The Billboard 1911-01-14: Vol 23 Iss 2 (1911-01-14)

omni —s aed NN Sonim ae oe a ; | | The Billboard JANUARY 14, 1911. The Vaudeville Week in New York NEW YORK ALL-STAR BILL PERTINENT PATTER Imaginary Bill Framed Up from the List of Acts Presented Gossip of the Vaudeville Week in Gotham—Bits of News inthe Metropolis’ Vaudeville Houses During the Past Week, with Arrangement Suggested NEW YORK ALL-STAR BILL. WEEK OF JANUARY 2. A—Emilie Lea, Athletic Fifth Avenue, In B—Blake’s Pony Circus. American Music Hall, Full Stage. C—Arlington Four, Messengers in Singing and Dancing. Colonial, In One. D—HOMER MILES AND COMPANY, On a Side Street. Fifth Avenue, Full Stage. INTERMISSION. Girls, Five Charming Enter Full Stage. English Singing Hall, In One. Dancer. One. in E—Musikal tainers. Fifth Avenue, F—Vesta Victoria, dienne. American Music G—Joe Welch in At Ellis Island. American Music Hall, Full Stage. H—George Austin Moore, Character Vocal ist Come Colonial, In One. J—Odiva, the Samoan Mermaid. Fifth Avenue, Full Stage. With such a wealth of material to select, star feast this week is too sible to include everything of merit on the local vaudeville boards, the result would be a program that it would be impossible to live up to the season through. copceded to Homer Miles and Company, their sketch of metropolitan life, Street. the frame for a convincing story blending comedy and beart interest. Mr. Miles, both actor and author, is to be congratulated us something new. Novelty likewise characterizes Joe Welch’s sketch, At Ellis Island, revealing a little-exploited field of romance, the immigrant station at the threshold of the continent. Vesta Victoria and Carrie De Mar were even contestants for the position of singing comedienne, but Miss De Mar’s previous inclusion in the all-star bill left the field to her English rival. Besides Miss DeMar, Joseph Hart had another offering, A Night in a Turkish Bath, which will possibly find place upon some future bill, sity to vary the features. Five Musika) Girls, a quintette of ladies from the Original Fadettes, rich. Were it On a Side Current Vaudeville Bills Colonial—Chas. Grapewin and Co. in The Awakening of Mr. Pipp; John B. Hymer and Comany in Tom Walker on Mars; Clay Smith and Bolnotte Twins, singing and dancing; Trovato, violinist; Great Golden Troupe, whirlwind dancing and Russian folk-songs; Namba Troupe, Japanese acrobats; Arthur Deagon, singing monologist; Cunningham and Marion, bats; Four Seldoms, posing. Alhambra—Gertrude Hoffmann’'s New Revue; McConnell and Simpson in A Stormy Hour; Smith and Campbell, Piscatorial Pursuits; Edwin Holt and Company, in The Mayor and the Manicure; Three Livingstons, acrobats; Leon Rogee, imitator of musica] instruments; Yankee and Dixie, trained dogs; Anna Chandler, singing comedienne; Blootblack Quartette. Bronx—Master Gabriel and Co. in Little Tom my Tucker; The Little Stranger. race track drama; Beatrice Ingram in The Duchess; Hen ry Clive and Mae Sturgis Walker in fake megic; World and Kingston, singing and danctng: Vittoria and Georgetta; Carlin, Steele and Carr: Deiro, accordionist; Paul Spadoni, feats of strength. Manhattan Opera House—Valeska Suratt and Company in Bouffes Varietes; Pat Rooney and Marian Bent in At the Stand; Avon Comedy Four; Mr. and Mrs. Mark Murphy; Oscar Ioataine; Chassino; Kessler and Lee; Capt. Ressler; Two Drolls. Fifth Avenue Theatre—Max Rogers and Wm. Kolb in the ‘‘delicatessen scene’’ from Summer Widowers; The Silver Bottle, miniature musical comedy. with Pauline Perry; Mrs. Gardner Orane and Co., in The Little and Lee, Hebrew policeman; Taylor, Kranz and White, pianologue: Lorch Family, Risley artists; Ray Cox. singing comedienne; Will H. Fox, wizard of the piano; Sansone and Delila, eyclonic gyanasts. CHAPMAN HEARD FROM. New York, Jan. 7 (Special to The Billboard). —Broadway has been seeing quite a well-known circus figure during these winter months in the person of Charles A. Chapman, manager of the advertising car No. 1, Frank A. Robbins Circus. nounces that his winter employment, that of assisting his old acquaintance formerly with the Rarnum and Ralley Circus, Frank Waldron, In the office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Jersey City, N. J. He is very proud of the euccess that his wife accomplished as press agent for the Robbins outfit during the past summer. from which | care must be exercised lest the All| The