Variety (Jan 1906)

- A Variety Paper for Variety People., ' Published every Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING COMPANY. Knickerbocker Theatre Bulldlnff. 1402 Broadway, New York City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual ••••••••••..••.••**•..••.•••••*••••••• *w^ Foreign 8 Six and three montha in proportion. , ' ^ Single copies Ave cents. Variety will be mailed to a permanent address or as per route, as desired. ADVBJRTISINO RATES ON APPLJCATION. First Year. ^o. 6. VARfETY dealre« to announce th« policy irovernlns the paper. We want yon to read It. It la In- tereatlns If for no other reaaon than that It will he conducted on original linea for a theatrical newspaper. The flrat. foremoat and extraordi- nary feature of It la falrneaa. l¥hat- ever there la to be printed of Interest to the professional i^orld ivlll be printed vrlthout regard to Dvhoae name la mentioned or the advertlalnv columns. «<A11 the news all the time" and •'absolutely fair" are the watchwords. VARIRTY la an artists* paperi a paper to which anyone connected with or Interested In the theatrical world may read with 4he thorough know^ledve and belief that wrhat is printed Is not dictated by any motive other than the policy above outlined. We want you for a subscriber. If you don't read VAHIBTir you are nilaainv something. Do yon ivant to read a paper that's honest from the title pave to its laat linef That will keep Its columns clean of **wash notices f" That ^rlll not be Influenced by advertlsinsf That's VARIETY. To Insure you receiving VARIETY reirnlarly, send In your subscription now. You will find it coming to yon retfularly to any permanent address iriven, or ''as per route.*' The gallery record for the Alhambra was brokea last Sunday; 700 persons were In it. Isidor Wltmark, of M. Witmark & Sons, has gone to the West Indies for a short and quiet rest. The Harveys, a foreign act, will open at Keith's in September next, after- wards playing the Orpheum circuit. Byron Douglas, who has been in vau- deville before, is coming In again with H sketch called "The Cowboy and the Lord." Burke and LaHue will put on a new sketch at Dockstader's. Wilmington, on Monday, for the first time. Edwin Stevens Is going to tour the '•ontinuous rtnce again, opening on the Ori)heum circuit on Feb. 4. Uoso Coghlan will open in Hartford on .Ian. 29 in a new playlet called "A Woman's Wit." employing four persons. A. O. Duncan, the ventrlloquisl, watched .\rthur Prince at the Alhambra last week with varying emotions. His only comment was that Mr. Prince "had only one dummv." Richard Pit rot. who returned from Eu- rope last Sunday, has been appointed the sole American representative for the Apollo Theatre In Vienna, of which Ben Fleber, an American. Is the director. Mary Manson. from "Veronlque," opens In Gloversville, Monday, for a week's "try-out." Songs and dances are her offering, arranged by Alvlene. Clifford G. Fischer, an American rep- resentative of H. B. Marlnelll, I? expect- ed to return from his hasty trip abroad on Feb. 11. Selma Braatz. the seventeen-year-old juggler who handles heavy articles with ease, will open on the Proctor circuit May 24. T'rbanI and his son, sixteen years old, will shortly appear here. The feature of the act, which Is a balancing one, is the son as the "understander," while the father, who is the top-mounter, is large and stout. Al Reeves offered Tom Hearn eighty weeks for the next two years, but the juggler is booked solid for the season and does not care to take to the bur- lesque field. Joe Welch, the Hebrew comedian, will play his annual engagement at the Cath- olic Club, on 59th street, to-night. His visit there each year Is an event with the club, It striking the members as funny to have the only H**brew com- edian with an Hibernian name in their midst. Sherry's had a vaudeville entertain- ment one night last week at a banquet given by the Hudson River Tunnel Di- rectors. Most of the men were some- what aged, so the knowing agent ar- ranged to have mostly "girl acts," which were more appreciated through the quantity of wine consumed before their appearance. **What you goin' to do when the rent comes Vound?'' \ V. F. Proctor is experiencing some difficulty In having all artists booked for Albany and Troy play New York on the giving six different sketches alternately. The Keith people agree to give each sketch a full and complete scenic pro- duction, employing all necessary people required. Walter Daniels, the impersonator, wishing to follow professional ethics, To the YandeYille Artists of America: ® ® (5o Y^ARIETY has received numberless complaints in ^ reference to the pernicious evils now existin^^ in vaudeville detrimental to the interests of the artists. We suj^gest the advisability of all artists whenever assembled discussinj^ the formation of an organiza- tion embracing the artists of America for mutual self-protection and co-operation. . 00 doctors did to him in Omaha was plen- ty, both in the flesh and the pocket- book. Gould and Surat were offered time over the Keith circuit at the usual "cut." Mr..Gould decided that Mr. Keith needed ^ his act very much worse than the act needed Keith and refused to contribute any portion of the amount deemed nec- esary each week by the K<!ith manage- ment to pay the salary of what is con- .sidered the feature of all Keith bills— namely, B. F. Keith himself. ®®(sXS®®®®®®®^^ Myers and Keller are somewhat myv terlouH r»}garding a Broadway theatre whi( h will shortly be changed into a vau.levillc hou.se. This firm will have the booking of the new theatre, the name of wliit h is not <iiK<loHed, and will then have eight weeks' time to offer In Greater New York. u ■><'> Sunday closing the week of their en- gagement up the State. Those who ol>- ject stieniiously have been relieved from that day. but few artists care to make ;• statement In this regard for fear of fu ture difficulty in securing l)ookings in the Proctor houses. Will M. Cressy has been booked by Keith to play forty weeks next seasoi on the Keith circuit alone, play- ing only nine houses for the full time, wrote to Dave Warfield for permission to "do" the "Music Ma.ster." in the pic- nic scene. The reply said that .Mr. War field did not desire to be Imitated, and to make it emphatic. Warfield lepented the sentence twice in three lines. It's <iulte sad. considering the fact that Wnr field not so long ago wasn't so veiy l>artlcular himself. Charles Leonard Fletcher has resunierl his bookings. He writes that what the Hen Welch, the Hebrew conuMlian and ' hioMier of Joe Welch, has deciclod to re- turn to vau<leville next season. Myers Mfid Keller, his agents, booked him for forty-seven weeks over the Orpheum < ircuit. Keith's and their Greater New York time. Mr. Welch will have as his offering the' f.nniliai Hebiew impersonation; also an Italian character, the change being ma*le upon the stage. V