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Vol. XXXVI. No. 5. 



NEW YORK CITY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914. 



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DAILY DRAMATIC CRITICISM 

HANGING IN THE BALANCE 



William R. Hearst Listens to Appeal by George Broadhurst, 

and Relieves Alan Dale from Reviewing New Production. 

Matter of Facetious Criticism in Dailies May be 

Taken Up by Managers 9 Association. 



Alan Dale did not review "The Law 
of the Land" at the 48th Street theatre 
Wednesday night. Thursday morn- 
ing's American carried a notice on the 
show, written by Ada Patterson. 

This is directly due to George H. 
Broadhurst, author of the play, penning 
an appeal to William R. Hearst, ask- 
ing that the American assign a re- 
viewer for his show who might be re- 
lied upon to give the play the serious 
consideration Mr. Broadhurst believed 
was due it. 

Mr. Dale is the accredited dramatic 
critic of the American, and receives a 
large contracted salary to write ex- 
clusively for the Hearst papers. 
Whether the substitution will be fol- 
lowed by Dale's withdrawal from the 
sheet, no one along Broadway appears 
to know. 

It is being said the Theatrical Man- 
agers' Protective Association may take 
up the matter of criticism with the 
daily newspaper publishers. The man- 
agers as a whole believe that the pa- 
pers, in which they are advertising 
every day (and at present, to greater 
extent than in previous years) should 
not harshly criticize a play that they 
have spent much time and money to 
produce. 

The stand taken by Mr. Broadhurst, 
however, in the opposition to Dale's re- 
view of his piece, was of another na- 
ture, according to report. The author 
objected to flippant and irrevelant 
"critical" writing on a play written by 
him in all seriousness and produced 
as a piece of stage property to be 
studied, not laughed, sneered or chaffed 
• at. 

It is the satirical critic the mana- 
gers are said to mostly object to, the 
ones who sacrifice the play and oft- 
times their opinion of it, to place in 



cold type a "line" in the review that 
they may have thought of during or 
between acts. Managers say the crit- 
ics should write for their newspapers 
and the public, and not for a personal 
reputation at the expense of the man- 
ager, who has made a large investment, 
spending a part of it with the papers. 

Some time ago Acton Davies left the 
Evening Sun, shortly afterward asso- 
ciating himself in a similar capacity of 
dramatic reviewer with the morning 
Tribune. Mr. Davies was reported at 
the time to be at variance with the 
Sun's publisher, on policy. 

This phase of "commercialism" has 
rapidly been creeping into the New 
York dailies during the past two years. 
Some of the papers "have stood for 
murder" in connection with their the- 
atrical department. The effect of lis- 
tening to the dollars is commencing 
to make itself apparent. 



E. H. SOTHERN ILL. 

A blood test taken this week at E. H. 
Sothern's summer home in Fitchburg, 
Mass., failed to develop any fever symp- 
toms in Mr. Sothern's system. A re- 
port spread yesterday Mr. Sothern was 
seriously ill. 

Howard Kyle at the Players' Club 
Friday stated he had heard from Julia 
Marlowe (Mrs. Sothern) to the effect 
her husband would be unable to at- 
tend the Edwin Booth Memorial Com- 
mittee meeting yesterday. 



PROCTOR'S COUPON PLAN. 

Newark, Oct. 2. 

Beginning Monday, Proctor's Park 
Place will give away United Cigar 
Store coupons with each admission. 

Proctor's Lyric will put the plan in 
operation two weeks later, 



BRITAINS BLACKLIST FOE. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 1. 

The musicians' union has declared a 
boycott against German and Austrian 
followers of their profession in Great 
Britain. 

At a meeting yesterday, they passed 
resolutions calling upon all employers 
to refuse employment to "alien 
enemies." 



TWICE DAILY AT OXFORD? 

{.Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 1. 

The appearance of contracts calling 

for 12 performances a week is the first 

intimation that that establishment is 

about to give a twice-daily show. 



GRIFFITH REPORTED OUT. 

D. W. Griffith, who has been gen- 
eral director for the Mutual Film con- 
cern on the Pacific Coast, is under- 
stood to haye severed his connections 
with the Mutual forces Thursday and 
plans to reach New York some time 
next week. 

It is reported Mr. Griffith will head 
his own producing company, having re 
cently placed Mae Marsh under a long 
contract for picture work only. 



DUKE WANTS A JOB. 

The Duke of Manchester wants a 
job, in vaudeville, according to ac- 
counts. A proposition was received at 
Hammerstein's to counter with a sal- 
ary and an idea of an act for the Eng- 
lishman. 

The Duke recently received some 
publicity in New York papers through 
his connection with the corporation 
that intended to present only Catholic 
moving pictures. Millions were talked 
about by the Duke, but some of his 
small checks missed their proper rest- 
ing places, and the affair got into the 
dailies. 

Father-in-Law Fleischman in Cin- 
cinnati said this week he hadn't any 
more money to advance his noble son- 
in-law, which may explain the vaude- 
ville report. 



TEG" IN LONDON. 

'Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 1. 
Laurctte Taylor's premiere in "Peg 
o' My Heart" is announced for Oct. 
10 at the Comedy. 



OFFERED $2,000 TO CANCEL 

Gobert Belling, an Englishman with 
an animal act (consisting of a dog, 
mule and donkey) received an offer of 
$2,000 Tuesday from the United Book- 
ing Offices to cancel his contract for 20 
weeks, play or pay, at $500 weekly* 
with the U. B. O. 

Mr. Belling opened at the Palace 
Monday afternoon. At the night per- 
formance he was placed to start the 
performance. Tuesday the agency got 
into communication with Belling's rep- 
resentatives, Rose & Curtis, on this 
side, and through them made the can- 
cellation offer, which carried no other 
condition, leaving the Englishman free 
to play on other time over here if he 
desired. 

It is said Belling consulted the White 
Rats in reference to the proposal of 
the U. B. O., but he had reached no 
('ecision regarding it up to Wednesday. 

It is the first appearance of Gobert 
Belling on this side. He has often 
been spoken of as a desirable foreign 
turn for this country. 



DALY'S COMING BACK. 

Daly's theatre, at Broadway and 
29th street, is to return to the legiti- 
mate, when Charles A. Taylor presents 
there Oct. 19 a revival of "Yosemite," 
a piece by Mr. Taylor that Laurette 
Taylor (then his wife) first appeared in 
around New York some years ago. 

The Jones Estate, owners of ths 
property, is said to be spending $10,000 
to bring the theatre within the depart- 
mental requirements. 



DRESSLER'S FARCE. 

Marie Dressier is now rehearsing in 
a new farce comedy, employing nine 
people. 

It opens in Washington next Mon- 
day and aft?r a short road season, 
will come to the Elliott theatre, New 
York. 



Broadway Opening on Time. 

The Broadway theatre will open Oct. 
5, as announced, with pop vaudeville. 
Eight acts will be the variety section 
of the first bill. 

"POOR PAULINE" 

OH. WHAT A HIT! 



VARIETY 



CO-OPERATIVE PLAYING PLAN 
BALKED BY ENG LISH PLAYERS 

Federation Instructs Its Members to Accept Commonwealth 
As "Payment on Account" and Arranges to Sue 
Managers for Balance. 



(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London. Sept. 28. 

The co-operative plan designed to 
meet war conditions was checked, at 
least temporarily, today when the 
Variety Artists' Federation wired to a 
representative artist playing in each 
syndicate hall that approval was being 
held in abeyance, and the scheme was 
not in effect. 

The Federation has been unable to 
secure a satisfactory adjustment of sev- 
eral points in dispute with the man- 
agers. A committee will meet the syn- 
dicate heads Thursday at which time 
the situation will be canvassed and it 
is hoped an understanding will be 
reached under which the co-operative 
scheme will be put in practice. 

(8 pedal Cable to Varistt.) 

London, Sept. 30. 

Artists playing syndicate halls later 
called at Federation headquarters for 
instructions and were advised that if 
they were offered a percentage of the 
receipts Saturday to sign a receipt "re- 
ceived on account." The information 
was added that the Federation would 
bring suits later for a settlement of 
any disputes. The legal action will be 
taken when the moratorium ukase of 
the government is withdrawn. 

As an indication that theatrical con- 
ditions are not nearly so bad as some 
managers would like the actors to be- 
lieve, the players in the Alhambra re- 
vue, who have been on half salary for 
seven weeks past, were surprised last 
Saturday to receive 25 per cent, increase 
over the split sum for the previous 
four weeks, making a bonus of one 
week's regular salary, and bringing the 
total for the seven weeks to an average 
of 64 per cent, of regular salary. 



WEEK-TO-WEEK BOOKING. 

(Special Cable to Varirtt.) 

London, Sept. 30. 

The music halls here are booking 
their bills from week to week without 
giving any advance contracts except in 
extraordinary cases. The agents are 
being continually called upon for me- 
dium-priced acts at salaries ranging 
from £40 to £60 weekly. 



HAWTREY COMING ACROSS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Sept. 30. 

After the run of "Baldpate," Charles 
Hawtrey expects to leave for New 
York to play vaudeville. He is report- 
ed in communication with M. S. Rent- 
ham, the American agent, for that pur- 
pose. 



VESTRY SISTER KILLED. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London. Sept. 28. 

Mine. Vesperil. a Belgian, one of the 
Vestry sisters, trapeze performers, was 
killed by a fall while doing her act at 
the Hippodrome Saturday. Both wom- 
en plunged from their rigging. Mine. 
Vcsperil was still alive when fellow 



artists rushed to her, but died in the 
Charing Cross hospital soon after her 
arrival there. 

The other sister suffered a broken 
arm. 



PARIS EXPECTS BOOM. 

Paris, Sept. 15. 

Paris remains without amusements, 
excepting a few small picture theatres 
which have started showing within the 
past fortnight, but poorly patronized. 
However, when the theatres do reopen 
it can be taken for granted there will 
be a big boom, in spite of the increased 
price of living which can be expected 
this winter, and a general tightness of 
money. 

The American artists will find ample 
work at the vaudeville theatres, al- 
though there may be a tendency to 
cut down prices for a time. Ameri- 
cans and English will be cordially re- 
ceived in France, and will fill the gap 
caused by numerous German acts not 
being readily booked next season in 
this country, as well as in England, 
Belgium and Russia. The American 
acts visiting France should be real 
American, and not German born. 
No bookings are being made for 
France at present, for it is not certain 
when the music halls will reopen, but 
dispositions will be taken with that end 
in view within the next month. When 
business recommences it will go with a 
boom. 



SOLDIER KISSES JOHNSON. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

Liverpool, Sept. 28. 

The audience at the Olympia here 

Saturday night watched Jack Johnson 

spa* with a convalescent British soldier. 

After the bout the soldier kissed the 

negro pugilist smack on the lips. 



WAITING FOR DINGLE. 
(Special Cable to V ambit.) 

London, Sept. 30. 

Tom Dingle, booked for the Hippo- 
drome Christmas, is causing the man- 
agement anxiety. It is understood 
Dingle cannot leave America. 

Tom Dingle is breaking in a new act 
this week around New York, the billing 
of which is Corcoran and. Dingle. 



"FAMILY VAUDEVILLE." 

New Orleans, Sept. 30. 
The idea of Famjly Vaudeville in 
the south is the Bell Family, Agoust 
Family, Colby Family, Jungman Fam- 
ily and Foy Family. 



Changes German Name. 
(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Sept. 29. 

Oscar Schwartz has bowed to the 
anti-German sentiment and changed 
his name to Shaw, to avoid the resent- 
ment of audiences in England. 



BUTT SIGNS ETHEL LEVY. 

(Special Cable to Varmtt.) 

London, Sept. 28. 

The rumor that Ethel Levey has 
signed a contract with Alfred Butt per- 
sists despite the denials of Jack Hay- 
man, booking manager for Mr. Butt. 

Miss Levey is with "The Outcasts." 
Her departure from that piece would in- 
dicate that it would be withdrawn from 
Wyndham's. 

The cast for Mr. Butt's new Empire 
revue has been completed, but its 
premiere will probably be held off until 
Oct. 19. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Sept. 30. 

Alfred Butt has signed Ethel Levey 
and George Graves for a new show 
scheduled for production around Christ- 
mas time. Since the new Empire Re- 
vue is marked up for an Oct. 19 open- 
ing, no theatre has been announced for 
the premiere of the new piece. 

Miss Levey has announced her salary 
under the Butt management at $2,000, 
although it is but a short time since she 
requested $2,500 from Butt, he making 
a counter offer of $1,000. 

The Moss Empire has first call on 
Miss Levey's services for the provinces 
for 14 weeks, which she postponed for 
the Hippodrome engagement. 

Gaby Desly's Palace engagement 
runs until Christmas, with one month's 
extension optional. Elsie Janis is 
scheduled for a return date there 
Christmas, but it is reported Miss 
Janis has signed with the United Book- 
ing Offices, and the Palace (London) 
management may be making early 
arrangements for its own protection. 



MAX LINDER DEAD? 

(Bpecial Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Sept. 30. 
Max Linder, the celebrated moving 
picture actor, is reported as having 
been killed in the battle of Aisne. 



WHAT IS WAR? 

The war could not prevent the mar- 
riage of Leo Stark to Gene Peltier 
yesterday in New York. Both were 
with "Sweethearts" last season, Mr. 
Stark as stage manager and Miss Pel- 
tier as understudy. 

The bridegroom is German and the 
bride French. 



BORNHAUPT COMBS BACK. 

Right from the war vicinity came 
Charles Bornhaupt, the foreign agent, 
who left Brussells the day before the 
Germans arrived, Bornhaupt taking 
away with him only his wife and the 
clothes they wore. With the Born- 
haupts on the boat was Gaston Palmer, 
who had relics of the warfare, also 
photographs. 

Mr. Bornhaupt has only decided up- 
on one thing since reaching New York 
That is to change his name, which 
suggests German birth, although Born- 
haupt is a native Russian. 



Marck's Lions Sailing. 
(Special Cable to Variett.) 

London, Sept. 30 
Marck's Lions, still in Russia, are 
arranging to sail to America on the 
Archangel to join the Charles B. Dil- 
lingham show. 



SAILINGS. 

Reported through Paul Tausig & 
Son, 104 East 14th street, New York: 
Sept. 30, Parry Smith (New York). 

San Francisco, Sept. 30. 
Sept. 29 (for Australia), Mr. and 
Mrs. George Wirth, Miss J. and Mrs. 
A. Stutt, William Haskill, Wallen Trio 
and Little Hip (Ventura). 

(Bpeoial Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Sept. 30. 

Oct. 3, Ching Ling Foo (St. Paul). 

Oct. 7, Piccolo Midgets (Baltic). 

Oct. 17, Jack Lorimer (Campania). 



LORCH FAMILY PRISONERS. 

The Lorch family, Germans and 
acrobats, who toured in America last 
season, are reported to have been taken 
as military prisoners by the English at 
Sheffield, where the act was appearing 
at the Empire, about three weeks ago. 

While the turn was on the stage, 
the authorities searched their belong- 
ings in the dressing rooms, and at 
their lodgings, according to the story 
brought over here on lately arriving 
boats. The English accused the 
Lorches of having incriminating snap- 
shots among their possessions, and 
placed the whole group under arrest. 

The searchers are also said to have 
claimed that they found among the pa- 
pers in the trunk of the understander 
of the Lorch act, a letter from the Ger- 
man Government informing him he 
would be under a salary of $100 yearly, 
in times of peace. 



USING WAR FOR BUNK. 

London, Sept. 20. 

There are — and always will be — peo- 
ple ready to take advantage of all con- 
ditions. 

London is already dotted with "wid- 
ows," whose husbands have been 
"killed in battle" and are now "starv- 
ing with their children." 

It remained for a trio of "slick 
guys" to put over a good one a few 
nights ago. They appeared at a West 
End hall, one a carefully dressed Eng- 
lishman, the other two as Belgian sol- 
diers. The "Englishman" got to the 
manager of the house and was per- 
mitted to go upon the stage and pre- 
sent the other two as wounded heroes 
of the war who had slain innumerable 
Germans. 

"We won't take up a collection in 
the audience for these heroes," said 
the "Englishman" from the stage, "but 
the two men will stand outside the 
house as you pass out, and anybody 
wishing to contribute will be thrice 
blessed." 
The "bunk" netted $110. 



"HULLO TANGO" CLOSING. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London. Sept. 30. 
"Hullo Tango" closes at the Hippo- 
drome Saturday, and Jack Xorwortb 
opens at the Pavilion Monday for a 
three weeks' engagement, with the 
Moss tour to follow. 



ACROBATS SHOT AS SPIES. 

Two members of the Allison Trio, a 
German act that appeared over here 
? few seasons ago, are reported to 
have been shot as spies in Russia. 



VABIBTY 



101 RANCH GETS EVEN BREAK 
ON LOT WITH THE RINGLINGS 



Shows Play Side By Side in Norfolk After Circus Jumps 408 
Miles to Join Battle With Wild West and Divide Record 

Crowds. 



Norfolk, Sept. 30. 
"101 Ranch" was in day and date op- 
position here Monday with the Ring- 
ling Bros.' circus, the second hand to 

hand conflict the two enterprises have 
engaged in this season. Both sides 
appeared willing to meet the issue, al- 
though the Arlington outfit came off 
victor in the first test of strength when 
in Easton, Pa., it scored a turnaway 
at 1.40 with the Ringlings in opposi- 
tion. Monday's clash went to a draw. 

The "101 Ranch" advance secured 
the initial victory here by tying up all 
the available lots in town. Edward 
Arlington, declaring that he welcomed 
a "go" with the Baraboo firm, later 
rtleased a lot so that the Ringlings 
could show side by side with the wild 
west. 

The Ringlings accepted the challenge 
and jumped 408 miles from Bristol, 
Tenn., over Sunday for the clinch. The 
transportation bill was about $2,500. 

"101 Ranch," it was announced here, 
wili stay out until Nov. 21. Circus men 
say none of the tent shows will stay 
out beyond the end of October. 

The warring attractions fought it out 
to a draw after a spectacular day in 
which all circus records for the town 
were broken. The Ranch afternoon 
show drew 7,400 and the night perform- 
ance 8,100, while the Ringling figures 
were 8,600 and 8,500 for afternoon and 
night, respectively. These figures were 
vouched for by the agents of the two 
shows, each speaking for his own at- 
traction. 

Norfolk and the surrounding country 
to the north, west and south were lav- 
ishly billed by both shows, and the 
rivals vied with each other in elaborat- 
ing their parades. An expensive adver- 
tising campaign was conducted in the 
newspapers. Ideal weather contributed 
to the big crowds. 

The Arlington outfit was under a 
handicap by reason of the fact that 
the stand was its first appearance under 
canvas in Norfolk, but this was more 
or less balanced by the circumstance 
that the town regards the Miller enter- 
prise as something of a local nature, 
the 1907 tour having begun at the 
Jamestown Exposition. 

The Wild West was one of the few 
paying concessions at the Exposition, 
and made many friends at that time. 

While here, Joe Miller gave out the 
statement that the "101 Ranch" in 
Oklahoma had contracted to deliver 
10,000 horses to Belgium for the use 
of the army, the deal, closed last Satur- 
day, involving $1,750,000. He said 800 
horses would be shipped from Galves- 
ton within two weeks and other ship- 
ments would follow as rapidly as the 
stock could be assembled. 

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Lynchburp, Va.. Sept. 30. 
Ringling's circus gave Lynchburg the 
go-by Sunday, when four trains car- 



ried the big tented organization over 
the Norfolk & Western railway from 
Bristol to Norfolk. The big jump of 
more than 400 miles was made to avoid 
extra license tax levied by State laws 
on account of conflict with agricultural 
fairs, the management explained. 

Lynchburg's only circus ground is a 
poor apology for a tenting place, but 
an ideal site exists near the Interstate 
Fair grounds in the Fort Hill section, 
and it is understood that this will be 
made available as s«on as the street car 
company opens up the neighborhood 
by extending its lines. 



MINSTRELS IN WRECK. 

Cincinnati, Sept. 30. 

The J. A. Coburn minstrel troupe 
was mighty near plucked from earth in 
a railroad wreck in the Big Four yards 
at Third and Baymiller streets, Sunday. 
After inspecting the injuries of his 
men, J. A. Coburn, head of the com- 
pany, cancelled an engagement at 
Lebanon, O., Monday night. The show 
remained here until Tuesday to. fill the 
engagement. 

The company was coming from New- 
ark, O., intending to transfer at Cin- 
cinnati. When near the entrance to 
the Central Union depot, its train was 
hit, in a head-on collision, by a Big 
Four switch engine. The engineer of 
the minstrel train is expected to die. 
His skull was fractured. Mike Glynn, 
of New Hampshire, and Charles Gano, 
minstrels, were badly hurt. Nearly all 
the minstrels in the dining car were 
injured. 



NOT FOR VAUDEVILLE. 

There being a decided difference in 
the $1,000 weekly salary requested and 
the amount offered Montgomery and 
Moore for a big time vaudeville route 
for this season, the couple have accept- 
ed an offer that will bring them before 
the camera in a series of one-reel 
comedies to be produced by a new 
company now being formed. 

It is understood the team will have 
a financial interest in the concern. 



Abduction Charge. 

Pittsburgh, Sept. 30. 

Harry Wilson and W. E. Edson, of 
the Hampton-Empire shows, accused 
of abducting Ruth Carr, 14 years old, 
of Mt. Pleasant, Pa., were held for a 
hearing. 

Burgess Shields testified he found the 
nirl in a closed wagon. 



Chariot to War. 

Word has been received at the Rose 
& Curtis office that Jean Chariot, for- 
merly manager of the Folies Marigny 
Paris and La Cigale, Paris, has gone to 
the front with the French troops. 

Chariot was the Paris representa- 
tive of th< Rose & Curtis firm, having 
an agency of his own in that city as 
well. 



TINNEY WITH DILLINGHAM. 

The new Charles B. Dillingham re- 
vue that started rehearsals Monday of 
this week is to have Frank Tinney, 
equally featured with the principals of 
the company, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon 
Castle. 

Max Hart engineered the five-year 
contract Mr. Tinney signed, and which 
is said to call for a weekly salary 
of $850 for Tinney while he is play- 
ing. The agreement for Dillingham's 
"Watch Your Step" is also reported to 
contain a provision that Tinney's name 
shall always be mentioned whenever 
the title of the show is printed under 
the management's direction, and like- 
wise that the "Tinney" in the billing 
matter shall be at least one-third the 
size type given the name of the play. 

Mr. Tinney was under contract to 
Flo Ziegfeld, Jr., who held an option 
upon his services, but neglected to 
exercise it. 

The Castles are said to be receiving 
$1,000 weekly, flat, for the revue. 
Irving Berlin has written the songs 
tor the production. 

Others in the Dillingham revue are 
Elizabeth Brice and Charles King, Eliz- 
abeth Murray, Renee Gratz (English), 
Charles Aldrich, and Adele Rowland. 
T. Roy Barnes (Barnes and Craw- 
ford), who was to have gone with the 
piece, will remain with "The Passing 
Show of 1914." 



AUTHORS' SOCIETY. 

Some of the authors who write for 
vaudeville are talking about forming an 
authors' society. The main purpose is 
to have a binding contract to secure 
payment of royalty. 



REED ALBEE RETURN8. 
Mr. and Mrs. Reed Albee returned 
from Europe last Friday, after spend- 
ing 14 days on the water. They have 
been abroad since last June and were 
located in Switzerland shortly after 
the European disorder broke out. 



Just Like Lunnun. 

The grill room of the Hotel Astor 
at the noon hour is commencing to re- 
semble Cavour, London, where all the 
show people go for lunch. 

With the theatrical activities cen- 
tred between 42d and 49th streets, the 
Astor seems to be getting the call, and 
has been especially busy since Hebrews 
crossed the Claridge off their visiting 
list. 

Loew's Loaf Llne-Up. 

The Marcus Loew office is now 
booking 30 weeks in its western divis- 
ion, with 25 houses listed on the east- 
ern books. 



Singer's Midgets Booked. 
Singer's Midgets, an aggregation of 
30 members from Germany, who give 
a general act in which a number of 
animals participate as well, will head- 
line the Hammerstein bill for two 
weeks, beginning Nov. 2. 



Suratt Wonf Split. 
Valeska Suratt upon discovering she 
was scheduled to split the headline 
with Joan Sawyer at the Palace, New 
York, next week, decided not to accept 
♦he engagement, 



COMEDY CLUB MATTERS. 

Among the matters that came up this 
week in connection with the defunct 
Vaudeville Comedy Club was the 
question of the indebtedness of the so- 
ciety, and also an idea of Gene 
Hughes', its former president, to re- 
vive the club as another organization, 
take new quarters and make a fresh 
start. Mr. Hughes believes there is a 
chance for success, notwithstanding 
that several of the former Comedy 
Club members have joined the lately 
formed organization called "The Jest- 
ers," which has limited its professional 
membership to 100. 

The indebtedness of the Comedy 
Club, now estimated at about $30,000, 
was discussed Monday evening among 
members of the former Board of Gov- 
ernors at a meeting held in Mr. 
Hughes' office. Another meeting was 
scheduled for this Friday, in the offices 
of Maurice Goodman, of the United 
Booking Offices. 

The board members say that the 
creditors would be willing to give a 
long period to settle the debts, upon 
the promise of the players who are 
partly responsible, legally, for the ob- 
ligations, agreeing to give a benefit 
performance twice yearly to raise suf- 
ficient funds to liquidate. 



AND THIS IS 19141 

Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 30. 

Blanche Harris, who is appearing in 
picture houses and small vaudeville 
theatres as a mind reader, was arrest- 
ed in Pitcairn, near here, charged with 
fortune telling. 

At a seance she was asked, "Who 
killed George Creighton a year ago?" 
She replied Creighton was murdered 
by a man whose initials were "G M. 
B." George M. Blair, who was in the 
audience, caused the arrest. Miss 
Harris was discharged by the burgess. 



Lew Brice Disfigured. 

Lew Brice is not with "The Passing 
Show of 1914/' and is said to have left 
the Winter Garden last Thursday 
night, carrying away a black eye with 
him. The discolored optic is reported 
to have been inflicted upon the young 
man by one of the management. 

Artie Mehlinger joined the show 
Monday. 

Brice is said to have asked for an 
increase of salary on the road, and to 
have threatened to have himself "fired" 
if not receiving it. The same evening 
he missed a couple of scenes. Someone 
connected with the house, believing 
Brice had done so intentionally, could 
not restrain connecting with Brlce's 
optic. 

Young Brice had the disfigurement 
photographed for future possible use. 



40 Dogs, AH Actors. 

Arthur von Lipinski has 40 dogs in 
his act. called Lipinski's 40-Dog Come- 
dians. Mr. von Lipinski says everyone 
of his animals is an actor, and that 
they give a complete performance by 
themselves on the stage. 

The act has been well known in Eu- 
rope for the past five years. Tt opens 
for an initial showing over here Oct. 
12, at Keith's, Philadelphia, with a sea- 
son's big time route to follow, secured 
for the act by Rose & Curtis. 



VAKI1TY 



PROGRESSIVE HOUSES AND SHOWS 
TAKEN BY COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 



Eight Progressive Attractions and Seven Progressive Theatres 

Going Over to Columbia's Extended Circuit. Some 

Extended Shows to Be Dropped, and Second 

Circuit Increased from 30 to 36 Shows. 



According to persistent rumors an- 
other upheaval in burlesque is immi- 
nent. For several weeks it has been 
noised about that frequent conferences 
have been held between the heads of 
the Columbia Amusement Co. and the 
officers of the Progressive Circuit. 

The outcome as far as can be learned, 
is that the Columbia will take over the 
following shows from the Progressives: 
JoeOppcnheimer's "Fay Foster Show;" 
Sim William's "Girls from Joyland;" 
Tom Sullivan's "Monte Carlo Girls;" 
Charles Taylor's "Tango Girls;" Frank 
Calder's "High Life Girls;" Rube 
Bernstein's "Follies of Pleasure;" Jean 
Bedini's "Mischief Makers," and Sam 
Levey's "Charming Widows." 

Just what shows on the Columbia 
Extended will be affected is not known 
at this time. It is said the Columbia 
people are dissatisfied with some of the 
shows in the Extended division of their 
Circuit, and that it was only a ques- 
tion of time when these particular or- 
ganizations would have to be retired or 
replaced with more satisfactory shows. 

It is said the Extended Circuit will 
be increased from thirty to thirty-six 
weeks. Unless all present signs fail, 
the following theatres will be allied di- 
rectly or indirectly with the Columbia 
chain: Star, Toronto; Garden, Buffalo; 
Englewood, Chicago; Trocadero, Phila- 
delphia; Empire, Cleveland; Cadillac, 
Detroit, and the Savoy, Hamilton, Ont. 

The situation at Indianapolis is con- 
sidered easy of adjustment. Tom Sul- 
livan operates a theatre against the 
Heuck people in that city. Reliance is 
placed upon the friendly relations that 
have always existed between Mr. Sul- 
livan and the Heuck's to straighten out 
whatever may be necessary of adjust- 
ment there. 

Some time ago, it was rumored, that 
the management of the Folly, Detroit, 
had notified the Columbia Amusement 
Co. it wanted to get out of the con- 
tract, and that if the terms were not 
changed the shows on the Extended 
Circuit would no longer be played by 
it, and that the former stock policy 
would be revived. In view of this, if 
all these rumors are true, the Folly will 
pass out of the burlesque field. 

The Herman Fehr interests have 
taken over the Haymarket, Chicago, 
and the Star, St. Paul, it is said. While 
the latter house would naturally be 
included in the Columbia Circuit, the 
Haymarket would have to be operated 
independently on account of existing 
contracts between the Columbia Amuse- 
ment Co. and Hyde & Behman. 

By Friday it became settled about 
Times square the Columbia had ".nob- 
bled up" the Progressive Circuit or 
MifTicient from that chain to virtually 
put the Progressive as a burlesque cir- 
cuit out of business. 

The statement was made that Sim 



Williams' "Girls from Joyland" (for- 
mer Progressive) will play the Vic- 
toria, Pittsburgh (Columbia), next 
week, and the "Fay Foster Show" (Joe 
Oppenheimer) (former Progressive) 
will go over the Pennsylvania week 
n l one-night stands the Columbia 
shows usually take. 

Variety* is also reliably informed a 
new route for the Columbia's Extend- 
ed Circuit will be in operation by Oct. 
12. This route is to include several of 
the present Progressive houses and 
shows, and will exclude the southern 
time on the Columbia circuit, except- 
ing Norfolk and Richmond. The de- 
cision to drop the southern time from 
the Columbia sheet was reached late 
this week. 



JUMPS TO COLUMBIA. 

Toledo, Oct. 1. 
"The Passing Review" abruptly 
abandoned its tour on the Progres- 
sive Wheel here last night and left 
todav for Detroit, where it will take 
up the Columbia Extended circuit, be- 
ginning at the Gayety. 



PROGRESSIVA CANS SHOW. 

Cleveland. Sept. 30. 
"The Pajama Girls" has been sum- 
marilv cancelled on the Progressive 
Wheel and is on its way to fill a list 
of one-night stands in the west. 



BURIESOUE SHOWS WIRING. 

It was reported in New York 
Wednesdav several Progressive Bur- 
lesque Wheel shows were wiring to 
New York about transportation to re- 
turn here. These companies were lo- 
cated along the Progressive line of 
travel. 

Tt is said several of the Progressive 
shows have commenced to pet wild cat 
bookings (booking independently). 



"Whirl of Mirth- Dropoed. 

Cincinnati. Oct. 1. 

Road managers in the Columbia Ex- 
tended division are anxiouslv waiting 
to learn whether some of their number 
are to be dropped and replaced bv road 
romnnnies recruited from the Progres- 
sive list. 

"The Whirl of Mirth." a Columbia 
Extended slj/>w plavincr at the Stand- 
ard here, received notice today that it 
would quit the wheel Saturday night. 



Burlesque Shows Settling. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 2. 

"The Follv Riirlesnuers." after clos- 
ine at the Standard last week, dropped 
out of the route under orders from 
hendnuarters. 

"The Whirl of Mirth" will have all 
hotel and transportation expenses paid 
to New York bv the circuit. 

"The Moulin Rouge Girl?" have also 
been guaranteed against any losses. 



"MARSH" ON THE FENCE 

Marshall P. Wilder stood or sat on 
the vaudeville fence Thursday. At the 
Marcus Loew office it had been ac- 
cepted all week that up to then Mr. 
Wilder had signed a contract to play 
en that time, at $400 weekly. Wednes- 
day afternoon it was even reported a 

"featured" clause had been inserted in 
the agreement at Mr. Wilder's request, 
but the office staff in the booking 
agency did not know Mr. Wilder had 
not signed until Thursday. The re- 
port there was Wilder had asked for a 
few hours to take the contract home 
to read. 

In the afternoon of that day Mr. 
Wilder was in the Orpheum Circuit 
headquarters. Asked if he had "signed 
with Loew," Mr. Wilder replied: "How 
do those ridiculous reports get out? 
Nothing to them at all. I had some 
little talk about returning to vaude- 
ville and the Loew people even got 
up a contract for me, but that's all 
there is to it. I showed the contract 
to Mr. Albee, and he said it was one 
of the best contracts he had ever read, 
tut I don't know what I am going to 
do. You know it's every man for him- 
self in this business." 

A big time act that was signed by 
the Loew people this week was Sophie 
Tucker, the "coon shouter." She is 
now playing the time, opening Thurs- 
day. 

Joseph Callahan and Bernard Daly, 
in "The Old Neighborhood." are an- 
other turn playing the Loew time. Mr. 
Callahan was of the original team in 
this piece (Callahan and Mack). Mr. 
Daly is the Irish singer who starred in 
"Dion O'Dare." 

Joseph M. Schenck, the general 
booking manager for the Loew Cir- 
cuit, has been west for about 10 days. 
He is expected to return to New York 
Sunday. 



GALVESTON GREETS PANTAGES 

Galveston, Oct. 1. 

The first Pantagcs vaudeville bill 
opened at the grand opera house here 
last night before a capacity audience. 

The show was: 

Cornelia and Wilbur, Maggie Smith. 
Kumbry, Bush and Robinson, Paine 
and Nesbit, Martha Russell and Co.; 
Harry Comer and Kalalhis Hawaiians. 



PANTAGES LASTS 3 DAYS. 

Ft. Worth, Tex., Sept. 30. 

Pantages vaudeville at the Byers last- 
ed three days last week, when it opened 
The house played to $200 gross, leaving 
Mitchell Greenwald, the Byers man- 
ager, with a loss of $930 on the three 
days' trial. He immediately discontin- 
ued. 

The Savoy here, playing stock, also 
suffered from the bad times in the 
south, closing last week, with the com- 
pany refusing to continue on the com- 
monwealth plan. 



NAVY'S DAUGHTER DIVORCED. 

Chicago. Oct. 2. 
Cecilia Wright, known as "The 
daughter of the American Navy." was 
granted a decree of divorce this week 
fiom Sir Thomas Anstrutht"- Barring- 
ten Woods of Whittingham Hall. Pres- 
ton. England. The charge was dc 
sertion. 



LOEW CHANGING REPORTS. 

Before Jos. M. Schenck left for the 
west last week, he decided to change the 
system of reports on bills from the 
house managers on the Loew Circuit. 
Hereafter the Loew managers will be 
instructed to send in a general summary 
of the acts, up to the closing perform- 
ance, instead of taking the Monday or 
Thursday shows as the basis. 

Mr. Schenck is said to have been im- 
pelled to this change through believing 
some acts give their best performance 
only when under the impression that 
show will be reported by the house 
manager to headquarters, thereafter 
during the stay in the theatre, not be- 
ing over particular as to how their act 
might run or be received. 

The direct cause is said to be Mr. 
Schenck seeing the same act on a Mon- 
day and Tuesday, hardly recognizing 
the act Tuesday as the same he had 
seen but the day before. 



MILES BUYS PITT. 

Pittsburgh, Sept. 30. 

C. H. Miles has purchased the Pitt 
theatre property, adding it to his thea- 
tres booked through the eastern Loew 
office. 



JOE MAXWELL IN U. B. O. 

After quite a lapse from big time 
producing, Joe Maxwell has returned 
to the United Booking Offices man- 
agers, taking in hand the big piece 
played at the Lamb's Gambol, "The 
Book of Life," by R. H. Burnside and 
John L. Golden. 



Burlesque Directors Meet 

Cincinnati, Oct. 2. 
Directors of the former Empire Bur- 
lesque Circuit held a five-hour confer- 
ence at the Havlin Hotel yesterday, 
but refused to discuss the nature of it. 
Those attending included George Rife, 
Harry Martel, Jim Fcnnessy, A. Clay 
Miner, Herman Fehr and Horace Mc- 
Corklin. Secretary Fenncssy denied 
the meeting had any connection with 
the merger of the Progressive Wheel. 
The managers left for their respec- 
tive homes last night. 



FIFTH AVE. POLICY. 

The policy of Proctor's Fifth Ave- 
nue theater underwent another change 
Thursday when the last half's bill 
opened. A show is given at 11 a. m. 
with another following at the usual 
matinee, and still another in the eve- 
ning. Six acts and pictures are 
played. 



CONSIDINE IN TOWN. 

A week or more will be the stay of 
John W. Considine in New York. Mr. 
Considine arrived Tuesday, so close to 
Oct. 1, it suggested Mr. Considine had 
dropped in to collect another install- 
ment of the purchase price of the Sul- 
livan-Considine Circuit that the Mar- 
cus Loew contingent paid. 

Mr. Considine stated he had no espe- 
r.'al object in coming to New York. 
it was merely one of his periodical 
visit's. 

"POOR PAULINE" 

OH, WHAT A HIT! 



VARIETY 



WITH THE WOMEN 



The costumes this fall, on the street 
and stage, are very inartistic. Is the 
war responsible for this? Perhaps 
France is unable to send over models. 
America has always claimed it could 
create, but the fashions this fall tell 
another story. 

Nothing new is shown. The smart- 
est looking women are wearing last 
spring's styles. The fall models are 
anything but smart. Hats are in the 
same class, nothing new. A clever 
play, "The High Cost of Loving." A 
bit risque, but not offensive. There is 
a laugh in every line. The women in 
the cast are well dressed. Alice Fisher 
wears three gowns, each made on won- 
derful lines to suit Miss Fischer's 
largeness. An evening gown of green 
was a combination of velvet and chif- 
fon, and fitted perfectly. 



and scalloped at the bottom, showed 
nice underdressing trimmed in gold. 
Blue slippers and half-hose and a be- 
coming jockey cap of silver were also 
worn. The Courtney Sisters wore eve- 
ning gowns, cut on the conventional 
lines of a season gone by. 

Daisy Harcourt (Hammerstein's), 
grown somewhat stouter, has chosen 
for her wardrobe two draped evening 
dresses; one is a pale lavender char- 
meuse, and the other pink taffeta. 



If "Tipping the Winner" lasts long 
enough, perhaps Miss Taliaferro and 
Miss Green will arrange to have more 
modern costumes. Miss Green, in the 
first act, wore the prettiest dress of 
the evening, but the others weren't 
what are expected in a Broadway per- 
formance. 



Beatrice (Billie) Allen, dancing in 
the New York, seems to have the right 
idea in dressing. A black lace dress 
made in flounces with a broad satin 
belt, is very pretty, but it is Miss All- 
en's feet that seem to attract, they are 
always so prettily slippered. 



The Billy Watson show at the 
Columbia this week is cleaner in ward- 
robe than it is in dialog. The chorus 
is composed mostly of heavyweights 
but not too much so. In a military 
number the girls wear fleshings and 
are good to look at. Lillian Franklin, 
of the principals, is a good-looking 
brunette who dresses with taste. A 
Spanish costume of yellow, over which 
is a shawl of many colors, is pleasing 
to the eye. An elaborate gold evening 
dress was also worn, but Miss Franklin 
looked her best in white tights. 
Ruby Marion was stunning in a crea- 
tion of cerise and gold. Maggie New- 
all, in an eccentric number, wore a 
green dress made to bring out her boy- 
ish lines. Miss Newall hasn't a curve 
in her body, and is a clever girl who 
some day will be snatched up by a 
Broadway producer. 



Florence Walton, dancing with Mau- 
rice on the New York Roof, is another 
example of the absence of smart mod- 
els. While Miss Walton's dancing 
frocks are neat in color and design, 
they lack that freakiness that is looked 
for in the dressing of exhibition dances. 

There seems to be all new faces in 
the feminine part of Shanley's cabaret. 
Miss Martin, a tall, comely girl, looks 
very nice in a costume of different 
laces and a wide belt of pink char- 
tneuse. Mrs. Seabury, dancing, is a Mae 
Murray type of girl, only less fragile. 
She wore a blue and silver brocade 
dancing frock, made in the old style 
harem effect, with black velvet holero. 
The Misses Cort and Harte appeared 
in simple taffeta evening dresses. 



The Rose Gardens is pretty and nice, 
to drop in after matinee for tea and a 
dance, but when the dances are 20 min- 
utes apart dancers who dance for the 
love of dancing, will protest. The one 
step, fox trot and hesitation might fol- 
low each other with less breathing 
space, even in the afternoon. It will 
make the Gardens more popular, 
surely. 

Decima McLean (Australian Mc- 
Leans, Palace) is a pretty girl wearing 
a green dress trimmed in gold. Miss 
McLean has also pretty hair and im- 
presses this on the audience so much 
you watch the hair and not the feet. 
Jane T .Iaven, with the Robert Ldeson 
sketch, wears an ugly neglige. Mabel 
Hamilton was the best dressed woman 
<>n the Palace bill Monday. A simple 
white beaded tulle, cleverly empired 



Mrs. Gene Hughes (Colonial) is the 
same well dressed woman as of yore. 
Mrs. Hughes affects trains . on her 
gowns, but the street costume made in 
the present redingote would be far 
more graceful if it were walking 
length. Mrs. Hughes' company in- 
cludes three women. Mrs. Hughes 
might see to the voice and accent of 
at least one of them. 

Ruth Roye (once Ruth Becker, if 1 
correctly remember) is wearing at the 
Colonial this week a pretty crystal robe 
costume, over which is a short cape- 
like coat. When Miss Roye discards 
the coat, it reveals her sleeveless 
waist. She is too thin and short to 
wear this style of gown. Girls, take a 
good look at your figure before decid- 
ing on the sleeveless gown this season. 

Naomi Glass (Colonial) is wearing a 
triple lace flounce dress that could be 
improved if it were cut lower in the 
neck and the cape discarded. 

Cabaret dressing seems tu be out of 
proportion to salary received for caba- 
ret singing, if judgment is to be taken 
"» the change of base Paula Loomis 
found for herself. Miss I oomis, the 
Monde singer at Shanley's for so long, 
lias left professional singing, to accept 
a position in a cloak and suit house 
where she will display clothes other 
people have paid for. In the cabarets 
says Miss Loomis, the high cost of 
gowning left it impossible for her to 
have a balance on her salary account 
weekly. When at Shanley's Miss Loomis 
was one of the best dressed singers 
about. 



PALACE LOSSES. 

it looked Monday afternoon as if 
there would be an all new program at 
the Palace in the evening, the changes 
in the bill coming so rapidly. 

Weston and Leon could not appear 
through one of the girls having bron- 
chial trouble. Fannie Brice also left 
after a cold grabbed her. The Aus- 
tralian MacLeans, opening at the mat- 
inee, are said to have become miffed 
at a remark heard and also quit, al- 
though they had done very well at the 
first show. 

The Courtney Sisters and Stepp, 
Goodrich and King were the Monday 
evening substitutes. 

After the MacLeans had walked out, 
their entire big time route was can- 
celed, but restored the next day, and 
the turn reopens Oct. 19 in Chicago. 
The objection made by the Palace 
management is said to have been 
against Miss MacLean waving her 
glorious red hair about. Mr. Mac- 
Lean mentioned she had waved it ail 
over the world, where they had 
played. 

Tuesday night Norah Bayes was out 
of the Alhambra bill, and Brice and 
King filled in for the evening. Wednes- 
day, Ruth Roye dropped out at the 
Colonial. Both departures were said 
to have been caused by colds. 



SIX NEW FOREIGNERS. 

Six foreign acts, four of which are 
making their first American appearance 
are in New York this week, all booked 
by Rose & Curtis. The acts are Mr. 
Hymack and "The Edge of the World" 
at the Alhambra; Gobert Belling and 
the Australian MacLeans at the Palace; 
Rigolettos Brothers, Royal; Lucy Gil- 
lette, Orpheum, Brooklyn. 

About 22 other foreign acts are con- 
tracted for through Rose & Curtis to 
appear in the big time vaudeville houses 
by Jan. 1. 



W. R. MEETING DATE. 

The regular meeting of the White 
Rats will be held at the club house 
next Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 11 P. M. Big 
Chief Frank Fogarty will preside. 

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SHUBERT WOULD OUST LOEW. 

The Shuberts have offered, through 
a circular, to sell the furnishings of the 
Herald Square theatre, possession to 
be given May 1, next 

Marcus Loew has a lease on the, 
theatre which expires April 30. The 
Herald Square is to be demolished for 
an office building, but should there be 
a delay in the plans, Mr. Loew could 
probably hold over, something the 
Shuberts seem determined to provide 
against by selling the contents (which 
they own) in advance. 

Some time ago Marcus and Lee ver- 
bally expressed their opinion of one 
another, and there has been no peace 
cement between them since. 



ALICE LLOYD, LIFE MEMBER 

Alice Lloyd unknowingly secured 
the honor ot becoming the nrst woman 
life member of the White Rate thia 
week, when purchasing a life member-, 
ship in that order from Frank Fogarty, 
its president. 

The renewed activity of the Rate. 
under the forceful direction of its new 
president, has made a large number oi 
life members. Miss Lloyd, who re* 
turned from England last Friday op 
the Mauretania, caught the general en* 
thusiasm prevailing while abroad, and 
upon arriving in New York, informed 
Mr. Fogarty she would like to join the 
Rats. Alter being listed among the life 
membership crowd, it was discovered 
Miss Lloyd was the first woman to 
take advantage of this opportunity. 

Dr. Herman this week purchased 
$2,000 worth of the White Kats Club- 
house bonds, besides taking out a life 
membership for each of his two sons. 

The hrst lay lite member of the Kats 
is John J. McGraw ("Mugsy"), mana- 
ger of the New York Giants, who joined 
the order and took out a life member- 
ship Tuesday. 



Who Wants to Be My Kins of Hearts. 



RUBY NORTON AND SAMMY LEE. 

Ruby Norton and Sammy Lee are 
now appearing with the Sam Bernard 
show, The Belle of Bond Street," at 
the Illinois, Chicago. Both are featured 
in this production, and the Chicago 
press has been unusually kind to them. 

Miss Norton's singing is the vocal 
feature, and she has been selected to 
lead many of the best numbers. Sammy 
Lee is a dancer of class. Both do solo 
work during the performance, and their 
dancing in the second act is the big 
applause winner, aside from some of 
the results attained by the star. 

They have been seen in vaudeville 
together in past years and more recent- 
ly were featured with "The Firefly" 
here and with the Bernard show in 
Europe until the early part of the cur- 
rent season where they had the honor 
of appearing before royalty. 

They will remain with 'The Girl of 
Bond Street" during the remainder of 
the current season and next year will 
again cast their lot in the two-a-day 
with a new act now in preparation. 

The couple's pictures are on the front 
page of this issue. 

"POOR PAULINE" 

OH, WHAT A HIT! 



8 



VARIETY 



THE OUTLOOK 



The outlook for the White Rats Actors' 

Union of America is indeed encouraging. 

Everyone is filled with the right spirit, 
which spells "success." You might ask 
"what has been accomplished?" First of 
all let me inform you that we have 
cemented love in the hearts of the great 
majority. We are proving daily to the 
average man that we are conducting this 
organization in a decent, honorable and 
business-like way. We have thrown open 
the doors to our members. We are tell- 
ing truths. We are hiding nothing, be- 
cause we are honest, and, therefore, we 
we have no fear. Our books are open 
to all the members, and I, as your presi- 
dent, can be seen any day. The door of 
my office is open. Everyone is welcome 
and attention is given to each individual. 
No matter how small in station the artist 
may be, he or she is given the same at- 
tention as a headliner. Every letter writ- 
ton me has been answered by me per- 
sonally, and I might say that I have 
turned out 50 to 100 letters daily. 

Now what has all of this done? In 
twe months it has brought back in the 
neighborhood of 100 members, who were 
in arrears for dues. It has encouraged 
others to take out life memberships. We 
have at present 53 life members. Twenty 
of these have become life members within 
less than two months. Within the next 
two months I feel sure that this organi- 
zation will have over 100 life members. 
The day will come and it is not far off 
when the life membership fee will be 
raised. It is too good an offer, so I 
would advise those of you who can af- 
ford a life card, which will cost you 
$100, providing you are paid up in dues, 
to take one out now, because later on 
the price of life membership will surely 
be raised, as it is in all organizations. 

We have a weekly good fellowship 
"scamper" every Thursday night in the 
rathskeller, and in fact I might say to 
you that there is a "scamper" every night 
in the rathskeller. You cannot realize 
the spirit that is in this organization at 
the present time, unless you are here to 
see for yourself. We are also having big 
"scampers" once a month, and are hold- 
ing same in the gymnasium. Last Thurs- 
day night we had a "scamper" for the 
profession only. The gymnasium, reading 
and writing rooms, rathskeller and pool- 
room were filled to their capacity. We 
are making all kinds of improvements for 
the best, both in the organization and in 
the club. If you doubt this, ask any 
member who has been here. 

We are holding weekly meetings of the 
Ways and Means Committee, of which 
every member of our organization is a 
member. We are having weekly meet- 
ings of the House Committee, and I can 
also say that the Board of Directors 
meets here every Friday at 12 sharp, 
an dthat docs not moan one o'clock 
and half past one. 

I mention these things to show you 
that we are not idle. We are working 
hard, and trying hard to please everyone. 
I would indeed love to see the day (and 
I feel sure that I will see the day) when 
this order can build a club in every large 
city for the boys and girls of our organi- 
zation. I want to do the right thing by 
all of you. All I ask in return is your 
support. I am for you. I am getting 



support, but I want the collective sup- 
port of this great order. Some people 
might say, "What is Fogarty going to 
get out of this?" Well, I will tell you: 
If you will support this organization as 
it should be supported, I will get your 
love and best wishes. That is all I ask 
for, that is all I want, but that is worth 
more than gold to me. I would rather 
have the love, respect and confidence of 
the boys and girls of this profession than 
all the money in the world. It is not a 
pretty speech, meant to sound pretty, but 
it is a truthful expression, because I am 
not looking for anything for myself, but 
I am looking for the best in the world 
for my fellow men, and surely if you 
can get the best this world can give, I 
can at least enjoy the happiness with you. 

And now, girls, let me say something 
to you. Join the A. A. A's. if you are 
not already members, become active, form 
a Ways and Means Committee, and meet 
here at the club, either in the A. A. A. 
room, or the Board of Directors' room, 
and if you want me to sit in council I 
will be more than pleased to do so. Start 
something, girls, for the good, and I will 
be with you. Your membership com- 
pared with the boys is very small. Please 
do not say, "Well, if we had the club- 
house the boys have we would have as 
many members." You are getting the 
same fraternal benefits as the boys, and 
you have the use of part of the club. 

We will gladly set aside hours for you 
in the gymnasium and swimming pool, and 
in fact there is nothing we will not do 
for you, if you will only show us some 
co-operation, and when the days comes, 
which I hope will be soon, for you girls 
to have a clubhouse of your own, you 
will then realize what wonderful good 
you have done for your profession. The 
clubhouse would mean a decent home 
for our girls, and it would be the mean* 
of helping many a girl in a dozen dif- 
ferent ways. It would be their home 
and that would mean so much to the 
girls, who never knew what home meant, 
and let me tell you girls, "home, sweet 
home was never written in a Pullman 
car." 

I am here to help you girls. Please 
do not let the opportunity slip by. Get 
busy, build up the A. A. A. membership, 
and I will promise you good results. 

Alice Lloyd became a life member of 
the A. A. A. Monday, and her husband, 
Tom McNaughton, became a life member 
of the White Rats Actors' Union of 
America on the same day. 

Woman has been the guiding star in 
this world. Women have been the means 
of making us men realize what home 
really is. We love you, girls, we want 
to help you, because you are our great 
help-mates; so I beg of you to orgairze 
and build up the A. A. A. Work in 
harmony and work hard for this orgin- 
ization that is working hard for you Be 
loyal and by being loyal you will give 
the interest we need to enjoy success 
and happiness. If we made mistakes in 
the past we have only done what every- 
one in life has done. We have all made 
mistakes, but let us benefit by the expe- 
rience. So many men and women in the 
world look only one way ; the way thit 
will benefit one's self. Please throw that 
feeling aside, if any of you have such 



a feeling, and think of others that need 
protection and help, "the great multitude." 

Do not be selfish; help those who have 
been less fortunate than you, because 
every time one does a kind act in thi, 
world the good comes back to him or 
her, if only in the knowledge that thev 
have helped to make a heart lighter. 

The outlook is indeed encouraging. 
Give me the support 1 am asking for and 
the outlook will turn into a reality, and 
that reality will be peace, happiness and 
success to all. 

Talk White Rats wherever you go. Do 
not be ashamed to advertise something 
that spells good. You are not going to 
stop the good work, are you. and you 
will help, won't you? 

I am sincerely and fraternally yours. 
FRANK FOGARTY, President. 



HOLD ROAD SCAMPERS. 

Members of the White Rats Actors' 
Union are earnestly requested to pro- 
mote the spirit of good fellowship and 
fraternalism on the road by holding 
"scampers" in cities where White Rats 
are assembled. 

Permission to hold these "scampers" 



DENNIS O'BRIEN'S OPINION. 

Th able attorney for the White Rats, 
Dennis O'Brien (O'Brien,' Malevinsky 
& Driscoll) wrote the following letter, 
not for publication, but since Mr. 
O'Brien's efforts in behalf of the Rats 
have been most earnest, thoughtful and 
beneficial to that order, and his stand- 
ing in the legal fraternity is so eminent, 
his opinion on the present progress of 
the organization is most valuable and 
deserves circulation, as the expression 
of a layman to the profession: 

Editor Variety: — Kindly accept my 
sincere congratulations and apprecia- 
tion of the splendid articles written by 
Frank Fogarty and published by you 
in Variety pertaining to the White 
Rats Actors' Union of America. 

On account of the intimate knowl- 
edge of the affairs of the organization 
which I have through my position as 
attorney for it, and of the actor and 
actress towards the organization, I be- 
lieve that Mr. Fogarty has hit upon the 
real principle upon which the future of 
this organization must be founded; that 
is. the unselfish spirit of the actor and 
actress as against the selfish spirit. 



Good Fellowship Scamper 

held at the 
WHITE RATS CjLUB HOUSE EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT. 

All rtiembers of the organization earnestly requested to attend. 



may be obtained by wiring the Secre- 
tary-Treasurer. We will pay for the 
wire; send it collect. 



BE A LIFE MEMBER. 

We again call your attention to Life 
Memberships. Each week they are in- 
creasing. Get in while you can buy a 

Life Membership for $100. 

Have your name appear in next 
week's Variety among the Life Mem- 
bers of the organization. 



This selfish spirit had been ap- 
pealed to by the earlier policy of the 
organization and the members encour- 
aged to believe that he ought to meas- 
ure daily the benefits that he person- 
ally would derive from the organiza- 
tion, because of the money he paid to 
it rather than the general principle of 
Imilding up and preserving the orga- 
nization founded upon high ideals, 
which must permeate the atmosphere 
of benefit to the members of the pro- 



Women Look Over Clubhouse. 

Winifred De Witt, the one time man- 
ageress of Chase's theater, Washington, 
accompanied by Mrs. Pat Rooney, recently 
paid a visit to the clubhouse. Miss De 
Witt and Mrs. Rooney were escorted 
through the building by the Big Chief. 
Frank Fogarty, and Bert Levy. 

With true woman's instinct the ladies 
paid particular attention to the house 
linen and furnishings, and after their tour 
of inspection expressed their astonish- 
ment at the perfection of the clubhouse, 
with its modern and well kept home com- 
forts. 

As an evidence of the far-reaching in- 
fluence of the present campaign to place 
the order on the highest pinnacle of club- 
dom Frank Fogarty recently received a 
letter from the far west, and the writer 
is evidently a kindly character who has 
never struck the great east as yet, for 
his cowboy language savors of the breezy 
plains, and the intimacy of the campfires. 

"I want to join this 'ere White Rats 
outfit," the letter ran, "so send a note 
and tell mc how much I must kick in." 

Fogarty treasures the letter as an ex- 
ample of the widespread interest now 
being taken in the order. 



Meeting ol 


" the 


HOUSE 


COMMITTEE 


Tuesday, Oct. 


6th, 


1914, at 12 


Noon sharp in 


i the 


Board of Di- 


rectors' Room 


at th 


le White Rats 


Club. 








JOS. 


P. Mack, 

Chairman. 



fession as a whole and to the managers 
with whom these members did business 
and to the weaker members of the pro- 
fession who must benefit thereby. 

I trust the good work begun will be 
continued, and that from time to time 
the profession, as a %hole, may benefit 
»>y the doctrine that is now being 
printed by Mr. Fogarty. 

DENNIS O'BRIEN. 



Meeting of 

WAYS AND MEANS 

COMMITTEE 

on Tuesday, Oct 6th, 1914, 

at 12 Noon sharp, in the Board of 
Directors' Room at the White 
Rats Club. 

James F. Dolan, 
Chairman. 



GARDEN SHOW ON OCT. 10. 

The opening date for "Dancing 
Around," the new Winter Garden re- 
vue, has been changed to Oct. 10. 



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" ■ ■ »' • ■ — — 

A baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. 

John Clinton Sept. 25. 



The Fifth Avenue vaudeville bill was 
increased and strengthened this week. 

Walter Gilewicz, pianist at the Col- 
lege of Music, and Mathilda Sauer 
were married h,ere this week. 



A daughter was born to Clara Mor- 
ton (Mrs. F. J. Sheen) at her home 
in Detroit Sunday. 



Hazel Griffin and Gus King, of the 
Trans-Atlantic Sextet, were married 
last week in Philadelphia. 

C. E. Bray has leased his Pelham 
estate, the Bronx, and taken an apart- 
ment in the city for the winter. 

Anna Chandler opened at the Pal- 
ace, Chicago, this week (Sept. 28), 
after which she will tour the Orpheum 
Circuit, booked by Ross & Curtis. 

Harmon Mac Greg or sails from Lon- 
don Oct. 16 and upon his arrival here 
will go to his orange grove in Califor- 
nia. 

Felice Lyne, the American soprano, 
sails from London Oct. 8. Her first re- 
appearance over here will be at Allen- 
town, Pa., Nov. 6. 



Leo Carrillo has been signed for five 
years with Oliver Morosco. He will 
play a few vaudeville dates before be- 
ginning rehearsals for a new show. 

Marie Antoinette Brooks, a Philadel- 
phia actress, and Robert M. Meigher, 
of Clifton Springs, N. Y., were married 
last week. 

The proposed Revue of Revues 
which Flo Ziegfeld planned to bring 
out, is deferred until theatrical condi- 
tions improve. 



William H. Sams, of Billie Burke's 
company in "Jerry," and Mrs. Marjorie 
Holland of St. Paul (a former actress) 
were married a few days ago. 

Queenie Dunedin has been ordered 
to remain in the hospital until advised 
otherwise by her physicians, indefinite- 
ly postponing her vaudeville opening. 



Charles A. Savage, of the Kirk- 
Brown Stock Co., at Reading, Pa., was 
married last week to Lillian Bradford, 
of the "Queens of the Jardin De Paris" 
burlesque show. 

"A Little Girl in a Big City," James 
Kyrle MacCurdy's new play, which is 
to be produced by William Wood and 
Harvey R. Schutter in three road com- 
panies, will have its opening Oct. 15. 

The Whyland Opera House at St 

Johnsville, N. Y., is in ruins, the result 
of fire. It always has been operated at 
a loss and was known as "John Why- 
land's monument." 

Frank Drake, a singer, has been 
stricken dumb. The seizure came upon 
him as he sat at dinner. It is known 
as vocal aphasia and physicians believe 
it is a temporary condition. 

Yansci Dolly (Mrs. Harry Fox) who 
was operated upon last week for a 
throat growth and who has also been 
ill with ptomaine poisoning, was able 
to be out for the first time Monday. 

Any information regarding Ed. Brad- 
ley, the blind tenor, will be gratefully 
received by Samuel Pollock. Mr. Pol- 
lock is endeavoring to locate Bradley, 
whose child is ill. 



The new Joe Drum piece, "My Lady's 
Boudoir," in which Adele Blood will 
star, is slated for an out of town open- 
ing Oct. 12. A late acquisition to the 
cast is Lucy Browning. 

Irving Berlin's latest song with the 
war as a topic, is "Stay Where You 
Belong." Billy Dunham sang it for the 
first time in New York at the Winter 
Garden Sunday. 

Gertrude McKenaie (Orren and Mc- 
Kensie) is seriously ill at St. Eliza- 
beth's Hospital, Dayton, O. (Address 
mail to Mrs. Gertrude Hargeheimer, at 
the hospital.) 

Duchess Bijou, of Matt Kenedy's 
"Liberty Girls," while playing at the 
Orpheum, Paterson, Monday night, 
wrenched her ankle so severely that 
she is out of the cast this week. 



Thomas Robb, Jr., of this city, has 
brought suit for divorce against his 
second wife, who was Janet Priest, the 
actress. They were married in 1907. 
Desertion is the reason given by Robb. 



The Bronx theatre, which has been 
running a picture policy since the sea- 
son's opening, will switch to small 
time vaudeville Oct. 5, with attractions 
^furnished by the Family Department 
of the United Booking Offices. 

"My Dixie Girl," a new piece, is be- 
ing framed for the road, opening early 
in October and playing in Illinois, 
Wisconsin and Iowa. Loren H. Ster- 
ling is back of the show. Specialties 
will be used between the sets. 

John Considine reached New York 
Tuesday. The object of his visit 
could not be ascertained. He is ac- 
companied by his secretary, Mr. Rob- 
inson. 



Carrie LaMont, now in Detroit, who 
received a compound fracture of the 
right leg a year ago last August, and 
submitted to several operations since, 
is recovered and will return to New 
York shortly. 

The Opera House, Flora, Ind., (Geo. 
W. Benson, manager) will very likely 
pass up traveling legits for the entire 
season. What shows the O. H. has 
played have done no business, hence 
the passing up of the roadsters. 

Lelah Halleck, formerly leading wo- 
man with the Cal-Smith stock at Read- 
ing, Pa., was operated upon for appen- 
dicitis in Stern's sanitarium, but upon 
leaving the institution suffered a re- 
lapse and returned to the hospital 
Monday. 



Stella Craig and Arthur S. Knowlton, 
members of the "Movie Girl" company 
which played at the Lyric, Allentown, 
last week, were married on the stage 
after Tuesday night's show. The bride 
was with Sam Bernard and Montgom- 
ery and Stone for several seasons. 



Owing to an operation for appen- 
dicitis, Miss Vic Denno, of the Six 
Steppers, is in the Wesley Hospital, 
Oiic^co. The act will continue its 
<! ' s wiih five members until the 
yung woman is able to rejoin. 



John, the Barber's shpp is now san- 
itary. Each customer receives a comb 
and brush in a paraffin setting at 
every sitting. Mr. Hessler, in charge 
of the shop, got out the idea, to show 
the Board of Health what could be 
done by barbers. 

Gordon Walton is recovering from a 
long illness, caused by injuries to his 
spine when he fell on the stage in Bal- 
timore, during a performance of Bert 
Leslie's "Hogan the Painter," of which 
Walton was a member. He is at 132 
East 55th street, Chicago. 

Brady Greer, the ever-smiling treas- 
urer at Hammerstein's, had to brace 
his face in Monday to keep the ticket 
purchasers from asking questions. It 
was a baby, Brady's first, and he said 
he rather liked it. Mrs. Greer was do- 
ing nicely and that made the smile 
more difficult to control. 

Jack Goldberg had never gotten any 
further than Brooklyn, up to last week, 
when he made Philadelphia and Atlan- 
tic City. Then he had to go to Boston 
to catch the opening of Loew's Globe 
there Monday. Jack says he likes rail- 
roading but thinks the train between 
Philly and Atlantic should have shock 
absorbers. 



Miles Okey Stiers, of El Reno, Okla- 
homa, and Miss Catherine Louise Wal- 
lace, of Boston, Mass., were married 
in Lynchburg, Va., Sept. 26.- The con- 
tracting parties are with "101 Ranch" 
wild west show, which gave a perform- 
ance in this city, Stiers being the gen- 
eral manager and Miss Wallace one of 
the cowgirls. 

The plans for the new May Robson 
play, "Martha by the Sea," are at a 
stand still, owing to the show's failure 
to secure the Harris theatre for New 
York. The Academic Producing Co. 
could have had the two weeks before 
the opening of the "Salamander" at 
that house, but thought they would 
rather leave the piece on the road or 
seek another house. 

Valerie Bergere, at the Prospect, 
Brooklyn, last week in "Circumstan- 
tial Evidence," was summoned to 
court Thursday and charged with al- 
lowing ten-year-old Isabel Henderson 
to appear in her sketch Monday after- 
noon. William Masaud, house man- 
ager, was also summoned. Counsel 
for the defendants waived examina- 
tion and were held in $300 bail for the 
Court of Special Sessions. Bond was 
furnished. 

According to the opinions of some 
of the film wiseacres in New York the 
deathknell of the display of partisan 
war film has been sounded. In some 
sections of the country there was di- 
rect objection by certain foreign ele- 
ments against pictures that jarred their 
patriotic chords and in some cities the 
ban was placed on war pictures. From 
the west come reports of small-sized 
riots in the picture theatres where cer- 
tain war films were shown. 



TOMMY'S TATTLES. 

By Thomas J. Gray. 

You can't beat those Mexican guys. 
When they saw ffce European fight was 
being billed over them in the news- 
papers they started another war for 
fear we might forget their act. 

Jules Von Tilzer says if any actor 
wants to learn any kind of a dialect 
all he has to do is to stand in the 
crowd that watches the bulletins in 
Times Square. 

Safety First. — You better get booked 
up for a couple of weeks before your 
agent starts to watch the world series. 

What They Should Put the War 
Tax On. 

English versions of American songs. 
Burlesque melodramas. 
Fellows who shake hands with them- 
selves while they're bowing. 

The "bathing suit ripping" parody. 
Burlesque table scenes. 
Society dancers. 



The boys who sent over all those 
letters raving about show business in 
Europe all seem pretty glad to have 
Geo. M. Cohan's country to return to. 
Moral: Don't sneer at your own back- 
yard. 



10 



VARIETY 



PUBLISHERS AND CABARETS 

BOUNDING TOWARD A CLINCH, 

Copyright Tribute Demand by Society on Copyrighted Music, 
Principally Instrumental, May Bring Reprisal Move- 
ment from Cabaret Proprietors. $10 and $15 

Yearly Royalty Asked. 



A reprisal movement may be started 
Ijv the "1 New York hotels and res- 
taurants against the American Society 
of Composers Authors and Publishers, 
to offset the royalty demand of the 
society on copyrighted music played 
by the hotel or restaurant orchestras. 
Most of this music is instrumental for 
the various rag or trot dances. 

A notification by the society was 
sent out early this week. Another list 
of infringers may have since been 
compiled. At a meeting of the society 
held Thursday, an assessment was 
fixed against hotels and restaurants, in 
an A and B classification, according to 
size and capacity. The A Class will be 
charged $15, and the B Class $10 
for using the publications of the so- 
cety's members. Churchill and Rec- 
tor's Class A cabarets were the first to 
come in under the new ruling. 

Some cabarets, however, have taken 
an opposite course, saying that if the 
publishers through the society charge 
them for instrumental music, they will 
not allow singers in the cabarets to 
sing these publishers' songs, without 
a payment as well. 

Nathan Burkan is the attorney for 
the society, which has 200 members. 
Mr. Burkan says he will take imme- 
diate legal steps against any infringe- 
ment of a copyrighted number. The 
present action of the society is likely 
based upon the decision of Judge La- 
comb in August, when the Court grant- 
ed an injunction against the Hotel 
\ anderbilt orchestra playing copy- 
righted music without permission, 
upon the application of the John 
Church Publishing Co. House, Gross- 
man & Vorhaus appeared for the 
Church Co. 

The copyright decision places the 
\inerican society in much the same po- 
sition as that of the French Society of 
\uthors, which has occupied a strong 
position in France for many years. 

The officers of the American Society 
;«re (ieorge Maxwell, president; Victor 
Herbert, vice-president; Glen MacDon- 
< ugh, secretary; John L. Golden, treas- 
urer. Its directors are Irving Berlin, 
Frederick Belcher, Louis Bernstein, 
Harry Carroll, Max Dreyfuss, Leo 
Feist, F. Ray Goetz, Silvio Hein, Geo. 
V. Hobart. Raymond Hubbell. Wil- 
liam Jerome. Gustave Kerker, R. 
Shirmer. Harry B. Smith, Will Yon 
Tilzer, Henry Wattcrson, Jay Wit- 
mark. 



"CHIN CHIN" A REAL HIT. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 1. 
"Chiii-Chin." the new Montgomery 
and Stone show, was given its first 
presentation at the Forrest last night 
and was pronounced an instant and 
unusual hit by a capacity audience. 
The book is extremely "thin" and 



serves only in a slight degree to con- 
nect the various scenes in which is 
incorporated one of the best and fin- 
est vaudeville shows ever seen. 

Fred Stone stands out above every- 
thing else. He works very hard and 
takes full advantage of many oppor- 
tunities to display his versatility. His 
burlesques are screamingly funny. 
Once he is a "ventriloquist" with a 
live Lilliputian as his "dummy." At 
the end of the second act Stone sup- 
plies a real comedy triumph as a 
utility man with a circus. 

A position next to the stars was 
taken by Charles T. Aldrich as a ma- 
gician. He scored heavily with some 
lightning changes of costume and some 
tricks that were baffling as well as 
artistic. Others worth more than 
passing mention are Douglas Steven- 
son, Violet Zell, Helen Falconer, 
Belle Story and Marjorie Bentley. 



"MAMENA" A SPECTACLE 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 1. 

* "Mamena," Rider Haggard's novel, 
"A Child of Storm" done into dra- 
matic form, was presented at the Globe 
last night with Oscar Asche and Lily 
Brayton in the principal roles. 

It is a fine spectacle, but scarcely a 
play. 



««! 



'WANTED $22 000" OPENS. 

Springfield, Mass., Oct. 2. 

"Wanted, $22,000," a new Cohan & 
Harris production opening at the Court 
theatre last night, hardly lived up to 
expectations. The piece is a comedy 
with much evidence of originality, but 
considerable changes will have to be 
made before it will measure up to the 
Geo. M. Cohan standard. 

Desmond Kelly, Ernest Glendenning 
and William Courtleigh are featured. 
They seem much better than the play 
itself. 



"BENEDICTION" PRODUCED. 

Chicago, Sept. 30. 

"The Benediction," a new play by 
Mrs. Frieda Hall, had its baptism of 
the footlights at Gary, Ind., Sunday. It 
went over very well. 

Jed Flanagan is the producer. 



Additional Sailings. 
(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 1. 
Sept. 30, Jimmy Britt, Lawrence 
Grossmith (Celtic). 

Oct. 3, Mr. and Mrs. Burt Farle 
( Lusitania). 



Partnership Dissolved. 
(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 1. 

Harry Day and Fdward Lauri have 

dissolved partnership. 



DIPPEL CAN'T DECIDE. 

It is said Andreas Dippel can't de- 
cide whether to place his new musical 
comedy, "The Lilac Maiden" at the 44th 
Street theatre or the Century opera 
house. Mr. Dippel has 15 weeks in the 
latter place at his disposal. He ex- 
pects to have the show in readinesa 
Oct. 19. Its book is by Harry and Rob- 
ert B. Smith. The music was written 
by Culliver, an Austrian. 

If the piece goes to the Century 
it will be at popular prices. 

The chorus for the "Lilac Domino" 
started rehearsing under the direction 
of Sidney Ellison, Monday morning. Mr. 
Ellison was the original producer of 
•Floradora." 

The only engagement for any of the 
principal roles in the production is that 
of Wilfred Drouitt. This will be Mr 
Drouitt's first visit to America. He is 
a well-known English artist and the 
only man that ever played principal b:>y 
in one of the Drury Lane pantomimes. 

Mr. Dippel is reported as negotiating 
with Charles McNaughton and Leo 
Stark. 



"SUSI" CAST IS COMPLETE. 

The cast for "Susi" was completed 
by Lew Fields Monday when he signed 
Tom McNaughton for the principal 
comedy role. Others under engage- 
ment are Jose Collins, Connie Ediss, 
Robert Evett, Lew Hearn and Melville 
Stewart. The piece will first play Oct. 
17-18 at Atlantic City. 

Another play Mr. Fields will shortly 
start work on is "Blood Will Tell," a 
farce that was given in stock in Boston 
last season, for a trial. The Fields re- 
vue that will go on about New Year's 
has been named "Let Them All Come." 



"HELP WANTED" PLAYING. 

The "Help Wanted" play (by Jack 
Lait) that came into New York from 
Atlantic City last week, did not do so 
to retire, but merely to recast the 
company, which goes out again next 
week, with Ida St. Leon featured. 
Miss St. Leon is the young woman 
who scored so roundly in "Polly of 
the Circus." 

The two "Help Wanted" companies 
will continue on the road, said Mr. 
Lait, the show headed by Miss St. 
Leon reaching Chicago Nov. 1, to play 
the Stair & Havlin houses there, mean- 
while taking up road time en route. 



AMES* NEW STARS. 

Winthrop Ames has Herbert Kelcey 
and Effie Shannon for the $10,000 prize 
play, "Children of the Earth," by Alice 
Brown. The new play is to be put into 
rehearsal this month. 



LUCY WESTON IN GARDEN. 

Lucy Weston has joined the new Al 
Jolson show, opening at the Garden 
next week. 

With Miss Weston's entry into the 
piece, Olga Cook retired from it. 



"REVOLT" IN CHICAGO. 

"The Revolt," with Helen Ware, has 
been placed by I. Fluegelman, its man- 
ager, to open in Chicago late this 
month. 

Charles Bochert is ahead of the 
show; J. H. Walraven managing. 



"DEBUTANTE" TROUBLES. 

Atlantic City, Sept. 30. 
The Debutante/' with Hazel Dawn, 
left here for Washington, where it is 
playing at the National, but before get- 
ting out encountered considerable 
trouble. 

Toward the end of last week attach- 
ments commenced to pile up against 
the show. Saturday evening John C. 
Fisher, its manager, was taken ill at 
the Nixon, and temoved to his hotel. 

It was said here that although the 
piece is supposed to go into the Ams- 
terdam, New York, it will need much 
fixing. 



DRAMATIC PIECE EXPIRES. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 1. 

"Those Who Sit in Judgment," a 
drama by the wife of a London dra- 
matic critic, is a failure and will close 
at the St. James Oct. 10. 

It will be succeeded by a revival of 
"His House in Order," sponsored by 
George Alexander and opening Oct. 15. 



MANN A SHUBERT STAR 

Louis Mann is to star under the 
management of the Shuberts this sea- 
son. He has a new play by Louis 
Shipman, entitled "Love in the Moun- 
tains." 



"HIGH JINKS" NOT CLOSING. 

The "No. 2" "High Jinks" is not 
closing, upon the authority of Arthur 
Hammerstein, who has the productions 
under his direction. The second com- 
pany is playing in New England, this 
week in Maine. 



NEW OPENING DATES. 

"My Lady's Dress," the Jos. M. 
Brooks' production, opens at the Play- 
house Oct. 10. The proposed revival 
of "The Things That Count" will oc- 
cur out of town. 

The Shuberts will shift "What Is 
Love?" from the Elliott to another 
theatre, to permit "Mr. Wu," the An- 
glo-Chinese play, with Walker White- 
side, to open there Oct. 13. 

The Irving Place theatre reopened 
Thursday night with "Wilhelm Tell." 
The principals include Heinrich Mar- 
lowe, Greta Meyer, John Feistel, Rob- 
ert Fischer, Flora Arndt and Ernest 
Holznagel. 



ONE WHOLE SCENE OUT. 

The Eugene Walter piece in which 
Charlotte Walker played last week in 
Baltimore and Washington, is under- 
going revision this week. It will re- 
open Monday at Cleveland, when a 
cabaret scene will be entirely missing. 



"Hanky Panky" Not Closing. 

"Hanky Panky" will not close as 
reported, the management having de- 
cided to continue the southern tour 
as originally scheduled, says Ed. L. 
Bloom, who is with the show 



Blumenthal Managing Friml. 

The contract existing between Ar- 
thur Hammerstein and Rudolf Friml, 
composer of "The Firefly" and "High 
Jinks," has been dissolved by mutual 
consent. 

George Blumenthal, business man- 
ager for Fmma Trentini (now under 
the Shubert direction) will in the fu- 
ture look after Mr. Friml's musical 
interests. 



VAKIK T 



11 



SHOWS AT THE BOX OFFICE 

IN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO 



But Few New York Theatres Did Any Real Business During 

September. Change of Weather Expected to Help, 

But Bad Business Generally Attributed to 

War Uncertainty. 



As has been the custom of Varibtt 
in the past to print monthly the condi- 
tion of the theatrical business in New 
York and Chicago, as expressed by the 
box offices during the season, herewith 
is given the estimate of receipts at the 

metropolitan houses, although this 
first report comes at an inopportune 
time. The depression that has existed 
throughout the country has also been 
felt in the larger cities. During Sep- 
tember, the abnormally hot weather 
further held down what might have 
been a favorable showing. 

Last Thursday, late in the afternoon, 
the weather grew almost chilly within 
a few moments, after New York had 
passed through three of the hottest 
days of this summer. The lateness of 
the change was thought to have been 
the reason why no marked increase of 
business followed that same evening, 
but Friday night the theatres did not 
do much better. Saturday evening 
business was strong all over the city, 
and Sunday the vaudeville houses 
(regular and those playing vaudeville 
Sundays only) had their first good 
showing on a Sabbath since reopening. 

The weather continued cool this 
week. The effect was felt in a brisk 
advance sale for the legitimate attrac- 
tions, something very few had had 
since opening. Monday night, how- 
ever, was not as good at the legitimate 
houses as had been anticipated. Tues- 
day evening showed much better. 
While the warm September contributed 
to the distress of the theatrical man- 
agers, it is pretty nearly universally 
conceded the European war has left 
the most blasting mark upon the re- 
ceipts. 

Theatrical managers believe if thij 
country could obtain a line on the 
duration of the war, the United States 
would return to a normal business con- 
dition once more. In the present state, 
about Dec. 1 or perhaps not until 
Christmas is when better times is look- 
ed for, especially in the wilds. The 
larger cities are expected to recover 
before that time. Last Sunday a New 
York daily printed that 82 per cent of 
the working men in New York are 
working. 

The tightness of the country in 
money matters just now is reflected in 
the theatrical condition. 

Variety's estimate of the current at- 
tractions in New York is as follows 
(allowing for the bad September and 
particularly poor opening of last week, 
for which most of the receipts men- 
tioned below were obtained): 

"Consequences'* (Comedy) (1st week). 
Opened Thursday. "A Modern Girl" 
closed last Saturday, doing hardly 
nothing, perhaps getting $3,000. 

Century Opera House (Grand Opera > 
(3d week). Started off very badly 



and shows no signs of picking up. May 
have done $6,000 last week, meaning 
nothing at all to this big house. 

"Daddy Long Legs" (Gaiety) (1st 
week). Opened Monday. Secured ex- 
cellent notices, with an immediate ad- 
vance sale. On Tuesday afternoon 
nothing better than the 12th row could 
be had for any performance for the 
next two weeks. 

"He Comet Up Smiling** (Douglas 
Fairbanks) (Liberty) (3d week). Did 
$8,000 last week, and seems to be in 
strong favor for proper weather. 

"Innocent" (Eltinge) (4th week). 
Ran along around $5,000 for first 
weeks, when A. H. Woods' office start- 
ed extra advertising campaign, spend- 
ing $1,700, which sent the receipts up 
to $8,400 last week, as against $5,600 
the previous week. Extra advertising 
equally distributed among New York's 
morning and evening papers. 

"It Pays to Advertise" (Cohan's) 
(4th week). Got between $7,500 and 
$8,000 last week, disappointing to the 
management, which expected a $12,000 
clip. Paper somewhat plentifully given 
out. Show doesn't universally please. 
"Commercial mind" said to be neces- 
sary to "get it." 

"Miss Daisy" (Lyric) (4th ' week). 
Moved over from the Shubert this 
week. Around $3,500 last week. Closes 
at Lyric this Saturday. Evidence," 
the Shubert-Brady-Ames play, opens 
about Oct. 11. 

"On Trial" (Candler) (7th week). 
New York's biggest hit so far this sea- 
son. Played to capacity, with an ex- 
ception or two, through the hot spell. 
Doing around $12,000 weekly, and often 
playing to over-capacity. 

"Pretty Miss Smith" (Fritzi Scheff) 
(Casino) (2d week). Last week, its 
opening one, played to around $6,0001 
Not a success, but Oliver Morsoco 
management expects to push it into a 
winner strong enough to remain here 
ten weeks for a road rep. 

"Tipping the Winner" (Longacre) 
(2d week). Going out Saturday night. 
"Kick In" next. 

"The Beautiful Adventure" (Ly- 
ceum) (4th week). Picked up with 
speed last half of last week, when some 
newspaper notoriety was obtained 
throuph your old friend, Anthony Corn- 
stock, but it looked later as though 
\nthony had laid down. Show finished 
the week about $7,000, and may keep 
up the spurt. 

"The Dummy" (Hudson) (24th 
week). Running since last April. Busi- 
ness on the average between $5,000 
and $6,000. "The Heart of a Thief" 
next week. 

Playhouse— "The Elder Son" closed 
last Saturday. Dropped away down. 
"Tilings That Count" will be revived 
ihorr next week, to till in until "My 
i i-iy's Dress" is ready. 



"The Girl from Utah" (Knicker- 
bocker) (6th week). The second 
strongest draw in town. Music com- 
edy (Charles Frohman), with prac- 
tically no opposition at present. Doing 
around $14,000. 

"The High Coat of Loving" (Lew 
Fields) (Republic) (6th week). Took 
a slump last week, but got $7,200. 
Show not a matinee drawer, but said 
to be one of the best laughmakers 
New York has had in years. 

"The Miracle Man*' (Astor) (2d 
week). Did about $7,500 last week, 
and $10,000 expected this week. Di- 
versity of opinion over this piece. 

"The Hawk" (William Faversham) 
(Shubert) (1st week). Opened Mon- 
day night. Notices very good. Sec- 
ond night (Tuesday) did $1,400, with a 
capacity matinee Wednesday. Big 
advance sale started also. 

The Law of the Land" (48th Street) 
(1st week). Opened Wednesday. 

"The Passing Show" (Winter Gar- 
den) (16th week). Going out this 
week. Has dropped off to around 
$10,000. New Al Jolson show next 
week. 

"The Prodigal Husband" (John 
Drew) (Empire) (4th week). Doing 
but a fair business, from $5,000 to 
$6,000 last week. 

"The Third Party- (59th Street) 
(9th week). Business bad. $4,000. 

"The Story of the Rotary*' (Manhat- 
tan) (4th week). Not doing as well as 
it could by far. Between $7,000 and 
$8,000 last week. 

"Twin Beds" (Fulton) (8th week). 
Picking up rapidly. Town flooded with 
People's League tickets. Management 
attempted to recall them when busi- 
ness braced. Certain nights weekly 
now set aside for them. Show doing 
about $7,000. 

"Under Cover" (Cort) (6th week). 
Third best drawing card. $8,500 last 
week, with good advance sale com- 
mencing with cooler weather. Will run 
over $10,000 easily in this weather. 

"Wars of the World" (Hippodrome) 
(4th week). Bad season for Hip so 
far. Matinees away off, nights good. 
May be doing around $25,000. In pre- 




W. E. WHITTLE, 

Ventriloquist, as Officer Dunn, In bis latest suc- 
cess. "A BUMMER'S MORNING IN CENTRAL 
PARK." 



vious seasons Hippodrome nearly had 
its production paid for by this time, 

M What Is Love" (Elliott) (2d week). 
Did about $4,000. Plenty of cheap tick- 
ets out. 

Standard (John Cort, Mgr.) (Broad- 
day and 90th street). Combination* 
"The Marriage Game" this week Mc- 
Intyre and Heath in "The Ham Tree" 
drew $7,200 last week. 

Grand opera house (Klaw & Erlan- 
ger, Mgrs.) (8th avenue and 23d 
street). Combinations. 'The Mislead- 
ing Lady" this week. "The Crinoline 
Girl" (Julian Eltinge) played to $8,400 
last week. 

Bronx opera house (Cohan & Har- 
ris, Mgrs.). Combinations. "Seven 
Keys to Baldpate" this week. "Potash 
& Perlmutter" got $10,000 last week. 
Increased business due to elimination 
of Royal for travelling shows in the 
Bronx. 

Strand (Broadway and 47th street). 
Moving pictures at pop prices. Said 
to have made a profit of $5,100 last 
week, and is $86,000 ahead since house 
opened. 

Chicago, Sept.30. 

Business in the "loop" district of 
Chicago is said by those in the know 
to be better than any other place on 
the face of the globe at present. Jo- 
seph M. Schenck is reported to have 
made the assertion that Chicago was 
doing more real business in its the- 
atres than any other city known to 
him, and displayed figures to back it 
up. 

It is more difficult than ever to get 
at the receipts in this town, owing to 
pools that are formed, and also to the 
general prevailing hard times. Those 
presented here are estimated: 

"Joseph and His Brethren (Auditor- 
ium). Not making money. It is said 
show needs about $16,000 to make 
good profit. Receipts have fallen 
away below those of "Allah" last sea- 
son. 

"A Pair of Sixes* (Cort). Doing 
very well. Takings between $8,000 and 
$10,000. 

"Under Cover" (Cohan's). Meeting 
with pretty fair returns. Did $8,200 
last week. 

"The Belle of Bond Street" (Illi- 
nois). Probably $8,000 last week. In 
this, its final week, the figures will 
probably be duplicated. 

"Peg o* My Heart" (Garrick). Has 
been hovering around $10,000, and the 
show has been here for over a dozen 
weeks. 

"Today" (Princess). About $7,500 
last week, with better prospects in 
view, as show is more talked about. 

"One Girl in a Million" (La Salle). 
About $5,000 weekly. 

"The Yellow Ticket" (Powers). 
Playing to between $8,000 and $9,000. 
Did $8,900 last week. 

"Potash ft Perlmutter" (Olympic). 
Taking in from $17,000 to $18,000 
weekly, with $2 prices to help out. 
$17,840 last week. 

Weather conditions have been better 
for the past few days. That added to 
the receipts in most houses. Kepuits 
from Sunday and Monday were en- 
couraging. 

Vaudeville reports good business and 
even the outlying houses have sent in 
favorable reports. 



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VARIETY 



BOOKING MEN GO ON RECORD 
DENYING " BAD SO UTH" STATUS 

New York Agents Who Route Shows Below Mason and 

Dixon Line Refute General Impression Entire South Is 

"Shot to Pieces." Admit Certain Territory Off. 



Dullness in the theatrical business is 
not a general condition through the south, 
but is largely local to Virginia, accord- 
ing to the statements yesterday of C. A. 
Weis of the Weis Circuit and the heads 
of the Equitable Circuit, who between 
them control the larger portion of book- 
ing below the Mason-Dixon line. 

The impression of a "bad south" has 
become so broadcast that some of the 
southern managers have gotten out 
signed statements to the effect that their 
territory promises profits and are send- 
ing them to road managers. 

The season on the Weis Circuit south 
does not really begin until the middle 
of October although it is getting a num- 
ber of productions now playing that re- 
gion. C A. Weis, who handles the 
circuit's books, says that his records show 
more attractions and bigger shows than 
they did this time last season. 

Mr. Weis added that the southern busi- 
ness should perk up with conditions more 
settled, but that conditions in a few 
spots should not frighten any experienced 
manager out of the south altogether. 

George H. Walker, manager Opera 
House, Austin, Tex., Monday wired Mr. 
Weis that his state was in fine shape. 

The Equitable Booking Office, C. A. 
Burt, genera] manager, shows certified 
boxofnce statements to support the state- 
ment that the south is well worth a 
tour. 

"Stop Thief," Bert Leigh featured, 
stepped out of its usual route this fall, 
playing some northern dates which were 
not satisfactory, but the moment the 
show reached its old territory the re- 
turns were on the profit side, its owners 
say. 

"The Girl and the Tramp" (two com- 
panies) operated by the Fred A. Byers 
Co. has done reasonably well below Vir- 
ginia. 

"The Virginian," Jones & Crane's show 
is reported as doing a satisfactory busi- 
ness and the booking office has the signed 
statements of the managers of the Blue- 
field (W. Va.), Ashland (Ky.) and 
Georgetown (O.) houses praising the 
show and asking for a return date. In 
West Virginia at the start of the south- 
ern time the show slumped off but busi- 
ness picked up further along in the 
southern zone. 

"Mutt and Jeff," now on its fourth 
tour south, is doing even better than last 
season. "Broadway Jones" was bumped 
on its early dates but as soon as Vir- 
ginia was left behind business took an 
upward trend and the show is now said 
to be making money. 

Billy Clifford, traveling in his own car 
and carrying a ladies' band, says he has 
not had a single losing week since he 
began to play the Atlantic Coast stands. 

The past week "Hanky Panky," now 
louring the Atlantic coast south, showed 



an increase in its business in the Caro- 
linas. 

Robert Kane's "Simple Simon" Mu- 
sical Comedy Company is playing week 
stands and said to be doing capacity. 

"Peg O' My Heart" has a long south- 
ern route booked, starting October 7 at 
Wilmington, Del. Some of the road shows 
refuse to book any time near the "Peg" 
show. 

Word is in the New York offices that 
cotton is being shipped to England out 
of Galveston but not at a rate to use up 
the record crop which was harvested 
down there. 

Carrollton, Ga., Sept. 30. 
Hearing that the south was reported 
in the north as "all in" theatrically, O. 
V. Fowler, local banker and owner of 
the Auditorium wired into the New 
York booking offices that the "southern 
condition taken care of and was never 
better" and asked the bookers to strain 
a point to give this city some good shows 
for October and November. 



BELASCO'S DREAM PLAY. 

Baltimore, Sept. 30. 

"The Phantom Rival" was given for 
the first time on any stage at Ford's 
opera house, Monday night. David 
Belasco presented Leo Ditrichstein, 
this actor appearing in his own version 
of the Hungarian comedy by Ference 
Molnar. 

The piece is of very unusual order. 
Half the action passes in a dream. The 
theme treats of the wife of a jealous 
husband. She dreams of her first love, 
who promised to return to her a hero. 

At times there is a little too much 
repetition, but otherwise the curious 
theme is managed with the greatest 
skill. 

Mr. Ditrichstein's performance is the 
most complete that has been done here. 
No matter what may be the fate of the 
play, he proves his right to stellar 
honors. He is seen as the early lover. 

Laura Hope Crews, as the wife, 
shares honors with Mr. Ditrichstein. 
Her work is practically without a flaw. 
Malcolm Williams makes a good im- 
pression as the husband. 

The play is beautifully staged. 



"PINAJfORE" ON THE ROAD. 

The revival of "Pinafore" which was 
featured at the Hippodrome last sea- 
son, has been framed up by the Shu- 
berts as a road show, opening at Har- 
manus' Bleeker Hall, Albany, next 
Monday night. 

After four days at Albany the show 
makes its way for a week at the Prin- 
cess, Montreal, and the Royal Alex- 
andra, Toronto, for a week's stay at 
each place. 

John P. Toohey has been commis- 
sioned to bundle the advance. 



PRIZE PUT PRODUCED. 

Los Angeles, Sept. 30. 

"Lady Eileen," the comedy by GeF- 

aldine Bonner and Hutcheson Boyd, 

which won the Oliver Morosco prize 
over 3,000 other contenders, was pro- 
duced Sunday at the Burbank, and dis- 
closed itself as a sort of inverted "Peg 
O' My Heart." 

It concerns an English girl of titled 
parentage, who leaves an English home 
of luxury to live among poor relations 
in a New York theatrical boarding 
house. 

The dialog scintillates, but at the cost 
of dragging action. Some of the char- 
acters are exaggerated. 

The play is in three acts, which take 
place in the same setting of the board- 
ing house. Lillian Kemple Cooper, a 
young English actress, made her Amer- 
ican debut in the title role, and was a 
winsome "Eileen." It is Morosco's in- 
tention to star her in the play later. 



"EXPERIENCE" PREMIERE. 

Atlantic City, Sept. 30. 

George V. Hobart's allegorical play, 
"Experience," was produced at the 
Apollo Monday night, with William 
Elliott, the producer, playing the lead- 
ing part of "Youth." 

The effort is an ambitious one, both 
as a literary creation and as a produc- 
tion, and the audience which witnessed 
the premiere gave it serious hearing. 
The allegory is impressive and there is 
a certain sincerity about Hobart's con- 
ceptions which compel attention. 

The play is in three acts and seven 
scenes, with incidental music by Max 
Bendix and Silvio Hein. Mr. Mitchell 
staged the piece. 

The allegory follows the journeys of 
Youth accompanied by Experience and 
his early friend Ambition through the 
Streets of Vacillation to a meeting with 
Pleasure, through the Roseate Halls 
and to the Halls of Chance. Here he 
meets Degradation and Delusion and 
lives in the House of Lost Souls. His 
footsteps are turned by a miracle to 
the Street of Forgotten Days and Love 
works his salvation. 

In the cast are: 

Love, Helen Green; Hope, May Mc- 
Manus; Youth, William Elliott; Ambi- 
tion, Willard Blackmore; Experience, 
Ben Johnson; Pleasure, Roxane Bar- 
ton; Opportunity, Adele Holt; Gush, 
Thomas Herbert; Drivel, Edward Sil- 
ton; Excitement, Eleanor Christy; 
Travel, John Maher; Song, Marion 
Whitney; Sport, Joseph McManus; 
Fashion, Bess Ryan; Blue Blood, Byron 
Russel; Style, Elston Morris; Frivolity, 
Louise Contil; Snob, Duncan Harris; 
Conceit, Edmund Ruth; Pride, Eliza- 
beth West; Beauty, Madeleine Howard; 
Deceit, Dorothy barker; Slander, Fran- 
ces Richards; Intoxication, Margaret 
Williams; Wealth, A. G. Andrews; 
Passion, Florence Short; Good Nature, 
Duncan Howard; Caution, Elston Mor- 
ris; System, Edmund Roth; Stupid, 
John Maher; Despair, Harry Lane; 
Superstition, John McManus; Chance, 
George T. Neech; Careless, Thomas 
Herbert; Thoughtless, Edward Silton; 
Roulette Dealer, Billy Betts; Poverty, 
Will Gregory; Delusion, J. Byron Tot- 
ten; Degradation, Marion Holcombe; 
Frailty, Alba de Anchoris, and Crime, 
Frank McCormack. 



"MISS TOBASCO" A DRAW. 

Scranton, Sept. 30. 

Eva Tanguay in three acts proved an 
immense draw here last night in the 
new musical-comedy cocktail "Miss 
Tabasco." Miss Tanguay is the whole 
show, although she allows her aides op- 
portunity to shine from time to time. 
The capacity audience greeted the cy- 
clonic comedienne with the same en* 
thusiasm it displayed for her vaude- 
ville specialty. 

The vehicle is a light and tenuous 
affair, serving merely as a background 
for Miss Tanguay's "Evaisms," with a 
plentiful admixture of singing and 
dancing to sustain interest through the 
two acts. 

The star brought forward her old- 
time sure-fire song hits and a few new 
ones by Johhny Ford. Introduced in 
the last act, Miss Tanguay's former 
vaudeville vehicle proved the hit of the 
evening and clinched a substantial 
success. 



SHOWS IN LOS ANGELES. 

Los Angeles, Sept. 30. 

This is a quiet week for the combina- 
tion houses. Only a handful attended 
the Majestic, where De Wolf Hopper 
and the Gilbert and Sullivan opera 
company are holding forth. The ad- 
vance sale, however, promises better 
things for the second half of the week. 

Business is little better at the Mason, 
where the William J. Burns' "Counter- 
feiting Mystery" film is the attraction. 



BOSTON SHOWS. 

Boston, Sept. 30. 

Openings next week bring "Potash 
& Perlmutter" to the Tremont for 
eight weeks at least, the metropolitan 
premiere of "Wanted: $22,000" to the 
Plymouth for two weeks, "The Whirl 
of the World" to the Shubert for an 
indefinite engagement, and the opening 
of the Boston theatre under the man- 
agement of William H. Leahy with 
grand opera at $2.50. 

The proud announcement a couple of 
seasons ago that all bookings in Bos- 
ton would be as amicable as possible 
proved to be bunk last year, and from 
surface indications this season will be 
another. 

"The Follies" crashed into town 
Monday, and "The Whirl of the World" 
is promptly announced by the Shu- 
berts for the following Monday. These 
bookings were both made far ahead, 
but the conflict might have been 
avoided. 

"The Follies" will probably break its 
own Boston record this visit. It did 
$2,400 Monday night, establishing a 
local record at the Colonial for $2 
prices. Flo Ziegfeld selected a fine 
date to open here, with the Harvard 
term commencing and many strangers 
in town. 



HIGHBROWS TO PLAY "IFBY." 

Pittsburgh, Sept. 30. 
An elaborate production of the an- 
cient Greek play, "Iphigenia in Tauis," 
the first, it is claimed, in America, will 
be made by Professor Thomas Wood 
Stevens and Douglas Ross with their 
class of drama students in the Car- 
negie Institute of Technology, in No- 
vember. 



VARIETY 



12 



WITH THE PRESS AGENTS 



The Sunday Sun devoted a page to Elmer L. 
Retxensteln, the young author of "On Trial," 
telling how two producing managers accepted 
the play, Arthur Hopkins getting first call. 

The Casino has advertised its Sunday pic- 
ture policy to start Oct. 4. 

"The Cafidy Shop," which left California 
Aug. 4, is to play two weeks In Denver and 
will come as far east as Boston. 



William A. Brady returned from a south- 
ern trip Monday and immediately began re- 
hearsals for "Life," which is said to have 82 
speaking parts. 

Anreas Dippel will inaugurate his "opera 
comlque" at the 44th Street theater Oct. 19. 
difficulties in assembling his organization and 
properties due to the war having been over- 
come. The first production will be "The 
Lilac Domino," a new piece adapted from the 
French. 



Olenmore ("Stuffy") Davis, formerly dra- 
matic editor of the New York Press, Olobe 
and Ainslee's magazine, and general repre- 
sentative for A. H. Woods, Frederic Thompson 
and William Harris, Jr. (the list Is from the 
announcement), has become a partner In the 
publicity promoting firm of Chamberlain 
Brown. 

Jackson D. Haag, widely known as a dra- 
matic reviewer in Pittsburgh, returned to 
that city from Europe this week, restored in 
health. He has joined the Davis-Harris 
forces as general publicity manager and will 
open a campaign in the Interests of the new 
Scheneley theatre. 



Paterson, N. J., declares It will open its 
"Made In America" silk and dye exhibition 
Oct. 12 with a parade of 12.000 workers. One 
of the features will be a big stage on which 
American designed gowns of American made 
silks will be displayed on living models. 



George G. Murray is back at his desk in the 
Times building as New York representative 
of the Morgan Lltho company. 



The Hanlon Brothers have arrived from Eu- 
rope after giving up a year's tour because of 
the war. The French army took their autos at 
Amiens as they passed through, giving orders 
on the treasury for the cost. The Hanlons were 
immediately booked to open Monday next at the 
Colonial In "Mrs. Lllywhlte's Dream." Mrs. 
William Hanlon. a .daughter of Peter Watson, 
the Manchester, England, manager, will appear. 



McGraw, Mathewson, S tailings and Evers 
were press agented to appear at the Palace 
Tlmrsday evening to receive silver loving 
cops) from their admirers. It was Giants- 
Brave night and members of both teams at- 
tended a theatre party. 



The New York Evening World is endeavor- 
ing to get the theatrical managers to give 
them the regular Sunday copy for the Sunday 
edition. As a first aid and Inducement they 
have engaged Bide Dudley to conduct a daily 
theatrical column for the paper. Several of 
the general press representatives In town have 
decided against giving the World additional 
advertising. They maintain that to do so 
would be to discriminate against the Globe and 
the Mall, both of which have been running a 
dally column devoted to news of the theatres 
for more than a year. It is costing managers 
In the neighborhood of $500 a week at present 
to advertise their houses In the dallies and 
this estimate does not Include more than a 
hundred lines Hlngle Sunday. If the World 
manages to get the extra for their evening edi- 
tion It will mean that the Sun. Mall. Globe and 
Post will raise a howl. The latter two pa- 
pers deserve consideration because they are 
conducting a pictorial department in their il- 
lustrated magazines which are issued Satur- 
day evenings. The only two evening papers in 
New York carrying the regular Sunday copy 
are the Journal and Telegram. The latter 
publication makes a sperial rate for this form 
of advertising in the Sunday afternoon edi- 
tion. 



A few of the advance agents that are hov- 
ering about Broadway awaiting developments 
are James Pooton, Al. Davis, Stuart Ives 
DeKraft, George Henshall. 

Jack McMahon, who has been handling 
"Under Cover" for Selwyn 6 Co.. was recalled 
last week and sent to Baltimore and Wash- 
ington In advance of "The Salamander." He 
will return west in about three weeks. 



Jack Lait of Chicago left New York Tues- 
day headed for Los Angeles, where he is go- 
ing to take charge of the advance for the 
cross-continent tour of Harry Lauder, who is 
to return from Australia this month. 



Bertha Fordyce, a sister of Lady Beerbohm 
Tree, has arrived In this country to begin re- 
hearsals with Charles Frohman's trl-star com- 
bination which is to present "Diplomacy." 



Frank Lea. in advance of many Shubert at- 
tractions in the past, has settled down as a 
New York house manager. He is at present 
busily engaged in conducting the destinies of 



Wm. Counihan's Tuxedo picture palace at 42d 
street and 3d avenue. 



Ewlng Justice, who has been general pub- 
licity director of the North German Lloyd 
Line, has retired from that position. 



Perry Kelly breezed onto Broadway Monday 
and made emphatic denial that his show, "The 
Prince of Pllsen," was losing money. Kelly 
says he is ahead on the season and Intends to 
keep the show going. 



The proposed road route for "Little Women" 
has been called off. Another of the William 
A. Brady shows, "The Things that Count," Is 
anounced to close its road travels this Satur- 
day night at Richmond, Va. 



H. M. Addison, who has been operating the 
stock company, Grand, Reading, Pa., was en- 
gaged this week to manage the Charles K. 
Champlaln Stock en route. 



Walter Rosenberg has "The Money Makers" 
at his Long Branch house this Saturday. 
Charles Klein, the author, is going down to 
see his play. Mr. Rosenberg Intends working 
the telephone for business. The L. B. phone 
system is $4.50 monthly, unlimited. He is 
going to put his switch girl onto a list that 
contains 1,000 phone calls for the best families 
around. It's cheaper than stamps, says Mr. 
Rosenberg, and they have got to give you at- 
tention over the wire, besides using Klein for 
extra attraction. 



PRESS OPINIONS. 

TIPPING THE WINNER. 

Most of Its methods, both In its big tricks 
and Its little tricks, are shopworn from much 
handling, and the fun of its lines is sometimes 
labored fun. — TIMES. 

The two settings of the play were carefully 
made and the general tone of the perform- 
ance beyond all criticism. The fun was clean, 
but scarce.— HERALD. 



THE HAWK. 

It may be said that the entertainment now 
offered at the theatre In Forty-fourth street 
must have a wide appeal, for it reaches out to 
the host of theatregoers who relish a curious 
and absorbing story expertly told. — TIMES. 

"The Hawk" is well worth seeing, not only 
because It brings to the stage a type of play 
which has almost the charm of novelty, but be- 
cause of the excellent playing of Mr. Faver- 
sham and the delightful Mile. Don la t.— SUN. 



DADDY LONG LEGS. 

"Daddy Long Legs" is as sure to find as 
many friends here as it did in Chicago, and 
perhaps — but. then, New York Is the larger 
city— HERALD. 

If you will take your pencil and write down, 
one below the other, the words delightful, 
charming, sweet, beautiful and entertaining, 
and then draw a line and add them up the 
answer will be "Daddy Long Legs." — TIMES. 



ENGAGEMENTS. 

Delia May Byers. stock. Winnipeg. 

Paula Shay, leads, stock, Whitney theatre, 
Brooklyn. 

Ross Rirchett, Gotham theatre stock, Brook- 
lyn. 

Mabel Wilbur, the prima donna, joins 
the Park musical stock, St. Louis, replacing 
Grace Van Studdlford. 

Arthur Lacehy, "Sari." 

John McGhie, musical director, Trentlui 
show. 

Robert A. Mansfield. Edward Clark. Edward 
D'OIze, Owen Coll. Don Peruchl, Mabel Gyp- 
zene. Katherine Shepard, Dorothy Dates, Grace 
Lindon, Helen Cnssimus, Peruchl-Oypzene 
Stock, Majestic. Montgomery, Ala. 

Leslie Faber, "Diplomacy" revival. 

Henry E. Dixey, "Twelfth Night." 

Alfred Swenscn, Gotham theatre stock, 
Brooklyn. 

Clara Throop. "Girl of My Dreams." 

Lew Hearn, "Susl." 

Maud Allan. "The Song of Songs." 

I llllan Klnpshury. "The Song of Songs." 

Rhoda Beresford. "The Highway of Life." 

Ida Hamilton, Htock. Little Theater, Phlla. 



Spanish Violinist Due. 

The H. B. Marinelli agency is bring- 
ing over Tuiroga, a Spanish violinist, 
who will open in concert under the di- 
rection of the Shuberts. They may 
place him at Carnegie Hall for the first 
New York date. 

The Spaniard leaves Havre Oct. 3 on 

the Rochambeau. With him will be 

Charley Brown, well known to foreign 

professionals. He has been with the 

•Marinelli Paris office for 10 years. 



MRS. GOULD ENRAGED. 

San Francisco, Sept. 30. 

Mrs. Katherine Clemmons - Gould, 
wife of Howard Gould, from whom she 
is separated, swore to complaint here 
charging Harry Lewis, a Chinatown 
guide and proprietor of a picture show, 
with criminal libel. 

The trouble arose over pictures of 

Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Clemmons, sister 

of Mrs. Gould, who, with her Chinese 
husband, conducts a curio store in 
Chinatown. Mrs. Gould's attorneys 
charge that Lewis has for some time 
conveyed sight-seers through the dis- 
trict, explaining the family relations 
among the Goulds, and emphasizing 
Howard Gould's sister-in-law's mar- 
riage to a Chinese merchant. 

Then, according to the attorneys, 
Lewis would take the party to his pic- 
ture theatre and display slides, moving 
pictures and give a short lecture con- 
cerning the private affairs of the 
Goulds. Lewis displayed an objection- 
able placard in front of his theatre. 

Mrs. Wong, who was formerly Ella 
May Clemmons of New York, married 
the oriental several years ago and since 
that time has borne the brunt of much 
criticism. Mrs. Gould came to San 
Francisco to "stop these things which 
have injured her reputation." 



MEL0 OR FRENCH REVUE? 

Two propositions are before William 
Morris, it is said, for the future policy 
of the New York theatre. One is melo . . 
drama, with A. H. Woods' "Drugged" 
(with John Mason) as a possibility, 
while the other proposal is from H. B. 
Marinelli, who wants to place a French 
revue there during November or De- 
cember. 

The Marinelli project is to have the 
entire cast French, or American prin- 
cipals, with French choristers, if the 
French girls are not at the front as 
Red Cross nurses. The French revue 
ran two years at the Middlesex, Lon- 
don, placed there by Marinelli. 



LILLIAN RUSSELL IMPROVING. 

Baltimore, Sept. 30. 
In a telegram received by Tunis F. 
Dean, manager of the New Academy 
of Music, from A. P. Moore, last Friday 
it is stated that Mrs. Moore (Lillian 
Russell) is improving. The actress was 
in a serious condition a few days be- 
fore, and was taken to a Pittsburgh 
hospital for an operation. 



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Business Even Better. 

When "The Trap" played Long 
Branch it did $1,750, as against the re- 
ceipts of $1,007 reported last week. 

The correction would be immaterial 
at any other time. Nowadays that 
amount for a performance sounds like 
a savings bank gone wild. 



SHOWS CLOSING. 

"A Daughter of Eve," which has 
been playing one-night stands ,in the 
west, closed last week. 

Robert Sherman's western company 
of "Way Down East" has closed on 
account of poor business. 

"The Under Dog" closed Saturday 
night in Columbus, O. Jack Belgrave 
and Inez Ragan, principals, came into 
New York Monday. 

The route of "A Royal Divorce," 
which has been in rehearsal for four 
weeks with Eugenia Blair in the prin- 
cipal role, has been cancelled. The 
management declined to face present 
road conditions. 

"The Prince Chap," sponsored for a 
one-night stand tour by Neil Harper, 
Pittsburgh, struck the shoals at Bay 
City, Mich., Monday. Several of the 
members sent an "S. O. S." to New 
York friends for immediate financial 
help. 

"Quincy Adams Sawyer" ended a 
short and disastrous road season at 
Cataraugus, N. Y., Sept. 23. This is the 
show which Charles Atkinson has re- 
peatedly put out with the same result. 
The piece made money years ago. 



Author Backs Tour. 
"Little Miss Winsome," by Edward 
De Grotte, is to be sent out as a road 
production in association with William 
Hayes and Jos. Patton to play western 
and middle western one nighters. 




THE PRINCESS THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO, 

Recently purchased by S. MORTON COHN, the Portland (Ore.) millionaire and theatre 



magnate 
The 



... Princess has been leased to the BERT LEVEY vaudeville organizatiqn for a long term 
of years. It is one of the finest amusement properties in the West and adds another link to the 
vast realty holdings of Mr. COHN. 



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TA1IBTT 







BY FREDERICK M. MS CLOY 



Every once in a while there occurs 
some new substantial indication of the 
growing importance of burlesque. It 
is usually revealed in the recognition 
of the worth of this form of amuse- 
ment by some great daily newspaper 
that had persistently ignored it on thr 
ground of worthlcssiu'ss. This particu- 
lar kind of approval of burlesque is 
two-fold in its significance and value. 
It emphasizes the fact that burlesque 
has actually achieved a place in the 
schedule of accepted meritorious af- 
fairs of the stage, as opposed to its 
long-standing denunciation or ignor- 
ing by the important press. 



In my opinion, this is the most felici- 
tous conquest burlesque has made. 
Aside from its purely ethical meaning, 
it automatically carries with it the 
patronage of the great mass of peo- 
ple that is swayed by the utterances of 
the newspapers, whether for policy or 
for a conscientious unwillingness to 
patronize an unworthy exhibition. The 
people engaged in the burlesque busi- 
ness should welcome every turn in the 
treatment of their activities that makes 
for self-respect and for the commenda- 
tion of their fellow men. It is not 
agreeable to the person of average sen- 
sibilities to be constantly conscious of 
the unworthiness of his vocation or of 
the existence of unwholesome atmos- 
phere in his business life which must, 
perforce, extend to his personal en- 
counters. The approval of the credible 
press indubitably means the approba- 
tion of the public. , 

The most recent instance of the im- 
portant recognition of burlesque by the 
daily newspapers that has come under 
my observation, is an editorial in the 
Hartford Post of Sept. 25. It was writ- 
ten by Dr. Henry McManus, principal 
owner and dramatic critic of that paper. 
Dr. McManus was attracted to the 
Grand theatre, Hartford, in which 
Dave Marion was presenting his show. 
In his more than half column review 
of the performance that appeared on 
the editorial page the next day, after 
alluding to the house as "that extreme- 
ly attractive theatre" and dwelling 
upon the beauty and completeness of 
the Marion production, the critic wrote 
"Mr. Marion's performance last night 
was my first chance to realize fully 
what a remarkably convincing actor he 
is and what a truly impressive per- 
formance he is capable of giving. His 
•Snuffy* and 'Jim, the Hick' is as fine 
and truthful a bit of character study, as 
deftly and convincingly presented, and 
as distinctly humorous as anything the 
legitimate stage has ever seen. And 
his recitation of The Top of the Morn- 
ing, Ireland,' is as charmingly sincere 
and touching. Neither 'Snuffy' nor 
'Jim* are complex or cultivated charac- 
ters, but they are humorous and abso- 
lutely natural. I am sorry that this is 
Mr. Marion's farewell season. I wish 
George M. Cohan would write him a 
play and I also regret that I did not 
have an opportunity of making his ac- 



quaintance ten years ago. It has be- 
come a fashion in the last few years 
for dramatic critics to take themselves 
so seriously that nothing less than 
Ibson. Materlinck or Hauptmann could 
induce them to uncover their critical 
facility enough to acknowledge that 
the art of acting could be expounded 
and exemplified in anything but morbid 
and melancholy mummery. But some 
of us who simply profess to be thea- 
trical reviewers can, thank God. see 
good work wherever we find it and 
give expression however unskillfully 
to the appreciation we feel." 



The purpose of this article is to 
record the circumstance that burlesque 
is advancing to a position of conse- 
quence in the important affairs of the 
theatre. To Mr. Marion, as a con- 
spicuous unit in the accomplishment of 
this laudable achievement, all praise is 
due, and to the Columbia Amusement 
Co., whose desire for the betterment 
of burlesque is materially furthered by 
such newspaper commendation. 

Unauthoritative^, I want to say that 
the prospective taking over of a num- 
ber of Progressive burlesque shows by 
the Columbia Amusement Co. is not 
the result of any initative on the part 
of the Columbia people, either individ- 
ually or as a body. Based entirely 
upon my own observations and trust- 
worthy information that has reached 
me, I am convinced the endurance of 
the Progressive Circuit could not have 
been prolonged beyond the immediate 
future. While it is true that some of 
the shows at certain points have played 
to profitable business, it is equally true 
that a majority have so seriously suf- 
fered from lack of patronage that the 
speedy end of their operations was in- 
evitable. 



Specific instances of this condition 
are so numerous that the enforced 
abandonment of the struggle for ex- 
istence would have compelled the clos- 
ing of so many theatres on its circuit 
that the Progressive shows which 
could have weathered the storm would 
have been unable to continue, through 
lack of a sufficient number of houses 
to play in. It must be borne in mind 
by those who are unfamiliar with the 
prevailing system governing the oper- 
ations of the burlesque circuit, that 
when a show closes a theatre is neces- 
sarily closed. It is the existence of 
these conditions that has brought about 
the expiration of the Progressive Cir- 
cuit. Having nothing to lose and noth- 
ing of direct or special importance to 
gain by the discontinuance of this con- 
cern, there never was any reason why 
the Columbia Amusement Co. should 
seek or desire amalgamation with it. 
Acquiring a few of the best of the Pro- 
gressive shows and theatres simply 
means the expansion of the Columbia 
Circuit and the concentration of the 
burlesque business under one super- 
vision. 



BILLY WATSON'S SHOW. 

In burlesque, Billy Watson is a name 
to conjure with. On the bill boards it 
is an invariable precursor of crowded 
theatres. This is as positively true as 
it is certain that the great throngs 
don't care a rap about the mise en 
scene, the technique, the observance of 
the niceties of equation in construc- 
tion nor any of the other integrants 
that are demanded of an author who 
relies for success upon such details. 

The great American commonality, 
Who are loyal Watsonites to a man, 
simply want Billy Watson. They 
know him and for years he has satis- 
fied their thirst for enjoyable en- 
tertainment at his exhaustless well- 
spring with its generous bucketfuls of 
robust humor. 

The Billy \v*atson show is sui gen- 
eris. It is in a class all by itself. If 
the spectators fail to laugh immoder- 
ately all through the performance it is 
a sure sign of dyspnoea. For no liv- 
ing, breathing human being could re- 
sist its drollery. It is Watsonesque 
drollery, to be sure, but it is irresisti- 
ble for that very reason. 

A lively tempo is struck at the be- 
ginning and it is maintained until the 
ruthless asbestos descends and ends it 
all. 

Mr. Watson has a new show this sea- 
son. The old familiar Krousemeyer's 
Alley and the cats and all that are 
gone. In their place is a superb 
throne-room in an Irish palace, a salon 
in a "toney" East Side residence and a 
brilliantly lighted roof garden where 
a christening party is holding forth. 

Krousemeyer and Grogan are there 
as of yore, and they quarrel and make 
up with customary regularity. Gro- 
gan comes to the function accompanied 
by a keg of beer and one of the cats 
of yester-seasons. Likewise, a "bun" 
exception to which upon the part of 
Krousemeyer is the cause of a lively 
row. Krousemeyer is more particular 
for the observance of the conventions 
in his "swell" environment than when 
he dwelt in the alley. This is made 
manifest at a point during the progress 
of the banquet when Grogan insists 
upon making a speech, using a daintily 
set table for a rostrum and is indig- 
nantly admonished by Krousemeyer to 
remove his feet and "give the cheese 
a chancel" Watson should worry 
about the inference conveyed in this 
demand; it was followed by a roar 
from the audience that could have been 
heard upon the street. 

"Make 'em laugh and please the 
eye!" That's the Watson slogan, and 
it calls out the faithful every time! 
Those laughs and the glued-eye inter- 
est of the onlookers all the time the 
ponderously constructed ladies are 
within the range of vision, effectually 
disarm criticism. And you have got 
to let it go at that. When people at- 
tend the theatre to be interested and 
amused, and when they so obviously 
get what they seek as in the instance' 
under notice, why bother about cause 



and effect? The public is satisfied and 
Watson is successful. And that's the 
end of it. 

Just the same, there is some mighty 
good acting done in this Watson show. 
Regardless of the material that is em- 
ployed, the star is a natural, convinc- 
ing performer. In "Phillip Krouse- 
meyer," Mr. Watson has drawn a type 
that is as distinct as any character cre- 
ation of Sol Smith Russell, John E. 
Owens, Edward Harrigan or any of the 
other celebrities whose names live in 
stage history. And he portrays it 
with a fine sense of humor and with a 
manifest understanding of the exac- 
tions of faithful portraiture. He looks 
the familiar German of the lower East 
Side, and in dialect and action he is a 
perfect counterpart. 

John W. Jess, who plays Grogan, the 
Irishman, brings to his work the true 
appreciation of mimicry that denotes 
the skilled actor. Mr. Jess' impersona- 
tion is a faithful representation of the 
character and he is genuinely funny, 
the more so because he makes no ap- 
parent effort to create laughter. Wat- 
son and Jess work together with an 
even break for first honors, and not- 
withstanding the inanity of the book, 
their efforts succeed perfectly in keep- 
ing the audience thoroughly amused. 
While the stage is being set for the 
change to the roof garden scene, Wat- 
son and Jess introduce a duolog in 
"one" that is a scream. 

Lillian Franklin, the prima donna, 
makes a fine appearence and sings ac- 
ceptably and Ida Walling appears to 
advantage, especially in her imperson- 
ation of the Irish Queen in the first 
part. Margaret Newall does a Yid- 
disher song and dance and gets well 
merited applause for it, and Ruby 
Marion and Amy Thompson contribute 
a musical specialty in brass with good 
effect. 

Others in the cast that aid in keeping 
the performance moving swiftly are 
Adelaide Walsh, Lulu Leslie, Ed Lalor, 
Charles P. McGinniss, William J. 
Bowere, John B. West and Harold 
Mortimer. 



RUSSELL-MORTON WEDDING. 

Zella Russell, the accomplished 
pianologist and leading woman with 
the Gus Fay "Gayety Girls," and Har- 
ry K. Morton, co-star with Mr. Fay. 

will be married next week while the 
show is playing at the Star and Garter, 
Chicago. '" , 



Fred Nolan Leaving. 
Fred Nolan, of the Rose Sydell show, 
withdrew from that organization last 
Saturday at Rochester. 



Marion Show's Route Switched. 

General Manager Sam A. Scribner 
has switched Dave Marion from 
Worcester and Bridgeport to the Ca- 
sino, Philadelphia, next week (Oct. 5). 
This gives the "Happy Widows" a lay- 
off. 



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FREDERICK M.M5CLOY 



CRACKERJACKS. 

With the comedy division materially 
strengthened at the Olympic through 
the presence of a neighborhood nut 
named "Jake" who adorns a stage 
box seat every Friday and Saturday 
night, an Extended Columbia show 
sponsored by the Operating Co., was a 
riot last week. 

"Jake" is apparently a standard draw- 
ing card for the house, many inquiring 
if he had arrived before purchasing their 
tickets. He controls a trick laugh that 
graduates into a hysterical whine which 
threatened to stop the performance on 
several occasions. When "Jake" is an- 
noyed he turns toward the audience 
with a disgusted look, but when ex- 
tremely joyous he moans out, "Oh, My 
Gawdl" "Oh, Mamma, Me!" and "I 
Wanta Die." Working under the pro- 
tection of the house, "Jake" is a diver- 
sion for the average patron and com- 
bined with a good show, is worth double 
the admission. 

The "Crackerjacks" is especially 
adapted for the Extended route, with 
plenty of rough comedy, a passable 
equipment and a fairly good cast. The 
show is in the usual two parts with an 
olio of four acts between. The book, 
by Harry Cooper (also principal come- 
dian), is made up of burlesque "bits" 
with a light theme running throughout 
that neither helps nor hurts in gen- 
eral. Cooper's familiar comedy char- 
acter predominates in the performance, 
although he shares the center liberally 
with the other comics. 

Jack Dempsey and Harry Seymour 
also have comedy parts, the former a 
tramp and the latter a dope role. Sey- 
mour's work suggested he was picked 
at random to fill a part left over after 
the others had been taken care of. At 
that he did well, considering. Demp- 
sey's tramp bit made a fair filler. Lew 
Seymour and Fred Dempsey (the Sey- 
mours and Dempseys were in the ma" 
jority) played straight parts, both do- 
ing well. Gertire De Vere, Cecile Dun- 
ham and Grace Tempest handled the 
principal women's roles, Miss Tempest 
merely filling in without any important 
duties beyond her olio specialty. Miss 
Dunham carries a good voice for bur- 
lesque, looks good always and made a 
splendid principal. Miss De Vere's 
chief endeavors came in number lead- 
ing. 

The vaudeville section introduced 
Miss Dunham, whose song repertoire 
has been selected with care. She went 
the limit in bows and encores. Miller 
and Tempest with their "Kix and Trix," 
a unique semi-acrobatic turn employing 
some excellent work by Miller and just 
enough light comedy by Miss Tempest 
were one of the big individual hits. Al- 
though Miss Tempest is running a bit 
strong on avoirdupois, she retains her 
magnetism and excellent delivery. 

Seymour, Dempsey and Seymour 
took the olio honors with two good 
voices, a piano and an excellent lot of 
popular numbers. .1 ft «* r which Jack 
Dempsey introduce^ lis dancing !>it in 
tramp makeup. •Jempsey is a ..lever 
soft shoe man, t ad selected a poor 




character to picture his work. It seems 
a neat, dressy outfit would show off 
his work to better advantage besides 
giving it the added touch of refine- 
ment. 

The costuming, like the average Ex- 
tended show, has been picked accord- 
ing to circumstances and fits nicely 
without any suggestion of preten- 
tiousness. At times, Cooper runs a bit 
ahead of the limit in comedy, but per- 
haps gauged his work according to the 
audience, for what double entendre ma- 
terial was added at the Olympic went 
great. 

Here and there a piece of business 
appeared that looked familiar, one in 
particular being the duel scene, a dupli- 
cate of the one in the "City Sports" 
show, but figuring all the extended 
shows as little pals together, the sim- 
ilarity is probably excusable. 

The "Crackerjacks" will satisfy any 
extended house audience, for it's aimed 
to suit the 50 cent burlesque patron. 



FAY FOSTER SHOW. 

The "Fay Foster Show" is Joe Op- 
penheimer's attraction on the Progres- 
sive Wheel. One thing distinguishes it 
from the start, its chorus of 18 girls, 
nearly all youthful, good looking and 
possessed of voices. That most re- 
markable part of burlesque, a chorus 
ensemble who can sing, is in the Op- 
penheimer company. 

The girls display their voices indi- 
vidually in the "Follow Them Around" 
number, made a "chorus song," al- 
though as each chorister comes for-, 
ward, she sings a verse or verses and 
chorus of a popular melody. This helps 
to fill out the musical end, as there are 
not any too many of the popular songs 
in the regular list. 

The performance runs in the cus- 
tomary Progressive style, two acts and 
an olio. Lester Allen is the principal 
comedian, playing a Hebrew. He is 
a young fellow and capable of putting 
over comedy, and should develop into 
a comedian of value some day. Just 
now he seems to think that a catch line, 
"Oh, You Ought to See It" is worth 
repeating, and has it on the program as 
the billing for Fields and Allen. It is 
as small timey as it looks and sounds. 
Mr. Allen had better get rid of it, on 
the stage and on the program, also 
make his partner stop the slap-stick 
stuff of slapping his face with his open 
hand. This brings laughs easily for the 
olio turn, but it isn't the thing for a 
budding comedian. Besides similar acts 
of long ago in the varieties discovered 
that this slapping eventually tended to 
paralyze the muscles of the slapped 
face. 

The comedy of the show is begot- 
ten by Allen. Harry W. Fields, his 
partner, is an ordinary Hebrew straight. 
Harry Le Clair plays a few characters, 
in woman's dress, in his familiar way, 
hut does not do his vaudeville turn. 
Mr. Le Clair lends some weight to the 
show. The principal woman is Viola, 
of Boyd and Viola, who have a singing 
olio turn that just about passes. They 
could brush up their song repertoire 



for the act. Albert Boyd is another 
straight. 

Besides the olio division that also 
contains a stereopticon posing number 
headed by Mile. Elray is "The Moon 
Maiden" in the first part, the crane- 
swing over the heads of the orchestra 
in a darkened house. This was much 
liked by the Prospect theatre audience 
last week. 

The first part is "Cleopatra's Isle" 
that has some "Pleasure Seekers" ma- 
terial in it. "A Taste of Forbidden 
Fruit" is the burlesque, the old private 
dining rooms in a sectional restaurant 
that is so well known to burlesque, 
but worked somewhat differently here. 
Mr. Le Clair is credited on the pro- 
gram as the author. 

One of the favored number leaders 
is Martha Horton, a pretty girl, who 
does quite nicely in her own little way. 

Settings and costuming are all right, 
and the Oppenheimer show is a good 
average attraction for the second grade 
of burlesque; in fact, it's somewhat 
above the average of this season's out- 
put of that sort of a show. 



PROGRESSIVE TRIO PLEASED. 

Frank Calder, Sim Williams and 
Charlie Taylor arrived in New York 
early Wednesday morning of this 
week. When they emerged from the 
Columbia Amusement Company build- 
ing along toward the middle of the 
same afternoon they displayed an air 
of contentment and joy that strongly 
indicated the possession of documents 
carefully stowed away in their respec- 
tive inside vest pockets upon which the 
seal of the Columbia Amusement Co. 
had been stamped. 

The managers returned to their 
companies on the Progressive Circuit 
the same night. 



WOOD SHOW KEEPS ON. 

Joe Wood's "Maids of the Orient" 
(Progressive Wheel) will continue to 
play out its route, if possible, making 
arrangements direct with the theatres 
instead of through the circuit office. 

Wood signed Mollie Williams to 
extra-feature with the troupe at New- 
ark and Philadelphia for the weeks of 
Oct. 12 and 19. 

The Fields and Fields show will play 
the Trocadero, Philadelphia, next 
week, as originally routed. 



Olio Act Formed. 

Edna Green and Bobby Harrington 
are now working together doing their 
singing and dancing specialty in the 
"Transatlantics" olio. 



Went to Chicago. 

Billy and Violet Pearl Meehan left 
the "Follies Burlesquers" Saturday in 
Cincinnati and opened the following 
Monday for a vaudeville try-out in 
Chicago. 




CANCELLATION SUSTAINED. 

Pittsburgh, Sept. 30. 

An injunction which would have 
closed the Victoria theatre (Columbia 
Circuit, extended), was refused by 
Judge John A. Evans yesterday. It 
was asked for by Hugh Shutt, manager 
of the "Folly Burlesquers," billed to 
play the theatre this week. 

Manager George Gallagher, of the 

Victoria, asked Shutt to bear a portion 

of the expense of the extra attraction, 

Toots Paka and her Hawaiians. 
Shutt refused, and the engagement of 
his company was canceled. "Fay 
Foster's Show" (Progressive) was en- 
gaged by telephone to New York. 

In his petition, Shutt declared his 
company is losing money through en- 
forced idleness, but Judge Evans ruled 
the plea had no standing under his 
booking contract. 



TRANSFERRING CHI HOUSES. 

Chicago Sept. 30. 

Commencing Sunday the new Engle- 
wood (Progressive) theatre goes on the 
Columbia Circuit with Ed Lee Wroth's 
"Ginger Girls" the first attraction un- 
der the new management. 

The future of the Haymarket, on the 

west side, is still in doubt. It is almost 

directly opposite the Star and Garter, 

and it is hardly thought the Columbia 
people will take it over. 

"The Darktown Follies," a Progres- 
sive show playing the American Music 
Hall this week has not been notified 
of any further route and will probably 
close. 

The Folly, on the South Side, just 
outside the loop, is being remodelled 
and will shortly reopen. The Folly 
was taken over by the Columbia when 
merging with the Empire Circuit. I. 
H. Herk is in charge. 

J. Herbert Mack and Charles Wal- 
dron of the Columbia returned to New 
York this week after a tour of the cir- 
cuit. 



Out of Dupre Show. 

Withdrawals from the Jeannette Du- 
pre company recently include D. Van 
Valkenberg, business manager; Lillian 
Thorndyke, prima donna; Ray Burke, 
principal comedienne; Mae Francis, 
Dorothy Leslie and Marjolain D'lvory. 



Represented the State. 
James H. Rhodes, formerly manager 
of the Empire, Albany, and now located 
at the Gayety, Detroit, was recently 
honored by Gov. Martin H. Glynn with 
an appointment as a representative of 
the State of New York at the seventh 
anual convention of the Atlantic Deep- 
er Waterways Association, which was 
held in this city last week. 



Joining Eva Mull Co. 

Weston and Keith, Frank Reynolds 
and Harvey Lang have joined Eva 
Mull's "Follies of 1920." 



"i 



'Midnight Girl" Going Out 
"The Midnight Girl" leaves New 
York Oct. 2, for Chicago, where it will 
open. 



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VARIETY 



BILLS NEXT WEEK (October 5) 

In Vaudeville Theatres, Playing Tama or Less Shows Dally 

(All houses open for the week with Monday matinees, when not otherwise indicated.) 
Theatres listed as "Orpheum" without any further distinguishing description are on the 
Orpheum Circuit. Theatres with "Loew" following name are on the Loew Circuit. 

Agencies booking the houses are noted by single name or initials, such as "Orph," Orpheum 
Circuit— "U. B. O., United Booking Omces-"W. V. A.," Western Vaudeville Managers' Asso- 
ciation (Chicago)— "P," Pantagcs Circuit— "Inter," Interstate Circuit (booking through W. V. A.) 
-"M," James C. Matthews (Chicago). 



New York 

HAMMERSTEIN'S 
(ubo) 
ITeaale Wynn 
Chip A Marble 
Rooney A Bent 
Willie Weston 
Hodgklns A Hammond 
Geo L Moreland 
"01 rl from Atlantic 

City" 
Sorcho's Sea Divers 
Mr ft Mrs M Murpby 
Hoey ft Lee 
Ray Dooley Trio 
Manhattan Trio 
"Aurlema" 
Joe Kennedy 

PALACE (orph) 
Alice Lloyd 
Joan Sawyer 
The Rtgolettos 
Joe Welch 
Franklin Ardell Co 
W C Fields 
Ruth Roye 
Mr ft Mrs J at Barry 
The Oaudscbmidta 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Mr ft MrsC De Haven 
Adele Ritchie 
Creasy ft Dayne 
Dooley A Sales 
Ryan A Tlerney 
Hanlon Eros Co 
Lucy Oi lotto 
Vandlnoff ft Louie 
Harry B Lester 

ALHAMBRA (ubo) 
Harry Houdini 
James ft Bon Thornton 
Edna Aug 

"School Playgrounds" 
Morton A Austin 
Ouy A Irene Magley 
Joe Cook 
McCIellan ft Carson 

ROYAL (ubo) 
Adelaide A Hughes 
Nat M Wills 
LaMont's Cowboys 
Van A Schenck 
Lottie Collins Jr 
Gallagher A Carlln 
Max A Mabel Ford 
La Toy Bros 
Mile Doria'a Dogs 

PROCTORS 125TH 
The Cabberts 
Lamberti 
Ethel Dane Co 
Nina Payne 
Graham A Randall 
H A A Turpln 
"The Haberdashery" 
George Roeaner 
Wilton Broa 

2d half 
Al Debre 

Wallace A Hatfield 
Mabel Carewe 
Melesclnl 

Santrey A Sherwood S 
Midgley A Elton 
"Titanic Disaster" 
Pearl Bros A Burns 
Sam Leveen Co 

PROCTOR'S 58TH 
McCarthy Sisters 
Scott A Marke 
Georgia Campers 
Nardlni 
Ben Lew In Co 
Fox A Burkhardt 
Walter Ward 

2d half 
LeFevre A St John 
Sprague A McNeeoe 
Edwin Leasing Co 
The Dougbterys 
"Dream of Orient" 
Joe Curtis 
La belle 

PROCTORS 23D 
Al Debre 

LeFevre A St John 
Melesclnl 
Midgley A Elton 
Mabel Carewe 
The Doughterys 
"Dream of Orient" 
Joe Curtis 
The Irmrnas 

2d half 
Lulgl Bros 
McCarthy Slstors 
Scott A Markp 
Doranto 
H A A Turpln 
Nina Payne 
Zena Keofe Co 
George Roeaner 
Walter Ward 

7TH AV (loew) 
Walsh A Bentley 
Stewart A Dakln 
Dave Ferguson 
"Gray of Dawn" 
Richard the Great 
TTwo to fill) 

2d half 
Eddie Foyor 
"The Punch" 
Frank StalTord Co 
Wolgas A Girlie 
(Three to All) 
BOULEVARD (loew) 
Brierre A King 



Cook A Stevens 
"Between 8 A 0" 
Bell Boy Trio 
Wolgas A Girlie 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Gypsy Countess 
Geo P Murphy Co 
Ellnore Fisher 
Stuart Black Co 
Tower A Darrell 
3 Kelors 

NATIONAL (loew) 
Gypsy Counteaa 
Anderson A Burt 
Ex -Mayor Shank 
Criterion Trio 
Fan ton* s Athletes 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Russell's Minstrels 
Stewart ft Dakln 
Bertie Fowler 
I net McCauley Co 
Clarence Wilbur 
(Two to fill) 

GREELEY (loew) 
Williams ft Moore 
Browning ft Dean 
Anthony ft Adelle 
Chas Deland Co 
Geo P Murphy Co 
3 Kelors 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
The Biightons 
Ray Snow 
Uaher Trio 
Zelaya • 

Nellen ft DePaula 
"Between 8 ft 0" 
Tabor ft Green 
Fanton'a Athletes 

DELANCEY (loew) 
Tabor ft Green 
Russell's Minstrels 
Zelaya 

Tower ft Darrell 
Bunth ft Rudd 
(Three to All) 

2d half 
Pbllllpl 4 

Crawford ft Broderick 
"When We Grow Up" 
Dave Ferguson 
Arthur ft Grace Terry 
(Three to nil) 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
3 Keltons 

"When We Grow Up" 
Leo Beers 
Warren Bros 
(Three to All) 

2d half 
Williams A Moore 
B Kelly Forest 
3 Alvarettas 
Resale LeCount 
Clayton Drew Play 
Cook and Stevens 
(One to fill) 

AMERICAN (loew) 
The Brlghtons 
Von Hampton A J 
3 Alvarettas 
Viola Duval 
Willard ft Bond 
Ray Snow 

"When Women Rule'* 
Morris ft Allen 
Arthur ft Grace Terry 
Grumbley A Glass 

2d half 
Mae Francis 
Frank Rae Co 
Brown Harris A B 
Anthony A Adelle 
LeMaire A Dawson 
Warren Bros 
Edith Raymond Co 
(Three to All) 

LINCOLN (loew) 
Harry Rose 
Usher Trio 
J K Emmett Co 
Bertie Fowler 
Frey Twins 
(One to All) 

2d half 
Brierre A King 
Criterion Trio 
"Spider A Fly" 
Morris A Allen 
Walsh A Bentley 
(One to All) 

Brooklyn 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Nora Bayes 
Jack E Gardner Co 
"Beauty Skin Deep" 
Dainty Marie 
Lyons A Yosco 
"Edge of World" 
Moore A Yatca 
Weston A Leon 

BUSHWICK (ubo) 
Sylvester Srhaffer 
Dlero 

Fmmett DeVoy Co 
Mae West 

Ilavlland A Thornton 
Manlon A Harris 
The Astalres 

PROSPECT (ubo) 
Minnie Dupree Co 
"Lonesome Lassies" 
Von Tllzer A Nord 
Hawthorne A Inglls 



The Langdons 
Edwin George 
Corelli A GUettl 
Arthur Barrett 

LIBERTY (loew) 
"The Elopement" 
Lea Cassados 
(Three to All) 

2d half 
Von Cello 
Delaphone 
(Three to All) 

SHUBERT (loew) 
Ellnore Fisher 
Oscar Lorraine 
Grace Emmett Co 
LeMaire A Dawson 
Edith Raymond Co 
(Two to All) 

2d half 
Hemmer A Prltchard 
Schrodes A Chappelle 
Klass ft Bernls 
Chas Deland Co 
Marie Russell 
Richard the Great 
(One to All) 

FLAT BUSH (loew) 
Frevoll 

Hemmer ft Prltchard 
Rockwell ft Wood 
Caeser Rlvoll 
B Kelly Forest 
Frank Rae Co 
Brown Harris ft B 
Ergottie Lilliputians 

2d half 
Bunth ft Rudd 
Lester Trio 
Callahan ft Daly 
Viola Duval 
Grace Emmett ft Co 
Bandy Shaw 
Cecil Eldred ft C 
(One to All) 

BIJOU (loew) 
Clayton Drew Play 
Pbllllpl 4 
Bessie LeCount 
Callahan ft Daly 
Sandy Shaw 
Cook A Rothert 
(One to All) 

2d half 
Von Hampton A J 
3 Keltona 
Browning A Dean 
"When Women Rule" 
Aerial LaVails 
(Two to All) 

WARWICK (loew) 
Owen Wright 
Mae Francis 
I net McCauley Co 
Clark A Rose 
American Comedy 4 
3 Donalds 

2d half 
David Kallkoa 
Smith A Farmer 
"Vaudeville in Monk- 
ey land" 
Harry Rose 
Kelso A Leighton 
(One to All) 

FULTON (loew) 
Von Cello 

Schrodes A Chappelle 
Frank Stafford Co 
Stuart Black Co 
Klass A Bernle 
(One to All) 

2d half 
Willard A Bond 
Ergottl's Lilliputians 
Jim Reynolds 
(Three to All) 

COLUMBIA (loew) 
Perkln's Duo 
Billy Barlow 
"Birthday Party" 
Crawford A Broderick 
3 Jewetts 

2d half 
Leo Beers 
"The Elopement" 
Rockwell A Wood 
Frevoll 
(One to All) 

Albany, N. Y. 

PROCTORS 
ijes Keillors 
Mr A Mrs Cappelen 
"Fun Shop"' 
Murphy A Lachmar 
Henry Frey 
3erard A Gardner 
Julia Dlcka 
DeLafayette Co 
2d half 
archie A Gertie Falls 
Ben Lew In Co 
Nick's Skating Girls 
Warren A Conley 
Lamberti 

Burt Gorn Melbourne 
Marshall A Field 
Grace Melbourne 

Ann Arbor, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Newport A Stlrk 
Lewis A KiRtler 
McCormack A Wallace 
Danny Simmons 
Herbert's Dogs 
2d half 
Oruber's A Kew 



Hurst Watts A H 
Mullali Pingree Co 
Rube Strickland 
Carlos Caesero 
Atlanta 
FORSYTH (ubo) 
Blckel ft Watson 
Derkln's Animals 

3 Marconi Bros 
Crelghton Sisters 
Herschel Hendler 
Raymonde 
Stuart ft Donahue 
The Westmans 

Baltimore 
NEW 

Harry Leander 
Patterson ft West 
"A Bit of Life" 

4 Rubes 
Andy McLeod 

5 Rennees 
MARYLAND (ubo) 

Moran ft Wiaer 
Ben Beyer ft Bros 
MaBelle ft Ballet 
Muller ft Stanley 
Lamberti 

Marshall Montgomery 
Allan Dlnebart Co 
R L Goldberg 

Battle Creek. Mleh. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
The Mlllards 
Rice ft Morgan 
Chas Wayne Co 
Grace Cameron 
Harvey 8 

2d half 
"Dream Girl" 

Bay City, Mien. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Berry ft Berry 
Holden ft Herron 
Routan's Songbirds 
Ed Gray 

6 Abdaflahs 

2d half 
Kolletl 

Clyde ft Marlon 
"Enchanted Forest" 
Earl ft Edwards 
Flying Du Vails 

BUllnaa. Moat 

BABCOCK (loew) 
(20-80) 
Canarls ft Cleo 
BUI Robinson 
Bobbe ft Dale 
Svengall 

Haydn Burton ft H 
Black ft White 

Blrnalnahaaa, Ala. 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Fred V Bowers Co 
Frits ft Lucy Bruch 
Norcross ft Holdsworth 
Howard ft McCane 
Splssell Bros ft Mack 
Smith Cook ft Bran 
LeHeon A Durpee 
(One to All) 

Boston 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Hymack 
Marie Dorr 
Chris Richards 
Collins A Hart 
Catalano A Denny 
Levering Troupe 
(Others to AH) 
BnsTaU 

SHEA'S (ubo) 
Mayakos Trio 
Mack A Orth 
Burns A Lynn 
Billy Bouncer 
Dooley A Rugel 
Blanche Ring Co 
(Others to AH) 

Bntte 

EMPRESS (rc) 
(Open Frl Mat) 

Blanche Leslie 

Patrlcola A Myers • 

Polsln Bros 

Earl A Curtis 

Gray A Graham 

"School Days" 



ST JAMES (loew) 
Conrad A Mareena 
Japanese Prince 
Barnes A Robinson 
Saona 
(Two to All) 

2d half 
Moore A Elliott 
Geo Armstrong 
Sam Mann Players 
Goelet Storke A L 
Zeraldas 
(One to All) 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Marcou 

Martini A Frabinl 
"Night In Park" 
Damerest A Chabot 
Eddie Heron Co 
Geo Armstrong 
Zeraldas 
(One to All) 

2d half 
Conrad A Mareena 



Japanese Prince 
Barnes A Robinson 
(Five to All) 

GLOBE (loew) 
Doc Will Davis 
Mooro A Elliott 
Bert Melrose 
Frank Rogers 
Sam Mann Players 
Goelett Stork A L 
(One to All) 

2d half 
Saona 

Howard A Field Mlns 
Polly Prim 
Pardon 

Thos Potter Dunne 
3 Bennett Sisters 
(Two to All) 

Calvary 
ORPHEUM 

2d half 
(Same as at Reglna, 
1st half, this issue) 
PANT AGES (m) 
Claire Rawson Co 
Ragtime Orchestra 
Arthur Whltlaw 
McConnell A Nlemeyer 
Great Harrahs 

Charleston. 9. C. 
VICTORIA (ubo) 

1st half 
Newell A Most 
Revolving Collins 
Brown Delmore A Br 
Curzon Sisters 
Shirley Bates Co 

2d half 
Schooler A Dickinson 
Bond A Cassan 
Miller DeVoy A Pr 
LaFranco A Bruce 
(One to All) 
Caattaaoosa, Teaa. 

MAJESTIC (ubo) 
Miller A Shelley 
Baxter A LaConda 
Little Lord Roberta 
Broadway 4 
Aerial Lafayettes 

Chleaare 

MAJESTIC (orph) 
Emma Cams Co 
Corrldlnl's Animals 
Leonard A Russell 
Homer Llnd Co 
Yvette 

Leon A Davis 
Harry Breen 
Brown A Rochelle 
Baptists A Francenl 
PALACE (orph) 
Henrietta Crosman Co 
Geo Damerel Co 
Werner-Amoros Co 
Fisher A Green 
"Daring Prince" 
Al White Co 
Van Hoven 
Kenny Nobody A P 
Baraban A Orohs 

ACADEMY (wva) 
Callonette 

Ned Norther A Girls 
Lolita 
3 Flying Fishers 

2d half 
La Marros 
Flo Barr 

3 Majesties 
Anna Miller Co 
Kennedy A Melrose 
McVICKER'S (loew) 

Swain's Animals 
"Melody Maids A M" 
Ford's Review 
Rouble Slmms 
E E Cllve Co 
The Clevelands 
Landry Bros 
Delmore A Laight 
Bert Davis 
Fitzgerald A Ashton 
Herbert Lloyd Co 
Llbby Blondell 

COLONIAL (loew) 
Germar's Models 
Theo Tenny 
Gray A Wilson 
Tom Nawn Co 
Wm Lampe Co 
Church City 4 
Burke A Lawrence 
Young Hackenschraldt 

Co 

2d half 
Cleveland's Kids 
Jos Remington Co 
Orpheus Comedy 4 
Tom Nawn Co 
"Song Festival" 
The Overtone 
Fred Duprez 

WILLARD (loew) 
The Todd-Nards 
Wilbur Harrington A 

C 
Elks Trio 
Fred Duprez 
Carmen's Minstrels 

4 Casters 

2d half 
Camllle's Dogs 
Nichols Sisters 
Ben Jerome Co 
Chas L Fletcher 
Church City 4 

AMERICAN (loew) 
4 Herculano Sin 
Fltzslmmons A C 
Dixon Bowers A D 
Baron Llchter 
Werden A Oearln 
Mangean Troupe 

2d half 
De Lisle A Vernon 
Lyda McMllllan Co 
Brady A Mahoney 
Resale's Cockatoos 
3 Lorettas 
Edwards Bros 



EMPRESS (loew) 
(Halsted St) 
( Open 8un Mat) - 
DeLisle A Vernon 
Lyda McMllllan Co 
Brady A Mahoney 
Bessie's Cockatoos 

3 Lorettas 
Edwards Bros 

2d half 

4 Herculano Sis 
Fltzslmmons A C 
Dixon Bowers A D 
Baron Llchter 
Werden A Gearln 
Mangean Troupe 

STAR (loew) 
"Song Featlval" 
Camllle's Dogs 
Malone A Malone 
Ansel A Dorian 
2d half 

5 Yoscarya 

Mr A Mrs E Bennett 

Asakl 

Doc Heraldsen 

Cincinnati 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Hartman A Varady 
Cecelia Wright 
Chas Thompson 
Gould A Ashlyn 
Wallenstein A F reedy 
(Others to All) 

EMPRESS (loew) 
El Cleve 
Joyce A West 
Bush A Shapiro 
"When It Strikes 

Home" 
Melnotte Twins 

6 Olivers 

Cleveland 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Chas Grapewin Co 
Juliet 

"Scenes from Opera" 
JAW Hennlng 
Wills A Hassan 
Walter C Kelly 
Parrlllo A Fabrlto 
(One to AH) 

MILES (loew) 
Arno A Stlckney 
Sampson A Douglas 
Ward Sisters 
James Grady Co 
(Two to All) 

Colnmbaa 

KEITHS (ubo) 
"Colonial Days" 
Ryan A Lee 
Julia Curtis 
Bt-rt Fltzglbons 
Wms Thompson Co 
McCormlck A Irving 
Dainty English 3 
(One to All) 

Davenport, la. 

