Variety (April 1912)

VARIETY 1UETY Published Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING GO. Times Square New York City SIME SILVERMAN Proprietor CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bids. john j. coonnojl LONDON I Green St., Leicester 8q. W. BUCHANAN TATLOB PABI0 «6 bis. Rue Saint Dldler O. 67 Unter den Linden SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Adrertlotnjr copy for current Issue must reach Now York office by f p. m. Wednesday- Advertlssments by mall aboald be accom- panied by remittance. ^^ Annual Foreign SUBSCRIPTION RATBS- Single copies, 10 cents. $4 S Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol. XXVI. April 13, 1012 No. 6 Bertie Herron and Bonnie Oaylord have formed a vaudeville partnership. Mrs. Alice Hardy, of the Paul Scott office, who has been very ill for over a week, Is again on the Job. Hanlon's "Fantasma" closed Satur day night at Toronto. The show has come out on the right side this year. Emma Trentyni closes her starring tour in "Naughty Marietta" at the Manhattan Saturday night. Fred Duprez sails for Europe May 29 on the Lusitania, opening at the London Palladium June 17. Frank Longo has plans for a $2,000 picture house to be constructed at 188 21st street, Brooklyn. Jules Jordan arrived in New York on Tuesday after completing a tour of Australia. Mrs. Leslie Carter, touring the west in "Two Women," will close her sea- son at South Bend May 4. Jim Oaraon, late of the Winter Oar- den forces, will open In a Bklt at New- ark, April 15. Zenaide Williams has succeeded to the role played by Percy Haswell in "The Littlest Rebel/' now at the Bos- ton theatre. Johnny Johnson has engaged Flo Russell, Clifton White and Frank Gen- tle to assist him in producing a new vaudeville sketch entitled "The Reck- oning." Clifford Hippie, starring in vaude- ville in "As a Man Sows," canceled Newark this week owing to an opera- tion on his ankle. Tight shoes did it. are now announced for the run of "Kismet" only up to May 25, at which time It is expected that the piece will close for the summer. The Bronx, New York, a Percy O. Williams vaudeville house, has stopped advertising in the dallies. Business is sufficiently large, it is said. »«i 'Ransomed," a new drama by Theo- dore Burt Sayre and Cleveland Rog- ers, has been accepted for production by John Cort next September. Maurice Abrahams has formed a song writing partnership with Lewis F. Muir, being connected with the F. A. Mills concern. The Paul Ralney African Hunt Pic- tures will be shown as a special exhi- bit at the Lyceum theatre, New York, commencing Monday. Torke and Adams will open in Eng- land June 24, at the Moss Empire, Birmingham, booked over there by William Morris. When the New theatre at Lexington, Ky., Is completed the Shuberts will look after the bookings. The Berry- man Realty Co. will build the play- house, starting in the near future. "The Law and the Lawless," Lean- der Sire's newest dramatic produc- tion, written by George Bronson How- ard, will have its premiere in Plain- field Saturday night. The Colored Vaudeville Benefit As- sociation is now in new quarters at 320 West 59th street. The election of officers occurs the last week in May. John J. Lyons plans an open-air pic- ture theatre at the northeast corner of 144th street and Seventh avenue. Three thousand dollars will make the building a reality. William S. Walters has caught the open-air theatre spirit and will invest $3,000 in a new house of that nature at 2248-54 Broadway. James E. Sherwln is the architect. C. M. Harboy, of "The Greyhound" cast, and Al. Perry are talking of in- stalling a stock company at the City Park, Dayton, O. Perry has been suc- cessful with stock at Dayton before. Bill Burlock, formerly with the pub- licity bureau of the "101 Ranch," is now general agent with the California Frank "wild west." This show will start its season around April 20. W. F. Meder arrived in New York this week, coming from India. Mr. Meder has a theatrical proposition he thinks should interest theatrical men around. Billy Gaston is back in town and is framing up a new act for vaude- ville. He has received an offer to Join Veleska Suratt for a tour of the metropolitan, variety houses. Hamilton Mott has been engaged through John Pollock as leading comedian for the stock company Mr. Pollock will place at the Empire, Syracuse, May 6. The Purdue Harlequin Club, at La- fayette, Ind., (which first produced George Ade's "The Fair Co-Ed.") will put on a new production by unknown authors entitled "The Elastic Limit" in the same village April 16-20. The date of