Variety (October 1914)

VARIETY KIETY Publiih.d Wc«kly by S1ME 8ILVUMAN Time* Square. New York. CHICAGO Majestic Theater Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO ....Pamages Theatre Bldg. LONDON 18 Charing Croat Road PARIS 66 bit. Rue St. Didier ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising cop/ (or current issue mutt reach New York oftce by Wednesday midnight. Advertisements for Europe and New York City only, accepted up to noon time Friday. Advertisements by mail should be accom- panied by remittances. SUBSCRIPTION Annual M Foreign 5 Single copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class mstter at New York. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF VARIETY Published weekly st New York City, as re- quired by the act of August 24. 1912. Name of Post-office Address Owner, editor snd publisher, Si me Silverman, 1536 Broadway ManagingEditor None Business Manager, John J. O'Connor, 1536 Broadway Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other aecurity holdera, holding 1 per cent, or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: None (Signed) John J. O'Connor, business manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of September, 1914, Jenie Jacobs, No. 3, Notary Public, New York County. Vol. XXXVI. No. 5 " ■ ■ »' • ■ —— A baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Clinton Sept. 25. The Fifth Avenue vaudeville bill was increased and strengthened this week. Walter Gilewicz, pianist at the Col- lege of Music, and Mathilda Sauer were married h,ere this week. A daughter was born to Clara Mor- ton (Mrs. F. J. Sheen) at her home in Detroit Sunday. Hazel Griffin and Gus King, of the Trans-Atlantic Sextet, were married last week in Philadelphia. C. E. Bray has leased his Pelham estate, the Bronx, and taken an apart- ment in the city for the winter. Anna Chandler opened at the Pal- ace, Chicago, this week (Sept. 28), after which she will tour the Orpheum Circuit, booked by Ross & Curtis. Harmon Mac Greg or sails from Lon- don Oct. 16 and upon his arrival here will go to his orange grove in Califor- nia. Felice Lyne, the American soprano, sails from London Oct. 8. Her first re- appearance over here will be at Allen- town, Pa., Nov. 6. Leo Carrillo has been signed for five years with Oliver Morosco. He will play a few vaudeville dates before be- ginning rehearsals for a new show. Marie Antoinette Brooks, a Philadel- phia actress, and Robert M. Meigher, of Clifton Springs, N. Y., were married last week. The proposed Revue of Revues which Flo Ziegfeld planned to bring out, is deferred until theatrical condi- tions improve. William H. Sams, of Billie Burke's company in "Jerry," and Mrs. Marjorie Holland of St. Paul (a former actress) were married a few days ago. Queenie Dunedin has been ordered to remain in the hospital until advised otherwise by her physicians, indefinite- ly postponing her vaudeville opening. Charles A. Savage, of the Kirk- Brown Stock Co., at Reading, Pa., was married last week to Lillian Bradford, of the "Queens of the Jardin De Paris" burlesque show. "A Little Girl in a Big City," James Kyrle MacCurdy's new play, which is to be produced by William Wood and Harvey R. Schutter in three road com- panies, will have its opening Oct. 15. The Whyland Opera House at St Johnsville, N. Y., is in ruins, the result of fire. It always has been operated at a loss and was known as "John Why- land's monument." Frank Drake, a singer, has been stricken dumb. The seizure came upon him as he sat at dinner. It is known as vocal aphasia and physicians believe it is a temporary condition. Yansci Dolly (Mrs. Harry Fox) who was operated upon last week for a throat growth and who has also been ill with ptomaine poisoning, was able to be out for the first time Monday. Any information regarding Ed. Brad- ley, the blind tenor, will be gratefully received by Samuel Pollock. Mr. Pol- lock is endeavoring to locate Bradley, whose child is ill. The new Joe Drum piece, "My Lady's Boudoir," in which Adele Blood will star, is slated for an out of town open- ing Oct. 12. A late acquisition to the cast is Lucy Browning. Irving Berlin's latest song with the war as a topic, is "Stay Where You Belong." Billy Dunham sang it for the first time in New York at the Winter Garden Sunday. Gertrude McKenaie (Orren and Mc- Kensie) is seriously ill at St. Eliza- beth's Hospital, Dayton, O. (Address mail to Mrs. Gertrude Hargeheimer, at the hospital.) Duchess Bijou, of Matt Kenedy's "Liberty Girls," while playing at the Orpheum, Paterson, Monday night, wrenched her ankle so severely that she is out of the cast this week. Thomas Robb, Jr., of this city, has brought suit for divorce against his second wife, who was Janet Priest, the actress. They were married in 1907. Desertion is the reason given by Robb. The Bronx theatre, which has been running a picture policy since the sea- son's opening, will switch to small time vaudeville Oct. 5, with attractions ^furnished by the Family Department of