Variety (May 1914)

VARIETY RIETY Fubltahed Weekly fry VARIETY PUBLISHING CO. Times Square New York 81 MB SILVERMAN Proprietor CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bid*. JOHN J. O'CONNOB BAN FRANCISCO Pantagee Theatre Bids. JACK JOSEPHS ' LONDON 18 Charing Cross Road JESSE FREEMAN PARIS 66 blB. Rue Saint Dldler EDWARD G. KENDREW BERLIN 49 Stromstrasse E. A. LEVY ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising copy for current Issue must reach New York office by Wednesday evening. Advertisements by mall should be accom- panied by remittances. SUBSCRIPTIONS Annual '* Foreign » Single copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class matter at New York STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF VARIETY Published weekly at New York City, as re- quired by the act of August 24, 1911. Name of Post-office Address dltor, 81ms Silverman. 1KS6 Broadway Publisher, 8ime Silverman, 1586 Broadway Owner, Slme Silverman, 1686 Broadway Business Manager, Charles J. Freeman, 1(86 Broadway Known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders holding 1 per cent, or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities: , None. (Signed) Charles J. Freeman, business manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of March, 1914, Jenle Jacobs, No. 8, No- tary Public, New York County. Vol. XXXIV. May 1, 1914. No. 9 Lady Dangan is ill at Atlantic City. The Colonial closes its vaudeville sea- son May 24. Mme. Bessie Thomashefsky is nego- tiating for a vaudeville debut. Vaughan Comfort and John King have formed a vaudeville partnership. George Samuel*, the old melodra- matic producer, has been heard from. He is now in China showing pictures. George H. Nicolai will have Eugenia Blair staring next season in "Bella Donna." Vic Herman is in charge of Weber's theatre, representing the Mutual Film Corporation. The Bijou, Savannah, will remain open all summer, playing vaudeville and tabloids. "Vice," the sketch showing the find- ings of the commission of the state of Illinois, playing Pantages vaudeville, which closed in Winnipeg after one matinee performance, played a full week in Edmonton. No changes were made in the lines but the billing of the act was changed to "The Truth." Kathryn Jamison and Louise Carver have formed a vaudeville partnership. Hattie Kneitel replaced Lottie Col- lins in "The Belle of Bond Street" at the Shubert Monday night Ned Dandy, Hebrew comedian, and El Gordo, comedy magician, will do a double act next season. Chas. Heywood is at Gardes Hotel, Cincinnati, recovering from a sprained back received in a trolley accident. Charles Harrison has replaced Sey- mour Furth as musical director of Joe Pettingill's "Mutt and Jeff." The Brighton Beach Music Hall has not yet set a definite opening date. The Brighton opens May 18. Mrs. Ren Shields has assumed the personal management of The Van Alen (154 West 45th street) and is catering to theatrical profession. Jim Toney, of Toney and Norman, was forced to quit after the matinee at the Maryland, Baltimore, Monday, because of an attack of "spring fever." The Columbia, Far Rockaway, L. I., used by Corse Payton for stock during the week, has Sunday vaudeville, nine acts, two shows, booked by Harry A. Shea. George Beban intended to sail for Europe where he is under contract to tour but postponed the trip owing to the near approach of the stork in his home. Neil McKinley has a 40-week con- tract from the Loew office, obtained for him by Frank Bohm, calling for a tour over the time, commencing in September. Jim Thornton, who slipped and fell as he was entering the 116th street sub- way station a few weeks ago, has been discharged from the Harlem Hospital as bein^ O. K. again. After playing two shows at the Colo- nial Monday, Eva Shirley was notified Tuesday her position on the bill had been changed from second to opening spot, exchanging with Gliding O'Mearas. She refused and walked out. Dorothy Kenton filled the vacancy in the second spot. NEWSPAPER MEN Variety la desirous of securing newspaper man throughout the U. and Canada, as its correspondanta. Space rates will be paid. The ust theatrical paper correspondent Is being replaced on Variety by trained newspaper man as rapidly aa possible. Any newspaper man with some knowledge of theatricals who may wish to be attached to Variety's staff, can write direct to Variety, New York, Variety has discontinued printing weekly reports