Variety (March 1909)

VARIBTT KIETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Pnbttohod every flatwday by THB VARIBTT PUBLISHING CO. UN Bieadway. Timos kun, Vow Yorh Otty. IMS ULTEBMAV. wetter Pes—i b er H, 1900, el Me Pert Q0se el ITee? Tern, V. 7., ne4er tee eel ef Confront of iter** S, 1919, OHIGAOO 01TIGB, teg* Opera Enn (Phono, Main MM). «. losoov oma, 411 Strand (Goblo, "JAMfVMk iMta,") J. runuv, in ■aw nAjranoo omoB, UU Tu Bom Am (1MB 111). SDnm omos. rotal Thestro KAttY BXAXm OST. fabu onus, DWABD a. KSM9BXW, *opioioaUUio, B1ETJW OYI1GB, Vntor don XJndon 01, '■ XIMLABY. to coots an agate line, 91.80 an Inch- Om pon, |1M; ono-balf pago, MS; ono-qoarter pago, Obargos for portraits fnralahod on application. apodal rnto by ton Booth for profomlonal card •odor hooding '' B o pro o to UttfO Artlata." Advertising eopj ohoold bo rocolTod by Than- daj at noon to lnonro pnbUestlon In enrront Iniao. Charmion plays the Fifth Avenue April 5, placed by Pat Gaaey. Speedy, the high diver, who was in- jured recently at the American, is about again. The Tossing Austins return to America June 1, after an absence of two years in Europe. Lindsay Morrison will take the manage- ment of the Orpheum, Boston, for William Morris. A hearing on Assemblyman Voss' "com- mission" bill will be held at Albany next Thursday. World and Kingston in June next will commence their eleventh trip over the Or- pheum Circuit. Percy G. Williams will make his usual foreign trip, starting Europeward some time during May. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sidman on March 0 at 2664 East 59th street, Cleveland. Jacques Kmger, with L. R. Lefferson, will present a sketch on the Morris time, opening March 29. Homer B. Mason and Marguerite Keeler will close their season with "A Stubborn Cinderella" about May 2. „On.4wl %in Brpoltfya.Wertf Bergere will present "The lion Tamer," involving a large cast and production. )V The Howard Brothers, "flying Banjos," are due to arrive in New York to-day (Saturday) on the Campania. Garter De Haven will continue to play Geo. Cohan's role in "The Yankee Prince" for the remainder of the season. Laddie Cliff will open on the Western time during April, having been booked for 28 weeks, starting from Qiicago. The Opera House, Mt. Oarmel, Pa., opened last Monday with vaudeville, be- coming a stand on the Mozart Circuit. Alvora, for the past four years with Ja- cobs A Jermon, has singed with Pat White and his "Gaiety Girls" for next season. Tom Fitzpatrick is in charge of the Al. Sutherland booking oflLe while Mr. Suth- erland, who has gone to Europe, is away. Lotie Fremont will remain in Connie Ediss' place in "The Girl Behind the Coun- ter" for the remainder of the show's sea- son. Clifford Fischer did not arrive last Fri- day on the Mauretania. He is due to sail from Liverpool to-day (March 20) on the Lumtania. The Morris-Shea house at Union Hill reopens March 22. The underwriters closed it a few days to make necessary alterations. Mrs. James Brown Potter sailed for England on the Mauretania last Wednes- day. William Morris received the news with a sob. The National in Havana, Cuba, will be taken over May 1 by Santos y Artigas, and vaudeville will probably be replaced in the house. Nellie Beaumont has commissioned Alf T. Wilton to procure an opening for her as a single act. Miss Becumont was with in New York." The Eastern Wheel burlesque house in Memphis is closed. This gives the East- erners two weeks lay off between Cin- cinnati and Kansas City. There is a show at a Proadway theatre {.laying to a loss weekly, and has ainoe opening, on the expectation it will receive a "good route" next season. Diamond and Smith, the illustrated song singers, have dissolved partnership by mutual consent. Each will engage in business connected with theatricals. Greenwairs Theatre, New Orleans, opens with vaudeville April 26. Stair A Hav- lin popular priced attractions will prob- ia * ne nou *« during the matinee to watch ably occupy the house next season. eacn ***• Al H. Woods will produce a large scenic piece to be called "Slumming" next August. It may be in the nature of a "revue." There will be fourteen scenes. -j.il* if- reported /that £rnest JHPga», has sufficiently .restored from his recant "ill- ness to again think of reappearing upon the stage, which he may do in vaudeville before the season closes. Hie Mittenthal Brothers are said to have purchased "The Soul Kiss" and "The Parisian Model," with the intention of playing both pieces over the Klaw & E>r- langer time next season. Camille D'Arville commences to play the Orpheum Circuit in April. The booking was made .direct between Martin Beck and Lee Shubert. The