Variety (July 1912)

10 VARIETY HOUSES, SHOWS AND PRODUCERS FOR WEBER'S "POP" TIME Starting Off Sept. 2 With Thirty Weeks. Perhaps Three Theatres in New York. Two Loew Circuit Houses Included. "Drawing" for Open- ing Stands July 25 The L. Lawrence Weber popular- priced circuit is nearly ready for its "drawing" of opening stands July 26. Ire three New York houses Mr. Weber ejects to have are yet to be named, although they may not be announced untirHhe opening date of the new "Wheel," Sept. 2. A house in Cincin- nati is to be closed for, and a couple of more franchises will be let be- tween now and the date of drawing, which will fill up the circuit to the limit set, thirty weeks next season. The houses and cities on the circuit ure* Albany, Harmanus- (Last Half) Bleecker Hall Omaha. Bradis (First Half) (Pint Half) Atlantic City, Apol- Philadelphia, Na- lo tlonal (First Half) Philadelphia, Hart s Brooklyn. Grand Milwaukee. Shubert Opera House (First Half) Boston, Columbia Minneapolis, Shu- Canton, O., Rels bert House Montreal. Royal (Last Half) Rochester, Shubert Chicago, Alhambra < Fir8t ; ? ftlf lr 0 „ Cleveland, Grand Schenectady, Van Columbus, Colonial 9«f le J rFirst Half) (First Half) Detroit, Broadway St. Paul's. Shubert Harrlsburg. Rels (Last Half) House St Joe, Tootles (First Half) (Last Half) Hoboken, Gaiety St. Louis. Imperial Indianapolis, Col- (renamed LaSaa ^ onlal Scranton, Lyceum Kansas City, Audi- (Last Half) torium Trenton, Broad St. Lancaster, Pa., Rels <^ B * Half) House Troy. Rands (Last Half) (Last Half) Newark, Columbia Toledo, Auditorium (renamed Jacobs) Wllkes-Barre, New Haven, Hy- ^and perlon „.} pir " ¥ t H t lf) (First Half) IWca, Lumber* Niagara Falls, In- (Last Half) ternatlonal The producers and the shows they vili present are: P. Ray Comstock, "Mme. X"; Wm. A. Brady, "Mother," •Trilby"; Lew Fields, "The Hen Ptcks," "Tillie's Nightmare"; Shu- berts, "The City," M A Man's World"; Totten & Stern, "Redhead" (new); J. F Sullivan, "The White Squaw"; Reno & Lambert, "A Bunch of Keys"; Web- er Bros., "Dion O'Dare"; Qliechman & Klein, "Girlies"; Chas. Howe, "Co- llar in Africa"; Aubrey Mittenthal, "The Prosecutor," "Seven Days"; J. L. Veronee, Lillian Mortimer; F. O. Miller, "Deep Purple"; Leon W. Wash- burn, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; David Kraus, "The Aviator"; L. L. Weber, "Alma"; Charles E. Blaney, "One Day" (new), "The Price She Paid"; Edward C. White, "The Power Be- hind the Throne." It is very probable that Mr. Weber will arrange for a feature film in two or three reels, to be sent out with each company, giving the circuit thirty exclusive feature pictures for the sea- son. Thj films, if the negotiations now pending are successfully com- pleted, will be shown between the acts of the performance, or at different in- tervals during the evening. Two reels may be used to open and close the show. The "split weeks" on the time, in- dicated above by "First Half" or "Last TOM LEWIS and Half" (beneath the name of the house and city), are Albany and Troy, Roch- ester and Niagara Falls, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Omaha and St. Joe, Co- lumbus and Canton, Harrlsburg and Lancaster, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Atlantic City and Trenton, New Haven and Yonkers. Yonkers, however, is problematical. In St. Joe, Tootle's theatre has been playing the Western Burlesque Wheel shows. The National, Philadelphia, and Columbia, Boston, now on the Weber Circuit, were formerly Loew Circuit theatres, with the "pop" vaude- ville policy. The Grand Opera House, Brooklyn, has been a William Fox "pop" vaudeville stand. The Apollo, Atlantic City, will devote the remain- ing three days of the week to the high- class legitimate attractions sent to the seaside through Klaw ft Erlanger. ROWLAND ft CLIFFORD'S SHOWS. Chicago, July 17. Rowland ft Clifford will be busy next fall. Two "The Rosary" com- panies take to the road about the same time with four more hitting the trail Sept. 1. R-C have obtained the road rights for a coast tour of "The Fortune Hunt- er." With Denton Vane, late of the John Cort forces on the coast, it opens Sept. 1. They will again produce "The Di- vorce Question," which ran nine weeks at McVicker's, Chicago, this past sea- son. Frank Losee has been retained for the principal male role. The show opens Sept. 1 at Racine, Wis. Mr. Rowland says the first new pro- duction of the new year will be "The Stronger Magnet," which is to be re- named before its premiere around Oct. 1. The Pacific Coast tour for Dave Lewis in "Don't Lie to Your Wife" has been called off. The show will take to the Stair & Havlin Circuit, not going farther west than Kansas City the coming season. Rehearsals start Aug. 7 here, and the production, under the direction of Rowland ft Clifford, will open Aug. 22 at Des Moines. The full cast is Dave Lewis, Beatrice Morrell, Cora Buckman, Ethel Mae Barker, Estelle Vernon, Leona Fox, Rose Goldsmith, Lleanor Frey, Marjorie Keogh, Ben Homes, Harry Le Monde, Paul Haynes, Mart Franklyn, John Keogh, Stanley Christian. Harold Spencer is musical director; Arthur Pierce is agent and Dave Sey- mour will manage the show. FOX IN GARDEN SHOW. The new show for the Winter Gar- den will not open