The Billboard 1911-10-07: Vol 23 Iss 40 (1911-10-07)

54 The Billboard OCTOBER 7, 1« 4, — ! — UP AND DOWN BROADWAY. offerings at the New Theatre for two seasons | trett Caroline Leonard, Frank Herbert and Rob. | George last week revived in Detroit. Ty tw : Mr Courtenay started rehearsals this week rt M. Fair plays will start the subscription series ; D) (Continned from page 4.) and will open bis tour at Columbus, Ohio, on Lydia Loupoukowa and Alexander Volonine, | plays, which will be presented during New ’ . Thureday October O He wil vw supported | who recently deserted Gertrude Hoffmann'’s Com York season of Miss George — Witt | J. Btoet formerly a Chicago impresa by a notable company, which will include Mrs pany, have been engaged to appear as mem So rapid has becn the improvement Mr rio. has Kou tn for higher education. In tbe Harriet Otis De ubangh, Alfred Fisher Ket vrs of the Russian Company, which is under | Leslie Carter's health during the past w. on abs uce ©! more attractive and more remuner| Se Tilbury slavel Yurka, John Chulow, Sel the direction of Ma Rabinoff, sebeiuled for | her manager, Join Cort, placed the compa that ative diversions he has organized himself int ima Hall, Jessie Glendenning and Regivald Bar ts opening at Hartford, Conn., Oct, 9 The | Will surround her this season in Two mee le Manu acturers’ Bilucational Film Company sOW . me : = presentations will be in the form of repertoire into rehearsal, Mouday Mrs. Carter aa which. througi the medium of moving plciures, Phe Talker, originally produced in Cleveland Phe Scotch company that is to present When | is not yet sufficiently strong to direet | tea « _epteavos to instruct the young of the land | {#st summer by a stock company. is svou to] Bunty Pulls the Strings, under the direction of | but within the coming week will giv: _ it 3 he methods of proper living. lave regula production at the hands of | the Shuberts, this season. arrived in New York | hearsals her personal attention . re Ralph Herz in ’ doctor De Luxe will make Heury B Iiarris Mr Harris acquired the |} the early part of last week from Glasgow, They | While in St. Louis last week, Lew Dov kstag 7 cturn “it to New York for a short engage guts Marion Fairfax, the author, who in pened this week for a try-out in a small town learned that the grave of Jerry Hunt a ee ', when he will be seen at the Grand Opera | Private life is Mrs. Tully Marshall. Inciden ear the metropolis The company consists of | the city passeager agent of the Chica ; a wus ( » , tohe » ‘ . lly re} 1 has hes ‘ — ‘ »} » > L . : | : x Ite . be e, pentng October 2 He bas practically le : Ma shall ha youn ngaged to play the Wily Pearson and the Misses Sadell. Singleton, | Railroad, was unmarked in aay manu, 0 “ onme " liant company, but has added to | ading role , : a : Nybole aud Davidson, and Messrs. Guilan, In. | bas started a fund to provide a sultabi: wh wade f witty lines. He is in the habit of | ' ee the example of The Echo, another | gieton, Beresford, Joxone and Sanderson Moffett, | Ment. Dockstader's first step was to a: —_ eee new ones on the average of six a week | of ‘ harives a 8 produc ts is 10 take |a brother of Graham. the author of the play ball game between teams from Dock tn "Tee irl « — in his role. Fo bd road = _— > ferred to is The Fair | Two hundred visiting librarians of the New | Minstrels and The Girl of My Dreams Cou any and Johr i ame — with Leila McIntyre | ©O ha, w which rece appeared 6uccess| york Library Association visited the evening | He also began a campaign to interest oad d > yams, left the Criterion Theatre fully. iliam G Stewart, long known in wrformance at the Hippodrome, Tuesday Sept and theatrical men generally in the erate ae September 8, after a successful engagement, | Comic opera, has acquired the rights from | 5g ; ; x | sold five hundred tickets to the bell” ~ T “« a. a Ba a week’s stand. | Mr. Dillingham and will present the -— Hu Ford, general stage director for Liebler | less than two hours ~~ Se game & show plays as far West as Kansas City | °" tour with his wife, Hattie Fox, in the >. be . ‘ 4 | : : . dt . “ ny Nhe ow i — ; ie «ae a ee SE ~ > Tat . ,| 4nd Company, will have entire charge of the | 4B. C. Hart, theatrical magnate, journ; wnt