Variety (October 1910)

VARIETY EVA TANGUAY OUT OF BILL. Cincinnati, Sept. 29. Tuesday night Eva Tanguay was obliged to leave the program at the Columbia, owing to illness. Yesterday she left for Chicago to receive medical attention. Miss Tanguay will return to the Columbia next Sunday, to remain here the following week. She opened last Sunday before a capacity audience. The Columbia held capacity every show until Miss Tanguay left. Foster and Foster were added to the program. The opening of the Orpheum, booked by William Morris, with "The Barnyard Romeo" also occurred Sun- day. The Orpheum nearly held a capacity house at that time. Prices of admission were reduced over those of last season. E. F. Albee, John J. Mufdock and Max C. Anderson came to town Tues- day. They are looking over and studying the three southwestern the- atres lately secured by B. F. Keith from the Anderson-Ziegler Co. W. M. Wilson, of Providence, who has been appointed General Auditor for the new company, came along at the same time, and installed himself. Wednesday morning the trio of managers left for Louisville, where is located the Mary Anderson. They will probably drop in at Indianapolis to see their other purchase, Grand Opera House, before returning east. It was reported Wednesday that Miss Tanguay was suffering from throat trouble, and was on her way to New York. It was also said that she would very likely rest for a week or more before returning to her en- gagements. MISS JAMS SUCCEEDS "MISS GIBBS/* Within a fortnight or so "Miss Gibbs" will leave the Knickerbocker, either for the store-house or go on tour, and Elsie Janis will succeed her with "The Slim Princess," from the Studebaker, Chicago, arriving In time to prevent the local theatre be- ing closed. Miss Janis will remain until ..xaude Adams shall take up a tenancy of the Knickerbocker, Jan. 2, probably for the remainder of the season. PICTURES ON WILLIES ROOF. With the New York Roof out of the moving picture business temporarily, through the repulse of Walter Rosen- berg by the Klaw & Erlanger forces, it is reported that Hammerstein's Roof will become the 42nd street cen- tre of the pictures-in-the-air game. Last spring William Hammerstein decided upon a policy for the roof this winter. That policy was "pic- tures and vaudeville." Mr. Hammer- stein has not altogether settled the matter, as yet. The start is to be made within two or three weeks. MUSIC PUBLISHER DIVORCED. Chicago, Sept. 29. Tell Taylor last week secured a di- vorce from Buda Taylor on statutory grounds. Taylor in his complaint mentioned several vaudevillains as "affinities." Their names were omit- ted from the final record. FOUR NEW SHOWS. Four new forthcoming musical pro- ductions were reported this week. The first is "Lower Berth 13." Joseph E. Howard has written the music for it, with Collin N. Davis attending to the lyrics. It is to be presented at the Whitney Opera House, Chicago, within the next month. B. C. Whitney is the producer. "The Jingaboo" is another, with John Cort as the mainstay. Vincent Bryan is attending to the book and lyrics for this show. Arthur Pryor is the composer. It is the first full mu- sical comedy book Mr. Bryan has con- structed. A forthcoming Shubert show is "In Hong Kong." Ed. Madden, Mark Swan and Lou Hirsch are the builders. For the Princess, Chicago, during the next five weeks, Mort H. Singer has arranged for "The Genius," a re- write of a piece formerly played by Edna Goodrich at the time she became Mrs. Nat C. Goodwin. Vincent Bryan Is also attending to the lyrics for this, with the De Mille brothers furnishing the new book. Paul Reubens, the com- poser from Troy, N. Y., is the music writer. Chicago, Sept. 29. "The Jingaboo Man" is the attrac- tion that will undoubtedly replace Richard Carle at the Cort theatre. "Lower Berth 13," which is to have its Chicago premier at the Whitney Oct. 15, will be tried on the dog at Madison, Wis., Tuesday of that week. Gus Sohlke and Frank Tannehill are staging the piece. In the cast will be found Arthur Deming, Grace Sloan, Eddie Hume, Anna and Ruby Fitz- hugh, Billy Robinson and William Clifton. OUT FOR DONLIN AND HITE. The Morris circuit is out for Mike Donlln and Mabel Hite as a counter attraction to the Matthewson-Meyers engagement at Hammerstein's. It is reported that $1,500 weekly is the offer of William Morris for the cou- ple who have a few idle weeks before restarting on tour in their play of last season, "A Certain Party." George S. O'Brien is trying to in- duce the Donlin and Hite family to ap- pear at the American, New York, sim- ultaneously with the showing at Ham- merstein's of the star battery of the Giants. Mr. O'Brien is also after the catcher, John Kling, of the Chicago Cubs, for the same week. Kling appeared for Morris for one week in Chicago last spring. His salary for the engage- ment, $750, was used to pay the fine imposed against Kling by the National League for insubordination. The check is now framed and hangs in the Mor- ris office. If Mr. Donlin and Miss Hite open with the show Oct. 18 as they antici- pate, the vaudeville engagement is postponed indefinitely. The Hammer- stein baseball week commences Oct. 24. LAUDER LATER ON? Unless Harry Lauder arrives at ar- rangements satisfactory to himself with English managers he will