Variety (June 1910)

I VARIETY ANDERSON & ZIEGLER OUT OP ALL SOUTHWESTERN HOUSES Qco. B. Cox Purchases the Interests of the Cincinnati Men. Consideration Reported at Over $3,000,000. Cincinnati, June 2. It has been announced here that Geo. B. Oox of this city hat purchased the inter- ests of Max C. Anderson and Henry M. Ziegler in all of the Anderson A Ziegler theatres for a sum said to be oyer $3,000,000. Geo. B. Oox was elected president of the corporation, Jos. L. Rhinock vice-presi- dent. The new board of directors is made up by F. R. Williams, Benj. Heid- ingsfeld and Harry K. Shockley. The theatres involved are Columbia, Olympia, Walnut, Cincinnati; Mary An- derson, Hopkins, Louisville; Grand Opera House, Majestic, Indianapolis. It may develop that Martin Beck or the Orpheum Circuit is interested some- how in the transaction, and it also may mean that Messrs. Cox and Rhinock, who at present are greatly interested in the ventures of the Shuberts, may go more extensively into vaudeville. CARLE Iff VAUDEVILLE. Chicago, June 2. Richard Carle has accepted a vaudeville offer, and will open Monday at the Ameri- can with some girls from "The Echo," the piece which closed last Saturday night at the Studebaker after a short run with Osrle as the star. HEARING BEFORE GOVERNOR. The White Rats agency bill is before Governor Hughes for his signature or dis- approval. The Governor has until June 27 to dispose of the measure which pasaed the Assembly last Friday. Today (Friday) at three o'clock there will be a hearing before the Governor. Maurice Goodman, attorney for the United Booking Offices, will be present. The dra- matic agents will be represented by Mrs. Beaumont Packard. The vaudeville agents had selected no representative up to Thurs- day. No move was made for any concerted action to be adopted in case the bill be- comes a law. One agent hits had blanks printed for arts to sign, appointing him roan* ;*r at a stated weekly salary, the contract spe- cifying the agent's duties in the manage- rial capacity. The agent said he would use these agreements if the bill wasaigned, becoming a manager in general of acts, in- stead of an agent. This course or one similar may be followed by other agents. There has been some slight talk of agents getting together for a test of the consti- tutionality of Vie bill if signed. The bill having been passed on an emer- gency message from the Governor, had not been printed up to Wednesday. The full measure as pasaed by the Assembly with the Senate Amendments will not be available today or tomorrow. It is probable upon the Governor signing the measure that the United Booking Of- fices will issue a statement. Tfce Yfklte Rats wMI fc#ve a scamper in the clubrooms June 11 at which the New York State legislators have been invited to be present. FIRST ACADEMY BILL. The first vaudeville bill at the Academy of Music, New York, under the manage- ment of William Fox, has been booked through Ed. Deely of the Joe Wood office. The show will be given Sunday, June 12, and a variety program offered each Sun- day after until the regular vaudeville sea- son starts in August Until then Corse Payton, wljo commences a stock season at the house next week, will hold forth. The June 12 bill, for that day only, will be Montgomery and Moore, Fields and Lewis, Cliff Gordon, Frank Bush, Han- son and Miller, Andy Lewis, Virginia Roy- den and the "8 Dancing Comets" (from "The Mardi Gras Beauties"), Miasle Oliver and Co, Franklyn Ardell and Co., Rathskeller Three, Joe Merrick and Co., Lulgi and Roaetta. Prices will be 10-20-30. In the pro- gram as given out are contained mostly "Morris acts," with one "United" turn. BOOKED UNDER FIRST TITLE. The dramatic pantomine which played at Hammerstein's recently under the title of 'The Slums of Paris" has been booked by the United for future time under the changed title of "Casque LVOr." This is the caption under which it was first pro- duced at the Columbia Theatre just before the Hammerstein's date. The "Slums" iilie was taken only temporarily. Coccia and Amato are the principals. Aurelia Coccia produced the piece. It is contracted at Henderson's, Coney Island, next week, through the offices of Paul Durand. RACING FOR A WEEK. Fred Lindsay, the whip-crack, sailed for England on the Mauretania June 1. The lash expert has a week booked at the Theatre Royal. Dublin, Ireland, starting next monday (.Tune 6). Mr. Lindsay expects to reach Fishguard. Kngland. at about noon Monday. Unless he does so, it will be impossible for him to make Dublin in time to play the first show Monday evening. Probably the weather will be the rofp ree that will decide. Lindsay was booked by Paul Murray, of William Morris* Lon- don office. Paul cabled Lindsay at Shea's, Ruffalo, last week. MAJOR ROSS HELPLESS. San Diego, Cal., June 1. Major Duncan C. Ross, one time broad- sword champion of America, is down and out physically and financially here. The Major was arrested on the street by a policeman who thought he was intoxi- cated, Examination showed be is suffer* fpg frojs locomotor ataxia. K. ft E.SEW UP