COLUMBIA (ubo) 
Lou Hawkins 
Chinks Park 
Rome A Francis 
Billy Walsh Co 
Minnie Kaufman 

2d half 
"Dance of Cities" 
Dorothy DeSchelle Co 
Mary Grey 

McManus A D Carlos 
Maxwell A Holden 

Denver 

ORPHEUM 
Trans Atlantic 3 
Gormley A Caffrey 
"The Lady" 
Marie A Billy Hart 
Duffy A Lorenz 
Will Rogers 
Hess Sisters 
(One to All) 

EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Espe A Paul 
Empire Comedy 4 
Ralto A La Tour 
"The Criminal" 
Lerner A Ward 
Jackson Family 

Den Molnea 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Thomas A Hall 
Anna Held's Daughter 
Clark A Verdi 
Francos De Grossart 
DeHaven A Nice 
H M Zazelle Co 
Ernie A Ernie 
(One to All) 

Detroit 

FAMILY (ubo) 
Bennett Lytell Co 
Richard Milloy Co 
Murray's Animals 
Roach A Francis 
Land I a A Knowles 
Esmeralda 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Ed Morton 
Edwin Stevens Co 
Odlva 

Kremka Bros 
Howard & Syraan 
Monetta 5 

Bessie Crelghton Co 
Josephine Davis 

ORPHEUM (m) 
Two Lowes 
Kennedy A Burt 
Bett's Seals 
Brown A Jackson 
Wm K Saxton Co 
Maldle DeLong 
Willard Jarvls Co 

MILES (loew) 
Purcella Bros 
Joe Kelsey 
"Love In Sanitarium" 



Williams A Darrell 
Rose Troupe 
(One to All) 

Dalnth 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Ray Conlin 
Asahi 5 
II B Martin 
Alexander Bros 
Chas Howard Co 
Cartmell ft Harris 
(Others to All) 

Bdsaeatoa, Can. 

PANTAGES (m) 
Edgar A Ely Co 
Stalev Blrbeck Co 
Joe Lanlgan 
Qulnn ft Mitchell 
3 Kraytons 

Elisabeth, N. J. 

PROCTORS 
Lasers Lasere ft Dog 
Harold Kennedy 
Howell Sisters 
LaMont ft Mllham 
Decker ft Lieb 
Geo Nagel Co 
2d half 
Florence RayAeld 
"Man of Mystery" 
Gordon ft Gordon 
Mlna Phillips Co 
William Slsto 
Herbert Germalne 3 

ICrle. Pa. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
The Brads 
Those Three Girls 
Clark ft McCullough 
(Others to All) 

Fall River, Mass. 

ACADEMY (loew) 
Polly Prim 
Elsie Gilbert Girls 
Eddie Foyer 
Aerial Lavalls 
(One to All) 

2d half 
Frank Rogers 
Edna Luby Co 
Elsie White 
Ed Zoeller Trio 
(One to AH) 

Flint, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
"Watch Your Step" 

2d half 
George Dixon 
Qulnn Bros A D 
"All For a Kiss" 
Bert Hanlon 
Martini A Maxlmllllan 

Ft. Wayne. 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Karleton A Kllfford 
Mason A Murray 
Potts Eros Co 
Ash A Shaw 
"8 ForgetmenotH" 

2d half 
Pantzer Duo 
Guero A Carmen 
Leila Davis Co 
Klmberly A Mohr 
Chick A Chlckletts 

Gladstone, Mich. 

GLADSTONE (ubo) 
Adams A Gilbert 
Lucille Block 

EMPRESS (loew) 
1st half 
La Vier 
O'Neil A Dixon 
Princeton A Yale 
Morris A Parks 
"Bower of Melody" 
Nip A Tuck 

Grnnd Rapids, Mich 

COLUMBIA (ubo) 
Bert Levey 
The Turners 
3 Lelghtons 
LAM Hunting 
John A Emma Ray 
Rice Sully A Scott 
(Others to All) 

EMPRESS (loew) 

2d half 

(Same as at Ft Wayne 

this issue) 

Hamilton, Ont. 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Rae E Ball 
"Aurora of Light" 
Chief Tendahoa 
Tate's Fishing 
Billy McDermott 
(Others to All) 

Hancock, Mich. 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Kauffman A Lillian 
University 4 

Harrlahnrn*. Pa. 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Toney A Norman 
Irene Franklin 
Herman Seltz 
Plerlot A SchoAeld 
Milton A DeLong Sis 
(Others to All) 

Hobokcn, N. J. 

LYRIC (loew) 
"Spider A Fly" 
(Four to All) 

2d half 
Anderson A Evans 
(Four to All) 

Indianapolis 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
I^ane A O'Donnell 
Burns Kilmer A Grady 
"Telephone Tangle" 
Raymond A Caverly 
Louise Galloway Co 
(Others to All) 



LYRIC (ubo) 
Monohan A Dolly 
Wlasser A Rssssr 
W Zimmerman Co 
Dick Fitzgerald 
4 Lesters 

2d half 
Lattell Bros 
Edith Haney 
"I Died" 
Ben Smith 
(One to All) 

Ishneaalne;, Mleh. 

ISHPEMING (ubo) 
1st half 
3 American Girls 
Rapoll Co 



Jacksea. Mleh. 

BIJOU tubo) 
G ruber A Kew 
Hurst Watta A H 
Mullali Pingree Co 
Rube Strickland 
Carlos Cae.-,aro 
2d half 
Newport A Stlrk 
Lewis A Klatler 
McCormack ft Wa'Iacc 
Danny Simmons 
Herbert's Dog* 

Jacksonville 
ORPHEUM (Ubo) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Porter ft Sullivan 
Enrico 

Little Lord Roberts 
Mr A Mrs H Emmett 
Mario ft Duffy 
Morin Sisters 
(Others to All) 



Kalaaaasoe, Mich. 

MAJESTIC (ubo i 
"Dream Girls" 
I'd half 
The MUUrds 
Rice ft Morgan 
Chas Wayne Co 
Grace Camoron 
Harvey J 



Kansas City 

ORPHEUM 
"Neptune's Garden" 
Althoff Sisters 
Ward Bell ft Ward 
Ed Hayes Co 
The Seebacks 
John Gelger 
Kramer ft Morton 
Williams ft Wolfus 
EMPRESS (loew) 
Paul Stephens 
McDermott ft Wallace 
"Between Trains" 
Walter Brower 
Gertie Carlisle Co 
Mennettl ft Sldelli 

Lafayette* lad. 

FAMILY ('..no) 
Ballo iron 
Ben Smith 
Leila Davis Co 
Klmberly ,& Mohr 
6 Russian Dancers 

2d half 
Karleton A Kllfford 
Lucas A Fields 
Potts Bros Co 
Creighto;i Bros A B 
Lougai.'n 3 Dogs 

Lansing;, Mich. 
BIJOU (ubo) 
George Dixon 
Qulnn Eros A D 
"All For a Kiss" 
Bert Hanlon 
Martin A Maxmilllait 

2d half 
"Watch Your 8tep" 

Lincoln 

ORPHEUM 
Harry Lewis 5 
Alleen Stanley 
The Mozarts 
Marga De La Rose 
Hans Llnne Girls 
(Others to All) 

Loajansport, lad. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Marshall A Comby 
Edith Haney 
Pantzer Duo 

2d half 
Vic Pantzer 
Fred Wayne Co 
(One to All) 

Los Aaarelca 

ORPHEUM 
Cole A Denahy 
Relsner A Gores 
Waldemer Young A .1 
Arnold Daly Co 
Merrill A Otto 
Frank Wilson 
Francis McGinn Co 
(One to All) 

EMPRESS (loew) 
"Fun In the Baths" 
Dick DeLorls 
Burton Hahan A Can 
Wanzer A Palmer 
Neal A Earl 
"Winning Widows' 

PANTAGES (m) 
"Fair Co-Eds" 
Bohemian 6 
Kltner Haynes A M 
Chase A LaTour ' 
Heras A Preston 

Louisville 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Grace Dunbar Nile Co 
Great Howard 
Lew Dockstader 
I A H Smith 
Conroy Models 
Comfort A King 
The Youngers 
(One to All) 



VARIETY 



17 



Bfarejwette, Mick. 

MARQUETTE (ubo) 

2d half 
Rapoli Co 
Kauffman 6 Lillian 

Mesapkl*) 

ORPHEUM 
"Wrong from Start" 
Zerhto's Dogs 
Kirk * Fogarty 
Annie Kent 
The Randalls 
Cbaa F Semon 
Dupree A Dupree 
(Other* to fill) 

MllwaakM 

MAJESTIC (orph) 
Prlnceaa Radjah 
Bell Family 
Anna Chandler 
Cbaa Yule Co 
Herman Tlmberg 
Cameron Sisters 
Nevlns A Erwood 
Soltl Duo 

CRYSTAL (loew) 
Dixon A Dixon 
Warner A Corbett 
Chas L Fletcher 
"Wine" 

Nichols Sisters 
Wanda 

Mlsmeapolle 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Alfred Bergen 
Ann Trasker Co 
Eugene Trio 
El Ida Morris 
EIRey Sisters 
Gardiner Trio 
PiatoT A GTlaser 
(One to fill) 

UNIQUE (loew) 
Amoros A Mulrey 
Meredith A Snooser 
Pisano A Bingham 
•Sidelights" 
Cabaret 3 
Alvln A Kenny 



ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Katbryn Durkln 
Alexander A Scott 
tf American Dancers 
Harry Tsuda 
The Orasers 
Hermlnie Shone Co 
Binns A Bert 
Hans Kronold 
PANTAOES (m) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Wood's Animals 
"Night Hawks" 
Quinlan A Richards 
Rosella A Rosella 
Palfrey Barton A B 
Osrdcsw Utah 
ORPHEUM (loew) 
(1-2) 
Jeter A Rodgers 
Billy Inman Co 
Chrlstensen 
Slgsbee's Dogs 
Wm Morrow Co 
Krazy Kids 
Osaaaa 
ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Lai Mon Kim 
Avon Comedy 4 
Mrs F Bond 
Trlxie Frlgansa 
Pallenberg r s Bears 
Lorshmonds 
Frances De Orossart 
(One to fill) 

Oaakoalw Wla. 

PEOPLE'S (ubo) 
Lucille Block 
2 Zyls 

2d half 
Broomstick Elliott 
DeVoy A Dayton 



ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Adler A Arllne 
Johnston A Wells 
Redford A Winchester 
Burke A McDonald 
Lambert A Ball 
Marie FlUglbbons 
(Others to nil) 



Mi. T«ra«su W. T. ' 

PROCTOR'S 
Henry Hargraves Co 
Mr A Mrs Caferty 
Herbert Qermalne 3 
Kelly A Williams 
'Titanic Disaster" 
Mash A Evans 
2d half 
311 roy A Corlell 
Lyrlca 

Harry Morse Co 
W S Harvey Co 
dorrisey A Hackett 
(One to fill) 

NaafcTUle, Tcaa. 

PRINCESS (ubo) 
"Follies of Broadway ' 

Newark, N. J. 

PROCTOR'S LYRIC 
Sprague A McNeece 
Julia Rooney 
"Man of Mystery" 
Harry Morse Co 
Edith Swan Girls 
Pat Stromberg 
W 8 Harvey Co 

2d half 
The Irmenas 
Brandon A Taylor 
Tyson A Barbour 
Geo Nagel Co 
Lamont A Milham 
Harold Kennedy 
Decker A Web 
"The Haberdashery" 

Newbarsjk, N. Y. 
COHEN O H (loew) 
Mellen A DePaula 
Anderson A Evans 
Hartley A Pecan 
"Vaudeville In Monk- 

eyland" 
(One to All) 

2d half 
Musical Klelssee 
Ex-Mayor Lew Shank 
Caeser Rlvoli 
American Comedy 4 
(One to fill) 



New Orleaaa 

ORPHEUM 
Mr A Mrs D Crane 
Elinore A Williams 
Kajlyama 

McConnell A Simpson 
James Cullen 
Tango Chief 
(Others to nil) 

New Rockelle, N. Y. 

LOEW 
3 Baldwins 
Clarence Wilbur 
Lester Trio 

2d half 
Hartley A Pecan 
Tom Mahoney 
(One to fill) 

Norfolk, Va. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 

1st half 
Nana 

Chas Weber 
(Others to fill) 

2d half 
Salon Singers 
Edith A Eddy Adair 
(Others to fill) 



Ottan 

DOMINION (ubo) 
Alexander Kids 
Les Jundlts 
"Squaring Accounts" 
Elisabeth Otto 
Leo Carrillo 
(Others to Oil) 

Pkllaelelakla 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Connolly A Wenrlch 
Valerie Bergere Co 
Willie Bros 
3 Lyres 
Corlo A Dinus 
Joe Jackson 
Belle Baker 
Kluting's Animals 
KNICKERBOCKER 
(loew) 
Delaphone 
Kelso A Leighton 
Marie Russell 
"The Punch" 
Jim Morton 
Oasch Sisters 

2d half 
Oscar Lorraine 
"Gray of Dawn" 
Jim Morton 
Frey Twins 
(Two to fill) 

Plttakarsjk 

HARRIS (ubo) 
August Family 
Minerva Courtney Co 
Old Town Four 
Rose A Severn 
Baby Zelda 
The Stlllings 
Ah Ling Foo 

SHERIDAN (ubo) 
Oeo Richards Co 
Helen Carlos 3 
3 O'Nell Sisters 
Musical Parshleys 
Dunn A Dean 
Harry Sauber 

GRAND (ubo) 
Chrletlenne A Loulset 
Brooks A Bowen 
Claude A Fanny Usher 
2 Carltons 
"Lawn Party" 
The Volunteers 
Cummings A Gladings 
(One to fill) 

Plalafleld, N. J. 

PROCTOR'S 
Held A Cameron 
Minna Phillips Co 
Hamilton Bros 
Florence Rarfleld 
Budd A Callre 
2d half 
Lasere-Lasere A Dog 
Drown A Moulton 
Henry Hargraves Co 
Edith Swan Girls 
Howell Sisters 

Porteheeter. N. Y. 

PROCTOR'S 
Brown A Moulton 
Gilroy A Corlell 
Lyrlca 

Lung Tchang Yuen 
William Slsto 
2d half 
Held A Cameron 
Hamilton Bros 
Mr A Mrs Nat Caferty 
Kelly A Williams 
Xardini 

Portland, Ore. 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Murphy A Foley 
Schrlner A Richards 
Romain A Orr 
"Thro' the Skylight" 
Nell McKlnley 
McClure A Dolly 

PANTAOES (m) 
"Kingdom of Dreams" 
Cornell Corley Co 



Acme 4 

Kelley A Catlln 
Early A Lalght 
Oray A Peters 
Providence, R. I. 
KEITH'S (ubo) 
"Bride Shop" 
Keno A Mayne 
Sylvia Loyal Co 
Mullen A Coogan 
Webb A Burns 
Farrell Taylor 3 
Claire Kummer 
Lawrence A Hurl Falls 
Resrlaa. Caa. 
ORPHEUM 
1st halt 
Rlggs A Wltchle 
Sophe Bnowden 
Martin Van Bergen 
Hunting A Francis 
Ernie Potts Co 
(Others to fill) 

Rlcasaoad, lad. 

MURRAY (ubo) 
Wilson A Aubrey 
Estelle Wordette Co 
Little Miss Jean 
Loughlln's Dogs 

2d half 
Romaine 
Howe A Howe 
Cooper A Richards 
Cole Russel A D 

Rlcksaoad, Ya. 

LYRIC (ubo) 

1st half 
Salon Singers 
Edith A Eddy Adair 
(Others to All) 

2d half 
Nana 

Chas Weber 
(Others to fill) 
Roeheater, N. Y. 
TEMPLE (ubo) 
Nellie Y Nichols 
Kingston A Bbner 
Angelo Patricola 
Harry Brooks Co 
Billy B Van Co 
The Kramers 
BUI Prultt 
Sutton Mclntyre A S 

Saeraaieato 

ORPHEUM 
(6-6) 
Act Beautiful 
Burkhart A White 
Finn A Finn 
Kramer A Peterson 
Ismed 

"The Beauties" 
EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Swan 

Laurie A Alean 
Miller Moore A G 
DeVoy Faber Co 
Avellng A Lloyd 
Neptune's Nymphs 

Saalaaw, Mick. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Kolettl 

Clyde A Marlon 
"Enchanted Forest" 
Earl A Edwards 
Flying DuValls 
2d half 
Berry A Berry 
Holden A Herron 
Routan's Songbirds 
Ed Gray 
8 Abdallahs 

Salt Lake 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Miller A Lyles 

Josephine Dunfee 

Hayward Stafford Co 

Jones A Sylvester 

Natalie A Ferrari 

John Hlgglns 

(Others to fill) 
EMPRESS (loew) 

The Valdos 

Stewart & Hall 

Yvonne 

Murray Livingston Co 

Jones A JohnHon 

Buch Bros 

PANTAOES (m) 
(Open Wed Mat) 

Lucille Mulhall Co 
"Dolly's Dolls" 

Paris Green 

Reld Sisters 

Vanfleld 

Saa Diego 

SPRECKEL (orph) 

1st half 

3 Hlckey Bros 
"Matinee Girls" 
Byrd Frost Crowell 
Hlnes A Fox 

Chas McGoods Co 
(Others to All) 

PANTAGES (m) 
"Seminary Girls" 
Willard Hutchinson Co 
Antrim A Vale 

4 Soils Bros 
JameB Brockmann 

Saa Fraaelaeo 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
O'Brien Havel Co 
Joe A Lew Cooper 
C Gllllngwater Co 
."> Metzettls 
Ashley A Canfleld 
Cbas Ahearn Co 
Stan Stanley 3 
Mack A Orth 

EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
1/iypo A J;enjaroin 
Kva Prout 



Mr A Mrs D Elwyn 
Irwin A Hersog 
Senator Murphy 
Dora Deane's Famtons 
PANTAGES (iu) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Pony Moore Co 
Winsch A Poore 
Coogan A Cox 
Gilbert Gerard 
Lovee A Wilbur 
0am Joae, Oal. 
VICTORY (orph) 
(9-10) 
(Same bill as at Sac- 
ramento, this Issue) 
SaTaamak, Ua. 
BIJOU (ubo) 
1st half 
Schooler A Dickinson 
Bond A Caason 
MUly DeVoy A Pr 
LaFrance A Bruce 

2d half 
Newell A Most 
Revolving Collins 
Brown Delmore A Br 
Curzon Sisters 
Shirley Bates Co 
St. Lomla 
COLUMBIA (orph) 
Mercedes 
Vlnle Daly 
Laddie Cliff 
Chadwlck Trio 
Australian Chopper? 
Lancton Lucler Co 
Jarrow 
McRae A Clegg 

•t. Paal 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Mile Asoria Co 
Fred Kornau 
Santly A Norton 
Jack A Forls 
Minnie Allen 
Johnny Johnston Co 
(Others to fill) 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Golden A West 
Sallie Stambler Co 
Holmes A Riley 
Cameron DeVltt Co 
Wilson Bros 
Slayman All Arabs 

Sekeaeetadr. N. Y. 

PROCTOR'S 
Doranto 

Nellie Brewster Co 
Smlletta Sisters 
Stevens A Stevens 
Nick's Skating Girls 
Morrlsey A Hackett 
Burt Gorn Melbourne 
7race Melbourne 

2d half 
Fox A Burkhardt 
Van A Ward Sisters 
Gerard A Gardner 
Georgia Campers 
(Others to fill) 

Seraatoa* Pa. 

POLI'S (ubo) 
Perelra Sextet 
Carlton A Davis 
"Making the Movies" 
HAS Puck 
Willie Hale A Bros 
(Others to fill) 

Seattle 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Lockett A Waldron 

Claude Golden 

Lydell Rogers A Ly 

White A Jason 

Three Types 

Adair A Adair 

Moore Llttlefleld Co 

(One to fill) 
EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Geo A Lilly Garden 

Bogart A Nelson 

Hippodrome 4 

Eugene Emmett Co 

Stantons 

Wormwood's Animals 
PANTAOES (m) 

Minstrel Maids 

Isabel Fletcher Co 

Hugo Lutgens 

Elwood A Snow 

Leon A Adeline Sis 

■tesu City 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
"Red Heads" 
Lewis A Russell 
John A Mae Burke 
Woodman A Living- 
ston 
Irahoff Conn A Cor 
Bertie Ford 
Thomas A Hall 
(One to fill) 

Sooth Chicago 

GAIETY (wva) 
La Marros 
Flo Ban- 
Holer A Boggs 
Marconi Bros 
Rmmett's Dogs 
2d half 
Callonette 
Archer A Carr 
Florence Modena Co 
LewJHawklnB 
OeoDalbeanle Co 

Spokane 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Ethel A Lucy Baker 
I^elghton A Robinson 
Orace DeWlnters 
Ryan Richfield Co 
Harry Thomson 
Cyrllng McNutts 



PANTAGES (m) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Lander Stevens Co 
Bruce Richardson Co 
York 3 

Prince A Deerle 
Togan A Geneva 
Stoektoa, Cal. 
YOBEMITE (orph) 
(7-8) 
(Same bill as at Sac- 
ramento, this Issue) 

Syraeaae, N. Y. 

GRAND (ubo) 
Heath A Mlllership 
Stelner Trio 
Lee A Cranston 
"Fixing Furnace" 
(Others to fill) 
Taeosna 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Montrose A Sydell 
Celts Bros 
WilBon A Wilson 
Morris A Beasley 
Oddone 
Kitty Francis Co 

PANTAGES (m) 
Musical Juveniles 
William Schilling Co 
Belle 3 

SUber A North 
Silvers Oakley 

Torre Haate, lad. 

VARIETIES (ubo) 

1st half 
Lillian Doone Co 
Chick Sales 
4 Mllos 
Marconi Bros 
Rice Elmer A Tom 

2d half 
Sherman Van A Hy 
Mile Techow 
Harry Hollman Co 
Barto A Clark 
Jack Winker 8 

Toledo, O. 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Hopkins Sisters 
Arnaut Bros 
Jarvls A Harrison 
Milton Pollock Co 
Ray Samuels 
Woods A Woods 8 
(Others to fill) 

Toroato 

SHEA'S (ubo) 
•Pekin Mysteries'' 
Flanagan A Edwards 
Stuart Barnes 
Chas Ravenscroft 
Ford A Allison 
Harry Beresford Co 
Ioleen Sisters 
(One to fill) 

YONGB ST (loew) 
Parise 

Richmond A Mann 
Trovollo 
Jim Rosen Co 
Innes A Ryan 
Pekinese Troupe 
(Two to fill) 

Troy, N. Y. 

PROCTOR'S 
Archie A Gertie Falls 
"Ward 22" 
Rose A Gates 
Rita Gould 
Van Ward Girls 
Warren A Conley 
The Two Hordes 

2d half 
Mr A Mrs Cappelen 
Stevens A Stevens 



"Fun Shop" 
Murphy A Lachmar 
Henry Frey 
Sweeney A Rooney 
Ualoa Hill, N. J. 

HUDSON (ubo) 
Eva's Dogs 
Duford Bros 
Conley A Webb 
Alfred James Holt 
"A Business Proposal" 
Farber Girls 
Anard Bros 
(Feature to fill) 
Utlea* N. Y. 

SHUBBRT (ubo) 
Reglna Cornelll Co 
Kelly A Galvln 
Society Buds 
Wiley A Ten Eyck 
(Others to fill) 



VaaeowTer, B. C. 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Juggling Nelson 
Burke A Harris 
Musical Avolloe 
Wm H St James Co 
Anderson A Gelnes 
Stewart Sis A Escorts 

PANTAGES (m) 
Teddy McNamara Co 
rttanie 

Saunders A VonKuntz 
Rosdell Singers 
Lockarte A Leddy 

Victoria* B. C. 

PANTAOES (m) 
Allsky's Hawallans 
Link Robinson Co 
Henry A Harrison 
Work A Play 
Vestoff 8 



W 



b. o. 



KEITH'S (ubo) 
Nine White Hussars 
Ed Foy Family 
Jane Connolly Co 
Hasel Cox 

Maxine Bros A Bobby 
Weber A Capltola 
(Others to fill) 

Waterkarr. Coaa. 

LOEW 
Howard A Field Mlns 
Elsie White 
Edna Luby Co 
Thos Potter Dunne 
3 Bennett Sisters 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Doc Will Davis 
Eddie Heron Co 
Bert Melrose 
Helm Children 
Martini A Frablnl 
(One to fill) 

WllaUaatoa, Del. 

DOCK8TADER (ubo) 
Peppino 
Chung Hwa 4 
Trevltt's Dogs 
(Others to nil) 

WiajUaoa. Caa. 

ORPHEUM 
Ward A Cullen 
Trovato 

Gertrude Hoffman 
Llbby A Barton 
Billy Swede Hall Co 
(Others to fill) 

PANTAGES (m) 
Maurice Samuels Co 
Dxford 8 
tfadell A Kane 
Dunlay A Merrill 
Reed's Dogs 



SHOWS NEXT WEEK. 

NEW YORK. 

"DANCING AROUND" (Al Jolson)— Winter 
Garden (Oct. 10). 

"DADDY LONG- LEGS' '—Gaiety (2d week). 
"CONSEQUENCES"— Comedy (2d week). 
GRAND OPERA— Century (4th week). 
"HE COMES UP SMILING" (Douglas Fair- 
banks)— Liberty (4th week). 

INNOCENT'— Eltlnge (5th week). 
"IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE"— Cohan (5th 
week). 

• MISS DAISY"— Lyric (5th week). 
"ON TRIAL"— Candler (8th week). 
"PRETTY MISS SMITH" (Frltzi Scheff) — 
Casino (3d week). 

"TIPPING THE WINNER"— Longacre (3d 
week). 

"THE BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE"— Lyceum 
(5th week). 

"THE GIRL FROM UTAH "—Knickerbocker 
(6th week). 

"THE HEART OF A THIEF"- Hudson (Oct. 
5). 

THE HIGH COST OF LOVING"— Republic 
(7th week). 

THE MIRACLE MAN"— Astor (.'Id week). 
THE HAWK" (Wm. FaverHham)— Shubert 
(2d week). 

THE LAW OF THE LAND"— 48th Street 
(2d week). 

THE PRODIGAL HUSBAND" (John Drew) 

—Empire (4th week). 
THE MONEY MAKERS"— Booth (Oct. 5). 
THE THINGS THAT COUNT"— Playhouse 

(Oct. 5). 

THE THIRD PARTY" 31)th Street (10th 
week). 

THE STORY OF THE ROSARY" Manhat- 
tan O. H. (5th week). 

TWIN BEDS"— Fulton (ftth week). 
•'UNDER COVER"— Cort (7th week). 

WARS OF THE WORLD"- -Hippodrome (5th 
week ) . 
"WHAT' IS LOVE"" Maxine Elliott (3d 
week). 



CHICAGO. 

"JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN"— Audi- 
torium (5th week). 

"UNDER COVER"— Cohan's (5th weak). 

"A PAIR OF SIXES "—Cort (9th- week). 
PEG O' MY HEART"— Garrlok (15th week). 

"THE BELLE OF BOND STREET"— Illinois 
(4th week). 

"ONE GIRL IN A MILLION"— LaSalle (5th 
week). 

"POTASH « PERLMUTTER"— Olympio (7th 
week). 

"THE YELLOW TICKET"— Powers' (5th 
week). 



MARIE STUART'S ESTATE. 

O'Brien, Malevinsky & Driicoll, as 
attorneys for Clayton White, executor 
under the will of his late partner, Marie 
Stuart, announced this week that the 
estate had been settled by the distribu- 
tion of $22,500 to six charitable organi- 
zations named in the will as follows: 

The Actors' Fund Home, $5,000. 

The Edwin Forrest Home, at Phila- 
delphia, $2,500. 

The Hospital for Ruptured and Crip- 
pled, 135 East 42d street, New York, 
$2,500. 

The Lying-in Hospital, 17th street 
and 2d avenue, New York, $5,000. 

St. Rose's Free Home, maintained 
for the cure of cancerous poor, $3,750. 

The Rosary Hill Home, at Haw- 
thorne, Westchester County, N. Y., 
also maintained f% the care of can- 
cerous poor, $3,750. 

"Mr. White," said the lawyers, 
"waived all rights as residuary legatee 
to claim any interest in these bequests 
which he might have under the law, 
which prevents a deceased person from 
bequeathing more than half her estate 
to charitable corporations, and directed 
us, as attorneys for the estate, to con- 
serve this estate so as to pay* .these 
legacies in full, which has been done, 
giving full value to the intention of 
Miss Stuart as expressed in her will." 



Wants Lombard! Co* 

New Orleans, Sept. 30. 
Owing to the impossibility of secur- 
ing a French opera company for the 
coming season, directors of the French 
Opera house have started negotiations 
which may lead to the engagement of 
the Lombardi Opera Co. 



OBITUARY. 

Samuel O. Baker, aged 50, died at the 
Metropolitan Hospital Sept. 21. He 
was well known in theatricals for 30 
years. Bright's disease caused his 
death. 

F. H. Bradstreet died in Chicago 
Sept. 16. He was a well known man- 
ager. 

Adolph Hoffmann, father of Richard 
Hoffmann, of the Western Vaudeville 
Managers' Association, died Sept. 19 
after an illness lasting over 15 years. 
He is survived by a widow and eighl 
children. 

San Francisco, Sept. 30. 
Bradford Drady, the 10-year-old son 
of Robert Drady, attached to the man- 
agerial staff of Pantages, was killed by 
an auto truck Monday. 

Hamilton, Ont, Sept. 30. 
John (Jack) G. Appleton, manager 
of the Temple (vaudeville) here, died 
this morning of inflammation of the 
lungs. He had been manager of the 
Temple for five years, and before that 
was 10 years at the loeal Savoy. 



VARIETY 




STOCK 



Rector's, at Broadway and 48th stree* 

had a formal opening Monday evening 

of the new ballroom addition on the 
second floor, giving the dance place a 

seating capacity of between 600 and 

700. 

Bill Halley, the red headed Jersey 
songster, is going back to Shanley's. 



John Bittner has taken personal 
charge of the Atop The Strand restau- 
rant at 47th street and Broadway, as- 
sisted by Peter L. Graham and Win. C. 
Allen, both well known restaurant 
men. Mantilla and Lloyd, Koop and 
Jardin and Kathryn Andrews feature 
the entertainment program with Fred 
Quintell's orchestra supplying the har- 
mony. 

Evelyn Nesbit and Jack Clifford 
opened on the New York Roof Thurs- 
day night William Morris appears to 
lately make the practice of engaging 
professional dancers for a month at a 
time, dating from the first, although 
the Nesbit-Clifford New York run is 
indefinite. 



Central Casino, just west of Mc- 
Comb's Bridge and owned by the pro- 
prietors of Manhattan Casino, is doing 
a big week end business with dancing 
and colored talent alternating. 

Winfield West and Mildred Chandler 
have arrived in New York, after passing 
safely through the war zone. They 
were dancing at the Cafe de la Abaye, 
Paris. 



Nadines Log Cabin restaurant at 54th 
street and 8th avenue opened last week 

with volunteer cabaret performance. 
The place seats about 300. 



The Broadway Rose Garden, at 

Broadway and 52-53d streets, repre- 
senting an outlay of $250,000 in the 
transformation of the former Metro- 
politan Rink, is a theatre and ballroom, 
the theatre (where a feature film is 
shown) on the Broadway front; the 
ballroom (with a seating capacity of 
about 300) on the Seventh avenue side. 
A rather large dancing space for the 
size of the room has been given to the 
latter. It is prettily decorated in an 
arbor effect, with many artificial roses, 
and has the twinkling star scheme for 
the subdued colored lights. Quite an 
imposing list of professionals take part 
in the ballroom entertainment. Ann 
Clover Morgan and "Speed" Gaynor 
were among the dancers, also Aline 
Williams and Spalding Hall, with Mone 
and Roberts doing their fast trot. Mar* 
celle Albus and Duryea Van Benzel are 
the soloists. There is a Danse De 
Pierrette Sextet. A Balakika orches- 



tra alternates with another on the bal- 
cony in furnishing the dance music 



MUSIC. 

The Lyric Motion Picture Co., Inc. formed 
by Henry Waterson and Louis Bernstein, re- 
leased its first subject last week at the Har- 
lem opera bouse, the title being "The Father- 
land, The Motherland. The Land of My Best 
Girl," published by Shapiro-Bernstein. The 
films fire glimpses of the authors In various 
scenes relative to the construction of the 
song. 



The Supreme Court, Judge LaCombe pre- 
siding, In the case of the P. J. How ley Co. 
against Theo. Morse, the former seeking to 
enjoin Morse from publishing the "Dear Old 
Girl" number, alleging copyright infringe- 
ment, sustained tfie contention of the Morse 
attorneys and dismissed the complaint 



Henry Wattersen and Louis Bernstein have 
purchased SO feet of property on 46th street. 
200 feet east of Broadway, paying $150,000 for 
the parcel. It may be intended as a perma- 
nent home for their new picture concern. 



Ray Walker has joined the Will Von Tiber 
staff of composers. 

Phil Bush Is now professional manager for 
the Joe Morris house. 



Maurice Goodman, general attorney for the 
United Booking Offices. Is referring the case of 
Chas. K. Harris vs. Waterson. Berlin A Snyder 
for an accounting of the profits accruing from 
the sale of "The Girl In Havana." 



Joe. 8tern has secured the publishing rights 
for the new Eva Tanguay show, now called 
"Miss Tobasoo." and which Is rehearsing. 
John Ford wrote the lyrics for the English 
production. 

A. F. Frankenstein, composer of "I Love 
Ton, California," was married In San Fran- 
cisco last week to Gertrude M. Scott. F. B. 
SUverwood, who wrote the lyric to the song, 
was best man. 



Butler, Manny and Bennett, who have been 
with the Chicago Feist office for some time, 
have returned to the Waterson, Berlin £ 
Snyder firm again. The boys are all pluggers. 

Milton Well, former manager for the Chi- 
cago office of F. A. Mills, is now road man 
for the Broadway Muslo House, traveling out 
of Chicago. 



Tell Taylor Is motoring from Chicago to 
New York demonstrating his numbers In the 
Kresge stores en route. He Is due In New 
York early next week. 

Tom Mayo Geary, professional manager for 
Harold Rosslter In Chicago, Is due In New 
York this week to adjust the New York office 
and pick up a stray number or two while 
here. 



Moee Gamble is endeavoring to sell his 1011 
Pierre- Arrow auto. Up to date he has worn 
out three sets of perfectly good tires demon- 
strating the car for prospective buyers. 

Jim Rsrrlngton. formerly with Remlck and 
other Chicago music houses. Is working on his 
own hook at present 

Six of the 8bsplro-Bernsteln mu*Ic boost- 
ers, while working s Brooklyn cafe, became 
enassjed In sn Impromptu fistic encounter 
which, scrordlng to reports, did not bring 
snv medsls or cups to the profusions 1 con- 
tenders. They were bended sn Indefinite sus- 
pension when the report reached headquar- 
ters. 



Milton Alter hss been transferred from the 
Chlcsgo office of Waterson. Berlin S Snyder to 
the New York headquarters of the same house. 



NANCE O'NEIL LEADING. 

Pittsburgh. Sept. 30. 

Nance O'Neil will be leading woman 
of the Dalis Players at the new Schen- 
ley theatre and will only play three 
matinees a week. 

Others in the company will be Ar- 
thur Hickman, Jessie Muller, W. E. 
Morse. Ernest Cossart, Lewis Kimball 
and William E. Prayer. 



-RUTH" CLOflNO. 

Boston, Sept 3a 
"Along Came Ruth" will close at the 
Plymouth this week, also end its sea- 
son. 



THREE CLOSING. 

Bayonne, N. J., Sept. 30. 
The stock company at the Broadway 
disbanded Saturday night, the farewell 
bill being "Damaged Goods." Poor 
business the cause. The Broadway is 
going to try a picture policy. 

Checotah, Okla., Sept. 30. 
The Bessie Deno stock is closing its 
season here this week. 

North Adams, Mass., Sept. 30. 
The Bijou stwck, management W. W. 
Blair, is closing permanently Friday 
night (Oct. 2). 



GRAND, READING, FIGHT. 

Reading, Sept. 30. 

The Grand Stock company closed 
Saturday night after a fist fight between 
William Wells, leading man, and Man- 
ager Addison, one of the promoters of 
the enterprise, which got into the police 
court. 

Elks helped Wells out of town. He 
had 55 cents and a claim of $250 against 
the managers. The fight started when 
Wells, as he says, demanded an ac- 
counting of the receipts in settlement 
of their commonwealth account. Ad- 
dison offered explanations and Wells 
threw him out of his dressing room. 
The actor was arrested on an assault 
charge, but this was withdrawn in 
court Wells furnished this schedule 
of payments made to him during the 
week: 

Monday night, 50 cents. 

Tuesday night, $2. 

Wednesday night, $3. 

Wells averred that these sums were 
no earthly good to a man who owed a 
$15 hotel bilL 

The retirement of the Grand leaves 
the Orpheum players with a clear field, 
opposed only by a dance hall and a 
three-a-day policy at the Academy. 



PATERSON OPENING. 

Paterson, Sept. 30. 

The Empire, formerly conducted as a 
vaudeville house by A. M. Brugge man, 
will open with stock Saturday night un- 
der the management of James F. Clancy 
who has secured a lease of the theatre. 
The house has been entirely renovated 
and a number of improvements in- 
stalled. An innovation will be the play- 
ing of vaudeville between the acts of 
the regular bill. The opening attrac- 
tion will be "Broadway Jones." 

The company includes Harry Ingram, 
Grace Young, Emsey Alton, Arthur 
Richie, R. North, Elizabeth Hunt, 
Grace Campbell, Irving Lancaster and 
J. Barrison. H. C. Ford and Mitcb;M 
Cerker will be director and scenic a'titt, 
respectively. 



FIVE OPENING. 

Cleveland, Sept. 30. 

The newly organized Metropolitan 
theatre stock opens Oct. 19, with May 
Buckley and Jack Halliday as leads. 
Others in the company will be Aubrey 
Noyes, stage director; William Cor- 
bet t, Jessie Pringle and Leonore 
Phelps. 

The Barrow-Howard Players, who 
have been playing a long season in 
Lincoln, Neb., have opened their regu- 
lar winter road season in the Nicholas 
theatre, Council Bluffs, la. 

Wright Huntington practically con- 
trols the stock field in the Twin Cities, 
Minneapolis and St. Paul, but in a 
short time the Bainbridge Players, 
long at the Shubert, Minneapolis, will 
reopen there in the new Bainbridge 
theatre. 

It was erroneously reported the 
Whitney, Glendale, L. I., had closed. 
A change of players caused it. Man- 
ager William Lane having decided to 
continue indefinitely. 

Omaha, Sept 30. 
Eva Lang is coming into Omaha at 
the head of her own stock company, 
opening Oct. 12. 

Pittsburgh, Sept 30. 
The newly organized Harry Davis 
stock company opens here Oct 12. 
Frances Neilsen, leading woman, 



STOCK CHANGING DAILY. 

Atlanta, Ga., Sept 30. 
The Kelly stock company, at the Bijou, 
to prod up interest in its engagement, now 
in the sixty-eighth week, is playing this 
week "East Lynne* at daily matinees 
and "Kit Carson" each night 



OLLY LOGSDON'S STOCK. 

Passaic, N. J., Sept 30. 

Oily Logsdon, New York, has leased 
the Playhouse, the new Theodore Lorch 
theatre and will install her own stock 
company there Monday, the opener be- 
ing "Get Rich Quick Wallingford." W. 
W. Blair will be house manager. 

Two sets of leads have been engaged, 
one headed by Lorna Elliott and Rob- 
ert Le Seur and the other by Dolly 
Lewis and R. M. Middlemass. The 
stage director will be W. Edw. Wag- 
ner, late of the Grand, Reading, Pa 
Others engaged are Mary Keogh, Pat 
Barrett, Alice Gilmore, Perry Hopper, 
Sam Fried, Forrest Abbott, stage man- 
ager. 



FRAZEE'S STRONG PLAY. 

Harry Frazee has accepted a play by 
Louis Shipman entitled "The Man 
Pays." The work is said to be ex- 
ceptionally "strong" and of a type 
that will have to be endorsed by * 
medical society. 

It will be produced before the first 
of the year. 



VARIETY 





FILM FLASHES 



Wlllam Ray nor has purchased an automo- 
bile. 



Bert Ennls, publicity man for the Eclair, 
has the motoring bug. 

John Gray, with the Universal press bureau 
for some time, Is now special feature man with 
the Mutual. 

The New Christy Matthewson baseball film 
Is titled "Love and Baseball.'' 



With a view to giving his picture shows at 
the New York more careful consideration, 
William Morris this week engaged F. C. 
Gunning, an experienced man, formerly with 
Warner's Features and other concerns, to de- 
vote all his time to the house program. 

The Famous Players company announces 
Oct. 15 as the release date of Marguerite 
Clark's first appearance on the screen in 
"Wildflower," described as a "drama of lights 
and shadows." In the supporting company will 
be seen Harold Lock wood, James Cooley, E. 
L. Davenport and Jack Pickford. 

"The Sign of the Cross," with William 
Farnum In the principal role, will be released 
shortly In the Famous Players company pro- 
gram. It has already been seen In England 
where, according to the Zukor concern's an- 
nouncement. It has been enthusiastically re- 
ceived. 



The Monday morning newspapers featured 
the adventures of a group of Vlatagraph 
players on Sunday In which four silent actors 
almost became silent forever by drowning at 
South River, N. J., during the filming of a 
train wreck. The players were Rosle Duggan, 
Mary Green, Earle Williams and Charles Ed- 
ward. "The Juggernaut" was the title of the 
thriller. A trestle was built over the water 
and a locomotive and three cars thrown at full 
speed from the tracks Into the water. When 
the players later came to "register" business 
of being rescued they succumbed to the shock 
of f reeling water and were brought to safety 
In a serious condition. 



The Cinema Camera Club of America will 
hold a reception and dance Oct. 10 at Pabst 
Coliseum, 110th street, near Fifth avenue. 

The dramatic editors of the Philadelphia 
newspapers were guests at a banquet in the 
Hotel Adelphla there a few days ago of 
Bos worth, Inc., represented by that concern's 
Philadelphia representative, Carl H. Pierce. 

VIVlan Martin, with Lew Fields, In "The 
High Cost of Loving," will figure as prin- 
cipal In the Peerless Feature Producing Co.'s 
film version of Owen Davis's "The Wishing 
Ring." Two other Davis pieces scheduled for 
release by the Peerless via the World Film 
Corporation are "Lola," featuring Clara Kim- 
ball Toung and "A Marked Woman," fea- 
turing Barbara Tennant. 



Lewis J. Selznlck, vice-president and gen- 
eral manager of the World Film Corpora- 
tion, announced this week the signing of con- 
tracts which will make the Colonial M. P. 
corporation's screen adaptation of Sir Gilbert 
Parker's novel. "The Seats of the Mighty," 
a release In the World Film programs. The 
Colonial production Is a 0,000-foot feature 
said to contain an extraordinary series of 
thrills. It has been six months in prepara- 
tion. It Is to be a special release, the date 
to be announced shortly. Lionel Barrymore 
is featured. 



The World Film corporation will open 
branch offices In Brooklyn and Newark. 



W. N. Wilson, the magazine Illustrator and 
poster designer, has been engaged exclusively 
to draw the special art lithographs used to 
advertise the World Film corporation's fea- 
tures. 



The Paramount released on Thursday a new 
five-reel feature entitled "The Pursuit of 
Phantom," In which Hobart Bosworth plays 
the leading character. He wrote the scenario. 



Carlotta De Felice (Mrs. James Keane), 
leading woman of the United Kennograph M. 
P. Co.. of which her hiishnnd l« the general 
manager, was operated on for appendicitis last 
week. 



The Alco Film Corporation has arranged to 
cover the northwest through offV-es In San 
Francisco and Nevadn, under direction of Sol 
Lester. Another connection plvcs the Alco 
an outlet through Grombnrhor A Rallpy. with 
exchanges In Portland, Seattle and Butte. 



Announcement hns brrn made of the en- 
trance Into the film field of B. A. Rolfe. the 
noted vaudeville producer who will produce, 
Independently, market Inc his ffnturos through 
the Alco Film Corporation. Hl« plan Is to 
make screen versions of successful novels the 
first of which will be "Sntiin Sanderson." Mr. 
Rolfe signed contracts this week with the 
Bohbs Merrill fompnnv. puMI«hprs. for tho 
photodramatlc rights of many of their best 
sellers. 



Alco will release, on Oct. 12, "The Ragged 
Earl," with Andrew Mack. 

Work has begun on the new Lasky feature, 
"The Rose of the Rancho," which is scheduled 
for release early in November. Cecil De 
Mille and 21 players are putting It on in Cali- 
fornia. 

Oscar Apfel and 10 Lasky players are at 
Mohave, California, making the mining scenes 
for "The Man from Home." Dustln Farnum 
leaves for Los Angeles this week to pose for 
"Cameo KIrby" the third Lasky -Farnum re- 
lease. 



Edward Abeles arrived in New York from 
Hollywood Monday, bringing the negative 
of Lasky's "The Making of Bobby Burnett," 
which was given private exhibition early this 
week. 



The Elsmere theater, Elsmere place, a block 
south of Tremont avenue, the Bronx, was 
opened Wednesday evening as a picture house 
under the management or William Muller. 
The house manager is I. Irving Cohn. Policy, 
one 4 to 6- reel feature changed dally and 1 
to 3 singles additional; prices, 10-25, evening, 
and 10 matinees. 



The Excelsior film company's formal asso- 
ciation with the Alco has been deferred for 
the time being. 

THREE CANDIDATES. 

No member can vote by proxy in 
the election of the Screen Club, Oct 3. 
As there are so many of the members 
out of New York with the numerous 
picture companies, there will be about 
110 active votes. It's going to be 
some fight when the 110 are dis- 
tributed upon the three tickets in the 
field. 

King Baggot has declined to run for 
a third term. Three tickets have 
sprung up. One is headed by James 
Kirkwood; another by Joseph Farn- 
ham, and the third by William Quirk. 



TWO-CENT PICTURE HOUSE. 

A new picture theatre, to have a 
seating capacity of 4,000 and with gen- 
eral admission two cents, is being pro- 
moted for the lower East Side, accord- 
ing to report. It is argued that the 
large capacity will allow a margin of 
profit at the small admission price, 
which should attract the poorer foreign 
element inhabiting that particular lo- 
cality. 

This is the first two-cent picture 
proposition promoted east of Detroit, 
where a similar experiment was tried 
some years ago with indifferent suc- 
cess. 



DOMINIES PARADE. 

Binghamton, Sept. 30. 

Local clergymen who lost their fight 
in the courts against Sunday movie 
shows are running a new campaign. 
Once a week they parade in automo- 
biles, displaying the placard, "Go to 
Church Somewhere Sunday." 

On advice of the corporation coun- 
sel the city fathers have decided not 
to appeal the decision throwing the 
theatres open. 



Ben Moss Booking. 

For the present no film manager 
will be appointed by Moss & Brill to 
succeed John Hammell, who went to 
the General Film Co. Ben Mess will 

handle the picture bookings. 



FEATURES FOR 10C HOUSES. 

The 10-cent picture houses over the 
country are finding their patrons de- 
mand feature films for the admission 
price. "Features" are now accounted 
as four reels or more. The line on 
three reels is a close one between "fea- 
ture" and "daily release," but the two- 
reel is admittedly classed with the daily 
service of single reelers. 

An exhibitor this week said that the 
daily release service for the 10-cent 
houses seems a thing of the past, al- 
though it was not so long ago the 
same picture places expected to be 
obliged to return to the daily service 
through the demands of the clientele. 
In the same way it was not so long 
ago that a five-reeler was thought to 
be too long, and most of them were. 
It is quite possible that the experience 
of the long-reeled feature that was 
padded has brought out a better grade 
of film in these longer subjects. An- 
other possible explanation is that the 
war has stopped the importation of 
the unpopular foreign film that ruined 
the chances for the home-made product 
of the same length as well, while the 
foreign fever was on. 

But the fact seems to remain that 
the 10-centers are after features and 
need films of this type to meet the 
wants of their customers. Just how 
long this condition will last the ex- 
hibitor said he was not prepared to 
state, but his opinion was that the fea- 
ture would grow stronger in general 
demand if the quality were fairly main- 
tained. 



LAUNCH PERCENTAGE PLAN. 

Announcement was made this week 
of a new scheme to market feature 
films on a percentage plan by George 
West, a Syracuse manufacturer of wool- 
lens, who has organized the Alliance 
Film Corporation. 

The plan outlined in the preliminary 
statement involves the delivery of 
franchises to a selected list of film 
manufacturers; the licensing of ex- 
changes and the advance exhibition of 
all releases to exchange men, who are 
to make their payments on a percent- 
age schedule based on their actual 
bookings. 

The announcement quotes Andrew J. 
Cobe, vice-president and general man- 
ager: 

"The Alliance proposition is a co- 
operative one and eliminates the sale of 
state rights and makes the manufac- 
turer back up his productions. A ro- 
tating committee will be appointed by 
the exchanges and will pass on the 
films before they are released. 

William H. Wright, of the Excelsior 
Film Co. is quoted as announcing that 
"The Path Forbidden" will be his 
firm's first release under the Alliance 
plan. No date is given. Another con- 
cern apparently associated with the 
project is the Select Photoplay Pro- 
ducing Co. 



SCREEN PRESS CLUB. 

A new press club is said to be in the 
first steps of organization. It will be a 
fraternal body comprising the scenario 
writers, authors, picture advertising 
men and the boys who write the press 
stuff for the film concerns and the vari- 
ous newspaper men on the different 
trade papers handling photoplay topics 
and advertisements. 



BEATS BLUE LAW. 

Cleveland, Sept 30. 

East Cleveland has an order forbid- 
ding the exhibition of motion pictures 
Sunday, but views are shown in the 
churches in connection with religious 
work, so John K. Bourne, manager of 
the Vassar photoplay house, Euclid 
avenue and Vassar street, gave shows 
Sunday, charging no admission fee, 
but by passing a collection box fol- 
lowing the same plan that is used in 
churches. The Vassar did a big busi- 
ness Sunday afternoon and evening. 

Police Chief James H. Stamberger 
visited the theatre. He said he could 
not stop the show. Mayor Minshall 
told the chief that nothing could be 
done unless an admission was charged. 




IN "THE TYPHOON" 

Toko bids Helen go forever in strong scene from a Paramount five rcrlcr, "The Typhoon." 



20 



VARIETY 




FOX TAKES PATHE STUDIO; 
TO PRODUCE FEATURE FILMS 

Lines Up Nation- Wide Organization to Make and Market 
Moving Pictures; Signs Edmund Breese. Will 

Sell Regular Service. 




That William Fox meant what he 
said when he announced the formation 
of his own picture stock company is 
evident by the activity around the 
former Pathe studio, which Fox has 
leased. 

Frank Powell and Edgar Lewis, 
former directors of the Pathe and Re- 
liance companies respectively, are in 
charge. Mr. Fox's players began "The 
Walls of Jericho" Thursday. 

Mr. Fox completed arrangements 
Tuesday for Edmund Breese to play 
the principal role in "The Walls « i 
"Jericho." One of the features that has 
just been completed at the Fox studio. 
New York City, is "Life's Shop Win- 
dow." 

A third Fox studio will be opened 
shortly somewhere on Staten Island 
and J. Gordon Edwards, for a long time 
with Fox's Academy of Music stock 
company, will be placed in charge ;is 
director. As soon as all the studios 
are running full blast the Box Office 
Attractions Co. will begin issuing a reg- 
ular service. In addition to the b:% 
features there will be the regula r re- 
leases of the Nemo, White Star and 
Balboa brands. 

Winfield Sheehan, general manager of 
the Box Office Attractions, has just re- 
turned from a western trip and an- 
nounces that the Fox company is now 
operating exchanges in 14 cities, and 
has located depots in 13 additional cit- 
ies. This completes a chain of branch- 
es from the Atlr.ntic to the Pacific 
<;oasts and to the Gulf on the south. 

Arrangements are now being com- 
pleted for the sale of the Canadian 
selling rights for the Box Office fea- 
tures. 



PAPAL FILMS OCT. 11. 

The initial American presentation of 
the pictures of the late Pope Pius 
taken a short time prior to his death 
by James Slevin, will take place Oct. 
11 (Sunday) at the Hippodrome, under 
ihe auspices of Harry Ravers. 



OPERA HOUSE CIRCUIT. 

Boston, Sept. 30. 

As the regular season of ^rand opera 
is improbable for this winter, owing 
to the war, the Boston opera house this 
week arranged to play a picture policy 
similar to that in vogue at Oscar Ham- 
merstein's Lexington, New York. 

Two weeks will be consumed in in- 
stalling machines, curtain and other 
equipment necessary, the opening 
probably being held Oct. 12. or a week 
later. 

Manager Bennage, Hammerstein's 
Lexington, was commissioned this 



week by the Boston interests to select 
the picture program for the Boston 
opera house at the same time he is 
getting the Lexington's films. 

Arrangements are under way to have 
the Lexington here, Boston O. H., and 
the Metropolitan, Philadelphia (con- 
trolled by the B. F. Keith interests), 
play the same picture policy and the 
same programs, with the United Book- 
ing Office Feature Film Co. providing 
the features. 

Mr. Bennage will act in connection 
with the booking managers of the 
United. 



PREACH PEACE BY FILM. 

Pittsburgh, Sept. 30. 
While most of the picture houses 
are showing military pictures to get 
the crowds, the Socialists of Pitts- 
burgh are preaching peace through the 

movies. Sunday they engaged the 
Lyceum theatre and 3,000 persons 
crowded into it to see a four-reel film, 
"Lay Down Your Arms," from the 
novel of Baroness Bertha von Suttner. 
This film was to have been exhibited 
before the International Peace Con- 
ference in Vienna this month. 

The executive committee of the 
county socialists organization is send- 
ing the film through the country and 
declares it will be shown around the 
world in the party's peace propaganda. 



COAST 



NEWS. 



FEATURING PICTURE STARS. 

Jersey City, Sept. 30. 

Keith's Bijou Dream is going to try 
a new scheme in the hope of booming 
the box-office receipts. Starting this 
Monday a five-week engagement of 
picture stars will be offered. 



CASINO—LYRIC OPENING. 

Next Sunday night (Oct. 4) at the 
Casino and Lyric theatres, New York, 
will be given the first of the winter 
exhibitions of feature films, to be dis- 
played at these theatres each Sabbath 
over the cold weather by Walter 
Rosenberg. 

The first picture this Sunday at both 
houses will be Ethel Barrymore in 
"The Nightingale." The following 
Sunday Mr. Rosenberg will show for 
the first time in New York the Evelyn 
Nesbit special film in five reels, "The 
Threads of Destiny/ 



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RELEASED NEXT WEEK (Oct. 5 to Oct. 12, inc.) 

MANUFACTURERS INDICATED BY ABBREVIATIONS, VIZ.: 



GENERAL 

Vitagraph V 

Hiograpn B 

Kalem K 

Lubin L 

Pathes Pthe 

Sclig S 

Edison £ 

Essanay S-A 

Kli'ine Kl 

Melies Mr I 

Ambrosic Amb 



MUTUAL 

Gaumont G 

American A 

Keystone Key 

Reliance Rel 

Majestic Mai 

Thanhouser T 

Kay-Bee K B 

Broncho Br 

Domino Dom 

Mutual M 

Princess Pr 

Komic Ko 

Beauty Be 

Apollo Apo 

Royal R 

Lion Ln 

Hepworth H 

NOTE— The subject is in one reel of about 1,000 feet unless otherwise noted. 



EXCLUSIVE 

G. N. S. F G N 

Kamo R 

Solax Sol 

Eclectic Eel 

V. R. A K 

Lewis Pennants.. L P 
Gt. Northern.... G N 

Dragon D 

Itala It 

G. NX. X...G N X X 
Hlache Features.. Bl 
Luna ^. Lu 



UNIVERSAL 

Imp I 

Bison B101 

Chrystal C 

Nestor N 

Powers rfcj. . . . P 

Eclair Eclr 

Rex Rx 

Frontier Frnt 

Victor Vic 

Gold Seal G S 

Toktr J 

Universal Ike ...U I 
Sterling Ster 



OCTOBER 5— MONDAY. 

MUTUAL.— Daphnlu, L'-reel dr, A; Their 
l T ps nnd Downs, com, Key ; Our Mutual Girl, 
No. :\H, Rel. 

(JENERAL F.— The Uorrowed Cook, dr. B; 
Father'o Beard, com, E ; The Fickleness of 
Swec-dle, com. S-A ; The Dancer, 2-reel dr, 
K; An American Heiress, dr (r'ourth of "The 
Hcloved Adventurer Series"), L; The Moving 
Picture Cowboy, 2-reel com, S ; Fisherman 
Knte. com, V. 

UNIVERSAL.— ShadowH. 2-reel dr, I; Dis- 
illusioned, dr, Vlci Myers Mistake, com, 
Ster 

OCTOBER 6— TUESDAY. 

MUTUAL.— The Cripple. 2-reel dr, T; The 
Unpnlnted Portrait, dr, MnJ ; Nlcda, dr, Ee. 

GENERAL F.— Gw< ndolin, 2-reel dr, B; 
The Wrecked Special, 2-reel dr. Kl ; Greater 
Love Hath No Man, dr. E : The Verdict, dr, 
S-A ; For tfre Love of Mike and Hesanut 
Hunts Wi -M3arae. split-reel com, K; Wine's 
Athletic Mamma and A Hunting Absurdity, 
xpllt-reel com. L; The Wnv of the Resman, 
dr. S ; His Unknown Girl. '2-reel dr. V. 

UNIVERSAL.— The Trey o* Hearts, Series 
No. 10 (Steel Ribbons), 2-riel dr. G 8; 
Lif*>rltl«>s, com, C; Three of a Kind. com. 

OCTOBER 7— WEDNESDAY. 

MUTUAL.— The Rosa of the 8th, 2-reel dr, 
Hr; llllly'8 Rival, dr, A; The Badge of Office. 
<lr. Rel. 

GENERAL F — Seth"s Sweetheart, com. E; 
The Fahle of the Family That Did Too Much 
For Nellie, com, S-A ; The Lost Mall Sack. 
2-nel dr. K : Th«< Girl of the I^ork. J-re«*l dr. 
L; Pathes Weekly, No. IOT, Pthe; The Repa- 
ration, dr. S ; Kill or Cure, com, V. 

UNIVERSAL —Tin" Old Hell RlnKrr. dr. N ; 
The Ttnxphnll Fans of Fanvllle, com. .1 ; The 
Se"ret Tr»»»tv, ?-r«>«>) fir, Eclr ; rnlvprnnrn 
Animated Weekly. U. 



OCTOBER ^-THURSDAY. 

MUTUAL.— The Whiskey Runners, 2-reel 
dr, Dom, Keystone title not announced ; Mu- 
tual Weekly, No. 93, M. 

GENERAL F— Their Little Drudge, dr, B; 
When Slippery Slim Met the Champion, com, 
S-A; In Old Virginia, 2-reel dr, L; The 
New Apprentice and Kissing Germ, split-reel 
com, Col ; Hearst-Sellg News Pictorial, No. 
«*, S ; The Loan Shark King, dr, V. 

UNIVERSAL.— Rural Adventures, dr, I ; A 
Law Unto Herself, 2-reel dr, Rx ; Hypnotic 
Power, com, Ster. 

OCTOBER 9— FRIDAY. 

MUTUAL.— The Sheriff of Muscatine, 2-reel 
dr. K B ; The One Who Cared, dr, Pr ; The 
Llenevolence of Conductor 7fSfl, com, T. 

GENERAL F. — They Were College Boys 
and The Man Hunters, 2-reel com, B; The 
Long Way, .'{-reel dr, E ; The Real Agatha, 
2-reel dr, S-A; The Tattered Duke, com, K; 
The Green-Eyed Monster, dr, L; Jlmmle the 
Porter and Doc Yak's Bottle, split-reel com, 
S ; .losle's Legacy, com, V. 

UNIVERSAL.— He Never Said A Word, 
com, N ; The Mayor's Manicure, com, P ; 
The Man Who Was Never Kissed, 2-reel com, 
Vic. 

OCTOBER 10— SATURDAY. 

MUTUAL— The Tardy Cannon Ball. 2-reel 
dr, Rel ; Keystone title not announced ; The 
Pet of the Petticoats, com, R. 

GENERAL F. — His Mother's Home, dr, D; 
A FniKm**iit of Ash, dr, E ; Broncho Billy and 
the Greaser, dr. S-A ; Fate's Midnight Hour, 
dr. K ; When the Ham Turned, com, L ; Her 
Victory Eternal, dr, S ; The Rose and the 
Thorn. 2-reel dr, V. 

UNIVERSAL. — Cruel. Cruel World, com, J ; 
The Phantom Light, 2-reel dr, B 101. 



By GUY PRICK. 

"Wings of Love" is a new photoplay in 

8 reparation ftt one of the Los Angeles studios. 
low we may know why love so often flies out 
the window. 



Holbrook BUnn was guest at several motion 
picture camps ln and around Los Angeles 
last week. 



Jack O'Brien Is getting to be a highbrow. 
He Is putting on only problem plays. He 
hopes to be a Belasco. 

Fred Mace Is said to be back on the Coaat 
this week. Mace has been reported "on his 
way" so many times that he will have to be 
here before his friends will believe it. 



Barnum and Bailey's circus, tents, horses, 
people and all, appear ln a film, scenes for 
which were taken ln Los Angeles by the Lasky 
company last week. 

Billy Elmer la now with the Western Lasky 
company. 

Ernest Van Pelt recently became a mem- 
ber of the Essanay company. 

Albert W. Hale, Kalem director, baa leased 
Nat Goodwin's Santa Monica, Cal., home and 
will occupy it during the star's absence en 
tour. 



Evelyn Selble is with the Essanay forces. 

Mabel Van Huron has purchased a bunga- 
low home ln Hollywood, Cal. 

House Peters Is looking for a comfortable 
Los Angeles bungalow (If there Is such a 
thing), and says he wants to locate In South- 
ern California for good. 

Cecil De Mllle, Wtlfree Buckland, Bessie 
Barrlscale and other members of the Lasky 
(western) company are at San Diego and San 
Juan Capistrane taking scenes for "The Rose 
of the Rancho." 



Morgan Wallace has resigned as director for 
the Keystone. 

Richard Walton Tully changed his mind 
about directing his film version of "The Rose 
of the Rancho," and is working on a new play 
Instead. 

Director Hamilton of Albuquerque has signed 
a three years' contract with the United Pro- 
ducers' Company, Inc., to supply Warner's 
Features. 



D. W. Griffith has found a battleground for 
his feature in "The Clansman." It Is located 
on a big ranch Just outside Los Angeles. 

The entire staff of the Keystone has re- 
turned to Los Angeles after taking "water 
stuff" at Santa Catallna Island. 

Velma Stech has joined Max Ascher's com- 
pany. She has been with Kolb and Dill for 
several seasons. 



WORLD FILM WORKING FAST. 

Two more picture deals have been 
consummated by Lewis J. Selznick. 
vice-president and general manager oi 
the World Film Corporation, whereby 
his concern will handle the exclusive 
market distribution of "The Dancer 
and the King" (five parts) and "Across 
the Pacific" (six parts) manufactured 
by the Charles Blaney-Spooner Amuse- 
ment Co., and "The Seats of the 
Mighty," the big multiple reeled fea- 
ture, turned out by the Colonial Film 
Co. 

The World Film Corporation has 
done some extensive branching out of 
late making a ten-strike when it re- 
cently acquired the bookings for the 
Shubert and William A. Brady (Inc.) 
picturized plays. 



Trinity Auditorium Opens. 

Los Angeles, Sept. 30. 

The new Trinity Auditorium, de- 
signed to house high-class musical and 
concert attractions, and said to be the 
finest institution of its sort west of 
Chicago, opened Monday night with 
the feature film "Cabiria." 

The place has a capacity of 2,300, 
with three galleries. L. E. Behmyer is 
manager. 



VARIETY 



21 



THE WAR OF WARS. 

The Bamo" film company wu the first to 
bring out a war picture after hostilities be- 
gan on the other side, and It looks now as if 
they were getting the money with their "War 
of Wars," a slx-reeler supposedly taken on 
the other side during the early encounters be- 
tween the French and OermanB. The picture 
has a story more Interesting than the battle 
•cenes. It starts with the Germans In the 
vicinity of a small French village after war 
has been declared. The Inhabitants of the 
town do not seem worried, but keep up their 
toll In the fields In the usual way. The two 
principal male characters are a young Ger- 
man and a young Frenchman, both belonging 
to the armies of their countries. The Ger- 
mans advance upon the town and capture It 
while the young French officer Is In his home 
saying good-bye to his Bisters. The few 
French peasants put up a good battle, but are 
unable to hold back the Teutons. The French 
officer manages to get away without being 
captured. The Germans take possession of all 
the bouses and the commanders take the cha- 
teau where the young Frenchman and his 
two sisters live. The young German officer 
Is In a very destructive mood and goes around 
the house shooting everything In sight. The 
elder of the sisters sees him and reprimands 
him before all the officers and he vows re- 
venge. The French officer Joins his regiment 
and hears of the capture of a German spy, so 
he decides to dress in the man's uniform, im- 
personate him, and get the news for his coun- 
try. He takes the message and starts for his 
own town. There, with the aid of some of the 
townfolk, be Is able to gain much informa- 
tion. He arranges to have his sister come to 
the cabaret, as he deems It Impossible to go to 
their home, as the soldiers are all there. He 
arrives before his sister and goes upstairs to 
rest and wait. She comes and thinks that her 
brother has been caught and sends the Inn- 
keeper's wife to her home to tell the news. 
Borne of the German officers on a lark come 
Into the place, Including the officer who had 
■worn revenge. When all the others leave he 
remains and Is bound to have the woman. 
The Frenchman leaves the place and, un- 
knowingly, his sister to the fate of the Ger- 
man. Just as the German officer Is going to 
take the girl off, he realises what a terrible 
thing he Is doing and decides to behave. He 
goes out of the place and the. proprietor, who 
had been In the cellar, seeing 'that he has the 
girl In his power decldee to keep her there. 
The officer, looking back through the window, 
sees this, returns, and kills the other man. 
The wife learns of his death when the other 
woman returns home and decides that she will 
kill her husband's murderer, the other telling 
her that her husband was trying to protect 
her. Just when the klling Is to be done the 
Frenchman's sister tells the Inn-keeper's wife 
to let her do the killing. In the meantime 
the German was to be court martlaled for the 
murder, as he did not wish to state the real 
reason for the killing. The sister, coming into_ 
the parlor, sees the German and stabs him lri~ 
the back, but not deep enough to kill. The 
Frenchman returns and hears of the affair of 
his sister and is greatly enraged. He claims 
her a spy and Induces the French officers to 
condemn her to die. The Germans have left 
the village and the French have again taken 
possession. The shooting of the sister Is Just 
about to happen when the Germans come back 
and the French soldiers hurry to offset the 
attack. The French girl loves the German 
officer, much to the dismay of the brother. 
The last reel shows a battle with the Germans 
blowing up a bridge and general bloodshed. 
The last reel rambles and does not close the 
picture very well, falling to show what be- 
comes of the characters, and who wins the 
battle. The picture is rather Interesting and 
makes a good war film. The war thing Is 
fairly well worked out, a bunch of supers 
being used that show some ability as soldiers. 
The two pieces of cannon are pulled around 
a bit too much, but the Idea of using old 
muisle loaders in this war is rather queer. 
The photography, when natural views are 
given Is high class, but the Interiors are 
rather cheap. For the first war picture per- 
taining to the present conflict, "War of Wars" 
Is not so bad. 

THE LURE OF THE YUKON. 

"The Lure of the Yukon" shows the splen- 
did scenic possibilities of Alaska as a field 
for pictures. This three-reel picture which 
is being handled by the Picture Playhouse 
Film Co. was made In that territory. The 
picture tells of the adventures of two brothers 
seeking a fortune in the gold fields of the 
Yukon. They are seen at work on their claim. 
They strike it rich and return to the states. 
At Dawson City one of the brothers gets Into 
the clutches of a dance hall proprietor's 
daughter, who has been told that he has a lot 
of gold. The girl really falls in love with 
the miner and her father learns of their 
plot to elope. As the pair leave the hall to- 
gether the father and his handy man follow. 
They overhear the plans and the father de- 
cides to kill the miner and get his gold. A 
light in the window Is to be the girl's signal 
and two whistles her lover's. The father and 
his confederate come, seize the girl and lock 
her up. The two other mm put the light in 
the window and soon after the whistle is 
sounded. The girl hears this nnd knows ftiat 
her lover Is to be trapped. She looks through 
the latch hole In the door and seeing the lamp 
she takes a gun and shatters It. The men in 
the adjoining room rush In. The struggle Is 
heard by the miner outside nnd hn comes to 
the rescue. The two brothers then start to 
the states again. One brenks bis ankle. This 
causes a delay and the pursuing pair come 
up. The brothers- nre bound and left to 
freeze to death. The girl follown the brothers. 
She finds them, releases them, all three make 
for the headquarters of the Yukon police. 
They arrive there safely and the police set 
out to get the two men. Their death in battle 
ends the film. 



THE VENDETTA. 

Of all the grewsome, ghastly and ghostly 
features, this George Klelne plcturlxed ver- 
sion of Marie Corelll's morbid story, "The 
Vendetta," stands out pre-eminently. Why 
the National Board of Censors ever passed 
It Is a problem. In this film death does Its 
mightiest and stalks In and out of the pic- 
ture as though pulling one of his many little 
life-ending stunts was easier than falling off 
a log. A man, apparently happily married, 
has the sweetest little girl Imaginable. Just 
when a handsome friend saunters in to look 
with adorable eyes upon the fascinating wife 
of the proud papa the married man hears a cry 
of distress. There's a dreaded plague afoot 
nearby. The man he helps gives Fablo Ro- 
manlo the disease. To all appearances Fablo 
dies and his coffin placed within a huge stone 
sepulchre by the Brothers of Mercy, black- 
robed and blackhooded men who help In giv- 
ing the film a creepy atmosphere. Romanlo 
was not dead. He breaks open the coffin lid 
and In seeking an outlet from his tomb dis- 
covers a chest of Jewels, etc. Under disguise 
he goes home and finds that his wife and his 
supposed friond are stealing the turtle doves' 
stuff. He watches them spoon and croon, and 
forthwith swears vengeance. Later the child 
becomes seriously ill and dies, the mother re- 
fusing to go near it, fearing contagion. The 
girl recognizes her father Just as she dies. 
Again the father becomes more determined to 
wreak vengeance upon the woman. He be- 
stows lavish gifts upon Tina and the first 
thing one knows the artist friend becomes a 
secondary consideration. Fablo, under an, as- 
sumed name, becomes engaged to his own 
wife. In another scene the friend insults 
Fablo and a duel follows, In which the friend 
is killed. The finale brings about the wed- 
ding and the big dance. Fablo entices his 
wife to the vault where he had been entombed. 
Here he shows her the casket and discloses his 
Identity. Then he tells her that he is going 
to leave her behind. She loses her mind and, 
like the ghosts of Hamlet, former visions of 
her kin pass before her as she goes mad. An 
earthquake sends stone snd debris over her 
but the man isn't touched. For those who 
glory In the morbid, regard funerals as pic- 
nics and revel In all things pertaining to the 
uncanny and unreal, "The Vendetta" will 
furnish a square meal. But It's torture to 
those who don't. 

THE DEVH/S - FIDDLER. 

"The Devil's Fiddler," a three-reel Apex, 
presents an Interesting little dramatic Inci- 
dent that will serve to fill In on an ordinary 
program. The principals work heroically to 
put over the story and succeed fairly well In 
their task. The film shows a number of nice 
exteriors, Including a beautiful Swiss chalet, 
the studio of the artist Anatol. He has as 
his model Juana. a dancing girl. A gypsy 
caravan camps within a short distance of the 
studio. Its leader Is the principal character 
and bis music charms and bewitches the lit- 
tle model until she decides to decamp with 
the player. A year later she is in Paris snd 
all the rage. Scaramourse, the gypsy, still 
retains his mastery over her by sheer force 
of brutality, but she seems to love him be- 
cause he beats her, and he is flinging her 
earnings over the gaming table. He becomes 
broke and as a last wager, the little dancer 
is the stake. Scaramourse loses. Anatol and 
a friend have watcbed the dancer perform at 
the club and have followed her to her rooms, 
where the artist tries to persuade her to re- 
turn to him. In the midst of this the gypsy 
returns and flings himself at the artist's 
throat. He Is, however, worsted In the com- 
bst and Anatol departs with Juana. The 
gypsy follows, and with his violin once again 
tries to practice his fascination. He makes 
his way to a window outside the studio and 
plays 7< The Dance of Death." Wilder and 
wilder the music, until the little dancer, 
again enthralled, rises and begins dancing. 
At the conclusion she falls dead at the feet 
of Anatol, who enters the room. Much of the 
effect of the picture Is lost unless the house 
showing the film has a violinist in the or- 
chestra who is capable of Interpreting the 
wild and abandoned playing of the typical 
gypsy violinist, for on him depends much of 
the story. 



BALAOO OR THE DEMON APE. 

Fiction has been full of half-man and half- 
ape characters for some time and so it was 
up to a foreign picture manufacturer to put In 
picture form one of these stories. Balaoo Is 
a huge ape-man with half the cleverness of 
a man and the ferocity of a beast. He is 
looked after by a man very kind to him and 
tries to make things as easy for the poor thing 
as can be done In a civilized country. The 
ape-man Is a general nuisance around the 
community, causing much hard feeling with 
his trickery. He Is reprimanded several 
times and Anally runs away to Switzerland, 
his home being In France. In the new coun- 
try he keeps up his mischief. His chief pleas- 
ure Is to swing down upon some unsuspecting 
persons and carry them away In the trees. In 
the dim story there Is a man who wants to 
kidnap the daughter of Balaoo's protector. 
His friend and daughter seek the ape and 
the other man keeps close watch over the girl. 
The kidnapper has a fight in a hotel with a 
traveling salesman and gets the ape-man to 
kill his enemy when he Is sleeping. The ape 
does this by holding onto a gas pipe on the 
ceiling and walking along until he reaches the 
bed of his victim and then with his long arms 
he strangles him. The authorities see the 
hairy footprints on the celling and decide 
that the ape was the murderer. The ape 
while trying to shield the daughter of his 
benefactor Is shot by the kidnapper, but not 
killed. He gets the girl away and takes her 
to her father, «.hen drops dead. The charac- 
ter of the ape whs satisfactorily filled by a 
wonderful climber, which, together with a 
well made up face, gave everything that the 
picture had. The rest was commonplace. 



QUEEN MARGARET. 

"Queen Margaret," Is a seven-reel Eclectic, 
shown for the first time in this country at 
Hammersteln's Lexington this week. The 
photoplay dramatisation Is based on the novel 
entitled "Marguerite De Valols," by Alexandre 
Dumas. The feature Is a wonderful exposi- 
tion of the natural color process which the 
Eclectic is employing. The court costumes of 
the 16th Century lend themselves particu- 
larly well to coloring and the result Is highly 
gratifying. The story of the photoplay deals 
with the many Intrigues of the Court of 
Charles IX of France and with the massacre 
of the Huguenots who were the subjects of 
Henry of Navarre. The scenes are laid in 
France and the principal characters taken 
by capable artists recruited from tbe principal 
theatres of Paris. The photography through- 
out is particularly good. The story, how- 
ever. Is not told In a manner thst makes It 
clear to those who have not read the Dumas 
story- It Is barely possible titles could rem- 
edy this fault. There are a number of letters 
and written commands Issued In the course of 
the action of the photoplay and these are 
not flashed long enough to give the au- 
dience time to read them. Tbe story In Itself 
has no particular feature to recommend It as 
a feature picture, but it will serve as an en- 
tertainment. The ending Is particularly bad, 
because of Its grewsomeness and at the end 
the audience Is left to wonder what has be- 
come to Henry of Navarre, In whom the tale 
has created the principal Interest Those who 
have read the Dumas works know there Is an- 
other novel, under tbe title of "Henry of Na- 
varre" which relates his history In full, but 
this fact does not enhance the value or the 
present feature. It would be different If all of 
the works of Dumas were to be shown In a 
series, then the public could follow the various 
adventures of the great French author's 
heroes. 



REDEMPTION. 

"Redemption" is a two-reeler, crammed full 
of story, with quite some action. It's prin- 
cipal bid for notice Is a double seduction and 
a double murder, one" caused by tbe other In 
each Instance, although the man who com- 
mitted the first murder and received IB years 
in prison for doing It, learned his lesson, for 
the same fellow, when committing the second 
murder, did It on a lonely highway, and 
afterward It looked as though he would marry 
the girl himself. Otherwise there Is noth- 
ing unusual In the story turned out by the 
Imp and directed by Herbert Brenon. It tells 
tbe old tale of a country girl falling for a 
city chap and going back to her first love, 
the bumpkin, after ner cityfled husband had 
turned her out, with the "che-lld." This 
che-lld, played by little Jane Lee, was the 
hit of the film. She cried so naturally at tbe 
proper time one could Imagine the director 
made horrible faces at her, to obtain the 
realism. The little mite received applause 
all by herself. After her mother died and 
her father had been killed by the country 
lover, who went to Jail, the che-lld grew up. 
She met a city chap, too, and he took advan- 
tage of her trusting love Just as the coun- 
trymen returned from Sing Sing. Pretty 
tough taking chances In that neighborhood, 
for the countryman got the other fellow be- 
fore he had time to get back to the city to 
tell the boys about It One thing Mr. Brenon 
has done In this film, made a two-reeler out 
of what many another would have made four. 
The photography and locations are very good, 
the camera man getting the characters at 
close range for full faces. That's a good film 
trick lending weight, when the faces may be 
looked at without wincing. The leading 
woman of "Redemption" takes three roles, 
and does them all well. 8ime. 



QUEEN OF THE SKULL CLAN. 

Old Sleuth would have to sit up a few nights 

to think up harder tricks than some of those 

foreign film people have concocted In "The 

Queen of the Skull Clan." All of the artifices 

employed by the oldest detectives of our 

mythological remembrance are put to shame. 
Secret panels, mysterious caverns, wild re- 
cesses, dark caves, wall ladders and a score 
of things one reads about. There's a Duke 
Don de Brlon with whom the Queen Is 
In love and a young woman, named Helen, 
who has a time with the villains of the 
Queen's Apaches. A member of the band 
named Paul recognizes ber as a kin and effects 
a thrilling rescue. Also an old hag who uses 
a trap door leading to a creepy, mysterious 
cellar that has some weird underground pas- 
sageway connections. The Queen plans all 
sorts of diabolical revenge. She has Helen 
forcibly kidnapped and a little later we see 
poor Helen In part of her attire gone. Her 
hair Is down her back and she's very much 
dishabille. Here tbe plot thickens wben Paul 
ties her up and starts In to enjoy caressing 
ber. There are several fights and the finale 
comes with the police shooting the Queen and 
her side partner Just as they are about to re- 
take the girl after Paul had put most of 
Queenle's bunch down and out. Paul is fatal- 
ly wounded. Before Queenle gives up the last 
breath she tells the Count or Duke she was 
sorry, but did It all because she loved him. 
For a story of this kind there should be more 
captions that would enlighten one as to what 
Is about to happen or is going on. The four- 
rceler bears the label of the Strand Film 
Co., and Is every foot of the celluloid way a 
foreign film. For the 14th street or avenue 
boys this picture Is going to give some of 
th<*m heart trouble. It Is the kind of melo- 
drama they eat up. In tbe better class of 
houses some of tbe spots will cause laughter. 

Mark. 



THE NIGHTINGALE. 

Isola FranU, "the Nightingale," 

Ethel Barrymore 
Tony Frantl. her father. .Win. Courtlclgh, Jr. 
Andrea Frantl, her brother. .. .Frank Andrews 
Charles Marden, young banker. 

Conway Tearle 
Nathan Marden, his father. .Chas. Stevenson 
"Red" Oalvln, a gang leader. .. .Irving Brooks 
David Manti, musical educator, 

Mario Majeroni 
Jean De Resnl, vocal Instructor. .1'hlllip Hahn 

Mrs. Belmore, society leader Ida Darling 

Nathan Marden II, the "New Nightingale," 

"Bobby" Stewart 

Prefect of Police Henri Antiznat 

Detective John O'Brien 

Frank, a gangster Frank Dudley 

Oaszl Catasal, impresario M. Monet 

Maid Caroline French 

Nola, cabaret agent Mrs. Cooper 

Madonnl, cabaret entertainer. . .Claude Cooper 

Police Sergeant Ed. West 

Ethel Barrymore haB made her debut as a 
photoplay star and as such will undoubtedly 
shine long and brightly. The medium of ber 
debut is "The Nightingale," a five-reel. All 
Star, adapted by Augustus Thomas from his 
play of tbe same title, in which Miss Barry- 
more starred at the Empire, New York, sev- 
eral years ago. As a stage artiste Miss Barry- 
more has an enviable reputation, but should 
she ever determlue to adopt the picture screen 
as the exclusive means of exposition of her 
histrionic abilities her fame will be even great- 
er than tbe triumphs that she has achieved be< 
fore the footlights. Her wonderful magnetic 
personality asserts itself even In pictures and 
in "Tbe Nightingale" she will grip audiences 
and hold them from tbe first flash until the 
last foot of film Is sbown. Tbe All Star Co. 
has surrounded her with a wonderful support- 
ing company and Mr. Thomas hat given the 
photoplay a remarkable production as to de- 
tail. The company In tbe picture could easily 
present "The Nightingale" at a Broadway 
theatre as a revival and achieve distinction. 
True, Miss Barrymore Is of more mstronly 
proportions than when last seen, but thla de- 
tracts naught. The story unfolded In "The 
Nightingale" Is Ideal for picture purposes. 
It contains a wonderful love Interest, thrills 
and a touch of underworld conditions that Is 
calculated to hold the attention of the average 
picture audience. There are many stirring 
scenes and the fact of a really Interesting story 
well acted by s capsble company, coupled with 
Miss Barry more's name, should make "The 
Nightingale" a very strong drawing card for 
any exhibitor. It Is a feature thst will be 
productive of word-of-moutb advertising and 
therefore might be run at least two days In 
any house. 

a changTof heart. 

In the employ of the Pathe Freree Com- 

Sany have been two brothers, prominent In 
lrectlng and acting of Pathe photoplays for 
a long time. They sre Theodore and Leopold 
Wharton, now producing a brand of pictures 
winch the Eclectic Is handling. The first re- 
leases show that tbe Whartons are bound to 
be beard from sooner or Ister as pbotoplsy 
producers. One of the 2.000 feet films wss 
turned loose this week and the picture msde 
a favorable Impression upon Its first showing. 
"A Change of Heart" tells a story thst Is as 
old as the hills but at the same time will 
appeal to the old and young alike on "moth- 
er love." The picture Is well connected and 
has an unusual ending. The story hss a 
sort of "Oet Rich Quick Walllngford" atmos- 
phere, with four men forming a grafting com- 
bination In which they defraud an old woman 
out of $5,000 with one of the swindlers hsvlng 
a change of heart and returning the money to 
the old lady, following a flstlc battle the good- 
hearted chap has with his fellow workers. It's 
a plsy for sympathy and all that with a tug 
at tbe heartstrings when the bogus Investment 
dealer has a vision of his own old mother 
when he was "her boy." The picture shows 
how a get- rich scheme can be developed and 
how unsuspecting victims are fleeced out of 
their savings. The Interiors are well set and 
do not carry the studio effect one sees so 
much. The fight had possibilities and could 
have been worked up more dramatically with- 
out making It too easy for one man to dis- 
pose of three attacking him at the same time. 
One of the best parts of the picture comes 
at the close. The man with the change of 
hesrt returns the money and the woman real- 
izing bis efforts to be honest with her, slips a 
bill into his outside vest pocket. He goes to 
tbe station and, searching his pocket, csn only 
flhd a solitary penny. Then he discovers the 
bill. He obtains an envelope from the station- 
master, encloses the bill and addresses It to 
the owner of the money, leaving It with the 
ticket man for delivery later. He then In- 
vests his lonely red for a paper. The train 
comes In and goes but the man only stares 
at It In passing. He buttons his cost, slips 
on his gloves and taking a good grip on his 
cane, starts down the track afoot. Marie. 

OLE BRANDIS' EYES. 

A four reeler with no clue to the maker. 
The picture Is not especially Interesting. 
Brandls Is an artist and many women are 
attracted by him. Me han a model. Freda, 
very devoted, but he does not particularly 
pay attention to her. A picture of hi* Is 
stolen by an old miner. After considerable 
trouble It Is returned, but the old man Is 
willing to pay any price to have the piece of 
art. He save ho will *lve the artist any- 
thing he desires The lntter decides that he 
would like to see all people as they really 
are and not nv thev pretend. The miser gives 
him a letter which, when he rubs It across 
his eyes, will hIiow the true nnture of the 
person who Ih near him. He then stnrt" the 
rounds of all the people he knows and lines 
them up. The Inst one Is the little model, 
who, he finds. In her own self nnd he takes 
her for hl« wife. A rather ridiculous Idea 
hut. these are hard times. 



22 



VARIETY 



NEW ACTS NEXT WEEK 

Initial Presentation, First Appearance 

or Reappearance In or Around 

New York 



Capt Louis Sorcho's Deep Sea Divers, 

Hammcrstein's. 
"The Girl from Atlantic City," Ham- 

merstein's. 
George L. Moreland, Hammcrstein's. 
Manhattan Trio, Hammerstein's. 
Gene Hodgkins and Irene Hammond, 

Hammerstein's. 
Joe Kennedy, Hammerstein's. 
Mr. and Mrs. Carter De Haven, 

Colonial. 
Lucy Gillette, Colonial. 
Edna Aug, Alhambra. 
Weston and Leon, Orpheum. 
Moore and Yates, Orpheum. 
"The Lonesome Lassies," Prospect. 
Hawthorne and Inglis, Prospect. 
Arthur Barrett, Prospect. 
Haviland and Thornton, Bushwick. 
Jack Mannion and Val Harris, Bush- . 

wick. 
Fred and Adele A stair e, Bushwick. 
Alice Lloyd (New Act), Palace. 

Bert Leslie and Co. (3). 

"Hogan in London" (Comedy). 

17 Mins.; Five (Parlor). 

Hammerstein's. 

Another of the "Hogan" series Bert 
Leslie has made popular in vaudeville. 
His fame and that of the "Hogan" 
sketches has come through the slang 
Mr. Leslie uses, new slang each time 
with many twists, some of it very 
bright and nearly all good for a laugh. 
In this latest number, written by 
Frank J. McGettingan and Mr. Leslie, 
the talk is the best "Hogan" has had 
in the slangy style. Little of it is 
forced, nearly all has good points and 
several lines brought real screams. The 
scene is set in a London home where 
Leslie goes as a painter from New York 
to receive $10,000, his share of a for- 
tune left by an uncle. A company of 
three, two men and a woman, does 
nicely, the cabman (Legai Robinson) 
especially well taking care of the char- 
acter, in action and make-up. The sup- 
port as usual act only as feed- 
ers to Mr. Leslie. The finish could 
stand a little strengthening, but the act 
is there easily. A line on the Ham- 
merstein program, referring to Mr. 
Leslie, says: "A Copy of None — 
Copied by Many." That is true. 

Sime. 



Gobert Belling Co. 

Animals. 

16 Mins ; Full Stage. 

Palace. 

A foreign animal turn, pretentiously 
staged and with a comedy foundation 
that will distinguish it from the aver- 
age, but in its present state it is far too 
slow for American vaudeville. Belling 
and an assistant work in comedy 
clothes, the latter executing some fine 
falls. A burlesque bull fight, featured, 
brings the desired laughs, also a mule 
with the usual bucking routine, but on 
the whole the act lacks enough solid 
comedy strength. An unnecessary en- 
core took a few minutes and lacked a 
punch. For this country Mr. Belling 
will havt to accumulate more speed. 

Wynn 



Robert Edeson and Co. (4). 
"Apartment 309" (Dramatic). 
18 Mins.; Full Stage. 

Palace. 

A rather commonplace story molded 
into a semi-strong, but exceptionally 
well staged bit of drama, is "Apart- 
ment 309," in which Robert Edeson is 
being featured. The scene shows the 
handsomely appointed apartment of 
Nora Truman (Jane Haven) sister of 
Nat Truman (Mr. Edeson) a young 
newspaper man. It's midnight and 
Nat, out on an assignment, drops in 
unexpectedly. He is scheduled to in- 
terview Amos Broadback, a local po- 
litical pillar. Nora exhibits consider- 
able nervousness over Nat's presence 
and finally induces him to leave, just 
as Broadback is about to enter. In a 
few minutes Nat realizes the circum- 
stances, both Broadbav. and the girl 
admitting their relations. He has 
ruined the sister who is understood to 
be but 18 (but who looks much older 
from the front). Nat decides to kill 
him, and do s so after some plain talk, 
the shooting being done in an adjoin- 
ing room. Broadback's brother (Ed- 
ward Wonn), who had been previously 
summoned by phone, arrives and is 
calmly told by Nat of the murder and 
as calmly arranges for the removal of 
the body. He in turn calls the family 
physician and they have the lighting 
system temporarily disconnected while 
the corpse is carried out. This allows 
for a weirdly dramatic situation and 
gives the turn a unique finish. Mean- 
while the brother has advised Nat that 
the affair will be dropped to avoid any 
unpleasant notoriety, although this 
seems to peeve Nat, who evidenced a 
desire for arrest or revenge some- 
where. The sketch carries a capable 
cast, but Edeson has little opportunity 
to display his acting ability, since the 
punch is but a tap in this instance and 
the climax as aforesaid but semi- 
strong. There are several interesting 
situations, but no really big moments, 
the piece reaching its dramatic pinnacle 
when the brother, in discussing the af- 
fair with Nat, suggests the murdered 
man could have paid, to which Nat re- 
plies "He has paid." Without a star 
"Apartment 309" would hardly carry 
but being equipped with one, it just 
about reaches Wynn- 



Ethel McDonough. 

Songs. 

17 Mins.; One. 

Royal. 

On in an early spot at the Royal 
Tuesday evening, and suffering from a 
dual handicap in the matter of an in- 
ferior song routine and a frightful or- 
chestra, Miss McDonough had rather 
a hard time of it. Miss McDonough 
is far too wise in the tactics of the the- 
atre to continue with her present reper- 
tory of songs. Using "Rose and Tulip" 
for her opening jiumber, she got away 
to a poor start and was unable to re- 
trieve until her closing number. "Hats 
Off to You, Mr. Wilson," while a heavy 
applause number, only got the merest 
ripple. The "rag" she is using to close 
with is by far the best song in her act, 
as far as she personally is concerned. 
As a single turn Miss McDonough 
could easily stand for two songs of 
syncopated measure and achieve a great 
deal more than she does. 



Kar-Mi. 

Illusions. 

15 Mint.; Full Stage (Special Set). 

Hammerstein's. 

Extravagantly billed on the program, 
which called Kar-Mi a prince, of India, 
this magician, with two assistants, was 
placed to close the Hammerstein pro- 
gram Monday night. The stage set- 
ting that seemed to say that several 
things would be attempted, besides the 
dressing of the people concerned in 
robes suggesting East Indians, held the 
house at a rather late hour, until the 
turn finished. Kar-Mi is very dark- 
skinned, much more so than his woman- 
assistant, who is the person mostly 
used for the disappearances, although 
the other man is employed at one time 
for a substitution. The main illusion 
is at the finale. It is made somewhat 
lengthy by a slow manner of working, 
also the continued chatter Kar-Mi uses, 
and his work of borrowing a couple of 
watches from the audience. Cut down 
and worked faster, this would be an ex- 
cellent illusion. It contains the sub- 
stitution as well. The early portion has 
a sword swallowing feat by Kar-Mi, 
who swallows a bayonet affixed to a 
heavy musket, holding the latter up on 
an even line with his mouth. Later 
he loads the gun, and swallowing a 
portion of the steel barrel that has been 
detached, fires it at his male assistant's 
head, apparently knocking off a card 
placed there, with the shot. A few 
tricks of legerdemain are mixed in. 
Kar-Mi secures some comedy from his 
talk, that carries an accent of some 
sort, perhaps India although sounding 
Dutch (not German). It's an odd sort 
of act for present-day vaudeville, made 
odd mostly through the sword swal- 
lowing that is not performed here in 
the customary museum style. The turn 
ought to get attention on the small 
big time, and might take care of a 
spot on the big time. Rime. 



NEW SHOWS NEXT WEEK 

Initial Presentation of Legitimate 
Attractions in New York. 



Howland and Leach. 

Society Dances. 

7 Mins.; Full Stage. 

American Roof. 

"Opportunity" is the wonder-worker 
of the show business. Howland and 
Leach are an example. Of the many 
"society dancers" who have gained 
quick fame and fortune in the dance 
craze, this couple missed. When they 
were at Shanley's before going to 
Europe, they were among the very best 
society dancers, and they are yet; but 
they didn't land. Just why, no one 
could tell. It was opportunity for the 
others, and the goddess passed up this 
couple. Maybe it was because they 
first danced in a restaurant-cabaret that 
did not have a ballroom floor. But the 
fact remains. Mr. Howland is of the 
Vernon Castle type, tall and graceful. 
Miss Leach is a pretty girl, bright look- 
ing, always smiling (not machine made) 
and dances well, besides doing some 
acrobatics. Howland and Leach also 
created a dance that has been copied, 
and they possess enough class to drive 
the pretenders on the small time back 
to where they came from, if this team 
continues over the circuits. Howland 
and Leach have everything the others 
have, excepting the reputation and 
money. Why? Rime. 



"The Heart of a Thief," Hudson (Oct. 

5). 

"Dancing Around" (Al Jolson), Win- 
ter Garden (Oct. 5). 

"The Money Makers," Booth (Oct. 5). 

"The Things That Count" (revival), 
Playhouse (Oct. 5). 



Mr. and Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb. 

"The Enchanted Statue." 

9 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Set). 

Hammerstein's. 

The little set these miniature people 
use, together with their small voices, 
make the "sketch" they are trying to 
present look like a marionette show. 
Loney Haskell, in announcing them 
through the program omitting the 
"Tom Thumb" portion in the descrip- 
tion, said Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb is 
73 years of age. The midgets are re- 
called by name and fame as freak at- 
tractions, having exhibited in side 
shows and museums for years, if not 
all of the present troupe, some of them. 
They are not to be seriously considered 
as actors, and what they did doesn't 
matter — it is the sight of these very 
little people who are so well known by 
reputation. "But for vaudeville that 
means little now, as midgets are em- 
ployed who are real entertainers, some- 
thing the Thumbs probably have never 
aspired to. The setting is antique as 
well. The act showed "No. 8." It just 
drew curiosity, satisfied at first sight. 
The program billed the people as 
Count, Countess and Baron Magri, 
quite some nobility in the reading. 

Sime. 



Jewell's Manikins. 

Spectacular Puppet Act 

IS Mins.; Full Stage (Special Scenery). 

Willard, Chicago. 

This act has been almost entirely 
made over as to scenery and general 
routine. The stage upon the stage has 
handsome new plush curtains, and the 
background is brilliantly decorated with 
spangles. The act opens with puppets 
entering the boxes for the entertain- 
ment. Later there is a lively modern 
society dance, in which a tiny man and 
a woman burlesque dances in a ludi- 
crous style. Later follow "Mut and 
Jeff," "Texas Nell," a riding act, and 
after that the "Baseball Rag," a neat 
and entirely new feature in the manikin 
line. The act has abundant humor and 
is worked with precision. It is a capital 
offering for a house where children at- 
tend, and it also makes a strong appeal 
to the older ones. 



Rose and Gates, 

Sketch. 

14 Mins.; Two (Interior). 

Columbia (Sept. 27). 

This team is presenting a "Potash 
and Perlmutter" sketch. At the open- 
ing two partners in the cloak and suit 
business are shown and the act is pat- 
terned after the many spats which the 
Montague Glass creations have had. 
The talk is draggy in spots and the 
men are not yet at ease in their roles. 
The younger of the two is" too prone 
to screech at the top of his lungs, de- 
tracting from the general effect. When 
the act is whipped into shape it will 
rlo for small time. 



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Gus Edward's "Song Revue. 

Musical Comedy. 

50 Mins,; Full Stage. 

Palace. 

With four principals, including him- 
self, and an abundant chorus of boys 
and girls, Gus Edwards has assembled 
an entirely new routine of popular num- 
bers for his latest revue edition, each 
carrying a separate share of equipment 
including costumes and scenery. The 
whole affair is quite elaborate, for vau- 
deville at least, running strictly to song 
without dialog, with an occasional spe- 
cialty to break the schedule. Every 
number has been given an individual 
production, with each gathering its full 
share of results. The affair opens with 
a southern setting, the boys and girls 
dressed in appropriate garments, the 
melody carrying "The Song Farm" 
title, after which Edwards wa bles "You 
Gotta Stop Pickin' On My kittle Pick- 
aninny," followed by "Bohemian Rag," 
by Edwards, with a dance encore in 
which he is seconded by Lillyan Tash- 
man. The number is catchy, but the 
dance, although helped by the girl's 
striking appearance, runs a far second 
to anything else in the repertoire. Sal- 
lie Seeley's specialty comes next, in 
"one." Miss Seeley has a double voice 
with the low register sounding natural 
the other resembling a well handled 
falsetto. She is one of the revue's big 
features and landed a personal hit 
"Shadowland," with Edwards leading 
is a good production number on the 
spook order, with comic views project- 
ed from the picture machine for added 
effect. George Jessel's specialty fol- 
lowed, with impersonations of Bert 
Williams, Ruth Roye, Eddie Foy and 
Raymond Hitchcock. The Foy bit was 
well handled, but the others, aside from 
the resemblan in dressing, carried lit- 
tle value. Jessel has apparently a fund 
of undeveloped talent and is still young 
enough to come under the Gerry ruling. 
He should be instructed to cover up his 
self-consciousness, now a bit too con- 
spicuous in his work, but still pardon- 
able when his age is considered. "Just. 
Around the Corner from Broadway," a 
dandy ballad with a corking lyric and 
melody, was given before a drop of 
Times Square, and landed the singing 
honors of the piece. Edwards led it 
with the troupe handling the encores. 
"I Love You California," "Panamala" 
and the finale came next in order with 
a Panama Exposition set. A cute little 
miss programed merely as "Cutey Cud- 
dles," was conspicuous in the cast, her 
age probably prohibiting her specialty. 
The revue held down the closing end 
of the Palace bill and with little compe- 
tition, was easily the feature of the pro- 
gram. Edwards has given every detail 
especial attention and may be credited 
with one of vaudeville's biggest pro- 
ductions. Where a house can stand the 
financial pressure, it should make a 
great attraction, for it can hardly fail 
anywhere. Wpnn- 



Boyd and St. Clair. 
Comedy. Skit. 

11 Mins.; Full (Special Drop). 
Proctor's 58th. 

Boyd and St. Clair are a man and 
a woman with a comedy skit patterned 
after some of the teams on big time. 
The woman hasn't any voice to speak 
of. and the act just about passes. 



"The Pipes of Pan" (6). 
Dancing Fantasy (Special Set). 
16 Mins.; Full Stage. 
Proctor's, Mt Vernon, N. Y. 

Menlo Moore has brought east one 

of his new acts, showing it this week 

at Proctor's in Mount Vernon. The 

number has six people, two men and 
four girls, with a beautiful woodland 
scene. The turn is dancing through- 
out, entirely in pantomime. There is 
something of a story told by the danc- 
ing of the principals, but it is not dis- 
tinct enough to easily grasp. However 
the dancing is what is meant to count, 
and it surely does, if Mount Vernon's 
verdict is a criterion. The dance story 
has to do with three character's. The 
lirst scene is in a special setting, in 
"three." The remainder of the dancing 
is in full stage. Pan, the fellow with 
the pipes, makes his appearance and 
nimbly prances around the stage. The 
sweetheart of the other fellow appears 
with a group of girls, and young Mr. 
Pan tries to steal her. He succeeds. 
As he is carrying her off, an arrow 
from her lover's bow goes through his 
heart, and that ends the piping. Some 
more dancing, and for the big finale 
after the killing, a storm arises and a 
bolt of lightning strikes a tree near the 
dancers. They fall prostrate upon the 
ground and that is the end. The danc- 
ing sketch is fine from an equipment 
standpoint and no fault can be found 
with principals. The girl having the 
most dancing to do, gracefully handles 
herself, as if she had had considerable 
ballet experience. The act is classy in 
looks and work. 



Howard and Fields and Their Dining 

Car Minstrels (3). 
23 Mins.; Three (Special Set). 
American Roof. 

Five people in the act, the two come- 
dians in blackface. Of the other three 
members, one is a man, who is the 
interlocutor, and two women, in white 

face (names unmentioned on the pro- 
gram). The scene is a dining car. As 
the act opens and closes, a panoramic 
effect is worked and may be seen 
through the car windows, indicating 
passing landscape. The two blackface 
men explain as their reason for being 
there that they are stranded minstrels, 
working their way back to St. Louis 
as waiters. The remainder of the group 
arc described as a part of a touring 
minstrel show. The interlocutor is the 
manager, and he needs two end men. 
Then they get down to business, which 
is singing, dancing and telling jokes. 
The latter are not bad at all; the com- 
edy by the two men is neither forced 
nor overdone; the singing seemed to be 
very well liked, particularly that by the 
trio of men (when the audience howled 
for more); the women get into the 
action with one solo and one duet, and 
the act passed along to a very good 
reception Tuesday night on the Roof. 
It could be speeded up; 23 minutes 
means a long time; but there's no ques- 
tion that the Roof audience liked this 
turn. It was down second from closing. 
Some electrical effects are used for 
lighting purposes, and the main scheme 
of presentation removes it from the 
stereotyped semi-circle. Sime. 



Daisy Leon. 

Songs. 

15 Mins.; Full Stage. 

Bushwick. 

Daisy Leon is a single. She was "No. 
2" on a big bill. Daisy's specialty is 
songs and changing costumes. After 
the first number she goes to lull stage 
where (behind a screen with a lamp in 
the rear) she makes several quick 
changes to represent different countries 
The last number is a hodge podge of 
operatic pieces with others not so class- 
ical, which she renders in a pleasing 
voice. All right tor the big small time 
with a chance at the real big time once 
in a while. 



Coy De Trickey. 

Songs. 

10 Mins.; One* 

American Roof. 

Coy De Trickey sings popular songs 
in blackface. The blackface is all right 
and so is Coy, but the songs are not 
popular enough — at least those she now 
employs. The second, a ballad, could 
be cast forth; it doesn't belong to a 
girl who bills herself as a "blackface 
comedienne." Miss De Trickey is more 
of a "coon shouter," and since the cake 
walk is coming back among the rag 
dances, why should not Coy let herself 
out as a shouter, becoming the sole sur- 
vivor among many of this type in the 
past? Miss De Trickey could improve 
upon her dressing scheme, and it is just 
as likely, too, that if she would "coon- 
shout" in white face the girl would do 
quite as well, if not better, although 
she is good looking under the cork, 
which is made too dark at present. 
But whatever Coy does, she should be 
careful of the song selection. Let these 
be of the best and all lively numbers. 
With a little care Miss De Trickey, in 
black or white face, should become a 
standard card on the small time. 

Sime. 



Edith Swan and Seven Musical Girls. 

Musical. 

lo Mins.; Full. 

Proctor's 58th. 

A big flash turn for the small time. 
Miss Swan has gathered seven good- 
looking girls who can play and dress 
well. The octet comprises strings, 
brass and a drummer. A feature num- 
ber to give the drummer an opportunity 
is not accepted for its full worth. 
Throughout the entire turn there 
seems to be a lack of ginger that would 
put the act over as a riot. A turn of 
this sort should be the hit of any small 
time bill, — properly managed and with 
the proper routine of numbers; but at 
the 58th street house Tuesday night it 
had to be content with second honors. 



Al Debre. 
Military. 
10 Mins.; Full. 
Proctor's 58th. 

An act of this sort is a ghost of the 
past. There are few left who can re- 
member so far into the past and the one 
that discovered it should receive a de- 
gree as an archaeologist. Al Debre 
is a colored performer. He plays a 
number of bugle calls at the opening; 
this is followed by a musket drill, and 
for the close he does a Lancashire clog. 



Tommy Van and Ward Girls. 
Songs and Dances. 
18 Mins.; One. 
Proctor's 58th. 

Tommy Van and the Ward Girls are 
presenting a three-act that will de- 
velop into a corking novelty turn for 
the small time. It has a novelty open- 
ing with the girls seated in the audi- 
ence. Mr. Van comes on as a single 
(which his billing would indicate) and 
offers an imitation of Raymond Hitch- 
cock. At its completion he starts to 
announce his next imitation, when he 
is interrupted by a girl's laugh from 
the audience. A bit of cross-fire fol- 
lows, and the girls come on the stage. 
Some comedy talk follows. The girls 
look cute at the opening, but after mak- 
ing a change the blonde dresses her 
hair in a fashion to make her look much 
taller than the brunet and detracts from 
the harmony. Her gown might also be 
changed. The act was easily the hit 
of the bill Tuesday night. 



Florence Rayfield. 

Songs. 

9 Mins.; One. 

Proctor's 58th. 

Florence Rayfield is a little "single" 
that will do for an early spot on the 
small time bills. She has a small par- 
lor voice with a nasal twang and a 
cabaret manner of working. 



Oliver White and Co. (2). 

Comedy Sketch. 

16 Mins.; Full Stage. 

Folly, Brooklyn. 

Whoever wrote this sketch spent 
little time on it. It is about a woman, 
and a bad one at that. The man thinks 
he is in the clutches of an adventuress. 
His butler tries to steer him right, but 
every time he looks at her picture he 
drops right back to where he was be- 
fore. So that the act will not become 
boring or talky, another chap, calling 
himself a shoemaker, appears, and com- 
edy is tried for, with the finale show- 
ing that this newcomer is a member 
of the adventuress's company, as she 
is also an actress. The curtain finds 
the lover saying he must get a wife. 
If fathoming out what it was all about, 
credit should be given. 



Lsher Trio. 

Comedy Sketch; "Almost a Million- 
aire." 
12 Mins.; Full (Special Set). 
American Roof. 

In "Almost a Millionaire" the Usher 
Trio have an act that will do for laugh- 
ing purposes on the small time. The 
set shows the interior of the office of 
Buttercake & Co 4 , a mail order firm. 
The two men in the act are clerk and 
office boy. The girl enters as a young 
heiress and proceeds seemingly to 
place an order for several thousand 
dollais' worth of goods. She has the 
clerk figure the cost for her and then 
thanks him, stating it was an example 
that had been handed her at school. 
The trio do a few minutes in "one" 
at the opening that is not necessary. 
The principal comedy is furnished by 
the office boy. It could be improved 
upon. 



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VARIETY 



Downing and Kctter. 
Piano Act 
16 Mins. 
Academy, Buffalo. 

These two lads, termed "The Raths- 
keller Duo," will be good for the three- 
a-day houses. Harmony prevails, 
Downing possessing a tenor voice of 
unusual quality, and Ketter has a good 
baritone which goes over well. Ketter 
is exceptionally clever on the piano. 
The present act consists of popular 
airs and an original comedy song 
sketch which creates a big hit. Ketter 
was formerly with Rahn and Ketter. 
Downing is a Buffalo boy, new. 



Edna Whistler, 

Songs. 

10 Mina.; One. 

American Roof. 

Edna Whistler is a mighty good 
looking girl, who has a pretty voice, 
some very handsome gowns, person- 
ality and the ability to put a song over. 
But at present she is handicapped by 
a poor song routine. Her opening 
number gives her a handicap that she 
has to work hard to overcome later. 
Other numbers seem unsuited to her. 
"Flower Garden Ball," which she is 
using to close, is a little old but con- 
siderably better fitted to the young 
woman's talent, and this number, to- 
gether with her stunning appearance, 
puts her turn over nicely. With proper 
songs Miss Whistler should do nicely 
in an early spot on the big time. 



Eddie Hart and Co. (1). 

"Jimmie Pinkerton's First Case/' 

20 Mins.; Full (Special Set). 

American Roof. 

"Jimmic Finkerton's First Case" is 
presented by Eddie Hart, with the as- 
sistance of a woman. The act is good 
comedy. The speed in playing might 
be thrown up a notch or two for better 
laugh results. As it is now, the act 
will do nicely as a filler in on almost 
any bill. 



Broughton and Turner. 
Singing and Talking. 
14 Mins.; One (Special Drop). 
American Roof. 

A clever mixed team, possessed of 
vjood voices, presenting a neat little 
skit that fitted in nicely. The talk is 
snappy and the act offers legitimate 
opportunity for the introduction of 
several Irish ballads. It is the former 
Walter Gaurthuce act, and got enough 
applause to warrant a couple of bows 
at tfie finish. 



Williams Brothers, 

Dancers. 

8 Mins.; One 

Columbia (Sept. 27). 

The usual two-man dancing team. 
At the Columbia Sunday one of the 
boys was so nervous it was easily ob- 
served from the front. The team was 
unfortunate in the selection of a tailor 
in ordering their dress clothes. Who- 
ever built their suits cheated in the 
length of the swallow tails. The boys 
need to rehearse the routine and when 
i he finished product is on hand thejr 
should do for small time. 



Dorsie, McNaughton and Co. (2). 
Scotch Comedy. 
16 Mini.; Full (Special). 
Columbia (Sept. 7). 

A one-act Scotch comedy playlet 
with three male characters and a wom- 
an. The sketch will stand featur- 
ing on the small time. The woman is 
a very clever little actress and the men 
carry the interest nicely. The talk 
at the opening might be cut somewhat 
and the action speeded a little. 



The Peppinos, 

Banjoists. 

15 Mina.; One 

Columbia (Sept 27). 

The Peppinos open with a double 
banjo number, followed by a single 
while one does a change and then tries 
to do a Hebrew comedy number. If 
the team will work out a straight mu- 
sical routine on the banjos and mando- 
lins they will do as an opening number 
on small time bills. 



Grantley and Drayton. 
Songa and Dances. 
8 Mins.; One. 
Olympic (Sept. 27). 

Colored boys. Affect an English 
Johnny style of working. Wear top 
hats throughout and also sport mon- 
acles. They sing a little but their 
strong point is dancing, and the routine 
is noticeably different from the usual 
run. A good act of its kind. 



Rockwell and Wood. 
"Nut Act." 
16 Mina.; One. 

Rockwell and Wood are a "nut act" 
and a good one. It's comedy all the 
time, whether they are talking or sing- 
ing. The shorter young man of the 
pair (he must be Rockwell, since the 
other is addressed as Al Wood) has 
a funny idea of working throughout the 
turn that is original, entirely away 
from others, and it gets the house im- 
mediately. While the straight man is 
talking, the comedian keeps up a line 
of comment, such as an abused wife 
or deceived young girl would use 
toward a man she was aggrieved at. The 
comedian doesn't attempt any "cissi- 
fied" talk, he just does it in a mascu- 
line way in his own style. There isn't 
any doubt it would make any English 
speaking audience laugh. When the act 
was seen at the American Roof one 
night last week, they held up the show 
in a good position, but would not take 
an encore, doing their 16 minutes solid, 
and making it seem like ten. This 
"nut" comedian is one of the best to 
yet appear, and Rockwell and Wood 
are a bfg time turn. Sime. 



Osceola and Chayuse. 
Sketching and Singing. 
11 Mins.; Full Stage. 
Star (Sept. 27). 

Man and woman do a series of cray- 
on sketches, warbling the while. The 
man's voice is the more agreeable and 
the girl's sketching the more inter- 
esting. The Indian heads at the open- 
ing are the best subjects of a com- 
monplace collection. The pair class 
as worthy small timers. 



George Drury Hart and Co. (3). 
"The Pardon" (Dramatic). 
18 Mina.; Five (Parlor or Library). 
American Roof. 

"The Pardon" and the George Drury 
Hart people afford a chance to point out 
what has seemed to be a grave over- 
sight on the part of sketch producers, 
particularly those of the drama. Very 
briefly, it is this, that "The Pardon" 
has a well-balanced cast, or perhaps, 
more properly, an evenly-balanced com- 
pany. This is very important to a 
sketch that is limited in its running 
time to the vaudeville conditions. 
Many a good sketch has been ruined 
through "the star" or the principal play- 
er foolishly surrounding himself with 
inferior people. It threw the play- 
ing off keel; the weaknesses in the act- 
ing became too readily apparent, and, 
although the playlet may have pos- 
sessed merit, the acting killed it, for 
with a company of three or more it is 
difficult for one person to carry the 
entire affair upon his or her shoulders. 
Mr. Hart has three people besides him- 
self, two men and a woman, the latter 
with a splendid speaking voice. She is 
the old mother of a convict and steals 
into the rooms of the governor of the 
state to plead for a pardon. Just be- 
fore, the political boss had demanded 
cf the governor that he pardon the boy 
(her boy) who killed his (boss's) son. 
The boss's request is in furtherance 
ol his scheme of revenge. He has used 
his influence to have the prison keepers 
starve the convict until he is taken with 
tuberculosis. The pardon plan is to 
have the mother at the prison to re- 
ceive her son, the pardon to be deliv- 
ered, and as the boy is just outside the 
gates the prisoner is to be informed by 
phone from the governor it was a mis- 
take, and the boy thrust back into a 
cell. The governor accedes, upon the 
threat of the boss to ruin his political 
future if he does not. Meanwhile the 
mother makes her plea, and during it 
the governor learns the boss's son 
started the quarrel which led to his 
death, the boss afterward framing the 
youth who simply defended himself. 
The governor thereupon returns to his 
righteous stand, hands the pardon to 
the mother in good faith and tells the 
boss to go to, after the boss had 
called him a "fine piece of cheese." 
The main theme is not unlike that in 
"The Man of the Hour," nor is the 
political situation involved unfamiliar; 
but the piece is very well played, is 
interesting, worked out nicely, and 
makes an excellent sketch for the small 
time. It could do on the small big 
time and would be worth a try on the 
biggest time, for there are certainly 
interest and action to hold it up. Mr. 
Hart probably played the governor. 
He had a hard role, while the boss con- 
tained what little comedy relief the 
piece has. The small time should com- 
mence to print detail billing (characters 
and names of players) on the pro- 
grams. No reason to pass up a feature 
in the descriptive matter as though it 
were unimportant. Sime. 



Dr. Louis Stern, member of The Fri- 
ars and equally well known as a mem- 
ber of the Vaudeville Comedy Club, has 
moved into the theatrical district and 
located at the Hotel Princeton, 116 
West 45th street. He formerly had 
offices in West 34th street. 



Tiller Sisters. 

Songa. 

12 Mina.; One. 

Star (Sept 27). 

The Tiller Sisters have an opening 
somewhat different. One does a tough 
girl, attempting "nut stuff" with some 
success; the other handling the 
straight, displaying an agreeable con- 
tralto voice. The comedienne, chang- 
ing to a pink dress, does nicely with a 
little song. They change to black and 
white dresses for the finish. A fair 
"sister act." They could use new 

songs. 

Little Jerry. 

Songa. 

11 Mina.; One, 

Star (Sept 27). 

Little Jerry is a dwarf, with very 
short legs. He sings four songs with 
a couple of attempts at dancing. The 
singing is fairly well and with more 
dancing Little Jerry should get over 
big on the small' time. Some comedy 
steps would be a help. 



Ben M. Jerome Trio. 
Piano and Singing. 
15 Mins.; Full Stage. 
McVicker's, Chicago. 

Chicago, Sept. 30. 
Ben M. Jerome has been a favorite 
composer in Chicago for some years. 
He has now essayed to go into the 
varieties, where he is offering some of 
his old melodies and some new. He 
presides at a grand piano for his open- 
ing. Later a woman sings one of his 
latest songs, and a man arrives still 
later to do a "wop" number. Some 
ol the old Jerome favorites are sung 
off the stage by the man and woman, 
who later come on for a romping child 
song. The act is a little awkward as 
yet, and the singers are not quite at 
e*se. Some of the selections might be 
changed with advantage. 



Kelly and Wesley. 

"Small Town Chatter" (Comedy). 

19 Mins.; One (Special Drop). 

Royal. 

Chicago, Sept. 30. 
Harry Kelly and Louis Wesley are 
presenting a comedy talking skit in 
"one," entitled "Small Town Chatter." 
Kelly is doing his usual "deacon," while 
Wesley is the straight. There is also 
a dog. Wesley is the "city feller," and 
Kelly, "town constable." Constable 
suspects "city feller" and is on his 
trail. The talk is fast and choc-a-block 
with laughs. The act was down next 
to closing at the Royal and kept a 
mighty hard audience laughing from 
start to finish. Wesley is a talking 
straight and makes a capable feeder for 
his team mate. Kelly does his usual 
rube song and a bit of eccentric danc- 
ing that is a scream. The act is one 
that can be used to advantage on any 
bill to get a lot of laughs. 



New "Break-In" House. 

Keith's, Jersey City, playing six acts 
on a split week, booked by L. J. Goldie 
in the United Booking Offices, is be- 
coming a "break-in" for new or big 
turns returning to vaudeville. 

Robert Edeson used the Jersey City 
theatre to place his new sketch in run- 
ning order; Florence Tempest also ap- 
peared over there, and for the last 
three days of this week Alice Lloyd is 
routining her songs on the stage. 



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THE MARRIAGE GAME. 

'The Marriage Game/' Anna Crawford 
Flexner's three-act lecture on matrimo- 
nial efficiency, produced last season at 
the Comedy theater with Alexandra Car- 
lisle, is this week's offering with a new 
company at the Standard, the newest 
manifestation of the "neighborhood" de- 
velopment in playhouses at Broadway and 
90th street 

This is the organization which is to 
take to the road playing under direc- 
tion of John Cort. It is enough to say 
that the company gives an adequate pre- 
sentation of a light comedy, calculated 
to deliver an acceptable evening's amuse- 
ment without leaving any lasting impres- 
sion. 

The players with the notable exception 
of Olive Tell, as Mrs. Oliver, the ama- 
teur efficiency engineer, disclose a ten- 
dency to overreach in their anxiety to 
score points. This is the common defect 
of road organizations in the early stages 
of their association. Continued playing 
will develop the team work essential to 
a smooth ensemble. 

Mrs. Oliver is distinctly a star part. 
All the other characters are subordi- 
nated to her appeal. Scene after scene 
involving the other half dozen principal 
characters are designed only to lead up 
to an effective introduction of her en- 
gaging person. For which reason the 
well handled playing of the part is es- 
sential. 

Miss Tell is all that could be desired 
as to beauty of person and grace of pres- 
ence and in addition she reads her lines 
in a splendid voice of vibrant quality 
which wins for her a degree of sym- 
pathy the character does not always de- 
serve. 

Allison Skipworth, the rough and ready 
society matron with a philandering hus- 
band, was happily cast She was the 
only other member of the company whose 
characterization was not slightly wooden. 
The character lends itself readily to 
broad effects and Miss Skipworth played 
it for full value. 

The men of the company do not make 
out nearly so well as the women, per- 
haps because the play itself makes of 
them merely lay figures for the most 
part. Their newness to their parts, how- 
ever, was obvious, an awkwardness which, 
as has been suggested, playing will in 
large measure probably correct. Cor- 
bett Morris as the young husband whose 
attentions would stray from his bride; 
Lark in Taylor, playing the confirmed 
bachelor; George Barnum, cast as the 
much-managed husband, and Jim Packard 
in the part of the elderly husband who had 
many lady friends, all played in pains- 
taking rather than inspiring fashion. 

The Harlem audience which about two- 
thirds filled the house, made up of pros- 
perous apartment house dwellers in the 
vicinity, responded readily, not to say 
enthusiastically, to the broader points of 
comedy and appeared to relish the smart 
epigrams with which the dialogue is plen- 
tifully besprinkled. 

The production is most satisfactory in 
all respects. With the theatrical vogue 
running much to farces, there should be 
a prosperous field for such plays — deal- 
ing in light vein with modern "swag- 
ger" society. 



HAMMERSTEIN'S. 

The Hammentein program ran with 
considerable speed and entertainment 
in the second half Monday night. The 
first section was wobbly, without much 
to speak of, starting badly with small 
time turns, up to the appearance of Joe 
Cook "No. 6." This young Mr. Cook 
is a regular performer, with his own 
ideas that have many a laugh concealed 
among (hem. His bump of humor is 
becoming finely developed, and some of 
the travestied one-man-whole-show he 
does, is drawn fine, as well. There is 
a bad break now in the turn, when Mr. 
Cook goes from "one" to full stage, 
closing with straight club juggling. He 
should do nothing straight after the 
burlesque to the end, and even when 
expertly handling five clubs, he might 
miss them all for the finish. His en- 
core bit, with an "extra" card placed 
on an easel, is excellent, but even here 
he might smash the instrument in dis- 
gust at the end, removing his disguise 
as he is walking off. Mr. Cook is go- 
ing to bear watching. He has been 
coming along for quite a while and 
now he has arrived. His place is in the 
second half of any show. 

The applause hit of the bill was Eliz- 
abeth Brice and Charles King, near the 
bottom of the bill. Mr. King has so 
far improved in class that he now ranks 
with Miss Brice, who always had it. 
They sang several songs, with a med- 
ley of their old favorites for the finish. 
During the turn, Mr. King used a verse 
of "Hats Off. to You, Mr. Wilson," 
sung by Norah Bayes last week at the 
Palace. 

The laughing hit was Conroy and 
Lemaire's in "The Pinochle Fiends." 
George Lemaire went overboard look- 
ing for a word to fit "The Red River." 
This slip to these accomplished talkers 
was as funny to themselves as to the 
audience, so good in fact it might be 
retained as "business" (though George 
might claim it was "business"). The 
interesting act showed in Niblo's Birds, 
the "Well what do you want?" of the 
cockatoo convulsing the house. Niblo 
has a novelty act, with comedy suffi- 
cient to make it stronger. The Court- 
ney Sisters missed their place Monday 
evening, the Palace (where they are 
doubling) running five minutes later at 
evening than in the afternoon. The 
margin for the girls between the two 
houses was so narrow, they came in a 
couple of minutes late, while the set 
was being made for the Bert Leslies 
sketch (New Acts), this causing the 
Courtneys to close. the first half, they 
doing very well, Hammerstein's having 
always liked these girls. 

Daisy Harcourt came back after a 
long absence, with a "clean" song rep- 
ertoire, mingling in some observations, 
one or two having a lively point. Three 
of the numbers were from past routines 
of her own, closing with the funny 
"God Save the King" that got her over. 
Dancing Shak was one of the early 
birds. He's a dancer who imitates 
other dancers, and brought the most at- 
tention to himself through wearing a 
pair of white gloves with his sack suit 
as though he had dressed so hurriedly 
he had forgotten to put on evening 
clothes. Mr. Shak must be a native. 
He was vigorously applauded by a 
small section standing behind the rail. 



PALACE. 

Very little, if anything at all, to rec- 
ommend about the Palace program this 
week, the bill receiving a jolt before 
opening day that considerably crimped 
the running order, both Fanny Bricq 
and Weston and Leon forced to can- 
cel because of illness. To make mat- 
ters more difficult for the management, 
the Australian McLeans retired from 
the show after Monday's matinee, leav- 
ing the bill one act short, but still long 
enough in running time. The Courtney 
Sisters filled in for Miss Brice with 
Stepp, Goodrich and King substitute 
ing for the double act. » 

Robert Edeson in "Apartment 309" 

(New Acts) headlined with Clark and 

Hamilton and Gus Edwards' "Song 

Revue" as added features. Edeson 
was delegated to hold a rather early 
spot for a topliner, appearing in the 
reconstructed bill Monday night in 
third position. The shift brought 
Gobert Belling's Animals (New Acts) 
to opening spot, where it belonged. 

Stepp, Goodrich and King came sec- 
ond with a repertoire of popular num- 
bers. Mr. Goodrich is an entertain- 
er with a neat appearance, some good 
ideas of delivery, but little, if any. 
voice. The pianist gathered what ap- 
plause the turn earned through his 
"sissy" number. The encore, a double 
song, should be incorporated in the 
routine proper with one of Goodrich's 
solos eliminated. This might help 
somewhat. 

Clark and Hamilton occupied an un- 
usually long period with a combina- 
tion of patter and song, the talk run- 
ning a distant second. The numbers 
have been staged with care, each carry- 
ing a special set with accompanying 
costumes. A large majority of the talk 
is reminiscent, although cleverly hand- 
led through Clark's excellent delivery 
and it may be new to vaudeville. It 
naturally brings desired laughs, but for 
"supreme" vaudeville it's a bit aged. 

Lawrence Semon, the "Sun's" car- 
toonist, is one of the week's features, 
with his cartoon specialty in wnich he 
picture diamond stars at close range. 
Semon is a good talker, and a bit away 
from the various other cartoon turns. 
Monday night the Pittsburgh club at- 
tended, affording Semon an opportunity 
for some good impromptu material. 
He introduced Hans Wagner, both in 
life and crayon, later presenting him 
with a silver loving cup, a present 
from the club. Semon was a big hit. 

The Courtney Sisters did well, con- 
sidering. Gobert Belling, Gus Ed- 
wards' Song Revue (New Acts). 

Wynn. 



The Taylor Sisters were on early also. 
They are new and Joe Raymond says 
they are good. The girls look well 
and their appearance, with straight se- 
lections, should pass them on the s all 
time. 

Opening the second half were The 
Kcrrens, who did very well in their 
musical-female impersonation turn. Mr. 
and Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb, who man- 
aged to bump the running early, and 
Kar-Mi, closing, also under New Acts. 
A comedy reel finished. L. Wolfe Gil- 
bert also appeared. Simc. 



86TH STREET. 

The happy combination of ideal the- 
atre weather and a rather evenly bal- 
anced program of six acts and pictures 
resulted in a capacity house at Moss & 
Brill's Yorkville neighborhood stand 
Tuesday night. The house plays one 
show nightly, with part of the bill do- 
ing double duty at a so-called "supper" 
show, the performance proper com- 
mencing at 8:30. The earlier entertain- 
ment affording those who prefer to 
retire early an opportunity to see the 

entire show was liberally patronized, 
gauged by the number who left prior 
to the appearance of the last two acts. 

Silsby and Gale opened with a rou- 
tine of songs and dances before a spe- 
cial drop. A shadow dance, now used 
for an opener, would fit better near the 
finale. The man's soft shoe work was 
a bit above the average. With a few 
i- umbers in addition the couple gathered 
a reasonably big hit, suggesting suffi- 
cient strength to carry a better spot 
on a small time program. 

Kelly and Undine followed with some 
scngs and talk. One of the women 
scored an individual triumph with "The 
Song That Stole My Heart," rendered 
ir. a fine contralto voice. "The High 
Cost of Loving" and "Michigan" also 
came in for applause aplenty. The talk 
is well fitted to the turn and, back- 
grounded with a fair amount of per- 
sonality and good appearance, should 
keep the women working. It's a bit 
away from the stereotyped two-act. 

Grace Dean and Co. have a good 
rough comedy skit of domestic manu- 
facture, treating an oft-used theme in a 
slightly different way. It's about the 
disagreeable husband who is given a 
view of his own temper. It also em- 
ploys the experienced neighbor, etc. 
The laughs are legitimately earned at 
times with bright dialog and again with 
rough comedy, but always with certain- 
ty. It's a good small time affair, built on 
small time lines and especially to ap- 
peal to small time audiences. 

"The House Next Door," a multiple- 
reel from the play by J. Hartley Man- 
ners, exceptionally well staged and 
acted, is a feature of the bill and, com- 
ing in the center of the program, added 
to the variety scheme. 

Kern and Ramble, a comedy acro- 
batic, singing and dancing skit in "one," 
working before a special drop, came 
after the film. With the exception of 
a semi-serious recitation, the material 
is acceptable throughout. The recita- 
tion doesn't belong in an assemblage 
of comedy. The man is especially 
nimble. The couple easily satisfied. 

John F. Clarke has a routine of 
stories, some old, but all passable for 
this time. Finishing with an extem- 
poraneous number, he got a hit. 

Leon's Models have all the ear-marks 
of a big time turn, with a mediocre 
production in attendance. A classy 
frame to present the pictures, with 
proper light effects and the other essen- 
tials, would bring the offering within 
the radius of two-a-day possibilities. 
The subjects have been selected with 
a- degree of common sense, all posed 
with a marble effect before a white 
background. The work shows superior 
direction and carrying no excess 
"props." The Models closed the bill. 

Wynn. 



26 



VARIETY 



ROYAL 

At a distance to the northward, just 
across the muddy river, there's a tribe 
that lives in Bronxville, a tribe both 
bad and wicked. They have many curi- 
ous customs, some are good and some 
are bad, and they worship a great idol 
in a temple called the Royal. Here 
they bring the captured actor, whom 
they lured from gay Manhattan with 
offers both of wealth and plaudits, and 
the actor, silly mortal, comes to 
slaughter like a lambkin. 

One could go on and tell the whole 
story in this vein, but in the end one 
would only be able to tell of the actors 
that died bravely in the cause of enter- 
tainment, just as Longfellow's Indian 
heroine did for love. For all of the 
acts that constituted the first half of 
the bill at the Royal this week were 
surely sacrificed on the stage of that 
theatre Tuesday night. 

The audience was not wholly re- 
sponsible, and the management of the 
theatre will have to stand its share of 
the blame. In the first place, the eve- 
ning was a rather chilly one out-of- 
doors, but in the theatre it was still 
colder. Secondly, the orchestra at the 
Royal is far from the best in any New 
York theatre. 

An eight-act bill at the Royal this 
week, with the Rigoletto Brothers, 
headliners, doing 41 minutes. This 
makes the show a rather lengthy one, 
the closing picture not going on until 
11:20. 

Sylvia Loyal and her Pierrot had the 
opening spot. They ran through with 
the routine in about 10 minutes with 
just the slightest ripple of applause at 
the finish. Ethel McDonough (New 
Acts) was shifted from "No. 4" to the 
second spot. She had to battle against 
the orchestra from the beginning. The 
Langdons, who followed in their com- 
edy skit, "A Night on the Boulevard," 
had an awful time getting their mate- 
rial over, and the finish was far from 
what this act usually does in the matter 
of applause and laughs. 

Dorothy Brenner and Fred Watson 
(New Acts) had the next spot and 
passed fairly well, despite what the 
orchestra handed them. 

Closing the first part, Charles and 
Henry Rigoletto worked hard under 
the most discouraging conditions imag- 
inable. The act that the twin brothers 
ofter is of proven quality and it is 
surely not their fault that they were 
not a riot at the Royal. There were 
waits during the turn that spelled 
death, and the scenery was badly hung. 
Whenever the brothers were in "one," 
the feet of the stage hands could be 
seen crossing and recrossing the stage 
because the drops were so high that 
there was fully half a foot between the 
lower batons and the stage. 

During the intermission the audience 
got up and walked about to warm it- 
self, and when the second half started 
they were in a little better humor. 
Dunbar's Nine White Hussars started 
off the latter portion of the bill. The 
brass seemed to get into the veins of 
those in front, and the act went over 
with a bang. Harry Kelly and Louis 
Wesley (New Acts), who followed, had 
them laughing from start to finish and 
got over nicely. 

B. A. Rolfe's miniature musical com- 
edy, "The Bride Shop," with Andrew 



ALHAMBRA. 

The show didn't look inviting on paper 
but once in the regulars Monday night 
found a bill which rounded out into a 
laughing entertainment. The show on pa- 
per also looked short, eight acts being of- 
fered, four before intermission and four 
after, but the program ran until nearly 
11 o'clock. 

Business was surprisingly good and it 
looked like old times to watch the crowd 
laugh and applaud. The big interest 
centered in Nora Bayes, who was given 
a nice little greeting and remained on 
the stage about a half hour. Once she 
was admonished to bring "Jack" around 
again, but laughingly replied he was 
away to war. 

The bill was very much song and 
comedy, a combination which was keenly 
appreciated out front. Weber and Cap- 
itola opened with their dancing turn. 
They appeared to be handicapped by nerv- 
ousness which should disappear with more 
experience. Not a bad little act and well 
received at the Alhambra. 

Mr. Hymack and his chameleon changes 
mystified. There was big applause at 
the finish. Little of Hymack's "talk" 
was heard but it didn't matter as the 
house was too deeply absorbed in watch- 
ing his cuffs and ties change color. 

Diamond and Brennan gave the comedy 
end its first real start and from that 
time on the laughs came thick and fast 

Allan Brooks has made a marked 
change in his spiral staircase act There's 
a new setting, a mountainous haven of 
rest entitled "Back to Nature" with every- 
thing running to the rustic and as an 
additional feature to Brooks' funny didoes 
on the winding stairs, an effective and 
realistic April shower is given just off 
the right of the stage. A transparent 
bower helps with this effect. The act 
has improved almost 100 per cent, and 
is now a valuable piece of stage prop- 
erty. The comedy action is hastened by 
the absence of song numbers which were 
originally introduced in the act 

After intermission Charles and Fannie 
Van took up the comedy swing and were 
big laugh getters. 

Nora Bayes was followed by Harry 
Cooper, who also worked in an Irish 
song notwithstanding the several Miss 
Bayes rendered. Cooper's act never went 
better and with the house in a laughing 
mood the answer was plainly a hit. 
Cooper also sang more than usual and his 
turn ran 20 minutes. His vaudeville as- 
sistant, Charles Henderson, looks as 
though he would make a dandy villain in 
some regular production. Maxine Broth- 
ers and Bobby dosed the show and held 
everybody in for the finish. 

Tombes featured, had the closing posi- 
tion, and held the audience in and kept 
them amused. Mr. Tombes as a come- 
dian is a cross between Tom McNaugh- 
ton and Ed Wynn, and he mimics the 
mannerisms of both. He exerts his 
personality to the utmost in retaining 
this hold throughout the time that he 
is on the stage. Lola Wentworth, the 
prima donna ingenue of the act, is a 
pleasing little person, who handles two 
numbers nicely and looks pretty at all 
times. The act closed the hill strongly. 



BUSHWICK, 

The Bushwick celebrated its anniver- 
sary this week by putting on a show of 
exceptional length and class. The bill 
this week contains a great quantity of 
dancing. Ma-Belje and her Ballet did 
some classic dancing, lightly received. 
The Ballet closed the first half and im- 
mediately after intermission Max and 
Mabel Ford added more dancing. They 
were evidently too near the other 
dancing turn. Miss Ford's Grecian 
number is a very pretty affair, but over 
the heads of the Bushwick people. 

Rooney and Bent had a late spot. 
They remained longer than needed, but 
the programing of "Twenty Minutes of 
Pat and Marion" may have been the 
reason. Too much dancing ahead did 
it. Jack E. Gardner did fairly well 
with his "single." 

Lyons and Yosco were second after 
intermission and Van and Schenck next 
to closing, both men teams. Lyons a id 
Yosco seem the biggest favorites in the 
Dark Borough of any two-man turn. 
Three acrobatic acts graced the bill 
Dainty Marie had the best spot. The 
Four Charles, a quartet of foreigners, 
closed the show with juggling, tum- 
bling and general acrobatics. The work 
was not up to the mark Monday, sev- 
eral tricks going amiss. The other 
acrobatic number was Valveno and La 
More, who opened. Daisy Leon (New 
Acts) appeared "No. 2." 

Allan Dinehart and Co. in the new 
sketch "The Meanest Man in the 
World." Dinehart is a comedian but 
has a few lines to show his worth, the 
rest of the sketch being on the serious 
order. The special setting employed is 
rather neat and attractive. Another 
turn with a special setting was Bert La« 
mont and his Cowboy Minstrels. An 
extra man now brings the total up to 
six. A good act but something new in 
it would help. 



FOLLY. 

The Folly is a William Fox house in 
Brooklyn, in the old Williamsburgh 
section, and has a mixed population to 
draw from. Tuesday night the house 
was packed to the doors. 

Six acts and a feature film, with a 
single reel thrown in, seemed to be 
just the kind of entertainment the pa- 
trons were looking for. The first two 
acts, May Francis and Dr. McDonald, 
were not seen. The first act caught 
was Thornton and Corlew, a neat-ap- 
pearing mixed double. The man takes 
some care with his dressing, as does 
his partner, who appears in a couple of 
attractive gowns. If there were more 
two-acts on the small time who would 
make neatness a point, the average 
would increase. 

The Telegraph Four have added some 
new songs and have tried to bolster 
things up a bit. The one thing the 
boys have omitted that should have 
been retained is the hard shoe dancing. 
The comedy used by the little fellow is 
carried too far and grows tiresome, 
especially the poetry and cheese bit. 

The closing act, the Dunedin Duo, 
a bicycle turn, held them in very well. 
The work of the man in this act is fine, 
especially on the wire while riding a 
wheel. The girl as a "nut" gets a fair 
amount of comedy but does little in the 
way of riding. Oliver White and Co. 
(New Acts). 



UNION SQUARE. 

The show the Utter half of last week at the 
Union Square brought out a number of good 
acts. The show was more than a quarter's 
worth. The acts all seemed to be full stage 
affairs, nearly every act requiring a new set- 
ting. The first was the Hawaiian Duo, a man 

and woman who have the regular hula hula 
music on string Instruments. The woman 
does a modified "cooch" at the finish that 
might be enlarged upon. The setting is pretty. 

A male pair under the name of Evans and 
Smith (the stock names of the Pox time) had 
another setting, fairly attractive. As soldiers 
they carried on the usual talk between straight 
and comedian. 

Rosalie Rose, a singing single with an 
Italian song and baby carriage, had the sec- 
ond spot. This little girl starts wrong by giv- 
ing flowers away. William O'Clare and his 
Six Shamrock Girls added another special set. 
It is tbe singing meant to put the act over, 
and it does. The using of tbe melodlon on 
Fourteenth street made many of tbe patrons 
tbink they were out on tbe sidewalk listening 
to the Salvation Army instead of in a the- 
tre. 

Following the "Girls" were a dancing pair 
under the names of Mack and Williams 
(probably phony). The man is a good hard 
shoe dancer. He does some stepping coming 
down a flight of steps that would make anyone 
take notice. 

After a single reel comedy, Pasgar and 
Marie, a heavyweight couple, caught on with 
singing. The two can vocalize and add a lit- 
tle comedy with their weight. The act could 
cut down omitting the "Lucia" bit and let- 
ting the "II Trovatore" thing close. Sager 
Midgley and Co., in a new act, followed on 
adding some good laughs. This new turn is 
rather draggy at first, but strikes Its gait at 
about the middle 

The Reed Trio, two men and a woman, add- 
ed more singing. The men do most of the 
work in thlB turn, the girl showing a pretty 
gown now and then, and finally appearing in 
a white band leader costume. "A Night In a 
Cafe" closed. It does not get away from the 
usual run as to songs. It closed the show 
very well. 

ACADEMY OF MUSIC. 

After trying everything from stock bur- 
lesque to pictures, tbe Academy now has a 
new policy that should put it on the right 
side. 

Outside the Academy la brilliantly lighted. 
Inside are many changes. The stage has 
been done over, spacing being apportioned off 
for about 30 musicians and still room enough 
left on an elevated stage for the picture screen 
and acts. The musicians are now embanked 
within a green, attractive bower, patterned 
somewhat after the Strand, New Tork. 

In addition to giving them a nice little 
vaudeville show, a regular picture display with 
a multiple-feature film thrown in and a few 
selections by the augmented orchestra the 
Academy also gives a pipe organ recital for 
good measure. 

The Academy Is also featuring a stock favor- 
ite. Prlscilla Knowles, In tabloid dramatic and 
comedy pieces, James J. Ryan has also been 
featured with Miss Knowles, but, beginning 
next Monday, Godfrey Matthews will play op- 
posite to her. "The Diamond Necklace" was 
the little dramatic playlet In which Miss 
Knowles effectively played a woman thief. The 
last half of the week the Knowles Players 
changed to a comedy skit. "The Speed Limit." 
The piece found big favor with the Academy 
audience Friday night. The Academy Is using 
the popular-priced coupon thing with a New 
York daily. 

Following the overture and some war pic- 
tures of tbe Sellg weekly, Fred and Albert 
offered their ring act. The boys have several 
nifty tricks, and were substantially rewarded. 
A pretty act for tbe Academy stage. 

The Four Bostonlans, who appeared ill at 
ease In their evening clothes, rendered a popu- 
lar song routine all right for the 14th Street- 
era. A Vltagraph comedy, " Josie's Declara- 
tion of Independence," showed Billy Quirk 
so disguised none knew him. The picture was 
funny In spots. 

Naynon's Birds were a delightful feature, 
but the man also made a long announcement 
that few could make out. 

An Essanay comedy, "The Fable of One Sa- 
maritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping 
Hand," is adapted from one of George Ade's 
fables. 

The show closed with a five-part feature, 
"The Vendetta." 



AMERICAN ROOF. 

A show strong in comedy and novelty was 
given at the American the last half of last 
week. It would have played Just as well In a 
big time house and Riven Just as much satis- 
faction. The roof audience laughed from the 
opening to the close of It. 

Lawton. the Juggler, was the opener. He ran 
through his routine in rapid manner with but 
a few misses, and his novelty work with the 
snare drum won applause. Broughton and 
Turner (New Acta), In a little singing skit, 
held down the second spot nicely. The Usher 
Trio and Rockwell and Woods, both under New 
Acts, held down the third and fourth positions 
respectively and cleaned up. 

Bert Melrose closed the first half of the en- 
tertainment and was the usual hit. 

Opening the second part Edna Whistler (New 
Acts) presented a nifty single turn that be- 
spoke class. Eddie Hart and Co (New Acts) 
followed with a turn that brought laughs 
The Brll Boy Trio, down next to closing, were 
the applause hit of the second half of the bill. 
The boys have several numbers they put over 
very well. The Bennett Sisters three, held 
th«> audience in with their athletic routine. 
The girls make a nice appearance and their 
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In their new and original comedy success entitled 

The Pension Office 



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By JOHN J. McCOWAN 



"THE VIRGINIAN" 
Richmond* Va. 



THE NEWS LEADER 

Richmond* Va. 



VARIETY 
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CIVIL WAR STORY 
SCORES AT LYRIC 



PARTICULAR HIT OF ENTERTAIN- 
MENT IS CHARACTER SKETCH. 

The bill at the Lyric is especially 
good. The big hit of the entertain- 
ment has for its theme the story of a 
Civil War veteran, who comes seeking 
a pension at the office where a young 
veteran of the Spanish-American war 
is in charge. 

The veteran is a fighting Irishman, 
and when he gets his mad up he tells 
the Spanish war veteran a thing or 
two about the difference between what 
he calls a war and a picnic. He also 
tells about a fighting Confederate sol- 
dier with whom he had a private en- 
counter at Antietam. The sketch ends 
with the Spanish war veteran inviting 
the old Irishman to come to Richmond 
and meet his father, who has been 
waiting fifty years to finish the fight 
he started with the Irishman at An- 
tietam, or Sharpsburg. It is a great 
piece of character acting on the part 
of the man who plays the role of the 
old Irish veteran, and the act is one 
of which Lawrence and Edwards may 
be justly proud. It ended to a sto»m 
of applause. 



Diversity at Lyric 

The Lyric presents a diversified pro- 
gram this week. Lawrence and Ed- 
wards are the big hit of the entertain- 
ment, principally through the clever 
character work of Lawrence, who 
plays the part of an old Federal vet- 
eran, a fighting Irishman, who con- 
cedes, however, that he once met his 
match at Antietam, otherwise Sharps- 
burg. 

It seems he ran up against a red- 
headed Confederate who loved a scrap 
about as well as the Irishman. How 
the latter was able to get in touch 
with the latter through his visit to a 
pension office, where he finds the son 
of the Confederate doing duty, proud 
of the fact that he is a veteran of the 
Spanish-American war, is best left to 
the performers. They have a splendid 
little piece, full of excellent comedy 
and some which is far-fetched but 
genuine fun, in which is sprinkled a 
proper pinch of pathos and all form- 
ing a most palatable mixture, speaking 
^astronomically. 



PLAYING 

U. B. O. Time 



Lawrence and Edwards. 
Comedy Sketch. 
18 Mint.; Two (Special Drop). 
Columbia (Sept. 13). 

Before an interior back drop depict- 
ing a government pension office, Law- 
rence and Edwards distribute 18 min- 
utes of comedy and sentiment woven 
around an interesting little story 
anent an old veteran's application for 
back pension. Lawrence makes a 
splendid lieutenant in uniform; tall, 
good looking, erect and with a perfect 
enunciation, while Edwards portrays 
the applicant, an aged Irishman who 
fought in the union ranks during the 
Civil War. The dialog is strictly orig- 
inal and always on the main idea, run- 
ning into a complete tale from begin- 
ning to end. The finish affords a bit of 
sentiment well broken into with com- 
edy and keeps up with the preceding 
section. It borders on the recogni- 
tion thing, but is built a bit different 
than the average. Edwards' is a 
unique character and should show bet- 
ter as the turn goes along. The big- 
time can use this team. They look 
ready right now. Wynn. 



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Big Jubilee 5 Star Cleveland 12 Oayety Cin- 
cinnati 

Big Revue 5-7 Ollmore Springfield 8-10 
Jacques O H Waterbury 12 Hdward Boston 

Big Sensation 5 Standard St Louis 12 Cen- 
tury Kansas City 

Blue Ribbons 5 Lyric Atlanta 12 Bijou Nash- 
ville 

Bohemians r> Empire Chicago 12 Standard 
St Louis 

Bon Tons 5 Gayety Toronto 12 Oayety 
Buffalo 

Bowery Burlesquers 5 Gayety Cincinnati 12 
Empire Toledo 

Broadway Girls •"» Grand Boston 12 Star 
Brooklyn 

Cabaret Girls 5 Grand Trenton 12 Gayety 
Brooklyn 

Cherry Blossoms 5 Academy of Music Nor- 
folk 12 Gayety Philadelphia 

City Belles 5 Lyric Memphis 12 Dauphine > 
New Orleans 

City Sports 5 Gayety Philadelphia 12 Grand 
Trenton 

College Girls 5-7 Empire Albany 8-10 Grand 
Hartford 12 Casino Boston 

Crackerjacks 5 BIJou Richmond 12 Academy 
of Music Norfolk 

Dreamlands 5 Gayety Pittsburgh 12 Star 

Cleveland 
Eva Mull's Show 5 Olympic New York 12 

Gayety Baltimore 
Follle Burlesquers 5 Penn Circuit 12 Olympic 

New Tork 
Follies of the Day 5 Columbia Chicago 11! 

