Variety (September 1913)

VARIETY niETY Publlshad WMkljr bx VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. TImM Square. N«w York nm wLTmiiAii CHICAGO MajMtlc ThMtr* Bldg. CHABLBS J. FEKKlllh SAN FRANCISCO PantagM Ttaeatra Bldg. HABBT BONNBLL I;ONDON II ChaiiDg CroM Road JBSSB FRRBMAN PARIS •• bis, Rua Saint DIdUr ■OWARO O. KBNDRBW BBBUN •t Stromatraaa* B. A. LBTT ADVERTI8BMBNT8 Advartislnff copy for curivnt iMoe mii*i foach Naw York offlea bj Wadneaday avenlng. AdvartiMments by mall should b« avfom panled by romlttance. Annual Foreign SUBSCRIPTION Single copies. 10 cents l« % Bntpr^d as s^rond-claiis matter at New York. Vo L XXXII. September 12, 1913. No. 2 The Lafayette theatre, New York, announces three shows daily hereafter. Manuel Romaine and Charles F. Orr form a vaueville "double." David Bispham is underlined for the Palace, New York, Sept. 22. Frederick Schwartz is directing the oichestra at the Palace. Prices at the Grand Street theatre are now 5-15 instead of 10-30. John Lorenze now has Harry Mack. a pianist, for a partner. Jack Henry is in the hooking business for himself. Jack Hodgden is booking Portland and Lyon (New England) in the Uni- ted Booking Offices. Keith and Kiernan is the proper title of a foreign act now on the Loew time. Ethel Clifton is returning to vaude- ville with her dramatic skit. "The Sur- geon." Snitz Moore is preparing a travesty production for vaudeville. The Ger- man comedian will appear in it. The wife of Charles Hanlon (Han- Ion and Clifton) gave birth to a girl Sept. 5. "Sea Lads and Lassies," a miniature nautical musical comedy, 10 people, is about to be launched. "Who*» Who," with William Collier. was postponed from Monday until last night at the Criterion. "Way Down East/' with Ethel Gray in the former Phoebe Davis role of .Anna Moore, opens at the Lyric, Cin- cinnati, Sept. 21. James Cunningham (late of the Poli stock), Hartford, and wife, Isobel Mac- Gregor (with "Our Wives" last sea- son) have a boy. Cecil Cunningham is (k'lil)eratiiig whether to appear as a single in vaude- ville and give up her singing sketch, or accept a production offer. Ernie Williams wants you to know he is back on the job at the Locw of- fice. Ernie spent a very pleasant vaca- tion besfdes some change. "As It May Be" shelved for several months owing to the severe illness of Lucille Berdell, reopens Sept. 15. Miss Herdell has recovered. Edmund Eysler, who wrote the op- eretta, "The Singing Teacher" which Lew Fields may produce, is coming o\er to direct the rehearsals. The WiJiam Fox house in New Ha- ven opens Monday. The Fox theatres at Bridgeport and Hartford are closed, with no announcement of opening dates. Mary Miles Minter in "The Littlest Rebel" in vaudeville, is featured in the road production of \. H. Woods' play "f that title. Claude Payton is playing the former Dustin Fariium role, while !•. j. Luce is doing William's part. Billy Elliott, a Los Angeles girl, was married .Sept. 4 in Omaha to Billy I'LUiott (Grimm and Klliott), the cere- mony being performed on the stage at the close of the Krug theatre show by Reverend Williams. Manager Charles .\. I'rankc was host at a wedding dinner i«fter the marriage. According to reports Fred C. Whit- ney is "repeating" witl/ ".\ Chocolate Soldier" on the road, and the returns have been such that he intends to send out another company next month. All this in view of the fact that the show is supposed to have covered the country pretty thoroughly. The American Booking Offices, Inc., of Pittsburgh, has opened offices for business and have a number of houses lined up for booking in and around Pittsburgh. The company was incor- porated with a $25,000 capital, the offi- cers being Sam Reichbaum, M. Reich- baum and Alex Reichbaum. Cliff Nel- ton is manager of the booking depart- ment. 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 alle^ng to represent VARIETY should be called upon to establish identity and connection. Florence Holbrook, with six people, will again "break in" her new act next week 'Ml the Proctor small time. The Odeon, Newark, playing pic- tures all summer, resumed its pop vaudeville policy last week. Cohan & Harris* proposed starring tour of Victor Moore in a new piece by George M. Cohan has been post- poned. Tuesday James Clancy gave away three hats hanging on the coat rack in his private office. Taxed with his extravagance he said: "That's nothing. I've just ordered three new suits." Princess Minnie Comas is the name of an Indian girl and act James Clancy is producing. In support will be Pearl Evans and David Kalhoua, the last named formerly with Toots Paka. The Marinelli New York office has a staff of stenographers, each of the hookers in their separate of!ices, having a typiste. .