not appear in New York during this month as at first scheduled. The present en- gagement was to have been for four weeks. It is reported Mr. Lauder does not consider the demands made by the English managers reasonable for the short time he will be away, and pre- fers to postpone his American return trip until during Christmas time. Then a release is more likely from the Glas- gow house where Mr. Lauder is en- gaged for pantomime. If the panto management likewise places a prohibitive figure for a post- ponement of the Lauder engagement, the Scotchman will defer his appear- ance on the Morris circuit until next March. London, Sept. 21. Harry Lauder is probably the sor- est man in England. This week the comedian said to a Variety represent- ative: "Well, I suppose you know I'm not going to America this season. The managers over here are an ungrateful lot. They want absolutely too much for my release and they have made the trip impossible for me." A member of the "Syndicate" halls, which holds contracts with Lauder, stated that in his case, he could only say that through the death of the Kin the "Syndicate" had fallen behind in profits and they looked to the Scotchman to raise up the bank ac- count once more. On the other hand, it is storied that if Henri Gros had lived there would not have been any trouble over the Lauder American visit. With his death a new general management brought changes. DUNN AND GLAZIER DISSOLVE. Duluth, Sept. 29. Arthur Dunn and Marie Glazier did not appear at the Orpheum this week as billed. Notice of cancellation was received at the last moment. It is reported the couple have sev- ered their stage partnership. Three weeks yet remained for the act to ful- fill its Orpheum circuit contracts. HENDERSON AND "KIDDIES." Atlantic City, Sept. 29. Next week at Young's Pier Jack Henderson and his "Kiddies" will ap- pear as a new turn, in a skit written by Louis Weslyn. Mr. Henderson ap- peared with Valeska Suratt in "The Belle of the Boulevard," also in the Suratt show afterward. The two girls were with "The Sum- mer Widowers" at the Broadway. Alf T. Wilton of New York placed the act for Young's, through Ben Harris. BUYS COX'S INTEREST. Cincinnati, Sept. 29. Geo. B. Cox has disposed of his in- terest in the Walnut Street theatre to Anderson & Ziegler. PHENOMENA IN YONKERS. Yonkers, N. Y., Sept. 29. Slip Yonkers a notice; it's a regular show town, because Eddie Keller Is going to hold over for next week Blossom Seeley, at the Warburton. Not alone is Miss Seeley about the only female "single" who ever scored a real hit In Yonkers, but she is the first to be held over here. PRIZE PLAYLET CLOSED. "The Old Flute Player," written by Charles T. Dazey, in which Carl Sauer- mann was featured, was laid on the shelf following the engagement at Milwaukee, Sauermann and his sup- porting company returned to New York. The act failed to make the im- pression expected. Mr. Sauermann was one of the leading members of the German stock company at the Irv- ing Place Theatre. The playlet was the one decided as the best of sev- eral thousand offered for considera- tion to a committee of dramatic critics of New York daily papers at the Actor's Fund Fair, which was held last spring. The Orpheum Circuit fathered the contest, produced the playlet, and started it on the Orpheum time in the west. At the Orpheum offices this week it was stated that "The Flute Player" might be recasted and sent on tour once more. POWERS', CHICAGO, FOR SINGER. Chicago, Sept. 29. It leaks out that Mort Singer has been negotiating with Harry J. Pow- ers for a lease of Powers' Theatre for musical comedy purposes. Within a few weeks the new Blackstone, at Wabash avenue and Hubbard Court, will open and the attractions which have been playing Powers', Chicago's most exclusively first-class theatre, will presumably be switched to the new theatre. It is understood that Powers was scary of Singer, solely upon the ground that there might be a possibility of the house being swung to the Shu- berts through Singer's good offices. Singer now has the Princess and is booking it with the "Independents." Neither Powers or the Princess can be considered as being particularly well located for theatre purposes; this fact made musical comedies in the Princess an up-hill game and presum- ably helped Powers in his decision to build the Blackstone near the Lake Front. FISHELL PUTS PRINCESS OVER. St. Louis, Sept. 29. With only two exceptions, Monday and Tuesday night of last week, the first fourteen nights at the new Prin- cess (Morris vaudeville) were turna- ways. Manager Dan S. Fishell esti- mates the attendance for the two weeks at 30,000. Opening week with "The Barn- yard Romeo," and the public curious to see a new house naturally meant record receipts, but when it was fol- lowed by capacity five nights the sec- ond week, the success of the up-town theatre in St. Louis was assured. It is now declared merely a question of Morris supplying the acts. The Columbia business has not fall- en off. It held a capacity audience Sunday night. Both houses are hav- ing good matinees. The legitimate theatres are not doing so well, some suffering heavily. The two burlesque nouses have great starts for the season. Charles Ahearn and his troupe will play next week Mr. Ahearn's home town, New Haven,