Variety (July 1916)

VARIBTY » niETY Trade Mark Registered Published Weekly by VARIETY, Inc. SIME SILVERMAN, President Times Square New York ADVERTISEMENTS Advertising copy for current issue will be accepted at the New York office up to Thursday morning. Advertisements by mail should be accom- panied by remittances. SUBSCRIPTION Annual 14 Foreign 5 Single Copies, 10 cents Entered as second-class matter at New York Vol. XUII. No. 6 Yaribtt it requested by the White Rati Actors' Union to state that this paper is printed in a union shop, C. J. O'Brien's, at 227 William street, New York City, carrying label No. 5, Typo- graphical Union No. 6. Bancroft and Broski have been booked for the Loew Circuit. Frances Neilson has been placed un- der contract to appear in a new play by George Broadhurst next season. Helen Ware in "Justified" has ac- cepted s few weeks of summer book- ings procured through Max £. Hayes. Olive Tell has gone to Rochester as leading lady with the Manhattan Play- ers at the Lyceum. Charlie Chaplin has made applica- tion for membership into the White Rats. Florence Earle and Ada Lewis have been engaged by the Comstock-Mar- bury company for roles in the No. I "Very Good Eddie" show. Peter Paige has gone back to old Kentucky to become an active partner in a racing stable. Peter says that he is through with the stage forever. Jean Shelby is quite ill at present and the A. H. Woods office is holding up the production of "King, Queen, Jack" awaiting the actress' recovery. Bertha Mann has been engaged by John D. Williams to replace Cathleen Nesbit in the leading role of "Justice" next season. Harry J. Fitzgerald's 40-foot cabin cruiser won the cup Fourth of July at the South Shore Yacht Club races off Freeport, L. I. Laura Hamilton is now in "Very Good Eddie" at the Casino playing the Anna Orr role while Miss Orr is vacationing. Abe Friedman, the hard working as- sistant of N. T. Granlund's, in the press department of the Loew Circuit, is away on a two weeks' vacation. The Roof of the Park theatre on Co- lumbus Circle was expected to open the middle of this week. Building regula- tions prevented before then. Pleasure Beach* near Bridgeport, Conn., is open under the management of Charles Tilyou. Vaudeville may be played there this summer. Two sons of Sam McKee, the Morn- ing Telegraph's vaudeville expert, arc with Troop E of the 1st Cavalry. They are Frank B. and Sam McKee, Jr. Sophie Tucker and Her Syncopated Band have been engaged as the attrac- tion for the Hotel Isleworth, Atlantic City. The raffle for a gold bracelet con- ducted by Gus Miller, the property man of the Bijou theatre, New Haven, July 1, was won by Mrs. Mahoney (Mahoney Bros, and Daisy) who held ticket No. 52. Paul Dempsey, in the United Book- ing Offices forces, is another of the show boys wearing khaki Paul be- longs to the 22d Regiment. Rose Leslie is suing Charles B. Dil- lingham for $25,000 damages as the re- sult of injuries sustained while rehears- ing with "Stop, Look, Listen." Newmans have anchored the craft at Sbeepshead Bay, where they are sum- mering. Owing to a postponement of the sail- ing date of the Nieuw Amsterdam until' July 11, Fred Duprez could not make his July 17 conection in London and has been compelled to lose two weeks' work. Marcus Loew has secured possession of the South End theatre, Boston, ft making the fourth house that he con- trols in this city. A new company with a capital of $250,000 has been formed to conduct it Lily Langtry sailed for London July 1. She will remain abroad until Aug. 15, when returning here to open on the Orpheum Circuit in San Francisco Sept. 4. Her company next season will include Alexander Onslow as leading man. Pam Lawrence may be with a pro- duction after her present contract with Jean Bedini as a feature of his "Cock- a-Doodle-Doo" company expires. Sev- eral offers have been received by Miss Lawrence but her Bedini contract has another season to run. The Baldwin Yacht Club of Baldwin, L. I., will dedicate its new clubhouse NEWSPAPER MEN VARIETY wants correspondent* anywhere in the U.S. and Canada, on a space arrangement Ad- dress VARIETY, New York. Howard Estabrook will return to New York this week, having completed "The Mysteries of Myra" serial. He will remain in New York for a week or so and then leave for a vacation. Dan Hennessy, of the Split Time De- partment in the United Booking Offices, is at Paul Smith's in the mountains, and will probably not return to his office before Sept. 1. Marceline is muscle sore. He has been practicing tumbling, which he abandoned two years ago, preparatory to appearing in vaudeville with a three- act "The Hatless Club" with Al. B. White the well combed leader has quite a following on West 47th street, where Mr. White has convinced some 30 o* more young men the sun's ray on a