OFFERING C4.TALOG METRO SALES CO. PUNG CHOW. Genesee and Pratt Sts., BUFFALO, N. Y. ORIGINATORS OF 1500-Hole 2000-Hole } Se Play — ae. lads HELLER’S ACME SHOWS Open April 19th, East Paterson, N. J. Proven Spot. WANT one real Show to feature, Walk-Through Shows, Mechanical Shows, Silodrome or any high-class Show that cares to book with an organization that gives terms so a showman can live, — Help on Parker Carry-Us-All, Help for two Big Eli Wheels, Traver Seaplane and gs. WANT Concessions. All legitimate Grind Stores welcome. { FOLLOWING WHEELS SOLD: Fruit, Blankets, Floor Lamps, Umbrellas, Clocks, Hoop-Las, H Cook House. Have good proposition for Combination Concession of Juice, Ice Cream, Peanuts, etc. We carry only one’ of a kind and they all must live up to the high ideals of the Showmen’s a Legislative Commies of America. PA a Fr —— “MORE FREE ACT. Have High Dive. Must be sensational. Have Band oyer I want you to pley Una-Fon; write me. COMMITTEES ae REAL UP: TO-DATE MORGANIZATION, playing New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, wr ALSO WANT Meg to take charge of Big Eli No. 16 Wheel and Man for Venetian Swings, permanently located at Dreamland Park, Newark, N. J. ADDRESS ALL MAIL to Harry Heller, 91 Hamilton Avenue, Paterson, N. J., or Phone Lambert 2296-M, between 6 and 7 any evening TO CELEBRATE OUR 38th Anniversary in the Jewelry and Novelty Jobbing Business WE OFFER 38 BIG SPECIALS Including Clocks, Silverware, Lamps, Razors, Ivory Sets and other popular items AT UNHEARD-OF PRICES Send for Circuiar. “" I. CHARAK CO. 104 Hanover St., Dept. B., Boston, Mass. MAX’S EXPOSITION SHOWS | WANTED—A few niore good Shows. The following Shows are booked: Pit Show, Animal Show, Submarine Show and Centauer, the Horse Man, RIDES*ARE BOOKED. CONCESSIONS—The following Concessions are sold: Silver, Floor Lamps, Groceries, Corno, Candy, Cook House and Juice. All others are open. Exclusives will be sold on all Merchandise Wheels. No exclusives on merchandise on Grind Stores. This show opens the first week in May under the auspices of the Parent Teachers’ Assoclation, ¢ Forest Park, Ill., and will play the suburbs of Chicazo until the first week in August. I have airs booked for the rest of the season. Address al] communications to MAX GOLDSTEIN, 1053 Dunlop Avenue, Forest Park, fil. Member of Showmen’s Legislative Committee WANTED For Ten-in-One and Five-in-One Shows Attractions of every kind and nature. GLASS BLOWER with outfit, SWORD WALKER, GLASS DANCER, HABA-HABA or MUNGO ACT, TALKERS and LECTURERS, LADIES FCR BUDDHA, TATTOOER, Lady ot Gent; ILLUSIONS, ARMLESS WONDERS Took write. Craig, INusionist, write. LADIES FCR ILLUSIONS, etc. Open in May. W. H. SMITH, 293 Penn, St., Buffalo, N. Y¥. CONCESSIONAIRES—PITCHMEN—CANVASSERS—SHEET WRITERS — SALESBOARD OPERATORS—NOVELTY VENDERS OPERATING IN THD PACIFIC COAST OR ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES BUY YOUR SUPPLIES IN LOS ANGELES, CALIF. PROMPT SHIPMENTS, LOW PRICES. WESTERN NOVELTY CO. 416 South Les Angeles Street, LOS ANGELES. CALIF (Continued from page 156) Jack Bell ‘snowshoed’ in recently. It seems that all are longing for the bluebird’s coming Dode Fisk, the educated horse showman, i+ ready to make a jump. Wm. Cushman left for Chicago a few weeks ago. George and Mary Nolan, of cook-house fame, expect to be with Ed Drum and his rides.’’ Naif Cory, with his Lucky Boy Minstrels; Mrs. Jimmie Simpson, with her Rocky Road to Dublin; Jee Dubisly and Irene Dare, well-known motordrome e+rperts: Col, Littleton, with the famous educated horse, Lady Fanchon; A. Sischo, with his Monkey Speedway; Thomas W. Kelly, with the Circus Side-Show; Con. Jesperson, with a band of eighteen union musicians; Gordon’s Freak Animal Show, and others of note to be announced later, with ‘Bill’’ Hilliar as publicity director, coupled with the fact that Mangels is building a merry-go-round which, it is claimed, wil) be one of the finest seen on the American continent, it is no wonder the Zeidman & Pollie Shows are stepping right jnto the center of the limelight. Jack B. Cullen lays the claim that he will have the greatest minstrel show front with Rubin & Cherry Shows ever built for that kind of an attraction—lots of cer-ings, as well as gold and silver leaf, ard 210 lichts (and he says that’s not stretching the number). He also contributed: . *‘Replying to Mr. Byrne's inquiry of a few weeks ago in ‘Caravans’, as to who is the oldest plantation show manager (in point of such service) with carnivals, I think that either Joe Oppice or I could be handed that honor—if such it could be termed. I started in the spring of 1903—and the ‘pleasure’ I have had during all these twenty years and a few months has only put me in-a hos pital five times, nearly had me ‘out of head® several times and almost started me toward a ‘bug house’ once (figuratively speaking).”” But it's a “‘great life’, isn’t it, Jack? G. S. (Doc) Long “‘hearkens’® back to quite a number of years ago at Terre Hante. “**Them’ were the days,.’’ he writes, ‘“‘and here fs a partial lineup of attractions for the date: Mort Weller’s Wild Animal Show, at Eighth and Main streets; Millican’s Old Plantation Show, on the opposite corner; Jim Sturgis’ ‘Eruption of Mt. Pelee’, Capt. Louis Sorcho’s Tecp-“ea Divers, Lockhart's Elephants, Col. Phil DeCo: pe with a back top showing ‘Ben Hur’ in motion pictrres, and some other fine shows and rides; also Bob Hutchinson, engraving on glass, and about a hundred other concessions. And there were free attractions galore.” Old friends of Doc’s will be interested to learn that he is working on something pew in the way of a combination ‘trade show" Besides “‘shooting’ and later running mot'on pictures ‘‘of a town'’ (about 2,000 feet of film), the story starting with its pioneer days up to date, showing improvements, etc., the plan is to carry booths for merchants’ displays, also present free acts and a couple of rides, but no concessions. He and his business associate have been working the motion pieture features (us'ng local talent) for some time. He is scheduled to open the project in Dayton, 0., in April, with R. G. Gooding’s three rides, and Rita and Dunn, high-wire artistes, and Prof. Savad, comedy juggler, as free attractions, so he advised last week. Looking backward—on page 7, {sane of March 22, 1902, appeared the following article, beaded “Adolph Seeman’’: “Adolph Seeman, whose cut arpears elsewhere in this iesue, is the general superintendent of equipment of the Bostock-Ferari Mighty Midget Carnival Company, and is also associated with Victor D. Levitt—general manager of the company—under the firm name of Levitt & Seeman —proprietors of the ‘Crystal Maze’, ‘Electra’, the ‘Maid of the Air’ and many other amusement enterprises. Mr, Seeman was born In the year 18% in Stockholm, Sweden—son of ‘See. man’, the g-eatest magician and fllusionl«t of his time. Seeman and son came to the United States in 1880 and immediately embarked in the show bueiness—the father as magician and the son as manager. “He soon developed into a remarkably clever inventor of illusions, and in 1892 he built the first ‘Crystal Maze’. Three years later the partnership of Levitt & Seeman was formed, which firm has successfully operated various large enterprises all over the courtry. and ts today considered without an equal in the presentation of their line of amusements. “The firm was connected with the Bortock carnival enterprices since 1898, and is now a large factor In the enecessful operation of the toutock-Ferarl aggregation. Mr. Seeman {is a thoro showman—a _ progressive one—and his friends, beth In and out of the business, are innumerable.”* (Incidentally, on first page of the abovementioned edition of ‘“‘Billyboy’’ appeared a large ent of Harry B. Potter, who was then chief of the press and publicity department of the Bostock-Ferart caravan.—ALI), There are many motion pictnre pe | agers who, realizing that the people of thelr cities (after being virtually forced to be en ARE =e Guaranteed Standard Quality Brilliant Gl Fast Colors Long Necks TESTED pena YES, We have No. 70 hvy. Transparent SKWEZ-ME DOLLS IN 4 SIZES THE GOOD RUBBER CO. Manufacturers AKRON, OHIO, U. S. A. are PP a ~ ~~~A SHOW LIGHT MANUFAC. TURE Having and Machines to be re Paired. You save mony during the winter onths. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED We also sell and make Primo Are Lamps and Circus Machines. Also repairs for any other . Jumbo Burner for cooking, an make. Coal o cooking burners for cook houses. Cook House Apliances made up m any shape or style you want with Coal O1l of Gasoline Burners. Write for circulars. Headquarters for Show Lights and Burners WINDHORST SUPPLY CO. 1426 Chestnut St., St. Louis, Mo. tertained all winter indoors) relish an opportunity to partade of a just and goodly portion of outdoor, spirit-reviving amusements, when weather permits, and a_ realization of this prompts them (the managers), and quite consistently so, to really encourage traveling organizations of merit to play in their communities. There are others, however, who are not so inclined: rather they do their best to have pressure brought to bear among the local “city dads’ to even pass prohi!ltory measures against carnivals, tented repertoire shows, c'reuses and practically all other forms of organized outdoor shows, It savors of ‘‘forcing”’ the townspeople to patronize them. All has noted with interest that the latter have been Operating their ‘‘propagenda’’ and other activities real openly in several sect'ons of the country. One of the greatest ‘‘cries’’ eagerly sponsored by th's lotter clase is that ‘‘traveling shows take so much money out of town.’’ Ye ode! Take a carnival, for instance. They have from fifty to 509 people each with them, and all these people buy, directly or indirectly, their meals, etc., in each town they exhibit in, and—but what's the use to give the many other compari-ons—suilice to ask how many of the film actors eat In the severa) hundred town: where thelr pictures are exhibited? And even the managers of the movie houses send money for the rent of their films ‘‘out of town". That old ‘‘raw’’ about how much money a carnival ‘‘takes’’ from a town, when, in fact, unless jt be a special event of some kind— celebration, fair, etc —the managers of them are gratifyingly satisfied if they make expenses, actually makes a thinking, unbiased = “‘sick’’, at the silliness of such a staten A glance at the ticte Directory '» this issue may save cunsiderable time and incvnvenience.