Variety (January 1909)

VARIETY 11 The Novellos, tailed for»^Eropa this week. . "The Georgia Campers" open with Morris on Feb* 8. Martin Beck and Pat Casey may return about Feb. 10 or 12. Hathaway's, Maiden, closes this week. Pictures may reopen it. Harry Conlon, of Conlon and Carter, died at Chicago last week. The Morris office will book a new house at Hasleton, Pa., commencing Feb. 1. Felix and Caire may be held over for the third week at the American, Chicago. • M Lyons and Parks, with their new $1,600 harp, return to Hammerstein's next week- Mike Whalen arrived on the Oarmania last week for a visit to his home over here. E. J. Connolly, in "Marse Covington," opens at the Colonial, Monday. Bentham (split). Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Forbes in 'The Wild Rose" open at the Lincoln Square Monday. McKensie and Shannon have signed with Jesse Lasky to appear in "At the Waldorf." Charlotte Parry and Co. return to Lon- don to open May 3, next, at the Tivoli, in that city. William Morris is expected to return to his New York offices in about a week or ten days. Robert S. Gillen, president of the Gillen Printing Co., died last week at his home in Brooklyn. Troja has been' especially engaged by W. B. Watson for the "Cozy Corner Girls" for five weeks. The Stellings opened at the Tivoli, Lon- don, last Monday, booked through B. Obermayer. Joe Whitehead has left the "Red Mill" end is in vaudeville (Orpheum Circuit) as a single act. Czinka Panna with cymbal and two dogs, foreign act, is ready to show in New York City. Jack Lorimer leaves the other side on Feb. 17, and will open March 1 or 8 on the Morris Circuit. Mabel McKinley opens on the Sullivan- Considine Circuit next month, booked through B. A. Myers. If Frank Queen could return to earth and see the mess being made of his dearly beloved sheet! The Sullivan-Considine Circuit is book- ing vaudeville into Colorado Springs and at the Grand, Pueblo, Colo. "Vio" Williams, son of Percy G., mar- ried Louise Holmes, of Utica, N. Y., at Denver last week. The Fassio Trio, now appearing at the New York Hippodrome, will open on tho Morris time February 15. Bva Tanguay, after a rest of a week, will appear at Keith-Proctor's 126th Street Theatre next week. "The Yankee Prince" played to $2,500 in one performance at the Park Theatre, Youngstown, O., last week. F. S. Waldo returned to New York this week. Mr. Waldo says he has been in Iowa since last heard from. Melodrama at the Lyceum, Cincinnati, has been discontinued. Pictures will probably supplant the lurid. Gus Edwards is ready to appear in vaudeville as a single act. The Casey agency is looking for the time. Chiquita holds over at the Columbia, Brooklyn, this week. Pictures open and close the bill only there now. Fred Clark, of Du Ross and Clark, danc- ers, died last week in Cincinnati of tuber- culosis at the age of twenty. Juliet? gave her impersonations with- out announcements nor change of costume at the American last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bray are ex- pected to return to New York some time next week on the DentBchland. Jack Levy expects to have the original Sunshine and Tempest act brought to- gether once more for vaudeville. Maurice Freeman and Co. were booked for the Bennett Circuit and Proctor time this week through Alf. T. Wilton. Jim Thornton is booked to open at Cin- cinnati, Feb. 7, preliminary to a trip to the coast over the Orpheum Circuit. "The Mysterious Mermaids" are two young girls who will perform in a tank of water at the Fifth Avenue next week. Al. Sutherland has signed Helena Frederick, the soprano, to head his vaude- ville operatic production, "The Patriot." Delia Fox will have an entirely new act when reopening in vaudeville under the direction of Wesley & Pincus. It was reported on Thursday the United managers expected to commence bookings next week for the '09-10 season. Chevalier De Loris is in Seattle, Wash., arranging for his "Pianotorium" at the Alaskan Exposition to be held next sum- mer. John Davenport, an acrobat and a mem- ber of the White Rats until 1006, died Jan. 14 at Nevenville, N. Y., of tubercu- losis. Nat Le Roy has given the White Rats a receipt in,full for $1,045.60, the pro- ceeds of the benefit given him by the Rats. Morie and Scome, a juggling act from the other, side, will arrive here the latter end of