Variety (December 1909)

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Last week the stock company was closed and an entire vaudeville bill offered. Early last week it was definitely an- nounced that Association bookings would be at the house this week and bills were dis- played advertising W. V. A. acts. The closing is said to be due to a dis- agreement between Mr. Elliott, the man- ager, and G, M. Anderson, the lessee. CARUSO OBJECTS TO "CARUSO." Philadelphia, Dec. 2. Caruso, the grand opera tenor, put his foot down on "song-plugging" while in this city last week. The star of the mon- key-house drama has been stopping at the Bellevue-Stratford and threatened to leave unless the manager cut out the song "Cousin Caruso" from the popular list of the house orchestra. Caruso declared it was an insult to his dignity and said he would not stay at the hotel to be ridiculed. The song went. NORTH TAKEN BY BELASCO. In the comedy drama written by Eu- gene Walter and to be placed in re- hearsal within a couple of weeks by David Belasco, Bobby North, the Hebrew comedian, has been engaged to create a leading role. Charlotte Walker will be starred in the piece. BORNHAUPT GOING TO SAIL. Charles Bornhaupt, New York office manager for IT. B. Marinclli, will sail on Wednesday next for Europe, going first to London. Mr. Bornhaupt will i em a in away about five months, he expects. COMING OVER "ON TRIAL." The Sydney James Strolling Players, an English company of variety people, are due in New York during February to .play two trial weeks for the William Morris Circuit, after which the future time and salary will be decided. The Mayvilles, foreign Liliputians, have also been engaged by Morris to open in New York Jan. 17. Larola and an as- sistant, comedy acrobats, open on the same chain Dec. 20, to remain ten weeks. Maxini and Bobby and a dog. equlib- rists, have been engaged through the Morris London office to appear here for eight weeks commencing Oct. 3, 1910. Boyd and Gilfain, an English turn, were obliged to cancel the Morris booking through the possible interference of the (Jerry Society with the fourteen-year-old member of their act. Sing Harry L. Vewmaii's big song hit, "IV DIAB OLD TENVZ88EE." Hie aMson't Mggctt THRILLER AT HIP. "Desperado," the death defier, was a feature of the circus section of the New York Hippodrome when the features were changed Monday. His apparatus had been garnisheed in Brockton, Mass., by the man- agement of the New Jersey State Fair, at which he had failed to appear. J. Harry Allen secured its release in time for the Hippodrome opening. The engagement of the diver for the Hip has caused considerable disappoint- ment to the Ringling Bros., for they want- ed Marinelli to hold him out for the Mad- ison Square Garden engagement of the Barnum & Bailey Show next spring. When he appeared at the Garden with the "Two Bills" last spring, Frenzieo (or "Desper- ado") gave only a few performances and then lost his nerve. The Ringlings were greatly annoyed because the act went into the Garden at that time. They wanted to be the first to show the performance in town; hence his stay at the Hippodrome is a double grievance for them. PEDERSEN BROS. CATCH ON. The Pedersen Bros., acrobats, who made their initial appearance in New York at the Fifth Avenue this week, have already been booked as a feature on Hammer- stein's Roof next summer. The contracts, already signed, call for the first two weeks of the roofs summer career, and carry an optional clause by which William Ham- merstein may hold them for a further four week 8. The act has likewise received offers from L. Johns, booking representative for Moss- St oil on this side, but has not made a de- cision. They came into New York on gum shoes and entered the Fifth Avenue pro- gram with the most inconspicuous billing on record. After the opening they were shifted from the opening spot to the closing. SIE HASSEN DISCOVERS GOLD. < A cable received this week by Mrs. Sie liassen Ben Ali from her husband in Mor- rocco said that gold had been discovered upon Sie Hassen's property at Tangte*rs. A corporation with a capital of $500,000, called the American-Morocco Co., has been formed to develop the mines. Sie Hassen, who has imported the many Arab acrobatic acts now playing over here, has been abroad for a year. His return is indefinite. WELL ENOUGH TO GO AWAY. Mr. and Mrs. Percy G. Williams left this week for Hot Springs, or expected to, the physician having pronounced Mr. Williams sufficiently recovered from his recent attack of typhoid fever to take the trip. Everyone felt much relieved when it became known that the blindness threat- ening Mrs. Williams had been success- fully treated. Though sightless for a few days, Mrs. Williams regained her full vision on Monday last. « I/ouis Pineus will have a birthday to- morrow. It's his twenty-eighth, but Louie says he feels older—almost mar- ried, in fact.