The Billboard 1911-10-21: Vol 23 Iss 42 (1911-10-21)

ome 54 The Billboard Reem OCTOBER 21, 19; UP AND DOWN BROADWAY. John Dean, who was the leading man for paralyzed by the speeches of acceptance he ment. Cupid seems to be busy also wit Miss Fannie Ward in The New Lady Bantock, has been called upon to make. fred Frazer and Leonard Crasker, (Continued from page 4.) has been engaged by H, M. Horkheimer for Anna Cleveland, an exceedingly attractive | Opposites in the Parker production. The » In 55 a ; The Strugglers. woman and talented actress, has concluded her People solemnly affirm that they have no as puan. Tim Murphy; Sallie Dunn, Aubrey The seventh amiversary of the firm of Co| rehearsals of Retribution, a dramatic playlet | tention of deserting the stage. piece Nellie Dunn, Adelyn Bushnell; Andy | han & Harris had a fitting observance at the from the pen of Valerie Bergere, and will be It is understood that Mabel -Talliaferro apes, 0. J. Grithn; Tom Mapes, Sidney Riggs; George M. Cohan Theatre on the night of Tues| seen next week in its first production under taken quite a liking to her present Roland Gilder, George Wellington; Topham, | day, October 10. Letters and cablegrams of con| the personal direction of Miss Bergere. The Work in which she portrays her art fore ¢ Richard Sterling; and Harriet Gilder, Dorothy | gratulation poured in from all parts of the | sketch will be presented in vaudeville and prominappreciative and silent motion picture ¢ Sherrod. * 3 . world. The Lambs, Players and Green Room | ises to be one of the strongest acts ever preOf the Selig Company, Chicago. Arnold Benner, English playwright, has} Clubs sent committees to congratulate Mr. Co-| sented in vaudeville. Miss Creveland is) an Speaking and Singing is the title of vlanned a trip to this country on the Lusitania, | han and Mr. Harris. who were much elated | emotional actress of great ability, and the | book by Luigi Parisottl, published by [:oose; principaHy to arrange the production of his dramatical works, several of which are under consideration by the firm of Henry B. Harris. The Echo, when it gues on tour under the direction of Jno. Po.lock and E. A. Weill, will contain 8 pew song number by Renolds Wolfe and Channing Pollock; music by Maurice Levy, Tim Marphy will produce The Poor Rich in Denver the week of November 12, and to this end has addeqd Aubrey Powell, Adelyn Bushness, C. J. Griffin and Frank Halbach to the cast. The work is that of Paul Wilstach. The Caprice of Suzanne, a dramatic sketch in six scenes, will be presented in the Winter Garden by Gaby Deslys, the erstwhile siren, who produced and played it at the Alhambra, London. Lillian Shaw and lie Baker have been added to the outfit. Iiedwig Reicher i+ a late arrival in this country. where she wil) join the Drama Players, headed by Donald Robertson. This week Rupert Hughes’ Comedy is being played in Rochester, thence traveis West by way’ of Toledu and Ft. Wayne to Chicago, where it will enjoy an extended engagement at the Studebaker Theatre. Henry W. Savage is now actively engaged in the rehearsal of The Girl of the Golden West. For the part of Suzanne, the French maid, in The Garden of Allah, Henry B. Harris has securde Aliessandre Salvini, the spouse of a wellknown ector. Excuse Me, Henry W. Savage's production, will finish ite run at the Gaiety Theatre Saturday, October 14. Kitty Gordon is now disporting in the New York Theatre for her appearance in the new Victor Herbert opera comique, The Enchantress. Last week's revival in the Metropolis was the Folies Bergere Company at the Grand Opera House. The Boss at the West End, Virginian at the Prospect and Barbara Fritehie at the Metropolis Theatre, It may seem strange that Beulah Binford. she of the Virginia tragedy fame, should deserve inclusion in Broadway news, but Inasmuch as ber identity was revealed in the sketch at the Garden Theatre on the night of October R. Beulah Binford & Co. in Grandma reflects credit um the alertness of Arthur J. Lucas, Washirmrton film magnate, who conceived the idea of presenting ber in a sincere and sympathetic vaudevilie sketch free from all salaclousness, Guilio Gatti-Casazza arrived from Europe last week with a trunkful of novelties to unfold before the New York public. Simultaneously came the arrival of Mary Garden. Her pre dictions as to the future of the Hammerstein opera venture in London are not of the most verdant green. Her information concerning the return of the tenderness of Caruso’s voice is at least one pleasing observation. Allan Ainsworth, the English actor, who was engaged by Wm. A. Brady as the leading man for Miss Grace George during her season in repertoire at the Playhouse and who returned to London a few days after arriving in this country to be operated upen, sends the gleeful intelligence that be will return to this continent next seek and will at once rejoin the Grace George company, which arrives In the metropolig in November. Frazee & Lederer have engaged Frank Smithton to