Variety (July 1913)

22 VARIETY <fc- ' WANTED CLEVER PEOPLE JEAN INI PALAI DANSE GIRLS And ''MISCHIEF MAKERS" Will open early in August on tlie PR06RESSIVE CIRCUIT Address, Room 431 Knickerbocker Theatre Building everyone about the vaudeville section a chance to make for the country for a irood week-end trip. Almost everyone took advantage of the Interval. The vaudeville centers have been deserted for the three or four daya Donald MacDonald has arrived in the city and Is to take the rola o^jDenny Maley. oppo- site Joseph Santley in "when Dreams Come True" at the Oarrlck. The part has been played by Richard Taber, who retires from the cast for a rest. Tha Columbia, the big downtown burlesque hottsa, will op«n July 11 with Joe Hurtliv'a "Olncer Qlrla" H. P. Kaelsr haa foa* out in advanco of ono of tho Amortean Talking Plcturo com- panies touring IlUnola Ho will make all tho larger oltlos In tho state. Tho plan !• to glTO shows lasting an hour and a half, show- ing thro talking pictures, and ono ollont fllr.i disolooing tho manner in which talking pic- tures are nu^o. Coney Holmeo haa returned from his Taca tlon. He spent oome time Ashing In the northern woods, and then went to We>t Baden for ten days to recuperate from his vacation. Tim Keeler, of the fairs department of the W. M. y. A. Aaa returned from a trip through Iowa. Charles W. Collins, dramatlo editor of the Ii^ter-Ocean, haa left his desk and Is on his vacation. His place is being filled by (Miss) Lola Wllloughby, who aaslsts him during the height of the season. Mr. Dally (Dally and Shewbreek) was in- jured last week at Jackson. Mich., while on his way home from playing Winona Beach. Bay City, while attempting to board a train, and waa thrown to the ground nnd so se- verely shaken up that he was compelled to cancel his Chicago engagementa. "Conscience" opened at the Orand on the south side Thursday. It is booked for the Star and the Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hugo, of Cedar Rap- ids, la., passed through Chicago late last week on their Way to Toledo, where Mrs. Hugo will Tlalt. while Mr. Hugo goes abroad. The Hippodrome Is now playing seven acts without pictures. Last week the manage- ment had trouble with picture operators, and they cut them out. The Wllmot Sisters, formerly well known In vaudeville, have aettled down In Bay City, Mich. "The Blindness of Virtue" opened at Mc- Vlcker's Monday, with Frank bherldan. Edith Lyle, Thomas F. Swift, Hasel Kelly and Wini- fred Burke In the csst. Dally matinees have been Inaugurated and the piece Is playing at popular prlcea "The Master of the House," recently pre- sented at the Crown, played this week at the Imperial. Albert Morrison, Harry L. MIntum. Helen QlPAson, Mary Murphy and others were In the cast. Tt hftn now been derided that the Whitney, to be called the Joe Howard Comedy theatre, In to open Rept. 20 with "A Broadway Honey- moon." The Auditorium will open Labor Day with "The Whip." and the Illinois will open on the same dnte with Montgomery and Stone In "The Pllver Slipper." Laura Roth (Espy and Roth) played a Kingle this week In Cincinnati. The team haa separated. SAN FRANCISCO By HAIIIIY BONNELL VARimrs tAN niANcitco •mcc PAifTAear rtau Phono. Douglaa* Sill ORPHEUM (Martin Beck, gen. mgr.; ngont. direct).—The show this week was below tko usual Orpheum standard. The London Pal- ace Girls were 1 nthe closing position and showed clasa Norton and Nicholson wero unquestionably the hit of the bill. The five musical Oormans put over a clean score. O. 8. Melvin was entertaining. The talking pictures essayed a sc(>ne from "Mascot" and the painful inflictlo ilted in another pan- ning by the local press. Of the hnidrtv^rs, there were Chief Caupolloan. Zelda Soars & Co., Coombs and Aldwell and tho Four Rot- tera. EMPRESS (agent. S-C.).