Variety (Oct 1906)

VARIETY A Tmtitr Fft»«f Ht Tarictj Fc»pl«. PabUihed CTcry Satordaj hf TKB TAmXBTT PUBI^ISMINa CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Boildlnff, 1403 Broadway. New York City. Telephone 1837—88th 8t. ■DIE J. 8ILVEEMAV. ■dltor and Proprietor. Entered as teoond-clast matter December 22, 1905, at the post office at New York, N. 7., under ttic act of Congress of Maroti 8, 1879. CHICAGO OiTICB. 79 B. Clark Bt. " •Phone Central 6007. FRAirS WIE8BEH0, KepreaentatiTe. PITTBUHO OFFICE, Rooma M7-S08, 809 4th Are. JAKXB T. mrDALL, BepreaeotatiTa. ^ - CIHCINMATI OFFICE. 107 BeU Block. HARRT HESS, Repreaentatlve. LONDON OFFICE, 40 Llale Bt.. W. C. C. BARTRAM, RepreaentatlTe. RepreaentatiTe la Oermaay, "DER ARTIST." Dusieldorf. ADVERTIBEMEim. 16 eenta an agate line, $2.10 an Inch. One page flOO; one-half page, $50; one-qnarter page. 128. Charge for portraits famished on application. Special rate by the month for professional card nnder headlnj; "Representative Artlata." SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual $2 Foreign 8 Six and three montha In proportion. Single copies five cents. Variety will be mailed to a permanent addreaa or a a per ronte aa dealred. VARIRTT may be had abroad at INTERNATIONAL NEWS CCS OFFICES. Breams Bnlldlng, Chancery Lane, LONDON, E. a, EHOLAHD. Adrertlsementa forwarded by mall mnat be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Copyright, 1006, by Variety Publlahlog Co. Vol. IV. No. 5. The letter head of Richard Pitrot, the agent, now reads "Richard is himself again." "Ma.xwell and l"hidley open on the SuUi- van-Considine circuit at Winnipeg, Mani- toba, Monday. rV»nintoncing in .Tannery the Lion Tal- aco, at 110th Ktreet and Broadway, will give Sunday concerts. Miiudc Ourtnoy arrived from England this week. The singer opens at the Co- lonial Theatre Monday. The Six I'rovcjinies, female bicyclists, return to Kurop<' next season, ojiening a Continental tour at Amstcnbim. Sherman and De Forest play their new act "A J Circus" next week at l>tck- stadcr's fJarrick Theatre, Wilmington, De-l. Minnie Dupree has left vaudeville to join the cast of the new Shubert produc tion. whi<'h goes into rrhearflfll imniedi .f*»nie .Taoobs, the London agent, arrived U.st Saturday. Miss .lambs will be her*» ♦ or thvpo or four ^^'>ck:. Rrr .sist'^r i.i qiito il!. Dave Nowlin, while playing at Keith's Union Square last week, exchanged places with Lee Harrison at the Fifth Avenue on Wednesday.;:; v'*-/■> •:,;■ ',■■,:■ ■.,..^,.. - ..Joe Shea is booking for the Sunday night shows at the Star, 107th street and Lexington avenue, of which Fred Follett is manager. Ssineraida and Senitza, a foreign acro- batic act composed of two girls, will open at one of the Williams houses in New York on the 22d. Charles Mack, formerly of Callahan and Mack, opens at the Colonial Theatre, Law- rence, Mass., Monday with his scenic nov- elty, "Back to Erin." The Brittons, colored, have confirmed from England by cable to Myers & Keller their engagement on the Orpheum circuit commencing next May. Although booked for the Majestic The- atre, Erie, Pa., this week, the Dixie Min- strels disappointed. Grace Cameron was dispatched to occupy the vacancy. A huge sign on the building announces the coming December 1 of the Shapiro Music Publishing G>mpany at the corner of Broadway and Thirty-ninth street. . Grace Van Studdiford has at last se- cured a date. M. S. Bentham booked the one-time singer to open in Chicago Octo- ber 22. She may play the week out. Julian Rose was billed for the current week at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, but was switched to Pittsburg by the Keith .Agency to replace Harry Gilfoil on the program. The Three Electric Clarks have been engaged for "The Innocent Maids" bur- lesque company (Western Wheel), from which Emma O'Neill, the female baritone, has retired. Frances Rockefeller King is suinjj Tobv Claude for a sum of money alleged to be due for press \v«»-l< performc<l by Miss King ill exploiting Miss Claude as a vaudeville star. Owing to a delay in baggjigo delivery the Four Casting Dunbars could not play the Mohawk Theatre at Schenectady. \. Y., this week, their place being taken by the Four Livingstons. Kdna Aug plays her last engagement this season here at TTainmerstein's weel< of November 5. Immediately after Miss Aug sails ior Paris to take part in the ( liristinas pantomime. ITenry Rosenberg, owner of the Metrop nlis Theatre, is looking for an investment ill the vjiudevillc line. If a suitable op portunity presents itself he will* le;i«e ;» theatre in this vicinity. f^ee Harrison says Jack l^evy. the figent. intends to change his trademark. It has bren "Anything there's a Hollar in." Mr. tf^nisori frtjitr- fhat the drtjl.ii" wjll be r'"p!a/-pd by . tHiit^^ 'cnt?." Nathaniel Simongon, a former attache of the William Morris office, has taken a place in Jack Levy's agency. ^ . C "The Ham Tree" may soon lose one of its leaves in the person of Belle Gold. Miss Gold is not enraptured with the piece and is thinking of taking the "Desde- mona" number she now sings into vaude- ville. Smith and Baker have announced their intention of closing with "The Cracker- jacks," the Eastern Wheel burlesque show, at the end of next week, when the com- pany plays Hurtig & Simon's Harlem house. Lasky & Rolfe's "Black Hussars" have