Variety (July 1912)

VARIETY KIETY Published Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING GO. Times Square New York City SINE SILVERMAN Proprietor CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldff. JOHN J. O'CONNOR LONDON B Green St., Leicester 8q. W. BUCHANAN TATLOB PARI8 66 bis, Rue Saint Dldler EDWARD O. KENDBEW BERLIN 16 Karl St. E. A. LEVY ADVERTISEMENTS. Advertising copy for current Issue must reach New York office by 6 p. m. Wednesday. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panied by remittance. Winn Shaw and Olga Brown were married June 27. The new theatre at Rockville, Ind., will open Sept. 30. P. Alonzo, fully married, returned to New York Monday. Walter Clark Bellows will stage "An Aztec Romance" for O. U. Bean & Co. Yaleska Suratt entered a petition in bankruptcy last week at Indian- apolis. Charles Monash, of the United Booking Offices, and Helen Robitsher, were married June 27. Rawls and Von Kaufman are at their Mush Room Cottage, Muskegon, Mich., for the summer. Ad Newberger is building a new act for Felix and Claire next season. It will have five scenes. The Majestic at Macon, Oa., man- aged by J. B. Melton, inaugurated a "pop" vaudeville policy July 1. Carroll Johnson, the minstrel, sails for England the latter part of the month to play a few weeks in the "Halls." Ralph Edwards, of Edwards, Ryan and Tierney, is out of the hospital after having undergone a successful operation. K. C. Mamvarring, Max Hart's rignt hand man, is enjoying a two weeks' respite from the Putnam Building elevators. Hilly Fink, electrician with "Bowery Burlesquers" last season, waH granted a divorce from Anna Kelly, late of vaudeville and last in burlesque with the "Bon Tons," in the Cook County (111.) Courts Jun ? 8. "Hanky Panky" will start re- hearsals July 16 for its Broadway theatre, New York, engagement around Aug. 1. "The Girl of the Mountains," with Isabelle Gould and Lawrence Trum- bull, opened its season Monday at Bayshore, L. I. Joseph Allentown, for years under the Frohmans' management, has signed with Henry Miller for "The Rainbow" next season. Mrs. Lillian M. Howe, 219 West 2 2d street, Los Angeles, is very de- sirous of learning of the whereabouts of her son, Harvey A. Ball. G. Molasso has booked his latest production, "La Danse au Violins," on the Sullivan-Considine circuit, opening Aug. 25, for thirty weeks. Phyllis Partington sailed for Eur- ope Wednesday for a brief vacation and to have a look at the London production of "Gypsy Love." "The Speed Girl" is the title of a new turn Alexandria and Stewart have in preparation. Mrs. Lena R. Smith and Mrs. Vance Thompson authored it. Jack Goldberg, Joe Sc he nek's as- sistant booker, is going away Sat- urday, for two weeks in the woods, where the trees never heard about any act. Arthur Sanford, last with "The Fair Co-ed" under Chas. B. Dilling- ham's direction, has been engaged for the Richard Carle-Hattie Williams show. Dick Richards, of the Crawford Booking Office, St. Louis, has written a musical comedy piece which will play in the Crawford houses and the southern time. Holbrook Blinn will open his new starring season in Paul Armstrong's "A Romance of the Underworld," with Catherine Calvert in his support, at Aurora, 111., Aug. 28. Jack Fuquay, of Evansville, Ind., and Beulah Plaster, of Lancaster, Pa., of the Imperial Comedy Co., were married on the stage of a Shelbyville, 111., airdome June 29. J. H. Campbell (Campbell and Campbell), who accidentally shot him- self in the left hand while working at the Howard, Washington, was able to resume stage work this week. Alf Reeves, manager of the Karno Comedy Co., will sail for England to- morrow. The company also goes back. Mr. Reeves will return with the new Karno act, "The Hydro," in October. The Homer Davenport farm, in- cluding the cartoonist's celebrated DeBert Arabian Stud, has been pur- chased by Paul Armstrong. The farm, covering 2fi0 acres, is located at Ilolmdel, N. J. Zach Harris, of the Princess Amuse- ment Co., Chicago, who has been iden- tified with the Mort H. Singer shows for many years, has said farewell to the Windy City, and is in New York to engage in producing. Joseph Barnes, manager of the Park theatre, Terre Haute, will man- age the "Twentieth Century Maids" burlesque company this coming sea- son. The show leaves Indianapolis Aug. 26 for a road tour. Dolle Dalnert of the L'Opera Comique, Paris (and who filled an engagement at the Winter Garden), and Hubert Nixon, composer, have framed a "piano-act" which they will "break in" at Newport next week. M. J. Jordan, the character actor, has engaged with Walter Floyd to play the Henry Bergman role in Walter Whiteside's "The Typhoon" company, next