Variety (March 1909)

VARIETY 7UETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published every Saturday by THB VARIETY PUBLI8HINO CO. ISM Broadway. Tim** Square, Hew York City. Telephone] *JjJ J Bryant Editor and Proprietor. &ft tered as •eeoad-eJaM matter Boo—iter 22, 1905, et <*• Posl Oflloe et New York, N. Y., under the met of Oongreee of March ft, 1879. OHXOAOO OFFIOB, 70S Ohloage Ofere Honse Bloek, (Phono, Main MM), lohdob oppxob, US Strand (Cable, "Jeosfree, London.") JESSS J. nilMSW, la eharge. ■am pbahoisoo oppxob, 111S Tan Bees Ave. (Im IIS). W. ALPBBB WXLS0B, Bsusaeatatrfo. 9IIVU OPPXQB. Crystal Theatre Bsildlag. HABBY BBAVMOBT, Bepresentatrve. PABIS OPPXOB, NBU.IU taint Dtdl«r, EDWARD O. BEBBBBW, B^ pr oaontatrro, bsbxjb oppigs, T/nter den Linden SI* BIESBL'S XJBBABY. 20 cents on sgsto line, $2.80 an loch. Ooo ptft. S12S; one-half pogo, SOS; one-quarter pogo, $82.00. Chorg m for portrait* furnished oo application. Special rata by too moott^for profaoalonal card under baodlof "BopresontatlTO Artists." Adrortlalof copy ohoold bo received by Than- day at aoon to insure pobllcatlon In currant loan*. 8UBS0BIPT10B BATES. Annual S4 foreign 3 811 and tbrao montba In proportion. Single copies 10 cents. VARIETY will bo mailed to a permanent ad- dress or as per roots, ss desired. Advertisements forwarded by mall must be sc- compsnled by remlttnnce, mode payable to Varletj Pnbllablng Co. Copyright, 1000, by Variety Pnbllablng Co. Vol. XIII. MARCH 6. No. 13. The Bachi Arabs at Keeney's, Brook- lyn, next week, are the former Seven Samoio. Joe Keley enters the Sisters' Hospital at Cleveland next Monday to undergo an operation. "Awake at the Switch" will likely play over the Orpheum Circuit, commencing shortly. Hallen and Fuller in their latest sketch replaced Grais' Baboons at the Greenpoint this week. Blanche Ring opens at the Majestic, Chicago, April 5, remaining in the vicinity three weeks. Walter Jones and Blanche Deyo return to the twice-daily Monday at the Savoy, Atlantio City. Emile Katzenstein will conduct the orchestra at the Hudson, Union Hill after next Monday. Daly and O'Brien played Schenectady last week, having returned from Europe a few days before. Percy G. Williams may return from his Florida visit by Monday, or remain south a week or two longer. "The Devil and Tom Walker" was booked this week for the Orpheum Circuit, beginning in September. Rawson and Clare are considering an offer for next season in vaudeville with their sketch "Just Kids." Crimmins and Gore open Monday at the American, Chicago, their first engagement on the William Morris time. Master William Thompson Ince arrived in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Ince at St. Louis on Feb. 26. Rinaldo, a violinist (and discovery of William Morris in the west), opens on the Independent Circuit March 15. Maxine Elliott sails for. Europe March 17. She will appear with Lewis Waller in "1801" at the Lyric, London. J. B. Morris opened a converted church for vaudeville at Union Hill last Monday night in opposition to the Hudson. Lillian Nelson, originally of Hickey and Nelson, announces she is engaged to "a well known Detroit merchant tailor." Norman Martin contradicts the state- ment he is to reunite with his brother. Martin remains with Garden and Martin. Harry Bulger will play in Chicago be- fore long. Mr. Bulger will remain in vaudeville during the balance of the sea- son. A. E. Johnson, of the Casey office, has settled English dates during the summer for Jane Couthorpe and Co. in "Lucky Jim." C. E. Kohl, of Chicago, was in town for the two final days of last week. Frank Tate, of St. Louis, arrived in the city Tuesday. Ferrell Brothers, the bicyclists, were placed by Edw. S. Keller for 25 weeks over the Orpheum Circuit this week, opening July 6. Harris Lumberg, manager of the Inter- national Theatre, Niagara Falls, will open another vaudeville house in the same town on April 5. Apdale, the animal trainer, will lose six or eight weeks of time through the injury to his left hand caused by one of Apdale's monkeys. It is considered as doubtful if E. F. Albee will resume active charge of the United Booking Offices before the summer or towards the opening of next season. Atalanta Nicola ides, a former member of the David Belasco company headed by Blanche Bates, has in preparation a danc- ing and singing act for vaudeville. W. L. Lykens is seeking time for the number. "Old Dr. Young," revised and now pre- sented by Langdon Geer, plays Dock- stader's Garrick, Wilmington, March 8. It is a production first put on the boards by the L. Waterbury Production Company. Lillian Leville (Leville and Sinclair) was taken suddenly ill while at the Lyric, Dayton, O., and removed to the St. Eliza- beth Hospital. The team has canceled all time pending the young woman's recovery. At the Majestic, Chicago, within the next few weeks, Nance O'Neill will once more take to the vaudeville stage. This time "$1,000 Reward" will be the piece. Miss O'Neill may play over the Western