Variety (Aug 1906)

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VARJ«TY MORRIS GOING AGAINST POLL Efforta in several direction! are being put forth to extend the lines of the Will- in m Morris-booking offices by the acqui- sition of houses in a number of towns. With the opening of the fall term he will probably have acquired the Worcester (►pera House, the Hyperion in New Haven and Ciilmore's Court Square in Spring field. The leases will be taken by William Morris himself and he will turn them over to a syndicate of his allies, the moving spirits of which will be Percy Williams and William Hammcrstein. Morris has received a number of offers of capital from his associates, most of whom are seeking good vaudeville investments with- out desiring to figure in the public eye. In each of the above cities is a vaudeville theatre under the management of S. Z. Poli. SHUBERTS AFTER VAUDEVILLE HOUSE. (Goshen, Ind.. Aug. 3. Col. John H. Amnions, of Marion, Ind.. and head of the Amnions &. Du Bois Cir- cuit, was in CJoshen recently, looking over his interests in this place. He announced that he had taken under lease a new the- ♦re now being erected in Indianapolis and will probably open it when it is completed as a vaudeville theatre. This will be in November. A report has it, however, that the Shu- berts have had their eyes on this same playhouse for some time and that Col. Amnions slipped in ahead of them. Now comes the rumor that the Shuberts have offered Col. Amnions $10,000 for his lease. So there is a possibility that the house may be used for independent attractions instead of tbe continuous. CARRIE DE MAR WITH FROHMAN. Joe Hart's wife, Carrie DeMar, seems likely to land on Broadway. It will be with a Frohman production, probably "The Dairy Maids," an English play which has had a successful run on the other side. Though Miss DeMar is not "starred" the first season of her Frohman contract, there will be at least an "and" or "with" before her name on the billboards. LUESCHER WANTS SUBSCRIPTIONS. A number of prominent vaudeville ar- itsts have been asked to subscribe to the stock of tiie corporation that has been formed by Mark A. Loeacher to secure and operate a chain of vaudeville theatres, and in which William Morris. Percy Williams and William Hammcrstein are sjiid to lie heavily interested. NAME NEW MILWAUKEE THEATRE. Chicago, Aug. 3. The new theatre just completed in Mil- waukee which will be operated by Charles E. Kohl and Mr. Beck has been named the New Majestic. 58TH STREET NOT FOR BURLESQUE. Denial is made with all positiveness by the Eastern Burlesque Wheel people, F. F. Proctor and E. F. Albee, that there is anything in the report that the Fifty- eighth street theatre may be acquired by the Columbia Amusement Company for housing Eastern Wheel shows. WESTERN WHEEL GETS BROOK- LYN'S IMPERIAL. A bright ray has apjiearcd in the dark clouds enveloping the lease of the Impe- rial Theatre in Brooklyn which William T. (trover holds. A manager in the Western Burlesque Wheel has approached Ml. (Jrover and the Empire circuit will occupy the theatre this coming season. The Imperial is located to- bring it into competition with Hyde & Behman's Star Theatre in the same bor- ough. Hyde ft Bchman are Eastern Bur- lesque Wheel managers. The Western Wheel had Iio]>ck at one time that it would weaken the opposition through securing the Brooklyn men. A plot of ground was secured in a location to menace the firm's Gaiety in another part of the city, but it did not bring the result anticipated. WESTERN WHEEL NOW COMPLETE. All three of the open weeks that ap- peared in the route list given out for pub- lication by the Empire Circuit have now- been filled. One is taken up by the ac- quisition of W. T. (trover's Brooklyn Im- perial, as told in another column of this issue, and the other two arc absorbed by the addition of the Park Theatre in Wor- cester, Mass., and an arrangement with the Chambeylain Mid-Western .circuit, whereby Empire Circuit shows play three nights in that concern's house in St. Jo- seph, Mo., and finish the week by playing one-night stands in the smaller houses of the Chamberlain string along the line of the Rock Island Railroad. This latter arrangement is understood to be merely a temporary one, although.it may be con- tinued for a considerable time. The Park Theatre in Worcester was the original bone of contention be- tween Poli and Keith, which started a fight last spring which threatened to make things merry in vaudeville until it finally resulted in the combina- tion of the warring parties. One of the terms of the compromise was the stipu- lation that Keith should give up the Park in Worcester and promise to commit no further acts of aggression in the Poli zone of influence. INJUNCTION DECISION RESERVED. On Thursday last in the Supreme Court of Kings County argument was heard in the injunction proceeding brought against Sullivan & Kraus by Al Reeves to restrain the firm from playing any other show than the Reeves company during the week commencing December 17. A referee was appointed to take testi- mony. The hearings will commence next week. The court reserved decision on the question whether the injunction should remain in effect pending the findings of the referee. MUSICAL EXPOSITION AT GARDEN. The manufacturers of musical instru- ments of all kinds, together with the pub- lishers and allied trades, will for the first time in the history of the business hold an exposition at Madison Square Carden Sep- tember 10 to 27. ft is intended to be an advertisement and trade stimulus as well as an educator for the producer and the public at large. The leading piano houses, phonograph and other talking machine con- cerns have contracted for space for their exhibits in fact, the manufacturers of all kinds of musical instruments will be represented. FOUR