Variety (Dec 1905)

14 VARIETY. melange, entitled "The Taking Mr. Raffles." Full of ..l.i ideas but tills a half hour In a more or Iihs doleful way. Olio good In spots. The spots are Harry and Wolford and Ho wen and Llna. "In s..mil Dakota" ends the show. This skit marts well, hut dies at the half mile. A course In Kiu lish grammar wouldn't hurt any one con- nected. Next week "Mascottes." MONTMORENCY. I niiNiiiK, Mich. RIJOi; (1). J. Robinson, mgr.).—Week of 18. Lillian Lelahton and Company and Lemont's Trained Animals are easily the features. MIbs Lelghtoa Is a wry eharmlng and magnetic act- ress, ably assisted by Mr. John Byrne, and their sketch, "A Matrimonial Revolution," was a de- cided success. Kalcratus. Juggler; Glllmore and Carroll, black-face comedians: Rlanche Edwards, Illustrated song*, and the motion pictures com- plete a bill of exceptional merit. The business of this house is capacity almost nightly and Is an assured success, having been opened last July. F. A. CARY. Yonken, N. Y. IM)RIC iHenry Myers, mgr.).—Week of 18: Mile. Karo, supported by Louis Kelso & Co., in. the sketch, "Mardi Gras," a new offering and very' satisfactory. Karl and Bartlett. Irish comedians, good hit. Cecelia Theston, singing ppecialty. pleased. Golden Gate Quartette, strong hit. Ed Fo«ter -and dog, well received. Melrose and Elmer, strong sister specialty. Le Malre and Le Malre. Hebrew specialty, well liked. Kurrow8 Travis & Co., strong sketch.' Doric Scope good pictures. Business large. ELZIR Scranton, Pa. ' WTAR (Alf. G. Herrlngton. mgr.).—Rice and Barton's Big Gaiety Company. 18-23. Big busi- ness and a good show. Scrlbner's Gay Mas- queraders next. FAMILY (D. J. McCoy, mgr.).—One of the best bills of the season 18-23 to correspondingly good business. S. K. H. Portland, Me. FAMILY (Jap. E. Moore, mgr.).—Bill week of 18 was headed by James J. Morton In his capital monologue. Zutka mystified and Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Crane In a sketch pleased. Good cycling was shown by Mosher, Houghton and Mosher Others were Mullin and Correlll, Zena Kelfe an<* the pictures. Good business. CLARK CELEBRATES. NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 21.—William S. Clark entertained the "Gay Maaquerad- ei*R" company at dinner last night at the Holland House. Bill Clark had been married twenty years. Mrs. Clark is a sister of magician Imro Fox. Mein Host Rogge displayed his usual culinary ability and the invited guests were treated to a feast. The tables were all prettily decorated with Jersey Lilies. 3. P. C. G. G. Variety has in mind the formation of a much needed preventing society to be called the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the Gallery Gods. It's a formidable title, but the aims of the new organization are important and worthy the dignity of an expended col- lection of words. At various times newsboys and stage children have come in for the sorrowing wails of the preventer, but no one has ever raised voice in plea for the poor little youngster who gleefully planks down his ten cents at the box office win- dow, climbs seven flights of stairs and then is compelled to work his passage after he has taken his seat. The poor shivering newsboy has been condoled with as such, but who has wept over that same youngster's sad fate when after a day with the extras he turns to the theatre for relaxation and finds only more work. Perhaps he arrives chilled to the bone and is compelled to wait in the biting wind for an hour before he is admitted to the gallery. Scarcely has he estab- lished his. right to a front seat by lick- ing the other fellow, when a soubrette who has received a diamond ring from some song publisher for popularizing his song stalks out upon the stage, her evil designs hidden by a smile and some grease paint. The tired gods are polite and applaud her, and she repays them by insisting upon singing the chorus over and over again, until they join in and whistle the chorus, because they well know that there will be nothing else for them until they have met her exactions. Twenty minutes later another singer and another song makes fresh trouble, and the small boy comes down from the gallery at the end of the show with a sore throat and that tired feeling, and the heartless soubrette gloats over her triumph. The youth of America is entitled to protection. They should not be coerced into singing a song just because the publisher is generous to the singer. Even they have some rights. Let the S. P. C. G. G. proceed. Marion Garson, the clever little singer who made such an enormous success at Weber's Music Hall, New York, this season, is again in vaudeville. Angela May, dramatic contralto, and J. Louis MacEvoy, author-raconteur, write from San Francisco that their appearances in artists' concerts over the Pacific Coast, have been uniformly and legitimately successful. You cMast Dress Fight IT CARIES WEIGHT Am I a Tailor Among my customers are George M. Cohan. Sam H. Harris, Harry Von Tilzer, Stuart Barnes, Joe Welch, Gus Edwards. That's the Answer I am just as reasonable in price as a bad one Better drop in JOHN E. GIGLER 6 West 29th Street, New Yokr. A MERRY CHRISTMAS COME IN AND HEAR HIS NEW SONGS With F. B. Haviland Pub. Co., 125 W. 37th St., New York Tel. 1837 38th Street < - <• KIETY KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE BUILDING NEW YOKK CITY CARDS OF ARTISTS Under the heading of REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS at following rites: ARTISTS' RATE CARD 1-2 loch tingle column $2.00 monthly, Net 1 Inch " 4 00 1-2 Inch double column 4.00 1 Inch * 7.50 ®$ys)®®®®®(^^ i-VVSW^*®^^ HOW'S YOUR STATIONERY ? Well, be Distinctive. 1 Sketched the Front Pag* of Variety. Like it? 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