Variety (December 1912)

■ VARIETY niETY Published W«»kl7 by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Times Square. New York. SIMB nLTKBMAN Proprietor. CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bid*. JOHN #. O'CONNOB LONDON I Oreen St, Leicester 8q. W. BUCHANAN TAYLOB PARIS •f bis. Rue Saint Dldler BDWABD O. KENDBBW BBBLIN IB Karl St. B. A. LEVY ADVERTISEMENTS. Advertising copy for current issue must reach New York office by 6 p. m. Wednesdsy. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panied by remittance. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Annual $4 Foreign • Single copies, 10 centa Entered as second-class matter at New York. VoL XXIX. December 13, 1912. No. 2. Richard Warner has sold a sketch for three people to Barney Bernard. "A Woman in the Case" closed at Elkhart, Ind., Nov. 23. Mooney and Holbein returned from the other side last week. Charlie Ahearn sold Ralph Austin this week a new National touring car. Doyle and Dixon, the dancers, joined the Winter Garden show Monday. Sir Herbert Tree arrived in New York this week. The Ioleen Sisters, lately returned from the other side, will open with their two-tact Dec. 29. Pauline Reeves should have been the billing last week at Hammerstein's for "Adele" Reeves. Mint and Wertx did not play the new Academy, Buffalo, this week, as an- nounced, but are at London, Canada. Henry Fink and Al. Piantadosi have combined for a two-man act in "one" for the vaudevilles. Ian McClaren has succeeded Basil Gill as the Emperor of China in "The Daughter of Heaven" at the Century. Ren Shields is reported considerably improved at his home in Freeport, Long Island. Jim Kelly and F.mma Pollock will show their new act at Shea's, Buffalo, next week. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Von Tilxer were among the passengers on the Orub?. Dec. 8, bound for Bermuda. Julia Blancke has been engaged to create the mammy in David Belasco's new production, "The Conspiracy," now in rehearsal. Walter Stanton, Jr., who played the Giant Rooster in "Broadway to Paris" at the Winter Garden when the show opened there, has retired from the per- formance. The new Grand Opera House at Ephrata, Pa., seating 850, opened Nov. 29 with Lambert & Wee's "Seven Hours in New York." Dr. Thorax, the eminent surgeon of Chicago, was in New York last week and attended the dedication ceremonies of the White Rats Clubhouse. May Irwin will star this season in "A Widow by Proxy," by Miss Cath- erine Chisholm Cutting, opening Dec. 23 in Newark. Announcement was made last week of the marriage of Nazimova, the Froh- man star, and Charles Bryant, her lead- ing man. Walter Damroech left for Bermuda Wednesday for a two weeks' stay. While there he will deliver a lecture on music. Bda Von Luke, the former leading woman of the West End stock, went to Chicago Monday to join Joseph M. Gaites' "Our Wives" company. Victor Hyde and his Russian dancers have been added to the show at the Frolic. Bert Earl and his Picks are also a feature at that establishment. Fred Russell, of the Flying Rus- sells suffered a fractured left wrist and an injured jaw when he slipped from a hold .on a trapeze at the Orpheum, Kansas City, Dec. 4. Jules Rabiner is now acting as assist- ant to F. F. Proctor, Jr., in the Proc- tor , Circuit booking's. M,r. Rabiner was with Edward S. Keller for several years. In the case of Ethel St. Clair against Klaw & Erlanger before Justice Pen- dleton in the Supreme Court the jury returned a verdict in favor of the act- ress for the full amount claimed. The Cort in West Forty-eighth street will open Dec. 20, according to the statement of John Cort. The opening attraction will be Laurette Taylor in "Peg O' My Heart." Julia Neville, under the direction of Leander Sire, opens her starring tour in "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary" (May Robson's former vehicle) Dec. 25, at Easton, Pa. Etta Bryan has deserted the legiti- mate ranks and opened in a new vaude- ville sketch, "The College Contest," by Edgar Allan Wolf, at Newark this week. Maurice Farkoa will leave "The Merry Countess" in February, return- ing abroad, where he has engagements to fulfill. Mr. Farkoa comes back next season, having been re-engaged by the Shuberts. Fred Hnxtable and Lillian Rosewood signed contracts for the "Billy the Kid" show last week and joined Mon- day in the west. The Cob Cob Inn, Stamford, Conn., has added a Cabaret show to its attrac- tions. Lorraine Lillian is the feature this week. Sheehan and Partner have rejoined the Cabaret show at Pabst Harlem, where they played for several months. The pair closed at the 125th Street cafe last June. Since then they have been