Princess St Louis 
French Models 5 Grand Cleveland 12 Folly 

Detroit 
Gaiety Girls 5 Star & Garter Chicago 12 

Oayety Detroit 
Garden of Girls 5 Folly Detroit 12 Empire 

Chicago 
Gay Morning GloTles 5 BIJou Nashville 12 

Buckingham Louisville 
Gay New Yorkers 5 Empire Hoboken 12 Em- 
pire Brooklyn 



Gay White Way 5-7 Bastable Syracuse 8-10 
Lumberg Utica 12 .Gayety Montreal 

Gay Widows 5 BIJou Birmingham 12 Lyric 
Atlanta 

Ginger Girls 5 Oayety Detroit 12 Oayety 
Toronto 

Girls From Happyland 5 L O 12 Oayety 
Minneapolis 

Girls From the Follies 5 Oayety Baltimore 
12 Bijou Richmond 

Girls of the Moulin Rouge 5 Princess St 

Louis 12 Gayety Kansas City 
Globe Trotters 5 Empire Brooklyn 12 L 

10 Westminster Providence 
Golden Crook 5 Westminster Providence 12 

Gayety Boston 
Gypsy Maids 5 Orpheum Paterson 12 Empire 

Newark 
Happy Widows 5 Casino Philadelphia 12 

Palace Baltimore 
Hastlng's Big Show 5 Gayety Omaha 12 L O 

10 Gayety Minneapolis 
Heart Charmers 5 Casino Chicago 12 Stand- 
ard Cincinnati 
High Rollers 6 Star Brooklyn 12-14 Stone 

O H Blnghamton 15-17 Park Erie 
Honeymoon Girls 5 Gayety Kansas City 12 

Gayety Omaha 
Liberty Girls 5 Empire Newark 12 Casino 

Philadelphia 
Lovemakers 5 Gayety Buffalo 12 Corinthian 

Rochester 
Marion's Own Show 5-7 Worcester Worcester 

8-10 Park Bridgeport 12 Columbia New 

York 
Million Dollar Dolls 5 Grand St Paul 12 

Gayety Milwaukee 
Orientals 5 Century Kansas City 12 L O 10 

Lyric Memphis 
Prize Winners 5 Casino Boston 12-14 Wor- 
cester Worcester 15-17 Park Bridgeport 
Reeve's Beauty Show 5 L O 12 Westminster 

Providence 
Rice's Sam Daffydill Girls 5 L O 12 Lyric 
Memphis 



Robinson's Carnation Beauties 5 Gayety Mil- 
waukee 12 Star A Garter Chicago 

Roseland Girls 5 Gayety Washington 12 
Gayety Pittsburgh 

Rosey Posey Girls 5 Palace Baltimore 12 
Gayety Washington 

Social Maids 5 Gayety Minneapolis 12 Grand 
St Paul 

Star & Garter 5 Empire Philadelphia 12 Em- 
pire Hoboken 

Sydell's London Belles 5 Gayety Montreal 
12-14 Empire Albany 15-17 Grand Hart- 
ford 

Tango Queens 5 Dauphine New Orleans 12 
Bijou Birmingham 

Taxi Girls 5-7 Stone O H Blnghamton 8-10 
Park Erie 12 Grand Cleveland 

Tempters 5 Howard Boston 12 Grand Bos- 
ton 

Transatl antiques 5 Buckingham Louisville 
12 Columbia Indianapolis 

Trocaderos 5 Columbia New York 12 Casino 
Brooklyn 

Watson Sisters 5-7 Orand Hartford 8-10 Em- 
pire Albany 12 Miner's Bronx New York 

Watson's Big Show 5 Casino Brooklyn 12 Mu- 
sic Hall New York 

Whirl or Mirth 5 Victoria Pittsburgh 12 Penn 
Circuit 

Winning Widows 5 Miner's Bronx New York 
12 Orpheum Paterson 

Yankee Doodle Girls 5 Gayety Brooklyn 12 
Murray Hill New York 

Zallah's Own Show 5 Standard Cincinnati 12 
Victoria Pittsburgh 



: I 

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CIRCUS ROUTES 1 



BARNUM-BAILEY— 5 Galveston. 6 Houston, 
7 Beaumont, Tex., 8 Lake Charles, Alex- 
andria, 10 Shreveport, La. 



HAGENBACH-WALLACE— 5 Anthony, 6 
Hutchinson, 7 Great Bend, 8 McPherson, 
Abilene, 10 Clay Center, Kan. 

ATTEND to your FACE-lt Pays! 

DR. PRATT 1 



1122 Broadway 

NEW YORK 
Call or Write. 



101 RANCH— 5 New Bern, 6 Kinstou, 7 
Goldsboro. 8 Wilson, 9 Raleigh, 10 Hen- 
d^rsoD N C 

RINGLING-^5 Charlotte, N. C, 6 Barten- 
berg, 7 Greenville, 8 Anderson, 9 Colum- 
ns 10 AuKURta. Ga. 



LETTERS 

Where C follows name, letter is in 
Variety's Chicago office. 

Where S F follows name, letter is in 
Variety's San Francisco office. 

Advertising or circular letters will 
not be listed. 

P following name indicates postal, 
advertised once only. 



Abdallah Joe (C) 
Abrahams Nathaniel 
Adams Fred 
Allison May 
Alexander Chas C) 
Alvarez & Martell 
Anderson Howard 
Anderson Richard 
Andrews Undine 
Anita 

AnouBe Lew 
Anson Gertrude 
A~rdlng Billy 
Armond Grace 
Armstrong C 
Ashe Gertrude 



Ashley LilTlan 
Ayres Ada 



B 
Babcock Theo 
Bailey King 
Ralllce Walter 
Barry Edwlna 
Barry Walter (C) 
Rartlett Mildred 
Bates Charles 
Baxter Ed 
Baxter Sid (C) 
Bell H 

Renalisha Mabel 
Bender Dave 



AT THE PALACE, NEW YORK, THIS WEEK (Sept. 28), Prior to 

Opening on ORPHEUM CIRCUIT 

AUSTRALIAN McLEANS 

We hope the American People will like us as well as we like them. 

Direction MAURICE H. ROSE and JACK CURTIS 



VARIETY 



37 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS- AND COMPANIES IN BURLESQUE 



JACOBS & JERMON'S 





Columbia Tktttrt Building 



I 

Broadway and 47th Street, New Yerfc 




T !T„. i«r BILLY WATSON 



■illy WATSON'S "BEEF TRUST BEAUTIES" WATSON'S "ORIENTALS" 

WANT OOOD-LOOKIMO QIWLS ALWAYS 



COLUMBIA AMUSEMENT 
CO.'S HOUSES 



TAMES (Bhitch) 

COOPER 

Presents 

Four Shows that H«v« Con* Over* 

"GYPSY MAIDS'* "ROSELAND GIRLS" 

"GLOBE TROTTERS,** 

"BEAUTY, YOUTH AND FOLLY** 

COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 

Room 41S, Columbia Thootro Bid*., 
Now York 



FANNIE VEDDER 



, JOHN Q. JERMON 




Abe Reynolds 



AND 



Florence Mills 

FEATURED IN 

THE COLLEGE GIRLS" 

Direction, Max Spiegel 



Bennett May 
Berate Lewis 
Bernle B 
Beriac Cliff 
Black Katherine 
Boine Blanche 
Boland Jessie 
Bose Louise 
bowen A Bowen 
Bowers Joseph 
Bowman Bros 
Braddock A Lelghton 
Bradford Ralph (C) 
Bradford Suzette 
Bradley Letty 
Brooks J (C) 
Bronsonn A Baldwin 
Browne Lawretle 
Brown Todd 
Brown L 

Brunelle Margery 
Burman M 
Bush Robert 



Cane Joe (C) 
Carroll Emma 
Carter JacTc 
Castellano Frank 
Charbino Bros (C) 
Clark Ed 

Clark Harvey T (SF) 
Clark Thos 
Clayton Jerry 
Clifton Helen (SF) 
Conn ft Hlrsch 
Coney Hoi lis 
Coon JCllllan 
Coughlan Lawrence 
Cotter George 
Cranston Mary 
Curtis Dorothy 



Dale Loretta 
Dale ft Boyle 
Daley Rosle 
Dawson Gladys 
Dayton Harry 



De Felice Carlotta(SF) 
De Frates Manuel 
De Halde A Edwards 
De Hollis Wm 
Delaney Gene 
De Mar Paul 
De Milt Gertrude 
Densmore Vivian 
De Ovlatt Beverall (C) 
De Vora Trio 
Dillon ft Dillon (C) 
Dodd Jlmmie 
Don Arthur (C) 
Donaldson Wm J (C) 
Donnellys Tae 
Dooley ft Rugel (C) 
Downing Sam 
Du For Boys 
Du Vail Betty 
Dunbar Lew 
Dunedln Queenie 
Dupree Minnie 



Earle D 
Karl Edna 
Edna Ruth (C) 
Edwards Mrs 
Elliott J 
Ellison Jennie 
Esmeralda Edna 
Evans B ft c 
Evers Geo 
Excellas E E (C) 



Fabian Leota 
Falls Archie 
Fontaine A 
Favigne Sisters 
Faquay Jack 
Felty Mr 
Flnlay Bob (C) 
Fisher Wm 
Forrester Chas 
Fowler Kate 
Follette A Wicks 
Frank ft Lewis 
Frank W 



LEO STEVENS 

Comedian and Producer 

Helen Jessie Moore 



Versatile Leading Woman 



Direction HURTIG A SEAMON 



MATT KENNEDY 

tf,° "LIBERTY GIRLS" 

Management, T. W. DIHKINS 



JACK CONWAY 

Featured with "Star and Garter" 

Direction, Phil B. Isaac 



"CABARET GIRLS" A GREAT SHOW 
^ j "WHY?" ^.-aw 

KELLY and WILLIAMS 

are the comedians and producers 
Jak* Walls says "A good, clean show. " 



Lillian Fitzgerald 



Featured with 



««1 



'ROSELAND GIRLS" 

Management James E. ("Blutcn**) Cooper 



LOU HASCALL 

SIMON LEGREE 

(Stage Manager) 
"BEHMAN SrlOW" 



Freed Joe 
Fries Otto 



C.allagher Desmond 
Gardiner Lottie 
George Jack 
Gibson Rose 
Gibson J 

Gtlmores The (C) 
Glmlin C 
Q"lrard A Pierce 
Coe Carl (C) 
Golden Valeska 
Golden Troupe 
Golden Max 
Gould ft Ashley 
Grante Rose 
Gray ft Graham 
Grey Clarle 
Orey Thos F 
Groh E J 
GTulron Mr 
Ouyer Mae 
Gygl Ota 



H 
Hahn A H 
Haines R T Mrs 
Hall Cora 
Hall Jack 
Hamlll Fred 
Hamylton A Dene 
Harper Mabel 
Harrison Claire L 
Harvey Percy 
Haviland ft Thornton 
Hawley E F 
Haynes Olive E (C) 
Hearn E F 
Heather Josie 
Henderson Clarrle 
Herbert Carl (C) 
Hcrrlngton II 
Hlbbitt W 
Hlgglns Paul (SF) 
Hlllard Wm E (C) 
Hippies Beth 
Hogue ft Hardy 
Hodges Four Musical 
Hooker & Davles 





INOER 



"THE BEHMAN SHOW" 

THE BURLESQUE INCUBATOR 

Where managers come to purloin actors, and 
actors to pilfer material 1 



PRESENTS 

"THE BLUE RIBBON 
BELLES' 9 

THE HIT OF THE EXTENDED CIRCUIT 



ENGAGED AND BILLED as ADDED ATTRACTIONS 

H E A R N - E LEY hop 

" GAY WHITE WAY " COMPANY 



HE GREATEST Al ^ ^ ^ _ _ J. _ With Max Spiegel's 

?££?.?■; Chooceeta cabaret 



THEM ALL I 



GIRLS 



Charles Robinson ca^i^W 



SEASON ltl4-lfU 



HarryCooper 



FEATURED WITH 

"CRACKER JACKS" 

Direction, 
COLUMBIA AMUSEMENT CO. 






GEO. H. WARD 



WITH BERNARD & ZEISLER'S 

'•FRENCH MODELS'* 

1S14-U 



WILL FOX 



Featured Comedian 

"Gay New Yorkers" 



Joe MORRIS and CAMPBELLL Flossie 

With "BROADWAY GIRLS" Season, ltl4-l$. 



Sam Micals 



Featured with "Transatlantic!" 

Management, 
HURTIG & SEAMON 



Steve GORDON and MURPHY Fra* 

WtEWHlH ACROBATIC DANCERS with "BON-TON GIRLS" 



Babe La Tour 



With -GOLDEN CROOK" 

Management, 
JACOBS A JERMON 



Dave Gordon 

Presents "GIRLS OF THE GAY WHITE WAY** 



HARRY [HJekey] LE VAN 
CLAIRE DE VINE 



NOW AND ALWAYS 
Personal D ir e cti on, 

Henry? Dixon 
IftVlnWOr: 



(Columbia Circuit) 



Leading Woman 
Dixon's "Review of 111$" 



Anna-ARMSTRONG and ODELL-Tommy 



With DAVE MARION'S OWN CO. 



Season 14-15. 



Hope Evelyn 
Howard Joe K (C) 



Inge Clara 



Jennings Jewell ft B 
Johnstone M 
Jordan A Peters 

K 

Kalman O 
Kane Lew 
Konerz Avery 
Keane Chas 
Kellen A Clark 
Kelter Arthur 
Kennedy Clarenre 



Kiernan James 
Kllman Oeorge 
Klmmer Ray (C) 
King Chas (C) 
King Frank 
Kitchen Richard 
Knapp Al 
Rollins King 
K relies The 
Kunz Blanche 



Lake Marjorle 
Lappln Henry 
I^arrlvel ft Le Page 
l-avall Ella frrg) 
I^awrence & Kdwanln 
Lazar A Dale 
Lea Lillian 



Le Brandt 
Lee Robert E 
Lee Bryan 
Le Mont Dan 
Lena A Rudolph 
Leo Jose 
Leon Bessie 
Lepp Frank 
Leroy Delia 
Lester A House 
Levey Ethel (C) 
Lewis Mabel 
Lewis Al 
Lewis's Five 
Loyaln Trio 
Mbonatl Joss 
Linton II IJ 
Llpman Dell 
lyondon Dan 



Long Frani (reg) 
Lorlmer May 
Lorraine Rita 
Loudon Jeanette (C) 
Lovell A Lovell 
Lucky Jim 
Lyman Edna 
Lynch M 



Mattery Francis 
Mann 6am 
Mardy Adele 
Marr Billy 
May Evelyn C 
Maye Stella 
Maynard Harry (C) 
Maynard Shorty 
MrBrlde Wm 



38 VAKIBTY 

• 


■ i ■ » 


1 TO THE PROFESSION 





SHULEM'S 

BAKERY and RESTAURANT 



ALWAYS OPEN 



118 West 47th St., New York 

(FORMERLY ON 44th STREET) 



POPULAR PRICES 



The Refined Horn* 

Professionals. 

Handsomely Furnished 

Steam Htttod Rooms 

Bath and •vary 

convenieace 



ft 



THE ST. HILDA 



•f 



'Phone 7147 Bryant 
Acknowledged a* the best 
piece to stop at In New 
York City. 

One block from Booking 
Offices and VARIETY. 



Now at 67 W. 44th Street 



PAULINE COOKE, Sole Proprietress 




Hotel Plymouth 

SMI St. (Between Broadway aid tth Ave.), N. Y. City 

New Fireproof Building. A Stone's Throw from Broadway 



$1 



ONE ,N 
~JT A 

DAY ROOM 



$l 



5 TWO IN 

T" A 

DAY ROOM 



Big Reductions to Weakly Guests 

Every room has hot and cold running water, electric light and 
long distsnce telephone. 
Phone 1S2S Greeley EUROPEAN PLAN T. SINNOTT, Manager 



554 

Tel. Bryant 1 S5S 

7S33 



The Edmonds 



ONE BLOCK 
TO TIMES SQ 



WE ARE ORIGINATORS, NOT IMITATORS 

150 Furnished Apartments 

Steam Heated, Centrally Located in the Theatrical District in the City of 
NEW YORK. For the Comfort and Convenience of the Profession. 



HENRI COURT 

tit H4 ••■ til W. 41th ST 

Tel. Bryant 8560-8561 

New fireproof a buildin 
just completed, with han 
somely furnished three and 
four- room apartments com- 
plete for housekeeping. Pri- 
vate bath, telephone, elec- 



tricity. 
RATES: 



$12 UP WEEKLY 



THE ANNEX 

7S4 end 75f tlh AVE., at 47th St. 

Tel. Bryant 3431 

ANNOUNCEMENT 

We have engaged a new 
housekeeper and assure our 

Katrons that everything will 
e done for their comfort. 

$10.00 UP WEEKLY 



THE CLAMAN 
MS isd III W . 4M ST. 

Tel. Bryant 4293-6131 

Comfortable and excep- 
tionally clean three and 
four- room apartments, thor- 
oughly furnished for house- 
keeping. Private baths. 

$8.00 UP WEEKLY 



UNDER MANAGEMENT OF THE OWNER 




HE ARTHUR 



252-254 West 38th St., off 7th Avenue, NEW YORK 

$2.50 to $5.00 Weekly 

% scrupulously clean, baths aa every floor, steam heat, electric light and gas 
Greeley MUSIC ROOM FOR USE OFT 



lMrooa 
Telephone 41SI 



FOR USE OF GUESTS 



Saint Paul Hotel 

MTH ST. AND COLUMBUS AVE. 

NEW YORK CITY 

Ten-story building, absolutely fireproof. 

All baths with shower attachment. 

Telephone in every room. 

One block from Central Park Subway, tth 
and tth Ave. L. Stations. Same distance from 
Century, Colonial, Circle and Park Theatres. 



IN Rooms, use of bath, $1 per day. 
150 Rooms, private bath, %IM par day. 
Suites, Parlor, Bedroom ft Bath, $2 and up. 
By the wash, $*-» and $14 and up. 
SPECIAL RATES TO THE PROFESSION 



Tel. 1890 Bryant SJCIA/ VADU 

2tt Wl 41ST STREET Ntf¥ YORK 

A Hotel for Gentlemen — $2 up 
1 Minute Weet af Broadway 

The Rendezvous for Bohemians and Prole s- 
elonal Folk Generally. Chile Concerns. Hot 
Tamalea and Mexican Dishes a Specialty. 

Rehearsal Rooms, $1.1* for S hours. 



Telephone Bryant 2347 

Furnished Apartments 
and Rooms 

Three and Four Room Apartments $4 to $f 
Large Rooms $4.M and up 

COMPLETE HOUSEKEEPING 

310 W. 48TH ST.. NEW YORK 



Furnished Apartments 



EDWARD E. BURTIS, Mgr. 



CATERING EXCLUSIVELY TO THE PROFESSION 

776-78-80 EIGHTH AVENUE 



Between 47th and 48th Streets 



NEW YORK 



Private Bath and Phone In 
Each Apartment 



Office 
776 EIGHTH AVENUE 



AN ITALIAN DINNER YOU WONT FORGET 
111-111 West 41th St. O I A I I TA Near 6th Ave - 

LUllCh 40t. Mm I I I I |||| DINNE *> Week Days. SSa. 

with wme UIULI I U *^zzzr~- 

THE RENDEZVOUS OF "THEATRICALS BEST' 
EAT IN THE OPEN IN OUR SUMMER GARDEN 

HOTEL LYNWOOD 



102 WEST 44TH STREET 



NEW YORK 



Single Rooms, $5 per week; Double, $7; with Bath, $f| Parlor Beeireom ami 
Bath, $14. Elevator, Electric Light, Telephone in ererw room. Tmlaphyan*. SJpO 




Steele 
bath,* 



IMEIXA/ YORK 

22 W. 60th STREET (Near Cohusbu. Circle), NEW YORK 

$4 par week up; double room. $S per week up; room with private 



cosy 




GlZ 



rmmm «S*i «■•»•■■»■■ ■ wwum, «s> jrvi wvvm u,, iuvui Willi yrivw* 

ead hoik, flsJS par weak up; ruaaJag hot aad oeid water; 
; alee electric light; excellent service: restaurant attached; 



le. Catering to 



VAKIBTY 



59 



HOTEL VAN CORTLANDT 



142-146 W. 49th STREET 

JUST EAST OF BROADWAY 



NEW YORK 



Centrally located, good service, absolutely fireproof. A home-like transient and family 

hotel. Telephone in every room. 

Restaurant and Grill equal to any. Moderate prices. 

Rooms large, light, airy and wall furnished. 

Rooms with use of bath $150 and up. Rooms with bath $2 and up. 
Parlor bedrom and bath $3 and up, for ono or two persons. 

SPECIAL RATES TO THE PROFESSION. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS 



N 

114-116 WEST 47TH STREET, NEW YORK. 

(Just off Broadway) 
Bast location in town. 

Kitchenette apartments; Single and double rooms, with bath. Attractive 

prices to the profession. 



Telephone Bryant 41S1 




MONFORT 



104-106 W. 40TH ST., NEW YORK, Between Broadway and Sixth Ave. 

European Plea, rooms $2.SS up. Double rooms, |4J§ up. Housekeeping rooms, S7.M per 
Steam Heat. Betas on every fleer. 

J1MSEY JORDAN. Mgr. 

HOTEL DRESDEN 



149-151 WEST 44th STREET, |\| E \A/ 



RK 



One hundred feat east ef Broadway. In the center ef the theatrical district. An ideal home 
far refined people. BEAUTIFULLY FURNISHED SUITES, S12.SS UP. American and European 



plea. 



can plea, 2 persons, $2S.SS up. 

OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT 



Telephones in every room 



Telephone S74 Bryant 



Hotel Hing fames; 

137-139 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK. 



S. S. PATTERSON, Manager. 



Large Single Room With Bath, Ili.S's up. 
Suites, $1S.SS. 



Phone Bryant 1*44 



Geo. P. Schneider, Prop. 





FURNISHED APARTMENTS 
CM "cSJTJ!nSii' via * 323 Wert 43rd Strest, NEW YORK CITY 

Bath, 2-4 rooms. Catering to the comfort and convenience of the profeaaion 

Music room for guests PM up. 



Tel.s Greeley Z7S4 and 977 

, BRODERICK'S HOTEL 

(European) 

201 W. 38th St., Cor. 7th Ave. 
and branch houses 

ew-212-m sad 222 W. 2tta St. NEW YORK 

1S« Rooms of the Better Kind 

Hot and Cold Water la Rooma-Electric Light. 

$3 to 17 per week 



MAISON ROUX 

us west 47th st. NEW YORK 

Rooms and board. Special accommodationa 
for professional people. Cuialne Francaise. 
Prlcea Moderate. Telephone, Bryant JSSS 



McConnell A Simpson 

(C) 
McCoy Trlzle 
McDonald Wm 
McDonald Family 
McNally Trlxle 
McNamara Nellie (SF> 
Merles Cockatoos (C) 
Mildred A Roclere 
Millard O D (C) 
Miller James 
Milton Fred 
Montecaho Frank 
Montecaho Frank (C) 
Mooney Betsy (C) 
Moore A Qibson 
Mora Tess (C) 
Morris Babe 
Morris John 
Morris May 
Morris Mike (C) 
Mortimer Robt 
Mobs Dick 
Most A 
Montgomery Duo 

N 

Ngdel. Leo. .(G) 
NaTon Andy (C) 
Niblo A Spencer 
Nichols * Croix 81s 
Nichols A Sherwood 



Norbeck Fred 
Norton Jack 
Nugent Arthur 



OConner Rita 
Odell Mae (P) 
Olcott Chan 
Overlng M 



Paaluhl Joseph 
Parker Texas 
Pearl ft Rotb 
Petry Lawrence (C) 
Petric E C (C) 
Phelps Verner 
Phillips Ruth. ~ 
Platanesi Flnas (C) 
Pierre ft Knoll 
Powers John (C) 
Prescott John 
Prior Joe 
Prultt Bill (SF) 
Pruitt John (C) 
Puscaden Rose 

R 

Racey Edward 
Ramey Marie 
Randan Jack 
Raymond Llssls 



MRS. REN SHIELDS. ^Soom^ 

The Van Alan, 1S4 Weat 4Sth St. 

Coolest Rooms In New York City 

Phone 1112 Bryant. All Modern Improvements 

M^ud^Mvet^^TheTangoChaniberMa^ 

Catering to Vaudeville's Blue List 

SCHILUNG HOUSE 

1S7-1SS Wast 4Sth Street 

NEW YORK 

American plan. MEAL SERVICE AT ALL 

HOURS. Private Baths. Music Room for 
Rehearaale. 'Phone lfSf Bryant 

Telephone Greeley 249 

COOK'S PLACE 

Under New Management 

AMERICAN OR EUROPEAN PLAN 

RATES VERY REASONABLE 

MA LYNCH, Proprietress 272 W. 2fth St 

NEW YORK CITY 

THE TALGARTH HOTEL 

1224 Prospect Avenue 

CLEVELAND 

Five Minutes' Walk from Theatres 
Special Weekly Ratea 



COME AND SEE ME. 



PUT THIS IN YOUR DATE BOOK. 



BILLY "Swede" HALL 

CLARIDGE APARTMENTS, 
22* WEST 50TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 



Reed Qua 

Reynolds Trio 

Reynolda A Donegan 

Rlego Harry (C) 

Roberts Susie 

Roby Dan (C) 

Rochester Claire 

Rogers Will 

Rogers ft Evans (C) 

RogucB Alphonse (C) 

Rose David 

Rose Louise 

Rosey O rover 

Ross Chas 

Russell Bijou 

Russell Ruth 

Ryan Margaret (C) 



S 
Samoya 

Samual Maurice 
Sawyer Delia (P) 
Scarlet D 
Schoelvlnck A 
Sella Girls 
Sharp Lew 
Sharp Mr ft Mm M 
Sharpluss Edward 
Shaw Georgia 
Sheldon Bettina 
Bhelver-O • •• 
Sherman Sarah 
Simonds Dot 
Skipper Geo 
Sluvan Bthel 



Big Time Food, Big Time Service, Small Time Prices at the 

French- American Bakery-Restaurant 

154 WEST 44TH ST.-NEXT TO THE CLARIDGE HOTEL, NEW YORK 
POPULAR PRICES. CEO. FISCH, PROP. ALWAYS OPEN. 



ACTS COMING TO CHICAGO STOP AT 

HOTE.L CARLE/TON 

STATE, ARCHER AND 20TH STREETS 

S4.M up, Single or Double, and get showing at Alhambrn Hippodrome. 
For Chicago Agents. Theatre and Hotel Under Same Management 

SAN FRANCISCO 

LANKERSHIM HOTEL 

Absolutely Fireproof; New end Modern; 2St Rooms 
Fifth Street, opposite U. S. Mint; halt block from Pantages and Empress, and Near All Theatre* 

SPECIAL RATES TO PROFESSION 

Single Room, $4 per weak) Double, *4Sf; with Private Bath, 9 and ft. Take any Teal, ear 



Dads Theatrical Hotel 

PHILADELPHIA 

HOTEL VICTORIA 



Its led Mcuse Sit. 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 
RATES-ONE PERSON 

Rooms with Bath Privilege, 21.tMl.CI 
Rooms with Private Bath, 21.2S-S1.M 

TWO PERSONS 

Rooms with Bath Privilege. $1-SS-$2.SS 

Rooms with Private Bath. $2.SS-$2.W 

Special Bates by the Week 

Telepkeae and running water la all 



B^^ t'af . t -a^^ 

" rnE. home of the. PftOFLSSiON" 

CLCCTRIC LIGHT ELECTRIC AN 

46'V/V/v':HOT'COLb AU '" «**£/ - ■ 
S W COP . lO" /S- CMLHRV 5T5 

p/ \ i l ad£X pm i a . rv> . 



Smith James 
Smythe Wm 

tparllng Franklyn 
prague Leon 
Stanley Jack 
Stevens Leo 
Strauss Wm 
Sully Rose 
Summers A Oonssles 

(C) 
Sutherland Jessie 



Taylor F 
Temple S W 
Terry Ruth 
Terry Walter (C) 
Thieme F 
Thomas W H 
Thornton Bennie 
Tlgle Harry 
Tony A Norman 
Trappanan 



Van Billy 

Van Nally Elsie 

Vann Jack 



Veola 

Vernon Ethel 
Victor Mr 
Victor The Great 
Volhl Jack 
Von Boos Eugenia 
Von Dell Harry 

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Waldo Grace 
Walk J J (C) 
Walker Dolly 
Wallace Jack 
Walah May 
Walters Nellie 
Walters A Murray (C) 
Ward Tom 
Watson S 
Watts J (C) 
WattH A Lucas (C) 
Weatherford Tas 
Webber Fred 
Wells Corrlne (C) 
Welsh A Francis 
West Lew 
Weaton Dan 
Whalte J A (C) 
Wheeler Ed (C) 



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Formerly COOKE'S HOTEL 
"A Theatrical Hotel ef the Better < 
Walnut Street, above Eighth 

Opposite Casino Theatre Philadelphia 

CAFB CABARET EVERY NIGHT 



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more 



Hotel 



JOHN A DICKS, Prep. 

ROCHESTER, N. Y. 

European, 75c. up. American, $1.M up. 



WELLINGTON HOTEL 

Wabash Ave. and Jackson Blvd. 

CHICAGO 
Rates To The Profession 

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Wheler H A 
Whipple Bayone 
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Wiggln Bert 
Wilbur Orace 
Willcox George 
Williams H E 
Wilson Adelaide 
Wilson Eleanor 
Wilson J H 
Wilson Nettie 
Wilton Chas 
Williamson I 8 



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Wood Ed 
Woodbury Frank 
Woodward Barls 
Wright B O 



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Young A April 



Kino Two 



CORRESPONDENCE 

Wsg otherwise noted, the following reports are for the current week. 

T»eep puiwT cHicAGo^^^r z£ 



In Charga 






"Peg o' My Heart" reaches Its IfWth per- 
formance at the Garrlck, Friday, Oct. 2. 

Ethel Jackson In now in the cast of "A Pair 
of Sixes" at the Cort, replacing Elizabeth 
Nelson. 

Mat Menker has replaced Henry Toomer in 
Sidelights" playing at the Colonial. Mr. 
Trtom«T Is 111. 



Willie Fox Is now In the cabaret depart- 
ment of the W M. V A., assisting Oeorge 
Van. 



Harry I„auder will be at the Auditorium 
the week ending Nov. 10. according to report 

The Shubert will offer "The Midnight Girl" 
at the Illinois Oct 4. for a limited engage 
m»'nt. 

Chicago Is promised "Th»* Dummy" later in 
the season with Frank Campeau as one of tb« 
chief players. 

John and Jessie Powers are back In Chi 
cago and are to be booked by Eddie Hayman 
on western time. 



V RIETY 




MAURICE 



ELMORE 



BURKHART and WHITE 



Direction, 



Home Run Hitters in the Singers' League 
BOOKED SOLID ON U. B. O. AND ORPHEUM TIME 

STOKER & BIERBAUER 



NEXT WEEK (Oct. 5), LOS ANGELES 



Isabella Gerhardt (Mrs. Howard) of the 
Oerhardt Sisters is tbe mother of a daughter, 
born Sept. 23. 

It li now announced that "The Little Cafe" 
will come to the Illinois for a month, be- 
ginning Nov. 1. 



Campbell Canad has sold his play, "Butler's 
Baby," to C. 8. Primrose, who will make a 
production of it later. 



Phillip Sheffield has replaced John Scannell 
bh the juvenile lead in "One Olrl In a Mil- 
lion" at the La Salle. 



The Drama Club of Bvanston will meet Oct. 
8, on which occasion lime. Ongama will sing 
and tell stories In Japanese. 

Motion pictures have been cut out at the 
Marcus Loew Empress and the shows are run- 
ning seven acts, three shows a day. 



Jack La It calls his new sketch for Kitty 
Gordon "The Scarlet Scandal," and he will 
go to New York to stage it for the actress. 

Oliver Morose© passed through Chicago for 
Los Angeles last week, where he went to at- 
tend the opening of his new play, "Lady 
Aiieen. 



HARRY WEBER'S 




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MARCONI BROS. 



( 



INTRODUCING 





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THE ONLY ACT OF ITS KIND 





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BOOKED SOLID 



IN AMERICA 

Western Representative, CONEY HOLMES 



VARIETY 



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MRS. SHARROCK 





MR. SHARROCK 







tHIIMD TIH 



ORAM 




MAJESTIC, CHICAGO, WEEK OF SEPT. 21st, AND ACKNOWLEDGED BY PRESS AND PUBLIC AS 



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THAT THE REPRESENTATIVE CHICAGO CRITICS APPROVED THE ACT IS HEREBY PROVEN 



The Hattont 
Th« Harald 



But there is an act on the Majestic Theatre 
bill this week which reverses the usual 
variety practice. This is the Sharrocks in 
"Behind the Grand Stand." These perform- 
ers enter as cheap fortune tellers at a bucolic 
fair. They set up their booth behind the 
grand stand, the woman taking out her para- 
phernalia and the man acting as barker. 
Through this introductory part of the sketch 
there is a most amusing conversational give 
and take, which quite exposes the fakers of 
the "tank" circuits. 

Then the barker and fortune teller gel 
up on their boxes and begin drumming up a | 



crowd. He bawls out the prowess of "Zaza." 
She chews gum and affects nonchalance. The 
audience is cleverly swept into the role of 
the impressed ruralities, and then the act 
suddenly changes ■ into an excellent exhibi- 
tion of mind reading. 

The Sharrocks not only work together bril- 
liantly as mind readers, but they nave a real 
ability to project character. It is the first 
sketch of the sort we have witnessed in 
which the performers seem to be equipped 
with imaginations and a sense of background. 

Amy Leslie 
The News 

Another bit of play acting which is capital 
is done in "Sharrocks," an excellent illustra- 



tion of side show and the "faker" end of a 
fair ground circus. It takes place behind a 
grand stand and there are fortune tellers who 
actually lure the audience into a test of sec- 
ond sight without hatting an eyelash. 

The Billboard 

No. 4 — The Sharrocks came on with a bally- 
hoo that reminded one of a fair ground, and 
the opening they have adopted has added just 
100 per cent, to their novelty offering of men- 
tel telepathy. After introducing Miss Shar- 
rock in real carnival style, Mr. Sharrock 
proceeds through the audience where various 
articles are held up and are called out by Miss 
Sharrock as to what they are, describing 
them to the smallest identification possible. 



In their opening much "Hick" patter was 
sent over the footlights, and resulted in in- 
stantaneous applause. This, combined with 
the comedy ottered throughout their men- 
tal work, made them qne of the hits of the 
program. Twenty-two minutes, in one. 

Reed 

Variety 

The Sharrocks on in "E" spot, made the 
first real stir and things went on s pretty 
swift pace thereafter. The Sharrocks, who 
come on as fair fakirs, have some good 
comedy, and they close brilliantly with sec- 
ond sight stuff that puts them in the suc- 
cessful class. The set got over very big 
and the audience came up with enthusiasm. 



RK, 



OINNINO 



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8th AMERICAN SEASON 



ALICE LLOYD 

IN VAUDEVILLE 

NEXT WEEK (Oct. 5) PALACE, NEW YORK 



Representative, P^\.T^ CA.SE JL 



All Communications care 
VARIETY, New York 



Jack Burch. manager of McVlcker's, has 
ne to French Lick suffering from a sudden 
tack of Illness. Sam Levin Is looking after 
e house In his absence. 



Ben Yanger, he of prize fighting fame, has 
had a new act written and will soon get Into 
line for the "Association" time. J. T. Doyle, 
a newspaper man, Is the author. 



George Tyler has announced that the Red 
Cross Society will be given half the proceeds 
from tickets sold by special oommlttepn dur- 
ing the period from Sept. 2.°» to Oct. l'J. 



Some sort of a musical Internment has been 
installed In the lobby of the Garrlck where 
muwlc of "The Midnight Girl" Is offered the 
Ma; crowdn that go to ttee "Peg o' My Heart." 



Sudbury. North Bay, Cobalt, St. Thomas. 
>rlln and Barry are a string of towns added 
the United Bookings offices this week. They 
11 be booked out of Chicago. 



Paul Kevins and Ruby Erwood left the bill 
at the Majestic Monday. They declined sec- 
ond position. This left the bill with eleven 
acts, Including two pictures. 



Leon A. Brazenlak and others have taken 
a lease on the College theatre, on the north- 
west side, where they will install a producing 
company to put on plays by western writers. 



Mr and Mrs. Maurice Browne, directors of 
the Little theatre, have sailed from Naples 
and will arrive in Chicago next week. Re- 
hearsals of the company are now In progress. 



DAINTY ENGLISH TRIO 



This Week (Sept. 28) Keith's, Columbus 



ENGLAND'S FOREMOST DANCERS 

Ethel Rosebud, Maod Crossland and Lottie Crotsland 

BOOKED SOLID ON ORPHEUM CIRCUIT UNTIL JUNE 27 



42 



VARI11 Y 



JUST RETURNED FROM THE WAR ZONE 
The Boys Who Entertained Royalty 



MANION s HARRIS 



Presenting 



'Uncle Jerry at the Opera" 

THE GREAT & PROUD OF WORK 
ORIGINAL AS A 'MANAGER' 




Tells ot Her Success in Booking Valentine 

Harris, Her Boy Protege Rat time 
Singer. 





LONDON HIPPODROME 



Messrs JACK MANION, GEO. 
BKITT, HARRY BLOOM, JACK 
BUTLER, W. O. WOODS, H 
TINNER. N. COSTER, & CHAS 
REID (the Pianist) 



SOME OLD FAVOURITES. 



Special Cable to New York American. 

London, July 25.— As if the fact she had 
won all London with her performance at the 
Palace Theatre was not enough to satisfy 
Elsie Janis, the young star confided to the 
New York American correspondent tonight 
that her proudest achievement since land- 
ing in England has been her triumph as a 
manager. 

As told in The American, on her arrival 
several months ago, she brought with her 
Valentine Harris, a boy ragtime singer she 
had discovered "in a San Francisco cafe," 
and announced his services could be obtained 
only by negotiating with her as his manager. 
Since then Harris, through her indefatigable 
effort, has sung before the King and Queen 
at a ball given by Grand Duke Michael, and 
before Lord Lonsdale, Princess Hatzfeldt. 
Duchess of Marlborough, the Duchess of 
Westminster, Lord Cunard, Lady Rocksav- 
age, Lady Paget and Lady Curzon. 

"I also got Val. a pretty soft two-day en- 
gagement," added Miss Janis, "aboard Alfred 
Vanderbilt's houseboat at the Henley re- 
gatta, where he had as an audience about all 
of the English nobility to be found in Burke's 
Peerage. I'm letting him go back to San 
Francisco in August for a little vacation, but 
he can't stay long, because I've got him 
booked solid in the music halls here this Fall, 
besides a three months' engagement in the 
Revue in Paris, beginning March, 1915. 

"Considering the fact it is only a short time 

since Val. 'blew into' San franctsco and got 
a job as an entertainer in Dibble's Cafe on 
the Ocean Boulevard, his jump upward speaks 
pretty well for him as an artist and me as a 
manager." 

Harris, besides singing "rube songs," has 
been teaching the English nobility his own 
dance, "Texas Tommy." 



OWING TO THE WAR WE WERE FORCED TO CAN- 
CEL OUR RESPECTIVE CONTRACTS IN EUROPE 

We are now playing the U. B. O. Time 



This Week 

Keith's, 

Washington 



NEXT WEEK (Oct. 5) 

BUSHWICK Brooklyn 



Direction, ARTHUR KLEIN 



VICTOR 

NIBLO 

AND HIS WONDERFUL TALKING BIRDS 
At HAMMERSTEIN'S THIS WEEK 



The Webster Vaudeville circuit 1b booking 
four acta at the Empress in Duluth. The 
Broadway, in Superior, will open Sunday, 
playing four acta, booked by the name agency 



"Cordelia Blossom," which cloeed a week or 
ao ago, la to be revived, according to latest 
reports, and offered In Chicago with Burr Mc- 
intosh, Louise Dresser and Jane Orey In the 
cast. 



There la a Htory current that Addison Burk- 
hardt and Frederick Donaghey have made up 
and hare forgotten the difficulties they had 
over "The Girl at the Gate." a La Salle pro- 
duction. 



The Edelweiss Cafe Is a thing of the past 
The place la now being fitted up for a motion 
picture house, which will bring the total up to 
five in the block between Dearborn and Clark, 
on Madison. 



George Damarel Is breaking In his new act 
"Ordered Home" In the sticks and will come 
back to Chicago next week to play either the 
Majeetlc or the Palace. Frank Smlthson 
■Uged it. 



Plans are under way for the production here 
during December of a show to be called Chi- 
cago's Annual Revue of 1014. It is said the 
backers of "The Elopers" will finance the 
attraction. • 



Florence Reed and her company will leave 
Powers' theatre In the near future to play oth- 
er cities. Another company, headed by Joseph- 
ine Victor, will come to Powers' to play In 
the same show. 



George C. Tyler, who waa In town last week 
to see a performance of "Joseph and His 
Brethren," engaged Henry E. Dizey for the 
revival of "Twelfth Night," which he con- 
templatea later in the season. 



Maxim P. Lowe, representing the Marlnelli 
offices, baa been the cynosure of all eyes In 
Chicago the past week. His pale tan whiskers 
have attracted quite as much attention as the 
rosy beard of Senator J. Ham Lewis. 

Rumors have It that there will be a mo- 
tion picture house In Randolph street, about 
opposite the Garrlck. There has been talk of 
turning the old Union cafe Into a picture 
house, but nothing definite has been done. 



Max Nathan, who formerly had a houee at 
Hoopeston, 111., has leased the Princess in 
Kenosha, Wis., which he has renamed The 
Virginian, and will play three acta with 
split weeks booked by Dick Hoffman oat of 
the W. M. V. A. offices. 



Newspaper men and others were allowed 
private vlewe of the Sam Mayer collection of 
theatrical photographs and relics at the new 
club rooms of the Old Friends' Club of 
America In the Marine building on Tuesday 
and Wednesday of this week. 



Ferdinand Stelndel, one of the members of 
the Stelndel trio that recently appeared at the 
Palace, and later went to Rector's cafe, is 
suing his wife for divorce, a cross bill having 
been filed. Mrs. Stelndel appealed to the courts 
some time ago for a separation from her hus- 
band. 



Henry B. Toomer, playing In "Sidelights," 
Is suffering with pneumonia. Gypsy Gorrell Is 
listed among the alck (all at the American 
hospital). 



Beginning next week the Temple, Ft 
Wayne, Ind., will play two Instead of three 
shows a day with the exception of Saturdays 
and 8undays, when three shows will be of- 
fered as usual. Charles Crowl books the 
Temple. He has booked an all-girl bill for 
the houso for the last half of next week. 



LITTLE 

MAY GREEN 

Who opened Aug. 3rd on the Syndicate 
Tour (England) the day WAR WAS DE- 
CLARED, but that didn't hinder Little May 
from SCORING A HIT. 

Still playing the tour. 

GOING TO AMERICA IN OCTOBER. 

Returning to England April 5. 



WALTER 

SHANNON 






and 

MARIE 

ANNIS 



In a Revival of Mr.' 
Shannon's Success 

"A Shine 
Flirtation" 



MISS ANNIS, for the 
past three years, has 
been one of Chas. 
Frohman's leading 
women, last year ap- 
pearing with Donald 
Brian in "The Marriage 
Market." 

MR. SHANNON has 

just returned from Eu- 
rope after playing a 
successful three-y ear 
tour in London and 
Paris. 

Opening Season 

Next Week (Oct. 5), 
GRAND, Syracuse, N. Y. 



. 



Direction, 



MAX HART 



VARIETY 




Elizabeth Otto 

In Musical Milestones 

Season Opened Week of Sept. 28th 
at Orpheum Theatre, Montreal, Canada 

Direction, GENE HUGHES 



BOOKED 
SOLID 



News emanates from the local Oliver Mo- 
rosco offices that "Help Wanted" with the 
original cast is still playing to good business 
in larger Ohio towns. The second company 
has closed and will be put in rehearsal for 
another try- Later on the first company will 
go east. Mr. Morosco contemplates bringing 
"Lady Eileen, his new prize play to Chicago 
some time this season.' 



Leon A. Brazeniak has obtained Judgment 
against John Nicholson of "For the Love of 
Mike," In the sum of $95 in favor of Miss 
Alice Raymond. Miss Raymond was formerly 
a member of the "Mike" company and claim- 
ed two weeks' salary after cancellation. Mr. 
Nicholson contended that as Miss Raymond 
Immediately Joined "The Elopers," she was 
not entitled to any money. 

AMERICAN MUSIC HALL (E. H. Wood, 
mgr.).— "My Friend from Kentucky," with 
Negro players, opened Sunday. 

AUDITORIUM (Bernard Ulrlch, mgr.).— 
"Joseph and His Brethren," getting good re- 
turns. 

COHAN'S (Harry Ridings, mgr.).— "Under 
Cover," meeting with favor. 

COLUMBIA (William Roche, mgr.).— Ed. 
Lee Wrothe and company opened Sunday. 

COMEDY (Al. Hamburger, mgr.).— Pictures. 

CORT (U. J. Herrmann, mgr.).— "A Pair of 
Sixes," getting good returns. 

CROWN (A. J. Kaufmann, mgr.).— "Maggie 
Pepper," opened Sunday. 

CA8INO (Frank Parry, mgr.).— Dallab's 
Own Show. 

FINE ARTS (Ed Harmeyer, mgr.).— Pic- 
tures. 

QARRICK (John J. Oarrity. mgr.).— "Peg 
o' My Heart," getting big returns. 

ILLINOIS (Will J. Davis. Jr., mgr.).— "The 
Belle of Bond Street," doing a fair business. 

IMPERIAL (Joe Pilgrim, mgr.).— "Winning 
of Barbara Worth," opened Sunday. 

LA SALLE (Joseph Bransky. mgr.).— "One 
Olrl In a Million." doing a nice business. 

NATIONAL (John P. Barrett, mgr.).— "The 
Call of the Cumberland." opened Sunday. 

OLYMPIC (George C. Warren, mgr.). — 
"Potash and Perlmutter," biggest hit in town. 



FOR HBADQ ANILINE, STREET, 

saleUaUiowood, CORRIDOR 

Inquire MILLER, 315 West 34th Street 



ORCHESTRA HALL (Trim ft Lubllner. 
mgr8. ) . — Pictures. 

POWERS* (Harry J. Powers, mgr.).— "The 
Yellow Ticket." 

PRINCESS (Sam P. Gerson, mgr.).— "To- 
day," playing to big houses. 

STAR & OARTER (Paul Roberts, mgr.).— 
••Girls of the Moulin Rouge." 

VICTORIA (Howard Brolaski. mgr.).— "An- 
nie Laurie," opened Sunday. 

ZIEQFELD (Ed Harmeyer, mgr.).— Pic- 
tures. 



MAJESTIC (Lyman B. Qlover, mgr.; agent, 
Orpbeum). — Not in many weeks has there been 
such keen enthusiasm apparent as was evi- 
denced Monday afternoon. The Bell Family 
received an ovation and Frank Keenan and 
company came in for a stirring reception. 
The bill opened quietljrwith the Solti Duo, a 
dancing team wbo offered new phases of the 
modern dances. Paul Nevins and Miss Ruby 
Erwood, in cork offered some bright sayings, 
but had a bad spot Charles Yule, Fred 
Munier and Co. presented "The Stranger," 
which runs a bit slowly, but has some good 
lines and a little kick at the end. Jarrow, 
billed as the originator of the lemon trick, got 
into the good graces of his audience, and 
started the bill on its way to big success. 
He has a good line of new Jokes and works 
along original lines. Anna Chandler stepped 
in after this act, and made a decidedly good 
impression. She, too, bad to come back sev- 
eral times. She has personality, gets intimate 
with her audiences at once and makes good. 
Frank Keenan repeated the triumphs he has 
won before. He is ably assisted by Mac M. 
Barnes and Henley Edwards. Laddie Cliff, 
following the headline act, also went well. 
His sprightly style, his engaging manner and 
bis neat and natty appearance got him over 
in fine shape. Jackson & McLaren, cham- 
pion axmen, were next to closing, where they 
held 'em In their novel act In such a man- 
ner as to keep nearly ever person. The 
act is big and handsomely staged. War pic- 
tures brought the show to a close. The audi- 
ence wbi large. Reed. 

PALACE MU8IC HALL (Harry Singer, 
mgr.; agent, Orpheum). — Mercedes, held over 
as headliner for second week, was well liked. 
Herman Tlmberg scored and Bert Fitzglbbon 
In bis "nutologue" took first honors. Busi- 
ness very fair at Monday night performance 
and show seemed to strike popular fancy 
Dorothy and Madeline Cameron welcome in 
the opening spot. Two very pretty girls sing 
and dance as well as any recently seen here. 
Took half a dozen bows. Josephine Davis 
and Billy Oeller offer song and piano selec- 



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tlons successfully because of personality. 
Miss Davis's songs are a trifle slow, but she 
gets them over. Arnaut Brothers' musical 
acrobatic novelty held third spot nicely. They 
retain their whistling comedy finish with sub- 
stantial results. Ray Raymond and Florence 
Bain are liked for their little farce skit, 
"Locked Out." They do a clever bit of flirta- 
tion, sing lively songs and dance. Mercedes, 
entertained as ever. Herman Tlmberg should 
do more song and talk comedy and less fid- 
dling. Princess RadJah submits her Oriental 
dance creations with gratifying results. Bert 
Fitzglbbon keeps the hilarity on the ascend- 
ing pitch. Odiva and her Sea Lions, novel 
aquatic production, close the show and hold 
interest throughout. 

McVICKER'S (J. G. Burch. mgr. ; Marcus 
Loew). — Bill without anything unusual, but 
still one to please the average vaudeville fan. 
Charles Terrls and his company presented 
"The Preacher and the Man," an entertaining 
sketch with unusual features. Mr. Terris, as 
a priest, did well. The little company was 
received warmly. Whitney's Operatic Dolls, 
a lively puppet show, got over easily. Ben M. 
Jerome & Co. (New Acts) had a good spot 
and found favor. Bowen Brothers, black face, 
have some live jokes in their repertoire, and 
use some of the old ones with good effect. 
Oldfleld & Drew pleased and the Five Yos- 
carrys were applauded. The Herald Weekly, 
showing scenes of Chicago life of interest, 
and some Keystone films helped to lengthen 
the entertainment. The attendance Monday 
night was only fair. Reed. 

WILLARD (Norman E. Field, mgr.; J. L. 
A S.). — Baron Llchter. a man with a real 
sense of humor, carried off the honors at the 
first show Monday night He plays the piano, 
sings, whistles, yodles and gives Imitations, 
and does them all very well. He stopped the 
show and had the house in an uproar. Her- 
many's Aerial Cats and Dogs opened the show 
going well. Ross and Farrell were on second 
to fill the place assigned to Lee Tung Foo, 
who failed to appear. They did not have 
anything of great moment to offer. Joe Ban- 
nister and company presented "The Waif," a 
dramatic playlet by Dan Kusel. This act has 
several picturesque points and is fairly well 
acted as to the young woman. Mr. Bannister 
is a trifle stiff In his performance. The 
American Newsboys Quartet got a good many 
laughs. Jewell's Manikins (New Acts) also 
came in for much laughter. Pathe pictures 
were offered. The audience at the first show 
Monday night was not large but It was full of 
enthusiasm. Reed. 



SAN FRANCISCO 

VARIETY'S 

SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE 

PANTAGES' THEATRE BLDG. 
Phone, Douglass 2213 

JACK JOSEPHS in charge. 



songs and patter. William Egdirettes' dogs 
and horses entertained with posing stunts. 
Harry Tsuda was a capital opener. Six 
American Dancers and lamed were successful 
repeaters. Hermine Shone and Co., another 
of the "holdovers," were well received. Jones 
and Sylvester, who were tacked on to the bill 
Tuesday, acored. 

EMPRESS.— Pattee's Five Diving Nympha 
held attention with the usual routine of wa- 
ter feats. DeVoy, Faber and Co., offering 
The Victim," were enjoyed, the skit being 
well presented. Avellng and Lloyd scored a 
substantial hit. Swan opened nicely. Jos- 
eph, Laurie and Frances Allen were well 
liked. Miller, Moore and Gardner pleased 
Immensely. Ray Lawrence, female imper- 
sonator, a local product, was "added." Law- 
rence displayed a handsome wardrobe and a 
pleasing voice, the turn doing nicely. 

PANTAQES.— Silver Belle, posing horse, 
made a splendid impression. "The Night 
Hawks" displayed merit and gave satisfac- 
tion. Palfrey, Barton and Brown registered 
such a hit that they ware moved to closing 
position after the first show. Rotellaa pleased 
Wood's dogs opened satisfactorily. Vic Rich- 
ards and Joe Qulnlan, won laughs. Parkei 
and Butler, passed nicely. 

CORT (Homer F. Curran, mgr.). — "A Pali 
of Sizes" (first week). 

COLUMBIA (Gottlob, Marx 4k Co., mgrs.) 
—"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.'' 

ALCAZAR (Belaaco ft Mayer, mgrs.).— 
Stock. 

GAIETY (Thos. O'Day, mgr.).— Kolb I 
Dill Co. in "Peck o" Pickles" (fifth week). 

WIGWAM (Jos. Bauer, mgr.).— Monti 
Carter Co. and vaudeville. 

PRINCESS (Bert Levey, lessee and mgr. 
agent, Levey). — Vaudeville. 

REPUBLIC (Ward Morris, mgr. ; agent, W 
S. V. A.).— Vaudeville. 



Olive Fremstad will inaugurate the concert 
season at the Columbia Oct. 18. 



Claire Simpson, aoubret with Jacobs com- 
pany In Denver, was married to a Denvei 
man last week. 



Julie Sollee closed with the Monte Cartel 
company last week, and will return to hei 
home In New Mexico. 



Jack Hayes, for the past year on the Hip- 
podrome staff, In Los Angeles, will probsblj 
move to one of the W. 8. V. A. bouses. 

According to a report from Tacoma acti 
playing Loew's Empress there are naked t< 
out salaries owing to poor business. 

William Brewer and Florence Bell opened 
at the Princess this week In the first of i 
series of short dramatic sketches. 



ORPHEUM. — Ahearn's comedy cyclist 
proved a fast closer. Stan Stanley turn was 
a hit; Mack and Walker pleased with their 



Alsaoe, of Alsace and Lorraine, for the pssi 
year doing a "single" musical turn. Is one< 
more working with Lorraine (Mrs. Alsace). 

The Tlvoll Keating ft Flood's Seattle house 
which recently opened with musical comedy 
closed after a few weeks of bad business 
Several members of the company were re 



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KING OF THE PIANO ACCORDEON 

ENGAGED FOR SIX MONTHS AFTER OPENING 
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ARTISTES— ATTENTION 

YOUR APPEARANCE 

IS YOUR BEST ASSET 
And has meant Success to Many Acts 

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work with Dorothy Daly, instead of Elsie 
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The Majestic theatre, the W. S. V. A. house 
for the past few weeks playing musical com- 
edy and vaudeville, returned to the straight 
picture policy this week. Bothwell Brown 
Musical Comedy Company closed there last 
week, and will go to Phoenix, Ariz., for a four 
weeks' engagement. 



The Panama Canal motion pictures, with 
the views of fortifications eliminated, were re- 
cently shown at the Qalety, and, although con- 
siderable publicity was given the film prior 
to Its exhibition. It was a flivver from a busi- 
ness standpoint. The makers must stand trial 
on a charge of revealing government secrets. 



The Metropolitan Vaudeville Road show, un- 
der the direction of William K. Dalley, a local 
booking agent, was closed last week at Napa. 
Cal., without notice, after being nut one week. 
The causes are said to be dissensions among 
the players. After returning here, Margaret 
Manners, a principal In a feature dramatic 
sketch, went before the State Labor Commis- 
sioner and asked for assistance to recover a 
week's salary. The case was dismissed. It 
is understood the show will be reorganized. 



ATLANTA. 

By R. H. MeCAW. 

FORSYTH (Hugh Cardoza, mgr. ; agent, U. 
B. O. ). — Marvelous Manchurlans, featured, 
liked ; Smith, Cook A Brandon, pleased ; Carll- 
lo & Frablto, go well ; Salon Singers, big ; 
Ryan & Lee, applause ; Neher & Kappel, clev- 
er ; Lawrence & Bruce, ordinary. 

ATLANTA (Homer George, mgr.). — "Oh, 
Oh, Delphlne," fair business ; Al Field's Min- 
strels, l-.'i ; "Today," 5-6. 

LYRIC (Hugh Cardoza, mgr.) —"Gay Morn- 
ing Glories," good houses. 

GRAND (Harry Hearne, mgr.; agent, U. B. 
0.").— "Cabiria," big business at T> and 10 
cents. 

BIJOU (lake Wolls. mgr).- Jewell Kelley 
Stock. 



Dan Mlchalovo is again managing Majestic, 
Ashvllle, a Lynch house. 



The Gold Blume palm garden Is the newest 
amusement place In Mobile. P. H. Hamel Is 
owner and manager. The show will consist of 
movies, cabaret entertainers and vaudeville. 



J. R. Melton, n pioneer In the theatrical 
field In Georgia, has leased the Majestic, Co- 
lumbus, Ga., and has taken over J. R. Dud- 
ley's Interest. Vaudeville and tabs will be 
put on. 



Iym Cnstro. former big league ball player. 
has been made manager of the Lyric, the local 
burlesque house. 

As a result of litigation, by the owners of 
the house against the lessees, the effects of the 
BIJou. Knoxvllle. were sold at auction last 
week. The house was to have opened with 
Keith vaudeville. It has no plans for the fu- 
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Chas. Frohman's production (premiere) of 
Paul Armstrong's new play "The Heart of a 
Thief," with Martha Hedman. 

NEW NIXON (Harry Brown, mgr.).— Oct 
1. premiere performance of the Victor Her- 
bert-Henry Blossom's new musical farce. 
The Only Girl." Victor Herbert will con- 
duct the first performance. . The New Niion 
was dark for the first three 'days. 

KEITH'S (Chas. Q. Anderson, mgr.; agent, 
U. B. O.).— W. C. Fields, solid hit; Jessie 
Busley & Co., "The Olrl at the Cigar Count- 
er," pleased ; Florence Tempest A Co., pleas- 
ing ; Mayo A Tally, get over well ; Richards 
& Kyle. "Fifty Fifty," amusing; Ward Baker, 
violinist, made good Impression ; Flying Mar- 
tins, pleased ; Two Romans and a Doll, 
scored. 



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By J. K. DOOLEY. 

MARYLAND (F. C. Schanberger, mgr.; agt.. 
U B. O. ). — A. Baldwin Bloane. warm recep- 
tion ; Sophye Barnard, charms ; Lou Anger, 
many laughs ; Edward Farrell and Co., ex- 
tremely funny; the Lelghtonn, amusing; 
Meyakos Sisters, do well ; Xorcross and 
Holdsworth, well received ; Chretlenne and 
Loulsctte, novelty ; Reynolds and Donegan, 
give fine exhibition. 

VICTORIA (Pearce A Scheck. mgrs. ; agt. 
N.-N.). — Frank Bush. humorous; Lillian 
Gwyn, pleasing ; Beatrice Turner and Co.. 
different; Maglln, Eddy and Roy, quick and 
clever; Whltel** and Bell, good. 

NEW (Oootko Schneider, mgr.; agt., Ind.). 
— Five Romero*, over big ; Howard 81oat and 
Co., win out ; Musette, pretty ; Malcolm, pretty 
good ; "Pork Chop" Evers funmaker of 
ability ; Rudolph, shows much strength. 



FORD'S 0. H. (Charles E. Ford, mgr.).— 
"The Phantom Rival" has its premiere. Busi- 
ness best so far this season. 

ACADEMY OF MUSIC (Tunis F. Dean, 
mgr.). — "The Ham Tree." Houses large. 

POLI'S AUDITORIUM (Wedgewood Nowell. 
mgr.).— "The Witching Hour," Intelligently 
acted by the Poll Players. The European 
struggle Is having no effect on the regular 
patronage. 

COLONIAL (C. F. Lawrence, mgr.).— "Re- 
becca of Sunnybrook Farm." Audlenoes 
ought to be considerably larger for a play 
of this kind. 

OAYETY (J. C. Sutherland, mgr.).— The 
"Tempters." Cool weather makes business 
much better. 

PALACE (W. L. Ballauf, mgr.).— "The 
Roseland Girls." Women patronage shows 
decided Increase. 

HOLLIDAY STREET (Martin J. Dixon, 
mgr.). — Opens with "The House of Mystery." 
by a stock company. Fair attendances. 

The Dixie Entertainers, a troupe of six 
southern vocal and instrumental performers. 
Is the main attraction this week at the 
Suburban. 



Gertrude Bondhill. formerly of the Poll 
Players of Washington, has Joined the PjII 
Players In this city as Ingenue. 

Tompkln's Circus gave two performances 
Monday at Towson. The tents were pitched 
on the Jail lot. 

It has been announced that the Boston 
Symphony Orchestra will appear here the 
usual series of five concerts on Wednesday 
evenings the dates being Nov. 4, Deo. i, 
Jan. 6, Feb. 17 and March 17. 

John T. Ford, the well known theatrical 
man connected with Ford's, took his seat 
Monday evening as a member of the City 
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MiTON. 

By J. GOOLTZ. 

KEITH'S (Robert O. Larsen, mgr.; agt., 
U. B. O.). — Comedy the key note of this 
week's bill and comedy an especially safe 
bet for Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Carter De- 
Haven were unexpectedly Jumped into the 
bookings as headliner In lieu of "The Bride 
Shop," which had been announced. The act 
did not open to enthusiasm, but quickly 
picked up because of the excellent staging 
of the songs and closed big. Joe Welch was 
good In his monolog, but seemed to drag In 
places in a manner there seemed to be no 
excuse for considering the wealth of material 
he has and does not use. Sam Barton, billed 
as "The 811ent Tramp." furnished some 
comedy that was a riot There is a big field 
In Boston for low brow comedy that Is abso- 
lutely clean and the way that Barton's act 
went demonstrated It effectively. The Depace 
Opera Company went big in a clean musical 
act that ran as smooth as a whistle. It wai 
the first time here. Hale Norcross and Co. 
In "Love In the Suburbs" contained so much 
small time stuff It opened the bill although 
originally planned to play B. It got a lot 
of laughs and went well enough to win the 
place originally scheduled. The remainder of 
the bill comprised Ruby Raymond and Fred 
Holder, who went fair; Franker Woods and 
Bunee Wyde, fair; Keller Mack and Frank 
Orth, snappy, and the Gaudschmldt Brothers, 
eccentric athletes, who closed. 

LOEW8 GLOBE (Frank Meagher, mgr.; 
agt, U. B. O.). — Opened Monday night after 
several months of darkness, was Jammed, 
liberal papering being done through a de- 
partment store. 

LOEWS ORPHEUM (Victor J. Morris, 
mgr.; agt, Loew).— Vaudeville and pictures. 
Capacity. 

LOEWS ST. JAMES (William Lovey. mgr.; 
agt, Loew).— Vaudeville and pictures. Ex- 
cellent 

NATIONAL (agt, U. B. O.).— Still dark. 

BIJOU (Harry Oustln, mgr.; agt, U. B. O.). 
—Vaudeville and pictures. Establishing an 
exclusive clientele. 

PARK— Dark. Will open in about two 
weeks entirely remodeled as a picture house 
using the Paramount service. 

BOWDOIN (Al. Somerbee, mgr.; agt.. U. B. 
O.). — Pop vaudeville. Good. 

HOLL1S (Charles J. Rich, mgr. ) .—Opened 
belated season Monday night with John Ma- 
son In "Drugged." Fashionable opening and 
should do good business. Hurt slightly by 
"The Follies." 

COLONIAL (Charles J. Rich, mgr.).— Z leg - 
fold's "Follies" opened Monday night to ca- 
pacity house, over $1,000 being turned away. 
Show met exceptional favor. 

SHUBERT (E. t>. Smith, mgr.).— Last week 
of "High Jinks." Business slumping. 

MAJESTIC (E. D. Smith, mgr.).— "The 
Trap," which opened Thursday night with a 
good show, although whaled by the critics. 
Is being whipped into shape on details. Fair 
business. 

WILBUR (E. D. Smith, mgr.).— William 
Hodge In "The Road to Happiness." Is Jam- 
ming the little theatre and being cleverly ad- 
vertised quietly. 

TREMONT (John B. Scboffel, mgr.).— Fan- 
nie Ward In * Madam President" held over 
this week Instead of letting the house go 
dark as was planned. "Potash and Perlmut- 
ter" next week for a run. 

BOSTON (William H. Leahy, mgr.).— 
Stock. The last week of the Majestic Play- 
ers under the visiting star policy brings Wil- 
ton Lackaye In "The Battle," drawing well. 
Last week Blanche Walsh In "The Woman In 
the Case" did not do the business expected 
Leahy's bold venture of twelve weeks of grand 
opera In Italian at $2.50 top starts next Mon- 
day and the outcome Is speculative. After 
thin venture he will return to stock. 

PLYMOUTH (Fred Wright mgr.).— Last 
week of "Along Came Ruth," which has been 
holding up well through clever advertising, 
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CORT (John B. Cort, mgr.).— "Peg O' My 
Heart" with Florence Martin doing consis- 
tently good business. 

CASTLE SQUARE (John Craig, mgr.).— 
Stock. "Arizona" to good business. "Kind- 
ling" last week caused much favorable com- 
ment and may be repeated later Jn season. 

GRAND (George E. Lothrop, mgr.).- -"High 
Rollers" with Kyra. Fair. 

HOWARD (George E. Lotbrop, mgr. ).-- 
"Broadway Burlesquers" with house bill head- 
ed by Herman Lleb and Co. In "Dopo." 
Capacity. 



went over big ; Flanagsn & Edwsrds, despite 
their repeated appearances In this city in 
"On and Off." scored heavily in the sequel, 
"OIT and On," the act Is a scream snd 
possesses real comedy ; Stuart Barnes, good ; 
Vivian Ford ft Harry Hewitt, usual dance 
art ; pictures conclude. 

LYRIC (G. S. Schleslnger, mgr.).— The 
Mrownell-Stork stock in "The Family Cup- 
board," first time in Buffalo, opened to fair 
house. The management has had some diffi- 
culty In drawing good houses on opening 
nights, and as an inducement is offering the 
ladles, via the coupon route, $0 shirtwaists 
Receptions are held Wednesday afternoons. 
There has also been a decrease in prices. 
Oct. 5, "Alias Jimmy Vslentlne." 

OATETY (J. M. Ward, mgr.)— Le-^ Kelly 
and the "Behman Show" played to -opacity 
on opening dates. Good. 

ACADEMY (M. B. Schleslnger, mgr.; agt., 
Loew).— "Birds of a Feather," headlined; 
Marnello, pianist, featured ; 8 Walsys, fair ; 
rallan ft Davis, just over ; Billy Quirk, good ; 
Downing ft Ketter, big hit; Johnny Wood, 
usual ; Zetta Remington, pleased ; Marie ft 
Foster, scored ; Mme. Busse's Educated Dogs, 
pleased the kiddies. 

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CASINO (Charles Waldron. mgr.). — Max 
Spfecel's "Morocco Bound." Good. 

GAIETY (George Batcneller, mgr.). — Dave 
Marlon's "1015 Show." Capacity. 

"Cablrla" at Tremont Temple Is about to 
start an advertising campaign, the pictures 
having brought fair returns but seeming to 
be unknown to too large a portion of the 
public. 



William Carroll HiH, a former newspaper 
man, who last year was attached to the 
Boston Opera House, Is to use the Wilbur 
Sunday nights beginning Nov. 1 for high class 
musical entertainments, using all available 
grand opera stars. 



Vincent T. Fetherstone, the veteran treas- 
urer of the Hollis, Is attached summers to 
the Old Colony Trust Company and Monday 
night when the Hollis opened with John Ms- 
son a huge floral tribute arrived at the thea- 
tre, which was thought to be for Amelia 
Gardner but which turned out to be for the 
treasurer. 



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money In Boston. He was over hers for the 



Merry Burlesquers" opsnsd good, Lawrence 
Crane now managing company. 

MAJESTIC (John Laughlln, mgr.).— Elsie 
St. Leon In "Polly of the Circus," playing at 
popular prices, was well patronized first of 
week. A startling reduction of prices has 
also been put into effect at this theater. Next, 
"Mutt and Jeff In Mexico." 

HIPPODROME (M. Shea, mgr.).— Five- reel 
feature, "The Patchwork Girl of Or" drew big 
bouses first of week. "The Pursuit of Phan- 
tom," last half, Mile. Jose Carl, prima donna 
soprano, late of Metropolitan Opera companv. 
appearing. Excellent business. 

OLYMPIC (Chas. W. Denzlnger, mgr.; agt., 
Sun). — It Is difficult to pick the headllner on 
this week's bill. Moran, Gonzales snd Co., 
in "Winning a King," went over big ; Gypsy 
Rosens, an artist with the violin ; Whalen, 
West and Whalen, good ; Cal Stewart, a 
scream ; American Whirlwinds, sensational ; 
"Million Dollar Mystery" film continues to 
draw. 

REGENT (Arthur C. Willats, mgr.). — Self- 
styled Buffalo's theatre beautiful, this new 
Mark-Brock picture palace at Main and Utlca 
streets enjoyed a most auspicious opening on 
Sept. 26. Arthur C. Willats is to manage 
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BUFFALO. 

By CLYDH F. RBI. 

TECK (John R. Olsher, mgr.).— "Whirl of 
the World," first time here, opened big. Ex- 
cellent musical production with star cast. 
Next. Walker Whiteside In "Mr. Wu." 

STAR (P. C. Cornell, mgr.).— First half, 
"Poor Little Rich Girl," second engagement. 
fair house opening night. Last half, "BUlie 
Burke" in "Jerry" went big. Always a favor- 
ite In Buffalo, playing to packed houses. 
Oct. 5, "Sari." 

SHEA'S (Henry J. Carr, mgr.; agt., U. B. 
0.). — Recovering from a week of poor busi- 
ness, the bill this week Is exceptionally good 
from start to finish. Harry Beresford and 
Co. in a screaming comedy. "Twenty Odd 
Years." scored the hit of the bill ; Han Ping 
Chlen in the "Pekln Mysteries," featured ; 
Ioleen Sisters, novel ; Charlotte Ravenscroft. 
pleased; Percy Bronson ft Winnie Baldwin. 



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PLAZA (Jacob Rosing, mgr.; agt., Mc- 
Mahon ft Dee).— Ed. and Madeline Franks, 
clever ; Efry and Fullerton, hit ; Forbes snd 
Tbellen, scored ; Jerome, scream ; Kendall snd 
Hendricks, pleased ; Smith and Edwards, 
good ; pictures. 

STRAND AND FRONTIER, both playing 
feature plcturos, report excellent business. 

Max Hart, theatrical representative of 
Cleveland, was arrested here on Monday 
charged with beating a board bill at the 
Hotel Lafayette. At the opportune time, upon 
bis arraignment In city court, a messenger 
rusbed into the court room with a telegram 
crediting him with $40. The Judge ordered 
bis discharge upon payment of the bill. 
However, Hart soon after clearing himself 
of that charge was re-arrested on a warrant 
charging him with forgery. This offence. It 
is said, he committed in Cleveland, to which 
Mty be has been taken. 

Manager Charles W. Denzlnger of the 
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filled the vacancy. 



"A Pair of Sixes." •Pinafore." "The Only 
Girl," "The Midnight Girl," and "Omar, the 
Tent Maker," are coming attractions for the 
Teck. 



Considerable "gossip," so to speak, is being 
carried about the city relative to the abrupt 
close of the gigantic charity bazaar, the Swiss 
Kllbl, which was conducted at the Broadway 
auditorium last week. Under the auspices of 
the combined charities fund of Buffalo, the 
carnival opened big, and was to continue 
through this week. Financial difficulties, 
although the affair was advertised as a big 
success, was the cause of its abrupt close 
on Sunday evening and a debt of $1,500 Ib 
said to exlBt. Further than this It is alleged 
by various performers engaged at the car- 
nival for the two weeks, that the promoters, 
Elmer J. Walters, manager of Ontario Beach, 
near Rochester, A. W. Root, theatrical man, 
and C. S. Karland, also of Rochester, have 
"skipped" with funds, mostly gate receipts for 
the first few nights. Many of the performers 
received no pay for their services whatever, 
others received about 15 per cent, of the con- 
tract price. 



CINCINNATI. 

By HARRY ▼. MARTIN. 

KEITH'S (John F. Royalm, mgr.; agt.. 
U. B. O.) — Bill not so good as usual. Pant- 
zcr Duo opened nlC'ly ; Jarvls and Harrison, 
fair; Edwin Stevens and Tina Marshall, en- 
cored repeatedly ; Fred Ardath and Co., 
scream ; Burns, KHmere and Grady, satisfac- 
tory ; Mine. Doree and Co., featured, went big ; 
Maude Muller and Ed Stanley, fine, but would 
have gone better had Miss Muller sung more ; 
Lane and O'Donnell, good, kept crowd. 

EMPRESS (George Bovyer, mgr.; agt., 
Loew). — John La Vler; Princeton and Yale; 
Morris and Parks ; Nip and Tuck ; O'Nell and 
Dixon; "Bower of Melody." (Back to three- 
s-day plan, at 10-15-25, with two matinee and 
evening shows on Sunday.) 

GRAND (John Havlln and Theo. Aylward, 
nigrs.). — George Evans' minstrels opened sea- 
son Sunday night to small house ; Oct. 4, 
"Adele." 

LYRIC (C. Hubert Heuck. mgr.).— "Help 
Wanted" began season ; 4, "Omar, the Tent- 
maker." 

WALNUT (Ben Probst, mgr. ).— " Little Lost 
Sister;" 4. Hap Ward in "A Fool, His Money 
and the Girl." 

MUSIC HALL.— Oct. 3-10, Automobile Show. 

GAYETY (Willis F. Jackson, mgr.).— Ben 
Welch show. 

STANDARD (Charles n. Arnold, mgr.).— 
"The Whirl of Mirth." 

OLYMPIC (Thomas McCready. mgr.).— 
"Moulin Rouge Girls." 

PEOPLES (C. H. Heuck, mgr.; agt., Sun). 
-Vaudeville and farce comedy. 

LYCEUM (Harry Hart, mgr.; agt., Sun).— 
Vaudeville and farce comedy. 



Ernst Kunwald, director of the Cincinnati 
Symphony Orchestra, Ih to sail from Europe 
Oct. 3. 

Covington dance hall proprietors are pro- 
tfHtinK against the order forcing them to pay 
$5 for each dance, In addition to their regu- 
lar annual license fee. 



"Governor" John F. RoblnHon, retired circus 
owner, will move from Terrace Park, where 
he had the winter quarters of his show for 
many years, to this city. 



Diriorr. 

By JACOB SMITH. 

TEMPLE (C. G. Williams, mgr.; U. B. 0.). 
—Billy B. Van, versatile; Nellie Nichols, 
clever ; Kingston A Ebner, very good ; Harry 
Brooks, good; "Bill" Pruett, good singer; 
Rayno's Dogs, excellent ; Sutton, Mclntyre A 
Sutton, opened. 

MILES (C. W. Porter, mgr.; Loew).— "A 
Morning Plunge," good musical comedy ; 
Jamee Grady, good sketch ; Ward Sisters, 
novelty ; Sampson A Douglas, laughs ; Arno 
A Stlckney, good ; Calne A Odom, pleased. 

ORPHEUM (H. P. Wlllamson, mgr.; Pan- 
tages). — Sheer A Herman, big hit; Woods A 
Woods, closed good ; Great Asakl, opened ; 
Harry Jolson, favorite ; Flying Velentonla, 
good ; Mile. deLee, artistic ; American Whirl- 
wind Beauties, excellent 

FAMILY (J. H. McCarron, mgr.; U. B. O.). 
—Rose A Severns, good ; Alex Patty, pleased ; 
Marino Sisters, did nicely ; Avery A McCurdy, 
good ; The Petchings, musical novelty ; Stroll- 
ing Players, very good ; Carroll A Hlckey, 
well liked ; Fortell ft Emmett, fair. 

COLUMBIA (M. W. Schoenherr, mgr.; Sun). 

The Hurleys, comedy acrobats ; Musical 
Conservatory, excellent ; Italia, pleased ; 
Hrlndaroour. clever: Roe Reaves, laughs; 
Four Seasons, excellent ; Goff A Ruth Philips, 
funny : Vincent Bros., good. 

NATIONAL (C. R. Hagerdorn. mgr.; Doyle). 
—Swans' Rats A Cats, novelty ; Janis A Clark, 
good ; Cotter A Lester, good ; Johnston Bros. 
& Johnston, good ; Song Festival, pleased ; 
Helf A Hanley, excellent; Malone A Malone. 
good ; Fairy Plump, character comedian. 

PALACE (C. A. Hoffman, mgr.; Cunning- 
ham). — Cliff Dean Players, good; Penny A 
Boucher, pleased; May EvanB, good whistler; 
Seven Dogs, beautiful ; Victor Faust, clever ; 
Marjorle Lake, fine voice ; Five Novelty Min- 
strels, hit; West A Tate, strong act; Albert, 
comedy ; Stanley A LaBrasch, very good ; 
Rose Enkel, big ; Two Stephanos, pleased. 

GARRICK (Richard H. Lawrence, mgr.).— 
Forbes- Robertson In repertoire. Biggest hit 
was 'Passing of Third Floor Back." Ca- 
pacity, house sold out week In advance. Next 
week. "Too Many Cooks," with Frank Craven. 

DETROIT (Harry Parent, mgr.). —Mrs. 
Flske in "Lady Detty Martingale." Business 
fair. Next week, "The Dummy." 

LYCEUM (A. R. Warner, mgr.).— "While 
the City Sleeps." Next week. Rose Melville, 
"Sis Hopkins." 

BROADWAY (Bert St. Johns, mgr.).— "A 
Bachelor's Honeymoon." Next week, "The 
ParlBh Priest. 



Maurice and Florence Walton will play an 
engagement at the Arcadia, Detroit's leading 
dancing academy, week October 5. Although 
the regular admission price is 10 cents, dances 
being live cents per couple, the management 
during this special week will advance the 
entrance fee to one dollar top. 



Early bookings at the Temple theatre in- 
clude Irenv Franklin and Hurt Green, Eddie 
Foy and 4cids and the Castles If they con- 
tinue In vaudeville. 

J. C. Matthews was in town last week In 
the Interest of the Pantages booking office 
"Pop." 



KANSAS CITY. 

By R. M. (HOUSE. 

SAM S. SHUBERT (Earl Steward, mgr.).— 
"The Bird of Paradise." Good business. 

ORPHEUM (Martin Lehman, mgr.).— Liane 
Carrera headlines a strong bill for the house's 
third week, and was a drawing card. The 
laughing hits are John and Mae Burke and the 
:i-act Imhoff, Conn and Coreene. Barry and 
Wolford, pleasing; Fremont Benton A Co., 
well received. Others, Prince Lai Man Kim 
and Ernie & Ernie. 

EMPRESS (Cy Jacobs, mgr.).— Ross A Fen- 
ton players, big ; Majestic Musical Four, har- 
monious ; Kitty Flynn, popular; Bill Blalsdell, 



laughs ; Armstrong A Manley, did well ; 
Rosalre A Prevost, good ; Boshee's Dogs, 
closed. 

HIPPODROME (Ben Starr, mgr. ) .— Olga'a 
Leopards, headlined ; Five Alpha Troupe, ex- 
cellent ; Major Wright A Dancing Buga, ap- 
plause ; Marie Dreams, big ; Malumby A Mes- 
sette, fine; Loring A Parquette, excellent; 
Wagner A Dlggs, tuneful ; Kallnowlakl Bros., 
good. 

GLOBE (W. V. Newklrk, mgr.).— Melody 
Maids, big act; Mile. Lucille Savoy, ap- 
plause ; The Essells. Brown A Barrow ; Roach 
A Crawford; Wilson A Carter. 

GRAND (A. Judah, mgr.).— "One Day." 
Good business. 

AUDITORIUM (Miss Meta Miller, mgr.).— 
Stock. "Marrying Money." 

OAYBTY (Matt Smith, mgr.).— Harry Hast- 
ings Show. 

CENTURY (Joe Donegan, mgr.). — Sam 
Rice's "Daffydllls." 



Cecyl Scott closed with the Mayhall Stock 
Company last week. 

"Ma's New Husband" opened at Ray, N. D., 
to good business. 



Cooper A McLaughlin's "Comedians" open- 
ed the winter season at Little Rock, Ark. 



LOS ANGELES 

VARIETY'S 
LOS ANGELES OFFICE 
3M MASON OPERA HOUSE BLDG. 

GUY PRICE, Correspondent 



ORPHEUM (Clarence Drown, mgr. ; U. B. 
O.).— Week 21. Edwards' "Matinee Girls," 
pleasing ; Miller and Lyles, entertaining ; Hay- 
ward Stafford Co., went big (second week) ; 
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Allen, good ; Josephine 
Dunfee, applause ; Byrd Crowell, did well ; 
Natalie and Ferrari, clever; Hlckey Brothers, 
acrobats, better than ordinary. 

PANTAGES (Carl Walker, mgr.; Pantages). 
— Lucille Mulhall and Brother Charles, hit 
of bill; Paris Green, good; Dollle's Dolls, fairy 
story, clever; Dave Vanfleld, fair Juggler. 

EMPRESS (George F. Fish, mgr.; Loew).— 
Jones and Johnson, scored ; Buch Brothers, 
skillful acrobats: Valdo and Co., got hand; 
Helen Stuart and Fred Hall, entertaining ; 
Yvonne, several encores ; Murray Livingstone 
and Co., well-acted play. 

HIPPODROME (Lester Fountain, mgr.; 
Western States). — Week 21. Babe Lewis, good ; 
Gardner's Bulldogs, pleased ; Abram and 
Johns. "Man's Law," well received ; J. C. Co., 
daring ; Ruth Gibson and Co., entertaining ; 
Ford and Laird, novel. 

REPUBLIC (Dave Silverman, mgr.; Levey). 
— Joe Knowles, hit, story of how he lived In 
woods without food or clothing, proving inter- 
esting ; Snowle Maybelle, hit with "bald 
heads;" Trask and Montgomery, good; Capt 
Brunswick and Company, passable ; The Olm- 
steads, well-trained athletes ; James and Prior, 
fair. 

CENTURY (Al and Milton Loewen, mgrs.). 
— Musical burlesque. 



Sedley Brown is recuperating from an Ill- 
ness. 



A good sum was realized at the Bert Ding- 
ley benefit at Ascot Park last Sunday. 

J. O. 8cott has awarded the contract for the 
construction of a $30,000 moving picture the- 
atre and vaudeville house at Calexico. 



Oliver Morosco denies that the Majestic 
will change ownership. The deal to put pic- 
tures in the playhouse fell through. Morosco 
claiming the forfeiture of a large deposit. 

Charles Salisbury , • back after touring with 
the Cablria pictures. 



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Florence Wadsworth Wallace haa resumed 
her Orpheum tour, opening at Salt Lake last 
week. 



Rose Mendel has rejoined the Century com- 
pany. 



Mrs. Ella Burke is doing the publicity work 
for the Mozart theatre. 



Carl Walker has offered a aeason pass to 
Pantages theatre for the person presenting 
him with the best photo of Alex Pantages in 
the Pacific surf. 



Florence Kemple Cooper, the little English 
actress, has arrived and la rehearsing the lead 
in "Lady Eileen," Morosco's prise winning 
play. 

MILWAUKEE. 

By P. G. MOROAJI. 

MAJESTIC (Jamea A. Hlgler, mgr.: agent, 
Orph.).— Richard Carle A Hattle Williams, 
headline ; Vlollnsky, big ; Corradinl's Mena- 
gerie, good ; John A Winnie Hennlngs, excel- 
lent ; Clark A McCullough, fair ; Klmberly ft 
Mohr, appreciated : MacRae A Clegg, big 
opener; Leitsel A Jeanette, fine. 

ORPHEUM (T. H. Ealand, mgr.; agent, 
Loew). — Three McLains, Garry Owen A Co., 
Dixon, Bowers A Dixon, Helen McCormack, 
Delia Gordon, Monahan A Monahan, Sam 
Rowley, Young Hackensmldt A Co. 

CRYSTAL (William Gray, mgr.; agent. 
Loew). — Famous Cabaret Trio, excellent; 
"Snoozer," fine ; Herculano Sisters, pleased ; 
Alvln A Kenney, entertaining ; Armos A Mul- 
vey, good. 

SHUBERT (C. A. Nlggemeyer. mgr.).— Shu- 
bert Stock company In "Circumstance" and 
"The Man from Mexico," excellent business. 

DAVIDSON (Sherman Brown, mgr.; agent, 
Ind.).— "The Poor Little Rich Girl" 2-3. 

GAYETY (J. W. Whitehead, mgr.; agent. 
Bast). — Gayety Girls company. Good houses. 

CLUB (Rod Waggoner, mgr.- agent, Prog.). 
Charming Widows company. Business good. 

Treasurer Jeff Klauber of the Club the- 
ater and Miss Ida Sparborough of Toledo 
were married here. 



The regular season of German stock is as- 
sured. 



United States Marine band appears hers 
Oct. 11, and the Chicago Symphony orchestra 
will give ten concerts. 



MINNEAPOLIS. 

By C. W. MILES. 

ORPHEUM (O. A. Raymond, mgr.).— Wees 
21. Indifferent bill, headed by Johnnie John- 
stone and a large company In a whoop-de-doo 
college farce ; John F. Ryan, best In support ; 
Charlie Howard, Bobble Watson and Dorothy 
Hayden, hit ; Dyer and Alvln, conventional ; 
Minnie Allen, fair; Anita Diaz's monkeys, 
good ; Corbett, Shepard and Donovan, good ; 
Great Ashal, excellent 

UNIQUE (Jack Elliott, mgr.; Loew).— Wil- 
son Brothers, Holmes ana Riley, Sallle 8 to ru- 
bier and Brother; Golden and West; Cameron 
and Devltt, Slayman All's Hooloos. 

NEW ORAND (W. H. Koch, mgr., W. V. 
A.).— Paul Kleslt and Co., Burns and Acker; 
Capital City Four ; Charbino Brothers. 

METROPOLITAN (L. N. Scott, mgr.).— "The 
Elopers," Chicago musical comedy, with Made- 
leine Harrison in the leading role, all week. 
"The Poor Little Rich Girl" follows. 

SHUBERT (Wright Huntington, mgr.).— 
Wright Huntington Players In excellent pro- 
duction of "The Blindness of Virtue. ". "Ready 
Money" follows. nrtn 

GAYETY (William Koenlg, mgr.).— "11.000,- 
000 Dolls," with Lewis and Dody. 



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With the Williamson Expedition. 
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IN DANSE 0E NEMETTE. 

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NEW ORLEANS. 

By O. M. SAMUELS. 

ORPHEUM (Arthur White, mgr.).— Splendid 
show. Connelly Sisters, opening, did well ; 
Kaufman Brothers, well received ; Everett's 
Monkeys, unsurpassed ; WlUett Whltaker, 
consummate artiste ; "The Green Bottle," one 
of the best shown here ; McCay and Ardlne. 
extraordinary success ; Leo Zarrell, good clos- 
ing number. 

CRESCENT (T. C. Campbell, mgr.).— Emma 
Bunting Stock Co., in "The House of a Thou- 
sand Candles." 

DAUPHINE (E. A. Schiller, mgr.).— "The 
Gay Widows." 

HIPPODROME (Jake Miller, mgr.).— "A 
Night In Old Heidelberg." 

Howard Ross is a benedict. Mrs. Ross Is 
a non-professional from Boston. 



Sullivan and Mason are at the Alamo. 



J. C. McCormlck Is ahead of the "Blue Rib- 
bon Belles. 



Rumored Vic Perez will Install a picture 
theatre in the vacant store at Canal and Bur- 
gundy. Place is so narrow he'll probably 
have to use split cane chairs. 



Tom Dunn has returned to Zelda Dunn — pro- 
fessionally. 



Louis Mercier is being "re-sued" for the 
debts of the Louis Dean Players. 



Earl Holmes departed ulnale life in Baton 
Rouge. Her name's Mary Olivia Blron. 



PORTLAND. ORE. 

BTRB. AN SOW. 

HEILIO (W. T. Pangel, mgr.).— 20-23, The 
Trail of the Lonesome Pine; 24-26, The Shep- 
herd of the Hills ; week 27. Kitty MacKay. 

LYRIC (Dan Flood, mgr.).— 20, The Casey 
Twins. 

PANTAGES (J. A. Johnson, mgr.; agent 
direct). — Love & Wllber. opened, pleased; Gil- 
bert Gerard, good ; Winsch A Poor, hit ; Coo- 
gan A Cox, fair dancers ; Pony Moore A Co.. 
headllnprs : pictures, good business. 

EMPRESS (W. H. Plerong. mgr.: Loew).— 
20. Laypo A Benjamin, clever : Eva Prout. 
clever; Mr. and Mrs. David Elwyn A Co., 
compdy ; Trwln A Herxog, hit; Senator Fran- 
cis Murnhy, good ; Dora Dean A Co., good. 

BAKER (Geo. L. Baker, mgr.). — 20, Stop 
Thief ; 27. The Family Cupboard. 



SPOKANE. 

BT JAMBS B. ROTOB, 

AUDITORIUM (Charles York, mar.; agent. 
V. W. T. A.).— 27-8-ft, "The Whip"; 1-2. 
"naby Mine." 

PAXTXOES (E. Clarke Walker, mgr.; 
AKent. direct).— Week 20. Lockhardt and Lad- 
die, comedy hit; Rosedell. singers, liked; 
"Titanic." novelty, won ; Saunders A Von 
Kuntz. rlever : Teddy McNamara A Co.. big. 

LOEWS (Joseph Muller. mgr. ; agent, di- 
rect).— Week 20. Nelson, hit; Burke A Harris, 
songs, went well : Four Avolos. showy ; Will- 
iam St. James & Co., popular; Anderson & 
Ooin» s. winners ; Stewart Sisters A Escorts. 
!lk"d. 

SPOKANR fSsm W. n. Cohn. mgr.; agent 
FMirr).---Wopk 20. first half. Housh A Ln- 
VpIIp, Pnbv Violet. Lewis A Zeller ; second 
half. Olllard & Roberts. LaVelle & Russell. 
ttuby Violet. 



N'nrth Ynklmn. In the central part of the 
-■tnte, has followed the lead of the Spokane 
theatre censor and placed motion pictures of 
the European war under the ban. 



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The dates for "The Whip" were changed 
to give the big melodrama a Sunday opening 
here. 



TOLEDO. 

BY MAUMBB. 

KEITH'S (Sam Pearlsteln, mgr.; U. B. O.). 
—"Colonial Days," artistic musical novelty; 
Nina Morris A Co., dramatic sketch that holds 
Interest; Conlln, Steele Trio, very good; 
Cardo A Noll, pleased; Kenney, Nobody A 
Piatt, good ; The Brads, did nicely ; Cummlngs 
A Claddings, good; Edgar Barger, pleased. 

ARCADE. — Arcadians, novel minstrel offer- 
ing; Downez A Comes, Hawaiian singers, hit; 
Australian Kelso Boys, clever; Mylle A Gold, 
pleased ; O. R. Ellis, fair sketch ; Memphis 
Trio, pleased. 

VALENTINE.— Hap Ward A Lucy Daly. 
Next week. "The Calling of Dan Matthews." 

Walter Moore, manager of the Valentine, 
has been removed to his home from Robin- 
wood hospital, where he recently underwent 
an operation. 



TORONTO. 

By HARTLEY. 

ROTAL ALEXANDRA (L. Solman, mgr.).— 
"The Blue Bird" opened well and repeated 
Its former success. Marie Tempest starts her 
American tour 5 with "Mary Goes First." 

PRINCESS (O. B. Sheppard, mgr.).— "Lady 
Luxury" received a cordial welcome. Blllle 
Burke in "Jerry" 5. 

GRAND (A. J. Small, mgr.).— "The Roe 
ary." "Polly of the Circus" 5. 

SHEAS (J. Shea, mgr.; agent, U. B. O.).— 
Cecil Lean A Cleo Mayfleld scored strongly ; 
"Buster," as presented by Ed Vinton, big 
novelty; Henry Hodge, in sketch, excellent; 
Adler A Arline. good ; Charles Lawler A 
Daughters, pleased ; Vernle Kaufman, clever ; 
La Corio A Dlnus, fine ; The Three Lyres, 
good. 

LOEWS YONGE STREET (J. Bernstein. 
mgr.; agent. Loew). "Love in a Sanitarium,' 1 
went big; The Roae Troupe, clever; Joe Kel- 
sey, pleased ; Arthur A Grace Terry, pleaaed ; 
Tower A Darrell. good ; Browning A Deane, 
clever; Leona Guerney, entertaining; Harry 
English A Co., a success. 

SHEA'S HIPPODROME (A. C. McArdle. 
mgr.; agent. U. B. O.).— Big feature, Toronto 
Regiments at Valcartier (M. P.), fine; Melody 
Monarehs A Maids, highly pleasing; Mur- 
ray's Canine Actors, well trained ; Whip- 
ple A Hudson, good ; Moore A Jenkins, a hit ; 
Ben Payer A Brothers, pleased ; Reldy A Cur- 
rier, clever ; Leonard A Haley, good. 

OAYETY (T. R. Henry, mgr.; Columbia). 
—Sam Harris' "Love Makers." "Bon Tons" 5. 

STAR (Dan F. Pierce, mgr.; Progressive). 
—"High Life Girls." 

PARK (D. A. Lochrle, mgr.; agents, Mc- 
Mahon A Dee). — Cook A Love, Jollle Fannie 
Hatfield, Billy A Tanfry. Fullerton, Seeley 
A Clucas, Dick A Alice McAvoy, Georgia 
Kerns-Chas. Admont. 



PHILADELPHIA. 

By JOHN J. BURNES. 

KEITH'S (Harry T. Jordan, mgr.; agt.. 
U. B. O.). — Replacing the Vernon Castles, 
who were forced to leave the bill throHgh 
the Illness of Mrs. Castle. Valeska Suratt had 
the headline position with "Black Crepe and 
Diamonds." A refund offer was mnde to 
those who had purchased tickets with the ex- 
pectation of seeing the Castles, but the sum 
refunded did not amount to anything. With 
the exception of a few changes in the sur- 
rounding company the Suratt act Is the same 
as when seen here before. It was the hit 
of the bill, with the work of the danclnc team 
adding largely in the success. Following the 
opening pictures were Fred Renello and Sis- 
ter In a bike act that was well liked. Next 



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was Marie Dorr, whose character songs were 
much appreciated through her dainty person- 
ality, pleasant voice and attractive appear- 
ance. Her "rube" number was the bent and 
registered a hit. No. 8 place held Jane Con- 
nelly and Co. in "A Strong Cup of Tea," 
which ran smoothly through a lot of witty 
dialog and humorous aituatlons. Melville and 
Hlggins were warmly greeted. A classical hit 
of large proportions was made by Raul 
Perelra, who is billed an "The Eminent Por- 
tuguese Court Violinist," and who heads a 



Htrlng sextet of excellent players. The act 
has style and finish and the music brought 
forth prolonged applause. Edwin George, 
comedian and Juggler, had no trouble In get- 
ting laughs and had them going from the 
start. Valeska Suratt waa in the next apot 
and was followed by Bam and Kitty Morton 
In "Rack to Where They Started," who had 
the house roaring. Roeder's Invention, in the 
closing spot, revealed one of the nicest gym- 
QLOBE (William Qrelner. mgr.; agt., 
nastlc acts seen here in a long time. 



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He's a Safe Attraction Any where."— Wynn, VARIETY. 




DIRECTION OF 



U. B. O.). — Although doing a nice business In 
Its lower-priced seats the Olobe is experi- 
encing difficulty In drawing patrons for the 
front of the orchestra at 50 cents for the 
night shows. With prices ranging from 
10 — 50 and playing seven acts, the theatre 
is against strong opposition from two other 
Market street houses owned by the same In- 
terests which play six acts at 10 — 20. Mon- 
day night the 50 cent section was very thinly 
occupied while the rest of the house was 
good. The show was of the usual pop variety, 
with only one or two flashes out of the or- 
dinary. The brightest spot was at the close, 
where the Five Sullya brought the house to 
a state of enthusiasm with "The Information 
Bureau." Nelesco and Henry opened the vau- 
deville portion of the program with a mixture 
of magic and shadowgraphs, in both of which 
they displayed considerable technical skill 
with the ordinary routine. Relne, female Im- 
personator, had the second spot, appearing hi 



an attractive selection of gowns. His appear- 
ance was very pleasing hut he sang in color- 
less fashion. The house liked him and gave 
evidence of considerable surprise when he 
removed his wig. The Five Italian Mus- 
keteers, four M who sing and a woman who 
plays the violin, were In the next position 
and went through a selection of operatic 
excerpts. The violin playing pleased above 
the vocal numbers and took most of the ap- 
plause. BUI Foster, with a partner who Is 
not named, had a few laughs in a talking and 
singing act. but there was too much useless 
conversation to raise the number above the 
ordinary Next was J. Edwin Chapeau and 
Co., billed as the "dancing pantomimic sen- 
sation," but who are not very sensational In 
dancing or pantomime. Chapeau does some 
poses to display his muscular development. 
Their dances are named "The Qarden of Pas- 
sion," probably because one of the performers 
is costumed in bright red. Burt Rich, an 



English eccentric, showed a good dance, but 
his comedy was flat. He finished with a 
dramatic bit called "Mister Booze," which the 
house liked. The Sullys were next, closing 
the show. 

WILLIAM PENN. — "Boarding School 
Girls:" Moss and Frey ; Farber Girls; Paris- 
ian Trio ; Four Le Orohs ; Plerller and Scho- 
fleld. 

BROADWAY.— Mae West; "Kabaret Re- 
view :" Fisher and Green ; Webb and Burns ; 
Henrietta Wilson Company ; Cotter and Bol- 
den. 

GRAND— "Mother Goose," with J. C. Mack 
and Jim Oildea ; Mills and Moulton ; Monarch 
Comedy Four; Princess Elizabeth; Wllllsch 
and Anita ; Lamb's Manikins. 

COLONIAL. — A split-week policy was start- 
ed this week, playing five vaudeville acts and 
films, program changing Thursday. First 
half — Moffett, La Rene and Co. ; Pollard ; 
Omega Duo ; Blcknell and Gibboney ; Hamil- 



ton Brothers. Second half — "Dream Pirates;" 
Evans and Vidocq ; The Moscognys ; Kennedy 
and Burt; Ah Ling Foo. 

NIXON.— "A Bachelor Dinner;" Arthur 
Sullivan and Co., In "Straight;" William Ca- 
bin ; Monde and Salle ; the Newsboys' Sex- 
tette ; Gelger and Pague. 

KEYSTONE.— "Frolics at the Seashore;" 
Emma Stevens; Klelne, Abe and Nicholson; 
Bernard and Scarth ; Walsh, Lynch and Co ; 
Young Brothers. 

ALHAMBRA. — A street parade headed by a 
brass band and speeches were features In 
the opening of the Mftstbaum-Earle regime 
at the Albambra Monday night The houss 
is under the management of William Golden- 
berg and he Is assisted by Daniel McCarrl- 
gan. The new policy lb a split-week com- 
bination vaudeville and pictures. For the 
first half : Prince Twang and Co. In "Hong- 
kong Mysteries ;" BIJou Comedy Trio ; Bailey 
and Tiers; Haggerty and Leclalr ; second 



BERT MELROSE 

ALWAYS WORKING THIS TIME; LOEVY TIME !*«*, to joe schenck 




AT THE PALACE, NEW YORK, THIS WEEK (Sept. 28) 





and HIS FOUR-LEGGED COMEDIANS 



VARIETY 



49 



Freeman Bernstein 



Manager, Promoter and Producer of Vaudeville Acts 
Sth noor, PUTNAM BUILDING. NEW YORK 

OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Cable, "Freeborn/ 

Bryant 



Now York 



Trixie! 'Friganza Agency 

Heidleborg Building, 424 Si, and Broadway 

is Managed Solely by R. W. Eberhard 

Note — C A. Goettler U no longer there in any capacity. 




VAUDEVILLE ACTS for New England 

IMMEDIATE TIME, SHORT JUMPS COMEDY ACTS. NOVELTIES. DRAWING CARDS. 

Boston Booking Office, Colonial Bid*, Boston, Mast. FRED MARDO, Mgr. 

Caa Always Uao Good Sunday Acta Telephone Oxford f If 



MARIE JAMES 



Reliable Artist's Representative 

Booking Exclusively with 

W. V. M. A.-U. B. O. 

21 HOBBS' BUILDING, 

U W. Waskington St., 

Phone Randolph MM. CHICAGO. ILL. 



half : Barlow's Comedy Circus ; Rioe's Min- 
strels ; "White Wives;" James Tlerney 

ACADEMY OF MUSIC— Opened Monday 
with "Cabiria," moved over from the Chest- 
nut street opera house. 

CHESTNUT ST. O. H.— "Pilate's Daughter." 
a religious spectacle, opened to a good house 
Monday night at $1.60 top. Catholic societies 
have displayed much Interest and supplied a 
large portion of the patronage at the open'n^. 
Many have arranged benefits. 

ADELPHI.— Helen Ware in "The Revolt" 
began its final week Monday night. Business 
has been light. Oct 5, Grace George in 
"The Truth." 

LYRIC— Opens Oct. 5 with "The Passing 
Show of 1914." 

GARRICK.— "Nearly Married," with Bruce 
McRae, seen here last season, began a two- 
week stay Monday to a good house. 

BROAD. — Margaret Anglln in "Lady Win- 
dermere's Fan" opened an engagement of 
two weeks here Monday night. 

FOREST. — The new Montgomery and Stono 
show, entitled "Chin-Chin," opened Wednes- 
day evening after a good advance sale. The 
piece is by Anne Caldwell and R. H. Burn- 
side and music by Ivan Caryl. 

WALNUT.— "Bringing Up Father," based on 
the George McManus cartoons, opened a week 
here Monday and proved a big laughing hit 
with music of a high class. The house was 
good Monday night at popular prices. Oct 
5, "The Round Up," with Shep Camp. 

ORPHEUM.— "Bought and Paid For," by a 
traveling company at popular prlcea. Fair 
business reported. Oct. 5, "Buster Brown." 

LIBERTY.— "Buster Brown" for the week 
at popular prices with fair business. 

AMERICAN.— "The Dawn of To-moTrow," 
by the resident company headed by Emily 
Smiley. Oct. 5, "The Fortune Hunter." 

CASINO.— "The Gay New Yorkers" with 
Pox and Gear and the Morrisey Sisters for 
tllo wcgIc 

TROCADERO— Frank L. Wakefield, at the 
head of "The Girls from Joyland" burlesque, 
was given a great reception Monday nl/ht, 
beginning a week's stay. The show is full 
of lively action and hilarious situations. La 
Man he. dancer, is an added attraction. 

OAYETY.— "The Cabaret Girls" have two 
lively comedies and drew a good house Mon- 
day. Chooceeta, the dancer, is an added at- 
traction. Oct. R, "City Sports Burlesquers." 

EMPIRE.— Clark's "Rosey Posey dirts" 
burlesque had a good house Monday night, 
beginning a week's stay. 

Henri Soott, basso of the Chicago-Philadel- 
phia Opera Co., has been appointed noad of 



S to 7 WEEKS 
Write or Wire 

J. H. ALOZ 

Booking Agency. 
Orpkeum Tkeatre Bldg., 

MONTREAL, P. Q. 

GUS SUN BOOKING 
EXCHANGE CO. 

Notice to Artists t— Booking can now ke se- 
cured tkrougk our representatives direct. Call 
—Phone— Write. Springfield, Ohio. Sun Build- 
ing. Homo Office, Chicago, 111- Majestic Thea- 
tre Bldg- Tom Powell, /Mgr. New York, Palace 
Tkeatre Bldg., Pete Mack, Mgr. Pittsburgh. Pa-, 
2*5 Schmidt Bldg.. F. S. Frasier, Mgr. Cleve- 
land, Oklo, Prlftcilla Tkeatre Bldg., P. E. Seas, 
Mgr. Always an opening for first-class acts. 
State all first letter. 



the vocal department of Temple University, 
this city. 



Beginning Nov. 2 "The Beautiful Adven- 
ture" will be produced at the Broad by 
Charles Frohman. 



Fannie Ward in the French farce, "Mad- 
ame President," returns to the Broad Oct. 26. 



Henry W. Savage's production of "Sari" 
comes to the Forest Nov. 9. 



Following the "Passing Show of 1914" at 
the Lyric will be the "Whirl of the World," 
beginning Nov. 2. 



Elmendorf, the lecturer, is booked for a 
talk on Eastern India for Oct. 30 at the Acad- 
emy of Music. 



Beginning Tuesday night. Oct 13. "The 
Yellow Ticket" will be at the Garrlck mak- 
ing the jump from Chicago after Sunday 
night show. 



"To-Day" begins at the Adelphl Nov. 16. 
"A Pair of Sixes" and "The Third Party" 
are also announced as early attractions at 
this house. 





INDEPENDENT 



CIRCUI 



VAUDEVILLE 



The Best Small Time In the Far West. Steady Consecutive Work for Novelty Feature Acts* 
EXECUTIVE OFFICES, ALCAZAR THEATRE BLDG., SAN FRANCISCO 
Can arrange from three to five weeks between sailings of boats for Australia for all first class 
acts. Communicate ky wire or Utter. 

THE WEBSTER VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT 

CHICAGO Suite W 1M North La Salle St. JENNY WEBSTER, Prop. 

Affiliated with EDWARD J. FISHER, INC., Seattle; BERT LEVY CIRCUIT, San Francisco 

GEORGE H. WEBSTER. General Manager 

LTD., 

AUSTRALIA 
Capital $l,2St,Mt 
And AFFILIATED CIRCUITS, INDIA and AFRICA 
Combined Capital, $3,0M,0M 

HUGH McINTOSH, Governing Director 

Registered Cable Address: M HUGHMAC,*' Sydney 

Head office i TIVOLI THEATRE, SYDNEY- AUSTRALIA 

NEW YORK OFFICES, S1Z Strand Tkeatre Bldg. 



Harry Rickard's Tivoli Theatres, 



FULLER-BRENNAN Vaudeville Circuit 

(AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND) 
BEN J. FULLER, Governing Director 

All correspondence to National Amphitheatre, Sydney. American Booking Office Tem- 
porarily Closed, owing to War Conditions. 




nardi 



of all performers going to Europe make their steamship arrangements through 
us. Tne following have: 

Blumenfeld Sisters, Barton and Libbey, Balton Troupe. Paul Barnes, Barnes 

and Crawford, Violet Black & Co., Bimm Bomm Brr, Belleclaire Bros., A. Ber- 

Mabel Berra, Elsie Boehm, Barnes ft West, The Bogannys, Paul Batty, Bragadons. 

PAUL TAUSIG A SON, 1§4 E. 14th St., New York City. 

Savings Bank Bldg. Telepkone Stuyvesant ISM 

AMALGAMATED Vaudeville Agency 

B. S. MOSS, President and General Manager 
llfTNn MOSS A BRILL CIRCUIT PRUDENTIAL CIRCUIT 



.<•:• 



Artiste and acts of every description suitable for vaudeville can obtain long engagements ky 



PLIMMER CIRCUIT 

e for vaudeville can obtain 
BOOKING DIRECT *with us. Send In your open time at once or call 



TRYOUTS CAN BE ARRANGED FOR ACTS UNKNOWN TO US 

Officosi Columbia Theatre Bldg.— TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK-Telepkone Bryant M4S 



EDW. S. KELLER 

Booking for and Looking for the Best in Vaudeville 

Palace Theatre Building, New York CHAS. S. BREED, Associate 



GENE HUGHES, Inc. 

Manager of High-Class Vaudeville Attractions. Artists desiring New York reproaontation 
write or wire. 

Suite 1M1-2-4. PALACE THEATRE BLDG., 1544 Broadway, New York City. 
Phones: 8698, 8699 Bryant. 



tlngdale" or "The Adventures of a Lively 
Hussy," by John Luther Long and Frank 
Stayton, will appear for the first time at 
the Broad Oct. 12. 



FtTTSIURGH. 



Mrs. Flake's new oomedy, "Lady Betty Mar- 



ORAND (Harry Davis, mgr.; agent, U. B. 
0.).— Cecelia Wright, big hit; Henrietta 
Croaman ft Robert Maokey, headllner, unique; 



Williams, ThompHon & Copeland, noisy fun ; 
Sosman & Falrman, good ; Schwarti ft Co., 
effective ; Heath & Mlilershlp, much applaud- 
ed ; Raymond a Caverley, scream ; Daring 
Prince, good animal act. 

HARRIS (C. R. Buchhelt, mgr. ; agent, U. 
B. O.).— Church City Four, big hit; Roach ft 
Francis, scream : Hickman Brothers Comedy 
Co., excellent; Bobby Smith (added), good; 
Bennett, Lytell * Co., clever ; Worth Sisters, 
good ; Esmarelda, exceptionally good single ; 



NOW PLAYING FOR THE UNITED BOOKING OFFICES 

ND ORIGIN 





With His Monstrous 
Ensemble 

IN THEIR DIVERTISEMENT "A GYPSY CAMP" 

We sympathize with Mr. Golden of the Golden Troupe for being obliged to resort to the expedient of endeavoring 
to induce Mr. Horelilc of this troupe to become a member of the Golden Troupe. Mr. Golden should be more discreet 
in talking to people with whom he is not acquainted. 

S. RACHMAN, Mgr. W. HORELIK, Prop. 



VARIB1 Y 










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Will be published December 25th 



IT PROMISES TO SURPASS ALL PREVIOUS 

PUBLIC A TIONS 



A REPRESENT A TION IN THIS EDITION 
INSURES UNIVERSAL RECOGNITION 



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Applications and reservations for space are now acceptable, 
early applicants being assured of desirable locations. 



VARIETY 




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WEBER 




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GAVIN and PLATT 
The PEACHES 

TOURING 

Phoos Usl-M Passaic 

7 Hawthorne Ave., Clifton, N. J. 

ALFREDO 

VARIETY, LONDON 



GEORGE 
HARADA 





Imperial 
Pekinese 
Troupe 



Six Chinese Wonders. 

Lately Featured with Anna 

Held Jubilee Co. 
Second Troupe arrives in America shortly. 
WATCH THEM. 

All communications to 

LONG TACK SAM 
Sole Owner and Prop. VARIETY, New York 

SAM J. CURTIS 

In "GOOD BYE BOYS" 

By Junta McCree 
Direction. HARRY SHEA. 



FRANK 



EMILY 



Jerome and Carson 

Touring RICKARD'S CIRCUIT, AUSTRALIA 







CLARE 

end 


fSU I 


GUY RAWSON 

with 

"Their Little Girl 
Friends" 




"Yesterdays" 

A Delightful Story of Youth 
Booked Solid 




Direction 




CHRIS O. BROWN 




FRED and ANNIE 

PELOT 



World's Famous Cyclist 

17is CLYBOURN AVE. 
CHICAGO, ILL. 



JACK STROUSE 

THE "SINGLE" THAT MAKES THEM TAKE NOTICE 

BOOKED SOLID Direction, ALLEN EPSTIN 



BERTIE HERRON 

Assisted by IVII 



NSMAN 



Direction, M. S. BENTHAM 



ARNO and STICKNEY 



Booked Solid 



THOSE MUSICAL WIZARDS 

40 WEEKS LOEWS EASTERN end WESTERN CIRCUIT 
Direction, PRANK BOHM 



A TEAM THAT IS A WINNER 

DUNCAN — GOLDENSON 

-A Dainty Little Girt and a Dapper Little Chap" 
PLAYING IN WEST OPEN FOR BOOKING NOW 

**A Tremendous Hit"— Unanimous Opinion of Coast Critics 
Address MRS. A. M. GOLDENSON, 1711 South Burlington Avenue, Los Angelee. Cnl 



WILLIAM MORROW 

Assisted by DONNA HARRIES 

Presenting the Singing Comedy Playlet "ON A COUNTRY ROAD." 

Booked Solid Season 1I14-1S. Direction SIMON'S AGENCY, CHICAGO 



Victor HERAS and PRESTON Ben 

FAST AND FUNNY TUMBLERS 

Now Playing Pantages Time 
BOOKED SOLID ON W. V. M. A. opening Oct. 29 




PEALSON and GOLDIE 



Ir their new act, "AFTER THE DOG SHOW" 

Moved after Monday Night from 4th to next to closing, following 6elle Baker, at Hudson Theatre, Union Hill, 

this week (Sept. 28). 

DIRECTION, MORRIS & FEI 



HARRY WEBER presents 




retentious 44 

antomimic 

roduction 



Bal 




Introducing A Divertissement of Dainty Dances Delightfully Demonstrated by 

Miss Edith Fabbrini and Mr. B. Michael Martin 



VARIETY 




HARRY A. SHEA 






PERSONALLY MANAGING THE FOLLOWING ACTS 









JOHN T. KELLY: AND CO. 

In a screamingly funny sketch 

"A GAME OF CON" 



• 



WILLARD AND BOND 

The Sleuths of Pleasure 

"DETECTIVISM" 

SNYDER AND BUCKLEY 

presenting their 

TWO MEN BAND 99 

BROWN FLETCHER TRIO 

in an original offering 
"CHRISTMAS EVE 99 

Montie Bert D 

BROOKE AND HARRIS 



The One' 



'The Other" 



ROCKWELL AND WOOD 

TWO^-NOBLE— NUTS 99 
GEO. W. CHRIS 

COOPER AND SMITH 

•The Bell-Boy and The Porter" 

CARDOWNIE SISTERS 

International Dancers 

THOS. POTTER DUNNE 

Eccentric Comedian 

DR. WILL DAVIS 

An Original Idea in Monologue 

COWAN'S SETTERS 

Present 

"A STUDY IN STATUARY" 






SAM J. CURTIS AND CO. 

A Marital Episode 

"GOOD-BYE, BOYS 99 

CLAYTON-DREW'S Players 

Travesty 

"OTHELLO OUTDONE 99 

B-A-N-J-O-P-H-I-E-N-D-S 

■ 

Up-to-the-Minute Entertainers 

THREE DOLCE SISTERS 

Vaudeville's Classiest Singing and 
Dancing Act 

LEWIS AND NORTON 

In Their Comedy Skit 

"IN THOSE DAYS 99 

CONRAD AND MARINO 

Eccentric Italian Comedians 

SIX MUSICAL SPILLERS 

Kings of Ragtime Harmony 

WILSON AND WILSON 

"The Band Man and His Band" 



WILLIAM CAHILL 

"The Man From Ireland" 



■ 



GRAHAM'S RATS AND CATS 

An animal act that i% widely talked about 

PATTEE'S DIVING GIRLS 

A box-office attraction for any theatre 



ROBT. E. O'CONNOR and CO. 



in 



THE STICK UP MAN 99 



EDDIE MADGE 

HERRON AND DOUGLAS 

in 
"JIMMY PINKERTON'S FIRST CASE 99 



EMERALD TRIO 

Refined Instrumentalists 

USHER TRIO 

Refined Skit 
"ALMOST A MILLIONAIRE 99 

NESTOR AND DELBURG 

Comedy Skit 

"IN LOVE 99 

FREIND AND LESSER 

The Butler and the Maid" 

COOK AND STEVENS 

"The Chinee and the Coon" 

POLLY PRIM 

"The Little Star" 

JOHNNY WOODS 

Ventriloquil Novelty 

ROBBINS' ELEPHANTS 

Wonderful Feats of Intelligence 



Booking the Orpheum Theatre, Jersey City (Fu " Week 



KEENEY»S THEATRE 

Newark, New Jersey 



14TH STREET THEATRE 

Fourteenth St., New York City 



Two Shows Daily) 

LYRIC THEATRE 

Hackensack, N. J. 



SUN 

STANDARD THEATRE 



NIGH 

CRESCENT THEATRE 

165th Street and Boston Road, Bronx 




90th Street and Broadway 

CLUB DEPARTMENT ESTABLISHED 18 YEARS 

SEND IN OPEN TIME 

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ANNOUNCES TO THE PROFESSION THE OPENING OF HER NEW 

SUIT DEPARTMENT 
on Monday, October 12th 

A recently formed partnership with one of the largest wholesale manufacturers enables 
me to offer customers the latest modes and Parisian models with their wealth of novelty at 
prices that will astonish. In other words, the most fashionable suits direct from the manu- 
facturer to wearer — no middleman's profits. 

The most cursory inspection will prove the truth of this, 

SEEING IS BELIEVING 

Of course the estab ishing of this *new department does not in any way diminish the 
attractiveness of our widely known and popular line of gowns and millinery, which has made 
the name of Dangler a synonym for sterling worth and merit. 

1482 BROADWAY 

Suites 404-405 Geo. M. Cohan Theatre Building Telephone, Bryant 7572 

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Lecture by CAPT. SORCHO, who is the Most Expert Submarine Engineer in this country, and who has 

recovered over 500 bodies. 

THE GREATEST NOVELTY EVER PLACED ON AN AMERICAN STAGE 

Direction, FRANK EVANS. 




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NEW YORK CITY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1914. 



PRICE 10 CENTS 



$750,000 PICTURE STOCK SALE 
BY UNIVE RSAL F ILM FACTION 

The Pat Powers- Jos Engel-Wm. H. Swanson Interests Dispose 

of Less Than Half-Interest in U at Enormous Profit. 

Buyers Unknown. Sale Disposes of Much Litigation. 

Horsley Stock, That Controls, Still in Court. 



The sale for $750,000 occurred Mon- 
day of the minority stock holdings in 
the Universal Film Corporation, held 
by Pat Powers, Jos. Engel and William 
H. Swanson. The amount paid gave a 
line on the enormous premium the 
stock brought. Pat Powers received 
something less than $200,000 for his 
shares, which represented a compara- 
tively small investment a few years ago. 
Messrs. Engel and Swanson divided 
the remainder of the large amount be- 
tween them, they having put into the 
Universal about three years ago not 
over $5,000 each. 

The sale also disposed of the pending 
litigation brought by Pat Powers, et al, 
against the Carl Laemmle faction, but 
it leaves the U stock holdings of 
David Horsley still in court. The 
Horsley stock will give the control of 
the U concern, now run by the 
Laemmle people. 

The Universal is one of the three 
large service concerns in the picture 
business. It distributes the output of 
several companies, and is said to have 
made terrific profits in recent times, 
in spite of itself and its direction. 

No information is obtainable as to 
the identity of the purchasers of the 
stock. Not even the men selling knew 
whom they were transferring their hold- 
ings to, according to report. The sur- 
mise is that Laemmle people "dug up" 
someone to advance the money, in or- 
der that their position might be 
strengthened in the control of the com- 
pany, and if the purchase were made 
for their benefit, the Horsley stock be- 
comes a minor factor. 

The combination of Messrs. Powers, 
Engel and Swanson was a pretty swift 
business trio for the Laemmle crowd 
to find opposed to it. Each of the three 



was partly responsible for the sudden 
growth of the Universal. When the 
split occurred it was real war in the 
U offices for a time. The opponents 
indulged in the pastime of throwing 
seals and other instruments of author- 
ity out of the office windows, as pos- 
session quickly veered often from one 
to the other. The law suits followed, 
and it was lately rumored Mr. Powers 
and his associates might shortly find 
themselves again operating the U. 



LOEWS BERLIN OFFER. 

An offer of 25 weeks at $1,000 weekly 
was reported this week to have been 
made to Irving Berlin by Joseph M. 
Schenck, the Loew Circuit general 
booking manager, for the famous little 
composer to take a trip over the Loew 
time. 

Mr. Berlin had returned no answer 
up to Wednesday. 



MUSICIANS' ELECTION. 

Eugene A. Johnson was elected 
president of the New York local, 310, 
of the American Federation of Musi- 
cians Thursday night by a majority 
of 88 votes. His nearest opponent was 
the present president, Edward A. Por- 
ter. 

Anthony Abarno was re-elected vice- 
president. 



LEFRECE OFF TO WAR. 

Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 8. 

Walte. Defrece has enlisted in the 

Sportsmen's corps. 

A SENSATION 

"When You'rt • Lai* Way From Home." 



MORE ORPHEUMS OUT. 

More open time in Canada was de- 
clared by the Orpheum Circuit this 
week when it wiped Calgary and Re- 
gina (two days each) off its sheet, pend- 
ing the ending of the war. The only 
Canadian Orpheum now playing is at 
Winnipeg. This may be shut in another 
week or so if business does not improve. 

The present jump on the Orpheum 
route is from Winnipeg to Seattle. 



CHURCH BUYS M. P. SERVICE. 

Dr. Christian F. Reisner, pastor of 
the Grace M. E. Church, New York, 
has signed agreements with the Box 
Office Attraction Co. to take the re- 
leases of that company for exhibition 
before the members of his congrega- 
tion. 



FRISCO BARS OUTSIDERS. 

San Francisco, Oct. 7. 
Mayor Rolph has declined to approve 
the resolution of the Board of Super- 
visors granting outside amusement con- 
cessions for 1915, and objected to the 
issuance of privileges to any enterprise 
that would be in opposition to San 
Francisco's tax-supported exposition. 



GHOST DIDNT WALK. 

Salt Lake City, Oct. 9. 
Lillian Campbell and Charles 
Mackay, playing leads with the Utah 
Stock Co., left the cast suddenly Mon- 
day night while playing "The Ghost 
Breaker," closing because the prover- 
bial ghost hadn't rambled in their pres- 
ence for the past three weeks. 



SHARING YIELDS BONUS. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 8. 

Playing on the 50-50 sharing plan, 

the artists on the bill at the Empire, 

Edinburg, last week received 50 per 

cent, over their regular salaries. 



(Special Cable to Vartbtt.) 

London, Dec. 8. 

Daly's reopens Oct. 24 with "The 

Country Girl" at reduced prices. 



Joe Brooks Moves Office. 

The headquarters of Joe Brooks, 
who recently disconnected his busi- 
ness relations with Klaw & Erlanger, 
is now in Sandy Dingwall's office. 



CUTS PRICE TO $1. 

Cleveland, Oct. 7. 

Eugene Walter, producer of "The 
Better Way," at the opera house this 
week, gives the war as his reason for 
cutting prices to one dollar. 

"Conditions in this country at the 
present time are not as good as they 
should be," says Mr. Walter. "The 
Better Way,' when produced at Wash- 
ington, did not draw well. I cut out 
a cafe number employing 19 people. 
Now I am making the show pay. One 
dollar attractions will do better than 
two dollar shows, I believe." 

The Colonial took advantage of the 
situation and proclaimed the Colonial 
as "Now Cleveland's only $2 theatre." 



CUTTING DOWN "BOWS." 

The Palace, New York, theatre 
posted a sign behind stage this week 
that reads: 

NOTICE 

Performers only allowed to take two 
bows. 

If you have anything else to offer, go 
right on with it. 



CHANGE NAZIMOVA TITLE. 

Leibler & Co. have changed the title 
of the play in which Madam Nazimova 
is to star. The present title is "That 
Sort." October 26 is the date set for 
its New York premiere. 



DRUM PIECE OCT. 29. 

I. Hope will present Adele Blood in 
"Milady's Boudoir" at the Garrick 
Thursday, Oct. 29. The story of the 
piece deals entirely with the theatre. 



REVISING "MISS TABASCO." 

Cincinnati, Oct. 8. 
Eva Tanguay, scheduled to show at 
the Grand next week with "Miss Ta- 
basco," engaged Gene Luneska and 
Arthur Forest, and will add others be- 
fore opening this week at Lexington. 



Peruchi Leases Lyric. 

New Orleans, Oct. 9. 
C. D. Peruchi. manager of the 
Peruchi-Gvpzenc Stock Co., has leased 
the Lyric and will install a company 
there commencing Oct. 18. 



TAKIBTT 



"ALIEN ENEMIES" RESCUED 
BY GERMAN LODGE IN ENGLAND 



International Artisten Loge of Germany Sends Representative 
and Funds to England, for Benefit of German Artists 
There. Clemart of Federation Refused Aid From 
V. A. F. Because Germans Were "Alien 
Enemies/' I. A. L. Claims It As- 
sisted English Artists 
Germany Without 
Request. 



m 



(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 5. 

Joseph Adclman, member of the In- 
ternational Artisten Lodge Executive 
Council is in London, engaged in aiding 
members of the German order to reach 
home. He brought with him a large 
fund to finance the relief work. 

Adelman, on his arrival Saturday 
from Berlin, declared word had been 
sent from the I. A. L. to the Variety 
Artists' Federation (English) that the 
Lodge would guarantee all disburse- 
ments made in helping German artists 
caught in England by the breaking out 
of hostilities, to reach their homes on 
the Continent. 

The I. A. L. was informed, according 
to Adclman's statement, that the Fed- 
eration declined to extend help to"alien 
enemies," as Germans are designated in 
England. 

Adelman thereupon hastened to Lon- 
don and deposited $250 with W. H. 
Clemart, chairman of the executive 
board of the Federation to cover expen- 
ditures in getting lodge members out 
of the country. 

In explanation of the Federation's at- 
titude, Clemart declaresrthe V. A. F. has 
no fund from which it could have drawn 
money for the purpose of aiding foreign 
acts under the circumstances, and be- 
sides, he declared, the Federation was 
too busy with the complicated question 
of the 50-50 proposals of the music hall 
managers to assume added responsibili- 
ties. 

The Federation chief, however, ac- 
cepted Adelman's money on deposit and 
agreed to put the question up to the 
executive committee. 

Adelman says the German lodge came 
to the assistance of all English acts 
playing in Germany when the war broke 
out, waiving the point even of their 
membership in a performers' organiza- 
tion. He added that the German order, 
through its chief, Konorah, had made 
representations to the German govern- 
ment which brought about the release 
of many English artists under arrest as 
prisoners of war. 

The International Artisten Lodge of 
Germany is mainly composed of Contin- 
ental vaudeville artists. It is affiliated 
with the Variety Artists' Federation of 
England, that occupies the same posi- 
tion among the artists of Great Britain. 
Both foreign societies are affiliated with 
the White Rats of this country. 



ANNA HELD WRITES. 

Anna Held, now living at Pau, on 
the French border line near Biarwitz, 
has written a letter as to her war sur- 
roundings to New York friends, saying 



that when she left Paris the next 
thing she expected to hear was the pa- 
rade of German soldiers up the French 
boulevards. Miss Held had a difficult 
time in reaching Pau, the trip from 
Paris taking three days. 

Miss Held wrote in part: "It is the 
most horrible, inhuman war I have 
ever read of. In 1870 it must have been 
bad but this is barbaric. They are cut- 
ting off the hands of the boys so 
they will not be able to carry any arms 
when they grow up. We have only 
women and children here to do the 
work, the men and boys being away 
to war. . . ." 

Now that Paris is more settled Miss 
Held intends to return there for fur- 
ther residence. 



ARTHUR PRINCE'S JOKE. 

(8 pedal Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 7. 

What was thought last week to have 
been Arthur Prince's determination to 
join the English army now turns out to 
have been a joke of some sort. Mr. 
Prince sails on the Mauretania Sat- 
urday, accompanied by Mrs. Prince, to 
play American vaudeville engagements. 
When questioned regarding the report 
of his enlistment he said he would 
write a letter regarding it to Variety-. 

Last week Mr. Prince informed the 
turns playing on the same bill with 
him he had canceled his contracts for 
the States and enlisted. The stage- 
hands got together and presented the 
ventriloquist with field glasses; the 
artists on the bill tendered him a ban- 
quet. Mr. Prince appeared in public 
immediately after in uniform. 



"THE SPHINX" FLIVS 
CS**XoJ OaMo to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 5. 
"The Sphinx" is the third silly play at 
the Court. It is a failure. 



HUSBAND'S DEATH CABLED. 

Toronto, Oct. 7. 
Friday of last week when "Lady 
Luxury" was playing here a cablegram 
received by Beppy Hardgrove (Mrs. E. 
C. Pepper), the leader of the ballet, 
informed fce'r her husband, Captain Ed- 
ward C. Pepper of the Honorable Ar- 
tillery of England was killed in action 
in France. 



VOLMOELLER'S TRAVELS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 5. 
Carl Volmoeller, who is nursing the 
project of producing "Morocco" in the 
United States, was in Italy a few days 
ago and is now on his way to Berlin, 
according to information which reached 
London today. 



CIRCUS NEUTRALITY. 

The most difficult places to observe 
the neutrality injunction of President 
Wilson have been in the travelling cir- 
cuses since the war began. 

The feuds among the different na- 
tionalities under the canvas (and there 
are performers from all the countries 
involved with the larger circuses) re- 
sulted in a stern order being posted 
(following several fist fights among the 
various sympathizers) that a repetition 
of the offense would carry with it im- 
mediate dismissal of the participants. 



NOT BOOKING GERMANS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 7. 

The vaudeville agents here say they 
are transacting American business for 
German acts while the war is on. 

They also claim they have not per- 
formed any service for Germans in 
connection with American bookings 
since the war started. 



ARTISTS LEASE THEATRE. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 5. 

Julia Neilson and Fred Terry, well 
known players, have leased the Strand 
for a year beginning with the new year. 
They will produce two plays in the 
house, according to announced plans. 

In the meantime the revival of "The 
Silver King" holds forth there. 



SEVENTY, AND WOULD FIGHT. 
(Special Cable to Variety.) 

Paris, Oct. 5. 

Anatole France, the French author, in 

spite of his seventy years, has applied 

for enlistment. 



FRITZ KREISLER WOUNDED. 
(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 5. 

Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian violinist, 
is in a field hospital in Galicia, having 
been wounded in action against the Rus- 
sians. 

He is reported to be suffering with a 
dangerous wound in the leg and a bullet 
hole through the arm. The surgeons' 
declare he will recover and believe he 
will be able to play again. 



MORDKIN AT THE FRONT 
{Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 5. 

Mordkin, the Rusian dancer, is at the 

front with the Czar's army. 



NORWORTH GETS OVER. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 7. 

Making his English debut in vaude- 
ville Monday at the Pavilion, Jack Nor- 
worth got over very strong at the 
finish of his turn. His position, open- 
ing after intermission, interfered with 
the early part of the act. 

Norworth sang four songs, including 
the "Sister Susie Sells Sea Shells" that 
he made an "audience number" .f in 
the Hippodrome revue. 



Evie Greene in "Florador i." 
(Special Cable to Variety.; 

London, Oct. 5. 

A revival of "Floradora," r^ith Evie 

Greene in the part she created in the 

original production, is slated for revival 

at the Aldwych shortly. 



SAILINGS. 

Oct. 3, Newhouse, Snyder Co., Genee 
company (St. Paul). 

Oct. 10, Genee, Levatkin (Olympic). 

Oct. 10, Joe Coyne, Arthur Prince 
(Mauretania). 

Oct. 10, The Cromwells (New York). 

Oct. 14, Leach Quinlan (Adriatic). 



PAVLOVA'S FAREWELL A BENEFIT. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 7. 

Pavlova will give a farewell perform- 
ance at the Palace Monday under the 
patronage of the King and Queen. It 
will be a benefit for the British and 
Russian Red Cross societies. 

Orchestra stalls are selling at eight 
dollars each. Boxes are to be auction- 
ed. 

Pavlova will not reappear here until 
1916. 



PERCENTAGE PUN CONTINUED. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 7. 

The Syndicate halls continued the 
percentage plan payment last week to 
artists, who were notified by the Va- 
riety Artists' Federation to play and 
give receipts for the money received, 
on account. 

The Federation will undertake the 
collection of the balances claimed by 
the acts. 



TESTIMONIAL TO MURRAY. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 7. 

A testimonial was tendered to Paul 
Murray Tuesday evening at the Rcn- 
devouz restaurant, presided over by 
Walter Defrece. 

Murray attended in uniform ready 
for the front. A check was given him 
for $1,000 at the conclusion of fes- 
tivities. 



AMBERG SEEKS PLAYS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 5. 
Gustav Ambcrg is moving about the 
Continental capitals in search of plays 
for production in the States by the Shu- 
berts. 

He was in Buda-Pesth last week and 
is daily expected to arrive in Berlin. 



SOLDIER-WARBLER RELEASED. 

(8pecial Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 5. 
Rudolf Berper, the Metropolitan 
Opera tenor, will probably sing in New 
York this winter. He is at the front 
with the Austrian army, but it is un- 
derstood the King has granted him a 
furlough until March so that he will be 
able to appear in Berlin opera. It is 
likely his privilege will be extended to 
permit an appearance in New York also 



NEW LONDON DAILY. 

(Bpecial Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 5. 
The Daily Call, a new morning half- 
penny newspaper, made its appearance 
Monday with a 16-page issue. It is 
rather light weight. 



Otto Weil on Way Here. 
(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 5. 
Otto Weil is at The Hague, waiting 
to take ship for the United States. He 
is scheduled to sail on the Rotterdam. 

A SENSATION 

"When You're • Uof Way From Home/' 



VARIETY 



60,000 PLACES AFFECTED 

BY "CABARET ROYALTY" 

American Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers Says 

It Will Force All "Players for Profit" to Pay Tribute for 

Use of Copyrighted Music. Some Places Agree, 

Others Hold Out. Possible Annual Income 

$12,000,000. Musicians Not Involved. 



Sixty thousand places in the United 
States, playing copyrighted music 
without permission, will have to pay tri- 
bute to the American Society of Au- 
thors, Composers and Musicians, ac- 
cording to a prominent member of that 
society. The scale of payment, as 
agreed upon, graded according to size 
of place, is $15, $10 and $5 monthly. 
This will average $200 yearly for all, or 
$12,000,000 yearly, per a loosely made 
estimate of the possible revenue to the 
society. 

Ninety-five per cent, of the current 
popular music, vocal and instrumental, 
is claimed to be controlled by members 
of the society, either as authors, com- 
posers or music publishers. The Soci- 
ety alleges a membership embracing 
writers and publishers from New York 
to San Francisco. The best known pub- 
lishers not members are Jos. W. Stern 
& Son and F. A. Mills. These con- 
cerns are offering restaurants and hotels 
their music without payment. The 
society's members say that they have 
no objection, as when the places now 
holding out are forced to pay tribute, 
they will pay the society, without the 
independent publishers being allowed 
to participate, and perhaps the influ- 
ence of the society at that time will 
dictate to the "licensed" places the 
music it shall use. 

Through an affiliation with similar 
societies in France, England, Ger- 
many and Italy, the American society 
alleges that it can stop the performing 
rights of production music, without a 
royalty payment, even though an inde- 
pendent publishing concern over here 
should hold the publishing rights. 
The "performing rights" are the play- 
ing or singing of music, in public. 

The section of the copyright bill 
under which the American society is 
making this movement permits a writer 
to demand royalty where copyrighted 
music is being employed for profit. 
The society contends that all hotels, 
restaurants and cabarets, among other 
places of entertainment, when using 
music do so for profit, to draw busi- 
ness, regardless of whether an admis- 
sion is charged. 

The John Church Co. which suc- 
cessfully applied for an injunction 
against the Hotel Vanderbilt orches- 
tra in the U. S. Supreme Court before 
Judge Lacombe, is not a member of the 
American society. A favorable deci- 
sion on the appeal in that action is ex- 
pected, but the music publishers in 
New York say they have been advised 
by counsel of an unquestioned legal 
standing. 

The edict of the American society to 
New York hotels and restaurants that 
they must pay the royalty scale from 
Oct. 1 caused consternation among the 



cabarets, and much talk. Up to last 
Saturday four of the leading places in 
New York had signed the society's 
agreement. They were the Knicker- 
bocker, Rector's, Churchill's and 
Faust's. These places said they pre- 
ferred to pay $120 yearly rather than 
chance being interfered with. 

Other places tried old melodies for 
"trot" dances, or the music of the pub- 
lishers outside the society. It was 
claimed, however, that hotels, restau- 
rants and dancing places needed most- 
ly the latest popular music (after it had 
become popular) and that proprietors 
of these places could not afford risking 
business by a subterfuge in melody. 

The cabaret men were greatly sur- 
prised at the action of the society. It 
was a complete reversal of the usual 
order of affairs, when publishers 
sought orchestras to play its music, 
and in many cases, paid orchestra lead- 
ers to do so. The action of the 
American society was viewed by many 
as an off-shoot to the step taken by 
the Music Publishers' Board of Trade 
to abolish payment to singers of songs 
on the theatre stage. 

The society states it has no inten- 
tion of proceeding against individual 
musicians or orchestras, but only 
against proprietors, nor does it expect 
to tax orchestras playing for private 
balls or functions. 



"SUNDAY ACTS" LOSS. 

Many of the acts debarred from ap- 
pearing at the Sunday vaudeville per- 
formances in New York, through the 
nature of their turns (acrobats, etc.), 
-ore encountering some difficulty in ob- 
taining engagements in the metropolis, 
though managements insisting they are 
entitled to but six-sevenths of the full 
week's salary for the six days they 
play. 

The acts say they are willing to 
play the full week, and want the full sal- 
ary. In some instances this has led to a 
difference of opinion that prevented 
the booking. 

It has somewhat interefered with an 
easily laid out program as well. 



HANGING ONTO PICTURES. 

From reports about, at least in the 
Kast, a large number of theatres that 
last season played one, two, three or 
four vaudeville acts weekly, in conjunc- 
tion with pictures, but which continued 
over the summer with a straight pic- 
ture policy, are hanging onto pictures 
only so far this season, in preference 
to reverting to the former pop bill. 

This condition is said to have been 
felt by the various booking agencies 
that ha idle the small houses out of 
town. I.s most apparent effect is re- 
ported as throughout New England. 



REVIVING COMEDY CLUB. 

An effort is being made to revive the 
Vaudeville Comedy Club by several ex- 
members. At a meeting of the former 
board of governors Friday in the of- 
fice of Maurice Goodman, attorney for 
the United Booking Offices, this move 
Was decided upon. August Dreyer, 
Everett S. Ruskey and Tobias A. Kep- 
pier were present, representing differ- 
ent members of the former club. 

The meeting was called to consider 
ways and means to relieve the govern- 
ors of the defunct club from its obliga- 
tions, which have been reduced to about 
$20,000. The reorganization plan is said 
to be acceptable to the creditors, who 
ask for 25 per cent of their claims in 
cash, with any reasonable time for the 
settlement of the remainder. This the 
promoters of the revival think can best 
be accomplished by benefits and the 
club's annual ball. 

The Comedy Club had about 800 
members. There is $8,500 owing to it 
for dues and other claims. An attempt 
will be made to collect this amount. 

The present plan is the engaging of 
modest quarters, with such membership 
as may be gathered. 



POLI'S NEXT OPENING. 

The next big time opening on the 
Poli Circuit will be at Hartford, Oct 
19. This will give Poli three big time 
weeks. Poll's, Scranton is playing a 
regular bill, also Springfield and New 
Haven (joined in a split week). 



WILDER WITH LOEW. 

One hour after Marshall P. Wilder 
executed his contract to go with the 
Loew Circuit, an eight-sheet announc- 
ing the fact was out in the American 
theatre lobby Tuesday night. 

Mr. Wilder will open at the Amer- 
ican Oct. 19, remaining there the full 
week. He is signed for 25 weeks and 
will receive, according to report, $400 
weekly while on the Loew Circuit. 



HAMMERSTEHrS PROTESTING. 

The Hammerstein management en- 
tered a protest this week in the United 
Booking Offices against "United acts" 
playing the Broadway theater, booked 
independently by M. S. Schlesinger and 
operated by the Mastbaum-Earle inter- 
ests of Philadelphia. 

A Hammersteiner called at the 
Broadway Monday night, the opening 
there of pop vaudeville under the pres- 
ent regime. He noted the Primrose 
Four were appearing as the Capitol 

City Quartet. The Primrose Four are 
known as a "United act." 

Hammerstcin's claims that by virtue 
of its U. B. O. franchise, playing at 
the Broadway would be equivalent to 
opposition aeainst "The Corner" and 
made its protest on that ground. 



CONFESSIONAL SKETCH. 

Chicago. Oct. 7 
Francis C. Kelly, of the University 
Club, is inclined to place his sketch, 
"The Crucifixion" (with a confessional 
scene) upon the vaudeville market. It 
is the piece first presented at a Lamb's 
Gambol. New York, last season and 
played bv Brandon Tynan as a curtain 
raiser, at the Little theatre, Philadel- 
phia. 



CHANGE AT COLONIAL 

A change of vaudeville policy at 
Keith's Colonial, New York,, may fol- 
low the engagement of Genee there 
Oct. 26. The house expects to install 
Nov. 2 a vaudeville bill of lighter and 
cheaper quality than has been custom- 
ary at this theatre, and may also place 
in effect a new admission scale. 

The Colonial opened early in Septem- 
ber. It is not a "September house," ow- 
ing to the neighborhood, and has not 
been able to date to overcome the hand* 
icap of the early start. It is also said 
the enormous business done by the 
Palace, another Keith property, has left 
its mark on the Colonial attendance. 

Quite recently the Colonial was 

placed on the "cut salary" list of big 
time theatres, always an indication of 
light or fading business. The wiseacres 
at that time opined a new policy would 
come. It also left but the Palace, New 
York and the Orpheum, Brooklyn, as 
full salary weeks among the B. F. Keith 
New York theatres. 



SALARIES SHAVED 10 PER CENT. 

The vaudeville agents this week re- 
ceived a written notification from Wil- 

mer & Vincent, managers, that com- 
mencing Oct. 19, all contracts for acts 
playing in their houses would have to 
submit to a reduction of 10 per cent, 
in the contracted price, or consider 
their contracts canceled under the two 
weeks' notice clause. 

The agents communicated the con- 
tents of the letter to the respective 
acts booked on the W. & V. time. It 
contains houses at Harrisburg and 
Utica that play big time bills. They 
are known as "cut salary weeks." The 
firm also operates small time vaudeville 
at Altoona, Johnstown, Allentown and 
Easton, Pa. 

Poor business in their theatres mak- 
ing it necessary to cut down salaries in 
order to keep the houses opCn with 
vaudeville, is the reason given by Wil- 
mer & Vincei.t for the reduction. 



DBIRO DIVORCED. 

Deiro, the accordionist, was notified 
this week his divorce case, pending for 
several months in Chicago, had been 
satisfactorily disposed of. Deiro was 
granted absolute freedom on three 
counts, two of which were desertion 
and default. His wife, Julia Tatro, is 
a western girl. 



"HANDSOME8T MAN," ETC. 

"The Handsomest Man in the 
World," is the charge against Paul 
Swan, a classical dancer, who is going 
to appear at Hammerstein's Oct. 26. 

Mr. Swan is an American and has 
danced at matinees. His work is of the 
airy fairy style. The Hammersteins 
hung the billing onto Paul. 



PRODUCTION TAKEN OFF. 

"The Garden of Peaches," a Jesse L. 
Lasky vaudeville production, of this 
season, was ordered shelved this week. 
Mr. Lasky said he did not find the con- 
ditions right to attempt to secure what 
the act must have to continue. 

The turn featured Minerva Cover- 
dale, and showed for one week upstate. 



WITH THE WOMEN 



The "Trocadero Burlesquers" at the 
Columbia this week is a good, enter- 
taining show, but not supplied with 
many good-looking women principals. 
In fact, there is but one with real looks 
and she is Florence Bennett. But in 
this show women are not missed, as 
Frank Finney and Sam Adams hold 
the stage most of the time. They seem 
fully equal to carrying the entire per- 
formance. Why, there isn't even a 
"table scene" in this burlesque show, 
and that is going some. Miss Bennett 
is a tall blonde with a good voice. Her 
clothes are all pretty and too numer- 
ous to mention. The chorus is very 
v/ell dressed, with good lookers (when 
in long skirts). In fleshings they 
weren't so happy, for there are not 
many shapely limbs in the Troc's lines. 
These same limbs would look a deal 
better if all fleshings were the one 
shade. Minnie Burke is a hard-work- 
ing soubret. She spends her time 
changing clothes, and nice, attractive 
clothes they are, too. One dress im- 
pressed particularly. It was a French 
ballet dress in black velvet, edged with 
fur. Olive Johnstone and Leona 
Noble were to be tough girl characters, 
and they went the limit. A muffler 
should be placed on their voices. Per- 
haps that's the trouble in burlesque. 
The people think in order to get their 
lines over they must shout. 



The Colonial has taken on a homey 
atmosphere, due, perhaps, to the serv- 
ing of chocolate during intermission. 
Many women took advantage of the 
something-for-nothing. Mrs. Carter 
DeHaven, there this week, in a new 
sketch, doesn't overwork in the dress- 
ing line this season. She wears two 
simple frocks and looks the better for 
it. One dress was particularly pretty 
and only a clever modiste could con- 
ceive the idea of combining pink and 
cerise. The dress is pink chiffon em- 
pired, and has three bands at the bot- 
tom of the skirt of cerise velvet. The 
other dress is also empire and of crys- 
tal net in white. Adele Ritchie is 
wearing the shade of green so popular 
this season. Miss Ritchie enters in a 
well shaped cloak of green velvet and 
sable. Her gown is the same shade in 
taffeta, over-draped in silver lace. A 
black hat (and not a pretty one) tops 
this costume. I thought Nella Walker 
was the champion long distance laugh- 
er in vaudeville but Corinne Sales 
(Dooley and Sales) is running her 
a close second. There was a time may- 
be when an audience might have 
thought the laughing was spontaneous. 
but now everyone knows. Why should 
an audience laugh if the people on the 
stage to do it for them? Miss Sales is 
nnc giggle the entire act. It is very 
tiresome. Mr. Dooley is funny, thanks 
to Frank Tinney and Harry Fox, but 
not as funny as Miss Sales would like 
us to believe he is, evidently. Miss 
Sales has improved greatly since the 
last time I saw her, especially in her 
<!ressing. Her two gowns are well 
chosen. One is a green chiffon in 
crystals over white, and a dancing frock 
in pink accordion plaitings with apron 
clTcct of lace. 



Newly imported European modes on 
exhibition in the establishment of 
Mme. Dangler in the George M. Cohan 
Theatre building, disclose charming 
color schemes and materials of the 
most exquisite sheerness. Both street 
and evening costumes partake of the 
note of daring in design and color. 
The display is extremely interesting, 
one section being given over to cloaks 
and suits, a new department in the 
establishment. 



Bessie Wynn (Hammerstein's) might 
be particular as to diet, to avoid the 
heavy weight class. Miss Wynn's 
dresses show careful study for effect. 
In the first gown Miss Wynn looked 
like an inserted lily. It was a white 
chiffon-like affair made in petals and a 
wide flounce. The waist was entirely 
of brilliants. A blue taffeta dress was 
exquisite, excepting the pantalets. Au- 
remia, on the same bill, wears these 
pantalets, and if Miss Wynn takes a 
look at his (Auremia is an imperso- 
nator), she will probably revise her cos- 
tume. Auremia, for an opening number, 
wore a good looking dress in green vel- 
vet. "The Girl from Atlantic City" 
"sings songs in her own unique way," 
according to the program, and dresses 
the same way. Her one dress was 
blue and badly put together. Irene 
Hammond (Gene Hodgkins and Irene 
Hammond) is a tall, good looking girl 
who understands dressing. Miss Ham- 
mond made her entrance in one of the 
new short coat models of this season. 
Beneath was an evening gown of crys- 
tal net. A third change is a dancing 
frock of white. This opened too far, 
as the trimmings on the under dress- 
ing could easily be seen. Mary Mar- 
ble (Sam Chip and Mary Marble) has 
grown thin. She was much cuter fat, 
but Miss Marble has succumbed to 
fashion and her sisters in art will prob- 
ably be besieging her for the recipe. 
A red Dutch dress has taken the place 
of the blue. Marion Bent (Rooney and 
Bent) is showing nothing new in ward- 
robe this season. 



