Variety (March 1910)

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VARIETY will be mailed to a permanent ad- dreaa or a» per route, aa desired. AdTertlsementa forwarded by mall muet be ac- companied by remittance, made payable to Variety PublUblng Co. Vet XVII. MARCH 5. Na. 13. The People's at Sunbury, Pa., opened last Saturday. Irene Franklin holds over at the head of the Fifth Avenue program next week. Annette Kellermann has been routed for the Orpheum Circuit, opening about July 1. Marion Murray and Co. are at the Co- lonial this week, filling in a vacancy on the program. Belle Hathaway's Monkeys have been engaged for the Morris time, and open at Newark Monday. Sam J. Curtis and Co. open March 11 in Winnipeg for a nineteen-weeks tour of the S.-C. Circuit. Frank Vincent of the Orpheum Circuit offices has a severe case of la grippe and lias remained at home this week. Violet Dale goes with the Weber show "Where There's n Will" next Monday. M. S. Bentham negotiated the engage- ment. Marie Collins. Harry Botter and Co., and Redway and Lawrence are "small time" bookings by the Loew agency this week. The annual entertsfnment and reception of Local 1, Acton* International Union, will be held April 80 at the Grand Central Charles Feleky, of the Orpheum Cir- cuit's Producing Department, has placed in rehearsal "The Code Book," by Herbert Walter. Percy O. Williams will take his annual aail to Europe toward the last of April, remaining over there for two or three months. Gertrude Hoffmann will play on Ham- merstein's Roof as a permanent summer attraction this coming open air season, it is storied. Hill and Whitaker returned to New York yesterday, and will open at the Temple, Detroit, Monday, booked through Jenie Jacobs. Montgomery and Moore, following "Ma Geese" at the Fulton, Brooklyn, this week, are presenting a travesty of the "Apache" dance in costume. Le Clair and Sampson have been re- engaged for the Orpheum Circuit through Pat Casey. The act opens its second trip March 6 at Minneapolis. Mrs. Jesse Jewell returned from Europe on the Mauretania. Mrs. Jewell settled the estate of her late husband (Jewell's Manikins) while abroad. Claude Bostock has left the Independent Booking Agency where he represented the Mozart Circuit, and has engaged with W. S. (Young) Hennessy. Bird Millman of the former Millman Trio wire act has formed a new turn with three people, including her husband, and will open around New York March 21. Edmond Hayes, in "The Umpire," re- opened the Empire, Schenectady, last Monday, Feb. 28, returning the house to the Western Wheel after two months of darkness. Frank Lawlor in a comedy sketch re- quiring five people, will appear in vaude- ville about March 7. Mr. Lawlor was last in "The Candy Shop." Alf. T. Wil- ton is the agent. There was a report about this week that William Masaud had secured the Brighton Music Hall, and would play vaudeville there this senson, booked through the United Offices. W. V. Jennings, who was confined in Dr. Bull's Sanitarium, New York, for throe- weeks, undergoing a serious operation, re- sumed his position as manager of Fred Irwin's "Gibson Girls" last week. Felix Isman's new "pop" vaudeville house at Broad Street and Erie Avenue, Philadelphia, will be called "The Ameri- can." It will be ready to open during March playing six acts and pictures. Donovan and Arnold sail for Kugland July 11 to play fifteen weeks over there placed through Harry Day, the London agent The couple are now on the Or- pheum Circuit, "Doing well, thank you." Bedini and Arthur were forced to retire from the bill at the Bronx on Tuesday, both members being ill. Arthur cut his foot on a piece of broken china. Edw. S. Keller booked LeVine and Leonard to fill the gap. At Louisville on T * •sday Eva Tanguay, with "The Follies of 1900," threatened a stage hand, so he alleged. He procured a summons for Miss Tanguay's appearance in court, also commencing a suit for $2,000 damages. Plans have been filed with the Building Superintendent for the new three-story theatre building to be erected in the Bronx by Freidenrich, Gersten & Baer on Prospect Avenue, north of 160th Street. The building is to cost $100,000. Marie Dainton has been engaged for a part in "Mme. Cherie," the Geo. Lederer musical comedy, which opens in Chicago in April. Miss Dainton played in the London production of the same piece under the management of George Edwardes. She has been doing impersonations in