Variety (October 1908)

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TEN CENTS VOL. XII, NO. 4. OCTOBER 3, 1908. PRICE TEN CENTS. STOLL'S SUPPORT OF AGENTS MAY PRECIPITATE STRIKE The Artist-Agent Dispute Taken Up by Managers. Trouble May. Follow. (Special Gable to Variety.) London, Oct. 1. The vaudeville situation has a very sober aspect at the present moment. Os- wald Stoll has taken sides with the agents in their fight with the artists, and in defiance of the order of the Variety Artists' Federation for its members not to pay the agents any commission pend- ing a settlement of the differences, it is said that Mr. Stoll on next Saturday, Oct. 3, will order that the agents' com- mission be deducted from the salaries of all acts playing the Moss-Stoll Tour, to be withheld by the houses for the credit of the booking agent. It is reported that the V. A. F. will or- der a strike if this is done. The agents claim the remainder of the managers, or nearly all of them, are with them. A crisis is looked for Monday. An adjustment of the difficulty which has arisen between the artists and agents in England has been unsuccessfully at- tempted. The artists demanded certain reforms in the booking agreement they have been compelled to sign. Following a proposed meeting of an agents' and a V. A. F. committee about two weeks ago, which the agents failed to attend, the artists' organization issued the order not to pay commission until the affair was settled. Oswald Stoll ha* been antagonistic to the Federation since the strike, which oc- curred in London in the spring of '07. He has accepted all opportunities to make this plain, following "the award" decision. It has been said the recent influx of American acts to England was largely caused by the position the Moss-Stoll Cir- cuit took, accepting many foreign act* as a rebuke to the V. A. F. His st.ind for the agents may 1m» another defi. The V. A. F. numbers about 3.500 art- ists of all grades and both sexes. K. & E. "LOAN" ALICE LLOYD. Klaw & Erlanger have loaned Alice Lloyd to vaudeville, pending the com- mencement of rehearsals for Miss Lloyd's starring tour, which will start shortly af- ter election. Pat Casey has booked Miss Lloyd to be the feature of Keith's, Boston, for two weeks commencing next Monday. Detroit and Buffalo will probably be the English singer's other engagements before return- ing to New York, remaining in vaudeville but a month. The McNaughtons will play on the Keith bill the second week. It is likelv that at the same time (Oct. 12) Daisy (Lloyd) Wood will be billed by the Or- pheum, Boston (Morris), as a counter at- traction to her sister at Keith's. MISS HOPPER AT KEENEY'S. Next week at Keeney's, Brooklyn, Edna Wallace Hopper will headline the pro- gram, having engaged in vaudeville for a week once more through Pat Casey. Keeney's is encountering opposition at present from the Fulton Theatre, booked on the Morris Circuit. Mr. Keeney, either through this or by favoring an "Edna," procured Miss Hopper, having had as his feature for the past two weeks Edna May Spooner. RINGLING AND ANDERSON SAIL. John Ringling, the circus man, and Max C. Anderson, of the Hippodrome and other theatrical interests left Tuesday last for Europe. Mr. Ringling is going abroad on busi- ness in connection with his circuses. He invited Mr. Anderson along. It is some years since the latter visited the old country. The precise moment of Ringling's invitation was propitious for the accept- ance. The Hippodrome show is running smoothly, and Mr. Anderson's other the- atrical ventures are well taken care of. BLANEY-MORRIS; EQUAL PARTNERS. Contrary to the impression that Charles E. Blaney was devoting his theatres to the Morris vaudeville on a percentage scale of either 50-50 or 00-40, Morris standing the cost of the bill out of his share, it became known this week that William Morris. Inc., and Mr. Blaney were equal partners in all the Blaney theatres now giving vaudeville as the entertainment. HOWARD AND BARRISON PLAYING. Buffalo, Oct. 1. Nothing untoward has happened in the engagement of Howard and Barrison at Shea's this week. They opened Monday afternoon, and the atmosphere was not disturbed. Further than Mike Shea receiving a few telegrams requesting him not to play the act, nothing occurred to recall that Howard and Barrison "jumped" a Morris contract last week. It was expected that William Morris would attempt to secure an injunction here against the team, but that has not been done. Some other scheme is being hatched up, it is said, for Morris' re- dress. Howard and Barrison play Bennett's, Montreal, next week. MORRIS' BOSTON SHOW. The first vaudeville program for the OrpliiMim. Boston, under the management of William Morris, Inc. (opening Oct. 5), is as follows: William Courtleigh and Co.. Cliff Cordon, Grace Cameron. "College Girls and a Teddy Bear," Halliday and Curley, Canfield and Carleton, Hines and Remington, Taylor Twin Sisters. Jolly John Larkins and pictures. NOTHING IN THE CARTER REPORTS. The reports during the week tint Mrs. Leslie Carter had been coaxed into vaude- ville at last lacked confirmation. Both the United and Morris ollice were wronclv alleged to have offered all the way from $3,000 to $5,000 weekly for Mrs. Carter's appearance. The former Belasco glitter- ing star once declined an offer of $30,000 for ten weeks of "vood." On the Mrs. Carter side a direct denial was given to the reports. Mrs. Carter would not consider any offer for vaude- ville, it was said, and has already planned to appear in a production shortly after election. AMERICAN'S VAUDEVILLE OPENING. The first vaudeville performance under the management of William Morris, Inc., at the American Theatre, New York, will occur next Monday afternoon. The only change from the program at previously printed is the substitution of Felix and Cairo for Howard and Barrison. The estimated cost of the show is $."».500. A heavy advance *ale is reported for the first shows. The first Sunday vaudeville concert will take place Oct. 11. LOIE FULLER'S BIG PRICE. Loie Fuller, the electrical dancer, is will* ing to bring her latest effect, "The Ballet of Light," presented by her at the London Hippodrome last month, to New York, if Lykens & Levy, the agents Miss Fuller has commissioned to obtain an engage* nient, can secure her "figure. It is said Miss Fuller would like to have $3,500 weekly for the act and will reach here bv Nov. 1 if the contract is forthcoming. If the managers do not want the entire number containing 24 jL'irls, Miss Fuller will divide it. sending out two acts over here at a weekly cost of $2,000 each. On the other side the new ballet has been twice duplicated by the dancer for presentation in the foreign halls. MORRISON SUING KEITH. Bof-tmi, Oct. 1. Suit alleging breach of contract has been commenced against V>. V. Keith by Lindsay Morrison, formerly nm ringer of Keith's Boston theatre. Mrs. E. H. Clement ha* b. >n installed as the director of tin* r»«.»r..n. Her in- stallation by Mr. Keith \\a» \u'h th»» idea of attracting society t<. th.- | ;..-:,. m when that house commen.■• ■- "« - • V >. .-non next Monday. Morrison has '■••.!■ ••) 'i ■_' at the stape door <»f th- • -■ r • • MITTENTHAT.S WONT RETIRE. An un<|ii:i! : : ■■! Mittcnth.i: any ini.-n* a- w:i- r' . ■ I- :i i.i <■■ 'iir - ' i win t he ; i. it ii, j* :irm has ■_i.,. M- i.;|- .t-' Wf-ek. ni»incn".