Variety (September 1908)

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On SIM; one-naif pan, MB; ©oo-quortor page, Caargoa for portraits funrisM on aptUeatloa. ■pocial rata by the moots for prof — to nal card aoder Beading "Bopresaotatlvs artists.** Advertising copy anon!* bo reeojroe by day at noon to Inoare pabllcatlon la currant :<]'^>iit'T Annual 8UBB0BIPTION 8bc and tbrca montba la proportion, ■la caplca tan canta. ABIBTY will bo mailed to a pa r m a a a a t ad* or aa par root*, aa daalrad. Adrartlaaajanta forwarded by mall BMSt ba aa- coajnynlad by romlttanco, mado payabla to Tarlaty PifMlahtag Oo. _^___ COpyrlgbt. ltos. by Variety PabMabtaj Oo. "" Vol. Xn. SEPT. 26. No. J. The Lyric, Newark, a Morris Circuit house, opens Oct. 5. R. A. Roberts will open on the Morris Circuit Oct. 4, 1009. The Grunathos, the foreign acrobats, sail for home Nov. 12. Jessie Roe, the stenographer, has re- turned to the Casey Agency. Charles Williams has been appointed manager of Blaney's, Yonkers. Jimmy Brltt wore evening dress, high hat and kid gloves while in Berlin. Qus Edwards is playing the Italian char- acter in "School Days" at the Circle. "Enigmarelle" opens on the Sullivan Considine Circuit at Spokane Sept. 27. Col. John D. Hopkins is in New York. The Lulu .Beeson Trio opens Monday on United time, playing towards the West. The Hanlons in their latest act "Just- Phor-Phun" open at Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 28th. Klein, Ott Bros, and Nicholson and Les- ter and Miller open at Pantages', Spokane, Oct. 4. Hie Wintergarten, Berlin, proved too large for the mind-reading act of The Zaneigs. it "The Six Little Girls and a Teddy-Bear, out of the Blaney show, has signed with William Morris. The Chadwick Trio open at Memphis, September 28, the first stop on their route over the Orpheum Circuit. Jack Norworth's "Sii Little bailors" with the Bell Boy Trio added, reopens at the Hudson, Union Hill, next week. The Lola Lea Earl Company have a rural comedy called "Aunt Hannah's Visit," in which it will play vaudeville. Johnny Johns had to cancel his engage- ment at Poli'a, fipriogfleld, this week, through illness, "laying off" in that city. Tom Terris, an Englishman, arrived on the Baltic Mr. Terris has a one-act novelty which he may show in vaudeville. Zoe G$4ejjj|*n, who is to support Caryl Wilbur I* "61 Prospect Street" on the Morris Circuit, arived from England this weak. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hughes open at the Orpheum, Minneapolis, Sept. 28. They wJJl not return to New York until next Ifarch. Edna May Spooner is playing "The Devil," at Keeney's, Brooklyn, this week with five more weeks booked around New York. Clare Romaine opens at the Colonial, Oct. 5. Miss Romaine, known as "Lon- don's Pet Boy," came in on the Baltic this week. Frank Moulan and Maude Lillian Berri open in vaudeville at the Orpheum, Utica, Oct. 5, in a sketch called "The Hair and the Heiress." TschernofFs Animals reached Boston yesterday (Friday). The act opens in Chicago Oct. 12. H. B. Marinelli engaged it for this country. Harry Bonnell, formerly a theatrical newspaper man, will go ahead of "The Runaways," which opens in Chambers- burg, Va., next week. Vardon, Perry and Wilbur will leave "The Hastings Show" at the conclusion of the engagement at Eusou's, Chicago (Oct. 3), returning to vaudeville. Lucy Weston sailed on the Mauretania Wednesday. Miss Weston expects to re- main one month in England when she will return to American vaudeville. Klaw & Erlanger's "Little Nemo" opens at the Edwin Forrest, Philadelphia, Mon- day, Sept. 28. George Foster, the London agent, ac- companied by Mrs. Foster, will arrive on the Lutitania Oct 9. The Gans-Nelson fight pictures hold over at Hammerstein's next week. "The Naked Truth" headlines the show, the first top feature to follow Gertrude Hoffmann. Following a successful opening at the Folies Marigny, Paris, France, Sept. I The Kratons, colored, American hoop rollers, were booked for an additional year on the Continent at an advance of salary. Ruth Reynolds (Mrs. Thomas Glenroy) has been playing the soubrette role with "McFadden's Flats," having been called from the chorus ranks to take the place of the regular soubrette when the latter was taken ill. The Family, Chester, Pa. (Boom & D*Esta, managers), opened Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Esmonde, Dorothy Arville's Troupers, Heim