Variety (May 1912)

VARIETY KIETY Published Weekly by VAUETY PUBLISHING GO. Times Square New York City SIM SILVEIMAN Proprietor CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldg. JOHN J. O'CONNOB LONDON S Green St., Leicester Bq. W. BUCHANAN TAYLOR PARIS Cf bis. Rue Saint Dldler KDWABD O. KBNDBBW BERLIN 67 Unter den Linden ADVERTISEMENTS. Advertising copy for current Issue must reach New York office by 6 p. in. Wednesday. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panled by remlttsnce. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual M Foreign B Single copies, 10 cents. Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol XXVI. May 4,1912 No. 9 Maude Tiffany sails May 11 on the Minnehaha for the other side. She will appear at the Hippodrome, Lon- don, June 3, booked by William Mor- ris. Olive May has been added to the cast of "The Lady and the Tiger/' produced by Mike Simon for vaude- ville, and which will feature John W. Cope. Four companies of "Bought And Paid For" will be sent out on the road next season by William A. Brady. The rosters are now being filled, the season starting early in September. Ground will be broken this month for the construction of a new two- story theatre and dance hall at George and Paterson streets, New Brunswick, N. J., by the Papier Bros, of Trenton. Big. Bonflglio, who has been ap- pearing with Dasie for the past season, sails shortly to fulfill engage- ments in Paris. He will return to this country in the fall. Ernest Kunwald, the Berlin Phil- harmonic Orchestra director, has signed a five years' contract as di- rector of the Cincinnati Symphony Or- chestra. With his liabilities and assets scheduled as "unknown," John F. (Governor) Robinson, founder of Robinson's Circus, made an assign- ment in Insolvency Court last week. James H. Havens, manager of the Olean (N. Y.) Opera House, is pro- moting a building movement which will give the city a modern theatre, costing $35,000. Arthur Hammerstein Tuesday signed Norton and Lee for two years. They are to be in the new Emma Trentini opera written by Otto Hauer- bach and Victor Herbert, which will open next October, The baseball season really opens to-day, when the Varietys and the Blanche Ring show nine will get to- gether some place uptown, weather permitting. A decision is daily expected in the case of Edith Ellls-Furnees against the Shuberts. Miss Ellis is suing the Shuberts for $10,000, claimed to be her share of the collaboration on "The Lottery Man." Mr. and Mrs. D. Lu Roe are the parents of a boy, born April 22d, at Red Bank, N. J. The mother (Altana Mason) is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mason. George W. Malone, former man- ager of the Grand, is now the man- ager of the Garrick at Escanaba, Mich. F. G. Barrett, who owns the Garrick, recently opened up a new theatre at the Soo. Hymen Adler is seeking a new act for vaudeville. He has under consid- eration "The Marriage Broker" by Herbert Hall Wlnslow, purchased by Joe Welch some time ago, but never produced. John R. Hawiey, who has been working for two years with Jules Jordan in England and Australia as Jordan and Harvey, is back in New York. The partnership has been dis- solved. James Swor, of Swor and West- brook (reviewed in Variety last week), is a brother of John and Bert Swor. John is playing this week with Charles Mack (Swor and Mack) at Nashville. A ten-pound boy has been wished on Mr. and Mrs. William Edmunds. The couple think that it is some wish. Mr. Edmunds has been playing this season with "The Sweetest Girl in Paris." Prof. Henry G. Miller, formerly pianist at Hurtlg & Seamon's, and who Is confined at Ward's Island, New York, has a mania for distribut- ing money. He has issued checks to his friends for several millions of dollars. B. Obermayer arrived in New York Wednesday morning on the Kaiser Wllhelm der Grosse. He says he will remain for about five or six weeks "looking around" and then return to Europe as the foreign representative for the Sullivan-Considine Circuit. The Bijon theatre is being offered for rent for moving pictures for the summer months, with no wild scramble to corral the establishment. Previous ventures of that calibre there proved disastrous to their pro- moters. Trentini refused to listen to any vaudeville offer for this season, fol- lowing the close of "Naughty Mari- etta." It is said the contract mado with her managers for a new opera next season prohibited a vood ap- pearance. "Degradlert," by Max Hantonanre, a dramatic episode of German family life and the German army, has been adapted into English, and the Ameri- can rights have been socured by Ed- ouard Jose. The latter will shortly produce It here. The Chadwick Trio have given up the idea of selling "Wiggin's Farm." Herbert