Variety (July 1915)

VARIETY Publish** WmUj by VARIETY, Inc. SIME SILVERMAN, President TlmM Square Naw York CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO Pantage• Theatre Bldg. 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! ~ NoTri A comedy, written by Eleanor Gates, has the approval of Blanche Bates for a starring vehicle. Brightley Dayton has been appointed manager of the Vinton theatre, Vin- ton, la., for next season. Salvatore Rosa Maltese and Marie Lewis were married July 4 in New York. Jack Well and Al Lewis, of the orig- inal Rathskellar Trio, will revive the act next season. A boy was born to Evelyn and Mervyn Vixtorine (Stadium Trio) on June 29 in San Francisco. The Brighton theatre will close its season of summer vaudeville with the Labor Day week program. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Davett (.Davett and Duval) were presented with a boy June 30. William H. Cooper for many years of the Exposition Four, and Hazel Lawrence Hickey were married re- cently. Chain and Templeton have separated, Dell Chain deciding to do a two-act with his former partner, Nick Hufford. Henrietta Crosman has been released from bankruptcy by Judge Hand. The discharge relieves her from liabilities of $17,670. It is the second time Miss Crosman has been in bankruptcy. I. Miller, the shoe man, celebrated a unique anniversay last week, his 21st year in business. Miller started with two shoemakers and now employs 200, turning out 400 pairs of shoes daily. "The Bridge of Sighs," by Edward Sheldon, and "The Love Trap," by Harry B. Smith, are two pieces the Charles Frohman Estate will produce next fall. Perry Kelly is framing a long route for another road tour of "The Prince of Pilsen." After going south the piece will play toward the Coast. Eva Von Luke will again play the Widow. Adelaide French is going to star on the road with "The Law of the Land" next season and will be under the management of Carl Zoellner, who is now arranging the route. The Duchess theatre, North Battle- ford, Saskatchewan, Canada, has been taken over by Mayhew Hayes. It will play vaudeville and traveling attrac- tions. Lincoln Carter, the melodramatic magnate and president of the Stollers Club of Chicago, arrived in New York this week to dispose of his many melo- dramatic manuscripts for pictures. Harold J. Figel, for the past three years manager of the Odeon theatre, Harlem, has taken over the Farragut theatre, Brooklyn, and will exhibit pictures there. profitable to operate them. Some of the parks are open, playing a pop vaudeville. Several stock companies had been organized specially for these dates but were forced to disband. Several requests have been lately mailed in from out of town to various agencies asking them to secure people for companies to start out immediately. The sender names a date when he will be in to select his company, but so far has failed to appear. The few summer repertoire com- panies venturing forth this summer to try a few weeks at parks and the like are bewailing that they went out. Busi- ness is said to be bad in all sections of the country for the troupes. A company sent out by one manager for a fey weeks in the mountain towns SUMMER SUBSCRIPTION THREE MONTHS FOR $1.00 Send name and address with remittance to VARIETY, New York Tom Grady, who thinks he is a ball player and has been in the Family De- partment of the United Booking Offices, has been recommitted to the Boston branch of the agency, com- mencing July 19. Jo Paige Smith walked over an em- bankment in the dark Monday night while at Great Kills, Staten Island. The agent was brought home Tues- day, somewhat bruised but in no danger. Laurette Taylor is to appear in a new play by her husband, J. Hartley Man- ners, which will be given at an open air charity performance in aid of the Stage Orphans. The piece is entitled, "The Passing of Joseph and Fanny." was closed by him on account of bad business. The players were given their notice and after the two weeks had elapsed they decided to continue on the commonwealth plan. Harry Burton, manager of the Or- pheum, Des Moines, after a fortnight's visit in New York, left for New Or- leans by boat. From there, after visit- ing his children, lie will return direct to Des Moines. Mrs. Burton accom- panies him. Harry F. Mc Gar vie, who went to San Francisco to act as general man- ager of the Ottoman Section of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, has sev- ered relation with the big fair and has gone to Los Angeles to make new connections. Frances Demarest who is to be trans- ferred to "The Blue Paradise" from the Winter Garden show is to remain with the new production but for a few weeks, as she and her husband, Jos. C. Smith, have arranged a turn for vaudeville. A circuit of parks in Pennsylvania which have been playing stock during the summer under the management of an individual were all turned back to their owners after the first few weeks of this season, when it was found un- Will West, the Chaplin impersonator who was brought East this week by Menlo Moore after establishing several records in and around Chicago, is liable to be the defendant in a breach of con- tract suit brought by the Marcus Loew Agency. West, after signing a con- tract with Menlo Moore April 2, ac- cepted a date from the Chicago Loew office, the Loew contract giving the agency a ten-week option on the com- edian's services. With his success, West found the option had become active, but he decided to rely on the protection offered in Moore's prior contract in order to accept an opening in Brooklyn for the United Booking Offices. In doing this West refused to play for Loew in the East and left three weeks unfulfilled of the original ten. The disappointment may result ii, a suit under the Illinois contract law which provides for liquidated damages to the face amount of the contract. Mul Clark's stock burlesque com- pany playing at the Star, Cleveland, for the past two months, will disband at the expiration of the present week. Business continued good up to the present week because of favorable weather. Jim Curtain left last Tuesday for a trip to the Pacific Coast and will be gone three weeks. Bill Lindsay of the Lehigh arranged a route for the man- ager that will have him in Seattle for the Shriners' Convention and in San Francisco for the Elks' Convention there. He will return by the way of Texas and visit his birthplace. Tom Ealand, who introduced the tabloid shows to the east, his aggre- gation headed by Johnnie and Irene Galvin being the first show to play the Union Square theatre, has accepted a proposition from Chas. Miles to man- age his Orpheum, Detroit. Ealand will handle the business affairs of the house during the summer and may return east again with the season's opening to attend to the production of several new "tabs." TOMMY'S TATTLES. By Thomas J. Gray. The boys in the trenches must be busy fighting—it's nearly two weeks since we heard of them breaking in any new songs. Met a stock actor from the west who said he came on here to try and get into the No. 2 company of "The Birth of a Nation." The men and women who slapped their children for reading those Nick Carter paper novels are now support- ing the theatres playing those serial pictures with stuff that Nick Carter's author never had the nerve to use. Five Good Ways to Spend the Summer. Working, Eating, Sleeping, Keeping Cool, Laying Off. The theatrical season just passed was the most successful one in the history of show business—for benefits. Willie Edelsten, the London agent, is not yet wise to the kidding ways of New York agents. Tuesday some one sent him the address of a place where he could see a good diving act. He went there and found it was the Aquarium. The Freeport actors play a game that looks something like baseball.