a ype Bg RN RE ac -_'* ia a a See aes eee production of the Garden of Allah The autaor | Vaudeville producer, has added to ui pairey = ri re PSs eason. < ‘ t s. | ite i aiaee ~~ splendid reception accorded George Hedwig Reicher has been engaged as the ~ Bene may ~~ pao me ag — “4, in an ad —_ = Sn = A ney, with offic the r , y > = a? ‘ , } ading oms j > o The; > i 3 apacity ix the *hearsals : 3 i > lac k's Thcstee, sais er as nee ot ao Pea aon ong eee : — Baby Mine, Margaret Mayo's jolly farce, | Lew Fields announces the engagement of the that this attraction will hold the boards of that | Drama League of that city. Sheldon Lewis, | Wile Srvnt the past season at Daly's Theatre, | (oe feararet mine members of the cast of bistoric playhouse for the greater part of the | Who was a former member of this company last week Margaret Clerk and Walter denne |edienne, and Miss Fanchon Thompson, a “aN » s Te -a©rs “e P ae .@ age ¢ are ia 4 4 Jones | , so ’ acme a — A_-_ play, A | tty poe aaa has been re-engaged for f the original company reappeared donna. Miss Thompson will be a Ane . sy 7 ¥ audl— . : te | . ow , . . wo ‘ ence’s approval and the same combination is Alice Nielson, who has been singing success Faia are — = The Country Boy, O° Se ee -¥ Lm ee ey record is ure to ase mab . c ,| fully hroughout Surope since . -parture | * le Grane pera ense last wee ’ J ne one, she RAVINE appeared at Covegt i oe y suileaces for some time trom the Westen emg jaa i sean Fritzi Scheff began her season under the Shu | Garden, Londou, as Stefano to the Bence ‘ > = , . » a ures 7 " | > » > ce t _ iustave Amberg, manager of the Irving Place will make her first appearance at the Worcester gy, meri Monday evening, Septem ber oo i tee ~— Melba Theatre, announces that the playhouse will open Musical Festival the hitter part of this month. read Hert ¢ ess, a new comic opera by Vie Mis Tl “ ; Edouri de Kesake, its season On October 1, with Der Deppelmensch, | 5! is to be «a member of the Metropolitan | [0% Herbert. | ss Shompeon is a native of Chicago, where she a new farce by Lipshitz and Jacoby, which has| @T#nd Opera Company this season. Herbert M, Horkheimer and Lucy Sawyer will | St8t sang in Professor Swing’s religious sery been played here in English. Henry Bender, a Adelaide Herrmann, the magician and illu produce their new play of Western life, The | lees in that city She has resided in Paris« for Berlin comedian, will make his first appearance sionist, is preparing a series of articles for ty ge in October. Albert Gallatin tA ome re ee Was engaged by Mr. : z . icate wv > cle: ode w oy >» CRs elds he . > in the role played in English by Harry Mann. ms — 5 ie on ancient ane es p Flea a . : . : = dade Thom ova 4 7 cable. John Drew will shortly begin his second | ™4s!c. Madame lerrmann has traveled a sias J. oml, a member of the Mrs. Fiske | ant. . : » once more cop month of practically capacity prosperity at the | 0VeT the civilized globe with her late husband, Company in Mrs, Bumpstead-Leigh, has written | Cemned theatrically having left his Luna Park €mpire Theatre in the new Hubert Henry Davies | Herrmann the Great, and has collected much | a three-act comedy fp collaberation with Guy | @U@rters for bis 45th Street office last week comedy, A Single Man data of interest. Her experiences among the | R. Boulton, which bears promise of a production — plan of keeping Luna open on Saturday _Crowded houses are the rule at the Criterion Hindoo fakirs are unusually interesting. . — spring. op oe = eet the month October Tueatre, since Charles Frohman first put upon Miss Billie Burke will begin her annual enive weeks of capacity houses attests to the | 088 been abandoned. [be returns did not the stage that singularly telling dramatic document, Passers-by. Richard Bennett, Ernest Lawford, Julian Royce, A. G. Andrews, Louise Rutter, Rosalie Toller and Ivy Hertzog have in dividually builded permanently for their acting fame by their enaction of the various parts assigned them. Henry B. Harris is presenting Edward Sel wyn's four-act comedy, The Country Boy, at Coban & Harris’ Grand Opera House this week, ‘beginning Monday, September 25. The cast includes Ethel Clayton, Maurice Dale, Carolyn Elberts, Kate Donnelly, Mrs. Charles