Variety (August 1915)

VARIETY Publish** WmUt br VARIWY, Inc. SIME SILVERMAN, ■ President Times Squar* N«w York CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO Pantagei Theatre Bldg. LONDON 18 Charing Croat Road PARIS 66 bia. 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 H Foreign 5 Single Copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class matter at New York Vol. XXXIX. No. 11 The Coburn Players are playing open air dates in the south. "A Royal Slave" started its tenth road season Aug. 14 at Genoa, 111. The Carolyn Lawrence dramatic agency has closed. E. Johnson of the Marinelli agency returned to New^York Sunday. Nellie Revell commences her duties in the Orpheum Circuit New York headquarters next Monday. Lillian Keller has been engaged as a principal for "The Love Knot," one of the new 'productions of the new season. Bobby Matthews and Alshayne, who will again be together next season, resume vaudeville dates within a few weeks. Ed. L. Moore, head of the Moore Circuit in West Virginia and Ohio, has added the Grand, Steubenville, O., to his list. Ora-Ental, who is at the Union Square this week, after playing for two weeks at the Cadillac, Detroit, is the former Mite Moree. The Opera House, Westbrook, 111., Jos. Bauer, manager, has discontinued playing combination and will hereafter use pictures only. Mrs. Pat Campbell's opening at the Mason, Los Angeles, originally sched- uled for Aug. 16, lias been postponed to Aug. 30. Phil Hunt will continue as booking representative for the Howard and Rowdoin Square, Boston, placing the hills through the Loew agency. Charles Bird was absent from his regular post at the Shuberts' office this week, reported as threatened with an attack of appendicitis. The former Keeney's Third Avenue, now under new management; will re- open Aug. 16, with pictures, and will be called The Palace. Jack Hayman, the London agent, may come to New York next month, principally in the interests of Alfred Butt. Walter McCullough will be Blanche Walsh's principal support in the west- ern tour of her vaudeville skit "The Spoils of War." Frank Bohm has taken Charles F. Pope into his office as general manager of the producing department which is to begin active operations immediately. There is a possibility E. M. Hart will leave the Harmanus Bleecker Hall, Al- bany, shortly and become identified with the F. F. Proctor interests. Joe Fields, the German comedian, announces the engagement of his daughter, Minnie, to Al. Friedman, of New York. The wedding will be on Aug. 15. Charlotte Parry has been routed by the United Booking Offices and will open her season at the Bushwick, Brooklyn, Sept. 27. Miss Parry has Keen playing abroad for two years. Franklyn Ardell will have one of the principal roles in "Stolen Orders" when that renamed Drury Lane melodrama is produced at the Manhattan opera house, New York. George Goett, who has been general manager of the John Gorman tabs and the Gorman park circuits, will return to his post in the Leffler-Bratton of- fice. Sept. 1. Van Hovcn had an "At Home" Sun- day evening, Aug. 8, at the Aladdin House, London, with Carl Hertz pre- siding over the entertainment that fol- lowed a reception. Charles Bornhaupt and Harry Rapf, through Bornhaupt's attorney, Gerald B. Rosenheim, settled out of court the suit for commission on a foreign un- filled booking made by Bornhaupt for Rapf. Amount involved, $900. James K. Hackett, who will be very active in stage work next season, is reported as thinking seriously of man- ufacturing features, calling the com- pany the James K. Hackett Feature Film Players. The Erie (Pa.) flood swept through Four-Mile Creek Park at Erie and badly damaged all wardrobe and trunks. Some of the artists were caught at the park but none were injured. Ben Deeley has permanently left vaudeville to take up a contract with Pathe, for which he will produce and play principal comic roles in short reels. Deeley will make his headquar- ters on the coast. Bob Carlin and Ed Gallagher have dissolved partnership, Gallagher going with Wayburn's "Town Topics," while Carlin has accepted an engagement with the Universal (Imp) to play a principal role in stock film productions. Dooley and Rugel have been held over for three weeks at the Orpheum, Los Angeles. The usual run for an act at the Los Angeles house is two weeks, although«a few noted stars have hcen held over for a third week. The Empress, Denver, the former Sullivan-Considine theatre there, has been leased and is being operated by George H. Greaves. It is playing vaudeville, booked by Chas. Jacobs of Denver. Frank Bohm has decided to discon- tinue the Singer Midgets show and has arranged a tour of the Loew circuit for the act, opening in Milwaukee Aug. 30. Bohm has also routed Conroy's Diving models over the Loew circuit. N. Roland has bought the Klimpt in- terests in the Crown theatre, Chicago. 