The Billboard 1927-01-01: Vol 39 Iss 1

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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 JAZZ BREAKS . EVERYTHING IN MUSIC FOR THE MUSIC MUSICIANS!! HOT CHORUSES | SOLOS | NOVELTIES aN SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS “INSIDE INFORMATION” For the Musician. A handsome 142-page book, explaining the secrets ef improvising. SURE SYSTEM INPROVISING FOR ALL LEAD INSTRUMENTS By SAMUEL T. DALEY. Especially adapted for SAXOPHONE, CLARINET, VIOLIN, TRUMPET, TROMBONE. PRICE $3.00 COMPLETE PIANO PLAYERSII Here Are 3 Great Books for the Jazz Pianist AZZ BREAKS — . Teaches 150 Jazz Breaks, Novelty a Biues, Fill-tn Embellishments, ete. $1.00. JAZZ BASS The Backbone of Jazz Piano Playing. Teaches You the Various Styles ef Jazz Necessary in Professional Work in All Keys and Chords. Price, $1.00. KEYBOARD HARMONY— The Simplest and Mest Condensed Method Ever Published on the Subject ef Keyboard Har- mony. So simple a Child Can Understand it. 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4 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 A Visit to the Edwin Forrest Home By ELLIE DEANE-PALMER Recently I had occasion to make a visit to the beautiful Edwin Forrest Home at lolmesburg, Pa., which is for retired members of the profession. I came up the drive leading to a stately grey-stone mansion in a snowstorm. I was a little weary and very cold and it was a won- derful experience to enter the spacious hospitable hall and be welcomed by Mrs. Stewart, the hostess, who did everything in her power to make me feel that I was among friends. Tae Home is most attractive and is furnished with the beautiful antique furniture and relics of Mr. Forrest. Everything is beautifully renovated to harmonize with the paneled, hand- carved old English interior of the house. One enters a large hall with Tiffany stained-glass windows and an enormous stone fireplace. The hall is handsomely furnished with easy-chairs, davenports and a grand piano. In the evenings and on dull afternoons the guests gather about the blazing logs in this great hall telling stories, discussing plays, past and present, and sometimes Mrs. Stoyle and Mrs. Hurley sing an old-time song or one of the other ladies plays the piano. Everything is planned for the guests’ comfort and they surely appreciate it. There is a pipe organ and a fine radio which enjoyed each evening. The is dining room is delightful. The guests seated at small tables and dinner is rved by candle light. are St On the day I arrived there were lovely crimson carnations and sweet peas in halls and rooms. There are always fresh fragrant and the inviting. There looking out on flowers to make the air whole place gay and are many sunny windows, Is a balcony, and restful chairs in which one may bask in the sun which pours in on a bright day. How the older folks enjoy this! The bedrooms are furnished with every comfert and convenience and each room is different in color scheme. The Home has a large automobile, with a chauffeur, for the use of the guests when they wish to go on little errands or to pay visits Many of the guests are devoted to their daily walk, however. Miss Lewis, a charming and niuch-beloved little lady, wha because she has been in residence for 19 years 1s lover of other A dear called “The Dean", is a great cutdoors and all the birds and animals come to her to be fed. little female Saint Francis! There is a faithful night watchman, Whose duty is to watch over the guests While they sleep. If anyone becomes ill in the night he or she is cared for im- mediately. The house is beautifully situated on a hill, with a pretty stream running along the edge of the estate and plenty of woodland all about it. Still it is within a city block of a pleasant village, where the tradespeople take great pride in serving the Forrest Home folks. If companies playing in Philadelphia would pay a visit to the Edwin Forrest Home they would feel repaid and the guests would be delighted to receive them, for they are full of loyalty and devotion to the profession. It is not far from Philadelphia and can be conveniently reached by subway or trolley. I cannot say too much for Mrs. Stewart and the Edwin Forrest. Home and I wish I could share this acquaintance with many others. duced by Palmere Brandeaux. Eula Fleming lace photo, which will be returned. Paden Attractions. Regent Theatre. WANTED FOR BURNS & PADEN’S CUTE LITTLE DEVILS COMPANY Twenty Chorus Girls; must be young, good looking and capable of doing work pro- want young General Business Woman; must have all essentials. Character Man capable of playing versatile line of parts. Address CHAS. V. TURNER, Manager, Burns & Muskegon, . Babe Fauntleroy, wire if available. Also Also want clever young Stare all in ftrst letter. Send Mich. 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Since there is said to be one stutterer among every 1,000 persons it is conceivable that oa least two in every audience will be dis- tressed by seeing their misfortune made the butt of humorists. There will prob- ably be a response that will Please the attendants of the conference for there > ee ie d plays in which ‘the comedy ovide h > - y the efforts of stutterers Dramatists are loath to part with any expedient of fun or pathos that has been found effective. There may have been a time when stutterers served among the characters of a play as sources of enter- tainment. But that period has passed, In drawing their characters Playwrights now avoid all kinds of physical abnor- mality, Henri Bergson to the contrary notwithstanding. Audiences, too, have ceased to find amusement in departure frd@m physical normality emphasized for its own sake. No public would today luugh at a cripple or patronize a per- formance dependent on a character is painful for its fun. The tendency of the best type of theaters has been away from physical monstrosities. The suc- cessful dramatist today is one who can take the every-day world as he finds it and interest his listeners ‘n a cross sece tion of life as it is. He would not people his work with the physically deformed. No playwright would today make his drama depend for serious or comic in- terest on the acts of a character mentally deranged. There are in the classic drama some characters that stutter because they are old and convention has decided that, fol- lowing the fashion of the ages, certain parts are to be acted with an impediment in the speech. But there are few con- temporaneous works likely to need re- vision from the organizations that are seeking to end stuttering as a comic stage cevice. The object was _ practically reached a long time ago. —NEW YORK SUN. 1927 Business Outlook Considered Favorable — Looking back over the dying year of 1926 and forecasting the business outlook for 1927, directors and members of the National Association of Manufacturers predict a continuance of the unprece- dented prosperity of the nation. They see only a few economic icebergs in the path of the ship of Success. They point to these outstanding facts: 1. Business nearer a cash basis than it ever has been in our history. 2. No financial panic can come—the Federal Reserve Banking System stands as an indestructible buffer. 3. The industries are operating at a high rate of production. 4. The margin of profits has been nar- rowed and we are closer to a true rela- tionship between costs and sales. 5. Competition will be stronger. 6. Credits have decreased and there is ample money at reasonable rates. is 7. People generally are contented and there are gradually fewer labor disturb- ances, Thief Is Shot Chicago, Dec. 27.—Thomas Evans, for- mer night watchman at the Haymarket Theater, who has been sought since Labor Day for alleged setaling of $9,000, was killed today by the present watchman, Roy White, when White says Evans ve- turned and was caught again attempting to rob the safe that replaced the one he had robbed before. TWO STATE ROOM PULLMAN CARS FOR SALE 3. A. GLAZE, - Keyser, West Virginia. Wanted FOR J. F. MURPHY'S GEORGIA MINSTRELS WEEK-STAND SHOW, Colored Performers and Musicians. Year-round job Two Cornets, one Team to feature, two Chorus Girls who can sing and dance, State lowest salary, as you get it. Address JAMES SIMPSON, Southern Amuse- ment Co., Coconut Grove, Fla,

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—_—_ O The’ Foremost “Trade Publication of the heater and the Show World. Only News that Means Something ~no Scandal to dishonor the Profession ished weekly at Cincinnati, O peer 100 Pages. Entered as second-class mail matter Vol. XXXIX. No. 1, January 1, 1927. June 4. 1897, at Post Office, Cincinnati, Copyright 1926 by The Billboard Publishing Company. under Act of March, 1879. — — More Vote on Sunday Shows Than on Village Paving Issue WAYLAND, N. Y., Dec. 26—That the public takes its amusement more seriously than it does such matters as, for instance, a village-paving is- indicated here this week in sue, was on Sunday the special referendum shows. A total of 823 votes were cast, With Sunday movies winning {81 to 328, while only 263 votes were cast at the special election on the village-pavement proposition. Gaby & Tooker, managers of the American Legion Theater, stood the expenses of the referendum and the village board, which agreed to abide by the. poll, will pass an ordinanc authorizing movies on Sunday after ¢:45 p.m., when church services close. N. Y. Orchestras May Consolidate Rumor Current That New York Symphony and Philharmonic Will Soon Be Merged NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Rumor is cur- rent among boxholders and patrons of Philharmonic and New York Symphony orchestras that both organizations will soon consolidate, which if carried out will mean the realization of New York's “one big orchestra” dream. That the rumors are entirely unofficial is proven in part by the refusal of Harry Harkness Flagler, sole guarantor and president of the Symphony Society, to comment on them. Clarence H. Mackay, chairman of the board of directors of the Philharmonic Society, was not teached last night. Both organizations’ schedules call for 100 or more concerts during the winter season. Those who discussed the amalgamation yesterday explained that the combined audiénces could be covered in 150 concerts, exclu- sive of the few now given on tours. The players eliminated in the amalgamation, it was also pointed out, would be pro- vided for in the new organizations aris- ing in other cities. Western bidders are known to offer $200 a week for certain players Walter Damrosch, who recently resigned from the New York Symphony. is said to be definitely decided that his future activities will be confined to edu- cational concerts for children and young people, Fire Destroys Winnipeg Theater WINNIPEG, Dee. 25.—The Winnipeg Theater, owned by C. P. Walker, was de- Stroyved by fire Thursday, with a loss es- timated at $120,000, of which there is about $60,000 covered by insurance. Four ee lost their lives while fighting the ames, Manitoba officials have started an in- vestigation. Saenger Takes Over 2 Baton Rouge Houses . NEW ORLEANS Dec. 26. — The saenger Amusement Company has closed a lease with the Columbia Theater Com- — of Baton Rouge for the lease of Ne Columbia and Louisiana theaters, zon Rouge's two principal show houses. he lease is for a period of 25 years with 4 monthly rental of $6,000 or about $2,000,000 for the period of the ‘lease. (Continued on page 17) Oe All Ohio Road Stands Will See Home-State Boy in Comedy Patterson McNutt Plans Unusual Tour for Elliott Nugent and Orig- inal Broadway Production of ‘“‘The Poor Nut’’—State Invasion Starts January 17 in Columbus Patterson McNutt, the theatrical pro- ducer, announced this week that he had completed arrangements for an all-Ohio tour of The Poor Nut, which has Elliott Nugent, an Ohio boy, as featured player. Following a run of 20 weeks at the Cort Theater in Chicago, the college comedy will begin the Ohio engagement at the Hartman Theater, Columbus, the week of January 17, with an extended tour of the State to follow. In addition to playing the title role, young Nugent is author of the play with his father, J. C. Nugent. The home of the Nugents is in Dover, O. Additional significance is given to the State-wide tour in that the play deals with undergraduate athletic activities at the Ohio State University, of which young Nugent is an alumnus. Consequently, this institution is planning a tremendous re- ception for him at Columbus, and the various branches of the O. S. U. Alumni Society thruout the State will stage similar demonstrations when The Poor Nut plays other cities. Governor Dona- hey, President Rightmire of O. S. U. and other prominent State and educational officials will be guests of honor at the initial Ohio performance. The Poor Nut is one of the outstanding succeeses of recent seasons, having to its credit a record of 42 weeks in New York, 10 weeks in Boston and 8 weeks in Phila- delphia, in addition to its long Chicago engagement. Young Nugent’s supporting cast will be virtually the same as appeafed on Broad- way, including Norma Leej Betty Garde, Percy Helton, Beach Cooké, Frazer Coul- ter, Larry Fletcher, Harry Gresham, Thomas Shearer, Robert Scott, Eric Kalkhurst, Cornelius Roddy, Edith Leiter, (Continued on page 17) O=aoao_—_—_—_ Preacher Interrupts London Play To Tell Heroine What She Should Do 4} 4 a pened to be in the audience replied: on tolerance. sisters,” he said. He then warmed to his theme audience. Fs rt LONDON, Dec. 26.—Rising to the aid of the distressed heroine when she asked, “Should I marry this man with whom I have been living?”, in the third act of The Outcast at the Regent Theater, a preacher who hap- “Yes, it would be quite all right.” The clergyman then turned to the audience and delivered a lecture “This unfortunate woman should be treated as one of your ] and made a stirring plea. missionaire called on him to sit down, but by the time he had finished speaking, with the actress still on the stage, he was applauded by the A com- National Broadcasting Co. Lines Up Big Names for New Yeat’s Program Big names, such as John McCore- mack Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman, Alfred Cortot and the Victor Salon Or- chestra, under the direction of Nathaniel Shilkret, are among the artistes who will on January 1 assist the National Broadcasting Company in conveying to the radio audience its wish for a Happy New Year This presentation will be on the air from 9 until 11 o’clock, Eastern Stand- ard time, and will mark the first of the 1927 series sponsored by the Victor Talking Machine Company. The National Broadcasting Company manages WJZ, New York; WRC, Wash- ington, and owns and operates WEAF, New York Presentations to emanate from the studios and remote points on New Year's Day will be a_ forceful demonstration of the company’s an- nounced aim to offer the best in radio broadcasting programs. An outstanding achievement for the first time will be inaugurated with the formation of the new Blue network with WJZ as the key station and consisting of an additional chain of broadcasters including WBZ, KDKA and KYW. The transmitters of the Blue will be linked with the Red, of which WEAF is the key station Events to be broadcast during the day include the address of Governor Alfred E. Smith at noon. Another which should command the interest of fans will be a play-by-play description of the Leland Stanford- University of Alabama football game at Pasadena. Graham McNamee will be at the microphone and 23,000 miles of wire will be utilized to bring his description to the radio audience. After the victor has been proclaimed by McNamee the audience will be taken to the Chamber Music Hall, New York, where Walter Damrosch will lead the New York Symphony Orchestre in its presentation of the Balkite Hour. George Gershwin, American symphonic jazz pianist-composer, will be the cuest artiste and will render his famous Rhap- sody in Blue at the piano, with Dam- rosch and the orchestra playing. This event will be broadcast beginning at 8 o'clock Eastern time. The Blue and Red networks will sign off at 11 o'clock, when WJZ will take its audience to the Hotel Pennsvivania. where George Oleson and his music will be the offer’ng WEAF's audience will hear the familiar salutation, “Lopez speaking,” after which will come an hour's program of dance music by Lopez and his orchestra from Casa Lopez. Straight Movies Are Unable | To Hold Small-Town Patrons Evidence that straight moving pic- tures are unable to hold the patronage of the amusement seekers in the small towns is brought out by the numerous closings of film houses in various sec- tions of the country. In the Northwest, for instance, 23 movies closed within two weeks. Among the latest efforts to borster up film theater attendance is the one- cent-sale idea, whereby anyone buying a ticket on certain nights is given a second ticket for one cent. While the small communities are losing interest in straight movies the metropolitan centers, where strong musical features and stage attractions augment the films, report greater at- tendance. Henry Duffy Plans Chain Pacific Coast Manager Will Have String of Houses From Canada to Mexico SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25.—With to- day’s opening of the Mission Theater. Long Beach, latest addition to Henry Duffy’s list of theaters, this rising Pa- cifie Coast producer and manager will have four houses under his direction. Two of the others are in San Francisco, and the fourth is in Seattle. : A fifth house will be opened by Duffy in the North next spring, and he plans to follow this up with other acquisitions until he has a chain reaching all the way from Canada to Mexico. Duffy has one company on the road headed by Isabel Withers playing Rain, and next week Hugh Cameron will head another company to tour in Alias the Deacon, opening in Reno and going as far north as Vancouver. He also has two companies in Australia. Duffy does not contemplate appearing at any of his houses in the near fu- ture, and his wife, Dale Winter, will probably not be seen on the stage locally for some time to come, after the end of the run of The Little Spitfire, now being presented at the President Theater. Walter Chenowith, who has made a successful record at the President, will manage the Mission, and J. E. Perry will succeed him here. Theater War Looms In Springfield, Mass. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dee. 27.—With Poli, Goldstein Brothers, Loew and Pub- lix all planning new theaters here, it looks as tho a theater war looms. At present there is only one vaudeville house in the city, Poli’s Palace. The new houses are to show pictures or pictures and pres- entations. It is believed that at least two of the older houses will turn to vaudeville. Frisco Gives ‘‘Miracle”’ Biggest Advance Sale SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 25.—The ad- vance sale of seats for The Miracle on Monday last, just one week from the date of the opening performance, had already exceeded $100,000. In no other city has the advance booking reached such pro- portions. Morris Gest, Max Reinhart, who traveled 7,000 miles to come here, and most of the principals have been here for several days. Last Week's Issue of The Billboard Contained 754 Classified Ads, Totaling 4,984 nes, and 511 Display Ads, Totaling 13,805 Lines; 1,275 Ads, Occupying 18,790 Lines In AW Billboard | | 3 Billboard |"=| — | a | 7 Ss _ es ee : a hl = — ee ee

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6 The Billboard, January 1927 l, M. E. Comerford Expanding His Theatrical Holdings Scranton Operator, With Coast-to-Coast Chain as His Goal, Takes Over Frank A. Keeney’s Lease of New Exchange Theater, Binghamton, N. Y.—Local Competition Looms ion is to have a chain reach- ing from Coast to Coast. It is understood that Comerford also has tried to buy an interest in the Kodeco Company, which operates the Strand, Star and Sy ny eaters, but Ned Korn- blite, David Cohen and others of this neern would not part with their hold- ings. Kornblite and Cohen are interested with rford in some Scranton and Wik rre theaters. A r gz to Comerford's plans, the I hang offer a type of high-class iim nd attractions equal to those n ti be w York movie houses, and this v sult in direct competition with ther local theaters f he intended to resell the Ex- to the Binghamton Theater Com- merford said he is not desirous so at this time, but might con- ater. nerford now has 115 houses, and he is extending his operations to Buffalo, “leveland and Chicago. is retiring from the business. Keeney Managers Hosts at Party NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 25.—Following the ustom Managers Taylor of the and Myers of the Palace theaters entertained house staffs and artistes on the bills at a Christmas din- mer at the Roosevelt Hotel Jast night after the performances. Among per- formers present were yosnny Kruss, al- bert Huxton, Joe Browning, Donald Kerr, Effie Weston, Sylvia Rich, Bert Weston Jim Cassidy the Original Honey Boys, E. Sheriff, Grace and Eddie Parks, from the Orpheum, and Gene Winchester, Sammy Ross John Barton, Irene Rubini. ‘lerese Rosa and Miss Violet from the Palace. John Van Druten Lecturing Ahead of “Young Woodley” John Van Druten, lecturing in Cincin- Mati in advance of the engagement of the company presenting his Young Wood- l€y, at the Grand, disclaimed any pre- tense of advocat “high-brow thea- ing the ter’’", attributed to him in newspaper re- perts. His lecture engagements for th week he passed in Cincinnati were nu- merous. He announced in advance that he had not come to talk about his play or anything else he had written. He dis- cussed “Modern English Dramatists and Their Methods” before the various civic organizations whose guest he was. McGarry Gets “‘Laff That Off” For Stock Company Production BUFFALO, Dec. week Laff rn 25.—Last That Off played here at the Shubert-Teck Theater at $3 top. Next Monday it will be presented in stock at the Majestic Theater for a week’s run at $1 top. Commenting on his unusual speed in getting tl) play for stock production, Garry McGarry, director of the Garry McGarry Players, said that before the piece opened on Broadway it was offered him for a local tryout with his company, but he was tied up with other contracts at the time. Bars “Beau Geste’’ On Kick by France BERLIN, Dec. 25.—Acting on a pro- test from the French Foreien Offic n New York, sents conditions Legion, Germ alleging Beau Geste misrepre- in the French Foreign n authorities have barred the showing of the picture in this coun- try. It had been prepared for showine here with a new set of subtitles An added charge of brutality in the film is ziven as among the reasons for its Zz restriction in Germany. Irene Bordoni in Vaudeville Irene Bordoni, who closed in New York last S night in Mozart, will open Jan 9 at t) New Palace, Chicago, for a two weeks’ engagement. kK. Comerford, the Ser BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Dec. 27.—M inton theatrical rats s taken over Frank A. Keeney’s 2l-year lease of t Exchange Thea m er construction on Exchange street here Altho ¢ rford is president the rhamton Theater Corporation, which owns and oper the Stone and theaters, the new deal is solely on behalf of the Scranton magnate, ns Helen Kennedy in Film Houses Helen Wennedy, singing and dancing violinist, tormerly with Artists and liodels, No, No, N tf Sweetheart me, and Fanchon & Marco's Sun Kist is now doing a single act in tl large film hous Ss plays the Washington Theater, Detroit, the week of January and the Royal Theater, Toronto, the following week. Paul Tanzer Nearly Loses $700 In Sale of Valuable Old Violin Mass., Dee. 26.—Paul Tanzer, violinist in the Victory Theater Orchestra in Holyoke, was about to sell one of his violins for $300 when he cided to inspect it carefully and have it valued. The instrument proved to be one made by George Gremonder and was valued at $1,000, which price Tanzer obtained. HOLYOKE de- Autobiography of Arliss In ‘Ladies’ Home Journal” From Up the Years Bloomabury, the autoblography of George Arliss, who is at present touring in Old Lnolish, has been completed and will appear serially in The Ladies’ Home Journal, beginning with the January stte The narrative, according to an advance proof, differs from most works of this kind tn thet, instead of being a mere string of dates and anecdotes, it is a salient and witty hronicle of the theater during the life of the author. New Long Island House To Use Presentations YORK, Dec. 27.—Another pres- NEW 7 entation theater in the East, within easy access of New York and which will be devoted only to the highest class of at- tractions, enters the field with the open- ing tomorrow night of the Sunnyside Theater at Jackson Heights, Long Island. The house was erected by Grobe & Nobel, who operate the Boulevard and Jackson theaters in the same town It more than 2,000 and is removed dangerous competition. Seats from A policy of one, two or more stage attractions, depending on the acts avail- able and the salary, will obtain with Ar- thur Fisher- supplying the material. Fisher also books the other Grobe & Nobel houses. a2 > * 4 ‘ se +e ae So Ne — EDDIE DAVIS AND HIS ENTERTAINERS. who recently completed a success ful tour thra Ohio and the New England at the Mandarin Gardens, Toledo, O. tainer; Don Gersman, saxes, clarinet, Slavin,, banjo, singer and entertainer; States, are now furnishing the dance tunes The roster: Harold Farling. saxes and enter- piano, Billy Hudson, drums, xylophone and violin, arranger, singer and entertainer; Ed and Eddie Davis, piano, director and singer. LONDON CABLES---Special to The Billboard LONDON, Dec. 24.—Business of the theaters is unusually good, compared with Christmas weeks of preceding years. The ticket agencies report record holiday bookings. Andre Charlot sailed Wednesday to see the New York production of his revue. Immediately before leaving he acquired the rights to Lord Latham’s Tuppence Colored, which was very agreeably re- ceived at Sunday's special performance. Gilbert Miller also returned to the States Wednesday, having completed his London arrangements. Ida Molesworth and Teppler Lawrence announce they will resume London man- agement in January, with 12 Miles Out Happy-Go-Lucky, the English version of Smilin’ Thru, was favored with a good reception at the Prince of Wales Theater Tuesday, Roy Ralston playing the lead. The most original work in the production is done by Marion Saki, partnered with Pilly Taylor, their dancing being up to the standard set by the Adaires. Dorothy Dickson recaptured beth old and young on her reappearance in the name part of Peter Pan. The supporting cast is unevenly balanced, but Alfred Drayton as Hook and and Smee. George Shelton went great Broadway was given an enthusiastic wel at the Strand Theater Dec ber 22, and the critics predicted a successful run for the|American play, the London production 6f which was supervised by Jed Harris. Dealing with the bootlerger, the highjacker and criminal life unknown to London, the play proved ome aspects of fascinating The Times comments that “altha the rivalries of the drink trade may not be to every one’s taste, they certainly are illustrated with a dashing brilliance unfamiliar to the English stage.”’ The Duke and Duchess of York were among the spectators at Ben Blue's skatorial debut at the new Prince's Cabaret December 20. They demonstrated their enjoyment and approval by ap- plauding cordially, Lord Lonsdale presented all the women with bouquets and all the men of Coch- ran's Blackbirds Company with cigars list Monday, his lordeh 's per onal Christmas card being attached to each gift World Fair Agricultural Hall, Lon- don, is offering a good sawdust show for North Londoners Christn Eve The Palladium's Christmas Pantomime is particularly good thia year Charles Austin proved to be a riot. LONDON NEWS LETTERS Legitimate, Page 48; Vaudeville, Page 35 Theatrical Folk Trapped in Fire Cantor and Brandell Offices in N. Y. Demolished by Flames of Unknown Origin NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The offices of Lew Cantor and William Brandell, the- atrical producers, specializing in big-tim © ee ety | sg ieee ieee as oe Pe ee pO a ae | pe ee Pe a —— a nods ee LLL LLL CA tlt

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vate mr tiry 1 in uzio rsul ork ers ays rom ond, loor oof and ime ell’s da the air vith nk- yuld and on, on, ith on tu Vitaphone at Popular Prices Is Presented in Providence First Showing of Talking Films at Low Scale of 40 Cents Top Is Given by Edward M. Fay in His Majestic Theater—Other Synchronized Productions To Follow >ROVIDENCE, Dec. 25.—What is announced as the first showing of the Vita- ee e low scale of 40 cents top took place here today when the new talking 4 ; presented at Edward M. Fay'’s Majestic Theater . opening picture program included the Warner Bros.’ feature, The Third I and other novelties The Vitaphone artists announced include Giovanni M li, Roy Smeck, Anna Case, Mischa 1 mar Marion Ts illey, Will Rogers, Al J : . “te alitheieall on has been Winter Garden, N. a 1 over the arrival of the Vita- To Get K. » Acts shone in Rhode Island, and a large crowd on hand to witness the initial show- NEW YORK, Dec. | 27.—The Keith-Al- bee Circuit is planning to book acts into ir At the popular prices quoted, the attraction is expected to go big. the Winter Garden, revue house of the Shuberts, for the Sunday concerts giv: eing Made a erts given Improvements Are Bei ng there, Reports had it that the K.-A. At Liberty Theater, Portland ortice was tak ng over the entire concert shows this is m 1@ Case as yet PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 26.—Eftective “"Bivtin 'G lauder, St ven reatdent ry & the Liberty Theater here will of the K.-A. int rests, " confirmed the ro complete remodeling of staz? pymor that acts from their exchance Plans call for the immedi- would be booked for the Winter Garden nstallation of a counter-weight sys- only as a part of the programs for the w curtain drapes and drops will time being, the question of booking tt The Billboard, January 1, My Christmas Wish By SOPHIE TUCKER You've asked me to confess what I Would like from Santa Claus I tear I cannot do that And one reason is because No matter what the dear old soul Has in mind to bring Please stop him and say Soph Doesn't need a single thing Altho the world is filled with things I'd dearly love to own Already life has showered gifts And ev'ry kindness shown. To ask for more would be unfair When I have been so Dlest, Let Santa Claus just pass me up And think about the rest. For I have gifts that others lack— Ability to please, A manner and a voice of sorts— I've fared quite well with thes I've wealth, I've health, a loving son, A thousand friends or more. Tell Santa Claus to take my share To someone else’s door. When Christmas comes my heart is glad, I feel its warmth and cheer, For those I love are brought to mind And thoughts of them are dear. I like to play at Santa Claus And honestly believe be part of the equipment. entire show having ‘t ve ‘ ecide > el — Another change will be the permanent Getiiitets. _ sali edict sii — “reo nee me ag — Hation of 8 3 ‘-piece orchestra under .-A. has been booking the concerts a phere lis J ! rection of Sam K. Wineland, leader for the Shubert-controlled house, the —— nd nist He has recently finished Century a neacement at the Coliseum, Seattle : . nd Hewett will be added with a rtoire of songs — Sam H. Cohen, formerly at the Rivoli, Be? =] 5 Cae rr Siemens cnn te in charge of publicity. r 2 : 7 . ’ ’ Mikhail Mordkin Freed From Charges TULSA, Okla,, Dec. 25.—Attempt maa by attorneys for George Fonds er York tumer, to halt the tour of M M 1, Russian dar ind 1 sv p! v ore? tra ant » m for $2 800 for ystum i be settled, fatled Under the at hment served nine trunks belong the prodticers, Harry Block and Max e¢ : held but the ‘ ler ad le the bulk of the equipment, declared to be owned by Mord- the production moved on un Otlahoma City. Frank Tinnev May Act No More PHM ADELPRIA : . De 25 Report le of Frank ey H tal are alarm t . fear that vie te ; ' her of the nervous breakdown hat hi tage career is at y? ; vn fo Improvement received at the hospital MRS. ALFRED E. SMITH. wife of New York's popular Governor att ¢ World Photo ~ , , nded a E . 4 matinee p mance « The Noose’ at the Hudson Theater. New York, last week y After t bh t the memt he back stage, but unfortunately the quity Again Stops photograp! scrambled’ the names in his picture. Mrs. Smith is > ad second m the left in the front row l Hans Robert, Lester Lonergan The Black Cockatoo Ralph Lock Anne Shoemaker. Rex Cherryman. George Thompson. Ralph Adams, Harry . ; De. : Bulger, Je lack Daley, Charles Brown. Mae Clark Dorothy Sheppard, Erenay , ‘ t rt tp e H = Weaver, Maryland Jarbeau, Barbara Stanwyck, Wilfred Lucas, George Nash, George \ cenkakindas the Gelae af Betnum, Carclya Clarke end Helen Flint. v A ation Frank Mar- _ — _ ————. r if premier f tni ae een Bi Helena, Ack.: «Thursday night at the comedy Te- ere Destroys Opera House, Helena, Ack.. r, unless Martir " . " vliimatann, whee hte we. Was One of Famous Institutions in West ent of the tlaries still due the cast roduction f last s pped at the George M. ¢ ’ HELENA, Ark, Dec. 24.-—The Grand ter Opera House, one of the most famous topped rehearsals of The I k thea ‘ L of tl M pp ‘ veral eks ago. but al! » a a t I t vy de- t Y a ul > Martir I - yed | i x! post security for the salari« ‘ urunce t n FEquit hands at ! ta * n i t which before the opening, and his pror @ \\ HW. How ; H na ff the $205 back debt in weekly ! 1 mt ¢ t BN ocy nts after the premiere Martina trolling « pany, nd Sam W. Tappan post the bond Thursday The Was manage Pu d to walve the security in con- Fifte tractions ton of a quarter interest in the Were b 1 | y in | ( ra H r icture righte of the plees r? t fi \ ng t 1 pted by Equity onty if Mar- Were Elsie J nd Will I t ' the Pyramids claims He srams ’ ; pay the money not later than nt out | : t follow noon, but did not fulfill the blaz which ! ating hortly Th t is composed of Anne Forrest, after 2 lock in the ! had gamed James Crane, Reatrice Morosco, William such headway \ ra vered that it KR. R tal George Le Guerre, Revnoldsa wa iln imp I ro " en to lone n and Fdaward Forbes Sever al control it They levoted thetr eff ts fo lirectors have had a hand tn rehearsals, Saving near-by building Rollin Lioyd is at present in charge. Many famous } le of a decades tko, well as those of modern _ prominence have trod on the platform of the Helena OF} 1 Hous mong ther b sc Ex- I ? Vv H rd T t x-S - tary f Navy Tosen} T) . a well as rous hich S a nat n Ip , the stars of imat ind 1 1 stag 1 le lers in sporting the s t latter being Jack Dempsey, When heavyw t champion +) world Rut a few nichts before fire Walker Whiteside had presented his su ss, The Arabian, from the same ige There are no immediate plan building the house, altho Hel whole feels the loss of the the neerts were to have been by a newly organized Civic Mu ciation early im 1927 d tl Ameri n Legion wa to hav used the t 1 ntfon hall in Au- cust of the same year — =) ne a | a | Equity Calls Mass Meeting Violation of Eight-Shows-a-Week Clause Is Chief Problem To Be Discussed NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The Council of the Actors’ Equity Association. has de- cided to call a mass meeting of all Equity members, probably January 10, at the Hotel Astor, to consider various current problems which it is felt should be de- cided by a general vote. The most im- portant question that will be put up to the members is Equity’s future policy in regard to violation of the eight-perform- ances-a-week clause. An expression of opinion will be asked as to whether or not it would be ad- visable to penalize the actor as well as the manager in cases where this rule is broken. So far the manager has been the only one to be penalized, as he is the one responsible for the contract. It has been said that the actor has not dared to ob- ject to the phrasing of salary clauses that in one way or another permit the man- ager to get nine performances for the price of eight. Equity has always avoided penalizing members where it seemed unnecessary, but the council now feels that some such penalty might help in protecting the actor: that is, if he were to be suspended from membership or fined if he signed a contract that violated the eight-performance rule he would have something definite to hold up to the man- ager as to why he could not sign such a contract. Several producers have been breaking the rule, and Equity has had difficulty in putting a stop to it without the support of its members. The question of playing ut of town for a lower salary than in New York is considered an evasion of the rule, and so is the trick phrasing of nine- for-eight salaries. This road scale will ilso be brought up. Another important question to be put before the meeting will be the much-dis- cussed plan of taxing each working mem- ber in an effort to aid the Actors’ Fund. American Cinema Association To Film Edgar Guest’s Poems NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Acquisition by American Cinema Association of exclu- sive world rights to the screen adapta- tion of Edgar A. Guest's poems is an- nounced by A. J. Moeller, president of A. C. A. Negotiations were concluded Monday between A. C. A. officials and representatives of the George Matthew Adams Service. The Edgar A. Guest eries comprises a wide range of single- ‘eel jewels, as unlimited in variety as the writings of the versatile Eddie Guest and the illustrative possibilities of mo- tion pictures First of the series will be released February 1 thru the 25 A Cc. A, exchanges Significance is seen in the fact that this is the first time in history that the works of an American poet have been wholly adapted to the screen in picture form. Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein To Make Home in France NEW YORK, Dec 27.—Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein, widow of the impresario, who will soon sail for France, declares she will never return here She says her decision to make France her future home was prompted by the sadness arising from th legal squabbles with Hammerstein's children, particularly the ficht over the disposition of the Man- ittan Opera House She also declares that her pending suit a thur Hammerstein is prac- tically settled She expects about $65,- e00 from. her lawyers, the final adjust- ment. of her financial affairs being the signal for her departure. against John Prescott To Manage Lyric Theater, Bridgeport RRIDGEPORT. 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‘ 8 The Billboard, January State Film Censo 1, 1927 rship in N. Y. May Pass Out Within a Month Legislative Bills. Providing for Repeal of Supervision of Motion Pictures. Expected To Pass Without Difficulty-——Governor Smith Will Again Ur ge Abolition of Law ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Altho the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York recently appointed James H. Wingate t ime full con- trol and supervision of the censorship of motion picture films, to s d the present State Motion Picture Commission, which will be abolished January 1, it is reported about the Capitol there will be no State censorship of films in a few weeks after the Legislature convenes January 8 The ‘sentin against censorship steadily increased, and a movement is under way to repeal the law. Legislative bills have already been drafted providing for the repeal of this obnoxious act, and they will be introduced early in the 1927 session, and the indications are they will be passed with little difficulty. This would carry out the recommendations of Governor Smith, who in all of his annual messages to the members of the Legisla- ture has urged the abolition of the State censorship of motion picture productions. Governor Smith has not changed his views on the subject, and it is expected that in his coming message, which he will personally read before a joint session of both branches of the Legislature, he will again earnestly request the passage of a bill eliminating the censorship law in its entirety. This is +t ent not considered a par- tisan measure for the reason the sup- porters of the repeal law include both Democrats and Republicans. Musicians’ Board Holds Annual Meet NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The National Executive Board of the American Federae tion of Musicians held its annual meete- ing last week in the office of President Joseph N. Weber, 1440 Broadway. Rou- tine matters were taken up, including ciaims of members and various local agreements. Weber explained, followin the four-day session, that the meeting Was in accordance with the constitution of the Federation, which provides tnat the executive board meet at least once between conventions. Nothing occurred in the national affairs of the organiza- tion during the past several months to warrant a gathering of its ranking ficials save the mandatory clause in the body's constitution Present at the meet- i were President Weber; William L. of- Mayer of Pittsburgh, vice-president ; William J. Kerngood, of Newark, secre- tary; Harry FE. Brenton, of New York, treasurer, and C. A. Weaver, Des Moines; A. C. Hayden, Washington, D. C.: A. A. Greenbaum, San Francisco; Fred W. Birnbach, Minneapolis, and D. A. Carey, Toronto, members of the executive come nittee. Sailings and Arrivals NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Among those who sailed this. week were Helen Arthur, manager of the Neighborhood Plavhouse; Agnes Moran, one of the directors of the same group; Irene Franklin and Jerry Jarnagin. Included among the incoming showfolk were John Charles Tomas, baritone; A. H. Woods; Pegey O'Neil; Mme. Yvonne Printemps, Sascha Guitry and 12 members of their company; stage Mme. M. Guy; Lois Moran, accompanied by her mother and sister; Irving Jam- pol and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tyler, members of the 7s Zat So Company; Vesta Victoria, vaudevillian: Mr Hal Sherman; Joseph Heifitz-Jarowitsch, Berlin actor; Jose Bohr and his troupe of 11 musical gauchos from Argentine: Mae Murray: Mrs Dorothy Caruso, widow of the tenor, and her daughter Gloria: Carmela Cafarelli, Ttalian sing- er, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Dazey, Jr., both screen writers. ) Managers Sail NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Helen manager of the Neighborhood Playhouse, and Agnes Moran, director sailed Thursday for a_ holiday Southern France. They will also visit the FEuro- pean theatrical centers in search of new material. Helen Ingersoll will assume Miss Arthur’s duties during her absence. Basil Dean, after having supervised the productions of This Was a Man and The Constant Nymph, sailed todav for London where he will greet for the first time his two-week-old daughter Téssa, named after the leading character In the latter play He expects to return for the New York opening of Mayfair, ane other of his productions, now on tour. has Film Acting Added To Theater School NEW YORK, Dec Administrators of 27.—The Board of John Murray An- derson-Robert Milton School of the The- ater has decided to add a new depart- ment for training in motion picture acting, following receipt of hundr from persons interested The Anderson-Milton School proposes opening the motion picture branch Janu- ary 17, with a course embodyng all fea- tures in acting for the Currie, former principal of the Paramount picture school, and for years a pantomimie expert with leading institutions thruout the country, has been engaged to head the department. Support of Fan ds of inquiries screen, C,eorge I f mous Players, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, Robert Kane Product and other leading motion picture concerns has been obtained in connection with the film acting department, giving graduates an opportunity to present théir work to the producers themselves rs will be required to pass a Free Christmas Shows Help Regular Business SODUS, oe) es Dec 25.—Mills Brothers, Inc., managers of the Ar- cade Theater, find their regular busi- ness increased greatly by the annual Christm presentation of a motion picture program at which all school children in the township, which boast 20 public schools, are idmitted fre« The party this week was the second event, and the crowd was larger even than last vear, when the theater was filled beyond capacity Gilbert Riddell Play To Have Private Test YORK, Dec. 27.—A Investments, written new by play, Gilbert NEW Sate Riddell, will be given a. special tryout New Year's Eve in the private theater built by Herman Lee Meader, the archi- tect, next to his bungalow on top of an effice building opposite the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel. The piece is headed for Broadway with the possible backing of Meader, according to port Eva Le Gallienne is considering the leading role. Edna Richmond will play one of the leading parts in the play on its tryout. The author is planning to play another ding role. Meader uses his unique little theater for the private entertainment of his friends. Riddell, a well-known magazine writer, also is the author of Affinity Shop and a number of vaudeville sketches. HOUSTON, Minn., Dec. 25.—The State Theater has been burned to the ground, Applicants the loss be ing approximately $10,000. satisfactory screen test before admittance Defective wiring is believed to have to the scl 00 These tests will be made caused the fire. J. J. Sliter owned and the first we ek in January a managed the movie house ACTORS FUND HOME Staten Islanc .Ala., Chicago Attractions CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—At the begmnuing Friday eve Jani s Henry B. Harris and L. M. Simmons will present Trial Divorce, the play that Judge Joseph Sabath has written in collabora- tion with M. A. McGuire and Willard Mack. Two scenes from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol have been adapted for the pan- tomime ballet stage by Adolph Bolm, and will be presented for the first time any- where by Bolm and pany at the Fighth Street Theater, Sunday afternoon Playhouse, ne iry i, his con January 2 Another new ballet ‘ 1] be The Tragedy of the Cello, with music by Alexander Tansman, and scene ry and cos- tumes by Nicholas Remisoff Vera Mirova will be the guest dancer Cradle Snatchers opened last night at the Harris. Mary Boland heads the cast, which also includes Edna May Oliver, Margaret Dale, Raymond Hackett, Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Guion, Wil- im Corbett, George Lessey Jo } Holicky, Eunice Hunt, Helene Tobin, Helen Deddens and Lillian Gerald The Shanghai Gesture opened Christ- mas night at the Adelphi Florence Reed heads the company, which includes Cyril Keightley, Conrad Cantzen, C. Henry Gordon, Mary Duncan, Marguerita Ore lova, ¢ Haviland Chappell, Frederic Worlock, Henry Worthington and Evelyn Wight What Price Glory also opened Christe mas night at the Garrick Lou House- man is looking after the busine end Tirelve Miles Out dve at the Cort January 16, following The Poor Nut. The Olympic is expecting Disputed on January %, replace Starr in The Shelf Musical Farce for Road Is Launched in Chicago Rehearsals were started last week in Chicago for an unusually high-class musical farce about to be launched New Year's Eve for a Southern and Pacific Coast tour, playing only the better class use Ths organization, known as The Vanity Girls of 1927, is under the management of the Mid-West Produc- tions and is being produced under the personal supervision of Charles Lewis, who will on tour as the managing ad rect r Eddie Burch, a Pacific Coast favorite, has been engaged as the principal come- dian, and Miss Joan Wood, known as an Orpheum Cirenit headliner and eald to possess an exceptional soprano voice, is The ng Frances Woman gO the prima donna Holly Leslie, a native of Australia, and lately with the Wt- bur Opera Company and Honewmoon Town, also is among the principals. He ts a remarkable basso profundo Renele High is the company ballerino. She has just returned to the States after a suce cessful tour of New Zealand and Aus- tralia with Hugh Ward and Company Other members of the east include Charles Emery, Percy De Ville and Julia. Leighton, all to be augmented by a cho- Tus which is to be billed as a “Gorgeous Garden of Glorious Girls”. 'e Kahn To Direct Drive for Fund Accepts Chairmanship of Cam- paign for $1,500,000 Endow- ment for Actors’ Charity NEW YORK, Dee. 26.—Otto H. Kahn noted banker and chairman ot the board of the Metropolitan Opera Company, ha accepted the chairmanship of the nation- al campaign to raise $1,500,000 for the Actors’ Fund endowment. This was an- nounced today by Daniel Frohman, presi- dent of the Actors’ Fund. The endow- ment is intended to provide the funds necessary for the maintenance of the Home for Aged Actors and to give relief to needy actors. Mr. Kahn has started organizing the national committee. He announces that he has alre ady received acces ptances from the following governors: Al Smith, New York ; A. J. Pothier, Rhode Island; A. G. Sorlie, North Dakota > John G. Winant, New Hampshire; Arthur T Hammett, New Mexico Tom J. Tarral, Arkansas; Howard M: Gore, West Vir- ginia; Clifford Walker, Georgia; Albert C. Ritchie, Maryland, and Captain Mar- tin E. Trench, the Virgin Islands. The national committee also will In- clude mayors of many leading cities, among them “Jimmy” Walker, New York; Charles H. Kline, Pittsburgh; C Clarence Neslen, Salt Lake City; Thomas L. Raymond, Newark, N. J.; James Rolf, Jr., San Francisco; John W. Smith. De- troit; S. F. Snively, Duluth; S. H. Tyler, Norfolk, Va.; George M. Warren, Bristol, 1,: FF € Zehrung, Lincoln, Neb.; George E. Leech, Minneapolis; James J. Thomas, Columbus; John D. Marshall, Cieveland; Malcolm FE. Nichols, Boston: Daniel A. O'Donovan, Covington, Ky.; J. Em. Pearce, Galveston, Tex.; L. C. Hodg- son, St. Paul; Howard W. 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sed go ew red Will Rogers in 8 Short Films Produced During Trip Abroad Pictures Are in the Form of Comedy Travelogs, With Titles by the Comedian Himself—Chicago Fountain Pen Company Financed the Productions—Releasing Deal Being Negotiated NEW YORK, Dec. 295.—Will Rogers is back in the movies in a series of short subjects of a novel character. 2 ; representing the Schaeffer Fountain Pen otiating for releasing arrangements, pany had produced, are known as will single-reel features depicting Rogers’ re- cent trip abroad, when he visited some of Europe’s leading capitals. They show Rogers meeting royalty, prominent states- men and public figures, and are titled by Rogers himself in his typical cori dy vein. The first of the series, consisting ef eight, was taken in Ireland, when Rogers met President De Valera. The films are 950 feet long, a little longer than the average “short”, which usually runs around 600 feet. As soon as distribution arrangements can be made they will be available to the motion pic- ture theaters of the country. It is under- stood Rogers has arranged a tieup with The Saturday Evening Post for publica- tion, about the time the films will be re- leased, of a ygeries of articles dealing humorously with his European trip. Educational Film Exchange may dis- tribute the pictures, altho other releasing organizations dealing in “shorts” are un- der consideration. Dorothy Hall Engaged For “Virgin Man’ Cast NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Dorothy Hall, last seen in White Collars, has been en- gaged by Mark Cohan for the lead in The Virgin Man, a comedy by William nese Francis Dugan and Maltby scheduled to epen cold New Year's Eve at a thea- ter not yet named Others engaged for the cast are Ellena Ruby, Virginia Smith, Joe Baird, Don Dillaway and E. T. Horne. Th how received some unusual puo- licity when it was originally announced that Anne Caldwell, show girl, who re- cently obtained a verdict of $50,000 from John W. Hubbard, Pittsburgh tine” in a breach of promise would be starred. Hall-Mills Play a Flop PAWTUCKET, R. L., “shovel action, Dec. 20.—With its story and plot suggestive of the Hall- Mill murder case, Who's Guilty’, a sensational melodrama, was produced here by the Carroll Players at the Stat: Theater tonight. The piece was a hope- less flop. Even the appearance on the stage of Charlotte Mills, daughter of the slain woman, who was presented after the curtain fell on the first act, failed as a drawing card. The house was about one-quarter filled. Miss Mills told the au- dience that her public appearance was not prompted by mercenary motive; that she was trying to defend the good name of her mother. Jay Packard, her man- ager, announced that Miss Mills would hold a reception on the stage Thursday afternoon. Beth Merrill Gets Starring Contract NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Beth Merrill, who won unanimous notices of praise in the recent production of Lily Sue, was given a long-term contract last week by David Belasco. One of the most impor- tant clauses calls for stardom. Mirrors, anew play bv Milton Herbert Gropper, according to the Belasco office, will be ready for rehearsal within a fortnight. If acceptable to Miss Merrill, it will be her next vehicle. Chorus Girl Seriously Hurt SHARON, Pa., Dec. 21.—Nora Mor- Ran, 18. said to be a chorus girl, is in a hospital here, suffering with serious in- ternal injuries received in an automobile crash today when Joseph Yazvac, a Policeman, and Ronald Hearth were killed and two others injured. Sidney Skolsky Quits As Habima Press Agent NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Sidney Skolsky, who has been handling press work for a. = rok concert manager, and the Abir ; ompany., now playing the Mans- cater, has resigned The secret leaked out this week after H. G Waldron, Company, of Chicago, had been here The pictures, which the Chicago pen com- Rogers’ Travelogs, and are a series of Universal Books Edna Wallace Hopper NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Edna Wallace Hopper has been booked for three dates in Universal theaters by N. W. Stephens. Two of the houses Miss Hopper will play—the America, Denver, where she cpens January %1, and the Alhambra, Milwaukee—are now playing Pantages vaudeville and will present Miss Hopper as an added attraction. The well-known stage entertainer Plays the Liberty, Kansas City, presenta- tion picture house, week of February 12 and the following week appears in Mil- waukee. Dates between the Denver and Kansas City engagements may be ar- ranged before that time by the William Morris office, which represents Miss Hopper in all her bookings. The Billboard, January 1, 1927 9 + Bob White Invents Device For Presenting Prologs PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 24.—Bob White, general manager of the Mult- noma! Theaters Corporation, will shortly apply for a copyright ana patent on a new device for the pres- entation of prologs. White has not revealed the me- chanical details of the device, but says it will permit an audience to see what apparently is an artistically wrought solid curtain at the opening of the prolog. Before the audience is aware of it the curtain appears to dissolve and thru what looks to be a gauzy network of cords a gorgeous scene is revealed, giving life and atmosphere to the spectacle. The effect is reversed at the close of the prolog. This is produced by a gigantic blind, pat- terned after the ordinary porch vari- ety, which is worked by batteries of powerful electric motors. The princi- ple can be applied in five separate ways to produce novel illusions. Robert T. Murphy Will Manage New Publix House in Buffalo BUFFALO, Dec. 27.—Robert T. Mur- phy, who has been building up business for the past year at Shea’s North Park Theater, will manage the new Shea’s Kensington Theater, latest addition to the Publix chain. The ‘house opened Christmas Day and with the North Park, Hippodrome and Buffalo theaters gives Publix four houses in this city. CAPTAIN JAMES C. SUMMERS. Theater, Los Angeles, who knows the tricks of many trades. sailing vessels, man, soldier, rifle marksman, master of Photo. —lInternational Newsreel 73-year-old stage doorman at the Belasco He has been newspaper pilot, deputy sheriff, court clerk, fire chief and world traveler. with some minor activities sandwiched in at odd times. His ability to attract the ladies also rates high, as this picture proves. Los Angeles Theatticals LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—Cradle New York playwright and actress, has Snatchers is in its 13th week at the Play- house. White Collars has reached its 1.272d time at the Egan Theater, and will probably close the first of the year. The Fl Capitan Theater, which has been dark for the last few weeks, will with Pauline reopen Christmas nicht Frederick in Lady Frederick. In the sup- porting cast will be Charles Waldron, Allen Connor, Lawrence Grant, Clark Gable, Olof Hytten, Tudor Owen, Maude Turner Gordon, Margaret Delamere, Ina Rorke and Nanette Vallon The Orange Grove Theater will also re- open Christmas night. Ernest Macauley, formerly associated with the Ambassador Theater in New York, has leased the theater for five months from Arthur Freed, and will present One Man's Woman as his initial Coast venture. Harlan Tucker, formerly leading man with the local Morosco Theater Stock Company, has been signed to appear in the leading male role, and Nancy Carroll hus been signed for the feminine lead The Miracle will have its Los Angeles premiere January 51 at the Shrine Audi- torium, where it will be on view for four weeks Processional, by John Howard Lawson, is being presented this week at the Pot- boiler’s Art Theater. It is reported that Ruth Helen Davis, ; taken over the lease of the Belmont Thea- ter, pictures and vaudeville, where she probably will produce legitimate plays. Carlotta Miles has been added to the cast of the Hollywood Music Box Revue, replacing Florence Hedges, who is scheduled to leave for the East to accept an offer with a New York show after Christmas. @ The Duncan Sisters have been proving a wonderful drawing card this week at Loew's State Theater. Ben Black and His Band, Ward and Van and the Fashion Flappers are showing at the Metropolitan Theater, in addition to the photoplay program. Abe Lyman and His Cocoanut Grove Or- chestra, who have been playing nightly at the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassa- dor Hotel, will open tomorrow at the Up- town Theater, the first of several of the West Coast chain of theaters which Lyman will play. The show presented by the musical stock company at the Burbank Theater at present is titled Black Bottom. It is a pretentious revival, with Lee Bud Har- rison and Henry Sherr heading the cast, which includes, among others, Robert Sandberg, Grace Hutchison, Billy Moody, Reece Gardner, Bob Burch, a chorus of 25, and Lou Traveller’s Orchestra. Censorship Bills To Be Up Soon Congress To Consider Measures Calling for Federal Moving Picture Commission WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. — Shortly after Congress returns to its January % the two film censorship bills sponsored by Representative Upshaw, of Georgia, and Representative Swoope, of Pennsylvania, will come up for debate. The bills call for drastic changes in the present system of censoring movies. Up- shaw asks for the establishment of a Federal Motion Picture Commission, composed of five members, each drawing $9,000 a year, with an additional $1,000 for the chairman. Swoope proposes that the commission be under the jurisdiction of the Department of Interior as a division of the Bureau of Education, composed of the Commissioner of Edu- cation, ex-officio, and six commissioners, including two women, all to be named by the Secretary of Interior. The House Committee on Education, which now has the bills under considera- tion, may combine the two measures or submit an entirely new bill. sessions The bills, in addition to seeking to eliminate immoral, unpatriotic, sacri- legious and other objectionable scenes from pictures, include government ex- amination of scenarios, production, copy- right and other features of the film industry. Strong opposition is expected with the Motion Picture Producers and Distribu- tors of America, Inc., and other bodies and individuals lining up against the measures, Theatrical Leaders Honor Gabel at Birthday Dinner NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Max Ganel, “the George M. Cohan of the Yiddish stage”, was tendered a complimentary dinner Thursday night at the Pennsyl- venia Hotel on the occasion of his 50th birthday, by a group of prominent men and women representing the East Side and Rialto theaters Gabel, who began his career years ago selling shoe laces, announced that he plans the erection of a $1,000,000 Yid- dish theater. He is the author of over 100 plays in which he has acted with his wife, Jennie Goldstein. Among the speakers were: Health Commissioner Louis I. Harris, Frank Gillmore, of Equity; M. Richter, presi- dent of the Yiddish Theater Alliance; Max. R Wilner, manager of the Irving Place Theater, and representatives of the Yiddish and English press. Reuben Gus- kin, manager of the Hebrew Actors’ Union, was toastmaster. A bronze bust of Gabel, done by Aaron Coodelman, was presented to the honor suest. The cost of the bust was de- frayed by contributions received from the actor’s admirers by the testimonial com- mittee composed of David Belasco, David Warfield, A. H. Woods, Sophie Irene Loeb, Augustus Thomas and Fannie Brice. No Sunday Amusements For Tarpon Springs TARPON SPRINGS, Fla., Dec. 25.— There will be no Sunday movies hete, as a result of a referendum, The move to legalize Sunday shows lost by 31 votes. Efforts to force Sunday shows here were directed toward the referendum after considerable litigation in the matter. J. E. Alford Appointed Manager Of Saenger New. House in Miss. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 25—J. E. Al- ford has been appointed manager of the State Theater, opened at McComb, Miss.. this afternoon. 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10 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 Music Corp’n of America Opens Booking Department Will Enter Field Soon With Offices in Chicago: Gene Perry Selected as Manager, According to President J. C. Stein, Now Ar- ranging for. New York Quarters CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Announcement was made today by J. C. St the Music Corporation of America, that acts for vaudeville, cabarets, hotels, with their organization. Gene Perry, well known thruout the been selected as manager of the depart- ment and will have complete charge cf the booking and the placing of acts. It will be remembered that Mr. Perry was responsible for Annette Kellermann’s first visit to America and he held her as a headline attraction for many years until her entrance in the picture field. He also handled Paul Ash in California, previous to his engagement in Chicago by Balaban & Katz. Among others who have risen under direction are Fay Lamphier (Miss America of 1925). Mr. lly connected with the ‘ tarden and from there went to Philadelphia, where with Jules and Stanley Mastbaum the Stanley Com- pany of America was organized. He was general manager of this concern for seven years. Of late years he has been in California handling theatrical enter- prises. his Perry was originz Shuberts’ Winter ( The main office will be situated with the M. C. A. on the iSth floor of the new Masonic Temple Building. Offices will also be opened shortly in New York. The M. C. A. is now booking orchestras in every State of the union. Among the famous recording units booked are Isham Jones, Zez Confrey, Coon-Sanders, Ted Weems Chas. Dornbergerer, Charlie Straight, Jack Crawford, Ross Reynolds, Bennie Krueger, Don Bestor, Carl Fen- ton, Earl Hoffman, Egyptian Serenaders, Whitey Kaufman, Vincent Lopez, Paul Ash, Oriole Ross Reynolds, Al Gabel, Henri Gendron, Phil Baxter’s Texas Tom- mies, Joe Kayser, Billy Wentz, Glen Wortendyke, Bill Dallavo, Billy Adair, Art Payne, Dick Lucke, Mat Grogan, Harry Bailey, Kent Reynolds, H. D. Pope, Connie Conrad, Johnny Meyers Chicago Blue Blowers, the Bal Tabarin Orchestra, Pied Pipers, Hurdy Gurdys Cavaliers, Rose Room Ramblers, Davey Jones, Musical Pirates and many others J. ©. Stein is in New York completing arrangements for the new New York office. Actors’ Theater To Hold Dinner, Show and Auction NEW YORK. Dec. 25.—A novel dinner ertertainment and sale will be held Sunday evening, January 22, by the Actors’ Theater in the auction grand ballroom of the Hotel Biltmore. The invitations an- nounce it will be an evening for merrv- making only and there will be no seri- ous discussion of the theater. A play and three hours of entertainment are included in the program. Tables will be into companies divided after the various Actors’ Theater plays, with the principal professional who lamed acted in them as host and hostess De Wolf Hopper, William Courtleigh and Jimmy Powers will b mor auc- tioneers to sell costumes of st produc- tions, and the host and hoste will include Francis Wilson, Violet it John Drew, Ethel Barrymore Mitchell, Jane Cowl, Jessie Ralph Peters Edit} Wynne Ma Charles Rann Kennedy, Peggy Pedro de Cordoba, Rict ! Henry Hul!, Mary Fowler, Marg more, Dudley Diggs O. P. Heegice ‘ischer, Blanche Yurka, Helen Ch: m Powers, Katherine Emmet. } i 1 Freeman. Rosalir M Abel Mary Morri nd rit« Hu } Ethel! Barrymore and Arthur Somers re the dinner chairmen. They are as- sted by a2 dinner committee of Mrs Sidney Borg, Albert Buchman, M1 Clarence Mack, Mrs. Eugene Perry, David 4. Ansbacher, O H. Kahn, M dD - thy Earl Mrs Jean 1 Court H y ) Walbridge. Mrs. G d Swo How- ard Cullman, William Hamlin Childs, Arthur Carns, -Mann Strauss, Mre ) r Harriman, Sidney Ross, Willard Wit i 1] H. Hyme I } poster committee consists of Jerome Myer hairman; Karl Knaths, Agnes Weinric! Stuart Davis, Louis: Brumbach, Hardie Albright and John Noble clubs, in, president of the booking of will be incorporated complete department for ballrooms, ete. amusement business for many years, has Publix Pays $528 For Work Not Done SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 25.—Faced with the inability to se union stage hands, operators required at the new ure services of and others Texas Theater, which opened this week, because of complaint from the unions here that outside men oh] were used in installing equipment, Publix Theaters Corporation, operator of the new house, has paid the sum of $528 to the stage hands’ local, covering what sal- aries would have been to union men had they been employed. The controversy arose when the Clark Company, outside organization, fused to employ San Antonio stage em- ployees to install the counterweight sys- tem backstage at the Texas. Immediately the local protested to the International Al- liance, and served notice to the Publix organization that services would be fused at the new house. The $528 payment for labor not done that the local insisted should have been done by stage employees was accepted as a satisfactory adjustment. Peter re- re- Poland Now Boasts An ‘Amusement Paper Poland now boasts an amusement trade paper, the first issue of which ha just come to hand It is called Tanis i Rozrywka (The Dance and Pastime), and Edward J. Kurylo is manager and editor of tthe publication, which is the only magazine of its kind: in that country. Kurylo, who has had literary and theatrical experience in the States, will make special efforts to give help to American artists visiting this part of the world His headquarters are in the Hotel D'Europe, Warsaw. New York Theater Clubs Theater ‘Assembly The ladies of the Theater Assembly gave their usual luncheon and entertain- ment for the guests of the Actors’ Fund Home, at West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, Wednesday, December 29. Luncheon was served and there was an entertainment, including a_ playlet entitled The Employment Agency, played by ladies of the assembly Mrs, Albert Doerle was chairman of the dinner com- mittee, and Mrs. Minnie M. Marks, presi- dent of the Theater Assembly, was chair- man of the entertainment committee. Joe Leblang on Vacation NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Joe Leblanz, the cut-rate ticket king, left town Satur- day for his annual winter vacation. He will be gone until March and will divide his time between Havana and Palm Beach Accompanying Leblang are his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Marks and their daughter, Ruth Marks. Dave Marks is head of the Tyson-United Ticket Agency. THE GOLD DRAGON'S ORCHESTRA, booked by the Cincinnati-National Or- chestra Bureau. Cincinnati, which is Egyptian Ballroom of the Kosair Hotel, Louisville, Ky. R. E. Gordon, manager of the Egyptian Ballroom, was so impressed with Gold Dragon’s Orchestra that h has held the aggregation over for an indefinite engagement. The lineup: Charli McClure, piano and entertainer; Al Gandee, trombone, entertainer and director; Clyde Reynolds, trumpet; Lee (Red) Lobdell, sax entertainer and fiddle; Auburn Grov: saxes and entertainer; Thomas Cartor, xes and entertainer; Max Mills, banjo, en tertainer and piccolo; ur Mey E and George Maule, drums and entertainer. > creating a sensation with its tooting at tft} Chicago T heatergoets Spent $50,000,000 For Their Entertainment During 1926 CHICAGO I 27.—T average i nt it by ¢ citizen for i ‘ ! gs 19 i ut $16.50 I ‘ t in t ‘ yme- thir HO, mor han if HOON ¢s j ivera itting pl w about 50 cent It is clai d that Chicago spent mors for amusement this year than New York did last yea wi the figure riven are not complete or exact it Is certain that 1926 will prove to be the greatest in the history of this city. Balaban & Katz and allied theatrical interest have had an attendance for th first 11% mont} of thi year of 29,256,000 persons, an increase over last year of nearly 9,000,000, they report. Theaters owned by Ascher Brothers, Marks Brothers, National cuit, Schoenstadt and other: a prosperous year. Theater all Cir- reported On of the greitest gai: during the year was experienced by the Civic Opera Company. Receipt thi year have totaled about $971 H00, it if estimated, including a 47 per cent increase in sube scription over last year Attendance record show an iner@ase of approxi mately 25 per cent Opera and vaude- ville attracted more people than ever, but the movi carry off all honors as a drawing card, according to the figure fiven out Approximately 90 per cent of ti total attendance was at movies One most interesting fact is that neigh- horhood theaters did as big a business in proportion as did the loop houses, Acts in Demand For Holidays Sharp Increase in Agency Orders Affords Work to Layoffs and Regular Acts NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—A_ tremendor increase in the demand for entertain, during the holidays, in clubs, theaters, general organizations and private home has resulted tn work for all available act of anything better than those in the “terrible” class. Leading independent booking agencies yesterday made this re- port, stating there never has been so many calls for entertainers. Jaek Linder, who has always done a big business during the holidays, stated he gave work to hundreds of acts, and almost felt the condition of greater de- mand than supply. Many private homes this year have called upon him for en- tertainers, and the increasing number of private clubs thruout the city and vicinity during the past year has opened a much wider field for artistes on Christmas and New Year's, Roehm & Richards Office Places Many Cafe Artistes NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The custom of opening new cafe floor shows Christmas week reflected decidedly during the past week on the activities of the club place- ment department of the Roehm & Richards office. More engagements were effected thru this department in this period than in others, covering every branch of the amusement field. Engaged thru the of- fice for the show opening today at the Piccadilly Cafe, Philadelphia, were Deni- zon and Lielan, dance team; the Three Happy-Go-Lucky Boys, a versatile trio; Olga Lanoff, dancer, and Billie Stout, singer and dancer. The producer of the show at the Follies Bergere, Atlantic City, was sup- plied with Harry Reiser and his Or- hestra, an Il-man unit; Wyla Davies, dancer; Kay Renault and Annabell Barnes, singers, and the Marshall Sisters song and dance team. The Club Norman- die, Philadelphia, engaged Dantes and Tamea, adagio team formerly of vaude- ville and Lorraine Toland, violinist for the show opening today the Christmas show at Franc!s Renault Cafe, Atlantic City, were Naulty and De Serres, dance Anita La Rue and Josephine Masters, come- Placed with team: soubret, Kay's Cut-Rate Ticket Office Closes With $100.000 Deficit NEW YORK, Dec 27.—Kay’'s Cut-Rate Ticket Office operated by Harry nauf n will close January 1 in the hole, it is reported, more than $100,000 This haves Joe Leblang’s Public Service the ly cut-rate agency in the city. Kaufman, January 1, will open a new office in the Astor Theater lobby unde: the name of Kay's, but will handle thea- t tickets only on a premium basts It ! been said that his was enaused by theater managers not giving hi ticket to sell at the cut-rate wheres before he went the cut-rate end the ageney business he was assured by them that he would be given an allot loss into ment, and that his subscription price of $1 a vear for service did not meet wit approval by the public over Leblang 50-cent rate. New Jewish Public Theater Ready To Open in New York NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The new £1,000,000 Jewish Public Theater at S+ ond avenue and Fourth street will open January 8 with an elaborate operetta in Which leading Jewish actor from al parts of the country will have parts The new house was built by David Schulman and Louis Goldberg and was designed by Major David M. Ditarsh Margaret Shackelford Joins Garry McGarry Stock Co. 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ne a ated and de- mes en- r of inity uch and Stes n of mas past ace- PRINCESS Wednesday Evening, December 22, 1926 le ginuile THE GREAT ADVENTURE cal of Arnold Bennett's play. Settings by Aibert Bliss. Presented and staged by Reginald Pole. Ss Ibert Shawn, Dlam'’s Valet...George Thompson tlam Carve, an Illustrious Painter.......... se vee teginald Pole Dr Pax ww aererr re cones Wheeler Dryden : -d Horning, Doctor's Assistant........ woes ost ‘ iowa Wayne Whitten t. a Widow ...- Spring Byington Tanet ¢ eo ; Carve, Ilam‘'s Cousin, a City Auctioneer (3 t c Father Le Honoria Looe, Sister of Father Looe......... eh see os ¥Vauny che Miriam Cutler cor Horning, a Journalist..... Harry Green * ' ‘ a P ture Dealer........Henry Mowbray lames Shawn, a Curate Wheeler Dryden lohn Shawn, His Brother, a Curate.. Te ’ eeu : -.ee. Harry Green "inert Shawn, a Wdow..... Ruth Vivian i Leonard Alear .. George Fitegerald nerican Millionaire..Lowden Adams m in lam Carve's House, 128 qelif te Gardens ACT I1—Private Room at » rand Babylon Hotel ACT IlI—Janet's Sirtir Room at Werter Road, Putney. AcT \ ‘7 Room in Lord Leonard Alear's House. osyenor Gardens 1 Not Fach act is divided into two on . rated br a passage of time, in- Mrs ticated by darkening the stage for a few wore Reginald Pole, recalled as the more or ez prominent little theater actor who enlaced William Faversham during the t difficulties over the rendition of sho leading role in the Passion Play at the Holly d Bowl, carries the quad- eonle duties of being the backer, the pro- iucer, the director and the principal ver in this revival of Arnold Ben- sott's play. The Great Adventure. He at st deserves credit for his courage. The production, however, does not easure up to the Broadway standard. dancing is elemen- pathetic. capitalizes and get off key. tary. S!) upon her chorus line, The trick other prop. trade and she knows how to get the most Her eyebrows, every glance earry out the purpose of provoking mirth. and the oppor- out of them. her twisting But enough tunity in a revue is plenty. All in be a test power. of bumping into the and whatnot. trick costumes and Cynthia MacVae titled Billy. minor roles satisfaction as and James Reynolds sup- and fascinat- her nose, has not yet been. -booked. Pa ~J ; Gertrude McDonald, attractive to look at the ee See ee upon and to be suspected of being ac- complished, provides the only real touch of femininity among the principals. Irma Irving, Kitty and various round up the cast with far as it goes, plies his usual flow of odd ing colors to dress the whole production. Please! will Lillie’s drawing a LELAND. “lice Pittsburgh for two weeks. Listen, Dearie (Shuberts), week of January 3. Theater, Newark. Brady’s new vehicle, Edyth Totten Theater Presents Marionettes NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—A performance the holiday season the perform- Marionettes, in Ali $9 Thieves, at the Edyth {Sth Street. A which is with roman ance of Baba and Totten Theater, series of ning performances are being given until January 1. Throngs crowded the pretty Edyth T during Ch: alike thrilled to Baba, his tiful slav: uproariously at Mumu, the frisky lambs, and a lumbering baby elephant. added to spoken Helen Lyvers. who, with magic fingers, The slave girl, Morgiana, thru the painter) opens December 30 at a combina- ysoneck jasz and _ Gee The Barker (Charles Wagner good share of the January 3 at the Apolio Theater, Atlan- » settings were a delight to tice City. in their Oriental splendor and 7 guided the mazes of tion of b ental, can applause the eye color The piece Entrikin produced and staged by In the the Indies the hero tnles Shy Magic Carpet, adventures of Ali ter, Washington. it Is Love (Werner & Goldreyer) opens tonight at Scranton, December 30 will be at Wilkes-Barre, January 3 and 5 at Great Neck and January 4 Bridgeport. following that showing. and eve- York about May. ‘ Mayfair (George Tyler and their escorts Pean) will be at Philadelphia for en Theater weeks and then come to New Youth and age Theater has not vet been set. A Night in Spain (Shuberts) will open and the beau- January 10 at the Majestic and laughed Brooklyn. Abou and = =oyy Maryland (Shuberts), \ fl «ek Of named Barbera Frietchie, wil barking dog January 10 at Atlantic City. Burn Your Head (Jack Productions) lines were + puppeteer, pborhood Playhouse. Arabian Niaghtmare December 27 Genli and the Fisherman and Sinbad the Theater, with Leo Carrillo as MORE NEW PLAY REVIEWS ON PAGE 49 named The Siren’s Daughter, will January 16 at the Shubert-Belasco Thea- leaves a desire NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Activities of . legitimate productions now being put in There is more readiness for eventual showing Piggy (William B. Friedlander), Sam wholesale Bernard’s show. formerly named That Certain Party and That’s My Baby, will Brooklyn, until January 8, and on January 10 will Royale Green Fruit (Shuberts), starring Mitzi, opens December 30 at Columbus, O.; will and so calls play the week of January 2 at Cincin- nati, the week of January 9 at Cleveland and the week of January 16 at Detroit. , Rio Rita (Florenz Ziegfeld) opens to- are her stock in night in Boston at the Colonial Theater. Daisies Won’t Tell (Edgar Selwyn and Sam H. Harris) remains at the Plymouth Theater, Boston, for this week and due to come here next week, but the theater for a two weeks’ run and will then move to formerly opens tonight at Atlantic City and moves to New Haven for the Bye, Bye, Bonnie (L. Lawrence Web- er), opens tonight at the Broad Street Lady Alone (L. Lawrence Weber), formerly open Ballyhoo (Russell Janney) opens to- night at Syracuse, with no dates Maria Guerrero and Fernandez Diaz de Mendoza, in Spanish repertory (Wal- ter O. Lindsay), open January 5 at New Orleans and will tour, reaching New Basil two York. Theater, formerly open enes The opens out of town January 19 and will ? . ; - 7? ag sal come in the week following. the puppets Pinwheel (Neighborhood Playhouse) will open here January 31 at the Neigh- (Clarke Mama- opens by Knowles Broadway Openings and Closings Nights and was a. Tony Sarg pre- Ritz ‘le Sacha Guitry and Yvonne itemps Sultan ef jin Guitry’s Mozart, with the s 1 act his wife, of Guitry’s Det au, prese nted by 4 H. and and one Woods at Chanin’s 46th Street Theater. conjures up apparitions of the The Padre, by Stanley L ' Horse, the sented by William A. Brady at the , the fea- tured member of the cast Pegagy-Ann, musical comedy by Her . ==. ! 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The Billboard, January | 1927 Vaudeville SHAPIRO- Communicati ons to New York Broadway, Major Circuits Are Ready With Flock of New Headliners Early Weeks of 1927 Will See Big-Time Aspect Changed To Give N cit +. comes a IOV chain The ficient bills en will be part tr signed Car ori grooms. supervisi Albee, Heiman others. weeks Patrons Something New——-Newcomers Developed and Groomed Under Executive Supervision ye = Big-Time Bookings YORK, I 27 —In c h rele ‘ f a , 2 7 ff rrawy * + f ay n r rofr will be t h 4 t 2 big le ; r ‘ 4 7 . . af Peg on su h ‘ F - ‘ he t for res rs each re r E and a @ rank » tr ly o a ‘ and s r fr } rone fr Europe of them have been d for months under the r on of such executives F Edwin G. Lauder Ir : Max Gordon, J. J. Murdock and Many of the if i for recently, wi 2] n to see that the artiste . es t out of material and stz and tc er suggestions 0 tr g practical pre teves bu help, over Wh headliners is not exy the le every goodly o s worked grad one Not t office all majority of number out over n American Of Jazz of Supery n was one oft gr urther the search faces Trini Troupe 4 tre Ip al 1 j e seen ‘ tor af t zz t nora, and and 2 - suit for h Far- T vas ad- v to the in- r ‘ to tnt + “fT r n ul the Spanist a al- j rm. and Wild West of late ZZ ¢ ¢ - Or af } at 4 To Be Speeded U * wT OY ADpYL — ei.—ine idays Lowe and Sargent Booked On Sun Time by Grohs NEW YORK. De 2 I and Sar- gent’s Around the Wo g J was booked last week on the Gus Sun Timé, opening February 13 i: - ¢ — ¢ G liepende ar- ntativ aaa d with t ur Silber office handled the book 4 7 Lowe and Sargent ¢ will conti: ‘ the Sun Time indefinitely Downing Gets New Partner °ruUr whHDt NEW YORI —Harr Down- ing, now plaving nt dates in } ada P at lei ‘ a ¢ a n SKit as- . sisted by Miss L ntric acrob da r Ww eS ¢ rship foll - g tonight's p 3 Theate Bre latt s ree cent engag ae - position in — } y } e road F Girl F} ene Bill He and, f n lowland nd L YY * 1] 4 o ir —e dy d singing st - go i entation over one of th TY under the di- illness and Cancellations Hit Independent Bookers EW YOR Dec. 27.—A paradoxi- nating } , ; dent k w r tally d on ! : i and g Zz t ak oO s te cancella ’ ? } ker a serious pred man? e r to th c ] } rad-¢ g for the maj t kings ; split- week to split- k basis in the first Loew Starts Field Publicity Department wrw vopr 1} 97 ~ he Loew ¢ ci.—iI if- cuit is establishing a branch publicity - y to be under the : Vv nt, formerly ger f Nashville and Birmingham theaters nd more recently field rep- r t working « f Dallas, Tex It t plan of Terry Turner, head of +} L ‘ y } for | 12 Frc t—“(‘(.CSQS*C - i > 7 ~~, > SY : ‘ ’ ka: WE J } : > 2 ttt > \" (GPE Ss a rt «7 5 5 p onduct C—O eee | i= la Conducted by / 4 OMG | oe, yp, Di (J PZ) ZZ -- — Crs - t ; } =: \ - 4 : I | ( 1 | a ) ee | ’ : — 7 mark an increase in bookings on the big ’ th ¢ aith-Alhes and rnhet) 7 : q d ‘) im of ner after the firet € the vear 7 when early «| Y = ‘ ducer } gents k forward ¢ n« — : book v : ty n the big-time ; f s and the nce of routes extend- ng nt the « 1s er or the end During December the books have been ¢ riv well fillea evs with thea Or. the eded this pheum Circuit, wv h customarily main- : a placed tains ar erage grade. This year, how- ‘ — therm ever, the Western circuit is routed far 5 rd the flock of new ar giving time until early in ected to lick a the new year. — nclu The plan wa not es j 2h t but atured vy over a period of everal r ths. As much care was taken to keep talent and c k up on those performers in wh possibilities were seen. Likely prospects were called in and those taken ; poder the big-time wing were gradually de " go with each artiste, for the : Genefit of the house manager for one .. thing There wu be close co-operation , a be $ be x Zz A list of about 20 marr. 2id to be ready, but a few do ; r Ning. One or two have not n ad A pon and other reasons Es . x “ag page | * z r t to serve some- P ” “zZ 4 ? 4 re ve nN nla & of r t tic which are Zz ra ted +; me other ; 2 ct Po ection of Al Grossman. Jesse Lasky and B. A. Rol {yy : j 4 f £ talent, alata tal Aa a a i @eznnh ¢..: 2% Po po | etitey — -_ a Po . ON ee - : art se@ Trini never p- - a 7 7 ‘a. P| _—_— = or, : : " ee : 2 (WwW YORK = = te . ‘ J = ] for n : A nt nd + fy ith A t 1m Wild : + t nudes the roning of s' r native country. ee ee ~ 7 - ?

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K.-A. Closes Deal For Rochester Site 3.000-Seat Theater and Office Building Is Set—To Cost $2,500,000 ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 24.—Con- tracts were signed yesterday whereby the Keith-Albee Circuit will erect a vaude- ville theater here costing $2,500,000. The agreement was executed in the offices of & Fitch between Ex-Senator J. Henry Walters, representing E. F. Albee and the K.-A. interests, and the Banorge Corporation, of this city, owner of the prope rty. ~ The new playhouse will occupy nearly an entire block, facing on Clinton avenue and extending from Mortimer to Pleasant streets in the rear. Seating capacity will be 3,000, and the architects are to be Graven & Mayer, of Chicago. Lobby and main entrance will be on Clinton avenue between the Masonic Temple and Michael Sterns, with additional foyer and en- trance to the auditorium for the parking space planned as a convenience to the patrons on the Pleasant street side. On Mortimer street the plans provide for a large office building comprising lofts and stores, The spacious stage and dressing rooms will be in the rear and on what is now known as the Wallace property. Construction will be started at Castle Vaudeville Folk Bring Cheer to Nonprofessionals NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Prompted by a letter from E. F. Albee, The New York Sun started a fund for the bene- fit of the families of over 50 men who were drowned in the Hudson River while on their way to work last week. Mr. Albee donated $1,000, the paper gave a similar sum, $500 was received from President John J. McGuirk of the Stanley Company of America and additional support in the’ form of money and benefit performances has been promised by the Allied Theatrical interests taking care of charitable obligations, of which Mr. Albee is the chairman. This is considered policy of having in line with the vaudeville assist in worth-while causes apart from show business. Also in this connection was a free show given by the local vaude- ville theater and staff at Amsterdam, N. Y. The Keith Theater in that city, from orchestra to vaudevillians, journeyed to the County Almshouse and staged a show for the inmates, some of whom hadn't seen a show since the days of Tony Pastor. In Cincinnati last week Edith Clif- ford, Jue Fong and other vaudeville artistes gave a Christmas party and entertainment for the blind children of the Sands School. One. ue fob the new house to mow co Cepeem Bookimes Lead ied by the Gordon Theater, abandoned which will be demoli hed. Altho expected for some time, the deal vas finally set yesterday and this city will in the $20.000.000 building program Keith-Albee atid affiliated circuits. houses will probably be opened during the course of the current season and plans are on foot for a structure in Detroit, which is exclusive of other large city theaters already announced. cup m house, share of the Six big Josefsson Returns--- Foreign Money Scarce NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Johannes Josefs- son and his Iceland glima novelty of the art of self-defense arrived this week from Furope after playing four weeks each at the Empire Theater, Paris, and Scala Theater, Berlin. Josefsson returned here en the strength of a cablegram from his agent, who had an immediate encagement view, which, however, failed to ma- terialize Otherwise he would have spent the holidays with his family in Teeland. talking to a Billboard re- Tosefsson. in porter, confirmed the recent story in its columns on foreign conditions to the ef- fect that Furopean managers wanted American acts but had no monevy to offer. Fxelusive of the four weeks in Berlin and Paris, there is little encouragement for American artistes seeking long-term vandeville contracts abroad. These two theaters are the only ones offering worth- while contracts. Fine Christmas Week Program At Lafayette Theater, Buffalo RUFFALO, Dec. 25.—Christmas week was a week rich in novelty and beauty at the Lafayette Theater under the guid- ing ceninus of Manager William A. Haynes 1 (Christmas Episode, conceived and directed by Manager Haynes, featured the program. In connection with the stace setting of A Christmas Episode, Ralph Schwartz, musical director, con- ducted the song prolog, with Mrs. William A Staples as soloist This Christmas marks also the 16th anniversary of the orchestra conductor, Ralph Schwartz, as a director of orches- tras in various local theaters, but always for the same employers. The song prolog featured at the La- fayette Theater Christmas week is also a novelty to Buffalo and has taken well. Three weeks ago Manager Haynes came out with the local innovation of having a special stage setting each week to de- pict a scene from the song offered. Loew Books “Herb” Williams YORK, Dec. 27.—‘Herb” Wil- ams, formerly of Williams and Wolfus, has been routed over the Loew Circuit and is booked to open at the State, this city 7 Williams recently re- NEW Januarv 7 turned from England and is said to have & new offering. While playing the Pal- ace here last week the vehicle was the Same as the old one, with one or two comedy bits changed in the running With “Name” Offerings NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Orpheum book- ings took a sudden leap last week, fea- turing contracts for Irene Bordoni and Maude Allen. The latter, internationally famous dancer, opens this week at the Orpheum, Los Angeles, and follows at the Orpheum, San_ Francisco. Miss Bordoni starts a tour to the Coast and back at the Palace, Chicago, on Janu- 9 ary Another important booking was marked with the signing of Gaston and Andree and Company, adagio dancing rage of London and Paris. The act opens a tour ary 30. Dezso Retter, comedian, routed on the Orpheum Time to open January 3, cut his engagement at the Hippodrome last Tuesday in order to open this week in- at Minneapolis on Janu- stead at the Orpheum, San Francisco, filling a disappointment. Orpheum has also issued a route to Billy House and Company, who opened this week in Chicago at the Riviera, and announces Les Folies Rouges (Red Follies), now on the K.-A. Time, will be the feature at- traction in the Senior road show No. 8, tentatively set to open January 23 at the Palace, Chicago. Hi Tom Ward and C. Diamond Will Resume Tour January 3 Hi Tom Ward and Charlie who recently closed 28 weeks over the Keith-Albee and Proctor circuits, wind- ing up in Boston on December 13, will resume their tour January 3 at Moss’ Broadway The: New York. Ward is spending the holidays at new farm in Massachusetts, while Diamond went to New York to vist nis daughter, who has just closed a long season over the Orpheum Circuit. Diamond, iter his The Billboard, January 1 F. F, Proctor Opens Schenectady House Continuous Policy at 50-Cent Top—cChamber of Commerce Dines Theatrical Men SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Dec. 27.—F. F. Proctor’s new theater, built at a cost of $1,500,000, will be opened to the public this afternoon, with a price scale of 35 cents top for the matinee and 50 cents top for the evening show. Afternoon prices will prevail until 6 o’clock; those attending the supper show after that‘will pay the higher scale. The first show will start at 1 p.m. with a feature pic- ture; the vaudeville show begins at 2:45™p.m. The old Proctor house will continue until Sunday and just what will be done with it until next spring, when the W. W. Farley interests take it over on a lease, is undecided. Seating capacity of the house is 3,000 and no expense has been spared to make it modern in every respect. Wednesday night the community will offer official recognition and apprecia- tion of the new house by dining Mr. Proctor and four of his associates under the auspices of the Chamber of Com- merce FE. F. Albee will be present, as will Charles F. Wallen, vice-president and treasurer of the Proctor Circuit; W. F. S. Hart, attorney for Proctor, and I. ¢. Jackson, auditor for the chain. The dinner will attended by A. J. Gill, Proctor manager here, and other theatrical folk, Mildred L. Clemens Producer NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Mildred Leo Clemens, who for more than nine sponsored Hawalian travelog offerings, transferred her activities from the ‘*hautauqua platform to vaudeville. She is making debut as a producer of vaudeville acts with her Clemens’ Filipino Ramblers, an 11-people tra and offering. The act is showing this week for major circuits as the special attraction at the Commodore Theater, one of the largest picture houses on the East Side, soon to be operated under a new Loew policy. Miss Clemens, who was formerly known thruout lecture circuits as “Happy Hawaii", appears in the act, offering a special Hawaiian dance number. a Iso be years mas her orches- dancing Sturm Joins Joe Sullivan NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Jack Sturm, formerly with the Keith-Albee Circuit and for a time in business for himself, is now associated with the Joe Sullivan office, booking acts on the K.-A. and Orpheum floors. Sturm announced a route has just been obtained for Denno and Rochelle, doing their same act, which includes the Palace late in January. Sponsler Has Afterpiece BOSTON, Dec. 24.—Les Sponsler, whe has been touring the Keith-Albee houses booked out of the circuit's local office, has produced a novel afterpiece which he is presenting in addition to his own act. Last week at two Maine stands the act broke house records with the after- which included Eddie Cole, Melroy Sisters, the Masked Athlete, Ray Fontaine and the Nine Jolly Bandits. piece, CHICAGO, Dee. 25.—S. M. Klien is Playing outlying houses. with a= sketen, The Screen Test, introducing a_ police dog, Paule De Beauty. Anthony Antonio is the manager and Mrs. George H. Web- ster is booking the act. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Denton are in town, having just completed q Coast tour, The Windsor is prospering in its pres- ent policy of combined picture-vaudeville shows. Being near the Gold Coast, Chi- cago's aristocratic district, this house is enjoying patronage that seems to be appreciative of the management of Rob- ert F. Emig and H. J. Turner. Mn Turner recently came to the Windsor from Pittsburg, where he was connected Pictures. extra midmegnt snow Majestic. an old-time with Universal There will be an New Year's Eve at the The Norshore will present minstrel show for the holiday event, the kind that thrilled our fathers Fred Bernard will be master of ceremomes. He is a recent arrival from New York. The National Veudeville Association had a great Christmas celebration at Chicago Vaudeville Activities the Sherman House Christmas Eve. Nearly all vaudeville folks in the city were in attendance. Secretary Hawley of the N. V. A. Club was the host and made the affair one of the most en- joyable the association has ever pulled here. There was a pleasant incident at the N. V. A. Ball Friday night when club members presented a beautiful bouquet to Mr. and Mrs. Hawley in appreciation of their many courtesies to members during the year. Bert Lytell, now appear- ing here in vaudeville made the pres- entation speech. Dr. Falk, official physician of the N. V. A. in New York, has been visiting friends and attending a fraternity con- vention in Chicago. Dr. Max Thorex, lo- cal physician for the association, was host to the New Yorker at several so- cial events. Corrine and her stars of other days fre playing return dates here. In the act are Harry Bartlett. Harry Klein, W G. Brown and Harry English 1927 Long Theatrical Season ; Expected During 1927 NEW YORK, Dec. side of the present 27.—The theatrical long Season is expected to come after January 1, with the larger organization of the legitimate and motion picture interests getting a better break than during the early part. : Up to the present the situation is analyzed as having been spotty with an occasional hit for independent pro- ducers. Such organizations as the Shuberts cannot be marked down for a highly profitable fall or early winter business. Likewise the Famous Play- ers-Lasky Corporation, whose only hit of importance thus far this season was Beau Geste. And this picture 1s run- ning at a small capacity house. Loew's, Inc., did better if taking into con- siderafion the business coming in most- ly from the pictures produced last year. Vaudeville business has more than held its own. The Orpheum is ex- pected to have one of its best years. Big-time vaudeville business is said to have maintained its usual business with the box-office receipts very satisfactory. Many sources blame the weather, which has shown neither a hot nor cold trend as yet, for business being off for many legitimate houses. New Firm Has Circuit Of One-Night Stands NEW YORK, 27.—After devoting several preparatory effort, a new vaudeville booking combination, com- posed of Edward White and Walter Gor- don, made its appearance last week with the open'ng of offices in the Romax Build- ing. The Billboard was informed by the youthful pair that they have already the nucleus for a circuit with the acquisi- tion of three split-week houses in Brook- Iyn, 15 one-night stands in the same boro and Sunday concert stands dotting the entire city. In addition to booking acts for the houses of their new chain, White & Gordon will produce both vaudeville and stock tabloid attractions A separate department of the office will Dec. months to be devoted to booking night clubs and orchestras. The West End Theater, W. 125th street, which has hitherto been operating under a straight picture policy, will, in about two weeks, carry Sunday concert bills booked by White & Gordon Sev- eral other straight picture houses will be cenverted into split-week vaudeville and Sunday concert stands with this firm in possession of the booking rights but, due to the immature status of negotia- tions, the names of the houses are being withheld White claims a 14-year affiliation with the show business. Until last season he had his own vaudeville act, Playmates, working steadily on various circuits. He was teamed at one time with Nat Al- berts, the pair appearing under the billing, Alberts and White Gordon has been connected with various amusement and advertising enterprises the past several years. Loew Deal in Atlanta For $8.000.000 Bldg. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The latest theatrical deal by the Loew Circuit calls for a new $8,000,000 structure in Atlanta, to be erected jointly by Marcus Loew and a group of local capitalists. It will replace the present Loew stand, the Grand Theater, for many years con- sidered a landmark and one of the lead- ing theaters of the State. The plans eall for a seating capacity of 4,000 and a large office building as well. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Rose Give Dinner to Midgets °26.—Mr. and MT. VERNON, O., Dec. Mrs. Ike Rose played host yesterda: & swell Christmas dinner to Rose’ Royal Midgets. 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LF ; } 14 The Billboard, January 1 1927 OAST-TO-COAST VAUDEVILLE REVIEWS | New Palace, Chicago ed unday fternoon, Dec. 26) ( ng Meehan’s canines, which Ss F ns H Baltimorians t r predominated and s orig " stunt wv a screarn nd ge Y r by R s staged and s s nat I 1 nen and 4 t 5 € eep f honors ir e t He danced, sang sone ie i st s and did a tio t amusement 7 r a knockout After . s | r a very short but 2 7 ¥ he ex- pressed his mr y ¢ e the first negro t stage of t he termed the w er t r of vaud S y Vv d and ¢ y.inac iy nlaviet. Off ta M é Ss e of t best farce s has t . te ¢ gO n a long t Ward the best of he sit t ns provided by the writer of rg It is a dor . Wood as the maid a tt ¢ wife w e s he did as an the Bas $-: x Revue Blossom Seeley and Bennie Ids were iccessful in drawing a big sine The set is beautiful and the two-piano idea clever. B om and Bennie are entertain- f aurels with talent that is theirs, without resorting to suggestive They have a following her nd were favored with a number of en- core Ed Healy and Allen Cross, singing songs, put them over with plenty of pep ood and the ‘ wn quartet was a decided hit, as was th e sermon in song. Dr. George Rockwell, on each appear- ance here in his Quack, Quack, Qu stuff ties ‘em all in a knot. He looks the part of a high-brow lecturer-dietician and has a line of talk that never varies from the sut t of diet and health. He Was the recipient of a big hand. The Merideth Madelyn and Hoyt were charming wi ith their dances, both old and knew. This youthful pair is the Their harmony is unu ually g ack target for humorous jests of Rockwell from an upper box. It is all wholesome fun. BOB MORNINGSTAR. . Pantages, San Francisco (Reviewed Sunday Evening, Dec. 26) Babe Ruth is Alexander Pantages’ big Name at this week’s show, and he is big enough to draw nacked houses with over- flow crowds in the lobhv On the screen, The Midnight Kiss, For News and Aeson’s Fables With Shad Rosebrook and h and Don George is orchestra on the stage at the organ an effective spectacle was staged in two parts, the first showing The Three Wise Men of the East, and Christmas of Today. Song mbers in keeping were pleasing. Kate and Wilev in A Study in the Classics, an acrobatic posing act with a 12-inch pedestal as the base of operations, made a hit Bishop and McKenzie, the a Swedish dialect, whose rer prompted several laughs in a patter turn, all of w tainment Cecilia Weston, latter with itations song-and- hich was good enter- comedienne, put over her songs in effective style and was liked with Hugo, I Go Where You Go, and Hooray for the Irish. Ernest Evans and Company in Ripples of 1926 has a half dozen girls who assist ma song-and-dance revue The dancing is of exceptional merit. Fvans as an ine defatigable artist a snake dancer and an artist’s studio den in which three dels pose and step are high spots. Babe Ruth precedes his stage appear- ance by having Bishop and McKenzie sing Along Came Ruth, and a short reel of filr owir the |} e-run swatter in action qd ! irroundings. With t last flicker of film, Babe crashes thr the paper reen, in Y: in hand, Stadium uniform, bat of the New York background. His act con- . nkee setting as 2a sists of a relation of personal experier ; a demonstration of how to hit and good- natured chatter with a group of half a dozen kiddies from the audience who came upon the stage and for whom he autographs baseballs. His talk is inter- spersed with humor and his personality The Palace, New York (Reviewed Monday Matinee, December 27) The Pala put on its stuff 1) afternoon and stepped out with a corking show, with Taylor H ting master of ceremonies Holmes introduced twe stage celebrities seated among the sh customers. They were Ethel Barry- re and Laura Hope Crewes Also, he brought Harry Hershfield, cartoonist, on the stage, for one f | usually funny stories Sandy Lang and Company presented “A Skating Classic with Eleanore (Bat e two ‘ F i girls offered a routine of roller-skating stunts that was not only different, but cleverly staged as well. Claude and Clarence Stroud, likable twins, did their ‘“Two-in-One” offering, being m: y a dance novelty, with a few acrobatic tricks thrown in as a surprise, and otherwise versatile material, including singing. Ernest R. Ball, in louse in the “A Night I é Grea singing combination offset with formal style of get further reviewed under “New Turns” Art Frank and Harriet Towne, in “The beautifully all me way Frank has a to the old “Rube” stuff, not to menti steps Miss Towne lends admirable su and dances of her own. Laurette Taylor, n “The Comedienne half in one ¢ e most delightful vehicl a legit t. star.- Th action takes place in aucer, who lives in the past, and the tation as a comedienne, rather tra nsparently disguised as Georg author, J. Hartley Manners further reviewed under “New Turns” Jans and oe opened inte offering, the routine having been cor speed and save running time. The 1 Kitty Doner did her “Twenty M Jack Carroll Of d, anybody w l the tne of male pers tors, and, } Quite an honest little artiste, to In conscious, because it w a new number or two side and switched We mention this number or two, not that her work w Taylor Holmes, in gathered more laughs on used hereabouts some tir were being sold for the before returni stories, re Jane Wright, Patsy Prooks Harry Roye production. With new act, done by a double number of na fi iicles to t offered is the as contributed an rmission in their comedy, j da little in order to make as but a short time because Miss asn’t highly appreciat citations of next to closing, e ago. He has first time—which Chaney and Fox, in “Dance Visions of 1926 and Catherine Will be further reviewed under the Gane’, made his debut at this male quartet and a girl who acted as dding ballads mostly, which in turn is ting laughs here and there. Will be Hick and the Chick", scored exclusive bits of business as rst-rate series of eccentric dance straight, doing songs pport. doing also closed the first two-a-day by old-time theatrical ! has made a repu- nto a } vy dramatic role Ling is Tyler, the veteran producer, and the effective sketch, which will be with Richie Ling, the office of an pro- us actress, who and dance for additi il song ns ate it up as usual t in Par issisted at the piano by te that she the best bet we have in bl t } ls good for oversea as well. curtain s] h she told of feeling self- since she ap} red I last, and wanted It seems d for the River- frank about the new ed nevertheless, ner is the straight and. dialect order, altho he retained most of the material the knack of selling anything as tho it makes a difference. with Lulu Winters, Mary closed the show in a gorgeous “New Turns”. M. H. SHAPIRO. White, is most apparent when surrounded by the kiddies. Sam Lingfield and Company, in a rapid-fire tumbling lesque boxing bout, closing. six men, act with a bur- provided a humorous E. J. WOOD. Majestic, Chicago (Reviewed Sunday Evening, Dec. 26) Parker and Son, hand-to-hand bal- ancing, in their feats of strength com- bined with the balancing, drew applause 3uds and Blossoms Company is 2 group of six youngsters doing songs and dance stunts of the usual kind, altho the three boys have little to do and the ‘three girls work hard. James Reynolds does a straight mono- log made up largely of new stories of a domestic kind and almost stopped the i) show Tobey Wilson and Company have a sketch based on the newly rich theme Wilson’s hick comed J an unu goo0d dancer carry ¢} act The three other a tants are capabl 3urns and Kissen with comi char- acter songs and imitations in pl 4 dialect and smooth del very, made a hit A Pair of Jack . - YY y be f Station WAAF, sang well and present novelties. The piano and tenor solos were unusually good Brown and Flair work in front of a bright drop representing a pirate ship and their comedy is based on 1 ites and piracy grown = dor clowning with Elaine the foil Pinto and Myer with an unnamed ; sistant, play instruments and do comedy The girl singer ple : and the trio gave t wt a good punch with accordion. ikKU le and t injo Kay Sisters a reyue employing five-piece girls’ orchestra besides the stepping sisters, give evidence of atter tion to detail with colorful scenes, bright costumes and action Pallenberg’s Bears closed bruins doing stunts. The particularly pleases BOB with the bicycle riding MORNINGSTAR. . Hippodrome, New York (Reviewed Monday Matinee, Dec. 27) Mel Klee, heading the comedy entries, naster of ceremonies in the holi- bill. one that abounds in entertain- nd diversity John Pease e. in their tor- rent of dance steps and music, with John at the ivories, opened the show to a hand Theirs is a dance of- fering of unusual taste, combining acil- ity and grace as well as novelty. Miss Torrence’s acrobatic specialty scored a decisive hand at the afternoon show, and John’s nimble stepping number awoke a lar recognition. The act is nicely staged and routined. Castile and Fleming folk we oming simi »wed in a mu- ’ al melange of engaging numbers One of the sisters occupies the post at the pi- ano, leaving the burden of t on the other, who shoulder t with ea ind confidence The hand a rded prompted an encore. The Arnaut Brothers, Rene and John, clowns of an inimitable order, entertained in their customary urfique manner in the next spot. To the kids at the matinee show they®were the biggest hit of the af- ternoon, and to most of the older. folks one of the most pleasing acts on the pro- gram. Meyer Golden's latest dance extrava- gfanza, The Whirl of Splendor, proved everything its title ndicate:s ae, more besides. The offering is beautifully staged Scenes change as a revolving piece turns around, revealing another setting. while the dressing for the side remains the enim: The adagio team of Constantinova and ee whose work is excellent, and Blanche Granger, specialty dancer, are featured, with Mascagno’s Steppers, an ensemble of eight, assisting An out- tanding feat of dancing is the pirouet- ing by one of the girls, who gyrates with a vengeance. The new all that big-time vaudeville may desire. Nel Klee tore thru the next-to-closing spot with his comedy, singing and extem- poraneous stuff. This afternoon he jn- Golden offering is Moss’ Broadway, N. Y. (Reviewed Monday Matinee, Dec. 27 Redheads Preferred, with Hitchcock, is the featured film Harriet Nawrot and Boys present an acrobatic offering on roller skates, doing unusually clever work and introducing new feats Raymond Carleton and Ballew. man and woman present four vocal numbers and a few steps that were fairly well received. Thx singing was along legitimate and blues lines and showed a sincere effort was being put forth. Hyde and Burrill captured the crowd with scintillating jazz, comedy, song dances and instrument playing Their various song-and-dance terspersed with a fire comedy. numbers are in- speedy line of cross- Their encore was out of th« ordinary and novel in the extreme Patti Moore, assisted by Arthur Bard Bud and Buddy and Dominos Entertain- ers, combine to put over an excellent vaudeville revue. Bard is a nifty stepper and Bud and Buddy are a likable pair of youngsters who present single and team tap-dance’ specialties. Dominos Enter- tainers are versatile instrumentalist who make merry with jazz tones. Patti Moore, the diminutive cyclonic acrobat dancer, is full of pep and personality Her acrobatic specialty of highkicks, backbends and splits is presented with exceptional grace and finesse, lar amused with a wealth ng numbers and nonsensicalities that ke] t the audience glued to the seats until the drop of the asbestos. Harry Coleman, Stan Stanley and Amack were not caught at this perform- ance Amack was a last-minute substi- tution, due to the sudden ilingss of Charles Hoff’s dancing partner JAY BARRY SCHWARTZ. New Orpheum, L. A. (Reviewed Sunday Matinee, Dec. 26) The Ingenues are the only holdovers. Ed East and Ralph Dunke have a clever group of comedy song numbers which they put over splendidly. East is the writer of three of their special numbers Hollingsworth and Crawford, man and woman, have a comedy talking skit cap- tioned What Price, Bob, evolving around the intention of the wife to have her hair bobbed over the objections of the husband. They have some good material which garnered laughs. The Ingenues, holdovers, scored de- cisively again with a new repertoire of musical and specialty numbers. Dare and Wahl, two men, with Zieqfeld’s Follies, are dians who “wowed” them actions and burlesque hand Fer an encore they obliged balancing feats. Jack Norworth and Dorothy in The Bagger, a new skit. is of the bedroom variety, with the wife nagging at the husband. Following this bit they entertained with two late songs Maud Allan, one of America's foremost dancers, presented three orc tay a trio of Egyptian dances, prelude C sharp minor and a Hungarian dance Sylvia Clark was a hit with her im- personations and character songs To- ward the end of her act she introduced Bobbie Kuhn, who with Harry Delf wrote the material in Miss Clark's offering, and the pair sang Rockabye Baby Days. formerly sap come- with their balancing with real Adelphi, The Novelle Brothers, European clowns, presented their routine of fid- diing while doing acrobatic stunts and tumbling, closing with their Loving Nightingale bit. FRANK B. JOERLING. troduced L. Wolfe Gilbert, the song writer, who mounted the stage to offer one of his latest compositions, and an other young fellow, whose name was not caught. The latter sung two numbers In song-plugging style. Mel got across nice- ly, as usual. Weir's Baby Flephants, those amusing performers presented by Don Darragh, closed, holding the folks without diffi culty. They worked with utmost alacri ty at all times, going thru their nicely built routine of tricks without a falter. ROY CHARTIBR. - _—_|— — Tl oo EE

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owd ong heir de- e of erly nost trio harp fid- | oew’'s State, New York Crteviewed Monday Matinee, Dec. 27) olks out front are getting a good holi- ivy show this week Six clicking acts, inding the chronic show stoppers, hie Sissle and Eubie Blake, appended iddie Cantor's film, Aid Boots, and prinkling of short subjects, is a good ‘5 cents’ worth—even in these bargain davs | icily, billed as the possessor of “4,000 Volts of Pep”, is a girl in kindergarten raiment, offering a juggling, balancing nd spinning routine, with the aid of a nniformed lackey Much of the panto- comedy stuff is superfluous, but s gets over several juggling bits te cood even for one bigger than pint The feature stunt, at the close, is balancing of a divan on her forehead while ascending and descending an eight- yot ladder Rob McDonald and Helen Oekes break what was thought to be an established precedent in the two-spot here by stress- stepping in their offering instead of traight singing. Miss Oakes is a trim- ppearing miss Both are unusually the and graceful and have a diverting riety of steps Their closing Black Rottom is a gem of the first water. Tames Russell and Harry Armstrong, t nut comics and comedy acrobats, were evenly funny thruout. One part of the routine, in which one of them gives com- edy impersonations, can stand a bit of king up; the four episodes seem to hang together loosely. The closing acro- batie travesty on the floor and with the rings went over unusually well. The pair would do well to cut out their ob- jectionable cow-milking bit. Fanny Simpson and Earle Dean are fairly funny in their skit, Chop Stewey, which Is marked by a novelty opening behind a translucent insert in a street The silhouet pantomime at the restaurant table is well staged. When the couple emerges, the girl takes the k ad 1s a comedienne in a drunk characteriza- tion The talking bits, sandwiched be- tween song and dance, are fair, altho they ure hardly enhanced by two raw gags. Sissle and Blake were given a rousing hand at entrance and sustained them- selves with a steadily rising tempo, until ng the proceedings at the close with Sissle’s recitation, accompanying My Dream of the Big Parade. Blake scored chiy in his piano fantasy bit and the other vocal singles delivered by Sissle ed to tickle the crowd consistently. These boys look good for a neat run this eason Joe Rea and his California Nighthawk ue, billed as carrying 18 people, with but 17 in view at the finale. is an orches- ra novelty, staged. apparently, with me- ‘uous care and capable craftsmanship \ prima donna is heard in several de- table bits. During orchestra numbers, rtissements are offered in an inset far backstage. A good musical unit, offering routine of the unusual ordef—but rorgeously trimmed and _ skillfully ar- ranged. The boy featured in the encore ocomotive number was given a great ovation ELIAS E. SUGARMAN. | Last Half Reviews Loew’s Melba, Brooklyn (R°viewed Thursday Evening, Dec. 23) Lar, The feature film is Ladies at Plaw, ith Doris Kenyon and Louise Fazenda. Mande Ellett and Company, two xurts " trapeze and webbing stunts, went over bly Miss Ellett offers at least he-tenths of the stunts, but her as- tant is kept busy holding the vertical ope while the standard bearer is doing her tuff at the top The feature bit mposed of a series of wild body ‘Wings with a single hand caught in a ttached to the rope _ Myrtle Soland, sonester, who is fur- ther reviewed under New Turns, registers Strong thruout h and Sadler open with the bride- and-groom vocal and talking bit, swing nto the familiar blah on domestic tn- re and hop away from this theme With the man singing the comedy bit M line Women, Feminine Men. There re comedy and then a closing song Mary and Ann Clark, discussed tn de- tall under New Turns, are comediennes ext rdinary and are aided and anetred by fine routine. The girl in eccentric costume has the heavier role, but the sister in straight character makes the best of her lines The steamship wharf drop is worthy of praise. McCoy and Walton are a mixed team and they are further reviewed under New Turns. jenny and Elsie Barton please in their seven-people flash, The Vaudeville Limit- ed. Elsie fiddles and so does Benny, and there is a space in which Benny give a fair impression of Herman Timberg in a stepping number. There are a sister stepping team, a boy hoofer and an adagio team. All get a chance at spe- cialties. The finale is a series of fid- dling bits by the Bartons, a collection of whirls by the adagio team and incidental stepping by the sister team and the un- attached boy. ELIAS E. SUGARMAN. Princess, San Francisco (Reviewed Thursday Bvening, Dec. 23) A bill below the average. On the screen, The Power of the Weak ana ih: Two Gun Man. Ted Covey, the roping ace, is clever with the rope, and the five miniature repes he keeps in motion at one time 's the high spot. Nichols and Pearl, man and woman, in a repertoire of comic songs, proved mildly interesting. Rose White, billed as an international songstress, received more applause than the rest of the bill put together with her offerings, three in number. In a Little Spanish Town and When You Waltz With the One You Love were best liked. Villane and Passon, two comedians in a wop turn, have a good line of talk and song numbers. Jack Woods and the Livesay Sisters in mirth, melody and music present blue songs by the sisters and instrumental numbers by Woods. E. J. WOOD. Diversey, Chicago (Reviewed Saturday Evening, Dec. 25) Feature picture, The Man of the Forest, with Jack Holt Opening vaudeville number introduced what was termed A Demi-Tasse Revue, principals being the Welder Sisters, two pretty misses with talent. Their dancing, sincing and instrumental work was ac- ceptable and there was an atmosphere of sincerity that was delightful. Four as- sisting youths are nifty steppers. Sets and costuming show attention to detail. Lionel ("Mike") Ames presents Fasci- The Billboard, January 1, 1927 15 nating Feminine Fancies, a eric of female impersonations. Costumes, make- up and extreme grace of Mike has brought this act about as nearly perfect as is possible for an act of this type to be. Paul Bernard is the pianist. Hartley and Patterson have a farce comedy sketch that is a “wow”, and Mr. Hartley has nothing on the foil, Mis Patterson Her vivaciousness and clever acting show to advantage, along with the swift comedy of Hartley. There is a curtain and then follows a charming song and dance Joe Freed and Company closed with a skit, the first seene being laid on the idewalks of New York”, where there is much good fun at the expense of police. The scene shifts to a cafe, where the antics of Freed and his three assistants are a riot of hilarity. Closed with Freed’s interpretation of The March of the Woeden Soldiers. Grand Opera House, N.Y. (Reviewed Thursday Evening, Dec. 23) Mack and Brantley, man and woman, open. They are roller skaters. They started the show off with dexterous catches, pirouettes and endurance stunts. Elizabeth Kennedy, a youthful-looking comedienne, offered several songs and character impressions that got over in fairly good style. Myers and Sterling, man and woman, the former in tight-fitting comedy outfit and attendant frozen pale face, have a good line of comedy patter, interspersed with several excellent straight song hum- bers. On Tour, with Dot Barnette, Shirley Adelle, Jimmy Green and Mickey Brown, is a diversified song and dance miniature fevue. Miss Barnette offers several com- edy song-and-dance specialties that re- ceived thumping palms of approval at this performance. The eccentric tap and comedy numbers by the boys likewise re- eeived its reward. Miss Adelle, an acro- batic dancer, invested her work with an indefinable rhythmic beauty and grace that has features of unusual excellence Further reviewed in “New Turns”. Royce and Chafin, blackface, pack in their dialog a neat assortment of mirth that raises their stuff far above the usual misnamed comedy. They went thru their routine in breezy style. Bert Hughes and Company, three women and two men, closed the show with a pleasing bicycle offering. Their basket- ball game on wheels concludes the act. JAY BARRY SCHWARTZ. Vaudeville in Spain People tell us that the variety show is the dramatic expression of Spain to- day. People know. For next to the posters of roaring bulls and bull-fighters the placards of vaudeville scream the loudest in color and print. And to every legitimate playhouse there are three mu- sic halls. The largest cities boast four music halls, let us say, and one and one- third theaters. Since Madrid is the biggest city in Spain (Barcelona really isn't Spanish), a Madrid variety may be assumed to be not onlw the typical Spanish product, but the best, and therefore a perfectly fair example A common bill, then, at the foregoing consists of a “Sinfonia’, two sketches. one comedian, one dancer and one singer—quite ordinary matter But quite extraordinary manner The Sin- fenia is a musical aperitif performed on a warped piano, catarrhal strings and a few assorted effects—triangle, bells, cym- bals Becinning at 11 p.m. and lasting fifteen minutes, it is at times passionately formless. at times formally passionate, and all the time bad. Whatever Iberian tang it might have is drowned in the badness. With this encouragement a sketch begins. The mirth-provoking ele- ment of a particular one is a woman who sits on a chair and giggles. The woman, the elegle and the chair are quite or- dinary. Then there are some smutty comparisons between a man and a little dog, and some back-stage hugs wut ot this hilarity, for five minutes and for no reason at all. three lusty maidens do eurythmics in pale blue mat: rnity smocks. And they are really funny, but none of the swarthy, fascinated faces in the amoky hall twitches a nerve. The second sketch, ealled Palos-Buenos Aires, in honor of the great flight of the Spanish / / airmen, consists of tableaux showing the various spots the aviators touched—Bra- zil, Argentine, perhaps Peru. The six ladies of the chorus wear breeches and pink aprons in Brazil, gingham frocks and large hair ribbons in Argentine, and breeches and hair ribbons in Peru, but you can recognize them just the same, splendid mothers that they are. And they use exactly the same footwork in the three or four or five different countries, to show how the sun never sets on the Spanish empire. The comedian who fol- lows the sketch, however, makes up for it. His face invests his conventional clothes—voluminous low-hung trousers, bagey t—with a peculiar and pungent obscenity He moves in an uproarious aura. If his gestures make one ashamed for those who understand them, one won- ders what his diarrhetic speech must be. The three lone women in the audience scream with ecstatic apprehension, and the men are in tears and agony. Spain has comedians. And Spain had dancers. Oh, the trag- edy of Progress with a capital P! Her- alded on the program by seven consecutive superlatives, the dancer bursts on the stage and into the spotlight; but oh. the pang to the eye and heart of him who expected the sensuous Andalusian in swirling shawls! The dancer, common- place in form and feature—with legs too heavy, hips too bulky and neck too «? t metallic bathing suit and feather headdress of an American chorus girl. The orchestra blares a man- gled version of an ancient jazz tune, reecking and unrhythmic, and Isabetita Oreaz, “la hermosa, preciosa, eminente ‘estrella’ del baile’, steps out. Vacue reminiscences of hula-hula, de-sexed— (Continued on page 85) rt Ww irs the Equity Stops Another Test Of New Jersey Blue Laws NEW YORK, Dee of the amu 27.—Another branch ement business planned a test yesterday, of the discriminatory enforce- ment of the New Jersey Blue Laws, but was unable to carry thru the announced Sunday performance because of the in- terference of the Actors’ Equity Associa- tion. Jules Leventhal’s Stock Company at the Opera House in Bayonne posted billing in front of the theater and sent out advertisements in the mail early last week to the effect that a Sunday per- formance would be given yesterday and another the second Sunday following. News of the event reached Equity Friday and a letter was immediately dispatched to both Leventhal and the members of the company, warning them that the at- tempt would not only be a breach of the State laws, but would be a violation of Equity’s rules and would lay the actors open to suspension from the Association. or a heavy fine, or possibly both. Yes- terday’s performance was called off, but it is reported that the one scheduled for a week from next Sunday has not yet been canceled and that it is still being advertised. “N. Y. Exchange” in Trouble NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—New York Ez- change, by Peter Glenney, scheduled to have its premiere Saturday night at the Klaw Theater, failed to open because of the unsettled state of its backing. Ivan S. Wright. who started as the producer of the show, was taken seriously ill in the rehearsal period and the latter part of last week he lapsed into a coma, mak- ing the signing of checks impossible. He had not given any of his associates a power of attorney and the cash on hand had been used up. Clarke Silvernail, who had been directing the piece, hustled out after support and the dress rehearsal found a number of prominent producers out front to look over the show, among them Lee Shubert, Jules Murry and Jo- seph Gaites of the Shubert office; A. L. Jones, of the Bohemians, Inc.; L. Law- rence Weber, and George Choos. The play had been written in four acts, but the last had been discarded by Wright because of its daring nature. The outside producers in attendance did not care for the piece, as it had been cut, and were about to leave when Choos, who had read the original, explained. Shubert agreed to take over the show with Choos and the fourth act was or- dered in. Brandon Evans, playing the lead. refused to read the lines of the ex- tra scene and walked out of the cast, pre- venting the premiere Saturday night as billed. Choos declares today that he wiil hold Evans to his contract and demands arbitration. If Evans agrees the play will open some night this week. If not, a new lead will have to be found and Evans will be up on charges at Equity for jumping his contract. No decision had been reached this afternoon. Rhode Island Theaters Entertain Vaudevillians PROVIDENCE, Dec. 26.—At 11:30 o'clock the night before Christmas, vaude- ville artistes appearing at the various theaters thruout the State gathered at the Hotel Dreyfus for a yuletide observ- vance A real Christmas dinner was served and an elaborate program of en- tertainment and dancing enjoved. It was the contribution of the theater managers to the artistes of the vaudeville world Foster Lardner, general manager of the Keith-Albee interests in Rhode island, was chairman of the committee and mas- ter of ceremonies. His a on the committee were Edward M. Fay, Martin Tooney, Owen F. Reddy, Fred Lovett, Matt Reilly Zernard Fay. James S Powers, Sam Kaufman, Fred Cuneo James Fay. Sol Braunig, R. Alfred Jone James Thornton, Edward Lenihan, Jack Tooney, Jack Bowen and John Carrol! ssociates Christmas Party in Toronto TORONTO, Dec. 26.—Manas' N K. Miller was host Chr " » the in- coming and outgoin ts play- ing at Pantags Supper was served on the stag d by dancing to a full orchest affair was the largest gathering he'd in vaudeville cif- cles in Canada : F ° Bis eh 7 - t — ee ’ } ’ , 2 | 7) bet ond | an ning cing Nan few The 4 lues was oss- ee the ard ain- lent pper eam ter- ae lists Patti at lity cks, with nh of ities eats and rm- StI- of Z. — \. 26) S ea bers st is ecial and cap- rund LL her | the prial _| nana Pe ger ene | Ime- their ing ee real Iphi, Po the ring —— they im- To- anced rote ; ring. ays. pean Zz and ving G. ——— Orur , iffer an not ee s in lice- . a 4s sing ™ ah, lift ‘ eri cely Iter. : ‘. a L . — — = i a TT q

