Variety (September 1913)

VARIETY niETY Publlihed Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. TImrH Square. New York. 8IMB SILVERMAN Proprietor CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bids. CHARLEH J. FBBEMAN BAN FRANCISCO Pantaxes Theatre Bldy. HARRY BONNELL LONDON 18 Charing Cross Road JK88E FREEMAN PARIS C6 bis, Rue Saint Dldler EDWARD O. KENDRBW BERLIN 69 Stromstrassi- E. A. LEVY ADVERTISEMENTS AdvertislnK copy for current Issue must n-Hih NVw York oiflce by Wednesday evening. AdverllHemcnis by mall should be acroin- punlcd by lemlttance. Annual Foreign SUBSCRIPTION 14 6 Single copies, 10 cents Entered as second-claaa matter at New York. Vol. XXXII. September 19, 1913. No. 3. Henrietta Crosman and her new play are now listed to open Oct. 12. The Nichol Sisters are trying out a new act this week in Harrisburg, Pa. Keith's Washington, is giving Sun- day shows. Violet Woods is in her new act with five Drummer Girls. Rolfe's Symphony Orchestra of 10 pieces is ready to break into vaudeville. Dave Newman, musical director, and wife, opened Monday with "The Soul Kiss" at Newport News, Va. The expression along Broadway now is "Whattcha yer mean, yer lost yer job."? Frances Carson and Eric Blind, of Maigaret Anglin's company, were mar- ried at San Francisco Sept. 8. The Ryan-Richfield Co. opens its second season on the Lqcw Circuit Monday. John Lamp, now with William Mor- ris, joins the Proctor small time office Monday. The Creston, la., theatre managed by Card Davenport, has closed, cancelling all its legit bookings. The new Opera House at Kittaning, I*a., John Wick, manager, opens Sept. 29 with its first legitimate attraction. Mrs. Gene Adams (Alpha Troupe) gave birth to a boy at Scandaga Park, N. Y., Aug. 30. The Kathleen Wanda tabloid com- pany will open in the middle west around Oct. 1 under the direction of Walter Saiidford. Gertrude Roedel (Hassan and Roe- del) is the mother of a new whirlwind tumbler. Mr. Hassan is working singly temporarily. Florence Holbrook and Co. will dis- continue their new act once again, it is said. The turn was at the 125th Street the first half of this week. Bruce Fowler, formerly booker with the Grifiin company will act as Cana- dian representative for McMahon & Dee's Toronto office. Val Trainor and Co including Helen Trainor. Lila Gould and Clara Ross i>pc*ncd in Trainor's new act "War is H " at Pittsfield, Mass Monday. Walter Floyd is getting everything ready for Walker Whiteside to again take to the road in '*Thc Typhoon." .\ coast tour was taken last season. Laura Burt has been engaged to head the "Butterfly On The Whel," on a tour of West Virginia under the direction of Sidney R. Ellis. "The Sultan," a musical comedy with 14 people, which George Choos is producing in vaudeville, opened up- state Monday. "Harnessing the Horse" with four people is a late Jesse Lasky number. William Hawtrey is also about to try out a new sketch under the same management. The family of Mark Grayson, author of "Jack Marlin, or Life on the Missis- sippi," "Brocky Morgan" and other pieces, is desirous of learning his whereabouts. Jerry Hart has been engaged to play the former Willis P. Sweatnam role with Steve King's first company of "Ex- cuse Me," which opens Oct. 6 at Newark. Miss Jimmie Barrie made a 1^000-foot altitude flight in a Curtiss aeroplane while visiting her home in Detroit a few days ago. Local manager Dougherty, of the Curtiss Co., handled the machine. Flo Jackson (Bert and Flo Jackson) is in the Littauer Hospital, Glovers- ville, N. Y., recovering from an opera- tion, successfully performed last Satur- day. Florence Holbrook did not open at the 125th Street theatre Monday. There was some confusion over the delivery of her costumes and scenery for the new act she intended "break- ing in" there. A house manager in one of the New York big time vaudeville theatres was formerly an advertising solicitor. He graduated direct to theatre manage- ment. The other day an artist saw him on the stage for the first time since he assumed control of the house, "Oh, hello," said the actor, "I know what you want, an ad., but you don't get it." The manager walked over to a stage hand remarking, "What do you think of that? He doesn't know I am the manager here." "The Awakening of Helena Richie." with Laura Frankenfield featured in the former Margaret Anglin role, has been given middle west bookings. Chicago money back of the attraction. Lucille LaVerne is about