Variety (August 1915)

VARIETY R1ETY Weakly hw VARIETY, lac IILVUIMAN. PraklMt NnrYNk CHICAGO tfajcstlc Thestra Bldf. SAN FRANCISCO Pintages Thtatra Bid*. LONDON 18 Charing CroM load PAHS 66 bit. fue St. Didier ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising copy for current issue must reach New York office by Wedaesdaj 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 ** Foreign 5 Single Copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class mstter st New York Vol. XXXIX. No. 10 Jacob P. Adler has been engaged by Ned Wayburn for "Town Topics." A. Bernardi reached New York Sun- day. Princess Rajah, seriously ill for a time, is recovering. Frances Thompson, of Fort Worth, Texas, has been signed by Ned Way- burn for "Town Topics." Emma Bunting came to New York this week to make arrangements for the new season. The Shuberts have engaged Lillian Herlein for the next production at the Winter Garden. Mme. Walska, the Russian prima donna, is reported engaged to L. M. Palmer, Jr., a wealthy Brooklynite. A new classical dance has been in- serted in the new "Ziegfeld Follies" which is done by Carl Randall, Mae Murray and Lucille Cavanaugh. Arthur Driscoll (O'Brien-Malevinsky- Driscoll law firm) returned Monday from a two weeks' vacation up in New Hampshire. G. B. Greenwood has leased from the Southern Investment and Amusement Company the Grand, Jacksonville, Fla., and Aug. 1 inaugurated popular priced musical comedy there. Charles P. Edwards has resumed his press agenting for the Welsh Brothers' circus, after attending his wife who has been ill. H. A. Morrison has been looking after his work. Gertrude Hoffmann will open in her new act, "Sumurun," at the Brighton, Aug. 16. In support will appear Jacque Archer, Charles Henderson, Edward Colebrook and Enrico Muris. Lyn Harding is in New York to re- port for rehearsals with Joseph Brooks' "Trilby," with which he is to play Svengali this season. A play will again take Lopokova, the ballet premier at the Palace this week, before the stage public next season. Lopokova evidently does not intend remaining in vaudeville since she de- clined Wednesday an offer of $750 to appear at the Temple, Detroit, next week. Charles Sumner, author of "The Natural Law," submitted a comedy en- titled "Watch My Wife" to A. H. Woods. Woods immediately sent Sum- ner a check for advance royalties. Max Lowe, of the Marinelli oltice, has completed arrangements for a Chi- cago branch and will leave New York next week on an extended trip through the west prior to the opening. Harry Van of "The Behman Show" was notified Tuesday he was the father of a daughter, his first. Mrs. Van (Ethel Nordstrom) is doing nicely, likewise the arrival. George Mooser leaves New York Saturday for the Coast to have a two weeks' conference with Oliver Mor- osco. Mooser is Morosco's chief rep- resentative in the East. The vaudeville program of six acts at Morrison's, Rockaway, this week, was placed together by Lawrence J. Goldie, to give the seaside a show for the first time there. No turn upon the bill has ever before played the house. Woodside Park, Philadelphia, which heretofore has been controlled by Roy- ster & Dudley, has been taken over by the Woodside Real Estate Co. and is now offering five acts of vaudeville. C Merywin Travis is manager. Mrs. Elmer F. Rogers added a girl last week to the Rogers family, now consisting of a mixed quartet, their first born having been a boy. The father, meanwhile, has been also mak- ing an elegant record for himself man- aping Keith's Palace, New York. Alan K. Foster returned lo the city this week after several months in Can- ada, where he has been staging pro- ductions. Foster will produce a num- ber of girl acts for the coming season, having arranged with Frank Bohm to stage his contemplated productions. Charles Shay, president of the I. A. T. S. E., not only returned from the Chi- cago convention of the Alliance re- elected, but had his salary boosted in appreciation of his services to the Al- liance and was granted a two weeks' vacation with instructions to leave "no address" until he returned. The Pacific Coast company of 'Tot- ash and Perlmutter" is to open its season at Ogden, Utah, Aug. 28. The company leaves here Aug. 24. After two days in Ogden they open in San Francisco on Aug. 30. Walter Mes- senger is in advance and Harry Hry- ant will be back with the show. Mike Sheedy was reported as having been barred from the Polo Grounds on the charge of having been too open in his anxiety to root for certain teams. Sheedy, who went to the Saratoga races this week, is thinking seriously of tak- ing legal action against the baseball owners. Tom Murphy, who recently left the Primrose Four to exploit a double-act under the title of Murphy and Marino, has severed partnership with