Variety (Dec 1906)

VARIETY WR1ETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published every Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building. 1402 Broadway. New York City. Telephone 1887—88th St. 8IMX J. IILVZRMAV, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at tecond-ola** matter December '22, 1905, at the pott office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Oongreet of March 3, 1879. CHICAGO OFFICE. 79 8. Clark Bt. 'Phone Central 0077. FRANK WIE8BEBO, Representative. PITTBBURQ OFFICE, Rooms 207-20». 809 4th Ave. JAME8 T. TYNDALL, Representative. CINCINNATI OFFICE, 107 Bell Block. HARRY HE88, Representative. LONDON OFFICE, 49 Lisle St., W. C. C. BARTRAM, RepreaenUtive. Representative in Germany, DER ARTIST." Duaseldorf ADVERTISEMENTS. 15 cents iu agate line, $2.10 an Inch. Oue i>age $100; ono-balf page, $50; one-quarter page, $25. Charge for portraits furnished on application. Special rate by the month for professional card under heading "Representative Artiste." Advertising copy should be received by Thurs- day at 7 p. m. to Insure publication in current issue. 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. VARIETY may be had abroad at INTERNATIONAL NEWS OO.'S OFFICES. Breams Building, Chsncery Lane. LONDON, E. C, ENGLAND. Advertisements forwarded by mall must be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Copyright. 1906, by Variety Publishing Co. Vol. IV. No. 12. Hairy Vokes and Margaret Daly Vokes are putting together a new sketch. The Treasurers' Club holds its quarter- ly meeting and social at the Arena to- night. Harry Tate sails next Wednesday for London to engage in a Christmas panto- mime. Geo. Mozart, the English comedian, opens at one of the Williams houses on the 31st. Delia Fox proposes to abandon boy's clothes in her act and has acquired a stunning wardrobe. Mile. Anieta, the fire dancer, and her electrician, John Watpen, were married in Peoria last week. Margaret King, formerly of the "Wash- ington Society Girls," is now with the Baltimore Beauties." Hert Walton, of Barth Brothers and Walton, injured his shoulder Tuesday evening at Keeney's in Brooklyn, work- ing the remainder of the week under dim* culties. Geo, DeVere, while playing at St. Louis last week, lost the fourth finger of bis right hand accidentally. Vesta Victoria leaves London on Janu- ary 5 to play the contracted engagement over the Williams circuit. Burt Sheppard, an American comedian who has been in England for a long while, is in New York on a visit. George Evans has been offered a blanket contract for his entire time for next sea- son by the United Booking Agency. The Rooney Sisters, now playing Keith- Proctor time, have received an offer from Charles Frohman for musical comedy. Charles C. Shay and Thos. A. Sheehan will be voted for for president of New York Lodge, No. 1, T. M. A., at the reg- ular meeting to-morrow (Sunday). John F. Burns, a well-known stage me- chanic and property man and one time with the late Sol Smith Russell, died in St. Louis this week. Sells Bros. & Forepaugh's show went into winter quarters this week at Colum- bus, Ohio, after what they declare was a successful season. Ray Hanvey, the champion avoirdupois carrier of the "Merry Makers" chorus, is affectionately termed "The Little Nug- get" by her companions. Mrs. Danny Mann, of Mr. and Mrs. Danny Mann, died suddenly at Lincoln, Nab., last week. The couple were on their way from the Coast. The McNaughtons, the English act, ac- cording to present arrangements, sail for America February 10, opening at Ham- merstein's Victoria February 25. Dick Golden, now one of the principals with "The Tourists," will go into vaude- ville as soon as his contract with the musical comedy runs out. Jack Levy is handling the act. A foreign letter received this week re- marked that if Genaro and Bailey or Kelly and Violette played in London, either was practically assurred of scor- ing an immediate hit. An offer has been received by Archer's "Phillippinos" to play Loudon and the Continent. The act has been considerably altered since first shown at Henderson's, Conev Island, last summer. Klein, Ott Brothers and Nicholson, the musical quartet, will open December 24 with the Grace Cameron Opera Company as an extra feature, doing musical num- bers with chorus backing. Percy G. Williams was in Philadelphia last week. Mr. Williams has been making a weekly trip there with regularity lately. An announcement should be out shortly as to the object of the visits. There are six single numbers on the Hammerstein bill next week. Willie Edouin, Coram, Cinquevalli, Jack Nor worth, Bessie Wyun and Lsona Thur ber. Three are foreign acts. May Howard is produciug stock bur- lesque at Davenport, la., in the New Orpheum there. The company will hold forth eight weeks, changing bills weekly. The scheme is a new one for that town. Lydia Yeamans Titus and her husband, Fred J. Titus, who recently arrived in England after an extensive tour of Aus- tralia, will return to