of shows and theatres from the smaller dties, carrying only some of the biggest towns in the non- pareil with displayed heads. Where a newspaper man la located aa corre- spondent he will not be called upon to furnish anything weekly beyond current news events from his town and territory. This hi aether by mail or wire aa it breaka. James F. Kelly and Emma Pollock will sail from San Francisco July 7, to open on the Brennan-Fuller time, Australia, July 31. Jack Norworth has tentatively booked passage for himself and family on the Lusitania sailing May 19. He opens at the Hippodrome June 1 for four weeks. Pop vaudeville now at Proctor's Park Place theatre, Newark, (the former big time house), is to be shifted to the Lyric next week. The Empress, Pensacola, Fla., is not to abandon its musical tab policy dur- ing the summer. The controlling par- ties also operate the new stock in the O. H. there. The National Association of Theatri- rical Producing Managers will move its offices to-day from the Times Building to the top floor of the Playhouse. Any information as to the where- abouts of Scheda, the Polish violinist, will be thankfully received by the son, W. Scheda Tiebermann, 1371 East 38th street, East Oakland, Cal. Ruth Smith, a Macon (Ga.) girl, who has been attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for the past two years, has gone home with a diploma. Miss Smith, by reason of her work in the Maeterlinck play, "The Death of Tintagiles," at the Empire theatre, brought forth commendable comment from the press. v Jule Delmar directed a Ladies' Min- strel Show at New Rochelle Monday night. Local talent, excepting the vaudeville (furnished by Jule from the professional ranks). Mr. Delmar was interlocutor; Mrs. Delmar, one of the "bones." The performance netted about $800 for the St. Paul Parish, in whose behalf Jule arranged the affair. Paul Conchas returns to his native heath at the conclusion of the current season, where he proposes to remain for a whole year, doing what he de- scribes as "light work," which will con- sist of appearing in public with a trav- elog act. consisting of pictures and a lecture on his tour of the world during which he gathered a l«>t of material. Nancy Dorane, of Sidney Wood and the Dorane Sisters, is ill and the act has had to cancel two weeks around New York. They expect to sail for their home, England, May 19, on the Lusitania. Chester P. Crawford, son of L. M. Crawford, the mid-west theatre mana- ger, has returned from Europe where he conducted a chain of roller skating rinks on the continent, yielding him a fortune large enough for him to send his father a draft for $140,000 to deposit in a Topeka Bank for "small change." TOMMY'S TATTLES. By Thomas J. Gray. It is rumored that the war may be called off because some of the Mexi- can soldiers refuse to do four shows a day. Wanted—Several good quartets who can sing beside camp fires, as our army has to be up to date, it's going to carry its own cabaret. A fellow from Chicago wrote and asked how he could become a great writer—we thanked him for the com- pliment. Buck—We can't fall down on our finish. Wing—How's that? Buck—We take the baby out for a bow. It will soon be time for you to take that straw hat out of your act and wear it on the street. The report is untrue that Ward and Curran have been engaged to play Potash & Perlmutter. "The Star Spangled Banner" with- out any billing is the hit of the show this week. Mary had a little act, She worked as white as snow, But now she's working black face, For her white act didn't go. We can't think of anything funnier than a female impersonator spitting after removing his wig. They say the first scene in trie new Ziegfeld "Follies" is laid in Hell. Hope the chorus girls don't get ner- vous when they realize where they are. THE ACROBAT'S LAMENT. By jok HARROW.*. Cleaned as Just a "dump act " We open or close the show, No mutter If we're good or bad And no matter how we go. On paper outside we're almost aeon In letters small and faint, Hut rh we are only "acrobata." Why waste any more paint? Our dressing mom —on the roof Or down beneath the stage; Pretty noon they'll have us With the anlmala In a cage. Audiences either walk In on us Or else they nre walking out. If act \* on at two-fifteen It's bnd without a doubt. Put If thla In over ehangrd around And the acrobata Ret their due They'll be the hit of every show, nut thnt'n only between me and you.