Variety (June 1915)

VARIETY WR1ETY PuMlaa*d WmUt ky VARIETY, Inc. S1ME SILVERMAN, PimUmI N •w Y«* CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldf. SAN FRANCISCO PanUfee Theatre Bldf. LONDON 18 Charing Cross Road PARIS **, 66 bis. Rue St. Didier ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising 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 $4 Foreign 5 Single Copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class matter at New York Vol. XXXIX. NcTl Spencer H. Cone, who has been ill with pneumonia, is recovering. Jule Bernttein, manager of the Yonge Street (Loew), Toronto, was married this week to Frankie McKnight, of Toronto. The Howard Bros, and their flying banjo act will reach New York late in June, to play vaudeville engagements procured by M. S. Bentham. Helen Stewart and Harold Woolf are in Havana on their honeymoon. They were married May 26 and will be home after June 17. Ann Rainaford, until recently one of the Orpheum Circuit staff in New York, is now with the Metro Film Co., having decided to abandon her clerical career for a try at screen honors. Three of the boys of the Four Aus- tralian Hagans have joined the Cana- dian Expeditory forces for service in Europe. The volunteers are Victor, Pat and Jack Hagan. The tank managers do not feel that pictures can be relied upon to make up their programs all of the time and a scarcity of road shows is expected, caus- ing many to make preparation in ad- vance for the rep companies. Lester Whitlock won't stand for a lit- tle thing like changing the sex of his only child, born last week. It's a girl, persists Lester, not a boy, so give the young father credit for knowing and let it go at that. Willie Connors, former treasurer of the Republic theatre, is holding down a position with the Iron Steamboat Co., over the summer. He will return to a box office with the opening of the season. Plainfield, N. J., is having its first big airdome, a license having been granted a quartet of New York men to operate it with pictures this summer. Saturday night a new airdome, seating 2,500, lo- cated in Front street and Watchung avenue, Plainfield, was opened by Will- iam Spaeth, Ed MacDowell, Sam Cun- ningham and Mike Shannon. Maurice Ritter, professional manager for the Chicago office of Will Von Tiller's Pub. Co., is in New York, the advance guard of the entire Chicago music colony who contemplate a sum- mer visit to Broadway. Evelyn Nesbit will finish her season at the Majestic, Chicago, this week. The Coast trip to play the Orpheum houses, also other summer engage- ments, are in doubt through Miss Nes- bit requiring a rest. Cohen's theatre at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has dispensed with vaudeville ow- ing to a scarlet fever epidemic. The Colonial, Peekskill, N. Y., also Loew- booked, is playing stock instead of pop vaudeville. Prank Tinner had the middle finger of his right hand painfully injured in a polo match on Long Island Sunday. In "riding" Alan Pinkerton, of the opposing team, he was thrown from his horse and the finger stepped upon by his mount. Louis Deklade, stage manager of the Loew Circuit, has been selected by Nicholas Schenck to act as stage man- ager for the Avitabile-Martelli Grand Opera Co., Palisades Park, N. J. Dek- lade has a crew of nine men working under him at the Palisades. Howard Powers, manager »» of Gus Hill's "Newly Weds," is being sued for divorce by his wife, Laura Bishop, formerly a chorus girl with one of the Hill shows. She charges neglect. He will not contest The Family of Kings (Charles, Mol- ly and Nelly) have located for the sum- mer and thereafter in Rockville Cen- tre, New York, which isn't so very far from Long Beach. Charlie King pur- chased the home as a present for his mother. In a report to Washington U. S. Consul R. B. Mosher at Victoria, B. C, says that the Province of British Co- lumbia will have sixty-five fairs this fall. These will all be arranged into circuits in order to facilitate the judges' itinerary. Ella Wesner, probably one of the greatest of old-time male impersona- tors, and one of the first two in Amer- ica who ever attained any prominence, is in a serious condition in the Home for Incurables at 183d street and Third avenue. Her sister, formerly a ballet dancer, is ill in the same institution. Miss Wesner is 70 years of age. Robert Fulgora has received a com- munication from the State Department to the effect the French Government has informed it that in the matter of the release of Kara, the juggler, from detention, France does not think it is expedient at this time to do so. Kara, under his proper name, is detained at Abbaye Frigolet, Bouches de Rhone, France, as an alien enemy (German). Mr. Fulgora with other of Kara's friends on this side did all they possi- bly could to secure his release, in order that he might be able to fulfill Ameri- can theatrical contracts. Summer Subscription 3 Months for $1.00 Send name and address with remittance to VARIETY, New York The •mall town managers are looking to repertoire companies to supply them with their flesh and blood shows for next season. The high railroad rates and various other reasons are given for this. Plans for reps are already being formulated. Some will play three shows a week and others twelve, car- rying 20 people and a carload or two of stuff. Jeanne Thompson, who was a mem- ber of the "Watch Your Step" chorus, has been ill for several weeks at the Hotel Calvert. She has been practical- ly penniless, and the physicians have ordered her to the mountains. Jim Toney, of Toney and Norman, has been circulating a subscription in her behalf and is endeavoring to secure enough to send the chorister away. Mrs. Jule Delmar is the patron tor the Classic Dance Revue, to be given to-morrow (Saturday) morning in her husband's town, New Rochelle. Eleven dances will be a portion of the program. Several ensembles will have local children in them. Jule Delmar will stage manage the affair, given for the benefit of the Building Fund of the Women's Club. At the business meeting of the Man- agers' & Agents' Theatrical Associa- tion Tuesday afternoon in Bryant Hall, George Costan, who had been nomin- ated for vice president, declined the office and George Leffler was unani- mously chosen in his stead. The slate as published last week in Variety; with the Costan exception, was elected for the new year. The Association raised the dues from $6 to $8 per an- num. TOMMY'S TATTLES. By Thomas J. Gray. June—the month of brides and lay- offs. After looking at a group picture of the Kaiser's family, we wonder how he remembers all their names and who writes their titles for him. The Chaplin imitation rage has been a boom for the rubber heel concerns. The war in Europe has put a lot of people out of work; but think what A. H. Woods did when he closed all the "Potash & Pcrlmutter" companies. The people who are panning Presi- dent Wilson for not booking some war time for this country would prob- ably be the first ones to send their regrets if the army or navy should call for more supers. Couldn't understand why the police arrested some restaurant keepers for putting on revues—until we saw the revues. The Japanese acts are not worrying about the summer lay-off; they all have rolling ball games at the beaches. Honolulu has been attacked quite savagely by the song writers since they ran out of states down south to write about. There mt only a few more places left.