Children, Zeds, Cunningham and Marion, Kretore, and Walter Boothman. Richard Melchien will be the leading man of the latest sketch written by Ed- mund Day, which the producing depart- ment of the Orpheum Circuit will present Oct. 5 at the Bijou, Orange. Charles Fele- ke, of the producing department, is stag- ing it. Melville Stewart and Genevie Flndley, English folk, will be in the cast of "The Trusty" when that Orpheum Circuit pro- duction appears on Oct. 12 for the first time. The others in the company are John Gorman, Frank Jamieson and Arthur Sprague. One Mortimor Snow is seeking an op- portunity for carrying out an idea for a spectacular vaudeville production founded in biblical incidents somewhat on the "Ben Hur" order, Snow appearing as Christ. Jenie Jacobs is presenting the idea for the consideration of the vaudeville magnates. The advertisement of Rawson and Clare on the street "drop" at the Murray Hill Theatre is very prominent. It reads: "See Rawson and Clare in the 'Bon Tons.'" Horrible thought! Supposing the Murray Hill audience couldn't "see" Rawson and Clare. Capt. Geo. Auger in "Jack, the Giant Killer," now abroad, has canceled the thirty weeks held of Western time which should have commenced Sept. 27 at the Orpheum, St. Paul. Capt. Auger remains in Europe. Harry Tate's "Fishing" will take up the vacated route. Leo Carrillo, Variety's cartoonist, who is playing the Orpheum Circuit, is turning his talent for sketching to good account in the interests of the local press representa- tives in the towns where he plays. The locsl dailies have been printing a series of cartoons touching on the current campaign. The Omaha Bee last week used one by Carrillo every day. Its "Katheryne" Quinn, hereafter when you address Lykens & Levy's office man- ager. "Kittie" used to be good form when she wrote letters at Jack Levy's dictation. But since then Katheryne has grown in stature and wisdom. Now she writes most of the letters herself. Also the gold letters on Miss Katheryne's office read "Private Secretary." Jos. H. McShane, of the Ted Snyder Mu- sic Publishing Company, is recovering from injuries received last week in an accident at Coney Island. He was singing one of his firm's songs when he fell,-breaking his leg. He was carried to Henderson's and put in care of a doctor. Henry Waterson looked after the injured singer. The Orpheum bill in Brooklyn next week will be mainly composed of the present Colonial program. Both are Percy G. Williams' houses. No increase of the qual- ity of the show there through the opening of The Fulton (Morris) will be made, it is announced at the Williams office. Lillian Wright, formerly of Brown and Wright, opened last Monday at Corum- bega Park, Boston, in her new act called "Lillian Wright and Boys." Immediately following the first showing, the act was engaged as a special feature with Robie's "Knickerbockers" for the next two weeks. Edna M. Purcell, a member of Frank B. Carr's "Thoroughbreds," fell during her olio act at the Empire, Williamsburg, last week and sprained her ankle. She was taken to the hospital for treatment and from there removed to her home. Miss Purcell will be out of the cast for a month. • The speedy "Buick" automobile broken in by Maurice Goodman, attorney for the United, has been sold by Mr. Goodman after he had it running smoothly. To recompense himself for the loss of the ma- chine, Maurice is growing another mus- tache. It looks like a real one this time, but Mr. Goodman exacted a promise not to talk about it. John E. McNamara, manager for "Fol- lies of the Day," Barney Gerard's Western Wheel burlesque show, has hit upon a novel billing scheme. Last week, before the show was due to play the Monumental, Balti more, he covered the town with handbills printed in "Yiddish," descriptive of the merits of th« attraction. Silbon's Cats, booked for the Orpheum Circuit, through the Marinelli office, will arrive in Philadelphia Oct. 18, opening Oct. 26. E. J. Whitehill, formerly of the Cleve- land Plaindealer appears at the Bijou, Perth Amboy next week as a Hebrew im- personator. The Three Joscarrys commenced an ac- tion this week against the United (as liuble under the K. & E. contracts) for about $275. The Four Kveretts recovered $201.25 through Zue McOiiry t his* week for an engagement at a Herlin (Conn.) fair re- cently. Harrv Mountford, of the White Rats, acted for the artists. Miss McClary booked the engagement.