Variety (December 1914)

VAftllTY Published Weekly by VARIETY, Inc. J. J. O'Connor, President Times Square, New York. CHICAGO Ifsjestic Theater Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO .... Pantsges Theatre Bldg. LONDON 18 Charing Cross Road PARIS 66 bis, Rue St. Didier ADVERTISEMENTS Adrertising copy for current issue must reach 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 H Foreign i Single copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class matter at New York. Vol. XXXVII. No. 2 Born, recently to Mr. and Mrs. Will- iam E. Ashbolt, Jr., Lorain, O., a daughter. No more road shows will be played at La Porte, la., this season. Mary Balsar, late of vaudeville, has joined a picture company. Harvey De Vora Trio open on the Loew Circuit next week. Bob Johnson, National Printing Co., is a father. Barton & Garretson are putting out another "The Girl and the Tramp" company. Byrne & Kirby are now booking the New theatre, Baltimore, and houses in Holyoke, Pittsfield and No. Adams. Carl Gordon, of Gordon, Harper & Gordon, is the father of a daughter since Monday night. Louis Bennison is arranging to take a company of "Damaged Goods" to the Coast. Albert Roscoe will retire from the Shubert Stock, Milwaukee, Saturday. Hershel Hendler commences a tour of the Loew Circuit Monday, placed by Epstin-Allen. The Cirque de Paris is at present a shelter for several hundred Belgian refugees stranded in Paris. Elsie Faye, operated on recently for a serious ailment, convalescing at At- lantic City. "Silk Hat Harry," a comedy based on Tad's cartoons, is planned as a new show production by Joseph Hart. Frances Stafford, of the Hayward- Stafford Co., is confined to the Hotel Rome, Omaha, with pneumonia. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lew Orth (Lew Orth and Lillian) Dec. 5. Edith Lyle has returned to the Claude Gillingwater sketch, "Wives of the Rich." The Shuberts have abandoned the proposed all-star revival of "Shenan- doah." Marty Shea has had another son added to his family. Mr. Shea is a golf enthusiast. Corbin Shields, manager of the Tren- ton theatre, Lynchburg, Va., has re- signed. The Colonial Monday night was completely bought out by the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society. Sunday vaudeville shows at Dallas, Tex., are no longer given. The Inter- state has a house there. A. G. Schade, formerly of the Four Schades, is now managing the Ma- jestic (Thielen & Goldberg, lessees), Bloomington, 111. (Miss) Carrol ^cComas, who was to have been the leading woman of the Band Box Theatre company, retired from the organization because of ill- ness. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pickens Dec. 3. Mrs. Pickens was formerly Pauline Bartholdi. The new arrival will be christened Dorothea Theresa Pickins. Retta Giffen, of "The Story of the Rosary," is out of the cast owing to illness. During the Albany engage- ment this week Louise Eades, an Al- bany girl, is substituting. Blanche Ring opens shortly for a tour of the Orpheum Circuit. Follow- ing that, she will appear next fall in a new play written by Mrs. Catherine Chisholm Cushing. The Sheedy agency is supplying Daly's theatre with its Sunday vaude- ville show, the house playing a straight picture policy throughout the week. Scheduled to open last Monday with the photo attractions, bad weather forced a postponement of the opening until the following day. NEW DEPARTMENT On another page of this issue VARIETY inaugurates a Park, Fair and Carnival Department to be continued weekly in connection with its various other features. In establishing this department, VARIETY, in accordance with its policy proposes to publish the newt of the field re- gardless. This move is the result of an investigation that has proven the out- door amusement purveyor is tired of the stereotyped "gush" printed by the so-called "Outdoor" amusement publications. The Morgan, Kennedy and Hutton act dissolved partnership at the Har- ris, Pittsburgh, when Hutton left the turn without giving notice. The new Sayre (Pa.) theatre will be opened about the first of the year. Manager W. J. Melarkey. The house will play pop vaudeville. Murray and Mack start again on the road Dec. 20 at Waukesha, Wis. It's the same old Ollie Mack, but a new Murray. Eva Rothest, a cabaret singer, and William J. Parr, former supervisor