Variety (October 1909)

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VARIETY 15 DE WOLF COMPELLED TO QUIT. Ill health compelled James I). ])c Wolf to close us one of the relay •story'' men with the Mingling Show, in Los Angeles. JJe Wolf it*signed his position as press agent for Keith & Proctor last spring in the hope thut the open air and freedom from restraint which goes with the life of ft circus press agent would benefit his fail- ing health. .Mill's hopes were lacking in fruition for all summer long he has been growing worse, until compelled to give up at I.os Angeles a fortnight ago. Mr. Oe Wolf expects to spend the win- der iu Florida at the home of Charley i^Plionipson. assistant manager of the Buf- falo and Pawnee I Jill Show*.. BURLESQUE "BALLOON HORSE." Chicago. Sept. .'{0. The latent clown stunt with the Par- 1111 in show j«* a travesty on Mrs. Pav Thompson's ascension with "Jupiter." the balloon hor>e. After the at t has been performed the clowns gather round a mini! me balloon. One come* out with a lioise arrangement by which he appears to be astride the animal. He i- pulled up in the air. When the firework* signal is given there is an explosion and the platform opens in the middle and the clown dropping through i> caught hv a safety rope. ( Icntaugy Park. Columbia. O.. will re- miii:i o| en through all of October if the weather will permit. Tin' Messrs. Duscn- bury have .shown their faith in the future of the park game by contracting for several expensive improvements to the property before next season opens. The Parker ( arnival Co. which plays the Interstate Fair at Spokane thi> week, will winter on the Spokane fair grounds and, it is likely, will arrange some sort of a show to 1m» conducted throughout the win- ter. The company will open its season with a carnival in Spokane next Spring. W. 1). Colin is promoter with this com- pany. All the Edgar WulfT horse acts have Wen re-engaged for next season by the Ringlings through the Mariiielli office. Charles Judge, who is the trainer of •Charles the First/' the Peek •monk." was with the Ilagenbcck Circus in PHHI and the Hagenbeek-Wallace -.how season of i!>07. He is well known to American circus people. • \ son was born to Mr. and Mrs. l\d. "an Skiak Sept. 22. Van Skiak is with ie John llobinson show. John llamill, in Putl'alo Pill's ticket wagon last season, has purchased an in- terest in New Pochclle's only picture house. Alterations going forward are ex- pected to result in a first-class place. Harry Overton will close with the Iiagenlicck-Wallace show shortly, having completed the contracting. Tie was in St. Louis last week and stated that he had but nine more towns to 'make." King Cole, the ventriloquist, with the Hagenbeek-Wallaec show, will play a few- dates after the season of that show ends and will then go to Ixuubm. Kngland. to visit his folks. RALEIGH WILSON A HERO! Chicago, Sept. 30. Raleigh AYilson, principal clown, press agent, mail man and no telling what else, with the Campbell Pi-others' show, res- cued a young woman from beneath the wheels of a moving train at \ax Junta, Col., Sept. 23, and saved her life. The girl, Cecilia Kllsworth, had alighted from the train for a lunch. Seeing an- other train moving she boarded it, think- ing it was hers. When on the steps she found out her mistake and in jumping olT was thrown backward and under the slowlv moving train. Put Palcigh Wil- son was there! BRONX HOUSE NOVEMBER i. Announcement was made this week bv Percy G. Williams that his new vaudeville theatre in the Pronx would l>e readv for opening Nov. 1. Albert Chevalier will headline the first bill. Jaseph Mayer, the circus program pub- lisher, took chances with the elements aiv.l the crowds and built a mammoth grand- stand on the Fifth Avenue side of Martin's this week in close view of the Hudson- Fulton parades. Arthur Hirst hler. program solicitor with the Parnitm Jfc Pailev Show, closed « in Richmond and came on to New York. Ins place will be vacant until Hayman Mayer can finish with the Buffalo and Pawnee Pill show, when In* will complete the Parnum i Pailcy route in the inter- est of Joseph Mayer. Otto Singling, manager of the Barnuin & Pailev circus, paid a visit to the Ha gen- heck-Wallace show at Pierce City, Mo., last week. Campbell Pros.' Shows, now touring New Mexico, will remain on the road sev- eral weeks more and will not close earlv as was at first reported. The "No. 1" ad- vance car, taken off a few weeks ago, has been replaced by a new car, built espe- cially for the purpose. Past week a couple of countrymen in for the Hudson-Fulton festivities were of- fered the use of Mulberrv Bend Park. New York, for a moving picture exhibi- tion at a rental of $10. The transaction bad been made by correspondence with some New York "concern." The police took the park away from them. The Broadway at Pong Praucli. N. J., owned by Jacob