Variety (April 1908)

VARIETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published erery Satartaj by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building, 1402 Broadway, New York CHtj. • .,: \4o» J * . J. , Editor and Pro p r i etor . Entered as second-close matter Dece mb er 22, 1905, el the Poet Office at New YorM, N. T., under the act of Oongreee of March 8, 1879. ' CHICAGO OFFICE, Chicago Opera Boom Block (Phone, Main iSSO). FRAME. WnUOM, RepreeenUtire. i ■AM FBAECIBCO OFFICE, 1116 Van Eeae Are. (Room lit). W. ALFRED WTLSOM, RepreaenUtire. J BOSTON OFFICE, Colonial Bulldin*. • ERNEST L. WAITT, Representative. DENVER OFFICE, Crystal Thaatra Bnlldin», HARRY X. BEAUMONT, Representative. CINCINNATI OFFICE, Bell Block, 20 centa an ifttt 11m. 22.80 an inch. One pace, 1125; ■* HfcH p«ge. $65; one-quarter page, $32.50. Charge* for portraits furnished on application. Special rata by the month for profeaalonal card under beading "ReprcaentatlTe Artlata." A d « ut l atu g copy ahould be received by Thurs- day at boos to Insure publication In current Issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. A nD O Bl 1 « * • « • # * o o a a a no a e • a • o • • • O e • • • • O o o • • • o • a e W^ FOTt i fD «»«aaeaaeaaaaa«aaeoaao«00saaooooo«oasoo 9 Six and three months In proportion. Single copies ten easts. VARIETY will be mailed to S permanent sd areas or as par rocte ss 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- compsdled by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Copyright, 1907, by Variety Publishing Co. Vol. X. AP*t- 4. No. 4. Fredo and Dare have separated. John Neff and Carrie Starr have joined "The Brigadiers." May Tully will "lay off" next week, her first in two years. Hawthorne and Burt open on the Moss- Stoll tour in England July 13. Klein and Clifton have returned from their trip half-way around the world. The Wintergarten, Berlin, will close its season in June, re-opening August 17, next. Paul LeCroix has received thirty weeks of time next season over the Western cir- cuits. Dale Wilson will leave her present berth with Irwin's "Majesties" this week or next. l^awrance D'Orsay has no vaudeville en Kagements beyond this week at the Fifth Avenue. Rose and Ellis opened with "The Avenue Girls" at the Academy, Pittsburg, last week. Georgia Caine'a bate of reappearance has been placed forward until April 20 at Hammerstein's. Delmore and Lee have completed their Klaw & Erlanger contract. A foreign trip is in contemplation. Nellie Seymour and Nestor replaced Felix and Caire at the Novelty this week, illness causing the retirement of the latter act. i The William Morris office is now book- ing the Sunday night bills at the Circle, operated by Felix Isman and Gus Ed- wards. James Hunter, of Nessen, Hunter and Nessen, has retired from that organisa- tion and is now with the Juggling Johnsons, The Frank L. Gregory Troupe of hoop rollers have written from Europe to se- cure time over here, commencing in No- vember next. The Boston City Quartet have received offers for European time, but may go abroad with "The Happy Hooligan" com- pany instead. Billy Inman will manage O'Connor's Imperial Music Hall at Coney Island this summer. The season will open the latter part of April. Emil Hoch and Company played a new sketch last week at Bennett's, Ottawa, for the first time. It is "The Buffoon," by Louis Weslyn. Joe Whitehead will hit "The Alley" on April 20, when he joins "The Flower of the Ranch," which is expected to be on Broadway by that date. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Litchfield and daugh- ter, Abbie, have returned to their home in Newark, having finished a season in the lyceum and lecture field. Rae and Brosche have been engaged by Louis Pincus to open over the Western States time, commencing at the Empire, San Francisco, April 6. Laveen-Cross Company opens at Min- neapolis Monday (April 6) for the com mencement of a fifteen weeks' tour r»l the Sullivan-Considine circuit. The Auers while playing at Joplin, Mo., received contracts for Europe; also a no- tification that Mrs. Auer was heir to a considerable fortune in England. death left the hospital upon recovering from a serious illness. «■■■! «■**.. P. Alonzo, of the Poll Circuit, who has been confined to his apartment in New York by illness, had recovered sufficiently to leave his rooms on Wednesday. Ed. Kenton, the Poli Circuit general rep- resentative, is organizing stock companies to play the Poli houses at Springfield, Wa- terbury and Bridgeport early in May. Hermann the Great, together with Mrs. Hermann, sailed for Europe Wednesday. He will tour the Continent with a small company of American vaudeville acts, re- turning to this side in September. He has