Variety (July 1915)

VARIETY KIETY VARIETY, Inc. SILVEKMAN. Pnclamt N«w Y«rk Maj«ttfc Theatre Bid*, rCISCO Paat*f*« Theatre Blag. )N It Chariaj Crett Boed PA11S 4» bit, lae St. Didicr ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising cofr for current ietue must reech NewYorh eAce by Wedseedey aidsigkt. AdTertitemeats for Europe end Mew York City euly accepted up to nooa time Friday. AdTerUaemeata by mail ahould be accom- paaled by remittances. SUBSCRIPTION Annual *♦ Foreiffn » S ingle Copies, 10 cente Entered ai aecond-claee matter at New York Vol. XXXIX. No. 5 John Leick and Mabel Keith were married last week in Elkhardt, Ind. Dora Conroy, wife of Frank Conroy (Conroy and LeMaire) is convalescing, from a severe illness. Jimmy Hussey (Hussey and Boyle) was haled into court last week and told that he must pay his wife $30 a week. The Friars' annual clam bake will be held July 15 at Glenwood-on-the- Sound, L. I. . Tickets are $5. Bernard Granville has been requested by Flo Ziegfeld to omit his war speech 4i the new "Follies." Lottie Garder is to marry Emile Brunelle in Montreal July 3. She will retire from the stage. Willie Solar will leave for Australia Aug. 3, taking with him "Hello Rag- time" for production over there. Ruth Napelbaum, of the Keeney office, has been granted a two weeks' vacation starting Monday. Joe McCarthy, the song writer, who badly scalded his leg some weeks ago, is recovering. J. Herbert Frank, a Vitagraph play- er, received an offer this week to go into vaudeville. John Nicholson is to have "For the Love of Mike" on the road again next fall. Margaret Illington is booked to re- turn to the road at the Cort, Chiqago, Aug. 7. George Degnon, formerly with 101 Ranch, is with the John H. Sparks Show. Opera at Sohmer Park, Montreal, will replace vaudeville there for next week only. Jack Kingsbury, lecturing with the MacKenzie Wild Game pictures at the Lyceum, has become associated with Jack Singer in a new show that he Belle Blanche has decided to play vaudeville engagements over the sum- mer. The Oxford Trio, consisting of Wells, Lyllell and Mortimer, have sep- arated. Margaret Dale has been engaged as leading woman for the E. H. Sothem Company. Barelegged girls will not be tolerated on the Beach at Coney according to Police Captain Linden. The Barnum-Bailey circus, scheduled to play at Des Moines Aug. 6 was forced to pay $300 for a license. Ben Deeley has signed with the World Film Co., to produce and direct features. Deeley will also display his screen ability in some of the releases. When Lewis Waller presents "Gam- blers All" over here next season his leading woman will again be Madge Titheradge. Karl Hoblitzelle, of the Interstate Circuit, is passing the summer at Pas- adena, Cal. Max Hart says he must give his wife a horse, so that the family automobile may be used by him now and then to go golfing. Ray Myers, of the Smith and Aus- tin act, is recovering from a fractured rib and a broken arm received recently in an automobile accident. Joseph Carey will replace Nace Bon- ville in the Gilbert and Sullivan Revue at the Brighton next week. Bonville formed the act. Carl Reed, associated with Ned Wayburn in the production of "She's In Again," has gone to his home in the west to spend the summer. Irwin Dash, the pianist, will shortly become the spouse of Sarah Oestreich- er, sister of L. Wolfe Gilbert. Dash is connected with Jos. Stern & Co. Douglas Fairbanks, who was to have headlined at the Majestic, Chicago, next week, asked for a cancellation of the engagement. Shep Camp leaves next month for Australia, where he has a year's con- tract to play in farces and comedies under the Williamson management. Ralph Herz is again in the divorce courts, seeking a divorce from his second wife, naming two corespond- ents in his present action. Frank Clark, manager of Waterson, Berlin and Snyder's Chicago office, re- turned home this week after several days of Thousand-Islanding.