Variety (November 1911)

VARIETY Kkiety Fakllshsd WMkly ky VAUETY PUBLISHING GO. TlmM Squar* N«w York City SINE SILVBMAN Proprietor CHICAGO •• So. D«*rborn Bt JOHN J. O*0ONKOB. LONDON • Qr—n St., LtlowUr Sq. W. BCOHANAN TAYIX>» BAN FRANCISCO tOI Market Bt BOBKBT A. HAZEL. PARIS BBRLIN •• bis. Ru« Saint Dldtor RDWARD O. KKNDBHW •T UnUr dan Llnd«n ADVRRTIBRMRNTB. Advartlaint oopy for ourrant laau« m«t ranch N«w York offloa by • p. m. Wadnaaday. AdT«rtlaamanta by mall should b* accompa- nied by remittance. ^ initial Foreign SUBSCRIPTION RATB8. Single' copies,' io cent* $4 I Bntorad aa atoond-olaaa matter at New York. Vol. XXIV. November 11 No. 10 Grace De Mat went west last week to Join the Trixle Frlganza show ("Sweetest Girl in Paris"). Hajnmerstein'B gave a private show- ing of "The Raising of the Maine" pic- tures Wednesday morning. J. Austin Fynes has a new film de- vice, for which he is negotiating wit a some of the picture concerns. Bowers, 'Walters and Crooker, through the Marinelll Agency, have foreign contracts for next year. Florence Geneva has joined Harry Mayo in an act in "one" by Thomas J. Gray. The break-In will occur next week. George De Ongo, suffering with lo- comotor ataxia, is at the Hotel God- dard, Hot Springs, Ark., unable to get around. Louella Margaret, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Boyd, will be married to Melville Earle Gault Nov. 15. at St. Louis. The three-act of Sherman, Van and Hyman, was formerly Sherman, Kranz and Hyman, Van Schaik replacing Kranz. Matt Grau has signed Harry Pussey to play Mutt with the fourth "Mutt and Jeff" company Gus Hill is or- ganizing. May Irwin, in "She Knows Better Now," opened Nov. 9, at Allentown, headed for New York, after a brief road tour. The new Adolphus, Los Angeles (Clarence Riggs, general manager), with Bert Levy booking the acts, will open Nov. 27. Adolph E. Meyers, the Chicago agent, hit New York Monday, and the 20th Century to complete the round trip Wednesday. Edgar BlxlSY will present in vaude- ville next season a burlesque on "Faust," with -ftTt people and a big scenic production. Indigestion is now the popular and prevailing complaint amongst show people. It comes from eating too fast or not at all. Clifford Hippie in "The Girl of the Golden West," has arranged with Rob- ert Hilliard to present "As a Man Sowb" In vaudeville. The Gus Sun Booking Exchange company has secured the booking of the new Victoria, Rochester and the Arcade, Niagara Falls. "The Cook's Guest'* is an act placed on the "small time" by Freeman Bernstein. It is an English piece, pro- duced by Edouard Jobs and Walter Mc- Namara. James Tauber, brother of Sam and and brother-in-law of Harry and Irving Cooper, had one of his arms ampu- tated at the New York Hospital Satur- day. Van Hoven, who was to have ap- peared at the Colonial this week, had his date postponed for seven days, owing to a total loss of voice, due to a cold. Yvette will appear at Hammerstein's Nov. 20 in an entirely new act in which dancing (while accompanying herself on the violin) will be the piece de resistance. The Broadway, Columbus, will open Nov. 20. The house will be the first stop west for acts playing the Sulli- van-Considine Circuit, Instead of at Louisville, as formerly. George Neville and Co., consisting of Dorothy Reynol, Wm. Gerald and Charles Kane, produced a new comedy act, "Caught in a Trap" at the Or- pheum, Yonkers. this week. Ruth Hoyt, in private life the widow of Dave Murphy, is very ill with ap- pendicitis at her mother's home, 172 Bradford street, Provinceton, Mass. She was operated upon Oct. 28. The Broadway theatre has been do- nated for the fourth annual theatrical benefit of the Allied Societies of Tem- ple Ansche Chesed of Harlem in aid of the school fund, for Jan. 21. Robert Hilliard, who played "A Fool There Was" in Jersey City, last week, is due for a long western trip, the show going to San Francisco. While west, Hilliard will try out a new play. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Carrillo had a sixth wedding anniversary while play- ing Shea's, Buffalo, last week. Mr. and Mrs. M. Shea gave the couple a horae- cooked dinner, with turkey featured and mince pie the added attraction. ('banning Pollock removed Monday from his summer home at Shorehani. Long Island, to his town house (Hotel St. Francis). That's how some of the theatrical papers, sayg John Pol- lock, prints the society Items, only in this case the "town house" happened to be a regular hotel. The Great Richards is resting as the result of a severe cold. Richards has been in bad voice since September. He plays a return engagement at the Fifth Avenue, Dec. 4, having set back his Nov. 20 date. Jo Paige Smith had trouble with his hands last week, and wore gloves. This week he put on as an extra at- traction, a cold that tied up his voice. Jo wrote on the typewriter, "Yes, my voice and hands