abroad. Julius 8teger is the co-author of Kathryn Kidder's new act, "The Wash- erwoman Duchess," now playing in vaudeville. Mr. Steger rehearsed and produced it He is acting as Miss Kidder's manager. Leonard Meehan (Worden and Mee- han) fell and broke his kneecap dur- ing a show at the Majestic, Fort Worth, last week. Horace Worden did a single until the Four Dancing Bugs substituted. Worden and Meehan had to cancel their Interstate time. Joe Wood has taken up the handling of pugilists as a side line to booking vaudeville acts and placing feature pic- tures. Mr. Wood's protege is Harry Donahue, from Indiana. Joe claims he can polish off any lad at 133 pounds. The United Booking Offices Caba- ret Department is without a connec- tion in New York. A Broadway agent declared the United people were not going after Cabaret business as keenly as when the department was started. Ned Wayburn will again take charge of the benefit annually given for the children of the 114th street synagogue, which will take place Feb. 16. Lew Fields and the Shuberts have donated the Broadway theatre and the artists will volunteer their services. "The Goose Girl," Baker & Castle's stage version of Harold McGrath's novel, is having its time extended in the south, where it played to big busi- ness last season. The cast will remain intact, with Vic Sutherland in the principal male role. "Freckles;" dramatized from Gene Porter's novel, i$ coming into New York at the Grand Opera House next week. The company is the one tour- ing New England with Milton Nobles, Jr., and Ruth Gray as principal play- ers. The restaurant of the Winter Gar- den may have a Cabaret yet. It is on the balcony floor of the playhouse, and is roomy. The Shuberts will lease it for Cabaret purposes, not caring to take the management of the food and fun place upon themselves. It looked as though summertime was here again this week to sec so many idle advance agents in the lobby of the Normandie Hotel. Some were out of work while others were laying off Poker relieved several of the "k° ahead" boys of a few dimes. Lovey Mary Green, a former mem- ber of Ziegfeld's "Follies" who started this season as leading woman of "The Moulin Rouge Girls" on the Western Burlesque Wheel, has joined Max Spiegel's "Winning Widow," playing the southern time. Victoria Montgomery, formerly with "The Typhoon," was able to gather a lot of real color for several new under- world sketches while attending the Rosenthal murder trial. Miss Mont- gomery's brother was foreman of the jury which sent the four gunmen to the electric chair. The principals of "The Unwritten Law," which H. H. Frazee will present at the Cort theatre, Chicago, follow- ing the run of "Our Wives," include Frank Sheridan, May Buckley, Earle Browne, Catharine Countiss, John Stokes, Elsie Herbert, Frederick Bur- ton, Maud Turner Gordon. La Estrelita, accompanied by her husband, Henry Garcia, who have been in New York since returning some months ago from a South American tour, left Sunday night for San Fran- cisco where on Dec. 15 she opens a four weeks' engagement at the Portola Cafe. La Estrelita was featured at the Portola for one solid year. Rehearsals started Wednesday for the revival of "Sis Hopkins." The former Rose Melville show will open in Utica Dec. 23, where it will be un- til after Christmas. The show is be- ing backed by William Fitzgerald, who formerly managed the Shubert at Utica. Otto T. Johnson recently returned to work after spending ten days among the.Kentucky mountaineers, in search of atmosphere for his new vehicle "The Birdman." He was forced to lay off during the week following a Louis- ville engagement with Mclntyre and Heath and took the opportunity to slip up into the. mountains among the moonshiners. Healy's has made the ballroom fea- ture of the restaurant a bi-weekly event. The plan is to have special fea- tures for the invitation affair. The last one took on the nature of an eques- trian carnival. A horse and carriage, decorated in Mowers and a lady rider, took part in the parade. Flower girls danced and sang and several dance numbers were put on as elaborately as a production. These events are to con- tinue twice a week during the winter. Attention has been called to a para- graph under a London date line in Variety- June 28, last, which read: "A divorce has been granted freeing Joe O'Gorman from Irma Lorraine. Mrs. O'Gorman was accused of misconduct with Baron von Boris." It has been pointed out that this statement may have given the impression Mr. O'Gor- man was granted a divorce, whereas the facts were that Mrs. 0'Gorn\an was granted a Decree Nisi on her peti- tion, and Mr. O'Gorman's petition was dismissed.