Variety (July 1908)

10 VARIETY Ed S. Keller will remove to the St. James Building about August 1. Redpath's "Napaneea" are coming east to play the United time next season. The 4 Nelson Comiques will play the Orpheum Circuit commencing Dec. 27. Fred Singer, the musical act, opens at the Orpheum, San Francisco, July 12. Leo Masse has returned to his post as Berlin manager for the Marinelli agency. Bel long Bros., the cycle act, will reopen on this side Aug. 31, playing the United time. Harrington and Ward were to have sailed for England Wednesday of this week. Jenie Jacobs, the agentess, may sail from the other side about this time for home. Chas. Michel is no longer connected with the Marinelli office, having resigned early this week. Keith's, Cleveland, will re-open on Aug. 24 instead of Labor Day, as previously announced. TJ»e Four Holloways, a wire act, will be a United number next season. They have played here before. Eugene Carr will appear in "The Grafter." He was formerly the gambler In "Mane Covington." Laddie Cliff sails for his England home the first week in August. He is booked over there until 1013. Billy Spencer ("Grogan") and the Bijou Trio have signed with Watson's Bur- leequers for next season. Charles J. Stevenson, of the United Of- fices, is at his home in Mt. Vernon, 0., spending a short vacation. Geo. Richards, of Hoyt fame, will play "The Father and the Show Girl" under the wing of Frank Tannehill, Jr. Earle Reynolds and Nellie Donegan have been placed for the remainder of the sum- mer through the Casey Agency. Manning and Dixon are now playing "A Smash-up in Chinatown," the former vehicle of Matthews and Ashley. The Juggling Normans have been booked in the East until November, when they open on the Orpheum Circuit. Selma Braatz, the girl juggler, will re- turn to the States in the fall, opening in September, booked by H. H. Feiber. Gus Kleineke, former manager of "The Pianophlends," is now the musical di- rector of the new Garter De Haven act. C. E. Kohl, of Kohl & Castle, came to New York on Tuesday with his mother, from Montreal, to show her the city. Sophie Aoukinine, the violiniste, has been engaged for the road company play- ing "The Great White Way" next season. Mart Ward and Harry Sheppell, former- ly of the World's Comedy Four, have sigued with the "Al Reeves' Beauty Show." James H. Curtin, manager of the Lon- don Theatre, New York, is away on his vacation. He will return about August 1. Jack E. Magee, of Murphy and Magee is at St. Joseph's Hospital, Mt. Clemens, Mich., recovering from a serious operation. The Sisters Spray returned to England June 27. They had been over here for two years, and will come back in October next. Nat 8. Jerome, late star of "The Money Lender," has a comedy playlet by Charles Horwitz, entitled "The Matrimonial Can- didate." The Kaufmann Brothers have been booked over the United for the season commencing September 7 through Ed S. Keller. Jake Sternad leaves to-morrow (Sun- day) for a western trip. He will not re- turn to New York for two or three months. Gus Greening, manager of the Bennett Circuit house in Ottawa, was in New York this week on his annual pilgrimage to the metropolis. Goolman's Oat and Dog Circus will re- turn here in October, after playing a Con- tinental engagement. It goes over the United time. Edgar Allen has accepted "The Angry I*dy From Boston," by the late Kenneth Lee. Mr. Allen will play in the sketch next season. The Deonzo Brothers will open at Frankfort, Germany, August 15. They have engaged for several months on the other side. Lucy and Lucier have dissolved their partnership. Miss Lucy married Charles H. Ellsworth of the Tivoli Quartet on May 4, last. O Hana San has been engaged to open at the Olympia, Paris, when it opens September 1 under the management of H. B. Marinelli. S'earl Allen and Jack Burnett, the new- ly formed firm of vaudeville authors, will write the burlesque for Charles Falke'a "Fashion Plates." Dorothy Morton will play vaudeville commencing August 31. Four weeks from that date have boen booked for her by M. S. Bentham. LONDON NOTES VARIETY'S LONDON OFFICE. 