Variety (September 1909)

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VARIETY will be mailed to a permanent ad- dress or as per route, as desired. Adrertlsements forwarded by mall must be ac- compaoled by remittance, made payable to Variety I'uhlliihlng Co. Copyright, 1900, by Variety Publishing Co. Vol. XVI. SEPTEMBER II. No. I. Borden, Zeno and Haydn Bros, are on the Mozart time, booked through B. A. Myers. Mme. Herrmann did not appear at the American this week. Allan Shaw re- placed her. (ieo. T. Davis is seriously ill at the |Seaton Hospital (Ward 7), Sputen Duy- vel, New York. (Jordon, Pickens and Co. received the I'nitcd time this week, through Max Hart. It is a new act. The Kellinos arrived this week, and will < pen at the Fifth Avenue Monday, booked by B. Obermaver. The Vindabonnas return to open at the American, New York, Oct. 4. Masaud is the agent. The 3 Kobers, a western act, have Immmi placed by Billy Masaud to open Oct. 4 at Burt's, Toledo (Morris). Geo. Fuller Golden will return to vaude- ville for two weeks, opening Sept. 13 at the American, Chicago. Ernest Pantzer and Co. open on the Sullivan-Considine time at Spokane Sept. 10, placed by Fred Zobedie. The Brighton Beach Music Hall closed Labor Day. The Brighton Theatre ends its first season tomorrow (Sunday). Floyd McGlinchey, known to the stage as Floyd Mack, was married at St. Louis last week to Mabelle Erzman, an actress. Prescelle, the hypnotist, will probably commence on the United Oct. 4, if the money question is straightened out by then. Perderson Bros., all the way from the Coast, have received fifteen weeks of United time, secured for them by Alf T. Wilton. Dockstader's Garrick, Wilmington, opens Sept. 13. The opposition house there of Feiber, Shea A Coutant's started last Monday. Nellie Daly, of the Daly family, and who played in "Babes in Toyland," has been engaged for "Kitty Grey" by Charles Frohman. After a long absence from New York, Sullivan-Pasquclena Co. will return to the Colonial next week in " A C. O. D. Package." Hcmicbsy and Son make up a New Kngland act Alf T. Wilton is hooking for. Neither Dan F. nor "Young" Hciiucssy is in the turn. Katheryn MacDonald, of the Percy G. Williams' office, who has been quite ill during the summer, returned to her desk Wednesday. .lulc 1 Vimar will look after the At- lanta and New England houses in the I'nitcd Booking Offices now that the park reason has closed. The new Bijou at Battle Creek, Mich., opens Monday, Sept. 13, under the man- agement of W. S. Butterfield. The seat- ing capacity is 1,150. The Four A mat is, young girls who ap- peared over here as a musical numlter playing pianos, opened at the Alhambra, London, last Monday. \\ ilia M<dt Wakefield oj>eiis her regular season on the Morris eirciiit Sept. 20 at the Fulton. Brooklyn, under the direction of B. A. Myers, her agent. Anna Meek, last season with Irwin's "Majesties," and Alf Bonner, are playing in vaudeville over the middle-west, placed by Paul Goudron of Chicago. Nina Collins will play the role orig- inated by Phyllis Rankin in "The Naked Truth" when that piece opens at the American, New York, Sept. «20. Hilda Hawthorne opened her season at the Colonial, Lawrence, Mass., last Mon- day. Al Sutherland has Miss Hawthorne placed solid over the United time. Kitty Shanley, the telephone operator in the Pat Casey Agency, was married Aug. 18 to Calvin Dix, formerly manager of Jesse Lasky's "Night on a Houseboat." Edgar Allen has thrown over vaude- ville for the season. He is interested in the agency of Weber & Allen, but may close for a role in the new Leslie Carter production. Marie Dainton has been signed by Klaw A. Erlanger for the cast of the Genee show, 'The Silver Star." Elphye Snowden will be a prominent principal in the same production. Frank Le Dent, the American comedy juggler, who opened at the Olympia, Paris, last month, has been placed by the Mar- inelli agency for the Alhambra, London, starting Nov. 1. Six acts and pictures arc now played at the Grand Street, New York, which has been taken over by the People's Vaudeville Co. The prices are 5-10-15-25. The house scats 2,000. Ilarrv and Ethel Kratou have I icon en- gaged for a return trip over the Moss- Stoll Tour in England, commencing March 28 next, booked by Marinelli. The act is now on the other side. Emma Cams commenced a tour of the Moss Stoll circuit in England last Mon- day, opening at Manchester. The Mar- inelli office did the booking. Miss Cams will tour the English provinces. The American Music Hall, Uockaway Beach, closed for the season l^ahor Day. The last week there brought some money into the box office. Its opposition, Mor- rison's, closes tomorrow (Sunday). This is the last week of "The Only Law" at the American, and tbc show, which will go on tour next Monday, is up on the roof, interrupted nightly only by the noise from the music hall below. Uertie DcMilt and her two bovs • "jumped" from Woonsocket on Sunday to Chicago, opening in the latter place for the Monday matinee, commencing her western tour booked by Pat Casey. Adelaide Keim in the sketch formerly employed by Ruth Allen, "~We Need the Money," will "breuk in" at Mt. Vernon commencing Sept. 20. Max Hart has the direction of Miss Keim's bookings. Brown, Harris and Brown reopened their season at Keith's, Providence, where they had closed the previous one. After playing Syracuse Sept. 20, the act will commence a tour of the Orpheum Circuit. Lillian Russell opens her New York season Monday night at the Liberty. Her 1900 vehicle is "The Widow's Might," by Edmund Day. The stellar role is said to be the most serious effort Lillian has ever attempted. J. Slagle, of the Hanover (Pa.) Opera House, will try a week of vaudeville com- mencing Monday, placed by the I. B. A. through Edward Mozart. Mr. Slagle aays he saw a Mozart bill at York the other day, thinking well enough of it to try out himself. Pat Rooney has become the majority stockholder and practically sole owner of the Pat Rooney Company, which will not be dissolved. A meeting was held at the offices of Maurice Harold Rose, 140 Nas- sau Street, last week. Mr. Rose is Mr. Rooney's attorney. "Daly & Curtis' All-Star Vaudeville Show" gave the final performances at the American. Rockaway Beach, Labor Day. It was a very funny bill from the re- ports, business exceeding Josh Daly's ex- pectations so heavily that after the mat- inee Josh had his hair cut. A new vaudeville theater playing thv popular priced grade of attractions is in course of construction in Attleboro, Mass. The enterprise is l>eing promoted by a corporation in which R. M. Sbeedy is a stockholder. The bookings will be arranged through the Independent Book- ing Agency, commencing Oct. 1. They arc telling one on Jcnie Jacobs, the busy little agent in Pat Casey's office. On the day lost week when the papers were full of the news that "Pole" Cook had made his farthest North discovery, Jenie returned home for her first moment of leisure. Some one immediately greeted her with "Well, Miss Jacobs, what do you think of Dr. Cook." With an expression of weariness, tinged with impatience, she quickly answered: "I am home for the day, and don't want to talk about any more new acts." Virginia I la rued appeared this week us a dramatist for the first time. She is the author of the sketch "The Hcadliner," a dramatic playlet which was presented for the two Labor Day performances at the Brighton Beach Music Hall. The Hall closed Monday night. Arthur Hopkins, who has managed the establishment dur- ing the summer, held over three acts from last week and added two others for the holiday which encroached on this week. The house closed for the sc;ison Monday night. David Kobinson's New Brighton Theatre closes tonight.