Hall Wlnslow turned the farm into "Wiggin's Training Camp,*' which will require five people to run. "The Camp" will be ready to open in September. Sam Ehrlich walked into Hammer- stein's during the Monday matinee. In the lobby stood Sam Kenney, who said to Willie Hammerstein, "Let's stick around until Ehrlich comes out and hear him tell how he wrote •Plney Ridge.' " Charles D. McCaoll, general man- ager for William A. Brady, has re- turned from Chicago, where he spent the past four months overseeing the numerous Brady productions made in the windy city the latter part of the current season. Jack Gardner, late leading man with the original "Madame Sherry" com- pany, is not booked for the Orpheum Circuit as announced, but will open in the east next week and may be on the "All New Acts" bill at the Fifth Avenue May 20. Gretchen Hartman who played the engenue role with Harry Bulger in "The Flirting Princess" this season will try out a single in vaudeville within the next few weeks. Miss Hartman was the child in "Mary Jane's Pa" in support of Henry E. Dixey. The Three Staleys were booked by Freeman Bernstein Tuesday for forty- four weeks, commencing with eight weeks of parks, ten weeks on the Loew time and twenty-six weeks over the Sullivan-Considine Circuit. It's almost a record for a "small time" act around New York. Mand Tiffany was compelled to fore- go her engagement at Hammerstein's this week owing to a throat affliction, caused by the "No. 3 spot." Mathews and AlBhayne were out of the Fifth Avenue bill for the same reason, ex- cepting the position. Alshayne was the sufferer. The engagement of "The Gov- ernor's Lady," the new piece pre- sented by William Elliott and David Belasco, beginning at the Republic Labor Day, will end Jan. 4 and on. the following Tuesday Mr. Belasco will offer a new American comedy at that house. James Leonard, the vaudeville actor, and Joan Adamovic, an Aus- trian girl, were married Sunday at Stamford, Conn., by Justice of the Peace Tippey. The bride, who is twen- ty-one years old, is said to be the daughter of an admiral in the Austro- Hungary navy. Julius Schumusky, through M Rothenborg, has brought suit against the Adler Theatre Co. for breach of contract. The Adler Co. runs the Thalia theatre and engaged Schumus- ky to sing tenor roles. After twenty* five weeks, he was cast for a dramatic part. Refusal to play resulted in his dismissal. The plaintiff claims he's a singer not an actor. The Hotel Yates at Syracuse al- lowed John and Mae Burke to cele- brate their fifth wedding anniversary there last Sunday. For assistants John and Mae had James J. Morton, the comic kid; Gavin and Piatt, who are some celebraters themselves on the annual passing of the matrimonial time, and Charles Olcott. The bunch presented the couple with some very useful silver, probably a quarter to tip the waiter with. (And that's some tip—In Syracuse). Eugenia Blair has closed her starring tour in "The Test" through the Stair & Havlln houses. She left this week for her home in Bermuda to spend the summer. Her plans for next season have not been arranged. Eleanor Montell (Miss Blair's daughter), who played in "At The Mercy Of Tiberius," was to have opened with the Norman Hackett stock company at Toledo, but illness forced her to cancel. Miss Montell is recuperating at the Blair home In the Bermudas. Marc Klaw was the person in the upper box at the New York whom Frank Tinney referred to from the stage as "my partner." When Mr. Klaw left the theatre he informed the manager that as Mr. Tinney had taken him into partnership he expected half the comedian's salary thereafter.^ The manager, upon presenting Tinney with his salary at next pay day, withheld one-half, repeating Mr. Klaw's decla- ration. "Very well," answered Tin- ney. "Give Mr. Klaw one-half my salary and tell him I expect one-half of his." The following puzzle in figures has been given out on Broadway during the week. It's about two crowds of ten men who walked into a cafe, each buying a round of five cent drinks, as per the example. The example is six men buy a round each at the single cost of thirty cents per round, or $1.80 in all, while four purchase for themselves at cost per round of twen- ty cents, or eighty cents in all, making a total of $2.60. The other ten di- vided equally, five buying five rounds at twenty-five each, or $1.25 in all, making the gross on their double pur- chases $2.50. It works out in figures like this: 6 x 5 —.30 x 6 11.80 4 x 5 —.20 x 4 80 |2.60 ". x 5 — .25 x 5 11.25 f. x 6 — .26 x 6 1.26 $2.50 The mathf-rnati. i.iiiH want i»> know why two sets of t< i n m« n bv bu>iritf ten rminds of drinks Tor <-jcli party af. a uniform prico of livo <«nts per drink should show a, <liir< renco or ^en cents in the totals.