Variety (July 1913)

VARIETY Published W««kly by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO Times Square. New Tork BIlfB BILVBBMAN Pr»i»rletor CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldg. CHARLES J. FBBSMAN BAN FRANCIBCO Pantages Theatre Bldg. HABRT BONNEIX LONDON 18 Charing Cross Road JEB8B FBBEMAN PARIB 66 bis. Rue Saint Dldier EDWARD G. KENDREW BERLIN 69 Strontstrasse B. A. LEVY ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising copy for current Issue must reach New Tork offlca by Wednesday evening. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panied by remittance. SUBSCRIPTION Annual '* Foreign • Single copies. 10 cents Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol. XXXI. July 5, 1913. No. 5. John W. Ransone has been engaged by the Vitagraph Company. The Lee Avenue, Brooklyn, is now playing pictures. "The Top O* Th* World Dancers'" open on the Loew time next Monday. Eddie B. Collins- will be with Billy B. Watson next season. Carl Hunt expects to open the War- burton, Yonkers, N. Y., with stock the third week in August. Bailey Avery of the Jos. M. Gaites' office, is in the Rockefeller Institute in the hope 6f benefiting his health. Beatrice Moreland is traveling over Europe. She will return home late in August. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ryan cele- brated their 26th wedding anniversary June 25 at Hohokus, N. J. Bom, June 28, to Mr. and Mrs. George H. Bushnell (The Stillmans), a son. Edward Rosenbaum, Jr., is negotiat- ing for a theatre in Trenton in which to run stock. Mark A. Luescher left Monday for a week's vacation. He was accom- panied by 25 manuscripts. Jean 'Saxon, a San Francisco society girl, has arrived in New York to ar- range a vaudeville tour. Ernest Lynch, last season at Erie, has been appointed manager of the Lyceum, Scranton, Pa. Louis Robie's "Beauty Show,*' for- merly known as "Robie's Knickerbock- ers," will open the season in Milwaukee. The Wade Sistera and dancers from the Metropolitan Opera House ballet make their New York debut at the Union Square July 7. "A Man of Mystery" has been chosen as the title of the ne^r piece which Homer Lind will be seen in next season. B. A. Rolfe's Colonial Septette will sail on the S. S. St. Paul July 25 for England. The act is booked for a year solid on the other side. Edward Jose will try out a new sketch, "Little Max," next week. The sketch will require three people besides Mr. Jose. Jean C. Havez wrote it. Bobby Hoolsey and Gertrude Mill- ington, late of musical comedy, are getting a singing and dancing act ready for vaudeville. Louise Brehany sang before the Royal Academy of St. Cecilia, Rome, and was made a life member. She has been in Italy for a year. Gerald Griffin sails this week for Carlsbad to take the waters for six weeks. J. Charles Green of San Francisco v/as in New York this week trying to dispose of the Valencia theatre out there. F. F. Proctor's Park place theatre in Newark closed for the season Satur- day. It will be reopened with big time vaudeville by Labor Day. Herbert Levine. of the Werba & Luescher office, left for a two weeks vacation Thursday. He will spend it in fishing with Al. Hamburg. "Oh, Oh, Miss Delphine," with John Fisher, managing, will open La- bor Day, the probable starting point being Chicago and the Coast time to follow. "Reap As Ye Sow," a new dramatic episode written by a member of the Society of American Dramatists and Composers, was given its premiere at the Halsey, Brooklyn, Tuesday. Genevieve Dolaro and William Lorenz, formerly of "Kismet," have joined the Eleanor Gordon Selected Players at the Plymouth theatre, Bos- ton, for a summer stock engagement. Three companies playing "The Con- fession," under the Mitthenthal Brothers direction, open around Labor Day. The piece has been leased for an early production in Australia. Adele Ritchie was booked by Jenie Jacobs for this summer's vaudeville tour, opening Monday at Hammer- stein's. Miss Ritchie expects to re- main in vaudeville next season. Joseph P. Mack (Keegan and Mack) acting under his physicians' advice, sails July 1 via the Hamburg for a Mediterranean trip, landing at Genoa, Italy, to consult stomach specialists there. Du£fy and Lorenx will be a two-act once more. Mercedes Lorenz leaves "The Purple Lady" (vaudeville) this Saturday. Irene Hastings, formerly of "The Chocolate Soldier" and Jos. G. Snow, a cotton goods man, were married June 28 at the bride's home in Brook- lyn. Horace Judge has resigned the man- agership of the Princess, Montreal. Abbie Wright, who acted as treasurer of the house last season has been ap- pointed to fill the vacancy. "Ireland As It