Variety (February 1908)

VARIETY 5 A Variety Pap«r for Variety People. Pabllsbed every Saturday by THB VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building, 1402 Broadway. New York City. Telephone i ^q^} 38th St- {: SIME 7. BILVEBMAN, Editor and Proprietor. Entertd o« »eeond-cl(U» matter December 22, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Congre»» of March 3, 1870. CHICAGO OmCE, Chicago Opera House Blook . (Phone, Main 4880). FEANK WIEBBEEG, Bepresentative. BAN FBANCIBCO OFFICE. 1116 Van Neai Ato. (Boom 118). W. ALFBED WILBOV, EepreaentatiT*. LONDON BEPBEBENTATTTE, O. C. BABTEAM. 49 Bupert Bt., W. ADVEBTIBEMENTB. 20 cents an agate line, $2.80 an inch. One page, 1125; one-balf page, $65; one-quarter page, 132.30. Charges for portraits furnished on application. Special rate by the month for professional card under heading "Representative Artists." AdTertlsIng copy should t>e received by Thors- day at noon to Insure publication in current Issue. • TRADESp g ^COUWaL » 8ft BUBSCRIPTION 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 mnil must be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety rublishlng Co. Copyright, 1007, by Variety Publishing Co. Vol. IX. FEBRUARY I. No. 8. Claude Fealey has a new sketch of Southern life, for which she is seeking vaudeville time. Drtve Lewis plays 12.')th Street next tveek to commence the fulfillment of his K. & E. contract. I^Veen and Cross appear in their new act "Roman Sports," at the Oiphcum, Yonkers, next week. Mr. Stviddard's (Stoddard and Wilson) wife will j<»in the team, making it a "three-act" next season. Vesta Victoria and Eva Tanguay will again he on the same hill when they play the .Wth Street Theatre. Charles Fitzpatrick, formerly with the T'jiited (Itlices. is now associated with M. A. Shea, the hooking agent. Katheryn and Violet Pearl have re- signed with M. M. Thiese to again go with ''The Strollers" next season. Williain Tlould and Valeska Suiatt play Keeney's next week. They are at the '( (donial, New York, a week later. The ricquays, a numher from abroad, will reappear shortly, after an absence '/roni these jdior^j of two years. . The Josetti Troupe, a foreign "Risley" act, is at Keith's, Providence, this week for its first American appearance. ; Matthews and Harris in "Adam, the Second" open at the Empire, 'Frisco, on February 10, booked by Louis Pincus. Eugene Jepson and Company in "The Mayor and the Manicure," have been booked for eighteen w.eeks by M. S. Ben- tham. ■ :..'-'■■: : ■' ■■--:•: May Ward and her "Dresden Dolls," a "K. & E" act, has applied to M. S. Ben- tham to secure further bookings on the United circuits. Earl G'irdella, a Westerner, with a num- ber of dogs which give a pantomime per- formance, appears at the Orpheum, Yonkers, next week (February 3). Frank Whitman, "the dancing violinist," has returned to vaudeville, having left the W^eber show, where he was engaged for the burlesque on "The Merry Widow." Alba, a "strong" woman, now on the Orpheum circuit, is headed for New York where she will make her first appearance in the East. Miss Alba is a foreign act. In the advance program billing next week's show at the Fifth A,venue, Gus Fxiwards' 'Blonde Typewriters" are de- scribed as "the fastest act of the season.'' Bosanquet, the violinist, who came over here to play on the Klaw & Erlanger time, appears in New York for the first time at the Murray Hill Theatre next Sunday. W. E. Whittle, the ventrikxjuist. has been booked through the Marinelli Agency to play the Moss-Stoll tour in England. He opens at the Coliseum, Ix)ndon, May 25. -•■'■ A. E. Johnson, in charge of the foreign department for the Orpheum circuit, may * leave for Europe in the Spring, visiting the old country in the interest of his con- cern. Billie Reeves, the "drunk" with the Karno Comedy Company has been ofTered and declined an engagement for a new production to be seen on Broadway next March. Thompson's Elephants have been booked by the Marinelli agency to open at the Wintergarten, Berlin, Aug. 17. The act will play London in the fall, making an extended trip. Kmma Cams has received contracts for six weeks throu<dj ^T. S. Bentham. f^he will continue in vaudrville, if enjzagements are forthcoming, until the ending of the present sea.son. Florence (!ale hi.s laid ln*r sucicssful sketch. "The C.irl Wlio Dared." on the shelf until next season, when Miss (Jale will again present it in vaudeville with a reorgajji/ed cast. Dale an<l Rossi. "Briitalizeis of the King's English," joined Chas. F. Taylor's 'Tnrisian Belles," replacing Morgan and West, who close with that show at the Dewey to-night. ■ ^ .,,.;.;,. The Foyr Stewart Sisters will he the feature of the Murray and Mackie Reper- toire Company. They have engaged for the position, which they enter on Monday in some up-state town. Bertina, a foreign toe dancer, booked by H. H. Fcibcr to open on the United time week of Feb. 10, expects to appear on that date, but she has not as yet been assigned to a local K.