been booked for the Christmas.pantomime at the Grand Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, by Fred Karno. Mr. Karno has also en- gaged the Harmony Four, now ih~Eng- land, for the same time. M. M. Thiese of the Western Burlesque Wheel is partner in a venture to star Bonita, at present leading lady with "Wine, Woman and Song," next season in a comedy drama. Four others are inter- ested in the enterprise. The organ of the artists in England, "The Performer," reproduced in its issue of September 27, with full credit, Leo Car- rillo's cartoon on affiliation (with the cap- tion "Slow, but Sure") which appeared in Variety two weeks previously. At the Twenty-third Street Theatre this week Geo. Evans is singing a song not composed by himself and is asking the audience to join in the chorus. It is the only case on record where one song writer "plugs" another's output without hope of reward. The Four Fords were offered twenty weeks on the other side. TTpon learning that $500 weekly was the foreign price for the lancers the time was not closed. An offer of one-half that amount wouhl have been entertained by the managers across the seas. .\ number of house niana<:«'rs in the vaudeville theatres in Kngland wnul<l be pleased to secure an Ameiiciiii po-<ition in llie same capacity. Over there ".\merica" i- the name for a mint, where you take what you want, always lejixiiig siillicient |i)i the next fellow. I\inu>|ey Benedict will pla\ the jmrt ill **'i'lic Futurity Winner" iiiii<l<> vacant l»y Taylor Granville, who lc.i\c~ the cast to-night. Fred Santa ley will lake the character of the eirin<f brother, formerlv assumed by Mr. Ihiiiedict. Marion Shirley will hereafter l»e the he n» inc. . Afauri<'e Si'lilc-^singn. manager f*f the .Xiiipliion 'I'licatrc. liiuoklyn. will put for- ward a ne\s aspirant tor vaudeville honors Suiida\ cvcniiij.' when Lillian DcLoe, said to be :i tormer iiiomlicr ot IMslior's San I lanci-co operatic >.tock- cniripany. will make h^r |oe;i| drbiil ill the vHrieticK. Uuiinc rtuf "f the p*»rfo!ni<»n'efc of Ric»^^ and Prevost at the Orpheum in Boston, F'revost failerl to catcb Rirp hh he lean^'d n\ c\ ♦ ht Miir-i<'i;4n'! and tiot h f^'ll int'» '>t ih-- tra Fill*- in ;it^*<^mp*in;: ♦> -a' H»ini self, grabbed the hair of the cornetist and landed on the floor with a toupee in his hand. . ■■ -.■ ' ■ . ■ At last Saturday morning's rehearsal of the entertainment given that evening at ClJarnegie Hall by the Metropolitan Street Railway the Elinore Sisters vol- unteered the statement to Hugo Morris that they regarded the playing of the New York Sunday night concerts by any act booked at the Victoria as a breach of faith. Clarice Vance evidently looked at the thing in the same light and can- celled her scheduled appearance. The Eli-, nores replaced her. From far-off Circus Shumann Ike Roue forwards a single sheet showing his wife, Saharet, billed at the head of it for the theatre. Mr. Rose also forwarded a Rus- sian theatrical paper printed in Odessa. The name"looks sdawful intbe Russian print that we are in fear of having it translated. The English reading portion of the paper, however, is full of "Variety says" and it was that which caused Rose to fiend it on. Saturdays are holidays for the stafT of the Morning Telegraph. 'Hiat is the day Variety comes out. Without a suspicion of credit the Telegraph helps itself to Variety columns for its Sunday edition, and looks like a newspaper on one day in the week as a result. Even "Ren" Wolff has the habit. If Mr. Wolff ever printed before we did anything in his column in that sheet of sufficient import- ance for Variety to use, we would make ackiiowle<lgment. While Alfred Butt, the manager of the I'alace in Ix>ndon, was in New York Va- riety printed several items leflecting the .\merican opini(m of the Englishman. J. Laurie Graydon, son of J. L. Graydon, the prominent English vaudeville manager and the largest shareholder in the Palace, |tlace«I the several articles on a large -beet and formally presented the lot to .Mr. Butt upon his return. The Ivondon- ers when they heard about it gaped in ama/einent, but Mr. Graydon evidently is not awed by the importance of Butt. riie License Miireau declares that prac- tically all the vaiKb'ville agents have got ill line under the new Employment Agency law. and those few who have not yet done so lia\c annouiK'ed their intentions of com- ing in within a few weeks. So complete has been the disposition among the agents to come in that all the inspectors, wh(» lormerly were assigned to the theatrical <listrict l<i run <lown violators of the law, lia>e been withdrawn with the exception ot one whose l>usine^^s it is to look into the new agents who go into the business. .\ttendance at the Fifth Avenue Theatre -.iiice its hitcst policy ot" continiUMis vaude- Nillc was iiiaii;.'urate(l has not been stu- pendous. The bill for the o[»eriing week iccei\e<| such severe censure by the re- viewers on the tiaily [>apcrs who drop|ied ill to look Mrs. Langtry over that it wfll ie<piiie some tiino to coiintei ;i'-t Mie pffor-l I hi« "*»elv Mis lyHiitrtry ayipears in h«T •ketch, followed by Harry <^iilfoil, who is obliged to ffive his act in the same setting provided by thr> manaffcm<»nt for the Eng- |l. h ^•'■iitt\-. If aneiii M riAcrtlr-v \ca!«t«% ft tirn*" ♦ •■• |r«Ttpi ♦^»t «i|Hwi)i ■A :-4 •,'•',