Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-07

features, pleasing novelties, charming
specialties. with dainty chorus of
pretty girls, funny comedians and
beautiful display Of electrical effects.
This new success was written ex-
pressly for these young stars, like all
others in which they have appeared
but from the way The Prize Winners"
is meeting with approval. they have
outdone all previous attempts in this
production
At the EIiie.-Tom I.inton's junge
girls who are at the Elite theater this
week are proving all that was expected
of them and they bid fair to draw
, capacity houses each performance they
are here. Last night the house WAS
filed at the first performance and
many had to be turned away The
, second show was well patronized also.
/ The girls are an attractive lot ana
they have good voices and Linton him.
self is a clever comedian. A number
! of pretty costumes are used in the
| course of the act and some catchy
songs are given. The rest of the bill
| is of high class order ana many think
the show is the superior of the one
which was put on last week and which
was generally admitted to have been
the best vaudeville attraction ever
seen in this city. Mr.. Linton is organ
izing another jungle act for the eastern
cities, and will probably engage local
amateurs to assist him.
Clever Colored Performers.-Music,
song and laughter will hold carnival
when the Colored Aristocrats com
pany. with the famous colored come
dams. Miller, Lyles and Miller, with
a supporting company of 80 people
come to the Illinois Thursday evening
No other colored theatrical organiza
ton has in the past given more entire
enjoyment to music loving people thar
this company Miller Lies and Mil
Ter. themselves authors and compos
j ers of no mean ability, have writer
no less than a hundred of the mos
| popular songs heard in musical com
cdy during the past five years. Fore
most among their successes is TIN
Oyster Man" in which remarkabl.
successful musical comedy the late ia
nous colored comedian, Ernest Hogan
appeared.
: Career ct Homer 3. Mason.-Home
7 B.. Mason. who is at present starring
| | in the role of Mac" in Mort H. Sing
er's Princess tbcater production of ..
Stubborn Cinderella to be seen at tn
. Illinois this evening, WAS formerl
chief electrical engineer for the boz
ough of Brooklyn. \. Y Said he
I've only been on the stage fiv
years. attended the Polytechnic il
come an electrical engineer. Will
al college | often took parts in tn
plays produced by the students. Perc
Williams, the well known vaudevill
manager. who was a friend of our fan
lily, witnessed one of these perform
duCtS anu duNlSCu liiC EoUi
probably make a better actor tina
electrician. But my parents objecte
to the theatrical profession, so | col
tinued my electrical studies Afte
the graduation | began 10 figure it on
and | concluded | would be an old ma
before could achieve any promil
6 encc. so | started in on my theatric;
{ career as a member of the chorus
! a comic opera company and if | hav
my health for the next five years l.
I retire with enough of this world
L goods 10 enable me TO live in ease fo
! the balance of my life Can't see q
4 / made any mistake in the chan"
1 either, because my salary today is fiy
times the amount paid to the electric;