Variety (April 1912)

VARIETY 7 KIETY Published Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING GO. Times Square Now York City SIME SILVERMAN Proprietor CHHACiO Majestic Theatre Bid*. JOHN J. O'CONNOR LONDON 6 Green St., Leicester Sq. W. BUCHANAN TAYLOR IMKIH 86 bin, Rue Saint Didler EDWARD G. KEN DREW BERLIN !>" I'nt»r den Linden ADVKRTISKMENTS. Advertising copy for turnnt Issue rnuxt reach New York n.lici' l>v «"> p. m. Wednesday. The Lamb's Gambol will start out May 2 7. Percy Haswell opens her stock season at the Royal Alexander, Tor- onto, May 20. Tempest and Sunshine have been placed to open at the Coliseum, Lon- don, June 16, for four weeks. Tlie Orpheum, New Orleans, closes its season May 12; the Orpheum, Memphis, May 5. "Patter" Tom Wilson is confined in Ward 20 of Ward's Island, New York, admitted there Jan. 24 last. Harry Atkinson is on the Olympic, New York bound. This is his. 25th trip across the Atlantic. A. Puck, formerly representative of the Two Pucks, is now associated with the Gene Hughes office. Truly Shattuck, quite ill for some time and now in New York, is able to ride outdoors when the weather is nice. The Irving Place theatre company will close for the summer Saturday night. This week a benefit is being given for Grete Meyer, a principal. The Elliott Savonas, eight (four of each sex), a foreign saxaphone turn, will open on the Orpheum Circuit May 6. William Hawtrey and his "Dear Old Billy" show closes the season June 1 in Chicago, following a return date there. "Jubilee Week" will be celebrated at the Bushwick, Brooklyn, com- mencing May 6, after which the house will probably close for the season. Tho New York Hippodrome !will close its season May 18. Nothing has been decided with regard to next season's entertainment. Tho Casino at Nanticoke, near Wilkesbarre, and Rasper's theatre, Sayre, Pa., have been added to the Prudential Agency's list. Doc Adams says he is going away to the Antipodes, leaving May 20, claiming he will be general press re- presentative for a circus over there. The LaPurdette theatre, LaFayette, Ind., damaged by fire, will not reopen. Manager George Ball having decided to turn it into an office building. May 11, on the Minnehaha, have been the date and boat selected by Barney Myers to convey himself and his American acts to England. A special matinee will be given at the Playhouse today, under the aus- pices of the Actors' Society of Am- erica. Robert L. ("Bob") Dailey, long identified with the stage, is now boosting things for a real estate com- pany selling suburban property. The Broadway theatre, Brooklyn, starts a "pop" vaudeville season next Monday, the date having been brought back one week from May 6. "Freckles," a dramatization of Gene Stratton-Porter's novel by Neil Twomey, has been produced on the road by A. G. Delamater. The show will be given a full route next season. Adele Oswald was granted an in- terlocutory decree of divorce last week in the Supreme Court of New York against her husband, John J. Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Dyer, at their Detroit home April 12, received a son. The daddy is of Julian and Dyer. The mother's stage name is Toots McGuire. Florence Bowes, a "single" on the "6mall time," will make her big house entry May 6 at the Maryland, Baltimore, placed through Chas. S. Wilshin. B. A. Myers is the agent who booked the Wilton Brothers abroad. They open next September. It was reported Morris & Fell had placed the act. Several of the vaudeville specialties in "The Man from Cook's" held eight weeks' play or pay contracts, and have been farmed out for the two-a- day by the management, through the Casey office. David Kcssler't* Second avenue theatre will close its season of "Yid- dish" repertoire about May 15. The house will be given over to pictures for the summer months. "Beverly of Graustark" will keep going through the summer. During July and August it plays the Canadian northwest and then continues on to the Pacific Coast for the regular season. Ralph Riggs, of the Kitty Gordon company, who has been re-engaged for next season, will play vaudeville dates with his wife, Katherine Witchic, for the remainder of the sea- son. A. R. Sanders is going to send "Billy, the Kid" out for a summer trip through the provinces. Mr. Sanders made some money with "Billy" this season. He's probably afraid it will stick to him otherwise. The new Labor Temple and theatre building, Terre Haute, Ind., will be constructed at Fifth and Cherry streets, one square east of the old Naylor Opera House, which burned several years ago. Maude Caswell, formerly of Cas- well and Arnold, and who was