Variety (June 1908)

VARIETY AniETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. U Published CT«fy Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Bvlldlnf, 1401 Broadway. New York City. Telephone-T *??\ 88th It. J. Editor and Entered ae eeoond-elaee matter December 22, 1005, a* the Poet Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Congreee of March 8, 1870. CHICAGO OITZOX, Chicago Opera Hoese Block (Thorn; Mala USO). FRAHK WnUEBO, mepreeeatatrre. LOMDOV OFTIOE, 418 Strand (Boom I). JE88Z J. FBESMAV, in oharfo. BAH nLAJrCIBOO 01TI0X, 1111 Tan Vcaa Ave. (Boom lit). W. ALFBSD WILiOB, BepreeentatiTe. DBJIVBB OJTXOS, Cryatal Theatre Buildla*, KABBT X, BBAVMOBT, BepreaenUtiTe. 4J1BU1BBATZ OITICB BeU Block, 8T. LOUI1 omcx. 8M Oommerclal Building, BICKABD 8PAMBB, Bc pr mentotiTe. LOTJIBTIIXB OITICB, 104 Colombia Building, W. L. YABDBBBVBOK, BepreeentatiTe. PABI1 OITICB, #6 Bis, Bao feint Didlor. EDWABD O. KXBDBBW, BepreeentatiTe. UW OITICB, Voter don Linden 81. BISSBL'S BVBBAV, ADTSBTOBIIBBTB, 20 cent* an agate line, $3.80 an Inch. One page, $125; one-half page, $66; one-quarter page, $82.50. Chargee for portralte fnrnlahed on application. Special rate by the month for profeeatonal card under heading "RepreeentatlTO Artists." AdTcrtlalng copy ahoold be recelTod by Than- day at noon to lnaore publication In current laaue. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Annual $4 Foreign 5 Six and three months In proportion. Single copies ten cents. VARIETY will be mailed to a permanent ad- dress or aa per route as desired. AdTertlsements forwarded by mall mast be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Copyright, 1008. by Variety Publishing Co. Vol. XI. JUNE 13. No. 1. Howard and Howard sailed for London Wednesday. AI Lubin will manage Miner's "Bo- hemians" next season. Ed Latell has brought suit under a Klaw & Erlanger contract he held. W. L. Abingdon and Bijou Fernandez will remain in vaudeville over next sea- Ron. Jrfke Wells, who came to N*»w York to attend the managers' meeting on Tuesday, is ill at the Hotel Albany. "Atra," the sensational shooting act, will play Perth Am boy next week. Louis Pincus, of the Casey Agency, manages it. The stock burlesque season at the Standard, St. Louis, under the direction of W. B. Watson, has been extended for Farm on his Roof. All the suspicions are two weeks. directed against the pony* up there. Sam Brooks And Rose Jeanettc have named their new act for next season "The Girl of Fads and the Man of Follies." A neat little booklet just issued by Wolff, Fording & Co., costumers, of Boston, con- tains many bright ideas for stage dressing, and is well worth study. Jos. K. Watson and Toma Hanlon will present their new sketcn, "Nearly a Man- ager," at Paxtang Park, Harrisburg, on Monday, for the first time. Competition certainly does start things. The Bijou and Manhattan theatres are opposing each other with moving pictures. Last week Dolly Woods minded the candy stand at the Manhattan; this week Dolly is the star singer at the Bijou. Hilda Carle with her "Red Ravens" has received vaudeville bookings through the Sutherland office, and will open at Balti- more October 5. Hawthorne and Burt sail for London to-day. In addition to the time in the English capital, they will tour in Paris, Switzerland and Germany. Herman Descow, the present secretary of the White Rats, will enter vaudeville upon his retirement from the office. W. W. Waters is in nomination for it. Mr. Descow will play a sketch written by him- self, named "Decoration Day," assisted by Lila Best. The Okabe Troupe of Japanese acrobats, will return from Europe in time to open at Keith's, Philadelphia, on September 7. Al Sutherland has a full season's time for the act. Artie Hall has signed for "Morning, Noon and Night," the new show which Mortimer M. Thiese will pilot over the r?tair & Havlin time next season. Charles Jefferson, son of the late Joseph Jefferson, is at St. Luke's Hospital, New York. He is not expected to live. Mr. Jefferson is about 55 years of age. Little Maudie and Nellie Dunedin, grandchildren of the well known Aus- tralian sport, James E. Donegan, and the youngest of the Dunedin family of bi- cyclists, made their stage debut at Denver. They will be known as 'The Dunedin Twin Sisters." ' Billie Reeves, the former "Drunk" of the Karno Comedy Company, has had his engagement under F. Ziegfeld, Jr., in "The Follies of 1908" extended thirty weeks fol- lowing the New York Roof engagement, making forty-three weeks in all. Mr. Reeves has contracted for with the pro- duction. The counting of the ballots for the White Rats nominees has been postponed one week, until June 23, to afford all absent members an opportunity to for- ward their votes. The following have signed for H. S. Woodhull's "Lid Lifters" for next season: Archie McCann (musical director), Alice