Variety (Feb 1907)

VARIETY Hkiety A VarUty Paper for Variety People. Published eTery Saturday by THB VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building. 1402 Broadway, New York City. Telephone 1887—88tb St. 8IMX J. ■XLYERMAM, Editor and Proprietor. Entered a* second-class matter December 22, 1005, at the poet office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Congress of March 8, 1870. CHICAGO OFFICE, 78 8. Olark It 'Phone Central 6077. FRANK WIEBBERG, Ee pr eeentatlTO. BAN FRANCISCO OFFICE, 1116 Van New Ave., (Room 118). W. ALFRED WILSON, Representative. LONDON OFFICE, 60 Llale St., W. 0. a BARTRAM, Representative. ADVERTISEMENTS. 16 cents an agate line, 82.10 an Inch. One page, 8100; one-half page, 850; one-quarter page, 826. Charge for portraits furnished on application. Ipsrlsl rate by the month for profeaalonal card under heading "Representstire Artists." Advertising copy should be received by Thurs- day st 10 p. m. to Insure publication In current Issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 84 5 Foreign ••• 81s anil three months In proportion. Single copies ten cents. VARIETY will be mailed to s permsnent sd dress or as per route as desired. VARIETY may be bed sbroad st INTERNATIONAL NEWS CO.'8 OFFICES. Breams Building, Chancery Lane. LONDON, E. O., ENGLAND. Advertisements forwarded by mall must be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Copyright, 1008, by Variety Publishing Oo. Voi, V. No. 8. Gardner and Vincent will soon sail for Europe. Edwin Arden has a new comedy sketch entitled "The Henpecked Hero." Pierce and Opp, the "Dutch" comedians, will separate after this season. Luce and Luce replaced an act at the Twenty-third street house this week. Jack Lorimer, the Scotch comedian, has been booked over the Orpheum circuit. Buehler and Lloyd will shortly produce a new act entitled "Work, Work, Work." "A Cressy sketch" is said to be the open sesame to bookings from the Keith office. The Curzon Sisters, now at the Hippo- drome, will keep their foreign engage- ments. P. C. Armstrong, of Dial and Armstrong, lias purchased land at Ronando Beach, Cal., and will erect a hotel there next year. Paul LaCroix, with the "bounding hats," will shortly have a new act, doing away with the "tramp" character and adding two or three persons. Kelly and Ashby are coming bade in May. Franklin A. Brooks has been appointed manager of the New Phillips' Theatre at Richmond, Ind. An Elk charm was presented to Eetelle Wordette last week by the B. P. O. E. Lodge of Troy as a token of appreciation tor her assistance at its benefit. The Keith office is after Marie Dress- ier. She is wanted for some special oc- casion of two weeks only. It is reported that The Great Lafayette Las received an offer of $2,500 weekly to play in the London music halls affected by the strike, if he will sail at once. Paul Durand is in charge of the foreign department of the Keith Booking Office while H. H. Feiber is abroad. Mason, Keeler and company have re- hearsed a new act which is now in readi ness to be played at any time. Harry Leonhardt directed the rehearsals. Gertrude Hoffman, now appearing with Anna Held, has been booked to open at the Folies Marigny in Paris. The latest decision of Tom Hearn, "the lazy juggler," is that he will return to America in March or April. After having trained a dog for some time in a trick with his elephants, Eph Thompson finally lost the canine, some one stealing it lust week in Boston. Al Gallagher, formerly with Myers & Keller, is now associated with Jules Ruby a i 1265 Broadway, New York. Mme. Herrmann is quietly preparing a very elaborate production of "The Dance of the Seven Veils" and has rehearsals well in hand for a vaudeville showing. Julius Marks has closed with "The Man of Her Choice" company and will enter vaudeville under the management of Ned \Vayburn. Creo Brothers, the foreign acrobats, threaten to throw up their American tour and return home unless a better pro- gram position than closing the show is received. Variety's San Francisco Office IS NOW LOCATED AT 1115 Van Ness Ave* (Room 112) W, ALFRED WILSON, Representative Subscriptions and advertisements received at regular rates. News items may also be forwarded to the San Fran- cisco office and will be promptly transmitted. VARIETY will thoroughly cover the variety field on the Pacific Coast. Nance O'Neill will open at Keith's, Bos- ton, in May next, playing in New York afterward. Al Treloar, the strong man, has ac- cepted a position