Variety (January 1916)

VARIETY Uriety Trad* Mark Registered PvMUfe* Weekly by VARIETY, Inc. •1MB SILVERMAN. Pi New Yeck CHICAGO Majestic Theatre Bldff. SAN FRANCISCO PeaUfet Theatre Bldf. LONDON II Charing Cress Read PARIS at his Rue St. Didier ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising copy far correat issae mast reach ear York oace ay Wednesday aiae a. i Advertisements oy mail sneald he Near York oace ay Wedacsday aiae a. m. ac< sealed by remittaaccs. SUBSCRIPTION Anaaal *4 Foreign 4 5 ■Ingle Cenies, If ceats Eatered ss secoad-class matter at New York Vol. XLI. No. 8 Leola Lucy has replaced Chapine in "The Road to Mandalay," on tour. Behrens, the theatrical costumer, has moved to 162 W. 48th street. T. Daniel Frawley has opened an of- fice in the Fitzgerald Building. Al Fields and Co. started the Pan- tages Circuit at Winnipeg Monday. William Gibson has returned to the Davis stock, Pittsburg. Sam Weston and Sid Claire have dis- solved their partnership and the latter has a new co-worker in Bertha Lewis. The mother of John Lamp (in the Proctor booking office) has recovered her sight through an operation. Whiting and Burt will play a return engagement over the Orpheum Circuit, opening Jan. 23, placed through Harry J. Fitzgerald. Olive Briscoe and Delmore and Lee have been given ten-week contracts by the Amalgamated and will play the lo- cal B. S. Moss theatres. The Modern theatre at Providence, R. I., a new house to open in about a week with vaudeville, will have its bills furnished through the Sheedy Agency. The Third Annual Entertainment and Ball of the Theatrical Pr tective Union No. 1, will be held March 11 at the Amsterdam opera house. Mclntyre and Heath have been routed in the eastern houses of the United Booking Offices, and will open at the Palace, New York, Jan. 24. John D. Gilbert, reported dead in Loney Haskell's "Ten Years Ago and Now," published in Variett Jan. 7, is living in Brooklyn. Jack Montgomery was not connected with the management of the stock ven- ture which failed recently at the Brook- lyn Labor Lyceum. Joe LaPort (Marrae and Laport) is in the New York hospital, suffering from neuritis. The team was forced to cancel their immediate time. Alfred Latell has been engaged for the George M. Cohan musical revue. The Crescent, Syracuse, plays five acts to a bill, and the Temple, same city, uses six, both split weeks,, booked through the' United Booking Offices. Herman Weber won a Stutz-Bearcat the other day at a raffle that his broth- er, Harry Weber, claims was on the level. Ethel Dufre Houston has been en- gaged by the Gloria Opera Company for "The Masked Model," Mary Rob- son will also be a member of the cast. The Lafayette theatre on 7th avenue at 132d street, has passed from the management of C. W. Morganstern. Louis Hallett, who in the past has been producing the tabloid dramatic pieces given at the theatre by the Anita Bush Colored Stock, will book the vaudeville bill of three acts changed twice weekly. Lester A. Walton remains as house manager. Mrs. Sam Hodgdon tripped and broke her leg one day last week. She is slowly recovering. Mr. Hodgdon is the booking manager of the United Booking Offices. Geo. Bornhaupt, brother of Charles Bornhaupt, is returning to New York on the Noordam. He is an American citizen, the last one to be given permis- sion by the Germans to enter Belgium. where he wished to go to secure his brother's effects. In writing to his brother, George said that at Antwerp and Brussels, where he stopped, the roaring of the cannons in battle could be plainly heard. Both cities are about an hour away from the scenes of action. Jack Symonds fractured a leg by falling on the sidewalk Dec. 18, at Pitts- held, Mass. He is at the Kenny Hotel there. Sarah Mack, of "The Monte Carlo Girls," is in the Mercy Hospital at Springfield, Mass., suffering from pleuropneumonia. Oneida Nelson, the girl acrobat who broke an arm while playing the Ken- yon, Pittsburg, and who has been con- fined in a Pittsburg hospital since the accident occurred, was discharged this week and returned to the stage. Marie Wayne (Mrs. Ben Deeley) is slowly recovering from an attack of pneumonia which necessitated a tempo- rary rest in New Haven, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Deeley were playing the Poli team when Mrs. Deeley became HI. A committee representing the White Rats Actor's Union will journey to Washington, D. G, on Feb. 25, to con- fer with Samuel Gompers, president of the Federation of Labor, on matters pending between the White Rats and the parent labor council. Wilmington, Del., has been much shaken up, likewise affrighted through the many explosions in that vicinity where the munition works are located. These mostly belong to the Du Pont Powder Co. Monday at the Garrick there (Bill Dockstader's vaudeville theatre), a comedy act used as "busi- ness" the placing of a bomb behind a chair. It was shortly to explode. Almost instantly the Monday explosion at Carter's Point near-by occurred. The audience thought it was the bomb and laughed uproariously. The town people are using the incident to allay alarm. Opposition in the delicatessen trade around Seventh avenue and 54th street In the Oregon apartment is Degnons. long established, and on the opposite side of the street, in the Adlon apart- ment, is Allen's delicatessen shop, the latter recently opened and reported financed by Edgar Allen, the William Fox booking manager, with a relative in charge. The list of tenants in the two apartment houses reads like a the- atrical directory. Most of them know Mr. Allen. The Allen shop claims to sell more cheaply than Degnon's, but Degnon disputes this and dismisses the affair by saying "success always brings opposition." The Genesee Athletic Club of Syra- cuse, N. Y., has been holding boxing bouts in the Bastable theatre one night during the end of the week, the Basta- ble playing burlesque the first half. Monday the Boxing Commission took away the club's license on the charge it had permitted One Round Davis to bang up Salina Jack Burns, when Burns was virtually a cripple. The complaint (probably made or inspired through Tommy Ryan, the former mid- dleweight, who also has a fight club (Arena) in Syracuse, said Burns was knocked down nine times, and unable to get up the last time. The Genesee people alleged their club physician had examined both fighters before the mill and pronounced them fit. "Old Billybum" the spasm released weekly from Cincinnati, is advertising for information anent the vaudeville situation in Australia, apparently in order to secure some proof of its ridicu- lous charge Hugh Mcintosh is about to make application for the poorhouse. Needless to say every good White Rat will sprain a leg trying to reach "Old Bumbilly" in time to be of service since "Billybum" has done about everything it could during the last three years to wreck the organization. "Old Bum- billy" spoke out of its turn again re- cently and the Australian vaudeville im- presario promptly instructed his Amer- ican attorneys to bring suit against the Cincinnati dice, card, Unt, awning and easy money almanac for libel. While it is not Variety's custom to jump to the defense of its competitors when they are caught with their fingers in the jam jar, it becomes a duty to sug- gest to "Billybum" to discontinue the useless yelp for help and communicate at once with Nemsey and Yllis, the Australian cuckooloo birds who danced before the royalty of Australia prior to their advertising splash in the Bill- board. Surely old man Nemsey should he able to justify the libel and old lady Yllis would undoubtedly wise up the editor of "Old Bumbilly" on the situ- ation over there if he would remove some of the paste from his head. But still "Billybum" has the ace in the hole for if it can't locate the mythical Nemsey and Yllis let it drag forth old Doc Lighthall Davis. Maybe the Doc could enlighten "Old Bumbilly" on the Australian condition. Poor old "Billy- boy 1" Oh, Bill! Oh, Billy, Oh, Bum- billy t Oh, Billybum, Oh, you Bin and, Oh, you Bum!