Variety (April 1912)

VARIETY R1ETY FubUjfco* Wookly by !^ VAUETY PUBLISHING GO. TtmM Squ*r« N«w York City SINE SILVERMAN Proprietor CHICAGO MajMUo ThMtr* Bide JOHN J. O/OONNOB. LONDON I Or*«n St., Ltlcerter 8q. W. BUCHANAN TATLOH PAJUS 6« bla. Rue Saint Dldler KDWAKD O. KBNDREW BERLIN 67 Unter den Linden SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Adrertlalnj copy for ourrent leave mui' reach New York offloe by • p. m. Wednesday. AdTertlaementa by mall shonld be accom- panied by remittance. Jack McDonald, from the Coast, Is In New York for a couple of week?. Crouch and Welch will open at the Tlvoli, London, July 15. The New Orleans French Opera Co. starts an engagement at the Lyric Monday. Mabet Hit© and her new act will play at Poll's, Waterbury, Conn., next week. B. Z. Poll's new Bijou, New Haven, will open June 1, probably with "pop" vaudeville. Leopold Stokowski is no longer leader of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. John Wilstach has gone to Chicago to Join the Ringling Bros, circus pub- licity bureau. "Little Boy Bine,** after its West End, New York, engagement will close. The show will open Oct. 7 next in Boston for three months. After considerable discussion, the proposed taking of several of Henry W. Savage's musical plays to Cuba have fallen into the discard. Josle Sadler will go abroad this summer. While in London she will have a try at English vaudeville. Jack Gardner (from musical com- edy), has taken the Orpheum route for Jiis_xaudeville appearance. Fire destroyed^the Theatre Comique at Augusta, Me., TBunday night. Loss reporte<Kartmn4J|l 0,000. Christian Smith Is planning a one- story theatre at Manhattan avenue and 127th street, costing $16,000. Loretta Kessler is the full sound of the new member in the Aaron Kessler household. Charles F. Staeb has drawn his own plans for a one-story frame aero- drome on New Utrecht avenue, Brook- lyn, costing $1,300. Charles P. Glockler was signed this week as stage manager of Blaney's stock company, American, Philadel- phia. "The Woman" closes its season at the Republic Saturday night. The western company is expected to close May 11 at Atlantic City. Meyer Livingston, the Klaw ft Er- langer treasurer, returned to the hospital for another operation. Ho will remain there another week or so. Rawson and Clare open on the Poll Circuit at Scranton, Pa., Monday. They have just returned from a long tour of the west. Rockville (Ind.) citizens have sub- scribed the necessary wherewithal to build a brand new theatre, seating 1,000. Work will be started May 1. After live years' separation Ed. Manny and James Falco, of the In- ternational Musical Trio, have re- joined. Georgie Mack has formed a part- nership with Ethel Fairbanks, for- merly with Marie Dressler's company, They have a skit by Charles Horwltz. Max Hart left for Chicago Wednes- day to spend a week with his mother. He may transact a little business while in the Windy City. Billy K. Wells was brought to New York after the last performance at Keith's, Boston, last week, suffering from typhoid fever. Lena LaCouvier, owing to an ab- scess, was forced to leave the "Tiger Lilies" at Reading, Pa., and go to her home in Atlantic City. Elsie Janis has again denied she is engaged to marry H. V. Chase (a western business man), or anybody else. The market for "murder acts" on the "small time" was very dull this week. One happened to go over some time ago, and there has been a rush since. Bonita, who Is the wife of Lew Hearn, returned to New York this week, discontinuing her vaudeville tour to await the arrival of another member of the Hearn-Bonita family. Joe Schenck gave a supper party to the "Hanky Panky" company at the Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, Tuesday night. Some of the bunch from New York went over. Lillian Grossman, daugher of the attorney, William Grossman, was the center of an engagement reception at Delmonico's last Sunday afternoon. Her fiance is A. L. Lipman, of New York. The Riverside Viaduct Realty Co. will spend $80,000 in building a thea- tre and garden at the northwest cor- ner of Amsterdam avenue and 157th street. A children's museum, costing some thing like $175,000, will be built in Bedford Park, Brooklyn, as an ad- junct to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Viola Allen's name is mentioned in connection with the post of leading lady for the stock company to be formed by William Gillette for next season. Howard Truesdell, assisted by Lil- lian Rhodes, Cella