Variety (May 1907)

VARIETY VARIETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published erery Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building, 1402 Broadway. New York City. Telephone 1837—88th St. 8IME J. SILVERMAN, Editor and Proprietor. Entered ae $econd-cla$» matter December 22, 1005, at the poet office at New York, X. Y., under the act of Oongreee of March 8, 1870. CHICAGO OFFICE, Chicago Opera Home Block, (Phone Main 4380) FRANK WIESBERO, Representative. SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE, 1116 Van Nets Ave., (Room 118). W. ALFRED WILSON, Representative. LONDON OFFICE, 40 Lisle St., W. 0. 0. BARTRAM, Representative. PARIS OFFICE, 5. Rue Laffltte. 0. M. 8EIBT, Representative. ADVERTISEMENTS. IB cents an agate line, $2.10 an Inch. One page, $100; one-half page, $50; one-quarter page. $25. Charge for portraits furnished on application. Special rate by the month for professional card ander beading "Representative Artiste." Advertising copy should be received by Thurs- day at 10 p. m. to lnaure publication In current IsMue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual '. $4 Foreign 5 Six and three months In proportion. Single copies ten centa. VARIETY will be mailed to a permanent ad- dress or as per' route as desired. * i I, VARIETY may be had abroad at INTERNATIONAL NEWS CO.'S OFFICES. Breams Building. Chancery Lane, LONDON, E. C, ENGLAND. Advertisements forwarded by mall moat be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Vol. VI. No. 8. The second week of Klaw & Frlanger's "advanced vaudeville" has undoubtedly a impressed the firm with the success of their first venture, and the financial gain to he gathered from this field. With one house only open, having all the booking disadvantages that that condition impost's and with the influence against them of their opposition, with its large organiza- tion Klaw & Krlanger have given Phila- delphia shows which have been commended by the press and liberally patronized by the public. If Klaw & Krlanger can do this in a waning season with one house, well might the opposition sit up nights and study out the conditions when a fully equipped circuit of a substantial number of opposition theatres is under way. The Brighton Beach Music Hall opens •buie 15. The Grand Opera House, Syracuse, closes May 25. Dnlan and Lcnharr have gone West to play the Sullivan-Oonsidine time. \ irginifl Ainsworth. after playing her South African dates, is in Loudon. F. F. Albee was confined to his home the early part of the week by a cold. Fred Ward, of Fields and Ward, who wus taken ill last week is recovering. The Millard Brothers have re-signed with Robert Manchester for next season. Ned Nelson, for the past three seasons with The Hell Boy," is now in vaude- ville. < Martin Heck returned from Chicago on Monday where he had gone to attend a meeting. Six new members were admitted to the Actors' Union Local No. 1, at its meeting last week. Josephine Sabel is playing the South African Halls at the present time; her second trip. Klfie Fay will open with the new mu- sical comedy at the Chicago Opera House on May 12. P. II. Morrison begins his regular weekly engagements at Rockaway Beach the last week in June. Welch, Francis and Co. open at the Or- phenm, Allentown, Monday with the Poli circuit to follow. Frank Cohan, assistant manager of the Theatre Prenier, Boston, became the father of an eight-pound boy on April 24. The Nosses have been engaged as the feature of "Captain Careless" at the Chicago Opera House for a summer run. The Orpheum Theatre, New Orleans, closes Mav fi for the summer. The Green- wall, in the same city, ends its season May 3. West End Park opens May 12. John Conley, the former comedian of the ''Vanity Fair" Company, died at Newark recently as a result of the injuries sue- tained during the Chester (Pa.) hotel fire. James J. Corbett was made a member of the T. M. A., Brooklyn Lodge, last week, a special meeting being called to act upon his application for membership. Hassan Ben Ali's troupe of Arabian acrobats, now playing at the Hippodrome, have been booked on the Western Vaude- ville Association's chain of summer parks through the Marinelli office. llibher and Warren, colored, a team from the West, will play at the American tomorrow (Sunday) night for tin? lir-t appearance Fast. The act is under the management of Jack Levy. The Comedy Club gave a "Social" Wednesday evening at the club rooms. It was an informal affair, and the mem- bers present contributed impromptu en- tertainment when called upon. Sid Fern of the "Wine. Woman and Song" show will operate Doyle's in Atlan- tic City this summer as the "Alhambra Theatre" conducting it on the same policy as before, continuous vaudeville. Harry B. Lester ha8 received an offer to again play in "The Earl and the Girl" next season. Unless vaudeville proves more advantageous financially for the same time Mr. Lester will accept it. Robert I), (iirnrd, the vaudeville agent, has given