the United Booking Offices. "My Dixie Girl," a new piece, is be- ing framed for the road, opening early in October and playing in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. Loren H. Ster- ling is back of the show. Specialties will be used between the sets. John Considine reached New York Tuesday. The object of his visit could not be ascertained. He is ac- companied by his secretary, Mr. Rob- inson. Carrie LaMont, now in Detroit, who received a compound fracture of the right leg a year ago last August, and submitted to several operations since, is recovered and will return to New York shortly. The Opera House, Flora, Ind., (Geo. W. Benson, manager) will very likely pass up traveling legits for the entire season. What shows the O. H. has played have done no business, hence the passing up of the roadsters. Lelah Halleck, formerly leading wo- man with the Cal-Smith stock at Read- ing, Pa., was operated upon for appen- dicitis in Stern's sanitarium, but upon leaving the institution suffered a re- lapse and returned to the hospital Monday. Stella Craig and Arthur S. Knowlton, members of the "Movie Girl" company which played at the Lyric, Allentown, last week, were married on the stage after Tuesday night's show. The bride was with Sam Bernard and Montgom- ery and Stone for several seasons. Owing to an operation for appen- dicitis, Miss Vic Denno, of the Six Steppers, is in the Wesley Hospital, Oiic^co. The act will continue its <! ' s wiih five members until the yung woman is able to rejoin. John, the Barber's shpp is now san- itary. Each customer receives a comb and brush in a paraffin setting at every sitting. Mr. Hessler, in charge of the shop, got out the idea, to show the Board of Health what could be done by barbers. Gordon Walton is recovering from a long illness, caused by injuries to his spine when he fell on the stage in Bal- timore, during a performance of Bert Leslie's "Hogan the Painter," of which Walton was a member. He is at 132 East 55th street, Chicago. Brady Greer, the ever-smiling treas- urer at Hammerstein's, had to brace his face in Monday to keep the ticket purchasers from asking questions. It was a baby, Brady's first, and he said he rather liked it. Mrs. Greer was do- ing nicely and that made the smile more difficult to control. Jack Goldberg had never gotten any further than Brooklyn, up to last week, when he made Philadelphia and Atlan- tic City. Then he had to go to Boston to catch the opening of Loew's Globe there Monday. Jack says he likes rail- roading but thinks the train between Philly and Atlantic should have shock absorbers. Miles Okey Stiers, of El Reno, Okla- homa, and Miss Catherine Louise Wal- lace, of Boston, Mass., were married in Lynchburg, Va., Sept. 26.- The con- tracting parties are with "101 Ranch" wild west show, which gave a perform- ance in this city, Stiers being the gen- eral manager and Miss Wallace one of the cowgirls. The plans for the new May Robson play, "Martha by the Sea," are at a stand still, owing to the show's failure to secure the Harris theatre for New York. The Academic Producing Co. could have had the two weeks before the opening of the "Salamander" at that house, but thought they would rather leave the piece on the road or seek another house. Valerie Bergere, at the Prospect, Brooklyn, last week in "Circumstan- tial Evidence," was summoned to court Thursday and charged with al- lowing ten-year-old Isabel Henderson to appear in her sketch Monday after- noon. William Masaud, house man- ager, was also summoned. Counsel for the defendants waived examina- tion and were held in $300 bail for the Court of Special Sessions. Bond was furnished. According to the opinions of some of the film wiseacres in New York the deathknell of the display of partisan war film has been sounded. In some sections of the country there was di- rect objection by certain foreign ele- ments against pictures that jarred their patriotic chords and in some cities the ban was placed on war pictures. From the west come reports of small-sized riots in the picture theatres where cer- tain war films were shown. TOMMY'S TATTLES. By Thomas J. Gray. You can't beat those Mexican guys. When they saw ffce European fight was being billed over them in the news- papers they started another war for fear we might forget their act. Jules Von Tilzer says if any actor wants to learn any kind of a dialect all he has to do is to stand in the crowd that watches the bulletins in Times Square. Safety First.—You better get booked up for a couple of weeks before your agent starts to watch the world series. What They Should Put the War Tax On. English versions of American songs. Burlesque melodramas. Fellows who shake hands with them- selves while they're bowing. The "bathing suit ripping" parody. Burlesque table scenes. Society dancers. The boys who sent over all those letters raving about show business in Europe all seem pretty glad to have Geo. M. Cohan's country to return to. Moral: Don't sneer at your own back- yard.