Variety (August 1913)

16 =* ; VARIETY STOCK MCALAjI&IKK AT CAPITOL. Washington, Aug. 20. Paul McAllister, late of the Poli stock, Bridgeport, has been transferred to Poli's local company to play leads, in place of Robert Cain. Scranton, Pa., Aug. 20. Jane Terrell has arrived to play the leads with the Poli company, replacing Lillian Baer. New Haven, Conn., Aug. 20. Charlotte Wade Daniels, who has been playing character roles with Poli's stock here, has handed in her notice. Miss Daniels was with the Corse Payton Company for eight years. TRAVELING STOCKS. The traveling stock companies are getting under way for the fall season. Billy Allen and his musical stock players opened in Morgantown, Pa., Monday. The Myrkle-Harder Co. starts an eastern tour Monday at Bing- hamton, N. Y. The Kirk Brown, which opened the first week in August, is in Paterson, N. J., this week. It will play a long western tour later, the first in years. The Winifred St. Clair Co. (Earl Sipc, manager) opens at Meadvillc, Sept. 22 for its eastern tour. A western start was made Monday at Danville, 111. The Chas. K. Champlin stock opened Monday for a tour of his native state, New Jersey. PARK STOPS. Newark, Aug. 20. The operatic and musical comedy company at Olympic Park which has been operated all summer under the Franklin-Baggot Co's direction, closes Sept. 15. Business has not been up to expectations although the F-B put in the company under a guarantee. There's talk that the Park may be conducted all winter as a movie place. Peekskill, N. Y., Aug. 20. Henry Wilson, operating Electric Park's musical shows, has gone to New York to arrange for the installation of a picture policy here. The operatic shows have not materialized as they should and Wilson thinks the pictures will turn the trick. AT THE METROPOLIS. Mae Desmond and Rowden Hall have been engaged to play the leads with the new stock company which will play at the Metropolis, Bronx, starting Labor Day. PROGRESSIVE IN K. C. Kansas City, Aug. 20. Roy Crawford, brother of O. T. Crawford of St. Louis, has leased the Willis Wood theatre here and will play the attractions of the Progressive Cir- cuit, the new opposition in burlesque. He announced he had agreed to pay $20,000 a year for ten years for the house. The house opens Aug. 31 with Jack Reid's "Progressive Girls." STOCK AT HAilT'8. Philadelphia, Aug. 20. Jay Packard has leased Hart's thea- tre, for the fall season and will operate a stock company there for the winter, opening next month. Packard has engaged George Ken- nedy, Augusta West, Billy Carey, Daisy Stampe, Polly Holmes and Charles W. Chase and the house will get started around Labor Day. The organization will be styled the Penn Stock Co., and J. P. will install a melodramatic stock policy. The opening bill will be "The Bowery After Dark," with "Tony, the Bootblack" and "The Little Heroes of the Street" underlined for the follow- ing two weeks. J. P. is going to reduce prices. The scale at Hart's will be 10-15 and 25. Heretofore the top has been 50 cents. NEW LORCU AT PASSAIC. Passaic, N. J., Aug. 20. The Lorch, seating 2,000, is expected to be ready some time in December. Theodore Lorch, builder, will not play leads with his new company, having engaged Howard Chase. Lorch may play occasionally. Cecil Fay will be the leading woman. Others now signed are Jack Lawrence and Billy Cullington. Lorch will also operate the raths- keller of his new house. PLAYERS ASSIGNED. Chicago, Aug. 20. Rowland & Clifford have completed the rosters for their road companies. Players have been assigned as follows: "Don't Lie to Your Wife," Dave Lewis, Daniel Sullivan, Billy Gillette, Clifton Atwood, Martin Franklin, Williaim Shields, Harry Ellis, Edwin Leffler, Edna Roland, Eleanor Fry, Nellie Kempton, India Ramar, Beatrice Keith, Buddy Lamar, Betty Gillette, Virginia Marshall, Anna Schaefer, Fritzi Van. "The Cost of Living"—Fanny Math- ias, Eleanor Rella, Caroline Pearse, Eleanor Otis, Earl Ross, Clyde Bates, Art Elmore, William Conncrs, G. Glen Wallis, Frank Anderson. "A Romance of the Underworld"— Gordon Hamilton, Lawrence Atkinson, Dave Henderson, Josephine Worth, Sydney Piatt, Donna Lee, Mark Elli- son, Al Gertiser, M. H. Gibbons, Nor- man Phillips, Halworth Stark, Orrin T. Burke, Win, Morrissey, Win, F. Pfarr, Georgie Edwards, Ralph Thorne, C. E. Kempton. "One Woman's Life"—Albert Phil- lips, Leila Shaw, George Tripp, George Dayton, Gracia Faust, Eva Baynes, Millie Stevens, Ruth llaser, Charles Miller, W. D. Burroughs, Frank An- derson. "The Divorce Question"—Louis Hol- linger, Douglas Lawrence, Barbara Douglas, Charles Burnham, Dave S. Hall, Beth Hamilton, Leo DuMont, Wm. Clayton, Thomas L. Voile, Jean- nette Lucas. "The Rosary"—Harrison J. Terry, Allen Leiber, Billic Champ, Mabel Haven, George C. Roberson, Claudia White, Grace Reading, J. M. McGuire, Garry Gotshall. STANDARD, TEMPORARILY. Cincinnati, Aug. 20. The former Western Burlesque Wheel theatre, Standard, will play the Eastern Wheel attractions here until the new Gayety is hnished. "The Ginger Girls" start