Variety (June 1907)

VARIETY fiKIETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published •▼•17 Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building, 1409 Broadway, Maw York City. f40221 Telephone -j 402S r 38th St. J. Editor aai Entered ae $eoond^ola*t matter Dio w m b or 22, 1900, at fft* poet offloe a* ^av> Fork, Jf. T., andar fka act 0/ Oongr—t of March 8, 1879. CHICAGO 0ITICE, Chleaao Opara House Bleak, (Phono Mala 4M0) FRANK WIE8BEBO, Representative SAN FRANCIBCO OFFICE, 111ft Van Beat Aee,, (Boom lit). W. ALFRED WILSON, Representative. LONDON REPRESENTATIVE, C. C. BARTRAM. PARIS OFFICE, ft. Rue Laffltte. O. M. 8EIBT, Representative. IB esrita an afata line, $2.10 an Inch. One page, $100; one half page, $00; one quarter page, S." Charge for portraits furnished on application. Special rate by the month for professional card ander beading "Represents! Its Artists." Advertising copy should be received by Thurs day at noon to Insure publication In current Issue. 8DB8CRIPTION BATES. Annual $4 foreign 0 Six and three months In proportion. Single copies ten cents. VABIBTY will be mailed to a permanent ad dress or ss per route ss desired. VARIETY may be bad abroad at INTERNATIONAL NEWS CO.'S OFFICES, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, LONDON, E. 0., ENGLAND. Advertisements forwarded by mall must be ac eompanied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Go. Vol. VI. No. 12. Why do vaudeville agents love one an- other! The Musical Johnstons sail for Liverpool to-day. Richard Pitrot was granted an agency license by the License Bureau this week. Herbert and Willing are coming East. They do a blackface act and Alf T. Wilton is booking it. The vaudeville bookings for Harry Bul- ger have been placed solely in the hands of Jack Levy. William H. Macart will deliver a mono- logue in vaudeville wherever he is booked by Jack Levy, the agent. Edward Clark and his "Winning Wid- ows" have been booked for next season by the United Booking Offices. Lewis J. Cody and Blanche Henshaw, who have been playing in a musical show, are now vaudeville candidates. The "Varieties," Terre Haute, Ind., opened this week with vaudeville under the management of Barhydt & Hoeffler. Sylvester Williams, formerly on the house staff at the Colonial Theatre, is now attached to Blaney's Lincoln Square. The Rose DeHaven Sextet has been booked for fifty weeks, commencing in September, by the United Booking Offices. The fact was commented upon this week that the late Charles Ernest was the first member of the Comedy Club to die. It is reported that "Captain Careless," the musical comedy now running at tin Chicago Opera House, will terminate in a few weeks. Announcement is made of the marriage of Bert Leigh, of Latimore and Leigh, managers of the Myrkle-Harder Company (Southern), to "Billie" Long, a Texas girl. Jack Norworth has received an offer for musical comedy next season. Mr. Norworth has not signed with either of the booking agencies pending his decision. Five years ago, according to a famous minstrel, there was no maker of wooden shoes. Now wooden shoe dancers are so plentiful that several shoemakers do noth- ing else. The Victoria Baseball Club defeated th« nine of "The Boys of Company B" at the American League grounds on Tuesday. Score 11 to 4. The Orpheum Circuit offices on the eighth floor of the St. James building have removed to the suites formerly occu- pied by M. S. Bentham and Charles Eschert on the same floor. May Tully will try out a new scenic sketch early next season. The scene is laid in the Klondyke and calls for pic- turesque setting. The Four Harveys sailed for home on Thursday. They will return next season, having been booked through the United Office for fifty-two weeks. Albert Sutherland is importing a troupe of Arabs, composed of twelve youngsters. Some of the little fellows are six months under age, and for that reason will have to be booked out of town for awhile. Henry Give has submitted a new illu- sion to Lasky, Rolfo & Company, in which With VARIETY'S next issue (June 8) the paper will be on sale at all points east of Chicago on Saturday morning. Readers will confer a favor by advising this office when it cannot be obtained. In San Francisco and other far Western cities, VARIETY will be on the stands 36 hours earlier than at present. Advertising forms will hereafter close at noon on Thurs- days. Melville Ellis introduces his "specialty" of playing a piano during the progress of "The Orchid," where Mr. Ellis at odd moments attempts to act. selections chosen by the audience are played by half a dozen instruments, but without the appearance of any players. Cheridah Simpson closed her season as the star of "The Red Feather" company last week, and is wavering on the edge of .1 short return to vaudeville. The Empire Comedy Four (Leonard, Cunningham, Jenny and Roland) will shortly sail again for the other side, open- ing in Prague on September 1. Rice and Cady, the German comedians, who have been West for some time, will shortly be seen around town with a new act. Alf T. Wilton is handling it. Estclle Wordette and Company were hur- riedly called to the Orpheum, Boston, this week to replace Ryan and Richfield on the bill who were shifted to Jersey City. Rigo, the Gypsy violinist, has closed his short concert tour and is negotiating for a summer stay at one of the Atlantic City (N. J.) show places. Jenie Jacobs, the agent, now in London, may return to New York ami again estab- lish herself in the agency business in this city. England's climate does not agree with Miss Jacobs, and the physicians abroad advise the change. The restrictions supposed to be placed upon all songs sung by Alice Lloyd seem to have been removed since the English iirtiste left the city. Trixie Friganza sang "Never Introduce Your Bloke" last week in "The Orchid" at the Herald Square. The organization of the mu.sical conduc- tors called "The Wanderers'* have resumed their weekly meetings at Lyric Hall on Sixth avenue, near Forty-second street. Grace McArtie who, with William Rock, was exploited in "Thebe" last season, is arranging to enter vaudeville in a single singing act, making character changes. Harry First, last sea>on with "Old Isaacs of the Bowery," has had in re- hearsal at Lyric Hall a prospective vaudeville sketch called "The Marriage Fee." It will receive its initial presenta tlotl .'it North Adams. Mass., next week. Charles Robinson, formerly <»f "The e/ Colonial Belles," and generally credited with being the highest salaried comedian in burlesque, contemplates leaving his former field. Mr. Robinson will either enter vaudeville or essay musical comedy. Nita Allen and Company close their sea- son this week after a year and a half of steady work. Miss Allen will spend the summer in San Francisco resting, and in September will start again on the Or- pheum Circuit in the far West, working back East. Reed Albee will forego the pleasures ot a summer's vacation to remain in charge of the Union Square Theatre during me coming months. Lindsay Morrison, the former manager, has been despatched to the Boston Theatre, Boston, where he will direct the stock company. Louise Randolph has been appearing as a vaudeville number at the Harlem Opera House this week. Miss Randolph is a member of the Keith & Proctor stock company there. There was no part for her in "Winchester," so she went on be- tween the acts with recitations. Winona Winter has closed her season with "The Little Cherub" and will re- appear in vaudeville during the week of June 24 at the Twenty-third Street house. Miss Winter will remain a few weeks only. In the fall her legitimate season recom- mences again under the management of Charles Frohman. A dramatic paper last week printed the picture of "Freddie" Proctor on its front page, terming Mr. Proctor "the youngest manager in New York." Everyone re- marked that it was a good likeness of the youthful director, but the subject of the portrait insists to the contrary, and pleads his natural modesty in extenuation. The vaudeville fever has "Diamond Jim" Brady by the heart strings. He is now a "regular," having become initiated during the past season. As a "regular," Mr. Brady should be informed that he is not required to laugh at any time, but has the privilege of lightly smiling when he recognizes someone on the stage. This privilege is not confined to comedy acts. ClifTe Berzac has divided his animal acts with tne opposition for next season, and is in a strictly neutral position between the fires. The pony circus has been booked by the United OfTices, while the seals (Woodward's) have been taken for the Klaw & Erlanger time. Another ani- mal act belonging to Mr. Berzac will probably be played by one of the bur- lesque Wheels. Sim Collins, of Collins and Hart, isn't playing this week. Mr. Collins is enjoy ing himself placing wagers on the run- ning horses. Mr. Collins has experienced considerable trouble in guessing which horse will reach the wire first, but on Tuesday "Sim" landed on a winner. It was Bf« Valentine. The horse won, even the newspapers admitted that, but for some reason the judges set the horse back, technically called "disqualified." Mr. Col- lins was Jubilant, however, over his sue ces-t in selecting n horse that could run ahead of the others, and issued a state- ment that he was no* discouraged, but felt quite sure tli.it some day he would "cash."