Variety (November 1908)

VARIETY wriety A Variety Paper for Variety People. Publish** every Saturday by THE VARIETY PUBLI8HINO CO. Knickerbocker Theatre Balldlaf. 1401 Broadway, New York City. Telephone -f 1?2 \ 88th St. Editor and Proprietor. Entered at teeond-elaee matter December 22, 1905, at the Pott Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Oongreee of March 8, 1870. OH10AOO 01TX0S, 708 Ohloace Opera ■ease (Phone, Mala MM). LOVDOV OITKJB, 418 ltraad (Been 8). (Gable, "Jessfree, London.") JXMX J. flFlnTdsT, in oharte. bait ntdoraxaoo orrxoz, 111! Tan Bern Are, (Boom 118). DBBTxm omox 17M Curtis Street, OKAS. P. LOBBOBZB, Bs pi sss aUU is. 01B01BBATZ OTTIOX, Bell Block, pabu omox, 88 Bia. Bee Saint ©idler, XBWABO 0. BXBLTB OTTXQS, TFntor den Linden 81, BIXBXL'S LIBBABT. 20 cento an agate line, 83.80 an Inch. One page, 8125; one-half page, 880; one-anarter page, $82.00. Charge* for portraits furnished on application. Special rate by the month for profeaalonal card under beading "Represent* tire Artists." Advertising copy should bo received by Thurs- day at noon to Insure publication In current Issue. hi.TT-:<l , sT»nf-I-. , .::-:I"J BUBSCBIPTIOB BATXB. Annual 84 Foreign 5 Six and three months In proportion. Single copies ten cents. VARIETY will be mslled to a permanent ad- dress or as per route, as desired. Advertisements forwarded by mall must be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety rnhllflhlng Co. Copyright, 1008, by Variety rubllahlng Co. VoL XII. NOVEMBER 21. New II. Harry Houdini's mother will join him in England next March. Rose Edythe opens at Atlantic City Monday as a single act. Felix and Barry—4 first play New York Dec. 28 at Hammerstein's. Maurice Levi and his Star Band may accept a vaudeville route. Caicedo, the wire walker, opens on the Moss-Stoll Tour, England, Nov. 28. Jos. Hart and Carrie De Mar left for England Wednesday on the Oceanic. Bennett's, London, will play pictures and vaudeville commencing Nov. 30. James Plunkett, of Reich & Plunkett, has been ordered by his physician to Ijikewood for a rest. McCone and Burns have been replaced The latest vaudeville act of Edmond ley and Co., commences its vaudeville tour by Kelso and Leighton in "The Parisian Hayes, after playing a week, has been at Cincinnati Nov. 80. The piece Is called Widows." disbanded. "The Never, Never Land." Alice Lloyd and The McNaughtons will play the Grand Opera House, Syracuse, next week. Geo. Abel has opened a booking agency in London, charging but five per cent, commission. Lucy Weston plays the Majestic, Chi- cago, next week, in order to be near "The Follies of 1908." Billie Powers and Marjorie Bonner, both of "The Follies of 1908," were married last Sunday in Cincinnati. Minnie Palroer*__jisfiif | t'»d _hy. Gans Towler and John R. Rodgers, opens at Atlantic City next week. Trovollo nas been booked over the United time for the remainder of the sea- son through Mudge & Prouty. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Odell Gordon (Odell and Kinley) received a baby girl on Nov. 11 at their home in the West. The Lyceum, Englewood, has changed management again. This time no one must know who is running it. The Casey Agency is booking the Sun- day night concerts at the Circle, the first of which was given last week. The final forms for Geo. Fuller Golden's volume, "My Lady Vaudeville" will close to advertisers on November 28. Max Anderson and Sam Gumpertz Hailed on the Adriatic for New York last Wednesday instead of last week. A new theatre combining a skating rink and palm garden will be built at Mineral Wells, Texas, according to a report. Nettie Zarnes, daughter of The Zarnes, was married to Andrew Frankberg, a non- professional, on Nov. 15 in New York. "A Thief in the Night," put out by Wilmer & Vincent, with Miss Neater fea- tured, opened at Easton, Pa., this weekv The mother of Dave Robinson, manager of the Colonial, was successfully operated upon by Dr. Leopold Weiss last Monday. May Leslie and Gertie Moyer have left the William Glaser act (reorganizing). The girls are "framing up" a "sister" number. Frank Melville has opened an office in the Gaiety Theatre Building for general bookings, including commercial employ- ment. Harding and Ah Sid, and Olive, the jug- gler, now play as one act under the title of Olive, Harding and Co. Mudge & Prouty are placing it. Although in receipt of many offers for further engagements in vaudeville, Annie Yeamans