Variety (November 1914)

VARIETY 'Akiety Published Weekly by VARIETY, Inc. J. J. O'Connor, President Times Square, New York. CHICAGO Majestic Theater Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO .... Pantages Theatre Bldg. LONDON IS Charing Cross Road PARIS 66 bis. Rue St. Didier ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising copy for current issue must resch New York office 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 S4 Foreign 5 Single copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class matter at New York. Harriet Burt did not appear at Ham- merstein's Monday. Brooks and Bow- en took the spot. Col. Noah L. Gebhardt, of Marion. O., sold the Princess to Charles De- Lancy, of Richwood, who takes imme- diate possession. Mr. DeLancy says he will remodel the theatre and play vaudeville. In several of the Moss & Brill houses they are adding on several acts for the winter. At the Plaza, where F. P. Furlong is now managing, there are six acts instead of five, while the Jef- ferson has a ten-act show, starting this week. Vol. XXXVI. No. 10 Louise List is ill in Goldsboro, N. C. Grace Gardner is convalescing from the effects of a recent operation. Chris Chisholm and Viola Green, of "The Girl He Couldn't Buy" were married Oct. 24. Olneyville, the suburb of Providence, and butt of innumerable vaudeville jokes, now has a theatre all its own. It is the Royal, dedicated to pictures. Earl Whelden and Charles Tupper, two Olneyville men, are the promoters, Fred Lovett is manager. Harold Orlob returned to Broadway Monday after a long stay on the Pacific Coast. The Mt Morris (Fifth avenue and 116th street) has abandoned its pop vaudeville policy and is playing straight pictures. Howard Kyle jumped into the new "Polygamy" show at a moment's no- tice at Washington this week. The "Polygamy" show is the former piece, "The Celestial Bride," but has been remodeled pending its entry into New York shortly. Sam B. Wilson, with the Bert Leslie "Hogan The Painter" act. and wife, Vera Walton, of the Jos. Hart forces, have a son (Oct. 31). C. H. Bleich, of Hopkinsville, Ky., formerly manager of the Garrick, Mad- isonville, Ky., has closed a deal for a five-year lease on a new $65,000 theatre at Anderson, S. C, which will be com- pleted about Feb. 1. The new theatre, which will be the only playhouse in Anderson, will book legitimate shows. Mr. Bleich will be the manager. Pearl Meredith (Meredith Sisters) who has been very ill for the past .line weeks with pneumonia, is around again. The Weller at Zanesville, O., has been leased by J. B. Ross of Pitts- burgh, who inaugurates a pop vaude- ville policy Nov. 9. The Yankee Robinson circus dis- banded for the season at Frankfort, Kan., last week and went into winter quarters at Des Moines, la. Solly Lee, ticket taker at Hammer- stein's, walked past Ticket Taker Mc- Bnde of the Palace the other day, the first time Solly has seen the inside of the "opposition." Ada Vanity, of the dancing team of MykofT & Vanity, appearing at the Ho- tel Martinique, New York, secured a divorce from her husband, Billy Cur- tis, a theatrical agent, a few days ago. Supreme Court Judge Samuel Green- baum heard the testimony. A. C. Cohen, 61 Park Row, represented Mrs. Curtis. Sentenced at Spokane to serve for five to ten years in the state peniten- tiary for shootinp at his wife last month, Luther McCoy, colored, a band musician, declared he "wished he had killed her." "I got a rotten deal," he declared. "I am sorry that I must go over the road for a woman I wish I had killed." The Grand (Max S. Milner. man- ager) has been merged with the Elk theatre (Edward Gcrber, manager), at Corning, N. Y. Mr. Milner will be in charge of the consolidated houses. J. M. Buddington, former owner of the Colonial, Elmira, N. Y.. has re- purchased his lease from John Farren. of Rochester, and has taken up the active management of the house. The same policy will be continued. Alleging the Postal Telegraph was two days late sending money which she needed to pay her husband's funeral expenses, Edyth Tenny has filed suit at Spokane for $7,500 damages. The plaintiff is the widow of Ernest Tenny. comedian with the Waterbury Bros, and Tenny act. She declared she was in El Paso at the time of Tenny's death and wired for $125, which she had on deposit here. Delay in its receipt caused a nervous breakdown, which kept her ^ from her work in a singing and dancing act, for which she received $75 a week, she alleged. Tenny's home was in Spo- kane. Russel Gilbert, a vaudeville singer, was among the victims of the Dela- ware & Lackawanna wreck near Bing- hamton, N. Y., Saturday, in which two persons were killed and several injured. Gilbert suffered severe cuts about the head and numerous bruises when the train plunged down the 30-foot em- bankment. He was removed to a Bing- hamton hospital and will recover. TOMMY'S TATTLES. By Thomas J. Gray. Note for Pikers.