Variety (August 1913)

VARIETY 23 Charles Horwitz Aathor of the best Playlets ud Bkstohcs la Vsodevllle. HU leased speak* for Itself. Haadreda af wecimi. Deal oipertmeat with others. Get » Herwtts sketch. Call, writs or telephone. CHARLRU HOBWTTZ, 140S Broadway (Boom S10), New York. Phone tS4t Greeley. TelaphoBo MM Bryant. W. H. BUMPUS TRANSFER BasfH* Called for and Cheeked to all Railroads and Steamboat*. Stand, ft. B. Car. 4Sd St. and 8th Ave. Storage—764 11th Are., bet. ltd A S4th Sta> Office—17« W. 4td St. NBW YORK. I. MILLER. 1554 Broadway. •%%-' Manufacturer o f Theatrical Boots and 8hoee. CLOO. Ballet and Acrobatic Shoe* a spec- ialty. All work made at abort notice. Write for Catalog] 4. YOU FOBGBT Wl SAY IT YBY CROSS LETTER HEADS Contracts, Ticket*. Envelopes, Free Sample*, STAGE MONBY, lac Book af Herald Cwts, tse. PDAQC PRINTING COMPANY PMpaCn LRUOO Mi s. DBABBOBN ST. blMUHaU FORTUNES in SUCCESSFUL SONGS I'VE PAID THOUSANDS In Royalties Bend your song poem* or musical composi- tions to me for acoeptance. I'll publish un- der a 50 per cent, royalty contract. I com- posed and published "Wedding of the Winds" Waltsea. Million copies sold. Dotens of my publications are "Famous Hits." Established It years. Don't fall to secure my free booklet. JOHN T. HALL. 14 Colnmbna Circle. N. Y. C. GET READY a FOR NEXT SEASON I Sketches Never Belore So Much Work In Sioht For Good Acts. Clean.bright.sn?ppy new ideas. Moderate prices. Written by Ind. newspaperman. W W Dunkle TO YOUR ORDER. South Bend, Ind. Openings Arranged! New Cross* Fire Furnished! Acts Re-wHttenl brings copy of my new Illu- strated 100 page book. Get an Idea of my style of work. e-wnueni "FIZZ" Sli Years Experience. 100 Successes Written and Sold. MY FREE BOOKLET MAUI I OF TESTIMONIALS HVfl 2 WANTID--PARTNER FOR COMEDY Ml 8ICAL ACT Or 1 will Join good act. Play Cornet, Saxo- phone Xylophone, Piano; do comedy or ntralgiit. Ht. 5 ft. 1 In., wt. 115; formerly with "Millar Muslral Trio." Address DAVE H. BOY EH. 2711 Hampden Ave., Baltimore, Md. ALBOLENE (tsai>e-ham aauisTEaxo) The best preparation for removing all kinds of theatrical make-up. Sold In half and one pound decorated screw cap cans, 40 and 60 cents respectively. Sample sent free on request McKESSON ft R0BBINS - NEW YORK WIGS For STREET and STAGE WEAR •100.00 CHICAGO HADE TO ORDER FIOM SA.OO TO Ws saeetellse In Stack Wide TIE WIGGIIY^^gsSS*** Co., opened, bad spot, but It Is poor sketch and failed completely; Hamlll A Abbate, scored; Devlne A Williams, pronounced com- edy hit; Rose Valerlo Sextet, closing num- ber, passed with old stuff; Edwards "Kid Kab- aret," mildly applauded; Helen Trlx, filled capably the place of Watson A Santos, hold- overs, Relne Santos reporting 111. PANTAQES (Chas. L. Cole, mgr.; agent, Alex. Pantages, direct).—Program generally satisfactory. Emma Carus scored strongly at opening, but flopped with song plugging finish. Ed. Armstrong Co., In "September Morn," a new act running 23 minutes In full stage, exterior wood set, weak vehicle. Al- fred Latell. pleased: Hill. Cherry a Hill, clever comedy hit; Nichols & Croix Sisters, amusing; El Cot a, entertaining; Lester Ray- mond, successful opener. CORT (Homer F. Curran. mgr.).—John Ma- son In "As a Man Thinks," second week, do- ing fine business. Next week, "Lee Mlser- ables," feature picture. "Bought and Paid For" opens Aug. 18, for two weeks. ALCAZAR (Belasco A Mayers, nigra.).— Bessie Barrlscale and Forrest Stanley In "Hawthorne of the U. S. A." (dramatic stock), pleasing business. TIVOLI O. H. (W. H. Leahy, mgr.).—"Pin- afore" and "Mikado" revivals with local fa- vorites to healthy patronage. COLUMBIA (Gottlob & Marx, mgrs.).— "Quo VadlB" pictures attracting good attend- fincc. SAVOY (W. A. McKenzIe, mgr.).