Variety (October 1911)

i6 VARIETY LOOKING FOR CONVENTION CITY. Chicago, Oct. 11. Already there is considerable dis- cussion regarding the selection of a city in which to hold the next annual convention of the International Lyceum Association. San Francisco has been proposed but there is a strong sentiment in favor of deferring the convention at the coast city until 1915, the year of the Panama Exposition. A committee of investigation and arrangements has been chosen and which consists of Ralph Bingham, Leland Powers, Edward Amherst Ott, A. C. Coit, and the Association Presi- dent Montaville Flowers, who is a member ex-offlcio. DIRECTOR RUSSELL DUE. Boston, Oct. 11. Director Henry Russell of the Bos- ton Opera Company, accompanied by a number of operatic stars, is expected to arrive here to-day. Although the ballet has been in rehearsal for nearly a month, rehearsals on the coming productions will start at once. ROGERS' NEW OVERTURE. Boston, Oct. 11. At the first public rehearsal of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Sym- phony Hall, October 6, Max Rogers' new overture, Just imported from Eu- rope, was given its premiere. It re- ceived a pleasing reception. Mme. Gad ski announces her annual New York recital Nov. 7 In Carnegie Hall. Sergei Kllbansky, the New York baritone, will appear In concert this season under Fos- ter A David's management. Martha R. Clod I us, the New York soprano who has quite a long concert tour arranged. will be heard In New York this season. Mary Garden, under R. E. Johnston's man- agement, opens her season at the Maine Fes- tival, Bangor, Oct. 14. She sings In Boston, Oct. 23. Oscar Seagle, baritone, who arrived In New York a few days ago, makes his first Ameri- can tour this year, opening at Chattanooga Oct. 16. He appears at the New York Hip with Mary Garden Oct. 28. The Rically String Quartet of Berlin will be heard In America for the first time this season, after four years of European touring. Gertrude Rennyson, dramatic soprano, opens her American tour In Detroit, Oct. 16. Herbert Sachs-Hlrsch, the 16-year-old piano prodigy, opens his season here Jan. 6. Marlon May, the New York contralto, under Marc Lngen's direction, begins her season In Orange, N. J., Nov. 6. Paul F. Voelker, lecturer, Is on the second of a twenty weeks' tour that opened at Al- thol, Kan., Oct. 2. In January Mr. Voelker Is to give two weeks of his time to the ex- tension lecture work of the University of Wisconsin. Beulah McNcmar. the West Virginia rend- er, has recovered from the effects of Injuries nuatnined In a carriage accident while riding over the mountain roads of that State. Tin' Wood Sisters Trio has been reinforced by the addition of Sara Albon Maxfleld. a reader and impersonator, of Godfrey, III. Miss Maxfleld Is a graduate of the Ellas Day Ly- ceum School. Margaret Crawford, the American contralto allied with the forces of Henry W. Savage's English Opera company for two years, has signed a two years' contract with the Stndt theatre In Mainz, Germany. Alice Nielsen opened a concert tour nt Wln- nepeg. Oct. 1. This will last until November when she returns to New York to Join the Met. Co. In the spring she expects to make a concert trip to the Pacific Coast. IMPERIAL ORCHESTRA HERE. The Imperial Russian Court Balal- aika Orchestra, W. W. Andreeff, con- ductor, comprising thirty-five musi- cians, arrived on the New York Oct. 8 and opened in Pittsburgh Monday. After a trip upstate, the Orchestra comes into New York Oct. 23 for a concert at Carnegie Hall. With the organization is a group of Imperial opera singers, who will sing in their native tongue. Excerpts will be rendered in costume by Liubov Orlova, soprano; Olga Scribina, mezzo soprano; Ivan Tomashewitch, basso; Nicholas Vasihiv, tenor. The Balalaika will play Chicago after Christmas. The musicians go on further west than Denver. BOSTON GIRL LEADING. Boston, Oct. 11. Elizabeth Amsden, a Boston girl, said to have a marvelous voice, is an- nounced to sing the leading feminine role in "The Girl of the