Variety (September 1913)

12 VARIETY Nute SplnKold was th^ llrKt of the thre«' agents who arc iu K'> ulifdJ ul the ("umstock 6i Uest M-star ulliaiicf to Icavr Now York. Nate got out Tut'sday. Ilarry ltolch( nbach leaves ».hl» Saturday and A tie !>• vy next Wfck. Tht- show opens Sept. '22 at Allrntown, I'a., play ing WaBlilnKiori Sipt. lir»-l.'7. Whittakcr Uay returns fiuiii I'aris 'lui'sday and wou.d like' tu )^o up HKainst the uhow busincua oiu c more. Mr. U.iy was u i)re88 agent until bis father leit hlni Gait, (Cali- fornia, worth Home millions of dollars. Tbea Wbittakcr bought a lu-kct for Europe. Now that he ban the amliitioii and the coin, it lookH aa though he would bf acceptable to the- atricals, and can hire bis own l)^e^H agentK. J. O. Felts Is uianamT and trcanurer of the James V. Lee Musical Comedy Co. Leroy Klnslow Is stage manager. Jack Jones and U. U. Fisher, with Thurs- ton, the magician, for the past three years as blu mauuRvr and aRcnt rtspoctlvely, wli; again look after his lnterest^3 this seasoD. In DufTalo this week the I'erry Centennial Celebration Is on and the jinss agents for the N'urtuau Hackett Co., Maude Adams and Eva Tanguay arc vUIuk with each other In an etTort to stampede the box oMlces. John Uettig ba.s Elgned with Tb-jmas P. Dixon to manage one of his road attractions this fall. Kettig left town this week to boom the opening date. James F Kerr, who handled the "Tbree Twins" HO suciessfully for Joh. M. Galtes but has been In the auto busincs for several years, has been recalled by (Juilcu to assume full managerial charge of the llyams and MclDtyre show, '"When Love Is Young." Galtes, Buperstitiou.s to a degree, thinks Kerr can duplicate his "Three Twins" t>U3lnesa. Until the Hhow gets well under way Kerr will handle both the advance and back. Walter DuggAH is ahead of the Kitty (Turdnn show, Harry DcMuth back, while "1 he Purple Road" baa Arthur Williams In advance and Rich Herndon as manager. John Coutts, who has a half Interest In the revival of "The Girl of My Dreamn," and was taken 111 while doing some advance work for Ihv Dhi'W lant wv«.-k, lb bomcwbat Im- proved. He la conllned in the Hotel Nor- mandlc. J. C. Ragland was pressed Into serv- ice and will continue until Coutti Is able to take It up. J. O. Gay has been engaged to manage the revival of "Way Down East" which opens Sept. 11 at Saratoga Si)rlngs. N. Y. A. K. Hall will do the advance work. "All Aboard" will close its run at the Lew Fields Music Hall Saturday qight, and will reopen at the Majestic, Urooklyn, Sept. !.'>. The show will then go direct to the Americ;.n Music Hall. Chicago. John R. Rogers Is traveling In advame of 'A Romance of llllly-Goat Hill." Olive May has been engaged for the loading role in "Shadowed," wliich comes to the Ful- ton Sept. 24. Wagenhals & Kemper have enga»;ed Jessie Ralph for a prominent part in "After Five," a comedy by Cecil and William C. DeMille. which will be produced In October. Fred Doherty is finding some rich matter in bis publicity campaign In Doston for the Progressive Circuit, doing the work for the two burletique houses, the Grand Opera and the Howard Athenaeum and currying the twelve act house, the Ilowdoln Square also. He Is continuing bis policy of the past five years of slangy advertising and has been given a free hand in press expenditures, the Lothrop Interests finding that his copy which la exceptionally snappy producing the goods. He runs as heavy as TMM) lines In a Sunday pa- per of 4(>0,(KM) circulation and achieves the unique result of making Monday and Saturday the two capacity days at the Howard, which Is booking big time nets for the olio because play- ing on a guarantee. Charles L. Winston has (iria'.ly been se- lected to undertake the big task of filling the National theatre (Keiths), Moston, whith seats around :i,ri(M» at a Hinull time price scale. Manager Haley, who look the house last year, coming from llhodw Islantl was com- pelled to finish out last season without n press agent, and the selection of Winston to handle the press work was only made after n score of applicants had tried to nccntlate n con- tract. Rudolph Aronson sets forth in a printed bulletin that he discovered a wondrous beauty, by nanie Mil*'. Varcna. durlni: his trip