Variety (November 1910)

VARIETY niETY Published Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Time* Square, New York City. SIME SILVERMAN Proprietor. CHICAGO, 167 Dearborn St. WALTER K. HILL. LONDON, 418 Strand. JESSE J. FREEMAN. SAN FRANCISCO. 908 Market St. LESTER J. FOUNTAIN. PARIS, 66 Bla. Rue Saint Dldler. EDWARD O. KENDREW. BERLIN. 68A Unter den Linden. ADVERTISEMENTS. Rate card may be found In adYertlslng sec- tion of this issue. Advertising copy for current Issue must reach New York office by noon Thursday. Advertisements by mall must be accompanied by remittance, payable to Variety Publishing Company. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual $4 Foreign 5 Single copies, 10 cents. Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol. XX. November 6 No. 9 Henry Watterson and Irving Berlin returned from Europe Tuesday. "Toots," the pet dog of Henri French's, died of poisoning last week. Sergeant Mears and Coy De Trlck- ey were divorced Oct. 25 in Missouri. The Four Banjo Fiends have signed contracts to go to Europe In December. The Russian Dancers on the Wil- liams time are not playing Sundays. Paula Edwardes has placed herself under the booking direction of Jack Levy. Eva Tanguay is to play the Colonial Jan. 23, as her next New York en- gagement. The Manhattan Opera Trio is a new number prepared for vaudeville by Slg. A. Abramoff. "Boys and Girls" with Adele Os- wold, start the Orpheum Circuit at Evansville, Dec. 4. Jack Levy ha9 secured Judgment against Valeska Suratt for $62.50 commission due. Charles Pouchot, of the Marlnelli New York agency, left Monday for a vacation of two weeks. The Kaufman Brothers have been booked over the Orpheum time, open- ing at Spokane Oct. 30. Maclyn Arbuckle opens Monday at Union Hill in "The Welcher," placed by Albee, Weber & Evans. Garry Oweu, the boy wonder, is hav- ing a new single act prepared for him. He will be ready to open under the di- rection of Pat Casey in about two weeks. Robledillio, the wire walker, is re- turning to vaudeville, now that the circus season has closed. Mabel Bardine entered a petition In bankruptcy this week, with liabil- ities of $471; no assets. "The Star Boarder" will be pre- sented by Blanche Holt and Co. It is a Dan Casey Co. production. Foreclosure proceedings against the homo of Clara Morris in Westchester Co. have been discontinued. Melville Ellis plays Hammersteln's next week, his first appearance in vaudeville for a year or more. Joe Roberts, formerly of Roberts, Hayes and Roberts, is presenting a now act at Union Hill this week. The Grand, Bradford, Pa., opens Nov. 14 under the management of B. L. Reich, with "pop" vaudeville. Edwin Holt is rehearsing a new sketch for vaudeville, called "The Sac- rifice," written by Victor H. Smalley. Michael Coscia, director of an or- chestra in Brooklyn for five years, is now doing a violin act over the Loew circuit. Lillian Shaw will return to vaude- ville at the Alhambra Nov. 14. Her European trip has been indefinitely adjourned. Shanley's new restaurant in the Long Acre building opened for busi- ness Thursday. Donovan and Arnold refused to play at the Academy of Music last Sunday, objecting to the way they were billed. James DurkJn, the husband of Maude Fealey is to produce Richard Warner's "Discovered" in vaudeville soon. Frank McGlnnls, of the McGinnis Brothers and Flora Brighton with Paul's Juggling Girls were married in Oshkosh, Wis. Irene Dillon is to open at the Palace, London June 5. She will be accompanied abroad by her husband Claude Bostock. The Bushwick, Percy G. Williams' now Brooklyn house, may not open until the spring, duo to delay in de- liveries of iron work. Maud Muller, St. Lawrence and Stanley in a "three-act" will shortly appear around New York, booked by Weber, Albee & Evans. Hans Hanko and Belle Adair are to appear together, opening at Dockstad- er'R, Wilmington, next week. They are booked by Pat Casey. The Toronto Exhibition directors have voted that vaudeville be dis- pensed with at the exhibition next year, as an experiment. Augusta Maruhn and Frederick Rial's stage wedding Oct. 19 at Butte was the occasion for a neat idea in a banquet menu. Ely Timothy Faust and Isabel Craw- ford were married in Kansas City last week. Both are members of the Sam J. Curtis company. Walter Rosenberg's temple of drama