Variety (July 1915)

VARIETY JETY PubUakod WmUj by VARIETY, Inc. S1ME SILVERMAN, President Timos Squan N«w York CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO Pantaget Theatre Bldg. LONDON 18 Charing Cross Road PARIS 66 bis. Rue St. Didier ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising copy for current issue must reach New York office by Wednesday midnight. Advertisements for Europe and New York City only accepted up to noon time Friday. Advertisements by mail should be accom- panied by remittances. SUBSCRIPTION Annual $4 Foreign 5 Single Copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class matter at New York V ol. XX XIX. ^^ No. 7 Mrs. Leroy Sumner is the mother of a girl, born July 13. Mrs. Daly of the Dancing Daly's became the mother of a girl July 6. Bill Lindsay of the Lehigh Valley R. R. has taken a cottage at Freeport so that he can be among the actors. Charles Carter, the American magi- cian, will make another tour of the world next season. ■B Jack Abrahams and E. S. Bunch are to take "The Candy Shop" out for a tour of the one nighters next season. Frederick Bradbury, the juvenile in Milton Pollock's act, married Irene Mitchell of the "Passing Show of 1915." Oreste Giolito, the restaurant pro- prietor, was in an automobile accident last week but escaped with minor in- juries. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. George Creel (Blanche Bates) last week. It is their second child, the first being a girl. Bertha Mann, Harrison Forde, Charles Ruggles and Arthur Ayles- worth are announced as engaged for Selwyn & Co.'s "Rolling Stones." Dorathia Hall (Hall and Pattee) has fully recovered from her recent ner- vous breakdown and will resume play- ing with the opening of the season. Cliff Hess, of the Waterson, Snyder & Berlin staff, and Mrs. Leslie Mor- rosco returned to New York this week from their honeymoon. Billy West, the Chaplin imperson- ator who came east under the manage- ment of Menlo Moore ane the direc- tion of Harry Weber, has hopped back to the Loew offices and is playing at the American the last half of the cur- rent week. West played one week for the United Booking Offices and with a suit for liquidated damages facing him, he decided to abanaon the possi- bility of a big time route for immedi- ate work. "The Woman," the latest Chaplin Essanay release, js on the same bill William Currie will be the manager of Joseph Brooks' production "Mr. My's Mystery," placed in rehearsal Monday. Harry Rose and Freddie Hillebrand deny they are to do a double act. Each is a single now playing on the Loew time and working right along. Clara Blandick will be in support of May Irwin in the production of "13 Washington Square," to be produced at the Park Aug. 23, after opening at Asbury Park Aug. 16. Matt Keefe and Emil Subers are the first principals to be engaged for the Neil O'Brien Minstrel Show, Subers being the principal end man, while Keefe will offer his specialty. Chas. Hammerslaw, the Chicago rep- resentative of the Orpheum Circuit, is vacationing on Broadway. Mr. and Mrs. George Middleton are also spend- ing a week at New York. Mrs. John Morse, sister of Eddie Darling of the United Booking Offices, is taking in the Exposition at San Fran- cisco as guest of F. P. Shanley of the Continental Hotel, the principal pro- fessional hostelry of that city. Sammy Levy of the Waterson, Ber- lin & Snyder office, is back in town carrying a few extra pounds of weight due to sunburn accumulated on a ten days' vacation spent at the Thousand Islands. Jo Paige Smith is wearing crutches for a few days, as the result of his acci- dent last week in Staten Island. Other than almost a full beard Jo grew dur- ing his confinement, he was not dis- figured. A daughter was born Wednesday to Mrs. C. S. Humphrey, wife of the gen- eral manager of the Chicago branch of the United Booking Offices. This is the second child, the first also being a girl. Al Fields is working the Miles time with a new partner, Jack Lewis, hav- ing returned to vaudeville with a mono- logue. The act, however, is billed as Fields and Lewis on the western cir- cuit. Roy Murphy, who represents in Chi- cago the Fuller Circuit (Australia) here, is making an endeavor to come to an arrangement with the steamship company so as to have all acts sailing for Australia embark at Vancouver in- stead of San Francisco. Chris Brown was somewhat as- tounded this week when a visitor sent word he was sent there by Big Tim Sullivan who has been dead for some time. Curiosity led him to investigate and the bearer proved to be the hus- band of Ruth Everett, who displayed a letter of introduction written by Sul- livan a few days before he was re- moved to a sanitarium. It is believed this was "Big Tim's" last business communication. Dorothy Burman, of the Marinelli office, leaves Saturday