to Europe this sutnincr. and aiinourues her ap- pearance in Ihi' country. A SINGKU. Attention all' Iticle Sam wants a press a^ent to boost iiood roads. Ki^lit iron men per day Is the stil>end. The I'nItc'l States Civil Servlee bus nriiiounccd that It will hold «om- pftltive examinations. Any ailult male Is t'llj;iblc. hilt )>refercnc e will be siven to trained newspajier nun "Everywoman" opened In Vl'toria Monday. Elmer Grand in i-- .N'ohody. " "Springtime's Here," the number Bung in The Family Cupboard," Is no Tin Pan Alley product. It wuH written especially for tb« Hrady piece. Franklyn Ardell, who drew down the hit of the piece, wrote the lyrics. The full page Sunday special from the Ameri- can playing up Morris GTest's trl-star venture with Polaire-Hoffmann-Stewart-Richardson. is being reproduced all over the country. The syndicating of Sunday features by the big .N'ew York dallies works out to the vast ad- vantage of theatrical companies going on tour. The Irving Place theatre. New York, de- voted to the German drama, will open Sept. '2't. Ilerr Dlrektor Rudolph Chrlstlens. re- turned a few days )igo from Europe. He has picked Sudermann's "Der Oute Ruf" to start the season. "Hull" Young, the pugilist who died in Los .\ngeles last week from the effects of a knock- out adn)!nlstered In the ring by Jess Williard, was to have reported shortly to the New Ma- jestic players In Ia)8 Angeles to be featured In a new film series under the direction of Fred Mace. "Special to the Citizens," tops an item dated .New York In the columns of that Columbus torch of i>rogress. In which "Don," the talking dog. Is represented ns calling "Help" when its master was drowning in the Coney Island surf. Mut shucks, it didn't even mention Loney llM-kells nanie. When the Lew Fields ".Ml Aboard" company leaves the •14th Street theatre for the road. Mill Sill will accompany It. That Is causing » the Palace theatre management to cast abotlt for lull's successor In the press department. It Is said, Mr. Sill having combined the duties of that office for Fields and the Palace. Dr. .1. Victor Wilson, agent for the "No. 1" •F^eg ()■ My Heart" compony, did not acquire the "Doc" nfllxture as a dentist ns stated In Ifist wcfk's VARIETY. He Is a graduate of 'nedlcine from the University of Vienna, and was after his graduation an Interne in Christ lIoHpltal. London, England, and a surgeon In the Int'Tnntlonal Red Cross Society during the Chinese-Japanese war. Later he was assistant rurf^eon to Dr. Christian Fenger In Chicago. Wilson was for six years a surgeon in the I'. S. Marine Service and was stationed in Cuba for -O months ns a yellow fever expert, and also as a surgeon during the Spanish-American war. When he quit the government service hn was the youngest medical man ranking as a major. [Respectfully submitted and as re- spectfully published.1 Robert Mantell opens his 8ea.°on the middle of this month at the new Royal, In the Bronx. During the week he will offer eight plays from Ills repertoire. Mrs. FIske returns to New York next Feb- ruary In a new play. Meantime she will con- tinue on tour In "The High Road." "F'alr Play," the new Chrlsty-Mathewson- Ulda Johnson Young baseball comedy, is now In rehearsal and opens Sept. 22 at Atlantic City. In the case will be William Courtenay, Edwin Arden, George Fawcett, Katherlne I^Salle. Lola Wilson, Frank Craven, Calvin Thomas. S. D. DIakemore, H. Morrell, Marlon Dallou. George C. Tyler, of the Liebler Co.. returned from Europp Sunday and his press department Issued a statement of the firm's plans for the coming season, previously published In VARIETY. The enterprises of A. H. Woods this season will ranne from moving pictures to light opera and he will be financially concerned In theatres on both continents. Among his new pro- ductions are "Taxi—4-11-44." a French farce with Dernard Granville starred. Pierre Veb- ber's musical comedy "The Girl from the Provinces," a German farce. "The Wives of Herod" and "The Ladles' Tailor," a comedy. Oliver Morosco will present about Dec. 1 In New York "Help Wanted," by Jack I.H»it. It wa'^ tried out In Los Angeles. Fiank Il«'ichrr has received the appointment as str«L'e director of the Little theatre of Philadelphia, which opens in October. A special , performance of "Pelleve "W" Xantii)pc" will he given next Tuesday after- noon for an audience made uj) of prison ofTlelal:^ Fniinv Ward In "Madam I»r«!sldent" comes to tiie Carrlck Sept. 1.'