Variety (February 1909)

VARIETY KIETY A Variety Paper lor Variety People. Pabllsbss' e?ery 8*tu*4ay bf THB VARIETY PUBU8H1NO CO. Kiilckerboeker Tboatre BolkUog. 1402 Broadway. Ntw York City. f 40221 Telephone-| 402 8 \** x * ■*• BIME SILVERMAN, Editor and Proprietor. Entered aa $econd-clo§§ matter December 22, 1905, at the Post Office at Nate York, N. Y., under the act of Oongreee of March 8, 1870. CHICAGO OFFICE, T88 Chicago Opera Houae Block, (Phone, Main 6885). FBAinC WIE8BERQ. Representative. LOVSOV OFTIOE, 411 8*na8 (Oe.Uo, "Jeeafiee, Lndotv") 7. FBUMIW, la oharge. 8AM T*AM0I800 01TIOX, 1115 Tea Mom Ave. (Boom 118). W. ALTBKB WILBOM, Beynooatatlve. DIIV8I OITXGB. Crystal Tkootro BeUdlag. HABBT BBAimOMT, BoproooaUtlTO. PARIS OITIOB, 88 Bis, Boo Seiat Didior, EDWARD 0. KBMDBZW, BoproseataUve. BBBLIM OPTIOE, Vator doa Iiadoa «1. RIESEL8 LXBBABY. ADVEBTD1EMEMT8. 20 ccota aa agate Moo, $2.80 aa lock. One page, $126; oao-balf page, 885; ono-qoartor page. $82.00. Charges for portraits forolabod oo application. 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The Morris Circuit expects that Katie Barry will be on the bill at the Lincoln Square next week. Norah Kelly in her new act opens at the Trent, Trenton, March 1, placed through Jack Levy. Edna Aug holds over next week at Hammerstein's. Jack Levy is Miss Aug*s booking representative. Charles Warner, the English actor, who played in vaudeville last season, com- mitted suicide in a New York hotel Feb. 11. Maude Nugent plays Cook's Opera House, Rochester, March 1, with the Tem- ple, Detroit, to follow the week after. "The Widow's Mite" at Keeney's, Brook- lyn, this week, is a production by A. D. Storey. William Morris has been in Chicago all week. He is expected to return by next Wednesday. Ray Cox has had an offer from Cohan & Harris for a character role in the forth- coming Raymond Hitchcock show." Geo. Frothingham with a company of three is at the Peterson Opera House this week in a comedy sketch, booked by Joe Wood. Alice Philbrooks (Philbrookg and Rey- nolds) is still confined to her apartment at 266 West 30th street, New York, by illness. McKay and Cantwell have arranged a new act for vaudeville, and will open at Easton, Pa., March 1, booked by Max Hart. Sam Rowley, the Australian monologist, arrived in Vancouver on Feb. 11. This is a return visit for Mr. Rowley, and he will come east. Anna Caffin, known professionally as Anna Cameron, and Edward W. Bender, of St. Louis, were married in that city last week. The Aerial Smiths have returned from abroad, and will play over here this sum- mer if their foreign engagements can be postponed. Chas. L. Doran, treasurer of the Colum- bia, Cincinnati, and Essie Lee Heady, of Louisville, were married at Newport, Ky., last week. Bertha Gleeson successfully underwent an operation at the Bellevue Hospital last week for an internal strain caused by dancing. Eddie DeNoycr and two of the Danie Sisters have placed together an act to be called "The Motor Maids," carrying ex- pensive scenery. Laurence Irving and Mabel Hackney open for their American tour under the direction of the Morris Circuit at the Or- pheum, Boston, March 1. On Feb. 12 at Cleveland, Anna Lynotte, of the Lynotte Sisters, was married by the Rev. Father Farrell to Phillip J. Cal- lahan, a non-professional. Geo. Primrose, the minstrel, will play the Morris American, Chicago, March 15, going there directly after concluding his present tour of the Orpheum Circuit. Mullcr, Chunn and Muller have v rcturned and open at Poli's, Hartford, Feb. 22. They say the report from London that a separation had occurred was in error. Illustrated songs may become a perma- nent feature of the American bills here* after. William Morris picked up the "pic- tured melody" "bug" while in the west. Walter Perkins ('The Man from Macy's") has accepted a new sketch from Henry A. DuSouchet, author of "The Man from India." It went into rehearsal this week. Maude Odell will be featured at the Lincoln Square next week in her new act. It is a "posing" number with six others besides the $10,000 worth of English beauty. _^_,^ Daphne Pollard may leave "Mr. Hamlet of Broadway," and either enlist with Cohan & Harris or enter vaudeville as a single act. Miss Pollard is a young Australian. Gould and Suratt open at the Majestic, Chicago, Monday. They will play six weeks