—Tho Empress show stacked up well and gavo general sat- isfaction. Lohso and Sterling held tho open- ing spot and pleased, tho couple being quite clever. Fay and Mynn scored with their work. Herbert Frank and Co. presented a well acted playlet powerfully gripping but grewBomoly traglo at tho finish. Crelghton Brothora pulled up strong with their dancing finish. Ray Thompson's animal act was im- posing and pleaaing. Ella Rachlln, a local pianists, was an added number. Miss Rach- lln's debut waa made In full stag* and con- sumed twelve minutes of playing time. She displayed control of her Instrument, but the lack of personality and stage presence mili- tated against the Impression made by her musla The Empress offered another woman single when Florence Prenty, another native, with a pleasing voice, filled In a creditable and entertaining eight minutes in "one." Miss Prenty found herself In fast company, and she lacks the polish nscessary for the success of vaudeville "singing singles." Gil- bert Loose played a return engagement, and waa encored for his efforts. PANTAOaiS (Chas. L. Cole, res. mgr.; agent, Alex Pantages, direct).—The bill this week does not come up to the full standard, being lamentably weak in spota. Smith's "Ferris Wheel Girls" proved quite a nifty closer. Willie Zimmerman excellently en- tertained. Harry Holman and Co. offering I ALL PEOPLE KNOAOKD FOR M'SISiS "FROLIC" Kindly report for rehoMvnIa Moaday. July SI. 10.80 A. M., at Miner's In the Bronx Thentre. 156tli St. and td Xf., New York City. Aoknowlodgv onll to ED. DALKT, Mnnngor. Room 814, 1847 Brondway. CAN PLACE FEW EXCELLENT CHORUS LADIES. "The Merchant Prince." appeared a trifle too talky for the locals, but there were many bright and scintillating lines. Holman's sup- port could improve. Marks and Rosa sang entertainingly. Ruth McKensle, daughter of Professor John McKensle, debutted success- fully, but appeared rather stiff and lacked the assurance she will be able to acquire later by continued experience in her present company. Miss McKenzie held the stage eight minutes In "one." Her appearance is In her favor. Dr. Henry George Lorens. hyp- notist, opened and closed at the Monday matinee. He was a rank disappointment and incurred the III will of the audience from the start. He waa the recipient of unmis- takable sounds of disapproval from various sections of the house. Billy Morton, black- faced monologist. was substituted for the fllvving mesmerist and was more acceptable. In fact, Morton registered a hit. Klein and Erlanger, comedy pantomlmlsts, were also added and proved most amusing in the open- ing spot. CORT (Homer F. Curran, mgr.; Shuberta) —"Everywoman" (third and laat week; ca- pacity). COLUMBIA (Oottlob, Marks A Co.. mgrs.; K. A E.).—"The Witness for the Defence" 'Blanche Bates), good business (second and laat week). ALCAZAR (Belasco A Mayer, mgra.).—Leo Dletrlchsteln dramatic stock ("Before and After"). TIVOLI (W. H. Leahy, mgr).—Light opera stock ("lolanthe"). SAVOY ((Will McKenzie, mgr.).—"Panama Canal" pictures (Kemp's). After an unsuccessful season of variety en- tertainment, the Ooewey Hippodrome on Mar- ket street has been renamed the American. The last Taudevlllo show was given Juno 16 and the following day the house went to pictures. Saturday the policy waa again changed to pop burlesque and ranalcal com- edy, with the customary two shows a night. The attraction for the opening wook la "In (Tuba." presented by a company of which Nat A. Magnor lo the bualneaa head. The latter Is a well-known coaat manager who at one time was In charge of the buslnesa affalra of Kolb and Dill. Tho prima donna of tho new show Is Luclle Palmer. The comedian la Alf Oonldlng and Elsie Schuyler Is playing the female character parts. This is tho farewell week of Leo Dletrlch- steln and Isabel Irving at the Aleaiar. Their successors In a starring capacity are Bessie Barlscale, Forrest Stanley and Howard Hick- man. Dave Rafael has arrived In town after rioslnr his season at Joplln. Mo. He Is a San Franciscan and will spend the summer here, where he Is a proprietor of a "wet roods" resort on Grant avenue, In the neigh- borhood of the "Barhary Coast." Rafael will orotiebly play a few weeks hereabouts for the -W. 8.' ▼. A., and on September 8 Is scheduled to begin a season of thirtv weeks for the W. V. M. A. at Rock Island, III. Richard Kipling, who sailed from here June SI for Honolulu