are in bad, but keep away from my feet." Some of vaudeville's brightest young men spent last Sunday evening in vaudeville. Jack Hodgdon and Charlie Bierbrower were among those present at the Columbia. They had a little party (two little parties. In fact) and tho crowd looked quite good. Sig Wachter, who has been absent from Broadway the past month, re- turned this week. He was unfortu- nate enough to lose both his parents recently. The double blow was too much for him. He is now connected with the Joe Sullivan Agency. The Maple Leaf, a new "pop" house in Montreal, will open Monday, booked by the Prudential Vaudeville Ex- change. Harry Clinton Sawyer, of that office, left New York Thursday to at- tend the opening. It is understood Mr. Sawyer named the new theatre. Virginia Drew Trescott continues critically ill at her home at Flushing, L. I., and her condition will not per- mit an operation. Her husband, Mel- bourne MacDowell, who recently closed with the Aphle James company, is at his wife's bedside. "The Old Soldiers' Home," with five men (Including John B. Hymer), will be produced by Mr. Hymer in Jan- uary. His "Devil and Tom Walker" act starts over the Sulllvan-Consldlne Circuit Dec. 24. It will feature Da- vid Walters as the Devil. Charles A., White, of Rlngllng Brothers' publicity staff, has Joined his wife, who is appearing in a play- let, "Mrs. Dolan's Dream," in the northwest. He will not appear in the act but will see that she gets the best of it in the newspapers. He has al- ready put over several good stories. "Little Boy Blue," Henry W. Sav- age's newest offering, had its premiere in Lancaster, Pa., last night, the open- ing date being changed a few days ago. Tbe show plays Baltimore next week and then comes to the Lyric, New York, Nov. 20. succeeding the Drama players. Jack Levy has removed to the Gaiety theatre building. The Knick- erbocker Hotel bought the adjoining property, where Mr. Levy was for nine years, paying his rent monthly. Jack forgot to get a lease after Nov. 1, or else he would not have moved unless the Knickerbocker paid commis- sion on a thousand acts. Efforts are being made to locate Mrs. Pearl Cole, Ft. Meade, Fla., who has appeared on the stage as Pearl Blondell. One of her children was thrown from a runaway horse down there and perhaps fatally Injured. In- formation as to Mrs. Cole's where- abouts will be appreciated by John A. Cole, manager of the Majestic, Ft. Meade. Frank E. Henderson, manager of the Majestic, Jersey City, says with all due respect to Flake O'Hara's $4,- 700 business and merits of the attrac- tion that the figure does not register the "banner week" for that house. He says that many of the stars and at- tractions booked would not play Jer- sey City if the box office possibilities there were not better than the forty- seven hundred mark. Lou Anger is in New York, having canceled his western time to permit the surgeons around New York to help prevent another operation upon him. Mrs. Anger (Sophye Barnard) opened In the title role of 'The Red Widow" at the Astor Monday night. She was warmly received, attracting the very favorable attention of the critics upon her first New York appearance as a prima donna. "Mike McNulty and His Three Dames" may be the billing for a vaudeville act, if Mr. McNulty can get a Sunday night somewhere to try out. Bill Lykens is handling the turn. If it makes good, Pat Casey will want three new stenographers. The girls for the singing four are Mae Nolan. Kitty Shanley and Nellie Fallon. Mr. McNulty turned down the proposition to call his act "The Irish Quartet." Monday night while the rain was pelting the New York Roof and the Pathe weekly film was showing a funeral procession of the French sail- ors wherein they marched with their dead In front of the camera, the piano player pounded out "Alexander's Rag- time Band." Despite the solemnity of the picture, when that "Come on anu hear" strain sounded, the audience had to laugh. To the piano player of a picture house all films look alike. Some one of those things the insane asylums were built for telephoned Bert Melrose's mother at Bridgeport last Friday her son had been seriously injured at Baltimore. Mrs. Melrose phoned the Casey Agency, New York, who inquired of Sam K. Hodgdon in the United Booking Offices. Mr. Hodg- don immediately called the Maryland theatre, Baltimore, which Informed him over the wire Mr. Melrose was then standing in the wings, waiting to y.o on for his turn. .\d Xewlierger has a sixteen-year old boy, who is a deaf mute, he may place in vaudeville. The youngster is a remarkable eccentric dancer, keep- ing the rhythm while dancing through catching the music vibrations in some way, possibly from the waves, through his feet. Mr. Newberger had the boy dance at his carnivals when his per- formance to those who knew the un- fortunate kid *was looked upon as a .».marvellous one.