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16 The Billboard, January 1 1927 . . . . . State Supervision , N. V. A. in Drive Loew Bookings Masters of Ceremonies ‘ Jour ’ oy NEW YORK, Dee, 27.—The Streets o Over Penn. Agents For New Year s Eve For New Members New York Orchestra, reported “a be ck vemeae . NEW YORK, D: 27 In order to 7 evtgrowth of the Harry Stoddard unit Plan Worked Out Whereby All | Delp the yuletide spirit over the foot NEW YORK, Dee. 27.—The most ex- Which recently played K.-A. houses here B _ " lights and give added momentum to tensive drive in vaudeville history is on 2” an act with Mrs. Frank Tinney, wa usiness Relations Are Kept the extra shows on New Year's Eve for members for the National Vaudeville bocked direct on the Loew Time last week, 7 Clean several masters of ceremonies have Artists, Ine What with a closer re With Jimmy Bassett conducting, the ane been booked for K.-A ind affiliated lationship between vaudeville and oth: rhine-man musical ageregation will open PHILADELPHIA, D« °7T.—Altho not houses. At the Palace, Taylor Holmes, fields during the last few seasons, the ad- January 3 at the Orpheum Theater Generally known, progressiv: Sproat motion picture star, will do his stuff, vent of acts in picture houses, and pre I\almin Matis and Company, a three-peo- are being tak Reais (tak, oe as well as an act of his ewn. ence in the two-a-day fleld of many new DPle musical skit, was also booked on thé gents up to: h standard anil itaete At the Hippodrome, Mel Klee is faces unfamiliar with the work of the time Dan Shone booked the act, which Since this city is taking on more of an holding forth. whik t other stands N. V. A., the time is considered ripe fora Opens next week In one of the loca! important aspect, with the growth of th: suitable singles are doing likewise membership campaign. In the recent de- bcuses, William Hardy and Ruth Francis ley Company and other interests velopment of a 50-acre estate at Saranac ond Company, in Harry Conn’'s skit, gradually spreading eut Lake with sanitariums for the care of Father Shy, were booked thru the Mark James J. Moran. of the State Denar*- B : Si tubercular, the funds of the N. V. A. have Leddy. office, opening January 3 at th: ment of Labor, who oo onrecceenlie Fig “ Irene ordoni igned wr egg iably cut into National Theater, in the Bronx. having the agents organize the Philadel . n the drive now under way, question Other acts booked on the Loew Tim: phia Entertainment cae — eke. For 24 Weeks in Vaude. naire are being sent to all artistes in last week are Edmond Mulcahy, Irish tion, is taking an active interest in it, and iananiiaaae vaudeville and application blanks distrib- scngster, in a vocal repertoire, who Opens in order to do away anv possible dis- NEW YORK, De 24 Irene Bordoni uted in agents’ office theaters and other ti day at the Greeley Square Theater trust among the agents he arrar ged t has been signed for ar definite vaude- laces where they will reach the actor or Clifton and Kramer, booked thru Mark have his office at the disposal of the the- Ville tour with a mir im of 24 weeks, actress The irtistes’ representatives Leddy, who open at a stand undecided Fs atrical men for meeting purposes starting on the Orpheum Circuit Janu- have been asked to mail a questionnaire next week in their skit. A Swede'’s Vaca This organization, being fostered under 4°Y 9, when she plays the Palace, Chi- to each person working for them, inquir- tion; Katherine Sinclair and Company, 7" ‘ the eye of Mr. Moran, is expected to cago. The act will be under the direc- ing whether they are a member of the under the direction of Irving Yates prove more beneficial to the artistes than tion of the M. S. Benth offices and N. V. A. which opens December 30 at the Greeley the agents. Especially does this apply to Will consist of a song ne, with a This is to b ent to the N. V. A. by Square Theater, and Florence Smith and agents booking clubs which may want pianist doing the a mpaniments the agent, when returned, so that the Clarence Parsons, the colored songsters, te put on a questionable show. The laws Miss Bordoni 1 ve held over at the present drive will reach each and every who begin their tour today under the di 7 of Pennsylvania are strict regarding book- Palace for two weeks and will follow artiste employed in big or smali-time rection of Sam Lyons at the Delancey ing agents. They are even more stringent with the larger stands on the Western Vaudeville Theater. than those of New York, which issues « m- reuit Later : Sous, nt lata pe ong . ther things Novelists, and Jeanne McCoy and Ralph evue, containing among othe ‘ iin demcineg and comedy, in ia. te Vesta Victoria Opens Radio Band and Tenor Ww alton were booked on the Loew Then caaeeel under {1 fimactinn of Rtantey 1 last week thru the Jack Potsdam office learsal wu uae e direction of Stanley For Pantages Jan. 8 Make K.-A. Vaude. Debut The Aussie and Czech act, which featur: Bekefi, wh« ppear in the act with n association hetwe NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—A new novelty, SE ice. Mt Bteten actees eke meet, ies i naiahaiin Wiha NEW YORK. Dec. 27.—The Silvertown pretest , pgp ge ; a Much is expected of Miss Sandre by the yay, te an, it Ccrd Orchestra, led by Joseph Knecht, Soe es ono gceete: eee amare Lee Stewart office which is producing will re = "= deel? S EPOn Pan im formerly of the W aldorf-Astori will week at the American Theater Me iy % Stew: ice, hich is producing js reported on reliable authorits Ss} pense wr el Pee — 4 a, "and Walton, who present a routine of the act. ; — . opens in Toronto on January & and wil 6 as 6 ad wil bs debut today when it songs, talk and dances billed as A Fe: There will _be a company a thre Ma complete the balance of the tour on the . } rag : he Riverside 1 he ate r. The Voments With the Spirits, showed last support of Miss Sandre and Bekefi. The West Coast, including eight tentative °"n4, which is composed of 12 soloist mu- acy in White Plains and open today at latter is staging the offering. It will be weeks clans, is considered one of the big four 1. » ican Theat ready for opening in about two weeks _ . popularized thruout the country via the a — Andre Hudiakoff is designing the scenery. sefore going westward Miss Victoria radio. The organization carries the Sil- ,- vr be hs ndered a 7 nel y t the Twin wer Mask Ti nor, who has been singing Three New Loew Acts ‘ aks festaurant Ja ry 0) Oy ! over the radio th le orche " +4 4 ‘ DeJari for Vaude. Pres. (lab. Wiltines than Aw lio with the orchestra, yet Open in White Plains , rris Jr., an- whose face has never been seen by a:so- eee NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—M. deJari, Sere nounced, ciates or listeners-in Manager Derr is NEW YORK, Dec. 27. — At Loew's bian tenor with the Earl Carroll Vanities Miss Victoria will play a break-in dat billing the band as the most popular radio State Theate r, White Plains, the last production, has been booked for a yaude- today, December 27, for Loew in White Outfit in the world. half of this week three acts will play ville engagement over one of the major Tlains The billing for the single Loe their first engagement for the time. Ons circuits under the direction of Mr. Car- ‘agement reads New Songs and Old Warner and Corbett Due East = of them, Eva Fay, “Tie High Priestess roll. DeJari’g repertoire will incl. le ex- Favorites. “7 shew (ee . of Mysticism”. is being heavily exploited cerpts from the last three editions of the oy wna phe ma hpi d —Warner and since White Plains is her home territors Vanities. Gerber Si n A orbe standart mixed team, are en She bills the act as Thaumaturay The s Another nba ates a Reyes ~<a act ¢ ; tts from the West Coast to begin re- William Morris office has Miss Fay un- learsa . ] in 3 « act c ‘ ‘ a5" ™ 3 eae eee siaiilae Coombe and Nevins for Loew NEW YORK. Dec. 27 The singing ceque: “6 er a - Wa : whi h will sub der its wing Helen Eley, formerly fea : we oe town for major cireult tured in the original Battling Rutl eeeiene ane dancing tean (jrace ¢ ‘obs ’ Fi NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Coombe and w late toured tes’ aioe ‘lars pookers The team had been playing in Company, opens in a repertoire of #1 Nevins, for some time a standard K.-A. houses in The Bughouse Cabaret. } iecnsaees the ion I several months ago, when cial comedy vocal numbers, assisted bs two-act, were booked on the Loew Time been signs d by Alex Gerber for } z - rhe va ade Ville activitte were suspended Pred Faber at the piano The Mever last week. The pair will open January Fast Sid: We , 2 tase ; * ee 2 Me ibe Stanley Warner was engaged ax a North office ts handling the act. Mandel 3 at the Victoria Theater, playing the Water will be Sontn —_- Cort r iprvess hp a : ; anoer cournet with the & Rose booked the third on the Whit last half of the week at the Greele Y nounced the balan = . f his face ry ara teed pla dwyn Mayer picture organiza- Plains bill, Kaichi Koban and Company, : Square Theater. They are under the complete and that reheat vill - Sas aa The team will probably show here a Japanese novelty perch act. The rou H direction of Al Silberman. re siete wrth hing will ne ” ae the direction of the Arthur Silber tine aleo includes foot juggling and head z balancing. Pe 1° = ‘ae 7 . ‘ edie |. . & é a ” a Ry : i 2 / . . = - eed . ~~ ; 74 - % ee ete = wil Z a z ae % ee e Seaeee Jae . eke ae “ee “ Pa <a PGS Ss EOE . ES YS *.. a ae gd "Stee Nae re % ee aes 4 + x Jie ee I ee mel : # oR “ae 3 2 ae a ve * a = wo - ; 7 ok R oo 2 5 7 - - * JOD ARS ore . los BBE eee, juan _— hee i ek ke gg ie 5 Y . J ays a fe ee ‘ , ee yy Vee? See Gee i eee Pee @. 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Pantages Dismissed On Federal Charges LOS ANGELES Dec. 23.—In Federal Court here charges against Alexander Pantages and seven others of conspiracy to transport motion pictures of the Dempsey-Firpo fight from New York to Los Angeles were dismissed. The prose- cution moved for dismissal after receipt of a telegram from Attorney-General Sargent authorizing the action. The Federal Attorney-General in the message declares there was no proof of overt acts having been committed in Cali- fornia, and that so far as Mr. Pantages was concerned, he only had agreed to show the films after they had arrived here. Gives Party for Performers DENVER, Dec. 26.—Manager Lou Hellborn of the Orpheum Theater after the show Christmas Eve entertained members of the closing and opening bills with a dinner party, dance and tree in the Rainbow Lane of the Shirley- Savoy Hotel. Original stunts and speeches by the guests and a multiplicity of unique toys and gifts made the affair the most suc- cessful of the many Christmas parties Manager Hellborn has given. Among performers who particpiated were Ed Janis, Carmen Rooker, Irma Coigne, Iris Mave, Elizabeth Toben, Irene Fdawards, Jim Baggert, Rose Sheldon, Ed Ernie, May Ernie, Robert Emmett Keane, Clatre Whitney, Bud and Jack Pearson, Jane Smith Derethy Mack, Charles Ross, Ernest Hiatt, Will Ferry, Jack Kraft and Fisie LaMont. In addition to the party for performers Mr. Hellborn turned his house over to the Denver Orphans’ Home December 18 and presented each kiadle with a toy. Bald % Calvert Remain Independent Agents . NEW YORK. Dec. 27. —tWesley Bald, of Bald & Calvert, artistes’ representa- tives and recently franchised Pantages agents, informs The Billboard that the tieup with Nevins & Singer did not materialize and that they will continue to book acts with Pantages as well as for independent circuits and motion pic- ture houses, as heretofore The new combination was being planned on a large scale, and both Bald and Calvert were to be partners in the enterprise. “The Old Homestead” Has 15 Weeks in N. E. BOSTON, Dec. 27.—The vaudeville version of The Old Homestead, featuring Jimmy Horton, hung up a new record for the St. James last week and is ex- pected to duplicate the feat this week at the Scollay Square. The attraction is being featured in advertising and pub- licity over the feature pictures, and is doing so well Lee Stewart, its sponsor, announces he will probably have about 15 weeks in New England for it. In April he has booked the act for Ohio territory. Riley Bros. Produce NEW YORK, Dec. 27. — The Quintet Revue, the first production personally Sponsored this season by the Riley Brothers’ office, opens for Gus Sun to- day in Youngstown. Jack Bell, Jr., new- ly appointed representative of the firm, is handling the booking for the new act. After several weeks of break-in dates for Sun, Rell will bring the act here for a Pantages showing. Lord and Wills Coming In NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The Max Haves offices has produced a new offer- ing, being done by Fd Lord and Si Wills. The production has a funny title as well as material, according to Phil Offin, who is handling the act. Both Lord and Wills were formerly members of prom- Inent comedy duos and recently com- bined. 4 ED JANIS has drawn the largest crowds to his free noon Black Botton dancing classes at the Denver Orpheum he has had in the 10 weeks he has been Staging them. About 300 young people, Including a number of clever darkies, were present every one of the three days. The culminating contest was when ® silver cup was presented, and included 15 amateurs who competed after the Show Wednesday, December 22. Yvonne and Irving Will Play Full Weeks at Indep’t Stands NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The heavy ex- ploitation used here several weeks ago for Dunninger and Rajah Raboid, men- talists, seems to have aided this branch of entertainment generally. An indica- tion of the receptiveness of booking folk to mentalist offerings was the booking last week of Princess Yvonne and Pro- fessor Irving, a combination widely known in the carnival field, for a spe- clally exploited tour of the Small & Straussberg houses in Brooklyn and Long Island. The Yvonne-Irving com- bination will open January 3 at the DeKalb Theater, playing there a full week, with other acts on the bill playing under the usual split-week policy. The mentalists will thence proceed to the other S. & S. vaudeville houses. Princess Yvonne works on the stage while Irving solicits questions amongst the audience. They are handled by Al Silberman. Worths and Ashley Paige Open for Loew in Hoboken NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Norman and Clarice Worth, assisted by Ashley Paice the xylophonist, resumed their tour of the Loew Eastern Time the last half of last week at the Lyric Theater, Hoboken. The trio had been playing the Loew Southern Time the greater part of the fall season. The act is handled by Al Silberman. Bentham Has Florida Tieup NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—M. S. Bentham, K.-A. agent, has arranged a tieup with Tommy Atkins and May Spiegel, where- by they will represent him in Florida theater bookings. Spiegel, formerly prominent in local theatrical circles, is now operating a theater in Miami Beach, and the new combination is figuring on a chain of houses in Florida. Harry Weber to the Coast NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Harry Weber, K.-A. agent, left last week for Los An- geles. Altho he has a walnut ranch in California, which he visits regularly, it does not claim all of his time. On every trip to the Coast he has brought back contracts for the appearance in vaude- ville of screen stars and is expected to repeat on this visit. Crawford in New ‘furn NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Lester Craw- ford, formerly teamed with his wife, Helen Broderick, is preparing a two-act which he will soon offer in association with John Dunn on the Keith-Albee Time. Miss Broderick opened last week with Oh, Please, at the Fulton Theater. “Frog Man” for Loew NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Mankin, “The Frog Man", was booked on the Loew Time last week thru the Al Grossman of- fice. The act, which consists of sensa- tional acrobatic bits, plays its first stand on the time beginning today at the Palace Theater, Brooklyn. Vr. Theater Changes Policy NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The Anudi- torium Theater, at Brattleboro, Vt., which formerly was devoted to,gmotion pictures and road shows, goes into a vaudeville policy with five acts on the last half beginning Thursday. Walter Plimmer will supply the attractions. Resigns as Club Executive MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 26.—Frank Keeney, Brooklyn theater owner and turfman, has withdrawn as president of the new Pom- pono Jockey Club as a result of illness. The club opened its first season Christ- mas Day. Griffith Stays in Buffalo —_——_- BUFFALO, Dec. 27.—Persistent rumors that Clvde Griffith, manager of the Buf- falo office of the National Vaudeville Ex- change, was to be removed to the New York office are denied by Griffita, who states that he is going to remain right in Buffalo. The Billboard, January 1, 1927 17 The World’s Jester Written by Rev. Edward Lodge Cur- ran, A. M., of Cathedral College, Brooklyn, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of vaudeville, and _ sent voluntarily to W. W. Kerrigan, of the Albee Theater, Brooklyn. A hundred years of vaudeville Across the stage have danced Acrobatic, systematic, Pirouetted, sung and pranced The vaudeville that your granddad knew When wicked was the waltz The vaudeville that our sons enjoy. Forgetful of youth's faults. The sidewalks of New York have chanzed Their color and their way, The drama and the music-box Known golden days and gray. Yet vaudeville with its song and dance. Its quip and joke and smart, Has lived a hundred steady years Within the world’s glad heart Humanity alone is king, Its treasurers, smiles and tears, Its jester, not a royal clown But vaudevill’es yesteryears. A hundred years is but a week When measured by the past: The world and vaudeville’s honeymoon— Forever may it last. Barnes &% Barton in Musical Act NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Billy Barnes and Jack Barton are featured in Kandy Krooks, a song, dance and comedy re- vuet, which will open for Loew January 3 at the Premier Theater, Brooklyn. There are four girls and three men in the cast. The act is sponsored by Al Free- man, who is also personally handling the bookings. Browning and Leff Featured In Cantor & Brandell Revue NEW YORK, Dec. 27. — The Wilson Sisters’ Revue, with Cy Browning and Pincus Leff featured, opens for Loew to- day at the Avenue B Theater. Lew Can- tor and William Brandell are sponsoring and booking the act. Also in the cast is Carol Margot. Vincent Valentine wrote the act, which is subbilled as Broadway Impressions. Two Standard Acts On Independent Time NEW YORK, Dec. 27—Murray Gordon and Harry Pierce, the standard comedy team, and George Kelly’s The Show-Of, tabloid version of tha popular play of several seasons ago, are playing the in- dependent time in this vicinity. Harry Russell is featured in The Shovw-Off. The acts are handled for the independent tour by Charles C. Grohs. All Ohio Road Stands Will See Home-State Boy in Comedy (Continued from page 5) Gladys Winthrop, Betty Clifford and others. The Ohio itinerary of The Poor Nut will include practically every city where a dramatie house is available, covering a period of 10 or 12 weeks. It is to be by far the most complete tour of this State made in recent years by an original Broadway cast and production. Helen Nieman has been appointed Ohio press representative for the tour. Her headquarters are at the Hartman Theater, Columbus. Robert Rend is advance pube licity agent, while Robert Sparks is gen- eral press representative from the New York headquarters. Saenger Takes Over Two Baton Rouge Houses (Continued from pane 5) The change of management will be ef fective January 1. An operating company to he known as the Capital Theaters, Inc., will be formed by the Saengers to run the new houses, The new company will carry out a build- ire program and a new theater wil! be erected at the corner of Dufrocq and Main streets. It is possible that another theater will be erected in the down-town section the coming year. Broadway Openings and Closings (Continued from plage 11) Hart, presented by Lyle D. Andrews and Lew Fields at the Vaudeville Theater, with Helen Ford starred and Lulu Mc- Connell featured. Wooden Kimono, by John Floyd, pre- sented by Frederick Stanhope and Jacques Froehlich at the Martin Beck Theater. December 28 Betsy, musical comedy by Irving Caesar, David Freedman, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, presented by Florenz Ziegfeld at the New Amsterdam Theater, with Belle Baker featured What Never Dies, by Alexander Engel, presented by David Belasco at the Lyceum Theater, with E. H. Sothern as the star and Haidee Wright featured. December 29 The Devil in the Cheese, by Tom Cushing, presented by Charles Hopkins at the Charles Hopkins Theater. December 30 Chicago, by Maurine Watkins, pre- sented by Sam H. Harris at the Music Box Theater, with Francine Larrimore as the star. In Abraham’s Bosom, by Paul Green, presented by and at the Provincetown Playhouse. Week of January 3 The Lace Petticoat (Carle Carlton), Forrest Theater. Faust (Edyth Totten), Edyth Totten -Theater. Earl Carroll Vanities, Sixth and Inter- national Edition, featuring part of the Charlot Revue (Earl Carrol), Earl Carroll Theater. The Brother Karamazov (Theater Guild), Guild Theater Junk (Shesgreen & Vroom), Garrick Theater. Closings Saturday night, December 25, were limited to one, Autumn Fire. This Woman Business moved from the Ritz to Wallack’s Theater. Seed of the Brute and Loose Ankles are scheduled to close at the end of this week. 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18 The Billboard, January 1 Vaudeville Notes GEORGE AND LILY GARDEN, billed as “Premier Xylophonists’, were booked last week on the K.-A. Time, and are slated for an opening shortly iround New York in on GOMEZ AND GOMEZ, another xylo- phone combination, were also booked on the K.-A. Time. DELL O’DELL, “The Petite Lady Sam- son”, after breaking in her four-people act last week on the independent time, was booked on the Keith-Albee Circuit, opening at one of the New York stands next week GARRY OWEN AND COMPANY, in Compliments of the Season, an WB. WK Nadel production in four scenes, opens this week for the K.-A. Time at the State Theater, Jersey City, N. J. Supporting Owen are Charles Prince, Bobby Gale, Malcolm Warmack and A. K. Weiss. THE TWO HARVEYS, offering a comedy wire act, opened for Loew the last half of last week at the Avenue B Theater, New York. The duo is under the direction of the Max Obendorf office. THE TOURISTS, a five-people act, sub- billed as A Travelog of Song and Talk, opens in Trenton this week on the K.-A. Time. is featured AVALON in Melvin and Company, a four;people dancing and talking act, which opened for Loew last week at the Lincoln Square Theater, New York. Arthur Horowitz handled the booking. GEORGE MORTON, in his single, Much Ado Alout Nothing, will begin a tour of the Loew Southern Time January 3 at the State Theater, Norfolk. Morton, who is now play- ing Eastern dates for Loew, was booked direct. “THREE SAIL- ORS” is the billing used by a three- man novelty danc- ing act which was booked last week on the K.-A. Time. They will open the ; last half of this George Morton : week. " : ED BLUM ND SISTER, xylophon- ists, who also offer singing and stepping bits, opened for Loew December 27 at the National Theater, in the pair are being handled by & Rose office DUCKETT AND LOVE, colored, present a singing act, billed Opera, opened last week for Loew at the Avenue B Theater. The act is under the direction of the Irving Yates office. Bronx. The the Mandel who Ethiopian KIMBERLY LEON and Helen Page will -begin their Loew Southern tour Norfolk, presenting their The Heart Broker. BARRY AND “FLAT! Ww, woman, in a new act, Bits of Janutry 3 in old skit, man and This and That, will soon play their first stand for K.-A. at one of the New York houses. CHILTON AND THOMAS, in Dance Sensations, were booked on the Keith- Albee Time last week thru the Rose & Curtis office The Vi Honey Trio is another offering booked on the time. It opens this week, litting between Pougkeepsie and Newburg. The turn comprises fast stepping by two men and a girl. CUBAN NIGHTS. a seve n-people ne- ing revue with interwoven actio1 depict- ing a night in a Cuban cafe, opened for Loew last \v ek I White Plain 5, p ying the last half in Mamaroneck Th act is being sponsored by Sam Baerwitz. WHEELER AND WHEELER, “The Radium Bugs”, presenting a roller-skat ing novelty, opened for Loew December 27 at the n Theater Jew York The Whee S ar inder the direction of the William Morris office FI ROSES mu i v y op t for Loew i et t the Ave B heater. The offering is be- ing andled by the Mandel & Rose office BILL CHURCH writes that he will be featured in Walter Beck’s Revue, 1927 which opens at the Hill Theater, Newark, N. J., January 10 SAM DAY and Mill Maxine, in Frank Orth’s skit, Nalamtbe¢ opened for Loew 1 last half of ] week its the mee Th ter, Yor The uct bein handled } Al Gros } t office THE JOK sf ONGE TRIO, the Reman ring, flip- and toe-to- { catch expon- were books d week on. the Keith-Albee Time TI novelty a . will soon begin a Mile. Mawine tour of the New York stands. CHARLES HOFF, pole - vaulting champion, opens for K.-A. this week at Moss’ Hamilton Theater, New York, in the two-act he recently showed before bookers of the circuit He sisted by Helen Lyons in bits, switching later hibition of his will be as- a series of dance n the act to an ex- athletic prowess. AGNES TRUESDELL’'S billed If You'll Allow Me, was booked on the Keith-Alhee Time, and is slated to open in New York the last half of this week, singing act, GAIL HENRY, last week with a ingenue, was placed new flash act now in rehearsal by Phil Bush and Nella St. Clair. The engagement was effected thru the Roehm & Richards offite. GALLAGHER AND TANN, “The Palm seach Millionaires”, begin a tour of the Keith-Albee Time at the Royal Thea- ter, in the Bronx, this week. SUN FLOWERS OF MELODY, a six- people musical, singing and dancing revue, was booked on the K.-A. Time last week. The act opens at one of the New York houses of the time the last half of this week. THE THREE ORONTOS were booked last week on the Gus Sun Time thru Charle C. Grohs, New York artistes’ representative. The act will open Janu- ary 31]in Rochester. EMILY LEA and Davey Jones will open shortly a break-in engagement on the independent time in and around New York under the direction of Charles C. Grohs. They will offer their new act, Back Bay to Broadway, by Andy Rice. DANCING DANNY WHITE advises that he has been invité to entertain the motor-« his “Songs and Dance and will go to Dearborn for that purpose, White opened on Gus Sun Time De- cember 17 at the rigan Theater, New d by Henry Ford ar magnate with of Yesterday”’ Albar Ind booked by the Be n Theatri ney out of Indian- ap steadily for the senton g Danny enter- 1ined Dayton, O., De- cember THE PENNSYLVANIANS, an eight- people novelty band act pens on the Coutts Time December 30 in Fulton, ao THE MARTIN TRIO opens for Coutts December 30 in Pearl River, N. ¥., as will Busang and Fox in Washington. DD; ©, ‘THOMAS MONOHAN the single n ong seven gir j I l Li > hevue, wh opens on a te of the Loew Sout! ern Tim Janu- ary 3 at t St Theater, Norfolk. THE THOMAS Ct LEGIANS ‘ t it ¢ b booked I K-A I if 2 ir WV I Ti / ohan ri 11 men WILL \I E BE! LUN of Saratoga Spring I Ray taken over the Platts- burg Theater in Plattsburg, which he will operate exclusively as a pictur: house. It has formerly housed vaude- \ ind tures. Manager Benton has ol of theaters in Glens Falls, Ball- ston, Whitehall and Saratoga Springs. TRIO, “the open in a new Hackensack THE TOBY WELLS dv collegiate acrobats” Keith-Albee in coniec- routine tor VARO and formerly of the Brothers, are novelty act for th vround B Gene Fowler, the standard act ot doing a Chinese Keith office in and poston Varo recently completed « six weeks in Canada for the Knicker- bocker Vaudeville Exchange, of New York, THE RECKLESS TRIO is now known the Larconians, with a novelty act and now in New York, showing next week ab the Park Theater, Bre York agents for future bers of the act are Billy Snell and John Husak. ATTREE, known in sensational endur- oklyn, tor uvew bc vokings. Mem- Ward, O. J. STANLEY AND vaudeville for their ance tricks, have just finished 22 con- secutive weeks for K.-A They open early in January for a tour of the Pan- tages Circuit. The act was booked tru the Dick Henry Agency. MR. AND MRS. PERKINS FISHER, while sending holiday greetings, cait at- tention to the fact that The Half-Way House, written by Ezra Kendall and produced at Keith’s Union Square Thea- ter, New York, in August, 1899, ‘closed in California last month complet- ing more than a quarter of a century ot Service. after LIEU ur FELIX FE FERDINANDO and his Havana Orchestra recently completed a 12 weeks’ tour of a the New England sector of the K.-A. Time. For the holi- day period the act is playing at Lieut Ferdinando’s ball- room, the Chateau, Manchester, N. H. After New Year's another vaudeville tour will be started. AND have HOLLY HOWARD joined hands, reviving the original act ereated by Myron Holly and Leon Howard. The act ens on the Junior Orpheum Circuit at American and Lincoln theaters, Chi- igo, booked by the Earl & Perkins agency, January 3. again Lieut, Ferdin ando Connie Lee Cancels Time; Sprained Ankle on Stage PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27. — While playing in an independent house here last week Connie Lee, who is touring with a company of six in Connie Lee and Her Bell Hops, a band act, sprained an ankle while performing one of the specialty dances in the routine The act closed nediately, and Miss Lee was forced to cancel several other local independent dats The limb is healing rapidly, in- dications pointing a resumption of the ict’s appearances on the end of the week Court Refuses To Discharge Sophie Tucker in Bankruptcy YORK, Dec. ‘ NEW 24.—Federal Jude Bondy refused to discharge Sophie Tuck er from bankruptcy because she had failed to appear before a referee so that counsel for her creditors might examine er as to her assets Miss Tucker filed her petition in Janu- ry, 192%, listing liabilities at $13.700 ana sets at $27,707 The latter, however, nsisted mainly of unliquidated claims. direct cause of the financial difficul- at the time ker’s partner n she acquired a was attributed to Miss ship in an uptown hotel large interest with- t knowing the extent of the hosteiry's ndebtedness. Laurette Taylor Opens YORK, Dec. 27.—Laurette Tay- is scheduled to come Into the Palace ter today with her new vaudeville le, entitled The Comedienne, by J. r aw iaV Hart Manners M Taylor, of Peg o’ Vy He t far was seen in the two- al for a time last season with a con- a | version of a pantomime play. Mi Taylor will be supported by well- kr egit. artists, and the action take ce in the office of an old-time theat al manager. The act broke in « town. Ss H | RTS Genuine English Imported Brow cloth, silk tinish or $4.95 ft White. Satisfaction guaranteed EUREKA SHIRT CO. jiiy''{', Arve NEW YORK CiTy COMEDIANS! GRAB THIS moor Howls"* K. O. wows, ga joke N. Y. TREND PUR. co. ee ts packed with ages. 2 a. 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_ AUSTRALIA By MARTIN C. BRENNAN City Tattersalls Building, 198 Castlereagh St., Sydney. BYDNEY, Nov. 27.—W. Scott, repre- sentative for F. B. O., sailed last Satur- day on a trip to embrace Java, Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Japan, China, Philippine Islands, French Indo-China, Burmah, India and Ceylon on behalf of his film organization. Claude Heyward arrived from Mel- bourne during the week. He has been ified with the picture business for many years, and at present is, in con- junction with George Coates, interested in the Tunney-Dempsey fight picture. The business report of J. C. William- son, Ltd., shows a profit of £62,935 for the year ended June 30, compared with £61,654 for the previous year. Les J. Keast returns here from America at the end of the week, bring- ine with him films which will be of- fered to exhibitors of Australasia. David Garvie, cinematograph ma- chinery manufacturer of Unley, South Australia, has returned after a tour abroad, during which he spent much time in U. 8. A. The Princess Theater, Melbourne, will be reopened Saturday next by Stanley N. Wricht, who will present the same en- tertainment that he recently took to New Zealand for First National—Sir John Martin Harvey in the British-produced film, The Only Way, and Frances Scully's Pantomime Children from Sydney. Maurice Ralph, who conducted the re- ent tour of William Backhaus thruout Australia, left Sydney for his return to New Zealand last Friday. Mr. Ralph will concentrate on the Dempsey-Tunney fight film. for which he has secured the sole N. Z. rights. More than 3,000 dancers weré present at Wattle Park Palais, Melbourne, last Thursday night on the oocasion of Henry Santrey’s farewell. Hal Freeman, who controlled the La Ventura Posing Act for two years, re- turned this week from a commercial trip to New Zealand. He speaks of leav- ing for San Francisco next month, in which city he is by no means a stranger. Joe Sheftell, whose Southern Kevue has been a success over the Tivoli Cir- cuit, has signed a still further contract. He opens in Perth on December 18. George Sorlie’s musical and dramatio combination opened in Newcastle last Saturday. Humphrey Bishop has been meeting with great success recently around the Svdney suburbs. Ellen Pollock, leading lady with Maurice Moscovitch, will be seen In the name part of Trilby, to be presented at the Criterion Theater, Sydney, next Saturday. Ben Beno, the man on the chair, Ameri- work can, is still getting his share of around the suburbs. Amy Rochelle, Australian songbird and child impressionist, has been suc- cessful in Dunedin, N. Z., where she is headlining the Fuller house. Bertini and Byrne, the former being that talented violinist, David Burt, are playing Fuller Time, New Zealand. Dan Thomas is rehearsing his com- pany for the panto. which he will pro- duce at the Hippodrome, Sydney, Christ- mas and New Year. Dan will play Dame. Percy Lodge, with his vaudeville show coing the Maitland District Circuit, is well established, and large houses are attracted at most of the centers. The Campbell Boys are playing subur- | “Set down with grace and charm and brilliant spontaneity.” —IRVIN S. COBB. Robert H. Davis’s Fifty-five Pithy Stories in OVER MY LEFT SHOULDER “TL got more kinds of agreeable kicks, laughter, and sentimental joy out of this book than any collection of short stories I have ever read.” THOMAS MEIGHAN. ~ $2.50 THIS IS AN APPLETON BOOK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. my West 32nd Street, NEW YORK ban theaters this week, and follow up with Union Theaters’ Circuit. Percy Grainger left recently on his return to the United States. May Beatty, accompanied by her daughter, left for Londay last Tuesday week, The O'Donnell & Ray Pantomime Company is doing well in the Victorian smalls. Jean Barrios, American, “The Fash- ionplate of Vaudeville’, has proved most successful in Melbourne. This performer is one of the best female impersonators we have had. Gayle Wyer's Bandboxr Revue Company is now in the seventh week of a highly successful season at the Luxor Theater, Perth, W. A. Sailing this week are English members of the Boucicault-Rarrie Company which has contributed so materially to the en- joyment of Australian playgoers during the past year. Pat Hanna's Diggers played at Katoomba, Lithgow and Bathurst, and are contemplating a lengthy season in one of the metropolitan centers. Rose-Marie, after 26 weeks, is near- ing the end of its successful Sydney season, and will shortly be transferred to Melbourne Is Zat So, with an American cast, is catching on well at the Palace Theater, Sydney. Mike Connors and Queenie Pau! will run a show in Brisbane during the Christ- mas season. Grant and Bates, colored performers on the Fuller Circuit, are on the bill at th Victoria Theater, Newcastle, N. Ss. W. Harsld Waldon is in his fourtn week at Fullers’ Theater, Sydney. White Cargo concluded its season in New Zealand at Omarau last week. The Play opens at the Theater Royal, Ade- laide, next Saturday. The Big Four are now in their second week as added attraction at the Hay- market Theater, Sydney. Henry Santrey and his orchestra open at the Wintergarden Theater, Brisbane, December 1. Jim Gerald will play the role of Willie the Cat in the Fuller pantomime, russ in Boots, the Christmas attraction at the Princess Theater, Melbourne. Arthur Pond, who has just concluded a season with the J. C. Williamson The Billboard, January 1, 1927 vaudeville company in New Zealand, will, in all probability, return to Engiand 1m- mediately to fulfill an engagement in a London pantomime. A troupe of Chinese is in rehearsal at the Tivoli. The Aerial Smiths, appearing at the Tivoli Theater, are a well-known Ameri- can circus act. Edmunds and Lavelle, Americans, who are at present at the Melbourne Tivoli, provide an act which gets over. SYDNEY, Dec. 1.—A long spell of dry and hot weather has affected show busi- ness in this city to a very great extent, if one excepts Rose-Marie, now in its 28th week, and Abie’s Irish Rose, 5th week, and which looks set for a long run. Other houses are playing to many empty seats. Ada Reeve brings her Spangles run to a close this week. Sheftell’s Southern Revue, colored, has signed for an extension of its Tivoli contract. The company is laying off for a week, during which Joe Sheftell and his family will take in the Jenolan Caves. Then follows a week at the Haymarket, Sydney; thence on the Perth. The com- pany will probably arrive back in San Francisco in January. Little Tich, English comedian, is due for a season over the Tivoli Time. It is about 20 years since he first introduced his long shoes to this country. Fuller’s recently announced they would carry on their musical comedies despite rumors to the contrary. From Christmas most of their interests will be pantomime, revue and vaudeville. Ray Tellier and His Californian Or- chestra, who have been playing a Mel- bourne engagement, are now nearing the close of their stay in Australia. Henry Santrey, His Orchestra . and Harry and Anna Seymour are in their last week at the Tivoli Theater, Mel- bourne. They leave for Adelaide in a few days. George Pagden is again identified with the booking side of the vaudeville pro- fession. He has also been appointed of- ficial agent for the Actors’ Federation. George Ward, American comedian, who has been presenting tabloid revues over the Fuller Circuit, will, it is said, ter- (Continued on page 31) medium for the showman. stands. service satisfactorily. 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Name and address.........- ‘ information concerning The 19 HONOLULU By JEAN JACQUES LE DOUTEUR HONOLULU, Dec. 15.—All members of the Wilbur Players, now in their eighth week, who were injured in an automobile accident a week ago last Sunday, are recovering rapidly, with the exception of N. Anthony Baker, who will have his arm in a sling for several months, and Florence Underhill (Mrs. Baker), who is still in the Queens Hospital. Robert Lawler, characters, leaves the Wilbur company Saturday and returns to the mainland the following Wednes- day. He will be replaced by Galt Bell, who was with the Wilbur Players mst season. Ray Tellier passed thru here yester- day en route to the mainiand. Tellier is returning to the States after two years in Australia. He is a bandmaster and was accompanied by his troupe of musi- cians. R. Aherne was atso on board. ‘fhe Passenger list showed him to be in the theatrical business in London. Mike Yokel, champion whistler, is returning to his home in Wyoming after a tour of the antipodes. Going in the opposite direction was Trixie, world’s heaviest woman, in Private life Nellie Lane. She was ace companied by her brother. They are headed for the Manila fair. Carl Terill, motordrome rider, was also on board, going to Manila. He was accompanted by an assistant, a Mr. Miller. Mabel Thomas, showwoman, in Hawaii, seems to know everyone in the show game. She was on hand yesterday for both boats and greeted all with a smile. Publicity for the Phoenix carnivat Christmas week at Waikiki Park started Saturday. Eddie Fernandez has Fredd, the armless man, coming along with Nelson, sword swallower. Roy, the ossi- fied boy, is billed. He is one of the few freaks, if not the only one, who had an editorial written about him in The Billboard. His home is in Toledo, ©. He will return to the mainland after the carnival. Doc MacKay and his White Wonder Show returned from the island of Hawaii a few days ago and is holding forth in the Oriental section of the city. Stanley Gordon, late of Kansas City, end M. T. Tevis, copartners in the Danceland Ballroom here, are sending the Ebony Idols back to the mainland at the end of the year. They are signed for the week for the Phoenix carnival. Gor- don is bringing a band of musicians from the West Coast and will tour the islands with them. The Honoluly Athletic Club gave its first smoker at Waikiki Park Saturday nicht. Bill Lederer, showman-Elk of the islands, is president. The attendance for the opener was 1,200. Another carnival has been added to the 1927 list for this city. The Order of Kamehameha will present one in April at Waikiki Park. After the Phoenix, Christmas week, comes the Elks’, February 18 to 26. The Foresters’ will come in June. The Territorial Fair, tho no date has been set, will be held early in October, it is understood. 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20 Harry Downing and Company Reviewed Monday evening, December 20, at the Premier Theater, Brooklyn. Style — Comedy female impersonator. Setting—In “one” and full. Time—Four- teen minutes. Working in a rather consistent man- ner, this corpulent man offers a com- edy female impersonation turn that should click in the neighborhood theaters. The girl is cute, and her dance special- ties, combined with the man’s comedy warbling, make a very entertaining of- fering, made all the more pleasing by the intimate personalities of both. The nonarrival of his prima donna com- pels the man to open the turn, attired in soiled overalls, in one of those “male and female hat and voice changing bits”. The girl follows with a short back-bend- ing specialty that got over nicely. The man returns in female comedy garb and carols off several bars in double voice that pleased the folks immensely. At- tired in tuxedo, the man renders For My Sweetheart, while the girl concludes the offering with another dance, the acro- batic stunts being along contortionistic lines. Her kicks, splits, back-bending and body-twisting feats evoked several spon- taneous outbursts of applause. ae Ne Mary and Ann Clark —_ in— THE IMMIGRANT Reviewed Thursday evening, December 23, at Loew’s Melba Theater, Brooklyn, Style—Comedy. singing and dancing. Setting—In “tivo”, special. Time—Seven- teen minutes. If any act deserves a route on better time than it is playing, it is this wow of a comedy turn, offered by the Clark Sisters. Both are fine comediennes, but of entirely different caliber. One of them, in the character of an Trish immigrant who seems to know mofe about the coun- try she is seeking to enter than Ireland, is eccentricity glorified with laurels of laughs. The straight is a pleasing sicht to the eyes and a perfect feeder for her partner. The painted drop, representing a huge wharf, with an ocean liner tied up along- side, is better than one expects to find used on this time. The gangplank ex- tending over the front stage also adds much to the atmosphere. The immigrant girl has a laugh packed away in every gesture, limb movement and spoken cue. Her raiment, altho slightly exaggerated for the immigrant characterization, helps its wearer to reap a harvest of laughs. A pair of back-stage boys are used in two places, first as porters carrying- baggage off the boat, and later to carry out the immigrant when she is unable to rise after performing a split. The funniest part of the routine is the cross-question- ing process in which the straight girl, as a customs inspector, attempts to delve into the family history of the immigrant. The act is topped off by an episode in which the sudden insan'ty of the customs inspector gives her the opportunity to corral the laughs The girls encored with an opera travesty and a dance duo, the immigrant clowning consistently. A choice spot on big-time bills would be quite an appropriate place for these girls to continue in their excellently routined hodgepodge of fund. E. E. 8. McCoy and Walton Reviewed Thursday evening, December 23, at Loew’s Melba Theater, Brooklyn. Stule—Comedy, singing and dancing. Settino—In “one”. Time—Fourteen min- utes. Ralph Walton offering a routine from their ago. The class lacking old ev used scores and Jeanne McCoy are not materially different two-act of several seasons and refinement are still Several of the gags that were en in 1923—when this couple first them—are retained, but Walton satisfactorily as a low comedian. In the latter respect Miss McCoy also is above par. Both have fair voices, but use them sparingly. They also step a bit, but depend mostly on slapstick and hard-boiled crossfire Yor the laughs. Miss McCoy makes a trim appearance, and in his rare moments of refinement Walton also makes a good impression. This act needs a revision of gags and several more songs of the ballad type to land on better time E. E. 8S. of releenees ers confidential. 3 D-465, pny Bittbo 4, Cincinnati, Qbio. as ¢t ] acter ond at Address OX The Billboard, January 1, 1927 NEW TURNS AND RETURNS On Tour With Dot Barnette, saauae Adelle, Jimmy Green and Mickey Brown. Reviewed Thursday evening, December 3 at the Grand Opera House, New York. tyle —Dancing and singing. Setting—In Time—Fijteen 2 Ss one and full (special). minutes. On Tour, billed as a terpsichorean trip, marks Miss Barnette’s debut as a vaude- ville producer. Her first effort is an ex- cellent song-and-dance offering for the better-time houses. Shirley Adelle, Jimmy Green and Mickey Brown, the other members of this personable quartet, are superb in their diverting dances. Before a drop depicting a railroad sta- tion Miss Barnette and the two boys open the offering in a pleasing little tap-dance concoction that immediately places them in good stead with the audience. The eccentric and acrobatic specialty fol- lowing, with attendant high kicks by Miss Adelle, a young woman who is good to look at, gained an impressive hand when reviewed. The girl offering this dance, and who later presents a sim- ilar specialty but with more acrobatics, is one who has an excellent future ahead of her, for she combines grace, beauty and fine technique in her work. Before a drop representing the “tough” section of a city Miss Barnette and one of the boys do a comedy song-and-dance num- ber. The boys return for a comedy and eccentric tap dance that adds novelty to the offering. Attired in a pretty black-and-white checkerboard outfit Miss Barnette offers a comedy song-and-dance specialty that contains some catchy lines about leaving the country to join the Follies. Follow- ing another neat eccentric tap dance by the boys the act is concluded with all four stepping it off in lively fashion. The costumes and settings are attrac- tive, making this miniature revue a pleas- ing presentation for the better time. J. B.S. Besser and Balfour Reviewed Tuesday evening, December 21, at Loew’s Gates Theater, Brooklyn. Style—Comedy and singing. Settina—In “one”, special. Time—Twelve minutes. Besser, the man, is a Yiddish comic of ability. He was formerly of the team of Besser and Keller, in which the same brand of comedy was exploited. Besser gets laughs generally with malapropisms. When reviewed, the gallery greeted the material with hearty laughs. Besser is assisted by a short, blond girl, easy in manner, quite at home as his gag feeder. He makes his entrance by moving along with and later walking thru a door setting moved by one of the boys backstage. He engages in sprightly patter with the girt, continuing his clowning during two vocal bits she es- says. He exits for an apparent costume change and quickly returns in the same habiliment. This bit received a warm hand. Besser also uses that classic bur- lesque gag, talking deprecatingly about his partner while she listens in from the inset in center stage. E. E. 8. Gibson and Turner Reviewed Tuesday evening, December 21, at the Mayfair Theater, Brooklyn. Style —- Singing and talking. Setting— One. Time—Eleven minutes. Two blondes, who possess fairly pleas- ing personalities, in a routine of popular numbers interspersed with comedy talk. They made a sincere effort to entertain at this performance. Tonight’s My Night With Baby, How Many Times, Hello, Aloha, How Are You, and Gimme a Little Kiss, Will You, Huh?, were the numbers offered at this performance. Immediately following the opening it is perceptible they dc not have an easy stage presence, making the de- livery of the songs a little stiffer than they should, and their comedy talk is not so strong for laughs. Nevertheless, the demonstration of approval given them at the Mayfair, when reviewed, proved their value. S. B® &. Frisch and Sadler Reviewed Tuesday evening, December 21, at Loew’s Gates Theater, Brooklyn, Style—Singing. Setting—In “one”, Time —Ten minutes, This team opens in a bride and groom costume number, employing the Looking at the World Thru Rose-Colored Glasses bit as the explanation of their habiliment. Dialog follows. Frisch offers a comedy song and then follows more verbal cross- fire. The best bit of all is the closing pop. bit. Their voices show up fairly well and the delivery is not tainted with poor attempts to be funny. When re- viewed, old gags got the laughs. E. E. 8. Maud Ellett and Company Reviewed Tuesday evening, December 21, at Loew’s Gates Theater, Brooklyn. Stule— Aerial novelty. Setting — In “three”, special. Time—Seven minutes. The rising curtain reveals Miss Ellett whirling on the vertical rope, her body attached by a loop about the nape of the neck. She switches to another pose, this time spinning around with her feet curled about the rope. The only stunt in which the assistant has a part is one in which Miss Ellett, her feet twisted about the rope, supports the other girl by a loop arrangement around the neck. Rapid body turns feature this bit. Climbing the rope to a trapeze sus- pended alongside, Miss Ellett makes body turns on the crossbar and uses the paral- lel ropes for other twists and turns. She also swings gracefully, suspended by the feet. Her closing bits. all performed in fast time, include hand and foot swings from the rope, body turns and a closing series of turns with one foot curled in a loop on the rope. Miss Ellett performs with grace. The giant spot is trained on her thruout. E. E. Monroe Brothers Reviewed Tuesday evening, December 21, at the Mayfair Theater, Brooklyn. Style— Trampoline novelty. Setting — Full special. Time—Nine minutes. The rise of the curtain reveals both men in tramp attire and apparently asleep on the end of the mat. Following several acrobatic stunts one goes to the trampoline and executes a number of single and double. front and back som- ersaults while his partner spreads what little laughter the act contains by clown- ing while doing his various stunts. Comedy is injected when one does his stunts on the elastic mat while appar- ently blowing a miniature sax. with his partner coming into view blowing an- other. While the stunts are not sensational they are sufficiently entertaining to com- mand attention, and the act closed to a well-deserved hand at this performance. J. B. 8. ACTS, SKETCHES, ETC. 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When Writing to Advertisers Mention The Billboard. \ Myrtle Boland THE MELODY MAID Reviewed Thursday evening, Decembey 23, at Loew's Melba Theater, Brookly» Style—Singing. Setting—In “one’’, si cial. Time—Twelve minutes. Miss Boland, who tells the folks out front that she is a prolific radio enter- tainer, proves by the ensuing vocal routine that her capabilities are not limited to the microphone. She has a personality that {s pleasing and refined, altho neve? is she as self-assuredly ag- gressive as other young women offering this brand of entertainment. She opens with a pop. song, the first chorus of which is offered behind the centrally parted cur- tain. Several other bits, all of the pop. genre, follow. In all of these the girl uses what might be called restrained ex- pression. There fs no frenzy, such as features the work of “queens of syncopa- tion”, neither are her bits characterized by the somnolent tempo of the mediocre concert singer. Her voice registers favor- ably at all times. The closing bit, a five-part arrange- ment of Mary Lou, is a virtual knockout. This number is worked to death in the three-a-day in these parts, but Miss Boland, to this reviewer’s knowledge, is the first artiste to utilize the possibilities of the song as a substantial part of an act. She prologs the bit with a brief recitation, explaining that there will fol- low five chapters from the Book of Life. Each chapter eventuates as an episode in the life of Mary Lou. The musical arrangement is identical in each, but the fashioning of the words to apply to the birth, bloom and renascence of Mary Lou's romance makes the bit equally ap- pealing from the sob angle as the My Dream of the Big Parade recitative ar- rangement. Miss Boland’s enunciation is unusually clear, her voice registers splen- didly here and her general manner also helps to put it over with a bang. When reviewed Miss Boland was forced back for an encore, in which she offered the comedy number, That's a Good Girl. It added little to her act, but she was nevertheless called out for a goodly num- ber of bows. Almost perfect for the time it is playing. EE. S Dandy and Belles Reviewed Tuesday evening, December 21, at B. S. Moss’ Regent Theater, New York. Style—-Revue. Setting—In “three” (cyc.). Time—Fifteen minutes. A snappy revue for the intermediate circuits, featuring George Patten, with the Adaire Twins and Bribo Girls. Ahe routine is a versatile one and entertain- ing. Costumes and staging are in good ordep, probably above the average. Opening is a collegiate number, started by Patten with a bit of introductory song and done mainly by the four girls, fn modern co-ed attire, for two of them, and the other two in white flannel trousers. After this a series of sister act bits are done by the two girl teams. These in- cluded a pretty song and dance number by the twins in male attire and later a ballroom dance in evening costume. The Bribo girls offered some eccentric bits, including a Cherry Sister comedy num- ber and Iater another along silimar lines. Interlarding some of the other work was a song or two and a dance by Patten, who might do much more to help the act than he does now. Closing was a Hula Hula finale by the four girls Very dainty > — for the time it is play- ing. M. H. S&S. Otto, Gretto and Otto — in — DANCOLOGY Reviewed Monday evening, 20, at the Premier Style — Dancing Time—Nine minutes. Otto, Gretta and Otto have billed their act Dancology, but the act isn’t one at ahy price. Opening the turn, the pro- fessor, apparently Gretto, put the boys thru several Irish jig and waitz clog steps. The following two or three min- utes consists of cross-fire gags with the professor, all of which seem to hay been dug up from Joe Mlier’s graveyard. The boys then do some soft-shoe team dancing and singly present some difficult steps However, they almost kill the pleasing effect of their dance numbers by render December Theater, Brooklyn. Setting —In “one”. ing a collegiate song number as only dancers can sing them. A comedy team dance was fairly rood For a close one of the boys strums a banjo while the other plays a saxophone, fessor stepping it off Roth their present opportunity to display it. with the pro- at a fast clip. ability, bet boys have dancing vehicle gives them little J. B, 8. every nstan alacrit stunts, The seals { or two tion ¢ strum as the good | One ¢ ing P flippe’ while Wh show corde: With Re ——_— -— -- - - « ++ @ « | | —— Revie a a0, at veal Rial Ml trimme a represe seals | a many a sg Ye | ee *0, Style- and i , aaa mint the The ly, 3 and fuser of | Gold ; hea i outf : then T set, - Sall ab — off, Blu Se cell : offe of 1s | off: fro - voi ; An wre BI | Pe : ea tu _ In m™ m ’ a of : — W : Po . t) nr a a — Ss .' 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Marion Tiebor and Her Educated Seals ne viewed Monday matinee, December the Hippodrome, New York, Style «at novelty. Setting— Special, in dour’. Time—Twelve minutes. ut Tiebor dresses in a white fur- trimmed costume and uses a backdrop representing an arctic shore dotted with coals for her offering. They are fed wony handfuls of fish after practically every trick. and except for one or two netances, when reviewed, displayed every rn rity and ability in executing their ctunts, in which balancing features. “The tricks include bits in which the seals answer to given names, sing a note or two ane, play a brief musical composi- tion on a specially constructed wind in- strument. The musical bit stands out 1s the best in the routine and drew a good round of applause when reviewed. One of the seals makes himself an amus- ing performer by applaucing with his flippers. Another walks a tight rope while balancing a big rubber ball. When reviewed, the act opened the show. For this hard spot the hand ac- corded was encouraging. R. Cc. Jack Goldie Revue With Joan Paige and Phyllis Haverly Reviewed Monday matinee, December 20, at Loew’s State Theater, New York. style—Musical comedy. Setting—In “one” and in “three”, spectals. Time—Eighteen minutes Jacke Goldie Rerve is an elaboration of the standard bearer’s former routine. The cirls, Joan Paige and Phyllis Haver- ly, are of material assistance. Dialog and specialties are not harmoniously fused. In his characterization of the role of haneservant to Sally, an actress, Goldie emulates Al Jolson. At the close he appears in the familiar Big Boy jockey mutfit and offers a song on the “Mammy” theme. The opening is in a stage entrance in- set, the quintet of Johnnies awaiting Sally and another girl. Goldie gets over a bit of patter and, as the others drift off, he gives a single chorus of Hello Bluebird. In the apartment set Miss Paige gives several stepping bits, all ex- cellently Gone. Miss Haverly, as Sally, offers bits which mark her as a vocalist of high caliber. The Indian Love Call is particularly well delivered and in the offering of one of the favorite selections from The Student Prince with boys her voice outshines those of her colleacues. An unbilled man is heard in a basso bit: two of the Johnnies give a chorus from Blossom Time ané@ Goldie tops off the numbers with a medley of “Mammy” stuff E. BE. S Kharum Reviewed Monday matinee, 20, at the Palace Theater, New York. Style—Pianist. Setting—In “one”. Time —Fourteen mi tutes. December Kharum is billed as a Persian pianist ind wears native silks, including the turban. He hunches over the piano and loses ni no time in @oing anything but play Mis selections and get off as soon as possible. Strietly from the entertainment point of view, he can play the piano, with ing toward the melodious operatic songs. His soft touch and _ technique , } a le work in harmony with such selections Opening operatic excerpt was of the Popular order and was followed by an- other from Rigoletto, played with the ‘eit hand only. This was not at all skimped and unknown to the andience, ¥Y would never belfeve it to be a one- Pree: solo. There followee@, a medley of a ul and operatic bits, ranging from Ch won and Delilah to the works of ‘opin and other composers. For an en- Core he “ did a Hungarian piece and could ave taken a few more as well as bows, = ue has a repertoire along the lines jority of the patrons like and he Serves them well. M. H. S Chilton and Thomas agreviewed Vonday matinee, December Stile the Palace Theater, New York —Daneing. Setting—In one. Time —Ti tlre mi intes ae youthful race artistes of pleasing a , ty who have a versatile assort- Oneatne eps and are graceful and fast he , i tap Charleston by each and 4 an my includes both single and . ral a s of dance. One of the bits is +. — ~ ‘on pantomime before going wees : wi an®& this added further Saean t es e turn. Their clean-cut ap- hapa ind way of working makes 1 attractive couple, M. H. S. The Billboard, January 1, C. B. MADDOCK ---- Producer of ---- HEADLINE VAUDEVILLE ACTS 141 West 48th Street. New York (Playhouse Theatre Bldg.) Practice Limited to the Treatment of LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA MARTIN L. KORS, M.D., 1608 Mallers Bldg., Chicago. 1927 21 BARNEY’S “LEADING THEATRICAL SHOE HOUSE” Improved TILLER SHOE........... $ ; As Illustrated) $6.00 Pair ( “EVERNU”™ Ballet Slipper Covers.. ° eAnlakes Old Slinpers. Like New) $1.50 Pair DANCING SANDALS.... $ (For Ballet ae Acrobatic Dancing) $6.50 Pair FOR FREE CATALOG. tr tn Demag, Sta, Me BARNEY’S 233 West 42nd Street, NEW YORK G. SHINDHELM ESTE. 1866. 144 West 46th St., NEW YORK. Upon Request Onur CHICAGO STAGE LIGHTING CO., FREE New Catalog on STAGE LIGHTING APPARATUS AND EFFECTS, SPOTLIGHTS, FLOODLAGHTS, FOOTLIGHTS, SWITCHBOARDS, ete. 112 N. 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Six men comprise the band, playing sax, violin, piano, drums, banjo and ac- cordion—the last-named instrument re- ported to be manipulated by Restivo. These boys not only score highly in fea- tured bits but when accompanying Mlle. Andree and Constantine help create a beautiful illusion with their contributions to the perfect co-ordination between dancers and orchestra. This effect is particularly noticeable in Mile. Andree’s contortionist number, wherein good light- ing and the setting are also of material aid. The dancing couple open with a waltz tango, which is topped off by an adagio interpretation. Then follow orchestra bits and an eccentric stepping specialty by the banjoist. The accordionist is heard in a specialty composed of accor- dion and whistling music, a “wow” of a number and worth every bit of the rous- ing hand it received. The violinist offers a chorus of the apache rhythm, Mon Homme, introducing the final bit, a sen- sational apache depicted with an appre- ciable amount of realism by the featured couple and the saxophonist. Mlle. Andree does some splendid pantomime as the Parisian gamin, and the routininge of the steps is unusual. The saxophonist shoots the girl, and this leads into a dramatic scene between the girl and Constantine. The act was well received when re- viewed. E. E. S&S. ° Alabamians Reviewed Monday evening. December 20, at the Premier Theater, Brooklyn. Stule—RBand novelty and dancing. a ting — Full (special). Time — Sirtee minutes, The Alabamians, instrumentalists, fur- nish some snappy music to the strains of which the female xylophone player exhibits dance steps The band was not so nofsy when they all let loose there was some din. at first, but certainly selections, the comes to the walk, Following several pop. petite xylophone player footlights for a slow-motion cake topping it off with a Charleston of more than usual speed and ability. I.BS / 7 Libby’s Dancers Reviewed Thursday evening, December 16, at Fox's City Theater, New York. Style—Dancing and singing. Setting— In “one” and full, special. Time—Twenty- two minutes. Seven pretty, eraceful dancers, a female vocalist an@& a juvenile comprise the lineup for this diverting and original flash offering. George Libby, of the vaudeville team of Libby and Sparrow, has staged a fantastic affair for his premier dance revue, having paid careful attention to the settings ané@, costumes, Iikewise injecting punch. The girls are of the modern athletic type, while their numbers are all snappy. The songstress, as a feminine Balieff, opens by introducing old-fashioned sports girls. Following a quick change they return as modern tennis girls in a snappy @ancesensemble. One of the girls, as Felix the Cat, presents an acrobatic number in finished style. The vocal soloist possesses a pleasing soprano voice gnd interpolates the dance numbers with several well-rendered numbers. Attired in gold metallic football trunks, with jerseys and headguards to match, the girls present an athletic foothall number. The dance numbers and the excellent cast, together with the pretty costuming, scenic and lighting effects, makes this offering q valuable asset to the ranks of flashes. a. Bw. fo. Cecilia (Cissie) Loftus Reviewed Monday matinee, December 20, at Loew's State Theater, New York. Stule—Comedy and dramatic impressions. Setting — In “three”, special. Time — Twenty minutes. Miss Loftus is offering somewhat the same repertoire of impressions with which she has long been identified. She is assisted by William Walker as accom- panist on the piano in the vocal bits. Miss Loftus opens with a vocal after the style of Jack Smith, “the whispering baritone”, following with a comedy num- ber, announced as an impression of the English comedienne, Vesta Victoria. The Fannie Brice impression includes talk and a Yiéedish folk song. The man- ner of the song's delivery is excellent Miss Loftus gets over the Yiddish stuff, except for a wisp of English accent here and there. Her Sophie Tucker bit is left intact, the impression comprising Mama Goes Where Pepa Goes in English and Yiddish She encoreé with a mimicry of Florence Reed as Mother Goddam in The Shanghai Gesture. Her reception was weak at the opening but onlv her implied stubbornness to proceed with more prevented the act stopping the show. 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22 Gold Dragon a Big Hit At Egyptian, Louisville Holman Becraft, ot of the Cincinnati- National Orchestra Bureau in the Lyric Theater Building, Cincinnati, has just re- turned from a trip throu the South and Southwest in the interests of the organi- zation. Becraft, who recently placed Fred Damon and His Greenwich Villagers on the steamer Island Queen, plying out of New Orleans for the winter season, suc- ceeded in placing the Gold Dragon Or- chestra in the Egyptian Ballroom of the Kosair Hotel, Louisville, Ky., for an indefinite stay. The Gold Dragons scored a big hit at the Egyptian Ballroom, and the Louisville press had many nice things to say for the aggregation. R. E. Gor- don, manager of the Egyptian, had the following to say for the orchestra: “Ab- solutely the finest orchestra we have ever had and we have had the best. The en- gagement is extended indefinitely.” The Gold Dragon Orchestra is com- posed of the following: Charles McClure, piano and entertainer; Al Gandee, trom- bone, entertainer and director; Clyde Reynolds, trumpet; Lee (Red) Lobdell, saxes, entertainer and fiddle; Auburn Groves and Thomas Cantor, saxes and entertainers; Max Mills, banjo, piccolo and entertainer; Wilbur Meyers, bass, and George Maule, drums and enter- tainer. The Cincinnati - National Orchestra Bureau is at present handling the follow- ing orchestras: Paradis Club Orchestra, the Gold Dragons, Fred Damon’s Green- wich Villagers, the Varsity Seven, the Viennese Trio, and Forrest Bradford and His Chicago Orchestra, which Becraft re- cently booked for a tour thru Pennsyl- vania and Virginia. Barney Rapp Gets Nice Berth NEW YORK, Dec. 22. — The Hote! Alba, Palm Beach, offers one of the choice orchestra engagements in Florida, and during the past month a dozen of the big leaders in the business tried every means to land it. The manager of the hotel listened to more than a score of bands and then engaged Barney Rapp and his combination without asking Barney for a tryout. So Barney and his band will leave New York January. 8, open at the Alba on January 15 and re- main there for the winter. Rapp will take 11 men. On December 23 Rapp and his original orchestra will open the Sherman Res- taurant and Cafe at New Haven, and he will replace it with another outfit when he starts for Palm Beach. Orlando Coliseum Opens ORLANDO, Fia., Dec. 24.—The Orlando Coliseum, located on Lake Ivanhoe boule- vard, between Orlando and Winter Par‘, Fia., opened last night with Thomas Danks and his 11-piece orchestra furnish- ing the music for the dancers. The Coliseum was erected recently at a cost of approximately $200,000 and is a combination of restaurant and dansant, having 12,000 square feet of maple floor for dancing. Frank Morang, slack and tight wire walker, was one of the fea- tured attractions on the opening night. The Orlando Coliseum Corporation is headed by F. Cullen, president and gen- eral manager, and John S. Grassfield, secretary and treasurer. Flames Close the Paddock Club NEW YORK, Dec. Club, 50th street and 7th avenue, which was one of the few known night clubs to escape the recent shower of padlocks, was compelled to close yesterday for a week as the result of a fire which started in the kitchen at 2 a.m., and just at a time when it looked as tho the Paddock was in for the best night in a month. The club owner did not say how much 24.—The Paddock damage the club and his bankroll suf- fered. One report had it that in the rush for exits the patrons left unpaid checks be- hind them running into four figures. Ree pairs are being rushed and in all prob- ability the Paddock will be in full swing by New Year’s Eve. Curfew Off for Ne New Year’s Eve NEW YORK, aie 22.—Night clubs, cabarets and other places affected by Mayor Walker’s 3 a.m. closing law will get a respite of 24 hours and be per- mitted, thru the grace of William F. Quigley, license commissioner, to remain open later than 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day. The Billboard, January 1, 1927 a Orchestra and Cabaret Conducted by WILLIAM SACHS—Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O SN ¥ . Bo a¥ t. 7. ‘ x _, a ' at ae o = } ae Z ig es oe _— ‘ “il ss * ws ma : E? ; - : oe il 7 *¥ ee pS ee: SO E ” So - , — i 2) 6 ae . f aes en nie vs tes - ¢ * ras i - 7 7 Pe ae a Tig at + : “ae - “a “8 * { a as oe: | an Tort 7 F | ‘4 , Ent Se, sf ee : 7 . ; ; E 24 = 3 ae? he iG : ——— iL, — 3s («¢ 5 el ~~ ke Bint se ; Ag j aks / a en ————— . | ee | | — | _ ee pe . r a a i pe

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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 23 Who's Who in Orchestras FRANK CORNWELL, who directs the Crusaders at the Midtown Hof- brau Restau- rant, 53d street and Broadway, New York, was born at Wash- ington, Va., 1896. At the age of 10 he began to study the violin and voice, and, after come pleting his aca- demic studies, migrated to Boston, where he made his de- A CONVENIENT BANK FOR THE PROFESSION Special Interest Department pays 4°>, compounded quarterly. Deposits accepted by mail. Tecvelers’ Checks and Money Orders Issued The Central National Bank of the City of New York Broadway at 40th Street, New York, N. Y. Buescher Band Instruments, Vega Latest Popular, also Fischer, xverything for BAND and ORCHESTRA Deagan Bells and Xylophones, Violins and Supplies. WE SELL, EXCHANGE AND REPAIR ALL MAKES Write or send instrument for free estimate. BAND AND ORCHESTRA MUSIC Schirmer, Sample Parts, Catalogs and Musical Booster Magazine sent CRAWFORD-RUTAN CO. Banjos, Ludwig Drums and Traps, Barnhouse, Fillmore, eté FRED. 1012-14D MeGee S$ KANSAS CITY, MO. but as a profes- sional in Ly- ceum work, Next Cornwell became a member of an orchestra and remained with it until he had acquired sufficient poise nd experience to direct an orcnestra of his own. Two years ago he made I New York debut at the Hofbrau ind did so well that he was brought back the following year. This is his third season at the Hofbray and he is more popular today with the owners and patrons that he ever was. Cornwell is somewhat of a song- bird and before devoting all his time to orchestras he did a singing single at the picture theaters in and around Boston. He broadcasts regularly over ne of the big wires and is much sought after by popular publishers and songwriters who want him to try out numbers. In addition to being an orchestra leader, Cornwell is a composer, having coauthored I'd Love To Fall Asleep and Count the Stars, You May Learn To Forget Some Day and others. Cornwell and his band now record for Cameo, Edison and Harmony. He has what- is known as a versatile band, one able to play for dancers and entertain them with singing and other stunts at the same time. New York Notes By E. M. WICKES DUKE YELLMAN and His Band have been engaged to play at the Elks’ Lodge, Elizabeth, N. J., on New Year’s Eve. THE MANAGERS of the Claridge Hotel, Landau and Sullivan, plan to hold a theatrical party on New Year’s Eve. JIMMY CARR, popular leader, will spend the holidays at Utica, his home town. Shortly after the first of the year he hopes to open the Carr Barn. THE HARMANTACS, a Western band, quit the Mimic Club after playing there two nights. The boys did not fancy that kind of work—too hard. The com- bination is kept busy recording. WESLEY EDDY now is the whole show at the Twin Oaks. The manage- ment let out the other artistes. DOLLY KAY is planning to reopen the Avalon for New Year’s Eve. She may continue to run it after that date. MILDRED MELROSE, Black Bottom artiste, is scheduled to sail January 15 for London, where she is booked to en- tertain at the Kit Kat Club. EARL CARPENTER has been booked at the Statler, Buffalo. HOLLAND AND BARRY, dancers, at the Casa Lopez, have gone to Portland, Ore., to attend the funeral of Miss Barry’s father. MUDDY WATER (A MISSISSIPPI MOAN) VIOLINIST WITH LIBRARY WANTED Two hours afternoon, three at night, seven days. Sal- ary, $35.00. Play vaudeville. GEM THEATRE, — Cairo, Ill. See eSEeSSSTS SES TTTSSTSTTTSTTSTSST SST O SSNS POOP SSHSS SS SHS SSS SO SSS SOS OSS OOPS SOSOSOSOS OSS OSSOS 999954 OOOOOOOOO 0465 does not carry FRED C. BUCK dR. Banjeist ang Arranger, “Waring” ve Pennsytva- Dept. B. The Weymann Orchestra Banjo Ask your dealer to show you our Style A. Price $100 (Case $15 Extra). have one sent to him for your inspection. He is privileged to return it at our expense if you do not wish to purchase. Send for catalogue. WEYMANN & SON 1108 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. If your dealer it in stock he can arrange to POO 90695055555505550555S SSS S SS CSSES SESS SS SOSS SS SSSEOSOSSESSFSSESSSSOSSSSO5O595059006000000400000000004 WATERSON BERLIN & SNYDER AND THEIR ENTIRE STAFF ---- Wish You ---- A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year - Chicago Cabaret Notes CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—The 23d edition of Frivolous Frolics opened at the Frolic Cafe Monday night. Bert Frohman is the new master of ceremonies, and other new acts are: The O'Neal Sisters, the Waltons, Ross and Edwards, Mirth Mack and Phylis Rae. Jimmy Ray and Babe Kane are holdovers, as is Charlie Straight and His Brunswick Recording Orchestra. VERNE BUCK and His Band began an engagement Tuesday at the popular Merry Garden Ballroom. THE HOLMBYWOOD BARN has added Flo Whitman, a graceful dancer, to its floor show. H. W. PLAIN, formerly manager of the White City Amusement Company, is now in charge of the Aragon Ballroom. LEW FINK is making good at the Terrace Gardens with his eccentric dancing. THE SINGING WAITERS and the Dancing Cooks are providing the enter- tainment for the patrons of Kelly's Stables. BILLIE GERBER is the feature of the show at the Friar’s Inn. Irene Faery, danseuse; Shirley Malette, in- genue, and Ann Toddings, prima donna, are new additions, A NEW UNNAMED ORCHESTRA is playing the dance music at the Town Club. ZELMA JENSEN, Swedish Nightingale”, the Kit Cat Club. MAC FISCHR and His Merry Makers are playing three nights weekly at the Castle Gardens. PAULINE GASKIN is the new lead in Jack Fine’s College Inn Follies in the Hotel Sherman Inn. DeJonghe, latest addition to the town’s smart eating and dancing places, an- nounces tea dansants for every Tuesday and Saturday. Supper dances are daily billed as “the is appearing at Paul Jones and his South- occasions. erners supply the music. LOWELL GORDON opened this week at the Rainbo as master of ceremonies. BENNIE KRUEGER’S Orchestra played a special engagement at the Ori- ental Ballroom this week. Vanity Fair, rightfully called “A Cafe of Distinction’, is about to have a birth- day. New Year’s Eve will celebrate the beginning of its second year. Among the notables who continue to make the Parody Club a picturesque haunt are Harry Harris, Phil Murphy, Eileen Tanner and Tex Arlington. Fire Destroys $75,000 Inn Harrison, N. Y., Dec. 24.—The Antler Inn, a short distance from Harrison, was destroyed today by fire of unkonwn origin. The inn, valued at $75,000, was operated by Joseph and Charles Maranti. The brothers and Peter Nava, asleep on the second floor, were awakened by the insistent barking of a police dog owned by the brothers. Firemen from near-by towns battled for several hours to extinguish the flames, but failed. The structure, which was owned by Eli J. Reiser, New York, was burned to the ground. New Dancers Create Discord NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—The appear- ance of Semms and Babette, Parisian acrobatic dancers, at the Club Mirador does not resemble a pleasant Christmas present for Maurice and Eleanora, who have been entertaining at the club since the early part of October and hold a contract which does not expire until January 24. Rumor had it that Maurice and his wife would walk out, but Maurice spiked it by saying he and his wife would con- tinue to dance until their contract ex- pired. “Red”? Gaston a Visitor Roy S. (Red) Gaston, whose Pennsyl- vanians last week wound up a successful engagement at Danceland, Cleveland, O., was in Cincinnati last week on business. During his stay in the Queen City, “Red” dropped in at The Billboard for a chat with the writer. “Red” reports that he is booking his orchestra himself and that business to date has been very good. The Pennsylvanians this week opened an in- definite engagement at Madison Gar- dens, Toledo, O. During the past summer “Red” Gas- ton and his Pennsylvanians played thru North and South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, where the boys gained an enviable reputation with their tooting. The boys line up as follows: Tommy Kersey, director, arranger and sax; Ed- die, Lambiotte, trumpet; Charles Cun- ningham, trumpet; Charles’ Ferrell, banjo; Frank Mitchell, drums; Bobby Fithian, piano; Orrin Carroll, bass; Teddy Blanchard, tenor sax; R. M. Gleason, trombone, and Bill Gennert. third alto. New Ernie Young Revue To Open | in Miami, Fla. CHICAGO, Dec. 24 24.—What is reputed to be one of the best revues ever pro- duced by Ernie Young is to be shown at the new Rainbo Night Club in Miami, Fla. The show, which is called Ernie Young’s Scandals, consists of a company of 25. It will open New Year's Eve. The Rainbo is the newest night club located at the Causeway in Miami, and Mr. Young has gone to considerable pains te produce a revue that will immediately give the new resort an outstanding repu- tation. The principals of the company are Max Sandrisi and Rita Copelli, Geraldine Karma, Weus and Winthrop and Esther Stapleton. Jack Ford and His Gang have been selected for the music, Musical Musings ELGA and her 10-piece Girl Band played the Green Mills Hotel, Springfield, Mo., recently, during their engagement at the New Gillioz Theater in that city. THE CRAVEN FAMILY, well-known musicians of Childress, Tex., gave a musi- cal recently in honor of Jess Kimball, (Continued on page 73) Bacon & Day SILVER BELL BANJOS | New Catalog—Just Out— THE BACON BANJO CO., Inc. GROTON, CONN. WANTED Musical Novelty Instruments Swiss Bells, Tubaphones, Tuned Musical Glasses, Tuned Sleighbells and other such instruments suitable for musical acts CHAS. PARKER MUSIC CO. 1821 Main Street, DALLAS, TEX. 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24 Louis Bernstein Takes Over “When You Were Sweet Sixteen’ — Louis Bernstein, president of Shaptro, Bernstein & Company, Inc., has acquired from James Thornton the new copyright on Wher You Were Sircet Sirteen, which was first published a little more than 28 years ago by M. Witmark & Son. The number was a big hit years ago and was one of Bernstein's favorite ballads. The 1926, copyright 31, and under expired October the copyright law tne song reverted to the author, who had the right to recopyright it and regain publishing rights, which Thornton did. Several publishers offered to take it off Thornton's hands and give him an ad- vance on it. James finally decided to turn it over to Bernstein, who is planning to create qa demand for it among the present generation of popular music lovers. Thornton also announced that he has recopyrighted other songs,he wrote vears ago, including When Summer Comes Again, It Don’t Seem Like the Same Old Smile, My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon and Just Tell Them That You Saw Me. Thornton has a batch of new songs, many of which he feels confident are as good as anything he ever wrote. She Could Not See Santa Glaus Several weeks ago a certain young lady renounced all belief in Santa Claus. She was a singer and had been working with a male pianist. They had been doing well with radio work and picture houses until the pianist suddenly deserted her to go West. Unable to obtain another part- ner, she grew despondent as Christmas approached. Then she thought she would like to spend the holidays with her mother in Chicago, but she lacked the carfare. After trying for more than a week to get a job singing, she finally dropped in to seen Mrs. Gerson, the famous fudge lady, explaining her predicament and asking for permission to sell candy to some of her friends and acquaintances in the show business. On receiving permission to work on commission, the despondent songbird set forth and did fairly well. During her journeys she wandered into the office of a prominent producer, who knew her and the work she had done in several Broad- way shows. After ordering a box of candy and having a chat with her, the producer signed her to appear in a new musical comedy. So the songbird became happy again, spent her commissions on new feathers, and decided not to make the trip to Chicago. Gershwin Records for Columbia George Gershwin has started recording for Columbia. He has made Clap Yo’ Hands and Do-Do-Do from his musical comedy hit, Oh, Kay! Gershwin is 27 years of age and one of the most successful composers of jazz and musical comedy songs. He wrote the music for La La Lucille, Tip Toes and Lady, Be Good. Until he was 13 Gershwin did not know anything about music. But he has made up for lost time. Copyright News for Women Register Thorvald Solberg of the Copy- right Office has assured married women interested in copyrights that ‘‘under cer- tain conditions” they may obtain copy- rights under their maiden names. He also says that the husband’s name would be required when it is necessary to se- cure uniform identity. However, a mar- ried woman who desires to copyright under her maiden name will have to tell why she does not wish to do so under her marriage name. Frank! May Start Publishing Abe Frankl, formerly professional man- ager for Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, is reported to be getting ready to open a musie publishing firm of his own some time in January. Frankl is well liked and should make the grade if he happens to connect with some good numbers. Viola McCoy Goes to Cameo Viola McCoy, blues singer, now enter- taining at the Club Alabam’. Philadel- phia, has contracted to record 24 num- bers during 1927 for the race catalog of the Cameo Company. She will record un- der the direction of Joe Davis, who ob- tained the contract for her, and her first two releases will be Papa, If You Can’t Do Better, and I’m Savin’ It AU for You. The Billboard, January 1, 1927 10liscensinsinssocssnsieiineniencenmisiaunhdtasmenananaa LAND O’ MELODY Conducted by E. M. WICKES—Communications to 1560 Broadway, New York ee Te ee ee A Voice Comes From Park Row Years ago Billy Delaney and other pub- lishers of two-cent song books’ which contained the words of popular songs flourished on Park Row, but since they passed out of the picture the district has been dead so far as the song game was concerned. Now two ambitious song makers have bobbed up at 15 Park Row, and released With the Songrite Publishing Company a new number, called I Don’t Care for the Life on Broadway, But My Grandmas Did. Al Cheston and Jack Watts are the writers. Record Boys Sign for 1927 Al Bernard, Sammy Stept and Frank Kamplain, songwriters, record and radio artists, have signed a contract to broad- cast every Monday evening over WJ2 from 8 to 8:30 p.m., beginning January 3. During each broadcasting period they will be accompanied by a crack orchestra. Meskill Returns to Broadway Jack Meskill, lyricist and special ma- terial writer, has returned from Holly- wood, Calif.. where he spent a month. Jack said he saw a rainy spell coming and ducked. He plans to go back about the middle of January and title several comedy movies for one of the big con- cerns operating at Hollywood. Victor Has $1,000,000 Suit The Victor Talking Machine Company has made application to Federal Judge Moscowitz, Brooklyn, for judgment on the pleadings dismissing action brought by Mrs. Lydia M. Green of Great Neck, L. I., widow and executrix of Thomas G. Green, to recover $1,000,000 for alleged destruction of tne credit of the Silas E. Pearsall Company, which Mr. Green or- ganized as a distributor for Victor rec- ords and instruments. Judge Moscowitz reserved decision. — Who’s Who in Songland for figures, the home office tion, music business. bilities. years. Keit never had any musical training in his life and judges new songs by the way they «ppeal to his ear and his sense of commercial possi- He has converted into hits songs that he did not like person- ally, but which he felt would hit the public. Under no circumstances does he publish a suggestive number. succeed with clean songs, and has demonstrated this fact for many He earns one of the largest salaries paid in the business. ——$—<—<—$—<——————————————————————————————————————————————— Remick & Company, music publishers, proved there are opportunities in the song game as well as in any other field. Born 40 years ago in New York City, Keit set out 20 years later to make his way. preliminary skirmishing in the business world, he finally landed a job with Remick as assistant bookkeeper. Keit his salary was boosted. ager passed out of the Remick picture, Keit was offered the position, which he accepted and made good. Next he was made general sales manager and assistant to the late Fred Belcher. Belcher died Keit acquired stock in the Remick or- ganization and was elevated to his present status. Altho Keit operates from New York City, while is in Detroit, he selects the songs and maps out the various compaigns for the organiza- including branch cities, as well as numerous music stores. after the mechanical recordings, pares and handles the advertising, checks up on the professional activities, listens to and passes on all new songs submitted to the firm and interviews the big shots and others connected with the music and theatrical worlds. shoulders more responsibility than any other general manager J® KEIT, vice-president, secretary and general manager of Jerome H. After some Being a shark was made bookkeeper and When the city sales man- soon And when offices in all the principal Keit looks sales drives, pre- Keit, in all probability, in the He feels that a publisher can Lew Brown Takes His Inning Lew Brown, comedy lyricist, show writer and night revue creator, says it is news to him that he made a definite promise to H. R. Baughman to appoint him sales manager of the new music firm in which he was interested. “How could I tell him he would be made sales manager, with a chance to earn $30,000 yearly, when I was only one and some of the other fellows were in Europe?” Brown said. “I told him I would see what I could do to land the job for him, but also advised him not to waste time on the chances or pass up anything good that might come along. That’s all I know about the matter.” Another Method for Composing Indian Butterfly was started at the Everglades, Fla., and finished at 1595 Broadway, New York. Henry Lodge, so- ciety orchestra leader, got the idea in Florida while thinking about Indians, and wrote a tune. Then he came to New York and played it for Edgar Leslie, who said it was a hit tune and offered to write the lyric and publish the number. The melody, however, needed some re- vising, and Billy Stone was called in. Stone attended to the doctoring and Leslie wrote the lyric. Lodge is back in Florida and Stone and Leslie are toiling like trojans to put the number over. Mike Fitzpatrick Still on Deck New Year’s Eve always brings back fond recollections for Mike Fitzpatrick You may have heard him broadcast as one of the “oldtimers”, but it isn't likely you dreamed he once was a writer of hit songs. Many years ago Fitzpatrick wrote a song called The Chimes of Trinity, which was published by Howley, Havi- land & Dresser, and became a big hit. Mike was born in the shadow of Trinity Church, hence it was an easy step for him to write about it. Fitzpatrick recopyrighted the number and occasionally sings it at parties and over the air, and on New Year's Eve he will watch the crowds celebrate on lower Broadway and listen to the chimes — inspired him to write a national it. Perseverance Wins for Writer More Seigel is an ambitious lyric writer. More is a bit new at the game, hence he has a time trying to interest estab- lished composers in his ideas. Recently he dug up a title called Good Night, Night Owl. After being turned down by # dozen wise melody writers he _ got hold of Herman Paley and Al Bryan and Ernie Golden. They formed a musical conspiracy and produced what looks like a corking good number for acts and singing orchestras Several publishers have put in a bid for the song, going as far as to offer a fat advance check. Al Jolson Donates Royalty For a Bed at Saranac Lake Last week J. C. Rosenthal, genera! manager of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, wag instructed by Al Jolson to take $500 due Jolson in royalty from the society and acquire the use of a bed for needy ac- tors at the Actors’ Home, Northwood Sanatorium, Saranac Lake, N. Y. The bed was opened on Christmas Eve and will be supported by future royalties coming to Jolson from the society, Rosenthal also saw to it that the othér members recejved their quarterly checks before Christmas and that widows in straitened circumstances whose hus- bands were members were not forgotten “The society does more than collect fees from persons who wish to use its music for profit,” Rosenthal said. “%Dur- ing 1926 it paid out more than $13,000 to help present and former members in want. To one man in Los Angeles, who once Was a prominent songwriter but who has not written a song or been a member of the society for eight years, the society donated $500. Unknown to everybody Irving Berlin had been caring for the man for a long time.” The American Society of Composers. Authors and Publishers will move about February 1 from 56 West 45th street to the 25th floor of the Paramount Build- ing, Broadway and 44th street. Just now the society, thru its attorney Nathan Burkan, is arranging to affiliate with the Canadian Performing Rights Society. Contracts are being drawn which should enable the society to begin operating in Canada about January 15 Heretofore the Canadian society has been unable to collect from hotels, caba- rets, radio stations and other places be- cause the owners used almost exclusively American compositions, for which they were not compelled to pay a fee. The Canadian society now has an action pending in the Canadian courts as a test case. Should the Canadian Performing Rights Society win its case it wi!l mean that Canadian writers and publishers of musical compositions will recetve a revenue from the various places in their own country using their works as well as from American users of Canadian copy- righted material. The fees collected in Canada by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers will fatten the quarterly checks sent to its members. Last week Class A members of the society received $520, Class B $260, Class C $130, Class D $20 and Class E $5. Sam Ehrlich Obtains New Job Sam Ehrlich, veteran songwriter, has been appointed publicity director for a radio station which will operate from the Hotel Somerset, West 47th street, just off Broadway. Alvin Hauser will be the director general. Sam is an old newspaperman and quit writing for the dailies some years ago to turn songwriter. He has produced numerous hits, including Oh, Frenchy! Roat Gets Foreign Greetings Forney W. Clement, manager for Chas. FE. Roat Music Company. Battle Creek, Mich., has received from Jack and Lil- lian Armstrong, vaudeville artistes now touring India, souvenir programs which feature Faded Love Letters and Rose of an Hour, The firm's new song, I Want a Pardon for Daddy, has been recorded by numer- ous record and player roll concerns. Denton-Haskins Take Over Song Denton & Haskins, Broadway musi: publishers, have taken over from the Raymond Music Company, Chicago. Windy City Blues, which is a hot tune by Jelly Roll Morton. The number al- ready has created somewhat of a stir in the Middle West. Melody Mart Notes Billy Hueston, managing City, N. J. The Art Melody Company, Kansas City, has released Memory Days, Do You Remember? and Underneath a Silvery Moon, popular songwriter, is the radio station at Union Dave Silverman, Detroit manager for Shapiro, Bernstein & Company, spent several days on Broadway last week and sang the praises ef Don L. Fox, singing ee” EE TE _ on a == S| na —

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— Vv TRIANGLE'S 5 cB equtiful “Fox-Frot Romance with Word BEST SONG SINCE The Billboard, January 1, 1927 25 “SUEZ” ORIENTAL MOONLic ‘ T ON RECORDS a BY BERNIE SEAMAN AND MARVIN SMOLEV_ ¥ a ROLLS. * "JOE DAVIS PUBLICATION TRIANGLE MUSIC PUB. CO. inc. A Great Singing Song—Marvelous Dance Tune. Just the thing for Dancing Acts, Magicians, Acrobats and Dance Acts! Professional Copies and Vocal Orchestrations now ready. DANCE ORCHESTRATION BY W. C. POLLA 50c—NONE FREE 1658 Broadway New. York City ae reco creme gen announcer WMBC, Detroit. and general manager of Silverman says Fox is one of the best and most courteous in the game Some Day, Sweetheart, which has scored such sensational success in the past two months, Music Company. published by Melrose Bros.’ It had been in the catalog for some time, but had never peen plugged. v During the past month ictor, Brunswick and Genette have “JAZZ BREAKS- HOT BREAKS TRICKS, BLUES, HOT ENDINGS, Etc. For All Instruments You need "em to play Hot. They will make your playing stand out. Each book written by a famous ertist {50 Jazz Breaks for Piane, by Art Shefte. $1.00 84 Hot Breaks for Piano, by Elmer Schoebe! 1.00 100 Jazz Breaks for Piane, by R. 1.00 84 Het Breaks, 84 Het Breaks, Bb Sax., by Elmer Schoebel | 100 Hot Greaks for EB Gax.. by J. Dorsey... 50 Hot Breaks for Eb Sax.. by J. Pattis... (00 Jazz Breaks for Eb Sax., by M. Mole. 100 Jazz Breaks for Clarinet, by Livingsten. 50 Jazz Breaks for Clarinet, by G. Crozier. 84 Het Breaks for Bb Cornet, by Scheebe! . 50 Jazz Breaks for Bb Cornet, by G. Crozier 100 Hot Breaks for Bb Cornet, by °. Dinsley 100 Jazz Breaks for Bb Cornet, by R. Nichols 84 Hot Breaks for Trombone, by E. Sehoebel 100 Jazz Breaks for Trombone, by M. Mole... 50 Jazz Breaks for Trombone, by G. Crozier 100 Jazz Bresks for Banjo, by F. Andersen. (00 Jazz Breaks for Xylophone, by O. Grup. How Te Sing and Play Gives en the Piane, by Grainger. err Peer eee eee eee ee SURE SYSTEM OF IMPROVISING By 8. T. DALEY. Positively Teaches Improtising. for ell Instru- ments islly adapted for Sax., Clarinet, Cor- net. Trombene and Violin. Contains a Geld Mine of information Contains 4,000 Or 1 Breaks. Teaches How To Play Hot and Choruses. 142 Pages. Guaranteed. PRICE, $3.00, COMPLETE. PIANO PLAYERS! GET ART SHEFTE’S MODERN COURSE ON JAZZ PIANO PLAYING Now you can learn to play Popular Music with om the Fill-Ins, Breaks, Blues, Tricks, Hot End- ings, Jazz Bass in all Chords and Styles A thorough and Simplified Course in Keyboard Har- mony also included. Worth hundreds of dollars to any planist. Three Large Volumes, eee oy” eyed $3.00. CATALOG MAILED > FREE. ROYAL MUSIC SUPPLY GO, Everything in Music 64 East Jackson Boulevard, Room 823, Dept. 22. CHICAGO, ILL. m ov Dp . g = a 5S oe zs z 3 8 ce ebttussy Subse! —MUSIC ARRANGED — For Publishers, Acts, Orchestras and Songwriters F. GORDON KIRBY, 1547 Broadway, N. Y. City CHAS. H. BOOKER, BROADWAY'S STAR ARRANGER ee" clalizing in Het and Symphonie rangements. your act a success with a BROOKER Arrange- ment (547 Broadway, New York City. ‘Give Me My Heart Back Again’ your copy of this great love song + Re sutitul as Rn Edition with Uke Arrance- ment. 30e; Orchestrations, ERACIO & COCU : ©. Bok 130, Passaic, N. J. = ° i recorded this number two ways. Due to a freak arrangement and the way this song has been recorded, both by Victor and Brunswick, Marty Bloom, manager of the publishing firm, says he expects it to be another Some of These Days. Ross Gorman and E. B. Marks are in- volved in sort of a friendly court action to determine who's who concerning me- chanical royalties coming to the Ross Gorman Company’s releases. Alice Frisca, concert pianiste, who made quite a hit in Europe, did a turn on the air December 24 for the American Legion. Miss Frisca broadcast from WPCH. Artie Fletcher will invade Chicago early in January to start a campaign on the Joe Morris catalog. Steve De Vaig- ney, Andy Stanton and a blues singer have been added to the Chicago staff. Mike Morris, who runs the New York office, spent Christmas with an Irish family in Boston, which he has done for many years. Clayton W. Richards, of Stockbridge, Mass., has written a ballad entitled J Wonder Where Mary Is Now, which will be released by a New York publisher. The Lovelight Music Company, a Broadway concern, is releasing for 1927 Philadelphia, That Quaker Town, and Everybody Wants Her Bow Wow. Harry Reser and his orchestra have renewed their contract to record exclu- sively for the , Columbia Phonograph Company. How To Organize a Jazz Band By CHARLES DORNBERGER One of the most prevalent signs of the times is the astonishing number of jazz bands which young people art starting all over the country. In- stead of going to college or taking book- keeping—or even in addition to these— many young men, and girls, too, are wooing the clarinet or drums or the slide trombone. Ten years ago if any darling had apprised his fond parents that he intended to adopt the saxophone as a career, he would have been considered insane. Today he is clever atfd wise. In considering the amazing vogue of the modern .orchestra, it is surprising there are so few good ones, or, better yet, that there are so many bad ones. In this article we except the recognized organi- zations of repute. Our advice to the boys who are getting up their own little bands is to train themselves, have a good time and earn a few dollars playing for dances on Saturday nights. In the first place, in starting a modern dance orchestra, the choice of instruments is perhaps the most important thing to be considered. Many a band of good players has gone wrong because its complement was incorrect for dancing and jazz. Remember this is not symphony or opera. In the smaller orchestra, say of five pieces, there should (Continued on page 33) SOMETHING “I DONT CARE FOR (BUT MY GRANDMA DOES)” An unusual melody with a wonderful swing—a brand-new idea in the lyrics. DANCE ORCH., 50e (Polla Arr.). Professional Copies mailed to artists on request. SONGRITE PUBLISHING CO., 15 Park Row, NEW YORK DIFFERENT! LIFE ON BROADWAY SHEET COPY, 25c. ORCHESTRAS Lucius says: - oy led a Jazz Band hat was the town's chief pride. It played at all the fnnetions, And in other towns beside. Yes, » Jenpetins led her Jazz Band a clever leader should. WwW ry mustc rightly chosen, No wonder that she could! 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The Dramatic Stage Conducted by GORDON M. LELAND—Communicetiom to 1560 Broedwey, New York Wagner Ends Dispute Over “Ballvhoo” Title — ee 7 ; TOT? , 25.—Tt ye Z I.US8EL Jet € io vw : - ¥ , ‘ Warner ee heir resp: : = ‘ > 4 F aril sno at uw & zB een enfied by ’ ‘ 7 rner has ¢ Aut y fors pet 4 SEee0 é z + ‘ * “ —- n “e ‘ i Shuberts To Turn Over | Carrillo Show to Brady NEW YORK, Dec. 25 —Leo Carrillo’s _— ve &, which the EBhuberts have been testing c £ tor mn under the title of A Rough Dicmond, will be presented under the ame a Pe arun of 500 and over six months formancer in Paris in London George M. Cohan To Stage Another for Maraget Vernon NEW YORK, Dec 25.—George M. Cohan is to stage and lend his name as to play by Maraget will start casting immedi- rear’s for the new piece, another yet untitled. Cohan is said nd most profitable the = he gave to Miss Vernon’s has been playing at the : September and still looks good for a continued run. The new show, like the current piece, will be Miss Vernon's production, it s under- stood, Cohan to get a good percentage for the use of his name and his super- vision of staging and management. Werner & Goldreyer Stage Yiddish Play NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Phil Werner and Michael Goldreyer, whose production of It Is Love is shortly due on Broad- since way, have also busied themselves with an outside offering. Under their spon- ftorship a new Yiddish play, Mamelle (Kid Mother), by Meyer Schwartz, with incid music by J. M. Rumshinsky, opened last night at Kessler’s Second Avenue Theater. Included in the cast are William Schwartz, Regina Prager, Boris Rosenthal, Rose Greefield and Benjamin Adler. “Public Opinion” in Rehearsal NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Public Opinion, a play by Max Gabel, Yiddish actor, will go in rehearsal next week. It will be presented in English at a Broadway Theater by J. Luther Adler, son of the late Jacob P. Adler, and Edward Earl Kay. On the producers’ schedule fot early showing are other plays by Gabel, titled The Great Moment, Clear Con- acience and The Woman of the World. EDWARD RIGBY. doubly concerned in “This Women Eutiness’’. now at Wal- lack’s Theater, New York. He is not only being lauded for his performance @s ore of the principal “woman haters’’ but he is credited as well with the di- fection of the play. Rigby’s previous record on Broadway only includes ap- pearances in “The Kiss in a Taxi”, “A, Bat o° Love” and the Marilyn Miller revival of “Peter Pan’’, bat he b considerable of a career on the st of his native England. David Wallace in With Weber On New Alice Brady Vehicle NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—David Wallace, who has been inactive since he resigned last spring from the post of general manager of the Actors’ Theater with the announ that he would conduct his own production enterprises, is to be as- sociated with L. Lawrence Weber in the latter’s forthcoming presentation of Alice Brady in Lady Alone, the play by Laetitia McDonald (Mrs. Wallace Irwin), which has up to now been known as The Siren’s Daughter. Miss Brady’s support- ing cast has been completed and includes Louise Galloway, Austin Fairman, Jo- seph Kilgour, Edward H. Wever, Oriole Lee, Kirk Brown, William W. Crimans, William Leith and Billy Pearce. Re- hearsals are now being directed by Lionel Atwill and an out-of-town open- ing prior to Broadway has been booked for January 10 at the Shubert-Belasco Theater in Washington, D. C. ement “Faust’’ Cast Complete NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The cast of Faust, Edyth Totten’s next production, has been completed and will include Gene Lockhart, Parker Fennelly, Eleanor Laning, Clara Thropp, Charles Bunnell, Frank Frayne, Kathleen Arthur, Tatiana Polmoff, Bruce Conning, Leighton Con- verse, Charles Cromer and a group of dancers. The opening is set for January 3 at the Edyth Totten Theater. New Frank Craven Play NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—A. L. Erlanger has placed in rehearsal the latest play from the pen of Frank Craven. It is titled Money From Home and the author will stage it and also play the leading role. The supporting company includes Maude Grabger, Adora Andrews, Leo Donnelly, John Ravold and Frederick Graham. An opening date has not been set. Signed for “Any Man’s Woman” NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Robert Elliott, M. Charles Palazzi, Howard St. John, Jean Tenney and Harry Morvil have so far been signed by Michael Kallesser for his new play, Any Man’s Woman, which is to open January 15 out of town prior to a Broadway showing. George Smith- field has been engaged to direct the pro- duction. Mark Twain’s Daughter Plans Resumption of Stage Tour acemniee 22—Madam Clara Mark Twain, was CHICAGO, Dec. Ch daughter of n Chicago last week completing arrange- e resumption of her tour in of Joan Are Her under the man- and the West- n tour, beginning in February, be direction of Theodore A. Chicago. Madam Clemens ast of six, with three in stage c closing engagement for the he daw mens for t! nema étes of amatization J bow kings ‘arnest Briges were will lay season in New York on New Year's While in Chicago Madam Clemens and members of her many broadcast scenes from her play fromm WJJD, Palmer House station. Joan of Are dramatization of Mark Twain's book of the same title. Playshop To Come Back; “Red Lily’? in Rehearsal NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The Playshop, after several months of inactivity, has put in rehearsal a new comedy, titled The Red Lily, by David Arnold Balch, with an out-of-town opening date set for January 10 and the New York show- ing for the following week. The players will include Marguerite Risser, Jenny Eustace, Edwin Redding, Duncan Penwarden, William Lewis, June Leslie and Carson Davenport is a Mrs. Harris To Present Play by Chief Justice NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Mrs. Henry B. Harris has placed in rehearsal a comedy titled Trial Divorce, the work of Chief Justice Joseph Sabath, of Chicago. Willard Mack is taking charge of the staging, and the cast includes William Ingersoll. Robert Strange, Gilda Leary, Beatrice Nichols, Anna Mack Berlein and Carroll Chase. The piece will open January 7 at the Playhouse in Chicago. William Harris, Jr., in Accident NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—William Har- ris, Jr., is confined to his home with severe injuries sustained in a taxicab collision last week. He suffered fractures on several ribs, abrasions of the right arm and lacerations of the scalp, but is ranidly improving, according to his pro- ducing offices in the Hudson Theater Building. Myron Fagan’s Backer Accepts Three More NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—B. F. Wit- beck, who has backed all Myron Fagan’s plays, including The Little Spitfire, cur- rent at the Cort Theater, has accepted three more of the author’s comedies. The first, titled The Fascinating Devil, will go into rehearsal about January 15. Seducing Jimmy and Power will follow later in the season. Changes in Cast NEW YORK. Dec. 25.--Gilda Kreegan has taken over the part formerly played by Frank Thomas in The Little Spitfire at the Cort Theater. Czara Romanyj has replaced Mme. Frappier in Maitresse de Roi production of the Comedie Francaise at the Cosmo- politan Theater. oO. J. Hamilton has Benald in Sex at Theater. Mann Wada has returned to the cast of We Americans at the Eltinge Theater. Doris Freeman has taken over the part formerly played by Helen Flint in The Noose at the Hudson Theater Percy Ames has replaced G. P. Hunt- ley in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the Times Square Theater. Eva Benton has replaced Mme, Robin- son in The Bottom of the Cup at the Mayfair Theater. Walter Abel has succeeded Donn Cook in Seed of the Brute at the Comedy succeeded Daly’s 63a Albert Street Theajer. *Devil in the Cheese” Ready To Open at Last NEW YORK, 25.—Tom Cushing's fantasy, The Devil in the Cheese Charles Hopkins has had many weeks, is at lest said to bs ly and the premiere hes been definitely set for next Wednesday night at the Char Hopkins Theater, formerly and Judy Frederic Marct Ei Wade Linda Watkins, Catherine Ca! houn ‘De ucet, Dwight Frye, Bela I and Brandon Peters head the la Dec. in rehearsa! for the rpe ia pany, which has seen many changes since casting first began last fall The plece was originally scheduled t September 6, but rehearsals not called until long after that date They have, however, been in progress for some time and Hopkins has been paying full salaries for each week over the re- hearsal period allowed in the Equity contracts. Claude Cooper Hurt NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Claude Cooper, playing in Seed of the Brute at the For- rest Theater here, was severely burned during the performance last Monday night. The accident occurred when the revolver used by Hilda Vaughn went off prematurely within a few inches of Cooper’s hand. Dramatic Notes GILBERT CARTLAND has been placed, thru the office of Rycroft-Perrin. New York, to act as stage manager with The Blonde Sinner for its road tour. MILTON HERBERT GROPPER is at work on a new piece, as yet unnamed. that is to be Richard Herndon’s next production for Allan Dinehart and Claiborne Foster. SAMUEL WALLACH has been ap- pointed manager of the up-town office of Henry Zuckerman & Company, a large (Continued on page 31) — UPSON ROSE JUVENILE Formerly with Jnodith Anderson. Jane Grey, Lillian Walker, lan Keith, Frank Tinney. Dramatic Art MERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS Founded 1884 by Franklin H. Sargent For 42 Years a Leading Institution for Dramatic Art and Expression Prepares for z P Acting Teaching ‘Directing Develops Poise and Personality for use in any vocation in life New Winter Class Begins Jan. 15 Extension Dramatic Courses in co-operation with COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Pree describes all Courses from Room 145-A EGIE HALL, New York "¢ The Billboard Jenuary | 977 ~~. i me SDiidsara, © Bi we. + d5 £27 wi Yo S €Q> . yes) & V0 . rea) a & AN : “ : ae - A \ ‘ | ~~ hy « \ Pm 2 \ Ne, la” ( ~ ae | ) » & = f Tin Berke, leaving the disputed Bally- ~~ : ; ) : hoo to Jarner’s pley br Kete Horton : ; -_- a i Welker Euston is to be feetured ¢ ; ite a Fe 3 i : » ‘ , — Baar. ee. os : Wagner end hit supporting cest w m- | ee , eo t eimée Clenfette Colbert, Eleanor Wil- os Piges~ Y ] : Biems. Norman Foster, Kethirn Tracer | 1 ¢ se ; Mz] Boykine, Gertrude Wicks Al Rob- 2 . a $e ‘ ‘ erts. George Darbinier Gus Heegis j . ¥ DZ Pi Real t Knox Gerrold, Ross Mertz, Albert Hrde , = a . © ges | : John Irwin. BRoger Beamley and the i ._ # S * * ae | ; Borel Hewziian Tric Priestley Mor- ow. ee % _ Yison is directing rehearsals for a New é ‘ aa we Bd York opening scheduled for January 10, | rn ee — Jammey opur is due The cast of the —— sowed SS anna ot a ew — ‘“ ee - ported in these columns. a : will also be changed to The Padre. Nana po Brramt. Vivian Tobin, Richard Temple, z é Arthur Bowyer. John Troughton, May AnGgerson, Elwyn Eaton, Robert Lee — _ a Allen and Marcella Swanson make up the cast. Stanley Logan also has one of the : principal roles. 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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 27 Musical Comedy Conducted by GORDON M. LELAND—Communications to 1560 Broadway, New York Shuberts Juggling Their Prima Donnas NEW YORK, Dee. 25.—Having re- nlaced Peggy Wood with Eleanor Painter “te The Nightingale, due here next week, and loaned Vivian Hart, originally sched- uled for The Willow Tree, to Carle Carl- ton for The Lace Petticoat, the Shuberts continue to juggle around their avail- ible prima donnas. Evelyn Herbert has been brought in from the road to head the cast of My Maryland, now in rehearsal for an open- ing ‘January 10 in Atlantic City. This is the Dorothy Donnelly-Sigmund Rom- bere operetta, formerly titled Barbara Frietchie. Lilian Davies, prima donna of Katja at the 44th Street Theater, will shortly be taken out of that cast and on January 15 she will replace Yvonne D’Arle in the title role of Countess Maritza at the Shu- bert Theater. Meanwhile Katja will be hifted January 3 ta the Cosmopolitan iter and after about two weeks at that house it will be removed entirely from Broadway and sent on tour. No definite decision has been made at this writing as to what prima donna is to follow Miss Davies in Katja. It will not be Miss D’Arle, however, as she is to leave the Shuberts and go on a concert tour “Rio Rita’ Ready BOSTON, Dec. 25.—Rio Rita, Florenz Ziecfeld’s musical comedy which is to open the new Ziegfeld Theater in New York about January 10, will have its premiere Monday at the Colonial Theater here. Ethelind Terry and Ada May are featured and the supporting cast, which was completed at the last moment be- fore the company left New York, includes Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, J. Harold Murray, Vincent Serrano, Helen Olive, Catherine Crandall, Douglas Kinleyside, Alf James, Beryl Halley, Susan Flem- ing, Peggy Blake. Pedro Rubin, Noel Frances, Fred Dalton, Collette Harry Ratcliffe, Nathaniel Sack, Harold Doug- las, Al Clair, Alberto Carello, 16 Al- bertina Rasch girls and a marimba band. Settings are by Joseph Urban. a Charlot Troupe on Way NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The Charlot Revue principals, who are to combine with Earl Carroll's company for the new international edition of the Vanities, are on the high seas and will arrive here next week. They include Herbert Mundin, Jessie Matthews, John Redmond, Patrick Adair, Harrotd Warrender, Sundy Wilshin, Alan Macbeth, Hazel Wynne, Dick Francis, Peggy Doyle, Henry Lyt- ton, Anton Dolin, Dorothy Macbean, Wil- liam Cavanaugh and Jill Williams. Obviously some of the principals of the current edition will have to give way to make room for the London players, but Moran and Mack, Smith and Dale, Julius Tannen and Dorothy Knapp are def- initely scheduled to remain over for the new version, George White Preparing Straight Musical Comedy NEW YORK, Dec ! 25.—George White | stop counting his receipts from the lals for the next few weeks and de- vote his time to the preparation of a traight musical comedy which he has heduled for a February opening on Broadway. The piece is titled America First and ts being finished up by Lew n, Bud DeSylva, Ray Henderson, M im K. Wells and White himself, as th ontingent of authors and composers. N itions are now under way with two prominent stars but contracts had been signed at this writing . BESSTE McCOyY, the original Yama ‘fa Girl, who has been in seclusion at Nice on the Riviera, is planning to. re- turn to the American stage after nearly 10 year: absence, and will sail for home i few weeks. She is the widow of TA. ‘hard Harding Davis and the sister-in- law of the late Charles Belmont Davis. RUTH THOMAS, the latest recruit to Winthrop Ames’ Gilbert and Sul- livan Opera Company at the Plymouth Theater. New York. Miss Thomas is currently scoring in the leading role of Mabel in “‘The Pirates of Penzance’’. She is not altogether a@ mewcomer to the ranks of legitimate stage prima donnas. as many press yarns have pro- claimed, for she sang in “‘Look Who's Here” several seasons ago. Later she played with Lew Fields in “Snap Shots of 1921" and then went with Weber and Fields om a long vaudeville tour. Two seasons ago she succeeded Grace Moore in the “Music Box Revue’ but has since remained in retirement to further her studies in music. Ashley Quits Hart To Open Own Agency NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—James W. Ash- lev, who has been assoc'ated for the past six years with the Max Hart office, has resigned to open an artists’ rep- resentative agency of his own. He has taken quarters in the Mayfair Theater Rullding on West 44th street. Many of his old clients, including Dennis King, Lynn Overman and others, will continue wth him in his new enterprise which will inelude publicity work as well as placements Arthur McHugh will assist him in the press work Nat Nazarro, Jr., To Replace Lew Brice in “Americana” NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Nat Nazarro, Jr., will replace "ew Brice Monday as a featured player in Americana at the telmont Theater. Brice has had his name in lichts as a costar with Roy At- well since the show opened and it is understood Nazarro will receive the same billing. The latter will assume all the roles played by Brice. According to Richard Herndon, pro- ducer of the revue, Brice is withdrawing from the cast to open a night club. Emmerich Kalman Coming Over To Conduct “Circus Princess’ NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Emmerich Kal- man, eminent Budapest composer of Sari, The Soldier Bou, Gay Hussars, The Lit- tle King, Faschingsfee, The Little Dutch Girl, The Yankee Princess and other well- known operettas,. including Countess Maritza, current on Broadway, is coming over to conduct for his latest piece, The Circus Princess, which the Shuberts are to produce in March with Poodles Han- naford as the star. The announcement of Kalman’s American visit comes some- what of a surprise as he has several times in the past declared that he never intended to visit America. Production of The Circus Princess has been put off until March because Han- naford is under contract to do two pic- tures on the Coast next month. In sign- ing him for the operetta the Shuberts have taken an additional option on his services for the next two years. Han- naford is considered one of the great- est equestrians in the country and he will use four horses in the show. Grace Norma Hannaford, Fred Derrick and Elizabeth Clark will appear with him. The latter is the wife of Eddie Clark, of the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus. Hannaford has until lately been featured in the Sells-Floto Circus. Changes in Casts NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Jean Murray as replaced Gladys Philbin in the Vani- tiey at the Earl Carroll Theater. Margaret McCarthy is back in George Whites’ Scandals after several days off with laryngitis. Muriel Le Count dou- bled for her Alice Boulden has returned to the cast of Gay Paree of 1927 at the Winter Gar- den after a two days’ absence due to ilIness. During her absence her roles were assumed by Grace Candee. Sunshine Jarmon, dancer with Ameri- cana, the Belmont Theater revue, who has been out of the cast for two weeks with an injured ankle, has resumed her place. Isabelle Mason had been doing her bits. Katherine Ellis, who was taken out of the chorus of Queen High at the Ame bassador Theater, and sent to London with Edgar MacGregor to stage the dances of the show for Sir Alfred Butt, who bought the British rights, has re- turned to her old show. Miss Ellis re- mained on the continent sightseeing after’ completing her dance directing, and has: just arrived from London. Engagements NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Walter Regan has been engaged to play opposite Patti Harrold in Judy. Lida Kane has ‘also been signed for the cast. John Byam, Douglas Wood, Cecil Owen, Charles Henderson, Josephine Cavanaugh and John Clemson have been added to the cast for L. Lawrence Weber’s forthcoming piece Bye, Bye, Bonnie. Lita Lopez, Pilar Loredo and Rita Montaner (Spanish diseuse) have been engaged by the Shuberts for their new revue A Night in Spain. Ethel Norris, of the vaudeville team of Cal and Ethel Norris, has also been added to the cast. A Spanish guitar and mandolin band has arrived here from Madrid to accompany the Spanish artistes in the production. ————————————— EINS MAKE-UP PRODUCT == = = = = = Ss Se Se SS a SS SS STEIN’S Years and Years Ago BURNT CORK PRICE FIFTY CENTS THE MINSTREL MAKE-UP ORIGINATED BY MILLS Manufactured by STEIN COSMETIC co. v_YOR! _ SOLD EVERYWHERE NEW YORK _ N. Y. ‘Nanette’? Back Where It Started CHICAGO, Dec. 20—No, No, Nanette was greeted warmly at the Erlanger last night, the opening of a return en- gagement in the city where it started making stage history. Louise Groody, who was the star during the long run at the Harris, was given an ovation. She has with her as costar Hal Skelly, a newcomer in Nanette but no stranger in Chicago, and he, too, was well received. H. H. Frazee has No, No, Nanette and Yes, Yes, Yvette showing at adjoining houses. The Erlanger has the No, No show and the Four Cohans has the other. | Musical Comedy Notes KATE SMITH, blues singer, in Honey- moon Lane, at the Knickerbocker Thea- ter, New York, signed last week as an exclusive artiste with the Columbia Phonograph Company. PEGGY O’NEIL is back in New York after her long sojourn abroad. She went to London five years ago for a three months’ engagement, and has been play- ing over there evemsince. RUTH LAIRD, of Dallas, Tex., re- cently a member of Ned Wayburn’s suc- cess, Kitty Kisses and the Maiden Voyage, appeared in the dance pantomime of the Dallas Little Theater Christmas produc- tion December 20, 21 and 22. Miss Laird was considered one of the best toe danc- ers in the Wayburn revue. She re- turned home on account of illness in her family, but expects to return to Broadway about the middle of January to open in a new revue. Ruth Laird was one of the first Dallas girls to gain a name on the stage for her dancing. She is considered one of the wealthiest chorus girls in the profession as she has four oil-producing wells in her name. She is at home, 413 East Ninth street, Dallas, Tex. ANNA RIZZO, one of the Gertrude Hoffmann Girls in Artists and Models, is spending the Christmas holidays at home in Philadelphia. After the first of the year she has a new contract with the Shuberts as a feature dancer, to open a@ new revue on Broadway. JANE AUBERT was given a novel birthday surprise last Tuesday on the stage of the Winter Garden, New York, where she is playing in Gay Paree. In her sketch, Je t’aime, the settings is the office of a hotel. When Miss Aubert went on, the clerk behind the prop. desk handed her a bunch of mail, as called for in the business. But it wasn’t prop. mail at this performance. 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ON Nw — 31 n ere 6s - Tr VY ‘ E s" The Billboard, January 1, 1927 merican Concert Field and American Achievements in the World of Music Conducted by IZETTA MAY McHENRY—Communications to 1560 Broadway, New York Music Week Spreads Overseas Not only Is the observance of Music Week increasing In this country, but the movement has also spread to oversea countries. C. M. Tremaine, executive secretary of the National Music Week Committee, has received word from John Connell, municipal organist of Johannes- burg, South Africa, stating that the en- thusiastic music lovers of that city have expanded the observance into a Music Fortnight. Mr. Connell further states that because of the several thousand miles which separate this section of the country from Europe, it is the hope of the committee in charge of the Music Fortnight that a more genera] public ap- preciation and interest In good music will be increased. The program for the Fort- night included community singing, daily organ recitals, orchestral concerts for children, two symphony concerts, a per- formance of Brahms’ Requiem, as well as music In a number of stores, and the second week was given over entirely to the national Eisteddfod. Mr. Connell ts also in charge of a similar celebration in Pretoria, the administrative capital of the Union of South Africa. Asia, too, Is In- terested in Music Week, and the general secretary of the Y. W. C. A., at Tokio, as obtained from Mr. Tremaine literae ture and posters issued by the National Music Week as helps in promoting 2 Music Week celebration. A considerable number of observances of National Music Week in Canada have been reported; then, too, Scotland has accepted the movement with much enthusiasm, and thus the scope of the movement is being broadened until there is indication that next year will find Music Week more widéfly observed than ever before. Ernest Bloch Wins Chamber Music Prize The $1,000 Carolyn Beebe New York Chamber Music Society prize, given by C. C. Birchard, has been awarded to Ernest Bloch, the noted Swiss composer, now director of the San Francisco Conserva- tory of Music. The work, Four Episodes, is scored for piano, strings and wind instruments, and will have his premiere either in Chicago at the Biennial of the National Federation of Music Clubs next \pril or on March 21, played by the New York Chamber Music Soclety at the Ho- tel Plaza. Giannini To Be Soloist With N. Y. Symphony Dusolina Giannini, who but recently teturned from a most successful Euro- pean tour, will be the sololst at the Thursday afternoon concert of the New York Symphony in Carnegie Hali De- ember 30, and also at the afternoon concert in Mecca Auditorium on Sunday, January 3. She will sing an aria from Tschaikovsky’s Jeanne D’Are and Eliza- beth's air from Tannhauser. For this con- ‘ert Mr. Damrosch will repeat the Sibe! is Tone Poem which was given its ‘rst performance under his directtfon at the « ert on Sunday afternoon, Decem- ber 26, and the symphony will be Brahms’ No. 2 in D. This will be the last concert Mr. Damrosch will direct until the middle of March Otto Klem- perer will conduct beginning January 7. Bolm Is To Present Dicken’s “Christmas Carol” Adolph Bolm has adapted for the pan- tomime ballet stage two scenes from the popular favorite Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and will present these for the first time anywhere in the World at the Eighth Street Theater, Chi- "azo, in five performances, which began With the matinee on December 26 and Mtinte on Mecember 28, 29 and 31 and anot} matinee Sunday, January 2 Ral Vaughn Williams, English com- _ 7 wrote the music for the Christmas ‘ro! pantomime and Nicholas Remisoff designed the costumes and the scenery Also at these performances Mr. Bolm, paalatog by his company, will present the Mllet bouffe The Tragedy of the ’Cello, Two Gordons of Capitol Family To Appear in New York Recital Two artists, well known to radio audi- ences, Nina Gordon and Westell Gordon, of the Capitol Family, will make their first public appearance In New York at a joint recital to be given in Town Hall, Tuesday evening, January 4. These two artists have for the past several months been valued members of Major Bowes’ radio group in the weekly Sunday eve- ning program broadcast from the Capitol Theater, New York, and Miss Gordon’s impersonations of Sir Harry Lauder have become a feature of these programs. Westell Gordon, tenor, too, is a favorite with the radio audiences, due to the type of songs he presents, the delightful q@al- ity of his voice and his clear diction. The two Gordons have toured with much suc- cess in many of the European countries, also In Australia and India, and their scrap book shows a record of appearances in many celebrated theaters of Europe, as well as before noted Scottish and English organizations. It also shows that in 1923 Mr. Gordon was a member of a group which broadcast concerts from Palings Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia, with much success, and in 1924 he was heard on the air over WJZ, and it was for con- certs over this station that his sister, Nina, joined him and played his accome- paniments, as she also does in the Capitol programs. Their joint recital in New York will be awaited with much interest. Indianapolis To Hear Five Famous Artists Under the direction of the Ona B. Tal- bot Fine Arts Enterprises, of Indianapolis, five world’s famous artists are scheduled for the Murat Theater. January 23 is the date of the first attraction, when Fritz Kreisler will give a violin recital. The other soloists, whose engagements will also be filled on Sunday afternoons, are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Roland Hayes, Maria Jeritza and Tito Schipa. New York Events The New York String Quartet, assisted by Ethel Leginska, pianist, was heard in a most delightful concert in Aeolian Hall, Monday evening, December 20, for which the program comprised the Haydn Quar- tet in G Minor, Opus 74; Beethoven's Quartet in F Minor, Opus $5, and Schu- mann’s Quintet in E-Flat Major, Opus 44, Thruout the entire program the ensemble work of these musicians was of a very high order, also there was beauty of tone. The Schumann Quintet was the feature of the evening in point of interpretation and because it marked the return to the New York concert stage of Ethel Leginska. Her playing of the piano part was notable for skillful blending of the piano with the strings and well served to demonstrate her artistry. The New York String Quartet is now one of the finest chamber music groups in the concert world today. The Mischa Elman String Quartet gave its second subscription concert in Aealian Hall, Tuesday evening, December 21, be- fore an audience which completely filled that auditorium. The program was given over to Beethoven's Quartet in F Minor, No. 11, and Caesar Franck’s Quartet, D Major. This group has advanced far in ensemble work since last season, but there is still need for Mr. Elman to make his playing more of a part of the group and not to dominate each number The Franck Quartet was given a most ex- cellent reading, but even so its lengthi- ness made much of it seem tiresofne. Antonio Meli, baritone, gave his debut song recital in Aeolian Hall, Wednesday evening, December 22, in a program in- cluding songs by Handel, Mozart, Fer- rari, Saint-Saens, Deems Taylor, and a group of Sicilian folk songs by B. Gag- iano, who was the accompanist for the evening. This young singer made a yery promising appearance at this, his first recital, as while at times he sang with too much foree and produced tones in- correctly, he possesses a voice of pleasing quality, and he also interprets each num- ber with much feeling and intelligence. Z / Wolfsohn Artists’ Activities Wolfsohn artists are as usual enjoying a busy season. Reinald Werrenrath leaves for the Pacific Coast on New Year's Day and will sing the first cone cert of his Coast tour in San Diego January 6. He will be heard in Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, San Frane- cisco, Sacramento, Portland and Spokane. By request he is singing a special re- turn engagement in Seattle and will also give a radio concert under the auspices of Atwater Kent from Los Angeles. Mr. Werrenrath will spend four weeks on the Coast. The Springfield (Mass.) Festi- val Association has already engaged for the festival next May the following Wolfsohn artists: Fljrence Austral, dra- matic soprano; Kathryn Meisley con- tralto; Arthur Hackett-Granville. Flor- ence Austral has also been re-engaged for the famous Evanston (Ill) Festival, which will be held in May, 1927, and Mary-Lewis will sing at the children’s matinee at this same festival. Maria Kurenko, Russian coloratura soprano, has been booked as the soloist for the Musica! Art Club, of Charleston, S. C., January 25, and Allen McQuhae, Irish tenor, will be the soloist for this club’s concert on February 23. Nikolai Orloff, Russian pianist, will play five concerts during the week of January 3. He will have played 20 recitals during his eight weeks in this country and will sail for London on January 8, and from January to April he is booked solidly for cone certs thru England and Scotland and will return to England for further concerts during May, June and July. New, York concerts by Wolfsohn ar- tists include Albert Spalding, violin re- cital, in Carnegie Hall, January 2; Leonora Cortez, piano recital, Aeolian Hall, Monday evening, January 3; Alex- ander Brailowsky, piano recital, Car- negie Hall, January 15; a special bene- fit concert by Josef Hofmann, Albert Spalding and Florence Austral at the Metropolitan Opera House, January 16; a symphony concert by the Cleveland Orchestra, in Carnegie Hall, Tuesday evening, January 18; a joint recital by Louise Homer and Loutse Homer-Stires in Carnegie Hall, January 29. Minneapolis Concerts The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Henri Verbrugghen, will give a second series of popular con- certs on Sunday afternoon at the Lyceum Theater, Minneapolis, beginning January 2. This second series has been arranged in response to the many requests which resulted from the first series, concluded a few weeks ago. Mr. Verbrugghen has engaged four soloists for the series and these include Jenny Cullen, violinist, January 2; Maurice Dumesil, French pi- anist, January 9; Harry Fardman, vio- linist, January 16, and Helen Newitt, soprano, January 23. Fr. Lauderdale To Have Opera Another Florida city will have its first grand opera presentation and this time it is Ft. Lauderdale. The Chamber of Commerce and the Civic organizations of that city have endorsed the presentation of grand opera on the evening of Janu- ary 1 when the San Carlo Grand Opera Company will be presented at the Sunset Theater. Mr. Gallo’s company on De- cember 31 will complete a four weeks’ engagement at New Orleans and opens a three-day engagement in Miami, F'a., on January 3. ‘ Buffalo Concerts Marion Talley will give a recital in Buffalo on January 7, as the fourth — in the Philharmonic series at the Con sistory Auditorium, and on January 11 eceurs the concert of the Detroit Sym- pheny Orchestra, with Ossip Gabrilo- witseh conducting. Roland Hayes will be heard in recital in Elmwood Music Hall on January 18, and the Beethoven Festival, under the auspices of the Buf- falo Musical Foundation, takes place in the Hotel Statler Ballroom on January 17, when the program will be given by the London String Quartet, Noted Artists Listed For N. Y. Recitals in January The concert calendar for January shows a number of recitals to be given in New York by several of the most noted artists of the present day. In Carnegie Hall, on Sunday evening, Janu- ary 9, John Charles Thomas, American baritone, will give his first public con- cert in New York after an absence of two years, during which he appeared in opera with the leading organization of Belgium. Then on January 11, in the same hall, occurs the piano recital of Mischa Levitzki, which will be devoted entirely to the compositions of Beethoven in honor of the centennial of the com- poser’s death. Another event, or series of events, will be the Beethoven Cen- tennial Series in which his 10 sonatas for violin and piano will be given on three Sunday afternoons in Aeolian Hall. The first of this series will take place January 16, for which the artists will be Efrem Zimbalist, violinist, and Harold Bauer, piano. The second is scheduled for January 23 and for which the are tists will be Paul Kochanski, violinise and Harold Bauer, and a third, January 30, will be given by Albert Spalding, violinist, and Harold Bauer. In Town Hall, also in January, will occur what is said to be the first Bach week ever observed in America. This is a series of six pianoforte recitals in which a different program will be played each day by Harold Samuel, who created a furore last season in his Bach recitals. The concerts will take place on the eve- nings of January 18, 19 and 20 and the afternoons of January 21, 22 and 23. The English Singers wil! return for an- other concert and this will take place Thursday evening, January 13, Beethoven Festival Announced For London String Quartet The London String Quartet, now on a tour of South America, will return to the United States the latter part of De- cember and,immediately begin a mid- winter and spring concert tour. The first engagement for these musicians is in Hartford, Conn., and then concerts will follow in Toronto, Ont.; Oberlin and Cleveland, O., and Peoria, Ill. A feature of the tour will be Beethoven Festivals in which the programs will be devoted exclusively to the works of. that eminent composer. falo Musical Foundation the Quartet will participate in the Buffalo Beethoven Fes- tival, which will begin on January 17 and continue until January 22, with a recital nightly, and immediately. after this en- gagement will be heard in a recital in Chicago. One week in March will be de voted to a Beethoven Festival, when thi quartet will give six consecutive recitals at Aeolian Hall, New York City, begin- ning on March 7. Concert and Opera Notes | LEO H. DUSTIN, the young American pianist, who has not appeared in New York for almost two years, will resun his concert activities by giving a con- cert in Steinway Hall, New York, t latter part of February. 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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 Repertoire Conducted by WILLIAM SACHS—Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. Milt Tolbert Show Closes Season at Dunn exception the cold siderably. A feature of the show during the past season was the Original Virginia Enter- tainers, a 10-piece jazz band, which went over large at stand The show played the season under an &0-foot top, with a 30 and 40-foot middle piece, and traveled by two baggage cars, eacn aie 60-f00t according to Charles Richards, publicity man. The equipment has been stored at Monroe, N. C., where rehearsals for next season will begin about the latter part of February. The roster included Mr. and Mrs. Tim Lester, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Haggerty, Stella Mae Sheldon, Leah Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Bub Allison, Elenore Murrell, Mrs. P. D. Hester, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Holloway, Blair Camp, Charles Richards, Walter Murrell The Original were comprised Virginia Entertainers of the following: Bob Fisher, director and piano; Herman Berk- holtz, Mickey Winbourne and Bob Taylor, saxes: Jimmie .Lee and Joe Turner, trumpets; Gwin Hester, banjo; P. D. Hester, drums and entertainer; Boyd Holloway, trombone and baritone, and Homer Holloway, bass. Miss Biake is treasurer of the show; “Dad” Holloway, business manager, and A. D. Holloway, general agent in charge of the advance. Three men advanced the show. The Virginia Entertainers remained intact, and this week opened an engage- ment at Raleigh, N. C., after which they will play a string of one-nighters thru North and South Carolina. The Holloways left for a visit to their home at Monroe, N. C., after which they will go to Florida for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Tim Lester went to Winston-Salem, N. C., to spend the holi- days with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Haggerty went to Asheville, N. C., for a visit with Mrs. Haggerty’s mother. Mr and Mrs. Bub Allison went to Tampa, Fla., where Bub will produce home-talent shows during the winter. Blair Camp went to Lincolnton, N. C., his home. Stella Mae Sheldon left for a visit to Richmond, Va., after which she will join her mother with Jane Hastings Stock Company. Leah Nelson went to Rich- mond. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Murrell left for Jacksonville, Fla. Charles Richards went to his home in Muncie, Ind., for the holidays, after which he expects to go to Chicago to open on the W. V. M. A. Time, The company included in its repertoires The Awakening of John Slater, The Lit- tle Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Jim Bailey, Graustark, The Good Little Bad Girl, Why Girls Leave Home and Jn the Land of the Sky. Leslie E. Kell Preparing For 1927 Tent Season SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dec. 24.—Leslie E. Kell has returned from his turkey hunt in the hills of Shannon County, Mo and has settled down to getting his bills lined up for the coming season. The party of eight on the hunting trip suc- ceeded in bagging 11 turkeys, Leslie landing one of the “critters”. Kell is lining up new people for the 1927 season and rehearsals are to begin in March. The show will play houses for a few weeks before going out under canvas. Bill Wesley and wife are taking care of the equipment in the winter quarters at Walnut Ridge, Ark., where they are putting everything in first-class shape for the coming season. Bell Players Banqueted OKMULGEE, Okla., Dec. 24.—The Bell Players, who played the Yale Theater last week, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wright on Wednesday night of last week at a midnight banquet ‘en at the Wright home in Beggs, Following the repast, the orches- tra with the company furnished the music for the singing and dancing. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wright, Mr. and Mrs. George Leffingwell, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe (Nig) Allen, Mabel Spencer, Louise Barton, Dot Warner, Herman Starke, Lawrence and Fred Dunning, George Brockwell, Billy Hallett, Mary Jones, Fanny Kelly and “Taps” Wayne. The Bell Players are this week playing at Weewoka, Okla. Thomas E. Hall Writes On Largest Tent Show here The writer has received the following letter from Thomas E. (Tom) Hall, who at various times trouped with of the larger rep. companies thru the North and Southeast. The letter was written from Ryan, Okla., under date of Decem- ber 21. “I have been waiting anxiously to see who would really claim to have had the largest tent rep. show on the road the past season. The East has been heard from, why not let the West, where the tent shows flourish all year ‘round, speak up? T have been waiting to see if Harley Sadler or some member of his company would not break loose and help you. I am sure that they could say something worth while. “I did most of my North, ‘East and Southeast, but never in all my experience have I had the pleasure of seeing anything that could compare with the outfit known as Harley Sadler’s Own Company. It is the largest and most beautiful tent theater I have ever seen and if there is one larger or better I want to learn of its whereabouts, as I want to see the biggest and best and would travel miles to see it. “I cannot give you the dimensions of the Sadler top or the number of people the show carries, but I hope that he or someone interested will = the time to reply and let the East know that the ‘wild and woolly’ West is not slow, when it comes to the rep. game. “In the past vears I believe that the John Lawrence Big City Tent Company was the largest, but that was all city time.” Captain W. I. Swain Again Plays Santa Claus some trouping in the NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 22.—For the ninth consecutive year the big top of Capt. W. I. Swain was pitched in Lafayette Square for the annual distribu- tion of toys for The Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund, in which thousands of New Orleans children receive presents, purchased with funds collected by the management of the above publication on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. Capt. Swain’s activities this week were not limited to driving the team from the Swain winter headquarters, but he also wielded a heavy sledge with the best of his gang as the myriad stakes were driven into the ground. The advent of the Swain wagon, with four horses and scarlet plumes bobbing from the bridles, and the captain han- dling the reins, escorted by a platoon of police, is as much looked for by the frownups and children as the annual festal day itself. MR. AND MRS. JIMMIE ELLIOTT (Peg Miller) closed a 40 weeks’ engage- ment with the W. IL Swain Show at Pelahatchie, Miss., December 18, and are now spending a weeks at Mrs. EIl- home in Louisville, Ky. “The writes Elliott, “must carry in its pockets—the cotton condition in the South didn’t seem to effect its patronage any.” The Elliotts have signed up with the Swain show for the 1927 season. few liott’s Swain Show,” horseshoes Bert Melville Company Playing in Florida LAKEWORTH, Fila., Dec. 23.—The Bert Melville Associated Players are back in Florida and the week of Decem- ber 6 played this city to good business The Melville tent was located some dis- tance from the center of the city, owing to a new ruling of the city fathers which provides that tent shows cannot locate in a certain central zone. This handicap, however, did not deter the company from drawing big crowds and the acting of the Melville Players was highly relished by local theatergoers. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Melville are sup- ported by a good cast and a number of food, between-the-acts vaudeville features are carried by the company. One of the features of the Melville company is an eight-piece jazz orchestra. Among the innovations which the Mel- ville management introduces is a mam- moth electrical sign at the entrance and a 40-foot lobby, where patrons may smoke between the acts. The stage is one of the most completely equipped of any portable theater on the road. The stage settings include nearly a carload of flat sets, both interior and exterior Only a few of the old-type “blues” are carried, the rest of the seating space be- ing given over to folding opera chairs, all of which are covered with clean, white tie-ons. The players travel in their own automobiles and the show is loaded on trucks and trailers. The Melville Players last week played at Hollywood, Fla. “Jiggs. Maggie and Dinty"’ Co. Headed for the West Coast TUCSON, Ariz. Dec. 24.—E. J. Car- penter’s Jiggs, Maggie and Dinty Com- pany is still going strong and is doing a good business thru this section, accord- ing to George (Jiggs) Milton, with the company. The company layed off the past week, but opens tomorrow at Phoenix, Ariz., with a matinee and night performance. Bonnie Rose Milton and her mother, Mildred LeRoy, were forced to leave the show recently because of illness. Bonnie tose is in a very serious condition, fol- lowing an operation for acute indiges- tion. The company’s route leads. thru Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana and then to the West Coast, then back thru Canada, Minnesota and Wisconsin The cast includes Joan Cotterall, Bonnie Rose, G. Gordon Forsythe, George W. (Jiggs) Milton, Billy Swan, Fred Roberts, Frances Farrell, Donna Dean and Mita Camino. H. C. Manager is the company manager, J. C. Conner is busi- ness manager, Bryan Surfer, agent: Fred Roberts, stage manager: Robert O'Neil, mechanic; Glenn Childers, electrician, and Mrs. James, wardrobe mistress. Thomas Dramatic Company Opens Winter Season ELDORADO, Tex. Dec. 24.— The Thomas Dramatic Company opened its winter season at the Pastime Theater at Robert Lee, Tex., December 10, to a full house. From Robert Lee, the company moved to the Palace Theater here, for a week's run, and on opening night the S. R. O. s'gn was displayed, despite the cold weather. The show is playing thru its old ter- ritory and is booked nearly solid until spring. The roster: Carl Thomas, come- dian; Far! Thomas, leads: Cody Thomas, heavies ; Cecyl Scott, leads; Lois Thomas, ingenue and general business, and Billy McIntyre, general business and scenic artist. E. J. Lamkin is advancing the show MARIE AND LUCIUS JENKINS, well- known musicians, who for the past 10 years have been associated with a num- ber of the leading rep. companies, advise that they will open an engagement at the new Tifton Theater, Tifton, Ga, January 1. Rep. Ripples From K. C. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 22.—Mrs F. D. Whetten would like to hear from her many friends in the profession. Mrs Whetten has been fl! at the Dyer Hotel, but is now somewhat improved, but wil! be here all winter. Mrs. Whetten’s hus- band is Fred Whetten, recently Ole and His Sweetheart Company Uncle Tom's Cabin Company. MR. AND MRS. GENE BRADLEY closed the forepart of this month wit! the Chick Boyes Players and arrived here December 15, to remain over the holida: with and MR. AND MRS. REX McCALL (Eva Kelley McCall) were arrivals in town December 14, after a few days’ visit in their home city, Topeka, Kan... where they drove after the close of the Ind a: George (Vandervilt) Medicine Show early in the month. Mr. and Mrs. McCall ar: here for the Christmas season and ex pect to resume their winter work shortly after the first of January. JIMMIE TUBBS, who was with the Indian George Medicine Company unti? its close early in December, is in Kan- sas City for the holidays JACK AND VIRGINIA HAMILTON closed with the Chambers Stock Com pany in Texas, recently, and are in th: city to spend the hol'days. Thefr dauc! ter, Miss Margaret, attends school h: MRS. L. C. ZELLENO, wife of 1! sales manager of the Gordon-Howard Candy Company, has been confined to her room in the Coates House the last week, suffering from &n attack of the flu. THE DANCING GOODWINS postcard from Lunenburg, Novia Scotia, that trey are on their way to Newfoundland where they open Christmas Day with the Arlie Marks Show. LODEMA COREY, of the team of Clem and Corey, advises that she has Till, after six weeks in Mary's Hospital there, for her home in Wellsville, O Mrs. Clem states that the team will open with the Wanegah Comedy Company in the spring left Streator, St RAYMOND GUARD and wife, Vera, members of the Bybee Stock Company. arrived in the city December 13 for a few days’ rest. LARRY AND LULA KING closed with the Ferguson Stock Company and enjoying a vacation in the city are THE FORDS closed with Fred Brunk’'s Comedians recently. They are playing vaudevilie In and around Kansas City PAUL NELSON closed with the Byb« Stock Company at Ness City, Kan., and is vacationing here. WILL H. BRUNO, manager of the Verba Cross Comedians, closed the pany recently at Centerville, Ia., for the holidays and camé into the city for th: Christmas season, as did most of th: members of the company. com JERRY DEAN closed with the Bybe: Stock Compafy at Ness City, Kan, December 11, and came into the city to spend the Christmas season with hi parents at their home in Kansas City Kan. Jerry was a caller at the local offic of The Rillhoard last week and said that he would join some theater show early in the new year. EDDIE McKINNEY, leading man for the Verba Cross Comedians, is in the city for a holiday vacation, CHARLES AND ELIZABETH Morrell, manager and leading woman of the J Doug. Morgan Show, are taking a few weeks’ vacation in Dallas, Tex. Stanles Nickerson is managing the show in the absence of Mr. Morrell. REN 8S. BENSON 1s back in the city after a 10 days’ trip to Chicago, St Louls and Indianapolis. 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pre Dramatic Stock Notes (Continued from page 29) gust 16. She goes to play the lead in the first Pacific Coast production of The Ameri mm Tragedy, which will mark the ening of the new Vine Street Theater by “4. G. Wilkes in Hollywood, Calit., January 17. MARJORIE DOW, playing characters with the Guy Harrington Stock Com- pany, Binghamton, N. Y., for the last four eeasons, was given a surprise during the ' formance of One of the Family at the wr a ne Theater December 16. It was Miss Dow's natal day. Almost everyone connected with the house purchased presents and at the end of the first act Mr. Har rrington dragged on a small ex- ress wagon on which all the gifts were inaded. Miss Dow was overcome with emotion and could barely voice her thanks. JAMES WINGFIELD, booking agent, advises that the Edith Ambler Company playing his Calumet - South Chicago, is in its 18th week and business is fine. Lightnin’ is to be given week of January 2, to be followed by Up in Mabel’s Room ana 1 he Cat and the Canary. A Ross Robert- eon and Edith Ambler are doing the leads nd Taylor Bennett is handling the stage. Walter Ambler is doing com- and directing. THE BUFFALO PLAYERS gave as heir first production of the fifth season ¢ the organization, December 16, the rate ome dy, Wappin' Wharf. In the cast were Lila Herman, Malcolm Barney, Sherman I. Enoch, Marvel B. Donohoe, Jean Howard, Mary Bryan Preston and John D. Coughlin. RICHARD STEVENSON, who played dway in White Cargo and Kongo ~ seasons, opened recently at the Empress Theater, St. Louis, as lead- ing man with the National Players, re- John Warner, who closed with the company several weeks ago. Edward Darney, second business man, but for- merly a leading man, played leads while the company was without a leading man. Chicago, Stock on Br in recent ) ro a placing LEON DE COSTA has rehearsals of hie new piece, delayed the The Radio Murder, until after the new year. ARTHUR WELLINGTON and wife (Lucille Berdell) have left the Stanley Players, Hammond, Ind., for a Christmas visit at the home of Mr. Well- ington’s mother, Mra. Helen M. Pearson, n New York. Mrs. Pearson was a well- known actress some years ago, but is SCENERY JESSE COX SCENIC STUDIO, Estherville, tews. AT LIBERTY General Postoess Team. Wife—Meight, 5 ft: age, weigt be Man—5 10: see. 32; weist 185. Plenty of wardre a Some specialties, Join wire How much money can you pay? Will go an where A ow W K PLET HER, care Piicher Reel, § soph, Mo G Business Man age 40 heleht, ; wre 3 Experienced, capable, rel hie E quit ; Stork of first-class Rep Double Trombone or Bass F. M SCOTT, ” Fayet! ¢, Ohio AT LIBERTY VERSATILE COMEDY TEAM. HARRY—Small Parts. 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After several weeks there he exchanged places with Kenneth Daigneau, who was at that time playing in Alias the Deacon. This is Mr. Calder’s first trip to the Pacific Coast. Dale Winter, Earl Lee, Florence Roberts, Thomas Kelly, John D. O'Hara and Joseph DeStifne are the other mem- bers of the cast to present The Little Spitfire. Dramatic Notes (Continued from page 26) New York bond house. Mr. Wallach will assume his new duties when the offices in the new Paramount Theater Building are completed. Alias the Deacon will be continued under his management and he will retain his theatrical Connections. HAIDEE WRIGHT, who is playing opposite E. H. Sothern in What Never Dies, at the Lyceum Theater, New York, has been raised to a feature position in the billing by special request of the star. She is the first to receive this distinction since Julia Marlowe retired and Sothern has been appearing alone. A. E. AND R. R. RISKIN will produce shortly after the first of the year a new play by Dorrance Davis titled The Bitten Biting. It is rumored that ne- gotiations are being carried on with Elsie Ferguson for the stellar role, but the Riskins refuse to confirm it. JOSEPH SLAYTOR, who portrays the friendly innkeeper in the South Sea drama. One Man’s Woman, at the Min- s not an alien in the thea- ter world. Mr. Slaytor received general recognition as a producer during the World’s Fair in 1893, when‘he staged America at the Auditorium, up to that time the greatest spectacle of its kind and boasting a cast of 600. He next pro- duced for the Kiralfy Bros., Nero, The Fall of Babylon and Around the World im 80 Days. He was the original valet in the latter production. turn Central, LARRY NELMS has been engaged as general manager for Dr. Louis Sun- shine’s productions. FRANK MARTINS has abandoned re- hearsals of his planned productions of The Rlack Cockatoo, the new play by Samuel Ruskin Golding. ROBERT HOUSUM is dramatizing Louls Couperus’ novel, Old People and the Thinos That Pass. It is to be pro- duced later in the season by Charles Hopkins. PHOERE FOSTER returned this week to her original role in The Donovan Af- fair, now playing in Pittsburgh The play is coming back to New York terri- tory next week to fill bookings on the subway circuit. Australia (Continued from page 19) minate his contract at the end of the year. David Wall, who plays Father Whalen in Abie’s Irish Rose, was a caller at The Billboard office here this week, and took away the latest copies to see what was happening in the States since he left Frisco Jack Merlin, American card manipu- lator, is now nearing the end of his sea- son under the Tivoli management. He was formerly in this country 11 years ago. Maurice Moscovitch is presenting Trilby at the Criterion this week. Ellen Pollock is the leading woman. Nat Phillips, well known in America, will present Robinson Crusoe, pantomime, in Brisbane at Christmas. The Aerial Smiths, American circus act, are providing one of the features at the Tivoli this week, On the same bill are Winslow and Steele, American skaters, and Don Alfonzo Zelaya, Spanish pianist. S. W. Edwards, secretary of the Per- forming Rights Association, is on an interstate tour, during which he is spreading propaganda among theater proprietors and others who have, so far, failed to carry out their obligations to the organization. J. O'Donaghue, who up till recently was in the publicity department of Fox Films, has retired from that position in order to take over similar duties with a printing company. Leeds and Le Mar returned last Satur- day after an extensive tour of the Far East. The Haney Revue Company arrives here early in December for a season on the Tivoli Circuit. Billy Maloney's New Ideas opened at the Garden Theater, Adelaide, iast Satur- day, with a big company of performers. Lee White's Cinderella Revel took place at the Tivoli, Sydney, last Thursday evening, commencing at midnight. This was the artiste’s final appearance prior to sailing for Africa. The J. C. Williamson Gilbert and Sulli- van Opera Company, playing in New Zea- land, is scheduled to begin its Sydney season at the Theater Royal on Saturday, December 18. Amy Rochelle, touring New Zealand on the Fuller Circuit, is at the Princess Theater, Dunedin, The Midnight Frolics, touring the Fuller Time in New Zealand, will, in all probability, open in Wellington for the Christmas season. Carre and Carlotte, batic dancers, Cremorne, Brisbane. J. C. Williamson, Ltd., announce that at an early date they will construct an “intimate” theater on the site opposite His Majesty's Theater, Melbourne. The theater is planned to accommodate 1,000 and will be without the usual dress cir- cle and will probably be on the lines of the little theaters. An important merger of motion pic- tvre releasing interests has taken place in Victoria. The new company. which will carry on business as Hoyts Theaters, Ltd., is an amalgamation of Hoyts Pty., Ltd.; Circuit Theaters Pty., Lta.. ana Renown Theaters Pty., Ltd., and the J. Cc. Williamson eroup consisting of a large number of subsidiary companies Tt is understood that John MeCor- mack, famous tenor, will give a series of concerts in Australia next vear, un- der the direction of E. J. and Dan Car- roll. Lee White and Clay Smith were grant- ed certificates of discharge from bank- ruptcy by the Registrar in the Bank- ruptcy Court, Sydney, last week. whirlwind acro- are playing a season at THE UNMARRIED MOTHER “Good drawing bill with us . Given best of satisfaction. . 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‘32 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 Tabloids Conducted by WILLIAM SACHS—Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. For Butterfield Time MUSKEGO Mich., De 24. — The Burns & Paden Cute Little Devils Com- pany, u r management of Charl: Vv. Turner j week engage- ment ter here, De- ember 12, to gratifying business Th during the a season and set & record which to date has not yet been tou led by a otner mpany. Follc ng t Tusk engagement, the Cute Little De s will oven a tour of the Butterfield Circuit at the Bijou- Arcad Battle Creek, Mich. The com- pany | 20 weeks on the Butterfi« Time season and, according to Tur- ner, th will be tt first time that ompany has toured the Butterfield Cir- “uit for two consecutive seasons, playing two or more weeks in each city. “This in itself quite a record,” states Turner “but better still is the fact that this season the Burns & Paden Show will play rozd show houses in a number of towns instead of the usual musical tab. houses.” At Lansing, Mich., the company will play the Gladmer Theater instead of the Capni- tol, and at Bay City, Mich., the show will be housed at the Regent instead of the Bijou. The company now numbers 32 peopie, i ‘Cur Burns, black-fate co- Howard Paden is the leading the featured dancers. The dancing under the direction of Pal "Mere Brandeaux The Michigan tour will end May 1, when the company will go into summer stock. are ensembles aré Kerrigan’s “Band Box Revue” Pleasing Milwaukee Patrons MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 24. — Tom Kerrigan’s Band Box Revue, which opened its season of rotary stock in this city, November 7, is moving along nicely and is pleasing the managers and public in general. With three other rotary tabs. in town, the company is more than hold- ing its own, and from all! indications will remain here all winter. The company carries 12 people and uses all script bills, running from 30 to 49 minutes, intermingled with plenty of specialty numbers. The comedy is in the capable hands of Percy (Smaltz) Lohr and Martin (Adolph) Bowers, well known in tab. and burlesque. Besides Lohr and Bowers, includes Tom Kerrigan, cialties and manager; Billy Cash, pro- ducer and straights; Elsie Lohr, ingenue and chorus producer; June Day, soubret the roster characters, spe- and “blues” singer, and the following choristers: Lillian Knitsch, Martha Burns, Loraine Hainke, Babe Malloy, and Helen Rietz. director. “Chuckles of 1927” Playing Indefinite Run at Duluth Lydia Kikla Schiff is Margie DULUTH, Minn. Dec. 24. — The Chuckles of 1927, managed by Harry DeWitt, just completed a successful 16 weeks’ tour of Western Canada, and is i third week of an indefinite now in its run at the Orpheum Theater here. Due Muth buiness has been extraordinarily d for this time of the year, according DeWitt, and the company is looking rd to a long run here. The company is carrying seven prin- cipals, a 1 ical ‘director and eight girls in line, using all seript bills, with lots of scenery and special electrical effects. The roster: Harry DeWitt, producer, manager and featured comedian; Ruth Vincent, featured character comedienne; Billie Fluhrer, ingenue; Ivy Jackson, prima donna; Stanley Frances, juvenile and specialty dancer; Billy Morris, chare acters and Irish tenor, and Teddy Curtis, featured Charleston dancer. The chorus is made up of Alma Herdsman, Mickey Riordan, Helen DeWitt, Betty Faulkner, Doris Montgomery, Winnie Barclay, Vi Belden and Babe Loomis. Albert Pollitt is at the piano. and fea- Flash Parade’’, playing the BUD BROWNIE, manager tured comic with “‘The an F. & H. production, Gus Sun Time. Le Vance Organizes - Motorized Company KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 24.—Cal Le- Vance, owner of the Sunkist Sirens, Sunkist Flappers and Sunkist Steppers companies, has closed his show, which was playing thru Iowa, and has organized a motorized company in this city, to be known as the Oh You Flossie Company, playing split-week and week stands thru Northwestern Kansas and Oklahoma. LeVance has had his company in Iowa for the past three months and declares business to be anything but good in that section. The new show, according to Le- Vance, is carrying special scenery and equipment. The Oh You Flossie roster includes Cal LeVance, owner, manager and leads; Walt (Snitz) Stanford, comedian and specialties; Slim Norton, general business and specialties; Babe DeShazer, ingenue and song 4nd dance specialties; Jimmie Burke, prima donna and singing special- ties, and Donnis Soyle and Irva O’Brien, “harmony singing, parts and dancing spe- cialties. Stock Tabloid Policy In Harlem Movie House NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—-What is be- lieved to be the first stock tab. show pro- duced in the Harlem section of the city played to good returns last Saturday at the West End Theater, West 125th street, for years a straight picture house. The production, Vamping Vampires, ran as a trial for a single day, sponsored by Harry Bernard, formerly producer of stock burlesque at the new 125th Street Theater, several streets removed from the West End Theater. Bernard took the leading comic rcle, and was supported by Charley Collins and “Happy Harry” Cook. The West End will inaugurate the new stock tab. and pictures policy beginning January 7, when The 20th Century Dolls will be the opening produc- tion. It is planned by the Harris Theatrical Corporation, operator of the West End, to have twice-weekly changes, shows running six days a week. Sunday con- certs will be booked into the house by Edward White and Walter Gordon, a new combination responsible for the projected stock treb. innovation. The White-Gor- don office has announced that several other picture houses in Harlem and Brooklyn will shortly be converted to the new tab. policy. AL COLEMAN has sent the writer a card containing some very favorable tes- timonials from a number of New Eng- land managers on his Tip Top Merry Makers Comptiny. “They can’t all be crazy,” says Al. house Coleman’s “Honey Bunch” Opens at Tampa, Fla. ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 24.—E. B. Cole- man’s Honey Bunch is scheduled to close at the Phillips Theater here tomorrow night, to open an indefinite engagement at the Rialto, Tampa, Monday ‘rhe Honey Bunch Company will alternate between Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla., playing three days of each week at each house. The company will alternate with Keith’s Vaudeville in both cities Coleman's Honey Bunch played 14 eeks at the Phillips Theater here this fall and 39 weeks last season, making a total of 53 weeks, a record-breaking run for a city of 31,000 population. The remarkable run was made possible by the fine public spirit manifested by Cole- man and his company, which has made the show many stanch friends in this Monday night the company gave a midnight performance for the benefit of the local post of the American Legion. The Honey Bunch Company was sup- plemented by local legionaires and other local talent and gave a most interesting entertainment, which drew a nice house. In commemoration of the company’s seventh consecutive season in Orlando, The Orlando Morning Sentinel of De- cember 19 carried an eight-page anni- versary section in honor of the Honey Bunch Company. Kahle’s “Yankee Girls” Moving Along Smoothly Harry Kahle’s Yankee Girf§ are fast forging to the front among the five rotary tab. companies playing Cincinnati and vicinity. The company, at the be- ginning of the season, was moving along just so, but some new talent was recently udded, which has bolstered the company, considerably. The Yankee Girls are at present playing five nights in and around the Queen City, presenting both script and bit bills. a The company is made up of Bessie Belt, ingenue; Guy (Bozo) Hauff, comic; Gus Rapier, producer and comic; Ray Kenneth, straight man; Dolly Belt; Car- rie Delmas, chorus producer; Sharlene Fischer; Alice Kahle, soubret; Irma Love; Eva Bishop; Carmen Bell, leader; Harry Brooks, drummer, and Harry Kahle, owner and manager. All of the girls step out of line for specialties. The writer “caught” the show at the Liberty Theater, Cincinnati, on Monday night of last week and witnessed a creditable performance. The chorus, un- der the tutelage of Carrie Delmas, for- merly chorus producer for Fred Hurley and until recently with Sylvan Beebe’s Midnight Frolics, playing rotary tab. around Cincinnati, is well drilled, peppy and plenty good looking. Irma Leve, petite curly-headed damsel, entertained with some neat toe dancing. Ray Kenneth, who made his tab. de- but several weeks ago, worked nicely for a novice. His stage presence is a little awkward, but that will wear off with a few more performances under his belt. Carrie Delmas, one of the best female “hoofers” in tabdom, put over a popular song number and then stepped one off in fine style. Bessie Belt, ingenue, who last season played a stock engagement with Jack (Coo Coo) Mahoney at the Boulevard, Cincinnati, worked in her same old way, which is always good. The comics, Hauff and Rapier, worked their fool heads off, but couldn't get a chuckle out of the audience. Something wrong somewhere. Dolly Belt, a youngster, put over a song number in sweet voice. Dolly works like a veteran, has plenty of pep and is imbued with a heap of personality. Ex- pect to see her in something better than tabs. in the near future Alice Kahle, the shapely blond sou- bret, sang My Dream of the Bia Pamde in good voice. The number was inter- mingled with a military drill by Alice and the girls, which won the biggest ap- plause of the evening. Cecil Phelps’ Co. Opens on Sun Time COVINGTON, Phelps’ Derby its season's Ky., Dee. 24.-—~Cx Winners Company mad: debut on the Sun Ti: at the Hippodrome Theater here Sunda, with a matinee and two night shows after a season of 44 consecutive week on the Spiegelberg Time Business in the South was fair, according to Phelps, but the railroads got a big chunk of th: net receipts Following the Sunday show at th: local Hipp., the company laid off for three days, playing the Hippodrome at Newport on Thursday nicht. The com- pany will also play a matinee and two night shows there Christmas Day. From Newport, the company was scheduled to go to the Midelberg Theater, Logan W. Va., but a last-minute change wa made, switching the Derby Winners t Grafton, W. Va., for a week's run. Phelps has a keen outfit this seaso) and his bills are interspersed with plenty of vaudeville specialties, giving the show plenty of speed. While not overburdened with scenery, the company has a raft of pretty wardrobe The Derby Winners lineup ts: Ce Phelps, owner, manager and first comic. Art Hughes, second comic: Ruth Ellis. “blues” singer; Peggy Craig, soubret: Clyde Hamilton, Frank Mazzei, Walter Nichols, straight man: Gilbert Georce, dancer, and Lenora Nichols, chorus pro- ducer. The chorines are: Josephine Reid Dorothy Phillips, Helen Cameron, Patri- cla Mauer, Ruth O'Nell, Lillian Gabriel and Ella Smith Walter PaDelford is musical director. Cecil Phelps and Art Hughes, th: dispensers of joy, garner plenty of laughs with their work and are one of the best comic teams to visit here this season Art Hughes is a veteran at the game and runs Cecil a close race for the top honors Walter Nichols pleased with h's singing and handled the straight part admirably. Ruth Ellis, “blues” singer, is possessed of a good voice and puts her numbers over in fine style. Peggy Craig, soubret. while a little weak on the singing end. is a rare treat for the eyes. Clyde Hamil- ton does several sone numbers in fair voice and, on the night reviewed, drew the biggest applause of the evening with a “bone” solo. the best piece of work with the “bones” the writer has ever witnessed. Frank Mazzei put on a song number and trumpet solo to a good hand. Gilbert George entertained with some nifty hoofing. A trio, consisting of Hughes, Nichols and Hamilton, put over some comedy numbers that pleased the crowd im- mensely. Another trio, made up of Misses Ellis, Craig and Mauer, also went over nicely. A highlicht of the show was the police drill put on by six of the girls, with Miss Ellis as captain. Van Allen’s “Town Topics” To Open at Detroit Jan. 2 DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 24.—Billy Van Allen's new Town Topics Company is scheduled to open at the Colonial Thea- ater here January 2. The company will carry 30 people, including 14 well-known tab. performers and 16 girls in line. Each week, according to Van Allen, the company will be augmented by visiting vaudeville specialties, chosen for their adaptability to the current bill. “No ex- pense will be spared,” says Van Allen, ‘in costuming and equipping the company and with my new show I hope to reach the goal so many of us have been striving for in the miniature musical comedy field.” Dennis Sisters in Houston The Dennis Sisters, Babe and Fay», after spending a brief but enjoyable va- cation with their folks, have joined W. | Lytle's company at the Royal Theater, Houston, Tex. Buster Graves is pro- ducer of the show. 4 ee ee Z Bos i) rs Fy) , SUS red Ure Wile A/F ND i \\“@ C/ LOS WW oF ats a [ is) " pag | . 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Lord's ‘“‘Musi-Girl’’ Roster WACO, Tex., Dec. 24.—A number of nanges have recently been made in the t of Jack Lord's Musi-Girl Company, ow in its 12th week at the Crystal eate ere. ae and Murray joined the show, replacing Billy Gilbert and wife. Happy jack Burns opened Monday, replacing Nelson Barnes, who went home for the holidays. Jack Foley, who has been with the company for the last eight veeks, closed to join Dick Hyland at Moosejaw, Sask., Can. The present roster of the company is: lack Lord, producer and manager; Jack Burns, comedy; Billy Murray, general business ; June Murray, prima donna and ~eneral business; Marvelle Girand, char- : ters; Dorothy Lord, chorus and parts; fy . Mae (Boots) Burns and Fay Wilson, horus and specialties; Lillian Romans nd Helen and Jessie Mae Martin, cho- rus and numbers, and Fred Baldwin, musicé jrector. ae at the Crystal is two bills a week, with two shows daily, except Saturday and Sunday, when four shows are given. Milt Schuster Placements he owing tab. performers were PR ent ng Milt Schuster : Jack B. Wright, with Harry Rogers Billy Maine Company, J. L. Davis, manager ; Jessalyn Fax, with Buddy Kane, in stock ‘t the Central Theater, Danville, Ill.; Jack Shackelton, with Danny Lund's chow; Henri Neiser, with Pete Pate, in stock at the Landers Theater, Springfield, Mo.: Dorothy Fuller, with Greenwald & Weston; Jack Carrington, with the Scott Sisters, Paul D’Mathot, manager ; Dorsey Powers, with Halton Powell's sehara Company, P. E. Johnston, man- ager; Benn and Allen, with Cecil Phelps Derby Winners Company; Gloria La- verne and Ed Sherwood, with Billy Van Allen, in stock at the Colonial Theater, Detroit, Mich.; Art Vernum, with Burns & Paden, at the Regent Theater, Muske- gon, Mich. Tab. Talks From K. C. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 22.—Prince A. K. Richards, of Honolulu, who has been touring the many musical circuits in the States, recently joined the Clark Oldfield Road Show. The Prince has been in this country six years, is the pos- sessor of a rich baritone voice and is also an artist on the Hawaiian steel guitar and ukulele. MR. AND MRS. ALBERT HOLT (Katherine Armstrong) arrived in the city December 20, to spend the Christ- mas holidays here, visiting their many friends. They closed with a musical comedy company in Salt Creek, Wyo., and after a vacation here, are planning on touring Oklahoma, Kansas and Missourt with their independent vaude- ville act. CARROLL ROBERTS left here Decem- ber 19 for Furley, Kan., his home, to spend Christmas. He was with the Black and White Revue, which closed recently in Missouri for a Christmas lay- off. WALLIE REGGIE Whittington, mem- ber of the Black and White Revue, spent a few days here after the show's close, before going to Amarillo, Tex. for Christmas. B. BESSIE HALE advises from Henryetta, Okla., that the “Schnitz” Sey- mour Midnight Follies Company is meet- ing with a good reception and good business thru that State. HAROLD BUTTIMER, recently in ad- vance of Hart's Musical Comedy Com- pany, was an arrival here today, from Omaha. Buttimer plans on spending the Temainder of the winter in the city. WANTED ——FOR—— ‘Hap’? Moore’s Merry Maids Poeple in all lines. Chorus Girls, General Business Mau, sing in quartette, lead numbers. Soubrette, plenty PeD. parts, lead numbers, do spectalties; strong -Spe- ‘aly Team, man parts, sing in quartette; wite cho- "us Pour experienced Chorus Girls. Join immedi- ely, Show booked solid. Wire, prepay “MAT MOORE, week December 26, Victoria Theatre, Wil- Bington, N. ©. Permanent address, 701 Colymbis Bank Building, Atlanta, Ga. The Billboard, January 1, 1927 33 WANTED FOR Marcus Productions For New Orleans, Birmingham and Memphis, permanent stock, also for company on Interstate Time: People in all lines.— Dramatic Stock People, Musical Comedy People, Chorus Pro- ducers, feature Comics, Musical Directors, Scenic Artists, Pro- ducers of Novelty Scenes, Harmony Singers, Stage Hands, Chorus Girls and Quartettes. Must have appearance. panies consist of forty-five people in each unit. Com- State salaries: send photos. All mail sent to Lyric Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama. will be returned. Would like to hear from Charlie Abot. Photos Marcus Productions A. B. MARCUS Musical Acts and ten real CHORUS GIRLS Mylie, Edith Dawn wire if at liberty. Address WANTED FOR THE F. & H. PRODUCTIONS PEOPLE IN ALL LINES FOR THE LATEST MUSICAL COMEDY BARRAGE, “SWEET HEARTS” Actors that are versatile and can do strong Specialties, Singers, Dancers, Sister Acts, Specia Also Piano Leader, wife Chorus. Chas. BoodrittsY aes FRED HURLEY, Arcade Hotel, Springfield, Ohio. , Sam Tab. Notes CHARLIE CARTER is a recent addi- tion to the Verne Phelps Company. MR. and MRS. DON TRENT (Blanche Burnette), well known in tab. circles, are now in burlesque with Kongo, a Columbia Wheel attraction. POLI AND DE ARTO closed at Ko- komo, Ind., December 12, and, after spending a week at Lima, O., joined Irving N. Lewis’ Nifties of Broadway Company. “TRIXIE” SAUL is now producing at the Midway Follies Theater, Chicago, formerly a vaudeville house, but now playing musical comedy stock with a change of bill weekly. THE JOYLAND REVUE, managed by Charles Gramlich, is now playing a two weeks’ engagement at the Hippodrome Theater, Hollywood, Fla., after a success- ful week at the Boneta Theater, Atlan- ta, Ga. “CHIC” KENNEDY, “that funny little girl”, formerly with Pete Pate’s Company, is appearing nightly with a score of Broadway favorites at the Paddock Club, Seventh avenue, New York, where she is billed as “the funniest human in town”. CLAUDE MATTHIS and wife, Marie, are at present playing vaudeville in and around Chicago, and state conditions in the Windy City are very good. They will spend the holidays in Chicago before taking to the road. JACK GRANT, that veteran black-face comedian of tabs., is at present furnishing the comedy for Delmar’s Fighting Lions on the Keith Time, where he is garnering plenty of laughs with his work, according to reports received by the writer. ALYNNE ARDEN, female impersona- tor, who is convalescing from a nervous breakdown and temporary paralysis of his legs, wishes to thank his many friends who wrote him during his con- finement in the Swedish Hospital, Minne- apolis, Minn. He especially thanks Babe Montana, female impersonator, and Ralph Musselman for their cheery letters. Ar- den, who is now located at 2510 N. Sheridan avenue, Minneapolis, writes that gre is badly in need of a little financial ald. TOM (BIMBO) HOWARD, well-known tramp comic, can be seen around the Lincoln Square Theater, Indianapolis, Ind., where Jack Kane's Stock Company is holding forth to good holiday business, Howard ts in Indianapolis to spend the holidays with his sisters, after a good season in Atlantic City. CHARLES H. WERRY, former lead singer with the Melody Four, with the Loie Bridge Players, playing at the Globe Theater, Kansas City, Mo., wishes to let- his many friends know that he has given up the show business to work at his trade, engraver, in Denver, Col. Werry states that the 10 months with the Loi Bridge Players were the most pleasant in his theatrical career, and it was with much regret that he left the company. “The Loie Bridge Company is, to my mind,” writes Werry, “the best in the game in several ways—neatness, good fellowship and good people. I hope their present success will always continue.” THE ROSTER of Homer Meachum’s Sensation includes Homer Meachum, manager and comic; Owen Bennett, straights; Jimmie Oates, juvenile; Buddy Weber, general business; Bert Barry, characters; Cherry Brown, characters; Gladys Rooney, soubret, and Dottie May- field, Grace Moxey, Josetta Laverne, Bob- bie Croom, Lillian Bennett and Levora Barry, choristers. The quartet, composed of Homer Meacham, second tenor; Jim- mie Oates, first tenor; Owen Bennett, baritone, and Buddy Weber, bass, dish out a mean mess of harmony that never fails to stop a show. HAROLD SNELL writes: “I notice in the last issue of The Billboard that Ed- die Ford has me listed as straight man with his Broadway Masqueraders on the Canadian Burlesque Circuit. This is a mistake. For the past 20 weeks I have been with Arthur Higgins’ Folly Town Maids. I am still with the Higgins Com- pany, enjoying a very pleasant and un- limited engagement. Eddie Ford wrote me in regard to joining his show, but I did not join. Business with the Folly Town Maids at the Grand Opera House, Alton, IIL, is remarkably good, especially for this time of the year, and Arthur Higgins and his entire company are be- coming greater favorites each week.” JIMMIE GALE and wife, Margie June, are enjoying a pleasant season with Jack LaMont's Pretty Babies Company, a Mutual burlesque attraction. Jimmie 1s doing juveniles and characters and Mar- gie is working in the chorus. Gale states that he expects to open a 14-people tab. show in the spring. THE BIG PARADE Company's roster is as follows: Paul Reno, manager, pro- ducer and straights; Jack Croom, general business; Bobbie Croom, character prims; Otto Holland, comic; Hal Stock, comic; Dawn O'Day, ingenue; Earl Aulbry, Charlesten specialties, and Lottie and Addie Poe, Jeannette Naylor, Ila Hol- land, Margie Alban and Mildred Wood, choristers. Jack and Bobbie Croom are closing with the show, after a short but very successful engagement, to spend the holidays with their friends and relatives in Memphis, Tenn. How To Organize a Jazz Band (Continued from page 25) be piano, drums, saxophone, banjo and cornet. They are the ground work of the jazz band, and are absolutely essen- tial for melody, rhythm and harmony. If your orchestra improves in quality and also financially, you will want to expand it. The next instrument added should be a trombone, then another saxo- phone, a bass horn, a third saxophone, and finally a violin. You will note the emphasis I place upon the saxophone, and by saxophone I mean clarinet too, as most players double in several reed in- struments. When I organized. my first orchestra to play for a local dance many years ago in a small California town. I had to play the saxophone, as no re- spectable musician would dally with this then despised instrument. And from the first I recognized the necessity of the Saxophone in the dance orchestra. All my arrangements and _ instrumentation tended toward more prominence for the lowly sax. In enlarging the 10-piece orchestra the order might almost be pro- gressive. That is, add another trombone, cornet, saxophone, another heavy horn, bass or baritone, and so on. If your orchestra is very large, you can put in some unusual instrument, as a bassoon or a harp. Now supposing you have the right proportion of instruments and each musician is moderately qualified to play, I would work solely toward a co-operative effect. Remember, you are playing for dancers, who will notice the slightest al- teration in time. I would rather sacrifice the most striking effects than to miss or halt one measure when playing in a ball- room. Solos are all right in their place, but like football or basketball, it is the team that works together that wins. Play the music as it is written, in accord with your fellow players, and you will secure an effect more pleasing than a lot of grand-stand monkey business. Remem- ber that jazz is no longer in its primal barbaric state. Wrigglings, lurchings, slapstick effects are rapidly going out of style; in fact, they never were in style with most of the best aggregations. Softer tones, vivid melodies, definite, en- ticing rhythms are the aim of the modern dance orchestra. The individual player should strive for tone and accuracy rather than for a blare and calisthenics; then your orchestra will] take on beauty and harmony. My last word is practice! Morning, noon and night, practice!” A glance at the Hotel Directory in this issue may save considerable time and inconvenience. Be a Booster for Milt Schuster The Season's Greetings to all. 36 W. Randolph St., Chicage, tll. ST. LOUIS COSTUME CO. WIGS, COSTUMES AND TIGHTS For Rent or Sale. 507 North Broadway, ST, LOUIS, MO. WANTED QUICK For EDDIE COLLINS MUSICAL STOCK CO., % enlarge Company. Prima Donna capable of playing strong line of parts, good singing voice essential. Also two more Chorus Girls. Stock engagement. People in all lines write. EDDIE COLLINS, Capitol Thea- tre, Manitowoe, Wisconsin. WANT Two Experienced Choristers Salary, $27.50. Also Specialty Team, man for Ju- veniles, wife Chorus. Join immediately. Wire, don't write. BILLY WEHLE, Princess Theatre, Shelby. N. C., this week; Strand Theatre, Charlotte, N. C., next week. AT LIBERTY FOR TAB.—Tall Eccentric Comedian. singing, dancing and musical specialties; Baritone Saxophone Player; solos, lead girl numbers. Join wire. Need ticket. Write or wire CLAUDE CLARA. Fountain City, Wisconsin. AT LIBERTY Valuable Team HAL KITER. Versatile Comedian TOMMY WHALEN, Characters Also Double Vaudeville Specialty. You can boy aus reasonable. Invite offers from burlesque and tab. managers. Ad- dress Hannah Hotel, Cleveland. Ohio. TELL THE ADVERTISER IN THE BILLBOARD WHERE YOU GOT HIS ADDRESS. a ea ee an Nee — ; | ws 8 ee | a | = aa | = 8"... i — — —_i | —-—- = a

