Variety (January 1913)

VAftlfcTY METY Published Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Times Square. New York. 81 MB SILVSBMAN Proprietor. CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bid*. JOHN J. O'CONNOR LONDON It Charing Cross Road. JK8SE FBKBMAN. PABIB 66 bis. Rue Saint Dldler EDWARD O. KKNDBBW BERLIN 16 Karl St. E. A. LETT ADVERTISEMENTS. Advertising copy for current Issue must reach New York offlce by 6 p. m. Wednesday. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panied by remittance. ^^ Annual Foreign SUBSCRIPTION RATES, 'singie copies, 10 cents. $« 6 Entered as second-class matt er at New York. Vol. XXIX. January 3, 1913. No. 5. Shows still go to Erie. Vaudeville is having some battle. The new "angels" are hiding this sea- son, though some are holding over. Chorus girls still think well of the small time. Automobiles for show girls are now loaned, not given away. "The Blacklist" isn't as dreadful as it sounds. Raising salaries is all it has ever done, up to date. The college boys are being cheated out of wives since financiers started backing musical comedies. The ingenue who insists upon remain- ing in New York "during the season" must have a reason—or something better. The "neighborhood" small time vau- deville houses are keeping the voters in their districts. Lydia Barry starts the Orpheum Cir- cuit Sunday, opening at the Orpheum, Omaha. Charles S. Callahan is doing the ad- vance work for the new "Countess Co- quette." The Supreme Court last week af- firmed a judgment for $5,000 securcil by James K. Hackett against William A. Brady for breach of contract, awarded some time ago in a lower court. Collins and Hart are reported to the Marinelli agency by cable as having scored in the success of the Xmas pan- tomime at the Majestic, Melbourne, Australia. "Between Showers," with Charles Crape win and Mike Donlin, is on the road. It will go into the Grand Opera House (Stair & Havlin), Philadelphia, Jan. 20, for a week. "The Honey Girls," the Al Von Til- zer vaudeville production, booked through Frank Bohm, are at Hammer- stein's next week. Freeman and Dui- ham head the act. Leonard Hicks, of the Hotel Grant, Chicago, where nearly all the profes- sionals stop while in the city, left New- York Monday for home, after a vaca- tion in the big town. The moving picture houses in Den- ver have made a concerted movement to increase their profits. All except one house have put into effect a change in price from 5 to 10 cents and have agreed to only three changes a week, instead of daily changes. James Thornton notified his agent Saturday he would he unable to appear at the Bronx, owing to an attack of the grippe. He had considerable dif- ficulty in finishing out last week. Ray- mond and Caverly replaced him at the Bronx the current week. Chicago is moving away from "The Loop." The newspaper men are still doing press work. Soubrets sometimes blame a fliv upon the comedians. Bert Kalmar is arranging a single turn for himself. A funny man in blackface can give almost anyone a race. John Conway and Basil Brady have formed a partnership. Being boss of the machine makes the nearly-was enviously green. A few rehearsals in grammar wouldn't hurt performances in burlesque. Geo. Tallis, of Australia, left last week from Vancouver for home. The "single" woman in vaudeville does not always headline the bill. Jimmy Britt is playing on the Loew Circuit in New York this week. The chorus girl with the mildest look may have been our very best cook. Harry Bulger and company are now playing "The Cabaret Barber Shop" in vaudeville. Christmas morning at 7.15 the stork brought to the wife of James B. Carson a nine-pound baby girl. Mother and daughter are doing well, but father has his chest swelled away out. R. G. Knowles is confined to his home this week, suffering from a severe cold. * "The New Boarder," a vaudeville act recently produced, has been shelved for the present. The Hotel Metropole reopened Tues- day night under the management of Eddie Miller, formerly a booking agent. One of the Dolce sisters contracted a cold last week, necessitating the withdrawal of the act from the Col- onial bill Thursday. Mrs. Ole Bull, widow of Ole Bull, the famous violinist, left $400,000 when she died. It all goes to her daughter, who contested the will. Harry Feiber has bought a Packard car. His partner, Marty Shea, has stopped in the office now and then since getting a "machine." The Interstate Producing Company, recently incorporated, has signed Alex- ander Scott, musical