Variety (September 1913)

16 VARIETY \KW FRISt^O STOCK HOUHK. San Francisco, Sept. 17. iliorouglily rcnctvated and rcdcc- ( rated, and somewhat remodeled in- side, the Savoy is expected to reopen Sept. 29 with the name changed to Oriental. While former Manager A. W. McKcnzie will retain the lease of the property, the amusement policy is to be dictated and directed hy Leon A. Cutner and W. C. Graves, two San Franciscans, who are credited with hav- ing plenty of operating capital. The new form of entertainment will be dra- matic stock of the highest class, it is said. The company is to be pretty exclu- sively an Eastern importation. HARTFORD STOCK CLOSES. Hartford, Conn., Sept. 17. This is the final week of stock at Poli's theatre. The Poli Players have enjoyed a season of 21 weeks of good business. Edmund Elton remained throughout the season as leading man. Vaude- ville opens next Monday. BACK TO YONKERS. William David, former leading man at the Warburton, Yonkers, N. Y., re- turned there Monday when he replaced Edward Arnold. David opened in a stock company production of "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary," in which Olive West is being featured. READY AT AUDITORIUM. Kansas City, Sept. 17. The Auditorium is still in the hands of workmen, busy with renovation, but it will open with stock Sept. 29. Meta Miller, who will manage the place, is in New York arranging for the plays to be given in the house which is under the joint management of Herman Fehr, Mort Singer and Martin Beck. SOUTH AMERICAN CO. Franklyn CliflFord has everything ready for his newly organized stock company to depart via the Van Dyke Oct. 4 for South America where it will play a six months' engagement. The company, headed by Clifford and Mabel Montgomery, includes Joseph de Stefani, George Earle, Helen Keers, Milton Nobles, Jr., and Lynda Earle, opens at Montevideo for a three weeks' stay, then goes to Rosario for three weeks, thence to Buenos Ayres for five weeks, San Paelo three weeks, and three weeks in Rio Janeiro. The latest New York comedy successes will be played in the English tongue. FIRST BATCH DIDN'T SUIT. The fur is flying at the Metropolis where Walter Rosenberg installed a stock company Labor Day. B. E. Franklin has been made the new manager and is reorganizing the company. The first batch of players failed to give satisfaction. In another week the Metropolis regulars won't know the stock com- pany, owing to the changes contem- plated. l*l'SHED OUT BY "WHIP." Newark, Sept. 17. Schlesinger's Shubert theatre slock closes a week from to-morrow niKJit as "The Whip" is the first piece to j/copen the legit season at that house. Schlcs- inger expects to keep the Stork-Brow- nell company intact for a winter season somewhere in this city. "LORNA DOONE" IN STOCK. Philadelphia, Sept. 17. Willard Holcomb's dramatic version of Blackmore's novel, "Lorna Doone," was the attraction this week at the Or- phcum. Mr. Holcomb placed the work with the stock organization on a flat price basis. The piece has been tried out on the Pacific coast in stock pres- entation but has never had a produc- tion of its own. The local reviewers gave the effort an enthusiastic boost. Ethel Valentine played Lorna most satisfactorily, ac- cording to the newspaper reviews. CRLMES IN CHICAGO. Chicago, Sept. 17. Persons who have been on the stage, or at least have been flirting around the edges of it, have been much in the police limelight in Chicago the past few weeks. Harold Schneider, formerly a member of a small musical comedy company, is accused of killing J. H. Logue, the jeweler, in McVicker's theatre building last December. The murder was most atrocious. Mrs. Mary B. McKinney, who has been playing a piano in a nickel show, while her husband, J. Cecil McKinney, played the drum in the same place, has brought suit against her mother, Mrs. Ada E. Krowell, for $25,000 for dam- ages for alleged slanderous statements. This case recalls that Mrs. Krowell formerly conducted a dive in the red- light district, and educated her daughter in Europe and her son in Harvard, both unaware of the source of the money. When Mrs. Krowell was arrested last winter, the facts were brought out. The daughter then left her mother. The son is practicing law in Chicago. Frank Schultz, a singer and a minor actor, was found guilty last Friday in the federal court on three counts, eacl charging him with violation of the Mann act. Emma Marr and Mrs. Anna Bair testified that he and another man, a bar tender, had brought them from Detroit to Chicago. Sam Kramer and Morris Willard, who have been doing a double act in vaudeville, and Arthur Barrett, also a player, were held in $1,000 bail for al- leged participation in a confidence game. The case came up before Judge Mahoney, when Morris Fefferman, pro- prietor of the "Dizzy" saloon in Dear- born street near Monroe, complained the trio had taken $2,200 from him in 25 minutes. NEW BUILDINGS. A new movie theatre is being built by the B. F. Keith Realty Co, adjoining the Bushwick theatre, Broadway and Madison streets, Brooklyn. It will be known as the Madison, seating capac- ity 600. A high-class moving picture house is i)eing erected in Duffield street, Brook- lyn, seating 900, modeled after and to be conducted along the lines of the Regent in Harlem. The Montauk, a picture house seat- ing 600, will open Sept. 20, under the direction of Arthur Klein. The theatre represents 160,000. It is located at Bath avenue and 20th street (Bath Beach) Brooklyn. A theatre, seating 2,000, is proposed at 207th street and Sherman avenue (Dyckman tract), New York. The Just Construction Co. has the contract. The theatre's capacity is slightly more than the total population of this particular section. Aetna Amusement Corporation