Variety (October 1914)

VARIETY 'AniETY Published Weekly by SIME SILVERMAN Proprietor Times Square. New York. CHICAGO .Majestic Theater Bldg. SAN FRANaSCO ....Faat*m Theatre Bldg. LONDON W Chariot Croea Boad PARIS « bit, Rue St. Didier ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising copy lor .current ieaue muat reach New York office by Wednee^y oddoifht. Advertisements for Europe and New York aty only, accepted up to noon time Friday. Advertisements by mail should be accom- panied by remittances. SUBSCRIPTION Annual •* Foreign 9 Single copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol. XXXVI. No. 7 Russell Lennon will join the "High Jinks" company next week. Willie Edelstein, the English agent, arrived in New York Saturday. Leonard Giegerich is in charge of the new acts in the M. S. Bentham Agency. Alexander Fischer, once an agent in New York, is said to be an interpreter for the German army at Liege. Keith's Union Square front is being rebuilt, business continuing. Louise Gunning, ill for some time, is out again. Harry Beekman is the manager of Loew's West End theatre. James Wingfield, the one night stand agent of Chicago, is visiting in New York. Ingraham Kyle opened a few days ago in Boyle Woolfolk's "Whose Lit- tle Girl Are You?" in the west. Lee Arthur's new play, "The Morn- ing After," may be a Shubert produc- tion after the holidays. Steiner & Leavitt have secured the Family, Chester, Pa., and will start a pop vaudeville show commencing Mon- day, playing five acts. Gus King, of the Transatlantic Sex- tet, says some one had him erroneously married to Hazel Griffin, of the same act. John Ostrander, for many years con- nected with the Madison Square Gar- den, has been appointed treasurer of the 48th Street theater. "The Career" is a new play which George G> Hazelton and Gilbert White have collaborated on for production this season. Harold McMahon, formerly with the Sothern-Marlowe Company, is now a member of the United Booking Of- fice's force in Boston. Boyle and Brazil have signed with "The Passing Show of 1914," now in Philadelphia. Jule Delmar secured the berth for the act. Florence Gear has been engaged as prima donna for "A Girl in a Million" at the I,a Salle, Chicago. J. J. Murdock returned to New York Monday after a visit west. While away he supervised the opening of the new Keith's. Louisville. Ed Lang, formerly Vantages' Chi- cago representative, is now with the United Booking Offices' feature film department, doing road work. . "The Bohemian," the new Jack Lait play which Nat Goodwin has accepted, is to be brought out in a stock per- formance in Los Angeles this month. Pierce and Roslyn returned from London last week. They will open at Shea's Toronto next week and then go west to Chicago on the W. V. M. A. time. The Grand, St. Paul, has been leased by the Friedman Bros.' The future policy is to be pictures. The burlesque shows booked for the Grand are now playing the Star. Uniformed employees of the United Booking Offices and the Palace The- atre Building have been supplied with nickel badges to designate their iden- tity and positions. Martin Beck took the "20th Century" tor Chicago Monday to complete the contract between the Western Vaude- ville Managers' Association and the Interstate Circuit. Moore and Yates did not open at Keith's, Boston, Monday. Miller and Stanley took their place. Wenrich and Connolly failed to play Birmingham this week, owing to illness. Frank Walsh is seeking his 12-year- t Id son, Frank, Jr., who left home over a month ago. Mr. Walsh believes the boy tried to reach him in Pittsburgh and became lost. The father may be addressed Hotel Rexford, Boston. Mabel Merritt (Merritt Sisters) and Charles Edenberg, former sparring partner of Battling Nelson, were mar- ried on the stage in Phoenix, Ariz., a short time ago. The couple some years ago were schoolmates in Milwaukee. "The Orphan's Prayer," with Ilah Morgan featured, is to be given a win- ter's road route, dates being arranged for southern Iowa and Missouri, to start with. W. N. Morgan, of Goll- mar's circus, is the producer. The first big league ball player to register an intention to enter vaude- ville is Phil Chouinard of the Brook- lyn Feds who will offer a double song and talk turn with Jack Conway of the same organization. Chouinard was formerly with the Garden City Trio. Howard Graham, formerly manager of Proctor's, Albany, is now looking after the interests of the Krie, Pa., house in the United Booking Offices. Arthur L. Ball (Ball and Marshall) is in the St. Paul Hospital, St. Paul, recovering