Variety (April 1912)

VARIETY 21 "SKIQir IS EXPLICIT OVER COLONIAL SHOW Says Ed Morton Has a Great Song; Mr. Rolf* Put* a Crimp In tils Act by Whistling, and Petrova Ha* a Spasm. Like* Sam Mann (Who Didn't Take a Bow) and Mr*. Oenc Hughes SKIGIE. A1. Rayno's bull dogs do some very good stunts. During the act there are always two dogs trying to get a big piece of rub- ber away from each other. There la one dog hat does a bunch of back flip* off a table. They went fair. Geo. A. Moore and Cordelia Haager have a neat little act In "one." Mr. Moore is very good. He don't tell funny stories like he used to. Miss Haager sings a song with a little kit- ten. Mr. Moore sang one very long song. They Just got over. Mrs. Gene Hughe* and Co. in a sketch called "Youth" ere very good. There are a whole lot of laughs. Mrs. Hughes is very good as the grand- mother. Margaret Volhner Is very good also. As a whole the cast is very good. The act went very well. Ed Morton has one song that is great. It is called "The Corset Squad Brigade." It is a better song than "There's a Ring Around the Moon." He is also singing a song called "I Got You, Steve," which is pretty good. But the "Corset" song has got all the rest of his songs beaten a mfle. He is very good and he went very big. Sam Mann has a very good sketch called "The New Leader." It is get- ting kind of old, but is still very good. Sam Mann himself is very good. He plays the part of the leader very well. He has played the Colonial once be- fore. The funniest part of the act is where he borrows the-fltckel. He cer- tainly has an act with a laugh every other minute. He went very well. But he didn't take a bow. The Rolfonlans are fair. They play musical instruments. When Mr. Rolfe starts to whistle it puts a crimp in the act. They should stick to the band parts. And play ragtime, with a solo here and there. They carry their own leader. He is also of musical talent and does a song specialty. When he struck one note he made such an effort that he almost fell off of the place where the leader stands. Mr. Rolfe also plays the cornet. They went fair. Madam Olga Petrova is very good. She gives a wonderful imitation of a parrot. She is very tall. Her dress was not very pretty. She did a drama- tic scene from some play. After the spasm was over she pretended to be all in, and was drawing short and quick breaths, and could not talk for ten or fifteen seconds. She sang "Oh You Beautiful Doll" as a French artist would sing it. She went very big. Jack Wilson Trio. In again. If they stick around much longer the "BRAM" STOKER DIES. (Special Cable to Varibtt.) London, April 24. "Brain" Stoker, for twenty-seven years manager for Henry Irving, died here April 21. He was born in Dub- lin in 1868. Abraham ("Bram") Stoker, in ad- dition to occupying the post of man- ager for the late Sir Henry, was a close personal friend. During the pe- riod of his management of the Lyceum , theatre the receipts totaled over ten million dollars. He was a well known author as well as theatrical manager, having written a number of successful novels and served on the literary staff of the Daily Telegraph. H. B. HARRIS. Poor H. B. HARRIS is gone, and the children in Stageland lost the best friend they ever had. Poor H. B. did not have any but friends and their hearts were bursting with grief. He never knuckled down to the big people and his heart always went out to the little fellow in a desire to bless and help. He never broke his*word. As a manager he tried to influence the thoughts of people to look upwards. Managers will come and pass away and soon be forgotten, but the mem- ory of H. B. HARRIS will live among the children in Stageland, because he was a man in the true meaning of the word. du$ Schult, "Quaker Girl" Company (Park Theatre, New York). Memorial services for the late Henry B. Harris will be held at the Hudson theatre 8unday evening, April 28, at 8.30 