Variety (November 1911)

VARIETY STRAIGHT VAUDEVILLE SHOW K, * n ""* ZTT. _w«.mw«_i*^ ^ a «^«^ M m«*^» «^^v« «>-»<.* Charles Klein's new play "The Out- WINTE R PAR PEN'S POLICY ^S; SST^H'SS •"■ wmmm ——- night. The title is rather appropriate. Reports Say New Program There Next Week Is Laid Out compared with the other works of Mr. * ** * 1 •• «m#t^.A. i.i; %rt ■ ^ •• *. •_ Klein, this piece is an outsider. In "Acts", With "Vera Violetta" as a Number, Called a comedy , lt iB now and again. ShOW Closing With Annette Kellermann. at other times melodrama, pure and _______ simple. Some stages of the piece had * * ~ .. . * * * < . i^^ better be left unnamed. Tlie Winter Garden's next entertain- her road tour Monday, as planned by The Jg a u Qne and Uke ftU ment. scheduled to start Nov. 15, will the Shuberts, owing to the refusal of Qf charle8 Kleln . B playg> lB ukeil be nothing more or less than a her chorus to accept the conditions for frQm lncldenta In every day Ufe Por straight vaudeville show, according to four months of one-night stands. tMg he hafl choBen ag the gu mftt _ reports about The chorus stood pat. with the re- ftn attempt by a " new ly-rich" fam- "Vera Violetta/' the Viennese oper- suit that a new one had to be recruit- tQ break thr()ugh the hard crugt Qf etta, heavily billed aa the feature of ed. After hurried rehearsals, the B0C i e . y the next Winter Garden show. Is said Scheft company opened Wednesday The caat , B a one Th MM to be simply a somewhat lengthy num- night In Buffalo ,„ erb wnen there are „ ne8 „, -t . ber Th0 D « che » u K° ln e to do some uftUon§ of vftlue w hand , e The ^^ The frame-up of the show as at tall traveling between now and We wlth the action of „ The 0uttlaer ,» present laid out is as follows: First spring. Several of the chorus said „ that t „ lot ch t00 , reQUently . part vgudev He opening with Span- that It was pret y "soft" for Ms. M of ^ „ Uuatl0M are prep< ^ ish Dancers. Lydia Barry. Belle Baker. Scheff to travel In her own special teroug The acUon , Annette Kellerman Frank Tlnney. car. but that the traveling outlook for lmp0Bglble a8 lt progreMeg . Tn9re „ Then w n com, an «nterml»lon. after them was anything but inviting development. Only the acting which "Vera" will bo given, runn.n. Sam Oarsten, who piloted the Win- saveB , B * M aceneB J for about two hours. ter Garden show, which closed in b The principal, of the defunct Win- Philadelphia. Is in charge of the Honorable mention must be given to ter Garden road show were told to scheff road tour. 0rme CaWara ud Jane Cow , « r ^ report at the Garden Tuesday for , . . __ _ .* * *" their salaries After waiting around 8uperb work ' Many otbers in the CMt tneir saiar es. Alter waiting arouna WAYBURN WITH DILLINGHAM. did very well. The author will doubt- for a couple of hours they were paid . . . Ned Wayburn, the stage director less get busy with his offering. It has n jos7 Collins, the English corned.- »d producer, has at last come to the only this week to run here, and lt to enne. arrived In New York last Friday. par lng ot WByB wlth , **" ™ iB > *"• " la a th t at **• P la * , wJ11 * rt0 ' ed untH ok -,ni ».«™ ««« «# r u «.i««i„„i .«i Aa Anal separat.on coming last week. the first of the coming year. It was re- She will have one of the principal roles °_ y ^ ^*JV AU * *•. I *i- ln "Vera" Gaby Deslys engaged by U ,8 under8tood Wayburn has ported here that the piece was to be the Shuberts at $4,000 weekly to play **™ d * "J* y « arly «?*?*„ W ! th dl8Contlnued ev <* « a » ucc «»- ™j her sketch at the Garden, is giving her C ** rle8 * » "ingham, and that Fields company goes on the road and will playlet a vacat on having been as- w111 go Jt alone wlth n,s 8how Btag " contInue wlth Th « Gamblers" for the signed a role in the production. It is lng ' aBfl,Bted by tho8e already ln hlB r f Bt of the Bea80n - Th# ca8t and the said Gaby refused to go on the road * mploy - characters are: at the head of a vaudeville company, ja y e t0I Biak'i i>'"wi 0n c 6 j Caldara and the Shuberts "took Care" Of her THE EMPIRE'S SEASON. C Talbot Berriman.'..'.'. ... Charles'stavenaon contract In this way. John Drew leaves the Empire Dec. TayJorfTeeVBoy! WW'. .'! \i££££ SMfH! The offer of the Shuberts for Dazie 2 and will be followed by Ethel Bar- 5 U,! > George Backua A A . __ lirv .. „., A * _ Dr. Brent Charles Burbrldfe to appear in the next show at tho rymore in "The Witness for the De- Ben. a Reporter wiuiam Poaunce Garden has not been accepted by the fence," by A. E. W. Mason. Miss HKe?V6Vk.\\\\\\\\\\\\\':^WiV«^«Sl ro ji*. dancer, who will play vaudeville until Barrymore will remain at the Empire Lockwood '...Bdward j. Norria .... .. . .. . „ , _... .. .j-, - , . . Phyllle Berlraan Jane Cowl called for the production following until the middle of January, when she Hattie Dawson Sarah Truax "Vera" will likelv h#* fnllnwgwl hv VTan<i A Mr * c « Talbot Berrlman Amelia lfayborn vera - W1U 1,Kei y «>• lOIlOWed Dy Maude Mrs. James Blakely Florence Huntingdon Dazie may open in vaudeville the Adams. later end of the month. She has been _ "MARIETTA'S" STAY CUT DOWN. offered $1,250 weekly for the New nmm _ „.. nn „_, 0 York houws. and will probably receive ^ TO "»«• D « "«r 18 ALIVE. Chlcago Nov^ 8^ $1,600 outside New York. A new bal- ™« '»*■ »e Luxe" (Ralph Herz) haughty Marietta with Emma let act. with Sig. Boniflglio aud four- 8how wlU not clMe - according to the 7. re ° tilI, - li whlc ' 1 op , ened at 'J 16 °° on , , » 1 teen young women, will be Dasle's Jos M - Ga,te8 ofllco <=»•«'«• «"<> W *T a A ?