The current Hippodrome show is 
the least interesting of those put on 
there. The dressing is also below the 
usual standard, but because there is 
little opportunity for it. The prettiest 
dressed number is the maypole dance, 
when half the chorus are as Colonial 
men in costumes of black and white 
satin. The other half are Colonial 
dames. 



Monday afternoon the Palace was 
packed. Talk about a death watch. 
You get /rio applause here unless you 
earn it. That is, if you don't claque 
the house, as one single act undoubt- 
edly did last Monday matinee. The 
woman of the Gandsmiths wears a 
dress draped with an Egyptian silver 
scarf. Mrs. Jimmy Barry never changes 
her style in dressing. Mrs. Barry's 
two dresses are pretty, one black and 
the other white. Ruth Roye is dressing 
the same as at the Colonial last week. 
Joan Sawyer was unfortunate in her 
first gown. It wasn't pretty, neither 
was it artistic, a combination of black 



satin, tulle, silver and a few colors. 
It looked hastily thrown together. Miss 
Sawyer has lost that chic and girlish 
look and her dancing isn't what it was. 
She dressed "The Artist's Dream" pret- 
tily in Egyptian style. Ann Wardell 
in Franklin Ardell's suffragette sketch 
couldn't have chosen a more unbecom- 
ing shade than the tan of her tie, belt 
and stockings. Miss Wardell is too 
blonde for that. 

Alice Lloyd (Palace) had a week's 
notice to learn seven songs and get as 
many frocks together. Frances did 
do well for her. She turned out in two 
days two of the prettiest dresses worn 
so far this season. Miss Lloyd's first 
was a sea foam green velvet, made in 
the long waisted effect, with a double 
skirt, the top skirt being a flounce of 
exquisite gold lace. Her second dress 
is a shell pink chiffon velvet made sur- 
plice over silver lace and has the flounce 
in silver. The clothes for Alice's char- 
acter songs are all neatly made and 
true to the picture. 



Julia Dean, at the 48th Street theatre 
("The Law of the Land' ), is the only 
woman in the cast. It falls to Miss 
Dean's lot to wear her two gowns dur- 
ing the four acts. These two gowns 
are the pink of perfection. The first is 
a dinner dress of yellow brocade, com- 
bined with velvet and fur and trimmed 
in beaded tassels. The second is a house 
gown of purple satin, the skirt is peg- 
topped, the waist is kimona, surplice 
and has a straight panel back. 



Evelyn Nesbit for her debut on the 
New York roof chose two very pretty 
dancing frocks. The first, a black 
spangled lace dress, was made in two 
flounce fashion, having a black satin 
shirred bodice forming the long effect 
now so popular. The other was in apri- 
cot charmeuse, combined with lace. A 
white sailor suit of satin, for a costumw 
dance, was the other. 



VAUDEVILLE ORGAN. 

The Wurlitzer Co., makers of the 
Hopes-Jones Unit Orchestra, believes 
it has perfected for the vaudeville thea- 
tre a substitute for a human orchestra 

that will give the variety manager the 
voluminous music that blends so well 
with a picture exhibition, while at the 
same time performing all the full duties 
of a man-orchestra, to trap drums, ef- 
fects, and so on. The Wurlitzer or- 
gans, built for picture theatres, run in 
price from $6,000 to $70,000. 

Eugene F. Licome, sales manager, 
with headquarters in New York, says 
the Wurlitzer Co. is placing the in- 
strument at $4,500 and figures out where 
the vaudeville man can effect a saving 
that practically returns him his invest- 
ment within a year. 

The Wurlitzer concern expects to 
have its new seven-story office build- 
ing at 122-124 West 41st street com- 
pleted by Jan. 1. It will be an exten- 
sion of the present quarters at 113 West 
40th street. In the new building, to be 
occupied also by the Paramount Cor- 
poration, will be a complete theatre 
seating 150, that will be let for day ex- 
hihitions of new films. 

A SENSATION 

"When You'r* m Long Way From Home/' 



LOUISVILLE OPENS. 

Louisville, Oct. 7. 

The new B. F. Keith theater here 
opened Sunday Oct. 4, to capacity au- 
diences and under the most favorable 
auspices. Telegrams of congratula- 
tions came in a stream from all over 
the country, including messages from 
the city fathers of Cincinnati, Indian- 
apolis and other cities on the B. F. 
Keith circuit. 

The new theater compares with any 
establishment under the Keith banner, 
and the inaugural bill measured up to 
its surroundings. 

Lew Dockstader and Mile. Dorees 
Imperial Opera Co. shared the head- 
line honors, while John F. Conroy and 
his Diving Models served as the extra 
attraction. Following his act Mr. 
Dockstader made an appropriate dedi- 
catory address in behalf of the man- 
agement. 



ADDITIONAL SAILINGS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 8. 

Oct. 7, Phyllis Neilson, Terry Betty, 

Belleaire Bros., Ettie Trexel (Baltic). 



MELNOTTE TWINS RETURN. 

Cleveland, Oct. 7. 

The Melnotte Twins were given a 
contract last week while at the Miles 
theatre for a return engagement over 
the entire Loew Circuit, immediately 
upon the completion of their present 
tour on that time. 

Jos. M. Schenck stopped over here, 
watched a couple of performances at 
the Miles, where the Melnottes were 
featured, and immediately arranged 
with them for the return visit. 

Mr. Schenck said that all he heard 
while in the city was talk, inside and 
outside the theatre, of the Melnotte 
Twins and their songs. They scored 
one of the most substantial hits here 
that Cleveland has ever seen. 



BELLING PLAYING. 

The Prospect, Brooklyn, next week 
will have Gobert Belling, the foreign 
animal act that opened at the Palace, 
New York, last week. Mr. Belling ac- 
cepted $2,000 from the United Booking 
Offices in cancellation of his 20-week 
play or pay contract with the agency 
at $500 weekly. 

After this formality was disposed of, 
Mr. Belling said he thought he had 
been misplaced to open at the Palace, 
and requested another engagement on 
the U. B. O. time. His agents, Rose 
& Curtis, arranged it. 



JAILED AS "SLAVER." 

Syracuse, Oct. 7. 

John Williams, alias Harry Hall, 
who did an "escape" act in vaudeville, 
began this week to serve a year's sen- 
tence in the Onondaga county peni- 
tentiary after conviction in Utica as a 
white slaver. 

A fine of $500 also imposed, if not 
paid will net him 500 more days in 
jail. 



BIJOU STRIPPED. 

The Bijou theater stands stripped, 
down at Broadway and 29th street. Je- 
rome Rosenberg did the ripping, after 
the landlord had refused to comply 
with departmental orders for regula- 
tions that would have resulted in the 
condemnation of the g.illery. 



VARIETY 



ARTISTS' SAURY REDUCTION 

ON VAUDEVILLE'S BIG TIME 



Managers and Agents Confer. Managerial Committee Ap- 

to Temporarily Readjust Salaries of Acts 
Drawing Large Figures Weekly. Current 
Theatrical .Conditions Said to Demand 

Protective Step. 



The big-time vaudeville managers of- 
ficially notified the agents Thursday 
morning that there must be a reduction 
of salaries by the acts the agents rep- 
resent. 

The same afternoon the managers of 
the United Booking Offices conferred 
from one until five o'clock over the 
present theatrical situation that im- 
pelled the drastic move by them. The 

outcome was a committee of five man- 
agers, appointed to go over the lists of 
acts available for the big time, and 
temporarily readjust the salaries they 
receive. 

The managers say the step is an im- 
perative one for self-preservation, and 
as a protection to the vaudeville busi- 
ness, which has suffered during the de- 
pression so far this season, along with 
all other lines the theatre presents. 

The agents coincide with the man- 
agers, and retrenchment is necessary 
at this time, to ensure vaudeville be- 
ing continued in the theatres that now 
play it. 

In an address made to the agents on 
the subject by E. F. Albee, general man- 
ager of the United Booking Offices, he 
stated the big-time managers expected 
to lose $250,000 before the turn for bet- 
ter business could arrive, if that turn 
should be reached this season. Mr. 
Albee said he believed the actors, who 
had shared in the general prosperity 
of vaudeville during recent years, 
should be willing to shoulder their 
share of the burden the managers must 
carry, by the actors agreeing to a re- 
duction of salary. It was made plain 
by the speaker he did not believe acts 
receiving a fair salary in the estima- 
tion of the managers should be at a 
loss through the bad times, but the 
abnormal salaries and those that had 
been "shoved up" on the managers 
could stand a clipping to reasonable 
bounds until vaudeville righted itself. 

Mr. Albee, in conversation after the 
meeting, said for some seasons the busi- 
ness had run along, with bad spots here 
and there, but an average was main- 
tained that induced the managers to 
meet the demands made by acts for in- 
creased salary. This season, however, 
everything had dropped off, added Mr. 
Albee, and if vaudeville were to keep 
on playing in the first-class houses, a 
cut in the salary list had to be made, 
to in part stand off the large loss in 
gross receipts at the box office. 

The committee of five managers will 
commence meeting next week, when 
the salaries will be graded by the vau- 
deville men. 

The agents were given to understand 
any agent offered an act from 

to se- 
allotted 



for it, the offending agent would 
at once lose his franchise to 
book on "the floor" of the United. 
The agents weie also informed that 
any act not wishing to comply with 
the managers' figure for its services, 
would not offend anyone in the U. B. 
O. if seeking engagements elsewhere. 
No "percentage" of reduction was 
spoken of nor settled upon. The re- 
duction, it is said, will depend upon the 
present salary and what the managers 
deem to be a fair valuation. The acts 
to feel it the most will be the big- 
priced turns. 



MORE SUNDAY CONCERTS. 

The Empire and Casino, Brooklyn, 
go into the Sunday vaudeville column 
this Sabbath, the acts booked in by 
Lester Whitlock, Fam. Dept., U. B. O. 
Whitlock already has the Grand and 
Whitney going in Brooklyn. 

Ben Sugarman puts in a 10-act show 
next Sunday at the Majestic, Brooklyn. 



FANNIE BRICE'S ESCAPE. 

The loss of a United Booking Offices 
route was narrowly escaped by Fannie 
Brice last week, when an overzcalous 
advertising solicitor on the Evening 
Journal put Fannie in wrong, with the 
U. B. O. and the Jewish public. 

It is said the advertising solicitor, 

who combines reviewing as a side line 

for business, induced Miss Brice to 

part with $1,000 "for publicity." He 
then gave her a comparatively small 
space in his paper to advertise that she 
would appear at the Palace all last 
week, including Yom Kippur, the most 
holy of the Hebrew reverences. 

Several Jewish societies wrote, pro- 
testing against the wording of the ad- 
vertisement, and the United Booking 
office men are reported to have taken 
Miss Brice's name off their sheets for 
the affront. 

The advertising solicitor jumped into 
the breach, to save his $1,000 and Fan- 
nie's contract, by saying the compositor 
had read his copy wrong; that the prin- 
ter made "including" out of "excepting" 
in the reading of the Yom Kippur line. 

He was so abject in his protestations 
of what might follow were he found 
guilty that they alowed him to get 
away with the silly excuse, as it seemed 
to "square" the protesting societies. 



AD NOVELTY ACT. 

Los Angeles, Oct. 7. 

"Sunkist" is the title of a rather novel 
turn showing the transit of an orange 
from the tree to the consumer, includ- 
ing the picking, packing, shipping and 
selling process. 

Several girls and two men comprise 
the company, two of the girls being 
expert citrus packers, showing how to 
pack 126 oranges in a box in one min- 
ute and 58 seconds. It will play the 
Pantages time. 



Comedy Stock at Feature. 
The Crescent in the Bronx, which M. 
H. Saxe manages, is trying musical 
comedy stock as a feature in its pop bill. 
The Morgan-Hackett company, former- 
ly at the 116th street, is there, with Joe 
Lyonell and Mabelle Leverton. 



Circus Razes Airdome. 

Atlantic City, Oct. 7. 
Failure to find a suitable lot forced 
the Ringlings' circus which played At- 
lanta Monday to raze the defunct At- 
lanta Motordome Company's plant and 
grandstands. The plant was bought 
by the circus people to get the show 
lot. 




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another's list, attempting 
cure a larger sum than 



ERNEST PANTZER AND CO. 

Who arrived this week on the St. Louis, having come direct from Brussels by special permit 
from the German military cr nmander, after having undergone a series of dangerous and blood- 
curdling adventures. 

Their journey from Bruitsels to the Dutch frontier occupied three days and nights, by wagon. 
Throughout the journey tney were within half a mile of the 

Permanent address, VARIETY, New York. 



10c. RECORDS 

The "canned music" or disc and 
phonograph record field is likely to see 
an upheaval November 1, when Henry 
Watterson will first place* upon the 
market his new patented "Little Won- 
der" record, at ten cents each, retail. 

It is a flat record of the usual kind, 
containing any vocal or instrumental 
selection, and is 5J4 inches in diameter. 
A phonograph built to accommodate 
the record is also being manufactured 
at the plant Mr. Watterson has in- 
stalled at Rahway, N. J. The phono- 
graph will be retailed at $5. 

Demonstrations have lately been 
given of the improved cheap record at 
the offices of Watterson, Berlin & 
Snyder in the Strand theatre building. 
The volume and notes of the smaller 
record are fully equal to those of the 
large records the public has been buy- 
ing for many years past, paying as 
high as $4 for some of the featured 
records made by operatic stars. 



REDFORD SEIZED AS SPY. 

Montreal, Oct. 7. 

Samuel Redford, of the vaudeville 
comedy juggling team of Redford 
and Winchester, was arrested at Rouse 
Point early yesterday as a German spy, 
while on his way to this city to fill an 
engagement at the Orpheum. 

A custom official boarded the train 
as it crossed the U. S.-Canadian line. 
Redford's overcoat hung in the dress- 
ing room while the comedian slept in 
his berth. A false beard in the coat 
pocket aroused the brass-buttoned of- 
ficial's suspicions. "Hist, a spy," he 
muttered and prepared for dirty work. 

He ordered Redford off the train. 
On the platform stood a file of uni- 
formed custom men. The actor was 
taken to a hotel and kept there under 
guard. A search of his trunk revealed 
an assortment of pistols, cannon balls 
and scores of comic disguises. 

"Two Hifts!" growled the sleuths. 
"We've got him." 

Meanwhile the Orpheum was short 
an act. The manager managed to se- 
cure Redford by explaining to the of- 
ficials over the long-distance telephone 
and he was permitted late today to pro- 
ceed to Montreal in custody of a guard. 



JOLSON REPLACES LEONARD. 

Chicago, Oct. 7. 

Eddie Leonard, who was booked to 
appear at the Majestic this week, was 
not present. It was reported that he 
had an attack of ptomaine poisoning. 

Harry Jolson was brought in to take 
his place. 

Jolson left the bill Monday after- 
noon. When he learned the salary he 
declined. 



Fox Leaves Syracuse. 

Syracuse, N. Y. f Oct. 7. 
William Fox, vaudeville, is no longer 
playing the last half of the week at the 
Rastable. The house continues to give 
Columbia burlesque the first half. 



firing linei. 



Juggler Gets 15 Months. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 7. 
Edward R. Leonard, formerly a jug- 
gler in vaudeville, pleaded guilty to 
sending a blackhand letter to E. L. 
Perry, manager of the Palace, on Mar- 
ket street, and was sentenced to 15 
months in the Eastern Penitentiary. 



VARIETY 



NEW ACTS 



George L. Archer has revived "The 
Chocolate Drops," with King and Bail- 
ey. Archer recently returned from 
London. 

Tommy Grey, with Clarence Gaskill 
at the piano. Opening next Monday 
(Bart McHugh). 

John E. Kellerd in a sketch, prob- 
ably his big scene from "The Heart of 
Maryland." Mme. Yorska and Co. at 
Majestic, Chicago, next week, in "The 
Days of War" (James E. Plunkett). 

Lillian Shaw, new act (Edw. S. Kel- 
ler). 

Dorothy Hunter and Jack McEn- 
ness, dancers, at the Strand, are headed 
for vaudeville. 

Martin Brown and Rosie Dolly, dan- 
cing turn, Palace, New York, Oct 19. 

Mike Bernard and Amy Butler, Phil- 
adelphia this week. 

Suxette Bradford, formerly in "Huck- 
in's Run," is having a vaudeville sketch 
prepared for her own use. 

The three-act of McMahon, Dia- 
mond and Clemence, broken recently 
with the leaving of Miss Clemence, is 
t<> start out again opening in Montreal 
next week under the name of McMa- 
hon, Diamond and Chaplow. Reney 
Chaplow is the new member. 

Billy O'Hara (formerly Ascott and 
O'Hara), who has joined with Nick 
Marx in a new act, was unable to open 
Monday owing to an attack of stomach 
trouble. He is still under the doctor's 
care. 

Ben Harrison (formerly of Rath- 
skeller Trio) and Freida Klemm. 

Norma Winalow, new sketch by 
Harriet Ford. 

Gertrude Vanderbilt. and James 
demons. 

Marion Dyer, with the northern 
"Potash and Perlmutter," closed Oct. 3 
to take up a route on the Loew Circuit 
in "The Cloak Model." 

-The California Minstrels" is being 
put on by Conroy and La Maire to 
travel over the Loew time, the stagers 
acting for the circuit in producing the 
turn. 

Davy Mandel and Irving Rose (with 
an office in the Hammerstein lobby) 
are reproducing "Who Shall Con- 
demn?" for vaudeville. It is the sketch 
Nina Morris once played. 

Willard Bowman rehearsing "Chick- 
en Feed." H. Haywood in act. 

Two girl acta being prepared by 
Mile. Le Brant. One will have four 
singers and the other four dancers. 

Frank Tinney has a skit, "My Sis- 
ter," by J. M. Barrie, which Tommy 
Gray has "vaudevillized" from a four- 
minute idea to 20 minutes. The sketch, 
with La Estrellita featured, will be 
ready in about a fortnight. Five peo- 
ple. (M. S. Bentham.) 

Miller and Mack, of "Hello Tango" 
revue, London, are back and have new 
act in readiness. (Thos. Fitzpatrick.) 

La Titcomb, with 10 people, opened 
at Elizabeth this week. 

May Boley, from Winter Garden 
show, trying out two-act next week. 

Bert Merket, in single, opening Or- 
pheum Circuit tour Oct. 19 at Winni- 
peg (Stoker & Bierbauer). 

Juliette Dika will "break in" her 
new act at Proctor's, Schenectady, next 
week. 



Bo nit a, single, at Hammerstein's Oct. 
12; The McGreevys, returning end of 
October (Harry Weber). 

Kitty Gordon, with 10 people, in 
"Alma's Return," by Jack Lait, open- 
ing Atlantic City Oct. 5. Helen Goff 
and Harrison Hunter in support. 

William Flemen has a new act in re- 
hearsal, called "The Champion." 

Raymond and Bell have a new sing- 
ing and dancing act. 

Gertie Vanderbilt has taken on a new 
vaudeville partner in the person of Vic- 
tor Clement. The couple will do a 
new comedy act by Buck and Stamper. 

"When the Sun Rises," military play- 
let by H. S. Sheldon, is in vaudeville 
and Burks, will do a single. 

Ted Lorraine, formerly of Lorraine 
and Burks, will do a single 

George Damerel and Co. in new act, 
Majestic, Chicago, this week. 

Leona Thurber and Alma Youlin, in 
material by Jack Lait. / 

William Mack and "The Hot Dollar," 
by Jack Lait. 

Jack Mannion and Val Harris, form- 
erly of The Ragtime Sextet, playing 
"Uncle Jerry at the Opera." 

Bobby North returning, with an 
Aaron Hoffman act. 

Robert Milliken-Con Roddy Co., 
singing and talking sketch (Frank Hal- 
liday). 

W. E. Whittle in new ventriloquil 
turn in which he impersonates "Officer 
Dunn" in Central Park. 

Ned Neator and His Sweethearts. 

"The Dream Pirates," with 11 peo- 
ple, Flo Bert featured, now playing 
(Bart MacHugh). 

"Society Buds," with Clark and Berg- 
man, opened at Harrisburg, Pa., Mon- 
day. Due at Palace, New York, Oct. 
12 (Jesse L. Lasky). 



Sun Leases Marion House. 

Marion, O., Oct. 7. 

The Elks' new theatre here, leased 
by Gus Sun for 10 years, will open 
the first wek in November with a legit- 
imate attraction. 

Mr. Sun, under his contract, must 
give at least five legitimate shows a 
year, devoting the house to vaude- 
ville the rest of the time. 



Minneapolis Has Another. 

Minneapolis, Oct. 7. 

The new Palace, built at a cost of 
$600,000, was opened this week with 
vaudeville and pictures supplied by the 
Western Vaudeville Managers' Asso- 
ciation. The house is owned by Rubin 
& Finkelstein, who also control the 
Grand. 

Roy C. Jones is house manager. It 
will play three shows daily on a split 
week polic^. 



Maase Press Agenting. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 7. 

Later reports regarding Leo Maase, 
the vaudeville agent, say he has been 
held by the German authorities and 
impressed into the press bureau serv- 
ice for the army. 

It was reported Maase was in the 
German army- at the front; also that 
he had sailed for New York. 



THE LAUDER SHOW. 

Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Morris 
left New York, going directly to San 
Francisco to meet Harry Lauder, who 
returns Oct. 15, at that port from Aus- 
tralia. 

Oct. 16 the Lauder tour commences 

at Los Angeles, and may last thirty 

weeks over here, perhaps winding up 
for two weeks or more in Morris' New 
York theatre for the annual Lauder 
metropolitan engagement. 

The Lauder show will be composed of 
the Scotch star, Alfred Latcll, Perceny, 
Yosca, Sylvester and Martinetti, Rapo, 
Jed and Ethel Dooley, Albert Donnelly. 

Ching Ling Foo, thought to be under 
engagement for the Lauder troupe, is 
not certain he will come over here al- 
though announced to sail from the other 
side. Morris arranged for the China- 
man through George Mooser. H. B. 
Marinelli is said to have offered Ching 
to Hammerstein,' s for two weeks at 
$1,500 each. This proposal rearranged 
the Chinaman's plans, although there 
has been no definite acceptance by 
Hammerstein's, and there is also some 
legal technicality to be gone through 
before the Chinaman can re-enter this 
country. 

The New York theatre, commencing 
Oct. 19, will play the A. H. Woods 
melodrama, "Cornered" (renamed) with 
John Mason, for a run, with Messrs. 
Morris and Woods splitting th: receipts 
on a percentage basis. 



WILLARD'S GROWING INC 

An institution for growing and de- 
veloping was organized by Willard, The 
Man Who Grows, in England just be- 
fore the war started. Mr. Willard is at 
Hammerstein's next week. He came in 
on the boat last Friday. Away from his 
home country for two years, travelling 
everywhere, Willard says he saw every- 
thing across the water worth seeing 
including the Czar of Russia and his 
beautiful daughters. Willard gave a 
private performance for the Russian 
royal family. 

The war has interfered with Willard's 
Growing and Developing Institution, 
Ltd., of England. It is incorporated 
and capitalized at $150,000. Lord Lons- 
dale is interested, also the Prince of 
Wales, although the Prince's interest is 
to increase his height on the Willard 
treatment, which the creator of the 
physical improvement system will use 
on him after the war. 

Willard's time over here is limited. 
He is due to return to England next 
month to fulfill contracts, having taken 
advantage of the situation there to visit 
his folks on this side for a few weeks. 

While in London during the early 
days of the war and in fact until leaving 
Willard acted as first aid to stranded 
and troubled Americans, mostly pro- 
fessionals. Reports of his attention to 
helpless Americans on the other side 
reached here before Willard came over. 



Marinelli's Bookings. 

Among the bookings made by H. B. 
Marinelli for Hammerstein's in the 
near future are Willard, The Man Who 
Grows, opening Oct. 12; La Milo, the 
English posing turn, Oct. 9; and Su- 
mika, the Jap singer, with four Geisha 
girls, a short while after. 



STOCK OPENINGS. 

Woonsocket, Mass., Oct. 7. 
A new stock under P. F. Shea's direc- 
tion opens at the Bijou Oct. 12, with 
Carol Arden and William Blake, leads. 

Salem, Mass., Oct. 7. 
Announcement is made that Lester 
Lonergan has organized a new stock, to 
open here within the next fortnight. 

St. Johns, B. C, Oct. 7. 
The Thompson-Woods Co., with a 
brand new roster, installed a new sea- 
son of stock here last week, the opener 
being "Bought and Paid For." 

Yonkers, N. Y., Oct. 7. 
Announcement is made of a new 
stock company, opening at the Whar- 
burton theatre next Monday. 

Macon, Ga., Oct. 7. 
The Florence Payton stock, after a 
summer's season in one of the St. Louis 
suburban theaters, is here at the Ma- 
jestic ^or the winter. 

Atlanta, Oct. 7. 
The Jewell-Kelly stock troupe, after 
a 69-weeks' stay at the Bijou, closed 
Oct. 3, business having slumped off 
to almost nothing. The house remains 
dark indefinitely. 

Akron, O., Oct. 7. 
Fred Lanhan will open a stock com- 
pany for Feiber & Shea at the Grand 
opera house here Oct. 19. Alice Clem- 
ents will be leading woman. 

Hartford, Conn., Oct. 7. 
Announcement was made this week 
of the closing, of Poli's stock company 
here in two weeks. The house will 
likely play straight pictures or pop 
vaudeville. 



CLANCY PLAYERS OPEN. 

The opening of the Empire, Pater- 
son, N. J., with the James Clancy Play- 
ers Saturday night, was a gala event 
for the town and Clancy. Everything 
that goes with a regular Broadway 
opening. 

An audience that jammed the house 
was enthusiastic. 

The opening bill was George M. Co- 
han's comedy "Broadway Jones." The 
company engaged for the stock organ- 
ization gave a most capable perform- 
ance. Ten curtain calls after the first 
act; seven after the second, and after 
the third, speeches. 

Harry Ingram, the leading man, gave 
an excellent performance in the titular 
role. Of the support Grace Campbell 
stood out. One or two members 
might be improved upon and this will 
undoubtedly arrive with time. 



STRANDED UPSTATE. 

Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 6. 
The Rose Black Stock stranded here 
last week. The proprietor of the Stroe- 
beck restaurant has served an attach- 
ment on the company for $45. Several 
of the members settled and left. 



Kellermann Comes Back. 

Annette Kellermann and her hus- 
band, J. R. Sullivan, returned from the 
other side last Saturday. 

The diver has not decided whether 
<lic will return to picture making or 
vaudeville. > 



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Kingston, Ont. 

Keith's, Lowell, Mass., is now play- 
ing a full week. 

Fred Duprez is playing on the Loew 
Circuit. 



John McKee is temporarily managing 
the Temple, Hamilton, Can. 

The Gollmar Bros.' circus is closing 
Oct. 15 at Blair, Neb. 

John W. Considine left for the west 
last Saturday. 

Geo. F. Fish has resigned as man- 
ager of Loew's Empress, Los Angeles. 



Jess Linonafti has returned to Chi- 
cago where his wife is seriously ill and 
confined in a hospital. 

Joe Raymond and Billy Chandler 
have dissolved partnership and will 
maintain individual offices hereafter. 

Shannon and Annis, in "A Shine 
Flirtation," received a United route af- 
ter showing at Union Hill. 



Joe Jacobs, of the Shubert's finan- 
cial department, returned from Europe 
last week, feeling much improved in 
health. 



Daniel L. Murphy, with "The Newly- 
weds" last season, is at 88 Lake street, 
Saranac Lake, N. Y., where he will re- 
main until next spring. 



Billy Gaston is back in New York. 
He will remain in town and do some 
lyric writing before returning to the 
stage. 



Hazel Griffen and George King deny 
there is any foundation for the pub- 
lished statement that they are engaged 
to marry. 



Bennie Carter, treasurer of the Grand 
opera house, New York, and Martha 
Wright will be married in New York 
Oct. 21. 

H*nrv & Raymond, a harboring firm 
up as opposition to Sully's, 
;< entered Sully's employ, thus 
■ :ir up that particular opposish. 



The Orpheum, Atchison, Kan., opened 
Thursday of this week. It seats 1,200, 
cost $30,000 to build, and plays pop 
vaudeville. 



Geo. B. Reno and his "army" have 
been booked by Jule Delmar for the 
Loew circuit. Bud and Nellie Heim 
also open on the time, placed by Irving 
Cooper. 

Charlotte Parry, the protean player, 
now abroad, is one of the heirs to a 
$200,000 estate left by her grandmother, 
who died in London, Sept. 13, at the 
age of 77. 



Eva Tanguay canceled her Potts- 
ville, Pa., date owing to vocal trouble. 
After a brief visit with her New York 
physician, she resumed the road tour 
at Harrisburg this week. 

Ruby Norton is ill in a Chicago hos- 
pital, and may be there another month. 
Sammy Lee is appearing meanwhile 
without his wife (and stage partner) 
in "The Belle of Bond Street," now 
on a Windy City run. 

Mae Hopkins, in the public eye very 
much during the past few weeks 
through the medium of the daily prints 
because of her alleged connection with 
a rather prominent criminal trial, has 
been engaged for the role of the bur- 
lesque lady in the new Rose Stahl star- 
ring vehicle. 

The wrecking of a flatboat on the 
Skagit river, near Mount Vernon, 
Washington, resulted in the loss of 
$3,000, the value of animals and prop- 
erty belonging to the Sound Amuse- 
ment Co., a carnival and circus outfit 
owned by Bert Mansfield, of Atchison, 
Kan. The 50 persons who took part 
in the show were saved. 

The coroner's jury sitting in the case 
of the murder of Fannie Curland, a 
moving picture actress, in a deserted 
ranch house near Riverside, Cal., 
brought in an "open verdict" last Sat- 
urday by which George Garfield, Ray 
Ellis and Mrs. Frankie Huftman-La/ig, 
held in connection with the crime, wertf. 
released. 



Nam Campbell has retired from the 
stage to become the wife of William 
Wilson Miller, senior member of the 
law firm of Hornblower, Miller, Potter 
& Earle of New York. Announcement 
ot the engagement was made this week 
by Miss Campbell's mother. Miss 
Campbell's retirement involves the 
abandonment of her engagement as 
John Mason's leading woman in the 
forthcoming production of "Big Jim 
Garrity" at the New York theater. 

Mack's Clothes Shop, at 1582 Broad- 
way, is now doing production work, 
turning out the clothes for the male 
portion of shows. Mr. Mack did the 
tailoring for the new Montgomery and 
Stone show, also several other produc- 
tions. He makes a specialty of help- 
ing out players who need clothes in 
a hurry. Last week an act at the Palace 
called upon him to deliver three suits 
within two hours, for their Palace 
opening. Mack was there on time with 
the clothes. 



The Court, Wheeling, W. Va., did not 
reopen with pop vaudeville Monday, 
The house may not do so before 
Thanksgiving. Meanwhile the Lyceum, 
Canton, O., with which Wheeling was 
to have split on the Bill Delany books 
in the Fam. Dept. of the U. B. O., 
continues as a week stand. 

Wagging tongues last week falsely 
reported E. H. Sothern's demise. 
Wednesday found a report buzzing 
that Julie Opp (Mrs. William Faver- 
sham) was dangerously ill in the New 
York home of the Favershams. Ef- 
forts to verify the rumor resulted in 
an emphatic denial. Miss Opp recent- 
ly hasn't been any too well, which may 
have led to the rumor. The fact that 
she isn't acting in the new Faversham 
show also might have had something 
to do with it. 



TOMMY'S TATTLES. 

By Thomas J. Gray. 

It's a tough world. After all the 
trouble the Progressive Burlesque 
Wheel managers had to dope out 
names for their "Oriental Dancers" 
they can't use them. 

You can meet any act you ever met 
in Europe if you stand in front of the 
Palace Building long enough. 



If it's true that there is so much cot- 
ton down south this ought to be a 
good time to buy a prop snow storm 
cheap. 

What Every Chorus Girl Hears. 

"My wife doesn't understand me." 

"I get along all right with my wife, 
but she's an invalid." 

"What size waist do you wear? A 
friend of mine is in the waist busi- 
ness." 

"I'll bet you'll never even think of 
me when you leave town." 

"Don't think I'm one of those stage- 
door Johnnies." 

"Are you allowed to keep those 
d-esses when the show closes?" 

"Didn't you see me smiling at you 
from the 14th row?" 

"I hate to have anyone make a fool 
of me." 

"I just seem to have taken a liking 
to you — you know, nothing wro T, g, 
Kid." 



Don't forget that the fellow who in- 
vented those reversible shirt cuffs did 
something for the lay offs. 

Did you notice how nifty Solly Lee 
has been looking since Hammerstein's 
has had lady ushers? 

Before nailing up your summer 
home, don't forget your press book. 

Some of the stories sonic of the re- 
turning theatrical folk are telling the 
reporters about the European war must 
have been rehearsed in front of a 
film. 

What arc you covering your Ford 
with to keep it from getting rusty until 
next year? 



CABARET. 

Lillian Bradley, prima donna, is at 
Rector's for an indefinite engagement. 

Kennedy's Cafe is holding dance con- 
tests twice weekly. Tango orchestra 
and cabaret show each evening. 

Bustanoby's (39th street) has two 
teams of dancers and two "single" girls 
in its cabaret. 

Last week the afternoon dances com- 
menced. Several of the Broadway 
places now keep open for the dancing 
matinees. 

Grove Wall is managing the cabaret 
at Voll's, Harlem. Ray W. Conner is 
the pianist. Max Voll has gone to 
Sullivan county to improve his health. 

Atop-the-Strand has afternoon danc- 
ing under the direction of Nora White. 
In the evening Rosita Mantilla and Bal- 
four Lloyd, Kathryn Andrews, Viola 
Koop and Jack Gavin appear there. 

The special engagement of profes- 
sional dancers in a Brooklyn restaurant 
was inaugurated this season when 
Raub's opened. 

The Bun Yan (Broadway and 46th 
street) has given up its cabaret and 
dancing features. Unable to procure 
the necessary licenses the Chinese cafe 
abandoned its evening shows. 

Chas. J. Goodfellow, for 14 years at 

the Chestnut Street Opera house, Phil- 
adelphia, has the Goodfellow Hotel, At- 
lantic City (in the centre of the theatre 
district), with special rates to the thea- 
trical profession. 

The College Inn has the Melody 
Four, Lew Levy, first tenor; E. Paul 
Southe, second tenor; Charles Senna, 
baritone; Harry Tanner, basso. Oth- 
ers engaged are Tubby Garran, Mae 
Vincent and Bull Lawrence. 

Evelyn Nesbit and Jack Clifford have 
been drawing very well at the New 
York Roof since opening Thursday of 
last week. It is said the couple are 
playing there on a guarantee of the 
gross (at the box office), with a certain 
amount weekly guaranteed. Miss 
Nesbit surprised the Times square 
crowd with her dancing, through the 
improvements in her work since she 
first appeared at Hammerstein's with 
Mr. Clifford. Miss Nesbit, by the way, 
is the first well known professional dan- 
cer appearing at the New York, who has 
not demanded that a stage box be re- 
served for her each evening. 

Little Hungary (East Side, New 
York) for 26 years the Mecca of sight- 
seeing parties, has arranged with Max 
Rogers for the installation of the first 
English cabaret the place has had. Rog- 
ers has six acts under contract and the 
opening occurred Oct. 2. Rogers 
is placing seven acts with the Prin- 
cess (29th and Broadway), where Matt 
Silvey, formerly with the Pekin show, 
is the cabaret manager. The Dolphin 
(145th and Lenox) opened its cabaret 
Friday last with the Three Gibson Sis- 
ters, Dick Long's orchestra and Billie 
Burke, featured comedian, the acts furn- 
ished by Rogers. 



10 



VARIETY 



PLENfTUF new productions 

LISTED FOR F UTURE APPEARANCE 

Remainder of October Will See Many Pieces on Broadway 
for First Time. Several Other Shows in Preparation, 

With No Houses Selected. 



Despite adverse road reports and the 
weekly closing of some of the new pro- 
ductions opening dates for new Broad- 
way shows and revivals have been an- 
nounced. A list of the plays and 
premiere dates follows: 

Oct. 10 — Winter Garden show, 
"Dancing Around" (Al Jolson), Jos. 
Brooks' "My Lady's Dress," Play- 
house. 

Oct. 12— Mrs. Pat Campbell in "Pyg- 
malion," Park; "Kick In," with John 
Barrymore, Longacre. 

Oct. 13— Walker Whiteside in "Mr. 
Wu," Maxime Elliott. 

Oct. 19— "Papa's Boy," Amsterdam; 
John Mason in "Big Jim Garrity" (top 
price $1) New York theatre; "The Sala- 
mander," Harris; "Yosemite," revival, 
Daly's; "The Lilac Domino,' Andreas 
Dippel Co., 44th Street. 

Oct. 20— Wiliam Gillette, Marie 
Doro and Blanche Bates, revival, 
"Diplomacy," Empire; Montgomery 
and Stone in "Chin Chin," Globe; "A 
Pair of Silk Stockings," Little theatre. 

Oct. 26— Adele Blood in "Milady's 
Boudoir," Garrick; "The Highway of 
Life," Liebler & Co., producers, Wal- 
laces. 

Nov. 12— "Watch Your Step," C. B. 
Dillingham's big musical show, the 
Vernon Castles, Frank Tinney and 
Elizabeth Murray featured, theatre not 
determined. 

Nov. 20— "Life," William A. Brady's 
big spectacle, probably at the Manhat- 
tan opera house. 

In addition the Princess theatre with 
its former policy of one-act plays will 
open about Oct. 26 or the following 
week. The Hudson may have Rose 
Stahl and her new play about the 26th. 

Charles Frohman has "The Song of 
Songs" under way for New York. 
Cohan & Harris plan to offer William 
Collier here in a new play next month. 
Liebler & Co. have Nazimova in mind 
for a Broadway opening shortly in her 
new piece, "The Proper Person." John 
C. Fisher's "The Debutante," with 
Hazel Dawn, will knock at Broadway's 
door after it has been remodeled on 
the road. Otis Skinner in "The Silent 
Voice" will be ready next month. "My 
Lady Luxury" has been produced, but 
is being held up pending certain 
changes and a Broadway opening ar- 
ranged. 

Arthur Hammerstein intends to bring 
in his new one, "The Trap," and Cohan 
& Harris also plan an invasion of the 
A. E. Thomas piece, "Wanted: $22,000." 
These shows are now in Boston. 

Wm. A. Brady has "The Lone Wolf" 
with Lou Tellgen featured, in prepara- 
tion for New York. H. H. Frazee's "A 
Woman of Today," in rehearsal, may 
hit Broadway the last of the month. 



"Gay White Way," will retire from 
that organization this Saturday. 



Crescent Playing Pictures. 

The Crescent, a new theatre in the 
Bronx, commences to play pictures this 
Sunday. 

It has been showing the attractions 
on the Stair & Havlin time. 



SHOWS IN 'FRISCO. 

San Francisco, Oct. 7. 

"A Pair of Sixes" did $10,000 at the 
Cort last week with business holding 
up on the second span of its engage- 
ment here. 

"Milestones" opened to light business 
at the Columbia. 

Business is nothing to brag about at 
the Gaiety, where the last and final 
week of "Peck O' Pickles" is being 
presented by the Kolb and Dill com- 
pany. "The Rollicking Girl" has been 
announced as its successor. 

The stock returns at the Alcazar are 
only fair. 



"IPHIGE" CALLED OFF. 

Pittsburgh, Oct. 8. 

The Carnegie Institute of Tech- 
nology production of "Iphigenia in 
Tauris" was called off Tuesday, and it 
was announced that the Irish dramat- 
ist, Padraic Colum, of the Abbey thea- 
tre, Dublin, had agreed to come here to 
produce three Irish plays, one for the 
first time. 

Colum will also instruct the dramatic 
class a short while. 



"DOLL GIRL" POSTPONED. 

The Frohman office has decided that 
"The Doll Girl," with Hattie Williams 
and Richard Carle as its stars, will not 
go on tour during November as origin- 
ally planned. The show was to have 
traveled south, headed toward the Pa- 
cific Coast. 



LATE CHICAGO CHANGES. 

Chicago, Oct. 9. 

Grace George will come to the 
Blackstone in "Truth" at the expira- 
tion of the current engagement of 
Forbes-Robertson. 

Sam Gerson will probably return to 
the American Music Hall to assume 
general charge, now that first-class at- 
tractions may again be the policy. 



FRAZEE'S COHAN PIECE. 

Harry Frazee has secured Max Mar- 
cin's play "Are You My Wife?" orig- 
inally to be produced by Cohan & Har- 
ris. 

Through some hitch in the contract 
the C. & H. firm returned the piece to 
the author, who immediately arranged 
for its production with Frazee. 

Roy Atwell has been engaged for the 
principal role. 



"Sixes" Doing Business. 

Chicago, Oct. 7. 
"A Pair of Sixes" at the Cort did 
$9,100 last week. H. H. Frazee has 
five companies in this piece out, and 
all are said to be turning in a weekly 
profit 




THE HEART OF AN AUTHOR. 

The heart of Paul Armstrong lies 
heavy and hard. In the succession of 
a few weeks he has written two plays 
that have fallen into the discard on 
Broadway. Recently he produced his 
new play, "The Bludgeon," and it last- 
ed a week at the Maxine Elliott. 

Last Monday, his latest, "The Heart 
of a Thief," was brought out by 
Charles Frohman at the Hudson. 
This is to go to the storehouse this 
Saturday. 

Rose Stahl in the Channing Pollock 
and Rennold Wolf play, "A Perfect 
Lady," may reach the Hudson after a 
week out of town. The piece is booked 
to open in Providence Oct. 19. The 
Hudson will remain dark meantime. 



THOS. BROADHURST PLAY. 

Los Angeles, Oct. 7. 
Oliver Morosco will produce within 
the next three weeks a costume drama 
by Thomas Broadhurst entitled "The 
Right of a Signeur." 

The Morosco offices in New York, 
under the supervision of George Moo- 
ser, are preparing to launch "The Mad- 
cap Therese," with music by Johann 
Strauss. 

When ready for New York it will 
likely be shown at the Casino or Shu- 
bert. 



Hearn and Eley Leaving. 

Utica, N. Y., Oct. 9. 
Sam Hearn and Helen Eley, of the 



BURT SHEPPHERD 

THE WHIP KING 

NEW YORK HIPPODROME, Indefinitely, SEASON 1914-15 



ALAN DALE RESIGNS. 

After having been the dramatic critic 
of the New York American for 19 
years, Alan Dale, the most widely- 
known reviewer of the legitimate 
stage, resigned Tuesday. 

The general trend toward com- 
mercialism in all departments of cer- 
tain metropolitan dailies, in which 
movement Hearst publications have 
for a long time been leaders, is said to 
have brought about Dale's resignation. 
He has always observed the ethics of 
journalism, as commonly accepted by 
all special writers such as he is. News- 
paper men seemingly conversant with 
Dale's stand, say he left the Amer- 
ican with all his independent flags 
flying. 

According to report the direct cause 

of Dale's leaving was the American's 

treatment of the play, "Miss Daisy," 

that opened at the Shubert. In his 
notice in ihe American, Dale said it 
was a poor entertainment. The Sun 
day American printed several storie* 
in its first issue after the Dale notice 
had appeared in the daily edition, to 
the effect that "Miss Daisy" was a 
great play. The records show that 
Dale was correct in his opinion. "Miss 
Daisy" has since been removed from 
Broadway and did very little business 
at the box office while there. 

Alan Dale has a large following 
among theatre goers. It has been es- 
timated that not less than 35,000 read- 
ers of the New York American bought 
it solely for his opinion of plays. 
Talk in newspaper circles Wednes- 
day was to the effect Mr. Dale might 
syndicate his reviews, sending out 
"Alan Dale Criticisms" to 200 or more 
daily papers throughout the United 
States and Canada. 



VARIETY 



BS1 



LONDON'S LEGITIMATE STAGE 
FARING VERY BADLY AT PRESENT 



No Legitimate Success So Far This Season. "Drake" With 

Strong Patriotic Appeal Playing at Half Prices to 

Best Business. Outlook Is Forlorn. 



(Sprnm OiMe 10 Vabzstt.) 

Londoi , Oct. 5. 

The legitimate stage is in a bad way 
here. "Seven Keys to Baldpate" which 
received the best possible notices is 
doing poorly. "Potash and Perlmut- 
ter f " after 200 performances is 'way off. 
"Mr. Wu," after a run of 300 perform- 
ances is doing about $1,500 a week. "The 
Great Adventure," which has passed its 
600th performance, is now announced to 
be in its final weeks. 

"Bluff King Hal" will be withdrawn 
Saturday, although a revival is promised 
when conditions are better. 

Last week Cyril Maude announced re- 
duced prices for "Young Wisdom" and 
agreed to devote all profits to the na- 
tional relief and Actors' Orphanage 
funds. The plan failed to attract pa- 
tronage and the piece closed suddenly 
Saturday. 

Sir Henry Beerbohm Tree's revival 
of "Drake," which makes a strong pa- 
triotic appeal and is playing at half 
prices with all profits going to the war 
funds, is the only legitimate piece doing 
big business. 

Arthur Wing Pinero has abandoned 
the writing of a new play for Sir George 
Alexander and the project has been 
shelved. 

The season has not disclosed a single 
legitimate success' thus far. There is 
nothing in sight which promises to 
break the hoodoo. 



COURT SCORES WALLER. 

The New York Court of Appeals, the 

highest tribunal in the state, scores 

Lewis Waller, *he English actor, in 

an opinion just handed down reversing 
the Appellate Division and Special 
Term, in intricate litigation among 
Selwyn & Co., Lee Shubert and Waller 
over profits in "A Butterfly on the 
Wheel." 

The lower courts gave judgment to 
Selwyn & Co., in a suit to recover 22J4 
per cent, of the "Butterfly's" royalties. 
The final court imposes costs in all 
courts on Selwyn & Co. 

The contest arises from this set of 
facts: 

The authors of the play (Edward 
G. Hemmerde and Francis Neilson) 
sold Charles Frohman its American 
producing rights. Frohman assigned 
this agreement to Waller, who con- 
tracted with the Shuberts for the pro- 
duction of the piece, the two parties 
to share in the proportion of two- 
thirds profits or losses to the Shuberts 
and one-third to Waller. 

In the meantime Waller had made 
a secret arrangement with the authors 
by which he (Waller) received 25 per 
cent, of their royalties. He failed to 
disclose this transaction to the Shu- 
berts when becoming a partner in the 
venture with them. Waller assigned 
his share of the enterprise to Selwyn 
& Co., October, 1912, and the action is 



that concern's attempt to collect from 
the Shuberts. 

The court characterizes Waller's 
part in the deal in these terms: 

"Indeed, in some aspects Waller's 
position is worse than that of the 
typical dishonest promoter who takes 
his illicit profits at the inception of 
the enterprise. Waller has secretly 
arranged to receive a percentage not 
of the profits but of the gross receipts 
of the business so long as it continues 
although he had stipulated to share 
profits and losses in stated proportions. 
. . It is sufficient to determine 

that Waller was guilty of the breach 
of a legal duty of a failure to conform 
to the high standard of honesty and 
good faith which the law exacts of 
one partner or co-adventurer toward 
the other. In our opinion that stand- 
ard should not be lowered by putting 
dubious conduct outside the domain 
of law, especially as exact justice can 
always be done by making the wrong- 
doer a trustee of the secret interest for 
himself and his associates." 



DIPPEL SHOW OPENS OCT. 26. 

It is the intention of Andreas Dip- 
pel to open the 44th Street theater Oct. 
26 with "The Lilac Domino." This 
date was decided on Wednesday. The 
comedians of the company will be 
Robert O'Connor, Jack Hazard and 
William Sellery. 

Einar Linden, the noted Danish tenor, 
arrived from abroad this week to be- 
gin rehearsals with the Dippel organi- 
zation. 



RORK TAKES CO. WEST. 

Sam Rork spent several days in town 
early this week recruiting the company 
for the Gaiety theater, Los Angeles. 
He returned to San Francisco Tues- 
day taking with him seven principals 
for the musical stock organization. 
They are Grace Edmonds, Harry Grib- 
bon, May Emory, Bessie De Voie, Neil 
Burns, Billy Clifton ™d Ted Wilson. 

All of the company was engaged 
through the Matt Grau office. The 
opening attraction at the Gaiety will 
be "The Red Widow," Nov. 2. 



M'FARLANE MARRIAGE STANDS. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 7. 

The Ohio Supreme Court, at Colum- 
bus, has refused to annul the marriage 
of George J. MacFarlane, the singer, 
and Emily R. MacFarlane. The annul- 
ment was sought by MacFarlane. The 
wife is to get $100 a month alimony. 

The MacFarlanes were married 16 
years ago. 



Fell Below $50 Gross. 
C. S. Primrose's "The Spendthrift" 
Co. has been recalled from the road, 
the box office receipts enroute sounding 
the show's demise. When the receipts 
got below the fifty-dollar mark Prim- 
rose shut it down. 



"WANTED: $22,000" REVISED. 

Boston, Oct 17. 

"Wanted: $22,000," which had its 

metropolitan premiere at the Plymouth 

Monday night (the newest Cohan and 

Harris production) proves to be as 

engrossingly funny as it is dramatically 

novel. It is as novel in a partially re- 
versed schemes as "Baldpate." Its 
novelty alone should make money, al- 
though the name, despite it was select- 
ed by the sagacious George Cohan, 
misses the mark. 

The cast is wonderfully capable, in- 
cluding Ernest Glendinning, Forrest 
Robinson, Richard Sterling, Harrold 
Russell, William Courtleigh, George 
Wright, Jr., Harold Grau, Desmond 
Kelley, Isabel Garrison, Hazel Lowry 
and Frances Wright. 

The freak construction starts with 
the second act which has a scene ex- 
plaining in a foreign way the finale of 
the previous act. The first act is dra- 
matically morbid, detailing the impend- 
ing ruin of a father who needs $22,000 
which is short from entrusted funds by 
his trust in a man who proved worth- 
less. It was done to aid the future of 
his son, and the son, who is heavily 
insured with an anti-suicide clause, 
contrives an electrical scheme of kill- 
ing himself so that it would appear to 
be other than suicide. 

After this act the play begins to 
lighten up surprisingly, although it 
takes the audience some little time to 
bring itself out of the depression caused 
by the vivid acting of a morbid situa- 
tion. 

A play is to be written based on an 
ambiguous recital of his intentions by 
the son to a young woman author and 
all they cannot accomplish is an end- 
ing. In other words, suicide or not. 
The matter is put up to a theatrical 
producer under a novel sporting propo- 
sition and he finally accepts for $22,000, 
thus unwittingly furnishing the solu- 
tion of the last act of the real play 
as well as the one written by the ac- 
tors. It sounds insipid and impossible, 
but it is really engrossing, funny and 
startling, thanks to Cohan and, with a 
new title, should prove another suc- 
cess of the "Baldpate" type. 

The piece was tried out last spring 
at Atlantic City, and since then re- 
vised. 



WEBER LANDS HIT. 

Pittsburgh, Oct. 7. 
Joseph Weber presented an instan- 
taneous hit in "The Only Girl," at the 
Alvin this week. The book, by Henry 
Blossom, tells an oft-told tale of con- 
nubial felicity, but it is the Victor Her- 
bert music, totaling 12 numbers in 
all, that makes the show the success 
it is. 

' Wilda Bennett scored as did Adele 
Rowland. Ernest Torrence earned fa- 
vorable comment. John Findlay and 
Jeanne Darys also appeared to advan- 
tage. 



Brooks' Winner Coming? 

Though Joseph M. Brooks sent "Tip- 
ping the Winner" to the storehouse 
Saturday night the wise ones are firm 
in the belief that Brooks is going to 
slip over a big moneymaker in "My 
Lady's Dress" which opens at the Play- 
house Saturday. 



11 



OLCOTTS NEW PIECE. 

Baltimore, Oct. 7. 
The premiere performance of 
Chauncey Olcott's new Irish romantic 
play, "The Heart of Paddy Whack," 
was given Monday evening at Ford's 
opera house. 

The scenes are laid in Ireland, of 
course. The plot is full of delicate 
sentiment associated with Irish life and 
romance. The play develops along nat- 
ural lines and has a pleasing ending. It 
is the most attractive of any lyric 
comedy Mr. Olcott has presented in 
this city. 

The play is the old story of a guar- 
dian in love with his ward, and the 
love story is charmingly developed. 

As the guardian, Chauncey Olcott 
plays flawlessly. A beautiful young 
actress is Edith Luckett, as the school- 
girl ward. Maud Hosford gave an 
original interpretation of a scheming 
spinster. 

The acting of Stephen Davis, the 
goose-boy, was delightful and the rest 
of the characters were exceedingly 
well portrayed. 



BILLIE BURKE TRIES "POOR JO." 

Buffalo, Oct. 7. 

Billie Burke, while playing here last 

week in "Jerry," presented Saturday 

afternoon a new playlet in two scenes, 

called "Poor Jo." It was shown as a 
curtain raiser to the regular piece. 

The offering was arranged by Paul 
M. Potter and taken from Dickens' 
"Bleak House." Miss Burke portrayed 
a waif role, entailing some serious 
work, which earned appreciation. 



TWO HITS OUT OF THREE. 

The current week brought three new 

dramatic offerings to town. They are 

the new Charles Klein play "The 

Money Makers," produced by Selwyn 

and Co. at the Booth Monday night; 
"The Heart of a Thief," by Paul Arm- 
strong, shown for the first time at the 
Hudson the same evening, and "The 
Phantom Rival," the new Belasco pro- 
duction which opened at the Belasco 
Tuesday. Out of the three offerings 
two seemed to have scored.^ 

"The Money Makers" had the crit- 
ics divided in their opinions. But this 
fact the managers think will not hin- 
der the probability of the show be- 
ing a big money getter. They main- 
tain, that the biggest play that Mr. 
Klein ever wrote, "The Lion and the 
Mouse," did not catch on immediately. 

The Paul Armstrong piece was 
unanimously "panned" and as a result 
will close Saturday night. 

Leo Ditrichstein was presented as a 
star by David Belasco in the actor's 
adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's fan- 
tasie comedie "The Phantom Rival." 
The piece was immediately accepted 
as the biggest comedy hit in years and 
the critics all hailed it as the greatest 
theatrical treat of the current season. 
An indication of business might be had 
from the ticket agencies in the Times 
square district, they reported the Be- 
lasco piece had the greatest call on the 
first day after the opening of any play 
that has been produced this season. 

"Evidence" opened Wednesday night 
at the Lyric. 



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VARIETY 




Den Atwell sent .'{.4(H) largc-Hlzetl, weli-fllled 
envelopes to the dramatic editors all over 
North America, detailing Information on the 
current Winter Garden attraction. 

William Conning, the hero of the Ohio flood, 
has gone to Bridgeport to manage Shea's 
Park. 



Johnny Dlack, formerly with the George 
Klelne press department, Ih now out ahead of 
one of Sim Williams' Progressive Hhows. 



Monty Montgomery is ahead of "The Ding- 
bats. "' 



Frank C. Cooper has been engaged to man- 
age the tour of "Fine Feathers.'' In rehearsal. 



"A Goose Girl" is going to take to the one 
nlghters again, Joseph Castle arranging last 
week for the show to be reproduced. A. G. 
Delamater will help organize the company. 



George Armstrong is again back at Poll's. 
Bridgeport, as assistant manager. Charles 
Faust has been transferred to the manager- 
ship of the opera house. Hartford, Conn. Will- 
lam Fleming, assltant manager, Park, Bridge- 
port, has resigned. 

Grant Luce is ahead of Lew Wlswell's "Tne 
Common Law." on the Stalr-Havlln Circuit. 



Marie Tempest and her English company 
begin their season in "The Marriage of Kitty" 
and "Mary Goes First." in Toronto, Oct. .Y 

W. C. McKay, manager of the opera house. 
St John, N. B., has been transferred to 
Thompson-Woods' Co., Merrick Square thea- 
tre, Lowell, Mass. His successor is JaracH 
E. Emmerson. 

N. S. Scoville has returned to producing 
and is putting out a road production of "Old 
Sport Benson." 

Woods & Chaker. a western tlrm, started 
out "Tempest and Sunshine" on a road tour 
last week. 

Another "Fine Feathers" show, sponsored 
by Jones and Crane, opened Oct. 4, Peoria, 
III. 



Harry DeVere. advance agent for the Mar- 
guerite Fields Stock Company, turned the first 
shovelful of earth for the new Seneca FallH 
(N. Y.) theatre. 



Mary Worswick Is doing special press work 
for "The Dummy" Co.. which opened in 
Springfield, Mass., recently. 



In celebration of the beginning or his Mnb 
year as dramatic editor of the Detroit Free 
Press. George P. Goodale has received an 
Invitation from the Lambs' Club of New York 
to be its guest at a complimentary dinner 
Oct. 18 at the club rooms. 



The Globe will be dark next week In prepa- 
ration for Montgomery and Stone's opening. 
Oct. 20. 



The New York Sunday newspapers contained 
coupons redeemable at the Columbus Bur- 
lesque theatre by women and children for 
half the admission fee at matinees. A state- 
ment accompanied the coupons, Betting forth 
the assurances of the managers that the en- 
tertainment offered would bo free from offen- 
sive matter. 

Marie Dressier has taken hack her threat 
to retire. She returned to New York from 
San Francisco this week to rehearse "The 
Sub," a farce by Parker A. Ilord. a newcomer. 



Al H. Woods announced this week that he 
would present John Mason at the New York 
theatre Oct. 10 In "Big Jim Garrlty." a four- 
act melodrama by Owen Davis, at $1 the top 
price. 



"Papa's Boy." the new K. & E. musical 
comedy production, will come to the New Am- 
sterdam, date not announced, ufter a short 
stay In Philadelphia. Ivan Caryll wrote the 
music and Harry B. Smith the book. 

"The Gay Widows." Carl Heuck's property 
on the Columbia Burlesque Wheel, w m a 
good deal of notice in Memphis by joining 
the "buy-a-bale-of-cotton" movement. The 
manager, purchased the bale at $.*U>. loaded it 
on a truck with the merry-merrys of his 
troupe picturesquely grouped around It and 
paraded through the town with a hand. 
Afterward the bale was displayed In the thea- 
tre lobby. It will be stored' and sold when 
cotton goes above the H» cent level. 

Gus Hill Ih another booster lor the •huy-a- 
bale" movement. He 1ih> instructed each »>l 
his road managers In the south to sink $."•«> 
In cotton. He told the New York American 
all about It in a letter a few days hko. 
duly printed except that "Mutt and Jeff" wn- 
edlted out. 

"The Hanky Panky" show gave a free eon- 
cert In the Memphis court house s.niare a 
few days ago The chorus ladies passed ihe 
hat In the crowd, the prneecds going to the 
Baby's Hospital supported by the local Elks. 

Walter Hackett In The Tvnhoon" and 
Walker Whiteside in "Mr Wu 'played Pitts- 



burgh in opposition to each other last week. 
Each company was the guest of the other at 
u special performance. 

honey Haskell put one over Tuesday that 
landed. Outside of Hammerstein's for the 
last two weeks has been a chicken In a cage, 
called "The Girl from Atlantic City," who is 
at the house this week. Tuesday night a 
colored man Btole the bird. He was arrested 
and arraigned in court the next morning. The 
newspapers thought it was funny enough to 
print. 



Among the legitimate openings scheduled 
are: "Milady's Boudoir." with Adele Blood, 
His Majesty's, Montreal. Oct. I!» ; Garrlck. 
V Y.. Oct. 'J!); "Lilac Domino." 44th Street. 
Oct. 1»; Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Park. N. Y., 
Oct. 1U; "A Pair of Silk Stockings," Little 
theatre. N. Y.. Oct. 1!0. 



Irish society members tp the number of 
MOO saw "Ireland, a Nation." at the 44th 
Street Monday night. 

Wintbrop Ames will produce Alice Brown s 
$ I o.i MM) prize play. "Children or the Earth." 
about Thanksgiving Day. 



PRESS OPINIONS. 

PhantosB Rival. 

"The Phantom Rival" is distinctly the most 
charming play that the season so far has 
brought. — Herald. 

"The Phantom Rival" is one or the few 
really rine comedies of recent years. Times. 

The Money Maker*. 

Fine production of a play that might have 
been better. —Times. 

By clever characterizations on the part of 
several players and some good acting by Mr. 
Corrigan and Miss Carlisle, it was all made 
to appear much better drama than It really 
is.- Herald. 



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The managers of the Comedy theatre have 
undoubtedly settled the question of an at- 
traction for some time, at least. — Times. 

"Consequences" Is an entirely clean and 
whole-tome entertainment of Its kind, and Just 
slightly British, you know. -Herald. 

The Law of the Land. 

As good a piece of melodrama as has been 
seen In New York In many a day. — Herald. 

No playgoer at the Forty-eighth Street the- 
atre could be persuaded to leave his Beat be- 
fore the fourth act of "The Law of the Land." 
-Times. * v 

Heart of a Thief. 

If "The Heart of a Thief" is "what the 
public wants," doubtless .the public will go 
to see It. If It does, then the signs are all 
wrong. — Herald. 

A play In four us tiresome acts as have 
been sren in New York since the night when 
"An Englishman's Home" burst upon us. 
Times. 



ENGAGEMENTS. 

Georgette Iceland, Orpheum Players. Read- 
ing. Pa. 

William Wells, leads. Ilaylles stock. Can- 
ton, O. 

Leon E. Brown, formerly stage manager for 
Leslie Carter and William Faversham have 
been engaged in the same capacity for "Kis- 
met." 

Ethel Grey Terry, leads. Keith Stock. Port- 
land. Me 

Edward Emery and Herbert Yost. The Mar- 
riage of Columbine." The Punch and Judv 
theatre. Nov. 9. 



WILLARD IN DECEMBER. 

K. S. Willard. the noted Knglish ac- 
tor, has practically agreed In come to 
this country in December. Walter 
Hast has been commissioned by Mr. 
Willard to lay out a route for the star 
and his own company. 



MARIE TEMPEST OPENS TOUR. 

Toronto. Oct. 7. 

Marie Tempest and her London 
company opened at the Royal Alex- 
andria Monday night for a preliminary 
engagement to their forthcoming 
American tour, presenting Henry Ar- 
thur Jones' comedy of the smart set 
in an Knglish provincial city called 
"Mary floes First." A large audience 
; Mended and seenn-d plc.txrd through- 
< nt. The local press was enthusiastic 

During the week Miss Tempest will 
play "The Marriage of Kittv." 



SHOWS CLOSING. 

The booking agencies have been hard 
put to rill in the open dates that have 
been caused by the number of legit 
closings within the last two weeks. 

"The Governor's Boss," out but two 
weeks, will close Saturday in Louis- 
ville. 

The company presenting "Potash and 
Pcrlmutter" at the Broadway, Brook- 
lyn, this week will close Saturday. This 
company was to have gone to the store- 
house a week earlier. The Broadway 
theater had an open week. 

The Ciertrude Carlisle company will 
also give up the ghost in Kansas City 
Saturday and jump direct to New York. 

Klaw & Krlanger closed "Kismet" in 
Rochester. The show is a little over 
$9,000 loser so far this season. A 
route laid out for the company over 
the Stair & Havlin time has been can- 
celled. 

Henry W. Savage closed "Along 
fame Ruth" in Quincy, Mass., Mon- 
day night. 

"Nearly Married" is reported as clos- 
ing next week at the Broadway. Brook- 
lyn. 

Chicago, Oct. 7. 
"The Elopers" has come to the end 
of its string. It left La Salle some 
time ago. 

The Harris-dale road company of 
"Nearly Married" is winding up its 
season unexpectedly. Business condi- 
tions did not warrant any further time 
being played. 



LITHOGRAPHERS HURT. 

Lithographing and poster manufac- 
turers of New York are worried over 
the road season and the incoming re- 
ports as to the closing of various shows 
now en route. 

One firm in particular avers it stands 
to lose a small fortune on paper al- 
ready on its shelves awaiting delivery 
to shows that have closed on account 
of no business. 

This firm says that the closing of 30 
.shows in two weeks, several not get- 
ting started at all after rehearsing, has 
handed it a financial setback that will 
demand a long time and continued 
prosperity to recoup. 



RAZING BOSTON THEATRE. 

Boston. Oct. 1. 

The intention of razing the historic 
Boston theatre in about a year for the 
purpose of erecting a new hotel for 
commercial purposes involving an in- 
vestment of approximately $3,300,000, 
was followed by an announcement 
William H. Leahy, the present lessee of 
the Boston, is planning to jump to the 
National, a Keith controlled house, 
built about three years ago. and which 
has a seating capacity of 3.800. The 
National has been dark since last 
spring. 

Any immediate intention of taking 
the National is denied by Leahy, who 
says that his lease of the Boston holds 
until Sept. 1. 1915. 

The plans for the proposed hotel have 
bein drawn by (',. Henri Desmond and 
'be building will extend from Tremont 
t" Washington streets, with a tunnel 
under intervening Mason street. The 
structure will have a roof garden. 



400 PEOPLE IN "LIFE." 

"Life," the massive production Wil- 
liam A. Brady has in course of prep- 
aration, will give employment to 400 
people in the playing and action of 
the piece. There are 82 speaking parts, 
with around 40 actual principals. 

The premiere will occur Oct. 19, ac- 
cording to present intention, in a New 
York City theatre to be selected. Mr. 
Brady will not first show the produc- 
tion out of town, owing to its heavi- 
ness. 

"The Lone Wolf," with Lou Telle- 
gen, may be made ready by Mr. Brady 
by Oct. 26, although the date is not 
certain. It is an adaptation by Robert 
Housan of the Louis Joseph Vance 
novel that ran in Munsey's. 

"Life" will open at the Manhattan 
Opera House Oct. 19. The continua- 
tion of the story of the play between 
the acts will be by motion pictures. 



AN APPEAL 

William Faversham and Thomas 
Wise are at the head of a movement 
the object of which seems particularly 
worthy of support on the part of the 
profession. 

Mr. Faversham and Mr. Wise are 
only too willing to devote as much of 
their personal time as is necessary in 
this campaign, which is to be of direct 
benefit to the members of the profes- 
sion who are at present in dire straits 
in Europe because of the conditions in 
the warring countries. 

Mr. Faversham stated that while 
only England and France are men- 
tioned in the following appeal, he 
hopes arrangements will be completed 
whereby the movement will extend to 
Germany, Austria «nd Russia. 
An Appeal for the Actors' War Fund. 

I wish, through the newspapers, to make 
the following appeal to every person connected 
with the theatre in nny capacity throughout 
the United States, both in the dramatic houses 
and the vaudeville houses : 

Will they please refUBe to appear In or 
give their services to any benefit of any kind 
whatsoever, whose aim it is to get funds for 
the relief of the war victims in Europe, unless 
the committee or the fund donates ten per cent 
to the English and French actors' war fund. 

Will they also refuse to autograph cards 
or photographs, or give autographed photo- 
graphs, unless they receive something In pay- 
ment, any sum from twenty-five cents up. 

I also appeal to the theatrical managers to 
use their influence to help to carry this 
through. 

My explanation of the above Is that for 
centuries actors and actresses have been called 
upon to supply entertainments for different 
charities, benefits, relief funus, etc. For cen- 
turies they have done all the work — the actors 
and the managers. This is a time when the 
actors of France and England need help. Their 
profession is in the most awful condition that 
one's mind can imagine Their families are 
starving. For those who are unable to go to 
the war. there is no work. In France prac- 
tically all the actors have gone to the war. 
and at the present time there Is a long list 
of men killed and wounded. In England ulso. 
actors have gone to the front, and the news- 
papers here have published the names of men 
who have been killed or wounded. This Is a 
time when the actor should stand by hh pro- 
fession, and should Insist that they receive 
some help. We want to do all we can for 
every fund that Is being gotten up. We are 
willing to appear three or four times a week 
If necessary. And I am sure that the Red 
Cross and the other relief funds will feel as 
I do — that the people who provide the enter- 
tainment to draw the money into the theatres 
to be applied to these funds, should at least 
receive some help. I am asking only ten 
per cent. The money for this fund will he 
forwarded In England to Miss Lena Ashwell 
(Mrs. Henry Slmson). who Is at the head of 
the Actors' Relief Committee, and in France 
to the Editor nt I e Figaro. 

Any communication on this subject can be 
addressed to Mr. Thomas Wise, or to Mr. 
William Faversham. Lamb's Club 

(Sinned) WILLIAM FAVERSHAM. 



ONE PARIS HOUSE OPEN. 

(Sjini,i; C<ihh to Y'AKIKTf.) 

London. Oct. 7. 
There is one Paris theatre open only, 
the Moulin Rouge, playing pictures. 



V4KIBTY 



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BY FREDERICK M.MCCLOY 





Much has recently been said and 
written on the subject of "cleaning 
up" burlesque. It may be pertinent to 
inquire what are the demands of 
"clean" burlesque? It is not necessary 
to dwell upon the past characteristics of 
this form of amusement. They needed 
the process of elimination to which 
they were subjected by the Columbia 
Amusement Company. 

Personally, I do not hesitate to go 
on record as saying that, in my opin- 
ion, the extent to which this expurga- 
tion has been carried is too drastic, or, 
unnecessarily far-reaching. While the 
two-wrongs-do-not-make-a-right logic 
i» undeniably sound, there is no fair- 
ness in discriminating against burlesque 
because it is burlesque. Whatever is 
permissible on the stage of one theater 
that caters to all classes of people 
should not be objected to when pre- 
sented on the stage of any other the- 
ater making the same general appeal. 
And yet, the directors of the Columbia 
Amusement Company, in their zeal to 
overcome prejudice against the shows 
controlled by them, have gone to the 
extreme of excluding infinitely less of- 
fensive dialog, "business" and costume 
arrangement than have been utilized 
without scruple by producers of shows 
of accepted quality, and that steadily 
draw audiences composed of men and 
women of the highest social standing. 

I do not say that the men in con- 
trol of burlesque were wrong in thus 
extending their restriction, nor may it 
be said that the other producers are 
right in going the length they do just 
because the recognized better element 
of theatergoers patronize these produc- 
tions without compunction. Public 
opinion is the regulator of convention- 
alities, and, in "cleaning up" burlesque 
for the laudable purpose of complying 
with the conventions, it may reasonably 
be claimed that it was not necessary to 
reduce these shows to a condition that 
actually renders them tame in compari- 
son with shows upon which public 
opinion has manifestly placed the stamp 
of approval. 

Proceeding upon this hypothesis, it 
should not be difficult to define an ac- 
ceptably "clean" burlesque performance 
nor to arrive at a standard that shall 
govern the censorship of shows. And 
this standard may apply to all the cities 
in which burlesque is presented because 
shows with whieh they are necessarily 
compared, and that are approved by 
public opinion, such as the Ziegfcld 
and the Winter Ciarden productions, arc 
presented and accepted in the same 
cities. 

Costuming may be dismissed with 
brief comment. Tights, short skirts 
and low-cut bodices have long ceased 
to Ih- regarded as objectionable. If it 
is wrong to employ them in burlesque 
il is equally wrong to include them in 
tin- wardrobe of any type of perfor- 
mance, and this includes grand opera 
or the highest grade of musical com- 
edy. Draperies nvir union suits are 
not exacted in productions at the Co- 
lonial. Majestic or Shubert theaters in 
Ibwtun. for instance. Why should they 
be demanded at \\ aldron's Casino or 
I he Gaiety in that city? If it is merely 



because these are burlesque theaters, 
then the injunction is absolutely wrong. 
Obviously the managers of the bur- 
lesque theaters in Boston, who are 
alone responsible for this, are need- 
lessly discriminating against them- 
selves. And what of the Shubert and 
Zicgfeld shows that present the chorus 
girls in bare legs? 

Managers of burlesque houses would 
throw up their hands in holy horror 
at such a spectacle. The idea that a 
thing that is all right in a Klaw & I£r- 
langer or a Shubert theater cannot be 
done in a burlesque theater for no oth- 
er reason than that it is a burlesque 
theater is all wrong, and the official 
censors of the Columbia Amusement 
Company should disabuse their minds 
of this sophism. Why. 1 have seen 
girls in bare legs parading over a run- 
way extending out into the auditorium 
of the Winter Garden, and within 12 
inches of physical contact with both 
men and women members of New 
York's most exclusive social set! If 
this is permissible at the Winter Gar- 
den why should it be objected to at 
the Columbia, a couple of blocks below 
on the same street? I do not say that 
this is right, but I maintain that it 
would not be a violation of propriety if 
done at the Columbia just because that 
i- a burlesque theater. And, inasmuch 
as it is not only permitted but sanc- 
tioned in what are called high-class 
houses all over the country, Columbia 
censors have complete justification for 
encouraging it in burlesque. At least, 
ihese details of costuming should not 
he excluded. 

Blasphemy, vulgarity, profanity, sa- 
lacity, obscenity! These are words that 
need no interpretation. Every pro- 
ducer and player knows exactly what 
they mean. They cover the things that 
must be immediately and decisively 
expunged from burlesque. They in- 
clude the curiously well-known, mean- 
ingful words in burlesque, namely dou- 
ble entente. They explicitly embody 
the obvious parody, and objectionable 
songs. 

Strict censorship of these palpable, 
easily comprehended offenses, means 
"clean" burlesque. In brief, spoken or 
implied indecency, uncompromisingly 
banished from burlesque will effectually 
accomplish the desired "cleaning up." 



TROUPERS WED. 

Syracuse. Oct. 7. 
Flo Davis, soubret, with the "Girls 
of the Gay White Way." playing at the 
Bastablc. and George Eliot Leavitt, 
business manager of the company, 
were married by Rabbi Adolph C.utt- 
inan. 



SOUTHERN CIRCUIT OUT. 

New Orleans. Oct. 7. 

The southern section of the Extend- 
ed Columbia Amusement Co. Circuit 
will be eliminated this week. The 
towns are Memphis, New Orleans. 
Birmingham and Atlanta. 

"The Gay Widows." which closed an 
engagement at the Dauphine Satur- 
'I.iv. will open at Louisville Oct. 26. 
\ i-iK-n <^f stock burlesque is con> 

'ompU*c-i t.-.r the Dauphine. 



AMERICAN, CHI, CLOSED. 

Chicago, Oct. 7. 
The American Music Hall closed 
Saturday after a hard struggle for ex- 
istence on the Progressive burlesque 

wheel. 

"The Charming Widows," booked to 
play the house, arrived and began to 
unpack, when notified the house was 
dark. The latter show will go over the 
Columbia Circuit, beginning in Cleve- 
land soon. 



ATLANTA BURLESQUE OFF. 

Atlanta, Oct. 7. 

The closing of the Lyric with Colum- 
bia Extended burlesque shows Satur- 
day surprised few. The house did not 
make expenses except on the opening 
week early in September. No new at- 
traction is announced. 



UNION MATTERS. 

An illustration of the extent of the 
demands made upon managers by the 
International Association of Theatri- 
cal Stage Employes in the current dis- 
turbances in Montreal, is found in the 
experience of the manager of the "Col- 
lege Girls" a week ago. 

While this company was playing in 
Utica the manager was notified by the 
manager of the Gayety in Montreal 
that his stage crew would not be al- 
lowed to work in that city. 

Accordingly, Harry Hedges, manager 
of "The College Girls." informed his 
working crew he would send them to 
Albany from Utica to wait there dur- 
ing the Montreal week. The stage 
carpenter wired this to the president 
of the union at Montreal who replied 
ordering the crew to report to him in 
that city. They responded, paying their 
own fares from Utica. The men now 
want to know if they are to be reim- 
bursed for their outlay for transporta- 
tion amounting to $7.70 each. 

Mr. Hedges tendered them the 
amount of their fares from Utica to 
Albany, but they consider themselves 
entitled to their transportation from 
Utica to Montreal and back to Albany, 
although their services were not ren- 
dered in Montreal. The matter is still 
in abeyance. 

LEFT WITH PROGRESSIVE. 

According to the best information 
obtainable, the shows that remain of 
the original Progressive Wheel list arc 
the Andy Lewis "Darktown Follies," 
"Progressive Girls." "Frolics of 1014" 
anrf May Ward's. 

The theatres remaining on the cir- 
cuit, as at first constituted, are the 
Gayety. St. Louis: Olympic. Cincin- 
nati: Academy, Pittsburgh, and the 
National. Rochester. 



TWO STANDS QUIT. 

F.bnira. Oct. 9. 
Burlesque was withdrawn from the 
Lyceum for the hist half of each week 
Saturday night, owing to the Wilkes 
Barrc theatre, with which the Lyceum 
divided, throwing up the sponge. 



DAVID JACKSON ARRESTED. 

David Jackson, recently exposed in 
Vaiiikt.' for taking money from chorus 
girls, was arrested and held in $2,000 
bail in the Harlem Court, Tuesday, on 
the charge of swindling. John Walters 
and William Forty brought the com- 
plaint against Jackson. 

Forty others claimed to have paid 
Jackson $13. The Legal Aid Society 
presented 15 complaints. 



NO ROUTES OUT. r 

No routes were issued this week for 
the Extended Circuit of the Colum- 
bia, nor the Progressive Wheel. This 
is the second week the Progressive 
has failed to issue its route for the fol- 
lowing week by Wednesday. 

It is said the Columbia people were 
striving to straighten out the Extend- 
ed travel, through the recent addition 
and eliminations, including the south- 
ern time. 



GIRLS FROM THE FOLLIES. 

Typically burlesque with no pretense 
of modernism nor apparent effort to 
reach a musical comedy classification, 
Strouse and Franklyn's "Girls from the 
Follies," playing the Columbia's Ex- 
tended circuit, is a good all-around 
burlesque entertainment nevertheless. 
The show is given in two regular parts, 
intermissioned with an olio of vaude- 
ville turns, and while to the trained 
observer, the piece seems a bit short 
on dialog and long on numbers, the 
average patron overlooks this irregu- 
larity since it keeps the girls in view 
almost continually, and the average 
"Extended" patron undoubtedly likes 
the girls. 

The numbers, running to "rag" and 
comedy in the majority have been se- 
lected and staged to allow the girls 
plenty of latitude in gesture and dance, 
which also, helps offset whatever de- 
ficiency exists through the shortage of 
comedy bits. The equipment measures 
up to expectations with the costume 
end well attended to, although nothing 
approaching pretentiousness. 

The principal comedy role is essay- 
ed by Harry Steppe in Hebrew char- 
acter, with Geo. L. Wagner opposite, 
in Dutch. Steppe shows wonderful 
improvement in his general work over 
previous seasons and right now comes 
as close to perfect as one will find in 
burlesque. Wagner is the usual sec- 
ond comic, works well with Steppe, 
and manages to keep the comedy run- 
ning along an even groove throughout. 
Forest G. Wyre is the "straight," a 
good-looking chap with a delivery and 
enunciation that increase the show's 
assets, and Harry Fisher, another male 
principal, made himself generally use- 
ful. 

Vesta Lockard. Mabel Rcflow, Marie 
Devere and Gertrude Ralston hold 
down the principal feminine roles, all 
equally sharing in the applause re- 
eeipts, contributing to the olio special- 
ties as well. 

Miss Lockard. a splendidly built 
brunette also has a voice, offering three 
(Continued on page 16.) 



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BILLS NEXT WEEK (October 12) 

la Vaaelawilla Tbaatras, Plawiag Tarn* mr Laee Skowt Dally 

(All houses open for the week with Monday matinees, when not otherwise indicated.) 
Theatres listed as "Orpheum" without any further distinguishing description are on the 
Orpheum Circuit. Theatres with "Loew" following name are on the Loew Circuit. 

Agencies booking the houses are noted by single name or initials, such as "Orph," Orpheum 
Circult-"U. B. 0., ,r United Booking Offices-"W. V. A.," Western Vaudeville Managers' Asso- 
ciation (Chicago)— "P," Pantages Circuit-"Inter, M Interstate Circuit (booking through W. V. A.) 
-"M," James C Matthews (Chicago). 



New York 

HAMMER8TEIN 3 
(ubo) 
"Any Night" 
Wlllard 
Bonlta 

Fields 4 Lewis 
Olrl from A C 
Diamond 4 Brennan 
Dlero 
Ed Vinton 
Sea Divers 
Lewis Leo 
Taylor Sisters 
Adonis 

PALACE (orph) 
Kitty Oordon Co 
Clark Bergman Co 
Joan Sawyer 
Belle Baker 
Blckel 4 Watson 
Cross 4 Josephine 
Boganny's Bakers 
The Shamrocks 
Splnette Quintet 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Mr 4 Mrs Vernon 

Castle 
Florence Tempest Co 
Harry Beresford Co 
"Edge of the World" 
Lyons 4 Tosco 
Foster Ball Co 
Darrell 4 Conway 
M anion 4 Harris 
Maxlne Bros 4 Bob 

ROTAL (ubo) 
Valerie -Bergere Co 
Fannie Brlce 
"Lonesome Lassies" 
Bronson 4 Baldwin 
Moran A Wiser 
Pletro 

Claude M Roode 
Corelll 4 Gillette 
Johnson 4 Wells 

ALHAMBRA (ubo) 
Sylvester Schaffer 
Dainty Marie 
Franklyn Ardell Co 
Farber Olrls 
Holmes 4 Buchanan 
Edwin George 

AMERICAN (loew) 
A 4 E Cody 
Phllllpt 4 
Wlllard 4 Bond 
Goelette Stork© 4 L 
Moore 4 Elliott 
Carroll 4 Gillette 
(Three to fill) 
2d half 
Browning 4 Dean 
Du Pont 4 Haabrook 
Murray Bennett 
John T Kelly Co 
Nowlan 4 St Clair 
Bernlvld Bros 
The Hassmans 
(Two to fill) 
BOULEVARD (loew) 
Elsie White 
Dave Ferguson 
Bernlvlcl Bros 
Sam Mann Players 
Barnes 4 Robinson 
Stelner Trio 

2d half 
Walsh 4 Bentley 
Mellen 4 DePaula 
Morris Golden 
"Dairy Maids" 
Stewart 4 Dakln 
(One to fill) 

LINCOLN (loew) 
Delaphone 
Anderson 4 Burt 
Green 4 Drayton 
"Ye Old Time Hal- 
low* " 
Edith Clifford 
Warren 4 Francis 

2d half 
Kelt 4 DeMont 
Sandy Shaw 
Philllpl 4 

Hugh Cameron Co 
Tabor 4 Green 
(One to fill) 

NATIONAL (loew) 
Frey Twins 4 Frey 
Klein Bros 
Canaille Person I Co 
(Four to fill) 
2d half 
Ward A Gray 
Usher Trio 
"Gray of Dawn" 
Eddie Foyer 
Von Cello 
(Two to fill) 

7TH AVE (loew) 
Crumbley A Glass 
Ruth Powell 
Mellen A DePaula 
"Between 8 A fl" 
Morris A Allen 
The Hassmans 
(One to All) 

2d half 
Marcou 

Ooo B Reno Co 
Schrodes A Chappelle 
"Me A Dave" 
Dave Ferguson 
Arthur A Grace Terry 
(One to fill) 



DBLANCEY (loew) 

Ward A Gray 

Rene Santos 

"Me A Dave" 

American Comedy 4 

Elsie La Bergere 

(Two to fill) 
2d half 

Elsie White 

Greene 4 Drayton 

Vaudeville In Monkey- 
land 

Barnes 4 Robinson 

"Spider 4 Fly" 

Rockwell 4 Wood 

Blanche Sloane 

(One to fill) 
ORPHEUM (loew) 

Cook 4 Rothert 

Browning 4 Dean 

"Gray of Dawn" 

Eddie Foyer 

(Three to fill) 
2d half 

Scott 4 Wilson 

Lester Trio 

3 Dolce Sisters 

Frank Stafford Co 

American Comedy 4 

Edith Raymond Co 

(One to ill} 
GREELEY (loew) 

Maroou 

Gertrude Cogert 

Schrodes 4 Chappelle 

Geo B Reno Go 

3 Dolce Bisters 
Spider 4 Fly" 

Rockwell 4 Wood 

(One to fill) 
2d half 

LaCrandall 

Moore 4 Elliott 

Goelette Storke 4 L 

Richard the Great 

Von Hampton 4 Joae- 
lyn 

Stelner Trio 

(Two to fill) 

Brooklyn 
BU8HWICK (ubo) 
Blanche Walah Co 
Sam 4 Kitty Morton 
Adele Ritchie 
The Langdons 
Cantor 4 Lee 
Sylvia Loyal 4 Pier- 
rot 
Hawthorne 4 Inglla 
Sue 8mlth 

PROSPECT (ubo) 
Chip 4 Marble 
"Beauty Skin Deep" 
Dooley 4 Sales 
Ryan 4 Tlerney 
Hasel Cox 
Hanlon Bros Co 
Msrlon Murray Co 
Frank Whitman 
Oobert Belling 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Houdlnl 
Brlce 4 King 
Rlgoletto Bros 
Creasy 4 Dayne 
Ruth Roye 
Melville 4 Hlgglns 
Van A^Bchenck 
Weber 4 Capitol a 
Vandlnoff 4 Louie 

SHUBERT'8 (loew) 
David Kallkoa 
Vaudeville In Monk- 

eyland 
Thornton 4 Corlew 
"When We Grow Up" 

Bessie LeCount 
Aerial LeValle 

(One to fill) 

2d half 
A 4 B Cody 
Conrad 4 Mareena 
Bert Melrose 
Brlerre 4 King 
"When Women Rule" 
Polly Prim 

(One to fill) 

FULTON (loew) 
Von Cello 
Von Hampton A Joce- 

lyn 
Sid Roee 

"When Women Rule" 
Criterion 8 
Dupont A Haabrook 
2d half 

Juggling DeLlsle 
Rena Santos 
Cbas Deland Co 
.% Merry Youngster* 
Bunth A Rudd 
(One to All) 

FLATBU8H (loew) 
Arthur A Grace Terry 
Mario A Trevette 
T'sher Trio 
Richard the Great 
Nowlln A St Claire 
Stuart Black Co 
Morris Golden 
3 Donalds 

2d half 
Wol^as A Olrlle 
Thornton A Corlew 
Elsie Gilbert A O 
Ruth Powell 
"Between Trains'' 



Morris A Allen 
(Two to fill) 

COLUMBIA (loew) 
Hemmer A Prltchard 
Cook A Stevens 
Zelsya 

Doc Will Davis 
Bunth 4 Rudd 

2d half 
Margaret Farrell 
Clemenso Bros 
Klein Bros 
Recklelss 3 
(One to fill) 

LIBERTY (loew) 
"Dairy Maids" 
DeLesso Bros 
(Three to fill) 

2d half 
3 Milton Girls 
Lily Seville 
Cook 4 Stevens 
Clarence Wilbur 
(One to fill) 

BIJOU (loew) 
Blanche Sloan 
Conrad 4 Mareena 
Kelso 4 Lelghton 
Caesar Rlvoll 
Polly Prlmm 
Scott 4 Wilson 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Mario 4 Trevette 
Warren 4 Francis 
Sam Mann Players 
Edith Clifford 
Aerial La Tails 
(Two to fill) 

WARWICK (loew) 
Edith Raymond Co 
Brlerre 4 King 
Valentine Vox 
"The Pardon" 
Murray Bennett 
Roy 4 Arthur 

2d half 
Delaphone 
Kaye- 4 Minn 
Hid Rom 
"The Punch" 
Criterion 8 
Ed Zoeller 3 

Asm Araar, Mien. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Geo Dixon 

Qulnn Bros 4 Drake 
"All for a Kiss" 
Bert Hanlon 
Martini 4 Maxlmll- 
llan 

Atlanta 

FORSYTH (ubo) 
Madison 4 James 
Willie Bros 
Frits 4 Lucy Bruch 
Howard 4 McCane 
Mario 4 Duffy 
(Other* to fill) 

BaltJaanra 

MARYLAND (ubo) 
Lamont's Cowboys 
The Gaudamldta 
Milton 4 DeLong Sis 
Nat Wills 
The Kramers 
Dorothy Muether 
(Others to fill) 

Battle Creek, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Karlton 4 Kllfford 
Welsser 4 Relsser 
Carroll Plerlott Co 
3 Majesties 
Zeno Jordan A Z 

2d half 
Wentworth Vesta A T 
Kammerer A Howland 
Leila Davis Co 
Lew Wells 

■•7 Oltx, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
"Dream Olrl" 
2d half 
The Mllards 
Kice A Morgan 
Chas Wayne Co 
Grace Cameron 
Harvey Trio 

■Milan, Maat 

BABCOCK (loew) 
(13-14) 
I>avls A Matthews 
Hoyt A Warflell 
Mcintosh A Maids 
Hernard A Harrington 
Fred Hlllebrand 
XI chol h Nelson Tr 

Blrsnlaaaasa, Ala. 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Connolly A Wenrlch 
"Lawn Party" 
.1 Marconi Bros 
Merle's Cockatoos 
I«aFrance A Bruce 
I^awrence A Edwards 
(Others to All) 
Boston 
KEITH'S (ubo) 
Oobert Belling 
Claire Rochester 
"Bride Shop" 
Chas Mack Co * 

Webb 4 Burns 



Ford A Hewitt 
Adelaide 4 Hughea 
Crouch 4 Welch 
Moore 4 Yates 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Billy Quirk 
Medlln Clarke 4 T 
"The Elopement" 
Joe Fanton'a Athletes 
(Four to fill) 

2d half 
Ray Snow 
Holmes 4 Holllston 
Anthony 4 Adelle 
Geo P Murphy Co 
3 Walses 
(Three to fill) 

ST JAMES (Loew) 
Anthony 4 Adelle 
Holmes A Holllston 
Ray Snow 
Geo P Murphy Co 
3 Bennett Sisters 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Billy Quirk 
Medlln Clarke 4 T 
"The Elopement" 
Joe Fanton's Athletes 
(Two to fill) 

GLOBE (loew) 
Abbott 4 Brooks 
Hartley 4 Pecan 
Tom Linton 4 Girls 
Mayor Lew Shank 
Grace Emmett Co 
Marie Russell 
Alfred Farrell 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Frevoli 

LeMalre 4 Dawson 
Viola Duval 
Dancing Macks 
Ines MoCauley Co 
Oscar Lorraine 
Lawton 
(One to fill) 

BanTala 

SHEA'S (ubo) 
DeMlchelle Bros 
Golden Troupe 
Grace De Mar 
Joe Cook 

Nick's Skating Girls 
(Others to fill) 

Batte 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Canarla 4 Cleo 
Bill Robinson 
Bobbe 4 Dale 
Svengall 

Haydn Burton A H 
Black A White 

Calvary 

ORPHEUM 
1st half 
Gertrude Hoffman 
Trovato 

Billy Swede Hall Co 
Ward 4 Cullen 
Llbby A Barton 
(Others to All) 

PANTAGES (m) 
Staley Birbeck Co 
Edgar A Ely Co 
Joe Lanigan 
Qulnn 4 Mitchell 
3 Kraytons 



— — -tea, S. O. 
VICTORIA (ubo) 
la half 
Lew Hoffman 
Hendricks A Padula 
(Othera to fill) 
2d half 
Derkln's Dogs 
The Waltons 
Jack Polk 
Those Kldlets 
(One to fill) 

Caleaga 

MAJESTIC (orph) 
Mme Yorska Co 
Billy B Van Co 
"Colonial Days" 
Comfort A King 
Mary Hlte 
Eddie Ross 
Llghtner A Jordan 
Stuart Barnes 
Casta Troupe 

PALACE (orph) 
Grace Larue 
McMahon A Chappelle 
Schwartz Co 
Australian MacLeans 
Hill A Whltaker 
Lee Barth 
The BUfords 
Harry Lauder Talker 
Brandon Hurst Co 

ACADEMY (wva) 
Oruber'a Animals 
Dow A Dow 
Holer A Boggs 
Billy Brown 
Martyn A Florence 

2d half 
Burr A Rose 
Kelso A Sidney 
Cowboy Minstrels 
Hurst Watts A Hurst 
(One to All) 



WILSON (wva) 
Mrs R Hers A Makoff 
Schrode 4 Mulvey 
Marie 8toddard 
Dlas's Monkeys 
Llbonatl 

2d half 
Guerro A Carmen 
McCormlck A Wallace 
Metropolitan Minstrels 
Billy A Edith Adams 
Keller A Wier 
McVICKERS (loew) 
LaVier 

O'Nell A Dixon 
Princeton A Yale 
Morris 4 Parks 
"Bower of Melody" 
Nip 4 Tuck 
Fontaine 4 Unlta 
Kittle Flynn 
Ross Fenton Players 
Tom Water 
Wlllard's Music 
EMPRESS (loew) 

Halsted St 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Ford's Review 
Rouble 81ms 
fi E Cllve Co 
The Cleveland* 
Landry Bros 
Delmore A Light 

2d half 
Bowman Bros 
Lillle Jewell 
American Newsboy 4 
"Song Festival" 
Malone A Malone 
Swain's Animals 

STAR HIP (loew) 
Herculano Sis 
Chas Terrla Co 
Oermar's Models 
Gray 4 Wilson 

2d half 
Dixon Bowers 4 D 
Orpheus Comedy 4 
Theo Tenny 
Llbby Blondell 

COLONIAL (loew) 
Mile Emerle Co 
Dunlap A Vlrden 
Llbby Blondell 
North lane A Ward 
Ned Clark Norton Co 
Lottie Williams Co 
Mangean Troupe 

2d half 
Bessie's Cockatoos 
Edwards Bros 
Oene A Kathryn King 
Lyda McMillan Co 
Ryan A Maebelle 
Jordan A Stanley 
Kennedy A Burt 
Klnkald Kilties 

AMERICAN (loew) 
Swain's Animals 
Bowman Bros 
Lillle Jewell 
Malone A Malone 
"Song Festival" 
American Newsboy 4 

2d half 
Ford's Review 
Rouble 81ms 
E E Cllve Co 
The C level ands 
Landry Bros 
Delmore A Light 

WILLARD (loew) 
Tow Nawm Co 
Jordan 4 Stanley 
3 Ameres 
Klnkald Kilties 
Theo Tenny 
Dryer 4 Dryer 

2d half 
Gene Green 
Tom Nawm Co 
Mangean Troupe 
Fitsgerald A As* ton 
Dunlap A Vlrden 
3 Lorettas 

LYCEUM (loew) 
Chas Farrell 
Pryor A Addison 

2d half 
Alma Grace 
Coucbel Bros 

Otaeiaaatl 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Chretlenne A Loulsette 
Marzella's Birds 
Great Howard 
"Song Revue" 
Harry Cooper 
The Youngers 
Curamlngs A Gladings 
(One to All) 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Arno A "Stlekney 
Sampson A Douglas 
Ward Sisters 
James Grady Co 
Les Casados 
(One to fill) 

Cleveland 

KEITHS (ubo) 
Van Hoven 
Heath A Mlllershtp 
The Brads 
Geo N Brown Co 
3 Lyres 

"Fixing Furnace - " 
Henrietta Crossman Co 
Rae Samuels 

MILES (loew) 
Purcella Bros 
Joe Kelsey 

"Love In Sanitarium" 
Rose Troupe 
(Two to All) 

Colnmbna 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Hopkins Sisters 
Arnaut Bros 
Devine & Williams 
Conlln Steele 3 



Chas Yule Go 
"Neptune's Garden" 
(Others to fill) 



ORPHEUM 
Natalie 4 Ferrari 
Romeo The Great 
Hayward Stafford Co 
Jones 4 Sylvester 
Miller 4 Lyles 
John Hlgglns 
Josephine Dunfee 
(One to fill) 
EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
\ Brownlea 
Estelle Roee 
"B'way Love" 
Armstrong 4 Ford 
They-Yan-Da 
Hoyt's Minstrels 

Dee Malaaa 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Mile Maron Vadle 
Williams 4 Wolfus 
Burns 4 Fulton 
Kramer 4 Morton 
Lee Zaxelle 3 
Francis DeGrossart 
(Others to fill) 

Detroit 

FAMILY (ubo) 
Ah Ling Foo 
Musical Chef 
Moore 4 Jenkins 
Callen 4 Davis 
Cogan 4 Oilman 
:t O'Neill Sisters 
T W Goodwin Co 

ORPHEUM (m) 
Harry Olrard Co 
Flchtl's Tyrollans 
Charlotte 
Great Richards 
Gibson 4 Coyne 
Danny Simmons 
Les Montfords 

MILES (loew) 
Parlse 
Trovollo 

Rlchmand A Mann 
Bell Boy 3 
Oaach Sisters 
(One to fill) 

Dalata 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Johnny Johnston Co 
Minnie Allen 
Platov A Olaser 
Hubert Dyer Co 
Santly 4 Norton 
Fred Kornau 
Jack A Forls 
(Others to fill) 

Bdeaoatea. Can. 

PANTAGES (m) 
Maurlse Samuela Co 
Nadell A Kane 
Oxford 3 

Dunlay A Merrill 
Agnes VonBracht 
Reed's Terriers 



COLONIAL (ubo) 
Yvette 

Chief Tendahoo 
Cardo A Noll 
(Others to fill) 



Fall River, 

ACADEMY (loew) 
Dancing Macks 
Japanese Prince 
Thos Potter Dunne 
Lawton 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Alfred Farrell 
Hartley A Pecan 
Grace Emmett Co 
Marie Russell 
3 Bennett Sisters 

Flint, Mick. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Berry A Berry 
Holden A Heron 
Hal Davis Co 
Ed Gray 
6 Abdallahs 

2d half 
Kolettl 

Clyde A Marlon 
"Enchanted Forest" 
Earl A Edwards 
Flying Du Vails 

Ft. Wsyac. 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Ollle Young A April 
Hurst Watts A Hurst 
Soiree Singers 
Lucas A Fields 
Vanls Troupe 

2d half 
The Turners 
lien Smith 
Davit A Duvall 
Gorman Bros A L 
Plaz's Monkeys 
KMPRESS (loew) 

1st half 
Kl Cleve 
Joyce & West 
Hush A Shapiro 
"When It Strikes 

Home" 
Melnotte Twins 
Six Olivers 

Graad Rapids, Mich 

COLUMBIA (ubo) 
Juliet 

The Hennings 
Wills A Hassan 
Werner Amoros Tr 
It Castllllans 
(Others to All) 



EMPRESS (loew) 
2d half 
(Same as Fort Wayns, 
this Issue) 

HaaeUtaa, Oat. 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Sam Barton 
Marie Fltsglbbon 
Bill Prultt 
(Others to fill J 

Harrtaaaraj, Pa. 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Bison City 4 
Mystlo Bird 
(Others to fill) 

Hosakea, N. J. 

LYRIC (loew) 
3 Milton Olrls 
Lily Seville 
Howard Bloat Co 
Clarence Wilbur 
California Minstrels 

2d half 
DeLesso Bros 
(Four to fill) 

Indianapolis 

LYRIC (ubo) 
Musical Geralds 
Little Miss Jean 
Cole Russell A D 
Ed 4 Mlnnio Foster 
Imperial Japs 
2d half 
Fred Wayne 3 
Flake 4 McDonougb 
Venlta Gould 
Carloa Caeearo 
(One to fill) 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Ryan 4 Lee 
Chas Thomson 
Wallensteln 4 Freeby 
Fred Soaman 
Pernlkoff 4 Rose 
Raymond 4 Bain 
(Others to fill) 



Mleku 

BIJOU (ubo) 
"Watch Your Step" 

2d half 
Geo Dixon 

Qulnn Bros A Drake 
"All For A Kiss" 
Bert Hanlon 
Martini A Maxlmllllan 

Jacksonville 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
3 Crelghton Sisters 
Lowell A Esther Drew 
Stewart A Donahue 
Schooler A Dickinson 
Miller DeVoe 4 Pr 



Kalaaeanoa, MIeh. 

MAJESTIC (ubo) 
Wentworth Vest A T 
Kammerer A Howland 
Leila Davis Co 
Lew Wells 

2d half 
Karlton A Kllfford 
Welsser A Relsser 
Carroll Plerlott Co 
3 Majesties 
Zeno Jordan A Z 



Kaaaaa City 

ORPHEUM 
Bertha Kallsch Co 
Cantwell A Walker 
Aileen 8tanley 
Lew Hawkins 
Harris Lewis 5 
Pallenberg's Bears 
The Mozarta 
(One to fill) 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Espe A Paul 
Empire City 4 
Ralton 4 La Tour 
"The Criminal" 
Lerner A Ward 
Jackson Family 

Lafayette, ladU 

FAMILY (ubo) 
Romalne 
Fred Wayne Co 
"When Love Is Young" 
Venlta Gould 
Carlos Caesaro 
2d half 
Pantxer Duo 
Little Miss Jean 
Cole Russell A D 
Hart's Steppers 
Aerial Lesters 



m. MIeh. 
BIJOU (ubo) 
Kolettl 

Clyde A Marion 
"Enchanted Forest" 
Earl A Edwards 
Flying Du Vails 

2d half 
Berry A Berry 
Holden A Heron 
Hal Davis Co 
Ed Gray 
6 Abdallahs 

Llaeola 

ORPHEUM 
Kleanore Haber Co 
Will Rogers 
Duffy A Lorenz 
Hess Sisters 
Trans Atlantic 3 
Marie A Billy Hart 
(Others to fill) 

Logaasport, lad. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Fitzsimmons A C 
Louis Granat 
Selblnl A Grovlnl 

2d half 
Leslie Thurston 
Logan A Ferris 
Lillian Doone Co 



ORPHEUM 
"The Beauties" 
ismed 

Burkhart A White 
Boland A Holts 
Blnns 4 Bert 
Arnold Daly Co 
Reisner 4 Gores 
Cole A Denahy 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Swan 

Laurie 4 Aleen 
Miller Moore 4 Gar 
Arthur DeVoy Co 
Avellng 4 Lloyd 
Neptune's Nymphs 

PANTAGES (m) 
"Night Hawks" 
Wood's Animals 
Rozella A Rozella 
Qulnlan A Richards 
Palfrey Barton A B 

Lealsvllle 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Lane 4 O'Donnell 
Gleason's Dogs 
Cecelia Wright 
Wm Thompson Co 
Gould 4 Ashlyn 
Louise Galloway Co 
"Telephone Tangle" 
(One to fill) 

Mcaspala 

ORPHEUM 
Mercedes 
Laddie Cliff 
The Woodchoppers 
Kimberly 4 Mohr 
Chadwlck 3 
Lancton Lucler Co 
Yorke's Pupils 
(One to fill) 

Mllwaaaea 

MAJESTIC (orph) 
Princess Rajah 
"Green Beetle" 
Corradlnl's Animals 
Anna Chandler 
Herman Tlmberg 
Cameron Sisters 
Chas Weber 
(One to fill) 

CRYSTAL (loew) 
La Vier 
O Nell 4 Dixon 
Princeton A Yale 
Morris A Parks 
"Bower of Melody" 
Nip 4 Tuck 

MlaaeapoUs 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Trlxle Frlganza 
Imhoff Conn A Cor 
Barry A Wolford 
Woodman A Livingston 
Pierre Pelletler Co 
Lewis 4 Russell 
Bertie's Dogs 
(One to fill) 

UNIQUE (loew) 
Dixon 4 Dixon 
Warner 4 Corbett 
Chaa L Fletcher 
"Wide" 

Nichols Sisters 
Wanda 

Montreal 
ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Nellie V NicholB 
Fishing 

Flying Henrys 
McMahon Diamond A C 
Roache A McCurdy 
Primrose 4 
(Others to fill) 

Newbargh, N. Y. 

COHEN'S O H (loew) 
Clemenso Bros 
Margaret Farrell 
Lester Trio 
Tabor A Green 
Reeklelss Trio 
2d half 
David Kallkoa 
"When We Grow Up" 
Rackett Hoover A M 
Hemmer A Prltchard 
(One to fill) 

New Haven. Cobb. 

POLI'S (ubo) 
Prerla Sextet 
The Pucks 
(Others to fill) 

Now Orleaaa 

ORPHEUM 
"Wrong from Start" 
Zertho's Dogs 
Kirk A Fogarty 
Annie Kent 
The Randalls 
Chas F Semon 
Dupree A Dupree 
(Others to fill) 

New Roeaelle, N. Y. 
LOEW 

Boel's Animals 
Crawford A Broderlck 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Rrou A Farrlngton 
Kelso A Lelghton 
(One to fill) 

Norfolk, Va. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
1st half 
Porter A Sullivan 
Irene Grant 
Mr A Mrs H Emmett Co 
Revolving Collins 
Paul Conchas 

2d half 
Lebonati 

Cheebert's Troupe 
(Others to fill) 



VAKIBTY 



15 



Oexklaad 

ORPHBUM 
(Open Bon Mat) 

Chas Ahearn Oo 

Fred North Co 

Stanley 8 

Fred Slemons Co 

Act Beautiful 

Mack a- Walker 

Weaton ft Claire 

Ida Dlvlnotf 

PANTAOBS (m) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Pony Moore Co 

Wlnscta ft Poor* 

Coogan ft Cox 

Gilbert Olrard 

Love A Wilbur 

Omaha 

ORPHBUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Antaaker Co 
Ed Hayes Co 
McKay A Ardine 
Gardiner 3 
Thomas A Hall 
Ward Bell A Ward 
John Qeiger 
(One to nil) 

Ogrdea, Utah 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
(14-17) 
"Fun In the Baths" 
Dick DeLorls 
Burton Hahn A Can 
Wanzer A Palmer 
Nesl A Earl 
"Winning Widows" 

Ottawa 

DOMINION )ubo) 
Adler A Arllne 
Monty A Dot 
Red ford A Winchester 
Burke A McDonald 
Olympic 3 
(Others to All) 

Philadelphia 

KEITHS (ubo) 
Llpenaky's Dogs 
"Sargeant Bagby" 
Lambertl 

McDevitt Kelly A L 
Lew Dockstader 
Mabelle A Ballet 
La Toy Bros 
Chris Richards 
Mr A Mrs J Barry 
KNICKERBOCKER 
(loew) 
Faye A Minn 
Pekinese Troupe 
Chas Deland Co 
Sandy Shaw 
Stewart A Dakin 
(One to nil) 

2d half 
Grumbley A Glass 
Caesar Rlvoll 
Bessie LeCount 
"Between 8 A 0" 
Thomas P Dunne 
Pekinese Troupe 

Plttahara-h 

HARRIS (ubo) 
Nash A Evans 
May Dale 
Richard Mllloy Co 
Martini A Proyce 
"Ward 22" 
Bob Warren 
Leonti's Models 
SHERIDAN SQ (ubo) 
Musical Petchings 
Tom Sldellla Co 
Barefoot Boy 
Harry Brooks Co 
"6 Little Honeybees" 
Murray's Dogs 

GRAND (ubo) 
Chas Grapewin Co 
Angelo Patrlcola 
4 Roeders 
Jarvis A Harrison 
Walter C Kelly 
Conroy A Models 
Horllck Family 
(One to All) 

Portlaad, Ore. 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Montrose & Sydell 
Calts Bros 
Wilson A Wilson 
Morris A Beasley 
Oddone 
Kitty Francis Co 

PANTAGES (m) 
Musical Juveniles 
William Shilling Co 
Belle Trio 
Sllber A North 
Slivers Oakley 

Providence, R. 1. 

KEITHS (ubo) 
Gleeson A Houlihan 
Hymack 

Bmmett DeVoy Co 
Jack Gardner 
Gordon A Rica 
Minnie Dupree Co 
Weston A Leon 
George Schlndler 
Edward Marshall 



Cheebert'a Troupe 
(Others to nil) 
2d half 
Porter A Sullivan 
Irene Orant 
Mr A Mrs H Bmmett Co 
Revolving Collins 
Paul Conchas 



-„ Caa. 

ORPHEUM 
2d half 
Gertrude Hoffman 
Trovato 

Billy Swede Hall Co 
Ward A Cullen 
Llbby & Barton 
(Others to oil) 

Mehanoad, Ta. 

LYRIC (ubo) 
1st half 
Lebonatl 



•aaraaaaato 

ORPHBUM 
(12-13) 
Hans Kronold 
Hermlne Shone Co 
6 American Dancers 
Alexander A Scott 
Ruby Dickinson 
Harry Tsuda 
The Grazers 

EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Eva Prout 

Mr A Mrs Dave Blwyn 
Irwin A Herzog 
Senator Murphy 
Deae's Fanthoma 
SaaiBavr, Mleh. 
BIJOU (ubo) 
The MUlards 
Rice A Morgan 
Chas Wayne Co 
Harvey Trio 

2d half 
"Dream Girl" 

Salt Lake 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
"Matinee Girls" 
Hlnes A Fox 
Byrd Forest C rowel 1 
Frank Wilson 

3 Hickey Bros 
Grant A Hoag 
Chaa McGoods Co 
(One to fill) 

EMPRESS (loew) 

Jeter A Rogers 

Billy Inman Co 

Chrlstensen 

SlgBbee Dogs 

Wm Morrow Co 

!) Krazy Kids 

PANTAGES (m) 
(Open Wed Mat) 

"Seminary Girls" 

Willard Hutchinson Co 

Antrim A Yale 

James Brockman 

4 Soils Bros 

Saa Diego 

SPRECKLES (orph) 
Francis McGinn Co 
Merrill A Otto 
Waldemer Young A J 
Finn A Finn 
Kramer A Peterson 
Minns A Bert 
(Others to till) 

PANTAGES (m) 
Fair Coeds 
Bohemian Quintet 
Kltner Haynes A M 
Heras A Preston 
Chase A LaTour 



ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Morris Cronln 

Kalmar A Brown 

Chief Caupollcan 

Harry DeCoe 

Claude GUlingwaterCo 

Ashley A Canfleld 

5 Metzettls 

Joe A Lew Cooper 
EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Theo Bamberg 

Jolly A Wild 

Allen Miller Co 

Rose A Moon 

Alice Hanson 

3 Mori Bros 

PANTAGES (m) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Ethel Davis Dolls 

King Thornton Co 

Miller Packer A 8ela 

Taylor A Arnold 

Cheater Kingston 

Saa Joee, OaL 

VICTORY (orph) 
(16-17) 
(Same bill as Sacra- 
mento this Issue) 



SaTaanaa, 6a. 
BIJOU (ubo) 
1st half 
Derkin's Dogs 
The Waltons 
Jack Polk 
Those Kldlets 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Lew Hoffman 
Hendricks A Padula 
(Others to fill) 



Scraatoa, Pa. 

POLI'S (ubo) 
Tally A Mayo 
Fred A Adele Astair 
Tony A Norman 
Hope Vernon 
Chaunrey Monroe Co 
Hugh Lloyd 
(Others to fill) 

Seattle 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Theo Bendlz Players 
Swor A Mack 
Joa Jefferson Co 
Burnham A Irwin 
Meehan's Dogs 
Cleo Gascaugne 
AIco 8 
(One to fill) 



EMPRESS (loew) 
Ethel A Lucy Baker 
Lelghton A Robinson 
Grace DeWtnters 
Ryan Rlohfleld Co 
Harry Thomson 
Cycling McNutts 

PANTAGES (m) 
Lander Stevens Co 
Bruce Richardson Co 
York 8 

Prince A Deerle 
Togan A Geneva 

Soath Chleaso 

GAIETY (wva) 
"Watch Your Step" 

2d half 
Jack Dakato Co 
Ida Ruasell Co 
Qee Jays 
Dow A Dow 
(One to fill) 



a City 

ORPHBUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Everett's Circus 
Clark A Verdi 
Fremont Benton Co 
De Haven A Nice 
Lai Mon Kim 
Mme Asorla Co 
Ernie A Ernie 
(One to fill) 



ORPHBUM (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Blanche Leslie 

Patrlcola A Myers 

Poliln Bros 

Earl A Curtis 

Gray A Graham 

"School Days" 
PANTAOBS (m) 
(Open 8un Mat) 

Juggling Mowatts 

Walter Terry Girls 

Gardner A Revere 

LaTourralne 4 

2 Kerns 

Staaktaa, CaL 

YOSBMITB (orph) 
(14-15) 
(Same bill aa Sacra- 
mento thia Issue) 

St. Loala 

COLUMBIA (orph) 
Geo Demerol Co 
Fisher A Green 
Althoff Sisters 
Raymond A Caverly 
Le Groha 

John A Mae Burke 
Marga De La Rosa 
Brown A Rochelle 



St, Pasrt, Mli 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Amoros A Mulvey 
Meredith A Snooser 
Pisano A Bingham 
"Sidelights" 
Cabaret 3 
Alvin A Kenny 
ORPHBUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Anna Hold's Daughter 
Chas Howard Co 
Avon Comedy 4 
Alfred Bergen 
Vlollnsky 
Alexander Bros 
El Rev Sisters 
(One to fill) 

Syraeaaa, N. Y. 

GRAND (ubo) 
Brooks A Bowen 
Franklin A Green 
Bert Fltsgibbons 
Claude A Fanny 

Usher 
Windsor McKay 
"Aurora of Light" 
(Others to fill) 

Taeaaaa 

BMPRBS8 (loew) 
Juggling Nelsons 
Burke A Harris 
Musical Avoltos 
Anderson A Golnee 
Stewart Sis A Escorts 

PANTAGES (m) 
Allsky's Hawallans 
Link Robinson Co 
Work A Play 
Henry A Harrison 
Vestoff 3 

Terre Haate, lad. 

VARIETIES (ubo) 
Klrksmlth Sisters 
Joe Whitehead 
Harlan Knight Co 
Gerhardt Sisters 
Eldora Co 



2d half 
Jungman Family 
Burns A Klssen 
McLean Co 
Bums 81sters 
Laughlln's Dogs 

Teleda, O. 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Hartman A Vardy 
Fred Ardath Co 
Julia Curtis 
Billy MoDermott 
MoCormick A Irving 
Dainty English 3 
Mme Doree Co 
(One to fill) 

Toroato 
SHEA'S (ubo) 
The Meyakos 
Mack A Orth 
Billy Bouncer 
Dooley A Rugel 
Blanche Ring Co 
(Others to fill) 
YOUNGB ST (loew) 
Leonard A Alvin 
Bddle Clark A R 
Ogden 4 

J K Bmmett Co 
Jim Morton 
(Three to fill) 

Ualea Hill, N. J. 

HUDSON (ubo) 

3 Melvlns 
Glenn Hall 
Josle O'Meers 
Gerard A West 
Gennaros A Bailey 
Jesse Busley Co 
Chas A Fanny Van 

Utsea, H. Y. 

SHUBBRT (ubo) 
Milton Pollock Co 
Sutton Mclntyre A S 
Sophie Bernard 
Lou Anger 

4 Entertainers 
(Others to All) 

Va ae ta vsr, B. C. 
ORPHBUM (loew) 
Geo A Lilly Garden 
Bogart A Nelson 
Hippodrome 4 
Eugene Emmett Co 
Stantons 
Wormwood's Animals 

PANTAGES (m) 
11 Minstrels Maids 
Isabel Fletcher Co 
Hugo Lutgens 
Elwood A Snow 
Leon A Adeline Sis 

Victoria. B. C. 

PANTAGES (m) 
Teddy McNamara Co 
Titanic 

Saunders A Von Kuntz 
Rosdell Singers 
Lockarte A Leddy 

Waahhmatoa, B. O. 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Lucy Gillette 
Wood A Wyde 
Joe Jackson 
Allen Dlnehart Co 
Jas A Bon Thornton 
(Others to All) 

Waterhary, Coaa. 

LOBW 
Frevoli 

5 Merry Youngsters 
Viola DuVall 

Ines McCauley Co 
Oscar Lorraine 
Walsh A BenUey 

2d half 
Gertrude Cogert 
Mayor Lew Shank 
Tom Linton A Girls 
Abbott A Brooks 
Frey Twins A F 
(One to fill) 

Wllaalmartaa. Del. 

DOCKSTADER (ubo) 
Hamilton A Barnes 
Misses Campbell 
(Others to All) 

Wlaalaca;, Caa. 

ORPHEUM 
Red Heads" 
Cartmell A Harris 
Asahl Troupe 
Corbett Sheppard A D 
Elida Morris 
Eugene 3 
(Others to All) 

PANTAGES (m) 
Lottie Mayer Glrlp 
Lottie Wordette Co 
Laurie Ordway 
Davis A Walker 
DeWltt Young A Sis 



SHOWS NEXT WEEK. 

NEW YORK. 

DANCING AROUND" (Al JolRon) 



Winter 



Garden (1st week). 
"DADDY LONG-LEGS'— Gaiety (3d week). 
"EVIDENCE"— Lyric (2d week). 
"CONSEQUENCES"— Comedy (3d week). 
GRAND OPERA— Century (5th week). 
"HE COMES UP 8MILINO" (Douglas Fair- 
banks)— Liberty (5th week). 
INNOCENT"— Eltlnge (6th week). 
•IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE"— Cohen (6th 

week) 

KICK IN "-Longacre (Oct. 12). 
"MY LADY'S DRESS"— Playhouse (1st week). 
"MR. WU" (Walker Whiteside)— Maxlne 

Elliott (Oct. 13). 
"ON TRIAL"— Candler (0th week). 
"PYGMALION" (Mrs. Campbell)— Park (Oct. 

12). 
"PRETTY MISS 8MITH" (Frltzi Schefl) — 

Casino (4th week). 



"THE BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE"— Lyceum 

(6th week). 
THE GIRL FROM UTAH"— Knickerbocker 

(7th week). 
"THE HIGH C08T OF LOVING" Republic 

(8th week). 
THE MIRACLE MAN "— A»tor (4th week). 
"THE HAWK" iWm. Faversham) Shubert 

(2d week). 
THE LAW OF THE LAND"— 48th Street 

( 3d week ) 
"THE PRODIGAL HUSBAND" (John Drew) 

—Empire (5th week). 
"THE PHANTOM RIVAL"— Belasco (2d 

week). 
"THE MONEY MAKERS'— Booth (2d week). 
"THE THIRD PARTY"— 39th Street (llth 

week). 
"THE STORY OF THE ROSARY"— Manhat- 
tan O. H. (6th week). 
"TWIN BEDS"— Fulton (10th week). 
"UNDER COVER"— Cort (8th week). 
"WARS OF THE WORLD" -Hippodrome (6th 

week). 

CHICAGO. 

"UNDER COVER"— Cohans (6th week). 

"A PAIR OF SIXES" — Cort (10th week). 

PEG O' MY HEART"— Oarrick (17th week). 

"THE MIDNIOHT GIRL"— Illinois (2d 
week). 

"ONE GIRL IN A MILLION"— La Salle 
(6th week). 

"POTASH A PERLMUTTER -Olympic (8th 
WQGaO 

"THE YELLOW TICKET"— Powers (6th 
week) . 

"TODAY"— Princess (3d week). 

FORBES ROBERTSON— Blackntone (2d 
week). 



NEW BUILDINGS. 

Brie. N. Y., Oct. 7. 
A movie theatre, to cost 150,000, It Is an- 
nounced, will be erected In the rear of the 
ground, 010 to 024 State street, by Leo 
Werthelmer, a picture house owner of Buffalo. 



A new picture theatre, costing about $15,000, 
Frisco Amusement Co., lessee. Is to be built 
on the west side of Graham avenue, Brooklyn. 
Just south of Powers street. Owner, Harry 
Waranov. 



Rubsam A Hormann are going to transform 
their old frame picture theatre, Btapleton, 
S. I., Into a more modern photoplay house. 
The Improvement will cost 14,500. 

Two new theaters are going up in Ports- 
mouth, O. One seating 1,000, under Col. 
John H. Bartlett'a direction, la slated to open 
around Thanksgiving with pop vaudeville and 
pictures. The other, costing about $70,000 and 
seating 1..00, being built by Messrs. Gray, 
McDonough, Hishof and Knight, will play 
vaudeville and traveling combinations when 
completed. 



The Electric Theatre Supply Co. has had 
plans drawn by' the Hoffman Company, archi- 
tects, for a one-story brick moving picture 
theatre to be erectod at Conshohocken, Pa. 
The house Is to have a seating capacity of 
1.000. 

R. M. Frey Is building a moving picture 
theatre at Steelton, Pa., to be two stories 
high. 40 by 120 feet C. H. Lloyd, of Har- 
rlsburg, is the architect. 

Harry J. Worner Is building a $10,000 brick 
picture house at Powers street and Oraham 
avenue, Brooklyn. 

A picture theatre Is being built by Hensel A 
Bollinger on Bummltt avenue, between Bavoye 
and Hill streets, West Hoboken, N. Y. Blda 
are now being taken, the house costing about 
$35,000. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 7. 
The new Crosskeys theatre (03d and Mar- 
ket) Is being pushed to completion, the house 
to offer with seven acts and pictures booked by 
Fred DeBondy, through the United Booking 
Offices, New York. House seats 1300, con- 
trolled by the Stanley Co., of this city. 

The Hippodrome Amusement Co. is building 
a theatre In Norwich, Conn., which will play 
pop vaudeville booked by Walter Pllmmer of 
the Amalgamated Booking Offices. 

Nathan E. Bloch has plans under way for a 
new theatre, costing about $10,000 at 126 Sec- 
ond avenue. New York. 



Memphis, Oct. 7. 
Work ban begun on a new picture house 
in Memphis by J. n. Snowden. It will be 
controlled by the Majestic Am. Co., which 
owns the Majestic and Empire here. It will 
seat 1400 and cost around $75,000. 

The tnwnnhlp ownfl the new Auditorium, 
Owen, Win., which will play combinations this 
fall. 



Marcus Chrlstensen Is building s new $6,000 
movie house at Cedarhurst, L. I. 

The new $00,000 theatre In the rear of 84 
Hanover street will probably be ready for Its 
opening by Jan. 1. Victor Chares, owner, has 
not decided on policy. The house will ssat 
1.200. 



A new picture house will be built In Al- 
toona by A. Notopolos with a capacity of 1,000. 
Plans were approved by the state authorities 
and work will be begun at once. 



OBITUARY. 

The shock of Phil Nash's death to 
the vaudeville fraternity wag a severe 
one, when the news of his demise at 
his home last Sunday became known. 

The funeral was held Wednesday 

morning at the Church of the Blessed 

Sacrament at Broadway and 71st 

street. Interment was at St. Agnes 
Cemetery, Albany, N. Y. 

The honorary pall bearers were Ed- 
ward F. Albee, A. Paul Keith, Samuel 
K. Hodgdon, Daniel F. Hennessy, 
John K. Burk, Martin Beck, Elmer F. 
Rogers, Harry Jordan, Robert C. Lar- 
son, M. Shea, Frank Thomp3on, E. M. 
Robinson, Percy G. Williams, Walter 
and Frank Vincent. 

Phillip K. Nash was 56 years of age 
at his death. He had been manager 
of the Leland opera house at Albany, 
and was a theatrical manager there for 
14 years, afterward going to Philadel- 
phia, where, in connection with the 
Bijou theatre, he was in close business 
association with Mr. Albee. 

Mr. Nash has held a position of im- 
portance with the Keith vaudeville in- 
terests for many years. He retained 
the friendship of a great many people 
he came in contact with, and did much 
for friends, also strangers that applied 
to him for assistance. 

Tuesday morning in the Family De- 
partment of the United Booking offices 
a member of a small-time vaudeville 
act cried for over an hour, when in- 
formed of Mr. Nash's death, which re- 
sulted indirectly from indigestion. Mr. 
Nash felt ill Sunday morning, but re- 
covered. After taking a walk in the 
afternoon, he died shortly upon re- 
turning home. 



Neil McNeil, the comedian, died in 
Lancaster, O., Oct. 2, from lung trou- 
ble after a long illness. McNeil won 
fame with the E. E. Rice organization 
in "1492" and played in many Broad- 
way successes. His last engagement 
was in "Little Boy Blue." 




Rochester, Oct. 7. 
Dan Pheney, advance man for "The 
Behman Show" appearing at the 
Corinthian this week, committed suicide 
Oct. 2 by taking carbolic acid. His 
body was found in a room in the Hotel 
Berkeley Saturday afternoon. Pheney 
was at one time with the Barnum and 
Bailey shows. He left a card addressed 
to the coroner asking that his brother, 
John Pheney, of Charliton, Ta., be 
notified. 

Harry F. Simonds, special officer at 
the Jefferson, 14th street, was killed 
Sunday night by burglars in the cellar 
of the theatre. Simonds heard a noise 
downstairs and went to investigate 
when he was struck by a bullet. He 
called for help and rushed at the bur- 
glars, being stabbed several times in 
the struggle. 



Revised bids are being taken on the new 
theatre, cafe and offices at the southwest cor- 
ner of Howard avenue and Monroe street, 
Rldgewood, L. I., for M. Mlnden. The cost 
will be about $75,000. 



(Special Cable to Vajubtt.) 

London, Oct. 5. 
Goring Thomas, the English com- 
poser, died here last Friday. 



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I BY FREDERICK M. MS CLOY 





COLUMBIA ACCEPTS 11 SHOWS 
FROM PRO GRESS IVES; DROPS 7 

Ten Houses from Defunct Circuit Go Into Extended Wheel 
and Englewood, Chicago Into Number One Classification 

Under Burlesque Realignment. 



Confirmation of the story in last 
week's Vauikty on tin* changes about to 
occur in burlesque has been made dur- 
ing the past few days. 

The shows taken over from the Pro- 
gressive Wheel by the Columbia Cir- 
cuit are Charles Taylor's "Tango 
Girls," Frank Calder's "High Life 
Gir's," Sim Williams' "Girls from Joy- 
land," Tom Sullivan's "Monte Carlo 
Girls," Izzy Weingarden's "September 
Morning Glories," Joe Oppenheimer's 
"Fay Foster Show," Sam. Levey's 
"Charming Widows," Rube Bernstein's 
"Follies of Pleasure," Fd. Beatty's 
"Passing Review of 1914," Hertz & 
Reamey's "Hello Paris" and Jean Be- 
dini's "Mischief Makers." 

The shows that will be dropped from 
the Columbia Kxtended Circuit are 
Jack Singer's "Blue Ribbon Girls." 
Charles Daniels' "Whirl of Mirth." 
Max Spiegel's "Cabaret Girls," Hugh 
Shutt's "Folly Burlcsquers," Hurtig & 
Seamon's "Transatlantics," Jacobs & 
Jermon's "High Rollers" and Louis 
Oberworth's "Gay Widows." 

In the new arrangement the follow- 
ing former Progressive theatres will be 
included in the Columbia Extended: 
Garden, Buffalo; Star, Toronto; Savoy, 
Hamilton; Empire, Cleveland; Cadillac. 
Detroit; Empire, Holyoke; Van Curler. 
Schenectady; Trocadero, Philadelphia; 
Haymarket, Chicago (operated inde- 
pendently from the Columbia Amuse- 
ment Co.); Star, St. Paul. The Corinth- 
ian, Rochester, and the Orpheum, Pat- 
erson, and the Englewood, Chicago, 
goes Jinto the number one division. 
Some of these changes are in operation 
this week. The remainder will be put 
in fonce beginning next week, Sunday 
or Monday. 

This will be the last week played by 
"The Cabaret Girls" and "The Transat- 
lantics." Some slight changes will be 
made in the Columbia's Extended route 
for the week beginning October 19 and 
thereafter. 

The complete route for the Columbia 
shows next week (Oct. 12) is: 

MAIN CIRCI'IT. 

(.lobe Trotters. I^ay-ofT. 

(lay New Yorkers. Empire, Brooklyn. 

Star and (tarter. Hoboken. 

American HeautieH. Philadelphia. Casino. 

Hilly Wataon. Hurtig and Seamona. New 
York. 

Troeaderos. Brooklyn. Casino. 

Dave Marlon, Columbia, New York. 

Prize Wlnnera. Worcester and Bridgeport. 

College Girls, Boston. Oalety. 

Hose Sydell. Albany and Hartford. 

(lay White. Way. Montreal. 

Hen man Show, Syracuse and I'th-a. 

Sam Howe, lay-off. 

Bon Tons. Buffalo. 

Columbia Burlcsquem. Toronto. 

ClnKcr Girls, Detroit. 

(layely Girls. CIiIckko. KiiKlewood. 

Robinson's Carnation Beauties. Chlcano. Co- 
lumbia. 

Million Dollar Dolls. Milwaukee. 

Soda! Maids. St. Paul. Star. 

Happy I a rids. Minneapolis 

llii«titiK"s Bin Show, !:iy oil. 



Honeymoon Girls. Omaha. 

Moulin Rouge, Kansas City. 

Kolllea of the Day, St. L«ou1b. 

Ben Welch. Chicago. Star and Garter. 

The Bowcrya, Toledo. 

liK Jubilee, Cincinnati. 

Dreamlands, Cleveland. 

Koseland Girls. Pittsburgh. 

Kosey Posey Girls, Washington. 

Happy Widows, Baltimore. 

Liberty Girls. Philadelphia. Empire. 

Gypsy Maids, Newark. 

Winning Widows, lay-off. 

Wataon Sisters. Bronx. New York. 

Beauty Parade. Hartford and Albany. 

Golden Crook. Boston, Casino. 

Al Reeves. Providence. 

EXTENDED CIRCI'IT. 

Cabaret G*lrls, Brooklyn, Gayety. 

City Sports, Trenton last :\ days. 

Cherry Blossoms. Philadelphia. Gayety. 

Tempters. Norfolk. 

Girls of the Follies, Richmond. 

Mischief Makers, Baltimore. Gayety. 

Passing Review of 11)14. open. 

Eva Mull. Paterson. Orpheum. 

Monte Carlo Girls. Olympic. New York. 

Girls from Joyland. Penn's Circuit. 

Zallah. Pittsburgh. Victoria. 

Charming Widows. Cleveland, Empire. 

Transatlantics, Cincinnati, Standard. 

Gay Morning Glories. Louisville. Bucking- 
ham. 

City Belles. Indianapolis. Columbia. 

Sam Rice Daffydllls. Chicago, Casino. 

Orientals, lay-off. 

Big Sensation. Kansas City. Century. 

Bohemians. St. Louis, Standard. 

Tango Girls. Chicago. Haymarket. 

High Life Girls. Detroit. Cadillac. 

Garden of Girls, Hamilton. Savoy. 

Follies of Pleasure. Toronto, Star. 

French Models, Buffalo, Garden. 

Taxi Girls. Rochester. Corinthian. 

September Morning Glories. Blnghamton and 
Schenectady. 

Heart Charmers, open. 

High Rollers. Philadelphia. Trocadero. 

Broadway Girls, Star. Brooklyn. 

Fay Foster. Murray Hill. New York. 

Hello Paris, Last .*! days, Holyoke. Empire. 

Cracker Jacks, Boston. Grand. 

Big Review. Boston, Howard. 

Auto Girls. Waterbury and Springfield. 



REEVES' NEW SHOW. 

There is every indication that Al 
Reeves has entirely overcome the dif- 
ficulties with which he was beset at 
the opening of the season. The last 
changes that were made and that have 
brought the show up to the point of 
excellence its owner desired, include 
the employment of T<»m Grady, who 

furnished a new book and directed its 
pioduction. 

Wilbur Dobbs. Austin and Blake. 
Fred Collins. Sammie Wright. Harry 
Miller, Bernice Smith. Trixie Aycrs 
and other well-known people were put 
to work with the results as stated. 

During the present lay-off week be- 
tween Brooklyn and Providence. Mr. 
Reeves has/4cept his company rehear- 
sing his new show with the same regu- 
larity as during the weeks preceding 
the opening of the season. 



Lowe and that Beard. 

Although Max Lowe, of the Mari- 
nelli office, is now approaching a wild 
man of the woods, in looks, through 
his beard, it seems Mr. Lowe will liavw 
to wear the hair on his face forever. 

He wagered with a Frenchman the 
Cicrmans would occupy Paris, agreeing 
not to shave until thev did. 



J^fc* 



GIRLS FROM THE FOLLIES. 

(Continued from page 13.) 
ballads in the vaudeville section that 

brought her well up among the hits. 
Hite and Reflow, modern dancers, with 
a repertoire that looks as original as 
good, were favorably accepted, al- 
though the continual use of the spot- 
light marred their work to some ex- 
tent. A little more light, or alternat- 
ing with the spot would help. Wagner 
and Wyre introduced a new comedy 
specialty that will improve with age, a 
few rough spots still being apparent at 
the first showing. Harry Fisher and 
his eight cycling models closed the 
olio, the turn giving a touch of class 
to the aggregation as well as offering 
a "flash" showing for the finale of the 
vaudeville section. 

The first part and burlesque carry 
r quantity of good burlesque bits, gen- 
erally running to low comedy, but 
well sprinkled with laughs. The book 
was supplied by Steppe who also at- 
tended to the staging. The girls rank 
with the best chorus extant, both in 
looks, voice and dancing ability. For 
the Extended wheel, Strouse and 
Franklyn have a show especially adapt- 
ed for that brand of audience. 





THE TROCADEROS. 

"The Troeaderos" would have turned 
hundreds of people away from the Co- 
lumbia at every performance this week 
i: New York theatregoers generally 
had known just how great a burlesque 
show it is. 

The performance given by Manager 
Charles H. Waldron's organization ex- 
cels in many particulars. With an un- 
usually good book, the show is con- 
structed with such rare judgment of 
the requirements of high-class, real 
burlesque that it is at once refreshingly 
new in its details and wholly enjoy- 
able in its comedy and musical ele- 
ments. 

There has not been seen on the 
stage of the Columbia a more beautiful, 
tasteful or complete production, and 
the stage management displays the 
work of masters of their craft. 

To Frank Finney, author of the book 
and star of the organization, is due the 
credit for the excellence of the en- 
semble, and Leon Krrol is responsible 
for the original and effective "business" 
revealed in the musical numbers. 

Of singular value to this performance 
is the musical score. There are 21 
numbers, and. with the exception of 
two interpolated songs, they all are of 
original composition. This is decidedly 
unusual in burlesque, and it is a dis- 
tinct relief from the sameness in this 
particular that characterizes a large 
majority of burlesque performances. 
Harry L. Alford is the composer, and 
it must be said that he has caught the 
spirit and liveliness that are so essen- 
tial to burlesque. 

Having secured such exceptional ma- 
terial, it remained for Manager Wal- 
dron to employ a cast adequate to its 
performance, and this he perfectly ac- 
complished. Frank Finney. wh..se 
name and striking individuality are in- 



dissolubly a part of 'The Troeaderos," 
dominates the performance by the force 
of his personality, no less than by the 
excellence of his comedy work. Al- 
though Mr. Finney wrote the book and 
supervised its production, he has re- 
frained from placing himself constantly 
in the spotlight to his own advantage 
or to the detriment of his associates. 
There are many moments during the 
Performance when indications point to 
a studious desire to obliterate himself 
in order that others may come forward 
and score. 

Sam J. Adams, next in importance t<» 
Mr. Finney, repeats his admirable per- 
formance of former seasons. Florence 
Bennett brings her beauty and charm- 
ng personality to the leading female 
role, and Minnie Burke, capable and 
uprightly, as formerly (notwithstand- 
ing the serious illness through which 
she has recently passed), continues in 
the soubret part. John I'. Griffith is 
still playing Major Moore with his old 
time dash and displaying his truly re- 
markable baritone voice with cus- 
tomary vigor and agreeable effect. 

Frnest ( ). Fisher, a newcomer in 
this organization, succeeds admirably, 
both vocally and otherwise, in the 
straight role. Belle Millette and Rose 
Dupree are cast for unimportant char- 
acters, which they play satisfactorily; 
and Olive Johnstone and Leona Noble 
appear successfully as the companion 
chorus girls who. although infrequently 
seen, have much to do in creating the 
humorous complications in the story. 



During Bert Baker's recent engage- 
ment in Minneapolis he received the 
following verses from an admirer who 
had witnessed a performance of the 
popular comedian and his "Bon Ton" 
girls: 

"Hello Bert Baker: lust a few lines 
to let you know I saw your show. Fine 
biz old top. Here you go — 

"Last Monday night 1 went to see 
A man they call Bert Baker. 

Some actor-man. comedian, 
This guy is sure no faker. 

"He keeps the crowd a'roaring 
With his droll and sunny way; 

I'd walk a hundred city blocks 
To see him any day. 

"And, the little Tootsie Wootsie 
He lays upon his breast — 

Stunning, boys? So stunning — 
By nature she's been blest. 

"With a silver voice, a pretty face 

And fluffy auburn curls: 
She's loved by all the men-folks 

And envied by the girls. 

"The 'Bon Ton' bunch, yes. all of them. 

Hand out the proper stuff, 
Right hot from dear old Broadway, 

Now isn't that enough? 

"But this here Baker man. I swan. 

1 never will forget. 
I'll shake his hand till it blisters 

If I get a chance. YOL T BKT! 

"Cinders Jiwmv." 



VAKIBTY 



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NEW ACTS NEXT WEEK 

Initial Presentation, First Appearanca 

or Reappearance In or Around 

New York 



Willard, Hammcrstein's. 

Bonita, Hammerstein's. 

Ray Dooley Trio, Hamnicrstein's. 

Clark and Bergman, Palace. 

Kitty Gordon (New Act), Palace. 

Bickel and Watson, Palace. 

Spinette Quintet, Palace. 

The Sharrocks, Palace. 

Florence Tempest and Co., Colonial. 

Harry Beresford and Co., Colonial. 

Manion and Harris, Colonial. 

Blanche Walsh and Co., Bushwick, 

Brooklyn. 
Hazel Cox, Prospect, Brooklyn. 
Marion Murray and Co., Prospect, 

Brooklyn. 
Jesse Busley and Co. ( Xcw Act), Union 

Hill. 
Gerard and West, Union Hill. 
Glenn Hall, Union Hill. 



George L. Moreland. 
"Baseballogy" (111. Lecture). 
11 Mins.; One. 
Hammerstein's. 

George L. Moreland announces he 
will answer any question on baseball 
since 1846. Three-fifths of the act is 
devoted to still pictures of baseball of 
other years, with some photos of prom 
inent people connected with it. The re- 
maining time is submitted to the audi- 
ence for questions. Monday night at 
Hammerstein's but two important que- 
ries were put: the first, how much does 
Christy Mathewson get? Mr. Moreland 
answered the amount had not been an- 
nounced, but it was supposed to be $15,- 
000. The next was which team would 
win the world's series. He replied that 
is not yet a record, but in past history 
of baseball the Bostons had never lost 
a world series they contested for. In 
a gathering of baseball fans, Mr. More- 
land would come in handy and be en- 
joyed. An elderly man, who no doubt 
had stored up a world of records and 
statistics, his turn is not a vaudeville 
one, and not for vaudeville, in or out 
of the baseball season. If he continues 
attempting to entertain the public in 
this way, on the variety stage, he should 
employ plants to be certain of comedy 
on the questions at each show. Sitne. 



Capt. Sorcho's Deep Sea Divers (4). 
18 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Set). 
Hammerstein's. 

Classed as a "tank act" through hav- 
ing a tank upon the stage, Capt. Sor- 
cho's vaudeville turn, removed from 
Coney Island, where it was a concession 
for a couple of seasons, looks good 
enough to go over the circuit once as 
an interesting exhibit. It dwells almost 
wholly upon the equipment of a deep 
sea diver, and, in a measure, as far as 
the limited tank will permit, gives an 
idea of a diver at work at the bottom 
of the ocean. A lecture is delivered 
by Capt. Sorclio. It helps to pass the 
interval as preparations are being made, 
and the whole is instructive. Capt. 
Sorcho is showing one thing connected 
with a diver that the feature film, "Sub- 
marine," fails to display. That is 
submarine telephone. A steam calliop: 
ballyhoo that has been used along 
BroutV-iy «inre opening at Haninn r- 
steii- * - ' • « • 1 1 ! , i ' <v a ' asiness getter. To 
the ixt'. h ,:.'lyhoo is the ni >st 

imj f, .iii I .in T it the act. Sim*. 



Mr. and Mrs. Carter DeHaven. 

"The Masher" (Musical-Drama). 

24 Mins. (Special Drops and Setting). 

Colonial. 

In their newest vaudeville offering, 
"The Masher," Mr. and Mrs. Carter 
DeHaven are getting further away 
from singing and dancing. In fact, the 
entire strength of "The Masher" rests 
on the dialog between the diminutive 
pair and the "situations" arising from 
the young stage door Johnny's deter- 
mination to show the actress a good 
lime. There are several song numbers, 
to be sure, and well handled in the 
usual DeHavenesque style; yet they 
are secondary considerations in the 
summing up of the act's impression. 
In "one" Miss Parker, looking young- 
er and prettier than ever, is singing 
from the stage. Carter interrupts from 
the box. She promises to meet him 
:it the stage door and go out for the 
eats. A stage door drop then is used. 
Carter does a song and dance while 
waiting and also chins the stage door- 
man. He and Flora then taxi to a 
*iuiet restaurant room in "three," where 
Flora proceeds to make Carter's roll 
look like a thimbleful of ashes. Here 
the DeHavens sing two numbers, the 
most effective and snappy being the 
"Marriage Is a Grab Bag." This is a 
neat, gingery little conceit, with the 
DeHavens and the waiter, doubling as 
the preacher, doing a trotting dance 
around and off the stage in bridal pro- 
cession. For the end, following their 
ejection from the private dining room 
because they were not married, the 
masher takes Miss Parker home to 
Xew Rochelle. She enters and does a 
disrobing "bit" before a transparent 
window. The masher, broke, sings a 
little soliloquy and starts to walk back 
to the city as a lightning and rain 
effect is used in "one." The act is 
away from anything previously offered 
by the DeHavens. It's light and airy 
but sufficiently molded to give satis- 
faction. DeHaven is the accredited 
author, but the song, lyrics and music 
sounded suspiciously like Gene Buck 
and Dave Stamper. 



Gene Hodgkins and Irene Hammond. 

Songs and Dances. 

14 Mins.; One (3); Full Stage (Special 

Set) (11). 
Hammerstein's. 

Gene Hodgkins and Irene Hammond, 
described as "A Yankee Boy and an 
Knglish Girl," do a combination piano 
and modern dancing act, in a pure white 
set that is extremely sightly. The set 
occurs after an opening in "one," when 
the couple sing a song. It would seem 
a useless procedure to start the turn in 
"one" with that set in reserve. Dur- 
ing the full stage portion a picture drop 
is employed to throw a representation 
of the Blazing White Way on the 
screen, with the electrics doing the dif- 
ferent dance steps. It afterwards shows 
the dancers before the camera doing 
the maxixe. They are supposed to 
come down a short flight of steps, burst 
through the paper and continue the 
dance themselves upon the stage. Mon- 
day night the drop didn't take care of 
itself. A large hole was torn in the 
top and this ruined the effect of a 
rather clever stage idea. The couple do 
a fox trot to a song, the music of 
which is popular about for the fox 
dance, in getting away from the fa- 
miliar two-act and "society dancers" 
while still remaining both, the act has 
brought its most value. With the open- 
ing in "one" out and both ends of the 
act proper made more pronounced, Mr. 
Hodgkins and Miss Hammond should 
become popular in vaudeville. They 
have the necessaries. Sitne. 



NEW SHOWS NEXT WEEK 

Initial Presentation of Legitimate 
Attractions in New York. 



George Damerel and Co. (14). 
"Ordered Home" (Dramatic). 
25 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Scenery). 
Palace, Chicago. 

Chicago, Oct. 7. 
"Ordered Home" is a playlet of love 
and war. The scenes are laid in Mala- 
bang region of the Philippines, which 
allow of picturesque and unusual scenic 
effects. Rudolph Berliner, director of 
the orchestra at the Palace, is the au- 
thor in more ways than one, as he 
is set down as the maker of the book 
and also part composer of the music* 
Franklyn Underwood staged the piece. 
Raymond Barrett wrote the lyrics, and 
Raymond Midgley staged the musical 
numbers; so it appears that the offer- 
ing has about as many authors as the 
average musical comedy. There are 
several pretty songs, and the presence 
of native Filipinos gives color and at- 
mosphere. Damerel is debonair, as of 
old, and sings his songs well. If any- 
thing, the act is slightly too long and 
reeds speeding up a bit. Just at this 
time, when war and patriotism are 
topics the world over, this little story 
of love and duty ought to please, as 
it did last Mondav afternoon. 



"The Girl from Atlantic City." 

(Smiling Bunny Gray.) 

Songs. 

10 Mins.; One. 

H ammerstein's. 

It could be asked — Why blame it 
upon Atlantic City? — but from informa- 
tion which should be correct, Smiling 
Bunny Gray did play in Atlantic City — 
once, perhaps longer. Maybe she 
played in vaudeville. The Hammerstein 
program says she was found on the 
Boardwalk. That's rough talk for a 
program to send over anent a featured 
attraction in Broadway's big time vau- 
deville. And the program calls the 
young woman without a voice "Smiling 
Bunny Gray." Bunny didn't live up to 
her billing Monday evening. She didn't 
smile, but used up four songs, one a 
ballad, walked carelessly around the 
stage, some times stepped over the 
chain almost into the footlights, then 
stepped back again, not smiling even 
then, and the most noticeable indica- 
tions were that Bunny wanted to do 
"nut stuff," but didn't know how to 
go about it. Maybe she wasn't familiar 
enough with her surroundings. But if 
Bunny is drawing a regular vaudeville 
salary for this week's work, she can 
smile at that, although she isn't apt 
to remain long in vaudeville. It's prob- 
ably back to the cabaret for liiinny, 
but Bunny won't care if her listlessness 
in working gives a true line on her 
hopes and ambitions. "She Sings Songs 
in Her Own Unique Way," adds the 
program. Si me. 



"Pygmalion" (Mrs. Pat Campbell), 
Park (Oct. 12). 

"Kick In" (John Barrymore), Long- 
acre (Oct. 12). 

"Mr. Wu" (Walker Whiteside), Elliott 
(Oct. 13). 

Al. B. White and Co. (2). 

Singing. 

14 Mins.; Two. 

Palace, Chicago. 

Chicago, Oct. 7. 
Al White is singing five songs, run- 
ning the gamut from popular rag to the 
sentimental ballad. He carries a pian- 
ist. using a grand piano. White has 
a pleasing personality and a voice of 
v.ood quality. When he is at ease he 
can put a song over very well, indeed. 
Monday at the Palace he was just a 
little bit nervous. He made his biggest 
hit with "When Grownup Ladies Act 
Like Babies." Mr. White was called 

for numerous bows, and his reception 
was genuinely enthusiastic. 



Lucy Gillette. 
Juggling. 

13 Mins.; Three (Interior; Delf Set- 
ting). 
Colonial. 

It didn't take Lucy Gillette long 
Monday night to prove that novelty 
still abounds in juggling. Here's a 
woman of pleasing appearance, acro- 
batically inclined, and with prodigious 
strength which she uses without as- 
suming undue masculinity usually mani- 
fest in acts requiring display of physical 
prowess. She registered a solid hit at 
the Colonial, being a wonderful juggler, 
steady of eye and quick of hand. Miss 
Gillette shows no bulgy muscles, yet 
she's of stocky appearance. She wears 
a Dutch outfit, as also does a man who 
aesists in handling the articles. The 
setting is also of the Dutch delf 
scheme. Miss Gillette juggles all sorts 
of heavy articles on her forehead while 
spinning plates and basins with her 
feet and hands. Her routine is varied 
and pleasing, difficult apparently for 
even a man, but she gracefully, pret- 
tily and smilingly executes each trick 
u« big results. Miss .Gillette is one of 
the vaudeville treats of the season. 
The big time could use a few more 
with women of ingenuity and origin- 
ality. 



