Variety (September 1911)

VARIETY KIETY FaMisned Woaklr »r VAMETY PUBLISHING CO. Times Square Hew York City SINE S1LVEIMAN CHICAGO II So. Dearborn St john j. o'oomroB LONDON I Qma St.. Leicester Sq. W. BCCHAWAK TATLOB SAN FRAMGISCO J. B. •tl Market St. PARIS BBltUN •I bla. Rm Saint Dldler BDWABD O. KBMD1 IT Unter dm Linden ADVBRTISBMBN1 J. Advcrtlslnf copy for current Issue must nMh New York ofice by I p. m. Wednesday. Advertisements by mail should be accompa- nied by remittance Aaaaal SUBSCRIPTION RATB8. Blade copies, 11 eenta $4 I Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol. XXIII. September 2 No. 13 "The Arab** opened its season at Buffalo Monday last. Sam Tauber really takes himself se- riously. Ben Teal had an automobile, until it burned up Tuesday night. Madame Herrmann will appear next week at the Wlllard theatre, Chicago. Nate B. Spingold has been appoint- ed press agent for the Winter Garden Carrie De Mar is not playing at the Brighton theatre this week. Ray Cox was added to the program. Mrs. Thomas Whiffen will soon be seen in a vaudeville sketch, produced by the James Devlin Co. The Schenck Bros.* Palisades Park, N. J., will close Sept. 10 or 17, after its most successful season. Master Philip Tranb has been sign- ed to play Bobby in H. B. Warner's "Alias Jimmy Valentine." Harry Mnndorf is expected to re- turn to the United Offices agency next week. Jules Delmar, speaking of a fellow the other day, said, "He hasn't enough sense to be half-witted." Walter 8. Caldwell will again be the treasurer at the Colonial this sea- son. Felice Morris will play In "Sadie." the John Cort production listed for November. The Homer Miles Players and the Carleton Macy Players, formed by the principals but without their presence, will play the F. F. Proctor "small time" houses. W. J. (Bode) Moore will be the man back with Wagenhals ft Kem- per's "Seven Days," the first of their organisations to take to the road. De Haven and Sidney sailed for England on the Celtic Aug. 31 for en- gagements on the Barrasford and De Frees time. The Express Trio, a foreign act an- nounced to open at the Folles Ber- gere Sept. 18, cabled a postponement, giving Illness as an excuse. The Lambert Brothers will join the Howard Thurston show next week, when that aggregation opens at Worcester, Mass. La Maze, Quail and Blaise is the corrected name of La Maze, Quail and Tom, so billed at the American last week. "The Getaway*' is a sketch written by Edgar Selden for vaudeville. Three people will play it sometime this month. Paul Seldom (Seldom's "Venus"— posing act), returned from Europe this week and proposes to enter into the general producing line in America. George A. StillweU, A. M. Montea- gudo, Harry Semels and Frances Slos- son have been signed by John Cort for the Mrs. Leslie Carter company. The Colored Picture* at the Herald Square goes to Daly's, next week, re- maining there until "Sweet Sixteen" moves in Sept. 11. P. C. Armstrong sailed for Berlin, Thursday, taking with him his elec- tric floral ballet which is booked abroad. The Potter-Hartwell Trio are ex- pected to return to New York shortly. Joe Shea will handle the act. It has been in Australia for some time. Elliott Forman, who assisted Mark Luescher in establishing a publicity bureau for the Orpheum Circuit, has severed his connections with the office. Mile. Faddma has been secured by Llebler ft Co. for the forthcoming production of "The Garden of Allah" at the Century theatre, to present a "national Algerian dance." The Virginia Minstrels, backed by W. H. Little, which will present min- strelsy of ye old-fashioned type, trav- eling in their own car, will shortly bid for favor in the eastern houses. Henry H. Winchell has been en- gaged as manager of the Aborn Eng- lish grand opera company which tours the country this winter presenting "The Bohemian Girl." Forrest Crosman has been engaged as business manager for Max Plohn's "No. 2" "Girl From Rector's" com- pany which opens at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Sept. 21. Beatrice Ingram Is making ready for the presentation of a new sketch, of the "slangy" type, by Herbert Hall Winslow. No title has yet been de- cided on. Albee, Weber A Evans have placed Mary Norman for a vaudeville tour. Miss Norman turned down several pro- duction offers. She will open Sun- day at the Columbia, Cincinnati. Jas. H. Moore, of Rochester and Detroit, is brown as a berry, the