Variety (December 1907)

VARIETY UniETY A Variety Paper lor Variety People. Published every Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerboekw Tbi-atie Building, 1402 Broadway, New York City. Telephone i 4022 i 38th St. 1.4023 J SIME J. SILVERMAN, Editor and Proprietor. Entered as second-class matter December 22, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. CHICAGO OFFICE, Chicago Opera House Block (Phone, Main 4380). FRANK WIESBERO, Representative. SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE, 1115 Van Ness Ave. (Room 112). W. ALFRED WILSON, Representative. LONDON REPRESENTATIVE, 0. C. BARTRAM, 49 Rupert St., W. PARIS REPRESENTATIVE, 0. M. 8EIBT. ADVERTISEMENTS. 15 cents an agate line, $2.10 an Inch. Ono page, $100; one-half page, $50; one-quarter pago, $25. 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. 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Commencing with Janu- ary 5 the same firm of agents will book the Sunday shows at Blaney's two thea- tres, Lincoln Square, New York, and Amphion, Brooklyn. Bennett Mitchell, of The Dancing Mitch- ells, is the uncle, and not the brother, of Miss Mitchell, his partner in the act. Walters and Hill, having finished their time for the Western States Vaudeville Association, have dissolved partnership. Mary Jane Pollard, mother of 'Genie Pol- lard (Carver and Pollard), died Dec. 13. The deceased was well known in the pro- fession. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Lichfield have de- serted vaudeville and are playing lyceum engagements. Their daughter Abbie is with them. Horace Goldin will remain over here for twenty-three weeks, when he returns to Europe, where he is booked solid until August 15, 1911. When Shean and Warren return East they will present a new act called "Crim- son Gulch," a travesty upon the prevail- ing "Western" craze. Cissy Loftus can not play vaudeville dates. She is ill at present with a cold, and has engaged to support Sam Ber- nard in his new play. Gladdys Van, who left the Murray- Mack Company, is playing the Sullivan- Considine vaudeville time, having opened in Luo Angeles- Dec.••Mr* «••■• In the new Weber piece to be produced on Monday at the Weber Music Hall, Frank Whitman, "the dancing violinist," will appear, booked by Vion & Lowe. Mrs. Heras, of the Heras Family of acrobats, has recovered sufficiently from her injury of last week to play with the act at Pittsburg commencing Dec. 30. Joseph Goolman, the foreign trainer, opens at the Hippodrome, Jan. 18, in a new act involving dogs, cats and pigeons. This is Goolman's second visit to this side. Hayes and Suits this week received con- tracts for forty weeks of Sullivan-Consi- dine time. The latter was formerly a member of "The Wizard of Oz" Company. William B. Watson, the burlesque comedian and producer, has been made defendant in a suit for legal separation brought by Jeanette Dupree (Mrs. Wat- son). Charles Abeam, the cyclist, will soon produce a new pantomimic cycle act in- volving four people and special scenery. It will be known as "The Charles Ahearn Troupe." Word was received in New York this week that Martin Heck had given up his proposed trip to Berlin, and had Instead gone into the south of France to rest for two weeks. .Jack Norworth and Trixie Friganta have been booked by William Morris through Vion & Lowe as features of the Hippodrome, Cleveland, for one of Febru- niy's Weeks. The annual smoker and entertainment of the New York local, Actors' Union, will be held at the headquarters of the organi- zation New fc Year's Eve. The affair will commence at midnight. When the Charles Frohmnn play "Tcodles" is presented at the Empire in January or February, Sadie Martinot will have a part. Vion & Lowe secured Miss Martinot the engagement. With his former vaudeville theatre in Yonkers off his hands, and his former mustache off his face, Henry Meyers has developed symptoms of alarmingly good health in the past two weeks. Louise Henry, who was compelled to cancel fifteen weeks of time by illness, will shortly resume her engagement. While ill, Miss Henry was successfully operated upon for appendicitis. Mrs. Francklyn Wallace, who has been seriously ill for several months with heart trouble, is improving slowly. It is expected that she will soon be able to rejoin her husband in vaudeville. Grace La Rue has received permission from Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., to accept a month's engagement at the Wintergarten, Berlin, during March, for which she has been booked by the Marinelli office. Gracelyn Whitehouse left