Variety (March 1912)

VARIETY KIETY Pabllah«d Wwkly bj VARIETY PUBLISHING GO. Time* Square New York City SINE SILVEftMAN Proprietor CHICAGO •• 80. De*rbon» 81 JOHN J. O'CONNOR. LONDON I Green St.. Leicester 8q. W. BUCHANAN TAYLOR PARIS BERLIN 66 ble. Rue Saint Dldler TOWARD O. BJENDRRW 67 Unter den Linden SUBSCRIPTION RATBS. Advertising- copy for current leeue muit reach New York office by 6 p. m. Wednesday. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panl ed by remittance. ______________ m SUBSCRIPTION RATBS. Annual •{ Foreign ■ • • • Single copies. 10 cents. Entered as second-clase matt er at New York. Vol. XXV. March 2, 1012 No. 13 Pony Moore and Davy left the Sam Howe show last Saturday night. Flo Rhelnstrom 1b with the Ed F. Kealey agency. Jean Kernan'6 wife presented him with a son, Sunday. Alec Fischer is on the other side of the ocean. The O'Meera Sisters and Co. are booked by M. ,S. Bentham. S. Z. Poll has returned from his winter vacation. Melville and Higgina are booked to open at the Palace, London, next May. Norma Whalley returned to New York this week, after playing across the pond. Tanean and Olazton have purchased their new home at 2065 Pacific street, Brooklyn. Fred Darcy, the dramatic and stock agent, is away on a three months' vacation. Claude Golden, the Australian card expert, is confined to St. Mark's Hos- pital with pneumonia. O'Brien Havel and Co. left the Fifth Avenue bill Monday. The Musical Johnstons replaced them Tuesday. James Carson, late of the Winter Garden company, will appear in vaudeville shortly. Tim McMahon and wife (Edythe Chappelle) added a baby girl last week to their family. Simon & Shield's "High Life in Jail" with Bill Mack opens on the Sulllvan- Considine Circuit, April 8. ,4 A Millionaire Tramp," Jack H0V1- in's production which was put on th road out of Chicago, is scheduled to close Its season March 23 in Ohio. John T. Murray opens April 1 for a tour of the Sullivan-Considine Cir- cuit. Ben Bornstein, professional manager for the Harry Von Tilser company, has gone to Chicago to whoop things up in the windy city for a fortnight. The West End theatre has a "double bill" this week with "Baby Mine" and Mordkin the Russian danc- ing star. Fred Gray, of Gray and Graham, is on the ocean bound for New York, ill health forcing him to cancel the team's contracts abroad. The members of Graham Moffatt's "Concealed Bed" company sail from Glasgow March 2, and will open at the Orpheum, Minneapolis, March 16. Dorothy Brennan and Joe Rat- cliffe, in "The Wife Hunters," are preparing to essay vaudeville as an act. The Lyric, Dayton, will close its vaudeville season April 29. On the final program will be Genaro and Bailey. The Bethel Sisterhood will have a benefit at the Cohan theatre this Sun- day evening. Pat Casey provides the show and will run the stage. Dalnert a French girl who sings, came over with Lee Shubert last week on the Lusitania. She will appear in the new show at the Winter Garden. Gordon ft North's "Bridal Suite," a vaudeville sketch, was given a direct route to the storehouse after showing at Hoboken last week. The Four Koners Brothers arrived from Europe Tuesday after a six months' tour of Europe. They return again in a few months to fulfill further continental bookings. U. G. Blackford, personal legal representative for B. F. Keith, and manager of the Harlem Opera House, Is confined to his home with an at- tack of the grippe. E. D. Storey, assisted by Robert Clifford and Maud Cameron, have a dramatic playlet, "The Veteran" which is under Alexander Pinkerton's direction. Charles Stevenson returned to his desk in the United Booking offices this week in apparently better health than in years. He was given a cordial wel- come. Stoddard and Hayes are returning to England for another tour of the halls over there, opening April 16 at Brighton. Will Lacey, the cyclist, opens April 22 at Glasgow. Both acts placed by B. A. Myers. J. C. Tinkham (Tlnkham and Co.), the cyclist, entered the Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, Monday, to un- dergo an operation on his knee, hurt in an accident on his motorcyle a year » go. Georgln Oalne will return to vaude- ville shortly in a one-act operetta. The Four Readings returned to New York last Saturday, after a trip of fourteen months on the other side. While abroad the act lost but four days. The foreign bookings were made through the Casey Agency. The Kaufman Troupe will shortly be divided in two, one half of the girls going to London to do a roller skat- ing act and the remainder continuing with the bicycle turn over the Sullivan- Considine circuit. Maud Lambert, who retired from "Over the River" a fortnight ago, opened in Waterbury, Monday, with a new vaudeville vehicle. She will have a New York showing this Sunday at the Academy of Music. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morton have a number two baby in their household. Mr. Morton left for Chicago Sunday night, called there by the Illness of his wife. The Four Mortons canceled for Poll's, Scranton, this week, "My Lady's Fan" securing the position. Jerry J. Cohan is the author of a volume entitled "Poems and Sketches," printed for private circu- lation only, with the author's auto- graph inscribed on each. The little book is chockful of Irish humor. Sophie Barman, who nearly every day keeps herself busy around the Albee, Weber & Evans office, left New York last Saturday for Phila- delphia, where she went to get mar- ried some weeks ago. Miss Burman's latest trip was to secure a divorce, so as to be at liberty once more. Back from a road tour of twenty- seven weeks, Gertrude Hoffmann and her Russian dancing ballet will rest next week preparatory to opening at the Majestic, Brooklyn,'March 11, in- stead of at the Manhattan Opera House as originally announced. The dancers take to the road again after the Brooklyn engagement. There is talk about an alliance between Charles Hart (Avery and Hart) and J. Rosamond Johnson (for- merly Cole ft Johnson). Chas. Hart is also considering Sherman Coates (Coates and Grundy) to replace the late Dan Avery. Chas. Hart will tem- porarily "try out" as a single at Wa- terbury, Conn., next week and if suc- cessful will work alone In the future. Alf. Reeves, whom Frank Lohm Is suing for commission on contracts which the latter claims he secured for the Sullivan-Considine time, says that Bohm gave him (Karno Comedy Co.) contracts for the 8-C circuit which started at Cincinnati Feb. 27, 1911, and ended at Kansas City July 31 last to present "A Night in an Eng- lish Music Hall" for which he (Reeves) sent weekly commission. In Seattle, Reeves says he personally ar- ranged with John Consldine for a sec- ond tour of the circuit, opening in August (1911) playing "A Night at the Club" for which Reeves bought new. scenery and equipment. Violet Dale is looking for a new sketch with which to have another "try" at vaudeville. Louis Maun is becoming the Rialto's best little mover. He makes a check- er board look like a stationary post- age stamp. Opening at the Liberty, Mann was moved into the Criterion, and from that house has been trans- ferred to the Garrick, where he open- ed Monday night In "Elevating a Hus- band." A monoioglst, particularly noted for his ability to remain on the stage for a long stretch without tiring him- self, had a difference of opinion the other day with another act on the same program. The monoioglst at the next show cut his act to ten min- utes. He became offended when one of the artists on the bill, after the rumpus, referred to him as "The shine that won't come off." Bruce Duma and Vic Herman of the Clancy Agency are keeping away from the barber. Vic claims he has a mustache. Bruce offered to wager a week's salary it wasn't. Leaving it to an expert, Bruce was defeated, when he made a vow never to shave again until Vic had had the rash on his upper Up removed. Mr. Herman says he is only one hair short of a regular mustache, and refuses to lose what he's got until certain the miss- ing hair won't appear. Rose Pltonof has been placed by Morris ft Fell with Ernest Edelsten to book In England. Miss Pltonof, reaching the other side, will attempt to swim the English Channel, which, as Mr. Edelsten remarked: "Is some swim, don't you know, old chap, even if she doesn't do It," and then Ernie, to show the boys his time over here has not been wasted, added "Do you get me, Steve?" placing on top of that "The chaps over there won't be wise to me a bit, will they now, when I go back?" Then Mr. Edelsten bawled at a waiter for not passing to the right Instead of the left when serving hot dripping soup. "Some of your customs over here are bally, if I must tell It," said Ernie, "but I think the soft boiled eggs at the Astor are the best baked I have ever had." Mr. Edelsten returned this week from Chicago, where he spent a few days. Ernie hit a snow storm going out, with the result he was thirty-three hours reaching the Windytown, in the midst of a blizzard. Wanting to And one man, and not reaching him in his office at nine o'clock p. m. (when he arrived) Ernie looked in the city di- rectory, finding ten people with the same initials. While over here Mr. Edelsten has become renowned for two expressions. One is "And that concluded my portion of the enter- tainment." The other wuh used but once by him and can't be recalled. Mr. Edelsten is going homo next, week. He remarks tin? only regret of his trip was that ho Mid not. look the Statue of Liberty ovci more carefully while coming up tlw Hay. While here the London :irnt has arranged with Max Ifnr' to interhook acts. Mr. Kdel£?"n !.';>- looked at many turns since arriving. Some he made note of.