Lee, Dolly Rogers, Dottie Gibson, Bessi Itaker, Ethel Norton, Mae Osborn, Nelfie Lawlor, Anna Foster and "Ziamoa" (Margie Webster). Wesley ft Pincus, the agents, are play- ing the show at the Brighton Beach Music Hall this week on percentage with its manager, D. L. Robinson. Mr. Robinson commences his own season on Monday, sley ft Pincus may wind up the Brigh- ton season week of May 7 under a simi- lar arrangement. Bob Millard, of the Millard Brothers, bicyclists, injured himself at Henderson's The Tennis Trio open in July at Salt Lake City for a tour of the Orpneum CSr- NOTICE! VARIETY has opened a LONDON OFFICE at 418 Strand, W. C, which you are welcomed to make your headquarters while abroad. Among contracts for all of next season received by Wills Holt Wakefield, the pianologist, from the United Offices, one calls for her opening appearance at Ham- merstein's on September 14, with no stop west of Detroit. During the time, Miss Wakefield wHl spend fourteen weeks play- ing In New York City. and the act was obliged to cancel its second week there. They open at Shea's. Putfalo, Monday. "Onaip," the illusion, did not open at the Alhainbra Monday. The heavy setting of the act prevented a proper adjustment of the program. The Exposition Four filled in the vacancy. cuit. They have 30 weeks contracted for. The Four Nelson Comiques will play that time likewise, opening Christmas week in Des Moines. Both are handled by Lykens ft Levy. There is a new face about the Casey Agency. The office staff was increased this week by the presence of Timothy O'Don- nell. O'Donnell was formerly desk clerk— ut the Hotel Saranac and is known to a host of artists. The season just passed he was an agent with "Little Johnny Jones" for Cohan & Harris. Theo. Fourcher, a partner of Fred St. Onge for the past eight years, has retired from the stage, settling at Los Angeles in a commercial line. Mr. St. Onge has a new cycle act with two boys. William Rock and Maude Fulton have signed to appear for two weeks only in London, playing at the Palace there weeks Julv 6-13. The act is booked for ijam- mcrstein's Roof, commencing August 3. They will not prolong their stay abroad under any circumstances. Keith's, Portland, Me., closes to-day (Saturday) its vaudeville season. On July 4, stock will be installed, although it has been stated the house would re- main closed throughout the summer. Cora Livingston, the female wrestler, who appeared at Hammerstein's and on Broadway for the first time last Monday, has had her engagement on the Roof ex- tended six weeks. William Hammcrstoin procured an option upon Miss Livingston's further services when this week's contract was signed. The Victory, San Francisco, formerly playing vaudeville, is "dark" and to lease for balls or entertainments. The Grau- mans of San Francisoo and the Empire Theatre interests got together on the proposition to close the Victory. E. Ed. Ackerman of the Western States Vaude- ville Association has the rental privilege of the darkened house. "Wine, Woman and Song" closed at the Great Northern, Chicago, Saturday, after playing 45 weeks. One week was lost through litigation over the Lyceum, Buf- falo, where they were booked. Seeley, formerly of Seeley and West is now working abroad with his wife. The team is playing as Seeley and Rhodesia. West was obliged to leave the stage tem- porarily through illness in his family. Watch the birth notices in the papers closely for the next few days. There is going to be an addition to Hammerstein's Mr. and Mrs. Edward II. Kemp are at Yellowstone Park, where, supplied by a special permit and guides, they are taking views for "Tales of the Wild" next season. Tourists at this season of the year are not permitted in the Park. Many of the trails are yet snow covered. Following the closing for the season of Clarence Wilbur a^d his "Ten Funny Folks," the O'Connor Sisters (all six of 'em) have returned to their father's farm in Mimico, Ont. (Canada). The girls were born and grew up on the farm and annually return there for tlw vacation season. The comedy act recently imported and known as "Casey's Court" has been reor- ganized. It played at Inmnn's Casino, Coney Island, last week for the first of a month's engagement. Tom Miner is hand- ling the Dumber, and will use it next season :is part of Miner's "Bohemians." Six of I lie original boys are still in the act, and it carries a dozen girls in addition. Harry Leonhardt, the newly made per- sonally conducted manager, having his own charge of the Doric, Yonkers, will leave for a vacation of a month on June 20, going to Lake Luzerne in the Adiron- dacks. On Tuesday of this week Mr. Leonhardt commenced his era of popular- ity in Yonkers by transporting one hun- dred orphans of the suburban town to Coney Island. That has put him in right before the house opens, an event to occur on T^abor Day.