Variety (June 1913)

VARIETY niETY Published Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Times Square. New York. 8IME SILVKBMAN Proprietor. CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bid*. CHARLES J. FBEEMAN SAN FRANCISCO Pantages Theatre Bldg. HARRY BONNELL LONDON 18 Charing Cross Road JESSE FREEMAN PARIS 66 bis, Rue Saint Dldler EDWARD <i. KENDREW BERLIN B. A. LBVT ADVERTISEMENTS. Advertising copy for current issue must reach New York office by Thursday morning. Advertisements by mail should be accom- panied by remittance. SUBSCRIPTION. Annual |4 Foreign 6 Single copies, 10 cents. Entered as second-class matter at New Yoric. Vol. XXXI. June 6, 1913. No. 1. Dave Ferguson starts a tour of the Sullivan-Considine circuit Aug. 26. "The Girl At The Gate" is going out again next season. Major Doyle opened at Proctor's 23d Street theatre, Monday. Lee Shubert is due back in New York June 26. Reynolds and Donegan arrive in New York today on the Mauretania. Joseph Parsons, late of the Aborn Opera Co., and Charles Orr are re- hearsing a singing act. Snitz Edwards will appear in the new musical piece which Arthur Ham- mcrstein is to present next season. William Josh Daly is back on Broad- way, considerably thinner than when in New York before. Norah Bayes has been routed to open for the United Booking Offices Aug. 25 next. Dazie will play in the stock com- pany at the Manhattan Opera House next week under her right name. Percy G. Williams is aboard the Mauretania due today in New York. Max Sherman is no longer with the Freeman Bernstein, agency. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Frechette, now living in Chicago Lawn, Chicago, have an eight-pound boy. Homer Miles sails for England next week to present in London. "On a Side Street." Vic Von Kiraly, manager for (Miss) BilJie Burke, sails on the Prince Prinzessen Cecilie June 10. Dan Dody sailed for the other side Tuesday. He will return in time to put on the "Ginger Girls" summer show at the Columbia, Chicago. Eda Rippel, the young woman of the Frederic V. Bowers act, sprained her ankle upon opening at Hammerstein's Monday matinee of last week. Lady Constance Richardson, due to open at Hammerstein's June 23, sails from the other side June 10 on tne Olympic. Carrie Starr is recovering from the effects of a recent operation performed at the Wise Memorial Hospital, Oma- ha. George W. Metzel, manager of the William Penn theatre of Philadelphia, and known as "The Little Adonis of the Quaker City," is to be married June 18 at Atlantic City. The White Rats gave a fairly well attended benefit for its Charity Fund at the 44th Street Sunday night. The organization rented the theatre for the evening. An act offered one of the Walter Rosenberg houses for this week, said it had the last three days filled. Asked where engaged, answered, "For Brill Bros." (Moss and Brill). Nye Chart had everything ready to sail last week when the Shuberts of- fered him the role of A. E. Anson's in "Romance" and he called off his de- parture at the last minute. Stage Manager Bostwick, of "A Poor Little Rich Girl," is engaging the peo- ple who will be assigned to the road shows of the Hudson theatre success for next season. J. H. Meachum, with the J. H. Palm- er Co., denies he tried to commit sui- cide in Savannah, Ga., May 9. Mr. Meachum says he swallowed some wood alcohol by mistake. Claude Golden returned to New York last week to be at his own en- gagement reception. Juliet Geiger, formerly of the Boston Fadettes, makes the reception possible. Annie Russell is again slated to tour next season in repertoire. A Pa- cific Coast tour has been planned. Lawrence Anhalt will again personal- ly manage her tour. John Sully, Jr., of the Sully Family, was operated on a few weeks ago, ne- cessitating the laying off of the act. The family is summering at Ruther- ford, N. J. H. H. Frazee has engaged Frank Lalor for the principal comedy role in. the dramatization (or musicaliza- tion) of Robert W. Chambers* novel "lole." Florence Harrison, of the "Isle of Joy" (tabloid), was married to Flcm- \r\<r n. Giierry in Jacksonville, Fla., Ju^e 1. After the present seasf>n she v.ill take up permanent residence in that city. Raymond and Caverly have post- poned their trip to Europe, awaiting an imminent addition to Al. Ray- mond's family. Lawrence Johnston, after viewing the auto races at Indianapolis, pur- chased 10,(XX) rifle cartridges and went to Idaho for a shoot. Staley and Birbcck have reached San Francisco after a successful tour of Australia. The day before the boat docked Lorena Staley (Mrs. William Staley) was presented with a baby daughter by the stork. Mr. and Mrs. George Sky Bagle, North American Indians, with the Bud Atkinson wild west, became the par- ents of a daughter born May 8 while the Sky Eagles were returning by boat from Australia. The mother of the Melnotte Twins will accompany the girls on their tour of the Sullivan-Considine Circuit. The Melnottes opened at the Duchess, Cleveland, last Sunday. It is four years since they were to the Coast. "HeUo Bill.