Variety (February 1909)

VARIETY niETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Pobllahod erary Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Thaatre Building. 1402 Broadway, Now Tork City. Tilopbooa-j *J^ Ufith St. Hilar and groprlAtor . Bntertd at ««xm4*oi4M fmatUr Deommber 22. 1900, el th0 Port OJloa at New York, N. T., mnd0r 1h4 act of Gongrt— of Mmrch 8, 1 870. OHIOAOO OVTICB, TOt Onloafo Ofara Haaaa Black, (Fkaaa, Mala MM). LOBDOM 0TTI0K, 411 ttraad (OaUa, "Jaaafraa, Laadaa.") JXMB J. TMMMMAM, la saarta. ■AW TRMMCBMOO OmOB, 111! Taa Boat Ave. (Beam 111). W. AXJrBSB WZXJOB, ttayraaaatatlva. SOOTS 01TX0X. Oryatal Taeatre BaUdlaa;. KABBT BBAU MOBT, BaareaaatatlTe. PABIB OITZOB, M Bla. Baa Balat Bldlar, BBWABD O. XBBDBBW, Bapraaaatatlva. BKBTiTW OITIOB, Uatar daa Idadea fl, ,»■ UBBABT. 20 canta an ajate line, $2.80 an Inch. One page, $125; one-half page, MS; one-quarter page, Caargee for portralta farnlahed on application. ■pedal rate by the month for profaaatonal card aoder heading "Rapraaantatlra Artlata." Adrortlalng copy ahoald be reca l Ted by Than- day at noon to Insure publication In current laaue. ■UB80BIFTI0B BATBB. Annual $4 foreign 5 Biz and three montha In proportion. ■Ingle copies 10 canta. VABIBTY will be mailed to a permanent ad- Areas or aa par route, aa desired. AdTcrtlsementa forwarded by mall must be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Copyright, 1800, by Variety Publishing Co. VaL XIII. FEBRUARY 6. No. 9. Incognito holds over at the American. Amelia Bingham 'lays off" next week. "The Futurity Winner" opened in Paris Monday. Loney Haskell commences regularly on Monday. Macy and Hall left for England last Saturday. Tom Waters opens in Chicago April 6. That's booking ahead some. The Kellinos sailed Wednesday. They open at the Hippodrome, London. Schrode and Mulvey are booked until Sept. 3, 1910. Jenie Jacobs put it over. Jonathan Keefe, the "rube" with his wife, will return to vaudeville in an act. Rajah holds over at Hammerstein's next week, the fourth. Jeff De Angelis tops the bill. The Magnani Family, "Musical Barbers," return to this side in time to play for Morris during the month. Alf Loyal, with his dog, leaves the New York Hippodrome to play the Morris Cir- cuit, commencing Feb. 15. The Star, Seranton, will be booked through the Morris office commencing Monday. Six acts are used. H. Vivian Nies and Annie Vivian Nies were divorced in Chicago on Jan. 27. Both the parties are sharpshooters. J. W. Winton, the ventriloquist, will probably return over here on the Morris time. He is now in Australia. Ryan and Richfield have received their latest sketch of the "Hisggerty" series. It is named "Mag Haggerty, M. D." Manager Schaffer, of the Victoria, Wheeling, W. Va^ denies he has any in- tention of changing his booking connec- tion* Marie Hartman (Mrs. Billy Smythe) re- joined Irwin's "Majesties" at Philadelphia this week, having recovered from a severe illness. Campbell and Baker, the bicyclists, are due to open on the Morris time March 8. They will sail from England the latter part of February. Mabel Carew will present her new act at Keeney's, Brooklyn, next week. Lucien Mesney, an Englishman, who is an imi- tator and pianist, will assist Miss Carew. A big Pure Food Show will be held at Toledo commencing February 16. It will run two weeks. A large number of high class acts will be the entertainment fea- ture. Billy Lytell will have a new musical comedy piece in three acts produced in the west shortly under the title of "The Girl You know." The book is by Lytell, who will hold a partnership in the enter- prise. Carl McCullough, the impersonator, has written "sketches for Gertrude Dudley and Co., and Laura Howe, who formerly guid- ed some "Dresden Dolls" around the cir- cuits. Frederic Schrader, of the Morris Circuit press department, leaves to assume the publicity work in connection with "The Queen of the Moulin Rouge" at the Circle, commencing February 8. Ani Hill, with "Vanity Fair," who gives a gymnastic exhibition on a trapeze, will abandon that style of work next season and appear in a series of male imperson- ations similar to Vesta Tilley's. The Stage Year Book is on sale in New York City at Paul Tausig's Steam- ship Agency, on East 14th Street. It is the annual edition of the London Stave's well-known and valuable book of refer- ence. Emmett Corrigan, who Is playing with Arnold Daly at the Grand Opera House in Chicago, will return to vaudeville, open- ing at the Olympic Feb. 15 in a new com- edy sketch employing 16 people. George H. Miner, who has been in the far west for a year or more, returned to New York last week. He left his moving picture interests in Los Angeles, and Globe, Ariz., in the hands of a representative. LindT, the impersonator, had his origi- nal contract over the Sullivan-Considine Circuit extended ten weeks. "Buster Brown" will play five weeks longer on the same time than first was agreed upon. The Elinore Sisters have been offered next season by