Variety (September 1913)

VARIETY JAMES CLANCY VAUDEVILLE and DRAMATIC AGENCY 418-420-422 Putnam Building 1493 Broadway, New Yoric TELEPHONE \llll\ BRYANT Vaudeville We want at all times standard acts. Can offer consecutive time with very small jumps. Write, wire or call. "3 Stock Wanted immediately the best , stock people in all lines. Call 13 immediately and register. To Stock Managers We can supply at a moment's notice the best available artists. Wire us Bob Perrin has • new act called "An Arizo- na Romance." Helen LaFleur and Dan Ford are In It. The grand opera aeaaon at the Auditorium trouMrettea caused quite a sensation. The NIkko Japs closed ind they offered some novel stunts, which went fairly well. One of the men walked up a stairway on his head, and the womaii In the act Jusgled a parasol while lylnv on her back on a slack wire. The house was well filled by noon. REED. AUDITORIUM (Bernard Ulrlch. mgr.).— "The Whip," doing In neighborhood of $26,- 009 weekly. BLACK8TONE (Augustus Pltou, mgr.).— Rose Stahl opened Monday in "Maggie Pep- per." COHAN'S O. O. H. (Harry Ridings, mRr). —"Stop Thief," big houses, holding up well. CORT (U. J. Hermann, mgr).—"The Dou- ble Cross," not creating any stir. GARRICK (John J. Oarrlty, mgr.).—Wil- liam Hodge In "The Road to Happiness." Receipts only fair. ILLINOIS (Will J. Davis, mgr.).—"The will open Nov. 21 and last for ten wroks, clos- ing Jan. SI. The International Rcfrlgrratlng r«)ngrr8s opened Wednrnday at tho Union .Stock Yards amphitheatre. Burton Holmes has rcturnrd from his an- nual travels and In now preparing his travel- ogues for the season. It is announced "A Broadway Honeymoon" Is to open at Howard's, Oct. 1. Rehearsals are now in progress. Merle H. Norton In preparing to send out a show railed "Tho PInce of Honeymoons." He announces that It in to piny the best houses. The iWarrlnKton. at Oak Park, in playing vaudeville thin neanon Innfnd of ntock. It opened Sept. 15. (leorge Oiittn In the man- ager. Con Hecker, who last neanon was In tho box office at the American Music Hall, has gone to Omaha as treasurer at tho American theatre. J. P. Kirk, manager of tho May Howard Haymarket theatre, ran into appendicitis la^t week and was removed to the hospital, whert- a successful operation was performed. William Anthony McGuire Is working over the last act of his new play. "The Cost of Living," and is trying to give it a happy ending. Tho piece was at the Victoria this week. Fred Steward, brother of Earl Steward, the theatre manager of Kansas CMty, ban been selected as treasurer for tho rehabilitated American Music Hall. Mr. Steward was treas- urer at the Princess In Chicago for one sea- son. Numerous changes arc belnjf made in "A Trip to Washington" at the La .Salle. Henry M. Blossom has been at work on a new- scene, and new songs have been provided for Adele Rowland, who has taken the part for- merly played by Ada Meade. Schlndler's theatre is once more in the run- ning. The house has been completely r» no- vated and made a ground floor establishment. It will play three acts during the week an<l nvc Saturday and Sunday, with pictures. Frank Doyle of tho J 1^ & S office, will book It. The presence of Jimmy Britt in Chicago (at McVlcker's this week) brings to light that Dr. John G. Message has Alms of a flght be- tween Dritt and Hummer^, which took place In England some years ago. The Alms, which cost the sporting promoter something like $1,- 500, have never been shown In America. Reports coming Into Chicago from the sur- rounding country are to the tffrecl that busi- ness Is not good. The season opened fairly well, but managers are now blaming the heat for a falling off of receli>t8. The outnklrting houses In Chicago are alno complaining. Itusl- ness did not open up nearly so well this Hea- son as last. Max Hank-r'h. who with othern, ha.s for the past two years conducted (Serman companies at the Criterion ond the Hush Temple, has abandoned thl.s Held, and will go to San PVan- clsco, where he will entabllnh a company to act in German. I^ant Saturday and Sunday, performances were given ;it the Cilobn theatre to enable Mr. Haninch to obtain mom y to extricate himself from local difflcultlen. He has written some musical comedies, and is recognlxed as an authority on the drama of German origin. It is reported the Shuberts are desirous of disposing of the theatre that bears their name in Milwaukee. This house was obtained by the Arm during the time that war was being waged against