Variety (Mar 1907)

VARIETY WRIETY 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. J. Editor and Proprietor. Entered at tecond-clatt matter Deoember 22, 1905, at the pott office at New York, N. Y. t under the act of Oongreet of Mmreh 8, 1870. CHICAGO OFFICE, 70 8. Clark St. 'Phone Central 6077. FRANK WIESBERG, Representative. SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE, 111ft Van Neat Are., (Boom 118). W. ALFRED WILSON, Representative, LONDON OFFICE, 40 Lisle St., W. C. C. BARTRAM, Representative. ADVERTISEMENTS. 15 cents an agate line, $2.10 an Inch. One page, $100; one-half page, $50; one-quarter page, $25. Charge for portrait* furnished on application. Special rate by the month for professional card •under beading "Representative Artists." Advertising copy should be received by Thurs- day at 10 p. m. to insure publication in current Issue. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Annual $a Foreign 5 Six and three months in proportion. Single copies ten cents. VARIETY will be mailed to a permanent ad- dress or as per route as desired. VARIETY may be bad abroad at INTERNATIONAL NEW8 CO.'S OFFICES. Breams Building, Chancery Lane, LONDON, E. 0., ENGLAND. Advertisements forwarded by mall must be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Vet, V. No. 12. Al Sutherland, the agent, is now in his new offices on the eighth floor of the St. James Building. Maggie Cline says she will work 'now and then" when the town isn't too small or to work too steady. Major Hui k, secretary of the White Huts, was obliged to go to a hospital this week owing to a severe cold. Madeline Barber was granted a divorce from Wilford H. Barker in the New York Supreme Court on February 20. Harry LeClair, the impersonator, after six weeks in the hospital, caused by break- ing a leg, is able to be out again. Kdna Rollins, wife of Stuart L. Rollins, of Polk, Rollins and the Carmen Sisters, died last Monday in England of tuber- culosis. Seymour and Dupre arrived in New York this week for a stay of three months. They will return to fill engagements on the Continent. Agnes Lynn has left the act known as Stanley. Lynn and Fay. and will do a single turn hereafter. Stanley ami Fay ivmain together. Stuart Barnes has been offered 80 weeks for next season. Both the United and Morris offices offered Mr. Barnes forty each, No decision. Desval with a foreign horse act has been engaged for the Hippodrome next season. Collins and Hart were shifted from the Grand Opera House, Pittsburg, where they were to have played this week, to the Colonial, New York. Genaro and Bailey will open their star- ring tour in "Tony, the Bootblack Detec- tive," under the management of Al. H. Woods on August 15. The "Parisian Belles," under the man- agement of Chas. E. Taylor, did not "lay off" this week, playing "one-nighters" in Pennsylvania instead. The Curzon Sisters, after a run of fourteen weeks at the Hippodrome, close to-night. They open at Bostock's Hippo- drome, Paris, March 16. Jack Horton and Mile. La Triska, with the "Innocent Maids," leave the show to- night. They will play vaudeville, opening on the Orpheum circuit. M. S. Bentham has contracted with the United Booking Offices for all next season for Felix, Barry and Barry and Lamar and Gabriel in "Buster Brown." "A Night With the Poets," a new musi- cal offering backed by George Homans, opened at Reading Monday. Ten people are employed in the sketch. At the conclusion of the tent show sea- son, Bradna and Derrick will play vaude- ville for the entire Winter, having been booked by the United offices. Harry B. Lester has decided to play vaudeville alone. It is on the tapis that Mr. Lester will again play under the Shu- bert management next season. Alexia, the French premier ballerino, who opened with the new ballet at the Alhambra in London Monday evening, is reported to have been successful. The Six Mowatts, who were booked to have sailed for London to open at the Alhambra early last month, did not do so. Other time later on has been arranged. The Rooney Sisters, who were booked to play Hammerstein's next week, were compelled to cancel, as one of them will leave to undergo a surgical operation. James and Sadie Leonard are the "ex- tra attraction" with the "Dainty Duchess" ■bow while it plays the Star and Gaiety theaties in Brooklyn this and next week. "Athletic Night" has been added at Miner's Bowery Theatre. Tuesday nights have been set aside for sports, while "amateur night" falls on Friday as usual. J. D. Van Fpps, leader of Max Witt's "Sophomores," and Floret te DeMar, a sis- ler of Carrie DeMar, have made announce- ment of thoir engagement to be married. Burt (iroene has purchased a forty-foot motor boat, and the anchorage the sotting summer will be at 166th street. Mr. Greene has named the craft "The Red Head." Grace Hazard, in "Five Feet of Comic Opera," has been booked by Myers & Keller for fifty weeks next season over the United Booking Offices and Orpheum circuits. Vesta Victoria remains over next week at the Alhambra in Harlem. She re- ceives the distinction of being the first artist to play three continuous weeks