Variety (September 1908)

VARIETY Akiety A Variety Paper for Variety People. PnbUibtd erery Saturday by ( THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building. 1409 Broadway, New Tork City. Telep*»e{^].88th Bt. Editor and Proprietor. Entered a$ eeoond-cUtee matter December 22, 1900, at the Poet Office at New York, N. T., under the act of Oongreee of March 8, 1879. CHICAGO 0FT10S, 7M Onion* o Opera Hoaae Blook, (Phone, Main MM). PBABK WIBIBIBO, BnprstantattT*. LOBDOV OPPIOB, alt Strand (Boom a). JE88B J. FBKBUdB, la oharffe. BAB PBAVOZBCO OPPIOB, 1115 Van Beaa Ave. (Boom 111). W. ALPBBB WIL80B, BopreaeatatlTa. DBMYBB OPPIOB, 17M Oortia Street, OHA8. P. LOVSOBEB, BopreaeatatiTe. PITTSBTTRG OPPIOB, 40ft Bohmldt Building, L. BIBO, BepreaentatlTe. C1BU1BBATI OPPIOB, BeU Blook, BepreaentatiTe. ST. LOUIS OPPIOB, ajg Oommeroial Bnildinf, BICHABB SPAMBB, BepreaentatiTe. LOUISVILLE OPPIOB, •Oft Columbia Bnildinf, W. L. YABBBBBUBOH, BopreaanUtlTe. PABIS OPPIOB, •ft Bin, Ban Saint Didlar, EDWARD O. KBBDBBW, BopreaeatatiTe. BBBXIB OPPIOB, Untor den Linden ftl, BIESBL'S UBBABT. hLV-: n'*¥>•* r-CTr-n* 20 cent* an afate line, $2.80 an inch. One page, 9125; one-half page, SOS; one-quarter page, •82.80. Chargea for portraita furnished on application. Special rate by the month for professional card under heading "BepreaentatiTe Artiata." AdTortUlng copy ehonld be recelTed by Thnra- day at noon to lnanre pabllcatlon in current leaoe. 89 SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Annual 9* Foreign 0 Six and three months In proportion. Single copies-ten cents. VARIETY, frill be milled to a permanent ad- dress or ss per route, ss desired. AdTortlsements forwarded by mall most be sc- compsnled by remittance, made payable to Variety Publishing Co. Copyright, 1808, by Variety Publishing Co. Vol. XI. SEPT. 8. No. 13. Mclntyre and McAvoy have dissolved. Jack Lewis has joined Williams' 'Ideals." The Broadway, Camden, opens Monday. Jack Julian is no longer with the 3 Julians. Phillips and Farlardeau have become reconciled. Fritz Ryan Houston is with "Redpath's Napanees." Barney First opens at Pantages', Spo- kane, Sept. 6. Lily Lena is now under the direction of II. II. Feiber and W. Newhouse. Hurtig & 8eamon's Arcade, Dayton, open* Labor Day. Willie Eckstein, the boy pianist, will play about thia fall. Tom Nawn is coming back from Europe to open here Oct. 5. Freeman Bernstein has opened an agency in the Holland Building. The father of Netta Vesta died last week in Springfield, Mass. Harry Whitlock is connected with the Independent Booking Office. Mabel Hit* and Mike Donlin will open at Proctor's, Albany, Oct. 12. Al Sutherland has booked Levelle and Sinclair over the Western route. Ross and Fenton were placed on the Morris time by Myers & Leavitt. Bessie Wynn substituted for Elfie Fay at Proctor's, Newark, this week. Leo Dietrichstein and his company will appear at the Colonial Sept. 14. Felix and Barry—4 in the new act— will open at Allentown Nov. 30. Matthews and Ashley open their United season Monday at the Alhambra. Geo. Fuller Golden will arrive in New York the latter end of next week. The Empire, Pittsfield, MasB., booked by Reich & Plunkett, opens Sept. 7. Frank Bush has signed for fifteen weeks of summer park time next summer. Carlotta, the bicyclist, opens her United season at Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 14. Edward S. Keller has procured forty weeks for Hoey and Lee through the United. The Quaker City Quartet was booked over the Independent Booking Office time this week. John W. Considine, of the Sullivan-Con- sidine Circuit, is looked for in New York next week. Evans and Ten Brook are a newly or- ganized act under the direction of Reich & Plunkett. Robert L. (Bob) Dailey may return to vaudeville in his former piece, "Fun on a Trolley Car." J. J. Hayes, winner of the Marathon race in London, will open at a Keith-Proctor house next week. Davey and Emerson, a western act, will make their first New York appearance this season in a musical offering. Charles Wilahin and Sadie Folly have set their wedding day for February 17 next at Vienna Hall. Cooke and Sylvia open to-morrow (Sunday) on the Western time, placed by Pat Casey. Dr. F. Schill, Jr., has been appointed Medical Officer for the White Rates at Johnstown, Pa. "The Casuals" and "l/uidun Supcrlm" are two acts the Karno Comedy Company may present