Variety (November 1908)

VARIETY V\RIETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published every Setardsy by THE VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Knickerbocker Theatre BoUdlnf. 1401 Broadway, Now York City. Telephone/^2 \s8th St. Editor and Proprietor. Entered at oeeond~claoo matter December 22, 1905, el the Poet Office at New Term, N. 7., under the act of Oongreee of March ft, 1879. OB30A0O OTTIOX, 70S Ohlonfo Opera Boase Blook, (Phone, Mala MM). PBAJTX WHOn fl, Bepis—atatlwe. LOVDOV OPPIOS, Ml Btraad (fteom •). (Cable, "Joaefree, London.*') JESSE J. PBJDOUJI, la obarve. say nuuronoo oppios, 111* Yaa Boas Are. (Boon lit). W. ALPBBD WXXJOB, BepreaonUUf, DEBTEE OPPIOB, 1751 Curtis Street, OKAS. P. LOBDOBBB, BepreeeatatiTe. OIB01BBATZ OPPIOB, Bell Block, KABBT KBB1, BipiMeatatJTO. PABIB OPPIOB, M Bie. Baa lalnt Dtdlor, EDWABO O. BBBDBBW, BepreeeatatiTe. BBBUB OPPIOB, nates den Linden 61, BXBBEL'l LZBBABT. ni.THnwvrtFFrcrfla;. 20 cents sn sfste line, $2.80 an inch. One page, $120; one-half page, 160; one-quarter page, $82.00. 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Billy Clifford and Mabel Lambert are playing at the Princess, San Francisco. Josephine Sabel opens Nov. 23 at the Fulton, Brooklyn, for the Morris Circuit. Delmore and Darrell commence over the Inter-State time, at Mongomery, Ala., Dec. 7. died at the St. Elisabeth Hospital, Chi- cago, Nov. 4. W. C. Kelly and Lily Lena jointly head- line the Colonial show next week. Thos. Q. Seabrooke is casting about for the prospect of himself as a single act in vaudeville again. Mark Twain has written Lykens & Levy he has retired from the lecture platform. Llewellyn Johns, the Moss-Stoll repre- sentative, will return to New York after Christmas. Horton and La Triska, a Western act, is at Keeney's, Brooklyn, this week, booked by Alf. T. Wilton. The Newell, White Plains, will have its premier Nov. 23 with The Hanlons as the feature of the first program. It is reported that rehearsals are now called at a local "picture" house in New York City at 8 A. M. Lucy Weston will play Poli's, New Haven, next week, coming into the Fifth Avenue, New York, Nov. 23. Solly Brown is now in charge of the band and orchestra department of the Ted Snyder Music Publishing Co. The Staley-birbeck transformation act has been placeu by the Marinelli office to open at Moscow, Russia, January 18. Wm. Josh Daly's "Country Choir," has been booked for 30 weeks through Penn- sylvania and on the Sullivan-Considine time. Joe Keno is now working with one of the Nice Sisters in "School Days." Agnes Lynn, his former partner, is still with that show. An annulment of her marriage to Thos. Woods Fowlkes was granted Florence Towner (Towner Sisters) at Buffalo Nov. 2. The New York Times this week printed a cable that the adapted version of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" had been barred out of Russia. La Belle Marie, who separated from M. J. CRourke, they having opened with "The Cracker Jacks," continues on with that show. Harry uorson Clarke and Margaret Dale Owen (Mrs. Clark) will sail for the other side during December to remain abroad six months. Juliet Winston is returning to vaude- ville, having been placed to open at At- lantic City, Nov. 30, by Lykens & Levy. Miss Winston will appear with a new repertoire of songs. » Alice Howard (Warren and Howard) Moving pictures and vaudeville con- certs commenced at the Olympic, Brook- lyn, last Sunday. They will be continued on that day of each week throughout the remainder of the season. Julian Rose plays the American week of Nov. 16, and then leaves for London, where he takes part in one of the Christ- mas pantomimes. Fred Niblo will probably deliver his travelog at the New York Theatre for a series of Sunday nights commencing about New Year's. Tom Oillen ("Finnegan's Friend") has been booked for 36 weeks of Australian time to follow his present Sullivan-Con- sidine engagements. Reports from vaudeville and burlesque managers this week said business all over at the variety theatres had taken on a boom since Monday. William Berol, a brother of Max Berol- Konorah, is returning to this country with "Menetekel." The Casey Agency has been given the handling of it. The De Faye Sisters returned to New York on Tuesday, having been abroad for