Annette Kellermann's appearance in London under the man- agement of William Morris has been set for May 20, but the particular hall the diver will play has not yet been announced. The "Texas Tommy" dancere an- nounced for the Blanche Ring show could not be suitably placed with the "Wall Street Girl" organization. They may be found at the Winter Garden by the Shuberts. Rock and Fulton were to have jour- neyed abroad with their present act last week, but for divers reasons, post- poned their sailing. The couple in- tend to abandon their present offering and will go over the Orpheum Circuit as a two-act. Bruno Granichstaedten, who com- posed the music for "The Vagrant Princess," has signed a five years con- tract with Jos. W. Stern & Co., which secures the exclusive American rights to the "Princess" piece and any other compositions he may turn out. George M. Cohan, Prompter of the Green Room Club, has donated the Cohan theatre and his "Forty-five Minutes From Broadway" company for a benefit to the club next Saturday night, following the regular night show. In the infringement case which Jos. W. Stern & Co. have brought against the Carl Laemmle Music Co. over the exclusive rights to "I'll Change the Thorns to Roses," a final decision is expected to be made in the Supreme Court within a week or two. Tom Terries is producing for vaude- ville a sketch by Aaron Ross, entitled, "Jimmy's Cigar," with a cast of three, comprising Edmund Pollock, George Weston, Florence Patterson. It will have a try-out at Harrisburg next week. The Actors* Fund will hold its an- nual meeting May 14 in New York. A series of benefit performances in the larger cities, as was held at the Cen- tury, New York, last month, is being looked after by President Daniel Frohman. The Real Estate Show opens at the Grand Central Palace April 17. Willie Hammerstein has once more confirmed hie reputation for never cashing a bet. He wagered that when Mrs. Aaron Kessler became a mother it would be a boy. It happened Tues- day morning. Everything went off smoothly except that Willie again guessed wrong. Those French Girls left the Ham- merstein program this week, not lik- ing the position assigned. MacRae and Levering, comedy bicyclists, re- placed them. Harry Breen was also out of the show, and went to Lake- wood to find the lost voice which compelled him to leave. The Samuel Howe Amusement Co. (47th and Broadway) has accepted plans from Thomas W. Lamb for a four-story brick theatre to be built at 482-488 Hopkinson avenue (Brook- lyn) costing $50,000. The house, seat- ing 1,000, will have a "pop" vaude- ville policy. Emanuel Schiller, a theatre promo- ter of Bayonne, has about closed ne- gotiations for the purchase of the Claremont Presbyterian Church, on Claremont avenue, Jersey City, when the trustees of the church discovered that it was to be used for theatrical purposes and voted unanimously not to sell to Schiller. Helen Trlx missed a show at Union Hill last week, through a customs offi- cer making a seizure of gowns he claimed Miss Trlx declared were for street use only. She wore them on the stage. Paying the duty demanded, $105, the next day released the cos- tumes. The wife of an inspector saw the show during the week, and It came out through that. Walton and Lester, a European act billing themselves as "The World's Worst Wizards," will have their first eastern showing at Union Hill next week. They have been playing in the west for some time. Another act scheduled for a showing at Union Hill next week is entitled "A Night on a Roof Garden," employing seventeen people. Both are under the direction of Alf. Wilton. A baseball team recruited from the office staff of the Marcus Loew enter- prises is engaged in strenuous prac- tice at Van Cortlandt Park every Sun- day morning, with a view to getting Into trim to challenge rival booking offices. It is comprised of I. Wein- garth, 3d base; J. Lachenbruch, 1st base; L. B. Freeman, 2d base; T. Wirth, pitcher (and captain); M. B. North, shortstop; G. Sofranski, left field; M. Aranau, centre field; W. Schmidt, catcher; M. Adler, right field. J. H. Moore, manager of Keith's. Portland, Me., has strong prejudices. One day some time ago Jenie Jacobs, of the Casey Agency, offered Mr. Moore Ed. Morton, the singer, for his next week's program. "I don't want him," answered Moore. "Why?" said Miss Jacobs. "Everybody else does." "W«ll," replied the manager, "I don't like tho name of Morton." That sounded funny then, as a reason, but it was explained later when James J. Morton mentioned at. one time he and Manager Moore attended tho same Tech school.