bare head is the best thing for that warm feeling in the summer time. Mr. White wanders up and down Broaoway without his hat on, and has been cleanly hissed by every straw hat cleaning bootblack in Times Square. E. H. Kaufmann holds no contract with Anna Held for her future services. He acted as personal representative for the actress in completing arrangements with Shuberts for her services next season. Eva Tanguay presented Harry ard Ollie Newman with her 35-foot motor boat, "The Wanderer," last week. The July 12 with a vaudeville show. A bill has been arranged by Max Oberndorf, who is a member of the club. The Baldwin Y. C. has organized a mos- quito fleet for scout duty and has placed the services of the club craft at the disposal of the Secretary of the Navy. Saturday there was transmitted to the tax transfer office of New York by Deputy State Comptroller Boardman a list containing appraisals of the estate of Charles Klein, the playwright who lost his life on board the Lusitania. Total assets, $169,306; net estate, $157,- 668. With the exception of $15,000 willed to the brothers of the deceased, there is $30,000 left to the son Philip, and $20,000 to John Victor, another son. The balance of $101,668 reverts to his widow. Under a list of plays written by the decedent the appraisal is as follows: "Potash and Perlmutter," $20,000; "The Music Master," no value; "Maggie Pepper," $3,000; "The Money Makers," $500; "The Guilty Man," no value; "Cousin Lucy," no value; ^he Ne'er-Do-Well," $100; "Wall Street Gets Potash and Perlmutter," no value; "Classmates," $500; "The Third De- gree," $300; "The Lion and the Mouse," $500; "The Daughters of Men," $300; "The Gamblers," $1,000; "The Battle of the Giants," "The Cypher Code" and "The Next of Kin," $1,500; "The Dis- trict Attorney" and "Dr. Belgraff," $500 each; valuation on ten other plays ?s placed at $15,750. Ike Rose's "Date of Peace," as pub- lished in Varibtt last week and neatly claimed by himself, was first published in an Austrian paper some weeks ago and reproduced in Lloyd's Newspaper of London (with proper credit given) June 18. Sim Williams' "Girls from Joyland" on the American Wheel will have as one of its olio features for the coming season a revival of the dramatic sketch "Blanche." Eugene West has been engaged for his original role and will be supported by Alice Blair and Inez Villere. The Vaudeville Comedy Club credi- tors still continue to keep exciting tie daily lives of those members of the Umg since passed organization, who were on its Governing Board. The ease against Al Jolson by one of the credi- tors and in which Jolson secured a de- cision through stating he had not signed an acceptance of the appoint- ment to the Board, is understood to have been placed back on the court calendar for another trial The several actions thus far started have been to recover debts due by the club. Some judgments have been secured and the bankruptcy court is reported quite busy receiving applications from those press- ed to pay the debts of the late V. C. C. The other day in a theatrical office on Times Square entered a man who said he was a deputy sheriff. The first re- mark the dep made was "I want that money for those billiard tables." The occupant of the office at the moment, who is generally given the reputation of cutting his own hair, replied it was impossible for him to have ever bought anything, let alone some billiard tables. The sheriff answered he would make a levy. "Down on the levee" commenced to sing the office staff, and the officer asked to be informed what kind of place he had gotten into. He then asked if the judgment debtor owned a desk in the place, and was informed the only thing of value the fellow ever owned was a gold tooth that he carried with him. During an examination in bank- ruptcy proceedings, the "straight man" of a blackface act was on the testify- ,/ ing stand. The attorney for the credi- tors of the V. C. C. asked him his salary. "$40 a week" was the reply. The attorney remarked that was strange, an equal partner in a 9450-a- week act receiving but $40 as his share. "Oh, but you see" replied the testifier, "my partner writes all the stuff and furnishes the wardrobe, and besides he is the comedian." "But isn't the straight man as important as the comedian?" asked the somewhat well informed attorney. "Dear me, no" fired back the witness. "Anybody can be a straight man. You could be one. It's the comedian who is the whole act, and I'm lucky that I have a liberal partner or he probably wouldn't be paying me forty." The lawyer wanted to know if two tattered sui's were "wardrobe." The "straight man" told him they were the most expensive clothing that could be secured, through the long search the comedian had to go to before he could locate the kind of suits they needed.