PRODUCERS. Through an advertisement in the New York Herald Tuesday, Klaw & Erlanger announced that the producers of plays alligned with "The Syndicate" and book- ing through it, had agreed not to play their attractions in any "Open Door" thea- tre. Incorporated in the announcement was a letter which had been addressed to theatre managers in the United States and Canada. It contained the signature of each producer or his representatire, fac- simllies of which included in the adver- tisement. This announcement was accepted as the "sewing up" of the production end of the legitimate. It leaves the Shuberts with six producers, capable of turning out pos- sibly for next season for the 1,400 "Open Door" theatres about ninety or one nan- ; dred shows. Klaw A Erlanger will have between 2D0 and 225 shows at the same time, from an estimate. Another estimate says that the Shuberts and K. A E. together could not properly supply the "Open Door" peo- ple with sufficient plays. The "one uighters" must have at least 600 shows to furnish the quantity of weekly enter- tainment they would like to have. Indiscriminate acceptance of "produc- tions" by the Shuberts might gain them . fifty more productions at the commence- ment of next season, it was said, raising the total to between 140 and 160. These fifty additional ones, taken from all who may have a craze to "get in the show business" will stop the promiscuous pro- duction in short order, it is expected. In the grand total of pieces the Shuberts can provide will be about thirty neces- sary to them for their own houses, leav- ing the remainder for "the road." On the Shubert list of producers are themselves, with an estimate of thirty-five productions for next season; Lew Fields, 5; W. A. Brady, 10; The Lieblers, 15; John Cort, 5; Daniel V. Arthur, 2. The producers who signed the letter for Klaw A Erlanger are Charles Frohman, David Belasco, Henry B. Harris, Frederic Thompson, Klaw & Erlanger, F. Ziegfeld, Jr., Charles B. Dillingham, Henry W. Savage, Cohan A Harris, Jos. Brooks. A. II. Woods, Jos. M. Gaites, A. Pitou, Henry Miller, Mittenthal Bros., A. S. Stern & Co., Maurice Campbell, Geo. W. Lederer, Joe Weber, Kirk La Shelle Co., Wagen- hals A Kemper Co., William Harris, Jesse L. Lasky. Wednesday Mr. Brady announced ho had engaged James K. Ifaekett. Arnold Daly. Virginia TTarned, Henry E. Dixie, Amelia Bingham, Guy lintcs Post, and Andrew Mack to appear as stars under his direction next season. All but Mr. m Post have appeared in vaudeville off and on within the past two seasons. The K. & E. side gave out the same day that they had secured the Jefferson, Memphis. "The Syndicate" is promoting a new Atlanta house. ACROBAT HURT. . Victor Pedersen, of the Pedersens, did not appear in the Hammerstein Roof bill at the opening nor this week. He is laid up In Cleveland with a broken bone in bis leg. Pedersen does a elide on the stage. At Baltimore recently a splinter from the stage flooring entered his leg and broke a bone. It Is expected that the act will be at the Roof bill, commencing June 18. DOUBLE SHOW OPEHIHG. Dispite the chill and the fact that moat of the city dwellers were away over the holiday, an audience encroaching upon capacity witnessed Monday night's open- ing of the American Roof. A more remarkable showing wan mads in the downstairs house where the acts play- ing the Plaaa worked a third show. Here about a three-quarter audience waa at- tracted by the 26-50 scale. There is alight confusion in filling the house up, owing to the fact that both the Roof and Thea- tre audiences enter at almost the same place. The evening crowd were finally shooed to the right spots. At Hammerstein's premiere of the Roof season, a large crowd watched Morris Gest flitting between the box where his family was located and "the Farm/' telling every- one what a "great show" it waa. The many air outlets on Hammerstein's drove all heat off the Roof, and the canvas at the rear of the orchestra during the first half was lowered. A big show in quantity this week at "The Corner" drew capacity houses into the matinees Monday and Tuesday, but up to Wednesday night the weather man kept the temperature down too low. At the American the "theatre show" after this week will be engaged for seven shows weekly, the Plaaa having been let on a percentage plan. DEIKE GIRL DIES. Philadelphia, June 1. Hedwik Deike, one of the four 8isters # Deike, who appeared with the Barnum & Bailey Circus here several weeks ago, died in the German Hospital last Thurs- day from meningitis, superinduced by over-exertion while performing in the net. The girl was taken suddenly ill and the physicians attached to the circus recog- nizing the seriousness of the symptoms had her removed to the hospital. She never rallied. Her sisters, who left with the circus, were notified of her death. The dead girl was 22 years old. Bosanquet sailed Wednesday for Eng- land on the Mauretania. lb-turn to Vaudeville of the Popular CoincdlCDM, IDA ORISPI. Haying BRIGHTON I1KACII MUSIC EI ALU wtM-k or JUNE IS. Pole airectlon, VAT CA8WY tod W*. L, LYfWNi.