Variety (February 1914)

VARIITY Pabllihtd Weekly by VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Time* Bquar*. N«w T*rk. 8UU BILTBRMAN Proprietor OHICAOO MajMUo Theatre Bldg. JOHN #. O'OONNOB SAN imANCUCO PantAcea Theatre Bids. ■OWABD BCOTT liONDOM II Charing Croaa Road •• bla. Rue BalBt Dldler ■DWABO O. KBNDBBW BBBUM «• Stroautraaae B. A. I^¥T ADVBRTI8BMBNT8 ▲dvertlalng copy for current leaue muat reach New York office by Wednesday eTenlav. ▲dvertlaementa by mall should be aooom- panled by remlttanoea. SUBSCRIPTION Annual |4 Foreign I Single copies, 10 cents Bntered as second-class matter at New York. Vol. XXXIII. February 27,1914. No. 13 Pauline Josef is rejoicing over the arrival of a son. Hines and Fention have disiolved partnership. Eva Shirley will open in London June 22 for a tour of the Stoll circuit. Ned La Rose, formerly Whalen and La Rose, is working alone. Isabelle Sherman, ill with pneumonia in Cleveland, is improving. Kslmar and Brown will return to vaudeville. Arthur Buckner was dismissed on the second charge against him and re- leased from custody this week. Charles McCune has been made man- ager of the Royal, formerly the Cot- tage Grove Empress, Chicago. Alice Warwick has recovered from a severe attack of grippe and tonsilitis bordering on diphtheria. William Faversham goes into vaude- ville at once in a condensed version of his big success "The Squaw Man." Lawrence Weber removed his ofti- cei Wednesday to the Longacre The- atre building. Edward Fields Norworth is the name of the "heir at law" to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Norworth. The stage hands at Pantagc^t', Den- ver, went out on strike Feb. 16 and are still out. Mason, Wilbur sod Jordan are due to return to New York early in March, from Europe. Each of the three houses now playing vaudeville at Portland, Me., is booked through the United. Marie Lloyd and Bernard Dillon were married last week in the north- west. Washington's Birthday matinees were nearly all record breakers in the centre of the city. Jim Tenbrook has assumed the role in "The Behman Show" played by the late Fred Wyckoff. Helen A. Hardy, attached to Mrs. Wolf's booking bureau, is off duty, owing to illness. Selzer Waters, formerly secretary of the White Rats, is now playing as a monologist on the Loew Circuit. Lou Edelman is no longer with the Allen & Epstein booking agency. At present he is confined to his home with grippe. Lottie Walton (Bert and Lottie Walton) hurt her ankle and the act was unable to play the Washington, Newark, last week. They' will reap- pear at Miner's Bronx this Sunday. Severe colds caused the withdrawal of Marie McFarland and Mary McFar- land from the Hippodrome, Cleveland, Monday, after the first show. Andrew Kelley took the open place. William Fox*s Riverside, New York, recommenced pop vaudeville this week, making Mr. Fox's two adjoining houses at Broadway and 96th street (the other is called Riveria) similar in policy of entertainment. Gerald Fitzgerald, late of the W. S. Butterfield forces in Battle Creek, is in New York and he, with his brother, Harry Fitzgerald, will shortly embark in the local booking agency business. William Ryan, manager of the Gil- more, Springfield, Mass., has been transferred by P. F. Shea to Provi- dence. Jos. Furlong is now managing the Park (formerly Poli's), Springfield, succeeding Ray Averill, who goes into the Poli booking department. Belle Oliver, at the American for the first half of the week, was taken ill Wednesday and replaced by Ben Lewin. Franco Lucanese, of the Three Bo- hemians, and Nellie Dalton, of Louis- ville, were married in Cincinnati last week. "Dugan's Money" is a new sketch by Roland Oliver which James Corcoran and a company of three placed in re- hearsal this week. Arrangements are on to have EUery's Band give a series of concerts in New York this spring and summer at popu- lar prices. Dan MacMillan has been engaged by Joseph Hart to play the title role in "Silk Hat Harry," an act now in re- hearsal with five men and two women principals and a chorus. Frank Frere was engaged Monday to play the judge. I. B. Pulaski, formerly representing VARiBTr at Atlantic^ City, and Fred Schader, former press representative for Werba & Luescher, have formed a publicity partnership and will take offices on Broadway to exploit show people in the papers. Leon M. Polachek, musical director for Valeska Suratt's act, and his wife, .