Variety (January 1909)

VARIETY KIETY A Variety Paper lor Variety People Pnnllaait ovary fcttsaday by THB VARIETY PUBU8HINO CO. Knickerbocker Taoetre Building. 1408 Broadway* Naw York City. TWaphoaa-llSl-a St. ►{IS} 1 JHtaratf as afoo a oVola t s ssaitev Daoamoer 22, 1005, a* tht Post epos at JTe* Tar*, jr. 7., taa ag a/ Cafraaa a/ Afro* a, 18T». ohzoaoo oirxqi. ). ( LOVDOV OJTIO*, 411 Strand (Oe>ele, "Jeeafna, Leaden.") JXMB J. Iimm, la aharaa. sab rmAJrazioo ottigb,' 1118 Van Van Ave. (Beam 111). W. ALWMMB WHJOJT, Bajraaaatattva. mVTEB OTTIOB, Oryetal Theatre Bnildla*. HABIT BEAUMOBT, Bepreeeatatlve. fabis oma, MBU. Bm Saint Didler, SBWABB 0. ZXBBBSW, Bepreeeatatlve. BKBLDI OF1HJB, Uater tea Xiadaa II, BIUEL'l LXBBABT. ABYSB1 M canta aa agata Una, 88.88 aa lack. Om $186; one-half page, 880; oaa-qaartor page. Ohargea for portralta farnleaed oa application. Special rata by tba month (or profaaalonal card aeaar kaadlaf "BepreaoatattTe Artlata." Advertlalng copy ahoold ba received by Than- day at noon to laaara pabllcatloa la cvrraat Inane. ■ubsobibtxob bates. Annual 84 Foraifn 5 Six and thrca moothe la proportion. Single ceplce 10 canta. VARIETY will ba mailed to a permanent ad- areas or aa par route, aa dealred. AdTcrtloementn forwarded by mall moat be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety PabUabJaff Co. Copyright, 1808, by Variety Publlebtng Co. Vet XIU. JANUARY 30. No. 8. The examination of the two reporter* on the New York Preu who assaulted Oscar Hammerstein last Saturday night came up yesterday. It has been decided to continue the Hudson, Union Hill, N. J., for vaudeville under the same management. The patron- age during the past three weeks with a new policy of an "all comedy show" war- ranted the extension. Three acts were loaned by the Fulton (Morris), Brooklyn, last Sunday to help out the show on the same day at the Broadway, supposed to secure its Sunday programs from the United. The Fulton loaning to the Broadway has been a fre- quent occurrence. The Morris office may secure an ex- tension of Severin's time beyond the week of Feb. 8, when the original engagement closes. If the pantomimist can be secured for further appearances he will put on a new wordless drama, of which he has an extensive repertoire. Willard's "Temple of Music," a "Morris act," now playing on the Morris Circuit and appearing upon the "Opposition Sheet" printed, in Vaatxty last Saturday^ was at Keeney's Brooklyn, on Sunday. Keeney's books through the United, which bars "opposition acts." Emma Carus will appear in a new musical comedy at the Casino, New York, in the spring. She is under the manage- ment of the Shuberts, but has several more weeks in vaudeville for William Morris. The suit for commission against Rock and Fulton, brought by Jack Levy was tried on Tuesday in Boston, Tom Barry (Boston) and Gus Dreyer (New York) appearing as Levy's attorneys. Decision was reserved. Minnie Seligman and William Bramwell, who have been away from these parts for a year or more, are due to return to vaudeville. M. S. Bentham is offering the pair in a new sketch "Public Opinion," played in London by Beerbohm Tree. A complimentary dinner will be ten- dered Frank Fogerty Tuesday evening, Feb. 2, in the banquet hall of the Acade- my of Music, Brooklyn. Five dollars each plate will be charged. The Honorary Com- mittee for the affair is composed of 100 of Brooklyn's best citizens. The comedian of the Artois Bros., who had a disagreement a couple of weeks ago, opened with a new partner at the Broadway, Oamden, this week. The other brother has returned to Europe. There were several weeks ahead of the act over United time booked by Pat Casey. Gladys Sears is at the New York Hos- pital, 15th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York. Miss Sears was removed there Jan. 23. She is registered at the hospital under her private name, Mrs. Chas. E. Taylor. May Belmont, also of the "Tiger Lilies," is laid up with an injured leg. Melville Ellis opens at the Palace, Lon- don, March 1, for four weeks. Mr. Ellis will play about on the United time until then, and has sufficient engagements east and west, following his return from abroad, to keep the pianologist busily em- ployed in vaudeville for a year or more. The Golden troupe of Russian Dancers had to be re-formed through the princi- pals having been engaged for the "Casino Girls" as an act while the troupe ap- peared as a special feature with the show. Alexander Steiner, the agent for the a,' says direful things will follow the signing of the pair. The bar receipts for Thursday evening at Hammerstein's established a record for the house. They were $3.10. At the same rate this will be the beet week of the season at Hammerstein's. During the in- termission Thursday the barman sold three drinks at once. (Doc Steiner bought two—for himself.) Henry Olive, the monologistic magician will start upon a tour of forty weeks in the West, playing a return engagement over the_ Orpheum Circuity an increase of salary having been secured by Jack Levy. Mr. Give has just finished a western tour, and is booked in the east until June. The opening performance of the week's bill at the Crystal, Denver, has been changed from Mondays to Saturdays, al- lowing acts on the Pantages-Western States Circuit to make the Crystal, St. Joe, Mo., the