Variety (July 1915)

10 LEGITIMATE, WITH THE PRESS AGENTS Olympic Park, Newark, started a summer season of opera Judo '2H. "On Trial" ends Its run at the Candler Sat- urday. Bertha Mann will be Been In "Rolling Stones" next season. Montague Love has been added to "Search Me," which will open in I<ong Branch July 10. "She's In Again" Is slated for a tour next season starting In Brooklyn Labor Day. "The Sinners" celebrated Its 200th perform- ance at the Playhouse Wednesday. A "Twin Beds" company was put Into re- hearsal last week. The Shuherts will present Taylor Holmes next season in a series of plays at the Comedy. The Mary Servos* stock company may follow the Jostle Bonstello company at the Star, De- troit. Laura Frankenfleld has been engaged to play the lead in the road production of the Maham show, "Tlpperary," next fall. Forbes Robertson will make another tour of America, starting In October. Percy Burton will be manager. "Search Me" will be shown for the first time at the Broadway theatre, Long Branch, July The Irish theatre Intends to play a season of 20 weeks next season commencing In Octo- ber. A benefit will be given for the family of the late George H. Harris at Hurtig ft Sca- mon's 125th St. Sunday evening, July 11. Messrs. Deckey-Terry-Jones have out a road outfit of "Ten Nights In a Bar Room" and are featuring a band. Orlan Barton will be featured on the road next season and the manager Is to be Fred V». Bachelor." The opera house, Onawa, la., Is to play legits next season and the manager is to be Fred W. Wonder. "In Oklahoma" Is announced as a new road- ster under the direction of the Seven Cairns Brothers next season. It is reported Robert Hllllard will be the next president of the Everard Brewing Co. Mr. Milliard became Interested In the beer business through his wife's father, James Everard. J. J. Rosenthal didn't want to go on the road next season and this week Cohan & Harris offered him the management of the Bronx opera house. He accepted. "The Heart of a Child," by Zelda Sears, will open under the management of A. H. Woods at the Savoy, Asbury Park, July 23. The cast, headed by Kathleen Clifford, will Include Miss Sears. Hector Turnbull, formerly dramatic critic on the New York Tribune, plays a minor role In the Lasky production of "Chlmmle Fad den" at the Strand this week. Turnbull Is scenario editor for the concern. Mux Kablnoff, manager of the Pavlowa Im- perial Rupslan Ballet, secured through the re- ceiver of the Boston Opera Co. the productions of Hevcrnl operas which will be used next seannn In (he Pnvlnwa tour. Henry Miller will havo three "Daddy Long Legs" com pun I es on the road next season. They will be hearted respectively by Ruth Chatterton and Charles Waldron. Renee Kelly and Byron Beasley, Frances Carson and George AllRon. The 101 Ranch got considerable space Mon- day In the Associated Press report that Mrs. .Ichh Wlllard was pronounced a consumptive by four Buffalo doctors and told that she only had a year or more to live. Wlllard Is report- ed as trying to break his contruct and accom- pany his wife to their western home, but the show management refused. The Theatrical Key Co. (Inc.). hns enguged Its people for the two "Seven KeyH to Bald- pate" and will start both compunles on the road Aug. :»(». Co. A. with nearly all the cast Intact from liist MCHson's Big City Rhow. with Charles Goettler. in:>n.ii;ln«. and William H. Moxon ahead, goes as Tar wist as Salt Lake and will then tour Oklahoma. Texas and other southern points. Co. U. with I^-on Victor ahead, plays New England and then takes in Pennsylvania, Ohio. New York and Indiana. ALLIANCE CONVENTION. The first detachment of officers of the International Alliance of Theatri- cal Stage Employers leaves New York today (July 2) for Chicago where they will go into executive session next Monday for one week's conference prior to the opening of the big con- vention proper on July 12. The local contingent will be headed by Charles C. Shay, president. Delegates elected to the convention by the New York and Brooklyn locals go to Chicago the latter part of next week. To-day's departing contingent numbered nine I. A. T. S. E. officials. Next week Ligon Johnson, attorney for the United Managers' Theatrical Protective Association, goes to the Windy City convention to present a few minor matters to the general body. As conditions throughout the coun- try are generally bad and there is no great outlook for better times next fall the managers will not make any un- reasonable demands or changes right now and the Alliance is not expected to pass any new laws that will draw it into bitter controversy with the As- sociation. Variety, this week received a signed statement from Joseph Prem, 31 Third avenue, Long Island City, say- ing that in behalf of the members, now under suspension for their par- ticipation in the "affair" which hap- pened at the Republic theatre, Sept. 29, 1913, that the convention elects an impartial jury, five or seven men, to investigate and decide accordingly upon the Republic happening. Prem also writes to "request that the elected delegates representing the dif* ferent locals study" Article 8, (sections 2, 3 and 4) of the T. P. U. body of the Constitutions and Article No. 1, T. P. U. of the By-laws, (sections 12 and 17) and Articles 2 (sections 4, 5 and 7) T. P. U. and 2 (Sections 11. 