Variety (January 1915)

VARIITY Bl BBS teeasmstataBStaaOMmm niETY FuhlUhtd WmUt by VARIETY, Inc. SIME SILVERMAN, Prmltat Times Square New York CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bide* SAN FRANCISCO Paatagee Theatre Bide. LONDON IS Charing Creae Road PARIS *6 bit, Rae St. Bidier ADVERTISEMENTS AdTertisiag copy for current issue must reach New York office bj Wednesday midnight. Advertisements for Lurope and New York City oniy accepted up to noon time Friday. Advertisements by mail should be accom- panied by remittances. SUBSCRIPTION Annual •* Foreign • Single copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class ma tter at New Y ork. VoL XXXVII No. 9 Carl Jorn, the grand opera ginger, is at Keith's, Providence, this week. Pauline Lord has been engaged to support Emmett Corrigan in vaude- ville Corliss Giles, leading man at the Crescent, Brooklyn, leaves that com- pany Feb. 6. Gua Klainickee has been engaged as musical director for the Annette Kel- lcrmann show. Helen Husaey, formerly of "The Dingbats," is out after an operation for appendicitis. Mazfield Morse has been engaged to play William Greaver's part in "The Little Cafe." Harold Hevia, manager of the "Omar" company became the father of a boy Jan. 20. Rienxi de Cordova has been engaged for "Maternity," presented at matinees at the Princess. Ralph Cohen of the A. H. Woods office has been ill for the past week and eontined to his home. The Colonial, Elmira, N. Y., after being dark for several months, will open in February for one nighters. Charles B. Middleton (Middleton and Spellmeyer) was presented with a daughter by his wife last Friday. The Annette Kellermann show is now scheduled to first open at Nor- folk, Va., Feb. 8. Beginning March 1 a special rate of $50 to the coast and return from Omaha will go into effect. In railroad parlance the rate is spoken of as "from river to river for $50." This means by the direct line from Omaha to San Francisco and return privilege within three months. The railroads are also making a special rate of $67.50 going out over the northern route via Port- land and returning via the southern route or vice versa. This special rate will remain in force from March 1 until January 1, 1916. Rbdiffe Fellows*, who was in "Un- der Cover," will open as the leading man of the Poli stock in Washington next week. Charles Reno hag gone west with "Joshua Simpkins," the only roadster he now has out, and expects to take it to the Coast W. Rexford Poole, a theatrical man- ager well known around New England, is reported dangerously ill in a Port- land, Me., hospital The Palace, East Orange, N. J., is trying out a special vaudeville policy this week. James E. Plunkett is sup- plying the acts. The new theatre, Ainsworth, la. (J. A. Lamp, manager), will play vaude- ville and road shows, starting in Feb- ruary. Several road managers reached town Monday and Tuesday with the report that the New England territory shows indications of bracing. The Victoria, La Fayette, Ind., will hereafter play legits going through that territory. It formerly housed vaudeville and stock. Al Foster is producing a dance for Minerva Coverdale and Hal Ford, which they will use in the new Win- ter Garden show "Made in America." Clayville's (N. Y.) new $50,000 opera house opened with a vaudeville show furnished by local talent The house replaces the one burned a year ago. "Grimes' Cellar Door/ in tabloid form, with the original James B. Mackie in his old role, had its "try out" at Wilmington, DeL, Thursday. Lela Lee is Elaine Foster in "The Big Idea" with the Ira Hards stock in Mt Vernon. It will conclude Miss Lee's engagement with this organiza- tion. The Empire, Providence, R. I., was taken over by the city and Spitz & Nathanson awarded $175,000 for their interests. The Empire will be torn down to make way for a new street The Family, Williamsport, *Pa., is now being booked by Frank O'Brien for Wilmer & Vincent The Family was formerly booked by the Prudential agency. Charles Gunn will leave the Wright Huntington stock in Minneapolis Feb. 6 and a week later become leading man with the Schenley Players, Pitts- burgh. Violinsky is still in the St. Francis Hospital, San Francisco, where he was removed from the Continental Hotel about ten days ago to undergo an oper- ation. When the new "50-50" show is sent on tour the featured players will be Floyd F. Mack and wife. It was writ- ten by John P. Mulgrew, author of "Rrin*ing Up Father.' »» Lydia Barry is in Lakewood, N. J., for a rest Aaron Fox is in the Joe Woods agency. At the Century opera house Sunday night a beneht will be given in aid of the Newsboys' Home Fund. Win. Fox is the chairman of the entertain- ment committee, and Edgar Allen will arrange the show. Fred Sarr, formerly manager of the Academy, Bridgeport, is now manag- ing the Holyoke, Holyoke, Mass., play- ing vaudeville booked through the Byrne & Kirby Agency. W. H. Delman, managing Poli's stock, Scranton, Pa^ has been recalled to Worcester, Mass., to manage the Grand there. James Carroll has re- placed him in Scranton. Joseph E. Howard and Mabel Mc- Cane will start headlining Orpheum Circuit programs opening at Winnipeg Feb. 7. They will close their season at the Palace, New York, May 30. E. Hemingdinger, the jeweler of 45 John street, New York, who sells val- uables to the profession on credit, is not looked upon by Vahujttj in the class with the usual "installment jew- eler." .