Variety (March 1915)

VAklftfV 0 u ' • atssm JHETY rnkllshsi WotUf ky VARIETY, Inc. MLVUtMAN. Piwlil Mam N«w York AGO lfaj«stic Thutrt Bid*. FKANCISCO Putini Thcstt* BU*. "Ml It CbMtimm Granted 66 bis. Tm ftt. Mmt ADVEETIS1MENT8 Advertising copy for current ist«M mutt ruch New York office bjr Wednesday midnight. Advertisements for Europe end New York CUy only accepted np to noon time Friday. Advertisements by mail skonld ke accom- panied by remittances. SUBSCRIPTION Annual * Foreign S Single copies, 10 ceatj Entered ae eccoad-claee matter at New York. __ —* Vol. XXXVIII. ~~ No. 1 Variety will be circulated in New York en Friday hereafter, until further notice. Mrs. Pete Mack is doing nicely after a severe operation of a week ago. Pearl Clifton (Klein and Clifton) is recovering from a recent operation. Mabel Jonat, from "The Newlyweds," joined the "Ward 22" act this week. Fred Ward returned to New York Monday. The Broadway, Philadelphia, is play- ing a feature picture and four acts over the Lenten season. Morton and Moore have signed to headline on the Orpheum Circuit, open- ing March 15 at Winnipeg. The Aborn English Opera Company opens its Boston engagement, April 5, presenting two operas a week. George H ass ell of "The High Cost of Loving," became the father of a boy last week. Ernie Van, of vaudeville, and Mona Raymond, with "The Follies of Pleas- ure," were married last week. James J. Morton had a corner of a Spokane daily paper last week in Which he shone as an editor. Genevieve Warner, harp virtuoso, may accept an offer to play 12 weeks in Europe. **t 'Gala Week" in two Ohio towns next week. The Keith houses in Cleveland and Cincinnati will play eleven acts. Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Palmer be- came the parents of a baby girl on March 1. Harry A. Shea discontinued his vaudeville at Passaic, N. J., last Sat- urday. Frank Lea, press agent with Shu- bert attractions for some time, is re- covering from pneumonia at the Roose- velt Hospital, New York City. Edwin H. Curtis has been engaged as stage director for the Harry Davis Stock Co., now playing at the New Davis theatre in Pittsburgh. Katheryn Seymour, of the Seymour Sisters, and William Eccles (non-pro- fessional) were married last August. Monday night of this week was the worst evening of the season for show business around Times Square. Frederic Edward McKay's produc- tion of E. Cronin Wilson's play "The Tricky Mrs. Trevor" will be staged by Bertram Harrison. Colin Campbell of "The Little Cafe" was removed to the Homeopathic Hos- pital, Albany, February 20, with an attack of typhoid fever. Billy Norris and Hazel Cox have been added to the list of principals for "A Modern Eve," to open on April 5 at the Cort theatre, Boston. Sunday vaudeville has been discon- tinued at the Murray Hill, where bur- lesque reigns during the week. Pic- tures are now shown there on the Sabbath. Matt Grau is to return to New York from Palm Beach March 14. He will immediately give his attention to or- ganizing a musical stock company for Washington. William A. Brady is going to try out in stock a play entitled "A Word to Women," by Hubert Osborne. The pro- duction is to be put on at the Play- house, Wilmington, Del. The Old People's, Owensboro, Ky., has been leased by George Bleich, who will renovate the house and open at an early date with* vaudeville and pic- tures. The house will h,e renamed. Frank J. McGettigan, formerly pub- licity director for the Orpheum, Port- land, Ore., has been appointed assist- ant manager of the Empress in that city. Ernest Glendenning has been en- gaged for "A Modern Eve/' which is to open in Boston. He will have the role originally played by Joseph Sant- ley. The Lee Ave. theatre, Brooklyn, which has been playing a straight pic- ture policy since the house failed to go with stock started an independently booked split week pop vaudeville pol- icy Monday. The agents in the Palace theatre building signed a petition last week, asking that a restaurant nearby which feeds them, rescind its decision to change waiters from girls to men. No especial reason was given for the peti- tion, and if there were one particular reason, nobody knew about it. Shirley Lawrence, now appearing in vaudeville on the Orpheum Circuit, was granted a divorce from her husband, Charles E. Knapp, in Chicago last week. William F. Adder, attorney, appeared for Miss Lawrence. Hugo B. Koch, who has been playing the road in "The Call of the Cumber- lands," is to revive "The House of a Thousand Candles," starting March 14, at Peoria, 111. H. E. Rowe will manage. Ann Murdock in "A Girl of Today" will have a New York premiere at the Lyceum March 15. Elsie Ferguson and "Outcast" move to the Broad Street