the~Tvfiirray" Mack Company in "The Sunny Side of Broadway" at Los Angeles this week. Miss Whitehouse opens Monday at the National, San Francisco, on the Sullivan- Considine circuit. Maud Fulton, one of the individual suc- cesses in "The Orchid," is preparing a spe- cialty including singing and eccentric dancing. When all is ready, Miss Fulton intends taking it and herself into vaude- ville. Gardner and Vincent, now in England, will not return to America until next season. Already time has been booked for a return tour of the British Isles for the following year. They recently com- pleted a sixteen weeks engagement in London. Herbert and Willing, a Western act, plays its first Eastern date in Camden next week. The pair were offered parts for "The Red Mill" Company, which is to go to Australia, but declined in order to con- tinue in their efforts after the big Ameri- can time. The bill at the Twenty-third Street The- atre this week gave a performance at the Workhouse on Blackwell's Island Christinas morning, commencing at 10:30. Harry Leonhardt, manager of the the- atre, ran the show for the amusement of the inmates. Louis Good man has taken the place of general office manager for Mortimer M. Thiese, left vacant by the retirement of Edward Shafer, who went on the road with All Herrington's "Lady Birds." Goodman was formerly employed a,s auditor with the Thiese enterprises. Josepjj Sheehan, the Grand opera singer, of the Henry W. Savage forces, will play his first and only week in vaudeville at Keith's, Cleveland, next week, booked by All T. Wilton. The week following he opens at the International Theatre, Chi- cago, in stock opera. "The Comstock Mystery" will be played abroad in three languages if Charlotte Parry accepts the offers she has had to take her protean drama across. Miss Parry will give it in English in London; in French while playing Paris, and resort to German in Berlin. The Trocadero, Fort George, N. Y., will be booked by Chris O. Brown, of the Sul- livan-Considine New York headquarters, next summer. Mr. Brown is also supply- ing small attractions for a number of moving picture and popular priced vaude- ville places in the city. Jack Singer of "The Behman Show" gave a dinner to his company on Christ- mas Day at the Colonial Hotel, Pittsburg. A special menu was provided, and if everything on the prettily gotten up card "went," it is a miracle how another per- formance could have been given inside a week. Mile. Marnac and Marie Belli, foreign artistes, who were booked over here on the klaw &" WilklUM" liHH. uul~ter»«--caaieiifc5 t are said to have declined to leave their native land through transportation over having been refused. Several other acts similarly situated may remain at home for the same reason. Nick Kaufmann is busy booking his three troupes on the other side. One is now playing Liebich's Theatre, Breslau; another organization of eight girls opened with Sir Edward Moss at Waverly Mar- ket, Edinburgh, this week; while the third began an engagement at the London Hip- podrome on Monday. Following an eight weeks' run there they will visit Australia and South Africa. Witnesses were examined in New York a few days ago in the suit brought by (Ins Hill against Willie Drew, of Camp- bell and Drew, for alleged infringement upon his exclusive right to the produc- tion of Karno's "A Night in an English Music Hall." The hearings were held be- fore Leon Laski as a commissioner, Adolph Marks, of Chicago, where the action was brought, directing Hill's case. Horace Goldin, the illusionist and magi- cian, reapjM»aring at the Colonial this week, came to New York from Copen- hagen, Denmark, with only one day's rest. It was 4 a. m., Monday morning, before Mr. Goldin left the Colonial after setting his apparatus. He gave his first matinee the same afternoon. A new trunk trick will not be shown by him until next week at the same house, where he will hold over. Wit mark & Sons, the music publishers, in their press matter sent out this week sjiid Bert Levy, "artist, expert and enter- tainer," received so many encores with "Smile on Me" at the Empire, Paterson. last week, Mr. Levy had to consult a physician to remove the crick from his back. "Srnile on Me" may be judged to be a "Witmark song." Mr. Levy must have whistled for his encores, as he does that Instead of sinning while sketching in his a«t. On this same theory of Reason- ing, had Admiral Dewey been humming a composition published by the Witmark firm when the great sea warrior captured Manila, Witmark & Sons would modestly have claimed the credit for the surrender.