Variety (June 1907)

VARIETY — WRIETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. PaMlahaa every Satarday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Balldln*. 1401 Broadway, New York City. Telephone j 402SJ 8»th St. ■IlOt J. •ZLYZEKAjr, Bntertd at teoond^olatt matter Dtoembtr 22, 1006, at tha pott offloe at Nmc York, N. 7.. w*4*r the act of Oongr— of Mar oh 8, 1879. CHICAGO OFTICZ, Oaloafo Open. Boom Blook, (Phone Xatn 4M0) FEUnC WIBIBIERO, RepreeenUtiTe, ■AJT FRANCISCO OFFICE, lllf Taa New At*, (Room 111). W. ALFRED WIL80N, ReproMntatlv*. LONDON REPRESENTATIVE, 0. a BARTRAM. PARTS OFTICE, 6. Baa Lafltta. 0. M. 8EIBT, Representative. IS cent* an agate line, $2.10 an Inch. One $100; one half page, $00; one-qnarter page. sr Charge (or portrait* fnrnlahed on application. Special rata by the month for profeaaloaal card ■nder hearting "BepreaentatlTO Artlsta." Adrertiling copy •boaId bo received by Than day at noon to Insure publication In current lasoe. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual .$• 0 Six and three months la proportion. Single copies ten cants. VABIBTY will be mailed to a permanent ad- dram or as par route as YABIBTX may ba bad abroad at INTERNATIONAL NEWS CO.'8 OITIGB8, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, LOBDOM, B. 0., EMOLAjrP. Advertisements forwarded by mall must ba ac- ipanlad by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing On. Copyright, 1007, by Variety Publishing Co. Vat. VI. JUNE 8. No. 13. The Tivoli, Copenhagen, opened its sea- son in May. Melville and Higgins have been booked for 40 weeks next season through the United. The mother of Billy Burke, of Burke and. Dempsey, died on Wednesday morn- ing last. The Lion Palace Roof Garden lease is being sought after by Edward £. Rice, who desires to give summer amusement up there. Dale and O'Malley, an English "con- versation" act, has been booked by Percy G. Williams in London through the Mari- nelli branch in that city. Tom Hearn is reported booked with Klaw & Erlanger for next season. "The Lazy Juggler" is playing the K. & E. house, Nixon, at Pittsburg, this week. Larry Smith and Mamie Champion havs l>een engaged for one of T. W. Dinkins' shows next season. They will produce an act for the olio employing six persons. The Le Brun Grand Opera Trio sails for Berlin February 1, where they will play the Wintergarten, with the prospect of remaining abroad for some time filling engagements. Late returns brought the Harry D. Bryan benefit at the Murray Hill Theatre a week ago up to $1,200, and it is be- lieved further contributions will swell that amount further. The Grace Tempest Trio appeared for the first time last Sunday night at the Grand Opera House. The act has been booked to open at Keith's Union Square June 24. Harry Leonhardt, manager of the Twenty-third Street Theatre has an ar- ticle in Munsey's "Scrap Book" for June detailing his recollections of the late Au- gustin Daly. Irving Brooks and Ethel Trevor have been booked by Myers & Keller to play their first week as "The Singer and the Hypnotist." A burlesque on the Fays (John T. and Eva) is included. Bob Manchester, Eastern Burlesque Wheel manager, left this week for his summer home in Painesville, O. He will remain there until early in August, re- turning in time to put on his three shows. Paul La Croix, the comedy juggler, writes home that France, and particularly Paris, is "grand," but he prefers New York. Mr. La Croix says there is lots of work for him abroad, but he can not stand it. s Since arriving in London, Percy G. Will- iams has contracted for the appearance over here of one of England's best known pantomimic acts, at a large weekly salary. It will play on the United's time at the opening of next season. The booking arrangement existing between the United Offices and the H. B. Marinelli agency may be ended at the pleasure of either, it is said, no specified time having been agreed upon for the con- tinuance of business relations. Richard F. Staley, of Staley's Transfor- mation, has incorporated his gold mine in Colorado, and for the purpose of securing funds for immediate development, intends disposing of a limited number of shares to members of the theatrical profession. Estelle Wordette lost a valuable dia- mond pin and inlaid gold watch from her dressing room at the Orpheum, Boston, last Sunday night while giving the final performance of the week on the stage. The police were notified of the robbery. The summer amusement establishment in Riga opened dune 2. The place bear* such ar excellent reputation with the for eign artists that the management deposit- ed a guarantee in cash with the police ot ficials to protect the salaries of all acts appearing. Burt Green and Irene Franklin have been booked with the musical sketch they have in preparation for vaudeville. They open out of town duly 1. playing three weeks before they come Into tin* city. They will appear on the \lhambra Rnnf the last week in July. D. F. Hennessy, of the United Booking Offices, left for Cleveland on Thursday to procure depositions in his suit against P. B. Chase, of Washington, arising out of the sale of a Cleveland theatre in which Mr. Hennessy held an interest. The amount demanded from Chase is $17,000. For the last three days of this week a new sketch written by Wilson Mizner has been played at the Casino, Asbury