Fox and Witt. 

Songs and Piano. 

15 Mins.; One. 

Grand Opera House (Oct. 4.) 

Two young men. Hard workers 
Both sing well. Art scored solidly. 



Fern, Bigelow and Meehan. 

Acrobats. 

10 Mins.; Three (Interior). 

Broadway. 

An acrobatic trio with one member 
in Hillic Reeves' "drunk" makeup. The 
shortest member is in bellboy uniform, 
while the third does a "straight." Some 
rough and tumble falls are taken by the 
"souse" with the little fellow display- 
ing unusual ability as a ground acro- 
I at. The straight also has some nifty 
twists, turns and evolutions. A good 
act and could classify on a big time 
bill. 



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A uremia. 

Female Impersonations. 

11 Mins.; One (5); Pull Stage (8). 

Hammerstein's. 

Auremia is a female impersonator, 
who features "The Dance of Death" 
on the billing matter. This is the 
finale, a sort of snake dance, without 
the snake, but incense pots or some- 
thing like that. The opening number 
is a song of roses, with the singer 
carrying some. Another song enters 
between the first and the dance, after 
which comes the disclosure that Aure- 
mia is a man, who wears nice clothes, 
that any woman r : ngle on the small 
time would sigh i ,r in envy. Female 
impersonators somehow appear to be 
more fortunate in procuring more ex- 
tensive, elaborate and expensive ward- 
robe than women who merely sing. Per- 
haps impersonators command much 
higher salaries. Auremia, although "No. 
2" on the Hammerstein bill (an early 
position this week, as it was the last 
week), did very well, the somewhat 
light house present when the disclosure 
occurred applauding as though wanting 
to hold up the show. As an imperson- 
ator in skirts, Auremia is better than 
the average. Slme. 



The Manhattan Trio. 

Songa. 

11 Mine.; One. 

Hammerstein's. 

The Manhattan Trio appear in opera 
cloaks or capes and carrying canes. 
Afterward they wear simple evening 
dress. It is some appearance when these 
three boys, graded in size (although 
their evening dress coats are of all of 
the same length) strut upon the stage, 
and start to sing. They have a mixed 
selection of songs, doing their best 
with "Hats Off to You, Mr. Wilson." 
This put them over in an early spot. 
It's hard to forget that the trio looked 
quite nifty with the capes and canes (al- 
most English), and a kindly motive 
prompts the suggestion that they per- 
mit the capes and canes to become a 
part of the entire turn, not removing 
them while on the stage. Sime. 



Mae A. Sullivan and Co. (3) 

Comedy Sketch. 

15 Mine.; Full Stage (Special Set) 

Star, Brooklyn (Oct. 4.) 

Mae A. Sullivan started out as a single 
some time ago when she had secured 
considerable notoriety in a breach of 
promise suit against a young million- 
aire. That Miss Sullivan has taken the 
stage seriously is shown by a little skit 
that has three others besides herself, 
all men. Of the men the one that makes 
the best impression is a black face 
comedian, and it is due to him the turn 
gets what it does. The story is of the 
soldier's life. The girl (Mac) is in love 
v.ith a young lieutenant, but her father 
will not allow her to marry him until 
he has done something heroic. With 
the aid of the blackface the father is 
told of the exploits of the young man 
and consents to the marriage. The 
lover has as little stage ability as possi- 
ble, but this may be his first attempt. 
Miss Sullivan's singing is still in the 
same class as when she appeared at 
Hammerstein's, but she is acting better. 
The other man fills in. The act has a 
chance on a small time. 



"The Lonesome Lassies." 

Musical Fantasy. 

36 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Exterior). 

Prospect, Brooklyn. 

B. A. Rolfe's latest production, "The 
Lonesome Lassies/' is one of the most 
pretentious endeavors that this pro- 
ducer has made. Four principals and 
a chorus of eight mighty good looking 
girls. The scene is laid in a summer 
resort at an old colonial mansion, with 
its massive white pillars rising 20 or 
25 feet above the stage. The lonesome 
lassies are led by Leota Sinclair and 
Marjoric Bonner. The latter is an ex- 
Ziegfeld girl and was one of the best 
lookers the "Follies" boasted. The 
ten girls are at the summer resort and 
are lonesome, for the boys only come 
down for weekends. To make the 
boys jealous the girls scheme to have 
a picture taken of themselves being 
made love to by a picture actor. In- 
stead of the actor arriving a real "John" 
comes on the scene and complications 
follow. So much for the comedy end. 
An opening chorus is pretty, and the 
little follow-up to this will make a hit 
with the agents, for the lyric writer 
has woven the names of a number of 
the "Palace Building" boys into his 
theme. Ray Hodgdon and Maurice 
Rose are two of the names that stand 
out. The picture bit follows this and 
gets over nicely. This in turn makes 
way for a burglar number handled by 
Harry B. Watson and Miss Bonner. 
The title is "Love Made Me a Wonder- 
ful Detective," with a final touch show- 
ing the chorus in almost transparent 
"nighties." For the closing number 
the girls are displaying as pretty a set 
of gowns as have been seen in either 
musical comedy or vaudeville this sea- 
son. The act is slightly too long at 
present. A minute or two could be 
cut from the burglar bit and the same 
from the auto repair talk. There are 
several repeats in the latter piece of 
business. The act when trimmed down 
to a half hour will be one of the best 
of the big acts. It has comedy, good 
music and pretty girls. 



"A Night In A Cafe" (10). 

Cabaret. 

30 Mins.; Full (Interior.) 

Bronx O H. (Oct 4.) 

"A Night In A Cafe" is a big act, 
composed entirely of amateurs. Five 
girls and five boys in the act. From 
the manner in which they work and 
from their appearance they suggest 
amateurs. One or two of the girls 
might develop in time. The two girls 
playing the daughters of the alleged 
Irish comic might work out a nice little 
routine of songs for the small time 
and pass with it. They are good look- 
ing and are possessed of personality 
and voice. The little dancer with a 
boy partner might also get some work 
with the right sort of a turn. The act 
as it is now, however, will not do. It 
is badly produced, the comedy is the 
rawest of hokum and worked to death. 
The Irish and Hebrew comics are sad. 



The Scotch Players (4). 

"My Wife from London" (Comedy). 

19 Mins.; Five (Parlor). 

Fifth Avenue. 

"My Wife from London" is Scotch, 
played by Scots. Like other plays and 
playlets from that country or that 
country's authors, it has irresistable 
humor, in dialog, expression and 
emphasis. The Scotch writer, while 
not as wildly anxious for continuous 
laughs as the English or American 
comedy penman, makes a bull's eye 
when he does aim. It may be said to 
be a fault that he doesn't aim often 
enough, but this is offset in part at 
least by the continuity of the story 
told, even in a sketch. Walter Roy 
wrote "My Wife from London," per- 
haps as good a title as any. The play- 
let is very entertaining, or would 
be to those accustomed to refined vau- 
deville and to those who prefer that 
sort rather than slapstick. It's hard 
to say whether the Fifth Avenue crowd 
Tuesday evening liked it better than 
they did a Swede comedian. Some of 
the best matter in the Scotch turn 
got but half of what it deserved, while 
the Swede when he opened his mouth, 
giving a long howl, for no reason and 
with no possible object (excepting he 
hadn't had anything else written in for 
him to do) received the loudest laugh- 
ter of the night from those in front. 
Comedy is comedy to those who like 
it. It's also a matter of education by 
those who sell it through the box of- 
fice. Some keep the box office busy 
and some do not. Mr. Roy plays the 
principal role in the Scotch skit, al- 
though Peggy McCree is featured. She's 
a good-looking blonde girl, plump and 
living up to the usual Scotch billing of 
"bonny," although she is English in 
this case, in character and in fact. The 
story is of an elderly couple, always 
quarreling. Their son left for London 
a few years before. The girl is their 
ward. The son married her before 
going away. He returns after having 
become successful on the London mu- 
sic hall stage as a Scotch comedian. 
The mother is glad to have her boy 
back, regardless, but the father is 
stern. He wants to know what he has 
done, and is horrified at his boy turn- 
ing into a "play actor." The father 
asks the son how much he gets a week 
for making a fool of himself. "Thirty 
pounds," replies the boy. "For thirty 
pounds we can afford to be disgraced 
a little," answers the pater. The piece 
is nicely played. It is restful in a sense 
and there are surprise laughs obtained 
without effort. It is a well written ef- 
fort and should be able to make itself 
.worth booking on big time, although 
it is not a big comedy number, though 
capable of improvement, especially the 
finish, which might end in another 
quarrel scene. Mr. Roy makes up well 
as the father and does equally well in 
his playing. Sime. 



Agnes Truesdale. 

Songs. 

8 Mins.; One. 

Grand Opera House (Oct. 4.) 

Agnes Truesdale hasn't much of a 
voice, but she has some wardrobe. 



Banjo Trio. 

13 Mins.; One. 

Grand Opera House (Oct. 4.) 

Two men and a woman. The former 
do the banjo strumming while the 
woman plays rather lackadaisically 
upon a guitar-shaped instrument. The 
men play mechanically and should not 
take their work too seriously. Act best 
in pop houses. 



"The Chocolate Drops." 
Musical Comedy (Tabloid). 
18 Mins.; Pull Stage. 
Academy of Music 

George Archer has a new edition of 
his "Chocolate Drops" which had the 
third spot in the Academy program the 
first half. The act has seven colored 
boys and girls. Two boys, King and 
Bailey, are the leaders in the singing, 
dancing and comedy. Five girls are 
the chorus, one of the quintette doing 
a society stepping bit with one of the 
men. This girl has possibilities, her 
dancing and leading the other girls 
being above the usual run of chorus 
leaders. The dressing of the chorus 
is up to the mark on all occasions, 
the girls making four changes in all, 
two of which are slip-overs. The ap- 
pearance of the girls in the gingham 
frocks over the soubret costumes is 
not pleasing for they bulge out, 
giving the girls an awkward appear- 
ance. There is time enough during the 
comedy work of the men for the girls 
to make a complete change, so why 
spoil the appearance once? The bronze 
slippers and stockings set the girls' 
feet and limbs off to good advantage. 
As a colored tabloid there are few, if 
any, that can beat "The Chocolate 
Drops." 



Hawthorne and Inglis. 
Nut Comedians. 
17 Mins.; One. 
Prospect, Brooklyn. 

Albert F. Hawthorne and Jack Inglis 
make up this team of "nut" comics. 
Inglis has had a reputation as a "nut" 
on the small time and at last has 
framed an act with a partner of suffi- 
cient class to warrant the turn making 
the big time. The turn the duo are 
offering contains 17 solid minutes of 
laughter and the boys work hard 
throughout the entire time. Their bit 
with the instruments at the finish is a 
definite bid for additional applause but 
as it is worked legitimately enough 
there can be no objection. Inglis has 
a peculiar style, entirely his own. He 
throws ginger into the turn from the 
first minute, and his partner, feeding as 
he does the biggest part of the time, 
fills in nicely. Acts of this type are 
much needed. 



Dillon Shallard Opera Trio. 

15 Mins.; Three (Curtained Stage). 

Broadway. 

Near the close of the Broadway 
show Monday night this operatic sing- 
ing trio appeared. First one man sings 
a solo, the stage is darkened and on the 
relight a woman appears alone. She 
sings and again the dark change and 
the other member of the trio appears 
for a solo. Here in succession are 
three solos. For the finish the trio 
offers the prison scene from "Faust," 
with one of the men displaying the 
most villainous looking Satanic make- 
up seen hereabouts in a long time. The 
trio offers nothing but the work of the 
classic masters. This tri-singing com- 
bination evidently was forced over here 
by the war. 



Phillips and Eby. 
Dramatic Sketch. 
11 Mins.; Three (Interior.) 
Grand Opera House (Oct 4.) 

A young looking couple, who offer a 
little- home and heart skit that met with 
favor. Team handles little playlet well. 



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Ray Dooley Trio. 
Songs, Talk and Dances. 
17 Mint.; One and Pull Stage. 
Columbia (Oct. 4.) 

Ray Dooley has taken the best sec- 
tion of her former minstrel turn, con- 
densed what was originally a big girl 
act into a trio, added some new mate- 
rial and reconstructed her routine into 
something which bears a semblance to 
big time speed, although there is still 
room for further improvement. The 
trio includes a comedian, "straight" 
man and Miss Dooley herself, who es- 
says a kid character throughout. The 
comic can be safely credited with 75 
per cent, of the turn's success. He 
carries a style and delivery of his own 
and executes some sure-fire falls that 
will eventually bring him up among the 
top-notchers in eccentric work. As the 
turn stands now, it runs a bit long for 
big time usefulness. The comic's solo 
song could be safely discarded with his 
dance interpolated into the early sec- 
tion. The "bedroom" number could 
also be consistently eliminated since 
the girl's enunciation is rather faulty 
and the whole bit runs to low comedy 
and doesn't harmonize with the balance. 
And Miss Dooley could and should 
cover her knees. The rest of the turn 
is excellent, with the encore, a bur- 
lesque of a modern cabaret, measuring 
up as one of the best comic bits seen 
around here in many months. The re- 
arranging process would bring the time 
down to a reasonable limit and in turn 
develop the act into a standard big 
time number. Miss Dooley's business 
sagacity is evidenced in the billing, but 
it seems the boys should be credited 
somewhere for ,their work. At the Co- 
lumbia the act took all the honors of 
the Sunday matinee. Wynn. 



Morriasey Brothers (2). 
Songs and Dancing. 
11 Mine.; One. 
23rd Street 

The Morrissey Brothers are two dress 
suited young men, mostly dancers, al- 
though they attempt recitative singing, 
telling how they are in demand by the 
vaudeville managers. The public is 
more interested otherwise. In the 
opening spot they seemed to feel they 
were above the position and so spoiled 
whatever they did have. One of the 
boys has some ability as a dancer, 
while his partner can finger the ivo- 
ries a bit. Will do on the small time. 



Mable Florence and Frank Ely. 
"The Kleptomaniacs." 
17 Mins,; Full Stage (Parlor.) 
American Roof. 

Miss Florence and Mr. Ely are pre- 
senting the former Rice and Cohen 
sketch on the small time. A good laugh 
producing farce as ever in their hands. 
Barring a tendency to overplay by Mr. 
Ely, the act can play on any bill that 
has a spot for a sketch. 



Five Musical Byrons. 

Musical 

17 Mins.; Full 

American Roof. 

The Mu ical Byrons comprise five 
men, who offer a ■tNi<!n»f diversified 
musical turn Tin ;ir»* in Mexican 
costume and make ;■ in ■' appearance. 



Madge Edwards and Co. (1). 

Dramatic Sketch. 

16 Mint,; Full (Special). 

Bronx O. H. (Oct. 4.) 

Presenting a badly written Mexican 
sketch of the kind applause type Miss 
Edwards and her company just about 
managed to pass. The man (company) 
plays two characters. A bandit has 
robbed an express car, escaping with 
$15,000. At the opening the girl's 
father is just leaving to join a posse. 
The girl is alone in the house; the 
bandit appears (the same man doubl- 
ing) dressed as a Mexican vaquero in 
holiday attire and employs an Italian 
dialect for Mex. The bandit forces the 
girl to prepare food for him and then 
tries to make love to her. A fight and 
sword duel follows, with the girl finally 
working the bandit over to a won trap 
which she has set near the fire place. 
The bandit is caught and the girl goes 
to collect the reward for his capture. 
The act isn't there. 



Sandy and Burns. 

Comedy Musical 

13 Mins.; Full (Interior.) 

Bronx O. H. (Oct 4.) 

Two men offering a comedy musical 
turn that will answer for an early spot 
on a small time bill. The comedy could 
stand a little brushing up. The men em- 
ploy a Scotch dialect in putting the 
talk over. It is funny because the 
comedian has a natural German dialect 
which he mixes with the Scotch occa- 
sionally. Both of the men play suffi- 
ciently well to pass. 



Gertrude Williams. 

Songs. 

10 Mins.; One. 

Bronx O. H. (Oct 4.) 

Miss Williams is of nice appearance, 
has a few gowns and a little voice. 
Sunday she was so frightfully nervous 
it would be hardly fair to judge her 
work. After she overcomes her nerv- 
ousness she should do for an early spot 
on the small time. 



George Murphy, Joe Ratcliffe and Co. 

(1). 

Comedy Skit 

16 Mina.; Full (Special.) 

American Roof. 

In addition to George Murphy and 
Joe Ratcliffe, Ellis Mattin is of this 
turn. Mr. Murphy is offering a Ger- 
man impersonation that will go a long 
way to making this act a favorite with 
small time audiences. The straight 
is a mighty good feeder and has a nice 
singing voice. The act comprises a 
number of "bits" that have been seen 
before, but nevertheless are funny. The 
turn will stand featuring on the small 
time. 



Julia Nash and Co. (2) 
Comedy Sketch. 
16 Mins.; Full Stage. 
Columbia (Oct 4.) 

Julia Nash is introducing a new com- 
edy sketch, her second in as many sea- 
sons, in this essaying a slangy manicure 
Miss, a role to which she is especially 
adapted. The story leans toward the 
underworld, with the police and poli- 
tics important. The scene is the apart- 



HAMMERSTEIN'S. 

Funny kind of a show at Hammer- 
stein's this week, with freak names and 
acts to break into smooth running. 
Theatre business around town was not 
any too good Monday evening. Ham- 
merstein's did no better than the rest, 
although Monday matinee attendance 
held up unusually big all over for a 
warm afternoon. 

The bill started off in its customary 
small timey way, running way down to 
Hoey and Lee in the "No. 8" spot be* 
font revealing something regular in the 
way of a hit, although Gene Hodgkins 
and Irene Hammond (New Acts) just 
preceding the parody duo, would have 
scored roundly if not for a mishap to 
their set. 

Bessie Wynn returned, to sing some 
new songs, one in Jap dress that was 
made almost too much of a character 
study, but Miss Wynn closed nicely and 
did one of her old favorite numbers for 
an encore, throwing in another en- 
core that held some "nutty" matter 
which Miss Wynn must have been the 
only one to understand. Next were 

Sam Chip and Mary Marble in "The 
Land of Dykes," their sequel to the 
other "Dutch" turn this couple did so 
well in their Hollandaise costumes. Miss 
Marble has recovered from a severe ill- 
ness, that changed her appearance 
somewhat. The people and the setting, 
with songs, were very pleasing, al- 
though the turn will find an atmosphere 
more congenial than the hardness of 
Hammerstein's at almost any big time 
house, for their intimate little con- 
ception. 

Owing to the length of the show, 
intermission was omitted Monday even- 
ing. Willie Weston, in what should 
have been the spot second after the 
interval, pulled out one of the strong 
rewards. Maurice Abrahams was at 
the piano. Mr. Weston first sang "Vic- 
trola," then "Too High," a cute comic 
capable of being well handled by almost 
anyone with a comedy vein); did a 
"cissy" number next to many laughs 
also used "Schneider's Grocery Store," 
another new song hereabouts that got 
him something, and closed with Ber- 
lin's war song "Down Btlow" that 
Weston made semi-dramatic through 
a red spot light. Baring that Mr. Wes- 
ton appears to ape Al Jolson more or 
less in style and delivery, he is a 
thorough entertainer, too much so by 
himself to take anyone for a model. 

It was many minutes past eleven 
when Rooney and Bent came on. They 
did their full act and did well at that 
hour. Captain Sorcho's Sea Divers 
(New Acts) closed the show, holding 
in what remained of the house by that 
time, nearly 11.30. 

The first act on the bill was Joe Ken- 
nedy, a roller skater who did well. 
Auremia and Manhattan Trio (New 
Acts) were next in order of running, 
with Mr. and Mrs. Mark Murphy im- 
mediately after, playing "Clancy's 
Ghost." Then happened "The Girl 
from Atlantic City," (New Acts). 
George Moreland, later on was also a 
new one. Sime. 



AMERICAN. 

Strictly a comedy show at the 
American, first half, this week. Suf- 
ficient of the other essentials attend- 
ing made it a thoroughly enjoyable per- 
formance. The bill includes several 

novelties, a good flash number in Tom 
Linton's "Jungle Girls" and with a lib- 
eral dash of song here and there, it 
ran like a well oiled machine. 

The Brightons held the opening po- 
sition with a novel specialty wherein 
they build, rather than paint, attractive 
landscape views and animal pictures, 
utilizing a collection of innocent-look- 
ing rags for the test, The turn pleased 
the roof gathering and occasioned 
some little comment. 

Von Hampton and Joselyn were on 
rather early for best results and should 
have occupied a part of the second sec- 
tion with their lively little song and pat- 
ter skit. Von Hampton is a light come- 
dian with a semi-nut delivery, that com- 
bined with his present routine, can 
hardly fail in any pop house. A good 
finish brought them an early hit. 

The Three Frogues have all the 
necessities of big time speed, combin- 
ing originality with a splendid acro- 
batic routine, something rare in mod- 
ern vaudeville. What comedy exists is 
spontaneous and away from the beaten 
path. They were one of the two big 
hits and registered with a sound wal- 
lop. It's a big time act. 

Another big laughing hit was Roland 
Wests' "When Women Rule," a broad 
burlesque on the sex question, carry- 
ing a cast of types that almost defy 
duplication. For a rough comedy ve- 
hicle, made to order for the pop houses, 
the sketch is sure-fire. 

Ray Snow has a polite monolog on 
* a time-worn topic, well handled, but 
completed with the inevitable serious 
verse, getting him away to applause 
rather than laughter. Snow came be- 
fore intermission and with a large ma- 
jority of the comedy numbers follow- 
ing, had a comparatively easy time in 
landing. 

Mr. Linton has a great "flash" for 
the pop time, just falling short of two- 
a-day calibre, although Linton has 
traveled that route as well. His six 
broilers made a neat appearance, 
dance with the vim to keep things 
moving nicely and generally help to 
bring home the applause. The comedy 
has been condensed to a reasonable 
length and in its present state the 
act should keep busy. It went very 
big. 

Morris and Allen came on rather 
late in next to closing to insure their 
usual results. A bit further up would 
have guaranteed the honors, but there 
were few laughs left. The numbers 
received their full measure of appre- 
ciation. 

Grace and Arthur Terry introduced a 
lariat specialty that won out, but the 
man's delivery is so suggestive of Will 
Rogers' style, it smacks of the "copy" 
brand and lost value for that reason. 
Terry delivers his "points" very similar 
to Rogers, but the material is alto- 
gether different, consisting mainly of 
international dances while handling the 
rope. The girl, a pretty Miss of the 
western type, does some good work. 
They would have done better in an- 
other spot. Wynn. 



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VARIETY 



PALACE. 

Tht hits at the Palace this week were 
pretty well scattered, although the show 
as a whole ran pretty close to the stan- 
dard with a few individual turns falling 
below form. 

A shift in the program after Mon- 
day's matinee, bringing Ruth Roye into 
the second section, might have helped 
the bill somewhat, but just what the 
promotion meant to Miss Roye is prob- 
lematical. Thoroughly press-agented 
on her way in, Ruth Roye showed up 
a bit over-estimated. The girl pos- 
sesses talent to some extern, but the 
idea of super-fineness is all wrong. 
Monday night she offered four numbers 
including "High Cost of Loving," "It's 
Too High" and "Mississippi Cabaret" 
three sure-fire melodies capable of car- 
rying themselves with any kind of ren- 
dition. The repertoire earned her three' 
or four bows with a fair share of ap- 
plause that looked rather suspicious, 
since it emanated from a familiar source 
in the rear. The spot was a handicap 
for Miss Roye, following a heavy bill, 
and she would have appeared to better 
results in an earlier position. There's 
quite a difference between the Palace, 
New York, and the rural routes, par- 
ticularly since one must follow the best 
in their own line at the Palace. 

The headlines are divided between 
Alice Lloyd and Joan Sawyer, the latter 
dancing with Nigel Barrie. The finale 
remains the feature of the dance rout 
ine, but what a relief occasionally to 
catch Sawyer after reviewing a multi 
tude of these mushroom wigglers the 
ball room dances have foisted upor 
vaudeville. At one end of the intermis- 
sion period, the pair earned an artistic 
hit and well deserved to. 

Miss Lloyd's routine, a bit slow just 
yet, includes two good numbers in 
"Tipperary" and "Stay Down Below," 
the latter a late composition of Berlin's. 
"Tipperary" is an Irish air with a 
catchy strain and is really the only 
number in Miss Lloyd's repertoire that 
fits perfectly. The Berlin song, util- 
ized for an encore, has to do with the 
European war, along neutral lines. 

The Gaudsmiths opened with their 
tumbling specialty, closing with a bit 
that could just as well be eliminated. 
It entails the use of several American 
flags, in which the average foreign si- 
lent act seems to have an unusual 
amount of confidence for theatrical use. 
The routine proper is along the con- 
ventional line with some good fast 
work by both men, and a little comedy 
added through the use of two dogs. 

The evening's honors went to W. C 
Fields whose distinctive style appar 
ently defies duplication. Fields intro 
duced a comedy bit with a pool cue 
that corralled a succession of laugh:- 
and his juggling wherein he appears tr 
be dropping the articles yet skilfully 
keeps them in the mid-air, is away from 
the stereotyped system of such work. 
Fields was a hit at every angle. 

Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Barry in "The 
Rube" started off rather slowly for tht 
Jimmie Barrys, but accumulated laugh 
ing speed as they went along and fin 
irhed a reasonable hit, but the present 
vehicle is hardly up to its predecessor 
from a standpoint of comedy dialog. 
Barry's characterization of the rube and 
his accompanying mannerisms are a 
study in themselves. 



COLONIAL 

William Wood more familiarly 
known as Billy, is managing the Co- 
lonial. For a long stretch of years 

he was at the old Broadway, and not 
long ago he managed the Palace. 

Mr. Wood has the two card boys in 
the most novel outfits yet seen, a sort 
of Russian legging and boot affair, a 
vast improvement over the old bellhop 
and band outfits. Monday night busi- 
ness was pretty good, the show merit- 
ing a better house. The ushers passed 
out cards to be signed and returned 
to them, the management (Billy's 
scheme) saying that a "suitable Sou- 
venir" would be distributed free within 
the near future. Few of the cards 
were thrown aside. 

Vandinoff and Louise started the 
show off nicely. No kind of cartoon 
and drawing acts can acquire much 
speed but this turn quickened its pace 
with a revolving oil painting stunt at 
the close. Harry B. Lester is a versa- 
tile chap with imitations and a "bit" 
on "Everybody," which is his best 
asset. 

Lucy Gillette (New Acts) was heart- 
ily enjoyed. "Fourth" were Ryan and 
Tierney, who did well, notwithstanding 
apparent hoarseness on the part of Jack 
Ryan. Cressy and Dayne closed the 
first part. Cressy hasn't forgotten the 
good old Denman Thompson-James A. 
Heme days. 

During intermission the women took 
advantage of the management's invita- 
tion to imbibe hot chocolate in the re- 
ception foyer. The children were also 
included. 

Adele Ritchie started the second half. 
Miss Ritchie and Carter DeHaven on 
the same bill recall the hostile days 
when these two battled pugilistically 
and otherwise for stellar honors and 
dressing rooms in the regime of "The 
Girl in the Taxi." Mr. and Mrs. Car- 
ter DeHaven (New Acts) were on 25 
minutes. 

Hanlon Brothers and Co. closed the 
show. The act runs too long, and, fol- 
lowing the "mirror" imitation, the act 
sagged and the folks walked out in 
bunches. It was 11:16 when the turn 
finished with the Hanlons using some 
of the old "Phantasma" illusions. The 
Hanlons are surefire on their imitating 
each other in pantomime. Dooley and 
Sales also appeared. 



Joe Welch opened intermission, some- 
what of a task for any monologist, but 
Welch caught on and registered his 
usual laughing success. Franklyn Ar- 
dell and Co., in "The Suffragette" forced 
home the humor of the piece, and Mr. 
Ardell labored with vigor resulting in 
the rather familiar sketch eventually 
reaching. 

The Rigoletto Bros, closed with 
their two-man vaudeville show. The 
opening, carrying the musical special- 
ties gave the couple a slow start and 
the unitiated patron the wrong impres- 
sion. The magic routine won them 
individual honors, likewise the ensuing 
efforts including the strong work and 
aerial bit. Those who remained after 
the opening stayed for the finish, but 
a number made the exits before the 
brothers were half started. Closing in- 
termission would have been the position 
for them. Wyrm. 



BROADWAY. 

The rebuilt Broadway with a new pop 
vaudeville policy opened its doors Mon- 
day night without any ceremony. It 
is managed by Jules Aaronson, directed 
by the Mastbaum-Earle interests of 
Philadelphia, and booked by M. S. 
Schlesinger. One show only at the 
opening. The announced plan is to give 
two performances nightly during the 
winter, with a matinee. 

There was no jam or box office stam- 
pede. It was a topheavy house. Nearly 
everything in was money. Even some 
of the city's best known booking agents 
paid to see the show. Some courtesies, 
but allowing for the passes, there were 
many vacant seats below. 

On. paper the show cost over $2,100 
for the week, added to the running ex- 
penses (including rent) would bring the 
total weekly expenditure up to about 
$5,000. The theatre must do a sardine 
box business. 

The orchestra seats sell for 50 cents 
with box reservations, 75 cents. 

The Broadway was redecorated, re- 
furnished and remodeled to meet all 
requirements. The lobby and front 
look spic and span and were ablaze 
with electric lights. 

A switching around of the acts would 
have given the show a more imposing 
aspect at the first performance. The 
Five Violin Beauties opened, no spot for 
the girls at all. This act could stand 
revision and considerable stage coach 
ing. Weber and Elliott gave big satis- 
faction with their Hebrew comedy and 
songs. Their opening is a noisy one 
The hovs' chief asset ts voices. 

The Dancing Le Febres got along 
nicely. The man in particular does 
some effective leg maneuvers. The 
Capitol City Four, the big time act, 
(Primrose Four) had evervthing its 
own way and made it hard for any- 
thine vocally to follow. 

Following a Selig-Hearst weekly 
rame Fern, Bigelow and Meehan 
(New Acts). After Paul Le Croix had 
offered his juggling turn the show 
stopped still when the Dillon Shallard 
Opera Trio (New Acts) appeared. 

Dugan and Raymond, next to clos- 
ing, failed to deliver the comedy punch 
expected. This turn in a much earlier 
spot would have gone much better. 
The man has some funny talk, but fails 
to get the laughs he did with his mes- 
senger boy makeup. The "Bachelor's 
Dinner" closed. With the full special 
setting the act looked like a million 
dollars. There's a new juvenile lead. 
His voice is an improvement over the 
other boy's. 

William J. Kerngood directed the 
orchestra and did well considering the 
brief rehearsals. 



JEFFERSON. 

The show was minus a headliner, 
and the audience gave its attention 
to all of the acts. George Smedley 
appeared first and played banjos, also 
other string instruments, the people 
givincr him generous applause. Miller 
and Tempest followed and did their 
usual song and high kicking work. 
The little talk used is the same as em- 
ployed for several years and should 
have something new added here and 
there. 

Two colored boys, Simms and 
Thompson, put over a substantial hit 



in the third spot The little fellow is 
a good comedian. The other man dots 
fairly well with bis straight tinging, 
and the two scored downtown. 

Chas. Bennington, a young man with 
a wooden leg, stumped around the 
stage a bit doing some stepping with 
the peg that was remarkable and also 
some kicking that equaled, if not ex- 
celled, that of Miller, of Miller and 
Tempest. As a freak act on the small 
time, Bennington may be able to se- 
cure engagements, but the act is run- 
ning too long now. 

A three-reel foreign feature in the 
middle of the bill was followed by Per- 
rine and Main, juvenile acrobats. 
These two youths have a routine that 
is too slow. Their work is good, but 
the spot on the bill was none too good. 

The Pearl Abbott sketch, "Silver 
Threads," was next and put over a 
good hit. Morgan, Kennedy and Hut- 
ton sang nicely. 

The show closed with a stereopticon 
posing exhibition by Marion Hen- 
driques. 



FIFTH AVENUE. 

About the biggest attraction to 
vaudeville acts in accepting the Fifth 
Avenue date is Harry Leonhardt, the 
house manager. Mr. Leonhardt is 
famed as a fixer of new turns. His 
suggestions are valuable, and he be- 
came noted for this among turns when 
managing the 23d Street, then big time. 
The Fifth Avenue appears to be doing 
business at the 10-25 scale, eight acts 
and pictures, playing continuously, 
with the vaudeville doing three a day. 

The program the first half ran so so. 
The feature of the bill was the Scotch 
Players in "My Wife from London" 
(New Acts). Another new turri* was 
Edward Bixley, with two assistants, a 
Hebrew and English fop, all working 
in "one. H They were next to closing, 
with Kaiser's Dogs the final number. 

Castellane opened with his bicycle 
riding, doing about the fastest act on 
the bill. "No. 3" had Livingston and 
Fields, two young women. One played 
the violin, the other sang. They may 
develop. Just now it looks like a neat 
little parlor turn. Harry Victor sang 
songs "No. 2." His voice sounded as 
though employed sometime for illus- 
trated songs. After the Scotch people 
came Knapp and Knapp, one doing 
Swede comedy, and his partner straight 
in evening clothes. There hadn't been 
any strong funmaking ahead, and the 
Swede got the laughs early with his 
stuff, but it needn't deceive him. The 
act passed away toward the finish. 

Al Raymo and Co. in a hokum 
sketch, four people, were next. Some 
of the material was sure-fire for laughs 
with this crowd and got some. There 
seems to be a surplus of characteriza- 
tion in the piece. One Italian and one 
Dutchman made it too international, 
without any especial choice. The bill 
the first half this week at the Fifth 
Avenue may have been an exception 
to the usual run of shows down there, 
since Mr. Proctor increased the num- 
ber of acts. If not, it did not favor- 
ably compare with other pop programs 
around town at the same admission 
scale, 10-25, and also, if the first half 
Fifth Avenue show is the average on 
the Proctor three-a-day time, there 
must be a salary limit attached. 

Bime. 



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CITY. 

Bight acts, a three-reel feature, a« 
"episode" and a Weekly made up the 
bill, which dragged through three hours 

and a half Tuesday night. 

Of the acts at least three should have 
held up the' show, but perhaps because 
of the manner in which the program 
was laid out they failed to make good. 
Fred James was the opener and did 
but little in the way of applause. Jean 
Southern, a standard small time act, 
had the second spot. Her material did 
not get over as it should have with the 
14th street audience. The last half of 
last week she was a riot on the Amer- 
ican Roof, but, at the City she had 
rather a hard time of it. Jean might 
well cut the reference to "raw stuff" 
and also the line in which she speaks 
of .her anatomy. It isn't in keeping 
with the "kid" character. 

O'Brien and Buckley, old timers, with 
a comedy musical act, that is mostly 
talking, got some laughs but that was 
about all. The Dancing O'Maars, three 
in number, are capable but their turn 
needs rearranging. The ability is there. 

Marie Eline, The Thanhouser Kid 
(New Acts), had the next spot and did 
nicely. William Powell and Co. (three 
men and a woman) have a sketch, laid 
in a theatrical agents* office. The ac- 
tion is disconnected but the offering 
will just do on small time. 

Murray Bennett, singing and talk- 
ing, proved a favorite, even though he 
did not trouble to make-up and worked 
in a rather loose manner. Closing the 
show Bobkas Arabs (14) ran through 
the usual routine. The opening is not 
quite smooth as yet, but when this is 
fixed the act will be heard from on 
the biff time. They have a number of 
novelties in pyramiding and the tumb- 
ling at the finish is exceedingly fast. 

"The Winner," a three-reel Nemo 
feature, finished off the show which ran 
until 11.30. 



PROSPECT. 

The bill at the Prospect this week 
frames itself into a mighty pleasing 
entertainment and one that was highly 
appreciated by a large audience of 
Brooklynites Monday night. The lower 
floor was full with the exception of a 
few rows at the extreme rear and the 
balcony also held almost capacity. The 
show started at 8.10. While there were 
only nine acts the pictures weren't on 
until after 11. There are two acts on 
the bill, Minnie Dupree and company 
and "The Lonesome Lassies," who take 
up more than an hour of the running 
time. 

The audience was in a humor to 
laugh and started early. "No. 2" on 
the bill was assigned to Corelli and 
Gilette with their novelty acrobatic 
turn. The talk had the house in roars 
of merriment and the turn got three 
hows to their credit. The Langdons 
who followed went after the audience 
strongly, and got over as a hit. 

Albert Von Tilzer and Dorothy Nord 
had the third spot and the fore portion 
of the act was nicely received. The 
act, however, displayed bad showman- 
ship by not leaving them while they 
were asking for more. The "Bull" 
song at the finish, which seemed more 
or less an added starter. \rt th-? t-.r* 
down. 

Minnie Dupree and cn.p;, 



the first part with Alfred Sutro's sketch, 
The Man in Front." The act runs 
25 minutes, but clever playing makes 
the time seem much less. Miss Dupree 
has lost none of her ability to hold an 
audience. She is on the stage from 
the first curtain and never leaves it for 
more than a second during the action. 
She carries the whole of the little play- 
let on her own shoulders and scores 
heavily. She is supported by John Con- 
nery in the role of the dramatic critic- 
husband, who gives a nicely rounded 
performance; Pierre Le May is the 
lover. He is rather stiff in appearance 
and could be improved upon. The act 
was the applause hit of the early por- 
tion of the bill. 

Opening the second part Edwin 
George started the laughing again and 
was a near riot with his "nut" stuff 
and juggling. "The Lonesome Las- 
sies" (New Act) held the stage for 
36 minutes and entertained all the 
while. Hawthorne and Inglis (New 
Acts) were next to closing and cleaned 
up. The Flying Martins closed by do- 
ing five minutes and not only holding 
the audience in but pulling down sub- 
stantial applause at the finish. A 
Hearst-Selig Weekly finished off the 
bill. Arthur Barett, with a new act, 
opened the show but was not caught. 



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COLUMBIA. 

Taken collectively the Sunday lay- 
out at the Columbia combined to make 
a pretty good running entertainment, 
even though a few individual turns 
failed to help to any noticeable degree. 

A liberal addition of big time talent 

bolstered up the program to some ex- 
tent with those particular specialties 
running a safe first in the final results. 

The afternoon hits ran to the Ray 
Dooley Trio, the Farber Girls and 
Fields and Lewis in the order named, 
the latter couple being somewhat 
handicapped in position, following the 
entire comedy division of the bill in 
next to closing spot. It took them a 
few minutes to get under way. 
. Quigg and Nickerson, both in white 
face, opened with their familiar com- 
edy musical routine. It's one of those 
old-time specialties, still carrying a 
comedy wallop in its own way. Open- 
ing the show the couple, apparently 
known to many present, were enthus- 
iastically received. 

Allan Summers held second position, 
a handicap in itself, offering a routine 
of stories that sound rather ancient 
for present-day use. Summers has a 
likeable voice, a few good numbers and 
a delivery that is really worthy of bet- 
ter material. His present routine is all 
wrong for any kind of vaudeville and 
until such time as he choses to con- 
nect with a repertoire worth while, 
Summers will remain an unknown 
quantity. 

Rellow, a novelty single that might 
belong under a musical classification 
(since he provides some melody with 
the use of his hands alone) started off 
with the "bird" in attendance, but soon 
warmed the house into a -receptive- 
mood and closed to an unusually bip 
hand. 

The Farber Girls have what looks 
like the best routine they have ever 
been acquainted with. The blonde sis- 
ter shows considerable improvement 



during the last few seasons and is 
gradually developing into a light com- 
edienne with a style of her own. Her 
comedy song "Call Me a Taxi," an old 
number that never became over-popu- 
lar, is especially well rendered, so good 
that it suggested a third verse which 
could be added with a little speeding- 
up throughout. The duets and comedy 
patter landed easily and the costum- 
ing seemed in keeping with the balance. 
In fourth spot the girls cleaned up to 
h big hit, running second only to the 
Ray Dooley impression. 

The La Vars, a team of modern 
dancers, opening with a medley dance 
and proceeding through a repertoire 
that includes a tango, waltz, whirl- 
wind affair and Texas Tommy, were 
especially well liked. 

The balance of the program carried 
Julia Nash and Co., Coombs and Aid- 
well, The Texas Tommies, and Ray 
Dooley Trio (New Acts). Wynn. 



23RD STREET. 

The show at Proctor's the first part 
of this week although consisting of the 
usual eight acts, was a little different 
from the usual run. The bill ran along 
at' a good clip throughout and with 
the addition of a big act it made a 
good evening's small time entertain- 
ment. 

The headline honors were bestowed 
upon the "Dream of the Orient." 
This rather expensive turn was easily 
the hit of the program. Sager Mid- 
gley was next in line who with a laugh- 
able little sketch, and with the aid of 
Dawn Elton made a good impression. 

Two singing mixed doubles, the 
Doughterys, and Monroe and Wilson, 
were both on equal terms when it 
came to applause. The Doughterys 
should secure some more up to date 
talk for the man, as he shows possi- 
bilities as a comedian, for the present 
material is a hindrance. Even the 
23rd street audience did not relish it. 
Monroe and Wilson have a rather dif- 
ferent two-act with the man doing 
most of his work in the pit with a fiddle. 
The woman works hard singing a num- 
ber of songs, a little dance going with 
each. The long violin selection while 
the girl wa9 changing could be im- 
proved upon, the present piece not 
having the punch. On rather early 
but fair. 

The second spot was filled by Mabel 
Carew, a songster single. The songs 
have not been chosen with the best of 
care. The opening should be changed 
to something else, the comedy song 
filling in better later. The recitation 
bit called "The Mad Stampede" was 
the best. The second spot was none 
too good but the "Stampede" put this 
single over. 

Joe Curtis did some character sink- 
ing next to closing, with his last num- 
ber going over very big. The audience 
took readily to his comedy. 

The Irmcnas man and woman, on 
the wire, closed. The woman's ap- 
pearance helps. It is something often 
lacking in this kind of act. The open- 
ing spot was entrusted to the Morris 
scy Brothers (New Acts). 

A corking single reel comedy and a 
pictorial review came in between the 
acts. 



23D STREET. 

It was quite a variety show the 23d Street 
pave its patrons the last half of last week. 
The business was gratifying. 

Ural and his dog started. The animal is a 
knowing boast and makes use of his training. 
Nola and Dreux formed a feminine singing 
duo that pleased. 

The two-reeled subject, "The Viking Queen" 
(Edison), missed fire. This picture coukl 
have been done in one reel. The finish was 
very tame. Clifford and Douglass, man and 
woman, exchanged some old patter and sang 
several numbers. Act In present shape be- 
longs to pop house classification. 

Grazla Nardlni did well with her musical 
offering. 8he first played a couple of piano 
numbers, in "one" and closed strong with a 
popular medley on the accordion. Nardinl 
could give her act a stronger aspect by stick- 
ing solely to the Italian instrument. She 
handles the accordion well and on her pop 
house travels could register bigger results if 
she rendered only ballads and "rag" selections. 

The Georgia Campers, ten choristers, with 
sex equally distributed, and two principals, a 
prima donna and a dancing juvenile, filled the 
stage and stepped about pretty lively. The 
Campers are forte on dancing and Inject 
enough noise for a dozen acts. A different 
dressing at the opening might help. The men 
are coatless but wear straw katles. For the 
next number the boys slip on their coats. 

Harry Wilson talks and sings parodies, in- 
cluding two that carried the same idea about 
certain sections of one's clothes ripping. Wil- 
son also got his biggest laughs from the male 
section of the house on the story about the 
women detectives and police. It was "blue." 

Ben Lewln and Co., the support being a 
man with a typically dramatic voice and man- 
ner, offered "The Devil's Mate." The idea 
of a man going to the devil and the devil call- 
ing for him In person is not new, but Lewln 
has given his offering a new tinge. A man 
Just about to end his life, wenkens and call* 
upon the devil to aid him. The devil In the 
well-known Mephlsto costume, appears. His 
Satanic Majesty gives the man one more 
chance. Any game is suggested, the mnn to 
select. He chooses chess. The devil then 
magically brings an electrical chessboard into 
view. The devil checkmates the man in seven 
moves, but in the movinr of the figures forms 
nn illuminated cross. This sends the devil 
back to his own fireside. 

Fox and Burkhardt scored the biggest hit 
on the bill. These Hebrew comedians sing bet- 
ter than thev talk and their duo* turned the 
applause trick. Dippy Dlers and Florence Ben- 
nett closed. Dlers still docs the Bert Melrose 
table balancing, but does not use the chair 
for the fall. 



JEFFERSON. 



The Jefferson put on a corking bill the lat- 
ter part of last week, with eight acts. Some 
spelled big time while other* had seen that 
degree of success. 

The most pretentious was the Pereival 
Knight sketch "Detective Keene," with a dif- 
ferent cast. The new people have been se- 
lected for the three-a-day and the sketch will 
be able to go along with those employed. 

A posing turn with a special setting, Leon's 
Models, opened the show nicely. This posing 
act is far superior to the average run of small 
time posers. 

Julia Rooney sang and danced. Julia Is a 
natural dancer and should go after this line 
more. The part of her act when she appears 
In a boy's suit, gets over very big with her 
stepping. 

The only conflict on the bill was at the last, 
when two male trios came together. The work 
of the two was vastly different. The first 
were Keith, Langton and Wheeler, a singing 
trio, with one in blackface, the other In a 
messenger bov uniform, and the third as a 
rube dude. The comedv made them laugh 
downtown. The other three, the Regal trio, 
did none great twisting. 

The Trans-Atlantic Sextet, musical, presented 
a hlKh grade musical routine. The work on 
the brasses bv these peonle Is up to the stan- 
dard set by the best of this trvtt of acts. The 
little girl who nlays the violin has the making 
of a good danMng violinist, and her selections 
are well chosen. • 

Harry Gibbons and Mary Emery presented 
the only mixed two-act. They sang and talked 
as usual, with Gibbon's song shout football 
irolng over as the biggest In the act. May 
Emery's coldness toward the audience does 
not help any. 

A tnlkatlvr ma«r|c|an, E. J. Moore, rounded 
out tho show. He emplovs a plant, who Is 
genuinely funny. Moore did verv well. 



BEDFORD. 

The Bedford, one of William Fox's Brook- 
lyn houses, Is lorsted In a section drawing a 
hleh class patronage. 

The show consists of six acts and a feature 
Picture. The opening act the last half of last 
week wns Miller and Carmen, a man and wo- 
man, who follow the usual routine of small 
Hmo two-acts with the exception that the *lrl 
plnvs a violin. The two opened fairly well. 

Itanos. a Spanish drincjn* couple held, were 
two. and took the honors of the show, the bov 
being a remiirknble Spsnlsb dancer. The girl 
has secured a new gown which Is far more at- 
trnetive tbnn the red and black affair which 
she clung to so long. 

A sketch requiring a special setting, proved 
a disappointment. It wns "Twice a Week " 
with the setting r« nresentlng the gate of a 
crnv-tery. Three characters, two men and a 
woman. It enn't get very fsr In vaudeville. 
fones nnd Elliott, n straight snd comedian, 
followed nnd bnd a pretty easv time, the Ger- 
man rowcdlnn retting the little real material 
ovr t<« f:i1r returns. 

The hondllnci snot or next to closing was 
held tiv the Tclejrraph Four, who nsng n M« 
with "imp dnnclng Th« Aeroplnne Cilrlo 
tnnere. closed. 



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VAKIBTY 





FIRST ACTUAL WAR SCENES 
CAUGHT BY LUBIN CAMERA MAN 

Taken in Alost During Occupation of City. Personal Peril 
in Securing Them. London Newspapers Grab "Stills." 

Over Here. 



(Special OtMe to Varubtt.) 

London, Oct. 5. 

Actual battle scenes (the first of the 
war), caught in the streets of Alost by 
a Lubin camera man during the occupa- 
tion of that city, have been exhibited 
here and copies are on their way to the 
United States. 

The operator was caught in the be- 
leagured city and secured views of ac- 
tion at great personal peril. Upon his 
arrival in London, the newspapers 
snapped up copies of individual pictures 
for reproduction, and before the first 
positive was issued for exhibition or- 
ders for 100 copies were booked. 



PATHE REPORTS. 

Conflicting rumors are abroad this 
ueek about Pathe. One report says 
there has been a reorganization of the 
company here, and another it has been 
absorbed by another company. 

The war has lopped off the foreign 
Pathe shipments. It has also stopped 
the studio work in Europe, hitting 
Pathe a wallop. 



VITA'S NEW B*WAY HOUSE. 

"Pop" Rock's secret is out. Rock, 
who is at the head of the Vitagraph 
Co., is reported as having entered into 
negotiations for the purchase of the 
Cafe de Paris, Broadway, between 41st 
and 42nd streets, the Vita to use the 
site for the erection of the biggest pic- 
ture house on Btoadway. 

Rock has had his eye on the old 
Louis Martin place for some time. It 
has stood idle for many months. 

The Vitagraph is giving up its Cri- 
terion lease after one year's tenancy. 

Rock's emissaries practically closed 
the big deal last week, but several lit- 
tle technicalities are said to have caused 
a few days' postponement. 

The Cafe de Paris occupies a prize 
frontage on Broadway and a depth 
that sweeps into Seventh avenue that 
would enable the Vitagraph Co. to 
build a mammoth theatre. 



LASKrS 28. 

From 12 to 28 since Sept. 1 is the 
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co.'s rec- 
ord. It means the Lasky concern will 
produce for release through the Para- 
mount Corporation 28 feature films 
from Sept. 1, 1914, to Sept. 1, 1915. 

When the Famous Players, Lasky, 
and Bosworth, Inc., linked their cir- 
culation with the Paramount, Lasky 
was obligated to turn out 12 feature 
releases for the Paramount year, start- 
ing Sept. 1. Since then, demand for 
the Lasky films brought the decision 
to increase. 

Tuesday of this week Samuel Gold- 



fish, general manager for the Lasky 
firm, decided upon eight more features, 
bringing the total of his concern's for 
the year to 28, after listening to the 
appeals of the exhibitors for Lasky 
releases. 

Of the eight new productions to be 
made within the year, in addition to 
those announced, Mr. Goldfish has de- 
cided upon "Merely Mary Ann," "The 
Governor's Lady," "The Goose Girl" 
and "The Country Boy." Selections 
are now being made for the others. 

Dustin Farnum left New York this 
week for the Pacific Coast, where he 
will head a Lasky company in play- 
ing "Cameo Kirby" for the screen. 
It will be the first of the Lasky-Lieb- 
ler plays. 



INFRINGEMENT ALLEGED. 

An infringement is alleged by Lew 
Fields against Marie Dressier on the 
four or five-reel comic feature Miss 
Dressier recently appeared in. It was 
given a private showing Monday of this 
week under the title of "Tillie's Punc- 
tured Romance." 

Mr. Fields says the film is an infringe- 
ment of the play "Tillie's Nightmare," 
the copyright of which is held by him, 
and in which Miss Dressier was starred 
by Mr. Fields on the stage. 

Legal action will shortly be started, 
added Mr. Fields, to assert his claim to 
all rights for the piece. 



CARBONS SOARING. 

An alarm over the future price of 
carbons is passing through the ranks 
of picture exhibitors, who have not 
protected themselves against the ex- 
pected increase on account of the war. 

The Bio Cored carbon, y^ by 12, 
made abroad, sold at $2.65, bundle of 
50, before Europe's wildest broke out. 
The market price rapidly jumped to 
its present quotation, $7.40, with a 
further increase in immediate prospect. 

Several picture concerns are said to 
have loaded up with carbons. The 
General Film Co. is reported to have 
stored away 200,000 bundles, that it is 
now doling out to its exhibitors at $5 
per bundle, below the market price. 
The G. F. is said to have paid about 
$1.50 per bundle for the big lot when 
purchasing. 

The National concern, a domestic 
carbon maker, is retailing at $2.50 each 
bundle, but the native manufacture is 
not in as great demand as the foreign, 
owing to the matter of electric cur- 
rents, the native being adaptable to 
only one current, it is said. 



MONEY IS TIGHT. 

Money is tight in Wall street, if two 
film companies know anything about it. 
One company sent its most dignified 
looking representative down with $50,- 
000 of good, honest Government secur- 
ities and tried to get an immediate loan 
of $40,000. Repeated efforts resulted in 
the good-as-gold bonds being returned 
to the film company's strong box. 

Another firm has also been trying its 
mightiest to secure a substantial loan 
to tide it over for the next six months 
or so. So far the company is still on 
the search. 

Another picture concern said to have 
been on the verge of bankruptcy and 
dissolution, according to divers reports, 
has taken a new lease of life. The 
company has gotten some new money 
behind it and has also made a new 
exchange connection which should 
carry it safely through the winter. 



U. B. O.'S SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. 

Plans are afoot to build up a complete 
picture circuit in the South by the 
United Booking Offices Feature Film 
Co. (Inc.). Joe Daly and Tony Duffy 
are lining up the new connections. 

Straight picture programs, splitting 
weekly, are being routed up for Keith 
houses in Atlanta and Louisville, and 
before a fortnight other theatres will 
be tacked onto the southern list. 

Jake Wells, it's reported, may take 
several southern houses not playing big 
time vaudeville or burlesque and give 
them straight feature pictures. 



EXCLUSIVE CO. FINISHES. 

The Exclusive Supply Co., of the 
Candler building, ceased to be after 
Thursday of last week. The passing 
was accompanied by lamentations from 
employees. The offices formerly oc- 
cupied by the Exclusive have been 
taken over by the All Star. Joe Miles 
and John Clymer, who were with the 
Exclusive, are now making their office 
with Charles "Feature" Abrahms. 




GAUMONT BACK IN GENERAL. 

The Gaumont company is back with 
the General Film Co. again, and is re- 
leasing its product under the firm 
name of the Columbus Film Co. 

The details regarding the reinstate- 
ment are kept a secret. 



MORE STARS. 

Further activities in the Box Office 
Attractions camp brings Robert Edeson 
into the fold. Edeson is to play the 
picture role in "The Girl I Left Be- 
hind Me," marked for release Nov. 21. 

Edmund Breese is not to appear in 

"The Walls of Jericho." He has been 
switched to the principal male role in 
"The Children of the Ghetto," the Israel 
Zangwill feature, to be released Nov. 1. 

Nov. 7 "The Thief" will be released. 
Breese is also expected to be one of the 
principals in this picture. 

James K. Hackett has been engaged 
for the "Walls of Jericho" feature. This 
film's release date is Nov. 14. 

The first feature release date of the 
new William Fox Co. is Oct. 20, when 
"Life's Shop Window" will be shown. 



STERLING CO. DISSOLVING? 

It is said the Sterling Comedy Co., 
which furnishes comedies for the Uni- 
versal, with Ford Sterling featured, is 
to be dissolved by mutual consent of 
parties interested. 

Ford Sterling reached New York 
from the Pacific Coast Monday and 
immediately went into close confer- 
ence with the heads of the U. Sterling 
was plied with a thousand questions, 
but said he was here on a double mis- 
sion and that none of his plans could 
be made public. 

Sterling was formerly with the Key- 
stone (New York Motion Picture Co.), 
but was enticed away by the U. on a 
fat contract and percentage basis. He 
becoming a stockholder in the Ster- 
ling Co. The other stockholders then 
were Henry Pathe Leherman and Fred 
Balsofer, the former later disposing of 
his interests to Sterling and Balsofer. 



'DEN OF THE WOOZY" 

In "The Patchwork Girl of Or," the first fea* 
ture of the Oz Company. 



ORGANIZING FOR FEATURES. 

An organization of exhibitors started 
with the idea of co-operative booking 
has been formed in this city. Its pur- 
pose briefly is to form a club limited 

to 50 members with opposition houses 
not less than ten blocks apart, and with 
the intent of purchasing supplies and 
the booking of features. 

A committee of five will be appointed 
to select such features as will be 
booked and it is the intention of this 
organization to draw lots to govern the 
placing of its early runs. Already this 
new scheme has 27 members. The 
temporary officers elected are: Lee 
Oakes, President; Billy Hilkemeyer, 
Vice-President; Aaron Corn, Second 
Vice-President; Louis Blumenthal, 
Treasurer; M. L. Fleischman, Secre- 
tary; with offices in the Lyric theatre 
building. 



VARIETY 



23 





BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR FEATURES 
WITH SHORTAGE OF SUPPLY 

Multiple Reeler Situation Settling Down. By January 1 Con- 
sistent Conditions Looked For. Exhibitors Demanding 
Good Films With Supply Not Equal to It. 
Eclipsing Daily Release Service. 



The feature film makers are seeing 
a glittering perspective to their busi- 
ness. The most conservative of them 

seem agreed that by January first next 
the unsettled condition of the feature 
film business will have resolved itself 
into something like a definite state of 
affairs upon which they can figure. 

This placid state is not expected to 
be reached without the dropping of 
many of the mushroom feature film 
concerns on the wayside meanwhile. 
The first rumblings of the crumbling 
of the inexperienced and insecure fea- 
ture film making concerns have been 
heard. Two or three months more is 
the length of time given to weed them 
out. 

The American feature makers also 
admit a shortage of good long film over 
here, and appear pleased that that is 
the case. They say that with the 
field clear, a better idea will be ob- 
tained of a remarkable feature, and the 
substantial producers remaining in the 
feature field, will proceed along the 
lines of demand, without having the 
get-rich-quick people to interfere in 
their dealings with the service corpo- 
rations or the exhibitors. 

The big service corporations, in 
their formation and manner of doing 
business, are proving of benefit to the 
safe and sane feature maker. The 
manufacturer now knows he can place 
his feature, if it is a good one, and 
secure an immediate advance from the 
service corporation accepting, that will 
in part reimburse him for the invest- 
ment, while future proceeds return to 
the maker in the form of a division of 
the gross receipts the feature draws. 
It still remains with the manufacturer 
to turn out a drawing card in the way 
of a feature, but he is assured of cir- 
culation through an organized medium. 

With the practical elimination of the 
foreign feature as a competitor and a 
menace to the American feature film 
industry, and the prospect that the 
feature film business sooner or later 
will be thoroughly systematized, with 
competent picture men in control, the 
incentive for men who know pictures 
to look into the feature end is prov- 
ing attractive just now. 

The daily release service has nearly 
been eclipsed of late by the features, 
although the call for the single and 
two-reelers is strongly present. 

The feature manufacturers are say- 
ing that the feature field has never 
shown as much strength as just now, 
and that the future of it, in every way, 
never looked better, they qualifying to 



the extent that inexperience and "crazy 
capital" could again muddle it up, if 
allowed to gain another foot-hold. 



SHOWING ANIMATED PICTURE. 

The Treble Clef Motion Picture Co., 
which is making a specialty of popular 
songs illustrated by story of the lyrics 
in film form, is showing its first big 
product, "The Land of My Best Girl," 
at Hammerstein's next week. 

The company is principally con- 
trolled by Louis Bernstein and Henry 
Watterson, two music publishers, al- 
though the Treble Clef does not con- 
fine its operations to the songs of the 
music establishments Messrs. Watter- 
son and Bernstein are interested in. 
Its offices are at 154 West 46th street. 



PERMANENTLY INJURED. 

Harry Lambart, a director of the 
Vitagraph, who was injured by a stroke 
of lightning at Yonkers about six weeks 
ago at which time Shad Fisher, camera 
expert, was instantly killed, is not get- 
ting along as well as could be expected. 
The stroke appears to have affected 
his spine and he may be permanently 
crippled. 

Lambart is slowly recovering at the 
Iroquois Hotel. He was directing a 
picture entitled "The Stroke of Five." 



VITA PUTTING IT OVER. 

The Universal would have slipped 
over a nifty on the Vitagraph last Sun- 
day but for the alertness and vigilance 
of Victor Smith, the Vita studio man- 
ager. The ink on the New York dailies 
telling of the Vita's big wreck stunt 
in the cameraing of "The Juggernaut" 
had hardly dried when the Universal 
sent over camera men posthaste Sun- 
day to take views of what was left of 
the wreck. Smith, getting a hunch, got 
on the ground ahead of them and with 
a sturdy band of Vita "protectors" 
nipped the U's little scheme in the bud. 



RETRENCHING. 

Retrenchment appears to be the pol- 
icy of some of the film companies. One 
l:ig photoplay concern in particular has 
assumed more economic principles, util- 
izing the services of its stock players 
who heretofore "rested" while supers 
did the "bits" and minor roles. 

The actors have been told that the 
war has cut off the biggest part of the 
company's business and are doing the 
"doubling" without suffering any pangs 
of humiliation. 



NEW FEATURE STARS. 

Among the features released by the 
Paramount Corporation during the next 
three months there will be several with 
stars that are new to the screen. 

The Bosworth company will release 
in December "The Country Mouse," 
with Adele Farrington. 

The same month the Famous Play- 
ers will release a four-reeler, "Aris- 
tocracy," with Tyrone Power. Theo 
Roberts will appear in the production 
of "The Rose and the Ring," a five- 
reeler by the Lasky Co., released around 
Christmas. Soon after the new year 
the Famous Players will release Henry 
Arthur Jones' "The Dancing Girl," with 
Florence Reed, who has lately achieved 
a notable personal success in "The Yel- 
low Ticket." 

"The Straight Road," generally con- 
ceded to be the masterpiece of the emi- 
nent dramatist, Clyde Fitch, is also in- 
troduced by the Famous Players to the 
motion picture public. 

Mary Pickford is represented on the 
program by "The Stepsister" and by 
the charming romantic play, "Mistress 
Nell." "The Million" is also scheduled 
for forthcoming release, presenting Ed- 
ward Abeles in the principal role. 

The program further includes "The 
Conspiracy," with John Emerson, its 
author, in his original role. 



PUSHING PRICES DOWN. 

A war was started last week by sev- 
eral of the "larger feature film con- 
cerns, led by the General Film Co., 
with its program including Klaw & 
Erlanger's releases. 

The price of two-score of the ex- 
clusive features was chopped down to 
$2.00 per reel. 

This was immediately followed by 
the Eclectic, Box Office Attractions, 
and Warner Features meeting the 
price set by the G. F. 

Following the announcement, the of- 
fices of all four were crowded with 
bargain-hunting exhibitors, and as a 
direct result, two of the smaller fea- 
ture film exchanges in the Masonic 
Building closed their doors. 



INJUNCTION QUICKLY VACATED. 

An injunction obtained in the United 
States Court and served Monday 
around six o'clock in the evening, was 
vacated by Judge Mayer at his home 
the same evening, upon the application 
of Jerome Wilzin, representing Wil- 
liam Morris, one of the defendants in 
the action. 

The procedings were brought 
against Morris, Cort-Kitsee Co., John 
Cort, Orphcum Operating Co. and the 
B. F. Keith New York Theatres Co., 
to restrain the displaying of the Harry 
Lauder Talking Picture. An infringe- 
ment is alleged upon a patent held by 
either of the plaintiffs, who are the 
Commercial Biophnnc Co., Messtcr's 
Projecting Co., G-mh-H Co., and Os- 
car Messter. 

The hearing on the motion has been 
set down for Oct. IS. 



COAST PICTURE NEWS. 

By GUY PRICE. 

J. L. Barnard, a Los Angelea newspaper 
man, Is writing n series of crook plays in 
which police reporters figure for the Mutual. 



Tip to Insurance men. I). W. Griffith baa 
learned to drive a motor car. 



Harry Fischer, formerly with the Lasky 
studios, has Joined the Montgomery company. 

James Davis, former Universal actor, Is 
now a full-fledged director. 



Permits were granted at Los Angeles last 
week for the building of four big picture 
theatres in the residential districts. 



Oeorge Beban is on the Coast to appear In a 
film Btory written by Tom I nee. 

Henry Otto now has charge of Tom Tlcketts 
company at the American. 



Charles Clary and Wheeler Oakman are in 
San Franc 1 ico taking dock and water scenes 
for "The Rosary." 



Eva Thatcher Is the latest actress to Join 
the Albuquerque forces. 



Members of the Oz Film company attended 
a Los Angeles theatre to witness "Tho Patch- 
work airf." 



William Garwood was on the San Franclsco- 
Lob Angeles Lark when It was held up by 
train robbers near Hurbank, Cal. He con- 
tributed a gold watch and Ave perfectly good 
simeleons. 



J. K. Messick has been won away from the 
Universal by Frank Montgomery, who Is now 
operating on his own. 



Charley Ray is to put in a happy week 
soon. He will be "killed" three times, first 
by the electric chair, second by being run 
over by a train and third by shooting. 

Harry Edwards is now with the H. Pathe 
Lehrman company. He will direct. 

Adele Lane, who was bit by a bear re- 
cently, soon will be back at work. 

Ruth Hartman has joined the Carlyle Black- 
well forces. 



"SIGN OF THE CROSS" ABROAD. 

The impressive film version of Wil- 
son Barrett's immortal play, "The Sign 
of the Cross," recently filmed by the 
Famous Players with William Farnum 
in the role of Marcus, the Roman, and 
which has just been released in Great 
Britain in order to fill bookings, ob- 
tained as far in advance as last spring, 
has received unusual praise from all 
the English trade periodicals and lead- 
ing film authorities. 

The subject is scheduled as a forth- 
coming production on the Famous 
Players' program. 



PROGRESSIVE RELEASE. 

The Progressive Motion Picture Co. 
will release through the Alliance Films 
Corporation its new picture, "Mac- 
Veagh of the South Seas," from the 
book by H. D. Carey. 



INVADING LATIN AMERICA. 

San Francisco, Oct. 7. 

The Movca Film Service has been 
organized here with a capital stock of 
$150,000 to stage and manufacture mo- 
tion pictures for South and Central 
America. 

The only pictures that will be made 
for the United States will be special 
comic cartoon films, which this com- 
pany will release from San Francisco. 
The directors of the company are: John 
C. Terry and H. M. Shields, newspaper 
men: Carrie De Longhurst, T. E. J. 
Gardner, and Timothy Hcaly. Each is 
well known locally. 



24 



VARIETY 



FILM FLASHES 



B. A. Rolfe has secured the motion picture 
rlghtB to Halllc Erminle Hives' novel 'Satan 
Sanderson'" from the Bobba-Merrill Company 
of Indianapolis. This will be the first feature 
released through the Alco Film Corporation 
by the newly- formed D. A. Rolfe Photo Play 
Co. It is reported that Mr. Rolfe is trying to 
secure James K. Hackett for the principal 
role in the piece. 

Among forthcoming photoplay features pro- 
ductions by the Llebler-Vltagraph Co. are 
'The Battle," "The Man from Home," "The 
Fourth Estate" and "The Regeneration." 

"The Garden of Allah" project hns been call- 
ed off until after the war. as the picture play- 
ers will have to go to Africa to enact the pic- 
ture. 



"The Jewish King Lear"' is a feature which 
Jacob Ooldln has written. 



The Arrow Co. has turned out "Tracked 
Across the Atlantic." Sidney Frnnklln Is now 
general manager of the Arrow. 



R. S. Janett In managing the picture regime 
of the Metropolitan opera house, Philadel- 
phia. 

Alejl Lorlmorc, booking manager with the 
Dox Office Attraction Co., resigned last week 
and secured offices of his own with the Idea of 
manufacturing single reel comedy pictures. 

The Crescent, Brooklyn, feature pictures, Is 
advertising there are ttOO seats at every mati- 
nee at Ave cents each. Crescent was form- 
erly a stock house and has a large seating ca- 
pacity. 

The Atsco Co. shipped a gold fibre screen 
Wednesday to be Installed in the Blografa 
Ijavilla, the only moving picture house In 
Pimto Arenos Patagonia In South America. 
This Is said to be the most southerly town In 
the world. 



The (o-»mos Film Corporation picture, 
"Lena Rivers," with Beula Poynter, who 
wrote the play and has starred In It as a 
legitimate production for many years, Is to 
be released within a fortnight 



The Alco corporation added the fifth floor 
of the Candler annex to their suite of offices 
this week. * 



The Picture Playhouse Film Co. (Inc.) has 
oprned a branch in Toronto, placing Arthur 
A. Lee In charge. Lee was formerly with the 
General Film Co. 



The former William Collier comedy, "The 
Man From Mexico/' Is in course of film 
preparation by the Famous Players' Co. John 
ffarrymore is to be featured. It is to be re- 
leased Nov. 0. 



The feature film. "His Last Dollar," by the 
Famous Players will be given Its first show- 
ing Oct. 15. David Hlgglns is seen in his old 
role. 



The first output of the Henry W. Savage- 
Fatuous Players combination will be disclosed 
Oct. 20 In the release of "The County Chair- 
man," with Macklyn Arbuckle In the leading 
role. Willie P. W. Steatman will figure in 
the character of Sassafras Livingstone, which 
he created. 



Tho New York state Are marshal has pro- 
hibited the explosion of "bombs" behind the 
scenes In moving picture theatres as an 
"effect" for war pictures. 



Marguerite Clark has been engaged to play 
the leading part In a film version of Mark 
Luther Long's story "The Crucible," having 
just completed the moving picture feature 
WildlloWer," both the product of the Famous 
Players Co. 



The Boston Opera House. Boston, will offer 
a series of moving picture reproductions of 
crand opera stories, beginning Oct. ML A 
corporation has been organized to handle this 
enterprise, both as to the manufacture of films 
and their exhibition, bended by W. J. Mc- 
Donald, business manager of the noston Opera 
company. 



Xow York will celebrate Oct. 24 to 31 tho 
'K»0th anniversary of the beginning of chart- 
ered commerce. Oct. 21) has been designated 
:«s "theatre and moving picture night." 

"We need a motion picture machine so we 
can tench our young detectives how thieves 
operate." said New York's police commissioner 
In explaining nn Item In the police budget 
this week. "Crimes will be enacted before 
the enmera and the films will then be ex- 
hibited beforo the young thief catchers." 

George I. Appleby, formerly manager of 
the Boston and Portland (Me.) offices of the 
Mutual Film Corporation, hns been engaged 
as manager of the Empire thentre, a Portland 
picture house, to fill the vacancy made by the 
resignation of Daniel D. Leader. Mr. Applebv 
assumed charge Monday. 



Charles Peck who recently retired as pub- 
li'ltv man for the Pox Office Attraction com- 
pany, has Joined the forces of the Balboa 
company. 



leads for the Balboa picture stock company 
and alflb of the Universal, is now associated 
with the Eaco Film company and will be seen 
in Its products. Mr. August recently re- 
ceived a Judgment against the Balboa com- 
pany for salary due him amounting to about 
$1,100. 



Carl H. Pierce, of the Bosworth, Inc., is 
editing a neat little pamphlet, entitled "Bos- 
worth." in tho interests of the Hobart Bos- 
worth photoplays and players. 



Hunter Bennett, assistant general manager 
of the World Film Corporation, Is off on a 
second trip west to Inspect branch offices In 
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. He 
said : "The following changes have been made 
in the location of our representatives : Leon 
Bamberger, from the Buffalo office to special 
work In Kansas City and St. Louis and Minne- 
apolis offices; L. J. Chrlstoffer, from Wash- 
ington to Boston ; William Weiss, from Chi- 
cago to Pittsburgh ; Jos. Klein, to manage 
Detroit office ; E. D. Selden, special work for 
the New Orleans and Dallas offices ; AI. Joyce, 
to operate from Buffalo instead of New York ; 
Jerome Sobel, in charge of the Brooklyn sub- 
office as soon as It is opened ; Robert Clark, 
to similar position In the Newark sub-office ; 
both these sub-offices to be under H. O. Segal, 
manager of the New York exchange. These 
and a branch Just opened In Salt Lake City 
Increase the number of our exchanges to 
twenty-six. 

Sol Lesser, of the Golden Gate Film Com- 
pany of San Francisco, arranged with Al 
Llchtman of the Alco Film Company, dur- 
ing the latter's visit to that city, for the 
California rights of the Alco Features. 



SOUTH AMERICAN BUSINESS. 

Indications point to a picture war 
in South America and already several 
"independents" have an invasion of that 
territory under way in an endeavor to 
get control of the situation now that 
the war has cut off the European sup- 
ply of films. 

Wednesday Alexander Von Koenig, 
export manager for the Universal, start- 
ed for South America to "beat" any of 
the opposition boys to the territory 
heretofore covered by European ex- 
changes. He goes by the way of Cuba, 
Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argen- 
tine and to Rio Janeiro, where he will 
establish headquarters. 

Lawrence W. Westholm, of the Uni- 
versal^ auditing forces, departs later 
for South America, where he will be 
controller of accounts for the U's sta- 
tion in Rio Janeiro. 



FOX TAKES PARAMOUNT. 

The Paramount service has been 
booked for the Greater New York the- 
atres of the William Fox chain. The 
Fox houses are to play two pictures 
each week, changing Monday and 
Thufsday. 



A distinctive little booklet 2% by 3^ Inches 
with portraits of the Paramount's impressive 
list of stage celebrities (an even 30 of them) 
scaled down to postago stamp size, is being 
sent about in large quantities. The text tells 
"The Story of Paramount" in crisp English. 



"The Mystery of Edwin Drood," with Tom 
Terriss. the well known impersonator of 
Dickens' characters featured, is the second re- 
lease of the Dickens' series by the World Film 
Corporation. 



Pass Books Given Out. 

The Strand on Broadway has chang- 
ed its courtesy system. The first pass 
was a card, good for admission at any 
time. These have been recalled and 
a book of detachable passes issued in- 
stead. 



RELEASED NEXT WEEK (Oct 12 to Oct 19, inc.) 

MANUFACTURERS INDICATED BY ABBREVIATIONS, VIZ.: 



GENERAL 

Vitagraph V 

Biograph R 

Kalem K 

Lubin L 

Pathes Pthe 

Sclig S 

Edison E 

Essanay S-A 

Kleine Kl 

Melies Mtl 

Ambrosia Amb 

Columbus Col 



EXCLUSIVE 

G. N. S. F G N 

Ramo R 

Sol ax Sol 

Eclectic Eel 

F. R. A F 

Lewis Pennants.. I. P 

Gt. Northern G N 

Dragon D 

Itala It 

G. N. X. X...G N X X 
Blache Features.. Bl 
Luna Lu 



UNIVERSAL 

Imp I 

Bison B101 

Chrystal C 

Nestor N 

Powers P 

Eclair Eclr 

Rex Rx 

Frontier Frnt 

Victor Vic 

Gold Seal G S 

Joker J 

Universal Ike ...U I 
Sterling Ster 



NOTE— The subject is in one reel of about 1,000 feet unless otherwise noted 



MUTUAL 

Gaumont G 

American A 

Keystone Key 

Reliance Rel 

Majestic Mai 

Thanhouser T 

Kay-Bee K B 

Broncho Br 

Domino Dom 

Mutual M 

Princess Pr 

Komic Ko 

Beauty Be 

Apollo ~. Apo 

Royal R 

Lion Ln 

Hepworth H 



Kdwln August, who formerly played the 



OCTOBER 12— MONDAY. 

MUTUAL.— Jail Birds, 2-reel dr. A; The 
Anglers, com. Key ; Our Mutual CTlrl, No. 30, 
Rel. 

GENERAL F.- The Guiding Fate, dr, B; 
Duster Brown's Education, and George Wash- 
ington Jones, split-reel com, E ; Sweedle 
Learns to Swim, com, S-A ; The Girl and the 
Stowaway, 2-reel com, K ; The Beloved Ad- 
venturer, No. 5. "The Girl from the West," 
dr. L; Pathe's Dally News, No. 67. Pthe; The 
Dream Girl. 2-reel dr, and Hears»t-Sellg Pic- 
torial, No. (55. S ; Midst Woodland Shadows, 
dr, V. 

UNIVERSAL.— Mary's Convert, dr. I; His 
Father's Son, 2-reel dr. Vic; The Close Call, 
com, Ster. 

OCTOBER 13— TUESDAY. 

MUTUAL. — The Diamond of Disaster, 2- 
roel dr. T ; The Warning, com-dr. MaJ ; Win- 
some Winnie, eom-dr, Be. 

GENERAL F— The Iron Master. 2-reel dr, 
n ; On the Jlattle Line, 2-reel dr, Kl ; Why 
Skunkvllle 'Went Dry. com, Col : The Letter 
That Never Came, dr. E ; Through Eyes of 
Love, dr. S-A ; Percy Plmpernlckel, com. K ; 
Swaml Sam and Neighborly Neighbors, spllt- 
r««el com. L; The Mexican, dr, S; Mareea, 
tho Foster Mother. 2-reel dr, V. 

UNIVERSAL. Trey o' Hearts. No. 11 (The 
Painted Hills). 2-reel dr, OS; Oh, You Gypsy 
Girl and Some Collectors, split-reel com. C ; 
Mnry Green's Husband and Educationnl split- 
reel com, U I. 

OCTOBER 14— WEDNESDAY. 

MUTUAL.— End of the Galley 2-recl dr 
Hr; Down by the Sea. dr. A; Had Man 
M;i«on. dr. Rcl. 

GENERAL F. — Andy ond the Redskins No 
11 (Andy Scrlos). com. F 4 ; The Fable of' Tho 
Author i.nd the Pear Public and the Plate of 
Mn^h, com. S-A ; Seed and the Harvest °- 
nvl dr, K ; Tho Bond of Wnmcnhood 2-r»eI 



dr, L; The Mysterious Beauty, com, S; The 
Peacemaker, com, V ; Pathe's Weekly, No. 
68, Pthe. 

UNIVERSAL.— On Again, Off Again. Fln- 
nlgan, com. J ; The Squatter, H-reel dr. Eclr. 

OCTOBER IS— THURSDAY. 

MUTUAL.— Jimmy, 2-reel dr, Dom; Key- 
stone title not announced, Mutual Weekly. No. 
!)4, M. 

GENERAL F.— The First Law. dr, B; 
Columbus title not announced, Snakeville's 
Peacemaker, com, S-A ; The Impostor, 2-reel 
dr, L; Hearst-Scllg News Pictorial. No. (IS, S; 
His Dominant Passion, dr, V. 

UNIVERSAL.— The Futility of Revenge 2- 
reel dr, I : Her Life's Story, dr. Rx ; Heinle's 
Outing, com, Ster. 

OCTOBER 16— FRIDAY. 

MUTUAL.— The Word of His E'eople, 2-reel 
dr. K B; The Touch of a Little Hand, dr Pr ; 
Back to the Kitchen, com. MaJ. 

GENERAL F.— Peg o' the Wild-Wood, dr 
B ; On the Isle of Same, 2-reel com-dr E • 
The Other Man. 2-reel dr, S-A ; Si's Wonder- 
ful Mineral Spring, com, K ; The Long Lane 
dr. L; The Mnn-Hator, com, S; Fatty's Sweet- 
heart, com, V. 

UNIVERSAL— The Way of Life, dr N • 
The Padrone's Ward. 2-reel dr, P ; The Funny 
Mr. Dingle, com, Vic. 

OCTOBER 17— SATURDAY. 

MUTUAL. — The Revenue Officers Deputy 2- 
reel dr. Rel ; Keystone title not announced 

GENERAL F.- Meeting Mr. Jones and Our 
Home-Made Army, split-reel com. IT; The 
Case of the Vanished Bonds, dr. E; Broncho 
Billy Rewarded, dr, S-A ; From Peril to Peril 
dr. K; The Smuggler's Daughter, com L; 

T ^V V o° ,n, T J* II' dr - S: Tnc G 'rl «n" the 
Case, 2-reel dr, V. 

UNIVERSAL.— Across the Court, corn J 
MoiiHifiir Bluebeard, "J -roe I dr 101 B 



WORLD FILM TAKING MANY. 

The World Film Corporation it ne- 
gotiating with D. W. Griffith, accord- 
ing to reports, and the latter is under- 
stood to be considering the offer. Grif- 
fith will be assigned if signed to the 
Peerless Producing Co. 

The Peerless, after securing James E. 
Young and Clara Kimball-Young away 
from the Vitagraph, went after Crane 
Wilbur, the Pathe (American Co.) di- 
rector-leading man, last week and cor- 
ralled him with a fat contract for the 
next year. 

Crane's first with the Peerless will be 
•As Ye Sow," the Robert Hilliard play, 
which will have Alice Brady as its star. 
It is expected to be ready around the 
holidays. Crane's jump from Pathe 
means an ending of the "Perils of Paul- 
ine" feature, in which Wilbur was one 
of the three principals. 

The Peerless via the World Film 
Corp. will have "Lola," the Owen 
Davis story, ready for exhibition Nov. 
9. This picture will mark Miss Young's 
first appearance in her new quarters 
and the first picture to be staged by 
Young since leaving the Vita. 

Maurice Tourner is the third of the 
Peerless' staff of directors, his last pic- 
ture being "The Man of the Hour." 
Tourner started the picturizing last 
week of "The Pit," the William A. 
Brady play, in which Wilton Lackaye is 
the star. 

One of the promised picture features 
to come out around the first of the year 
or perhaps the holidays is "The Wish- 
ing Ring," Vivian Martin, now with the 
Lew Fields show at the Republic, will 
enact the Marguerite Clark role. 

The World Film has fixed Nov. 2 as 
the release date for the 5,500 foot film. 
"Across the Pacific," and Dec. 16 for 
the Cecil Spooner picture of "The Dan- 
cer and the King." In taking over 
these films from Charles E. Blaney the 
World Film also took optional picture 
rights to 59 plays which Blaney has. 
From these the most acceptable will be 
chosen for screen manufacture. 

Jacob Wilk, formerly with the Wil- 
liam A. Brady attractions, is now hand- 
ling the press bureau for the World 
Film Corp. 



ALCO FEATURES MANY. 

The second release of the Alco cor- 
poration will be "The Ragged Earl," 
with Andrew Mack. This is to be re- 
leased Oct. 12, prints having been sent 
to 50 cities. 

Besides "The Ragged Earl," which 
will be released next Monday as the 
second Alco feature, that establishment 
this week sent out the following list, 
corrected to date: 

Jacob Adler in "Michael Strogoff"; 
Beatrice Michelena in "Salomy Jane"; 
Thomas Jefferson (son of the late 
Joseph Jefferson) in "Rip Van Winkle," 
taken in the Catskill Mountains where 
Washington Irving laid the scenes of 
his tale; "Shore Acres"; "The Educa- 
tion of Mr. Pipp," with Digby Bell; 
"Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," 
l>y the California Motion Picture Co.: 
"Little Lord Fauntleroy"; William 
Faversham in "The World"; Mrs. Les- 
lie Carter in "The Heart of Maryland"; 
Lillian Russell in "Wildfire," and Miss 
Michelena in "Mignon." This list car- 
ries the Alco program to Jan. 4. 



VARIETY 



25 



IRELAND. A NATION. 

Toe fr*e-reel "Ireland, a Nation" form* but 

part of tba show under that tin* at the 44th 

Street theatre. The best part Is a reel of 

Irish views preceding the feature. As a road 

show the picture, with Its attendant music, 
features and additional reels, should prove a 
money maker. There are enough Gaelic so- 
cieties throughout the country which can be 
relied upon for support In New York the au- 
diences that hare been viewing the picture 
are almost wholly Irish. One night late last 
week the big 44th street auditorium was prac- 
tically sold out at 26 and 00 cents. The au- 
dience was an Intensely enthusiastic one and 
applauded area the titles. The management 
has provided a ten-piece orchestra. A 
medley or well-knowa Irish airs Is the 
overture. This Is followed by a mixed 
Quartet. In Irish costume, who sing 
two selections. Both these musical incident* 
are a riot with an Irish audience and place 
them In a particularly receptive mood for the 
pictures. The views of Ireland follow. These 
shew the hlstorto environment of the photo- 
play. The portion of the entertainment lead- 
hag up to the feature occupies about 85 min- 
utes. Tba feature telle the story of the pass- 
»r of Ireland's House of Parliament and the 
rrlng times which followed and In which 
Robert Bmmet the Irish patriot, played a 
leading role. The producer has overlooked 
scores of opportunities to make the picture 
effective. The whole is not too well produced 
and the acting cast, numbering sixteen, dis- 
closes but one capable actor. In the person of 



Barney Magee. Barry O'Brien, who plays 
Robert Bmmet, while looking the part, falls 
to make the big scenea convincing. 

SANDS OFTHE DESERT. 

An Bolalr two-reel that falls to make a 
very good impression. The picture Is of West- 
ern make and starts with a good comic scene. 
It shows two lovers at a Hallowe'en party. 
Both love the aame girl, one finally winning 
out. The next scene Is several years later 
and ahowa the home of the couple, who now 
have a child. The other lover appears and re- 
ceives the f lad hand from the woman and the 
oold ahoelder from her husband, Tba child 



i a great fancy to the stranger and wan- 
ders to the man's camp. He brings hsr home, 
the husband being away. The latter returns, 
and. poring through a window, learns of the 
couple's plan to elope. A prearranged signal 
Is given by the woman. Meanwhile the hus- 
band comes In to await the appearance of tbe 
other man. The wife sees the plan of her 
spouse and In the ensuing quarrel he shoots 
her. The other man, on the outside, hears 
the tftreiM and comes rushing In. The two 
grapple. Another man enters and Immediate- 
ly leaven to call the sheriff, but before going 
helps tie the lover to the bed. The husband 
stays on guard, but falls asleep and the child 
wanders Into the room and releasee the man. 
The man takes the child and runs away. The 
sheriff arrives and a search la started for the 
runaway. He gets away aafely, while the hus- 
band diss In the desert. Tears pass, and the 
woman, supposed to have been killed. Is around 
again, married the second time. The former 
lover Is getting old and the girl Is his only 
comfort. The mother with her new husband Is 
out for a ride and etopa at a little house for a 
drink of water and there meets her former 
lover and her child. The old man gives up 
the daughter and decides to live the reet of his 
days alone. The picture Is of rather cheap 
construction. Plenty of action of the melo- 
drama type, but hardly up to the Universal 
standard. 



THE EX-CONVICT. 

"The Bx-Convlct" Is a Kalem two-reeler In 

which some of the lesser lights of their stock 

company were given the roles. The Ideas In 

the picture have all been worked out many 

times before. The story Is of a young chap 

who has a responsible position. He forges a 
check and le forced to confess. He is sent to 
prison and while there hie wife secures a di- 
vorce. She goes to live with a friend who has 
a brother who becomes very attentive. Things 
go on nicely till they finally are engaged. 
The husband Is released and, through a ref- 
erence from the warden, gets a position under 
the man who Intends to marry his former 
wlfs. There Is another woman who has bad 
a love affair with the man about to marry. 
The day of the wedding arrives. The woman 
comes to the home of the man carrying a child 
of which he Is the father. The whole affair 
then oomea out and he marries the girl he had 
wronged. The ex-convlct and his former wife 
are happily united. For a two reeler this pic- 
ture was Interesting. 



AMERICA. 

America Is the film version In six reels of 
the Hippodrome production of last year made 
by the All-Star Co., a spectacle In fourteen 

arisodee and as many soenes, taken on the 
Ip stage with the regular sets. The photo- 
graphic quality Is far from good, probably 
due to the Inside work without the proper 
studio lighting facilities. The chorus comes 
end goes, making many changes and doing a 
lot of dancing. The steamship effect in the 
picture Is not as convincing as in the pro- 
duction the whole thing has an artificial look. 
Several specialty acts are used as In the 
show. The first was Bert Shepard with his 
whip snapping, then the Fillls Family with 
their trained horses and also the Australian 
Wood Choppers. The work of the choppers 
furnished a good bit. The Grand Canon Is 
one of the really good sets. The finale Is the 
Court of Honor with the girls walking Into 
the water. The music was such a great as- 
set the film suffers without it. 



MARTA OF THE LOWLANDS. 

MARTA Mme. Bertha Kallch 

Manellch "The Shepherd." 

Wellington A. Playter 

Sebasticn "The Master 1 ' Hal Clarendon 

Murl Lillian Kallch 

The Famous Players presents Bertha Kallch 
In this feature film, as the attraction, rather 
than the adapted screen version of "Marta of 
the Lowlands." The Interest centres on Miss 
Kallch In preference to the picture. It Is the 
actress' first appearance before the camera. 
In a picture play that offers opportunity for 
strictly dramatic work, the conception of 
Marta by Miss Kallch Is of more technical In- 
terest than the feature Itself. Miss Kallch 
makes of the woman who Is wholly subservient 
to "The Master," a desplrlted creature, full of 
euppressed affection and knowing only to obey. 
8he turns toward the finale to really love the 
Shepherd (who takes her In marriage upon the 
Master's request), the Master finding mar- 
riage also necessary for him to savs his fi- 
nancial state. Mr. P'ayter Is a striking figure, 
tall, broad and physically equal In his pro- 
portions to all the other principals combined. 
As a tender of a few goats on the hill, the 
Shepherd appears to be allowing a great store 
of unused energy to go to waste. But he kills 
the Maater In the end. In a struggle, where the 
Master bed little chsnee against the greet 
bulk of hie opponent, and the Shepherd and 
Marta are seen to peacefully patrol the High- 
lands In the final, scene Miss Kallch Is In- 
tensely dramatic throughout, a heart-racked 
woman with not a shadow of relief to a weary 
mind and body, carrying a tragic note that 

fete out of the frame to the audience. Messrs. 
'layter and Clarendon handled their roles 
well. An excellent production has been given It 
by the Famous Players. Bime. 

AT THE 0LD~CR0SS ROADS. 

Parepa Mendosa Bstha Williams 

Annabelle Thornton R»e Fords 

Ellta Morton Mrs. Stuart Robson 

Dayton Thornton Arthur Morrison 

Col. Kerr Master Martin 

Jamee Martin Frank L. Dear 

Menda Mendosa Madge Loomls 

Stanton Thornton Jack Gordon 

Tom Martin Elmer Peterson 

Tom Johnson Chas. H. Strelmer 

It took Ave reels to tell the loose but lurid 
story of "At the Old Cross Roads," sponsored 
by the Select Photo Play Producing Co., at a 
private exhibition In the Mldgar Feature Co. 
headquartera Monday afternoon. Author C. 
Alston Is the author. The action takes place 
in the South In post-bellum days. But, bless 
you, that doesn't prevent the southern 
"colonel" from doffing his hat when he talks 
to plantation negroes. Nor does the young 



THE MAN OF THE HOUR. 

Nothing Btartllngly new In this William A 
Iirady five- reeler, "The Man of the Hour," 
but it has Robert Warwick, who is featured, in 
this film. Mr. Warwick is a strong card. He is 
the dominant figure, manly, good looking, and 
doing Just the right thing all the time. Thst 
may be depended upon to please the women 
and girls. All of this has been given a pleas- 
ing background by the picture maker, and, al- 
though, running In five reele, the film does not 
seem that long because It Is pleasant to watch. 
There le nothing "big" In It, but "The Man 
of the Hour" doesn't call for anything "big." 
The story, a familiar one In some ways (as 
these love and politics things go) Is interest- 
ing because It Is lntereetlngly worked out, al- 
though It Is going to be a difficult task to make 
the incredulous accept that a stranger of two 
months of New York, under an assumed name, 
could be elected mayor of the city. This 
happens in the picturlssd version of "The Man 
of the Hour." which George Droadhurst wrote 
as a play. Into this situation is pushed the 
final working out of a young man's revenge 
for the ruination of hla father by a capitalist. 
There are previous sconce In the far west, 
gold mining, horse riding, attempted murder 
(Including a well-staged flstlo fight) and there 
Is a light strain of comedy throughout the 
film, with a reproduction of the Aldermanlc 
Chamber In New York or some other city. 
Through nice manipulation In the cutting and 
fitting, thle aldermanlc bit Is maoa to blend 
Into the main story. But still Mr. Warwick 
does stand out before the camera, and In so 
doing, succeeds in putting "The Man of the 
Hour" over. It's a feature that will hold and 
satisfy, without starting anything. Bime. 

THE RAGGED EARL 

The Ragged Earl Andrew Mack 

Sir Henry Hardcaatle Wm. Oonklln 

Kathleen Fltsmorrls Oral Hawley 

Una Fltsmorrls Eleanor Dunn 

Lord Wlldbrook Edw. J. Pell 

The five-part comedy drama, shown at a 
private exhibition Tuesday, Is the work of the 
Popular Plays snd Players, Ino, controlled 
by the Alco Film Corporation, with Andrew 
Mack as a bold broth of an Irish lad, quick 
with hla sword arm and quloker still In his 
lovemaklng, and Oral Hawley, with a roguish 
eye and a bewitching dimple In her cheek, 
the play couldn't go wrong. A better example 
of a well-constructed story would be hard to 
find, with Its sure appeal of romance and 
colorful action. The story plays Itself princi- 
pally In exterior settings, well selected for 
scenic beauty, and this contributes to the suo- 
cess of the Illusion. The Ragged Earl meets 
on the road Kathleen, disguised aa a hoy and 
running away from home to eecape a mar- 



REVIEWS OF DAILY RELEASES. 

Commencing next issue of VARIETY (Oct. It) critical reriews of all 
the daily releases of the General, Mutual and Universal service will bo 
printed. 

These reviews will bo written by VARIETY'S regular staff, and troatod 
in the aamo manner aa VARIETY haa reported the feature films, except- 
ing the daily release reviews will be condensed to merely a critical report 
on the single or two -reeler s. 



F. F. V. discontinue his suit when the hero- 
ine's father denounces her as the child of a 
negro If the weight of more evidence is 
needed, the hat-doffing "colonel" tries to marry 
a former elave. Of course, It subsequently 
develope that she was not a negress, but the 
"colonel" didn't know that at the time for all 
the film showed. The "big scene" shows the 
father's denunciation of his daughter In an 
Incident closely resembling that In "Under 
Southern Skies," which probably Inspired the 
tale. There are rods and rods of horrors, 
murders, attempted suicides and mob violence 
by the running yard and action galore, but 
the character relations are all askew, as 
when the southern aristocrat forces his son 
on pain of disinheritance to marry a woman 
who he thinks Is an octoroon. The audience 
doesn't learn until four reels later that the 
woman Is Spanish, and In the meantime the 
spectator fldglts in impatience. Some hint 
should be given the audience at the very out- 
set that the woman is white. This Is abso- 
lutely essential. There are other crudities 
quite as distressing, although sime of the 
action pictures are well staged, and there are 
several capital bits of suspense, notably the 
duel scenes. It is called "At the Cross Roads" 
because that scene figures Tor nbout *M sec- 
onds In reel four. 



THE BLACK TRIANGLE. 

"The Black Triangle" is the first install- 
ment of a foreign detective serial made by the 
Lloyds. The American-made detective pic- 
tures generally have something of a story con- 
nected but this five reel episode docs not suc- 
ceed very well with Its story. A detective 
takes It upon himself to rcscuo a /oung girl 
who has been kidnapped by a desperate gnng. 

He goes through the various trials which 
these wonderful men have to endure. His tnsk 
takes him to mysterious houses In which ho 
falls Into pits and wells, always < hi aping 
wit'. on* n ?crntch. The picture on 14th street 
aeem-'-i t > iv»* *v> pdlence the action they 
war"' I . '■■" 'i ? enough movie houses 
whi >. i at- r o : who enjoy this type of 

pictures for t I to secure bookings. 



rlage with an aged neighbor of great wealth, a 
match being engineered by her needy parents. 
He rescues the girl from her father's servants 
and takee the "boy" home. There Kathleen 
learns thst the Barl, oppressed by debt, con- 
templates marriage with a rich cousin and 
sadly returns home, agreeing, In pique to the 
distasteful match with the ancient roue, Lord 
Wlldbrook. The Earl follows, determined to 
bring bsck his charming "boy" companion, and 
learns Kathleen's reel Identity. Follow bat- 
tles and still more battles, singly snd In 
masses, between the Barl and Kathleen's fath- 
er and their respective retelners. until the 
Esrl leads Kathlen to the altar, disguised as 
Wlldbrook to trick her parents. The comedy 
incidents run through the tale most effectively. 
One good laugh, which may serve as an Il- 
lustration of the quality of the fun, comee 
when the Earl's old nurse, on discovering 
Kathleen's sex observes (per caption) : "Anny- 
one that could mistake you for a bhoy, ehould 
nlver be slnt after mushrooms." "The Ragged 
Earl's" a winner. 

THE FORTUNE HUNTER. 

Lubln has relessed a five-reel feature of 
Wlnchell Smith's successful play "The For- 
tune Hunter" In which Jack Bhrrymore origi- 
nally starred. Wllllm Elliott has Mr. Barry- 
more's former role In the screen play. The 
first screen presentation of the festure wae 

f ;lven at Hammerstein's Lexington opera house 
ast week. The film, while very well pro- 
duced, seem to leek cut-Ins which detracts 
from the clarity of the story. With this 
fault remedied In future copies there should 
he naught to prevent this feature from being 
a standard attraction. The company sup- 
porting Mr. Elliott seems very clever indeed 
.ind those who Impersonate the one-horse 
characters should come In for a special share 
of praise for their realistic work. In telling 
the story of the adventures of the Impover- 
ished young spendthrift the adapter of the 
piece for film purposes has gotten much out 
of the events leading up to bis advent In the 
little town where the greater portion of tbe 
semes am laid. Thcro aro one or two de- 
tails In the matter of production where tbe 
director hnB slipped up, but none of these Is 
particularly noteworthy. 



UNDER THE SEA. 

This scientific feature film of tbe sea, taken 

by tbe Williamson Submarine Expedition, has 

received unusual publicity, since Its making. 

Shown in Washington, and uow on exhibition 

at the Broadway Kose Gardens thtatre, the 

picture has been endorsed by the press as a 

discovery. In it is an invention of Capt 

Charlee Williamson. The views were obtained 

by his sous, J. Ernest ana Utorge M. The 
picture runs in two parts, it has several reels, 
dome short. The uioae of oyeratlou is ex- 
plained. In the ulm auu by a lecturer, the lec- 
turer i who may have been witu the ouiut 
Horn his remarks) uistlnctiy anu lntelilgeuuy 
enlightening the auuienie upon ueceesar/ 
points, though It must oe distracting to re- 
peat the same lecture two or three times or 
more dally, a large casted chamoer tnat c*u 
hold a camera man is sunk Into the water. 
Through a 2-inch glass (made in Uenuauyj 
that la five leet in uiameter, the plcturea are 
taken, the chamber being swung aloug Uie bot- 
tom of the ocean or Ut rough the water by a 
shute connection to a barge above, uie siiute 
being large enough to admit a person s bouy, 
in tne deacent or the ascent Am the cnaniber 
travels the ocean bed (or as It did in this In- 
stance, when tne plcturee were taken ou tiie 
Weet Indies) the bottom formation is shown, 
the various flsn peculiar to the locality, auu 
for the big hnlsh a man-and-shark ngnt was 
staged, the shark being disposed of by one of 
the Wlllamson brothers. Ths lecturer an- 
nounced Mr. Williamson dovs overboard to 
ttnd the shark and antics It before the camera, 
for an effective ploture, as ths native divers 
had failed In their ettorts to do so. Any- 
thing that can show us somsthlng we thougnt 
we could never see Is an attraction, or should 
be. The "Submarine" feature him does this. 
For Its first showing, the subject alone, tne 
sea bottom, Is sufficient. What may be done 
for future views to hold the attention of the 
public, aside from the solentluc value they 
always will nave, is a matter tor the operators 
of the chamber to decide. If views only are 
to be obtained of the ocean on the lnslue, they 
will have to be necessarily brief to avoid 
monotony. gime. 

A PRINCE OF INDIA. 

An Eclectic four-reeler that carries any 
quantity of action, so much so it seeme longer 
than four reels (without being slow) through 
the padding one has grown aooustomed to In 
the majority of multiples. When a ploture 
will give aa much action aa this ons dose, and 
besides contains a vsln of comedy that brings 
laughs, It must he pronounced a good feature 
In its claas. This Eclectic is a mailer, with 
several thrills of mors or less Intensity, the 
finish being ths big moment It is not unlike 
ths big scene of "41»" at the Vltagraph. ex- 
cepting that the Vita employed a train of 
cars and a locomotive to go over an embank- 
ment, while "A Prlnoe of India" dlspoaee of 
a wild trolley car by sending It over a bridge, 
after a etruggle between two principals on the 
front platform. This trolley oar destruotlon 
Is nicely worked up, and tops off a feature 
that has for Its principal foundation, a Jewel 
of an Oriental prince. The Jewel is removed 
from its resting place by ths Princes son, 
who has become enamored of a woman, the ac- 
complice of two crooks. A young reporter 
meets them all, and Innocently secures the 
Jewel himself. The crooks are killed, one by 
one, aa they have possession of the Jewel, 
which Is eventually returned to Its rightful 
owner. It Isn't the story aa much as the action 
and ths players that put this feature 1 over. The 
company Is excellent, especially the reporter, 
who ranks with Wally Van for youthful per- 
sonality aa a light comedian. The exhibitor 
who wants a meller can't go wrong on "A 
Prince of India." The feature le ehown this 
week at Hammerstein's Lexington Avenue 
opera house, where, too much show le being 
given. Sunday night Hammerstein's perform- 
ance ran from 8.15 until near 11. The house 
held near capacity. It is one of the largest 
as well aa the newest, theatres In New York. 
The night show did not start until that time, 
although It would seem that Hammerstein's 
could give two shows nightly, stsrtlng tho 
first about 7.30 and holding the performance 
down to not longer than an hour and three- 
quarters. The opera house Oscar Hammersteln 
has built Is a magnificent edifice to ehow plc- 
turee In. It must do businees If everything 
is adjusted to the population it draws from, 
and of that population east of Lexington ave- 
nue, north and south, there Is no end. Bime. 



THE WINNER. 

"The Winner," a three-reel Nemo based on 
a yrWeetern story, has been placed on the 
n/arket by the Box Office Attraction Co. The 
vory is a commonplace ono and tbe picture 
"Mas no real feature to It that would take the 
film out of the ordinary run of western pic- 
tures. Two cowboys love the ranchowner's 
daughter. She favors one. He Is a devil- 
may-care sort of chap with a fondness for 
strong drink. The other is a natty boy and 
really the wilder of the two. The latter Is 
caught cheating at cards by a half-breed, 
hut manages to convince tbe other players 
the Indian's eyes did not see straight. Later 
the Indian, seeking revenge, shoots the cow- 
ooy. The rival in love Is accused of the 
deed and sent to prison, the wounded victim 
not being able to testify because of the fact 
that tbe wound In his head has caused a loss 
of memory. The Indian escapes to Canada 
and sends a letter which clears the atmos- 
phere. The suspected shooter Is then freed 
and wins tbe girl. There Is a trained horse 
in the picture that Is bh good an actor as any 
member of the playing casts, and this animal 
comes In for frequent applause. Tho pic- 
ture will do ns a fenture, to bo run In con- 
junction with a regular program. 



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The latest creations of the most celebrated song writer* of the world In motion picture*. 

Produced by the well-known motion picture directors with a coat of high-salaried artists. 

Every picture is composed of a prelude introducing the composers in a dramatic or 
comic interpolation of how the sons; was inspired and how written, than with a proper 
cue, the story of the song itself continues on the film to the accompaniment of a singer. 
(Don't worry about the singer— if the house you booh baa no regular one, wo will tall you 
how to got thorn.) 

Ever sinco the first trial, showing of one of our subjects "The Fatherland, The Mother- 
land, The Land of My Boat Girt" by Mac Donald and Carroll (writers of "Trail of the 
Lonesome Pino**) at Hammeratoin'a, New York, we have boon deluged with requests from 
managers, booking agents and picture houses to arrange dates; but In order to properly 
and systematically distribute the greatest novelty on the stage, wo have turned thorn all 
down. This Is an attraction that can bo booked solid In every vaudeville house and then 
over again In moving picture houses. 



Sure-Fire Motion Picture 
Novelty Will Clean 



Up for You 



Wo want a live wire, high-class States right buyer in your territory to book dramas and 
comedies which will be produced around the latest popular song hits written and to bo 
written by the leading song writers. 



All the good 

us all the time. 



igs are controlled by ua and the beat writers of songs are writing for 



The production of those motion picture songs will be the best money can buy and 
ingenuity turn out. They will tear the house down with applause— that's why wo want 
to sell restricted territory — so our production will receive proper distribution and showing. 



The Right Prices to the 



Right Man 



Wo will issue two releases weekly— the moat popular hits by popular writers only- 
Alms will run Ml to l,t* foot. 



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Treble Clef Bldg. 



154 West 46th Street, 

Henry Waterson, Pres. 



- New York City 

Louis Bernstein, Treat. 



Can Be Seen at Hammerstein's Next Week (Oct. 12) 



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PICTURES, 



THE 



Famous Players Film Co.'s 

HALF YEARS PROGRAM 

Distributed through Paramount Pictures Corp.) 

CURRENT RELEASES: 

PRODUCTIONS: ARTISTS: 

"The Lost Paradise" H. B. Warner 

"The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch" 

Henrietta Crosman 
"Such a Little Queen" Mary 

"Marta of the Lowlands" Mme. Bertha 
"WildHower" Marguerite Clark 

Theae productions have boon recorded in the annals of the industry as 

distinctive film achievements 

Forthcoming Attractions 

"The County Chairman," Maclyn Arbuckle 



Henry W. Savage's comedy drama triumph, by GEORGE ADE 

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Released October 

His Last Dollar," 



David 



The famous racing play, with the star in his original role 

Released October 2fth 

"Behind the Scenes," Mary Pickford 

The noted play of theatrical life by MARGARET MAYO 
Released November 2nd 

The Man from Mexico/ 9 John Barrymore 

H. A. Du Souchet's famous comedy 
Releaaed November tth 



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The Straight Road," Gladys Hanson 

he master- work of the distinguished dramatist, CLYDE FITCH 

Released November 12th 

Aristocracy," Tyrone Power 



The dramatic success of two decades, by BRONSON HOWARD 

Releaaed November 21th 



"Mrs. Black Is Back," 



May Irwin 



The distinguished comedienne's foremost comedy success, 

by GEORGE V. HOBART 

Released November 3tth 



"The Stepsister/' 



Mary 



A genuine and delightful surprise — a Pickford classic 
Releaaed December 21st 



"Sold," 



Pauline Frederick 



The great emotional drama— Pauline Frederick's first film appearance 

Released December 2fth 



"The Million," 



Edward Abeles 



a 



Second Famous Players-Savage production 
ReleAsed December Slot 

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The Conspiracy," John Emerson 

The dramatic triumph of the last theatrical season, with its original star 

Released January 7th 

"The Crucible," Marguerite Clark 

The powerful and world-famous story by MARK LEE LUTHER 

Releaaed January lfth 

"The Dancing Girl," 

The celebrated emotional drama by HENRY ARTHUR JONES 

Released January 2Sth 

"Mistress Nell," Mary Pickford 



Florence Reed 



The renowned romantic play by GEO. C HAZELTON, JR. 

Released February 1st 



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The Love Route," Hazel Dawn 

The recent successful dramatic romance 
Released February 4th 

"Her Triumph," Gaby Deslys 

The celebrated international star's first and exclusive film appearance 

Released February Sth 

"The Sign of the Cross," William Farnum 

A stupendous and spectacular film version of Wilson Barrett's immortal 

drama 
Released February 21st (Last) 

"The Commanding Officer," Julian I/Estrange 

An adequate representation of the great military drama 
Released February 2Sth 

paralleled series of film triumphs 
PRODUCED BY THE 





ADOLPH ZUKOR.. President. 

Managing Director EDWIN SPORXEfc.TecWsl Director 

Executive Offices, 
W.26thSTREET, NEW YORK. 



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$28,000 IN RENTAL OFFERS RECEIVED WITHIN 48 HOURS AFTER FIRST SHOWING 
Electrified Its brilliant premiere audience at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, N. Y. last Thursday evening 

B. S. MOSS' 

Film production in 5 reels of the most universally popular novel of the century An adaptation that delights all and offends none. 

ELINOR GLYN'S imperishable romance 

(only authorized version, all infringements prosecuted). 



A Sure 
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Bonanza 



Advent- 
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Excitinj! 
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70,000,000 have read this book— 7 times that number will want to see the photoplay 
The fascinating love drama of a young king without a country and a queen without a throne 

A. 900,000 PR00UCTI0N..280 SCENES 

Now booking United States, Canadian and European rental and state rights 

OFFER8 INVITED 
Address all communications 

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ALLIANCE PROGRAM 

A combination of the world's greatest feature photoplay producers in a direct-to-exhi- 
bitor cooperative booking plan which insures to the better theatres an absolutely de- 
pendable source from which to secure BIG FEATURES for 52 weeks of the year. 

POWERFUL SUBJECTS FOR EARLY RELEASE 



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"THE KEY TO YESTERDAY" 
"THE PATH FORBIDDEN" 
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"THE MAN WHO CO OLD HOT LOSE" 

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PRODUCED BY MASTERS IN THE ART OF FILM MAKING 

Favorite Players Film Co., Inc. Select Photoplay Producing Co. 

Excelsior Feature Film Co., Inc. And others to be announced. 

WATCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENT GIVING LIST OF EXCHANGES HANDLING THIS PROGRAM 

ALLIANCE FILMS CORPORATION 

Leavitt Bldg., 11th Floor, 126 W. 46th St., NEW YORK CITY 

NOTICE TO THE TRADE 

The productions of the Favorite Players Film Co., Inc., will be released exclusively through the Alli- 
ance Films Corporation. Our first subject in the Alliance Program will be 

"THE KEY TO YESTERDAY" 

A strong, stirring, four-part feature of exceptional merit, picturized from the book by Charles Neville Buck (scenario by Robert 
A. Dillon), featuring 

CARLYLE BLACKWELL 

in the leading role, supported by J. Francis Dillon, Miss Edna Mayo, John J. Sheehan, John Prescott, Gypsy Abbott, and one 

hundred others. Released October 12. 



FAVORITE PLAYERS FILM CO., Inc. 



= 110 W. 40th Street, NEW YORK CITY 



M. H. Blackwell, Treasurer 5 



SPECIAL NOTICE 

The Select Photoplay Producing Co., Inc., will release all its feature films through the Alliance 
Films Corporation. The first subject is 

"AT THE OLD CROSS ROADS" 

Released October 26, in live reels, featuring 
MISS ESTHA WILLIAMS 

in her original role of Parepa, supported by Mrs. Stuart Robson, Arthur Morrison, Miss Rae Ford, Master Martin, and a large 
cast. This play was shown tor fourteen consecutive seasons by Arthur C. Aiston, covering every state in the Union, and has 
repeatedly broken box office receipts in high class theaters. It is probably the best known play in America, and its tremendous 
heart appeal is thoroughly known. 

MANY BIG SCENES 

The Burning of the Bridge The Battle at the Old Cross Roads 

The Uprising of the Blacks and the Ensuing Battle The Sensational Court Room Scene 

Scenario Written and Produced by Frank L. Dear 



= SELECT PHOTOPLAY PRODUCING CO. 




IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 

The Excelsior Feature Film Co., Inc., will release all its subjects through the Alliance Film Corpor- 
ation, beginning with 

"THE PATH FORBIDDEN" 

Dramatized from the book by John I>. Hymer, in five parts. An intensely human interest production, 
wonderfully acted with 

OCTAVIA HANDWORTH 

the peerless star of the silent drama in the leading role, supported by Gorden De Maine, William A. Williams, John B. Hymer, 

and a large cast. 

MARVELOUS SCENES 

are presented, in exquisite photography, which will cause audi enccs to sit spellbound in wonder and amazement. Through trick 
work and double exposure Miss Handworth. playing the dual role of the twin sisters, is actually seen shaking hands with herself, 
and handing to. and taking from, herself, various articles, both figures being photographed close to the camera. This work has 
been pronounced by experts the most intricate ever attempted, a imI this is the first time in the history of motion pictures that 

the feat has been accomplished. Released October 19 ^^^^ 

EXCELSIOR FEATURE FILM CO., Inc. 

110 West 40th Street Suite 1002 

HARRY HANDWORTH, Pre.. ARTHUR ROSENBACH, Sale. Mgr. 

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DIRECTION OF LOUIS FRANCIS BROWN 

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A SHUBERT RELEASE 

TOM TERRISS 



Released 



Oct. 19 



In his solution of Dickens' 

"THE MYSTERY 
OF EDWIN DROOD" 



PRESENTS 

A SPECIAL RELEASE 

THE MESSRS. SHUBERT'S PHOTOPLAY 

REPRODUCTION OF THE 

WORLD-FAMOUS 

NEW YORK HIPPODROME 



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' Released Oct. 19 



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LEWIS J. SELZNICK, Vice-Pre.. and Gen. Mgr. 

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ADDRESS DEPARTMEMT 

Where Players May Be Located 
Next Week (October 12) 

Players may be listed in this department weekly, either at the theatres they are 
appearing in or at a permanent or temporary address (which will be inserted when route 
is not received) for $5 yearly, or if name is in bold type, $10 yearly. All are eligible to 
this department. 



EDYTHE and EDDIE ADAIR 

Direction, 

Orpbenm m* Palace Theatre United 



Adams Rex A Co Variety N Y 
Adler A ArHne Dominion Ottawa 
Ahearn Chas Co Orpheum Oakland 
Alco Trio Orpheum Seattle 
Althoff Sisters Columbia St Louis 



Franklyn Ardell 

In "THE SUFFRAGETTE*' 
Direction HARRY FITZGERALD 

VAUDEVILLE 



Asahi Quintette Orpheum Winnineg 
Ashley & Canfield Orpheum San Francisco 



THE ALCO FILM 

Corporation 
PROVES ITS FORMER ASSERTIONS 

By Announcing the Positive Release Dates 
of a List of Stars and Photo Plays 

THAT IS A REVELATION IN MOTION PICTURES 

NOW EXHIBITING 
Miss Ethel Barrymore, in "The Nightingale" 

A Veritable List of Stars in Plays That Are Money Magnets 

October 12-ANDREW MACK, in THE RAGGED EARL 

October 1S-JACOB P. ADLER, in MICHAEL STROGOFF 

October 2s— CHAS. A. STEVENSON. In SHORE ACRES 

November 2— BEATRIZ MICHELENA, in SALOMY JANE 

November f— THOMAS JEFFERSON, In RIP VAN WINKLE 

November If— DIGBY BELL, In THE EDUCATION OF MR. PIPP 

November ZS— B. A. ROLFE'S PRODUCTION— SATAN SANDERSON 

November 30— BEATRIZ MICHELENA and BLANCHE CHAPMAN, in MRS. WIGGS 

OF THE CABBAGE PATCH 
December 7-MASTER GERALD ROYSTON, In LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY 
December 14— WILLIAM FAVERSHAM, in THE WORLD 
December Zl-MRS. LESLIE CARTER, in HEART OF MARYLAND 
December 2S— LILLIAN RUSSELL, in WILDFIRE 
January 4— BEATRIZ MICHELENA, in MIGNON 

With a Sequence of Astonishing Legitimate Successes 



DEEP PURPLE 
THE RENEGADE 
YORK STATE FOLKS 



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SALVATION NELL 
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PRESENTS 



For 2nd Paramount Quarter, the Most Eloquently Magnificent 
Program Ever Attempted by a Producing Firm. 

DECEMBER— JANUARY— FEBRUARY 

DECEMBER 



"The Ghost Breaker/ 
"The Man from Home/' 



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with H. B. Warner, 
with Charles Richman 

Id Association with The Liebler Co. 

"Cameo Kirby," with Dustin Farnum 

In Association with The Liebler Co. 

JANUARY 

"The Governor's Lady/ 9 with All Belasco Cast 

In Association with David Belasco 

"The Girl of the Golden West/' with All Belasco Cast 

In Association with David Belasco 

"The Goose Girl/ 9 All Star Cast of Players 

"Merely Mary Ann/ 9 All Star Cast 



In Association with The Liebler Co. 

FEBRUARY 



"Warrens of Virginia/ 9 



All Belasco Cast 



In Association with David Belasco 
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"The Country Boy/ 9 All Star Cast of Players 

MARCH 



1 "The Woman/ 9 



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SEPTEMBER 
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OCTOBER 

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"What's His Name," with Max Figman 

NOVEMBER 
"Ready Money," with Edward Abeles 

"Rose of the Rancho," All Belasco Cast 

In Association with David Belasco 

"Rose in the Ring," with Theodore Roberts 



All Produced on the Lasky Standard of Artistic Excellence. 



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President 



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ORIGIN 



PICCOLO MIDGETS 



Under "Sailing*" in VARIETY, Oct 2, we notice that the Piccolo Midgets sail from London, Oct 7th. This statement is either in error or 
some act, perhaps unknowingly, has taken our name, which we have used (and are now using) since 1896. 
Our first appearance in the United States was at Keith's Union Square Theatre, New York, Oct 28, 1901. 
Our act is protected by copyright and other midget acts are warned not to infringe. 



CONEY HOLMES, Western Representative 



ADOLF SCHEMMEL 
OTTO SCHEMMEL 
OTTO THIEME 



Original 

Piccolo 

Midgets 



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I GEORGE 1 1 A * Reeves "Beauty Show" I 

I DAMEREL If 



AND COMPANY 

IN 

"Ordered Home" 



A CLEAN HIT 



PALACE MUSIC HALL, CHICAGO 

This Week (Oct. S) 



TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 

Yes, it was very true it was my intention to retire as I published in all the professional 
papers last year, but circumstances 'altered my case, as follows: 

I made an agreement and turned over my show to one Edgar Bixley. He produced 
same; it looked great on paper, but when produced it was a different story. It was a big 
pretentious production but lacked comedy and the usual Al Reeves's methods of burlesque. 
Mr. Bixley, like a great many capable producers, made a grave mistake. He came to me, 
called his contract off, signed a release and bowed out gracefully like a gentleman. Mr. Bert 
Angelus came to me while I was playing the Columbia Theatre and said he had a good 
first part and read the book to me, and as I had no time to lose, I took a chance and 
accepted same. The greatest fault with this book was it only run thirty minutes and 
necessitated me putting in an act to lengthen out my show; then came along John Burke, 
he offered me a first part; it sounded good when he told me about it. I took another chance 
and put this on one week at the Casino Theatre, Philadelphia. The least said the easiest 
mended. I again got busy, put on another first part for Hoboken; it got by In fair shape. 
I sent for Tommy Grady. He looked at the first part for a couple of performances. Im- 
mediately got busy and wrote a new book, which again necessitated engaging a new cast 
to fit the parts, so I got busy and engaged Wilbur Dobbs, Margie Austin, Mabel Blake, 
Sammie Wright, Fred Collins, Louie Rice, Harry Miller and Bernlce Smith, Trbrie Ayers 
and Helen Western. We put the new book on Friday, October 2, 1114, at the Empire 
Theatre, Brooklyn, and it was the general opinion of .every one around the theatre, in- 
cluding my old life-long pal, manager James Curtin, it was a good first part from start to 
finish and a" strong comedy cast, full of life. I rehearsed, produced and put the burlesque on 
myself three weeks ago at Hurtlg and Seaman's Music Hall, Harlem, N. Y., and 1 say 
this without fear of contradiction, and it is also the general opinion of every newspaper 
man, manager and pal that it is unquestionably the biggest riot I have had on in years. 
In fact, I don't believe I have ever had on a burlesque in my twenty-three years of 
managerial experience that has ever went over any better, and now that I am all shaped 
up watch where I finish, as I have always been a good stretch runner. 

"Give me Credit''— your old pal. 



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EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT 

"STAY DOWN HERE WHERE YOU BELONG 



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By Irving Berlin 



CHORUS 



READ THE WORDS 



Down below— down below, 

Sat the Devil talking to his son; 

Who wanted to go — up above — up above. 

He cried it's getting too warm for me down here, 

And so — I'm going up on earth, 

Where I can have a little fun. 

The Devil simply shook his head and answered his son. 



Stay down here where you belong, 

The folks who live above you 

Don't know right from wrong. 

To please their Kings they've all gone out to war 

And not a one of them knows what he's fighting for. 

'Way up above they say that I'm a Devil and I'm bad, 

Kings up there are bigger Devils than your Dad. 

They're breaking the hearts of Mothers, 

Making butchers out of brothers. 

You'll find more hell up there than there is down below. 



CRITICS SAY THIS IS THE GREATEST SONG THAT HAS EVER BEEN WRITTEN. 
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL TELL YOU THE SAME BY THEIR APPLAUSE 

PUBLISHED BY 

WATERSON, BERLIN & SNYDER COMPANY, Strand Theatre Building, 47th Street and Broadway, New York City, New York 



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IT CAN BE DONE, MR. HOUSE MANAGER— MR CIRCUIT MANAGER 
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ft? "JUNGLE GIRLS" 

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MANAGERS AND AGENTS 

AFTER OCT. STH, the Original SIX AMERICAN FLORENCE TROUPE combined with 
THE HERSLEY TROUPE for the past year, will not bo connected with the Hersley Troupe 
in any way, but will be, as in former years, the 

SIX ORIGINAL FLORENCE TROUPE 



Barnes & Crawford Variety N Y 

Barnold's Dog & Monkey Variety N Y 

Barnutn Duchess Variety N Y 

Big Jim F Bernstein 1493 Bway NYC 

Bimbos The Variety N Y 

Bowers Fred V A Co Variety N Y 



Bowers Walters & Crooker Her Majesty's 
Melbourne Aus 

Bracks Seven care Tausig 104 E 14th St N Y C 

Brady Jk Mahoney, 750 Lexington Ave Bklyn 

Bronson A Baldwin Variety N Y 

Brooks Wallie Variety N Y 

Bruce & Calvert Loew Agency Chicago 

Buch Bros Variety N Y 



Busse Miss care Cooper 1416 Bway NYC 



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Trixie Friganza Agency 

R. W. Eberhard, Can. Mgr. 

Heidelberg Bldg.— 42nd and Broadway 

Bryant S7M 

Special Theatre and Club Dept. 

Want High Class Feature and Novelty Acts 

New to the East. 

WM. DE CROTEAU, Mgr., Vaudeville Dept. 



Cantwell ft Walker Orpheum Kansas City 
Carr Nat 10 Wellington Sq London Eng 
Cartmell & Harris Orpheum Winnipeg 
Ce Darn f Riverside Ave Newark N J 

SAM MARY 

OMIF>.nd MARBLE 

In "THE LAND OF DYKES** 

JOHN W. DUNNE, Mgr. 



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MARY 

IN 

MARYLAN 



1ST VERSE 
Maryland's a lonely place since Mary went away. 
Mary is the girl who promised to be mine some day. 
She's been gone a million years it seems, 

Gone an age that brought me only sorrow. 
But she's been right near me in my dreams, 

And she's really coming home to-morrow. 



CHORUS 



When 



ion Mary lands in Maryland, 
Goal but I'll be foaling grand, 
I'll take Mary by the hand. 
And Mary, dear, will understand, 
When Mary comas back home again, 
I'll meet her with a band, 
And this band will always linger 
On little Mary's finger. 
When Mary lands in Maryland. 




A IM D S 




9 9 



2ND VERSE 
Maryland was always grand when Mary was hare. 
Mary seemad to AH with sunshine each day in the year. 
Since she went away, each day Is drear. 

Seams as if the sun was never shining. 
But each little cloud will disappear. 

Leaving- Just its lovely silver lining. 



The season's song sensation. Other numbers that should be in your act: 
"WHEN THE MAPLE LEAVES ARE FALLING" j "MEXIE TANGO"— great Spanish or Mexican song. 

"DOWN WHERE THE OLD MILL STREAM FLOWS" (New) "RAG TIME EVERYWHERE" 

NOTE!!! Send all mail to New York Office. 

TELL TAYLOR, MUSIC PUBLISHER 

MAX STONE. Professional Manager 154 WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. 



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(die \ l)enaliy ( )rpheuin Los Aunties 
Col v in William Burbank Los Angeles 
Conroy A LeMalre care Shuberts 
Cook Joe Slu.i's Buffalo 

( nnper Idi- \ l.i* Oipheum San l-rami*' •• 
Corradini F care Tausi* E 14th St N Y C 
Cross & Josephine Variety N Y 

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D'Arville Jeanette Montreal Indef 
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De Felice (arlotta Variety San Francisco 
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Next Week (Oct. 12), Shea's, Toronto 
Management H. BART McHUGH 

DivinotT Ida Orpheum ( )akland 

JIM SYBIL 

DIAMOND and BRENNAN 

"Nlftynonsense" 
Next Week (Oct. 12), Hammerstein's, New York 

Dunfee Josiphinr Orpheum Denver 
Duprc-e X Dupree Orpheum New ()rleans 



Elizabeth Mary Variety London Eng 

Kl Key Sisters Orpheum St Paul 

Emmett Mr 4k Mrs Hugh J 227 W 46th St N V 



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Prima Donna with "Passing Review of 1§14* 
THE COMET OF BURLESQUE. 



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Fields Teddy Variety N Y 



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IN VAUDEVILLE. 



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Frank J Herbert Vitagraph Studio Bklyn 
Frey Henry 1777 Madison Ave NYC 



Gardiner Trio Orpheum Omaha 



JACK E. GARDNER 

In "CURSE YOU, JACK DALTON" 
Direct lew, HARRY WEB 



Geiger John Orpheum Omaha 

Gihson Hardy Variety N Y 

Gillingwater Claude Orpheum San Francisco 

Glenn Carrie Variety N Y 

Godfrey & Henderson Tulsa & Muskogee Okl i 

Gordon Jim & Elgin Girls Variety N V 

Grant & I loan Orpheum Salt Lake 

Gray Trio The Variety N Y 

Green Ethel Variety N Y 

Grees Karl 3 Mariahilf Str Bingen-Rhein Germ 

Guerite Laura Variety London 

Gygi Ota Variety N V 

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Hagans 4 Australian Variety N Y 
Hamilton Jean Touring England 
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Howland and Leach 

DANCERS 
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8th AMERICAN SEASON 



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IN VAUDEVILLE 

THIS WEEK (Oct. 5) PALACE, NEW YORK 

Representative, P^fVT/ wxVSE JL 



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REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS AND COMPANIES IN BURLESQUE 



JACOBS & JERMON'S 



CMnnbia Tkiatro Buiidiif, 



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Broadway aid 47th Street, New York 





TtfaS" BILLY WATSON 



BILLY WATSON'S "BEEF TRUST BEAUTIES 9 ' WATSON'S "ORIENTALS" 

COLU CO.'t HOUSU MKNT WANT QOODLOOKIMQ GIRLS ALWAYS 



SAMMY WRIGHT 



"SATISFIED," 
With Al Reeves' "Beauty Show." 



RAN K Fl IM IM 

Management, CHARLES H. WALDRON 



IAMES (Utach) 

COOPER 

Present* 

Four Shows that Have Gone Over 

"GYPSY MAIDS" "ROSELAND GIRLS" 

"GLOBE TROTTERS" 

"BEAUTY, YOUTH AND FOLLY" 

COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 

Room 41S Columbia Theatre Bldg., 

New York 



Abe Reynolds 



AND 



Florence Mills 

FEATURED IN 

'THE COLLEGE GIRLS" 

Direction, Max Spiegel 



FANNIE VEDDER 

Management. JOHN Q. JPtlWON 



INGENUE, The Broadway Girls" 

Management Theatrical Operating Co*, 

Season 1114-15 



LEW KELLY 

"PROF. DOPE" 



Johnnie Jess 

Featured With 
BILLY WATSON'S "BIG SHOW." 



Inge Clara Variety N Y 

ImihcI ( irplirum I.ns Angles 



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■ * 1 1 1 - 1 . 1 1 1 1 < i h i ) 1 1 y d> < )rplirutn Dnlutli 
• lnisiuns Music.il Victoria Palace London 
>ni s v \ SylvrMtr t >r|ih(-iitn lh'iiver 
Jordan A Doherty Majestic Houston 
In!" i < "iumln.i drain! Kapids 
li Hi is. ,n |ms ( o ( )rpheiun Seattle 



LEO STEVENS 

Comedian and Producer 

Helen Jessie Moore 



Versatile Leading Woman 



Direction HURTIG A SEAM ON 



MATT KENNEDY 



tf,° "LIBERTY GIRLS 

Management, T. W. DINKIMS 



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JACK CONWAY 

Featured with "Star and Garter" 

Direction, Phil B. Isaac 



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CABARET GIRLS" A GREAT SHOW 
M j "WHY?" MMEy 

KELLY and WILLIAMS 

are the comedians and producers 
Jake Wells say* "A good, clean show." 



Lillian Fitzgerald 



Featured with 



"ROSELAND GIRLS" 

Management James E. ("Blutch") Cooper 



Francis Elliott 

In "A NOVEL CREATION" 
"AUTO GIRLS"-1»14-1S 



Harry Seymour 

NOT A STAR— A COMET! 
"AUTO GIRLS"-1I14-1S 



LON HASCALL 

SIMON LEGREE (Stage Manager) 
"BEHMAN SHOW" 



Kaiich Hrrtiia l <> t )ri>t" ut" Kansas < ily 

Ka " .i ' A i' ' >* ' . . ■ i ■ ]• rami so p 





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PRESENTS 



'THE BEHMAN SHOW" 

THE BURLESQUE INCUBATOR 
Where managers come to purloin actors, and actors to pilfer material! 



ENGAGED AND BILLED as ADDED ATTRACTIONS 

»" H EAR N-ELEY "UN 

" GAY WHITE WAY " COMPANY 



Dave Gordon 

Presents "GIRLS OF THE GAY WHITE WAY" 



THE GREATEST 
DANCER OF 
THEM ALL I 



Chooceeta 



AT LIBERTY 
Address 227 W. 4«th St. 
New York 



Charles Robinson "&"•»■« *™^" 



SEASON 1914-1915 



HarryCooper 



FEATURED WITH 

"CRACKER JACKS" 

Direction, 
COLUMBIA AMUSEMENT CO. 



GEO. H. WARD 



Featured Character Comedian 
WITH BERNARD a ZKISLUt't 

"FRENCH MODELS" 
SM4-U 



WILL FOX 



Featured Comedian 

"Gay New Yorkers" 



Joe MORRIS and CAMPBELL Flossiel 



With "BROADWAY GIRLS" Season, 1914-1S. 






Sam Micals 



Featured with "Transatlantics" 

Management. 
HURTIG & SEAMON 



Steve GORDON and MURPHY Frank 

PREMIER ACROBATIC DANCERS with "BON-TON GIRLS" 



Babe La Tour 



With "GOLDEN CROOK" 
Management, 
JACOBS A JERMON 



HARRY [Hickey] LE VAN 

CLAIRE DE VINE 



NOW AND ALWAYS 
Personal Direction, 

Henry P. Dixon 
"REVIEW OF 1915" 

(Columbia Circuit) 



Leading Woman 

Dixon's "Review of IMS" 



Anna-ARMSTRONG and ODELL-Tommy 

With DAVE MARION'S OWN CO. Season 14-15. 



SIMMONDS, STEWART and LAKE'S 



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HARRY M. STEWART FRANCIS ELLIOTT MADELINE WEBB 
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HARRY SEYMOUR SALLY STEWART TEDDY SIMMONDS 

COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, 1914-15 



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Now at 67 W. 44th Street 



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Hotel Plymouth 

llth St. (Between Broadway aid tin Ave.), N. Y. City 

Now Fireproof Bull din*. A Stoma's Throw from Broadway 



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Every room has hot and cold running water, electric light and 
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Phone lSZt Greeley EUROPEAN PLAN T. SINNOTT, Manager 



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ANNOUNCEMENT 

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ome cooking; prices reasonable. Catering to the theatrical profession. New management. 
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Kramer ft Morton Orpheum Des Moinea 
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Langdona The Bushwick Brooklyn 




OCT. It, PALACE, PLYMOUTH, ENG. 

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Blanche Leslie 

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Lewis & Russell Orpheum Minneapolis 

Littlejohns The Vsnety N Y 

Lowes Two Vsriety N Y 

Lucier Lancton Co Orpheum Memphis 



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r Specialty Dancers 
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Mayo Louise Variety N Y 



Harry Weber Prei 

3 MARCONI BROS. 

Tee Wireless Orchestra 

BOB 

MATTHEWS 

Aad Company 

In "DREAMLAND" 

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Piatov ft Glaser Orpheum Duluth 



Harry Weber pr*j«nts 

ILTON POLLOCK 

In Coo. Ado's Comedy, 

"SPEAKING TO FATHER" 

Next Week (Oct. 12), Shubert, Utlca, N. Y. 



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Reilly Charlie Variety San Francisco 
Renards 3 Variety N Y 
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THE ORIGINAL TRAMP CYCLIST 
CENTRAL, DRESDEN, GERMANY 



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Restaurant and Grill equal to any. Moderate prices. 

Rooms large, light, airy and well furnished. 

Rooms with use of bath $1.50 and up. Rooms with bath $2 and up. 
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prices to the profession. 



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23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 

23 Dance Numbers. We know it's a lot, but couldn't leave out one. These titles were selected from 
hundreds of manuscripts through a process of elimination, and every one is a great number. We have 
selected one composition from each class for the purpose of concentration. 



Fox Trots 

"Doctor 

Brown" 

By HERMAN PALEY 



Orchestra 



Piano Solo 



That's the nanie ot the 
Hot h'ux Trot you have 
ever heard or will hear for 
some time. Just the right 
M\in^ and tempo f«»r this 
modern dance. 

"The Davis Fox 
Trot" 

By Uriel Davia 

"Rag Baby Mine" 

By Geo. BoUford 



Tangos 



*" Buenos Ay res — 
Tango Argentine" 

By ARTHUR N. GREEN 

Band & Orchestra 

Piano Solo 

Arthur < Jreen is the mu- 
sical director for the Cas- 
tles and Mr. Vernon Castle 
has personally endorsed 
and uses this Tanj^o con- 
stantly. 

"Maids of Argen- 
tine" 

By J. Tim Brymn 

"La Brasiliana" 

(As us«<l l>y Maurice & Walton) 

By S. Belmonte 

*"The Dream 
Tango" 

(La (omhita) 

By Uriel Davis 

*"E1 Irresistible" 

By L. Logatti 

"El Choclo" 

(Mason Whitnry Tanijo> 

By A. G. Villaldo 



One-Step Trots 



"Whal More Do You Want?" 

(Que Voulez-Vous Encore) 
Orchestra Piano Solo 

A Tuneful, Dancy One-Step 
Trot 

The kind you like to play 

— The kind you like to hear 

— The kind you like to 
dance. 

*"Pass the Pickles" 

By Grace LeBoy 

*"Some Baby" 

By Julius Lemberg 

♦"Notoriety" 

By Kathryn L. Widmer 

*"A1I Aboard for Dixieland" 

By George L. Cobb 

*"At the Ball, That's All" 

By J. L. Hill 

*"That Wonderful 
Dengoza Strain" 

By Abner Greenberg 



Waltz Hesitation 

"Just a 

Moment" 

A Beautiful, Rhythmical, 
Practical Hesitation Waltz 

Orchestra Piano Solo 

By Egbert Van Alstyne 

"Valse Maurice" 



By S. Belmonte 



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Henrietta" 



(To Douglas Fairbanks and 
Patricia Collinge) 

By F. Cbannon 



*"Avec Moi" 



(With Me) 

By Vincenzo Luzerno 



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Maxixe 

"Good 

Morning 1 

(Buenos Dias) 
By Kathryn L. Widmer 

A Real Maxixe. While 
the composition is an ex- 
cellent number for profes- 
sional dancers, it is ex- 
tremely well adapted for 
the use of the Maxixe for 
public and general dancing. 

""Maxixe Briolette" 

By Vincenzo Luzerno 

*"Dengoza" 

By Ernesto Nazareth 



Band and Orchestra Leaders 
Dancing Masters 
Dancing Acts 
Dumb Acts 
Movie Pianists 

Phonograph and Music Roll 
Manufacturers 

Should be familiar with this excellent dance programme. 




To any professional, 
10c. postpaid. 



PIANO COPIES 
ORCHESTRATIONS" nd pao 15c 



Fulland piano, 25c. 

Postpaid. 



* Also published for IB ft Tiff 15c. postpaid 



REMICK'S FAMOUS DANCERS' COLLECTION «<&. 



Containing 27 of the latest and most popular composi- 
tions. 1 2 Remick Song Hits arranged as Trots, Waltz- 
Hesitations, Maxixes, Tangos, etc., and 15 Original 
Instrumental Compositions. 



INSTRUMENTATION 



/ 1st Violin or 
] Banjo or 
' Mandolin 



2nd Violin Cello 
Viola Bass 



IF PURCHASED SEPARATELY 

27 Piano copies at 10c. would cost you. . $2.70 
27 Orchestrations at 15c. would cost you. 4.05 
Complete Set of Books 11 and Piano, 

Postpaid 2 

Any Separate Book Postpaid .2! 

Flute 1st Cornet Trombone 

Clarinet 2nd Cornet Drums 



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Buenos Ayres," Tango Argentine 

Dengoza," Maxixe 

El Irresistible," Tango 

El Choclo," Tango 

All Aboard for Dixieland," Trot 



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SOME OF THE CONTENTS 

At the Ball, That's All," Fox Trot 
"Just a Moment," Hesitation Waltz 
"Hungarian Rag" 

"Mary, You're a Little Bit Old-Fashioned" 
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" 



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"Rose of the Mountain Trail" 
Some Baby," Trot 
Adele," Waltz Hesitation 

"Love's Hesitation" (From "The 
Beauty Shop") 



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"When It's Night-time Down in Burgundy" 



(BALLAD) 



By BRYAN AND PALEY 

This is the number we arc plugging to follow up our wonderful big success, "When it's Apple Blossom Time in Normandy." 



(BALLAD) 



WAY 



III 



WN ON TAMPA BAY 



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(BALLAD) 



By BROWN AND VAN ALSTYNE 

A new Van Alstync ballad; by the writer of "That Old Girl of Mine." 



(BALLAD) 



THE DRESS MY MOTHER WORE 



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(BALLAD) 
(COON SONG) 



By SUNSHINE AND MARSHALL 

A song we have selected to take the place of that wonderful success, "Mary, You're a Little Bit Old- Fashioned," by the same writers. 



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By BROWN AND GUMBLE 

Here's the best lively song on the market today. Every act in Vaudeville can sing this number. 



(BALLAD) 

99 

SONG) 




NA/AIMT 




LINGER" 



(FLIRTATION SONG) By MARSHALL AND MURPHY (FLIRTATION SONG) 

(DOUBLE SONG) This is a song on the order of "I've Got Everything I want But You" by Murphy and Marshall. A good single or double song. (DOUBLE SONG) 



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I Wonder Where My Loving Man HasGone 



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(COON SONG) 



By JONES WHITING COOK 

The best coon song on the market. 



(COON SONG) 



THE BALL, THAT'S ALL 



19 



(COON SONG) 



• •IT 



(DOUBLE SONG) 
(NOVELTY SONG) 



By LUBRIA HILL 
(BIG NUMBER SONG) (BIG NUMBER SONG) 

The sensational song hit in Ziegfeld Follies. Just released; permission of F. Ziegfeld, Jr. 



(COON SONG) 






Going To Make You Love Me 



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By BROWN AND VAN ALSTYNE 

The song the Courtney Sisters made famous over night at the Palace Theatre and Hammerstein's Victorii 



(DOUBLE SONG) 
(NOVELTY SONG) 



"CHINATOWN, MY CHINATOWN 



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(NOVELTY SONG) 



By JEROME AND SCHWARTZ 

This is the song that the entire Coast is talking about. 



(NOVELTY SONG) 



DIXIELAND 



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(COON SONG) 
("DIXIE" SONG) 



By JACK YELLEN 

The same kind of a song as the famous "ALL ABOARD FOR DIXIE" Song. 



(COON SONG) 
("DIXIE" SONG) 



HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE 10 REMICK SONGS? 
EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT THEM 

EVERY SONG A HEADLINER 

EVERY ONE OF THEM READY NOW 

JUST THINK OF IT— 10 WONDERFUL SONGS! 



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AT 

HAMMERSTEIN'S This Week (Oct 5) 

Re-engaged for Week Oct. 261 




AURIEMA 



IN A NOVELTY, ENTITLED 



"The Dance of Death 



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LETTERS 

Where C follows name, letter is lo 
Variety's Chicago office. 

Where S F follows name, letter is In 
Variety's San Francisco office. 

Advertising or circular letters will 
not be listed. 

P following name indicates postal, 
advertised once only. 



Abdallah Joe (C) 



AbelB Neal (C) 



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Abrahams 
Adams Fred 
Alexander Chas (C) 
Allison May 
Alton Ethel (C) 
AlTares A Martell 
Angelo Armento (0) 
Anita 

Anouae Lew 
Armstrong C O 
Ashe Gertrude 
Avery Van A Carrie 

B 

Bailey King 
Baker C 
Baker Lotta 
Balto Harry 
Barry Walter (C) ^ 
Bartlett Mildred 
Baxter Ed 
Baxter Bid (C) 
Beach Geo (C) 
Benallsha Mabel 
Bender Dare 
Bennett May 
Bennett W 
Benaon Bennle 
Bernard A Neal (C) 
Bernle Lewis 
Bonner Alf 
Bonnesetti Paul (C) 
Boston A Van 
Bowers Joseph 
Bowman Bros 
Boyd Ernest 
Boyd A St Clair 
Bradford Ralph (C) 
Bradford Susette 
Bradley Geo (C) 
Brenner Dorothy 



Brltton Lew 
Brooks J (C) 
Brown Tod 
Brown Fred 
Browne Lawrette 
Brunelle Margery 
Burman M 
Burns Harry 
Burt Harriett 
Bush Robert 



Calhoun Julia 
Cane Joe (C) 
Carloss Mrs 
Carroll Emma 
Carle Grace 
Carter Lilian 
Casper A Clayton 
Castellano Frank 
Chapman Evelyn 
Charblno Bros (C) 
Churchill Estelle 
Clark Ed 
Clark Herbert 
Clark Harvey (SF) 
Clark A Temple 
Claudius Dave 
Clayton Una 
Clayton Zella 
Clemens Margaret 
Clifton Helen (SF) 
Clucas 8 (C) 
Cohn A HI recti 
Colleges Viola 
Collins Harry (SF) 
Cooley Hollls 
Cranston Mary 
Cooper Texas 
Crowley James 



Dahl M 
Dale Loretta 



Telephone 580C Bryant 
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FLYNN'S THEATRE 
TICKET OFFICE 

RECTOR'S NEW RESTAURANT 
Broadway at 48th Street 



Our 'Phone numbers: 2111, 2117, 2118 Bryant 

ALEXANDER'S THEA- 
TRE TICKET OFFICE 



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Telephone 8267 Bryant 

LEO NEWMAN'S 
Theatre Ticket Shop 

Choice Seats and Boxes for All Theatres 
and Operaa 

1482 Broadway, bet. 42d and 43d Sta. 



D. MARKS, Pros. J. B. LANGE, Trees. 

UNITED THEATRE 
TICKET CO. 

Choice Seata and Boxes for All Theatres 

1485 BROADWAY 

(Heidelberg Building Arcade) 

Phone 7600 Bryant Cor 42nd St. 

Opera Tickets Bought and Sold 



LOUIE COHN MORRIS BLAW 

Times Building 
Theatre Ticket Office 

42D STREET AND BROADWAY 

Main Floor 
Choice Seats for All Theatres 

Telephone 3350 Bryant 



Booked Solid 



Management ? 



Subscriptions to the Operas Purchased 

NEW YORK THEATRE 
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Phone 474-475-476 Bryant 

Choice Seats for All Theatres and Operaa 

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D. A. WARFIELD, Prop. 



SINGERS 

of 

SONGS 



Speaking once more of 
the paying-for-s i n gi n g 
proposition, it has become 
a matter of street com- 
ment among those inter- 
ested that one of the mu- 
sic publishing firms which 
still persists in paying 
singers to sing its songs is 
not dealing with the 
singers on a 50-50 basis. 

Two singers who used 
the songs of this publish- 
ing house compared their 
revenue for last week 
from the publisher, and 
discovered that while 
both sang the same song, 
one received $50 for the 
week, and the other but 
$10. 

Another late instance 
causing talk in the music 
trade is the action of a 
turn at the Palace, New 
York City, last week. 
About the middle of the 
week the act removed 
from its song repertoire 
one of the numbers that 
had been used since open- 
ing, replacing it with a 
song issued by a music 
publisher who still pays 
singers to sing its songs. 
After the act had re- 
placed one song with 
another from the paying 
publisher, it somehow 
failed to receive an en- 
gagement for this week. 
Possibly a coincidence. 

The Music Publishers' 
Board of Trade has 14 
members, including about 
all the leading publishers 
of popular music in this 
country, excepting Leo 
Feist and F. A. Mills. 



EVELYN NESBIT 



AND 



JACK CLIFFORD 

Direction, H. B. MARINELU 



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(50 each) (34 each) (25 each) 
6.00 6.50 7.00 7.50 
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8.00 

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HARRISON BROCKBANK 

WILL PRESENT 

"The Drummer of the 76th" 

(A Napoleonic Episode) With America's Wonderful Boy Actor, 

THOMAS B. CARNAHAN 

at the 
HARLEM OPERA HOUSE, Monday, Tueeday, Wednesday, (Oct. 12, 13, 14) 

Direction M. S. BENTHAM 



Daley Rose 
Darrell Jack 
Dayton Harry 
De Alma George 
Deerfoot Bombay (C) 
De Felice Carlotta 

(SF) 
De Halde A Edwards 
De Hollls Wm 
De Lacey Mabel 
Delaney Gene 
De Milt Gertrude 
Denver & Dale (P) 
De Oviatt Beverall 

(C) 
Dickenson Rube 
Donaldson J (C) 
Dooley Ray 
Downing Sam 
Drlseoll Hall Co 
Dunbar Lew 
Dunn Tom 
Du Val Billy 
Du Vail Betty 



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Enrle Ella (SF) 
Edna Ruth (C) 
Eldon & Clifton 
Elcy Helen 
Elgin Clara 
Elklna Betty 
Evnns Ray 
Evans Mrs J E 
ExcellaH E E (C) 



Fox Eddie 
Fox Jimmle 
Frank A Lewis 
Franklin Ben 
Franklyn Wilson 
Frasera 

F razee Shadowgraphs 
Fridkln Boris (G) 



Faber & Waters (C) 
Faquay Jack 
Favlnge Sisters 
Fay Frankle 
Fdty Mr 
Fern Alma 
FVrrls W H 
Fields Harry 
Forklns Marty 
Forrester C O 
Fowler Kato 



Galvln Tom (C) 
Gardiner Lottie 
Georgalahs Bros 
Gibson J 
Gibson Rose 
Gilden Blanche 
Glllen Chas 
Gilmores The (C) 
Glmlan C O 
Glrard & Pierce 
Goe Carl (C) 
Golden Troupe 
Golden Valeska 
Goldlng & Keatlng(C) 
Goldlnlo Spanish 

(SF) 
Gordon James 
Gorman & Bell 
Grante Rose 
Great Alvin 
Greene B 
Grey Claire 
Groh E J 
Criilso Johnnie 
Guyer Mae 
Gygl Ota 



H 

Hahn Arthur 
Haines R T 
Hall Jack 
Halligan W T 
Harcourt Daisy (SFt 
Harold Smugl (C) 
Harper Mabel 
Harrison Claire 
Hart Wm 
Hartman S E 
Harvey Percy 



MAURICE GRACE 

BRIERRE and KING 



In Vaudeville 
Direction, IRVING COOPER. 