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i : 34 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 urlesque Condacted by ALFRED NELSON—Communicatiom to 1560 Broadway, New York Jack Reid Revives “Record Breakers” c. 25.—I. H. Herk has h Bert Tod s t a one v management of Tod ; Jack Reid and his Rec a bie Grawing card on Circuit and should draw ronage on the Mutual. Radical Raymond NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Sam Raymond, directing manager of the Gayety and Star Theaters, Brooklyn, presenting Mutual Cir- cuit shows, profitable pat- is DECC gressiveness, his latest move being to pook his Heppy Hours show lay-off week be- tween Brooklyn and Philadelphia into Walter Reade’s Broadway Theater, Long } for the first three days and s Palace Theater, Trenton, for the last three days of the week, thereby giv- ing his company a Christmas present in the form of a week’s work and salary instead of a layoff with loss of salary. Should Raymonrd’s show play to profit- eble patronage it may lead up to other Mutual Circuit shows being booked into Long Branch and Trenton. Boosting Burlesque NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Jack Beck, promoter of burlesque principals, wno makes his headquarters at Izzy Hirst's Gayety Theater, Philadelphia, was a week-end visitor to Columbia Corner, seeking talent for shows in Philly. Beck is a great booster of burlesque and many principals are indebted to Beck for lucrative engagements. Inci- Centally, Beck is assistant to Izzy Hirst in the operation of the Gayety Theater Stock Company that now includes Billy Tanner, Harry Harrigan, Frank (Rags) Murphy, Betty Palmer, Flo Owens, El- more Cody, Buehla Vinetta, Al Golden, Bennie Fox and Walter Kreiger. Billy Mossey Laid Up; Michaels Show Postponed BUFFALO, Dec. 25.—Because of ill- ness in his family Billy Mossey, comic lead in the Michaels No. 2 show, sched- uled to open last week at the Michaels Plaza, was forced to lay off and the show was unable to open. The Plaza will re- open next week with the Michaels No. 1 show. S. H. Dudley’s colored show, Darktown Frolics, will play the Palace Theater this week in the place of the usual Palace Stock Company engage- ment. Changes in Casts GEORGE BROADHURST opened Mon- day with the New 125th Street Theater stock company, New York. ADELINE McKEEVER, ingenue, joined the Palace Theater stock company, Buffalo, on Monday. BLOSSOM LA VELLE closed with the Grand Street Theater stock company, New York, Saturday. HARRY MEYERS and FLORENCE DRAKE closed with Sky Rockets, Mutual Circuit show, at Springfield. Les Dunn joined the company at the Gayety The- ater, Brooklyn. Billy Aldridge succeeds Miss Drake. INA HAYWARD, prima donna of Min- sky’s Apollo Theater stock company, New York, closed December 18. CAPT. HARRY GOLDBERG is making further changes in his cast of Vamps of 1927, Mutual Circuit show, by the exit of Bob Snyder and Morris Levine and the entry of Billy Mossey and Sam Lewis. SAMMY WRIGHT, after fulfilling a two-week engagement with Rarin’ To Go, a Columbia Circuit company, will close at the Empire, Brooklyn. FLO PERRY, last season as Kitty Mahoney, daughter of Maggie and Jiggs in “Bringing Up Father’, and this season playing Cynthia in “‘“My Gitl’’, both shows on the Columbia Cir- cuit. Previously Miss Perry appeared with the ‘Midnight Maidens’’, soubret with Ed Lee's ““Big Wonder Show’’ and for a while appeared in vaudeville with her two sisters. Jack Beck’s Placements PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 25. — Jack Peck, artistes’ representative, has maae placements, viz.: Billy (Dutch) Tanner, comique; Bobby De Rose, classical dancer, as added attraction; Brooks and Perry, colored act; Diane Morgan, prima donna; May Leona, acrobatic specialty dancer, and Viola McCoy, celebrated blues-singing recording artist, as added attraction, at Isie Hirsts Wayety ‘rnea- ter Stock Company. Ed Johnston, tramp comique, and Viola Frego, with Dave Marion’s Columbia Cir- cuit show; Madame Aspen, classical dancer, as added attraction, at the Gar- rick Theater, St. Louis, Mo., week of December 22, and May Belle, shimmy- shaking specialist, as added attraction, with Walter Scott at the Empire Thea- ter, Cleveland, O., to open January 2. Clyde Griffith in Cleveland BUFFALO, Dec. 25.—Clyde Griffith, of the National Vaudeville Exchange, spent part of last week in Cleveland digging up principals and chorus girls for local stock burlesque companies. He signed Billy Mifflin and his wife, who joined Jake Potter's Candy Kids Company, which opens in Rochester, N. Y., next week. Fifi as Added Attraction En Tour Mutual Circuit NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Mlle. Fifi, classy classic dancer, famous around this city for her extended engagen t stock and circuit houses, has been espe- cially engaged to appear as an added attraction in Mutual Circuit houses, viz.: Mutual-Empress, Kansas City, January 9; Garrick, St. Louis, week of January 16; Empress, Cincinnati, week of Janu- ary 23; Gayety Theater, Louisville, week of January 30: Empress Theater, Chi- cago, week of February 6; Cadillac, De- troit, week of February 13; Empire Thea- ter, Cleveland, week of February 20; Academy Theater, Pittsburgh, week of February 27, and the Olympic Theater, New York City, week of March 6. ents aA Burlesquing “Lulu Belle’ NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Weber and Fields, likewise Concross and Dixie Min- strels; were noted in their day for their burlesquing of popular topics of the day, likewise plays, and it now appears as if Hurtig & Seamon, directing managers of the Yorkville Theater Stock Company, were preparing to pursue a similar policy with their future presentations. Beginning Monday the Yorkville Thea- ter Stock Company will present the first part of the show supplemented by the usual run-way numbers with the 38 white members of the company. A colored company of 25 from Connie's Inn will put on the second part with a burlesque of Lulu Belle, a popular play now running in a Broadway house. If this burlesque attracts profitable patronage the promoters will present bur- lesques on other popular plays. Miner’s Materialization NEW YORK, Dec. directing manager of Miner’s Empire Theater, Newark, presenting Columbia Circuit shows, with the able aid of A. Johnny Mack, house manager, is now pre- paring to celebrate the Miner's material- ization of its 63d anniversary week, January 23, with the presentation of Wine, Woman and Song. The patrons of Miner's, always re- sponsive to any worthy charity, donated more than $400 to take care of many poor kiddies who otherwise would be minus merriment on Christmas. H. Clay and Thomas W. Miner added materially to the fund. Brown Vs. Abbott NEW YORK, Dec. 25. — Joseph A. Brown, a theatrical promoter of Roches- ter, was awarded a judgment of $5,895 against Harry Abbott, Jr., of the same city, by a jury. Abbott induced Brown tu finance Abbott's management of tne Corinthian Theater for the presentation of Mutual Circuit shows. Brown claimed Abbott misrepresented conditions, there- fore the suit. 25.—Tom Miner, Executive Offices Band Box Theater Holiday Greetings from the ‘OHIO GANG’ MANHEIM Theatrical Enterprises BERT H. TODD, Gen. Mar. Cleveland, Ohio. “LAFFIN’ THRU” | TODD & CUMMINGS Burlesque THE EMPIRE with Present | Famous Cleveland's PEACHES JACK REID BAND BOX Mutual Burlesque and His REVUE Theater Geo. Young, Mgr.\“RECORD BREAKERS”| Wm. Dowdell, Mgt.|Walter Scott, Mgr. Season’s Greetings Entering on our 10th year as edi: of burlesque, ever striving for th« bet- terment of burlesque, we fee] @impiy repaid for all our efforts by the ava lanche of seasonal greetings in th: form of cards and personal letters. We are making our acknowledge ment to individual greeters under th, general heading of cards received at this office. To one and all alike w: reciprocate by hoping that you na a Merry Christmas and that the eco: ing year will bring you prosperity and happiness. Fraternally yours, NELSE Change in Companies NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Sue heading her exit from tonight Milford Madcap Burlesquers, wi!) the Palace Theater, Buffa': and be succeeded by an ther company at tomorrow’s matinee. Th: new company will be headed by Bil!, (Noodles) Mossey, a native son. Seen and Heard MAY ALLEN, the dazzling blond chorister of Max Field's Kuddling Kuties Mutual Circuit show, steps out of line male attire, further camouflages her pe: sonality by a black wig for a hara-sh dancing specialty that fully merits the e: cores given her, but inadvertently the paragraph commending her in our review of Kuddling Kuties was left out, there- fore let it be recorded herein as a justi fiable recognition of May's work. DAVE SIDMAN has been appointed house manager of the Grand Street The- ater, New York, presenting stock. CAROLINE ROSS, the dazzling blond shimmy-shaking specialist, was an adged attraction with the Bathing Beautles, Mutual Circuit show, at the Empress The- ater, Cincinnati. ELINOR MARSHALL has forsaken burlesque for an engagement with the Bert Smith Players at the Majestic The- ater, Evansvilie, Ind. FRANK LOCKWOOD, carpenter f Uncle Tom and Eva, Columbia Circuit company, closes at the Empire, Brooklyn, to return to his home town, Stamford. Conn., where he will operate an attractive dining car on one of the main streets. Homer Boughington, assistant electrician, 2!so closes at the Empire. BILLY KOUD, ensemble number pro- ducer for Broadway and burlesque shows. was sufficiently successful with the Grand Street Theater stock company, New York. to warrant the management appointing Koud as ensemble number producer for its new 125th Street Theater stock com- Pany in Harlem. Koud is now producing at both houses. FRED IRWIN, former franchise-pro- ducing manager of Columbia Circuit shows, after losing out on his suit against the Columbia Amusement Company for cancellation of franchise, entrained for Canada where he has extensive holdings in the mining district of Porcupine. Ir- win {s now en route his home on Long Island for the holidays. DIPLOMATIC DAVE KRAUS, of the M. B. A., has secured a lease on the Or- pheum Theater, Montreal, where he will present dramatic stock indefinitely. THE CINCINNATI TIMES STAR in its issue of December 16 carried a leading editorial commenting on burlesque of th, burlesque past and present {In comparison with the so-called Broadway productions of the present in which burlesque is commended, whereas a popular play is criticized caus- tically. FLORENCE MILLS, principal in Oh, Papa, on the Columbia Circuit, broke her leg last week tin a fall in the lobby of the Gibson Hotel, Cincinnati. She was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital. Miss Mills and her husband, Abe Reyn- olds, had planned to spend the Christmas holidays in Cincinnati. Af : . ’ \ ) te \ ol or oo SY a y \ 7 rid WW N 9 s. Yy ‘a x : KY a \e 4 Yi \ . \) 1, TA! ee Cw fo\o! WKeC/ 7 — - ~ a, ( _ 75 I ' a. , B 4 : ——- A _— r F Ce } ‘ = ee — a ee ge ' ; and Frank Cummings whereby the lat- 2 Re eg De : ter will cancel their booking of Over 4 er + - | ; Bere on the Mutual Circuit and replace ae X ‘ ral , Ee I that presentation with Jack Reid and a | - oa ae Ba ae revival of his famous Racord Breakers 5 . ae ; Sa a¢ ~ a a beginning January 10 at the Gayety | - is aa { Theater, Brooklyn. o? ‘OS — | Reid as a principal in the presentation | § Prat , z will resume his former characterization, | @ a : portraying his well-known “Tad” and - i : | “Information Kid’’ under the directing : ; ummings. . rd Breakers was . e old American |§ : | Pt \ ee —— | Pe ee eae | - baa: Ree ee ic : a. aiee sti” a ' PS az ; we A ee ; a ? : ge le ee a Pe ee | - 7 + 2 Se ue 7

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Ee NS COLUMBIA CIRCUIT RARIN TO GO R by Ed E. Daley. Lyrics and music Freddie Phillips. Supplemental ial lyrics and music for Counting ‘he Hours by Earl Carroll. Musical numbers produced by Midgie Gibbons, tor and Cooper. Entire production ved and presented by Ed E. Daley the Columbia Theater week of December 20, CAST (White Company): Jack (Snooze) Kinneard, Sammy Wright, Lew Denny, George Manning, Midgie Gibbons, Dorethy Alexander and Ruby Pilgreen. cAsT (Colored Company): Jimmie Ferguson, Tim Moore, Gertie Moore, Atta Blaake, Edith Spencer, Harry Lucas and Joe Jordan’s 10 Sharps and Flats Scenery, lighting effects, gowning and eostuming fulfill all the requirements of the C. A. C. The book by Ed E. Daley is a series of comedy-making burlesque bits that have become familiar by pre- vious presentation, but given new twists and turns by Daley for this show. Jack (Snooze) Kinneard, in a some- what eccentrie Dutch characterization a la Bert Lahr, with frequent changes of custom-tailored comedy clothes, has a slow, droll, dry delivery of lines and action apropos that garners laughter and applause whenever he is on the stage. Sammy Wright, a short-statured, some- what eccentric Dutch comique, alto- gether different in his frequent changes of makeup and custom-tailored comedy from Kinneard, makes an ad- mirable contrast with his fast and funny delivery of lines and eccentric actions. Wricht is well set in this show, having plenty to do in comedy scenes with and lothes without Kinneard With Kinneard Wricht makes an able foil, with- eut Kinneard Wright evokes laugh- ter and applause on his own account as an all-round, thoroly seasoned burlesque comique of exceptional eccentric talent and ability. Lew Denny, a clean-cut, aggressive straight man, varies his appearances in scenes with the characterization of a Frenchman, in which he creates much George Manning. a sweet singer of ntal songs, leads several numbers effectively, appears to good advantage in bits and distinguishes himself admirably in a singing and dancing specialty with Midzie Gibbons Midcie Gibbons, eentime more personally at- tractive than ever with her titian-haired beaut ingratiating smile, puts pep aplenty into her singing and dancing numbers that were fully encored and en- hanced by her Russian acrobatic dancing that included splits and cartwheels that gave a full flash of her slender, sym- metrical form in innumerable graceful movements that were only excelled by h er stately statuesque near-nude pose as the pendulum ‘n the Earl Carroll pro- duction and presentation of the pic- turesque finale entitled Counting the Hours, a previous feature of Earl Car- roll's Vanities on Broadway. Dorothy Alexander, a pretty, petite, brunet soubret, sang and danced her way into favor with her first appearance, leading a number, and her every reap- pearance was warmly welcomed by the audience. Ruby Pilgreen, a marcel-waved brunet with flirty eyes, proved title to vocalistic soprano and nifty dancer extraordinary. The three feminine principals, with their contrasting beauty, fully merited the encores given their numbers and the laughter and applause given them in- dividually and collectively in their re- spective comedy scenes, The Lewis Sisters, pretty, petite, bobbed brunets, in a singing and dancing specialty, introduced a series of steps never heretofore seen in burlesque that in all probability ere long will carry these clever kiddies in a production on Broadway. The outstanding comedy bit of the presentation was Dentist Denny’s man- handling of Dutch comique, painstaking, patient Wright, for Denny handed Sammy more punishment than George Stone ever did in previous presentations, in which Wright was a glutton for punishment. The chorus left nothing to be desired in youth, beauty, talent and ability in presenting the picturesque ensemble numbers staged by Midgie Gibbons, who can give some of her masculine com- petitors cards and spades and then beat them in novel staging of ensembles. The colored company opened part two to the musical selections of Joe Jordan and His 10 Sharps and Flats in the orchestra pit, replacing Hughie Shubert and his Columbia Theater harmonists. The colored chofisters’ ensemble started a fast pace for the principals, that in- cluded Atta Blaake, a natty juvenile dancer; Radcliff and Radcliff, male and female dancers, single and double, with Frank doing a double-voice singing act extraordinary. A burlesque boxing bout of the man- handling, slapstick, laugh-evoking kind, with Jimmy Ferguson, the promoter, a la straight man; Tim Moore, jovial jester comique; Atta Blaake, realistic pugilist; Harry Lucas, dwarf comique; Gertie Moore and Edith Spencer, comediennes, was the highlight of the colored com- pany comedy that went over for a wow. “The Desert”, one of those ghost bits, slender, shapely, was draggy and dismal. A cabaret scene, with Jordan’s Ten Sharps and Flats as musical entertainers and the colored principals as singing and dancing specialists and number leaders for en- The Billboard, January 1, 1927 35 sembles of pretty. petite, dynamic dancers, made a fitting foreground for the white company, in full evening dress attire, occupying elevated boxes on stage for the closing scene of the show. MUTUAL CIRCUIT HAPPY HOURS —With— NORMA NOEL Book by Tom Howard. Produced under the personal stage direction gand presented by Sam Raymond at the Star Theater, Brooklyn, week of De- cember 20. CAST—Norma Noel, Harry Stratton, Freddie Walker, Charles Markert, Bryant Wolfe, Grace Wasson, Evelyn Butler. CHORUS—Nina Doris Hinton, Madge Reed, Violet Kaplan, Shirley Greene, Bebe Markert, Bessie Moore, Margie Levan, Ann Mendell, Loretta Manhoff, Billie Gilmore, Maybelle Girard, Helen Clayton, Alys Sharkey, Buddie Damsey, Bell Bendon, Vere DeVere. There are four full-stage sets in the first part and four full-stage sets in the second part, supplemented in both parts by drapes and drops for specialties. The scenic equipment, gowning and cos- tuming classy and colorful. The book is credited to Tom Howard, but it’s evident by the stage direction of Sam Raymond that he has taken unusual liberties with the book of bits for the purpose of making the comedy more apropos to the comiques, for by no stretch of our imagination can we see Harry Stratton or his cocomique, Fred Walker, working along the slow, droll lines of Howard, for Stratton and Walker are dynamic in their every line and act, and if there are any faster or funnier comiques on the circuit we haven't seen them as yet. Norma Noel is being starred in this presentation and fully entitled to the billing, for Norma, with her boyish bob brunet beauty, talent and ability, dominates the stage in every scene, num- ber and specialty in which she appears. Her radiant, ever-present smile capti- vates the customers. Her pleasingly Plump form in near-nude costumes makes a flash that pleases the optics. Her vivaciousness in numbers puts pep aplenty into her accompanying choristers. Her Spanish costume was apropos for a Hawaiian dance a la na- tive. In a singing and dancing specialty to the piano accompaniment of Bryant Wolfe, Norma could have held the stage indefinitely. Harry Stratton, comique-in-chief, is doing his usual crepe-face Hebrew, and doing it faster and funnier than ever, garnering laughter and applause for his every line, act and patented upper-cut resounding slap to face of his cocomique. Freddie Walker, a newcomer to us in burlesque, affects a somewhat eccentric “goof characterization with a putty mose, wise-cracking sap exclamations, frequent change of customed-tailored comedy clothes in comedy bits, supple- menting with song and dance at fre- quent intervals. Producing managers will do themselves a favor in keeping tab on this boy for future reference when in need of a comique. Charles Markert, a _ nattily attired, clear-dictioned straight man, is perfectly at home in many and varied characteri- zations. Bryant Wolfe has but little to do in the first part except show himself in classy attire that leads the audience to expect something greater that he finally gives them in a specialty with Miss Noel, for Wolfe manipulates the ivory keys of the piano like a master musician for Norma's singing and danc- ing, and during her change of costume vocalizes for personal encores, later proving his worth to the presentation by handling minor bits like a thoroly sea- soned juvenile-straight man. Grace Wasson, a marcel-waved brunet ingenue-soubret, when reviewed by us last season in a Columbia Circuit com- pany gave no indication of her present personal attractiveness, talent and ability of singer and dancer, therefore Grace was a revelation with her pleasing personality, working in scenes like a thoroly seasoned musical comedy ac- tress, leading numbers with pep aplenty, and putting over a singing and dancing specialty with acrobatic contortional stunts that included a glass of water on forehead while rotating horizontally across stage, which is conclusive proof that a reviewer should see performers in more than one performance ere making a decisive criticism. Evelyn Butler, altho apparently young in years, hasn't as yet. fallen for the boyish bob, in all probability due to the glory she finds in her chestnut brown tresses, that she dresses with care. Be that as it may, Evelyn reads lines dis- tinctly in scenes, leads numbers like a musical comedy star in frequent changes of costly, classy gowns, and steps out with the sex appeal in peek-a-boo black tights that gives a great flash of form while she trips the light fantastic. Raymond was careful in his selection of choristers, for he has a personally attractive ensemble that has been well coached in novel numbers, and, following the example set for them by “Red-Hot” Norma Noel, puts pep aplenty into their performance. Chief among the comedy bits speeded up by Producer Raymond for his fast and funny comiques were At the Races, A Friendly Debate With Cleoparta, The Haunted Castle, The Policeman, a la That Man There; Madame X, Roof Gar- den, A Lesson in Golf, Cafe de Zoup, for Stratton’'s masterpiece, and Radio Manidcs, a series of bits that evoked continuous laughter and applause from the first rise to the final fall of the curtain. The Vaudeville Field In LONDON By “WESTCENT” 18 Charing Cross Road, W. C. 2 LONDON, Dec. 8.—The annual supper and dance at the Savoy Hotel Sunday last was a success, thru the personality of Lottie Albert, honorary treasurer, who makes her numerous friends and ac- quaintances pay forfeit. She netted over ° 2.500 in donations, of which $500 came from E. F. Albee The income tax people are toward our alien performers this active side. The Riackbirds company at the London Pavilion, which has only been here about seven weeks, has been assessed to the hilt. One double act received an assess- ment of $7.500 and were asked to pay $750 « h Gillespie, fresh from his Ameri- made his first public appear- ince at the Ladies’ Guild Ball, and as Usual, made his.optimistic speech about Vaudeville being very much alive H mments on the success of the recent “All British” Palace program in New York caused the comment that the only to get vaudeville engagements is to cet out of England Jertram W. Mills. back again on this sid busy getting ready for the Chri show which begins on the 20th wit usual luncheon, graced by Lon don's Lord Mayor and the Earl of Lons- dale ’ Konorah, of the TI. A. Ta, will be com- J r to see the opening of the show &* Mille’ guest. Mills every year honors TePresentative circus men and other im- Presarios and leaders of thought on the Continent in this manner, and in view of the fact that so many of this year’s artists are I. A. L.’s, he invited Konorah. The Terry Twins are this week mak- ing their first appearance in cabaret at the London Club. Jimmy Russell, who many times has played the Boy in the Box in Karnos’ Mumming Birds, took over the Scotch Stores, right facing the London Hippo- drome, last night. With the Palladium closed, Horace Sheldon and his Orchestra are the top of the bill this week at the Holbern Em- pire. Harry Weldon has patched up his legal troubles with Moss’ Empires, and with his $1,250 a week contract he will play in revue for 1927. Included in the con- tract is his wife, Hilda Glyder. Tennent, for Moss Empires, has to run what are known as bargain basement programs This means that instead of three or four vaudeville programs he concentrates on one, packing in all the acts he is bound to play, and then sits back and awaits results. George Egbert. who died recently, was a small-time agent, but of late years had good friends in Fred W. Warden, Kart Hooper and Gus Bauer; also, of For- tescue, of the meat market He was for some years with Harry Day. LONDON, Dee. 15.—As is her usual custom Lady Stoll wifl give her Christ- mas Party to all tenants of the Os- wald Stoll War Seal Foundation at Wal- ham Green George Jackley will be at the Grand, Brighton, this Christmas for pantomime. The Schwarz Brothers, the American act, is back again with their Broken Mirror, which we eveh a bir success at the London Hippodrome before the war. A smaller version has been going round, handled by Murphy and Mack, called The Major's Reflections, but Schwarz opines it has not hurt them, as they are here for 13 weeks minimum. Riggoletto Brothers made one of the hits of the Holborn Empire program last week. They have been an excellent all- round act, of which their posing is no mean item, especially The Runners. Percy Honri is playing split weeks in the Bernstein houses in London's sub- urbs. The Skating Nelsons are in Fred W. Warden's panto. at the Gaiety, Dublin, this Christmas. Of course, you have all read about Murray's (the escapeologist) stunt in es- caping from a strait-jacket slung nead downwards from a crane in Piccadilly Circus. Murray was in Billybovy's office within two hours of the event. Such stunts are prohibited by police, and in fact they stopped him the day previous, but Murray eluded them on Saturday. - Animal men on this side are getting ready for the expected campaign against them by anti-performing animal societies, the more so as they (the societies) are infuriated at the home secretary circulat- ing instructions that “special” constables under the Emergency Powers Act must not interfere with the regulations of the Performing Animals Act. This was an attempt to get their inspectors who were “specials” to take upon themselves the work of ordinary “coppers”. Lily Morris is heading at Greenock this week. 3ert Nolan, of the George Barclay of- fice and the husband of Daisy Taylor, is in a nursing home, recovering from an operation. Trene Franklin, who returns to Ameri- ea this week, can take to herself the pleasure of knowing that she has made a real artistic and persona! success this side, as has also her husband. Jack Hylton, who is playing one of his first suburban dates at Clapham, has a zood minstrel number and im a lightning black out all the boys don crepe masks, getting a laugh and a good effect. The L. T. V. (Gulliver Tour) has declared and paid an interim dividend of five per cent on the ordinary shares less tax for the six months ending Sep- tember 30. Harry Marlow cleaned up another $1,500 thru a matinee at the Stoll Hip- podrome, Manchester, for the V. A. B. F. Daisy James will head a five weeks’ panto, tour on the Gulliver tour, starting at Lewisham, with Essie Bartle as prin- cipal girl and Tom Reno as chief comic. It’s a sign of things when the L. C. ¢. is looking into the question of the Sun- day opening of kinemas, etc. We have noticed that a correspondent of an Eng- lish paper supplying it with American notes writes that he hopes we keep our tritish Sunday clear from show business even to excluding benefit performances. He's kicking about the four shows a day in America. Well, apart from public opinion, the V. A. F. would soon prevent any such thing as the seven-day work- ing. Certain kinemas have been running a seven-day week as regards t! ployees, which is forbidden, so the ! Cc. has shut for Sundays Cc Kinema, for three months, and ¢! Sily Kinema at Shepherds Bush, b: ! they made their staff work sev lays i- secutively. Robb Wilton is back af the © enum with his “Fireman” scer H t act Dope was too clever 2 t was in fact a burlesque which Robb’s son plays a « but the audience could not tlety of it. So Robb has gone back to the splay boots, Robin redb: itcoat and his Tom E. Murray tions. Wilkie Bard is out of the program at the Alhambra this week, EE * = N mm, awe \ ee | | P| | _ _ oe rd ee be nd a n he Pw : | t ed Nhe jue nd es = r | cs, ne- a a ¢ 4 uit yn, rd, ive ts, an, roe vs, nd ing . for m- ) nz ro- . uit : net for for P ws Ir- ne the yr- yill in ing th. the the Lx Wa ed, sd :: us- ™" Oh, ke iby yas tal. yn- as

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d 3 The Billboard. January 1. 1927 : a | Motion Pictures and Presentations M\. Cor Conducted by ROY CHARTIER—Communications to 1560 Broadway, New York Plan Submitted To Clear Contract +, =i? a 3 one form thruout. De Forest Phonofilms To Push Suit Against Fox NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Because nego- tion hetween Fox and the De Forest Phonofilms interests, temporarily staying Fe r here ao h+ he +¢* latter in the tT’. S. District Court been te ent of the que for ir rminated and no question of patent ri é Lowell H. Brown, presi- dent of De Forest Phonofilms, announces suit will be prosecuted vigor- the purpose of recovering dar aces ciffere d. Forest sui against the Fox Fox-Case Corporation, Corporation, Wiliam Case and Dwight B. infringement of five effected Film C Zoenhone Fox, Eldred, different rporation, Picture Ww. and alleges pate After the suit Theodore nts was filed negotiations were entered into between the respective parties with a view toward an amicable adjustment and consolidation of the ine terests involved in the litigation. W. A. Steffes Resigns At Northwest Meeting MINNEAPOLIS, 25.—The resig- nation of W A s as head of the Northwest Theater Owners’ unit was of- fered this weck at a meeting of the board of directors of the organization He wishes to quit next April before the annual and cited as reason support in the or- irged that it was a Dec. Steff convention, ; k of financial tion, and cl When Steffes’ resignation was refused, 1 1 advisory commit- inted to handle the finances. The question of arbitrati: also arose at the directors’ meeting, when it was bitterly denounced as “overwhelmingly fa g distributors.” There will be no resumption of the system here unless radical changes are made, Arabian Picture House Act Of 17 People Rehearsing NEW YORK. Dec. 27.—A pretentious offering for picture houses entitled Cah- aret Arabian Nights, with a cast of 17, laced in rehearsal today by Horn & Pivtt producer Naida Effendi, Ara- ian be featured, assisted by the Wahabi Arabian Band. The produc- tion is staged in several scenes, was nia bhian dancer 717 f Jog Howard. Vaudevillian. Enters Presentation Field isters Anita Case ine Mickey Sena In- e Ross strumentalists. Fabians Get Paterson House: Presentation Policy Stands NEWARK, Dec. 25.-—The Fabian in- terests, powerful in New Jersey and ligned with the Stanley C ny of America, have taken over the Pat- rson, from H. B. i yendent erator, and will conti: it der the ] Arthur Fisher has been r ial presentation material in- t the | sé s e t beginning of the present season Under the new control the Acme Booking Office will whatever attractions are needed. No “Block Booking” . On 7 U. A. Specials NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—For the first time in its history United Artists is sell- ng seven new productions for definite exhibitors’ dates under its new ermitting a theater owner to buy one or ae many as are wanted instead of h supply iving to take all or nomy The United Ar- tists blow at block booking under the plan is expected to result in increase o1 2les and good will. Al Lichtman, general manager of dis- tribution, announced definite play dates are available for new films starring Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, Bus- ter Keaton and Ronald Colman and Vil- ma Banky, as well as Inspiration and Edwin Carewe productions. The Winning of Barbara Worth is released this month; Sunya (Swanson), The General (Keaton) I.ove will be and The Night of released in January; The Beloved Rogue (Barrymore), in Feb- ruary; Resurrection, the Inspiration- Carewe picture, in March, and The Cir- cus, with Charlie Chaplin, the following month. Roxy Theater Musical Staff Completed—Rapee Engaged NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Erno Rapee, who opened recently as conductor of Fox’s Academy of Music, and Frederick Stahlberg have been engaged by S. L. Rothafel to complete his staff of orches- tra conductors, which also includes Charles Previn and H. Maurice Jacquet. All four are well known in the musical field. It is Rothafel’s plan to use the four conductors on a “rotating” scale, which will focus attention individually Rapee for a time was conductor for Ufa at the Palast, Berlin, and Stahlberg was assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. New Chicago Theater Opens With Vaude. and Pictures CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—The Drake wilt be operated on a plan that employs pro- grams of combined motion picture ind vaudeville. Nate Leavitt has been elected as orchestra leader and Gabe Wellnerr will pre the organ. Harry Mil- ler, at present managing the Ambassador. has been transferred to the Drake. The new Drake, 3546 Montrose avenue, opened Christmas Day. side over Marks Brothers will introduce the charm of old Spain to the west side when the new Marbro Theater, which they are now erecting at Madison street near Crawford avenue, is completed next March. It will hold seats for more than 5,500 persons. $50,000 Contract For Will Rogers NEW YORK, Dec 27.—The Vitaphor Cor n has 1 a $50,000 to Will Rogers to appear in a “talking film, according to report It ler- tood it will be made immediate] t the "Itaphore Studio, so that it can be used cor ction with the next Vitaphons ial, John Barrymore, in Manon Lescaut, which will open, according to present plans, in January. : SIM Sp Concert Violiniste Signed For Publix Unit by Spizzi NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Rosa Polar- who has played * wir t Vi number of presentat ion dates, has been red as a feature of The Jade Peurl, unit tour next week | opening a he Paramount Miss Polarinow by Arthur Spizzi, who also signed Ray Alvino and Boys, formerly with Ed- Leonard in vaudeville, as an added attraction at the Paramount for th: was L ‘ booke same week Other Spizzi bookings include Miriam nd Pollock, high-class piantsts, re- cording artistes for Duo-Art and Colum- bia, for the Rivoli, Baltimore, this week, and the Eight Mascots, girl dancers, with 3ob Bell assisting. The latter opened a tour of the Eastern houses Thursday at Fox’s Academy of Music. The act just came East from Chicago. Shea’s Kensington, Buffalo, Publix House, Has Premiere BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. new house, the Kensington, est of neighborhood 25.—Shea’s on theaters in of the Buf- falo, marks another addition to the im- posing Publix chain as it opens today ith We're in the Navy Nov, ount Param the feature attra Pic- special, as tvres will be changed three times weekly and special films will be given Saturday afternoons for children. Presentation acts will not be used at the new house for the present, but may be later on. The Kensington cost $2 ided 000. Roosevelt and McVicker’s Change Policies Christmas CHICAGO Dec id of Roosevelt beco road-show cording to Balaban & Katz, the theater will be operated under a continuous pol- 20.—Inst ing’ a icy, with performances beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing until midnight. Prices will be reduced The program was change twice Thursday. Thi weekly, on and plan is designed to meet Sunday thé requirements of that portion of the theater-going public whch desires to “get in and out” quickly arrows’ run will be shortened by two days to in irate film departing first photoplay this policy, the Pickford on Christmas Eve The to be shown under the new plan will be The Prisoner of ti Another change where the continuous policy into effect is McVicker’s, where We're in the Navy Now will be shown for a three weeks’ engagement at popular prices, from 9 a.m., and with full orchestral ac- companiment. “Twin Cities’ To Be Name of Publix House in Mpls. MINNEAPOLIS, Cities is the n: Storm, roe Dec. 27.—The Twin me selected for new Pub- lix house, which will be erected here at Ninth and La Salle streets lt will be part of an office building, but Publix’ nterest in the structure will be confined only to the theater Chanin To Build Roxy Houses NBW YORK, Dee 25.—The Chanin Conetruction Company, which built the Roxy Theater, opening in February, has been given the contract to build the new Roxy Mansion Theater at Lexington ave- nue and 58th street, and will erect future houses of the Roxy Chain. Exploitation Stunt On Fire Film Beats All NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—I: +} ; Otrer ng ‘ } M r T J ( { Quite by on } t t? r k . etl t ‘ r « ca t nat bx = ; the street m fror of oe } block . pperat traf nterrupted ; c 4 be s r t t r tT tr os he fr + ? > j “ re , r Zz a = gr ver ing the picture, s) e fortl All the Tuesday papers carried a counts of thé atastrophe”, ‘including The New York Times. Picture Houses Favor Orchestra Attractions NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—P e showing a decided trend ring orc of ‘ nter and houses of chains like Universal nd D. W. Griffith To Produce For United Artists Release NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—D. W. Griffit! whose contract with Fan s P after the production of The Sorrows of Satan, was suddeply tert ed . maze of rumors concerning an unp! . rift, is comir >» th “nited Ar tits fold. } in 4 ee mt finally set at ¢ by t a mene cueer himself. Griffith plans making his wn } tions for release thru United At in which, in spite of his F 1 PI contract, he has ’ ‘ ne for years In ynnection with t? nouncement, Griffith states ther doubt but that he will prod tu productions in Hollywood instead of at his Mamaroneck Studio here, now l clos Million Mark Reached By Vitaphone Picture NEW figures YORK, Dec. 25.—Accord ng to accepted as curate, D } the Vitaphone-scored film, has gross Imost $1,000,000 to date In 18 w the Warner Theater it has brought $400,000; in three nd one-half mont in Hollywood, over $200,000; five week in B , $100,000, and while in C) cago grossed more than $275,000 The Retter ‘Ole shows promise to reaching the million mark as quickly. In eight and one-half weeks at the Colon) it has grossed more than $250,000, and in Hollywood, in three weeks, it more than $75,000. played to 4 p A * Cc : ~~ > ' ts 1 a) | ee | ’ - =) vs Sat 4 I co VCR — ese. a k Ele NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Joe Howard SS a Hays Asked To Print Book Elu- | of vauaevitle fame. has combined th ate a q ‘- best features of his acts, The T cidating Contract as Ex- t featu a The Toy - “4 hoe and Rre st 0 Pe e nto ey te vp and E ng Revue, int : ee eee a presentatior wr n opened this egos week at the Branford, Newark, for “NEw TORK. I °- _& renommenda- a i . a oe ~ -* 2 | Other Stanley dates are planned actu Proce 0 Featured with Howard in his pic- , Sam -* - -# = mlen alg “ , made by A « RI Wincller + ent no +> American . { (Gros ‘ sic | —- . : a oe an index to ite respect ses aril | exsisnatory notes where they may prove 7 4 ° ear moet - “2 nmrinted ~ thie . 2 a inf B cq in tnis book and approved by the M. P. P. D/A nd Independent Motion Picture Pro- ner , eet bier? or ‘ ¢ tion civ. J ~ e - - - > ase --,* x ng a list of producers using it, would ee - >, wr . > ,° r > * ro nT A ‘on 4 guice é JyInEe proeucr The Film Board of Trade offices would agg Si ED ian ills eel eel Min ; rc? bys +> - - - . tereA nail to the ote tht or rdaeor Wf P niar Cost of ° - coreg me the aye ws PO ee ¢ the reeneort itv. prod r< and dis- ; v tributor The A. C. A. would be glad type that ences the . i i A , S . ' pies ears, See theaters are as receptive to this ty; alin ee entertainment as they were in \ : . feacit tw and desirabilitv of the iter e) ' vi 7 : jesira y ville when bands swamped that field a Aowd n» aft W Wer'cs recommendation is Tt ; ; "9 v eral seasons ago. Loew is leading ¢ 3 a ’ € ¢ho «x Sinne ¢oenec ; : a a i Rs ad = tones era ; . » oe ; ie field in preference toward orchestra and l uses N07 ) This week in Loew theaters, a: — F all Atictrihnutorr + adhering to : . nz Gq iDU Bn aca ring to other bands are Picard’s Syr opat eC Charles Strickland, Eight Victor Artist : and Al Lentz’s Band. Independent picture theaters are ex- | pe Oe Cr Publix are equally anxious to book ; type of attraction. In the Publix « n ee the orchestras are c fined : re t t Middle West; and parficularly Chicago, where organizations like Bennie Kreug nd His Orchestra are permanent att ; ; tions, Universal is using t ds o1 similar basis as well as booking them f Po —— Ay Ostgigts 8 Bands have also found many spot open to them in Stanley Company hous principal among them Vincent Lopez, who recently played his third engagement at ae the Strand, New York. aig Pt - ’ Pe ' ee : yi ——— we a \ -_ i - we ; : : i

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1S Ture - ¢ y ) Willia Morris Bookings YORK, Dec. 27.—The William office has negotiated a number of tant picture-house bookings. White fanning, comedy dancing team, open .y at the Palace, Dallas, for a five works tour of Publix houses, and \dolphus and Eastman have been signed vay the Capitol, Detroit, this week, with t) Chicago, Chicago, to follow, also with Publix NEW With the Loew office, Morris booked the Russian Symphony Choir, opening hie week at St. Louis, and the Blue Jay Orchestra, opening next week at the ciate, Boston, with Pittsburgh and Balti- more to follow. 4mong independent picture dates are Rudy Wiedoeft for the Strand, Portland, this week, with Youngstown, Spring- feld and Columbus, O., following. Joe Maxwell Signing Acts For Fox’s Academy, N. Y. NEW YORK, Dec 25—Joe Maxwell, who succeeded H. O Stebbins at Fox's Academy of Music, when the house went into a split-week policy, is booking acts himself for the 14th street picture house ‘nd issuing contracts there, thus taking the booking partially out of the hands of Max Silver, who bought all the attrac- tions heretofore. Under the changes, Silver submits acts to Maxwell approval. Silver continues to be the “last word” en bookings for the Fox ace house in Philadelphia. however, for hi Herbert Rawlinson Engaged As Detroit Stage Feature DETROIT. Dec. 27.—Herbert Rawlin- son has been engaged by Publix to ap- near as master of ceremonies at the Capitol, opening his engagement early in January. Rawlinson, former circus, stock und legit. artiste, is noted as one of the wittiest “ad libbers” on the stage. He follows into the Capitol the rotund co- median, Walter Heirs, who had to cancel his indefinite engagement recently be- cause of a film contract on the West Coast. Radio Corp. of America Behind New Talking Film NEW YORK, Dec. 2 25.—A bulletin put out thru the regular stock-market chan- nels of Wall street Tuesday said that the Radio Corporation of America will put out shortly a new device which will mark an advance in synchronizing sound with motion pictures. Several weeks ago The Billboerd reported exclusively that R. C of A. tied up with Fox in plans for a talking film company. Valencia, Baltimore. Opens BALTIMORE, Dec. 25.—The Loew's new roof theater of Spanish rchitecture atop the Century, his presen- tation house here, opened Thursday. The house seats 1.475 and will be devoted to first-run photoplays with an occasional stage attraction booked from New York. The decoration and entire atmosphere of the Baltimore house is Spanish. Selwyn Buys French Film NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Arch Selwyn, legit. producer who is touring the Conti- nent in search of new plays, cabled his New York office yesterday that he has secured an option on a French motion picture which he is sending over for a Private showing this month. Valencia, SECRET OF _MAKING DIRECT POSITIVES- —~ save money on negative film labor Send the and obtain formulas with fll se- a. cosMOPOLITE CINEMA CO., Bor 862, Beat- rion tir putea ROLL TICKETS a TO ORDER 40,000... eee $10. 50 A new source of supp Money ring prices. O14 Ag Pplaene pupplies for troupers for 90 years.) STOCK TICKETS 2 6 $1.00 par Rell of 2,000, aceerding te quantity. We would Uke to send full details, com- Dlete price Mat and ae S. BOWER, sowtt Sibe. ‘0-498 West (8th Street, naw vere. CUS @® Guaranteed & TICE TTS) The Billboard, January 1, 1927 SERVE YOU RIGHT! That’s what we do when you make us responsible for your ticket and coupon book needs. for quotations. THE ARCUS TICKET CO. 348 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, Ill. Send samples Presentation and Music Notes EMIL CHAQUETTE and His Orches- tra will remain as the feature stage at- traction at the Liberty, Kansas City, until after the holidays. It opened the en- gagement at this Middle Western Univer- sal house in November. THE PROGRAM at the Capitol, New York, this week exudes a wealth of Christmas cheer. A group of nine singers, recruited for this week and called the Capitol Singers, offers Christmas carols. Others on the bill are Caroline Andrews, with John Triesault, as Santa Claus, and Joyce Coles in a ballet entitled The Toy Maker, which closes with March of the Toys. AMONG BOOKINGS in the Loew pic- ture houses are Russian Symphony Choir, opening at St. Louis; Picard’s Syncopat- ors, in Pittsburgh, and Henry Chicco and Farrar and Chipell, the Garde, New Lon- don, Conn. AL LEVINE’S Entertaining Orchestra has been booked for the Rialto, Wash- ington, by N. W. Stephens, of New York, for next week. This week the Rialto house is putting on special Christmas fea- tures, using a local choir. WILLIAM MORRIS, JR., is dabbling in the banking business as a side line to his picture house and other booking activities for the William Morris office, New York. Young Morris has an active interest in the Times Square Trust Com- pany and has already secured 200 ac- counts from acts for this bank. DOROTHY PALMER'S Le Jolie Revue, a special production with a cast of 125 children, pupils of her dancing school in Newark, is the stage feature at the Mosque, that city. THE DENNIS SISTERS (Ann, Cherie and Ruth). paying the Metropolitan, Boston, with Buffalo, Detroit and Chicage for Publix following,“have an open week following Detroit, which they will fill for an outside circuit. The act is planned for the Grand, Pittsburgh. CHARLES IRWIN, who appeared at the Capitol, Detroit, recently for Publix, as master of ceremonies, will play a re- turn date after the first of the year, with other Publix houses to follow. Walter and Eddie Mevers, New York, are han- dling Irwin's bookings. FAY COURTNEY, Courtney Sisters, now working with Madeleine Rand iph, is being booked into picture house engagements by Ted Braun, of New York, who placed her at Fox's Academy of Music for the last half this formerly of the week. Miss Courtnéy recently returned from London, where she played the Hol- born-Empire Music Hall and appeared in a four-week engagement at the New Prince’s Supper Club. JOHNNIE COLLINS, now representing the Alf T. Wilton office, New York, as special scout and booking man, is in Chi- cago making headquarters at Premier Attractions, Inc., presentation producers. Collins will be in New York shortly after January 1. THE ELSIE MEYERSON Girl Orches- tra has been booked for the Aldine, Pitts- burgh, with Loew, for next week. This week the Pittsburgh house, leaning strongly toward orchestral attractions, is featuring Picard’s Syncopators, an offer- ing new to the field. “OKLAHOMA” BOB ALBRIGHT, headliner in vaudeville for the past 12 years, was received with enthusiasm on the occasion of his first presentation date last week at the State, Detroit, where he appeared as master of cere — as- sisted by Edna Fischer and Babe Farron. HORN AND BLYTH have produced a high-class offering featuring Prince Tino and Labelle, Spanish dancers, who re- cently closed with Edwin Royce’s musical show, Bubbling Over. In the act the team is supported by a string ensemble of seven. JOHNNY M ARVIN, { of Honeymoon Lane, New York musical show, has been engaged by Fox to make several talking movies for him. His first canned motion picture selection wil! be Half Moon. the ukulele expert AN ELABORATE Christmas program, consisting of Christmas carols and a Pub- lix stage presentation entitled Pearl of Damascus, is featured at the Paramount, New York, this week. WALTER AND NORMAN NELSON, comedy team. have been engaged by Pub- lix to be featured in a new presentation unit opening at the Paramount Theater on January 8. The title of the stage show has not yet been decided upon. THE SPECIAL MUSICAL NUMBERS at Atlanta’s Metyopolitan Theater last week were Robert Earle, popular bari- tone, and Enrico Leide and His Orchestra. THE POPULAR TEAM, Blake, of Shuffle Along fame, were re- cently included in the stage attractions at Loew’s Century Theater, Baltimore, as were also Easter and Hazelton, the American dancing stars. Sissle and FOR THE CHRISTMAS PROGRAM at the Allen Theater (Cleveland) a colorful (Continued on page 59) In Five guaranteed. shipments dated. 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_—o wry & Se dd ‘OMMUNITY HOUSE NEWS erie (Pa.) Community Playhouse, } ivie little theater, is now in tts ith ay and houses one of the oldest, 1s one of the most active, non- cial producing groups in the coun- » Sinee 1919 the Players have owned set erated their present adequate che ‘ey building, and since their organiza- on in 1916 have given 152 plays in Playhouse at Erie also maintains . ol of dancing and of the drama. It ‘maintains, too, a settlement art ana music school for poor but talented peo- ple who could not otherwise afford to Henry B. Vincent organized the irst little theater in Erie and has, trom beginning, been the executive di- of the Playhouse activities. The present season at the Playhouse has included productions of Tarkington's The Intimate Strangers, Rachel Crothers’ M the Third and Shaw's Arms ana the Man. In January the Players will pro- duce The Detour, by Owen Davis, and Rollo's Wild Oat, by Clare Kummer. The Young People’s Saturday afternoon Theater, supported by this group, will give Little Lord Fauntleroy in January. Among recent successful productions by the Plavers have been Outward Bound, Alict-Sit-by-the-Fire, Mr. Pim Passes By, The Dover Road, The Doll's House, Tea for Three, Mrs. Bumpttead-Leigh, Po- mander Walk, Mr. Antonio, Seven Keys to Baldpate, Charley's Aunt, Peg o° My He t, Passing of the Third Floor Back, Cappy Ricks, Mama's A ffair, Clarenc:, Seventeen and others. Among the operas nd musical comedies have been many of ‘ bert and Sullivan favorites as well as The Prince of Pilsen, The Chocolate Soldier. The Only Girl, Very Good Eddie, Yedame Sherry and others. LITTLE THEATER OF CHATTANOOGA, TENN. The Little Theater of Chattanooga now has a theater building of its own. The tal investment represents a valuation ximately $50,000. The first pro- nin the new theater recently pre-e ted was Duley, running for one week. After three years of progress the Little eater of Chattanooga gained such headway and popular approval that the ty government looked with favor on its splendid work, considering it a civic as- set. A fire hall, quite recently aban- ed, due to the fact that the fire hall pparatus in that precinct was moved to another location, was turned over to the Little Theater organization on a very hbera! basis. The building, two stories, s specially adapted to remodeling. Be- ing on a large city lot, the rear wall of building was torn away and a stage, ‘ by 45 feet, was added, together with dressing rooms, storerooms and boiler room. The interior of the “upper story was torn away, steel beams installed and riginal building was made into an ‘uditorlum and lobby. The theater has n elevated floor with regular theater Seats, accommodating 360. Restrooms for both men and women were placed to adjoin the lobby. A specially designed tiling and ventilation were installed and the building was completely plastered. The stage is covered with hardwood. The building now represents one of the most modern and up-to-date little theater buildings in use at the present time. The roscenium is 25 feet in width and is 15 eet in height. Funds were raised by popular subscription. The reconstruction Work required about four months. The ganization enjoys the support and in- fluence of every progressive citizen of Chattanooga. Altho the new $1,000,000 ty auditorium has a little theater, as Well as a main hall, it was soon dis- covered that the Little Theater organiza- “ion could not progress and make use of the auditorium facilities. Practically all Productions have been given in the Bijou Theater, the legitimate show house of the city. This necessitated an average eX- pendi ture of $750 for each production, ex- ‘sive of the salary of the paid director. With the new building the actual cost of ~ produ “on will be greatly minimized and * New factlities will be much more ad- Yantageous to the organization. One fea- ture of the building program, recently ompleted, was the donation of lumber ‘nd materials, ineluding several thou- _— of bricks, by various concerns in e Clty With the present building the Little Theater of Chattanooga will increase the + pd of productions annually and it ' de enabled to present various miscel- ‘neous programs at intervals. are ; mbe rship campaign for the sea- tf of 1927 is now under way. A limita- fon ¢ f 650 has been agreed upon for the me ye ar, each member to pay $10 or th e season, receiving two tickets for ch production. A waiting list is antici- The Billboard, January 1, OO wy LITTLE THEATERS By ELITA MILLER LENZ—Communications to 1560 Broadway, New York 0 GRAYTE HULL, Huguenot Players, New Rochelle, N. Y., and well known as a dramatic instructor director of the and play director. When in Europe he played juvenile parts with Sarah Bern- hardt, and his American experience em- braced am engagement with Frank Ken- nedy in “‘Virginius’’ and engagements with road and stock companies under the same management. pated, due to the local interest in the lit- tle theater movement. The next production will be Lulu Voll- mer’s Sunup, which will be offered about February 1. Rehearsals are now under way. A COURSE FOR THE LITTLE THEATER With the little theater established as an important asset to smaller cities and colleges, a demand has arisen for men and women trained in theater decoration. To meet the definite need in this field a course in the practical experimentation in theater decoration has been arranged at the Master Institute of United Arts, 310 Riverside Drive, New York, unaer the direction of Robert Van Rosen. Primarily it is a practical workshop course.+ In addition to training in the- atrical settings from the theoretic point of view, the students make the models and have opportunity to apply their ideas in co-operation with the dramatic de- partment of the master institute. The theoretical branch of the theater design course takes up the historical development of the dramatic settings, from early days to the most modern times. Period decora- tion, the psychology of color and the ar- chitectural aspect of the theater form an important part of the work. Classes are held day and evening. CHILDREN'S PLAYERS, WASHINGTON, D. C. Christmas, with all its joys, is es- sentially the children’s festival. This year The Snow Queen is to be produced for the second time, by special request, by the Children’s Players of Washington. Child actors and actresses play to an audience composed of boys, girls and grownups. The production is one of re- markable beauty, being an arrangement of the Hans Christian Andersen story. About 50 players appear, the youngest being but three years of age. The foot- lights on the opening night, December 28, will shine on many prominent in Washington's younger set. A number of the cabinet, embassy and congressional children will take part. The Snow Queen will be repeated on January 8. This marks the third season of the Children’s Players, the group having been organized two years ago this Christmas. The movement is along civic and educational lines. Lenore Marie De Grange is di- rector. CELLAR PLAYERS IN IRISH PLAY The Cellar Players of the FWudson Guild, 4236 West 27th street, New York, have added another unforgettable por- trait to their gallery of ‘successes In Liz, a comedy of Ireland, by F. J Cogley, a political exile from Ireland. The scenes are laid in the Larissey drawing room f/ above a grocery shop in Clonmore, Ire- land, the characters are all typically Irish, and, as acted by the Cellar Play- ers, were true to life. A 14-year-old girl, with saucer-sized eyes and an unsimu- lated naivete, namely Sadie Monahan, invested the part of Liz, a slavey who unexpectedly inherits a legacy, with ire resistible appeal. ' Margie Bonnie as Aunt Julia, mistress of her prother’s household, acquired for the part an honest-to-good- ness brogue and heartiness of manner which she sustained faithfully thruout the play. Her understanding of the Irish temperament is deep and keen. She is a character actress of genuine ability. Andrew McCarron was perfectly cast as Martin Larissey, a middle-aged grocer of gentility and acquisitiveness. Frank Carney, one of the prize players in the last little theater tournament, played the role of Larissey’s son with his usual facility. John Hayde, as the romantic and chivalrous grocer’s boy, who loved and was loved by Liz, contributed a gem of characterization. Herbert Moerler as Alec Mooney, a timorous yet persistent village swain, played a bit very well. Betty Scollon played the somewhat un- gracious role of Larissey’s daughter with gratifying poise. Fred Riley, as Daniel MacDowd, a_ twinkie-eyed, sly-humored and rheumatic Irishman, evoked chuckles of delight from the audience with his ludicrous mannerisms and facial expres- sions. The audience left Liz with regret. Its comedy is clean and continuous, and we would not be the least bit surprised if Mr. Cogley sells his sparkling little play to an up-town manager. Adele Nathan and Alene Erlanger directed the piece with a keen appreciation of its pos- sibilities of characterization and are to be congratulated on the perfectly selected cast. Half the joy of watching the Cel- lar Players is derived from the happy informality which permits visits to the dressing room during the period of make- up. Each player is made up by the directors with the same concentration and study an artist bestows on a paint- ing. Performances will be given until January 15 on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, excluding Christmas and New Year. MEETING HOUSE GROUP IN FERBER'S “MINICK” The Meeting House Theater, West 110th Street, New York, presented Minick on Thursday and Friday evenings, De- cember 16 and 17. The cast, which was directed by Fay Baker, was headed by Ben Davidson in the title role. Mr. Davidson, while thoroly at home in the part, lacked a good makeup. His make- up did not suggest age, a fact which militated against the requisite pathos of the part. Jackie Brill as Nettie Minick was good to look at and played her part with well-sustained vivacity. I. (Pat) Feil as Fred Minick gave a performance characterized by naturalness. Jean Gray as Annie, a slavey, was one of the in- dividual hits of the piece, as was also Mildred T. Davis, who played a colored maid. Edward Boise as Mr. Dittenhofer played a character bit with fine apprecia- tion of its possibilities. Other members of the east who gave adequate support were Florence Burgy, Elizabeth Trodell, Howard Tiffany and James F. O'Connor. LENOX HILL PLAYERS OPENING IN JANUARY The Lenox Hill Players, New York, will open their second bill of the season, Goldoni’s The Liars, the first week in January. This play has seldom been done in America and the Lenox Hill Players are said to be the first to present it to a New York audience. TOY THEATER OF ST. LOUIS, MO. On Friday and Saturday evenings, De- cember 10 and 11, the Toy Theater Play- ers, composed of graduates of the Morse School of Expression) St. Louis, presented Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals as their second offering of the present season. Of the 10 parts in the Sheridan play, nine were taken by girls and the other role, that of Sir Lucius O’Trigger, was played by a boy. Three girls understudied the members in their various parts. The players gave a creditable per- formance of this old play, Kathryn Trautz, who played the part of Bob Acres, doing perhaps the smoothest and best acting. Therese Wittler as Captain 1927 39 Jack ..bsolute carried off second honors of the evening and a word should be said about Mary Ann Jones for her work as Mrs. Malaprop. The other players gave good support, G. Maudean Jones Crane being clever as Lydia Languish. Others in the cast were Mary Willette Gifford, Wm. J. Cooper, Margaret Frazer, Kathleen Walsh and Christine Gray, with Irma Denizet, Mary Elisabeth Harnage and Mary Belle McCook under- studying the players. Harry R. Mce- Clain directed the plays, Wm. Cooper act- ing as stage manager and Kathryn Trautz and Mary Ann Jones iooking after properties. lizabeth Morse is general manager of the group. Music between the acts was supplied by Bessie Bissell Morse at the piano and Jack Dammer on the violin. The Toy Theater seats about 150. An almost capacity audience was present Saturday evening when the group was reviewed. Smocked girl ushers directed the patrons to their seats. The Players do not aspire to make any money on their work. The Rivals was played before attractive drapes. For the second scene in the final act a beautiful outdoor drop re- placed the back drape. The other plays under consideration for presentation during the season are The Romantic Young Lady, The Brat ana Why Not? JACK F. MURRAY. LITTLE THEATER NOTES Ten Nights in a Barroom opens at the Triangle Theater, New York, De- cember 31. Special performances of Reigen will be given during January on Sunday nights. The Washington Heights Players, 159th street and St. Nicholas avenue, presented Kick In on December 19. Barrie’s Mary Rose, the first offering of the Purple Masque Players of Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kan., met with tremendous success, both at home and on tour. A play of this type is seen seldom in Kansas and is appreciated. Later in the season this (Contnued on page 41) Entertalnments, Minstrels, Mu- PLA y S sical Comedies, Ete., Ete, New Catalogue Free. BANNER PLAY BUREAU 11f Ellis Street, San Francisee, Catlf. P PLAYS FOR ALL OCCASIONS! PP L Witmark’s Operettas, Minstrels, Afterpieces, L ete. Walter H. Baker Dramatic and Hoffman- > Marwell Book Plays Sketches, Monologues, A s ete. Send for catalog. HOFFMAN-MAX. Y WELL PLAY CO., 830 Market, San Franciseo,. S& PLAYS PLAYS We have the newest and most attractive, as well as the lIsrgest assortment of plays world. Send four cents for our new list. 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40 The Billboard, January The Beauty Box Feminine Frills wis ishes her readers a happy and prosperous New Year. And may each year find them more beautiful than the last. They are not tweezing, plucking or shaving the eyebrows into a narrow arch, one of the most expression-destroying fashions ever conceived. Only stray lashes are removed. While the majority of sirens are having their hair clipped closely in the boyish- effeminate bob, a combination of the windblown and shingle bobs, the ragged edge and other extreme fashions, many damsels are permitting the hair to grow. For the comfort and beauty of the latter there has been devised the bandoe, an extremely modish hair arrangement, which conceals the growing bob during the awkward stage. The bandoe 1s a loose ribbon of hair, softly waved and with rings at each end for the purpose of anchoring to the growing hair. It is put on quickly and is spread wide for a dressy swirl and arranged narrow for other occasions Comes in browns and blacks for $4.85. Other shades are more expensive, since they must be blended. From a Fifth avenue beauty establish- ment comes a bleaching and nourishing cream made of fresh lemons. Just the thing to use at this cold season of the year, since it softens the skin and keeps it white and smooth. Fresh lemons are unrivaled beautifiers when 6ne knows just the proportion of lemon to combine with other beautifiers. The lemon cream is $1.25. Tiersen are the women who can dispense with the weekly Not only does frequent sham- pooing, with pure ingredients, keep the > soft and fluffy, but it actually keeps hair from turning gray, say experts. Yor the convenience of those who travel, a concern which supplies beauty estab- lishments with beautifiers prepares a spe- ial aromatic shampoo, which is put up in tube form and may be carried con- veniently. One tube contains enough for three shampoos and we are told by a shampoo expert that the shampoo is so good that it beneficial to even dyed hair. Price, cents a tube. indeed to Few afford shampoo. is 50 Vanishing creams cause @ lot of mis- chief when they are used on some skins. A bit of experimenting will prove this to you. To be on the safe side use a foundation cream which will make powder and rouge adhere without clog- zing the pores. A foundation cream which will not clog the pores and is greaseless is Beauty Foundation Cream (for normal ,; or slightly oily skins). ‘Thinly applied, it protects and gives to the complexion that enviable “mat” tone. It is $1, $2 ‘ and 84. A tissue builder which gives the skin a healthful, brilliant appearance is a ¢ream made purposely for the woman with a sallow complexion. Applied night ana morning, it will work a charm in the way of beautification. $1 for a five-ounce jar. When crows’ feet appear beneath the eyes and a frown furrow becomes s0 bold » st plainly milady should £0 to seclusion for two 15-minute per h ad During these periods sh 1 app beneath the eyes and or rid little frown furrow a ENee cial « compounded of eggs and herb oils z in the 1m gently until ved. This fragrant cream for y banishes lines and dark circles remarkably short time and may be ordered for $1. ious hair is no longer a prob- m to the modern woman. She knows } nished ; tho by a Ikr hy 1 ing er h fram +] limbs without lirtte sitive the flesh. When used on the face it has a slightly bleaching effect and @oes not cause redness. $1.35 by mail. Carry one in your handbag and be ready to banish offending hairs at 2 moment's notice. We have so many inquiries from our readers concerning hair wavine that a preparation which insures a waving last- ing for two weeks, when used according to directions, should prove a timely mat- r discussion One bottle contains ufficient liquid for 25 waves. It does the hair sticky and oily, but on the contrary makes it fluffy. It is of ssistance making the finger wave and is also used the hair before curling with the iron or the various kinds of patent curlers or wavers used by wom- en. $1.50 a bottle. — , 1927 Sem inine _ By rca Te (Communications to 1560 Broadway, ork, N, New Shopping Saunters How To Order All articles mentioned in this col- umn and in the column headed “Beauty Box’ may be _ purchased thru The Billboard free Shopping Service. Remittances should be in the form of Money Orders or Certified Checks, payable to The Biltboard Publishing Company, and mailed to Elita Miller Lenz, care The Billboard, 1560 Broadway, New York City. Any cash cent is at your own risk. ONE'S FIGURE MUST BE SOFTLY ROUNDED Fashion decrees a slender silhouet with soft, round, natural-looking curves of youth. To achieve this softly feminine effect one’s figure must be remade. The flat boyish form must be re- made by means of recorseting 1f one » | may designate as , Pee corsets the beauti- / \ >see) \ ful new figure- ( oe "4 molding garments, / one of which is ‘ \ sketched here. This : || is known as a 2-in- ii | 1 garment and is ; developed from | F Swanee silk (a silk 1 = j jersey of 4 durability), unusual i with a 4 ji narrow lace border. It hooks at the left side. Tiny gores of elastic at the hips insure a clinging fit and there is no boning. The brassiere shaved to insure a softly curving bosom line and a slim body. If milady wishes she may make the garment serve as undervest, ussiere and corset. The 2-in-1, as illus- trated, is $4. Needless to say, the gar- ment is not intended for a stout figure. is HAMMERED COPPER “VAMP PROPS” Down at the Lou Elizabeth Shop one is sure to discover the unusual - surpris- ingly modest prices, whether you seek novelty jew- elry, antiques, pewter, china, tap- estries or wear- ables. Among the surprises at Lou Elizabeth's are the hammered - copper earrings and bracelet sketched. The earrings, 2% cinatingly bizarre, hammered bracelet, $1, and it may be (unhammered) inches long and fas- are $2. The hand- 1% inch wide, is had in plain copper 75 These bracelets may be used as anklets, and when used for this purpose, says Lou Flizabeth, some performers perefer them a bit narrower. Those who wish the narrower width may have anklets made to order at the same price. ° + for %o cents. FUR CHORERS, A NEW CONCEIT Almost in the same breath with which we wish you a happy New Year, we in- troduce one of the conceits which will be worn with the mid-season hat which makes its previous but welcome debut in January. This conceit is a fur choker which coils itself snugly about the feminine throat. The type illustrated of beige genet, a \ \ ’ softly feminine look- ing fur, lined with crepe de chine, and is et off with two-tone ribbon (tan and i 1) arranged in quettish rosette with flowing ends. Priced at $8.50 ata certain shop and priced higher in other shops. May also be had with a bouquet of tiny pastel flowers instead of ribbon if desired. A RHINESTONE FOR THE Discovered in a stone purses, -URSE FASTIDIOUS New York shop rhine- like that sketched, for $2.95! Of course, the rhinestones are not set solidly as they are in similar bags selling for $15 and $25, but the effect is almost identical- ly the same, especially under stage lights. The baz is made of’ moire silk and may be had in white with white stones, imitation sapphires on blue moire, pink or rose-colored stones on white, red stones on white, amber stones on white, rose stones on rose and jade stones on gieen. Please note that these bags are on sale for a short time only. “BLACK BOTTOM” IN AN ENCORE Because the price of the black-bottom costume was left out when illustrated in this column several weeks ago, some of our readers have requested a “price encore” The price of this saucy little frock is $24.50 and the hat is $1.75 extra. Cot- ton-back satin makes , the frock, which is trimmed with fluffy marabou. The color range is oriole yellow, rose, pink, light blue, flame red, royal pur- ple, emerald green, tangerine, orchid, black or white. The pert lit- tle chapeau matches and is trimmed with pom-epons of the marabou. MUCH APPRECIATED FEATHER FAN All readers who purchased the Kate Shea fan, which was offered in this column several weeks ago for $7, have expressed appreciation for the unexpected beauty of the ostrich plumes used in the making. This fan has a 29-inch spread and a height The plumes used in the making are full and luxurious looking. Kate Shea's shop is small, so that she isn’t obliged to charge for over- head, as do the larger shops. You may order the fan in any preferred shade or to match a sample of your gown. It is the fashion to have the fan match the slippers. LINGERIE HOLDER ALSO WELL LIKED When the chain lingerie scribed in this column as a gift sug- gestion was received by those ordering it, another order was immediately forth- coming. Every woman who purchased one for a friend realized its practicability and bought another for her own personal The holder consists of a slim chain with three clasps, one for each shoulder strap and one to fasten to the top of the 28-inch holder de- use, lingtrie at the bosom. The holder is very well made and may be had as follows: White gold filled, $1; green gold filled, $1.24, and sterling silver, $2. Before you purchase a fur coat permit The Billboard Shopping Service to send you a catalog, issued by a wholesale fur house. This house is obliged to move to larger quarters and is selling out its present stock at a decided reduction. With novelty jewelry galore spread before the eyes of the discriminating Parisienne she. still remain faithful to pearls, which probably accounts for the displays of pearl necklaces which express a versatility quite amazing Fashion reporters returning from Paris tell us that when the Parisienne can afford it, she wears pearls tinted the same shade as her gown, Stage Styles MMF. SOREL IN “DU BARRY” ROLE Mme. Sorel, the French actress, who appeared recently in New York in a repertoire of famous plays, wore cos- tumes of ornate beauty. In Du Barry, for instance, she arose from a histories} bed (said to be a genuire antique) draped gracefully iff flesh-colored chif- fon, over which was worn a silver cloth peignoir, which carried out cleverly th: silhouet of the 18th century in wide! distended hips and molded bodice, Another interesting gown inspired by the fashion of the 18th century, pb with a touch of modernity, is aq deep salmon pink moire, shot. with gold, t! fitted bodice draped in leopard. The a colletage was extremely low and 1{ skirt consisted of a peplum extending length hip in front, but falling into long train in back. This peplum, b dered with gold bullion fringe and «a! mon-colored ostrich tips, was posed « a straight-line skirt of the moire, which was trimmed ornately with tiers of gold bullion fringe set on in scalloped for mation, with alternate touches of ostri: tufts. A hat with minaret crown (slen- der, towering crown), trimmed with a turret of ostrich feathers (salmon color) was mounted on a brim of gold cloth In a fashion pronfenade, for the delecta- tion of the luxury-loving Du _ Barry, models wore robes de style in rich metal cloths, lames and colorful brocades ETHEL BARRYMORE IN “THE CONSTANT WIFE” Ethel 3arrymore, in The Constant Wife, in which she plays a sophisticated modern role, ultra modern, in fact, since she condones her husband's faithlessn: and does likewise herself before resum- ing her place in his affections, wears gowns which are softly feminine. Shs seen in a light tan chiffon frock, long sleeves and wide revers and tie belt giving it the suggestion of a coat frock Insets of ecru lace down the top of th* collar and run vertically down the sid of the bodice. The lace also forms scal- loped tiers on the skirt. In another scene Miss Barrymore a' pears to decided advantage in a frock of hydrangea blue crepe, with appliqu of matching satin set in points on th: blouse. The full skirt, which has wid scallops, is shirred about the hips and a narrow belt encircles the waistline. Sti’ another froc'r long sle¢ ing the is of tan chiffon, with ves, four slender tiers comp skirt. The frock has no trim- ming, but a large hat of a deeper tone of tan contributes a bit of color in loops of mauve ribbon at one side, Vera Teasdale, who plays the role of the wife’s rival, is very chic, as it be- hooves the husband bandit to be, to make the most of her moth-like exist- ence, In one scene shé appears in 4 jumper costume. The blouse of silver and orchid brocade is set off with a belt, tailored jabot and pipings of violet- colored velvet, matching the velvet from which the tailored skirt is made. LOTUS ROBB IN “CONSTANT NYMPH” Lotus Robb, as Florence Churchill, the lady of aloof, but impeccably correct mein, in The Constant Nymph, at the Selwyn Theater, New York, wears cos- tumes which symbolize the coldness ot the character. As hostess at an evening wears a shimmering white occasion sh satin evening gown of striking simplicity. A deep white fringe skirt is fitted to a_ bodics which extends to the hips on the sid but is curved to an upward point in th front which gives ai raised waistline The decolletace is cut rather deep oval in front and a panel of the fringe forms a capelet in back which falls in a straight line to the hips. Miss Robb wears also a formal gown of silver lame The bodice is fitted in front, with rounded neckline A deep yoke of white chiffon in back impart novelty and long narrow panels of strass flow from eadh shoulder in back and bandings of the lame simulate a low set girdle. Fashion Notes Rhinestone brooches, disporting a cen- ter motif ef pearl, are along new com- binations, and a necklace of rhinestones has a rhinestone pendant with sapphire center, and still another set of this type, including earrings, finds contrast in a black stone, Tt is amusing to observe the extreme length and size of earrings The sim- plicity of the coiffure influences the or- nateness of earrings. Quite a paradox! ie = == ae

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it d The Billboard, January 1, Reflections of Dorothea Re not content with drifting When life might be worth while; Shun not your task—then surely You owe the world a smile, A Happy New Year! I love that cheer- ful greeting. Happy. One may be merry nd yet not be happy, but one can not he sad and happy at the same time. If have happiness in our hearts the year ertain to reveal many beauties of life nd living. And now, with the new year ulready on the threshold, I am recalling to mind the multitude of blessings the old wear has left with me. Priceless treas- yres it brought to me; and the richest of theee is friendship. New friendships that blossom in loveliness and olé, friendships that have lost none of their luster; these 1 am taking with me into the year 1927 ind they give me strength and courage. Not a few of these beautiful friend- hips I owe to The Billboard, world traveler, that has carried my little weekly message far and wice. Never a week nasses but what some reader com- inicates with me. From the dressing room of a Broadway star, or from the cheerless hall bedroom of some lonely chorus girl, or in a pencil-scrawled, note written on a trunk in a circus tent, these messages come straight from some human heart. And I love them all, for the great- est and the humblest alike speak the uni- versal language. It is utterly impossible to answer all of them because my strength ane, time are limited, but I want vou to know, if you ever have written to me, that your letter was appreciated and my thanks go out to you in thought. Clarence Derwent and Esther Mitchell, starring in The House of Ussher, in Canada, are meeting with exceptional popularity and have been guests of honor at several social functions, Mary Tupper and her two sons, Teddy in¢, Paul Jones, are in the cast of Brock Pemberton’s Say It With Flowers, which comes uptown after the holidays. Wheeler Dryden recently returned from special engagement with the Garry McGarry Players in Buffalo. Mr. Dryden is at present negotiating for the presenta- tion of Deep Waters, which he wrote in collaborstion with Edith Talbott, as well as rehearsing in the revival of Arnold Bennett’s play, The Great Adventure. Ruth and Maureen McCoy, late of Sez, are now playing in vaudeville. From the bottom of my heart I am hing all my friends and readers a Happy New Year filled with joy and the blessings of God. Address me any time at 316 West 724 street, New York. Smilingly, nse Cnt Little Theaters (Continued from page 39) group will do Shaw's Arms and the Man or Lulu Vollmer'’s Sunup. The Little Egy ptian " ‘Theater, Centralia, Ill, will do a three-act Play some time this month. It plans a musical show for April, probably Pinafore. The Kansas City Theater Kansas City, Mo., offered The Devil's Disciple as its December presentation Eight perform- inces were given, closing on December ll. Tt is estimated that 2,500 people led the play. _ The Association Players, New York City, opened in Bide Dudley's new play, ware, Sunday evening, Decem- The Denver (Col.) Community Players Presented Pirates of Penzance on the vening of December 17. This bright lit- ‘fe opera is the first of a series planned by the Players for presentation during tt e1s0N. _ Italian Circle o of Hunter College, ‘ew York, presented its annual dramatic fering in English in the college chapel the evening of December 11 The play Was Goldoni's O, Honorable Maid, trans- lated by Professor Clara Byrnes> dra- matic director of the Italian Club. . The Washington Square Players, New ~ University, New York, offered Rol- lo's Wild Oat on the evening of De- cember 18, Mrs. Warren's Profession, by was given by the Studio Players, 826 “rth Clark street, Chicago, December 17 and 18 and will be given again im- Mediately after the holidays. Shaw, THE APELT ARMADILLO CO., DEALERS—Send fer our A YEAR-ROUND GIFT AN ARMADILLO BASKET MAKES A MOST UNIQUE GIFT. From the horned shell of the curiously beautiful lt- tle animals, which abound in the hills of West Texas, Armadillo Baskets are made. The handie is forme by bending the tall sround until it meets the mouth, where it is se- curely fastened The illustration shows ar attractive silk trimmed work basket. Our Book- - relating the story “The Basket Beau- Comfort, Texas. titul” , will be sent free upon ‘request. interesting preposition. COSTUMERS By G. M. LELAND, N. C. A. Communications to 1560 Broadway, ®. ¥. DAZIAN'’S, N. C. A., New York supply house, has several new and interesting fabrics which are proving particularly popular at the moment with the cos- tumers’ tra One is a _ gold-spangle cloth that comes in 38-inch widths. The spangles cover solidly a light coffee- colored chiffon, the whole being very soft and pliable. Another item is a soft Rayon chiffon velvet in 40-inch widths that comes in all colors. It is light but still very rich looking ane, gives a pleas- ing shade effect as it falls in folds. There is still a third number, and the books show that it is a big seller. This item is a brocaded brillionette cloth which comes with either a silver or a gold back- ground an@ with a brocaded design in any color. The width is 36 inches. It would seem that for stage use this cloth might even excel in effectiveness the regular type of brocade fabric which, in- cidentally, costs about twice as much. EMANUEL TI. COHEN, of Waas & Son, N. C. A., Philadelphia, came up to New York on business last week. Things are going bigger than ever with Waas & Son, he declares, and the new year is lookec, forward to with much anticipation. WILLIS CROCKER, of the Fletcher Costume Company, N. C. A., Providence, R. LL, wants to know “who says there is a holiday slump?”’. He declares he 's too busy to ask more or to tell more, but his little dog barks “May your Christmas be a Wow.” VANITY FAIR COSTUMES, INC., New York, is finishing up the wardrobe for Listen Dearie and, starting on another Shubert show, Green Fruit, which is to be Mitzi’s next starring vehicle. THE HELENE PONS STUDIO, New York, executed the costumes for this sweek’s presentation at the Mark Strand Theater, New York. GENE LANKES has designed and the Jack Lipshutz Costume Company, New York, has executed the wardrobe for the new floor show at the Melody Club. THE ESMONDE COSTUME COM- PANY, New York, has costumed the burlesque act of eight girls which Erin Jackson, recently outfitted, is to he i permanent feature at Hurtic & id as Sea- mon’s 125th Street Theater. THE EAVES COSTUME COMPANY, N. C. A., New York, has executed all the men’ costumes for th two Zier- feld shows, Betsy and Rio Rita, and for Charles Hopkins’ The Devil in the Cheese. The women’s wardrobe for these produc- tions has been turned out by the Brooks Costume Company. -THEATRI CAL MUTU AL ASSOCIATION By DAVID L. DONALDSON Philadelphia Lodge No. 3 This lodge laments the passing of two members. Thomas F. Calhoun, died November 17. He was initiated October 20, 1889. The writer was intimately ac- quainted with him during these 37 years was always a flyman, whom and who are seldom and while he the publie never sees seen by members of the pre was well known by his friends for his genial being. He was last employed as a flyman at the Arch Street Theater Charles P. Lamont died December 4. He was initiated June 22, 1914. He was liked by all who came in contact with ifession, he f him and his quiet unassuming tempera- He was initiated June 22, 1913. He was last employed as carpenter at the Arch Street Theater. John P. Schmid, Grand Chaplain, con- ducted funeral services for No. 3 T. M. A. the T. M. B. A. and I. A. T. S. E. Local No. 8 at both these funerals. Buffalo Lodge No. 18 At its meeting Sunday, December 19, the following officers were elected for 1927: D. L. Donaldson, president ; Charles Staples, vice-president; James Fahy, past president; Donald R. Urquhart, chap- lain; J. Walter Fryer, recording secre- tary; Joseph Bath, financial secretary; Gus P. Meister, treasurer; John Reagan, John Donavan, James Fahy, trustees; Dr. W. Z. Roberts, physiciaf; Charles Phillips, marshal, and John Nirschell, sergeant-at-arms. - There will be a social program. at the next meeting, when the officers will be installed. Cincinnati Lodge No. 33 At a meeting held December 9 the fol- lowing officers were elected for 1927 Walter Thompson, president; Harry Service, vice-president; J. P. Hawthorne, recording secretary; Harry Schwartz, Gaancta secretary; B. Murphy, treas- ure Dr. Clay Wilson, physician; Clarence Cummings, marshal; H. Steidle, ergeant-at-arms ; yuye Shelton, outer cu rd: Will 7) N lan, trustee, and Harry Service, press agent: Installation ll be held at the nuary. of officer ing, in next meet- STAGE EMPLOYEES & PROJECTIONISTS By ROY CHARTIER Communications to 1560 Broadway, N. Y. p gewtlengtid sere over the the same salaries at the new Th eater, Atlanta, as are paid at other houses in that city, devel i 2 result of the contention f the theater’s repre- sentative that the house was a mile from town and would lose money, ! finally be en c eete a . +h the yocict in +f of W. P. Raoul, International Alliance man in the South. The theater is about to open, playing legitimate road shows Atlanta Local No. 41 insisted from the first that the same scale obtain at the Erlanger as at other houses im At- lanta Manager Haase, of the Atlanta Theater, representing Erlanger interests, maintained the union should not ask > mr h _ nev }t nuse of the new hor location Haas wanted to pay grip $4.75 instead of $5 a day, head fl $5.75 instead of $6. and for broke $1.25 an ! Ir instead of $1 ) local’s secretary, Cliff Clower three men regularly have been demanded of Haase at the Atlanta, the others - sary w wkine on overtime L git i tt rt N elec- t “7 me Write f im- or- Po yx! Po ee ee

