Variety (Jan 1906)

VARIETY ^niETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. rubllahod every Saturday by TIIK VARIFn'Y I'lIBLISHINd COMPANY, ' KiilckorjHM'ker Tlieatre KuildliiK. . :. . 14W- Hroudway. New York City. SrBSCUIl'TlON UATE«. Aiiiiiitil ♦- F^irt'lBii '^ Six and thnt' inonthH in proportion. SiiiRle ooplcB five ceiitB. Variety will l»o inalled to a permanent addreaa or an i)«'r route, aa desired. on Septeraber 3, which will be the first performance down stairs after the roof garden season closes. .,';/, John William McSheedy, known pro- fessionally as "Jack Graham," and for- merly of Gray and Graham, musical ar- tists, died at Whitenville, Mass., on Jainiary 18. A widow and one child sur- vive him. strels, and will endeavor to raise this com- pany to the plane of the better class at- tractions. His long career with Prim- rose, Dockstader and others should stand him in good stead. ADVKin'iSINO RATES ON APPLICATION. E. Wolheim, the Marinelli representa- tive, who has been in charge of the book- ing office in New York, pending Mr. Fischer's return, will leave for London on February 10. Miss Sylvia Hahlo, of the Marinelli forces is much dismayed at the prospect. The Female International Wrestling Trotipe, which has been a feature of the Dainty Duchess burlesque company, has disbanded, it is announced, following the death of Alice Ross, a member of the or- ganization. The remainder of the wrest- lers will return to Europe. No substitute has yet been provided to fill the gap in the oompany made by the withdrawal. First Year. No. 7. VARIETY desires to announce the policy Kovernlng the paper. We want you to read it. It Is Interesting: If for no other reason than that It will be con- ducted on original lines for a theatrical news- paper. ! ■:■■.''''. ■•■/•'.■■<■■■•■•';-^'/ The first, foremost and extraordinary feature of It Is fairness. Whatever there is to be printed of interest to the professional world will be printed without regard to whose name is men- tioned or the advertising columns. " All the news all the time" and " absolutely fair" are the watchwords. VARIETY Is an artists' paper: a paper to which anyone connected with or interested in the theatrical world may read with the thorough knowledge and belief that what is printed is not dictated by any motive other than {the policy above outlined. We want you for a subscriber. If you don't read VARIETY you are missing something. Do you want to read a paper that's honest from the title page to its last line ? That will keep Its columns clean of "wash notices"? That will not be influenced by advertising? That's VARIEtY. To insure you receiving VARIETY regularly, send In your subscription now. You will find It coming to you regularly to any permanent address given, or "as per route." Sam Devere has recovered from his re- cent illness, and played the week with his coiiipany. O. G. Seymour and Mamie Dupree, who have just returned with their comedy acrobatic act after two years absence in Europe, are scheduled to sail from San Francisco April 30 to go over the Harry Rickard Australian circuit. The act is under the Myers and Keller direction. Al Filson, of Filson and Errol, has de- cided to go into the real estate business in San Francisco at the close of his present engagement on the Orpheum circuit, and should he make a success of th- venture the chances are that his future connection with vaudeville will be as a spectator. Mr. Filson is a business man as well as an actor and there seems small chance that he will be seen in vaudeville again. The Keith people having acceded to Henry l^ee's demands, he will open on the circuit Monday at Boston, abandoning his cnntemplnted tour of the Shubert houses. Mr. T>H' held out a long while against Keith, and exemplifies the fact that if you have a good act, the manager will be com- pelled to come to you—if you can wait. "Colonel" Gaston Bordeverry and his wife, who have appeared here in the varie- ties for some time past, in a sharp-shoot- ing act, have separated, for the present at least, the "Colonel" having returned to Europe last Saturday. He will appear in a similar act over there, having for his assistant a daughter by a former wife. To the Vaudeyille Artists of America: %/ARIBTY has received numberless cmplaints in ^ reference to the penicious evils now existing in vaudeville detrimental to the interests of the artists. We suggest the advisability of all artists whenever assembled discussing the formation of an organization embracing the artists of America for mutual self-pro- tection and co-operation. Hayes and Healey were added to the l»roctor bill at the Twenty-third Street house on Monday nig ht. •Marsh" P. Wilder left last Saturday for the South and West, accompanied by g large bu ndle of pape rs to while away Mile. (!