vaude- ville. It was reported about during the week that a small New England manager had been given the alternative of accepting no further acts through an agent in the Long Acre building, or having his United "franchise" for the town he is now in recalled. The Four Fords have engaged with Flo Ziegfeld, Jr., for "The Follies of 1909," which will open the last week in May. at Atlantic City. Bert Cooper placed the production engagement, and he has signed the Empire City Quartet for the new Fields revue. Billy B. Van has turned down an offer for the new Ziegfeld revue on the New .York Roof, and will chase foreign chick- ens off his farm during the summer. The lost week of Mr. Van's United season will take place at the Warburton, the country resort of his manager-agent, Edw. S. Keller. The New York Marinelli branch received cable advices on Monday that Fregoli, the lightning changer, who returned to vaude- ville at Marinclli's Olympia, Paris, last week, had played to 20,117 francs on Sun- day (two shows). Fregoli is engaged for a month at the Olympia with an option on his further services. Alexander and Scott will remain eight, weeks more with the Geo. Evans' Cohan A- Harris Minstrels, when the couple, who have been one of the big hits with the show, return to vaudeville under the di rection of Pat Casey. Business with the minstrels has been very big since Mr. Evans purchased the show from Cohan \ Harris. l>ena I .a Couvier, who is playing one of the principal roles with (Jua Hill's "Vanity Fair," has purchased a rooming house in West Thirty-fourth Street, two minutes from Broadway where, after the close of the season, she is likely to settle perma- nently in charge of affairs. She will finish the season with "Vanity Fair," her mother, meanwhile, running the house. It is reported from Paris and that Eurico Bisutti, of an acrobetio team, while, performing in the Circus DeVere France, fell and broke his neck on Thurs- day of last week, dying an hour, after- ward. While the reports and the name of the circus are not authenticated, that the serious accident had happened was cred- ited among the foreign agents in New York. At the conclusion of the present vaude- ville engagement Maude Fulton, of Rock and Fulton, will sail for Europe for an all-summer rest, the first recreation she has been able to take in over a year. Rock will take his lay-off in New York. Rock and Fulton are under contract to Chas. Dillingham, but their definite dispo- sition for next season has not been de- termined. For the benefit of the Actors' Fund Fair, the Shuberts have ordered a deduction of one per cent, of salary of their casts during the week. Charles Frohman will add a ten-cent tax upon all passes to his theatres, and the Orpheum Circuit has issued books containing twenty five-cent stamps to be sold for the benefit of the Fair along the line of the Orpheum Circuit. The stamps will be used oh letters and contracts. Walter Hoff Seeley, general manager of William Morris, Western, will return to the San Francisco home this week. On Tuesday Henry Ives Cobb, the architect, completed the plans for the new Morris house in Frisco, and the building contract was let to the Thompson-Staratt Co. About March 16 Mr. Seeley will be in Vancouver, where Geo. McKenxie has a proposition for a theatre awaiting his decision. Ted Marks wants to wager any amount that 42nd Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue (one block) has more places of amusement than any single block in the world. At present there are eleven places of entertainment there, including three roof gardens and one penny arcade. 1 lve legitimate and two vaudeville theatres are on the block. There is now under con- struction also in what was a coal and wood yard, a picture place by the Penn Amusement Co. It will seat within 300. The same company has another picture place on Eighth Avenue. Melrose and Kennedy will open on the Orpheum Circuit next month, Pat Casey having secured them an engagement of 42 weeks on the Western time. While at Chase's, Washington, last week, the com- edy acrobats, to accommodate the manag- ress, VVinnifred De Witt, worked out a finish in "one" for three minutes to per- mit of stage setting behind them. It proved so gratifying to Miss De Witt she advised the boys to retain the bit, and 'hey will, becoming the only full stage comedy acrobatic turn closing in "one." Work and Owcr are a comedy acrobatic act who work altogether in one.