contracted to appear in Mar- garet Wycherly's support. The Brittons, colored, have been booked by B. Obermayer through Somen A Warner of London for a foreign trip next summer. Petroffs Animals (having ponies with a "revolving table") will show at Keeney's, Brooklyn, Dec. 7. It comes from the Barnum-Bailey Circus, booked for vaudeville by Paul Durand. Pat Casey has the handling of Henri Leonie, the singer who played with Anna Held last season, and will now invade vaudeville. Theo. T. Rook will enter vaudeville next season in a rural playlet called "Martin's Corners," written by Joseph R. Kettler. Mr. Rook is now out with the "No. 2" "Time, Place and Girl" company. Rock and Fulton resume their vaude- ville time Monday at the Fifth Avenue, and are routed up to March next through . Keller. An act inquired the other day if a cer- tain booking office thought it could "shift" them wherever it wanted to just because "they pay us a measly $2,000 a week salary." TLbTrct aid not "TrttffC* Charlotte Parry has been booked through Al Sutherland until Oct. '00 on this side. She will commence on the Orpheum Cir- cuit next March. Jos. Hart's "Bathing Girls" have been placed for the remainder of the season, first playing New York at the Colonial New Year's week. The Talkative Miss Norton (Angie) opened at the Bijou, Bayonne, Monday afternoon in a single act and closed her- self Monday evening. Catherine Nelson and Elizabeth Otto open on the "big time" at the Maryland, Baltimore, Nov. 23. It is a "piano act" with singing and changes. Both well Browne, in "Winning a Gib son Widow," has been placed on the United time until next June, opening at Keith's, Providence, Nov. 30. Tommy ("Checkers") Ross will open in New York on Nov. 30 with "At the Switchboard," a sketch. It has been play- ing out of town for a couple of weeks. Girard and Gardner have a new act in process of preparation, named "Dooley and the Idol." It was written by William G. Rose and will have special scenery and costumes. Geo. Fuller Golden has returned to Saranac, N. Y. Murphy and Willard filled up the program of the Fulton, Brooklyn, this week, where Mr. Golden was head- lined. B. A. Rolfe left Boston for England on Tuesday, accompanied by his "Colonial Septet" and "Ten Dark Knights," both acts having been placed in England through Pat Casey. May Bel fort will shortly resume her engagements in the United houses, having recovered from her recent indisposition. Mudge & Prouty direct Miss Bel fort's ager, and Joe Raymond, the agent. The Israel Zangwill sketch, an Orpheum Circuit number, played by Helen Grant- Laura CMeer, formerly of the Sisters CMeer, may join the Macart Sisters, both wire acts. Josie O'Meer is the wife of a member of Harry Tate's "Fishing." The couple are expecting an addition to the family. Sinclair's "Four Dancing Dolls" from the "Rents-Santley" show will probably play vaudeville following the burlesque season, by an arrangement entered into this week between Abe Leavitt, the man- tour. Mrs. Adams Kispadden, mother of Maude Adams, presented a new sketch called "Delilah" for a trial performance at the Orpheum, Salt Lake Oity, on Wednesday of this week. Bowman John- son was the principal of the piece. Harry Burns, of Blocksom and Burns, with which act he has been for the past seven years, says he is not the Tom Burns referred to lately as having decided to leave the stage. Mr. Burns and Harry Blocksom will continue to travel as a team. The act is now in the northwest. Jack Levy, the agent, placed an act this week with a manager, stating in Mr. Levy's usual vehement and enthusiastic manner that if the number were not the hit of the show, he (Levy) would pay the salary himself. To-morrow night the man- ager is going to give the act an order on Mr. Levy for the week's salary. Eddie Prevost has returned to the stage in the revised act of Prevost and Prevost. It is now the Four Prevosts, Dan Glin- serretti and another acrobat having been added. Joe Raymond is placing the num- ber. It is at Poli's, Waterbury, this week. Eddie Prevost is claimed to have been the first tumbler to do a "double from the ground.' »» Arnold Daly concludes his present vaudeville contract at Hammerstein's next week. The managers are willing that Mr. Daly should continue in his Mark Twain sketch at $1,500 weekly, but Mr. Daly feels that $2,000 should be the fig- ure. Thin eontlirt of vnlue may inter- fere with the actoi-V. future time in the varieties.