Variety (Feb 1906)

VARIETY I A Variety Paper for Variety People. Publlahed every Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO.. Knickerbocker Theatre Building, 1402 Broadway, New York City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual $2 Foreign 3 Six and three months in proportion. Single coplpa Oto cents. Variety will be mailed to a permanent addreaa or aa per route, aa desired. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. First Year. No. 10. VARIETY announces "fairness" as the policy governing it. It is conducted on original lines for a theatrical newspaper. Whatever there is to be printed of interest to the profes- sional world will be printed without re- gard to whose name is mentioned or the advertising columns. "All the news all the time" and "ab- solutely fair" are the watchwords. The reviews are written in a strictly impartial manner, and for the benefit of the artists. VARIETY is an artist's paper, for the artists and to which any artist may come with a just grievance. VARIETY will not burden its columns with "wash" notices; it will not be in- fluenced by advertising; it will be honest from the first page to the last. That's VARIETY. Sol Feist, a brother of Leo Feist, is shortly to embark in the music business on his own account. He is looking for a plaee along Twenty-eighth street. Cook and Madison are having a special drop painted for their act, which will show many new features, including a novel entrance, James J. Corbett, who is appearing at the Proctor stock houses in "Cashel By- ron's Profession," intends to play other stock companies in the same offering. He announces that should he ever return to vaudeville he will appear in a sketch, be- cause of the greater ease in obtaining new material. The wife of James F. Cook, of Cook and Madison, recently presented him with a little daughter who has been christened Nellie Harris Cook. Mrs. Cook is a non- professional. In Cleveland there is printed an imi- tation of a patent medicine sheet, which has adopted the name of an old estab- lished theatrical newspaper to deceive a person here and there into buying it. Since the editor has been reading Variety his joke reads much better, all the news- notes appearing in it having been clipped from this paper. Some time when he discovers what a lot of time he is wast- ing in attempting to deceive even him- self into the belief that he has a the- atrical paper, he will go back to setting type. David Robinson, the popular manager of the Alhambra, attended the benefit to Herr Conried at the Metropolitan Opera House on Thursday night. It is the first time im seven years that "Dave'' has taken a night to himself, and he was im- pelled to this especial occasion through sentiment, having been formerly associ- ated with the Herr Director. The Heras Family of acrobats will leave for Germany about March 1. A new illusion controlled by the Rosen- feld Brothers, and manager by Heinne- mann, who ran "Dida" while over here, will shortly be shown. When the Florenze troupe played a town house recently the understander of the crowd, having nothing to do, defaced the walls of his dressing room by sketch- ing a nude figure of a woman in colors. His time could have been much better em- ployed in studying English or some new trick for the act, either of which would not have caused the management of the theatre the expense the defacement did. The Western Union Boys, Gus Ed- wards'latest novelty, will open at Read- ing on the 26th. server could see that she was slyly wiping the tears from beneath her spectacles. Asked as to what she thought of the performance as a whole and as to her daughter's act in particular, she said with a wan smile: "I really don't know. It is all so strange to me. I only wish and pray that Mary will come home to me some day." Hardin's Electric Ballet will open Sept. 10 on the Keith circuit, having been booked some time ago for this engagement through the H. B. Marinelli agency. Miss Jessie Moran, mezzo-soprano, is a find of J. H. Finn, press agent of the Tem- ple Theatre, Detroit. Mr. Finn is known throughout the entire West as "Mickey" Finn, and he was a well-known news- paper man in Chicago and Detroit for twenty years. Florence DuMas and Martha Rogers have joined the Blue Ribbon Girls, which is the name of a traveling burlesque show. Added information through fear of a mis- take. Nellie Seymour and Josie Allen, for- merly Seymour and Allen, will do single turns hereafter. Amely Villers, from Paris, will appear here this summer on a roof. After that the information fount ran out. Tom