„_*■ The Irving Place Theater Co. of New York is announced as producing "Lieb Vaterland" in Cleveland Feb. 7 with 25 per cent of the net profits go- ing to the German-Hungarian war fund. The Auditorium at Fargo, N. D., will begjn playing regular attractions shortly. The town has been closed to regular shows since the combination house was destroyed by fire about a year ago, George Robinson, brother of the late David Robinson, will manage the Brighton theatre, Coney Island, next summer. He succeeds Sam McKee who managed the house for two sea- sons past Countess Lottie Fayette, considered the youngest Oriental dancer in Amer- ica, is going back in a few weeks to her native land, Belgium, where she will enlist as a Red Cross nurse. The Countess will be at the Hotel Calvert, New York, up to the time she sails. Helen Ware has been offered $1,000 weekly by the big time vaudeville man- agers for herself, company and sketch as played at the Palace, New York, last week. Miss Ware asks $1,500 a week. Pending adjustment the act is not playing. Walter Hast recently floated :i producing company composed of Lenox Pawle, Clifford Brooke and an English legitimate manager who will arrive in America shortly. The com- pany will have for their first produc- tion a revival of "Pomander Walk," in which Mr. Pawle will be featured. There will be a production called "The Rabbi and the Priest" to follow this. The Professional Magicians, an or- ganization of "the hand la quicker than the eye" men formed three months ago reports business with the magicians is very prosperous. When the organiza- tion was started there were 22 mem- bers laying off, and at the Tuesday meeting of this week only four were without engagements. Jack Curtis has appointed Harry Weber as his agent to negotiate with Loney Haskell tor the Hammerstein date of "Thomashefsky." Jack says that when a doctor is ill he doesn't at- tend to himself, and why should not an agent, when a manager wants him to be an actor, though but for a week, engage another agent to represent him? Julia Williams (Mrs. Scott Siggins), lately with the Virginia Harned Co., is seriously ill with tuberculosis at 234 West 43d street The address ot her husband, recently with "The Police Inspector," would be gratefully re- ceived. Miss Williams in earlier years was a well known character woman in melodramatic productions. The Actors' Fund is lending her as- sistance. Paul Durand is talking over the treatment he received at the hands ot the bookers of the big Hippodrome circus. Durand claims he submitted acts judged as satisfactory, but before able to connect with these acts, he found them all ready booked at the Hip. It is said most of the acts in the circus booked direct, the manage- ment ignoring the agents almost en- tirely. Suit for a receiver for the Frankfort Amusement Co. has been filed in the Circuit Court at Frankfort, Ky n by John Bridges and Bronston Kenney. The petition alleges the company is the owner of the Grand (picture) and the property of the Columbia, recent- ly taken over by new management for pop vaudeville. The petitioners ask for an accounting, the sale of the com- pany's holdings and a division of the proceeds. Mayor V. A. Schreiber took a walk through the prosperous town of East Liverpool, O., Sunday afternoon, and on returning to his office issued a string of decrees directed chiefly against theatrical billposting. He for- bids all burlesque posters portraying women dancers in semi-and-demi-dress and he particularly issued an injunc- tion against the photographs, large- sized and flesh-tinted, which heralded the approach of Annette Kellermann. In the American Wednesday morn- ing was a cartoon entitled "Benefits Forgot," by Winsor McCay. The pic- ture depictg two aged thespians, man and wife, seated in a squalid room, hung with notes of thanks for the ben- efits they have appeared at. Both are aged, infirm and in need. The wolf is staring at them through the window. On the table is spread a notice of dis- posess proceedings. The cartoon was a forceful argument in favor of the Actor's Fund and this week's benefit