Variety (November 1911)

VARIETY at LYCEUM AND CONGEST A $70 JUMP. Victor Herrman of the James Clan- cy office has' a hunch, Mr. Herrman's step-father Thomas Brown left New York this week for Panama to take charge of the electrical work on the U. S. Government theatre there. The theatre is to be called the National and run solely by the government. Six months will see the structure com- pleted. Attractions will be mostly operatic but the companies will be given the theatre and lights free, the only ex- pense being transportation. Vic has an Idea that stock can be placed in the theatre and is going to make a try for it. The fare from New Tork is $76. CHANGING TO STOCK. Poll's Theatre, Meriden, Conn., now playing one nlghters and popular priced vaudeville will change its pol- icy to stock in a few weeks. PERSONAL INJURY DAMAGES. Edmund Soraghan, of the Academy of Music Stock Company, through M. Straasman, attorney-at-law, has filed a suit for $6,000 damages for per- sonal injuries against the William Fox Amusement Co. Soraghan fell into an open trap as he was crossing the stage on his way to his dressing room. The Fox Amusement Co. is Insured against accidents, and tin liability lies with the Insurance company. CLOSES SURE THIS TIME. St. Louis, Nov. 1. The Baldwin-Melville stock com- pany, which has been here for the past eight or nine weeks at the Im- perial, closes sure this week. Bad business is blamed for the closing. 59 WEEKS WITHOUT MISSING. This Is the 69th week of the Acad- emy of Music Stock Company, New York, Prlscilla Knowles, leading woman of It, has played the entire time, without having missed a per- formance. There is talk of giving Miss Know- les a few hours off some day to see the city. Philip Spooner. ion of ex-Senator Spooner, whose tenor voice will be heard In recital In Boston early Ih November, Is an enthu- siast autolst and spent the greater part of the summer In his machine. Afties Berry, soprano, has been en gaffed to sins; with the Chicago Orand Opera Company this Announcement has been made that the Zoellner String Quartet of Bruesels has been exclusively engaged by Marc Lagen to make Its first American tour this season, opening Its thirty-six concert Itinerary In Carnegie Hall next March. The tour will last through April and May. Emmy Destlnn, of the Metropolitan, la in receipt of word of the death of her father In Prague. Bohemia. Sophie Traubmann. dramatic soprano, for many years at the Metropolitan, will be heard In concerts and recitals during the season. Zofla Nalmska, pianist, has returned from Europe. The ftLnhattan Ladles' Quartet is scheduled to r.ppear In New Tork November 2, 3 and •». Chsrlotte Maconde, soprano, Is announced to appear In the new Symphony, Newark, No- yember 8, and at Buffalo the IStb. NEW COMPANY FOR STANDARD. Philadelphia, Nov. 1. Paul Burns organised a stock com- pany In New Tork this week, engaging Ruth MacCauley as leading woman. It will gpen here in a week or so at the Standard theatre, the opening bill be- ing "The Pedler." MARGARET PITT BETTER. Margaret Pitt, a well-known stock actress, who has been quite ill with appendicitis, was out for the first time this week. She expects to resume her stage work immediately, STARS DOUBLE BUSINESS. Walter O. Hill and Alice Donaldson, the leading players with the Hill-Don- aldson stock company, after a four- weeks' vacation, rejoined their com- pany, Monday night, at Southampton on their Long Island circuit, appearing in "The Game." Since the stars have returned, the business has been doubled, showing that they lost none of their popularity while away. POOR BUSINESS DOES IT. New Orleans, Nov. 1. The Majestic theatre did not open Monday. The Curtis stock company had been playing there, but owing to poor business, decided to Quit. CHANGE AT INDIANAPOLIS. Indianapolis, Nov. 1. The Falton Powell stock company leaves the Colonial Nov. 4, going to Nashville, where it will probably stay for the remainder of the season. The stock organization at the Imperial, Providence, R. I., is announced to suc- ceed the Powell company here Nov. 20. A. R. Sherry, manager of the Co- lonial, goes to Buffalo while his as- sistant, Mr. Meyers, leaves for Chi- cago. A new manager comes here. FEW MELOS MAKE STOCK. Chicago, Nov. 1. As a result of the dearth of travel- ing melodramatic attractions, the man- agement of the Bijou is arranging to organize a stock company that will play alternately between that house and the Alhambra. The venture will be controlled by the Roche-Marvin company, which now operates the latter theatre. Margaret Chapman Vereker, the English contralto, now In New York, will be heard in recital In November. She will later ap- pear In a aeries of concerts In Toronto, Otta- wa, and other Canadian cities. Her tour will (cover 25,000 miles. Evelyn Parnell, the Boston soprano, now abroad, has been specially en gaffed fur opera at Montreaux. Switzerland, and also at the jPollteamo theatre, Itnly, during the winter. Kathleen Parlow opene her tour no soloist with the Toronto -Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 18. Arthur Frledhelm and Alexander Heine- mann are due to reach America about the middle of November. The former's tour starts in the mlddlswsst. TOUR COST $200,000. The Sheffield Choir, which sang here last spring, is now in England after a globe-girdling tour which Dr. Henry Coward, conductor, says re- sulted in a loss of $200,000. OUTBURST AGAINST STRAUSS. Berlin, Oct. 26. Siegfried Wagner issued last week a violent attack on Richard Strauss, ac- cusing him of vile motives in the pur- suance of his art, declaring that Strauss's music is a sin against hu- manity, catering to "lntellectural de- generates" and "exploiting the mod- ern tendency to sensuousness." Pressed for a reply, Strauss only smiles and continues to collect his enormous royalties. Years ago the father of the present head of the house of Wagner was similarly at- tacked by one Nitezsche. SINGERS FOR