Variety (September 1913)

VARIETY Publlihed Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Tlmea Square. New York. 8IMB SILVERMAN Proprietor CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Btdv. CHABLE8 J. FBEEMAN SAN FBANCISCO Pantages Theatre Bldf. HARRY BONNELL LONDON 18 Charing CroM Road JESSE FREEMAN PARIS 66 bis, Rue Saint Dldier EDWARD G. KENDREW BERLIN •t Btromstraaae E. A. LBYT ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising copy for current Issue must reach New York otflce by Wednesday evening. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panied by remittance. SUBSCRIPTION Annual $4 Foreign 6 Single copies, 10 cents Entered as second-claas matter at New York. Vol. XXXII. September 26, 1913. No. 4. Sam Bachen will replace Al. Fryne with Taylor's "Tango Girls," an act in the Taylor burlesque show. Gladys Arnold (Mrs. Felix Burn- ham) is in a private hospital at 321 Eastj42d street, New York. Sherman and De Forest have ac- cepted a route over the Nixon-Nirdlin- ger time, opening next week. ''Happy Hooligan" is going out again, Gus Hill planning a road revival of the old farce for next month. Anita Wright made her debut into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wright in Kearney, N. J., recently. Gordon Walton, a member of Bert Leslie's sketch, has had to retire tem- porarily from the act, owing to an in- jury received in a fall on stage. He will return. Joe Wood opened a check account Tuesday. He wrote two checks the first day, both payable to himself. Mr. and Mrs. Curley Burmaster are the parents of a boy. Burmaster has been with Sam Scribner's enterprises foi 13 years. T. Roy Barnes opens as prjficipal comedian with "The Red Canary," when the piece starts its tour Sept. 29 at Baltimore. The new "Uncle Zeb" production of Henry W. Savape's will open next month in Albany. Willis P. Sweat- nam is featured. Valeska Suratt will open her vaude- ville tour next week at Scranton. Arthur Hammerstein has engaged Helen Sinclair and Mazzie Hartford for his "High Jinks," rehearsing atop Hammerstein's Victoria. Charles Dingle, late leading man for Poli's stock, Wilkes-Barre, has joined Ann Sutherland's vaudeville act to play principal male role. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Adams (Lillian Herlein), bringing to them a girl. The baby lived only a few days. Lew Wiswell and George Sydney have pooled un a road production of "The Common Law" which they will send to the Pacific coast this fall. South African newspapers dated Sept. 1, just in, report the sale to the City Council of Kimberly of the stock o. the Kimberly Theatre Controlling Co., limited. The Farman theatre (E. E. Baker, manager), Warsaw, N. Y., has can- celed all attractions from Oct.' 7 until 15 to permit reseating and other im- provements. The furniture and stock of the York Music Publishing Co. were sold yes- terday in the firm's offices under an order of the United States Court in bankruptcy proceedings. Forest Gail Wyer and Bettina Shel- don, until recently members of the Chas. Yale "Mutt and Jeff" company, now in Chicago, have separated pro- fessionally and domestically. Tony Wilson, husband of one of the Amoros Sisters, who has been acting as the manager of "Those French Girls," is making ready a single. He was for years a well known acrobat. CoL W. F. Cody, who is passing through bankruptcy in the west has started suit against the Cody Wyom- ing Coal Co., a New Jersey corpora- tion, for $16,000, alleged to be money advanced. Doc Adams returned from Europe last week. He's the only agent cross- ing the briny and returning without saying he had brought back a lot of acts. He didn't bring anything back but a new hat. In The Argosy for October is a story called "When Vaudeville Beckoned" by Fred V. Greene, Jr. It details the ex- periences of a couple of legits trying to get into vaudeville with a sketch, via the small time. The Princess theatre on 39th street opens tomorrow night. A dress re- hearsal with the press invited is to be given this evening. When John Drew revives "The Ty- ranny of Tears" and also produces "The Will," James Rarric's little piece, at the Enii)iro next week, two leading: women will vie with each other for the female honors. In leadinf^ roles will be seen Mary Holand and Laura Hope Crews. Drew is expected to stay out his time until November. Plans are afoot to install stock four nights out of the week at the new house at Far Rockaway, L. I., with vaudeville the remainder of the week. On the off nights the stock company will play nearby theatres. Otto and Henry were one of the acts at the Columbia, New York, Sun- day afternoon. They