Variety (September 1912)

VARIETY 9 3 KIETY Published Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING GO. Times Square New York Cttj SIME SILVERMAN Proprietor CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldff. JOHN J. O'CONNOB LONDON 6 Green St., Leicester 8q. W. BUCHANAN TAYLOR PARIS 66 bis, Rue Saint Dldler EDWARD G. KKNDREW BERLIN 16 Karl St. E. A. LEVY ADVERTISEMENTS. Advertising copy for current Ibbuo must reach New York office by 6 p. m. Wednesday. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panied by remittance. —j— -^ —— ^^^—— SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual M Foreign • Single copies, 10 cents. Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol. XXVIH. September 6, 1912 No. 1 Morrison's Rockaway, will close for the season Sept. IS. The Hudson, Union Hill, resumed its vaudeville policy Labor day. Lillian West has been granted a di- vorce from Charles Gill. Walter Rosenberg was "pinched" in Long Branch last Sunday for giving a performance on the Sabbath. Fred and Adele Astaire have been booked for the Orpheum circuit, open- ing Sept. 27 at Winnipeg. Snitz Moore has signed with Werba & Lucscher for the southern company of "The Rose Maid." W. S. Hart will appear in "Moon- shine" at the Alhambra, New York, Sept. 16. Harry Eanett, last with "The Gay Musician Co.," is very ill at the Provi- dence Hospital, Washington, D. C. Kitty Traney arrived from Europe Tuesdays for a tour of the United houses, booked by Paul Durand. J. Edward Pierce and Marie Roslyn will not be in. burlesque this season, playing vaudeville instead. H. M. Addison is ahead of K. J. Car- penter's "School Days" company. Clay Vance is the manager. Mrs. Ben Deeley, reported ill in St. Louis, is Klizahcth Deeley, ex-wife of the comedian. Mr. Deeley's wife is traveling with him. Marty Ward and wife received a baby (girl) Sept. 2. The mother was formerly Georgia Lansem of the Eight J. Mulish Cyclone Dancers. •• WITHIN THE LAW 99 Pasteboard annunciators. Tyson Sisters coming back. Abel and Irwin teaming again. Louis Cohen selling meal tickets. Al Aarons writing another opera. Julius Cahn getting on earth again. Josephine Sabel singing at Martin's. Phil Nash applauding his daughters. Marcus Loew buying furs for Joe Weber. Meyer Cohen singing Bcmick's songs. B. F. Brennan and Rca Boazman together. Julian Mitchell hearing some one knocking. Lieutenant Becker playing at Ham- mersteins. Jack Welch attending "The Polish Wedding." Louis Mann speaking well of his managers. Jane Cowl getting a good notice in the Times. Fred Moore becoming Mayor of Atlantic City. Jack Levy making a living without J. J. Murdock. Carl Lothrop weighing as much as Arthur Dunn. Billy Jerome writing hits with Harry Von Tilzer. Chris Brown having cigars named after him, by the thousand. Sandy Dingwall smiling at Mc- Vicker's box office statements. Carl Ritter's talk on each piece of marble in the Orpheum, Seattle. Elizabeth Brice buying the first page in the Findlay, Ohio, newspaper. Tommy Shea beginning his 99th season as manager of the Empire. An actor admitting the author had something to do with his success. Norman Jeffries rejecting the nom- ination for mayor of Bristol, N. H. Arthur Blondell speaking of the houses he books as "My Theatres." The Monday morning speech—"We'll cancel if they don't change our spot." "The Pink Lady" at the Amsterdam, billed as "Direct from the Globe, Lon- don." . The Boston Managers' Association telling a big producer how to run his show. A. L. Erlanger talking about the days when he was ahead of George S. Knight. George M. Cohan giving the first performance of "Broadway Jones" in Pawtucket. Music publishers telling actors "You get more out of it than any one who ever sang it." (IN LONDON.) Jack Davis' high hat. Tommy Dawc going on tour. Claude Marncr minus "side." Charles Gulliver booking acts. Willie Passpart locating in Berlin. Joe Davis offering five pounds more. Bertie Sheldon paying for hire of piano. W. H. Clemart declining a knight- hood. Martin Samptcr showing his check book. Jack Hayman accepting the Victoria Cross. Jack Somers parting his hair in the middle. Paul Murray farming and snail training. Ben Nathan giving birth to