time. Joe Welch will have an entirely new line of talk when reappearing at the American next week. The Hebrew im- personator has arranged to present new dialog at each return date on the Morris Circuit. « The Shuberts have leased the Metropolis and Yorkville, New York, from Hurtig & Seamon. These, with the German The- atre, give the firm three local houses where popular-priced attractions may play next season. At a benefit tendered a White Rat at Sacramento recently $187.50 was realized. The artist had been very ill. When a hat was passed for contributions, the attend- ing physician, Dr. Higgins, dropped in a receipted bill for $67. The damage suit brought by M. B. Leavitt against Klaw & Erlanger arising from the K. & E. vaudeville days is on the court calendar for an early trial. About $60,000 is claimed by Leavitt under unfulfilled contracts of artists he import- ed for "Advanced Vaudeville." Camille D*Alberg, the foreign actress, will play vaudeville around New York about March 20 in either "La Main" or "Columbine," both pantomimic pieces in which she has appeared abroad. A. E. Johnson of the Casey Agency has the rep- resentation over here for her. Alice Lloyd and The McNaughtons could not leave Chicago in time to open an engagement this week. Monday Miss Lloyd commences a week at Bennett's, Montreal. The McNaughtons will be at the Fifth Avenue. Willard's "Temple of Music" has boon booked through Joe Wood for twelve weeks on the M. R, Shecdy combination vaude- ville and picture time at a salary said to be the largest yet paid for this class of house. The musical act carries 44 trunks. The-contract calls upon Mr. Shecdy to pro- vide a special baggage car. The White Rats on Tuesday ratified the affiliation with the French artists' society, which, as reported last week, was about to affiliate with the English and CJerman bodies of artists. Under the affiliation all members of either society receive a one-half transportation rate in Italy and the south of France. George llomans will stage a new act called "The Gamesters." It is a dancing and singing novelty. Mr. llomans identi- fies the author of the piece as a well- known artist who knows vaudeville only from the audience side of the footlights. It calls for the services of two teams of singers and acrobatic dancers. William Hammerstein returned from West Baden on Monday. While on the sleeper, Willie was awakened at Albany by the change of engines. It madi quite a racket. Looking through the curtains of the berth, Mr. Hammerstein saw the porter. Mistaking him for Geo. Archer (Hammerstein's head usher) Willie in- quired "What act is that? We ought to hold it over." The Three Athletes, French girls, who opened over here at the New York Hip- podrome, have been placed through the Marinelli office for the Western time. The girls will have played in America for over a year when homecoming time arrives. They open for the Orpheum trip March 15. One of the Athletes looks very much like Victoria Murray of the Murray Sisters. As Vic doesnt take anything under a blue ribbon from the beauty judges, this off side remark can go for both. Jacob Oppenheimer, now in Paris, has cabled the announcement of his successful bid for the services of La Syria, who is said to be an Italian Countess. She will appear at the Suburban Garden, St. Louis, during the summer. Fred Niblo will appear in his "Travel- ogues" until about May 15, when Mr. Niblo and his wife, Josephine Cohan, are going to Europe. While abroad, the lecturer will explore China and Japan for addi- tions to his present large series next son. James J. Morton finished his week's en- gagement at the Palace last Saturday. Morton did not cause a riot, but his talk and actions were greatly enjoyed. He fol- lowed Maude Allan. That was enough, as any one who has been over here during her remarkable run knows. A New York agent is offering as among his "exclusive acts" (typewritten) Mar- shall P. Wilder. In the list are the fol- lowing numbers "soon to arrive": Tit- comb. Marcel and Boris, Anna Renwick, Albano Brothers, Popposcui Trio, Mile. Morrisini, Rine Sisters, and Clown Zertho. Minerva Coverdale, from the Sam Ber- nard Show, is also quoted as a vaudeville aspirant, and there are enough other names to stock any first-class agency. Monday night at the Colonial, as the Dunedin Troupe of bicyclists closed the program, a young man walked out of the theatre remarking so he could be heard at the Lincoln Square up the street: "That's a great bicycle act, kid. The best I ever saw, and I have seen many." It was a great "boost" and the "plugger" was Earle Reynolds, James E. Donegan's son-in-law. Mr. Donegan manages the act. Nellie Donegan (Reynolds and Donegan) is Mrs. Reynolds ofl" the stage. The other two Donegan sisters in the bicycle acts had their jewelry and medals (won in Eng- land and Australia) stolen from their trunks this week. Reynolds says he is going to advertise that the thieves may retain the gold if they will return the inscriptions on tlie rnediiis.