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42 Servais LeRoy Against Exposing Magic Secrets Servais Le Roy, in answer to Dante’s interview printed in The Billboard of De- cember 18, regarding “Let the Public Know’’, sends the following: “Dante is willing to expose sufficiently to bring publicity for his entertainment but is not willing to expose his own secrets for the simple reason such ex- posures would kill his own entertainment and be disastrous to the box office. “It is amusing to read and listen to the arguments advanced by propagandists o! just enough but not too much exposing as to the value of such exposes. We are told it creates a great interest in magic and produces more magic fans—that these fans become regular attendants at the magician’s theater. “Now, let us look into this matter deeper than the mere financial aspect. First, it is agreed that to divest a magical effect of its mystery is to also remove 90 per cent of its attraction. Once an effect is understood then does your in- terest cease, or almost cease. Secondly, the door being now wide open to expose, the next day will see further and greater exposes and in a very short time we will find the best effects in magic, stage ef- fects more especially, being given away, and as time goes on even an original in- ventor will see his newest and best ef- fects given away before he has time to play out his first contracts. “Ts it not time to pause and reflect? Surely all idealism is not dead in magic.” Magic News From Australasia MERLIN, the American card manipu- lator, has concluded a successful season at the Tivoli Theaters, Sydney and Mel- bourne. CHRIS CHARLTON, English magician, who appeared recently at: the Tivoli, created a good impression with his Magic Kettle. He returned to England having added several novelties and enlarged his act. GUS QUINN, Australian card manipu- lator, who played a successful season in Adelaide, has returned to Melbourne. FRED FOLEY, magician and ventrilo- quist, has joined Bradley’s Monkey Hip- podrome and is touring the small towns of the South Island. Foley is one of the oldtimers and has toured New Zealand more times than any other magician. DONALD STUART, the high and mighty, goes out under engagement to African Theaters, Ltd. CHARLIE YAEN, with eight Chinese magicians, arrived in Sydney from Hong Kong and will present an Oriental magic act at the Tivoli. Blindfold Drive Stopped Alla Axiom, mystic man, who has been playing at the Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington, Mass., was prevented from completing a blindfold street drive as a publicity stunt. The county in- spector of motor vehicles interfered, and, after deciding that Axiom could not see, ordered the mystery man off the street. No arrest was made, but Axiom was in- formed of the Massachusetts law regard- ing such performances. Eli Hackman Entertains In Pennsylvania Institute Eli Hackman, entertainer around Phila- delphia, had an unusual audience at the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf at Mt. Airy, Pa., when he gave two per- formances in magic and Punch and Judy to an audience of children ranging from six to 12 years and to a second audience whose ages were from 13 to 18. He ar- anged his program for such audiences, which proved interesting and intelligent ones, tho they were deprived of their hearing faculties. They quickly re- sponded to suggestions, in their way, that Eli had made. About 500 children and 20 members, comprising the faculty, were present. Haag Has New Magic Act NEW YORK, Dec 27.—Arthur L. Seas, magician, has finished rehearsing his new production, which wiil feature a “vanishing horse and rider” illusion as well as some other magic and juggling routine. The illusion is said to be along other lines than those already seen of this kind and a showing for the act is being arranged for next week. The Billboard, January Cinmmnnremmmermmmenmmmmse) FRE Taye MAGICandMAGICIANS Conducted by FELIX BLEI—Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O Rr a a eee EDWARD MAGNER. member of the Soctety of American Magicians, in which organization he held the office of ser- geant-at-arms for the last three years. Most Spiritualists Classified as ““Nothing”’ WORCESTER, Mass.—Ninety-nine per cent of the “spiritualists are nothing,” and Sir Conan Doyle as a scientist “is not to be taken seriously,” but neverthe- less there remains unexplained facts awaiting solution, declared Professor Hans Driesch at the last meeting of the Clark University Symposium of Psychi- cal Research. Dr. Driesch, president of the British Society for Psychical Re- search, is Carl Schurz exchange profes- sor in the University of Wisconsin this year. “There have been strange occurrences.” he said in part. “Their happening can- not be questioned, but what or who caused them is still a point not clearly shown. “Why, then, are we not all omniscient? The only possible answer to this question may be because it would make us unfit for life; we would be confused by knowing too much. “The best thing, of course, would be if we could get mediumship as a whole into our hands; that is, if we could make every human being a medium whenever we like. This is not at all out of the realm of probabilities. Every man is probably a potential medium, but we do not yet know the conditions under which they become actualities. We shall know this one day, so I hope.” Hari Rajah on Tour Prince Hari Rajah is presenting his mystery show, with Joseph Iianuzzi as business manager in advance. The roster includes Prince Hari Rajah, who features mind reading and magic ; Karl Rajah, George Marlowe, Mrs. Rose King, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wayne, in songs and dances; Anglo Marano, Charleston dancer. The company reports good business thru the West Virginia coal fields. EUGENE DENNIS, 20-year-old girl psychic, who is making her first tour of the Pacific Coast, is proving such strong Graw'ng 9o0wer that she is being held for # third week in Seattle at the Coliseum. London Magicians Elect Will Goldston President Will Goldston was elected president of the London Magicians’ Club to succeed the late Harry Houdini and _ Louis Gauties first vice-president. Another record house for magicians at the Na- tional Hotel, who with their friends crowded the hall for the second ladies’ night of the season, under the chairman- ship of the Mayor of Chelmsford, sup- ported by the Mayoress, the Mayor and Mayoress of Guildford, President Will Goldston and First Vice-President Lonis Gautier. The chairman spoke of the death of President Houdini and the Jappy choice in electing Will Goldston to the post. Vice-President and Mrs. E, T. Marr proved ideal hosts. The program included Chum Sheriff, Chris Van Bern, Ernie Roma, Harry Heap, Kitty Kenway, Gwen Rogers and her musical dolls, the Vera Sisters, Chas. Vernon, Jack Brooks, Samuel Paul, Percy West, Robert Gordon, Ralph Del- vin, Bert Marsden and Jack Barker. On account of the extra club facilities the membership roll is to be increased and a welcome will be extended to any amateur or professional magician who may apply to the treasurer, Magicians’ Club, 14 Green street, Leicester Square, London, W. C. 2. Magic Notes WILSON recently appeared at the Strand Theater, Waterford, Wis., pre- senting magic and illusions. He is fea- turing Sawing a Woman in Half. FRANK LANE advises that he is back in Boston and busy in club work. JULIAN BOEHM, Atlanta, Ga, so- ciety magician, recently entertained the Civitan Club at the Masonic Temple. PROF. M. M. WHELDON reports good business thru Colorado on return aates. The show played Rocky Ford December 22, 23 ad 24. TEKARA writes from Tampa, Fla. “Playing clubs and schools in and out of town, later to the East Coast filling some dates at Miami. Magic here is going over big. Of all the tricks I do the old sliding dice box, known as the sucker box, goes over big, also wine and water. The older the trick, the better it goes over, as they are all new to this generation of children.” SWASTIKA, astrologist, recently ap- peared at the Virginia Theater, Wheel- ing, W. Va. ROBERTS, playing thru Illinois, ad- vises that he will go to Florida next month. MARIETTA POOLE writes: “Believe me, magic is very much alive around Boston, and all magicians are kept busy. I am the only lady magician in New England. My gowns are sleeveless and I try to convince the audience that I have something up my sleeves, but it cries out, ‘you have no sleeves’. Sleeveless apparel makes magic more intriguing.” HEVERLY is spending the holidays at his home in Sayre, Pa. MYSTIC LAKE is visiting C. J. Haney at Charleston, W. Va., and is playing around Charleston in theaters. KOLAR, escape artiste. writes: “Give my regards to the chief of police.” His Challenge Tag Trick is a corker. HARRY SINDER, Pacific Coast ma- gician, and who has been in the U. S. Government Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., for the past three months, has re- covered, and is once more able to be about. He would like to hear from his friends in the profession, who can ad- dress him care The Billboard, Kansas City, as he has been out of touch with magic and magicians during his illness. As Rays Remove Objects W. H. Chandlee, director of the Was) ington (D. C.) School of Arts, demon- strated in his 18th street studio Decemb., 16 an illusion that he has perfected aft. five months’ work, when a doll faded slowly out of a chair in which it hag been seated, leaving the empty chair in full view of a mystified audience. Th» spirits of other worlds seemed to have been invoked, too, when in another phas. of the demonstration a living human hand melted into nothingness, permitting ob- jects behind it to be seen, and all in yn- interrupted spotlight rays. The demonstration was the climax to months of study and experimentation by Mr. Chandlee, who sought thru that per- iod to give to the world of magia a new “trick”. It was the first actual showing of the peffected model of the artist's ap- paratus, and an audience of Mr. Chand- lee’s friends and fellow artists attended. Explaining several popular illusions performed on the stage by magicians, Mr. Chandlee said that while most of them require mirrors, his stunt is con- trolled entirely by the manipulation of colored light rays thru a_e refraction screen. These lights are changed smoothly that there is no evidence or it to the audience, and thru that change objects melt and appear with all the mys- tification of famed India. The inventor declared that with his apparatus built on a larger scale he will be able to “fade” a whole audience out of its seats in a theater while that audience perc the seats empty. so ives in which it sits apparently Boy Wizard To Be Member International Brotherhood Because of his signal ability, and by spectal dispensation, membership in the International Brotherhood of Magicians has been granted Erwin Fred’k Rogers. % years of age, whose magical power has brought bewilderment to residents of Marshfield, Wis. President W. W. Durbin, of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Magicians, has requested an outline of the boy’s act with a view of having him participate in the program of the brotherhood’s next convention at Kenton, O. MAGIC , Tricks, Books and Supplies me Feature Acts in Mind Reading and Spiritualism. Large stock. quality. Prompt __ship- ments. Large Illustrated Pro- fessional Catalog, 20c. Fhe Old Rellable } CHICAGO Merced co. Dept. BD, 140 8S. Dearborn St., Roem 1036, Chicago, til. MANUEL ASTER ad THE MIGHTY DOLLAR. New 8. L. GILBERT, 1135 * ite. .., ~ Phone, Bev. 0522. as . ry cotsiese ons OOS tical Delusions, 25¢. 10c Accessories. List A. a. Magic Tricks, Books, Escapes. Supplies, Novelties, et listed in 500 Big, a 80-Page Catalog. rgest line in South. Low prices, quick service. Send 10c now! LYLE DOUGLAS. 1616 Commerce, Dallas, Texss. THE LATEST MAGIC ILLUSIONS LIST FREE, R. $. SCHLOSSER MAGIC CO., S58 West 424 Street, NEW YORK, WN. Y. 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vr rer "we ova Tre MINSTRELSY Conducted by A. HOMER CLARK Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. . WHITE, general agent for Rogers’ Sunshine Exposition Min- writes that he is spending the winter at Greenwood, Miss. CLAIBORNE strels, ACKNOWLEDGMENT is hereby made to the legion of burntcorkers for their Christmas Greetings and best wishes for the New Year extended The Billboard. THE ANNUAL MINSTREL show eiven by the Elks of Wheeling, W. Va., will be staged at the Court Theater, February 20 to 22. Miller & Thorpe, New York producers, are directing. JACK McSHANE, of the Jolly Thes- pians, reports that he recently had the pleasure of meeting Al Tint, yodeler, while passing thru Los Angeles to Salt Lake —— STOCK Roll Tickets Size 1x2 consecutively numbered z000 per roll, carried im stock ready for IM MEDIATE shipment. Reading §c, 10c, 1§¢, 2Oc, 25c, 30c, 35C, 40¢, SOc, 75¢ and with- out any price, reading “* Admit One”. Five colors te each price—Red, Green, Yellow, White, Blue. Any assortment ef prices and colors at ! 60c¢ FESAOIS WELDON, WILLIAMS & LICK on rat ta tome | THE FILM WEEKLY AUSTRALIA Covering the Motion Pieture and Entertainment Field Generally. Conducted by MARTIN C. BRENNAN. 198 City Tattersalls Building, Pitt Street, A ralian Office of THE BILLBOARD Minstrel Costumes \'4 FOR RENTAL AND TO ORDER AY, Minstrel Supplies, Wigs, Seenery. | ' ' Send Sc for Catalogue. | JOHN D. KELLER, Costumer S96 Market St. Newark, N. J. Sydney, MINSTREL GOODS Uniforms, Dress-Circle and End-Men Suits, Parade Ulsters, Plug Hats, Costumes, Hair Goods, Draperies, Chair and Table Covers, Banners Everything 9 . tly what you want, at lowest prices possible. We can supply every need fully about your reoqui so we can submit catalogs, sam- ples, prices and full particulars | No obligation on your part De Moulin Bros. & Co. 1930 Seuth 4th Street. GREENVILLE, ILLINOIS. hehehehe eslelerieieales lela telltale! | SERIES 26 ’ MACK’S MINSTRELSY Price, $1.00 This Great Minstrel Boek Contains: 12 Complete Minstrel First Parts, for two ur and siz end men; 10 Breezy Minstre! Second Parte and Finales, « great Mixed ‘instrel and a positive applause winner Fe tle Minstrel, 10 rib-tickling Minstrel! Mon cues, Recitations and Acts for Interlocutor ! End Men, a roof-lifting Minstrel Bur leaque Opera, 35 corking Minstrel Bits, 8§& ‘orelty Minstrel Programs and Minstrel Over- res for the Opening and Closing of the Minstrels, complete, including Words and Mu ‘ic; hundreds of Jokes and Gags for Inter- cutor and End Men, peppy Parodies and a practical Minatrel Guide Price of Series 2 Minstrelsy, ONE DOL LAR, or for $1.50 will send Minstrelsy Series WIM. MeNALLY S! East 125th Street, NEW YORK. | City. Al has a three-room apartment and entertained Jack at lunch. Al's wife, Mrs. Mabel Tint, is in stock at Ashland, Ky. Al says Eddie Horan, who does a cane dance with the Jolly Thespians, claims to be much younger than Jack McShane, and wants Jack to prove it thru the Min- strelsy column. Jack McShane also met Happy Benway while in Los Angeles. McShane is known as the Irish tenor. He is making a hit with his song, Let the End of the World Come Tomorrow. H. L. BENSON announces he has con- tracted for his third season with the Mil- ler Bros.’ Shows for his Georgia Min- strels. He says the minstrels will be of the same high quality of excellence as heretofore. CAL COHEN, Culver City, Calif., writes that the Christmas edition of The Billboard was the best ever. The min- strelsy reminiscenses and names of old- time minstrels recalled many pleasant and happy associations of the past 60 years. THE HANK BROWN-DAN SHER- MAN combination will commence re- hearsal early in the new year for week stands, it is announced. The show will consist of 20 people, band and orchestra. The first half will present Hank Brown's Minstrels and the last half “A Jay Cir- AL (SLATO) WOODWARD writes that he is now working around Detroit, breaking in an act written for him by Joe Cook, of Earl Carroll's Vanities. Al- tho Cook has not worked in blackface, Woodward he knows his “stuff” when he writes negro material. The act is for three people, and is a “wow”, according to Al. savs THE LASSES WHITE MINSTRELS have received many complimentary press notices during the tour in the South. All express appreciation of the perform- ances. The Morning Star, Wilmington, N. C., says the crowd's approval in the form of almost continuous applause was sufficiently insistent to almost stop the show, and that the crowd was one of the largest to ever attend a minstrel perform- ance there. AFTER closing 12 weeks over the Orpheum Time with the Del Ortos, California Spanish dancers, Irving J. Ges- land is spending the holidays at Clin- ton, Ia. About the first of the year he will go to the Coast to rehearse a new act with the Del Ortos, which, it is ex- pected, will be on Pantages Time. While dancing at the Riviera Theater, Chicago, he met his dancing instructor, Sam John- son, of Coburn’s Minstrels. APROPOS the playing of Coburn Minstrels at Vicksburg, Miss., recently, a newspaper of that city took occasion to comment upon “Slim” Ver- mont and “Hi Brown” Booby Burns as follows: “The act of ‘Slim’ Vermont and ‘Hi Brown’ Booby Burns was one of the cleverest seen here lately. Abounding with the humorous sayings and mirth- invoking jokes, it would be hard to find words to express the hearty laughing that was to be heard from the large au- dience.” the J. A. ANENT the recalling of old times in minstrelsy, George R. Guy, veteran min- strel man, asks: “Why not go back to the time when most of the large cities, between ‘60s and ‘70s, had a first-class minstrel theater? Today there is only one in existence, and that in Philadelphia. New York City had Bryants, Woods, Campbell's and Hooley’s, and later San Francisco's, Kelly & Leon's, George Christy’s, Griffin & Christy's. Philadel- phia had Concross & Dixie's, Simmons & Slocum’s, Boston had Morris’ Brothers; St. Louis, Wilson's; Chicago, Arlington's; Cotton & Kembles: Brooklyn, Hoolev’'s, and later on Welch, Hughes & White. San Francisco had Emerson's; London, England, Pony Moore's and Christy's mistrels. Liverpool had Sam Hughes’. To- day Philadelphia has Welch's, formerly Frank Dumont's, the only minstrel house open, Those were happy days with such fellows as George Christy, Dan Bryant, Jerry and Will Bryant, Little MacCool White, Eph Horn, Nelse Seymour, Dan Emmett, Dave Reed, Billy Birch, Charley Rackus, Dave Wombold, George Guy, Sr.; Sam Price, Sam Purdy, Archie Hughes, Ed- win Kelly, Leon Unsworth and Eugene, Wil- liam Henry Rice, George and Willie Guy, Dick Sands, Rillv Arlington, Dick Car- roll, Bill Budworth, Sam Sanford, Ben Cotton, W. H. Brockway, G. W. Griffin, John Doniker, Ainsley Scott, Chas. Shat- tuck, J. W. McAndrews, the ‘watermelon man’; George Swain Buckley, Cool The Billboard, January !, 1927 43 SCENIC ARTISTS By G. M. LELAND Communications to 1560 Broadway, N. Y. OFFICERS FOR the ensuing year were elected at the last meeting of the United Scenic Artists, Local 829, at New York headquarters. pth eo) . v se ¥w ! we® re | ee iat a Be ee — [———_—| Bo — Pe See ' \} | 1 —; PF ) ; : LL \ 4 Me | Po Pp eo smmmmmpnaienes ————) , . ‘a — i) Tr b> / yo | : : WO * 4 ee 3 . * in stamps PUBLICATIONS | —_—_—__——_— —______—_—- | for a 2 "= I] stlustrated _ Jom. “age | H a Catalog i. . * it will help! % ; —-— eS | 5 ia Exreess Paso both is | q 7 ways east of Messissippr rat at | | : | one way west Kats = 4 = Ti bass : = || HOOKER-HOWE - HAVERQIES SDS) = EE _ _ eee es , iItTTiToit it. . : a 7

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The Billboard. January - +7 1927 PRESS and ADVANCE AGEN T S aaa eae ee — ry re S ne r =. Fe + derable ex- g r publicity = ‘ . ‘nena 4 > . + - Randolph and Wells St................. Phone, Main 3302 CLARK AND LAKE HOTEL............ 21t North Clark Street .Phone, Dearborn 217 HOTEL LUZERNE. .2004 N. Clark St..Single, $1.50: Double, $2.00 ‘a Day ‘up Phone, Lineoin 6614 pth ena. 600 N. Dearborn St..Spec. Rates Perf.. Phone, Del. 1414-1094..N. Silberg, Mor. HOTEL RICE 55 Dearborn St...... 10 Minutes’ Walk from Loop...... Phone, Sup. 6363 La § SALLE MANSIONS. ow N. La Salle St -Single and Ensuite Phone, Mohawk 0273 NEWBERRY APTS 53 Clark St 2 Single and Ensuite, $6.00 up Phone, Del. 10066 PARK MANSION APTS. 702. N. La Salle St. Single and Ensuite, $8 up..Phone, Diversey 10554 SEPEEEL. cocabaneeassesahand Dearborn St...... Phone, Superior 5885 ST. REGIS HOTEL. 516 N. Clark St... Rates: Single, $8 up; Double, $10.50 up.. Superior 1322 VERONA APTS. 1004 N. Clark St..Single & Natio” Rates to Performers. . Diversey 4487 CINCIN art . NEW RAND HOTEL covecetecesecenéccessesecet We GE Gocccece ..Main 2340 CLEVELAND. "oO. HOTEL HANNAH..11!22 Superior Ave., N. E... Rooms, Suites, Housekpg —— Prof. Rates HOTEL SAVOY..... Playhcuse Square. . Euclid at (4th iasaas $8.00 and up..... Prospeet 4220 CUMBERLAND, MD. i eee Baltimore Street........c0ceseeeeees Near All Theatres DAYTON, O. ANTLER HOTEL..! Se. Degot.. Rates: Sin., ve rn Bath, $1.50..Neer Theatres..25 W. Sixth St. DEN , COL. THE MORRISON HOTEL AND DAN Dt co ee ee sseeeeeeees-TW8 Good Ones To Know ES MOINES, IA. ELLIOTT HOTEL.......Centrally “ae od... .Rates, $1.25 to $2.00....... Special Weekly Rates DETROIT, MICH. BEVERLY HOTEL..660 Grainard St..Baths..Sin., $8-$9; DbI., $10.50-$12..Phone, Glendale 9500 FRONTENAC HOTEL (Modern)..Opp. B. F. Keith's Temple Thea Spee. Thea. Rates. Cherry 1066 HOTEL MORRIS..New Management..120 W_ Malcolm. -Sin., $8-$10: Dbl., $19-$12. Cadillac 2504 HOTEL VICTORY ANNEX NEW ADDITION $1.25 fy eer Randolph 0282 METROPOLE HOTEL..628 Woodward Ave. .2 Blocks from All en —e Theatrical Hotel OXFORD HOTEL 502 Woodward Ave., Cor. Larned St.... ..Downtown....... Randolph 6278 TRAYMORE HOTEL. .Cor. Woodward 7 petersee Aves. .$7 Week Single, "to "Double. Near Theatres DORADO, KAN. McCONNELL HOTEL oan intekee tee Modern, Cafe.......$1.00 end up.......Rates FINDLAY, O. PHOENIX HOTEL.. . European. . Modern in All Respects. . $1.50 up GLENS FALLS, ® NEW HOTEL MADDEN. .Op. Empire Thea..Run'g Water. .Sin., $1.50; DbI., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. .- Special Conveniences for Professionals... MILTON, ONT., CANADA. Cor. Park and York Sts....Catering to the Wants ef the Profession HARRISBURG, PA. "ae 5 S. 3d St. as s' 00 up. Spee. Weekly Rates $2.50.. Rooms with Bath PANTLIND HOTEL.. With Bath, $2.50 and up NEW COMMERCIAL HOTEL... WILSON HOTEL AND GARAGE. Bell 7-9298 HOUSTON, eee ee a ee ee eer - fate, 00 and $1.50; $5.00 and $6.00 Weekly "HUNTINGTON, VA. OTE Pibetanconcansesssétcsedasaueeus es: $1.50 ae Bath: $2.00 Shower, $3.00 Shower INDIANAPOLIS, i PLAZA HOTEL......F. C. ee Prep... Catering i the Profession Low Weekly Rates ACKSONVILLE, HOTEL JACKSON..... 66680068seeuses In the Heart of the - beanes Theatrical Rates JACKSONVILLE, EL. Seer ee COP U UR iicdss scr tecmckenbesaeet Modern.......... .. Reasonable Rates KANSAS CITY, MO. COATES HOUSE..... ..Showmen’s Headquarters........ ‘st 00 and Us: $1.50 and Up, with Bath eS cscscrsstiiendounel FC Ferrer Room and Bath, $1.59 per Day GLADSTONE HOTEL ans oesaxteoed Weekly Rates, $5.50, $6 and $7, Single: $8 to $10 Double HOTEL MAIN. .1426 Main ‘st. ‘Convenient to Thea. and Shopping Districts. .$1 Single: $1.50 Deuble. HOTEL MISSOURI 12th and Central...Kansas City’s Newest Downtown Hotel... Theatrical Rates LANSING, MICH. HOTEL DETROIT... .Prefessionals’ Home....One Block From All Theatres Spee. Thea. Rates LOS ANGELES, CALIF i | ei ee Eighth and Hope Streets.... E. R_ Leon LOUISVILLE, KY. CONGRESS HOTEL... Theatrical Headquarters. Located Near All Theaters. 6th & Court P!..Main 9281 GIBSON HOTEL... 119 Se. 3d St Rates Reasonable....Hot and Cold Water....Cumb. Main 9122 MEMPHIS, TENN HOTEL CHISCA.. Rooms with Bath, $2.50 and Upwards: Rooms without Baths, $7.09 and Upwards PONTOTOC HOTEL............. Rooms, Hot and Cold Water, $1.25; Rooms, Private Bath, $1.75 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. RITZ HOTEL .Cor. Wash. and 2d Ave, Sin., $7.00-$10.50; DbI., $10.50-$14.00 Week So..Pro. Rates: MOBILE, ALA Heart of Business and Lyric Headquarters “MONMOUTH, ILL NEW HOTEL ST. ANDREW.. COLONIAL HOTEL.. inh sepanaee Ralph 3. Fraser, Manager..............Special Theatrical Rates EWARK, N. <. pe te HOTEL. .205 potas St..Dble., $12.00; $8.00 and $9.00..Tel., Market 3195 HOTEL GR # 88 rr Double $14.00; tt i Tel. ‘Mitchell 4852 PULLMAN APARTMENT HOTEL Rooms: Single, $8.00; Double, $10.00..Tel., Mitchell 3681-3461 NEW HAVEN, CONN. eer SP i bédocvcccceunneee Bath. Double, $12: Single, $9; No Bath, Double, $10; Single, $7 ORLANDO, FLA NIEUPORT HOTEL...E. H. Knight, Mor...218 W. Central Ave...Catering te Prof...Phone 2324 PHILADELPHIA, PA. HOTEL GRAND..1708 Arch St. .Centrally Located..Running Water. .Sin., $7 up: Dbl., $10-$15 Week LAFAYETTE HOTEL..Broad and Arch..Private Baths..Running Water in All Rooms..Loeust 4505 SPRUCE HOTEL.13th & Spruce Sts.Newest Downtown Hotel.Write for Rates.D. Dewey Davis, Mar. PITTSBURGH, PA. HOTEL KILKEARY..135 9th St..All Reoms with Bath..Sin., $2; Dbl., $3.00..Clese to Theatres. STRAND HOTEL..125 Sixth St..1 Min. to All Theatres. Spee. Theat. Rates..Atlantice 4320-21-22 YORK HOTEL..712 E. Diamond St., N. S..(Same Management as Hotel Carr)..Sin, $9; Dbi., $12 ind Globe . Standard, Wilbur H The { llo News ADEN, last season pr 101 Ranch, is director « pul ty for the Loew theaters at Bal- ti ‘ HI TOM LONG, last season publ director for the Abner K. Kline S} } been re-engaged in the same cana for n 19°27 Altho he i restiy ‘ +1 ‘WwW rwtelle Cali¢ ! } d ‘ it San } a ‘ } Febr 1 wl will } t nar nofr venaner Y r . how’s opening at t ¢ nal Ov ep v February 17 B HILDEBR FRANK AND nd George ‘ rman ire making plar ! t} ming season in connection wit} j of W t’ World Wor Sho Hildebrand will direct the ; licity 1 Gorman tl promotions PAUL M. CONWAY, press represent tive of the Walter L. Main Circus, Jackson, Tenn.. for the winter. MOLLIE B. §& TE INBERG is pri gent for tl Earl Carroll enterp: ; succeeding Charl Bochert, who resig ] J. J. MOONEY is the manager and F,. Croucher press representative r James Thatcher's Aloma of the South Seas on the Columbia Circuit MERCHANTS HOTEL FOR SALE. m Y four stories Good for any } business. Center of city. Price, $200,000. Ha: ARISTO HOTEL 101 W. 44th Street, NEW YORK. Bryant 1197. Single, $9 up With Bath, $12 up. Double, $14 up, with Bath HOTEL WALNUT PHILADELPHIA, New additi 75 rooms. Latest tmarevoment ‘ SPECI TV PROFESSIONAL RATES Bell Phones: Walnut 5061 te 7. We hate made espec we ef rt ° - ~! ae Hote! 2 home you REALLY GET PREFERENCE. AT THE HOTEL BRAXTON STH AND VINE CINCINNAT?, OHIO RATES: Single. No Bath. $7.00 te $9.00 per Week: Single, With Bath, $12.00 per Week; . ble, No Bath, $12.00 per Week; Double, With Bath, $16.00 per Week. All BR ase Hot and Cold Water. Telephor rvi ht Restaurant Room Servi WITHIN FOUR SQUARES OF ALL THEATER MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT NEW HOTEL CLARIDGE 1334-36 WALNUT STREET Phone, Pennypacker 5900. of Broad, in the Very Center of Frerything PHILACELPHIA, PA. Most Reasonable Rates te the Profession MANSFIELD HALL The Best Value in Times Square SINGLE DOUBLE 810.00 Up $12.00 Up Our Best Front Rooms, $16.00 226 W. 50th St.. NEW YORK, Phene, 8170 Circle NEW HOTEL GRATTAN 275 West 38th St., New York Thr Minutes from Times Square SINGLE. $10.00 UP; DOUBLE, $12.00 UP. WE CATER TO THE PROFESSION, Phone, Wisconsin 0250. HOTEL CHESTERFIELD JUST OPENED 400 Outside Rooms RATES SINGLE ROOMS, RUNNING WATER, | BATH ADJACENT $13.00-$13.50,WEEK 130 W. 49th Set., N. Y. C. Phone 6040 Bryant Just East - i ; ’ 44 ee 2 ue San Anaclo a © +) : Pe cad Se re ee i | a ee | :::: ' ee ae Communications tc “38 Opera Place ——— Cincinnati, O PC 7 ' JOR KNIGHT, rodeo publicity « ? ploiter is on. the staff of Fan ; Players in New York. \ a ee - — GEORGE BENEKE, « ——OOOOOOOOOOOOO ee ae El ——— : PO pe * . ‘ ; oy po LT a, a en er a ee - ES TS A ORM TT TT LR ea = Te

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97. The Billboard, January 1, 1927 45 s,RADIO ENTERTAINERS Conducted by WILLIAM SACHS Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. NATHANIEL SHILKRET'S Orchestra esent a program made up entirely works of French composers over Wednesday night, December 729, at ‘clock. iACK DENNY and His Orchestra, to- er with Frank Munn and Virginia Itea, were scheduled to be heard over WJZ Tuesday night, December 28. GODFREY LUDLOW, Australian vio- sist and staff artist of WJZ, and Lolita Cabrera Gainsborg, Spanish pianist, were ird in a Pint sonata recital thru WJZ, WGY and WBZ Sunday night. THE COMMODORE ENSEMBLE, un- der the direction of Bernhard Levitow, on Sunday night entertained the listeners of WJZ and WGY with a rendition of The Vout cker Suite of Tschaikowsky. On Wednesday night of this week at 7 o'clock Commodore Ensemble is scheduled to vwesent a number of selections from Franz Lehar's. operetta, The Merry over WIZ it we WALTER DAMROSCH and the New York Symphony Orchestra will be heard thru WEAF, WEEI, WGR, WTAM, WFI, WSAT, WGN, WOC, WCCO and WCAE Saturday night, January 1, at 8 o'clock, Eastern standard time. George Gersh- n, widely known pianist and popular songwriter, will be the soloist of the eve- < and will play his Concerto in P, mpanied by the New York Symphony Orchestra. HARRY RESE R and and his Clicquot Club Eskimos are featured each Thursday eve- ng at Sgo'clock, Eastern standard time, thru WEAF, WEEI, WcCco, WJAR, WTAG, KSD, WGR, WFI, WWJ, WSAI, woc, WCAE and WGN. VINCENT LOPEZ, well-known or- stra leader, will celebrate his 29th birt? day with an hour’s program of dance music from the Casa Lopez, New York, thrn WEAF at 11 o'clock Thursday night, December 30. Lopez will reverse the usual order of giving instead of receiving a birthday present. Between now and the 30th he asks that musicians send him their best compositions. Out of these he will select one which he will publish, feature in all his concerts and play night- ly at the Casa Lopez and on the air. “The only conditions are that the com- Positions shall be all-American, written in modern <Americanese and tell an American story,” explains Lopez. “I am hunting the great Yankee musical epic,” continues Vincent, “and will not consider anything borrowed from the old masters or flavored with the classics." RUDOLFO HOYOS, one of the fore- most Mexican baritones, will make, what is said to be, his radio debut over WEAF and WJAR at 8:15 o'clock on Wednesday nicht of this week Hovos appears in Spanish operas at the Lyric Theater, New York, every Sunday nicht. BEN BERNIE and His Orchestra, Playing at the Hotel Roosevelt, New York, were booked to be heard in an hour's program of dance selections by the andience of WEAF, WGR, WFT, WCAE, WTAM and WWJ at 10:30 o'clock Tues- day evening of this week. THE GOLD DRAGON ORCHESTRA, now playing an indefinite engagement at the Egyptian Ballroom of the Kosair Hotel, Loui@ville, Ky., recently scored a big hit over WHAS in a program put on by The Lonutsville Courier-Journal ana Times. The Ramblers, under the direc- tion of Jack Gozenbach, appeared on the same program. EDDIE ROSSON and his Syncopators ire heard frequently over WHAS. Rosson's orchestra includes Katherine Ri nm, plano; Robert Seaton, sax; “larence Albus, trumpet; Roy Lawrence, trombone; Raymond Lawrence, sax; J Hunter, sousaphone, and Law- Leis, banjo. PAUL ASHLEY'S ORCHESTRA, con- Ist ng of Cecil Witherspoon, piano; ey Moore, Claude Wilson and Fred nnington, sax and clarinet; Jack Wal- _ and Gene Hammell, trumpet; Jack linten, trombone; Floyd Garner, basso; lL. K. Adler, violin; Guy Ashley, drums; © F. Poe, banjo, and Paul Ashley, di- poeta, is now a regular feature over he WR R the Jefferson Hotel studio, Dallas, HOTEL RICHMOND. oe HOTEL DANIEL ASHLEY... THE BILLBOARD HOTEL DIRECTORY RICHMOND, VA. nadeaae .Im the Center of Everything..............W. E. Hockett, Manager ROCHESTER, N. Y. EGGLESTON HOTEL (Formerly Seymore). . European Pian. .48-50 South Ave..Under new Management SCHENECTADY, N. Y. HOTEL MOHAWK. .Opp. Proctor’s Thea..Near Other Thea. and Depot... Restaurant-Rooms. . Reasonable SOUTH BEND, IND. COLUMBIA HOTEL.Theat. Dist..New Momt..Remdid. Rates, $1.25; With Bath, $2.00 Prof. 10°, off SPRINGFIELD, HOTEL FOUNTAIN........ Two Squares From Depot........ $1.90 a Day and up Weekly Rates ST. LOUIS, MO. BILTMORE dl ad -Piregrest. . Rates: $1.50 to $2.50..Grand and Washington. Near Seven Theatres MAJESTIC HOTEL............ Special Rates te the Profession.............. tith and Pine Sts TAMPA, A. HOTEL ATLANTIC...... 2... ccc cunes Catering to the Profession.......... Heart of the City TORONTO, CANADA. ARLINGTON. .King and John Streets..Leading Theatrical Hote! Special Rates to the Profession CARLS-RITE HOTEL..Two Blocks From Theatres VALDOSTA, GA vccsceaheanad Theatrical Headquarters / Wi Amer Ont, PA. SEW GITV WOVEL..........cccccsese hf Special Rates to the Profession WORCESTER, MASS. MEW BAY STATE..... ....ccccccccee Midst Of All Theatres..........--secccece Professional Rates Spec. Thea. fates. American and European Plan ..Professional Rates this season as heretofore. THE HOTEL HANNAH WISHES YOU A VERY MERRY XMAS and A HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR MR. AND MRS A. KRAFT, RAY, HARRY, TOM. Our rates are just the @me as before, and we hope that « ur many friends will stop with us during JOHN R AT COLUMBIA Jesctiptive Hotel Fairbairn — Detroit CITY’S NEWEST POPULAR PRICED DOWN-TOWN HOTEL. Surprising Rates: $9, gio and me, we Weshivs _ Single and. Twine, “= HOME AWAY FROM HOME” Ider upon r 450 FIREPROOF ROOMS with Bath, $16 and $18. ery ——EE Unsolicited Testimony to the Worth of Ad- vertising in Hotel Directory of The Billboard aa —_—‘ R. J. REINHART, Advertising Manager The Dear Mr. Reinhart—Enclosed have received close to a thousand Very sincerely yours, Los Angeles, Calif.. December 14, 19°6. 1560 Broadway, New order for advertisement In your paper. I wish to call your attention to ollars from The Billboard advertise- ment Consequently we are well satisfied with the results. With best wishes we beg to remain Billboard, York City: check for $9.50, covering 15-time the fact that during this year we MORGAN HOTEL, E. R. LEON (Gen. Mer.). —) SS BERLIN By O. M. SEIBT 183 Ubland Str., Charlottenbarg RERLIN, Dec. 7.—The passing year sees a further decline in big-time vande- ville in Germany The Apollo Berlin goes over to’'a male stock company, the Elite Saenger, after having played vaudeville for the past five months with indifferent Another big-time house, the Reichkshallen Cologne, is aban- doning vaudeville for revue and bur- lesque shows, altho reopened w ith vaude- ville a few months ago. The Liebich Theater Breslau, one of the standards of decades and in pre-war days known to every American act that visited this country, is in the hands of a rec eiver and will probably play shows only on a per- centage basis hereafter. The Vaudeville Managers’ Association is undergoing a crisis that may result in a severe shakeup. The trouble started with the resignation of its president, M. Friediger, of Munich, and the attending resignation of the Wintergarten, the Scala and a number of provincial man- agers from the board of directors fol- lowing an encounter with the secretary of the Union. Since the whole associa- tion is of little if any importance to the vaudeville magnates on account of 90 per cent of its members belonging to the cabaret trade, with no achievement for a good many days, it is reported that the long overdue split of the two inter- ests will be the outcome of the affair. Singer's Midgets are headlining at the Centralhalien, Stettin, and business is said to be excellent. The Italian Marionets are giving per- formances at the Gloria Palace after having played the Theater des Westens; Schichtl-Charton’s Marionets, a first-rate German act, is at the Scala, and Braun’s success, Marionets Muenchner Kuenstler will open in a few days at the Secession on Kur- fuerstendamm The Dodge Sisters will leave the mid- dle of January for America, opening on the K.-A. Time February 6. Another American act at the Seala go- ing very strong is Miacahua, the Bra- tilian wonder on the wire, who arrived from Holland after playing a number of dates in Paris and Southern France. Miss Miacahua is in receipt of offers from German managers and will have little difficulty in arranging a long tour in this country Max Reinhardt, now in America, will bring the entire company of the Odeon Theater, Paris, under Gemier, to Berlin next spring, with the full company of the Deutsches Theater playing the Paris house in exchange. The much-touted Jean Gilbert concern has broken down, and the composer's idea of. imitating the Shubert brothers in this country by securing the leading musical comedy’ stages under his man- agement has found a sudden end. Busi- ness in some of the houses was ex- tremely poor The main difficulty, of course, has been the lack of good, catchy shows. Cologne expects to stage a carnival early next vyear—the first real one for 13 years. It could not be revived during the occupation that ended last March. Nearly a thousand Americans have, ac- cording to an announcement made by the carnival committee, signified their intention of visiting the fair Circus Hagenbeck, of Stellingen fame, is giving performances in the Busch Building, with a real, old-fashioned cir- cus put on by Heinrich and Lorenz Hagenbeck and their ceneral manager, Richard Sawade. The program includes the best animal acts seen for a long time, in addition to a number of spe- cialty acts and comedy turns and clowns. Hagenbeck intends to stay in Berlin the entire season L YCEU Me an d CHAUTAUQUA Communicatons to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. MAUDE WILUIS, Chicago. ha com- pleted her Ivceum time ind } gone te Orlando, Fla... to snend the wint , driv- ing thru n her antomobil WALLACE GRAHAM, mar of the Community Chautauquas of Canada, wa in Chicago recently on bi ‘ He ex- pressed himself well pleased wit the business hi organization did 1 t fall, the rebookings being 100 per cent, with several towns added for next year. His circuit is a three-day indoor chautauqua, CLASSIFICATION blanks have been sent to all members of the TI. L. CG. A. by Secretary Harold Kramer in prepara- tion for the new year book. No one but paid-up members of the association will be listed—and all are requested to send in checks. JEANNETTE KLING is spending the holidays with relatives in Cincinnati, after a fall season with Swarthmore. She will spend the remainder of the winter in Chicago. PLANS for the next I. L. C. A. Con- vention are going forward, and there is said to be reason to believe it will be the biggest convention in years. It will be held at Winona Lake, September 6 to 9, 1927. New members are coming into the association in surprising num- bers, 19 applications having been fe- ceived since the last convention. a CHARLES ARGANBRIGHT, of Chi- cago, has joined,.the company of Pere Pélletier in New York, presenting two Shakespearean plays. Arganbricht leaves for Florida in February opening on the Radaliff Chautauqua Time with Give and Take, playing the leading juvenile role of Jack and acting as manager of the company. During his stay in New York Arganbright has made his home in Greenwich Village where he is a wel- comed guest at many professional and fraternal affairs, in company with Mme. Wrigley, of Wichita, Kan., who is becom- ing famous in the village for her dra- matic readings. ADA WARD has been invited to lee- ture before the Holland-English Society in Holland during her European tour in February and March, according to word from her manager, Gerald Christy. THE AMERICAN INDIAN Concert Band, Mt. Pleasant, Mich., under direc- tion of David Russell Hill, expects to be on the chautauqua circuit next vear. The organization, with its soloists both in vocal and instrumental numbers, is said to be an unusual novelty A LYCEUM COURSE is being success- fully ponsored by the Philomathian Societv of the Grove City (Minn.) High School. The course not only included pro- fessic Is. but a number given by the school crades in the form of a Christ- LETTERS FROM chautauqua and ly- ceum talent are rlwavs wel me to this department because of their news value The RBillho 1 does not book attractions or features, d makes this statement be- cause there seems to be a fre nt mis- understanding to that effect. Those de siring to enter upon this field hould get in touch with the var bureaus that make the work a specialty GLEN MORRIS is lecturing t] Wis- consin with the University ixtension of that State. He report lendid au ences and enthusiasm THE FIRST CHRISTIAN ‘¢ of Palestine, Tex., is f te! talent Iyceum cou! meeting with suce J educational director and the pastor, J. Wil ing the affair. TENTS and BALLY-HO CURTAINS of ALL DESCRIPTIONS. Clifton Manufacturing Co. WACO, TEXAS. Largest Manufacturers of Canvas Goods in the South. Wbbblbtldl std ttbbtttttttttttttttts, WOOT aidadbddddsa PT oooh bdddddddddddddbbddddddths — FS ss ——_—— ty | zx —_ im — | _ me «4

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46 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 New Theater Plans and Activities ATLANTA, Ga.—Loew’s, Inc., obtained a 60-year lease December 17 on central city property, including the Grand Thea- ter, and a statement was issued to the effect that a theater to seat 4,000 will be built. The DeGive Investment Com- pany owns the Grand Theater property. Edward A. Schiller, recently elected vice- president of the Loew concern, confirmed the report of the projected new theater. He said the company would take over the site January 1. The rentals to be paid during the term of the leases ag- gregate $60,000,000. While the con- struction date is indefinite, it was stated that work would begin soon and the theater would be the finest in the South. BRISTOL, Conn. — Construction of a theater to cost $500,000 will be begun in a short time, according to a state- ment issued by A. H. Lockwood, D. A. Peters and L. M. Gordon, of Colonial Theaters, Inc., for which concern the house is to be built. The Bristol The- ater, recently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt as suon as plans are prepared. BROOKLYN.—The Park Slope Amuse- ment Corporation will build a three-story brick theater on Wighth = street, near Sixth avenue, to cost $550,000, CAMAS, Wash. — Construction of a motion picture theater, financed py local interests, has been begun on the C. E. Farrell property. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia.—The Amusement Company, nounces the erection of a 2,500-seat vaudetille and photoplay combination theater for Cedar Rapids, to be operated jointly by the Frank Amusement Com- pany and the Orpheum Circuit of vaude- ville theaters. The theater will be buiit according to plans prepared by W. P. Whitney, Chicago. These plans are to be approved by the Orpheum Circuit ar- chitect. The Frank Amusement Com- pany, which operates a number of thea- ters thruout Iowa, also has approved plans for the new Orpheum Theater for Waterloo, with a seating capacity of 2,000. Construction of the Waterloo Or- pheum Theater will commence on January 17, theater to be completed on or before November 1, 1927. Frank of Waterloo, an- CHICAGO. — The Chicago Turn-Ge- meinde, founded in 1852, will build a 2,500-seat theater and Chicago will be given annual seasons of 15 weeks of opera in English. Announcement of the project was made by Joseph A. Schwick- erath, director Of the Chicago Philhar- monic Orchestra. The theater will be part of a 17-story structure on the site of the historic North Side Turner Hall, North Clark street. Work will start next fall, after the 75th anniversary of the Turn-Gemeinde has been celebrated in the old building. All Chicago archi- tects have been invited to compete in submitting plans. In addition to the playhouse there will be two concert halls, one seating 1,000, the other 500. CHICAGO—Accompanied by his wife, son and daughter, Frank A. P. Gazzolo, for 30 years one of the foremost figures in Chicago’s theatrical h‘storv, who has returned to Chicago after a two months’ sojourn in California, intimated that he may construct a new loop theater within the next 18 months. Before leaving for California Mr. Gazzolo sold his lease on the Studebaker to Mrs. Samuel Insull's repertoire company. CINCINNATI.—Albert Harris, inves- tor, has acquired the property at 16 Fast Seventh street, paying $85,000, and announces that he will build a motion picture theater unless he resells. The theater proposed would seat 600. This Meplock is o« cupied by the ind Cox theaters. Shubert, Capitol ’ With the Harris the- ater built, the entire north side of the block would be given to amusement houses. DALLAS, Tex.—Directors of the Dal- las Little Theater announce that the building project of the organization is assured, $55,000 having been subscribed of the $65,000 needed Fifteen architects have submitted plans from which a selec- tion will be made. DALLAS, Tex. — C. W. Snider, of Wichita Falls, and J. Fred Smith, of Dallas, will build a theater to cost $30,- 000 in the business district, they an- nounce, withholding the location and other details for the present. ELWOOD, Ind.—Permit has been is- sued to R. D. Smith, of Greentown, to build a theater on the site of the old Kremer Opera House. Construction con- tract was awarded to W. M. Dickson. The estimated cost is $50,000. Work will begin at once. EVANSVILLE, Ind.—Plans for build- ing a new theater on the site of the Strand, recently destroyed by fire, are under consideration by the Wells-Bijou Realty Company, owners. A lease on the property, held by Charles Sweeton, expires in May. An Eastern theatrical concern desires to purchase the property, Clint F. Rose, manager of the realty company, says. GAINESVILLE, Fla—R. C. Arm- strong, manager of the Lyric Theater, announces that the Saenger Theaters, Inc., headquarters New Orleans, will bu:ld a new theater here. Work is to commence on the house early in January. The plans have been drawn and ac- cepted. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Jacob Free- man, owner and operator of a group of motion picture theaters, announces that he will build a theater at a cost of $30,- 000, seating 1,200, on a lot just pur- chased by him on Shelby street. MARION, Ind.—Plans are being drawn for the construction of a motion picture theater to cost about $150,000. The the- ater will be owned and operated by the Frank J. Rembusch Enterprises of In- dianapolis and will seat about 1,500. MERKEL, Tex.—H. T. Hodge, Abilene theater owner, will build a motion pic- ture theater here at a cost of $20,000. NEW ORLEANS.—The Jai-Alai Club will build a theater at Friscoville avenue and North Peters street for general amusements. Contract for construction has been awarded to Gitz & Geier, this city. NEW YORK —A new theater for the Bronx is expected to rise on a site pur- chased by a client of Schwab & Com- pany, the block front on the west side of Third avenue, between 158th and 159th streets. The theater proposed will seat 2,000. Stores and offices will be embraced in the project. NEW YORK. — Zimmer, Reznick & Locker, builders, have purchased for about $1,000,000 the property at 241 West 42d street, with abutting land run- ning thru to 43d, as a site for a theater to seat 2,000. Thomas W. Lamb, archi- tect, is preparing the plans. PROVIDENCE, R. I.—Alton C. Emery will build @ movie house at Linwood ave- nue and Cranston streets, the cost of which is not stated. Permit to build has been granted by the zoning board. ROCHELLE, I1l—A modern theater, with restaurant and dance hall annex, will be built here by W. P. Landon. The Rochelle Theater Company, to be incor- porated, will take over the house. The stock will be sold to citizens of the town. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Construction work has started on the $900,000 Or- pheum Theater. SHREVEPORT, La. — The Werner Company, Inc., has filed contract and bond for construction of a motion picture theater to cost $22,000. SPRINGDALE, Ark.—Work has been started on the theater to be built here, as announced last week. The plans show a $30,000 building, which will be owned by a group*of local business men. They will lease the house to Ray Mor- row, manager of the Gem. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Stevens Motion Picture Theater interests will build a theater at 306 Boonville avenue. SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Permit has been issued to Thomas Hogan to build a the- ater to cost $90,000 on the site of the old System Theater, South Salina street. E. A. Howard is the architect. WAUKEGAN, IlL—Contract to build the new theater which will occupy the site of the old Y. M. C. A. Building has been let to Petersen & Weeks, of this city. The theater is to be ready for occupancy by October 1, 1927. It will seat 1,750. The Great States Theaters has taken a 15-year lease. WINTER HILL, Mass.—A theater to be known as the Capitol will be built by local business men. YUMA, Ariz—Harry and Alfred Nace, of Phoenix, will build a motion picture theater here, in which David Swing and M. Solomon are also interested. New Theater Openings ALGONA, Ia.—The Algona Theater, built by M. Morness, a motion picture house, has been opened under his man- agement. The theater is equipped with a stage suitable for general amusements. ASHDOWN, Ark.—The New Palace, motion picture theater, built by Sam Dudley, has been opened for business. BAIRD, Tex.—Jeff Custer is opening a motion picture theater here. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Shea’s Kensington Theater, latest link in the Publix Thea- ters chain, was formally opened Christ- mas Day. The house was built at a cost of $250.000 and is Buffalo’s finest neighborhood theater. CHALLIS, Id.—The Challis Theater, motion picture house, has been opened with Rodger Brasseur, the owner, as manager. Doors were thrown open to the public on the opening night, no ad- mission fee being charged. DUPONT, Pa.—The Lincoln Theater, motion picture house, was formally opened December 18 with an address by Albert Strucke, town burgess. Louis Pilosi is managing the new theater. HAPPY, Tex.—The theater for motion pictures is nearing completion and will be opened at an early date. HOLLIDAYS COVE, W. Va.—W. H. Morgan, manager, announces that the Lincoln Theater, nearing completion, will open about the middle of January. The house will play fair-sized road attrac- tions as well as motion pictures. It has a seating capacity of 800. Road shows are now being booked by Morgan. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—With the new Ritz Theater on North Illinois street nearing completion, plans are being made for the opening about February 1 by Os- car Markum & Son, the owners. The theater cost about $150,000. McCOOK, Neb.—The World Theater, which is rapidly nearing completion, will be opened January 15, M. Goldberg, president of the World Realty Company, the owner, announces, MAXBASS, N. D.—The Allona The- ater, new motion picture house, was opened December 15. NEW YORK. — The Royale Theater. construction of which was begun only three months ago, will be opened early in January, it is announced. The Royale is at 242 West 45th street. It is equipped for dramatic and musical pro- ductions and will seat 1,200. The Royale is a Chanin house. PORTLAND, Ore. — Christmas has been set as date for the dedication of Multnomah Theaters Corporation’s new Bagdad Theater. The opening will be under the auspices of the East Side Business Men's Club. UTICA, N. Y.—The James Street The- ater, motion picture house, seating 850, has been opened by Slotnick & Perl- man, of Syracuse, owners of a chain of movie houses. VENICE, Fla. — The new theater, built at a cost of $175,000 and for which a name is yet to be selected, is receiving its finishing touches and will be opened about February 1, it is announced. WESLACO, Tex.—The National The- ater, motion picture house, has been opened by M. Benitez. WICHITA FALLS, Tex—The new suburban theater acquired by H. N. Roberts will be opened by January 1. WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The Lincoln Theater, motion picture house, built at a cost of $50,000 by Tony Martone and sold to M. Pilosi, of Old Forge, has been opened, with Pilosi as manager. WOODWARD, Okla.—The Terry The- ater, motion picture house, has been opened. Vance and Ben Terry and lL. N. Sewell are the owners. The house was built at a cost of $30,000. Theater Deals CATTARAUGUS, N. Y¥.—The Palace Theater, motion picture house, has been sold by Dan Cunningham to _ Rohdo, Rathjon & Wallace, Inc., owners of th Playhouse, Ellicottville. The name of the Palace will be changed to the Play- house. ' CHICAGO.—The Halsted Theater, 6108 S. Halsted street, has been sold by Mitchell and Murtangli, of the F. B. 0 Chicago office, to Philip Tague. COLLINSVILLE, Okla.—L. H. (Hap) Luckett has sold the Grand Theater to D. A. White, of Henryetta, who recently disposed of a chain of motion pictur: houses which he owned. His purchase marks White's return to the theatrical business. DECATUR, Ill.—Percy W. Gebharat announces that his two theaters, the Al- hambra and Crescent, will be leased to a Chicago concern January 1 for a period of five years. Identity of the lessee was not disclosed. The Alhambra will be closed for repairs. DALLAS, Tex.—-Simon Charninsky has sold his interests in the Pantages the- aters in Dallas and Fort Worth to Ray Stinnett and U. M. Simon. Stinnett will manage the Dallas house and Simon wll conduct the theater in Fort Worth. HOLDENVILLE. Okla. — The Dixie Theater, motion picture house, has passed to the control of C. E. Momand and A. B. Momand, of Shawnee, and J W. Cotter, of Tulsa. Cotter will manage the theater PUEBLO, Col.—-An order for the sale of the Colonial Theater to the Nolan Amusement Company has been issued The order provides that the sale pric shall not be less than $9,169.31, and the purchaser shall assume all the cumbrances and taxes against the prop- erty. The theater was a part of the estate of the late Frank Taylor. en- SEATTLE, Wash.—The Meridian The- ater, motion picture house, has been sold by H. Pace and J. Biancardi to Harry Bergman, who will manage the theater. SEATTLE, Wash.—Confirmation of the report that nine suburban theaters and one downtown motion picture house have been purchased by the Universal Chain Theatrical Enterprises is given by H. W. Bruen, general manager of the Pacific Theaters Company, which has been oper- ating the houses. Bruen says the sale will be effective January 1. The Univer- sal will take over the Cheerio Theater, the Queen Anne, the Mission, in George- town; the Grey Goose, Beacon Hill; Arabian, Woodland and Ridgemont, in the North End; the Portola, in West Seattle, and the Madrona Garden, 29th avenue and Cherry street. No real estate changed hands. The properties are cov- ered by long-term leases. the SPRINGFIELD, O11. Ss. E. Wilholt has purchased the Grand Theater from W. W. Smith. With this purchase, Wil- holt now has control of th cre theaters here, the others being the Princess and Jefferson, which are owned by him.‘ WAUCHULA, Fla. — The Royal The- ater has been sold to the owners of the Star Theater, Arcadia, Fia., and H. B Clark, who is financially interested in the deal, will come from the latter city to take over the management of the house here. Theater Alterations CINCINNATI.—The Forest Theater in Avondale will be remodeled and converted into a modern pictures heuse. The seat- ing capacity will be doubled. Moritz Saxe is the architect. HANCOCK, Mich.—The Star Theater is being remodeled and will be enlarged. Extensive alterations and improvements will be made in.the old house. SANTA ROSA, Calif.—The old amuse- ment hall, Fourth street, is to be re- modeled and opened as a motion picture theater by Mrs. W. W. Felt. Contract for the rebuilding has beeg given to Proctor & Cleghorn. - il . it ee — FF er ————— |

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in he Theater Staff Notes CHARLES ROSE, formerly of Corning, x. Y., is now manager of Smalley’s Thea- ter in Cooperstown, N. Y. FRANK CASSIDY, for many years as- enciated with Warner Bros., is now man- ger of the Colony Theater, New York. FRED S. MEYER, formerly manager of the Universal Film Exchange in Minne- lis. Minn., has. been made managing polis girector of the Alhambra Theater, Mil- L waukee. CARL KRUEGER, formerly manager of the Columbia Theater, Detroit, is now managing the Lincoln Square Theater in that city. J. Barley, assistant manager at the Columbia, will succeed Krueger as manager of that house. RAY HENDRY, former assistant man- ager at the Victory Theater, Salt Lake City, Utah, has taken charge of the Para- mount Theater, Ogden, Utah, succeeding Emmett Sorg, who has gone to California. HARRY SILVER, manager of the Palace Theater, Hamilton, O., has just returned from a two weeks’ vacation with his former “buddies” in Detroit. ROY FRAZEE, who has been organist at Loew’s State, Boston, has been ap- pointed organist at the new Granada Theater, Malden, Mass. FRANK L. SELTZER, who for a short time was manager of Warner Bros.’ Metropolitan Theater, Baltimore, has re- turned to Philadelphia to assume is duties s publicity director for the Fox Theater there ANTOINETTE WARD, former mane acer of the Grand Theater, St. Catharines, Ont.. and later manager of the Griffin Theater in that city, is now at the helm of the Tivoli Theater, St. Thomas, Ont., filling the place left vacant by Thomas Forhan, who is now at the Capitol Thea- ter, Welland, Ont. TACK QUINLAN, for several years man- ager of the Main Street Theater, Kansas City, Mo., has resigned from that posi- tion to become manager of the Pantages Theater, Kansas City, succeeding Earl T. Cook, who has been transferred to the home office of the Pantages Circuit in New York. FRANK CASSEL has been named as manager of the Sedalia Theater, Sedalia, Mo., a2 Universal chain house. MURRAY A. PENNOCK will this week leave his post as manager of the Music Box, Portland, Ore, to go to New York, where he plans to continue in the theatrical business William H. Byars, assistant manager, will have harge of the theater until Warner ‘ appoint another manager. B Er V. RICHARDS, JR., general man- cer of the Saenger Theaters, Inc., has been appointed a member of the com- mi n in charge of the erection of tho new $2,000,000 public auditorium in New Orleans. ee L. S. GOOLSBY, formerly manager of the Princess Theater, Opelousas, La., is now in Memphis operating tne Wesoto Theater, which he recently purchased. SAMUEL TISHKOFF, manager of the new Madison Theater Rochester, N. Y, entertained 1,400 children of the West Side at the Madison last week. Charles Harris, assistant house and stage man- ager, put on a song and dance number for the kids. N. W. REMOND, of the Scenic Thea- ter, Lake Wales, Fla., has bought the Royal Theater at Wauchula, Fla., and took charge December 5. H. B. Clark, formerly manager of the Star Theater at Arcadia, Fla., will be manager of the Royal. JACK MARSHALL, manager of the Grand and Jefferson theaters at Hunts- ville, Ala., has been appointed manager of the new North Birmingham Theater, Birmingham, Ala., operated by the Joe Steed Amusement Company. T. A. Wilson, manager of the Gem Theater, Red Bay, Ala., is erecting a new 800-seat theater in that city, to be named the Red Bay Theater. NEW BOOKS Communications to 1560 Broadway, N. Y. SAPPHO AND PHAON, a. sfIyrical drama, by Marion Osborne. The Mac- Millan Company, New York. SHERIDAN TO ROBERTSON, by Ernest Bradlee Watson. A study of the 19th century London stage. Harvard, New York. THE WORD OF GOD. a miracle play. adapted from the medieval York cycle by Paul H. Wright. Tannerrow, Ltd. London, England. ls. THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR and other plays of Nikolay Gogol from the Russian. by Constance Garnett. Chatto & Windus, London, England. 7s. 6d. THREE PLAYS by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Two Slatterns and a King, Aria da Capo and The Lamp and the Bell, Harper, New York. $2. THE WAY, a mystical play, by Prin- The Billboard, January 1, 1927 47 eess Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich. Stanford University Press, New York. A PLAYGOER’S WANDERINGS, by H. M. Walbrock. Leonard Parsons, Lon- don, England. 10s. 6d. EACH IN HIS OWN WAY AND TWO OTHER PLAYS, by Luigi Pirandello, translated from the Italian by Arthur Livingston. FE. P. Dutton & Company. New York. $2. VINCENT CRUMMLES; HIS THEA- TER AND HIS TIMES. Arranged by F. J. Harvey Darton. Wells, Gardner Company, London, Eng. 42s. THE CHRISTMAS PARTY, a carol play, by Percy Dearmer. S. P. C. K., London, Eng. 64d. THE BEGGAR’S RIDE, a tragedy, by Edward Shanks. Collins, London, Eng. 5s. SAVONAROLA, a dramatic poem, by Charlotte Eliot. Cobden-Sanderson, Lon- don, Eng. 5s. FROM ATLANTIS TO THAMES, an epic drama, by W. P. Ryan. Theosophi- = Publishing House, London, England. Theaters Reopen DENVER, Col. — The Gilpin Theater, renovated and redecorated, was reopened under the new ownership of Robert Speers and John Shoup. Saturday and Sunday vaudeville is proving popular with the neighborhood clientele. PERRY, Okla.—The remodeled Lyric Theater has been reopened. The seating capacity is 500. The house will continue to play pictures, SAN FRANCISCO—The St. Francis Theater reopened Christmas Day with the first showing here of The Sorrows of Satan. SEATTLE, Wash.—The Liberty The- ater, now undergoing extensive repairs and alterations, redecorating and refur- nishing, will reopen as United Artists Theater early in January, Harry C. Ar- thur, president of the Pacific Northwest Theaters, Inc., announces. SIOUX CITY, Ia.—The Star Theater, recently damaged by fire, has been re- opened after undergoing a thoro over- hauling. Bad Stage Diction By OTIS SKINNER ognized fact. O SAY that the diction of the present generation of actors and | actresses is lamentably bad is merely to give utterance to a rec- I have recently gone on record for the statement that the modern AUTHENTIC OFFICIAL NEWS AND UP.TO- DATE METHODS HAVE MADE “THE PERFORMER’ AVI NECESSITY ™ (The OMcial Organ of the Variety Artistes’ Fed- mn and all Other Variety Organizations.) DEALS WITH VARIETY ONLY AND READ BY EVERYONE CONNECTED WITH BRITISH WARIETY. The Paper That Shows Results to Advertisers, ADVERTISING RATES: Wits Pe ee ee rer $52.00 Oe ie rte as ek a Third Page ‘de Column, per Inch. . Narrow Column, per inch.... THE PERFORMER is filed a ee SCOTTISH OFFICE: 141 Bath Street, Glasgow. stage, modern acting and the productions of today are equal and often superior in thoroness and artistic perfection of detail to those of 20 or 25 years ago. But in justice to the actors of yesterday, I frankly acknowledge that they were masters of diction. They not only under- stood how to use their voices, but they had, at the same time, a metrical sense which enabled them to carry to the audience the full beauty of blank verse lines Nowadays the stage is devoted almost entirely to modern dramas. Blank verse plays are indeed rarities, The one point required of the actor is that he shall appear natural—that he shall seem on the stage what he and every other modern man is on the street; heroics are out of place, to elocute is the unforgiven sin. Consequently, while we have many actors of great talent and absolute knowledge of technique, the speaking on the American stage is about as bad as it could be. Your modern actor mumbles under his breath, his inflections are wrong; his use of his voice ignorant and careless; your modern actress, no matter how clever she may be, is affected to the last degree in her speech. The success of some women of genius on the stage straightway inspires a school of imitators, and the worst faults are more carefully aped than the best qualities of this idol. Then there is a growing tendency to cultivate a British accent. Instead of being satisfied with our own high standards of pronunciation of English words, many of our young American actors affect a hybrid pronunciation that is ridiculous in the extreme. And our actresses— particularly some of our leading women—offend even more grievously thru their willful neglect of the rules of pronunciation and enunciation. In blank verse and poetic drama this defective elocution is ab- solutely fatal. The actor who can speak Shakespeare's words is almost as extinct as the dodo, the buffalo and the Irish wolf hound, He had his faults, did the old-time Shakespearean actor; he would often tear a passion to Atatters, but he had this one virtue—he was invariably distinct, his words would always be heard and his training gave him the power of expressing the beauties of blank verse. I recall three men who never have been equaled on our stage for the splendid significance and full value they gave to the lines of Shake- speare. They were Edwin Booth, James E. Murdoch and E. L. Daven- port. It must not be supposed that they were mere elocutionists—mel- low, well-toned phonographs. They were not only masters of diction, but they gave the impress of their personality to the character they assumed. —WASHINGTON STAR. eee | New Incorporations Delaware Roxy Circuit, In operate theaters, $150,000,000 (1,500,000 shares of Class A and common stock, 500,000 of Class A and 1,000,000 common, ali no par); Richard Bennett, C. S. Winters, Peter G. Brennan, Brooklyn, N. Y. Publix ‘Saenger Theaters, Inc., theat- rical proprietors, $200,000; T. L. Croteau, Wilmington. New Jersey Hyatla Amusement Corporation, Atlantic Highlands, $25,000; David Tumen, John F. O'Neill, Mildred D. Herbert, Atlantic Highlands. Plaza Theater, Jersey City, $5,000; Jud- son Napelbaum, Bayonne; Leon Yuck- man, Elizabeth; Helen Levine, Jersey City. Community Theater Corporation, Haw- thorne, $100,000 preferred and 2,000 shares, no par; Ernest W. Rutan, Pater- son; Henry Wiegers, William Marns, Hawthorne. New York Tricities Theater Circuit, Manhattan, 100 common, no par; H. E. Hughes, C. EL Paine, S. Sedran. L. & S. Lyric Theater Corporation, $6,000; H. Schaffer, I. Lillian. Bemat Amusement Company, Roches- ter, motion pictures, $50,000; W. Tish- koff, M. Fogel, F. Bieger. Industrial Theaters Managing Com- pany, Manhattan, 100 common, no par; A. Gottesman, H. H. Stern, D. Shalek. Falls Theater Corporation, Niagara Falls, $50,000; A. Elia, I. W. Mathews, R. H. Wiggall. West Haven Theater Corporation, Manhattan, 100 common, no par; A. B. Cohn, F. Gold, lL. E. Bobker. Ivan L. Wright Productions, Manhat- tan, theatrical enterprises, 100 common, no par; I. L. Wright, C. Keller, M. M. Lipp. East and West Hudson Theaters Cor- poration, Newburg, 100 common, no par; F. Muscato, C. Suozzo, W. Gold. William Theater Ticket Corporation, Manhattan, ticket agencies, $20,000; C. Osgood, Jr.; L. M. Cooke. States Cinema Production Corporation, $10,000; C. S. Goetz, S. Citron, M. Karp. Kimono Productions, Manhattan, dra- matic entertainments, 300 common, no par; F. Stanhope, J. Froelich. Homeric Productions, Manhattan, the- atrical, 200 common, no par; M. Machlis, M. Miller, S. M. Heimann. . Sliver Eagle Productions, Manhattan, motion pictures, $100,000; H. D’Agostino, A. and C. Morreale. Lastaible, Bronx, theatrical, 100 com- mon, no par; N. and A. Zanchelli, J. Pagano. Henderson Amusement Park, Brooklyn, 2,000 shares, $50 each: 4.000 common, no par; N. Vause, T. E. Morrissey, Jr. Washington Seattle Recreation Company, Seattle. $100,000; W. L. Carpenter, Charles E. Congleton. 25-Piece Orchestra Is Engaged For New State Theater, Harttord HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 24.—The new State Theater, which opens tor (Christmas), will have a 25-pi chestra, with Bert Williams a Willy Weiss, leader string Howard Prutting, Roy Tuttle : Henry 3obowski, Mort ] ierman, first violins; second violins, Geor Heck and Louis Gaquinto; violas, ! <« Graf and George Miller; cello, Willia Col- lum; basses, Al Heck and Herman Brandenberg ; flute, Henry Zlotnik; oboe, M. D. Adelid: clarinets, John Corella and William Brand ire; bassoon, Al- Conignone vin Kirchner; trumpets, A and Fred Berman; ! Joseph Piccilo and Harold P! - trombone, O. Schumann; pereuss s, Jack Wills; pi- ano, William : nm; organ Arthur Kennedy and W liam Tomkinson. Mr. Wills will also act as librarian. | | | ' ee ea ; | | | pe } . a _ ee 8 | y ) fr Cae ™ . Pe pe | ee ee y ee a It |- 4 ae ae d s ee RRR LL aT aT, hh a ee ee po pe : ee v ———————————————————— pe 3 d J 3 a le n d Pd l- »- a Ge id “y r a 1 id , ve in we le le 3 he a in th _ ee v- it Pe m P| ~ il- —_ ra \ Fs nd e- Po he B | ty EE | TO BRITISH VAUDEVILLE in “" ee it- xO ; . ™ er We, 5 ed. % its WOU Pa scccceccccse onee . 16.50 ‘th Page eesevere cetésccccce CAD Fighth Page sescccccccess OED se- cocccccecs 8.00 “ind ee: atu " t all THE BILL- ire BOARD Offices in America. ict H FFICE 18 Charing Cross Road. London ° | | [ini

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48 The Legitimate Stage In LONDON By “COCKAIGNE” Shoreham. Sevenoaks, Kent LONDON Dec 7.— Andre Charlot, disgusted at being unable to find a thea- ter into which to remove his Charlot Show of 1926 when 1} lease of the Prince of Wales expire Dece ber 18, will sail on the Wednesday after with everal of the principals, including Her- and Jessie Mathews. They the Earl Carroll Vanities. zes the methods in regard ng of London playhouses, lies, are doing the show busi- y holding houses up to ransom, inexperienced and rash while keeping the men with and sound business instincts speculators, good shows the mat I have several on referred to the times good investment prospects of West End theater building and now learn that, in addition to the house the Shuberts are rumored to have arranged to build here, ting firm is considering ace inent for more thea- projected deals are not yet wever. her recent retirement, Nellie s a return to the operatic sites iis week to fulfill an old promise the Old Vic. Some years ago with Lilian Baylis to sing ut coulfl not, so she will appear tonight in the third and fourth acts of La Boheme and the last act of Otello. An augmented orchestra under Percy Pitt. and a company including Gertrude Johnson, Browning Mummery, John wnlee, Frederic Collier and Thomas sre Minogue will support Melba, who re- quested that regular patrons of the Vic should have priority in the bookings which range from 25 cents upwards. The proceeds go to the Sadlers’ Wells fund Needless to say the house was sold out within a few hours of the announcement of the event. Sunday night proved one ¢ held. The Gl appreciative al Green Room Club Rag ] ost successful ever packed with an lience in which the theat- “ical element prevaiied, and the Ameri- can ngent was well to the fore. Ronald Jean’s clever skit on Pirandello’s Siz Characters was the of the evening. Charles Gulliver and Albert de Cour- ville ntly hold the of The O'Donovan Affair for early London ex- ploitation. Broadway is another Ameri- can play due here shortly. Happy-Go-Lucky, English When You Smile, is not to have a male chorus. George and Harry Foster’s de- cision will be welcome to many playgoers, cont success rights version of for the male chorus is a spectacle which seldom adds to the pleasantness of musi- cal shows. interested with Lee production of R. H. Gillespie is Ephraim in the London Lady Fair, which, however, will be done before the Hippodrome is likely to be fre or a new show, since Sunny is well in its stride here Aspidistras, Joan Temple’s suburban domestic comedy, has a somewhat familiar and uninviting “repertory” at- mosphere, but the piece, which has sensi- tivene and pror e, Was redeemed by the author's handling of the central char- acter, and particularly Allison gatt’s performance of it. ys principal boy in this year, is ap- Piccadilly Revels, Ellyn, whose dancing Leg- has proved a hit d who I hear is al i g sought b West End legit. mal r Th is Miss Ellyn’s first Eu 1 é of the L n musical shows, r / Tip-Toes, Lady Be G 1 and the Blackt ls of the Pavilion, } ‘ : ‘ ( rr the Al- bert H ( , r cember 15. Henry Arthur Jor recently recovered from severe illr has now been under the surgeon's 1} i TI 75-year-old dramatist is said to be doing well The Irish Play operating under J B. Fagan’s management, will follow the irlet Lady into the Criterion Marie Tempest has not done well with the lat- ter piece, which has only run 10 weeks, The Irish Players will revive The White- headed Boy, Sara Allgood, Maire O'Ne ll, Moyna McGill, Fred Morgan and Arthur Sinclair being in the cast. Liliom, with Ivor Compton starring, has O'Donovan, Sidney Novello and Fay done well on its _presentation provincial tryout nd will be in the West End by Chr When formerly £ n i nothe vel n and entitled The Daisy the piece was a frost here Recently Wycher ‘s bold comedy The ned down by David utry Girl, was done neha Repertory Theater. Everyman Theater is rehearsing tion next week with at the Now the the play for present Athene Seyler in name part. The Jewish Drama League’s prize play, Israel in the Kitchen, by Noah Elstein, presented the Pavilion Thea- ter, East, last Sunday night, proved no eat shakes, partly because of the poor- ness of the league's production. It has plenty of Jewish local color, but un- fortunately the action is local too. Fanny Waxman, as the mother, gave a dis- ti lished performance. Owing to Godfrey Tearle’s illness the of Aloma had to be post- poned till tomorrow. A provisional arrangement of great interest is that for the reappearance of Jane Cowl in London during the early spring. The Selwyns and William Gaunt will probably present Miss Cowl at His Majesty’s in Romeo and Juliet and it is suggested that this will be .followed by her appearance in Smilin’ Through. _ Fol- lowing her great success in Easy Virtue, good support for these ventures seems assured. LONDON, 14.—The events of the week are: Wednesday, Aloma (Adelphi); Saturday, revival of Wvycherley’s The Country” Wife (Every- man); Sunday, Fellowship of Players Dec. principal women they ire terrorized b t} rou and dare not protest Song plugging, which has developed enormously of late in London, reaches it climax in Lido Lady, where the expedient of microphoning the leading song numbers bars and fovers during the inter- in the ’ adopted for the first time vals has been in a London theater June’s return to the stage after a long illness has been rain delayed, for she was unable to appear in the Birmingham tryout of Happy-Go-Lucky, English ver- sion of Smiling Through, last week. Her part was take at short notice by Rita Page. Marian Saki got away with big notices and Billy Taylor also kept the Stars and Strips floating to ¢£ 1 effect. Walter Peacock, representative of the English branch of Elizabeth Marbu and Golding Bright's pl ness, has collaborated with Miles Malle- son on a play, Paris Nights, which is shortly to be given at the “Q.” The Everyman production of Wycher- ley’s The Co Wife has been badly slammed. The piece limy on the first night, and Isabel Jeans’ performance did not matters. Athens Seyler graced the piece with some genuine 18th century art, and Philip Desborough, Nell Carter and Louise Holbrook did some admirable work. After many vicissitudes, Laurence Cowens’ Trish play, Biddy, is to be given niry ed sadly improve at the Fortune Theater December 23. Young Buffalo is appearing next week at the Eleph: with the “Todd” in The at the Old Vic Slaughter Compan White Ma felba’s appearance Rameo and Juliet; the Stage Society's - , last presentation of The Widowing of Mrs. Tuesday night to operatic excerpts Holroyd, by G. H. Lawrence; Monday, im aid of the Sa Wells Fund was 4 Gj ) . . A. B. Walkley, Critic critics might learn much from the pattern of th: UR dramatic Arthur Bingham Walkley, short time ago, the British press ha Saint John Ervine recently-said of “He seldom left his stall after of the play. “He never made any comment “He was conscientious in his bred persons do, come late to the before the curtain fell. “He was not until curtain fall, because they are one the play. resented the action of peo who, to ask him at the end of the first of it.” And The Mancester ple Guardian reviewer for The acknowledged head of his profession in England. S&S attendance. He endured to the end of those critics who can scarcely sit in their seats running around, asking this one and that on “He did not care what this one or that one thought of wrote of Walkley: “Against the infective dullness of a bad play he was totally im- mune, and an audience which had groaned in spirit thru a missp nt evening in the playhouse would have its compensation in the morn- ing, if it had seen in the stalls a small, dapper, sl ghtly Frenchified man, abstractly fingering a wisp of hair upon London T nee his dé s been filled with tributes him in The Morning Post: he had seated himself until the end on the piece during its performance He did not, as play, nor did he rush away less well- from it eager to be out in the what he vestibule and or she thinks of it, and he impertir on occasions, had ‘ or the second act what he thought the the chin. For the same fingers would an hour or two later be n iking dull clay yield as many sparks as if it had been fire-giving flint.” e NJ 7) “A The Whiteheaded Boy (Criterion), re- greeted with tremendous ovat n and the vival by the Irish Players; tional Players, in Sandy. On the heels of the news that America Scottish Na- is lending us Jane Cowl to appear as Juliet in the West End comes a marvel- ous performance of the part by Jean Forbes-Robertson, daughter of the Shakespearean veteran, Sir Johnston. On Sunday night the Fellowship of Players presented this piece and placed Miss Forbes-Robertson at one bound among the great Juliets of the English tradition On one of the earlier stage appearances of this actress I predicted she would make a Juliet of a generation, and she has bet- tered the prediction. Her youth, beauty and sustained skill made a of this special performance. Sir Alfred Butt } notable event returned from States full of opt m for the develop- ment of British fil and considers that if a great commercial corporation were formed here, to include production, ex- hibition and the bricks-and-mortar de of the industry, British films would not only succeed here, but have a market on thre other side Theater pests in the West End have adopted new tact Several stalwart roughnecks take good places in pit and gallery and accomplices hang about until the que lengthens, then approach late- comers and offer to sell the front places to would-be goers who find that, after parting with their money, the husky holder of these place refuse to rive them up. As many of the queueists are y fund benefited to the extent of $1 Notice has gone up for The Ques in the Parlor, so Liliom w ll be seen at the Duke of York’s two days _ befor: Christmas Granville Barker’s one-act farce, Rococo, recently presented at the Fv: . man, will probably figure in a Coliseum bill before long. Joan Ts mple’s comedy, Aspidistras, re- cently given by the Repertory has been bought for West tion. Most of Us Players, End produc- the play which Fred- erick Lonsdale wrote for Re nald will probably be presented Majesty’s in February. Squire, at His Graham Moffatt brought h new Scot. tish comedy, Granny, to the Royalty last week. The piece promises to attract the Scottish contingent in full fore M Moffatt gives an excellent show in the name part, the whole of which is played n bed Another management from north of the Tweed now appearing in town is that of Andrew P. Wilson, who has brought hi Scottish National Players to the “OQ.” in his own comedy, Sandy, Pat Wils« used to be connected with the Stoll n nage- ment, and his Scottish Nationals have made several appearances at the Coli eum, but this is his first offering in a legit. house. The piece is admirably writts n, witty and convincing, the production brick and the playing, especially Pat’s handling of the name part, ‘firstrate. D. H o well a a Lawrence, nove playwriglt Ww Vrs. } JO! tly by the Stage So Club Sunday atfrernoon, The pl iy 1s psychological and and, altho the charact« it does not seem sto } in terms of the Godfrey Tearle’s perf« at the Adelp) “ass will be to come Also The lowing af on even ure ti i Ve ance, can with Rev closely in this revival, ar her part in Harold Davidso associated with and is a keer ated a Theater by The Outcast acter’s fine s nterrupting to defend position. He for tolerance judgements, and his plauded. ive theater, a flapper’s paradise Frances Carson is actors’ sensation at list, has it to lolro id, pre clety the ing of and the not d judge fr ryt } and Mone definit« lramatic§ vari rization ji been conc: rmance in Al that the ry good perf the only A 1d she tyle. n, who got ha l church 1 playgoer, the a performa the woman « appealed to in their 1 speech wa Concert and Opera Notes (Continued from page 29) Rabinovitch, a to New York pianist concertgo FRANCIS Violinist, will February 17 A FIRST-TIME re Gigli, tenor of the in Atlanta, Ga., is 20, be at Me ant under the ausp Mondav ever when he will of acon pianoforte onatas tal ngs favorably k ers. MACMILLEN, Ame: heard Cambridge, in recit O. by ‘tropolitan O ounced for J for some t Re ices of the M and cor by perform th > feethoven ROLAND HAYES appears in reci of January 12 in Detroit the evening UNDER THE LOCA Kathryn Pickard, of wed nd by Fr February FOR THE German opera Korngold, being preser time in America, by Civic Opera C mpany, tenor role will be House. The IMMEDIATELY holidays Mar Sund York for a tour, to apy far south as North an ON JANUARY 10 Paul Althouse and 4 will sing in Lancaster, THE FIRST PERI Season in the States Trio, recently arrived created by L manag PERFORMANCE of Rina of P: lycrate ited for tl the PrP) 7? 1) February by J FOLLOWING in eon liugs leave ear it ad South Car Tdelle Arthur Pa. Midd TORMANCE the Chern from Eur Kather Cleveland, th: Patter VSKV take place January 11, at Pats rson, 'N J a ALLEN McQUHAE, tenor, on Decem- ber 0 will broadcast for Atwater Kent from Toronto. ‘ en THE SEASON of concerts by tl Rochester (N. Y.) Philharn Orches- tra, Eugene Goossens directing, wil! 1 resumed January 6, On the program w be feat ad the first performar ul where of Dr. Howard Ha n's con ’ for organ and orchestra, with Harold Gh nat the organ A JOINT RECITAL is announced f the evening of January 6 by Loui Homer, contralto, and Alfred Cort pianist, in the Eastman Theater, Roches- ter. MARY LEWi8, soprano of the Metro- politan, will be heard in recital in Mia: Fla., January 27. THE SOLOISTS for the next musical mérning in the Kinsolving Series in tl! Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, are announced ts Guiomar Novaes, plantst, and Jonn Charl Thomas, bar¥one, and this ca cert will take place January 4. THE DANISH SOPRANO, Povia Frijsh, will present four Monday evening song recitals January 17 and 24, F« She will have the ass Bibb at the piano. , FRIDAY date of the New Naegele, pianist. Aeolian Hall. York This bruary 7 istance of F recital of is scheduled in Aeolian Hah, New York, and 14. rank EVENING, January 7, is the Charl for — a | The Billboard, January 1, 1927 ' mr ne : m . Pe red CC“ ; lv oe _— ived — EEE ee 3 Se bert Mundin . will join ir 7 ohariot crit © ' to the rer ee i- which, he i: ‘ ness harm | e Po a Se —— Po TT TTCTCTETTTTTTTTTTTCTCC~SY se . az al : a : * : Pe ” ' 2 to help PF she ai TTS” Club. A SERIES OF SEVEN recitals wil! | played at Steinway Hall, N York, - ‘January 24, 31, February . _— - a | | rs PS cc. noted artists will be heard in that cit: . re The first will be Roland Hayes, Jar ary 3, - Kreisler, J 1- ary 21, : = 9, Sergei R - ; maninoff : by | Po n | a t ; | _t~—‘“‘CS*S*S*SCSC~C~*@ ~ ae sstemiaimmamesaicem : , ee ee — _ eras | , —_—_—— — — ~ Pe ; - TOOT - ee po a. . yy ~

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t THE NEW PLAYS ON BROADW AY | JOHN GOLDEN Beginning Monday Evening, December THE SILVER CORD. comedy by = Howard Directed Cromwell tings designed and ‘ mn Thre nn ywton Presented Guild, featuring the Theater Guild Act ny and Guest Players PHCIPS cscceecceeeeeeereres Laura “ACT The ‘Living Room on Sun ay \CT Il—Scene 1: Same Early That David's Bedroom. Later That Same Same as Act I. The Monday pe _Any Eastern City. TIME—The Present. \fter considerable floundering k-kneed reliance upon melodrama ert to further the promise » They Knew What They Wanted, Sid- ey Howard again gives definite sign of Mare al . Elis abe eth Long Run Play Records Number of performances up to and includ- ing Saturday, December 25 IN NEW YORK Dramatic PLAY. OPENING NO. OF DATE. PERFS. Abie’s Irish Rose..........May American Tragedy, An.... Oct. Autumn Fire........... oo. Oct. Beyond the Horizon (Re- peevessoscseese - Nov i . Aer TT Terre Sep Cay acehl........ eccccces Oot Ca e. The . eceee Sep. Constant Nymph, " ‘The boeue Dec. Constant Wife, The.. Nov. Daisy Mayme. .......ese-+s Oct Dybbuk, The (Neighborhood) Dec. Emperor Jones,The (Revival) Nov. Eternal Jew, The - . Dec First Ly Nov Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. *« Great Adventure, Th Dee Honor of the Family, The. Dec. Bouts, Wi cticscscsaces Dec John Gabriel Borkman. Nov. Judge's Husband. The..... Hep. La Dame aux Camelias Dec Lea Locanderia......... eae NOY. OGG, Dk cdicccuse ime ef ene ee Dec. Le Demi-Mon@e............ Dec Le Misanthrope eee Sp .. 1, Dee Lily St Nor. Lily Sue......csesceccocece “dd : ttle c lay Cast, The. .s Please .. Dee, ‘irates of Venza ‘The. . Dee. Queen Hig oreneet eeece ". Sep, Ramblera, The Kbeeee cccccee ROP. Twinkle, Twimkle.......... Nor. Vanities, Bar) Carroll...... Aug. IN CHICAGO Dramatic Abie’s Irish Rose......... . Dec K tter and Egg Man...... Nov. Dice of God, A... ee Jazz Singer, The ......... « Oct One Man's Woman ....... Oct Poor Nut, The....sscccces AUR. Shelf, The...... ecvvocceces Oct. ung Woodle Musical Comedy Called. . sscatenes sseeeee Dee, Great Temptations. . «sae Dee. No, Nanette ee Dee. Yexabond King, The.......8ep. Yes, Yes, ¥vette....cc.scoe Dees — Po vccsecs eee Nov. being among our front-rank dramatists with his atest contribution to the Thea- ter Guild repertoire. And, incidentally, The Silver Cord should prove to be a contribution to the Guild's coffers as well, It not only demands serious con- sideration as drama, but also has a cer- tain box-office value in its theme. Those who flocked to see Craig’s Wife will fnd here a sort of Craig’s mother, who knew what she wanted—a strong combination, despite the weakness of its phrasing in this review. Moreover, Howard's daring treatment of such an almost sacredly considered subject as mother love will unquestionably raise discussion that will aid business. The piece is a profound and deeply interesting study of the not uncommon parent who would hold her children ex- clusively to herself. A full justification is allowed the mother in a fair-and- square last-act speech, yet it is this very justification that is the crowning proof of selfishness already strongly marked in the tragedies which has loosed the silver cord in the earlier scenes. The case is much exaggerated, of course—a little too much so for the good of the play’s ar- raignment—but it bears much truth that will hit home. From the disclosures of the premiere there undoubtedly will be a toning down of the extremities to which the author has gone to underscore his characters. It is unbelievable that any human being could be as self-centered as is the mother at the tag of the second act, and there are a number of other The Billboard, January 1, r John Cromwell, et to write a great play GORDON M. LELAND. | Chicago Premieres STUDEBAKER clally so in two scenes where George have no important parts, but all are ex- J 1m es Jose ph. Ma- forward to give BOB MORNINGSTAR. Musical Comedy Notes (Continued from page 27) in the company. The audience apparently suspect that anything unusual was taking place. NE BUCK is having movies made of all rehearsals of his new piece, to keep as as record of his first independent production. LUPINO LAN VE, . featured in the Holly- Box Theater. ar et Calif., is spend- ing his off-matinee days in working J rf two-reel comedies for Educa- tional Pictures. National Theater and Art University of Detroit's are doing. groundwork in essential principles 7 presented last week a They have re- Broadway much their work with the amateurs. OST of the new things in the theater have come from Central Europe, but people forget that the creators of the new have been thoroly trained in fundamental theatrical technique be worth while must be founded on a great classic tradition. times forget that and experiment too much without knowing what we Anything original to tS will resume his tour reopening in Detroit. ; 4 booked for every night until June 10. There is a passion for the new in England leading. Some one will go to Russia, for instance school in which there is very little dancing but rather a rapidly changing series of plastic poses. “Ah,” they exclaim, ‘ home to get together some untrained dancers and put on something which is a travesty on art. The same thing is done in the theater. What we need is not a constant effort to be original, and here which —— and see a new ballet LEWIS GENSLER is writing the music i comedy book just Mitchell and Russell Robert Simon will furnish the * and they rush Face or Margolka. come new and original work guided by intelligent experience and knowl- edge of the medium in which we must work. That is why I believe America should have theater in which there should be a striving for excellence, for knowledge of the theater, directors trained there, and from such a theater would then spring the originality which is sought so umsatisfactorily at present. —BASIL DEAN. that the ptece has been accepted for Broadway. THE SHUBERTS ers last week to t a national theater, artistry first, for technical Actors would be trained there, added 20 more sing- he chorus of The Night- , which is still zeing shaped out of town for its Broadway premiere. Theodore Creo, New York dance tutor, to make her bow as one of the principals Sd) unconvincing incidents in the drawing of this character that must now be obvious to those in charge. That the two sons could have grown to full age and still remain so blind and passive to the dev- astating apron strings that their love for their mother could so completely sway them away, the one from his fiancee and the other even from his pregnant wife, are also points that seem a bit too thick. A little rewriting could shade them, and an added subtlety in the acting might help. However, Elliot Cabot and Earle Larimore do extremely well with the sons. They can hardly be held to task for getting too far under the skins of their parts. And Laura Hope Crews, altho her habitual light touch occasionally intrudes in this role so strange for her, gives a remarkably successful and persuasive performance of the mother, all things considered. The characters of the fiancee and the young wife are masterfully drawn by the playwright and as highly played by Mar- galo Gillmore and _ Elisabeth Risdon. Strangely enouch, perhaps to a _ fault, most of the drama lies in these two roles instead of in the central characters under the microscope In the vernacular, they are “fat” parts to the last speech Miss Gillmore eets full measure out of the hysteria scene in the second act and at- tains a realism that must be much ap- preciated, while Miss Risdon shows com- plete intelligence of her rich opportuni- ties. A minor bit of the maid is capably handled by Barbara Bruce, and Cleon Throckmorton has contributed entirely appropriate settings. The matter of di- ---Van 0. Browne . Joseph MeManus Soldier, miners, refugees, etc. Maritza at the with her repertoire com- has put on another play (the sec- again it is one from the pen In the production there cast of competent players and the two scenes with properties show fine week presented members of the wrist watch by made to make this a worthy tribution to the drama. acted with convincing simplicity : R ge ag weet The capacity of There is every indication of good stage with conditions It concerns Marie, a man, played by Mrs. s and drinks liquor. the provision that the beneficiary marry. he returns to his uncle's cobbler shop that this when the war ep which he calls is said to be wilder and Socialism until the boche ton or the Black Bottom. - ' = o ee 1927 49 , rection has been made one of the most bombs destroyed the village and killed | ! important factors in the production by his neighb Jean weakens as war } ) the skillful work of who progresses Regeneration suddenly set not only found the best effects, but set a in and when he returns to find his home ’ pace that is a certain strength of the destroyed and Marie a mother he be- t performance. The script needs a little comes all that conventions demand and i l 0 1926 cutting, but altogether it is a job that Mrs. Insull essays a Kiki type, free ncreases hope in the native theater. Sid- With tongue and free with liquor of the , ney Howard has yg «cheap cafe hanger on; o of gaudy dress by John —but he ippre2 and vile tongu ad sing in her moods A uted by new charm and ability Theater Mr. Lewis is just what one would ex- ing Com- a Pect of this seasoned actor He is hand- PC EEE: Gilmore some, his stalwart ficure and delightful - 4 “ae ; sadevus Flint Cabot acting making him an outstanding figur Christina ar eaee | | Risden of the organization TT ere cr —EE The character work of the men less _ Phara Bruce prominent was particularly good, espe- Afterneen po | me Beate Reviewed 1, 1926 Beane, Sr., was | ge 4 vomen ug. AC eee vPreind ACr DICE OF GOD — A melodrama in five acts by ent. . ginnis. Presented by the James Joseph Maginnis has been for- | ter Company at the Studebaker, December tunate to have this play, said to be his | 20, 192% wit this cast rst oO e mnder suc favor: Marie de Valois Men, Cot tee ST. pteteces wake oe eee Paul Bissa W. Fred Wagner @uspices. Mrs. Insull has taken a step Julie . . Mari Ilka ce Jean le R Frederick G. Lewis M. Robejat Joseph McManus I Robert Ras t j John Hall ——— Jules Dessez ..H. J. Baker | Leon Simon ’ H. B. Kuhlman M. Thierry John Daly Murphy Michel Marchand ....+...-John Hall Rosa Marchand Virginia Hewell Suzanne Tours Helen Strickland Mme. Vigneron ..- Violet Manning Agnes Lacourdie ...--Anna Porter SY ‘ SC Aatoinette "!Linian O'Shea oem Antoinette Lillian O'Shea Fr Emile Garon.. John Daly Murphy Maurice Vernet , F. C. Robinson Sergeant Gaspara Chas. Rainsford Philippe Duro a H. J. Baker 7 — Pierre Jardin ....Van 0. Browne 22....1,975 Postman ~sseeeeee-Jack Bennett é i | Renault ... ; ..George A. Beane, ‘Sr. 26..... 71 Labasq ..... Céccccncccegenencc Meee ee Si ccus Oe 16.....119 A———————E——————————————_—_—_ _ _—_ = , ¢ a 20.....106 Bicceoe e — =. 7 i a Mas Schenk dire tod the y~ ~ ae 3 and Max Schenck directed the dances for : 10..... 35 Merry Aun, the Ts : er 1- Bessces 2 Becssce © : , - -_ , WILL Ri . Gasees © January 6 | 27... ..104 ny ot. 4 inc . Tk the 24.....148 coquettish woman of the street who the San Carlo Grand ¢ y i smokes, swear He is "ext season. nn Ps a Socialist, a pacifist, or what is equiva- a... — = oe oe 7 - WIN MICHAELS « “ n lent to an I. W. W. of World War time. JP ot rn to Ros- . . aie ‘ ee if lean’s uncle dies, leaving a will with 7 : ae of the Tape Pee & Ee TT i gre “oe aPeeene ‘ yor bie ’ 22 ow & aaa ~ - touring companys i 7 I n 1-7 m vin -_ o le n é only when i le a = on q Ing 8 108 : : the road. was t the rk, Beséese the trustee has been a victim of the tae at then to re- 14. 20.....153 roulette wheel There Was no money. aume t arn ince. ink 24..... 82 Mari who falls for domesticity, becomes ~*~" 22..... 45 , ’ ; ' ! be t a frugal spouse and has saved enough EARL LI ~ ; been stage to purchase the shack which answered jng the dan f Lawrence Weber's the for home and shop Hardly had she ace now mu ! nnie, claims to 1 S...-. 3 complished ii for |. 8 This found Jean a pacifist agitator, the Tam! _—_ incessantly sreaching th go pels of in th rou her the Charies- ” - 6..... 26 pacifism P| 2 ee

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Vol. No. 1 Going on the Stage If the number of requests for advice and assistance received by The Bill- board is any criterion, the desire to go on the stage is as widespread and as strong as it ever was. Hardly a day goes by without at least one of these hopeful, and sometimes pitiful, pleas coming in, and there have been days when there were enough to provoke °a desire to answer all such communications with a form letter in- stead of individually. Tt makes little difference to these aspirants to be told that the theatrical profession is appallingly overcrowded, and that only the exceptionally talented can ever achieve, any great amount of success. When a person has a fixed idea about a thing it is hard to make him see a different view, and “stage-struck” youths usually remain that way un- til they get their opportunity, or until long years of fruitless striving and hoping finally dulls their desire. Getting the opportunity nowadays is more difficult than ever. With so many experienced actors to pick from and fewer small companies which are not so fastidious about standards, the beginner is up against it when it comes to looking for a chance to get some practical experience. Theatrical activity in this day is a highly specialized business. Producers and directors invariably must work against time and cannot give their at- tention to coaching newcomers. So, except for the talented few, as well as those who have the good for- tune to gain recognition thru amateur activi and the occasional neophyte who falls into a stage career more by accident than anything else, the quickest expedient is. thru the medium of a recognized school of the theater. Here the aspirants can acquire not ties, The Billboard, January 1, 1927 only the first principles of acting, but also a certain amount of practical ex- perience which can serve as a test to determine whether or not it is worth while for them to pursue their foot- light aspirations beyond that point. If they establish a claim to further consideration, well and good. If not, they can turn to some other field of endeavor while the spark of ambition is still in them. Either way, the training acquired a dramatic school will do nobody any harm. Stock Managers O. D. Woodward, whose name is synonymous with dramatic stock, has proposed an organization of the man- agers in this field, including both the United States and Canada. The usual purpose is behind the idea, namely, mutual protection, exchange of suggestions, co-operation for the ad- vancement of the business in general. Among the matters which the associa- tion would take up are four that should particularly interest stock managers. One is the royalty on plays—in many instances still too high for the good of the business. The second is the working out of a plan to protect each manager in his own locality where he has an estab- lished business. Next comes a scheme whereby the association will be able to contract, for perhaps an entire season, one or more Broadway stars to tour the stock houses in their best-known successes. Fourth is the encouraging of play- wrights to turn out cleaner and better plays—the kind that mean the most money for everyone in the long run. Buzz Bainbridge, recalling the failure of a similar attempt on his part about 10 years ago, is somewhat skeptical about the chances of bringing the stock managers together. The reason his plan fell flat was because it was im- possible for everyone to agree on what constituted a good play. There are bound to be minor dif- ferences like these in any organization, but they needn't prove a_ stumbling block so long as there also are some points of agreement. If only two or three of the troubles now faced by stock managers could be solved by an organization, the venture would be worth while. Newspaper Advertising A lively discussion is in progress in the newspaper and moving picture ad- vertising fields over the rate charged by most daily papers for movie ads. The subject is one that should have had attention long ago, but the film people were making so much money that it was not necessary for them to holler ahout the high cost of anything. Incidentally, while this has been go- ing on, many of the newspapers have not been backward about boosting the rate on some other classes of amuse- ments, including a few which are far from financially fortified like the movies are. Now, however, a New York adver- tising agency has started a big con- troversy over the point that movie ad- vertising is entitled to the run-of-the- paper rate. The arguments put forth on behalf of the film people include, among other things, that they use a tremendous amount of space, and that they want to use even more it under present rates. The newspapers defend their position by saying that the high tariff is neces- but cannot do space, sary because of the many columns of publicity that must be given gratis to the movie pe ople. It should not be diff an argument. The volume of film advertising cer- tainly is enough to command considera- tion. The “free-space” matter, while re- garded as publicity, is nevertheless of enough reader value to be admissible icult to settle such on that score alone. Anything that hasn't some reader value should not be used anyway, If newspapers can’t lower their rate and still give the amusement people a certain amount of space for the legiti- mate news of this field—and for a rea- sonable amount of exploitation matter with a public interest, even tho it isn’t strictly news—let them cut both the tariff and the reading space. The advertiser can then use the dif- ference in rate to buy additional space thru which he can convey his messages to the public. Look at the amount of free publicity given the book publishers—and the small amount of advertising derived from this source. Yet these people enjoy the nominal rate. Same with the automobile industry. There is no good reason for the amusement trade continuing its present method of bargaining with newspapers. It sheuld get down to the same busi- nesslike system of advertising em- ployed by the distributors of all staple commodities. Facial Rehearsals Actors who desire to learn how and when to mug should practice this art regularly before a mirror. Knowing the value of a smile, a twinkle, a pout, a demur sigh, dimpled cheeks, a glistening tear, and the num- erous other histrionic tricks, has en- abled many artists to hold themselves in public favor year after year. The general run of actors let their facial expressions fall into a rut. They employ very much the same char- acteristics in every role they play, and as a result their mugging becomes stereotyped and patently affected. Facial rehearsals will remedy this. Every time an actor receives a new part he should put in a long session before a mirror, giving visual expression to all the emotions called for by that par- ticuar characterization. At the same time the actor should make a special effort to introduce expressions and movements never before used by him. Of course, if the artist has an in- dividual line which hits the public fancy unusually strong, it is good business for him to humor his followers. Even the most likable mannerisms, - however, grow monotonous after a time unless they are given an occasional variation. Nowadays, especially in the movies, there are specialists in various clas- sifications of expression. But the system is not a good one. The pop- ularity of these artists, with but few exceptions, is limited to the period in which the public is pleased with their specialties. Versatility endures longest. So, as Leatrice Joy savs, “mugging before the mirror may be vain—but not in vain.” Civic Spirit The success of The Miracle in Kan- sas City has prompted The Journal-Post of that town to remark that the civic spirit which advertised and rallied to the support of the Morris Gest spec- tacle ought to manifest itself regularly in behalf of the other attractions pre- sented in the Kansas metropolis. Entertainment is one of the city’s big- gest drawing cards, The Journal-Post points out, and good shows will attract to a town many persons from the out- lying districts—just as The Miracle did. Two Kansas City houses play attrac- tions which seldom get to the surround- ing towns, but without a civic spirit to pass the word around and urge at- tendance, only a few of the widely known shows ever get all that is com- ing to them. The public, as well as the shows, lose out by this, It is up to the operators of amuse- ment places to impress upon their patrons that first-class entertainment will bring visitors and prosperity to the town, and continuous boosting by the public will insure a plenitude of first- class entertainment. —— Cores and Encotres Where is the new dramatic technioy that radio was supposed to bring about? No city is abreast of the times nowa- days unless it has—or is getting—a municipal auditorium. One of the great tragedies of life that every child who has spoken a piec in school thinks he has the qualificati: for a theatrical career. ms There is always someone who has something to be thankful for. Now it’s the publisher. When plays are no longer presented in the theater at larg: the public is expected to turn to dram in book form. Will Rogers is a hero who will ¢ down in cinema theatrical history as one man who dared to be free. He entered the movies on the tacit under- standing that he would never kiss any woman except his wife, and he has managed to hold his own. It is up to the civic, community and amateur theaters to bring about an im- provement in public taste. The com- mercial theater can do very little in this respect because the public is averse to being educated to better plays at its own expense. Israel Zangwill once said that the reason English producers get most of their plays from America is because they want someone else to pull the chestnuts out of the fire. Apparently the British are fond of American chest- nuts, but have plenty turkeys of their own. Henry Arthur Jones candidly admits that, altho he has ideas, he carefu!! keeps them out of his plays. Ideas have been the ruin of the English theater, he avers. This, undoubtedly, will prove a shock to the large army who think the trouble with the stage, in America as well as in England, is due to lack of ideas. In the provinces going to the theater constitutes an evening’s entertainment in itself, while in New York it is sand- wiched in between a dinner-dance and a visit to a midnight rendezvous. So plays intended for the New York trad should be short, and those planned for the folks in the provinces should be long. The radio will soon hecome a public nuisance unless something is done to put a halt to the installing of loud speakers in front of stores and shops in the business sections and permitt! them to screech and rasp all day lone and part of the night—without con sideration for the thousands of office slaves who are being driven to dis- traction by the noise. Germany has let up the bars on his- torical plays, and the first to be pro- duced, The German Tragedy; or, Bis- marck and William IT, is proving a tre mendous success. This has provoked several newspapers to express surprisc that historical plays are so scarce 1 America. The explanation is cas) America has never created a keen de mand for historical plays by placing 4 ban on them. In support of the argument that th theater of today is not much differen in moral quality from the theater ©! any other period, here is an extrac! quoted from the preface to a book theatrical art written by William C and published in England in the yea! 1775: “I have a greater object in tf view—a wish to be foremost in recover ing the theater from usurpers and restot ing it to that respectable character " originally possessed—a public schoo! 0! virtue and of manners.” rl ry —— = ee | a os 7 a ECU | E E pr | s = Ee a a : —— $$ by | —_ - . ae ae | _ zz A — | " - a FE : a ret : } » ae ; of gor “ the t - Pr . Lu Bo ; for Sa: Ff ae do!

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The Billboard. January 1, 1927 51 | Consider the Playwright. CLARENCE MANSFIELD LINDSAY really wish to <now, suppose the next time olling down Fifth avenue, reet—or what have you?—that the first friend you meet—or that matter—slap him jovially ulder and inquire: tiow's the play getting on, old chap?” ne his face will light up like cent lamp as he replies with HO writes plays?” Vy Well, if you I ' Just finished the second act! to the room with me and to you!” T nly way you can escape is by down a coal chute or making h for a trolley car. If, however, you permit yourself to be to the room, depend upon it er be asked to sit in at the third uming three to be the projected No, indeed! Your amateur play- eht. having gotten the first two com- ited. will—dollars to doughnuts—run Drop ind wioy 1 it on leas, chuck the blamed thing in the f and relieve his overwrought feelings by swearing at friend wife. Bu better luck next time! Presently he'll be seen sneaking up to the attic, n peace and quiet he can Start a new masterpiece. , lure of immense royalties is us, and there is always the ss - of turning out another Abie's rish Rose or White Collars. Of all the rts } writing may be considered as st difficult in which to achieve financial success; and yet the nfidence with which the half- i aspirant for dramatic honors will For the romnet - sit down and hammer away at the “great Amer play”’—judging from the flood ¢ scripts produced—can only be matched by the assurance with which a youthful bride places her first batch of biscuits before her doomed hubby. aa a seem to differ as to whether or no playwriting can be taught. Paul Armstrong once de- clared: “As soon as a young playwright gets hold of a good, new smashing story, let him grab hold of a pencil and a big wad of paper; let him seat himself in front of that pencil and that wad of paper, and let him write his story in dramatic form as best he knows how.” But he adds: “Mind you, he has got to have the ‘instinct’!” (By which the reader is to understand “dramatic in- stinct’.) “Let him tell his story in any way he wants. Let him forget every didactic rule he ever heard. He may succeed, and he may not; but in the latter event ‘rules’ could not have pos- sibly had anything to do with saving him. Good drama is not mechanical.” Be that as it may, I believe it will be generally conceded by the knowing ones that a good, stiff course in construction —say at the Harvard Workshop—or a year or so behind the footlights in a stock company will prove of inestimable Value. Another factor is the amount of work you are willing to devote to your drama. Rupert Hughes once declared: “No one who knows how it's done believes that the professional writer works from inspiration.” How is it done? “By working like a dog and sweating blood over a stack of paper.” Yet once you've grabbed the big idea by the tail, once you've got your theme in plan sight, it is not always necessary to slave for weary months. Armstrong wrote Alias Jimmy Valentine in exactly four days—and took plenty of time for his meals, too. In the Deep Purple, pro- duced by the same writer in collaboration with Wilson Mizner, was completed in three! First make sure that you've got the dramatic instinct! Assuming that you have and that your play is finally fin- ished, the next question is where and how to sell it. And there’s the rub! OW if you had written a short story you could stick the blooming thing in an envelope and post it to an editor; and if the editor be one of true discernment and good judgment in due course you will receive a handsomely en- graved check. If, on the contrary, he is unable to appreciate high-class litera- ture and your story is returned, it’s an easy matter to shoot it out again. But when you mail your finished dramatic masterpiece to a producer, what hap- pens? Echo answers: my dear sir!” Of course, if you happen to live in the same city as the producing manager, you can call around and “see about it”. And the office boy, who is likely to a “10- minute egg”, will inform you briefly and concisely that the great man is out. You take a seat and say that you will wait his return. You continue to wait. At the end of perhaps 45 minutes you ven- ture to ask just when the manager will be back. And the hard-boiled one replies that he doesn’t know, inasmuch as the party in question sailed for Europe the week before! And there you are! No! If your aim is to gain the atten- tion of a producer of plays, you should devise some strategic and Napoleonic “Why nothing at all, coup—such as gaining admittance to his house and banging on the door when he’s taking a bath; or you might even hold him up at the pistol’s point in some dark alley! Any method that is out of the ordinary and which will serve to dis- tinguish you from the mob which writes plays—and doesn’t sell ‘em! BOVE all, don’t give up! If you're absoiutely convinced you've got it in you, keep plugging away, by all means! “To playwrite is to persist!” Or, as George Broadhurst once put it: “A man who is going to become discouraged over a few failures and lose heart has no business trying to write plays. Even a good play is likely to be a failure; it may be presented at the wrong time or at the wrong theater, and in either case it is bound to fail, no matter how good it is!” But if a man is a dead game sport it is the greatest game in the world! Just one success pays for all the years of failures, and it is not only the money which counts, altho a successful play will make the author rich for life these days. it is the satisfaction, the personal vindi- cation, that the success brings! Exactly! Today you may be sitting on @ park bench, tomorrow rolling down the avenue in a limousine, if you have the dramatic instinct, plus perseverance and the ability to do without most of your meals, to wear celluloid collars and be Satisfied with one new suit a year till success is attained. That being taken for granted, grab your pad of white paper and your pencil, sneak up to the attic and go to it And good luck to you! Making the Public Pay New York, December 15, 1926. Editor The Billboard: On the first news page of The Bill- , under date of December 11, there is in the lower left hand corner, a news item from St. Cloud, Minn., stating that the Miner Theater had been taken over by a firm under a 10-year lease of $60,- f and that the house will be closed. The article goes on to say: “This prac- tically cuts off theatergoers of St. Cloud i ty from traveling shows.” This incident is only one of many that s ppened, and is happening all over the country, in the smaller cities especial- zens of the little city of St. ( | paying for their amusement, rrving upon their backs a taxation of $f 00 per year to satisfy the avarice of the local manager or owner of what- ever theaters are open, so that they can ! pol the style of amusement the citizens of that city shall enjoy, and to dictate as to what these same citizens : for it. And yet the wail goes up from these individuals to tax the carnivals, traveling expost- es, tent dramatic shows and va to say nothing of dramatic tage attractions, to such a point that it 1} them out of the community— the reason “that they take too mu money out of town.” : ime individuals seem to think ht to lease a theater, cance: its acquire a monopoly and tax $60,000 a year by increasing he ions and cheapening the show »D t them to hog the town. There ! disputing the well-known fact, pays the overhead,”’ no mat- rreedy reet fairs, ter business, Th ty of St. Cloud, from the last , between 18.000 and 19,000 inhabitants, If that lease notds for the 10 the citizens will have paid $600,- 000 t which they get nothing in returr .N n The Billboard of December 18, 1926, m Poplarville, Miss., comes a news stating, in part: “The Board of Aldermen has barred all tent shows, | and indifferent,” for the reason, the article goes on to state, “that they take money out of town." _ The Paul English Players, it appears a to the article, “played Lumber- “on after being informed they ~ how here, and more than 600 oo _ people visited the show in Roa: ‘ Ergo: The Poplarville "nal Aldermen in this instance a ‘t much money out of town! g more than 600 spent a half dollar each, which is ridiculously low, Se YD The FORUM that makes over $300! “Who stole the ham?” Well, what's the use? Maybe they will all wake up some time, and when they do, oh, what a noise! (Signed) CHARLES M. SEAY. The Term ‘Star’ Louisville, Ky., December 9, 1926, Editor The Billboard: Thés is not a complaint, but rather a even the very least known, and, often, but meagerly talented, actors and actresses from the legitimate stage, are always re- ferred to as “stars” when they appear in vaudeville or on any program outside of their regular field? I suppose the idea is to create a flash, as they call it, but it seems to me that nowadays the people are pretty well edu- eated as to who’s who on the stage and screen, and petty misrepresenta- tions do more harm than good. these request for information. Why is it that (Signed) BEULAH MILLERAND. f The Press Agent Never Told This By WILL W. WHALEN that we are apt women, Theater stands not got out and went into the church. Dressed in something akin to a hoopskirt, with long dangling earrings, and in full stage war paint, her eyes looking Ike mine caverns, her cheeks the soul of scarlet, she was an arresting object. She went quickly to one of the girls nearest the confessional. “I've just run off the stage, my first act over,” she explained. “I Do you mind if I take your turn?” The girl shyly withdrew, and Miss Anglin slipped under the shadowy curtain in her stage costume. always, York, tho Miss Adams isn't a Catholic. She's very of vears back she gave them her estate must be back for the second act confessional Maude Adams convent in New the life of the cloistered sisters. Cenacle, so much so that a coupk on Long Island usually, if not ligiously. saw a poster of prayer, even in Latin. E read about so many escapades of actresses, real or supposed high W jinks, to forget Margaret Anglin is one of the ultrarelfgious. She came t.. Harrisburg, playing The Awakening of Helena Richie. atholic Cathedral. It Thursday evening of the month, and the first Friday of every month is a day of special devotion to Cathol-cs. Cathedral were grouped crowds, largely women. A closed auto drove to the stone far from the C So the sisters weren't surprised when another mild-faced young lady of the stage came to their hospitable boarding house. seemed to be quite taken with a younger nun and clung to her side re- She remained with the sisters for weeks, then departed abruptly. Those nuns rarely leave their convent, but one of the sisterhood had to go out to visit a dentist She got Frances Starr, dressed as a nun in manager, David Belasco, sent Miss Starr to the convent for local color. The actress copied every move and whom she consorted—how the novice rang the angelus bell and said the many of them are very pous The Orpheum was the first Around the confessionals in the steps, and a bizarre-looking creature She caused a breath-taking pause. certain Catholic She lives almost fond of those nuns at the stays at a The new actress a shock in the subway when she Marie-Odile. Her intonation of the young nun with ) Gas for Movie Projection En Route, Pikeville, Ky., December 16, 1926. Editor The Billboard: Sir—Being a user of gas in motion pie- ture projection, I read with interest the article on light improvement by C. E. Lundoll and am enclosing some instruce tions for saving pastils that may prove a help to some exhibitor. Instead of using the pastil as it comes from the factory, I cut it in two with a small thread, using a sawing motion to do this, thereby making four new faces for the light instead of two, as one-half of the pastil will last as long as the whole. Keeping acetylene generator clean and dry before using will prolong the life of pastils wonderfully. I have been using gas oxygen and acetylene since 1915 and have little trouble with pro- jection lighting. I use gasoline in the filter often, as this makes the gases mix readily without any hissing noises. (Signed) EDGAR EGGERS, Magician and Ventriloquist. Importing Acts Columbus, O., December 16, 1926, Editor The Billboard: In a recent issue of The Billboard 1 noticed that one of our American booking agents has engaged 60 or more outdoor acts of 1927 for our American parks ana fairs. There is one question I would like to ask thru the columns of the faithrut Billuboy, and I don't care where the answer comes from just so it will ease my mind. Why, oh, why, do the Ameri- can agents go to foreign countries for outdoor free attractions when we, the people of America, have right here on our own soil some of the greatest and the most daring outdoor performers among mankind? Furt! they are all American born and bred and possess the qualities that make first-class show- men. In citing some of them I wish to men- tion Oscar V. Babcock, who loops tne loop while riding down an incline on a bicyele; Dare-Devil Doherty, another bicycle rider; Rita and Dunn, high-wire artistes; James E. Hardy, Great Calvert, Marvelous Mills and others whose names I can't reca'l just now. Among the flying acts we have the Five Fearless Flyers, Lavans, Floyds, Melsers, Millers, and I could name dozens of others. For riding acts we have the Rooneys, Hobsons, Hodgini, Costellos, Hanneford Family and several more, Then Jack Payne, high diver; May Col- lier, Dare-Devil Oliver, the Diving ermore, (Continued on page §8) Oe TE _—— a —— ae Ft] __ahil