stage the production of their munsical play, The Lovely Lyre, in which Louise Dreaser is scheduler to star. Modest Suzanne ig now being exploited under banner of H. H. Frazee and A. H. Woods. The American adaptation was penned by H. B. Smith, music by Gene Gilbert. In the company are Sally Fisher, #lorence Wheat, Stanley Ford, Catherine Osterman, Max Freeman, Helen Roy_—. Lyndo Low, Charintte Leaslie and Maude arle, When the Folies Bergere returns to the Fulton Theatre, Samuel Wallach rises in the capacity of ite press manager. Heury Kolker in The Great Name wIfll move to the Lyrie Theatre in order to make place for another H. W. Sava attraction. Henri Gressit, advanc® representative for several years has resigned from the renks of W. Ssevage He is succeeded by Jack Pratt. H. &. Darrts announces the engagement of Miss hose Coghlan for the part of Lady Marr in Dolly Madison, in which Elsie Ferguson will open her season November 6 at Rochester. Fred Perry bat been engeged for the role of Aaron Burr in the szwe company. The Viennese Opera Company has now arrived in this country from Europe and wil! in the near future offer themselves for entertainment fo Irving Theatre andiences, Cyril Scott is now appearing in A Gentleman of Leisure, which opened the Herald Square Theatre Monday. October 16. This production first vaunted Douglas Fairbanks, but since his connection with Cohan & Harris, Scott was accorded the leading henors. Geo. Miner, formerly an American, ts said to have severe’ his connection ag reporter to the New York Heraid of London theatrical news. His interests, it is reported. are with F. C. Whitney in the management of the London pro duction of The Spring Maid. Marc Klaw returned to the metropolis Monday, October 16, after an extended visit along the Pacific OCdast in the interests of FrohmanKlaw & Erlanger Western enterprises, the chief of which was the opening of the Metropolis Theatre in Seattle, Wash. The name of the play by Edw. Childs Carpenter, in which Guy Bates Post is to be weprred uuder A. 1. Woods’ management, has been changed from The Great Desire to The Challenge. Florence Brian, wife of Donald Brian, has resigned from the cast of The Only Son, Winchell Smith’s play, which opened at the Gaiety last Monday night, October 16. Rehearsals of Fred Thompson's production of Wm. Brown Moloney’s play GQraft are now in progress. Robert Drovett, Frank Relcher, Fran cis. McGinn Jno. Miltern, Gus Winberg, Lil lian Meyer, Marie Tower, Edith Speare and Mary Carter have been engaged for the cast. Liebler & Co. have engaged Jose Ruben, a member of the Sarab Bernhardt Company last tenson, for The Garder of Allah. Forben Rubertson ha» afrived ou the Lusltanla te begin bis third American tour in The Peesing of the.Thirc Floor Batk. over the general attention shown them. The new Kinemacolor Theatre on West Fortieth Street had a most successfui opening Saturday night, October 14. This theatre, which was formerly Mendelssohn Hail, is to be permanent home of the Kinemacolor. The prices of admission will range from $1.00 to 25 cents. | Kinemacolor has taken a wonderful hold on the theatregoing public of New York and there is every reason to believe that the new venture will prove a huge success. The wonderful repro duction in colors of the Coronation of King Edward and Queen Mary is still the most popular offering, though King Alphonso Reviewing His Troops is also commanding attention. Mrs. Fiske. who is due in Chicago within a few days. will be met by Miss Jane Hall, the founder of the Three Arts Club in New York, and Grace Griswold, now appearing in Night at the Princess Theatre in that city, and who was the pioneer in the effert to establish a similar club in Chicago. Miss Griswold has brought this matter to the attention of a large number of influential men and women in Chicago, and the prospects for the early establishment of a club with accommodations for the members of the theatrical, musical and art professions permanently or temporarily resident in Chicago are very bright. Miss Griswold has prepared a number of strong articles on the need of a home fer professionals in all the important cities, and these articles have been eagerly sought by the magazines and periedicals of New York, Chicago, Boston and other cities. Mrs. Fiske and Miss Hall, with Miss Griswold, will undertake to launch the project immedlately upon the arrival of the former. Ray Cox, who was selected on short notice by Lew Fields Mrs. Daly Bunn in The Never Homes, bas been obliged to interpolate her vaudevilie impersonations of the American girl et the basepall game and the society woman on an automobile trip, These two sketches are vaudeville and drawing | room classics, and wherever an audience is gathered to hear Miss Cox they are demanded. | The Never Homes is another of the successful musical burlesques produced by Mr. and the travesty of the suffragette cause has associates In this company. The author of Love and the Year (Duffield), | Grace Griswold, is a