taking out her own company in "The Rejuvena- tion of Aunt Mary." It will play over the Star & Havlin circuit, opening Sept. 29 at the Gaiety, Brooklyn. Bessie Little, a Chicago stock act- ress, is playing the principal feminine role in "The Little Sheperd of, the Hills" now in Montana on a one-night route to the Pacific Coast. Willis Goodhue has abandoned his proposed tabloid production of "The Telephone Girl." The expense of put- ting it on, coupled with a big royalty to the owners, caused a change of plans. "Tracked By A Tramp," promoted by H. C. Thornton who has organi- zed a company of New York players to present it, opens Sept. 29 at Pownal, Vt. A New England route has been laid out. Jones ft Crane have engaged Claude Boardman to head their eastern com- pany of "The V'irginian." They will also put out another company of it and will direct two companies of "The Wolf" this winter. Joe Levy, formerly manager of Loew's Seventh Avenue, has been ap- pointed manager of the Lafayette. He is one of the youngest managers in the city, having just turned his 24th year. He was connected with the theatre when he was 12. It is being mentioned that Mr. De- Feo, the husband of Nana, the dancer, is about to launch in conjunction with Floyd StokjCr, a turn quite similar to Owen McGiveney's protean act. "Bill Sikes." Stoker is McGiveney's Ameri- can agent. Haddon Chambers, the London author, who had his show plans knock- ed awry for the nonce by the stork's arrival at Ethel Barrymore's home, has consented to direct the rehearsals of the John Drew Company for its presentation of his little comedy week after next. Lee Morrison to(^k out anotJKr "What Happened To Mary"? company Monday, openiii>4 at Xian:ara Kails, X. Y. Anne Bradley is featured in the Mary role. The show will play a week of one nighters into St. Louis for its first full week. A route to the coast has been laid out. A warrant was issued in Jefferson market police court by order of Magistrate Freshi, against Eddie Foy in the matter of the Prose- cution by the Children's ."^"k iiiy auaiii-t the comedian for allowing oiu- ot' hl^ 4)oys under 16 to sing at the Union Square a couple of weeks ago. I'oy is in Baltimore this week. an.I is l.il!. .1 i^r Keith's IMiiladelphia luxt \vt < k, Mr failed to appear for the postponed ex- amination Monday. TOMMY'S TATTLES By THOMAS J. GRAY. If you don't believe there is such a thing as "reincarnation" see Some of the small time shows. When George Whiting opened at the Winter Garden Monday he received four telegrams wishing him luck. Three were from music publishers and (ieorge sent the other one himself. Willie Hammcrstein is advertising "Fatima, the white slave girl who es- caped from a Harem." She's a dancer. The sign does not say where the harem is, but it may have been on the Western Wheel. In every town: The Mansion House, The American Hotel, The Reliable Laundry, The Commercial Hotel, The Eureka Restaurant, The Modern Lunch. Dan Dody, Fred Ward, Phil Korn- heiser. Jimmy Monaco, Mark Nelson, Herman Timberg, Hattie Kneitel, Sol Schwartz, Nat Ayer, Eddie Gathman, Lew Madder and James Fitzpatrick are hereby notified their names are in this cohnnn. It's hard to tell whether the crowd in the lobby of the Palace theatre every afternoon is composed of people going into the theatre or actors waiting for their agents. It must be tough for husbands of women doing a single vaudeville act. They have to carry their wives' or- chestrations, check their baggage, take them home from the theatre, and bank their salary every week, while all the woman does is two or three shows a day, buy her own costumes and worry about her act. In I'^.ngland they are talking of founding n home for chorus men. The committee in charge are looking for a site in Shepherd's Bush, London. The fellow who writes a column for the Sunday American, entitled "Heard in the Greenroom" grabbed one of our paragraphs last week. If they keep oti stealinj.,' our stuff we'll begin to be- lieve it ourselves. Adv. in Evening Telegram: "Young man wislies to learn acting trade, good looking'. Would try small company. Has plenty of clothes and shoes." (Me'll need the shoes.) After looking at the Thaw pictures it's hard to tell whether Thaw is in- sane or not. But the fellow who got the film has liis ri^ht mind. Broadway star Motor ear Bankrniit shock ( ar in lioek You ran't iiuluc an aerol)at by his pipe. W» -aw a bookinu man Imyinif his own hinrh the oth( r day.