director, and his wife, Alice Clark, prima donna, for their initial tabloid production of "The Broken Idol." Ottilie Metzger, of the Royal Opera, Hamburg, is coming all the way from that city to sing twice in New York. She appears here Jan. 23 with the Philharmonic Orchestra and returns to Hamburg the next day. Bessie Abdullah, the wife of an acro- bat, when threatened by E. B. Obcrly, crazed, and whom she did not know, pressed the call bell in a room in a De- troit hotel as Oberly sent a bullet through his own brain. "Wliat Happened to Mary" is slated for its premiere Feb. 1, the company, under Leigh Morrison's direction, go- ing into rehearsal about Jan. 10. Of the principals, Horace Newman has been signed. A prominent dramatic woman is under consideration for the star part. The Lambs had a gambol Sunday evening. The hits of the evening were "The Village Blacksmith," with music by Victor Herbert and story by George Hobart, and "The Four Broad- way Girls," a "broad" bit of satire that was very funny to the stag assemb- lage. William Courtleigh was Collie for the occasion. "The Yankee Doodle Boy," a mu- sical comedy, is going back into the south for the first time in five years. The company playing "The Newly- weds," which has been out for some time, has been down there. "The Pink Mask," a new musical show, is another which Charles A. Burt has booked over his circuit to the Gulf of Mexico. K. R. Roberts, a southerner, is backing the latter show. Douglas Fairbanks and "Hawthorne U. S. A." leave the Astor Saturday night. The show is booked for the Grand Opera House, New York, next week and the following week at the Montauk, Brooklyn. Then the show goes west, opening at the Grand Opera House, Chicago, for a run. J. A. E. Malone, of George Ed- wardes' producing staff, Gaiety thea- tre, London, now in this country, has acquired the producing rights for "The Conspiracy" and will present it in Aus- tralia and South Africa. S. A. Maguire is now connected with the Joseph A. Tooker Printing Co. Hanging around Broadway needs a bank account accompaniment. Some managers really believe they are showmen. A good advance man is worth his money—and a whole lot more. Playing one-nighters is tempting in- somnia. Adolph Theodore Jacobson (Light- ning Weston) and Florence M. Dulac, of Lewiston, Me., a non-professional, were married in Lewiston Dec. 3. Alexander Bernstein, general coun- sel for Alex. Pantagcs, is in New York on a visit, He is staying at f hc Marseilles, 103d street and Broadway. Clara Butt, English contralto, and her husband, R. Kcnnealy Rumford. baritone, arrived here Dec. 29 for a concert tour of the United States, last- ing from January until April. After that they go to Australia. While the Supreme Court is making ready to hand down a decision in the case of the application for an injunc- tion restraining the police from inter- fering with the plays of the Stage So- ciety of New York on Sunday, the so- ciety will give a show in the Lyceum Jan. 13 (Monday afternoon) for the benefit of the Actors' Fund. If the decision is returned before that date and is favorable to the society, the play will be given the Sunday evening be- fore. Lisa Howard, formerly with the Aborn companies; Helen Juliette, of the Jos. Hart forces, and Anita Ryan are the Three Nightingales. They opened yesterday in Brooklyn. Jules Ruby removed his cup from Sully, the barber's shop Monday morning. One report was Ruby de- manded a commission for his patron- age, while another said that Sully has shaved down Jules' credit. Robert Lee Allen makes his living by being funny on the stage. Right now he's not working because of a pesky jawbone which forced him to have an operation performed Dec. 29. The performing and publishing rights for "Filmzauber," the Bredschneider- Kollo musical play, and the operetta. "The Girl From Mexico," produced abroad, have been obtained for Eng- land and America by Chappell & Co., music publishers. Walter Hast, the American represen- tative for Graham Moffatt and Cosmo Hamilton, the English playwrights, left New York yesterday, first stop- ping at Washington to look over "The Concealed Bed." lie then goes to Crri- ca^o to witness "The Blindness of Vir- tue," at the Siudcl.;iker. and after that will take a trip to Milwaukee to see his vaudeville star from the other side, Owen MeGiveney. Before returning I . llilM Will » i .-»i i I v I ■ ti I llilii! i companies on tour. Lennie Hast, his wife, is with her husband on his trav- els. She opens fan. 12 at St. Paul, for a tour of the Orpheum Circuit.