The Billboard 1913-09-20: Vol 25 Iss 38 (1913-09-20)

SEPTEMBER 20, 1913. The Billboard 3, 19 F'RMS GOING AND COMING. New York, Sept. 13 (Special to The Billboard). —The York Music Company, promoted and conducted for several years by Jack Von Tilzer, has suspended business. Last Monday the rooms were closed and the employees dispersed to other firms in search of employment. Strong competition and the absence of any new “‘hits’’ may be credited as the cause of suspension. J. E. Minnick & Co., located on old “Tin Pan Alley,’’ is springing into promience as a new firm, offering their numbers as their features. ‘Neath the Old Palmetto Tree, He’s Broken Her Heart As He Broke Her Toys, and You Are the Star of My Life, are titles they are boosting. Professional copies, with proof of j professionalism necessary, may be obtained by mentioning The Billboard. SOME AERIAL SONG BOOSTING. New York, Sept. 13 (Special to The Billboard). —-Edward Everett Pidgeon, press representativ of William Morris, New York Theater enterprises, is going to lift song-boosting from the side-walk level to the roof, starting Monday. Betty Martin will become, then, an establisht feature of the Jardine de Dance. She is credited by Mr. Pidgeon with a repertoire of over 400 songs. To these she has added the latest Broadway hits. Printed cards will be handed to those in the audience, and Miss Martin will boost anything they ask for, up to six selections per night WE ADMIT IT. New York, Sept. 13 (Special to The Billboard). —One of the bright young men on ap old reMable music advertising paper asserts that The Billboard’s music editor has much to learn. We admit it. For over twenty-five years we have been poking a type-writing machine in the face, composing miles and miles of trenchant tommyrot on theatrical topics, and still we have much to learn. Now let the laddy on the old reliable music advertising sheet confess as much, and as truthfuly as we do. AND HE ROARED, ROARED, ROARED. The Associated Song Writers’ Music Publish ers at Lansing, Mich., of which the Roaring Lyons is manager, is a new institution. Mr. Lyon’s new letterhead enabled us to reach that conclusion, altho you couldn't tell from the fol ) lowing letter whatenhell he was talking about. The Editors: ‘‘Yep—It has happened—the child is born, mother and son are doing well. We are just one day old. This means just what it says, and all you can imagine in connection therewith. Yours very truly, Associated Song Writers."’ SAVAGE’S EARLY PRODUCTION. New York, Sept. 13 (Special to The Billboard). —Henry W. Savage wil] make a production this season after all. It was currently reported that he would rely solely upon two of his old standbys for his activities this season. Now it becomes known that he has the American rights to The Gypsy Chief, a Vienesse success of last year, and will produce it this full. Perhaps Joseph W. Stern & Co. will have other interests in it than the publishing rights. BROOKLYN'S ‘‘LIVEST’’ CABARET. Brooklyn, Sept. 13 (Special to The Billboard). This old town bas a cabaret show at Schneider Bros. that we will match against all comers. The Schneiders are making extensiv alterations and are going in even bigger for patrons who like music with their meals. Pinkie Williams, Anna Regan, Rose St. Clair, Ethel Greeve, Jimmie Raymond, Ralph J. Levey, are the singers, and Harry Lesau presides at the plano. PREFER SONGS TO MONEY. New York, Sept. 18 (Special to The Billboard). —Bigelon, Campbell and Raydn constitute one trio that prefers a song that suits them to money. They have relied upon Ragtime Melodies, published by Jos. W. Stern & Co., and report that in spite of cash offers to side-track the number, they consider the number worth more to thelr act than songs that have been offered to them on the “‘weekly income’’ basis. WILLIAM JENNINGS GETS IN. New York, Sept. 13 (Special to The Billboard). —-William Jennings Bryan gets into The Billboard’s music columns thru his clever answer to one of the New York Herald's men, who askt him: ‘‘What is yodling?’ The great Chatanqua lecturer and Secretary of State promptly answered: ‘‘Yodling is a form of singing. It is singing without words."’ Now, for the first time, we all know. HARRY ROGERS WITH WIILIAMS. New York, Sept. 13 (Specta! to The Billboard). q —Harry Rogers has shifted from the employ of the York Music Compa yv to the Harry Williams Company, in West Forty-sixth street. He will have an inside job during the day and ‘‘pestikate around’’ evenings, boosting the Williams VAUDEVIL New York, Sept. 13 (Special to The BillLoard).