Variety (February 1913)

VARIETY Published Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Tlmm Square. New York. S1ME SILVERMAN Proprietor. CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldg. CHARLES J. FREEMAN SAN FRANCISCO Pantagea Theatre Bldg. HARRY BONNELL LONDON 18 Charing Cross Road JESSE FREEMAN PARIS 66 bis, Rue Saint Dldler EDWARD O. KENDKEW BERLIN 15 Karl St. E. A. LEVY ADVERTISEMENTS. Advertising copy for current Issue must reach New York office by Thursday morning. Advertisements by in.ill should he accom- panied by remlttaru* SUBSCRIPTION Annual $4 Foreign 6 Single copies. 10 cents. Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol. XXIX. February 7, 1913. No. 10. Fay Templcton is talking "specialty show." Eddie Leonard aid Mable Russell start a tour of the Orpheum Circuit April 14. Director Grell,' of the Hansa the- atre, Hamburg, is reported in New York. Tom Terris will do "The Tale of Two Cities" at Waterbury, Conn., Feb. 17! Lynch and Zeller sail on the Mau- retania Feb. 12 to play on the other side. Wednesday of this week was Ash Wednesday, the severest test for a theatrical attraction in New York. William T. Hodge, in his new piece, "The Road to Happiness," starts a tour on the Shubert time (Shubert management) at Albany Feb. 20. Gene Pollard, for several years stage doorman at the Colonial, had an apo- plectic stroke Monday and was re- moved to his home. Robert Sowe is leaving the May Tully act to play a role with the new Shubert production which Augustus Thomas is staging. Emmett De Voy is rehearsing a new act in which his wife will play one of the principal parts, De Voy just managing it. "My Wife's Family," with eighteen people, will be produced in tabloid form by Boyle Woolfolk around the first of March. T. W. DinJrins has gone to New Or- leans to give his personal attention to his burlesque stock company there for a few weeks. Sam Dessauer is up and at it again after another spell of sickness. He has resumed his position with the "Fatal Wedding" company. Albini has been ill for quite some time. He expects to be out shortly and is preparing to produce two new magical acts for vaudeville. Franklyn Wallace is going to do a blackface "single," figuring that the burnt cork and top notes ought to make a felicitous combination. Max Hart has arranged through his English representative, Ernest Edel- stein, for the opening uf Ethel Green at the Palace, London, July 7. Leopold Pam has decided to remain away from the managerial end of the- atricals and will not take over the Star, Corpus Christi, Tex., as previ- ously reported. Elfie Fay has been booked until 1915 in England. Next Xmas she is under contract to appear in panto at the Drury Lane, London, as principal comic. A. J. Gillingham, of Detroit, with John P. Harris and Harry Davis of Pittsburgh, have taken the Columbia, Grand Rapids. It is playing vaudeville from the United Booking Office. Dazie is expected to reappear in vau- deville Feb. 17 at Keith's, Columbus. Her recent accident while dancing in "A Man With Three Wives" caused her to lose two weeks in vaudeville. French and Eis are holding over in- definitely at Hammerstein's. They re- ceive $650 weekly for their "Dance of Fortune," and are asking $800 for time beyond the present engagement. Gertrude Campbell, a dancer with "The Prince of Pilsen" company, and Michael Carroll, property man with the same show, were united in mar- riage Jan. 13 at Oklahoma City, Okla. Mrs. Billy (Swede) Hall has recov- ered from a fortnight's illness with pleurisy. She and her husband re- sumed their vaudeville work last week at Columbus. Isabel Gordon Curtis has written a novel of modern New York, entitled "The Lapse of Enoch Wentworth," which deals with the fortunes of an actor and a newspaper man. The New Theatre at Bath, N. Y., will open the last of this month, un- der the management of C. R. Thomas and booked by Aarons' Associated Theatres. Ethel Da vies, a sister of the more il- lustrious Reine, has joined the cast of H. H. Frazec's production of Edwin Milton Royle's play "The Unwritten Law." Bert Goldman, formerly manager of the Oak, Chicago, is now in charge of the Princess, at St. Paul. Michael Byrne, well remembered as one of the Five Byrne Brothers, is soon to be ordained as a priest. Byrne dropped from the theatrical limelight about four years ago. He is now in Baltimore. The Harry Ferns-Allan Benedict Co. has contracted for the Pantages time, opening April 3 with their race track sketch, entitled "The Favorite." Spe- cial scenery will be carried. Ferns will play the role of a tout. The Marquis of Queensbury has gone