following Monday, without losing the week, which has heretofore been customary at^this point of the route. Kessler and Luckie, the youngsters who lately appeared about here for the first time, have been placed on the Qui- livan-Oonsidine Circuit for twenty weeks, "ommencipg March 22 at Winnipeg. The Kessler in the turn is a brother of Aaron Kessler, the enterprising young assistant director of the Hammerstein establish- ment. Jerome Siegel, in recognition of the mon- ster and successful entertainment recently supplied for one evening at an affair where Mr. Siegel was chairman of the Enter- tainment Committee, has presented Al. Sutherland with a handsome gun metal figure of "The Sphinx," placed upon an onyx base. Mr. Sutherland locks it in his office safe each night. A New York paper printed a cable last week saying that Mrs. Patrick Campbell had appeared in vaudeville in London in a sketch named "Olive Latimer's Husband." Mrs. Campbell appeared in a play of that title at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, a legitimate playhouse. The story of the piece treats of marriages engineered by parents. It was not well received. Neil Burgess and his condensed ver- sion of "The County Fair" will be the headline™ at the Fifth Avenue next week. The racetrack episode from the rural drama has been so arranged that the .horses start from the back and come head-on toward the footlights, turning to the side at the finish. The act played Baltimore this week for the first time. Gus Hill has retired from participation in the German "Merry Widow" enterprise. Paper was being prepared and contracts had been signed with Henry W. Savage for the tour of the company, and a route had been laid out when Hill decided to quit. The production will be made, how- ever, and will probably travel in the popu- lar-priced houses controlled by Klaw &, Erlanger. On Wednesday, when Henrv Berlingholf, of the Morris office, answered the tele- phone some one asked if he could secure a good "Salome" dancer for an entertain- ment. "Sure," replied Berlinghoff. "How much do you want to spend?" "Oh, about $5," was the reply. "You don't want a 'Salome' dancer; you want a hand organ and a monkey," said the Morris office rep- resentative as he broke the transmitter in his fury. Commencing August 1 next at Detroit, M. S. Bentham is dreaming of a trip to Italy. Mrs. Bentham goes along, even in the dream. A little villa at Lucerne is the Bentham "dope." He may sell his yacht, automobile, cottage and hunting suit if necessary. The cottage is in New Rochelle; the yacht is in dry dock at Am- sterdam on the Erie Canal; the automo- bile is being held for a feed bill, and the hunting suit is represented by a ticket. The "split" is doing it. Ralph Johnstone opened at Spokane in a Sullivan-Considine house on Jan. 24; Hetty Urma started the circuit Jan. 18 at Winnipeg in a "single act"; the Georg- ettes commenced the 25th at the same town; Elmer Tenley and "The New Zea- land Tree-Fellers" opened at Winnipeg Jan. 18, and Adolph Zink starts in to- morrow (Sunday) at Spokane with his change act, all booked through Chris O. Brown in New York, the S.-C. represen- tative. The reason Thos. W. Ross left "Awake at the Switch" was that the managers concluded almost anyone could play the part, and almost any one would play ftt for a great deal less money than Mr. Ross received. Vaudeville is very commercial when it has a sketch—and a good one— even though it be necessary to secure a "star" to obtain an opening. Now the question remains; would "Awake at the Switch" have been voted a "good sketch" without Tommy Ross in the original cast? Richard Pitrot hasn't visited Europe in over a year. Maybe it's two years. Pitrot is a foreign agent, too. Once upon a time when Pitrot announced he would sail, the foreign papers would be filled with advertisements of a tailor over there, say- ing, "I make the clothes Richard Pitrot wears". (Pitrot furnished the photographs). One day while in Berlin Pitrot wore a suit which every one swore he had made him- self, and the tailor stopped advertising. 86 it wouldn't do Pitrot any good to go to Europe now. There is a little cheap and nasty sheet being published in Detroit, which is villi- fying the women in burlesque. The villi- flcation is going on solely for the purpose of attracting attention with lascivious reading. It is aiming apparently for the high journalistic pedestal which the New Orleana Sun stands upon. One Joe Pasen is connected with the Detroit sheet. Per- haps Pazen would like us to print his record. We ought to do it just to give him a receipt in full. Willard Holcomb, one time press agent for the B. F. Keith houses, with head- quarters in the Union Square Theatre, has returned to his old desk as dramatic editor of the Washington Pott. Holcomb held that position before he came to New York, twelve years ago, to be general publicity man for Liebler & Co. He ap- peared in the Capitol about a month ago as agent for one of the Shubert produc- tions. It happened that Isadora Duncan was playing Washington the night he ar- rived and The Post hod no man to review the show. They asked Holcomb to do it for the paper, and then invited him back to the stafT. Holcomb returned to New York, and aa soon as he could settle up his affairs here accepted the invitation.