\ blond (new) is very no- ticeable among the collection of hru- ncttes. Margaret Shelby, who has been play- ing kid parts on the stage, is to leave her mother's side for the first time she appeared on tiie stage and is to appear in the forthcoming prodmtion of ".Snow White." "The Girl from Gimbers" is a find V liich Joe Raymond expects to pad his meal ticket with by having her placed ir. a Broadway theatre. The Girl is Ethel Grovcr, 17 years old. said to be .'. natural "coon shouter." The western righu of "The Master Mind" have been sold by Werba & Luescher to Al Rich who plans to send two shows on tour, one to open about Oct. 20 playing the city time of the K. & E chain and the other about Nov. 3 exhibiting in the one-nighters through the southwestern states and north- western Canada. The charge made against Eddie Foy by the Cl:ildren's Society of permitting his son, Richard, to sing at the Union Square last week has l)cen adjourned until Tuesday in Jefferson Market court. The Foy act is due to play Baltimore next week. It is denied Richard did any singing, nor any of the children, excepting the two boys over the age limit. Foy is under a suspended sentence in Special .Sessions on a similar complaint from last sca- '^on wlien the ^^)y Family played in \ew York. Annabelle Moon, the five-year-old daughter of William Moon, master of properties al the Cort theatre, .\ew N'ork, i> an exjjcrt swimmer, atul won ;; medal for fancy and high diving at the Rariian \\:\y Park carnival the last half of last week at Toitenvillc. TOMMY'S TATTLES By THOMAS J. GRAY. Stop Thief note—The manager or press agent of the Orpheum theatre, Altoona, Pa., has been using our stuff verbatim in his program, called "The Orpheum News," under the heading of "Cheerful Chatter," without giving us or V.\rii:t.- credit for same. (Yes, we have friends, even in Altoona.) The 6^)ps in Chicago are censuring the songs and the New York cops the plays. Can it be possible they are now going to look for graft from authors? Hr)W foolish! Wm. Jennings Bryan is a riot on next to closing with a tent show. What they say when they're going good: "And some one told us they were hard here." "Yes, we took seven tonight, but you should have seen us last week; we went twice as good." "This is nothing new to us; we go like this everywhere." "Well, we left 'em good for you." ".Say, we don't care what we follow." "Bo, if we weren't following that sketch we'd go twice as good." "We don't know a soul in the town, either." "We'll get a report from here." "Put out the next number, Joe; I'm tired bowing." Our idea of wasting money is having signs reading "Keep out of the en- trance" and "Smoking not allowed in these dressing rooms." Mrs. Pankhurst is coming to Amer- ica. What a great act she could do with Harry Thaw. Did you notice that a bunch of the lyric writers arc now writing melodies? \ls() did you notice the melodies? Ihere's nothing like being up to date. A medicine show is advertising "Medi- cal Lecture and Cabaret" instead of "vaudeville" as in the older days. PACKING NIGHT. »» '.N'uw Where's that baggage-man? The brutal" Cried FlosHio Joy, wboHe billed as "cute," lie knows I've got to make that train, .My (Ifur, bell drive me clear Insane!" "Wlnre'H that laundry-man, the crookT Lost two towelH marked 'Hotel Drooke' — llf charKed me, too-glveu me a pain, Oh. Kcel I'll never make that train." 'Why don't the man'ger pay us now? I'd liute to Ktiirt a rough-bouse row — What.' Out In front to get our pay? Well, ain't that like a Htnnll-town Jay?" "ThlH tippInK thing It Kcts my goat, Swell ebuDce I've got for an Engllab coat, 1 ,11 s; I imhl mir \\v • I'Hhlx'd my m t, Then exports a dollars- .N'o, my trunk ain't pii. ki-ii: " "Say, wJMrr'H my photOH -Out In front? And now riiy iiiiisic I've got to hunt. Of all 111" dnmi'K this Is the worst, I'd like t(i li.Mid It ihi- Yiddish curse!" "C;o(><l-l)y, Sltv, h,id a diiiidy werk Kee you iiKi'iri In I Vat tie ('reck. f;o')r|-hy, i»railr Kood luck to you, (She Hays .shc'.s I'tnich. bet Hhe s h .Icw't" 'Pkape d(in't forj?) f fi send my mall," (Vnii alw.Tys hear tliat final wall) "fJood-by, vi,nni\ hick, and "^ny Hrljo. To next week''^ huir: h - ((oirn- on. let> go)." Ever hear that doiic on Packing Night''