back to deah old Lunnon. Just when he will return no one knows, but Paul Scott will look after his play, "The Light," which was unsuccessfully pro- duced by Schubering & Lamb. "Buster Brown," which has been off the stage for the past season, is to be revived on an elaborate scale next sea- son by Leffler-Bratton with the latter negotiating with Master Gabriel tow- ards playing his old role with the show. "Hearts Adrift" is to be produced n the road by Garland Gaden, who or- ganized a company this week through the Betts & Fowler agency. The com- pany opens next Monday in New Eng- land territory. Sirota wanted $2,000 for one perform- ance at the Progress Club. The club voted it was too much money, although it might have been paid if the Chazan from Warsaw would have consented to appear with a smooth-shaven face. Ethel Levey has declined all offers of American vaudeville time. Her present engagement at the Hippodrome, London, is unlimited. M. S. Bentham could have secured $1,200 weekly for Miss Levey on a U. B. O. route. The press agent for an unsuccessful attraction was seated in his office Wed nesday when the phone rang. Turning to a friend he said: "There's another request for seats." Before picking up the receiver he filled out an order for two. It doesn't look as though the Stage Society will ever be successful in pro- ducing plays in New York on Sundays Last week the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court affirmed the de- nial of an application for an injunction restraining the police authorities from interfering with the association. Victor Moore has not brought suit against Dr. Pitts of Chicago, as re- cently reported. It was stated Moore sought to recover some money which he had invested in an Indiana coal mine at the suggestion of the physi- cian who was an officer in the stock company which controlled the prop- erty. May Howard, who during her pro- fessional career accumulated the title of "The Queen of Burlesque," denies she recently died in Denver at the age of 72. Miss Howard quotes 72 as the age of her father. She recently toured the country with Marie Dressier in "Tillie's Nightmare." C. O. Tennis, general representative for the Eastern Managers' Association, has placed two more houses on his books. Hereafter the Academy of Mu- sic, Meadville, Pa., E. A. Hemstead, manager, and the Maryland theatre, Cumberland, Md. (Mellinger Bros., managers), will book through the Ten nis offices. The Shuberts have been awarded a judgment for $1,921.62 against Joseph L. Plunkett, theatrical producer, for royalty on "Girls" by Clyde Fitch which Plunkett produced in 1910 and 1911. 10 per cent, of the receipts were to have gone to the Shuberts. The Zaza theatre at Havana, Cuba, is said to be the scene of some of the filthiest sketches and moving pic- tures ever shown. Admission is 30 cents, with reserved seats obtainable from speculators at 40 cents. The house seats about 1,000 and gives three shows nightly. Fritzi Scheff, now in the west with "The Love Wager," has been granted a decree of divorce from the novelist, John Fox, Jr., who is wintering at his farm in Big Stone Gap, Va. Papers granting an interlocutory decree were filed at White Plains, N. Y., last week. Miss Scheff and Fox were married in 1908. Emily Nice, formerly of Nice and Lovcy, soubrct with Sim Williams' "Girls from Happyland," was rushed from a Milwaukee theatre last week to a hospital where immediately upon her arrival she was successfully operated upon for appendicitis. Miss Nice is now convalescing at the Lakeside Hospital in that city. The engagement of Glen Wallis and Mazie Mack has been announced in Detroit. Wallis is manager of one of the United Amusement Co.'s houses there. His betrothed is a member of Johnny Simons' "Seven Aviator Girls." The wedding will take place after the Lenten season. The Loew-Sullivan-Considine offices have installed an interior 'phone ser- vice. Each department may speak to another without the message going through the switchboard. For example, Jack Goldberg could tell Abe Feinbcrg about an act for So. Norwalk by mere- ly turning down a button, it is that quick. "The Dingbats," which Leffler-Brat- ton will produce in legitimate form next season, will be presented as a vau- deville tabloid feature by Boyle Wool- folk around June 1. Chapine is back in New York through the "Rose of Panama" show closing its season last week in Milwau- kee. She has been offered vaudeville bookings but will very likely take to the road again at bead of her own com- pany, playing a little En-neb farce over the time which -die recniily toured in the John Cort show.