Almond, the dancer, and Edith Richards, his wife, will soon be seen in a spectacular new act at Tony Pastor's. Mr. Almond will give his exhibition of skate dancing on a pedestal, with light effects. Lewis McCord, who has for several sons past been doing "Her Last Rehearsal" in the Eastern houses, appeared recently at the Orpheum, Los Angeles, in a new playlet called "The Night Before," written on much the same lines as the old sketch. Bertha St. Clair and Elivia Bates (Mrs. and Miss McCord) have the same relative parts in the new offering. Mrs. Franz Steiner, wife of the director of the Wintergarten in Berlin, will short- ly visit this country, having engaged pass- age, and only awaits favorable weather for sailing. America Should Organize COMMENCING with "the next issue, February 24, VARIETY will present a series of articles on "Why the Vaudeville Artists of America Should Organize." The subject will be thoroughly discussed from every viewpoint, and interviews with artists, managers and agents will be printed to cover every aspect of the question. Comment is invited. R. A. Roberts, the English protean artist, left Wednesday for his home. Mr. Roberts would very much like to return, and probably will. The Kronemann brothers, German acro- batic clowns, will open around here "somewheres" (meaning the Morris houses according to Marinelli's office) on Octo- ber 17. Inmun's trained dogs, also a foreign act, will open here on October 29. Adolph Wilson, with an English mon- key act, will appear on Hammerstein's roof June 25 for the first time in the U. 8. .lames Rite, of Rice and Prevost, re- covered sufficiently from his recent in- jury to resume work this week, playing Proctor's Twenty-third Street. Rice and Prevost will appear on the Victoria Roof for the entire coming summer, this being the team's fourth consecutive engage- ment there, with '07 to follow. will open here on September 3, playing at one of the town houses booked by Wil- liam Morris. Irving Cooper, the business manager of the Empire City Quartette, intends to lav off the act for two weeks while he looks over some property he bought at Deer Park, L. I., from "Jim" Mclntyre, of Mclntyre and Heath. Mclntyre bought it without looking. Adding two weeks' salary to the first cost, etc. The Uessens, a German couple of boy hand balancers, .somewhat famed in their own country, will open at the Hippodrome n February 2G, having been booked through the H. B. Marinelli agency. <> of E. Wolheim and the return of Clifford (1. Fischer to the management of the Marinelli office in the St. James Building, Miss Sylvia Hahlo is in charge. Miss Hahlo received quite a complimentary cablegram from Mr. Marinelli entrusting her with the cares of the business for the intervening time. Tom Heam, "the Lazy Juggler," is acting as correspondent for a London pa- per while on this side. Genaro and Bailey will shortly produce in vaudeville a condensed version of their two-act comedy "Tony." Lillian Barrington, one of Weber's pretty blondes, had herself arrested re- cently for speeding in some one's auto- mobile. The aged mother of Mayme Remington, vaudeville soubrette, made the trip from her farm, near Grand Rapids, Mich., to De- troit last week, to see her daughter in her well known "pick" act at the Temple Theatre. It was the first trip the mother had ever taken on a railroad and the Temple Theatre was the first theatre she had ever enterd. The old lady, wife of a well-known farm- er-preacher, sat in a mezzanine box, flanked by her son and daughter-in-law, and wait- ed for the appearance of Mayme. As the latter tripped on the stage the mother failed to recognize her and it was some little time before the son could convince her that the young woman with the picka- ninnies was her daughter. When the act was finished the mother sat still a very long time and a close ob- Melville Ellis in a musical monologue is here from the West, where he appeared, and expects to be booked in the East. < 'in. | ne \ a Hi, Conchas and Salerno, all foreign jugglers in different lines, spent a pleasant evening together in a downtown restaurant one night this week. Ameri- can artists might copy that brotherly pro- fessional feeling, free from jealousy, with profit. Milton Royle says it is unlikely that he will ever re-enter vaudeville. "My royalty for one week from "The Squaw Man" brings me more than vaudeville would in three," added Mr. Royle. Sherman and De Forest "jumped" from Lowell, Mass., to San Francisco. "Pretty good leaping," says Dan. Chris Rickards, the English comedian, During the interval between the sailing