prominent actress who gtaduated into the ranks of the players after having served a Chicago paper as dramatic critic, Miss Griswold appeared in London with the American company presenting Mrs. Annie Hegan Rice’s quaint Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, and tater appeared in Chicago in Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart’s Seven Days. She has written much prose and poetry, including seven plays and playlets. Two of her playlets, Billy's First Love and His Japanese Wife, are familiar to all playgoers in the United States. She Is now engaged on another book of verse and a serious play. ian Maclaren, who was brought to America by Liebler & Co. for The Garden of Allab and then placed with George Ariss in the leading | duce to juvenile role the American playgoers a series of of Charles, Viscount of Deefort, in Disraeli, is particularly anxtous to introduce to the American playgoers plays based upon the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales. Mr. Maclaren was closely Identi tied with their production in England, and believes that with their charm Americans will be quite as much delighted as the English playgoers. Mr. Maclaren is one of the youngest, as well as one of the most popular juvenile leading men on the English stage. His wife, a talented actress, has arrived in the United States, and the future home of both will be in New York. Flavia Arcaro, whose clever work in The Red Rose in the character of Joyant has been favorably received throughout the territory in which the play has been produced, bas con structed an added feature of t!< performance by | giving a series of imitations and impersona| tions, As a feature of the play it is prominent, and since its first presentation several weeks ugo she has been besieged by vaudevilie offers. Miss Arcaro was in vaudeville some time ago and her personality is we'l fitted to please the freqguenters of the two-aday. She has appeared in grand opera, concert, musical comedy, vaudeville and drama. Her musical comedy engagements include The Student King, in which Lina Abarbancll ~ 1° ber first appearance in English. She also created the second role in The Chocolate Soldier when first produced in the United States. A notable tribute was paid to Fritz Lelber, at present appearing with Robert Mantell In Shakespearean repertoire, when he played through Canada recently. It was at the time when the reciprocity campaign was in full swing, and much latent prejudice was exhibited against American players. In Montreal and Toronto this was especially true and immediately after the election Mr. Mantel! and bis company appeared in the Dominion. A writer In one of the principal French papers in Montreal, discussing the production of the classic plays at the Princess Theatre in that city, said: ‘Canada should place on record her thanks to Mr. Mantel! and to his dashing leading man, Mr. Fritz Leiber. and we venture the suggestion that if all importations from the States were as attractive as this young man in the romantic juvenile roles of Shakespeare, there would be an immediate reconsideration of the recent vote and, undoubtedly, a reversal of the verdict."’ Maciyn Arbuckle brought his vaudeville tour to a close at San Antonio, Tex., last week, and, after a brief rest this week will play ‘a short preliminary season in The Welcher through New England and then repair to Roundap Farin, his country home at Waddington, N. Y., and see If he can find a play that will suit his requirements among the carioad that has been submitted since It was announced that he would retnrn to the legitimate stage During his vaudeville tour he has been honored as few irtists have been, due to the fact that the play met with hearty response from the patrons of the houses, and also to the fact that as a native Southerner he has been obliged to hold to the character In every city in which he ap peared The result has been, according to the newspapers of that community, his digeative organs have been seriously taxed by the dinners given bim and bis flow of eloquence almost the | Over | to create the leading role of | Fields. | ; Wallace Eddinger, never been better done than by Miss Cox and her — selected cast with which sbe is to be surrounded in the production of this playlet promises to make it one worthy of the most serious consideration, tendency to and short play of great vaudeville, states introduce duration in that she is but following the advice of a number of the prominent managers who declare the |importance of attracting the patrons of the | legitimate houses to the vaudevile theatres can | net be overestimated. This will be Miss Cleveland's debut in vaudeville. Hitherto she has been leading woman with Blanche Bates and George Faweett, One of the first theatres in the United States | to be devoted exclusively to magic was Herrmann’s, later the Princess, in New York It was here that many of the most celebrated Iil lusions of Herrmann the Great were produced, and with the large