MORTONS LEAVE WILLIAMS. The Four Mortons and Percy Williams have had a serious difference. Both sides deny for publication that anything but the most amicable relations exist, but the dispute was important enough to dissolve the agreement between them. Sam Mor- ton says that his contract with Mr. Wil- liams called for a division of the receipts weekly and that on the final settlement at the conclusion of the season he felt that hi was entitled to some $2,(XM) more than Mr. Williams' statement credited him with. He protested and was asked to visit the manager's downtown office early in the week, but could not get a satisfactory ad justment. So, according to Morton's tale, he shifted managers and will open under the direction of Frank McKee on Sep- tember 9. Percy Williams, when confronted with the Morton allegations, denied emphati- cally any friction and produced a docu- ment signed • by the individual Mortons showing that in consideration of the sum of $5,180, *Mn hand paid," the performers, individually and collectively, release him from all claims of any nature. "We have had no differences at all," said Mr. Wil- liams. "I found that I could not devote sufficient time to the tour of the Mortons and sold my contract with them to Frank McKee. I shall stick to vaudeville for mine." KEITH WANTS HARRY LE0NHARDT. With the announcement that Harry I,eonhardt, the manager for Percy Wil- liams' Novelty Theatre in Brooklyn last season, would go to Boston as stage man- ager for Mr. Williams' renamed Empire Theatre there came a desire on the part of the Keith management to secure Mr. Leonhardt's services. He was offered the management of the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York, but afterward this was altered to the Keith's Boston house. What his duties in Boston were to be was not specified, and as far as known Mr. Leonhardt has given no answer to the Keith proposition. HIPPODROME; OPEN SHOP. There will be no "exclusive" booking agent for the Hippodrome. Under the new management Max C. Anderson will have charge of the bookings. Mr. Ander- son has said that he will accept desirable acts from whomsoever may offer them. HAMMERSTEIN OPERA NOV. 19. Oscar Hammerstein has set November 19 as the opening date for his big opera house. HIP'S BIG BEAR ACT CANCELLED. The big spectacular Hagenbeck act in- volving a troupe of sixty-five polar bears which was to have been put on at the Hip- podrome next season at an estimated cost of $125,000 has been cancelled. This feature was one of the high-priced dreams of Fred Thompson, which under the new policy of retrenchment and econ- omy is considered undesirable. The im- portation and salary of the act would mount up to $75,000, and the cost of put- ting it on with appropriate scenic investi- ture would have set back the Hippodrome exchecquer $50,000 more. Fifteen thou- sand dollars is the rumored amount Mr. Hagenbeck accepted for the cancellation. PERHAPS MORE VAUDEVILLE FOR JERSEY CITY. T. W. Dinkins in an association with Frank Anderson, owner of the Academy of Music in Jersey City, and the owners of the Bon-Ton Theatre there, has pur- chased a site on GfOVfl street just opposite the City Hall and will erect a theatre upon it. No hint of the policy of the house is given out by the new company, but t he surmises that were made following the announcement ran something like this: Mr. Anderson is and always has been identified with the legitimate end of the- atrical enterprises and it would seem prob- able that the new venture will be run along those lines. On the other hand, Mr. Dinkins, who is equally interested in the deal with Mr. Anderson, has been identified with vaude- ville and burlesque for a number of years, and it is just as probable that the Jersey City playhouse will be devoted to the con tinuous. If the latter guess is the correct one, say the gucssers, the long friendship of Dinkins and William Morris mav result in the anti-syndicate people figuring as a Jersey City opponent to the Keith-Proc tor outfit. The plans for the house are in the hands of McAlfatrick & Son, the archi tects, and it is said ground will be broken immediately. "JIM" LEDERER CHICAGO MANAGER. Chicago, August 3. James L. Lederer is now a Chicago theatre manager, having secured a twenty- seven-year lease on the property at HOT) to 1115 Milwaukee avenue, known as the Central Turner Hall, and converted it into quite a comfortable theatre. The building is 80x125 feet and has an auditorium easily accommodating 1,000 people on the ground floor. The stage is unusually large for a hall given over to other than theatrical per- formances and adequate to allow of a good size production. The new playhouse will be opened in about two weeks with vaude- ville at ten and twenty cents, giving three performances a day. It is the intention of Mr. Lederer to rebuild the house in about a year to meet the requirements of a modern theatre, and either the Stair & Havlin attractions or the Columbia Amusement Company (Eastern Burlesque Wheel) will play there. $40,000 WORTH OF CONTRACTS. The Wayburn Attractions Company last Monday received in one batch from the William Morris office contracts for their productions during next season amount- ing to over $40,000, with more time to follow. The transaction occupied both sides one hour. "Kitty-town," "Daisy-land," IMckan- ninny Minstrels and the Flying Ballet were booked. In fact, all the Wavhurn acts ready for the stage received contracts ex- cepting the "Kain Dears," which* may go with the Orphcum Road Show. Xed Wajrburti is in Chicago and it is expected by his associates that before re- turning he will have secured there a the- atre where something resembling vaudeville will be given. The Wayburn company will also have some interest in a house in IMttsburg in connection with the Mark Luescher combination.