Variety (December 1911)

VARIETY KIETY Published Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Time* Square New York City SINE SILVERMAN Proprietor CHICAGO 35 So. Dearborn St JOHN J. O'CONNOR. LONDON S Green St.. Leicester Sq. W. BUCHANAN TAYLOR BAN FRANCISCO 908 Market St ABT HICKMAN PARIS <6 bis, Rue Saint Dldler EDWARD O. KKNDREW BERLIN 67 Unter den Linden SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Advertising copy for current issue must reach New York office by 6 p. m. Wednesday. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panied by remittance. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual $4 Foreign ( Single copies. 10 cents. Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol XXIV. December 2 No. 13 Andrew Mack will headline at the Majestic, Chicago, Dec. 11; Cissy Lof- tus, Dec. 18. Mile. Dasie opens Dec. 18 at the Columbia, Cincinnati. Another principal has given his "notice" to the "Balkan Princess." Harry P. Oribbon quits to join one of A. H. Woods' attractions. James O. Mclaughlin, who has been with the Robert Mantell company for the past two'seasons, has left the or- ganization and is back in New York. Leigh Morrison, who has organized a company to present "The Holy Name" on the road, will open upstate Christ- mas day. The Auditorium, Spokane, is again under the management of Harry B. Smith, whose stock company is head- ed by Jessie Shirley. "Prom the Valley of the Missing," by Grace Miller White will be drama- tized for stage purposes. O. D. Wood- ward may star Eva Lang in the piece. Philip Klein, oldest son of Charles Klein, has recovered from a jevere at- tack of pleuropneumonia and i3 back with the Authors' Producing oociety. Blanche Bates, when she is through with "Nobody's Widow," will appear in a new play written for her by George Bronson-Howard. Lionel Adams has been re-engaged to play the principal male role in "Spendthrift," which Klaw ft Erlanger start on another road tour Dec. 11. mi 'Mary, Mary." a production belong- ing to Baker ft Hlrsch, which has been playing in the West for some time, closed somewhere in Illinois this week Chester D'Amon is back in vaude- ville. Mr. D'Amon Is a thought-trans- mitter. He will probably show at the American, New York, shortly. Annabelle Whltford*s mother has re- covered from a very serious operation, necessitating Miss Whitford's presence at her bedside. Harry Porter, the songster, is en- gaged to marry (Miss) Bert B. Lan- dauer, a non-professional. The bride- to-be lives in Yorkville. Sophie Everett has settled a claim for salary against Frank Keeney. A compromise was effected by which both sides made concessions. The Four Hoiloways were due from Denmark on the St. Louis Thursday and are booked to play the Orpheum circuit beginning Dec. 11. Neil Twomey, managing the Peo- ple's Players, will place that company of stock people in Wakefield, R. I., as a permanent company, starting with next week. Mella Mars is billed to appear at the Winter Garden next week. 8he will not arrive in New York until Dec. 6, and may appear there Dec. 11, in- stead. Stock was attempted last week by the Hoover Stock Co. in Anderson, Ind. After playing less than a week the company had to throw up the sponge. It moved to Union City, Ind. Ad. Wolgast, the champion light- weight fighter, is seriously ill from the effects of an operation for appen- dicitis in Los Angeles. His Thanks- giving battle with Freddie Welsh was called off. All resolutions presented on behalf of the White Rats at the American Federation of Labor Convention at Atlanta were approved last Friday before the convention' adjourned. Edward G. Kendrew, Paris repre- sentative of Variety, has returned to the French capltol, after a month's traveling through Spain and a rush trip to Morocco. Rena Arnold (Mrs. James B. Dono- van) will not be seen in vaudeville this season. She will travel with her hus- band, who is at present on the Or- pheum Circuit with Charlie McDonald. Morry Hieman, well known around the West End and Vaudeville Clubs of London, arrived In New York last week on the Lusitanla. Mr. Hieman will be here two months. Ed Morton lost his voice before reaching Rochester Monday, but Charles Olcott had his with him, so Jenle Jacobs fixed up the substitution with Carl Lothrop. Frank Logan, who has been con- nected with the Jacobs ft Jermon companies for seven or eight years, owing to 111 health, has severed his connections with that firm, a new manager being installed with the "Columbia Burlesquers.'' Harry Van Cleve, who works with his mule at the Hippodrome, dislo- cated his shoulder blade during last Monday evening's performance, but pluckily continued to the finish of his act. He has not laid off at all, work- ing the next day heavily bandaged. William H. Lytell and Co. are going to play "An Early Call" in vaudeville. Joe Wood says so. Mr. Lytell started out to put stock into the John Cort other house in San Francisco, but they changed the policy before Mr. Cort could