Variety (Feb 1906)

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1- VARIETY . ViKIETY A Variety Paper far Variety People. Published eterj Saturday by THB VARIETY PUBLISHING CO.. Knickerbocker Theatre Building, 1402 Broadway, New York City. Entered as secoiul-class matter December 22, 1905, at the post office at Ncic York, N. Y.. under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual $2 Foreign 8 Six and three months In proportion. Single copies five cents. Variety will be mailed to a permanent address or as per route, as desired. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. First Year. No. 11. With this issue Variety is enlarged to twenty-four pages, the pressure of adver- tising making it necessary to increase the size of the paper in order that the news department shall not suffer through the addition of several advertising pages. Orig- inally issued as a sixteen-page paper, Va- riety was increased to twenty pages on the sixth issue, and now with number eleven it is found necessary to still further enlarge our space. Nothing tells so con- cisely the story of the success of this pub* licatiou. It now reaches practically every member of the variety profession in this country, as well as the leading figures in English and Continental affairs. Clifford G. Fischer is expected home Monday. Kennedy and Rooney are exjKJcted in lx>ndon shortly. Grace Von Studdiford will return to Berlin next August. Carver and Pollard have been booked for eighteen weeks over the Keith circuit. Una Clayton played a trial performance of a new act, "What's in a Name," at the Orpheum Theatre, Kansas City, last Tues- day. Sansone and Delila will rest a few weeks after closing with the European Sensation Company in a few days. Vaudeville will next be graced. Harry Raymond, for the past eight years the right hand man of Oswald Stoll, one of the English magnates, has resigned his position. Rose Wentworth will play the last week of this season at Syracuse commencing the 26th. For next season an entirely new act is in preparation. Harry B. Lester has been offered an en- gagement with "His Majesty," the produc- tion soon to come into New York, in which Rlanche Ring has a prominent part. The five Mowatts and the Millman trio have been booked for January and Feb- ruary, '07, at Paris and Berlin, respective- ly, with other continental time to fol- low, all through the H. B. Marinelli Agency. Nina Morris has been offered time over the Keith circuit. She may accept; it's a question of carfare. The Three Merrills have been booked lor the Wintergarten in Berlin through Alexander Steiner. Au English leapcr, Higyins by name, is coining over here for a week on ''spec.'' It is hoped his time will not be wasted. Keith has made a new arrangement with foreign acts. Now the understanding is that they play the Orpheum, Kohl and Castle and Keith circuits, then go straight home. Viola Gillette will open in Brooklyn soon for a town showing, having presented her act at Reading for the first time. P. J. Casey, of the St. James Building, is in charge. There was the largest advance sale at the Colonial during the Henri de Vries en- gagement that has occurred in the history of vaudeville. Ȥ Leo Nino and Ferraro's Dogs, two for- eign acts, have been enticed away from Marinelli's office into the Keith ring through the machinations of the latter's agents. or ir Spadoni, the heavyweight juggler, will B. F. Keith offered Henri de Vries $000 weekly to play over his circuit. Mr. de Vries never saw the letter. This is about the amount that it cost Percy Williams The team expects to resume with that company on the 20th, at the Unique, Brooklyn. SEND IN NEWS ITEMS A RT1STS are requested to send in such items ** weekly as may be considered news, whether personal or otherwise. Whatever may be of interest to others comes under the head of n news." Humorous items are also acceptable. The trained dogs of Paul Sandor arc Russian boar hounds. Last week while playing a local theatre the people living next door complained on the Sunday clos- ing the engagement against the animals, saying they would stand them no longer. Mr. Sandor said he would remove them after the evening performance, which he did. The manager of the house received a note from the family's head next day asking him to convey the intelligence to Mr. Sandor that he was the most courte- ous foreigner they had ever heard of. not appear over here until June, when he will open on the Orpheum circuit. Foreign contracts prevent his coming be- fore that time. to set the playlet the Dutch artist ap- peared in when he opened at the Colonial. When Nellie Seymour, late of Seymour and Allen, opens at the Doric in Yon- kers on March 5, she will appear in four distinct character impersonations, each having an appropriate costume. The Empire Girls from England arrived this week, but all didn't land. One young girl who looked under the limit of sixteen years was '"held up'* until $100 was de- posited to insure that she would not be- come a charge. Good looks make no dif- ference in the governmental regulations. Ifarrv Homan, formerlv connected with the racetrack, and latterly acting as treas- urer of the Al Reeves Burlesque Com- pany, was sent to his home in Brooklyn last week from the road to be operated on for a tumor of the stomach. The St. Ongc Brothers thought to have a rest from their exertions on bicycles by going home to Massachusetts. They have Iteen booked for several skating rinks in the near vicinity of the landscape the old folks reside in, and will be very busy in consequence. An Italian troupe of acrobats came to this country recently 'taking a chance" on an engagement. Failing to secure an opening, they purchased a monkey and gave street exhibitions. It has been said by those who saw them that they are most remarkable performers, astounding the crowds wlio gathered. Had the foreign- ers known, a few minutes in front of William Morris' office might have se- cured tlie coveted time. At least, it would have been a novel plan of securing a "hearing." Maehnow, the Russian giant, will ap- pear on Harninerstein's Roof June 18. He will be accompanied by a woman as small as he is tall. The price to be paid i? said to be enormous for an act of this nature. Charles Leonard Fletcher comes into the Colonial March 5. He is still weak from the effects of the accident he met with on a western railroad, and after playing his New York time will go to a hospital for the purpose of undergoing an opera- tion. Hart, of Collins and Hart, was injured in London, the engagement! contracted for on their reappearance here being |K>st}M>ned meanwhile. Sam Collins is now in the city, having come ahead of his partner, who is not seriously hurt and who remains in London. "Babv" Zena Kiefe. who was for three years the "Little Mother" of one of Theo- dore Kramer** melodramas, baa just closed an 18-week whirl around the Keith circuit and gone back to school. Next season she will open with a return en- gagement with the Keith people. Mr. Bush, of Bush and Gordon, while playing at the Bijou Theatre in Phila- delphia met with an accident, and they were unable to fill their engagements with "The Jolly Grass Widows" company. The Three Le Maze Brothers, who are with the Jersey Lilies burlesque company at the Circle Ihifl week, have decided to shake the dust, of the burlesque off their tumbling shoes and go into vaudeville with their acrobatic turn. The act re- sembles that of Rice and Prevost, but My- ers A: Kelley, who are responsible, think it i> good enough in itself to get a sue rpftftful hearing. They open .March 15 in Passaic.