lead- ing lady with the Moorehead-Drew repertoire company in Idaho, has been married to Walton Splllane (non-professional). The United Booking Offices Base- ball Team is now regularly organized, with Maurice Goodman, manager. Enough subscribers appeared for the maintenance fund to bring the total to date up to $300. Uniforms, some bats and baseballs will be secured. Tim Sullivan has moved his thea- trical office to the Circle theatre. Joe Sullivan, the vaudeville agent, has the former space occupied by Sulli- van & Kraus on the fourth floor of the Putnam Building. The Senator sailed for Europe this week. Seven of the eight Berlin Madcaps left for home Tuesday, their first visit to their native heath in five years. The eighth is married and has elected to remain here with her hus- band. They have been re-engaged by ;i!cs B. Dillingham tor next season. Max Weily, the wrestler, who ap- peared with Annette Kellermann in "Undine" at the Winter "Garden, New York, left on the Mauretania Wednes- day to join Miss Kellermann in Lon- don, where they will reappear in the same pantomime. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Williams (Kate Elinore and Sam Williams) will take it easy among the leather cushions of a new 40-horsepower Veile motor car this summer. The couple will make extended trips from their summer home at King's Highway, L. I. time touches the Brooklynite ma> have made. "In Old Kentucky," which has had a pretty successful season on the road, closed Saturday night. Joe Weber's first company of "Alma, Where Do You Live?" closes in Bos- ton Saturday. Adelaide French la "Madame X," out since last July, closes tomorrow night. F, J. Hess, of the Hess Company of Rochester, N. Y., has been doing the theatrical district in New York this week. Mr. Hess, alter looking over the many new theatres being built and the list of uew shows now running and being billed for the im- mediate future, stated that he would stick strictly to toilet requisites and stage make-up. J. Elmore Kelly, a young man who, through living in Brooklyn, contract- ed immature ideas, has r»pn ; <iit< «l himself as "Jolo of V\mrrv," '-it promised never to do it a^ain. i I. original of the iiiii>»*rs«»ti •• ri< * dis- claims liability for any o\ the small- William Santam, more familiarly known as William De Onzo, the bar- rel jumper, now a crippled acrobat through an accident on an Ohio rail- road, nab asked the Supreme Court of Ohio to Increase a damage verdict against the road. Santam is now get- ting $2,800 from the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road and wants more, claiming the injury prevents him from earning from $12,000 to $15,000 a year. "The Lifer," a sad act propelled into the vaudeville light by Gordon & North and converted into a dark scene after presentation at Hammer- stein's, will be dragged forth next season for the Pantages and other circuits in the west, in order that Gordon & North may be able to se- cure some portion of their invest- ment. Billie r.urke's "Funny Folks," with Clarence Wilbur, started a tour of the Sullivan-Considine Circuit, commenc- ing Monday at Cincinnati. Burke's "Models Jardin de Paris" has also been placed for the same time. For- eign acts coming to it are Deodima, opening June 23 at Minneapolis, a posing turn; Granto and Maud, a for- eign comedy act, at the same city, June 16, and Iwanoff, equilibrist, starting at Minneapolis also, June 30. The Potsdam, sailing for England April 30, will carry 125 passengers booked by the Tausig agency. The London Symphony Orchestra sails, as does the Lorch Family, on that boat. Mark Tausig, who attended to the se- curing of space, is the father of a boy nine months ago. The kidlet Is named Daniel Paul Tausig. His father kept it quiet to give the grand- father (Paul) an interrupted period to play with his young namesake. The Br ah n i lien Bajaina Troupe of Arabs (at the Empress, Chicago, this week), arrived on the last trip of the Kronprinz Wilhelm, in the steerage, eleven of them. It was two days be- fore the Sullivan-Considine office. New York, could locate the near- dozen, and then found three of the boys in the ^roup were about to be deported for being under age. Abe Feinberg, of the press department, elicited the aid of Senator Sullivan, and the Arabs \ver«' ;»Ir^»m1 on n. Pull- man of Hn» IVt. nsyl'.anla just li. lit * to ina!.«- tlie opi'Mi' sow a' ' a inna* i. 'I liev iica r';> pi i>s>-<; r t ■ - ■ • _ < »!;,. ..f': !" pass*"- .■•'?•" on tl ' ?!;'i ■! !i i rain loud!> nroti-sti'd against the ni)() and : >-\i I., longiimf, when a special * r was placed at tlie disposal of the Far Kast»-rner>.