the Morris office. A rumor says that the Sisters may separate by that time, Kate and Sam Williams, her husband, framing up an act for them selves. Lillian Lee will show her new act at Dockstader's Garrick, Wilmington, Feb. 16. There is said to be a little story about how Miss Lee has been so success- ful thus far in not securing an engage- ment. Jolly and Wild have reached the east, and opened last week at Poli's, Scran- ton, with the Wilmer & Vincent Circuit after. Reich & Plunkett did the booking. It is a comedy singing number, with piano playing. Jack Ashby (Kelley and Ashby) will sail for London on Feb. 24, and next month will be at home in the Bath House Hotel, London. Mr. and Mrs. Ashby con- duct the hotel, giving their personal atten- tion to it. Murphy and Magee, who closed with the Rice and Barton show last week, will go in vaudeville, probably in an act requir- ing several other people, under the man- agement of J. A. Sternad, of the Western Vaudeville Association, Chicago. When at the Armory, Binghamton, Bertha Nobs Russell was presented by William Tozier with an antique gold drum in miniature, over a hundred years old. Therese Ferns, with Miss Russell for two seasons, has retired, and her place is now taken by Frances Crosson. Daisy Harcourt replaced Mrs. Yeamans at the Lyric, Newark, this week. Mrs. Yeamans's illness prevented her appearing, although a person representing himself as a "Christian Science practitioner" informed the Morris office last week Mrs. Yeamans would be well enough to play the engage- ment. "The Naked Truth" is reported to have been booked on the Moss-Stoll Tour in England, opening during May next at the Coliseum, London. Harry Davenport and Phyllis Rankin will also head the act on the other side. The Marinelli office is understood to have been the agent in the transaction. The company which will play "At the White House," at the American, Chicago, next week will be billed as "Benj. Chapin's Players." Mr. Chapin expects to appear jn the piece at the Garden Theatre, New York. He has been having a controversy with Henry W. Savage, the lessee of the theatre, over the occupancy of it, Chapin's contract calling for_the house from Feb. 5 to 13 inclusive.. The "Anglo-American Authors' Agency," originally a London concern, with repre- k stives in New York and Paris,. has opened branch offices in both cities. The New York office, conducted by Herbert Thomson, is in the Marbridge Building, Herald Square. The agency has a very lsrge assortment of sketches—both Eng- lish and American, produced and unplayed —the rights to many of which are for disposal. Harry Thomson, "The Mayor of the Bowery," was impressed for the shows at the American last Sunday. In the after- noon Mr. Thomson delivered the following monolog: "Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to thank the management for giving me this opportunity, and I thank you for being here, but on account of the Sunday laws, I ask to be excused from saying any- thing further. I am not looking for trouble." Mr. Thomson did not appear in the evening. Through the skilful and not uncommon practice of a certain booking representa- tive, 'The Gibson Girl Review" is laying off in New York this week, making its head- quarters at the Veruna Apartments, Broadway and 80th Street. The attention of Fred Brant is respectfully directed; also the rest of the "liners" who eat on just the same as long as the cook sticks. There is an unverified and unbelieved rumor that the best little sticker of all will yet unbelt for a collarette. The barman of the cafe on the balcony floor of Hammerstein's sent the cashier downstairs Thursday night with instruc- tions to find Harry Mock, the superin- tendent, and tell him there was a cus- tomer. Mr. Mock got upstairs just in time to discover Doc Steiner paying for a drink. Mr. Mock says it had never happened be- fore and it never is expected to happen again. The finish of the story is that through the purchase Doc will not be shaved until next Tuesday. After spending an evening on the frosty pavements in front of Hammerstein's Sun- day night, a shivering quartet of ticket speculators sought the Metropole cafe for cheer and warmth. While they were counting their gains, Walter Rosenberg enticed the sidewalk operators in a game of odd and even for $6 a throw. Rosen- berg was about $20 strong when the game started, but a little after 1 a. m. he gathered his winnings together and de- parted over $200 to the good. Some time during the week Jessie Pres- ton, the Scotch singing comedienne, will sail for her London home. Miss Preston has been spending a couple of weeks at Mt. Clemens, with her husband, who has been ordered to return to the other side by his physicians. Miss Preston has been obliged to decline several flattering offers over here through her forced departure. Mrs. Fred McNaughton, Miss Preston's sister, will accompany the singer. At one time the two sisters played together in the English halls as "The Sisters Preston."