11 opens with stock on Aug. 22. The Victoria, Chicago, will open A U K- 15 with a company headed by Harry Lin- turn. The Western Vaudeville Managers' Association Year Book and Directory of standard acts playing the "Associa- tion" time reached the street this week, the two subjects being discussed in different volumes. The publication work was supervised by Sid Gumpertz. Harry Myers left New York Thurs- day to assume the management of the new Strand, Cedar Rapids, la., which has been built at a cost of $100,000 by lord & Diebold, the western theatre owners. The Strand seats 1,500 and it will offer stock this fall. Brightley Dayton departed Tuesday for Vinton, la., where he will manage the new Palace, costing $50,000 and seating 800. It will play combinations, opening Sept. 8, with "Sinners," which stops over for a night en route to the Coast. "Miss Rabbit's Foot," the first of the A. Kalman musical pieces Klaw & Er- langer have under optional producing agreement, will not be put together by K. & E. among its first attractions. The production has been indefinitely postponed. Sophie Tucker replaced Harry Fox and Yansci Dolly when the latter stepped out of Morrison's Rockaway bill this week. The latter objected to their program billing. Emma Carus re- mained to headline. Gertho's dogs were also an insert by Morrison Monday. AL Canfield, of late doing an act with Eddie Kane (Kane and Nadell), while working upon a new act, became suddenly ill July 26 and was removed to a private sanitarium in New York for treatment. Canfield expects to br •nit again in a couple of weeks. A strike of the street car employees at Holyoke, Mass., will probably keep the Mountain Park Casino closed next week, no show having been booked into the house up to Wednesday. The Union Square Theatre, PitU- fteld, Mass., has established opposition to the Empire, being booked by the Family Department of the United Booking Offices. The Union Square is supplied through Byrne & Kirby. Simultaneously with the announce- ment Julia Marlowe was giving up the stage for good came a wrong report Mrs. Minnie Madden Fiske was also deserting the stage. Mrs. Fiske has manuscript for several new plays and may very likely accept one before next month. The Hippodrome, Youngstown, re- cently added on the lists of the United Booking Offices, will be booked by Carleton Hoagland of that agency. The Hip is to play two shows daily, full week, and will open Aug. 30, having Fritizi Scheff as the first U. B. O. head- liner. Maurice Campbell, who went abroad and was reported as on the search for a new dramatic vehicle for his wife, Henrietta Crosman, is back in New York. His failure to find the proper play may result in Miss Crosinan play- ing vaudeville dates the greater part of the season. Gene Greene, who made an unsuc- cessful invasion of the east last season, has been induced by Pete Mack to make another effort and will open early in the season at one of the New York houses. Tom Brantford, who has not appeared in the east in several years, will also come east next sea- son under Mack's direction. Carl Reiter, one of the most promi- nent vaudeville managers in the west, has been reappointed to the manage- ment of an Orpheum theatre and will look after the business affairs of the Orpheum's Seattle house. He returns to his managerial post Sept. 12. Dur- ing the summer Reiter has been mono- loging for the Loew people. Owing to the success scored in the ( asino show ("The Blue Paradise") by the little Philadelphia singer, Vivien Senia Segal, who took Chapine's place in the cast at the eleventh hour (the h.tter being ill), the Shuberts will keep' her in the piece. When Chapine re- covers she will likely be assigned to another show or held under reserve for the Casino piece. Martin M. Fuller, the only surviv- ing brother of George Fuller Golden, founder and first big chief of the White Rats, has retired from the profession and accepted an uptown agency for the Equitable Life Insurance Co. Ful- ler has been doing a monologue in vaudeville for a number of years. He proposes to inaugurate a professional department for his company. Charles E. Kohl, managing director «»f the Western Vaudeville Managers' Vssociation and manager of the Ma- jestic theatre, Chicago, dropped into New York Monday accompanied by Judge Trude, the "Association" attor- ney. The couple came direct from Chicago and after a confab with the officials of the United Booking Offices returned to the west Tuesday after- noon.