Variety (September 1908)

10 VARIETY Pauline Hall has been booked for ten weeks over tli* U lited time by Alf T. Wilton. Miss Hall open at Dayton, O., Sept. 21. Can ft eld and Carleton will produce a new act toward the latter end of the season. Until then they will play "The Hoodoo." Fatima Miris, the Italian girl who makes the quick changes, will open at the Lin* coin Square, New York, instead of the American. Eddie O'Neill is again behind the win- dow at the Colonial. Mr. O'Neill is as strong in that neighborhood as a politi- cal leader. The Five Juggling Jordans sail for Europe next April. The act has been booked on the United for two years by Pat Casey. Sing Fong Lee, the Chinese violinist, ar- rived in New York this week. Alf. T. Wilton will secure the Oriental musician an opening. Five members of the Florenz Troupe have been booked for Proctor's, Newark, next week by Edward S. Keller. The former act has divided. The Seven Samois have been placed by Jos. Shea as a special attraction with the Eastern Burlesque Wheel for twelve weeks. William Courtleigh and "Peaches" are flirting with the Morris office. It looks as though both would be Morris' features the coming season. Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Connolly in "Sweethearts" open on the Orpheum time at Portland Sept. 23. It is a Western act, never East Murray Bennett will be the new mem- ber of Brown, Harris and Brown this sea- son. The act opens at Dockstadert, Wil- mington, Oct. 6. Alice French, who impersonates Anna Held in "The Parisian Widows," will be married next spring to Sam Burns, of the same company. Tony Castcllanc and Brother the cy- clists, open in Berlin on January 15, 1900. The act plays at Henderson's, Coney Island, next week. Lester and Miller are out of the Fifth Avenue show this week, their date having been set forward. Avery and Hart are in the vacant place. William Redmond of "That" Quartet has a quartet of his own now. A girl baby was added to his family this week. The other three are boys. There is some doubt left in the mana- gerial minds regarding the drawing pow- ers of "Salome" since last Sunday. At the Fifth Avenue where La Sylphe is the "Salome," the Sunday night show with- out the dance had the biggest house of the week. At Hammerstein's nearly a like condition of attendance prevailed. Richards and G rover, a Western comedy singing and piano act, make their first Eastern appearance at the Orpheum, Brooklyn, next week. Grace Leonard, the male impersonator, will present a new act next April, hav- ing five impersonations with an appro- priate change for each. Jack Allen is now connected with the new vaudeville agency of Weber and Allen. Mr. Allen is a brother of Edgar Allen, a member of the firm. Great Carroll and Gloie Eller close with the "Fay Foster" company this week and join Joe Oppenheimer's stock burlesque company at Davenport, la. Edgar Bixley has an offer from the Morris Circuit to play his former piece, including two people with himself. Mr. Bixley will probably accept. Ren Shields returned to the city this week with so much reflection of the sun on his face he was accused of exposing the mysteries of make-up in public. Tom W. Ryley's production "The Sub- marine," with six principals and 25 "supers" will be first shown at the Colonial Nov. 0, placed by Bentham. "The Yankee Doodle Girls," with The Marvelous Leonard in Houdini's act as the feature, broke the record at the Empire, Newark, for the Monday night show. The Bijou, Fall River, will play pic- tures and vaudeville commencing Sept. 17, under the management of E. L. Perry, formerly of "Wonderland" Park, Boston. Charles Case, "The Man Wno Talks About His Father," received an offer from William Morris on Monday last of twelve weeks on the Morris time at $400 weekly. Hallen and Hayes start ou their Orpheum Circuit trip at Des Moines tomorrow (Sun- day) having "leped" from Glasgow, Scot- land, arriving in New York on Tuesday last. The De Koven-Stange operetta, to be pro- duced by the Orpheum Circuit under the direction of Charles Feleky, will be first presented on October 5. It is yet unnamed. The Four Sisters Amatis in songs and dances, with two concert grand pianos in use also, open on the Western time Dec. 13 at St. Louis. The girls are foreigners. Kelly and Barrett, in "The Battle of Too Soon," will first play as the new team in the former Gallagcr and Barrett sketch on Sept. 7 at Lowell. That Bentham again. Phil Isaacs, last season manager of "The Dainty Dutchess" is in charge of the Casino, Memphis, Tenn., playing musical stock. Memphis terms him "The Boy Manager." "Atra, the Invulnerable" sails on Oct. 10 to open at the Coliseum, London. With the act will go John DeLoris, the sharp- shooter. Atra will play in the West be- fore leaving. Amy Anderson and Co., making their first local appearance at the Colonial this week is an English act, one of the last of the Klaw & Erlanger