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A 7) 52 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 ACC ORDEONS B. HORENSTEIN & SONS. 15 Ww. 17th st.. N. Y c. ADV. KITES, AFP RIAL ADV., SKY -| WRITING, HUGE BALLOONS Ss. F. PERKINS, 7 Rockiand . Dorchester, M AIR CALLIOPES PASSmAtiC ce Tose Cone Sed Me COSTUMES Theatrical and Masquerade Wigs, Makeup) SUPERIOR COSTUME SHOPPE, | 9014 Supcrio ave., Cleveland, O scab COWBOY AND WESTERN HARRELSON COSTUME Co., GOODS 1327 Main, K. C.. Mo CRISPE oT TE KM ACHINES ALLIGATORS ALLIGATOR FARM, West Palm Beach, Fla. ALUMINUM COOKING UTENSILS — ALUM. SPEC. CO. LTD., 60 John st., Toronto, Can. AMER. ALUM. WARE Co., 74 Jellit?, Newark, N. J. THE SUNLITE CO., Milwaukee Wi nsil ALUMINUM FRATHERWEIGHT STAGE CURTAIN ROLLERS AMELIA GRAIN, 819 Spring Garden st., Phila. ALUMINUM WARE R poe & BROS., Detroit, Mich. MEYE KARR & AUERBACH, 415 Ma rke t st., Phila., Pa WESTERN MERCHANDISE CO., Abilene, Kansas. AMUSEMENT DEVICES H. C. EVANS & CO., 1528 W. Adams st., Chicago. AMUSEMENT GAME DEVICES ___ (The Cony I College Point, tace) x. E M. HIGUCHI, AMUSEMENT GAMES OF SKILL (Penny Pite h, Ww ine Cellar, Ete.) CAL. HINDS, ‘Swat Homeste ad av., West Swanzey, N. EL RATES AND CONDITIONS Your name and address, if not ex- ceeding ONE LINE in length, will be published, properly classified, in this Directory, at the rate of $20.00 in ad- vance, per year (52 issues), provided the ad is of an acceptable nature. We reserve the right to insert one or more firm names under any heading in the Trade Directory. No one firm will be given preference of an individual! or original heading. The rule of the Trade Directory is to place as many firm names under a particular caption as desire to use it. 1A Buyers’ and Sellers’ Guide and Reference List for Show World Enterprises and Allied Interests COMBINATION OFFER One year’s subscription to The Bill- board and one line name and address inserted in 52 issues, properly classi- fied, for $23.00. RATES FOR TWO-LINE NAME AND ADDRESS Tf a mame and address is too long to insert in one line there will be a charge of $15.00 made for a whole or part of the second line used, or $35.00 @ year. The Billboard and two-line name and address, under one heading, $38.00 a year. BIRDS, ANIMALS AND PETS CARS (R. R.) MAX GEISLER BIRD CO., 50 Cooper sa.. N.Y. €. WM. J. MACKENSEN., Yardley, Pp nnsylvania. OVERBROOK KITTEN EXCH., 354 Bleecker, N.Y.C. BIRD CAGES, ST ANDS AND | BIRDS ANTM AL S AND SN AKES MAX GEISLER BIRD co., 50 Cooper sq., N. ¥. C. LOUIS RUHE, 351 Bowery, New York City. ARCHERY CONCESSION CALIF. BY-PRODUCTS CO., Box 509, ARMADILLO BASKETS AND TORN NOVEL TIE S APELT ARMADILLO co., ¢ , Texas R. 0. POWELL, 107% W. Commerce, San Antonio, Tex, ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., SUPPLIES S. F., Calif. mfort 1210 Arch, Phila., Pa. KEYSTONE BIRDWHE’ L SUP., 52 Ss. 6, Reading, Pa. BLANKE ‘TS AND ROBES (Indian) KINDEL & GRAHAM. 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LAMP CO., 236 W. 20th, N. Y. C. ELECTRIC BU L Bs AND SU P PL " S MAURICE LEVY, Bldg., Ly em Pitt burgh, I __ ELF CTRICAL STAGE EFFECTS CHAS. NEWTON, 211 w 14th st., . New York City EMBOSSED METAL SIGNS S. G. ADAMS STAMP & STATIONERY C0., | ue N Sixth st., St. Louis, ) DD. _ESMOND BLANKETS DESSAUER, F., & CO., Acams and Market, Chicaco. rE ATHE RS OF ALL KINDS 0. B. FISH, 29 East Tent hb at., New York City. FPEATHE ER FLOWERS DeWITT SISTERS, E. Prairie, Battle Creek, Mich. FELT RUGS AMERICAN RUG CO., 497 E. Houston st., N. ¥. C EASTERN MILLS, 425 Broadway, Everett, 49, Mass LAWRENCE RUG CO., 129 High st., Boston, Mass. FILMS, DEVELOPING AND PRINTING PEERLESS FILM LABORATORIES, Oak Park, TI FIRE. ARMS POR SPORTS CONSUMERS CO., 34 W. 28th st., New York City FIREWORKS _ AMERICAN, FIREWORKS co. oF MASS. TT § -- ne "60 Broadway, ‘ n. BARNABA FIREWKS, “Co.. New Rochelle. N. Y. FIDELITY FIREWORKS CO., 9th ar., Ft. Dodge. Ia. GORDON FIREWORKS CO.. 190 N. State, Chirico HUDSON FIREWORKS MFG. 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HASTINGS & CO., 817 Filbert, Philadelphia, Pua. PENNANTS AND I PIL LOWS HAIR NETS e GRT CITY TRADING CO., 122 5th av., N. Y¥. € HAMBURGER TRUNKS, PRESSES, STOVES, GRIDDLES TALBOT MFG. CO., 1209-17 Chestnut, St. Louis, Mo, AMERICAN PENNANT co., 66 66 Hanover st., Boston. HARMONY ART & NOV.CO., INC., 155 Wooster, N.Y NEWMAN MFG. CO., 107 Leverett, Boston, Macs TRENCH MFG. CO.. 25 E. Huron st., Buffalo, N. Y. PENNY ARCADE MACHINES EXHIBIT SUPPLY CO., 4222 W. Lake st., Chicago, SCENERY FABRICS DAZIAN’S, INC., 142 W. 44th st., MAHARAM TEXTILE ¢e.. _INC., 107 W. Ne MENDELSOHN’S, | iSth s A. SOLOMON, 1123 ,% iway, New The Billboard, January 1, 1927 53 HENRIX-LUEBBERT MFG. CO., 26 Howar t GEO r HOYT co M HUDSON RIVER SAIL MAK’G CO. MAGEE & SONS. INC., ST. LOUIS TENT & AWN co., TE NTS FOR RENT MAGEE & SONS, INC., 158 Fulton, N.¥.C. 5635 Cort THEATRICAL GROUND CLOTHS, COVE RS, BAGS, DRAPERIES CHAS. A. SALISBURY. W. 4st st., New York. THEATRICAL COSTUME SUPPL Ik LS CHICAGO COSTUME WKS., 174 W. Randolph Chik 1g0 THE \TR IC AL PrABRICS MENDELSOHN’ S, 156 W. 45th ‘eu Y a? om SCENERY TO RENT AMELIA GRAIN, 819 Spring Garden Ms ‘ENIC ARTISTS AND TIFFIN SCENIC STUDIOS, Box 812, fir VOLLAND SCENIC STUDIOS, 3731 Cass., HEALTH BOOKS FOR PITCHMEN UNIV. HEALTH SERVICE, 1182-A Bway. N.Y. CG. flolkish. AND PONY PLUMES H. SCHAEMBS, 10414 89th, Richmong Hill, N. ¥. Ich CREAM SANDWICH WAPERS CONSOLIDATED WAFER CO., 2622 Shields av., Chgo INDIANS AND INDIAN COSTUMES Ww. H. BARTEN, Gordon, Nebraska. PENNY ARCADE MACHINES AND SUPPLIES M. MUNVES, 627 West 43d street, New York € city. PE REU ME Ss & TOIL ET ARTICLE E 2S CAMPION PERFUMES, 122 Fifth av., New York. C. H. SELICK, INC., 56 Leonard st., New York. SERI \L PAPER PADDLES SCHULMAN PRINTING CO., 39 W. SMITH PRINTING CO., 1523 Walnut st U. S. TICKET CO., Industrial Bidg., LAMPS ALADDIN MFG. CO., Muncie, Indiana. KARR & AUERBACH, 415 Market st., Phila., Pa. LAMPs AND SHADES PHOENIX LAMP SHADE CO., 45 E. 20th, N. ¥. C. LAWYERS F. L. BOYD, 17 N. La Salle st., Chicago. LEATHER COSTUMES ¥ 1OTO bE NG. AND HALFTONES CENTRAL “ENG, Co., 137 Ww. 4th, Cincinnati, 0. PHOTOGR \PH REPRODUCTIONS B. & B. SERVICE CO., Bor 219, Davenport, Ia. J. J. BECKER, JR., 211 S. Elsie, Davenport, Ia WwW. L. DALBEY PHOTO CO., Richmond, Indiana. GAIRING, 136 W. Lake st., Chicago, lL. J. K. PIGGOTT CO., 86 Third st., San Francisco. PILLOW TOPS MUIR ART CO., 116 W. Tilinofs, Chicago. WESTERN ART LEATHER CO., Denver, Colorado. PLAYS SHIPLEY SADDLERY CO., 1629 Genesee, K. C., Mo, LOVING CUPS (For Prizes) ‘ACE’ BADGE, BUT'’N, MEDAL CO., 303 Sthav., N.Y. T. S. DENISON & CO., 623 S. Wabash av., Chicago. ORAMATIC PUB. CO., 542 S. Dearborn st., Chicago POCKETBOOKS FOR MEN __ (T-in-1, All Leather) LUMINOUS PAINT MATERIAL Ss PFALTZ & BAUER, INC., 300 Pearl, New Y THE “RADIANA” CORP., 41 Union sq, W., N Y. MAGICAL APPARATUS ARTHUR P. FELSMAN, 154 Ne Clark st.. Chicago. MANICURE—FILES BUCHANAN & BURNS CO., 45 Austin, Newark,N.J. MARABOL —OST RIC If TRIMMINGS AARON MICHEL, 15 W. S&th st., New York _ MEDICINE POR STRERTMEN BALDUF DRUG CO., 3126 North ave, Milwaukee BECKER CHEMICAL CO., 235 Main st., Cin'ti, O CEL-TON-SA MED. CO., i016 Centra Cin'ti, O, THE CLIFTON DRUG CoO., ; rd CUMBERLAND CHEM. CO., I Ne, Tenn DE VORE MFG. CO., 18 s WAT'L MEL CO., 143 th av le, Tenn. THE QUAKER HERB CO., math, i DR. THORNBER LABORATORY. Carthage, TIL A. ROSENTHAL & SON, 804 Wash., Boston, Mass. POPCORN CONES (Glassine) BRITZIUS MFG. CO., Dover, Minn. POPCORN FOR POPPING AND PEANUTS SHOOTING GALLERIES JNO. T. DICKMAN COMPANY LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Established 1905. Send for Catalogue. 245 S. Main Street, SHOOTING GALLERIES (LONG RANGE) AND SUPPL Ik S H. C. EVANS & CO., 1528 W. Adams, SHOOTING GALLERIES AND SUPPLIES FEDERAL CARTRIDGE CORP., Minneapolis, M THEATRICAL PAPIFR MACHE SPEC TALTY JOHN ee. 605 West 46th st., N. ¥. City, TIC KE TS (Roll Only) — S. BOWER, 439-132 West 18th st., New York. TICKET PRINTERS ANSELL TICKET CO., 730 N. Fra niin. coleage ARCUS TICKET CO., 3:8 N. Ashland bi} ELLIOTT TICKET CO., Canal & Taste, New York. GLOBE TICKET CO.. IIS N. 12h st Phil lelphia HANCOCK BROS., 25 Jessie st . San Francisco. TRIMOUNT PRESS, 115 Albany st., Boston, Mass. TICKET MACHINES & MACHINE TICKETS WORLD TICKET & SUPPLY CO., 1600 B’way, N. Y. TIGHTS ARTHUR B. ALBERTIS CO., 847 B’way, New York. TIGHTS UNION suITS, LEOTARDS Manufacturer, MORRIS 1. KOHAN, 290 Taaffe Pl., Bklyn, N. Y SHOW AND POSTER PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHE RS- E. W. ALLEN & or ptm a. Georgia. PLANET, Chatham it., anada. SIGN PAINTE RS" BRUSHES DICK BLICK CO., Box 437- -B, ¢ Galesburg, SILVERWARE KARR & AUERBACH, 415 Market SILVERWARE & CARV ING KOTTLE CUTLERY CO., 368 4th ar. J. B. MORTENSON & CO., 241 E. Ils, st., Chicago, SLOT MACHINES POPCORN _MACHINES C. CRETORS & CO., 610 W. 22d st. Chicago. DUNBAR & CO., 2634 W. Lake st., Chicago HOLCOMB & HOKE MFG. CO., 910 Van Buren st., Ir KINGERY MANUFACTURING CO., Cincinnati, 0. LONG-EAKINS CO.., High st ‘Springfield, o. NATIONAL PEE RLESS SALES co. Des Moines, Ia. PRATT MACHINE CO., 2 Bissell st., Joliet, TL TALBOT MFG. CO., 1208-11 Chestnut, St. Louis, Mo. OHIO NOVELTY CO., 49 Stone Block, SICKING MFG. CO., 1922 Freeman SNOW MACHINE S AUTO. FEED MACH., 1 1208 8. Erv MUsic COMPOSED « ARRANGE D C. kL. LEWIS, 429 Richmond, Cin innati, Ohio. MUSICAL GLASSES A. BRAUNEISS, 9512 109th, Richmond Hill, N. Y. POPCORN MACHINES (Used) NORTH SIDE CO., 1506 Fifth av., Des Moines, Ia. __SOAP FOR MEDICINE cotu BIA LABORATORIES, 18 © . SCHMIDT CO., 236 W. No rth av POSTCARDS KOEHLER VIEW POST CARD CO., 150 Pk. Rw.NY SPANGLES AND TRIMMINGS ARTHUR B. ALBERTIS CO., 487 Bway, Nev STAGE APPARATUS AND TRICK BICYCLES PUSH CARDS MUSIC PRINTING THE OTTO ZIMMERMAN & SON CO., INC., Cin., O. MUSICAL MDSE. AND UKES. 8. HORENSTEIN & SONS, 45 W. 17th st., N. ¥. C. NEEDLE BOOKS AND NEEDLES FIFTH AVE. NOTION CO., 801 Sth Pitt st wurgh, Pa, ORGANS & CARDBOARD MUSIC FOR CAROUSELS & ST. PTANOS B. A. B. ORGAN CO., 340 Water st., N. Y. City. ORGANS AND CARDBOARD MUSIC G. MOLINARI & SON, 112 324 st., Bklyn, N. Y¥ en ORGANS AND HURDY-GURDILES JOHANNES S. GEBHARDT CO., Tacony, Phila., Pa. een _ORGANS AND ORCHESTRIONS BAKER CALLIAPHONE CO., Muscatine, Iowa ORGAN AND ORCHESTRION RE- PAIR SHOPS A. CHRISTMAN, 5712 Indep, av., Kansas City, Mo. res ORIENTAL SCENERY THE KOSAI STUDIO, 129 W, 49th St., New York. _—_—_. OSTRICIE PANS AND TRIMMINGS mare’ FATTEN, INC.. 48 FE. &th st., New York E SHEA FEATHER SHOP, 140 W. S4th., N.Y.C: i teennee ; PADDLE WHEELS H. © EVANS @ CO., 1528 W. Adams, Chicago. (cutee PAINT SP RAY IF RS a THE mac LEOD CO., 2932 Boben st., ‘Cincinnati ne PAPER CUPS (LILY) AND DISHES PUBLIC SERVICE CUP CO., Bush Terminal, B’klyn. PEERLESS SALES CO., 1160 EB. 55th st., Chicago. TOM SIMMONS, 454 W. 38th, New York City. RHINESTONE SETTING MACHINES ARTHUR B. ALBERTIS CO., 487 B'way, New York. CHICAGO COSTUME WKS.. 174 W. Randolph, Chicag HANDY RHINESTONER CO., 492 E. 2d Bklyn, N.Y STAGE | DR. APERIES SCHNEIDER STUDIOS, 0S, 127 W. 4it RHINE STONES and JEWEL PROPS. ELLIOT, GREENE &CO., INC., 21 E. 28th, N. ¥. © THE LITTLEJOHNS, 251 W. 46th st, N. ¥. City. RODEO PRODUCERS AND DIREC TORS | FOG HORN CLANCY, North Ft ~ Worth, Texas. STAGE HARDWARE J.R.CLANCY race HARDWARE cAL ag one NY" THEATRI _ST AGE LIGHTING APPLIANCES CHI STAGE LIGHTING CO., 112 D DU CHAS. NEWTON, 2:1 W. lith KL Cc ISPLAY STAGE LIGHT CO.. 334 W. 4 WICO STAGE LIGHTING. 308 W. | 1EGL BROS UNIVERSAL STAGE’ LIGHTING cO., INC l th Ni ROLL AND FOLDED TICKETS (Stoc k and Spec ial) ARCUS TICKET. co... 318 N Ashland Chicago, Nl ROLLER SKATES CHICAGO ROLLER SKATE co.. 4458 Ww Lake, Chgo WINSLOW SKATE MFG. CO., Worcester, Mass. STAGE PROPERTIES THEATRICAL PROP, STUDIO, 502 W STOCK ROLL TICKETS WELDON, WILLIAMS & LICK, Fort &: RUBBER GOODS AMERICAN RUBBER CO., 1213 So. Boots street, Marion, Ind STANDARD SPECIALTY CO., Ror kford, ™m STARDANT NOVELTY CO., Dept. G-2500, Akron, © SWAGGE oR STIC KS POR FRANKFORD MFG. co., 12 N TOASTED SANDWICH MACHINES (Electric) HOLCOMB 4 HOKE MFG. CO., 912 Van Buren, la- TRUNKS : (Professional and Wardrobe) SECOND-HAND TRUNK CO., 50 E. 59th st., NYC. W. W. WINSHIP & SONS, INC., Utica, N. Y. TURNSTILES H. V. BRIGHT, Prospect Bldg. Cleveland, 0. DAMON-CHAPMAN CO., 23+ Mill, Rochester, N. ¥ PEREY MFG. CO.. INC., 101 Park av., N. ¥. C. UKELELES ) FOR C \BNIV ALS A, FAVILLA MFR., 4) Berry st., Brooklyn, N. ¥ UMBRELLAS FAMOUS UMBRELLA co., 38 E. 21st st., N. ¥. e. UNBREAKABL B COMBS OHIO COMB & NOVELTY CO., Orrville, Ohio, UNIFORMS S UNIFORM CO., 1437 Broadway, N. Y¥. © BROOKS DE MOULIN BROS. & CO., Dent. 10, Greenville. Hl THE FECHHEIMER BROS. CO., Cincinnati, THE HENDERSON-AMES CO., Kalamazoo, Mich ; R. W. STOCKLEY & CO., 718-B Walnut, Phila., Pa. : VASES ; OTTO GOETZ, 122 Fifth av., New York. : VENDING MAC HINES THE AD-LEE CO., 825 S. Wabash ave., Chicago. ’ CAILLE BROS. CO., 6210 2d blvd, Detroit, Mich. SPECIALTY MFG. Co... 724 N. Racine, Chicago. VENTRILOQUIAL FIGURES ALEX CAMERON, 53 W. Eric st., Chicago. VIOL INS AUG GEMUNDER & SONS, 125 W. 42d st.. N. Y. VIOL IN REP AIRING ViRz2i, 3 Sth av (2a st.), New York ‘City. WAPFELE MACHINES 7 ; Sugar Puff) ———— TALBOT MFG. CO., 1209-15 Chestnut, St. Louis, Mo. WAGONS WM. FRECH & CO., Maple Shade, N. J WIGS A. M. BUCH & CO., 228 S. lith St., Philadelphia. ALEX. MARKS, 662-B 8th av., New York, N. Y. TREACHER OF NE NTRILOQU ISM Ge we scorT, 719” Ist st New Orleans, RUBBER STAMPS (And Accessories) HISS STAMP CO., 53 EB. Gay st., Columbus, 0. TE \ SE TS, ART PANELS THE YAMATOYA CO., 327 E. 2d TE N-C ENT COMIC ¢ N. D. Q SPEC CORP., 2566 Atlantic SALESBOARDS SANDERS 5 MFG. CO., 151 2d, N., Nashville, Tenn SAND-BL AST EQUIPMENT THE MACLEOD cO., 2232 Bogen st., Cincinnati. cENTS ANCHOR SUPPLY CO... Wate st ERNEST CHANDLER, a52 Pe = st CLIFTON MANUFACTURING CO., CRAWF — "= par ag MFG. CO., DANIELS. R., 101-10 3 Cr st., DIAL TENT. . AWNING co., Colu mbes. AND MAKE-UP FOR THE STAGE. |WIGS © wisacs, 38 §. State St., Chicago, Ul. WIGS AND TOUPEES FOR STREET WEAR ONLY W. SOLOMON, 10! W 1 st., New York. WIRE WORKERS’ SUPPLIES JUERGENS JEWELRY CO., 255 Eddy, Providence, BLE. XYLOPHONES, MARIMBAS, BELLS AND NOVELTIES E, R. STREET, 28 Brook &t., Hartford, Conn, f = <i ' — Warren, N. ¥ Po . N, Y. N Y.C 635 Cort Sl eceeeeeeenneseeesaenaniia s¥.C., 5685 Cont, es = seenenetntinhawn. 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54 AT LIBERTY AND WANT SITUATION ADVERTISEMENTS AT LIBERTY AGENTS AND MANAGERS WORD, CASH (First Line Large Black Type) 20 WORD. CASH (First Line and Name Black Type) ie WORD, CASH (Small Type) (No Ad Less Than 25c) Figure Tetal ef Words at One Rate Only. THEATRE MANAGER AT LIBERTY—PIC- tures, Vaudeville, Road Show experience. Good operator and sign painter. Original ideas, Wife piano or tickets. RALPH HAYES, Dex- ter, N. Y¥ janl CAN JOIN AT ONCE as Contracting Agent or Mana- ger of a good road attraction or theatre. Ww ire me salary, not percentage, in answering this ad. CARL COOKSON, Lawrence, Mass. jan& MANAGER, Publicity Man, Press Agent, live and wideawake, traveled here and abroad; executive; wants to make suitable connection. Prefer the West. Can handle lecturer, acts, grand opera, any- thing good. Address ADVERTISER, 2388% West 20th St., Los Angeles, Calif. BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS Se WORD, CASH (First Line Large Black Type) 2e WORD, CASH (First Line and Name Black Type) fe WORD, CASH (Small Type) (No Ad Less Than 25¢) Figure Tetal ef Werds at One Rate Only. " . 9 At Liberty—Young Girls’ En- tertaining Bands. Guaranteed satisfactory. Address the BON JOHNS PRODUCTIONS, Loop End Bidg., Chicago, Il. Something New in Music! At liberty—The Alpine Quartet. Tyrolian enter- tainers for all occasions. KALTENEGGER, 1072 Park Avenue, New York City. AT LIBERTY AFTER JANUARY 1, 1927— Crawford's Pennsylvanians. Now playing at the Wana Club, located at Scotch Plains, N. J. Address M. V. CRAWFORD, 27% Lombardy St., Newark, N. J. janl AT LIBERTY — STRONG 6-PIECE BAND. JOE GOETZ, Greensboro, N, C€. janl ORCHESTRA AT LIBERTY—ELEVEN MUSI- cians, het, sweet and straight players, at liberty January ist. Vaudeville or hotel en- gagement; prefer vaudeville, have good act ready. Write TOMAS GIAMO and His Castle Terrace Orchestra, 601 Monroe St., Hoboken, N. J. Phone Hoboken 8623. AT LIBERTY — Experienced, well-qualified Theatre Orchestra for permanent year-round location. All well routined in the entire business. Address H. H. HARTLEN, Billboard, New York. AT LIBERTY CIRCUS AND CARNIVAL Se WORD, CASH (First Line Large Biack Type) 2e WORD, CASH (First Line and Name Black Type) fe WORD. CASH (Small Type) (No Ad Less Than 25e) Figure Total ef Werds at One Rate Only. At Liberty Contortionist, To join with small circus of high class. Ad- dress FRANK KOSS, 1327 E. Palmer Ave., Detroit, Mich. jan8 H. B. Liazeed Troupe, Just Re- turned from five years’ rope, bring newest world, presenting Booked by LIAZEED |} eus. engagement in Eu- and best novelty act in the two ladies and six men. CHARLES L. SASSE, or = mself. New for vaudeville and cir- Address 330 West 43d St., New York. The Original Butterfly Clown, Fred Stelling, Address 29 E. at liberty for indoor circuses. Cain St., Atlanta, Ga, AT LIBERTY—Two entirely different Acts—Comedy Acrobatic Table Act, also Aerial or Ground Gymnas- The Billboard, January 1, 1927 ’ Classified Advertisements | At Liberty—A-1 BB Sousa. phone, doubling Euphonium. Experlenced 9}; lines. A. F. of M. Troupe or locate. FRED H. HANSON, 2010 St. Charles St., New Or leans, La. At Liberty — Trumpetist. Ex. perienced vaudeville, pictures. Youn ae. J. BUGE, 1610 Howard 8t., Chicacn’ union, copy, and figure cost at one rate only. wired with copy. to reject any advertisement and revise copy. in rate without notice. For Rates see Headings. Set in 5%-pt. type without display. No cuts. No borders. We do not place charges for ads in the Classified columns upon our books. THE COPY. No ad accepted for less than 25 cents. Count every word and combined initials, also numbers in Advertisements sent by telegraph will not be inserted unless money is Mai! addressed to initials care General Delivery will nov be delivered. We reserve the right “Till forbid’’ orders are without time limit and subject to change No bills rendered. CASH MUST ACCOMPANY FORMS CLOSE THURSDAY, 4:30 P.M., FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEK’S ISSUE. THE BILLBOARD PUB. CO., 25-27 Opera Place, Bex 872, Cineinnatl, Ohle. AT LIBERTY—WALTER X. PRICE, AGE twenty-five, height 5 ft., 9 in.; weight 140. Stock or repertoire. Wardrobe, ability, experi- ence. N. 13th St., Franklin, Pa. AT LIBERTY—Comedian. Will furnish entire reper- toire of short and long-cast plays. Specialties. Will consider partner. PHIL MAHER, 193 Frank- lin St., Buffalo, N. Y. SCENIC ARTIST—Open to accept an engagement, Dramatic Stock or Musical Comedy Stock. Can join at once. Address HEMSLEY, Brooklyn Ave. and 0. K. Line, R. F. D. No. 2, Jefferson Parish, oe. jan AT LIBERTY MAGICIANS Se WORD, CASH (First Line Large Glack Type) 2e WORD, CASH (First Line and Name Biack Type) le WORD, CASH (Small Type) (Ne Ad Less Than 25c) Figure Total of Words at One Rate Only. PRINCE RAJAH, THE HINDOO MAGICIAN, will apswer questions. Time of act, 20 minutes. Picture houses ai specialty. W. BROADUS, 25 Hammond St., Roxbury Mass. AT LIBERTY M. P. OPERATORS 5e WORD, CASH (First Line Large Black Type) 2e WORD, CASH (First Line and Name Biack Type) le WORD, CASH (Small Type) (No Ad Less Than 25 Figure Tetal ef Words at One Rate Only A-1 Projectionist, Electrician— Six years’ experience; any equipment. Steady. refiable. Misrepresentation cause of this ad. Permanent position. BOX C-95, Bill- board, Cincinnati. janl A-1 Banjoist — Sing, Read, fake, improvise. Can do some arranging. Thoroughly reliable. Union. Young. Details on request. Photo. RALPH H. MERRILL, Steubenville, O. A-1 Trumpet — Experienced, reliable, young, good appearance. Theatre, dance, concert. Legit. and hoke. Locate or troupe. PAUL JOHNSON, General Delivery, Ft. Worth, Tex. A-1 Violinist—Leader or Side- man, for pictures and vaudeville. 15 years’ experience all lines. $2,000 library. Correct synchronization. Consider any reasonable offer. Union. EDW, DAWKINS, 3201 McKinney Ave.. Dallas, Tex. jans A-1 Male Organist Desires Po- sition in picture house. Prefer Wurlitzer or Barton three-manual organ. Age 26, union. Address ORGANIST, 628 So. Burdick St., Kalamazoo, Mich. jan8 A-1 Drummer — Union. 13 years’ experience vaudeville and pictures. Tympani, Bells, ete. OX C-99, Billboard, Cincinnati, O. A-1 Theatre Trumpetist—Ful- ly experienced vandeville and pictures, Good tone and intonation. Young, union. BOX C-102, Billboard, Cincinnati, O. Influence of ——————— the Audience simply went out like a candle. acter of the story: “A musician may practice in an empty room, but he could not do so if he thought that what he had to say upon his instrument was never to be heard by the outside world. You might put a landscape painter on a most beautiful island, but he couldn't paint a stroke if he were convinced that his painting would never be seen by anyone else. would have no story to tell if there were no one to tell it to. The minds of all these people would perish from a state of spiritual starvation. | “For the value of all good story-telling lies in the power of presenting the scenes, characters, and situations which we all know, but the telling of which nevertheless causes surprise that we have not viewed them in quite that way before. They delight us by flattering us, “The listener or reader must always be considered to be in the game. Much good fiction fails thru this lack of power to bring the reader into it, or as the actor says ‘to get it across the footlights.’” Without one the narrator ceased to exist, and, in fact, when he closed a door behind himself and found himself alone he Stacy Aumonier goes on to show how in the end the change in the character of the audience influences the char- ENRY JAMES once wrote a story to show that the audience was H everything. A story-teller —BAKER’S DRAMA-GRAM. tic Act. Write for circulars. GLENNY & FORD, Bill- board, Cincinnati. jans v7 S — —————— —- 4) ATTENTION! —Nmes Sx n Funny London Punch - and . ly, — Show — a Punch’’. Department tores, Indoor Circuses, Lodges, Museums, CANDLER, ° 7 + ; en gs ae sai | At Liberty — Operators Man|A-1 Cellist — Experienced in -*‘& Petite Circus ERMA BARLOW'S Circus Rerue- Treat’’ for indoor. circuses etc., in Indiana, you against dis- ntee for appearance "e co-operate with ndow Cards and t t show your in the amusement line ZELDO, Manager, Sout! janl5 ndoor circus, Slack Wire la s ardorff? Ave., Spring- and ‘Comedy Juggling. field, Ohic THE GREAT DONOLO—Now et Two high-class COLORED PEOPLE Be WORD. CASH (First Line Large Black Types) 2e WORD, CASH (First Line and Name Black Type) fe WORD, CASH (Smali Type) (No Ad Less Than 25¢) Figure Total ef Werds at One Rate Only. AT LIBERTY—Colored sight reader. C. B 8t., Springfield, 11). DRAMATIC ARTISTS Se WORD, CASH (First Line Large Black Type) 2e WORD, CASH (First Line and Name Black Type) fe WORD. CASH (Small Type) (No Ad Less Than 25¢ Figure Total ef Werds at One Rate Only. At Liberty—Frank A. Stolle, Heavies and General Business, Stage Manager, Write or wire General Delivery, Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. Tenor Banjoist. _Experier LANDERS, 1522 who has been on the road ‘for 5 years with one of the theatre supply houses installinz, repairing and demonstrating moving picture machines and theatre equipment, desires to locate in small or fair-sized town. Nonunion, but will join. BOX 800, care Billboard, Chi cago. OPERATOR — CAN HANDLE ANY MAKE projector, switch board or power plant Salary reasonable. Results guaranteed. VIC MORELAND, 4620 Park Bivd., Louisville, Po zs an EXPERIENCE. OPERATOR—TEN YEARS’ Locate anywhere. Write or wire FRANK J. McINCROW, Jefferson St., Marion, 0. PROJECTIONIST DESIRES POSITION — 10 vears experience on all equipment Address PROJECTIONIST XYZ, care of Billboard, Chicago. 100% PROJECTIONIST, January 1. Fully up to date Go anywhere. teen years’ experience. + Handle all equipment. Fif- Highly accomplished. Refer- ences. Please state salary EDW. WARNTEN, 211a E. College Ave., St. Louis, Mo. AT LIBERTY MUSICIANS 5e WORD, CASH (First Line Large Black Type) 2e WORD, CASH (First Line and Name Black Type) fe WORD, CASH (Small Type) (No Ad Less Than 25c) Figure Total ef Werds at One Rate Only. At Liberty—Girl Musicians. BON JOHNS PRODUCTIONS, Loop End Bldg., Chicago. janl all lines. Desires permanent engagement in picture or vaudeville house. Union, references CELLIST, 2106 Sinton Ave., Cincinnati, 0 janl Alto Sax. Man, Doubling Eb Soprano. Fair reader. Good tone. year's experience. Sober, reliable. Age 22. Do not play hokum. 4 HARRISON FORBES, One Tuxedo, First Sax. pre- Stantonsbufg, At Liberty—Violinist, Leads; wife Pianist. Union. Account of theatre closing. Thoroughly experienced vaudeville and pictures. Large library. Pictures correctly ned, Reliable. Rest references. Joint or single. Address VIOLINIST, 904 South 4th, Moberly, Mo. At Liberty—A-1 Cellist. years’ with the best picture li- braries, vaudeville. Here four months. Con ditions not so good. Experienced trombonist. prefer Pennsylvania. Age, 36. FRANK Evy. ANS, 3506 Fir St., East Chicago, Ind. At Liberty—Hot Trumpet Player. Union. Read, fake. Ten experience, Three years’ dance experience, first chair College Symphony Orchestra, Student Directors’ College Band Harmony student. Present contract expires January 1. Interested only in reliable bands. BUD JOHNSON, 314 Sixth St., Peoria, Il. At Liberty — Good Reliable theatre Trumpet. WM. JOHNSON, sin r¢ 7th St., Des Moines, Ia. jans Band and Orchestra Directoy desires position with factory or muni pa band. 18 years’ experience, neat, congenial no boozer. Compose and arrange; good library’ 3 years a soloist with well-known America band. For further information write to DIRECTOR, Kansas State Band, Lansing, Kay BBb Sousaphone String Bass at liberty Dec. 25th, for theatre, hotel o- dance. Experienced and capable. No trooping Will join live dance orchestra. Union ED WORT, Seven Twenty East Marshal St., Ri: mond, Va. Bishop Ruland, Organist, at liberty January ist after year as solo featured organist at the Rivoli, Denver. Youth, appearance. Original copyrighted sine and novelty specialties. Will work for preser salary, one hundred twenty-five dollars, if location and instrument are satisfactory. Wire Rivoli, Denver. Cellist, Doubling Saxophones, Alto and Soprano. A. F. Experience M. hotel and theatre. EDWARD ROACH, «12 Julia St., Jacksonville, Fla. Cellist—Very Fine. 15 Years’ experience. Union. Want good steady en- gagement. Prefer California, West or Sont BOX ©-100, Billboard, Cincinnati. jans Competent Clarinetist Desires steady position in theatre, vaudeville pre- ferred. Union; single: age 38 Use one clarinet. Join immediately. OTTO JACOB, 274 Park St., Bridgeport, Conn. janl Competent French Hornist wishes to make change. Dependable. Ad- dress HORNIST, 935 Baum Ave., St. Peters burg, Fla. jan8 Dance Drummer, Entertainer routined man, snappy rhythm, hot combi. plenty sock, good reader, union. ED Arcada Theatre, St. Charles, 111. jan! Dance Drummer. Plenty rhythm. Cymbals. Young, union: no mis representation All_ replies answered. Wire or write LLOYD PARKINS, care King’s En'er tainers, Minot, N. D. jans Leader (Violin) or Sideman— Long experience pictures, vatdeville. $3,000 library. Reliable. FONTAINE, 9 Clinton st. Hartford, Conn, jani Oboe at Liberty — Wishes first-class theatre engagement. Experienced in theatre and symphony. Address BOX C-60, Billboard, Cincinnati, O. Jans Organist — Experienced, Ver- satile picture player; large library; can tune and repair. Straight or unit. Go anywhere GALE SMITH, Box 33, Centralia, M1. Organist of International reputation and experience. Concert and fra ture soloist. Picture player of exceptional ability Box-oftice attraction. Unton. Moder organ and good salary essential, ORGANIST, 117 South lith 8t., Wite or writs Cambridge, 0 Texas or Southern States— Violinist leader and wife pianist Want per manent location. Pictures tunefully cued. Fine library, union, experienced and reliable. BOX C-92, Billboard, Cincinnati, 0. jan! Trombonist, Union, and Elec- trician, armature winder. Experienced vawile- ville, pictures, band and dance. Location only- MUSICIAN, 689 Cooper St., Atlanta, Ga. Two Hot Boys—Alto Sax., doubling Soprano; Banjo doubling Fiddle. Now working New York cabaret. SAXOPHONIST. 1231 S5Sth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. jan! Violinist Leader; Wife Pianist. Union; large library; pictures correctly cued. reliable and congenial. BOX C-91, Billboard, Cincinnati. janl Violinist, Leader or Side. Ex- perienced vaudeville and_ pictures. Large library. H. VICKERY, 414 West 23d St., New York City. Trombonist — Vaudeville or pictures preferred, TROMBONIST, 114 ones St.. Lancaster, Ps A-1 ALTO SAX., DOUBLING SOPRANO. DI sires location theatre. BOX C-103, Billboard, Cincinnati, : 7 iy : 7 ‘ . | pe PO aa Te Po : | Read ‘a a young a - soune gar Po Al § I Pe — ™ " — — ~ : 7 relia ee rae | concert 619 M | | J | ee re a ee eS SE 102d 5! : | ai («WV | tun | | burles aa A | 1 nings. | eS ee ee | ie AT | a _ Re ——— - - - — bling |! | —$—$-_—— ne | ee va . Ld union | and pr F fe = dances . = ( npat! cea = ee, t a 7 Po po oe erpe! | ‘ Would | pe po Cis*zC = — Sr salary ~~ - r KOUR! —- = | B. | = NS new * and r a = SS KE AT 7 = = ee J0HN [ land, ( : PC prefs | ee —_—_——_—__—— — = st, A | —______ ee —__ z Pe a | Td = BOB ° I — . | vaud | = and Le | — mG . | DRUM | | Age double . ee a | yp Z ae ; ri | “ae, cinnat | ae : | —-—— See = FLUT: thea I 4 ee a _—______ | | = : -_ See Thi i ‘ wd ssc Pe . Tolede atk TRUY = ————————————__ = _-__ TaUY i eee «A i ES ad P Penang | —— nl Ind : P| ; Pe : only = = Ee Po a ee ne 2 . %; fight Exper! : More tS

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rT, BANJO AND PIANO PLAYER. in danee, hotel and vaudeville ept with either, Hot, sweet. b tae ‘ Will locate or travel. Neat, R a ind congenial. Prefer to be to- ere \ consider only high-class or- ya ‘TAMMIE O'NEILL, Eufaula, Ala. SAPHONE AT LIBERTY _ AFTER Read, fake, play jazz and n and reliable. Have been with , Would like to hear from good reliable tra. EARL H. HURST, care { 7 lackson-Clark St., Chicago, Il. , DRUMMER — PLAY BELLS, MA- Al nga inies Compl-te outfit traps. bier . . experience vaudeville, pictures, Thirty nee reliable. TRAP DRUMMER, 419 Ml st.. Richmond, Ind. ; TROMBONE—YOUNG MAN. UNION. EX- &4 FRO . n Vaudeville, Picture Theatre, Neod two weeks’ notice, I, LEIBEL, 53 East 102d st., New York City. jans Al Maegan 4 CLEAR "TONE IN tune pictures, vaudeville, comedy, buries . » friflers Congenial, strictly temperat Moderate distance. Replies eve- nings. Box C-87, Billboard, Cincinnati, 0. sit janis aT AT LIBE RTY—A-1 LEGITIMATE TRUMPET vaudeville, after December 12th. FRED BRAULT, Jefferson, 8. D. at LIBERTY, AFTER JAN. 1ST—ALTO SAX, Clarinet and Fiddle. Drummer, dou- oa Hand Saw. Have white and gold outfit. Hot embal licks and flash Both young, union, read and fake Good band expertence and prefer J ngagement with recognized dance bar 1. Ad ae ss BOX C-82, Billboard, Cin- cinnati, O janl AT AT LIBERTY—VIOLINIST. LEAD OR SIDE, xperienced and reutined in thes tre library: capable. H. ROBERTSCN, T a5 N. East St., Bloomington, Il. aT ‘LIBERTY—A 4 VIOLINIST. TEN YEARS’ Jazz, fake and good sight reader v 1d like to secure position in Chicago or ayburhs at or Nonual on, but can join. State aglary Dance orchestra preferred. wM. KOURIL, 1922 Est es Ave., Chicago. Tl. janS8x AT LIBERTY—A- 1 SOUSAPHONE; DOUBLE tecormding experience Playing string 1) new sty Slap String Bass Young, single and reliable References furnished if neces- sary. Flashy instruments. At liberty December Write or wire R. WES- ait Al ur LEY MARSHALL, care Rose Garden Orchestra, BR. ore . M nt ma AT HBERTY—A FIRST-CLASS CLARINET ’ Lez timate picfures and vaudeville 10S ‘SCHMIDT. 1118 (lifton Bivd., Cleve- land, 0 jani5 AT ——~ ae | _ TROMBONIST. THEATRE preferre g experien good tone and sight reader SESSE NICHOIS, 714 B. Third St., Anderson, Ind BANIOIST—PLECTRUM. READ, FAKE, rhy'hm, sock, Am union, sober and reliable, Last job three years. Sing some. BANJOIST, $22 G Ave., West, Cedar Rapids, Ia, jani c MELODY SAX.. DOUBLE SOPRANO. Union. G tone, read and improvise. Past two seasons with J. Doug Morgan. Have car BOB TURNER, 412 West l4th St., Oklahoma City, Ok LARINE TIST — ~ EXPERIENCED PICTURES, ar oncert; double Alto Sax. wosier AN, Ce tral Hote i, Lima, CLARINETIST EXPERIENCED VAUDEVILLE and Pp : res; union. Address CLARINETIST, 1% Glen nce, Tihaea, N. Y¥. SOUERER — EXPERIENCED ALI LINES. Age , sober = reliable and want some- thing steady; th re preferred. Sing and double piano. J. Louis ‘SMITH, Hanover, Il jans EXPERIENCED VIOLINIST — YOUNG AND n eXcellent schooling, de- sites pos or hotel. Available t ones (MORRIS: EVENSOHN. 3020 West Susquehanna Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. EXPERIENCED TROMBONE—-PREFER THEA- . iress JOE GOETZ, Billboard, Cin- nnati, 0 jans FLUTE AnD PICCOLO —BAND, ORCHESTRA, “ nee refer West. Music side e Ri ferer os MUSICIAN, care A. Stanley, Merens |] TROMBONIST — PICTURES AND VAUDE- BONIST. inything legitimate, Union. TROM- Mist ” American Bank Bldg.. Lima, 0. TROMBONIST — EXPERIENCED ALL LINES, -; have tuxdo. Troupe or locate. Ta on re DEL SMITH, 559 Darr St., TROUPE T i. LAYER, EXPERIFNCED IN fms or dance work. F. BELL, 1420 S'.. Altoona, Pa jant aT EXPERIENCED DANCE, THEA- Por ‘ R = improvise, play modern lors, Gr 24. State all partteu- Ind G HART. ‘Gen. Del., New Castle, A. . > LK, MMER—Vauderille, pictures, real dance or- ful schooled) Tymps, Bells, Marimba, only. A ; reference. Reliable offers j ‘ ! eture library What hate Biles, 14. Cincinnatt, O A. J , ROM BONIST—Fitteen years’ experience; age, e'er vaudeville or picture house tone; good habits; A E | y A. vuld coms ‘ider music as side line st ci 6 SSDinet making, picture framing and Wma {its. TROMBONIST, 322 East Mark 8t., nn jan 1 DRUMMER—Union. Pictures, Vaudertlle. Real ied dance orchestra. A-1 references. Formerly in large Dance Pianist-Arranger—Age Publix house. Tymps, Bells, Marimba; ‘“‘all” Traps. . P BOX C-1, Billboard,’ Cincinnatt, ©. 25, single, union, neat, tuxedo. Late style AT LIBERTY—Competent Theatre Manager of wic experience desires to hear from a reliable prop. sl A-l PIANIST-LEADER DESIRES CHANGE— State full particulars. Go anywhere; reliab Excellent library; cues pictures perfect; NY-39, Billboard, New York. jan? solutely first class. Years experience. salary, particulars, size of orchestra. BOX 15, arrangements. Three way or single, AN EXPERIENCED VIOLINIST—Dance, theatre or choruses, symphonic stuff with good ideas or “af Broadcasting and recording experience. | 29ything. Proven ability. Play late style dirt Formerly with Original California Ramblers, Age |D piano; good rhythm and read anything. appearance, wardrobe, etc Have ticket. Will | Plenty stage and dance experience. State go anywhere if offer ts reliable. Write or wire BOB | in first. BOX sillboar 6 3 TAYLOR, 125 Frank St., Dayton, O. New York. =. ee The Billboard, January 1, 1927 55 AT LIBERTY—A-1 Pianist. Read, fake and trans- pose. Take down from voice and arrange. Wife A-1 s. Some dancing specialties. Experienced in smal} Height, 5 ft., 5%. weight, 120. Best of wardrobe om and off. Thor- oughly experienced in all lines Dont ask my lowest, salary Write or wire JOE D 5, Walker, Mo FARR, 608 Lenox Ave., Oneida, N. Y. janl | ay AT LIBERTY—A-1 Trombonist, experienced in all | Moscow, Ia. lines. Reliable, union, age thirty. CECIL H AT LIBERTY SINGERS (First Line Large Black Type) ASH (First Line and name Black Type) +c NO ADV. THAN 25e. Wome Total ef Words at ‘cies Rate Only. in acts. Weill schooled and routined. PIANIST AT LIBERTY—EXPERIENCED aT LIBERTY— Experienced Routine Violin Musical ané reliable. Geed sight reader; also work Director desires permanent year-round theatre en- , , gagement. Congenial personality. Good auntent li- or wire W. A. NUGENT, Dale, Wis. AT LIBERTY—A-1 Bass and Baritone Character 6 feet tall Formerly with Comedy Four Quartette people. write. JAMES LA CLARE, 9511 126th N. ¥. Care Sahm. janl brary, HARRY MASON, General Delivery, Albany | janzz2 | AT LIBERTY—SIGHT READER — HARTFORD, Billboard, New York t 22 seeded var’ New Mork City. 0022 | ap LIBERTY—PIANIST. MEDIUM ABILITY. AT LIBERTY— A. F. of M Baritone Player. Prefer Experienced in dance work. Go anywhere ) LEADER AND VIOLINIST DESIRE Kalamazoo, Mich. Jans PIANO - location, Young men, Experienced E LA CROIX (Lady and Gentleman)—Novelty apeze pictures and vaudeville. Extensive library. Artists, now booking Indoor Circus and | correctly, Union, BOX C-94, Billboard, ind hours ANNE LEAR, 2829 Prairie, ct hicago, eetly. Union. Twenty-three years old. MUSI- ACTS, SONGS AND PARODIES NO ADV. LESS THAN 25¢. 6e WORD. CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure Total of Words at One Rate Only. a Bale Fr FOR $10.00 — CAS a? er - WALTER WEISS, Author, 1 Terk FOR SALE—SHORT CAST SCRIPTS: SMALL Drop. BILLY BRYANT, ANY ACT WRITTEN FOR $25.00—WRITE NAT as Author, 538 East 175th &t., answer. Ravaars, etc., engagements ~ - act. er cinnati. 4 : Wayne, a — 1304 Walton Ave., Fort ayne, In YOUNG DANCE TIAMIS® .. EEPERIENOEE. Hav 1 essentials, Real dance rhythm. AT LIBERTY Write WAYNE BORER, Marshall, Mich. j PIANO PLAYERS AT LIBERTY—A-1 Dance Planist, modern style, good Se WORD, CASH (First Line Large Black Type) teader, steady bass f (First Line and Name Black Type) | Five years exper e, ¢ x bo WORD. GASH (Small Type) (Ne Ad Less Than 25e) | Write or wire CLAU DE KING, 520 Linn St., ee Vetet ot ef Werds at ene Rate Only. oria, Mm and rhythm Union. Age, ven YOUR ACT FOR 1927—MY GAG BOOK $1.00. Satisfaction guaranteed, Year to all customers, BRADLEY, 5103 Holl -wood Blvd., Los Angeles, two years with present band. PLAYS—WOOVARD PLAY CO., — quon, Ill. Al 1 Dance » Pj ianist. Read, RELIABLE YOUNG MALE PIANO eRe OND le liable. Reliable dance bands | Vaudeville, Pictures alone. Will consider + mt 4 State all, ROY H. SHER- ghee show. PIANIST, 311 42d St., Newport News, 3 pew MONOLOGUES, ORIGINAL HOKUM Thr e Choruses, 25. real Wise Cracks, Punch on ‘‘Remember’’; page Character Stories; Brookline, Mass, all, $1.00. FRANK ‘LANE, janl : . rs ie | ee Ey | ee but state your ee ee omic , es $$ Pe 20 WO le janl Chatham P| No tant St., Richmond Hi!, [es PC ee 2 | a with established stamps. Addr. = Ann Brooklyn, N. Y. | } | | ae a — ~ ’ a : ee a Bp an : = | ee aT SW pe _ fF } : ee ator; have fil Dd } Billboard Ne a | _——7——— . a | : wu i | PY | a * Ae UB bP | De Elizabeth, Pa. = | Bronx, N. Y ‘3 me Se Toles | 7 §

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56 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 AGENTS AND SOLICITORS oer OUR FREE SAMPLE CASE — TOILET $11, 50 PROFIT ON 50c OUTFIT COMPLETE— | LAWYER LEONARD, WALTON BUILD. GEN! icles, Perfun ilties. Wonder- Hair Tonic in powder form. Simply add water Huntington, W. Va. Correspondence solicit fully profitabl LA ‘DERMA CO., Dept. RK, Jand bottle. Everything furnished CASEY WANTED St. Louis. jan20 |] COMPANY, 10643 Washington, Boston — —_—---- t Ze WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS IMAN Ze [ims MERE — LATEST RED-HOT WOVELTY ATTRACTIONS | WANTED | Figure T of Word Sen fal 1 . Snake mo. ae a laugh. L, $20 ‘DAILY EASY SELLING ANASIEG nary. Je WOR TUx spare Tote & Words ot One Rate Only. Agents wat ie Samples, 25¢ —— SEAR. Proof Caps, made to measure t o WORD. CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25 ‘ “ ING, 1511 Lunah Ave., Sioux City, and styles, tig "eavan we opr ofits ree outfit So WORD, CASH. ATTRASTIVE “Piast LINE Agents—Gold Sion Letters for | ———— and free cap offer. Address TAYLOR ‘CAP Figure Total of Words at One Rate Only. store windows. 500% profit, Free sample LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE $20.00 | MANUFACTURERS, Dept. Z-35, Cincinnati, 0. rT dows. ! ° « 4 e samples. ily and est is mar t business. Nev x METALLIC LETTER CO., 442 N. Clark, Chi-| pian snakes $8888$ while gow sleep MUTUAL va Want Merry-Go-Round an d cago. tf SUPPLY CO., Bradford, Pa. jans $25.00 DAILY SELLING BAEBOOESS AND Chairplane for fonr weeks’ still date aaiond ee Res Slickers, $2.95 en col red, heron Carolina, starting February 1, then 35 , VERE green, etc. m itfit free Commissions daily. | auspices and fairs Addreg o Ie - Agents, Streetmen —Smoke less 5 cent RESIL — foots you char COSTS | ELLIOTT BRADLEY, 241 Van Buren, Dept.| Laucaster, 8. ©. an oon nee, o ting Blower is a kr Blow rings with nts, imense profits plating auto parts, | 5, Chicago. Janse — & ¥ your cigar, pipe or cigarette Introducing at reflectors, tablewar stoves efinishing metal eons i ¥ 15e each, or two for 25c Order now. F. | ware, ete. Outfits pt Ny Details free. KELLY, 3438 Minnesota Ave., St. Louis, Mo. | Write SPRINKLE, Plater, 500, Marten. Ind, “ANIMALS, BIRDS AND PETS BOOKS jan8 F jebl2x 6e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25¢. ; | Se WORD. CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. ge woro. GASH. Me ADV. CESS THAN 25s. Sec’ igure Total ords at One Rate Only. ST LINE Agents—Our New Household "ak es TIMES SELLING FOOD, PEOPLE ! cy - Figure Total ef Words at One Rate Only Cleaning Device washes and dries windows, | money; $3,000 yearly and up. No capita) or Cockatoos! White Sulphur THE ENTERTAINMENT | DIRECTORY BLUE aa clean ye seru ibs, more. Coots ene experience needed. Guaranteed sales. Unsold Crested, $84 dozen, $8 each; Rosas, $48 wok, World's Ro . than brooms ; lf profit. rite HAR- | goods may be returned. We furnish you with] dozen, $5 each: Rive Mountain Lorikeets, $15 | A e att cent PER BRUSH WORKS. 105 Third St., Fair- sample case, license and free samples for “eng . © Souesuns oy FANCIERS’ FX. a hie, y cents, PEOPLE'S BANK: BLDG AU? field, Ia. jan29 | customers. Sure repeat orders. Exclusive| CHANGE, 2733 Mission, San Francisco, Calif Se “ territory. Ask now! FEDERAL PURE ee janl Auction Goods and Rummage CO., ©-2307 Archer, Chicago. D S 1 Boxi a: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ogs — Somersault, OXING| 6 WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25: Sales Store can be _ started with $20.00. PITCHMEN'S STEEL FOLDING TRIPODS, MON Something new. YOUNG COMPANY, 2549 S.}) Cases, Ba ricks, ILLINOIS MAGIC Clowns; Greyhounds. TT. J. BARRY, 28] 8 WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE = Halsted St., Chicago. tf SHOP, 18 West D om ire Place . Chicago Whitney St., West Augustine, Fla. Figure Total of Words at One Rate Only 5 Auction, Bankrupt, Salvage, vat POLISHING CLOTH REMOVES TAR. Must Sell — Spotted Mare Dallas (Fex.) Mail Address, —— Rummage mem s. Enormous profits. Particulars | liqu , = A x ywder. Our agents say it sells trick pony, $60; white mare pony, $60; small $2.00 month. RUSSELL, Box 206 RIC free. Old largest, original headquarters. Retails 25c; sample free. | Shetland mule, broke for January and — *hieage f re sh ae CO.. 15 E lint St., Boston, | able, $60, or $150 for the thre: Two beautt- % v -_ : 1608 SOUTH’ HALSTED, Chicago. tt] A. 5 Edinboro hs Ah tothe edieecdats “Eaaaaeieas abe eee eee Sell Pro-Tex-Chex, a Check o- 4 _-- - ~ —— | monkeys, $20; King tT oa — mmy, in glass case protector. Sample and de tafle, ote GOLD DIN uy Bankrupt and Rummage Sales. |saresmen anp_ D_DEMONSTRATORS — SELL and banner, $20; pit $0: | STEIN BROS., Santa Cruz, Calif 8; ' 5 , Long Life Quick No-Cement Pa revolving table for dors, "$5. HARRY DICKIN. | —.__ ane at Make $50.00 daily. We start you, furnishing Fg ce ga ae ge oy lone: a a SON. Greenville. — everything. CLIFCROS, 609 Division, Chi aK nei. ell 200 profit. Fast ae Start a Lunch Room. ‘Sell Hot 1D! . steady repeater. New low prices. LONG LIFE Snakes—Boas, 5 to 6 Feet, $10] roast Beet sandwiches and Hot Chill Har Z Sell New and Used Clothing to | PATCH ©0., 1293 West 114th St., Cleveland, 7 ft. $10 Each. | Used my Cel u Form a8 e making me over FO! general stores and tailors. Numerous other AREDO 200, BIRD « ANIMAL CO., Laredo, $100.00 per month at present. I average « New Articies Good pay. YOUNG CO., ~~. aco tee Gener ADVERTIONNG — pn - ng more than 1) Hot Roast Reef Sandw ‘ Te | %, 2549 South Halsted, Chicago. tion for beauty parlors; wonderful sid OLD-FASHIONED WHITE ENGLISH BULL|each night. Will mail you both Formulas te connnee bsg ente arit r ady —_. PUBLICITY Pups, $25 and $15. LOUIS FISHER, Route | printed complete, for a $1.00 bill or money . nksburg, 7 ; > 1 r ran ah mor . — Sell Corn Remover Display i £ 7, Greensburg, Ind. ——, — t refe . s or nals . ae = Easels store Rig profits. TYRRELL JESSE L. SANDERS, Box 374, 874, Paris, 1! oe PRODUCTS co., Martins Ferry, innate adie ‘ A BUSINESS OF YOUR OWN MAKING ||( Texas Small- Town | Resident K Sparkling Glass Name and Number Plates, . . Mailing List. Guaranteed. Thousand, $1 5 ate Checkerboards, Signs. Rig book and sample IXIE AGENCIFS. 244 Dall T ‘ R free. E. PALMER, $01 Wooster, Ohio. tt Once Famous Dancer in Seclusion = ka INCH ‘DISPI AY ‘ee 100 MAG BO} AGENTS —$150 WEEKLY. FAST SELLER. 2 OOD'S POPULAR — a sip et omen Each sal ae Téecl Hs A HALF century ago La Tortajada, the famous Spanish dancer, took SERVICES, Atlantic Cit aes peats. erma ent, profitabie ome. ea or Eur ne by storm Madria first rave her rapturous me laim then airs, pibli arket stands. RELAB., 220 9% Po cage —cangagele ae tp ; v ee og Oakland. calif. LAB jans Paris, Berlin, London and the South American capitals. - LANE'S BOOK V Me yee ILLE poate 'a Ye . She had the Latin fire, the flare of color, the fascination of I} ian's Jester, 72 sch CALDWELL, il K n AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE TO.SELL rhythm that arrested the world and set it at her feet The world wood, Brookline, Mass 1 the Handycap Milk Bottle Openers and> Cov- - e ; ‘ te ' 7 ' ; 4 srinces flocke o the sa ers. Dandy side line. Write for sample. HAN- assed in audiences to pay her tribute and prin flocked to th MONSTROUS ete MAIL AND BARGAIN OF. DYCAP Co., Mdse. Dept., Irvington, N. J. stagedoor to pay court. ‘ ; ; Box 182- ‘ jan29x Today La Tortajada is a sweet faced old lady with snow-white } ” = hair whose amusement is to watch the street crowds of Puerta del | —_——- F , Y t a T q new Kind of sharpeners. Starpens all knives Sol from her balcony. Few who pass by know that she is La Torta- | SPIRI ITUALISM — SIXTEEN Ee Stats of and tools quickly, Demonstrating sample fre¢ jada, the once dazzling beauty whose sparkling binck eyes and — COMPANY. Fox 1268, ¢ 13 PREMIER MFG. COMPANY, Dept. 143, De- hair were the toast of two continents in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. She sc cadhathiialdihieitiaiaaniaes : = troit, Mic gave so generously of her art and earnings to charity that for a 24 WORDS, 355 RURAL ‘WEEKLIES, $14.20 f AGENTS — MEDICINE AND PITCH MEN decade she was even better known than the celebrated Raquel Meller. ADMEYER, 41128 Hartford, st. Louis, ae io wanted everywhere to handle Akawalla’s La Tortajada disappeared from the stage as suddenly as she — _ —— Genuine Indian Cold Vine for head colds, head- appeared. When her star began to wane she made way~for younger aches, neuralgia and obstructed nostrils. Just in- artists and retired to the Puerto del Sol, the center to which all good CARTOONS Co hale, it never fatfS; instant relief unconditional Spaniards wish to go ly guaranteed both to you and your customers. gar aiegg tchen ‘ , , RD. CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 2h Trial dozen, $1.25; hg $12.0, retails $36.00; She lives very modestly with her aged husband and their son, fo vee bry py AD FIRST LINE your profit $24.90—200 per cent. Its smell is who is engaged in the moving picture business. Occasionally she is Figure Total of Words at One Rate Only C what makes it sell, Medicine and Pitch Men, visited by some old friend of the days when she was the queen of :) : cag Send tor geese AaB es A aa European variety halls, but her name seldom appears in the news- ee 8 ‘RIC = CARTOONS, Bae PICTURES eet in on the bie money For everyone is papers and, even in Madrid, many of her old admirers do not realize we B ont — ments. Catalog free BALDA F subject to bad colds—they look, they smell and that La Tortajada is still alive —A. P. ART SERVICE, Ox«hs Ww i they bur Akawalla’s ne Indian Cold Co _— en. pw a not Ped ae i BE 4 RAPID FIRE TRICE Cansesuier. : : WALLA VEGETABLE LABORATORY, Dept id ve Gan oF - Dept wa Ze Weaver Ave., North: Side, Pittsburgh, — Ri MODERN CARTOON SERVICE, jan& - tergen St. Brooklyn, N. ¥ r AGENTS, ——_—_—. —— | SALESMEN AND DEMONSTRATORS — LONG | ALLIGANOR, 6) FEET. STUFFED, $75 00 — — . Fo D. MO ISTRATOR _ IEW ife No-Cement Patch repairs punctures, ‘ FLE HMAN, " rank = 0 ag 0d will : ~~ big pr s IT'S Unived Re its 1nd all rubber goods instantly. Fast | Tampa, Fla. jant BRAND.NP*W eeltion "te ie sly tne se = ihe Tube vat h and S. eller nd steady repeater. Over 200%. New on . i. a Gea 7 Tire Plastens emendous demand; quick | low prices. LONG LIFE PATCH CO., 1293 W. ANIMALS. , BIRDS. PIGEONS, PET sTock, |! FRANK LANE, 41 Kenwood, Rrookliny. E ovingtor ey 114th St., Cleveland, 0 al eeds, Catalo 1th L Ww : sales. UNITED PATCH CO., Covington, a bevels BROWN, “Wh.n Hall, Man und ate Te —~|SELL BETTER QUALITY ALI-WOOL MADE. a f 00 Re peel G . AGENTS—FLASHER BUTTONS (SIZE OF 25.| ,,200rd¢t Sule At secientions and. a pend pies, $3. yee, Am, Fe COSTUMES, WARDROBES cent piece); carry 100 in pocket. Makes | for men who are conscientious ogee omreg Fs ‘SoUTHE N PE’ Wi nston- pictrie™ Lights ‘ata’ siete "aakeoitie ean [Sp experience meter. Full ap art time: | is, SOUTHERN FET SHOP, Wiostrn AND UNIFORMS lers, Sells te f business, Sample, | $45 to $100 weekly and lHbera bonus, ‘wore i Se WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 2¢ : 25e. Write WERTZ, "ee CO., Fa , W. Va. | missions paid in advance. We sia Wine BEAUTIFUL REGISTERED B BULL PUPS. ‘$15; Je WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE Sle me large sw a al ‘GIBSON. INC. tulidogs 501 ROCKWOOD, Dallas, Tex Figure Tetal of Werds at One Rate Only AUTOMOBILE SPECIALTI ES—GUARANTEED oat ar Ptarete: “ n2 junéx | —— Formulas r i 161 W. Harrison, Dept. A-417, Chicago. jan22 en com - a BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT oF SPAN! est ices. te fre free ets T 2 — > inches mom ix all ga Write fe ee ae toaray, THANCO VANILLA — — BOTTLE : YOURSELF. Waite penton oe Pat ae ee ne eee ae couches cmpettiny 500% profs Amarone | $i tr Wanted—Paucated Pong. | unee $30 %0 “upward STANLEY COSTUM ae tes IA PERF — BEADS SELLING ler, Other concentrated products. Wr rite INEZ SMITH, ‘Billboard, _New York. STUDIOS merle = a oo SN profits. Catalog free MISSION FACTORY L. THOMAS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, In FOUR TRAINED DOGS. ONE SOMERSAULT | A-1 STAGE ‘WARDROBE— LOWEST PRIC! 2328 W. Pico, Los Ange Ca jan napolis, Ind. janl ge, tame male Java Monkey, $235.00 Specialize ening Gowns, Wraps, tric estes ———— Miss ‘pay’ DAVIDSON, Gen. Del., Beaumont, rent Jewels 4 ete, upto the minute Mod Or CLEAN OU” 50c TO $1.00 _EACH SALE—PAID WANT DISTRIBUTING AGENT FOR HAN-) Tex Afternoon, Dancing, Street Dresses, Chor : in ’ slick, -powdered hand soap. Removes any- Seta noun of clase, flash, reliability caneeare. ae. ne Seivering MISSi0 thing ‘from hands. Everybody a customer | HAVING OPENED TRAINING QUARTERS | 5.-,.pt 9. Geer 46 mean an teens 04 MA TORY 2 wa bee re Ion FAC. Sample free. SOLAR PRODUCTS CO., D-2144 for producing domestic animal acts for cir dreas C. CONLEY. 222 W. 48th St., New Ypr Se RR - , 8. Troy, Chicago tr] cus. Vaudeville. fairs, ete., will buy, sell, ex- | ity j — ne ange or traiu acts, Four acts on hand for _ — Ty DEMONSTRATORS WHO WANT ‘4 , engagements. Tell us your wants, MANAGER . THER . FR TORS WHO WANT MONEY '] WANTED—HOSIERY AGENTS TO MAKE $25 PONY CIRCUS, RF. D, “Ivyland, Pa. janl ANGORA AND GENUINE ALL-LEATHE = ing, Crocheting nage 4 : t) _ te wd oa Men's. uk Mevelty "ene a — a ae 818 a - vk mt A w x _— on - wing r né th the $16.50 preg Men's Silk assorted colors, Two GENUINE ARABIAN HORSES ce ¥ ft nid Hate atin lined, £10.00; others ¢ resser oot’ Writ prices, L 12.00 , Men's es e ose. £21.00 ons ine on m e " vargain Vri 2008 ’ 20, . Now PRESSER FOOT CO., Drawer 514, post eee er ee eS eae ets On wer | for details. WEIL'S CURIOSITY SHOP, 291 9°02 "> STANLEY. 308 W. 234 8 rk Wis gross. Sample dozens sent upon receipt of | South Second St., Philadelphia, Pa bse : - a TEwis =e eo ae ome ae _ ee ener eee BAND COATS, epony os Ea Fy ogg EVERY WOMAN WANTS A SEWING SET. ~y ~o 1S N. SUMS M., Palle . ‘outs, $6.00. JAND 608 West End AV cH me Sewing Sets cont 2 delphia, Va. AT TORNEYS AT LAW New York articles, $4.00 an ho 7" “rr ince — ———$______ > 50e seller 90am on, casts 3 / 9294 § WE START you: WITHOUT A DOLLAR | oa 6e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25e. FOR SALE—31 MINSTREL SUITS; 2 END Al New York. pate Soaps, Extracts, Perfumes, Toile Goods Be WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE Men, 4 Comedian, 25 Chorus 31 Chair Cov 5 : Exnerience unnecessary, CARNATION Co., Figure Total of Words at One Rate Oniy. ers; 30 gray, 1 black 5 Tambourines - Lept. 1080, St. Louis, on — od ae ow: sed but ight Write vw ‘ MAGIC RAZOR PASTE — BEST IN THE | _ : cd Don’t Wo About Troubl B08 eer JAMES DELLEMS. 41 “Altamont . . world a 7" Mt _velvet shave. One blade lasts | $10 DAILY SILVERING MIRRORS. PLATING TTy u oubdies, | i... _ Mansfield. 0. years, Evers an avprospect, Send 25 cents and refinishing lamps, reflectors, autos, beds, difficuities, ete, For advice and prompt ac aan 4 C0} for cake and get Razor Strop free ~ Agents chandeliers by new method, Outfits furnished. | tion Mg: rate all legal ACE.” or money due | FOR ‘SALE — 100 COSTUMES FOR $100.00 wanted. MAcIC RAZOR PASTE CO., Cedar| Write GUNMETAL OO., Ave G, Decatur, Ill. | consul! LAWYER WALLACE. 2204 Michiggn | HARRELSON COSTUME COMPANY, Kan’ lids, janl Jani ' Ave., Chicago. rl. Janz | City, Mo. a a

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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 57 sIOUX INDIAN COSTUMES AND vying direct from the Indian, BALLOONS AND PARACHUTES. t : eos . used. CONTINENTAL BALLOON CO” par |Wanted — Girl Musicians. eee ee AND USED MAGICAL j ab Write for complete lay, oO. ani y ; : id Secrets, Sid es, Blue Prints, Chi Net oe oung, attractive. BON JOHNS PRODUC- Mi 1-R ading and Escay Tuxe LYON CURIO STORE, Clinton, janzz lo ao amp | TIONS. Loop End Bldz., Chicago. jani| First $50.00 gets it. ROSCOE “7 22 AILLE NEW SUPERIOR | BELLS, ite AND owe Travelers Hotel, Norfolk, Neb. ‘ —— egg eget - 2he ’ $82.50 ulile " etory Mint : TUX » SUITS LATEST. $15; Re —— Vend we, Mey a bendie, os Caille new = ,VIOUINISTS, | PIANISTS, = - Overcoats, > SS; yeautifa uve- enny-Nicke ime chines, 42.50; Colt bus én bag xe bing -§ ph } « e- ; A+ milk Gold Drop, $75; flashy | Penny Peanut Machines, — never aned $7 3 a Senephoatste and Drummers for ocean MISCELLANEOUS e5: English Walking Suits, $12, | All machines in A-1 condition, could not be told ners. OOM 714, 1482 Broadway, New York. 7e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS TH | s. FE, ee eae tan allowed. | 25% Jan-"| ge WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE peaee sean 0 with order, balance CC. 0. D Write SCHUB. cara ° . ™ COMPANY, 1208 Fifteenth, Detroit, Mich. B ‘ Samermenters, ; CLARINESISTS. ae Figure Total ef Werds at One Rate Only. 8 rombonists — ree ?oin N . FORMULAS INVENTORY SALE—100| MILLS BELLS, 25 —aahmaea. seman eo CHECK $1.35, WILL PARCEL lay. » ° i ders, Se play, " pos r+] pail ite Clover Honey. x FORM, PAMPHLETS OR SHEETS. at $50.00; 10 Jennings Venders, Se pl ; Fine you eve taste te WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 28e. | e500: 1.000 cases of Mints. assorted. $10.0 WANTED—MUSICIANS FOR THEATRE oOR- | 3)... t ever tasted. SPEAR, Buckland, fe WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. eer case: 1 Rat-e-Peney, ihe ace ~ ps chestra ist be well experienced in the x Figure Tetal of Werds a om =e = 50 A. B. T. Target Skill at $30.00; 1 Wirari premnnd — ness “ed State renal ge R SHELLED PECANS, NEW {CROP—-WHOLE, IN ; Fortune Teller, Mills, $10.00; 50 Target, wit) BOX NY-40. Billboard, wow Yok. . ” pound cartons, s, 65c. Secret Formula to Manufac- | ta gum for each shot, at $12.50. Write BRO., “Laredo, ‘Tex “HILARIO’ CAVAZOS’ & t é 1 Razor Stfop Dressing to Chicago, m oe Jani WANTED AT ONCE—RED-HOT SAX. MAN. —— = ‘- ir ow a ben ae EE pt an , glee com —— _ anew “ Bari- 20 (BATHING sre acto 31.00. $1.00; hey order + , one ( “a 0 8 @ « ertaining. reliable ving Pi rs. $1.00 Sst., New York MILLS OR JENNINGS MINT VENDERS, ME- band and steady work A good entertainer co.” Box 634, Cedar Grove, La. — SALES ms chanically perfect; cheap Address OHIO ref ——————— ° > I rred MIKE GIBBS AND HIS GLOBE — Por isi pe: ~ FORMULA AND YEAR'S NOVELTY 9%O., 40 Stone Block, Warren, 0. | TROTTERS, Huron, S. D. 5 Worthwotie, 25e. FRANKLIN mae . MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TH Dept 3, 130 Cady Stree ocnes: | MILLS AND JENNINGS 5c MINT VENDERS, | WANTED—GIRL MUSICIANS. ESTABLISHED a $35.00; ge at ler, $30.00 Dime and ane leville act. Immediate bookings. BURN- AND ACCESSORIES Quarter ells, 55.00, Half-Doll! Sells, >, 686 Peterboro, Detroit, Mich. MONEY MAKING " FORMULAS, ota a 3 $75.00, Se Iron Bells, $25.00. oltar Bells, — _ FOR SALE WARVES VO GUY. Anything analyze 2 Bellis, $35.00 All machines rebuilt by factory Se WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN ScCIATED CHEMISTS, Indianapolis, Ind _[ experts, 25% deposit, balance C0." D. Ex INSTRUCTIONS AND PLANS 8e WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST Line: ne _jans pert Repairing, Rebuil ding LOUDON NOv- 6e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25c. Figure Total ef Words at One Rate Only. 3 - ELTY CO., 68 No. Whitesboro St., Galesburg, Sgrcows, OAMULA, fe, WRETE 20 [1h mi} ©5Gh ee Meeeeee (ee janl REBUILT TRUNKS. WARDROBE, DRESS ave a ew a -_ age and Salesmen's Samples at prices that will DOLLARS TO CORNETISTS! bry mtn vy high-grade French make esular $85.00 Oo—ANY FORMULA, 200 — WRITE To . - ps High notes, attack, tonguing made easi« value that we are offering at” $50.00 as ‘DIM: “INFORMATION BUREAU, Colorado hg ee Sees ce. aaa Write for in formatic on. I send it sealed PAUL as they last. Standard Bo. hm, qrenaammn 8; : janl . A PLACIDE, 628 East 29th St., Balti mi ~ wood, low pitch B-flat, 17 keys, 6 rings. Here - — - VENEER RACKS FOR ALL MAKES OPERA |‘! jan’ | 2 Zour chance to get_a fine new Clarinet at 5 FORMULAS, 206. CATALOG FREE het save — aan oney a sx cond-! and pri ‘e. Sent for trial on receipt IDEAL ¥ K SHOP, Park Ridge, IL janl REDINGTON COMPANY. Scranten, Pa janld THEATRICAL SCENE PAINTING TAUGHT of $2 deposit. CRAWFORD-RUTAN COM- -_ a _————-— by mai Practical low-priced correspor a 1012-14 C. McGee Street, Kansas City, 1 —. — MACHINE, 1 SANISCO ICE- | courses. ‘We se a = —_ 2ed, a Se enery Mo. jan8 FOR RENT, LEASE OR SALE|' & i, 1 AATEC, JOE | Soaet sree ices. ENE. QO. x "HICKEY. Owosso Mich BOLL ART "ACADEMY, Umatl 1a, Neb. BARGAINS oy: — AND ORCHESTRA IN- Ty WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25¢. struments . Helten, Gide. Bach Seam oe WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. ———— as pets ind ‘Onene ts Olde + aoe mes. all-metal Figure Total ef Words at One Rate Only. . een, ‘ble ‘osioction yy —— P 1 SLOVACEK MUSIC ‘COMPANY, Waco, Texas. Ozark and—Ten Acres, $100; Jani ¢ 2 g. trapping | . BAND AND gm STRA INSTRUMENTS— ARI "ZIMMERMAN, 199 * Se Repertory heaters Deal with the professional house. Special K F - maye offer on popular and standard music. Also = PNT Ic v DEVI fre subscription to our musicians’ magazine, = . ~ P ay oo nes. | “The Musical Booster’’, if you write for it. BOX 917 Mont an] HAVE no doubt at all that repertory theaters could and shoul d be This is the house owned and operated by prac- | I established in cities other than New York, The present’ system, under tical’ musielans and one place whete evaly : SAI & TRADE—PRACTICALLY NEW 20- : ee Pletlnems yraien de - Ne . York i Mages ate re ai ecient re ’ receive prompt and personal | sere of ground. | h the 3 € New or oKs mainly manager! Now located in our new quarters with ~ Per | in that ty to provide it with theatrical] entertainment, is not only undesir- tocks in all lines, larger and better of able from many points of view, but is proving less and less successful i Try us om your next ee | Renin a Gide Raabe vipee reat gg Soran eaten ae. iii ith our eatalog; will —- I know of 1 g d reason why people liv my See —, of — oo ’ lists the best profes- alk to | sands, of miles away from Manhattan Island, in differing environm " Saxophones and other r 2 with differing imp ressions, problems, and conditions of life, shoul a not Bane settoney Silver, Penzel, ‘ I good site for | provide i prepare, at least in part, their own dramatic fare according Ped! t vets, Ludwig, Deagan, MER BARNHART. Per Ind | to their own disposition and propensities Vega r bes also bie stock of = ie : - 7 a , ’ slightly sed = stand makes at sacrifice | It is incongruous, unfair and undesirable that American dramatic prices. Your old instrument taken as part FOR SALE—SECOND-HAND | talent (which term includes playwrights and producers as well as actors), uyment at full valuation. Basy terms also if GOODS in order to demonstrate itself adequately, should be compelled to squeeze lesired Dre » us a line today and * sure itself thru-that narrow neck of the bottle—Broadway. to call Xt time you are in Kansas % WORD, CASH. WO ADV. LESS THAN 250 | It is not only the competition, so called, of the “movies”, nor the 14 c CRAWFORD RUTAN h na aus we yo Toms of sage tf tig By ae | increase in expenses, which has wrought devastation to “the road” and has cal a ee ite Ss: brought it about that in a number of our larger cities the theater of the pot BOEH iM SYSTEM. — FExCe = spoken word has ceased, or almost ceased, to exist as a popularly stra m Poppers — Peerless and pats nized institution. = causes lie deeper. One of the means, the COLO, Strand Th . Shreve port La. jan8 NORTHSIDE CO., 1308 F ft? . chief means, in my opini of counteracting and ultimately eliminating CORNETISTS., TROMBONISTS. SAXOPHON- . ue them is to enlist local pore I to discover and give opportunity to local ists, Clarinetis Free Pointers'’. Name talent, and to bring into concrete existence sentiments, aspirations and instrument VIRTUOSO SCHOOL. Dept. 37, C rn Poppers—Lowest Prices. interests which are latent among the pecple thruout the country. ee N. Y feb5 M. NATIONAL SALES co. j By the term “local” I do not mean necessarily one single communi TANGLEY CAL Les ~ FOR HIRE, ADVER- fet only. I can readily conceive arrangements and methods by which a num tising Thirty 1 lights, Delco Engine, KL ber of communities w« uld combine to h ive, each one for a certain period, ae r t Truck. “DOZIER, Phone Pennsburg, / Counter Money (Dial) Ma-| their theatrical season. —OTTO H. KAHN | Pa.. 103, R. 4 +. $3500. AUTOMATIC COIN] l TUXEDO SUITS. LATEST, $15; 9 CHORUS ve ™ SUPPLY CO., M2 W. Jackson, ¢ Wardrobe, set; beautiful Gole ilk op, . , janis | S = f 1 Pvening Gowns, $1! Overcoats t “te ’ . $5 WALLACE, 1834 North Halsted Chicag J yor. MURLENBEIN, Testor 8/141 WANTED—MUSICIANS | ere ae 2 NIPO, $4.50. OTHER BARGAINS. STAMP ne URE dC €e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 8c. | MANIDO. Sy oo WON LUX, 377 Park, Niles, O | 7@ WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. ‘f ¥ Bel Il, $40, 00; 2 25€ ¢ Bell, |, $70. 00. = “Waa Sees oe es One ELRST LINE. Be Bese - — el ~—---—- — Figure Total of Words at One Rate Only. 3 CHINE SUPPLY Co. ee o— ra . ae “NEEDLE EATING za0cn". : —~ naan Part i F . : nov AHLM, 2580 Dartmoor Road, evelat yo , iot|Good, Strong Solo Cornet or tights, 0 Ww an t e d - Lady a ner. ? Al ND BOWLING ALLEY AND BOWL- Trumpet Writ or wire Rest wire ED NS ee J mae idev itle . e - "Phi eloht do mm. ss “Etesetere 1 hed the new | DIE WOECKENER, Musical Director London | PROFESSIONAL } MIND READERS, CRYSTAL SMITH 105 Toad St., Philadelphia, 1 *e . } } ' I u srotne cus, A bg ssador Hote ° lem ore “7 P 1 tra i = ——$—$— 1 — oe ae double. Location State all parti enlars . “AMP BRIRGS LIST _ “Saale AND Ape. TEACH DANCING. yuvare seen > um he Ante “ os ante ’ > Send photos. Other mus s NGS : 2 me ~ ALTON BROOKE, 190 ~~ ~~ York —_, phage F WOODY. MFYFR wverc | Reoks for sale; bargains FRANK LANE, Snoment essential, BOX 125, Station D, New x. " fant 'CORP., Provident Bank Bidg., Cincinnati, O. [41 Kenwood, Brookline, Mass, jani | York City. 4 ‘ : : } e “ ! ' | GE? . : §TA

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58 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 PATENTS Se WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 250. 8s WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure Tetal ef Words at | One Rate Only. PATENTS—WRITE FOR ‘OUR FREE GUIDE Books and “Record of Invention Blank"’ he- fore disclosing inventions. Send model or sketch of invention for inspection and instruc- tions, free. Terms reasonable. VICTOR J. ANS & CO., Ninth and G, Washington. mm <. jan22 PERSONAL @e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25c. @e WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure Tet_! ef Words at One Rate Only. GEORGE BARKLEY. 655 GRATIOT AVE., Detroit, Mich., write. janl SALESMEN WANTED 7e wee. CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 250 Qe WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. ft igure Total ef Words at One Rate Only, Salesmen — New Invention beats vacuum sweeper and all its attach- ments. No electricity required. All complete, only $2.95. Over half profit. Wrife 0. P MORGAN, Manager, 703 Grimes St., Fairfleld. Ia. jan2¢ SCENERY AND BANNERS Ge WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25c. Se WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure Total ef Words at One Rate Only. ARTISTIC MODERN SCENERY, DYE DROPS, Banners, at greatly reduced prices if you or- der now. Send dimensious for prices and cata logues. ENKEBOLL SCENIC CO., Omaha, Neb Jani5 CLOTH BANNERS—$1.40, 3x10 FEET, 3 COl- ors, any copy up to 10 words; one-day serv- fice; sent anywhere; also Bargain Paper Ban- ners. ASSOCIATED ADVERTISERS, 111 W 18th St., Kansas City, Mo. janl USED “SCENERY BARGAINS. KINGSLEY STUDIO, Alton, Il. jan& 2ND-HAND SHOW PROPERTY FOR SALE @e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25¢. 6e WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure 7 Total ef Words at One Rate Only. For Sale— Water Show and Miniature Citr. complete in every detail. Exceptionally well built. with very elaborate fronts, and wired for eight hundred and four hundred electric lights respectively. Used only one season. Price cheap for quick sale. Address W. G. WADE SHOWS, 289 Elmhurst Ave., Detroit, Mich. janl CAROUSSELLS AND BAND ORGANS — PA- cifie Coast agent Spillman Engineering Cor- poration. Park and Portable Caroussells, 44- foot 3-abreast Park Model, in excellent condi- tion. Several good buys in Band Organs, Ad- dress ROSS R. DAVIS, Lincoln Park, Los An- geles, Calif. janl FOR SALE—BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY RIDE at a big bargain, or will trade for portable Merry-Go-Round. Address HAROLP BARLOW, Box 16, Granite City, MI. jan8 FOR SALE, THE FOLLOWING SHOW PROP- erty, stored near Minneapolis, consisting of the following—Eleven Trucks, six Fords, three Reos, one panel-body Dodge, one International Truck with swell office body on same, nice folding bed, office fixtures and lockers, lots of Toom. All trucks have practically new rubber on them One complete Cookhouse with tent, size fourteen by twenty-four top, in good con- dition; eight-foot wall. One Rig Top with one thirty-five-foot middle piece, (en-foot wall, good for a couple of seasons, including all ropes, blocks. falls and bale rings. One Side-Show Top, size twenty by thirty, seven-foot wall, top in excellent condition; seven banners, donble deck, new, all ropes, pull-up ropes, guys, com- lete with poles, ready to set up. One Sleep- ing Tent for workingmen, fine condition. One 2 K.W. Delco Light Plant, complete with cable, globes, ete. Eight Lengths of Blues, go0d paint. Four Lengths of Flip Back Re- serves, good paint, inelnding netting. One Marquee, size ten by fifteen, fine condition. And a lot of other stuff that goes to make up a first-class circus. Everything has good paint, all ready for the road. This is no junk. Will sell complete, ready for the road. Might con- sider a Partner that {!s a showman. Address SHOWMAN, Apt. 114, 1400 Yale Place, Min- neapolis, Minn. FOR SALE—MATTHEWS 10 K.W. PORTABLE Light Plant, used only 3 months, good as new, suitable for a a irge show or circus, $1,490; cost me $1.87 new. Must be cash. Address C. H. VOLLMAR, Haskins, 0. SCENERY a A SACRIFICE: TWO | BEAUTI- ful Sateen celoramas, made for a rental one old rose eolor wit decorative design in silver, with one border. The entire Crclorama is mottled in silver; will take any color light and look like a different set under each light. Price, $185, Also a black with silver meta- line cloth trimming with beautiful design nbove, Also border for above, Price, $200.00 Both absolutely fireproof. Fax setting is worth about double the above prices, Terms: Deposit with order, balance CC. 0, D., ee to exam- ination. If not satisfactory you turn them and your deposit will be refund 4 afte r deduct- ing express charges. THE SHEPPARD STU- DIO, 468 East 31st St., Chicago, Il. Estab lished 26 years. jan 4 ‘LIGHTS, HOLLOW WIRE. LITTLE WON- der: cost $125.00, good aw new, $40.00, One Ring M 200d condition. $50 te Wr nt, 12x12, water pre ot. $20.00. 4 Dog and Pony Banr 8x10, $104 6 Red Uniform Coats, $25 tiding Froots, new, cost $28.00, $10.00 Elec tric Lights, Bulbs, Wire and Sockets, all sizes, from 25 to 1,000 voltage; new. HENRY HARISON, 514 & St., Grand Rapids, Mich. RARE SIDE SHOW ILLUSION — IF YOU want an unusual Illusion at a bargain write ALI HASSAN, Marietta, O ere — DON'T BUY TILL YOU our list. All guaranteed machines, REDINGTONS, Scranton, Pa. jan22 SONGS FOR SALE 5e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25¢. 7e WORD, CASH. ATTRACT.VE FIRST LINE. Figure Total of Words at One Rate Only. COMPOSERS—WILL BUY OR PLACE BLUES, Stomps, Hot Tunes. CHARLES KOUTNEY, 2729 S. Springfield Ave . Chicago, jan1 HOKUM SONGS — FREE LIST. WRITE JOLLY BERT STEVENS, fTillboard, Cincin- nati, O, janl JUST ISSUED! — “MY MOTHER", FINEST ballad of the age; beautiful to appealing music; sent by mail upon receipt of thirty cents. Write INDEPENDENT MUSIC COMPANY, 653 Old South Building, Boston, Mass. jani5 sentiment set WANTED PARTNER (CAPITAL INVESTED) 6e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 250. Se WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure Tetal ef Words at One Rate Only. PARTNER WITH SMALL TWO-ABREAST Merry-Go-Round. Have location at Beach for summer. BOX C-98, Billboard, Cincinnati, WANTED TO BUY, LEASE OR RENT Se WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25¢. * WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure Tetal ef Words at One Rate Only. SONG OF THE OLD- TIME DANCE — VERY catchy; good swin In sheet music or or- chestrations. BIL LY PATIENEES, 174 Maple St., Springfield, Mass. TATTOOING SUPPLIES (Designs, oy ——— 6e WORD, CASH. NO AD ESS THAN 25°. 8e WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure Total of Were at One Rate Only. Custer Cars Wanted — Good lowest price. LOVEN- New York City Wanted — Mills or Jenning's Mint Venders, paying $35 to $50. Address LEO MILLIS, 1518 First, Dallas, Tex. jan29 Wanted To Buy—Whip. Tell all first letter. BOX K, Billboard, Kansas City, Mo jan8 set second-hand cars; DALE, 1400 Sth Avenue, ELECTRICAL COMBINATION MACHINES. patented, cheapest. WAGNER, 11 Chatham Sq., New York City. Jans TATTOOING | SUPPLIES DIRECT “FROM MAN- ufacturer Ir mypt service 1927 list. “WATERS”, 965 Putnam St., Detroit. febsS (SECOND-HAND) NO ADV. LESS THAN 25c. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure Total o Words at One Rate Only. $8. 50—NEW HEAVY KHAKI WATERPROOF Government Canvas Covers, 9x15 feet hemmed with rope. worth $25.00; also other size Covers and Tents. Write for our free new list of Tents and Tarpaulins, We ship merchandise anywhere. WEIL'’S CURIOSITY SHOP, 20 South Second St., Philadelphia, Pa. THEATRICAL PRINTING 6e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LE THAN 250. 8e WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE Se iRST LINE. Figure Total ef Words at One Rate Only. Colored Bond Letterheads— Regd ae of blue, green, pink, canary or Letterheads, 200. printed, $1. PRINCRAFTERS. 1390 Temple. cert, = —S Curtiss, ¢ Continental, Ohio. feb19 500 Business Cards, 98c. Don’t buy Printing until and samples. HANZER, 1039 S. Cleveland Ave., Philadelphia. $1.00 Combinations. Send for our low price list. COYLE AND KIMBALL, Newport, N. Y. jani5 yon get my prices BUSINESS STATIONERY INCREASES YOUR me a i buying power—150 Bond Letter- eads nn Envelopes printed, $1.50. LERMAN SALES COMPANY, Box 249, Duluth, Inn PRINT YOUR OWN CARDS, STATIONERY, Circulars, Paper, ete Complete outfits, $8.85; Job Presses, $11, $29; Rotary, $149. Wanted To Buy—Small Mon- a? Speedway. BERT WOODS, Ft. Branch, nd Wanted — 5c and 5c Mills Mint Venders; A-1 condition N. GORO. WITZ, 28 Barrett St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Wanted — Merry-Go-Round, no track. Address NEEDILS. care Box 225, Williamsburg, 0. ARCADE MACHINES OF AIL KINDS — CHARLES BARON, 125 E. Fourth, New York, N. Y. jani5 I WANT YOUR OLD WATCH THAT WON'T tun for junk price, or say how much. F. M. ARNOLD, P. 0. Box 375, Troy, N. Y. LOCATION WANTED FOR PENNY ARCADE. LOUIS RABKIN, 926 East 180th St., New York City. janl MERRY.GO-ROUND AND FERRIS WHEEL IN good condition, for cash. JACOB BLOTNER, Chelmsford St., Methuen, Mass. MILLS, JENNINGS, WATLING OR CAILLES Mint Venders wanted. Latest patterns; offly Send illustrations and _ state . B. New York. BETTI, 115 New York City. ja8 PUSH POLE TENT, 40x60 OR 40x80. MUST be good condition. Must be cheap. WALTER DE HOMAN, 938 Penn St., Reading, Pa. RED BAND COATS, What have you? Halsted, Chicago. WANTED — TENTS, chines, Corn Poppers, line. JAMES ROSETTER, 5 or 25-cent. lowest price F. O Waverly Place, RED BAND CAPS. WALLACE, 1834 North CANDY FLOSS MA- anything in carrival Albany, O. jan22 ‘WANT 60x90 BAIL RING TENT—MUST BE good and the price right. Address TERRY OWENS, Box 624, Lacona, Ia. WANTED — ALL KINDS, VENDING AND Amusement Machines ARRY SOADY. 44 S. Summit St., Akron, 0. jan22 Print for others; bi wrofit. All easy, le sent, Write for enteter presses, con. nee “1 = hd LEASE—A MERRY. Go-ROUND te. KE F : : 0 months from ay 1, 1927 l ‘y ce LSEY COMPANY, F-49, Meriden. operator. Address BOX 93,’ Crumpton, Md oe ae jan8 ‘“NEARGRAVURE” PROFESS NAL ata. are. Ganere, dieinetien. “colons io) AL. EA: | WANTED TO BUY—3 TARGET PRACTICE, 3 terheads, Envelopes. Cards $4.44; 2 colors ink, | Gatter Bowling Allevs. Must have gum ball $7.71, prepaid. SOLLIDAYS, Knox. Ind. SS a a jani5x | Reservoir St., Trenton, N YOU'LL BE SURPRISED AT OUR CLASSY |ARCADE MACHINES. ALL KINDS. BEST Twotolor Letterheads, $2.95 for 500; $4.95] cash prices paid. LOUIS RABKIN, 926 Fast for 1,000. Envelopes same. One color, $1.95- | 80th St.. New York City. janl $3.95. BEARD PRINTING CO., 1360 E. 624, SaNGs maaan aaa Chicago. janl 200 ENVELOPES, $1.00; 500 BOND HALF Letterheads, $1.00; 1.000 flashy 4x9 To- nighters, $6.50; ny prepaid. KING PRINTERS, Warren, vil. 200 81x11 PRINTED BOND LETTERHEADS, Envelopes or Cards, $1.00: 100 Two (+ $2.95. MAILPRESS, i744 12th, Detroit ren 250 BOND LETTERHEADS, S'sxll. OR EN- veloy vs, $1.00, ost paid vod printing, prot mpt service 'BEYERLE. Aurora, Ill. feb12 500 THREE-LINE. GUMMED | LABELS, THREE | aa... dimes; 0 Business Cards, $1.25. WEST MOORE, Martinsville, Ind janl 1,000 3x8 TONIGHTERS, ~ $1, 00; 5, 000, $3 25; i) Letterheads or Envelopes, $2.25. HOP KINS PRESS, | What Cheer, Iowa. jar °9 5 000 20- LB. . BOND, LETTERHEADS, $13.75; ller quantities in BADGER. "PRINTING co., propor' ion. Appleton, Wis. marl9 TYPEWRITERS FOR SALE Se WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS T N Ze. 7e WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE rinet LINE. Figure Total of Words at One Rate Only. RE MINGTON NO. 7 FOR SALE CHEAP, $5.00 eash and $5.00 C. O. D, CALDWELL, 41 Kenwood, Brookline, Mass, Jani | MOVING PICTURE | FILMS FOR SALE—2D-HAND 7e WORD, CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25¢. Se WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure Tetal ef Werds at One Rate Only. Attention! Film Men! Atten. tion’ “) Features never before on the mar- ket. Westerns, Dramas, Action, Specials. Advertiking free with each subject. All shipments allowed examination. Lists and prices will amaze yon Wire or write for lists at once., FEATURE FILM DISTRIBUTORS, Ir ing D. Hirsch, Manager, 44 Church 8t., Boston, Mass. Comedies and Comedies, Westerns, Weeklies and Sensationals, $2.00 to $5.00 per reel Will ship subject te examination Send for bargain list. MAHI" "AN, Box 222, Union City, N. J. jant ACTION ‘WESTERNS — BIG STARS, FINE condition, $3.00 reel up. Advertising gratis, Shipped subject examination, Lists, STAR FILM C@., Allentown, Pa, Jani BEN TURPIN, ETC., FALES, Gibsonton, Fla. COMEDIES, FEATURES, WESTERNS, Fre Send for our bargain price list of Film MOVIE SUPPLY CO., 844 So. Wabash, ©) cago. jon) BANKRUPT STOCK — STAMP FOR LISTs Prices dirt cheap. BOX 5836, Westy Station, Kansas City, Mo. jans BARGAINS IN PICTURES AND REBUT T Machines, Independent Pictures. 601 MUN FORD COURT, Kansas City, Mo. jar $5 — WRITE fo FEATURE BARGAIN—SEND §2.50, WILL Cc. O. D. 5 Reeler, $5.00; allow examinati.. CAPITAL BOOKING OFFICE, Lincoln, Net INFORMATION WANTED CONCERNING THF whereabouts of the following road-show men R. M. Owens, J. Rossiter, Messrs. Tucker & fimz, formerly operating thru the South and Southwest. Address BOX 5836, Westport s:» tion, Kansas City, Mo. jues 2ND-HAND M. P. ACCESSOR- IES FOR SALE ve wees. CASH. NO ADV. LESS THAN 25 Se wo CASH. ATTRACTIVE aig LINE. oat Total of Werds at One Rate Only. Cosmograph Machine 32 Volt, and 60 reels of Film, $125. R. M. FOWLER, Plumerville, Ark BLISS LIGHT, BURNER, FINE EXHIBITION Edison Machine Quick Detachable Takenp, Gunlach Lenses, Oxygen c ‘onnection, all $15.00 LAMBERT FILMS, Brane Ark. COMPLETE MOVING PICTURE OUTFIT— Camera, Tripod, four Developing Tanks Chemicals, Drying Rack, VProject@®, Mazdas Equipment, Are, Calcium Outfit, Screen, two five-reel Features, one Comedy. All for S50) One-third down, balance C. O. D. COSMOPO LITE CINEMA CO., Box 362, Beaverton, Or MOTIOGRAPH. $50; POWER’'S 5 “MAZDA” $50; Movie Camera, $50; Suit Case Projector. $125 (slightly used, cost $250); Halberg, £20 800 Highest Class Folding Chai rs, $1); Guo Iron Frame Opera, $1.50. BERT WETMORE, 11 Winchester St., Boston, Mass. MOVING PICTURE MACHINES, SCREENS. Portable Projectors, Stereopticons, Spot Lights, Booths, Opera Chairs and everrthing required for movies. MOVIE SUPPLY 7. S44 South Wabash Ave... Chicago, IN. ja MOVING PICTURE MACHINES, SCREENS, Opera Chairs, Fireproof Rooths, Film Cab: nets and complete Moving Picture On‘ fits Write for catalog. MOVIE SUPPLY CO., 8:4 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, II jan! PICTURE MACHINES, $10.00 UP. MACHINFS oe ee. Stamp. F. L. SMITH, Amsterdam, PORTABLE SUITCASE TYPE MOVING PIC ture Machine and 10 reels of New York Stat: Censored Film for $100.00, Picture Machine like new and a bargain. MERTON CRAIG. Box 172, Montgomery Center, Vt. WANTED TO BUY M. P. ACCESSORIES—FILMS Se WORD, CASH. WO ADV. LESS THAN 25. 7e WORD, CASH. ATTRACTIVE FIRST LINE. Figure Tetal ef Words at One Rate Only. WANTED — SCOTT & VAN ALTENA SONG Slides. BOWSER, Forest City, 1 janl WE PAY BIGGEST “PRICES FOR USED MOV- ing Picture Machines, Opera (Chairs, et What have yon for sale? MOVIE SUPPLY CO., 844 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill jan! The Forum (Continued from page 51) Ringens and all kinds of other free at- tractions which space won't permit me to mention. Tawe any of the above five acts and put them together and you have a pro fram that will do justice to any fai: association program, bar none. It would be a. difficult matter for me to pick the outstanding star among this abov: list of performers. In my mind they a!! are stars in their particular line of work, not overlooking the many others who 1 have failed to mention here. I had occasion to meet several foreign acts last summer and their cry was: “ for the old country again as soon as | contract expires.” Well, in a way, ! don't blame them when their contrac! call for 16 weeks’ work and they worked only four weeks and got paid for jus! four. However, understand me correctly ! do not want to criticize the bookin agents, as I have found thru my con tact with them that they are gentlemen of the first water and aim to cater to the wants of our fair managers to the best of their ability. Furthermore, I wis! to state that I'm not in the performing racket, as my performing days ceased « good many years ago thru an accident, but IT handle a good many acts off and on. So that's the reason I ask “Why £° abroad for acts when we have good goods right here in our own land?" U. 8. A. FAN. ! ~ 7 é { : { 4 | a ee ee eee ; b ae ee ee | sid | a | a group = - | — — a Metr Sl a. ee one = E “| re com ; — — | . and } Mr ‘ , last | n t me a = | = ee | a : and | TI duci enn etal of ce | holid PY | LE ss : - ee | the ee theat ee - — ae — — orga) es | 5 | pra . | | = | | : | — - er ae to p ee md on 1 ; SS — Whi ee t -|— — | of t! of a i_ — S seve) = M Ne : sung | re Klen rr - | rout i— | Blue ; j and tast! Mar’ i - is oF | - anne sem) Leor : : dan : pres title |= ber | i | in h | : Fi | —E— ee : ee : 7 ‘ Kiri 4 - is } a all mn) a . Tat) : Mis has , ee | Poly | j } \ } : | Skit any | mm 2 w) j and tn 7 Wa: : | end | | : but 4 \e :

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Reviews of Programs (Continued from page 37) of the holiday season, In a Toy vas presented by Phil Spitalny and B Other stage features were Chris- \iorson, Joe Termini, playing a re- ‘ ' cement, and Bob Stickney and \ Robyn, held over for another week. ‘ARLES HEDLEY, principat tenor p Rochester Opera Company, is a ¢asnved soloist this week at the East- Theater, of Rochester, singing a group of popular songs. EDWARD NELL, JR., Indianapolis, eon of Mr. Nell, voice instructor at the Metropolitan School of Music, has been , i to New York to take the leading ¥ n The Vagabond King, with the ; iny now playing in Hartford, Conn., and olne to Philadelphia next week. Mr. N has been studying the role with ‘hieago company, where he appeared fall. He has been placed under a -year contract. the ¢ CLARKE B. FELGAR has been re- engaged for the role of the “toymaker” Christmas production, The Toy in the Shop, the Newman Theater, Kansas City Publix house, is presenting for Christ- mas week, opening December 25. The season Mr. Felgar was assistant ger for the Walter Savidge Amuse- t Company. Kansas City is his home he and his wife and family are there and or the winter. THOMAS SACCO, who does the pro- ducing at Ascher’s Commercial, Chicago, as well as filling the position of master of ceremonies, has arranged a pretentious holiday program. LEO TERRY, who spent four years at the organs of Chicago moving picture theaters and who has been playing on the Great Lakes, Inc., Circuit. is now organist at the New Varsity Theater in Evanston. It opened December 23 and 500-seat house. is a 2, Presentation and Music Notes (Continued from page 37) pressive, bug then, too, she is called upon to play a part unbecoming to her. Sid- ney Olcott directed. He has done better on many occasions. Subtitles for The White Black Sheep pass muster. The Mark Strand Frolic in support of the screen fare runs to entertainment a hichly diverting character, served in several inviting courses and in the at- mosphere of tasteful settings. Pauline Miller opens with The Waltz of Long Ago, sing admirably, and is followed by Mlle. Klemova and Nikolas Daks, supported by the theater’s ballet corps, in a _ nicely- routined number to the music of The Blue Danube. Estelle Carey, soprano, and Charles Massinger, counter in a fan- tastic bungalow setting, assisted by the Mark-Strand Male Quartet. This scene is one of the best in the Frolic. The Ten Original London Palace Girls appear in a cleverly executed tap en- semble dance, and Feon Van Mar and Leonard Workman, assisted by these dancers and the ballet corps, bring the Presentation to a close in a number en- titled Clor } wn ning. The ballet corps appear in cle costumes that would make it appear they are walking on their hands. iss Van Mar offers a high-kicking num- ber. She makes a highly pleasing ap- pearar and combines grace with ability in her work. Hippodrome Film: “Butterflies in the Rain” (Universal) Laura La Plante and James vood vehicle, Butterflies in the from the novel by Andrew Soutar, Is t 1 on the consoling thought that elitters In print is not gold. As who married for conventional than for sentimental reasons, La Plante finds the publication she has been reading, The Broadminded Age, Points a way that is not all beer and skitt She becomes involved in what apy to be an ignomintous scandal, leopordizing the loss of her husband, Whor he suddenly begins to cherish, and then ke a flash realizes The Broad- mi | Age in spite of its protagonists Was mply the bunk. Another happy endine results Th picture starts out unpromisingly. but gothers interesting momentum about the middle and proceeds to its saccharine finish in a more than diverting manner. As a program picture it measures up to the average, perhaps a shade above, and will hold its own in practically any theater. It is almost entirely lacking in comedy, however. Characterizations are drawn with care, and the direction by Edward Sloman is good on the whole. Photography passes muster, as does continuity, but the titles proved somewhat mediocre in spots. Paramount Film: ‘“The Popular Sin” (Paramount) A sophisticated, subtle farce reminis- cent of Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle and dealing with the ups and downs of connubial relations, The Popular Sin will delight the so-called upper intelligentsia in the larger towns, but doubtless go somewhat unappreciated in the smaller, less modernistic communities, tho the picture has meat to feed the most moron movie fans. Malcolm St. Clair, whose subtlety of direction, placing him in the Lubitsch class, has been clearly demon- strated in several of his recent produc- tions, is the director. He handles nis story and his characters with a charming ease and accepts every opportunity for an artistic touch. St. Clair is anything but commonplace in his directorial ef- forts, proving that a good man behind the megaphone can do a lot with a poor story. The Popular Sin is not an ordinary story, however. It was written by the M.-G.-M. director, Monta Bell, and is beautifully patterned for the screen. Adapted for the stage, it might make a rich, toothsome farce. Its plot concerns, in a modern way, the platitude of marrye- ing in haste and repenting at leisure. Florence Vidor and Clive Brook in- terpret with finesse the leading roles and are supported by Greta Nissen, Philip Strange, Andre Beranger and Iris Gray. Thruout the acting is superb. The picture should be booked without fail and as heavily exploited as possible. First-day viewers will help advertise it a lot. The Paramount's presentation program features John Murray Anderson's revue, Victor Herbert Melodies, embracing por- tions of well-known Herbert operettas. The presentation is lavishly and beauti- fully staged, radiating in colorful scenery and costumes. As in most Anderson units, no expense in this direction has been spared. A special prolog written by Frederick Truesdale and spoken by Eunice Harper precedes the first scene, in which Robert C. Cloy sings Eileen from Act II of the Herbert operetta of the same name. With Dorothy South he appears in Thine Alone from the same work, and Isabelle Gra- ham and dancing supernumeraries, in- cluding Mary Downs, Helen Parker, Mary Parker and Madeline Cane, top witth a nicely executed dance number. Scene II concerns selections from Mlle. Modiste and closes with a dancing trio—Norma Maxam, Dorothy Proudlock and Delza Davies—in a particularly fetching rou- tine that drew a good hand when re- viewed. Selections from Natoma and Pan Americana feature the final scene, with Eunice Harper rendering nicely Invoca- tion from the former and Norma Maxam and others offering a dance to music from the latter. Jacques Cartier, well- known dancer, offers an Indian number of merit as the presentation draws to its close, accompanied by a scenic delight representing a crystal waterfall. Hans Hanke, concert pianist, appeared earlier in the program as an added at- traction, offering a brace of selections. He has a touch as light as a feather, is master of his instrument at all times and makes an impressive appearance. Jesse Crawford proved as big a hit as anyone or anything an the bill in a special organ arrangement entitled Ain't It a Grond and Glorious Feeling? Sure is a wiz’, this Crawford. Hippodrome Film: “Corporal Kate” (P. De c.) Vera Reynolds’ latest starring vehicle, as a trade proposition, is an unquestion- able flop; its sponsors could do nothing more humane than discard it. We've had enough World War pictures since The Big Parade made its appearance. The photography its inferior, the direc- tion lacks that free and easy quality The Billboard, January 1, 1927 that has saved many another picture from the abyss toward which this prod- uct is surely bound. The film is replete with comedy relief, but it is the sort of comedy that evokes scarcely more than a tolerant smile at its best. The char- acters are artificial and the plot is not blessed with even a smattering of sus- pense. If Pau! Sloane made a poor job of it the players are not to be regarded as artists led astray by poor direction. It's an even break—mediocre direction allied with indifferent characterization. As a manicurist, Miss Reynolds hears the call of duty and enlists with a col- league, a fictionized type of Jewish girl. in the Red Cross soldiers’ entertainment corps. She meets a society chap in a French village in the line of fire. The girls find life hard in their new habitat, a stable in peaceful days. The wealthy young fellow is hounded by a woman of his set, but, hearkening to the call of his heart, pledges his troth to Corporal Kate, as the manicurist is known. The society woman’s second fiddle is killed in an air crash, and the Jewish girl also meets her death. Other bits of tragedy are limned, but the situations are not in- ducive to any appreciable depth of feel- ing; their sequence is so arranged as to make them stand out as inconsistent with the remainder of hodge-podge com- edy action. Corporal Kate might draw by its name power the first day, but nothing of the spectacular should be expected in box- office receipts after the folks have had a chance to tell their friends about it. Julia Faye is seen as the artificial Jewish girl, Kenneth Thomson shows a faint breath of life as the society chap turned buck private and Major Coleman is the other representative of the “400". The film was adapted from the story by Zelda Sears and Marion Orth. The DeMille Pictures Corporation shares the sponsoring burden with P. D. Cc. E. EB 8. Capitol Film: “Summer Bachelors’ (Fox) From the story by Warner Fabian dealing with the vicissitudes of lonely days during the summer for men whose wives have gone vacationing—men of the telephone number brigade—Allan Dwan has shaped an exciting, comical, fast- moving farce, not without its love ele- ment. The romance centers around Tony Landor, a real bachelor, and Derry Thomas, whose apartment afforded a pleasing rendezvous for the summer bachelors, where potent drinks might be mixed with freadom and zest. Against the backeround of the Fabian story, PDwan had ample opportunity and seized it on every occasion for scenes of near Bacchanalian flavor in cafes, mountain resorts, motor boats, roof apartments and the like. In these “shots” he injected the majority of the comedy in the film. As the bachelors for the summer only, Matt Moore, Hale Hamilton, Charles Winninger and Walter Catlett fit their roles snugly. Madge Bellamy plays the leading female role and Allan Forrest the part of Landor. A notable feature of the picture is its fine cast and the free, unstrained, always natugal interpretation of the various roles. General handling, photography and subtitles are entirely satisfactory. Celia Turrill, Capitol standby, in Voices of the Woods,a transcription from Melody in F, by Rubinstein, with a pantomime by Joyce Coles and John Triesault that occasionally overshadows the vocal efforts of Miss Turrill; Pietro Capodiferro, first trumpeter of the Capitol Orchestra, in a brace of selections, rendered with his cus- tomary excellence, and a dance extrava- ganza, entitled Caprice D’Harlequin, comprise the presentation features. The dance number, with Miss Coles and the Capitol and Chester Hale Girls support- ing, proved tasteful entertainment. The Chester Hale Girls took the honors in a “gallop”. They dance with such pre- cision as to remind one of finished cadets at drill. Miss Coles offered a “dance of Columbine”, and the Capitol Ballet Corps a number entitled Caprice. Central Film: “The Fire Brigade” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) All the ingredients of pictures featuring fires have gone into the making of The Fire Brigad¢, starring Charles Ray and 59 May McAvoy. These include the heroism of fire fighters, spectacular conflagrations, rescues against odds, corrupt politicians, and a pleasing romance between a fire- man.and a millionaire’s daughter. Agai.: Ray is the half bucolic, shy lad of O74 Swimmin’ Hole days. Without him iu spite of the good direction and actio: it is doubtful what the picture mich ' owe have been. fully. A notable feature of The Fire Brigc is its sudden ending. When reviewe Patrons were heard to remark that it seemed short, which it does. It is as long as the average program film, however. William Nigh directed from a story by Kate Corbaley, adapted for the screen by Robert Lee. A number of the scenes are beautifully colored and in those of the big fire add not a little to the realism. Paris (Continued from page 38) gone on strike for higher wages, obliging the managements to postpone openings of the winter season. Mme. Georgette He carries it along bea: Leblanc has been forced to postpone her recital, From Bach to Jazz, on account of a severe attack of the grippe. Mile. Spinnelly will soon appear at the Edouard VII in a new play entitled Knock-Out, Gaby Montbreuse, the Oeil de Paris, America. Loie Fuller’s ballet will be the attrac- tion at the Gaumont Palace during the run of Buster Keaton’s Go West, Robert Quinalt, the French dancer who recently returned from New York, has accepted an engagement in Finland. Ruth Thompson, prima donna, of Omaha, recently made her operatic debut in Rome. Power's elephant comedians will ap- pear on the next bill at the Empire Music Hall, Michael Arlen, the American play- wright, is in Paris on a vacation. Marion Gould, the American dancer, is appearing at the Olympia Music Hai) Shirley Kellogg, the English artist. was judge of the dance competition «? the ball of the Paris Branch of the British Legion. who is singing at will soon leave for PARIS, Dec. 14.—One of the outstand- ing individual successes of the year has been the bronze American dancer, Jo- sephine Baker. Not only has she held an uninterrupted engagement at the Folies Bergere for_more than a year, but she has appeared at practically every big benefit given in Paris. The remarkable part of her success is that it seems to be with the Parisians rather than with the visiting foreigners, and proof of this is that no less than three French authors have collaborated with her on French books, The Black Cyclone, which has already appeared, and now her Memotres, which will soon be off the press. Be- sides dancing at the Folies Bergere Miss Baker directs two night clubs in Montmartre, Josephine Baker's Imperial on the Rue Pigalle and Chez Josephine Baker, which opens tonight at the for- mer Milonga on Rue Fontaine. Gilbert Miller, New York theater man- ager, has arrived in Paris from London and is studying the new plays on the Paris stage. Easter Vacations, now play- ing at the Theater Michel, has already been acquired and two other plays, Lawyer Bolbec and Her Husband and Bon Garcon (Good Boy), are under consideration. Mrs. Richard Harding Davis, better known as Bessie McCoy, the “Yams Yama Girl”, is wintering on the Rivie: with her daughter, Hope. Miss McCoy preparing a new dance number fo: return to the stage next year. The Theater du Vaudeville, which |! been demolished to make way for big new Paramount movie house 0! Grands Boulevards, wil! be replaced )) new and bigger Vaudeville to be b on the Place de la Madeleine The Moulin Rouge is closed until n week, when the winter revue, This Paris, with Mistinguette and Earl Lesii assisted by a host of well-known artistes, will have its opening Fay Harco and her partner, Nicolas will appear with Billy Arnold's Band at the Restaurant des Ambassa- deurs at Cannes next week. Neil Martin, former “juvenile”, is now in Paris looking up antiques—that eing his line at present. “ Al Brick, Paris editor of Fox Films, has left for New York to act as camera- man in the filming of Seventh Heaven. urt qa== TE te } = fia Der etm

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Bloom & Sher (Poli) Bridgeport, Conn Boardman & Rowland Bond & Leon (Premier) (Bway.) Phi Brooklyn ladelphia Bonhair Troupe (Pan.) Bellingham, Wa-h.; (Pan.) Tacoma 3-8. Bonita, Ruiz, Orch. (Franklin) New York. Booth & Nina (Electric) Kansas City, Kan. Bordner & Boyer N. J (Lyon’s Park) Morristown, ‘immy, Co. (Maj.) Milwaukee & Wallin (Lyceum) Canton, O ydell, Jean (Riviera) Chicago. B & Della (Albee) Providence, R. I. Bracks, Five (Colonial) Erie, Pa Bradnas, Four (7th St.) Minneapolis. Bragdon & Morrisey (LaSalle Garden) Detroit. Braidwood, Frank Gms Salt Lake City; (Orph.) Ogden 3-8 The Billboard, January 1, . 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Dunninger (Keith) Cincinnati. Duval & Symonds (Englewood) Chicago. Earl, Maude (Empire) Lawrence, Mass East & Dumke (Orph.) Los Angeles. Eddy, Marion (National) New York. Ederle, Gertrude (Pan.) San Diego, (Pan.) Long Beach 3-8. Edler, Grace, Co. (Keith) Columbus, 0 Edwards & Dean (Pal.) New Haven, Conn Edwares & Morris (Nixon) Philadelphia Calif.; Edmunds & Fanchon (Pal.) Pittsfield, Mass, Egan. B., & Co. (Farle) Washiggton El Cleve, Elmer (Keith) Philadelphia Eleota & Byrne (Miles) Detroit Flida Ballet (Maj.) Cedar Rapids, Ia Eline, Grace, Co. (Pal.) Hartford, Conn Ellen, mesa, & Dancing Class (State) New- ark, > Teathe, Co. (Lincoln 8q.) New York. Elliott & LaTour (Proctor) Albany, N. \ Elly (State) New York Elwards, Julia (Pan.) Kansas City Emmy, Carl, & Vets (Keith) Philadelp)j Empire Comedy 4 (Poli) Scranton, Pa Ernie, Ed & May (Electric) Kansas ¢ ty, Kan Errol, Bert (Davis) Pittsburgh. : Ervel & Del (Maj.) Little Rock, Ark. Evans Junior Ripples (Pan.) Bellingham Wash.; (l’an.) Tacoma 3-8, a Exposition Four (Binghamton) Binghamton N. Y. , F Faber & Wales (Pan.) Long Beath, Calis: (Pan.) Salt Lake City 3-8. . Falls, Archie & Gertie (Roanoke) Roanok - wi Fargo & Richards (American) Denver; (World) Omaha 38-8 Farnum, Franklyn, Co. (National) New York, Farrell, Billy, Co. (Rajah) Reading, Pa, Faulkner, Lillian (Maj.) San Antonio, Tex Fay, Frank (Keith) Boston, Feeley, Mildred (Bedford) Brooklyn. Fehl, Walter, Co. (Orph.) St. Louis. Fenton & Fields (Tilyou) Coney Island, N. y, Fenwick Girls (Temple) Birmingham, Al». Ferry (Orph.) Denver. Fields & Gould (Capitol) Windsor, Can Final Rehearsal (Proctor) Albany, N. Y Finney, Frank, Oo. (Garrick) Norristown, |',, First Nighters (Vivian) Daytona, Fila. Fisher & Gilmore (State-Lake) Chicago. Fisher & Hurst (Pan.) Butte, Mont.; (i’an,) Spokane 3-8. Fitch, Dan, Minstrels (Pal.) New Orleans Fitziu, Anna (Orph.) Los Angeles. B) New York (Poli) Scranton, I’. Fitzsimmons & Flory (Ave. Flashes of Yesterday Flashes, Four (Pal.) Waterbury, Conn. Flirtations (Pal.) Cincinnati. Florenz Duo (Keith) Lowell, Mass. Fong, Jue (Keith) Indianapolis. Ford & Cunningham (Temple) Detroit. Ford & Price (Bay Ridge) Brooklyn. Forest Festival (Grand) Clarksburg, W. Va. Foster & Peggy (Franklin) New York. foster & Seamon (Strand) Ithaca, N. Y. Four of Us (Keith) Philadelphia. Foy, Eddie, Co. (Earle) Philadelphia. Foys, Four (State-Lake) Chicago. Frakson (Flatbush) Brooklyn. Francis & Wally (Roanoke) Roanoke, Francis & Hume (Pal.) Hartford, Conn. Franklyn & Royce (Rialto) Louisville, Ky Freda & Palace (Keith) } Washington. Freed, Carl, & Orch. (Maj.) Springfield, 111, Freed, Joe, Co. (Pal.) Peoria, II. Fridkin & Rhoda (Emery) Providence, Friganza, Trixie (Pal.) Milwaukee. " Friscoe, Signor (Capitol) Hartford, Conn Friseh & Sadler (Hillside) Jamaica, N. Y Frish, Rector & Weber (New Square) Ottum wa, Ia., 2-5; (Tlinois) Macomb, Ill., 67 Frolic Four (Pan.) Bellingham, Wash.; (lan) Tacoma 3-8 Frost & Morrison (Bay Ridge) Brooklyn. Va. R. I. Fulgora, Robert (Bijou) Savannah, Ga. Fulton ‘& Parker Revue (Greeley Sq.) New York Furtell's Lions (Pal.) New Haven, Conn, 30 Jan. 1; (Pal.) Springfield, Mass., 3-5. G Galeanos, Les (Jefferson) New York. Gallarini & Sister (Orph.) Vancouver, Can.; (Orph.) Seattle 3-8 Garden, G. & L. (Pal.) Pittsfield, "Mass Garden of Melody (Capitol) Shamokin, Pa Gardner, Grant (Orph.) Galesburg, Ill Gardner's Champions (Keith) Union Hill, N. J Gascoignes, Royal (Pan.) Long Beach, Calif, (Pan.) Salt Lake City 3-8 Gastona & Andgree (Keith) Washington Gautier’s Dogs (Slst St.) New York. Gautier & Pony (Boston) Boston Genero Girls (Indiana) Terre Haute, Ind George, Edwin (Alhambra) Milwaukee George, Col. Jack (Proctor) Schenectady, N. Y. Geralds, Musical (7th St.) Minneapolis Gertrude & Boys (Kedzie) Chicago. Gibson & Price (Main St.) Kansas City Gilbert & Avery Revne (State) Memphis Gilbert, Billy, Co. (Grand) Clarksburg, W. Va Gildea, Jimmy, Co. (Pal.) Worcester, Mass Gilfoyle & Carleton (Pan.) Hamilton, Can Ginger Snaps (Pal.) Manchester, N. H Glass, Naomi (Joie) Fort Smith, Ark Glendenning, Ernest, Co. (Keith) Washington Glenn & Jenkins (Pal.) Worcester, Mass Glenn & Hart (Pal.) Waterbury, Conn. Goetz & Duffy (American) New York Gold Medal Four (Pal.) Springfield, Mas Golde, Jerry (Liberty) Kellogg, Id, 28-0 Golden Birds (Bmpire) Lawrence, Mass fiolden’s World of Splendor (Hipp.) New York Goldie, Jack, Revue (Gates) Brooklyn Golfers, Three (Hipp.) Baltimors Gomez & Gomez (Maj.) Johnstown, Pa Good Night Three (Sheridan Sq.) Pittsbargh Goode & Leighton (Manos) Greensburg, Va Gordon & Groff (Flectric) St. Joseph, Mo Gordon, Bert, Co. (Tilron) Coney Island, N. Y Gordon & Healy (Lincoln Hipp.) Chicago Gordon, Manners & Gordon (Pan.) Hamilton, Can Gordon & Day (Lyric) Hoboken, N. J. Gordon Dogs (Maj.) Dallas, Tex Goslar & Lusby (Imperial) Montreal. Gould, Venita (Franklin) New York Granese. Jean (Orph.) New Orleans Gray, Tonie (Sheridan 8q.) Pittsburch.’ Green-Hayward Co. (Englewood) Chicace Green & Lafell (Scollay Sq. Olympia) Los!on Greene, Gene (Grand) Macon, Ga Greenleaf, Ralph, Co. (Keith) Boston. Greenwood School Children (Proctor) N. J Gregg Girla, Newark, Four (Barle) Philadelphia Griffin, Gerald (Laroy) Portsmouth, 6., 1; (Orph.) Huntington, W. Va., 3-5; arkersburg 6-8 Griffin, Joe (Pan.) San Diego, Calif.; Ijng Beach 8-8. ’ Griffith & Young (Orph.) Champaign, I)! (Pan.) Vancouver, Can 30 Jan (Smoot) (Van) Giuiran & Marguerite Gypsy Camp (Hipp.) Baltimore. H Hackett & Delmar (Orph.) Seattle; (vrpb) Portiand 3-8. Haines, Nat C., Co. (American) New York Haines, Mary (Pan.) Los Angeles; (Pan.) 51" Diego 3-8. Hale, Willie, & Bro. (Orph.) San Francisco Hall, Billie Swede (Orph.) Huntington, W. V4 Hall, Al K., Co. (Norva) Norfolk, Va. Hfall-Fasley Co. (Keith) Ottawa, Can. Hlallen, Billy (Colonial) Erie, Pa Hamilton, Dixte (Proctor) Poughkeepsie, N. )- Hlamilton & Hayes (Pal.) 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Green. (Rialto) Louisville, (State) Cleveland (Emery) Providence, (Orph.) Oakland, ick Knacks of 1926 (Vivian) Daytona, Fla. (Indiana) Terre ne -_ (Proctor) Troy, N. ; ¥- (Keith) Dayton, O. in.) “ «Beach (Nuluna) Sharon, ‘ . Florrie (Coliseum) New Yor’. (Bijou) Savannah, ne & Katherine (Grand) ne ng (Robins) Warren, (Maj.) Little Rock, (Keith) Jackson Miss . James, Co. (Victory) Evansville, Ind (Congress) Chicago The Billboard, January 1, Maker & Redford Revue (Rivera) Maakis (Ave. B) New York Mann, Allyn, Ce (Regen') Detroit Ma Jerome (Orph.) Oklahoma Mansfield Perry, Dancers (Vict (Orph.) Lo 8 ya Mareus Sisters & Carlton (Rialto) Marjon Dancers (Pal.) Wilkes-Barre, Marion & Ford (State-Lake) Chicago. Marjah (Pan.) Los Angeles; (Pan.) 8 3-8. Marks, Joe, Co. (State-Lake) Chicago. Marks & Ethel (Melba) Brooklyn. Marlow, Marie (State) Newark, N. oy a & LaCosta Revue Con Marshall & LaRue (Liberty) Lincoln, Neb., 30- 3-5 Jan. 1; Cedar Rapids, Ia., Marshall & LaRue (Liberty) Linc Martin & Martin (Franklin Park) Mass., 30-Jan. 1; (Keith) Lowell 6-8 Maryland Collegians (Victory) Evan Magpn, Tyler (Hill St.) Los Angeles Mason & Gwynne (National) New Mason & Keller (Proctor) Troy, (Met.) Brooklyn. Mathews & Ayres (Imperial) Montré al. Mattison, Lee, Revue (Poli) Bridgeport, Matus, Kalman, Co. (Greeley Sq.) N ; Maughn, Dora (Orph.) St. Louis. Maureen & Bro. (Pan.) Minneapolis Maxine & Bobby (Maryland) Baltimore. Maximo (State) Mempbis. May & Kilduff (Keith) Atlanta, Mayer, Lotty (Towers) Camden, Keys) Philadelphia 3-8. Mayes, Burt & Finn (Tilyou) SP (Pan.) Vancouver Mayo & Lynn (Lyceum) Canton, Melnotte Duo (Vivian) Daytona, re & Dodge (Congress) Saratoga Springs, Melville & Stetson (Lyon's Park) N. J. Melvins, Three (Orph.) Ogden, ean) Denver 3-8. Birminghem, Ala. Memories of the Opera (Pal.) Mass. Mendi, Joe (Orph.) Denver Merediths, The (Pal.) Chicago. Mignon (Regent) New York. ane Wash.; (Pan.) ling (Bay Ridge) Brooklyn. McCart & Bradford (Willard) Woodhav McCarthy & Moore (Joie) Fort McConville, Frank (Pan.) Vanconver, McCool & Dooin (Maj.) Fort McCullough, Carl (Jefferson) New McCune Grant Trio (Keith) 30-Jan 1. McDonald, Donald (Victory) Holyoke, od, MeG Seattle 3-8. Bobby (Pan.) Spokane, Wasb.; (Temple) Roches- McDevitt, Kelly & Quinn (State) New Orleans McDonald & Oakes (State) New York. MelIntyre & Heath (State) Norfolk, Va. McKay, Jock (Pan.) San Francisco; Los Angeles 3-8. MeKay, George (Hancock) Austin, McKenna Trio (Maj.) Houston, McLallen & Sarah (Temple) Roch — & Evans (Proctor) » ¢ Me aie Willis, Revue (Melba) McRae & Clegg (Temple) Rochester McWilliams, Jim (Keith) Union Hill, ‘ W. Va. MecWinters & For (Fairmont) Miller, Geraldine (Pan.) Salem, San Francisco 3-8. (Orph.) Kansas City Miller, Nina, Co. (Harris) Pittsburgh Mi —- er Sisters’ Revue (Willard) > o~ewes Mitt: t Marks Rerne (Pan.) Salem, San Francisco 3-8. Mills, Marion (Keith) Texarkana, Mishka, Olga, & Orch. (Empress) ids, Mic Miss Physical Culture (Maj.) Fort + ma ) adel « Misses & Kisses (Grand) h Mitche!! & Darling (State) N Mitchel! & Dove (Lyric) Rict Modern Marionettes (Hami Iton) Modena's Revue (Rivergide) N Modina Four (Pan.) Vancouver, Mongadors, Five (Pal.) Clevelan Montana (Garrick) Norristown, e Prince Bion) Bal 7 lian Monte & Lyons (Rivoli) Toledo, Monarchs of Melody (Pal.) Lockport, Monroe & Grant (State) Easton, Monte & Parti (Electric) Joplin Rar ine & Ray (Riviere) Montgomery. Marshall, & Co. (State) Moore, Clara, Co. (Liberty) Lir Moore & Powell (Roral) New Moore & Mitchell (State) Neyrar Moore, Al, & Jazz Band (Teskoas) Ala. | Moore, Patty, & Band (Broadway) Moore, Clara. Co. (Orph.) Des Morak Sisters (Hipp.) Cleveland. Moran & Wiser (Keith) Columbu Morley & Anger (Capitol) Steubenville Morgan & Sheldon, (Jefferson) Morris & Shaw (Riviera) Detroit Morris & Campbell (Poli) Wore Morse, Lee Orph.) Ogden, Ut Morton, Lillian (Jefferson) New Moss & Frye (Octioouss) New York. Moss & Fayne Sis s ‘Sth St.) Mounters, 5 (York). York, Pa. Mullin & Francis (Pan.) M Mulroy, MeNeece & Ridge Okla nt Teck, Co.: (Colonial) nnea polis. yhy, Senator (Pal.) Manchester ma wray & Dougherty (Keith) Ottawa, Murray Girls (Orph.) Ok uhoma Murray & Alan ‘Proctor) Mt Murray & Charlotte (Flatbush) Brooklyn. Murray & Irwin (Grand) St. Mutual Man (Robins) Warren, O. Myers & Nolan (Electric) St. Louis Nanette & Nina (Hipp.) Baltimore. Nash, Mary & Florence (Pal.) Chicago. Nathan & Sully (Faurot) Lima Nathano Bros. (Bijou) Woonsoc Naynon’s Birds (Pal.) Manchester Nazimova (Orph.) San Francis Neiman, Hal (Pal.) Rockford ROBBINS’ FAMILY FARM Nelson & Parish (Novelty) Topeka, K Nelson, Sunkist Eddie (3th Ave Nereida (Keith) Dayton, O Nerritt & ver Co. (Keith) Hackensack, N Nicola (Pal.) Hartford, Conn. HOME OF ROBBINS BROS. Nicht in China (Riviera) Detroit Nolan, Paul, Co. (QO. HL) Jamestown Norma and Her Violin § (VPan.) Wash.: (Pan.) Tacoma 3-8 OLD-TIME ONE-RING CIRCUS Norman & Norman (Poli) Seranton Norris Monkeys (Royal) New Norton & Lrower (Delancey S —— WILLIAM F. ADER Norton, Ruby, Co. (Temple) Roch Norton, Jack (Orph.) Seattle; land 3-8. AND COUNSELLOR, Ch 44 : : = ’ ee rf ; » «¢Pan.) Spokane, Wasb.; (Pan.) Keno & y Keo. Tok y. ee = Brooklyn Norvo, Red (Electric) Springfield (Keith) Youngstown, O. Kerr & Weston Hevue (Keith) Texarkan: Nor : & His oa s ing ld Mo. F rhe (Davis) Pittsburgh. Tex. $3 a Norworth, Jack, Co a: rs (Albee) Brooklyn, Ketch & Wilma (Lincoln Sq.) Decatur, Ul ity. siti — ‘ire Revne (State-Lake) Chicago. Kibbler’s, Gordon, Band (Gayety) | tica, N Y New York. . Co. (Jefferson) New York. Kickellos, Three (Earle) Philadelphia. . cago. 8) ; | » (Bradford) Bradford, Pa Kiddie Revue (Bijou) Woon a ni a. Ola F Co. (Lyceum) Canton, 0. Kikuta Japs. (Premier) joonsecket, RB 3. pore Ly a (oA.) Champaign, I. ; anders (Columbia) Davenport, Ia King, Manny (Ritz) Birming! ou : an Diego = th S viser toulevard) ew York. i biving (Empress) Grand Rapids, King Bros. ——eE—eee = [ik _ LJ p= sey & pr ») Louisville, Ky. 1.) Cleveland es Se ee eo oe ae ies tens oe 1 Pal.) evelan¢ inzo (Pan.) Seattle; (P ee eet. > Brien toe 3 ee : J Peevtieeek mt. 3-8 ) e; (Pan.) Vancouver, Can., a — chs Le , s & ~—~o (Bijou) Savannah, Ga, 1 + & Morton (Keith) Cincinnati. Kippen, Janet, Co. (Park , . y Meriden, 0 ot n od é Coe k in tevue (Melba ) Brooklyn. " & Cook (Temple) Birmingham, Ala, Kirkland, Paul, Co. ee eee, Fe O'Cor or Gets (Pal.) Lockport, N. Y. & Haye (Riviera) Chicago. ana: pate San ran- O'Di ~. & a b bee) Providence, a & — . . : ; Seals (Orn! re . ‘ ‘ a yg ae, ; ~ met Siotere & Co. (State) Cleveland (Orph.) Seattle 3.8 ) Vancouver, Can.; 1] f a (Yonge = oronto. Kitaro Japs i Calif : O'Hanlon & 7 ambo ni . 1 | m, Entertainers (Maj.) Milwau- Kit 1yamas, The (Grand) —~ Sng Ga rehester. ©'H ira “Re x, (State) £ Och, ‘ Kitchen Kabaret (Pal.) Peoria, Ill. O'Neil, Bobby, _ a csi ag I e (Harris) McKeesport, Pa. Klicks, Les (Capito!) Shamokin _ e, Ind. O'Neil & Plus 8. . Po Ne — ae York. | rrio (Capitol) Windser, Can Kluting’s Animals (Keith) Boston. — Olms, John, Co. (Rob woh Meadville, Pa, iargit (State-Lake) Chicago Kl es * York k ye Oclenial) Al Robins) Warren, 0. Fred, Co. (Princess) Nashville, = (Pal.) "Jacksonville Fla Or tal Revue ‘lace Le _ on Knorr, Rella & Co. (Pal.) Jacksonv Me . Ormsbee, Laur eit! Syracuse. % . rat (Pal.) Akron, 0. Knox, Cromwell (Maj.) A win — Filla. Conn. rt & Cody . hy tee agg N. Y. I (Manos) Greensburg, Pa Kodak, Paul, & Sist >mbass . . rk. Ortons, Four (Str aera toe | « Bolt Trio (Ritz) Birmingham, Ala. ter, N. Y. er (Embassy) Port Ches- 20-] = 1: ea a B ese: ny N. . rt, Hugh, © (Imperial) Montreal. Kokin & Galletti (Pal.) Bridgeport, Conn. i Jersey City, N. J.. 6-8. — a Bros... 3 (State) Bufiale. |. Sree ele mh Baek (here) _ Ossie & Linko (World) Omaha. “Hapoaaits ph.) Seattle; (Orph.) Port- Kramer, Dolly, & Band (Earle) Philadelphia. Ga Oxford Four (Bradford) Bradford, Pa Kramer Bros. (Maj.) Elmira, N. Y a an Oxford Trio (Pan.) Seattle; W t (Orph.) Denver Kramer & Fields (Sist St.) New York ae Noe 36. : i Shea) Toronto Kramer & Boyl (Rist Rt ) New York 7 vi Iden Gate) San Franciseo. Kranz & Walsh (Colonial) Slstown, Pe dun P I Four (Victoria) Wheeling, W. Ve., Krogel) & Rubles (Embassy ort Che pe ' Smoot) Parkersburg 3-5; (Kearse) N. Y. t sy) Port Chester, Ry . Hig Peter, Co. (Pal.) Jacksonville, Fla : ; L Morristown, Pair of, Jacke (Mag) C1 | é Indiana) Terre Haute, Ind . Palermo’s Canin “7 (Te ™ H ~ Smith (Grand) Evansville, Ind LaFantasie d Utah; (Ameri- Pallenberg's Be ars taanee) iii W., & Girls (Fairmont) Fairmont, LaPearl, J. 3 NE Springfield, Pantazes Circus (Pan) a ‘ : iP Calif.. LaPlano, Fred'k, & Co.: Phil Paris Sisters ‘s } "eS ; a ’ . a. ‘is Sisters & Alexander (Pan.) § . ' t Lake City 3-8 E LaPearl, Roy (Pan.) Memphis M cisco; (Pan.) Los Angeles 3-8 an Fran J ambert (Orph.) Vancouver, Can.; ~— le & Mack (Keith) Toledo, 0. ee sian Art (Ritz) Birmingham, Ala , Seattle 3-8 ‘Salle, Hassan & Moran (Lsric) Indi — 'arisiennes (Golden Gate) San Francise : = Mors B anapolis. en, N. ¥. Parl . iden Gate) 8 ancise Harry Bway.) Philadelphia LaSalle, Bob (Orph.) Sioux City, Ia poli Rs Ss: it a, N. Y. Parks, G. & E. (Keith) T hia ta r (Pal.) New York IaValay (Harris) McKeesport, Pa. es Can Pashas, Six (105th St.) Cleveland. rth, Sasi, Co. (Greenpoint) Rrvokle: LaVarre & Wingree (Harris) McKeesport, Pa. Ps Worth. Tex ee ae, ee Be mond, Va. | & Weir's Australian Dandies (Pal) 00S x Kleo, & Partner (Victoria) Roi TY or. Patrice, Miss (American) New York | ome a as eee" SYS" Sodan "9; Strood)’ Sicrore My Ee SF. Pas, hm vera (Geo) wien an : e (Reith) Texarkana, Tex Falls 3-5 ’ atts, Tom & Vera (Orph.) Wichita, Kan & Gatehett (Pal.) Indianapolis Landick, Oly) i Pa. M Pearce, Lady Oden (Hill St.) 1 s Angeles. HW r | 1 Wallace (Temple) Birmingham Lando, Joyce, Co. (Keith) Toledo. 0 Mass Pearl, Myron. Co. (Sheridan Sa.) Pitt: ia * Tane, Van (Pal.) Milwaukee. — : ittsbureb. r r Rialto) Chicago Lane & Harper (Bijeu) Savannah Ga. ran N. Y. afl ed (105th St.) Cleveland Lane & Haley (@rpb.) Seattle; (Orph.) Port- ars n, Bud & Jack (Orph.) Denver. . ris & Leroy (Grand) St Louis land 3-8. epper Shakers, Four (Pan.) Long Beach & Rows (Albambra) Milwauk Lancford & Myra (Proctor) Poughkeepsie Calif.;: (Pan.) Salt Lake City 3-8 " ; & Lind (Latelle Garden) Detrelt 2S eee » Retite Reve: (Coliseum) New York. — ‘ Is: Bloomington, Ind iver Po vetleys, The (Pan.) Haimilton, Ca laa (Hancock) Austin. Tex Lavit k. pe mex . : son & Duncan (Poli) Scranton, Pa. : r Iaj.) San Antonio, Tex l , Pitt ester, NX. ¥ ‘icchiani Troupe (Pal.) Akron, 0. i . & Pam (Pan.) Spokane, Wash.; bur Mt. Vernon. Pike, Raymond (Albee) Providence, R. I Beattie 9-8 1 ane ™ It. n, : I ae 6 en New York. _ I ¢ 4 _ Five (Orph,) New_ Orleat comes © loons, an Mf. ae..." Edwards & Co. (State) Norfolk, Ve, ‘#2 & G lden (Bellevue) Niagara Falls, N. Memphis. Rand ’ : rt Worth, Tex. ; “aig Be Spy Larazolsa. Three (Roosevelt) Detroit 30-Jan. ~4 Net s ee y a » (Grand) Atlanta, Ga. . City 3-8 Lawlor, M. & A (Cross Keys) Philadelphia. Rat! “a “7, oe (Grand) Evansville, Ind. : (one ee) Cleveland i v ee «American) New York w. J M - a, ernon, Co. (Pal.) Springfield, ; ® Sacrivas ath © Pa chee jght’s Blue Jay Orect Loew) Montres irmingh: Soooagay i ; . : o> mooter, N. H. Lillie. Carrie —————— 5 fontreal Birmingham, Ray - Harrison (Bradford) Bradford. Pa. ; ' Stat ‘ > iego 3-8 se wrk. Heed & Luthers (Regent) Detroit. - i , a n Pa 4 nes teyr s q n , : State) Faston. Pa. 3 san, Ling & Long (Pal.) Peoria, Mil. alien sane OS Bees Ce) Ge Cee ) ) Cleveland 2-8 .* Little Pipifax (American) Denver; (World) R iene os Asetee 9-4. : . : N ! Grand) Montee 2 ’ On aha 3-8 “ am : net t Y OF a) Omaha ! ; Mag yaees mery, Ala LeGrohe (Keith) Yeoungetewa, 0. Ay = _,& Santora (Capitel) Hartford, Conn. Ann (Grand) St. Louls. cater, Leloem & Dupreece (Orph.) Oklahoma City. ee nah tetas dts ine ae Deees Cee Gilden Giedtinn LeVan & Rolles (Loew) Montreal a Panera oe et ‘ ree (Al umbra) Milwaukee. sas ant ta tan a leon's Death Ray (Hennepin) Minneapolis. - > (Ameri nine * I s (E arle) Washington. ak lego, if.; Lloyd & Brice (Hennepin) Minneapolis. Ss York. Re 1 & L Wallace (Pal.) Brooklyn American) Denver; (World) Lockett & Page (Hillside) Jamaica, N. Y. ; R ed & Ray (Pol , M ~ " nkers, N. ¥ 8 Lockfords, The, & Paul Tisen’s Orch. (Ritz) New York teed & Lace (iaasens Ge bg Maj.) Dallas, Tex Elizabeth. ¥. J a, bat, te meat he { Melba) Brook!rt Lomas Troupe (Maj.) Dubuque, Ia. ner dig wet Co. (Prospect) Brooklyn I i) Brookls 1 Refily, Tommy, ( nit ‘lo, & Boys (Faurot) Lima, O Londons, 3 (National) New York ph.) Tulsa, Reilly. | 7, SS a Pa ‘ Empire) North Adams, Mass London, Paris & New York (Orph.) Denver. ¥ ~ * Remos, Paul ‘Coa b gage tree bt diy iach teehes tea . . Lone Tack Sam i Ark. ae a i Do. ‘ faj.) Seoneeanes, ul ; ? ‘ ope ) re » sploa* S “ai - E a cis Pan.) nr } : ‘ yy ster (Lyon's Park) Morristown, , D . oo z (Van.) Los Angeles; (Pan.) San N. Hu > » & Helmar (Grand) st + s . go 3 ‘an tevue Fantastic State ey rl n (Pal.) Roet Lorraine, Osear (Norva) Norfolk, V . ca he ™ a ie (State) New Orleans 1 ford, I a y I Tua ‘ “ue kford, Tl pom aati - s Ley uan & Herma (Hipp.) Buffalo 1 (Greenpoint) Brooklyn 30-Jan. 1 rine & Neal (Pal.) Worcester, Mass. N. ¥ Reynolds, Harrington (Joie) Fort. Smit! ‘ . Lorraine Serenaders (Laroy) Portsmouth, 0 Py Ricardo, Irene (Orph.) Wi ee Loyal. Sylvia, Co. (Shea) Toronto was wR. -. . rph.) Winnipec, Can.; (Orph.) : K Llovd & Lane (Grand) Philadelphia Ri & Newtea (imoerta?) Montr } — : Lubin, Lowry & Mandy (Grand) Atlanta, Ga oseph, M Rice, F kie. © ol oT ir (Shea) Toronto, Lucas, Jimmy, Co. (Royal) New York. cas — tice, Frankie, Co. (Franklyn Park) Dorcliester 1 (Grand) St. Louis, Lucille ‘Sisters ~ ee 'F noe — , Mlass., 30-Jan. 1 , J I hy, Co. (Lyceum) Canton, O ; » Sti py Pim 4 reas) remont, Neb. Rice & Werner (Pan.) Seatt! Pan.) Van- . . Lucky Stiff (Lyric) Indianapolis. ‘ouve ‘6 « = (Pan.) San Franciect ‘Pan av J bal t N couver, Can., 3-8 , > net in.) Lumars, The (Empire) Lawrence, Mass Ric! Joe, & Pals (Or } Brookler a : Loumm & White (Victory) Holyoke, Mas Ri h’ i Mai 1 = - * 4 . ‘ . s ’ . Mass tich erie 1) D } “e n (Capi ol) ‘St imokin, Pa. Luster Bros. (Keith) Orlando, Fla Ri ee Hh na (M - 0 Hiei . 1 (marie? Philadelphia Lrdell & Smith (Loew) London, Can Rinaldo (Stat ~ rf _— ry, Als (Lyric) (Proctor) Yonkers, N. Y. Lytel, Bert (Temple) Detroit. pd R. I Rios, The Pan.) Mit re & Bana (ua). Chk Lrteli & Fant (Keith) Asheville, N.C a, N. EH. Robbins, Sam, Orch. (Pal.) Chicag I 1 «Ke Bae Chicago Lydel! & Mason (Pan.) Bellingham, Wash.; Po ) erm We cracls Mice “a ‘ & White 4 .~ Fla (Pan.) Tacoma 3-8. I de ; - P cr ito) Chicago M Pe N ~~ A he 2 ‘ ters te i. ate) New irk : N. J Mack, Wilbur, Co. (Tower) Camden, N. J ; y ' gress) Saratoga Springs. N. Mack. J. C., Co. (Cross Keys) Philadelphia es J See: | Matas Mack & Rossiter (Colonial) Erie, Ta . | (Willard) Weedkeren, Mack, Jack, Orch. (Orph.) Sious Citr, Ie a f | Shea) Tor D ..eecansabaees N. ¥ west, Gudy, Co. (Dominion) Montreal, Can., N. ¥ ae ni \ _ BUTURT®: 20Jan. 1 olinchan =a we Rl ge ‘ *assaic, N. J. Maddock's Bag 0 Ti tral.) Bridge po ee. am an.) Kansas City. 1: § —~ A cree ) New Haven, Conn., Conn % —— y - Pe —_—— a , Kendall, Teo Cos (Beaten) Bast Mahon & Scott Go, (Riviera) Detroit. [EE enneds loston loato Mahoney Will (Maryland) Baltimor aaa tl SS _————— =