tan having been acquired In a long vaca- tion. Mr. Moore is going to stick around now. Perkins Fisher is announcing that last week he celebrated his fiftieth birthday, and that next week he will start his twelfth consecutive season in "The Half Way House." Irene Franklin will not headline the Fifth Avenue bill next week. Some disturbance somewhere, as Miss Franklin and Burt Green were regu- larly engaged for the position. Billle Reeves returned from Eng- land Sunday. "The Drunk" opens with a Fred Karno company in "A Night in an English Music Hall" at the Colonial, New York, Sept. 11. Arthur Lawrence, Ivo Dawson, Stan- ley Dark and Esther Evans have been engaged by Liebler ft Co. to support Margaret Anglln in "Green Stockings" at the Thirty-Ninth Street theatre. The cast of "What the Doctor Or- dered" will include Mabel Bert, Vir- ginia Hammond, Kate Meek, Si me Meredith, Fritz Williams, William McVey, Alan Pollock. Ben Smith, while playing at the Bell theatre, Oakland, last week, was seized with hemorrhages of the lungs and compelled to retire from the bill. His place was taken by Tom Kelly. Nana*8 partner sprained his back and the act was compelled to retire from the bill at the Orpheum, San Francisco, for this week. They were replaced by the Cadets de Gascogne. A number of theatrical people have been seriously inconvenienced by a Are which occurred Saturday night, de- stroying the showrooms of Kleigl Brothers, at Broadway and 38th street. This firm had in the place the light- ing equipment of a number of shows and vaudeville acts. The Palace, Morristown, N. Y., a new "small timer," opens Sept. 2. Four acts and pictures will be the program booked by the Prudential Vaudeville Exchange. Joe Meyers has formed a partner- ship with Frank Arnold, heretofore a manager of legitimate attractions, to conduct a vaudeville producing and booking office. Lyclia Yeamaiis, daughter of Annio Yeamans, is due to arrive in this coun- try in a few weeks with her husband, Fred Tihin. Alf Wilton is handling the act Louis X. Parker, the English au- thor, returned to New York, Wednes- day, accompanied by his daughter, Dorothy, who will resume the part of Marjolaine in "Pomander Walk." The Orpheum Circuit, excepting New Orleans, will be completely open- ed Monday next. The New Orleans Orpheum opens Sept. 11, taking its weekly program from Memphis, In- tact. L. J. Golde, assistant to Phil Nash in the United Booking Offices, return- ed to work Monday, after a vacation of two weeks. Mr. Golde also became a married man this summer before the vacation. Aubrey Pringle has joined Violet Allen and Co. The act will be placed by Jack Levy. Mr. Prlngle's inter- est in the Chicago Cafe, started by him and Geo. Whiting, was purchased by his partner. A typewriter at the United Booking Offices, (with some of her duties in- cluding the proper billing of acts) sent out a contract for Roehm's Ath- letic Girls, reading "Comedy Aero- bats and Leaping Dogs." John De Lorls is at Keith's, Phila- delphia this week, replacing the Ros- sow Midgets, on an emergency call. It is the first time Mr. De Lorls has appeared for B. F. Keith In seven years. Anna Marble has written the groundwork of a new sketch for Sam Chip and Mary Marble. Haves ft Don- nelly will inject the "laughs." When completed, it will be. presented in vaudeville. Elaa Ward closes her engagement at the Portola Louvre, San Francisco, this Saturday night, after a three months' stay there. She plays the Or- pheum theatres in Ogden and Salt Lake City en route to the east. The Lougworths, who have Just completed two years In the west, have arrived in New York, and are under the direction of Albee, Weber ft Evans. They will show a new act hereabouts during the next few weeks. Elizabeth Mayne has closed with Ralph Herz In "Dr. De Lux," and has returned to New York. The little woman is recovering from the effects of an accident which occurred on the recent road trip. Corlnne Sales Is recovering from a compound fracture of the leg, received while out driving Aug. 16 at Valencia, N. Y. Dooley and Sales have been obliged to postpone their opening en- gagement four weeks in consequence of the accident. Henry Washington Bushworth Wag- goner, known to the managing pro- fession as "Rod," has accepted one of the managerial Jobs with Frazee ft Lederer, being assigned to the "Ma- dam Sherry" which opens Aug. 31, at London, Ont. This company goes to the far west.