at that house. Nellie Lytton, of Lytton and Marsden, had $70 stolen from her while stopping at <* Connecticut hotel recently. The land- lord settled with Miss Lytton for one-half the amount. In the new act of John Clinton and Irene Jermon's, Mr. Clinton makes his exit at the finale through the orchestra, sing- ing "I've Said My Last Farewell; Toot, Toot, Good-bye." The meeting day of the Vaudeville Comedy Club has been changed from Sun- day at noon to Tuesday evening after the shows. The first meeting under the new rule was held this week. Cora Beckwith, the swimmer, had her outfit burned in the C. B. & Q. Railway freight house, Chicago, Christmas week. The railway company will furnish a com- plete new outfit for her. Edyth Blaney, 20 years old, a vaudeville artist, died Feb. 22 at the Swedish hos- pital, Kansas City, Mo. Her husband, Harry Chester Blaney, an actor, is a cousin of Chas. E. and Harry Clay Blaney. The press bureau of the Percy G. Wil- liams Circuit, under the direction of F. S. Waldo, will retain the suite at 1440 Broad- way, formerly occupied by Mr. Williams, until the expiration of the lease on May 1. "The Stunning Grenadiers," the new foreign "girl act" now here under the management of Lasky, Rolfe & Co., will play its first American engagement at the K.-P. 23d Street theatre week of March 11. The United States Agency of "Das Programm," the official organ of ..the In- ternational Artists' Lodge, of Germany, has been located in the office of Paul Tausig, at 104 East 14th street, New York City. Leo Masse, H. B. Marinelli's repre- sentative, now abroad, wishes the impres- sion that he is no longer at the bead of the New York office corrected. Mr. Masse says that he will return in August next to resume active charge. H. A. Roberts has been working under very trying circumstances the current week, owing to a severe attack of the <*rip. He has been practically prostrated after each performance, but stuck to it with bulldog tenacity. Somers and Law are preparing a sec- ond edition of "Mr. Auto-from-Mobile" which they are using this season. It will be shown next Fall. Fred Law will give a new character in the act, and Bert 6omefl with continue as "straight." W. B. Watson, the Western Wheel man- ager, will play stock burlesque at the Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia, the com- ing summer. There will be a weekly change of bill. Mr. Watson has the major portion of his stock company engaged. Max Konorah, president of the I. A. L., and now travelling with the Orpheum Road vShow, will return to New York in about four weeks, not playing the return dates the show is routed for. Mr. Konorah will leave for Germany shortly after his ar- rival. Harry Radford, of Radford and Valen- tine, has placed the Keeley Bros., Mc- Gart's Monkeys, The LeBards and Her- bert abroad. Mr. Radford is anxious to take a Pickaninny band back with him, but up to date has been unsuccessful in securing one. Dave Warfield is reputed to have re- ceived sufficient profits from a string of "Niekolets" he is financially interested in to retire from the stage, without worry over his future existence. Mr. Warfield and J. Austin Fynes hold joint interests in some of the amusement places. Sadie Clark and Charles Conway have agreed to do an act together in "one." Mr. Conway was formerly in support of Vir- ginia Earl in her latest sketch. Miss Clark writes her own songs, and has one about the "Hot Lunch Man." A "prop" will be a regulation street vendor's cart. Walters and Prouty were obliged to cancel Poli's Worcester this week owing to Mr. Prouty's suffering from a severe cold. Harry Walters went on alone, play- ing Monday matinee and evening. Tues- day Gaston and Green were summoned from New York to substitute. Walters and Prouty will open in Hartford Mon- day and finish the Poli time. Charles Leonard Fletcher, who will re- turn to America on April 24 after a trip over the globe, has another "round the world" tour planned for '09-'10. Mr. Fletcher signed return contracts with Harry Rickards, of Australia, also the Hymans, of.South Africa, for that time. His American reappearance will occur at the Orpheum, San Francisco, May 6. David L. Robinson, late manager of the Williams Orpheum theatre, Boston, will return to New York the early part of the week, taking charge of Williams' Colonial at once. Vic Williams, the Colonial's present manager, will make his headquar- ters with his father in the S't. James Building, giving more attention to the general booking than he has in the past. When Brindamour, "the Jail Breaker," played Allentown recently, he released himself from a locked cell at police head- quarters in eight minutes, to the gaping amazement of the natives. A committee of citizens called on the chief of police the same day after the occurrence and wanted to know how it was possible. The official offered to illustrate, and locked himself into the same cell, with » strange pad- lock on the door Unable to release him- self, the chief was obliged to send for Brindamour, who accomplished the trick while the "committee" snickered at the embarrassment of the city's guardian.