post of honor is | with | An obnoxious police regulation is made | for giving | being crowded out by neces| comedy acro| Sunbeam; Hoey | Charlie is in the best of health and an| | opened the second half of | classic and popular musical repertoire. Geo. Austin Moore with his inimitable vocal char | acterizations. and Odiva, the wonderful Samoan swimmer, have demonstrated their right to position. Emilie Lea, athletic dancer, the bill, being followed by Blake’s Pony Circus, full of hilarious merriment because of the an tics of the mule Maude. The Arlington Four, funny messenger boys, add a dash of comedy, blended with nifty dancing and harmonious vocalizing. the program with | opels | and Items of Interest to Members of, the Profession Near and Far—Miscellaneous Notes Percy G. Williams has scored enother great nee, the dancer, for her first vandeville over his circuit less than luring Nat C. legitimate to become make his first appearance at the Colonial Theatre, New York, on January 23, In a one act version of the play, Lend Me Five Shillings, in which play he will play the part of Mr. Golightly. Moody engagement in This is nothing Goodwin away from a vaudevillian. and Goodwin have now shown their HELENA FREDERICK, Touring the Orpheum Circuit, in The Tales of Hoffman. The American Music Hall Vesta Victoria, than whom there is no English comedienne more popular on this side of the At lantic, headed the big bill at William Morris, } (Ine.) American Music Hall last week, She }came with a brand new repertoire of songs, }each of which was sung with appropriately grotesque costume. They comprised Skating, in an elastic bound hobble skirt; Arcady, in a coster conception of a bucolic costume; and Now I Have To Call His Father, in a blanket dress. Her infectious good humor, ber droll personality, and ber magnetism ali contributed to arouse the American patrons to a high pitch of enthn siasm; nor would the applanse subside until Vesta had consented to sing Poor John, one of her earlier successes. The other star feature of the bill was the sketch introducing Joe Welch in his new Itallan impersonation, It is called at Ellis Island, and tells a pathetic tale of a poor Dago laborer, who saves sixty dollars by the most terrible deprivations to bring his wife and ‘bambino’ to America, and then nearly suffers their loss throngh deportation, because of the red tape with which the government immigration bureau is hampered,. It gives Mr. Welch wonderful (Continued on page 51.) Big Bill at Fifth Avenue Theatre Billed as The International Comedienne, Carrle De Mar headed a remarkable aggregation of talent at Keith and Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Theatre last week, With separate scttings for each number, and with appropriate costume for each, she successively appeared in hobble ekirt and suffragette numbers, as chantecler, as a pajama kid in a song called Come to Bed, with a »propriate motion pictures to continue the theme while changing for the next number, and as a finale Three Days on the Ocean, showing a seasick maiden on the deck of the 8. S. Lusitania, The act made a pronounced bit. Another Joseph Hart act that made good war A Night in a Turkish Bath, which was seen for the first time on Broadway. The scene showed the rest room of a metropolitan Turkish bath, with four customers stretched out on cots and another being subjected to the tortures of the eleetric light cabinet, where he has been fort gotten by the attendant. When released, he proves to be a fat man, Mr. Jones, a drummer for a drug house in New York He has corrailed two brakemen in an inebriated adventure and brought them to the bath with him, They are novices at the sport, and thelr ingenuous (Continned on page 51.) Nat | | atre. | keeping | The Old | big hit during | change j act, Gold and Silver to the metropolitan agents | coup on a par with his signing of Adeline Ge: | They were booked by Sig. Wachter, peared at Manager Sam Kingston's Many commendable features have beep worked into their act, especially notable being the card boy entrance, where Moody enters ip the biue uniform of a page, and vexes Sue Goodwin, who hands out the information that her partner suddenly bas taken sick. Some clever opportunities are worked in at this point and she leaves the stage in a tantrum at the seemingly untimely appearance of the card boy up her furious jabbering behind the