Marino and accepted the leading role in a new miniature comic operetta by Botsford & Havez called "Fixing Father." The en- tire turn is in song. Louis Bernstein dropped all music publishing affairs last week, slipping off to Maine in search of some regular fish he had heard were hanging around there. Duffy, Geisler and Lewis will split after this week. Duffy and Geisler will go with the Chas. Robinson show next season, while Ted Lewis will form a new partnership. William McGowan, for four seasons manager of the New Grand, Evans- ville, has been transferred by Finn & Heiman to the management of the Orpheum, Des Moines, succeeding Harry Burton at that house. McGow- an is replaced in Evansville by Otto Meyer, formerly treasurer of the Grand. E. F. Albee made an inspection tour this week of the Keith houses in Cin- cinnati, Dayton and Cleveland where several changes will be made in the personnel of the house staffs. In Cin- cinnatti the boxes will be rebuilt and the house entirely renovated. He is scheduled to return the latter part of this week. There will be a three-day convention here next week of the small one-night stand managers of the middle west. The meeting has been called so that the house managers will have an op- portunity of becoming better acquainted with the producers, who make a point of producing attractions for this type of houses from Chicago. After operating Keeney's Third ave- nue for seven years on a ten-year lease, Frank A. Kecney this week gladly let go the house through an agreement readied. The McCahill Estate, own- ing the theatre, through its director, Thomas J. McCahill, will turn it over to Samuel Burghoffcn, who proposes to remodel and reopen in September with v straight picture policy. Snyder's "Soothing Symphony" it will be known by and people will wonder if that's a new kind of ki*!'s syrup. But it's not. It's a song, and a very good one, with music by the )nly Ted, while the words were welded by Will J. Harris, a western boy. Wateriiuii, Berlin & Snyder have increased their piano force to let everybody hear "Soothing Symphony" altogether. The return of Peter Mack, New York representative of the Gus Sun Circuit, was officially celebrated in the Palace theatre building early this week. Peter has spent the past several weeks depu- tizing for Thomas Peerless Powell, who handles the middle-western interests of the Sun time. Thomas Peerless has been vacationing. A book of poems contributed by Billy Delaney and sev- eral bouquets were awaiting Peter when he arrived at his desk. Although the Shuberts have strenu- ously tried to extend the engagement of "Maid in America" at the Palace, Chicago, where the piece has been run- ning since the temporary suspension of the vaudeville policy, the manage- ment of the house has decided to close the engagement of the show the week preceding Labor Day in order to open with the regular season's vaudeville programs on the advertised date. The show has been averaging $14,000 weekly, but the Palace people do not feel inclined to lose its vaudeville iden- tity. The show will proceed to the coast. The success of the Shubert piece at the Palace may result in the eventual determination of the Palace people to keep the house open every summer through the engagement of a success- ful musical comedy. Ed. Oirouz, general booking manager for John Cort, has confirmed the open- ing bookings for the Cort theatres in New York, Boston and Chicago. The first will be the Chicago Cort, Aug. 8, with Margaret Illington in 'The Lie." The second will be the Lexington opera house, New York, opening Aug. 28 with one of the "Potash & Perlmutter" com- panies. The renamed Saxe's 116th Street, the York, will have "A Full House," Sept. 13. Labor Day the Standard, with Harry Cort back as manager, will open in "The Yellow Ticket." The Cort, Boston, will have "Twin Beds" as its starter Labor Day, while the Plymouth in the Hub will have "The White Feather," opening the same day. Margaret Anglin is the second attraction for the Plymouth. A theatre owner and manager in Harlem was "trimmed" for $110 last week, through the carefully laid plan of a Harlemite, who is said to have announced in advance his intention of beating the house out of $100. The trimmer walked into the theatre (between 125th and 110th streets), asking its owner-manager if he cared to lease the house. Pictures were then 1 laying there. Its manager said he would and the trimmer asked if he could secure the lease for vaudeville, $500 to be paid on account for the re- mainder of the summer, when posses- sion was taken. Everything agreed to, the trimmer engaged some vaudeville acts, took possession Monday morn- ing, gave the check for $500, took in $110 that day, and Tuesday passed away. But Tuesday afternoon the $500 check came back.