Haviland A Thornton 
Haynes Olive (C) 
Hazard Grace 
Hearn Lew 
Hearn E F 
Heath Frankle 
Heather Josie 
Henderson Clarrle 
Herbert Carl (C) 
Hewlns Nan 
Hibbltt W L 
Hill Morton 
Hillard Wm (C) 
Hippies Beth 
Hockett Bob (C) 
Hogue & Hardy 
Hope Evelyn 
Hopkins Mr 
Howard's Animals 



Imhof Roger (C) 
Inge Clara 
Isabella Anna 



James Walter 
Jarrett F J 
Johnson & Crane 
Johnson Dave (C) 
Jordon R 
Juliet 



K 

Kalman G R 
Kane Lew 
Karlton Avery 
Kaufman Sisters 
Kaufman Walter 
Keith Dottle (C) 
Kellen A Clark 
Kennedy Fred (C) 
Kiernan James 
Kllman George 
Kimmer Ray (C) 
King Malsle 
King Gus 
King A Davles 
Kitchen Richard 
Klein Eddie (C) 
Knapp Al 
Kramer Emma 
Krelles The 
Kuhn Chas 
Kunz Mrs 



Lake Marjorie 
Lambert George 
Lappln Henry 
Larrivel A Le Page 
Larvett Jules 
Latell Alfred 
La Tour Irene 
Laurence Bert 
Lawrence Gertrude 
Laiar A Dale 
Leander H 
Lee Bryan 
Le Mont Dan 
Lena A Rudolph 
Leo Jose 
Lepp Frank 
Leroy Delia 
Lester Bert (C) 
Lester Hugh 
Lester A House 
Levey Ethel (C) 
Leyaln Trio 
London Dan 
London Louis 
Lopez A Lopez 
Lorraine Ethel 
Lorraine Fred 
Lovell A Lovell 
Lubln Dave (C) 
Lucky Jim 
Lytell Wm 



At 

Maltery Francis 
Manny & Roberts 
Manny Chas 
Mardy Adele 
Martin Frank 
Martyn V (C) 
May & Addis 
Maye Stelle 
Maynard Harry (C) 
Maynard Shorty 
McBride Wm 
McBrlde Harry 
McColgan Madge (C) 
McConnell & Thomp- 
son (C) 
McDonald Wm 
M'Namara Nellio (SF) 
Meara Irene 
Mendel Joe 
Merle's Cockatoos (C) 
Mildred ft RoHere 
Millard O D (C) 
Miller James 
Miller Joe 



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Mitchell Chas (C) 
Mitchell Louise 
Montecaho Frank 
Montgomery Musical 

Duo 
Montrose Nellie 
Mooney Betsy (C) 
Morris D D 
Morris Mike (C) 
Morrlsey B 
Mortimer Root 
Most A 
Mueller L M 
Murphy Frances 
Myers Maude 



N 

Nadel Leo (O) 
Newman W H (SF) 
Niblo A Riley 
Nichols A Sherwood 
Nielsen Chas J 
Nolan Andy (C) 
Norbeck Fred 
Norris C J 
Norton Ned 
Nugent Arthur 



O'Brien Jeannette 
O'Connor Rita 
Okabe Family 
O'Nell Janis 
Overlng M 



Paaluhl Jos 
Page A McGrath 



Paka Toots 
Pearl A Roth 
Phillips Ruth 
Platens! Finns (C) 
Prior Joe 



Ramey Marie 
Ray A Hllllard 
Ray John A Emms 
Raycob A H 
Razillllant Clark (SF) 
Reed Gus 
Remy Jack 
Reyhauser John 
Reynolds A Donegan 
Reynolds Trio 
Rhea Mme (C) 
Richmond Dorothy 
Riego Harry (C) 
Rlgnold Nola 
Roberts Bob 
Roberts Mr (C) 
Roby Dan (C) 
Rogues Alphonse 
Rose David T 
Rosey G rover 
Ross Chas 
Russell Ruth 



Sulvan Ethel 
Smith James 
Snyder Bud 
Spooner F E 
Stanley Jack 
Sterling Catherine 
Strauss Wm 
Street Louise 
Sugarman Wm 
Sully Rose 
Summers Cecil 



Tallman L W 
Temple S W 
Tenneys Ernest 
Terry Arthur A 
Terry Ruth 
Terry A Elmer 
Thomas Billy 
Thomas W H 
Tlgle Harry 
Tony A Norman 
Trebor 



(C) 



8 

Samual Maurice 
Schoelvlnck A 
Scunie Frank 
Sella Girls 
Sharp M 
Sharpllss Ed 
Sherman Sarah 
Shy A Shyman 
Slant Norbert 
Skipper Geo 



Van Nally Elsie 
Vann Jack 
Veola 

Vernon Ethel 
Vlerra Geo (C) 
Viollnsky (C) 
Vinlng Dave 
Von Dell Harry 

W 

Walby Louise 
Waldo Grace 
Walker Frank 
Wall Jimmy 
Wallace Jack 



Wallace Jack (C) 
Wallace Vesta 
Wallner Carl 
Walters Nellie 
Walters A Murray (C) 
Ward Tom 
Washburn Howard 
Watson 8 
Watts A Lucas (C) 
Weatherford T B 
Webb A Burns 
Wells Corrlne (C) 
Wells Toby 
Welsh A Francis 
West Lew 
Whalte J A (C) 
Wheeler H A 

_ White Anna 

° White Belle 

,_, White Danny 

(O Wlllcoz Geo 

Williams Harry 
Williamson I 8 
Wllllch A Annlta 
Wilson Adelaide 
Wilson D (SF) 
Wilton Chas 
Winrow Sam 
Wood Ed 
Woods B F 
Woods Margaret 
Woods-Rensnaw Co 
Worrall C R (8F) 
Wright B G 



Yates Haroia 
Ying Chau Chu 
Yoste Clifton (C) 



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"Nearly Married" (Cohan & Harris) 
cancolled all western time after Nov. 1. 



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Harry L. Newman, of the Waterson-Snyder- 
Herlln Music company, is back from the Pa- 
cific coast. 



Jewish plays are being offered at the Empire 
theatre on the went aide. 

Ijoonard & Alvin, formerly with Ed Lee 



Jack Cook, formerly manager of the Hotel 
Carleton, will probably manage a theatre In 
Chicago. 



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Dob Ferns, with "The Charming Widows," 
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Friday night, Oct 2. was Ed Lee Wrothes 
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Arnold Daly expresses a desire to play 
"Hamlet" in Chicago and announces that he 
has found an angel with $40,000. He Is 
looking for a theatre. 

Friends have come to the aid of Col. BUI 
Thompson, who Is suffering from a cancer. He 
Is getting on nicely. J. C. Matthews headed a 
subscription list for him. 



For the past three weeks, motion pictures 
of the Marco Twins have been running at 
the Lincoln Hippodrome. Last week the two 
men appeared In person and drew large audi- 
ences at every performance. 

"Joseph And His Brethren" will close at the 
Auditorium Saturday. The piece will play two 
towns on its way to Milwaukee and later make 
a tour of the middle west. John Runny and 
his company will arrive at the big theatre 
Oct. 17. 



AUDITORIUM (Bernard Ulrlcta. mgr.).— 
"Joseph and His Brethren," In final week. 

COHANS GRAND (Harry Ridings, mgr.).— 
"Under Cover," playing to fair business 

COLUMBIA (William Roche, mgr.).— "Fol- 
lies of the Day." 

CORT (U. J. Herrmann, mgr.).— "A Pair of 
Sixes," Is doing well. 

CROWN (A. J. Kaufmann, mgr.).— "Annie 
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GARRICK (John J. Garrity, mgr.).— "Peg 
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ILLINOIS (Will J. Davis, mgr). -"The Mid- 
night Girl" opened Sunday night to crowded 
house. 

IMPERIAL (Joe Pilgrim, mgr.). -"Septem- 
ber Morn." 

LA SALL^ (Joseph Rransky, mgr.). — "One 
Girl in a Million," fair returns. 

NATIONAL (John P. Barrett, mgr). "The 
Winning of Barbara Worth." 

OLYMPIC (George C. Warren, mgr). -"Pot- 
ash & Perlmutter," getting biggest returns in 
town. 



POWERS' (Harry J. Powers, mgr.).— "The 
Yellow Ticket," fair business. 

PRINCESS (Sam P. Gerson, mgr.).— "To- 
day," growing in favor. 

VICTORIA (Howard Brolaski, mgr). "Fine 
Feathers." 

ZIEGFELD (Ed Harmeyer, mgr.). Pictures. 



PALACE (Harry Singer, mgr.; agt.. Orph.). 
-Comedy predominates in this bill. Two new 
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£ Green got the people with them In no time 
and the act registered. Daring Prince, a 
monkey motorcyclist (said to be the only one 
In the world), opened the show, giving an 
exhibition of Intrepid riding in a cage that 
put his simian eminence right to the fore. Al 
II. White (New Acta) had to follow in the 
wake of the big noise, but more than made 
good. The Werner-Amoros company gave a 
varied performance that took immensely. 
These tour men have nearly a whole vaude- 
ville show of their own, running from Juggling 
to high class music The young man who 
Impersonates a woman did his work so well 
that the audience was completely fooled. 
Kenny, Nobody and Piatt, familiar to Chicago 
people, offered their brand of black face Jokes 
and songs. They preceded George Damerel 
(New Acts), where they worked to good ad- 
vantage. Henrietta Crosman, next to clos- 
ing, offered the vaudeville oddity, "One Word." 
The Jerky effect of this style of utterance 
makes an odd Impression. Miss Crosman 
was graceful in the role of "One Woman." 
Barabah and Grohs formed the period to the 
entertainment with their repertoire of dances. 
They are graceful, have a varied program 
and succeeded In keeping the people in their 
seats until the final curtain. 

ACADEMY (Wm. Slattery, mgr.; agt., 
W. V. M. A.). — Nicely balanced and very 
entertaining bill is packing them In at ths 
Academy the first half. "Marked Money," 
presented by the Readick-Freeman Players, 
is featured and Bpllts the honors of ths 
show with Parke, Rome and Francis, a three- 
man harmony singing act Chuck Hass opens 
with a good bit of roping and talking. His 
cowboy dress is not exaggerated as it is in 
most cases with small time cowboy singles. 
Black and Leslie, two good old timers, score 
as usual with their novel dance and song 
act "Marked Money" appealed especially to 
the Academy audience. The playlet Is bright 
In Its comedy and dramatic situations and is 
acted admirably throughout. A rather start- 
ling climax sends it away big. Parke, Rome 
and Francis do real comedy without the aid 
of the usually essential comedy make-up. 
The boys have a repertoire of good numbers, 
Including "At the Barbecue," "Dance that 
Dengozo With Me" and "Just For To-night." 
Closing, the boys have a burlesque operatic 
hit which exhibits their ability as harmon- 
ists and comedians, and this factor, In con- 
Junction with a good appearance, should send 
them over nicely in most any bill. One of 
the best novelties recently seen here In the 
small time Is presented at the finish of the 
show by George Delblnl and Co. A most re- 
markable part and feature of the act Is a 
woman who does a Chinese character. Her 
comedy Is good and the equllibral feats of 
the man in the act brings well merited com- 
mendation. The act would be an ideal opener 
for more pretentious bills. 

MAJESTIC (Lyman B. Glover, mgr.; agts., 
Orph.). — After much maneuvering about and 
many changes the bill settled down to an en- 
tertainment of merit. Eddie Leonard, out at 
next to closing on account of sickness, Harry 
Jolson was Impressed into service. He fol- 
lowed Emma Carus and Carl Randall, who 
made the biggest hit in the program, hence 
he was handicapped and felt it. He put his 
songs over, however, and dragged a triumph 
out of what seemed defeat. Miss Carus won 
her audience early in the game, and by the 
time she had travestied the tango fad with 
the aid of Randall, she was a big hit. Yvetta 
who sings, dnces and plays the violin, formed 
a lively part of the entertainment and came 



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in for big applause. Homer Llnd and his 
company were on rather early In the bill, 
but had no trouble in arousing Interest. Harry 
Breen worked bard with his "nut" stuff and 
bad his people laughing in roars. He has 
added some new stuff at the close of his act 
which Is really meritorious and allows him to 
get away from bis utterly nonsensical line. 
Cecil Lean and Cleo May field were on as an 
extra added attraction. Lean, who Is a prime 
favorite here, came in for a warm reception 
and Mine Mayfleld sang and danced viva- 
ciously. They offered songs made familiar in 
"The Military Girl" and went over big. 
Brown and Rochelie, who twist and turn from 
a bounding apparatus, and while so doing are 
really funny, were put up in the bill, they 
having been set down to close the show. 
Corradinl's Menagerie of trained sebras, ele- 
phants, horses and dogs closed the show. 
The act Is unique and held the people to 
the final curtain. Baptiste and Franconi, 
billed as the two lunatics, were announced 
to open the show with Walter De Leon and 
"Muggins" Davles set down in second place. 



S. Morton Cohn, who spent several days here 
last week, announced that he has disposed of 
his interests in the Rees Circuit of theatres. 



Jack Hayes, a former attache of the Hippo- 
drome in Los Angeles, Is now manager of 
the Sherman theater, a picture house in the 
Mission. 



De Loretta will join the Monte Carter Co. 
at the Wigwam next week. Blanche T release, 
soubret, and Roy Claire, comedian, end their 
engagements. 

A benefit will be given at the Valencia thea- 
ter October 10 under the direction of the offi- 
cial French Society of the French Colony for 
the wounded In France. 



Harry Pennypacker, who waa doing the ad- 
vance work for "Milestones," is now ahead of 
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine," taking E. 
Gonnelrie's place, the latter going ahead of 
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San Francisco, Oct. 7. 

ORPHKUM.— The Ollllngwater-Lyle Co. 
proved exceedingly good to the regulars and 
tremendous applause was the answer. Ash- 
ley and Canfleld, hit Five Metxettls dis- 
played cleverness In the closing position. The 
O'Brien-Havel Co. were assigned to the open- 
ing spot and made the best of It Joe and 
Lew Cooper scored big. Of the holdovers 
Mack and Walker repeated successfully, Stan- 
ley and Ahearn Troupe were good fun makers. 

EMPRESS. — Eva Prout, pleased ; Urwln 
and Herzog, went big ; Senator Francis Mur- 
phy, well received ; Dora Deane and Fantoms, 
gave satisfaction in the closing position ; 
Mr. and Mrs. D. Elwyn and Co., pleasing ; 
Laypo and Benjamin, closing, meritorious. 
A poolroom sketch was added to the regular 
bill and voted good entertainment 

PANTAGES.— Chlaffarelli's Symphony, 20 
musicians, headlined, good attraction ; Winsch 
and Poore, pleased ; Love and Wilbur did 
nicely, opening ; Schenna' dogs and ponies, 
entertaining ; Grace McGinn and Co., passed 
nicely ; Gilbert Girard, good ; Coogan and 
Cox, likeable. 



sentative, arrived last Saturday. Mr. Lubln 
will make his headquarters in San Francisco. 
Harry Leavitt will resign as amusement 
manager of the Portola-Louvre December 1, 
and will devote all hla time after that data to 
his concessions at the exposition, which In- 
clude the "Diving Girls," "Third Degree" and 
the "Teddy Bear." 

Charles Harris, assistant manager at the 
Gaiety, left for Los Angeles last week, where 
he will be temporarily in charge of "Let's Get 
Married," now playing at the Moroaco there. 
According to reports a Chicago opening has 
already been arranged. 

About $2,000 was taken In at the benefit 
given by Sid Grauman at the Empress Thurs- 
day morning of last week for tbe widow and 
children of John Doherty, the special officer 
who was shot and killed. Two shows were 
necessary to accommodate the crowds. 



Bert Roach, playing characters with Keat- 
ing and Flood's Musical Comedy Stock Co., 
at the Lyric, Portland (Ore.), was arrested In 
Portland last week In connection with aen- 
satlonal charges involving young girls. Sev- 
eral Coast League baseball players were Im- 
plicated on similar charges. 



The Le Bruns, Australian roller skaters, 
upon arriving here sent their trunks to the 
Prlncoss theatre, a Bert Levey house, and 
after being billed to open, pulled out and 
opened for the W. S. V. A. at the Republic. 
An attorney was necessary to have their bag- 
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CORT ( Homer P. Curran, mgr.). — "A Pair 
of Sixes" (second week). 

COLUMBIA (Oottlob, Marx & Co., mgrs.).— 
"Milestones" (first week). 

ALCAZAR (Belasco & Mayer, mgrs.). - 
Stock. 

GAIETY (Tom O'Day, mgr.).-Kolb and 
Dill In "Peck O' Pickles" (sixth week). 

WIGWAM (Jos. Bauer, mgr.). — Monte Car- 
ter Co. and vaudeville. 

PRINCESS (Bert Levey, lessee and mgr.; 
agt., Levey). — Vaudeville. 

REPUBLIC (Ward Morris, mgr. ; agt., W. 
S. V. A.).— Vaudeville. 



Harold Bauer, tbe pianist, and Mrs. Bauer 
arrived from Honolulu last Friday. Bauer 
went to Australia and New Zealand several 
months ago for a concert trip. He will re- 
main here a few days before leaving for the 
East. 



The Supervisors' police committee Is pre- 
paring a resolution to require of places of 
amusement that an exact statement concern- 
ing periormancen and exhibitions be made In 
advertisements. Tbe committee also favors an 
ordinance prohibiting the exhibition of war 
films. 



The Tucker Sisters left for the north last 
week to join Pittman's "Minstrel Maids. " 



Mary Logan closes her engagement with 
the Monte Carter Co. at the Wigwam this 
week. 



Hal Dyson, former piano player for Daisy 
Harcourt, who recently quit the act here, has 
rejoined Miss Harcourt. 



Although announcement was made that the 
"Rollicking Girl" would start on Its run at 
the Gaiety this week, "A Peck O' Pickles," 
which has had five fairly successful weeks, 
was retained for another week, during which 
time the finishing touches will be put on tbe 
"Rollicking Girl," now scheduled to open Oct. 
12. Nana Bryant and James Llddy will be 
the new members with the show. 



Ferris Hartman and his musical comedy 
company will close their summer season at 
Idora Park, Oakland, this week. 



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E. Alexander, who resigned last week. Harry 
Leavitt, the amusement manager, announces 
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BACK IN VAUDEVILLE 

After 25 Years a Star and Feature with Musical Comedy Successes 

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A SENSATIONAL HIT 
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Direction, HARRY WEBER 



vaudeville program. It Is understood a new 
set of musicians will replace the present 
orchestra. 



Mrs. Hazel Jacobs, who is one of the Bel- 
mont Sisters, was granted an Interlocutory 
decree of divorce last week from Louis 
Jacobs, who Is at present playing a musical 
comedy season with his own company In Den- 
ver. They were married at Redwood City, 
November, 1912. Mrs. Jacobs testified that 
she and her husband became estranged on 
their wedding day, deciding then that their 
marriage was a mistake. 



ATLANTA. 

By R. H. McCAW. 

FORSYTH (Hugh Cardoxa, mgr. ; agent, U. 
B. O.).— Blckel A Watson, hit; Ray Monde, 
entertaining ; Three Crelghton Girls, go well ; 
Hlrschel Hendler, scores ; Donahue ft Stewart, 
please ; Roeders, splendid ; Derklns Dogs. 

ATLANTA (Homer George, mgr.). — "To- 
day," fair business ; David Warfleld, next 

LYRIC (Jake Wells, mgr.).— Dark. 

BIJOU (Jake Wells, mgr.).— Jewell Kelley 
Stock, last week. 

Al Bush, comedian of a stock burlesque 
company at the Old Mill, was In court Monday 
for springing Jokes to which the city censor 
objected. He drew a One and a warning. As 
a result the Old Mill has canceled the "bur- 
lesque" part of its program. 

Fritz! Scheff, Mayme Kelso and William 
Hodge are among the latest stage folk to 
place orders here for bales of cotton In the 
buy-a-bale move, ordering their purchases 
shipped to New York and Boston. 



The "O ' O ! Delphlne" Co. reduced its 
chorus by twelve, sending the dozen back to 
Broadway. 



ATLANTIC CITY. 

■y LOUIS WILUAMI. 

APOLLO (Fred. E. Moore, mgr.).— Robert 
Man teTl in Shakespearean repertoire. 

NEW NIXON (Harry Brown, mgr.).— Maude 
Adams opens her touring season in James M. 
Barries "Legend of Leonora and the Ladles," 
Shakespeare. 0, Otis Skinner in "The Silent 
Voice" will havo its premier. 

KEITH'S (Chas. G. Anderson, mgr.; U. B. 
O.).— Kitty Gordon In "Almas Return." Hugh 
Herbert & Co., scored ; Tlghe and Babet, pleas- 
ed ; Chas. and Fanny Van, laughing hit; Frank 
Markel, clever ; Paull and Boyne, pleased ; 
Four Charles, good ; Valveno and Lamare, 
fair. 



BALTIMORE. 

By J. E. DOOLBY. 

MARYLAND (F. C Schanberger, mgr.; 
agent, U. B. O.). — Robert Edeeon, sketch full 
of thrills and exciting situations; R. L. Gold- 
berg, amusing ; LambertL appreciated ; Allen 
Dlnehart, wins out; Diamond ft Brennan, 
scream; Muller ft Stanley, laughs; Rente, 
striking Impersonation ; Marshall Montgom- 
ery, good ; Moran ft Wiser, clever ; Ben Meyer 
ft Co., good. 

VICTORIA (Pearce ft Scheck, mgrs. ; 
agent, N-N.). — Busse's Terriers, wonderful 
training; Bernard ft DeHaven, entertaining; 
Blcknell ft Glbney, laughs; Evand ft Vidocq, 
funny ; Ring Trio, above the average. 

NEW (George Schneider, mgr. ; agent, 
Ind.). — Five Rennes, costumes and scenic 
effects beautiful ; Three Musketeers, much ap- 
plause; "The Ice Man," hit; Patterson ft 
West, do well ; Andy MacLeod, good ; Harry 
Le Ander, daring. 

FORD'S O. H. (Charles E. Ford, mgr.).— 
Chauncey Olcott in "The Heart of Paddy 
Whack." Large houses. 

ACADEMY (Tunis F. Dean, mgr.).— Opens 
Its regular fall and winter season with Hasel 
Dawn in "The Debutante." Business except- 
ionally good entire week. 

AUDITORIUM (Wedgewood Nowell, mgr.). 
— Poll Players take well to "The Man From 
Home." Edmund Elton and Grace Huff again 
shine. Cool weather gradually Increasing at- 
tendances. 

COLONIAL (C. F. Lawrence, mgr.). — 
"Bringing Up Father." Standing room at 
every performance. 

PALACE (W. L. Ballauf, mgr.).— "The 
Rosey Posey Girls." Average crowds. 

OAYETY (J. C. Sutherland, mgr.).— "The 
Girls From the Follies." Business as good as 
can be expected. 

HOLLIDAY ST. (Martin J. Dixon, mgr.).— 
"The Secrets of the Police," by a stock com- 
pany. Fair houses. 

The Dixie Entertainers opened their sec- 
ond week at the Suburban. Dancing con- 
tinues in the new winter garden. 



Manager Tunis F. Dean, of the Academy of 
Music, is sufferings, from blood-poisoning in 
bis left foot. His attending physician thinks 
the infection was caused by some poison used 
in the tanning of the leather of his shoe. 

George H. Houck, one of the oldest and best- 
known theatrical men of this city. Is very ill 
at his country home at Catonsvllle, suffering 
with infirmities of age. About a quarter cen- 
tury ago Mr. Houck and George W. Rife pur- 
chased tke Holllday 8treet theatre, which 
they conducted for many years. 



LOEWS GLOBE (Frank Meagher, mgr. ; 
agent, Loew). — Second week of this newest 
Loew house did a corking business, and suc- 
cess of venture seems assured. 

LOEWS ORPHEUM (V. J. Morris, mgr.t 
agent, Loew). — Vaudeville. Big. 

LOEWS ST. JAMES (Wlllam Lovey, mgr.; 
agent, Loew). — Vaudeville. Good. 

NATIONAL (agent, U. B. O.).— Will open 
for world's series with returns. 

BIJOU (Harry Gustln, mgr. ; agent, U. B. 
O. ). — Vaudeville and high-class pictures. 
Business picking up consistently. 

PARK. — Dark. Due to open in about two 
weeks. 

BOWDOIN (Al Somerbee, mgr.; agent, U. 
B. O.). — Pop vaudeville. Good. 

HOLLI8 (Charles J. Rich, mgr.).— John 
Mason in "Drugged." Fair. 

COLONIAL (Charles J. Rich, mgr.).— 
"Follies of 1914." 

SHUBERT (E. D. Smith, mgr.).— "Whirl 
of the World" opening Monday night. Good 
business. 

MAJESTIC (E. D. Smith, mgr.).— Last week 
of "The Trap," which has been condemned 
by the critics and endorsed by the average 
theatre-goer. 

WILBUR (E. D. Smith, mgr.).— William 
Hodge In "The Road to Happiness." Big 
business In a small house. Engagement in- 
definite. 

TREMONT (John B. Schoeffel, mgr.).— 
"Potash and Perlmutter" opening Monday 
night for 8 weeks. Big house. 

BOSTON (William H. Leahy, mgr.).— 
Opened for twelve weeks of opera Monday 
night at $2.60. The Majestic Players, under 
the visiting star policy, will not be shown dur- 
ing that time, but will reopen for a run until 
next September after the opera venture. Open- 
ing Monday jammed the huge house and the 
proposition looks good. 

PLYMOUTH (Fred Wright, mgr.).— "Want- 
ed : $22,000" opened Monday night for metro- 
politan premiere. 

CORT (John E. Cort. mgr.) .—"Peg," on its 
fifth week, and apparently in for a run. 

CASTLE SQUARE (John Craig, mgr.).— 
Stock. "Widow by Proxy." Business Jump- 
ed to almost capacity with the closing of the 
Majestic Players. 

GRAND (George E. Lothrop, mgr.).— 
"Broadway Girls Burlesquers." 

HOWARD (George E. Lothrop, mgr.).— 
"Crackerjack Burlesquers. " Capacity on 
guarantee, with Ed Vinton heading the house 
bill. 

CASINO (Charles Waldron, mgr.).— "The 
Prize Winners." 

GAIETY (George Batcheller, mgr.).— "The 
Beauty Paraders." 



James M. Barrle is here awaiting the open- 
ing of Miss Maude Adams, In "Legend of 
Leonora." 



William Gillette, Blanche Bates and Marie 
Doro will be seen here soon In a revival of 
Sardou's "Diplomacy." Hattie William's new 
show will have Its premier here as well as 
Ethel Barrymore, who will also be seen In a 
new play. 



The Oarden Pier will hold professional try- 
out nights each Thursday. 



The dancing contests on the Million Dol- 
lar Pier continue to draw a record crowd. One 
hundred dollars Is distributed as prizes. 



Ureste Vessella, the Steel Pier bandleader, 
expects to produce his own operetta some time 
In December at one of the local theatres. 



•0ST0N. 

By J. GOOLTZ. 

KEITHS (R. G. Larsen, mgr.; agent, U. 
B. O.). — The Vernon Castles proved satis- 
factory as headllners. The act went big. 
Chris Richards, went over great. Catalano 
and Denny, in one of the best spots on the 
bill, failed to score decisively. The audience 
appreciated the attempt to render Individual 
songs and it is regrettable that the songs do 
not seem to be the goods. Hymack, went well. 
Collins and Hart, scored. Mary Dorr, made 
good. Edward Marshall on his first visit 
here went big. getting a big hand for an a^t 
of this type. Genevieve Warner and Co. 
opened with a musical sketch. Welllng- 
Leverlng, cyclists, closed with a bang, and 
John and Bertha Gleeson with Fred Houlihan 
got across only with hard struggling. 



Scenic artistry as it Is and should be Is 
being demonstrated this week at Harvard by 
Sam Hume with his own models and prints as 
well as the works of Joseph Urban and Liv- 
ingston Piatt. There are 21 miniature sets 
as well as a model theatre with diffused 
lighting to Illustrate the shortcomings of the 
spot, bunch and foot system of this country. 



Next Monday brings "To-day" to the Ma- 
jestic theatre to succeed "The Trap." "The 
Trap" has had Its third act tightened up a bit 
and Is running better. 



Edward F. Bradley, known as the Q d 
Mozart, has been missing for over a r-outh 
and the police were this week asked to start 
a search for him. He left his home at 175 
Sydney street, Dorchester, early In September 
to fill an engagement at a loeal V.ime and 
never reported. 



There seems to be little doubt now that the 
Boston theatre is to be torn down next fall. 
Plans are completed and the land negotiations 
almost culminated for the proposed $3,500,000 
hotel to extend from Tremont to Washington 
streets. This hotel will have between 700 and 
800 rooms and will specialize In commercial 
business. 



BUFFALO. 

By CLYDE P. REX. 

TECK (John R, Olsher, mgr.).— Walker 
Whiteside in "Mr. Wu," to packed house on 
opening night. Next. "A Pair of Sixes." 

HIPPODROME (M. Shea, mgr.).— Pictures 
to great business. 

STAR (P. C. Cornell, mgr.).— "Sari, to 
packed house and seat sale continues heavy. 
15, 16, 17. Maud Adams in "The Legend of 
Leonora." 

LYRIC (G. S. Schleslnger, mgr.).— 
Brownell-Stork stock in "Alias Jimmy Valen- 
tine." 12, "Madame X." 

SHEA'S (Henry J. Carr, mgr.; agt., U. B. 
O.).— An excellent bill, headlined by Blanche 
Ring, who proved a big hit ; Mack and Orth, 
got over big; Blllle Bouncer, is clever; Bls- 
sett and Scott, good dancers ; Meyako Sisters, 
usual ; The Schwarz Co., scored ; Dooley and 
Rugel, were applauded. 

GAYETY (J. M. Ward, mgr.).— "Lovemak- 
ers." Next, "Bon Tons." 

ACADEMY (M. B. Schleslnger, mgr.; agv.. 
Loew).— "Hong Kong." headlined; Rutledge 
and Pickering, hit ; The Demarcos, pleased ; 
Charles Ledegar, applauded ; Bassalalere, 
unique ; Arthur Anderson, good ; Carnet Ray- 
monds, usual ; Cavanaugh and Shaw, fair ; 
Lena Dixon, clever ; Sbarfe and Ramser, 
splendid ; picture. 

MAJESTIC (John Laughlln, mgr.).— "Mutt 
and Jeff," went over big. 12, "The Prince 
of To-night." 

OLYMPIC (Charles W. Denzlnger, mgr.; 
agt., Sun). — "Uncle Sam's Kiddles," headlines 
and scored hit ; Eastman and Moore, clever 
skit ; Earl Wright, comedy acrobat ; Van 
Horn and Clark Sisters, entertaining ; Moore 
and SL Clair, good. 

OARDEN (W. F. Graham, mgr.). — "The 
Winners." Next, Jeannette Dupree's Show. 

REGENT (Arthur C. Willata, mgr.).— Pic- 
tures. 

STRAND (Harold Edel. mgr.).— William 
and Dustin Farnum In "The Littlest Rebel," 
plays big. 

PLAZA (Slotkln, RoBlng ft Michaels, mgrs.; 
agts., McMahon A Dee). — Rogan and Rogan, 

Sood ; Devene and Schultz, fair ; "Days of 
1," hit; Caum and Thlera, fine; Duven and 
Hayden, pleased ; Camm's Cockatoos, enter- 
tained. 



Police have been endeavoring to locate 
Joseph Rockford, thirty-six, who has been 
missing from his home for two weeks. Rock- 
ford was employed at the Teck theatre. 



"The Blindness of Virtue," "Bought and 
Paid For," and "The Little Lost Sister," are 
coming attractions for the Majestic. 

Sousa's band has been booked for two en- 
talnments at the Teck during the month. 
"The Midnight Girl," "The Passing Show of 
1014," "The Belle of Bond Street," "High 
Jinks" and "The Only Girl" are coming at- 
tractions. 



"Kismet" "The Dummy," "The New Hen- 
rietta," "The Girl From Utah," "The Prodi- 
gal Husband," "Seven Keys to 13a Id pate," 
"Innocence," "The Crinoline Girl," "Zlegfeld 
Follies," and "The Beautiful Adventure" are 
all coming to the Star. 



CINCINNATI. 

By HARRY V. MARTIN. 

EMPRESS (George A. Bovyer. mgr.; 
Loew).— Joyce ft West, Ed. Cleve, Bush ft 
Shapiro, Brown, Taylor & Reader, in "When 
It Strikes Home," Melnottc Twins, Six Oli- 
vers. 

KEITHS (John F. Royal, mgr.; U. B. O.). 
— Charles Thompson, Wallenstein & Freebey, 
Hopkins, Axtelle & Co., Cecelia Wright, "The 
Iiawn Party," Devine ft Williams, The Cas- 
tllllans, Frozini, Claude ft Fanny Usher. 
Gould ft Ashlyn Hartman ft Varady. 

AUDITORIUM. — German opera. Season 
began Sunday to good crowd. 

LYRIC (C. Hubert Heuck. mgr.; Shubert). 
--"Omar the Tent Maker"; 11, 'W*ien Dreams 
Come True." 

GRAND (John Havlin and Theodore Ayl- 
ward, mgrs.; K. & E.).— "Adele" ; 11, Eva 
Tanguay. 

WALNUT (Ben Probst, mgr.; S-H.).— "A 
Fool, His Money and a Girl"; 11, "Excuso 

NEW LYCEUM (Harry Hart, mgr.). -Stock. 
Vera De Vere ft Co., "Why Girls Leave Home" 
and "The Fatal Wedding." Prices 5 to 20 
cents. 

GAYETY (Willis F. Jackson, mgr.).— 
"Bowery Burlesquers"; 11, "Big Jubilee." 

STANDARD (Charles U. Arnold).— Zal- 
lah's Own Show; 11, "Heart Charmers." 

OLYMPIC (Tom McCready, mgr.). -"Fol- 
lies of Pleasure," with Zarah, Oriental dan- 
cer; 11, "Darktown Follies." 



Auto Show at Music Hall, .'{ to 10. Aero- 
plane exhibitions by Atwood and Smith. 



CLEVELAND. 

BY CLYDE E. ELLIOTT. 

COLONIAL (Robert McLaughlin, mgr.).— 
"Experience," doing good business. 

OPERA HOUSE (George Gardiner, mgr.).- 
"The Better Way." Prices cut to one dollar. 
Very big business. 

HIPPODROME (Harry Daniels, mgr.). -A 
mildly pleasing bill, with Walter Kelly as the 
headllner. Wills & Hassan, above average; 
Parillo & Frabito, merit ; John & Winnie 
Jennings, fair only ; Grapwln and Chance, 



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MANAGER OF 



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PLAYING THE B. F. KEITH CIRCUIT 



STAR (C. J. Kittz, mgr.).— "Tte Big Ju- 
bilee;" business good. 

clever; Juliet, fair; Chretlennl and Loulaette, 
good ; Marzella's birds, good. 

GRAND (Harry Levy, mgr.).- -"The French 
Models ;" good business. 

INDIANAPOLIS. 

By C. J. CALLAHAN. 

SHIHKKT MU HAT (J. D. BarneH, mgr.).- 
Pictures. 

ENGLISH'S (Ad. Milh-r, ingr. ; agt, K. A 
K.I. — T». H. 7. Mrs. Flake & Co. 

LYCEUM (Pbll Brown, mgr. ).—" While the 
City Sleeps." to good business. 

LYRIC (II. K. Hurton, mgr ; agt., U. B. O.). 

Ollle Young and April. good ; Welsser and 
Reeser. laughs; Madam Marlon, clever; Dick 
Fitzgerald, fair; Four Lesters, sensational; 
I'd half : Wood Bros. ; Edith Haney ; Carroll. 
Plerlott and Co. ; Ben Smith ; Heuman Four. 

FAMILY (C. Harmon, mgr.; agt., Sun). — 
Hilly Woodall and Co.; The Purtells ; Zenlta ; 
Cook and Hamilton 

GAYETY (C. Cunningham, mgr.; agt., C. T. 
B. A.).- -Vaudeville and pictures. 

MAJESTIC (J. E. Sullivan, mgr.).— 
Moulin Rouge Girls," to very good business. 

COLUMBIA (G. E. Black, mgr.). — "Beauty, 
Youth and Folly" company. 



LOS ANGELES 

VARIETY'S 
LOS ANGELES OFFICE 
3M MASON OPERA HOUSE BLDG. 

GUY PRICE, Correspondent 



ORPHEUM (Clarence Drown, mgr.; agent, 
V. B. O). -Week. 28. Waldemar Young In 
"When Caesar Ran a Paper," well received ; 
Hickey Brothers, good acrobatic dancing ; 
Francis McGinn & Co., good ; Lola Merrill ft 
Frank Otto, entertaining ; Harry Hlnes ft 
George Fox, went big ; Charles McGood ft Co., 
cleverly done; Qus Edwards' Matinee Girls, 
pleasing. 

EMPRESS (George Fish. mgr. ; agent. 
Loew). — Nine Krazy Kids, entertaining; Axel 
Chrlstensen, went great ; Slgsbee's Dogs, very 
good; William Morrow & Denna Harries, fair; 
Billy Imman & Owen Martin, mediocre; Jeter 
& Rodders, clever. 

PANTAGES (Cnrl Walker, mgr.; agent. 
Pantages).- Stanley Seminary Girls, received 
well; Le Roy & Cahlll, entertaining; Antrim 
& Vale, very good ; Four Soils Brothers, well 
rendered music; Willard, Hutchinson & Co., 
fair; James Brockman, fine. 

REPUBLIC (Al. Watson, mgr.; agent, 
Levey). -Bartello & Co.. fair; King Baxter, 
good ; Marie Leeds, pleasing ; La Stella Trio, 
entertaining ; Morton & Well, mediocre ; Musi- 
cal McDonald, very good. 

HIPPODROME (Lester Fountain, mgr.; 
agent, Western States) —Gardner's Dogs, fair; 
Five Johnstons, very Rood ; Babe Lewis, en- 
tertaining ; Caruso & Co.. exceptionally good; 
Reno Trio, clever; Chief White Eagle, got over 
with jump : Abram & Johns, good as usual. 

CENTURY (A. & M. Loewen. mgrs.).— 
Muslf.-ii burlesque. 

IUJRBANK (O. Morosco. mgr.) —"Lady 
Eileen," new production, fairly good show; 
drew well. 

MAJESTIC (Joseph Montrose, mgr.).— De 
Wolf Hopper-Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Co., 
great cast In great repertoire of operas ; busi- 
ness not up to expectations. 

MASON (Will Wyatt. mer.).— W. J. Burns In 
J-.iO.iHM) Counterfeit Mystery" (motion plo- 
tures), fair business. 




THE SEASON'S ^GREATEST SURPRISE NOVELTY! 

A CLEAR IDEA OF RAY MONDE'S ACT 

A clear idea of this act can be gleaned from the following press notice: 

"First In point of merit on the bill is Ray Monde? The question mark is well used, for 
Ray Monde keeps you guessing right to the finish whether a male or female person is per- 
forming. A duet sung by the one person in which both high soprano and deep baritone voices 
are used, adds to the mystery. 

"Dressed in full dress male costume, but with the figure and face of a woman, Ray Monde? 
with curly, close-cropped hair, makes you think "it" is a man, and just as many think "it" is 
a woman. But you are not satisfied, especially the women; and when after a change of cos- 
tume he-she emerges in an elaborate and beautiful gown, the women in the audience exclaim, 
"There, I told you it was a woman!" But their joy is snort-lived, for Ray Monde? whips off 
the lady's purple wig, showing the boy's wig underneath, causing them to think "It" Is a man, 
for the moment. After a bow, off comes this second wif, whereupon a mass of lustrous brown 
hair falls over "her" shoulders, to the audience's surprise and conviction that it is a woman 
after all. And when, after a number of bows, this last wig is suddenly whipped off, the result 
creates a sensational uproar in the audience. Last night they kept talking and debating on it 
for several minutes after the act was through. It was thoroughly enjoyed by the large 
audience, and Is by far one of the most original and best acts seen here in a long time." 

A ■'IrSl* Vo5Sb2rV hU Direction, JOE PINCUS— Pat Casey Office 



SOMETHING NEW 



ggXI&s "FOLLIES £ E DAY" 

With SAM SIDMAN, GERTRUDE HAYES, and an All-Star Cast 
BIGGEST HIT IN BURLESQUE SINCE "WINE. WOMAN AND SONG" 
NEXT WEEK (Oct. 11), PRINCESS THEATRE. ST. LOUIS 



MOROSCO (Charles Eyton and Sam Rork, 
mgrs.). — "Let's Get Married," musical comedy, 
big week. 

TRINITY AUDITORIUM (L. B. Behymer, 
mgr.). — "Cablria," pictures, record opening 
week. 



Sam Rork, local Gaiety manager, Is In New 
York. 



Tom O'Day has returned to San Francisco. 

Walter Lawrence of Cameron A Lawrenee 
told the police he lost a $3,000 diamond at a 
rehearsal recently. 



Al Loewen has Just launched an act over 
the Pantages time. 



Charles Pyke Is promoting a musical fes- 
tival soon to be held here. 



J. A. Allen, returned from Indiana, has re- 
sumed as business manager of Trinity Audi- 
torium. 



The Matinee Musical Club celebrated Its 
sixth birthday anniversary by a banquet and 
entertainment. 



James Devlin Is undecided whether to re- 
enter vaudeville. His wife, who was Mae 
Ellwood, died recently. 



John Knowles "jumped" the Levey circuit 
and Is appearing at the Mozart. 



Morosco shortly will produce "The Witness 
Chair," by Harriet Ford, at his local stock 
house. 



Adolph Mayr, who was with the Annette 
Kellermann pictures on the Coast, has come 
here to locate permanently. 



Bill Fulweed, well-known advance agent. Is 
recovering from a two months' Illness. He 
will not be able to return to the road for sev- 
eral weeks. 



LOWELL, MASS. 



By JOSEPH M. RBILLY. 

B. F. KEITHS (Ben Pickett, mgr.).— 
Opened this week with straight vaudeville. 
"Ideal," woman swimmer and diver, lived up 
to billing. Will Rawls and Ella Von Kaufman, 
hit. "The Mysterious Will." Hope Vernon. 
Leonardo, Holmes and Buchanan and Tryon's 
Dogs filled the bill. Good business. 

MERRIMACK SQUARE (Mr. Carroll, mgr). 
—Stock company, "Stop Thief," with Miss Eva 
Marsh and Sam A. Meharry. 



MILWAUKEE. 
Br f. o. morgan. 

MAJESTIC (James A. Hlgler. mgr. ; agt. 
Orph.). — Bell Family, popular hit; Herman 
Tlmherg, second honors; Radjah, light for 
headllner; Anna Chandler, enviable; "The 
Stranger." good; Nevlns and Erwood, fair; 
Greek Evans, fine ; Dorothy and Madeline 
Cameron, pleased ; Soltl Duo, entertaining. 

ORPHEUM (T. H. Ealand. mgr.; agt.. 
Loew). — "The Fight," easy hit; Oene and 
Kathryn King, excellent; Torleys, clever; 
Florence Barr, fine; Newport, Bert and Co.. 
pleased ; Baby Belle, entertaining ; Count von 
Glider, fair; Benesch Trio, novelty. 

CRYSTAL (William Gray, mgr. ; agt.. 
Loew). — Warner and Corbett, good; Dixon 
and Dixon, big; Bowman Bros., pleased; Ger- 
trude Van Dyck and Co, entertaining; Dean 
and Hamilton, fine. 



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Arrives in America Oct. 15 at San Francisco on the Mongolia 



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DAVIDSON (Sherman Brown, mgr. ; agt., 
Ind.). — Charlotte Walker in "The Better 
Way," week 11. Kellermann pictures In In- 
terim. 

8HUBERT (C. A. Niggemeyer. mgr.).— 
Shubert Stork In "Madame X" to excellent 
business. "Ready Money" to follow. 

GAYETY (J. W. Whitehead, mgr. ; agt.. 
East). — Charles Robinson and "Carnation 
Beauties." Good houses. 

CLUB (Rod Waggoner, mgr. ; agt, Prog). 



—Andy Lewis and "International Girls." 
Business excellent, 



Life," leaving vaudeville to go out again in 
"The Doll Girl." 



The Davidson, with nothing booked until 
October 11, landed the Annett Kellermann 
Alms, which were shown at the Pabst for an 
entire week. Pending the opening of the 
German season the Pabst is getting away with 
pictures at fancy prices. * 



Richard Carle and Hattie Williams closed 
at the Majestic Saturday In their "A Slice of 



The United States Marine band has been 
booked into the Auditorium for a concert 
Sunday night. 

NEW ORLEANS. 

By O. M. SAMUELS. 

TULANE (T. C. Campbell, mgr.).— "Hanky 
Panky" opened to nearly capacity and ad- 



vance indicates very good week. Exceptional 
road show, comparing favorably with the 
original. Al and Fanny Stcdman, offering 
their regular vaudeville act, received a tre- 
mendous ovation. 

CRESCENT (T. C. Campbell, mgr.) . — Emma 
Bunting Stock Co. in "Ma'm'selle." 

DAUPHINE (E. A. Schiller, mgr.).— "Tango 
Queens." 

HIPPODROME (Jake Miller, mgr.).— Vau- 
deville. 



BERT MELROSE 

ALWAYS WORKING THIS TIME: LOEW TIME n™k. t. joe schenck 



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BOOKED SOLID UNTIL APRIL AND A TERRIFIC HIT 

Direction, MAURICE H. ROSE and JACK CURTIS 



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Freeman Bernstein 

Maaager, Promoter and Producer of Voudovlllo Acta 
Sth Floor, PUTNAM BUILDING, NEW YORK 

OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Cable, "Freobona," Now York 

Pfc —o. ggggt mu 



MARK JAMES 



Reliable Artist'* Representative 

Bookinff Exclusively with 

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LAFAYETTE (Abe Sellgman, mgr.).— 
Vaudeville. 

ALAMO (Will Querlnger, mgr. ) .—Vaude- 
ville. 

ORPHEUM (Arthur White, mgr.).— Kajl- 
yama's elaboration of former act, artistic 
feature ; Jack Wilson, earned applause with 
James H. Cullen a close second ; Tango Chief, 
McConnell and Simpson, Eltnore and Wil- 
liams, and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Crane, 
pleased. The sorrowful finish In new sketch 
of McConnell and Simpson detracts. 



The "Adele" company sailed for New York 
Sunday morning. 
Al. O. Dames Circus exhibits here 9, 10, 11. 



During her four weeks at the Crescent 
Emma Bunting has played to approximately 
$12,000. 

"Mutt and Jeff" did $3,850 during its week 
at the Lafayette. 



Pianist in local cabaret, who played by ear, 
lost her Job. Deafness. 



Frank King Is reframing his "tab" in N. O. 

"Oh, Oh, Delphine!" comes to the Tulane 
next week, followed by Warfleld in "The Auc- 
tioneer." 



Strictly personal. — Mrs. Arthur White, 
treasurer of the Arthur White Personal Re- 
lief Fund, has arrived in New Orleans. 
Bellls-Russell Shows advertised In the local 
papers from Bclzonl, Miss., for artists, with 
the peroration, "We Never Close." If they 
ever get here, local authorities will compel 
'em to take out an all-night license. Two 
acrobats onened a picture show here last 
week. It attracted little comment. "Strange," 
said one, "we've opened a show and nobody 
notices it." "Nothing strange about that," 
returned his partner. "We've opened shows 
so often the people are used to it." Grace 
Bradley was under the weather last week. 
Got caught in the rain. 



S to 7 WEEKS 
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PHILADELPHIA. 

By JOHN J. BURN E 9. 

KEITHS (Harry T. Jordan, mgr.; agent, 
U. B. O.).— Belle Baker and Joe Jackson 
divide top line honors on the bill this week, 
the former cleaning up on the applause and 
the latter gathering all the laughs, which 
were tremendous. The remainder of the show 
did not get the usual results, and the pro- 
gram did not move with customary speed. 
The show opened with Klutlng's Entertain- 
ers to a scant audience. Three Lyres were 
passed along without much enthusiasm. La 
Orlo and Max Dlnus, held interest throughout 
with modern dances. Then came Joe Jack- 
son. Connelly and Wenrirh. went well ; 
Valerie Bergere and Co., pleased the house; 
Belle Baker was a sweeping hit ; Willie Bros., 
showed nicely. The Harry Lauder talking 
pictures closed. 

WILLIAM PENN (William W. Miller, mgr. ; 
agent, U. B. O.).— The headliner, Barnold's 
dog and money act, cleaned up in grand style. 
Cantor and Lee were a laughing hit. Scan- 
Ion and Press, won approval ; Richards and 
Kyle followed them with a solid hit ; Edward 
Farrell and Co. kept the house laughing ; 
Dolly and Charles Mack, made good. 

VICTORIA.— A stock tabloid company was 
Installed this week, replacing small time vau- 
deville. The house plays from 11 a. m. to 11 
P- m. continuously, depending upon the 
Market street shopping crowd for its patron- 
age at 10 and 20 rents. The company Is made 
up of fifteen girls, billed as the "Victoria 
Girlies," and their offering this week Is a 
minstrel show running about forty-five min- 
utes. Pictures and two vaudeville acts, book- 
ed direct, are used to fill out. 

KNICKERBOCKER.— First half: James 
Morton, "The Punch," Marie Russell, Kelso 
and Lelghton, the Qasch Sisters, Del-A-Phone. 

BROADWAY.— Thirteen U. S. A. Boys, The 
Hell Boys and Belles, Ray and Hllllard, San- 
tos and Hayes, Monarch Comedy Four, La- 
Salle and Raymond. 

NIXON.— Al Von Tllzer's Honey Girls. 
William Denz nnd Co.. the Tlerncy Four, 
faok George, Hamilton Brothers. Lewis and 
''hapln. 

GRAND.— Frank Bush. Emll Hoch and Co., 
Spencer and Williams, Bennett and Bennetto. 
Hilly Carpenter, Sherman and De Forrest Co. 

KEYSTONE.— "Thirty Minutes on Broad- 
way." Royal LaRelne and C-o., Raymond and 
Helder, Moss and Frey. John O'Brien, The 
Vagges. 

GLOBE. — Hopo Vern in, Studio Four. Quigg 
and Nlckerson, Barton nnd Lovern, Girard 
»nd West, Harry Urate and Co., nutler and 
Bernard. 

COLONIAL.— Fin half: Five Sullys, Bill 
Foster. Red Ravt-n Trio. "Over Sunday." Bert 
and Mack. Sero? I half: The College Girls. 
WrlKht find Mhrl^ht. Four Melody Lads and 
H Girl. The Aerial Cromwells, Princess Eliza- 
beth. 

ACADEMY OF MUSIC— "Cablria" in its 
fifth week. 



J. H. ALOZ 

Booking Agency. 
Orphoum Theatre Bldg., 

MONTREAL, P. Q. 

GUS SUN BOOKING 
EXCHANGE CO. 



Notice to Artiste!— Booking can now be se- 
cured through our representatives direct. Call 
—Phone— Write. Springfield, Ohio. Sun Build- 
lug. Home Ottce, Chicago, 111, Majestic Thea- 
tre Bldg;. Tom Powell, Mgr. Nov York, Palace 
Theatre Bldg;. Pete Mack, Mgr. Pittsburgh, Pa^ 
2* Schmidt Bldg- F. S. Fraaler. Mgr. Cleve- 
land, Ohio, PriecUla Theatre Blag., P. E. Seas, 
Mgr. Always an opening for first-class acts. 
State all first letter. 

PETE MACK 

Manager and Promoter of Vaudeville 
Attraction* 

ARTISTS DESIRING New York or Chicago 
Representation, address by wire or mail 

PALACE THEATRE BUILDING 

(United Booking Offices) 

NEW YORK CITY 



ADELPHI.— Grace George opened Monday 
in "The Truth" and drew a good house. 

BROAD.— Second and final week of "Lady 
Windermere's Fan," with Margaret Anglln. 
Oct 12, premiere of Mrs. Flske In "Lady 
Betty Martingale." 

CHESTNUT ST. O. H.— "Pilate's Daughter" 
began second week to good business. 

FORREST. — Montgomery and Stone in 
"Chin-Chin" to good bouses in second week 
here. 

GARRICK. — Second and final week here of 
"Nearly Married" began Monday to average 
business. 13, "The Yellow Ticket." 

LYRIC— "The Passing Show of 1014" open- 
ed Monday to a good house. 

LITTLE. — Opens 19 with Bernard Shaw's 
"Arms and the Man" for two weeks. 

WALNUT.— "The Round Up" by a travel- 
ing company at popular prices. 

LIBERTY.— "Bought and Paid For" drew a 
capacity house Monday, beginning a week's 
stay at popular prices. 12, "Bringing Up 
Father." 

ORPHEUM.— "Buster Brown" at popular 
prices for the week. 12, "Love's Model." 

AMERICAN.— "The Fortune Hunter" by the 
resident company. 12, "The Lure." 

CASINO. — Dave Marion's Own Show opened 
to a big house Monday. 12, "American Beau- 
ties." 

TROCADERO.— "Mischief Makers." The 
Aloah Twins and the "Girl in the Muff" are 
added attractions. 

GAYETY.— "City Sports Burlesquers." 
"The Cherry Blossoms." 

EMPIRE.— "Star and Garter" show. 
The Liberty Girls." 

DUMONT r S.— Stock Minstrels. 



12. 
12, 



Carroll Day. formerly treasurer at the Peo- 
ples, Is now assistant treasurer at Keith's 
Chestnut Street. 



Frances Pemberton Dade, of this city, has 
written a one-act playlet called "The Dark- 
est Hour," which will be produced at the Lit- 
tle Oct. 1ft and 17 as a curtain raiser to "The 
Doctor's Dilemma," by Bernard Shaw. 

Vaudeville has been withdrawn from the 
Great Northern and a picture policy was in- 
stalled Monday night. 



Plans are being prepared for a $.V).ooo film 
house to be erected at Frnnkford and Colum- 
bia avenues by John M. Kennedy. 



Picture houses throughout the city were 
ordered to do away with permanent fails at 
the rear of the theatres and to substitute a 
soft cord. The police authorities and the fire 
marshal ordered the change. The number of 
standees allowed In picture houses Is nlso be- 
ing investigated on reports that the regula- 
tions which allow ten per cent, of the capacity 
of the. house to stand are being violated. 



Settlement has been made by tin- lessees of 
the Metropolitan Opera House of the suit 
brought against them for the collections of 
rent. Pictures were shown th.-iv for -.-ver.il 
weeks without flnnnciil success The rent 
suit was for Ave months at *."..<*<><> ., mooHi. 
The house Is dark at present. 





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95% 



of allperformers going to Europe make their steamship arrangements through 
us. The following have: 

Selma Braats. Basque Quartette, Boiler Bros.. Flying Bernards, The Bone- 
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setties, Bellong _. 

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GRAND (Harry Davis, mgr. ; agent, U. B. 
O.).— Oua Edwards' "Song Review," head- 
line, hit ; Brooks A Bowen, very good ; Milt 
C. Collins, laugh ; Rlgga A Wltchle, pretty act, 
songa weak ; Two Carletons, good ; Bessie A 
Harriet Remple 6 Co., excellent ; Cummings 
& Claddings, good. 

HARRIS (C. R. Buchhelt. mgr. ; agent, U. 
B. O.). — Old Town Four, hit; Minerva Court- 
ney A Harry Irwin, headline, excellent; 
Devona' Posing Dogs, novel ; Prof. James 
Hinds, fair; Ah Ling Foo, clever; Baby Zelda. 
exceptionally good; Robh A Severn, fair; 
Helen Carlos Trio, good ; The Stlllings, fair. 

SHERIDAN SQUARE (Frank H. Tooker, 
iiiKr. ; agent, l T . B. O.).— "EaBy Money." head- 
line, hit; Augoust Family, splendid; O'Nell 
Oirs, entertaining : Musical Parshleys. good ; 
Dunn & Dean, novel ; Harry Sauber. laugh. 

NIXON (Thos. Kirk, mgr.). "The Queen 
of the Movies," attracted good house. 11', 
The Debutante.'' 

ALVIN (J. P. Reynolds, mgr.).— "The Only 
Clrl." Hplenrlld. tuneful, musical farce rom- 
edy. Hlg reception. 12, "Omar the Tent- 
maker." 

LYCEUM (C K. Wilson, mgr.). -John 
ll'unny opened to S. R. ().. and made tremen- 
dous sensation. 1'J. "The Rosary." 

HCHENLEY (Harry Davis, mgr.). Rtock. 
1 •_'. new company headed by Nance O'Nell In 

Hi-llii Donna." 

OAYETY (Henry Kurtzman, 
"Dreamland liurlcsqiiers'' opened to 
house. 

VICTORIA (Ceorge Gallagher, 

Whirl of Mirlh" opened lo big house 

ACADEMY (Hurry .1. Smith. m*r.) 
"Monte Carlo Girls" opened to full house. 



BY m. B. ANSON. 

HEILIO (W. T. Pangel, mgr.).— Week 27, 
"Kitty MacKay." 

BAKER (Oeo. L. Baker, mgr.).— "The 
Family Cupboard." 

EMPRESS (W. H. Plerong, mgr.; Loew).— 
Week 28, Theo. Bamberg, opened, pleased ; 
Jolly A Wild, good ; Allen, Miller A Co., hit ; 
Rose A Moon, clever dancers ; Alice Hanson, 
funny ; The Three Mori Brothers, fine. 

PANTAOE8 (J. R. Johnson, mgr.; agent, 
direct). — Cheater Kingston, good; Taylor A 
Arnold, hit; Charles King A Co., well liked; 
Miller, Packer A Selz, funny ; Ethel Davis a 
Co.. headliner. Good business. 



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ST. LOUIS. 

BY RAYMOND A. WAIJH. 

COLUMBIA (Harry Puckley, mgr.).— Mer- 
cedes, psychic wonder, assisted by Mile. Stan- 
tone; Vlnle Daly; Laddie Cliff; Chadwlck 
Trio ; Jackson and McLaren ; Lancton Lucler 
and Co. ; Jarrow ; MacRae and Clegg! 

ORAND (Harry Wallace, mgr.).— David 
Walters and Co. ; Musical Gordon Highland- 
ers ; Armstrong and Manley ; Angelo Armlnto 
Trio; Billy and Edith Adams; Phillips' Cir- 
cus; Happy Jack Gordon; Archer and Carr ■ 
Eldora and Company. 

HIPPODROME (Frank Talbot, mgr ) — 
Simars Arabs; Lorlng and Parquetto ; Major 
Wright and Dancing Bugs ; Moore. Kan« and 
I'hllllps; Malumly and Musette; Olga's 
Leopards ; Amedio ; Alpha Troupe 

OLYMPIC (Walter Sanford. mgr) Fimriie 
Ward In "Madame President." 

SHUHERT (Melville Stoltz. mgr.) Henrv 
Kolker In "Help Wanted." 

AMERICAN (Harry Wallace, mgr ) — "Tha 
Confession." 



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PRINCESS (Joe Walsh, mgr.).— "Glrla 
from the Moulin Rouge." 

STANDARD— "The Big Sensation." 

PARK THEATRE— Mabel Wilbur In "Mile. 
ModlRte." 

SHENANDOAH.- Marlon Kuckert In "The 
Deep Purple." 

QAYETY.— The Dainty Maids. 

GARRICK. — Mme. Fannie Reinhart and 
Yiddish Players. 

GRAND CENTRAL— Pictures. 

WEST END LYRIC —Picture*. 

VICTORIA (W. D. Cave. mgr.). -Mimt 
Yvonne In "The Littlest Rebel." 



Holkoos ; Holmes and Riley ; Sally Stembler 
and Bros. ; Golden and West. 

NEW PRINCESS ( Bert Goldman, mgr.).— 
Seymour and Robinson ; Bert Wheeler and 
Co. ; Burns and Acker ; Allman Nevlns ; split 

METROPOLITAN (L. N. Scott, mgr.).— 
Margaret Illlngton ; next week, "The Poor 
Rich Little Girl." 

SHUBBRT.— "Fine Feathers." Next week. 
"Baby Mine." 

GRAND.— Closed. 

STAR.— "Million Dollar Dolls." Opened to 
big business. 



So far St. Louis has been lucky to get the 
Broadway stars out west In the road shows 
and then only for a week's engagement and 
possibly a return. Some of the stars never 
get here. Why? The answer Is probably 
best known In New York. Certainly It Is not 
known In St. Louis. What a stock company 
properly managed can do for the theatrical 
business of a city is best evidenced by the 
Park theatre stock, which last week began 
an engagement In "Mile Modiste" with Mabel 
Wllber in the leading role. The results are 
more than satisfactory. It Is a triumph for 
the stock company business. 



SPOKANE. 



BY JAMB! 



ROTOB. 



ST. PAUL 



BY C J. BENHAM. 

ORPHEUM (E. C. Burroughs, mgr.).— 
Johnny Johnston and Co. ; Hubert Dyer ; Er- 
ne tte Asorlar ; Santly and Norton ; Fred Kor- 
nau ; Jack Forls, pleased. 

EMPRESS (Gus Greening, mgr.). — Wilson 
Bros. ; Cameron Devltt and Co. ; Slaymanali's 



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AUDITORIUM (Charles York. mgr. ; agent, 
N. W. T. A.).— 27-8-9. "The Whip," big busi- 
ness; 1-2-3, "Baby Mine." 

LOEWS (Joseph Muller, mgr. ; agent, di- 
rect).— Week 27, George A Lilly Garden, good 
muBlc ; Bogert ft Nelson, Interesting; Hippo- 
drome Four, laughter; Eugene Emmett & Co.. 
excellent; Val & Ernie Stanton, rollicking 
comedy ; Wormwood's animals, went well. 

PANTAGES (E. Clarke Walker, mgr. ; agent, 
direct).— Week 27, Leon A Adeline Sisters, 
adept ; El wood & Snow, went well ; Fletcher, 
Ay res A Co., held audience; Hugo Lutgens, 
clever ; Colonial Minstrel Maids, good. 

SPOKANE (Sam W. B. Cohn, mgr. ; agent, 
Fisher).— Week 27, first half, Aerial Rooneys. 
Jewell & Jordan, "The Musical Fox" ; second 
half. Hall & Sharkey, Beaudoins, "The Musical 
Fox." 



TORONTO. 

By HARTLEY. 

ROYAL ALEXANDRA (L. Solman, mgr.).— 
Marie Tempest commenced her American 
tour Monday night in "Mary Goes First." 
"Within the Law," 12. 

PRINCESS (O. B. Sheppard, mgr.).— Bll- 
lle Burke, In "Jerry." well received. "The 
Little Cafe" 12. 

GRAND (A. J. Small, mgr.).— "Polly of 
the Circus." 12. "Shepherd of the Hills." 

SHEA'S (J. S. Shea, mgr.; agent, U. B. 
O.).— "Pekin Mysteries," big novelty; Bron- 
son ft Baldwin, excellent ; Harry Beresford ft 
Co., In sketch, a success ; Stuart Barnes, en- 
tertaining ; Charlotte Ravenscroft, clever ; 
Ford A Hewitt, good ; Ioleen Sisters, sensa- 
tional ; Flanagan ft Edwards, pleased. 

LOEWS YONOE STREET (J. Bernstein, 
mgr.). — The Royal Imperial Pekinese Troupe, 
splendid ; Trovello, clever ; Richmond A 
Mann, entertaining ; Perlse, good ; Jimmy 
Rosen A Co., hit ; Inness A Ryan, pleasing ; 
Taber A Gllln, good ; Gwynn A Gorrett. 
pleased. 

SHEA'S HIPPODROME (A. C. McArdle, 
mgr.; agent, U. B. O.).— Frederick V. Bow- 
ers A Co.. went fine ; Wm. Wilson A Co., a 
scream ; Peakl's Educated Blockheads, novel ; 
Coates, Keane A Johnston, clever ; Doc 
O'Neill, droll ; Daniels A Conrad, entertaining. 

STAR (Dan F. Pierce, mgr.; Progressive). 
— "The Merry Burleaquers." 

GAYETY (T. R. Henry, mgr.; Columbia). 
—"Bon Tons." 



clever; MUloy and Co., good; Ryno and Emer- 
son, fair ; Murrays Dogs, pleased. 

COLUMBIA (M. W. Schoenherr, mgr. ; agt., 
Sun). — Lloyd Lamont, funny; My lie and Gold, 
good ; Chartrette and Lewis, very good ; 
Moore's Rah Rah Boys, very good ; Leandar 
and Balr, pleased ; Jean C. Carroll and Co., 
melodramatic ; Downz and Gomez, excellent ; 
Chester B. Johnston, daring cyclist. 

NATIONAL (C R. Hagedorn, mgr.; agt., 
Doyle). — Hermanez Cats and Dogs, well 
trained ; Buckley and Moore, good ; Oldfleld 
and Drew, good ; Corey, good ; Monahan and 
Monahan, good ; Roose and Calvert, good ; 
Geo. Yeoman, good ; Charles Terris and Co., 
sketch. Excellent bill. 

GARRICK (Richard H. Lawrence, mgr.).— 
Frank Craven in "Too Many Cooks." Next 
week, "The Only Girl." 

DETROIT (Harry Parent, mgr.).— "The 
Dummy." Next week, "Queen of the Movies." 

LYCEUM (A. R. Warner, mgr.).— Rose Mel- 
ville In "Sis Hopkins." Next week, "Calling 
of Dan Matthews." 

FOLLY (Hugh Shutt. mgr.). -Back to stock 
burlesque with Tom Beeso nad Lew Golden. 

AVENUE (Frank Drew, mgr.)— "Parted on 
Her Bridal Tour." Next week. "Camllle." 

BROADWAY (Bert St. John, mgr.).— "The 
Parish Priest." Next week, "Lost Paradise.'' 



For the first time since its organization the 
Miles-Detroit Theatre Co. has deferred pay- 
ment of quarterly dividend, owing to present 
unsettled condition. Dividend due Sept. 30 
has been deferred until Dec. 31. 



The city council has been asked to pass an 
ordinance for the regulation of motion picture 
operators and for the use of motor driven ma- 
chines. The new legislation is understood to 
be aimed against the houses which do not em- 
ploy union operators. 



WANTED — Young, good-looking male dancer. 

with Jirst class engagement as partner for 
young lady, 5 ft. 4 in. Experienced society, 
whirlwind and ballet dancer. Attractive ap- 
pearance, personality and wardrobe. Address, 
Professional, VARIETY, New York. 



TOLEDO. 

BY MAUMBB. 

KEITH'S (Sam Pearlsteln. mgr.; agt., U. 
B. O.). — Ray Samuels, hit; Milton Pollock and 
Co. excellent sketch ; McMahon A Chappelle, 
very good ; Burdella Patterson, artistic pos- 
ing ; Jarvis and Harrison, excellent ; Woods 
and Woods trio, good : Ethel and Emma Hop- 
kins, good ; Arnaut Bros., tumblers. 

ARCADE.— California, musical tabloid ; 
Musical Gypsy trio ; Frees Bros, and Co. ; Zeb 
Zarrow troupe ; Ursone and De Osta ; King 
Bolo, musical tabloid ; Cushman and Welch ; 
Elizabeth Hester Ward ; Welkom and Raven ; 
Gil Brown ; Case and Alma ; Booth and Vil- 
larreal. 

AUDITORIUM— Oct. 5-7. Joseph Santley in 
"When Dreams Come True ;" 8-10, Helen 
Ware In "The Revolt." 

EMPIRE— Ben Welch. Next week, Bowery 
Burlesquers. 

LYCEUM— Progressive Girls. 



DETROIT. 

By JACOB SMITH. 

TEMPLE (C. G. Williams, mgr.; agt., U. 
B. O). — Odlva, headllner; Ed Morton, well 
liked ; Josephine Davis, excellent ; "Our Hus- 
band," amusing ; Edwin Stevens, excellent ; 
Nonetta Five, good ; Howard and Lyman, 
closed big ; Krekna Bros., good opener. 

MILES (C. W. Porter, mgr.; agt.. Loew). — 
"Love in a Sanitarium," musical tabloid, big 
hit ; Brown and Jackson, pleased ; Howard's 
Animals, pleased ; Joe Kelsey, unable to ap- 
pear, 111 ; Rose troupe, comedy acrobats ; Pur- 
cella Bros., good. 

ORPHEUM (H. P. Williamson, mgr. ; agt.. 
Pantages). — Willard Jarvis and Co., hit; Wil- 
liam K. Saxton and Co., excellent sketch ; 
Minnie and Walter Lowes, rope manipulators ; 
Frank and Walters, show ability ; Jenkins 
and Covert, big; Dick Miller, fair; Betts 
Seals, excellent. 

PALACE (C. A. Hoffman, mgr. ; agt, Cun- 
ningham). — Benny and Woods, hit; Ruth 
Stone, good voice ; Chic Harvey and Co., fair 
sketch ; Tierney, good marksman ; Madeline 
Wlnthrop and Co., pleasing sketch ; Seven 
Nutty Kids, well liked; Alf Ripon, fair; Two 
Lintsons. jugglers ; Martlnetti, pleased. 

FAMILY (J. H. McCarron, mgr.; agt., U. 
13. O.). — Esmeralda, good; Norman and Nor- 
man, good*; Roach and Francis, very good; 
Bennett Lytell and Co., comedy ; May Dale, 



ROSE GARDENS 

Theatre astf Dante De Pierrette 

Broadway at A2d St. Columbus 4350 

Every Afternoon and Evening, Including Sundays 

ASTONISHING SUCCESS 

THIRTY LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA 

With the Williamson Expedition. 

First aaa* Oaly Sikmarlse Motion Pictsrea. 

IN DANSE DE PIERIETTE. 

Dancing. Dining. Delightful Music. 

Rsuiaa Balalaika aid Frank McKte's Orchestra 

Afternoon Dancing and Teas. Only Pneumatic 

Floor. Beat Dancers in America. 



Saetrflaoes Hair Removed by Stationary 

Multiple Elec- 
tric Needle. 
Removes 300 
Hairs in one 
Hour without 
pain or scar- 
ring. Eye- 
brows per- 
. . _, „ , manently 

shaped. Warts and moles removed. Endorsed 
by medical profession. Free Demonstration. 

Mme. C Walker HI 5tn *"•> **"* m 

mmv. V. WWailMH Phone 7155 Murray Hill 





NOTICE TO MANAGERS AND AGENTS 

We again draw your attention to our original act which we have been playing for the past five years and during which time 
we have met with phenomenal success. 

Owing to the success of the actfit is said to have been copied in its entirety by Fred Coutere, who formerly worked for me in 
the same act, and who has been duplicating my act for the past 18 months under the name'of BARTON and LO IffJtA, and three 
weeks ago appeared at Hammerstein's. .. '-*■ 

Unless these "Copyists'* discontinue their use of my material, they will be vigorously prosecuted. A 

(Signed) ED. PALFRlSl 

PALFREY. BARTON and BROWN 



Originals and Originators 



"Follies of Vaudeville" 



VARIETY 




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WILBER 



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The PEACHES 

TOURING 

Phone Ufl-M Passaic 

7 Hawthorns Ave, Clifton, N. J. 

ALFREDO 

VARIETY, LONDON 



GEORGE 
HARADA 

World'* Famous Cyclist 

17M CLYBOURN AVE. 
CHICAGO. ILL. 




Imperial 
Pekinese 
Troupe 

and 

Shangtun Mystery 

Six Chinese Wonders. Lately Featured with 
Anna Hold Jubilee Co. 

All communication* 10 

LONG TACK SAM 
Sol s Owner and Prop. VARIETY. New Y ork 

SAM J. CURTIS 

In "GOOD BYE BOYS" 

By Junie McCroe 

Direction, HARRY SHEA. 




FRANK 



EMILY 




FRANCES 
CLARE 

and 

GUY RAWSON 

with 

"Their Little Girl 
Friend." 

in 

"Yesterdays" 

A Delightful Story of Youth 

Booked Solid 

Direction 

CHRIS O. BROWN 



Jerome and Carson | 

ToortBS RICHARD'S CIRCUIT. AUSTRALIA 



FRED and ANNIE 

PELOT 



JACK STROUSE 

THE "SIMQLE" THAT MAKES THEM TAKE NOTICE 

BOOKED SOLID Direction, ALLEN EPSTIN 



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Victor HERASand PRESTON Ben 

FAST AND FUNNY TUMBLERS 

Now Playing Pantagos Time 
BOOKED SOLID ON W. V. M. A. opening Oct. 2f 



A TEAM THAT IS A WINNER 



DUNCAN 



AND 



GOLDENSON 



-A Dainty Uttis Girt ead a Dssesr Llttia 

PLAYING IN WBST OPEN FOR BOOKING NOW 

-A Trssa— seas Hlf— Unanimous Opinion of Coast Critics 
MRS. A. hi. GOLDENSON. 1711 South Burtington Avenue, Los 



Col 




A LITTLE OF "WHAT NOT" 

Direction LEE MUCKENFUSS 



WILLIAM MORROW 

Assisted by DONNA HARRIES 

Presenting the Singing Comedy Playlet "ON A COUNTRY ROAD." 
Booked Solid Season 1114-1*. Direction SIMON'S AGENCY, CHICAGO 



HAInlTV rislsfM ICU s TO InTa ENGLANDS foremost dancers 

L/AIPI I 1 sCnVllmldlT I ill V Ethel Rosebod, Maud Crossland and Lottie Crossland 



Next Week (Oct. 12) Keith's. Toledo 



BOOKED, SOLID ON ORPHEUM CIRCUIT UNTIL JUNE 27 



JUST BACK FROM A PHENOMENALLY SUCCESSFUL TOUR OF THE ORPHEUM CIRCUIT 





Maitland 



The Applause Hit of Every Bill with Her Original and Sensational Megaphone Finish 1 1 

KELLER, Representative 



HAMMERSTEIN 



"He Walked Away With a Clean Hit. 
He's a Safe Attraction Any where."— Wynn, VARIETY 



DIRECTION OF 



VARIETY 



SEVENTH ANNUAL TOUR 



WILLIAM MORRIS 



• 

Presents 






Who is completing a 
World's Tour 

after a sensationally successful Australian engagement, 

Reappearing in America at the Majestic 

Theatre, Los Angeles, Oct. 16 



r 



Permanent address while in America, New York Theatre, 

New York City 



& 



TEN CENTS 




VOL. XXXVI. No. 7. 



NEW YORK CITY. 



PRICE TEN CENTS? 




VARIETY 



HERE IS THE ACT! 






A BOX OFFICE ATTRACTION with a GUARANTEE 









THE GUARANTEE 

is that if this act doesn't increase the average weekly receipts for this 

season so far, at least the amount of its salary while in your 

house, you don't have to pay it any salary. 

FOUR MARX 










AND CO. (17 People) 

In "HOME AGAIN," 38 minutes of laughs 



Have the records for the Interstate Circuit at Ft. Worth and Dallas. For the first time in its 
history, the Majestic, Ft. Worth (week Sept. 28), had the S. R. O. sign out for the Saturday 
matinee, making full capacity every performance, with "Home Again" the featured attraction. 

Last week at the Majestic, Dallas, took all box office records. (Refer for confirmation, by permission to 
Mr. Karl Hoblitzelle, general manager of the Interstate, or Miss Cecelia Bloom, its booking manager.) 

This act is framed as a money-maker for the house, and it's doing the work. 
It's got to draw, to earn its salary, and it does draw, hence the guarantee. 

The greatest comedy act in show business, bar none 

Management, MINNIE PALMER 

THIS WEEK (OCT. 12), MAJESTIC, HOUSTON 




Vol. XXXVI. No. 7. 



NEW YORK CITY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1914. 



PRICE 10 CENTS 



"SALARY CUTTING" SOLE TOPIC 

THIS WEEK IN VAUDEVILLE 



Big Time Managers Go Through Entire List of Available Acts, 
Making Salary Cuts. Percentage of Decreases Averages 
About 15 Per Cent, on Whole. Some Big Acts Heav- 
ily Sliced. Smaller Acts Get Cuts As Low As Five 
Dollars. Every Big Time Act Affected. 



Up to Wednesday it was said at the 
United Booking Offices that but five 
of the big time acts had finally refused 
the cuts in their accepted weekly sal- 
ary, imposed by the committee (of 
managers) appointed by all the big 
time managers last week to make a 
general decrease. "Salary Cutting" 
was the sole topic of this vaudeville 
week. 

The salary cutting had been complet- 
ed early in the week. Agents received 
notification from the United Booking 
Offices advising the price settled upon 
their acts. The agents notified the 
turns with the information the order 
goes into effect Oct. 26. Rejection 
of the amount fixed by the committee 
of managers amounts to a cancellation 
of existing U. B. O. contracts under 
the two week's clause. With few ex- 
ceptions all contracts issued by the 
United Booking Offices and Orpheum 
Circuits contain this clause. 

The Orpheum Circuit will regulate 
the future salaries on its time accord- 
ing to the new scale established by the 
committee. The Orpheum will notify 
agents to instruct their acts of the 
salary fixed and under the two week's 
clause the order will probably go into 
effect on the entire Orpheum Circuit 
Nov. 2, excepting that allowance will 
he made for some acts unavoidably laid 
off in the northwest through the un- 
expected closing there of some Or- 
pheum theaters. These acts will be 
.uiven a further time limit. 

The percentage of reductions taken 
<>n the average from reports of amounts 
reduced seems to be around 15 per 
cent., although no specified percentage 
has been followed. Large salaried acts 
have been shaved down in large sums. 
All ads un the United Booking Offices' 



books were affected by the cut. Open- 
ing turns and the small acts were de- 
creased in some instances not over 
five or ten dollars. Surrounding con- 
ditions governed the committee in most 
cases. The usual cut of acts around 
$1,000 seemed $200 or more a week. 
Acts around $400 and under to $300, 
from $75 to $25. 

The vaudeville artists were of the 
impression the reduction was tempo- 
rary. Following this theory Frank 
Fogarty, big chief of the White Rats, 
communicated with the United, re- 
questing that some statement be given 
out or the acts assured that when bet- 
ter times prevail this season or next 
season, the former salary scale will be 
restored. Up to Thursday, owing to the 
absence from the city of Dennis F. 
O'Brien, who had communicated Mr. 
Fogarty's request to the United, the 
White Rats had not received an an- 
swer to their proposal. 

A few acts have informed their 
agents they would not agree to a de- 
crease and would seek engagements 
elsewhere. The managers are reported 
to have informed the agents who told 
them this that the managers were per- 
fectly willing the acts should do so. 
A number of other acts advised their 
agents that they were agreeable to the 
cut if a route could he secured for the 
remainder of the season. On the U. B. 
O. books arc many routes given out, 
which it was said would be immediately 
cancelled if the acts refused to accept 
the present conditions, and the time 
given to other turns. The five acts re- 
fusing to finally accept the cut have 
had their names taken riff the U. B. O. 
books, it was reported. Other acts 
were thinking it over, according to 
(Continued on page 6.) 



The OFFICIAL NEWS of the 

WHITE RATS ACTORS' UNION and 
ASSOCIATED ACTRESSES OF AMERICA, 



as formerly printed 
exclusively in 

appear on page 8 of this issue. 



fumt 



LONDON SHORT NIGHTS. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 16. 

The recent order of the war depart- 
ment to keep London as dark as pos- 
sible at night to lessen the dangers 
of a raid by the Zeppelins, is keeping 
people away from the legitimate thea- 
tres. 

Commencing next week the Wynd- 
ham will give but two night perform- 
ances, playing matinees daily. A sim- 
ilar policy goes into effect at His Ma- 
jesty's on the same date. 

The Alhambra starts its revue at 8 
P. M. instead of nine, commencing 
next week, and may find it necessary 
to open at 7 P. M. later on. 

It is rumored the 11 P. M. saloon 
closing time may be changed to 9 P. 
M. for the same reason. 



M0R0SC0 BEHIND PATCH. 

Pittsburgh, Oct. 14. 

William Moore Patch, who last year 
ran the Pitt, is down, but not out. The 
mysterious visit to Pittsburgh of OliveT 
Morosco and his lawyer and secretary 
is now explained. It is reported that 
Patch and Morosco are to build a the- 
atre here. Meanwhile it is said the 
I >uqucsne wi'l be refitted and used for 
a repertory company by Patch. 

The Pitt theatre failed and was sold 
l»y the receiver. Patch was backed by 
seven millionaires. He says he is 
through with that kind of backing now, 
and has the support of Morosco. 



"Good Old Times" Are Here. 

"They always want the 'good old 
times' back" said a manager the other 
day. "Well, they have got 'cm. Wir- 
ing ahead to move shows again." 



TANGUAY SHOW CLOSING. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 14. 

Eva Tanguay will relegate "Miss To- 
basco" to a storehouse after the Pitts- 
burgh engagement next week, to return 
to vaudeville, possibly at the head of 
her own show. Miss Tanguay dis- 
tributed the customary two weeks' no- 
tice to members of the company im- 
mediately after the show's opening, but 
the Klaw & Erlanger office insisted 
that all outstanding contracts be ful- 
filled, hence the continued tour. 

"Miss Tobasco" was not exactly 
suited to the cyclonic comedienne, it 
being necessary to rewrite a part for 
her handling. 



"MONEY MAKERS" GOING OUT. 

The Selwyn & Co. production of 
"Money Makers" will leave the Booth 
theatre Oct. 24, according to report, 
the show having done but little busi- 
ness since opening there a couple of 
weeks ago. 



MUSICAL STOCK FOR BRONX. 

Frank Gerstcn will shortly install a 
musical stock company at his Prospect, 
Bronx. The company is being assem- 
bled by Matt Cirau. The opening at- 
traction is to be "The Red Mill." 



Coyne Postpones Homecoming. 

{ Special Cubic to Varirtt.) 

London, Oct. 16. 
Jue Coyne was not able to leave 
Saturday according to his plan. He 
is scheduled to sail on the Campania 
this Saturday, but it is not certain that 
In will make it. 



VARIETY 



ENGLISH ENLISTMENTS 



London, Oct. 8. 
Appended is a more or less complete 
list of members of the theatrical pro- 
fession in England who have enlisted. 
It includes the allied trades,, such as 
stage hands, electricians, etc. It is 
compiled from several lists procured 
from various sources. They have en- 
listed for the duration of the war only, 
with the understanding that they will 
be discharged immediately hostilities 
have ceased. 



& Beckett, Captain Put. 

Abrahams. Joe. 

Anderson, Lawrence. 

Anderson, Millar. 

Angus, Robert C 

Applebee, O. A. 

Arculut. 

Arcbbold, Sydney. 

Armstrong, Henry- 

Arthurs, Graham. 

Asbford. Cyril. 

A«hworth, Bdward. 

Austin. George R. J- 

Aylmer, Felix. 

Bain, David 

Barnes, A. B. Don- 
nlngton. _ 

Barrett, W. Burgees. 

Barrett. George. 

Barwell. Hubert. 

Bathurst, Arty. 

Beaslsy. win. 

Bell, Bert. 

Bennett. Billy. 

Bennett, Btllle. 

Benson, Bernard. 

Besant, Reginald b 

Bejrers. C. 

Boyoe, H. 

Brendln. Arthur A. 

Brlckwell, P. T. B. 

Brlekwell, P. L. 

Blgge. Clarence. 

Bradley, Charles. 

Brentwood, Paul. 

Brown, Percy. 

Caithness, Wilfred b. 

Carleton, Royce. 

Carr. Ben. 

Carr. Phillip- 

Carrol, Jack B. 

Casson, Lewis. 

CatUey. Cyril. 

Chamler, Charles. 

Chamler, Prancls. 

Charlton. Hal. 

Chown, Herbert. 

Christmas, Norman. 

Cleve, Arthur. 

Clifford, Chsrles. 

Clifton. Harvey B. 

Codman, Herbert S. 

Collins, John R- 

Collins, Will (not the 
variety agent but an 
advance agent). 

Combermere, Bdward. 

Connor. R. J. 

Cope, Victor B. 

Courtneldge, Charles. 

Cowley. Eric. 

Cox, W. B. 

Cramond. Len. 

Craven, Arthur Bcott. 

Cresfsn, Ernest. 

Curtis, Arthur. 

Dando. Arthur. 

Uanson, Bert. 

Defrece. Walter. 

Dellar, Kyburn. 

Derry. Dan. 

Desmond. Frank. 

Dickinson, O. Clifford. 

Dickenson, C. O- 

Dobson, Oswald H. 

Doughty. Henry. 

Drew, Dennis. 

Dryden, Leo. 

Dudley, George. 

Duke. R. 

Dunn. Frank O. 

Dunstan, Bdward. 

Ellington, Henry- 

hivans, Fred. 

Fairfax, Leslie. 

Farley. Albert. 

Farrell, Free. 

Forsyth, Matthew. 

Forsyth, Betram. 

Foster, Franols. 

Glanvtlle, W. 

Godfrey, Joe. 

Goodrich, Louis. 

Grant, Sydney. 

Grant, Robert. 

Grayden, J. Laurie. 

Halford. W. O. 

llatner, Leslie. 

Hant, O. 

TIardy, Amyas L. 

Hargreave, Henry. 

Hcanly. Percy W. 

Harris. Jack. 

Harrison. Tom. 

Hartley. Arthur. 

Hayes. C. G. O. 

Haytor. Frank Walter. 

Hnzlewood, Colin. 

Hi-Bth, Rupert M. 

Hockley, Arthur. 

Hill. Ivan. 

Hilllard, S. 

Hindle. Joseph. 

Hobbes. Halllwell. 

Howard. Billy. 



Hughes, A. B. 

Hughes-Langford, 
Harry. 

Jaques, F. C. R. 

Jsques. H. B. 

Johns, Albert. 

Johnstone, J. A. 

Jonrd, J. 

Kayes. J. 

Kennard, Cecil. 

Kelly, WUford. 

Kerr, Oeofrey. 

Klngsford, Gerald. 

Knight. Arthur. 

Lambert, Richard. 

Leslie, Victor H. 

Lewis, Alfred. 

Lewis, Henry H. 

Lloyd. H. C. 

Lloyd, Freda. 

Lloyd, Thomas C. 

Long. Arthur. 

Loralne, Charles. 

Loralne, Robert. 

Lovett-Janlson, P. W. 

McClelland, R. 

Macklnder, Lionel. 

McKay. Dick. 

McClelland, L. 

McMurray, John B. 

Macdona, Charles. 

Mackay. Wilfred. 

Mackay. John L. 

Maclaren, Douglas. 

McLone, Frederick. 

Magurkey. J. 

Mansell. A. C. 8. 

Markle, J. 

Marshall. A. A. 

Marshall, C E. 

Marshall, William. 

Mason. Richard B. 

Masterman, D. 

Miller, William Henry. 

Murray, Douglas. 

Murray, Paul. 

Maule, Herbert E. 

Nellson-Terry. Denis. 

Nesbltt, Tom. 

Nlckells. Lee. 

Newson-Smlth. Her- 
bert. 

Ommanney, C. C. 

Owen, Hugh. 

Owen, J. B. 

Par*ons, p. P. 

Payne, R. C. 

Payne, Rawdon. 

Pen ley, Fred. 

Porcy, Albert E. 

Phillips, B. 

PhllllDB. David. 

Powell. Norman E. 

Powell. Templer. 

Pragnell, George. 

Prlddoe, Fred. 

Rayne, J. E. 

Raymond, Jack. 

Rlvenhall. Fred. 

Roberts, Prlngle. 

Ropor, Eric. 

Rutland, Teddy. 

Ryland, Golden. 

Rhodee, Billy. 

Roberts. Bvelyn. 

Baker, Frank. 

Bandbach. Arthur E. 
W. 

Bavary. R. W. 

Beager- Anderson, J. 

Boston, O. A. 

Bhenton, Shakespeare. 

Shaw, Jules. 

Smith, Gerald Oliver. 

Soper, Percy. 

Stacey, Charles. 

Stadden, J. 

Stanford. Wilfrid C. 

Stapley, C. 

Btevens, A. R. 

Steward, C. Leslie. 

Btewart, Francis Max- 
well. 

Sunderland. Scott. 

Telford, J. M. 

Temple, Ivan. 

Thesslger, Ernest. 

Thompson, C. 

Thorndike, Frank. 

Thorndlke, RusboII. 

Thorne, G. Rldgway. 

Trevor, Charles. 

Trussell, A. 

Turner, Mark. 

Venning, Gerald. 

Vincent, Ash more. 

Ward. T. Stanley. 

Wagner, Harold. 

Wallace. C. V. 

Walsh. Lionel. 

Walters, Joe. 

Welsh , Aubrey. 

Watson, William A. 

Veatherby, George Jr. 

Welsh, Tom. 



Weyman, Henry. 
Williams, Bid. 
Wilson, Rathmell. 
Wilson, W. B. 
Winn. Victor. 
Wlnalow, Richard. 



Vood, Herbert Aned ell 
Wool ley. Sims. 
Wrlgbton, Norman, 
rates, Athol. 
foung, Perclval. 
founghusband, Chas. 



ENGLAND NEEDS ACTS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 13. 

The prediction is freely made here 
that before Christmas feature acts and 
meritorious turns particularly from the 
States will command higher prices than 
at any time in years. There is a con- 
stantly increasing demand for new ma- 
terial and nothing in sight to satisfy it. 

The exodus of acts to America and 
a new government order compelling 
alien acts to reassume the names they 
used at the opening of hostilities has 
created a sharp shortage of material. 

Salaries are moving up even now in 
the face of this condition. 



V. A. F. PAYS RELIEF. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 14. 

The Variety Artists' Federation at its 

meeting late last week assumed charge 

of the relief funds raised to aid artists 

during the depression consequent upon 

the war and has begun the distribution 

in the proportion of five shillings a 

week for unmarried, and seven and a 

half shillings for married men. 



INA CLAIRE ASKS $1,500. 
(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 14. 

Ina Claire is poised for a vaudeville 

flight either on this side or in the 

States. She is offering her services to 

the English halls at $1,250 a week and 

lets it be known that she will play in 

America for $1,500. 



HARDING'S WAR ACT. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 13. 

Lyn Harding showed the military 

dramatic sketch, "For France," at the 

Palladium this week. It is well acted 

and timely in subject, but would be 

considered trite in times of peace. 



BARD CANCELS. 
{Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 14. 

VVilkic Bard has cancelled all his 
London bookings because of his inabil- 
ity to procure new material. 



AMERICAN ACT PEEVED. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 14. 

Hedges Brothers and Jacobson re- 
fused to work the second show at the 
Chelsea today when told that a break 
in the ropes made it impossible to 
lower the "tableau cloth" for them. 
r 

REINHARDT DETAINED. 

Prof. Max. Reinhardt is detained in 
England as an "alien enemy" and will 
not direct the production of "Twelfth 
Night" with Phyllis Ncilson-Terry, ac- 
cording to announcement made in New 
York a few days ago by Mrs. Norman 
Mapgood, who is associated with the 
Licbler Co. in the enterprise. 

Dr. Karl Vollmuellcr is also detained 
on the other side for a similar reason. 

Granville Baker will be brought from 
London to handle the production. 



LOGE MEMBERS PROTEST. 

(Special cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 13. _ 

Forty members of the International 
Artisten Loge caught here by the out- 
break of the war are entirely dependent 
upon the funds deposited with the Va- 
riety Artists' Federation by their or- 
ganization. Many are complaining of 
what they describe as the cavalier 
treatment they have received at the 
hands of the English order. 

They declare they are far from being 
the recipients of charity, the money on 
deposit being theirs by virtue of many 
years of payment of dues, and they re- 
sent the Britons being charged with its 
disbursal. 



JOHNSON ARRESTED. 

(Bpeoial Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 14. 

Jack Johnson was arrested and haled 
into court Monday, charged with creat- 
ing a public nuisance. He had made 
it a practice to stand before Archer's 
shop for hours, attracting attention, 
until the crowds blocked traffic in the 
busy thoroughfare. 



NEWS FOR LONDON. 

Jimmy Hussey and Jack Boyle are 
playing on the Fox time around New 
York at present, billed as Edelsten and 
Burns. 



STAGE HANDS PAY CUT. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 13. 
All the stage hands and musicians 
working in music halls are accepting 
a cut of 20 per cent, in their pay. 



LAURETTE TAYLOR CHARMS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 13. 

"Peg o' My Heart," which opened 
Saturday at the Comedy, was received 
as an old-fashioned comedy, implaus- 
ible in plot and ridiculous from the 
British viewpoint. 

Laurette Taylor, however, has scored 
an enormous and unqualified personal 
success. 



Eccentrics' New Home. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 13. 
The Eccentric Club has taken over 
the Hotel Dieudonne and will occupy 
it as a permanent home. The estab- 
lishment has 50 bedrooms for the use 
of resident members. The club will 
enter into possession of its new home 
next month. 



Alhambra Piece Postponed. 
(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 13. 

The promised production of the Al- 
hambra has been postponed indefinitely 
owing to stage conditions here. The 
current show is being enlivened from 
time to time by the interpolation of 
new "bits." 



War Is . 

Two actors, while watching the Win- 
ter Garden show the opening night, 
commented upon the piece and com- 
pany. One said to the other: "He didn't 
get as much applause as I thought, he 
would," referring to an actor on the 
stage. 

Tommy Gray stood near, and re- 
marked: "Since the war started, they 
arc cutting down everything." 



SAILINGS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 13. 
Oct. 17, La Maze Trio (Malwa) for 
Australia. 



BERLIN BECOMES NORMAL. 

The Naess', a dancing couple, re- 
turned Monday on a Norwegian liner 
from Copenhagen, having shortly be- 
fore sailing left Berlin to take boat for 
America from that point. 

Mr. Naess says that Berlin was com- 
mencing to grow normal once more be- 
fore his departure. The musical hall 
proprietors were talking about open- 
ing Oct. 16, and some had made prog- 
ress with a program, although none of 
the German managers was positive the 
reopening would occur on time. 



««' 



THE COST" WELL RECEIVED. 

(.Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 14. 
"The Cost," a war drama given its 
premiere at the Vaudeville theatre last 
night, is disclosed as an interesting 
play. Its financial success, however, 
is problematical. 



CHARLOrS WAR BENEFIT. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 14. 
A. Chariot is promoting a big benefit 
to be held al the Alhambra Nov. 2, in 
which a brilliant galaxy of stars have 
promised to appear. 

George Grossmith, as compere, will 
introduce the artists as they come be- 
fore the footlights. 



PLAYING IN GERMANY. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 14. 

Things theatrical in Germany are un- 
dergoing an awakening, according to 
Joseph Adelman, who was here this 
week aiding German performers to get 
home. 

The Wintcrgarten in Berlin opens 
Oct. 17, while the Melina, Hanover and 
Central, Magdeburg, both opened last 
Saturday after being dark for a short 
time. 

The Leipzig, Battenburg, remained 
open in all the excitement, although 
during August it played on the per- 
centage plan with artists. 

In many cities the Artisten loge gave 
shows on its own account, splitting re- 
ceipts at sixty and seventy per cent, 
with the artists on the bills. 

By this means the loge was able 
materially to relieve distress among its 
members. 



PAVLOWA SAILS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 14. 
Pavlowa drew $3,500 into the Palace 
at the benefit matinee performance 
Monday. She sails today for New 
York with 30 Russian dancers on the 
Adriatic. 



OPERA SINGER RESTING. 

Los Angeles, Oct. 14. 
Mme. Marguerita Sigond, contralto 
of the Manhattan Opera Co., is here 
to recuperate from effects of the Eu- 
ropean war excitement, having fled 
Paris after her uncle, a colonel in the 
French army, had been killed and she 
had lost all her belongings. 



VARIETY 



ENGLISH MILITARY ORDER 

HARD HITS F OREIGN ACTS 

Government Measure Decrees All Alien Enemies Resume 

Name Known by at Commencement of War. Will 

Force Continental Turns in England Playing 

Under Assumed Titles Off the Music 

Hall Stage. 



{Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 13. 

A government war measure just pro- 
mulgated provides that "alien enemies 
shall not after Oct. 12 for any purpose 
assume or use, or purport to assume 
or use, or continue the assumption or 
use of any name other than that by 
which he was ordinarily known at the 
date of the commencement of the war." 

This order hits a large number of 
German artists appearing in England 
under names assumed recently. It will 
compel the retirement of many from 
the halls. Those who carried names 
readily recognizable as German or 
Austrian met such threatening treat- 
ment at the hands of English audi- 
ences that they straightway changed 
to titles which concealed their nation- 
ality. 

The order which forces them to take 
again their proper names will, of 
course, put them in the same position 
and they will be unable to appear. 



ROBINSON'S NEW JOB. 

E. M. Robinson has been selected to 
succeed the late Phil Nash as office 
manager of th£ United Booking Offices. 

Mr. Robinson will move into Nash's 
former office, which is being renovated 
and re-partitioned to suit its new ten- 
ant Robinson's entire staff will move 
in the outer office also. 

Although interviewing prospective 
route seekers, Robinson will also find 
time to supply his list of theatres as 
formerly. 



COMEDY CLUB QUARTERS. 

The reorganized Vaudeville Comedy 
Club, under the name of the Comedy 
Club, has taken quarters on the top 
floor of the building just adjoining (on 
the north) the Palace theatre. The 
club will occupy the rooms from 
Nov. 1. 

Between 50 and 60 applications are 
said to have been received for the re- 
formed club. Dues are to be $25 year- 
ly, with no immediate initiation fee. 

The Comedy Club will assume all 
the obligations of the former Vaude- 
ville Comedy Club, also the assets. 

No officers of the new club have as 
yet been chosen. 



JOE WELCH GOES WITH LOEW. 

Tuesday Joe Welch signed a blanket 
contract calling for forty weeks out 
of the Loew office. Frank Bohm en- 
gineered the deal. He will open at the 
Seventh Avenue next week. 



MONKEYS GROW FEROCIOUS. 

Cleveland, Oct. 14. 
Mrs. Rosa Rishel of .the Rishel- 
Mabel act booked to play the last half 
last week at the Gordon Square the- 
atre, was bitten by one of the monkeys 
in her act. It escaped from its cage 



while she was feeding it at the Union 
station. 

The simian's teeth tore an artery in 
her right wrist and inflicted a wound 
in her neck. Prompt action by B. E. 
Coach, a local chauffeur, who impro- 
vised a tourniquet and took the in- 
jured actress to the Charity hospital, 
saved the woman's life, physicians say. 

In the act are eight monkeys, seven 
cats and six dogs. When the monkey 
escaped from its cage, spectators gave 
chase. The animal finally turned and 
ran toward Mrs. Rishel, biting her. 



MUSICAL UNION IDEA. 

The Musical Union of New York 
k reported possessed of an idea it 
expects to place in action within 30 
days. While the idea has not been 
definitely explained, it has to do with 
non-union theatres, according to re- 
port, with the union expecting to oblige 
the theatres to engage union orches- 
tras. 



PROTECTING ACTORS. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 14. 
State Representative Albert A. Huse- 
man, of this city, is drafting a bill 
that is intended to give protection to 
actors in Ohio by compelling theatres 
to respect their contracts. Represen- 
tative Huseman will try to have the 
measure made a law at the coming 
session of the Legislature. Huseman 
says there is no law at this time which 
gives adequate relief to members of the 
profession and they are at the mercy 
of booking agents. 



MARINELLI'S CONNECTIONS. 

Chicago, Oct. 14. 

Maxim P. Lowe, representing the 
H. B. Marinelli offices, concluded ar- 
rangements with the Affiliated Book- 
ing company last Monday whereby the 
latter will exclusively represent Mari- 
nelli in the west. 

Mr. Lowe left for Pittsburgh Tues- 
day to make arrangements with an- 
other link in the Affiliated circuit, 
whereby the Mariielli acts will be 
towed into New York from the west. 



Assault Charge Dropped. 

San Diego, Cal.. Oct. 14. 

The assault charge preferred against 
Eddie Friel, an a :robat, by Salome Har- 
rison, aged 15, last June has been* 
dropped by the District Attorney. 

Friel secured bail, but the girl was 
held as a witness in the detention home. 
She changed testimony several times, 
finally admitting dufess had not been 
used against her. The case had gone 
before one jury, which disagreed. 

The girl alleged the assault had taken 
place in a property room of the Savoy, 
the local Pontages vaudeville house. 
Friel appeared in the act known as 
Conalla and Wilbur. 



BRAVES BOOKED AT CORNER 

Hank Gowdy, the Braves' super- 
swatter, and Dick Rudolph, the noto- 
rious Boston twirler, play Hammer- 
stein's next week at $2,000. Irving 
Rose, of the Victoria staff, closed the 
deal in Boston Wednesday. 

A salary of $2,500 weekly for 12 

weeks in vaudeville is the demand made 
by George Stallings, manager of the 
victorious bean smashers, for a vaude- 
ville engagement. 

Loney Haskell wired Stallings, offer- 
ing him a date at Hammerstein's. 



CASTLES' HOLD-UP. 

In these days when the vaudeville 
managers are awake o' nights to figure 
out how to hold down operating ex- 
penses, they ran against a hold-up last 
week, perpetrated by Mr. and Mrs. 

Vernon Castle, a couple of profession- 
al dancers who play vaudeville now 
and then. 

The Castles had engaged for vaude- 
ville at $1,600 weekly. Last week they 
played Keith's, Boston. This week they 
are at the Colonial, New York. From 
Boston Friday Mr. Castle 'phoned he 
and his wife were tired from their 
dancing exertions twice daily, and 
could not play the Colonial this week 
— for $1,600. As an extra inducement, 
regardless of the contract, Castle said 
that a bonus might be the thing and 
suggested $2,500, as the total salary. 

The Colonial management felt muck 
the same as an Englishman does when 
he sees a German soldier, but the Cas- 
tles had been advertised and billed, 
the advance *ale started, and the Cas- 
tles won. 

The dances have lost all their fu- 
ture time in vaudeville unless accept- 
ing the figure the managers will here- 
after place on their value. Next week 
the dancing pair start rehearsing with 
Charles B. Dillingham's "Watch Your 
Step" at $1,000 weekly. 



STEGER IN "THE WARNING." 
At the Royal, Bronx, next week 
Julius Stcger will return to vaudeville 
in "The Warning." In the supporting 
company will be Alberta Gallatin, 
Grace Reals and Master Ogden Childs. 



MARSH IS ENVIOUS. 

Monday Marshall P. Wilder hung 
around Hammerstein's -waiting for 
"Willard, the Man Who Grows" to 
appear. 



BILLY ATWELL'S LUCK. 

While watching the Audubon show 
Sunday night, Billy Atwell's Ford ma- 
chine was stolen from in front of the 
theatre. 



FOY AND CLARK DISSOLVE. 

Harry Foy and Florence Clark, for 
IS years playing "The Spring of 
Youth," have dissolved partnership. 
Miss Clark will appear alone. Foy is 
forming a double with another man. 



Franklin Ardell Marrying. 

At Whitestone, L. I., Sunday, Frank- 
lin Ardell. of the stage, will wed Mar- 
guerite FJizabeth Imandt, at the home 
of the bride's parents. 



LA MILO ARRIVES. 

La Milo, the English beauty, who 

has gained an international reputation 

as a classical posing turn, reached New 

York for the first time last week. Her 
manager, Alex Cruikshank, has since 
received innumerable offers for an ap- 
pearance over here by La Milo, who 
left England for a pleasure trip. 

In Great Britain, La Milo, although 
first appearing in the halls, became a 
road attraction through the fame she 
gained by showmanship, and for sev- 
eral seasons headed her own company, 
declining the large offers of the music 
hall managers to feature their variety 
programs. 



BELLE BAKER'S RECORD. 

Belle Baker is at the Palace this 

week, closing the performance. She 

is said to be the first singing single 
act who ever appeared last on a New 
York vaudeville bill. 

Miss Baker was first programed to 
appear next to closing, with the 45- 
minute act, "Society Buds" finishing 
the performance. The program ran this 
way at the opening shows, but Tues- 
day was switched around, leaving Miss 
Baker in the same position, with the 
long act moved up. 

When first learning of it, Miss Baker 
is said to have announced her deter- 
mination to leave, fearing the conse- 
quences of appearing so late on a quick 
return engagement, but Manager El- 
mer Rogers of the Palace induced her 
to remain. The results to Miss Baker 
in the unusually "hard spot" justified 
the expedient, which meant consider- 
able for the better running of the bill 
as a whole. 



FAM. DEPT. AGENTS OUTSIDE. 

The agents who book through the 
Family Department of the United 
Booking Offices on the fifth floor of 
the Palace Theatre building have been 
instructed they may only see the big 
time managers on the sixth floor, in a 
room apportioned off for this purpose 
just off the main entrance to the U. 
B. O. big time section. 

Heretofore the small time agents 
have sent in a request to the big time 
managers and were called in for book- 
ings, practically in that way having the 
use of » "the floor." 

An objection raised to this by the 
big time agents is said to have brought 
about the change. The agents were 
represented by a committee on this and 
other requests. M. S. Bentham and 
Harry Weber were the committee. 



JO PAIGE SMITH BACK. 

Jo Paige Smith returned to the 
United Booking Offices this week, as 
an agent. Mr. Smith left there some 
weeks ago, opening an agency office in 
the Putnam Building, wricre he still 
remains. 



BARNES' CIRCUS IN TROUBLE. 

New Orleans, Oct. 14. 
Al. G. Barnes' circus encountered 
trouble here, the manager being arrest- 
ed for a violation of the child labor law 
and the management made defendant 
in a suit for $5,000 brought by a local 
citizen whose arm was almost severed 
by the bite of a camel. 



VARIETY 



COLUMBIA BURLESQUE CIRCUIT 
REPORTE D CUTT ING SALARIES 

Necessary to Protect Travelling Manager According to Re- 
port. Waiting to See Business Development. Taking 
Lessons From Vaudeville Managers. 



According to reports and rumors 
spreading about this week in the in- 
ner circles of burlesque, the Colum- 
bia Amusement Co. is about to follow 
the lead taken by the vaudeville man- 
agers in the reduction of salaries, to 
protect the traveling managers on the 
Columbia circuits. 

No confirmation or denial could be 
obtained in the Columbia headquarters, 
but it was indirectly intimated that 
some such plan was under considera- 
tion. One Columbia man, when ques- 
tioned about the proposed reduction, 
replied: "Burlesque is suffering like ev- 
erything else in the show business." 

The Columbia Circuit is operating 
around 70 shows and as many theaters. 
It has been reported since the opening 
of the season that business was gener- 
ally off along the burlesque line of 
travel. One traveling manager with a 
well-known Columbia show said the 
other day his attraction was $8,000 be- 
hind in gross receipts up to date as 
against the same period last season. 
It has also been said that for the first 
time in years among burlesque man- 
agers of the Columbia that they had 
been wiring in for money to move, al- 
though the cases reported in this con- 
nection have been few. 

The general depression arriving to- 
gether with the formation of the Co- 
lumbia's extended circuit, and the op- 
position earlier in the season, all com- 
bined to cause the burlesque attendance 
to droop. With the vaudeville man- 
agers seeking to retrench through ask- 
ing acts to agree to a reduction in 
salary during the hard times, the Co- 
lumbia company is reported to have 
agreed that this would be an excel- 
lent plan to follow in order that their 
traveling managers would not become 
financially embarrassed until conditions 
bettered themselves. 

Players in burlesque usually sign for 
30 weeks and generally play 40 or more, 
consecutively, with no transportation 
nor commission. It is the consecutive 
playing that the burlesque magnates 
seem to think from reports should be 
the reason for the consideration -from 
their people. It is probable that only 
principals are contemplated in the pro- 
posed reduction. 

One Columbia manager, speaking un- 
officially^ said this week the great sup- 
ply of acts about at the present time 
gave them a field of plentiful material. 
The burlesque managers were receiv- 
ing offers from players at much lower 
figures than they were now paying, but 
were not inclined to accept these of- 
fers through the same people not hav- 
ing presented themselves at Previous 
times when conditions were better. 
Preference, if any. said the manager. 
should be given to the players \v:n> 
have consistently remained with Hn- 
burlesque managers, and these were 
the ones they wanted if they would 
meet the managers half way in the ef- 
fort to tide over. 



It was also reported that if the Co- 
lumbia placed the reduced-salary order 
into effect it would be very shortly. 



KEITH IN GRAND RAPIDS. 

A United Booking Office site scout 
is maneuvering around Grand Rapids 
in search of an available site for a new 
Keith theatre. 

The U. B. O. office is now supplying 
one Grand Rapids house with vaude- 
ville, but the limited capacity necessi- 
tates the erection of another. 



PRINCE PAUL TRYING AGAIN. 

Prince Paul de Clairmont, who has 
been widely acclaimed as the hero of 
Elinor Glyn's "Three Weeks," is to 
try to break into vaudeville. This time 
he has chosen a partner in the person 
of Mrs. E. B. Alsop, the 21-year-old 
bride of the aged Pittsburgh million- 
aire, who is at present seeking to have 
her marriage annulled. 

The team will offer songs and society 
dances. 



CHARACTER STORY ACT. 

A new act entitled "Mutterzolb and 
Son" is in rehearsal, to be ready for 
a showing in about a week. The act 
is based on the character stories which 
have been running in the Hearst Sun- 
day papers for several months, under 
the same title. 



Twelve Acts on Anniversary. 

Baltimore, Oct. 14 
The Maryland theater celebrated its 
eleventh anniversary this week, with 
a twelve-act vaudeville program. It is 
the first time this city has seen such 
a lengthy show. 



Frohman Visits Palace. 

Charles Frohman, who seldom visits 
any theater, other than his own, 
watched the Palace, New York, per- 
formance Tuesday evening. 



Railroad Decision. 

New Orleans, Oct. 14. 

The Mississippi Railroad Commission 
has decided that railroads must attach 
the combination and Pullman cars of 
theatrical companies to passenger trains 
exclusively. 

The railroad people were cited to ap- 
pear before the Commission by theat- 
rical interests, with a view to establish- 
ing a precedent for the remainder of 
the country. 



Shea's Latest "Sunday." 

Commencing last Sunday, Harry 
Shea commenced booking a vaudeville 
performance for the one day weekly, 
into the Majestic. Brooklyn. The house 
seats about 2.400. It plays the Sabbath 
show at 10-15-25, Mr. Shea sharing 
with the house which holds the Stair & 
Havjin attractions during the week. 



SALARY CUTTING TOPIC. 

(Continued from page 3.) 
their agents, and the spreading opinion 
that seemed to grow stronger was that 
if the situation really demanded the 
cut as a salvation to managers and the 

great majority were accepting, no good 
reason could be advanced why the in- 
dividual should hold out, although an- 
other reason that presented itself to 
the acts was that just at present no 
better opportunity for work or time 
was in sight. 

Quite a number of acts were claimed 
to have voluntarily cut. One of these 
was Fisher and Green, who sent the 
following wire to their agent: 

Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 14. 
Gene Hughes 

Palace Theater Building, 

New York. 
We cut for the English managers, 
and surely we are under greater 
obligations to the United. In this 
case, you didn't even have to con- 
sult us. (Signed) Fisher & Green, 
Fisher and Green had 18 weeks. Im- 
mediately upon their cut being report- 
ed accepted, they were routed up to 
Aug. 2, 1915, inclusive of the Orpheum 
Circuit. 

Five hundred big time acts are esti- 
mated to have had a salary cut that 
averaged in money from $40 to $50 on 
each turn, but while this is the average 
cut it is understood that some of the 
headline turns were lowered as much 
as $500, and one act, Frank Keenan, 
is said to have voluntarily split his sal- 
ary in half. 

One or two big time managers have 
stated that they did not intend to profit 
by the cut in salaries, but would em- 
ploy the money saved by the reduc- 
tions on their regular bills to increase 
the quantity and quality of their vaude- 
ville programs, maintaining the salary 
limit as formerly and endeavoring in 
this manner to bring in more gross 
receipts at the box office. 

Chicago, Oct. 14. 

A ruling established and to take ef- 
fect immediately calls for a cut of sal- 
ary on all acts playing the "Associa- 
tion" and United Booking Offices out 
of Chicago. 

The reason given for this cut is the 
general state of business throughout 
the country. , 



LOEW WblTT CUT 

The Marcus Loew Circuit of popu- 
lar priced vaudeville theatres, extend- 
ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is 
not going to cut salaries, according to 
Joseph M. Schenck, general booking 
manager for the chain. 

"Prices for vaudeville acts," said Mr. 
Schenck this week, "are regulated by 
the supply and demand. This is the 
same in vaudeville as elsewhere. When 
the demand is .strong, prices tend up- 
ward, and this was the situation at one 
time. Producers were not encouraged, 
available material grew scarce and the 
acts .benefited accordingly. 

"Conditions have not been over good 
so far this season for us as well as 
for others in the show business. With 
hard times and the weather against 
theatricals, some vaudeville theatres 
might close, throwing a supply on tfic 



market. The many acts reaching here 
from the other side, through the war, 
have also made a full market to draw 
from at present, and naturally salaries 
are inclined to drop under those cir- 
cumstances. 

"But the Loew Circuit does not in- 
tend to change any existing contract. 
We issue a play or pay agreement, with 
no provisions excepting the usual one 
of cancellation for the customary rea- 
sons. We place the value on an act, 
which in our opinion, it is worth to us, 
without regard to what the act may 
have received elsewhere. Once the act 
accepts our contract, it is a contract. 

"Of course, we try to procure ma- 
terial for our circuit as cheaply as pos- 
sible. That is the case in nearly all 
lines. And that salaries of acts have 
been abnormally increased is not whol- 
ly the fault of the acts themselves, 
which are justified in securing all they 
can demand, if the managers will pay. 
I know of several instances when acts 
on our time, receiving a reasonable sal- 
ary and perfectly satisfied, have been 
induced away by extraordinary offers 
from others. One case rather recent is 
a single turn, receiving $60 weekly with 
us and playing at that figure for a sea- 
son. The 'single' was taken over by 
other managers at $175 and is n.iw le- 
ceiving $300, all within a short while. 

"It is easier for us to fill bills today 
than it was a year ago. Wc have a 
larger supply to draw from and prices 
are generally lower for acts." 



MEETING OVER 50-50. 

(Special Oabl0 to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 16. 

A meeting was held Tuesday at the 
Variety Artists' Federation offices to 
take care of the matter of dividing the 
excess takings of the Syndicate halls. 
The problem was adjusted and the 
halls will continue on the Federation's 
assurance between managers and art- 
ists the 50-50 proposition will be ob- 
served. 

The present arrangement running 
for 12 weeks expires Nov. 7, and it is 
rumored the managers will demand an 
indefinite continuance. The Federa- 
tion committee is taking the matter 
under advisement to be ready with a 
decision when the question comes to 
an issue. 



ARRESTED FOR PIRACY. 

Darrcll H. Lyall, manager of the 
Royal Manuscript Co.. of this city, was 
arrested yesterday on a secret Federal 
indictment charging a violation of the 
copyright law. He gave bond for $500 
before Judge Hollindcr, pleading not 
guilty of the charge. 

Lyall is alleged to have sold a play 
called "Boss of Z Ranch" to four dif- 
ferent people, although it was original- 
ly copyrighted by Alexander H. Byers 
in 1909. 



Vaudeville Closes at Lynn. 

Lynn, Mass., Oct. 14. 
The Lynn theatre gives up at the 
end of the split week performance to- 
night. The Trimount Amusement Co. 
of Boston has found straight vaudeville 
as unprofitable as burlesque was. The 
future policy is undecided, but pictures 
may be installed by resident manager, 
J. R. Somes. 



VARIETY 



WITH THE WOMEN 



"On Trial," at the Candler, isn't a 
dressy show, but makes up in interest. 
Helene Lackaye is a stunnig widow. 
In evening dress Miss Lackaye is worth 
looking at. Mary Ryan wears a pretty 
gray cloth dress, made in long straight 
hnes. 



Kitty Gordon, at the Palace, has a 
silver cloak trimmed in white fox. It 
took away the breaths of the women 
in the audience. The coat is just be- 
low the knee in length, with a deep 
band of the fur at the bottom. The 
waist line is brought in tightly with a 
band of brilliants. Collar and cuffs 
of fur complete this coat. An eve- 
ning dress of heavy crystal, the bottom 
edged in feathers, was beneath the 
cloak. The head dress was ot bril- 
liants, backed up with ^sprey. During 
the sketch Miss Gordon wears negli- 
gees of every description, lovely chif- 
fon things they are too. The stage is 
milady's boudoir. A four-poster bed 
occupies the center of the stage and 
to the left is another bed much small- 
er, a couch presumably, is in the four 
poster style in gold heavily carved. 
Numerous lamps and other parapher- 
nalia usually found in the bed room of 
a fastidious woman make up a most 
beautiful stage setting. 

Belle Baker (Palace) is not dressing 

in her usual good taste. Her figure :z 

* too short and plump for the black and 

white dress worn Monday. And why 

the pom poms, or the slippers? 

Joan Sawyer (Palace) for her first 
dress had a pretty thing in white bro- 
cade over lace petticoats. The skirt 
has a cape-like drapery lined in black. 
It improved Miss Sawyer's appearance 
over last week. 

Jesse Lasky's "Society Buds" (Pal- 
ace) look the part. The dressing shows 
careful study and no regard for ex- 
pense. The girls appear first in taf- 
feta capes, made with vests. Under 
these are double flounced chiffon 
dresses with taffeta waists. The num- 
ber was beautifully staged, all the girls 
wearing purple costumes. In a so- 
ciety novelty number, one of the girls 
was stunning in a white evening dress, 
trimmed in crystal. Gladys Clark wore 
several pretty frocks and one hand- 
some cloak. Lois Josephine was her 
prettiest in a Dresden silk dress and 
poke bonnet. Miss Josephine wears 
two other dancing frocks, both equally 
pretty and well made. 



Dave Marion hasn't gathered, for 
his show at the Columbia this week, 
many good looking women. Perhaps 
the best looking was Agnes Behler. 
Miss Behler uses an atrocious make 
up. Too much red and the discarding 
of blue around the eyes made Miss 
Behler look as though she had just had 
a good cry. The feature of her dress- 
ing was a pair of pear-shaped diamond 
earrings. They were wonders. A black 
velvet dress worn by Miss Behler 
proved her most becoming one. Not 
any clothes worn by the other prin- 
cipal woman were especially worthy 



o» mention. The chorus was well cos- 
tumed excepting the opening number. 
An Elk's number with the chorus in 
purple tights was lovely. The Dixie 
number was dressed in pink tights and 
white satin jackets, embroidered in 
black. An old fashioned ballet dance 
was such a relief 1 The girls wore 
dresses of green, trimmed with pink 
roses. The finale was stunningly 
dressed, the girls being clothed in solid 
silver dresses trimmed in heavy fringe. 



Miss Leach, of Howland and Leach, 
is at Shanley's again. She is wearing 
this week a pretty dancing frock of 
white chiffon edged in fur. 



"My Lady's Dress" is a series of six 
sketches not unlike those produced at 
the Princess. They are full of phil- 
osophy and may teach a lesson, but 
the only interest is the clever acting 
of Mary Boland and Leon Quarter- 
maine. Miss Boland wears a negligee 
of mauve pink velvet over petticoats of 
silver and an evening dress that is a 
marvel. It is pale blue velvet, trimmed 
in silver and Russian sable. The man- 
nequins wear gowns that are the last 
word in fashion. "Psyche" was in sil- 
ver cloth, beautifully draped. Another 
called "Danger Ahead" was composed 
of chiffon and pointed ribbon and very 
daringly cut. 



Old Man's Week at the Colonial 
Three old men types in the first half 
of the bill weren't interesting. Only 
two women during this interval. Isa- 
bel Mendosa in a sketch looked the lit- 
tle country miss she represented. Flor- 
ence Tempest was the other. Miss 
Tempest appears in a silver cloak 
edged in sealskin with a toque to 
match. The dress underneath was yel- 
low satin, having two flounces of lace. 
The seal toque should be discarded 
with the cloak, as it is too heavy for 
the dainty dancing frock. Mrs. Ver- 
non Castle makes but two changes. 
Her first dress was white satin, very 
short waisted, having a tiny bolero- 
like jacket of pink velvet. A tan cap 
and cape of velvet of the same pink 
were becoming. A ruffled dress of 
turquoise blue and white taffeta, a leg- 
horn hat, was stunning. 



Emily Darrell (Colonial) wore a long 
waisted dress of blue and green which 
was very pretty and a hoop skirted 
dress with red velvet basque was 
equally becoming. The Conway's 
(Darrell and Conway) purple coat 
worn with white trousers was stun- 
ningly cut. Violet Hope, who dances 
in "The Edge of the World," is too 
prety to dance in the dimness. 



Hammerstein's bill this week didn't 
abound with many women. Two only 
who showed real clothes. Bonita 
changes three times. Her first dress 
was very simple. It was White with 
a cross sash of pink. A black net and 
jet wasn't particularly well made but 
it was becoming. The last was a 
showy affair of gold lace. Sybil Bren- 
nan (Diamond and Brennan) was a 



picture in a yellow taffeta made with 
a shepherdess drapery in green tulle. 
Helen Hilton in "Any Night" is a good 
looking bruuet who looked well in a 
dress of black. 



At the American Miss Chappelle 
(Shrode and Chappelle) wears a pretty 
tailor made suit of white brocade 
trimmed with ball buttons. 



The Phillipe Four dress their act 
very well. The men wear studio suits 
of purple. The women are dressed 
artistically in pink chiffon and lace. 
Emma Cody (Arthur and Emma Cody) 
should shorten the first dress and 
lengthen the second. They were both 
good looking and worthy of attention. 
Miss Elliot (Moore and Elliot) has 
utilized a white embroidered shawl in 
a quaint manner. The skirt and waist 
are mostly shawl overdraped with cer- 
ise satin. 



HELPING THE SOUTH. 

The United Booking Offices this 
week received the following letter: 
Richmond, Va., Oct. 9. 
United Booking Offices, 

Palace, Theatre, New York. 
You are probably aware of finan- 
cial conditions in the south. Cotton 
growers are unable to move their 
crops. Will you join with me, and 
kindly use your influence in an en- 
deavor to help the south by furnish- 
ing as far as you can a market for 
the cotton crop. Both myself and 
members of my company will wear 
gowns and suits made of cotton 
wherever practicable, especially on 
the stage. What is your answer? 
GRAYCE SCOTT, 
Colonial Theatre. 



BIG ACT TAKEN OUT. 

B. A. Rolfe withdrew "The Lonesome 
Lassies" from the Royal (Bronx) pro- 
gram Tuesday morning, owing to the 
illness of Leola Sinclair. An under- 
study in the person of a chorus girl 
would have been necessary. Mr. Rolfe 
did not care to chance it, the act being 
new. 

Eddie Darling consented to the with- 
drawal, giving the turn a later date. He 
placed Allan Brooks and company in 
the open position. 




NO FOREIGNER ALLOWED. 

(Spwtoi Gobi* to Vajubtt.) 

London, Oct. 16. 

The National Orchestral Association 

Wednesday adopted a resolution re- 
fusing to play with any naturalized or 
unnaturalized German, Austrian or 
Hungarian. Under the motto "Char- 
ity Begins at Home" the same body 
resolved not to play with any foreign 
conductor or musician of any nation- 
ality or to give musical arrangements 
to foreigners. 

A heated controversy arose over the 
question of including citizens of the 
countries allied with England in the 
present European war, but the meas- 
ure passed at the finish. The Amal- 
gamated Musicians' Union, with over 
27,000 members, an opposition body to 
the National Association, passed a 
similar resolution. 



NATIONAL PLAYING FEATURES. 

The National, Boston, a Keith house 
seating 3,000 or more, will start playing 
feature films next Monday. The first 
feature will be "Ireland a Nation." 
The Chestnut St. opera house, Phila- 
delphia, will also show the same film 
starting the same day. Both houses 
will be supplied with pictures through 
the U. B. (). Feature Film Department. 
The National, Boston, has been dark 
for some time after trying several poli- 
cies. It is not unlikely that through 
its large seating capacity Boston will 
be able to see the biggest feature film 
in it at an admission scale of 5-10-15. 



CIRCUS SEASON OVER. 

This month will see the closing of all 
the big tent shows. The circuses with 
southern bookings have cancelled, 
owing to the times. 

Ringling Brothers will bring the 
season to a close Oct. 24 at Cairo, I1L 
Hagenback Wallace Oct. 26 at Patiu- 
cah, Ky., and Barnum and Bailey the 
same day at Memphis. 



WALLACE LEAVE8 PERU. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 14. 

Word was received here today from 
the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus playing 
in the South, that it will winter here, 
leaving Peru, Ind., where it has quar- 
tered for 26 years. 

The outfit will probably occupy the 
plant which sheltered the John Robin- 
son shows for many years. Wallace 
closes in Kentucky Oct. 26. 



MIKE DONLIN TO WED. 

Asbury Park, Oct. 14. 

Invitations have been issued for the 
marriage of Mike Donlin, pinch-hitter 
and fielder of the Giants, and Rita 
Ross, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. 
Ross. The wedding will be solemnized 
in the Church of the Holy Spirit, As- 
bury Park, next Tuesday at noon. 

Donlin's first wife, Mabel Hite, the 
comedienne, died two years ago. 



HARRY WEBER. 

The prominent eastern artist's repre- 
sentative. 



Kelly Joint "Step" Show. 
Harry Kelly has joined Charles B. 
Dillingham's new revue, "Watch Your 
Step." 

Kelly's former vaudeville partner, 
Louis Wesley, returns to the agency 
business. 



8 



VARIETY 



ARE YOU A WHITE RAT? 

The above question is put to all members of the theatrical profession. 

If you are not a White Kat, may I ask WHY? Is is because you do not be- 
lieve in us? If so, are you open to be convinced that you should believe in this 
Organization? Is it because you do not believe in Organization? If so, can we 
be given the opportunity to prove to you that Organization is absolutely neces- 
sary in our profession? Is it because you are selfish? If so, will you allow me 
to prove to you that selfishness is a draw-back to the up-lift of humanity? Is it 
because you have a personal grievance? If so, if we can prove to you that you 
are uncharitable, will you forget that grievance? 

If you do not believe in this Organization, what Organization can you be- 
lieve in that is for the artist? WHAT BODY HAS DONE FOR YOU WHAT 
WE HAVE DONE? What body promises you that which we promise? Do we 
lie when we say that we take care of our needy sick, bury our destitute dead, ad- 
vance money on equitable contracts and give you legal protection? Have we done 
this/or do we just promise to do it? Do we lie when we say that we have col' 
lectcd three millions of dollars for the artist in the past five years? Do we lie 
when we say that we have secured contracts for the artist that can be realized 
on, if broken? 

If you do not believe in Organization, may I ask WHAT CAN BE ACCOM- 
PLISHED IN THIS PROFESSION AS INDIVIDUALS? Why do the biggest 
financiers organize? Why did the United Booking Offices organize? Why did 
the Standard Oil Company organize? Why do they all organize? BECAUSE 
THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS. Could the democratic or republican 
party exist without an Organization? Could any party exist without an Organiza- 
tion? Are you different from all human beings? Could we accomplish more for 
our profession as individuals than we could with an Organization behind us? 
Does the individual make laws, or is it an organized body that make laws? If 
you have a grievance, does it make you and will it make you happy to carry that 
grievance until death calls you? Have you ever wronged anyone? Have you 
ever made a mistake? Wouldn't you want to be forgiven? If we have made mis- 
takes, cannot we be forgiven?— especially when we have done so much good and 
as we are doing good at the present and intend to do good work for the pro- 
fession, are you going to be uncharitable? 

Ladies and gentlemen, my advice to you at least is honest. Take it for what 
you will. I will pass away as others have passed away. I may be forgotten — 
but my words advising you to cement brotherly love in this Organization, I am 
sure, will live. If you love one another, the proper spirit will be installed that 
can lead to nothing but success. How can any good be accomplished if we do 
not have faith in one another? Without faith, which is synonymous with love, 
you do not or cannot cling together and how can you expect any real success if 
you do not work in harmony with one another? 

Can one do more good than an organized body that is working for good? 
If this be true, then why don't you join and interest yourself in this Organization? 
Look at it in a sensible way and ask yourself if the White Rats can do no good, 
what Organization can the artist turn to? Why don't you ladies and gentlemen 
who believe in good, show your interest here? WHY DON'T YOU MAKE UP 
YOUR MIND THAT THIS ORGANIZATION IS FOR THE ARTIST? Why 
don't the artist help the Organization, if what I am telling you be true? If you 
believe we are making mistakes, why don't you be honest, at least with yourself, 
and take an active interest here — if, for nothing else, only to correct mistakes? 

. What more can I tell you than our doors and books are open to all members 
in good standing? It is surely up to every artist, if he finds this Organization 
honest, to support this Organization. If there is anything wrong here, it is about 
time for you to take an interest and right that wrong. Surely you can never right 
any wrong by kicking on the outside when your dues are not paid up. 

For the benefit of the boys and girls who cannot get to our meetings, may I 
suggest that you write a letter to me. Don't imagine you are going to worry me 
with your trouble. I am here, elected by you to an honorary position, and I appre- 
ciate the confidence you have placed in me. Do you think for one minute I want 
to disappoint you? Ask yourself why should I be working here if I did not see 
some great good to be done? A letter to me would be given my personal atten- 
tion. Is it too much trouble to ask you boys on the road to write a letter if you 
are in doubt as to any wrong-doing in this Organization? Why don't you show 
the right spirit? STOP IDLE CHATTER AND GET FACTS. Be on the level 
with me and this Organization and this Organization and myself will be with you. 
I say to you boys and girls who join this Organization or intend to join this 
Organization to get personal protection only, that you are forgetting the most 
beautiful spirit in the world — CHARITY. It is not a case of what will the Or- 
ganization do for me personally. The real spirit should be WHAT CAN I DO 
FOR MY PROFESSION BY JOINING AND TAKING AN ACTIVE INTER- 
EST IN THE WHITE RATS. 

This Organization is for the betterment of this profession and all decent 
members of this profession. Every decent member of this profession should be 
for this Organization. We lost a great many members in the past, but there is 
an old saying when a man lends money it is quite general that he not only loses 
his money but he also loses his so-called friend. We lost a great many so-called 
White Rats, who have not paid their just debts, to the extent of $13,000. So- 
called White Rats, and mind you I don't mean a fellow who has not got a dollar, 
but I do mean the great majority of those who owe us money and refuse to pay 
us, owe The Player to this day (which was our theatrical paper), over $40,000. 
Have these men been fair? Suppose this Organization owed the players such an 
amount of money? Facts arc facts, ladies and gentlemen. Show us where we 



owe the actor money. We are showing you and can prove, where the actor owes 
this Organization the above amounts. If these so-called, at one time, White Rats, 
do not want to pay just debts and refuse to be honorable, I personally am glad 
that we are rid of them and I speak for the Organization also, and you ladies and 
gentlemen should also be pleased to know that such men and women have left us, 
because they bit the hand that fed them. 

When you hear a kick, why don't you write to me personally and get true 
facts? I will make an assertion now, THAT THE AVERAGE KICKER OWES 
THIS ORGANIZATION MONEY. Why don't you be honest with us and in- 
vestigate? I want to give you facts. Surely you should interest yourself enough 
to learn the truth. If you want to help your profession, if you want to do some- 
thing worth while in life, why don't you join with us in a spirit of love? It is true 
that you may be very successful today, but there are thousands who are not suc- 
cessful. Are you going to forget the less fortunate, and I might say to you that 
although you are successful today, a few years has brought and will bring many 
changes and without this Organization you have no salvation in this profession. 

Throw aside hatred, selfishness and jealousy and cement love, charity and 
fidelity. They say the artist will not sticlk. I believe differently. I say the artist 
will stick. They are only human. There are good and bad in every walk of life. 
The bad will never stick, but the good only need to be shown something that is 
for good. They are sticking now. This Order is improving daily through the 
work of good fellows believing in it and working for it. If you know nothing of 
this Order, why not write me and learn something about the work we arc doing? 
If you are members here and cannot attend meetings, why not write me and get 
some information that is really worth while? 

ARE YOU WITH ME FOR ALL THAT IS GOOD? 

Sincerely yours, 

FRANK FOGARTY, 
President. 



By Frank Fogarty. 

If someone, starting out in life, should 
come to me and say: 

Give me the fruits of all you've learned 
along life's weary way, 

I'd say be honest, square and true, 
you'll win then, never fear, 

And be careful to confirm before be- 
lieving all you hear. 



BAGGAGE TROUBLE. 

Members of the White Rats Actors 

Union and Associated Actresses of 

America, who have had trouble wit'i 

excess baggage through Massachusetts 
kindly send in details to the Secretary- 
Treasurer, 227 West 46th street, New 
York City. 




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CALL 

WHITE RATS MINSTREL 
REHEARSALS 

Start October 19th 

At 11 P.M. 

AT THE CLUB HOUSE 



Better and Bigger Than Ever 

Remember the Last One? 



SEND IN YOUR NAME, SINGERS 



NEW LIFE MEMBERS. 

Al Jolson has taken out life member- 
ship in the White Rats, as well as 
Gerald Griffin. Patsy Doyle, Jack Con- 
way, J. P. Griffith, Geo. E. Delmore, 
Chas. McPhee, Pat Rooney, Ernest 

Kluting and Ralph Lohse. 

Gladys Arnold has taken out a life 
membership in the Associated Ac- 
tresses of America. She is the second 
woman to take one and pay $100. 

Alice Lloyd was the first paid woman 
life member in the Associated Ac- 
tresses of America, the women's 
branch of the White Rats Actors' 
Union of America. 



MEMBERS AND CANDIDATES. 

The following candidates were voted 
on for the first time at the meeting held 
Tuesday, Oct. 6: Wm. V. Dunham, 
Theodore Tenny, Bernhard Lohmuller, 
Herbert Spencer, Henry P. Dixon, Tom 
McNaughton, Robert Higgins, Frank 
DeWitt, Jack Lewis, William Mitchell, 
Jack Allman, William Moran, Bert 
Melrose, Francis Lennie, Irwin Dash, 
J. E. Sullivan, Jos. Schrode, Pat Strom- 
berg, Cecil Emmett, Leon Emmett, 
Paul Gorden, Arthur Hartley, Louis 
Foohoff, Jack Barnes, Bobby Mar. 
Riley Wilson. 

The following were duly elected t<> 
membership in the White Rats Actors' 
Union Tuesday, Oct. 6: Arthur J. Finn. 
Slayman Ali, Roger Gray. 

The following members were duly in- 
itiated Oct. 6: C. A. Lightner, Geo. L. 
Rockwell, Al Wood, Harry L. Webb, 
Maurice Abrahams, Jack Kammerer. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 

A meeting of the 

WHITE RATS ACTORS' 
UNION 

will be held 

Tuesday, October 20th, 

in the White Rats Building, 227 
West 46th street, New York City, 
at 11 P. M. sharp. 



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Russell Lennon will join the "High 
Jinks" company next week. 



Willie Edelstein, the English agent, 
arrived in New York Saturday. 



Leonard Giegerich is in charge of 
the new acts in the M. S. Bentham 
Agency. 

Alexander Fischer, once an agent in 
New York, is said to be an interpreter 
for the German army at Liege. 

Keith's Union Square front is being 
rebuilt, business continuing. 



Louise Gunning, ill for some time, is 
out again. 



Harry Beekman is the manager of 
Loew's West End theatre. 

James Wingfield, the one night stand 
agent of Chicago, is visiting in New 
York. 

Ingraham Kyle opened a few days 
ago in Boyle Woolfolk's "Whose Lit- 
tle Girl Are You?" in the west. 

Lee Arthur's new play, "The Morn- 
ing After," may be a Shubert produc- 
tion after the holidays. 



Steiner & Leavitt have secured the 
Family, Chester, Pa., and will start a 
pop vaudeville show commencing Mon- 
day, playing five acts. 



Gus King, of the Transatlantic Sex- 
tet, says some one had him erroneously 
married to Hazel Griffin, of the same 
act. 



John Ostrander, for many years con- 
nected with the Madison Square Gar- 
den, has been appointed treasurer of 
the 48th Street theater. 



"The Career" is a new play which 
George G> Hazelton and Gilbert White 
have collaborated on for production 
this season. 

Harold McMahon, formerly with the 
Sothern-Marlowe Company, is now a 
member of the United Booking Of- 
fice's force in Boston. 



Boyle and Brazil have signed with 
"The Passing Show of 1914," now in 
Philadelphia. Jule Delmar secured the 
berth for the act. 



Florence Gear has been engaged as 
prima donna for "A Girl in a Million" 
at the I, a Salle, Chicago. 

J. J. Murdock returned to New York 
Monday after a visit west. While 
away he supervised the opening of the 
new Keith's. Louisville. 



Ed Lang, formerly Vantages' Chi- 
cago representative, is now with the 
United Booking Offices' feature film 
department, doing road work. 



. "The Bohemian," the new Jack Lait 
play which Nat Goodwin has accepted, 
is to be brought out in a stock per- 
formance in Los Angeles this month. 



Pierce and Roslyn returned from 
London last week. They will open at 
Shea's Toronto next week and then go 
west to Chicago on the W. V. M. A. 

time. 



The Grand, St. Paul, has been leased 
by the Friedman Bros.' The future 
policy is to be pictures. The burlesque 
shows booked for the Grand are now 
playing the Star. 



Uniformed employees of the United 
Booking Offices and the Palace The- 
atre Building have been supplied with 
nickel badges to designate their iden- 
tity and positions. 



Martin Beck took the "20th Century" 
tor Chicago Monday to complete the 
contract between the Western Vaude- 
ville Managers' Association and the 
Interstate Circuit. 



Moore and Yates did not open at 
Keith's, Boston, Monday. Miller and 
Stanley took their place. Wenrich and 
Connolly failed to play Birmingham 
this week, owing to illness. 

Frank Walsh is seeking his 12-year- 
t Id son, Frank, Jr., who left home over 
a month ago. Mr. Walsh believes the 
boy tried to reach him in Pittsburgh 
and became lost. The father may be 
addressed Hotel Rexford, Boston. 



Mabel Merritt (Merritt Sisters) and 
Charles Edenberg, former sparring 
partner of Battling Nelson, were mar- 
ried on the stage in Phoenix, Ariz., a 
short time ago. The couple some years 
ago were schoolmates in Milwaukee. 

"The Orphan's Prayer," with Ilah 
Morgan featured, is to be given a win- 
ter's road route, dates being arranged 
for southern Iowa and Missouri, to 
start with. W. N. Morgan, of Goll- 
mar's circus, is the producer. 

The first big league ball player to 
register an intention to enter vaude- 
ville is Phil Chouinard of the Brook- 
lyn Feds who will offer a double song 
and talk turn with Jack Conway of 
the same organization. Chouinard was 
formerly with the Garden City Trio. 



Howard Graham, formerly manager 
of Proctor's, Albany, is now looking 
after the interests of the Krie, Pa., 
house in the United Booking Offices. 



Arthur L. Ball (Ball and Marshall) 
is in the St. Paul Hospital, St. Paul, 
recovering from an operation for ap- 
pendicitis. 



Rose Stahl in "The Perfect Lady" 
opens in Hartford the latter end of 
this week, aimed for the Hudson, New 
York. 

It is said in New York that the men 
interested in the erection of what was 
to have been the Club theatre in Bal- 
timore are considering a proposition 
to erect a store house on the site. 



The Metropolitan (formerly Beck), 
Bellingham, Wash., is now under the 
control of Terry McKean. It has been 
operated for two years by George J. 
Mackenzie, the northwestern represen- 
tative for Klaw & Erlanger. 

George L. Moreland, the baseball en- 
cyclopedia, after leaving Hammer- 
stein's last Sunday night, fell while 
getting off a subway train and sus- 
tained a fracture of one of his ankles. 
He vill be laid up for at least six 
weeks. 



Hardie Langdon was removed from 
her apartment in the Hotel Bristol this 
week to the Polyclinic where it was at 
first thought she would have to under- 
go an immediate operation. Her phy- 
sicians later advised her it would not 
be essential and as soon as her con- 
dition permits she will return to her 
home in Youngstown for an indefinite- 
rest. 



The Lamb's Club has received no 
information that Lionel Walsh was 
killed in action. He is the captain of 
Dragoons in the English army, at the 
front. Walsh was on this side when the 
war started. His headquarters were at 
the Lamb's. One afternoon the Eng- 
lishman stood idly about for some 
time. He at last said, "There's no ex- 
citement over here. Guess I'll go 
home and join my regiment." The 
next morning he sailed. 



J. D. Millman (father of Bird Mill- 
man) is conducting an automatic cab- 
aret on West 125th street. He has 
evolved a method of dishing up the old 
slot machine phonograph game and it 
looks like a winner. Instead of hav- 
ing a machine for each record, the 
patron sits down before an arrange- 
ment that looks like a telephone 
switchboard. There is a catalog of 
records to choose from. On the ma- 
chine is a dial arrangement the patron 
manipulates to make the numbers cor- 
respond to that of the record and this 
shows him the number of pennies need- 
ed to hear it. His arranging of the 
numbers flashes to an operator in the 
basement and the record requested is 
taken from a cabinet and placed on the 
machine. 



NEW ACTS. 

Natalie Alt, who originated the title 
role of "Adele," is preparing for vaude- 
ville. 

Lawrence and Harrington, dramatic 
playlet, with their old Bowery specialty. 

Minnie Palmer has a sketch by 
Charles Horwitz, called "Breaking In." 

Dorothy Brenner, lately with Fred 
Watson in a two-act, will next appear 
with Bert Wheeler (formerly Wheeler 
and Wilson). 

Les Diodatti (four women; one man, 
Paul Durand). 

Lucille Berdell, rehearsing new act, 
"The Girl," with four people. 

Billy (Sliding) Watson, the burlesque 
comedian, has accepted a monolog from 
Aaron Hoffman which he is rehearsing 
for vaudeville. 

Sloane, Manning Co., in The Bribe," 

Eugenie Blair, in "The Day of Reck- 
oning" (Alf. T. Wilton). 

Wm. Keough and Mark Sullivan in 
"The Midnight Appeal. ' 

Jack Jarrott and Mae Murray, danc- 
ing, Palace, Oct. 26. 

J. L. Phlpps has bought "A Strenu- 
ous Daisy" from Arthur R. Hill and 
will play it on the i'antages time with 
a new company. 

Harrison Brockbank, who played 
Napoleon in "The Purple Road," has 
prepared "The Drummer of the 76th" 
for vaudeville, introducing the char- 
acter of Napoleon. 

Edward Owings Towne has a "No. 
2" company playing "Easy Money" in 
the western vaudeville houses, while 
George Richards remains on U. B. O. 
time. 

The Three Hedders are playing in 
their new act "In Snowland." 



TOMMY'S TATTLES. 

By THOMAS J. GRAY. 

Madge Maitland met an Englishman 
who asked her what she was doing. 
She replied, "I'm playing the halls." 
The Englishman said, "Are there halls 
in this country? Where are they?" 
"In the Palace Theatre Building" an- 
swered Miss Maitland. 

It's none of our business, but if the 
Germans are driven back every time 
the newspapers say they have been, by 
this time they should be going through 
China. 

It you're fighting with your sweetheart 
If your wife at you is sore. 

Of course you all know the answer, 
Why, just blame it on the war. 

If you lay off a week or two 
Dont you start to nake a roar, 

And dont start to pan your agent; 
Why, just blame it on the war. 

If your sure-fire stuff is flopping 

As it never did before, 
Dont say that your spot is awful, 

Why, just blame it on the war. 

The title of the show called "Kick 
In" sounds like a vaudeville agent's 
letter to one of his acts. 

The fact that acts are only allowed 
to take two bows at the Palace theatre 
is going to save song pluggers a let 
of work. 



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VARIETY 



STAGE WOMEN STARS BUSY 

WITH SEASON'S NEW PLAYS 



Ethel Barrymore, Frances Starr, Nazimova, Elsie Ferguson, 

Marie Tempest, Lydia Lopokova, Mrs. Fiske, Helen Ware, 

Margaret Illington, Blanche Bates and Rose Stahl in 

New Shows. 



The women stage stars of New York 
are nearly all fixed for new plays ac- 
cording to the preparations afoot here 
and on the road. Ethel Barrymore, 
following a fortnight's rest, will begin 
rehearsals in "The Shadow," which was 
to have been presented in Paris by 
Rejane. 

Nazimova is to appear in a new 
piece, "That Sort." Frances Starr, on 
tour in "The Secret," is to return to 
New York in a new piece by Edward 
Knoblauch 

"Outcasts," opening in Atlantic City 
Oct. 22, where it will remain three 
days, has Elsie Ferguson as its star. 
Hattie Williams (with Richard Carle) 
is to be seen in a new play by Harry 
I>. Smith and Jerome D. Kern. 

Marie Tempest, now touring the road 
with her English company in reper- 
toire, is reported as a New York pos- 
sibility later at the Comedy, using one 
of Sir Henry Arthur ojnes' plays en- 
titled "Mary Goes First." Lydia Lo- 
pokova is rehearsing under Harrison 
Grey Fiske's direction in a modern 
comedy, "The Young Idea." Follow- 
ing her Syracuse opening Miss Lopo- 
kova goes into Boston for an indefi- 
nite engagement. 

Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, now 
playing the road in "My Lady Mar- 
tingale," by Frank Slayton and John 
Luther Long, may reach the Broad- 
way later. Helen Ware is booked into 
Chicago for an anticipated "run" in a 
new one, "The Revolt." Margaret Il- 
lington has been assigned a new one, 
"The Betrayal," which is almost sure 
of a New York showing. Eleanor 
Gates has turned over a new play to 
Blanche Bates in which the latter is 
expected to star following the "Diplo- 
macy" revival at the Empire. Rose 
Stahl has had "A Perfect Lady" in re- 
hearsal and opens at the Hudson either 
Oct. 22 or 26. 



PAYS UNDER PROTEST. 

Shanlcy's Restaurant at Broadway 
and 43d street decided this week to 
pay, under protest, the weekly royalty 
demanded l>y the American Society of 
Authors, Composers and Publishers 
for the use of instrumental music dur- 
ing the cabaret performance. 

The payment under protest was ad- 
vised by Shanlcy's counsel, pending 
the decision of the appeal taken from 
Judge Lamml e's decision in favor <>f 
the John Church Co., a music publish- 
ing concern, against the Hotel Yandcr- 
bilt (orchestra). 



"DOUBLE MYSTERY" DOUBTFUL. 

(Speoial Cabtc to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 16. 
"The Double Mystery." which 
opened at the Garrick Wednesday, is 
another Jekyl-Hyde dual personality. 
The piece is well played by Arthur 
Bfiuchier ami Violet Vanbnigh. While 



a good melodrama the lack of novelty 
makes its success doubtful. 



ATTACHES RECEIPTS. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 16. 

The "The Darktown Burlesquers" 
playing at the Olympic was attached 
by Deputy City Marshall Blythe on a 
$378.50 claim of the Phil Morton Bill 
Posting Co., against the Progressive 
Circuit. 

Blythe connected with $131 by rep- 
resenting he was a friend of the ticket 
seller, who opened the box ofhec door 
to admit him. 



MAY ROBSON RESTING. 

"Martha By the Sea" and May Rob- 
son returned to New York Sunday, 
after a brief stay on the road. Miss 
Robson will remain in New York, 
pending something definite on book- 
ings. 



"TRUTH" TOUR ENDING. 

Grace George is to return to the Wil- 
l.am A. Brady management after Dec. 
15, at which time she will close her 
tour under the management of Win- 
throp Ames in Clyde Fitch's "Truth." 