for two weeks at Hurleyville, N. Y. That's Dorothy's idea of a wonderful time. Samuel A. Eliot, Jr., assistant di- rector of the Little theatre, was mar- ried last Saturday to Ethel A. Cooke in Pittsneld, Mass. Sallie Fields of Fields and Clifford was forced to retire from the bill at Keeney's, Brooklyn, last week, because of a fall. The review printed in Variety mentioned the act as two men, appar- ently being the turn delegated to depu- tize. The stock company closing at Ham- merstein's Lexington Avenue opera house last Saturday was known as the Lexington Players and was owned by Messrs. Wales, Winter and Howard Rumsey and was not the Rumsey Play- ers, as formerly reported. Manuel Reicher is to produce "When the Young Wine Blooms" as the first offering of the Modern Stage Society for the coming season. Last year "Elga" and "John Gabriel Borkman" were staged. This season no less than six new productions will be made by the society. Mrs. James (Fat) Thompson (pro- fessionally known as Janet Adair) is slowly recovering after a serious ill- ness attending the birth of her son, June 25. The child, a boy, only lived a few hours and it required the skill of two specialists to pull Mrs. Thomp- son through. A. J. Gillingwater, manager of the General Film's Detroit offices, is spending a short vacation in New York. Gillingham has arranged for one of his Grand Rapids theatres to play burlesque next season, while the other will house a straight picture policy. Mort Singer, general manager of the Western Vaudeville Manager's Associ- ation, and Sam Kahl, active manager of the Finn-Hyman circuit, returned to Chicago Wednesday after a lengthy visit through several Middle-Western towns. No news as to their activity while away was given out. Steve Hurley, manager of the Unique and Lyric, St. Johns, N. B., acknowl- edges the receipt of $14 from the Aborn Opera Co. to go to the aid of Harry Eanett, who is seriously ill here. Mr. Hurley also thanks Sheppard and Ott for their efforts in trying to aid the sick man. A general denial is made by the de- fendants, through their attorney, Maur- ice Goodman, of the allegations con- tained in the complaint filed by Charles Bornhaupt and Clifford Fischer against the United Booking Offices and others, alleging restraint of trade and asking damages. The answer in the action was served about a week ago. The answer also contained a denial of any existing agreement between the book- ing agency and H. B. Marinelli, as alleged by the respective plaintiffs. Anna Cleveland, the former stock star, has formed her own picture pro* ducing company and will make features at Watertown, N. Y. TOMMY'S TATTLES. By Thomas J. Qray. The legitimate managers in an- nouncements of theif plans for next season neglected to state what vaude- ville acts material they intended to take, and what burlesque shows would be attacked for scenes. See wherj the Government intends to have a Strategy Board consisting of a number of our great men. Henry Ford was one of the first ones chosen. That shows you what vaudeville can do for a fellow. Guess the newspaper men who are writing about the awful gas in Europe never met one of our song pluggers. With the courts full of headline trials and the newspapers full of new front page heroes, it makes Loney Haskell cry every time he nears Broad- way and 42d street. Summer Complaints. "It's funny we haven't heard any- thing about next season's route." "I told you not to ask that guy to stay—he thought you meant it." "We got more for that week when we played it last summer." "If you don't get a Yale lock for that ice-box we'll go bankrupt soon." "The boat's all right, only it leaks a little, the engine gets stuck and the wheel is broken." "That idea of having so many bed rooms is all wrong, I tell you." "If they don't come through pretty soon we'll cop a 'burley-que/" "How many more payments must we make on those lots?" "Look out, don't touch me, I'm sun- burned." "Talk about hard luck. I picked some poison ivy by mistake and the wife's people are coming tomorrow." The moving picture manufacturing business has reached great heights, now the question is what are they going to do for an encore? Wonder how it feels to own an out- door summer amusement park on a rainy Sunday? A stagehand's life would be all fun, If everybody worked in "one." That young woman, Blanche Merrill, who has steadily come forward until she is one of the recognized work writers of the profession, a position gained by her through original and fresh ideas for vaudeville, has been commissioned already to turn out sev- eral acts for next season. Among those Miss Merrill will write turns for are Fannie Brice, Lillian Shaw, Harry Hines, Maurice Burkhardt, Irene Mar- tin and Skeets Gallagher, Mary Gray, and Helen De Forest and Geo. Kraft. If you don't adVortlM te VARIETY,