Craig, Marion Stephenson, Ida Glenn, H. Dudley Haw ie~ George Wright, Joseph Kaufman, Walter Allen, Alfred Moore, Jack J. Horwitz, George Wender and J. H. Roeder. The Old Homestead Company, with Willlam Lawrence in the role of Uncle Josh, opened its twenty-sixth season of its remarkable career, under the management of Franklin Thompson, tn Norristown, Pa., and is fully demonstrating by crowded houses, that it will always have potency to please. This is Mr. Lawrence’s ninth seasen in the role, which he has greatly embellished. The cast also includes Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, Frederic Lyon, J, S. Calkins, Willard McKegney, James Morris, William Vaughan, Hardie Meakin, J. J. Monroe, Frank S. Bagge, Harry Mack, James Finnegan, Eileen O'Malley, Dorothy Antel, Lillian Stone, Mrs. Emma Chase and Vera Faust. Mr. J. K. Varney is manager and A, K. Hall is in advance. B. Earley is leader of the orchestra. Hadj Nassar, agent for Hassan Ben All, failed on the Cretic September 21 for Gibraltar to bring to America twenty-five Arabs from Tangier, who are to appear in the Garden of Allah at the Century Theatre. Heary Kolker in The Great fis season in New on October 4 A company is being Name will begin York at the Lyric Theatre organized to play The College Widow, with Ty Cobb, the Detroit baseball player, as the star. Mr, Cobb is to play the part of Billy Bolton, and the play has been adapted so that Billy Bolton will be a baseball star instead of a football hero In one scene the wil! illustrate bis own way of base sliding. The company will begin is season immediate ly after the world’s baseball serles. Bert Feibleman, business manager of the Geo. M. Cohan Theatre, was given a gold and diaMasonic watch fob Saturday, September 2%. at the close of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, which attained a fifty-three-week consecutive New York run. The emblem was accompanied with a parchment of appreciation containing the name of every member of the organization. This is the final week of John Mason's long aud historically-successful run in Augustus Thomas latest play, As a Man Thinks, at the 89th Street Theatre, under the management of the Mesers. Shubert. The Kiss Waltz, at it is now being Management, is musical success. Robert Hilliard, after the East, wl go straight with A Fool There Was. been played west of St. turn to New York next a new American play. the Casino Theatre, where presented under the Shubert witbont question an amazinz an opening month in to the Pacific Coast which has not yet Louis. Upon his respring he will produce That in things theatrical it pays to take pains is emphatically proven by the record to date of the thoroughly refined and genuine iy melodious The Siren, at the Knickerbocker Theatre, which has yet to be played to a poor audience since it came to the Knickerbocker ago. Donald Brian, Julia Firth, Frank Moulan, Will along with Leo Fall's music, Theatre over a month Sanderson, Elizabeth West and others are the contributing causes to this musical play’s record. Miss Charlotte Walker has begun her rehearsals in The Trail of tne Lonesome Pine, which wil! be produced the first week in October by Klaw & Erlanger. Robert Drouet will play the role of John Hale. Other members of the cast seré George C. Thompson, Lillian Dix, W. S. Hart, Willard Roberison, Alice Lindahl and Cyrus Wood. Henry Miller, whose trip to the Coast in The Havoe has been a grand success, is coming East to head a company of players who will appear in New York City in a series of new plays, Mr. Miller has been a member of several sim!ilar organizations in the past. As a boy he trained under Lester Wallack, Augustin Daly and Dion Boucicault. He later achieved fame as a member of the Lyceum Theatre Stock Cempany and the Empire Theatre Stock Company. During these early days Mr. Miller was intimately associated with many celebrities of the stage. Mr. Winthrop Ames will present Willlam Courtenay for a road tour in Rudolf Besier's comedy, Don, which formed one of the principal gagement of two months at the Lyceum Theatre on Monday, October 9, in her new play, The Runaway. Her new leading man this season is Aubrey Smith. Early in the spring Miss Burke will abandon her American season to avail