Variety (Oct 1906)

VARIETY « A Tarittty Pa»«;r t%t Tarlcty Fc«9l«. Published CTcry Saturday by TMS TAmiSTT FUBLISKXNO CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Balldlng. 1402 Broadway, New York Olty. ., Telephone 1837—38th St. SDCE 7. BILVERMAV, ■ditor and Proprietor. Entered ar second-class matter Deoenib^ 22, 1905, at the post office at New York. N. Y., under the act of Congress of March 8, 1879. OHIOAOO OFFICE, 7»I. OlarkSt. ■■■"■. ■i-.'":■■■ :■';■:/: FBAinC WIESBERO, BepraaantatlTa. ' PITTBUKO OFFICE, Booms 807-808, S09 4th Are. JAKES T. TTVDALL, BepT«a«ntotiT«. LONDON OFFICE, 40 Llala St., W. 0. C. Bartram, RspressntatiTa. RoprwaotatlTe In Oarmaay, "DEE ABTIST," Dttsaeldorf. . , • ■« ■;•• ADVEBTI8E1CENT8. 15 cents an agate line, $2.10 an Inch. Ona page $100; one-half page, $00; one-quarter paga, I2S. Charge for portraits famished on application. Special rate by the month for professional card under heading "Representative Artists." SUBSCRIPTION RATK*. Annus! $S Foreign 8 Six and three months In proportion. Single copies five cents. Variety will l>e mailed to a permanent address or ss per route as desired. VARIETY may be had sbrosd st INTERNATIONAL NEWS CO.'S OFFICES. Bresmfi Building. Chsnrery T.nne, LONDON, E. a, ENOLAND. AdTertlsements forwarded by mall mnat be ae> companied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Copyright, 1906, by Vsrlety Publishing Co. Vol. IV. No. 4. ''The Magic Boot" opens on the Poli circuit October 15. The Three Zoellers are playing on the Sullivan-Considine circuit. Mr. and Mrs. Browning are with the •"Chinatown Charlie" company. 'Iaine8 Thornton has been offered time in Tondon commencinpf next April. Cjntinell and Harris will play their f<»rmrr act at Rhea's Buffalo next week. Kicca Allen, .sister to Louise Allen Col- lior, playn in a now sketch at Yonkers next week. Henry \>'. Behman, of the Brooklyn iiianageriiil firm of Hyde «.^' Behman, has Imth ill this week. Hallen and Ha^es. a Western team, re- placed the nruinmor Quartet at Hyde il' Beliman'H Ihrs week. Harry Tat«' anivnd from Kngland Tues- day. His \n\o%\ acf, "Fishing." Uill bo srrn Monday ;if TTafiuitPr'^fpitr'-. l>inkina' "Innocent Maids" leave town • o.night and will not get back to tho local houses until the middle of March. Julie Ring bought an automobile this week. It will accompany her on the road and may be used for making "jumps." The Sunday concerts at the Third Ave- nue Theatre commence to-morrow night. The bills are placed by Myers & Keller. The Harlem Opera House, now under the Keith-Proctor management, is under- going repairs preliminary to the opening. The Four Gregorys, hoop rollers, have an engagement of six months commenc- ing in April next at the Circus Carre, Amsterdam. In Boston this week the billing for the Keith theatre reads "Lily Seville, the orig- inal singer of 'Waiting at the Church' in ' tBfs country." -'"''^'^''''^'^^^ " =i.r;.i=i-cv==;^=^ Jas. E. Sullivan in "The Mlsmated Pair," a sketch formerly played by Charles Grapewin, opened at the Doric Theatre in Yonkers this week. ■. 1 Billy Hart, at present with the "Yankee Doodle Girl" show, has a new act in which Anna Yale will assist him. It is a bur- lesque on ventriloquism. Harry Gilfoil has been offered consedu- tive time by the United Booking Agency at $350 weekly, but refused to consider anything under $450. One of the features in the olio of the new show to be presented shortly at the Hippodrome is an act employing the serv- ices of thirty Arabs. In Great Britain the Moss-Stoll circuit is now called "The Golf Tour," owing to the time spent by artists at the sport while playing Scotland. "A Millionaire's Revenge," the melo- drama based upon the White-Thaw trag- I'dy, played to $6,000 last week at the Aniphion Theatre, Brooklyn. Toby Claude, the comedienne, in booked for the Palace, Jjondon, for an engagr- iiient in the spring. Af1«'r that she will plav in l>ul»lin, her home city. Waller .1. IMimiiier. of (In- Wrslerii lliir- lo.squ<' Wlioel, has luKstpoiiod Ins jirojios,')! trip to Kun»p«* until af(«'r tiic Imlidays, ac- cording to his own announceriietit. Robert Cohen and Elsie Flacherr, both members of "The Bachelor's Club" bur- lesque company, were married in Cincin- nati last week, while playing in that li>W!l. . Cojitrary to report, Oswald StoU, the Knglisli manager, did not book any acts while here on his brief vi«it. He left "or- ilers" for a few he saw and I he "orders" nia N he filled. 'That Quail«'t" appears without recom- pense tomorrow (Sunday) at an entei tainment given by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New Vork for the benefit of the children. Gifford C. Fischer, the foreign agent, did not sail for home last Saturday. Mr. Fischer has been some time reaching a decision when he shall leave. The latest bulletin says to-day. in New York placed in his charge. Mr. Ely's headquarters hereafter will be New York aty.',, ::-:''V. ■.:'■'•■;;:■!