the so-called Syndicate. It was erected many years ago and called the Acad- emy, and at one time was the best known and most fashionable house in the Wisconsin met- ropolis. The city grew to the westward, how- ever, and left the house in the lurch. It has not been !iccounted a big success since the days when Edwin Thanhouser, who is now engaged in the fllm business, conducted the .stock company there that was one of the big- gent money makers In the west. When William Hodge opened at the Oar- rlck. Chicago, in "The Road to Happiness." It was necessary to have a skinny nag for one of the big scenes in the piece. Sam Fried- man, advance man for the show, made a search of the city and finally found a perfect skeleton of a homo at a rendering works. Tho animal was about to be killed. It was pur- chased for $25 and was used in the show. The firm Sent In a bill, but for several days no at- tention was paid to it. The firm finally grew Innlstent. Mr. Friedman went to Manager John J. Garrlty and asked for a check. It was forthcoming and was sent to the rendering firm Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. At 10.30 the^ nag died. The press agent and the manager think the horse was in cahoots with tho rendering works. The buys were all barred. It was a great day for the girls, and they all got together In the booking room and Just had a fine little time all by themselves. Some of the boys endeavored to break In and get a free feed, but the girls wouldn't have it. It was Gladys Pettlbone's last day single and all felt glad or sad. whichever way those things happen to strike. At any rate, Gladys Is Charlie Kohl's stenographer and Saturday, the Hth, she married Raymond Bell, born Aug. ISth Gladys was born May 13th. All the girls of "The Association" now working under number 13 got together and gave the farewell lunch- eon In the booking room with permission from headquartern. The girls wanted to give it on tho 13th floor, but it couldn't be ar- ranged. The booking room answered the pur- \A/I Presents JIIVIIVIIK ICH In Dainty Eva Mull Show This Week (September 15) Olympic, New York pose Just as well, even though It Is on the tenth. The girls Insist their names be men- tioned. Esther Myqulst, Mae O'Connor, Cath- ryn Coutts, Sarah Brlnn, Elsie Baum, Rose Cohen. Marie Wyman, Tlille Rosenswelg, Ma- bel Swanson, Mae Casey, Marie Schacffcr, Glenna Stanchfield. Grace Coutts, Kate Arkln, Sue Skolnik, Rose Lubersky. SAN FRANCISCO ■y HARRY BONNELL VAmmrs SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE PAIfTAflBV THXATBB DLDO. Phone. Doufflaai till EMPRESS.—Good show. The Dancing Ken- nedys made their debut here with gratifying results. Their act proved too short for the Empress regulars. Klein Brothers were good. "His Nerve," a snappy sketch, given fairly good Interpretation. Clark and McCullough. big laughing hit. May Ward offered an en- tertaining and diverting turn. . Pattee's Mer- maids closed, expertly artistic. Nalnoa, Ha- waiian guitarist, opened, but proved of light weight. The Manning Sisters Four were added, with their looks and harmony up to snuff, but the act shy of ginger. PANTAGE8.—Show off color and main- tained no balance. Too much singing. The Five Bonnie Lassies earned encores. Vcrca and Dorothy were liked. The Hondas Trio did excellent work. Alf. Goulding and Co. were In closing position with "In Mexico." The condensed musical comedy compares fa- vorably with the average pop burlesque tab- loids. Tllford put on a neat and pleasing ven- trlloqulal turn, hurt by much of his bent routine being eliminated. "The Point of View," Walter Montague's piece dealing with the sex problem, flivved on Its first show and was closed. Asevedo, a lightweight of local prominence, filled. His act didn't fit. ORPHEUM.—Fairly good bill. "The Little Parlslenne" gave fair satisfaction. Hoey and Lee, big hit. Delmore and Light scored nicely. Ethel McDonough, pleasing. The Juggling Millers, cleverly held down closing position. Of the holdovers, Buckley's Animals assigned the opening position. Elsa Ruegger repeated her first week's encores, while the Jack Kennedy piece again went over with laughing results. COLUMBIA (Oottlob St Marx, mgrs.; K. & E.).—"Mission Play" (fourth and final week). Next, Margaret Anglln. CORT (Homer F. Curran, mgr.; Shuberts). —Scott pictures (one week only). Next. "Tho Enchantress" (Kitty Gordon). ALCAZAR (Belasco A Mayer, mgrs ) — Ralph Hers. "Miss Nobody from Starland" (Ralph Herz stock; third week).