Variety (November 1907)

VARIETY WRIETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published every Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building, 1402 Broadway, New York City. Telephone/ 402 J 023 | 38th St. 8IME J. 8ILVERMAN, Editor and Proprietor. Entered as second-class matter December 22, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. t under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. CHICAGO OFFICE, Chicago Opera Houae Block (Phone, Main 4380). FRANK WIESBERG, Representative. SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE, 1115 Van Neaa Ave. (Room 118). W. ALFRED WILSON, Representative. LONDON REPRESENTATIVE, 0. C. BARTRAM, 49 Rupert St., W. PARIS OFFICE, 5. Rue Laffltte, 0. X. SEIBT, Representative. ADVERTISEMENTS. 15 cents an agate line, $2.10 an Inch. One page, 1100; one-half page, 850; one-quarter page, 825. Charges for portraits furnished on application. Special rate by the month for professional card under heading "Representative Artists." Advertising copy should be received by Thurs- day'at noon to Insure publication In current issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual $4 Foreign 5 Six and three months in proportion. Single copies ten cents. VARIETY will be mailed to a permanent ad- dress or as per route as desired. VARIETY may be had abroad at INTERNATIONAL NEWS CO.'S OFFICES Breams Building. Chancery Lane, LONDON, E. C, ENGLAND. Advertisements forwarded by mall must be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Copyright, 1007, by Variety Publishing Co. voi. VIII. NOVEMBER 2. No. 8. Morris and Kramer have joined "The Dainty Duchess." ___<: Elizabeth M. Murray, the singing co- medienne, will open in London next March. The Yuilains, eight foreign acrobats, will appear at the New York on November 11, Marshall P. Wilder replaced James Thornton on the Colonial bill Wednes- day. "Shipwrecked," the Jesse L. Lasky pro- duction, lived up to its title and is now safely stored away. Eddie Towers, formerly with Josephine Cohan, has signed contracts for the Sul- livan-Considine Circuit. . Carlottn, "the marvel," is not at Fifty- oighth street this week owing to the tardy arrival of her apparatus. Patrick Monahan, formerly manager of the Tenth Street Hotel, Pittsburg, and better known to the profession as "Patsy" died last month. George B. Cheetham, manager of the two local Cahn & Grant houses, the Salem and Empire Theatres, has been trans- ferred to the management of the Opera House at Lawrence, Mass. Dan Landrey, now manager of the Lawrence establish- ment, will take his place. Gus Hill's productions, also joined the show, which is playing the Academy (Western Wheel) in Pittsburg. W. H. Macart has started in the vaude- villes with his monologue, having played three Wilmer & Vincent weeks in it. Harry II. Schmidling is seriously ill at his home, 287 West Monroe street, Chicago. He was recently removed from the hos- pital, where he had been confiued for four months. The Nichols Sisters have been released by Klaw & Erlanger to play in "Poca- hontas," the new Shubert production. There is an act now showing abroad where a man allows an elephant to step upon his prostrate body. It is considered too sensational a performance for matinee audiences over here. Murray Clayton and Drew are playing at the Orpheum Watertown, this week, booked by the William Morris Office. Frank Williamson, Billy Andrus and Mule take a week at Mt. Vernon, com- mencing Monday, to shape the new act. Catherine Countiss and Carlyle Moore, having separated, their engagement booked for this week at Twenty-third Street was not played. Edwin Arden and Company replaced them. The Great Lafayette may be booked for the Palace, London, during January. Jenie Jacobs is now negotiating for the appear- ance. "The Telephone Girl," with Harry Her- sem playing the principal German role, will be placed in vaudeville by Jos. and M. A. Shea. It will open Nov. 11, carry- ing twelve people. Dr. Leopold Weiss, a brother of Houdini and Hardeen, was seriously injured in his home on West 113th street last week by a burglar. Harry Brown in "One Christinas Eve" is playing at Salem this week. It is a comedy sketch, and Mr. Brown has for support Alice Knowlton, Marie Stanley and William Emerson. Alfred Butt, manager of the Talace, Lon- don, has postponed his intended American visit until later in the season. Clark Brown, the New York booking agent for the Bennett Circuit in Canada, The experiences of variety artists is a rich mine of 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. Charles II. Prince has closed with "About Town," and will play vaudeville wtih a singing sketch when M. S. Bentham secures the time. has returned from his wedding trip. The Bennett Company presented Mr. Brown with a sterling silver service for a wed- ding