just finished a Klaw & Erlanger vaudeville contract over here. Robert H. Baker, the jumper, is suffer- ing from serious injuries, the result Of a slight fire in his home at Lynn, Mass. The doctors say he will be about in a week or The Harry E. Bonnell Co. has incor- porated for $10,000 to conduct and carry on a general booking and amusement bus- iness. Mr. Bonnell will manage the en- terprise. He is a well known local theat- rical newspaper man. The company Is located at 1416 Broadway. so. Lee Harrison has replaced William Gould as third vice-president of the Vaudeville Comedy Club. Henry P. Dixon is now one of the Club's Board of Direct- ors. La Sylphe, the dancer, now on the Or- pheum Circuit, has been placed for the Keith-Proctor time commencing June 1. The foreign girl is a Marinelli impor- tation. A new vaudeville theatre, the Grand, has recently been opened in Hamilton, O., under the management of John E. Mc- Carthy and J. Thomas Ward. The house has a seating capacity of 800. Three shows a day are given and the admission is fixed as 10 and 25 cents. Edward Ott will replace his brother William C. (who died last week) in the musical act, Klein, Ott Brothers and Nicholson. The^title will remain the same. More than $100,000 has been subscribed for the erection of a $175,000 opera house of Forth Worth, Texas. Phil W. Green- wall, of the Greenwall legitimate circuit, has signified his willingness to take the property on a long lease, but Its future has not yet been disposed of. Irene Young, of Weston and Young, is recovering from an operation performed last week, a wound caused by a former operation for appendicitis necessitating the surgeon's knife once more. The Bronx Lodge, B. P. O. E., has presented to Geo. B. Mallen and Harry Leonhardt respectively, a handsomely de- signed and engrossed testimonial for their efforts in promoting a most successful en- tertainment lately held by the Lodge. H. M. Jackson, the secretary, hi responsible for the artistic work. William Gould and Valeska Suratt left for Europe on Tuesday. Miss Suratt will go to Paris, Mr. Gould to London. Be- fore opening the London engagement they will play one week out of the city. George H. Primrose, the minstrel, will close his road tour for vaudeville, having a large act in readiness. He is expected to make a local appearance in May by M. S. Bentham, Mr. Primrose's agent. Mr. and Mrs. Edward James Flanagan, Jr., announce the birth of a ten and a half pound boy, Sunday, March 29. Mr. Flanagan is of the team of Cam- eron and Flanagan, and Mrs. Flanagan is known professionally as Charlotte Rav- en scroft. "The Memphis Students," with Bobby Kemp and Marion Ringgold, the colored singing act, will be revived for this sum- mer. An engagement is expected for Ham- merstein's Roof. Lykens & Levy have the number. After playing with his band in vaude- ville for the three weeks now booked Maurice Levi will return to the conduct- or's chair of "The Soul Kiss" if no other vaudeville time is accepted. The musi- cal organization has been engaged for Manhattan Beach from the opening of the season there until far into the summer. After being separated for -two years, Golden and Collins have again come to- gether as a team and are with "The Monte Carlo Girls" Burlesquers. Julian Eltinge, the mimic, has bought a summer place at Northport, L. I., where / he will impersonate an amateur farmer .• when he gets time. He opens at the Theatre Marigny, Paris, in mid-summer, to remain during August. Paul Phillips, brother of Adolph Phil- lips, the German actor, has the agency bee, and is said to be looking for a suite of offices to start operations. While playing at the Orpheum, Memphis, Tenn., Mignonette Kokin was robbed of valuable jewels and over $300 in cash. Her dressing room faced upon a courty^ar^l on the ground floor. She offered a reward of $400 for the return of her property. Frank Fogarty will play return en- gagements at the .Fifty-eighth Street house and Hammerstein's on April 13 and 20 respectively, returning to each within five weeks from the former appearance. Helen Trix has been secured time on the Moss-Stoll tour in England by Harry Leon- hardt. Miss Trix will open in London sometime durintf June. r Jack O'Brien, the pugilist, gave a mono- logue at Miner's Eighth Avenue Theatre last Sunday night, when the benefit for the Krueger Fund was held. One of Eph Thompson's elephants died in Philadelphia last week. Mr. Thomp- son had but shortly before the animal's The 0e*o. M. &>han-Sam H^-Harris-Pat Casey big benefit for the Kruger Memo- rial Fund will be held at the Academy of Music to-morrow (Sunday) evening. The seating capacity of the house has been practically disposed of, and a great show is on the bills.