>. Caldwell H'. Caldwell has been assigned the advance for Ceorne Cohan when be leaves New York shortly. I'liicnie Ciilli'ii roes ahead of the Raymond Illl.licoiK show. "The Peauty Shop," opening In Detroit Sept 'JO. The nalhlhiders for the "Stop Thief" coin- l»apies ii.ivo hceti Tilnced by Cohan & Harris as (dlow-: Howard dale Hen days ahead), sotith- c'M ; CicrrKc Fraie is Pnlrd, eastern ; Frank M >! >!t, wn-'tern. PRESS OPINIONS. **THE PlGtlT/* If it enjoys a long run, however, It is not saying loo much to statu that it will be in spite of a vicious, unrealistic and uncalled for second act, the scene of which is laid in a house of ill repute in a small Colorado city.— Herald. Wherefore the second act, with its atark sensationalism, its crude development toward a climax, and its manifest Improbabilities, Is the more to be regretted.—Times. It Is Bufltcient to any admirer of the play- wright's art to welcome such an expert and workmanlike series of bcenes as those which kept the audience intent as one episode fol- lowed another always with increasing interest on the part of the spectators.- -Sun. "The Fight" is the second melodrama of the brothel to be presented in New York this bcason and the season has barely begun. Tbree more arc awaiting an opportunity to invade the stage. The taste which prompts their production is atrocious. Their ultimate infiuence will be to deprive the theatre of its best patronage.--World. "MUCH .\DO AllOLT IVOTHI.\(>.** Hut the dominating note of the evening, strangely enough, was not struck by Mr. Drew, whose performance was most interesting, but by his leading woman, Laura Hope Crews. •Herald. The defect of the general representation was that it missed the requisite mood. Its bril- llaucy of speech and action was replaced by a monotone that robbed Its poetry of sparkle and its characters of grac^—World. The audience watched^lVr. Drew with criti- cal attention. It was obvloue that the star' hid given an Immense amount of attention to the role that he has long sought to appear in. lie received generous applause.—American. Hut, takm as a whole, this production, though 111 no sense epoch-making, will provide an agreeable enouKb opportunity for those who would like to see the play on the stage.— Times. .Mr. Drew's Imper.sonatlon of the warrior was Intclllgint In con.epilon and executed with the ic^lish to be expected of such a fin- ished and experienced uctor.—Sun. '•HI:k own MO.M5V." "Her Own Money" holds a good lesson for uien. This probably will be one of the rea- sons women will want to s.e It. -Herald. Nat often Is real success missed by such a narrow margin. In this case, nevertheless, the fault was hard to condone, because it might have been so easily avoided.—World. "Her Own .Money." as may thus be seen, had n couple of quite Impossible (haracters to dtal with. It made mountains out of mole- hills. It split hairs and strained at the prob- iibillties. but If you don't mind that you won't be In the least bored.--American. ■ Her Own Money" Is a mighty good play. It certainly lost s nothing In the acting of an excellent company.—Times. .Not all the characters in "Her Own Money" are agreeable. Uut at least four are so defi- nitely outlined as to leave no doubt as to (heir real traits.—Sun. **T1IIS M|D\I(;HT CilHL." The play has situations of a risque nature and double entendres In two languages, which really make them four ply. -Herald. 'Das Mltternachtmaedel" is the title of Mr. Philipp's latest offering. Knowing his audi- ence to be tolerant, he has deemed It unneces- sary to extract the Continental flavor of the farce, and as a result It Is more replete with laughs than the French farce that Broadway knows. The score Is melodious and well sung. World. The piece proved to be very much the sort of offering that has been given at that theatre before where Mr. Philipp has exploited his talents In various lines in connection with other pieces, notably "Alma."