Philadelphia, same day, for an indefinite stay. George W. Loomis is back in the box office at the Cort theatre. Barney Klavins, treasurer, who was ill recent- ly, has suffered a relapse, and Loomis was called in to fill the vacancy for the time being. Cecil Owen, of the Oliver Morosco forces, has withdrawn from the "Our Children" cast to assist T. Daniel Frawley in producing a new show. Gus Weinberg has assumed the Owen role. Hugh Gibson, aged 58, a character actor, who has been playing with the Walter S. Baldwin stock, Atlanta, reached New York Sunday and was im- mediately removed to Bellevue Hospi- tal seriously ill with a complication of diseases. The Treasurers' Club will hold its annual beefsteak at the Castle Cave Saturday night, March 13. The open- ing course will be served at midnight. The annual benefit of the same club will take place April 4 at the Park theatre. Eddie Cohen, Frank Cruickshank and Robert Milton have agreed to form a partnership for the production of plays next season. Their first production is to be a dramatization of "The Danger Line," from the Western story by Harry Vanderman. The production is to be made sometime in September. Helen Starr with the southern com- pany of "Within the Law" jumped in- to the role of Mary Turner during the illness of Clara Joel, leading woman of the show. She remained in the part until the star was able to resume. Bertha Kent played Kitty in "Kitty MacKay" recently during the illness of Irene Hiseman. Elmer Rogers was watching his show at the Palace, New York, the other day when Tommy Gray'lined up alongside, saying, "See you have a mu- sical comedy act here thib week. Wait until you get mine, it will stay here a month." Mr. Gray referred to "Safe- ty First," the vaudeville "revue" he has written for Lou Anger and Sophie Barnard. It opens next week in Scran- ton. "So you have written an act?" replied Mr. Rogers. "I heard you only wrote funny telegrams." William A. Brady has turned over the Playhouse to Father Martin of St l'atrick's Cathedral for a lecture and picture performance Sunday night, March 21. The receipts are to be turned over to the St. Catherine's Guild which the priests support out of their own private purses. Mulcahey and McCue called on Pete Mack this week. Mulcahey is an Irishman who claims he was shot while in the trenches in France. After get- ting back to Ireland he recovered and getting a girl who could sing and dance he decided the best thing he could do was to go into vaudeville. Pete claims with all the talk, the two can really sing and dance. Attorney Fullman, who went to Eng- land to look over the H. B. Marinelli interests there, returned to New York this week. Mr. Fullman interviewed all the English managers in Mr. Mari- nelli's behalf and is said to have had satisfactory answers from them in re- gards to bookings. The Marinelli appeal which is pending in London is expected to be heard about the last of this month, Joe Jackson (Shoeless Joe), the hard- hitting fielder of the Cleveland base ball team, is heading a musical com- edy organization, booked through the south under Fred Godding's direction. Jackson is due to start spring training soon with his team. Among the bills presented by Jackson and Base Ball Girls are "King of Heidelberg," "A Day in Turkey," "When Twins Mar- ry," etc. Edith Taliaferro, at the Palace, New York, this week, in "A Breath of Old Virginia," played three shows Sunday with the sketch, at the Fifth Avenue, as advance work for the big engage- ment. She was billed as "Marjorie Summer and Co." Sunday evening Miss Taliaferro received a wire ad- dressed Marjorie Summer, asking her to call at the Loew office at ten o'clock Monday morning. It was signed by one of the boys on the Loew staff who had not recognized the star. W. A. Brady and Marc Klaw are having a controversy in the New York Sun, over the proper method of dis- posing of theatre tickets, whether through speculators or by the cut rate route. Mr. Klaw is in favor of the speculators. It would seem while Mr. Brady is upholding the one-half box office way of selling the $2 seats. Klaw says cut-rates are ruinous while Brady says they are necessary. Mr. Brady also claims it is better to give the pub- lic a chance to see a $2 show for one dollar, rather than to place the entire orchestra in the hands of speculators with the public having to pay at high as $7 or $8 a seat. Neither manager as yet has touched upon the advisability of selling all tickets through the box office in the regular way. In defend- ing their respective positions, Mr. l.rady has advanced the better argu- ments to date, though slightly dodging the facts by stating the cut rate only applies to the upper portions of the theatre.