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VARIETY niETY A Variety Paper lor Variety People. Published tTerj Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. IMS Broadway, Timai Square, Vaw York City. IMS Talapkooaj JJjJ f Bryant Editor aad Proprietor. Entered at tecond-clatt matter December 22, 1905, at the Pott Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of Congrett of March 8, 1879. OHIOAOO 0ITI0E, 70S Chicago Opera Honae Block, (Phone, Main MI5). FRANK WIZ8BEBO, RepreeenUtlTe. LONDON OFFIOX, 411 Strand (Cable, "Jeaafrce, London.") JESSE J. PBEEMAN, In charfo. BAN rBANOZSOO OFTIOE, 111ft Van Neaa Are. (Boom US). W. ALFRED WILSON, BoprooentatlTe. DENVER OFFICE, Crystal Theatre Building. HARRT BEAUMONT, RoprceontatlTC. PARIS OFFICE, 66 Bis. Bue Saint Dldler, EDWARD O. BENDREW, Representative. BERIIN OFFICE, Unter den Linden 61, RIESEL'S UBBABT. ADYEBTD3EMENT8. 20 cents an agate line, $2.80 an lncb. One page, |125; one-balf page, S63; oue-quarter page, 132.50. Cbargea for portralta furnlabed on application. 8peclal rate by tbe month for professions! card under besdlng "Representative Artists." Advertising copy should be received by Tbura- dsy st noon to Insure publicstlon In current Iwrnn*. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Annuel 94 Foreign ° Six and three months In proportion. Slugle copies 10 cents. VAU1BTY will be msiled to s permanent art- dress or as per route, es desired. Advertisements forwarded by mall must be sc- compauled by remittance, made payable to Varletj i'ubHabltig Co. Copyright, 1908, by Variety Publishing Co. Vol. XIV. MAY S. No. 9. Billy Gould and Valeska Suratt sailed Wednesday. The Camille Trio will arrive in New York next week. Freddie Schrader has returned to the Morris press department. Caswell and Arnold, the barrel jumpers, returned to New York Monday. Samuel L. Tuck has joined the park and fuir booking force of the United. The Bard Brothers open May 10 at Spo- kane for a tour of the Pantages Circuit. Mary Ann Brown bobs up once more, opening at West End Park. New Orleans, May 10. Carroll and Cooke returned to New York on Thursday after their long west- ern trip. Frnneo Piper, the banjoist, has been placed under contract for two years by Bert Cooper. Richard Golden has returned to New York. He will play vaudeville, booked by W. L. Lykens. Delia Fox will be in readiness to open with a new act May 17, under the direc- tion of Jack Levy. Reynolds and Donegan have been booked for the Orpheum Circuit starting in September. Casey. The Actors' Fund of America will hold its 28th annual meeting next Tuesday at the Gaiety Theatre Building. Marshall and King, the "sister act," are playing an indefinite engagement at the Folies Bergere, Mexico City. "The Harrigan Girl" will be the George M. Cohan effort for the starring tour of Edna Wallace Hopper next season. M. W. Taylor, who has a booking office in Philadelphia, has appointed Sig. Wachter his New York representative. Maude Raymond plays eight weeks in vaudeville during the summer, going back to the Rogers Bros.' show next season. "The Governor's Son" will re-enter vaudeville. It is shortly going into re- hearsal. Bert Cooper has the handling of the act. Howard and Barrison may play a short time in vaudeville this season if Mabel Barrison's contract with the Shuberts is not renewed. Marie Dainton will commence a tour of the Orpheum Circuit between now and June 1. Pat Casey secured the route for the English imitator. The suit for commissions started against M. A. Shea by Jenie Jacobs over "The English Rocking Girls" was settled out of court this week. Maude Odell pleaded illness as the rea- son why she could not appear at the American, New York, Monday. "The Bronze Beauties" replaced her. The Four Melvins have been renamed The Four Readings by James Bard, who runs the act. It has the Orpheum Circuit for next season, booking by Casey. Carrie De Mar has the saddle horse habit. Miss Dc Mar rides daily but won't mention whether she takes the cus- tomary side seat or rides "astride." Bertha Gallatin and Co. in "Who's the Man" will make a debut in metropolitan vaudeville at the Columbia next week. The act is the property of Harry Bissing. John Wiggins, while at French Lick Springs, sent Jenie Jacobs a post card. As Mr. Wiggins neglected everyone else he knew, there are suspicions around. Joe Kane,, who has been out in the Rogers Bros.' show may reappear in vaudeville at the head of a "girl act," making his own production of the number. Bozeman Bulger, the noted sporting writer of the New York Evening World. has written a baseball sketch which will be promoted for vaudeville by Jack Levy. Bert Cooper has "Violinski," who plays u piano and violin simultaneously, giving forth either "ragtime" or classy numbers. Mr. Cooper will "spring" the number in vaudeville. By special request of the Morris Cir- cuit, Willa Holt Wakefield reappears, at the Plaza next week, to help further the Morris intention of making the Plaza a house for the swagger set. La Guarauy, a young Spanish dancer, is due to arrive in New York this sum- mer. Philip Du Faure, the pantomimist, will build up a number in which La Guarauy will include acrobatic dancing. Ezra Kendall will