Variety (July 1908)

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It was said at the United Offices this week that the 58th Street house would open with vaudeville on Labor Day. Re- ports were out that the theatre would play pictures next season. May Tully produced without taking part "The Sound of the Gong," a new sketch written by her, at the Herald Square last Sunday night. Miss Tully may appear as a monologist the coming season. The benefit for the Mothers Rest at the Herald Square last Sunday night netted $2,000. 'Tad/' the cartoonist of the "American," made his first stage appear- ance. The Four Poncherries, a European act new to this country, will be among the circus attractions at the Hippodrome, New York, when the big amusement place opens. They were booked by the Mari- nelli office. One Theodore Roosevelt will be at lib- erty after March 4 next, and although this has been common talk for several days, nobody seems to have offered him anything. We used to have really enter- prising agents. Frank Damsell, who has been-eultivat- ing a canteloupe farm in lower (Cali- fornia, has signed with Pete Clark's "Runaway Girls" for next season. Since Mr. Damsell played New York last he has been married. John C. Rice and Sally Cohen will rest Until October (before again taking up tjieir vaudeville bookings. They have just closed a season of 43 weeks and are located at Stannard Beach, West Brook, Conn., for the summer. Rock and Fulton, with their manager, O. L. Waterbury, are in London. The act opens July 6 at the Palace for two weeks. They are due at Hammerstein's August 3 for a run of two weeks, with an option for two more. The actions brought by the White Rats on behalf of the Chad wick Trio and Ad- amini and Taylor against Manager Frank A. Keeney have been settled by Mr. Keeney. The Adamini and Taylor case did not reach the courts. Leo Cooper, of San Francisco, is in the city awaiting an opening which will be procured by Wesley & Pincus. Mr. Cooper has a new sketch called "The Price of Power." He played in the Alcazar Stock, Frisco, for some time. Wilbur Mack and Company presented "The Girl and the Pearl" at the Orpheum, Salt Lake City, while playing a return date. It is in "one," with special effects and two "drops." The act will remain on the Orpheum time until Aug. 30. Eddie Leonard has returned from Eu- rope, where he scored a big hit, to take up his part in the Cohan & Harris Min- strels. Mr. Leonard has been engaged to appear at the Tivoli, London, next spring, for a run of ten weeks. Gus Edwards' . musical production "School Days" will shortly be placed in rehearsal. Herman Timberg will be fea- tured in it. The youthful comedian's contract to Edwards says three years, with a further option on his services. That he did book $45,000 worth of acts one day last week M. S. Bentham is anxious to verify by documentary proof. Bentham has been "kidded" about it since the item appeared in Variety. He's an agent, is Bentham, and he has a yacht. Emma Francis will return to open at Baltimore, Sept. 7. Miss Francis has been playing the Folies Marigny, Paris, where she was engaged for two months. Offers for further time all over Europe were declined to fulfill the American con-, tracts. Charles W. Coleman, a former car man- ager for the Frank A. Robbins Circus, has been selected by Harry Jacobs as man- ager for his house, the Corinthian in Rochester, N. Y., playing Eastern Bur- lesque Wheel shows. Ed Salter was for- merly manager. In Joe Adams' restaurant on 44th Street, there is a bill of "A New York Girl" hanging on the walls. It reads "Under the management of Joe Adams and Joe Howard." "A New York Girl" played the burlesque theatres about twelve years ago. There is a story about an act recently going over to London where the head of it informed the members they would be charged board en route on the boat, al- though they were under no salary during the voyage. The board was deducted from future salary. An American will replace the late John Livingston with the Camelle Trio. Dr. E. B. Kellogg, who performed the operation for an abscess on the brain from which Livingston died, has rendered a bill to the estate of $2,155. It will probably be contested. Franklin and Green will open their sea- son