—This is a good time of the year to start fighting with your friends so you won't have to give them anything for Christmas. The fact that English armv^ put over the present day song hit may get some of the boys jobs as song pluggers when that little trouble in Europe is settled. Well Known Sayings. "I'll be up to see it tonight." "I'm working on it now." "Wait until I look up the reports." "If you go here you can go any place." "He panned me because I wouldn't give him an ad." "You should have caught us on the first show." "He's busy now at the meeting." "We can't give you that song, we're holding it back." "The wife thinks she should do the comedy." "I don't see how that guy gets away with it." Notice to Gentlemen Comedians.— The "Staggering-out-of-Huylers" gag is the property of Frank Tinney and will all others kindly desist? (That's a big time word.) Thanks, men. Some of the "Peace" songs that are being written are almost bad enough to start another war. Turkey is a polite nation—after she sank a couple of warships, she apolo- gized. Sylvester Schaefer's manager ap- peared on Broadway for a half an hour one night last week without Ar- thur Klein. The cotton crop in the South can't be any larger than the lemon crop around New York. I thought all managers were sports 'Till I was paid off by Sol Schwartz. Since Ruby said I was O K I have been doing four a day. Now vaudeville is all right—but Everyone thinks that they're a nut. Since my act was panned by Sime I've been working all the time. CABARET. Irene Olsen and Paula Loomis (both sinigles and formerly at Shanley's) are now at Wallick's. Many of the road houses around the New York suburbs had Hollow'een par- ties, drawing large attendance. Rosita Mantilla, assisted by C. Bal- ford Lloyd, after a four months' en- gagement at the Strand, is now danc- ing at Rector's.' Nate Fenton is getting ready to open a big Chinese cafe in Buffalo with a cabaret as a feature. Harry Tanner of the Melody Four, at the College Inn, is away on a hunt- ing trip in the Adirondacks. During his absence the three other members will appear as a trio. Walter Sweeny is now the manager of the Comedy cabaret and bar on West 41st street. Sweeny's old place on 31st street, where dancing was in vogue three or four years ago, was responsi- ble for a number of our very best lit- tle exhibition dancers who are pulling down big money at present. The Melody Four will be the new attraction at the Tokio commencing next week. Manager Henry Fink has secured the boys who have been play- ing at the College Inn, Harlem, for some time. The remainder of the To- kio show remains intact, with Billy Walsh as the headliner. The female contingent consists of Stella Tobin, Sophie Bennett and Stella Ford. Healy's at 66th street intends hold- ing an all-night party about once monthly. An unconditional all-night license is secured by special permission for these occasions. Healy's doesn't want to work it too hard. Last Friday evening it had a special night with the crowd sticking around until seven in the morning. Most of the dancing cabarets remained opened all of Elec- tion night. The Harlem Carnival during the past week made a decided increase in the cabaret business along 125th street. The Alamo had a big week. Its regu- lar staff of entertainers consist of Jojo and Delaney, Rose Francis and Frank Marvin. In place of the usual dance contest the Alamo is using a lucky number idea called "The Sweetheart Dance." In this several balloons are set afloat over the floor. On one a lucky number is attached. The Dutch Room at the Hotel Mar- tinique is doing business. ■ Monday night before eleven o'clock there were a number of the tables taken, with the theatre crowd yet to come. The show consists mostly of girls. It includes Estelle Gibson, Hilda Renard, Margery Meredith, Elizabeth Johnson, Rita Bramley, Eva Douglass, Vcss Ossman and the dancing team of Wykuff and Vanity. Out of the * regular cabaret district, the Martinique seems to have a clientele a little different from thosr that habitate the Broadway places, but still spend the money.