over here this season, having come prepared to do so. Bert Weston opens in Ashland next Monday in his new "girl" act produced un- der the direction of Maurice Boom. The Bogannys, with the original Joe, open on the Morris Circuit Sept. 14. It is a foreign acrobatic act. Thos. E. Shea opened at Cook's Opera House, Rochester, this week. His New York date is the Colonial, Oct. 5. The Hengler Sisters will be starred in a musical comedy this season entitled "lue Twin Detectives." Maggie Cliue acquired a violeut dislike to her billing at the 125th Street this week. Hence Stella Mayhew is on the bill. Mayme Remington's "Millionaire Min- strels," a new act, opened at Hathaway's, New Bedford, this week. Sharp Brothers and their Six "Dusky Belles" have been routed for 40 weeks of United time through Edward S. Keller. Geo. Primrose has twenty weeks booked in vaudeville this season by M. S. Ben- tham. More is to follow. Al Weston and Irene Young received contracts for twenty weeks over the Mor- ris Circuit, booked by Myers & Leavitt. At the Colonial this week a portrait of Charles Prince is with "Stubborn Cin- Tony Pastor stands in the lobby on an derella" in Chicago. He expects to remain easel, draped in mourning. there for two years in the same show. Helen Royton, late of "The Girl Ques- Jos. Adelman's Musical Ensemble ar- tion," will play vaudeville in the character rived in New York on Monday and opens she essayed in the piece. at Keith's, Philadelphia, on Labor Day. Charles Dorval, a foreign illusionist, gave a "trial show" at the Manhattan Theatre Thursday morning at 9:30. Thomas Carroll, of Carroll and Baker, was married on August 18 to Dena Schu- man, of Manchester, N. H. M. S. Bentham this week placed Guyer and Crispi to reappear at the 5th Avenue Sept. 28. The act is at present in Paris. Margaret Wycherly, who appeared in a protean act in vaudeville last season, will come forth in a play called "Her Other Self." B. A. Rolfe's next production will be "The Union Station," a comedy number. It will be shown in October. Joe Weber has placed Blanche Ring under contract for five years. Miss Ring will be starred in a new play. Phyllis Lee has replaced Ella Snyder in "Commencement Days." The musical piece is at the Garrick, Washington, this week. Billy Gaston and Ethel Green will put on a new act in Memphis Sept. 14, under the title of "Billy and Betty." "That" Quartet will be held over for the second week at Hammerstein's. The act will also play at the Alhambra next week. Maurice Levi and his Band will not play Manhattan Ecr.ch next week, due to the hotel there closing Sept. 8. The father and mother of Franklyn Wal- lace, the singer, have died since the family last heard of or from Franklyn. Adeline Francis plays a return engage* ment at Luna Park, Washington, next week, that being the close of the season there. Ralph Johnstone's new bicycle sketch, "The College Inn," opens on Sept. 14 at the Bijou, Bayonne, N. J., placed by Edward S. Keller. The Phillipi Brothers, hand balancers, make their first American appearance Sept. 7 at Keith's, Philadelphia. Marion Bent (Mrs. Pat Rooney) will soon retire from the act for a spell when Pat will continue alone until Miss Bent returns. Carl George and Lillian Board man, of "The Girl Question," will prepare a vaude- ville number in which they will appear together. W. C. Fields, the juggler, will return from abroad, and be in readiness to open over here Nov. 23. M. S. Bentham is on the job. Thursday evening Ed. Blondell felt like smoking. He inquired of Willie Hammer- stein as to his chances. Mr. Hammerstein had no cigars with him which he thought would fit Mr. Blondell, but hied to the nearest cigar store, purchasing the best two-for-five in the establishment. Blondell smoked it. having seen Mr. Hammerstein place the other in hit) mouth. Illonddl still claims it was a good ci^.ir, hut he is causing a wide-spread suspicion regarding the brand he previous'y used. That boy Bentham is on the job ngnln with a little salve about Emma Francis. Now, Miss Francis has booked ahead un- til Feb. 1, and will fill the other three months until June, obliging the further postponement of her American time until next season. Miss Francis is the kind of act the agents like. She is hooking her- self abroad and l'<-nth;iui pulls down the regular five rij/M :i'«»ng. It's like spend- ing a vacation fi<r :m agent.