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He in k . 7 4 . ; ~ 62 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 Robettas & Deegan (Pan.) Butte Mont.; ! > . z : e, Mont.; Sully & Tracey (Victory) Holyoke, 3 (Pan.) Spokane 3-8. ! ; c ; ~ yg "gage T : Robey & ‘Gould (Proctor) Newark, N. J. Snesieas a 6 —— 4 sae Louis. . MOTION PICTURE Th nogg sag OR oak Denver, Col.. 6 Merrs ——~ & Hood (Pan.) Salt Lake City; (Orph.) Suter, Ann (Keith) Orlando, Fla. wise PRESENTATIONS pies © —. un . fe 3.8, 3 “ : . a me . iat 0, . wT) . ~, > ‘rt ‘ ee. ~ at ani till siaiioa Swartz a lifford (Tan.) Seattle; (Pan.) Van- Tipica Orch. of Mexico: Kansas City 1. et Robins, A. (58th St.) New York. swift & Daiy (N 4 ; nook ‘is rs o Nae St. . U ° . c al { “Ke “ ar 5 . e y “is Robinson, Bill (Pal.) Milwaukee. Swifts, The Tutrsianay end ans in sti. Aaa na nmemmnanalas DRAMATIC AND MUSIC ao ockwell, Dr. (Pal.) Chicago. Swor Bros. (Orph.) Huntington, W. Va Adolphus & Eastman (Capitol) Detroit. AL “ nee 4 —— woe ig eae Jan. * gees a me apie 2% nt. : : ; i a on . on aa iana) Terre . Ind. alvert, Chas, (Met.) Houston, Tex. - 2 an. paneiee. Me sass — Bellingham, Wash.; gal We see eS Chicago. Capitol Singers (Capitol) New York i (Chetaat GL) Pitlodeiphis si . coma 3-8. as . * ‘n, 4 e toston. Chaquette Smi : . , 7 . - : . de omens. “oe (Keith) Asheville, N. C. Talent & Merit (Maj.) Bloomington. II. City tte, Emil, & Orch. (Liberty) Kansas Blossom Time: (Shubert) Cincinnati 27-Jan. 1 Sarder mantic Youth (Capitol) Windsor, Can. Tasmanians, 3 (Proctor) Troy, N. Y. Shiveo, He sarde) New , Sonn Siar Ge a tine Rome & Dunn (Maj.) Houston, Tex. Tavlor, Laurette, Co. (Pal.) New York a ; nase (Garde) New London, Conn. Blossom Time: Sune ’ Ss Sport — & Gaut (Hipp.) Buffalo. on ll Tales (Orph.) Germantown, Pa. rm nai Joyce (Capitol) a tk a - 2 ele aa ooney & Bent d Am : ‘emple Four (S >) Me ° “ ot ol New ork. P | } “J ‘ a] f : ooney ent (Alber) Broolire. | ork, ett. Eileen, Co, (Loew). Montreal a Bg i mo le can. 3: "(Auditorium altimore Sa a Rose & Thorne (Hill St.) Los Angeles, | Test, The (0. H.) Jamestown, N. ¥ ourtney, Fay (Academy of Music) New York. Castles ir “ eek eae mele 7 I St.) Los . s. a a. ¥. Dances « » He Yapite s Moi —— on han aw. (Pan.) Seattle; (Pan.) ee cor tk Se — Find Tork. Dennis Sisters Met ““Seaee wuthenumiend E>: Saco gesaagtl ot ® : cou -8. exas FO nh.) New Orleans. Dornay, Louis (State) St. ate Cocoanuts, The: (Amer.) St. I 27 bay > = — Troubadours (Ben Ali) Lexington, T'ympson, Fat, Co. (Empress) Grand Rapids, Farle & Bell Pri Mae “hr mg Pa Cradle Gaatchers: (Hollis) he wee a a i i *h, : : . Edwards’, Gus, Revue (Pal.) W es raig’'s Wife: (Ohio) Cleveland 27-Jan Watsor a 7 a ‘ Thornton, Jim (Keith) Dayton, 0. oe > Gus, ue (Pa Vashington Jaisie et Tell « z . 4 > eu, se. entz, Al, Orch. oger Sherms New Hav Use Lure: alnut St. ilade 27. an, & (Capitol) Trenton, N. J. ea ag & a rea) Syracuse, N. Y. Conn. — erman) New Haven, = =~ Cumberland a Se oe ‘ van & Belle (Grand) arksburcz, W. Va. Lera, “Uke” L pgent ishnure P a., 30; Harrisburg 31-J eadine ; ‘ 8 — & Best (Princess) Nashville, Tenn. Marson, Christine Pee oma ag _ York 4: Wilkes-Rarre B-8;, Beranton 78. ‘ St, Claire, N. & W. (Grand) Montgomery, Ala, Valentine & Bell (Fox) Aurora. Jil. Meroff, Ben, & Band (Granada) Chicago NE ent: CGnateh) lntacagelts, Int = = Sues, dee. Trio (Delancey St.) New York. rr oe F _ Ary San Diego, Calif.; Miriam & Pollock (Rivoli) Baltimore ‘ — (Brown) Louisville Ky 30 Jan . 1: Atterdu! ailors, * enntgge were arta apes Sen Violet & ~ al pe ee mg Ae . Picard ° Syncopators (Aldine) Pittsburg! ean ng 7 Ala., 27-Jan. J; Albany ; Cooper . Baroy & Mann ew) Mh trea. of viet i Walters itiarytane! son. Miss. Pirate Love (Uptown) Chicago oe once #3 6 are, Tenn., 5; Hopkinsville, Fairer Saxon, Polly, Co. (Keith) Passaic, N. volun, Ten sanlak Radatnen tine Poli. & DeArto (Indiana) Kokomo, Ind Mayfair: jm arksville, Tenn., 8&8 Dakota ee — nee Selety OC “SPO Vox & Walters (World) Omaha. . 3 . —- John (Met.) Houston, Tex ee Neale ly Philadelphia 27-Jan. 1 Is Reheech’ Geo 'Oe. (Grand) pr Ai age Voyagers, The (Pal.) South Bend. Ind. om Calif. Nighthawk Revue (State) Night in Pari gs eg a7-Jen a Daridso : Schreck, Geo.. Co. (Grand) tla ; s ‘ ; spent ris: lajestic) Boston 27-Ian. 1. mgr Secrets of 1926 (Pal) Br mia. w Reeord Boys (Branford) Newark, N. J. Pigs: Rochester, N. » «e 27-Jan. 1; Washing- Dorn Seed & ‘Austin (Capitol) Hartford c od 7 Roaming Gypsies (Michigan) Detroit. P ‘on, D. « . 3-8. Down! : Seeley, Blossom, Co. (Orph.) St ” Louis. Waites, Australian (Proctor) Newark, N. J. Robyn, Willie (Allen) Cleveland rincess Flavia: (Teck) Buffalo 27-Jan, 1. Excel C | Sester, Blossom, Co. (O h.) St. Louis. Waldman, Ted & Al (Pal.) St. Paul. Royal Welsh Choir (Pal.) Dallas, Tex. Queen High: (Wilbur) Boston 27-Jan. 1. are Selbint & Albert (Or ) 2 my Scions. Walsh & ‘Ellis (Crosskeys) Phila. Rubinoff, Dave (Aldine) Pittsburgh Rio Rita: (Colonial) Boston 27-Jan. &. Gentry . Serlany Troupe (Regent) ~ Detroit; ~" (Miles) Walsh Sisters (Hipp.) Buffalo. Runyan & Evans (Capitol) Brandon, Can.; Rose-Marie: (Princess) Montreal, Can., 27- Is a . ’ ‘ Walters, Walter, Co. (Riviera) Chicago. (Capitol) Port Arthur 3-8. , Jan. 1. Great } - a A Walters, Joe, Co. (Leroy) Portsmouth, 0. Russian Symphony Choir (State) St. Louis. een my (Shubert) Kansas City 27-Jan. 1. gtonr am & Bewert Bever (StateLake) Chb- Walters, Flo & Ollie (Grand) Macon, Ga. Sarg, Tony, Marionettes (Branford) Newark, N ensations of 1927, Chas. George, megr.: She- Recent smot : ‘ ) Walters a cititidee) Jamaia ex, mS lalate boygan, Wis., 30-31; Menominee, Mich. Jan Peru . a, Wa ton '& Brandt (Allegheny)’ Phila. Schulz, Myron, & Orch. (Read's Hipp.) Cleve- 1-2; Marquette 3; Calumet 4; Hancock 5; caro (ge ag ll Walzer, Rae, Trio (Gates) Brooklyn. land Jan. 2-8. __Ishpeming 6; Escanaba 7. Hoac!ar RO eee Ward, Solly, Co. (Orph.) Kansas City. Seasons, Four (Met.) Boston. Shufflin’ Sam From Alabam (Eastern), Geo. 1 mer ee ee th) Caen | > as Ward, Will H. (Lyric) Hoboken, n. J. Short, Al, & Boys (Capitol) Chicago. Barton, mer.: Homestead, Pa., 29; (Grand) Hibhard Shawn Bros. (Bijou) Bangor. Me., 30-Jan. 1. le Tr. & D. (Bdwy) Norwich, Conn. Songs of Long Ago (Capitol) Des Moines, Ia. an oo oe a abut aE Sates knees calembeay” teu, yard Bros. (Poli) Worcester, Mass. Starr, Bee (Uptown) Chicago. delphia 3; Wheeling, W. Va.. 4; Beaver H re a 4 Ward « Dooley (Pal.) Bridgeport, Conn. Stokes, Melvin, Co. (Imperial) Newport News, Falls, Pa., 5; New Kensington 6-9. hend ; Sheriff, E., Co. (Keith) Texarkana, Tex. es & LaCoste | (Hancock) Austin, Tex. _ Va. Shufflin’ Sam From Alabam (Western), Doc Route Shields, Frank (Pal.) Lockport, N. Y. Warren, Herbert, Co. (Pal.) St. Paul. Strickland, Chas., Orch. (Century) Baltimore. $@rdner, mer: (Star) Shreveport la., 27 Hunt's “i, Shields, Ella (Imperial) Montreal. Warren & "Brien (Keith) Cincinnati. Stickney, Joe (Century) Baltimore. Jan. 1; (Lyric) New Orleans 3:8. — gr tn. cikeneat) ‘Bem wack. Watson, Jos. K. (Rivera) Brooklyn. Taps (Stanley) Phila. Song of the Flame: (Shubert) Boston 27- Ketrow i Shubert, Ed, Co. (State) Easton, Pa. atson Sisters (Pan.) Salt Lake City; (Orpb.) Termini, Joe (Century) Baltimore; (State) om. 5. 7 . F Sikes & Satins (Kearse) Charleston, W. Va. Ogden 3-8. ; _ Boston 3-8. Sorel, Mme. Cecile: (Boston 0. H.) Boston 27- Lee Re Sar Gasmee Mena Gilat Bt) tow Sask W ie a Revue (Columbia) Far Rockaway, Trete Swine (Stanley) Phila. Jan. 1. aoe oe oust : Silvertown Orch. (Maryl alti B ‘ Faineeaae Nctor Actos, Wieie tateney “Jen 1; Bate ° c i Simpson & Dean Sone ge Bagman — Bros. (Pal.) Chicago. Victor Artists, Right (State) jn ; Jan 1; Natches, "Miss. 5" Vicksbure 4 “ : ; ee Katherine, Co. (Greeley Sq.) New al Entertainers (Proctor) Mt. Vernon, be & Manning (Pal.) Dallas, Tex. Jackson 5; Meridian 6; Columbus 7; Green more _York. Weddin, White, Frances (Allen) Cleveland ville 8. Lowery : Sissle & Blake (St@te) New York. oe Ring (Orph.) Oklahoma City. Whitemaf, Paul (Ambassador) St. Louis, Student Prince: (Lyric) Philadelphia 27-Jan. 1 = Skelly & Heit Revue (Proctor) Yonkers, N. Y. ya Mest (Capitol) Steubenville, O. Wiedoeft. Rudy (Strand) Portland, Me. Sunny: (Forrest) Philadelphia a-Jen. 1. Pa : Smilette Bros. (Rivoli) ‘Toledo, 0. reir's Elephants (Hipp.) New York. Yates, Harold (Rialto) New York They Knew What They Wanted: (Columbi —. | Smith & Sawyer (105th St.) Cleveland Weist & Stanton (St. Louis) St. Louis. Yorke, Helen (Met.) Houston, Tex San Francisco 27-Jan. 1 ee ee ere. Smith & Cantor (Maj.) Dubuque, Ia. _ Welton Sisters (Orph.) Oakland, Calif. Seung: (Park) Roston 273 7 . Smith, ‘Tom (Temple) De:roit. Werner & Mary Ann (Grand) Macon, Ga. Vagabond King: (P nh Ws an 1 = =" y Smith & Strong (Fordham) New York. West, Gates & Hane (Melba) Dallas, Tex Baltimore 3-8 etree 7 rr ; nn ge Mg (Pal.) Cincinnati. West . ag oy Ber Brooklyn. Waite's George Scandals (ith Edition), H rr Solar, Willie (Broadway) New York. camarnses, She (mnpize) Herth Sema, ine C A ne mars: West P ach, Fla : : Sollarde Troupe (Greenpoint) “Brooklyn 30- — Celia (Pan.) Salem, Ore.; ly ONCERT ND OPERA _ wenn bea: te Palm Beach, Fla., ue ! an. 1. rancisco 3-8. j Tomar en 4 . borg: a Fred (Novelty) Topeka, Kan peg = Potter (Keith) Ottawa, Can Boot, Frederick: Worcester, Mass., 29. eet eee The: (Garrick) Detroit 27 Morgan : Sothern, Jean (American) Nev ro : yhirl o Syncopation — i she “halfant, Lucille: Springfie Mass F ane. wi ‘ a Spencer, Niblo, & Co. (Keit! ) Mies Oo _N. Y. P on «6(Temple) Rochester, Chaliapin & His be ee Louis den ths Dalton, Se (Ceand) Ctacteants 26-Jes. | wGab : Sparling & Rose (Englewood) Chicago. . White, Dancing Danny (Sourwine) Brazil, Ind. « Tex., Jan. 6; Houston 7. Yours Truly: ‘Detroit. 25-3 Ne Spencer & Williams (Harris) McKeesport, Pa White, Black & Useless (Earle) Washington Cortot, Alfred: Baltimore, Jan. 4; Rochester, N. worden tes " Sponsler, Les (Codman Sq.) Dorchester Mass... Whitelaw, Arthur (Nixon) Phila. ’ _Y., 6. ° at _ 30-Jan. 1; (Quincy) Quincey 2-4. . “* Wiedofft's Band (Pan.) Kansas City. Casals, Pablo: New Haven, Cons., Jan. 5; F n Springford, Hal (Maj.) Houston, Tex. Wigginsville (Keith) Orlando, Fla. — rene a Be ll tg BURLESQUE oran : Stacey & Fay (Scollay Sq. Olympia) Boston aes Raymond (Keith) Cincinnati Duin ng, Mi dred (Play! coe} thieas Sono ra Stanbeck Bros. (Loew) London, Ca Vilkens & Wilkens (Greeley Sq.) New Y i hee nen ae den | : Stanelli & Douglas (Vivian) Bh cl Fla Wilkis, Marion (Keith) Tounguionn — Draper, Ruth: Rockville Center, N. Y., Jan. 4; COLUMBIA CIRCUIT «+ Stanley. Jos. B., Co. (Orph.) Los Angeles. Willard (Smoot) Parkersburg, W. Va. Bagish” Singers: Pali mn Stanl jleer ( 1] St pede any Villiams’ Midgets f cae i sngish Singers: ar ver, Mass., | . ; y ; ‘s Stanley & ‘Quinetts (Lis » 4 Ph _ Angeles Williams ay ay ge ee Island , Neb. Washington, D. C.. &. os ‘ _ — 2; aeons the World: (Gayety) Rochester, N.Y - : Stanley & NGtres (River r‘ Sq.) Ne ns? York Wwi liams, Roger (Pal bts coment, Ve Gabrilewitsch, Ossip: New Haven, Conn., Jan. 5 areca 1; {Temple} Syracuse, N. Y., 3° a 7 oo 2 on (Rivera) Brooklyn 30-Jan. 1. wripie Bros. (Belle al.) Axron, O. : Giannini, Dusolina: (Carnegie Hall) New York ee en oo abn : Btanley r ; B , nes (Garrick ) Norr stown. Pa. alg M. > c ee ee Falls, N. Y 30. : Alves of the South Seas: Open_week 27-Jan |! Ro? st ) t ¢ .rnie Pal lilwaukee wisi wares “te ‘ ad. cago 5 : : ; ’ i Stanton & Dolores (Vi bhwarg Whe ee . . Wilson, Geo. P., & Addie (Orph : Hess, Myra: Glasgow, Scotland, Jan. 4. BR = a | ot, sates SS. hte, Statzman, LaFor & Co. (Yonge ~y "ire w Va. Wilson, Jack, Co. (Rialto) Ct wea ho _ Homer, Louise: Rochester, N. Y¥., Jan. @& 7 ng RButtler: (Hurti¢ & Seamon) Now Rot ME Stedman, A. & F. (Maj.) San Ant ‘Toronto Winchester & Ross (Keith) pe Miss Johnson, Edward: Pittsburgh Jan. 4 -— 27-Jan. 1; (Miner's Bronx) New ¥ Wes 7 ‘ Step, Step, Step (R to) F saitien oe Tex. Winehill & Briscoe (Yor ge St.) TT rontt ae Kortschak, Hugo: (Aeolian Hall) New York, 2 Riz s 7 Steppe & Knowles (Washington St. Olympia) Wingfield & Jean (World) Om i et, RE Ceeaereene sen Gp neteannees n= ee Boston hington St. Olympia) Winifred & Mills (Hillside) Jamaica, N. Y wis, Ma Iw evitien: (Col n B Steppin & Sea (Victory) Holyoke. Mas Wirth, May & Phil (Rialto) Louisville, K; Lewis, May: Pteeese. Sam 6. _ 2 aa ee ; Stephens, Sharon Co. (Pret “EB ore Withers, Charles (Hipp.) B fale yo MeQuahae, Allen: Toronto, Can., 30 Jan. 1; (Empire) Brooklyn 3-8 s s " Stepping Out ( Albe e) Prov ence E klyn. Wong, Prince (Ear e) "Was in hain pa vt i, Margery: Worcester. Ma , Jan. 4 are 4 et oe " . Stepping Along (Empiré typ pee Bow _. Wong, Nee (Pan.) Butte, Mont.; (P Meisl, Kathryn: New York 6 1; (Gayety) Rochester 3-8 & ‘ Stewart & Olive emments eo 2 Mass Spokane 2-8 a hee — — a Sane Detrolt 20-30; Danbury, Conn., “~—s a: ar bers er 5 7 Stewart & Olive | ney ; Hin near lis. Wriest & @ictitch Uamanies iii Jan : f Jan. ; (Empire) Toledo 3-8 € Stoddard. Marie ym ) rte Cc . Wright, ‘Sediee i * arte A Va - Morék n, Mikhail, & Ballet: Houston, Tex., 30; Daley Ss, Lena, Show: (Miner's Bronx) New HW (Orph.) Seattle 3-8 - . ere 40.5 Wyatt's, Jack, Lads & Lassies (Alhambra) M an Anton “6 Jan. 1 - York 27-Jan. 1; (Casino) Brooklyn 3-8 . Stone, Irene (American) Denver; (W Milwaukee. eee ie pon) Claudia: Louisville, Ky., Jan. 6 4-11-44: (Star & Garter) Chicago 27-Jan. 1 8 : Omaha 2-8 es RVESs World) wyoming Four (Orph.) Boston “Spt Chas.: Boston Jan. 5; New York 7, (Gayety) Detroit 3-% Rr Stone & Ivleen (Emery) Providence. RB. I Wyse, Jr., Ross, (Golden Gate) San Francisco “78 2 a es Cee Se % Tn, B hear a ee Bs c~ : Stop Thief (Pal.) Wilkes-Barre, Pa. * Novae ° ' ne a _—- mag. Be on Strain Sisters (Orph.) ang Ural: (Ameri Y ee, Sere (Orch. Hall) Chicago Jan 4; Senge: Open week 27-Jan. 1; (Capitol) Albany T can) Denver 3-8 , et i cae ’ 0 ‘icolal: bs 4 ah rn Stuart & Olive a Davenport : Yates & Carson (Rialto) Chicago. — pose Yoo 5; New York 6; Kosher Kitty Kelly: (Lyric) Dayton, 0., 27 Va : Stuart & 8 “ davenport, Ia Yeoman, George, & Lizzie (Pal.) Sou Send » ochetle, N. Y., 7, Jan. 1; (Olympic) Cincinnati 8 I tuart & Lash (Keith) Passaic, N. J ) South Bend, Reisenberg. Naida: (A 3 | Stuart & Lash ( eith) Vs sate, No Je ; “ae ee ceeken 5 Mee wae nat sage Be 1) ar York 4 pen | — (Hyperion) New Haven, Conn, .)) Stvlix) icminoae wee arleston, W. Va. can, Paul, Co. (Riviera) Detroit. Se ee : F: las, Tex.. Jan. 3, 27-Jan : (Casino) Philadelphia 3-8 ‘ ions pper Seven (Poli) Worcester, _— & King (Fordham) New York ms arto Opera Co.: Coral Gables, Fla., Jan. Let's Go; (Park) Bridgeport lag 30-Jan. 1 Wenn - P nati rk's, Max, Dogs (Keith) Cincinnati Ine ldi ' (Hyperion) New Haven 38. a Mn ; & Thomas (Lyric) Mobile, Ala. Young, Joe, Co, (Proctor) Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Spalding. Atert rere Hall) New York Jan, Marion, Dave: (Gayety) Washington 27-Jan. 1, Zellma Sally 2; 3 ; St. Paul 6. (Gayety) Pittsburgh 3-8. os : t T Alice |

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(Gayety) Toronto 27-Jan. 1; Merry tuffalo 3-8 Mutt Honeymoon: (Casino) Philadel- nie ‘ 1; (Pal.) Baltimore . a +. Paris: (Olympic) Cincinnati 27- ; pl } n week 3-8. on. | syety) St. saute 27-Jan. 1; (Star >< er { ako « . none Frolfe: (Gayety) Detroit 27-Jan. ~ t Toronto 3-8. mn : (Casino) Brooklyn 27-Jan. 1; or } l’aterson, N. }/ a 3-8. Red K (Plaza) Worcester, Mass., 27- lan 1, New London, Conn., 3; Meriden 4; Samford ©; (Park) Bridgeport 6-8. carder (Orph.) Paterson, N. J. Be ‘jan. 1; (Empire) Newark 3-8. annet Widows: (Empire) Providence 27- Jan. 1 iyety) Boston 3-8. Talk of the Town: (Lyceum) Columbns, 0O., ot-Jan. 1: (Lyric) Dayton 3-8. Un ty mom's Cabin: (Empire) Brooklyn 27- Jan. 1; (Empire) Providence 3-8. White Cars Gayety) Pittsburgh 27-Jan. 1; (Colur ad C —— 3-8. Watson. Sliding Billy: (Pal.) Baltimore 27- Jan. 1; (Gayety) Washington 3-8. Wine, W un and Song (Gayety) Boston 27- len. 1: (Columbia) New York 3-8. Watermelons 7-11: (Capitol) Albany, N. ¥Y., aia 1 (Casino) Boston 3-8 w Ml é (Colonial) Utica, N. ¥., 30- ' 1 n week 3-8 v Glory?: (Empire) Toledo, 0., 27- jan = Lyceum) Columbus 3-8. MUTUAL CIRCUIT Rathing Reauties: (Gayety) Louisville 27-Jaun. 1; (M ) Indianapolis 3-8 Brig Eve Gayety) Baltimore 27-Jan. 1; Mot Washington 3-8 Ban { x Revu (Howard) Boston 27-Jan. 1; Springfield, Mass f ions ningcham & Gang: (Gayety) Minneapolis 27- 1 1 tavety) Milwankee 3-8 Dimpled Darlings: (Mutual) Washington 27- Jan. 1; Route ‘No. 2 3-8. Frivolities of 1927: (Grand) Akron, O., 27- Jan. 1; (Empire) Cleveland 3-8. Finnell, Carrie: (Olympic) New York 27-Jan. mt (Star) Brooklyn 3-8 ‘ollies of Pleasure: (Gayety) Scranton, Pa., . Jan. 1; (Gayety) Wilkes-Barre 3-8. French Models: (Gayety) Montreal 27-Jan. 1; (Howard) Boston 3-8. Good Little Devils: (Gayety) Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 27-Jan. 1; Route No. 1 3-8. Ginger Girls: (Gayety) Brooklyn 27-Jan. 1; (Lyric) Newark, N. J., 3-8. Hello, Paree: (Garden) Bufiate 27-Jan. 1; (Corinthian) Rochester, N. Y¥., 3-8. Hollywood Scandals: (Park) Erie, Pa., 27-29; (Garden) Buffalo 3-8. Happy Hours: Open week 27-Jan. 11: (Troca- dero) Vhiladelphia 3-8 Jazztime Revue: (Empire) Cleveland 27-Jan. 3s (Empress) Cincinnaty 3-8 Kuddling Kuties: (Trocadero) Philadelphia 27- Jan. 1; (Gayety) Baltimore 3-8 Kandy Kids: (Corinthian) Rochester, N. , an 27-Jan. 1; (Savoy) Syracnse, N. Y., 3-8. Land of Joy: (Empress) Cincinnati 27-Jan. 1; (Gayety) Louisville 3-8 Salient, Unees (Star) Brooklyn 27-Jan. 1; open week 3-8, Laffin’ Thru: Open week 27-Jan. 1: ( ‘ Brooklyn 3-8. . Sapetys Moonlight Maids: (Cadillac) Detr » Bs (Park) Erie, Pa., 3-5 ’ eects Midnight Frolies: (Gayety) Cate 27-Jan. 1; wear Lae Des Moines, Ia., Night Life in Paris: 5 a Indie - Jan. 1; (Garrick) St. Louis 3-8. ew Naughty Nifties: (Majestic) Paterson, N. J. 27-Jan. 1; (Gayety) Seranton, Pa., § ‘ Over Here: (State) Springfield, Mass., 27- an. 1; open week 3-8 Parisian Flappers: etent panne City 27- — 7 (Cayety) Omaha oun the own: Route . (Olympic) New York 3-8. ° ’ G™. 1 Sugar Babies: (Hudson) Union City, N. J., 27- ean s aS ao ) Paterson ockets: (Lyric) Newark, N. J. ; (Hudson) Union City 3-8 sata The Billboard, January 1, 1927 63 Smiles & Kisses: (Savoy) Syracuse, N. Y., 27-Jan. 1; (Gayety) Montreal e Step Lively Girls: (Empress) Chicago 27- Jan. 1; (Cadillac) Detroit 3-8. Speed Girls: (Gayety) Milwaukee 27-Jan. 1; (Empress) Chicago 3-8. Step Along: (Garrick) St. Louis 27-Jan. 1; (Mutual) Kansas City 3-8. ~ Stone & Pillard: Route No. 2 27-Jan. 1; (Academy) Pittsburgh 3-8 Tempters: (hcoin Prete 27-Jan. 1; (Grand) Akron, O., Vamps of 1927: \Gatrich) Des Moines, Ia., 27- Jan. 1; (Gayety) Minneapolis 3-8. ROTTE NO. 1—Auentown, Pa., Monday; Shamokin, Tuesday; Williamsport, Wednes- day; York, Thursday; Reading, Friday and Saturday. ROUTE NO. 2—Altoona, Gumberiaad, Md.; Uniontown, Pa.; Beaver ‘pails, TABLOIDS Burns & Paden's Cute Little Devils, Chas. V. ag megr.: (Regent) Muskegon, Mich., 27- an. 8. Chuckles of 1927, Harry DeWitt, mgr.: (Or- pheum) Duluth, Minn., 27-Jan. 1. Clark Sisters’ Revue: (Lyric) oil City, Pa., 27- Jan. 1. Derby Winners: Grafton, W. Va., 27-Jan. 1. Desmond's N Y Roof om Revue: (Hoyets) Ft. Smith, Ark., 27-Jan. 8. Flash Parade, Bnd isrownie, mare: (Strand) Crawfordsville. Ind., 26-Jan Lewis’, Irving N., Nifties ¢ , ao (Tiv- oli) Jasper. Ind., 27-Jan Moore's, Hap, Merry Made: (Victoria) Wil- mington, N. C., 27-Jan. 1. Pepper Box Revue, Allen suk mgr.: (Crys- tal) Anderson, Ind., 27-Jan. 1; (Sipe) Koko- mo 3-8. Walker's, Marshall, wate, Bang Revue: (Sipe) Kokomo, Ind., 27-Jan Williams, en, Chie-Chie (Strand) Perth Amboy, N. J., 27-Jan. 1. MINSTRELS Coburn’s, J. A.: Wilmington, N. C., 29; Mar ion, S. C., 30; Florence, 31; Sumter Jan. 1. White's, Lasses, Spaeth & Co., megrs.: Danville, Va., 29; Greensboro, N. C., 30; High Point 31; “Charlotte Jan. BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS Colonial Club oe. Geo. B. Rearick, mgr.: ae. Calif., 27-Jan . Leuate oyd's Fontenelle's, John in, mgr.: Mexia, Tex., 27-Jan 8. Gaston's, Red, Pennsylvanians: (Madison @ar dens) Toledo, O., 27-Jan. 1. REPERTOIRE Chicago Stock Co, Chas. H. Rosskam, megr.: (Orpheum) York, Pa., 27-Jan. 1; (Oneonta) Oneonta, N. Y., 3-8. Edwards, Mae, Players: Truro, N. S., Can., 3-8. Hillman's Ideal Stock Co.: Rupert, Ida., 30; Rigby 31; Downey Jan. 1. Hopkins, Monroe, Players: Mexia, Tex., 2?- an. &. Robbins, Clint & Bessie, Co.: Doland, 8. D. 27-Jan. 1; Watertown 3-8. MISCELLANEOUS Becker, Wm. F., Jr., Magician: Emmettsburg, Ia., 27-Jan. 1. Campbell, Loring, Magician: Cable, Wis., 1. Gable’s, F. P., Western Wonders: Long Beach, Calif., 27-Jan. 1. Hamiltons, The, Paul Hamilton, mgr.: Youngs- town, 0., 27-Jan. 1. Lucy, Thos. Elmore: Poteau, Okla., 1. Mysterious Smith Co., Albert P. Smith, mgr.: Tyrone, Pa., 27-Jan. 1; Punxsutawney (Continued on page 95) CIRCUSES AND WILD WEST SHOWS Atterbury & Mighty Hooge Trained Animal Circus, R. L. Atterbury, mgr.: Dakota City, e. son's. Tom, Cireus: Stockton. Calif Barnes’, Al G., Circus, A] G. Barnes, prop.: Rarnes’ Circus City, Palms. Calif Buckskin Ben's Show: Cambridge City, Ind. Cheicty Froe’ Cirens, George W Christy, ener: Houston, Tex. Cooper Rros.’ Shows, E. H. Jones, mgr.: State Fairgrounds, Little Rock, Ark. Dakota Max's Wild West Show: Cedar Rapids, Ia Davidson Rroe* Circus, Dr. Jim Davidson, mgr.: Greenup, Ky Down! Reos." Motorized Circus, Andrew Downie. prot Havre de Grace, M4. Excel Cirens, Wm. Schulz, mgr.: 10728 Superior ave, Cleveland, O Gentry Bros Cireus, King Bros., owners; mer.: Camp Knox. Ky tone Show, Sam Dock, mer.: Fatr- nds ersbure., Va Racenbeck-Waliace Cireus, Dan Odom, mer.: ” Tea Per fices, 709 Crilly Bidg., Chi- cag I Hoazian } drome & Circus, Jack Hoagian, mer.: Morgantown, Ind Hibhard’s Circus, C. A. Hibbard. megr.: Albia, Jowa a ra Bros.’ Animal Circus, Dr N. Hul- B mgr.: Nashville, Tenn. (N. E. P. O., ‘Motorized Circus, Chas. T Hunt, mer.: Md Pikesri lle Ketrow Hros. Shows, Wm. Ketrow, mer.: 118 Sheridan «t Anderson, Ind Lee Pr Cirens, George W. Christy, owner: Tex Lee, Robert, Trained Animal Truck Show, G. C Caylor & Tom Mclaughlin, mers.: Ard- ’ Lowery Bros’ Shows, Mra. George B. Lowery. mer: 24 W. Washington ave. Shenandoah, Main, Walter I Cireus, King RBros., owners: Camp Knox, Ky Mighty Tieng Shows, Ernest Haag, mer.: Marianna, Fla Miller Bros’ 101 Ranch Wild West Show, Mil- er Bros, mers.: Marland, Okla Moon Bros.’ Circus, Cly Newton, owner: Ada, Okla Morgan's Nickel Plate Circus, W. E. Morgan, , mgr A Central st... Knoxville, Tenn Morton's, eb, Cireus, Bob Morton, mgr.: Coral Ga Fla ONet Hiroe’ Show, James B. O'Neill, mgr.: ee +. 0 Re Show, B. Keller Iseminger, mer.: nkstown, Md ° ar - Cireus, Wm. Newton, owner; Orton Bros irens, Orton Bros., props.: Adel, ia riley Orton. mer, Dallas Center, Ia.) Rir g 1 ind Rarnum & Batley Combined Show Ringling Bros, props: Rridgeport, ‘ neral offices, 221 Institute Place. ‘ ae 1 I Cireus, Fred Buchanan, mer ~ n. Ctreus, Sam BR. Dill, mer: oe len, Ind.: offices, 700 Crilly Bildg.. a ns Shows, John F. Hall, prop nail address, care The Billboard, . o Ctreus, Wm Lindeman, gen mW : reus, Zack Terrell, mer.: Peru, ' ‘oes, 709 Crilly Bldg.. Chicago, IN Vild Weet & Vandertile Show, mer.: 206 N. Blanche st., Ter- 1 Famous Show« a Sparkes, ral City Park. Maco Ga . Wild Animal Cireus, Eli Nelson, . r rground, Chippewa Falls, Wis. Wild West Show, Col. E. D. wher: Charlotte, Mich. " Show, Frank FE. Hall, megr.: n Ark. «Lock Bex 851) Showe, Everett Walker, megr.: on, ie gton st., Portemouth, Va one Shows: Cottondale, Pla car Tiros.” Cireus, Geo, BE, Engesser, prop.: S. Peter, Minn a CARNIVAL COMPANIES Lee im» Shows: Birmingham, Ala. WINTER-QUARTERS LIST Owners and managers of shows not represented in this list will confer a favor by sending The Billboard the address of their winter quarters purpose. Use blank below for that All-American Shows, Nip Butts, mgr.: Me- Alester, Okla. Bach Shows, O. J. Bach, mgr.: Herkimer, N. Y.; offices at Ormond, Fla. Bahnsen's Shows, Wm. Bahbnsen, mgr.: 253 E. Fairground st.. Merion, O. Barlow's Big City Shows, Harold Barlow, mgr.: 2ist & Lynch sts., E. St. Louis, Ill. Beaty Motorized Carnival Co., Joe Beaty, mgr.: 117 Short st., Truman, Ark. Bernardi Expo. Shows, Felice Bernardi, mgr.: Phoenix, Ariz. Bernardi Greater Shows, Wm. Glick, megr.: Charlotte, N. C Boyd & Linderman Shows, Larry Bord & Mar Linderman, owners: Brockton, Mass. Brodbeck Bros.’ Shows, Ben & Fred Brodbeck, mers.: Kinsley, Kan. Brown & Dyer Shows, A. J. Dernberger, gen. mer.: East Camp, Norfolk, Va. Broughton, Leon, Shows. Leon Broughton, mgr.: Kirbyville, Tex. Rrowning Amusement Co., W. F. Browning. maer.: 810 S. 21st st., Salem, Ore Bruce Greater Shows, J. H. Bruce, mer.: Richmond, Va Brundage, S. W., Shows, S. W. Brundage, mgr.: Fairgrounds, Little Rock. Ark. Byers Bros.’ gs Co., Byers Bros., mars.: 11514 W. 24 st., North Little Rock, Ark California Shows, Inc., H. F. Gall & Sam Anderson, megrs.: 3 East 17th st., New York, N. Y. Campbell, George, Shows, George Campbell, megr.: Morris, Okla. Capital Am. Co., T. L. Ryan, mer: St. Paul, Minn. «P. O. Box 562) Checker Expo. Shows, A. H. Herman, megr.: Ruffalo. N. Y. (address, Gen. Del.). Coleman Bros.’ Shows, Richard Coleman, mgr.: 170 Grand st.. Middletown, Conn Conklin & Garrett Shows: Vancouver, B. C., Can.; mail address, Georgia Hotel, Seattle, Wash Copper State Show: Phoenix, Ariz Copping. Harry, Shows, Harry Copping, megr.: Resnoldsville, Pa, Corey Greater Shows, E. S. Corey, mgr.: El- mora, Pa Cox, Mill<x, Amusement Co., Mills Cox, megr.: Castle, Okla Crounse United Shows, A. F. Crounse, mgr.: 17 Tremont ave., Binghamton, N. Y¥ Dawley, C. B., Amusements, C. B. Pe mer: Bath, N. ¥. (Office address, R Hilton, N. Y. DeKreko Bros.’ Shows, Jean DeKreko, megr.: Peoria, Il Diamond Jubilee Shows, Sam Corenson, mégr.: 111 Taylor st., San Francisco, Calif. Dixieland Shows, J. W Hildreth, megr.: Helena, Ark. Dobyns. George L., Shows, Inc., George L. Dobyns, mgr.: Fairgrounds, Petersburg, Va.s mail address, Port Richmond, N. Y. Dodson's World's vate Shows, C. G. Dodson, mer.: Cedar Rapids, Ia. Sresmieed Expo. Shows, Mrs. Leona Macy, owner: DeWitt Curtis, mgr.: Warren, Ark. (Snow House.) Excello Shows: 1355 S. Hill st.. Los Angeles, Calif. Fairly Shows, Noble C. Fairly, mgr.: Ft. Smith, Ark. (care Hotel Main). Fairyland Shows, J. 0. McCart, mer.: Tulsa, Okla Flat-Tire Amusement Co., Cutter & Station, mers.: Wildsville, Fleming, Mad Cody. Shows, Mad Cody Fleming, mer.: 2131 5th ave., Bessemer, Ala. Foley & Burk Shows, Foley & Burk, mgrs.: 603 Humboldt Bank Bldg., San Francisco, Calif. Francis, John, Shows, John Francis, mgr.: Houston, Tex. Gold Medal Shows, H. E. Billick, mgr.: Van Buren, Ark. Golden-Bell Shows: Norfolk, Va. Grady, Kellie, Shows, Kellie Grady, prop.: 9th ave. and 19th st., Birmingham, Als. Great White Way Shows, C. M. Nigro, mgr.: 808 South 20th st., Bitmingham, Ala. Great Eastern, G. C. Martin, mgr.: Birming- ham, Ala. Greater Herman Shows, A. H. Herman, owner; Arch Wilson. mgr.: Johnstown, Pa.; (office address, Box 370, Altoona, Pa.). Grissom Shows, Mell A. Grissom, mgr.: Mem- phis, Tenn. Gruberg, Max, Shows, Max Gruberg, mégr.: 1510 S 6th st., Philadelphia, Pa. Heth Shows. L. J. Heth, mgr.: North Birming- ham, Ala Hoffner, Wm., Amusement Co., Wm. Hoffner, mer.: Fairgrounds, Peoria, Il. Holtzman Amusement Co., M. Marks, mer.: 6708 Elizabeth st., Tampa, Fla. Where Are You Wintering? Name of Show Address of Winter Quarters Kindly give the information on this blank and mail to The Billboard, Cincinnati O., for publication in our Winter-Quarters Name of Prop. or Mgr. ....--- Description of Show ......--- (Give address of offices here if you have any) List: Isler Greater Shows, Louis Isler, mgr.: Chap man, Kan. Jones Amusement Co.. H. D. & I. W. Jones, mgrs.: 1925 N. Talbott ave., Indianapolis, Jones, Johnny J., Expo., Johnny J. Jones, prop.: Orlando, Fla, Joyland Expo. Shows, Steinberg & Zotter. mers.: Ballinger, Tex. (Gen. Del.). Kau's United Shows: Newhbern, N. C. Ketchum's 20th Century Shows, K. F. Ketchum, mgr.: 131 E. 16th st, Paterson, N. J. Keystone Expo. Shows, Samuel Mechanic, mgr.: 1827 E. Cambria St., Philadelphia, Pa. Kline, Abner K., Shows, Abner K. Kline, mer.: San_ Bernardino, Calif. (National Orange Showgrounds.) Krause Greater Shows. Ben Kraus, mer.: Augusta, Ga. Lachman-Carson Shows, D. D. Lachman, mer.: El Reno, Okla. Landes, J. 1., Shows: Abilene. Kan.; (office address, 205 N. 6th st., Ft. Smith, Ark.). Lapp’s Greater Shows, M. J. Lapp, mer.: White River Junction, Vt.; offices, 19 Hickory st., Ellenville, N. Y. Latlip’s, Capt., Rides, Capt. Latlip, megr.: 208 Elm st., Charleston, W. Va. Leggette Shows, C. R. Leggette, mgr.: Monroe, La. Levitt-Brown-Huggins Shows: Seattle, Wash. Loos, J. George, Shows, J. George Loos, mgr.: Laredo, Tex. McGregor, Donald, Shows, Donald McGregor, mer.: Fairgrounds, Wichita Falls, Tex. McMahon Shows, T. W. McMahon, megr.: Marys- ville, Kan. (Box 332.) Michael Bros.’ Expo. Shows: 235 W. 139th st., New York, N. Y. Michigan Greater Shows, Wade & Baker. props.: Fairgrounds, Charlotte, Mich.; business - dress, O. A. Baker, 610 Hancock st., Louis- ville, Ky. Mighty Argyle Expo. Shows: Box 16, Granite City, MM. Miller Bros.’. Shows (three shows), Morris Mil- ler, mer.: Greenville, S. C. «RK. R.. No. 5.) Mimic World Shows. D. L. Doyle, mgr.: Box 509, Ft. Smith. Ark. Morris & Castle Shows, Milton M. Morris & John R. Castle. mgrs.: Fairgrounds, Shreve- port, La. Murphy, D. D. Shows, L. M. Brophy, mgr.: Beaumont, Tex. Murphy, Frank J., Shows, Frank J. Murphy. megr.: 1395 North East Second ave., Miami, Fla Naill Shows. C. W. Naill, mgr.: Fairgrounds, Tallulah, La. Northwestern Shows, F. L. Flack, mer.: 36 B. Woodbridce st., Detroit, Mich. O’Brien Attractions, Dick O'Brien, mgr.: May- field, Ky (Manager's address until February 1, Box 283, Clinton, Ia.) Oklahoma Ranch Shows, J. Ellis, mgr.: Ring- ling. Okla. Parker's Famous Shows, D. D. Lachman, gen. mgr.: El Reno, Okla. (Box 742) Princess Olga Shows, F. W. Wadsworth, mgr.: “) E. 28th st., Jacksonville. Fla Procressive Expo. Shows: 151 Carlisle ave., Paterson, N. J Reiss, Nat, Shows, 7. F. Murphy, mgr.: (Fair- crounds) Washington, Ga Reprogle Amusement Co., F. M. Reprogle, mgr.: A86 E. Long st.. Columbus, 0 ice & Dorman Shows, George F. Dorman, mgr.: San Antonio, Tex : Riley, Matthew J., Shows, Matthew J. Riley, mer.: Elizabeth, N. J. Roval American Shows, C. J. Sedimayr, mer.: Itinghamton Ranch, Box 162, Memphis, Tenn. Rubin & Cherry Shows, Rubin Gruberg, megr.: Montgomery. Ala Sandy's Amusement Shows, Sandy Tamargo, owner and mer.: 858 Bast 156th st., Bronx, New York. N. , 4 Savidce Amusement’ Co., Walter Savidge, m Wayne, Neb. Scott's Greater Shows. George T. Scott, mgr.: Helper, Utah (Box 507). Ske aaa Bros." Shows, Joe Skerbeck, mgrt.: Yorchester, Wis gnith. Greater United Shows, K. F. ve a Smith, mer.: Fairgrounds, Oakland, Md. smith, J. Lacy. Attractions: War, W. Ve.3 address, care Fretwell Hotel. (Continued on page 96) TS aaan :=5 d

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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 Circus and Side Show Conducted by CHAS. WIRTH—Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. J. W. Swafford To Pilot The Downie Bros. Circus One of the best-known old-time Eastern agents, J. W. Swafford, has been engaged by Andrew Downie to pilot the Downie Bros.’ Circus for the 195 season. Mr Swafford has, for many years, been ahead of tent and hall shows thru the East. For the last few years Guring the summer season he has had the Swafford Players in New England. He will assum: his new duties the early part of the year. The rest of the nearly all engaged be back again trucks. There advance department is George E. Caron will as manager of advertising will be four cars aheac. with: 15 men. Three billposting trucks will be used, which are now in the paint shop at Havre de Grace, Md., for the final touches of gold leaf and wild animal pictures. In addition to the three trucks the general agent travels in a machine about six weeks aheac, of the show. Caron has signed several members of his 1926 billnosting crew, including Harry Frazier and the Rosenheim Brothers. The Downie Bros.’ Circus has nine stands of special paper from the print- ing houses at this writing and several more are in the making. It is Mr. Downie’e intention to have all special paper this season, using no stock circus printing at all., Austin C. King Will Manage Barnes’ Circus Side Show Austin C. King has been re-engaged for the Al G. Barnes Circus for the com- ing season and will be in charge of the side show. Last season he was assistant kid show manager. Wing has been with the Barnes show for seven years and during that time has been principal and producing clown, bannerman, 24-hour man ane advance press agent. He will have some acts working in presentations on the West Coast this winter. New Business Agent Named For St. Louis Billposters ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20.—At a meeting of the Billposters’ Local for this district, held recently, Joseph Danecek was elected business agent, replacing Edward Sachse. A change in the ruling affecting the theaters has been made Heretofore it was necessary for the houses to have a billposter on their payroll in order to have their I in but according to the new ri longer neces- sary. The on a man permanently o employ one on a tem- porary or “piece’’ basis. or give their entire billing work to of the local billposting con ruling was brought ab to aid in ding employ- ment for the many billposters in good standing who we! staying in town Clarkonians Will Not Be With R.-B. Circus Next Year NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Edward Clark, of the Clarkonians, gymna with the tingling and Barnum & Bailey circuses for the past 20 years, has it forme d The Billboard that the met s of the troupe have decided to take a rest and { ‘ of the features with the hig y nex season Mr Edward Clark te f Poodles” WHanneford, vill apy with her brother in The Cir Princess when it opens in New y x M Charles Clark a of the ¢ rkoniar wil pend some tir with 1 fe and children at their home in Mad Y W Percy Clark, the equestrian, continue Emery Back in the Fold DES MOINES, Ia., Ds 22.—Elwood ry, who has not done any trouping ght years, will be superintendent of ephants with the Orton Bros.’ Circu season. He had charge of elen) ts on the Yankee Robinson the war, and also w: with 191 Ran h Wild West Show, under Cjrection of Miller & Arlington 4 Photo, W. HARRISON RILEY, reserved seat tickets with the Sells- Floto Circus the past season. H. Walton. Homestead. Pa. superintendent of London Hippodrome Circus Under Harvey’s Management ST. LOUIS, Dec. 24.—R. M. Harvey, head of the London Hippodrome Circus, Inc., has announced there has been no change of title or ownership in the or- ganization, and that it will ‘open the season January 10 at Memphis, and con- tinue its bookings under his management. George L. Meyers, last season with the Sells-Floto Circus, is now in St. Louis directing the ballet for the circus. Frank Braden, recently general press represen- tative for the 101 Ranch Wild West Show, will be in charge of publicity for the St. Louis engagement of the Harvey organi- zation, which will open January 17. He will be there January 3. Mr. Harvey declares the show will be one of the greatest efforts in this line that has ever been attempted, and that he is positive it will be a financial suc- cess beyond the imagination of himself and all interested. So certain is he of its success that he is already planning for the 1927-'28 sea- son. With Omer J. Kenyon, of Des Moines, Ia., Mr. Harvey expects to operate also a fair booking agency to be conducted along original lines. Pacheco Circus in Santiago The Gran Circo Hermanos Pacheco, which opened at Santiago, Chile, S. A., October 21, and remained there thruout November, did fine business, writes Rosalie Pacheco. It is possible the show will be taken to Argentine With the ‘ircus are Martes, Miercoles and Jueves; Pacheco Family (Bobby, Delfin and Rosalie), Los Delphins, Castro Hodar Troupe, Miss Rosalie, Sierra Saw, La- Farruquita, Tanke and Titonin, Abus Hanz, Cantarito and Ranito, Chaparrito, Los Almarza, Los Hermanos Gruz and Hnos. Arrico. The Engessers in Kansas City AKANSAS CITY, Dec. 22—Mr. and Mrs. George E. Engesser arrived here this week, planning to be here for the Heart of America Showman’s Club’s Christmas tree Christmas night and the and ball New about January Peter, Minn., school. Mr. eventh annual banquet Year’s Eve, leaving : fo their 1 where t} Eng mar here me in St. eir dauchter attend er is the owner-manager of Zell- Bros.’ Circus, said to be of the motorized circuses in America one finest Betty Retlaw Recovers NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Betty Retlaw vho wa eriously injured in a fall from her apparatu while doing her free act last fall at the Frederick (Md.) Fair, is been discharged from the Irvington (N. J.) Hospital and has re turned to her home in Hill ide N. J Santos % Artigas Playing To Good Business in Havana HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 21.—Santos & Artigas, despite general depression here, which affects the amusement business, are having generally good houses. Their bill consists of 12 numbers in two parts, with a 20-minute intermission, while the nets ire being stretched for the opening of the second act, the Flying Codonas, ierialists The show opens with Christian Fleuret French balancing act Next is Strath- nore, from Holland, ona bicycle; balances two heavy chairs in his teeth while riding around the stage, and another with five hairs in his teeth, swinging them aloft and dgwn. Next are Les Cardenals, in tumbling and general acrobatic work Prof. Waifhe and his dogs perform the usual dog tricks Planet has a novelty act and is assisted by a woman Comes in fully dressed, then undresses on stage; woman suspends pole by one hand on which man per- forms. poses and does his disrobing act. Later the man juggles with a heavy ship anchor, the climax being a shot from a cannon on the stage in view of the audi- ence and from which a shell is apparently thrown, the man catching this in his hands. He dresses in an aviator’s cos- tume to receive the shell, with. his face and head protected The second half opens with the Dono- das aerial act. They do twists and somer- saults. Those Kids have a posing and acrobatic act. Christian Christensen has a pedal-running machine act, with a man and two girls, who compete Lio Hoi Tsenh is a Chinese act, with three girls and two men. They do knife throwing, ete. Les Sambers is a Spanish strong- man act. Show closes with the lion tamer, Herman Weedam, and his five lions, and fs the only real circus act in the show, the rest being vaudeville turns. There are the usual clowns and a circus band. Picked Up in Chicago CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—Vernon Williams has gone to Memphis with the other five men comprising the advertising brigade of Harvey’s London Hippodrome Circus. Reports here are to effect that Christy Bros.’ Circus will have 25 cars next sea- son. Permanent quarters have been secured at Houston, Tex. Dr. Edmund Heller, assistant curator of the Fiele, Museum, is reported on his way back from the Belgian Congo with about 1,000 specimens of mammals for the museum There are among. the trophies gorillas, chimpanzees, buffaloes and elephants. Dr. Heller was a member of the Roosevelt party on the African hunt in 1909-10. Jos. Miller To Visit New York NEW YORK, Dec. 23. — Col. Joseph Miller, of Miller Bros.’ 101 Ranch Wild West, expects pay New York a visit during the holidays, accompanied by his to wife. C. W. Finney, general agent of the show, will probably accompany Mr. Miller. Doc Waddell Goes to Memphis Doc Waddell, press representative, who has been in Columbus, O., since the Hagenbeck-Wallace Cireus closed its season, left last week for Memphis, Tenn., to join R. M. Harvey's London Hippo- drome Circus En route to the Southern city he stopped off in Cincinnati and paid a call at The Billboard offices. Thompson’s Act in Vaudeville CHICAGO formerly of Dec the 9° Harry Thompson, Ringling Bros.’ Circus, has been playing vaudeville engagements in Chicago and territory with his Barn- yard Cireu The act was a feature of Medinah Temple’s Shrine Ceremonial bill last week A Pathe weekly release, just out, shows one of the pigs making an 18- foot dive, which indicates the remarkable training of the animal There are five pies, two goats and one goose in the act. Mrs. Thompson went to New York for a visit during the holidays — Lew Graham Improving a NEW YORK. Dee. 22.—Lew Gr: announcer with the Ringling-Barnum Cireus, who was compelled to leay: show last summer because of } trouble, is improving under the car Mrs. Graham, who says her husband y be able to resume work when thy show opens in Madison Square Garden next March. At Downie Bros.’ Quarters HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., Dec. 22 Hy Nichols, painter and decorato: finished work on the calliope and vance trucks Pete Hiner and Floy Card are in the carpenter shop rep ng cages and truck bodies before t! are sent to the paint shop Chas. Williams and family are enjoy- . ing the me fireside at Eldon, Ia J Goodwin and wife are spending the ter in Denve Billy Faust and wif: in Rochester, N. Y., after playing a indcor dates Word has been received in quart that Jack Croake’s mother died in Ann Arbor, Mich., recently. Andrew Dow: is spending Christmas at home, Medi: N_ Y., and will return to Havre de G: after the holidays Peck Amsden, legal adjuster, is hunting and fishing Florida. New animals are arriving at qu every day The latest addition eight Piney Ridge Rooters (Arka: razorback hogs), which are being brok and will be worked by Bob Johnsor Raymond (Brigham) Young, wood v worker with the Downie Show, is spe XY ing a few weeks at his home in Ch Valley, Ark. G. E. Wilson, dog and ; trainer, has been under the weather t! last few days xt W. H. Stokes has a mixed group well broken, including a lion, leopard goat, lamb and. collie dog The s) will have three elephant acts, two sing! with elephant, dog and pony, and the big r act with three elephants Bill Bowen has settled here for the winter. Wm. W. Grant, contortionist, is enjoying the winter at his home in Fll- wood City, Pa L. C. Holt and Chas. Griswold, men bers of clown alley, are doing well wth me their vaudeville show, playing small , towns in Maryland and Delaware. They T have a small band for a ballyhoo and rout put on a pleasing performance. 1. A. B. P. & B.. Local ‘No. 5 ars ST. LOUIS, Dec. 21 —The following officers have been -elected for th on ing year: O. Lindholm, president; Fr Dailey, vice-president ;” Walter Ga financial secretary; Harry Smith, 1 A cording secretary; Sam Lowenst I treasurer; Joseph Danecek bu agent; Denton, sergeant-at Bennie Miller, Frank Smith and Dix, trustees; Walter Gazzola Roy Cluse, delegates to the central b Kid Koster is here arranging billing for Give and Take, which ope! at the Gayety Theater Decembet E. C. (Fat) Shuler, after a three we stay in the Barnes Hospital, is up and around again Harry Cook, of Kirk- wood, Mo., attended the last meeting Tex Gordon, veteran circus billposter, last season on the No. 1 car of t! Sparks Circus, is in Oklahoma City. George W and |! t } A Correction In the advertisement of the Pneuma'tc Calliope Company, 345 Market str Newark, N. J which appeared in t ! Christmas number, the firm name W's it misspelled should have Louis Chase in Chicago It was Pheumatic, wherea been Pneumatic. ( CHICAGO, Dec, 23.—Louis Chase, for- ’ merly of the Hagenback-Wallace Show 1 and later with the Lee Bros.’ Circus, in Chicago, at the Sherman ce « { * P “ re - F _ 4 pe ——— CQ. Sm Ji y AP. py aie Yad) | Fens) FRI | > /FY\ o: “1 /} } WHI WAG i Wt I/F wX\\D VP RANG off WEES \ Ws >|} ys LSS ms : f — 7s: “y “SS ia Sant Po SoS Be % SS aR * SEs 2. Bi ; Rs : eee : , S$ RES | =e —_S a Soul es ; ok . a . Oe ae : x wee Se Ss SS & ae ae ee : Si aa = : : = a le a S RS ~ i x 2a ks 3. “a Tee . ‘oo a — | ee . a i eee ee ; a

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| Tw With the Circus Fans Mey KARL KAE KNECHT C.F. A. Secy.-Treas. Ind, Dee. 22.—With son rather than the ison here, members of the till giving thought to the cir- y mail is as heavy as during r. Christmas cards from mem- n to pour in a week ago. VILLE, ind sea 1D YOU LIKE the Fans’ sted by Pres to every ent heads greet- dent King member, as well and others on all se to others who are in- and with whom we have in common, Surges ICKFORD (I1LL.) REGISTER- which Lieut-Governor Fred f Tilinois, is publisher, recently editorial on the death of rling The late circus king Sterling were the closest of The Evansville (Ind.) Courier ed an editorial on Mr. Ring- S OF CITY ordimances, regu- have been received from in Wagner, of Des Moines Rocky Mount, N. C., from Raugh, and J. V. Chloupek, of Calif., sent a package of or- many California towns, and Tohn Gibson, of Detroit, y’s municipal manual. f Laconia, N. H., and Vice- ohnson, of Concord, N. H., t the information for their cities. 7 i AD a most interesting letter er our member at 270 18th ta Monica, Calif.. who has re- an 11 months’ trip abroad. of the cir us he told of es as he his found them on home TOR GEORGE DUFFY and Linney, State chairman of } le reservations at 1 (I Ss : Hotel for in April TER DRIVER, of the Driver Company, Chicago, will at- bar t and ball of the Heart Showmen's Club, at Kansas n New Year's Eve He will also t the Fans while there. ‘R JOE COOK, comedian of Vonities spent Sunday in his home town, recently TERESTING ROOK that + ny want is to be issued by » 9 re p pulation. with every ted playing them tn that period PY NEW YEAR to you all, and nt King says, may you “turn nN bles in 1927. TE OF SADNESS has entered holiday joys in the announce- t} death of our vice-president, Walter of Helena, Mont. This nd of our members to make | of “th season” here on fon. W. W. Workman. of Rich- having been the firsty Nils 1 splendid man and a well- nage in his State, citv and ww people of all branches entertained many of the dis- i visitors to his town and He was the head of the Walters . Agency prominent in State interested In ranches, stock n ; and banks His Royal f Jesters was well known the er He was born in Onslunda, Sl years ago, Since 1886 he ted the Pinkertons in his section 334 derree Mason. His renial i his famous hospitality will be nd the Fans have lost a great ! member. To his dauchter, ffer, of Helena, and a son in nin we extend our heartfelt sym- TO OUR roster member No. 200, W. Smith, Jr., 5020 Washington ad, Chieago, salesman for the nd & Hardy Molders’ Sand Com- Wt ON All the Show World xees SHOW TENTS Walter F. Driver, Pres. The Billboard, January 1, aOR RE RS DARE RE RS RE RRS DOR =—, Wallace D. Driver, Secy. Driver Brothers, Inc. ' §00-506 So. Green St., Chicago, Illinois ia Monroe 6183 4 Phones: se 2728 Monroe 2675 / Order Your Tents and Banners Now for Spring Delivery PICTORIAL BANNERS is New 70-Ft. Cars now To All Circus Managers Would it not be advantageous to arrange for promptly? sd you can get them Mt. Vernon Car Mig. Co. MT. VERNON, ILL. WANTED To BU ¥—Two = Maryland. DOWNIE BROS. 3-RING WILD ANIMAL CIRCUS THE LARGEST MOTOR CIRCUS IN THE WORLD, WANTS FOR SEASON 1927, Of all kinds, espetially good NOV E L iy ACTS that can be featured. Performers with own cars and sleepit g Y ' s given prefere Side-Show Manager, Boss Pr ps. Man to handle Cook House, first-class Camp ¢ two more _ Billo sters. Those driving trucks preferr 1 FOR SALE—Two new F x . ¢ condition, three a] t bargain. nage High School Horses. CIRCUS ACTS ‘ A Add ite pss ‘DOWNIE BROS. “Havre de Grace, The Circus in Central Europe The circus business in Central Europe respectable magnitude. In Germany alone about 1,000 performers in summer time earn their living tenting and in the sawdust ring. An interesting description of these ene t rpris s was given in the recent special is number f Des Programm. In this article we are told that Ger- s of quite many has quite a number of tented en- terprises, for there are, besides the big cities, hundreds of good-sized towns where a variety theater, a vaudeville house, or a music hall cannot be made to pay all the year around, but where the amusement hankering of the populace is, in a “hoarded up” and given vent to once or twice a year, in summer strikes the town. sense, time, when a _ circus And if the show is a good one, well re- puted, it can stay from tnree days to 2 week, for beside the townspeople, “the farmers and peasants from the surround- ine country will also come in and help to fill the tent These circuses af- are not such huge fairs as the Ringling-Barnum & Bailey show in America, yet some of the larger ones, like Krone or Sarrasani or or Henny are of quite re- spectable size, even when compared with their American rivals, while many others, like Blumenfeld or Corty-Althoff or Bar- um-Kreiser or Hagenbeck, are also not only capacious but well stocked with wild and give performances in a large number of feature quality, among them a Strabburger animals, horses, one ring, with icts of prime number of equestrian acts, wild animal rets and similar real circus acts general- ly belonging to the management direct Most of these shows take pride in their tables, and it is nothing unusual to find 50, 60 or even more horses with one of these one-ring circuses They are able to run liberty hor in squads of 16, 12, eight or six, splendidly matched, into the ring and a well traine* Invariably there are from four to a half-dozen high- school horses. Shows like Kreiser, we are Krone, Hagenbeck told, make a sp: wild beast acts, having groups of from eight to 20 or more lions, tigers, Polar and brown bears, and herds of from six to 20 elephants. The biggest wild animal act extant is Capt. Alfred Schneider's lion act, which, as will be recalled, was one of the ate tractions at the last Olympia Circus of and cialty of London. Captain Schneider has no fewer than 65 lions in his act. The biggest tent show in Germany is the Cireus Krone. Krone was the first—since Barnum & Bailey’s European trip a quarter of a century ago—to try a circus with more than one ring, and has made a success, financially and otherwise, with his three rings and two stages, all of Bay are cleared away toward the end of the pro- gram to convert the whole center into an arena for chariot races, games on horses back an@ similar feats. Krone has also a fine menagerie, open to the public all day, a veritable zoological garden Sarrasini, second in rank, returned six months ago from a two years’ tour of South America, where he is said to have lost a good many of his animals He makes up this summer by showing ethno- logical exhibits, negro tribes. American Hindus, Chi rigines Indians, Arabs, nese and ether exotic al Nearly all traveling circuses, big or little, have troupes of Japanese jugglers, Chinese balancers, Arab tumblers. These are particularly useful for publicity pur- poses In small towns they parade the streets in native costumes, arousing curi- osity. Some of our circuses have, in the last few years, increased their automobile parks, a travel entirely by motor power, making themselves independent of the railroads. Traveling by motor is of- nd some 1927 65 ten quicker, or at least more expedient, for where the circus lot is not on or near a railway siding all the work of trans- porting everything to and from the lot, also loading and unloading the train, is saved. Morever, it is not necessary to wait until the whole show is stowed away on the train. Every motor car can start on its way across untry as soon as its own load is ready, and in the same way the unpacking and building up can begin and continue successively as the various cars arrive. A specialty in Germany of which there ar; play without a tent in the stage without scenery, a with trappings for trapezes, ing rings, ticht ropes, slack wires, etc., is erected. Before it a number of benches are put for reserved seats and sold at a reasonable price. All the of the public can attend free of charge, but they must Btand up. As the artistes finish their acts, they pass among the crowd with collection boxes. Of the contents the performers—who are paid a regular salary—retain a small percentage, the rest goes to the proprietor. These shows often do as well, sometimes even better than, as the small tent circuses. The fact that the spectator does not have to is the quite a “Arena”, few. These open air. A big platform bars, swing- rest give anything if he does not like the show seems to have some attractive power, and, besides, it also forces the proprietor to give a good show, else his audience, if it feels bored, will dwindle away.—The Performer. Concerning R.-B. And Other Showfolk Just heard from Everett Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Silbon, who are on their trip to California via all “wet ports”, south and west In their come munication they declared they were having the time of their young lives at Havana. Saw Al White. Frank McStay, Billy Hart, Fred Bradna, Momus Grady, Limy Murphy, May Wirth, Philip, Freddie Freeman, George Hartzell, the Clarko- nians, John Slater, Jimmy Spriggs and Major at Philadelphia while I was looking over the At Cleveland I ran into the young son of Eddie Martin, who told me that his uncle, Al Martin, of Tom fame, was spending the holidays at Cleveland. Had a fine visit with Harry Strause, burlesque proprietor and banner King, at Cleveland, and strange to relate, the next day I ran into Billy Exton. who has been some banner man himself. George Gallagher, former agent of McCaddon’'s Circus, gave me a hearty welcome at Cleveland, and in Detroit I was royally entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. “Mutt” Thompson. The Thompsons had just returned from Hot Springs and reported a fine visit. “Mutt” gave me permission to tell the world about the “civilizing” influence his wife has wielded over him since his marriage four years ago, and speaking from personal experience the _ writer never entered a home where good fel- lowship and cheer radiated more freely. In Columbus, O., I saw Clarence Daw- (Continued on page 66) Hart and Sesqui. general Bd a ee a: DETROIT - J. Co MICH. CARNIVAL. AND SIDE SHOW BANNER’ PAINTERS Saar =. N. YY ase 'w. 8TH ST. For Sale, Railroad Cars condition, equipped to Tun ads ther wood. r in hig ARMS. YAGER RAILWAY CAR CO. 410 N. Michigan Avenue, CHICAGO. nderframe ailr ' 7 Pe es | y pb sh . a es | State ¢ a a bof ia pat mena | of 8 a i Ps } reams nenitarion pace oF event text | ? | ss GOSS’ SHOW cr | @ CANVAS mt NW@77 CARNIVAL TENTS i " oe J . ee | * 3

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66 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 Under the Marquee W. L. (SLIM) GRIFFIN, who was with the Christy Bros.’ Circus the last three seasons, has quit the road and gone into the chicken-raising business. ED LOLLIS, who closed the season as boss hostler with Lee Bros.’ Circus, is braking on the Alton R. R., between Kansas City and Slater. THE McKEONE FAMILY, who closed the season with the John Robinson Circus, will be connected with that show again the coming season. They are located in Cincinnati, O., at 421 E. Third street. GEORGE KELLY, f for years with the white tops, is stage carpenter with the Queen High Company, playing an in- definite engagement at the Wilbur Thea- ter, Boston. W. J. AHE ARN, ca canvasman with the Ringling-Barnum Circus, is engaged in the poultry business for the winter. He will be back with the white tops in the spring. HARRY DUQUETTE, John Robinson Circus, and a World War veteran, will sail shortly for Europe and visit France, Belgium and Germany. He will be gone six weeks. H. L. ANDREWS, who was on the John Robinson and Hagenbeck-Wallace advertising cars last season, is managing one of William F. Aldrich’s troupes of Impefial Hawaiians, porter of the THE DeKOS report. a wonderful time in Los Angeles. They met George Davis, who took them over the Educational Comedy plant. They also met Olga Celeste. JIM MARTIN writes that a new Mayor has been elected in Fall River, Mass., and an effort will be made to have the Ring- ling-Barnum Circus visit there the com- ing season. The Big Show, he says, has not played Fall River in five years. GEORGE EDWARDS, who was with the 101 Ranch Show season of 1925 and part of 1926, and with the Sells-Floto Circus at the close of the 1926 season, is now with the John V. Ruggio Express Company, at 544 N. Clark street, Chicago. BILL KOPLIN, clown, who has suf- fered two paralytic strokes in the past several years, is now in the County In- firmary, Hartwell, Cincinnati, O. His last engagement was with the Sells-Floto Circus. Letters from his friends will be appreciated. WILLIAM JEROME FISHER, of Shel- bina, Mo., who was one of the world- famous circus clowns, is now 96 years of age. He was with the Dan Rice Cir- cus years ago, and made his great hit in singing such songs as Blue-Evyed Mary, The Girl I Left Behind Me. Sleigh Bells and Sweet Mary. PAPE AND TURPIN finished their en- gagement at a department store in Balti- more last week, where they did a comedy acrobatic turn. They will work in and around Cincinnati for a few weeks and then go to Cleveland. The boys say the will work in an act with the Ringling- Barnum Circus the coming season. G. BURKHART, who managed the Gentry Bros.’ Circus Side Show, was com- pelled to leave the show September 18 to appear in a court hearing concerning property. He has disposed of most of his property holdings in Brooklyn and Queens, N. Y. It is his intention to take to the road next season with a circus. FRANK A. ROBERTSON, formerly with the Barnum & Bailey, Sells-Floto, Sparks and other show writes: “I am now a first-class ‘villager’ and playing at Codman Square Theater, Boston. The old trumpet still has a few high ones left in it, but you ought to see me shoot ‘em with a mashie-niblick. Just a warn- ing to anybody coming this way after April.” AND FRANCES McGEE, Christy Bros.” Circus last season, are spending the winter at Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. McGee left the St. Joseph Hospital at Houston, Tex., Decem- ber 6, and says his leg is healing nicely, and he expects to have the cast removed about February 1. The McGees will be back with the Christy show the coming season. ALBERT with the (RED) SELLS, of the A acrobat, a clown and Sparks Circus, recently to both of us. DID YOU Get Your Bargain Book? It’s full of Baker Bargains in used Show Equipment. didn’t get it, mail us your address today. Baker-Lockwood Seventh &% Wyandotte, Kansas City, Mo. AMERICA’S BIG TENT HOUSE It you It's worth money ‘Outdoor Sho winen Dont miss your biggest money nar The Deagan in Unafon Packs’Em In GREATEST BALLY OF THEM ALL 1 Played same as piano. Brass band vol- 1 ume. Two sizes, $375 and $500. The largest size will go in a Ford. Write for Full Information . BX oe Deagan Inc. 1760 Deagan Building, Chicago, IIl. made a hit with in a joint appearance with in the toy de ment store. He Macon (Ga.) children “Santa Claus” partment of a big depart- appeared at the Capitol Theater in Macon for two days in connec- tion with a circus picture. Sells and his wife will remain in Macon until January 7, when they they have several date Ss. will go to Florida, where DOLLY CASTLE, animal trainer, last season with the Sparks Circus, writes: “Little Jackie, a victim of infantile paralysis, and who has not walked for 10 years, will enter the Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., Hoke, of the Scottish Rite Hospital. limbs will be broken at the knees and ankles in order that he may wear braces more comfortably, much pleased to hear from friends. ean be addressed, Jack Castle, 262 Glenn street, S. W., Atlanta, Ga.” shortly after Christmas, and will be under the care of Dr. Mic hael Both Jackie will be very He A NUMBER OF CIRCUS BOYS are in St. Louis this winter, among them Arthur Stahlman, of the cus, at the Store, and H.-W. store. Circus, is George Famous-Barr using circus methods vertising; Earl Shipley, at the Hagenbeck-Wallace Cir- Department in ad- clown, with the clowning Davis is in town, and R. M. Harvey is seen there occasionally, Barr are- ranging affairs for his winter show dates. George Paige, Floto Circus, ticket seller of the can be found either at the Sells- American Annex or the Shrine Temple. Doe Aldrich, of the Ringling show, is seen around the Mayfair Hotel. “OLD BILL”, the with the Ringling Bailey circuses, Rig Show fall, wags at Ft. is to be placed Museum of Natural His Museum authorities pla hibition “Fatima”, hip accompanied “Old Bill” try on his many trips, long after the former. Bros. and which died while the famous’ Indian armored rhinoceros, which spent 19 years and Barn Worth, Tex in the Pe im & last abody tory at Yale. The n to place on ex- popotamus, around the which coun- and which died not “Old Bill” was 22 years of age, weighed 2,500 pounds, and was considered one of the finest speci- mens in existence. HENRY HOWARD, known as “The Hamburger King”, last season with sev- eral outdoor shows, and Willard C. Mor- gan, late’ of the Sparks Circus, have a freak animal show, the Georgia Mystery, a hog nine months old, having six legs and weighing 130 pounds. They have built a platform body, mounted on a truck chassis, and will leave Statesboro, Ga., January 1, to play fair dates in Florida, following which they will return to Statesboro. The wives of Howard and Morgan will be with them. Morgan and wife will return to the white tops when the season opens. MRS. MARY WILLIAMS, of Omaha, Neb., has a life-time pass to the Barnum & Bailey organization for herself, her husband and her family, because she saved 75 people in the show from death in a fire in York, Pa., 49 years ago. The pass was written, signed and acknowl- edged before a notary by James A. Bailey. It says Mrs. lives of 75 Barnum & and that of Mr. Bailey himself, when a hotel, the Morter House, caught fire, Mrs. Williams ran the hotel elevator thru the flames and carried the performers to safety. The pass is on heavy bond paper and written with ink. After the death of Mr. Bailey the new owners of the show kept on honoring the pass. Mrs, Wil- liams is 77 years of age. FOREPAUGH WHITIE of circus press agents, Williams saved the Bailey performers submits a list past and present, viz.: Charles Gayler, A. O. Starr, Harry Cordova, Matt Lellaad, Charles H. Day, James B. McIntosh, H. D. DeBelle, W. H. Hough, Harry Evarts, C. M. Pratt, W. S. Crum, c. W. Kidder, KF H. Rase, J. W. Hamilton, W. W. Durand, A. J. Guilford, R. S. Thomas, Frank J. Pilling, Fred Lawrence, Sam Day, J. R. Boyd, W. C. Scott, J. A. Daves, O. W. Daves, William Andrews, J. A. Knapp, Ed Cooke, James H. Kelly, J. C. Boyd, W. C. Boyd, R. F. (Tody) Hamilton, Charles Ringling, Pete —. Warren A. Patrick, Frank V. Lemen, E. (Punch) Wheeler, Major J. M. Burk Louis E. Cooke, C. L. Dean, J. Riaj Dexter W. Fellows, H. Watkins, Otto Floto, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Frank Braden, Roland Butler, Townsend Walsh, Lester Thompson, Edwin P. Nor- wood, Charles Bernard, Fletcher Smith, Harry Mack, Eddie Jackson, Floyd King, Walter D. Nealand, Skinny Dawson, WiI- lard D. Coxey, Bruce Chesterman, Wijj- liam Lester and R. B. Dean. AN OLDTIMER WRITES — “Buck Leahy in the Christmas issue of The Billboard asks ‘who remembers’ when James O'Rourke had the bulls with tho Harris Nickel-Plate Shows; also when Ernest DeEspa leaped with the (Cole Bros.’ Show’? James O'Rourke or ‘Jim the Bum’, as he was called, had charge of the lions and the elephant called ‘Gypsy’ for several season with the Har- ris show, and in the late fall of 190° was killed by ‘Gypsy’ in Valdosta, G just after the night performance, th: closing stand of the season. The show went into quarters at the fairground Bill Mincer also was hurt by the elephant shortly after she had killed Jim. With the show at the time were C. C. Wilson, manager; Uncle Dan Costello, equestrian director; Indiana Fatty, boss canvasman ; performers—Ed and Maude = Millet’: double traps and headbalancing; Littl. Ira, clown whistler; Orton Family, rid- ing, wire, double traps; Pete Jenkins: Billy Melrose, rider; Ernest Mooney double somersault leaper; Fatty Shea and Bill Mincer, clowns; Harry Arm- strong, Sr., played cornet in the band, and with his family did Swiss bell ring- ing in the concert. Whitie, Big Lou White, Arkansas Slim and Uncle Bob Terry also were with the show. Ernest DeEspa was principal double somersa.! leaper with the Sells & Downs Show, a?! remained with it when it went out unde the name of the Cole Bros.’ Show. Wt!) the show were Joe Berris, Mike Rooney, Winslow, Scharr Troupe, Pacheco Fam- jiv, Aerial Shaws, Emory Goyt and wife, Bill Dutton. George Whitby, the Rachet- ta Bros. and others. Later DeEspa was with the Mighty Haag R. R. Show. Ho was the principal leaper and had a five- people casting act. Met him in Erie, Pa., last vear and saw him do ground leaps.” Concerning R.-B. And Other Showfolk (Continued from page 65) son, who is employed at his old-time position of cigar salesman for the holidays. Saw Nick Albanese several times, and his cousin, Nick Francisco Had a nice visit with Charley Bracrs. who is managing the Lyceum, and re- newed old friendships with John and Lena Shannon. While in camp at Celina reservoir I talked on the phone with Rov De Haven and he was coming over to see me, but the roads were too bad for flivvering. Mrs. Shannon and Ethel Dore had just returned from the Show- men’s League Convention. At Washing- ton, D. C., saw Joe Ennis, Jr., and Arthur Houghton, boys well known on the bill ears. Billy Driver writes of a big catch daily at Safety Harbor. He has as a playmate Uncle Hiram Birdseed. Had a nice visit with Marshall King at Alex- andria and expect to see him on my way east. Just heard that Bob Courtney wa? wearing some very loud ties at the Showmen’s Convention in Chicago Have learned that Leo Haggarty is at Los Angeles. Harry Overton, Dick Jef- fers, Fred Faerber and Sweeney were seen at Hot Springs, as well as Craw- ford, who worked for Clyde Ingalls last season. Carl Hathaway is making | yearly visit to the Hoosier State and |! expect he and Roy Feltus will spen! many an hour talking over “Do You Remember When?". George Brown, fast banner puller, and wife were recent cuests of Clarence and Kitty Dawson at Columbus, O. If you go to London, O., this time of year you will find Tony Ballenger busy with either his radio or his car, «a! least that was my _ experience Dr Harry Chapman, 70 years young, is st!!! going strong in Columbus. Col. Sam Dawson, after visiting sor of the larger centers of Virginia aft«T his season closed, is now “rusticatine” in New York. I have invited him te spend the year end with me at my hum- ble abode on Staten Island. I take this opportunity of thanking t!: hundreds of readers of The Billboor’ who send me letters and of asking them to continue letters. Vernon Reaver is tn Des Moines, I and don’t overlook his route book I contains a world of information, w'''' Stanley F. Dawson, iL . _ m ee LE LE LLL LLL LLL LLL LLL LLL LD ae f Al oe 1 die a pe er ee oo. - > ae! A — a . beach 18) Se, Ys +h ee yy Ne Fi my WORE , 3 @ o @\ “Ye me GREAT De Se A aS >) Za Vines) t ” 2 2 aed - vy be - ve Los —_ 4 / Qs. ea mi PSY Well Al) ARR I ty | ‘mal Vee | = 1 J 1 iy s\ | ee bef ' _ —s | Tape poaoesest _ a Se didddeer cats Herve evenses | PB : ie yep’ ff oe | a iene i rere “oe —ms SS — . —__ Hi, r ” ee ( a . aioe K. ———— = = The Oo wou : in C : = 100. a nour ee : Je , all viol! are in t! es , fg = c Pe rr oe ‘ one bue) twe 7 the - Cor : L —eEETETETETETEEEEEINI.N Ww a a + Bea’? Wa eee the 1 Vete ae and the dur ‘ . | Lil a ee a tr: ot es lea 4 SE: — bre a ss oo Lal at |

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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 67 sz CHAS. G. DRIVER, Pres. He Knows How because of 27 years’ practical experience with shears and tapemeasure. ‘ 19-25 South Hoyne Ave., CHAS. FRED G. JOHNSON, Vice-Pres. He Knows How because of 15 years’ practical experience painting circus and carnival pictorial banners. CHAS. G. DRIVER TENT CO.,, Our Motto—A Square Deal To AIll Chicago, ll, A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU Circus and Carnival Tents Cut and Roped by Experts. Side Show and Carnival Banners Painted by Famous Artists. The personnel of this enterprise should convince you of the very best workmanship and prompt deliveries. Each Man an Artist in His Department. No order too large for our facilities—none too small to receive our prompt and personal attention. Our factory is equipped with the very latest modern new machinery, individual motors and direct lighting system on all machines. Showfolk are cordially invited to call and look over our plant. DRIVER SERVICE SATISFIES Phone Seely 0020 GEO. C. OLSEN, Sec’y-Treas. He Knows How because of 20 years’ practical experience roping and leatheting circus and carnival tents. The CORRAL Communicatons to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. KANSAS CITY. — Dead Shot Profer, the Ozarks’ rifle shot, was a caller at The Rillhoard last week and said he would like to hear from friends. ALPINE, Tex.—The Wild Horse ranch in Culberson County, consisting of about 100.000 acres, has been sold to Dallas purchasers. The consideration an- nounced was $198,363. JOSE ROHR and his musical Argen- tine Gauchos arrived in New York De- The cowboys of the Pampas all play musical instruments, including violins, guitar and bandorreones. There are four girls and four men who excel in the Argentine tango, and one in hurl- boleados, which takes the place a lasso, HACKBERRY SLIM JOHNSON writes from Pampa, Tex “Have been out all Season with Wild West. Wintering here and sending my boys to school I have one of the best string of bronks and bucking steers anywhere in Texas and ‘reed buffaloes that unpack all the boys Would like to hear from my old friend, Lee Ford. Regards to all Corral readers.” ot CRUCES, N. M.—The death of m P. Gordon, 96, “Navajo Bill", lat his home in Deming. Gordon wn as an Indian fighter during ler days of the West. Born in nh City, Mo. im 1830, he was a i the tr nt a ran of the Mexican and Civil wars. oy 'n many of the campaigns against ®* Apaches in Southern New Mexico during the "Ss, ee CITY, Okla.—Major Gordon "gia (Pawnee Rill) has announced that fr a eived splendid support, not only , hewspapers, but from other pub- + at ind from the various organiza- m8 well, in his recent campaign to —— the extermination of a buffalo Lan, oy Antelope Istand in Great Salt ‘ Major Lillle made the campaign after receiving a letter to participate in a buffalo hunt. intended to wipe out the herd. He had the assistance also of Boy Scouts, the Izaak Walton League, the American Legion, the Associated Sportsmen clubs, governors of several States, mayors of various large cities and other men of prominence. So great has been the clamor against the exter- mination of the herd that Major Lillie says an organization is being formed thruout New England to raise funds with which to buy the herd and move it to New England as a national exhibit THE RUFFALO HERD, by Bert Hud- dleston, in The Oklahoma City Okla- homan: When Pawnee Bill received a note Inviting him to go And help a gang of hunters kill A herd of buffalo, He read the note with tear-stained eyes And said, “They cannot slay This great, big herd of buffalo In any sort of way.” So Gordon Lillie, “Pawnee Bill”, Decided he would strive To see that all the hunters left The animals alive. The campaign was a grand success, And now he plans to take The herd to a New England park— Away from Great Salt Lake. G. BE. HARRIS writes: “King Bros.’ Rodeo is on the fairgrounds at Braden- town, Fla. Col. King has just completed a new arena and is using two canopies, one seating 1.200 and the other 2,500 These. with a set of bleachers with a capacity of 1,000, places him in a posi- tion to take care of crowds. Chief Cow- boy Joe Webb has plenty of work these days, as the pasture in this part of the country is not fenced and most of the stock must be herded. Earl Beasley is slowly recovering from an injury re- ceived at the Tampa engagement and is doing his bulldogging in old-time form. Col. Leon Lemar, of the I. X. L. Ranch on the Johnny J. Jones Exposition, is spending his vacation visiting Col. Jack King. and has been assisting in building the new outfit. His help is greatly ap- preciated by the organization. Eddy Harney and Tommy Cropper, our two star trick riders, will soon have a double trick. The roster of the company in- cludes Joe Webb, chief cowboy: John Crauthers, Frank Meany, Earl Strauber, Carl Beasley, Eddie Jones, Ray Adams, Pinky Oas, John Phlean, Texas Slim, Shine Lipscomb, cowboys; Alice Roberts, Pauline Lorenza and Ethel Bear, cow- girls. The trick riders are Eddy Harney, Tommy Cropper, Joe Webb, Hazel Bills, Mary Webb and Maud Bloom. Billie King is busy training her horse, Silver, to jump a loaded automobile.” SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. — “To the present generation of Australians,” ac- cord ng to Everyones, “the North Ameri- can Indian is almost an unknown quantity. Readers of fiction have rev- eled in the doings of American cow- boys, scouts and their natural enemy, the Red men, but very few, apart from those privileged to world travel, have seen any members of this fast-vanishing race, prior to the advent in this city of the small band of Indians now engaged by Paramount for an Austral’an season. Oldtimers will probably remember Dr. Carver’s Wild America, which pitched its tepees, tents and other paraphernatia in Moore Park. The area was enclosed by a seven or eight-foot galvanized-iron fence, and a goodly portion of the area was surrounded by seating accommoda- tion which extended 30 feet above the fence, so that those who were not privi- lered to see the show could gaze upon the vast audiences which supported the entertainment. And it was a real show! Thirty-nine Indian braves, one squaw and two papooses. By a strange coinct- dence, the company at the Prince Ed- ward includes but one woman and her two children. “The Carver show also had a consider- able number of American and Mexican cowboys, and these were augmented by several Australian boundary riders who, in feats of horsemanship, were even superior to the others—who rode in sad- dles from which it was almost impossible to fall off. At the same time, there were some of the visitors who were won- derful riders, and whose feats, while traveling at a very fast rate, were amaz- ing. The Indians, however, were the big noise in more ways than one They em- braced several tribes including, if we remember rightly, Sioux, Cheyennes, Crows and Blackfeet. Only five or six of the number could speak any English. All were very wild—some of them really savage—and, due to this never allowed outside the grounds unléss accompanied by Mexican or American guards.” BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Will Rogers, cowboy humorist, was inducted into office here December 21 as mayor after many and allegedly ambiguous promises concerning the “stand of my administration.” After the cowboy- humorist had taken the oath to the tune of The Old Gray Mare, played by the Los Angeles Fire Dept. Band, Douglas Fairbanks, chairman of the _ reception committee, sternly demanded that the new executive lay plans to provide for the poor of Beverly Hills and engineer a movement for private swimming pools, bridle paths and golf courses, to be eared for out of the public fund. Reply- ing, Will said his first official act would be to enlarge the suburban jail. Rogers told his const'tuents he would be “the only Mayor who is purposely funny” and promised the city a “real-estate admin- istration”. “What we need is a: good murder here; some good-looking woman to shoot someone.” said the new Mayor, outlining his “reform” policy. He added: “I could pick the victim.” Some of the other flashes of the wit of the humorist- Mayor were: “I'm for the common peo- ple, and as Beverly Hills has no common people I'll be sure to make good. This town is progressing. I remember when I first came here there were not more than 25 mortgages in the whole mu- nicipality—but it’s a unique town; we've got two swimming pools to every Bible I won't say that my administration will be exactly honest, but I'll agree to split 50-50 with you and give the town an even break Concluding, some of you wonder why I’ve been running around the country exhibiting myself, and I'll tell you the answer, I’m God's gift to those who didn’t see Queen Marie.” ROUND THE WORLD, Wembley Rodeo Wild West, under the direction of Harry E. Handy, has reached India and is playing Christmas week in Calcutta with Bombay to follow. Jack Burroughs (Continued on page 86) IMITATION FUR CHAPS, $12.00 Real Fur, $15.00, khaki backs. Tom Mix Five-Gallon Hats, satin lined, $10.00; others, $6.00 up. Genuine Angora and Genuine All-Leather Chaps, $25.00 ub. 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68 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 Fairs and Expositions Conducted by J. WILSON ROY—Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnat’, O. Should Balance Sheet Govern Success or Failure of Fairs? Texas Daily Raises Point That Expositions Foster Spirit of Neigh- borhood Friendly Rivalry Which Means Much in Encouraging Betterment in Local Produce—Financial Status Secondary During the discussion of the papers read at the recent convention of the Inté national Association of Fairs and Expositions in Chicago, with its attendant ques- tions and answers, Was that by J. W. a successful far?” Various responses were given by sea- soned fair secretaries and managers, and the answer seemed to be complete when C. E. Cameron (Iowa State Fair) re- plied: “A successful fair is that which makes both ends meet.” From a purely commercial aspect this answer would seem to cover a multitude of points relative to the success or failure of a fair, yet the point may be taken from another angle This latter phase seems to be intelligently and interestingly covered in a recent issue of a Texas daily —The Beaumont nterprise—and the edi- torial deductions are worth noting. We print below excerpts from this logical and feasible article: “The question has been raised as to whether a fair, any fair, pays, and how. It seems to us to look into the cashe- box for the answer is the last place to find the real value and the genuine pene- fits derived from a fair. It has never been the disposition of Beaumont people to seek the answer in the balance sheet of the fair itself. If the fair can pay its own way it is very gratifying. If a fair does pay its own way it is done by affording the people an amusement along with the real purposes of the fair. If a fair can sell enough entertainment, fun and frolic to pay for it there will be none to question the wisdom of so doing. But if we wiped out the receipts entirely, gave a fair absolutely free, it would still be a splendid investment for any ambitious community. tusswurm “It seems to us sometimes that too much stress is laid upon the amusement features of fairs, but, of course, that can be true only to the extent and when the fair management conceives that the fair is a big carnival. We think that no community effort that can be made does more for the development of the country round about than the fair; that is to say, that phase or section of the fair which centers around the exhibits. The influence set in motion by the ex- hibits, by the competition, knows no limits as of human competitive forts of to area or time. Every phase industry is stimulated by a display of the fruits, the ef- industry. From the school boy or girl thru the whole range of human- kind there persists the urge and the lure to excel. Where it is lacking nothing is left. The incompetents, the human derelicts who roam the country, eking out a bare and barren existence represent the type that has no interest in making something worth whil , something better than someone elss can make. The poverty-stricken farmer is one who has no interest in producing the largest pump- kin or raising the most cotton on an acre of ground. In other words the fair stimulates competition and creates incen- tive to do all the things worth while, all the things that keep the world moving and makes life a merry and enjoyable existence “It is so easy to think of the fair as a show, an enterprise bent upon justifying itself by its gate receipts. We fall inevitably into that habit unless we offer resistance to the thought and concentrate upon the intangible benefits of the fair. No individual need go outside his own consciousness for the answer. Few per- sons with a real purp@&e in life can go thru a well-ordered fair without being inspired to greater effort Few can go thru the ultry exhibit and come away without feeling an urge te become a poultry ra ! No matter what depart- ment of the fair it may be it will have its inspiring effect upon sqmebody and it will be someone tMcnes! samme to all probably the most pertinent query brought into the proceedings (Tennessee State Fair), when he asked: “What is progress who cannot find in the Aair something that will stimulate to greate: effort. “We haven't the slightest hesitaney in saying that the fairs that have been held in Beaumont have helped tremen- dously to develop the agricultural re- sources of this and adjoining count! Back there a few years ago when Capt m. I. Kellie displayed a few vegetables and other products of the soil on tables in the Masonic building the real fair was started. Before that Beaumont had been having its annual carnival. It took first one form and then another, but al- ways it was a carnival idea. It cor- responded to the harvest carnivals the world over, and thruout all time. The big idea was to bring people to town that they might do their trading. “The carnival idea has been \carried along with the fair. Sometimes it rather gains in the conception we have as to what a fair should be. Always there is invisible contest between ‘the two theories of a fair—the carnival on the one hand and the exposition of agricul- tural products, industry, art, science, housekeeping and a wide variety of the things which seriously affect the lives of the individuals and the community on the other hand. “The combination of the carnival idea and the exposition purposes creates an idea] enterprise. Properly balanced the one can be made to pay for the other and thus we can use our play to good pur- pose. But the failure of the carnival feature for whatever reason ought not to influence us to think less of the ex- position feature, If the community had to put up the money to hold the agri- cultural, industrial, art and other ex- hibits it would be a splendid investment. It speaks for our good judgment if we can make a fair support itself and we can do that if we contrive well enough and if we do not lose sight of the realities, or permit the carnival spirit to attain the control that will cast a blight upon the real substance, the real benefits of the fair.” Court Decision Hits Racing At North Dakota Fair Meets GRAND FORKS, N. D., Dec, 26. — Altho horse racing at North Dakota fairs has been practiced ever since fairs have been held in the State it is not author- ized by law when done for prizes, re- wards or betting, according to a decision handed down by the Supreme Court. The court holds that laws appropriat- ing State money for fairs and exhibits of live stock, agriculture and horticulture may not be interpreted as permitting horse racing. The decision was in connection with the case of John D. Erickson versus the North Dakota State Fair Association at Fargo. Erickson had sued for damages claimed as the result of the association calling off a race in which he had horses entered. Balance Shown for Palmyra Fair PALMYRA, N. Y., Dec. 26. — The Palmyra Fdir has a balance of $5,303.14 for 1926. Included in expenditures of $10.176.51 were $515 for attractions and $825.86 in improvements. Receipts to- taled $15,479.65, according to the report of Treasurer Harry G. Chapman. Rob- ert Coveney was elected a director to succeed the late John Walton, and Hiram Young was re-elected. J. F. SELDOMRIDGE, secretary-treas- urer of the Pennsylvania Association of County Fairs and secretary of the Lancaster Fair E. Indiana Circuit Elects Officers; Names Dates MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 26.—F. J. Clay- pool, of this city, was re-elected presi- dent of the Eastern Indiana Fair Cir- cuit at the meeting here recently. W. A. Marshall, of Middletown, was elected secretary. Attending the meeting were H. H. Parks and W. A. Depoy, Converse; H. L. Kelley, Montpelier; A. C. McCord and F. E. Lewis, Warren; W. A. Marshall, Middletown; J. E. Green, C. W. Galliher and F. J." Claypool, Muncie, and F. A, Wisehart, Middletown. The latter had been secretary of the circuit for a num- ber of years and declined it again be- cause of other business matters. Dates claimed for fairs comprising the circuit in 1927 follow: Montpelier, July 19 to 22, H. L. Kel- ley, secretary. Warren, July 26 to 29, E. E. Priddy, secretary. Middletown, July 26 to 29, W. A. Marshall, secretary. Muncie, August 2 to 5, F. J. Claypool, secretary. Portland, August 9 to 12, secretary not named. Connersville, August 16 to 19, Jap Kennedy, secretary. Decatur, August 23 to 26, secretary not named. Converse, September 13 to 16, W. A. Depoy, secretary. Bar Shows and Carnivals STUART, Fla., Dec. 27.—The county fair this year will have no carnivals or side shows. according to Theo. Dehon, president of the Chamber of Commerce, under whose auspices the exhibition will be held, the intention being to make it strictly an agricultural and dairy prod- ucts meeting. The fair will receive $1,000 from the county, and the Chamber of Commerce has authorized $500 to aid in defraying the cost of the booklets to be issued. Fair Had Largest Profit in 1926 PLYMOUTH, Wis., Dec. 26. — The Sheboygan County Agricultural Associa- tion cleared more than" $1,500 last fall, it was revealed in the annual financial statement. This profit is one of the largest in the history of the fair or- ganization. Favor Community Fairs ENID, Okla., Dec. 26.—At a meeting here representatives of 24 of the 26 townships in Garfield County voted unanimously to hold community fairs next fall. Definite action is to be taken at a meeting of the executive board soon, The question had been raised as a result of suggestions that fairs be abolished because of lack of interest, Fail To Advance Dates For Arkansas State Fair LITTLE ROCK, Dec. 16.—A proposal to advance the dates of the 1927 Arka: sas State Fair from the second to th first week in October was rejected at the recent meeting of the Board of Pi- rectors. It is likely, however, there w be a cHange in 1928, according to Sec: tary-Manager FE. G. Bylander The proposed change had gested that the fai: been sus might be linked with the Tri-State Fair, Memphis, and th: Texas State Fair, Dallas, which would enable the Association to seéevre attrac- tions which have been unavailable be- cause of conflicting engagements. The proposal failed because carnival and show bookings for next season have al- ready been arranged A general committee appointed by W A. Hicks, chairman of the board ha been authorized to appoint othe: ' mittees and subcommittees. It is com- posed of W. BE. Lennon, chairman; R L. Thompson, Alfred G. Kahn, Ben D Brickhouse and W. A. Hicks A committee to plan a dinner for the Chamber of Commerce, Fair Association and the Arkansas Legislature, which will meet soon, is composed of Roy L. Thomp son, C. F. Holland and John Baird Stockholders of the Association recently elected: W. A. Hicks, chairman; Con- way Scott, first vice-president; Mayor Charles E. Moyer, second vice-president; Milton L. Altheimer, third vice-president, and W. W. Dickenson and John P. Baird, members of the executive committee. Planning Colored State Fair NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 26.—At a recent meeting of the board of commis- sioners of the Tennessee Colored State Fair a report of the receipts and dis- bursements was made and appropriations determined that a greater fair may b: held in 1927 Many high-class attrac- tions have been contracted for the next season and the catalog is due from th press shortly The secretary is negotiating with rail- road companies for reduced rates and running special trains from Chicago and other cities to Nashville. Name Officers for Coming Year TIPTON, Ia., Dec. Cedar County Fair Association for 1%2 have been named as follows: President Charles Thompson, West Branch; vice- president, James Cary, Tipton; secretary Cc. S. Miller, Tipton, and treasurer, F. W Spear, Tipton. Dates for the fair have been set for August 30 and 31 and September 1 and 2. teport of the secretary showed the deficit for 1925 has been wiped out 26.—Officers for the New Secretary for State Fair PUEBIA, Col., Dec. 26.—J. J. Clark, who has been an official of the La Junt Chamber of Commerce, has been selected secretary of the Colorado State Fair and was in Pueb!o a few days ago preparing for the establishment of his residence He has been prominent in business circles in Southeastern Colorado. Minnesota State Fair Meeting January 12 to 14 MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 26.—The annua! meeting of the Minnesota State Agricu! tural Society-Minnesota State Fair wi’! be held here at the Nicollet Hotel Janu ary 12, 13 and 14. Thomas H. Canfield of Hamline, ig secretary-manager. Elected for Sixth Successive Terms SHERMAN, Tex., Dec. 26.—Lee Si! mons, president, and L. L, Etchison, secretary of the Red River Valley Fair were elected for their sixth successiv: terms at the recent meting of the asso ciation, Plans for the 1927 meeting, October 4 to 8, inclusive, were discussed, Boar DAI have ¢ of dir Assoc} MAT were ¢ year's of the And Co 4 —_ P/N (\\ ANY: } © ARANC d \\ if AVX LY \\S rahe ANS IGA - —¥ 1 ooh Saat Frank AS —% Gy) (Sh Heralc — 3 4s sane h ’ —- S ey n CED Royal : An rectors SO LE ee m4 | when 2 wy, coming ee a s Ys 7 | —— a eee a _—_= ling t OS ing da : a of ; presid Pa. ' dent ; Fes. Ln Ross _ } ; 4 Brown BS _—__ The Comn . Rossig ; was ! treasu : AL ; Kram: Pla - and a . vising be he! cos Cos! ; presid . dent : t Miller, a ‘ ’ that ¢ Dates been { 7 F. : DA‘ of the Board pe a L § MacF : terms out re after ™. WH : annu As Roffn and : " Bert t ee vihen ee > ee Ad < land | Se — 7 es , ae ae — ; Nig on

