Variety (February 1909)

28 VARIETY REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS A REPRESENTATIVE ARTIST 6 YEARS HERE AND STILL A FAVORITE IRELAND'S ORIGINAL DUBLIN COMEDIAN I His own Copyright, Songs, WORDS and Music for 20 Years NO WIGS OR WHISKERS ON HIS OWN MERITS As for Dancing Never Took My Hat Off To Any One Yet. I Can Make A Success With or Without It; Enough Said The Managers and the Public are my only Friends. What I never got from others, I never shall lose FEB. 15 STAR, NEWFOUNDLAND VAUDEVILLE'S LATEST NOVELTY SAM CHIP « MARY MARBLE CC IN OFFERING A DELFT DIALOGUE WITH DITTIES, DESIGNATED J! WRITTEN BT GEORGE HOMANS, Agent Management of JOHN W. DUNNE TIME: Marohlst WHPPF- TRENT, WW n C W\C . Trenton, N. J. WHO? NORA KELLY THE- DUBLIN GIRL Sola DlrattlM Jack LEVY 140 V. 42ad Strut HEW YORK Phone 2164 BRYANT Cable Address JACLEVY, New York The Man Who Dances on His Shoulders •* King of Pools and Tunny Palls." Sole Direction JACK LEVY, 140 W. 42d Street, New]York DENVER By HABIT X. BXAUMOBT. Office, Crystal Theatre Building. OBPHBUM (Martin Beck, fen. mfr.; agent, direct).—Week 8: Mile. Zelle De Loasan heads at- tractive bill. The dire wag handed a reception that must have brought beck thonghts of the Met* ropolltan. The reet of the acts suffered as It was * distinctly De Lnaaan audience present. Four Franklins, classy routine of bar work and closed the show strongly. Donald and Carson, dlatlnct hit. BJoa Clayton and Co. supplied the dramatic aumbtr. Mile. Toon a, 111. lecture, waa lost. Ohss. Matthews and asslstsnt In a novel leaping act, good opener. Baker and Carroll, not In the run- ning. Business excellent. CRYSTAL (Win. A. Weston, gen. mgr.; agent. Western States).—Madden end Pltspatrlck head, away above the average. Baptlste and Franeonl, comedy knockabouts, strong feature. Albsnl and Bossl. Itallsu operatic vocalists, hearty reception. Dale Sisters, spectsculsr dsnclng set, went well. Willie Robinson, a diminutive colored comedian, scored big hit. Buttlueaa excellent. CURTIS (Pelton snd Smutser, nigra.; agent. In- dependent Booking Agency).—Dandy George Duo, pleasing; W. J. McDermott, scored heavily with some old snd some new material. Juggling Matthleus, presented nothing new, but exception- elly clever; Douglas and Douglas, comedy acro- batics, beet thing on bill; Bowman and St. Clair, colored, paased. Business getting a little better. NOTBS.—The Increase In prices at the Orpheum baa caused a filling In of many vacant easts st the other bouses.—Sherman, De Forrest snd Co. Sve completed e fifteen weeks' tour of the West d are hesded for Chicago, where they will or- tolan their own company for a road tour.—Geo. Yeoman has started back east after twenty weeka oat here.—The Interior of the Crystal baa been entirely redecorated.—Henry Lubelakl. who re- cently sold the Empire In Colorado 8prlngs, has purchased the Fairyland, and Is running vaude- ville, booked by the W. 8.—About 40 moving pic- ture houses are now running In Denver and all seem to be doing well. The newest Is the Hippo- drome, a beautiful house coating some 910,000. BOSTON By ERNEST L. WATTT. VARIETY Office, 00 Summer St. ORPHEDM.—Lambertu has toned bis great mu- sical act down a bit, and goes better. "The Apache Dance," first time here. Is a whirlwind, and big favorite; Gardner and Stoddard, back again, atlll good; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Forbes in "Wild Rose," excellent; Harding and Ah Bid, fine; Dsra Kendall, new stuff but same Bars; Mile. Olive, excellent, deserves better place; Ward Brothers, fine dancers; Murphy and Francis, fair dancers, poor singers; "Incognito," frost; Faslo Trio, novel and pleasing. KEITHS.—Laddie Cliff, out of bill two days, cold; Eva Tanguay, packing the bouse and pleas- ant to atage hands (worth noting); Zlnka Panna, musician, biggest novelty of year—Boston "Post" calls her "musical marvel," and that's right; Mary Bandera, Rose Morison snd Co. st last have a good sketch in "Nance Oldfleld," well done— should do for road; 4 Fords, great; Victor Nlblo and birds, funny and novel; Bison City Four, laughable; Mirza Golem Troupe, held over; Cart- mell and Harris, dancers; Three Renards, aerial- lsts, and Amy Butler and Co., musical, all good. HOWARD.—"Tiger Lilies." Del Netra, spe- cislty dancer, hit of olio; Connolly and Bannon in "Battle of Too Soon." might be better; Elsie Harvey and boys, good; De Boll en Brothers, acro- bats; Llsxle Wilson, monolog; Dsn Malumby, Vincent Sisters, Needham and Wood and Dan Ma ley, good show. OOLUMi»i a.