contracts" to be played out by the United. Florence Gale and Co. in "The Girl Who Dared," play the Fifth Avenue for a week commencing Labor Day. Miss Gale's United time has been nearly filled for the season by M. S. Bentham. Grace Cameron will not appear in the opening bill at the Lincoln Square for to-night and next week. Emma Cams has been booked instead. Miss Cameron plays the house in two weeks. "The Mummy and the Undergrad" is the title of a sketch which Frank Sher- lock and Jean Van Dalle, an English team, will present over here under con- tracts obtained by M. S. Bentham. Renee Dyrie, a European dancer, who came over here recently to put on a vaudeville act, has been engaged by Charles B. Dillingham for Fritizi Scheff's new musical comedy, "The Prima Donna." Henry Vogel and Company, in the Or- pheum Circuit production, "Hans, the Cob- bler," will reappear with a new cast at the Bijou, New Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 14. The piece played at Perth Amboy during July. Ha Miller, who has been known for the past two seasons as Shirley R. Claire, is seriously ill at Little Rock, Ark., where her father died on August 12 as the result of injuries received in a railroad wreck. Charles Barnold, the animal trainer, has secured a plot of ground at Edgewater, X. J., just opposite 130th Street, for his training farm. The plot is 250x35. Bar- nold's Dogs opens its Morris season Sept. 14 at Yonkers. The rehearsals for "The Bonnie Belles of Scotland," in which Alice Lloyd will star next season, accompanied by the Mc- Naughtons, commence Sept. 21. Miss Lloyd and the McNaughtons leave the other side on Sept. 10. Florence Bernett, a chorus girl with Barney Gerard's "Follies of the Day," is reported to have left the company at Cin- cinnati last week to marry Benjamin Beery, of Troy, O., who is very young, but enjoys a wealthy father. Alice Petersdorf, the untiring typewriter for the White Rats, leaves to-day for a week's vacation. The "rubbers" have been humming around the headquarters all week "Alice, where art thou going?" but Miss Petersdorf doesn't like music. Alta Yolo, the California contralto, commences her United season at the Ma- jestic, Montgomery, Ala., Labor Day, placed by Pat Casey. Miss Yolo will ap- pear in a musical novelty named "Around the World in Fifteen Minutes." The six boys who came here some months ago with an English comedy act called "Casey's Court" are with Miner's "Bohemians" (Western Burlesque Wheel). The travesty circus is not in use, the boys playing parts in the pieces. Carter De Haven and Flora Parker are playing at Poli's, Hartford, this week. It is the first of four weeks the couple will remain in vaudeville before joining the Tom W. Ryley production. Edward S. Keller secured the vaudeville engagements. Mabel Rowland, who retired from the stage two years ago, wrote "The Stage- Struck Slavey." After reading it over, Miss Rowland thought so well of it she will make her reappearance in the playlet. Charles Dickson will stage the piece for her. Johnnie Le Fevre has formed a partner- ship with Margaret Cross. They will offer a comedy piano act, first appearing at the Bijou, Bayonne, N. J., Sept. 14. Mr. Le Fevre's announcement of a combination with Johnnie Fields, Jr., is supposed to have lapsed. Mabel Berra has been booked abroad for over one year solid. She will appear in England and the Continent, again play- ing the Folies Bergere, Paris, where she headlined during her last engagement on the other side. Miss Berra claims to be the original "Nell Brinkley Girl." Carrie Swaine ("Cad, the Tomboy") will postpone her vaudeville appearance over here until March of next season. Miss Swaine notified her agent, Al Suth- erland, this week that foreign engage- ments would prevent her coming over be- fore. Miss Swaine is at present in Eng- land. Collins and Hart, the burlesque strong men, are going to have a busy time of it next week. Every day they will rehearse from 10 a. m. until 2 p. m. for "Little Nemo." They then open the intermission at the Colonial and, after a flying trip in an automobile, come around to close the show at Hammerstein's. The Waterbury Co.'s first production, "Mr. Busybody" by Irving S. Cobb is to have its premier at Poli's, New Haven, Sept. 21. Ned Wayburn will stage the dances, William Rock, the official stager for the producing firm having his time over-oc- cupied by legitimate engagements to give attention to this number. The Fred St. Onge Co. open at Shea's, Buffalo, Monday, commencing their United season from that point. Ernest L. Waitt has been appointed press representative for the Orpheum (Morris Circuit), Boston. SEVEN WEEKS IN CUBA. Frank Costa and Charles Prato, the Cuban managers in the firm of Costa & Prato, who have the National Theatre in Havana, have gathered together sufficient time on the island to furnish artists with seven weeks of work, according to the reports reaching here.