Variety (January 1911)

VARIETY KIETV PubliiLW WMkly by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Timet Square, New York City. SIME SILVERMAN Proprietor. CHICAGO, 167 Dearbon St. WALTER K. HILL, LONDON, 418 Strand. JESSE J. FREEMAN. SAN FRANCISCO, 906 Market St LESTER J. FOUNTAIN, PARIS, 66 BIt. Rue Saint Dldler. EDWARD O. KENDREW, BERLIN, 68A Unter den Linden. ADVERTISEMENTS. Rate card may be found In advertising eec- tion of thle Issue. Advertising copy for current Issue must reaeh New York office by noon Thursday. Advertisements by mall must be accompanied by remittance, payable to Variety Publishing Company. * 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual M Foreign 6 Single copies, 10 cents. Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol. XXI. January No. 5 Dave Reed has joined the forces of the Shapiro publishing house. He was formerly with Witmark. Lulu Valli, the English singing girl from musical comedy on the other side will "show" at the Fifth Avenue this Sunday. Ned Nye may appear as a single very soon. Mr. Nye has been living luxu- riously on his proceeds as author of several books. Norma Alexander, a thirteen-pound daughter, ushered in the New Year for Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Alexander, at Cincinnati. The Zandgs have gone west. Be- fore leaving the mysterious pair dis- posed of their moving picture inter- ests in New York. John Lawson will return to New York to open at the American, Jan. 23. The English actor will play four weeks on the Morris time. Metz and Metz have discontinued playing "The Midnight Rehearsal," and have joined the original Moneta Five, at present on the W. V. A. time. Rosle Lloyd will not play over here this season, having been unable to se- cure postponement of English con- tracts for a sufficient time to war- rant the trip. Hie Four Readings sailed Tues- day to open at Dusseldorf, Germany, Jan. 16, with foreign bookings for a year ahead, placed through Jenie Ja- cobs of the Casey Agency. Vllnios Wcstony has been placed on the Sullivan-Considine time for two trips, the first commencing Feb. 13. The Marlnelli agency did the book- ing. The Sisters McOonnell have left "The Girl in the Kimona," returning to middle-west vaudeville. Billy Carney (Carney and Wagner) greeted daughter No. 2 at his home in Springfield, Mass., last Sunday. Percy G. Williams was engaged in a law suit which ended in a disagree- ment of the jury, The action was for $15,000 in connection with some bonds concerned in the transfer of the Al- hambra theatre. "The Apache Dance" has been plac- ed to open at Youngstown, O., next week, with Akron the following. Irv- ing Cooper booked the act with Fei- ber & Shea. Genaro and Bailey play the Ham- lin Avenue, Chicago, next week, plac- ed by B. A. Myers. The same agent has secured a route over the Morris time for Zelaya, the pianist, and son of a South American president. r> ■ ''-•■■ •■/ \ 7 OSCAR LORAINE playe the MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE next week (Jan. 0). where ho will endeavor to "make good," despite "THE CUTE LITTLE CHOOSER" having Introduced bis best character there one week ahead of him. Mile. Minnie Ainnto, who has been appearing in the pantomimic offering "The Slums of Paris" is to be seen shortly in a new dumb playlet entitled "La Main." Lawrence Johnston opens at the Bronx, Jan. 23, to play the P. G. Will- iams tour. TTis sister, Mabel Johnston. goes to London in February. Both are ventriloquists. Harry Mayo will cease doing a "straight" singing act after finishing at the Plaza next week. He may later try out a blackfaced turn, delivering a singing monolog. Irving Cooper, his one time partner, is looking after the booking. Fred Rivenliall, Nelson Comlques and Wartemburg Bros, were placed by Irving Cooper this week to open on the Pantages Circuit during Feb. and March. Percy Haswell will open at the Ma- jestic, Chicago, this month. A post- ponement of vaudeville time became necessary through an offer from the Sbjiberts for a play, which hasn't ma- terialized. Alf T. Wilton is still the agent. Richard F. Staley has recovered from a severe cold contracted when he was last in the east in furtherance of his mining operations. Mr. Staley is hard at work again at the minen. At Xorristown, Pa., Monday "My Friend Hogan" appeared at the local playhouse, and was hooted off the stage at the matinee. Tim theatre was dark In the evening. The show was gorgeously described as a musical comedy. Norrlstown didn't believe it. The action of Louis Ginsberg, one of the Wcllman "America" airship crew, against William Morris for a week's salary was dismissed when tried last week, the court ruling that as Gins- berg had not appeared for rehearsal, he had no case. New Year's Kve was a big show night in New York, and a harvest for the ticket speculators. Some secured as high as $2.50 for fifty-cent seats. The American gave three extra night shows from Saturday to Monday, on the Roof. With Monday rainy, all theatres were jammed full. Walter Pearson, for two seasons the leading "straight" with Gordon and North's "Merry Whirl" company, and Harry C. Lyons, with "The Sere- naders" last season, will do a sing- ing and talking comedy act in one. They opened on the Jersey side the last half of this week. Maurice Shapiro Is due to return today unless a delay keeps the Caronia (White Star l^ine) from docking until tomorrow. Mr. Shapiro embarked for the return trip from Liverpool Dec. 31. Edgar Seldon, members of the Shapiro office force, and a delegation of Friars and other friends have planned to meet Mr. Shapiro. "IX>herty Sisters" appear on the Hammerstein program this week. The girls were billed without knowledge by some one at the house. They are on their way to Australia, with Willy Pantzer. The contract made for this week is six months' old. There was enough "show/' and no act filled in the vacancy. Following an annual custom, the Greenpolnt theatre staff gave a ban- quet at that house Monday night. Mons. O'Hare, Mayor of Greenpolnt, who was the principal guest, % made a felicitous speech in behalf of the thea- tre employes and presented Manager Tommy Blatt with a gold watch and chain. Some of Greenpolnt's promi- nent citizens graced the festal hoard. Dave and Josephine Sabel have booked themselves for the Ponce De Leon, St. Augustine, Florida, for the month of January, Miami, Fla., for February, and if the pinochle end holds up well, Dave; will pick off a couple of other winter resorts until the warm weather returns to this part of the country. Anybody knowing any- one around here who thinks he can play pinochle, Mr. Sabel will declare In the Introducer at 50-50 for the in- troduction alone. At Portland, Me., last week the near-striko at the Portland theatre was settled by the Instigator of tie- trouble being released. lie rec-ived his full week's salary. The remain- der of the bill continued. The act In the midst of the trouble, Boyle and Evans, cancelled all other time it had on the United Booking Ofli<•» s Family Department circuits. The number of the theatre and the act m;i'!< st;if« •- ments In the local papers e.-uic ■ >,:?ig the affair.