increase in the number of theatres estabished in New York during the past two or three years, the inquiry has been frequently made as to the feasibility of es tablishing a house where magic shall have its home, to be occupied during the entire theat rical season by the leading magicians now before the public. Adelaide Herrmann, widow of this famous magician, is the most prominent exponent of magic and illusions before the public, and she has been Invited to contribute her views on the subject, with the idea of placing all the illusions under her direction. Madame Herrmann at the present time is appearing In vaudevi.le, and during her next visit to New York, within a few weeks, she will be asked to entertain an offer to become actively Identified with it. Madame Herrmann is firmly of ing form of entertainment as it is the oldest. At the Gaiety Theatre, New York City, on Monday evening, October 16, Messrs. Cohan & | Harris presented a new play by Winchell Smith, entitled, The Only Son. In his newest play, Winchell Smith presents a theme that, while seldom discussed, Is nevertheless a subject that is close to the hearthstones of every home in the land; a theme which encompasses a manifestation of modern life and indeed of all ages. Mr in the character of the only son, heads the sompany which Messrs. Cohan & Harris have assembled for its correct interpretation. The others are: Claude Gillingwater, Leslie Kenyon, Roy Atwell, Elmer Grandin, Chas. W. Goodrich. Wm. Stone, Louise Randolph, Olive Wyndham, Vivian Martin, Ida Water. mann, Alice Endres, Ethel Gret Terry, Camila Crume and Alice Putman. Crowded attendance attests to the success of Passers-By is stronger than many words could do. A dozen or so prominent players fit into the different characters of the piece as snugly as if they had been moulded to their parts. In the skillful hands of Richard Bennett, Ernst Lawford, A. G Rutter, Rosalie Toller and Ivy Hertzog, Passers By sums up to two and a half brief hours o1 thoughtful laughter, | ~ ghter, with a tear or two in the | bumerous encores. midd!l The sale of seats for the second period of eighth weeks of the engagement of Donald Brian in The Siren, at the Knickerbocker Theatre, commenced this week with a rush, and the allotment of tickets included several large | blocks to college football teams and many big theatre parties. A Single Man, Hubert Henry Davies’ delight ful comedy, built upon the paradox that where| ever there are match-making women, there can be no such thing as a single man has proved such & scoveful opportunity for John Drew and his extraordipary supporting company, that comedian and comedy will soon be able to celebrate the third month of an extraordinary prosperous season at the Empire Theatre. Recently, before the author of A Single Man returned to his home in England, Mr. Drew expressed to him the hope that in Mr, Davies’ next comedy, just as in A Single Man, the cast needed will be of »" such a character as to keep the members of | Mr. Drew's present company intact, The Siren, at the Knickerbocker Theatre, 1s in such demand that the sale of seats has been extended up to and including December 14 Donald Brian has introduced a new dance ster as an encore to his famous number in the thira act, while Frank Moulan, Will West, Alan Mudie Elizabeth Firth, and the other clever comedians of the big company keep the fun up to the side splitting pitch, and Julla Sanderson entrances by her daintiness and charm. ‘ Coban & Harris announce that they will bring Raymond Hitchcock and his new musical play The Red Widow, the Astor Theatre New York, opening Monday, November 6. The Red Widow is from the combined pens of Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf, n.usic by Charles J Gebest, Mr. Charles J. Ross opened his new production Mrs Avery, on Thursday, October 19, at Wen er’s Theatre. Mrs. Avery is described as a play into of New York every-day life, with scenes laia in New York. _ The cast comprises Gretchen Dale, Jas. R. Wilson, Brandon Hurst, Norman meng ang Bourne, Ralph Dean, Henry Rov inson, Helena Byrne, Helna He y tin and Howard Eastbrooke. Heed, William Mar _ Willette Kershaw is to desert the leading role in Snobs, the Harris production now playing at the Hudson Theatre. Her successor is to be Myrtle Tannehill, the daughter of the author of the Mutt and Jeff production that Gus Hill is exploiting with such success. Mrs. Fiske and her company production of The New Marriage Mitchell Company at the Empire cuse, N. Y., Thursday night The hurry visit of Howard Herrick to the metropolis from the Windy City last week Is explained by the announcement that lew Fields has taken this well-known agent to presented the and Langdon Theatre Syra press Company J. P. Toohey has been acquired as advance representative, while Charles Strackosh has been appointed acting manager. The trio are dyed-in the wool Friars The dramatic influence that the lines of Pomander Walk inspired in the hearts of Its In terpreters is responsible for the rumor that the two love-makers, Edgar Kept and Dorothy Par ker, the daughter of the *Binor of the produc tion are soon to announce thelr actual engage Miss Cleveland, in discussing the | strength | jhave been meeting with great success jn t | Manager Prince from the Barrow-Howard Play | Daintre, the conviction that magic will be the most last| Andrews, Julian Royce, Louise | | has | SPA SON, his | staf! as business manager for the Marie Dresser | and arranging for some big acts for his t! ——— principles of the old School. It is an essay by an accomplished : calist and an experienced teacher, which is 2 merely intended for the student of singing. 