Variety (August 1907)

VARIETY LEO CARRILLO'S CARTOON OF THE WEEK NOT THE WILLIS WOOD. Kansas City, Aug. 2. Since the list of theatres Klaw & Er- langer will open during September was printed in Variety last Saturday, there has been a change of plan for this town. "Advanced Vaudeville" will be played in the Sam S. Shubert theatre here, not the Willis Wood. The Sam S. Shubert is a much handsomer house. The new theatre building by the Orpheum Circuit was probably the cause of the shift after re- flection. The Willis Wood will hold the legitimate attractions booked by K. & E. LAYING OUT 19 BILLS. Bills for nineteen houses which are ex- pected to open on the Klaw & Erlanger circuit by September 2 have nearly all been laid out, said William Morris this Week. ALBEE REPUDIATES REPORT. The article in Variety last week which recited that a report "emanating from the United Booking Offices" to the effect that a change had been made in the contract form issued by the William Morris office, and which was denied by Mr. Morris, also by Louis F. Werba, is taken exception to by E. F. Albee by reason of the quoted words. Mr. Albee says that he neither caused nor authorized any such report, and as he is the responsible head of the United Booking Offices, does not care to have that impression broadcast. After sixty-four weeks of almost con- tinuous work in the West, Parks and Zeno are resting until September, when they will appear in a new dancing act, LEE HARRISON IN ACT. Lee Harrison, the monologist, will ap- pear in a Klaw & Erlanger production on August 26. It has been written by John J. McNally and called "Rehearsal at Ten." Four men and ten girls will take part. Mr. Harrison will probably give his mono- logue in "one" during the piece. H. R. Gresham is staging it. John Ford is in rhargc of the dancing numbers. SOME VAUDEVILLE IN ST. LOUIS. St. Louis, August 2. Announcement is made by Manager Fishell of the Garrick here that Klaw & Erlanger vaudeville will be given in that house during the coining year in the intervals left by independent booking al- ready, signed up. The house was booked ahead with inde- pendent attractions by the Shuberts, be- fore their coalition with K. & E. These dates stand, but all time not contracted for in this way will be given over to "Ad- vanced Vaudeville." The Garrick opens Sept. 1. The vaudeville situation is somewhat muddled here through the American, now building, holding a franchise from the William Morris office. CLOSED; MAY 60 TO LAW. The Stellings, an English team of jug- glers, threaten to appeal to the courts for a week's salary due them, they claim, from the Keith management. The Stel- lings came over here about the first of July with a new act. They were booked thin week at the Union Square. Stelling declares he expressly stipulated with J. F. Nash in the United Rooking Offices that his act was to work two shows a day only, his wife being too ill to play more. The artist then avers that he was or* dered to play three times, but refused. The act went on at the Monday matinee, and was afterward closed. Stelling says he was refused any part of his salary, al- though his contract carriei! no cancellation clause. The Tyroleans, at Electric Park, Balti- more, disband after to-night. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Grans will open a concert hall at Oshkosh. Wis. The other mem- bers return to New York, where a new act will be prepared and produced. .The New York correspondent of "Das Programm," the German paper, was told by someone that Max Millian had a troupe of trained frogs rea'.'y to show in vaude- ville, and the yoii't { man printed it in a recent issue.