—Diversity of opinion regarding the merit of "The Traf- fic," a white slave problem play. It Is a daring treatment of the underworld theme. The construction Is generally reparded as capable and the Interpretation satisfactory. John W. Consldine is In town at present. Fred Henderson has gone to Salt Lake City to attend the opening of the new Orpheum. Charles Alberts Is substituting at the Prin- cess for Musical Director Lester Stevens, who Is away on a vacation. E. M. Rosner, the veteran orchestra leader of the Orpheum has returned to work after a fortnight's vacation. Jacob Adler and Co. have gone to Denver on their way east. It Is reported their west- ern coast tour was successful. Edmund Lowe was out of the cast at the Alcazar week before last on account of the burial of his mother July 21 In San Jose. Lois Meredith, the original Modesty In "Evrrywoman." and lately with *»Withln the Law," Is a new Ingenue recruit to the Al- cazar. Evidently Florence Bell and William Brew- or are not to be permanent fixtures at the new Wigwam. It being understood that they are about to Join the Bishop Players at Ye Liberty theatre In Oakland. When the Princess (formerly Teal's). Fres- no, reopens Sept. 1, with vaudeville booked by the Western States Vaudeville Association. It will bo managed by William Feat, a former manager of the old National, this city. Fern Marshall. Albert Edmundson. C"arl Pnse and Orrln Knox of the Anglo-American Players, have returned to this country from a season In Manila. They landed at Van- couver, where Case Joined the Del Lawrence Stock Co. John Donnellan, who whh sent to Van- couver recently to manage the Rulllvan-Con- sldlne house in that city, has been succeeded by James PIlllnK of the fl-C. staff. Donnellan In turn was transferred to the Empress, Seattle. rjeorKc Francis, who told the police of Oak land that before the earthquake-fire In—190fi ho was part owner of the Lyceum, this city, Is in the custody of the Oakland authorities on a charpe of having committed a series of rooming-house burglaries In the Twin Day city. H. S. Woodhull, who came here a few months aRo with what was reported to he a biff h'-ap of available cash after disposing of Interests In the Eastern Burlesque Wheel. Is understood to have returned oast, following an apparently useless effort to find a chanee to Invent his "wad" In a desirable amusement proposition "The Traffic." the white slave play that Is entertaining the patrons of the Savoy. Is being "advanced" by John T. Rafferty, a newspaper man. The play came here from Seattle and Is said to have the financial back- ing of John Cort and one Oliver D. Bailey. The pleee is described as being on the "hot stuff" order. Mabel Smith, corm-tlste member of the la- dles' orchestra at the Victoria In Sixteenth street, this city, Is the daughter of TV C. Smith, cornetlst here for many years with Billy Emerson's Minstrels at the old Stand- ard on Bush street In the days long before the Are, and later band leader with Norrls and Rowe's clrcua Before coming away from Denver recently and after retiring from the active manage- ment of the Tabor Grand theatre, William R. Dai ley. general representative of the Bert Levey Vaudeville Circuit, was presented with a diamond studded pocket knife by the Jasbo Club, a social organisation composed of the local townspeople who habitue In and about the McCourt playhouse. The continued fair weather for which Cali- fornia Is eminently noted, haa permitted of uninterrupted progress being made on the construction work at the Panama-Pacific Exposition grounds. Just now the Board of Directors are wrestling with the color scheme problem, a detail that Jules Ouerln Is respon- sible for. The latter declares that from the tops of the big hills Just across the Bay the Exposition will have the appearance of a mammoth Turkish rug spread beside the sea. Hugh D. Mcintosh, governing director of the Rlckard Australian Circuit, has lately re- turned to London after a tour of the prin- cipal cities of the Continent, according to word received here by his American repre- sentative, Jules Simpson. Manager Mcintosh Includes the Information that owing to the prohibitive salaries asked by acts In Europe, and particularly In London, he proposes to leave the circuit booking for the next year or more almost entirely to his representative here. Vardeman, Marseilles, George Lombard, George Rowley, the Great Huntress and the Benos, all of whom sailed from here July 29 on the steamship of the Oceanic Line for Australia, are to open on the Brennan-Ful- ler Circuit. The Rlckard bookings were Julia Gonzales. Frank Parish and WIlrTams and Rankin. The scheduled Rlckard engagement of Corbett. Shepard and Donovan was post- poned until the next sailing, on account of the Illness In the east of the wife of one of the members of the trio. Footlights, an Australian theatrical publi- cation, In a recent Issue says that one Jack Wren, an Antipodean sporting man and race track celebrity, has taken a lease on the Bijou, an upstairs theatre In Sydney, and that Nellie