* |M Fred Niblo and his uJ, Josephine Cohan, with their son, returned to New York Tuesday, ,ajter three years in Australia. Howard Kyle and Amy UrcHra, both of whom appeared in "Polygamy," were married Monday at Fort Lee, N. J. Mr. Kyle is secretary of the Actors' Equity Association. Olive Oliver will represent the actresses of the Actors' Equity Associ- ation at the Pacific Coast meetings ar- ranged for July. "Robin Hood" is to be given an- other road revival. James Stevens and Fred Walker have pooled on its road presentation for next season. Charles Riggs will be in advance. Dwight Pepple, the Chicago pro- ducer, is spending the current week in New York assisting several of his pro- ductions in their eastern debuts and selecting material for the middle-west. Frank L. Collier has been made treas- urer of the Washington theatre, Bos- ton. Edward Goodman, for five years head usher at the house, has been made assistant manager. In addition to engaging Patricia Col- linge as principal woman for "Polly- ana," the new George Tyler R. & E. piece, Philip Merrivale is signed for one of the leading roles. Harry Fitzgerald took a train for the middle west this week to stop over a week or two in Chicago in search of desirable material for eastern vaude- ville the coming season. Ethel Barrymore is having a rest at her country home, but plans to start early fall rehearsals for her new star- ring vehicle, "Roast Beef Medium," by Edna Ferber. The Tivoli, Brisbane, has been added to the Rickards Circuit of theatres in Australia, under the direction of Hugh Mcintosh. It is a large house with a roof garden. When "The Show Shop" resumes operations next fall, Zelda Sears will be featured in all billing. The show opens about Sept. 15 and will first play long engagements in Boston, Philadel- phia and Chicago. it a road route before attempting any of the big city engagements. They had out "The Red Rose" last season. Charles Nelson Bell, husband of Adele Ritchie, who was arrested about a year ago, charged with hiring thugs to beat up George W. Steele, was sen- tenced in Newark this week to three years' probation, during which time he must pay a weekly fine of $2. Freebody Park, Newport, R. I., opens with Sheedy vaudeville July 5. The Opera House at Hartford, Conn., booked by Sheedy, has closed its vau- deville for the summer. There will be no road production of "The Miracle Man" by Cohan & Har- ris next season, and up to the present nobody has obtained the road rights for the piece. The former Astor pro- duction is to go into stock next fall. The Lambs' Club has ben given per- mission by Justice Shearn to mort- gage the club house to the extent of $450,000, this amount to be used in paying off old mortgages and erecting an addition. An interlocutory decree of divorce was granted Minnie Radcliffe Williams by Supreme Court Justice Lehman in New York last week, from Malcolm E. Williams. M. Strassman represented Mrs. Williams. Wally Derthick in association with John Daly will produce a new musi- cal play in the fall and propose giving The Marconi Brothers were notified to report to the local Italian Consul's headquarters this week and may be transported to join their regiment, which is being mobilized to assist in the suppression of the Kaiser's war dogs. The Wadsworth on the Heights has discontinued its tabloid policy and is again playing small time vaudeville. This house was to have been a link in a tab wheel that was to have been formed. It formerly played a stock tab show. An automobile driven by Billy Mor- risey and containing Dolly Hackett, Gene Hughes, Harry Sacks and Joe Kane, collided with a tree in Central Park Saturday night. The tree was broken off and the machine smashed, the party escaping with a few minor scratches. The proposed ordinance framed by Commissioner of Licenses Bell which would give him the power to revoke the license of a theatre was not brought up before the Board of Aldermen last week as Commissioner Bell wished to first confer with the Theatre Man- agers' Protective Association. The Garrick theatre, supposed to have been sold by Mrs. Edward Harri- gan to the Braham Realty Co., in May, was not sold, though the sale was registered. Mrs. Harrigan was re- ported receiving $300,000 for it and an equity in property in the neighbor- hood. Complications arose and the deal was declared off. Helen Arthur, for some seven or eight years private secretary to J. J. Shubert, left the office of the Shuberts last week. It is said Miss Arthur, who is an authoress, wrote a skit played in a little house that had "Jake" and "Lee" as principal named characters, with Miss Arthur taking the "Jake" role. The numerous summer repertoire companies which have taken to the boards have found the going rather hard so far in the small towns. Na- tives have failed to patronize the at- tractions. One rep manager said this week he believed the only show that could make money would be the one playing to a ten cent admission. His show, which is playing the mountain towns, is just about breaking even and is playing drama, vaudeville and pic- tures, all for a small admission.