12 and 13) I. A. T. S. E. of the By- laws. The T. P. U. articles are re- ferred to the 1911 adoption while the I. A. T. S. E. article is of the 1913 vin- tage. Prem, who's a stage carpenter, was fined by the New York local upon ad- visement by the Alliance for his part of the Republic affair and instead of taking steps f6r reinstatement like some of the other suspended members, he took his grievances to court. Prem has not been dropped from the union's books and compliance with certain in- structions by the local would reinstate him. The Prem matter is said to be wholly up to the New York Theatrical Protec- tive Union No. 1 to settle, having passed from the jurisdiction of the Al- liance. MOROSCO PLAY IN SEPTEMBER. An Oliver Morosco play, "The Un- chastened Woman." will open in New York early in September, appearing at a Shubert theatre. Emily Stevens and Christine Nor- man will be in the leading roles. They returned to New York this week from ilie Coast, where the piece had a try- out. AGENCIES DULL There is very little activity around the dramatic and musical comedy en- gaging offices these hot days. Matt Grau reports "nothing doing" and is putting in his leisure moments on the Van Cortjandt golf links. Paul Scott closes up early each day and makes for the piazza of his Staten Island home. Darcy & Wolford are busiest leasing plays for stock. Betts & Fowler re- port comparatively no engagements, barring some picture jobs. At the dif- ferent Packard agencies one sees nu- merous applicants for berths but few choice engagements made for next sea- son. At the Lawrence-Summers agency, Miss Lawrence has left her office in charge of her secretary and gone to Detroit on a vacation. The usual line of applicants may be found at the Fer- dinandez, Wales Winter and Chamber- lin Brown agencies. BOOKING ROADSTERS. The men who book most of the road tours of the New York traveling com- binations are going right ahead for a vigorous road campaign for next sea- son. Charles Miller is doing some booking for the Brady shows, while Victor Leighton is routing up the "Kick In," "Potash & Perlmutter" and "Song of Songs" companies, in addi- tion to numerous other roadsters A. H. Woods will put out next fall. Charles (Pink) Hayes, the official router for Selwyn & Co., is another busy booker at present. Five "Twin Beds" companies will all be in action by Labor Day, the "No. 1" starting out in Boston. He will also tab the book- ings for the new Selwyn shows, "Back Home," "The Mystic Shrine" and "Un- der Fire" (which opens Labor Day at the Hudson theatre, New York). Pink is also booking a "Show Shop" com- pany for the bigger cities. "DOG" WITH DOG. After a few minor changes in the engaged cast for the new Cohan & Harris play, "Me and My Dog," the premiere will take place at the Apollo, Atlantic City, July 12. The cast as completed (including Dixie Taylor and his educated dog, "Jasper") has Otto Kruger, Peggy Wood, Arthur Linden, William Samp- son, Spencer Charters, Josephine Wil- liams, Jess Kelly, Frank Nelson, Max- ine Mazanovich, Normen Allen, For- rest Robinson, Bennie Sweeney, Doris Kelly. Ethel Mae Davis, Percy Helton, Joseph Berger, Harry E. Willard. "WANG" IS OFF. When DeWolf Hopper signed a con- tract the other day with the New York M. P. Corporation to engage in feature film work for that concern for one solid year at $2,000 a week, it imme- diately called off the proposed open- ing of the 48th Street theatre next fall *vith Hopper in a big revival of "Wang." As the matter stands a new play to be brought out by William A. Brady will reopen the 48th Street. The Brady force does, not yet know what show will start the new season at the Play- house where "Sinners" is now playing. BROADWAY HOUSE PICKED. L. Lawrence Weber and H. H. Frazee have practically decided upon a theatre on Broadway, for their future legit productions. The Broadway house will replace the Longacre theatre, as the home of the Weber-Frazee attrac- tions. The current Longacre theatre attraction is "A Full House" produced by the firm. CORT BOOKINGS. "Twin Beds" has been slated as the first attraction booked in for the Cort, Boston, early in September. John Cort has "The White Feather" for the opening attraction at the Plymouth, Boston, now under Cort's booking at- tention. The Standard, New York, will re- sume its former legitimate policy early in the season with the old scale of prices prevailing. A stock proposition tried there recently fizzled and the Standard will remain dark through the summer. "PEG" KEEPS GOING. Chicago, June 30. "Peg O' My Heart," with Peggy O'Neil (who is now featured in it), has had the ending of its run at the Cort indefinitely postponed, through the show giving a profit to its manage- ment of $700 last week. Saturday was to have been the date of closing here. When through in Chicago Miss O'Neil will have a Broadway theatre to play the title role for a few weeks before a Metropolitan audience. "NEW SHYLOCK" RENAMED. "The New Shylock," as the title first proposed by A. H. Woods, will be re- named before eventually produced for the New York stage. It is possible "The Bargain" will be tacked onto it. In the cast are Louis Calvert, espe- cially imported from England, Doro- thy Donnelly, Forrest Winant, Jose- phine Victor, Edwin Arden, John Flood, Eugene O'Brien. SHUBERTS IN LONG BEACH? Atlantic City may not be favored with the future Shubert openings after the current season, provided the pro- ducing firm can locate in Long Beach. It is understood the Shuberts have been angling for a site in the summer resort nearer New York. BELASCO'S "BOOMERANG." The David Belasco play. "The Boom- erang," tried out this spring will prob- ably open at the Belasco theatre, New York, during the week of Aug. 16. It is routed to play the week previously at the Broadway, Long Branch. "BEHMAN SHOW" HOLDS UP. In spite of the intense heat of the present week. Morton and Moore have succeeded in maintaining the high record of receipts since the beginning «>f the engagement of "The Behman Show" at the Columbia. AMERICAN'S MURRAY HILL. The unexpired term of the lease of the Murray Hill theatre has been taken over by the American Burlesque As- sociation, and the house will hereafter be operated directly by that concern.