Mr. Brady has a new play in which 
he will star Miss. George (Mrs. Brady). 



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RECASTING "LADY LUXURY.' 

Fred C. Whitney is selecting new 
principals for "Lady Luxury," at pres- 
ent playing a second week's engage- 
ment in Montreal. Next week the 
company will hit a number of one- 
nighters coming into New York, after 
which the present company will be dis- 
banded. 

After the new principals have been 
rehearsed, the show is to open in town 
at one of the Shubert houses. 



"BARBARA WORTH" STAYS OUT. 

Harry K. Hamilton signed Tuesday 
to assume a leading role in the "No. 1" 
company of A. G. Delamater's "The 
Winning of Barbara Worth." 

The departure of Ilka Marie Diehl 
from one of the companies resulted in 
the report the company was closing. 
Delamater intends to keep all three of 
his troupes going all season. 



WAGENHALS COMING BACK. 

Lincoln Wagenhals, who retired from 
active producing some time ago, is to 
come back into the field again. 

This time Mr. Wagenhals will go it 
alone. He is at present wading 
through a number of manuscripts to 
find a piece for production. 



Players Wed. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 7. 
Michael McGarry of Stockford, Kng- 
land, and Elsie Lindeman of Cincin- 
nati, playing at the Ada Meade theatre, 
Lexington, Ky., were married last week 
by Magistrate Parrish. 



$13,000 FOR "HIGH JINKS." 

The "High Jinks" show with Stella 
Mayhew, did $15,000 gross last week, 
playing three days in 1'rovidencc, one 
day (two performances) at New Bed- 
ford and the final two days at Hart- 
ford. 

The show this week is at the Belasco, 
Washington. 



LONDON REVIVALS. 

{Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 16. 

"My Lady's Dress" will be with- 
drawn from the Royalty tomorrow 
(Saturday) and a revival of "Mile- 
stones" open there Monday. 

"Miss Hook of Holland" will be re- 
vived Oct. 27 at the Prince of Wales 
with Phyllis Dare and Dan Rolyat. 

"Silver King" closes Saturday at the 
Stand and "Glad Eye" will be revived 
Oct. 21. 



INFANTILE EPIDEMIC. 

Brandolph, Vt., Oct. 14. 

Infantile paralysis in epidemic form 
has paralyzed local theatricals. 

Traveling combinations for the Bran- 
dolph theatre have been cancelled un- 
til all danger has passed. 

MUSICAL ON S. & H. 

The Lew Morton Opera Co. will 
tour the Stair-Havlin houses in "The 
Tenderfoot." "The Gingerbread Man" 
may be placed on the same circuit 
shortly by Matt Grau, who has the 
piece. 

The May Ward show, formerly on 
the Progressive Burlesque Wheel, may 
also go over the S. & H. route. 



"The Sub" Opening. 
Marie Dressier in her new produc- 
tion, "The Sub," is to open Oct. 24 at 
Stamford, Conn. Her husband, Jack 
Dalton, is financing the show, with the 
Shuberts booking. 



"Young Idea" for Boston. 

Harrison Gray Fiske's "Young Idea," 
in which he is starring Lydia Lopo- 
kova, is to have its first big town show- 
ing at the Hollis Street, Boston, Nov. 2. 
The company will open in Syracuse 
Oct. 22. 





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PRIMA DONNA COLORATURA 

Now siiiKit k concert numbers at the BROAD- 
WAY ROSi: GARDENS, New York. Mile. 
.Minis was given laudatory notices by the New 
Vnrk critics upon her debut at the Gardens. 



UNION BREAK IN MONTREAL 

Montreal, Oct. 14. 

A break among the theatres here 
combined against the unions occurred 
when the Princess (Shuberts) placed a 
union crew and orchestra in the house 
Monday, for the production of "Pina- 
fore," that then opened for the week. 

The theatres affected by the union's 

demands and which had withstood 

them up to Monday were members of 

the Theatrical Managers' Protective 
Association. The houses operated by the 
Canadian Theatres Co. for vaudeville 
and burlesque still hold out. 

The unions demanded a 20 per cent, 
increase for the stage crews, and $2 a 
week for musicians. 

Clark Brown, general manager for 
the Canadian company, says he will 
stand out alone against the union. He 
has resigned from the managers' asso- 
ciation. 

In the Brown house at Ottawa the 
vaudeville program is being played 
this week by Elizabeth Otto, who does 
a "piano-act" and remained over at the 
request of the management. Five mu- 
sicians from the states were not al- 
lowed to enter here Sunday. They 
were bound for the Ottawa house. 
Brown charges the labor people used 
politics to prevent their entrance. He 
will likely secure native non-union mu- 
sical talent for the pit. 

At the office of the Shuberts, it was 
said "Pinafore" would have been 
obliged to lay off, owing to it being 
a heavy production, if it had not ful- 
filled the Montreal engagement. 



AUCTIONING THEATRES. 

The Columbia Scranton and the Ma- 
jestic (formerly Luzerne) Wilkes- 
Barre will be sold at public auction 
on the premises on Nov. 2. Frank P. 
Slattery, a Wilkes-Barre, attorney, rep- 
resenting Geo. W. Rife, Chas. Knapp 
and VV. B. Watson, will conduct the 
sale. Both theatres formerly played 
burlesque. 



DENIES HE'S DEAD. 

Langdon McCormick, the inventor, 
playwright and producer, returned 
from London this week and absolutely 
denies the report of his death which 
was circulated some time ago. 



FILMS FILLING IN. 

The feature film as a substitute for 
legitimate attractions is being taken 
up by the combination house managers 
up-state according to William A. Sher- 
ry, who is canvassing that territory in 
the interest of the Paramount. 

With the supply of travelling road 
attractions falling down on them, the 
town managers declare their only sal- 
vation is the moving picture "name" 
drawing card. Mr. Sherry declares he 
found the stops between Ne York 
and Albany a fertile field and booked 
the first five towns he visited. 



Cyril Maude Working. 
{.Special wibu to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 16. 

Cyril Maude, after a fortnight's ill- 
ness, resumed his part in "Grumpy" at 
the New theatre this week. 



VARIETY 



11 




WITH THE PRESS AGENTS 



Leo Fljrnn, on tour with "Kismet," Is back 
on Broadway. 



Percy Heath, who was general press rep- 
resentative for Henry W. Savage, and who 
adapted the book of the latest Savage hit, 
"8ari," has returned to town and Is open. 

"Big Jim Oarrlty," the John Mason melo- 
drama, opens at the New York theater this 
Friday, at $1 top. The house played feature 
Alms up to Thursday. 

The New York newspapers have Interviewed 
Miss Blllle Allen several times this week to 
learn whether she and John A. Hoagland, 
noted as an art connoisseur, are engaged with- 
out getting a confirmation. She does admit, 
however, that the wealthy New Yorker gave 
her a $6,600 diamond ring and a $10,000 auto- 
mobile. Mlsa Allen left the Jardln de Danne 
last week. 



In his new book, "On Acting." Matthew Ar- 
nold declines to mourn over the degeneracy of 
the modern stage. He goes so far as to say 
that many of the old-time stock organizations 
miscast their players, whereas actors and 
actresses today are selected for their physical 
and temperamental fitness for roles. "I, for 
one, do not believe," says the noted essayist, 
"that the actors of our time are in any way 
Inferior to the actors of the past." 



The cast is now complete for "The Mar- 
riage of Columbine," at the Punch A Judy 
theatre, Nov. 10 (not Nov. 9, as announced). 
It includes Charles Hopkins, Edward Emery, 
Herbert Yost, Charles Hampden, Mrs. Hop- 
kins, Louise Closser Hale. Eleanor Carey. 
Vera Pole and Linda Bolton. 



Rehearsals have begun for "The Young 
Idea," in which Lydla Lopokova is to make 
her dramatic debut. The preliminary tour will 
open Oct. 22 In Syracuse under the manage- 
ment of Harrison Grey Fiske. 



Singers' Midgets, 20 Lilliputian actors, with 
two baby elephants and seven tiny ponies, will 
appear Nov. 2 at Hammerstelns. The feature 
is a European Importation. 



One of the features of the Panama exposi- 
tion will be a submarine illusion with a 200- 
foot allegorical front, of stone construction. 
A fleet of real submarines will carry passen- 
gers under an Inland sea. 



Mr. and Mrs. Rowley Downes, who have 
been dancing at the Narragsnsett Casino, ap- 
peared at Murray's Wednesday evening. The 
couple will have charge of the after-theatre 
entertainment there for the rest of the season. 



"Life," Thompson Buchanan's melodrama, 
which opens at the Manhattan Monday night, 
has more scenes and more speaking parts than 
"The Whip." Moving pictures will be used to 
explain portions of the action and will be 
shown to bridge dark changes. 

The new bill which comes tonight (Satur- 
day) to the Princess Includes new players and 
these playlets. "The Cat and the Cherub" 
(14 people, the largest cast ever used In the 
house), Henry Arthur Jones' "The Goal," 
Stanley Houghton's "Phlpps," "The Forest of 
Happy Dreams" and "Little Face." 

The Boston Press Club is beglnlng to prove 
an Important factor In the lives of theatrical 
folk who go there. Monday night the club 
had a "Scoop Night" In honor of the 200 
baseball writers there for the series, and 
with ex -Mayor Fltsgerald presiding, assisted 
by Lee Harrison of the "Perlmutter" show, 
the assemblage looked live. The entertain- 
ment program ran from real grand opera to 
a snappy boxing bout. 

Julia Arthur will reconsider her retirement 
from the stage to the extent of two perform- 
ances, one In Boston and one In New York, 
the profits of which are to be devoted to the 
relief of actors' families In Europe. William 
Faversham Is seeking tbe co-operation of 
other stars for the benefit. 

Jake Wells this week sent letters to a num- 
ber of managers with southern connection* 
asking their co-operation in the movement to 
have actresses and actors wear as much cot- 
ton clothing as possible in an effort to help 
dispose of the 1914 crop of the staple. The 
newspapers In the towns where Wells Is rep- 
resented have exploited the campaign liber- 
ally. 



Elsie Ferguson is promised In a new play, 
"Outcasts," by Hubert Henry Davies. Charles 
Cherry Is In the cast. 

"Kick In" has been postponed from Thurs- 
day night last to next Monday night at the 
Longacre. 

"The Lilac Domino" opens Oct. 2R at the 
44th Street. The Andreas Dippel piece is in 
rehearsal under Sidney Ellison at the Metro- 
politan opera house. 



PRESS OPINIONS. 



Pymallon. 

The play Itself Is as simply entertaining a 
piece as the author has ever deigned to write 
— Times. 



"Pygmalion" will not offend here but will 
amuse. — Herald. 

My Lady's Drews. 

Future audiences at the Playhouse will be 
as large and as well pleased as that of the 
premiere. — Herald. 

It Is an absorbingly Interesting play, which 
holds the Interest unremittingly through its 
variety and the constant change of background 
and character. — Sun. 

Evidence. 

The comedy is rich in a humor that Is all 
the fresher for not being at all of the the- 
atre, and the defects are really engulfed in 
the sentiment which fills the play to the brim. 
— Times. 



Dancing Around. 

The spirited and agreeable music is sure to 
prove the chief attraction of "Dancing 
Around." — Times. 

It's allmlgbty good fun, and the list of 
fun makers is legion, but leading them all 
is Mr. Al Jolson, the irrepressible comedian, 
who was welcomed uproariously after a long 
absence from New York. He surprised his 
admirers by leaving off his blackface makeup 
In one scene. — Herald. 



ENGAGEMENTS. 

Eillen Erroll for May Buckley stock, Cleve- 
land. 

Eleanor Painter, prima donna, "The Lilac 
Domino." 

Madame Joanne Marbourg, contralto, "The 
Lilac Domino." 

Edna Oliver In South with "Stop Thief." 

Bella Cairns in stock at Poll, New Haven, 
Conn. 

Mrs. James S. Barrett, lead In "Saint and 
Sinner," in vaudeville. 



DIPPEL AT CENTURY FEB. 1. 

The date on which Andreas Dippel is 
to take possession of the Century with 
his opera comique company is Feb. 1. 
On that date the impresario will move 
the organization which is to be housed 
temporarily in the 44th Street theatre 
while presenting "The Lilac Domino." 

Herr Dippel has. arranged with Max 
Rabinoff for Pavlowa and her ballet as 
an entre acte feature of the policy he 
means to inaugurate at the Century. 



DIDNT OPPOSE CHINAMAN. 

Los Angeles, Oct. 14. 

Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould, 
wife of Howard Gould, denied she op- 
posed the marriage of her sister, Ella 
May Clemmons to Wong Sun Yue, a 
Chinese merchant of Los Angeles. Mrs. 
Gould is suing a local showman for li- 
bel, in connection with her sister's mar- 
riage. 

"My sister and I are on the best of 
terms," said Mrs. Gould, "And will con- 
tinue to be." 



"EXPERIENCE" PATCHING UP. 

"Experience," the new William Elli- 
ott production, isn't coming into New 
York as expected. Seven changes hav^ 
been made in the company, the most 
important the acquisition last week of 
Charles Stevenson: 

The show will patch up its ragged 
edges in a month or so on the road. 

With "Consequences" and "Evidence" 
now playing New York it is up to "Ex- 
perience" to come in and confuse the 
theatregoers on the title. 



AUTHORS CONTRIBUTING. 

Charles Klein and Margaret Mayo 
were the first tw*o contributors to the 
William Faversham Fund to relieve 
needy actors who arc at present in 
the war zone. Each of the two writers 
send the star a check for $100. 



Sarah Edwards has been engaged to 
sing contralto roles in the musical 
stock company at the Park, St. Louis. 



SAVAGE RETRENCHING. 

Henry W. Savage has decided upon 
retrenchment as far as his theatrical 
organizations are concerned. All of the 
expensive executive heads, with the ex- 
ception of Madison Corey, who have 
been attached to the New York office 
will take to the road shortly and re- 
place men who have been traveling with 
the companies. One of the two "Sari" 
companies is to be closed within the 
next fortnight and a number of the 
principals of the company (which is the 
No. 2 show) will be retained to replace 
higher priced artists who are with the 
original organization. Fred Meek and 
Percy Heath, with the original "Sari," 
are back on Broadway. 

It is well known Mr. Savage is one 
of the shrewdest judges of conditions in 
theatricals. He is a great student of 
crops and manufacturing conditions. 

Arthur S. Phinney and John Pratt 
will go on the road to replace Messrs. 
Meek and Heath. With them will also 
go the necessary instructions for the re- 
organization of the big "Sari" company. 
Just which roles are to be refilled is not 
known as yet, but it is the intention of 
the management to reduce expenses in 
every way possible without detracting 
from the quality of the general ensem- 
ble of the company. 

Mr. Corey will be the only executive 
head that will be retained in New York. 
The general office help will remain to 
maintain the running of the system 
which has been in vogue in the Savage 
office for years. 



N. Y. THEATRE, INDEF. 

The engagement of "Big Jim Gar- 
rity" with John Mason that opens at the 
New York theatre this Friday night, is 
indefinite. The attraction is expected 
to be found in the one dollar admis- 
sion scale. The A. H. Woods play 
goes in the house as a traveling show, 
the William Morris force managing 
the theatre. 

Notwithstanding the length of the 
"Garrity" run, it is said the New York 
will continue playing attractions, sev- 
eral offers having already been made 
to the Morris people to place new pro- 
ductions in the New York. 



BARRYMORE PLAY POSTPONED. 

Charles B. Dillingham has decided 
not to present Jack Barrymore in Ed- 
ward C. Sheldon's "A Lonely Heart" 
for the present. 



MISHLER'S IS UNIONIZED. 

Altoona, Pa., Oct. 14. 
After waging war against the union 
for nearly two years, the stage hands 
and J. C. Mishler have reached an 
agreement over the Mishler Theatre. It 
is now a union house and on satisfac- 
tory terms to him, says the manager. 



SHUBERTS TAKE "DAISY." 

"Miss Daisy" has been taken over by 
the Shuberts. who believe the show can 
go into Chicago with a new cast and 
make money. "Miss Daisy" may also 
be renamed for the Windy. City inva- 
sion. 

It was stated this week that when 

the revised edition of "Miss Daisy" 

was sent on tour Carter De Haven and 

Flora Parker would be among the 

principals. 



MASON WINS FR0HMAN SUIT. 

John Mason, through his attorneys, 
House, Grossman & Vorhaus, obtained 
a judgment against Charles Frohman 
for $1,400 in Part II of the City Court 
Tuesday. The suit arose through a 
c< ntract Mr. Mason had with the Froh- 
man management which called for the 

services of the star for 12-13 and 13-14. 

John Mason appeared under the 
Frohman management last year in a 
play entitled "Indian Summer." 

The contract called for 30 weeks each 
for two seasons. Mr. Mason was to 
receive $700 weekly and 7 per cent, of 
the gross over $7,000 weekly. He 
played the full 30 weeks the first sea- 
son but last season he obtained only 
six weeks under the direction of Froh- 
man, "Indian Summer" being closed at 
the Criterion after a short run. Mr. 
Mason was then without employment 
until Mr. Frohman loaned him to A. 
H. Woods for "The Yellow Ticket." 

When the season ended May 30, Ma- 
son had worked only 28 weeks. "The 
Yellow Ticket" ran longer with Mr. 
Mason in the cast, but the attorneys 
contended the Frohman season ended 
Decoration Day. Mr. Frohman sued 
Mason for $700 he had advanced, to 
which the actor replied with a coun- 
ter claim for two weeks' salary. 



NEW ONE FOR WARFIELD. 

David Belasco has selected a new 
play for David Warfield, but will not 
divulge the title. 

The piece will undergo the usual 
Belasco reading tests before passing 
to the production stage. 



ACTORS 9 BOOKING AGENCY. 

Arrangements are under way for the 
Actors' Equity Association to establish 
a booking agency. 

The Actors' Society maintained a 
dramatic agency but did not charge its 
members commission. Only the non- 
members were charged. 



FARCE FOR D'ORSAY. 

Before New Year's Lawrence D'Or- 
say will be seen in New York in a 
new farcical play, entitled "The Rented 
Earl," written by Salisbury Field, who 
wrote "Twin Beds." 



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'GRASS WIDOW" DEFERRED. 

"The Grass Widow," a musical piece, 
with book by Rennold Wolf and Chan- 
ning Pollock, has been deferred in pro- 
duction by A. H. Woods, who accepted 
the script. 



"Susi" at Casino Nov. 2. 
The Lew Fields production of 
"Susi," opening in Providence, Oct. 22, 
will probably remain out of town 
until Nov. 2, when it is due at the Ca- 
sino, New York, succeeding "Pretty 
Mrs. Smith," which lias had its Casino 
engagement extended three weeks. 



Chorus Girl Despondent 

Pittsburgh, Oct. 14. 
Aida Sturn, 22 years old, a chorus 
girl of Job, W. Va., is in a serious 
condition in the Mercy Hospital. Un- 
able to find work she took bichloride 
following a quarrel with her only friend 
in the city. 



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VARIETY 



NOTED STARS IN NEW PLAYS 

MEET FAVOR AT PREMIERES 



Mrs. Fiske Shows "Lady Betty Martingale" 

"Lively Hussy"). Otis Skinner's Splendid Art 

in "The SUent Voice." "Diplomacy/ 9 Tri-Star 

Opens. 



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Philadelphia, Oct. 14. 
"Lady Betty Martingale," with the 
sub-title, "The Adventures of a Live- 
ly Hussy," a comedy in three acts 
and five scenes, was shown for the 
first time at the Broad Monday night 

with Mrs. Fiske in the lead. The au- 
thors are John Luther Long and Frank 
Stayton, who have gone back to the 
middle of the 18th Century for plot 
and style. 

Lady Betty is the spendthrift daugh- 
ter of an impecunious scholar. To can- 
cel her debts and save herself from 
prison she does what many other 
women in similar circumstances are 
said to have done in that period. She 
takes advantage of the law which 
makes the husband assume his wife's 
debts and married a prisoner con- 
demned to death. The prisoner is par- 
doned, he lives to love her and they 
are again married, each thinking some 
one else was concerned in the prison 
marriage. 

The story is slowly unraveled in the 
last act. In the cast are Sidney Her- 
bert, Marie Chambers, Arthur Elliott, 
Eric Blind, Thomas Louden, Percy D. 
Standing, Alice Belmore, Henry War- 
wick and Alfred Hemming. 

Atlantic City, Oct. 10. 

Charles Frohman produced "The Si- 
lent Voice" at the Nixon Saturday 
night with Otis Skinner in the principal 
role of a stage version of Gouverneur 
Morris's story, recently published in a 
magazine. The dramatization is by 
Jules Rckert Goodman and is in four 
acts. 

The masterly playing of Mr. Skinner 
gives it value it would not have in less 
expert hands. 

The story has to do with the spiritual 
struggles of Montgomery Starr, a great 
musician gone deaf. Embittered by his 
misfortune, he becomes a misanthrope 
and becomes estranged from his young 
wife. On the verge of suicide, he finds 
sclacc in helping others until he wins 
back the love of his wife. 

So subtle a theme calls upon Mr. 
Skinner for the exercise of his finest 
artistry and he responds splendidly. 

Providence, Oct. 14. 

Some of this town's original first- 
nighters returned in the spirit last 
night to see, with a whole houseful of 
their descendants, the re-staging of the 
first play ever put on in Providence. 
This was "The Provok'd Husband" 
and the records have it that David 
Douglas and his company of players 
from Virginia gave it here Aug. 25, 
1762. 

The performance caused a riot among 
two factions of the townspeople, and 
out of the incidents connected with the 
riot. A. E. Thomas, author of "The 
Rainbow," and Henry A. Baker of this 



city, wove a play in which they put the 
old play under the general title of "In 
Colony Times." 

The performance was in connection 
with the 150th anniversary celebration 
of Brown University and it was well 
received. 

Some of the old jokes sounded so 
new that they might do on Broadway. 

Northampton, Mass., Oct. 14. 

The Northampton Players, occupy- 
ing this town's municipal theatre, 
opened their third season Monday eve- 
ning in Mrs. Spencer Trask's peace 
play, "In the Vanguard." 

Smith College sent a delegation and 
peace advocates from many points were 
present. The play has interesting spec- 
tacular features and peace advocates 
hope to have it acted throughout the 
country. 

The city of Northampton owns the 
theatre and the organization is backed 
by public spirited citizens. 

There is little of the pure dramatic 
to the play, but withal it makes a 
strong and timely plea for the brother- 
hood of man, placing the individual 
soldier and the army as a whole in the 
light of murderers, and as such not 
heroes, but sinners for their country. 

The theatre had its opening under 
brilliant auspices, the mayor introduc- 
ing the players and urging support, 
while at the close President Burton 
of Smith College held forth on the 
evils of war. The audience was com- 
posed of about 98 per cent, women, 
which is the usual proportion there. 
The company is under the direction of 
Bertram Harrison and Jessie Bonstelle, 
while James Rennie and Julia Taylor 
are the leads. The staging is unusual 
for stock. 

Atlantic City, Oct. 14. 

"Up Against It," the new farce by 
William Eville, was given its premier 
performance at the Nixon here last 
night, disclosing an amusing story. It 
has the foundation of a real play. A 
little tinkering should turn it into a 
Broadway winner. 

That indispensible attribute of a 
laughing entertainment, speed, is there; 
its situations are ingeniously contrived 
and the story interesting. There are 
times when the action overtaxes cre- 
dulity anrf verges on burlesque, but 
much is forgiven when obvious methods 
are rewarded with laughs. 

"Up Against It" is the product of the 
Sexto Corporation. 

Syracuse, Oct. 14. 
With William Gillette, Blanche Bates 
and Marie Doro in the cast the Charles 
Frohman revival of Victorien Sardou's 
"Diplomacy" was produced at the Em- 
pire Friday night. This was Mr. Gil- 
lette's first appearance on the stage 
since his retirement four years ago. 



Other members of the cast were 
Bertha Joyce, JefTerys Lewis, Malise 
Sheridan, Gustave von Seyffertitz, Les- 
lie Faber, Norman Tharp, A. E. Green- 
away, Leslie Palmer. Henry Dornton 
and Charles Francis. 



SHOWS IN FRISCO. 

San Francisco, Oct. 14. 

The Gaiety was dark Monday night, 
the opening of "The Rollicking Girl" 
by the Kolb and Dill company being 
deferred until last night. 

Poor business continues at the 
Columbia where "Milestones" is in its 
second week. 

"Kitty MacKay" opened light at the 
Cort. 



SHOWS IN BOSTON. 

Boston, Oct. 14. 

Boston business is slightly below 
this time last year and next week 
brings Frances Starr in "The Secret" 
as the only opening after this gala 
week now ending which had only "To- 
Day" as an opening. 

The World's Series brought a great 
crowd of spenders Monday and Tues- 
day. 

"The Follies" at the Colonial and 
"The Whirl of the World" at the 
Shubert are still bucking each other. 
At the Series games where 35,000 were 
seated, the "Follies" advertising was 
done by kites and the "Whirl" advertis- 
ing by means of 50.000 cards showered 
npon the heads of the spectators in- 
viting them to come and "get acquaint- 
ed with the girlies on the runway." 

"The- Road to Happiness" at the Wil- 
bur and "Peg" at the Cort are quietly 
opposing each other in that both are 
on their sixth week and it is a ques- 
tion which holds out the longer. 
Hodge has a very small house to fill 
which will prolong his engagement 
and on the other hand the "Peg" show 
is far better known here. 



SHOWS IN ST. LOUIS. 

St. Louis, Oct. 14. 

When Sam Bernard and Mollie King 
opened at the Shubert Sunday night in 
"The Belle of Bond Street" they had 
slightly more than half a house and 
yet it was unquestionably the largest 
first night attendance since the open- 
ing of this season. The theatrical busi- 
ress here, with the exception of the 
popular priced vaudeville houses, the 
Grand and Hippodrome, is in a very 
bad shape as to attendance and the 
advent of Raymond Hitchcock in "The 
Beauty Shop" is anxiously awaited as 
a criterion of what the remainder of 
the winter is to be. 

The Park theatre companies headed 
by Mabel Wilber, Marion Ruckert and 
Mitchell Harris are doing a nice busi- 
ness with royalty pieces at popular 
prices. These theatres lie in the sub- 
urban district. 

"Madam President" with Fanny 
Ward, "The Queen of the Movies" and 
Fiske O'Hara did nothing at the 
Olympic, "The Elopers," Margaret II- 
lington and "Help Wanted" did not do 
much more at the Shubert. 

Still automobiles in large numbers 
crowd the streets in the vicinity of the 
outside picture houses and the popu- 
lar priced vaudeville houses are turn- 
ing them r.way at each performance. 



SHOWS IN NEW ORLEANS. 

New Orleans, Oct. 14. 

"Oh, Oh, Delphine!" is doing busi- 
ness at the Ti lane although the com- 
pany is not especially good. 

The Emma Bunting company at the 
Crescent is playing to capacity mati- 
nees with profitable evening attend- 
ance. 

The Lyric, Lafayette and Greenwall 
are dark this week. 



"LADY EILEEN'' FLIVS. 

"Lady Eileen," a comedy drama by 
Geraldine Ronner and Hutcheson 
Boyd, which was awarded the prize in 
a play contest conducted by Oliver 
Morosco, is not coming to Broadway 
as fondly anticipated by Morosco, 
The Morosco press bureau had an- 
nounced that Morosco was producing 
it here about Oct. 15 or later. 

The new play was given a trial per- 
formance at the Burbank, Los An- 
geles, where it proved a flivver. 



MAX DILL INJURED. 

San Francisco, Oct. 14. 

Max Dill, while disappearing through 
a trap door in the stage at the Gayety 
last night, during the first act of "The 
Rollicking Girl," fractured his ankle. 
He was removed to a hospital and re- 
placed in the cast by Bob Vernon, who 
went through the piece with script in 
hand. 

The accident occurred at the opening 
performance, which was played to ca- 
pacity business. 



"ADELE" STILL OUT. 

"Adele" has not closed. Peggy Wood 
i? playing the stellar role. 

The New Era Producing Co. (Jos. P. 
Bickerton, Jr., general manager) denies 
it has gone out of show business. 



ENGAGED FOR "STEP." 

W. C. Fields, the comedy juggler, 
has been engaged for the "Watch Your 
Step" show Charles P». Dillingham is 
preparing. He starts rehearsals next 
Monday. 

T. Roy Barnes, reported as leaving 
with the~"Passing Show of 1914," re- 
mains under his Dillingham contract 
and also enters the "Step" production. 
Mr. Barnes recently commenced to 
wear a mustache. It. may be perma- 
nent, if he's allowed to live through 
the experience. 

Halligan and Sykes have also been 
i-ni»apcd f°r the production. 



$2 DEMANDED. 

j Elmira, Oct. 14. 

"The Quaker Girl" refused to play 
for less than $2 at the Lyceum this 
week, despite the efforts of Manager 
Norton for a $1.50 scale. Business was 
good. 



Norworth's "Susie" Song. 

The full title of "The 'Susie' Song" 
as it is known in England, that Jack 
Norworth first made popular at the 
Hippodrome, London, is "Sister Susie 
Sewing Soft Short Shirts for Soldiers." 

Mr. Norworth made an "audience 
number" of it. obtaining comedy 
through having the house try to sing 
with him the words of the chorus, some 
of which arc "The soldiers say they'd 
rather lay on thistles than wear the 
short shirts sister Susie sews." 



VARIETY 




Bonnie Glass and Lewis Sloden are 
dancing professionally upon the New 
York Roof. Al Davis, Miss Glass' 
usual dancing partner, does not care 
to appear professionally in New York 
city, it is said, although he has danced 
with Miss Glass in Chicago. Billie 
Allen remains on the New York pro- 
fessional bill. 



Maurice and Florence Walton will 
be in charge of the "Venetian Room" 
in the Winter Garden building, ac- 
cording to report. This room is situat- 
ed immediately below the "Persian 
Room," on the top floor, where Joan 
Sawyer presides in season. The Mau- 
rice arrangement to take over the low- 
er floor is said to be on the same terms 
as Miss Sawyer's, a percentage of the 
gross receipts. The "Venetian Room" 
in the past was a restaurant, with dance 
floor, under separate management, al- 
though the Shuberts really operate 
eveiything in the Winter Garden edi- 
fice. 



Hugh Thompson and Gladys Von 
Fossen are engaged to dance at the 
New York Roof opening about Octo- 
ber 19. 



The Claridge Hotel, New York, has 
changed hands. The loss of patronage, 
occasioned by a remark of its former 
proprietor about the Hebrews, may 
have been the direct reason for the sale 
by John Hill to Merry & Boomer, who 
also have the McAlpin Hotel. Mr. Hill 
injudiciously said one evening he would 
like to see all the Jews in his place leave 
it. Mr. Hill got his wish, and along 
with the Hebrews went many Gentile 
sympathizers. It is said that at one 
time toward the finish of Mr. Hill's 
occupancy of the Claridge, but four 
rooms were taken on the Broadway 
S'de of the 12-story hotel building. 



A pair of prominent ballroom danc- 
ers will shortly separate, it is reported. 
The woman dancer of the duo, it is 
said, will wed a Fifth Avenue man. The 
couple have become quite famous in 
their line, and earned a vast amount 
ot money. Another reason for the sep- 
aration besides the incompatibility of 
temper or temperament is that the 
man, who handled the funds, invested 
with such a marked degree of non-suc- 
cess that the two people are actually 
"broke" at present. The man is said 
to have purchased small equities in 
heavily encumbered property, gaining 
great wealth for himself — on paper — 
later to find himself bereft of his for- 
tune through foreclosure of mortgages. 



The Cabaret dancers have become 
showmen and showwomen. One dancer, 
often billed in Broadway houses, is 
said to have used the scheme of "phon- 
ing to the theatre." The phone thing 
ii an old boy among the regular play- 
ers, but the dancer is reputed to have 
improved upon it. When engaging for 
the stage performances, the theatre's 
phone would ring. "Is Miss Blank 
playing in your theatre?" "Are you 



certain it is the same Miss Blank at 
Blank's?" "Really! Will you reserve 
two boxes tonight for Mrs. Ogden 
Mills" (or any other name well known 
in society). "Yes, two boxes, Mrs. 
Mills will have a party," and so on ad 
infinitum, the person phoning usually 
giving the impression over the wire he 
or she has been interrupted, when the 
order for two boxes is reduced to one, 
and the reservation made for a night or 
so afterward instead of "tonight." But 
to make good, the dancer on that eve- 
ning had a couple of friends call for 
two tickets in "Mrs. Mills' party" and 
pay for them. The investment was 
small, but the dancer quickly got the 
name of "drawing society." 



Mae Murray and Jack Jarott have 
paired and are rehearsing dances. They 
may first try it on a vaudeville audi- 
ence. 

Nora White, in charge of the tea 
dances at Brawner's Atop of the 
Strand, retired from the position as 
hostess Sunday. 

George White has charge of the 
dance floor in Rector's. 



The Art Room at the Beaux Arts 
opened last Thursday. Tea dances be- 
gan yesterday afternoon under the di- 
rection of Lewis Sloden and Ida Ad- 
ams. The former has been dancing 
with Bonnie Glass at the New York 
Roof. Clifton Webb, also in the Win- 
ter Garden show, replaced him. 



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LEADING WOMAN CHANGED. 

Newark, Oct. 14. 
Florence Gear is leaving the Or- 
pheum stock. Her successor as lead- 
ing woman will be Frances Neilsen. 



STOCK OPENINGS. 

Spokane, Oct. 14. 

It is announced stock will be in- 
stalled at the Auditorium beginning 
Nov. 9, under the management of 
George Baker of Portland, Ore. The 
Cort shows, now playing at the Audi- 
torium, will probably be shifted to the 
American or new Spokane. 

Dan L. Weaver will be house man- 
ager and Charles Yark, now manager, 
will be shifted to the management of 
the house of the footlights. 



OBITUARY. 

Three Deaths in the ranks of the New 
York Theatrical Protective Union No. 
1 during September. E. J. Whalen, aged 
29, unmarried, stage hand, died Sept. 20, 
suddenly of pneumonia. Whalen was 
formerly president Local No. 2. Charles 
Godson, about 50, stage hand, died in 
Roosevelt Hospital, Sept. 29, from in- 
juries received by being struck by an 
auto at Broadway and 49th street. A 
widow survives. Thomas Tully, aged 
45, master mechanic, formerly employed 
at the 116th Street theatre, died of tub- 
erculosis Sept. 3. A widow and family 
survive. 

Frederick J. Liodle, 55 years old, 
composer of comic songs and operas, 
died in Pittsfield, Mass., Oct. 2. 



New Orleans, Oct. 14. 

The Peruchi-Gypzene Stock opening 
at the Lyric Sunday contains Robert 
A. Mansfield, Owen Call, Edward 
D'Oize, Stewart Wilson, Don Peruchi, 
George Rareshide, Edward Clar, Ever- 
ett Wagner, C. D. Peruchi, Mabel Gyp- 
zene, Katherine Shepard, Grace Linden, 
Sophie Cassimus and Hazel Baker. 
"Arizona" is the opening bill. 



Pittsburgh, Oct. 14. 

The Schenley started stock Monday 
with a company headed by Nance 
O'Neil and George Allison. Others in- 
clude Arthur Hickman, Jessie Muller, 
W. E. Morse, Ernest Cossart, Lewis 
Kimball, William E. Prayer. Three 
matinees weekly will be given by Man- 
ager Harry Davis. 



KEITH'S BRONX STOCK. 

J. J. Maloney decreed Monday that 
the Bronx, now playing feature pic- 
tures, should assume a stock policy 
Oct. 26. Pauline Boyle, who recruits 
the Keith stocks, is lining up the new 
company at the Paul Scott office. This 
is the first time that this house has 
offered stock. 



LOCAL CHANGES. 

Richmond, Oct. 14. 

Arthur Berthelet has jumped from 
the Lucille La Verne stock at the Em- 
pire here to the Grayce Scott company 
at the Colonial as stage director. De 
Witt Newing, now managing the Scott 
Players, has also strengthened his com- 
pany by engaging Berthelet's wife, 
Leona Ball, to play ingenue roles. They 
open in "The Warrens of Virginia." 

Jack White, stage director of the 
Scott company, has returned to New 
York. 



THREE BENEFITS. 

Spokane, Oct. 14. 

Three benefit performances for the 
American Red Cross are to be given 
next month at the Auditorium. The 
women promoting them are Sarah 
Truax and Jane Tyrell. 

Permission will be asked of Margaret 
Anglin to use an act from "Lady Win- 
demere's Fan." 



Frank Murray, at one time manager 
for Lillian Russell, Jefferson De An- 
gelis and Delia Fox, died last week 
at his home in New York, aged 55 
years. 



Arthur C. Weld, for many years 
musical director of the Casino or- 
chestra, New York, was killed in an 
automobile accident Sunday. Weld 
wrote the music for "Don Caesar's Re- 
turn" and was musical director of "The 
Student King" for Henry W. Savage. 



Elizabeth, N. J., Oct. 14. 
James A. Montgomery, of this city, 
died at the St. Elizabeth Hospital Oct. 
12. Mr. Montgomery retired from the 
theatrical profession four years ago. 
He was a member of the original Bos- 
tonians and the fattier of James Mont- 
gomery, author of "Ready Money." 



Aids Overton Walker, easily the fore- 
most Afro-American woman stage 
artist, widow of George Walker of the 
formerly famous team of Williams and 
Walker, died Sunday night at her home, 
107 West 132d street, New York. Mrs. 
Walker had been confined to her bed 
for about two weeks with an attack of 
kidney trouble. Her last appearance 
was at Hammerstein's in modern so- 
ciety dances Aug. 3. 




J. Herbert Frank, of the Vitagraph 
photoplayers, is mourning the loss of 
his father who died last week. 



Charles Sabine (Sabine and Vera), 
the dancer, died last Sunday at his 
home, 103 Stockton street, Brooklyn, 
after a long illness resulting from an 
operation. He is survived by the wid- 
ow, his mother and a brother, George 
Sabine. 



Mrs. Bertha Bernard, late of the Sis- 
ters Bernard, died of Brights disease 
al her late residence. 911 Spruce street. 
Camden, N. ]., late last week. 



14 



VARIETY 





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The collapse of the Progressive Cir- 
cuit will have at least one important 
salutary effect , upon the American 
.«>tage. More than any other circum- 
stance, it will fortify the Columbia 
Amusement Company in its efforts for 
clean burlesque. And the thorough ac- 
complishment of this means the re- 
moval of the one blot that for years 
lias stood out like a sore thumb in the- 
atricals in this country. You cannot 
get away from the fact that theatres, 
no matter to what form of amusement 
they may be devoted, and the entertain- 
ments that arc presented in them, con- 
stitute a part of the concrete "show 
business," and this term includes in its 
meaning all forms of public entertain- 
ment. Wherefore, whatever tends to 
overcome an objectionable element in 
the whole theatrical body must be 
icgarded as beneficial to the entire in- 
stitution. 





4K^PU3K9MK 



I BY FREDERICK M. MSCLOY 



In every profession other than the 
stage there are peremptory expedients 
for the ostracism of undesirable mem- 
bers. Offending lawyers may be dis- 
barred and physicians that transgress 
the proprieties of their profession may 
bi summarily deprived of the right to 
practice. Civic authority only may in- 
terpose to prevent an improper stage 
exhibition, and every one knows how 
very seldom such interposition has been 
applied and the reasons why it has not. 

To bring burlesque, as it has been 
known in this country, under a stringent 
corrective influence it was necessary to 
confine its presentation to one base of 
operation. While competition existed, 
the one factor couWl make its appeal 
for patronage through such salacious 
indulgences as unfortunately attracts 
multitudes of people, while the other 
factor operating under the burlesque 
designation was obliged to submit t<> 
the generally accepted meaning of bur- 
lesque, thus unjustly and unavoidably 
sharing the degradation as well as sus- 
taining loss of patronage. But, against 
these distressing odds, the Columbia 
Amusement Company has fought its op- 
ponents to a standstill, with the wel- 
come and felicitous result that when 
patrons of burlesque want to indulge in 
this form of amusement they must ac- 
cept the kind furnished by this praise- 
worthy organization of operators 

Henceforth there will not be two 
kinds of burlesque. The Columbia type 
i all that remains, and this means that 
the American stage is rid of the nau- 
seous tiling that for years has been re- 
garded with contempt by the press, the 
public and by the people engaged in 
c'lier divisions of theatricals. 

And right here I want to say that 
having proved the sincerity of their 
purpose to place burlesque in the list 
<-f worthy entertainment, it is no longer 
necessary for the directors of the Co- 
lumbia Amusement Company to ob- 
serve .1 greater degree of scruple in the 
l < ■ruin t i- in of their shows than is main- 
tained in oilier divisions of stage en 
in tainnient v p\>r example, the Orien- 






tal dancer has always been barred by 
the inviolable edict of the Columbia 
Amusement Company. In former times 
this particular dance, or rather, the way- 
it wa c performed, was a feature of ob- 
vious intent in most burlesque shows. 
It was one of the things that brought 
odium upon burlesque and for this rea- 
son it had to go the way of all the 
other objectionable elements, so far as 
Columbia Circuit shows were con- 
cerned. 



Observance of this dictum has been 
so far-reaching that really classical 
dancing, such as it witnessed and ap- 
proved by the better element of theatre- 
goers that constitute the patrons of the 
finest vaudeville theatres all over the 
country, are excluded from Columbia 
burlesque. If Gertrude Hoffmann, Ruth 
St. Denis, Isadora Duncan or any of the 
other exponents of this specialty were 
suggested as an attraction for a Co- 
lumbia Circuit show, the offer would be 
peremptorily declined. And yet there 
is no more reason why this specialty 
should not be presented upon the stage 
of a burlesque theatre than that it 
should be barred from the great vaude- 
ville theatres. 

The exclusion of the odious effemi- 
nate male character, or "fairy," as it is 
called in the vernacular, is infinitely 
more desirable than the elimination of 
dancers of the type referred to. The 
sponsors of burlesque may now justi- 
fiably adopt all of the precedents estab- 
lished in the presentation of vaudeville, 
musical comedy and the various revues 
that are now so much in vogue. There 
no longer exists any reason why a per- 
formance, or any part of it, is proper 
at the Winter Garden and the Palace 
Theatre, and improper at the Columbia. 
The dividing line between burlesque and 
any other form of accepted entertain- 
ment has beep removed. The Columbia 
Amusement Company may be relied 
upon to conform the character of its 
shows to the shows that receive the 
approval of the recognized better ele- 
ment of theatregoers, as indicated in 
their patronage of the Winter Garden 
and the Palace in New York, and of the 
theatres in every city in the country 
where precisely the same shows are 
presented every season. 

The day is past when burlesque may 
be condemned just because it is bur- 
lesque and when producers of this style 
of entertainment must exclude anything 
that is accepted in other theatres. This 
must not be construed as an argument 
in favor of indecency. It is simply tak- 
ing the wholly tenable position that 
what is right in one theatre cannot he 
wrong in another. 



The Columbia Amusement Company 
has been over-zealous. Justifiably so. 
very likely, in the circumstances. Hut. 
having established the worthiness <>f 
burlesque, it can afford to release some 
of the barriers that were obligatory just 
because they were dealing in burlesque. 
This may be paradoxical, but it i<; the 
exact situation nevertheless 



DAVE MARION SHOW. 

When, four years ago Dave Marion 
produced the same show he is this 
week presenting to crowded houses at 
the Columbia, he was just four years 
ahead of the times in burlesque. 

The show in its entirety differed so 
greatly from anything that had been 
seen upon the stage of a burlesque the- 
atre that regular patrons gasped their 
astonishment at the innovations. But 
they patronized it just the same and 
to the extent that Marion was gener- 
ally regarded as having finished first 
on the wheel for that season. 

Notwithstanding this extraordinary 
success, Mr. Marion, in keeping with 
his customary penchant for doing un- 
usual things, shelved the show and re- 
placed it for the following season with 
an entirely new production. Great ad- 
vancement has been made in the char- 
acter and quality of burlesque produc- 
tions since Mr. Marion first appeared 
at the Columbia with his present show. 
Hut it must be said that the vast im- 
provements have only served to em- 
phasize the greatness of Mr. Marion's 
achievement at a time when most pro- 
ducers were just beginning to fix their 
fences for the approaching changes in 
the character of this form of amuse- 
ment. 

As it stands today, the Marion show- 
is a visible interpretation of all that is 
meant by advanced burlesque. There- 
is a book that scintillates with brilliant 
wit and smart epigram while it never 
gets away from the true idea of bur- 
lesque. It tells a connected story that 
is interesting throughout and it reveals 
character drawing that is impressive 
because it is true to life in every in- 
dividual instance. 

Of course Mr. Marion's "Snuffy" and 
"Jim, the Hick" stand out conspicuous- 
ly among the others, but this is due as 
much to Mr. Marion's striking indi- 
viduality and to the commanding force 
of his acting as to the unique and ap- 
pealing characters he presents. 

Mr. Marion comes pretty near reach- 
ing the limit of versatility in this per- 
formance. Besides displaying acting 
abilities of a high order, he easily 
passes from a powerfully enunciated 
dramatic situation to the dainty ex- 
pression of light comedy and again to 
an effective interpretation of a low 
comedy character. Besides, Mr. 
Marion puts over a song and dances 
with the best of them. 

From the hair-lip Snuffy, which is all 
true comedy, Mr. Marion makes a 
quick shift to a venerable heart-broken 
Irishman, when he recites with fine 
dramatic effect his powerfully written 
verses called "The Top o' the Morning, 
Ireland." And before the listeners 
ha\c overcome the thrill that follows 
this declamation, Mr. Marion is back 
upon the stage in the totally different 
make-up and manner of the typical 
dock-rat. "Jim, the Hick." It is all very 
impressive and from first to last it 
stamps Mr. Marion as an actor of un- 
usual natural abilities and carefully 
studied accomplishments. 

Mr. Marion has surrounded himself 
with ,i generally capable company. 




William Mossey gives a rattling good 
performance of an Italian character 
part in the first act, and of a hobo in 
the last, and Max Gordon makes a hit 
as the straight and sings a number of 
songs admirably. 

One of the bright spots in the per- 
formance is the singing specialty that 
is done near the opening by Tom Odell 
and Anna Armstrong. Besides this, 
these excellent performers do splendid 
work all through the show. Miss Arm- 
strong makes a stunning appearance 
in male attire, and she leads several 
numbers with telling effect. 

Agnes Behler is conspicuous, not 
only for the skill displayed in the per- 
formance of the part assigned her, but 
for the charm of her personality, and 
the many minor parts are sufficiently 
well presented to give desirable bal- 
ance to the whole performance. 

The musical numbers are excellently 
done and beautifully costumed. There 
are several effective scenes, among 
them a steamship wharf which is used 
for the opening, and a storm effect 
showing the departure of an ocean 
liner for the finish of the first part. 
A big cycrama effect is disclosed in 
the second act. This is one of the 
most pretentious scenes that has ever 
been shown on the stage of the Co- 
lumbia. 



CAMPBELL ft DREW'S EMPIRE. 

Cleveland, Oct. 14. 
The Progressive Wheel has lost the 
Empire. The Grand, playing the Ex- 
tended shows of Columbia burlesque, 
is closed this week. It will open s«on 

with dramatic stock. 

The Extended. Columbia shows go 
over to the Empire, which has been se- 
cured by Drew & Campbell. The firm 
is in a deal for the Avenue, Detroit, 
to be a Columbia house. 

Bert McPahil will continue as man- 
ager of the Empire, opening Monday. 



"GAY WIDOWS" STICK. 

Louis Oberworth's "Gay Widows" 
has not been dropped from the Ex- 
tended Circuit as reported last week. 
It was "The Yankee Doodle Girls" that 
was withdrawn. 



MOVES OVER. 

Sam Micals, who started the season 
as leading comedian with "The Trans- 
atlantics," has been transferred to "The 
Bowerys." 



COLUMBIA'S FILL-INS. 

The Columbia shows on the Exten- 
sion circuit will play South Bethlehem, 
Pa., Monday; Kaston, Tuesday; lay off 
Wednesday, and fill in the remainder 
ot the week at the Grand, Trenton, 
N. J. 



On One-Nighters. 

The Joe Woods "Maids of the Ori- 
ent," formerly on the Progressive 
Wheel, has taken to the one-nighters. 
with a route laid out through New 
Vnrk state for the next month or so. 



VARIETY 



15 




WHERE THE TRAIL DIVIDES. 

"How" Lander Robert Bdeeon 

Colonel Lander Theodore Roberta 

Clayton Craig J. W. Johnston 

Hess Lander Winifred Kingston 

Sam Rowland James Nelll 

Mrs. Rowland Constance Adams 

He v. John Baton Fred Montague 

Little "How" Antrim Short 

Little Bess Mury Jane Higbee 

Aside from the commercial value of its ad- 
vertising and billing possibilities and the in- 
dividual work of its featured principal in 
one or two scenes, this multiple reel Para- 
mount release from the plant of Lasky, does 
not average with some of the preceding ef- 
lorts from the sunn? Institution. 'Inferior dl- 
reetlon. or possibly in this instance, inexpe- 
rienced directing bus unfortunately gummed 
up whatever artistic features the scenario 
carried. The customary and essential ex- 
planatory sun-titles or •"cut-Ins" are conspic- 
uous through their absence, giving a dis- 
jointed appear. iiue to the story that makes it 
doubly difficult to follow. This faUlt, com- 
bined with the grneral theme In its screen 
portrayal combs the possibilities of the reel 
down to a minimum. The story is of the 
west and open.* with a tribe of Indians on 
the war-path. They attack or rather sneak 
up on a ranch house and carry off the hus- 
band and wife, overlooking their daughter, 
who has been hidden In a well. An Indian 
boy enters the story here and with the ar- 
rival of the rescuing party, both children 
are taken away to the home of the Row- 
lands and reared to maturity. Although the 
first section provided a big chance for a pic- 
turesque battle, none appeared, nor was the 
fate of the captives explained. They jumped 
plumb out of the negative with their capture. 
To be brief, the children eventually marry, 
much against the will of Clayton Crale. A 
short period of happiness Is interrupted with 
Craig's entrance, and the wife and husband 
mutually agree to separate, she going east 
with Craig. Then follows a picture of their 
domestic relations. He Boon tires of his prize 
and she returns to her Indian husband, the 
period between being well jammed with com- 
plications that are of course adjusted with the 
finale. Mr. Edeson looked more like a negro 
than an Indian, a fact which created consid- 
erable comment among those who arrived late. 
His makeup was decidedly black, an unnat- 
ural color for the character and a fault 
which robbed the reel of the Edeson person- 
ality, an asset in itself. Whatever sympa- 
thy the average auditor holds for the In- 
dian was lost through this. It fairly chilled 
the idea of Intermingling the white and red 
in the marriage sacrament. Frequently the 
story became complicated to an extent where 
a sub-title was an absolute necessity, but 
this feature of the manufacturing process 
was sadly neglected. At one time a letter 
from the wife to the Indian was the neuclus 
of the ensuing situation and although the 
letter proper was liberally photographed, its 
contents were left to the imagination of the 
audience. Since It would have revealed the 
wife's feeling and inner-self and done much 
to clear up that section of the story, a "cut- 
In" would have been appropriate. A hand- 
to-hand fight between both men in semi- 
darkness and the stockade view at the open- 
ing helped things along, but the general di- 
rection was so noticeably weak, the possi- 
bilities contained In these and numerous other 
scenes were but partly developed and the 
entire release suffers thereby The title and 
cast should draw, but as a Lasky output, even 
that concern's most enthusiastic supporter 
and well wisher must concede it to be a weak- 
ling. Wynn. 



"THREE WEEKS." 

PROLOGUE. 

Alexis, King of Veseria . H. J. Smith 

Paul. Infant Crown Prince Paby McGrath 

Nicholas, the Usurper R. J. Barrett 

Stefan, Son of Nicholas Joseph Moore 

General Savoff T. Curran 

Anna, the Nurse Pauline Seymour 

THE DRAMA. 
Sonla, Queen of Veseria. .. .Madeline Traverse 

Stefan. King of Veseria Oeorge Pierce 

Gen. Pavlovltch, King's Boon Companion.. 

John Webb Dllllon 

Mahovltch. Prime Minister. .. . Jjseph C. Fay 
Dlmitrl, Queen's Bodyguard 

Arthur Donaldson 

Anna, Queen's Companion. . .Paillne Seymour 

Major Vasilleff, Spy Claude Cooper 

Paul Verdaync M ah Ion Hamilton 

At a special performance given In the El- 
liott last Thursday evening B. S. Moss pre- 
sented the flve-reel feature, "Three Weeks" 
(Reliable Feature Film Corporation) adapted 
from the much discussed novel by Elinor 
Glyn. The performance was as mien a pro- 
duction as the film Itself and there was a 
Belascoesque touch In the endeavor to create 
atmosphere before the showing of the film. 
The stage was banked with natural palms 
on the left, screening an orchestra of ten 
pieces. There were two Immense tiger skins 
draped before the screen and two O-lental 
urns containing burning Incense decorated the 
s»ldes of the proscenium arch. Precedl- the 
picture the orchestra played several selec- 
tions. The house was well filled with mem- 
bers of the picture trade, including produc- 
ers, manufacturers, exhibitors, actors and di- 
rectors. At the conclusion of the view thosi 
present accorded the film their unstinted ex- 
pression of approval. In adapting "Three 
Weeks" for the screen the scenario writer 
has eliminated all of the objectionable fea- 



tures of the story that caused so much dis- 
cussion, but nevertheless has held sufficient 
of the original theme to make the film play 
an interesting dramatic Incident. There is 
no doubt there Is a box-omce drawing power 
in the title "Three Weeks," and there Is suffi- 
cient dramatic action and story in the film 
to satisfy an audience after they have been 
drawn in. The adapter has taken the liberty 
of prefacing the original story with a prolog 
which shows the events at the Court of 
Veseria 22 years prior to the opening of Miss 
Glyn's tale. There Is also an epilog tacked 
on to the end of the story which has been 
gleaned from either "High Noon" or "One 
Day," both of which are sequels to the orig- 
inal. Of "Three Weeks" itself the most in- 
teresting scenes, those that took "lace In 
Lucerne and Venice, are faithfully shown. 
The meeting with Paul as told in the book 
opens the real action of the feature. This is 
followed by the balcony sr-enes and lastly the 
meeting In the boudoir of the Queen at the 
hotel in the Alps. Her Majesty Is seated on 
the famed tiger skin before an open fire place 
in this scene when Paul arrives and the 
scene closes as the two enfold each other In a 
long embace. The final parting is also 
shown, as is also the heir to the throne of 
Veseria, born after the Queen returns to her 
native land. The tragedy which closed the 
story Is one of the big scenes. There is a 
fight which will win the admiration of any 
audience. The cast was entirely ade- 
quate, with the possible exception of Paul 
(Mahlon Hamilton) who essayed the role of 
the young Englishman. He was all that 
could be desired as far as the physical was 
concerned, but in histrionic ability there was 
something lacking. A peculiar walk which 
he is possessed of is a misfortune as It de- 
tracts from his characterisation of the role. 
Madaline Traverse as the Queen was delight- 
ful, and the performance of Arthur Donald- 
son as Dlmitrl will go down into film annals 
as remarkable. The photography throughout 
Is excellent. 



THE LOCKED DOOR. 

One of the two features of the Vltagraph 
theatre bill, a three-part drama having to do 
with fire prevention In New York factory build- 
ings, and depending for Its force entirely upon 
the public Interest just now at Its height In 
that subject. Fire Commissioner Robert 
A dam son of New York and various of his 
aides appear for an instant in the action and 
the department has placed fire engines and 
crews at the film concern's disposal. The 
story Is rather drab and sordid, the cloak 
and suit business making rather a dingy 
background for the trivial romance that holds 
the tale together. Its main Interest is In Its 
exposition of the public question of fire pro- 
tection In factories, a subject which. It Is 
fair to assume, would Interest an Insurance 
agent more than the Broadway amusement 
seeking crowd. There was a thrill In the 
finale, where a sweatshop owner fires the fac- 
tory building to revenge himself on a busi- 
ness rival and causes a fatal panic among 
his own girl workers. The son and daughter 
of the rival sweatshop owners work out their 
little romance to a satisfactory denouement. 
The acting of Edward Elkas as the Incendiary 
factory owner was an excellent bit of panto- 
mime and the scenes Involving the panic of 
half a hundred girls behind the locked doors 
of the sweatshop, their rescue by means of 
ladders by firemen and all the fire scenes 
were well done. 



LENA RIVERS. 

Helena Nichols Beulah Poynter 

Lena Rivers Beaulah Poynter 

Granny Lizzie Conway 

Harry Graham Robt. Tabor 

Joel Scovendvke Charlie DeForest 

Dun wood Belmont Charles Hutchinson 

Nancy Scovendyke Caroline Rankin 

John Nichols Walter Arm In 

Lucy Belmont Marlon Mason 

Caroline Winifred Burke 

The Cosmo Feature Film Corp. showed on 
Monday its new five-part comedy-drama. 
"Lena Rivers." "Reufnh Poynter in her own 
play," said the title sheet. The feature dis- 
closed an Interesting story with a rural flavor, 
recalling In style the super-sentimental 
novels In vogue twenty yearn ago. There Is 
plentiful action and some dramatic Intensity 
In the final reel, but those which go before 
are of Interest principally because of their 
character relations and a certain fidelity to 
real life. A goodly allotment of time Is de- 
voted to the comedy scenes Involving Charlie 
DeFoTest as a silly country boy. Lena, the 
orphan child. Is a sobby voung person un- 
til, after manifold tribulations and persecu- 
tions, she wins the rich hero. Reels one and 
two are devoted to Lena's birth and the death 
of her mother after her father has faded 
from the sight of man, unjustly accused of a 
crime. From this on the plot becomes ex- 
tremely complex (although the thread of nar- 
rative Is never lost), until Lena's love affairs 
bring her under the unjust suspicion of being 
the faithless lover of her own father. In 
the clearing up of this situation, there Is a 
capital bit of fast action. There are dull 
spots In the film, but the swift progress to 
the final climax compensates and the story 
leaves a good Impression. Miss Poynter plays 
the role of Lena with authorltv. gettlnr her 
effects by means of sharply defined character 
bits and illuminating pantomime. 
(Continued on Page 24.) 



NEW BUILDINGS. 

A. H. Woods gave a hint a few days ago he 
will carry out his enterprise of giving $1 
productions, about to be Inaugurated with 
John Mason at the New York, by building 
a new theater of 4,000 oapaclty. The loca- 
tion is not Indicated except as "between 47th 
and 51st streets." The orchestra floor Is to 
hold 2,000 and a like number will be provided 
for in the single balcony. 

Isaac A. Hopper, Inc., has received the con- 
tract for alterations on the theatre at 2038 
Broadway. 

Plans have been flled for a $15,000 picture 
house at 13th avenue and 70th street, Brook- 
lyn. 

Plans have been completed for a two-story 
brick picture house by Cohen A Felson at 
the northwest corner of 115th street and 
Eighth avenue; owners. Bonn Bros. Esti- 
mated cost, about $35,000. 

Shampan A Shampan, architects, are draw- 
ing plans and specifications for a picture 
house, seating 000, and a roof garden ac- 
commodating B00 more, for a Mr. Elsler, site 
at 886-81)0 DeKalb avenue, Brooklyn. 

Rebuilding of the PanUges theatre, to the 
extent of $60,000, has been authorised by the 
officers of the circuit and work is to begin 
shortly. 



Charles E. Sleight, 136 Washington street, 
Paterson, is drawing plans for a new picture 
theatre in Pompton Lakes, N. J. Lubln A 
Wolf, 334 East 50th street, New York, are 
lessees of a projected picture theatre In Fifth 
avenue near the boardwalk, Rockaway Park, 
L. I. 



Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 14. 
Work has been started on picture theatre in 
Franklin street. The new building will be 
called the "Majestic," seat 1,000, and cost 
ti bout $7,000. 

Baltimore, Oct. 14. 
An unusual architectural and building prob- 
lem has been solved In the erection of the 
New Garden theatre at Clay street and Park 
avenue. Another building has been enclosed 
between the walls of the theatre. It Is 16 
by 20 feet and three stories high and la 
completely walled in by the playhouse on 
three sides. When the site for the playhouse 
was being acquired by agents of the Garden 
Theatre Co., the owner of the small build- 
ing Is said to have asked $60,000 for the lot 
The price was refused and Architect Thomas 
W. Lamb was told to go ahead on the plana 
to build without the building, which the own- 
er had thought essential. It Is understood that 
offered to sell for $15,000 when he learned that 
the theatre was going up anyway. The cost 
of altering the plans at that time would be 
probably about $20,000 and the additional 
space would have given room for a compara- 
tively few seats. Pop vaudeville and pictures 
will be given in the new playhouse. 

Seneca Falls, N. Y., Oct. 14. 
Work has started on the new opera house 
here. The site was donated to Fred C. Fisher 
by the people of Seneca Falls on condition 
that be build a theatre. 

Watertown, Oct. 14. 
Plans have been drawn for a new moving 
picture theatre on Franklin street, near the 
public square, to seat 1,000. Policy not an- 
nounced. 




MARION DYER. 

It isn't the quality of the attractions offered 
the Hinterland, but the inability of the small 
town populace to appreciate worthy entertain- 
ment, that is causing poor business on the 
road, according to Marian Dyer. Miss Dyer has 

t'ust finished an engagement with the New 
England "Potash & Perlmutter" Co. She got 
back to New York a few days ago. Listen: 

"There can be no doubt about the merit of 
the play." she said, "but it couldn't draw a 
profit. Oh, those towns! One hotel clerk, with 
an appetite for wooden toothpicks, wanted to 
know if the P. & P. firm gave a fashion dis- 
play. Another native manager billed us as a 
vaudeville show featuring a team of Hebrew 
comedians." 



ANDY LEWIS' SHOW CLOSES. 

Milwaukee, Oct. 14. 

Fifteen girls of the chorus of the 

"International Girls" company, the 

Andy Lewis Progressive organization 
that played the Club last week, are 
high and dry in Milwaukee following 
the ending of the show Saturday. Sev- 
eral secured almost immediate employ- 
ment in cabarets. 

Salaries, they assert, are in arrears. 
Board bills averaging $10 per week 
were paid up to Saturday night, and on 
Monday the young women, scattered 
among four hotels, were living through 
kind-heartedness of the hostelries. 

Last week the costumes were seized 
in an attachment suit brought by 
Bloodgood of New York for $566. 
The wardrobe was released under bond 
for the remainder of the engagement 
orily, and the civil court action con- 
tinued ten days. Lewis was made de- 
fendant in this procedure, but Sam 
Hyman, his manager, is said to own 
the garments. 

The company was to have played To- 
ledo this week. The fact that "Hello 
Paris" was booked here this week, but 
shifted to Toledo indicates that Lewis' 
finish was anticipated, "The Dainty 
Maids" being sent here instead. 

Larry Boire, advance agent of the 
Andy Lewis show, arrived in New 
York Monday morning, having re- 
ceived a telegram from Mr. Lewis 
while billing Toledo stating that the 
show would close Saturday night in 
Milwaukee and instructing Mr. Boire 
to return to New York. 

The last of the girls got out of town 
Wednesday, aided by subscription, to 
which city officials and newspapermen 
contributed. 

"The Winners," which has been play- 
ing the Progressive Circuit, headed by 
Snitz Moore and George Scanlon, 
closed in Buffalo Saturday. 

Moore and Scanlon came to New 
York Wednesday to arrange for the re- 
turn of the company from Buffalo. 



"MERRY MAIDENS" STRAND. 

Coatesville, Pa., Oct. 14. 

Six of the girls of the erstwhile 
"Marry Maidens' " burlesque company, 
forced to disband here, found employ- 
ment with the Gordon Players, a per- 
manent musical stock playing Wilming- 
ton, N. J. 

It is the burlesque company Dave 
Leavitt had out for five weeks. 



STORE HOU8E INSTEAD. 

Baltimore, Oct. 14. 

Work on the new Club theatre, which 
was to be erected for the Progressive 
Circuit, has been suspended for a few 
months. The work was stopped when 
the foundation was about to be start- 
ed. 

The suspension, it is said, was caused 
by the financial crisis. A meeting of 
those interested in the erection of the 
playhouse will he held within a few 
days to consider plans of resuming the 
original outlines. 



HOUSES CHANGE CIRCUITS. 

The Columbia Circuit has moved 
from the Main to the Extended chain, 
the Orpheum, Paterson, N. J., and 
Corinthian, Rochester, N. Y. 



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VARIETY 



NEW ACTS NEXT WEEK 

Initial Presentation, First Appearance 

er Reappearance la or Around 

New York 



Rose Dolly and Martin Brown, Palace 
Tom Lewis and Co., Palace. 
Fridkowski Troupe, Palace. 
Johnson and Deen, Hammerstein's. 
Arthur Barrat and Co., Hammerstein's. 
Kolb and Holland, Hammerstein's. 
Eveleen Dunmore, Colonial. 
Walton and Brandt, Royal. 
Arthur Prince, Orpheum. 
Six Navigators, Prospect, Brooklyn. 
Newhouse, Snyder Co., Prospect, 

Brooklyn. 
"Night and Day," Union Hill, N. J. 
Sorettis and Antoinette, Union Hill, 

N. J. 

Willard. 

The Man Who Grows. 

12 Mins.; One. 

Hammerstein's. 

Willard, the man who grows at will, 
has one of the most distinct and unique 
vaudeville novelties extant, combining 
an interesting study in human phys- 
iology with a semi-comic monolog that 
never touches the monotonous point of 
a lecture, and behind both a personal- 
ity and delivery entirely unexpected in 
a turn of this nature. In evening dress, 
with a colored attendant in livery, Wil- 
lard explains a few facts of current and 
past interest, giving a line on his birth, 
habits, etc., the spiel being well blended 
with comedy. Willard, who is six feet 
tall normally, then exhibits his grow- 
ing abilities, after assembling a com- 
mittee on the stage. The elongation is 
visible and mystifying, more so when 
Willard disproves the suspicion of a 
dislocation by freely exercising the 
joint muscles of knee, neck and waist 
while at an extreme height. Resting 
on one foot he elongates the other, and 
▼ice versa, following this with a dis- 
play of arm growth, extending, either 
arm a distance of about fifteen inches 
beyond normal length. Realizing this 
to be the only act of its kind in ex- 
istence, a complete review is difficult, 
for Willard is one of that strange 
species of novelty that one must see 
to appreciate. At Hammerstein's on 
a topheavy bill he was one of the even- 
ing's hits and without doubt is a valu- 
able card, for Willard will create com- 
ment, and with the advertising possi- 
bilities contained in his exhibition, 
should break into the record division 
if properly handled. Wynn. 



Mary Hight. 
Raconteuse. 
10 Mins.; One. 
Majestic, Chicago. 

Chicago, Oct. 14. 
Stories in dialect, told with consid- 
erable unction, Miss Hight is a local 
product, lacking vaudeville experience. 
She has a fund of pretty fair stories, 
beginning with Irish tales and then 
German, also darky folk stories. Her 
voice lacks carrying power, and she 
needs stage training. Monday after- 
noon the house was pretty well filled 
with friends. As a lyceum attraction 
fho would do much better. 



Gladys Clark, Henry Bergman and Co. 

(11). 
"The Society Buds" (Musical Comedy). 
44 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Set). 
Palace. 

Forty-four minutes is too long for a 
big time vaudeville musical comedy 
sketch, even though a Jesse Lasky pro- 
duction with the popular Clark and 
Bergman starred. That is the only 
trouble just now with the act. If re- 
duced to a reasonable time limit, this 
Lasky number should rank with his 
"Trained Nurses" which did so well 
for a couple of seasons, with the same 
couple leading. William Le Baron 
wrote the book and lyrics, with music 
by Robert Hood Bowers. Frank 
Smithson staged the piece. Two songs 
are interpolated by the principals, writ- 
ten by Irving Berlin. Eight chorus 
girls and a musical director are there. 
A logical story is carried to the finale- 
Henry Bergman as a chauffeur in love 
and Miss Clark as a maid in the same 
family, impersonate their employers 
(who are professional dancers) to en- 
tertain a party of society buds that 
evening, teaching them to dance and re- 
ceiving $5,000 for it. The attempts of 
two butlers (Clifford Robertson and 
Vincent Erne) to steal the money 
furnish the grounds for the comedy and 
the repeated entrances and exits of 
the pair. One number, "Society Buds' 
Day," led by Miss Clark, is made into 
an extensive affair, a sort of illustrated 
picture series for the choristers who 
have an opportunity in it. This is very 
well put on. "My Idea of Paradise" 
(Berlin) is a pretty song. The other 
Berlin number was "I Love to Quar- 
rel with You" (used Tuesday night in 
place of the programed "Furnishing 
Up a Home for Two"). "The Chained 
Ankel Glide" (Bowers) afforded a 
chance for a neat little hit of business 
and satire on the prevailing short 
skirt. It was done by Mr. Bergman 
and the girls. Messrs. Robertson and 
Erne, tall and short respectively, had 
"It's Really Too Absurd" for a duet 
number, with a dance, and from this 
point onward the two dancing come- 
dians commenced to stand out. In fact 
the dancing, as the act is at present 
routined, is the biggest factor in it. 
including the dances by Miss Clark and 
Mr. Bergman, collectively and in- 
dividually. The two comedians 
brought several laughs, and the two 
principals did the same, securing most 
of the latter with repartee, using some 
sure-fires ^ch as "the first national 
bank." Miss Clark looked daintily 
pretty and her personality left an im- 
pression. Mr. Bergman handled him- 
self and his material as usual, excel- 
lently. The act is costumed in the 
Lasky prodigal manner. Until prop- 
erly condensed no one concerned in the 
turn will know just where they are 
at. excepting that there is enough 
"meat" to it, and four Class A prin- 
cipals. Jane Quirk conducted the or- 
chestra. 8ifnf. 



Kitty Gordon and Co. (3). 
"Alma's Return" (Comedy Drama). 
25 Mine.; Full Stage (Parlor— Special 
Set) and One (Special Curtain). 

Palace. 

One could almost wish that Kitty 
Gordon were more of an actress or a 
singer and less of a dresser. "Clothes" 
are the worst part of the comedy dra- 
matic playlet Jack Lait has given Miss 
Gordon, to hold her at last in vaude- 
ville with something worth while. Af- 
ter the sketch concluded in about 18 
minutes Tuesday night, Miss Gordon 
sang "Carolina" in "one," with Helen 
Goff helping her along from an upper 
stage box. It necessitated a wait for 
Miss Gordon to change gowns, and 
while it was the song that made her 
sojourn in "one" possible, it was the 
dress that brought her there. Not alone 
the dress, but a cloak, trimmed with 
white fur so deeply all over that it 
looked more like a white poodle that 
had been clipped than anything else. 
But the women gasped over it, and 
Miss Gordon must have been satisfied 
to know that the large portion of the 
act's investment her wardrobe repre- 
sented had completed its full duty. 
This "one" section of the new Kitty 
Gordon act appears to have been de- 
signed for an anti-climax, that was 
programed, but did not show. It wasn't 
necessary, and the reappearance of Miss 
Gordon was overloading the program. 
In the opening Miss Goff, as Mrs. Sut- 
cliffe's (Miss Gordon) maid, had 
"shown up" Kitty's voice through sing- 
ing immediately after her. It happen- 
ed in a boudoir, with a Colonist-post- 
ed bed. It's a handsome set. Mrs. 
Sutcliffe is about to retire. She is an 
actress. A reporter forces his way into 
the room. He has a story. There is 
an impending scandal in the Sutcliffe 
family. Mr. Sutcliffe is not at home. 
No, he is seldom at home. The re- 
porter informs the wife that earlier in 
the evening he had been arrested for 
speeding, accompanied by a beautiful 
redhead. The reporter has her pic- 
ture, and takes one of the wife from 
a dressing stand. Will he give the 
photos up and suppress the story, for 
$2,000, his salary for a year on the 
Eagle. Not for any amount, nor for a 
string of pearls worth $10,000. Either 
return the pictures or die, says Kitty, 
picking up a revolver. Old stuff, re- 
marks the reporter, when the wife 
threatens to kill herself, if he leaves 
with them. He does leave, but returns 
just in time to prevent her committing 
suicide. She faints. He departs. The 
maid 'phones for the doctor, the wife 
stops her, takes the receiver, calls the 
club, tells her manager the scheme 
worked, and to say to her husband 
everything is all right now, he can 
come home, she having "planted" the 
story for the front page in the morn- 
ing. Mr. Hunter played the reporter 
and probably, according to Mr. Lait's 
stage direction. The dialog is made 
a bit slangy by him, and the author 
has taken a long chance with one line, 
but it got away over before the Palace 
crowd. The sketch is a good one, the 
"surprise finish" easily holding it up, 
and Miss Gordon can safely go over the 
circuit with this playlet, but she must 
find a better excuse than she now has 
for the encore in "one." Sime. 



NEW SHOWS NEXT WEEK 

Initial Presentation of Legitimate 
Attractions in New York. 



"Life," Manhattan (Oct. 19). 

"A Pair of Silk Stockings," Little 
(Oct. 20). 

"Chin Chin" (Montgomery and Stone), 
Globe (Oct. 20). 

"Kick In," Longacre (Oct. 20). 

"Diplomacy" (Revival), Empire (Oct. 
20). 

"A Perfect Lady" (Rose Stahl), Hud- 
son (Oct. 22). 

"The Salamander," Harris (Oct. 23). 



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"The Edge of the World.' 

Scenic. '- \ 

10 Mins.; Full Stage. 

Colonial. 

E. Rousby in his production, "The 
Edge of the World," gives a convinc- 
ing demonstration of the evolution of 
light and color projection. In place 
of the stereotyped stationary views ac- 
companied by a study in near-nude 
femininity, Rousby offers a combination 
of moving colors before which a gyra- 
ting danseuse cavorts in spring-like 
garments, her cavorting running a 
lengthy second to the scenic portion 
of the piece. The opening shows what 
is supposed to be the edge of the 
world where the passion of color lies 
exhausted after the day's labor (from 
the program argument). Soon the 
ocean, or what looks very much like 
it, floats into view with a rhythmic 
movement to be later replaced by the 
action of the many colors, blending 
together into a picturesque scenic ef- 
fect. Meanwhile the danseuse (Violet 
Hope) keeps busy, skipping here and 
there to the soft strains of a specially 
composed orchestration. The turn 
comprises novelty in every sense of 
the word, the color scheme being espe- 
cially well worked out. It's a big im- 
provement over the former brand of 
scenic art and since it held a capacity 
audience to the finish in closing spot 
at the Colonial, it looks like a prom- 
ising possibility. Wynn- 



Carroll and Hickey. 

Singing and Talking. 

15 Mins.; One. 

Great Northern, Chicago. 

Chicago, Oct. 14. 
Joe Carroll saunters upon stage and 
quarrels with the orchestra that goes 
on strike. He suggests he could sing 
any old song if he had a piano player. 
Hazel Hickey, dressed as a maid, in 
rear of theatre, says she can play, and 
is invited tf the stage where she is 
hired. She plays a good ragtime num- 
ber, and also for Carroll's songs. Each 
one makes a change in costume. They 
close with "Poor Pauline" in which 
considerable action is injected, al- 
though net enough of the right sort. 
Carroll h*s a good stage presence and 
puts his stuff over in a bluff sort of 
way. K/iss Hickey's chief assets are a 
wealth of red hair and a talent for the 
piano The act went fairly well at the 
first show Monday night. Miss Hickey 
was apparently nervous. After the act 
has been worked into some semblance 
oi smoothness it will be all right for 
rhr middle-weight time. 



VARIETY 



17 



"Any Night" 

Dramatic Comedy. 

37 Mint.; One, Three and Pull Stage 

Hammers tain s. 

With three special scenes and a cast 
of nine characters, one or two of 
which are unimportant though neces- 
sary (and probably filled by supers), 

"Any Night," one of the series of sen- 
sational short sketches shown at the 
Princess Theatre, is at Hammerstein's. 
It's a tale of the underworld, in this 
instance a possibility well knitted to- 
gether into a rather improbable chain, 
but nevertheless a possibility, and be- 
cause of this, the more interesting. 
The cast embraces among its more 
important types a street walker, openly 
and rather baldly referred to as a 
"hustler," a policeman of the brand 
that flourished before the Whitman 
regime, a "respectable souse" and a 
pair of sinning youngsters. A hotel 
clerk, porter and a pedestrian and fire- 
man also assisted, the two latter un- 
doubtedly doubling, although evidenc- 
ing some activity behind the scenes. 
The opening shows a street before a 
drop depicting a Raines Law hotel. 
The policeman and "hustler" discuss 
conditions, the former showing an un- 
usual interest in the latter's welfare. 
The conversation disclosed the fact 
that tuberculosis has been added to 
the girl's lot. A comedy vein runs 
through her light reference to the 
inevitable end. The young man fol- 
lows on, luring Miss Innocence to her 
first misstep. Then comes the "hus- 
tler's" first "client," the souse. The 
quartet enter the hotel, the interior of 
which comes* in the second scene. The 
process of registering brings more 
comedy to the surface. The third and 
final scene is the bedroom occupied by 
the souse and his "wife," the finale 
coming with a fire which threatens the 
building, the firemen's arrival and their 
accompanying clatter and noise. The 
elderly souse and Miss Innocence come 
face to face in the excitement, and be- 
ing father and child, both realizing 
their sin, etc., remain to perish in the 
flames. The "raw" situation occurs 
with the opening and its ensuing dia- 
log, in which the social problem is 
openly discussed and pictured, possibly 
a bit strong, although the producers 
evidently infer that the moral lesson 
contained in the theme proper at6nes 
for whatever violation of decency takes 
place during the action of the piece. 
Helen Hilton as the street walker was 
quite good. James Edwards as the 
policeman was a bit too refined in ac- 
tion and speech for a copper with the 
experience his arm stripes designated. 
Lorin J. Howard as the drunk was ac- 
ceptable in that section of his duty, 
though overdoing, but his dramatic 
period was lost through inferior han- 
dling. Howard handled a climax much 
as he would a comedy point, and 
because of this the finale suffered 
and was only lifted through the timely 
arrival of the scenic illusion at the end 
showing the fire. And In this blaze 
there was considerably more smoke 
than fire. But regardless of the ex- 
isting minor faults, "Any Night" is a 
good feature for Hammerstein's, where 
plays of this calibre can hold up. As 
a standard vaudeville attraction, it's 
impossible. It closed the Hammer- 
stein's program. Ffiw. 



Harry Beresford and Co. (3). 
"Twenty Odd Years- (Comedy). 
17 Mine.; Pull Stage (Special Set). 
Colonial. 

Taking an every-day incident for the 
basis of his text, Tom Barry tacked 
the title of "Twenty Odd Years" en 
this little comedy playlet, contributed 
a classly little routine of conversation 
and situations and handed it to Harry 
Beresford who provided a capable cast, 
a splendid background and the com- 
bined result is one of the prettiest lit- 
tle plays in present-day vaudeville. The 
theme is of two old men who quar- 
reled twenty years ago. One is rich, 
the other comfortably fixed but not 
overburdened with worldly goods. The 
latter's niece loves the other's son. 
The scene is the home of the girl, 
an exterior with a set cottage in the 
gackground, provided with practical 
fixtures, doors, shutters, windows, etc. 
The story revolves around the court- 
ship with the points built on a light 
comedy structure, the finale bringing 
an adjustment. It might be well to 
have the two elders meet in view of 
the audience, since it would but re- 
quire a change for the gardener (Vin- 
cent Seaville) and would not necessi- 
tate any surplus dialog. Beresford 
plays "Nunky," the girl's uncle. His 
portrayal of the moody, but lovable 
old gentleman was decidedly artistic, 
many of the laughs arising from his im- 
promptu actions and peculiar delivery. 
Frederick Howard is a likeable juve- 
nile, carefully instructed in this in- 
stance and. passable in all departments. 
Isabell Mendosa is of that rare type of 
dramatic ingenue with a clear enuncia- 
tion, yet girlish appearance, and fits 
her portion like a glove. Opposite 
Howard she scored an individual hit 
and did wonders in the uplift. The 
production and general equipment is 
also worthy of individual comment and 
comes close to a class of its own, con- 
sidering the size and nature, of the 
vehicle. "Twenty Odd Years" should 
go on for a long time. Wpnn. 



Hazel Cox. 

Songs. 

17 Mins.; One (Special Curtain). 

Prospect, Brooklyn. 

Assisted by a pianist Miss Cox is 
offering three song studies that remind 
one very much of the English artiste, 
Wish Wynne, who favored us with her 
presence several years ago. Miss Cox 
is of statuesque proportions and makes 
a stunning appearance. She has a most 
likeable personality and a delightful 
voice. The latter she uses to distinct 
advantage in the three numbers. All 
of her material has been especially 
written by her sister, Ray. Her open- 
ing is entitled "Mother's Old Gown" 
and expresses a pretty bit of sentiment. 
It is costume. Her second is a recita- 
tive song, "The Tug-boat and the 
Yacht," which she places over in a 
pretty fashion. The closing song is 
called "Day Dreams of a School Girl." 
The idea is a novelty and the best of 
the three. Miss Cox dresses the last 
character very girlishly in a pink cos- 
tume that is exceedingly pretty, and 
the manner in which she renders agree- 
ably the little waltz strain and the 
fe.« bars oi "Butterfly" that have been 
woven into i) i i isic uf the offering 
and slows that sH. has a voice that will 
Cfjrry l)?r far. 



"Behind the Grand Stand." 

Mind-Reading. 

One. 

Palace. 

The Sharrocks are mind-readers, 
mental telegraphists or any term that 
may be preferred to describe people 
who can apparently read each other's 
minds. Not since the days of The 
Zancigs have a mind-reading couple 
played New York who could eclipse the 
Zancigs memory until the Sharrocks 
showed at the Palace this week. The 
Zancigs were remarkable, for their 
rapidity and correctness — the Shar- 
rocks are wonderful in the same ways. 
The Sharrocks had to overcome the 
handicap of the "No. 2" position on a 
long bill that called for the removal 
of the Weekly Review to the closing 
position. They did it. Owing to the 
composition of the program, The Shar- 
rocks were unavoidably placed there, 
but closing the first half is their spot 
on any bill, if not placed in the second 
half. The turn has a sketch opening 
in "one," a faking gypsy fortune tell- 
ing tent, with the man the spieler and 
the woman the worker. The turn con- 
tains comedy throughout, with a solid 
laughing finish. Following some talk 
at the opening, Mr. Sharrock goes Into 
the audience, Mrs. Sharrock remaining 
blindfolded upon the stage. Sharrock 
moves quickly up and down the. aisles. 
Mrs. Sharrock calling out a mass of ar- 
ticles he touches or looks at. This has 
not been uncommon among mind-read- 
ers, but it's the way this couple work. 
Even the wise ones are more mysti- 
fied than any others ever caused them 
to be. Tuesday night in the extreme 
rear orchestra seat a spectacled auditor 
handed Mr. Sharrock something. Even 
the operator had to ask what it was. 
Mrs. Sharrock, 100 feet or more away, 
on the stage, could not possibly have 
heard the remark, but almost before 
the man could answer, Mrs. Sharrock 
had called out "a clinical thermome- 
ter." The suggestion of a plant for this 
is very remote. Hardly anyone seated 
could see it, excepting a few standing 
near, and at the time Sharrock was on 
the rush to the left-hand orchestra 
aisle, from the center one he had just 
finished. If in concentration or any- 
thing they have evolved in system or 
otherwise, to cue or tell, either one 
of them ever thought of a clinical ther- 
mometer, they must be marvels of 
record ingenuity. Returning to the 
stage, Mr. Sharrock drops down his 
gypsy tent, and they prepare to depart. 
Mrs. Sharrock berates him for going 
through a crowd like that and coming 
back empty handed. He replies, as. 
they exit, that he went through right, 
showing eight or ten gold watches on 
chains as his booty. The Sharrocks 
make an excellent vaudeville number 
that can't possibly fail. 8lme. 



Mint. Yoraka and Co. (4). 

"Days of War" (Dramatic). 

22 Mine.; Pull Stage. 

Majestic, Chicago. 

Chicago, Oct. 14. 

Mme. Yorska, protege of Bernhardt, 
made her first appearance in English 
in "Days of War" (by Maurice Joy) 
assisted by Jose ' Ruben. The scene 
of the little play is laid in a fashion- 
able hotel in a European seaside re- 
sort. The story concerns a spy and 
how he is caught by a chorus girl 
from the Casino, a local playhouse. 
Mme. Yorska is seen as Laura, the 
Casino girl, who has been courted by 
Count Dalgo (Jose Ruben). There is 
% waiter (Theodore Doucet) who is in 
reality a secret service man on the trail 
of Count Dalgo, the spy. A maid 
(Eleanor Grayce) is also more or less 
concerned. It appears that Laura, who 
is under an assumed name, had known 
Count Dalgo in other days under his 
real name, and at that time had fallen 
in love with him. She is set to catch 
him by the secret service man. While 
waiting to give the signal which will 
send him to death, she discovers he 
is her former ideal, and this forms 
the crux of the playlet. In this big 
scene Mme. Yorska is given oppor- 
tunity for some strong emotional act- 
ing. The act is talky and discursive 
and the plot is not always clearly de- 
fined. As a picture of what happens in 
war times, it is fairly effective. Mme. 
Yorska's series of plays at the Pine 
Arts theatre was abandoned because 
of war conditions. 



Frostic, Norback and Evans. 

Songs. 

15 Mins.; One. 

Jefferson. 

This trio look as if they were from 
some quartet. They have the sameness 
characteristic of all male acts. Two of 
the boys sing straight, with the little 
fat chap doing a Scotch number that 
is a trifle long, but otherwise all right. 
A good singing aggregation of popular 
songs for the small time. 



Marion Murray and Co. (4). 
"A Modern Prima Donna." 
20 Mins,; Poll (Special). 
Prospect, Brooklyn. 

In this sketch Edgar Allan Woolf 
attempts to satirize the private life of 
an operatic prima donna. Who his 
model was matters not. The story that 
the author has woven regarding the 
domestic difficulties of the prima don- 
i*a, her hubby and her teacher-impres- 
ario are Interesting and extremely 
laughable, but the cast at present needs 
two changes, one mighty important. 
The story tells of an operatic star who 
has just wed a young millionaire. She 
is making his life miserable because of 
the daily routine that she must follow 
to keep her voice. There is the throat 
lozenge, the raw egg and the throat 
spray, and also the teacher-manager. 
This is enough to drive any young 
bridegroom to distraction. But the 
manager conceives a press agent plant 
which gives hubby a chance to beat up 
the manager and shows the wife that 
a career in the home is more important 
than one before the footlights and all 
ends happily. The producer must be 
taken to the task for his stage reporter. 
Never before has there been such a 
journalist in history. W. Mason who 
plays the role of the young husband 
fails at all time to be convincing. Miss 
Murray very cleverly characterizes the 
role of the prima donna and W. Rich- 
ardi as the teacher-manager is all that 
could be desired. The act needs to be 
whipped into shape and then will do 
nicely. At the Prospect Tuesday night 
it passed with three curtains at the 
closet 



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VARIETY 



HAMMERSTEIN'S. 

Novelty predominates at Hammer- 
stein's this week and with a fairly go<>d 
program of vaudeville selections, tlic 
composite result is highly satisfactory. 
"Any Night" (New Acts) closed the 
hill, showing the second section with 
Deiro and Diamond and Brennan. 

The opening fell to Louis Leo, who 
works atop a ladder, gathering the 
usual response the position is produc- 
tive of. Leo's orchestration might In- 
toned down some to advantage. One 
railbird noting the indifference of the 
audience during Leo's activity suggest- 
ed that since the opening spot at Ham- 
merstein's is sure death, it might he 
good policy to eliminate the position 
entirely. 

"Smiling" Bunny Gray — the adjective 
in this instance being a misnomer — 
came next with a cheerful routine and 
a melancholy delivery. Just wherein 
the girl's claim on big time vaudeville 
is contained remained an unsolved mys- 
tery after Monday night's performance. 

Capt. Sorcho and his deep sea pro- 
duction, an educational novelty that 
promises eventually to replace the ster- 
eotyped tank act that is gradually out- 
vaudevilling its usefulness, was a con- 
servative hit in fourth spot. 

The Ray Dooley Trio, next, seemed 
a bit out of place for some unaccount- 
able reason. The finish pulled them 
over, but the early section dropped 
perceptibly. Just why Miss Dooley in- 
sists on exhibiting her bare underpin- 
nings is problematical, since it neither 
helps the turn proper nor improves the 
appearance. The comic scored indi- 
vidually, but the turn needs revising 
with the complete elimination of the 
full stage portion, to bring it up to ex- 
pectations and within the confines of 
the principals' abilities. 

Ed Vinton and "Buster" found thincs 
to their liking and chalked up their 
usual mark, the dog's antics combined 
with Vinton's conversational routine 
bringing the turn completely beyond 
the classification of an animal specialty. 
For an act of its kind it seems to fall 
into a hitherto unexplored groove of 
its own. 

Bonita fell afoul of the inevitable 
fate the "single" woman is bound to 
inherit at Hammerstein's. Working 
"straight," with no pretense at light 
comedy, her repertoire naturally suf- 
fered. A comedy lyric rendered near 
the finale carried an extremely sugges- 
tive theme and should be confined to 
burlesque or stag audiences. Bonita 
was hardly given a fair trial at the "cor- 
ner," consequently this review should 
be construed as neutral. 

Fields and Lewis were a laugh 
throughout, once they arrived at the 
cabby routine, the first part going a bit 
slow for natural reasons. Diamond and 
Brennan, who held a difficult spot, fol- 
lowing Deiro and coming just before 
the "Any Night" production, also made 
good with comparatively little effort. 
although their encore number should 
be replaced with something more 
modern. Wynn. 



COLONIAL 

The modern style of ball-room danc- 
ing, in so far as its relation to vaude- 
ville is concerned, was handed a very 
visible jolt Tuesday night at the Colo- 
nial with the mild reception tendered 
the Castles, headlining there. A 
capacity house, undoubtedly pulled by 
the feature attraction, was on hand, 
but the appreciation was of the silent 
brand and lacked all sign of outward 
enthusiasm, the net result of the reper- 
toire being one earned how and a very 
<iuict exit. The Castles exhibited four 
steps, each preceded by an explana- 
tion, opening with the Fox Trot, with 
the Lame Duck, Argentine Tango and 
One-Step following in order named. 
The latter with its accompanying fast 
tempo encouraged some applause dur- 
ing its action, but the others failed 
dismally. The present vaudeville en- 
gagement of the Castles proves con- 
clusively the advantages of printer's 
ink when coupled with originality. 
They draw, but after looking over the 
multitude of similar turns, one just 
naturally must concede their press 
agent to be in his own class. 

A noticeable character confliction 
through the presence of three elderly 
types in as many acts failed to help 
the general running although the in- 
dividual marks were not affected to 
any degree. The clash came through 
the characters of Foster Ball, Manion 
and Harris and Harry Beresford. 
Manion and Harris held second posi- 
tion with a singing specialty, one of 
the duo impersonating a frisky old 
gent in evening clothes. The talk is 
passable, but the immediate elemina- 
tion of the opening song would help 
things along. They breezed through 
nicely. 

Maxine Bros, and Bobby opened 
with their acrobatic specialty in which 
the dog does much to bring the hit 
home. Tt's a safe opener for any bill. 
"The Kdge of the World" (New Acts) 
closed and Harry Beresford (New 
Acts) had a spot well down in the 
layout. 

Ball and West were probably the 
biggest hit of the evening, Ball's char- 
acterization of the veteran offering a 
character study that runs close to the 
best in vaudeville. West makes a cap- 
ital feeder, a task that carries little ap- 
preciation in this 9tyle of act, yet is 
highly essential and calls for perfec- 
tion in delivery, that West has in 
abundance. 

Darrell and Conway. following 
Beresford. gave the audience an op- 
portunity to glimpse at the secrets of 
the stage crew, a treat which seemed 
to interest them to the general detri- 
ment of the couple's opening. The 
talk met with some response. Con- 
way's vocal efforts should be confined 
to talk, his singing measuring about 
the same speed as Mike Donlin's danc- 
ing. 

Florence Tempest with her artistic 
little routine of songs and dance 
scored nicely with Lyons and Yosco in 
I heir familiar character bit, won out. 

Wpnn. 



BROADWAY. 

The second week of 50-cent vaude- 
ville at the Broadway theatre started 
off Monday (holiday) matinee with a 
very big house, considerably larger 
than in the evening. The Broadway is 
drawing heavily from transients. Its 
location (Broadway near 41st street 
corner) is most favorable for this. A 
sidewalk ticket office booth helps 
along. 

Monday night the orchestra at 50 
was about half filled. The balcony at 
25 was capacity, and the gallery at 15 
quite good for a young vaudeville the- 
atre. That the crowd was a strange 
one was indicated by the reception of 
the turns. Ten acts comprised the 
bill, with a Pathe Weekly (somewhat 
old), instead of an intermission. 

The show was short on comedy and 
long on music. It also held several 
acts playing under assumed names, for 
no special reason as far as could be 
learned. The Broadway isn't billing its 
program, other than outside the the- 
atre. The house plays three perform- 
ances daily, giving a "supper show" 
that is lightly attended, but may de- 
velop at this ^particular stand. 

Two distinct hits appeared during the 
evening. The Connolly Sisters made 
the most decided score. It is a sing- 
ing two-act, of the former larger Con- 
nolly Sisters turn. The two girls now 
in it sing rags, with one doing comedy 
somewhat repressed. They danced, 
the comedienne doing an eccentric, 
which Cavanagh and McBride, follow- 
ing in "The Honey Girls" (billed as 
"The Beauty Party") did similarly. 
The Connollys also wore a set of 
dresses, almost duplicated by the 
women in "The Honey Girls." This 
turn should have closed the show. It 
was followed by Walters and Johnson, 
programed Moss and Frye, really, a 
colored turn, which was succeeded by 
Mr. and Mrs. Clivette, closing the per- 
formance. ' 

The other hit was the International 
Sextet (Pieria Sextet), with string 
music. The Sextet has no novelty 
other than its string, but strikes a 
popular melody now and then, and this 
helps the turn along. There is no no- 
ticeable improvement in the turn since 
first showing some months ago, and 
since that time vaudeville has grown 
ever so much more rapidly. But it will 
be liked by music lovers. 

Neither has "The Honey Girls" been 
changed. One little chicken of a chor- 
us girl when the turn was new is still 
there, rounded into a plump mature 
looking young woman. The telephone 
operator still tears the air with her 
speaking voice and is indistinct. The 
turn has a number that was sung not- 
withstanding a three-act had used it 
previously. The three-act was O'Brien, 
Dennett and Goslar, billed as Stewart, 
Walker and Steele. 

A sketch, "Straight," played by 
Arthur Sullivan and Co., also did nice- 
ly, though on too early. It is a "crook" 
story with a surprise comedy finish. 

Hunter and Davenport opened, the 
man securing some laughs with re- 
marks, a little crude at times. "No. 2" 
held Wright and Clayton, an ordinary 
dancing turn, doing the society and 
hard shoe stuff. 

Dorothy Wall and James Abbott, 
perhaps a new combination, did more 



music in an early position, tried for 
Italian comedy and closed as a con- 
tender for the small time. 

The Broadway is said to have held 
capacity last Sunday night, its first 
Sunday under the new policy. That 
is doing very well, and the theatre ap- 
pears to have an excellent chance, but 
could stand more booming. The ad- 
vertising for the opening was light. It 
has been sparse since. The invest- 
ment warranted more. This week's 
bill is costing the Broadway around 
$1,700, figuring pop prices paid. 

Si me. 



PALACE. 

A big unwieldy bill at the Palace this 
week, that makes the show run late, 
but it is a good performance, and it 
played to full capacity Tuesday night. 
The feature Kitty Gordon (New Acts) 
in a sketch that held her up in an im- 
portant position made the circle com- 
plete. 

The running order program was 
changed after the first performance. 
The rearrangement kept Belle Baker 
in the same position, but the shift made 
Miss Baker the closing turn, before 
the Weekly Review, usually opening 
the Palace show. It was as hard a 
spot for Miss Baker, following this 
big show, as a single act ever under- 
took to carry, and that she did so well 
in the position will probably officially 
stamp her as an extraordinarily valu- 
able turn. Miss Baker used the same 
songs as when recently at Hammer- 
; stein's, excepting the addition of Ber- 
lin's war number. 

Another turn well liked was Welling- 
ton Cross and Lois Josephine, opening 
after intermission, before a plush cur- 
tain and with a concert grand on the 
stage, Hector McCarthy playing it. 
Mr. Cross and Miss Josephine have a 
real turn in its present shape. The 
travestied finish is no longer there. 
They are singing and dancing, with one 
dangerous experiment in the dance 
portion, Miss Josephine taking a run 
and long jump into Mr. Cross' arms. 
Among the songs is "Schnieder's 
Grocery Store." As sung by Mr. Cross 
it is a big comedy number, and the 
publisher would profit by telling other 
singers of it to catch Mr. Cross' man- 
ner of handling the song; that depends 
upon its lyric. 

Joan Sawyer in her familiar and the 
familiar dances closed the first part. 
She danced with Nigel Barrie. Just 
before came Bickel and Watson, the 
comedy hit of the evening. Bickel and 
Watson don't do much as far as ma- 
terial is concerned, but they get laughs 
innumerable. While they have been 
doing it for a long time, it was new 
and funny to the Palace crowd, and it 
is funny, because regular performers 
know how to put it over. Talk about 
your "million dollars' worth of ma- 
terial!" Two people like Bickel and 
Watson with nothing, can do more. 

A big production in the early part of 
the program, that had been shifted out 
of the closing position after the Mon- 
day matinee, was "The Society Buds" 
(New Acts). Rayno's Bull Terriers 
opened the bill. The Sharrocks, from 
the west, who were forced into the 
"No. 2' spot by circumstances (and 
entitled to a much better position) also 
under New Acts. Simc. 



VARIETY 



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23D STREET. 

The bill at the 23d Street the first 
half would please any small time au- 
dience and even pass with some of the 
big timers. Monday night the house 
was crowded by a holiday audience and 
the show ran like wildfire from a few 
minutes after 8 until almost 11 o'clock. 

Opening the show, Harry Leander 
with his comedy cycling turn started 
nicely. He was followed by Marie Don- 
oghue, who presented a pleasing little 
single that will fit nicely on small time. 
"The Million Dollar Bride," a Komic 
film, split the show here and got a 
number of laughs. Pesci and Terni and 
Joe Raymond (New Acts) followed in 
order, with a Pathe Weekly between. 

From 9 o'clock to 10:30 six acts fol- 
lowed one another without picture in- 
terruption. They were Clara Williams 
and company (New Acts), Hayes and 
Wynn (New Acts), and then W. S. 
Harvey and company. The heavyweight 
juggler is presenting the same act that 
he has been doing for years and is 
cleaning up with the small time audi- 
ences. The comedy bits are as effective 
as ever and the real heavyweight stuff 
gets over well with the small time au- 
diences. The act had to come back for 
an encore and at the finish there were 
several curtains. 

Tommy Van and the Ward Girls 
down next to closing spot had the au- 
dience right from the opening. The 
turn has been speeded up considerably 
and is working very smoothly. The 
laughs came fast from the start and at 
the finish the act went over strongly. 
Mr. Van has cut the credit line that is 
due to Ralph Herz for the devil recita- 
tion from "The Soul Kiss." 

A big act\ "The Haberdashery" (New 
Acts), was the closing feature. It is 
a big flash turn for a small time bill 
and filled the spot most capably. "The 
Eugenic Girl" (Selig) and "The Mys- 
tery of the Glass Tubes" (Edison) were 
the two pictures that finished off the 
program. 



AMERICAN ROOF. 

Crowd only fair for a holiday night. 
The show released no floodgates of 
laughter nor tears. The show for some 
reason ran along provokingly slow and 
it was after 11 o'clock when the last 
act finished. 

In the nine acts there was little that 
was new. The turn of W r alter James 
proved the best liked. James is now 
doing a "tramp," and while some of his 
gags had a new ring, the act is fash- 
ioned too closely to that of Nat Wills. 
James was next to closing and had 
little trouble in holding up his end. 

A little farcical offering by Moore 
and Elliott went very well. It is the 
same sketch Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hughes 
used for a long time. The comedy 
hinges upon a young woman rristak-ing 
a baby grand piano for her future hus- 
band. Moore and Elliott play it well 
for the pop folks. 

Acrobatics closed the show, the 
Pichianni Troupe being handicapped by 
the small stage. This outfit wore a 
conglomeration of suits and most of 
the men appeared to be working in 
their street clothes. A more uniform 
style would help. 

Arthur and Emma Cody (New Acts) 
opened quietly. The Shrodcs and Chap- 
pelle turn pleased. The woman is 
strictly dramatic in her work, but that 



style appears to be relished in the pop 
houses. The man has an inclination to 
mush his words and some of the es- 
sential comedy points were lost as a 
result. 

The Phillippi Quartet (New Acts) 
was followed by Barney Gilmore. It's 
the same old Barney, but he goes 
through his little speech mechanically. 
Barney had to laugh when the curtain 
puller yanked up his sheet just at the 
moment he was going to tug at the 
Heartstrings with his sentimental ref- 
erence to the lakes of Xillarney. Per- 
haps they were helping Barney speed 
his act up a bit. Gilmore goes through 
the "recitation" about the bravery of 
D'Arcy, the actor, at the fire, as 
though he had done a bit of thespian 
work in his time. 

Willard and Bond had t nigh going, 
but finally rounded up some big laughs. 
The old afterpiece style of skit is well 
handled by the men and there's an 
amusing comedy finish. After intermis- 
sion Goelet, Storts and La Fayette 
opened up like a minstrel trio aid then 
dipped into the piano cabaret stuff. Ihe 
act was riding quietly when the boys 
pulled a baseball number with tefer- 
ence to individual Braves, and that 
ripped the audience wide open. In suc- 
cession came Moore and Ell.ott, Walter 
James and the Pichiannis. 



PROSPECT, BROOKLYN. 

Give 'em a lot of comedy and give 
it to 'em cheap and they will fall. That 
seems to be the "dope" of the man- 
agement at the Prospect and judging 
from results in the way of audiences, 
it seems to be the right idea. Tues- 
day night at eight o'clock there was a 
line in front of the window of the box 
office where the 15-25-35 cei.t seats are 
sold that reached far up into 9th street, 
while on the other side of the lobby at 
the window where the 50-75 centers 
were on sale, there was a dearth of 
prospective patrons. 

When time to ring up the lower 
floor was well filled in the rear, but 
there was a noticeable gap between 
the sections where the 50 and 35 cent 
seats are located. The front rows at 
75 cents got a fair play, but the big 
balcony was jammed. 

The show was a good one and got 
away to a good start with Gobert 
Belling as the opening act. The first 
part of his turn gets over effectively 
but the bull-fight finish is a little lack- 
ing and could be strengthened. How- 
ever he had the audience laughing. 

The "No. 2" spot was held down 
by Frank Whitman, no relation to the 
District Attorney, but a clever per- 
former with the violin. He is billed as 
"The Dancing Violinist" and more 
than makes good as such. His finish, 
playing while executing a Russian 
dance was sure-fire with the Brook- 
lynites. 

Marion Murray and Co. in "A Mod- 
ern Prima Donna" (New Acts) by Ed- 
gar Allan Woolf followed and did nice- 
ly. Hazel Cox (New Acts) had the 
next spot and likewise fared nicely at 
the hands of the audience. Closing the 
first part was the William A. Brady's 
vaudeville presentation of the beauty 
parlor act from "The Lady from Ok- 
lahoma" under the title of "Beauty Is 
Only Skin Deep." The skit brought 
screams of laughter from the audience, 
especially from the women. 



The first applause hit came along 
with the opening of the second half oi 
the show with Ryan and Tierney. The 
boys got away with more than a do/en 
bows and were forced to do two en- 
core numbers. 

Following the two-act Chip and 
Marble had a rather hard fight to get 
to the audience, but when they even- 
tually did there was nothing to it. The 
act, entitled "The Land of Dykes," ac- 
quires the greater part of the comedy 
from modern slang expressions. 

Down next to closing were Dooley 
and Sales and Robbie Gordone held the 
audience in nicely closing. 



ACADEMY OF MUSIC 

William Fox's Academy of Music on 
14th street has at last seemed to have 
found a policy that is going to be a 
money-maker. The three-ring vaude- 
ville stock and picture show drew a 
fcood-sized audience Tuesday night and 
the people seemed to enjoy the per- 
formance throughout. The trouble 
with the present idea is that it may 
draw from Fox's City, directly across 
the street. Tuesday night at eight 
o'clock the Academy held almost twice 
as many as the other house. 

The show consisted of six acts, well 
selected and made a fast running bill 
that was well liked. The Moffett and 
Clare Trio opened with dancing. The 
underdressing of the girl when she 
whirls around is not especially attrac- 
tive and should be improved upon. 
The fast dance at the finish is the best, 
the costuming being rather loud in 
coloring but good for the number. 
One boy did some good soft-shoe step- 
ping. The spot was rather against 
these three for any big returns. 

Winifred and Martin were "No. 2," 
waking the audience up. Following 
the colored comedians the stock part 
of the program came along as a dra- 
matic sketch entitled "The Shoplifter," 
with six people. It has some effective 
points but several of the lines, espe- 
cially by the detective, sounded ama- 
teurish. The cast did well enough. 
The sketch would need some changing 
before venturing into vaudeville. 

William O'Clare and his Dublin 
Daisies were fourth following a week- 
ly that had some good war maneuver 
pictures. The O'Clare act is a little 
different from the usual Irish singing 
turn and the girls know how to grace 
the stage without getting in the way. 
The act did very well in this house. 

Brierre and King put over the big- 
gest hit of the show. The couple 
showed Fourteenth streeters some- 
thing different in the way of a mixed 
double, and left when the people were 
wishing for more. 

The show closed with Orville Stamm 
(New Acts). 

The Academy has done away with 
the Strand effect in showing its pic- 
tures and the orchestra is now in the 
pit. Formerly with the musicians on 
the stage a small platform was placed 
in the rear and on this the acts had to 
work. The present scheme is much 
the best, as the audience is enabled to 
see the faces of the artists. 



JEFFERSON. 

The show at the Jefferson the first 
half was a good all around small time 
entertainment. It started with mc 
Marvellous Richard, who follows the 
general strong man routine of lilting 
iron balls and other heavy articles The 
opening was well liked by the audience. 

The show had three singing mixed 
doubles. The first was Leonard & 
Williard in the second spot. They did 
well enough for the position. The sec- 
ond was Kenny and Walsh, with as nice 
a routine as can be found on the small 
time. The two should do more danc- 
ing. Wilson and Le Nore (New Acts) 
was the other two-act. 

Captain George Auger and company, 
headline, did what was expected in 
putting over a nice hit. The big man 
works hard and gets some genuine 
comedy from his throwing of the little 
fellow around. The children in the 
house roared at this fairy tale sketch 
and many of the grownups still unable 
to talk the English tongue were greatly 
pleased. 

The Lelliott Brothers were No. 3 
and put over a good hit with their mu- 
sical work. There is enough comedy 
to make the turn enjoyable. The violin 
work by the straight man shows up 
well. A good act for the house. Fros- 
tic, Norbach and Evans (New Acts). 

The show closed with the Three 
Zechs, who did their familiar work on 
the rings and trapese. 



FLATBUSH. 

The Flatbusb, Brooklyn, has George McDer- 
mlt as manager. This Is Important, for the 
theater booked by the Loew office, got ovor 
trom tbe start, flight acta play twice dally. 
The evening performance starts at 8.80, with 
an hour of pictures preceding. The bill the 
latter part of last week was International. 
Six different countries were representee 
Bunth and Rudd, burlesque Hngllsh magi- 
cians, opened. They have a good Idea of 
burlesque magic and put over a surprising hit 
for such an early spot. David Kallkoa, the 
Hawaiian musician, was next and played on 
his guitar, which the audience enjoyed. 

The Lester Trio put over one of the dis- 
tinct hits of the bill with their comedy sketoh. 
James Callahan and Bernard Daly scored 
handily with their Irish wit and songs. 

Viola Du Val went from opera to ragtime 
and the people took more kindly to the latter. 
Too much talk about how she Is trying to 
please does not help any. 

Oracle Emmett and Co. followed the inter- 
mission and put over one of the laughing 
hits. The sketch had ths audience in hys- 
terics most of the time. 

Sandy Shaw, billed as "Harry Lauder's 
Only Rival," was given the headline spot 
Shaw's work, although much en the imita- 
tor's style, was well liked by those not fa- 
miliar with the Scotch comedian. 

Mme. Cecile, Bldred and Carr closed with 
an act consisting of seversl lines. The dano- 
ing at times is all right and the comedian 
gels laughs. A single reel closed. 

The dressing of the usherettes In Quaker 
girl attire at the Flatbusb is very attractive. 
Mr. McDermitt has put over a number of 
wise stunts. The business Friday night was 
great, boxen and orchestra filled to capacity, 
with only a few vacant seats in the rear of 
the balcony. The bouse Is having light mati- 
nees with the exception of Saturday and Sun- 
day, when business picks up, but night busi- 
ness continuously prosperous. It's the only 
two-a-day theater on the Loew circuit, and 
for a "neighborhood" house McDermitt ap- 
pears to have the right idea. 



81ST STREET. 



Business almost capacity last Friday night. 
Show of small time calibre Pictures ordi- 
nary. One film stood out, a comedy. 

Tbe house placed much dependence upon 
Its war picture, but not equal to the emerg- 
ency. The film appeured to be the worse 
for wear. 

Johnnie Stanley and Efllo Lawrence were 
programed. They didn't appear. In their 
stead an "Extra" card was shown and a 
"bench net" appear. •(]. Stnnley and Lawrence 
worked one show at the 81st and withdrew. 
The "Extra" prov«<l to be Williams snd 
Wells, very much "brnchy," having two 
benches. The art with Its patter and songs 
pleased. 

Jeanette Mozart and her Merry Maids 
(New ActH) found favor. After Stone and 
Hughes (New A<"tHt. Ham Ash, billed as a 
■sonologist, np pea red In a routine of songs. 
Ash goes through his songs mechanically, but 
sings well. 

After the Farjeons (New Acts) had finished 
their weak act the Six Musical Oormans 
made the rafters shake with brass musio. 



20 



VARIETY 



FILM AGENTS RECRUITING 

AMONG PARK BENCH HOBOS 



Bryant Square Derelicts Hired at Small Pay to Pose As Extras 

and Sometimes As Principals. Directors Said to "Hold 

Out" Part of Their Pay As Private "Graft/ 9 



A picture agent within the Times 
square region, is reported as making 
frequent recruiting visits to Bryant 
Park where he engages many derelicts 
sitting on the benches for picture job- 
bing work in mob scenes. These men 
the agent pays from 50 cents to $1 a 
day with a 10-cent lunch allowance. 

Recently he took twenty men to 
Yonkers, kept them there from 11 until 
5 o'clock and failed to pay when the 
picture was called off. One good look- 
ing bench warmer is said to have filled 
in as the leading man on one occasion. 

It is also related that the directors 
engaging these park actors charge the 
"office" up with $2 to $5 a day and 
pocket the difference. 



BINNS WANTS $50,000. 

John R. (Wireless Jack) Binns has 
retained R. H. Hansl to bring suit 
against the Greater New York Film 
Rental Exchange and the People's Film 
Exchange, asking damages to the ex- 
tent of 125,000 from each corporation. 
The Greater N. Y. concern is a William 
Fox corporation, while the Peoples' 
company is controlled by Marcus 
Loew. 

Binns claims that each of the firms 
named showed, rented and sold a pict- 
ure entitled "Saved by Wireless," which 
showed the wreck of the Republic, also 
the subsequent rescue of her passengers 
by the Florida and that they both used 
his name in advertising the pictures 
without permission from him. 



BARRED FILM SHOWN. 

A war reel, which was barred in all 
New York and Brooklyn Photoplay 
houses, has been shown out of town, 
the returns in some instances estab- 
lishing house records. 

It's entitled "Called to the Front," 
or "Europe at War," a four-reeler fea- 
ture handled by the Apex. 



Figman a Film Producer. 
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 14. 
Max Figman is organizing a com- 
pany, to be headed by himself, for the 
production of motion picture films. He 
promises to announce the details with- 
in a week or so. Local capital is said 
to be financing the actor's plans. 



DOUBLES FILM SERVICE. 

An enterprising picture house man- 
ager in Brooklyn this week doubled up 
on the film "Cabiria," by running it 
simultaneously in his two theatres. 
The houses are the Panorama and the 
Nostrand, on Nostrand avenue, in the 
Bedford section. 

The picture is started off in one 
houst, then rushed, reel by reel, to the 
other by a messenger boy. The houses 
have small capacity. Neither alone 
could afford the $125 a day the feature 
costs, but in combination audiences can 



make it at an increased admission of 
15 cents afternoons and 25 cents at 
night 

The Classic, a 600 capacity house on 
Washington Heights, New York, 
opened its fall season a week ago with 
the picture. The Classic and the Em- 
press, a block away (both new 600 seat 
houses), are in keen competition for 
the neighborhood patronage. The Em- 
press used "Neptune's Daughter" 
against "Cabiria." 

With either house closed, the other 
would be a substantial winner, but 
neither can show a profit against the 
neighbor's competition when both are 
using ordinary service. 



COLONIAL ELECTION. 

The Colonial M. P. Corporation this 

week sent out this list of directors 
elected to serve for the ensuing year, 
with the note that their selection 
amounted to a vote sustaining the pres- 
ent management of the concern: 

Prof. Arthur Beatty, Madison, Wis.; 
James J. Booth, Pittsburgh, vice-presi- 
dent of the Oakland Savings & Trust 
Co. and officer in other banking con- 
cerns; F. C. Brooksbank, Riverton, N. 
J.; Frederick S. Dudley, New York; J. 
Watson Hayden, Troy; Robert T. 
Herrcke, La Salle, 111.; James D. Law, 
Wissahickon, Pa.; Irwin H. Meyer, 
Evansville, Ind.; Max R. Taylor, Port- 
chester, N. Y.; Herbert W. Taylor, C. 
W. Tenncnt, Amston, Conn.; Jesse 
Watson, New York lawyer, and Rich- 
ard Wightman, New York. 



Life Co. Buys High Grade. 

The Life Photo Film Corp. has pur- 
chased the properties of the High 
Grade Feature Film Co., together with 
leases held by the latter concern. 



CAMPAIGN PICTURES. 

A candidate for Supreme Court Jus- 
tice has hit upon a novel plan of pub- 
licity in connection with his campaign. 
Using large automobile vans with pic- 
ture machines and screen apparatus, he 
gives a free moving picture show with 
speakers between each reel. 



SERIALS OVERDONE. 

Many exhibitors are complaining 
serials are being overdone. These se- 
rials, which take a place on the pro- 
gram instead of other films regularly 
released, shorten the selection and va- 
riety of subject and are the bone of 
contention in almost every exchange. 



NEW BUSINESS. 

Many Greater New York exhibitors 
who have been desirous of taking ad- 
vantage of the new $2 per reel feature 
service as recently started by the Gen- 
eral Film Co., have been informed that 
those prices were only for G. F. cus- 
tomers, with the result that the G. F. 
Co. has gathered a few new accounts. 



$2,500 ASSAULT VERDICT. 

A sequel to the General Film-Kinet- 
ograph feud was a decision in the Su- 
preme Court last Thursday awarding 
a $2,500 verdict to Herman Smidt. 

Smidt, formerly an employee of the 
Kinetograph, lost his position at the 
time this concern was bought by the 
General Film Co. Immediately in con- 
junction with M. Weiss he opened of- 
fices at 219 Sixth avenue and estab- 
lished a branch of the Mutual Film 
Corporation. 

The General Film Co., the former 
tenant of this office, claimed a prior 
lease on the premises and in attempt- 
ing to dispossess Smidt and his asso- 
ciates the alleged assault was commit- 
ted. Smidt was in the hospital for 
several months suffering from concus- 
sions of the head, a broken wrist and 
several other injuries, and upon being 
discharged, brought suit for $10,000 
damages. 

Al Harstn and Joe Unger, who 
claimed to have been assaulted at the 
same time by employees of the G. F. 
Co., and who also started suit, dropped 
their cases upon being re-employed by 
the G. F. 



M. P. EXHIBS. ELECT. 

At a meeting held by the Motion 
Picture Exhibitors' Association of New 
York, the following officers were elect- 
ed for the ensuing year: Wm. H. Lan- 
dau, president; I. Needles, vice-presi- 
dent for Manhattan; M. Hollander, 
vice-president for Brooklyn; A. Cole- 
man, vice-president for Bronx; Bob 
Whitten, vice-president for Queens; 
Adolph Weiss, secretary; William 
Brandt, financial secretary; Grant W. 
Anson, treasurer; G. Stockheimer, ser- 
geant-at-arms. 

Sam Trigger, who had been presi- 
dent for over three years, declined to 
serve again. 



ARRESTED FOR SMOKING. 

So many arrests have been made by 
the Fire Department in the Exchange 
Bldg. on 45th street for smoking that 
a uniformed man is stationed in the 
hallway cautioning all those who enter 
against this violation. 




WILLIAM H. CRANE. 

William H. Crane who is to become a picture 
itar. Crane has been engaged for the screen 
portrayal of bin old role of tbe borne trader In 
"Oavld Harum" by the Famous Player*. 



COAST PICTURE NEWS. 

By GUY PBICB. 

Major McOulre, one of the oldest ploture 
actors In the business, has resigned from the 
Vltagraph. 

Lillian Oatee Is now starring with tbe Ma- 
jestic. 



Tbe Crown City Film Co. has moved into 
Its new quarters in Pasadena, Cal. 



Tbe Jesse L. Lasky Company has con- 
tracted for 400 acres at the mouth of Wilson's 
Canyon, four miles from San Fernando, Cal.. 
and will establish the largest motion picture 
studio in the world. Also they have seoured 
the right to use 1,000 additional acres if 
needed for their film plays. 



Ruth Hartman is playing leads with the 
Norblg company In the west. She recently 
arrived from New York. 



Frank Hopkins, a star cowboy, from Wyom- 
ing, has Joined the Lasky ranks. 

Harry Edwards is now directing with the 
K. L. O. 



Sydney Ay res, one of the best-known film 
players in the west, has quit the screen. He 
will devote his attention to other fields of 
endeavor in future. 

Billy Garwood of the American has switched 
to Tom RicketU' company, Rlcketts directing 
and Garwood playing leads. 

Theodore Neuman, manager for W. C. Clune, 
the Coast picture magnate, has disappeared. 
He left suddenly and quietly several days 
ago and has not been seen nor heard from 
since. His home is In Los Angeles. 



Arthur Mackley, universally known as "the 
sheriff," says his face has appeared In a 
total of 1,600,000 pictures. Some face. 

Herschal Mayall is now playing leads with 
the Broncho (N. Y. Motion Picture Co.). 

R. H. Peele Is promoting a picture directory 
on the Coast 



Irene Hunt has fully recovered from her 
injury received in a picture fall and Is back 
with D. W. Orifflth. 



TO ORIENT TO POSE. 

Announcement was made Wednes- 
day the Lasky company will send a 
company of 11 principals half round 
the world to pose before the camera 
in Japan. This project is undertaken 
in order that the screen version of 
"The Darling of the Gods" may be 
played out in the native surroundings 
of the story and secure appropriate 
atmosphere. The Lasky Co., Wednes- 
day, signed contracts with Hoase 
Peters, to enact the part of the sheriff 
in "The Girl of the Golden West," a 
part created by Frank Keenan. 



CURTAIN AND UNION. 

Syracuse, Oct. 14. 

Whether a picture theatre having a 
curtain is compelled to hire a stage 
hand is a question that has arisen, 
owing to the refusal of the owners of 
the new Regent to comply with union 
demands. 

The curtain is raised and lowered 
twice daily and the manager refuses to 
pay a man union scale for a week for 
this work. The case has been referred 
to a special committee by the trades' 
assembly. 



Court's Opinion Doesn't Matter. 

Syracuse, Oct. 14. 
Despite the decision of Justice Mc- 
Cann that pictures on Sunday are 
legal, Canastota will have none of 
them. Herman Rakeoff, of the Sher- 
wood theatre there, announced Satur- 
day afternoon that the place would be 
open Sunday. Saturday night a dele- 
gation consisting of the chief of po- 
lice, the fire commissioner and several 
village trustees visited him and under 
threats of trouble Rakeoff kept the 
house closed. 



VARIETY 



21 





FEATURE FILM FLASHES 



The Famous Players' press department 
comes forward this week with the statement, 
somewhat tartly expressed, that It has "David 
Harum," with W. H. Crane, already In course 
of preparation, and takes a wallop at the 
rival feature film concern which announced 
Crane and "David" as among its own future 
releases. 



Sir James M. Barrle last week visited the 
Famous Players' studios, seeing fllmB in the 
making for the first time. Adolph Zukor es- 
corted the Scotch novelist through the plant 
and Introduced Mary Plckford to him. The 
Famous Players have several Barrle works 
scheduled for presentation on the screen. 

Mary Pickford's next appearance on the 
screen will be as the little actress in "Be- 
hind the Scenes," by Margaret Mayo, to be 
released Oct. 26. The feature Is in five parts. 

Edwin August has written several new sce- 
narios which are to be produced by the Eaco 
company. 



David Santerelli, former camera man with 
Pathe Freres, is now acting in the same ca- 
pacity for the Eaco films. 



An East Side (New York) moving "Icture 
theatre which draws a clientele of mixed na- 
tionalities boosts neutrality by displaying 
President Wilson's neutrality proclamation. 
At the 81st Street a suggestion is flashed on 
the screen that If members of the audience 
must talk war they discuss the subject with 
someone who will agree with them. 

The next Llebler-Lasky production in the 
Paramount program will be "Merely Mary 
Ann," with Marguerite Clark featured. Theo- 
dore Roberts and J. W. Johnston will be In 
the cast. 



The Kinetophome Co.'s Coney Island stu- 
dios are busy with "The Span of Life," fea- 
turing Lionel Barrymore. 

The Kinema Exhibitor's Club of the Bronx 
will hold Its annual entertainment and ball 
at Hunt's point Palace, 164th street and 
Southern Boulevard, Oct. 31 (Hallowe'en). 
Tom Moore and Mary Fuller will lead the 
grand march. 



Harry Weiss, Chicago manager for the 
World Film Corp, has inaugurated a day and 
night service In his establishment. The branch 
is open for business every one of the 24 
hours, with two shifts of workers for day 
and night business. 

Clara Kimball Young's next appearance on 
the World Film Corporation program will be 
In "The Butterfly." based on Henry Kltchell 
Webster's serial published in the Saturday 
Evening Post The star is just finishing 
work in "Lola," her first effort with the 
World Corp. 

The Motion Picture Exhibitors' Associa- 
tion of New York will hold Its fifth annual 
reception and ball at the Orand Central 
Palace Dec. 15. 



The moving pictures of the late Pope Pius 
X, taken last winter under the direction of 
James Slevln, who is a commander of the 
Order of St. Gregory, were exhibited for the 
first time at the New York Hippodrome Sun- 
day evening. The pictures will be shown later 
at a Broadway theatre. 

The New York Motion Picture Corporation 
press matter tells of an unintentional thriller 
caught by the camera man when W. S. Hart 
and his horse rolled down a steep hillside 
during the taking of the seven-part drama, 
"The Two-Oun Man." 



William II. Tooker will play the lead In 
the screen adaptation of Booth Tarklngton's 
"Springtime," in preparation by the Life 
Photo Film Corporation. 



Arrangements have been made for the ex- 
hibition In New York of the fllra. "Tho or- 
deal," the war picture which is said to have 
stirred up the protests of Germans. Nego- 
tiations are in progress for the sale of the 
rights for England and France. It is a 
Life Photo Corp. production. 



The Life Photo Film Corporation announced 
this week It had concluded negotiations for 
the production of "The Passing of the Third 
Floor Back," with Forbes-Robertson in his 
famous role. Contracts will be slgn'-<i upon 
the English actor's arrival In New T ork. 

"Young Lord Stranlelgh." the sh t story 
series by Robert Barr, are to be :ned by 
the Edison Co., first release Nov. 1 

Walter E. Perkins will appear i • noth-i 
Du Souchet comedy, "Who Goes Tin:*?" 



soon will be exhibited. The pictures were 
taken in Denver, and show the young fighter 
in all his training activities, including boxing 
three rounds. 



A special showing was given at the Audi- 
torium, Chicago, last week of the new suf- 
frage melodrama, "Your Girl and Mine." 
Olive Wyndham, Sydney Booth and Kathryn 
Kaelred are featured. The film Is to be used 
to aid the National American Womans' Suf- 
frage Association. 



ADMISSION PRICES UP. 

The Herald Square (Loew) and 
Savoy (Rosenberg) theatres last week 
raised admission. Both are near the 
Broadway and 34th street corner. The 
scale is now 15 cents in the evening, 
with 10-15 at matinees. 

Each theatre uses a different service. 
The Herald Square shows the six daily 
first runs of the General Film Co. serv- 
ice. The Savoy takes eight reels daily, 
all first runs, from the independent 
concerns, Mutual and Universal, each 
supplying four. 



The next release of the Jesse L. Lasky 
Feature Play Company will be the postponed 
production of "What's His Name?", in which 
Max Flgman Is playing the principal role, 
supported by Lolita Robertson and the Lasky 
players. "What's His Name?" is to be re- 
leased Oct. 22. It will be followed by Edward 
Abeles in "Ready Money" Nov. 5. 

Edward Gerber baa bought out his part- 
ner, Leo Scott, in the Elk theatre, at Corn- 
ing, N. Y. The house has changed hands 
several times since opening two years ago. 
Policy remains the same. 

By an Inadvertence "The Man from Home" 
and several others were described last week as 
a Llebler-Vitagraph product. The makers are 
the Lasky-Llebler forces. 



The Union Associated Press, a news asso- 
ciation In Ann street, New York, is sending 
out a column of moving picture news in 
"plate" form. 



BURTON HOLMES' BIO PLANS. 

Chicago, Oct. 14. 

With four motion picture-lecture acts 
already working under the title of 
"Travelettes," each with a specially se- 
lected talker to represent him, Burton 
Holmes says he will have fifteen or 
twenty acts of a like character going 
before the first of the year. 

His "War-Time Europe" in two com- 
panies has already played more than 
twenty weeks W. V. M. A. and 
Orpheum time. 



The picture machine booth, taken from the 
Poll theatre In Springfield. Mass., destroyed 
by fire recently, showed that the steel and 
asbestos walls had resisted the flames success- 
fully. The machine inside went through the 
Are uninjured, although the booth was In the 
heart of the Are. It was the product of the 
H. W. Johns-Manvllle Co. 



WAR FILM BAN LIFTED. 

Spokane, Oct. 14. 
The Mayor has lifted the ban on pic- 
tures of the war. Reason for change 
of front not known. 



RELEASED NEXT WEEK (Oct 19 to Not. 2, inc.) 

MANUFACTURE** INDICATED BY ABBREVIATIONS, VTZ.I 



GENERAL 

Vitagra»h V 

Biograpa B 

Kalem K 

Lubin L 

Pat he s Pthe 

Selig S 

Edison E 

Essaaay S-A 

Kleine Kl 

Melics Mel 

Aaabrosie Amb 

Columbus Col 



EXCLUSIVE 

G. N. a F G N 

Ramo R 

Sola* Sol 

Eclectic Eel 

F. R A. F 

Lewis Pennants.. L P 
Gt. Northern.... G N 

Dragon D 

Itala It 

G. N. X. X. . . G NX X 
Blache Features.. Bl 
Luna v Lm 



UNIVERSAL 

Imp I 

Bison B101 

Chrystal C 

Nestor N 

Powers P 

Eclair Eclr 

Rex Rx 

Frontier Frnt 

Victor Vic 

Gold Seal G S 

Joker I 

Universal Ike ...U I 
Sterling Ster 



MUTUAL 

Gaumont G 

American A 

Keystone Key 

Reliance Rel 

Majestic Mai 

Thanhonser T 

Kay-Bee K B 

Broncho Br 

Domino Doss 

Mutual M 

Princess Pr 

Komlc Ko 

Beauty Be 

Apollo Apo 

Koyal R 

Lion Ln 

Uepworth H 

NOTE— The subject is in one reel of about 1,000 feet unless otherwise noted. 



Charley White, who recently wor. ;i hiiM 
over Stanley Yoakum at Kenosha, WIb hri 
had films made of his work In training v.hi 



OCTOBER lfr-MONDAY. 

MUTUAL.— Daylight, 2-reel dr, A; Dash, 
Love and Splash, split-reel com, and Santa 
Caralina Islands (scenic), Key; Our Mutual 
Girl, No. 40. Rel. 

GENERAL F.— A Soldier Boy, dr, B; The 
Adventure of the Smuggled Diamonds (Tenth 
of the "Octavlus, Amateur Detective" series) 
dr, E: She Landed a Big one, com, S-A; 
The Mad Mountaineer, 2-reel dr, and Hesa- 
nut Buys an Auto, com, K; The Beloved Ad- 
venturer, Series No. 6 (The Golden Hope) dr, 
L; Pathe's Dally News, No. 69 Pthe; The 
Blue Flame, 2-reel dr, and Hearst-Sellg News 
Pictorial, His Wedded Wife, dr. V. 

UNIVERSAL. — Country Innocence, 2-recl 
dr, I; Carmen's Wash Day, Juv-com, Ster; 
Rice Industry In U. S., educ. Vic. 

OCTOBER 20— TUESDAY. 

MUTUAL.— Old Jackson's Girl, 2-reel dr, T; 
Environment, dr, MaJ ; Dad and the Olrls, 
com, Be. 

GENERAL F— Martin Churzlewlt, 2-reel 
dr, B ; Clnes title not announced ; Love 
Charm, com, Col ; The Man ln the Dark, dr, 
E ; Mother o' Dreams, dr, 8-A ; A Wise Rube, 
com, K ; Such a Mess and Only Skin Deep, 
npllt-reel com. L ; Jimmy Hayes and Muriel, 
dr, S ; Anne of the Mines, 2-ree! dr, V. 

UNIVERSAL. — Vivian's Transformation, 
com, C ; The Trey o' Hearts, Series No. 12 
(The Mirage), 2-reel dr, G S ; The Nihilists. 

dF ^OCTOBER 21— WEDNESDAY. 

Ml f TT AL.— Shorty and Sherlock Holmes, 2- 
rcol ( j-dr, Br; In the Open, dr, A; Out of 
the I vuty'a Hands, dr, Rel. 

CE> KRAL F. — Two's Company, com, E; 
.lie "able of Tho Long Range Lover and 

n- L.allypalooze. com, S-A ; The False 
• i ir' Ian, 2-reel dr, K; Tho Hopeless Game, 
- r 1 dr. L; Pathe's Dally News, No. 70, 
>• . ; The Rajah's Vacation, com. S; Under 
l"? » Colors, com, V. 



UNIVERSAL— The Violinist. 2-reel dr, 
Eclr; The Countless Count, com, J; Univer- 
sal^ Animated Weekly, U. 

OCTOBER 22— THURSDAY. 

MUTUAL.— The Power of the Angelus, 2- 
reel dr, Dom ; Keystone title not announced ; 
Mutual Weekly, No. 05, M. 

GENERAL F— They Called It "Baby" 
and His Loving Spouse, split-reel com, B; 
Slippery Slim, the Mortgage and Sophie, com, 
S-A; Her Mother Was a Lady. 2-reel dr, L; 
Hearst-Sella- News Pictorial, No. 68, 8; Th* 
Mill of Life, dr, V. ' ' 

UNIVERSAL— Universal Boy In "The 
Gates of Liberty," dr. I ; "Olaf Erickson— 
Boss," 2-reel dr, Rx ; Secret Service Snitz, 
com, Ster. 

OCTOBER 23— FRIDAY. 

MUTUAL— The Spark Eternal, 2-reel dr 
K B; The Face at the Window, dr, Pr • The 
Final Impulse, dr, A. 

GENERAL F.- A Woman's Folly, dr, B- 
Booties' Baby. 2-reel dr, E ; The Private Offi- 
cer 2-reel dr, S-A; Mickey Flynn's Esca- 
pade, com, K; The Olrl In the Tenement, dr, 
L; A Tonworlnl Leopard Tamer, com, 8- A 
Costume Piece, com, V. 

UNIVERSAL. -Cupid Pulls a Tooth, com. 
N • Suspended Sentence, com-dr, P • Th« 
Hrlde of Marble Head, 2-reel dr. Vic 

OCTOBER 24— SATURDAY. 

MUTUAL— The Blotted Page, 2-reel dr. 
Rol ; Keyptone title not announced ; Harold's 
Toupee, com. R. 

GENERAL F. - The Broken Rose, dr. B; 
Buster Hrown'i* Uucle, and a Question of 
Clotln-r. spllt-re«l com, E; Broncho Billy dr 
SA; The Demon of tho Ralls, dr. K The 
Crooks, com, L; Th« Tragedy That Lived, dr. 
S ; Gnodby Summer, 2-reel dr V 

UNIVERSAL.— The Scarecrow's' Secret, dr. 
Frnt; M- Lady Raffle* In "The MynterlouN 
Hand," 3-reel dr, 101 B. 



EXCHANGE MEN COMBINE. 

Indianapolis, Oct. 14. 
A meeting here of representative pic- 
ture exchange men from all parts of 
the United States and Canada, resulted 

in the launching of a strong combina- 
tion of independents who will issue a 
new service. It is to be known as the 
Standard Program. 

The forming of a million dollar cor- 
poration under the laws of the state of 
New York was decided upon and the 
general offices of the new corporation 
are to be located in New York. 

Eighteen cities were represented at 
the meeting. They were New York, 
Philadelphia, Atlanta, Pittsburg, Cleve- 
land, Detroit, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, 
Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Buf- 
falo, St. Louis, New Orleans, Dallas, 
Portland, San Francisco, and Los An- 
geles. Joseph Hopp, of Chicago, pre- 
sided as chairman of the meeting, while 
£. T. Peters, of Dallas, acted at secre- 
tary. 

£. T. Peters, Sam Werner of St 
Louis, and Mr. Markowitch of Califor- 
nia were the committee that drafted the 
agreement of consolidation, signed by 
each of the exchange men present 

Rumors of a consolidation of ex- 
change men has long been in the wind, 
but this is the first that has come to an 
actual consummation. It is the pur- 
pose to band 25 exchange men. Each 
member has to agree to buy 21 films 
weekly and to pay for them in the pro- 
portion to the quality of the individual 
production. The directorate board of 
the new corporation will be composed 
entirely of exchange men. E. T. 
Peters, President of the Texas Film 
Corporation, will, in all likelihood, have 
charge of the headquarters of the com- 
pany in New York. 



GRIFFITH DENIE8. 

Los Angeles, Oct. 14. 
D. W. Griffith denies he will resign 
from the Mutual Film Co., adding that 
he is thoroughly satisfied with his 
present berth and has no intention of 
heading his own company. 



HELD AS "SLAVER." 

Milwaukee, Oct. 14. 

Whitfield McGrath, a moving picture 
man, was held here today to answer to 
the Grand Jury on a charge of being 
a "white slaver" under the Mann act. 
Bail was fixed at $3,000. The woman 
in the case is Dorothy Libau, married, 
from Milwaukee. 

It is charged McGrath brought her 
from Milwaukee to Chicago. The 
woman is held as a material witness 
under $1,000 bail. 



Babies As Drawing Card. 

A clever bit of advertising for the 
Crescent theater, Brooklyn, is the cir- 
cular announcing the showing of the 
Barrymore feature, "The Nightingale/' 
at the house. 

The throwaway announces that Ethel 
Barrymore and her hahic* in a special 
photo-story l>y Augustus Thomas. 



22 



VARIETY 



^am_«^ 



LA MIL Advances on New York 




The Art represented by La Milo as the art of Sculpture is the one 
most distinguished by simplicity. Unlike Painting, it deals with form 
alone. Unlike Music, it is perceived all at once. There stands the 
statue, as may be seen in the poses that have made La Milo famous; 
a simple human figure, seemingly carved from the cold, lustrous 
marble, with ..nothing but its colorless self to tell its story and 
move the aouf of the beholder with the emotion of the beautifuL 



Reams of Proclamations in the 
Shape of Press Notices 



LA 
MILO 

The name that set Great 
Britain ablaze — The 
Face that launched a 
thousand V e n s — 'I' h c 
Figure that inspired a 
hundred poems — The 
Beautiful Realization of 
the Ideal — The Woman 
who conquered prejudice 
and vanished Prudery in 
England — The cause ot 
a debate in the British 
House of Commons — 
15,000,000 people have 
witnessed her perform- 
ance — 8,000 C o 1 u m n s 
have been written about 
her in England, Scotland 
and Wales — Who played 
380 consecutive nights 
at a leading West End 
Hall — Figured as Lady 
(iodiva in the La Milo 
P a g e a n t (Coventry 

1907), n00,000 specta- 
tors — Witnessed by the 
Royal Family of Eng- 
land — Eulogized by W. 
T. Stead, Henry Labou- 
chere and Horatio Bot - 
tomley, and approved bv 
the Music I lall Commit- 
tee of the London Coun- 
ty Council and 80 Civic 
Bodies and Magistrates. 



The long threatened invasion of our peaceful 
POSEUSE, having during her eight years' camp 
portance to a state of peaceful submission, is si; 
our doomed territory. She has arrived on a swii 
convoying care of General Manager Cruickshank. 




The Inimitable Breat 
of Classical Studies m 



6000th Performance. ¥ 



The Sculptured Masterpieces of Antiquity, as 
portrayed by La Milo, constitute the etherealized 
representation of the Human Form divine, de- 
picted according to the standard and canons of 
the inspired creators of such ideals from the 
earliest ages, and approved and applauded by 
the finest arbiters of Taste throughout the 
civilized world. 



THE 

OF_R 

AND 



Resplendent in her successes, fresh from a Continuity of Triui 
excels and leads, she inimitably presents the grandeur and ma 
strong approval of the elite of art, and the commendable appr 



All Properties, Scenery, and Effects employed in the La Milo Productions 

are originated, modelled, painted, and devised by La Milo and Cruickshank 

WORKS and STUDIOS: The Ark, Chester St., Liverpool, England 




VARIETY 



23 



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Expected Capitulation of the City 



Tons of Ammunition in the 
Shape of Stage Props 



to take place at last. La Milo, the all-conquering 
treat Britain reduced London and every town of im- 
new worlds to conquer, and has set her magic eye on 
rt, supported by a small army of adherents under the 




tie, with a Repertoire 
Electrified the World. 



sed by 15,000,000 People. 



^MARK 

EMENT 

GENCE 



The Artiste whose every pose hears the 
-Hall-mark oi Public approval and whose 
reputation is as solid as the Marble she 
depicts. The corner-stone of Classical con- 
formation. The Vanquisher of Prejudice 
and Prudery and the Kxponciit of trium- 
phant Truth. 



cause of the art she loves, and in whose representation she decidedly 
rk of the world's greatest masters of sculptured art, and with the 
leading Moral Reformers of the day. 




As iin authority on Vaude- 
ville possibilities, you will have 
heard of this great Artiste and 
her Magnetic Kxhibition <>f 
Classical Art, which has kept 
(ireat Britain spellbound for 
many years. 

Offering, as this Act docs, 
illimitable scope for up-to-date 
Press Boom, it has kept the 
leading Scientists, Antiquarians. 
Artists and the Civic Authori- 
ties in England in a continu- 
ous whirl of controversy. 

Its very billing matter spells 
Controversy and Success, the 
Act itself being a sledge-ham- 
mer of Conviction. I'nique. 
daring, yet clothed with an in- 
tellectual purpose, it is the hub 
of Managerial Competition, 
proving in every case its pre- 
mier position as a Sure Box 
Office Success, a much desired 
Money Spinner, and the great- 
est Record Holder of the pres- 
ent day. There is no other Act 
in the world possessing the 
same drawing power, nor the 
same solid inducements for 
Managerial Consideration. 

Socially and Morally the Act 
is accepted as a desirable ex- 
position against prudery and 
cant, and as possessing a reper- 
toire of convincing arguments 
against the wiles of the Ultra- 
I'uritan, to whom every pose 
is an incisive reply. 



I'nlike many 
claim premier 



artistes who 
rank in the 
Amusement world, La Milo has 
proved her claim, which has 
been endorsed by every Man- 
ager concerned, as the Top 
Liner with the Top Box Office 
Results— the most effective at- 
traction ever known in Great 
Britain, resulting in a con- 
tinuity of financial triumphs 
which have never been eclipsed. 

As a social necessity it is ac- 
cepted as a consistent money- 
maker it is proved and as an 
Act possessing all the strongest 
elements of certain Siiotss it 
is acknowledged. 

With these points before 
you, you will not fail to see 
the rich inducements this 
Act possesses. 



This exhibit is not to be con- 
founded with the Psuedo Art 
Shows with their more subtle 
•• uvigest inn than Artistic Attiae- 

1 I velle ss. 



In Conjunction with the above 
is CRUICKSHANK'S PICTO- 
RIAL LIBELS. 



A. 
HOTEL CLARIDGE, 




La Milo's representations of Ancient and Modern Statuary ara 
very different from attempts made by other Poseuses, owing to 
the Professional Science brought to bear. They contain the syn- 
thesis of the attitudes and expressions which can be presented by 
the human form. They constitute n feature which the true Art 
Loving Public can always consult with pleasure and profit. 

D. CRUICKSHANK 

BROADWAY AND 44TH ST., N. Y. 



24 



VARIETY 



Whoa tke Ham Turned. 

Comedy. Fair laugh getter. Principals 
need more coaching In comedy werk. 

Pratneit of Aak. 

Drama. Good picture. Well chosen cant 



Hla Mother's Home. 

Drama. Not Interesting and picture 
"cheap." 



DAILY RELEASE REVIEWS 



Reviews of film floated daily. Picture* of over 



real are Indicated. 



Pet of the Petticoat*. 

Louis Simon In comedy modeled after "The 
New Coachman." Anything for a laugh. In- 
cluding china smashing. 

Tke Tardy Cnnnonball. 

Dramatic. Cowboy pursues partner who 
stole hla wire- Suspense sustained by in- 
genious device with surprise finish. 

Tkeee Lara Paasra. 

Comedy. Coarser than usual. 



Sheriff of Moaeatlaa. 

Two reela. Cowboy drama. Plenty of ac- 
tion with a surprise In unexpected develop- 
ments. Strikingly good scenic features. 



Ha Never Said a Ward. 

Comedy. Young man and girl meet In deaf 
and dumb asylum. Courting In sign language 
then each finds other Is only visitor. Good 
obvious comedy. 



Craal, Crael World. 

Whooping travesty on old-style melodrama. 
Plenty of laughs. 



Condactor TM. 

Trivial semi-dramatic Philanthropic street 
car conductor gets money to send Invalid 
widow and her three children to the moun- 
tains No story, no love Interest, no action. 



Dally'a Dellveraaee. 

Western drama. Consistent with thriller 
when hero and "greaser" battle In bottom of 
abandoned well. 



Taa Wklskey Rannere. 

Two reels. Western drama. Exteriors 
throughout. Plenty of riding and shooting. 
Picture cheap and below par. 



Taa Tattered Daka. 

Oood Western comedy. Much hokum. Got 
laughs. 



Her Victory Etaraal. 

Grewsome drama. Unnatural mother love. 
Rather too strong for ordinary audlenoe. 
Principals good, especially mother role. 



Hypaotle Pa war. 

Comedy. Usual type. Rough house stuff 
good for laughs. Sterling at his best; others 
will do. 



Broaco Billy aad tka Oi 

Uaual Bronco Billy story, with cowboy ride 
to rescue. Nothing unusual In picture. 

Tka Girl At tka Lock. 

Two reels. Interesting drama. Exceedingly 
well produced. Loulee Huff, principal. 

Saada of Fata. 
Two reels. Desert drama. Badly produced, 
with principals miscast, and opportunities lost. 



Aalmatad Weakly. 

Review. Good assortment war scenes but 
some look faky. Baaeball players and car- 
toons good. 



Hallo Mabel. 
Comedy. Very poor. Few Laughs. 



A Law Unto Haraalf. 

Two reels. Mixed affair between supposedly 
French people. Leading woman over acta. 
Medium picture with poor start. 



BEST REELS OF THE WEEK 



by Varlety'e reviewers daily, up to Wedaesday, of the beet film oeea.) 



Hla Fatker'a Boms. 

Two reels. Western drama. Good story, with Wall street on the side. J. Warren Kerrlgen 
as young prospector puts film over. Exteriors good with fair studio sets. 



»n, tka Faatar Metker. 

Drama, of the waterfront Caat, headed by Anne Schaeffer, handle part* very very well. Mob 
scenes well directed. Good all around two rosier. 



Wkea Slippery Slim Mat tka Ckamptosu 

Comedy. Slapstick prise fight. Principals good. Brought screams. 

Girl Wke Worn. 

(2 reels) Splendid comedy plot for single reel, somewhat Injured by being spread too thin 
over two. Story of man highbrow who seeks to make hla marriage platonlc, and a dear of a 
bride who won't have It so. Delighted the women with its daring in aplcy scans. 

Tka Paaatom Llajkt. 

(2 reels) Indian legend. Well done in all particulars. Thrilling Indian battles and hair- 
raising horseback riding. Delightful Idyll with poetlo flavor. 



..... Tk « *••* ■** *»• Tkerau 

(2 reels) Mythical drama. Good Interiors. Well directed and good cast One of the beet 
of the new two feelers. 

Tka Baad af TTansnnkeed 

Well directed. Some 



__ n Tka Baad af Wemaakood. 

Two reels. Dramatic. Showing family troubles of rich and poor, 
scenes greatly exaggerated, but picture generally good. 



A Oloee Call. 

Juvenile comedy. Haa a thrill and la 
laughable- 



Cupid Viator. 

Comedy-drama. Ordinary. Main idea lacks 
sufficient strength. Cast good, but photog- 
raphy off In spots. 



la Old Vlrajala. 

Two reels. War drama, with John B. Ince. 
Mostly exteriors. Two battle scenes. Plenty 
of action. Ordinary picture. 

Tka King; of tka Moaey Leaders. 

Drama. Good single, played by some of 
the Vlts's better known people. 



Virtue Ita Owa Reward. 

Two reels. Drama. Self sacrifice, theme. 
Interesting and well told. Pauline Bush, prin- 
cipal. 



Their Little Drudeje. 

Fair rural drama, appearing aged. Old 
Pickford would have been preferred. • 



Beaat at Bay. 

Two reels. A Mary Pickford reprint with 
sn automobile-locomotive chaae. 

The Real Agatha. 

Two reels. Comedy drama. Heiress poses 
as secretary to discourage fortune hunters. 
Hero falls in love with her. Light entertain- 
ment. 



Tka Girl aad tke Stowaway. 

Two reels. Comedy drama, with Alice 
Joyce. Scenes on shipboard well taken. Good 
picture. 



Greea Eyed Mouater. 

Dramatic Loose story. Crude melodrama. 
Sailor loves lighthouse keeper's daughter. 
Rich lover. Rivals fight. Only virtue pretty 
marine acenery. 

Jlmmle the Porter. 

Lover disguises as negro Pullman porter to 
be near rich girl sweetheart. Prevents other 
man's proposal. Strained comedy. 