—Times. The piece has i ome somewhat in a round- about way frcni its Parisian source, having been translated by Mr. Philipp and by him also adapteil to the American stage In Its Ger- man form. There Is much about it that re- minds of the llvelie.--f of the French farces and In the transition Mr. Philipp has nr»t permitted many of the ,.ointH to be lo.st.—Sun. adklf:. Not in a long time has anything so Insinu- atingly and Insistently melodious as ".Xdele" befn heard here.—Times. Dainty, pretty and spicy withal is "Adele," a musical comedy that -ounds demure, hut Isn't. Herald. "Adele," a new operetta, the ex'iuisite charm of which Is snfTli lent to redeem all the bad musical comedies of an entire season, came to the Lon'-'acre Mieatre last nl«ht. And It came to stay. -WnrJil. "Adele" never wavered for a moment. Us success was In-tantaneous and destTved. Evening Sun. Quite a relief fio-n the riot, rampaee nnd rumpus of usual inu irnl comedy was the se- date dainty and umtly alliirinjT little affair f.ilh'd "Adele." .\nieri( an. i:ii*i>onito>iF.. There Isn't a picture of i(nvthiii.i foreign. Those who go to Europe nowadays c;n atone for their unpatriotic sins by secinu the bcautios of their own country at the ni)ipodrome In nintchlessly heautlfui array and scvjuen-e. American. They've done It atialn at the Hippodrome. The new entertainment 1011 model was pro- diieed last ninht, and It's a great big winner. Herald. Th' lliiipodrome o|n ned Its season last nithl with a new siie(ta(!e lalUd ".\merica." chiefly different from pa.t entertainments only In that the eeo^'rajihlcal r; ngc of It^ fifteen scetxe^ was ioii(incd to thi> eont im-ilt. -T^tnes SHOWS IN PHILLT. Philadelphia, Sept. 3. The legitimate season opened this week with business light, owing to the Labor Day holiday, not good for the- atres here. Warm weather added its handicap. "Sweethearts" with Christie MacDon- ald opened well at the Forrest Satur- day night, and had good business Monday. The show is the same as on its first visit and is doing well, con- sidering a return date. "The Purple Road" was the initial attraction at the Lyric, opening Mon- day night to a half-filled house. It was very well received and should do better if the weather cools oft. The Scott pictures are in the Adel- phi, the other Shubert house adjoining the Lyric, and are booked for a stay. They opened very light. If the Adelphi is to hold pictures, business should pick up at the Lyric. The Howe pictures are doing fairly at the Garrick. This house open.s Sept. 15 with "The Master Mind." The Walnut made a good start with "The Firefly" with Edith Thayer. Popular prices will rule this season, and with a good list of bookings the house is expected to do well. "The Firefly" was well received. SHOWS IN FRISCO. San Francisco, Sept. 3. Labor Day in San Francisco reg- istered capacity bii.siiiess in all the local tlicatrcs. Bert Levey's Princess had a big opening, and the house looks like u sure winner. "Ready Money" opened big at the Cort, where it is expected to maintain a healthy average. "The Mission Play" at the Columbia was doing well until it was stopped on account of its daring. "The Bohemian Girl" is going strong at the Tivoli, while the Ralph Herz company is pulling heavily at the Al- cazar. Ilerz will play musical comedy stock for seven weeks only. The Ringling Bros.' circus opened Saturday, with the business continuing big for three days. WARNING THE PUBLIC. Following the meeting in fire head- quarters last week, when Conmiission- cr Jos. Johnson suggested to the the- atre managers of New York that they permit the uniformed firemen detailed to the house to walk upon the stage just before the curtain went up, carry- ing a placard notifying the audience to fi.x their mind upon the nearest exit (which i)roi)ositioii was rejected by the nianager.«> as calculated to disturb the peace of iiiitid) tlic following notice was printed in some of the theatre pro- grams this week: FIRE NOTICE—Look around NOW and choose the nearest Exit to your seat. In case of fire walk (not run) to THAT Exit. Do not try to beat your neighbor to the street. Jos. Johnson, Fire Commis- sioner. One manager said lie iinikT'ioofl that while the first pt'ipo.sa^ n .s rejected, the C( nimittec api • •; '■ 'I ' i • nmended the cotntiiissioner' ^ i' ' » printed. If yuu (Inn't advenU*. n V\K1|:T\. •Inn't advertise at all.