«' Lausanne will appear over here in single shooting act, the Colonel having kindly left his paraphernalia behind. ___. The Five Columbian.s have just been booked by "the new firm" in 31st street, over the Keitii circuit, beginning Manh 10. Dave lyewis expects to be l)ooked. No one has jjrown wildlv enthusiastic over his announcement to again appear in vaudeville. the ride to New Orleans, the first stop. The humorist was not elated over the prospect, the "family" having remained at home. What a difference a little thing like marriage really makes. Edward S. S<diiller will tempt fate and the inhabitants of Brockton. Mass., with a vaudeville house in the little town. He will run straight vaudeville at moderate prices. (Jould and Suratt plnyed the Imperial Thi'atrc in Brooklyn for the week after Monday matim-e, having responded to a Imrry rail. The team will go West to till time. Neva Aymar, who has been prominent with the Rogers Brothers, also with "Tam- many Hall" and "Mother Goose," will ar- rive in vaudeville very soon under the guidan<e of M. S. Bentham. hoyd Putnam, who was the Messenger in the sketch "The Queen's Messenger," with Jessie Millward. when the latter was in vaudeville, closed with Henrietta Cros- iiian in "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary." lie lias secured Emilv Rigl and will be -I'cn ill the continuous with "The Queen's Messenger." Myers and Keller are book- ing the act. ', Frankie Bailey will make her vaudeville debut at Wilmington, Del., early next month as the leader of a bunch of girls in a sort of glorification of the old style Amazon march with what is promised to be elaborate electrical effects. The ad- vance description of the act tel>» us that Frankie will wear white tights. The other girls will also wear tights of light color. A black curtain also figures in the dressing. One who knows promises that Frankie will not try to sing, although the other girls may oblige. Ill addition to his Holyoke venture, KolK'it (Jrau will open a house, the Bates (»|M'ia House, at Auburn, N. Y., on Feb- ruary 12. A week later he opens the Rus- sell tlieatre at Ottawa, Ginada, with an- other htmsc in Quebec to divide the show, tliree days in <'ach town. Grau says that Ih' will have at least thirty houses on this policy in a short time. The Kocchly Brothers, an acrobatic leom, will open at Hammerstein's Victoria James H. DiM-ker, who has managed many of the important minstrel compa- nies will devote his energies to the Gor- man Brothers and Dan Qiiinlan's Min- Owing to the nervous breakdown of May Mcers, the three Meers will not play t'levelaiKl next week and put in the cur- rent w<'ek at Proctor's Trov as a duo. Mrs. Meers has n<»t been in good health for some time, and since her arrival in this country, after three years' absence, has been kept busy visiting her old friends, with the result that she has over- taxed her strength, and finds it necessary to rest up. A substitute will l)e engaged, as she acted only in an auxiliary caf)acity, and her absence will not materially affect the act. ROBERTS WANTED TO KNOW. ' A few facts are now leaking out of the attempt made by Keith to secure R. A. Roberts. E. F. Albee, for Keith, of- fered Mr. Roberts three weeks at $750 weekly, with the proviso that ten per cent, commission be deducted, Roberts asked where the ten per cent, was going to. Al- bee's reply not being satisfactory, Keith did not get the English artist, but Albee called upon a foreign agent, stating that if he would secure Roberts for them (Keith's) the agent could retain two and one-half per cent out of the ten, while the Keith Agency would handle the bal- ance. What the agent said to Mr. Albee is not [termissible of repetition in polite ao- ciety. :•. _. .; .■- ■• ■ TRIXIE FRIGANZA IN VAUDEVILLE. Joe ^\'eber's company is going to lose its second leading lady after to-night, and vaudeville is waiting to receive her. Miss Friganza, who replaced Anna Held in the Weber company, will enter the continuous under the management of Weber (not Joe) and KXish, opening in their Mohawk Theatre in Schenectady in February, NEW HOUSE IN COLUMBUS. Oolumbih, ()., Jan, 26.—The Ehnpire Theatre here, which has been playing stock will shortly terminate the engage- ment of the company, running the house thereafter for vaudeville. MISS DALE SETTLED. Topek.i, KauA.—Violet Dale, who was injured sn wreck on the Santa Fe R. R. re<'ently, and who brought suit against the company in this county for $25,000, settled with the lailroad company a few days ago and left for the East. GOULD FOR VAUDEVILLE. Contracts signed this week by Billy Gould seem to put a quietus for the pres- ent upon the story that he is to take the place of Victor Moore in "Forty-five Min- utes From liroadway," in addition to Mr. Moore's denial. These contracts, regularly signet! by Gould, call for his appearaticc^ Feb. 20 to April ft at the Majestic, Chi- cago, and later in Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St. liOiiis, consecutively. T. P. EMPLOYEES' BALL. Tues<lay evening, January 30, at Tam- Mianv Hall. Got that? It is the time and place of the ninth annual ball and entertainment of the em- pl<»vces of Tonv Pastor's Theatre. The early evening will be given over to a |M'rforniance which will include a num- ber of headline acts and many more fa- vorites. It will be a.shqw good enough to be worth the money alone, but in addition there will be dancing and two contests. Mike licrnard will meet all comers who think they can play rag-time better than he can. and convince them of their error, while Milt Wood and Ida May Chadwick, who hold the Police Gazette medals for buck dancing, will meet all white contest- ants. The contests will come off at mid- night, in onler io permit all artists play- ing in Grejiter New York to be present, and there will be dancing both before and after the contests. These balls are the really representative affairs ot the vaudeville .season, and ar<' worth taking in.