Variety (October 1907)

VARIETY wrIety A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published •▼cry Saturday by THB VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building, 1402 Broadway, New York City. TclcpboDcl 40 ^ j-S8th St. 8IME J. 8ILVERMAN, Editor and Proprietor. Entered a* second class matter December 22, 1905. at the Poet Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. CHICAGO OFFICE, Chicago Opera House Block (Phono, Main 4380). FRANK WIESBEHO, Bepreaentatire. FRANCISCO OFFICE, 1115 Yon Veea Are. (Boom US). r. ALFRED WILSON, Representative. LONDON REPRESENTATIVE, C. O. BABTBAM, 49 Rupert St., W. PARIS OFFICE, b, Bno Laffitte, O. M. 8EIBT, Representative. ADVERTISEMENTS. 15 cents an agate line, $2.10 an Inch. One page, 9100; one-half page, 150; one-quarter page, $25. Charges for portraits famished on application. Special rate by the month for professional csrd under besdlng "Representative Artists." 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When Coin's Dogs appear at the Colo- nial week Oct. 28, it will not be a new act for the animals, but the same, Mr. Coin says, he presented at that theatre in March, 1906. .Too Bonansinga, the aeronaut, was killed at Mattoon, 111., on Friday last while making a balloon ascension on the fair grounds. The remains were taken to his home at Quincy, 111. -\ At the London Wednesday night Dave Rose was presented with a handsome gold watch by the Waldorf Club, which bought the house out for the evening. Mr. Rose is a member of the club. The Six Brothers Luck may play "The Demon of the Cellar'' when they open at the New York on October 28. "The Grand Hotel," also a possibility for the first week, requires 25 people. Murray, Clayton and Drew have been reduced to two, and "Claude Melnotte Outdone," the travesty played, will be con- tinued by Murray Clayton and Drew, Mr. Clayton removing the comma from his name aud reluming Miss Drew in the act. Loney Haskell is playing two houses this week, the Novelty and Gotham, Brooklyn. Mr. Haskell was called to the former theatre on Wednesday, replacing James Thornton, who left the bill. Clara Raymond, of "The Morning Glories" has been granted an absolute divorce from her former husband, Louis La Clede. When playing together the act was known as La Clede and Raymond. The Six Bonesettis leave for their for- eign home on Oct. 23rd. Mrs. Honesetti, a member, is still suffering from a fracture of the arm, sustained while playing in Canada, preventing her from appearing with the act at Hammerstein's this week. Joe Pearlstein, formerly the Keith rep- resentative in the Farm and Valentine's Theatres, Toledo, O., has been ordered to Syracuse in the same capacity at the Grand. Jules Delinar, who books the latter establishment, is thus-relieved from the necessity of visiting the up-State town weekly. Last Sunday was the first he had spent at home with his family in months. Morris Meyerfeld, Jr., president of the Orpheum Circuit, arrived in the city on Wednesday. He came on from San Fran- o/ cisco, stopping ofT at Chicago, where he met Martin Beck, who returned with him. Wednesday was a busy day for Percy G. Williams. He had a panic on his hands at the Orpheum, Marie Lloyd's in- disposition at the Colonial and James Thornton's absence from the program at the Novelty. Richard Burton, the "Australian Actor Vocalist" who was billed at Keeney's, Brooklyn, this week, for his first New York showing, did not appear. He will play there commencing Monday, the en- gagement having been put forward a week. Joe Keno and Estelle D'Arvillo have been booked for the Orpheum Road Show, with which the act will tour for the re- mainder of the season. They have an acrobatic talking and dancing number, written and arranged by Marion and Pearl. Bert Levy, the artist, formerly of "The Morning Telegraph," is now on the staff of the New York "Herald." Mr. Levy's drawings appear in the dramatic columns edited by George Henry Payne of the 'Evening Telegram" daily. Charles K. Harris, the music publisher, and Charles Burnham, manager of Wal- laces, left for Chicago on Tuesday to look over "A Knight For a Day," playing there, with a view of bringing it into Mr. Burn- ham's playhouse. Mr. Harris publishes the music sung in the piece. The experiences of variety artists is a rich mine cf humorous incident. VARIETY proposes to make a collection of "shop" anecdotes for use in its An- niversary Number. Everybody is invited to contribute. Send in the best story you know relating to variety people or affairs, confining the telling to 350 words or less. Mail matter as quickly as possible. Paul Cinque vail i, the juggler, who opened for Klaw & ErlatrgCr in Chicago Monday, is booked over heir for twelve weeks only, when he must return. "David Murray and Lily Sinclair' 1 will be the hilling of a sketch team to play vaudeville shortly for the