•:■ In response to a cable sent by Percy Williams to London, directing that a big foreign act be secured, the answer came back 'Impossible." Williams replied, "Get it. Nothing impossible. M Taylor Granville will leave the cast of "The Futurity Winner" next Saturday night at the Novelty Theatre in Brook- lyn. Disagreements between Mr. Gran- ville, who has been the star of the piece, and its managers have combined to cause the separation. Reed Albee, son of E. F. Albee, Keith's general manager, is acting as assistant manager of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, where F. F. Proctor, Jr., is the official head of the house management. A report from Deadwood, S. D., tells of the death on September 25 by burning of Vera Van Zant, a variety artiste. Her wrapper was caught in the flame of an alcohol lamp, burning her fatally. The woman of Lea La Roses, a wire walking team in the olio of the "Baltimore Beauties," playing the Imperial, Brooklyn, this week, was taken suddenly iU Tues- day night, and her partner, who figures only incidentally in the act, was forced to go on and fake the act through. M. S. Bentham has booked a complete route over the Keith circuit beginning Oc- tober 29 in Hoboken for Harry Ladell, formerly of Ladell and Francis, and Rosa Crouch, late of Jordan and Crouch. Leo Carrillo, Variety's cartoonist, says he will swim the English Channel when he goes abroad. No one has successfully accomplished the feat up to date, but Mr. Carrillo is something of a swimmer. Ben Wesley, who two seasons ago was with Miner's "Americans," died at his home in New York in August. Mr. Wes- ley after leaving the stage was on the confidential staff of William R. Hearst. The "Oceanic" from Southampton, which arrived Wednesday morning, brought back H. H. Feiber, of the Keith Office; Jean Bedini, dnquevalli and Ben Kaufman, of the Kaufman Troupe, among others of the vaudeville profession. Although Edgar Allen, of the Myers A Keller office, has been billed extensively in the West to appear in the vaudeville houses in that section, Mr. Allen knows not why, remarking that he will remain in the agency business. Joe Pineus. who has been an attache of the rrreman Bernstein office for some weeks past, went to Washington on Wednesday of this week to act as manager of Ihe William Aforris show playing the Sliuhert house at the capital, y ' At the Novelty Theatre in Brooklyn this week Frosini was not satisfied with the program position, not appearing. The Piccolo Midgets also disappointed. Mur- phy and Willard and the Four Living- stons replaced the missing ones. Mort Singer, manager of the T.ASalle Theatre, Chicago, and Frank Adams, one of the authors of "The Time, the Place and the Girl," are in New York organiz- ing a number "two" company for that piece. The new f»rpnni7ation is to opon Docpmbpr 2.'>. W, W. Ely. manager of the Sullivan Considine house in Scranton, Pa., ha^ had the management of the sam*» Hr cuit's Family Theatre on ie5th street T. Nelson Downs, the coin manipulator, has purchased a home in Marshalltown, "fffiV^BiTd- -will reside there upon retiring from the stage. Mr. Tarlton, formerly of Tarlton and Tarlton, is manager of a new vaudeville theatre recently opened in the same city, having a capacity of 500. V Gracie Emmett has decided after a week's tryout at Pastor's of "The Coun- tess for Revenue Only" that her forte is in Irish comedy character parts and will return to her former successful sketch, "Mrs. Murphy's Second Husband," until she is able to secure a fitting successor for it. The sale of seats for the entire en- gagement of David Warfleld at the Ma- jestic Theatre in Boston, where he opened last Monday night for a run of four weeks, has been suspended, the capacity for the whole period having been disposed of. Several New York City ticket specu- lators followed the Wajfield show to the Bean Town. - The company for the new Thomas Q. Seabrooke-Pauline Hall combination which will be seen at Keeney's, Brooklyn, week after next in a condensed operetta is composed of Signor Perugini and "Bil- ly" Norton. Perugini is best known as the former husband of Lillian Rlissell and Miss Norton is still the wife of Joseph W. Herbert. Mile. .Anne Dancrey, who has a "T>a Maxixe" dance which may he seen in American vaudeville, was formerly one of the Dante Trio, two brothers and a sis- ter. The trio had somewhat of a reputa- tion on the other side as a fair singing and dancing turn of the European style. She is said to be a clever dancer, and the Brazilian gyrations in the "Maxixe" as done by her are expected to attract con- siderably more attention than previous ef- forts in New York in similar direction. While Harry Houdini, "The Handcuff King," was touring England with his own company he engaged a Dutch actor named Theodore Boumeister, who claimed that he was the original producer of the char- acter change act presented in this coun- try under the title of "A Ca.se of Arson** hy Henri DeVries. Boumeister alleges tn to have played it under the title of "Who Was Guiltv'" Mr. Houdini reeomraended Roumeister's act to Ameri'^aa managers long before DeVries appeared bete, but Roumei'*tor did not stieeeed in obtaining a hearing.