Variety (October 1915)

VARIETY Published WmUf by VARIETY, Inc. S1ME SILVERMAN, President TUms Square N«w York CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO Pantagea 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 b y remittances. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., RE- QUIRED BY THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912, of VARIETY, published weekly at New York, N. Y., for October 1, 1915. Name of Post-office address Editor, Sime Silverman, 1536 Broadway. New York, N. Y. Managing Editor, Frederic Schader, 1536 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Business Manager, John J. O'Connor, 1536 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Publisher, Variety, Inc. 1536 Broadway. New York, N. Y. Owners, Variety, Inc., 1536 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Sime Silverman, 1536 Broadway. New York. N. Y. Known stockholders, mortgagees, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent, or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities: None. JOHN J. O'CONNOR, Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of September. 1915. MAY H. IRWIN, Notary Public, No. 13, N. Y. Co. (My commission expires March 30, 1917.) ^ (Seal) " SUBSCRIPTION Annual $* Foreign 5 Single Copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class matter at New York Vol. XL. No. 5 Mark Vance is now at the Chicago Office Of VaRIBTT. Georgie Jessell, the kid comic, is * sporting a cane. Zella Call has succeeded Mary Rob- son in "Dancing Around." Chas. H. Mayer is not connected with Variety- in any capacity. Julia Nash and Co. are playing the Loew Circuit, placed by Harry A. Shea. Dave Genaro and Isabelle Jason have signed with William Morris for the Harry Lauder show. Lew Brown has made connections with the Maurice Abrahams Music Pub- lishing Co., and will contribute to the Abrahams catalogue. Papers of incorporation have been filed through Max Muldasky, attorney for D. S. Samuels, for the incorporation of the D. S. Samuels Enterprises. Arthur Loftus, the cuckoo handi- capper, has signed for the season with Neil O'Brien's Minstrel aggregation, leaving this week for the West to as- sume the duties of solo singer. Franklyn Hanna, who played Senator Murphy in "Potash & Perlmutter," both here and in London, has been re- engaged for the same role in "Potash 8i Perlmutter in Wall Street," which open* in New Haven, Oct. 7. Mrs. Harry L. (Ollie) Newman, wife of Harry L. Newman (the Water- son, Berlin & Snyder representative), went to St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, Wednesday, where she underwent an operation.' The Moss circuit recently took over the American theatre, Philadelphia, booking five acts on a split week pol- ity. The Frankfort, Frankfort, Pa., opens next Monday, playing three acts twice weekly; also booked through the Amalgamated (Moss) office. VARIETY Officers Jordan and McLaughlin of the Children's Society haled the mother of Rose and Buddy Ellis to court this week on a charge of breaking the juvenile law through permitting Buddy Ellis, aged 13, to sing in a professional performance. The summons was served at the Star theatre and the act was forced through the action to retire from the bill. The society took action in the same case last season while the Ellis children were playing in Jamaica. The St Clair Repertoire Co. with 16 people will open on an Eastern route. Oct. 10, playing three night stands, changing its pieces daily. Bookings have been arranged by Julius Kahn. Two of the three plays will be "When I Was King," and "The Wolf." Frederic Thompson is at the Poly- clinic Hospital, New York, suffering with acute Bright's disease. He is the surviving member of the former Thompson & Dundy firm, which was responsible for Luna Park, Coney Isl- and, and the Hippodrome, New York. Dorothy Dixon is requested to com- municate with her people in Boston, or write to Keith's, Boston, for a let- ter held there for her concerning the death of a relative. Miss Dixon was last heard of in Chicago, and has been supposed to be in Paul La Croix's jug- gling turn. Sydney Grant rushed into New York last Saturday with Oliver Morosco, to spend a few days before return- ing to San Francisco, where he will open in "So Long Letty" at the Cort there Oct. 10. Charlotte Greenwood and Mr. Grant are the co-stars of the production that had a run of 12 weeks at Los Angeles. Sam Grisman, general manager of the B. S. Moss Enterprises, is to be the guest of a farewell bachelor din- ner, Saturday, Oct. 2, at the Campus Restaurant, in honor of his wedding. The ceremony will take place the fol- lowing day. Anne Miller is the bride- to-be. A number of entertainers have volunteered for the affair. Another adjournment of the Ham- mersteins vs. United Booking Offices case was secured Monday by the ap- plicants for an injunction against the U. B. O. The recent cave-ins of New York streets, caused by subway ex- cavating, are being used it is said by the Hammersteins to uphold their con- tention the new subway work caused