Variety (October 1911)

10 DANCERS' INJUNCTION RAISED. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 11. An audience which half filled Par- Hon's theatre Monday evening waited until nearly 9 o'clock before the cur- tain rose. Until then the house and show officials were 'burning up tele- graph and telephone wires In an effort to straighten out the tangles of the Russian dancers, who seemed all knotted up In a skein of legal tangles. A temporary injunction was granted in New York October 3 restraining Lydia Lopoukowa and Alexander Vol- inine from appearing under other management than Comstock & Gest's. Monday the injunction was made per- manent when it was expected that an adjustment would be made so that the Russian dancers could make their first appearance of the season without hin- drance. The trouble is said to have started Sept. 17 when the two members of the Gertrude Hoffmann Company left it in Minnesota because of a disagree- ment. Comstock & GeBt are the man- agers. They engaged Lopoukowa and Volinine last June. After the pair left the production the Russian Amusement Co. secured their services and the trouble broke with the tem- porary injunction. Monday evening the audience filed into the theatre without knowledge that legal trouble was bothering the dancers and the amusement company. Even Lopoukowa and Volinine were in the audience, expecting they would not be allowed to go on. At 8.30 word was phoned from New York that the company had agreed to pay Comstock & Gest a lump sum, and the injunction was raised. The two dancers went on and shortly before 9 o'clock the curtain rose. ALL BUT THE TITLE. Rehearsals are progressing in New York for the launching of the musical stock company to be Inaugurated at the American Music Hall, Chicago, un- der the management of Lew Fields. No title to the piece has yet been de- cided upon. The book is by Edgar Smith, lyrics by Ray Goetz, music by A. Baldwin Sloane, and the production is under the stage direction of William J. Wilson. The principals Include Adele Ritchie, Gertrude Qulnlan, Harry Cooper, Max Rogers, Bobby North, Harry Tighe, Carter De Haven, Flora Parker, Hugh Cameron, Mona Des- mond. The opening date is set for Oct. 23 unless present plans go awry. CONCERT CO. FOR CORT CIRCUIT. A high-class concert company has been organized by Mme. Nuola, and has been booked by Ed. Giroux for a tour over the Cort circuit, opening Oct. 30, for ten weeks and longer if business warrants. As a special feature with the com- pany will go Marini and Bronskl, the Russian dancers, formerly with Pav- lowa and Mordkin, and now in vaude- ville for a short time. FOLIES CO. WILL STAY OUT. Jesse L. Lasky denies the report that the road tour of the Folies Ber- gere company will be terminated with- in the near future. He says the show will keep going as long as business keeps up. The company is at the Grand, New York, this week. After the Montauk, Brooklyn, stand next week, the show opens Oct. 23 at the Walnut, Philadel- phia, for a month. The Folies company starts its Chicago engagement at the Illinois Dec. 4. Kathleen Clifford, now with the road show, and who is under the man- agement of J. M. Allison will return to vaudeville, upon Albee, Weber & Evans securing engagements for her. Mr. Allison has authorized the agency firm to procure them. VARIETY GENERAL SHIFT ABOUT. FEMALE GEO. COHAN. Sadie Martinot is seeking to wrest some of the laurels from the brow of George M. Cohan. She is hard at work on a musical comedy called "The King of Washington Heights," which, when completed, will entitle her to a lithographed letterhead bearing the titles of authoress, lyricist, stage di- rector and actress. Not only is she providing the book, lyrics and music, but Miss Martinot intends to appear in the piece and per- sonally supervise its production. That accomplished Cohan will have but one more title, that of manager. OPERATED UPON IN PARIS. Charles D. McCaull, general man- ager for the William A. Brady enter- prises, returned from Europe Tuesday on the Saxonla. He went abroad in August for his health, as a result of overwork. While In Paris he was stricken with appendicitis and was operated upon there. Mr. McCaull relates a number of funny incidents that occurred during his convalescence in the French hospi- tal where nobody spoke a word of Eng- lish. OUT OF TOWN OPENINGS. Some of the immediate out of town premiers in the legitimate houses that are directly headed for the metropolis, are as follows: Grace LaRue in "Betsy," Apollo theatre, Atlantic City, Oct. 10. Mrs. FiBke In "The New Marriage," Grand Opera House, Chicago, Oct. 30. "Little Boy Blue," Park Theatre, Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 30. WRITERS SEPARATED. Chicago, Oct. 11. Advices from Indianapolis bring the Information that Booth