Variety (Sept 1906)

VARIETY variety A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published erery Saturday by THB VARIKT7 PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building. 1402 Broadway, New York City. Telephone 1837—38th St. SIME J. SILVERMAN. Bdltor and Proprietor. Entered at tecond cla$$ matter December 22, 1005, at the poet office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Oongrest of March 8. 1879. CHICAGO OFFICE, 7» 8. Clark St. FRANK WIE8BERQ, Representative. PITTSBURG OFFICE, Rooms 807-808, 808 4th Are. JAMES T. TYNDALL, Representative. LONDON OFFICE, 40 Liale St., W. C. C. BARTRAM, Representative. Representative in Germany, "DER ARTIST," Dttsseldorf. ADVERTISEMENTS. 15 cents an agate line. 82.10 an Inch. One pajce, $100; one half page, 850; one-quarter page, $25. Charge for portraits famished on application. 8peclal rate by the month for professional card under beading. "Representative Artlata." SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual $2 Six and three months In proportion. Single copies five cents. 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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. Tony Pastor is on a vacation. The Millard Brothers have gone to Eu- rope. Nagel and Adams will play with "A Wise Member" the coming season. Mile. Bresina, a Frenchwoman, opens on the Orpheum circuit September 17. Val Trainor and Myrtle Dale will be with the "Bon Tons" burlesque company. "Mudtown Lockup" is the title of Crane Brothers' new act for the coming season. Geo. Austin Moore will appear alone as a singer ut the Alhambra on Septem- ber 17. The owning date fur the Orpehum The- atre in St. Paul has been .set for Oc- tober 7. May Howard will not play in "The Two Orphans." Miss Howard has no definite plans as yet. The Cartmells opened their season last week as a quartet. They were the Three Cartmells formerly. John T. Kelly will produce a new sketch called "A Game of Con" at the Alhambra September 10. Will Evans, an English comedian, will appear here in February for a run of eight weeks over the Morris time. The Colonial Theatre will open on Sep- tember 10. The Gotham and Novelty the- atres in Brooklyn open Monday. ar- Koram, the English ventriloquist, rived this week. He opens at the Orpheum Theatre at Kansas City on Monday. W. E. Bonney, formerly with Viola Allen, will forsake the "legit" and appear in vaudeville with a dramatic sketch. Creo Brothers, an English acrobatic act, has been booked by Clifford C. Fischer to appear at Hammerstein's January 7. Ed II. Anthony, a Cincinnati newspaper man, has been appointed press agent for the new Olympic Theatre in that city. The International Theatre Company's Lyric Theatre in Cleveland is scheduled to open September 9 on the two-shows-a-day policy. At Bluefield, W. Va., last Saturday the John Robinson circus played three per- formances during the day to an aggregate audience of 27,540. T. B. Baylies, of New Bedford, Mass , says his opening last Monday was the largest in the history of his vaudeville house in that town. Vasco, "the mad musician," will sail from Sydney, Australia, on October 4. ap- pearing first at the Orpheum. San Fran- cisco, on November 5, II. II. Feiber, the Keith foreign book- ing agent, is expected to return in about a month. He is thought to have booked a number of foreign acts. The Four Everetts substituted for An- ette Carver at the opening of Weber & Rush's new Armory Theatre in Ring hamton, N. V., last Monday. Sol Meyers, manager of Dinkins' "Yankee Doodle Girls," wired his princi- pal this week that the opening day's busi- ness in Montreal was $718. Sadie Duff, formerly of the team of Crawford and Duff, has deserted the con- tinuous to take a part with Henry W. Savage's "Arizona" next season. Lily Seville, the English comedienne, opens at Keith's Union Square Theatre on Monday. Miss Seville will have two new songs in her repertoire this season. "A Night in an English Music Hall," playing Hammerstein's this week, is using two full duplicate sets of scenery, one for downstairs and the other on the roof. Rieca Allen, a sister of Louise Allen Coliier, announces her intention of enter- ing vaudeville here with a new sketch by John Floyd Humes, a newspaper man. James and Sadie Leonard with Richard Anderson are on the Sullivan & Considine circuit. The trio "jumped" from New York to Butte, Mont., where they opened. Sam Goldie will manage Weber & Rush's "Bon Tons." Phil Isaacs, formerly slated for this position, takes charge of the firm's "Dainty Duchess" company in- stead. Fred Watson and the Morrisey Sis ters with the Tod-Judge