- with Carrie LaMont featured, under Willis Goodhue's management, a tabloid musical comedy opens Aug. 18 in Port Huron, Mich. Miss LaMont is now playing stock in Lancaster, Pa. Though the season is early for the organization of companies for next season Ben Stern is signing up peo- ple for his various road companies of "Officer 666" which he sends out next fall. The Packard Theatrical Exchange is doing the engaging. Lawrence Shubert is the new treas- urer of Weber & Fields* Music Hall, succeeding Harvey Phillips who re- signed. Al. Roth, who took up the managerial reins when Doc. Breed left, will handle the house during the summer. James Cassady, with the Joseph E. Shea repertoire company all season, Helen Beresford and Clara Crossgreff have a sketch for vaudeville. It is en- titled "A Home Run." The skit is not identified with the full play put on some time ago in the west. There will be no Brady-Shubert production of "A Butterfly on The Wheel," according to report, but in- stead a company will be organized to tour the Stair & Havlin houses. Brady made money on the southern show last season. Helene Hamilton, who just closed as star of the "Sis Hopkins" show, and Jack Barnes, who has been play- ing comedy roles with the Princess stock, Dcs Moines, la., are rehears- ing a new act which Tommy Gray wrote for them. Harry Askin is negotiating with Trixie Friganza for a starring engage- ment in Chicago next season in "The Sweetest Girl in Paris." This is the piece Miss Frij^anza last starred in prior to going to the Shuberts. Askin is planning to revive the show for a run in the Windy City. J. C. Williamson, the Australian amusement magnate, who has con^e east by easy stages owing to conval- escence from a severe illnei«, arriv- ed in New York last week and was still too sick to transact any business. He sailed Thursday of last week for England, en route for home. Violet Meraereau has been engaged by Leffler-Bration to pli^ the title role in the latter's Stair & Havlin cir- cuit production of ''Rebecca of Sun- nybrook Farm" next fall, the opening date being Sept. 2, Newark, N. J. Jaa. T. Galloway will play the role origif nated by Archie Boyd. William Qmne, former manager of the Manhattan (32d and Broadway) and who assumed personal charge of the Witch, a new pop house in Salem, Mass., is back on Broadwty* He e^ pects to take possession of the mana- gerial end of a New York theatre for the winter. The Salem house, burned ir April, is to be rebuilt. The Somenrille (N. J.) theatre^ new, seating 1,000, built and controlled by the Somerset Amusement Co. of New Jersey, playing pop vaudeville, opens June 21. The officers of the Somerset Co. are President, Frank Taylor; Vice- President, Jules Hurtig; Secretary- Treasurer and Manager, Frank W. Weed (of Plainficld.) Edward W. Larrabee, Bath's (Me.) new Democratic mayor, attended the opening of the Columbia as a straight movie and introduced Frank Howard' Burt, the new manager, to the audi- ence. The Columbia was gutted by fire five years ago and has been idle since. This spring Burt came to town, re- modeled it and installed pictures^ 1,500 people attending the opening last we£k< Earl Schwartz, musical director, and Mabelle Parker, a soubret, have been divorced by Judge McKinley in Chi- cago, after two years* court proceed- ings. Bessie Little, a stock actress at the Imperial, Chicago, has been di- vorced from William A. Groulx, of the Fitchburg, Mass., stock. Edward J. Ader, of Chicago, represented Schwartz in the first case and Miss Little in the second. An elephant hunt proved an exciting diversion not down on the bills of the Sig Sautelle circus during its unload- ing at Springvale, near Portland, Me., last Saturday. "Jennie," a young pachyderm performer, broke loose from the keepers and hiked to the woods. After a chase of two hours with Springvale's younger population assisting, the animal was finally re- turned. Will H. Fields and La Adelia, a sketch team well known in the middle- west, while travelling to Memphis last week were robbed of their money and valuables on a Pullman car. Just before the Ohio floods Fields decided to take a trip over the Ui.ited time. His decision cleaned him of some two thousand dollars. Tennessee detectives are looking for the thief, but since they are no better than any other, the thief needn't worry.