until Monday night next. Late last week Harry Fox was suddenly inserted in the cast, with a fifteen-week "play or pay" contract at $400 weekly. Following a dress rehearsal last Friday, the opening advertised for Monday night last was postponed until Wednesday, and then again further extended until July 22. While a ci uple of foreign dancers for "The Ballet of 1830" did not arrive until Tuesday, the "whipping-in" process caused the adjournments. Early this week rehearsals were being held at the Garden until 4 a. m. Mr. Fox will remain with the Shu- berts until sent out after election by A. H. Woods at the head of an attrac- tion. In the same production will ap- pear Mr. Fox's vaudeville assistants, the Millershlp Sisters, who may rest until that time. The production was to have had Charles Ahearn, the comedy cyclist. Mr. Ahearn declined to sign a contract, when the Shuberts wanted him to post- pone his appearance until later. Jenie Jacobs has secured the cycle act a route over United Booking Offices time for next season. The "Passing Show" company will be composed of Trlxie Friganza, Charlotte Greenwood, Anna Wheaton, Jobyna Howland, Shirley Kellogg, Ro- salie Ceballos, Adelaide and Hughes, Charles J. Ross, Willie Howard, Eu- gene Howard, Clarence Harvey, Syd- ney Grant, Albert S. Howson, Moon and Morris, Ernest Hare, Oscar Schwartz, Edward Cutler, Hilarion Ceballos, Florence Cable, Mae Dealey, Kitty Kyle, Clara Lloyd, Isabella Ja- son, Olga Hempstone, Billie Clag- gett, Fanny Kingston, Winona Wil- kin s, Vivian McDonald. Willie Howard has been given a bit in which he travesties David Belasco. James Madison has written Howard ft Howard's parts. None of the old chorus has been re- engaged, the stage manager prefer- ring to have all new faces. REIS GIVES UP THREE. The M. Reis Circuit will be three theatres short of Its 1911-12 list the coming season. With the expiration of the leases on Smith's Opera House, Hamilton, Memorial Opera House at Mansfield, and Grand Opera House, Suubenville (all in Ohio), Mr. Reis permitted the theatres to drop off his string. VANCOUVER LEGITIMATELESS.) Vancouver, B. C, July 17. Vancouver is legitimateless. The Vancouver Opera House closed July 9, with Margaret Illington in "Kindling." llic house was passed to the Sullivan- Considlne Circuit, which will play vaudeville in it. For next season there is nothing in Eight here for a legitimate attraction. O. U. IS NO "MARK." Orestes U. Bean, a playwright from the west, who is personally financing the production of his play, "An Aztec Romance," which opens at the Chestnut Street Opera House, Phila- delphia, Sept. 9, is in town with a bankroll of dimensions large enough to suffocate an elephant—maybe a flock of them. This playwrightlng business is a mere diversion for O. U., and he is wise enough to recognize he is un- familiar with it. With rare intelligence for a celes- tial dabbler in things theatrical Mr. Bean is casting about for the best available talent in the managerial line and has besought the guidance of no It SB a personage than A. L. Erlanger. This is not Mr. Bean's first venture an a producer. A couple of decades age he produced the same piece some- where near his native burg, under the title of "Corianton," with -Joseph Haworth as its star. Those who essay to pick Mr. Bean up as a "mark" are likely to be disappointed. Edwin Arden will play Prince Sean- tum in the Bean show. K. ft E.'R DANVILLE. Danville, 111., July 17. The Grand Opera House is nearing completion and will be ready for oc- cupancy early in October. The new theatre will seat 1,200 and play Klaw & Erlanger road attractions. The Allardt Brothers are behind the project. IN MUSICAL STOCK. Los Angeles, July 17. Rice and Cady closed in Oakland and are playing vaudeville this week* at San Jose. They are expected here next week to arrange to open Aug. 4 with Fisch- er's Lyceum Musical Comedy stock; at popular prices. Fischer is to re- organize with most of his present chorus and some minor principals. The present policy of high-class mu- sical stock has been a losing proposi- tion, but he may resume it in the fall with new stars, unless the "pop" pol- icy proves a winner. LAUDER GOING SOUTH. For the first time since he discov- ered America was a gold mine, Harry Lauder will go south next season. A rapid-fire travel route of about twenty days has been laid out in that section for William Morris to approve. It will take in Norfolk, Atlanta, Rich- mond, Mobile, New Orleans, and Texas, with Memphis the last stop be- fore the Scotchman again strikes the north. Lauder will be shown at a $2.50 scale. Some of the Texan towns have given as high as $5,600 on the day (two shows) to special attractions at the Increased rates. The Lauder combination will com- mence exhibiting sometime in De- cember. Gertie Mover and Hazel Rosewood have engaged with "The Sun Dodg- ers," the new Lew Fields piece in which George Monroe will be starred. Half Hundred Others Wilbur Mack is writing a new act for Brown and Barrows, who formerly played "The Pearl and the Girl," the first Mack and Walker vehicle. In GEO. M. COHAN'S Margaret Greene has been engaged by H. H. Frazee as leading woman for "Ready Money," which opens at th * Elliott Aug. 19. 2] "THE YANKEE PRINCE"