as instructor in the Las Angeles (Cal.) Athletic Club. M. It. Sheedy, manager of Sheedy's Theatre at Fall River, Mass., claims that he has never cancelled an act and will give $500 to any one who can prove to the contrary. Willie Edouin, the English comedian, wants to remain over here and will do so if agent Bentham arranges it. Garry Owen will shortly play a new piece written by Edgar Allen Woolf, in which young Garry, eight years of age, will play four characters, having the as- sistance of two persons in the piece. diaries Leonard Fletcher, playing at present at the Harry Rickards houses in Australia, will arrive in San Francisco next May. The new sketch of Guy Rawson and Frances Clare's, called "Just Kids," the feature of the olio with the "Bon Tons," will be seen at the Murray Hill next week for the first time around town. An offer has been made Vesta Victoria to remain in New York over the summer, playing at one of the roofs, probably Ham- mersrein's. Negotiations are on whereby Loie Fuller will be brought over here to appear in a special production at a salary said to be $2,000 weekly. Bessie Roland, of Jos. Hart's "Electric Crickets," and Lew Benton, of Fred Ray and company, were married on November 18 last by the Rev. C. A. Miller at St. Luke's Lutheran Evangelical Church in New York City. Alex. Clarke and eight girls will appear in vaudeville shortly in a number from "The Student King." It will appear over the K.-P. circuit. Charles Horwitz is writing a new sketch for Will H. Cohan and Phil Dal- ton, the coster singer, who have recently entered into a new partnership. The sketch is arranged to be played in "one" and is to be called "Moe Goldberg's Sop," Neither Jas. H. O'Neill, Grace M. Rus- sell nor Flo M. Russell, composing the act of "Jas. H. O'Neill and company," was seriously injured in the "Monon" wreck, as reported. A cancellation of one week followed to allow the nervousness to wear off. Ice cream and cake, delivered to young* sters on the stage after the Sat- urday matinee, is now one of the weekly features for the Twenty-third Street The- atre. The youngsters have declared ice cream the hcadliner, the cake opening and closing the show. Sie Hassan Ben Ali's large Arab troupe, composed of twenty-four genuine Arabi- ans, with camels and special scenic effects, will appear at the Hippodrome, opening March 4. The Oriental director takes pride that in his various troupes no mixed nationalities are found. Last week a special train consisting of a coach and engine only carried Hallen and Fuller, William Crawley and Clayton, Jenkins and "Jasper" from New Orleans to Mobile in order that the opening bill at the Lyric Theatre in the latter city might not be delayed on Monday evening. Charles Bradshaw was much annoyed early in the week while riding on the back platform of a trolley car. A man stand- ing beside continually bumped into him. Mr. Bradshaw told the bumper to stop and he did. The man left the car and with him went $55 of Bradshaw's money. Inquiries are coming from London as to what kind of a vaudeville act the Four Mortons are now doing. All of which goes to show how closely our English brothers follow up the current variety events. The Mortons played two weeks recently in vaudeville and the letter of inquiry fol- lowed. Last Tuesday evening while in Luchow's restaurant, "Pat" Casey, of the Morris office, thought he recognized, from a back view, William Paley, who formerly sup- plied moving pictures to local houses. "Hello, Bill," called "Pat" in his small, still voice. "Bill" did not turn around, and Mr. Casey after calling several more times was informed by a waiter that "Bill" was the Prussian Ambassador. Fred Ward, of Fields and Ward, wrote out a telegram this week to "Toronto, 'Canada.'" The girl operator in the hotel where Ward was at the time said to him "You mean Toronto, 'Ontario.'" "I. mean 'Canada/ " said Ward. "Nothing of the kind," replied the girl. "It must go to Ontario." Ward became angry and retorted "You either send that to Toron- to, Canada/ or don't send it at all." On the original presentment of "Salome" at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on Monday one of the critical observers was E. F. Albee, who remarked that Mme. Pilar Morin had on enough clothing to protect her from the wintry blasts at present prevailing in New York. Through- out the week he suggested an abandon- ment of wearing apparel, until toward the close of the week he had reduced the spectacle to a semblance of nudity.