Stewart, a well-known and fa- vorite Australian dramatic actress, Is to be featured there In the first production of what will probably be a rep policy. This Is strongly contradictory of the late report that the house has come under the control of the Brennan-Fuller Circuit, which concern op- erates the National, situated downstairs un- der the BIJou. Saturday evening. Oct. 18. has been se- lected by O. M. Anderson of the new Gaiety on O'Farrel! street, this city, for the formal opening. While there Is much to bo done there during the next two months and a half "Broncho Billy" (as Anderson Is known In movloland) and his assistant. J. J. Rosen- thal, may be depended upon to whip the house In by the scheduled date. The title of the opening vehicle Is "The Gaiety Jubilee." The book Is by George Hobart. John L. Gol- den Is a contributor to the score. The In- terpreting principals, as announced In VA- RIETY, are all well kriown and of recognized ability. At the conclusion of his present trip over the Sulllvan-Conaldlne circuit, Raymond Teal will pay his mother In Michigan a visit, for the first time in several years, after which he Is planning to go east to look over the vaudeville situation In New York City. In event that he does not run across any Invit- ing offers there, the probabilities are that the ex-minstrel will return to the Pacific Coast and reorganize his "pop" musical comedy eompany for a tour of Australia or the Orient, or both. Teal has several thousand dollars' worth of wardrobe stored away here with which he could make a quick "frame up" and "Ret away." Kvery cowboy and cowgirl from the ranges In all par#i of California, Nevada and South- ern Oregon able to «et there, went to Salinas. f'al., last week to attend the third annual rodeo and big celebration week. The affair opened at noon Monday with a parade and rontlnued every day and evening until Sun- day night Some of the Hasslest broncho rlrllng ever exhibited was witnessed, and It Is claimed that a wild west Impresario could have found material there for a tent show that l>y eomparlson would make the perform- ers of the professional wild west organizations of the country look like an aggregation of a ma teurs. Charles L. Cole concluded his duties July 31 as resident manager of Pantages' and for an indefinite period will Indulge In a vaca- tion, during which he will do considerable aiitolng through California with his family. Cole's successor here Is William F. Wright, a brother-in-law by marriage of General Man- ager Pantages. and who very recently came 19 FOR SALE-"WITCHIHC WAVES In first class working order. To be sold to make room for other attraction. Can be seen In operation at (HESTER PARK. Write to I. M. MARTIN, Gen. Mgr., Chester Park, Cincinnati. FRANK HAYDEN THEATRICAL COSTUMER 148 W. 36th ST.. TaL 15S1 Graelay. Bead far Sta** aad Branlng Go REWTORK Mint. MENZELI Formler Premiere Danaeoaa and Maltraaae da Ballet HIGH 8CHOOL of Danolng and Pantomime. Claaale Ballet and All ■tylas of Dancing Acta created aad staged Pupils, Mile, Delsls, Hoffman. Mile. Max- selle, Grecian olesslo daaoar from Metropoli- tan Opera Honas; Spring Song I Vampire; Sa- lome, etc.; Marlowe aad other prominent iters. M East Kth Street, bet Bwey aad Ith Are, I WRITE ANYTHING there's a demand for In vaudeville. "De- lighted with your monologue,"—JOB WELCH. "Material simply great"—JACK NORWORTH. "We like your material vtry much"—BYRON AND LANGDON. "Best act I ever had"— BEN WELCH. "Parodies Immense"—JACK WILSON. "Perfectly satisfied "—PAT ROO- NEY. "Act a hit"—HUNTING AND FRAN- CIS. Etc.. etc. JAMES MADISON 1498 BROAD WAT NBW TORS Hours 12.30 to a p.m., and by appointmtnt. Vitttrd frrnttr ArtUta Auiulattim, Jnr. I<7 Weat 14th Street, New Terk. Meeting drat and third Friday each moath. Address communications to Correapoadlag Secretary. Non-resident artiste eligible SCENERY All kinds of new and second-hand soanery In stock. Largs stage for scoalo rehearsals. H. P. KNIGHT. 140th St. and Mott Ave., New Tork City. (10 minutes from Times Square to Mott Ave. Station, Bronx Subway.) 'Phone 1011 Melrose. FRED J. BEAMAN Writes sketches that Ure. Hers ara a fsw of ths many who have played his netst Mr. and Mrs, Gene Hughes, Dlgby Bell. Devlin and El wood, Hallen aad Fuller, Keller aad Went worth. Harry M. Morse, Lewis MeCsrd, Halght and Deane, Dick Crollus. 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