herself of an opportunity to appear in Paris in a new play lately completed by Messrs. de Cail lavet and de Flers, the authors of Love Watch es. In this piece, which is to be produced at the Gymnase Theatre, Miss Burke, who is expert in French conversation becaus® of her childhood and girlhood, spent in Paris, will play the part of an American girl who speaks French with a slight American accent. The four-act play, A Butterfly on the Wheel, will be placed in rehearsal shortly. Miss Marie Doro will appear in the chief part. A Butterfly on the Wheel will be acted first at Atlantic City, in October, after which it will come to New York. John Mason, in As a Man Thinks, went dilrect from the 39th Street Theatre, where it has just finished its phenomenal run, to the West End Theatre for one week. The company was the same as seen on 39th Street. Liebler & Co. has decided that Mme, Simone will begin her engagement at Daly’s Theatre in The Thief on October 16, instead of October 9, so that she may have an extra week for preparation for presenting in English a play she has always given in French. May Irwin has taken up her residence in New York, where she will meet the author of her new comedy, Miss Crimmins, and begin to prepare for rehearsals. An affair in The Barracks, the property of Liebler & Co., experienced its premiere at Columbus, O., Thursday, September 28. Buckeye reports are perfervid in their bestowal of praise. The leading actor is Emmett Corrigan, C. M. S. MeLellan, the author. The Poor Rich is the title selected by Paul Wilstach, author of the dramatic version of Thais, for the new comedy which has been written for Tim Murphy. The piece is in rehearsal and Mr. Maurrev will play it occasionally on bis Southern tour, before making it his exclusive offering about Thanksgiving. Blanche Bates, in Nobody’s Widow, is the attraction at the Cohan & Harris Grand Opera House this week. Max Rabinoff, director of the troupe of Russian dancers and also interested in the Metrepolitan Opera House, underwent a_ surgical operation the past week which cost him a portion of his right index finger and some of the thumb on the same hand. The cause of the in cision was blood poisoning contracted in Paris two weeks age when the director was accident ally cut around the quick of the nail while being manicured. ‘The operation has remedied the trouble. A. H, Woods has engaged Sallie Fisher to act the principal role in his forthcoming production of Modest Suzanne The piece is now running in Berlin. Vienna and Paris. Its Occidental premiere will take place about November 1. In Chicago. H. H. Frazee is interested with Woods in the production. Henry W. Savage announces the engagement of Eugene O'Brien for the character of Ramon Andrade, the sculptor. in A Million. For the past three seasons O’Brien has been In the supnorting companies of Ethel Barrymore, Kyrie tellew and Fritz) Scheff. Rehearsals began the early part of last week of the new play by Edward C. Carpenter, in which Suy Bates Post is to have the principal role. The tentative title of the pro@uction is His Great Desire. The cast ix nnique in that there is but one woman in it The distinction was awarded to Maude Gilbert Janet Waldorf is plarving Vetive in Graustark through the South at the present time for Baker and Castle. The Lady of Coventry is the title selected for the new Louis N. Parker play in which Viola Allen is to appear. The play will deal with the adventures of Lady Godiva. The period is 1069, and the historical side of the piece con cerns the antagonism between the Normans and Saxons in England. Miss Margaret Crawford, an American con tralto, has signed a two year contract with the Mayence Opera for 1912-13. Oscar Mammerstein announces that Emma Trentini will sing in his London Opera House in the spring. after the close of her season in Naughty Marietta. On Saturday last at Bridgeport, Madame X began a tour that will embrace the principal Cities between coasts. Adeline Dunfap acts the title role again Others in the cast are Byron Douglas, Harry Mainhall, Robert Payton Gibbs. Charles Stamey, ton, F. J, Loring, H. C, Bradley, Edward Fosberg, Herbert AshHelen Lu tremendous success of the present offering at the New York Hippodrome. Around the World with