buy the transportation. Hence vaudeville for Billy. In the Metropolitan Opera House program the announcement is carried that ballet dancing will be taught without charge at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, young women between ages of 16 and 20 years, ob- taining free tuition in ballet work with a view of eventual engagement in the ballet of the Metropolitan. The Imperial Russian Ballet will end its first tour in Philadelphia, Dec. 16, after having covered Can- ada, New England, and all of the territory from St. Louis east. A long session at the Metropolitan Opera House here will follow, after which the dancers will jump to the Pacific Coast. White, Kranz and Sohwarts may appear as a three-act, Jean Schwartz at the piano. At least so Mike Bent- ham says. Bill Lykens relates that Mr. Schwartz. Billy Jerome and Maude Nugent (Mrs. Jerome) may be an- other three-act. Between the two and his music publishing business, Mr. Schwartz should be kept moder- ately busy. Goff Phillips will work alone again. The act he did with Abe Attell sep- arated. Goff is a blackface comedian. Very good, they say, too. He played the Orpheum Circuit once. Ask Pat Casey if he didn't—and put it over, too. You can ask Goff about that. Mister Phillips is called "Chicken," not because he appears in blackface, but because he worked in a burlesque show one season. "The Kiss Waltz" had its "100th Souvenir Night" at the New York Casino Nov. 24. It is now in its eleventh week at that house. Two matinees weekly (eight shows in all). Or to make the example easier, find out the number of rehearsals the man- agers figured as public performances. Either that or try to see the box office receipts the week before the "100th" was pulled. "Fools," presented in some of the "pop" houses, has been shelved for the present. In passing it might be mentioned that a well known agent told the woman promoting the sketch it would be expedient for her to cut down the running time of the piece. To drop from twenty-three to seven- teen minutes, the owner had the peo- ple speak their lines faster thereby { which did not help matters). One-Round Hogan did not open at Hammerstein's this week. The State Boxing Commission issued an edict that no sparring contests could take place in a theatre in New York State without the house had a boxing license. Margaret mington, last seen in New York in "The Thief" several years ago, opens at Daly's theatre next Tuesday night in Charles Ken- yon's new play, "Kindling." In Miss Illington's support are Byron Ceas- ley, George Probert, Frank B. Camp, A. G. Kenyon, John Jex, Frederick J. Rice, Annie Mack Berlein, Helen Tra- cey, Anne Meredith, Margaret Rich and Helen Chieffo. Dorothy Brown, Marlon Llndquist and Frances LeFrevre, all of Tom Lin- ton's "Jungle Girls," in a fire which started in the theatre at Lawrence, Mass., had a narrow escape from death. The throe girls were living in a hotel connected with the theatre. The fire started at night and drove them down a 86-foot ladder, without giving them time to make a change. The fire did about $5,000 damage to the theatre. Anna Oool is back at the switch- board at the Loew agency. When Anna reported the news, it was the first in- formation received she had been away; so Anna, if your name should com- mence with "K" instead of "C," don't threaten us with a libel action unless a retraction is published. Sophie Bur- man pulled that one on us last week, and Sophie kind of fished around like for another in this issue, but we turned Sophie down. In the case of Schwartzburg against Gus Edwards in Boston a judgment was given the plaintiff for $1,006, the full amount asked. Edwards was ar- rested in Boston for non-payment of this debt incurred some time ago in the purchase of costumes. Edwards was forced to file a bond after the court had refused his plea of being a Poor Debtor, that is, not having $20 to his name. Edwards swore he received but $75 a week, although he testified some of the others in his "Song Revue" act received $50 weekly. Jack Goldenberg, Joe Schenck's as- sistant in the Loew Circuit booking of- fice, just missed having a chandelier interview him Saturday night. Jack was looking over the books, trying to dope out what might be available for the Eighty-sixth Street theatre, when he left the chair for a drink of water (Mr. Schenck having ordered every- thing else In town for the Comedy Club opening). The chandelier started seven-eights of a second too late. It hit the spot in the atmsophere where Jack's head had been. The five-brack- eted lighter kept right on going. Mr. Goldenberg felt so good over it he treate' himself to two glasses of ice water, though not having any informa- tion at the moment about Mr. Schenck that evening. Jack says he doesn't want to Insinuate anyone tried to Job him to prevent Washington and Utica being filled for next week, but Mr. Goldenberg declares the chandelier never acted that way when they only had tbree-a-day houses in the office.