PHILADELPHIA. Paris, Oct. 25. Mile. Zeppili, M. Dufranne, Toscan- lni, Dalmores, Barci and Sammarco, sailed from Cherbourg Oct. 18 by "Kaiser-Wllhelm II" for New York, to open Nov. 13, at the Opera, Phila- delphia, with Mary Garden and Mag- gie Teyte, already arrived over there. Richard Hagemann, chorus director of the Metropolitan, and seventy-five members of the Italian chorus, have arrived In New Tork. ready to open the season at the Met- ropolitan. Myrtle Elwyn, American pianist, has re- turned to New Tork to resume her tour of the country. Adrlano Arlanl, Italian pianist, will make his debut In New Tork next month. Reginald DeKoven Is no longer critic of the New Tork World, his place being taken by Pierre V. R. Key. a former Chicago musical tevlewer. DeKoven will devote all his tlmi tc composing. Arthur Shattuck, pianist, has been engaged to play with the Theodore Thomns orchestra at two concerts, March g-9. In Chicago. Bernardo Olshansky, the new baritone of the Boston Opera House, Is scheduled to reach Boston Nov. S. Putnam Orlswold, the American basso, will make his farewell appearance at the Royal Opera, Berlin, this month, and will return to New York to resume his work with the Metropolitan Opera Company. Ellison Van Hoose. the Ameiicsn tenor, has been announced as soloist with the Philadel- phia Orchestra for Feb. 1-3. and by the Cincinnati Orchestra for Its concerts In De- troit in March. The Chicago Grand Opera Company Is an- nounced to open Its regular sen son at the Auditorium. Chlcsgo. Nov. 17. The new mem- ber of the organisation will be Miss Char- lotte Guernsey. Theodore Harrison, the Philadelphia barit- one, has been engaged as one of the soloists for the Lt»*i Centenary Festival to be held at Heidelberg. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Is an- nounced to appear In Chicago. Feb. 7-1 with Olga Samaroff-Stokovskl ss soloist. Putnam Grlswold, an American singer, who will appear at the Metropolitan this season, makes his debut there for the first time In "Faust." He has been singing In Berlin for the past six years. Verdi's "Alda." with Emmy Destlnn in the title role. Is announced as the opening grand opera attraction at the Metropolitan Novem- ber 13. Irene Scharrer, the Viennese pianist, twen- ty-three years old, will tour this country next season under the management of R. E. John- ston. Bella Alten, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera House, was recently married to a Hun- garian named Deri. AGAINST GERMAN EMPEROR. Berlin, Oct. 23. A curious law suit is to be heard in Berlin, the opposing parties being Felix Weingartner and William II. In 1906, Weingartner quitted the post of conductor at the Imperial the- atre, Berlin, and became director of the Royal Opera, Vienna. To avoid a law suit he signed a contract, paying 'l.OOO marks to a German charity and promising not to accept any position as musical director In Berlin. Weingartner is now trying to have this agreement annulled on the ground It is contrary to good morals. To accomplish this he must sue the Emperor. The case will be tried be- fore a private court. 26TH FOR KNEISEL QUARTET. The famous Kneisel Quartet began Its twenty-fifth season Oct. 31 with a special concert in the Astor Hotel ball- room. From three to six concerts will be given in New York, Chicago, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Newark and elsewhere during the sea- son. Maurice Maeterlinck, after announcing his Intentions of coming to America, is out wUn another statement that he will not come af- ter all. The American reporters think he Is coming under disguise and wishes to throw 'em off their scent Harold Bauer, who begins his sixth tour soon. Is going to the Paclflo coast on tour this season and expects to go to Mexico and South America, The Mendelssohn Glee Club Is planning to build a new home fur chamber muslo con- certs In New Tork City. Mme. Jeanne Jomelli, soprano, will give a recital, Carnegie Hall, January IS. Alma Gluck. soprano of the Metropolitan, sings In Carnegie Hall November 9. The Hon. Frank J. Cannon has Just com- pleted two solid months of chsutauqua lec- turing, and Is beginning a tour of seven con- tinuous months In lyceum work under the di- rection of the Redpath Bureau. Lillian Logan has gone to Berlin to con- tinue her vocal stud lea The American Band and Orchestra of Providence. R. I., will appear at a six weeks' Chautauqua In the middle west during next July and August Mme. Schumann-Helnk, now In Europe, comes to America early In November for a series of twelve concerts with the Boaton Symphony Orchestra. Her tour will extend across the Continent David Blspham opens his tour In the west the last of this month. His accompanist will again be Harry M. Gilbert who was with him on his 35,000 mile tour last ysar. Paul Morenso. the Spanish tenor, has been engaged to aaslst Mary Garden on her con- cert tour before shs begins her grand opera season. The Kellog-Halnes Singing Party, now appearing In Lyceum circles In the west, hsve been reinforced by Althe Montague, a Chicago vocalist who has Just completed a successful Chautauqua tour. Miss Montague was formerly an alto soloist In the Hyde Park Bsptlst Church of Chicago and a mem- ber of the Girls' Glee Club of the Chicago University. Charles W. Clark, of Parle, has been re- engaged by the Redpath Musical Bureau for a 1912 tour that Is to open January 1. Mr. Clark Is a singer of reputation and will have Gordon Campbell for accompanist. The Hussars opened a season of twenty- three weeks recently at Oregon, 111. A twenty-flvc-week season was recently opened at Cedarburg, Wis., by the Anita Orchestra. At the same time the Dixie Chorus opened a twenty weeks' season at Polo, 111. Ths Mosart Company started a twenty weeks' tour last week at Constantino. Mich Ludwlg Hess, the German tenor, la an- nounced to make his debut In New Tork. Nov. 13, In a special Wagner program with the New Tork Philharmonic Society, at Oamegle Hall.