America after the first of the year for a tour of the Keith houses. A Thanksgiving entertainment was given to the inmates of the Kings County Penitentiary by artists on the bills of the Williams houses in Brooklyn. It has become Mr. Williams' annual custom to do this. Under a new arrangement the bills at the Empire, Des Moines, la., will be booked by the Chicago office of the Will- iam Morris agency instead of through the International Vaudeville Booking As- sociation. When she returns to vaudeville Adele Ritchie will go back to the dance she used in "Glittering Gloria," the musical comedy produced some time ago at Daly's. Miss Ritchie has not been doing any danc- ing lately. Mack Edmunds, of Edmunds and Haley, recently broke his leg in an accident at the railroad station in Muncie, Ind. He was compelled to remain in Muncie, where he was cared for by the local lodge of the T. M. A. The Sully Family may give up their tour in "An Interrupted Honeymoon," re- turning to vaudeville. The one-night stands have bothered the children greatly and this course has been deemed advisable by the parents. Credit for the strict police enforcement of the Sunday laws is claimed in part by some artists who have had their dates for the day cancelled, and in other cases by those who were billed to appear al- though not even engaged. Commencing last Sunday smoking was permitted in the balcony seats at the Harlem Opera House. This makes the second of the Keith and Proctor houses to adopt the innovation, the Fifth Avenue having inaugurated it last week. Alexandra Dagmar will be over in two weeks. It is six years since she ap- peared on this side. Miss Dagmar has the reputation of having been the first to give the "rhinestone" dress to the stage. That occurred some nine years ago: Joe Coyne leaves to-day for London to join Edna May in the new play she is to appear in over there. Mr. Coyne and Madge Crichton declined $800 weekly to appear in the Keith-Proctor houses. Twelve hundred dollars was asked. Nellie Parks, who in the early part of the season was a member of Franz Ebert's company, has entered suit through her counsel, Leon Laaki, for her salary for the season, alleging that she waa dis- charged without the usual two weeks notice. Emma Car us opens her starring engage- ' ment under the direction of Will J. Block on December 17. Throughout her re- hearsals in New York she will play dates at the local vaudeville houses. Whether it is a coincidence or a direct thrust at the Shuberts in retaliation for permitting William Morris to play vaude- ville at their theatre it is impossible to determine, but certain it is that one or two acts booked to play the Hippodrome have been asked by the Keith office to can- cel the Hippodrome bookings. Joseph Root, manager of the Gar rick, Burlington, la., objects to the statement made recently that he tried to "bully" J. C. Pope into lengthening his act. Mr. Root suggests that better wording would be to the effect that he asked Mr. Pope in a business like way to try to fill in more time with his specialty. Mr. Root declares that he did this in the interest of the show and in a gentlemanly way. Irene Lee and her "Candy Boys" will play the Palace in London, commencing May 0 next. Harry Lee, of Hoey and Lee, her husband, will go over in June for a six weeks vacation. The team had several offers to appear on the other side in their Hebrew specialty, but Mr. Hoey always balked. It may have been caused through his dislike for water, or he may prefer New York. During all the suspense and excitement of police interference with Sunday con- certs Tony Pastor goes serenely on his way, having no annoyance on that point, as his Fourteenth Street Theatre has never been opened for his own profit on the Sabbath. The Dean frankly says that it is not from any religious scruples, but more a matter of custom with the house. He adds that the satisfaction of knowing the artists have a rest for one day, if they wish it, and that he can run his business independently, without the supervision of the police department, more than recompenses him for hit Sunday losses, estimated at $30,000, yearly. A short time ago Percy Williams ran short one act for a Sunday show at the Alhambra. Frank Jones, for Mr. Will- iams, called on Hines and Remington to come in and play the vacancy. The mess- age went by telephone to their residence along the Hudson and was answered "O. K." During the same afternoon (Sun- day) Mr. Hines walked into Mr. Jones' ollice and informed him that, inasmuch as Mr. Williams had allowed Hines and Rem ington to cut one Sunday out a year pre- viously in order that they might make Chicago, and did not cause a reduction in salary, they refused to accept, any pay for the Alhambra engagement. The gen- t lemanly and appreciative course which Mr. Hines adopted to prove he had not a short-lived memory has been held up as a shining example of the firm foundation the vaudeville artist could establish him- self on were all built on the same generous lines.