go out next season in a revised version of his former piece "The Vinegar Buyer." Herbert Hall Wins- low is writing the new edition. The tour will be under direction of Liebler & Co. Mrs. Leslie Carter was lately ap- proached with glittering vaudeville offers. She might have accepted but for the inter- position of an engagement at a St. Louis summer resort, where she will head a dramatic organization. Paul Durand resigned his position in the office of Feiber, Shea & Coutant this week. Upon his return from Europe in June, he will be in the foreign depart- ment of the Orpheum Circuit. Mr. Du- rand with his wife sails next week. When "The Morning Glories" (Eastern Burlesque Wheel) takes to the road next season under the direction of its owner, Sam A. Scribner, L. Edward Mahoney, last season with "The Yankee Prince," will travel with it as business manager. Hammerstein's Roof will open May 31. The entertainment will be billed this sum- mer as "Hytone Vaudeville," and a couple of escalators may be installed for tbe con- venience of patrons. Otherwise there will be no changes in the general layout of the roof, including the "farm." Thos. Jefferson with a company of fifteen will present a vaudeville picture of "Rip Van Winkle." Pat Casey has been consulted about the bookings for the act. Gene Hughes claims Mr. Jefferson is under his management. Another agent or so has claimed Mr. Jefferson also. A full dress performance of Day" show w Square Theatre given to-night ( pire, Newark, joint property Barnev Gerard. rehearsal and "try-out" the new "Follies of the hich enters the Lincoln Monday for a run, will be Saturday), in Miner's £m- N. J. The show is the of the Miner Estate and Peter Donald (Donald and Carson) who was operated upon recently in San Fran- cisco for appendicitis, has left the Mt. Zion Hospital there, and is on the way to recovery. The act was to have been on the opening bill of the New Orpheum in 'Frisco, but Donald's illness made can- cellation necessary. An iron cylinder weighing fifty pounds fell from the tlies at the Colonial, Norfolk, J hi* week, just, grazing Antoinette Le Brim of the (Irand Opera Trio who was singing on the stage. It tore some spangles from her dress, but Mme. Le Brun continued singing, although the accident unnerved the audience and the orchestra. Ed F. Reynard will wind up his season at the Hudson, Union Hill, next week. Mr. Reynard accepted the engagement on a wager with Gene Hughes that his (Rey- nard's) auto could climb the stiff hill over there in three jumps, without a stop. If Reynard trips up, Mr. Hughes will tale his own hill climber over to win the money. Joe Welch will probably go to London anyway, opening at a hall there. Mr. Welch says suit will be brought for the four weeks' salary lost through the can- cellation by Moss-St oil for the Coliseum. The Hebrew comedian had gone to the expense of $600 for steamship tickets. He was to have appeared four weeks at the Coliseum. Master Gabriel, who played a tingle week beginning April 26 at the Majestic, Chicago, by permission of Klaw & Br- langer in "Buster Brown," retired from the cast last week. He returns to "Little Nemo" next season. Louis Merkel will have the part of "Buster" in the vaude- ville sketch hereafter. Edwin Lamar plays the dog. Ching Ling Foo, the Chinese baritone, has returned from the other side, receiv- ing once more the freedom of the country upon a duplicate of his passport being se- cured from Washington. While on the other side, Foo's papers were taken by Alexander Fischer, who "forgot" to re- turn them. Foo was in a bad plight at one time while abroad, but worked him- self out. He sang "Irish Rosie" in French at Brussells. Wednesday evening at the Olympia, Paris, King Edward VII, who had slipped over to Paris from London while the Queen was sleeping, saw the Revue in H. B. Mar- inelli's theatre and nearly laughed his head off. Then Eddie patted H. B. on the shoulder and said he had a fine ltitle play. Then H. B. cabled to all the branches about the King being on the job, what he said, and what a great boost it was. The New York Marinelli branch got a cable. That's how we knew, nad we received a cable direct marked collect about H. B. and the King, we would have had a fit. Al Sanders, well known along the Big Alley, and even more so than that, is re- garded as having an undying regard for Pommery Sec, a wine which would be as common as well water were it not for the price per bottle. Mr. Sanders is even said to be so enthusiastic over the grape juice he is suspected of being inter—but dis- regarding that, the other evening Sanders accompanied some friends into the new "Maxim's," but old "Ambassadeurs," on West 38th Street. The party had but seated themselves when a waiter tripped along. "You know me," said Al. "A large one, and Pommery, of course." "Ex- cuse me," said the waiter, "but I can't recommend Pommery. Why don't you try White Seal." When Sanders recovered from the attack of apoplexy, he called for another waiter, repeating his Pommery order. "I'm sorry," said the second man of the white apron. "Our Pommery is all warm, :iiid unfit to drink. You had better take a bottle of Cliquot." Then the head waiter and Al went to the mat.