o'clock. Admission will be by card only. Marie Stuart (in private life Lila Steele Gaites) died April 21 at a pri- vate sanitarium, after an operation for appendicitis. She was forty-one years old and born in Springfield, Mass. Sixten years ago she married Joseph M. Gaites. Five years ago they were divorced. For the past ten or more years Miss Stuart had been associated in vaudeville with Clayton White. Marie Stuart's will, bequeathing her entire estate to charity, and ag- gregating some $30,000, will be con- tested by her father, who came to New York when he heard of his daughter's people will know the act by heart. No doubt some do already. Mr. Wilson stood in the wings all during the show. He wears a new hat with a live rooster on the top of it, with a stick of celery right alongside of it. Dur- ing the time the chicken was on the hat he ate some of the celery. He started a song but had to stop because of the chicken making the people laugh so that he couldn't sing. They went pretty good. Amoros Sisters are doing an act of variety. They had trouble with the orchestra. One girl Is very good. The other one is full of life but don't do very much, although she works hard. They went fair. All the acts seemed to have trouble with the orchestra. . They have a new leader. Illness. Her mother is dead and had been separated from her husband for years prior to her demise. Robert K. Potter, father of Mrs. Wm. Ahearn (Agnes and Billy Ahearn) died at hi* home in Chicago April 13. Mrs. Flora Kelly, wife of John T. . elly, died at her home at Elmhurst, Long Island, April 19. aged fifty-nine. She had been ill for two years, hav- ing suffered a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Kelly was formerly a circus per- former. Flora Zanfretti, of the fam- ous family of acrobat* of that name. Her last public appearance was in 1897. Senor Albert Glranlt, husband of Eugenie Fougere, died April 4 at Calle de Berlin, Mexico. Girault was well known in foreign operatic circles. The mother of Sam Gersten, of the Winter Garden publicity force, died in Chicago last week. Phillip Hoblltzell, brother of Karl Hoblltzell, president of the Interstate Amusement Co., died at Colorado Springs April 14. The deceased was twenty-six years of age, and is sur- vived by a wife and baby girl, eight months old. Phillip Hoblltzell was the youngest of a family of thirteen. SHOWS NEXT WEEK. Continued from Page 19. "A WINSOME WIDOW—Moulin Rous* (4th week). "BOUGHT AND PAID FOR"—Playhouse (32d week). "BUNTY PULLS THE STRINGS"—Comedy (10th week). "DEAR OLD CHARLIE" (William Hawtrey) —Elliott (Id week). "DISRAELI" (George Arllaa)—Wallack'a (34th week). "ELEVATING A HUSBAND" (Louis Mann) —Criterion (16th week). FRENCH GRAND OPERA CO—Lyric (Id week). KINEMACOLOR—Klnemacolor. "KISMET" (Otta Skinner)—Knickerbocker 129th week). "LET GEORGE DO IT"—Manhattan. "LITTLE BOY BLUE"—West End. "MONSIEUR BEUCA1RE" (Lewie Waller)— Daly's (8th week). "OFFICER •••"—Gaiety (11th week). "OLIVER TWIST"—Empire )»th week). RAINEY'S AFRICAN HUNT (Picturee)—Ly- ceum (3d week). SPOON ER STOCK—Metropolis (16th week). STOCK—Academy. "THE GARDEN OF ALLAH"—Century (18th THE GREYHOUND"—Aator (10th week). "THE PIGEON"—Little (8th week). "THE QUAKER GIRL"—Park (28th week). "THE RAINBOW" (Henry Miller)—Liberty (8th week). "THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM" (David WarAeld)—Belssco's usth week). "THE SPRING MAID" (Chrlatle MacDonald) —Grand O H. "THE ROSE MAID"—Globe (2d week). "THE TALKER"—Harrla (17th week). "THE TYPHOON" (Walker Whlteaide)—Hud- aon (8th week). "THE WALL. STREET GIRL" (Blanche Kin*)—Cohan's (3d week). "TWO LITTLE BRIDES" (Jamee T. Pow- ers;—Casino (2d week). VIENNESE OPERATIC CO.