a scheme. Chris Marner doing a Count D'Or- say act. Jack Goodson taking tea at Mrs. Game's. Barney Myers bringing more acts to England. Walter Gibbons returning to man- agement. Jimmy Tate applauding Zona Ve- vey's act. Walter Kelly playing at Bucking- ham Palace. Harry Masters politely declining to take wine. Archie Parnell smiling at someone else's jokes. Dave Bliss scratching another fel- low's back. Llewellyn Johns providing "family" vaudeville. Arthur Aldin forgetting he manages the Empire. Harry Vernon booking a sketch with Moss-Empires. Perry (Vardon, Perry & Wilbur), wearing a beard. Leon Zeitlin taking control of the Syndicate Halls. Richard Warner dilating upon the "tights" question. Harry Burns and Willy Adacker go- ing into partnership. B. Sherck treating A. BrafT to din- ner at the Carlton. A. D. Davis raising the salaries of all acts on the Stoll tour. Albert Bulmer going to the rescue of the Wciland Agency. C. B. Cochran buying the Houses of Parliament for a circus. Walter Bentley booking refined acts of his own "temperature." G- B. MacLachlan refusing the man- agement of the Coliseum. Karl Hooper admitting he gets too much money for his clients. Charley Reed singing Flora Cro- mer's songs to his "friends." Julian Wylic mentioning "Detective Keen" to a booking manager. George Foster being presented with a prize lemon by American artists. Ernest Edclsten writing a book on "How to be Happy Though Worried." Will Collins presenting a stained glass window of St. Paul to Randvoll House. Walter Hast changing his racing colors—from green and gold to the Moffat Tartan. Ernest Wighton booking American turns for Glasgow, Liverpool, Sheffield and Birmingham. Billy Abbott and Elmore White have dissolved stage partnership. Abbott will appear jn a new act will) Florence Topham. "Trapped," a one ,ni play by Fred- » rir Arnold Kummer. lias been sold by Sanger & Jordan In Daniel I•'r<• 1 i 111;i ti lor vaudeville prodm tion. Herman Lieb signed a ten weeks' contract with Marcus Loew this week to play his act, "Dope," over the lat- ter's circuit. Marie Ray has placed Logansport (Tnd.) on the map by joining the "Mer- ry Go Rounders" on the Eastern bur- lesque Wheel. Ha Grannon last season featured with Lasky's production "Phinophiend Minstrels" will take to her single spe- cialty again this season. Joe Macey, formerly of the T^.d Snyder company, is now connected with the Jerome & Schwartz Publish- ing Co. Cartmell and Harris will return to this country Oct. 21, to pl«y eight weeks under the direction of Morris & Feil. Loraine Lester, formerly of "A Win- ning Miss" company, will appear with Billy Goodall (formerly of Goodall and Craig) in vaudeville. John J. Kennedy, who formerly headed Kennedy's Players, has assumed the management of the Central theatre, playing "pop" vaudeville, at West Ho- boken, N. J. The house reopened Labor Day. Frank Burton, who has been playing the role of Cap Williams in "Paid in Full," since Frank Sheridan originated it four years ago, has refused to take the part again this season. Elida Morris has had her foreign time moved forward. She will open her eight weeks' engagement on the other side Dec. 30 at the Victoria Palace, London. Jos. K. Emmett and Co. started Mon- day to play southern engagements for the United Booking Offices, with the Sullivan-Considine Circuit booked to follow, giving Mr. Emmett a solid season. Trixie Friganza, now at the Winter Garden, has been offered an engage- ment at the London Hippodrome fol- lowing her stay at the Garden. Miss Friganza has a twenty-five weeks' con- tract with the Shuberts. Sabel Johnson fell downstairs at her home, 1837 East 15th street, Brooklyn, the other day, and was seri- ously injured, sustaining a broken ankle and a dislocation. She is now recovering. Frances Brook, formerly in support of Mildred Holland, is planning a dip in vaudeville with a sketch, "His Wife Came Back," which opens at Newport, Sept. 9. Viola (/rant is in her support. Fred Karno's English . company (managed by Alf. Reeves) with Chas. Chaplin playing his original role of Archibald, will open ' )rt 20 at Cincin- nati, for a whirl over the S.-C. circuit in "Wow \Vow-. >>r a Night in ;m English Secret : , i<ty."