Variety (February 1914)

VARIETY OHIO'S CATHOUC BOYCOH COST S SHOW S AND MONEY Cincinnati Principal Loser in Hamilton Co. Edict Against Plays and Star. Gertrude Hoffmann's Date at Colum- bia for Next Week Canceled. Sl^SOO Estimated Loss for ''The Family Cupboard.'' Boycott and Weather Worrying Managers. Cincinnati, Feb. 25. Gertrude Hoffmann has cancelled week of March 8 at the Columbia, fear- ing to encounter a boycott of the Catholic societies, which, have banned her. She will not play here this sea- son. The Hamilton County Federation of Catholic Societies, which recently an- nounced it would boycott plays consid- ered objectionable, claims it was the cause of "The Family Cupboard's" clos- ing at the Lyric Saturday night. "The Family Cupboard" has been listed as Exhibit No, 1 in the Federation's col- lection of trophies. The Federation has 10,000 members. It asked them all to keep away from the Lyric last week. They did so. Manager Middleton estimates that the Lyric alone lost $1,500 from the boy- cott, not to mention the show's dam- age. Gertrude Hoffmann is also on the black-list. "Madam President," the Grand's next attraction, is also to be boycotted. With the snow and the boycott, theatre managers are com- plaining. PAUL GOUDRON WEDS. Chicago, Feb. 25. Paul Goudron of the Sullivan & Con- sidine, Chicago, local offices, was mar- ried Monday, Feb. 16, in Chicago, to Anna Conners. The ceremony was witnessed by a few friends and rela- tives. WILSON BACK IN "ASS'N." Chicago, Feb. 25. The Wilson Avenue theatre will be booked by the W. M. V. A. once more. It was formerly booked by "the Asso- ciation," but later on Jones, Linick & SchaeflFer booked the house. After Mitch Licalzi took the Wilson over he decided to change the book- ings. "MA CHERIE" GETS OVER. Wilmington, Del., Feb. 25. The French vaudeville act "Ma Cherie" was given its premiere in the Garrick Monday and made a decided hit. The act CRtries a company of 15, headed by Simonc de Beryl and Emile Agoust. It has a special setting, and the plot revolves around the infatuation of a young man for an artist's model. Plenty of comedy enlivens the turn. LEW BRICE'S REASONS. Lew Brice is back in town after his brief matrimonial experience in Texas. As related in Varirt\' last week, he eloped with Tillie Zick. on the same bill with him, and retained his liberty for four dtya »ftcrward, wbeo he was thrown into jail because the girl was a minor. He was kept in "jug" for 24 hours, until signing a paper agreeing to an anulment of the wedding. Lew now declares he will remarry the girl July 27, when she will be of age. He naively remarks: "I'm just crazy in love with her, and she's got a lot of money." Pending the resumption of the matri- monial yoke and the financial alliance, Lew will work as a "single" in vaude- ville. "SLIVERS" OAKLEY MISSING. Chicago, Feb. 25. Relatives of "Slivers" Oakley, the clown who has been on the vaudeville stage for some time, arc worried as to his whereabouts. They have not heard from him in some time and they fear he had met with some accident or foul play. FUSSING OVER A RING. Chicago, Feb. 25. Minnie Ennesser, who poses as "Sep- tember Morn" in the play of that name at the LaSalle opera house, has been appearing in the courts as well as in the newspapers recently on account of a valuable ring she is said to have taken from A. S. Barrows, a married man. The man alleges the young woman slipped the ring from his finger and re- fused to return it. Miss Ennesser re- plies he gave her the ring and many other valuable presents. She also al- leges she lost the ring. The young woman has been a cabaret singer for some time and has had much experience on the stage. TANGUAY WITH SHOW. Chicago, Feb. 25. Eva Tan^uay left here with her road show, opening in Joliet. The acts with the company are, besides Miss Tanguay and John Ford, the Nelsons, hoop roll- ers; Weber, Frascr and Beck, The Waltons. "A Live Wire" (sketch) and a musical act. MoHne, 111., Feb. 25. The Kva Tanguay Volcanic V^audc- ville is playing here to-day, one of the one-nightcrs the show is now going over. Miss Tanguay is appearing, but is not yet fully recovered from the ill- ness which took her out of the per- formance in Chicago. SEVERAL PLAYING REELS. The Alhanjbra, Stamford. Conn.; Middlesex Theatre, Middletowu. X. V.: Lyceum, New London. Conn., .ind the Rliven O. H., Westerly. N. V., hooked hy Lester Mayne of the Family De partment. U, B. O., went into pictures Monday. HARRY FOX '^ALKS OUT." Milwaukee, Feb. 25. Harry Fox and Jennie Dolly arc not at the Majestic this week, as an- nounced. They "walked out" before opening, returning to New York Mon- day. The act's objection to playing the house was through the headlining of Cressy and Dayne pn the current bill. Fox and Dolly