scenes. Moody then siogs a single, exits, and Miss Goodwin imitates Eddie Leonard in bis Ida. She exits, and the curtain rolls up dis closing Moody in a gold suit. Then the oppo site end rolls up and reveals Miss Goodwin dressed in silver. A pleasant song and dance then brings on the final exit. Gold and Silver has never been given in this section of the country before, and is a good illustration of how an act can be improved when two origina! pluggers like the above pair put their thoughts together. Mr. Phil Nash has booked Moody and Good win for the week of Jan. 16, at Union Hill, N J. They will follow this up with time over the Poli, Keith and Sheedy circuits. Messrs G. Tagen, ony Merrick and George Thurston, formerly of Williams’ Imperials. are associated in a vaudeville act on the K. & P Family Department time. Howard and Alma are appearing at the Fam ily Theatre in 125th street, in a new act culled Arm Chair, which has been making oe the five weeks that it bas been act was written fifty-two years age Howard's father, but strangely enougb has never before been presented Ne. Alme will be remembered as the original Colonia) singing girl. Mr. Howard made a big persona hit last year impersonating General George Cus ter and General U. S. Grant. At the end of the act, Howard and Alma make a character to the blue and the gray. The aci runs about twenty minutes. Davis and Therndyke, dancers and skaters, have been in New Yorb a short time. coming in from the Coast. They ere using Stern's If I Could See as Far Ahead As I Can See Behind. Ed. Mittag bas just been promoted stage managership at Keith & Proctor’s 234 Street Theatre. He stuck to his post during the recent strike, and his new position is hie reward. and ap City The blackface singers to the (Continued on page 51.) Colonial Bill Last Week Gertrude Hoffmann and her revue, rounding out a fortnight’s stay, was the plece de resist ance of the bill at Percy G. Williams’ Colo nial Theatre last week. Her program comprised the same features as last week, with the excep tion vf Mendelssohn's Spring Song, which wae supplanted by a number representing Isadore Duncan and a bevy of classic-garbed maidens in old Grecian daoces. Miss Hoffmann, in mak ing her farewell appearance in vaudeville, has chosen a vehicle that powerfully portrays her versatility. She presents almost every style of the terpsicborean art from Eddie Leonard's “‘winging’’ to the cobra dance of Ruth St. Denis. and performs them with artistic finesse ané technical beauty. Her revue runs fifty mip utes, and is entitled to rank as the most pre tentious act in vaudeville. “Lacky Jim,"’ playing its second engagemen' of the past twelvemonth here, was warmly welcomed. Jane Courthope, Master Ross Charles Forrester, and Allen Damon comprise the producin. company, assisted by an intelli gent and haadsome pedigreed St. Bernard dog The action takes piace around a mountain cabin in the Rockies, at Christmas time. and the acene is one of rare beauty, with a gushing rivulet dimpling In the moonlight. It is along conven tional) lines, but there is plenty of heart-inter est, and convincingly acted, the work of Mas ter Ross deserving especial comment An elfish little maiden with a mop of auburp curla and a hypnotic gaze that penetrated like a searchlight, was Yvette, who opened in one after the intermission singing a lilting air ip a sweet, cultivated volce. Exiting and effect ing a burried change, she executed a violin sole (Continued on page 51.) HELENA FREDERICK. Helena Frederick, who its appearing over the Orpheum Circuit this season in a condensed version of Offenbach’'s The Tales of Hoffman is one of America’s best known singers. Refore entering vaudeville Misa Frederick was primes denna soprano with many of our most anccess ful musical comedies, her greatest successes be ing In The Tenderfoot, Prince of Pileen. Love's lottery and with Mme. Schumann-Hetnk. Mis Frederick possesses q most remarkable volce her low tones being of the rich contralto qual! ity, while her upper notes have heen com pared to the beautiful tones of silvery bells After several years’ study in this country, Mie Frederick spent four years on the Continent studying and singing in concetts In France and Germeny, Mise Frederick har also gained con siderable praise for her clever acting, her work as Antonia in the Talea of Hoffman being a gocd example of ber histrionic ability.