Variety (September 1913)

VARIETY Published Weekly hj VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Times fquare. New York CHICAGO Majeatlo Theatre Bid CHABLKS 9. atre BiOf. TUMMtUM SAM FBANCUCO Panucea Theatr* BIdv. HABBT BONNBLL liONDON II Charlny Crow Road JB88JB FBMKMAN PABI8 «• ble. Rue Saint Dldler BDWABD O. KBNDBBW BBBUN II Stromstraaee B. A. unrr ADVERTISEMENTS Advertlslnv copy for current lasue muat ■•aeb New York oSce by Wedaaa4ay eTaalnc. AdverUsementa by mall ehould ba aocom- panled by remittance. SUBSCRIPTION Annual |4 Forelvn I Single copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class matter *t New York. Vol XXXII. September 5, 1918. NoTT. Sherman and De Forrest open on the Loew Circuit Sept. 29. Arthur Dunn has found another partner, in Kitty Nelson, for a two-act. Hardeen will be the principal attrac- tion at the Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia, next week. "Me, Him bnd V* is to be produced in tabloid form by Hurtig & Seamon later in the season. Charles A. Brooke opens "The Girl cf the Underworld" at Oyster Bay, L. I., Sept. 15. "Lieber Augustin,*' announced for the Casino Wednesday night, has been postponed until Saturday evening. The Schultz theatre at Zanesville, O., booked by the Reis Circuit, is playing pictures. Paul Wilstach has sold his Virginia home and is now living at the Players' Club, New York. Donald Arthur Appleton (Arthur T^on) has filed a petition in bankruptcy it' California. Herman Lieb has engaged to pro- duce his sketch "Dope" in London ne.xt month. •*The Soul Kiss" is rehearsing. Phil Fisher will put it out on the week .stands within a few weeks. Thompson Buchanan is writinK a new play which will likely be produced late in the fall by William A I'rady. Tommy Burns, the funiui heavy- weight chanii)ion of the world, owns two of the leading haberdasheries of Calgary. The new Alhambra, Beaver Falls, Pa., seating 1,500 (John M. Strub, man- ager) will open around Nov. 1. Bessie Dupend of the "Little Paris- ienne" is recovering from a severe at- tack of peritonitis at the General Hos- pital, Regina, Can. Jack Spurr, who is handling the reins of the Regina theatre, Regina, Sask., is an old time showman from El Paso. The western company of "A Girl of the Underworld" has started a trip to the Pacific Coast, the first to be at- tempted since the piece was produced. Frederic Warde, the tragedian, will shortly publish a volume entitled "The Fools of Shakespeare" (McBride, Nast & Co.) Ned Rariden, of "The Little Paris- ienne," came on from Calgary, Can., to have an operation performed in New York. He had a small piece of bone removed from the left side of the jaw. The Lyric, Calgary, Can., W. B. Sherman's old house, is being remod- eled and redecorated and is to adopt a pop vaudeville policy within the near future. * I Fred Proctor, Jr., after an illness of some weeks, is making infrequent vis- I's to the headquarters in the Putnam Building. Young Mr. Proctor expects to resume active charge in a short while. M. S. Schlesinger, who now con- trols the Lee Avenue, Brooklyn, has decided to install pop vaudeville at the former stock house for the winter. He will place his brother M. B. Schlesin- Rcr, in charge. Thurston, the magician, who returned from a month's stay in Europe last week, opens in, Newark next week. He brought back^e Monte Myro Italian pantomimists, who will appear with him this season. John E. Coutt's "Girl of My Dreams" did $400 more at its stands at White Plains and Pough'keepsie, N. Y., than the piece did when it first played these towns with Hyams and Mclntyre. Countess Olga Von Hatfeldt plays Miss Mclntyre's former role. Fred Thompson returned to Broad- way this week from San Francisco where he plans to have a big conces- sion at the fair there. Thompson ex- pects to return to the coast within a week or so. ♦ IMPORTANT NOTICE VARIETY has no representative not provided with means of identifica- tion and proof of his connection with the paper. Any one unknown anywhere alleging to represent VARIETY should be called upon to establish identity and connection. H. Q. Smith and Joseph Morrison are promoting a circuit of vaudeville theatres from Montreal to Vancouver, installing a pop policy of four acts and pictures. The Royal, at Virginia, Minn., for- merly on the books of the Webster Theatrical Agency, has switched to the S-C booking department and the first show is started this week. Harry W. Taylor is organizing a traveling repertoire company which will open Sept. 15 for a forty