-P. theatre. Prominent managers of both burlesque wheels have endeavored unsuccessfully to .secure Proctor's Twenty-third Street The- atre for their respective circuits. All of- fers have been declined. Rivers and Rochester, an Australian act, play their first Eastern engagement at l*astor's next week in a singing sketeh named "An Island Episode. Alf T. Wilton is the agent for the team. L. Lawrence Weber, Sam Scribner and CJus Hill, the Eastern Burlesque W'heel managers, who have been visiting the houses on their circuit, are expected to return home about Wednesday next, ,;. "The Song Birds," the singing organiza- tion travestying the grand opera impre- sarios, has concluded its contract for twenty weeks over the United time. No future ])lans have been mapped out for the numher. Rice and Walters, who are in their sec- on<l season with ''The Boston Belles," di! n«it appear the week the show played Hurti'.; & Seainon's Music Hall. New York, .iwinj; to the illness of Tina Rice, ^he re- joined the show this week in Boston. Trainor and Dale have joined the Im- perials (Western Burles(iue Wheel) for the rest of the season. Through B. Ohermayer they have been booked for a tour in Eng- land opening in May, returning fW'xt sea- son to become members of Abe Leavitt's "Rentz-Santley" show. Elfie Fay will play Hammerstein's next week. Miss Fay h. s her contracts for frture time, secured by M. S. Bentham. For a sp.ice of twelve weeks lately Miss Fay did not play. This was the period prescribed for her marriage to a naval officer. Nothing is known as to whether that took place. Oiarles Young, of Young and Dill, com- edy acrobats, while touring Mexico recent- ly, met with a serious accident. P<Mforin- ing at the Dehesa Theatre, Vera Cruz, a box of torpedo caps, used in the turn, e\- |»lo<led, and both his hands were l)adly torn. He was required to lay «)ir for some time. Thomas J. Qiii^iley, of the Francis, Day v'C Hunter forces, returned from Chicago tills week, leaving the Shenniin lfoll■^r' in tlic Western burjr bleak and drearv. Mr. (,)iiiLdey plays Keith's, IMiilMdclplila f'two- a day"), nest week, and will sitiLT his firm's sotiijs in a iniinher of other l'";«-lcrn houses. Altoona is coin[)leted by May 1 it will be immediately opened with the same style of entertainment as prevailed before the fire, but in the event of any further delay a stock company will be installed for the summer and vaudeville will not be presented there before next fall. Mrs. Charles W. Bennett, wife of the general numager of the Bennett Circuit of vaudeville theatres in Oinada, was operated upon Tuesday for a local af- fection caused by a bruise. The operation was performed successfully and the patient was recovering rapidly in her home in New York later this week. In Manchester, England, week Jan. 13, three American juggling acts were at as many dilTcrent local houses. By a curious coincidence all were in the same position —bottom of the bill, which is second in importance to the top. The acts were Herbert Lloyd (Palace), The Tossing Aus- tins (Huene Hippodrome), Charles Aldrich (Hippodrome). During the session of the Executive Council, American Federation of Labor, representations were made by the Actors' National Protective Union, again rai-sing the question of the affdiation agreement between the V. A. F. of England and the White Rats of America. The council in- structed its secretary to communicate with the British Trades Cotincil, with which the A. F. L. holds a fraternal agree- ment. If the rebuilt Keith vaudeville house in There is a Cerman comedian who has not often played in vaudeville, but who re- tains some slight respect for his fellow dialecticians in the variety field, even though he holds himself somewhat su- perior to them. Recently he had occasion to instruct one in the art of stagecraft. ^^ liile L'oing tlirou;:li the operation, the instructor observed to the scholar "You jto.ssess the natural concomitants indiyei.oiis to yonr soil." The vaude- villian re|)lied he had no idea he was that worthy, and commenced to practice the phrase, it xouiultMl .so wtdl. Some time afterwards, the same vaudeviliian was seated in a restaurant with another of his ilk, an<l the jjireat German comedian droppfd down at the table. 'jhe third mendter of the trio iu speakinj; of hi.s an- ticipations on the stage sai<l "I done." This called forth an (Milhurst from the cu!tuie(l citmedian, who dw(dt upon the iiii<|iiity of Krainmnlical errors in lln' (de- vat ion of one's station. The one who had called forth his wrath admit led that per- haps *'T did" woiild have sonnde(l more like c(dlege, Itut rxlded in extenuation his hasle in expressiig his ojiiiiion, and the usiiii' fault of this nalur(; found in actors when (i\T iiie >lage. iicqiiired through habit more than an\ thing (dse. '1 he explanation .'eciiud to appciM! the ;:re;it (Jerman comedian, and he loftily re?iiarked, "It's a I' right, old man. I see you nave a rier- fcrt iMidei^laridiiiL'. and you possess tho natural < oii(oniit;nit s indi^'enous to your soil.'' Willi a sli;:ht aiti>tic wave of the rlvhl. iirm as In- ( h.-cd the iM-ation. the ltcmI <;enii.iii cMiiH'li;!!! left the table, while t!ie (tt'ier ..f the vaudesjllians who li;i.| lucii r«dMM I -iiti; t!ie e\rression to *'^|>rii.'j"* it oi; hi- \;nide\i!!e neighbor at the llr-t oppoiliniily, fell oil' the chair in a, 'ah- (»f hr.L'ht"-*.