Variety (September 1913)

VARIITY 17 iSTOGK STOCK CO. REACHES HONOLULU. The World's Fair Stock Co., headed by Virginia Brissac and John Wray, arrived in Honolulu Sept. 3. Among the new faces in the company since its last visit are Fordinand Munier and Harry Garrety, who was last seen here with the Casino Musical Comedy Co. The company opens to-night at the Royal Hawaiian Opera House with "The Traveling Salesman." The roster of the company is Vir- ginia Brissac, John G. Wray, Howard Nugent, James Dillon, Wm. Campbell, C. C. Jackson, Edward Sorris, Harry Garrety, Ferdinand Munier, Roy Han- ford, Margaret Nugent, Mabel Wy- man, Evelyn Hambly, Ruth Van, Helen Dean, Vera Le Verne and Eva Shaw. Executive staff: Stage director, John G Wray; stage manager, Joseph Cox; stage carpenter, Wayne Harmon; mas- ter of properties, George White; scenic artist, A. J. (Buck) Theall, and A. J. Hotchkiss, advance representa- tive. ENGAGING ST. JOHNS CO. Walter Woods, of Boston, was in New York this week engaging stock people for the Woods-Monte Thomp- son Players to open at the Opera House, St. Johns, Can., Oct. 6. The Woods-Thompson Co. has a stock organization at Brockton, Mass., headed by Harold Claremont and Eva Marsh. NEW MAJESTIC COMPANY. Erie, Pa., Sept. 24. The roster of the new Majestic Stock Company, which opens at the Majestic Sept. 29 in "A Woman's Way" includes Kenneth Bisbee and Victoria Mont- gomery, leads; Harry Sedley, director; Robert Lee Allen, L. C. Phillips, Sum- ner Gard, Morey Drisko, J. H. Fowles, Billy Thompson, William Amsdell, Minnie Williams, Eleanor Earl, Mar- garet Ralph, Mae Roland; J. W. Rusk, manager. ONE POLI'S STOPS. Hartford, Conn., Sept. 24. Poli's local stock closed Saturday night. George Lask, stage director, left at once to join the "Tik Tok Man" production in a similar capacity. FIND ANOTHER S. & H. STAND. Newark, Sept. 24. Announcement is made the Clifford Stork and Mabel Brownell stock com- pany, playing the Shubert under M. S. Schlesinger's management, will move to the Orpheum week Oct. 13. Schlesinger's move in transferring the stock company leaves the Stair & Havlin Circuit to transfer its attrac- tions to another house here. They are now playing the Orpheum, They may arrange for their bookings to play the Hippodrome. REPLACING HERZ AT ALCAZAR. San Francisco, Sept. 24. A late Alcazar announcement says that Bertram Lytell and Evelyn Vaughan are to return here next month for another stock dramatic engage- ment, that will probably succeed that of Ralph Herz. Maud Amber, now leading woman at the Alcazar, is expected to serve in a like capacity for Dillon and King, when the latter open Oct. 5 at the Lyceum, Los Angeles. COMPANY IN MOBILE. J. H. Huntley, stage director, left New York Saturday for Mobile where he and Roger Barker, leading man, will inaugurate winter stock at the Or- pheum Sept. 29 with "The Lion and the Mouse." The company, besides Barker, in- cludes Luella Arnold, leading woman; Margaret Merriman, Mr. and Mrs. Var- ney, Wilmot Williams, Maud Fox, Charles Gofrey, Margaret Benjamin, Robert Benjamin, scenic artist. Hunt- ley will direct. START AT WILMINGTON. Wilmington, Del., Sept. 24. The Avenue opened Monday after- noon with a stock company in the comedy "Our Wives." For several days Manager Conness had been in New York City rehearsing the new company. Harry G. Hockey and Rob- ert Robertson, character men of last year's cast, are with the Conness play- ers this year. Rose Bender is the new leading woman and Carl Anthony the leading man. Others in the company are Robert Lawrence, Elmer Buffham, Laurette Brown, Estelle Morton and Marion Tanner, practically all entirely new to Wilmingtonians. The new company, according to many of the residents of Wilmington who witnessed the initial performance, is the best tliat Mr. Conness lias ever given. SILENT BACKERS. George Edwards, of the Holden-Ed- wards stock firm, is in New York this week organizing the new company which opens at the Avenue, Detroit, Oct. 5. Detroit, Sept. 24. It's rumored that the Holden-Ed- wards stock company here has Vaughan Glaser, a local stock favorite, as one of its silent backers. Leona Stater will head the new Avenue com- pany. DEDEYN'S MOHAWK GROUP. Severin DcDcyn has recruited the company he >vill install at the Mo- hawk, Schenectady, N. Y., Oct. 6, opening in "Arizona." George Ford will be business man- aj^cr. Others are Henry Crosby. Will- iam Ford, Frank Lorraine (staKC man- ager), Elmer Pyke, Cecil Kirke, Charles Danforth, Edith Ilarcourt, Selma Maynard, Arline Pretty. $10,000 FOR ^'ENTICEMENT.