from an operation for ap- pendicitis. Rose Stahl in "The Perfect Lady" opens in Hartford the latter end of this week, aimed for the Hudson, New York. It is said in New York that the men interested in the erection of what was to have been the Club theatre in Bal- timore are considering a proposition to erect a store house on the site. The Metropolitan (formerly Beck), Bellingham, Wash., is now under the control of Terry McKean. It has been operated for two years by George J. Mackenzie, the northwestern represen- tative for Klaw & Erlanger. George L. Moreland, the baseball en- cyclopedia, after leaving Hammer- stein's last Sunday night, fell while getting off a subway train and sus- tained a fracture of one of his ankles. He vill be laid up for at least six weeks. Hardie Langdon was removed from her apartment in the Hotel Bristol this week to the Polyclinic where it was at first thought she would have to under- go an immediate operation. Her phy- sicians later advised her it would not be essential and as soon as her con- dition permits she will return to her home in Youngstown for an indefinite- rest. The Lamb's Club has received no information that Lionel Walsh was killed in action. He is the captain of Dragoons in the English army, at the front. Walsh was on this side when the war started. His headquarters were at the Lamb's. One afternoon the Eng- lishman stood idly about for some time. He at last said, "There's no ex- citement over here. Guess I'll go home and join my regiment." The next morning he sailed. J. D. Millman (father of Bird Mill- man) is conducting an automatic cab- aret on West 125th street. He has evolved a method of dishing up the old slot machine phonograph game and it looks like a winner. Instead of hav- ing a machine for each record, the patron sits down before an arrange- ment that looks like a telephone switchboard. There is a catalog of records to choose from. On the ma- chine is a dial arrangement the patron manipulates to make the numbers cor- respond to that of the record and this shows him the number of pennies need- ed to hear it. His arranging of the numbers flashes to an operator in the basement and the record requested is taken from a cabinet and placed on the machine. NEW ACTS. Natalie Alt, who originated the title role of "Adele," is preparing for vaude- ville. Lawrence and Harrington, dramatic playlet, with their old Bowery specialty. Minnie Palmer has a sketch by Charles Horwitz, called "Breaking In." Dorothy Brenner, lately with Fred Watson in a two-act, will next appear with Bert Wheeler (formerly Wheeler and Wilson). Les Diodatti (four women; one man, Paul Durand). Lucille Berdell, rehearsing new act, "The Girl," with four people. Billy (Sliding) Watson, the burlesque comedian, has accepted a monolog from Aaron Hoffman which he is rehearsing for vaudeville. Sloane, Manning Co., in The Bribe," Eugenie Blair, in "The Day of Reck- oning" (Alf. T. Wilton). Wm. Keough and Mark Sullivan in "The Midnight Appeal.' Jack Jarrott and Mae Murray, danc- ing, Palace, Oct. 26. J. L. Phlpps has bought "A Strenu- ous Daisy" from Arthur R. Hill and will play it on the i'antages time with a new company. Harrison Brockbank, who played Napoleon in "The Purple Road," has prepared "The Drummer of the 76th" for vaudeville, introducing the char- acter of Napoleon. Edward Owings Towne has a "No. 2" company playing "Easy Money" in the western vaudeville houses, while George Richards remains on U. B. O. time. The Three Hedders are playing in their new act "In Snowland." TOMMY'S TATTLES. By THOMAS J. GRAY. Madge Maitland met an Englishman who asked her what she was doing. She replied, "I'm playing the halls." The Englishman said, "Are there halls in this country? Where are they?" "In the Palace Theatre Building" an- swered Miss Maitland. It's none of our business, but if the Germans are driven back every time the newspapers say they have been, by this time they should be going through China. It you're fighting with your sweetheart If your wife at you is sore. Of course you all know the answer, Why, just blame it on the war. If you lay off a week or two Dont you start to nake a roar, And dont start to pan your agent; Why, just blame it on the war. If your sure-fire stuff is flopping As it never did before, Dont say that your spot is awful, Why, just blame it on the war. The title of the show called "Kick In" sounds like a vaudeville agent's letter to one of his acts. The fact that acts are only allowed to take two bows at the Palace theatre is going to save song pluggers a let of work.