411 WnAWD, W. 0. (Mall for Americana and Europeans In Europe If addreeeed care VARIETY, aa above, will be promptly forwarded.) Julian Rose and his wife (Frances Cam- eron) will leave for New York the last week in August. He has been offered time by Walter De Frece until 1010, which would mean three tours over the De Frece Circuit. Mr. Rose is now in the provinces at the Barassford houses. He will not play the Moss-Stoll Tour. Helen Trix has been received most cordially in her pianologue as "The Lady Fragson." Miss Trix opened at the Coli- seum, Monday. "The Futurity Winner" is receiving $1,100 at the Hippodrome. It is on for a run of twelve weeks. Jos. Hart and Mr. Stoll are figuring on "The Rain-Dears" to open over here Aug. 3. Hart wants $900 weekly. Stoll doesn't want to pay it. "The Winner" is booked two years ahead. Sam Mayo and Sidney Doody had a lit- tle fistic argument over "lifting" while they were at the Holborn Empire. It was about a song called "Pom Poms." Doody claimed to have purchased the rights. They were placed under arrest, and the Judge fined Mayo three guineas. The Curzon Sisters have never played over here before, notwithstanding the statement in Variety, May 30, that they had. The act scored immensely. The Maidstone Hippodrome burned down June 13. Some of the acts lost their property. Herbert La Martine, an American dancer, had just left. The house will be closed for the next two months during the repairs. Miss Vanagra, of the Helias, dancers, while rehearsing one day last week at Brussels, suddenly became insane. Three men were required to convey her to a hos- pital. She has been pronounced incur- able, and no hope for the ultimate recov- ery of her reason is held out. Fred Martell, an equilibrist and juggler, was arrested at the Burton Hippodrome on the charge by a protective society of cruelty to his daughter, fourteen years of age. The evidence was in effect that Mar- tell was teaching the girl to juggle three balls and turn somersaults. Martell was fined for failing to have a license, but the charge of cruelty was dismissed. "The Volcano" closed at the Hippodrome last Saturday. night. Next Monday Jos. Hart's "Futurity Winner" goes in there for a run. This act, it is said, has caused Oswald Stoll of the Moss-Stoll Tour to meet the salary demanded, reported at $1,200, a very big figure over here. Stoll was afraid he would lose it. No one knows yet what the next "Hip" sensation will be. Mark Twain's daughter, Clara Clemens, told a story while here of how an elderly English woman stopped her father on the street, mistaking him for Buffalo Bill. Charles Leonard Fletcher has accepted 40 weeks over the United time, commenc- ing September 14. He will postpone his second tour of the world to fulfill the en- gagements. Bijou Russell has returned from Eng- land, and will become a singing monologist over here once more. Lykens & Levy are directing the act. Jeanette Lowrie is playing as a "single act" at Proctor's, Newark, this week, where Zelma Rawlston is also appearing in a new sketch, supported by a company of three. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Kemp sailed on Wednesday to visit Mr. Kemp's mother at Brighton, England. They will return in about six weeks. Alexia left Hammerstein's Roof last Friday, and another act was substituted for Saturday, when the biggest house of the week congregated. The Millman Trio returned to New York last Monday after a two years' tour of Europe. They hold a Klaw & Erlanger contract for their appearance over here next season. "The Strolling Players" will have two new pieces next season and a revised cast. The piece will probably open at the Dewey, August 24. Daisy Leon and Laura Green dissolved partnership after a vaudeville existence of one week at Atlantic City. Miss Leon says she will essay a single character change singing act. Poli's Hartford will get under way the first of the Poli lot, commencing Au- gust 31. The other Polis will start Sep- tember 7 with vaudeville. * The Bonesetti Troupe, headed by Alfred Glinseretti, which claims to be the orig- inal act, wants to come over here next season. J. C. Matthews has the arrange- ments in hand. No vaudeville agent can secure space in the fit. James Building, it is said, without the approval of E. F. Albee, the general manager of the United. Sam Dessauer, the hustling "advance," has a twenty-four sheet on the board at the corner of Broadway and Forty-second Street. It reads "Coming Soon. The Behman Show." William Court who impersonates Harry Lauder, under the management of Frank Tannehill, Jr., has been booked for the season by the United, commencing Sept. 7. "Wine, Women and Song" opens August 17 in Trenton, N. J. "Morning, Noon and Night," Mortimer M. Thiese's other popu- lar-priced musical piece, will open in Bos- ton on Labor Day.