Variety (October 1908)

VARIETY A Variety Paper for Variety People, rubllahed every Ba tardus by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Building. 1-Htt Broadway. New York City. Telephone f 4022 1 :t8lb St. 8IME SILYZBMAV, Editor and Proprietor. Uttered a$ teoomt-claee matter December 22, 11)03, at the Poet Office at New York, N. Y., umtler the act of Couyreet of March 3, 1870. CHICAGO 01TXGS, 70S Chicago Opera Room Bloek, (Phcae. Mala 6M6). FEAVX WZEQE&O, BopriantntWo. LOVDOM orrxoB, 411 Strand (Boon S). (Cable. "Jeaafroo. London.") JESSE J. rBEEMAJT, In charge. 8AM rRAJICISCO OFFICE, 1115 Van Veta Ave. (Boom IIS). W. AT FRFJ» .WP,9f>*, WewnnfrtlVl*■ DEB V EH OFFICE, 17M Curtis Street, CHAB.. F. LOBDOBEB, Beprotentatiee. CIHCDniATI OFFICE, Bell Block. HABBT HE88, Bepreeentative. ST. LOUIS OFFICE, Sit Conuneroial Bnilding, BIOHABD SFAMEB, Repreaentatlee. LOUISVILLE OFFICE, 804 Colombia Building. W. L. FABDEBBUBOH, BepresentatiTe. FABIB OFFICE. 64 Bia. Bno Saint Didler. EDWABD O. 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Jcanette Dupree has joined the musical stock company at Allegheny, Pa. Julius Tnnnen has had a route offered nnd accepted by him from the United through Pat Casey. Alfred Jackson is a cartoonist who be- lieves vaudeville will greet him kindly. I'M S. Keller will find out. \a'\\ Bloom, tlie tramp nionologist. who was reported missing from St. Louis last "eek. wired from heading. Pa., to his agent, Pat. Casey, on Wednesday. Ezra Kendall will be the feature of the Hammerstein show week of Nov. 9. Barry and Wolford left the bill at the Grcenpoint Tuesday on account of hoarse- ness. The bill at the Colonial this week is costing $5,300; at the Lincoln Square, in- cluding Harry Lauder, $4,800. Martin Heck may return from his West- ern trip some time next week, or it may be during the week following. P. C. Armstrong left for London Wednesday, where he will revive several of the former Dial & Armstrong acts. Marguerite MacDonald (Kitty's sister) in an understudy for one of the principal roles in "Marcelle" at the Casino. health, returned from Lakewcod to his desk in the Proctor office on Wednesday. The Three Merrills, comedy cycle act, now appearing at the Wintergarten, Ber- lin, have been booked for United time in 1909. Walter Le Roy gave notice to Cohan & Harris last Monday he would leave "The American Idea" next Saturday night. Louise Montague with her operatic vaudeville number will open at the Hud- son, Union Hill, Nov. 9, placed by Lykens & Levy. Jeannie Fletcher is a Western girl, who is anxious to show the New Yorkers in vaudeville. Perhaps she will; Casey knows. Noma Adams, from the original "Red Mill," has entered vaudeville with a mod- ern citified singing number which Ed S. Keller places. D'Arc's Marionettes, an English act, in which the manikins impersonate English stars, will first show over here on the Morris time Nov. 23. li*Tti.»rs Maiiu.wti.es will probably re- turn over here, handled by the widow and daughter. The Feiber office has made an offer of twenty weeks. Vesta Victoria will sail from the other side in the early part of November to open over here on the Morris Circuit dur- ing the same month. The Sullivan-Considine offices at 1358 Broadway, presided over by Chris O. Brown, will removo to the Broadway front of the same building. Anna Crewe, a Western stock actress and authoress, gave a trial performance Thursday morning at the Fifth Avenue of her sketch "My Lady Raffles." Marry Mock, superintendent of llam- mcrstcin's. was caught laughing at the bill on Thursday evening of this week. That is not supposed to be strictly "clubby," but Mr.; Mock excused himself by blaming it on Geo. B. Reno. Ethel Robinson, the park and fair agent of the Western Vaudeville Association, Chicago, is reported to be due soon in New York for a vacation of three weeks. Jones and Mayo are a new team of Western comedians in the East. Jones is reported to be a relative of Sam Ber« nard, which may or may not 1k» so. Nita Allen and Co. in Will M. Crcssy'B sketch, "Car Two: Stateroom One," re- tired from the Fifth Avenue program after the Monday night performance. Herrmann, the Great, plays at Moscow, Russia, during November, thence entering the Olympia, Paris, for December, booked at both placed by the Marinelli agency. Charles Vion. rpaebpd PbilodpJnbi* 1o.