first time in "His l.o-t Boy," a piece written by Hubert Futner. Miss Sinclair was the star for some time of "Lost in New York." Lottie West Symonds is recovering after an operation performed recently at St. Vincent Hospital, Toledo. Miss Symonds was obliged to cancel considerable time through her illness. Sam Ehrlich resents the light articles which have appeared irt< VARIETY for the past two issues, in which he was men* tioneil. Mr. Ehrlich says they might have a tendency to hurt him. No one but Mr. Ehrlich could reach that conclusion. "GeneraF Ed La Vine, a Western jug- gler, is likely to appear in New York soon. He has never been here, but Tom Nawn thought so much of La Vine's Comedy juggling he wrote a New York agent, say- ing if Mr. La Vine did not "make good," lie (Mr. Nawn) would pay the salary him- self. Sampson and Douglas, a young man and woman formerly with llaTry Tig1ie\s "Collegians/ 1 played last Sunday night at the Harlem Opera House. Wesley & Pin- cus booked the act on Monday for eighteen weeks over the United time. In Mis* Douglas, it is said, will be found another Mabel Hite. Jos. Woods, manager of "The Pekin Zouaves," claims a new record. The act left Boston at 10 a. m. last Sunday morn- ing with 3,000 pounds of baggage and ar- rived at the Grand Opera House, New York, in time for the matinee same day. "Papa" Good, for many years connected with the vaudeville agency business in Berlin, Germany, and who bears approxi- mately the same eccentric relation to the profession as "Doc" Steiner in New York, has gone into the music publishing busi- ness in the German capital, "taking" an American "in" as partner. Rose Stahl informed Jenie Jacobs this week that a summer's vaudeville engage- ment could not-be accepted by her during H»08, but she would play in the hot spell the following year. Miss Stahl will be in Europe during the coming summer with her company and play. Ashton Stevens, known to all vaude- villians who have played in San Fran- cisco as the caustic critic of the "Exam- iner" in that city, is now in New York, engaged as the dramatic reviewer on the "Evening JburnnJ." When there is ,1 stagnation in new legitimate plays Mr. Stevens will look over the vaudeville hills about town. Manager Leany, of the Four Leany Sis- ters, an American act which has been playing- in England and on the European continent for a number of years, firYived in New York this week on his^wjay to Syracuse, to visit his family. This is Mr. Leany's first visit to this side, where he is widely known, in some time. Negotia- tions are under way for an engagement of the act at the New York Hippodrome. List week, while the K. & E. bill played at the New Grand, Sioux City, la., the ball players of the acts on the program organized, and defeated the "Amalgamat- ed" baseball team composed of local stage hands by a score of 10 to 7. Hardeen, "the jail breaker," batting out a home run and James Harrigan, "the tramp jug- gler," making a sensational one-hand catch while playing second base, were the features, besides the score. Madge Anderson, wife of W. S. Harvey, the juggler, was suddenly taken ill on Wednesday of last week while Paying the Shuber f , Kansas City. Miss Ander- son was out of the bill for the remainder of the engagement, but under the care of her phvbician, Dr. Thompson, was enabled to operr^unday at the Garrick, St. Louis. Mr. Harvey is deeply appreciative of the many kindnesses extended to him by art- ists on both the Kansas City and St. Louis bills. J. C. diddle, the editor of "The Poli Poster," published from Poli's Theatre at Worcester, refuses to believe there is a better vaudeville performance possible than given at the Worcester house. In this week's "Poster," Mr. Criddle tells the following story in terse paragraphs: "Ho went to New York. He went to Boston. He said he saw the best vaudeville show in both cities. He f. aid a dollar. He lives in Worcester. He goes to Poli's. He says 'Poli's the best of all.' 1 can see the show at Poli's for thirty cents." And then Mr. Criddle says to the Worcester public, "If you don't believe it. try it yourself. We will be glad to publish your experiences." In one of Montana's "free and easics" the proprietors, Riley &, Cart, have issued a printed slip of instructions for the peo- ple playing there. It is headed by the word "Notire" in large letters. A promi- nent paragraph say: "the management conducts this theatre upon the highest plane of respectability and moral cleanli- ness." Immediately under is: "Lady,per- formers playing this house must go in the wine rooms and boxes unless spee'al contract is made ^> ' " contrary." An- other item is "We charge ten per cent. upon all moneys ad \ a need." The "the- atie" is evidenth 1 combination one, as the last din li ti on the list says "All performers mils! top in the house; ele- L r .int roon .■' i ''c prices."