Variety (February 1912)

VARIETY niETY Published WMklr by VAHETY PUBUSHINO GO. Times Square New York City SINE MLVEEMAN Proprietor CHICAGO ** *°- Dosfborn Bt JOHN J. O'CONNOB. LONDON i Oreen St., Leicester 8q. W. BUCHANAN TAYLO* PARIS BERLIN 16 bis. Rue Ssint Dldler EDWARD O. KENDBBW 17 Unter den Linden SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Advertising copy for current lemie muit reach New York ofllce by • p. m. Wednesday. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panied by remittance. Annual Foreign SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Single copies, 10 oents. $4 I Entered as second-claee matter at New York. Vol. XXV. February 3 ■BaBssmaaB No. 9 Hattie Timberg has Joined "Over the River." The Kratons are shortly returning to England, to play the Stoll Tour. The Haverlll, Mass., Academy of Music, burned to the ground Jan. 20. John Cantwell and Retta Walker were married in Minneapolis, Jan. 21. Lee Muckenfuss is with the Paul Durand agency. 8. Z. Poll has gone to the Bermudas for several weeks, on a pleasure trip. Henrietta Marksteln is at the Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, suffering from a complication of diseases. William J. Kelly, the legitimate actor, has rejoined Zlegfeid's "Folies of 1911," now in Boston for a run. W. H. Pnrdy and W. R. Sutton are to build a theatre on the Purdy Block site, at Bath, N. Y. The American Amusement Co. of New York City contemplates a theatre at Westfleld, N. J. The Princess theatre, Nashville, now in course of construction, will open as a picture house in two weeks. Harry Breen and Von Hoven were on the same bill at the Orpheum, Omaha. Sam Shannon and Lee Barth have formed a vaudeville partnership. They will open Feb. 12. Frank A. Kqeney returned Monday from his vacation at Hot Springs. Mr. Keeney looked nat' -al. Henry and Francis open on the Orpheum Circuit Feb. 19, placed by Jo Paige Smith. Jock McKay starts an Orpheum Cir- cuit tour Feb. 4 at Duluth. The Casey Agency did it. Jack Von TOser, of the York Music Co., leaves Sunday for a western trip of a month's duration. Blossom Seeley starts an indefinite engagement Feb. 12 at the Winter Garden, New York. Bert Melrose sails for England Tuesday. He is to open at the Hip- podrome, London, for three weeks. Walter O. Kelly has been engaged for the Orpheum Road Show next sea- son. The Six O'Connor Sisters start next week on a tour of the United time, opening at Proctor's, Newark. Stella Hammerstein is to appear in a sketch by Herbert Thompson en- titled "The Tyranny of Fate," at Hara- mersteln's Feb. 12. George White has returned from Paris and London. He will open at Hammerstein's Feb. 5 in a singing and dancing turn. An auction sale of seats for the opening performance of the Weber and Fields Jubilee Company was held at the Broadway yesterday. Charles Healey, formerly with one of the "Madame Sherry" companies, arrived in New York last week to go ahead of the Emma Trent!nl show. The College Trio did not open at the Bronx Monday afternoon, although billed. They were replaced by the Three Leightons. Jarrow thought he would play Lawrence, Mass., this week, but after arriving there Monday morning found he wouldn't. Mildred Gilmore, sister of Mollie Williams, will undergo a slight opera- tion some time this week at a private sanitarium. The Three Ernests, after sixteen months abroad (five at the Empire, London) are back, appearing this week at the Bushwick. Clarence Jacobson has been made manager of "The Country Boy" com- pany succeeding Willie Hale. Hale has returned to New York to await fur- ther orders from the Harris office. Edward Doherty, formerly of the Bijou, Fall River, Mass., has assumed management of the Lyric In that city. Doherty's Bijou Job has been taken by Ed. Boas. Jean Schwartz and Grant Clarke are to try vaudeville as a two act. The opening date is set for March 4. The new combination will be handled by Jack Levy. Frank Mills, formerly leading man for Olga Nethersole, has produced a vaudeville sketch and will launch it under the caption of The Frank Mills Players. The Makarenko Duo are headlining on the Loew circuit. The team has something of a record, boasting of continuous work for the last five years without a layoff. The New Gordon theatre, Middle- town, O., opened Monday. It seats 1,200 and will play "pop" vaudeville, booked by Gus Sun. Willa Gordon Is manager. Edgar W. Ruff has furnished an of- fice at the Exchange Building, 145 West 46th street, where he will write material for vaudeville people. Mr. Ruff is now at work on a comic opera, to be presented on Broadway in the near future. "Behold The Man/* by George D. Baker, which Baker & Castle expected to produce this season with the late Wright Lorimer in the title role, will not be brought out until next fall.