has begun work on the foundations for a theatre at 107th street and Broadway. The various construction contracts have been let for a brick, stone and terra cotta building. The cost will be 1160,- 000. The plans filed give no address for the Aetna Co., except that of the president, Leon Schlesinger, 409 Fifth avenue. Plans are being prepared for the Booth Memorial theatre to be located in the vicinity of Columbus circle. No more definite site has been announced. Mrs. Rose Fels, 507 Grand street, will build a 120,000 picture theatre on Southern Boulevard, the Bronx, as an investment. Gronenberg & Leuchtag, architects, 303 Fifth avenue, are pre- paring plans. John Gibbons is owner of a proposed house at Third place and Smith street, Brooklyn, and Schwartz & Co. are be- hind the establishment to be built at Morgan and Meeker avenues. Plans for these two were filed this week. Plans have not yet^been filed for the building at 616-620 Nostrand avenue, but the project has been announced. Shampan & Shampan are the architects. Brooklyn investors also propose a the- atre at Bushwick and Flushing avenues, that borough. A plot 100 feet square on the north side of the Boulevard, Rockaway Beach, has just changed hands. Kraemer & Klein are the new owners. They pro- pose to improve the property with a theatre. A new theatre has been built at Chatham, Ont., just across the river from Windsor. It's the first legitimate theatre Chatham has had in eight years. Laurel, Miss., Sept. 3. The new Laurel theatre, seating 1,000, costing $50,000, will open shortly under B. J. Blethein's management. The booking of the legit shows is to b'e done by J. J. Coleman. Marie Piatt, formerly of the Mabel Taliaferro company, plans a dip into vaudeville as a "single." If 7oa don't sdvertlte In VARIETY, don't advertl«« at all. Philadelphia, Sept. 17. B. F. Keith is to build a vaudeville house in West Philadelphia. A site has been secured on 52d street below Market, directly opposite the Nixon, owned by the Nixon-Nirdlinger inter- ests. A small picture theatre is on the pioperty. No plans have as yet been announced. FOR MKN ONLY. Tomorrow (Saturday) at midnight the Comedy Club's Clown theatre will reopen for the season. In consequence of the careful pre- paration for the entertainment the ad- vance notices proclaim that the Com- edy Club evening will be for men only. The full proRramme is pack dull care away in camphor balls and come prepared to amlle. snicker, laugh and screech. As the famous Popt Ebret's Schiitz said, "Laugh when you pay for your ticket, grumble when you come In on a pass." The act you remember since your childhood days COL. FINE COMBS WILD ANIMALS Every one a man eater. In America for one week only They never do less than ten shows a day Tiny JOLO SISTERS Smally Queens of insignificant Vaudeville. Direct from his own Private Kennel HY-DRG-FOBIA That Dog Gone Funny Dramatic Reciter, Featuring "The Likeness on Floor of the Cafe." After being canceled in some of the l>est Theatres in Hoboken GAZ00K3 Royal Oyster Tamer to His Highness, Baron Island. The Main Bout—The Big Event—The World's Series of Show Business Look—Look—Ditto U.NCLE THOMASHEFSKY'S CABIN The Field of Crepe Hair The Hebrew Picklnlnnles Little Evawitch Colng to Averne Simon Levy Beat Poor Old Uncle Thomashefsky Topsyadle and Markstein the Lawyer The Kosher Bloodhounds Ice furnished by the Colonial Theatre Audience Note:—This is the only company carrying 2—Ohio Rivers—2 First Appearance since they left the Winter Garden Flat ROUGE PAW ft CO. In the Laughing Comedy Playlet— "All Puffed Up" Don't Fail to see the Great Lip Roughing Scene Too Big for the Small Time and too Small for the Big Time NETTY NIGHTMARE The only Girl in Vaudeville who pays all Her Ex-Husbands Alimony The Only Living Brother of September Morn SEPTEMBER MIKE In His Yearly Operation entitled. "Taking a Bath." The Drama uplifted at last—A Playlet of the Moment. No Man, Woman, Lady or Gentleman can afford to miss It. THE CURB The Whitest White Slave Drama ever Drara- maed. The Burlesque, on "The Lure." Every Scene a Climax—A Well Chosen Cast of Awful Actors—Everything about this Production First Class. No Damaged Goods. Here's Cleverness In a Bunch «—BANNANA BROS—ft Famou.s Italian Frultist.s—The Act with Push Behind It. Just Cut Out for This Program ? APPENDIX ? What I.s It? Who Wrote It? Who Books It? The Great French Dialect .Tuggler TAB. L DOTE Assisted by Madame Menue in the CTreat Talk- ing Pantomime "Ham de la ar Mour." A Swift Act. And Our Own Problem Play THE cop ON THE DOOR or "Pay as You Enter" Startling! Exciting! Impossible! With an All Starve Cast of I^y Offs The Publishers Friend 4—BTJNK CITY—4 Originators of "The Cows In the Meadows Go Cluck, Cluck." Direct from Sing Sing After a Sixty Year Successful Run STICK-EM-UP-JAKE The Only First Class Shooter Whoever Es- caped Playing Hammersteln's The Authors of These Clown Crimes FELIX ADLER AND TOMWY GRAY Have Been Warned to Keep Their Names Off These Posters HEAR THE NEW SONG HITS "Tnke Rack Your Gag, You Broke My Heart." "When the Sunper Show Is Over. .Tessle Dear." "The Small Time Glide." "Your Aeent's Going to Miss You If You Slgji TTp With a Show," and "You Can't Come In Mv Dressing Room. Mv Husband's on the Bill." CLOW-0-8COPE First Rum Phony Plavs. All Films Do 4 Shows Don't Fall to attend—Warn your Wives and Sweethearts now—So they can arrange to nmuse themselves while vou are with us— Like a Baby's Mother Needs It's Father. That's TTow We Need You. \ MOBHiE PROVIDED FOR. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 17. Mobile is to have a stock company this winter, the Hartley-Barker Co. opening here the first week in October. The men behind the project are now in New York recruiting a company.