to confer with the Con- Our IWr. M. H. BARNES will be at the Cadillac Hotel, New York City, after July 2 for ten days to book attractlom off all kinds for next season. Solid booking, play or pay contracts. No act too big. Can only use big'feature acts. BARNES, Inc. CHICAGO, ILL. solldated Amusement Co. of that city (and of which he Is the American booking repre- sentative), is expected to be away about a fortnight While enroute through the San Joaquin Valley week before last in quest of links for a coast vaudeville chain. Print Oeorge, the Western Vaudeville Managers' Association scout, Is reported to have met with some very frigid receptions, in spite of the intense heat down that way. He Is said to have at- tempted to lure the manager of the Em- pire, Fresno, away from Bert Levey by rep- resenting he had secured the booking of th« Levey house In Stockton, a boast subse-, quently nailed as a twin canard of Print's wigwam and Portola claims in this city. The Fresno manager point blankly refused to listen to George's entreaties and the same frosty conditions are understood to have pre- vailed all along the line into Los Angeles, where, Monday of last week, the sero point waa reached, when a heroic effort was made to round up the Southland managera Word came up here the next day that the so-called meeting was little short of a monumental Joke, and as things stand now. it looks very much aa though Mr. Oeorge will have to re- turn to the "windy city" shortly with noth- ing much to show for his labor except 1"js- albly a good-slsed expense list, incurred on his sight-seeing tour of the Oreat West. The suspicion that the Orpheum powers have been sticking their Angers into the Ooorgs mud-pie was pretty well confirmed here last week, when another act on that circuit with a week open, was "warned" from taking any of the Bert Levey time between here and Los Angeles and given to understand that in so doing it would find Itself next season in the position of having played "opposition" houses In that territory. This Is taken to mean, and in fact it Is reported to have ben so explained, that the "opposlsh" will be theatres booked in the Levey towns by the Western Vaude- ville Managers' Association at Chicago. This probably explains the why and wherefore of the gentle but nevertheless firm admonition recently received by Pisano when he wanted the privilege of fllling in an "open" week at Fresno for Levey. The Orpheum people will probably be able to throw that warning thing into some of their itinerants to the extent of making them believe that there is s chance for this 'W. V. M. A. coast circuit to get over, but those who are the least bit fa- miliar with tho pop vaudeville situation out this way, know better. Between Sullivan- Considlne, Alexander Pantages, Ed Fisher, Bert Levey and the Western States Vaude* ville Association (San Francisco), the Coast is sewed up tight and it will require some influence a wlioi*^ lot atronger than the per- suasion of Frint Ooorgo and hla W. ▼. M. A associates to ever spring a leak In M. George's Inability to hold Arizona and New Mexico time together recently in what is Reographlcally neutral territory, dooa not ar« gue strongly for his ability to come on hert and beat Levey and the othti .^jtablished Coast agencies to it in their own strongholda Tho folks of the Coast, and Californlans is particular, are a clannish lot. and Califor- nia theatre owners and managers are no exception to the general rule. When it come* to the question of deserting a "native" agency for one In the east. Just about every houM manager on the Coaat will have to be "shown** and the Missouri stufF will have to be con* siderable more than a mere promise. The expected reconciliation has been effected between Dorothy Dale and her husband. Will H. Armstrong. They are "tabbing" over th« Pantages circuit. The management of the Cort announces an extra matinee will probably be given thti week to accommodate the demand for seati to "Everywoman." Special matinees are alM being planned for the entire three weko* en- IF YOU DONT ADVERTISE IN ^^m? DONT ADVERTISE AT ALL