Variety (June 1913)

VARIETY 23 MAUD RYAN*S OUTBURST. By Maud Rymn. (INNESS and RYAN.) The night was warm and sultry, The show-me bunch from everywhere, Harry Burton, Orpheum manager From Des Moines, was even there. Julia Ganzales had the first spot, She surely did her best, But to open at the 5th Ave! Yc gods, what a test! Lewis and McCarty, well, Mabel, don't hurry, For you are No. 5, and, With your act you should worry! The act is clean and classy, Your new leading man looks great, In his full dress suit he is some bear, For yourself, you take the cake. Flo. Ziegfeld is on the look-out. For just such squabs as you, You'd better take that Orpheum time, It's the safest thing to do, Now, Mabel, in that Tango dance. You might lengthen it a bit. You both look good and dance so well. You should always be a hit, Leonard and Whitney's act was true to life. For My Father does the self same thing, And guards his old clay pipe, You haven't got the best spot. For any sketch we know. But you know some must eat the crust. While others get the dough. Now we have the classics, If Shakespeare had his say, You know what he would say to us, If he were alive to-day. Irene Granger, your voice is marvel- ous. That's the word I mean, And the three peachy gowns you wore Well, believe me, you're some dream. Paul Nevins and Ruby Erwood, I know Ruby, don't you know, She introduced me to Inness fifteen year ago; But I forgive you, Ruby, For you were not to blame, If I had to do it over again, I guess I would do the same. I Say, you were some hit Monday night, Your act is good all through, Both sing, dance and talk well; There is nothing more to do. Paul Nevins sang his stuttering song, He surely sings it great; And when he picked Ruby Erwood He picked a clever mate. Macey Harlan and your Company, (Dan'l Jarret, Jr.—is that right?' For two-men sketch you \iave tne act. For you proved it Monday night. Fanny Brice—the kid is clever. And they can't steal her style. She is in a class all by herself. She has all others beat a mile. She had them laughing and applaud- ing, It's the truth, she was a riot, A solid hit deserving that headline spot, allright, You made me love you. And I Love Her, Oh, Oh, Oh! You're one girl in a million, That can make any song go. Acrobatic troupes may come and go. But the Davis Family are wonderful, And a credit to any show. "Can you beat it, we have open time?" I heard Al Fields say, No, I can't beat it, Al, Unless the money' is in the way. If I had a thousand weeks to give I would give them all to you, r wish I was a manager— Speak up, what would I do? I put Fields and Lewis on every bill- I'd give the public what they like. For Fields and Lewis cleaned up the bill Next to closing, too, all right. Laughlin's Funny Dogs are funny. And a good act it is true; But they followed Fields and Lewis, It was a hard thing to do. The dogs made good—more than good And doggies never care. For it was sure warm Monday night, They were all glad to hit the air. 4EFFERSON It's some mixed audience which pat- ronizes the Jefferson. Business was fairly good Monday night. After looking over the bill the first half of the week one will readily admit that they like the "oakum soakum" brand of comedy sketches down that way, as they howled their heads off at the old slapstick gag used repeatedly in one of the acts. Metz and Metz opened. They are a singing duo who use a transparent drop of a house at the opening and for a finish use a choir pit back of the center transparency. Their voices blend harmoniously, but at times the singers border on the "barber shop" finish. Before an audience comprising Irish, Italian and Hebrews it sounded unusual to hear a German accent on the duo's rendition of "Where the River Shannon Flows." Metz and Metz have a clean act, and for the closing sing "The Holy City," with the woman play- ing the organ and the man rendering the solo part. Elmer Jerome, working in whiteface, sang several songs and reeled off some old monolog material.. Jerome swims the best with his solos, one ballad in particular being well sung and well received. He should stick solely to singing and tack himself onto to some more new numbers. Higgins Phelps and Co. (New Acts) tore things up for awhile, and then the Hays Sisters (New Acts) showed. They were the biggest hit of the evening, judging from the manner the audience endeav- ored to have them sing several encores. Hickman Bros, and Co. had a comedy offering in which one brother rolled back and forth on a trick bench from the outside to the inside of a room setting. The changes of disguises by one of the men caused some laughter. There's not much to the act but it fur- nished considerable entertainment for the Jefferson folks and that was all that was asked. Green and Meyers (New Acts) pleased. The Two Luci- fers closed with their acrobatics. These boys should hit up a faster gait and not slow things up as they did at the Jefferson. One of the men is some hitch kicker. ^f'^rk. UNION SQUARE. Two things scoring big laughs at the Union Square Monday evening will give one a rather comprehensive idea of the calibre of the attendance. The* first was the speaking of some German by Sue Smith and the other was, later on, the use of a "Yiddish" "cuss" phrase by Herbert