* Meyer Epstin, the New York repre- sentative for the Mark-Brock houses, has placed Grace Benedict under con- tract for a period of years. He will shortly feature her in a "rag" singing offering. Miss Benedict has been a member of the entertaining forces at the Faust cafe for more than a year. Kathetine Schenck-Taylor, known professionally as Katherine Scott, was granted a divorce from Wilton Taylor January 8 by Judge Colllster of the Common Pleas Court of Cleveland. Joe Pyle has left the box office of the Fifth Avenue, to re-enter the Mc- Bride Ticket Agency, which floated an offer in front of Mr. Pyle that he could not get away from. The Olympic, Lynn, Mass., one of the houses on the Sheedy Circuit, starts "splitting" next week. The house will then play seven acts each half. George Pierce, the custodian of the White Rats club rooms for several years past, has gone back to acting. George is "breaking in" a "double act" with Josephine Knoll. Chaplne, prima donna of "The Rose of Panama," is back in the cast again, after laying off for several perform- ances, owing to a sore throat. Reina Lazar understudied. Joseph Merrltt Joined Dockstader's Minstrels in Brooklyn this week. Dockstader's play the West End next week, their first New York appearance here of the present season. Lester W. Keith has exiled himself in the wilds of Tupper Lake, N. Y. Tupper Lake is fifteen miles from Sar- anac Lake. Its pride Is a six-piece orchestra and two singers under Keith's direction. Tommy Gray received a letter from a "sister act" asking him to look them over at a picture house in Brooklyn. Enclosed in the letter was 46 cents in postage stamps "for ex- penses." Helen Lehman is suffering from a severely scalded left forearm and hand, caused by the spilling of a pot of scalding hot tea Monday night. Miss Lehman says that this will be her last experiment with tea drinking. Hope Booth has been signed by the Gordon-North Amusement Co. for the only female role in Aaron Hoffman's new sketch, "The Lifer," which will be placed into rehearsal next Monday. Miss Booth had been booked over the Loew time In her sketch, "The Little Blonde Lady." This time was can- celled by consent of the Loew man- agement. The members of the western corn- puny presenting "The Gamblers," had a belated Christmas dinner while play- ing Stockton, Cal., last week. The players and working staff were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Losee, of the company. Wellington Cross, of Cross and Josephine, has been out of the cast of "The Wall Street Girl" for the past fortnight on account of illness. He came on to New York to consult his physician and returns to the show next Monday. Charles Frohman, who has been progressing rapidly in his convales- cence, caught cold last week and has been ordered back to bed by his phy- sicians for a few days. He is well enough, however, to direct his affairs from his apartment at the Knicker- bocker Hotel. When "The Goose Girl" company (eastern) played New Orleans, Victor Sutherland, the big leading man of the troupe, was waylaid by three thugs not far from the theatre where he was playing and, in giving them fight, was badly bunged up, receiving an ugly cut across the forehead. The New York police force will be attractive looking this summer. They are having the cutest imaginable warm weather uniforms made, consisting of gray serge, black buttons and tan shoes. When the weather becomes genuinely hot the serge trousers will be replaced by white duck. Oh, you cutles! The agent for Dr. Cook called at one of the New York booking agencies the other day, looking for "dates" for his star. The agency man asked the agent how he was putting Dr. Cook out. "Under the auspices of a club in each town" was the reply. "The Ananias Club?" queried the bobker, which led to a cessation of booking negotiations. Grace T. Kelly, a sister of Walter C. Kelly, the "Virginia Judge," in vau- deville, made her stage debut Monday night in "The Dollar Mark." a play given by the Cahill Club at Mercan- tile Hall, Philadelphia, under the pat ronage of the Archdiocesan f'nion. Miss Kelly made an excellent impres- sion and received some flatt«»rin« no- tices in the paperp. Another brother. George Kelly, Is now ;ipp» ;irh>« in "The Virginian" in California