Golden West" when it is produced at the Boston Opera House. MARY GARDEN COMMENCING. Hartford, Oct. 10. Mary Garden and her company, un- der the management of R. E. John- ston, open their season at Parsons' Monday evening. CHAUTAUQUA'S ATTENDANCE CUT. Chicago, Oct. 11. In Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Wy- oming and Oklahoma where the West- ern Redpath System, under Mr. Hor- ton's management, has seventy-two chautauquas on its books, the dry weather has cut the attendance. Though business has not been as good as expected, owing to the disastrous drouth, the enthusiasm has been great. Fifty-eight chautauquas through Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri are be- ing operated by the Redpath-Vawter bureau, with twelve complete outfits, a seven-day session in each place. Sev- en chautauquas are run simultaneous- ly, so that in each of the systems, a chautauqua opens and another closes each day to the end of the season. The cost of maintaining these two Redpath circuits amounts to some- thing like $4,000 a day. Rudolph Ganz arrived this week for his American season which opens with the Hoston Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 19. The Berlin Trio (Edgar C. Sherwood, pian- ist; George Buckley, violinist: Herbert Riley, cellnlst) has a tour of the Northwest and the Pacific Coast arranged for the season. Jennie Norelli, the prima donna, has gone abroad, where she will fill several engage- ments until the first of tho year. Norelli opens In Belfast Oct. 14. Her American sea- son starts In Brooklyn, Jan. 12. Florence Hinkle, the American soprano, has started on her American concert tour, opening at the Worcester (Mass.) Festival last week. Albert Spalding. American violinist, opens bin American tour with a recital at Carnegie Hall. Oct. 21. He Is under R. E. Johnston's management. The Milwaukee Sangerfest committee, after counting up the receipts and deducting the ex- penses of the recent SangerfeBt, found a bal- unro of $2,624.66 on the right side of the ledger. HERE'S BILLY GOULD By WILLIAM GOULD. A lot of the boys are going back to their first love—"Rathskellers." Where have all our female headlin- es —went? Winter Garden—I christen thee "Siberia." Oscar Lorraine is seriously thinking of taking a few violin-lessons. Here is a true story that should be a lesson in Vaudeville. I was dining with a friend one night last winter. My friend told me that he was offered the Orpheum cir- cuit for the team at a salary of $200 per week. He was to sign the con- tracts the following day. The male member of another team, not quite as good as the team my friend represent- ed, but doing the same style of an act, came in like a million dollars and said: "What do you think of Beck? Wants me to sign for the Orpheum Circuit for $260.00. I have been been fighting him for the other $50.00 for six months." After the financier left, my friend was very quiet for the remainder of the even- ing. The next day he refused the Orpheum Circuit at $200. Wanted •300,006. Re refused plenty of work at $200.00. He layed off all winter and spent his savings. Last August my friend met the male member of the other team, and greeted him most brotherly and lovingly by giving him a punch on the nose. Why? Oh, no reason at all. My friend merely discovered that the other party had taken his Orpheum time at $150 per week. Moral: Don't believe act- ors when they tell you about the hits they are making or the salaries they say .they are getting. A misplaced 24 sheet on 7th avenue and 49th street reads: Lew Fields presents "The Never Homes" "aged" by Ned Weyburn. I'm going to return to the stage Oct. 16. Morgan Jones, tho Welsh singer, soloist with, and who married a member of the Span- ish Ladles' Orchestra, has located at Lw Angeles, where he is giving local concerts. Jan Kubellk. the Bohemian violinist, who bus landed In New York for a farewell eon- cert tour under Fred C. Whitney's direction, makes his first appearance at the New York Hip Oct. 16. Helen Stanley, for three years soprano