The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

June 27, 1914 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW 9 $ Live News of Live Wires in Vaudeville $ Bruce and Calvert will play the last half of this week at San Jose for Ella Weston, and then they will journey to Phoenix, Ariz., and play a week. From there they proceed to New Or- leans by the S. P. R. R. and then per steamer'to New York, where they will join a burlesque company on the East- ern wheel. Tom Haverley, now at Los An- geles, will journey east with Al Bruce and Mabel Calvert, joining them at Maricopa, Ariz., one week from next Tuesday. Bert Vincent, the eminent baritone vocalist, is looking forward to an en- gagement of merit that will merit his ability as an entertainer. Some voice has Bert. Clark Burroughs has been a regu- lar caller at the Coast Defenders' of- fice, looking over the actors for an act that Clark will produce at Pan- tages July 5th. He succeeded in get- ting his types for the act. George Stanley, who played a lead- ing type part in the Vice act, will shortly branch out in another charac- ter. George is not only a good actor, but a good vocalist besides. He has never appeared as a movie actor. There is still hope, George. Harry Leahy, than whom there is no better vocalist in our midst, will short- ly organize the Bell Boy Trio. He was of the famous Bell Boy Trio con- sisting of Leahy, Farnswortli and Ives. George Lord, the rising young com- edian at the Lyceum Theatre, is put- ting over a dual character of a min- ister and a Chinaman in his father and mother's musical comedy, entitled Brown's Vacation. To say that George is making the patrons of the Lyceum laugh is drawing it mild. George is a chip off the old block, John. George Weiss has given up the idea of playing Woodland, Chico and ad- joining towns with musical comedy. Monte Carter wants George in his support. Wise move. Manager Cluxton saw Bruce and Calvert at the Republic last week, and probably Al. and Mabel may declare all bets off on burlesque the coming season and do time for Pantages. Doctor Lorenz, the hypnotic boy, was a caller at the Coast Defenders' office this week. He was introduced to the Coast Defenders by his genial manager, Frank Leahy, and Frank did the honors in a splendid way. The doctor was much pleased at meeting so hospitable a concourse of celebri- ties. Moscrop Sisters, Mirika and Car- men, open at the Empress Sunday afternoon. These young ladies entered the professional life here in this city, and in the words of Louis Jacobs of the Taber Grand Theatre, Denver, Col., are an example of the letter writ- ten to The Dramatic Review and published in our last week's issue of what a chorus girl can do. Damaged Goods, emphatically not! They are the goods. Ask Bothwell Brown. He is sponsor for the Moscrop Sisters and this city is proud of them. Ed. Armstrong will produce tab- loid musical comedy at the Republic Theatre, Los Angeles, for Bert Levey for the next five weeks. Some changes will be made in the company for this engagement. Charles T. Byrne, the German comedian, now playing at Pantages, Oakland, in The Fountain of Folly, has under consideration a proposition for the organizing of his own musical comedy company. A prominent man- ager has assured him the time at any time he says the word. Charley is waiting to see how high the fountain will play for time and then he will talk it over with Knowlson and then let the manager know. Monte Carter is still piling them in at the Garrick in Stockton, and the weather is pretty warm at that. But Monte is a banner attraction. Lord and Meek, with their com- ]3any of musical comedy artists, now playing the Lyceum Theatre, are a big drawing power over in the north- ern part of our city, and as the man- ager says, it pays to have good clean shows for your patrons. That is just what Lord and Meek are giving the residents of the North Beach section. Brown's Vacation is the bill this week. Charley Alphin is, Micawber like, waiting for something to turn up in the musical comedy producing line. He will surely land before long. He is very affable and can deliver the goods. Thirteen years ago today the fol- lowing acts were appearing at the Tivoli Concert Hall, Stockton, Cal.: Dorothy Earle, balladist; Jim Swor, dancing marvel; Florence Shafer,coon shouter; Mid Thornhill, (lerman com- edian ; Satanello, contortionist; John- son Sisters, Myrtle and Christie, vocal- ists and dancers; Amanda Bahr, con- tralto vocalist; Matt Puirton, charac- ter comedian. The opening act was Euchred, with Blanche Remington in the leading role, and with Burton, Thornhill, Swor, Satanello, Johnson Sisters and Shafer in her support. Moving pictures closed the show. Musto and Ruiz were the proprietors ; ]\Iatt Burton, manager; David Wolf, leader of orchestra. Admission was 10 cents. This house has been long- out of existence. Harry Hallen was offered an en- gagement at Tonopah, but the high altitude doesn't agree with Harry, and he turned it down. Then Musical Fletcher was sought, but Bill said. Nay, my heart is affected. So Earle- Oro-Gilbert took it up. Nothing ef- fects that trio; they are there at the Big' Casino Dance Hall. Lolita Mather, well and favorably known in the profession a decade ago, was a caller at the Coast Defenders' office this week. She has no desire to return to the stage, and she is happily married and enjoying life. Ed. Lavin, the genial boniface of the Taft Hotel, the Elite, the Savoy and the Poodle Dog Cafe of Stockton, is considering a proposition to build a 2000 seating capacity vaudeville