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Patrick, Warren A. (ed.) / Show world
(May 22, 1909)
Gathered along the Chicago Rialto, p. 17
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T'HE SHOW WORLD MaY22,1909. 17 EXHIBITOILS: Where competition is keen the BEST wins out. Competition is keen in the Motion Picture Business, and the LICENSED EXCHANGES give the BEST service. The best costs you about the same as the worst. The LICENSED SERVICE delivers on time exactly what you need. MOTION PlCTURE PATENTS COMPANY MOT80O FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK GATHERED ALONG THE CHICAGO RIALTO `raniik R. Tate. of, St. Louis, wvas in Chicago this week oI business. Carl Laerninlc took a flying trip to \ew York last Tuesday. Joh Stockdale, well known in Chi- Cao illim circles, is nlow connected eith the Globe Film Service. ,dlax Alillian is ip at Waukegan for N thie silumer. le is reported to be atcliig more than his share of fish. Mrs. Eddie Leonard wsas formerly liss Russel. of the teani of Irtullo aii Russel. Pihrvnette Ogden left the city this wuek for St. Louis where she will be prima don1na of a tiusical organiza- tioi at \Vest End Heights. Jarnes J. Corbett, who comes to the A.merican Music Hall next week, be- tilsan1 engagcment abroad at Dublin, Ireilnd, on Jtily 5. Edinta Waqllace Hopper goes to St. 1 1uis next week where she will begin Ja 1 season of light opera at )eliar Garden . Tyler and Berton have just re- ceiel their portable floor in order iat tiey imay present their act ini )u1stin Farin wsent fromt Chicago to New York in his automobile. ac- comitpanied by his secretary, 1'red Klee. Roger libof arrived in town this wcek and will have a twelve weeks' layoff. He will summer at Wauke- a olr rn bF )]D OIN 1101 >,tt tk jlts Ma LSCaIT 1 lot o e'l eil , n iii minstrel show at Aslury Park in July. The company, according to report, will comprise sixty people. The lush Temnle theater will offer The Servant in the House, with Ty- rone Power the week of May 31, aid later The Fanily and- Mater will be presented. H. Hunt, of Pegg & Hunt, who are going to open an airdoine at F'lint, M0ich., ivas here this week arranging for his bookings and buying seats. The airdomie will open June 7. 20lose Oppenheimer, of Spokane, Wasli.. who is interested in several S. & C. ventures, vas in Chicago sev- eral days this week, leaving Thurs- day. The Empire at Grand Forks has switched from the Morris coluiin to the Sullivan & Considine column. The liew%' bookings appear it that house next week. If. C. Thearle. manager of Paine's Pyrotechnic Company, has returned to Chicago after closing contracts to install fireworks at the Seattle expo- sition. Bob Fowler, of Fargo, N. D., was here last week in consultation with Pail Gondron, of the Sullivan and Considine offices. 1le stated that bus- iness v-was excellent at his theater for the time of year. D. Jack Bondy, who w-as here on his way east, stopped long enough to book some big Sullivan & Considine acts for the Majestic at St. Paul. among them The Ladies' Symphony Orchestra of 22 pieces. Iip Elbert. manager of the Unique at Des M iies. Ia.. \\-;s here this week engaging people for a stock company and got his tips in regard to who was useful and who ornamental only from tie S. & C. office. The Coliseum rink, of Rochelle, Ill., a rink of the improved order, is closed for the season and will play vaudeville and moving pictures during the hot months, opening the first of October with roller skating and professional exhibitions. When the Star and Garter is taken Over next week for seven davs of vaudeville the chief associates of Jamiies J. Jeffries on the bill will be Shean and Warren George W. Day, Keough and Francis, Besnah and Mil- ler, lrown and Hodges, Ethel Kirk and Jarvis and Mlartyln. Marvelous McIntosh opened at the Star theater at Rochelle, Ill., this week where lie vas a headliner with his automobile act. Gracie Ayers, the little girl wonder. is to do tearn work with the "Marvelous One. and those who know say that this combination will make a hit anywhere produced. Thomas Moss, of South lend, Ind., called at the S. & C. offices this week and arranged for the booking of Spring Brook park. which will open on Sunrday, 'May 30. Patil Goudron will send iini iany open air attrac- tions, iicluding a high diver, a balloon ascelisionist and a loop-the-loop act. Instructions against hypnotizing stj'cts and piaciig them in store windows for advertising purposes were issued Tuesday by Sergeant Charles ()'Donnell to Prof. W. Dei- a1 a hypnotist appearing at a the- ater it \Vest Sixty-third street and A\inerry party of jrniiai otlk gatllred it irech Lick, Ind., last sek and the photographer caught thein at a happy inonent. In the group ice: \Itk Ianl 'Mr. gJoe Giitesat the left; i. J. Sullivat. tanager of te Stuodebaker.Ciicago, iti tinecenter; Clatude Robinsott,treasuirer of tneNew Anisterdam theater in New York at the right; 2lrs. Robinson oil his left, and lien Rosenthal, superintendent of the Studebaker in the front row-all by his lonely. Wcntworth aventue. Several we--ks ago the police warned I1eldas, against hypnotizing young girls. le substi- tuted boys, and when complaint again had been nade he hired mnen. The following strong bill -ill be offered at the American Music Hall next wseek: James K. Hackett and E. Mll. Holland in a sketch. John Le- Claire. Harvey and L.ee, Leroy and Clayton. Bernardo. J. J. Corbett & Co., Carson 1ros., and WVilla Holt \Vake- field. Satin Chip and Mary Marble will headline the bill at the Majestic the- ater next week in a intsical dialogue Called In Old Edan, which was -rit- teln by Anna Marble (Mrs. Channing Pollock). In Old Eidarn is a little Dutch skit, which tells a pretty story and in iwhich Miss 1arble and Mr. Chip appear as two Dutch kiddies swhosc ill-teiipered old uncle is finally Outwitted by the pair. Songs, dances and dialogues, which are said to be of a bright and snappy order, help to inake this one of the most attractive of the recent vaudeville novelties. Wim. F. Word, formerly associated with the Dixie Film Eixchange, of New Orleans, has arrived im this city, having been directed to come north by his physician. Word opened and managed the Alano, one of the larg- est of the New Orleans theatoritnius. le was also one of the original pro- rnoters of the Johnstown Flood, and was the original lecturer with that paioramia at Coney Island and in Ch- cago. le also took the Passion Play over the W. V. M. A. titme. While here N0r. Word has taken charge of the Swanson theater at Thirty-ninth and Cottage Grove. where he will probably remain until October. ths is a nlative of this City. 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FOR RENT 0000 ft. fim. 2 sets so15 Xlii --- shilni nt 012 , li. Win 1but 1nss ii n lu n, nn film. HENRY BROWN %dl AMXUCHANNEGET s D'earborn St., CHICAGO gall. Boyd park, it Huntington, ]Ind., will penM Alay 23 with attractions b1 ookedi through the Sullivan & Considilie of- [ikes, Ton Arthur. of Mason City, la.. 'Alled at Stllivan & Considine's office ani iade arrangements to secure at- tractions for the Hijou in that city. J. A. Simard was here recently and gale Sullivan & Considine the book- ie of tieaters at Fort William. Onlt.. 'Fk eiiri. Out. Eddic Lcnnard will alpen \\Nhl his Opera .Chairs Immediate Shipment We can save you money and ime. Chairs from 50c upward. 15,000 chairs in stock. Large assortment toselect from. Quo- tations by return mail. Ask for Catalogue No. 306. E. H. STAFFORD MFG. CO. CHICAGO, ILL. I,7 I L
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