Variety (September 1913)

VARIETY 25 The Dancing Higginses, on the New York Roof will leave there this week CT next to join the Valeska Suratt vau- deville act. The Higginses receive $150 weekly with the act. When they broke into the show business, not so long ago through an amateur dancing contest, they received $30. In one of the restaurant Cabarets in New York a single girl singer has returned after an absence of seven months, coming back with the same songs and dresses she had when leav- ing. Blanche Vincent and Russell Mack, last season with Reisenweber's, are at the Cafe Boulevard. portals. The police board will not under any consideration grant or re- new any more liquor licenses in the red light zone except for straight sa- loons. This new order goes into ef- fect Sept. 30. The resolution strikes Barbary Coast a body blow from which it will never recover say local wise- acres. The police here believe this section is becoming too notoriously known abroad and is giving the city a black eye, which condition they in- tend to alleviate by the new order. San Francisco, Sept. 24. The death knell of "Barbary Coast" has been sounded. From drastic meas- ures passed by the local police com- missioners the B. C. atmosphere is scheduled to undergo a reform that will shake its very foundations from end to end The commissioners le- solved Monday night to divorce danc- ing and strong drink along the Coast and will hereafter prohibit any kind of dancing in the cafes, restaurants and saloons in that district. Further- more they will not permit women pa- trons or female employees within their It is reported that a couple of New Yorkers who have delved in theatrical lore have their eyes on the abandoned Lobster Palace in the basement of the Columbia Theatre building. The for- mer proprietors gave up completely Vvhen the mayor enforced the 1 o'clock closing daw. Wilfred Pywell of England claims the long distance piano playing rec- ord. At Leicester he stuck to the keys for 34 hours, playing 1,500 melodies from memory. Pywell drank only cold liquids, but kept up a flow of conversa- tion. The previous long piano playing record is said to have been 30 hours, although it is recalled reports of rec- ords made on the Coast and Austral- ia within the past few years gave a longer time. OBITUARY Mrs. George King, mother of Mar- shall and King, died Sept. 17 at her home, 45 Wordsworth St., East Bos- ton, after a lingering illness. Besides her daughters, she is survived by a hus- band. The girls are touring Europe at present. Cincinnati, Sept. 24. William McMurray, aged about 60 years, fell on the sidewalk at Sixth and Walnut streets early Sunday morning and died. The deceased was a per- former and was formerly assistant property man of the Grand theatre. The cause of his death was heart dis- ease. His body was unclaimed at the morgue. Celia Ginsberg^ a sister of Violinsky, died at her home in Binghamton Sept. 15. aged 31. cago, died Sept. 17 after ten months' illness, the result of a fall which broke her jaw and injured her internally. The deceased was not a professional, but widely known amonK vaudovillians. In- terment took place last Saturday in Chicago. Louis Loilanem ("Big Louis"), who traveled as a "giant" with a circus for some time and then took to farming on his savings, died in Hancock, Mich. He was 30 years old, 7 feet eight inches tall and was said to be the biggest man in the world. Jack Lawrence died in Chicago last week. He is survived by his widow, sister and mother. Mrs. W. C. Sams, mother of Jessie Powers of the well known team of John T. and Jessie Powers died Sept. 21 at the age of 50, after a short ill- ness of pneumonia. The funeral took place last Wednesday the remains be- ing interred in Woodlawn cemetery. Russell Ryan, brother of Maud Ryan (Inness and Ryan), died last week in Grace Hospital, Toronto, at the age of 21. He was burned while at work, his death resulting from this. Deceased was not a professional. Mrs. Maxy Geary, mother of Tom Mayo Geary, professional manager of the Harold Rossiter Music Co., Chi- Pauline Tate, a Chicago living pic- ture artist with the Hagenback-Wal- lace circus, was accidentally pushed from the crowded platform of a Pull- man at Greenville, Tex., Sept. 16 and fell under a passing train. She died shortly after. The remains were sent to Brazil, Ind., for burial, MAY "SCRATCH" ORPHBUM. Newark, N. J., Sept. 24. Business at M. S. Schlesinger's Or- pheum. now a link of the Stair & Hav- lin Circuit, has not been encouraging since the opening. There is talk that Schlesinger will move his stock com- pany from the Shubert to this house. Stair & Havlin have the house pretty well booked up to November, and if the Orpheum withdraws will immedi- ately take on another theatre which is at their disposal here. EVA TANGUAY SAYS As imitation is a sincere form of flattery the numerous vaudeville road shows now playing or in prepara tion quite naturally attest to the Roaring Success of Eva Tanguay's Cyclonic Vaudeville Minneapolis this week.