its spectacular and scenie representation of all the countries worth visiting, bas already exceeded the records of preceding productions at the big playhouse. Among the foreign lands that Mr. Voegtlin has pictured with infinite skill are Ireland, showing Blarney Castle; Wind sor Castle. England; the Harem Gardens of the Grand Vizier, Constantinople; the Durbar in India; the Sphinx and the Sandstorm in the Desert, Egypt; the beautiful Alpine Scene in Switzerland, and several others besides the beautiful Ballet of Butterfties, and the scintil ating water finale, the scene of which is the Fairies’ Glen, which contains a number of aquatic surprises that surpass all those of former seasons. Agnes Ej:liott Scott t leading woman with Robert Mantel! in Shakespearean repertoire, came to the United States as a member of Charles Dalton’s of the Cross, with Ben joined Mr. prominent company presenting The Sign Several seasons as leading woman Greet followed, after which she Mantell and bas since remained a Supporting artist. She has won especial praise as Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Desdemona and Emelia. z : Florence Reed, one of the eleverest of the clever company that created the delightful comdy of Seven Days, has returned from her hollday and is to appear this year in a musical comedy under the manageme e oe all agement of Frazee & Roselle Knott will return to the footlights this year after a long absence. Miss Knott created the role of Lygia in Quo Vadis when that melodrama was presented im America, since which time she has appeared in many productions, touring successfully in Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall and The Duchess of Dantzic. Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire was another popular play in which she appeared. Carter De Haven, the “‘Beau Brummel of the Stage.’’ has been engaged by Henry B. Harris and Jesse LL. Lasky ae the feature act in the cabaret performance at the Follies Bergere. Mr. De Haven began his engagement last Sunday night, September 24 Robert Edeson began his tour in Gelett Burgess’ comedy, The Cave Man, at the Empire Theatre, Providence, last Monday night. Mr. Edesom will continue on the road until early in December, when he will come into New York for a run. Stgned contracts have been received in this city assuring the appearance of Sarah Bernhardt in Engene Walter’s graphic play, The Easiest Way. in which Frances Starr appeared for three consecutive seasons under the man agement of David Belasco. The divine actress has acqnired the French rights. This play ie also to enjoy production in Berlin, London and Vienna the current season. Chas. A. Mason, the German comedian, now appearing in Ziegfeld’s Follies. will next 6eason be starred in a comedy called Seeing America First This Dutchman's presentation of a Deutscher Sangerbund is one of the real Folly hite John Brooks, A. W. Dingwall and A. J. Sim mons attended the opening of George C. Tyler’ new Plymouth Theatre in Boston last Saturday night. From present indications, A. H. Woods wil) have five companies playing in New Yor at the same time. This will probably occur about Thanksgiving, if negotiations now pending go through. At present Julian Eltinge is playing to big receipts at the Liberty Theatre, with Th: Fascinating Widow. In a few weeks Marguerita Sylva In Gypsy Love will be housed at Dilline ham’s Globe Theatre. Arrangements are being made to bring the Dustin and William Farnum snecess, The Littlest Rebel, to the big city In November .and in the same month, Modest Sn zanne, With Sallie Fisher, and another Woods’ production, will have a Metropolitan hearing Liebler & Company have completed the cast for the support of Mme. Simone, who will make her American debut in The Thief. at Daly's Theatre, on October 16 In the company are: Edwin Arden, Albert Gran. Sydney Herbert Charlies Francis and Grace Halsey. Joseph M. Galtes announces the of Arthur Forrest for the role of Ozir in) the forthcoming production of The Enchantress, In which Kitty Gordon is to be featured. Although a Victor Herbert composition, the ex-dramatie actor will net be required to sing. This marke Forrest's second season under Galtes manage ment. Cyril Seott, in A Modern Marriage, forsook the Bijou