Variety (April 1912)

VARIETY 19 Ned Boyle is at the Poodle Dog. Eva Douglas at the Garden Is sing- ing "Billy" every night. Fred Gaboon Is leader of the El- dorado orchestra. Leopold Kohls, formerly at Joel's, Is now at the Poodle Dog. Frank Koss has left the Grapevine for Tony Kelly's Cafe at Coney Island. Alice Cahlln has entered vaudeville again with D. Volant. Churchill's has two new acts, Has- kell and Little, and Melville Sisters. Dick White is at Fleischmans (Bronx.) Pete Bernard is at Shanley's. Tom Townsend assists at the piano. Al Leyton and Belle Dixon are en- tertaining at Faust's (59th street). Harry Delson, "funidean" at the Eldorado, makes the patrons laugh with comic songs. Helen Vincent after two years at the Garden has started on the Loew time. She is also at Louis Martin's. Frank McGinty, at the Eldorado, is putting on some good numbers for the regulars. James Flynn, one of the favorites at the Eldorado, has gone south to All engagements. Sidney ("Wonderful Girl") Falke at the College Inn (125th street) is still in the lead with the boys for flirting. Betty Morgan (Jimmie Morgan's wife) is now at the College Inn (125th Btreet). Helen Holland, character singer, and Martin Keary (formerly at Shan- ley's (43d street) are at Voll's. Matty Levine, formerly at the Bel- vedere Hotel, Brooklyn, is now pianist at Voll's Cafe. Kennie Cor mack, the "song plug- ger," returned Sunday after plugging Remick's songs in Atlantic City over Easter. Harry Jones, the boy who tried to pull the Chicago stuff at the Garden and didn't, is at the Lincoln now, getting away with it. Oreste Mlgliaccc, former pianist at the College Inn (125th street) has bought an evening dress for the en- gagement at the Garden. Al Walman and Harry Jentes are representing the F. A. Mills Co. at the Lincoln Cafe, singing "Robert E. Lee" and "Ragging the Baby." Benny Edwards, of Feist's music house, says it's much harder keeping Joe Goodwin sober than it is to plug ten songs In one cabaret. NEWS OF THE CABARETS going to be a funny-looking cafe a: Coney in a couple of months that isn't shooting out "rag" notes from pianos and throats. The entertainers alone will make up a daily population that should keep the Island busy. The Green Turtle has new singers, excepting Rose Mitchell, the head- liner. The new entertainers are Harry Davis, pianist, and Lee and Littan. The German Village Cafe (40th near Broadway) entertainers are Ray Lynch, Tom Bracket, Jack Nolan, Al Burnhardt, Carrie Lynch, pianist. Ben Levy is manager of the show. Eddie "Nemo" Both, singing vio- linist, for the past fourteen months at the Eldorado, is still on the job there singing Al. Von Tilzer's song hits. The Grapevine (Eighth avenue and 122d) has Al Warren, Jack Shields, Harold Wllhin, Joe Mack, George Lahr, Frank McManis and Johnnie Conlin. Morgan, Bailey and Morgan, the fiddler, banjoer and singer, are tip- ping the patrons off the seats with laughter at the College Inn (125th street). The Coliseum, a new Cabaret, will open at 110th street and Cathedral Parkway about May 1 with restaurant, roof garden and ballroom. J. & K. Bimberg will manage It. Pabst's Manhattan (109th and Manhattan avenue) has some very good turns. They are Duke Rogers, George Gardner, pianist; Bessie Rothback, violinist, and Bessie Grant, the stout little girl with the big voice. Walter Robertson, proprietor of Robertson's Cafe (109th and Broad- way), has been going around the Cabarets with Jim Quigley, the man- ager, looking for blond girls for the new show. The Times Sq. Cafe (Times Sq. Ho- tel) has started a Cabaret with Happy Benor, singer, George Mason, the big noise in Songland, Blanche Hinard, pianist, E. Harry Davis, and an or- chestra of six pieces. Gene Sennett, proprietor of the Palm Garden (Bronx), helped the Remick boys plug the "Trolley Car Swing." Mr. Sennett then hired a touring car Sunday. The volunteers were Joe Young, Bert Grant, Rennie Cormack, Ellinore Jess, Dick Jess. The boys at t ho Carleton Terrace can certainly put songs over. The quintet managed by Hilly Cripps con- sists of Will Oakland, Ed Miller, Billy Cripps, Fred Lyons, and Edgar Allen. Ella Gast and Miss Patterson are the other entertainers there. H A II II Y LCONHARDT With MrCnnn'N Tour*. Railroad and uteamnhlp transportation pro- cured without additional rout. Single tickets given the same attention an npcrlal trains. Marbrldge Building. New York. Call 123 ttreeley. After the night performances at the Colonial theatre this week Gus Ed- wards and his crew drop in Healey's (66th street) every night and put on a few of his latest numbers. One of his little girls, Bonny Gray, sings three or four songs before she can be coaxed off the stage. Healey's (66th street) is putting on a very good show, consisting of Mar- garet Ermine, soprano; Billy Eggle- sten, character