<»t Monday, where he assumed charge of Cohan & Harris' "Talk of New York," and will go over the road with the show. Mabel Rowland, who since her marriage has made an occasional appearance "in vaudeville, is due for another "flyer" It is two years since her last public appear- ance. Pat T. Parks, property man with "The Serenaders," and Margaret Ryan, sou- brette of the same company, will be mar- ried Oct. 28 at Miss Ryan's home, this city. The Morris office is now l>ooking three acts weekly into the Grand Opera House, Reading, Pa., in addition to its bookings at Norristown, Easton and Lubin's, Phila- delphia. Edna Wallace Hopper's next engage- ment in vaudeville is at Cleveland Nov. 16, booked by Pat Casey. Miss Wallace; will plod along on the two-daily plan if Casey gets busy. Belle Travers replaces May Howard with W. B. Watson's "Washington So- ciety Girls." Miss Howard retires to rest for a while, having had considerable trouble with her throat. Londe and Tilly, a European cipiilihris- tic act, arrived last Monday. They open next week at Keith's, Boston, for the first American appearance. H. II. Feiber brought the number over. Leander Richardson is editing the theatrical department of The ('iub Ft How and Wanhington Mirror, a society journal. Mr. Richardson also contributes to the department in his brilliantly terse style. Walter C. Kelly arrived this week on the Lu8\tania. Before leaving England Mr. Kelly signed for twenty weeks with the United at his own figure, the booking office having held off for some time lw- fore agreeing. Fred Lindsay, the Australian "Whip- crack." will call upon the President while playing ('hasp's, Washington, week Nov. 30. Mr. Lindsav carries letters of jntro duction from his native land, and is a lad after the President's own heart. He is due to appear in London the latter part of December. ■J 1 'the cost of the Lyric (Morris) bil] at Newark this week (the first) is about <2,600; at Proctor's, in the same city, / $3,000. ft The ('larks, lianjoists, at the Colonial tlra week, are a foreign act playing the United time under an old Klaw & Erlan- ger contract. Maude Fulton left her act and the 125th Street bill after Tuesday, a heavy cold causing the vacancy. William Rock (Rock and Fulton) gave a single turn and kept up his lone appearance. Miss Ful- ton is looked to return to the act by Monday if not before. Application was made this week before vlUrsUw Miiluvu ku Itvmial Se»«iona on be- half of William Robinson, the colored co- median, for a new trial, Robinson having been recently convicted and sentenced to eleven years in prison for highway rob- bery. Decision on the application was re- served. Billie Reeves sprained a ligament in his knee while playing with "The Follies of 1908" at the Chestnut Street Opera House, Philadelphia, last week. Although the physicians advised Mr. Reeves to rest for three weeks, the "drunk" continued in his part. The Performer, the official organ of the Variety Artists' Federation of England, will issue its "Annual" on Dec. 23, next. The special issue of The Performer each year is an elaborate edition, having icached the large total of 90 pages last December. Golden and Hughes reappeared in vaude- ville around here two or three weeks ago, and will continue under the direction of Ed S. Keller. Jt is a blackface number, Billy Golden having had al>oiit as much experience in minstrelsy as any blackface comedian now playing. John Dp Loris celebrated his return to New York by distributing Huylet's candy among the females in the St. James Building. Mr. De lioris announced I hat if he missed any one, I he candy would Im« forwarded upon application. De Loris' address while in New York is ('hair No. 0, The Casey Agency. Abe Leavitt protests that Ayesha Hara, his "Salome" dancer with the "Rentz- Santley" show, was not censored in Mon- treal as reporter! from that town. The dancer is a permanent attraction with the show. Mr. Leavitt says the dancer was permitted to do her specialty undis- turbed all week in Toronto. ( harks Guyer, formerly of (iu\«i ;m<l ( rispi. \u\-i. iid.le | ;i new p:irtm-r sjnee Miss Crispi's partnership format ion with Ned Nye. Mr. Guyer's late-.! is u young French woman n;iim<l Valle. In a letter received from l'ari> ^i\in^ r tins iufornm lion tli«- mime i~ -i-jned "tieyer" ;in<1 I li»- 1 « .Mil millH' ""I .•■ ••! illl'l V.I lie."