Theatre Saturday September 20. The successor has not yet been announced. October 30, The Earth, by James Bernard Fagan, is to open at The Playhouse, to be fol lowed by Much Ado About Nothing, which Grace engagement | Ordered, | ceased to run. justify it after the Mardi Gras week was over. His first new offering is to be the product of John Meclutyre, entitled Elizabeth's Chauffeur The second will be George Barr Met utcheon’s own dramatization of The Flyers, which wil! in all probability be rechristened. Edgar Selwyn apd his own play. The Arab, move from the Lyceum Theatre to the Astor Monday, October 2, when What the leter a Wagenbals & Kemper production, The Lyceum was not to le va cated by The Arab until October 9 when Bi! lie Burke commences her New York season in Runaways, but Henry B. Harris felt the loc tion of the Astor preferable to that of the Frohman house. Dan Slattery, formerly secretary to the po lice commissioner of New York City, has been engaged by David Belasco as advance agent of the Concert. Slattery has many friends amongst the amusement profession Edith Taliaferro and the member< of the Ke becca of Sunnybrook Farm Company, rehearsed most vigilantly all last week in New York and hastened to the Windy City on the 20th Century last Friday, September 2, im order to make their opening at the Illinois Theatre, Chicage on the evening of September 30. Joseph Brooks and A. W. Dingwall accompanied the expedi tion. The Never Homes’ initial performance has been postponed from September 30 ty Oetober Klaw & Erlanger will open the Garrick Thea tre on Wednesday evening, October 11, witb George Beban in his own play, The Sign of the Rose. This attraction was used by Messrs. Kiaw & Erlanger for the opening of the pew Atlanta Theatre. It scored so effectively that it was decided to bring the play into New York as quickly as arrangements could be made for « theatre. Associated with Mr. Beban in bis ylay are Marie Pavey, George Probert, Franklin itehie, Carl Antheny, Extha Banks and Edna May Howell. PERTINENT PATTER. Mabel Carew has a vew act called Her RouwndUp, in the presentation of which she is assist by five people Within a short time the act will go over the Sullivan & Considine Circuit William B. Sherman of Calgary, Alta., the yrominent vaudeville magnate of the Canadian Northwest, was in New York this week of ganizing musical comedy companies which be will send on tour through the Canadian terri tory later in the season. He also purchased much furniture with which to equip his thea tres, James Fennimore Lee, who forseok journalism to assume the management of Sullivan & Con sidine’s Empress Theatre in Chicago, is more than making good in his new position Edmund Elton has been engaged as leading man for Madame Simone Mikall Mordkin and his Russian dancers will open their season at Parson's Theatre, Hartford, Coun... October 0 Edward Vroom lectured on the drama at [he Hartford Golf Club September 27 before 4 large and interested audience New York, Sept. 30 (Special to The Pill toard).—-Little Bert Burton has been especially engaged to play Bobby Lane in Alias Jimmy Valentine at the Richmond Theatre, Stapleto S. L., the week of October 2, George Austin Company, in a comedy wir act are working the Proctor Circuit with grath fying results, Thomas Fitch, author of Reaping the Harvest and other plays and sketches, Is appearing in the support of Julia Romaine in vaudeville in ® playlet called For Memory'’s Sake. AMUSEMENT INCORPORATIONS. Albany. N. Y., Sept, 30 (Spectal to The Rill board).—The Henrietta Crosman Company \ New York City was incorporated last week wit) a capital of $10,000. The object of the ym pany is to engage generally in the theatre ‘us! ness, to own and lease theatres, sell and ¢* ploit dramatic and musical productions. The directors are Maurice Campbell, Henrietta Crosman and Meyer C. Goldman, all of ‘** York City The Otto Henry Harras Incorporation of \°¥ York City was another amusement enter i that filed articles of tncorporation = bere The company is capitalized at $5,000, and wl! carry on the business of producing and mae Ing plays, circuses, vaudeville acts and mu: ical performances. Otto Henry Harras, Nat 0. Ayer and Frank P. Wolgiom, all of New Sor’ City. are directors, r