\da Dunbar, also with the turn, have left it. Louis Simon is taking a flock of his own musicians to Union Hill next week for his local showing of the new "Persian Gardens" tabloid musical comedy. "Come Home Smith," James Mont- gomery's new play, which had its pre- miere in Los Angeles, may come into New York before the end of the cur- rent season. Corse Payton is angling for the West End for summer stock, and it looks as though he will get the lease. Bobby Barry has signed to play Dingbat in the Leffler-Bratton produc- tion of "The Dingbats," now on the road route. Arthur Dunn is withdraw- ing from the company. Owing to the continued success ot the Elsa Ryan "Peg O' My Heart" Company in tlie east, the proposed Pacific Coast tour lias heen called otf for this season. Rosita Mantilla and Balfour Lloyd, a dancing team, engaged to open with the Lew Fields' Show in Chicago, have dissolved stage partnership. Miss Man- tilla wished to play the Chicago con- tract with a new partner, but the Fields' management declined to accept the new arrangement. Lloyd has made a new dancing formation with Vera Sa- bini, a former Hippodrome dancer from Vienna. February 13, Judge Ray of the United States Court at Albany handed down a decision in the Aaron Hoffman vs. Francis Murphy and Jean Bedini case. Hoffman was awarded a perma- nent injunction, $1,000 in damages, the costs of the case and $500 counsel fees. In December Judge Ray refused to grant a preliminary injunction, which decision at that time was decidedly favorable to the defendants. Mean- while Murphy and Bedini parted com- pany and the former continued to use the late Cliff Gordon's material, Hoff- man claimed. On Feb. 1.3 it was es- tablished in court that Miirjthy us(m1 bits taken here and there from the (Jordon stutT, althouKh Murphy ex- pected that it woulfl he sliown that the material, despite a recent copyright, had l)ecoine common proi)erty. Sam Levy, assistant professional manager at Snyder's, is ordinarily a hustling kid, but he's fallen in love. Someone outside "this business" Sam- my says, but he's in love notwith- standing he can't land her with a song. Sammy now measures 8x4, and uses a flat with a hallway built to fit him, but he complains that if the young lady doesn't come across with a little af- fectionate display toward him, he will lose weight until his lines are 4x4 or less. Sammy didn't ask for this but intimated there would be no hard feel- ing aroused through the publication. TOMMY'S TATTLES. By Thomas J. Gray. You may not believe it, but we met a Hebrew comedian the other day who was not and did not expect to be sign- ed for "Potash and Perlmutter." Johnny Stanley is having an awful time making out his Income Tax papers. The war in Mexico is certainly in- terfering with Bryan's vaudeville dates. You can always tell comedians, they wear soft felt hats—(sometimes that's the only way you can tell them). Not-So-Eaay Ways to Make a Living. Number Two Act—We can't help sobbing when we think of the hard life this is. The audience really be- lieves the show doesn't start until af- ter the "number two" act finishes. The number one don't expect to go, so they haven't any worries. The only difference between being on second and closing the show is the closing act sees the backs of the audience going out while the number two act sees their faces while they're coming in. Critic.—A critic is not a job—it's an • affliction that some people wish upon themselves when they can't fmd enough trouble in their ordinary walk of life. No matter what a critic says he's wrong; nobody ever agrees with him unless he says they're good—but most critics never say anyone or anything is good, so they go through life with about as many friends as a baseball umpire. Booking Manager.—Booking shows is a nice job. The acts they book kick about the spots assigned to them and the acts they don't book hate them. If the shows they book make money for ti;e house, the house manager takes tl.c credit, if the house doesn't do busi- ness he blames the show. If you're not a grafter they say you are, so eith- er way you lose. Stage Hand.—To be a stage hand y» u must be a mind reader, have sec- rnd sight and a sunny disposition— >"u must know what proi)s are want- ed without getting a prop list, he able to speak lines and play bits in acts. Must l)e able to answer all kinds of ortsticjns regarding the town and au- dience, besides regular work on the Sw-ifU'. It's a great profession for any <Mif who does not want {o work hard to W('{> .iway 1 re till.