have returned from a five months' trip over the Orpheum Circuit, where they were the feature attraction on the bills played. The Majestic is booked also by the Orphe- um offices. BESSIE CLAYTON ENVIOUS San Francisco, Feb. 25. According to a rumor which reached here today, Maurice Diamond retired from Bessie Clayton's dancing act— now on the Orpheum time—at Portland last week. From what can be gathered, it seems the western dailies all along the route have been lavish in their praise of Diamond's work. Many of the reviews devoted more ink to Dia- mond than to Miss Clayton. This seems to have annoyed the danseuse and when the act concluded its Port- land engagement. Diamond retired. TAUBER'S LITTLE GRIEVANCE. Sam Tauber, manager of the Colo- nial, visited the Keith offices Wednes- day, in the Palace building, to tender his resignation. He has a grievance— 3 series in fact—based on the constant interference with his authority at the theatre of J. Robert Samuels, who is a sort of something in the New York Keith houses. It is not known whether Tauber went through with his determination to call it all off, or whether he was ap- peased and his ruffled feathers were once more smoothed down. STILL MIXING WITH WOMEN. Chicago, Feb. 25. "Handsome Jack" Koetters, alleged to have slain Mrs. Emma Kraft with a hammer in the Saratoga Hotel in No- vember, 1912, has been brought from San Francisco and must stand trial. He was betrayed to the police by a woman. LOUIS WESLEY ILL. Louis Wesley was removed to a pri- vate sanitarium Monday, said to be in a critical condition, suffering from pneumonia. Cecil Lean Marries Again. Chicago, Feb. 25. Cecil Lean, late husband of Florence Holbrook and known as one of the most ardent lovers on and off the stage, was married to Cleo Knipy by Judge Hugo Pam in the Superior Court Feb. 21. The witnesses were Mort II. .Sing- er and .Attorney Herman Frank. Miss Holbrook's divorce was pro- nounced absolute last week. Miss Empy is known on tlic sta^c as Cleo Mayfield and has been appearing with Mr. Lean in vaudeville. .Sh.e was of "The Military Girl," whfrc she first nicl h^r husband. LOEW HOUSE BUILDING. Hamilton, Ont., Feb. 25. Theatrical men, said to be represent- ing Marcus Loew, of New York, have purchased a site for a new theatfe to be built on James street north, in the heart of the business section. The price was 1150,000 and construction work will start at once. It is claimed the new house will be the largest in the city, and have a roof garden. Since the Lyric has been taken ove** by the Canadian Theaters Co. and turned into a picture house, Hamilton has been forced to fall back on the Griffin house here for low price shows. Griffin is packing 'em in by giving two reels of pictures and six acts, charging but five cents in the afternoon and ten cents at night. SENTENCED IN PITTSBURG. Pittsburgh, Feb. 25. Roderico Rodriques, a Spanish singer who played the Harris and took a 12-year-old girl with him to Steuben- ville, Ohio, recently, was sent to the county workhouse for two years in criminal court. Walter Jones, who pleaded guilty to robbing dressing rooms in the Gayety and other theatres, was paroled for four years. "SUNDAY" FINE IN NEW JERSEY. Newark, N. J., Feb. 25. Walter Rosenberg and Harry Phillips were convicted and fined 1200 apiece for habitually giving Sunday shows in this state. In addition they were given a sentence of five months, which was suspended with the understanding they refrain from repeating. BERNSTEIN HAS A REP. Margaret Sheehan, formerly with the Frank A. Keeney Enterprises, is out in New England as a traveling represen- tative for Freeman Bernstein. The P. F. Shea opera house at Holy- oke, Mass., has been added to the Berr stein office. It uses five acts on a split week and will commence taking the Bernstein shows March 5. Commencing this week, the Bern- stein office is placing a bill of seven acts at the Lafayette on upper Seventh avenue, now controlled by I. Fluegel- man, who Jias disposed of the McKin- ley Square Theatre, to L Edelstein, manager of several East Side "Yid- dish" theatres. Edelstein will reopen it shortly with "Life in Holyland," n feature reel showing scenes in Jerusa- lem. It will also be exhibited at the Mt. Morris by Edelstein. Girl Rushed to Hospital. Chicago, Feb. 25. Dorothy Davis, a member of the Mollie Williams burlesque aggregation, collapsed on the stage this week while at the Star and Garter. She was rushed to the American hospital in an ambulance and immediately oper- ated on by Dr. Max Thorek, who dis- covered an internal rupture. The girl is recovering. Mrs. William O'Clare, a prominent vaudeville member of Chicago, was successfully operated upon by the same surgeon this week. It you doa't mdwrtlam la VABIITT. d«o't idTrrtlff tt til.