of the Fifth Ward, Albany, were married in Brooklyn a short time ago. The benefit performance of "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" with an all- star cast, announced for Wallack's the- atre last Sunday night, was stopped through the intervention of the Sab- bath Society. John White, of Galveston, Pa., owner of the Lyceum, Elmira, N. Y., says that he has decided to manage the El- mira House himself. Members of the theatrical profession are being asked to sign a petition for clemency for Samuel J. Raber under death sentence for the killing of Cherry de St. Maurice in Sacramento. Raber was formerly an entertainer. The Orpheum, Jersey City (Heights), is playing straight pictures, having given up the vaudeville policy for the month. The reported reopening with vaude- ville Dec. 21 of Keith's, Atlantic City, is incorrect. No date has been set for resuming big time vaudeville there. Ching Ling Foo may play the Or- pheum Circuit to San Francisco, taking boat for China from the Coast. For the first time in years, perhaps since the theatre was built, the Euclid Avenue opera house, Cleveland, is without a show in December. Pictures are filling in. "Queenie," a leopard with the Olga Celeste animal act, struck W. E. Ash- bolt, Jr., of the Broadway, Lorain, O., Dec. 3 and inflicted an ugly wound just above the latter's elbow. No seri- ous results are entertained. Mabelle Estelle, a Newark stock fa- vorite, plays a one-act sketch at Keeney's the first three days of next week. To detract from the Kecney draw the Bijou has engaged Corse Pay- ton as a feature at the same time. Pay- ton at one time had stock at the pres- ent Keeney's, Newark. Proctor's Leland, Albany,' hat aban- doned its two acts of vaudeville. Rosalind Coghlan's former vehicle, "The Obstinate Miss Granger," will be sent over the Loew Circuit with Hor- tense Clements in the Coghlan role. Paul Scott's son, who is a sea cap- tain, is in New York enjoying his pap's hospitality. The latter's boat was re- cently captured by the Germans, but released when the U. S. papers were shown. Elliott Dexter joined "Diplomacy" at the Empire Wednesday, replacing Leslie Farber, who hat been drafted for the new Charles Frohman produc- tion which opens at the Empire Mon- day. Jule Delmar can use several turns for his big Christmas entertainment, Dec. 28, for the poor children of New Rochelle. Among those volunteering so far are Stella Mayhew and Billie Taylor and Louise Dresser. Carl F. Pederson collected $5 recent- ly in small amounts from players on the same bill and sent it to the Show- folks' Tuberculosis colony, Albuquer- que, N. M. The secretary asks Vabmtt to make this acknowledgment Ed. T. Connelly, for over a year manager of the Samuels opera house, at Jamestown, N. Y., has quit, and the lessee, A. N. Broadhead, has leased the theatre to James L. Drohen, of Dunkirk, owner of the opera house there. Connelly will return to the stage. A benefit will be given at Odd Fel- lows Temple, Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 20 and the receipts turned over to Jules C. Rieff, formerly of the Rieff Brothers, unable to work since last April, owing to illness. Rieff has a serious affliction of the eyes and is otherwise physically impaired. Remittances may be sent to Fred H. Van Horn, treasurer, com- mittee, 78 Stillson street, Rochester. Leo Maase, the former foreign agent over here, who was held in Germany at the opening of the war, has told some of his troubles in a letter dated Nov. 12 from Dusseldorf, to Maurice Rose, of Rose & Curtis. Maase said he expected to be called to the German Landsturm, but there were enough young people without him. When cer- tain he would not be called Maase ar- ranged to return to America. Upon obtaining his passport he could not raise sufficient funds, and when finally securing money, he couldn't get the currency (English) changed in the German city. After that difficulty had been overcome, Maase could not get a boat to New York, so he became a war correspondent for a Dusseldorf pa- per. Before entering show business Maase was a newspaper man. The week before the letter was written Maase says his brother, an officer in the German infantry, was brought home wounded, and he remarks war is strenuous. Maase concludes with information that he will embark for this country at the first opportunity.