Shuberts have Miss D'Arville under contract. "The Co-Ed," Elsie Janis' show at the Knickerbocker, will probably terminate its run during Aprill, to be followed in that theatre by the new Dillingham pro- duction now in rehearsal. Sig. Wachter, the booking agent of the Knickerbocker Theatre Building, will book the new Unique on Market Street, Phila- delphia, through William D. Hall, its man- ager and agent in Philadelphia. "The Newly weds and Their Baby," the new Shubert production, playing for the past two weeks in Philadelphia (where it opened), comes to the Majestic, New York, on March 22 for an indefinite stay. "At the Waldorf" is said to have been booked at the Fifth Avenue for a run of four weeks. It opened there last Monday, and at the night show was changed from the closing position to "No. 4" on the bill. Fred Bowers will enlarge his vaudeville production "College Days" into a two-act piece, starring in it next season. The book and lyrics will be supplied by Charles Horwitz; Mr. Bowers will furnish the music. Ed Wynn will have the principal "straight" role of "The Girl From Rec tor's" (No. 2 show), which is to open in Chicago April 11. "Mr. Busy-Body" Wynn's vaudeville piece, will remain on the shelf for awhile. Fred Bradna and Ella Derrick, the rid- ing act, who leave the Hippodrome to- night to join the Barnum-Bailey Circus at Chicago, have been rebooked to play the big New York house for twelve weeks commencing Nov. 29. Rajah, and Hoey and Lee are two acts bcoked for the first f veek of Hammer stein's Roof in June. The betting is now even money and take your choice that Rajah will or will not play the house until the Roof opens. Early in the week somebody placed "Paint" signs around the walls of Ham- merstein's in the orchestra. Willie Ham merstein fell for the joke, and felt so good upon finding the walls dry, remained Jos. Shea will leave for Europe the last of April. While across, he may secure six foreign acrobatic dancers to place in his "Rocking Girls," using the swlngover only of the present number fof the finale of the rearranged number ttfest seeeeni 1 ^ Eddie Clarke and his "Winning Widows," renamed "The Merry Kiddos," left Lon- don on March 9. Mr. Clarke sailed on the Saxonia for Boston, where he will remain a few days after landing. He is rebooked on the other side for two years from next September. A report about this week that acta on the same bill with Jack Johnson at Ham- merstein's might object if Johnson should be headlined could not be traced to any confirmatory source. No concerted action by turns playing that week (March 29) has been taken. Johnson arrived in New York on Thursday. Mr. Hymack did not appear at the Fifth Avenue for a couple of performances this week, his contract prescribing he should not show before a certain hour. In the readjustment of the bill, the management placed Hymack earlier, and the Engliah- nan fell back on his agreement. For a wonder, the contract stood the strain. Miss LaVelle, of LaVelle and St. Clair, is in a private hospital at 26 West 61st street, Dayton, 0. She was taken sud- denly ill at the Monday matinee in the Lyric Theatre, that city, and had to be assisted from her dressing room She was removed to the hospital, where the doc- Urs decided upon an immediate operation for appendicitis. Geagolis, a Greek sharpshooter, recently appearing at the Novelty, Brooklyn, has been engaged by Prince John De Guelpe, of Greece, to accompany the Prince's par- ty on a tiger hunt in India. The marks- man will receive $5,000 for his services. Al Gallager booked Geogalis into the Novelty, but hasn't claimed commission yet on the royal engagement. The Prince was in New York when he heard about his countryman on the stage. St. Patrick's Day was a great day for Pat Casey. He blew in the St. James Building with green all over, from his necktie to his hose, but with all Pat's display, he didn't give isellie Fallon, Jessie Wroe and Kitty Shanley, the stenogra- phers, a half day off to see the parade. When a Casey throws a Fallon and a Shanley, it's pretty tough. The girls want this "handed" to Casey and he ought to get it, too, for they looked nice enough to have broken up the procession. Eddie Pidgeon, the General Publicity Promoter for the Morris Circuit, may take a vacation for a week or so. Eddie has been working thirty hours a day since he went on the job, but the grind has told, and there is an uncountable mass of clip- pings in substantiation, for Mr. Pidgeon has turned off many a trick. Nothing bet- ter has been noticed in press agency than when a daily headlined the coming of Jeffries to New York over the inaugura- tion of President Taft. That's hitting the high mark, son.