Variety (September 1907)

VARIETY 3 WftiETY A Variety Paper tor Variety People. Published •very Saturday by THB VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building, 1403 Broadway, New York City. r«02S 1 Telephone -I 4(m I 88th St. 8TJCB J. SILVERMAN. Editor and Proprietor. Entered as tecond-clat* matter December 22, 1906, et the Poet Office at New York,*. T. t under the act of Oongreee of March 8, 1870. CHICAGO OFFICE, Ghloafo Opera Houee Block (Phone, Main 4880). FRANK WIESBEBO, RsprsssatetiTS. 8AN FRANCISCO OFFICE, 111! Van Nee. Are. (Boom 118). W. ALFRED WILSOM. Bepreeentatlre. LONDON BBPBBBBBTATT7B, 0. 0. PARI1 OFFICE, », Rue Lafttta. 0. M. BEIBT, Bepreeentatlre. ADVERTI8EMENT1, 16 cents an agate line, 82.10 an Inch. One page, 8100; one-half page, 860; one quarter page, 126. Charges for portrait* fnrnlahed on application. Special rate by the month for professlonsl card under heading "Represcntatlro Artists." Advertising copy should be recelred by Thurs- day at noon to Insure publication In current Issue. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Annual 84 Foreign 6 Six and three- months In proportion. Single copies ten cents. VARIETY will bo mailed to a permanent ad dress or as per route as desired. VARIETY msy be had abroad st INTERNATIONAL NEWS OO.'S OFFICES Breams Building, Chancery Lane. LONDON. B. C. ENGLAND. Advertisements forwarded by mall must bo sc- compsnled by remittance, mads payable to Varlf ty Pnbllahlng Co. Copyright, 1907, by Variety Publishing Co. Vol. VIII. SEPTEMBER 21. No. 2. Coccia and Amate leave "The Kentucky Belles" to-night. Rice and Cady join "From Across the Pond" at the Circle on Monday. Vinnie Henshaw has a new partner and is looking for vaudeville engagements. The Vaudeville Comedy Club is consid- ering purchasing a Summer home on Long Island. "A Night in a Rathskeller" closes its vaudeville tour this week. It may be Idaced elsewhere. •Ionian and Harvey sailed from Liver- pool Saturday. They are due to open over here next month. Dick Bernard, brother of Sam, is said to l>e considering a proposition to tear off a monologue in vaudeville. Rose Stalil writes from London to ask that any report of her engagement to Will T. HodgC be emphatically denied. The mother of Maurice Schafer is very ill in Tarrytown, N. Y., and asks that friends notify her son of her condition. Lew Cooper, formerly of Cooper and (Jear, has entered into partnership with (Jeorge Brown, late of Drown and Hughes. Harry Rogers is associated with Albert Von Til/er's music publishing house, not Harry Von Tilzer's, as previously re- ported. Klsie Faye will have a new act next sea- son, a dancing and singing arrangement in which the comedienne will have a back- ing of eight boys. Charles L. Sasse, the East Fourteenth street booking agent, returned from Europe this week. He has been abroad street booking agent, returned from Joe P. Willard, Harry Bond and com- pany in the "Rattle of Bunco Hill," are booked solid by William Morris on the Klaw & Erlanger time. Truly Shattuck has written the words and music of a novelty song called "Who Knows?" The exclusive singing right has been given to Ethel Levey. . John M. Turner, an old-time banjo com- edian, was buried last Tuesday by the B. P. (). E. local lodge. The deceased died in the Post-Graduate Hospital. Harold L. Steele, of Worcester, Mass., has joined the Atkinson-Thatcher Com- pany. Mr. Steele will have the principal male part in "Miss Petticoat." Major Burk, formerly secretary of the White Rats, will give his annual enter- tainment on October .'i0 at the Elks' club rooms in the Majestic Theatre building. The Grand Opera House, Indianapolis, which was scheduled to open Sept. 2, de- layed a week. An entire bill had been signed and the acts received salaries with- out (piestion. Nellie Seymour and Nestor will play Keeney's, Brooklyn, Sept. 30, when the house opens. Miss Seymour 1ms several we:>ks laid out and will devote all her time to vaudeville this season. Krnest Lavigne, of Lavignc & Lajoie, proprietors of Sohmer Park, Montreal, who has been seriously ill for several months, is said to have suffered a relapse and is now in a critical condition. Mile. Lucile Murger, the French chan- teuse, playing her first American engage- ment at the New York this week, is re- ported to be in receipt of $350 every time salary day conies round in the K. & E. houses, The annual benefit of New York Lodge, No. 1, T. M. A., will be held at the New York Hippodrome Pec. 8 (Sunday even- ing). The stage will be under the direc- tion of Stage Manager Temple, of the Hippodrome. Joe Keno, formerly of Keno, Welch and Melrose, and Kstelle D'Arville, who played with -Carter De Haven during the illness recently of Flora Parker, have entered into a partnership and will do a singing and dancing comedy act. Max Witt will produce two new acts on Sept. 30. One will be called "Max Witt's 'Highland lassies,'" patterned on his 'Singing Colleens," only in Scottish dress, and the other is Paul Burns and Company in "The Suffering Sophomores." Annette vViltsie, formerly with the "Parisian Widows," will essay a single singing act with a series of character numbers. She opens next week in the new vaudeville