solo- ist at St. Bartholomew's Church. New York, now singing In opera In Berlin, has been en- gnged for Andreas Dippers Chicago Opera Company. She has a three years' contract. Tho Metropolitan Opera House season opens Nov. 13. lasting twenty-two weeks, with Horatio Parker's prlze-wlnnlnp opera, "Mona," as the feature of the year. Gilbert Wilson, the young American bari- tone who starts soon on his concert tour of the States, married his accompanist, Grace W. Matteson, at Jackson, Mich., Sept. 27: Pasquale Amato. the baritone now singing in concert In the west, will appear In the mlddleweat before returning In November to opeh with the Met Co. M. H. Hnnson. the New York Impressarlo. Is back In New York after nn Important busi- ness trip abroad. Maud Powell will have Wablemar Lluchow- Hky as hor pianist on her forthcoming Amcr- lean tour. He has been In Kurope all sum- mer. Relnald Werronrath, the young American baritone, makes his annual New York debut In Carnegie bypoum, Oct. 24. PUT IN A FAVORITE. Chicago, Oct. 11. Will Doming opened here with the Eastern company of "The Fortune Hunter" for a three weeks' return engagement at the Olympic. Mr. Deming was switched from the central company and William Roselle trans- ferred to the latter. Fred Niblo was not booked here. Deming being given the role as he Is a Chicago favorite. Mr. Niblo and the western company opened a four days' engagement at Omaha, Oct. 8. After playing some "one nighterB" in Iowa, Wisconsin, the northwest, Niblo works to the Pa- cific Coast. OBITUARY The father of A. O. Delamater died Oct. 5. Harry M. Kerr, of the Aborn Opera Company playing in Brooklyn in "The Bohemian Girl," was drowned in the Delaware River, near Easton, Pa., Oct. 8. He and three other members of the organization were rowing, when the boat capsized. St. Louis, Oct. 11. A special dispatch from Carrolton, Ky., states that Prof. Isall Cox of East St. Louis, balloonist with a carnival company, was killed by a 200-ft. fall into the Ohio River. A rope attached to his parachute broke. He was res- cued unconscious by men who rowed out to him in skiffs. Four thousand spectators witnessed the accident. Peter L. Honppert, owner of the Pastime and Alamo Theatres, of Bir- mingham, Ala., died in that city Oct. 7. Vina Mascot died in Portland, Ore. last week. Samuel Torn berg, for years a Jew- ish actor on the East Side, and who followed Joe Welch in "The Pedler," died at his apartments in New York of consumption. Tornberg was well known along the Rialto. Tom Corwlne and "Happy Sid" Landon are booked In a combination program to open the University of Virginia lyceurn course at Charlottesville. Oct. 23. Among tho noted lecturers who are tour- ing the southern states this fall Is Dr. Robert Stuart MeArthur, late pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church In New York City. H. U. Engle has resumed his place as basso and managrr of the Otterbeln Male Quart it and Bell Ringers, after a year's absence from the platform on account of 111 health. Since returning to his home near Los Angeles after the International Lyceum As- sociation convention at Winona Lake, Presi- dent Montaville Flowers has been laid up with an attack of appendicitis. An operation was successfully made. He Is reported to bo on tho ro:»d to recovery. Harold Morton Kramer, the novelist, \* making n lecture tour of the west from In- diana to Oregon. Next summer he will ap- pear under the management of S. M. Holll- day In the Midland Chautauqua Circuit. Kilns Day's Players Is the name of an or ganlzntton of lyceum entertainers who will shortly present an offering of dramatic work In the mlddleweBt. Dr. James Hedley has taken leave of bis home in Cleveland, where he was confined with an Illness for several weeks, and I* again filling lecture dates through the south- west. Kdmond Clement, the French tenor who will appear twenty times with the Boston Opera Company and twenty with the Mnn treal Opera Company. has arrived from abroad for a concert tour, prior to beginning his operatic work.