Variety (September 1909)

VARIETY niETY A Variety Paper for Variety People. Published erery Saturday by THB VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. 1636 Broadway, Tlui«»n Squire, New York City. Telephone I j^J I Bryant Proprietor. Entered as second-date matter December 22. 1908, of the Poet Office at New York. N. Y., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. CHICAGO OFFICE, 70S Cbiosfo Opera Hooae Blook, (Phono, Mala MIS). E. E. MEREDITH, I0HV 7. COOHVOB, Boprosontatlvos. L0ND0V OFFICE, 418 Strand (Cable, "Jesafreo, London") JESSE J. FBEEMAV, In oharfe. BAV FBAVCISCO OFFICE, SOM Batter St. LESTER FOUBTADT, BepresentatlTe. DEBTEE OFFICE, Crystal Theatre Boildlnf. HARRY BEAVMORT, BoproooatatWe. PARIS OFFICE. 66 Bis. Rue Saint Didior, EDWARD O. SERDREW, BoprosoatatUe. BERLTR OFFICE, Dater dan Linden 61, RIESEL'S LIBRARY O. M. SEXBT, Rap r eaantatiTe. Hnie card may be found In adTertlsing section of this Issue. 5 SUR8CRIPTI0V RATES. An mini Km* Ign '••% Six sud three months In proportion. Slugle copies 10 cents. VARIETY will be mailed to a permanent ad dreMs or as per route, as desired. Advertisements forwarded by mall must be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety I'qbllshlng Co. Copyright, 1000, by Variety Publishing Co. VoL XV. SEPTEMBER 4. No. 13. Pauline opens at the Fulton, Brooklyn, to night (Saturday). W. V. Jennings i§ managing Fred Ir- win's "Gibson's Girls." Junie McCree has been placed on the Morris time by B. A. Myers. • Herman Timberg, in "Schooldays," opens at Pittsburg Labor Day. Grace Wilson, the singing comedienne, is in New York arranging bookings. B. A. Myers has placed Lind to open Sept. 6 at the American, Chicago. William D. Waldron has been appointed treasurer of the Hudson, Union Hill, N. J. Ed. Davidson has been appointed busi- ness representative for Tom Miner's "Bohemians." Ballot Brothers, a new act from the west is at the Bijou, Bayonne, this week, In>oked by the I. B. A. Bimin-Bomm-Brrr, the musical turn, will arrive in New York to open Sept. 20, placed by Edw. 8. Keller. a new act written by Sam Ehrlich called "The Four Squabs." Carrie DeMar opens next week at the Alhambra in her new songs and char- acters, headlining the bill. Doc Steiner booked the Matzetti Troupe to return to this country, opening at the Colonial, New York, Dec. 20. Although programed Dorothy De Schelle did not appear in the sketch, "Thirty Dol- lars." at the Colonial this week. Irving Berlin, he of "My Wife's Gone to the Country" fame, has been commis- sioned to write a musical comedy. Josephine D'Arcy on Monday joined Bert Leslie's sketch, "Hogan in Society/' at Cook's Opera House, Rochester. Vaudeville shows on Sunday will be given at the Court, Brooklyn. Joe Welch will head the first bill to-morrow. The Clara Sonora Trio open at the Mon- tank, Paterson, Monday. Miss Sonora was formerly of Cook and Sonora. Lynn D'Arcy is no longer with "The Follies." "The Devine Myrma" and Lynn are said to be two different persons. Fannie Howard, an English single singer, will "show" next week at Loew's, New Rochelle. Pat Casey has the act. Lily Lena has been offered a return en- gagement over the Orpheum Circuit, com- mencing in January, through Pat Casey. Von Biene, the 'cellist, reopens in Amer- ica at the Colonial, New York, Sept. 13. The Marinelli office booked the foreigner. B Obemayer booked Max Gruber's Ani- mals, opening Monday at the. Colonial, New York, for a first American appear- ance. L. J. Rodcriguez, the former general manager for Jos. Weber, will take charge of the Blanche Ring show ("The Yankee (.irl"). Eva Fay, widow of John T., will be the headlincr on the opening program of the season at the Mary Anderson, Louisville, Monday. The Howard and Collison Trie, an Eng- lish net at the Trent, Trenton, this week, linve hut three instead of seven people, as reported. The Orpheum, Brooklyn, will play two shows on Sundays hereafter. In past sea- sons there has been hut the night per- formance. Juliet Winston will be at the head of The Mozart Circuit, in the I. B. A., opens five of its houses Labor Day, with the remainder, making nine in all, open- ing Sept. IS. Harry Clarke, a brother of Wilfred Clarke, is playing Wilfred's former sketch, •What Will Happen Next?", staged by the originator. Alex. Fischer has secured contracts for 3. r > weeks of United time for Tom Ed- wards, the English ventriloquist, due to open over here Sept. 27. The Stanley Sisters, a new act, opens on the Orpheum Circuit at St. Paul, Sun- day, booked by M. S. Bentham. The girls . are from musical comedy. Ted Marks has selected the Broadway Theater, New York, for his Sunday con- certs during the cold weather. Mr. Marks will commence on Sept. 26. Murphy and Magee and Frrfhkie LaMarche, the originals of "The Horse- shoe Three," have revived that