Is," book by Jesse Villars, lyrics by Fleta Jan Brown and music by Herbert Spencer, is a new musical tabloid piece, for next season. Bryna Lee, the Irish tenor, will be feat- ured. F. Horowitz, 11 Locust street, Stock- ton, Cal., is making every effort to locate her cousin, Norbert Sinai, a violinist. The latter's relatives lost track of his whereabouts several years ago. Doris Keane sailed for Europe Wed- nesday on the Mauretania. She will return to reopen with "Romance" the first week in September. The show closed its New York run last Satur- day. Florence Champion, sister of Bert Levy, has been engaged for a princi- pal part in the next season show at the Hippodrome. Miss Champion is a newcomer to America, having lately arrived from Australia. "A Slave Girl of New York" will open Sept. 1 for a tour of the middlewest and south. The United Amusement Co. also sends out two companies of "A Girl of the Underworld," the western troupe starting Aug. 4 and the eastern company the last of September. Charles Innes is still a sufferer with a strained eye duct. It will prevent the team (Innes and Ryan) from appearing next week. This week they are at the Brighton theatre with Mr. Innes shad- ing his eyes from the lights as best he can. Maude Ellis, the song composer, of Harrisburg, Pa., wishes her friends to know that she is not the Maude Ellis playing at the Americus, Mexico. Miss Ellis believes that someone has taken her name under the impression she has retired from the stage limelight. Owing to the expense of producing "The Red Papoose" and the impossi- bility of cutting this three-act comedy down to four principals and make a show of it, Walter Lindsay has aban- doned the piece as a tabloid proposi- tion. Otis Skinner, reported as being seri- ously ill, is improved and no serious developments are anticipated. Mr. Skinner will against be seen in "Kis- met" next season and will start re- hearsals early in August. The show goes to the coast next season and a long route has been arranged. Claude Tally, manager of the Regent theatre, denies the 116th street picture house is to adopt any other policy for the summer or fall season. Several parties desired to get possession of the movie but the owners declined to let go. Manager Tally says the house is doing well. Walter S. Butterfield, Walter F. Keefe and A. G. Gillingham reached Broadway Thursday to attend to va- rious business matters. They will also prepare their exhibit of the Bar- tola Attachment at the big moving pic- ture convention in Grand Central Pal- ace next week. Only one company of "The Count of Luxembourg" goes out next season. It will go to the Pacific Coast by the way of Calgary. Al Willis will man- age the show. One "Milestones" starts out around Aug. 2o. It will tour the west with a Mr. Hasse, man- ager. Leon Rogee is secretary and treas- urer of the Brighton Beach Aero Amusement Co., which controls and operates a captive balloon at Coney Island, opening for business this week. Leon has agreed to act as cashier but positively refuses to make any ascen- sions. Five companies of "Mutt and Jeff in Panama" will be placed in rehearsal July 21 by Gus Hill's general producer, Ed. Hutchinson who will also shortly after start work on the two road com- panies of "Mutt and Jeff." Hutchin- son last season chalked up some rec- ord by making eight productions in nine weeks. Late in September the Palace the- atre at Bath, Me., constructed on the site of the old Alameda Skating Rink by the Abrams Amusement Co., is scheduled to open. The house will seat 1,100 and will have a stage area of 1,- 800 feet, sufficient to accommodate the biggest traveling production in the country. Vincent (Happy) Connelly, who fractured his skull by falling through the drop cut at the Metropolitan Opera House, is considered out of danger, at the Polyclinic Hospital. Jack Borden, who fell off a ladder at the New Am- sterdam theatre while on duty as a stage hand and broke three ribs and fractured an arm, is noticeably im- proved at his home in New York. Both Connelly and Borden are members of the New York Theatrical Protective Union No. 1. A recent vaudeville program in New York included a classical dancer and a foreign violinist. The tedium behind the scenes was marked by a most rhap- sodical love affair between the dancer and the musician, all the "courting" coming from the woman. She is said to have spent most of her time in the man's dressing? room and, according to the man himself, called him up by 'phone at least once every hour tliroiiv,'}H)iit tlic ni^ht. Being a long- haired artist from ahrtjad he could not resist the temptation to boast publicly of his conquest.