Family, play- ing with Irwin's "Big Show" this week, are there to temporarily strengthen the biil only. Lillian Rlanch Kline is going into the vaudeville business as a promoter. She has several girl acts in process of prepa- ration and will shortly put forward her first effort. A member of the Tod-Judge Family, playing with Irwin's "Big Shows," broke his arm while practicing last Saturday afternoon, but appeared in the evening without shirk inn his work. Rertie Heron, lately of Ned Way burn's 'Minstrel Misses," broke in a new single act at Pleasure Bay this week. Palmer and Gilbert were also seen at the New Jersey resort in a new offering. LeClair and Hart, instead of Morris and Morris, as -was reported in the review of the "Moonlight Maids" last week, re- placed the pictures in the olio. Edgar Atchinson Ely, formerly with May Irwin, will play a month or so of vaudeville dates before he opens with "Miss Pocahontas," the forthcoming Klaw & Erlanger musical comedy. Robert Baker, of Baker and Mono, while playing Hillside Park, N. J., last week lost a #401) diamond pin. Some one broke into the dressing room while he was on the stage and lifted the bauble from his trunk. Charles Mack, Lite of Callahan and Mack, will produce on September 10 for a "try-out" a sketch written by himself entitled "Come Back to Erin." There will be seven people and a complete s*t of sceneiv*. • • . . Pat Rooney, the dancer, and his wife, Marion Rent, put on their new act at I'tica this week, and it was found to be a trifle long, but slight changes and re- vision put it right after the initial per- formance. Mabel Rardine, who has just closed a four weeks engagement at the London Pavilion and is now playing on the Mo>s Stoll tour in the provinces, will probably return to America for a tour of the vaudevilles. Weber & Rush signed Willie Pantzer for their "Dainty Duchess" show before Mr. Pantzer gave a trial performance of the acrobatic act he now presents. Its success has caused the firm to feel elated over their foresight. F. F. Proctor has not been served with the summons in the suit brought by Fred' Karno to recover a week's salary for the cancelled Newark date of the English- man's act. Mr. Proctor has been out of town, which prevented the service. The Metropolis Four, composed of Harry Ellis, William Donald, Jack Ham- ilton and^ William Wood, will play here in October on the Williams circuit. All the members of the quartet were formerly with l>ockstadcr's minstrels. Signor Germane!, the baritone, now in vaudeville, formerly sang in grand opera abroad. He was obliged to abandon that pursuit owing to the strain and excite- ment of the roles. The singer accepted vaudeville as a more quiet pasture. Al W. Filson, of Filson and Errol, con- tradicts the published statements that he and his wife lost everything in the San Francisco fire. The only loss sustained was on household effects. Fifty per cent of that was recovered through the insur- ance companies. Lester and Acker gave a special per- formance of their new sketch, "The Little Immigrant," at Keith's Wednesday before a selected audience of agents and man- agers. After the performance the Keith people made an offer, but it was not closed at the time. Wilson Hallett, the Englishman, opens at the Alhambra Monday. While on the trip over Mr. Hallett gave three shows in one evening on the boat, playing before the first-class, second-class and steerage passengers. The proceeds, $250, were do- nated' to the Orphans' Fund. The horse used in the afterpiece of "The Rialto Rounders," which played the Dewey last week, dropped dead last Saturday night. The animal had played con- scientiously through the week, but the ap- proach of salary time proved too ex- citing for an already weak heart. No blame is attached to the performance. Under her original name of Kitty Wells, Miss Sonora, formerly of the vaudeville team of Cook and Sonora, will appear with Sam Bernard's company in the role of Mrs. Hoggenheirner when that piece is produced a month hence. At present Miss Sonora is in the Presbyterian Hospital re- covering from an operation for appendi- citis. % • Friction is developing steadily between the Keith office and the Eastern managers booking through it. Several have asked for acts which they are unable to secure owing to the Keith office declining to pay the salary. It seems a matter of indiffer- ence that the manager requesting the act is satisfied with the amount. That does not affect the position of the Keith office, and as the act in demand can not be as- sured of sufficient time at their price they turn elsewhere for engagements.