Variety (October 1908)

VARIETY VARIETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published avary tatvrdmj bj THB VARIETY PUBLI8HINO CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Bolldlog. 1403 Broadway. New York Cltj. r jam i 88th St. {S} Telephone IZMI J. BLVMMMAM, Zdlter aad Proprietor. Entered ae eeoond-claee mutter December 22, 1906, et the Poet Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of Congreee of March 3, 1870. CHICAGO 0FTX0Z, 70S Obioete Open Kease Block, (Phono, Mein MM). lovbov omoz, 411 ftraad (Boom •). (Ooblo, "Jaaafras, London.") JXMB J. TXKKMAM, in ehnrte. ■ay nuBcuco ornoz, 111! Yen Bom Are. (Boom IIS). W. ALTBBD WZXJOB, Bepreeentntlvo. DBBYBB OFFICE, 175ft Onrtle Btreot, OHA8. F. LOBDOBZB, BopreaenUtire. 01H01BBATI OFFICE, Bell Block, HABBT HZfB, BepreeonUUve. ST. LOUI1 OFFICE, US Oemaereinl Bnildinc. BIOHABD 8FAMBB, BepreeonUtiTO. LOUIiTILLB OFFICE. •Oft OelnmbU Bulldins. W. L. YAVDEBBBBGH, BepreeentatiYO. FABII OFFICE. Oft 81s. Bne lalnt Dldior EDWARD O. KEBDBEW, BoproaonUtlTe. BKELOr OFFICE. Vnter den Unden 61. 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Jules Vim Tilzer may lie addressed at the Bijou, Bayonne, N. .1.. next week. Lizzie MeKeever Stuart, tin* singer, has l>een the mother of a girl since Sept. 8. •John Piuklcr is superintendent of the American. He was formerly at tin- luiou Square. Al Fields will play his new burlesque on "'I'lie I Mil" al Atlantic City next week. Well, what do you think of that! Frank Buoh is writing a dramatic sketch. Henry Fink will retire from the "Sam T. Jack" show, having given his "notice." Mclntyre and Heath will remain two weeks at the Colonial, opening there Oct. 12. Fred St. Onge, of the St. Onge Com- pany, has purchased a fruit ranch at Han- ford, Wash. Tain bo and Tambo arrived in New York last Saturday. The act opens at Pautages', Spokane, Oct. 4. Amy Anderson and company played Keith's, Boston, last week, appearing at 1:10 and 7:11 daily. Lamberti, the musical ini|>ersoiiator, is rc|K>rtcd to have received a large oiler from the Morris Circuit. ■*» — «>^—nav..» Macart's Monkeys will be the lone American act on the October program of the Olyinpia, Paris. Amy Butler and Ted Snyder have formed a vaudeville partnership. They will 1m; placed by Ed. S. Keller. .Tames Thornton opens on the Orpheiiiu Circuit l)ec. x 7 for a tour of thirty weeks, placed by Wesley & Pincus. Frank Moulan and Lillian Herri first play the metropolitan district at the Or- pheum, Brooklyn, Oct. 19. Matthews and Ash lev nlav two houses • I • next week, ap]**aring at Ixith llainmcr- stein's and the Orpheuin, Brooklyn. Ezra Kendall plays Hainmcrstcin's next week, then Chase's, Washington, which concludes his contracted I'nited time. Pastor and Merle, singers ami dalicers, direct from Australia, opened on the Sul- livan-Considine time at Seattle Sept. 24. Rosa Crouch, formerly of Ladell and Crouch, and Ceo. Welch, the English "bad boy," are playing in vaudeville as an act. The Lincoln Square, with Morris' vaude- ville show for the entertainment, played to $1,(100 last Sunday (two performances). Marry Corson Clarke and Margaret Dale Owen open their engagement on the Mor- ris time Oct. .">. at Forepaugli's Phila j delphia. A "$1,")C0 act" was offered for this week at $00 at the Tinted Offices last Saturdav, with no takers. Tt is under contract and playing. Lester Walters presented for the first time on Monday "10 A. M.." a sketch, at th«' I'ark Theatre. Ilrooklyn, in connection with the Spooner Stock ('oiupauy. The opening of the new L\ i ic, Newark, a Morris ( "ircnit house, lui«. !•<•< n |><>si p<»ned. M will occur sniiif lime during \o\ ember Percy O. Williams' I roccnl Theatre in P>|ookl\n. de\otcd to slock, nx lit house a moving picture aud vaudeville show on Sunday nights beginning tomorrow. John P. Hill, manager of the Imperial, Providence, is a grandfather. His daugh- ter, Mrs. Avon Berger, received a baby boy last Saturday. B. A. Kolfe with Mrs. Rolfe will leave for England Nov. 16, where he will super- intend the first presentation of his "Co- lonial Septet" abroad. Hurtig & Seamon's Harlem Music Hall will commence Sunday night vaudeville concerts to-morrow. Moving pictures have been given so far this season. Cordie Talcott and Bobbie Talcott (J. B. Stinson), both of the Carson-Talcott Com- pany, have become engaged, and will l>e married within a few months. Rigo, the Gypsy musician, may leud the Lincoln Square orchestra during the open- ing overture and at the