the- atre in Stockton. If Ed. makes his mind up to build the residents of the Slough City can rest assured that Mr. Lavin will give them a theatre second to none on tlie Coast. He is very pop- ular, not only in his home city, but all over the Coast. Go ahead, Ed, the Coast Defenders want to work for you again. Billy and Bessie North are with the Ethel Davis company in The Foun- tain of Folly at Pantages Theatre Oakland. Next week, Los Angeles. WINFIELD UAUDE Blake and Amber Amusement Agency (Under City and State License) Talent supplied for aU occasions. Our AUTHOR'S EXCHANGE has on hand at all times a number of original dramatic and comedy sltetches and plays for sale or on royalty. TIVOIiI OFESA HOUSZ:—3Td floor. Phone Soug-laiB 400 Jack Curtis is manager for Keating & Flood at their theatre in Seattle. Leillie Sutherland, his wife, has set- tled down to home happiness, and Jack vocalizes Mollie and I and the Baby. Marcus Loew, who will take pos- session of the Sullivan & Considine circuit August i, acquired three new theatres the other day. He secured a fifty-year lease on the Fulton Theatre in Brooklyn, leased the Broadway in Brooklyn, giving him seven theatres in Brooklyn, and bought the West End Theatre, New York, from Joe Weber, of Weber and Fields. He also pur- chased the Globe Theatre in Boston. George Dunbar left last Monday in his automobile, with his wife and child, to penetrate up the Coast, away from the railroad, to show moving pictures. He carries his own machine, films, etc., and he will be back next October—no split week for George. Cole and Cole, the aerial artists, are here for a few days. They will short- ly join a carnival company for the bal- ance of the season. Musical IHetcher will play the Hei- delberg, Oakland, and the Hay wards Theatre the coming week. He is as- sisted in his act by a lady pianist. Because of the confusion in the spelling of her name, which has caused her constant embarrassment. Alma Tuchler, who recently com- pleted a most successful engagement on the Bert Levey circuit, has taken the stage name of Alma Grace. Miss Grace is preparing a catchy new act, which includes many new songs and dances. NEW YORK, June 19.—Charles Hubert Fitzgibbon, vaudeville artist, is being sued for divorce. Mrs. Fitz- gibbon charges that her husband mis- conducted himself January 27, 1914, at Oakland, Cal.; in February at Salt Lake City; in May at Buffalo and Toronto, and on June 3 at New York. Fitzgibbon is a headliner in vaude- ville, says his wife, and earns about $12,000 a year. Sadie Campbell and Marie Kessling, dancers with Campbell's shows, which are playing in this city, tired of Marys- ville VVednesday night, and, after donning male attire, departed on the rods of a northbound Western Pacific train, in company with two male mem- bers of the show, who agreed to pilot them to Omaha, Neb. On their ar- rival at Oroville they were arrested for masquerading in male attire. Charley Purcell and Hon Bergerc, who were to have gone out in a l>lake & Amber .sketch, just missed an Or- pheum contract the other day. George W. Stanley, who was such a striking figure in the big Pantages act. Vice, has returned to town, and after a couple of weeks' rest will start over the time again. HE In conversation with PREDICTS an old-time .stage hand C(jncerning vaudeville and moving ])ictures, the stage hand predicted tliat in two years' time only the big seating capacity moving-pic- ture houses would be open. He bases his assertion on the plan that nothing but big feature films would be shown, and that the five-cent houses that are GOLDSTEIN SCO. ^r\r»T| ||lj|nr)f* ^o"" Paclflc IjUo I UIVI Ll\<3Gold8teln sHL1? and WlK Store Make-up, Play Books. Established 1878. Xiincoln Bulldlnr. Market and nfth Mti H. L,ewin H. Oppenhelm GORDAN TAILORING CO. 938 Market St., l)et. 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And as for vaudeville, he asserts that the prices to vaudeville houses will be elevated, instead of lo, 20, 30; there will be three prices—15, 25, 50—for the three-a-day .shows; that the 50- cent seats will all be reserved. This is the way it should be. As for stand- ing for an hour or more to get into a vaudeville show, he claims that re- serving the seats at top prices will enable a patron to protect himself and family on a stated night or matinee he or she wishes to attend. Also that a law by all municipalities should be passed regulating the prices to all the- atres, and once made not to be changed for one year; that will compel the managers of the theatres where vaude- ville is shown to keep their acts up to the highest standard. No jumping wy. of prices on Saturday and .Sunday as some houses are doing at the present time — and the stage hand wended his way to do three a day at $35 per, which, believe me, I lamlet, is some prosperity. Sam Loeb Writes of Pros= perity Salt Lake, June 21, 1914. Just a few lines to let you know that 1 am now on my 24th week at the Princess Theatre here, producing nnisical comedy tabs. Business is good and T am here to stay until 1915. 1 am lo close my present company on the Kjtli of July, then 1 go to 'Fri.sco lo organize a new company to open here on .August 12 for the fall sea- son. I took hold of this theatre when she was a fit subject for the under- taker and sad music, and built it up to be one of the most popular houses in Salt Lake. Just at the present time show business around Utah is not at its best. I have seen over twelve shows go broke here in the last six months. With my best wishes, Sam Loeb, Princess Theatre, Salt Lake, Utah.