Tarking- ton, the playwright, and his young wife. Laurel Louis Fletcher Tarking- ton, who Is noted as a writer of poetry and prose, have agreed to separate. Mrs. Tarkington is said to have estab- lished a separate home for herself and seven-year-old daughter, while the husband occupies living quarters in a local hotel, when in Indianapolis. Incompatibility of tern] erament and tastes is said to have r» en the cause of the estrangement. No legal pro- ceedings have been reponed. Chicago, Oct. 11. "An Affair in the Barracks" closes its engagement at the Grand Opera House Saturday night. It will be suc- ceeded Monday by Gertrude Elliott in Joseph Med ill Patterson's new play "Rebellion." A fortnight is considered suffi- cient duration for the run of "Rebel- lion" in New York. It closes here Sat- urday and will be replaced at the Maxine Elliott playhouse by Margaret Anglin in "Green Stockings," which will be moved from the 39th street theatre. The latter playhouse will have for its attraction next week, Henry Kol- ker in "The Great Name," which will he moved from the Lyric to make room for Frltzi Scheff in "The Duchess." NEW SHOW FOLLOWS SON. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Carpen- ter, a son. Mrs. Carpenter known pro- fessionally as Milllcent Evans, form- erly leading woman with Wm. H. Crane and last seen as leading woman with Douglas Fairbanks in "The Cub," is getting along nicely. Miss Evans upon recovering will start rehearsals in a new piece which will be presented in New York before the first of the year. MORE COMEDY FOR FRITZ I. The New York premiere of Frltzi Scheff in "The Duchess" announced for the Lyric next Monday was origi- nally dated for a Herald Square open- ing last Tuesday. Joseph Herbert and Harry B. Smith were delegated to Inject some addi- tional comedy into the book. MRS. FISKE SELECTS SYRACUSE. Mrs. Fiske's first presentation of Langdon Mitchell's comedy, "The New Marriage," will occur at Syracuse, Oct. 19. From there it goes to Pittsburg for a week, and then to Chicago for eight weeks. ORPHEUM, LOS ANGELES. The flrit photo of the Interior of the new Orpheum. Loa Angelei, to arrive In New York. Vaudeville programs are played at the new theatre, claimed to be one of the handsomest In the United States, jt is a part of the prpheum Circuit r POLICE CHIEF SATS NO. Indianapolis, Oct. 11. Superintendent of Police Hyland has expressed himself strongly on the subject of the theatres opening here Sunday. The theatre managers it seems are peeved a bit about the Sunday picture shows. Hints of an attempt to open their places Sunday reached the head of the police. Mr. Hyland said that there was no law that could close the picture shows that day, but there was one that meant no theatrical performance should be given, and this law, he added, would be enforced to the letter. LACKAYE'S NEW SHOW. Wilton Lackaye will next appear in December (perhaps November) in a brand new (unnamed as yet) play under the direction of the Sires Bros. ELTTNGE LEAVING LIBERTY. Oct. 28 is the day set by A. H. Woods for his star, Julian Eltinge, to leave the Liberty theatre for the road. There is a chance that the Werba & Luescher new production, "Miss Du- delsack," will open at the Liberty Oct. 30. Saturday last Louise Brunelle re- placed Natalie Alt as "Ivy" in "The Fascinating Widow." MAY GET "OUR JIM." Atlantic City, Oct. 11. If a story going around comes out, Young's Hotel will lose its popular manager, James C. Walsh. The new three million hotel going up here as one of the Rlts-Carlton chain, is re- ported to have tendered a proposition to "Our James," one of the most popular hotel men down here. Mr. Walsh probably enjoys the friendship of more theatrical people than any other bonlface In the world. NO FRICTION; BETTER OFFER. It is denied that there was any fric- tion between William A. Brady and Douglas Fairbanks leading to the can- cellation of their contract, which had over a year to run. Mr. Fairbanks had an alluring offer from Cohan & Harris and went to Brady with the proposition seeking his release, which was immediately granted. He will be replaced in the leading role of "A Gentleman of Leis- ure" by Cyril Scott. Fairbanks re- tires from the cast this Saturday. "A Gentleman of Leisure," with Cyril Scott in the role created by Douglas Fairbanks, will remove to the Herald Square Monday. The engage- ment is for two weeks only. Thus far the play has the record of oc- cupying no less than four New York playhouses, with the season still in its Infancy. Fritzi Scheff was announced for the Lyric for next week. DIVORCED IN ST. LOUIS. St. Louis, Oct. 11 Grace V. W. Gittermann, an actress, was divorced here by Robert S. Gitter- man, a St. Louisan. Her home Is In Brooklyn and they were married in Jersey City In 1910, according to the petition.