theatre being engineered in Passaic, N. J., by Henry Pincus. May Nevada, formerly in vaudeville but of late years at the head of her own dra- matic company, has returned to the vari- eties, assisted by Algernon Eden, in a farcical sketch entitled "The Masquerad- ers," written and produced by Louis Hal- lett. Mattie Keene, well known as a vaude- ville artiste, has written a new play which will shortly be produced by John Cort. Miss Keene is now engaged upon another piece which is scheduled for production by the Cort people as soon as it is com- pleted. The Poli Circuit has issued a neatly engraved and printed folder, with de- scriptions and photos of theatres, staff and resident managers. The system under which the circuit is conducted re- ceives' space. The folder is for general distribution. The Dixon Rrothers, eccentric musical comedians, who have not appeared over here for a number of years, play at At- lantic City next week, then go West for a long tour over time secured through the Western Vaudeville Association by Wes- lev & Pincus. "The forbidden" picture of "The Bath" as shown by "The Loinl«»ii Models" was suppressed by Manager J. B. Schoeffel, of the Tremont, Boston, toward the end of last week. Now the "Models" are at Par- son's, Hartford. Tt is expected soon they will be homeward bound. Hurt Green is now one of the Accepted Order of Yaudcvillians, having received contracts through the United Offices for a season's engagement with his wife, Irene Franklin. To clinch his hold upon the title of "artist" Mr. (Jrecn forthwith pur- chased a "Tavlor" trunk. Ethel McDonough. "The Girl Behind the Drum." has received several offers to join female orchestras, the supply of women musicians causing a large demand, but Miss McDonough will continue in vaude- ville. She says "single blessedness in vaudeville is indeed bliss." "From Across the Pond," the new M. M. Thiese production at the New Circle Theatre, which was unanimously con- demned bv the New York critics, is in process of revision. Adolf Hiilipps, the first principal comedian, has left the cast, which remains otherwise unchanged. Fred Follette will be manager of the "Chuck" Connors show, "From Broadway to the Howery." It has not been yet set- tled who will book, the Sunday nights at the Star this season, commencing Sept. '20. Mr. Follette has attended to the pro- grams there on Sundays for two seasons past. Leon Mooser, manager for Ching Ling Foo, the Chinese illusionist, will leave San Francisco soon, if he is not already on the way, for Shanghai by way of England. It is understood that he will stop in New York before sailing and en- deavor to arrange an American tour for his principal. J. J. Ryan has given notice of appear- ance in the suit brought against him in this county by W. S. Cleveland. Cleve- land demands $1,500 alleged to be due him on a commission account still unpaid from the time Ryan ran the Olympic Theatre in Cincinnati. The case will be called for trial shortly. The Emerald Trio has disbanded. Nicholas and Blanche Murphy are doing a team act, while William H. Stanley is working alone. The trio was plaintiff in a suit against the New York Vaudeville Contracting Company and the Murphys are still prosecuting the action. A dis- agreement led to the separation. Vesta Victoria is a passenger on the steamship St. Paul, which is due to dock in New York to-day. She opens Monday at the New York Theatre. The English woman brings a new song with her. An- other passenger on the St. Paul is Millie Linden, the English singer, who is booked to open at the Colonial on the same day. l^ouis Wesley, the agent, and Frank Jones, of P. (1. Williams' staff, have been making merry for the past fortnight with Bear] Allen's automobile. Up to date the expense account would have purchased a new machine. Last Monday, while re- turning from the (Jotham in the Allen flyer, Mr. Jones broke down on the Brook- lyn Bridge and a common, ordinary truck did the rest. Lyllian Leighton has temporarily re- tired from the stage under the advice of her physician. She is now in the North Woods of Wisconsin and will remain there indefinitely in an effort to regain her lost health. Miss 1>eighton has been a victim of nervous collapse. She was confined to her room for three weeks in South Bend, hid., after playing that city. Her physi- cians hope that she will be able to resume her vaudeville tour by Dec. 1. The vaudeville artist will be giving a "good show" at every performance, rain or shine, ere long, regardless of the state of his spirits, for the dramatic critics are on his trail. Alan Dale says he intends making a study of vaudeville this season and becoming a regular habitue of the vari- ety houses. The famous reviewer threat- ened the vaudevillian with this during his recent visit abroad. If you have a "new act" it should be listed in Variety's "New Acts Next Week," for Mr. Dale has said he selects what he considers the en- tertainment offering the most "newness" from that column. If Alan Dale or any other dramatic reviewer says something about your act not precisely so, don't an- swer in black and white that he knows nothing about vaudeville; this is the one thing they all cheerfully admit.