gift. The new Sullivan-Considine theatre building in Denver has been promised by the contractors by Dec. 1. The house is the property of the circuit. Adelaide Genee, the premiere from the Empire, London, will arrive here the lat- ter part of the month, appearing in "Alad- din" at the Broadway Theatre. W. E. Ritchie, formerly of the Barber* Ritchie Trio, bicycle act, returned to America tins week, arriving Monday. He has been away since last February. In the interval he has been working in Europe with his wife, the trio having disbanded. Charles T. Aldrich\is not engaged on the K. & E. Circuit, He played a week at the Grand Opera House, Brooklyn, where he presented his new act. Rehearsals for "The Mardi Gras Beau- ties," W. S. Campbell and Al Beeves' new Eastern Burlesque Wheel show, have been called to commence Nov. 4. Jack Bydell is manager of the new company, which will open at Toronto the latter end of this month. Weber & Bush have presented Rawson and Clare the set furnished by the firm for the sketch "Just Kids," which the team plays in the olio of the "Bon Tons." Hoyt Burnett, of Cincinnati, has suc- ceeded J. J. Busher as manager of the Lyric, Cleveland, a S-C house. Other changes in the house staff have also oc- curred. Almonl ami Dumont, the musical act, closed suddenly la«t Saturday at the Keith- Proctor house, Jersey City. They were re placed by Steely and Edwards for the two remaining shows. The musical team were in have played Poji's, Hartford, iliis week, hut did not. Queen and Rons joined Miner's "High Jinks" burlesque company this week. John Price, the Irish comedian, formerly with Cecelia Griffith is 1 out inning to lake Mrs. Howard TruesdWPs part in "Two Men .hm! a Bottle." Mrs. Truesdell retired l«»m> pornriiy from the stage ut the commence- ment of the Reason owing to illness. Stella Mayhew cancelled her engagement at Hammerstein's this week, through bill- ing or her position on the bill, and the Empire City Quartet was brought on from Chicago to take her place. The Quartet is also plajing at the Union Square. Ger- trude Hoffman is a feature of the Ilam- merstein show this week. Jacobs & Jermon's "Golden Crook Bur- les<iuers," with John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain as the special attraction, estab- lished a new record for the Eastern Bur- lesque" Wheel's theatre in New Orleans. They did $7,150 gross on the week. This is an advance of about $400 over the best previous week's takings. A representative of The Actograph Com- pany, makers of moving picture novelties, has started on an expedition through Canada to collect pictures of hunting scenes in the northern wilds for use at the Sportsmen's Show at Madisou Square Gar- den. With him went the New York sports- men, Henry C. Kreuger and R. M. Colt. The note in Variety last week saying a great many people were attracted to the Colonial during the engagement of Marie Lloyd under the impression that her sister Alice was playing there instead was in no- wise meant as a reflection upon Marie Lloyd's drawing powers, but printed as a curious item. Percy G. Williams denies the truth of it. Harold Durant, manager of the Water- bury baseball team in the Connecticut League, is now a candidate for vaudeville. Supported by Viola Adams he will appear soon on the Poli Circuit. He will use a sketch written by himself and called "The Lady and the Burglar." P. Alonzo, Poli's booking representative, witnessed a rehear- sal of the sketch *nd promised an engage- ment. "America" stands for one gold laden field to the foreign artist. With the quo- tations of large salaries the artists on the other side of the water figured their pros- pective pay no more in "pounds" but "hundreds" and "thousands." An example of this worth recounting was experienced by a foreign agent when on the other side. Dropping into a London hall one evening, li«- heard a girl with a phenomenal baritone voice. Deeming her a good attraction for burlesque over here, he consulted with a friend, making an offer of $75 weekly. This wis communicated to the young woman, who sent back word that she would call at llie agent's hotel the follow- ing morning. P.right and early the next day an elderly man appeared, announcing himself as the girl's "impresario" (man- ager). He said that before going into conversation it would be best to state the; salary expected for America. One thou- sand dollars weekly was the amount he named. The agent cried impossible, but the "impresario" calmly replied he had re* ceived an oiler of $500 from another agent and nothing h's>< than $J^Oho would be-en- tertained. No further negotiations wore lad. hut the agent marvelled, for he had been informed the evening before by the manager of the music hall where the girl was singing that she was then receiving "six pounds" ($30) wc.-kly there.