Variety (June 1916)

VARIETY 1ETY Trade If ark Registered Published Weekly by VARIETY, Inc. SIME SILVERMAN. President Times Square New York ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising- copy for current insue will be aecepted at tne Mew York office up to Thursday morning. 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 Vwl. XLIII. No. 1 Lawrence Reid has joined the Roma Reid Stock in Ottawa. LefHer ft Bratton will place "The Natural Law" on the International Cir- cuit next season. J. J. McNevins has resigned as as- sistant manager of the Bedford, Brook- lyn, and is succeeded by R. H. Malloy. Venita Fitzhugh left "A World of Pleasure" in Chicago Sunday, owing to a nervous breakdown. Harry Klein (Klein Brothers) has secured a divorce decree from his wife (nonprofessional). Fred Duprez, who has been appear- ing in England, sailed for New York May 24 from Liverpool on the Fin- land. "The Pleasure Seekers" will be the new title of Billy Watson's "U. S. Beauties" on the American Associa- tion Circuit next season. Charles Carver has succeeded Harry Bond, as leading man, with the Poli stock, at Springfield, Mass. Bond joins the Waterbury company. Gravette and Lavondre, imperson- ators, sailed May 27 on the "St. Louis" for England, going over on specula- tion. They are a vaudeville act. John H. Anderson, who for years managed the old Huber's Museum, is now located at Coney Island as the manager of the transplanted Eden Musee to Surf Avenue in that resort. The Grand, Johnstown, N. Y., is to be remodeled into a modern theatre, with the seating capacity increased 400, while all new dressing rooms will be built J. K. Burke of the United Booking Offices is expected to return to his office next week with the aid of crutches. Mr. "Surke recently broke his ankle. Edgar Allen, booking manager of the- William Fox Vaudeville Circuit, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, placing his liabilities at $4,288, and assets, $3. The creditors include David Warfield, $4, and Eddie Conrad, $200. An action to secure royalty from the play "Common Clay" has been started by John Craig, of Boston, against A. H. Woods. Craig's claim comes through Cleves Kinkead, giving him a share of his royalties. The author meantime waived claim to his royalty in order to allow the piece to remain at the Republic, New York, for a run. 'Alberta Moore left New York Wednesday to return to Saranac, N. Y., after visiting her former vaudeville partner, Myrtle Young, at the Hotel Somerset. Miss Moore has gained 40 pounds, now weighing 156. She intends to reappear in vaudeville with Miss Young next September, when the "sis- ter act" will again be known as Moore and Young. Tha Lew Orth Revue, a tab, played two houses daily, last week, Colonial and Hippodrome, Fairmont, W. Va., both booked through the Gus Sun agency. Each house advertised the tab and rather than cause one to change the billing, it was decided to use the act in both houses, playing a matinee and night show in one house and one night show in the other, interchanging daily in that manner. Furs of ermine; mole, kolinsky (sable brown), blue, red and white fox, and poiret (brown), of light weight, and made into stolls and collarettes, are the adornment for women this sum- mer. It is a variety of skins that eclipses the white fox that became so common last summer. The large New York furriers say their sales at pres- ent almost equal the fur-selling of the cold season. One of the largest con- cerns, Ratkowsky's at 28 West 34th street, has large stocks of the popular furs and is making a bid for the the- atrical trade with them. Subscribe for the Summer VARIETY 3 Months for ONE DOLLAR Mary Garden was to have sailed last Saturday for Paris. She may leave this Saturday, remaining away about a month. The only Mary will be with the Chicago opera company in its next season. George McDermit has been appointed manager of the Park, Bridgeport, Conn., for William Morris. The house is playing "The Battle Cry of Peace" picture this week because the film people refused to give up a date which was booked several months ago. Vau- deville returns again next week. The White Rate gave a bill of 12 acts at Sing Sing, Decoration Day, as a special entertainment for the prisoners. The artists were guests of the Mutual Welfare League. Acts appearing were James Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Vass, Bert Scott, Jack Irwin and Grim- son Girls, Jack Cameron, Ed Kahn, Jack Bean, Carl Francis, William Dick, Corlely and Burke, Mae West, and Munroe, Healey and Joyce. V. Vos- burgh was the pianist. Hannah Farancotti, an aerial per- former, fell from her perch while doing her act at the Grand Opera House Monday night and was taken to the New York Hospital, where it was found that she suffered from a fractured arm, lacerations and possible internal in- juries. Miss Farancotti was balancing herself*-upQn a chair on a trapeze 20 feet above the stage when she fell. The accident caused considerable ex- citement in the theatre and it was necessary to ring down the curtain. 'The needle trick," as it is known, has cropped up as a subject for dis- cussion as to stage rights between Houdini, the Rigolettos and Long Tack Sam, all said to have used the trick upon the stage the past season. The needle trick is the swallowing of sev- eral loose needles, also a string of thread, the magician performing the trick bringing forth the needles, threaded, from his mouth for its con- clusion. Houdini is reported claiming the American stage rights to the trick through having first performed it over here. Mrs. Nat C. Goodwin, operated on at St. Elizabeth's Hospital last week by Dr. Melvin C. Wolk, and whose condi- tion was pronounced serious, is on the road to recovery. Mrs. Goodwin will be about again in about two weeks. To spread propaganda in behalf of world-wide peace and incidentally to advertise his film spectacle, "Civiliza- tion," Thomas H. Ince has sent from Los Angeles a motorcycle, manned by two expert riders, on a journey to New York. The motorcyclists are armed with letters from the mayor and governor and will stop at all of the big cities en route. Kenneth O'Hara, Ince's publicity expert, con- ceived the idea, believing the time op- portune to preach the anti-war sermon and strike home a good wallop for the Marietta Lorette Lorens, through her attorney, Nathan Burkan, has se- cured a judgment of $1,146 against Leo Bartuschek, of Berlin, owner of the ice ballet at the Hippodrome the past sea- son. The action was started against Barthuschek when Miss Lorenz did not recive her salary of $400 per montl* after Jan. 15. Barthuschek received $1,- 500 per week for the company and con- tracted with the plaintiff to manage it at the above-mentioned salary. Barthuschek claims that his contract ran out Jan. 15, and Miss Lorenz was employed in the Hippodrome there- after, and should look to it for salary. Barthuschek will appeal, it is said, film's success. TOMMY'S TATTLES. By Thomaa J. Gray. The summer musical shows will have a hard time trying to be funnier than the summer baseball teams. Ask Dad—He Knows (?) Where did the first magician learn his first trick? Who invented resin boards for ac- robats? What do elephant acts do when they lay off? Why do three members of a quartet always look at the bass singer with a surprised look when he hits a low note? With the musical revue craze at its height, food is now a secondary con- sideration with some of our res- taurants. There are so many of these girly revues around loose, any family will soon be able to engage one of their own for the parlor. It must be awfully nice to be down south, For most everybody longs To be down there in some old place— If you can believe the songs. The war has again been the cause of another advance in the price of per- fume. Things certainly seem to break wrong for chorus men.