nearly two years. They open at the .Ma- jestic, Chicago, next Monday. Joe Havel has severed his connection with the New York Sullivan-Considine of- fice. Mr. Havel has located in the Knickerbocker Theatre Building. Louise Henry, "The Sal Skinner Girl," married Dr. Jesse S. Heiman, of Syracuse, last week. The couple have returned to that city, where they will reside. Sig. Travato, the musical "find" of Biasing & Sloman, has been placed for 26 weeks in the West by Pat Casey, open- ing at the Orpheum, Butte, Dec. 6. Geo. Whiting and Mile. Troja have a 20-minute act in "one" in which they will open at the Garrick, Wilmington, next Monday. Lykens & Levy have the han- dling of the turn. L. R. Stockwell, the veteran comedian who recently lost his sight, is now on the Sullivan-Considine Circuit in a new sketch called "The Blind Organist." Norval Mac- Gregor has a prominent part in the pro- duction. F. M. Macarte left for Germany to take charge of Macarte's Monkeys now at the Shumann Circus, Berlin. The elder Ma- carte, at present with the act, is said to be seriously ill and cabled for his son to come over. Nevins and Arnold have placed their own bookings hereafter with Edw. S. Keller, "The Six Little Sailors," in which the act appeared, having been shelved; temporarily anyway. It may be revived as a "girl act." Marion Bent (Mrs. Pat Rooney) will temporarily retire from the stage after playing week Dec. 21. On Dec. 28 Pat Rooney experts to present "Simple Simon Simple" as a vaudeville production with ten people, headed by himself. In the Fifth Avenue lobby has hung for a long time a picture of Gudrun Hilde- brandt, a German dancer of some repute. The frame has a card announcing' that Miss Hildebrandt is coming to the house She hasn't been booked yet. The picture looks good, however, and the Fraulein is receiving some nice free advertising ex- clusive of this. The Musical Cuttys have been re- engaged for the other side, opening next summer and remaining abroad through the following winter. Somen & Warner did the booking, arranged through their American representative, B. Obermayer. Stuart, "The Male Patti," will resume his American engagements about Feb- ruary 15. Bentham is securing the dates. It is about two years since the masculine prima donna beamed upon us. Since then he has collected a gorgeous assortment of foreign gowns. Willard Reed and Nancy St. John, musi- cal soloists, will open on the United time Dec. 7 at the Hudson, Union Hill, N. J., placed through Kdw. S. Keller. The act has just closed an engagement over the Inter-State Circuit. Their title is the "Act Beautiful." If the theatrical managers have been able to cause women to remove their hats and men to smoke only where permitted, won't they now try to stop the enormous army of gum-chewers who attend the theatres? Especially those who munch the "Spearmint" brand, the most oderifer- ous concoction of what? that has ever been devised to disgust anyone accustomed to breathe pure air. "The Submarine," the Thos. W. Ryley sketch which has received an avalanche of adverse newspaper (daily) criticism the past few days, will play the Orpheum, Brooklyn, next week, going there from the Colonial, New York, where it is at present. The piece was first presented over here some time ago as a "curtain raiser" by Olga Nethersole, when she last appeared in Cleveland. Acrobatic acts are not so largely in de- mand around New York since the stricter enforcement of the "Sunday Law" re- commenced. A manager engaging an act not allowed to appear on Sundays is obliged to secure another number for the open position one day weekly, which adds to the expense of the show. Some acro- batic numbers have reduced their salary pro rata, allowing for these necessary omissions. Marguerite Macdonald, sister to Kath- eryn (she of the Williams office), handed her job as an understudy in "Marcellc" to the stage manager of that production when the worthy informed Marguerite on Monday Inst she could no longer wear a "white aigrette" in her hair while facing a Casino audience. Well, you know Margie Her words roll up and fly out like a Maxim repeater. And ;hat stage manager! It will take .Take Shuliert to square it with Margie; that's how she feels about it, and the Maedonald family doesn't rare whether "Mareelle" keeps on running or not.