season. Arthur Sprague has also signed with Floyd. McGivney, a "single" act, and "The Concealed Bed" are two numbers Marcus Loew arranged for, while on on the other side, to take over the Loew time, when the acts shall have completed Orpheum Circuit contracts. Frank Nelson has accepted a new sketch for vaudeville, which is the work of Byron Ongley and Emil Nyltray, who gave "The Typhoon" to the stage. In addition to Nelson, there are two men and a woman in the act. Molly Mclntyre will take the title role in "Bunty Pulls the Strings," at the Comedy Theatre commencing Mon- day next, retaining it while Molly Pearson is vacationing. Miss Mcln- tyre had the part in the western "Bunty" company. Lance Burritt, who has played the butler in the Macklyn Arbuckle act, "The Welcher," since it was first pro- duced, has secured the producing rights to the sketch. New people have been secured, as the act has a full route for the new season. Arthur York and James Thompson, two Cabaret proprietors, are off in a yacht for Baltimore. Poor Jim had to wash the dishes with his polished nails; York the windows, being short of porters. Murray's (42nd street) still shines with a big show. Irving Fisher, manager, has Adele Meeker, Tom Bethel, Happy Rohne, Harry Sim- mons, Clyde Jackson and Jim Europe entertaining. Manager Frank had to order 200 more chairs to accommo- date the diners. "hoc" Sterner went over lo Ho-' boken Tuesday to meet the Augusta Victoria, on which he thought would be "Don," the "Talking Dog" (to ap- pear at. Hammerstein's July 1 r>). Some one gave false info to the Doc- tor, for "Don" won't land until July in. "Doc" said he is the only per- son in New York who understand dog Centum. Harry Clark, dancer, formerly with the Elsie Janis company, has been en- gaged by A. H. Woods for "Tantaliz- ing Tommy." Sully, of the Cabaret Barber Shop in the Putnam Building, doesn't know what a narrow escape he had the other evening, for Sully almost be- came enveloped in a Hammerstein press story. The frame-up was for the barber to invite one of the ice skaters to a Knickerbocker Hotel after-the-show meal. Willie Ham- merstein agreed to settle for the fod- der provided the check did not exceed Ave dollars. One of the girls agreed Sully was a nice man. A couple of the other union-suited young women in their skating clothes gathered around Sully and commented upon him. Although Mr. Sullivan, from Italy, Is the father of only twenty- one children, with eleven living, ho has not lost his love for the artistic in life. As he saw the girls hoverin* so close to him, all thoughts of home and the Cabaret Shop flew. When Willie heard of the family record he repented and called the press stuff off, on the ground that Sully would never be able to square himself with his family, especially if there should be a "pinch," which was quite likely, as the frame-up included the "hus- band" of the girl descending upon Sully in the Knickerbocker, and de- nouncing him for stealing away his "wife." To appease Sully, though, Mr. Hammerstein agreed to drive him to Columbus Circle, where Sully thought he had a "date" at ten o'clock the same evening. With a party of six in the Hammerstein auto as es- cort, Sully was driven to the Circle, and right past it Into the Central Park, the barber bewailing the kid- napping and the loss of his "date/' Near McOowan's Pass Tavern, at 106th street, about midway between Fifth and Eighth avenues, the ma* chine "broke down." One of the boys agreed to return to the Tavern for gasolene, while Sully went with him for cigars. When about twenty yards away, and after the motor had been started, they were recalled. The boy took it on the run, with Sully trailing, but the barber arrived too late. He was still running after the machine when it returned to look him over. The car stopped and Sully was hailed. He put on steam and was going at about 100 yards in fifteen seconds toward it. As he put out his hand to step in, the auto slowly glid- ed away. Sully kept after it, but the car aggravatingly remained Just so far ahead of him. It looked like a pose for a moving picture. The first plan had been to leave Sully stranded in the park. He was only a couple of blocks from Eighth avenue, although the odds, won' it would he an hour or more before any one happened along to tell him the way out of the park. Hut Mr. llammerHtein's compassion again worked, and Sully wus rescued, to he lost once more at Columbus ave- nue and !♦::<! street. The barber had his inning then, for he was beside the elevated station. The bunch inside the machine didn't get much the best of it. Willie drove to the Subway station at !»«th street, dump* d tin -u out there, .-ind went on home.