Ashley. Evidently the management realizes the necessity lor catering to the foreign element for there is on the bill, in addition, some "wop" talk by two other acts. The hit of the show is Billy Arling- ton and Co. (New Acts). Canfield and .Vshley, Gliding O'Mearas and Sander- son, Moffat and Co. (New Acts). Inglis and Reading, after the mati- nee, were switched from next to clos- ing to sixth, on a nine-act bill, chang- ing spots with the Arlington turn. It is no reflection of their work, making things easier for everybody. Inglis is a "nut" comedian who may do some- thing important one of these days. At present the turn consists altogether of avowedly ancient wheezes such as two fishes, one flounder and one smelt. Miss Reading is a vivacious, alert feed- er, but shouldn't sing. Richard Brothers, clown and straight, offer a good ring and tossing act in opening position. Sue Smith has a pretty opening medley, a pop ballad, a German dialect number with monolog in it, and another pop ballad for encore. She appears to be at her best in character singing and might try to develop more along that line. Canfield and Carleton in "The Hoo- doo," third. Sutton, Mclntyre and Sutton have a very pretty idea for the presentation of an acrobatic and contortion act and made a pleasing cl >sing number. Jolo. OBITUARY The father of the Hay^locks died June 21. PLAYING MARBLES FOR PASSES. The juveniles of Williamsburg (Brooklyn) now have a new pleasure on their weary curbstoneway. The kids are shooting marbles for theatre passes. No more does the picture in the cigarette package occupy their leisure moments. The boys in gambling for the privi- lege of seeing the different shows have made up a schedule: just now two passes for the Halsted theatre must be placed against one ticket for the Shu- bert, while the De Kalb is holding steady at one ticket against the field. The grocery clerks in Brooklyn were using theatre passes to figure up small bills until the boys found a use for them. Free coupons printed in the newspapers allowing the bearer to en- ter anywhere the paper is read are not admissible to the sidewalk contests. It is said that at one of the parks around New York the other day a man who appeared at the ticket window tendering a silver dollar for one cou- pon to enter was immediately arrest- ed upon suspicion of attempting to pass counterfeit money. The funeral of Anna Warren Story, for many years president of the Society of the Alumni of the American Acad- emy of Dramatic Arts was held June 16, in Gloucester, Mass. The remains of Malt Nasher, who died in Denver, were consigned to their last resting place Tuesday in New York under the auspices of Pacific Lodge No. 233. Many theatrical man- agers and agents were at the funeral. Announcement is made of the fortli- coming nuptials of Claude Golden, a magician in vaudeville, to Juliette Geiger (formerly of the Boston Fad- ettes, but now retirecP, Sunday, June 29, at the bride's residence, 2716 De- catur avenue, Bronx Eddie Ryan, aged 65 years, one of the original members of the New York Theatrical Protective Union No. 1, died at his home in New York. Ryan, unmarried, succumbed to a complica- tion of diseases. He was a stage hand having been last employed at the Lip- zin theatre on the Bowery. Mrs. McHiggins, mother of Mrs. Harry Jacoby (formerly known as Flora Parker Arkell on the stage) died recently. James F. Bjrth, who conceived the Boer War spectacle at the World's Fair, St. Louis, and who lately has been engaged in writing picture scena- rios, died June 7, from the effects of a fall from a window of his boarding house at 252 Fjulton street. New York. Byth was also the former secretary of James O'Ncil. He came to Amer- ica from Scotland and for a long time was connected with the Charles H. Yale attractions. He was a member of Ritter's European branch of the As- sociated Press, being a correspondent through the Boer War. The Actors* Fund took charge of the remains with interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Grace Heather, aged 57 years, a non-professional, the mother of Mayme Gehrue, died June 6 at the Galbraith Sanitarium, New York, of diabetes and gangrene poisoning which later de- veloped. Miss Gehrue and mother were constant companions until three years ago when the latter retired to their home in Camden, N. J. The re- mains at Mrs. Heather's request, were cremated. The mortuary list of the New York Theatrical Protective Union No. 1 is growing. Since Varibtt*8 last list of deaths in the T. P. U. ranks four more have been placed on the In Memoriam roll. George Fisher, aged about 36 years, an electrician at the Metropoli- tan Opera House, died April 25 of heart failure. A widow survives. Will- iam Hoover, a No. 1 member, who went to California to join the Kinema- color Co., as carpenter, and has been working as a general mechanic in pic- ture studios there, was found dead in l»cd in Los Angeles May 4. A widow and three children survive. George l-ove, a stage hand at the Globe the- atre, avfed 35 years, died May 1 of con- sumption. He left a widow. Mike Col- lins, formerly an apprentice with the \'ail Construction Co., which turns out theatre ■scenery, unmarried, died May 7 as the result of an accident to his stomach in the shdj)'^