singer; Elmore Mora, soprano; Louise Laugier, French comedienne; Jimmie Flynn, Charlie Reed, pianist. A. Martini is manager and all around entertainer. There is an orchestra of seven pieces. Billy l'osner, who has been warb- ling at the Lincoln, New York, is back to his first love, the Romano Cafe, Hoboken. Posner came to Broadway five weeks ago. The Romano Cabaret show includes Grace White, billed as Irene Franklin"s double; Tony Wat- ers, the big boy with the big voice, and Jack Gllckstern, pianist. Park Inn, Brooklyn, successfully started a Cabaret Saturday night. The bill was Helen Perry, soprano: May Gillman, character impersona- tor; Le Pidus, ragtime singer; Wil- liam Heinzmann, pianist. Henri Tus- senbroek, the pianist at Raub's, Brooklyn, is taking care of the show. Pabst Garden Cafe (Webt 116th; has fallen in line with the new Caba- ret movement. The roster of talent includes Ray Parr, baritone; Ed. Kohle, comedian (engaged to per- form with the Messenger Trio in vaudeville); Hilly Smith, tenor; Joe Dewny, pianist; Jack Lavin and Roy Moulan (who have Joined and are rehearsing a new act). The manage- ment is favored with excellent business. Martin's (42d street) will have the largest floor area of any New York Ca- baret very shortly. The present space on the fourth floor of the restaurant building will be abandoned for the Cabaret. That is to be brought down to what is now the top of the dining- room proper, a large open space sur- rounded by a balcony. The ova 1 - shaped opening will be covered over. The floor will then be so large it will become necessary to place a stage upon it for the Cabaret performers. Coney Island will be the hot old Cabaret town this season, from pres- ent, outlook. It wasn't so bad last year. But the craze is more tightly fastened on around New York now, and "The Island" should have a great bunch, especially as the concert licenses revoked early in 1 !• 1 1 (c 1 s ing up most of the concert halls) will not be granted this summer rlili.i. leaving the song work on a letrular stage only to the couple of hmisi- down there th;ii run vaud* \ i' I •■ lis One of the biggest cabaret affairs in New York this season was the "Mod- ern Arabian Night" entertainment, which Manager Milton Rosenfeld. of the Cabaret, and Chairman Harry Leonard engineered at the Cafe Boule- vard, last week. Dancing was a feat- ure. Among the guests donating tal- ent were Andre and Kitty Kyle, in a sensational Parisian dance, Mme. Antonia DeLila, Egyptian novelty; M. Rene Maurice Chappelle, Algerian dance; Mabel Harrison, Spring dance; (Miss Harrison's terpBichorean number scored a big hit and encores were in demand); Muriel Walters, dance de Serpent; Leone and Rossatti. The ca- baret entertainers worked like beavers, the following taking part: Cafe Boule- vard Vocalists, Signor Savatore Nunzi- ato, Walter James, Mile. Serice, Nor- va Williams, Margaret Cooke, Vladi- mir, Pogoreloff, and Balalika. The af- fair was by invitation only. Tickets, Ave dollars a head, including supper. Hie key's, Brooklyn, is drawing peo- ple away from the theatres with Its good show of hard working enter- tainers. The performers are Dot Kel- ler, Billy Turner and Moony Le Mai re (called the Yankee Comedy Trio); Bernard and Wallace are the head- liners; Victor Hyde, whirlwind danc- er; Martlne and Marlin, dancers; Tom Kane; Grace Rickhold, singer; Johnny and Billy Berkes (father and son) in the Cabarets while preparing for the big time; Christine Nichol, ragtime singer; Lillian Bradley, "The Broadway Prima Donna"; Marion Christian, "The Great Big Beautiful Doll;" Alfred R. De Broussais De Jonje, operatic baritone; Margaret Lillis, soprano; Evelyn Lorry, comedi- enne. Hickey's stage is not a large one, but the performers put over a sketch on it. Many acts in present vaudeville got their early start by doing cabaret and rathskellar duty. Harry Cooper, Irv- ing Berlin, Al Piantadosi (who worked for $15 a week) Will Weston and Ray Walker, all worked at a place called Mike Callahan's Cafe in Chinatown. Blossom Seeley was at Hamlin's Cafe, Frisco, Sophie Tucker at the German Village Cafe, (40th Street), Brown and Blyler, who closed with "The Folies," worked around the cabarets in Frisco; Ray Samuels at the Congress Cafe, Chicago, Ted Snyder, Sid Gibson and Fred Trainer around New York cafes. Oscar Loraine, around Buffalo; Wes- ton, Fields and Carroll at the Garden, Harry Fox at the Haymarket, Chicago; Al Jolsoti, Paul Salvin's Royal Gar- den; Howard and Howard at IVrrj s Coney Island. Pill V-. . :.'<i:ner.\ around New Vol K , i >\ o liohs ( now in Knglaiidi ..round Chica.uo; Mnnuy P; n- -ini Gene Gr*" i. around Chicago; Pinaldo ri; Hi- old 1 >< lavan. "ow Po> die !>••:: IJ i 11 \ dasteii at Folr> ":< Pater son: Hello George* Bisset at Billy ' ('Donald's Cafe, Great Jones street.