Variety (May 1908)

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Annual ...s..... $4 Foreign ..••••.••••.••••••«.••••......•••«..••• 6 Six and three months In proportloa. Single eoplea ten ceota. VAltlBTY will be mailed to a permanent ad dresa or as par rocte as desired. ▼ABJETY may be bad abroad at INTERNATIONAL, NEWS OO.'B 0FFI0E8 Breams Building, Chancery Lane, LONDON. B. 0., ENGLAND. advertisements forwarded by mall moat be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing 00. Copyright, 1807. by Variety Publishing Co. Vol. X. MAY 2. No. 8. Leo Carrillo is now in Los Angeles for the summer. The Grand Opera House, Indianapolis, closes May 23. The Auditorium, Chicago, will remain open all summer. The Mohawk, Schenectady, N. Y., closes to-night (Saturday). Vinie Henshaw will soon come forward with a new monologue. O'Rourke and Marie have signed with Bob Manchester for next season. Abe Feinburg has been promoted to the post of secretary to Chris O. Brown. Potter and Harris open on the Sullivan- Considine Circuit June 1 at Winnipeg. • fid. Gray sails for London next week, opening for four weeks at the Oxford. Niblo and Spencer and May Walsh have signed with Weber A Rush for next sea- Harry Bryant's company closes for the season at the Gayety, Milwaukee, next week. A. £. Johnson, lately with the Orpheum Circuit, is now with The Pat Casey Agency. Joe Kane will return to vaudeville after the close of the Rogers Brothers, using a new act. Bush and Elliott have received contracts for the United summer vaudeville time in the East. The Miles Stavordale Quintet sailed from Vancouver, B. C, for Australia on April 24. Walter Williams, a colored usher at Hammerstein's for the past four years, died this week. The Wintergarten, Berlin, may not close for its Bummer vacation until about July 15, this year. Geo. Homans will place a new vocal number in vaudeville, to be called "The Zingari Singers." Home, Mayo and Jolliet, a travesty act, will open in New York on May 11. AI Sutherland is the agent. S. Z. Poli left Genoa, Italy, last Tues- day on a slow steamer for home. He is due in New York on May 9. Hurtig & Seamon will again run a vaudeville show at the Avenue Pier, Rock- away Beach, this summer. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams, accom- panied by Dave Montgomery, start on their trip around the world May 19. Willa Holt Wakefield, the pianologist, will play at the Colonial May 11, her first engagement in the Williams houses. The 58th Street Theatre will give up vaudeville for the season on May 10. Pic- tures commence the following day. Billie Burke is supplying the entire bill at the Empire, Paterson, next week, each number, seven in all, being his own act. The Orpheum, Atlanta, Ga., closes week May 11. It is the best railroad ride on the vaudeville circuits—for the railroads. Jules Hurtig and Harry Seamon will sail for London May 21. The journey will bo undertaken entirely as a pleasure trip. Wilmer A Vincent's theatres at Easton and Harrisburg close this week. Pictures may be installed, but it has not been yet decided. Proctor's, Albany, closes May 30. Proc- tor's, Troy, ends its season May 10. The Newark house remains open during the summer. Frank Stafford and Marie Stone, a couple new to the East, are playing in Baltimore- this week. Lykens A Levy managed it. The Elinore Sisters are rehearsing a new offering in "one" to be presented in June. , Kate Elinore. will appear as an Indian squaw. f Ethel Levey sails for France on May 20. Miss Levey will study voice culture in Paris, and anticipates remaining there for two years. Florence Quinn, Marie Obey, Lola Ren- aud and Hilda Seglinde will be the so- pranos of the enlarged Romany Opera Company for ne.vt -season. The Rooney Sisters open Monday, May 4, at the Alhambra, London, having post- poned the engagement for this month at the Wintergarten, Berlin. Rawsou and Clare have signed with Weber & Rush for next season. .That will be their third consecutive year with the firm. Both will be featured. In the opening bill on the Haminerstein Hoof, Horace Goldin, who will appear, will produce a new trick called "The Magic Circle," employing a taxicab. Alan Dale, the dramatic critic, sailed