Variety (October 1909)

VARIETY »' i HENRY CLIVE "SPLITTING THE TOP LINE" % MMS RBtfE W* BILL. The program Tuesday afternoon at the American did not contain Ida Rene, the English singer, who sent word to the theatre she wan ill. Miss Rene lias not reappeared since. She is billed for the Plaza next week. The contract with Miss Rene and her 1 unhand, Arthur Prince, the ventriloquist, with the Morris Circuit calls for ten weeks each, Miss Rene receiving .$7.>0 and Mr. Prince $1,000, weekly. $500 SALABY AFTER OPENING. VI Sutherland is angling United time tor Nellie Warring, the English singer. Miss Warring came to New York on a visit and ''spec," accepting an opening week at Shea's. Buffalo. Since then the English girl has set her weekly figure at $fl00. The managers are inclined to balk at the amount, though making promises of future time. Nihlo's Talking Birds have been re-en- gaged for over here through 11. Obcr- maycr, and will open next April. CRITICS NOW FREELY WELCOMED. All is peace and good will between Alan Dale, the American's critic, Acton Dkrvics. reviewer for the Evening Sun, and Klaw A. Erlanger. Anyway, it appears so, for the newspaper men now have the frce/lom of the K. & E. houses, following an inter- lude of ill humor between each which has been noticeable for some seasons past. The attitude of the critics and managers was so disrespectful to each other that at one time last season when Mr. Dale de- sired to see Mrs. Patrick Campbell via the gallery at the New Amsterdam, a Klaw & Erlanger theatre, he was much surprised when reaching the upper loft to hear the information that instructions barred him from the house, e en up there. The other side of the picture lust week was Alan Dale and Marc Klaw earnestly conversing with each other in the lobby of one of the K. & E. houses Dale was "covering" that evening. .fust how the matter between the re- viewers and the firm was patched up no one appears to know. It happened during the summer vacation of each critic. ALICE LLOYD'S NEW SONGS. As a preliminary appearance to her tour of the Orpheum (Mrcuit, Alice Lloyd, the English singing comedienne, has accepted the post, of headliner at I*. (J. William*' Alhambra and Greenpoiut theatres, com niencing Monday, for two weeks, opening at the flreenpoint first* The engagement will l>c made use of by Miss Lloyd to test her newest songs, among which are "Sue. Sue, Sue," "I Like Your Old French Bonnet," "Molly O'Mulli- gan,' and "If 1 Were Master Cupid." "a HOUSE" FOR PICTURES. Contracts between M. M. Ciutstadt, owner of the Lyceum. Ithaca, N. Y., and .loc Wood are awaiting signature. The Lyceum now plays the big Klaw & Erlanger attractions. Next week two of the big Broadway stars are billed tor the house. <m <M. II the polity will In* shifted to seven vaudeville acts playing three shows a day and moving picture. The T. B. A. is Invoking the Sunduy shows into Waldron's Newark. EDDIE PIDGEON RESIGNS. The resignation of Edward E. Pidgton, (icneral Press Representative for the If or- ris Circuit, tendered last Monday, takes effect to-day (Saturday). Nate Spingold, brought on some time ago by William Morris from Chicago, where Mr. SpingoM was attached to the Tribune, will succeed Pidgcon. Mr. Pidgeon's resignation was a volun- tary action on his part, caused, it is said, by friction over private matters between himself and the Circuit. Acting as the general press agent for the independent circuit since its incep- tion, Pidgeon has turned out some won derfully good work, securing a great nmount of space for the Morris enter- prise and features in all the papers of the country. At time* the amount of type devoted to Kd die's outpourings was the subject of considerable comment in circles which .ippreciated how those things are accoiu [dished, or more often not. Mr. Pidgeon's assistant, in the Morris office, Freddie Sehader, resigned a couple of weeks ago.