act and title, placing bookings with Pat Casey. Johnny Johns, the blackface mgno- logist, who retired to commercial life at Baltimore last summer has emerged to ask Edw. S. Keller to secure bookings for another tour. Heely and Meely, who have not played in their native land for some years, open at the Majestic, Chicago, Oct. 2, booked by B. Obermayer, while the agent was abroad this summer. Mabel McOane, a single singer new to vaudeville, will be on the opening pro- gram of the new Orpheum house at Evans- ville, Ind., Sept. 5. Miss McOune was "discovered" in Chicago. Gerald Griffin opens again with "The Battle" at Philadelphia to-night. After a month with the piece, he enters the Liebler management, appearing in a new play named "In the Blood." "Swat Milligan," Bozeman Bulger's base- ball act, has been booked through Jack Levy, and opened at the Temple, Detroit, on Monday. It will work east, playing Hammerstein's in five weeks. The association of White Rat artists holding stock in the corporation called "Actors Associated" received a dividend on Wednesday amounting to 35 per cent. |M»r year on their investment. Snyder and Buckley, who are billed to play at the Greenpoint, Brooklyn, next week for Percy G. Williams, have been signed through B. A. Myers to commence upon the Morris time Sept. 13, E. Hawley Hughes, otherwise known as "Kddie, the little blonde 'card boy,'" is again at the Alhambra this season. Fddie some day may be general preRB representa- tive for the Williams Circuit. The Avon Comedy Four received the Or- pheum Circuit time this week, opening Dec. 6. Max Hart is their agent. The act returns from Europe this week and will play in the east meanwhile. The Winston Vaudeville Co.. of Phila- delphia, has organized several small var- iety companies which they propose to send out over the "tanks." playing one night each in the "rube" stands. Gertie DeMilt and her dacing boys have been placed for 35 weeks over the west ern time through the W. V. A. at Chicago, l»y the Nybo, Pat Casey booking the act. It opens Sept. 0 at Grand Rapids. It is said that Lillian Lorraine will not return to "The Follies of 1909/' but will rejoin the Anna Held show which opens next month. Miss Held left the other o side on Wedneadav bound for New York. Carroll Hefcry, with a company of eight people is Billy Burke's newest vaudeville production. The act is scheduled to open Sept. 13, at the Trent, Trenton, N. J. Henry was of the vaudeville team of Henry and Francis. Thalor, the English female imperson- ating ventriloquist, makes his debut in New York Sept. 20 at the Fifth Avenue. Albert Whelan, the Australian, reappears on the same bill that day also. Marinelli placed both acts for this side. Bedini and Arthur have been booked by Pat Casey to open at the Mary Anderson, Louisville, Monday. The act leaves the "Oh, You Woman" show as per under- standing between Sam Scribner and Jean Bedini before the season opened. The Nixon Okito Troupe of Chinese magicians and illusionists appear at the Brighton Theatre next week for the first showing. It is an elaborate production, costing many thousands of dollars accord- ing to Paul Durand, agent for the number. Variety maintains the independent path it selected. It is controlled by no one: subsidized by no one; under obligation to no one, and its only enemies in the news- paper field are those thieving journals which have stolen from us without even credit. Commencing next week Keith-Proctor's 125th Street will "split" with the Mon- tauk, Passaic. The Proctor & Sanderson houses will also commence to "split," Perth Amboy going with Elizabeth, and Plainfield dividing the acts for the week with Newark. Vio Williams had his ankle dislocated last week by a wildly running automobile passing too closely to where Vic stood in front of the Alhambra, which he man- ages. Retiring a few days for recovery, tYank Jones of the Percy Williams staff took up the reins of the Harlem theatre temporarily. Sheer and Burton, a couple of western youths, who talk and sing, open at Cal- gary, Canada, on Sept. 13, as the first stop of a twenty weeks - tour of the Pantage's Circuit, booked this week through Louis Pincus of the Casey Agency, after one show at the Majestic last Thursday. There were several bids placed for the boys, who selected the western time, preferring their own section of the country to appear in. The fight in the show business takes in theatrical papers also. All the show papers have a scrap on. In the legitimate Klaw & Erlanger still continue to plod along \\*ith such assistance as their virtuallv own organ can supply, while the Shuberts have commenced to issue a sheet cf their own. Both of these papers being rabidly partisan will have little or no influence On Broadway last Saturday night the newsboys were crying out "Shuberts* new paper."