up his ollice in New York, and departed with his family for San Fran- cisco, which will hereafter be his home. The Three Chevaliers did not open at Atlantic (Jarden this week. This is the singing act of John DeLoris', the sharp- shooter, and its first showing has been postponed to a future date in a house yet unselected. Tom Queen, who has been in the West for several years, is about to produce "In the Slums of Chinatown," a piece Mr. Queen played some time ago while tour- ing in the Orient, where he remained for eleven years. M. S. Bentham, the agent, will place his yacht "Signet" in commission on Dec- oration Day, sailing to Buzzard's Bay. From then on Mr. Bentham's offices will see little of him until the summer has passed away. After being separated for four years Harry Fisher and M. C. Berg will come together again in their comedy bicycle act, playing their first engagement with the Rentz-Santley company at the Mur- ray Hill next week. The Barber-Ritchie Trio lias dissolved partnership. They played in Berlin last month. Mr. Barber is returning to Amer- ica. Mr. Ritchie and his wife will con- tinue abroad with the act, calling them- selves the "Ritchie Duo." Zinelle and Boutelle have a new sing- ing sketch in "one," with the book writ- ten by FVank North, of Howard and North. The music will be composed by Miss Boutelle. It will be in readiness for presentation in about a month. On Tuesday last most of the pigeons used by Muriel Hall in her magical act, at Pastor's this week, flew to the dome of the theatre, and may still be there, as up to Wednesday the birds declined all entreaties to leave their perch. Homer Lind, the operatic singer, closed with "The (Jingei bread Man" in Norfolk, Va., Saturday night and is contemplating re-entering vaudeville with a revival of his musical-dramatic sketch, "Oringoire, the Street Singer," by Willard Holcomb. Josephine Cohan opened at the Palace in London, but ended her engagement in the theatre owing to the size of the house, it not being adapted to sketches. The manager offered to renew her contract at, the same salary for a single specialty. Alt a Yolo, former soloist for John Philip Sottas and more recently in vaude- ville, has been signed as soloist for the coining summer season at the Harlem Ca- sino. The opening occurs tonight. Miss Yolo returns to vaudeville in the Fall. Valerie Bergere, who is playing the Or- pheum Circuit with "His Japanese Wife" and "A Bowery Camille," will produce for the first time on any stage in Denver next week a new comedy playlet from the pen of Willis Steell called "The Morning After." "The Snow Man" closed in Philadelphia Saturday night. Fred Walton, who was a principal in the cast, retired, and will return to vaudeville for the summer months. He goes back to the musical comedy with the opening of the season of 1907-08. The Bennett theatres at London and, Ottawa will close May 11 and 18 re- spectively. The new Bennett theatre at Hamilton will open on Sept. 2, while Mr. Bennett's other newly built house at Montreal will be open for business on August 25. Sim Williams is organizing a company to play burlesque through the Southern one-night stands under the name of "The Oolden West" Burlestiuers. Montague Ja- cobs will have the management of the organisation and Bill Kversal will be ad- vance agent. The Jos. F. Reilly Theatrical Transfer Company employes have organized a base- ball team and will play their first game off the season with the twirlers of the Cain Transfer. Other games have been arranged with the Cotham and Circle theatre teams. Igor Peschkoff, after a season with Robie's "Knickerbockers," sailed for his Russian home, with the troupe of whirl- wind dancers last Thursday. Mr. Pesch- koff will remain away a year, returning with a new dancing act at the expiration of that period. After next week Cherry and Bates will separate, owing to the failing health of M. Q. Bates. W. A. Cherry will join the Hill Brothers, the trio to be known as Hill, Cherry and Hill. The Hill Brothers are now with Dinkins' "Innocent Maids," which closes May 25. Harry Jackson, of the vaudeville team of Harry and Kate Jackson, has been ap- pointed general stage director for Jules Murry for a term of months during which that manager does a great deal of pro- ducing. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson return to vaudeville in the fall. The Volpe Symphony Orchestra will give the first of a series of three subscrip- tion concerts at Carnegie Music Hall on November 28 next. The youngsters com- prising Conductor Volpe's organization are all professionals, although youthful, and were not selected from the Fast Side, as previously stated. Maifde Harrison, the actress, who died suddenly this week of heart disease, was just preparing to go into vaudeville with a comedy character sketch called "The Girl Across the Hall," played some time ago by Frank Keenan and Crace Filkins in the Berkeley Lyceum. The de ooae ed was a sister of Lou Harrison, the come- dian.