on Wednesday for his annual summer tour of Europe. His first slop will*be Rotter- dam. He will return about September 1. The New York Post Office delivered a letter addressed "General Manager, World's Greatest Vaudeville Circuit, St. James Building, New York," to Martin Beck. Zelie de Lussan sails for London next w week, where she will take up operatic engagements over there. Mile, de Lussan may reappear in vaudeville on this side next season. Keno and D'Arville have accepted con- tracts for twenty-five weeks on the West- ern time, opening on the Orpheum Circuit, having arranged to play their European engagements^ after that. Although the Alhambra in Harlem will remain open this summer the "roof gar- den" atop of it will be closed. The meagre* ness of the roof's capacity does not war- rant the experiment of last season being repeated. Harry Bruncllc. manager of the Ilariem Opera House, is said to be slated for the post of director at the Keith-Proctor 125th Street Theatre. The Opera House plays pictures, commencing Monday, for the summer. The Colonial closes the last week in June. Percy G. Williams has decided his Orpheum, Brooklyn, will play vaudeville all summer, for the first time. It will have as opposition th<* weather and Coney Island. tat^-ttj-atMSvtstSsas "The Rose De Haven Sextet" were the guests of Mrs. George De Haven at a party at the De Haven home, 2082 Broadway, Thursday night. It' was a .banquet given in honor of Mrs. De Haven's children, Car- ter and Rose. Charles .Daly and . Kittie O'Brien will "jump" from Spokane, Wash., to New York in time'.to catch the "Lusitania," sailing* on-. June 15, on which steamer the act will travel to England, opening at the Coliseum, London, June 29. Jenie Jacobs sails for London on May 13. Miss Jacobs, will remain abroad for a month or so. She has booked many American acts over- there and will submit a' large number of others to the foreign managers during'her visit. Eddie Leonard and the Gordon/Brothers sail to-day (Saturday). The act opens at the Coliseum, London, May 18. Mr. Leon- ard will return the latter part*of June to rehearse with the Cohan A Harris Min- strels, which will open around August 1. Irene Franklin (Franklin and Green) at the Alhambra this week, introduced a new "patter" song, the first to be sung in vaudeville. It is called "The Talkative Waitress'' and was written* by Miss Franklin. Burt Green composed the music. Victor Williams was attacked with laryngitis this week^ confining him at home. He was quite* seriously ilN on Thursday. If Victor does not improve be- fore the date set for his* father, Percy G., to leave (May 7), Mr. Williams may de- lay his departure. Charles W. Bennett returned to London, Canada, this week, where the headquar- ters of the Bennett Circuit are located. Bennett's, Montreal, will remain open the entire summer for vaudeville, it is expect- ed, the only one on the string to do so, the others playing stock or-opera. The dining hours for John J. Murdock have been changed. Mr. Murdock now de- vours his lunch at three o'clock in the afternoon and his dinner at eleven at night. Previously Mr. Murdock ate at 1:30 and midnight. He is in hopes that his two meals will soon catch each other, with a consequent saving of time. "The Ge'sha's Dream," which has been playing the vaudeville theatres of this country for a year or more, under the maangement of Jos. Hart, is now being hooked independently by its owner, O Hana San. The contract under which Mr. Hart \v;is hooking director expired recently. Poll's* Waterbury, ends its vaudeville season to-night (Saturday); Poli's, Bridgeport, does the same on May 9, Springfield, Worcester and Scranton fol- low on May 16, and Hartford has chosen May 23 for the finish. #Poli's. New Haven, stop depends upon the weather. In all of the Poli houses where vaudeville goes out. stock will go in. The offices of the William Morris Agency are being rearranged. The busi- ness portion will now be located alonjr the 40th Street side, while the booking mem- bers of the agency will have their rooms on the Broadway front. K. V. Rogers, the general manage! <»f The Morris Circuit, will occupy the extreme northern end of the suite as his private office.