did 30 minutes at the matinee, talking, and as that is enough for any two i)crforniances the team did not appear in the evening. An effort is being made to locate Mary Madden, a vaudeville performer, last heard from as a member of the team of The Two Marys. Her uncle, Thomas Madden, died in California re- cently, and she has fallen heiress to a share in a large estate. A road company of "The F'iKht' is being formed by the Harris I'.slatc managers who are planning to send it into Chicago for a run. The piece will also be sent to the Coast this season. The play will go on tour next month, people being signed up this week. "The Sacrifice," a road production which was touring the middle east under W. L. Tremayne's direction, is the latest one nighter to abandon its trouping. It closed Saturday in Ha- zelton. Pa. The show had been given some excellent New England bookings. Andy Rice appeared on Hroadway Tuesday, apparently in good health, but when accosted, shoved forth a card apprising friends of the fact that he was temporarily deaf and dumb, but that the doctor assured him he would be fully recovered in a week. When Violinsky saw the card, he endorsed on it "Don't be in a hurry." Plans are under way by the DeMille Producing Co. to bring out "The Reck- less Age" again this season, the show with a big city cast, opening some time i.i October. Lee Wilson Dodge wrote it. William and Cecil DeMille are the authors of the "After Five" show which Wagenhals & Kemper have in rehearsal. It opens around Oct. 15. At the regular Sunday night meet- ing of the New York Theatrical Pro- tective Union No. 1 Charles C. Shay, president of the I. A. T. S. E., in be- half of No. I's representation at the .Slate Federation of Labor, made a re- port of the recent state meeting at Utica. The delegates reported that the Federation approved of the idea t . have the stage employes come under the State Law regulating compensa- tion for the injuring of railway em- ployes, etcetera. Jack Shea is putting out a vaude- ville road show of five acts, opening Oct. 9 at Port Jervis, N. Y. Mr. Shea has a new hat, has i)iirchased a dollar down aiitotnobilc, and with :i ItaiiVi i^ll is sure of the first jump. \'<*r the past >-ix years, says Mr. .Shea, Port Jervis has been a turnaway for him, meaning the show drew pood Itiisiiuss. Fkhh the first stand the company will mi grate and may make ( f)rtl;ni'l. N' N the home of the Dillon lirotlicr^ "r anything else you want to (all it TOMMY'S TATTLES By THOMAS J. GRAY. There's a boarding house near Times Square that caters to show people. Four chauffeurs applied for a room last week and wore accommodated. Satur- day night the chauffeurs had a party. When things got real noisy with no signs of stopping, the landlady knocked on their door and said: "If you chauf- feurs don't stop your noise, I'll lose all my White Rats." (This is on the level.) Fall fashions ii\ vaudeville: Parodies will be worn shorter than ever this season. Blue gags seem more popular than they have been for years. Henches will be worn by most acts l)laying in "one." Magicians are not being used so much as trimminjjfs to vaudeville shows. It is now the style for acrobats to use two handkerchiefs between every four men, instead of one as formerly. Finger snai)ping by single women is l)assing away. Most dramatic sketches will wear deep black crooks and snowy while heroines. Monologs trimmed with recitation i>*iishes will be in demand. Red, white and blue flags will be much used. They show better when shirred with the music of "Dixie." The old-fashioned ten per cent style will be retained by the vaudeville agents. When "Fatima" opens at Hammer- stein's her music will probably be "In My Harem." Now that "The Lure" and "The "Fight" have had their manuscripts re- vised, we wonder if the box office statements still contain the old stuff. Ever hear of the Akron Times, of .\kron, Ohio? Of course not. We guess that's why they copped most of our col- umn of the week before last, so we'd mention them and let some one hear about them. it BACK TO THE CHORUS.*' (After Rudyard KlpUng. ) By ALEC GUINN. I am 1mm (• III a threadbare "Norfolk," !>• just taikli'd ii l)lK (rvii lunch, And I'm ItiiiiiinK the Huiiiti old "movementfl," aloriK (il the "first y«'ar" buncb. I know )'v ry note of the iiiuhIc, and know all lh»' s<ii|it liy liiait, And I vc w(irk<'<l with ten of the dozen damcR, wlio Vf wiiil)l«'d tho widow'K part. H:i< k to tlic t'horiiM n^'aln. .Mabel, liack to tin- ( horus UKain. ^ Vuiuh'vi.lf's line, Ixit wi- couldn't get time. So I'm back tr) the <'horuH again. 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