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f Directors Named ii For Texas S State Fair Body 24.—Stockholders : to the board DALLAS, Tex., ‘Dee. ed these member a ot rs of the State Fair of Texas pew tion: T. E. Jackson, Rosser Coke, yeaah L. McNeny, Harry L. Seay, Otto Herald and Frank M. Smith. Retiring ‘rectors include R. E. L. Knight, J. B. Adi ue, T. W. Griffiths, S. T. Morgan, Royal A. Ferris and Williams Doran. : 4 meeting of the new board of di- ‘tors was scheduled far an early date ree it is expected officers for the to ng season will be named. nwo tickets had been presented for iin lection of board members, Presi- dent A. A. Jackson, E. J. Kiest, C. E. Calder and J. J. Eckford being four ; tors on both tickets who were thus ‘ ‘ Ily se-eeenee. --tiring board members were given for their service and fair ad- thanks one of mmendation of the ministration was also adopted. Plans for ExXpo.: _— Elect Officers for 1927 MACON, Ga., Dec. 26.—Altho tenta- tive plans for the Geor ‘gia State Exposi- tion were discussed at the annual meet- ing of the stockholders here, no definite action was taken in the matter of select- ing dates for 1927 ‘Of ers elected were E G. Jacobs, president; L. M. Rossignol, first vice- pres Lawrence Loh, second vice- president; C. S. Cason, third vice-presi- dent; Francis E. Williams, treasurer; E Ross Jordon, secretary-manager; J. H. Brown erintendent. The aah nt named as an Advisory Committee, F. E. Williams and L. M. Rossignol That the 1926 Exposition was financially successful was shown thru t ‘reports of the secretary and 1927 Plans Discussed MARION, O., Dec. 24.—Officers for 1927 were elected and plans discussed for the year’s activities at the annual meeting of the M n Agricultural Society here. H. S. Mahaffey was named president; A LD. Brady, vice-president; Harrison Kramer, treasurer, and Roland Leeper, secretary. Plans for the 1927 fair were discussed and arrangements will be made for re- vising the premium list at a meeting to be held February 9. Board Organized for 1927 cOsHi CTON. O., Dec. 24. — The Cos t County Fair Board has been reorgar d as follows: E. C. Darling, pres M. A. McConnell, vice-presi- ) Darling, treasurer, and W. B. ‘retary. The new officers have announced ad- ditional features for the program, and that the premium lst will be increased. ; tes for the 1927 fair have not as yet en fixed Fair Officials Reappointed DAYTON, O., Dee. 24.—Four members of the Montgomery County Agricultural Board pointed by the City Com- mis ire Frank Hamburger, Minnie L. Shaffer, E. A. Leonard and Charles MacFarland. All were given two-year terms. Plans for the 1927 fair will be outlined at a meeting to be held soon after the first of the year. W. Va. Convention January 20 WHE! w. ‘LING, Va., Dec. 24.—The annu vention of the West Virginia As fairs will be held at the Ruffner Hotel, ¢ “harleston, January 20 and “1, following the Virginia meeting. Bert H. Sw Mrtz, | of Ww hee ling, is sé cretary of the West organization. AT LIBERTY SEASON 1927, HAPTAIN, The Wonder Horse lat CAPT owe 611 Lake Dot Circle, Or- ne WANTED Good Rides cn Iedependent Shows, for Fond du Lac cu ; air, Sept. 13 to 16, WB, Address LES BINTZ, Secretary, Fond du Lac. Wis. The Billboard, January 1, 1927 FAIRS—BOOKING DIRECT PARKS | ONE MAN 1 Ain't Got a Bit of Sense —That’s the Reason | Advertise oiterone |AL NUTTLE, MUSICAL CLOWN Clown USING 12 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CLOWN B Acts _| Cash Bond Furnished. Address care The Billboard, Cincinnati, O. Bano Run of Hard Luck Follows New York Race Horse Man DUNDEE, N. Y., Dec. 26.—The long run of hard luck that has beset William Pierce, race-horse driver, well-knowh thruout the Central New York Fair Cir- cuit, scored again December 19 when fire destroyed his barn, automobile anda nis last race horse. Pierce, unable to get about since he was injured in a sulky collision at the Dundee Fair in 1925, was obliged to watch his belongings burn. The loss was only partly covered by insurance. His father, injured in a racing acci- dent at the Trumansburg Fair last sum- mer, died recently. Baby Show To Be Fair Feature DE LAND. Fia., a., Dee. 27.—A baby show will be staged for the Volusia County Fair, February 15 to 19, by the De Land post of the American Legion. An automobile, jewelry and other ar- ticles will be prizes. The feature will close with a coronation ceremony, when Miss Volusia will be crowned queen of the fair. Cliff Curran, acrobat, who does stunts on a 110-foot steel pole, has been en- gaged. Dates for Meridian Fair Set MERIDIAN, Miss., Dec. —A. H. George, secretary and general manager of the Mississippi-Alabama Fair Asso- ciation, has announced: that the 17th annual fair will be held week of October 10-15. A contra ‘tt has been signed for the Johnny J. Jones Shows to provide the midway potted 99 New Feature for Winter Expo. KENTON, 0O., Dee. 24—The Annual Midwinter Fair and Exposition of the Hardin County Corn and Grain Improve- ment Association will be held in the Armory here January 13, 14 and 15, D. C. Holtzberry, secretary of the associa- tion, has announced. A new feature will be an auto show. Dates Set for Winter Fair SCHALLER, Ia., Dec. 24.—Dates for the Farmers’ Institute and Winter Fair have been set for January 6, 7 and 8. Liberal premiums will be offered in all departments it has been announced by of- ficials. Plan New Departures WAHPETON, N. D., Dec. 24.—Several departures from the customary entertain- ment program will be made for the 1927 Richland County Fair, following decision of the directors, who have set the dates for June 29 to July 4, inclusive. N. Y. Commission Backs Fair SYRACUSE. N. Y., Dec. 27. — The State Fair Commission has pledged its support to plans of the New York State Agricultural Society for the erection of a $7 70,000 building to house the society’s collection of old-time farming implements and machinery. Legion To Stage County Fair ROCK ILL, A C., Dee. 23.—Frank Roach Post, Am in Legion, will again stage the York. Co puaty Fair, plans for which were laid at the recent meeting of the directors. Negotiations with the Johnny J. Jones npany for midway attractions were authorized. Will Hold Fair Next Fall La Dee. 22 cor EUNICE, —The Eunice Chamber of Commerce has decided to hold an agricultural fair next fall and has directed Prof. A. A. Sibly, secretary, to promote the affair. Fix Dates f for ide 4 JACKSON, O., ee 27.—The beara of directors of the Jackson County Fair has fixed July 24 to 26, inclusive, as the dates for the fair in 1927. Among the Free Acts MRS. E. V. HOCUM and daughter, Lucille, whose novelty lady riding act proved a successful attraction last fall, will attend the Wisconsin Association of irs Convention at Milwaukee January # to 6, and also the convention of the Minnesota Federation of County Fairs at Minneapolis the following week. Their permanent address is Baraboo, Wis. THE TWO LILLETAS, well known ? ¢ free-attraction performers, are a: iying the Eastern Carolina Peanut Ex- posifion week of December 27. All Officers Re-Elected SUPERIOR, Wis., Dec. 27.—All offi- cers of the Tri-State Fair Association were re-elected at the recent meeting of the association. They are Wilbur Ross, president; R. B. Johnson, vice-president ; Leslie G. Ross, secretary, and J. T. Roth, treasurer. All members of the board of directors also were re-elected, as follows: N. A. Thompson, Dairyland; J. Vogelberg, South Range; Roy Guest, Gordon; George Babb, Lake Nebagamon, and Philip Nelson, Maple, Wis. President Ross presented the annual report of the association, and plans were discussed for the coming year. Will Keep Fair in Operation BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. 24.— Farmers of New London County are de- termined the annual fair shall not be abandoned and have reorganized the New London County Agricultural Association with this end in view. The executive committee consists of President Hiram Schriver; First Vice-President Edwin W. Higgins, of Norwich; Secretary Frank T. Maples, of Norwich; Treasurer J. Fra:k Corey, of Norwich. Chairmen are Ray L. Harding, of Lyme, cattle; Dr. J. Manwaring, domestic; Jamies K. Shaugh- nesey, of Groton, horses; Wesley A. Gor- don, of Montville, poultry; Daniel Pol- sky, of Norwich, manufacturers; Charles J. Dulcy, of New London, merchants. Fair Has Balance for 1927 CALDWELL, Kan., Dec. 27.—After all expenses were paid the Caldwell Fair Association has a working balance for the 1927 fair of $188. The fair was made possible by subscriptions amount- ing to $1,177 by merchants of the city. Fair Elections DESHLER, Neb., Dec. 26.—These offi- cers have been elected for the Thayer County Fair for 1927: President, John Albrecht; vice-president, R. W. Roden- burg; secretary, E. J. Mitchell; assistant secretary, E. Preston Bailey; treasurer, L. Krutz; secretary of speed, R. W. Rodenburg; assistant, Dr. F. S. Rinkler. The fair will be held at Deshler August 23 to 26, inclusive. FREDONIA, Kan., Dec. 27.—Following the election of directors for the Wilson County Fair, officers for 1927 were named as follows: President, W. D Pratt; vice-president, Max J. Kennedy: treasurer, Fred Cambern. A secretary will be named later. Directors for 1927 ure W. D. Pratt. Max J. Kennedy, W. G. Fink, Silas McPherson, Dr. F. L. Ervin Cc V. LaDow and Walter C. Cantrall. JACKSON, Luc O., Dec. — George F. as was elected president of the Jack- son County Fair at the recent meeting of the directors here He succeeds the late A. J. Cochran and has been vice- president for a mber of 28. years Other officers are T. C. White, vice- president; Ed T. Evans, treasurer, and John B. Bain, secretary. A. M. Scott has been named a member of the board. N. Y., Dec. 25.—Directors County Agricultural So- considering dividing the work between two men, so that has been left temporarily vacant. (Continued on page 73) PENN YAN, of the’, Yates ciety are of secretary office 69 Fort Lauderdale To Have Fair FORT LAUDERDALE, Fia., Dec. 24.— Broward County’s first fair in recent years will be held January 25, 26 and 27, it has been announced A site in Croissant Park has been selected. Charles E. Matthews is general manager. Awards of between $1,500 and $1,800 is cash will be made for exhibits. Premium lists are being distributed. Fair Association Meetings Wisconsin Association of Fairs, J. F. Malone, secretary, Beaver Dam. Con- vention at Republican Hotel, Milwau- kee, January 4, 5 and 6, 1927. Indiana Board of Agriculture. Meet- ing in State House, Indianapolis, January 5, 1927. Minnesota Federation of County Fairs, R. F. Hall, secretary, Minneapo- lis. Convention at New Nicollet Hotel, Minneapolis, January 11 and 12, 1927. Ohio Fair Managers’ Don A. Detrick, executive secretary, Bellefontaine. Annual meeting at Columbus, January 12 and 13. Association, Maine Association of Agricultural Pairs, George W. Wescott, secretary, Bangor. Annual meeting at Bangor January 12 and 13, 1927. The Texas Association ‘of Fairs, Jelks F. Castellaw, secretary, Ennis, Tex. Annual meeting at Dallas Janu- ary 13 and 14. Colorado County Fairs Association, J. L. Miller, secretary, Rocky Ford. Annual convention at Albany Hotel, Denver, January 18. Virginia Association of Fairs, C. B. Ralston, secretary, Staunton. Annual meeting at Suffolk January 17 and 18, 1927. Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs. Annual meeting at ner January 18 and 19, 1927. Indiana County and District Fairs, E. J. Barker, secretary-treasurer, In- dianapolis. Annual meeting, Hotel Severin, Indianapolis, January 4, 1927. Michigan Association of Fairs, Chester M. Howell, secretary, Sagi- naw. Annual meeting, Hotel Tuller, Detroit, January 19 and 20. ry South Texas Fair Circuit, Geo. J. Kempen, secretary, Seguin. Annual meeting at New Braunfels January 24 and 25, 1927. Western Canada Association of Ex- hibitions, W. J. Stark, secretary, Ed- monton. Annual,meeting at Brandon January 24, 25 and 26, 1927. Western Canada Fairs, H. Huxley, secretary, Lloydminster, Sask. Con- vention, Brandon. January 25 and 26, 1927. Massachusetts Agricultural Fair Association, A. W. Lombard, secretary, Boston. Annual meeting at Colonial Hotel, Gardner, January 27 and 28, 1927. Pennsylvania State Association of County Fairs, J. F. Seldomridge, sec- retary-treasurer. First meeting, Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, January 26-27; second meeting, Adelphia Hotel, Phila- delphia, February 2 and 3, 1927. Association of Tennessee Fairs, W. F. Barry, secretary, Jackson. Annual meeting at Nashville, February 1 and 2, 1927. Association of Northwestern Fairs. Annual meeting at Billings, Mont., February 17, 1927. New England Agricultural Fairs Association, H. T. Hyde, secretary, Southbridge. Annual meeting at Kim- ball Hotel, Springfield, Mass., Feb- ruary 15, 1927 New York State Association of County Agricultural Societies, G. W. Harrison, secretary, Albany. Annual meeting at Albany February 15, 1927. Association of Georgia Fairs. An- nual meeting at Atlanta February 18 and 19, 1927. Secretaries of State Fair Associations are in dates and places their assdéciations. 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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 Parks, Piers and Beaches Conducted by J. WILSON ROY—Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. Many Park Managers Realize Value of Courtesy to Public Costs Nothing and Is Certain To Bring Increase in Business With Resulting Dividends—Is Gradually Replacing Old-Time Carlessness and Neglect More and more are American park managers coming to realize that one of their biggest assets is courtesy. They have found and are finding that it costs nothing, and that it is a dividend payer, and, consistently used, will pay big dividends. fellow who was an observer came to find out that courtesy was a good thing to insist upon so far as his employees and attaches were concerned. He put it into practice, and other park men followed suit, until now it is doing its great part in making money for the man who caters to the seeker of outdoor amusements. Yet there are some parks—and they are by no means small ones—where this is lacking. Patrons are greeted, not with smiles and a willingness to be friendly, but with coldness and an indifference that is marked; in fact, there are instances where it seems to be studied. There are parks also where it seems to be the rule for employees, both of the park management and of concessionaires as well, to ridicule the visitor—to “guy” him or to make him the butt of jokes that are anything but jokes. At any rate it seems to be the desire of the alleged jokers to keep the patron in as uncom- fortable state as possible during his visit as a pleasure seeker. There may be instances whére patron- age of a park has dropped off as the season has advanced or as new seasons open. The management may wonder at the cause. He argues: “I have the same and a lot of new amusements. Things physically are better than they have ever been and outside business conditions are good. I cannot understand why my busi- ness does not keep up to its mark.” There is a very good chance indeed that the thing that is wrong in this man’s park is the lack of courtesy, or it may be rather the enthusiastic efforts on the part of attaches to razz patrons. There was a new park opened in a city of more or less prominence some four or five years ago. It was a beautiful t, just close enough to the city and t difficult to reach. The first season Was very good, despite the fact the owner did not have a great many amusements. He was so encouraged with his suc- cess that he began to build in his mind a great big park and a good-sized for- tune for himself. Yet today all that re- mains are the shells of a few buildings and some unusued roads and walks. The cause? Not a wide knowledge of parks and nothing at all of courtesy. The owner was 2 great stickler for courtesy when he talked with his employees, yet when there was some slight infraction, he did not stand upon ceremony and chat it out in private with the employee, but at the top of his voice, and no matter how large the crowd, he made a practice of “bawling out” the offender, inter- spersing his calldowns with a choice line of billingsgate—so choice, indeed, that it would have made an old-time sea captain jealous. And it was the same way when a patron with a complaint came to him. Most generally his answers were curt and decidedly of the sort that did not make him friends. The consequence was that soon employees and attaches of the park fell into his habits, and patrons had a hard time indeed enjoying their visits. The last year that he operated his park receipts fell so low that his loss was too much, He has, since he ceased opera- tions, tried to alibi his failure by blaming it on the weather, but the same year that he failed his opponent made more money than he had ever made before, and, to be frank about it, there was even some lack of courtesy in this fellow’s park, altho it was not so marked as was that of the failure. It seems to the writer that every park manager should insist on courtesy and patience among employees. And not among employees alone, but among con- (Continued on page 72) It is within the memory of most of us when courtesy was a rare feature indeed, not alone in the park business, but in many other lines of endeavor. But one day some Casino of Unusual Nature Near Completion in Bahamas NASSAU, Bahamas, Dec. 24.—Hewn from rock at the sea’s edge, the Lu- cayan Casino and Pools here, one ot the most unique amusement projects of its kind, will open early in January. The project undertaken by H. N. Chipman, pioneer on the island, was begun in 1924. The pool is separated from the sea by a natural wall of rock. A tunnel slightly below sea level permits the water to pass thru, making a minia- ture inland surf. Around the wall of rock 30 dressing rooms have been cu‘. bi pool is 103 feet long and 30 feet wide. Over the pool a three-story pavilion has been erected, on the first floor be- ing a dance hall, on the second floor a cafe, while the third will be made into a roof garden. A modeled frieze around the edge of the pool repre- sents the bucaneer history of the Ba- hamas., The pool is located at the mouth of Nassau harbor. Denver Park Being Wrecked DENVER, Col., Dec. 26.—The historic ball park of Denver is in the hands >f a wrecking crew. Built in 1891 by the League of American Wwn@elmen, Broad- Way Park has been the center of many events, serving first for bicycle races. tt was later transferred to the Denver Club of the Western Baseball League. Two other ball parks and grand stands were erected and demolished within that period, leaving the Broadway Park again the sport center in 1905. Located at Sixth and Broadway, it has been forced to give way before the encroachments of business that has grown up around it. Manager Named for Club CORAL GABLES, Fla., Dec. 24.—A. C. Tilton has been appointed resident man- ager of the Coral Gables Golf and Coun- try Club. He will have supervision over all activities. Jan Garber and his Or- chestra have closed their vaudeville seae s0n and have returned to the club, re- placing Joe Astoria, who has taken his musicians to the Venetian Casino. Plan New Park in Utah MYTON, Utah, Dec. 24.—Dr. M. C. Campbell and associates have purchased the Ward spring and have announced plans for a summer resort, including cance pavilion, swimming pool and tour- ist park. It has for some time been one of the needs of the Uintah basin, and the promoters expect to have it ready for a May Day opening. Elrod With Advertising Counsel —_— BALTIMORE, Dec. 24.—C. W. Elrod, newspaperman and park manager, well known in amusement resort circles, has become associated with Rosette Azrael, advertising counsel, in this city, and will devote his attention to park and outdoor amusement advertising, offering managers a complete layout for all occasions. TWO FAVORITES in the novelty riding act of the E. V. Meecam At- tractions, of Baraboo, Wis. Speculate on Future of Park ERIE, Pa., Dec. 24.—There is some speculation here as to the future of Ex- position Park, which it is understood is on the block because of bankruptcy. It is one of the best equipped parks in the country, all buildings being first-class in every respect, and there is little doubt that some promoter with modern ideas would be able to make a go of the propo- sition, This city has also in Waldemeer Park one which is well equipped with all the latest rides and amusements, included being a number of rides for children. It is being profitably operated. There is also a bathing beach. Peninsula Park is also numbered as one of the finest in this section, having from one end to the other a boulevard, along the line of which are two bathing beaches. New Manager for Hull Park HULL, Que., Dec. 20.—Stuart E. de la Ronde, Jr., well known in amusement circles in this section, will direct the destiny of Luna Park. He was manager of the Centennial Celebration at Ottawa and had charge of the attractions of Central Canada’s Exhibition. Building Program for Brighton NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The extension of the Coney Island Boardwalk has given impetus to Brighton Beach building ac- tivities, with an outlay of $3,000,000 planned for apartment and other build- ings. <A large portion of the develop- ment section has been accomplished by Sam W. Gumpertz dnd the Realty Asso- ciates. Gumpertz recently completed the Parkway Baths at Brighton Beach. Devices Shown at Exposition NEW YORK, Dec. 21. — Proprietors, representatives and buyers of kiddie amusement parks and devices have been attracted to the plant of the W. F. Mangels Company, West Eighth street, Coney Island, where the Annual Exposi- tion is being held On products of the concern. exhibition are New Manager Named DAYTON, O., Dec. 24.—Arthur Miller, proprietor of Forest Gables baliroon , at the former Forest Park, announces the engagement of Robert Eckhart, of Day- ton, as manager of the ballroom It operates daily, except Sundays, and plans to play the best of traveling bands. New Amusement Park Under Construction NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Rapid strides are being made in the construction of ¢) new amusement park in the Bronx, Westchester and Whitlock avenu: Opening is set for Decoration Day, alth no name has yet been designated for th. park, The salt water pool, to be under tho direction of Prof. H. C. Wilson, will b 100 feet long and 250 feet wide. A modern bathhouse will be in use and be sufficiently large to accommodate 5.()))) bathers. There will also be a miniaty pool for children. The grounds are to jo landscaped and otherwise beautified. | terra cotta entrance with myriads of in. ecandescent lights will be part of th. adornment. All buildings will be fire- proof and of steel construction. Elmer I. Brown will direct the rides and concessions, and has established o:- fices at 226 West 47th street. A manag: for the park has not been selected, alth it is understood several candidates a: under consideration. Mr. Brown declares there will be 49 up-to-date concessions. The merry-go- round will be erected in a steel buildince and there will be other special buildings for riding devices. For the first season from six to eight rides will be operated. It is the intention of the owners of the park to put on the best free attractions available, supplemented with revues, on a modern open-air stage. Particular atten- tion will be directed to the illumination. It is estfmated $1,000,000 will be ex- pended on the project, including the pur- chase price and valuation of the land, Virtually in the heart of the residential section of the Bronx, with a large draw- ing population at its very doors. William H. Weissager is the guiding factor. Plans Ready for New Pier ASBURY PARK, N. J., Dec. 24.— Plans for the $2,000,000 convention pier to be constructed on the Boardwalk at the foot of Sunset Lake have been ac- cepted by the city commissioners and bids are soon to be asked. Announcement has been made by Mayor C. E. F. Hetrick that the pier will have at least 43,000 square feet of floor space, a convention hall with a capacity of 4,300, a theater with a capacity of more than 2,000, and 44 booths and stores. The pler is to be the last word in construction, architecturally and me- chanically, the mayor declares. South NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Arthur Jarvis, manager of Luna Park, Coney Island, who recently returned from abroad. has Jarvis Leaves for the mene south for a six weeks’ inspection tour, covering Barron G. Collier's in- terests. He will start at Miami, and on his return trip will stop at Albany, Ga., where Collier has acquired the former Sky Blue Park, otherwise known as the French Lick Springs or the South, lo- cated between Atlanta and Jacksonvill New rides and attractions are being pre- pared for the coming season, when (this will blossom into a modern summer re- sort. Fairground To Be Park MECHANICSBURG, O., Dec, 24.—FPub- lic-spirited citizens have preserved the old Central Ohio fairgrounds as a park Some time ago the fairgrounds, owned for many years by the Mechanicsburg Mati- nee Club, was up for sale. Shortly after- ward the Mechanicsburg Community Par! Association was formed and purchased the site, in which there are 35 acres \ racetrack, natural amphitheater = and amusement features are to be installed. New Amusement Concern RELLEFONTAINE, O., Dec. 24.—The tellefontaine-Lake Worth Amusement Company has been incorporated at Colum- bus by FE. R. Albaugh and M, C. Harrold Plans of the company at this time we indefinite. b . te 70 es SIN SM “9 : 7 AX eS @, PS Lol ee f . aa a | a4 | ‘ ne — Co ae | . | \ \ NT 3 " ae ‘ *} | ee ce Shi i | | | | : ‘ | 28 : ee - S | ‘ : é ( ; . : saaenaninlanamUSMIED es - | mer ss Ud ha ee _— ee | . | I» | ee ee | — ee os | aa _si‘(ai’wséscdrre a ars ae ; — a . pO po , : SS ~

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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 71 0 Ws" IN FULL DISPLAY AND OPERATION AT OUR PLANT COME, SEE AND OPERATE SKOOTERS IN SEVERAL SINGLE OR DOUBLE | TING A Brand New Attraction for Appearance as Any Park PLUS a Lasting ws * oo \ Well as for Its Repeater Mechanical Construction an Guaranteed as in the Past for Large Returns for Its Quality as Well as Supreme Owner. Popularity Don’t Write for New Booklet, Price Delay--- and Terms. Order Now. LUSSE BROS.., IN C. 2809-13 N. Fairhill Street, - - Suaaelpiin, Pa Pvt ~o a ~ ~ PPP APD o~ QQ een ~~ all ~~ ~ ~~ (tnd ON THE BOWERY AT CONEY ISLAND conti aaeaas peteierion Corner space available for large Amusement Device. 65 feet on the Bowery: depth to suit. Inquire OF H. BERGOFFEN, Tel.. Coney Island 2700. W. 10th St.. Coney Island, N. Y. KIDDIE RIDES 4 For Amusement Parks. : SPILLMAN MONEY-GETTER RIDES] OPENS DEC. Ist, CLOSES JAN. Ist All Devices Shown in Full Operation. A Ride and Fun House combined. Biggest } Te MEE DEY Seen ||W.F.MANGELS CO., _ CONEY ISLAND, N. Y. OVER th JUMPS_CATERPILLAR “i aa Permanent- CAROUSSELLE:S—Portable SPILLMAN ENGINEERING CORP., WN. Tonawanda,N. Y. se & PHILADELPHIA TOBOGGAN COMPANY FOR YOUR PARK--1927 G AMUSEMENT PARK ENGINEERS CUSTER ZOOMER. Built to Suit Location. COASTERS— CARROUSELS—MILL CHUTES 130 East Duval Street, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. CUSTER SPECIALTY co. 119-121 Franklin St., DAYTON, OHIO HARRY C. BAKER, INC P & ° e Watch the DODGEM JUNIOR || AMUSEMENT PARK ENGINEERS | In any of the 184 Parks and Beaches to which it is now operating, aatd you'll be convinced of its ez- AMUSEMENT PARKS OLD MILLS CARROUSEL BUILDINGS / ceptionaal riding capacity, gross receipts, durability and low operating cost, COASTERS MILL CHUTES DANCE PAVILIONS STANDARD PARK EQUIPMENT. AMUSEMENT PARK BUILDINGS AND FRONTS ¥ DODGEM CORP., ~ - 706 Bay State Blidg., Lawrence, Mass. Suite 3041, Grand Central Terminal Building, NEW YORK CITY. T mL iicerauene ee Reet Teta (ENSLEY) ALA: \lELECTRIC-MINIATURE RAILWAY--GASOLINE hite organ iza ition, but som ie Park caters ee to ¢ lored per on, Park located at Ensley, the steel. co ph nave leet er Ray iru Seah Sab aad Oct Scart ts Chas eb ial cop, eh Sen peal Not a REPEATER—a MULTIPLIER fr steel plant eneh wanes and her U 8. Steel s subs farts On ¢ ie im a paved roa ° . aes; J H T Ps nny Arcade ce ave eee ve men sol i year. Interested in Fun House Equipment? On oe pe Fe wo saves half the cost of installation. Ask b. oy, Scooter or gem, Jr; Mature a lature s, C Bay han Want ated Rae eae! Sell cae ing Ant Re Srnec tes, Coa: | |THE DAYTON FUN HOUSE & RIDING DEVICE MFG. CO. DAYTON, ONt0 e ! Munications to HUGH Ww. HILL, teancer Hu. Hil Attractions, P. 0. Box 868, Siralnghen, Ala. CANDY FLOSS MACHINES | WORLD’S GREATEST RIDES || qeugmy ii CYCLONE COASTER-BOBS COASTER Factors and cafest tose ey p. A on curves, Track banked fifty degrees All records broken. Steel and wood construction ee i TUMBLE BUG 4 circular Coaster with wonderful thrills, taking top money next to Coasters New ; . t. May 4, ‘26. O hers Haven, Newark, New Castle, Scranton, Bayonne, Tulsa, Buffalo Pittsburgh. Cincinnati, Kansas City. = q CATERPILLAR. Splendid trick ride. 82 built since 1923. Grossed — ng 00 many days. Coney I , dy Fi log Ma h. ¢ Island grossed over $42 000 first season. Many good spots left. One used machine SEAPLANE DE LUXE. Wonderful new design. Most beautiful car ever seen. See {t at Kennywood, Nat Can yrioss macn.to 163 East 35th Street, \ N S57 Seaplanes all over the world. Pittsburgh; Olentangy, Columbus; Savin Bock, New Haven 3 East Sath Street jazz RAILWAY. Latest novelty steel Coaster ride Funniest ride on the market. Taking top money Rocky Glen Park Scranton.’ A wonderful laugh maker and thriller combined MERRY MIX. UP. Best portable ride. All steel, including gears and fence. Heavy chains. Cush- man engine. Fasfly gillied. Loads on one wagon. Weighs 5 tons, 67 built in two years. Best chain ride. MISSOUR! MULE. Laughing, balking, kicking new portable ride. Got $1,149.00 one day, Mempbis, $2,355.00 in week An hysterical sensation. Will draw crowds to Park or Carnival. None of sbove portable except the Merry Mix-Up and Missour! Mu ale. TRAVER ENGINEERING CO., Beaver Falls, Pa., U.S. A. THE AUTOMATIC heap artic : Dn one month ~ Now Automatic “Loop-the-Loop” Game bo *'l_amusement places, soft drink parlors, ae “n galleries, ete Runs itself—aeuto- aa el collector and scoring device "e sport! Everybody plays—men, wom- Ww en na . hildrent Your receipts clear profit Fa \rl-O-Ball @ is 34x20 ft., and has earnin eapecity of $5 _ ~ ur You Base Ball the Greatest Sporting Game on Earth. fan put 3 Games in any ordinery reom will take in $1.00 a minute if properly located. We have BATEM, America’s Greatest Court Game. Gets the or Take in $15 to $50 per Gy. Moderate money while others are asleep. Be the first one in your city.. 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72 The Billboard, January Many Park Managers Realize Value of Courtesy to Public (Continued from page 70) cessionaires, if there are any, and on the part of all others whose livelihoo¢és come out of the park. If every employee would have the habit of going out of his road to accommodate the patrons or to answer questions in a pleasant way, and to even take some of the “slack” that patrons are sometimes wont to hand out, that it would not be long until the park-going public would begin to head en masse for the place where joy ané@ happiness really reigned. A park business is just like any other. Disloyalty, if it arises and gains he ad- way, will cause many thousands of dol- lars to slip from the coffers. Would it not be a good plan for every park man- ager who really has the interests of his business at heart to train his employees in the way he would have them handle the public? Woule it not be a percentage-paying move to have a few heart-to-heart talks with employees now and then, or if this seems too heavy a task, put such meet- assistant; or ings into the hands of an might it not pay to have a schooi for the study of courtesy with attendance com- 9 pulsory on the part of the employee? Some theater operators have found these staff meetings and training schools Isn’t the park business able to profit same way? pay. in the “Oh,” some fellow says, “you know we operate just a few months a year and we have to have employees that we can pick up here and there, for we,can’t guaran- them long engagements, and, conse- quently, we do not have to pay much in the way of salaries.” But it should be tee borne in mind that larger dividends will accrue for the courtesy that must be apparent if it is insisted upon by the manager, and then it seems that later he may be able to afford, to make salaries somewhat better with rising returns. In such an event he is pretty sure to retain his employees year after year, or to at least be able to have them with him each season in satisfying numbers. Every person employed upon a park ' JOYFUL DAYS!! Operate the Chester-Pollard FOOTBALL GAME AND ASSURE YOURSELF THE ENJOYMENT OF A MERRY CHRISTMAS anda HAPPY NEW YEAR No blood money. No graft. No confiscation. No sleepless nights A legitimate game everywhere. Write for territory proposition today CHESTER-POLLARD CO,, Inc. 430 W. 45th Street, - New York TILT-A- WA(RC Latest Novelty Ride for Parks and Carnivals. Warufectured t Faribault, Minn., Water Toboggan or Sport Devices SELLNER MANUFACTURING CO. Manufacturers of Seliner Patent Slide ard “ r Out JOHN A. MILLER COMPANY. Detroit, Michigan. AMERICAN PLAYGROUND DEVICE CO., Ander- son. ng. Aeetace | ih FESS = 6 te: om | Wig thie . } ‘ j IY re 3 a oz! > a Hare and Make Amusement Game Devices of every description except gaffs WM. ROTT Sth Street, NEW YORK CITY. DRAPER’S PARK AMUSEMENTS WANT kinds. 40 E. Concessions all Capable Man for Advance. No grift. Address Ellenton. Fla., this week; Bradentown to follow. 1, 1927 RIVERVIEW May Joe, write Blower. Will book organized money getting Shows. WANTED FOR SEASON 1927 AT CHICAGO, PARK ILL. Freaks and Novelty Side-Show Acts of All Kinds Also would like to hear from Seal Boy. WHITE CITY PARK Strong Bally Act. Especially want good Glass A. KUSTAN, 6012 So. Park Ave., Chicago, tH. C.J. UTHOFF Designer and Builder ef the Open Air Marble Dance Floor wr dancing Larger 4 Lee of upkeer I am the orig- water of the marble floor. Addre Cc. 3, UTHOFF 3070 West (0th Street, Les Angeles, Calif ground, from the humblest cleaner to the highest paid; every owner of a conces- sion and every employee thereof should know the value of courtesy for the park and all its interests. There is a circus that travels this con- tinent that is known, not alone because of its clean and interesting performance, but because from front to back there is every possible Gisplay of courtesy, on the insistence of its management. its press agents are greeted with pleas- ure by newspapermen, its billposters do not have the troubles that those of other circuses have, its agents are known be- cause of their patience and courtesy in their dealings. Ushers and doormen es- pecially are pleasant, and women and chiléren know when the show visits their community they are not going to be sworn at or ridiculed if they do not step as quickly as the usher may desire, or if they ask what to the usher or other circus employee may seem like a foolish question. The show is not the biggest on the road yet thru its cleanliness and the courtesy of employees it gets business. So im- pressed with all this was the Governor of a great Midéle Western State a couple of years ago, that he wrote a letter to the manager of the circus, in which he explained that the letter was sent because the writer had taken notice of the fact that this one show seemed so particular to please its patrons, not alone with a good performance, but with pleasant treatment and words for all patrons. Another point that it might be a money- getter for a park is that of uniforming employees, it seems. Many of the better parks @o uniform, yet also in many of them uniforms are so grimy and ill-fitting that it would be far better if they were not worn. Neatness as well as courtesy has its value to the park manager, and there should be no more trouble in keeping the uniformed employee presentable than there is in keeping him from the pay- master. There are some young men who look well in uniforms, yet when the suit does not fit well or when the cap is-so big that it flops around over the ears, and when both uniform ance, cap are so dirty that they have lost their identities, it is just as well that they be discarded As has been said, tho, most of the better parks are careful in this regard and take pride in the appearance of the uniformee, attendants. The coming year, park men believe, es- pecially if there are the right weather breaks, is going to be a banner year. In- dustry is beginning to right itself, an indication there will be plenty of spend- ers, and everything“points to prosperity for the park men. Now, if there are managers who are puzzling their brains as to what new features they may install, let them pick up the idea of installing courtesy, and then on the spend more money for neat uniforms, anc, insist they be kept that way. It’s a safe bet if they are con- sistent in their demands in these matters, they will notice an increase in both divi- dends and business. Try it. side RS OF UT IN THE OPEN By W. D. VAN VOLKENBERG—Communications to 1560 Broadway, New York _ el cele, NELSON REED, last season with the George L. Dobyns Shows, is now man- aging a tabloid production. ANITA GOLDIE is the Southern road representative ot Wirth & Hamid. She specializes in Hawaiian offer- ings, and success- fully conducted the Hula Hula Land Show in Luna Park, Coney Island, last season, where she will hold forth again in 1927. She is conducting a novelty Hawaiian orchestra in one of the night clubs in the metropolis. She also finds time to direct the ukulele of the Hawaiian Conserva- department tory of Music in the Woolworth Build- ing, New York. FRANK WIRTH, of Wirth & Hamid, will visit his wife, May Wirth, and the Wirth family at the Temple Theater, De- troit, where they will stage a Christmas party. MONTANA MAY is doing her rope es- cape act around New York. NINETEEN YEARS with one circus is the boast of Jack Hedder, member of the Four Comrades, who have been with the tingling-Barnum Circus. BEE STARR, aeriaist, playing the Publix houses, had her name on the lectric signboards at the Tivoli Theater, Chicago. COL. BIBB, Texas bearcat, developed by Charles W. Browning, of Chicago, is on the program of the Harlem Museum, 25th street, New York. JOB BASILE, conductor of the Madi- son Square Garden Band, is back on the job after a tour with Fred Bradna’s In- door Circus. JOHN J. KELLEY, attorney for the Ringlings, is again at his office in the Palace Theater building. HENRY RAPP, of the American Fire- works, Boston, is in New York for the holidays. MRS. BEULAH HAZZARD SICA, of Mid-City Park, Albany, N. Y., contem- plates holding in 1927 another bull fight, introduced last season in the park. THB OUT IN THE OPEN columnist takes this means of expressing his grati- tude for the numerous season's greeting cards received. We join in wishing all a successful and prosperous 1927. M. J. LAPP. of the Lapp Greater Shows, is at Ellenville, N. Y., where the show is making preparations for the com- ing season. J. E. Tildy”, POOLE, creator of ruralite characters, has made a success playing fairs and “Josh and expositions. In pictures Poole has played the rube sheriff and other mirth - provoking cha racterizations He has a person- ality that fits in naturally with the characters he por- trays He is as- sisted by Maureen McCoy, and during the holiday season they have been entertaining patrons of the John Wanamaker Store in New York THE CARLSON SISTERS, heavy weight boxing girls, are at their Brooklyn home for the winter, after a season at Kerstetter Placing Devices In Pennsylvania Parks SHAMOKIN, Pa., Dec. 24.—Tom pf Kerstetter has leased the exclusive riq for Edgewood Park here, and has begun work on the first one, a roller coaster. When finished early in January this de- vice will be the most sensational of its kind in the coal regions. Plans for the ride were drawn by Herbert Schmeck, of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. which concern is also furnishing the cars. The coaster will be colored in yellow and black, and the cars a brilliant yellow A kiddie coaster is also being erected at the side of the big ride, this device being as much for observation and entert,jn- ment for the park patrons as for hay passengers. A Mangels whip will also installed for summer operation. Beside this work, Mr. Kerstetter wil] erect a coaster in Maple Grove Purk, Lancaster, Pa., controlled by Kerstetter & Bricker Maple Grove Park wa planned and made possible thru the ef- forts of Mr. Kerstetter three years ago At Paxtang Park, Harrisburg. \) Kerstetter will erect a new carousel building, in which will be’ also a WV carousel of the type now operati: n Lancaster Park. In addition, a chair plane will be erected, as well a id ride of a nature yet to be determined The work is all being done in what park men call amusement parks, but added to these Mr. Kerstetter will hay operating in a city park also a carousel this lease being already closed, but at the request of the board no publi ity can be given the location Kerstetter & Bricker will also install a heating plant in their dance pavilion in Maple Grove Park, Lancaster, and during the winter will operate a roller rink Free apple e'der will be furnished for drinking pur and on special days and winter holidays free sandwiches will be served poses Coney Island, fair dates and sever weeks at Hubert’s Museum. Their 1 engagement will be with the Ringling- Barnum Circus, at Madison Square Gar- den, in the spring. IRISH “JACK, LYNCH, talker with Carl J. Lauther's Big Side Show, made a hit with the natives of Florida. Dr. Reed, medicine man, says Lynch electrified his audience with his announcements. BEN HASSAN, producer of Arabian athletic troupes, wishes it known that hé< is the exclusive owner and manager of the Ben Hassan Troupe, appearing at the Globe Theater in Fred Stone's production, Criss Cross, and that he has contracts to bear out this statement. Mrs. Hassan celebrated her birthday anniversary on December 25 and on the same date he and his wife rounded out their first wed ding anniversary. R.A. CASTERLINE, concessionair«, « Summit Beach, Akron, O., will be at the Beach again next season. KARL GUGGENHEIM, who maintain a novelty house tn New York, has saile’ for a two-month trip to Europ: KING KARLOS, lecturer with 7 Streets of All Nationa, with the Johnny Jones Exposition, has returned to N York for the holidays. WALTER GUICE, Sparks Circus, is around New York. aerialist, wi! playing Loew Ti: J. No MONTOOMERY, secretary-ma' ager of the Norfolk (Va.) Fair, is a vis! tor in the metropolis. JOE TAMBOUWR, concessionsir Dreamland Park, Newark, was operated on at the Orange (N. J.) Homeopathi: Hospital for stomach trouble [ecembe! 18. BARON POUCCI, the midget, wil! spend the winter at Brighton Beach. HU will be featured the coming season wit!) Namy Salih's Dreamland Circus Sid Show, Coney Island. FRED S. KIMBALL, animal train formerly with J. T. Benson, is a holida visitor in New York. er OR ees Look thru the Hotel Directory im this ‘s Just the kind of a@ hotel you want may listed, skater dash. THE at Hu! nened 1 for bu dance traini: Dre an Reichr ; F Pe, EE LE SATS. TRE ec Po Po RIN : Cone ' Com ee two Rink, ning W : first he A F rs : | | ee iz | —— Pe Pe dmissi THE Provide roller-s M nda} day eve | i a @ # Rocky Bo R. M up r Red L interes’ IN J : polo by Rivers ager aa Reichr _—$<$—$— “all S Po te ‘ | 18, the é Cincia: i eee of the = Chard one fo: Po Cap § a Carl 1 PB ee ENC Po counc skat " ¢ | a one in — ar | lishing ! Zz. @ skat ’ a anti-8 ry oa Garde 7 } - —_——-. “sg . 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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 . — RINKS and SKATERS Conducted by A. HOMER CLARK Communicatons to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. acid —_ — ee — ALA HE LFRICH defeated Paul Forsmal nt star on ice skates, in : t fe three heats at the Icelaad ee tow York, recently Helfrich, run- — i“ ) sp Ke d shoes on the ice, took ve heat of 50 yards in 5 4-5 seconds. cared the second in the same Fors n won time Then the “> 4 seconds sprinter nosed out the in the deciding dash. —_— THE EIGHTH AVENUE Skating Rink at Huntington, W. Va. has been re- “nened with S&S. L. Lover in charge. The admission price has been cut to 10 cents. THE FLORE NCE AUDITORIUM, East Providence, R. IL, opened recently with roller-sk sessions to be held on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Satur- day evenings. ‘ 4. J. DUFFY, general manager of Rocky Glen Park, Scranton, Pa., an- nounc it plans are being considered for building a roller-skating rink and dance hall R. M. SI -ANGL ER writes he has given up roller skating at Fairmount Park, Red Lion, Pa. He says he has not lost n roller skating and will keep » on this department as ever. s IN A SERIES of five games of roller polo between Manager Roy Byers’ team, Riverside Rink, Indianapolis, and Man- ager William F. Sefferino's team, Reichrat? Rit “k, Cincinnati, Sefferino’s “all Stars” n three games and Brers’ te two. Games were played at Indtan- 7 nd Cincinnat The last was at Reichrath Rink, Cincinnati, December 18, the re being 21 to 3 in favor of Cincian Cap Sefferino was the star of the ; nexing four goals; Jimmy Chard scored two goals and Carl Wentzel one for Cincinnati. The Cincinnati lineup included William Sefferino, captain; Cap Sefferino, Dick Frey, Jimmy Chard, Carl Went Joe Frey, Exmest Parker and Tommy Burns. Cap Sefferino is ia training for a series of races at his Dreamiand Rink, Bellevue, Ky., and Reichrath's Rink, Cincinnati. ENCOURAGED by the adoption by council of an ordinance prohibiting roller skating Akron rinks on Sundays, Councilman W. C. Criner announced he would luce at the next meeting an anti-bet ordinance patterned § after one in Cle d, which forbids the pub- lishing bets and odds. The roller- skat s in keeping with the anti-S yd r law in effect in Akron. Several rinks. including Rainbow Garde now in operation, will be af- RICHARDSON SKATES THE FIRST BEST SKATE—THE BEST SKATE TODAY. s frm that has something a er That is why business comes to it ing R ardson Skates y are » have RICHARDSON BALL BEARING § SKATE CO ESTABLISHED (84 112-18 Ravenswood Ave. CHICAGO sO YOu KNOW? ut all the Portable Rinks being Cat " ied States? Get you one Write for wnt PORTABLE RINK CO tnth and rao noma Kanens City Me FOR ¢ © PALRS CHICAGO Fibs OR SALE— hou FR cae en ir ona i, PL, Wayne, ~ SOUERS, $21, Fairhew The Calliaphone PACK ‘our RINK _ FIRST TANGLEY CO. usc COST Muscatine, Iowa ROLLS NEW. SNAPPY and POPULAR—This Style 125 WURLITZER MILITARY BAND ORGAN is just what you need to increase crowds. mean larger earnings. skating rinks. WRITE TODAY FOR CATALOG. The RUDOLPH WURLITZER MFG. CO. North Tonawanda, N. Y. Increased crowds Rolls especially arranged for Send for list. Service and good managee ment are sure to win suc- cess. That is what you want. Write us today. CHICAGO ROLLER SKATE CO. 4458 W. Lake St., Chicago, Ill. 7.500 square feet skating surface. move and instal] ready to operate. Address FOR SALE Ice Skating Rink Equipment Complete, Practically New Could be made larger 6. May now be sten in perfect operation. Will MILLER, Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati, Ohio. fected by the new law and will be com- pelled to remain dark Sundays. . CARL WENTZEL, Cincinnati amateur, who won his laurels at the meet held at Baumann’s Riverview Rink, Milwaukee, last April, expects to be booked at a number of out-of-town rinks for races in the near future. Manager William F. Sefferino, of Reichrath's Rink, Cincin- nati, who discovered Wentzel, says he is the best racing prospect he ever developed. R. H. GERRITS, Seattle, Wash., fancy and trick roller skater, expects to put on a skating act in the near future if a suitable partner can be found. A RECENT press dispatch from Chi- caro stated that Charles Levers, 56, of Evanston, Tl, was holder of the 100- mile skating championship, which he won in 1925, and that he is now in train- ine for the 25. 50 and 100-mile champion- ship races which will be held in Chicago, Levers is said to declare that he never was in better physica! condition than at ice- present. His record for 50 miles is four hours and three minutes. A SUGGESTED New Year resolution for rink managers and skaters, “I'm go- ine to write a letter to the Rinks and Skaters Department of The Billboard more frequently this year than I did last year.” Speed up your typewriters and help boost the game. CHARLOTTE, the ice queen, has been doing her stunt at the Coliseum, Chicago, in connection with the hockey games. Musical Musings (Continued from page 23) formerly with the Cravens show troupes, and who has just recently rejoined the family orchestra. MERLE F. SHREVE writes: “TIT am having the best of luck and the success of the Ste inway Four means a lot to the profession.” The Steinway Four recently closed a successful season on the M. Shea Time out of Cleveland, O. A number of changes have been made recently in the personnel of the quartet and the lineup is now J. Hines, first tenor; M. S. Shreve, secand tenor; H. Savard, baritone, and W. M. Turner, basso and manager. The boys at present are making a big hit with their comedy and harmony singing Over the broadcasting stations thruout Indiana and Central Illinois. TATE DOLAN, banjoist, singer and composer, formerly with Sherwood’s, Or- chestra, has returned to his home city, Indianapolis, Ind., and is now filling a two-week's engagement at the Apollo Theater there. HARRY SORY'S ENTERTAINERS will shortly open a year’s engagement at the fashionable Glenn Haven Country Club, Dallas, Tex., playing dinner and dance music. The personnel: Paul Dy- son, piano and director; Francis Cruz, Harry Jennings and Joe Worrall, sax and reeds; John Sawyer, trumpet; Marry Sory, trumpet, manager and_ violin; Howard Lambert, banjo; A. L. Hender- son, bass; Allie GAttey, trombone, and Clifford Franden, drums and entertainer. PAUL EMRICK, director of the mili- tary band at Purdue University, La Fay- ette, Ind., has purchased South Island, located in the: middle of Lake Manitou, near Rochester, Ind., on which he plans to erect a summer home and pavilion, where his 120 musicians will assemble frequently during the summer months for eutings and practice. The Purdue Band is the largest and one of the best-drilled musical organizations in the Hoosier State. FRANK PERLEY, one of the South's best trap drummers, is again back witn the Hotsy Totsy Boys’ Orchestra, a nine- spiece aggregation, now playing vaudeville ‘thru the South. Perley has been playing with the Barnette Forster Memphians for the past few weeks. The Hotsy Totsy Rovs are now under the management of Jack Fowler. BERT WILLIAMS will have charge of the 25-piece orchestra to be installed in the new State Theater, Hartford, Conn., according 73 cently by Martin Db. Harris, president of the State Amusement Company of Con- necticut. THE VIRGINIA-CAROLINA ACES, under the direction of Charles E. Price, the well-known 225-pound trumpet artist, are now back in Virginia after an 18 weeks’ tour thru Maryland. While in Salisbury, Md., recently, the Aces had the pleasure of hearing the Maryland Col- legians and report them a “real” orches- tra. Carol McCready, trumpet soloist and vocalist, recently joined the Virginia- Carolina Aces. The orchestra is booked in West Virginia for 10 weeks and then is booked solid over the same spots i! played during the past spring and sum- mer. The orchestra is closing its seventh successful season and being advanced by Eddie Edger. The personnel: Bobby Hidelburg, saxes and clarinet; E. Clark. saxes and clarinet; Willie Gregory, saxes and clarinet; Charles Price, trumpet and director; Carol McCready, trumpet; Ed- die Ingram, banjo; Martin Cruse, drums; M. Hughes, piano and dancer; Wade — trombone, and Walter Ashworth, violin. JACK CARLOS, of Lansing, Mich., has a new band in the Country Club Caroliers, who have played a number of “frats” and clubs in Lansing and surrounding ter- ritory. The Country Club Caroliers have been placed in the New Hotel Olds in Lansing for a tryout. The lineup: Joe Kreigler, ivories and fiddle; Jim Heffner, clarinet, Saxes, ivories and _ traps; Leonard Boomer, traps and ivories; Hank Sutherland, trumpet ; Ed Lindberg, sax and clarinet; Jack Carlos, banjo, entere tainer and manager. FRANK D. OPPIE writes from Rio de Janerio, Brazil: “The orchestra on the S. S. Vanhan, playing between New York and Buenos Aires, consists of the following: J. Fred Schmitt, piano and leader; Louis Springstein, cello and ban- jo; Otto Kruger, violin, and Frank Oppie, drums. The combination is playing con- cert and dance music aboard ship and the passengers have been complimenting them highly on their work." L. WERNER JOHNSON infoes that he has closed with the Monroe Hopkins Show for the holidays. Johnson writes that he is working with some of his old friends, among them Jack Nesbitt, pianist, and Paul E. Lankert, clarinet and sax. THE SUN EAGLE SERENADERS, who have been playing thru Western Pennsyl- vania, are laying off for the holidays to permit the boys to get home for the big eats. After the holidays the boys will reconvene at Altoona, Pa., for rehearsals and a general reorganization before be- ginning their first job of the new year at the Penn Alto Hotel, Altoona. The roster of the new orchestra will include: Jimmy Hawkins, sax.; “Morty” Lutz, sax.; Ray Smith, sax.; “Mike” Naimo, trumpet and director; Tom Bender, trom- bone and entertainer; “Heavy” Martin, bass; Dewey Corbin, alto; “Tubby” White, piano and entertainer; Eddie Vor- man, drums and entertainer, and M. K. Redline, banjo and business manager. The Sun Eagle Serenaders are booked by Joseph (Pinky) Reese. Fair Elections (Continued from page 69) Officers recently elected are: President, Benfamin Hoyt; vice-president, Hunt Wheeler; treasurer, Harold Spencer. The board of directors includes: Da- vid Miller, Guy Coates, Charles Wilkins, Stephen Whitaker, Frank Barnes, Frank Ames, Flovd Lamont, Herbert Comstock and Arthur Owens. David Miller and Charles Wilkins are delegates to the New York State convention at Albany in Feb- ruary. Pa., Dec. 26.—Edmund H. Scholl has been re-elected president of the Lehigh County Agricultural Society. Other officers except Harry B. Schall, secretary, were also re-elected. The 1927 fair will be held September 20 to 24. GENUINE —s POPPER ALLENTOWN, A genuine Talee onty - Kettle Popper at 2S Lowest Price ever ‘ made for a qual- ity machine. Bt apacity es nd materials sag construction. Pressure Gaso- Order from ad or write, Dest. CP 10, St, Louis, Me. nly $29.75. to an announcement made re- TALBOT MFG. CO.. equipment, < ~— a a = _peeememenll MUSIC Z-SKATING RINKS WuRLIZER BAND ORGANS pe 7 7 — Ff ss i a 9 GS OT ama” TNE OER RRR E e Wlope Wiper A ‘ = | — a ff d {ell

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The Billboard, January 1, 1927 Carnivals Conducted by FELIX BLEI—Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. Ben Krause Purchases Equipment From R.&C. F. S. Reed, secretary of Rubin & Cherry Shows, advises thut Ben Krause, owner of the Krause Greater Shows. spent last week in Montgomery, Ala., as guest of Rubin Gruberg and while there purchased $10,000 worth of show equip- ment, including fronts, cars, Wagons, etc., to be shipped to his winter quarters at Augusta, Ga. Mr. Krause says he will go out the coming season with a 20-car show which will be second to none on the road. It was due to the fact that the Rubin & Cherry Shows are building a number of fronts for the coming season that Mr. Krause was able to secure the carved wagon fronts and it did not take him long to close the deal. Benny is very optimistic about the coming season, having already secured a number of contracts for fairs and cele- brations. He is leaving for Tampa, Fla., to look after property interests, and after a few weeks in Florida will return to Augusta to get his shows in shape for the opening of the season the latter part of March. Gives Check to Brown Fund KANSAS CITY, Dec. 22.—Mr. and Mrs. Elmer C. Velare, of the Royal American Shows, arrived last week to remain until after the Christmas tree and New Year's Eve festivities of the Heart of America Showman’s Club, when they will go to winter quarters in Mem- phis. They called at The Billboard office with a check for $107.52, which they re- quested sent to William F. Floto, chair- man of the Babe Brown Fund, Wichita, Kan. This money was raised by Mrs. Velare at Greenville, Miss., last fall. It was sent at once to Mr. Floto with Christmas greetings to Mrs. Brown. Watkins Motordrome Signs With Rubin & Cherry Shows NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—I. J. Watkins, who had the motordrome speedway w'th the Johnny J. Jones Exposition last sea- son, has signed for 1927 with Rubin & Cherry. I. J. Watkins, while the Jones Exposition was playing in Canada, had the misfortune of losing a leg when an automobile crashed into his motorcycle. In the meantime his wife, Mrs. Hazel Watkins, took charge of the show. Wat- kins has been spending some time in the Allegheny Mountains around Lake Hopatcong fishing and hunting and re- ports that he is again in good condition. Goldberg’s Coney Island Scores in Barbados Lucile Anderson, high diver, appearing as a free attraction with Joel Goldberg’s Coney Island Shows, advises that the show is filling a successful engagement at Martinque, Barbados, and that their next stand will be in Brazil. Speedy Bower’s Motordrome is making a hit. Sclar Signs With Smith Mark Sclar, who had the Minstrel Show with George L. Dobyns last year, has signed up with the Otis L. Smith Shows for the coming season and will have the minstrels and an Arabian Show with the organization. Joe Walsh Re-Engaged With Zeidman % Pollie Joe E. Walsh, who was special agent for the Zeidman & Pollie Shows last sea- son, has renewed his contract in the same capacity for the coming season. He is now presenting a circus revue under the firm name of the J. DE. Walsh Producing Company. Keeping Faith With the Public Sy A. C. BRADLEY N THE intervening four years since I have been affiliated with a carnival company in an executive capacity it has been my good fortune, if one might term it such, to have had numerous op- portunities of discussing the merits and methods of operation, as well as the cali- ber and offerings of many leading carni- val organizations, and perhaps the lay- men’s opinions and consensus of such ideas and opinions are of interest to car- nival owners, agents and others affiliated in various capacities with such organiza- tions. I believe that these “town chump” and “sucker” ideas and theories might have a tendency to enlighten the earnival world of the actual anticipations and expectations of the public when the carnival comes to town. Acting impartially and with fairness toward all organizations, I must admit that the consensus of opinions lay in the similarity of the carnivals of today. It seems whatever one show presents in the way of original ideas is quickly imitated by competitive organizations, with the ul- timate outcome being a similar or as nearly so as possible offering, and, altho varied to a certain degree, the idea and construction is almost identical, so where one show follows another into stands, the novelty of this particular device or attraction has worn off and the conse- quence is the attraction fails to register as an asset to the midway. Again, I have found that the midway has not advanced to any degree of novel- ty, and that with the exception of the massive gold-leafed fronts handed down from year to year, and duplicates of the original fronts of some well-known and world-famous organization, the same are ray of attractions are embraced in every lineup of the average carnival. This idea again proves, or at least tends to a degree in proving, the similarity of all such ore ganizations, the consequence being thAt at- tractions fail to “click’’ at the box office and the owner is bleeding himself and his coffers simply to offer an attraction which has been considered a drawing factor with another show. What is the simple solution to this problem of per- plexity confronting owners, managers, producers and executives in the selection, presentation and ensemble of midway en- tertainments? cal were I to offer my suggestion in this perplexing controversy, yet, with- out assuming too much, my suggestions would cover the subject as follows: Riding devices are entertaining, sensa- tional, thrilling and consistent money- makers as a whole; concessions, operated legitimately and strictly as merchandise wheels, are revenue sources, yet they are considered “games” in various States and under various conditions. However, they afford recreation to those inclined to spend their time and funds for such form of entertainment. The prime factor of the entire midway lies in the shows or entertainment. Here is the barrier to the advance of the carnival as the public sees it today. Year after year attractions and shows are offered, with perhaps new fronts, new designs and fictitious names, yet in a general sense they are the same thing over and over, but disguised so as to fool the public. You fool the public but once and then the public fools you. The carnival manager and his agents I WOULD be perhaps considered a radi- have heralded and advertised for miles around the contracted town the coming of the “world's most prodigious and largest carnival company and exposition” and in the newspaper readers and ads are such phrases as: “Bigger, Better and More Elaborate Than Ever’; “All New Attractions”, “The Finest and Most En- tertaining Attractions Ever Assembled”, “High-Class, Refined and Meritorious Shows,” and similarly worded phrases, with the public, and the committee under whom the organization may be showing, believing the advertisements. Monday night the show’s business is very grati- fying; Tuesday night, the midway again is packed to capacity, altho the box offices fail to equal the Monday night grosses; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Satur- day find the show doing only a fair busi- ness, yet the people are there, in seething, surging, crowding and hilarious masses, altho they do not seem to be spending their money as freely as they did the opening night. Why? off? Perkaps local ,working condi- tions have caused this tightening up? With real carnival weather conditions, g00d and reputable auspices, these ten- dencies have assumed concern in the minds of the management, the conces- sionaire and the attraction owners. What Suggestion can be offered to offset this “drying up” attitude of the public, which on the opening night spent and spent, frolicked, laughed and enjoyed the carni- val and “ate it up'’? Mingling with the masses on the mid- way, the answer is found. “Oh, that’s the same thing they had last year, only it's under a different name,” or “We Saw that show with the carnival that was here before,”’ and eventually the real source of the “carnival’s indifference” comes to the fore, with an expression worded something like this: “Years ago the carnivals that came to town gener- ally had some sort of a free act, perhaps several, and they also had some high- class show, like Nero, or the Burning of Rome; Fire, Water and Electricity, or something out of the ordinary, other than the small shows they have today, and the talk of the town those days was the spectacular entertainment. Almost every- body came to the carnival to see it as well as take in a few of the lesser at- tractions, stay until 10 or 10:30 for the big free act, repeating the visit several nights dyring the engagement; but nowa- days the carnivals aren't like they were then. It seems as tho the days of those spectacles as an outstanding feature of our street fairs or carnivals have passed on and the carnival owners bave spent all their money in cars and wagons, mas- sive fronts and trying to fool the public, 60 I guess we'll not come out any more, for it’s the same old thing over and over. They're all alike.” The question has been answered via the principal factor in the success of the carnival and its dependent medium—the public. H*: THE novelty of the event worn ERE are many brilliant and original ] men in the carnival business, who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in their organizations and who sit and watch, remorsefully and without action, the crumbling, year after year, of their business, inconsiderate of the rem- edy for such depreciation and the “minus” of the clinking of silver in the red wagon. These men have invested thousands of dollars in massive wagon fronts, In can- vas and in rides, as well as the finest rolling stock and equipment that money and workmanship can provide, yet they are imitated or have imitated with the consequence that the public looks suspi- ciously on the coming of the carnival and its promises. Is there not one owner or manager who will champion the cause of the car- nival’s problem? Is there not one who has stored in his brain an idea which, when put to the acid test of public criticism and rebuttal will be the first to protect his idea with a Federal permit? Can we go on and on in this’ business, year after year, relying upon the brains and ideas of others? tonly stealing and usurping such ideas without compensation to the man who gave birth to it? Is it justice to ourselves, Can we go on wan- to the originator, to the business or to the public? Behind those beautiful and massive wagon fronts what have you to offer in the way of entertainment that provides enjoyment and satisfaction to your pa- trons and lives up to the promises of (Continued on page 78) Capt. Jack Valley’s Show Scores in South America NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Victor Le: who has the wax show and the baby miracle with Capt. Jack Valley's South American Shows, writes from San Juan, Porto Rico, that their nine-day engage- ment was successful for the rides and shows. They then moved to the ancient capital of Aresebo, where another red one was played. The show opened at their next stand for a 12-day engage- ment, Riverview Park, P. R., as a part of the Insular Exposition, on December 1, but were accorded such unanimous success that the engagement was pro- longed until January 1. The shows, rides and the free acts came in for commendable praise and have been well patronized. Lee asserts that the climatic conditions are a rea} test of showmanship when it comes to run- ning a wax show in the tropics with the thermometer well over 100 degrees, and in some cases the morning sun reach- ing 140 degrees, and the heat under can- vas is almost unbearable. To meet this exigency, Lee has constructed a case equipped with electric fans where the wax figures are storéd each night. in addition to the ether process, to prevent the wax from melting. The express or steamship lines will not accept wax figures for shipment in that country without an indemnity waiver, and he is probably the first wax showman to operate in the tropics. Walter Savidge Winner In $35.000 Damage Suit WAYNE, Neb., Dec. 20.—After being out four hours the jury in the Madison County District Court returned a verdict in favor of the Walter Savidge Carnival! Company. ‘fhru her mother, Cleo Me- Keown, Norfolk (Neb.) girl, sued the Savidge company for $35,000 damages, the plaintiff claiming she was injured by coming into contact with a live wire while alighting from a seaplane swing owned by the defendant. Miss McKeown claimed that the shock to her nervous system impaired her health’ and caused her to be more or less helpless. Louis Hemingway Resumes His H. A. S. C. Duties KANSAS CITY, Dec. 22.—Louis Hem- ingway, secretary-treasurer of the J George Loos Shows, has returned ani will resume his duties as secretary of the Heart of America Showman’s Club, 4 position he has_ filled for the past tw» winters. In the spring he will rejoin th Loos Shows in his former capacit'es Cc. B. Rice has been acting secretar) of the club until Hemingway's return Central States Exposition Is To Play Florida Fairs J. T. Pinfold, manager of the Centra! States Exposition Shows has announce! he has contracted to play his organ 7) tion at the following Florida fairs: Vero Beach, Stuart, West Palm Beach ari Ft. Lauderdale. Johnny J. Jones To Visit N. Y- ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 22.—Johnny J Jones will soon be able to regain the " of his injured leg and will make a vi to New York in connection with plan for the coming season. Reiss Shows To Play . Kinston, N. C., Fair Carleton Collins advises that he he closed contracts for Nat Reiss Show with the Kinston, N. C., Fair for nes fall, making the third straight year |b" that organization. t - t ne H 74 ee BREE nA [he aX) AP KY. (ey fe Yi AN? 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New Year’s Eve Party For Showmen’s League CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—At the meeting of the Showmen’s League last night it was decided to have a New Year’s eve party in the clubrooms for members and their families. A single man may bring a woman friend. The charge will be $5 per person. There will be music by one of the best orchestras in the city. Danc- ine will start at 9 p.m. and continue to 11:45, when dinner will be served, Dancing will then be resumed and con- tinue. Sam J. Levy is in charge and C. R. (Zebbie) Fisher is in charge of the reservations. Members who expect to attend and bring their families should retify Mr. Fisher as soon as possible in order that the reservation can be en- tered. LEAGUE NOTES Harry Codington made _ his annual presentation of a basket of fine Idaho apples to the league and auxiliary last evening. Following its usual custom the league will remember the sick members who are in the hospitals in order to make as merry a Christmas as possible for them. President F. M. Barnes is still in the hospital following his last unpleasant ex- perience with hold-up men. Robert F. Katz is on the sick list at the American Hospital. Felice Bernardi has recovered his operation and is now out of the hospital. A gymnasium class is being formed for regular instruction with Zebbie Fisher as temporary instructor. ia 4 Robert L. Lohmar, general agent of the Morris & Castle Shows, shipped 286 toy autos to Col. F. J. Owens, who dise- tributed 150 of them to the orphans in the Swedish Home. The rest will be distributed later. The report last week that Col. F. J. Owens was the champion billiard player of the league promptly brought a num- ber of challenges to the Colonet. Sam Levy was the first to take the champion on and now there is a Rew champion. George Stanley and sister of vaude- ville and Herman Singer, magician, with Wortham Shows, visited the league rooms last week. Frank Lentini was due to motor in, but because of an auto accident didn't arrive. The accident involved the car only. A. E. (Ted) Timoons closed Col. Owens’ No. 4 show at Jonesville, Ark., last week and brought it into Chicago for storage. Ted will winter in Chicago, making preparations for next season. Rose Berry will spend the holidays with Colonel and Mrs. F. J. Owens. Meyerhoff Seriously Ill At New York Hospital NEW YORK, Dec. 24—Henry Meyer- hoff, well-known outdoor showman, is Seriously ill, and was taken to the New York Hospital on December 22, where, it is understood, he will undergo an opper- ation. (0 COOK HO = HAMBURGER 2B Strong Gey Stoves—Preesure Gasoline; Orner.. $19.35. 3 Burner. $26.60 4 Burner....$34.65. see Heavy Bollor Plate Steel \ inch thick. Co 15. ...$3.00; 80x18. ......$9.50; 3618 $10.00 Nceesion Men everywhere depend on Taleo Quality and rvice. Order from this ad. Send one-fourth deposit. rite for illustrated catalog on an* thing you want. TALGOT MF@. Co., Dept. M-6, St. Louts. Me. NICHOLLS, GA. Nett week CAN PLACE EU Ferris Wheel, of Smith & Smith Chairplane Have room for a few More (oncesstons Will be out all winter wil Dlay the best lots in an! around Atlanta next spring Write or wire MITCHELL & LA MANCE, Stillmore, Ga, This Week Keystone Winner Dice Machines Give particulars for quick sale GEO MONIER, 528 S W. Sth Avenue, Miami, Florida, The Billboard, January 1, 1927 75 ADVERTISE WITH MUSIC “DRAWS THE CROWDS” We offer one slightly used Automobile Outfi and 2 rebuilt Calliaphones cheap, for tides of advertising. TANGLEY CO. MUSCATINE, IOWA Saleshoard Operators — Concessionaires! Write for beautifully illustrated Price List on IRELAND'S CHOCOLATES. Quality Candy, in At- tractive Boxes ALWAYS FACTORIES———_____ IRELAND CANDY CO. 501-7 North Main St. 512 Gladys Ave. ST. LOUIS, MO. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. WIS. DE LUXE DOLL & DRESS CO. LEVIN BROTHERS 302 Marietta St., ATLANTA, GA. Sixth and Ohio Sts.. TERRE HAUTE, IND. SOUTHERN DOLL MFG. CO. GELLMAN BROTHERS Washington and Main Sts., DALLAS, TEX, 118 N. 4th St., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. WIS. DE LUXE DOLL & DRESS CO. KINDEL & GRAHAM 1926 Grand Ave., KANSAS CITY, MO. 762-784 Mission St., SAN-FRANCISCO, CALIF, WIS. DE LUXE DOLL & DRESS CO. SINGER BROTHERS 642-4-6 Third St.. MILWAUKEE, WIS. 534-36 Broadway, NEW YORK, N. Y. WIS. DE LUXE DOLL & DRESS CO. WESTERN NOV. CO. 2302 Penn Ave., PITTSBURGH, PA. 416 S_ Los Angeles St.. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. COOK HOUSE MEN IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT We are headquarters for Gasoline Stoves, Jumbo Burn- ers, Steam Tables, Tanks, Pumps, Hollow We, Gasoline Lanterns, Little Wonder System Lamps, Mantles, Torches, Urn Burners Waffle Irons, Coffee Urns, Griddles, Juice Jars, Juice (Like Cut). Pres- Powders, Circus Lemonade Glasses. Also Spectel Equipment eure to order. 8-Gailun fank ......$5.50 Small Pump ........ 1.25 Hellew Wire, per Ft. 05 Connection Brazed on. .10 Tees for Hollow Wire 20 Large and small, useful for any show purpose—Dogs, Ponies. Monkeys, Bears. Prefer animals broke to work. Capable Man to Break Small Animals. particulars in first letter. THOS. BRADY, Room 505, 1547 Broadway, New York City. Phone, Lackawanna 1875. WANTED WANTED WANTED Freaks, Side Show and Platform Attractions, and will pay good salary to any of merit. Can ase good Mind-Reading Act, lady to double as fortune teller, man as lecturer. What have you to offer? Address JOHNIE J. BEJANO Care Morris & Castle Shows, P. O. Box 1100, Shreveport, La. ve $4.25 inch .... 5.50 Terms: Oneé-fourth cash. balance C. 0. D. Write for complete catalog. Waxham Light & Heat €0., ovvt. 1s, sso w. «20 8. w.¥.c. WANTED Immediately, State all M. J. LAPP’S GREATER SHOWS, INC. WANT FOR SEASON 1927 Wax Show. Silo Drome, Monkey Circus or Speedway, Side Show, Masical Revue and Walk-Through Shows. Will furnish outfits. Concessions of all kinds open. Show opens April 16th in Connecticut. Winter Quarters, Danbury, Conn. Office, 19 Hickory Sc.. Ellenville, N. Y. IMPERIAL EXPOSITION SHOWS WANTED FOR SEASON 1927 Merry-Go-Round, Ferris Wheel and Mix-Up. Real proposition to ride owners WANT real Athletic Man, to take charge of real framed Athletic Show. CAN PLACE Grind Shows of all kinds. with or without outfits Concessions all open Will sell exclusive Cook House and Juice, Blankets, Corn Game, $50 00, im exclusive $3000 Ball Games, exclusive, $6000. Privilege of four Games Tr wks, Skillos, $30.00 wees — $25 00; Grind Stores, $20 00 WANT Working Men, Electrician w! 4 + 4 = $ a d “ - ~ Tractor. Following parties write G Henderson, Chuck Lawson, Chief Red ntana rk, andy ams, Filmer Fairfield Ralph, where are you? All address WwW. J. DOC RALSTON, Barberton, Ohio Complete Portable Dodgem Jr. Rides For Sale Without cars (buy cars from Dodgem Corp., Lawrence. Mass.). No carnival or park should be without one. For cerms address A. INGERSOLL, P. O. Box 1132, Montgomery, Alabama. Advertise in The Billboard—You'll Be Satisfied With Results, News From West Coast LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 22.—<At the meeting of the Pacific Coast Show- men's Association it was decided to hold a “Get-Together Party” in honor of out- going officers on Monday night, Janu- ary 17. Members who attended the meeting in- cluded Walter B. Hunsaker, J. J. Dunn, Ed Garner, Al Nations, C. M. Gillespie, Felix L. Burk, J. Sky Clark, Lee J. Teller, B. L. Reich, Richard Murdock, H. W. Fowzer, George French, Joseph Diehl, Ed Mozard, A. J. Ziv, Judge J. L. Karnes, Bert McIntyre, Harry Sussman, John Robinson, Dutch Steinhardt, Royce La- due, Jack Donnelly, Ed Smithson, John Miller, Archie Clark, Harry Phillips, David Pollock, Charles Guberman, Ben J. Martin, Charles Nelson, Frank Mc- Mahon and F. B. Joerling. Every day brings show people to Los Angeles, among the late arrivals being Mrs. Cleo Webber, who was with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus last season; Harry Kremp, after spending the past six months in the East; Mr. and Mrs. Cc. F. (Doc) Zeiger, who have stcred their show at Hood River, Ore.; W. H. Brad- shaw and wife of Kansas City; Mr. and Mrs. Toney Spring; Harley S. Tyler, who with W. H. (Bill) Rice has opened an office in down-town Los Angeles, where they are dealing in show properties; Mr. and Mrs. Archie Clark, who closed their season in Bakersfield, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. George Rollins, of Law and Out- law Show fame, who have been the guests of W. H. McGeary and wife. Departures from Los Angeles are Will (Bill) Wricht. for Seattle, where he will spend Christmas with his relatives, then going to Trail, B. C., after the first of the year, to stage an indoor show for the Elks, and Lou Backenstow, who left yesterday for the East on a business trip. His famous chimp., “Joe Mendi”’, is ap- pearing in local theaters at present. Johnny J. Jones Shows Opens Season January 3 ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 24.—Johnny J. Jones announces that the Johnny J. Jones Exposition will open the season at the Hardy County Fair, Wauchula, Fla., on January 3, with a 20-car show to play this date. Another unit or the Johnny J. Jones Exposition of the same size will open January 17 at the Polk County Orange Festival, Winter Haven, Fla. =—NEW PONY TRACK 15 Hand-Painted Horses. with Jockey, 36136 ‘old-up Board. Price, comptete, speciat, $60-°° BEANO or CORN GAME 85-Player Outfit, Complete, $5.00. 70-Plsyer Outfit, Complete, $10.00. ALUMINUM CENTER WHEELS 25 inches {n diameter. Numbered on both sides. Any combination. Speelal, $20.00. 25% deposit, balance C. O. D. Send for our new i No. 1226—full of new Games, Dolls, Blankets, Bathrobes, Alumin- umware, Novelties, etc, SLACK MFG. CO. 128 W. Lake Street, Chicago, Ill. § NEW PLAY BALL AMUSEMENT MACHINE Can be run with or without Trade Merchandise payoff feature. Big Repeater and Penny Getter. Write for circular and prices. EXHIBIT SUPPLY CO. £222,Wact** S* ELECTRIC CANDY FLOSS MACHINES ELECTRIC CANDY FLOSS MACHINE CO.. 228 24 Avenue, No., Nashville, Tenn. FOR SALE nders, Serial No 132M to 135M. Slightuy — , A new. Price, $85.00. Reconstructed Nickel and Quarter Machines. Price $45.00 and $60 00 respectively. 25% with order, balance C. QO. D. BADIO CO, 545 Long St, Bethlehem, Pa. a xx—— om » ; r 7 ee | TT | OEE a Je- 4 a | == — a il HT, bi ———a0—ClO ee ee po = Wanted To Buy Animals My pe | ee —< a | a Po | ——: _ : SS —— s aay _____ |e ———— | bee po | ———————_—_—__—_ Ho Th TTT} wg | Ura LOWEST PRICES = IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT ite . aiiteoor as 7 I] Be BS Me =; a oh fiagtrstanit ee Ql i | == = oF ~ em - [_@£$§_ = a | | WANTED I cn MA |

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76 The Billboard, January California ‘Gold Souvenir Rings Just the thing for Salesboards and Con- Halves Lots at per Dozen. Full-Gross Lots at $5.00 per Doz. Loose Souvenir Coins, Halves. Per Dozen, $1.10; per 100, $8.50. THE CHEAPEST, BUT THE BEST. SEND FOR NEW CATALOG. Of Carnival and Concession Goods—just off the press. New goods. New Prices KINDEL & GRAHAM The House cf Neveities, 782-784 Mission Street, SAN FRANCISCO, NOT igi ~_ af” es . — eed Con grAaLe ING STAND f That’s what the Dog-in- a-bun brought J. H Eiden right at the start. He says ‘*had bad A mg a first hour. Lay soldover 5 aton in 3 days. H.E.R.—made $63.66 profit first few hours. Sandusky sold 481 in 3 hours. That’s the way it goes. Thies sy novel method of cooking a hot f dog tnside a delicious bun gets the crowd. It makes sen« setionai sales everywhere. Kx- nses small, protiteenormous. Sure winner for concession men or permanant locations,g¢ Dem- onstrate to public view this new Hot-Dog sandwich and watch the money rolj.in. Complete outfits at low prices. NEW METHOD—Use DIP-DOUGH. Easy and fast. Make from our free secret recipe, or use Dog-in-Bun prepared flour. Write for proof of profits. TALBOT MFG. CO., Dept. DB-2, St. Louis, Mo. H.C. EVANS & CO. CARDS, GAMES COMPLETE LINE OF CONCESSION SUPPLIES Send for our NEW 96-Page Catalog of New Money-Making Ideas. 1528 W. Adams St., CHICAGO CANVASSERS, BREE Steccrmen, PEDDLERS sity for 2c; sell for Everyb “4 mus buy. We undersell them Hundreds of other items. Send 30c for i p samples. Catalog FREE, MILLS SALES CO., 13 E. 16th St., N. Y. C. Buy qur absolute neces 1, 1927 ' 23S i MIDWAY Communications to 25 Opera Place, CONFAB Cincinnati, O. ORE KES EAAE SSR... GREETINGS. NEW YEAR. A RED ONE. HAPPY MAY 1927 BE MAY YOUR CAMEL never go dry. HOPE you L. L. L. wher- ever required. will secure NO LATE TRAINS, no long hauls, no muddy lots. ma Brothers’ SAM agent of JOSSELYN has joined Rice Shows at Greenville, Tex. SOLOMAN is now the general the World At Home Shows. WE THANK YOU for the many cards expressing kind thoughts and good wishes. THIS DEPARTMENT will be pleased to received photographs of show fronts, groups of showfolks for publication. THE GREENBURG AMUSEMENT COMPANY closed its season at Mesa, Ariz., and is wintering at Phoenix, Ariz. JAMES ALEXANDER, please com- of the Lake Hospital, Both, mother Baton Rouge, La. and baby, doing nicely.” KANSAS CITY, MO.—A rush to cigar stores is expected by the showmen win- tering here soon, as Kansas City smokers will be forced to pay a 20 per cent tax on cigarets bought within the city limits. The tax is effective December 30. D. CHANNA writes from. ideieen, La., that he closed a pleasant and profitable season of 22 weeks with the C. R. Leggette Shows as talker on the motordrome and will be with the show again in the same capacity. SAILOR P. M. LEWIS was a caller at The Billboard recently while in Cin- cinnati, en route to his home at Jackson, Mich., coming from Florida where he left the Greater Rialto Shows with which he had the athletiic show and Under- ground Chinatown. T. J. McDONOUGH writes from Re- public, Pa.: “I am still here working as a wire man. Will be on the lots with chair-o-plane and concessions next sea- son. Would like to hear from Anthony Loudas, or anybody knowing his present address.” TRUCK OF ROOT BEER and Logamberry drink operated by Mr. Bout, of Pittsburgh, Pa., well-known concessionaires on carnival midways and Mes. J. W. BUDDHA OUTFITS AND COSTUMES. Papers in many languages. HOROSCOPES at reduced prices, Quality unusual. ROLL TICKETS. See our d on page 37 Send 4¢ stamps for full info. $.BOWER, Bower Building 430-2 W. 18th St., New York. GUERRIN| COMPANY P. Petromilli, Proprietor. HIGH-GRADE pegoniens. 30l¢ ‘ l 277- = ~~ g SP San Francisco. 1927 Catalog of Ball Game; 6 Cat Racks, Milk Botttes, Concession Tops TAYLOR'S GAME SHOP Columbia City, Ind. The Concession Supply House A. N. RICE MFG. CO. 924-26 West 8th St., KANSAS CITY, MO. ny ) FUTURE PHOTOS ihn, Le aes ige 2 NEW HOROSCOPES Magic swage and Buddha Papers. 4c for — ‘. jos. LEDO = 169 Wilson Avenue, Trsetee, nw. Y~. FRANK J. MURPHY SHOWS ‘ 0 nv and Ff Help, on * and F ie % ‘f wr seas # “i027 , Show € tern territory early in Apr Acdre i 5) until March 1 TMK J. MUBK HY { 1305 North East Second Ave., Mi- End your correspendenee te advertisers by mentioning The Billboard. municate with Beulah Virger, 403 North Newberry street, York, Pa. J. C. WILLIAMS, advance promoter of the World at Home Shows, left the or- ganization at Marianna, Fla. MR. AND MRS. GEORGE L. DOBYNS will leave for Miami, Fla., after January 1 to spend the winter. JAMES E. COPPLE, concessionaire, arrived in Kansas City from Florida and will spend the winter there. PRESS AGENTS, st start the new year right by not writing so much regarding the owner of the show. Send news about the show. H. DAMOURE, . JR. advises that Kempf Bros.’ Model City is exhibiting at Macon, Ga., to capacity business and will remain over Christmas. KRIDELLOE ENTERTAINERS are playing under auspices in North Carolina, featuring James S. Johnson, magician, and Prince, the wonder dog. E. V. McGARRY and wife, Alpine, the Florida Fat Girl, are spending the winter in Morristown, Fla. where Mac has se- cured a position with the Lawer Saw Mill. SAM SOBEL, traveling with wrestlers Chris Newton and Terrible Turk: Your mother, Mrs. Annie Sobel, 28 Manning avenue, Toronto, Ont., is anxious to hear from you. RALPH MILLER WRITES: “The talph Miller Shows have a new wrestler, a baby boy, weighing 844 pounds, born to Mr. and Mrs. Curly Spheeris at the Lady AMONG THE TROUPERS in Altoona, Pa., are Thomas Hollingshead (Trans- continental Tommy), George Bowen, Herman of the Checkers Shows, Red Richards and William Bowen, They are making the Open-Front Cigar Store their headquarters. NOTES FROM THE Beatty Motored Show winter quarters: R. O. King and wife spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. J. Budd, old friends, years ago on the same show, and returned to Truman, Ark. Cotton Williams and Oscar Motor- mar are in Louisiana and are expected to return next week. WM. H. DEMPSEY, for seasons one of the the past two owners of the May & Dempsey Shows, is completing a success- ful season and will pass the balance of the winter visiting Detroit during the holidays, then to New York and Philadel- phia. After a rest he will prepare a string of concessions for the coming sea- son, THEY'RE TELLING THIS ONE on Frank Meeker, bandmaster on the Nat Reiss Shows, now in winter quarters at Washington, Ga. While hunting, Meeker's dog started a rabbit Meeker fired, but the rabbit outran the shot. However, an- other rabbit was so badly scared by the noise that it started out full speed, col- lided with the first rabbit and both died in the crash. ALBERT BYDAICK writes from Mt. Carmel, Pa. “The Anthracite Show will again take the road under the manage- ment of Fred I. Thomas and Albert Bydaick and will carry four rides, two shows and 25 concessions, as well as an START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT! BY READING BiG ELI NEWS! FOR JANUARY Hot off the press with a wealth of Good Will, Cheer, Pep, Principle and Optimism Samle Copies Sent FREE! GET YOURS NOW! EL! BRIDGE COMPANY PUBLISHERS, Opposite Wabash Station, Jacksonville, {i}, SPILLMAN Carousselles 32-Ft. 2-ABREAST, Portable. 20 Horses. 36-Ft. 3-ABREAST, Portable. 30 Horses. 40-Ft. 3-ABREAST, Portable. 36 Horses. PERMANENT TYPES FOR PARKS SPILLMAN ENGINEERING CORP. North Tonawanda, N. Y. mt = | ee whi LEE Pte Te q 4 RS 4 PT Pe 5 a Se a = - ay z oe ‘ } , ... an aa . — »* * ia i one to | :* a i * ~ * ‘ : : at P _ ~~ , a | | 7 wit OA ie : * ; Me mmrgs ’ —_ ’ . Pf) LS me, a : 5, we "i Fs Ne: . | 2 = 4 ree “ » -. . 7 id YY . -- wit ete a a 2 F i, Soe bal 7 A: pens red last ." ; 5 ta we : rom - 7 i 7 ON e>E>——EE : j Ar , ee oe ee ee e ~ a i LL | Ac ee fae! - edo ta a —. ing : ats We ees NS ~V ; rea £m me... : = gq F Y dis ‘ey in | a *”, Wk A ; Re a wa aa a al aid if LALLA iF 5) (zs : eee te lh P| we YeoP Bs AY ' i s a ae es ws sne ; ——— ll of = PS _ os Se ee i. ae : ; TARE aad Mie ory. mi Fi ay : ornate sccm me nn ce { Ha ce _ ~ i aie ne i pe | . 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® \ The Billboard, January 1, 1927 77 WHILE EXHIBITING at Tarpon Sy es, Fla., the members of the Wise Shows had quite a time enjoying tne home-cooked meals at Maw Tate’s restau- rant and talking with Dad Sheilds as well being with Fred Paul, who have picked Tarpon Springs as their home troit. William Bidwell and son, Russell ROUND and SQUARE _iionehres, Cletus Senneidior, Chas. Whit- : P tington and Frank Fulton are in Florida.” No article of merchandise shows the value — A } electric light plant. Most of the people trician; Elmer Shelihaas, Chas. Robert- that were — poe Marne on eae bo j a with The Courier Journal, and the booked for the coming season. Bs oward boys. The King Bros., at the are being r¢ painted at winter quarters at Louisville Hotel. Stanford Baker. Shorty i Nanticoke, Pa. Rhorbach and G. E. McClellen are in De- ’ | and flash for the money like these band- JULIA, trained chimpanzee at the colored Art Pillows. Cincinnati Zoo, is to have a new dress and hat on Christmas Day, in addition SPECIAL DESIGNS FOR LODGES, oes ee en ea ke AMERICAN LEGION AND RESORTS dress and hat are the gifts of a young girl who left them several days ago at SALESBOARD OPERATORS, = h° 20 icket oftice “addressed Yo Sol = > an, eners manacer. e care CANDY JOBBERS exercised on the gift is apparent when g a , it is told that the dress and hat ar tne er Ba yd — a pink and that Julia absolutely vetena to wear any other color than this. How pa aakit CUT ee ae ath.. the girl learned this fact is something of a mystery, as it was known only to DID YOU GIVE the baby year a MUIR ART C aie Mr. Stephan and Julia’s keeper, neither hearty welcome? "y inois "y of whom remember ever having told any- a one regarding this peculiarity. PROF. AND MADAME HUDSPETH FRANK L. BYNUM writes from Palm Reach, Fla.: “Just came up from Miami and they now have ball games and science and skill working, but they are not faring so well on the various lots. Some contrast between last year. The -arnivals are all represented down here. Here is hoping for a big Christmas.” have joined the Metropolitan Shows at P ee WELL, HERE'S HOPING everything Wauchula, Fla., with a 5-in-1 show, con- S— oO S RA ORS that happens in 1927 will be for the best sisting of electric chair, Chinese mystery; EDDLER DEM N T T —best for you and yours. Joe Simi, magician; Pony Bill, who pulls New Shipment Needle Packages at Special Prices No. Per Gross. : ‘tomobiles with his flaxen hair, and mt mentee 6 papers leese s silver- “ered Nesdles, I B16! —Garnishing. Set, 4 White LEAVING A STEAMSHIP after ar- : 29 ani ” 0 uc eedles, and patch of assorte arning Ne 8, ed Pieces, in Carton. 7 lain remy Mme. Hudspe th in magic and mind ‘ a ae. $25.00 — from — Aires rete = reading. EARRINTTOO Day |i B217—Glass Cutter Knives..... ee & Mec was Nera 7 = amy 3 I lie B910—Colored Shell Chains..... 7.50 big brass drum. He struggled down the J. D. WILSON. of the Brown & i eC) rw B389—Tooth Pick Knives....... - 3.50 pier with drum, cymbals, ete. Custom Sanders Amusement Company, informs: Se LS md @ | Bis4—Tia Foot Balls.......... 3.25 @ euards halted him and the drum was set Sanders : n pany, Ss: ~ oe 1 Ce) 8 B357—Miniature Straw Hats..... 3.00 = the pier in a cool Gry place. “Beam” “We are playing Nashville, Ark., but the pore i) wert en ez? J = B400—White Stone Pins....... 4.00 0 2p cool dry place, — " weather has been so bad that we could * od Ei | B7!0—Horseshoe Needle Book.. 6.00 — a rye ng drum. aon . not open for four days. We had a fair p> WHER: We carry Watches, Clocks, Silverware, again and again. both owner and Olicia attendance and it looks like we will No. Per Gross Jewelry, Stu Jewelry, Giveaway Goods, had a eee eo oe ime hae i » Canes, ips, Knives, Mechanical Toys, non, particularly e inspector, who too have a good Christmas date. Expect to wn, & oy, teceeescecenaconsccenecensneres ORES tects, Walicowe, Titer Wale, Bleed —— ma octet acl roa aan apa np to Louisiana after this spot and ayes ee ny eer ONGC nccccerseccccccceccececesesess 675 ties and Notions. Our, catalog is free. Saupecter ia Panoer > Sone of po. ~ stay out all winter. The lineup consists [J B70s—Pelly Prin Ai Get “Sh Weeds 2200022022 hao Send Lor rome cong toda, We reauire f of four shows, merry-go-round, ferris B707—Over the Top. All pete et ace 9.00 % deposit on all C. O. D. orders. a A em of ee and one rhe s — 824 North Eighth Street ° cotch. “It's a wonder e mouse wheel and 15 concessions SH RYOCK-TODD NOTION co., sT. rou Mo. didn’t stagger,"’ said the inspector. The - bandsman was taken before Solicitor of PRINCESS LOLA and Walter Levina Customs and fined $20. He did not have write: “After completing our engage- ‘ ; the cash available, so the drum was held. / ment with the Morris & Castle Shows we bought a truck to carry paraphernalia VENDERS YOU HAVE WANTED AL PORTER advises that he closed as 1 while playing vaudeville thru Illinois, general agent of the Wonderland Shows : at Miami, Fla.. and is back in Wash ng- AT PRICES YOU WAIT F ton, D. C., organizing the Porter Bros.’ Shows, a 10-car gilly show opening at Missouri and Arkansas. Dr. Cox is SILVER, KING Peany-Nickel-Dime Gall Gum e965 0%) Quantico, Va., for the Moose Street Car- piloting the show. Just finished over the Maleo Circuit of theaters in Fl Dorado. We are booked in New Orleans for —— eght weeks. Teddy, the wrestling bear, | ERRMEEEEEE MME VONGETS cece eee cee ee ween nival. Lester Staley has booked his ; is a big attraction and meets all A hb ag Slightly Used. Look ‘ent Work. Like 30.00 merry-go-round, Ferris wheel and chair- i comers.” WET eebcqequeteccacccceneseusaceenseeunenes o-plane, Ralph Phillips his minstrel ; (7 Improved Reward Cards with Each One.) show, L. B. Chase his 10-in-1, Charles » e MILL RSI K - 7 , ‘ere : : “ * CARL HERRICK writes: “Just a line “e355 p} Ady Ral» gd doce ot Rap perenne 60.00 Karne a wax show. Porter is building a to let my show friends know I am spend- ares Oval Glass 5c Side Venders, Factery Re- 40.00 ride called the submarine. Barney Isacs ing the holidays~in Indianapolis, Ind., uilt and fetais uehiibanesouenthaaed Chappy. Lawrence Wright, Joe Mealy. with my folks, having a wonderful time at $35.00 Each.) ‘ 11.00 Joe Oliver, Slippy, John Flynn, manager and Santa Claus has been real good to miengey auauity FRITS ore ae ores, of the Seaboard Shows, and several other me. One particular present wag certain- ; . — _ carnival men are in Washington. K. F. ly appreciated. Thanks very much, Red. INDIANAPOLIS VENDING COMPANY Ketchum passed thru on his way to Next season will find me again connected CORNER CAPITOL AND NORTH, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.J fone esc Mice ee Se ess with Jackie Smith and Chester Taylor, ’ S,IND.§ are at 608 Sixth street, N. W. last year with Leo Lippa Shows. Leaving YoU DIDNT wawn trials here about January 5 for Hot Springs J IN’ AVE any more tria 4 ’ -_ oe Ark, where I intend to spend the ret | ZEBBIE FISHER’S INDESTRUCTIBLE WHEEL [| 272 troubles in 1926 than the other fel- of the winter. Merry Christmas to all.” Made of 5-ply wood, 1% inch thick, waterproof glue used in construction. Stronger than steel per unit of low; you only think you had. Give him weight. Boil it or soak it, it will not separate. Drive nails into it, it will not split. Sun and damp a word of cheer, too. DON = ather png HP it sae ae a rl sg A Ss set _ os Fitted a ial | N” your letters ss pegs that do not come out, and our latest design indicator older 2 ndicator. Ost perfect bal- 7 x 7 \f a 43 FORGET to date enced snd truest spinning Wheel ever made. Will stand up under hardest use and always show a eniform = DEAFY PETTIGREW writes from ee percentage. Painted in eng color desired. Bes with each Wheel for shipping. Made in thfee sizes, any Fort Worth, Tex.: It has been so long ; pemenmned combination both sides. Deposit required on all orders since my name appeared in your column } CHARLES SEIP writes: “After being ]f Price 24-Inch ....... mnemaabhte yn a ee a ge aa thought I would shoot you a line or two. . en route for 40 weeks the C. R. Leggette ~ As usual am wintering here with the { Shows are safely housed in four build- - enna trouper’s friend, Perry S. Brown, man- | ings in Monroe. La., and some work al- ee SsaoOBa__Veowu<_aa=o= ager of the Madoc Hotel. Had a fairly : ready started for 1927. While the sea- son has been a little freak sh—we started ne | f in rain and closed in rain and sleet—the SOPRA ES See ; P early season was very bad, midsummer se FEE Sele SOT Te a dis was fine, some of the fairs good, and others were ‘t. b.” Taking it all together, we have no cause to complain, as the show has a nice ‘b. r.” on the right side of the ledger and will open :acout the in oa | WANTS O. H. BAKER, of the Michigan Greater For Miami Police Circus and long season to follow: One real Freak that is a Shows, writes from Louisville, Ky. “At feature. right proposition to same, and Side-Show Acts of all kinds. Want me of the year there is not much Glass Blower, Wire Worker and Novel Selling Acts. Want to hear from Fritz | hews from the shows tucked away in Lacardo, Nabor Felix, Nels Nelson, Larson and Pinxy, Sampsons, Ralph Cronin, || Winter quarters. Quite a number of “Freddie” Seal Boy. Write or wire at once showfolk are wintering in Louisville, DOC HARTWICK, Box 2744, Miami, Fla. iong them Harry Applegate, show elec- FOR SALE Thirteen Flat Cars, all sixty feet long, and two Box Cars, fifty feet long. Best wooden flats on road. Will furnish complete outfit to any good side-show manager. Will also furnish com- THE NCARRY-US- Q MODEL plete outfit for any good attraction. Buck Smith, write. RY-US-ALL Positively ghtest and quickest-handled ma- Se eda tetas entnd WEST SHOWS, Box 958, NORFOLK, VA. "t for truck igh “abor ‘and time ani. MR. al MRS. “BILL” HILLIAR HE C. W. PARKER AMUSEMENT CO. . . . camping out Christmas, 1926, at LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. Advertise in The Billboard—You'll Be Satisfied With Results. Crosse, wis. r | j ; : es ‘ : , iO. 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: ' «ot ' 78 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 Can book for the coming season: on a fifty-fifty basis. for Cook House. Pete Kortes’ this date address all mail Castle Hotel, Must have lady rider. also place some real good Concession Agents. J. W. CONKLIN, Herald Square Hotel, CONKLIN & GARRET’S ALL CANADIAN SHOWS, Wish to Extend to All Business Associates Their Best Wishes for A Happy and Prosperous New Y ear Must be agents of ability. If you are not able to stand prosperity don't World’s Museum can place Freaks and Curiosities of all kinds. New York — antil January 8; Sherman Hotel, Vancouver, B. Monkey Speedway, Illusion Show, Caterpillar, Tilt-a-Whirl, Snake Show. I have a complete Motordrome I will book to responsible showman Will also book the following Concessions: Knif> Rack, Sport-the-Spot, Hoopla, answer Address Pete Kortes. Chicago, January 10-11; Ball Games. Georgian Hotel, Marlborough Hotel, Few choice Wheels open. Can ad. Will sell the exclusive rights Seattle, Wash. All others address Winnipeg, January 13. After this successful season. Have booked my ball games with Bill Hames’ Shows for the coming season. Quite a.number of show people here this winter, as most of the shows in Texas closed early. Among them are Trumen Agie and brother, with a fruit and produce stand on Main street; Jim Dehi and wife, conducting a rooming house; Curly Vernon and Tex Chambers, hunting ducks. Mr. Hames has started preparations for next season, having painters at work in winter quarters.” MAY YOUR CAMEL never go thirsty in 1927. WINTER IN FRISCO 1926-'27 By William Arnold A bunch of us troupers at the Reno Hotel For some real home cooking we sure have fell; Dutch Allen’s wife, Carrie, a trouper for fair from the soles of her shoes to her short bobbed hair, She boils the spuds and fries the steak, For a trouper’s winter, is that a tough break? There’s Vick and Smithy, “Caterpillar Bill”, We eat so much, were all going to be ill. Just out of the hospital; lost her appen- a Dutch and ix, Yet she does all this cooking for us four ginks. She’s got one husband, could have all of us four; We're thanking you, Carrie, and hollering for more. The end of my story, so I'll blow taps While Casey, the bulldog, licks up the scraps. MAYBE YOU INTEND turning over a new leaf. If you do, take this tip—~ don’t throw away the old leaf; it may come in handy for reference. COL. W. B. HICKS, “old scout”, writes from the American Saving Aid and Emer- gency and Rescue Home, Pine Bluff, Ark. “I have been a trouper more than 40 years. Came here to spend my Christ- mas and as I am 85 years old and very sick and broke may not live to see my many old friends, and these little babies, children and deserted mothers are not to MRS. BLANCHE ROLLINS, standing by the figure like in appearance. modeled by Mrs. in wax, which is life- This .2ork of art, Rollins, received much favorable criticism while being ex- hibited in Boston last summer. The title of the subject is “Somebody’s Mother’. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Rollins are resting at Hot Springs, Ark., and are taking advantage of the baths. Mrs. Rollins will shortly leave for California, where she will visit ber mother in San Francisco, Wanted—Shows of all kinds, all kinds; no exclusives. Everything open. Springs, following. Big Greek Celebration, Christmas and Water Carnival WEEK OF JANUARY 3 also Ferris Wheel to book all winter. HAUSNER KELLY SHOWS. Concessions of New Port Richey, Fla.. this week; Tarpon CALL! Rehearsal, Joplin, Mo., January 8. Want circus. Answer fully by letter. first-class, give references. wanted. All People Contracted Answer One Contest Man, Police auspices. Address MACK HALE PRODUCTION, 316 Holland Bidg.. Springfield, Mo. General Agent that can bandle week-stand two Program Solicitors. Must be No concessions wanted. No more acts enough to warrant an extensve campaign in advertising. Be frank and honest in your method of advertising this feature as well as try to hold the faith of the public and interest it in the efforts you are making to change the class and caliber of your entertainments, as wel} as seeking to provide at least one attras. tion that is different from any of your former season's attractions or your com- petitor’s big feature. We will agree that to have a suce: organization you must continue to oper- ate string shows, mechanical shows, pit shows, fun houses, etc. These will get their share of the business, yet, in ad- dition, we must provide attractions for the more reserved, sedate, refined and artistic and middle-aged people, who pre- fer to visit the carnival once or twice during the engagement and spend a few hours on the midway. Yet on the morrow these same people can either build up your organization by their sentiments re- garding the worth-while merits of your presentation or they may destroy the ssful be forgotten—no empty stockings. I hope and pray God will send them gifts, toys, candy, fruits or money to buy for Christmas, and God will bless you all I was with Col. W. F. Cody Buffalo Bill Show, Original Texas Harry, Dr. J. L Lighthall, Diamond King Medicine Com- pany, circus rider with P. T. Barnum and James A. Bailey Shows in America and Europe, with Dr. Carver and Whitney's Wild West Show, H. & B. Kickapoo Medi- cine Company and Col. T. Edwards’ Ore- gon Medicine Company. Please write me. Address 127144 Main street, Room 4, Pine Bluff, Ark.” JACKSONVILLE, FLA.—Miss Congo, a three-year-old gorilla, weighing 130 pounds, is sitting serenely in her room at the James D. Burbridge estate unaware that she’s going to be given tests shortly from which it is hoped to gain more scientific knowledge for the benefit of mankind. Professor Robert Yerkes, of the psychology department of Yale, will make scientific observations of Miss Con- go, generally believed to be the only liv- ing gorilla in captivity and declared ‘to be the only female gorilla ever to have been in captivity. Last summer the pro- fessor paid the young gorilla lady a visit and put her thru some intelligence tests, following which he said he had been greatly impressed with the animal's clarity of thought and apparent ability to reason. Ben Burbridge, who captured Miss Congo in the Belgian Congo, said that she evinces no sign of viciousness and apparently is in as good health and spirits as if she had been left in her native jungles. J. W. CONKLIN, general manager of Conklin & Garret’s All-Canadian Shows, will be at the Herald Square Hotel, New York, until January 8; Hotel Sherman, Chicago, January 10-11; Marlborough Hotel, Winnipeg, January 13; after that date at the Castle Hotel, Vancouver, s: ACTION By Carl Herrick We may sit in our easy chair and thirk, We may read as much as we can, We may gather the knowledge of all ages, We may think and study and plan. But work is the thing that counts in life, For work is the tonic of man, It’s not what you know that counts, It’s the use you make of your plan. Roberts Exposition and Circus The J. C. Roberts Exposition and Circus is still doing a little business now and then. However, the eastern shore of Maryland was bad this winter, but Manager Roberts says he will play it again next fall to get even. Salisbury was a bloomer, as were Chrisfield, Baston and Cambridge. The show has moved in all ways this winter, by bag- gage car, box car. boat and ox carts. We are now on a narrow-gauge railroad and had to unload all the baggage twice. The staff of the show has been changed. Mr. Roberts is doing his own general- agent work, with Ed Eger and Harry Nugent as promoters. A. B. Murry is looked for after the Christmas holidays. The lineup is as follows: Charlie Price, orchestra leader; Col Gregory, assistant manager; Lester Howard, electrician. The orchestra has the following men: Tuby Reeves, Robert Heinberger, Edward Engrim, Robert Cruse, Moses Hughes, Charlie Price, Harry Cotter, E. T. Shep- ard, Blackie Donaldson and Skyes Sheppard. The acts are the Lellettas, barrel jumpers and athletic; June Mason, the girl in the golden whirl; the Fa- mous Mansfields in their impalement act; Little Frankis; Lavetts, the man that grows and grows; the Shooting Mansfields; Col. Gregory, in his bicycle act; Harry Barrow, the up-side down man; the original Bozo Act, with Cotter and Mayhew; Fred Guthrie on the gold- en wire, and the Lucas Sisters in singing and dancing. Charleston contests are featured every Wednesday night. Harry Barrow had a nasty fall at Easton, falling 34 feet to the floor, but was able to work the following night. The Virginia-Carolina Aces are get- ting their share of publicity. Dad Lock, with five concessions, will leave in a couple of weeks for his indoor spots in North Carolina. CHARLES PRICE (for the Show). Keeping Faith With the Public (Continued from page 74) your representatives? It it what you, were you not interested in the business, would consider fair for the price of admission or is it exceeding in value the box office charges? Would you, were you just an ordinary amusement secker, consider the offering equivalent to the price or below your conception of the face value? How many carnival managers, owners and pro- ducers of carnival attractions can truth- fully and honorably boast of such “Qual- ity in Excess of Prices Charged or Equiv- alent” attractions on your midway? Im- partially, I may say, the word “few” covers the fleld of several hundred. and managers, which I trust will be food for thought and with justice to all who are either directly or indirectly interested in the business? This season, for a trial pertod, provide some unique attraction as the outstanding feature of your midway and your organi- zation, something that will be a talking point for your agents and representativea, exceptional in its pretentiousness, original in its presentation, interesting to the eye and the sense of reason, and spectacular M I suggest this to carnival owners fancies of others who had planned to at- tend the carnival. Why? Because the entertainment which must be provided for all classes of carnival trade was lacking Or was supplied as it may have been in this instance. We must cater to the pub- lic, for certainly the public does not cate: to us, so let us make a resolution to be original, be considerate, give twice value for value received and keep faith with the public while the public keeps faith with us, Brand New Idea This is no et- Make $300 Every Week ».r=:: have tested the = idea and it works. You sell Drug and De- partment Stores They put on your sale on a 25 basis We “tell you how to & it and fur- nish advertts- ing copy (for your local pa- per) whic n con- tains coupo f. fering Beautite One-Ounce Bet- tle L’Oripahs Narcissus Per- fume at 3%, Regular $1.00 Seller. Every Bottle Has Flashy Label and omes in Attrac- ive Box. Costs You Only $13.00 per Gross. Trker in over $56.00 One-third cash required with all orders Got started today while the idea is new. We furnish complete instructions telling how to put sale over Write nom We also sell new squat shape Fancy Bottle Perfume, in swell box, at $3.60 Dez. Big 69c seller. Regu! $1.50 value. Also Pocket Filaconet at $7.00 Gross And Face Powder, regular 75c seller, $15.00 Gross. Full size sample of each will be sent—all four s™- ples for 50c FREE—We give you for spraying your custome’ 1 bottle concentrated L’Oripahs Narcissus Perfume with each gross order. Our new 1927 Big Celored Catalog is just off the press. It's FREE. NATIONAL SOAP & PERFUME CO. Coupon Dept. 5 612 W. Huron St., Chicago SPEARMINT GUM. Full size Se packs-—also other flavors. Flashy boxes. All Street Concession and Pre- mium en use our dandy brands. Double your money Deposit required. Order today. acest en SHOPS, Cin- 0. WANTED FREAKS AND NOVELTY ACTS AT ALL TIMES. 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oe ee ae oe Return Contract Is Signed By Beal for Indoor Show MARINE CITY, Mich., Dec. 21. — So 1) pleased were the city firemen with the success of the Firemen’s Indoor Cir- cus. directed by Robert J. Beal, last week that they have signed a contract with him for a circus next year. The circus bill included “Bobby” Monte, dancer; the Great Edwards, jug- and wire walking; Buster Marsh we ing ae Company, acrobats; Geyer and Marie, equilibrists; Dainty Elizabeth, cloud swing and ladder; Jean Burke, Oriental dancer; Mlle. Romig, wire walker, and Mile. Ozella and her dogs. Two contests, one for the most popular fireman and one for the most popular girl, enlivened the event. Concessions were operated undcr direction of Phil Sher, and the concessionaires were “Whitey” Tait, Nate Rifkin, “Shorty” Carroll, George Balkin, Harry Schwartz and Harry Thomas. Director Beal says he is working on several good spots, but that none of the events will be held until after the holi- days. He also states he is organizing a company to take out a two-ring circus the coming summer to play two-day stands thruout Ohio and Michigan. The name of the circus, officers and heads of departments will be announced in the near future. Four Ohio Food Shows Are Planned for 1927 CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 22.—The Ohio Food Shows, operating food shows in a number of the principal cities of Ohio under the direction and management of the Ohio Retail Grocers and Meat Deal- ers’ Association and under the auspices of local retail grocers’ associations in different cities, has announced exposi- tions for Cincinnati, Dayton, Youngstown and Toledo. The Cincinnati Food Show will be held at Music Hall January 31 to February 5. The Dayton Food Show will be held at Memorial Hall week of February 14. The Youngstown Food Show will be held at Raven Wood Auditorium week of March 14. Many new features are be- ing planned for this event. The Toledo Food Show will be held in the Armory week of October 17. This is the third annual food show for this city. “Louisiana Purchase” Celebrated NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 22.—The 123d anniversary of the transfer of Louisiana from France to the United States was celebrated Monday at the Cabildo, in which Louis XIV of France, Charles ITI, Charles IV of Spain, Napoleon, Governor Claiborne and General Wilkinson, im- personated by men high in civic life, re- enacted the scenes of long ago. The af- _ was under the direction of W. O. art. Community Carnival NORTHFIELD, Minn., Dec. 23. — A Community Carnival for the benefit of the Boy and Girl Scouts of Northfield will be held in February, according to Plans suggested by Edward C. Jacobson and approved by the Boy Scout Council. There will be a number of side shows. Russian money will be used thruout as a medium of exchange. To Promote Outdoor Sports MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 22. — Plans are being considered for the im- mediate inauguration of an _ outdoor Sports program here. The Calhoun Beach Club recently met with Mayor aeoree i. Leach to discuss the proposi- ion Hanover Poultry Show HA NOVER, Ont., Dec. 26.—The annual Poultry Show of the. Hanover Poultry Association opened here with a large and varied display of choice poultry. The ex- hibits were better than ever. There was & record attendance. Winter Carnival ST. CLOUD, Minn., Dec. 24.—A com- mittee headed by Victor Fandel {ts at Work on the program for the Winter Carnival to be held here January 13 and lt. Lake George wil) be used for the Yerlous events and features, The Billboard, January 1, 1927 OT %) SPECIAL EVENTS Trade Shows, Celebrations, Benefits, Etc. Conducted by A. HOMER CLARK—Communications to 25 Opera Place, Cincinnati, O. rr renner CR i: Plan Six-Day Celebration EUSTIS, Fila., Dec. 23. — Tentative plans for the celebration of Washington's Birthday here indicate the observance will be on a more extended scale than heretofore. The week will be featured by the Lake County Poultry Association Exposition, which will stage its annual show in the Administration Building at the Lake Front Park. Another attrac- tion will be a Funway, which will fea- ture a six-day event of side shows, con- cessions and rides. Still another will be a show by the American Legion. Last will be the American Winter Trapshoot- ing Tournament for three days. There will also be the usual program of motor- boat races. Newton and Wisecarver in Texas A communication from H. V. Newton that he and George B. Wisecarver, of the Buckeye Producing Company, Columbus, O., are in San Antonio, Tex., handling the souvenir program for the American Legion, which is sponsoring an entertain- ment, A Night in Paris. After completing this contract they expect to go down into the Rio Grande Valley, where they have several dates under auspices. They are expecting to return north about June 1 to get ready for next season's business. FE. R. Zimmerman, secretary, is arranging details and reports. Furniture Exposition CANTON, O., Dec. 23.—Announcement is made of plans for a Better Furniture and Household Exposition to be held at Land o’ Dance, week of January 24. The exposition will be sponsored by The Canton Repository. Bands and vaude- ville will feature the show. Indoor Fair and Auto Show GALESBURG, Ill, Dec. 23.—Every- thing is in readiness for the opening of the Indoor Fair and Automobile Show at the Armory here December 27 to Janu- ary 1, inclusive, under auspices of the Loyal Order of Moose, Galesburg Lodge No. 880. A number of h'gh-class circus acts will be featured attractions. Poultry Shows PASADENA, Calif—Plans are about completed for the annual Poultry Show, to be held here January 11 to 15. Henry W. Adams is secretary. BELLEVILLE, Ill.—The National Pis- eon Association Show will be held here January 11 to 16. —_—_— WICHITA, Kan. — Promoters of the Poultry Show, to be held January 17 to 22, are looking forward to one of the most successful events of the kind ever held here. OMAHA, Neb.—The Poultry Show, to be held January 10 to 15, is expected to include a larger number of exhibits and to be on a much larger scale than previ- ous shows NEW YORK — Detailed plans have been worked out for the Poultry Show to be held at Madison Square Garden January 5 to 9. GRAND FORKS, N. D.—The Turkey and Poultry Show will be held here Feb- ruary 1 to 4. MITCHELL, S. D.—Arrangements are going forward for the State Poultry Show, to be held here January 17 to 21. ST. ALBANS, Vt.—The annual Poultry Show will be held here January 11 to 14. Col. Bob Crosby Entertains “Good Little Devils’’ Company SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 27.—Irving Weber, former assistant manager of the Poli Theater, and Colonel Bob Crosby, associate owner and manager of the Hol- land Producing Company, put over a Christmas party Saturday for members of the Good Little Devils Company, playing here on the Mutual Wheel. The event was given at the Hotel Eastman, of which Mr. Weber is now manager. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Elmore Yates, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Vogel, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Holland and Louis Stern. Those of the Good Little Devils Company present were: Josie Bailey, Kittie Doraine, Lauretti Lee, Dollie Gray, Letty Bernard, Elinore Freely. A big Christ- mas tree, nicely decorated and loaded with presents, stood in the hotel parlor, where the party was given. A show was given before the presents were distributed. The Good Little Devils Company will be entertained at Wilkes-Barre this week by Colonel Crosby, who is staging a cir- cus for the Moose. Col. Bob Crosby announces that he has closed a contract to stage a circus here February 10 to 20. Promoter Held Charged with removing mortgaged Property from Ohio into West Virginia, a man giving his name as W. H. West, said to be manager of the United Circus Corporation, was arrested at Wheeling on a fugitive from justice warrant. The complaint was made by Charles Mc- Donald, Barnesville, O. West is said to have purchased an automobile at Barnes- ville, giving a deed of trust on the ma- chine, and to'have taken the car from Barnesville to Wheeling. During the week of December 6 the United Circus Corporation was to have staged a circus at Wheeling, under auspices of the American Legion, but the circus was a “bloomer”, according to J. F. Whiteside, of the Upson-Whiteside Duo, wire act, who writes that they went’ to Wheeling from Chicago, and were left stranded. Springfield (Mass.) Police Plan First Relief Circus SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 24.—The city police department is sponsoring its first Police Relief Circus at Convention Hall January 24 to 29, directed by the Mack Hale Productions, of St. Louis. Attractions will include Miss Machetta, fire loop the loop; the Hamilton Scottish bagpipers, drummers and sword dancers: Vernetta Clark Duo, king and queen of the silver wire; Pete Carnalla Trio, com- edy acrobats and trapeze novelties; the McRewer Family, Punch and Judy, and clowns and special music. Special fea- tures will be given each evening, includ- ing a fiddlers’ contest, athletic and baby contests, wedding and other novelties. A special matinee is to be given for newsboys, orphans and old people, Miller Framing Indoor Circus NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—E. Lester (Doc) Miller, of the Ringling-Barnum Circus, is organizing an indoor circus to take the read on January 12 for an engagement of 12 weeks, opening at Easton, Pa. One of the features will be the Wenzel] Trio, a foreign act, which will make its first ap- pearance on this side, and which, accord- ing to Miller’s statement, will unfold some new routine in acrobatics. Miller will return to the ticket department of the big show when it opens its spring engage- ment at Madison Square Garden. ice that cannot be beat. —— enpemieoaes —————_ - = Bazaars—Carnivals—Celebrations We carry an extensive line of merchandise suitable for your Concessions. Furnish you with wheels, paddies, etc. Write for catalogue and consignment terms. Our prices are right with serv- LE: A. HOCK CO., - 171-177 No. Wells St., Chicago || aaiieiaiiad 79 Christy’s Reindeers in Phila. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.—Christy’s reindeers are making their annual ap- pearance in the Quaker City, having ar- rived on Thanksgiving Day, under the care of Ray O’Wesney, from the Christy Bros.’ winter quarters, Houston, Tex. They will terminate their engagement Christmas night. They are being featured at Gim- bel Brothers’ store, in Santa Claus toy department with a specially constructed deer shed with paddock in front. New Auditorium Plans FORT MYERS, Fla., Dec. 24.—With the City Commission having granted the request of the Boosters’ Club provide a Municipal Auditorium this season, an- nouncement has been made that $60,000 of city bonds will be added to finance the building of the auditorium at the end of the city’s pleasure pier, now under construction. Complete Lines of Paper for All SPECIAL EVENTS INDOOR CIRCUSES MINSTRELS BAZAARS AUTO SHOWS STYLE SHOWS CORN SHOWS DAIRY SHOWS ETC. Twenty-Four-Hour Service on Type Posters, Dates. Cards, Muslin Banners, Fibre Signs and Dodgers. THE DONALDSON LITHO NEWPORT, KENTUCKY LIFE OF THE PARTY ‘‘“NOVELTIES”’ 41 ah ~ . ee SERPENTINES, Fancy Paper Crepe Hats. Gross ..........- $4.50 Tey Balloons, Large Size. Gross............ 3.00 Noisemakers (Assortment) 100 Pieces......- 3.00 Confetti, 25-Lb. 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Every motorist wants hi $8 car mon- Ogramed. A painter charges $5 -Oandean’tdo @8 good work as you can do for $1.50, Noskill Gs required ; noexperience. Spare or ail time. Circulars, ful linstructions, ete., free, Write for Free samples—or se ond $2.50 for outfi fit b: ~ return AMERICAN MONOGRAM CO, Dept. 63 East Orange, N.J. FREE i CANVASSERS, STREETMEN, PEDDLERS Buy ur absolute necessity for 2c; sell for 5c. Everyb dy must buy. We undersell them all. Hundreds of other items. Send 30c for seven different samples Catalog FREE MILLS SALES CO. 13 E. 16th St., N. ¥. ©. PAPERMEN LIBERAL PROPOSITION for straight-shooters, ALL SOUTHERN STATES and ALL STATES WEST &. THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ‘‘Your Old Pal, Al.” F. AL. PEARCE, 201 Shukert Bldg., 1115 Grar Ave., Kansas City, Missouri. UQULEE § is. her ' Needles, Tufting Needles, San 25c. ple, for quantity prices and terms. Send to the factory in the Address Vild-we KIRBY BROS., Baron, Oklahoma. The Billboard, January 1, 1927 (Cee —————— PIPES for PITCHMEN Conducted by GASOLINE BILL BAKER Communications to KEEP YOUR EYE on the date ready to write it 1927. and be MIDNIGHT, Dec. c. 31, 26.—One sweep of Time’s pendulum tier the horologe of eternity and—Happy New Year! MISKEL AND MAY, who are spend- ing the yuletide holidays in St. Louis, ask to be remembered to all friends. DR. MACK LUBIN infoes that, in spite of bad weather conditions, he is doing great in Kansas. He wants to see pipes from Happy Norrell. DOT BONSTELLE., formerly a popular medicine show performer, now playing vaudeville dates, was among the Callers at the Pipes desk last week. Dot's last med. show . engagement was on the Nature’s Medicine Company outfit. DR. OKLAHOMA CARL has closed his two-car med. show and opened an office at 19 West Church street, Harrisburg, Tl., for the winter. He advises that he will open in that town on lots April 15. The latchstring is out for any of the boys making Harrisburg. Ss. F. DEWEY, directing manager of the Dewey Medicine Show, closed his hall season at Sparkill, N. Y., two weeks ago, and is now taking a much-needed rest at his home in Kingston, N. Y., where he entertained Nelse, of The _ Billboard, December 13. THE CHRISTMAS ISSUE of The Bill- board pleased John Murray, who writes from Boston, saying: ‘“‘Your Christmas number speaks for itself. It is the gem of them all. It is the criterion, and there is not a book sold today that can ever hold a candle to it.” poc FRANK LATHAM offers a happy suggestion: “Let’s bury the Big Hat ar- gument,” he says, “and allow each man to wear any style hat he sees fit that his pocket will permit. There’s a terrible snowstc raging here (Boise, Id., ecember 12) just now. Me for the sunny old Pacific Coast.” rm « GEORGE M. REED and the are spending the Christmas holi- days at Rainsboro, Pa., amid mountain scenery and feasting meat. They will leave shortly for Colerfi- bus, O. The Reeds offer the season's greetings to all the boys and girls of Pitchdom. DR. missus DR. F. G. KREIS, at his headquarters who is wintering 911 Hampton street, inton, Pa., informs that he will go to Canada the first week in May. He says: “To any clean worker, who might figure on going to Canada, I can say this: The Canadian people have been ‘ery good to me. I always found them good people to do business with.”’ “SHORTY” that way MORTON physically, may be built but he is long on on deer and bear. 25 Opera Place, Cincimmati, O. eee ee poetry. Harry Finks sends in from Smith, Ark., a poem written by “Shorty” in which he names 60 pitchmen (count ‘em, 60) and there is an individual verse for each of the 60. Space limitation pre- vents the publication of “Shorty’s” long ride on Pegasus. But the poem is long om merit as well as lengthy. WILLIAM H. (OIL) BURNS shoots: “For three years I have worked Nebraska to the Wyoming line. If Dr. Carson will lef. me have his address about next July T can send him a logallon hat direct from Wyoming; also high-heeled boots, if he wants them. They wear ‘em high and wide in that country.” “Oil” Burns’ ade ress is Marion, Nll., R. F. S. Route 1. Fort DR. LES WILLIAMS Shreveport, La.: “Have closed my opry and am now in vaudeville closed with Leavy Time. ‘Going Will be in St. Louis January 1, at the Grand I have with Buster Williams, Pat Wiles, Chick Wil- liams and the wonder dog. Stubby. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody.” infoes from med. Just east. opening the act HERE'S NEWS FOR MED. “Jolly Bert” Stevens, piping from Greens- burg, Pa., December 16, says: “All halls in Pennsylvania, under the law, must now have emergency lights, which it costs about $200 or £390 to install. That puts many halls on the bum, because the man- agers of small-town halls can't put them in and must close their halls. We closed our show because we could get no more halls and the Ba-ha-ni Medicine Show is now in winter quarters.” WALLY KNIGHT infoes from Clifton. dale, Mass.: “Friends of Billy O’Mar Doe Murray and Chief Li will be MEN, ynewolf interested to know that they have mi- grated to Beantown and are packing them jn and coining dough right opposite the ston City Hall. They expect to stay quite awhile. Mrs. Murray is with the Doc. Billy O'Mar is selling health books, Chief Lonewolf is getting them with herbs and tonics and Doc Murray is lecturing on astrology. This fs the one and only in Boston.” “JUST GOT INTO ALTOONA, PA.,” Dr. George Reed pipes from that man’s town, “and got a Billyboy. 1 have not missed one for nine years. Was certainly pained to ,hear of Fred Thomps: n’s death. Fr was always a good scout and a clean worker and he did me many a good turn. The last time I met him was at the Caldwell (Ohio) Fair, in 25, and he showed me one of the best spots to locate on and sel! I never heard him knock a brother pitchman.” Dr. and Mrs. Reed are spending the holidays in Columbus, O. ROBERT WRINGER WRITES from Minneapolis: “I see in the December 11 issue of The Billboard a pipe from Ed BLACK CHASED BARREL SELF-FILLER TWISTER Fitted with Ball Pen Point. werent GAA gh Mn at hs I RAAS G) E PCCCeAC CUE Ce, All Workers. $12.00 PER GROSS, with Clips. —eo NASSAU LINE Featuring JUMBO MEDIUM LADIES’ SELF-FILLERS, Filled Pen Points. CHAS. J. MacNALLY, in Red, Green, Mottled, Black. Fitted with Geld. Positively the Best and Flashiest Selling Pens om the Market. 110 Nassau Street, New York City a Wishing Bou All A Happy New Year THE DEVORE MFG. CO. gh Mfg. Chemists 185-195 E. Naghten St., ps “OUR CUSTOMERS ARE OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT” - COLUMBUS, OHIO fa End your correspondence ie by mentioning DAs eee Re me Oe oe Re pe eG Pig Be Re DR AT LAST! 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wherein he mentions my old uranZ, : I limmie Mazur, Big Jim Cunning- : nd Harry Brown. I would life to + iy touch with Mazur or Cunningham. Letters from them would confirm my be- noe in that behwiskered old gent sup- need to come down your chimney and y oonee wuletide cheer. I suppose sox hustlers have the edge in this Christmas gn when they have a hundred dozen pa nd can hang them where they will do well alongside the well-known fire- pl { wonder what Joe Silverstein is doing, also Joe Goldstein.” c A. (HAPPY) PHILLIPSON, former yaudeville artiste, now big chief of the Phillipson Remedy Company, was among the llers at the Pipes desk last week. He hae, just closed his show at Camden, is on his way home to Paducah, lipson will reopen in Ohio after the holidays. He has on the show: O., ar aw Blacl Blackburn, black-face comedian ; Tillie, specialties; Baby Lucille, songs and dances; Lee Calvin, characters and straights; Mrs. Phillipson, songs and spe- clalties; Patsy Harris, piano ang spe- clalties; Baby Joe, with Mabel, the monk, and | e Don. Patsy Harris has gone to his home in Waco, Tex., for the holi- dave. Phillipson reports @ prosperous season in Ohlo “SIR EDWARD” ST. RADIEM sends a clipping from an Orlando, Fla., paper, telling of the closing of that town, thru a prohibitive Heense, the ordinance hav- ne been passed by the city commissioners last week n its first reading”, which means without debate and indicates that it not opposed. Following is the text of the local measure, in part: “It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to peddle any goods, wares from house to house in the city of Orlando without firet paying a leense fee of five hundred ($500) dol- lare to the city tax collector; provided, however, this section shall not prohibit ym selling thelr own products grown by them outside the city limits.” or merchandise farmers fri THE KANSAS CITY OFFICE of The Rillboard is in receipt of a letter from Tommy Ryan, from Altus, Okla., read- ing: “Oklahoma seems well represented on the sheet of late, as George Linder, Quick Giles, Cornblette and three or more “ohens were seen there. ‘Red Dirt’ Reagan has a new Ford coupe, and, with McBride, was seen picking up an order or two at Clinton Business is fair, altho cotton fs at a low price. The Cherokee Fair was better than ex- pected. All the bors, with the exception of ‘Red Dirt’ Reagan, who got $8, had a good week's work. Reagan says he is going back to his first love, grease joints. at and Blake are on the way to New ZIP HIBLER sends jin what looks like & prospective itinerary, altho last report v that he had settled down for the Winter in Newark, N. J. His pipe reads: "So mewhere there are watermelons growing on the vine and oranges and blooming in the lemons wintertime. N and warm in Florida: Freezing in New York. Step along, old Nzzie: time is growing short. Yes, I stop in Balti- mor ng enough to feed. Treat old lizzie to a shot, then I hit the breeze. Washington and Richmond, Atlanta on the lin If old lizzie doesn’t blow up I'll be there on time Rambling thru the outskirts of good old Birmingham Diving round the traffic cops, taking it the lam Dogs and chickens clear the road, folks look up and laugh. Got ho time to rusticate ‘til Georgia line is passed) Whoo-ee! And here I am in MALE... FEMALE? Men and Women! Do you want more money? Then write me today. We show you how to sell @ out of 10 men you meet. They all wear shirts. We make tail a I shirts and ship direct to wearer at west prices. Women buy for husbands, 5985 an hour for spare time / yi Parsons makes $8.55 covery grate. t rsoms does nearly as well, n. toot Write for elegant gelling equip. ' yles. samples, etc We furnish Don't delay—start mak- : y how 8S. HARRISON BROS, wane fot. 127A, 133-145 W. 2ist St. N. ¥. —_——__ » 'y you with catalogs with your name tm- Good | cover. Ruy stock from us as you need ft log ar ni nen wholesale. Sample cata- ‘formation i 4. RIN a» 162 aS KRINSLEY CO 2 The Billboard, January 1, 1927 81 waht to make up your own Pen Sets, My Pens sell. or Gold Plate. My Pen Demonstrators got big mon Pencil Set. Are you getting yours? yo rd new Pri $33.00 a Gross. LLEY, The BUY YOUR FOUNTAIN PENS FROM M’F'R. of Oversize Pencils to match. All colors, Red, Green, Mahogany and Black. START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Full line of Oversize Jumbo Pens. Come in. Red, Green, Mahogany and Black. Fitted with a Soliq Gold or Gold- Plated Pen Point. Full line Fancy Steel Boxes if you It's all in the Pen Point. Try a dozen in Solid Gold ey at the Fairs with my new big Red Lever Pen and ce List. If you Want cheap Jumbo Pens, I have them. Specialty King, 487 Broadway, New York City. The Wonder Dem onstrating Comb Use Them Rough-They will Stand it made Standard Py roxoloid Corporation Leominster. Send Your Name end Mass. U.S. A get the Story in Full. Double Coated Both Sides Rope Paper Cone Bags, $7. both sets. Insured parcel p TABLETS, IN A GLASSINE BAG Jack Frost Cake Decorators Rubberized Bags, $7.00 er ys Sets; JACK FROST 75 per 100 Sets; PURE FOOD COLOR TABLETS. 15 : . $3.00 per 100 Bags. Send 50c for samples of ost. JACK FROST DECORATOR, $14 Rush St., Chicago, Ill. GET BUSY ON A GOOD ONE. Jacksonville at last. Trade old lizzie for a feed and then sit down and laugh. Folks back there in old New York can wrestle with Jack Frost. This old boy is satisfied with sunshine and pork chops.” “IT’S SEVERAL YEARS since I wrote a pipe,” H. B. Hord (shame on_ him) admits. “But here I am again. Been working the sheet—clear thru from Port- land, Ore., te Minneapolis, this last sum- mer, and found business just fair. Had a notion to go down to New Orleans for the winter, but after hearing what the boys say, I'm sure glad I didn’t go. I had 90 days of Southern hospitality one time, out of Cleveland, Miss., and I'll never go south of the M. & D. line again without plenty ducats in my jeans. It sure was a treat, hoeing that corn. I love the outdoors, but I ain't no good at hoein’. And, the word ‘grits’ I have to grit my teeth. { can taste ‘em yet. But if ever they quit making them the natives down there will starve to death. I hope none of the boys have had the same experiente this season, Going to Chi. tomorrow.” “SHORTY” TREADWAY’'S pipe was a hit with Sid Sidenberg, who writes from Chattanooga: “I want to express my gtatitude to ‘Shorty’, and hope to meet him durife our travels. I am happy to know thaf ‘Shorty’ has realized the value of thefe pipes and has joined our forum. I hope he remains with us. I have never met ‘Shorty’, but the boys have often mentioned his ability as a pitchman, I feel sure that his counsel will be appreciated by all the right- thinking, well-meaning boys and girls of pitchdom. Stick with us, ‘Shorty’. We need you.” In a postscript, Sid informs: “Undoubtedly the boys will be surprised to learn that Paul N. James has taken unto himself a wife. Paul has taught many of the boys some magic and tricks for their ballies. Many of them are grateful for his kind assistance. Paul married Miss Evelyn Fraze at Denna, Tex.” “tT AM ANCHORED at Marion, I,” William H. Burns writes, “and intend to stay anchored nntil next April. Just work- ing on Saturdays. The mines are working every day and there is not a miner out of work that wants work. The streets in the Gay time are deserted and at nicht too cold for work. Later there is going to be plenty of money in this section. I met Ernie Atherton at West Frankfort a week ago, doing well with pins. IT heard Doc Church was at Benton, Ill, Leroy Easter has set the cases aside for the winter and has a film act. With the help of Small Burdette he has béen going big. In the lead belt, Flat River, Mo., they packed ‘em in. They met Doc Grove and Jock Cavanaugh wintering there, working Saturdays. All pitchmen passing this way are welcome. I am living just a mile north of Marion, on a hard, fine road. For those seeking in- formation, I know every open town in this section.” Bill wants to hear from Dr. Harry Herbert and sends the compli- ments of the season to everybody. pr. A. B. MAINARD PIPES from Fort Smith, Ark., December 17: “Friend til—We are away down in the sticks of Arkansas, trying to sell med. in halls. Some nights we almost get a dollar. While the snow is on the ground we are having plenty to ent—tabbits—and the hotel landlady promised us that she will oh boy! whenever I hear \ slaughter an olé, hen fowl for Christmas. Anyway, if some of the boys know a place where we can get more than three dollars on a pitch and will tip us off we will start traveling. The present lineup is: Shorty (H. C.) Morton, cork; Harry Finks, character and jake; Dr. Jack Rice and the writer. Dr. Rice has not been able to speak above a whisper for three weeks owing to the fact that he was badly gassed in France, but he is all there with his fid., slide an@ sax, and to- gether with Shorty’s traps and novelty ‘instruments, and Harry’s tenor banjo, we have enouch music to entertain the na- tives. Arkansas is pretty hard hit with the present prices of cotton and I feel that we are lucky if we get by. Would like to see pipes from the Western States, telling of the conditions there.” CAPT. DAVID LEE, manager of the Lee Me@icine Show, reports from Sparta, N. J., under date of December 13: “We closed our tenting season at Maybrook, N. Y., after two weeks of solid rain, but business was fair. Came home to Fort Jervis to dry out. It was a hard summer, as help was scarce. Performers these days want all the door receipts and a percentage on the sales. And then they kick. So we got along half the summer without anybody. We have our show tent, 30x60; cook tent, 14x24, and two sleeping tents. And you ought to see Mrs. Lee swing the sledge. We put up and take down and no time lost, ané get our share. We have a Reo and a Ford truck and a Hudson to carry the “Mrs.” and make the towns. Was home six weeks and then jumpee¢, into Jersey. So far, it is good, as we havea good clean little show and we leave no bad trail behind us. We work clean and can go back to any of the towns we have played at any time. We playeée, four counties in New York in six years, so that is something. Hello, Doe Kires: Why don’t you kick in once in awhile? You know my number.” JACK DAVIS PIPES from New Or- leans, under date of December 18: “After traveling over the old Spanish Trail in wet weather we finally landed in ‘Li’ Ole Nawrlins’ to find it nearly closed. Only a couple of doorways are open. So we leave tomorrow. We go to the hi-li game tonight, which means we will have to work tomorrow. Joe Dairs, boy auctioneer, changed his mind about going to the snow country and is Mexico bound with me. His wife is with us and she is a top-notch song and dance artiste, late of the La Mar Cabaret, Atlantic City. With the aid of Lillian Davis we gave the natives plenty of show along with the merchandise. Any of the boys who want the towns and rates in Flerida, Georgia Alabama and Mississippi can write me, care general delivery, Houston, Tex., and I'll be glad to give the info. The Bill- board in your pocket is the brotherhood greeting here. Had dinner with a troupe of old-time pitchmen tonight. They are playing Loew's State Theater here. They saw The Billboard in my pocket and we got acquainted. It is as good as the Elk’s tooth. My first stop from here is Beau- mont. Tex., where they have just struck oil again: then Houston, then two weeks in Mexico then back to Houston A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all the boys.” “FELLOW T MET IN BOSTON.” New England Jack Murray pipes from Quincy, Mass., “said to me, ‘Jack, what do you know of that I oan sell? I have ro Could there he i mow PROOP of our claim that the Mexican 1-Flash Gem matches the genuine diamond SIDE. BY. SIDE than this true incident? A mail package containing 3 Mexican Blue-Flash Gems acd one genuine diamond, with list enclosed, was robbed in transit. The thief stole a Blu-Flash Gem thinking he was getting ees diamond and left the diamond in the ackage Tiel NO.I NO2 $2.63 3259 4 ~ «$498 WEAR 3x2 FREE MARVELOUS MEXICAN BLU-FLASH GEMS (The original ‘‘Mexican Diamond’’"—Not ‘ genuine diamonds) Ave Gelighted thousands of customers fo: ree Positively match genuine diamonds. Same 7 on d@artting play of rainbow fire. Stand intense acid Neeet “of vide Dy side comparison with perts positively peed their experience t to detect say whate ver ‘er- a e Ss you admire On your closest friends sre m ° DIAMONDS. Bever Boece it: Test net y difference, send me, yen: it won't cont you HALF PRICE 1 ETO. INTRODUCE To introduce to new just halt our Ne. 1—Ladies |} ws pay ard has fine 14k gold No. | at po Heary Tooth Belcher, 1 ct.gem. 14k nat is Mo. 3 nish, two 98 £7.2 Dlatino > tnish. Glace first water Mex. Diamond an Just send name. address and slip of paper that meets sround ring 4 ie 6. So ss Say which ring you Want. We shi po o p=) Ry x — pit return sige wan arid tman. If oO ee urn in 8 an aes Jour monty Write TODAY. Agents Sahtea’ MEXICAN cen importine ¢ co., Dept. NB, onterey, Calif. Squere Dealers with Billboard Readers for 20 years we quote these prices: : “WINNER FOR OR AGENTS SCIENTIFIC MARVEL LIGHTER. Wh: makes it licht? A demonstration means a sale. Send 25e¢ for sample, or $3.00 for dozen in display case. Gross, $30.00. Money back if you on not saad ai Ww ME M BRADFORD, PA. are $5 H Clark made ) in 6 mos gan Hirn mos. Geo tioew x oid over $7 » worth on the street in Water~ ville, Me., in 5 days Geo. Gr eenhalehy v, - one ieey ths tedan aed i 0.¢ orth e _ phen _ bein | mane al bag 93 ellin plan. oli ress N s' ‘Coma FA CTOR Adjrone sonee, @.8, FOR YOU!!! Greatest Value EVER OFFERED LIMITED TIME Beautiful Watch Ring, set with 14 georgeous, fees Diamonds, rich ffect setting. Has synthetic pt yal Jewel, Secret Mirror and Rouge Compact under dial. Regular Price, ‘6 50 00D Special Price, $52.00 cress pecial Price, $53.00 c Sample, 50c. Wire orders for prompt — 50% with order, balance C. O. Sample must be iM in advance ACE IMPORT SALES CO., 7-9 East 20th Street, New York City. ¥ ‘50% 700 Weekly | Selling Shirts Direct to Wearer. No capital orexperience needed. Spare or full time. @ Est. 1895. Represent a real manufacturer. WRITE FOR FREE SAMPLES MADISON MILLS, Mfrs., 562 Broadway, New York. WHITE SHOE CLEANER I have on hand large quantity of White Shoe Cleane?, Will sacrifice part or all for less than cost of bottles and carton. La H. LEWIS, 6509 Hough Ave., Cleve- land, Ohio T Distribute EARN $20. LEAK RIVETS and Free Samples Steady work, either sex, Send. Soc stamps for sample and instructions and secure terri- tory. B. B. RIVET CO., Cohoes, N. Y. 500 Packages 2 oon eet i} | | a | | mp = dt 4G), Prypeganbeo yy 4 ae en [Ty roe _ K Barred S PSS, l= <n | : | a ill | = a $100.00 Week Selling Golden Beauty Combs, a es Le) | | \ —— a t j ( , New Plan’ . : ae { \ makes it easu \ [ ee - i | a. 1 SS OTIS - po