weeks' tour of New York State and New E'lgland territory. Enrica Dilli, singing Maid Marian in the "Robin Hood" revival at the Grand Opera House this week, is a protege of Marie Cahill's and a Dan Arthur dis- covery. Miss Cahill took Miss Dilli to a rehearsal of the opera. Arthur at once engaged her. She has sung in Malta and Paris. An actors* hotel in New York has two stairways, one in the front which leads past the hotel office, and one in the rear, which avoids the settling place. The landlady discovered many of her guests passed out by the rear way Sundays. AccordinRly she ordered that early every Sunday morning the back staircase be freshly painted, a "Paint" sifj:n hung up, and that no boarder could exceed a credit oi $20. The new system is working' to her satisfaction, according to report. The Library, Bennington, Vt., will hereafter be booked by Walter Plim- mer. J. B. Harte, who runs the Li- brary, has practically taken over Ward's Opera House there, to play the big shows and vaudeville this winter. Thomas Whi£fen, with the "Three Twins" for two seasons, has joined the Mark Swan tabloid piece, "Rockabye Baby" which Boyle Woolfolk leased for production from Leflfler-Bratton. It's Swan's former "Whose Baby Are You?" rewritten. The Stotesbury-Oscar Hammerstein damage suit in Philadelphia which in- volved $40,000, has been settled out of court. The impresario pays the costs of the trial. This puts an end to the report that Stotesbury would ask for a new trial. Counsel for George B. McClellan, theatrical manager, applied to the New York courts recently for permission to inspect the divorce records. It then came out that Pauline Hall, McClellan's former wife, has started suit in London in an effort to recover back alimony of 110 a week. Joe Sullivan, formerly with "McFad- dcn's Flats," has been eii^aKC'd to head Walter Plimmer's new tabloid company whfch will present "The Trolley Car Girls." With Sullivan will be Grace Ames. \fax Fehrinan, Jr.. and the Lusher Tri... Frank Hraiid is musical director. Two theatrical stars filed petitions in bankruptcy Saturday—Fritzi Scheff and Christine Nielsen. Miss Scheff's liabil- ities are $149,856, with a schedule of assets of $74,923. Included in the lia- bilities is a claim for breach of con- tract amounting to $100,000 held by the Shuberts. It is alleged that Miss Scheff had endeavored to avoid going into bankruptcy but was compelled to do so through fear of threats of attachments against her vaudeville salary. Miss Nielsen's schedule acknowledges debts to the extent of $3,231, with personal clothing and stage costumes of only $100. TOMMY'S TATTLES. By THOS. J. GRAY. Have you ever heard: "I don't mind doing the extra show, but it's the wait- ing around that I don't like." The United States of America will have to acquire some more southern territory—there are no more southern states to write songs about. If show business were run like base- ball we'd be reading these kind of notes in theatrical papers: "The Orpheum Circuit has drafted Ty Burntcork, the comedian, from Pantages. Ty hit them very hard on the small time and should make good on the big circuit." "For $10,000 B. F. Keith has pur- chased outright from the Gus Sun Cir- cuit the Laughing Bros., two boys who have not made an error on the small time this season. They will be kept in the dressing rooms a couple of weeks to get used to the big theatres." "Waivers have been asked by Mike Sheedy on Rosie Ragsinger, Rose has slowed up so much Mike had to bench her. After having an average of 1,000 for two years it's tough on Rosie. It is thought she will be made manageress of some Bijou Dream." Joe Wood, the pitcher, isn't having such a good year, but Joe Wood, the agent, says he's busier than ever. (It's all right, Joe, never mind the dinner.) Constant Reader.—A Table de Hote is ti place where a man takes his own wife to dinner. He looked at the signs around Ham- merstein's, turned to his friend, and said in a very knowing way, "I see the Four Bards have split and Wilkie Bard is going to work alone." News Item. —"Damaged Goods" is still running. If you think there is nothing in the Wf)rld that can make you laugh you want to hear Joe Goodman giving good advice. .Since the law against ticket speculat- ing in New York each theatre has 10 or 20 of them in front of it instead of five or six as formerly. Nothing in this column is ever copyrighted, and if we have been cor- rectly informed there has been nothing in it worth copyrighting. (Not written by Tf>mmy Gray.)