Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-03
KOLB, DILL AND
DILLON TO GO
TRAvESTY STARS TO PLAY IN
SAN FRANCISCO
They Give Up Their Engagement In
Los Angeles and VIII Work
Against James In the
North

kolb, Dill and Dillon who have been
at the Hotchkiss theater for the last
nine weeks, will close their engagement
Sunday evening and will go to San
Francisco, where they will open the
week following.
Their engagement in Los Angeles mas
been q success from every standpoint.
They played to good houses at every
performance and IL IL had not been
for the acts Of the former manager
of the house, who has since been re-
placed there would be a good margin
of profit for the lessees.
Under the administration of Jeff
White and Ed Seamans the house lost
money. This was in no wise the fault
of the company, as the house had been
sold out for most of the performances.
A loose expenditure of the funds by the
manager, 1t is said, was responsible
for the debts incurred and when the
White-Seamans combine went out
there were many unpaid debts.
Then Don Chick, former stage car
penter Of the Iotchkiss assumed the
lease of the house from Mrs Hotchkiss,
owner of the place. A few days after
he took the house he was run over by
a street car and his leg was crushed
Nevertheless, from the time he assumed
control Of the house and inaugurated
an economical regime, the house paid
wen, anu IL IL Ildu llOl DSbH LOT tue
determination of Kolb, Dill and Dillon
to go north, there seems no doubt that
the hot season would have been wealth
cred and when the regular season
opened in the fall the receipts would
have been very large.
Buresques Scarce for Them
AS stated by Kolb last evening, the
reason that they will close is the in
ability to secure burlesques of the kind
they want. Harry James, managers of
the "All Star traveSty company
which played an engagement at the
Mason and which went north for the
reason that Harry Milling, hacker of
the company, lost $4,000 during the
seven weeks they played here, gained
control of almost all of the burlesques
held by Witmarks in New York and
also by several of the other houses
which owned burlesques.
According to Kolb, he went to James
and made the proposition that he
(Kolb) was to take several of the
burlesques and pay James the royalties
and also a substantial bonus for the
use of the travesties. James is said
to have refused to do this, although
no matter what Kolb and Dill played in
Los Angeles it would not interfere with
his business in San Francisco. Quite
naturally Kolb, who is the business
manager for the company, was some
what incensed by James action, es-
pecially as he knew that James had
wired to New York to have the pieces
held, merely in order to keep Kolb
from getting them.
! In order to play even with James,
| Kolb, Dill and Dillon, with a few of
the show girls, will go to San Fran
| cisco and show for three weeks in the
| house where Frawley is now located.
| They will secure a good company in
the north, and Robert Pitkin, who will
be remembered in Los Angeles on ac-
count of his clever work in the comic
operas given at the Hotchkiss theater
| by the Olypmia opera company, will
be member of the cast.
| Kolb frankly says that his purpose
| in going to San Francisco is to put
| the same kind of crimp in Harry
| James in the north as he did while the
travesty stars were playing the Mason.
| Kolb, Dill and Dillon and company will
| play in San Francisco for three weeks
| and will then go on the road. Kolb and
| Dill made q great hit in San Fran
cisco some years ago in burlesques,
and are liked there very much. Kolb
stated last evening he believed that
three weeks of Kolb and Dill in San
| Francisco would just about do the
business for Harry James.
The departure of Kolb, Dill and Dill
lon from Los Angeles will be regretted
by every lover of good burlesque in the
city. Their engagement has been sue
cessful and they have made hundreds
of friends. If they ever open in Los
Angeles again they will no doubt be
supported as heartily as they were dur
ing the present engagement.