The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-07
THE STAGE

For Elks' week. commencing with
a matinee next Sunday and continu-
ing until the following sunday the
Gayety theater has secured one OF the
largest burlesque organizations In the
country In the Bachelors CLUB BUT
lesquers." II contains so people and IN
cludes a chorus OF "a OF the hand
soonest girls ever seen on the pur-
lesque stage. 1t Is promised. Fifteen
of the latest musical hits viii be ais
tributed throughout the performance
and novelties will be introduced that
are said to be out OF the orohary.
One OF the features promised Is new
French dance which Is said to be high
ly sensational. Among the wei-known
burlesque and vaudeville artists TO APP
pear are: Miss Clare Burg, Claire
Crawford, Margaret Hayes, Charles H.
Haigh, Hal Groves, George Gale, Nat
Wilson, Pat Kearney. Glenn ID. Brown
and Billy Moran.
Nothing of the classical style VIII
be found in the program OF music 10
be used by the "Old Soldier F1ddlers,
that unique quartet of civil war
veterans who are to provide the Tenn
pie theater with It's chief attraction
for Elks' convention week. In set
ting that represents portion OF the
Gettysburg field during a reunion OF
northern and southern troops 20 years
after the war, the old boys will fiddle
away at the old tunes that used TO be
popular IN ante-bellum days. Their
selections include Yankee Doodle,
Dixie" Marching Through Georgia,
Captain Jinks," THE Star Spangled
Banner" Money Musk Pop Goes
the Weasel and "Old Black joe"
The members Of the quartet are:
Capt. John H. Thomas, One Hundred
and Forty-Seventh Ohio volunteers;
Capt. George p. Dillon, Thirty-fourth
Virginia cavalry; Maj. John Hammer
sley, Thirty-fourh Virginia cavalry,
and Col. ]. A. Pattee. Twenty-fourtn
Michigan volunteer infantry. The
program also will include what Is
said to be one OF the greatest aero
batic acts Europe ever sent TO Amer
lea, Willy Panther & Co. ~ in The
Limit" an acro-pantomimic comedy.
Gus williams will lend special In
terest to the bill for the visiting
Elks, because the veteran German
comedian is one OF the oldest men,
bers of that order and founded Boston
lodge, No. 10. He will contribute a
monologue Of tests, stories and songs.
other acts on this bill will be: The
Bird Millman trio Of slack wire per-
formers; the Big City quartet, Jar
row, humorous trickster; the Doherty
sisters and Jeter and Rogers, comic
roller skaters.
The Elks will be we'll represented
on the unusually attractive bill OF
vaudeville that has been booked by
the management OF the Miles theater
for the week of the big reunion, start
ing Sunday afternoon p. G.. Mac
Lean, who, with Mana Bryant, the
girl with the sun-kissed hair" and
capable supporting company, VIII
present an intensely thrilling playlet,
is a member Of South Bend lodge NO
235, B. p. O. E.. and other important
contributors to the program hold mem
bership in the order. The playlet In
question is entitled. Seventeen, TWEEN
ty--in the Black" by Billy Weston.
II Is a story of the west and is full or
action, the scene being laid in gam
bling resort. AS the headline feature
OF the bill, the Earl Grisee company
will present big novelty pantomime
for the first time In America. The
production requires full stage and
is said TO be rich in novel and start
ling effects, requiring large equip
ment of special scenery and proper
ties. Among the other acts booked
are: Lelliott brothers, musical come
dams. in an original act; Maurice
Burkhart, we'll known character en-
tertainer and the Yalto duo, novelty
whirlwind dancers.