intermission next week,"us a "special attraction." William Robinson, the colored comedian, was sentenced to eleven years in prison on Tuesday after trial in (jeneral Sessions for brutally assaulting a woman. Minnie Palmer reappears over here at the Savoy, Fall River, Mass., next week in ".My Sweetheart." Miss Palmer plays vaudeville under a Morris contract. Gertrude Golden has returned to New York after playing ten weeks of Morris time, and will remain here over the win- ter, completing her musical studies. .lack Lewis and Charles Mills, a former team, have become reunited, opening Oct. 5 in vaudeville in a German comedy act. Lewis left the "Ideals" for the new act. On Oct. 20, Fritz Van Haarlem, man- ager of the Circus Carre, Amsterdam (Germany), will celebrate the 25th anni- versary of his connection with the re- sort. Sherman and DeForrest open for four- teen weeks on. the Sullivan-Considine Cir- cuit at Winnipeg, Oct. 12. Lind opens to- morrow in Spokane for 12 weeks on the same time. The advance sale for tin; Harrv Lauder engagement at the Lincoln Square now amounts to over $8,000. Mr. Lauder ar- rives on the LuxH<nti<t about next Friday, opening Oct. 12. Walter 1). Nealund, business representa- tive for the Spooner Stock Company, and Mazie Sinclair, of vaudeville and the legitimate, were married on Sept. 8 by the Kev. Robert 1L Miller in Jersey City. C. W. Williams, the ventriloquist, will "lay off" week of Nov. 5 to "try out" his new aeroplane at Morris Park, New York. Mr. Williams will compete with his air -hip for (he pri/cvi offered in many coun- (lies Adeline (icnee w;itchci| Marry Watson's imitation of her in "The Follies of 100H" • •n Wednesday evening.'. Miss (ienee ad milted Mr. Walvm did several stops she could not. The West End, now under the manage- ment of the Shuberts, will inaugurate moving pictures for Sunday night enter- tainments commencing to-morrow. "The Witching Hour" is said to have played to $12,000 there last week. C. W. Middleton, a custom house broker, in favored by incoming artists through the broker having greatly expedited the han- dling of baggage, facilitating the prompt landing. The foreign agents have recom- mended Mr. Middleton abroad. Gould and Suratt will play their new act at Keeney's, Brooklyn, next week, Miss Suratt having failed to come to an agreement for the Anna Held show. The house scenery at Keeney's will be util- ized for the many changes. Coccia and Amato were obliged to can- cel at the Auditorium, Lynn, this week, through Mr. Coccia injuring his ankle. kucruZs Comedy Co. is at the Doric, Yonkers, this week, having been shifted from the Colonial, where the act was billed. Augusta Close has returned to vaude- ville, having retired two years through a marriage engagement. Miss Glose is play- ing on the Bennett, time this week, open- ing in Chicago (Majestic) Oct. 5. The Casey Agency placed Miss Glose's time. The "surprise" act which was promised for the new Fulton Theatre by William Morris was not on the program, the con- struction of mechanical features being de- layed. The feature will be in next week's shows at both the Fulton and the Ameri- can. May Irwin played "Mrs. Peckham's Carouse" at the Garrick Tuesday evening as a curtain raiser to 'The Mollusc." Miss Irwin received extremely flattering "no- tices." It is the same Geo. Ade piece which May's sister, Flo, introduced to vaude- ville. Flo Irwin is also playing it as an "act" at the American, St. Louis, this week. With the opening of the season singers had better guard against accepting in- ferior songs to those on the market which might help their acts, even without a week- ly payment from the publisher. There is a ease on record, and may perhaps be par- tially paralleled many times, of a singer who refused a song without n payment of $1. r > weekly. This same song "made" an- other girl in a Broadway production. Jenie Jacobs received a pot of sham- rocks this week, sent her by Joe Hayman from Ireland. The custom authorities held up the present to discover if any val- uables were secreted in the dirt around the little green flowers, and when Miss Jacobs received her shamrocks they were nearly dead. Placing them on Pat Casey's desk, Ireland's lucky leaves at once brightened up. The reports were that they would live for Casey, although Miss Jacobs was talking to them like, a mother when last heard from. Kverybody blames Joe Hayman. Had he placed on the card attached "Joe Ml lay" instead, there would ha\e Iccn no trouble, perhaps.