*! T^ . ,'J ' next variety offering. It is booked the a"™<=«0"> «" routed until Feb. 15". cl0Be8 Saturday night and takes to the by Jenle Jacobs, ot the Casey agency. Anotner «°K»Kement Is planned for ^ agaln nl , .,, . f * Boston. The opening nights receipts were $1,700. Before the first week was GETTING OUT "HOLY NAME." over> they had dropped t0 aDout , 600 The Morrlson-Hefferlein company is TEMPLE REHEARSING "JACINTA." a performance, completing plans for a road production "Jaclnta," the new John Cort musl- The local papers roasted the show, of "The Holy Name." cal show, will not be able to open Nov. one even going so far as to say the star Louis Morrison has out "The White 20, aa first arranged, as a new man is could not sing. Sister" at present, with Jeanne Fowler in charge of the rehearsals. J featured. Ed. Temple, formerly of the Hippo- ANOTHER BROADWAY WITH AN IF. acciden^ZTkilled. dTOme ' l " n ° W d ' reCt ' ng the W ° rk - hB f'f s ™rV 0 T^\l O V e - Elmere. Minn.. Nov. 8. LTv^, * If I * 1* *" The rehearsal of a play here yes- OPERATES ON WILL DAVIS. "1Z, ' 7 "« , ^"Vl terday by amateur actor, resulted Chicago. Nov. 8. "« k n * . .*. P ^ ^oT" 1 in a tragedy, when Harry Blair was Will J. Davis, assistant manager of 8ttt f ho "' n « out of own Nov 20 accidentally shot dead by Clarence the Illinois theatre, suffering from an , " n ie * a * h ° 8h ° W """J™? '* W "' Hessledahl. who fired a revolver sup- attack of appenditlcls. was successfully ^ e , br ° ugh , t lnt0 New iork - Ml8 f 8ear8 posed to contain blank cartridges. operated upon Sunday at the Henrotln 'f«t Roadway appearance was in "The Hospital. Egg at the B, J 0U - rt Proved un- " * profitable on the road and was closed. SCHEFF CHORUS WALKED OUT. Fred G . Lathftmf who 8taged the Fritzi Scheff, who closed her New Jas. H. Cnllen will start a round Kitty Gordon show and all of the Fritzi York engagement at the Lyric Sat- of the Percy Q. Williams houses Nov. Scheff pieces, except "The Duchess " is urday night last, did not inaugurate 20, placed by Jas. E. Plunkett. putting on the new Sears' show II LARUE SHOW NOT IN SHAPE. Orace LaRue in her new show. "Miss Betsy/' is not coming into New York for sometime yet. The show played Baltimore last week where Alex. John- stone, who wrote the music, made some important changes in the score, interpolating some new songs of a lighter vein for the star. Several numbers introduced by Miss LaRue have been considered too heavy and they have been taken out for tho new music. The show is playing St. Louis this week and will work its way to Philadelphia. Byron Chandler, in private life the husband of Orace La Rue, has placed Miss La Rue and her musical play, "Betsy," at the disposal of the Shu- berts. As a result, they have Jumped from the Klaw & Erlanger houses in- to the former's theatres, appearing at the Garrick, St. Louis, this week. St. Louis, Nov. 8. Grace LaRue was successful in her new opera, "Betsy," upon Appearing at the Garrick Monday night. The costli- ness of the production caused talk. ONE OFF; ANOTHER ON. Philadelphia, Nov. 8. "Graft/' a political drama by Wil- liam B. Maloney, former secretary to Mayor Gaynor of New York, which started to play a three weeks' engage- ment at the Walnut, with Frederic Thompson, as the producer, closed Sat- urday night. Robert Drouet and Lillian Meyers, an Australian actress, were in the leading roles. Mr. Thompson is getting "Eliza- beth's Chauffeur/' a new farce by John T. Mclntyre, a former Phila- delphia newspaper man, ready for pro- duction, the premiere due within the next month. KEEPING "THE ARAB" OUT. Not caring to record two calamities in one week, Henry B. Harris has passed the black sign upon "The Cave Man" at the Fulton. It is to go stor- agehouseward after this Saturday. Mr. Harris' other doubtful piece of theatrical property, "The Arab," will continue, with Robert Edeson, present star of "The Cave Man," transplanted to succeed Edgar Selwyn. Mr. Selwyn wrote "The Arab," and has been playing the principal male role. He announces he is done with the stage as an actor, and will leave for Algiers, Dec. 4, in company with his wife, Margaret Mayo. They will spend some time there gathering new play material. "The Arab," after its engagement at the Grand this week, lays off a week giving Mr. Edeson a chance to get up on the Selwyn role. It will start toward the Pacific Coast. JORDAN GOES TO EUROPE. Walter Jordan, of the play broker- age firm of Sanger & Jordan, sailed for Europe last week to close coi- tracts to represent a number of for- eign managers in this country. Fred Ward was last heard from nf the Sherman House, Chicago —then h«> moved.