— "Colonial Belles," with De Hollls and Velora, great Joggling: Bandy and Fields, dancing; Texan Steer Quartet, good. PALACE.—Scrlboer's "Big Show." with Bedlnt and Arthur, jugglers; Brisnzl trio. Columbia Mu- sical Sextet, John J. Black and Co., aketch; Joe Felardo, musician. GAIETY.—"Reilly A Woods." Three Demons, cycling. Immense; Maryland and Virginia Tyson In fair "Dutch" act; Thomas P. Dunne, very good; Johnson and Marvalle, good comedy; Bell Boy Trio, fair. AUSTIN AND STONE'S.—John Vllonl, mu- sician; Nolan and Cahlll, Irish pipers; Atarls Trio, Jap Jugglers; Burton Sisters, heavyweight boxers and "Manhattan Girls." PHILADELPHIA By GEORGE M. YOUNG. KEITH'S (H. T. Jordan, mgr.; agent, U. B. O.)—Show far below last week's. Almost all the acts familiar, and new ones showed little away from the beaten path. The big novelty waa "Princess Trixle." an unusually well trained horse. The act was a big hit. Claude and Fan- nie Usher presented "Pagan's Decision" here for the first time. When It was possible to under- stand what the girl was saying, the talk got laughs. It may be that Miss Usher was suffer- ing with cold or maybe hoarseness from yelling. The sentimental finish seemed to reach the spot. There were several In the audience still crying or wiping away tears when Charlie Semon, who followed, came on with his comedy musical act and he was half way through before the house recovered. Carlln and Ott were forced to cancel owing; to the death of the letter's mother, and Avery and Hart were substituted. If this team has a new act in use It should have been given. The "Naked Truth," In ita second week, went as well as usual. "The" Quartet did fairly well with a straight singing number. They continue to follow along the lines of "That" Quartet, getting close, except In the singing. Martlnettl and Sylvester had the closing position snd filled It In good shape. They have worked out a strong routine of comedy acrobatics framed on what was formerly used by Rice and Prevoet snd the old Caron and Herbert team, mixed In with some of their own, and they got a good percentage of the honors. Aside from some poorly plsced and badly handled attempts at comedy, the Plcaro Trio put over a good bit of straight acro- batics. Most of the tricks used are familiar hi other acta of this class. One of the three la a first-rate floor tumbler. Bertie Herron landed In fair shape In her blackface stuff. The opening part of the act was a question of color with Miss Herron, and she could help her appearance a lot by discarding some of It. Hearn and Rotter gave the bill a good atart with their dancing, which was above the usual run, the one doing the eccentric having some clever steps. Pamahaslka's Birds pleaaed, and Reee Brothers and Delphlno and Delmora made up the remainder. BIJOU (Sam Dawson, mgr.).—The "Sam De- vere" ahow forma another weak apoke In the Western Burlesque Wheel. It Is weak In cast, material and musically. There waa Just one bright spot In the first part, "What Happened East," and that waa Ruth Everett's familiar mechanical doll specialty with the imitations and her bare Umbo as extra added attractions. The piece might be given a substantial boost were Mlas Everett given an opportunity to do some- thing In addition to the doll specialty. She does appear In the burlesque "What Happened West," and scored by long odds the bit of the show. The "bit" Is a Frencby song with the usual dis- play of lingerie, and Dick Brown assisting mlsBes no chance to get a laugh. This and the dolt specialty Is Miss Everett's contribution to the burlesque portion of the show and It Is not con- sidered valuable enongh to have her programmed as a principal. There were ocly two other principal women. Gladys St. John had the sou- bret role and deserves the credit of at lesst try- ing to inject some ginger Into the pieces, but Miss St. John had very little to work with and she did not do very much with the numbers which she led. Mlna Stanley waa the other. The "Sam Devere" show is well below the average. It could hardly be expected to hold its own under ordinary conditions, and with a good show In the other bouse In the same circuit and strong added attractions in both opposition houses the "Devere" show did not have a chance. When answering advertisements kindly mention Vartety.