—Rae Eleanor Ball, who appeared at the Colonial last week, was disappointed when her trunk did not reach the theater in time for the Monday matinee. Miss Ball hailed a taxi and was driven to a costumer, where she secured a dress in which to do her act. She was successful, however, and went on before the intermission. Tuesday afternoon her trunk was delivered and everything was forgotten. Jo Paige Smith tendered a dinner to his mother, who was 90 years old, last Wednesday. The affair took place at Sheepshead Bay and many agents, artists and others closely connected with the show business were the guests. Mrs. Smith is enjoying perfect health. I hope she will accept my hearty congratulations. Joe Cook is in town again, after a successful trip abroad. He opens on the U. B. O. time for Mike Shea, In Buffalo. Williams and Hawley is a new combination. Hawley formerly workt with Jules Jordan. Fun In The Alps is the name of their act. WHISPERS By Jack. ceedingly well. Barron discontinued his connections with Ben Piedmont as a _ vaudevil agent. Lew Hearn (according to a letter written to Ben Schaffer) has signed with Albert De Corville in London. One thousand per week for four years is the agreement. This probably includes the services of Bonita. While appearing at the Union Square last week, Jack Wilson registered one of the biggest hits the house has had in many seasons. Jack does a comedy bit by tearing up his wife’s foto and throws half of it into the orchestra. Tuesday Jack received a letter from an ‘‘unknown,’’ enclosing the partly-torn picture, which happened to be the likeness of a young man. Max Lambe, known as the human bird, arrives in New York October 1. He opens at Moss & Brill’s, Hamilton, October 6. Corelli and Gillette and The Bellboy Trio say they are glad to get back. They arrived last Wednesday from England. RICHARDS Richards is presenting a novelty singing and dancing act. and is meeting with enormous success wherever he appears. He is a female impersonator of rare ability, | act wes a huge bit at Hammerstein’s last week. Dr. Carl Herman goes over the Orpheum Cireult. His Buropean contracts will be set back until the Western engagements expire. Maurice and Walton, the expert dancers, open a four weeks’ engagement at the Colonial, commencing September 22. This is the first act ever bookt for this length of time ana the outcome will be watcht with much interest. Welthy Law, late of Hyman Adler’s The Miser’s Dream, is now appearing in vaudevil iu a comedy dramatic playlet, entitled Her Price. Miss Law is surrounded by a capable cast and the act is doing nicely. VAUDEVIL NOTES. During a recent engagement in Boston, the Globe had the following to say regarding May Wirth: “The arenic exhibition by the Wirth Family is a substantial feature at B. F. Keith's Theater this week. The riding of Miss Wirth being essentially daring, especially for a young girl. Two other members of the family perform feats of daring and agility, three white horses being used in the mimic circus scene. Miss May, a graceful, finely proportioned young lady, performs stunts of etar male riders with a nerve and certainty that is wonderful, and all her work is done on a bare-back horse.”’ ; Mascot, The Educated Horse, is piaying a number of return engagements in England, and will close hig English tour in Stoll Palace, Leicester, November 24, and will come to America for three months, England for another extended tour. The act has been secured by the Variety Controlling Company for a long run in the Albambra, Paris, France. Miss Marie Salisbury, singer,, bas begun her 4913-14 season with an appearance at the Sans Souci Park Winter Garden, Chicago, Monday,. September 8, where she will be for two weeks. After completing this engagement, she will leave for New York. This marks Miss Salisbury’s first appearance in public since her nervous breakdown last season. Hurtig & Seamon’s old 125th Street Music Hall, the former Harlem home of vaudevil and later a Columbia Circuit burlesque theater, is to be transformed into a straight pieture house, with a ten-cent admission policy. The front and lobby will be entirely remodeled, and Sam Hurtig will assume the full management of the house. Jim Cook, formerly of Cook and Lorenz, and now heading the act of Smith, Cook and Brandon on the U. B. O. time, has lately received an offer to handle the leading comedy role with a big musical production which he has refused in order to stay with the present act and to complete the time still standing on his contracts with the United offices. First and Second, The Dancing Hebrew and! the Singing Flirt, are meeting with success on the