Variety (Feb 1907)

VARIETY LEO CARRILLO'S CARTOON OF THE WEEK fay- Jove' you- '•7 MABEL'S 40 WEEKS SINGLE. Mabel Hite has arranged to play a fort- night each in J a... Angelas and San Fran- citoo during the period her husband, Mike ]><>nlin, the ball player, is in California limbering up for the coming season on the diamond. Bentham has laid out a tour of forty weeks for Miss Hite for a singlo l urn. The dream about her husband aban- doning the ball field for a life on the stage is pure fiction. DAWSON CITY MANAGER HERE. From the Klondike country came this week a Mr. Nelson in search of acts to play his Orpheum Theatre in Dawson ( ity, Yukon. Engagements are given for five months at a clip and the house is bookfd in connection with Goldsmith & Fisher's Northwestern Circuit, through th« main office at Seattle. Kight to ten numbers constitute a bill at the Orpheum, which at the present time is snowed in. TESTIMONIAL FOR FRANK MITCH- ELL'S WIDOW. On Tuesday evening, March 5, at Tam- many Hall will occur a testimonial and benefit for the widow of Frank Mitchell, late a member of Mitchell and Marron, who recently died in Boston. Mr. Mitchell's many friends in the pro- fession have all volunteered, and the com- mittee in charge is composed of Tony Pas- tor, Harry Sanderson, William Morris, John Graham, William Heins and James Marron. Dancing will follow the enter- tainment. Any one desiring to interest themselves in the tribute to an extremely popular artist may communicate with any one of the committee. ROCKAWAY»S NEW HOUSE NEXT SEASON. Plans are now completed for the erec- tion of P. H. Morrison's new edifice at Rockaway Beach to replace the theatre now there. It will be ready for occupancy for the coming summer. ROSENBERG LIKES THE BRONX. Walter Rosenberg, son of Henry Rosen- berg, owner of the Metropolis Theatre, has been riding about The Bronx in his father's automobile of late seeking a suit- able location there for a vaudeville the- atre. On Monday of the current week he made an especially, thorough canvass of all available locations accompanied by a representative from the real estate office of J. Clarence Davies. It is believed that Mr. Rosenberg is acting for bis father, who by the terms of his lease of the Metropolis to Hurtig & Seamon at an annual rental of $32,500 is debarred from personally entering into any theatrical enterprise in the borough of The Bronx during the term of the lease. Jos. Hart's latest find is a young woman from the West, a girl of eighteen. Mr. Hart is arranging a novel act in "one" in which the young woman's talents as a mimic, .nuitician and singer will be given ample scope. HART AND WAYBURN LICENSED. Commissioner of Licenses John N. Bo- gart last week affixed his "O. K." to the applications for licenses as general the- atrical agents of Ned Wayburn, Jos. Hart and Joseph Havel, a brother of Tommy O'Brien-Havel. Wayburn is booking only his own acts, as is Hart, and neither was under any especial obligation to enroll himself as an agent, but they did so to obviate any possibility of a dispute with the city officials. Havel concerns himself chiefly with the booking of clubs. HATHA WAY'S, LOWELL, DAMAGED. Lowell, Mass., Feb. 1. A big fire consumed a considerable por- tion of the hlook directly opposite Hatha- way's Theatre Monday afternoon, and in the process of extinguishing the flames It was found necessary to do considerable damage by water to the theatre. After strenuous efforts a performance was given by Mr. Hathaway on Monday evening, the curtain going up at 0:30.