Variety (April 1909)

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The Red Eagle Family open April 25 for six weeks in London. Will H. Fox will play at the Colonial and 125th Street next week. Sirronje (Mrs. E. T. Norris) added a daughter to her family recently. Newell and Niblo returned to New York last week after a long trip abroad. Frank and Marion Moore will leave "The Behman Show" on April 10. Grace Hazard heads the bill at the Criterion, Atlantic City, next week. The Morris Circuit now bill their fea- tures as "first" and "second headliners." Alva York, an English girl, makes her American debut at the Bijou, Orange, next week. Alexander and Scott will return to Europe, opening in Glasgow. They sail May 5. appears in the east at the Lyric, Newark, Monday. The Bijou, Brooklyn, and the Cambria, Johnstown, Pa., will remain closed during Holy Week. Blanche Sloan has been signed for the Morris Circuit, opening at the Orpheum, Boston, Monday. Edwin Sevens and Tiny Marshall have returned to vaudeville in "An Evening With Dickens." Nina Gordon, a Scotch mimic, appears in America for the first time at the Al- hambra Monday. The Franklin Square, Worcester, Mass., became a popular priced house on the Joe Wood string this week. Clifford and Burke, the blackface come- dians, will present their new act at the Fifth Avenue April 5. Lizzie Evans and Jefferson Lloyd have the Orpheum route. They open at St. Louis April 12. Casey. Rice and Cady open on the Morris Cir- cuit at the Orpheum, Boston, April 5, booked through B. A. Myers. Eddie Darling is now booking for the Orpheum, Atlanta. This leaves Joe Weber with Binghamton to look after. Harry Mundorf left for London last Saturday, partly for recreation. Buckner, the agent, sailed on the same boat. Brady and Mahoney open in vaudeville August 30 next under a "blanket" contract of 40 weeks, issued by the United. The Tomsons, who produced "The Mas- ter Mystery," an illusion, in London, open with it at the Alhambra next week. The Bijou Theatres at Orange and New Brunswick will "split" the week here- after, the bills at each interchanging. Coccia and Amato have an "Apache" dance framed up with three people be- sides themselves. They open at Spokane April 11 on the Pantages Circuit. Felix Haney and Helen Byron with a company open at the Auditorium, Lynn, Mass., April 12 in a sketch. The booking was entered through Jack Levy. "The Dixie Serenaders" will be revived by William Josh Daly. The new act will have its members working in blackface, instead of containing colored folk. Valerie Bergcre will present her latest sketch, "The Lion Tamer" (a "circus" piece) at the Orpheum, Brooklyn, next week. Walsh, Lynch and Co., at present with Irwin's "Big Show," have been booked over the Orpheum Circuit for next season by Pat Casey. Rinaldo, a violinist from the west, first The monster benefit to be given by the Arab Patrol at the Metropolitan Opera House April 27 will be stage managed by Harry Leonhardt. James J. Jeffries is billed to play at the Fulton, Brooklyn, next week, appear- ing at the American, New York, April 12, for two weeks. Lucy Clark and her Eight Melster- singers, a new act under the management of Sam A. Meyer, opened at the Lyric, Hoboken this week. The foundations of Percy G. Williams' new Bronx theatre have been laid, and the announcement is made that the place will open Labor Day. Harry Fisher and Rose Botti have been engaged by Morris, and will open at the American, New York, April 5. Their act is called "A Letter from Home." John Glendenning has a modern play- let, and will show it at Atlantic City April 12. There are three people in the cast. W. L. Lykens is the agent. Henry C. and Mrs. Jacobs (Jacob & Jtrmon) will start Sunday on a pleasure trip to California. The jaunt is made at the direction of Mr. Jacobs' doctors. Chase's, Washington, closes May 17. Charlie Stevenson is going over to the capitol next week to find out how much the house did during the Inauguration. Bill Dillon will again appear upon the Morris Circuit next season. His contracts for England call for an appearance in the Spring and Summer of 1010; not 1000. Yorke and Adams close their