—Irving Place. WEBER AND FIELDS JUBILEE—Broadway (13th week). "THE WHIRL OF SOCIETY"—Winter Gar- den (8th week). John Cain, formerly of Mitchell and Cain, and last season with Sam Ber- nard's company, died April 20 at his home in New York. He was burled April 22. Mrs. Leo Rose, sister of Mrs. Wil- liam Fie men, died at Wheeling, W. Va ;/ April 12. The deceased was twen- ty-six years of age and Is survived by her husband. The body was interred in the family plot at Hamilton, Can. CHICAGO. "READY MONET"—Cort (4th week). "A MODERN EVE"—Oarrlck (2d week). "OFFICER 666"—Cohan's O. O. H. (8th «uaa|r \ "LOUlsiANA LOU"—La Salle (17th week). "SHAKESPEAREAN REPERTOIRE" (Boih- ern-Marlowe)-—Lyric (lat week). "ABORN ENGLISH GRAND OPERA CO."— McVicker'a (2d week). "THE M ARR1 AGE-NOT" — Power's (lat week). "WITHIN THE LAW"—Princess (4th week). "A ROMANCE OF THE UNDERWORLD" (Hoibrook Bllnn)—Btudebaker (3d week). "THE GLASS HOUSE"—Chicago O. H. (2d week). "THE DIVORCE QUESTION"—Whitney (Id week. oi "THE ONLY SON" (Thoa W. Ross)—Olym- pic (4th week). "THE THIRD DEGREE"—Imperial. "THE EYE OF THE IDOL"—National. "SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS"—Crown. s CORRESPONDENCE Ugjg^&wwbg ■«t»j t jfcgj«jj>wfare|!jrt« wt for tte cemwt w—k. J. 8' (WYNN) ntattre CHICAGO YABIXTY'B CHICAGO OlTICKt MAJESTIC TB1ATRI BUILDING The Wilson Avenue Theatre went one bet- ter than Its competitors last week, when Manager Licalxl, through an arrangement with a local newspaper office, appeared on the stage between each act and cave the au- dience the latest news of the Titanic disas- ter. Bulletins were read at each performance up to the time of the Carpathla's arrival. Meyers office, has been shifted to tb« elev- enth floor offices of the "Association,"** where he Is assisting Messrs. Burchlll and Holmea In their endeavors to supply attractions for a acore of mid-west houaea Hoffman has been with Adolph Meyers for but several weeks. Hla sudden advancement Is noteworthy be- cause of Its speed. Olive Frielda in private life Mra. Harry New.nan. wife of the mualc publisher of this city, is leaving town for a short vacation at her home In Shelbyvllle, III. Miss Frields. who occasionally writes a song hit for her husband's publishing house, will endeavor to turn out several lyrics while at home. Shel- byvllle Is said to be a great peace for local color. "Love—and What Then?" Is the title of a new play from the pen of B. M. Hustings, who also wrote "The New Sin." Cyril Maude will star In the play, while among the cast will be numbered Winifred Emery and Ben Slocum. Flora E. Coatta (Three Musical Coattas) has successfully passed through four opera- tions at the American Hospital, this city, and Is about ready to return to her work. Pro- fessor Max Thorek, who recently brought Florence Egan through what seemed Inevi- table death, also attended Miss Coatta dur- ing her Illness. Because of his work In the Egsn case Dr. Thorek was the recipient of a theatre and dinner party given by A. E. Meyers in honor of his services. Ralph Kettering will retire from the man- agerial staff of the Marlowe Theutre In a few days and return to his summer position of publicity promoter for White City Park. Chicago's South Side summer resort. Mike McCauley. who also leaves the Marlowe, will Join Kettering at White City. Earlier in the city Kettering was manager of the BIJou for Mr». Chatie* Kohi. but retired from that position when Colonel Roche changed joba Karl Hoblltsell haa returned to his desk from Colorado 8pringa. where he was called by the desth of a younger brother Mr. Hoblltsell brought the body to the family home In St. Louis and remained there dur- ing the funeral servlcea Dick Hoffman, until recently of the A E. Bert Cortelyou. one of the "Association's" sever;* I hook Ins; agents, was vlnltrd '■> iht- stork last u« i k and pri-Menf-d with * htalthy baby boy < «"t»-lyou \\ an for a I- . ,\t Hint- pri- vate netn.l.iiy to G«ri,ial M ii^rr Hiay anil at (lit- i ct I r inn ii t of K<! uil :> iviic was moved Into the booking . pail mem K. C. Chlhia succeedt'd roriol i as Bray's secre- tary. Publicity departments Is becoming a fad