their removal to the Victoria. The affidavit made by Irving Berlin in last week's Variety-, appearing in the form of an advertisement, attracted extraordinary attention. In it Mr. Berlin swore (before a notary public) his son s ', "When I Leave the World Behind," was the best ballad he had ever written. The song is published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, who authorized the jdvertisement. The Philadelphia showmen come to New York each Tuesday morning, generally on the same train. This Tues- day morning was no exception. They all left the Pennsylvania, getting on a Seventh avenue car, that by a devious route finally landed them near the Falace theatre building. The show fellows didn't think of the cave-ins and when Norman Jefferies paid the fare for the 16 passengers, the conductor tersely remarked: "From Philadelphia?" "Yes, why?" answered Jefferies. "No- body else is riding on these cars now- adays," replied the uniformed gloom. Charles Le Roi, stage manager of the Grand opera house, St. Louis, was attacked and seriously injured by a trained elephant, known as "Mary El- len," this week. Le Roi was entering the stage through a side door when the animal, chained to a side wall, lunged forward and forced the stage manager against the brick wall. One of the tusks penetrated his neck and his skull was fractured. Le Roi crawled on his hands and knees to a fire-escape and fell to the alley. The elephant, after breaking its chain, followed his victim, but was driven away by Frederick Streit, the house cornetist. At the Jewish Hos- pital, where Le Roi was taken, it was said he could not recover. The act will continue during the week. Percy G. Thomas is superintendent of the Century, having some big build- ing to look after. The outside attend- ants are uniformed in the English style, with Mr. Thomas aiding the illusion in immaculate evening dress. He was formerly assistant to Elmer F. Rogers at the Palace. Arthur R. Evans is the Century's stage manager; Hilding An- derson, musical director; Saul Abra- hams, treasurer, with John F. O'Neil and William G. Norton, assistants in the two box offices. Charles G. Scrib- ner and Arthur Gross are the assist- ant stage managers. Others of the working staff under Ned Wayburn, as managing director, are: General man- ager, Carl Reed; publicity, William Raymond Sill; purchasing agent, Ben- jamin H. von Ottinger; auditor, Edwin Mocsary; house physician, Dr. I. L. Hill; supervisor of music, Al. W. Brown; master mechanic, T. B. Mc- Donald; chief electrician, A. H. Hawkes; master of properties, George Henry; mistress of wardrobe, Ada Bar- clay; chief engineer, John Lyell; ad- vertising agent, I ; rancis P. Cavanaugh; orchestra manager, John E. Lynehan; cafe manager, Mons. Christo; secre- tary to publicity department, William II. Gorman. TOMMY'S TATTLES. By Thomas J. Gray. One good thing about moving pic- ture "first nights" is that you don't have to dress up, the theatres are so dark no one notices you coming or going. Why should any one be amazed at the brightness of chorus girls. Aren't their apartments always decorated with flags from some of our best colleges? The annual fall joke about how the ticket speculators "must, go" is now having its swing. That noise you hear is laughter from the speculators. The picture business is putting a crimp in the comic section artists who draw pictures of down and out legits. The former "down and outers" are now "photo play features." It must seem funny to some of those boys not to have to stay in their rooms every morning until the landlady finished sweeping the stairs. Little girls are still running away from home to be "Mary Pickfords." Vaudeville acts are still saving them- selves imitating Charlie Chaplin and the war is still going on in Europe, and even the popular songs written about these three things haven't discouraged them. Since "Tipperary" has died out Will Rogers says its hard to get good "bow music." The summer home is boarded up, The wife feels kind of blue. And to think the first week you work Your act's on number two. The Broadway Cafe managers are complaining of a depression in business through all the writers leaving for the West to write pictures. Through the publicity given to "Neal of the Navy" there is talk of featuring Ben Schaefer in a serial called "Abe of the Army." Years from now when some one writes of the great actors of the year 1915 we hope they will not fail to mention Packy McFarland and Mike Gibbons. The Morning After the First Night Before. "I never thought he'd be a hit in that part." "I saw that idea used 20 years ago, but they changed it all around." "Do you think the public reads those notices?" "Why shouldn't it be a hit? Look at the cast." "Some guys can get away with any- thing." "Yes. it's all right, but I could show them where they could improve it." "There was some funny scenes and a lot of big laughs but I don't think the book was any good." "Now, I'll tell you what I'd have done there." "It was a very friendly audience though." "Why, I told you so."