** A rather unique bit of theatrical lit' igation is on the tapis. It is a suit for $10,000 and the allegation is "entice- ment." Leffler & Bratton have entered an action against the Shuberts for the above mentioned sum, charging the Shuberts induced Doyle and Dixon, by fraudulent representations to break their contract with L. & B. Doyle and Dixon were under a three years' contract with Lcffler & Bratton, which called for a guarantee of 30 weeks a season. They were placed with the firm's **Merry Go-Rounders" burlesque show and opened at the Co- lumbia, New York. The Shuberts wanted the team and contracted with Leifler & Bratton for the dancers' ser- vices, placing them first with the Ger- trude Hofmann show and afterward with "The Honeymoon Express." The Shuberts' contract with Leffler & Bratton was fpr 27 weeks and the agreement was lived up to. Lefller & Bratton notified Doyle and Dixon to report for duty for the cur- rent season but the performers failed to put in an appearance. Bratton went to Atlantic City recently to per- sonally verify the report the dancers were playing again this season with "The Honeymoon Express." Nathan Burkan, attorney for L. & B., then notified the Shuberts that the team was still under contract to them, but received no reply. Hence the 110,000 damage suit for "enticement." No action has yet been taken against Doyle and Dixon by L. & B. A case was decided recently in the courts in a similar action that prompt- ed Burkan to proceed on the present lines. «« SON DEAD; ACTRESS PLAYS. Lawrence, SepL 24. Substitutes are playing at the Family this week for Mr. and Mrs. Gus Ra- pier, members of the stock company there. Mrs. Rapier played through a performance of "The Fatal Letter" a lew nights ago, knowing that her ycung son, injured in a street acci- dent, was in the hospital, but not aware that he had died just before the show began. Her husband, who played the oppo- site part, had been notified, but kept the news from her until the final cur- tain. When the news was broken to Mrs. Rapier she was prostrated, and '\^' still under the care of physicians. The boy was run down by an auto- mobile while playing "tag" in the street. PICKED WRONG SPELL. Paterson, N. J., Sept. 24. The A. M. Brue^geman Empire slock is closing Saturday. Stock pays lure in spells. The CheHter Wallace stock ban a new lund- ing woman in CathcrlDe Stevens opcnInK Kept. 1.') in "Uefore and After." Miss Sleven.s was fornnrly a principal with Al. H. Woods' "The Common Law." Kthel Clifton, lato of the Academy ntock. who was booked for a vaudeville tour In "The SurReon." tins HJKned a contract bh lead- ing woman with Julius Kabn's stock, Salem, .MiiHB.. und opens there Sept. li?), Kdn.i Archer ('rawford, who was to have Rone In .Miss Clifton's role In the variety turn, rehearsed and then quit for personal reasons. The act will be shelved for the present. It you don't n«lvertlN« in VAKIKTY, don't •dvrrtliw at all. LOVE LEASH** NEXT. The New Era Producing Co. (Joseph Bickerton, Jr., managing director) places "The Love Leash" into rehear- sal next week, the show to have its first production of the new season early next month. Grace Filkins will be featured as first planned. Of the first cast engaged Miss Filkins, Ann Meredith and Eliza- beth Richards are retained, while others engaged are Maud Granger, El- liott Dexter, Paul Ker, Bernard Fair- fax, Henry Stevenson and Lawrence Rnapp. Ben Teal, who staged "Adelc" for the Era company, will not direct "The Love Leash," Bickerton attending to that work himself. Teal is reported having the new H. H. Frazee show "lole" under his stage management. After the "Leash" is started Bicker- ton will produce "The Rule of Three," some time in November. There's talk that the New Era Co. will send out a No. 2 "Adele" around the first of the year. Seats are for sale for "Adele" at the Longacre, New York, for the Christ- mas and New Year's matinees. This week the Era Play Co. secured from the Harris estate the Harris thea- tre where "The Love Leash" is to be produced opening Oct. 13. The Guy Bolton farce, "The Rule of Three" will open after the holidays. ALL CHICAGO OPEN. Chicago, Sept. 24. Next week's opening will bring all but one of the big houses in Chicago on the map again. "Damaged Goods" will come to the Blackstone Sept. 29; "Romance" ^ixW open at the Princess Sept. 28; Lew Fields will reach the rehabilitated American Music Hall in "All Aboard" Sept. 28, and "Mutt and Jeff in Pana- ma" will open at the Olympic Sept. 28. Howard's will open Oct. 5 with "A Broadway Honeymoon." No date has been set for the open- ing of the Ziegfeld under the W. A. Brady management, but it will follow soon. Among the interesting things that are scheduled for the near future in Chicago playhouses will be "The Yel- low Jacket" at the Fine Arts, which will open Oct. 6. This season the Chi- cago Theatre Society, which operates this house, will put prices at 11.50 in- stead of 12 as heretofore. Chauncey Olcott will come to the Olympic Oct. 19, with his new offering "Shameen Dhu," and Otis Skinner will come to the Blackstone Oct. 20 in "Kismet," the piece which broko all records at the Tllinos last season. "The Passing Show of 1912" will ar- rive at the Auditorium for the Police- men's Benefit Association Oct. 26, and it is hinted that Gaby Desly's will make her first Chicago appearance at the Auditorium, Nov. 18, staying for a week. Manager R. R. Franklin of the Metropolis has n new rharncter man, Franelg Kirk Joln- Ing the uptown Rtork company this week. Mt. Vernon. N. Y.. Sept. 24. Eleanor Verden and Mnrearet HIoodKood. of the original "The Conrert" Co., wero spo- clally cn^aKed thiff week for the Peril Owen jiroductlon of the Dnvld nelntiro p|fr». n» the Wentchester O. jr.. Mt. Vernon. r;.irrfff Flenk- rnnn Joined the local stork flil'; w«<k. replac- ing Oerald Prlnjf an Juvenile.