the season at the Standard Sunday, Aug. 24. KIRK AT HAYMARKET. Chicago, Aug. 20. James P. Kirk, formerly manager of the Star, has been selected to manage the Haymarket, which opened with Progressive Wheej burlesque Saturday night. GAYETY PLAYING 8. * H.'S. The Gayety, Brooklyn, under the management of the Columbia Amuse- ment Co., will play the Stair & Havlin attractions. It is one of the two thea- tres leased by the Columbia company from Hyde & Behman, the other being the Star, Brooklyn, where burlesque is continued. The Columbia pays 165,000 rental yearly for tne two H. & B. theatres. It also turned over to A. M. Brugge- mann ot Paterson, N. J., $5,000 in cash wnen settling with him, considered a very tavorable disposition ot tne "Pat- erson matter, lor tne Columbia people. The Gayety, St. Louis, mix-up through the merger of the two Wheels, is said to have netted O. T. Crawford, of that city, the Gayety man with a Columbia contract, $25,000 in the adjustment. The Columbia shows will play the Standard, St. Louis, a former Western WneeL theatre this season. The Pro- gressive Burlesque Circuit, the current "opposition," will place its shows at the St. Louis Gayety. MINERS' MANAGERS. Tom Miner has assumed the personal management of the Newark burlesque house and last week moved his family from the Bronx to the Jersey town. Frank Abbott, at the Empire over there, has been transferred to the Peo- ple's (Bowery). Fred Follette will manage Miner's in the Bronx this fall. WADSWORTH OPENING. The Wadsworth stock company opens tomorrow (Saturday) night un- der Cecil Owen's direction with Flor- ence Rittenhouse and Guy Harrington playing the leads. LEADING MAN DROWNED. Boston, Aug. 20. Albert M. Bates, leading man of the Augustus Perry stock company and a Boston favorite player, was drowned last Saturday at Hampton Beach while swimming. He was a former member of the old Boston Museum stock company and was 64 years of age. PITTSFIELD IN SPLIT. Pittsfield, Mass., Aug. 20. The Empire, for some seasons past offering stock, will house the Progres- sive Circuit shows. Pittsfield will be a split week with Springfield. ROBIE'8 8UOW WILL DO. Milwaukee, Aug. 20. Robie's "Beauty Snow," "Oh, Oh, Josephine," opened its own season and that of the Ga>ety baturday mgnt to a capacity house, and aituougn the piece needs some working over, it of- fers lair entertainment as it stands. It has a poor opening, but winus up much better, the opening cnorus wmen is too long being ionowed uy a loi of draggy talk that leads to nowhere. hot until the close ol the nrst half does the show get its striae, by mu- sical numbers and the baciong oi a comely, capable and well dressed chor- us. In comedy the show is woefully lacking. Charles McCarthy and Har- ry Bentley, as the two senators, work desperately hard witn the handicap of nc material worth while, and liciuley resorts to some ancient sturt in an el- fort to strengthen his part. Ernest Fisher is a capable -straight," and Sam Green helps considerauiy in a tough part, but Johnnie Walker is tne star worker and as lar as the uiaie contingent is concerned, walks away with tne show. hot that the others have not ca- pabilities, but merely the absence of opportunity. Among the women, Libby Blondelle needs only her shapely hgure to make a hit. Doris Thayer is clever and scores whenever opportunity permits, notably in her "Enchantment" dance, and her singing specialty, "And Then." Augusta Lang has a sort ol a "nut" part in which she is good, and her song, "The Perfume of Flowers" is one of the most legitimate hits of the show. The piece is well mounted, there are clever lyrics, and the costuming is handsome. Whoever is responsible for that part of the work deserves commendation. Marie Reynolds says that she is en- joying the scenery of California on "alimony promptly paid by a rich hus- band." LOTHROP IS PLEASED. Boston, Aug. 20. The local situation between the Co- lumbia burlesque circuit and the Pro- gressives has proved both profitable to the local managers and an agreeable surprise to patrons. The Old Howard, a "guarantee" house, and the Grand Opera House, a percentage proposition, are both con- trolled by George E. Lothrop. When opening with "The High Life Girls" with Ambark Ali as comedian he was elated. With the opening of the sec- ond new Progressive show, "The Rec- tor Girls" this week he went'the limit in the house show in his enthusiaism, booking the Bison City Four, featured at Keith's big time theatre here the previous week. Both shows were far better costumed than most opened here before and if the standard is continued next week when "Eva Mull and Her Burlesquers open. The Columbia-houses are the Gaiety and the Casino and this week are play- ing "The College Girls" and "The Wat- son Sisters Show" respectively, to big business. A saving will be made by Lothrop in that he gets a good percentage prop- osition at the Grand Opera by playing the shows on succeeding weeks at the opposite end of the city, thus saving transportation expense for the show management.