Park. This in itself is not nearly as im- portant as the fact that Mr. Mizner mar- ried Mrs. Chas. T. Yerkes, and Mr9. Yerkes had some millions in cash at the time. A new act is soon to be produced by Al- bert Berg, a former member of "Dream City" (the Weber show), where he played the French head waiter. Mr. Berg was also understudy for Joe Weber. The re- mainder of the vaudeville cast will be com- posed of Edward van Baerle and Bessie Gros. Charlotte Parry, the protean artiste, ex- pects to sail in two weeks for England, wnere she will remain over the summer as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Knowles. Mr. Knowles is writing a new piece for Miss Parry's use next season if she does not again appear in "The Com- stoek Mystery." v William Street and Company have been booked through Walter Plimmer for next season in the spectacle "Military Events Past and Present." They play the West- ern Burlesque Wheel time with one of Whalen & MarteU's shows. Hayward, Conroy and Hayward will be members of the same company. The Anesto Sisters, a foreign slack wire act, were to have opened at the Nixon, Pittsburg, this week. They left New York last Monday morning at 7:30 for that city, arriving at the same time in the evening. Two shows were missed through someone having informed the eirls Pittsburg was just across the North River. Harry Mock's Victoria (Hammerstein's) Baseball Hub defeated "The Red Mill" nine last week by a score of 13-f), but Mr. Mock's aggregation was taken into camp by the Department of Correction team at on undivulged score. The beating was so thoroughly administered that Mr. Mock blushes whenever he is accused of being a "baseball" manager. The figures were something like 11-2. Many sad thoughts haekward have the managers crivc n lately, who closed their vaudeville houses early in May. The bur- Vs oie show directors lnve like regrets. Ideal vaudeville weather has prevailed for over a month past, with the majority <>f the variety houses throughout the country closed. Next season managers will likely remain open longer, with the opposite conditions prevailing. Daisy TTareourt left Wednesday for f.<>m!nn. where she will open at the Palace On .Tilly 1 for a run of six weeks. Miss ITanonrt has not booked for next season. ITer s.il;try figure was not met by the booking offices. Owing to poor business management when she first arrived on this side, Miss Harcourt say* her proper value as an entertainer has never been acknowledged by the managers. No stock companies occupy the bur- leaque theatres in New York City and Brooklyn, although this industry has be- come a permanent fixture in Chicago and Philadelphia. The opposition of the roof gardens may account for the absence locally of the light summer entertainment. There are two or three burlesque houses in Greater New York possible of favor- able patronage if the venture were to be undertaken. Sunday is becoming the large "try-out" day. Owing to the enforcement of the "Sunday Law" managers make up their shows the last day of the week accord- ingly, and this leaves vacancies which are tilled by new acts. Most, aa a rule, present themselves unprepared and in a crude state. Last Sunday at one local theatre three new numbers toppled over, one after another. Many are seen only for the matinee. They are unable to pass through a second exhibition. There is a settled conviction that the large booking offices have established a private detective service to furnish in- formation of a nature unobtainable through ordinary channels. For some time nothing of moment has occurred in' either of the opposition agencies that did not become known in the other office al- most instanter. In one of the offices a stranger is looked upon with suspicion. He is at once set down as a part of the "secret service." The success Charles Barnold has met with this week at Hammerstein's with his comedy animal act is not the result of ac- cident. Mr. Barnold arrived in New York from the West a little over a year ago. He had an animal act at the time, but was dissatisfied with it. Refusing all of- fers of engagements, he threw out the act then in use, and retired to a village up the Hudson. For over six months the trainer diligently applied himself to the formation of a comedy animal act that would be superior to all others, and he succeeded. Jack Levy, the agent, has a theory re- garding acts under his management. It is similar to the tale of the man who was asked to invest in a scheme that showed one hundred millions of dollars in profits on the prospectus. The intending investor figured that no one could conceive of so much money without some basis, and bought some stock on the reasoning that if only ten per cent, were true, there was still enough cash in sight. This is Mr. Levy's theory with a new act. ne is so lavish with his extravagant phrases that it must be a doubly doubting Thomas who imagines for a moment Mr. Levy's act isn't a "hit." Levy is the greatest "plug- ger" in vaudeville. The only ones in his class are a couple in burlesque, man and wife, who play a sketch in the olio. The wife in recounting the success met with said they had received at one perform- ance "nine curtnin calls and seven bows." Informed that even Richard Mansfield could not truthfully make such a boast, she replied: "Who's Mansfield? Can he handle pat he; the way we do?"