S. & C. Circuit in the Middlewest with their play, A Flirtation in Yiddisha Love, and: opens in the West on the S. & O. time in November for twenty weeks. Jack Magee and Frances Kerry open their second season for the W. V. M. A. at the Novelty Theater, at Topeka, Kansas, after a tour of the Pantages Circuit and 17 weeks for Bert Levey. They are bookt with the association time solid until June. Miss Florence Walton, and Mr. Maurice, her partner, have made quite an impression in Paris and Switzerland, where they have been playing. The team sailed for American ghores September 11, and are expected to arrive in New York on the 17th, The Berends, of which the following roster makes up their staff, report good business, thru South Dakota. Clarence Berends, manager Charles Hanlon (Hanlon and Clifton) has a’ smile on his face for the past two weeks. He is the father of a nine-pound girl. Every bright day Fred St. Onge can be seen riding his freak bicycle along Broadway. Fred said he does not do this for advertising purposes, but he needs the exercise. Elizabeth Murray closed her vaudevil tour at the Bronx Theater. Miss Murray will soon start to rehearse with Arthur Hammerstein's comedy, High Jinks. Ida Brooks Hunt, of The Chocolate Soldier fame, is presenting an elaborate one-act musical playlet, The Singing Countess. Four people besides Miss Hunt are in the cast. Lincoln Beachey, the noted aviator, is asking $750 per week for his act. Beachey appeared at Proctor’s Fifth Avenue recently, and did pot make the impression he thought he would. Up to the present time no contracts have been received. Maude O'Dell, who appeared in Little Boy Blue, with enormous success, has been offered a route over the United time. Weber & Evans are the bookers, Harry Thomson, The Mayor of the Bowery, opened on the Fox time. Thomson when signing the contracts was askt how long his act runs. Harry replied “‘from ten minutes to an heur and a half." Barnes and Barron have joined hands again. It is rumored that Ethel Levey will play the Palace September 29. Miss Levey contracted for one week at the Colonial, but left the Bill Thursday night owing to an auto accident at Hartford, which seriously injured her daughter, Georgette Cohan. Friday afternoon Bernard Granville was substituted for the one performance. Adele Ritchie went into the bill Friday night and finisht out the week. Latest Teports have it that little Miss Levey-Cohan is improving rapidly. Austin Webb and Company replaced Lee Harrison at the Union Square, Monday, September 8. Harrison dropt out of the bill after the Monday afternoon performance. Webb presented a new act, entitled Your Flag and Mine, whic) was excellently played by a competent cast. Hyman Adler and Company, in The Miser’s Dream, received 28 consecutiv weeks’ booking over the U. B. O. time. Tom and Stasia Moore motored from New Yerk to Hartford to fulfill an engagement. When nearing Hartford, the steering gear refused to operate properly, and the Moores were thrown out of the car. Luckily they escaped serious injury. Tom writes that no bones were breken, Will Morrisey and Dolly Hackett, a new singing and talking combination, had several offers tendered them for big-time vaudevil. The act will be in perfect running order very soon. McMahon, Diamond and Clemence have re ' and dian; Elsie Berends, soubret; Geo. Baxter, piano player, Charlie Howard sends us a neat herald, which he is using to send to house managers. The booklet contains pictures of the act, press matter and program billing. It’s good etuff alright, The Weller Theater, Zanesville, 0., which is managed by Elmer E. Rutter, was opened recently to big business. The opening bill was decidedly high-class and much praise was given the new vaudevil house. The Family Theater, Clinton, lowa, which has been closed to vaudevil for nearly two years, Was opened on August 81 to splendid business. Harry Sodini, who is now manager, is working the three-a-day policy. Hary Tierney is severing all connection with the act, known as Edwards, Ryan and Tierney, piano and singing act now in Europe. This item comes direct from Manchester, England. Dainty Marie reports success with her offering on the U. B. 0. time. Marie closed at Hammerstein’s Victoria on Saturday last after a big engagement of eight consecutiv weeks. The old Music Hall, at 125th street, and for so long occupied by Columbia Amusement Co. Burlesque Shows, is to be turned into a straight picture. The Hartman Sisters, The Titian Twins, are at their home in Huron, 8S. D., for an indefinite vacation, after which they will open for the then returning to so newer ett