in the west, and are going to sail for Europe May 5, remaining over there until the fall. P. Ross is the New York agent for the Folies Bergere in Mexico City, which has a seating capacity of about 1,600. Six acts weekly are used, and an engagement is usually for eight weeks. Nillette Charters and Billy Link were divorced on Feb. 10. The courts gave Mrs. Link possession of the son, and awarded her the deed to property in Bel- lingham, Wash., valued at $4,000. Maude Morris, who is now In vaudeville as a single singing act, will play the Ful- ton, Brooklyn, next week for her first metropolitan variety showing. Miss Mor- ris is a recruit from musical comedy. Ben Hurtig, of Hurtig & Seamon, died last Friday at his home in Harlem. A tumor was the cause of death. The de- ceased was a popular and capable show- man. His death was greatly mourned. Stella Mayhew has signed to play on the Morris Circuit for ten weeks, com- mencing Monday at the American. The booking passed through Wesley & Pincus Miss Mayhew was at the Colonial last week. Daisy Harcourt opens the last week in August on the Barassford Tour abroad, where she will remain four months. This disposes of Miss Harcourt's reported bur- lesque organization next season on the Eastern Wheel. Fred Ward has been engaged by the Morris Circuit to explain the moving pictures given at the American every Sun- day. Heretofore Mr. Ward has been the Hammerstein Moving Picture Explanatory Stock Company. Edward Roesch, the singer at the Star, Seattle, Wash., was assaulted by two highwaymen last week, and removed to the Pacific Hospital, Seattle, where he'll remain for some time until recovered. "Little Hip" the elephant, and his train- er, Professor Anderson, left Williamsport, Pa., on Feb. 14 to open an—engagement over the Sullivan-Considine time, opening at Tacoma tomorrow (Sunday). Ines Plummer, daughter of Manager Plummer, of the Grand Opera House, Syracuse, appeared in the support of Alex. Carr in 'The End of the World" at the American this week, playing the daughter for the first time. Jack Taylor, the drummer at the Miner's Eighth Avenue for seven years, and with the Rogers Brothers for five seasons, died at his home, 808 West 26th St., New York, Feb. 13. A widow and a daughter survive. The Sharp Brothers separate after this week. Mort Sharp will continue with "The Dusky Belles" under the direction of Bdw. S. Keller. Billy Sharp and "Tiny" will appear under the booking man- agement of Jack Levy. Blanche Walsh was removed to the University Hospital, Kansas City, from Fort Smith, Ark., last week. Miss Walsh was suffering with an acute stomach mal- ady, and caused two weeks' bookings for "The Test" to be canceled. Charles E. Blaney has been released from his lease on the playhouse now known as Blaney's Theatre in Yonkers, N. Y. The establishment will be renamed The Warburton and will offer first-class legitimate attractions under the manage- ment of its owners. Doc Steiner stands ready to propose to President Roosevelt a tour in vaudeville after the President retires from his pres- ent job. Doc says he will secure time in New York, and two weeks at the Berlin Wintergarten to break Mr. Roose- velt's jump to Africa. Mrs. Henrietta Blanke-Belcher com- menced her vaudeville career as a piano logist at the Temple, Detroit, last Mon- day. Mrs. Belcher is the wife of F. E. Belcher (of the Remick Oo.) She is the extra attraction on the program this week in her home city. The injunction proceedings brought against Fiske O'Hara by Charles E. Blaney were adjourned on Thursday to next Wednesday. A temporary order re- straining O'Hara from playing for anyone hut Blaney is asked for. The singer Is billed to next appear at the Colonial March 1. He is at the Greenpoint this week. Marie Tempest, formerly of Tempest and Sunshine, and latterly of "Little Nemo," will play as a single act at Proc- tor's, Albany, next week, booked by Jack Levy. Mr. Levy is directing as well the engagements of Miss Sunshine, who has been requested to continue alone by the managers. The former team thought of once more appearing together a few weeks ago. The Raymond Hitchcock show, which is being written by Geo. M. Cohan, will play on the New Amsterdam Roof this sum- mer. Mclntyre and Hcnth will open early in August at the Now York before going on tour instead of appearing on the Roof.