Variety (November 1918)

■,>^t^^- ■■"■'-■ ■"""^■-'■'•'■".■';.•■"■■ ■ ' '■ VARIETY ^ 2S'M MAN A G E R S, : T A K E W A R NIN G! It having come to, mjr knowledge that certai ► believing that they are presenting my original of trying to mislead managers into "VANISHING ELEPHANT" I take this opportunity of informing these gentlemen that the VANISHING ELEPHANT ILLUSION is mj' o-wn personal property* having been invented and produced by myself ^ *^ • FOR THE FIRST TIME ON ANY STAGE IN THE WORLD AT THE NEW YORK HIPPODROME, JAN. 7, 1918, 7 WITH JENNY, A 10,000-POUND ELEPHANT ^ | N THE "VANISHING ELEPHANT" illusion. ho\yso.e,ver presented, absolutely belongs to me. and I shall safeguard my ownership to the limit of the law. In thus protecting my interests I am sustained by tifs Vaudeville Managers' Association and the National Vaudeville Arjtlst's,'Inc. HOUDINI NEW YORK HIPPODROME ■•■."■! m m ATTORNKTB—EBN8T, ^0&* CANB, tl Liberty StrMt, New York dty EPIDEMIC. ■'■■■]■ ; f'(continued Iroin page iS.) ' '■ . dfmic iot the lajBt Several weeks. It ii: not expected the coast sections will pptu up for another two weeks. In uddition toSt. Paul and Des Moines .the Orpheum Circuit was assured of '■I the opening of Omaha and Memphiar (declared: free of quarantine Nov. 1), BO that with Chicago going, the Orpheum will have at least five cities . open next week. Withal the feeling is expressed in legitimate and vaudeville cfTCles that while a majority of quarantines will be lifted Nov. 4, the general opening may not happen until Nov. 11. Legiti- mate managers ordered companies brought back to New York to start re- hearsals as early as Tuesday with the advice that there was a possibility of manjr attractions going out Monday and a surety (or the following week. . Companies have been advanced as much salary as 'desired, suCh amounts averaging about $1,000 weekly in the case «f musical attractions, with bur- lesque managers claiming approxi- mately a similar weekly advance. New York City is now in its sixth week of the epidemic, which showed a decline in new cases for the first days of the current .week. It is felt that there is now no chance of closing the theatres Monday and Tuesday, with ^Imost summer weather, furnished Ideal conditions for the propagation of the influenza bug. Yet the public's fear of the disease appears to be on the decrease and business in the' thea- tres showed a slight betterment. Cities upstate started opening quickly. Full vaudeville bookings for next week and time thereafter have given the booking offices the air of usual times and expectations are that within ten days, normal conditions will have been attained except in the far west. Not many definite decisions were forthcoming from points between New York and Chicago in the Ohio River valley, but there is likelihood~^ that those cities will also resume. On Wed- nesday Indiana officially announced the state open, commencing Thursday. Nearly every cantonment is out of quarantine or will be by the end of . the week, and the naval bases also re- port a steady elimination of influenza. . The New York dailies for the first time this week gauged the ravages of the epidemic by the reports of when thea- tres will be allowed to open in the various sections of the country. Reports from England where the dis- ease appeared before it became epi- demic here, are that drastic combative measures may be necessary. That the influenza should show such continued strength there indicates it will neces- sitate careful measures" over here -^•^tiiroiighout 'the-vrittterv v^^-v:----r--i;v;.^:^:^;:; Le«na Dastin ApoUai for Divorca. San Francisco, Oct. 30. Leona Dustin has brought an action against her husband. Edwin J. Cowles, for divorce. Miss Dustin was formerly wifh the Will King Musical C»me4y C». SHOWS IN NEW YORK. "An Idcol HnMband," Comedy (7tb week). «AneHoncer/' Manhattan 0. H. (lat »Bc Calm CamUla." Booth (l8t w«ek). MBIv ChJuiec,^ 48tb St (iBt Week). "Canarr," Globe-(let week). ••Oaddle*,^ L>-£euin (9th week). <«ETei7thln&*' Hippodrome (llth Week). MPiddleni ■Ehree," Cort (9th wMk). "Forever AXtit*,» Central (Sth we«k). "Freedom," Ceatury 2nd week.) "Friendly Bacmlea/' Hudson (16tb "Ulrl Behind the Gan,» AmBterdam (7lh ••Olorlanna." Ul»ert7 (let Week). "Head Ore* Heel*," Geo. M. Cohan (10th week). "InCormatlon PleaBe," Selwyn (6th "Ladica FInt/* Broadhuret (2nd> week). "LlKhtaW." Gaiety' (10th weak). "Matinee BTero," Vanderbllt (4tb Week). "HldnlcM Berne," Century Ofove (30th "Nothfag But Llca.". IdHtracre (4tb week). "Not With Mr Btoney," .t9th St. (2nd "Paaatas Sk«Wt" Winter Garden (16tb week). "Perklna," Henry Miller (Ind week). "Cctei'a-Mother," Playhouse (let week). "Bedematioa," Plymouth <lBt week). "Rtehellen," 44th St (let week). "Riddle Woatan." Harris (Snd week). "Savins Graec^ Empire (Bth week). "Sinbad/> Caelno (9tb week). "Sometime,'* Shubert (Stb week). "Sieeplntc Partnera," BlJou (5th week). ■ "Stitch In Time," Fulton (3rd week). "T for S," Elliott (7th week). ."The Better'Ole." Greenwich (3rd week). "Three Facea Eaat.*^ Cohan ft Harris (I2tb week). "Three WIms Foots,*' Criterion (let week). "Under Orders,*' tBItlnge (llth week). "Unknown Purple/* Lyric (Stb week). •'Where Popple* Bloom,** Republio (lOth week). Richard Warner, author' of several sketches is now acting in one of his latest acts, "No Half Way," with his wife, Marietta Craig. Sunday evening, at Broadway and 46th street, Dick Mason, exhibition skater, tried out a pair of pneumatic skates. The skates have miniature rubber tires instead of roller wheels. Hugh Ward, of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., the Australian theatrical syndi- cate, is due to arrive in New York al- most any day, on his annual visit to New York in search lof material for his firm. LETTERS When lendhi* for naH to VAUBTT, •ddrcM H«n Clerk Where C fallows name, letter is In Varletjr'a Qimm Mlee. 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