5 for all who have to speak or read The writer's practical hints should prove utility to that very large section of the pub for which the book is designed, GRACE BARROW IN THE ForRg: CASE GOES EN TOouR. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 14 (Special to Billboard).—The Special to 7 Barrow-Howard Players. y stock season at the Auditorium go out of existence and on Tuesday Theatre ber a5 an Organization tonigh pen of John Prince Jr., a well-known dramatic writer ay critle of Chicago, who is managing the tow The piece Was tried out several times by ti Barrow-Howard Players, and proved « big sy cess. In the character of Helen Forbes, ¥ Rarrow is said to bave unusual opportuaitid to display ber talent as an emotional actres The surrounding company has been selected | ers, and comprises Arthur C. Howard, Car! ¥ Nathaniel Kippen, J. L. Parker aq Walter W. Geer, 5,000 PEOPLE AT OPENING OF TH BREWERS’ CONGRESS. Chicago, Oct. 14 (Special to The Billboard) 4 The first International Brewers’ Congress ao Exposition, which opened Thursday at the ( iseum, was attended by five thousand visitors the first day. Ten millions of dollars are r resented in the exhibits, and every imports city in the United States, Canada and Euro are represented among the delegates. Two bu dred and seventy exhibitors, whose aggregs wealth totals over a billion of dollars are re resented in the exhibits. A variety of plac of refreshment, representing the typical io and drinking places of the Saxons, the ancies Teutons, the early English and the otb users of malt beverages, are interesting featur of the exhibition. WILL ROSSITER GOSSIP. Kelly and Rowe, with The Lady Buccaneer are singing When it's Honeysuckle Time, Carl McCu'lough was one of the first arti» to discover the merit of Let's Make Love Wh the Moon Shinvs. Ned Norton has also found That Carolina R a splendid number for his particular needs. Charlotte St. Elmo ts featuring Let's Ma Love While the Moon Shines. Bert Swor, with Al. G. Field's Minstre: two eorking songs in That Carolina BR and When I Woke Up This Morning. Slater and Finch were Rossiter callers tt week, beard Mammy's Shufflin’ Dance and be added it to their act as a feature. Elsie Tuell ig singing That Carolina R during her tour through the South and writ that praising press reports result wherever «9 appears. CARNIVAL NOTES. The Up-Side-Down Zeraldas have just Galehd at the Spokane Inter-State Fair a season twenty-two weeks as a free attraction with (% Parker Carnival Go, No. 1. They were ©" iginally engaged for fifteen weeks, but afte thelr first performance Con T. Kennedy extend their contract to twenty-two weeks The have been re-engaged by the same show f next season. Week of October 9 they played as a free attraction at the Inter-Mounte9 Fair and Rain Makers’ Carnival at Bol* Idaho. PLAYHOUSE NOTES.. The Hetrick Theatre at Chanute, Kan., uo? the management of W. C. Sears, formally ope for the winter season October 5, the initial « traction being The Rosary, which was well ™ ceived by the audience. The house has be renovated during the past summer and new: carpeted throughout and now presents a pe nobby appearance, Mr. Sears bas secured * especially strong Hne of attractions for ! patrons during the coming season At the Harrington Theatre, Kirksville. ™ which opened the season October 2. busit has been very good, far exceeding that of 18 season for the same period, Manager H Swanev is much encouraged over the outo’ and states that the line of attractions be ¥ present this season will be better than any e* at this theatre, Graham and Cresap have taken over the m# agement of the opera house In the new Mason Hall at Pennington Gap, Va., for the com" Pennington ts a prosperous little tow with a theatregoing population, and by ut shows of good character Managers Graham Cresap hope to get a Iberal patronage. Manager J. W. Mercelles of the Majes! Theatre, Waterloo, Ia., recently eapent a we in Chfeago conferring with his booking ages atte seen Kenneth Royd, Lion and the the Majestic. The Lyric Theatre, Petersburg, Va., bas be transferred by S. P. Moore to Jno, A. Rell, | eousideration, it is sald, being §30,000 b change will In no way affect the present ™ agement, Chas. O. Ross continuing as 672° manager, ‘ connected with is now treasurer ' formerly Mouse Co., > eZ ££ £S 8 FP Po PP 3 aan.