Rothschild ami managed by Perry Ryan, has been condemned. It is an "upstairs house." Light vaudeville has been the policy. Arthur Peauvais and Co., a western act. Lizzie P. Raymond and Jock McKay, the foreigner, are on the bill at the Savoy. Fall River, Mass.. this week. ■ ■ ■ - > The Zarctkas, a foreign dancing troupe. who played for Klaw & Erlanger, have been rcbooked to appear on the Pant ages' Circuit during January. The Russotania at Walliugford com indices to take three acts weekly from the Joe Wood otliee, commencing Oct. b NOTE© The lleiin Children have solid United bookings, secured through Norman Jeffer- les. Kzra Kendall iu "The Vinegar Buyer" is playing on the Shubert time in the legiti- mate. Raymond Hitchcock and "The Man Who Owns Broadway" will open at the New York Theatre, Oct. 11. Sam Roberts and Chas. H. Allen will l>e supplied with a new talking act in 'one" by Chas. Horwitz. The Comedv Theatre on 14th Street is playing vaudeville once more, since last Monday. Sig Wachter supplies two acts. "The Outsider" is the name selected for the new Cohan & Harris comedv now be- ing written by Winchell Smith. Jules Larvett. who has been active iu booking vaudeville acts into the smaller picture houses in the city, is now attached to the NYBO staff. The Three Keatous, including "Buster" now over sixteen and out of tierrv So- ciety jurisdiction, appear at the Fifth Avenue next week. John 1). Barton puts out the only Na- tional Printing Co. melodrama of the sea- son, opening "The Brand of a Thief at Ba Vonne last week. Sigman's Opera House at Freeport, Long Island, is in line for the cheaper vaudeville, three acts weekly, no "split." Joe Wood's office will book. Jesse Laskv's newest act, with Kdwin Wilson in the lead, opened at Pockstader's. Wilmington. Monday. It is called "The Twentieth Centurv Limited." The Auditorium. Railway, N. J., com- mences a picture ami vaudeville career tonight (Saturday) playing three acts weeklv from the Joe Wood agencv. ( livcttc. "The Man in Black." has dis- banded the company he formed for a northwestern trip, and with his wife, is phiving around Svdnev. Nova Scotia. The statement that the Park Rooking ( irciiit was in difficulties is an error. Tie Flving Banvards' action lies against The National Park Managers' Association. There will be a combination vaudeville and picture house at Rockaway Peach this winter. It will "split" with some- where, and Sig Wachter is to do the booking. Funice Raymond, a player on the Scotch bagpipes arrived in this country recently. She will be made the feature of a "girl act" being put out by the NYBO Yaude- \ ille Fxchange. MiWatters and Tyson. James J. Mor- ion. Grace ( amcrou. Maude Hall and (art ton Mai-v anion*: other* will be on Ted Marks' second Sunday bill at the Broad- way tomorrow. Mabel Lcville Simpson, of Pat Rooney's •Simple Simon Simple" Co., and Milton Post, of Southold, Long Island, were mar- ried Sunday at the "Little Church Around the Corner," New York. Alf. G. Herrington, who, until he sold his franchise back to the Empire Circuit Co., was a manager in the Western Bur- lesque Wheel, is now a bonifaee. having taken over the Marlborough Hotel iu Waterburv, Conn. Weber & Allen commence tomorrow night to book Sunday concerts in the Star and (Jayety theatres, Brooklyn. The Olympic on Fourteenth Street, also a stand iu the Eastern Burlesque Wheel, has lieen giving Sunday entertainments for a month. Stella May hew. who will open iu the new Lew Fields production this mouth, has contracts calling for her London ap- pearance at the Coliseum April 24 next, to commence a run of four weeks, with other Moss-Stoll time to follow. Ryan and Richfield were obliged to can- cel the week at Greenpoint,. •wing to Miss Richfield's illness. They will pre- sent their latest "Haggerty" sketchy "Mag Haggerty, M.D." at the Colonial Monday. John T. Kelly and Co. filled out the Greenpoint bill. A cafe on Third avenue near Fourteenth street, mucli frequented by artists, had a startling mixture of music to offer as an inducement to patroaage last week. Formerly music was provided by a German on-bestra. Then Bert Cooper persuaded the German proprietor to try bis Ha- waiian baud. The Islanders did not meet the German's fancy. He discharged them shortly after and replaced theni with a Hungarian band. This week the old Ger- man orchestra is back on the job. HEADLINERS NEXT WEEK. NEW YORK. Albert Chevalier, Colonial. Nat Wills, Alhambra. Alice Lloyd, Greenpoint. Donlin and Hite, Orpheum. Arthur Prince, American. Iconise Dresser, Hammerstem's. "Models of the .Tardin de Pari*." Fifth Avenue. CHICAGO. Pauline, American. "Charles the First," Majestic. "Gibson (Jills' Review." Haymarket. Williams and Tucker, Criterion. BOSTON. Annette Kellermann, Keith's. Geo. Fuller Golden and Ida '*«'"* <joint), Plaza. NEW ORLEANS. "Futurity Winner." Orpheum. Willa Holt Wakefield, American.