and vaudeville, the Savoy, will be booked through the office of Shea & Shay from next Monday. "The Mandarin Girls," six young women, opened at Pittsfleld, Mass., last week for their first time out. Paul Durand has the act. "Lolb, the Mystic," is held over at the Maryland, Baltimore, this week, not "Lola, the Human Parrott" as re- ported from that city. Mrs. D. S. Axtel (Axtell, Lee and Heinle) added a new acrobat to the family Oct. 6. The mother will re- join the turn about Jan. 1. The Lutringer-Lucas Co. in "A Girl From the West" will play the Orphe- um, Yonkers, next week for their local gallop. Alf T. Wilton fixed it. Ruby Mack, "The Girl With the Voice," Is to make her vaudeville de- but in Long Branch next week. Harry Von Tilzer says she is a "find." Murphy and Willard will present their "Adam Sowerguy" sketch over the Pantages time. Albert Spalding, the American, will tour, during this month, in France, ap- pearing in special concerts during the latter part of the month in Germany. American acts expecting to play Germany, are warned to have com- plete list of "props" in contracts be- fore signing or they will be charged extra. Annie and Eflle Conley, who have not played for the past two seasons, have rejoined and will appear in a now act under the management of Jack Levy. "I'p or down" is the query nowa- days when an act mentions it is book- ed at Hammersteln's. Upstairs is the picture show; downstairs the regular vaudeville bill. Jack McGee has rehearsed fourteen people in a sketch, "The Strike Break- er," which will receive its trial per- formance at the National the first half of next week. Club agents, or some of them, it is reported, are offering acts they can not deliver for entertainments at one- half or less of the regular figure these acts obtain for "clubs." Frank Tinney, who cancelled two weeks' time on account of his moth- er's death, opened in Montreal Mon- day. He returns over the Orpheum Circuit, starting in December. Harry Rose is traveling for Variety in the east as circulation representa- tive. John J. O'Connor is located temporarily, with Walter K. Hill, in the Chicago Variety omce. Conroy and LeMaire are playing their new "two-act" at the Greenpoint, this week, the announcement that they would return to "A Knight for a Day" having been an error. "Running for Office," the next of- fering of Jack Welch and Arthur Klien for vaudeville, will show in about two weeks. Willie Donnelly is to be featured with the act. Jack Levy must have had a good week last week. Monday he was sporting a leather card case, embossed in silver on the edges, with a dia- mond in each of the four corners. Charlier, a foreign ventriloquist, billed for the American next week, had not arrived in the city up to Thurs- day. He was due to open Oct. 31 on a contract for seventeen weeks with the circuit. The Church City Four have been obliged to cancel the remainder of their engagements over the Pantages Circuit, due to the illness of one of tl.e young men in the turn. Carleton Macy will bo a member of the cast to present "He Fe'l in Love With His Wife." The piece, un- der the management of Boihncr & Campl-ell, opens Nov. 19. "Rebecca of Sunny brook Farm" was presented as a special performance Friday at the Republic, with the edu- cational forces (spiritual and intellec- tual) of New York on hand by invi- tation. Itcna Grossman, the soprano with "The Rolfonians," has been engaged by the Shuberts for "The Aero Girl" which opens Monday in Brooklyn. Miss Grossman's stage name is now Uena Santos. Kit Inge was obliged to leave the American program last week, after the Friday matinee. A cold contracted before the engagement opened devel- oped into a fever. James J. Morton occupied the vacancy. ItOHa Roma, wife of Chester Sut- ton, manager of the Salt Lake Or- pheum, is In Now York. Miss Roma may play a few weeks in the east be- fore eoinmenejng her Orpheum Circuit tour in January. Mrs. Gertrude Bohm, the wife of a booking agent, Is rapidly recovering from a serious operation which she underwent early in the week at Dr. Stern's Sanitarium on upper West Knd avenue. Frankie Ciirpeiifcr and .Pore Grady and Co. will present tli'-ir new sketch. "The Butterfly," at. Vmik-Tx next week. With them al-<>, in a new "sin- gle," will )»»• LiM" Hilly. The acts are under Mi" direct inn of Jo Paige Smith,