March, imported by Wesley & Pincus. Wills Holt Wakefield will play Ham- merstein's for two weeks, commencing March 1, a return engagement within two months. Alice Lloyd may be called to play three weeks in Chicago before her contemplated vacation at Mt. demons has been really commenced. The Herald Square Theatre under tho management of the Shuberts, as previous to the fire, is expected to reopen in about three weeks. Thomas V. Morrison, once of vaudeville, is playing the role of Father Keefe in Mrs. Leslie Carter's play "Kassa" at the Lib- erty Theatre. The Orpheum, Leavenworth, Kans., was destroyed last week by explosion and fire. It was fully covered by insurance, and may be rebuilt. Sasha Gordien, a foreign young woman with a violin, who has never appeared on this side, opens at the Bijou, Perth Am- boy, next week. Rajah, the champion all-over "wiggler" of Broadway, holds over at ITammer- stein's next week, the third for Mr. Huber's protege uptown. Mabel Berra, at present with "Little Nemo," will play in Budapest (at the Os-Budavara) commencing May 1. Placed abroad by B. Obermayer. Paul Tausig's Steamship Agency on East 14th Street, New York, has been appointed an official ticket office for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Charles E. Smith, manager of the Prin- cess, Youngstown, 0., and Marie Daley, singer of illustrated songs in that house, were married there last week. Lillian Wilson, a member of the New York Hippodrome Company, is now Mrs. Harry Jolson, having recently become the wife of the vaudeville comedian. Yamamoto and Koyashi, the Jap equili- brists, now playing for William Morris, will sail for England in about four weeks, opening on the Moss-Stoll Tour. The Fortune Brothers, a foreign act booked for the Pan tapes' time, break their jump to tho Northwest this week by playing at the American, Chicago. "Tcn-Tw|m£vtfir*y, tt will first show at £rucior's* Newark, in July. It will be directed on the circuits by Jack Levy. I "Happy Hooligan" will shortly take to the road again under the joint m a n a y - ment of Gus Hill and Bob Manchester, playing over the Stair & Havlin time. Hardeen plays the Mohawk, Schenec- tady, next week, under a Klaw & Er« langer "Advanced Vaudeville" contract, with about ten weeks unexpired yet to play. Emerin Campbell, the principal of a sketch playing on the Orpheum Circuit, was married on Jan. 14 at Denver to Aubrey Campbell, her main support in the playlet. M. R. Sheedy will open a combination picture and vaudeville show at the Woon- socket (R. L) Opera House on Aonday. The acts will be booked through Gallager & Wood. E. F. Albee will be removed from the Albany Hospital to his New York home on Feb. 0. Mr. Albee walked about a lit* tie in the hospital last Sunday for the first time. Harry Lauder returns to the Lincoln Square Monday, and may remain there until he leaves for home on Feb. SO, unless his time with Morris over here to prolonged Mr. and Mrs. Lucas arrived from Eng- land Tuesday of this week. They will make their first American appearance in "Characters from Dickens" next week at the American. Ameta, the mirror dancer, who was to have appeared at the Wintergarten, Ber- lin, this month, has postponed her open- ing until next fall. She has been booked in the middle west and coast. Herbert Lloyd, who is now in England, will come over for the Morris Circuit in March. The Dewynncs, a foreign comedy act, will open on the same time also during that month. The block containing the Teck at Buf- falo was damaged to the amount of $40,000 last Sunday by fire. The theatre had a close call, but the May Robson Co. showed in the house on Monday night. A dress rehearsal of "Spiritland" watched by many managers and Thursday afternoon at the New York Theatre. It is a Louis F. Werba produc- tion, and will first be seen publicly next week at the Greenpoint. J. Fred Lees, manager of the Colonial, Lawrence, Mass., was served with a summons in a suit to recover $100 this week. Gus Edwards is the plaintiff, and he seeks the amount fined one of his acts by the manager. John "B. ITymer's latest production, Jack Binns, the Marconi operator on the 8Unken Republic, has declined vaude- ville proposals. Hinns snys the stage would hurt his prostip- in England, and Marconi says he won't release his hero. Binna will sail for London today or early nrxt week.