Variety (September 1908)

VARIETY WRIETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Pabuaasd avary Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Kalckerbockar Thaatre Bidldlof. M09 Broadway. Naw York Oty. Entered ae eecond-claee matter December 22, 1905, at the Poet Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Oongreee of March 8, 1870. ghicaoo orrzox, 708 Okloaco Optra Hoaaa Blook, (Phaaa, Mala MM). LOHDOV OTTI0B, fll ItraaS (Eaoa I). (Oabl«, "Jaatfiaa, Loadoa.") J. TKKMMAM. la •am ruurouoo omox, 111! Taa Maai Ave. (Beam 1U). W. ALTBID WZXJOM, Baffeeaatativa. DZMTXB OlTiOB, ~~*~~~- 17H Osrtia Btraat, OMA8. F. LOMDOMBB, Bapnssatativa. OZMOZMMATX OFFICE, BT. LOUIS OFFIGB, aaa o^hmm^aI a»u af"^ BIOMABD BFAMBB, Bepfeeaatative. lobhtxzxb ornoB, 8M OelaaiUa Baildiaf, W. L. YAMBBMBirBOM, Bspreesatatlve, pabu offios, •f Bis. Baa Balat Bidlar. EBWABO O. MBMDBBW, Baynaaatatlve. BEBLXM OFFIOS, Vatar daa Lladaa 81, BXBBBL'S UBBABT. ILTT-in^rVrtf'FT'ir-TH. 80 cant* tn agate Hoe, 88.80 an Inch. On* pafa, 8135; ona-kalf pace, 880; ona-qnartar p«f«. 888.00. Chargaa for portralta famished on application. Special rata by the month for professional card auder heading "Bepreeontatlre Artists." Advertising copy should Jw received by Than- day at noon to Insure publication In current lssne. 89 8UB8CBIPTION BATES. Annual 84 Foreign 0 Six and three months In proportion. Single copies ten cents. YABIBTY will be mailed to a permanent sd- drees or aa per route, as desired. Advertisements forwarded by mall must be ac- companied by remittance, made paysble to Variety Publishing Oo. _____ Copyright, 1008, by Variety Publishing Oo. Vol. XII. SEPT. 19. No. 2. S. Miller Kent will appear in a new sketch next week. Harry Woodruff is reported calculating the advantage of vaudeville. Lykens & Levy are offering Nella Ber- gen as a single act in vaudeville. Gladys Sears has canceled all vaudeville engagements to star in "Indiana Folks." Clayton White and Marie Stuart open their United season at the Alhambra on Sept. 21. Al Fields and a company of three people will appear in "Too Much Devil," a travesty. Joe Weber's Music Hall may be the scene of weekly Sunday night concerts this winter. Bessie Valdare, of the bicycle troupe of that name, was quietly married in the West last week. "Juliet/' a new act launched under the direction of Ad. Newberger, opens Mon- day in Baltimore. The Aerial Smiths will play London at nearly double the salary they originally booked Europe for. J. K. Burk has given up vaudeville at Geneva, N. Y., because Geneva doesn't give up for vaudeville. Jos. G sites has placed Snyder and Buckley under contract to play in his "Follies of 1907" production. Charlene and Charlene have been booked for a return tour over the Orpheum Cir- cuit beginning Sept. 27, 1009. Macart's Monkeys will play Berlin, -fnmx Novr~I—dtsittl—Dec ■ dr-reeeiv*:*; -£er the engagement 10,000 marks. Sadie Sherman, a niece of James S. Sherman, the Republican Vice-Presiden- tial nominee, is on the Orpheum Circuit. Castellane and Brother open Oct. 4 on the Orpheum Circuit, booked by Pat Casey. It is a sensational bicycle number. Carl Mehrtens, of Dae Programtn will take up his new duties in Berlin on Oct J, severing his connection then with the paper. Mrs. Meyer Cohen has gone to Paris, where she wlil spend the winter. Vivian Cohen,. the daughter, will join her mother shortly. "At the Sound of the Gong" with "Fighting" Geo. Wilson in the boxing scene (now introduced) opened at Camden last Monday. Cook and Clinton, female sharpshooters, commence their United season this week at Bennett's, Montreal, placed by Jeuie .Jacobs. Edgar Bixley with Hilda Hawthorne and Geo. X. Wilson will open in a comedy sketch at Fall River Oct. 5 for the Morris Circuit season. The Avenue, Wilmington, Del., the an- nounced opposition to the W. L Dock- stader's Garrick in that city, is due to open Oct. 12. Peer Gynt, the youthful singer and "dis- covery" of the William Morris London office, will open at Forepaugh's, Philadel- phia, Sept. 28. A new monologue has been written for John W. Ransome, who will again appear in "one" with it under the direction of Lykens & Levy. "The Follies of 1908" will play in Phil- adelphia for three weeks following the New York Theatre engagement, which ter- minates Sept. 2G. John Wiggin is an uncle. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William J. Wiggisu The father is managing Cook's Opera House, Rochester. Robert D. Girard, the New York rep- resentative of the Orpheum Circuit a few years ago, is mining at Table Rock, Sierra County, California. The Zancigs appeared before the Royal family of Germany at Berlin on Sept. 3. They leave the other side for America on the "Lusitania" Oct. 3. The Olympia, Paris, which passed to the management of H. B. Marinelli on Sept. 1 is reported to have had a success- ful opening and season since. Gene Pollard has returned to his former camping ground, the stage door of the Colonial. Mr. Pollard has been at the Orpheum, Brooklyn, for some time. "A Bad Boy and His Teddy Bears" closes this week. It has been playing Stair St- Havlin time since the opening of the season. Chas. E. Blaney owns it. ^villo,^the juggler, w ho los t tw o fingers through the premature explosion of a cannon in his act at the Family, Lancas- ter, on Labor Day, is slowly recovering. Margaret Arnold, a young singer from the West, will appear in vaudeville around New York Sept. 28. Abie Hammerstein says it. He will manage the act. Ce-Dora, "The Girl in the Golden Globe," has been engaged as a special attraction for the Western Burlesque Wheel for twenty weeks, opening Sept. 21 in Chi- cago. Frank Riker and Company, in "Her Wedding Morn," by Arthur Stace, opens at the Bijou, Orange, N. J., Sept. 28. It is an Orpheum Circuit Producing Depart- ment piece. John T. and Eva Fay, the "thought transmissioners," commence eight weeks for Pantages in the northwest at Spokane Sept. 27, booked by Louis Pincus through the Casey Agency. "The Three Demons," an aerial cycle whirl, booked to open at the Hippodrome last Saturday, could not place their rig- ging, and the management is "farming" the act out to fairs. Eva Tanguay will open at the Orpheum, Brooklyn, Sept. 28, remaining at the Colo- nial until then. At the conclusion of the Brooklyn engagement Miss Tanguay will discard the "Salome" dance. Have you seen Mike Bentham in the hat he borrowed from an Alpine mountaineer? Mr. Bentham only wears it-at night. Up in New Rochelle where the agent lives, the townpeople call it "rakish." Lucy Weston sails for England on Sept. 23. Miss Weston will return in a month or so. Her future plans over here are not definite. A marriage may pre- vent her return to the stage. "Sandwich" men carrying advertise- ments in front and rear for the Lincoln Square Theatre stood reading the bill- boards at the Colonial last Monday even- ing as the house was filling up. Princess Rajah, the dancer, was mar- ried in Coney Island last Saturday dur- ing her engagement at Henderson's there. She was a part of the Raisuli show in "Dreamland" during the summer. Among the recent Orpheum bookings are Cora Beach Turner, Roaaire and Do- retto, Feb. 7; "College Girls," Oct. 5; Charles Wayne, Sept. 14; White and Sim- mons, Oct. 26; Three Donalds, Oct. 26. Hardeen, the handcuff expert, starts a return engagement in the Pantages houses tomorrow, Sept. 20). Hardeen will intro- duce in that section for the first time his brother's (Houdini) "milk-can escape." The Morris Circuit has secured billing stands at the Hotel Astor corner, 69th street and Broadway, and on the Hotel Saranac. "Circus" paper will be used, the features having large sheets to them- selves. Thirty-four Japs of Fred Brandt's Kit- abanzai Troupe were in a railroad wreck on the Erie, traveling from Youngstown, O., to Scranton, Pa. Nearly everyone aboard the train was injured excepting the foreigners. Anna Marble is the pleasant and pres- ent capable press representative for the Percy G. Williams Theatres. Miss Mar- ble has not been active in vaudeville since resigning as publicity promoter for Hammerstein's. Lillian Coleman, the first soprano in "The Prince of Pilsen" to sing "The Tale of the Sea Shell," intends to enter vaude- ville with a singing number. The finale will be a change to the dress and songs of "The Girl of Other Days.' #» The Orpheum, Boston, a Morris Circuit theatre, opens with vaudeville Oct. 5. Williams and Walker are reported to have played to $10,000 at the house last week. William T. Grover came to New York Wednesday loaded down with the house share of the receipts. The more attention given by music pub- lishers to the orchestrations turned out, the greater effect will their songs have. Orchestrations are becoming very import- ant in vaudeville and burlesque these days. A good one will promote a number more quickly than the singing of it. Next week will be the final one for Gertrude Hoffmann and "Salome" nt IlammerMtein's. "Salome" and "The Devil" will be features of the show. The (Jans-Nelson Fight Pictures will also be whown, and McNamee, an "artistic clay- modeller," will open the program. By an inadvertant mistake it was stated that the father of Dick Lynch, of the Lynch-Walsh Company, with Fred Ir- win's Big Show, died in Detroit. The Dick Lynch to whom the announcement should have referred in the monnlogiHt. He is now in New York, living at Hie White Rats' headquarters. James Moran. tin- ^eolrli i onii-dian. billed to open ai the Colom.'! this week, will not appear then- un'il <M. ."►, illness delaying hi* arrival in New York, it is said. Mr. M«»ran is tl.iimt"! to he a strik- ing lcseiiihhiM . !<• Hurry Lauder in style of work. ! .ni'Vi ii;is been announced to open at 11: - - •»!••«.!u Square (Jet. 12.