Variety (April 1912)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

8 VARIETY - T- i . ■»... I «$• >We* t*Y \T ACkiH AN O MAKE AOwiifc OAIM Gwppy *"<> ~°*«- wM f" L ^ ™*Y*PP€A* t tt uP To ; H iu^up To*ee Joe Rice v*sw. H*A0 AWot/TT FRown A'ftuyviNo v^a* «P*^<h.aik1 0i/r >Hi3 ^AM vv4ft £• 6uAy An» tlfM CpwLO ' "TH*'C^V *>«*«->w* Vo«^%ise«cB«oiMctY F 1 "**^. HP wA)M«Wf 1 c.Hit A*Te«*0«N tea So Ttity Co Down T o «.*>«■! To Ml A^AHWSUftW >n ^YoWM CAUJ10 rWMIfrtp* Af/totSt* ClAfftYHC -THt>(CANVjioClC >WttR Qt0>*4t5-"T HC yo HAvt »<yU>H<L jo>H^> ve^Y wt^HY >Hfty <Sta*T otrt-To w^K. >*t7^55^^ 1 Ano °* ss ™« *««» ^* °* Frrrarss race ' ilTc H.^.m 1-o LOOK '*.vaiO FO« W M«»«»ctf wL, ^ EY **' * eV °* >H * ***•*? +(**** <»*_X»»* Tew* MELLA MARS LIKED. (Special Cable to Variety*) London, April 24. They like Mella Mars in London, even if New York couldn't see her. She opened at the Hippodrome Mon- day to a fine success. Mella Mars played the Shuberts' Winter Garden for a few weeks this season, but the Broadway cars kept right on running. ♦SMALL TIME" ACTS SCARCE. The "small time" vaudeville agenc- ies are commencing to complain over a scarcity of material. They ascribe no reason for it, other than not enough new acts have appeared (which were retained) to meet the demand. Most of the turns now available say the "small time" booking men have played their circuits within the year, and they do not care to repeat them. DIVIDING THE PLAYING RIGHTS. (Special Cable to Variety).) London, April 24. "Gay Delphine," by C. M. S. Mc- Lellan 'and Ivan Caryll will be pro- duced in August in America by Klaw & Erlanger and simultaneously by Charles Frohman in England. THE STRONGEST GIRL. Gene Hughes has dug up the strongest girl in the world, according to the agent's claim. She is Caro- lina Baumann, twenty years old and good looking. Miss Baumann is a pupil of Attila, who developed San- dow, the strong man rage of several years ago. s Mr. Hughes is figuring to place MIbb Carolina and Attila as an act in vaudeville. HIGH PRICED MAGGIE. (Special Cable to Variety*) Paris, April 24. Maggie Teyte, the English operatic singer who recently created a furore in England, has been engaged for a fortnight at the London Alhambra, commencing April 29. She is to sing two songs nightly at a weekly salary of $2,550. GREAT ROMEO AND JULIET. (Special Cable to Variety,) London, April 24. Oscar Hammerstein's London Opera House opened April 22 to a crowded house with a fine production of "Romeo and Juliet." Felice Lyne and Orville Harold were great in the respective titular roles. EASY ROOF OPENING. The regular opening for the sum- mer of the American (New York) Roof season will be easily accomplish- ed. The hardest work in connection is expected to be the throwing up of the windows. The Roof has been running all win- ter. It will not stop for the hot weather start, and the present enter- tainment is to be continued at the same prices. About the last week in May will be the official time for the lemonade rush. Ted. Barron has returned from a three months' trip through the west in the interests of the Jerome & Schwartz catalog. FOX TAKES ON ANOTHER. The Fox Circuit is building up a suburban circuit. A couple of weeks ago they found the Orpheum, Jersey City, was running around loose and tacked that on to the string Ed Kealey books. Last week someone sent word Fehr's Opera House, Portchester, N. Y., was still standing. Now that is on the Fox Circuit books also, with someone around the Kealey office in- terested with someone in Portchester over the weekly gross they can take in if all of the 900 seats are piled three times daily. By next Monday they except to run special excursions from Scarsdale, Hudson and the north to get the big show at 10-15-25. Portchester is near New York, on the road to Boston. People go there in autos after having seen everything else. RINGLING'S ON THE ROAD. Chicago, April 24. The Ringlihg Circus left the Coli- seum Wednesday of this week and took to the road, opening its regular season under canvas at Danville, 111. The local engagement has been one of the best experienced by the Rlngling Brothers, the big show playing close to capacity at every performance. NEW WAGON SHOW. Jamestown, N. Y., April 24. One of the new circuses this sea- son will be the Fred Elzor's show, starting out from Garland, Pa., April 30. The outfit is made up of twenty wagons. It is understood J. Augustus Jones, formerly of the Jones Bros. Buffalo Ranch "wild west" is back of the proposition. HACKETT-WATCHMAN SCRAP. Syracuse, N. Y., April 24. The Onondaga Hotel in this city has a night watchman with a pretty habit of opening unlocked doors of all rooms, walking inside at any hour of the night and informing sleeping guests they must get up to turn the key. That was the cause of a little pugi- listic encounter between the midnight prowler and James K. Hackett, when the latter appeared here last week in "A Grain of Dust." The star stopped at the Onondaga. Night came and with it the watchman. Only this time he happened to break into a room be- fore the occupant had retired. The guardian of the guests had not gotten very far inside before Mr. Hackett "sailed" into him. The watchman "sailed" right back. It was some warm scrap. The local accounts give the actor somewhat the worst of it, but you can't believe the locals, for they think this sort of watchman-in- trusion is all O. K., since the Onon- daga has been countenancing it for a long while. Guests have said that it is within one's imagination to believe a hotel manager might Instruct the night watchman upon finding a door open to report by phone to the desk, when the occupant could be called up and told it would be safer to sleep with the door bolted, but then, the watchman may be a rubbery sort of individual, something like those "coon"' bell hops in the south. GOING IN ROUGE SHOW. Blossom Seeley will join the Moulin Rouge show Monday.