season in "Playing the Ponies" May 1. They have submitted themselves for four weeks of vaudeville engagements beginning May 3 through their agent, Alf. T. Wilson. Bert Cooper will present a Gypsy violin- ist, Charles Kunen, at a recital to be held at Mendelssohn Hall en April 17. Mr. Cooper says, "Ah, he is one grand fiddler—and T 'discovered' him." Nance O'Neill will remain about fifteen weeks more in vaudeville, opening for the Orpheum Circuit on April 5. Wm. L. Lykens is the exclusive manager and di- rector of Miss O'Neill's vaudeville tour. Cohan & Harris have changed the title of "The Majesty of Birth" to "The House Next Door." This C. & H. show will probably open at the Gaiety, Now York, instead of the firm's "The Fortune Hunter," with Tom W. Ross. Mrs. William Morris engineered a vaude- ville entertainment on Thursday afternoon for the amusement of the inmates of the Manhattan State Institution for the In- sane. It is a charity in which Mrs. Mor- ris is much interested. Cook's Opera House, Rochester, will close with vaudeville the week of May 31. Messrs. Moore & Wiggins, its managers, will make some disposition of the theatre next week probably. Next season the firm is to play vaudeville in the new house now building there. Clarice Vance, "the Southern Singer," plays the American Misie Hall, New York, next week, her last In this country before her departure for the other aide. Miss Vance opens in London May 10, sail- ing April 28 from this sioe. She will be back in the States in June. Stella Mayhew has been engaged to open at Manchester, England, April 10, with the following week routed for the Coliseum, London. The booking went through the New York Marinelli office and L. Johns, the Moaa-Stoll representative in this city. Billie Taylor, Miss Mayhsw's husband, will accompany her, appearing in the set there as he does here. "Meyer & Son," the racial piece which turned over at the Garden Theatre the other week, will be rewritten for a tour next season with the consent of the au- thor, Thos. Addison. There is a "Down- town" New York business man who thinks the piece will be a go If properly reconstructed. Dr. Bill Lykens has agreed in the thought, for Lykens placed him in that frame of mind. Jack Lorimer has been called away from bis run at the American, Chicago, to take the place of Annette Kellerman on the Morris time. He leaves the Windy City tonight in order to reach New York in time to go on at the American here next Monday. Following the retirement of Miss Kellerman from the American bill this week, Felix and Cairo were brought down from the Lincoln Square to substitute. The children played both houses all week. B. F. Barnet, one of the very few newspaper men who have essayed song writing as a side line with suoosss, has just turned out another lyric with music by Tsd Snyder. The composition is called "When Other Hearts Havs Closed Their Doors." The Ted Snyder Co. Is the pub- lisher. Bill. Jerome in his "Tin Pan Alley Jingles" recently mentioned the f iited time spent by newspaper men ol lyrics. Bill batted a homer when he penned that paragraph. Clifford and Alex. Fischer are in town. Clifford will await the calling in the Su- preme Court on April 7 of his lawsuit against William Morris for an accounting of the commissions received by Morris on foreign acta during the Klaw & Erlanger vaudeville time. About $28,000 is in- volved. Alex, came back with a mustache and hat. He stands for the hat, but ex- cuses the mustache by saying that he was ill recently. That is no excuse for that mustache. It's the only real laugh which has struck Broadway for months. It is reported in London that a number of American acts are contemplating a trip over there this summer on "spec." Unless you want a vacation, and are not over anxious to play—Don't. When the Eng- lish managers become aware that Ameri- can acts are on the ground looking for time, and not engaged, the salary is given a slice that reduces it at least one-half. This has happened ever so often before and will happen again. Don't go to Eng- land looking for work; if you go to work, secure the contracts in advance, at least for a few weeks—or don't go at all.