Griffith and Arthur Jennings, is offering a sketch by Homer B. Mason entitled "Oh, You Beautiful Doll." Cook an/1 Lorenz were requested Friday night to postpone this week's booking in Pittsburgh, as it was be- lieved that their act might conflict with Collins and Hart. Cissy Iioftos resumed her Orpheum Circuit tour Sunday last at Omaha. The mimic will close the present western season at the Majestic, Chi- cago (return engagement), May 24. Thos. A. Wise has been placed to play the Orpheum Circuit, commenc- ing In August. He sails for Europe May 6 for a six weeks' reduction treatment at Bad-Kissingen. Frank Kaufmann, of the Kaufmann Cyclists, has gone to Rochester, N. Y., to undergo an operation which will lay him up for three or four weeks. His brother, Wallie, will handle the act during his absence. Patsy Morrison came into town with the hot weather, looking for acts for Rockaway Beach this summer. Patsy said he didn't know when he would open, but wanted to hear if there would be any more snow. Plans have been drawn by Thomas W. Lamb (architect) for a two-story theatre building at the southwest corner of Seventh avenue and 116th street, by Robert S. Marvin, a New Yorker. The house will cost $150,- 000. Two square blocks of land have been turned over by the city, through the Sinking Fund Commission, to City College (New York) upon which a vast Roman amphitheatre will be built at once. Adolph Lewisohn is paying for the stadium. Frederick H. B. Grahame, a theat- rical agent, who has been doing busi- ness im the Knickerbocker theatre building, has filed a petition in volun- tary bankruptcy. His liabilities arc $1,634; assets, $1,931. Jack Spurrier has given up the management of the Fulton, Brook- lyn, to enter commercial business in New York. Arthur M LIghton, treas- urer for two years, is his successor, with Frank E. Hoga, assistant treas- urer. The St. Paul papers took a fall out of Variety, last week because this pa- per in its review of "Madame Butter- fly" didn't enthuse over that David Belasco production having its first presentation in one of the Twin Cities But then, St. Paul is too jealous of Minneapolis anyway. Homer Lind and Co. appeared at the Academy of Music last Sunday in "Gringolre, the Street Singer," clos- ing the show (about 6.30). Next Sunday the act with Mr. Lind will re- appear there in a better position. On the same program is billed Julius Steger and Co. Frank Bohm spread himself all over 42d street Monday, when he de- clared the drinks were on him, for no reason at all. Frank just felt devil- ish, so the crowd adjourned to an ic« cream parlor, where they went up against lemonade in an attempt to help keep the agent upon the wagon Mrs. E. R. Purdy, mother of Mar- garet Webb (Connolly and Webb), died Monday at her home in St. Louis. The team left the bill at the Colonial after the show Monday night, going at once to St. Louis. The Thres Leightons replaced them on the pro- gram. Will Dillger, an actor, engaged in an altercation with the manager of a Brooklyn vaudeville theatre and th< latter had him arrested on a felonloui charge. Dennis F. O'Brien was en gaged and Dilger was released on bail The charge was changed to disorderlj conduct, Dillger being released oi promise to keep the peace for the next six months. George Brooks, with the HoudinJ act, was struck by a horse and wagon at Hammerstein's corner Monday. He was removed to Bellevue Hospital with an injured hip. Houdini suc- ceeded in serving Wilmer ft Vincent this week with a summons and com- plaint in the action brought by ths escape expert to recover a week's salary from the firm for the Norfolk engagement. Belle Storey, the soprano who at- tracted attention while acting as "plant" for Adele Ritchie at Ham- raiersteln's, is now a "single," under the management of Fred Ward. Miss Storey appeared at the Shriners' ben- efit at the Hippodrome last Sunday. Previously, Miss Ritchie is reported to have told Mr. Ward what she thought of the proceeding, which didn't budge Mr. Ward somehow. Miss Ritchie opens at the Majestic, Chicago, April 29. District Attorney Whitman was granted permission by the Appellate Division of the Supremo Court last week to appeal from an order of the Court of Special Sessions, which sus- tained a demurrer* by William ifani- merstein that he was guilty »>i a mis- demeanor in permuting juggling and dancing at a Sunday concert at the Manhattan Opera House las* Novem- ber The district attorney's office is said to bo seeking a final ruling OS such cases.