the third week in September. Irene Franklin (Mrs. Green) will make six changes of costumes hereafter, four on the stage. Burt Green will introduce two "classy" piano selections. They are sum- mering at the Hotel Majestic, Sea Gate. Charles Falke has engaged for his new Empire Circuifshow "The Fashion Plates" Mike McDonald, Meyer Harris, last seen in a vaudeville act called "A Touch of East Side Life"; Canfield and Stone, Phil- lips "Sisters, Three Lyres, Kachin Hashi- ami, Rose Carlin and Charley Falke him- self. Carter De Haven has been elected a di- rector of the Ed S. Keller Vaudeville and Producing Company, in which he now has a financial interest. One of the concern's first promoting efforts will have to do with placing Flora Parker (Mrs. Carter De Haven) as a feature in a new vaudeville number. Juno Salmo, the contortionist, left New York for Seattle, accompanied by his wife and seven days old baby. Salmo is l>ooked to play the Sullivan-Considine Circuit. He will also visit his mother in the West, who he has not seen for four- teen years. Snlmo is a native of Los Angeles. Geo. W. Day, Techow's Cats, Powell, the magician, nnd Nagle. and Adams open on the Western States time at Spokane to-morrow (Sunday). The Cats arrived in New York from Berlin Tuesday morn- ing. The same afternoon the act was shipiM'd West to make the Spokane engage- ment on time. Dan Sherman and Mabel De Forrest hold their annual jubilee today (Satur- day) at the farm iu Centra! Park, Long Island. It is a display of fireworks, barn dance and vaudeville. Next to a circus which never plays Central Park, the De Forrest-Sherman affair is the big event of the year for the village. Gus Edwards' "School Boys and Girls" drove up and down Broadway in an auto- mobile Monday advertising the benefit given by iMlr. Edwards at the Bijou oh Tuesday, for the poor children of the city. Monday night a Broadway lounger or loafer asked "Sassy Little" (in the act) an impertinent question, and Sassy slapped him, and slapped him good. Fred Niblo was billed and programmed to appear at the 125th Street theatre this week, without his knowledge. Mr. Niblo sailed for Europe on Wednesday. One local paper which has a fixed habit of criticising acts mistakenly programmed, went so far in its review of the 125th Street bill as to credit Mr. Niblo with say- ing something to the audience. Lea Jundts are playing at Olympic Park, Newark, N. J., thie«re*kv Qn Mon- day at noon they handed their baggage checks to the "expressman/* who returned' at 6 P. M., stating he had first gone home to "fertilize the ground and do other chores around the place." Even Wilbur Miller, the manager, had to laugh. George Thatcher, the veteran minstrel player, returned from the mountains this week, summoned back from a trout fishing expedition by the call for rehearsals with the George Evans Honey Boy Minstrels. Mr. Thatcher was far from pleased by the summons. He had run his string of trout up to 200, and wanted to make it 250. The theatrical colony at Bradley Beach, N. J., is assuming large proportions, al- though it is a staid and solemn neigh- borhood, where even Lawyer William Grossman can only offer his guests liquid refreshments by telling them where the bottle is, and then letting them steal it. The latest addition is Miss Bowers, a niece of Fred Bowers. Mr. Grossman's family have become regulars of long standing. Felix Isman, one of the promoters of opposition vaudeville, will have William Faversham as one of his legitimate stars next season. The actor is now in Sur- rey, England. He will open September 21 in a new play by Charles Frederick Nirdlinger, called "The World and His Wife." During the season Faversham will also play in "Hie Code of Victor Jallot" and "The Right to Lie." Eva Tanguay and James J. Corbett will be joint features of the bill at the Brigh- ton Beach Music Hall week July 13. Chil- dren under twelve are now admitted to matinees at ten eents. It is Manager Dave Robinson's hope to build up the afternoon patronage through this, and the beginning augurs well. Some youngsters require two or three adults to look after them while viewing a performance, and the older people pay full price freely, sat- isfied with the bargain they !i<ve secured for the "kid."