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CO 307 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, - New York. KEY CHECKS YOU can be your own boss with our Key Check Outfit. Good for $5 a os stamping names on pocket key checks — ete. Sample check, with mame and address, 20c. PEASE DIE WORKS, Dept. D, Winchester, N. H. MEDICINE MEN StL ovr warer SOLUBLE HERB COMP. POWDER. One pound makes two gallons of strong Larative-Blood Tonic. Price, Pound. — 10c. Labels free. 39 sellers. Low CHAS. FINLEY MED , 4151 Olive, Bt Touts, a. GERMAN SILVER The Billboard, January 1, 1927 patience with a guy like that. Imagine it. Right around Christmas being asked that question when anything will sell if you know how to sell it. Hey, you fel- lows, don’t you know how to retail merchandise? Why don’t you get your- self a job running elevators up to the top story, then run ‘em down again? Why do I work on rainy days? Because others say it is hard. It’s too cold to work outdoors. What are you? An incubator chicken, eh? That is the rea- son you are where you are. If you want to know what to sell, boys, just read The Billboard, Don’t glance at it. Read it; study it; then read it again. Pick out something that will sell to a woman. Something pretty, but not costly. Some- thing useful. And make your customers laugh. Make them holler right out loud like this—Ha! Ha! Ha! You know what I mean. And you can make the goal in a slow walk. Don’t be afraid to dispense energy. If you weaken, try drinking a cup of coffee once in a while. It acts as a stimulant. Well, boys, here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.” Jack’s per- manent address is Box 242, Quincy, Mass. “SITTING BY THE ROADSIDE, watching the parade of pipes go by, I have decided it is my turn to shoot,” Joe (Scales) Mills opines. He pursues: “After completing a successful season working scales I am comfortably located at the Hotel Crawford, Fort Dodge, Ia, the State where the tall corn grows and the banks go busted. Have met many of the boys here. Some working, some not. I step out occasionally and grab off some indoor affair and pick up a few with the scales. This State does not look promising, banks closing weekly. I don’t know what it’s all about, but it just doesn’t smell right. I see quite a few newspaper reports of attempts to transfer fairgrounds to county owner- ship and management. That tells an- other story. I think most of the pitch- men who worked here last season have \in mind what I have for next season. Don’t know where I'm going, but brother, I'm moving. I would like very much to hear from some of my old friends thru pipes or otherwise. Come on, Owens Burnett. ‘Scales’ heard all about your luck at Topeka. I have a hot one for you. Bob Percefield or Gabe, please write. Also want to hear from ‘Suicide’ Lincoln, Leaping Lena, Jimmy Johnson, the candy butcher, and Scotch Joe. Wish all of them a Merry Christmas.” PAT DALTON, of the old-timers’ squad, ambled into Cincinnati from Columbus last week and is giving the electric belts a rest until the weather opens up. Pat was in a small town in Western New York some time ago, and learned from the hotelkeeper that while the opportunity was good, the Mayor wasn’t, so far as pitching was concerned. Pat talked to the Mayor. The Mayor said $10 a day or no sales. But Pat found the town clerk, the marshal and the council president sympathetic. They took a fancy to Pat and they conspired to bring the Mayor to terms. Pat, the clerk, the marshal and the council presi- dent waited on his honor in the latter’s grocery store. “If this man pitches he goes to jail, does he?” said the clerk. “Exactly,” says the Mayor. “He goes to jail for violating an ordinance.” Says the clerk: “I violated the ordinance pro- hibiting driving vehicles on the sidewalk when I pushed my baby carriage. The, Merry Christmas to all the boys marshal violated an ordinance when he spit on the sidewalk. The president here violated an ordinance when he drove across an enclosed lot, and your honor violated another ordinance when you threw a snowball at me in the street. Now, we have decided to all go to jail together. How about it?” “That being the case,” said the Mayor, scratching his ear, “your man can pitch his head off.” Telling the story, Pat added: “It’s all in the way you handle ‘em.” ’ “YOU WANT TO KNOW what has become of all the subgetters?” New England Jack, sheetwriter extraordinary, queries in a pipe. “Well, there is only one of me, but I will gladly speak for myself if that will help out any. There is a saying among mag men that in the winter months people read more owing to the fact that weather conditions in the North keep them indoors. I find that true in New England. My business is booming. Every day I write and write and write. But I go after it in all sorts of weather and whistle a tune when the thermometer is down to 40 below zero. It’s just the same with me in the summer when it’s 110 in the shade and perspiration is rolling down my brow like gumdrops. I am always on the works. I'm working every cylinder in the body Thou gavest me, O Lord. I don’t use a buzz wagon. I ride long distances, not on a Pullman, but on a plain roach smoker. And I walk. I am a hiker. The New England States were at one time a gold mine for subgetters, but spoilers came in, picked the roses, then pulled up the bushes. Now thistles grow in those places. But I thank God the disreputables jin this field are dying out. I get quite a lot of mail from readers of The Billboard who play a_ square game thanking me for my persistent efforts to clean up this kind of stuff, and TI hope to live to see the business on a square basis. Give me a hand, fellows. If I can help you, let me know. I’m wishing you all a Prosperous and Happy New Year.” New England Jack’s address is General Delivery, Quincy, Mass. “PIPES OF THE LAST ISSUE con- tained much to interest me,” Bob Powers writes from Jacksonville, Fla., December 19. “Glad to hear my old friend, ‘Shorty’ Treadway, is still doing business in his favorite section of the country. As this is my first pipe, altho I am not a Johnny-come-lately, I will be brief. For the benefit of brother pitchmen, many of whom know me well, I have a few words of advice to offer. Keep out of Florida. I have made this State for several years past, but the powers that be are all het up, as the merchants are hostile. The reason is there are no tourists that have any jack. No matter how much sunshine there is they want the dollars and they have a murderous hatred for anyone trying to extract a few pennies from circulation. I have been working for five weeks on Bay street in a window with pens doing my share. Last week I was invited to take out a string of licenses—city, county and State. Then you must go to his honor, the Mayor, for a permit to work. The wording is plain and to the point. If at any time the pitchman’s activities block traffic in any way, he goes to jail. Enough said. This land of sunshine, rattlesnakes, alligators, etc., doesn’t want anyone but rich tourists and their money. and FAST SELLERS INDOOR OUTDOOR $25.00 Per Gross 290 TAAFFE PLACE, prTcHMEN— DEMONSTRATORS —streetnen 200,000 SOLD AT SEQUI-CENTENNIAL CALIFORNIA REDWOOD BLOCKS TOY NOVELTY AND PUZZLE S$ BIG PROFITS $ CAN BE SOLD AT ALL SHOWS-BAZAARS-CIRCUSES Carnivals-Store Windows-Celebrations 25% DEPOSIT REQUIRED WITH ALL C. O. D. ORDERS TINY TOY MFG. CO., Inc., QUICK TURNOVER Sample, Prepaid, 35c BROOKLYN, N. Y¥, J.J, Brennan, | Chicago, Ill, WRITES: “Tn 12 hours I sold 46 sets.” Profit, $66.70 You, Too, Can Make Big Money with Harper NOT A CENT OF MONEY REQUIRED To START Our agents easily average $7.50 to $30.0 a day from the start. You get territory you want with protection. HARPER'S TEN USB SET washes ani dries windows, scrubs. mops, cleans walls ani cellings, sweeps and does five other things that sell housewives on sight. Complete set costs less than brooms. or 100% Prati. vi aes aa NO Martin Buckley, New “Yesterday 1 sold 25 sets Wm. H. Burgan, Pa., sets in eleven Route. te ‘prean is: Don't wait. Start today and a coupon for full particulars. (Cut on dotted lina and mail at ence). HARPER BRUSH WORKS, 106 Sd Street, Fairfield, ltewa. Please send me full ——- proposition and bow I can ing a cent. Name Address start without Loves. SORE Hee eee eee eee Oe teeree wee eee eee SECC eee eee ee @ name of Carnival of Park you sre going to work Drinted . 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eee ee New Year be as prosperous and bright as the sunshine in for which place your humble lea y it Ari os ervant s leaving. TA\L.S OF THE ROAD. “Sherry”, the heetwriter, tells one Maybe, in these mvs of the N. P. S. PP. A, with its ai ny’ everything, they would be iplinine my friend, Smitty, but cmitty certainly was a fast and sure- fire worker. Now, the crowd that Smitty was talking to on the courthouse green n this Arkansas town I'm talking about med to be enjoying it when I walked - Smitty looked to me out of luck He had his tripod outfit set up and his fingers were busy builcing a little exhibit pyramid of the boxes of cold-cure tablets he pad taken from his valise. Smitty making his opening in a voice so ind husky he seemed to be whispering. You couldn't hear him more an "ees feet away. “Friends, it's the only instantaneous cold cure known,” he was telling ‘em. “No 24 hours’ wait for results, no two hours, no one hour. It hits the spot pronto. No matter how bad. the cold you've got, one of these little tablets dissolved on the tongue gives you relief In a split second. Makes you feel you're cured in two minutes. Never yet fa led.” As Smitty’s spiel progressed the laughter of the crowd grew loucer. And Smitty grew hoarser and harder to hear. A kid in the crowd yelled: “Hey, mister; why don’t you try one yourself?" The crowd roare@, Smitty stopped building the pyramid. “What's that, son?” he asked. “The boy says why don't you take some of that stuff for your own cold,” a man in the front line relayed. Smitty grinned. An idea seemed, to strike him. “Tt's a good idea,” he said. “Friends, I thank you for the suggestion. He opened one of the boxes, extracted a_ tablet. tosseé. it into his mouth and swallowed once or twice. Then in a clear, strong. resonant voice, he resumed: “As I was saying, folks, when the boy interrupted me, this is the only known instantaneous cure for colds, coughs, inflammations of the vocal—. Yes, sir; here you are. That's correct. Two bits, 25 cents a box. And you, sir. Two boxes you want? Two more over this way. Thank you, sir. Hold on folks, don’t crowd. And another gentleman takes two boxes of the famous oe Shadowgraphs By CHAS. ANDRESS GREAT BEND, Kan., Dec. 23.—wvear hes everywher It has been a long tim: nee I have had a chat with you. I ive received so many Christmas cards at I «an net possibly answer them all and then many of them have not given y address for acknowledgment. The nd of the old year, again bringing fond memories of old days, old times and old friends, and bringing vivid mental pic- tures, all of which has made the world brighter by the giving of gifts and the xpressions of yuletide greetings, all of wh helps to keep our feet in the traight and narrow path and shun the troad road which leads to ruin. And now, no doubt, many of you will say, w that Uncle Charley is getting old ‘Ne has “jined church”, but in this you would be mistaken, for while I do like te be close to religion and surrounded by clean religious influences, I have no = — a hy oh ; ats /DLES” DeMARRS, lady clown i, f t dog, “Pal”, with the Hager ech. Wallace Circus last season, will be i, R. M. Harvey's London Hippo Circus this winter. The Billboard, January 1, 1927, _Top-Notch Quality at Rock-Bottom Prices ae Greatest Money $4. Saving Value 20 No. B8I17—This LADIES’ BRACELET WATCH, white gold finish, engraved case, fitted with cylinder 90 ment, fully oe teed, complete, in $4). attractive Le aa box, fitted with 1 jewel movement, im dozen lots, for.... Special Price Lots of 100 or Same as above, but with guaran- 7 teed 6-jewel move- Each ment Price in Dozen Lots ...... ae a Ne. 6809 — MEN'S STRAP WATCH. Cush- fon shape, all radium dial and hands. White Metal case, with genuine 2-piece leather strap. Fitted with i-sewel § 20 eylinder move- P ment. Price in Dozen Lets... Speelal Price Queted on Lots of 100 of More. 83 LABOR PAPER Seven years old. Hach i Well financed Two-color receipts, $2.00 a veer up to five. Wire or write for supplies or rticulars weve CA; Darlin g Greetings To You All. 139 North Clark St. Chicago $10a Day for You Many making more while establishing a permanent busi- ness for themselves. Intro- duce our big line giving a Carving Set FREE to each customer ordering our 11 piece Toilet Goods Assortment. All for $2.25. No fancy talk. Se Experience unnecessary. Walter Harris Sold 800 in 6 Weeks PROFIT OVER $600 fou make big money right from the start. What more could you ask while introducing a tine of Soa Toilet Articles, Food Specialties, Polishes, medien, ete., at Attractive Prices’? 250 Products — alj’ repeaters. 10% profit. 80 years on the market. Send for illustrated cueuiens. inside prices and unique sales plans. Act TODAY. E. M. DAVIS COMPANY, Dept. 9711, CHICAGO, ILL, GOLD-PLATED PEN POINTS FOUNTAIN PENS Ask for Our Price Any Quantity List on Best Line of JUMBO GOLD-PLATED and FOUNTAIN PEN POINTS PENS In All Sizes. 4 Samples Free on Re- In Red, Blue, Green quest. and Mahogany. Quick Shipments. Also Small Sizes. ‘No | YOU WILL GET 5 NO JUNK FROM THE TURNER A HARKISON * tro MFG. CoO., INCORPORATE j §211-1213-1215 Spring doe Chest, (Est. 1876), Philadelphia, Pa, U. S. A. WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF HIGH-GRADE 6 TO 15-JEWEL LEVER AND CYLINDER MEN’S AND LADIES’ WATCHES. BARGAIN BULLETIN. SEND FOR OUR 563 Broadway SUPERFIN i —— WATCH COMPANY New York City WINNER FOR AGENTS > Sells to every user of artificial gas. A Gomsnctoation means a sale. Hold di- ctly over gas flow. Samples, 25c, or $1.00; Gross, i Dozen in Display Case, $10. NEW METHOD MFG. co. Box 6-1, BRADFORD, PA, Sizes and Shapes, GET BIG MONEY WITH BALLOONS Sell 5 for a Dime—Big Profits. Pictures and Plain. 25%9 DEPOSIT WITH ALL ORDERS. in ay Large Quantities. All GROSS.. $1.25 “The House of Service” HAVE LARGE SIZE WORKERS FOR STREET MEN. GOLDFARB NOVELTY COMPANY 158 PARK ROW, NEW YORK thought of joining church, but cannot express here my thoughts for remaining as I am until the last. So let me reach out and thru Old Billy- boy shake hands with all of you and wish you all that comes good and useful with the beginning of the new year In conclusion vou will be clad to know T am in fine health and in fact younger in health than T was 25 years ago— physically, financially—and I hope men- tally better than I ever was before “How it that?” TI am _ reachir ( r 76, with the 100 mark alauuah anuuned Phoenix Amusement Co. HAMPTON Ark., Dec 27.—The Phoenix Amusement Company just fin- ished a suecessful week's business at Banks, Ark ind moved by truck to Hampton Mondav night was lost on account of rain, but Tuesday the weather was ideal and a bie crowd came out and patronized the shows and everything got good play it was a red one for the concessions Joe W. Stoneman. of the Stoneman Shows, closed his show at Warren last week and after storing most of his equipment there joined this show with two shows and several concessions Shoats is in charge of the min- Andy Anderson, who was connected with th Strayer Shows, is managing the athletic show, assisted by Johnny Hoffner Gullu Gully Mike Zinnie i ducting the Egyptian show Jess strel show and also has the cookhouse on the show Eddie Frodel is managing the pit show ind = has been doing good business Virgil Jalbert has charge of the rides ind has several trucks and transports his rides from town to town Farl Rrownie is in charge of Stoneman’s En- tertainers the feature of the midway The Octopu how is doing well and is a novelty in this part of the country Larry Temple. J. EF. Irby. Williamson and Maloney are operating concessions. c. C. Coats, who was the advance agent of the Stoneman Shows, has joined the executive staff of the Phoenix Amuse- ment Compafivy and is making spots in Arkansas The show consists of 6 shows, 2 rides and 12 concessions. JOE STONEMAN (for the Show). Rock City Shows FLOMATON, Ala., Dec. 23.—The Rock City Shows are playing spots in Alabama and doing satisfactory business. The show recently played a maiden spot, Chapman, Ala., a one-man town, consisting of 12 sawmills, employing 1.800 men, who receive their pay every Saturday. The show had ideal weather the entire week and all had a wonderful week From Chapman the show moved to Flomaton for the benefit of the school. Business here so far not the best. Next week the show plays Georgiana, Ala., to be followed by Vredenburg, Ala., a lumber camp that has never had a car- nival. F. C. Hunt is the general agent of the show. J. Cc. TURNER (for the Show). SOME “REMEMBERS” from Buck Leahy: “When Chas. Bernard was gen- with J. H. LaPearl Circus? Georges Karmino was ballet master with Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus? Geo. Barton, Leahy Brothers, Henry Messaier, May Barton, D Richards, Everett Brothers and Al Lehman were with Cook Bros.’ Circus? H. A indercook was band leader with J. H. LaPearl Circus? Gwen ; with Sparks Circus? George eral agent Carsey W Hamid w with the Howe Show? Geo Manchester was manager of Lombard Hathaway Circus? Leon W. Wasnourn , eid a spade dance? Doe Stoddard made » ailor pants for Louis Plamon- don? Geo. Weyman was with John Rob- inson Show? Adam Forepaugh was man- awer of Madison Square Garden? Fred and Eva Costello did a trapeze act with n 'M. GERBER Underselling Streetmen’s Supply House, Market St.. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Pike’s Comique Troupe? cid qa stilt act? The De with Campbell Bros.’ Gaston was with Gollmar Toby Tyler was with Downie Show? Fred Gay was with the Barnum Show? Al Massey had the ban@ on the Cook & Wilson Circus? Bennie Waters, Willis Greene, Joe Roman and Tom Gib- bert were the cornet section on the Sun Show? Joe Knecht played solo cornet with the Hargraves Show? Clint New- ton was fixing with Frank A. Robbins Show? Henry Falkendorf had his chimp. act on the Cook & Wilson Show? Geo. Carpenter had the canvas on the F. A. Robbins Show? Bert Cole was a hall show actor? Johnnie Richards had the band on the Forepaugh Show? The Acrial Cowdens were with the Hargraves Tony Denier Long Family was Show? Albert Bros." Show? & Wheeler Show. Kinko, Aerial Earls, Buck Leahy, Buster Marsh, Art La Rue, Dot Snyder, Eddie Leahy, Tom Veasey and Paul Junge were with the La Tena Show? Horace Laird sang Get Under the Wagon? Fd and Maud Millett did a double trapeze act on the W. P. Hall Show? Wink Weaver did blackface?" ; ' i} *) a ' aol yy ’ ae So Lone unt Saeed os. oN Ti ea TN — \ nm ‘ ~ = 3 5 a .— A dysliee | a gas OL ee No. B 117 iF ° _ EES os meee | = : ee " - (M “SS ~ . 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84 Bertram Mills’ Circus To Have 5 Weeks’ Run LONDON, Eng., Dec. 25.—Bertram W. Mills’ International Circus opened at the Qlympia December 20 and will continue until January 22, with performances each afternoon and evening. The only turn which is not entirely new to Olympia is that of the Rivels on the trapeze. The program includes the Casi Family, Italian riders; Green, Wood and Violet, in crazy comedy; Long Emil and partner, evn- tinental grotesques; the Great Carmo’s “Baby June” (the cycling elephant, tn- troduced by her child trainer and clown) ; Buck Baker and his “Bucking Ford’; Leyal’s dogs; Sidi-Ben Hassan’s horses in an illusionary spectacle, The Phantom Riders of the Sahara; the Five Andrews, musical acrobats; Barbette, billed as the “Supreme Sensation of Circusdom”’; Hagenbeck’s 12 lions; Katie Sandwina, the strong woman; the 15 Chavallis, in a novel aerial act; Hai Yung and See Hees, 17 Chinese sensationalists: Schaef- er’s 30 midgets and their giant friend; the Rivels Trio, including “Charlie” and Ernest Schumann's horses from Copen- hagen. In clown alley are Whimsical Walker, Rene, Boby, Polo, Zoli Auguste Busti, Joe Craston and Dog Bill. Chas. Hardman Asks Aid The following letter has been received from Charles H. Hardman, and is self-ex- planatory: “I was with the Walter L. Main Circus the last two seasons, and when I closed I joined the Brosch Bros.’ Stock Company. After I had been with them for one week, I loaned them $195 to get scenery, but found out afterwards that they used it to pay salaries. After the show had been out three weeks it closed, leaving me in this town—Neills- ville, Wis., and I am broke. I wrote to Billposters’ Local No. 45, of which I have been a member for 13 years, and sent them a check dated 60 days ahead, asking for a loan, but have received no assistance to date. I also tried the same thing with Local No. 3. I have been at the Hamilton Hotel since November 26 waiting for money to come and get me out. I| owe four weeks’ hotel bill and the landlord is wondering if he will ever get this money. By the way, it looks to me that I have no brothers in the I. A. at all. I am looking for a samaritan who will help me out. Have been with the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Ringling Bros.’ Circus and Ring- ling-Barnum Circus. If anyone can do anything for me, I will give my word to fay it back when I go to work with the Main Circus next season. I told Mr. Me- Carthy to turn over my steward’s fees to my local to pay my next year’s dues, and so far my local has not received same, also Mr. McCarthy promised to refund a fine of $25 if the car manager would write him to that effect. Mr. Clarkson did so at the close of the season. I have not received that yet, so you see I am up against it. Anyone can write to C. J. Helwig, owner of the Hamilton Hotel, and he will tell you what I say is true.” Weedon With Santos & Artigas Herman Weedon is working wild ani- mals, including “Samson”, the lion, with the Santos & Artigas Circus in Havana, Cuba, and scoring big. After five weeks in Havana the show will play other points in Cuba for five months, following which it will go to San Jose, Costa Rica, for a month. THE BEDINIS, famous equestrians, who ate en route with the Pantages Indoor Circus. The Billboard, January 1 1927 MILLS EASTERN SERVICE & SUPPLY STATION Latest new 5c, 10¢, 25c styles and non-check payout feature. or fire collect. Magnifying coin detector glass Three months guarantee. Write for immediate delivery. KEYSTONE NOVELTY & MFG. CO., 26th and Huntingdon Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. CONCESSIONS---CONCESSIONS---CONCESSIONS FOR FLORIDA SPRING FAIRS Week of January 3. HARDEE COUNTY FAIR, Wauchula, Fila. Week of January 10, LAKELAND POULTRY SHOW, Lakeland, Fla. Week of January 17, PINELLAS FREE COUNTY FAIR, Largo, Fla. Week of January 17, POLK COUNTY ORANGE FESTIVAL, Winter Haven, Fla. Week of January 24, SARASOTA COUNTY FAIR, Sarasota, Fila. February { te 12, SOUTH FLORIDA FAIR, Tampa, Filia. Week of February 14, SUB-TROPICAL FAIR, Orlando, Fla Week of February 14, VOLUSIA COUNTY FAIR, De Land, Fla. Week ef February 21, LEE COUNTY FAIR, Ft. Myers, Fila. Week of February 21, MANATEE COUNTY FAIR, Bradentown, Fila. With other Fairs and Celebrations to a Swinging Balls, Skillos and Race Tracks save stamps, and if you not cat fare. All address JOHNNY h work legitimate save your JONES, Ortando, Florida. WANTED Second Annual Tour Copper State Shows OPENING EARLY MARCH WILL BOOK OR BUY FERRIS WHEEL. Must be in good condition Mr. W. Brooks, get in touch with me. CAN PLACE PERFORMERS FOR CIRCUS SIDE SHOW AND BEAUTIFUL HA- WAII. Will furnish complete ATHLETIC SHOW to capable people. JOE FERGUSON, get in touch with me HAVE FOR SALE CONCESSION TOPS AND FRAMES in fairly good condition. WILL BOOK SHOWS AND RIDES that don't conflict. CAN PLACE CONCESSIONS oF | ALL*‘KINDS. NO EXCLUSIVE. This show opens in one of the best mining t in Arizona, with | many real pay-day spots to follow. Address all mai] or wires to HARRY OBERMAN, Manager, Box | 1323, Phoenix, Arizona. Will give route to interested parties Want the following to write to me. Frank Rogers, Prof. De Valle. CAN PLACE a six-piece Band. Must have uni‘orms HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY POULTRY SHOW AND FAIR PLANT CITY, FLA., WEEK OF JANUARY 17. Fair Grounds, two blocks from the main street and in the height of the strawberry season. Want to hear from good Shows with their own outfits. CAN PLACE all kinds of Concessior Adress METROPOLITAN SHOWS, this week, Mulberry, Florlda. THE PHOENIX AMUSEMENT COMPANY WANTED—Concessions. No exclusive the balance of the winter, Earle Brownie wants Lady Entertainers for CAN PLACE organized Minstrel Show. This show will positively be out all winter, end we move every stougmaa jen, Ark., December 27 to January 1. Address all wires to JAMES DUPREE or JOE Show folk Have Reunion 1891; William Cronin, 1904; W. O. (Eph) Gettman, 1893; Sid Markham, A number of showmen, who have been 1905; James C. Donohue, 1880; Chas. C. in the business for 20 years and more, Rose, 1893; William Na. Scott, 1888; Ben recently had a group photograph taken, F. Davidson, 1898; H. J. (Sis) Hopkins, but it would not reproduce for printing. 104; Cc. F. Kelley, 1880; W. McK. Baus- In the Party were Gil Robinson, 82 years man, 1905; Stanley Roberts, 1900; &. Ze old; James Dutton, Nellie Dutton, Ida Wright, 1882; Herman Rensing, 1sy/; Delno, Vera Bruce Dutton, Mrs. Charles Herman G. Kruse, 1893; “Doc” Scanlon, Luckey, Stella Rowland Cronin, Thomas 14893; Edwin G a 1893; Thos. Mc- F. Cunningham, all born in the show Leod, 1898; Wm. F. Wunder, 1906; Lusiness; Harry Thurston, who started in Rhoda Royal, 1882; Joe Redding, 1964; 1887; Ray Van Wert, 1899; Harry and Dick Collins, 1891: George F. Lewis, Mrs. McKay, 1887; Charles Luckey, 1505, and James M. 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re- of ler, lel. and Ise. Na- ap- olly ger Ark, om cer hoo ing. on- Vild iila- arte for- ding anch race dian nila- and lec. app . . . Vaudeville in Spain (Continued from page 15) eoquetry in come-hither motions with flat aims beating the air—unambitious, vaveriNe little sidesteps lagging behind poe beat—all the ten or twelve seductions ‘¢ the modern chorine attempted—and forming a perfect and pitiab travesty. Three times she appears, the annette changing in color, but not the dance— nd the applause increasing, avidly. Then cuddenly, a revelation. The fourth time ‘ain parts and a vision blazes in the spotlight. Her head, mysterious and wwienant, in a black mantilla falling over : scarlet comb, her short neck magnifi- cently arrogant, her wide hips swathed nto glistening curves by the tight and long black taffeta dress, and her small red slippers pointing from the rustling Me Isabelita Orgaz begins to dance. The orchestra finds itself in a racous snd minor Spanish fandango. Isabelita is ~ symphony of fire and swooning quidity of line. Her hips swaying, her back deep-arched and her head defiant, she taps her heels in superb and compli- cated rhythm while her castanets clack entrapuntally to her feet. Voluptuous n one moment, fierce in the next, smiling, -rafty, abandoned and tragic, she alone : -yorth the creation of Spain. There is beauty, absolute and inimitable. And the curtain falls and three hands clap the number. They are a little ashamed at the backwardness of their country: Will i+ never relinquish the old stuff? “Give us \merican pep. We want what Paris and Sew York have—pep and naked girls!” And they'll get it. Isabelita went back to her scanty and distinctionless tights. And people say that she is one of the coly Spanish dancers left—and not so eood at that. They say she will soon stop dan ing altogether; that a singer earns more than a dancer, so that the unwanted traditional terpsichore abandons her feet for her voice—usually raucous and me- tallic—and ends in Paris,making the cos- ncpolitans delightedly say to each other: “This is Spain!’ And if her voice fs just . raucous and too metallic for Paris, she stays in Spain, grows fat and sings French songs to fascinated Spaniards, who say to each other gleefully: “This is Paris!" —MARYA MANNES, in Theater Arts Monthly. COMING EVENTS ARIZONA Phoeuiz—Bagies’ Carnival. Latter part of Feb. or first part of March. M. J. Murpby, secy. the cur CALIFORNIA Compton—Industrial & Fur Rabbit Expo. Mer 17 i a gels Auto Show. Feb. 12-19. los Angeles—Horse Show. Feb. 7-12. E. A. Green, secy., 1001 Stock Exch. Bldg. CONNECTICUT Hartferd—Auto Show. Feb. 19-26. A. Fifoot, mer., 180 Wells st. FLORIDA Coral Gables—Horse Show. Feb. 22-26. Miam!—Midwinter Southern States Expo. Jan 1-Mareh 1. Al F. 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86 The Billboard, January 1 1927 DEATHS i h@pROFE SSION BISSONNETTE- Zephir T., 58, mu- sician, who came to Portland, Ore., th years ago, died recently at his home. He was born November 22, 1869, in Lowell, Mass. Bissonnette was commissioned during the World War as leader of the Sixth Engineers’ Regimental Band. He was a member of the Elks’ Band of Port- land. BRITTON —H., died at Oklahoma City, Okla., December 13, of heart disease. Mr. Britton was formerly in the the- atrical business at Norman, Okla. with his son, Harry Britton. BROWN — Robert, 60, former wild animal show owner, and promoter of the Richmond County Fair, Staten Island, N. Y. At the time of his death, December 19, at Port Richmond, he was clerk of Special Sessions Court. Surviving are three daughters and two sons. CLARK — Mrs. Emma, 80, actress long associated with the famous Boston Atheneum, whose stage name was Emma Whittle, died recently at her home in Chelsea, near Boston. CLEGG — John, 63, since boyhood connected with theater orchestras in To- ronto, Canada, died in that city Decem- ber 20, after a few days’ illness. He played the drums in the Grand, Princes and Royal Alexandra theaters, and was well known to the profession. Besides his son, Frank Clegg, musician, of Chi- cago, he leaves a widow and two -daughters. Burial was in Prospect Ceme- tery, Toronto. CONDREY — Lucvienne, Parisian dancer, whose stage name was “Myosa”, died recently in Berlin, Germany. CONQUEST —George, 69, English actor-manager of 30 years ago, died re- cently in London. EGBERT—George, 67, English vari- ety agent, died December 2 in Guy’s Hos- pital, London. EVANS—Babe, died in the Manhat- tan State Hospital, New York, recently. Mrs. Franks, of Franks’ Theatrical Hotel, provided for interment in a local ceme- tery, where the body will remain until relatives of Miss Evans are located. The deceased was a chorister in the Grand Street Theater Burlesque Stock Company. GALT — Herbert R., 45, editor of The St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, died in a St. Paul hospital December 19 of heart disease. FISHER—Allen H., 75, father of H. Cc. (Bud) Fisher, creator of Mutt and . Jeff, died December 23 in his suite at the Hotel Majestic, New York. Funeral service was held from Campbell’s Funeral Church, 66th street and Broadway, December 26. His son is at present in Europe GARNETT—Freddie, well known to oldtimers as the famous “Dummy Clown”, whose act was familiar in cireuses and vaudeville for many years, died Novem- ber 9, at Melbourne, Australia GEER—Samuel, 51, died December 20 at his home in Brooklyn. Geer was manager of Playland Park, Freepor L. 1, holding this post since the death three years ago of the builder of the park, D. B. Sanneman. Geer was also a newspaperman anc for 30 years had been correspondent for New York papers in the Nassau County, L. I, territory. He leaves his widow and a daughter. GINGOLD — Paroness of Laurence Cowen, London dramatic author and proprietor of the Fortune Theater, London, died December 11 in that city. The Baroness had written poems and novels and collaborated with her husband in some plays. GOODALE—Teday, Helene, wife burlesque chor- ister, late of Dave Mariou’s Own Show, on the Ca}fimbia Circuit, died recently of pneumonia at the Walnut Hotel, Phila- delphia. She was buried December 21 from her Shelton (Conn.) home. HAY — William, 66, one owners of the Strand Theater, of the Fairmount, WHEN DEATH OCCURS © “Call-TRAFALGAR 8100" - FRANK-E-CAMPBELL | | “She Funeral Church’ Inc {wow stctanvan} Broadway at 66th Street, N.Y. Minn., died December 9 of heart disease. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna Hay, and a son, Vincent Hay, of Minne- apol KERNS — Edward, 58, owner of the Kerns News Agency, of Kansas City, died at his home in that city December 17. He is survived by his wieow. three daughters and one son. Funeral services were held December 21 both at the home and the the Annunciation Catholic Church, with interment in Calvary Ceme- tery KING Harry, of the vaudeville team of McGinnis and King, the dancing waiters, died December 20 at Hartford, Conn. KOCH—Dr. James L., for 20 years house physician at Erlanger’s Boston Theater, died December 20. He was well known by all ranks of the theatrical pro- fession. LOVE—Pearl, 52 (colored), voealist with the minstrel show of the C. R. Leggett Shows, died suédenly December 15 at Monroe, La. Body is being held to hear from relatives at Cairo, Il. MEGAN—Tom, of the Megan Bros. (English vaudeville act), died November 16 at Brisbane, Australia. He suffered from tubercular trouble for some time. MILES—Merry Major, 80, old-time comic vocalist, died December 1 in a West End London Hospital, Brentford. For many years he was with J. Chappell’s Entertainers at Great Yarmouth. The funeral was held December 6. MUSGRAVE—Kenyon, 52, vember 28, died No- in London, arter a prolonged illness. Following early colonial suc- cesses, Musgrave made many appear- ances in the West End, London. He visited the United States with Marie Tempest, afterwards touring with Otis Skinner. NICHOLLS — Harry, 74, English comedian, died November 30 in London. Long associated with Drury Lane drama he was also a prolific dramatic author and wrote or collaborated in A Runa- way Girl, Jabe and The Toreador. He was Cevoted in late years to theatrical charities, especially the Actors’ Benevo- lent Fund. PACHE—Joseph, 65, for 30 years conductor of the Baltimore (Md.) Oratorio Society and well-known voice teacher, died at the General Hospital, Baltimore, December 7. He was a native of Friedland, Silesia, and receivec, his musical training at the Munich Con- servatory of Music and in Berlin. He came to America in 1891, teaching one year at the New York College of Music and conducting organizations in New York, Newark and Trenton. In 1894 he went to Baltimore. PARKER—Peatrice J., died recently at her home in Pueblo, Col, Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Parker, are prominent in musical circles of Pueblo. Miss Parker was for a number of years secretary in the New York studio of Percy Rector Stevens. PITZER—Mrs. R. D., wife of Ralph Pitzer, manager of the Princess Theater, Youngstown, O., died December 20, at the Youngstown City Hospital, after an illness of three weeks. Mrs. Pitzer was professionally known as Stella Winters, prima donna. ROBINSON—Clarence, 39, brother of Mrs. Frank Livingston, wife of the man- ager of the Parisian Flappers, on the Mutual Wheel, died December 2 Burial in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, N. J. SCHIPA—Luigi, 8&8, father of Tito Schipa, tenor of the Chicago Civic Opera Association, died December 13 in Rome, Italy. STODDARD—Charles Leroy, 39, of Sheriff and Mrs. Warren C. Jackson, Mich., died recently son Stoddard, at Detroit of diphtheria F some time he had been connected with Blackstone, the ma- gician, but of late represented theatrical houses that ma used in many of the larger productions. Burial took place at Jackson TALBOT—Henry M., of the firm of Dickson & Talbott, who operated a chain of theaters in Indiana and Ohio, died in Indianapolis recently. VAN DORSTEN nufactured accessories -A. W.. 70. violin maker, 2127 Van Buren street, Chicago, was founded dead in his office December 20. Death was of natural causes. VON HOCHBERG—Count Bolko, 83 who wrote operas and symphonies undet pseudonym, J. H. Franz, died recently Salzbrunn, Germany He maintained for a number of years the Hochberg Quartet at Dresden, and founded the Silesian Musie Festivals in 1876 He held the post of Intendant of the Prussian Royal Opera from 1886 to 1908 Ihe wrote Die Falkensteiner in 1876. WATKINS—E. S., 65, father of Ira J. Watkins, who had the Johnny J. Jones died suddenly recently at He is survived by his widow sons. Funeral services were held from the home of the deceased on Nicholas street, with Masonic rites. The remains were interred in Pittsford. WHITELEY — John W.. 69, Dand- master and veteran of two campaigns during service in the United States Army, died of pneumonia December 17 at his home in Detroit. For many years Mr. Whiteley had been conspicuously identi- fied with the musical life of the com- munity, being Girector of the 19th In- fantry Band, for 10 years, and later with the Detroit Conservatory of Musie and the Ganapol School and recently teaching privately. Funeral were held December 20 at the Whiteley home, under auspices of Detroit Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templars. WHITING—Mrs. Arthur, the pianist and composer, died in New York, December 26, of bronchial pneu- monia. She was an accomplished ama- teur pianiste. Services will be held December 28, at the All Souls’ Unitarian Church, New York. MARRIAGES ALDERFER-WITCHER — motordrome with Exposition last season, Rutland, Vt. and two services 70, wife of Roy Alderfer. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Alderfer, operators of a motion picture show at Mertzon, Tex., and Gertrude Witeher, of that city, were married at San Angelo, Tex., recently. Mr. Alderfer is well known among show people. BARTRAM - COMPTON — Juliette Compton, American actress, and James Bartram were married December 24 at Christ Church, Hempstead, England. BROWN-DeMONT—Robert Brown, treasurer, and Anna H. DeMont, per- former, with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Cir- cus, were married December 18, at Brook- Iyn, N. Y. They have returned to Peru, Ind. winter quarters of the circus. _COLLINGS - HARRIS — Natalie rris, daughter of Mrs. Donald Unger of Pomfret, Conn., and Pierre Collings, a scenario writer, were married December 23 at the Little Church Around the Corner, New York. Miss Harris has been engaged in journalism, and was formerly on the staff of The Boston Traveler. After their honeymoon the couple will make their home in New York and Holly- wood. DeLANOY-LEE — Drake DeLanoy, son of a New York broker, and Rosalind Lee, known’ as Lovey Lee to the Broad- way stage, were married December 22 at Chestertown, Md. by the Rev. N. O. Gib- son, pastor of Christ Methodist Protes- tant Church. DUNN-WALKER — Doris Walker, vaudeville dancer, and Francis J. Dunn were married at the Municipal Building, New York, December 22. FORD-BERING—FEugene Ford. mo- tion picture director, and Doris Louise Bering, nonprofessional, were married December 14 by the Rev. J. L. Gillies. at the Riverside Mission Inn. tiverside, Calif. Tom Mix, picture star, and brother- in-law of Ford, acted as best man. and Mrs. Tom Mix as matron of honor, at the ceremony FOWLER-DAVIS — Louis Fowler, pianist with Ernie Aces of Syncopation at Cafe Chicago, and Martha Helen professional, were married at Chicago FRENCH .- French, vaudeville, star, and dern, a member of the former's combination, were married Brishane, Australia HOBERT - CARROLL Hobert, Australian magician. and Miss Carroll were married recently at Chambersburg, Pa leaving mediately after the ceremony for the Pacifie Coast where they will sail for Sydney, Aus- tralia. Mr. Hobert has sold his magic de- vices and says he will go into sheep busi- ness with his brother in Australia. HOBART-TELL—Olive ‘Tell, well- known actress of the stage and screen, nd Henry M. Hobart, motion picture producer, were married December 2% at the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Willard Caldwell's Granada, Davis, non- December 8 HORDERN Henri Irene Hor- vaudeville recently at Burning G. 48th street and Fifth avenue, New \ Mrs. Hobart is the sister of Alma 1 also well known on the legitimate st JAMES-BLACKTON — Blackton, scenarist, Blackton, and aete YT, u“ re tae ber 2h MALORY - VALENTINE 1 (Blue) Malory, concess ionaire, of | ilie, Ky, and Celia Vak ntine, of by Pa., were married November 29 a: ris RACOVER-BEMDEN—Reno Rar er, theater manager, New York and Lucienne Bemden were married Des 22 at the Municipal Building, New \ RAYMOND-FUTRELLE — Raymond, publicity man, Iutrelle, formerly with Marion «© daughter of J &,... Gardner James, , married at Los Ay ( irl and Vir, ' Charles lingham’s Hippodrome — spectacle Good Times, were married recently in York. REYNOLDS. Sr mAtS, - M. , Reynolds, drummer on the Jake Do Show, and Nell Bowman were mar l December 19 at Hattiesburg, Miss STONE-McCOY—RB ily Stone, v Villian, and Violet Mec oy, comedy parts for the Company, were married at Los Angeles reeently. Since their marriage they have been presenting a double act on the Wes Coast, playing Independent houses. They expect to head for the Bastern Circuits early in February. BIRTHS Born to Lillian and Billy McGill Pueblo, Col., December 21, a six- -pound girl, oe has been named Maxine Delores Mr. McGill is manager of Harry Bee. bar’s Broadway Players at the Broadway Theater, Pueblo. Mrs. McGill expects to be at work shortly. Born to Mr. and Mrs. at Lady of the Lake Hospital, Bator touge, La., a boy, weighing 8% pounds Born to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Me- Kinnon, November 16, at Sydney, Aus- tralia, a son. The father is one of the McKinnon boys, Scotland's Ambassad rs, and his wife was formerly a memoer ot the Harmony Four. Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Weller. December 12, Cincinnati, twins, who have been named William M. and Patricia aud formerly d Universal } Curly Spheers June. Mrs. Weller is known profession- ally as Patricia McKenna. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. H November 30, at Detroit, a boy, weighing sven pounds Mrs. Hock was formeriy Billie Bushman and last with the Mi! a-Miaute Girls. Mr. Hock was formerly identified with the New York Hippodrome and is now a mechanical engineer in Di troit. Born to Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Courtney of the team, Courtney and Jeanette, De- comber 7, at their home in Chicago. a DIVORCES actress, was 21 at Les Grace Darmond, film granted a divorce December Angeles from Henry J. Matson. Mrs. Milton Menasco was granted a divorce December 14 from her husband, who is art director for the First National Studios The were married in February, 1923 Mrs Rose DeSombers Kansas City office of The Billhoard that she was granted a divorce December 29 from her husband, Charles DeSomber in the Independence, Mo., division of the Jackson County Circuit Court. Her formet n ouple informed the name, Rose Chubby Shelton, was restored She was formerly with Dan Russell's Motinee Girls. Mr. DeSombers is a non professional English actor, Decer a divoree from his wife, pr: Ion Swinley obtained onally known as Mary Merrall. They were married in 1916 Jack Melford, London actor. was re cently granted a divoree from his wife. Leila Marguerite Melford, actress, whom he married in 1923, COMING MARRIAGES Rowland Robbins, a Detroit busin man, will be married to tuth Gillette of Chieago. formerly with the Passing Show, on New Year's Day at the Hyde Park Preshvtertan Church. Chiea Joseph Jackson, theatrical press age! and sereen writer, Los Angeles an Mthel Shannon, free-lance screen actré will be married in March Rolin W. VanHorn, president of the VanHorn & Son, Ine., costumers, and Helen Vomer will be married January 13 The wedding will be a quiet one, due to the reeent death of Mr VanHorn': mother, Mrs. Jennie VanHorn. ty | | Ce ——— ie = — ree =|

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f the and ry 13 live t ’ forn’: Christmas = CINCINNATI OFFICE The Billboard. January 1 1927 87 M nd Mrs. Neil Austin. Al and Hazel Clark. Sa Archer. . Wim, J. Chidester \: te Shows. Kenneth “Pap” Cantrell. D thea Antel. John W. Conrad \. Aaronson Virginia Carr. \rgus, The Magician. Erle Clyn s H. Amason Bruce Chesterman. Babe Arlingtot i Mr. and Mrs. Jack C H Laura and Joe Arlingt Rachel May Clark \iexandre Abdullah Jay Francis Cooper \ in Cinema Association (jireus Fans’ Association Ac Alton Charlotte Cochrane *y V. Askew Carleton Collins Billy Ahearn Copper States Shows. 1 «. Admire Carleton Collins B. Anstin Wilbur S. Cherry; l 1 Bonnie Austit Cc. W. Cracraft Mildred Austiz A. J. Chapman Deacon Albright Harry B. Chipmar W. McK. Bausman A. W. Custin. T Barron Paul F. Clark Mickey Blue D. J. Collins. 4. C. Bradley Dr. Harry C. Chapman Martin Bowers H. P. Coffey. Owen A. Brady Myra Collins M nd Mrs. Clinton Burg Fred C. Coakley Geo. L. Barton Cc. C. Conn, Ltd H Benway Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Creamer Hi Brown” Bobby Burns Clark Sisters’ Revue Babe Dupree’s Minstrels Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Cooke Virginia Bertoloth. E. B. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Steve Berrian Gene (Honey Gal) Cobb Robert S. Bailey Cervone’s Band and Orchestra. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Bure: Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Choate L . eee toss Cht h s ¢ ntur’ Kings’ Orch Ry fasks. Crawtord s Ut me stra. Harry Blackstone same : ewe I) Brunfield. Duke Brownell. Ww M Cl J Bu \ Br E. Berger. Baxter. rence E. Boykin. Henry Bradley. Ne wn «& Bortz Shows rman Baines Dyer Shows. Walter Bishop J. Berger. Forrest Brown Mr. & Mrs Amusement Co. Alex. Brock. Dr. Harry ¢ a Lee Cox. E. Clem. sertie Conrad. “*hesterman. sill Carver Ed Cowardin. Lelia Dean. The Dunnings. Mr. and Mrs Walter Edward Dwye Mr. and Mrs Walter Driver Mr. and Mrs Davis De Duffy. Dawson. Lou C. George Sam M } DeKos Bros Mr. and Mrs. Doe Bacon. Rav &. ie Bass Camera Co uel Ds achieve Edward J. Busse : — . M: ’ “har! > Dante, the Magician, ~ ind Mrs. Charles Benner William W. Durbin sill Bachm ili u t a ; a re RB De Vore Mfg. Co . n selma Srownie » Montgomery Deg Mrs. Violet Bryant fonts y Deans = wniel Music Publishing Comp Kei R : Bullinger. ree H Buckingham. Barrett Burke. Berliner. h Bentum. Bubb. R. Butler. 1. Banks Bridge Co M. Bennett. Rarkers e Brim. in R) iufox W. Blackburn. Christman. meo Doll Co nl ’ M. Conway Carpenter Jack Davis James F. Donalson. The Dormans 1y 6 Andrew Chapman. B. Delgarian Downi Delmors and Family Mr. and Mrs E. L. Draper. Jack Daly Dolly Davies Milt Dill and A. J. Desmond Richard Davis Sister. Chas. S. DeKreko Geo. F. Donovan Harry Dunkel The Duttons Dolly Dumplin Dun, The Wiziarde. Helen Doty Edwin A. Douglas. Ronialo DeLuca Bertie Darnoc David L. Donaldson. ! Dayton Fun House and Mrs. Shellie Chark Mre Co ae red Leo Clemene : Rert Deard ind Mrs. Louis Chasis “ ‘ rs Loui Chasi Harry L. Dixson. ind Mrs. Sam Corenson i ER Dean ic Clayton ‘ ; a ;' c Fearne IF. Donalson, _ ane Mrs John Cousinst and ter Cleo, and Vates B ick Christie (Fore paugh Whitie) Alfred Crain s the Printer. ind Mrs. Carlos Carreon Clauson, saa Grace Champion Mr ph BE Clem. ema Corey. Corey. Andrew O'B Edgar Eggers Certrode Ewing Ella Ethridge Fddy's Ruex Easley. aneers and Mrs Mae Edwards ¢. KE. Ehrman Jack Engreve & Riding Device Fengesser John Fw Greetinos Received An Acknowledgment of the Good Wishes Sent by Showfolk to The Billboard and Members of The Billboard Staff Same to You---And Many of “ehem! _ Bill Fowle: Dance Flash: Theo Forstal! Sam Freed Fagen, Mike. Cc. Stanley Fulton. W. C. Fleming. Chas. B. Felgar. Walter B. Fox. J. H. Fitzpatrick. F. L. Flack Mary Farrell William A. Fields Sam Flint Ruth Fullmer M. A. and M. B. Francillon °C. W. Fir Mary Farrell Perkins Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F & Burk Foley Allen Forth's Pepper Bo Revi Gus Fla George (Buttons) Fares W. J. Ferguson F. A. Feagans Frank (Red) Fletcher. Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Foltz Mr. and Mrs Farnell Forrest Nina Flaisig Mary Farrell. L. C. Gillette. Bobby Gaylor. Carrie Garlow Gentry Bros.’ Goldie Gorrell Abe Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Barry Gray George W. Goodhart. Ray Glaum. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Greenhaw Gardner and Bartons Mr. and Mrs. Wm. S. John T Glynn. Jimmie Givens. Hap Circus Garvie. Medeline G Gerald Griffin ddin. Arthur D. Gans Art Gardner and Wife. F. E. G Amusement Co M. B. Golden William Gibney. Frank Gary Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gardner. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Green. Ted and May Goodwin Joe Gierson Jack Bill Greer and His Pat R. Gorman. John, Nettic Bert Humphries’ Brevities. J. and Richard Henderson. The Hunsakers ding Grant's Come dians Orchestra Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. Trish Horan Ben Hasselman. Mr. and Mrs. Al Hoffman. Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Hall. A. B. Hibler Dr. George Holt. Dr. H. C. Helbig. Holtkamp’s Smart Set Minstrels. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holland Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Haag Frank B. Hubin Capt. Harry J. Hargrave Mr. and Mrs. Jerome T Harold Hearst Hooker-Howe Costume Co Robert FE. Hickey. Harrison Sisters Harrison and Colegrove W. R. Hayes Mr. and Mrs. James Heron Mr. and Mrs. John Hanly. (jordon-Howard Company. Doc Hall. Felix Herrmann r. S Halke Wm R. Hicks Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haithcox. Capt. Sidney Heviman. Hleverly. Prof. PaulGeorces Hoffmann. ’rof. and Madame Hudspeth, and Thomas Huftle Harrima Arthur Hopper. Norman Hanley. H. T. Hyde Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Hilliar. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas FP. Henry Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holland Lois Hardy Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hendricks Geo. P. Haines Mr. and Mrs. Leo Harrison I. J. Irving George H. Irving Justus-Romain and Compan: Mr. and Mrs. W. Rex Jewell Capt. Terrell M. Jacobs Eddie Jackson W. Allen Jenkins Oswald L. Jackson Bert Johnston. Mr. and Mrs./ Johnny: Charles Owen Johnson E. M. Jacobs H. H. Jensor Ernest N. Johr Jesse Jedel Bert Johnson Magic 3} Alvin Jansen. Dot E. Jewell. H. D. Kyes. Gordon Kibbler Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ketehum Miss “Chic” Kennedy Dr. F. G. Kries. Jewell Kelly. Wally Knight. E. R. Keim Pert Keltor Mr. and Mrs. Kar! Kae Knecht Carroll F. King Stuart Kollins Floyd and Howard King Lake U. Kellum. W. A. King Wm. Kempsmith J. L. Kaus W. C. Kaus. G B. Kempf. L. G. King. W. J. Kehoe. Charles G. Kilpatrick. Abner K. Kline Shows. Kansas Free Fair Mr. and Mrs. Marshall L Aerial Kolbs. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dr. J. Edwin Leone Warren Lewis Mme. Bonnie Lucas and Buck Earnest (Rube) Liebman. Mrs. George Lowery. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Leahy. Mile. Louise. Harry and Loretta LaPearl. Frederick E. Lawley. Joe Lawsen. Foster Lardner. Lusse Bros. Henry W. Link. Hi Tom Long. Edw. R. Litsinger. Warren E. Lewis Otto Martin Locke, Jr. J. George Loos. Jack Lorraine. Mr. and Mrs. Milton J. Lapp teddie Reckless Leonard. L. E. Levassor. Tim Limerick. King LaFarra. Serva Le Rov Capt. W. EF. La Salles La Bellini e Lachman-Carson Shows - 4 ( L ‘apt. Latlip and Family. Jack I Leahy & Freemando Mr. and Mrs. G. C Car) Laemmle. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Langeson The Three Littletons Jack and Reta LaPearl. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Lloyd. Tames S Teavelle Loomis Sardis Lawrence. George D. Lottman. Jack Lord’s Musi-Girls Company Lahn Fah and Company Harrv Levine. Lily LaGrande. Charles J. Lammers. ee ; ; : 4 = = - - ' , -_— poo ll - 4 rs ‘ | ee | —$—$_§<—$—$<—$<—<————————————————————————— nll _ - a ———— ; po - its es Ft po " _ il}, wy eS in- Ft ray ‘ to ' - - ton ids . ’ Me- us- t the | * of ave icila lon- f ck, a ing P| erivy : po erly "7 _——____ a sani : L J. E. Garner. wie | . yy Louis a Etta Louise Blake. Janet Rodwell a . Ben S. Benson. } ; was ee Las da and, = - ome es | in the that _ b r 20 het |_| | the Mint ee “mer L red Tos f sell's Be a ; non (ie ; * “ se P| They My ‘ : re Thy yhom Geo “ as n ae ) an Mr -_ _ - ‘tat let te My se ‘ss esind vf, : Hyde ue agent Day and ‘i ————————— ; (% ‘ ; ta S.J. J R as /c.

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88 The Billboard, January 1 1927 Irving N. Lewis. LaGrande Sisters’ Company. Sam Loeb. Don Lee. J. J. Musselman. Mr. and Mrs. J. Doug. Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Earl F. Meyer. Ernest R. McClure. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Mahoney. Harry Rice Moore. Robert E. Morton. Tom Marks. McClellan Shows. John M. Miller. Bill and Sadie McKay. Prof. and Louise Morrell. Miskel and May. Carroll B. Moran. New England Jack Murray. G. Luke Maddox. H. T. Maloney. May and Kilduff. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McGuyre. Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Main. Joe McGee. Jimmy McDonald. Paul J. McCullough. Janet Martine. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh E. McCormick. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McKew. Denis J. Moroney. Morris & Castle Shows. Mal Murray. F. J. Matthews. Ed. N. McDowell. Bill and Marjorie Morse. Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Melville, Connie Mitchell. Ed. H. Mickey Gordon McDowell. Robt. F. McLendon. Annette Margules. Fay Marbe. The Martyns. Mildred Melrose. Dorothy McNulty. Lida Mae. Annette Margueles. Martin Mechanic. Mr. and Mrs. Max Montgomery. Walter L. Main Circus. Prof. and Louise Morrell. Percy Martin. Tex Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marshall. Martin and Firestone Co. D. D. Murphy Shows. Meliso. Michael Bros. Ralph R. Miller Shows. Mr. and Mrs. J F. Murphy. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Morgan. Pete and Florence Mardo. Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Morris. Judd S. Muckle. Jim Murray. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. C. Mover. Franklin C. Minster. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Meachum. Bert Nelson. Lillian F. Newton. Harry Single Nugent. Mr. and Mrs. Irving E. Narder. F. G. Nazor and Wife. Nicola. Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Newland. Dan Noonan. Nelson Enterprises. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Neely Mr. and Mrs. “Ted" North and Co. Mason Bros.’ Uncle Tom's Cabin Co. Erin (Peggy) O'Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Opel. Katharine Ommanney. Oliver Orr. E. J. Oswand. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Odom. James L. Osborne. Ossified Boy Dare-Devil Oliver. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Oliver. Wilmer Jay O’Brien. Milton K. Oakes. Oak Rubber Co. Fred W. Pearce. Pat’s Society Circus. Jake Posey. Arthur J. Phillips. Tom Post. Helene K. Palmer. Andrew Paoli. Mr. and Mrs. Norvell Page. Ernest C. Pollard. Len and Esther Pyres. Hazel and Chalmers Pancoast. Vera and Tom Patt. Ellie Dean Palmer. Frank B. Pratt. General Pisano. M. Charles Palazzi. Mr and Mrs Norman Phillips. and Jn Andy Patane. Pete Pate Mr. and Mrs. Jack Payne. Frederick Eugene Powell Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Frice. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Porter Mr. and Mrs. Irv. Poiack Richard Pitrot. Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Paul. Lola E. Painter. John Quever. Jesse H. Reno Royal Milton Rhodes. Dr. and Mrs. G. M. Reid. Mrs. R. H. Rollins. Doc Richardson. Robert Ringer. Charles B. Ralston. Alla Rageh. Rubin & Cherry Shows. Royal American Shows. Reynolds-Donegan Co. Nat Reiss Shows. Mr. and Mrs. Thad W. Rodecker. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Richardson. J. Shirley Ross. Vrucia and Rhea. Matthew J. Riley Shows. Ruth Race. The Rouclere Family. Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Roth. Doc and Margaret Randle. Mr. and Mrs. Thad. W. Rodecker. Ellery Reynolds. Rita and Dunn. Bill Rice. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. (Billie) Rolles. Jeanette Reese. John Robinson Circus. Nat D. Rodgers. Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Robertson. Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Rice. Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Root. e The Diving Ringens. Mr. and Mrs. Rajah Raboid. Blanche Raycelle Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. Riebe. Harry P. Rose. Houston Richards. Henry L. Rapp. Ben, O. Roodhouse. The Nat Reiss Shows. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Rose. H. M. Robinson. Clint and Bessie Robbins. Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Rey. Frank S. Reed and His Ritz Radio Orchestra. « ; Raynor Lehr Company. Myra, Fern and Henry (Jr.) Sordelet. Cotton and Sophie Storey. Mr. and Mrs. Will W. Sterling. W. T. Stone. Chas. Seip. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Siegrist. Jack Symonds. Bee Starr. Lawrence Swalley. Chas. W. Storm. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Sells., F. Robert Saul. Doc Samson. Roscoe W. Segar. Cc. G. Sturtevant. Capt. and Mrs. W. I. Swain. Lee Smith. Bennie Smith. George B. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sutton. Elizabeth G. Steele. Sam S. Solinsky. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Salvail. George W. Stock. Guy Stanley. Jim Sullivan. Mr. and Mrs. Albert P. Smith. John A. Stryker. Strayer Amusement Co. Doc Scanlon. Jolly Bert Stevens. Smith's Southern Shows. James C. Simpson. . Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sheesley. John Francis Shofus. Joe S. Scholibo. J. M. Schaeffer. Mr. and Mrs. Mose Stein. Mike Scher. Reuben T. Scher. James Selvage. Mrs. Babetta C. Stanley. Mr. and Mrs. Sid Sidenberg. Bessie Mae Smith. Charles A. Stahl. U. R. Sharven. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Steffens. Fletcher Smith. George H. Seymour U. R. Sharven. L. Verne and Ruth L. Slout. Wm. C. Turtle. Albert P. Townsend. Jas. A. Tinney. ( Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thurston. H. S. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Trout Mr. and Mrs. Charles Melvin Turner. Mr. and Mrs. George Turek. Jacob M. Traber. Capt. Tyier. Al Tint. Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Taylor. J. C. Thomas. Uncle Joseph Thonet. Karl Theuerkauf. Jane Thurston. ‘ Turner Poster Adv. Co. V. L. Torres. The Three Thoms of the Princess Showboat, Tad Tieman and His Tunesmiths. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. D. Tooley and Company. Aerial Utts. U. S. Tent & Awning Co. Vishnu. P Via-Ken Amusement Co. Otto Waldmann. Wallace, The Magician. Mrs. Bunny Ward. C. A. Wortham’'s World’s Best Shows The Wortham Shows. Austin C. Wilson. Capt. Curley Wilson. Wright, The Magician. J. C. Weer Amusement Co Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Wilson. Jacob A. Wagner. W. H. Wright. Kenneth Waite. AL. Wirth. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wright, Jr. Peggy Waddell. Robt. G. Wing. Roy and Emma Whorrall. Ezra C. Walck. Theodore Wolfram. Mr. and Mrs. “Lasses” White. Elmer J. Walters. J. E. Willson. Al C. and May Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Joseph Wood. Will W. Whalen. George E. Wintz. Mr. and Mrs. Will L. White. James Whitfield. Williams and Bernice. Wirth and Hamid, Inc. Monte and Buster Wilks. George G. Woodbury. “Smiling” Billy Wilks. Rob, Babe and Nelly White Tad Williamson and His Bayi Meta Walsh Marshall and Blanche Walker Billy and Nellie Wilson. Mert A. Wilber. W. G. Wheatley. A. Youngblog#. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Zelleno. Zona. Zeidman & Pollie Shows. Lou Zoeller. “ Mary Zoller and Co. NEW YORK OFFICE Airo Balloon Corporation. Richard Aldrich. Ullie Akerstrom. Walter Austin. Hazel Alger. Pearl and Bonnie Austin Mildred Austin. Charlie Abbott. E. F. Albee. Laurence H. Axman. Velma Anderson. Elizabeth Arden. Mr. and Mrs. Doc Bacon. Sadie Belgarde. Happy Benway. Bench Bentum. Louis Bernstein. Jimmy (Happy) Burns. R. C. (Buddie) Brumbaugh. Harry C. Baker, Inc. Olga Victoria Bingel. Shirley Burke. George Boesel. Sam J. Banks. Rose Bernard. Bert Bertrand. Lester W. Block. Fred Binder. William E. Browning. R. H. Burnside. Mr. and Mrs. Nat Busby. By-Gosh Walter Berger. Howard Burkhardt. Dorothy Barnette. Althea Barnes. Ted Braun. John F. Barry. Julia Brown. Emily Boyle. Fay Baker. Louis Beckwith. D. F. Barreca. Jeannie Beges. Carter-Waddell School of Dancing. W. Cromwell-Knox. Mrs. J. W. Conklin Canadian Nationa! Exhibition, Eddie Chester. Clifford W. Conway Bill and Rose Campbell. Billie Rose Carson Carlita and Lewis Central R. R. Company of N. J Herbert Clark Frances Cornell Mr. and Mrs. Tony Curley. Burke Capora! E. J. Carpenter. Harold Collins. Will H. Cohan. Ray Caffrey. Mildred Cozierre. Ann Clifton. Mr. and Mrs Harry Clexx. Carleton Collins. Willis A. Crocker. Mildred Leo Clemens. Eve Casanova. Mrs. Lou Davis. Mildred Davis. Fd ftign Daly. Mr. and Mrs Milo M. PeHaven. Rhea Mae Diveley. David L. Donaldson. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Douglas. Chubby Drisdale May, Bill and (Beans) Dowdell. Mourison C. Dunn. Lena Daly Hallie Dean. Simon Driesen. Dorothy Dilley. George V. Denny. Dunleavy Twins Florence Disney. Emmett R. Callahan. Frank Damsel. Nydia d’Arnell. Dorothy Dilley. Donner Vyvyan. Dazian's, Inc. Cepha Day. Eli Bridge Company. Wesley Eddy J. W. Ely Company, Ine Ercell Sisters. Joseph Edmondston Viola Elliott. John Ellis. Cc. W. Finney W. C. Fleming. W. Erthman Farrell. George (Buttons) Fares Sylva Farnese. Irene Finlay. Theodore Forstall. Walter B. Fox. Gus Flaig. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fernberg, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ford. Marienne Francks Mary Farrell. Fletcher Costume Company Mr. and Mrs. Henry Faust. Ernie Golden. L. Wolfe Gilbert Powell Gulick. Mile. Marguerite and Frank Gill, Mr. and Mrs. William Glick. Lowell Gordon M. P. Gould Company Joseph Gimson Johnnie Goodman Irving Gold. Raymond Gross Mr. and Mrs. Max Gealer. John O. Grant. James F. Gillespie Harriet Gebhart. Harlem Oldtimers Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Henry. Katherine Ruth Heyman Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Hilliar. Maxine Henry. Elaine Henry. Julia R. Hurley. Walter Hartwig. Martha Haworth. Billy Hagan. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas fl Isie Hirst. Mr. and Mrs. Jules Howard. Mr. and Mrs. James Heron. Charles FE. Hudspeth. Johnnie Hughes. Charles Harris. Babe Healey. Hooker-Howe Costume Company. Dixie Hines. S. H. Harrelson. I. J. Irving. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny and Jr. Jones. Billy Jerome. James P. Judge. Jules Jacobs and Family Harry Jackson and Family Jane Jennings. Paul Jacchia. Werner Janssen. Arthur G. Keene. L. C. Kratz. / Billy Koud Dick Kirschbaum. Loute G. King. Karlavagn's Theatrical Hotel. Carroll C. King. Pert Kelton. Ethel Wantz Keiper. Mr. and Mrs. James Kelley. Frank Kessler and Music Weavers. Gerry Kreiner. Jack (Trish) Lynch. George D. Lottman. Cc. R. Lilienthal. Henry al q a ' . :

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My and Mrs. Dick Long. ceorge W. Lippman. Rupert La Belle. Joe Lang. Marion Locherty. Mae (Smiles) Lorraine. Mile. Louise. qeorge H Lux. re. R. Lefferts. Rabe LaVetta. Jack La Mont. Mrs. G. W. Lillite. Mrs. Marion Locherty. award and Violet Lewers. Mr. and Mrs. Mark A., Mary Aileen 1d Marilyn Antoinette Luescher. Lawrence Leibman. Mr and Mrs. Andrew Downie McPhee, Clara M. McLean. Dorothy MeNulty. “GW. Marque Maier. Rernice Mershon. ID. D. Murphy Shows Toseph Moss. arthur O. and Helen Kilduff May. Eugene J. Murphy. Mrs. Don Mullally. Frank C. Minster. Harry C. Miller. Charles Moran. Sarah Mandell Red and Rae Marshall \rt Mayfield. Walters Meyers lulius and Harry Bentley Michel. Marty Milligan. Morris & Castle Shows. Charles (Doc) Miller. Johnny A. Mack. Thomas W. Miner. J.J. Musselman. Mr. and Mrs. Max Michaels. Unele Sam Morris. Fred G. Morris. Shirley Mallette. Ed Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Steve M. Mills. Mahieu Costumers, Inc Melville Morris. Maude Nugent. Nellie Nice Agnes Nichols. Winnie and Mother Nichols. Hon Nickels. Norma Noel. George Niblo. Wilmer Jay O'Brien. Otis Lyle Oliver. Ochler. Catherine Oge Isby. Burns O'Sullivan Rillie Marion O'Neill. Helen Olcott. Oliver Orr. Tom, Vera ané Charlotte Patts Richard Pitrot Mr. and Mrs. Irv. J. Polack Pegry Paige. Florence Peardleton Mr. and Mrs. Norman and Norman, Jr., jeatrice *hillins Dorothy Phillips. Arthur Paquet. Jimmie Parelle. Vinnie and Irving Becker Phillips Raymond Paine and Family. Arthur J. Phillips. Marjorie Peterson Florence Pendleton. George N. Price. Walter S. Phylo. Harry C. Pyle John Robinson's Circus. Romas Troupe. Helen Robinson. Milton Raison. Edward B. Reese. Katherine Revner. Nadine and Sammy Reider. Roehm and Richards Tiny and Ted Buddy Ronalda Al and Pauline Russell. Ray and Dot Read Leone Reed. John J. Regan. Ruth Roye. Lee Smith Sir Edw. St. Ra-Diem Captain and Mrs. W. I. Swain Ida Laurence Saltet E. Sause Eddie Salter Irene and Lottie J. Smith Singer Bros Richard Silvester Barbara Stanwyck Lorraine Sherwood. Margaret Snowden. Mabel V. Scott Ann Suter Mr. and Mrs. Harry Spindler. J. M. Schaefer Al Silberman H. O. Stechhan Bernard Szold Alfred and Lorle Swenson. Georgette Slifer Silga Sable John F. and Paul Scott William R Mabel Sloan Clifford C. Smit! Edith Spencer Tony and Peery Paige Stanford Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sutherland Viola Spaett Edith Spencer Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Simons Jack Singer Charlie Squires W. Stuart Sh Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Tudor Mr. and Mrs Charles Bernard Tucker. Helen Lee Taylor Paula Tully Mrs. Norman Thon Clara Thropp The Three Thoms Mr. and Mrs. Courtenay Terret Clarencé Taylor Textile Color Card Association of the U. &,. Ime J.C. Voge Edwin E. Vickery. Wirth & Hamid, Inc. Harry Walker. Ray Walker Sid Wolff George D. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Will L. White M. Witmark & Sons George and Ray Stanton Weist Paul Whiteman Mr. and Mrs. Will L. White. Andy Wright. Maud Webster Emma G. Wood P. T. Walsh Drane Walter Wardell and LaCoste Kitty and Jane Warren. Gracie Wasson Eva and Gordon Whyte Jack Wiesian Mr. and Mrs Joe Winant Jimmie Walters Mr. and Mrs. Harry Elmer Walters silly Watson and Family. Lew Watson Alexander H. Walsh William Oden Waller. H. Emerson Yorke. Paul Yawitz. Harry Olsen Sadowski. Slim Willian A Williams. CHICAGO OFFICE Mr. and Mrs. lL. B. Arey. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alringer bk. B. Allen. Tex Austin. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ackley. Arcus Ticket Company. Grover C. Alexander. Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Doc Bacon. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Rrainerd Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bedini, Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Baldwin. ™. FE. Rooth. Rertha Bridge. Walter J. O’Brien. Samuel Brody. W. A Blomberg. Beckman and Gerety. Keith Buckingham. Clarence Boone. Mr. and Mre. James Cunliffe Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Crandell. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Coghlan. Mr. and Mrs. James Chase. Mr. and Mrs, James Connery. Mr and Mrs. F. Deist. Aerial Christensens. EF. Carruthers Cireus Fans’ Association. Dick Collins. J. C. Corey. Chicago Costume Works, Dr. Thomas B. Carter Dr. Arthur M. Corvin. Driver Bros. Dorris Deane Mr. and Mrs. Raba Delgarian. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Devine Mr. and Mrs. Earnest C. Day Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Delaney Cc. W. Finney W. C. Fleming. Mary Farrell. F. J. Frink Mr. and Mrs. M. P Al Flude. KE. Griffith. Mr. and Mrs. Nat S Gordon-Howard Company Mr. and Mrs. Bill Goodehart Mr. and Mrs. J. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Fred Garbs Ralph Gallet. Reba Gardner, Company. Mr. and Mrs. FE. P Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Mr. and Mrs. James Hathaway Mr. and Mrs, R. W. Hood Falk Green Bits of Everything Guine Glosup The Billboard, January 1 Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Holt. Arthur Hopper. Fred High Joseph Hagn. R. FE. Hofeller. Kent Hasmer. Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Hall. Violet Hussey. Ruth Herpe. Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Hartigan. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Henriquez. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holbrook. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Houghton. Florence J. Hoover. Gertrude Imhoff. Juliette, Costumer, Mrs. Ed Johnson, Tom Joy H. S. Kidwell! 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94 The Billboard, January c.. F. Tweedy. Harry Vernick, Joe 1 1927 Walker, West, Chas. Whitney, Band Williams, Watt itpall William *W raverly Jack (S)Wolfe, Bal Wyatt, Dick Tits, Fred (K)Twolig, John H. Vernon, Vern Walker, J. BR. w rl West, A. R. Leader Williams, Whitic Wolfe, Homer 0. (K) Wylie, Ja . {1 Wm (K)Tyndall, Henry Vernon, Reckles Walker, Ray “ ite William **West, Mr. & Mrs. Whittier, F. Williamson, James Wolfe, T. A. Wyman, Mitzio tae son, Geo Twyman, Geo Vernon, Carmen Vall, Lawrence Wayland, Fred Wm. Whittinghell, J. C. Willouchby, Chas Wolff, Alfred Wymore, Bill esTomlin, Roy Tryon, J. H Vernon *"*Wallace, Mr. & Wayland, W. B. **West, Dolly Wholen, A. J. Willoughby, "Joe Wolff, Louis Ha — Clifford **TyBell, Mr. & Vernon, irly Mrs. Bert Wayland, Bennie ***Westcott, Geo. Whorrall, Roy E. Willis, C. D. Wolff, Paul Wyse, Billy Tomlinson, Cash E aes Mrs Louis Wallace, Bert P. Wayne, Kenneth (L) Weston, Bert Whyte, Carl (K) Wills, Chill (L) Wolford, Olan Yancey, Tom 8) Tom kins, Robert (K)Twyman, Fred Vic Wa lace, Wm. Wear, J **Weston, Herbert Wichmann, Geo Wilson, M. G Wolford Dogs *Yantis, Lathe (8)Tompkns, Umstead, Geo. T. lace, *Weaver John Wetzel, Baldy (K)Wicks, Eddie Wilson, Swede Woll, Carl ats (S$)Toops, Glenn H. Underwood lace Weaver, James Buck Weyburn, F *Wick, Tex Bob Wilson, Ira Woll, John *Yarborough, - "i Tooth, Diamand Lawrence F **Weaver, Wink **Weyer, R. FE Wickham, Harley Wilson, John W Itz hey et Yeager, Harry & Torney, Bill K) Updike, Wm. “*Wearer, BE. A Whalen, A. J. Wicks & Wicks Wilson, Jos. L. omack, A, G, eager, Mr. & \y Toto, Jos, A- gnies Ketsnt Cc. *W eaver, John Red Wheeler, Earl L. *“*Widner. Russell Wilson, Knox Wonder, Lawrence Rert ees. ae **Upton, A. F e.. poem a Wheeler & Potter Wigand Troupe be on, — we “ eather PE YFeaor Magician indall, . . Clyde Ward. Tommy White, Kenneth (K) Williams, String (L)Windrick, Ernest Bs rms, Henry Zaneta, Chas. D. Trigg, Jac *Van, Billy B : (K)Ward, Tomms . White. Frank W. Beans Wine, B Worrell, Chas *Zarell, Rer Trousdale, Boyd B. sev, Gordons, The tut tea a” Gan ae White, Mr. py (K) Williams, Hillte Wineberg, Joe Worth, Geo. Chas Tissho Marti; Trout, pen = = a Ww of Ht. Waring Tom a R White, Henry: Wilms, _, Chas be — oA “ Worth, Re be “*Zeck, Mr. & Mir rout, e > Jimmie s ite, Ed ams ut - ren, & Sly Van, Jack Gee Bob rthur ite’ Clyde m *renn ' *Zello, B — ee evan Miller, : Freddie Frank Well igton, Mason White, Clyde rien wo - } Zeneto. febbe Troyman, Fred Frank **Wahl, Jack M. C. lls, Victoria. © White, Earle 7 Blackie (K)Zeno, Dad Trudel, Prof. Van Snitzel, Max Waidelich. Jess Bobbie White, Ernest Wright, Howard Zenith (K) Tucker Harry Van Valkenberg, Wa , Howard , Perce s, Burton H. White, Floyd : **Wright, Roy wie k 7 **West, W. I. *Whitmyer yA. William, W. T Woe, A. 1 Wuer Die ct — om New Building Planned For Canadian Exhibition TORONTO, Can., Dec. 27.—Plans have been prepared for a machinery hall and electrical building combined for the Canadian National Exhibition. Already over 60 per cent of the space has been contracted for. The estimated cost is $700,000. Plans provide for a one-story struc- ture, the design of which is in keep- ing with other exhibition buildings. It will be 450 feet long, 212 feet wide and will have an inner court 100 feet by 160 feet in dimension. Transportation men are becoming interested in the erection of a transportation building. Floral displays are also to be given greater space. Horticultural exhibitors propose to enlarge the floral day parade ‘to a two days’ event and improved facilities and accommodation in the Horticultural Building are to mate- rialize. The Parks Commissioner has stated all the Horticultural Building should be given over to flowers and that suitable vessels for display should be pro- vided. Next vear the Canadian Gladioli Association is to stage the world’s greatest gladioli show. The Canadian National Exhibition di- ed the horticulture ex- banquet in the Carls-Rite rectorate entertair hibitors at a Hotel recently. Twenty floats will be in the floral parade in front of the grand stand next year, it is promised. Sesqui Facing British Suit PHILADELPHIA, Dec. B. Hadley, city controller, demand for details of Sesquicentennial, directors were with prospects of a lawsuit on the part 24.—While W. was making a expenses of the faced of British exhibitors. Controller Hadley has demanded full details of the operat- ing deficit, items of which, it is said, have been guarded by the management. With Australian Circuses By Martin C. Brennan SYDNEY, Nov. 17.—Mrs. Ethel Jones has nearly recovered in health. The Globe of Death is still plaving Victoria, but will be back in Sydney at the end of the month Col. Bob Love, veteran showman, is oecasionally seen around town Despite his great age id an infirmity which would lay low many other, the Colonel well appears remarkably The subscription list nromoted for the purpose of defraving the funeral ex- penses of the late J Heller has met with a2 very inconsistent response so far. Heller was a well-known robat in the Australian circus field Apdale’s Animal Circus proved a big success at the Fuller Theater, Sydney, during its season. The act is one of the best animal turns in vaudeville, and its popularity is in no small manner due to the showmanship of Frank Apdale. CLARK & WUNDER’S Tip Top Shows WANT For four of the biggest and best dates in the State of Florida. Homestead, Fla., starting Thursday, Dec. 30. for ten days, auspices Police Department; Hollywood, Fla., Jan. 10. auspices Chamber of Commerce: then the biggest date Florida will have for a Key West, Fla. for 15 days. During this engagement the entire American fleet will be there. consisting of all America’s greatest battleships, destroyers. submarines, together with their 30,000 sailors, marines and officers, and they all draw their long time, pay the second day of the engagement. Want to hear from a real Plant. Show Stage Manager to handle Plant. Show. Must have past years of experience. or will consider booking a fast-stepping hot show with jazz band. Billy Young and Jim Thomas. wire me if you have a real show with peppy band. Band. Want to hear from a real Colored Jazz WANT to book a real Athletic Show Manager. one who knows how to get money and will take care of the outfit. Kid Ellis. wire. Just want two more real strong shows. If you haven’t got a real money-getting show we can’t use it. Must have neat frame up. Concessions, wire or come on. We will take care of you. Address. all wires to above show as per route. Delray is our next date after Key West. Golden Fleece, Bound, Indian Patterns...... $2.40 | Gloria Dolls, Packed 25 to Case............ $0.60 Golden Fleece Shawl, Indian Patterns...... 3.25 | Violet Dolls, Packed 25 to Case.......... .50 Dupiex, Bound, Plaid Patterns.............. 3.25 | Lamp Dolls, Packed 45 to Case.......... -65 Comfort Shawl, Plaid Patterns.........-..+« aM | roan onace ane | abpeaneesedly Bridge Lamp, Complete, 6 to Case.......... 4.50 | Shebas, With Plumes, Packed 48 to Case... .35 Fioor Lamps, Complete, 6 to Case........-- 6.85 | Bull Dogs, 10 In., Packed 50 to Case...... 25 . . SPECIAL No. B—Rose paras an. Ne. 6—Oak Boy and Girl ‘ NO GOODS SHIPPED WITHOUT DEPOSIT C.F. ECKHART CO.) Ine. Largest Mfr. Main Office and Factory: Southern Branch: 52 West Port Washington, Wis. De Seta St., Memphis, Tenn of Carnival Supplies in the World. One or a Carload One-Hour Service — Sparks Circus Wants Wrestler or Boxer To meet all comers for concerg. Man to Work Lion Act, Clown, Menage Riders, Twenty-Four-Hour Man. Address CHARLES SPARKS, Manager, Macon, Georgia. Advertise in The Billboard—You’ll Be Satisfied With Results. Rubin & Cherry Shows —— MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 23 —Upon the arrival of President Rubin Grubs from Chicago a conference was cail: d ag 2 tween hims: If, Tom Salmon, general su- perintendent, and E. A. Potter, general constructor and trainmaster, and it was decided to start the crew of Painters, decorators, carpe nters, builders and black- smiths at once, with instructions to spare neither time nor expense in building the Rubin & Cherry Shows in a distinctiv: class for the 1927 season. Plans have been drawn and work started on ideas and revelations in the earnival world The crew numbers 35 people and the com- missary de yy Cieorge S} rtment is in the hands of annon, who has looked after that department in winter quarters for Several s@asons. The annual Christmas festivities and dinner were cluded the s: held at the grounds and i: veral families who are mak- ing their home at the fairgrounds for the winter. Mrs. Anna Ritter and the midcet family left Thursday morning for N: Orleans where they are booked for six weeks for vaudeville engagements Emil Ritter is in Europe scouting for a number of attractions and will return to the United States about March 1, bringing all artists engaged with him. One of the new attractions for the midget theater will be the smallest midget woman in the world. Mr. and Mrs. Irving Kempf and Bruce Kempf are in Macon, Ga., exhibiting th:ir Model City and will return to Mont- gomery about March 1. President Gruberg stated that for th present he was not ready to give out in- formation, but said he, “you can say that the Rubin & Cherry Shows will still con- tinue to be a 40-car show, filled to t! top with pleasing attractions.” Ben Krause, of Krause Greater Shows, Spent several days here last week and curing his stay he purchased upwards of $10,000 worth of show paraphernalia, cluding a gold and silver wagon front, cars and wagons. The pur- Giabe Was wWihde Willie becouse of changes in the railroad equipment, as the Rubin & Cherry Shows plan to have an all-steel train. The mail carrier is busy these days delivering stacks of Christmas cards and bundles from our friends FRANK 8S. REED (Secretary) Oakland Horse Show February 2! SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. third annual Horse Show will be the Oakland Auditorium February Portable barns, built last year at cost of $15,000, will be available. Dona tions by Oakland and San Francisco i! dividualS last year made available 4 premium list of $28,500 and entrants were listed from all over the United Stat: Five $2,000 stake events have already been provided, according to A. P. Flem- ing, who will manage the show. oo Look thru the Hotel Directory in this issue. Just the kind of a hotel you want may Listed. hand-carved 26.—The held in 21 ae ee | es ee SR | ancers-suawis~pox1s—tanes | - ————— =— ees |:

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Zs) nads lem- issue y be ‘BLANKETS---SHAWLS MILWAUKEE, WIS. 642-4-6 Third Street Quality---Service CONCESSION SUP P LIES Value---Price SALESBOARD ITEMS BRANCHES ARE AT YOUR SERVICE WITH OUR FULL LINE CANDY---ALUMINUMWARE The Biliboard, January 1 1927 95 ATLANTA, GA., and KANSAS CITY, MO., DOLLS---LAMPs---TRAYS PITTSBURGH, PA. KANSAS CITY, MO. ATLANTA, GA. 2302-4 Penn Avenue 1926 Grand Avenue 324 Marietta Street MISCELLANEOUS (Continued from page 63) field, Clark, Co. & Hawaiians, H. A. Wilson, mer.: Wetumka, Okla., 29-30; Henryetta a1- Jan. 1; Wewoka 2-4; Seminole 5-6; Shawnee 9 Virgil, Magician: (Hipp.) Portland, Ore., 28-31; (Bligh) Salem Jan 1-2. CIRCUS AND WILD WEST ng Bros.” Rodeo & Hippodrome: Plant City, Mla., 27-Jan. 1; Lakeland 3-8 CARNIVAL COMPANIES \labama Am. Co.: Marvel, Ala., 27-Jan. 1. liortz Midway: Colfax, La., 30-Jan. &. Itright, Louis, Agia Palacios, Tex., 27-Jan. 1; Gulf 3-8. Couch & Goldfob: Opp, Ala., 27-Jan 1. Cunningham Am. Co.: Boligee, ‘Ala., 27-Jan. 1; Epes 3-8. elmar Quality: Sourlake, Tex., 27-Jan. 1. Draper’s Park Amusements: Ellenton, Fila., 27-Jan. 1; Bradentown 3-8. Galler’s Expo.: Otter Creek, Fla., 27-Jan. 1. Gear, Billy: Pavo, Ga.. 27-Jan Gleth Greater: Kelsey City, Fla., 2t- Jan. 1. Gray, Roy: Mercedes, Tex., °7-Jan,. 1. Guif Coast: Lake Charles, La., 27-Jan. 1. Housner-Kelly: New Port Richey, Fla., 27- Jan. 1; Tarpon Spriggs 3-8. Tones, Johnny J.: Wauchula, Fla., 3-8. Man's Greater: Jackson, : la., 27-Jan. 1. Metropolitan: Mulberry, Fla., 27-Jan. 1. Milliean’s United: Milton, Fla., sige Be Miller's, Ralph R.: Crowley, La., 27-Jan. 1; New Iberia 3-8. ° Mitchell & LaMance: Stillmore, Ga., 27-Jan. 1; Nicholls 3-8. Oliver Greater: Uniontown, Ala., 27-Jan. 1. ® Peerless Expo.: Brewster, Ala., 27-Jan. 1; Ft. Meade 3-8. Phoenix Am. Co.: Camden, Ark., 27-Jan. 1. Rock City: Georgiana, Ala., 27-Jan. 1; Vreden- burg 3-8. Southern Expo.: Cocoanut Grove, Fila., 27- Jan. 1. Taylor Bros.’: Crestview, Pla., 27-Jan. 1. Wade, R. L.: Emerson, Ark., 27-Jan. 1. Additional Routes (Received too late for classification) \rcus, Magician: Louisville, Ky.. 27-Jan. 1. \rthur’s, Dude, Comedians: Shiner, Tex., 27- Jan . Rartone Ideal Comedy Co.: West Milton, 0O., 27-Jan. 1. Reckridge, Lew, alas. Com. Co.: (Orph.) Dur- ham, N. C., 27-Jan ° juwser Dramatic Co.: Arlington, Ind., 27- an Break’ Comedians: Henryetta, Okla., 27- Jan. 1. Bronk’ s Show: Bartlesville, Okla.. 27-Jan. 1 Horton's, Johnny, Frolies: (Hipp.) Newport, ar 30-Jan. 1; (Gordon) Middletown, 0O., 2-8, Clack Entertainers: Quenemo, Kan., 27-Jan. 1 Clifton Comedy Co.: New Baden, U., 27-Jan. 1. ‘ook’s Show: Kirkland, Ga., 27-Jan. 1 Dantel, B. A., Magician: Wilson, N. C., 27- Dennison’s Show: Clinton Okla., eo 1 Donegan Show: Mobile, Ala., 27-Jan Dubinsky Stock Co.: Miama, Okla., 27-Jan. 1. Eddy's Buccaneers: iNew China Gardens) Youngstown, ©., 27-Jan. 1. Elifett’s, Silas C., Band: Bushnell, Fia., 27- Jan. 1 Field, Al G., Minstrels: Waycross. Ga.. 29: Jacksonville, Fia., 80-Jan. 1; Daytona Reach _3; W. Palm Beach 4-5; Miami 6-8 Finch, Leon & Fred: Brady, Tex., 27-Jan. 1. Grandi Bros.’ Stock Co.: Harlingen, Tex., 27- Jan Haines Players: Fort Scott, Kan., 27-Jan. 1 'lolland’s Comedians: Lott, Tex., 27-Jan. 1 Le Vant’s Show: Henderson, Mich.. 27-Jan. 1. ees Comedians: Douglas, Ga... 27-Jan. 1 Manville Plavers: Columbus, Tex., 27-Jan. 1 Melville Players: Homestead, Fla., 27-Jan. 1. OSCAR V. BABCOCK Performing the largest Sensational Act In the Out- Goor Amusement World, a Combination “DEATH TRAP LOOP" AND “FLUME ACT’. Address 1224 E. Broadway, Monmouth, tlineis. Booking Shows, Concessions, Ride Help for 1927. ere ys BIG CITY SHOWS 21st & Lynch, East St. Louis. Hlinols “MIGHTY ARGYLE EXPOSITION SHOWS NOW BOOKING FOR SEASON 1927 s by mall to BOX 16, Granite City, Ulinots. THE STRAYER AMUSEMENT COMPANY tr we Shows, Rides and Concessions for season M" Wi furnish outfits to capable showmen, Ad- ' 393 N. Main St., Memphis. Tenn GENUINE DIAMOND SET Deltah a PEARKOS VRAss Mats 64S TS THE PEARLS OF QUALITY AT A SMASHED AND SLASHED PRICE. No. 85X GANNA WALSKA STYLE PEARL NECKLACE. 24 in.. famous Deltah quality, graduated beads, diamond-set white gold clasp— at an extra low price. Per $9.50 Strand ROHDE-SPENCER CO. WHOLESALE : Sint fen. en roneaa 223 W. Madison Street, Chicago, Ill. “BUYERS’ THRIFT GUIDE” New Novelties, Premium Items, Watches, Clocks, Silverware, Jewelry, Salesboard As- sortments, Street Gelless, Carnival Goods OR] ——_ Concessionatres, Store Merchants, Premium Dealers, Novelty Users, Demonstrators, Sales- board Operators, Wheel and Pitch Men, Agents, Promoters, Carnivals, Bazaars. QUOTES ACTUAL WHOLESALE PRICES Ask for “CATALOGUE 837"’ and state nature of your business. Wheelmen also ask for “SPE- CIAL CANDY CIRCULAR.” Salesboard Operators also ask '! for ‘SPECIAL CIRCULAR B20.” ! 5 5 Pace Front Venders Pace Side Venders Pace Operator Bells ALL IN 5¢ AND 25¢ PLAY ARE NOW READY Liberal Trades or Cash for Used Machines PACE MFG. CO., ‘cricaco, icc” sce rrowr venben 536-538 Broadway. New York ore Ae axaxit ‘ — . Greater Sheesley Show at Tampa and SPECIAL OFFER Meredith & Henry: (Reverly) Janesville, Wis.. : ; ¢ —- 4 a a tcaneiaar Johnson Florida Expo. Show here open- = J 5.000 Gent's Strap Watches. M an New York Players: Lindale, Tex., 27-Jan. 1. ing tonight makes St. Petersburg look price, $3.50. Our Special Cut Price e Newmann the Great, J R. Keller, ™er.: like a reunion of showfolks. (Rialto) Dickinson, N. D., 27-Jan. 1; Kildeer $2.60 2-4; Golden Valley 5-8 The Wise Show will change location Norman, Jack, Players: Arcadia, Fla., 27- next week, as the engagement for St. Jan. 1 Petersburg is for two weeks, then to th Norton's Comedians: Shawnee, Okla., 27- East Cc st 7 t the Jan. 1. _ nemen Oh, Boy, Jack W. Burke, mgr.: (Majestic) Tuesday night the newsboys were Greenville, S. C.. 27 _ a : oe: suests of Mr. Wise and had the time of — Great, & Co.: New Orleans, La.. 2i- their young lives, riding and attending Reno's Funmakers: Baxley, Ga., 27-Jan. 1. the different shows, then were filled up Rossi's Band: Hollywood, Fla., 27-Jan. 1 with hot dogs and red lemonade. Before Sadler, Harley, Co.: San Angelo, Tex., 27- they left the midway they gave three Jan. 1. rousing cheers for the Wise Shows Shannon Players, Harry Shannon, Sr., megr.: . : , ons No. 8254—Gent’s Strap Wrist Wateh, jewel Fredericksburg, Va., 27-Jan. 1 Mr. Wise has given up all duties other — radium Lo and har Is, Ton Shawn Bros.: (Bijou) Bangor, Me., 30-Jan. 1; than taking tickets at the minstrel show. | "* Py DOZEN Lots wrPs t 50 (Codman Sq.) Dorchester, Mass., 3-5. sa E os oe a Slater's Squirrel Dodgers, Roscoe Slater, mgr.: He has reasons for being proud of his Write for our free catalogue if intetested. .. 27-Jan. 1 minstrel show, as this attraction has Terms: 20% with order, balance C. O. D. When Smith-Willis Stock C¢ tenton, Il., 27-Jan. 1. received more favorable comment from Wer ahi Se coduel some day hoy = , Abner K. Kline Shows Jan. Wehble, Billy, Co.: (Princess) Shelby, N. C., ell or ll a emen 2i-Jan. 1; (Strand) Charlotte 3-8. ; After closng the 1926 season at Han- Feideme Be . ze Show: Brew * s., - res be ee a a ee ae ford. Calif.. the Abner K. Kline Shows : were taken to San Bernardino, Calif., PUBLICITY AND PROMOTER and artered at the National Orange The Wise Shows chew ateuliie their winte? quasters for ADVANCE SALE the last three years , , > 4) M Can direct all advance activities, fraternal ptomo- ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Dec. 22.— Near the close of the season Manager ts ns. Offers an invit ed fr¢ m Expositions, Food 7is 3 s Kline tontracted a cold which eventually Shows, ete., Theatres and Amusement Parks desiring The Wise Shows opened their engage- 1 hia iN . theteby brisict Producing Press Agent plus exploitation Prefer to ment here Monday night to a big crowd, ‘ aused serious | nCSS, gr ys TINSINE jocate and percentage proposition. All essentials and which came in early and stayed late about the closing of the shows on short real references. Past season Al Freseo Park. Ad- spending fre ely ‘ ~* on . * notice, with several spots already booked.‘ #ress RACE MACKLIN, General Delivery, Peoria, 1). Mr. Kline is recovering and expects to carry on ‘during the season of 1927 WANTED 1 the big t filled ances anc 1 big top was filled to over- ai rs ‘ag i r lacksmiths flowing. Carl Lauther’s side show did ee ee prea Lprgene CIRCUS NOVELTIES Ae ay a . . te? : and carpentets are on the job at winter r 7 oy, a big business on the opening night: the artere ruah » thine . s0¢5 Dancing, sensations! vying Pally, Spattets, Apache other shows and rides did well The eae aka aaa eee seg A. Dancers, Comedy Acts, Spanish Clowns. Four to six reathe ras fine. as ug — the time the season opens at the 17th weeks’ ‘engagement. Transportation paid from New weather was fine, as the cold spell has Annual National Orange Show, San Ber- Yort City. Address MAVOGE CIRCUS, 1560 Broad- left for a time at least. nardino, February 17 to 25 way, cate Billboard Office. New York City The minstrel show gave two perform- A great number of visitors come to HI TOM LONG ‘ the midway most every night. The (Press Representative). saa anarlie tthe eae eat > new _ on Ca lag dn ’ —_ | ee . ; : 1 £ re if , irold Mrs, ee | | ; —_asrrr—r—icrwrwrrrrtsi“‘(‘COOCOOC;C;*SS eian Mfr as HANDY Fo ING POINTS WISCONSIN DE LUXE DOLL & DRESS COMPANY, CLOSEST: SUPPLY HOUSE .) ee 1 ASS, AS AA 7 np tn « = aie i a : REE /-7——8 | re Kon. A> i We 2G — om ; ' es pourra ti aw Ta ¥. z rete a | Hii © eee GUESS, ‘ yi os pe NU tsa, MY} . ‘ Pees ' Ee rng ORS y ~ aftr ob Gro. ea : Py (37)/ : Pred ies: Sang ies ST f pe : at a t° >. [Sorex BR ry FREE A eS SRA Ta > = FS ERG ; NE Cable So wiRD SSS FS) wr 10 SOS a aa eS DEALERS ee oo Hy Fi a ee es an te - ._ gy This Wonderfully be- Complete Su- Ee a rs ‘ po ers, F ick- o 2 : ETE | ae the r vy: te |B ai aa! 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96 Agee and Circus Acts In New Musical Comedy NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—John R. Agee, equestrian, and his horses and trained bull are appearing on the K.-A. Circuit. Last summer they were a feature park and fair attraction. They are to be spe- cially featured in the forthcoming pro- duction of Will Morrissey’s Polly of Hol- lywood, scheduled to get under way at Allentown, Pa.,. January £. Agee has been cast to play the character of the “bad man’ and arrangement has been made to utilize the high-school and danc- ing horse in one scene, and in other scenes the brewery horses will do special “busi- ness”, and Midgie Miller, star of the piece, will ride Agee’s bull. There will be two other circus acts on the program, including the Flying Mar- tins and Pasha’s Arabian tumblers. Rice Bros.’ Shows GREENVILLE, Tex., Dec. 21.—Rice Bros.’ Shows are here for the second week of their engagement. Last week was the poorest of the season. Rain and cold weather prevailed, and the show hardly opened. We moved to a lot on the other side of the town and s@ far have not opened this week. The Rice Bros.’ Shows have been in Texas for three weeks and each week was a bloomer. There seems to be a short.ge of money ir this State, as nearly every one is depending or cotton and the price is the lowest in years. Owner Cecil C. Rice has decided to make Greenville the closing stand. He has rented a fire-proof warehouse and next Saturday night most of the show will go in for the winter. A two-car show will leave here to play the small towns in East Texas and Louisiana, where conditions are much better. General Agent Blondy Holloway is in the field booking spots. Tressie McDaniels and wife left the show last week for Browns- ville, Tex. Dan Mahoney is now the manager of concessions. The winter show will consist of four shows, two rides and 15 concessions. The writer closed his minstrel show here. Doc Barker also closed his 10-in-1 show. R. A. Joselyn is connected with the show, joining here this week. All the ladies on the show are busy with their Christ- mas presents and all of us are looking forward to a big time. R. L. DAVIS (Press Representative). Morris & Castle Shows SHREVEPORT, La., Dec. 22.—It’s bit quiet around winter quarters of the Morris & Castle Shows at Shreveport, La., all marking time as it were for the return of Milt Morris and Johnny Castle, who are spending the holiday season with Milt and Dave’s folks in Washing- ton, D. C. Johnny Castle has gone to Washing- ton after going thru the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., and all will be giad to hear that a rest cure only has been ad- vised by the physicians. This sounds easy, but all who know Johnny are saying it can’t be done. Sid Tannehill and W. D. Cohn ac- companied Castle to Rochester, where Tannehill will remain for 30 days to undergo an operation. He will be glad to hear from his friends. Mail will reach him care ef general delivery. Mrs. Tan- nehill is with her husband and will re- main until he leaves the hospital. W. + FREE TAPESTRY. HAND-LOOMED—IMPORTED This Sensational Offer to Agents and Con- cessionaires Good for Only a Short Time. Popular designs in many colors, very at- tractively woven on hand looms in France and Belgium. Wonderful Holiday Item. Send 25c as mailing charges for descriptive litera- The Billboard, January 1 1927 —— FS Here it is the FIRST of the NEW YEAR and time to figure on coming SPRING and SUMMER br business YOU WANT TO GET Remember, your lo- cality even though it be but a small town can accommodate a large number of ma- chines. Do not over- look this very impor- tant fact, for the com- ing year should see a more favorable attitude towards coin-operated machines. Make the most of it by getting to work early. OPERATOR'S’ BELL in 5c, 10c, 25c and 50c Play —_————ADDR PITTSBURGH MANUFACTURING & SALES CO. Main Office: 335 Wabash Bldg., YOUR SHARE OF IT Pick the machines that best fit your re- quirements and in view of the large coming demand. it will be ad- visable to send in your order in plenty of time so that we can ship your machines without any unnecessary delay- WRITE FOR PAR- TICULARS TODAY. MINT VENDERS in 5c Play Only Pittsburgh, Pa. $$ WE ARE NOW LOCATED IN OUR OWN NEW BUILDING AT 1530 & 1532 Parrish St., Philadelphia, Pa. BANNER SPECIALTY COMPANY (FORMERLY OF 608 ARCH STREET) WORLD'S LARGEST HEADQUARTERS FOR COIN-OPERATED MACHINES LARGE STOCK OF NEW AND REBUILT BELLS AND VENDERS ALWAYS ON HAND. A Full Line of PARTS—SUPPLIES— REPAIRS Everything fully GUARANTEED, Our fully a REPAIR SHOP and best MECHANICS are at your SERVIC OPERATORS, MAKE THIS YOUR HEADQUARTERS WHEK YOU ARE IN PHILLY. PRE-INVENTORY SALE BEACON INDIAN BLANKETS ----------- $2.75 Ea. BEACON INDIAN SHAWLS -.------------ $3.60 Ea. 30 to a Case. No less sold. Full amount or 25% with order DIRECT SALES & SERVICE CO., 24 W. WASHINGTON, CHICAGO, ILL- ture, prices of all sizes and sample, which will be credited on first order. Don’t delay. Act TODAY LEWIS IMPORTING CO. 26 Garden St., Dept. A A, BROOKLYN, N.Y. | Fea ecient S Sc & 25c MACHINES With or without venders, used a short time, es good 6s new, st bargain prices. , Jennings Display Front Venders, Serial 39,000, some Mills Front Venders. MINTS—nearly ®& carload, at cost. WINNER MINT CO. 2078 Cettace ao Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. Dave Cohn has gone to Hot Ark., and is at the Como Hotel. The construction crew under the di- rection of Jack Rhodes has been engaged since early December on the building of 3,000 bleacher seats for the Louisiana State Fair Association, which will also be used as a down-town gran¢ stand for the Mardi Gras parade in Shreveport in February. The writer is at his home in Houston, Tex., but in touch with happenings around winter quarters. JOE S. SCHOLIBO (General Press Representative). Springs, Chimingo’s Great Circus REGINA, Sask., Can., Dec. 24. Gan Murphy, press agent of Chimingo's Great Circus, is back in harness again after being injured in a recent fire. Work at temporary quarters is progress- ing nicely and the wardrobe has been replaced. The show will not open until February and in the meantime Chimingo will tour Canada for six weeks in vaude- ville, splitting the time between the Pan- tages, Berry and Capitol Circuits. He will be the feature of the new spec., di- viding honors with Mlle. LaVoie (Mrs. T. R. Michella) and her Black and Tan Ballet Beauties. Mr. Michella will act as manager for Chimingo during the six- week tour. Mile. LaVoie and her Beau- ties will spend the holidays in Calgary, Alta. John E. Jackson is spending the holidays in Winnipeg, Man. Pietro LaMarr is teaching his lions a new trick, and T. R. Michella, Jr., is put- ting his dogs thru new stunts. The act, which Chimingo terms The Flaming Youth, runs for 20 minutes. When the show opens, Murphy will work back while John E. Jackson will handle the work ahead. Alvin Griffith, of Cleveland, will — shortly and direct the side-show and. — Jor- M. J. Lapp Shows ELLENVILLE, N. Y., Dec. 22.—The M. J. Lapp Greater Shows are wintering at Danbury, Conn. William Gordon is caretaker and is assisted by Jack Dooley and Jimmy Gordon. Work will not start until March 1, and then two wagon fronts will be built. The show will consist of 12 shows, 5 rides and about 40 concessions and will open April 16. Mr. and Mrs. Lapp are resting at their home in Ellenville, N. Y., and recently were visited by Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Payene and daughter, Estelle; Jack Murray and Vincent A. Connell, who made the trip from Baltimore, Md.; Bill Gordon, in from winter quarters for a few days, and Pear Ringer, owner of the caterpillar ride on the D. D. Murphy Shows. On file in the home office are many letters of indorsement from city officials and testimonials from auspices under which the shows appeared last season. J. W. Newkirk and wife, who were on the Lapp Shows for five years, are spending the winter at Los Angeles, Calif. Cc. L. KUHLMANN (for the Show) Tom Atkinson Circus SUPERIOR, Ariz., Dec. 21.—En route to this city, the dog cage of the Tom Atkinson Circus went over an embank- ment of 20 feet, but there were no casualties. The show opened here to fair business and encountered a_ slight snowstorm the following morning. It was the first smow the show has seen in eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson were guests at a birthday supper for Jerry Doyle, former showman, now in business at Phoenix. Winter Quarters (Continucd from puge 63) Southern Tier Shows, James E. Strates, x 404 Fairgrounds, Elmira, N. Y. (Bo pete Spencer Shows, Sam Spencer, mgr.: Brook- ville, Pa, Strayer Am. Co., J. R. Strayer, mgr.: 391 x Main st., Memphis, Tenn. : Traver Chautauqua Corp., Inec., Geo. Wo Tray. mer.: Hackensack, N. J.; : office address, 1547 Broadway, New York, N. Via-Ken Shows: Augusta, aa. Wade, W. G., Shows, W. G. Wade, mer.: 289 Elmhurst ave., Detroit, Mich. Wallace Bros.’ Shows, James P. Sullivan, mgr: Federa) & Chestnut sts., Youngstown, 0. — West's World's Wonder Shows, Frank Woe. mgr.: Norfolk, Va. Williams, 8S. B., Shows, S. B. Williams, mer 714 8S. 4th st., Waco, Tex. Wolf's Greater Shows, Wm. Wolf, prop.: 432 Wabasha st., St. Paul, Minn. Wortham Shows, The: Fairgrounds, Wichitq Falls, Tex. Wortham’s World's Best Shows, Gerety, mgrs.: Tulsa, Okla. Grounds). Beckmann & (Petroleum Expo, Zeidman & Pollie, Shows, Henry J. Pollie. gey megr.: State Fairgrounds, Savannah. Ga Zeiger United Shows, C. Zeiger, mer.: Hood River, Ore. MISCELLANEOUS Adams’, James, Floating Theater: Crittenden, Va. Almond’s Repertoire Show, Jethro Almond, mgr.: Albemarle, N. C Barker's, F. H., Vaudeville Show: 421 Roden- hizer st., Danville, Va Beers Vaudeville Co., Geo. R. Beers, mgr.: 591 N. W. 63d st., Miami, Fla. Bon Homme Bros,’ Show, Joe Bon Homme, mgr.: Woodlawn, Tex. Bonnie Mme., Animal Show, Buck Lucas, mer.: Box 169, Hebron, 0. Bruce Vaudeville Circus, H. A. Bruce, megr.: Evansville, Wis, Bunts’ Motorized Show: Findlay, 0. Clearys, Four Musical, Tommy Cleary, mgr.: 17 S. Chestnut st., Shenandoah, Pa Crawley’s Comedians, Geo. J. Crawley, mgr. : Mer Rouge, La. Dalton’s, Carl M., megr.: 123 8. 7th st., La Crosse, Dandy Dixie Colored Minstrels, J. = mgr.: Blair, Neb Darling's, Fred, Dog, 514 Bsstreet, Grand Elmer's, Prince, Midgets: Ferguson, E. O., Attractions, Carl a Dalton, Erwin, Pony & Mule Circus: Rapids, Mich Cassville, “s. (Box 3.) & Son's Show, E. O. Ferguson, mer.: Hamilton, Ill. Fisher's Dog & Pony Show, F. C. Fisher, mer.: Jackson, Mich. (R. No. 8) Glass, H. A., & Son's Show, H. A. Glass, mgr.: Olden, Mo. Golden Rod and French's New Sensation (showboats), J. W. Menke, mgr.: Paducah, 9. Hale Comedy Co., Chas E. Hale, Sr, mer.: 135 A-Moss st., Reading. Pa Hiestand Shows, Frank |.. Hiestand, mer.: 704 Illinois st., Greencastle, Ind, Huddleston Family Show, Frank Huddleston, mer.: Lucasville, 0 Huling Concession Co.. A. TL. \Huling, mer. 915 E. Madison e¢t., Pontiac. 11 Huntington Minstrels, George W. Quine, mer Port Gibson, Miss. Irving Bros.’ Side Show. Tom Irving, mgr 215 Slecum are., Syracuse, N. Y. Just Right Shows, John H. Rudolph, mer Diggins. Mo Kenny's Wonder Show, Richard Kr eons. mer 184 Nagle ave., New York, N Krauss Amusements, Leroy Krauss, Ye Lans- dale, Pa Knox's, Evert, Medicine Show, Evert 8. Knox, mer.: 624 Orange st., Ashland. 0. LaRoy Attractions, H. LaRoy, mgr.: 509 W Town st., Columbus, 0. Lee's Olympic Show, L. E 2441 Gay st., Ft. Warne, Ind leonard Dog & —e Show, Wick Leonard, mgr.: Plain City, Lemoine’s, John C.. Rides: Woonsocket, R. z. Let Ole Do It Co., St. Peter, Minn. MecGruder’s Colored Band & Minstrel Co, A. McGruder, mgr.: 3340 Wabash ave., Chi- cago, I. Mansfield Comedy Co., W. J Bigelow, mer.: 19 Cumberland st., Geo. E. Engesser, owner: Mansfield, mgr.: Third & Economy st. Tidioute, Pa. Miller Amusement Co. ‘Arthur Cc. Miller, megr.: Eimira Heights, N. 'Y. New Life Remedy Co. (medicine show), Dr. Hw. L Morris, megr.: 393 Columbus Pl., Long Branch, N. J Phenomenal Traveling Musical Entertainers, Oscar Turner, mgr.: 430 Couch st., Madison- ville, Ky ~ Princess Floating Theater, Norman F. Thom mer.: Beverly, 0. (Box 37). Rabbit Foot Minstrels, F. S. Wolleott, mer Port Gibson, Mins. Scanian Vaudeville Show, P. J. Scanlan, mer 113 N. White st., Shenandoah, Ia Shill's Dog & Pony Show, Chas. L. Shill, mer. 18 Royal st., Dayton, 0. Silver Bros." Shows, Ross Engle, mer.: Bridge- ton, Ind Silvan & Drew Show, S. A. Drew, megr.: Fair- grounds, Greensboro, N. C. (Box 625.) Spaun Family Show, Byron Spavun, meér.: Adelphi, 0. Swift's, Herbert. Tent a Show: Ef- fingham, Ml., Route No. Ten Nights in a Barroom, Waldo Odell, mgr: Rox 67, Brodnax, Va Tri-State Auto Polo Club, A. | . _ — -& ; ) ; =.) ; > — [PR eet Se Hig} : a ? di ' rdf) e! : ek Pe } ¥ F : * 4 a, | ni A Aged } sR ER SLES 4 MoT Sy es 4 ere ee PE oboe) DARE ——EE oo Sin 4 BEF oe 5 lee | j Par . Be sees sb bd . ste ea | hey eee. { — 2g x Cal laus Be. La ay SS J. F ; 7 : g : Sha Ina ee fF Ane : ure! : Car ieee eae emmamenaacaeeae amen maammaaae — as —_ - 7 =a Dov Met ee Hoi Val : Cal ee Oro . ee ee 0 eee day leg - nte the y tior ee —e— —$_—_——— — ——— _——_—- SR T oO whe : Dor Mo Da’ : - Pre tle Sar : & Siaciiasisiniidinbansianaaieiaiaciaiiaes re eiansinonte a ten - PI me “en Stu ~ = ED ss a Vai We Sve tor Bla cise An ’ 1 ; iW + ton as Seu J Ca’ P| ; [ls 4 ! ea wa i Au ; rrr dal :. = = “ Fa ee Ca t Fa Bi Rey t x Au Sa 7 e & Spy ese oe 4 ‘ i { i af :; Me WP Rg 4 ni, MILLS een " a te. 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ngr.: rson, jana- ner.: Ted lress, . 633 mer: attic pruck neue y ve Western Fair Association Dates SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26.—At the an- sual meeting of the Western Fair Associa- tion held at the Hotel Whitcomb the following re presentatives were present: c. W. Paine, —a manager, Cali- fornia State Fair; George K. Ed- yards, assistant secretary, California state Fair; C. B. Afflerbaugh, man- ager Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona; Charles P. Curran, president, los Angeles County Fair, Pomona; A. J. Elliott, live-stock manager, Tulare County Fair, Tulare; A. A. Austerland, president, Hilmer Community Fair; George P. Up- ham, secretary, Exhibitors’ Association, Brentwood; George P. Larsen, Industrial and Fur Rabbit Show, Compton; Cecelia Cravens, South California Fair, River- ng J. R. Hunt, manager, Orange County Fair, Santa Ana; Frank Lieg- inger, racing secretary, Stockton; Ella s. Wilson, secretary, Oregon State Fair, Salem, Ore.; E. G. Vollman, secretary, San Joaquin County Fair, Stockton; R. E. Cody, secretary and manager, Kenn County 15th District Agricultural Association; Earl Harris, secretary, Kenn County 15th District Agri- ultural Association ; Tevis Paina, California State Fair Horse Show, Sacramento; Hugh P. Donnelly, Stanis- laus County Fair, Modesto; Treffke R. La Senay, Fresno District Fair; Jno. J. Flaherty, Glenn County Fair, Orlando; > A, Kirk, Glenn County Fair, Orlando; s G. Roycroft, secretary and manager, Shasta County Fair, Anderson; Mrs, Ina P. Tormey, Shasta County Fair, Anderson; R. Casad,_ secretary-treas- urer, Merced County Fair; Lou Carrigan, Ventura County Fair; Wm. Douglas, San Joaquin County Fair; Fred MeCargar, Salinas Rodeo; Bob Jones, Pacific Slope Dairy Show; Prof. C. E. Howell, University of California, Davis; Sam H. Greene, director, State Agricul- tural Society; W. W. Van Pelt, Imperial Valley Mid-Winter Fair; J. J. Dillon, California Orange and Olive Exposition Oroville, and Guy Windrum, Madera County Fair. One of the principal features of Satur- day's meeting was the appointment of a legislative committee to work in the nterests of a bill to be introduced at the next session for increased appropria- tions for county fairs, The following were among the visitors who attended: E. W. Downey, president, Downey Bros., Inc., Los Angeles; J. Elmo Montgomery, breeder of harness horses, Davis, Calif.; Edward M. Foley, Foley & Burk Shows, San Francisco: W. F. Preistley, Hitt Fireworks Company, Seat- tle; E. M. Burk, Foley & Burk Shows, San Francisco; L. G. Chapman, Foley & Burke Shows, San Francisco; J. L. Stuart, president, J. L. Stuart Manu- facturing Company, tents, San Francisco; J. Wood, representing The Billboard, fan Francisco; C. S. Hatch, Western iudeville Managers’ Association; W. F. eateeut Westwood Bros.’ Enterprises, Sydney, Australia; Jim McCleave, Vic- ria, B. C., and Everett, Wash.: G. A. Blanchard, Blanchard Press, San Fran- Mel Kieffer, harness horses, nd Whitey Gore, A. B. C. Shows, Los Angeles, Fair dates for 1927 follows cisco: have been set as : Compton Industrial Show, Comp- ton, Calif.. March 1-7; California Raisin Festival, Fresno, Calif., April 28; Cali- fornia Lemon and Avocado. Oxnard, Calif. May 6-10; California Rodeo, Salinas, Calif., July 20-24; Nevada Hich- way Exposition, Reno, Nev., June 25- August 1; Humboldt County Fair, Fern- dale, Calif., August 17; Marin County Fair, Novato, Calif., August 20-22; San Joaquin Fair, yatta Calif., August -'-28; San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, Calif, August 25-27; Hil: ir Community Fair, Hilmar, Calif., August 25-26; Las- sen County Fair, Susanville, Calif., Augu t 26-28; California State Fair, “ecramento, Calif... September 2-10; ‘range County, Santa Ana, Calif. “eptember 5-10; Tehama, Red Bluff, ‘ if, September 12-14; Stanislaus, modesto sto, Calif., September 12-17: San ay F arm Bureau Fair, San Diego, September 14-18; Jackson County, Medford, Ore., September 12- 18; Ventura ‘unty Fair, Ventura, Calif., September r 18; Shasta County, Anderson, Calif. eptember 15-17; Madera County Fair, Vowehita, Calif, September 20-24; Merced County, Merced, Calif., Septem- sa 21-24; Lane County, Eugene, Ore., ept mber 18-20; Rakersfield Kern suunty Fair, Rakersfield, Calif., Septem- “el 13-17; Glenn County Fair, Orland, Calltf,., September 19-24; Tulare County zal, Tulare, Calif., September 20-24; uthern California Fair, Riverside, Calif. September 2-24: Tos Angeles County Fair, Pomona, Calif., September MAKE MORE MONEY overaTiNG GAILLE’S LATEST PENNY BALL GUM VENDER 3 MACHINES IN ONE ; FORTUNE TELLER ‘THE CAILLE BROTHERS CO., 20-24 Fresno Calif., September District Fair, Fresno, 26-October 1; Oregon State Fair, Salem, Ore., September 26- October 1; Pacific Slope Dairy Show, Oakland, Calif., October 15-22; Cali- fornia Orange and Olive Exposition, Oro- ville, Calif., November 22-26, and Im- perial Valley Midwinter, Brawley, Calif., December 7-11. D. D. Murphy Shows ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20.—The return of the executive staff from the Chicago meeting was the signal for preparations for 1927. The results of the meeting at Chicago as far as the Murphy Shows are con- cerned, were satisfactory. “i if tot t.7 tS ys | jit BALL-GUN tr: ‘4 rt Seerse hese FP & ~ 8; | aj | 0, +f SE he A ' a | Pee 2 ~ -* bn bd romp . 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