Joele'a Fortune. 

Josle Sadler in amusing comedy. Summer 
boys desert girls at hotel to court housemaid 
heiress. "Fortune" turns out myth. 

Tke One Wko Cared. 

Rural drama. Leads to excellent climax 
then kills interest by absurd finish. Oood Idea 
gone wrong altogether. 



Jailbirds. 

Two reels. Drama. Many extertora. Res- 
taurant scenes poorly arranged. Two leading 
characters good. Fair film. 



Our Mutual Girl No. 30. 

Serial. Poor Installment. Nothing to com- 
mend. r 



Mary's Convert. 

Rural drama. Leading woman character 
good. Picture very cheap. 



Mary Green's) Husband dk Monkey 
Cabaret. 

Split reel. First half, fair comedv drama. 
Second part, from vaudeville act Medium. 



The Mayor's Manicure. 

Oomedy. Girl reporter gets Interview with 
mayor by posing as manicure. Exposes plot 
and wins his lovs. Average. 



The Anglers. 

Comedy. Usual roughness. Principals 
showed no Individual cleverness. Good laugh 
getter. 

George Washington Jones. 

Comedy. Blackface comedian principal 
character. Fair comedy. Last half of reel, 
episode of "Buster Brown." has many laughs. 



Hearat-Sella;. 

Review. War scenes anu police exhibitions. 
Good reel. 

The Galldlaug Fata. 

Rural drama. Nearly all exteriors. Cheap 
for a release from this manufacturer. 



Throagjk Ifiyea of Love. 

Fair society drama. Male and female leads 
well handled. 



The Letter That Never Came Out. 

Poor political drama with 8ally Crute In 
leading role. Picture unlntereatlng. 

Swami Sam. 

Comedy. Police force and blackface come- 
dian for laughs. Fair comedy. 

Neighborly Nelejhbora. 

Comedy. Rural piece bringing In number 
of families. Not many laughs. 



The Diamond of Disaster. 

Two-reel Eaat ludla picture mads In this 
country. Good explosion scene. Characters 
fit, but scenic effects do not harmonise with 
title. 



Off Aejala, Oa Aajaln Flulajan. 

Comedy. Trick photography and funny po- 
lice force. Qeta over easily. 

The Warning;. 

Drama. Directed by Donald Crisp with 
Dorothy Glsh leading. Unexpected finish. A 
different picture. 



Wlaeeme Winnie. 

Comedy. Oood company. Many laughs, 
without slap-stick. 

Very Muck Alive. 

Comedy. Police force and slapstick. Com- 
pany not very capable. Medium. 



Andy and tka B eda kla a. 

Oood oomedy with Juvenile principal*. 

Tke Myaterlona Baaaty. 

Comedy. Tooth pulling and race between 
two machines and trolley. Fair comedy. 



Lena and tka G« 

Old Blograph Pickford reprint. Fair pic- 
ture. 

Tka Peacemaker. 

Ordinary single reel comedy with Van 
Dyke Brook and Norma Talmadge. Not up to 
the V's standard. 

Tka Sauatter. 

Three reels. Western drama. Scenes and 
photography good. Principals capable. Good 
picture. 

Tke Bad af tka Galley. 

Two reela. Western drama. Fairly well 
worked out plot Fair picture. 

Helale*a Outlnsj. 

Slapstick comedy. Few laughs. 



kx tka Sea. 
Drama. Good love story. Players do well. 
Good Inexpensive picture. 



Bad Man Maeea. 

Drama. Western sittings. Fair acting and 
fair ploture. 

MYSTERY OF THeT POISON POOL 

Cameron, an adventurer in Africa ; Dor- 
othy, a missionary, and Walton, a trooper of 
the British mounted police, are the principal 
characters In "The Mystery of the Poison 
Pool," a five-part dramatic Just released by 
the Picture Playhouse Film Co. Its highest 
power thrill Is unluckily placed in the first 
reel. Nearer the end it would have been an 
Immense asset, at the beginning it set a pace 
the rest of the tale could not follow, and 
cumulative Interest was unbalanced. Cam- 
eron is captured by cannlbala And rescued by 
Walton, who hoists him over a tall cliff out 
of reach. It is here, at the outaet, that the 
thriller comes. As Cameron mounts hand 
over hand up the face of the cliff, an enor- 
mous python uncoils its length Just over his 
head and threatens him. Walton saves the 
climber with a timely pistol shot It's a 
real live 30-foot snake and the very daddy of 
the breed. Its very appearance gliding 
through the rocks brings a shudder, and when 
It reaches for Its victim suspended in midair 
the spectator of the film gets a real Jolt. The 
story lapses for a year and Cameron is dis- 
closed as a rough character prospecting for 
diamonds In the same country. He meets 
Dorothy and his love for her works his 
reformation. But Walton, who does not recog- 
nise him and whom he does not recognise, 
appears as his rival. A visitor to the village 
Is murdered and suspicion falls upon Cam* 
eron. He flees and Walton goes In pursuit. 
The trooper Is overpowered by the adventurer, 
but his life is spared when Cameron, by 
means of a locket, discovers his rescuer of a 
year before, and he carries the trooper back 
to the village. While the trooper lies uncon- 
srtous Cameron Is condemned to death, but 
Dorothy discovers the real murderer, and 
after a wild ride brings back the order of 
reprieve In time. There Is action a plenty, 
but for sensationalism that snake episode 
overshadows all other details, and the great 
length of the recital at times wearies. Act- 
ing and scenic qualities are excellent. 



FEATURE FILM REVIEWS 
THE TANGLE. 

A four-part military drama by the Broad- 
way Star Feature Co., which figures In the 
new Vitagraph bill. Ths feature la notable 
among other things for the sane portrayal of 
ita leading role by Darwin Karr, who la here 
disclosed as head and shoulders over the 
average leading man of screen dramatics. 
As the young lieutenant, Jack Bradley of the 
16th U. S. Cavalry, he achievea a really bal- 
anced, human portrayal. He haa not a single 
strut nor a single grimace In the whole four 
acts, but creates a forceful character by the 
simplest of methods and without the common 
artifices of the familiar "movie hero." This 
emphasis on a single part Is not undue. Every 
silent player should be sent to study Kerr's 
handling of this role. It Is really a force- 
did exposition of what can be done in force- 
ful hut unaffected pantomime playing. The 
story is one of those absurd affairs baaed on 
a lovers' misunderstanding, a misunderstand- 
ing brought about with obvious labor on the 
part of the scenario writer and one that In 
ordinary human couduct would have been 
cleared up by a word. Jack'a sweetheart 
finds a letter In his pocket In pique she 
goes off and marriea Col. Everett, and never 
learns until a year after that the picture wsk 
that of Jack's sister. Not very Ingenious, is 
it? When she does learn the truth, of 
course, she Is another's, but she will go on 
dragging Jack to dim corners of the conser- 
vatory and making love to the embarrassed 
soldier, until the Colonel learns of the affair 
and Jack'a position Is most unhappy. How- 
ever, the Colonel comes to know the real 
situation and when he la killed in battle 
(the regiment goes to the Spanish war) he 
forgives Jack and sends him home to marry 
the woman. Here the scenario writer ap- 
parently dimly understood that he had per- 
mitted the wife to conduct herself in s 
pretty generally unlovely way and balked at 
the happy reconciliation with the noble Jack. 
So he put Jack on board a ateamer bound for 
home and the suffering widow and let It go 
at that If the story Is crude, it is acted 
with consummate ability and the staging of 
the battle scenes is perhapa the best thing 
of the sort that has been done yet Capt 
Harry Lambert is named as the producer. 
Presumably he is an army man. He would 
do fllmdom a service by organizing a class 
for film directors for instruction In military 
procedure. Every move on the part of his 
actora haa the stamp of authority. The film 
directors who send their soldier heroes to the 
ballroom in fatigue uniform and wearing aide 
arms and spurs, might also accompany ths 
leading men In their visit to the Vitagraph. 
The visit would pay them. 



SPIRIT OF THE POPPY. 

"The Spirit of the Poppy." described aa "a 
psychological study of the drug habit" is a 
six-part feature shown at private exhibition 
this week by the Klnetophote. For purpose of 
this record, the question whether there should 
be a field for so Intimate treatment of a 
disagreeable subject on the screen may he 
disregarded. It is enough to say the same 
arguments may be advanced for and against 
the exhibition aa applied to Charles Warner's 
stage production of "Drink." The screen 
treatment of the drug habit is quite as 
powerfully done, aa was the Warner play's 
preachment agalnat drunkeness. The story 
violatea no rale of so-called literary ethics, 
for, while virtue does not triumph (because 
there Is no virtue involved), the evildoers 
come to final punishment Therein the pro- 
motors of the feature stand on firm ground 
in advancing the subject aa a moral lesson. 
The story reoltes the fall from high estate 
of Stephen Ford, a brilliant artist; his wife. 
Ethel, and a host of minor persons, through 
addiction to cocaine and opium ; the artist 
through the wiles of a woman model, and the 
wife through a doctor who feeda her mor- 
phine In treatment of trifling nervous trou- 
bles. Their course Is traced along the fear- 
ful descent to the slums, with a vividness 
and realism that deliver a terrlfflc effect. As 
they pass from one stags of degradation to 
another other Innocent victims are drawn 
Into the net and the dru« r curse spreads in 
ever widening circles, until the authorities 
close in on the traffickers in the drugs and 
death is meted to the drug slaves and their 
master dealers, one after another with an im- 
partial hand. The story is remarkably well 
put together and the Interest sustained with- 
out lapse to the end. The acting, aside from 
trifling details, is extremely good and some 
of the Incidents for raw power of concep- 
tion and delivery are almost worthy of Zola 
himself. Dramatist, director, players and 
camera man have done their work well, but — 
Merciful Scenario — watching It is gloomy 
work for an Indian summer afternoon. 



THE GIRL AT THE LOCK. 

"The Girl at the Lock" is a Lubln two- 
reeler that ranks with the best of the half 
hour films. The picture is well directed and 
has a cast that handle the parte well. The 
camera work has all been done outdoors, 
amid natural scenery well selected. The 
film Is a love story with enough tanglea to 
make It Interesting. A simple girl of 
the lock country Is in love with a man of 
her own class, when an artist appears. He 
wins the girl's heart after painting her pic- 
ture. The painter is engaged to be married 
to a wealthy girl, and forced to, when he 
finds himself without money. The country 
girl goes to the city to see her picture. The 
man she thought loved her Informs her of 
his engagement She rushes from the house 
and meets her country lover. They make a 
happy pair. A picture well worth seeing. 



VARIETY 



25 



BILLS NEXT WEEK (October 19) 

In Vaudeville Theatres, Playing Three or Lean Show* Daily 

(All houses open for the week with Monday matinees, when not otherwise indicated.) 
Theatres listed as "Orpheum" without any further distinguishing description are on the 
Orpheum Circuit. Theatres with "Loew" following name are on the Loew Circuit. 

Agencies booking the houses are noted by single name or initials, such as "Orph," Orpheum 
Circuit— "U. B. 0.,' r United Booking Offices— "W. V. A.," Western Vaudeville Managers' Asso- 
ciation (Chicago)— "P," Pantages Circuit— "Inter," Interstate Circuit (book hi g through W. V. A) 
-"M," James C Matthews (Chicago). 



New York 

HAMMERSTBIN'8 
(ubo) 
"Any Night" 
WUlard 
gam A Kitty Morton 



Pour Barda 
Dunn A Bunte 
Mayo A Tally 
Johnson ft Deen 
8tepp Goodrich ft K 
Arthur Barrat Co 
Kolb ft Holland 
Hereklnd 
(Others to All) 

PALACE (orph) 
Houdlnl 

Dslly ft Brown 
Tom Lewis Co 
Fannie Brlce 
French ft Bis 
Willa Holt Wakefield 
Foster Ball Co 
Hawthorne ft Inglis 
Fridkowskl Troupe 

ALHAMBRA (ubo) 
Brlce ft King 
Nat Wills 
Creasy ft Dayne 
Lyons ft Yoaco 
Edge of World' 
Toe Langdons 
hooper ft Smith 
Vandinoff ft Louie 
(Others to nil) 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Blanche Ring Co 
Leonard ft Russell 
Vinton ft Buster 
Emmett DeVoy Co 
Mr Hymack 
Brooks ft Bowen 
Collins ft Hart 
Eveleen Dunmore 
Weber ft Capitola 
ROYAL (ubo) 
Julius Steger Co 
Belle Baker 
Dooley ft Sales 
Harry Beresford Co 
Joe Jackson 
Weston ft Leon 
Gliding O'Mearas 
Oobert Belling 
Walton ft Brandt 
AMERICAN (loew) 
Chaa Ledegar 
Med 1 in Clark ft T 
Kelso ft Lelghton 
Edith Clifford 
Potts Bros Co 
Greeley ft Drayton 
Marshall P Wilder 
3 Jewetts 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Marcou 

"Squaring Accounts'' 
Rena Santos 
Ellla-Nowlan Tr 
Thornton ft CotIsw 
Marshall P Wilder 
Mysterious Russell 
Aerial La Vails 
(One to fill) 
BOULEVARD (loew) 
Edith Raymond Co 
Von Hampton ft J 
Merlin 

"Night In Park" 
Ooelette Storke & L 
(One to All) 

2d half 
3 Keltons 
Eddie Foyer 
Oracle Emmett Co 
Elsie White 
Fanton's Athletes 
(One to fill) 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Gypsy Countess 
"Squaring Accounts'* 
Bert Melrose 
Morris ft Allen 
Dupont ft Hasbrook 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Arthur ft Emma Cody 
Kelso ft Lelghton 
Manhattan Trio 
Bessie LeCount 
Vaude In Monki>ylan<1 
Clarence Wilbur 
Frey Twins A Frey 
OREELEY (loew) 
Elsie White 
Vaude In Monkeyland 
Morris Golden 
"Me A Dave" 
Barnes ft Robinson 
Bean A Hamilton 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Tom Dalton 
3 Bennett 31s 
Niblo A Riley 
Sam Mann's Players 
Edith Clifford 
Reddlngton A Grant 
(Two to fill) 
DELANCBY (loew) 
AI Carleton 
Luken'a Animals 
Thornton A Corlew 
'When Women Rule" 
Tabor A Oreen 



Frey Twins ft Frey 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Bean ft Hamilton 
Prince Kami 
Harry Temple 
—-Howard ft Fields Mi db 
Usher Trio 
Ooelette Stork ft L 
Pre vol 1 
(One to fill) 

NATIONAL (loew) 
Browning ft Dean 
Moore ft Elliott 
ElBie Gilbert ft Girls 
Sandy Shaw 
John Troupe 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Greenley ft Drayton 
Chaa Deland Co 
Morris Golden 
Frank Stafford Co 
Nowlin ft St Claire 
3 Jewetts 
(One to fill) 

LINCOLN (loew) 
Frevoll 
Faye ft Minn 
Ez Mayor Lew Shank 
Chaa Deland Co 
Marie Russell 
The Hasamans 
2d half 
Conrad ft Mareena 
Sabrey D'Orsell 
Brown Harris ft B 
"When Women Rule" 
Lurkin's Animals 
(One to fill) 

7TH AVE (loew) 
Arthur ft Emma Cody 
Mysterious Mr Russell 
K lass ft Bernle 
Joe Welch 
Von Cello 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Holmes A Holliston 
Zelaya 

Browning ft Deane 
Potts Broa Co 
Joe Welch 
John Troupe 
(One to fill) 



Brooklyn 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Arthur Prince 
"Society Buda" 
Adele Ritchie 
Farber Girls 
Oallager ft Carlin 
Darrell ft Conway 
Corelli ft Gillette 
8utton Mclntyre ft S 
Skaters Bijouve 

PROSPECT (ubo) 
J as ft Bon Thornton 
WUlard Slmms Co 
Allan Brooks Co 
Jasper 

Mullen A Coogan 
3 Keatons 
Sue Smith 

Newhouse , Snyder Co 
6 Navigators 

BU8HWICK (ubo) 
Adelaide A Hughes 
"Bride Shop" 
Marshall Montgomery 
Maxlne A Bobby 
Marie Fitzglbbons 
Milton Pollock Co 
Frank Whitman 
The Lelands 

SHUBBRT (loew) 
Usher Trio 
Rena Santos 
Geo B Reno Co 
Nowlin A St Claire 
3 Keltons 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Elsie Gilbert & Girls 
"Me A Dave" 
Sandy Shaw 
The Hassmans 
(Three to fill) 
WARWICK (loew) 
Gracey 

Hartley A Pecan 
Jim Rosen Co 
Bessie LeCount 
Wolgas A Girlie 

2d half 
Fountaine A Fletcher 
Tabor A Green 
Gypsy Countess 
"Between 8 A 9" 
Rockwell A Wood 
Chas Ledegar 

FLATBUSH (loew) 
A Bender 
Nestor A Delberg 
Phillip! 4 

"When We Grow Up" 
ft Bennett Sisters 
(Three to fill) 
2d hair 
Stewart A Dakln 
Al Carleton 
Von Hampton A J 
•*8tick Up Man" 
(Four to fill) 



BIJOU (loew) 
"Spider ft Fly" 
Clarence Wilbur 
Frank Stafford Co 
Manhattan Trio 
Reddlngton ft Grant 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Edith Raymond Co 
Faye ft Minn 
"The Elopement" 
Klass ft Bernle 
Geo B Reno Co 
DuPont ft Hasbrook 
(One to fill) 

FULTON (loew) 
Holmes ft Holliater 
Japanese Prince 
Ellls-Nowlan Tr 
(Three to fill) 

2d half 
Brlerre ft King 
Lester Trio 
Bert Melrose 
Morris ft Allen 
"Night In Park" 
(One to fill) 
COLUMBIA (loew) 
Reefe ft Murray 
Springer ft Church 
Tom Dalton 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Blanche 81oan 
(Four to All) 

LIBERTY (low) 
Grumbler ft Glass 
"Dairy Maids" 
Blanche Sloan 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Leone Dixon 
Sharf ft Ramadan 
Billy Barlow 
Hemmer ft Prltehard 
(One to fill) 



Arbor, Micax 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Kolettl 

Clyde ft Marlon 
"Enchanted Forest" 
Earl ft Edward* 
Flying Duvals 
2d half 
Murphy ft Klein 
Ed Gray 

Mullaly Plngree Co 
Holden ft Heron 
A Abdallahe 

Atlanta 

FORSYTH (ubo) 
Connolly ft Wenrlch 
"Lawn Party" 
8 Kuma Jans 
Norcross ft Holdarworth 
LaHoen ft Dupree 
Lawrence ft Edwards 
Diamond ft Virginia 
(Others to fill) 

Baltlsaorc 

MARYLAND (ubo) 
Valerie Bergere Co 
Crouch ft welch 
Alf Holt 

4 Melodious Chaps 
Bond ft Caasen 
Canton ft Lee 
Reglna Cornell I Co 
(One to fill) 

Battle Creak, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Madame Marlon 
Joe Danlela 
Kid Kabaret" 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
L.es Cougeta 
Billy ft Edith Adams 
J C Nugent Co 
Capitol City 4 
Moralls Broa 

Bay City, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Wentworth Vesta ft T 
Kammerer ft Howland 
Leila Davis Co 
Lew Wells 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Carlton ft Clifford 
Welsser ft Relseer 
"I Died" 
3 Majesties 
Zeno Jordan ft Z 

Bllllasra, Mont. 

BABCOCK (loew) 
(18-14) 
Golden ft West 
Sallle Stembler Co 
Holmes A Riley 
Cameron Devltt Co 
Wilson Bros 
Slayman All Arabs 

Birmingham. Ala. 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Willie Bros 
Great Howard 
Irene A Bob Smith 
Gould A Ashlyn 
"Telephone Tangle" 
Raymonde 
Neher A Kappel 
(Others to fill) 



Beatoa 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Mabelle A Ballet 
Edward Farrell Co 
Shannon A Annie 
Ryan A Tlerney 
Kingston A Ebner 
Llpensky's Dogs 
Jack Gardner Co 
Amelia Bingham 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Bunth A Rudd 
Gladys Vance 
10 Dark Knights 
Inea McCauley Co 
Criterion 3 
Arthur A Grace Terry 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Mario ft Trevette 
Cecil Eldred ft Carr 
"Honey Olrla" 
(Five to fill) 

ST JAMES (loew) 
Florens 

Schrodes ft Chappelle 
Mario ft Trevette 
Oracle Emmett Co 
Ward ft Gray 
Cecil Eldred ft Carr 

2d half 
Tom Linton ft Girls 
Oscar Lorraine 
Ines McCauley Co 
Criterion Trio 
Arthur ft Grace Terry 
(One to fill) 

GLOBE (loew) 
Cook ft Rothert 
Cook ft Stevens 
Eddie Foyer 
Saoaa 
(Four to fill) 

2d half 
Florens 

Schrodes ft Chappelle 
Casaar Rivoli 
Klein Bros 
Revell ft Deery 
(Three to fill) 

BnnTalo 

SHEA'S (ubo) 
Boganny Troupe 
Cowboy Minstrels 
Max ft Mabel Ford 
Tracey Stone ft 8 
Claude ft Fanny Usher 
(Others to fill) 

Batte 

BMPRB8S (loew) 
Davie ft Matthews 
Hoyt ft Warden 
Mcintosh ft Maids 
Bernard ft Harrington 
Fred Hlllebmnd 
Nichols Nelson Tr 



ORPHEUM 
2d half 
(Same bill as at Re- 
tina, this laaue) 
PANTAGBB (m) 
Oxford 8 

Maurice Samuels Co 
Nadall ft Kane 
Agnes Von Bracht 
Dunlay ft Merrill 
Reed'a Doga 

Cnarleetoa, S. C. 

VICTORIA (ubo) 
1st half 
Bertlach 

Raymond ft Bain 
Marie King Scott 
D'Estelle Sisters 
Mack ft Sangster 

2d half 
Crelghton Sisters 
Stewart A Donahue 
J C Lewis Jr Co 
Fern Blgelow A M 
(One to fill) 

Chicago 

PALACE (ubo) 
Clifton Crawford 
"Woman Proposes" 
Splnette Quintet 
Nine White Hussars 
Mr A Mrs J Barry 
John A Mae Burke 
Lew Hawkins 
Le Grohs 

MAJESTIC (ubo) 
Robert Bdeson Co 
Harry Cooper 
Chretienne A Loulsette 
Mr A Mrs D Crane 
McConnell A Simpson 
Althoff Sisters 
Smith Cook A Bran 
Ray Conlin 
Mosher Hayes A M 

ACADBMY (wva) 
Bush A Bngel 
Howard Sisters 
Harry Ellsworth Co 
Louis Grant 
Archie A Dolly Onii 

2d half 
Unada A Irving 
Dixon A Hanson 
The Longworths 
Sharp A Wilkes 
Herbert's Dogs 



McVICKER'S (loew) 
El CUve 
Joyce ft West 
"When It Strikes H" 
Melnotte Twins 
6 Olivers 
Bush ft Shapiro 

2d half 
Carmen'a Minstrels 
Todd-Nards 
"Between Trains" 
Walter B rower 
MoDermott ft Wallace 
Dunvett Troupe 
WILSON AVE (wva) 
Gertrude Barnes 
"Detective Keen" 
8 Russian Danoera 
Dow ft Dow 
Herbert's Dogs 

2d half 
Gertrude Barnes 
"All for a Kiss" 
James Leonard Co 
Selblnl ft Grovlnl 
Jennings ft Gorman 
COLONIAL (loew) 
Gene Green 
Geo Randall Co 
Tom Waters 
Minettl A Sldello 
Mad Miller 
La Drone Skating 8 
Paul Stephens 
Bob Ferns 

2d half 
Gene Oreen 
Ford'a Review 
Rouble Blma 
Novelty Barretts 
Tom waters 
Bert Davie 

WILLARD (loew) 
Kalaluhl Hawallana 
Novelty Barretts 
Roaa Fenton Play 
Geo Yeoman 
"Temple of Mlsc" 

24 half 
Landry Broa 
The Clevelande 
B B CUve Co 
Delmore A Light 
Portia Sisters 
AMERICAN (loew) 
5 Yoscary* 
Jordan A Stanley 
Paul ft Asella 
Chas Terrlo Co 
Paul Bauwens 
Kin Kald Kilties 

2d half 
La Vler 

O'Nell ft Dixon 
Princeton ft Yale 
"Bower of Melody" 
Morris ft Parka 
Nip ft Tuck 

STAR HIP (loew) 
Helf ft Hanley 
Harry C Davla 
Baron Llchter 
Herman'a Animals 

2d half 
Kittle Sherman 
Jordan Co 
Elks 8 
Paul Stephens 

LYCEUM (loew) 
Garry O'Reilly 
Godfrey ft Henderson 

2d half 
Milton ft Moore 
Rae Merwln 



Claetaaatl 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Chaa Orapewln Co 
Ryan ft Lee 
4 Roeders 
3 Lyres 
Rae Samuels 
Pernlkoff ft Rose 
Conroy ft Models 
(One to fill) 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Purcella Bros 
Joe Kelsey 

"Love In Sanitarium" 
Brown ft Jackson 
Rose Troupe 
(One to fill) 

Cleveland 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Bd Morton 
Arnaut Bros 
Fred J Ardrath Ce 
Meyakoe 3 
Jarvls ft Harrison 
Conlin ft Steele 3 
(Others to fill) 

MILES (loew) 
Paiise 
Trovollo 

Rtchmand A Mann 
Bell Boy Trio 
Gaach Bisters 
(One to fill) 

Colombo* 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Hartman A Varady 
Ward Baker 
Cecelia Wright 
Horllck Family 
Billy McDermott 
John A Emma Ray 
Neluaca A Herley 
(Others to fill) 

Davenport* fa. 

COLUMBIA (ubo) 
Paul Klelst Co 
Chick Bales 
Knapp A Cornelia 
Porter White Co 
Claude Tracey 
2d half 
Claggett A Freer 
Carl McCullough 
Weston Co 



Olive Vail Co 
Lelstel A Jeannette 

Denver 

ORPHEUM 
'Matinee Girls" 
Hlnes A Fox 
Byrd Frost Crowell 
Frank Wilson 

8 Hlckey Bros 
Grant A Hoeg 
Chas McGoodT Co 
(Others to fill) 

BMPRE8S (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

The Valdos 

Stewart A Hall 

Yvonne 

Murray Llvington Co 

Jones A Johnson 

Buch Bros 

Deo Molaee 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Met) 
Trlxle Frlgansa 
Harry Lewis 8 
Lai Mon Kim 
Chinko 

Minnie Kaufman 
Duffy A Lorena 
(Others to fill) 

* Detroit 

FAMILY (ubo) 
George Richard Co 
Adelalne Denette 3 
Martin A Trolae 
Baby Zelda 
Tannean A Claxton 
3 Franka 
Bob Warren 

TBMPLB (ubo) 
Sills A Bills 
Jane Connolly Co 
Leo ft Cranston 
Doo O'Nell 
Werner Amoros Tr 
Comfort ft King 
Franklin ft Oreen 
Belleclalre Broa 
(One to fill) 

MILES (loew) 
S Donals 
Clark ft Rose 
Valentine Vox 
J K Emmett Co 
Ogden Quartet 
Roy ft Arthur 

ORPHBUM (m) 

9 Stage Struck Kid* 
5 O'Connor Slaters 
Alpha Troupe 
Mullumbv ft Musette 
Zampa ft Zampa 
Qutnn Broa ft Drake 
Dunlap ft Vlrdln 

Dalate 

ORPHBUM 
(Open Sua Mat) 
Imhoff Conn ft Cor 
Barry ft Wolford 
Pierre Pelletier Co 
Alfred Bergea 
Vlollnaky 

Woodman ft Livingston 
Bl Rey Sisters 

Ef moaton, Caa. 

PANTAOE8 (m) 
Dancing ceroids 
"Strenuous Daisy" 
Laurie Ordway 
Davis ft Walker 
DeWltt Young ft Bto 
Brie. Pa. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Behan ft Hart 
Hlrsohel Hendler 
Aroo Broi 
(O there to fill) 

Fall River, Mas*. 
ACADBMY (loew) . 
Klein Bros 
Tom Linton ft Girls 
Oscar Lorraine 
Revell ft Deery 
(One to fill; 

2d half 
Saona 

10 Dark Knights 
Viola Duval 
(Two to fill) 

Flint, Mien. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
"Dream Girl" 
2d half 
The MUlards 
Rrlce ft Morgan 
Charles Wsyne Co 
Grace Cameron 
Harvey 3 

Ft. Wayne 

TEMPLE (ubo) 

Onre 

Moore Brownie ft Co 

Musical Geralds 

naby Helen 
Martini ft Maximilian 
2d half 

Mnrrio A Hunter 

Marshall A Comby 

McCormlck A Wallace 

Robert Hall 

Davis A Romanelll 
EMPRESS (loew) 
1st half 
Arno A Stlekaey 
Las Caaadoa 
Ward Sisters 
James Orady Co 
Sampson ft Douglas 
Russell's Minstrels 

Grand Rapids, Mich 

COLUMBIA (ubo) 
J arrow 
Julia Curtis 
Heath ft Mlllershlp 
"Neptune's Garden" 
Dainty English 3 
(Others to fill) 



BMPRB8S (loew) 
2d half 
Lee Caaadoa 
Ward Sisters 
Arno ft Btlokney 
James Grady Oo 
Sampson ft Douglas 
Russell's Minstrels 

Hasnflten, Oat. 

TBMPLB (ubo) 



aMIllar ft Lyles 
John Hlggla* 
(Others to 611) 

Inn. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
The Bngfords 
Crelghton Bros 
Maruo ft Hunter 

2d half 
Oruber ft Kevy 



SfVL ** \. 2K!"°i? Ur Chaa ft Annie Olocker 



Burke ft McDonald 
Adler ft Arllne 
Monty ft Dot 
Julia Gonsales 
Lambort ft Ball 
(Others to fill) 



(One to fill) 



ORPHBUM (ubo) 
Hope Vernon 
Dooley ft Rugel 
Lucy OlletU 
(Others to SU) 

Hartford, Conn. 
POLI'S (ubo) 
"Aurora of Light" 
The Pucka 
(Othera to fill) 

Hobokea, N. J. 

LYRIC (loew) 
Leone Dixon 
Sharf ft Ramsdsn 
Niblo ft Riley 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Orumbley ft Olass 
(Four to fill) 

Indlanaaella 

KBITH'B (ubo) 
Corradlni'a Animals 
Hopkins Sisters 
Hoey ft Lea 
2 Carltona 
Walter C Kelly 
Orace D Nile Co 
Burdella Patterson 
Keno ft Mayne 
"Eloping" 

LYRIC (ubo) 
Bean ft Evelyn 
Marshall ft Comby 
(Three to fill) 
2d half 
Latell Broa 
Chaa ft Mad Dunbar 
The Oee Jaya 
Danny Simmons 
Martini ft Maxlmlllian 



BIJOU (ubo) 
Murphy ft Klein 
Ed Gray 

Mullaly Prlngree Co 
Holden ft Heron 
8 Abdallahe 

2d half 
Kolletl 

Clyde A Marlon 
"Enchanted Forest" 
Earl ft Edwards 
Flying Duvals 

Jacksonville 

ORPHBUM (ubo) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Newell ft Most 

The Waltons 

Curaon Slaters 

Jack Polk 

Madison ft Jamas 

(Othera to fill) 



MAJESTIC (ubo) 
Los Cougeta 
Billy ft Edith Adams 
J C Nugent Co 
Capitol City 4 
Moralls Bros 

2d half 
Madame Marlon 
Joe Danlela 
"Kid Kabaret" 
(One to 811) 

Kenans City 

ORPHBUM 
Elinors ft Williams 
Albert Perry Co 
McKay ft Ardlne 
Gardiner 8 
Leo Zarrell 3 
Marie ft Billy Hart 
Hesa Sisters 

EMPRESS (loew) 
3 Brownies 
Estelle Rose 
"Broadway Love" 
Armstrong ft Ford 
They-Yan-De 
Hoyt'a Minstrels 

Lafayette, lad. 

FAMILY (Ubo) 
Eldora Co 
Harry Gilbert 
Terpulchorean Revue 
Burns ft Klssen 
Leltzell ft Jeanette 

2d half 
Wilson ft Aubrey 
Llbonatl 

Archer ft Bel ford 
Baby Helen 
Keller A Wler 



laiaaj. Mien. 

BIJOU (umo) 
The MUlards 
Brlce A Morgan 
Charles Wayne Co 
Orace Cameron 
Harvey 8 

2d half 
"Dream 01 rl" 

fifneoln 

ORPHEUM 
Natalie A Ferrari 
Romeo The Oreat 
Hayward Stafford Co 
Josophlne Dunfee 
Jones A Sylvester 



anejolse 

ORPHBUM 
Hana Kronold 
Hermlne Shone Co 
8 American Dancers 
Alexander ft Scott 
Act Beautiful 
Harry Tsuda 
"The Beauties" 
lamed 

BMPRB88 (loew) 
Laypo ft Benjamin 
Bva Prout 
Mr ft Mrs D Blwyn 
Irwin ft Hersog 
Senator F Murphy 
Deane'a Fanthoma 

PANTAGBB (m) 
Pony Moore Oo 
Wlneoh ft Poors 
Coogan ft Cox 
Gilbert Olrard 
Love ft Wilbur 



KEITH'S (ubo) 
Julia Nash Oo 
Chaa Thompson 
Jas Cullea 

Wallensteln ft Freehy 
"Bona Revue" 
The volunteers 
(Others to fill) 



Mesnnnla 

ORPHBUM 



0RPHL_„ 
Dunbar's Slngera 
Bell Family 
Anna Chandler 
Chaa Yule Co 
LePranoe ft Bruce 
Cameron Sisters 
Merlo'a Cockatoos 
(Others to fill) 



MAJESTIC (orph) 
Orace La Rae 
"Graea Beetle" 
Homer Llnd Co 
Marlon Vadle Oo 
Harry Bream 
Santly ft Norton 
Australian MoLeaas 
(Othera to fill) 

CRYSTAL (loew) 
Roubls Blma 
Ford'a Review 
The Clevelande 
B B CUve Co 
Delmore ft Light 
Landry Broa 

Mlaaeanelle 

ORPHBUM 
(Opea Sun Mat) 
Anna Hold's Daughter 
Avoa Comedy 4 
Thomas AHall 
Clark A Verdi 
Alexander Bras 
Fred Koraaa 
Oormley ft Caffery 
(Othera to All) 
^ UNIQUE (loew) 
Bessie's Cockatooo 
8 Lorettae 
DeLlsle ft Vsrnon 
Llda MoMllllan Oo 
Brady ft Mahoney 
Edwards Broa 



ORPHBUM (ubo) 
Alice Lloyd 
Lambert! 
Mack ft Orth 
Gere ft Delaney 
Bully Family 
Bill Pruett 
Olymplo 8 
(Othera to fill) 



PRINCB8S (ubo) 
Reman ft Anderson 
Vallardl 
"The Burglar" 
Four Kings 
Ranzal Troupe 

Newaarsrh. If. Y. 

COHEN'S OH (loew) 
Stewart ft Dakln 
Conrad ft Mareena 
"Between 8 ft 9" 
Brown Harris ft B 
Prince Karml 
2d half 
Von Cello 
Barnee A Robinson 
"Spider A Fly" 
Marie Russell 
(One to fill) 

New Orleans 

ORPHBUM 

Mercedes 
Laddie Cliff 
Woodchoppers 
Klmberly ft Mohr 
Cbadwlek 1 
Lancton Lucler Ce 
Yorke's Canlnea 
(Othera to 811) 

New Roenelle, N. Y. 

LOBW 
LeMalre ft Dawson 
(Two to fill) 
2d half 
When We Grow Up" 
Cook A Stevens 
(One to fill) 



26 



VARIETY 



Norfolk, V«. 

COLONIAL (Ubo) 
1st half 
Derain'a Animals 
Schooler £ Dickinson 
The Rosea 
(Others to fill) 
2d half 
Morln Sisters 
Frits A Lucy Bruch 
(Others to fill) 

Oakland 

ORPHBUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Claude Qllllngwater Co 
White a Jason 
Ashley * Canfleld 
Joe a Lew Cooper 
Harry DeCoe 
5 Metsettls 
Les Salraggls 
Claude Golden 
PA NT AGES (m) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Ethel Davis Co 
Miller Packer ft Selz 
King Thornton Co 
Taylor A Arnold 
Chester Kingston 

Oifdem, Utah 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
(14-10 
Bwan 

Laurie A Aleen 
Miller Moore A Oar 
Arthur De Voy Co 
Avellng A Lloyd 
Neptune's Nymphs 



Rleaanon*. Yo. 

MURRAY (uho) 
Morln Sisters 
Fritz A Lucy Bruch 
(Others to fill) 
2d half 
Dcrkin's Dogs 
Schooler & Dickinson 
The Roses 
(Others to fill) 

Rochester, N. Y. 

TEMPLE (uho) 
Rae B Ball 
Pekln Mysteries 
Flanagan A Edwards 
Marcantonl 3 
Mile Frasqulta 
Cams A Randall 
The Huntings 
Leo Carrlllo 
Kite Sully A Scott 

Sacra aneato 

ORPHEUM 
(19-20) 

Cbas Ahearn Co 

Stan Stanley 3 

Mack A Walker 

J Types 

Ida Dlvlnoff 

Weston A Clare 

Adair A Adair 
EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Bun Mat) 

Theodore Bamberg 

jolly A Wild 

Allen Miller Co 

Rose ft Moon 

Mice Hanson 

{ Mori Bros 



ORPHBUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Bertha Kallsch Co 
Will Rogers 
Cantwell A Walker 
Everest's Monkeys 
Mile Asorla Co 
Transatlantic 3 
McRae A CI egg 
(Others to fill) 

Ottawa 

DOMINION (ubo) 
Nellie Nichols 
Tate's Fishing 
Flying Henry" 
McManon Diamond Co 
Roach A McCurdy 
The Seebacka 
(Others to fill) 

Philadelphia 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Milton A DeLong Sis 
Willie Weston Co 
Edward Stevens Co 
Bronson A Baldwin 
The Kramers 
Adeline Oenee Co 
Harry B Lester 
The Oaudsmlths 
Rosy LaRocca 

ORAND O H (ubo) 
La Keillors 
Salle A Raymonde 
Wm Bence Co 
Barney GUmore 
Tlerney 4 
Seymour's Family 

BROADWAY (ubo) 
The Mosconls 
Spencer A Williams 
Harry Brooks Co 
Dolly A Mack 
Chung Hwa 4 
Rex Circus 
KNICKERBOCKER 
(loew) 

Hemmer A Prltchard 

Sabrey D'Orsell 

Lester Trio 

Sam Mann Players 

Harry Temple 

Aerial La Vails 
2d half 

Nestor A Delberg 

Merlin 

Japanese Prince 

Ex-Mayor Lew Shank 

Wolgas A Girlie 

(One to fill) 

Pittsburgh 

GRAND (ubo) 
"Colonial Days" 
McLallan A Carson 
Prvlne A Williams 
Allen DInebart Co 
La Toy Bros 
(Others to fill) 

Portland, Ore. 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Nelson 

Hurke & Harris 
Musical Avollos 
Wm II St James Co 
Anderson ft Golnos 
Rtewnrt Sis & Esrorts 

PANTAGES (m) 
Allsky'H Hawallans 
Henry ft Harrison 
Link Robinson Co 
Work ft Play 
VHStoff 3 

Providence, R. I. 

KEITHS (ubo) 
Mme Dorla & Dogs 
Claire Rochester 
Moran A Wiser 
Chris Richard^ 
Mang A Snyder 
FroElnl 
(Others to till) 

R*srlna, Can. 

ORPHEUM 
1st half 
"Red Heads" 
Asahl Quintet 
Cartmell A Harris 
Corbett Sheppard A D 
Bllda Morris 
Bugene 8 
(Others to nil) 



Salens, M 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Carlton A Clifford 
Weisxer A Relsser 

I Held" 
.1 Majesties 
Zeno Jordan ft Z 

2d half 
Wentworth Vesta A T 
Kammerer ft Howland 
Leila Davis Co 
Lew Wells 
(One to All) 

Salt Lake 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Dorothy Sherman 

Francis McGinn Co 

Merrill A Otto 

O'Brien Havel Co 

Finn A Finn 

Kramer A Patterson 

Binns A Bert 

EMPRESS (loew) 

"Fun In Baths" 

Dick De Lorls 

Burton Hahn A Ca 

Wanzer A Palmer 

Neal A Earl 

"Winning Widows" 
PANTAGES (m) 
(Open Wed Mat) 

Fair Coeds 

Kitner Hayes A Mon 

Bohemian Oulntet 

Chase A LaTour 

Heras A Preston 

Sna Diego 

SPRECKEL (orph) 

1st half 
Arnold Daly Co 
Relsner A Gores 
Cole A Denphy 
Boland A Holtz 
Carlos Bros 
The Grazers 
Burkehart A White 
PANTAGES m) 
"Night Hawks" 
Palfrey Barton A B 
Rozella A Rozella 
Wood's Animals 
Quinlan A Richards 

Sao Francisco 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Moore Llttlefleld Co 
Frank North Co 
Fredrlcka Slemons Co 
Lydell Rogers A Ly 
Rube Dickinson 
Morris Cronin Co 
Kalmer A Brown 
Chief Caupolican 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Murphy ft Foley 
Shrlner ft Richards 
Roraaln ft Orr 
'Thro Skylight" 
Nell McKlnley 
McClurc ft Dolly 
PANTAGES (m) 
(Open Sun Man 
"Kingdom of Dreams" 
Cornell Corley Co 
Arme 4 

Kelley ft Catlln 
Early ft Latent 
Gray ft Peters 

San .lone, C'nl. 

VICTORY (orph) 
(23-24) 
(Same bill as at Sac- 
ramento, this issue) 

Savannah, Gn. 

niJOU (ubo) 
1st half 
CrHghton Sisters 
Stewart ft Donahue 
J C Lewis Jr Co 
Fern Bigelow A M 

2d half 
Bertlsch 

Raymond ft Daln 
Marie King Scott 
D'Estelle Sisters 
Mack A Sangster 

Scranton, Pa. 

POLl'B (ubo) 
Mystlo Bird 
Hamilton A Barnes 



Catalano A Denny 
Bouton A Parker 
(Others to fill) 

Seattle 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Gertrude Coghlan Co 

Will Oakland Co 

Travilla Bros A Seal 

Elpbye Snowden 

Miller A Vincent 

Marie Fenton 

Ernie Potts Co 
EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Blanche Leslie 

Patricola A Myers 

Polzin Bros 

Earl ft Curtis 

Gray ft Graham 

"School Days" 

PANTAGES (m) 

Walter Terry Girls 

Juggling Mowatts 

Gardner ft Revere 

LaTourraine 4 

2 Kerns 

Slonx City 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Eleanor Haber Oh 
Ed Hayes Co 
Kramer ft Morton 
Aileen Stanley 
Ward Bell A Ward 
John Gelger 
The Mozarts 

Soata Chicago 

GAIETY (wva) 
•Watch Your Step" 

2d halt 
Geo Dixon 
Louis Oranat 
McCarthy ft Walcott 
Allman A Nevins 
"Pool Room" 

Spokane 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Canarls A Cleo 

Bill Robinson 

Bobbe A Dale 

Svengall 

Haydn Burton A H 

Black A White 
PANTAGES (m) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Claire Kawson Co 

Creole Orchestra 

Arthur Whltlaw 

M'Connell A Nlemeyer 

Great Harrahs 
St. Louis 
COLUMBIA (ubo) 

Henrietta Croesman Co 

Wilson A Batle 

Raymond A Caverly 

Marga De LaRosa 

The Bilfords 

Lee Barth 

Costa Troupe 

(Otbers to fill) 
Stockton, Cnl. 
YOSEMITE (orph) 
(21-22) 

(Same bill aB at Sac- 
ramento, this Issue) 

St. Paul, Minn. 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Burns A Fulton 
Williams A Wolfus 
Frement Benton Co 
DeHaven A Nice 
Lewis A Russell 
Ernie A Ernie 
Bertie FoTd 

BMPRESS (loew) 
Dixon A Dixon 
Warner A Corbett 
Chas L Fletcher 
"Wifle" 

Nichols Sisters 
Wanda 

Syracuse, N. Y. 

GRAND (ubo) 
Lane A O'Donnell 
The Turners 
Van Hoven 
McCormick ft Irving 
Lydla Barry 
(Others to fill) 

Taconan 

EMPRESS (loew) 
G«>o A Lilly Garden 
Hngart ft Nelson 
Hippodrome 4 
Stun tons 
Wormwood's Animals 

PANTAGES (m) 
Teddy McNamara Co 
Titanic 

Rnsdell Singers 
Saunders ft VonKuntz 
Lockarte ft Leddy 
Terre Hnatr. Ind. 

/AKTETIES (ubo) 
M.-rbert Lloyd Co 
Itobt Fulgera 



Brown Fletcher 8 
Lewis A Kessler 
Mason Wilbur A J 

2d half 
Minstrel Kiddles 
Frank Morrell 
Mile Martha A Sis 
Hal A Francis 
Cycling Brunettes 

Toledo, O. 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Juliet 

3 Castllllans 
The Hennlngs 
"Sergeant Bagby" 
Bert Fltzglbbons 
Wills A Hassan 
Williams Thompson C 
Parlllo A Frablto 
(One to fill) 

Toronto 

SHEA'S (ubo) 
DeMlcbelle Bros 
Golden Troupe 
Grace De Mar 
Fox A Dolly 
Joe Cook 

Nick's Skating Girls 
Haviland A Thornton 
(Others to fill) 
YOINGE ST (loew) 
.IiiKKling DeLisle 
D.-WItt ft Stewart 
"Ye Old Time Hullo" 
Crawford ft Uroderlck 
Stuart Blaik Co 
(Three to fill) 

Union Hill, N. J. 

HUDSON (ubo) 
Sorettls ft Antoinette 
Anthony ft Mack 
"Night and Day" 
Dainty Marie 
Ethel McDonough 
Pauline 

Hallet ft Noble 
(One to fill) 

Vtlea. N. Y. 

SHUBERT (ubo) 
Gleeson A Houlihan 
Yvette 

Johnson's Dogs 
(Others to fill) 

Vancouver, B. C. 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Ethel A Lucy Baker 
Lelghton A Robinson 
Grace DeWlnters 
Ryan Richfield Co 
Harry Thomson 
Cycling McNutts 

PANTAGES (m) 
Lander Stevens Co 
Bruce Richardson Co 
Prince A Deerle 
Togan A Geneva 
York 3 

Victoria, B. C. 

PANTAGES (m) 
11 Minstrel Maids 
Isabel Fletcher Co 
Hugo Lutgens 
El wood A Snow 
Leon A Adeline Sis 

Wnnhlnaton. D. C. 

KEITH'S (Ubo) 
Franklyn Ardell Co 
Sylvester Schaffer 
Rawls A Von Kaufman 
Ruth Roye 
Holmes A Buchanan 
Carbrey Bros 

Waterbnry. Conn. 

LOEW 
Ray Snow 
Prlerre ft King 
"The Elopement" 
Rockwell ft Wood 
Fanton's Athletes 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Gladys Vance 
Ward ft Gray 
Phlllipl 4 
Friend A Lesser 
Cook ft Rothort 
(One to fill) 

Wllmlnirton, Del. 

DOCKSTADER (ubo) 
Abou Hamad Tr 
Piantadosl A Fields 
Maurice Wood 
(Others to fill) 

Winnipeg*, Cnn. 

ORPHEUM 
Chas Howard Co 
Platov ft GlaBer 
Ann Trasker Co 
Minnie Allen 
Hubert Dyer Co 
Bert Merket 
Jack ft Forls 
(Others to fill) 

PANTAGES (ml 
Walter S How* Co 
Honamor Arabs 
Wayne 3 
Meltrah ft Peltrah 
Lurry Comer 



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A PAIR 

(Get. 20). 
"DANCING AROUND" 

Garden (2d week). 
•IUG JIM GARRITY" 

York (2d week). 
•CHIN-rillN" (Montgomery and Stone)- 

Globe (Oct. 20). 
'DADDY LONG-LEGS'- Gaiety (4th week). 
DIPLOMACY" Empire (Ot. 20). 
"KVIDENCE" Lyric (.'Id week). 
"CONSEQUENCES" Comedy (4th week). 
GliANI) OPERA --Century (Mth week). 
HE COMES UP SMILINCT (Douglas Fair 

banks)— Liberty (6th week). 
"INNOCENT"— Bltlnge (7th week). 



"IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE"— Cohan (7th 

week). 
"KICK IT"— Longacre (2d week). 
"LIFE"— Manhattan O. H. (Oct. 191. 
"MY LADY'S DRESS"— Playhouse (2d week). 
"MR. WU" (Walker Whiteside)— Marine 

Elliott (2d week). 
"ON TRIAL"— Candler (10th week). 
PRINCESS PLAYERS— Princess (1st week. 
"PYGMALION" (Mrs. Campbell)— Park (2d 

week). 
"PRETTY MISS SMITH" (Fritsl Scheff)— 

Casino (5th week). 
"THE PERFECT LADY" (Rose Stahl)— Hud- 
son (Oct 20). 
"THE SALAMANDER"— Harris (Oct. 22). 

BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE"— Lyceum 

week). 

GIRL FROM UTAH"— Knickerbocker 

week). 

HIGH COST OF LOVING"— Republic 

(9th week). 
"THE MIRACLE MAN"— Astor (5th week). 
"THE HAWK" (Wm. Faversham)— Shubert 

(3d week). 
"THE LAW OF 

(4th week). 
"THE PRODIGAL HUSBAND" (John Drew) 

—Empire (6th week). 
"THE PHANTOM RIVAL"— Belasco (3d 

week). 
"THE MONEY MAKERS"— Booth (3d week). 
"THE THIRD PARTY"— 39th Street (12th 

week) 
"TWIN BEDS"— Fulton (11th week). 
"UNDER COVER"— Cort (9th week). 
"WARS OF THE WORLD"— Hippodrome (7th 

week). 



"THE 
(7th 

"THE 
(8th 

"THE 



THE LAND"— 48th Street 



CHICAGO. 

"FUNNYLAND"— Auditorium (1st week). 
"A PAIR OF 8IXES"— Cort (llth week) 
"PEG O* MY HEART"— Garrick (18th week). 
"LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN" — Illinoa 

( 1 8l W6©k ) 

"ONE GIRL IN A MILLION"— La Salle (7th 

week ) 
"POTASH A PERLMUTTER"— Olympic (Oth 

week). 
"THE YELLOW TICKET"— Powers' 

week) • 
"TO-DAY"— Princess (4th week). 
FORBES-ROBERTSON — Blackstone 

week) 

LONDON. 
"BELLE OF NEW YORK"— Aid wych. 
"BLUFF KINO HAL" — Garrick. 
"CHOCOLATE SOLDIER"— Lyric. 
"DRAKE"— His Majesty's. 
"FORGET ME NOT"— Little. 
"GREAT ADVENTURE"— Kingsway 
"GRUMPY"— New. 
"MY LADY'S DRESS"— Royalty. 
"MAMEENA"— Globe. 
"OUTCAST"— Wyndham. 
"POTASH & PERLMUTTER"— Queens. 
"SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE"— Apollo. 
"SILVER KING" — Strand. 
"SIR RICHARDS BIOGRAPHY"— Criterion 
"THE LITTLE MINISTER"— Duke of York'* 
"THE IMPOSSIBLE WOMAN"— Haymarket. 
"TOMMY ATKINS"— Lyceum. 
"THOSE WHO SIT IN JUDGMENT"— St 

J £10163* 

"WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD"— Prinoj 

of Wales. 
"MR. WU"— Savoy. 






'YOUNG WISDOM"— Playhouse. 



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"LIFE'S SHOP WINDOW" 

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DOOLEY and RUGEL 

Next Week (Oct. It), Shubcrt. Utica 
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JIM SYBIL 

DIAMOND and BRENNAN 

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MARIE FISHER 

Prima Donna with "Passing Review of 1914" 
THE COMET OF BURLESQUE 



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IN VAUDEVILLE 



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In "CURSE YOU, JACK DALTON" 

Direction, HARRY WEBER. 



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Neat Weak (Oct. If), MaJaatteT 



Houeton, T« 



McGrae Juaie Columbia Theatre Bldg N Y 
Meredith Slstera 330 W Slat StNYC 

Middleton ft Spellmeyer Freeport L I 
Morris ft Beasley Loew Circuit 
Morrissey ft Hackett care Gene Hughes 



7MYSTIC BIRD? 

Playing U. B. O. Orpkeum 
Direction, HARRY WEBER 



Mtititfiittufiitiini 



■ in' 



WORLD FILM 
CORPORATION 



a Shubart photoplay feature 



"When Broadway 
Was a Trail" 





with— 



BARBARA 
TENNANT 



Released Oct. 26 

Arrange Bookinge Through 

World Film Corporation 

LEWIS J. SELZNICK, Vlce-Proe. ft Gen. Mgr. 

13f W. etth SU New York 
23 Branch** throughout the U. S. and Canada. 




N 

Nash Julia Co Keith's Louisville 
Natalie & Ferrari Orpheum Lincoln 
Nelusca ft Herley Keith's Columbus 
Nestor ft Delberg Loew Circuit 
Nlblo ft Spanner 363 12th St Bklyn 
Nlchel Sletere care Delmar 1493 Bway NYC 
North Frank Co Orpheum San Francisco 
Nosses Musical 5 Orpheum Madison 



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Oakland Will Co Orpheum Seattle 



Pernikoff & Rose Keith's Cincinnati^ 
Perry Albert Co Orpheum Kansas City 
Piatov ft Glaser Orpheum Winnipeg 
Potts Ernie Co Orpneum Seattle 



Harry Webber preeente 

ILTON POLLOCK 

In Geo. Ada'* Comedy, 

"SPEAKING TO FATHER" 

Neat Weak (Oct. If), Buehwick, Brooklyn 



Reevee BUkf Variety London 
Really Charlie Variety San Francisco 
Renards 3 Variety N Y 
Reynalda Carrie Variety N Y 

W. E. Ritchie and Co. 

THE ORIGINAL TRAMP CYCLIST 
CENTRAL, DRESDEN. GERMANY 



Rice Hazel 226 W 50th St N Y C 
Richardini Michael 10 Leicester Sq London 




JOSEPH HART PRESENTS 

= HARRY- 
BERESFORD 



IN 



"TWENTY ODD YEARS" 

By Tom Barry 
"The Sweetest Act in Vaudeville" 

COLONIAL THIS WEEK (October 12th) 



VARIETY 



Started Them Talking 

and they haven't stopped 

Repeating on Broadway 

what happened all over Europe 







The Man Who Grows 



Makes them talk because he grows 

They can't understand it and they talk about it 



ACKNOWLEDGED the most unique and 
original stage novelty of modern times 



A box office attraction that never fails 
The act its own best advertiser 



Oct. 



Hammer stein's this week and next week (19 

Appearing at 3.20 and 9.20 

FIRST APPEARANCE IN NEW YORK 



VARIETY 



ALFRED LATELL 

Acknowledged by Press and Public as the World's Greatest Animal Actor 

THE 

GREATEST 

COMEDY 

FEATURE 

ACT IN 

THE WORLD 




Presenting 

A Dog 
of Fantasy 

Direction 
H. B. Marinelli 

REENGAGED BY WILLIAM MORRIS FOR THE HARRY LAUDER ALL STAR 

TOUR OPENING AT LOS ANGELES OCTOBER 16 




WM. 



MAUD 



ROCK and FULTON 

Featured in "The Candy Shop" 
EN ROUTE 

Roemn^AthletictjirTs Variety Chicago 
Ronair ft Ward Variety N Y 



THE VIVIANS 

THE SHARPSHOOTERS 
Now in London 
Address care of VARIETY, 18 Charing Cross 
London. . 



Road. 



ALBERT 



DOROTHY 



Yule Chas Co Orpheum Memphis 



Zazell H M Co Orpheum Circuit 

Zoeller Edward care Cooper 1416 Bway NYC 



Al Variety N Y 
Sherman & Dc Forest Poli's Waterburv 
Stafford ft Stone Echo Farm Nauriet N 
Stanley Forrest Burbank Los Angeles 
Stanton Walter Variety N Y 
St Elmo Carlotta Variety N Y 
Stephens Leona 1213 Elder Ave N Y 
Sutton Mclntyre ft Sutton Variety N Y 



"The Pumpkin Girls" Varicvy N Y 
Texico Variety NYC 

Thomas & Hall Orpheum Minneapolis 
Thompson Chas Keith's Louisville 
Trasker Ann Co Orpheum Winnipeg 
Tsuda Harry Orpheum Los Angrlcs 
Turners The Grand Syracuse 



Valli Muriel ft Arthur Variety N Y 
Van Billy B Van Harbor N H 
Violin sky Orpheum Kansas City 



VON TILZER and NORD 

Next Week (Oct. If), Bushwick, Brooklyn 
Direction, MAX HART 



W 

Walton & Vivian White Rats N Y 
Ward Bell & Ward Orpheum Sioux City 
White & Jason Orpheum Oakland 



WILLIE WESTON 

IN VAUDEVILLE 
Booked Solid. Direction, MORRIS ft FEIL 



Williams & Wolfus Orpheum St Paul 
Wills & Hassan Kuith's Toledo 
Wilson & Untie Columbia St Louis 
Wilson Frank Orpheum Denver 
Woodman & Livingston Orpheum Duluth 
WriKht Cecelia Keith's Columbus 



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BURLESQUE ROUTES I 

1 is 

(Week Oct. 19 and 26.) 

American Beauties 19 Empire Hoboken 26 
Empire Brooklyn 

Auto Girls 19 Howard Boston 26 Grand Bos- 
ton 

Poauty Parade 19 Minor's Bronx New York 26 
L () 2 Empire Newark 

Beauty Youth 6 Folly 19 Empire Cleveland 
26 Victoria Pittsburg 

Behman Show 19 Gayety Montreal 26-28 Em- 
pire Albany 29-31 Grand Hartford 

Ben Welch Show 19 Princess St Louis 26 
Gayety Kansas City 

BIr Jubilee 19 Empire Toledo 26 Columbia 
ChicaRo 

BIr Revue 19 Grand Boston 26-28 Grand 
Plttsfleld 29-31 Empire Holyoke 

Big Sensation 19 L O 26 Casino Chicago 



Bohemians 19 Century Kansas City 26 L 
2 Casino Chicago 

Bon Tons 19 L O 26-28 Bastabel Syracuse 

29-31 Lumberg Utlca 
Bowery Burlesquers 19 Columbia Chicago 26 

Princess St Louis 
Broadway Girls 19 Trocadero Philadelphia 26 

L O 2-4 Binghamton ~>-7 Schenectady. 
Charming Widows 19 Victoria Pittsburg 26 

Penn Circuit 
Cherry Blossoms 22-24 Grand Trenton 26 

Gayety Brooklyn 
City Belles 19 Buckingham Louisville 26 

Standard Cincinnati 
City Sports 19 Gayety Brooklyn 26-28 Jacques 

O H Waterbury 29-31 Gilmore Springfield 
College Girls 19-21 Worcester Worcester 22- 

24 Park Bridgeport 26 Columbia New York 
Columbia Burlesquers 19 Gayety Buffalo 
Crackerjacks 19-21 Grand Plttsfleld 22-24 Em- 
pire Holyoke 26 Murray Hill New York 
Dreamlands 19 Gayety Cincinnati 26 Empire 

Toledo 
Eva Mull's Show 19 L O 26 Gayety Baltimore 
Fay Foster Co 19 Star Brooklyn 26 Troca- 
dero Philadelphia 
Follies of the Day 19 Gayety Kansas City 26 

Gayety Omaha 
Follies of Pleasure 19 Savoy Hamilton Can 26 

Cadillac Detroit 
French Models 19 Star Toronto 26 Savoy 

Hamilton Can 
Gaiety Girls 19 Gayety Detroit 26 Gayety 

Toronto 



A Real Novelty Song With a Comedy Punch T Llne. A Great Idea. A Great Lyric. Great Melody. Great Harmony 

"NOW I'LL RAISE AN ARMY OF MY OWN" 



BY ROGER LEWIS AND ERNIE ERDMAN. 

CHORUS 



FIRST VERSE /" 

The war has started, yes, the war has started, 

I've just come from a battle but I heard no bullets rattle. 

Still I had to fight, fight with all my might, 

Keep my arms advancing, advancing left and right. 

The enemy was hid behind a fort of golden hair. 

The war was started by her baby stare. 



I've had a battle all my own, 

I had to battle for love and for home; 

Now a treaty's signed, it's a funny kind, 

Terms of peace are love and kisses, 

And a miss is now a missus, 

I laid a siege right to her heart, 

But I could not win alone, 

My Allies were the candy shops, 

My ammunition choc'-late drops, 

Now I'll raise an army of my own. 



SECOND VERSE 



The war is over, yes, the war is over, 

A flag of truce is flying on our home, there's no denying, 

Cupid led each fray, helped me night and day, 

Soon the girl surrendered, and gave her heart away, 

Our engagement was the kind of which the poets like to sing, 

And now she's captive in a golden ring. 



ORCHESTRATIONS ALL KEYS. 



DOUBLE VERSIONS. HARMONY ARRANGEMENTS. READ 

BETTER STILL, CALL AND LEARN IT. 



THE LYRIC AND THEN SEND FOR IT, OR 



HAROLD ROSSITER MUSIC CO., 317 Strand Theatre Building, Broadway and 47th St. 

TOM MAYO GEARY, Manager. 



VARIETY 



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LOVE 



Produced bv JFAN SCHWARTZ and CRAM (LARK 



I bey all tnamblcd for tbis one after tb<- 

air spot bv any one. 



sbowinif ( ,<;i play any b>us«- on any 



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WATERSON, BERLIN 



SNYDER 



STRAND THEATRE BUILDING, 47th Street and Broadway, NEW YORK 



CHICAGO 

Monroe and State Streets 



PHILADELPHIA 

923 Walnut Street 



BOSTON 

220 Tremont Street 



32 



VARIETY 



The Refined Horn* for 

Professionals. 

Handsomely Furnished 

Steam Heated Rooms 

Bath and every 

convenience 



ft 



THE ST. KILDA 



99 



'Phone 7107 Bryant 
Acknowledged as the best 

?lace to atop at In New 
ork City. 

One block from Booking 
Offices and VARIETY. 



Now at 67 W. 44th Street 



PAULINE COOKE, Sole Proprietress 




Hotel Plymouth 

31th St. (Between Broadway and Sth Ave.), N. Y. City 



New Fireproof Building. 



A Stone's Throw from Broadway 



$1 



ONE ,N 
T7 A 

DAY ROOM 



$1 



5 TWO IN 

T" A 

DAY ROOM 



Big Reductions to Weekly Guests 

Every room has hot and cold running water, electric light and 
long distance telephone. 

Phone 1520 Greeley EUROPEAN PLAN T. SINNOTT, Manager 



CLEANEST IN TOWN 



150 Furnished Apartments 

Steam Heated, Centrally Located in the Theatrical District in the City of 
NEW YORK. For the Comfort and Convenience of the Profession. 



HENRI COURT 

111 IM »d 111 W. nth ST 

Tel. Bryant 8560-8561 

New fireproof building, 
just completed, with hand- 
somely furnished three and 
four-room apartments com- 
plete for housekeeping. Pri- 
vate bath, telephone, elec- 
tricity. 
RATES: $12 UP WEEKLY 



THE ANNEX 

754 and 758 8th AVE., it 471b St. 
Tel. Bryant 3431 

Decidedly clean, four and 
five-room apartments with 
private baths, carefully fur- 
nished. 

$10.00 up 



THE CLAMAN 
S2S ate IS! W. 4Jd ST. 

Tel. Bryant 4293-6131 

Comfortable and excep- 
tionally clean three and 
four- room apartments, thor- 
oughly furnished for house- 
keeping. Private baths. 

$8.00 UP WEEKLY 



UNDER MANAGEMENT OF TUB OWNER 





HUR 



252-254 West 38th St, off 7th Avenue, NEW YORK 

$2.50 to $5.08 Weekly 

% scrupulously dona, baths ea every fleer, steam beat electric light aad Igaa 
Greeley MUSIC ROOM FOR USE OF GUESTS 



554 
Tel. Bryant { 555 
7833 



The Edmonds 



ONE BLOCK 
TO TIMES SQ. 



1 

Furnished Apartments 

EDWARD E. BURTIS, Mgr. 

CATERING EXCLUSIVELY TO THE PROFESSION 

776-78-80 EIGHTH AVENUE 

Between 47th and 48th Streets 



NEW YORK 



Private Bath and Phone In 
Each Apartment 



Office 
776 EIGHTH AVENUE 



AN ITALIAN DINNER YOU WONT FORGET 



MS 



Saint Paul Hotel 

OOTH ST. AND COLUMBUS AVE. 

NEW YORK CITY 

Ten-story building, absolutely fireproof. 

All baths with shower attachment. 

Telephone in every room. 

One block from Central Park Subway, fth 
and tth Ave. L. Stations. Same distance from 
Century, Colonial, Circle and Park Theatres. 

RATES— 

100 Rooms, use of bath, $1 per day. 

150 Rooms, private bath, $1.50 per day. 

Suites, Parlor, Bedroom 6 Bath, $2 and up. 

By the week, $0-$0 and $14 and up. 

SPECIAL RATES TO THE PROFESSION 



NEW YORK 



Tel. 1890 Bryant 

200 W. 41ST STREET 

A Hotel for Gentlemen — $2 up 
1 Minute West of Broadway 

The Rendezvous for Bohemians and Profes- 
sional Folk Generally. Chile Concarne, Hot 
Tamales and Mexican Dishes a Specialty. 

Rehearsal Rooms, $1.50 for 3 hours. 



Telephone Bryant 2307 

Furnished Apartments 
and Rooms 

Three and Four Room Apartments $0 to $0 
Large rooms $4.00 and up 

COMPLETE HOUSEKEEPING 

310 W. 48TH ST., NEW YORK 



fit-Ill West 4M St 
Lmthtte. 
With Wins 



eiOLITO 



Heir HI Ave. 



DINNER, Week Days, 55c. 

HeMeye end Sundays, 60o. 

WITH WIN! 

THE RENDEZVOUS OF 'THEATRICALS BEST" 
EAT IN THE OPEN IN OUR SUMMER GARDEN 

HOTEL LYNWOOD 

102 WEST 44TH STREET • NEW YORK 

Single Rooms, $5 per week; Double, $7; with Beth, $9; Parlor Bedroom end 
Batji, $14. Elevator, Electric Light, Telephone in every room. Telephone 813V 
Bryant. 

HOTEL IMENA/ YORK 

22 W. 60th STREET (Near Columbus Circle), NEW YORK 

Single room, cosy and warm, $4 per week up; double room, $5 per week up: room with private 
bath, $0 per week up; parlor, bedroom and bath, $10 JO per week up; running hot and cold water; 
•oed bees; telephone in every room; also electric light; excellent service; restaurant attached; 
home cooking; prices reasonable. Catering to the theatrical profession. New management. 
Telephone 10241 Columbus. 



Garden of Girls 19 Cadillac Detroit 20 Hay- 
market Chicago 
Gay Morning Glories 10 Standard Cincinnati 

26 Empire Cleveland 
Gay New Yorkers 111 L O 26 Westminster 

Providence 
Gay White Way 10-21 Empire Albany 22-24 

Grand Hartford 20 Casino Boston 
Gay WidowH 10 L O 20-28 Stone H Blng- 

hamton 29-31 Van Culler O 11 Schenectady 
Ginger Girls 10 Gayety Toronto 26 Gayety 

Buffalo 
Girls from Happyland 10 Grand St Paul 26 

Gayety Milwaukee 
Girls from Joyland 10 Olympic New York 20 

Orphcum Paterson 
Girls from Follies 10 Academy of Music Nor- 
folk 20 Gayety Philadelphia 
Girls of Moulin Rouge 10 Gayety Omaha 20 

L O 2 Gayety Minneapolis 
Globe Trotters 10 Westminster Providence 20 

Gayety Boston 
Golden Crook 10-21 Grand Hartford 22-24 

Empire Albany 20 Miner's Bronx New York 
Gypsy Maids 10 Casino Philadelphia 20 Palace 

Baltimore 
Happy Widows 10 Gayety Washington 20 

Gayety Pittaburg 
Hastings Big Show 19 Gayety Minneapolis 

20 Grand St Paul 
Hello Paris 19 Murray Hill New York 26 

Star Brooklyn 
Heart C'harmers 1D-21 Blnghamton 22-24 

S< hem-i lady 20 Corinthian Rochester 
High Life Girls 10 Haymarket Chicago 26 

Standard St Louis 



Honeymoon Girls 10 L O 26 Gayety Minneapo- 
lis 

Liberty Girls 10 Palace Baltimore 20 Gayety 
Washington 

Lovemakers 10-21 Bastable Syracuse 22-24 
Lumberg Utica 26 Gayety Montreal 

Marion's Own Show 10 Casino Brooklyn 26 
Music Hall New York 

Million Dollar Dolls 10 Star & Garter Chi- 
cago 26 Englewood Chicago 

Mischief Makers 10 Bijou Richmond 26 Acad- 
emy of Vuslc Norfolk 

Monte Carlo Girls 10 Orphcum Paterson 20 
L O 2 Gayety Baltimore 

Orientals 10 Casino Chicago 20 Columbia In- 
dianapolis 

Prize Winners 10 Columbia New York 26 
Casino Brooklyn 

Passing Review of 1014 10 Gayety Baltimore 
20 IUJou Richmond 

Reeve's Beauty Show 10 Gayety Boston 26-28 
Grand Hartford 2!>-31 Empire Albany 

Rice's Sam Daffydlll Girls 19 Columbia In- 
dianapolis 20 Buckingham Louisville 

Robinson's Carnation Beauties 1!» Englewood 
Chicago 20 Gny.'ty Detroit 

Roseland Girls 10 Star Cleveland 26 Gayety 
Cincinnati 

Rosey Posey Girls 10 Gayety Pittsburg 26 
Star Cleveland 

September Morning Glories 10 Corinthian 
Rochester 20 Garden Buffalo 

Social Maids 10 Gayety Milwaukee 26 Star & 
Garter Chicago 



Star & Garter 10 Empire Brooklyn 26 L O 2 

Westminster Providence 
Sydell's London Belles 10 Casino Boston 26- 

28 Worcester Worcester 20-31 Bridgeport 
Tango Girls 10 Standard St Louis 20 Century 

Kansas City 
Tango Queens 10-21 Jacques H Waterbury 

22-24 GUmore Springfield 20 Boston 
Taxi Girls 19 Garden Buffalo 20 Star Toronto 
Tempters 19 Gayety Philadelphia 29-31 Grand 

Trenton 
Trocaderos 10 Music Hall New York 26 Em- 
pire Philadelphia 
Watson Sisters 10 L O 20 Empire Newark 
Watson's Big Show 10 Empire Philadelphia 

20 Empire Hoboken 
Winning Widows 10 Empire Newark 20 Casino 

Philadelphia 
Zallahs Own Show 10 Penn Circuit 20 

Olympic New York 



101 RANCH- 10 Charlotte. N. C, 20 Ches- 
ter, 21 Columbia. 22 Newberry, 23 Laurens, 24 
Spartanburg. 20 Greenville, 27 Anderson, 28 
Greenwood, S. C, 20 Elberton, 30 Athens, 31 
Galnsville. 2 Atlanta. Ga. 

RINGLING— 10 Bowling Green. Ky., 20 
Nashville, Tenn.. 21 Hopkinsville. 22 Paducah. 
Ky., 23 Jackson. Tenn., 24 Cairo, 111. 




LETTERS 

Where C follows name, letter is in 
Variety's Chicago office. 

Where S F follows name, letter is in 
Variety's San Francisco office. 

Advertising or circular letters will 
not be listed. 

P following name indicates postal, 
advertised once only. 



BARNUM-BAILET— 19 Oklahoma City, 20 
Ardmore. Okla., 21 Sherman, 22 Paris, Tex., 
23 Texarkana, 24 Little Rock. Ark.. 25 Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

H AGENBACK-WALLACE lit Fort Smith. 
20 Russellvllle. 21 Hot Springs. Ark., 23 Mem- 
phis, 24 Covington. Tenn.. 20 Maytteld, 27 
Paducah, Ky. 



Abbott Billy 
Abdallah Joe (C) 
Abels Neal (C) 
Abrahams Nathaniel 
Adams Fred 
Adams Geo 
Alexander Chas (C) 
Allison May 
Alton Ethel (C) 
Andra Bess 
Anouse Lew 
Armento Angelo (C) 



Austin John 

Avery Van & Carrie 



Babette & Evans 
Balto Harvey 
Barry Walter (C) 
Barry & Nelson 
Bartfett Mildred 
Baxter Ed 
Bellen Lillian 
Belmont Pauline 



VARIETY 



33 



HOTEL VAN CORTLANDT 






142-446 W. 49th STREET 

JUST EAST OP BROADWAY 



NEW YORK 



Centrally located, good service, absolutely fireproof. A home-like transient and family 

hotel. Telephone in every room. 

Restaurant and Grill equal to any Moderate Prices 

Rooms large, light, airy and well furnished. 

Rooms with use of bath $1.50 and up. Rooms with bath $2 and up, 
Parlor bedroom and bath $3 and up, for one or two persons. 

SPECIAL RATES TO THE PROFESSION. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS 



CORNE 

114-116 WEST 47TH STREET, NEW YORK 

» (Just off Broadway) 
Best location in town. 

Kitchenette apartments; Single and double rooms, with bath. Attractive 

prices to the profession. 



Telephone Bryant 4f51 



THE IVIOIMF-ORT 

104-106 W. 40TH ST., NEW YORK, Between Broadway and Sixth Ave, 

European Plan, rooms $2.50 up per week. Double rooms, $4.00 up. Housekeeping rooms, $7.W 
per week. Steam Heat. Baths en every floor. 

J1MSEY JORDAN, Mgr. 

Phone Bryant 1144 Gee. P. Schneider, Prop. 





Clean and Airy 



FURNISHED APARTMENTS 

323 West 43rd Street, NEW YORK CITY 

Catering to the comfort and convenience of the profession 
Music room for guests S7.se up. 



Tel.: Greeley 2704 and 5077 

BRODERICK'S HOTEL 

(European) 

201 W. 3tth St., Cor. 7th Ave. 
and branch houses 

tm-m-m uiaw. nth st. NEW YORK 

ISO Rooms el the Better Kind 
Hot and Cold Water la Rooms— Electric Light. 
$3 to 17 per week 

When Playing Atlantic City Stop At 

HOTEL G00DFELL0W 

Maryland Ave. and Boardwalk 

Three minutes from New Nixon and Keith's 
Theatres. Eight minutes from Apollo Theatre 

Special Rates tt tfct Profession 

CHAS. J. GOODFELLOW, Prop. 
Late of Chestnut Street Opera House, Phila. 

HOTEL BROADWAY, DETROIT 

42-44 BROADWAY 
Theatrical hotel within three minutes' walk 
from all Theatres. Price, $3.50 up, single; 
$5.00 up, double. 



MRS. REN SHIELDS. ^ggJJP 

The Van Alen, 154 Weat 45th St. 

STEAM HEAT AND HOT WATER 

Phone 1103 Bryant. All Modern Improvements 
Maud Fauvette, "The Tango Chamber Maid" 

Catering to Vaudeville's Blue List 

SCHILLING HOUSE 

107-100 West 48th Street 

NEW YORK 

American plan. MEAL SERVICE AT ALL 
HOURS. Private Baths. Music Room for 
Rehearsals. 'Phone lOSO Bryant 

Phone Greeley 3444 

FURNISHED ROOMS 

Ml West 30th St. 

New York City 

table Rates. Light Housekeeping 

MR. AND MRS. EDKENNARD. 



Benallsha Mabel 
Bennett May 
Bennett W 
Benson Bennle 
Berliner Ed 
Bernard A Neal (C) 
Bernle Ben 
Berzac Cliff 
Blake Sisters 
Bloom B 
Bonner Alf 
Bonnesettl Paul (C) 
Bowers Joseph 
Bowman Bros 
Bradford Ralph (C) 
Bradley Joe (C) 
Brenner Dorothy 
Brltton Lew 
Brooks J (C) 
Brooks Harry 
Brown Tod 
Brown Fred 
Brunnelle Margery 
Burns Harry 
Burt Harriett 
Burton Richard 
Bush Robert 



Calhoun Julia 
Campbell John 
Carloss Mrs 
Carr Blanche 
Carroll Emma 
Castellano Frank 
Cate Frank 
Cathperts 

Charblno Proa (C) 
Chrlldrey Richard 
Christian Julia 
Chun-hill Estelle 
Clarendon Trlxle 
Clark Ed 
Clark Herbert 
Clark a Temple 
Clayton Zella 



Clemens Margaret 
Cleve Ed 
Cleve Henry 
Cleveland Harry 
Cohn A Hlrsch 
Cole Judson (C) 
Colleges Viola 
Collier Ruby 
Collins 81m 
Cooley Hollis 
Cooper Texas 
Copeland Les 
Creighton Susie 
Croudin Ruth A Harry 
Crowley James 
Cuff John 



Dale Loretta 
Daley Rosle 
Dahlberg May 
Darrell Emily 
Darrell Jack 
Davis Al 
Davison Gladys 
Deaves Harry 
Deerfoot Bombay (C) 
De Forest Gladys 
De Hollis Wm 
De Kraft Stewart 
De Lacey Mabel 
De Ovlatt Bevorall (C) 
Del Prima Miss 
De Rell Walter 
De Val Billy 
Doming Joe 
Demnatl Haddo 
Dlston Madeline 
Doblndo Emll 
Donaldson J (C) 
Don Arthur (C) 
Dooley Ray 
Downey Maurice 
Downing Sam 
Drlscoll Hall Co 
Duffy Mrs 



Dunbar Lew 
Dunlevy Joe 
Dunn Tom 
Dupree Geo. 
Dushan Peggy 
Dushan Mayme 
Duvall Helen 

B 
Eokewoode Hebe 
Edmonds A Lavelle 
Eley Helen 
Emerald Trio 
Evans J E 
Evans Mae 
Evans Ray 
Excellas B E (C) 



Faber A Waters (C) 
Falls Agnes 
Faquay Jack 
Faye Elsie 
Fern Alma 
Ferris Wm 
Fields Harry 
Flotti 
Flynn Jos 
Forbes Marion 
Forklns Marty 
Forrester Chas 
Fowler Bertie 
Fowler Kate 
Franklyn Wilson 

G 

(Jaffney Sugar Foot 
Gallagher W F 
Galloway Lillian 
Gnlvln Tom (C) 
Gnrflcld Frank 
Georgnlahs Bros 
Qcrmaine Florence (C) 
Gibson J 
Glllen Chas 
Gllmore & Castle 
Goodwins F 
Gordon James 



Gorman A Bell 
Grant Rose 
Granville Bert 
Gray Julia 
Great Alvln 
Greene Miss 
Guise Johnnie 
Guyer Mae 
Gygl Ota 

H 
Hadley Florence 
Haggerty A Hobbs 
Hahn A H 
Haines Robt 
Hsll Jack 
Hamilton Grace 
Hamilton Robt 
Harding Richard 
Hardy Adele (C) 
Harlon Sidney 
Harper Mabel 
Harrington Ray 
Harrison Claire 
Hart Wm 
Hartman Marie 
Hartman S E 
Harvey Trio 
Harvey W S 
Haynes Olive (C) 
Hayes W C 
Hazard Grace 
Hearn E F 
Hearn Lew 
Heath Frank ie 
Henderson C 
Henderson Frank 
Hlllard Wm (C) 
Hills Molly 
Hippies Beth 
Hockett Bob (C) 
Holder Ed S 
Holmes & Wells 
Holt Jas 
Hopkins Mr 
Horelik Family (C) 
Howard Jos (C) 
Hunter Harrison 



COME AND SEE ME. 



PUT THIS IN YOUR DATE BOOK 



BILLY "Swede" HALL 

CLARIDGE APARTMENTS, 
226 WEST 50TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY 



Big Time Food, Big Time Service, Small Time Prices at the 

French- American Bakery-Restaurant 

IS4 WEST 44TH ST.-NEXT TO THE CLARIDGE HOTEL, NEW YORK 
POPULAR PRICES. GEO. FISCH, PROP. ALWAYS OPEN. 



ACTS COMING TO CHICAGO STOP AT 

HOTEX CARLE/TON 

STATE, ARCHER AND 20TH STREETS 

$4.00 up. Single or Double, and get showing at Alhambra Hippodrome. 
For Chicago Agents. Theatre and Hotel Under Same Management 



SAN FRANCISCO 






LANKERSHIM HOTEL 

Absolutely Fireproof; New and Modern; 350 Rooms 
Fifth Street, opposite U. S. Mint: half block from Pantagee and Empress, and Near AD Theatres. 

SPECIAL RATES TO THE PROFESSION 

Single Room, $4 per week; Double, $4.50; with Private Bath, IS and $f. Take any Taxi, our Expense. 



Dad's Theatrical Hotel 

PHILADELPHIA 



a6X HOTe.1 

It NOME OF Tflt PPOF! ' N" 

ii»» Hurt ii mt rirrrmrrAN 



WELLINGTON HOTEL 

Wabash Ave. and Jackson Blvd. 

CHICAGO 
Rates To The Profession 

J. A. RILEY, Manager 

ST. LOUIS, MO 

REGENT HOTEL, 100 N. 14TH 

NEW REGENT HOTEL, 101 N. 14TH 

METROPOLE HOTEL, 809 N. 1ZTH ST 

E. E. CAMPBELL, Prop, and Mgr. 

Theatrical Headquarters 
Ten Minutes' Walk to All Theatres 



SHERMAN'S HOTEL 

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Hussey Jimmy 
Huxtable Fred 



Imhof Roger (C) 
Inge Clara 
Irwin Merrick (C) 
Irving A (P) 



Jackson Belle (P) 
Jackson Leo 
James Mrs Walter 
Jarrett F J 
Johnson Dave (C) 
Johnson Honey 
Johnson A Crane 
Jordan Leslie 
Jordon Leslie (C) 
Jordon R 



Kahn Victor 
Kalman O R 
Kaufman Minnie 
Kaufman Walter 
Kaufman Sisters 
Keith Dottle (C) 
Kent Annie (C) 
Kiernan James 
Kllman George 
King Chas 
King A Davies 
Kitchen Richard 
Knapp Bob (C) 
Knight A Moose (C) 
Kramer Emma 
Krausc Lew 
Krells The 
Kuhn Chas 
Kunz Mrs 



Lagan Mrs (P> 
Lake Marjorle 
Latrll Alfred 
Lawton Pbillls 



Lawrence A Edwards 
Leander H 
Leber Andy 
Le Mont Dan 
Lena A Rudolph 
Leo Jose 
Leroy Delia 
Le Roy Frank 
Leslie Frank 
Lester Bert (C) 
Lester Hugh 
Lester A House 
Levey Ethel (C) 
Lewis Harry 
Linn Ben 
Livingston Grace 
Lockwood H 
London Louis 
Long Hillary (P) 
Lopez A Lopez 
Loralne Ethel 
Lorraine Hazel 
Lovell A Lovell 
Lubln Dave (C) 
Lucky Jim 
Lyle C 
Lytle Angus 
Lytell Wm 



Macmillan Stella 
Mallla Harry 
Mansfield R 
Mardy Adele 
Marquem Pearl 
Martin Frank 
Martyn V (C) 
Maye Stella 
Maynard Edwin 
McAvoy A Brooks 
McColgan Madge (C) 
McConnel 4 T (C) 
McCoy Geo 
McNamara J H 
Merle's Cockatoos (C) 
Meyers Charlotte 
Millard O D (C) 
Miller Cleora Trio 



Miller Elsie Faye 
Mitchell Chas (C) 
Mohamad Amback 
Montrose Nellie 
Moran Hazel 
Morelle Beatrice 
Morrlsey B 
Mueller L M 
Muller Gene 
Munford Eddie 
Myers Maude 

N 

Nadel Leo (C) 
Neff John 
Newell A Most 
Nlblo A Riley 
Nielsen Cbas 
Nolan Andy (C) 
Nolan Miss 
Nugent Arthur 



O'Brlon Jeanette 
O'Connor John (C) 
O'Kabe Family 
O'Nell Emma . 
Overlng Ethel 

P 
Page A McGrath 
Pare Stanley 
Pearl A Roth 
Pelham Una 
Perry Harry 
Pet rone! la Miss 
Phillips Ruth 
Platensl Flnas (C) 
Pierce A Olrard 
Plsano General 
Potter Chas 
Powers Mr A Mrs (C) 
Presslar Dolly 
Prior Joe 



Rsmey Marie 
Ray A Hllllard 
Reyhauser John 
Reynolds Maud 
Rhea Mme (C) 
Richards Wm 
Richmond Dorothy 
Rlego Harry (C) 
Rlgnold Nofa 
Ring Trio 
Rlsoldl S (P) 
Ritchie Btllle 



Roberts Mr (C) 
Roby Dan (0) 
Rogers Francis (P) 
Rogues Alphonse (C) 
Rose O M (C) 
Rose David 
Rosey W 
Ross Chas 
Rottl Klttr 
Royal Jack 
Rutan Bong Birds (C) 
Rvan Allu 



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Ssmules Manrlce 
Saparo Henry 
San ford Myrtle 
Saunders Alex 
Schoelvlnck A 
Scunle Frank 
Sella Girls 
Sharp Lew 
Sharp U. 
Bharpless Ed 
Simmons Jas 
Sim Utta Sisters 
Smith Clayto 
Smyths Wm 
Snyder Bud 
Spears Anna 
Bpooner F 
Stanley Jack 
Stanton Walter 
Sterling Kitty 
Stoddard A Hynes 
Swain Frank 
Swan Bert 



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Tallraan Mrs 
Tanner F F 
Tenneys Ernest 
Terry A Elmer (C) 
Thomas Billy 
Thomas Ed 
Thomas Flossie 
Thomas W H 
Thompson Ray 
Tiffany Maude 
Trebor Trayer (P) 

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Van Arthur 
Van Cbas (C) 
Vanu Jack 
Van Nally Elsie 
Vennette Leara (C) 
Veola 



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REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS AND COMPANIES IN BURLESQUE 



* IACOBS & JERMON'S 





OtJis.Ua Thtttrt UM\*i, 



I 

Ireeiway and 47th Street, New Yak 



T »r BILLY WATSON 



billy WaTSOtrs "BEEF TRUST BEAUTIES" WATSOrs "ORIENTALS" 

COLV CO*i muSS*™" WANT GO OD LOOKING GIRLS ALWAYt 



SAMMY WRIGHT 



Get me in the "Burly-Cue !" 
Management AL REEVES 



FRANK FINNEY 

Management. CHARLES H. WALDRON 




TAMES (Bhitch) 

COOPER 

Prssonts 

Four Shew* that Hava Gona Over 

"GYPSY MAIDS" 'ROSELAND GIRLS" 

"GLOBE TROTTERS" 

"BEAUTY, YOUTH AND FOLLY" 

COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 

Room 41S Columbia Theatre Bldf ., 

Now York 



Abe Reynolds 



AND 



Florence Mills 

FEATURED IN 

'THE COLLEGE GIRLS" 

Direction, Max Spiegel 



LEW KELLY 

"PROF. DOPE" 



Johnnie Jess 

Featured With 
BILLY WATSON'S "BIG SHOW." 



Lillian Fitzgerald 



Featured with 



"ROSELAND GIRLS" 

Management James E. ("Blutch") Cooper 



Francis Elliott 

In "A NOVEL CREATION" 
"AUTO GIRLS"-lfU-15 



Harry Seymour 

NOT A STAR-A COMET I 

"AUTO GIRLS'-ltH-lS 



LEO STEVENS 



Helen Jessie Moore 



Versatile Loading W 



Direction HURTIG A SEAMON 



JACK SINGER Present. 

LEW KELLY 



And the 



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"Behman Show 

With 

LON HASCALL JAMES TENBROOKE 

MACK and IRWIN 

VAN and PYNES 

COR1NNE FORD and the 8 College Boys 

MARTELLE 

Where managers come to purloin actors, 
and actors to Pilfer Material 



MATT KENNEDY 



{ff,° "LIBERTY GIRLS 

Management, T. W. DINKINS 



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JACK CONWAY 

Featured with "Star and Garter" 

Direction. PhU B. laaac 



FANNIE VEDDER 

Manaie—eat. JOHN O. JERMON 



INGENUE, The Broadway Girls" 
Management Theatrical Opera tin g Cat, 

H14-1S 



LON HASCALL 

SIMON LEGREE (Stage Manager) 
"BEHMAN SHOW" 



If you don't advertise in VARIETY, 
don't advertise. 



Dave Gordon 



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HARRY M. STEWART FRANCIS ELLIOTT MADELINE WEBB 
JAS. J. LAKE CAROL SCHRODER BILLY HALLMAN 

HARRY SEYMOUR SALLY STEWART TEDDY SIMMONDS 

COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, 1914-1S 



SOMETHING NEW 

GE-&A&S 'TOLLIES A f e DAY" 

With SAM S1DMAN, GERTRUDE HAYES, and an All-Star Cast 

BIGGEST HIT IN BURLESQUE SINCE "WINE, WOMAN AND SONG" 

NEXT WEEK (Oct. 18), GAYETY THEATRE, KANSAS CITY, MO. 



THE GREATEST 
DANCER OF 
THEM ALL I 



Chooceeta 



AT LIBERTY 
Address 227 W. 41th St. 
New York 



Charles Robinson "c™£ ■**»•• 



SEASON 1914-1915 



Harry Cooper 



FEATURED WITH 

"CRACKER JACKS" 

DtreetJe., 
COLUMBIA AMUSEMENT CO. 



GEO. H. WARD 



WITH BERNARD A ZEISLER'S 

"FRENCH MODELS" 
lftM-lS 



WILL FOX 



Featured Comedian 

"Gay New Yorkers" 



Joe MORRIS and CAMPBEXL Flossie 



With "BROADWAY GIRLS" 



ltli-lS. 



Sam Micals 



WITH " BOWERYS " 

Management, 
HURTIG & SEAMON 



Sieve CORDON and MURPHY tank 

PREMIER ACROBATIC DANCERS with "BON-TON GIRLS" 



Babe La Tour 



With -GOLDEN CROOK 1 

Management, 
JACOBS A JERMON 



NOW AND ALWAYS 
Personal Direction, 



REVIEW OF 191S" 

(Columbia Circuit) 



HARRY [Hickey] LE VAN ,«- 

CLAIRE DE VINE 



Leading Woman 

Dixon's "Review of 1115" 



Anna-ARMSTRONG and ODELL-Tommy 

With DAVE MARION'S OWN CO. Season 14-15. 



HENRY 




Present* "THE BIG REVIEW OF 1915" 



MARGIE CATLIN 



ALWAYS WORKING 



MANAGEMENT. 
FENNESSY A HERN 

"Happy Widows" 



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VARIETY 



ED. VINTON dog BUSTER ' 



DOG 



BILLED AT HAMMERSTEIN'S THIS WEEK (Oct. 12), AS 
THE MAN WITH THE GREATEST DOG IN THE WORLD 



CERTAINLY LIVES UP TO HIS BILLING 

Direction, 



Colonial NMt W«*k (Oct. 19) 

MORRIS A FEI 



BOOKED SOLID 



VI era Geo (C) 
Violinsky (C) 
Vlning Dane 
Voyn Mr 

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Walby Louise 
Waldo Grace 
Wall Jimmy 
Wallace Jack (C) 
Wallace Vesta 
Wallner Carl 
Walls J J (C) 
Walters & Murray 
Washburn Howard 
Waters Bertha 
Weatherford T B 
Webb & Burns 
Welsh & Francis 
Werle Emll (C) 
Wirtten Mr 



(C) 



Wheeler Mrs 
Wheeler Elsie ( 
White Susie 
Whltheck Mrs 
Wilbur Grace 
Wlllcox George 
Williams Harry 
Willis May 
Wilson Eleanor 
Wlnrow Sam 
Woods B F 
Wright Nirk 



Yates Aubrey 
Ying Chau Chu 
Yoste Clifton (C) 



Zimmerman A 



HARRY RAPF PRESENTS 

HARRINGTON REYNOLDS, Jr. 

In "THE HABERDASHERY** 
Oct. ltth, tlst St* New York. Oct. 22nd, Proctor's, Elisabeth, N. J. 



Prince Paul de Clairmont 

Offering An Absolute Novelty In 

Songs and Society Dances 



ASSISTED BY 

Mrs. E. B. Alsop 



Address Core VARIETY, New York 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

Unlet otherwise noted, the foOowjaj reports art for the ertat week, 
W. REED DUMOT CHICAGO 



In Charge 



VARIETY'S CHICAGO OFFICEt 

MAJESTIC THEATRE BUILDING 



Nov. 1 Charlotte Walker will oome to 
Powers' in "The Better Way." 



Burton Holmes began his series of travel- 
ogues at Orchestra Hall this week. 



Minnie Palmer is In New York on a busi- 
ness trip. 

"The Dummy" Is billed for Powers' thea- 
ter, Jan. 3. 

Plans to open the College theatre as a 
producing house have been abandoned. 



Hal Davis, formerly with the Essanay pic- 
ture people, has gone back Into vaudeville. 



Several theaters are Issuing special stu- 
dents and teachers' tickets in order to boom 
business, with very good results. 

Virgil Bennett has put two big ensemble 
numb, rs in '•one < i i rl in a Million' and has 
been making numerous Improvements in the 
attraction. 



A he Cohen, well known as an advertising 
?igunt, is managing the Midway, a picture 
house on the South Side. 

There is still a flicker of life at White 
City, for dances are given there Wednesdays, 

Saturdays and Sundays. 

Public dancing is now a feature of the 
(Ircrn Mill Gardens, with tango teas thrown 
in for good measure. 



Felix Rich of the Robinson Amusement 
Corporation has returned from a trip in the 
south. 



Jack Lnlt will go to Los Angeles soon to 

he present at the premier of his new play, 

The Bohemiiin," which Oliver Morosco will 

produce. . 

Members of the Order of Eastern Star took 
the entire house at Cohan's Grand to witness 
the performance of "Under Cover." 

Jenny Dufnu, formerly of the Chicago 
f'.rand Opera Company, gave a concert Sun- 
day at the Illinois theater. 

Charles Hagedorn. manager of the National 
in Detroit, was in the city last week on busi- 
ness. 

Jean Cunningham, late of "The Boarding 
School Girls,'' will shortly appear in a new 
tab called "That Poor Heiress." 

Special matinees In honor of Columbus day 
were given last Monday at the Grand, Olym- 
pic. Cort, Powers'. Princess and the National. 

Rodnev Rnnous is to have one of the prin- 
cipal holes in "While the City Sleeps." when 
It comes to the Auditorium. 

Frank Parry, mana- ■ no. play- 

in- burlesque, h >»:c • vacation 

tid Treasurer \V • I >- mi he hoUBe. 

Joe Garritv lin • > de-u .. :' ess work 

f'-r 'The Mldnlcb' <"i ■■■' r. i ■ I*. Percy 

WVadon Is here m.i"i:.r - f ♦• company. 



Dr. Max Thorek Is out again after being 
confined to his home for the past week on 
account of a nervous breakdown. 



There are rumors current that the Colonial 
will soon begin the two-shlft-a-day regime 
now In vogue at McVlcker's. 



The only opening of moment next week will 
be "Lady Windermere's Fan" at the Illinois, 
with Margaret Anglln In the chief role. 



Among the most recent to purchase bonds 
for the American Theatrical Hospital are 
Sam Bernard, Ed Lee Wrothe, Edwin Ford, 
James Hall and Willie Cohen. 



Sam Kramer, who Is known up and down 
the Rlalto and back again, Is now a ten 
percenter, with leanings toward the Affiliated 
Booking Company. 

Harry Woods ( Woods-Ralton Co.) has been 
made manager of the Miles, Pittsburgh. Bert 
Renshaw Is the new manager of the Woods- 
Ralton company now on the road. 



Dollar matinees are given each week by 
"Today" at the Princess and "Peg o' My 
Heart," at the Oarrlck, with excellent finan- 
cial results. 



"Alda" will be the opening bill for the 
Century Opera Company at the Auditorium, 
Nov. 23. It Is probable that Sunday night 
concerts will be given during the run of the 
season. 



Sir Johnstone Forbes-Robertson revived 
Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" at the Black- 
stone for the second week of his farewell ap- 
pearances here. 



George Damearel will take his new playlet, 
"Ordered Home," over the Interstate circuit 
In a week or so. Many changes have been 
made in the attraction. 



Col. Bill Thompson Is confined at Michael 
Reece hospital and Is booking an act or two 
from that haven. One of his acts (Mary 
Hlght) was at the Majestic this week. 



Housewarming week at the Old Friends' 
Club last week drew nearly 2.000 visitors 
from the theatrical, newspaper and railway 
colonies of Chicago. 



After the run of grand opera by the Cen- 
tury company at the Auditorium, De Wolf 
Hopper and company will be seen there In 
Gilbert A Sullivan operas. 



Reports from the one night stand districts 
still continue discouraging. It Is said that 
some shows have played to as little as $7, 
matinee, and |14 at night. 

The management of "Joseph and His Breth- 
ren" ascribes its lack of hie success to the 
fact that the general p iMic had uu Idea 
that It was a motion picture 



"While the City Sleep*." tV new play T>v 
E. E. RoHe, will be offerd »l tic Auditorium. 
beginning Oct. 2.1. for ».i- . . i. flt of V. -> P< 
r JrWs Benevolent ' "5 ' v •-! * r i'f- 
forri are the producer^. 



Ruby Norton, late of "The Belle of Bond 
Street," is now convalescing after a serious 
operation and a very serious relapse suffered 
last week. Henrietta Lane (Lane A Wright) 
underwent an operation last week. 

The Layor Amusement Enterprises Is a 
new $100,000 corporation In contemplation. 
Leon A. Bereznlak was In New York last 
week In the Interest of the company, which 
will produce plays In Chicago. 

Next Monday, the new Orpheum at Cham- 
paign, 111., will open. Sam Kahl, who books 
the house out of the "Association," will head 
a party from the offices on the eleventh floor, 
who will be present at the Inaugurating cere- 
monies. 



Earl Saunders is In charge of the new press 
department on the eleventh floor of the Ma- 
jestic theater building, where he la engaged In 
sending out photographs and billing matter, 
as well as press notices for all acts that work 
out of tho W. V. M. A. and the U. B. O. local 
office. 



Some of the things scheduled for the near 
future are : Margaret Anglin in "Lady Win- 
dermere's Fan," Illinois, Oct. 10: "Joel," Lit- 
tle theater. Oct. 20; "The Little Cafe," Illi- 
nois, Nov. 1 ; Harry Lauder, Auditorium, Nov. 
10 and the 1014 edition of the "Follies." Illi- 
nois, Nov. 29. 



"Intelligent Playgolng" is the title of a se- 
ries of lectures to be given by Dr. Richard 
Burton of the University of Minnesota in Ful- 
lerton Hall. Art Institute, Oct. 17, 24, 31 and 
Nov. 2 for the benefit of the Drama League. 

The Kenwood and the Drexel motion pic- 
ture houses have been purchased by the May 
Amusement Company, owners of the Admiral 
and Angelus, also on the South Side. The 
policy of the owners will be to offer only the 
more pretentious pictures. 



The Logan Square theater fell into line 
for "Association" vaudeville last Sunday, 
opening with a six-act bill with pictures. The 
house will play a half dozen acts on Sunday 
and five during the week. The top price on 
Sundays is 25 cents and on week days from 
10 to 20 cents. Tbe house has been running 
compact dramas, two shows a night, with 
matinees. Sam Lederer will remain as man- 
ager. He Is the owner of the houBe. 



AUDITORIUM (Bernard Ulrlch, mgr.).— 
John Bunny In "Funnyland" opens Saturday, 
Oct. 17. 

BLACKSTONE (Augustus Pitou. Jr., mgr.). 
— Sir Johnstone Forbes- Robertson in reper- 
toire. 

COHANS (Harry Ridings, mgr). "Under 
Cover," getting good returns. 

COLUMBIA (William Roche, mgr).— 
Charles Robinson's "Carnation Beauties.'* 

CORT (U. J. Herrmann, mgr.).— "A Pair of 
Sixes," getting good money. 

CROWN (A. J. Kauffman, mgr.).— "One 
Dav." 

GARRICK (John J. Garrlty, mgr.).— "Peg 
o' My Heart," now In Its seventeenth week. 

ILLINOIS (Will J. Davis. Jr.).— "The Mid- 
night Girl," a go >d singing company finding 
favor. 
* IMPERIAL (Joe Pilgrim, mgr.).— "Annie 
Laurie," a new show that is getting its share 
of money. 

LA SALLE (Joseph Bransky, mgr.).— "One 
Girl In a Million." still playing to very fair 
houses. 

NATIONAL (John P Barrett, mgr). — 
"Fine Feathers." 

OLYMPIC (George C. Warren, mgr.).— 
"Potash & Perlmutter," breaking all records 
for Chicago business. 

POWERS" (Harry J Powers, mgr. ).— Sec- 
ond I'liiiipuiiy In "The Yellow Ticket" onened 
this week. 

PRINCESS (Sam P. Gerson. mgr). "To 
dav " playing to Increasing business 

STAR fc GARTER (Paul Roberts, mgr .).— 
Hen Welch and his show. 

VICTORIA (Howard Brolaskl. mgr). 
Winning of Barbara Worth." 



McVICKERS (J. O. Burch, mgr.; agt. 
Marcus Loew). — Oddly put together bill with 
four teams In a six-act program. To he 
sure, they were not all doing the same line 
of entertaining, but it made a rather monoto- 
nous showing. "The Bower of Melody" In 
headline place made the biggest Impression 
as a matter of course, for there was little 
opposition. The act is well staged and has 
hovel features. Princeton and Yale were half 
way down tbe bill, where they got any num- 
ber of laughs. John La Vler, a talking acro- 
bat, had a fair line of talk, which helped 
him quite a little In putting over his other 
work His foot-bold work waa the best thing 
he did. O'Nell and Dixon, one of the usual 
dress-suit teams, Bang, danced and talked In 
second place. Nothing remarkable about the 
act. Nip and Tuck, next to closing, got a 
great many good laughs out of their work. 
Morris and Parks, a singing and dancing 
team, had tbe closing spot. One Is In black 
face and the other works straight. This team 
has some bright chatter, pull a few real live 
Jokes, dance in a sprightly style and also 
offer a Bong or two of merit. They need a 
little better routine In the song line. The 
Monday morning audience was small at the 
opening of the snow, but by the time the first 
show closed the house was pretty well filled. 

Reed. 

LOGAN SQUARE (Sam Lederer, mgr., W. 
M. V. A.). — Sunday this house opened with 
a bill brought together hurriedly, and while 
it was not put together in the best manner, 
was acceptable and answered nearly all pur- 

8 oses. Fault might be found In plaolng the 
[ajestlc Musical Four at the close of the 
bill, as It Is a big, showy and elaborate mu- 
sical act, and In about middle place would 
have a much better chance. This act has a 
wide range, from quick changes to good mu- 
sic, and from comedy to more serious efforts. 
Smlletta Bros. A Mora opened, offering; some 
quick stuff, with Just enough slapstick to 
tickle the audience assembled Sunday. The 
Howard Sisters, who dress well, sing nicely 
and dance better were on In second place, 
where they did not register so well. Fields, 
Wlnehlll a Oreen, a rapid fire rathskeller 
trio, have a good routine and do some work 
that Is really funny, but were not received 
with tbe enthusiasm they really deserved. 
The Oee Jays really belonged In opening 
spot. Harry Gilbert has a splendid voice and 
a good stage presence. His dialect songs are 
put over nicely, and his personality Is a 
strong asset. Mr. Lederer calls his show 
"pop" vaudeville, and, when he gets Into the 
running, will be able to live up to his billing. 
Bert Cortelyou put on the snow. The bill 
was changed Monday night. 

GREAT NORTHERN HIP (Fred Ebertfl, 
mgr.; agt., W. M. V. A.).— Night shift bill 
ran smoothly at first show Monday nlgbt 
to a packed house. One of the soundest hits 
was made by "The Musical Conservatory." 
a black-face act In which the participants 
played on various comic instruments, as well 
as some bona fide ones. The act went so big, 
especially with the upper part of the house, 
that It was with some difficulty the show was 
allowed to proceed. Comedy offered In this 
act was good. The Three Falcons, who do 
ring work, and are fast, opened the show. 
Two men work straight and one has comedy. 
Act ends with a good comic finish. Frans 
Paul Llndl. In second spot, played variously 
on a zither and also sang songs. One of 
his best things waa a Oerman song of a 
comic nature. Carroll and Hlckey (New 
Acts) were on in fourth place, where they 
went fairly well. The Marco Twins got a 
lot of laughs out of their ridiculous antics. 
The act divided honors with "The Musical 
Conservatory" for fun. Lillian Watson put 
her songs over with neatness and dispatch. 
Her engaging style won her recognition at 
once and she had little trouble In arousing 
enthusiasm. She had to respond to encores 
and was called back for many bows. She has 
n good routine of songs. Eldrldges' Ponies 
closed the show, presenting some good tricks 
and showing the animals to be well trained. 

MAJESTIC (Lyman B. Glover, mgr.; agt., 
Orph.). — Mme. Yorska (New Acts) was head- 
liner. One of the real hits of the performance 
was Billy B. Van and the Beaumont Sisters 
In "Spooks." In which they caused a storm 
of laughter and got big applause. The act 
went over with a real rush. "Blackface" 
Eddie Ross, Immediately preceding, also went 
big. His dry humor and banjo stuff got him 
by nicely, and when he added whistling to 
bis routine he more than made good. The 
aerial Costas opened the show, getting many 
hands for their hazardous work. They per- 
form with celerity, wear picturesque costumes 
and are pleasing. Llgbtner and Jordan fitted 
well next, where they sang Newton Alexan- 
der's songs. Comfort and King In "Coontown 
Dlvorcons," make n fine Impression, display- 
ing versatility, and also comic talents of no 
mean order. The act registered genuinely. 
Mary Hlght was out of place with her stories, 
»s vh<> did not seem to fit Into the scheme 
of things, but, even at that, snatched a little 
victory out of what might have been a serious 
defeat. Stuart Barnes had to follow In the 
wake of the uproarious laughter engendered 



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"I Writ* Acts that Get the Bookings" 
Author for Vaudeville Stars 

L. A. HANDY, Author's Apil 

14 13 Broadway, Room 323 New York 

by Bill B. Van, and yet he soon had his audi- 
ence laughing nearly as much aa his prede- 
cessor. "Colonial Days," an elaborate musi- 
cal act, has much merit and Is handsomely 
dressed, being supplied also with a beautiful 
scenic background. Monday afternoon audi- 
ence was very large. 
PALACE (Harry Singer, mgr. ; agt, Orph.). 

-After bill had been almost completely 
changed about from the printed schedule It 
developed Into a corking good comedy show, 
with Comfort and King brought over from 
tbe Majestic In next to closing spot. The 
Bilford cyclist* opened. They have a good 
routine und offer some clever tricks. Wnlta- 
ker and Hill offered darky folk songs, dis- 
playing a Kood contralto voice. They went 
unusually well. Tbe Schwartz company in 

Tbe Broken Mirror" began the fun, which 
run through the remainder of the bill. This 
novel act was full of surprises and won a 
big reward of hearty laughter. Lee Barth, 
on next, kept the fun up to a high notch 
and came near stopping the show. He told 
h lories In all sorts of dialects and had to 
respond to several encores. Brandon Hurst 
and his company got over very big with his 
sketch, "The Girl," an act that has thrills 
and surprises and keeps an audience on the 
qui vive all the time. McMahon and Chap- 
pelle came on In the wake of the Brandon 
Hurst sketch In "How Hubby Missed the 
Train" and had the house in a roar from the 
Htart. In next spot Grace LaRue swung onto 
the stage In a dashing gown, and assisted by 
a pianist and the orchestra presented a series 
of songs. She danced after her usual fash- 
ion, and in due time donned a black and sil- 
ver gown that caused a gasp. Comfort and 
King, Impressed Into service from the Ma- 
jestic bill, next to closing, got many hands 
and were a success. The Australian Mc- 
Leans introduced their whirlwind dancing 
creations to close, where they were strong 
enough to hold the house in Its entirety. 
They have several stunts that have not been 
seen here before, work hard, were applauded 
Incontinently and called back several times 
for more. The house was packed with a 
holiday audience, which was demonstrative 
to a degree. 

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San Francisco, Oct. 14. 

ORPHEUM.— Morris Cronln and His Merry 
Men, enjoyable turn. Kalmar and Brown, 
good. Caupolican, scored. Harry De Coe, 
clever. Ashley and Canncld (holdover), got 
another hit while the others retained from 
last week, Five Metzettls, Joe and Lew 
Cooper, Claude Gilllngwater and Edith Lyle, 
repeated successfully. Added to the bill 
were four Japanese women, offering native 
dances with musical accompaniment by 
native banjos. A man bobs into the turn at 
tbe finish for no apparent reason. The act 
proved tiresome and was poorly received. 

EMPRESS —Allen, Miller and Co., well 
liked. Three Moris Bros., good In closing 
spot. Theo. Bamberg, opened fair. Rose and 
Moon, scored. Alice Hanson, went big. Jolly 
and Wild, pleased. DeFay and Moore, musi- 
cal act, added to bill, passed nicely. 

PANTAGES— Vivian Marshall and Hashing 
Beauties, successful In closing position. Jack 
Golden and Co., ordinary II. Guv Woodward 
and Co., well presented playlet. Miller, Packer 
and Sflz. big. Chester Kingston, opened 
satisfactorily. Little Affre. good voice Tay- 
lor and Arnold, hit. 

CORT (Homer F. Curran, mgr. I .—■'Kitty 
MacKav ( first week). 

COLUMBIA (Gottlob. Marx & Co., nigra.).— 
--"Milestones" (second week). 

ALCAZAR (Belasco & Mayer, mgrs. ) - 
Stock. 

GAIETY (Tom O'Day, niKr.).— Kolb & Dill 
Co. In "The Rollicking Girl" (first week). 

WIGWAM (Jos. Bauer, mgr.).— Monte 
Carter Co. and vaudeville. 

PRINCESS (Bert Levey, lessee and mgr.; 
agent, Levey). — Vaudeville. 

REPUBLIC (Ward Morris, mgr ; agent W 
S. V. A.).— Vaudeville. 



An unconfirmed report says that Puerl 
Wllkerson, field scout here for Pantages, Is 
to depart shortly for the east, where he will 
represent the Pantages circuit in a booking 
capacity. 



"The Graven Image." a new plav by Riv- 
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The Panama canal in miniature, accurate 
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"Zone." Tbe cost will be more than $600,000. 



W. C. Muphlman, box office assistant at tbe 
Tort theatre, left this week on a two weeks' 
vlHlt to the home of his parents In Spokane. 



Miss McCorab, a member of the Ferris 

Hartman musical comedy compuny, this last 

Hummer at Idora Park, Oakland, Joined the 

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The box office staff here at tbe Oalety ban 
been lately augmented by the addition of 
John E. McCormack, formerly an attache at 
the Empress. 



Lulu 8. Crown, chief stennographer in the 
Pert Levey booking offices, was absmt from 
duty all of lant week, owing to the death of 
her mother in thin city. 



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The W. B. V. A. is planning an improve- 
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Another change In tbe management of 
Loew's Empress In Los Angeles Is to be made 
this week, when Fred Follett, formerly man- 
ager of Miner's* Bronx, New Tork, will replace 
George Fish, who will retire from the show 
business. 

Colonel Charles H Rllnn, father of Hol- 
brook Bllnn, of the Princess Players, was 
one of the passengers in a street car that 
Jumped tbe track here last week, in which 
fourteen were injured. Bllnn was slightly 
bruised. 



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Hoy Clair, until recently a comedian with 
Monte Carter company, sailed last week for 
Honolulu, where he Joins the .Tack Ma gee 
company at the Bijou theatre. It la under- 
stood that Magce i« ill and Clair take* hie 
place. 



Charles Alphin, local producer, has returned 
from Marysville, Cal., where he spent several 
days putting the finishing touches on a tab- 
loid musical comedy that he produced for 
Frank Atkins, manager of the Marysvllle the- 
atre. 



A benefit performance will be given at the 
Orpheum Monday evening, Oct 10, by the So- 
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wiping out a big Indebtedness of the work- 
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Several theaters opened at 11 a. m. to give 
the results of the world's series baseball 
games. At the Cort and Oalety an admission 
of 25 cents was charged, while at the Em- 
press, where each play was registered on the 
Play-O-Oraph, the prices were 50 cents on 
the lower floor and balcony 25 cents. 



Frank Donncllun, until recently assistant 
manager and publicity director here at the 
Empress, Is to be the house manager of the 
American when It reopens. The date of the 
latter event Is still unannounced, but Is ex- 
pected to occur Bhortly. 



Charles Brown, financially Interested in the 
Western States Vaudeville Association and 
treasurer of the Los Angeles Hippodrome, left 
here last week for New York. He is ex- 
peoted to return in about three weeks, at 
which time an Important announcement It 
promised from the offices of the W. 8. V. A., 
bearing on future activities of that concern. 



A reported dissension at the Grand theatre 
in Sacramento, between lessee James Poat 
and George Webb, manager of the Webb 
Players, was given added color this week, 
when it was learned that Webb was negoti- 
ating for an engagement elsewhere. The 
Webb Players will probably play a short 
season of stock in Reno, Nev. 



While playing here at a local theater last 
week Alfred Latell. tbe animal Impersonator, 
who recently returned from Australia, turned 
down an offer of 40 weeks In 1015 from Fred 
Thompson, managing director of the Toyland 
concession at the exposition. Latell rejolm 
the Harry Lauder show In Los Angeles this 
week, where that organization is scheduled 
to open Oct. 16. 

According to reports that reached here last 
week, the Hughes musical comedy company 
has come to grief In Western Australia, where 
the organization's scenery and costumes are 
understood to be legally tied up. The com- 
pany has been playing steadily In the An- 
tipodes for the last couple and have been 
very success iuI until conditions in tbat coun- 
try were affected by the European war. 



Fillmore street, the uptown 'Broadway ' of 
this city, and business center of the town, 
following the memorable earthquake and Are, 
is to celebrate with another htreet carnival 
that will be held Oct 26-81 Inclusive, f 
feature attraction will be the Campos' 1 
United Shows, a carnival outfit that Is wa- 
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Sam Haller, manager of Frederic Thomp- 
son's "Toyland" concession at the exposition 
for the past fifteen months has been suc- 
ceeded by H. S. Rowe, well known In tent 
show circles as a former co-proprietor of the 
Norris and Rowe shows. The change in man- 
agement took place last week. It is under- 
stood that Haller will be associated with one 
of the other big exposition attractions, after 
a month's vacation. 



The Greeson, at Tampa, is being remodeled 
for a venture in Keith family vaudeville and 
pictures. This house always has been con- 
sidered a "Jonah." Al LaBelle Is going to 
try it now. 



The worried minds of six well known local 
contractors, who have figured conspicuously 
in the construction of the buildings at the 
Pan-Pac Exposition, were greatly relieved 
last week when they were notified that their 
certified checks to the collective amount of 
$12,000, and drawn in favor of one Richard 
Whitlock, who came here recently and so- 
licited bids on a proposed building at the ex- 
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banks. With his departure east and the sub- 
sequent mailing away to him bids and certl- 



ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 

By LOUIS WILLIAMS. 

APOLLO (Fred B. Moore, mgr.). —11. "The 
Blindness of Virtue"; IS. A. H. Woods will 
produce "Kick In," with John Barrymore 
(premiere). 

NIXON (Harry Brown, mgr.). —11, "My 
Best Girl" ; 12, Sexto Corporation presented 
William Bvelle's farce, "Up Against It" 

KEITHS (Chas. O. Anderson, mgr.; U. B. 
O.).— "The Last Tango," with Audrey Maple 
and Fletcher Norton. Well set production, 
tragedy at end with tango done with corpse. 
Mrs. Gene Hughes. "Lady Gossip." amused ; 
Coakley, Dunleavey and Hanvey scored solid- 
ly ; Bert Wheeler, over well ; Maurice Wood, 



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fled checks, came the discovery and announce- 
ment that he was an alleged imposter. For- 
tunately for the bidders, the words "bid check" 
was written across the face of each check, 
six In number, and as this obliges a bank to 
hold the check, the supposed victimized con- 
tractors found their deposits safe. Three 
other building concerns were fleeced. 



clever ; Four Melodious Chaps, pleasing ; 
Anthony & Mack, fair ; Mang and Snyder, 
good. 



William H. Godfrey, business manager of 
the Garden of Dances, goes to the Metropoli- 
tan Opera House, Philadelphia, in same ca- 
pacity. 



Another local hippodrome announcement 
found its way Into one of the afternoon news- 
papers here on Friday of laat week. The 
story was featured, and In it J. H. Lubln, 
general representative of the Marcus Loew 
Interests In the west, was said to be here for 
the purpose of undertaking preliminary work 
on the construction of a "Hip" that would 
eclipse anything of the kind weat of Chicago. 
The location is anounced to be at the corner 
of Market and Fourth streets, one of the 
choicest spots in the city's downtown shop- 
ping district for a theatre site. The plans 
are said to provide for a seating capacity of 
2.800. The dimensions of the proposed build- 
ing lot Is 00x160. Twh hundred thousand dol- 
lars is given as the estimated cost of the 
structure. D. J. Grauman is reported to be 
interested with Loew in the project As 
several "Hip" building stories have appeared 
in the columns of the local newspapers the 
last year, without anything resulting from 
them, this announcement is not taken very 
seriously. In a recent statement to Variety's 



Electric railway convention Is now being 
held on the Million Dollar Pier. 



Steel Pier closes Oct. 31. 
closed Oct 12. 



Steeplechase 



The Gillette. Bates and Doro triple star 
alliance in "Diplomacy," which was to have 
opened at the New Nixon late this month 
has been canceled. 



"Love's Model" plays at the Apollo for one 
night, Oct. 18. 



Edward Barnes assumed charge of the floor 
of the Garden of Dances Oct. 12, succeeding 
Dyke Van Dyke. Business picking up. 

Charles Luzenburg of the Apollo has be- 
gun a state moving picture review patterned 
after the well-known International motion 
picture review presented by a French corpor- 
ation. News Items of Interest from the state 
of New Jersey are offered each week. 



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as he knew, nothing definite has been decided 
upon, and referred to the "Hip" articles in 
the papers as press stories. 

ATLANTA. 

By R. H. MeCAW. 

FORSYTH (Hugh Cardoza, mgr.; agent, U. 
B. O.).— Howard & McCane, hit; McCart & Co.. 
big ; Fritz ft Lucy Bruch, score ; Madison ft 
James, success ; Henry Lewis, applause ; Wil- 
lie Bros., good; Marie A Duff, filler. 

ATLANTA (Homer George, mgr.).— David 
Warfleld 16-17; "Midnight Girl," next 

BIJOU (Jake Wells, mgr. ) .—Jewell K>1- 
ley Stock. 

GRAND (Harry Hearne, mgr. ; agent, U. B. 
O.). — Feature films. 



The Jewell Kelley Stock has changed Its 
mind about closing. Business outlook Is bet- 
ter and the company will continue at the Bijou 
with several new people In the personnel. 

Rlngllngs' Circus did splendid business 
throughout the southeast Two capacity 
crowds saw the show in Atlanta Monday. 



The Y. C. Alley Stock, recruited in New 
York, opened an indefinite season at the 
Colonial In Savannah Monday. 



The new Crystal theatre In Knoxvllle is 
nearlng completion. It will play feature films 
r.nd vaudeville. 



BALTIMORE. 

By J. B. DOOLBY. 

MARYLAND (F. C. Schanberger, mgr. ; agt, 
U. B. O.).— Nat Wills, big; Dolly and Brown, 
applause ; Ideal, pretty and shapely ; Morton 
and Austin, funny ; Courtney Sisters, same as 
ever ; Milton and DeLong Sisters, fair ; Plan- 
tadosl and Fields, good ; the Kramers, grace- 
ful ; Bert Lamont and Cowboys, pleading ; 
the Gaudsmldts, amusing ; Dorothv Mucther, 
scores. Miss Muether was forced to give up 
her place on the bill after the matinee Mon- 
day through illness. 

VICTORIA (Pearce ft Schock, mgrs. ; sgts., 
N.-N.).— "The Four Lads of Melody and a 
Girl." cabaret order; Shepherd's Manikins, 
clever and funny; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thomas, 
satisfy ; Santos and Hayes, laughs ; Malda 
Burker, acceptable. 

NEW (George Schneider, mgr. ; agt, Ind.). 
— Cora Youngblood Carson and Girls, score ; 
La Venere, wins out; Julia Rooney, charm- 
ing; Sullivan and Pasqullno Co. fair; George 
Ward, fares well ; Marr and Evans, humor- 
ous. 

FORDS O. H. (Charles E. Ford, mgr.) — 
"The Salamander" draws pretty large houses. 

ACADEMY OF MUSIC (Tunis F. Dean. 
mgr.). — "The Misleading Lady." Business as 
good as can be expected. 

AUDITORIUM (Wedgewood Nowell, mgr.). 
—Poll Players give good Interpretation of 
"The Heart of Maryland." Regular patron- 
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READ THE WORDS 

Down below— down below, 

Sat the Devil talking to hit son; 

Who wanted to go— up above — up above. 

He cried it's getting too warm for me down here. 

And so — I'm going up on earth, 

Where I can have a little fun. 



The Devil simply shook his head and answered his son. 



By Irving Berlin chorus 

Stay down here where you belong, 

The folks who live above you 

Don't know right from wrong. 

To please their Kings they've all gone out to war 

And not a one of them knows what he's fighting for. 

'Way up above they say that I'm a Devil and I'm bad, 

Kings up there are bigger Devils than your Dad. 

They're breaking the hearts of Mothers, 

Making butchers out of brothers. 



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BOSTON. 

By J. GOOLTZ 

KEITH'S (R. 0. Larson, mgr.; agt., U. B. 
<).).— Good bill tbis week. "The Bride Shop," 
which closed, having nothing on Adelaide and 
Hughes or Claire Rochester. Emma Stephens 
was shifted after the matinee to open, Crouch 
and Welch going to second place after a 
rousing reception at the matinee. Webb and 
Burns went big, followed by Charles Mack and 
Co.. with Muller and Stanley completing the 
bill. Larson's hand at the helm of this house 
In the past few weeks has been evident, and it 
looka more like old times. 



LOEWS GLOBE ( Frank Meagher, mgr. ; 
agt., Loew). — Third week of this biggest finan- 
cial venture of Loew in Boston and there 
seems to be nothing to it but another per- 
petual capacity house. 

LOEWS ORPHEUM (V. J. Morris, mgr. ; 
agt., Loew). — Vaudeville. Capacity. 

LOEWS ST. JAMES (William Lovey, mgr. ; 
agt., Loew). — Vaudeville. Big. 

NATIONAL (No manager; agt., U. B. O).— 
Experimenting with pictures. 

BIJOU (Harry Gustin, mgr. ; agt., U. B. O). 
— Small time vaudeville and best short reels. 
High class patronage and excellent business. 

PARK (Dark). — Opens in about two weeks. 





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BOWDOIN (Al Somerbee, mgr. ; agt., U. B. 
O. ). — Small time feature acts advertised big. 
Business holding up better than in previous 
years. 

HOLLIS (Charles J. Rich, mgr.).— Dark 
through sudden pulling out of Drugged." 
Frances Starr next week In "The Secret." 

COLONIAL (Charles J. Rich, mgr.). — Zleg- 
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MAJESTIC (E. D. Smith, mgr.).— "To-Day' 
opened big and apparently good for some time 
to come. 

WILBUR (B. D. Smith, mgr. ) .— William 
Hodge in "The Road to Happiness" to consis- 
tent business. 

TREMONT (John B. Schoeffel, mgr.).— 
"Potash and Perlmutter" on second week 
Good. 

BOSTON (William H. Leahy, mgr.).- 
Grand opera experiment, which has ten more 
weeks to run. doing only a fair business and 
will probably prove a flivver unless the $2.5(1 
price goes up in favor as the thermometer 
goes down. The Majestic Players under the 
visiting star policy will succeed the opera 
venture. 



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"We Take Our Hats Off To You, Mr.Wilson" 



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You're one of Uncle Sammy's boys. 

You have no use for any noise, 

You've won every Yankee heart from coast to coast; 

Greater than a gladiator, 

You're the world's biff mediator, 

Of you this whole United States can boast. 

We'd trust you in any kind of fuss, 

We're glad you belong to us. 



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CHORUS 
We take our hats off to you, Mr. Wilson, 
Our hats are off to you, 
You're the man of the hour. 
You've stood like a tower, 

And know what to do for the red, white and blue. 
You're the right kind of man in the right kind of place, 
Like Washington and Lincoln, you've set a pace; 
They know at home and abroad, 
Your pen is greater than the sword, 
We take our hats off to you. 

LEO FEIST, inc 



SECOND VERES 
Your Uncle Sam is mighty proud, 
He's proud he picked you from the crowd. 
He's proud that you have shown the world your worth. 
You've sought peace with every nation, 
Steered us through all tribulation, 
And made our land the greatest land on earth. 
You've set up a standard for the world, 
The flag of peace you've unfurl'd. 



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BY CLYDE E. ELLIOTT. 

COLONIAL (Robert McLaughlin, mgr.).— 
"Too Many Cooks," good business. 

OPERA HOUSE (George Gardiner, mgr.).— 
Blllle Burke, fair business in "Jerry." 

HIPPODROME (Harry Daniels, mgr.). — 
Henrietta Crosman & Co., good ; Ray Samuels, 
hit; George Brown, fair; Van Hoven, good; 
George Roland & Co., fair; Heath & Miller- 
ship, good ; the Three Lyres, hit ; the Brads, 
hit 




MILES (Charles Dempsey, mgr.). — Douglas 
& Hamilton, good ; Rose Troupe, fair ; Brown 
& Jackson, good ; Purcella Bros., applause ; 
Joe Kelcey, laughter ; Howard's Animals, fair. 

PRISCILLA (Proctor Seas, mgr.).— Five 
Melody Monarchs and a Maid, good ; Lora, 
entertaining ; Musical Friedlanders, applause ; 
Charlotte & Lewis, applause ; Roe Reeves, 
good; Dell & Dill, fair. 

GORDON SQUARE. Kawana Troupe, 

fair ; Ethel Roman & Co., good ; OUie Wester- 
mann, applause ; Burtinos, fair ; Marie Mc- 
Neil A Co., good. 



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CLUB (Rod Waggoner, mgr. • agent, Prog). 
-"Dainty Maids." Excellent nouses. 

The Orpheutn has abandoned Its policy of 
alternating pictures with acta In continuous 
vaudevlle and now la Riving two solid vaude- 
ville shows and two straight film Bhows. 



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UNIQUE (Jack Elliott, mgr.; Loew).— Oer 
trude Van Dyck and Co., headllner ; Srechk 
and Pervlal, Dixon and Dixon, "Wlfey," War- 
ner and Corbett, Skipper Kennedy and Reeves 

NEW GRAND (W. H. Koch, mgr.; W. V. 
A.).— Bert Wheeler and Co., Ghear, Champbell 
and Fowler. George and Mack, Klyama Royal 
Japanese Troupe. 

NEW PALACE (Roy C. Jones, mgr.; W. 
V. A.).— Wtllta Zimmerman, Ethel and Jack 
Dooley, Kennedy, Nobody and Piatt; Hayashl 
Troupe, Altman and Nevlns. 

OAYETY (William Koenlg. mgr.).— "The 
Girls from Happyland," with Princess Luba 
Meroff. 

Miles, Princess, Seville. Isls, Lyric, Saxe. 
Crystal — Pictures. 



Krank Cook, formerly with the Saxe Amuse- 
ment Enterprises and manager of their Or- 
phcum, who left to become Identified with a 
11 1 in concern, has returned to these people to 
h:mdln the Princess. 



I'pon absolute assurance that those mem- 
bers of the organization now In Europe could 
bo h«>ri' and that there bad been filled the 
places of three men who went to the front. 
Manager Ludwlg KrelBs has set Nov. 20 as 
(he <lat»> for the opening of the German stock 
season. 



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| Assisted by her Company, including | 

1 Mr. HARRISON HUNTER I 



MINNEAPOLIS. 

By C. W. MILES. 

METROPOLITAN ( L. N. Scott, mgr.).— 
Margaret Illington In "Within the Law." did 
fairly well. 'J.", Charlotte Walker In "The 
Better Way." 

BAINBRIDGE (A. G. Balnbrldge. Jr., mgr.). 
Balnbrldgo Players opened stock season Oct. 
II In The Test." Florence Stone, Louise 
Farnum. Joseph Hollcky, Marie Gale and Pete 
Raymond have been retained from the former 
company at the Shuhert. Henry Hall is the 
new leading man and the others are: John 
Webb Dillon, heavies; Karl Rltter. Juvenile; 
I^eBlle King, characters; Helen Carlton, sec- 
ond woman ; Ida Stanhope, Erin Lacy. 
Charles Oowd Is stage director; Robert West- 
erman. Alex Lindahl and Joseph Crawford 
comprise the mechanical force. Opened to 
excellent huslnuss. "Marrying Money" fol- 
lows. 

SMCHERT (Wright Huntington, mgr.).— 
Wright Huntington Players in "The Country 
Hoy." "The Rosary" follows. 

ORPHEUM (O. A. Raymond, mgr.; U. B. 
O.) Trlxle Frlcnnza, hit; Tmhoff. Conn & 
r'orcr.e, good ; Barry and Wolford, get by 
nicely ; Woodman and Livingston, graceful ; 
Pierre Pellltler and Co., fair; Lewis and Rus- 
h. II, medlcore; Bertie Ford, good. 



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FIRST HALF THIS WEEK 
(OCT. 12) 



I "ALMA'S RETURN" j 

| By JACK LAIT | 

| (Author of "Help Wanted" and "Lead Kindly Light") 1 

| iiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiin | 

| AT THE PALACE THEATRE, NEW YORK 1 

| THIS WEEK (Oct. 12) | 

and immediately acknowledged to be | 

vaudeville's brightest comedy drama i 

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Margaret Illlngton closes her tour Oct. 17 
and leaves at once for New York to start re- 
hearsals of Sir Henry Arthur Jones' new 
play, "The Betrayal." The company present- 
ing Bayard Velllers play will be kept In- 
tact with Clara Joel as the new Mary Turner. 

Nennelle Foster Is the understudy for Leonie 
Dana in "The Poor Little Rich Girl." She 
arrived from New York while the company 
was playing at the Metropolitan. 

What promised to become a court suit be- 
tween rival stock managers has been settled 
out of court. A. O. Balnbrldge. Jr., man- 
ager of the new Balnbrldge Players sought 
an injunction to restrain the Huntington Play- 
ers at the Shubert from producing "Ready 
Money," an accounting of the proceeds dur- 
ing Its production Oct. 4-10, alleging that 
the rights had been disposed of by Sanger and 
Jordan to himself, under a contract by which 
he agreed to produco the play before April. 
1015. To avoid litigation It is rumored that 
Wright Huntington was forced to give up the 
Minneapolis stock rights to "Fine Feathers, - 
which he had already produced In St. Paul 
and to tie up a lot of plays under contraoto. 

NEW ORLEANS. 

Dy O. M. SAMUEL. 

nJ, U fe A . N JF. ( T.' a Campbell, mgr.).— "Oh! 
Oh ! Delphlne. 

CRESCENT (T. C. Campbell, mgr.).— 
Emma Bunting In "At Cosey Corners." 



Direction, 

H.B.Marinelli 

Ltd. 



VARIETY 



Freeman Bernstein 

Manager, Promoter and Producer of Vaudeville Acts 
Sth Floor, PUTNAM BUILDING, NEW YORK 

OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Cahle. "Freeborn," Now York 

PhogOj Bryant sa14 



MARIE JAMES 



Reliable Artiste' Representative 

Booking Exclusively with 

W. V. M. A.— U. B. O. 

21 HOBBS* BUILDING. 

•8 W. Washington St* 

Phons Randolph 1IM CHICAGO. ILL. 



The Middle West Amusement Association 



WANTED 



AMUSEMENT PROVIDERS 
Capital $275,000.00 



TALENT 



Wc have now combined all our Departments and Branch Offices and opened the most 
commodious General Amusement Offices under one roof between Chicago and San 
Francisco, where the Manager, Producer, Promoter, Artist and Actor can secure employ- 
ment, buy, sell or exchange anything in amusement business. 

We can give six weeks' work to acts on a $43.00 railway ticket. 

We can use five Drawing Room Acts per week in this city. 

We have Forty Dates this winter for Opera Soloists, Duos, Trios, Quartets and 
Violinists from $200.00 to $750.00 per night. 

Sand us your open dates and billing. 

A Mlddls Wast Organisation for Middls West Time. 

We most earnestly solicit closest investigation into our ABILITY, ASSOCIATION, 
ADMINISTRATION AND CHARACTER. 

EARL GANDY, Managing Director 
3rd Floor, Tabor Grand Theatre Bldg. DENVER. Colorado 



DAUPH1NK (Ed Schiller, mgr. ) .—"Tango 
Queens." 

HIPPODKUME (Jake Miller, mgr.).— 
Vaudeville. 

ALAMO (Will Uuerlnger, mgr. ). -Vaude- 
ville. 



"Tango Queens remained over to play five 
days at the Daupblne. the company Jumping 
direct to New York. Since taking charge of 
the Dauphlne, Lew Rose has increased the 
business $500 weekly. 

H. O. White has taken over the Louio the- 
ater. Hattlesburg, Miss. 

Harry Qulnn has gone out ahead of "Oh ! 
Oh! Delphlne." 

Blackface comedlanB hereabouts formed a 
union last week and agreed, among other 
things, to smoke only cork-tipped cigarettes. 

The "Hanky Panky" company diffused their 
art about the streets, In aid of a local Christ- 
mas fund. 

The Lafayette has closed. 

Sage Rose's New Hotel Ranaon will insti- 
tute a novel plan for charging for rooms. 
The guest will pay according to the number 
of his room, the numbers starting at 100 and 
ending at 400. Room 100 will be a dollar and 
Room 198, $1.98. 

Manager of a suburban stock house was 
startled by hissing during a performance of 
"Uncle Tom's Cabin." At first he thought the 
audience was merely venting Its displeasure 
of "Simon Legree," but investigation proved 
that one of the bloodhounds, doubling In a 
vaudeville specialty in the olio, was picking 
out the flags of the warring European na- 
tions. ., , 

ORPHEUM (Arthur White, mgr.).— Fair 
bill. Dupre & Dupre, opening, provide best 
number ; Charles Semon, amused ; Zertho's 
Dogs, little change ; Mabel Derra, pleased ; 
Robert Haines, in William Hurlburfs gun 
playlet, did little; Kirk & Fogarty, favorably 
received ; Randall's, conventional sharpshoot- 
ers. 



S to 7 WEEKS 
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Theatre Bldg. Pate Mack, Mgr. Pittsburgh, Psl, 
2*9 Schmidt Bldg., F. S. Fraslor. Mgr. Cleve- 
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Mgr. Always an opening for first-class acta. 
State aM first letter. 

PETE MACK 

Manager and Promoter of Vaudeville 
Attractions 

ARTISTS DESIRING New York or Chicago 
Representation, address by wire or mail 

PALACE THEATRE BUILDING 

(United Booking Offices) 

NEW YORK CITY 



PHILADELPHIA. 

By JOHN J. BURNBI. 

KEITH'S (Harry T. Jordan, mgr. ; agent, 
l T . B. O.).— A very light house greeted a 
weak bill Monday night. Lew Dockstader 
wa9 the headllner, and although he gathered 
the most laughs, the applause hit of the bill 
was Lambertl. The bill opened with La Toy 
Brothers, who did fairly well. McDevltt, Kelly 
and Lucy, closed well ; Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy 
Barry, kept them laughing. A dramatic ver- 
sion of Irvln Cobb's story. "Sergeant Bagby," 
was well liked ; Chris Richards passed to a 
light hand ; Lambertl registered the hit of the 
evening ; Ma-Belle and her Ballet closed to 
hardly a hand. Lew Dockstader created 
Plenty of lnughs. Closing the show was 
Llplnskl's Dor Comedians. The dogs work 
alone and go through their stunts In a fine 
manner. 

KEYSTONE (Fred Zimmerman, mgr.; 
anent. U. n. O.).-- Hamilton Rros.. closed to a 
small hnnrt ; Lewis and Chnpln. were unsuc- 
cessful ; Lillian Wynne, a Mg hand; Farrell. 
Taylor Trio, well liked. Tho hit of the bill 
was Aiken, Flgg and Duffy. The n.dl Boys 
and Belles, a musical comedy act, were n good 
loping number. 

KvicKn.'TiVKRR (William Engle. mgr.; 
I-o "ft -t .vrr n: d Dakln. big; Sandy Shaw, 
I'.c :; imp- : i >' FVklnese Troupe, hit; Mc- 
Hiv.i;! • ■•« well received; Faye and 

Minn w .•.••.•relation; Deland, Carr and 

'"•- . P n • <■> .M.-wart and Dakln and the 
Irr.p^i !.-i ; L^-^i" ►* Troupe remain for the 



week. Others for the second half : Dupont 
and Hash rook, Morris Golden, "Between 8 and 
U," Bessie Le Count. 

BROADWAY.— Johnny O'Brien, Mark Mur- 
phy and Co., Whltefleld and Ireland, Cushman 
and Sunderland, Will Hale and Bro. 

NIXON.— "Woman's Justice," Dolly and 
Mack, Tom GTUlen, Omega Duo, the Moscog- 
nys, Frldowsky Troupe. 

COLONIAL. — William Bence and Co., in 
"The Chink," Tlerney Four, Maglin, Eddy 
and Roye, the Boutons, Baby Ann. 2d half : 
"Making the Movies," Hoosler Trio, B*arlow*s 
Circus, Burke and Walsh, Bennett and Ben- 
netto. 

GRAND. — Adelaide Herrmann, Lawrence and 
Hurlfalli, Hay and Hllllard, O'Connor and 
Corbin, Weber and Elliott, Five Italian 
Musketeers. 

WILLIAM PENN.— Chung Hwa Comedy 
Four, Newhuff and Phelps, Jane Ott, George 
Jardlne and Frank Cox, Tom Williams and 
Co., Harry Tlghe and Blanche Babette, Graoe 
LaDell. 

GLOBE.— Frank Mayne and Co.. White and 
Frances, Betty, Harry Rlckard and Bessie 
Carl, Conly and Webb, Luce and Luce, Joe 
Kennedy. 

BROAD— Premiere of "Lady Betty Mar- 
tingale was given Monday night, to stay two 
weeks. 

CARRICK— "The Yellow Ticket" opened 
Tuesday night to a good house. 

CHESTNUT ST. O. H— "Pilate's Daughter.' 
a religious spectacle, began Its final week here 
Monday and is drawing fair houses. 

ADELPHT. — The final week of Grace George 
in "The Truth" began Monday before a large 
audience. 10, "A Pair of Sixes." 

LYRIC. — "The Passing Show" Is doing a bin 
business and remains two weeks longer. 2rt. 
"fne Whirl or the World." 

FORREST— Montgomery and Stone In 
"Chln-Chln" are doing big at the box office 
Final week began Monday. 10, "Papa's Darl- 
ing." 

LITTLE.— -Op^iirt 10 with 'Arm* and the 
Man" for two weeks 






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All oerresoondeaos to National Amphitheatre, Sydney. American Booking OSce Tem- 
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4anjH#2 of all performers going to Europe make their steamship arrangements through 
BLB)Bnk(Afj us. The following have: 

^dTe£P wU Joe Cook, Cheyenne Days, Clark Sisters and Sterling, Jane Court hope tk Co., 

v ^w Sam Cttrtit £ q^^ Theo. Carlys, Conroy and Lelfalre, Clark snd Hamilton. 

Gardner Crane & Co., Carroll, Hanvej ft Dunlevy, Henry Clive, Three Collegians, Corrigan and 
Vivian, Clemens and Deane. Musical Cates. 

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Manager of High-Class Vaudevffle Attractions. Artists desiring Now York representation 
writs or wire. 

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WALNUT.— "The Round-Up," with Shep 
Camp, Is drawing well in the second week 
here. 19, "Way Down Bast" 

ORPHEUM.— r ' Love's Model," at popular 
prlcea^Arew a capacity house Monday, begln- 
nlnajBfweek's stay. 10, "Rebecca or Sunny- 
broolrFann." 

LIBERTY.— "Bringing Up Father" had a 
good audience Monday at popular price*, 
opening for the week. 19, "Love's Model." 

AMERICAN.— The resident company Is get- 
ting good business at popular prices, this 
week's attraction being "The Lure. ' 10, "The 
Melting Pot" 

EMPIRE. — "Liberty Olrls." good bouses. 10, 
Billy Watson's "Big 8how." 

TROCADERO— "The Big City Burlesques. ' 

GAYETT. — "The Cherry Blossoms." 

DUMONT'B.— Stock minstrels. 



20. 



"Ben Hur" comes to the Forrest December 



John Drew Ih scheduled to begin an engage- 
ment at the Broad beginning Nov. 16 In "The 
Prodigal Husband." 

"The Secret " with Frances Btarr, will be 
at tbe Broad beginning Nov. 30. 

PITTJBUICH. 



8amuel 
Tuesday i 
City. 



F. Nixon celebrated hi* birthday 
rltb n family gathering at Atlantic 



Announcement has been made of the engage- 
ment of H. T. Craven, former dramatic editor 
of the North American to MIbh Elizabeth D. 
(TeiHler, of thiH city. The wedding will take 
place about Dec. 1. Crnven recently returned 
from Europe 

Charles Colwell, stage manager of Poll's. 
Srrnnton, was seriously Injured In an auto- 
mobile Hmash-up last week. 



Next Tuesday at the Academy of Music the 
Rehrens Opera Sorlety of this city will sing 
Martha" under the direction of Thaddeue 
Rich. 



GRAND (Harry Davis, mgr.; sgent, U. B. 
O.).— Wslter C. Kelly, headline, big hit; Con- 
roy's Diving Models, scored ; Nelusco A Her- 
ley, fine opener ; Jarvls a Harrison, excel- 
lent ; Chas. Grapewln & Co., laughs ; Angelo 
Patrlcola, splendid ; Mullen & Coogan, very 
good ; Four Roeders, novelty ; Sixteen Rus- 
sian Dancers, good. 

HARRIS (C. R. Bur.hhelt, mgr. ; sgent, U. 
B. O.).— Al Harvey's Co., headline ; Londl's Art 
Models, pretty; Richard Mllloy A Co., very 
good ; May Dale, errrntrlr ; Nnsh & Evans, 
encored ; Martini & Trolse, rharmed ; Bob 
Wnrren. lnu«h ; Nate & Lsne, good. 

SlIKRIDAN SQUARE f Frank II Tnoker, 
niRr. ; ngent. I*. n. O.).- Ifnrry Brook*. Knth- 
lren Clinton *r Co., headline, pretty act ; Six 
IJttlo Honeybee*, «eore<l ; Muray's Tanlne 
Actors, plenHed children ; Two I'efehlngs, very 
good: Three Sldeiios, laugh; Whistling Boy, 
novel. 

NIXON (Thou. Kirk, mgr.). — Hnxel Dawn. 
In "The Dehutnnte." sr on-d derisively. Vietor , 
Herbert conducted and made speech. If), Evn 
Tanguay. 

Al.VIN f.T. P. Reynold** rnur ) "Omnr the 
TenliiiHknr," drew full iuniHe lft ( "Higb 

Jinks." 



VARIETY 




ST. LOUIS. 



By RAYMOND A. WALSH. 

COLl'MHIA (Harry Buckley, mgr. ».-Hap- 
tlste & Franconl, Dorothy & Madeline Cam- 
eron, Herman Tlmberg. PrlnceHs Rndjan. 
Marry Dreen. 'The fTreen Efeetle.'' Anna 
Chandler. Corradini's Menagerie. 

GRAND (Harry Wallace, mgr.). Minstrel 



Kiddies. Armstrong & (Mark. Mile. Martha & 
Sisters, Harier & Jackson. Mason-Wilbur & 
. Jordan, Harry Holmun & Co., Marconi Hros . 
Signor Plottl. Paul Stevens, I'nivtT-al Ani- 
mated weekly. 

HIPPODROME (Frank 
Motor Madness, Paine A 
Hazel Mann. Joe Denuff. 
iiiians, Kumby, Moesi-h & 
Coleman, photo plays. 



Talbot, mgr.).- - 

Nesblt, Penny & 

Kalaluhis Haw- 

Robin-ion, \V. J. 



OLYMPIC (Walter Sanford, mgr.).— Evans 
Minstrels. 

SHIRERT (Melville Stoltz, mgr). -"The 
Melle of Bond Street." 

AMERICAN (Harry Wallace, mgr). "Sep- 
tember Morn." 

PRINCESS (Joe Walsh) .— 'Follies of the 
Day." 

LIN DELL- Pictures. 



GARRICK.- Yiddish 
Mme. Reinhart. 



Players headed by 



TORONTO. 

By HARTLEY. 

PRINCESS (O. B. Sheppard, mgr). 
Little Cafe" to capacity house. 

ROYAL ALEXANDRA ( L. Solman, mgr.).— 
"Within the Law." 



Th« 



THE THEATRICAL PERFORMING RIGHTS of the English Song Sensation 

"SISTER SUSIE'S SEWING SHIRTS FOR SOLDIERS" 

are strictly reserved 
Artists singing this song publicly without OUT permission are liable to prosecution under the Copyright Act 



T- B. HARMS 6 FRANCIS, DAY 6 HUNTER 



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IT HAS BEEN CONCEDED GENERALLY BY MANAGERS AND OTHERS THAT THE 
FORMATION OF THE MUSIC PUBLISHERS' BOARD OF TRADE WAS TIMELY AND NEC- 
ESSARY TO THE PRESERVATION OF THIS IMPORTANT INDUSTRY. IT IS TRUE THAT 
TWO NEW YORK PUBLISHERS, LEO FEIST AND F. A. MILLS, REFUSE TO ENTER THE 
ORGANIZATION AND FOR REASONS OF THEIR OWN CONTINUE THE PRACTICE OF 

PAYING PERFORMERS TO SING SONGS. 

IT IS NOTED THAT MANY PROMINENT ACTS HAVE LATELY HAD THEIR SALARIES 
REDUCED, AND IT MAY BE A CO-INCIDENCE THAT MOST OF THESE ACTS ARE SING- 
ING SONGS OF PAYING PUBLISHERS. THERE IS ALSO GREAT DISSENSION AMONGST 
ACTS SINGING SONGS OF PAYING PUBLjfeiERS, ON ACCOUNT OF THE PRICES BEING 
PAID THEM. FOR INSTANCE, A CERTAIN ACT CLAIMS TO HOLD A SEASON'S CON- 
TRACT FROM LEO FEIST FOR $50 PER WEEK. OTHER ACTS DO NOT SEE WHY THEY 
SHOULD BE GETTING ONLY $15 OR $20 PER WEEK. CONDITIONS SUCH AS THESE ARE 
WHAT REALLY CAUSED' THE FORMATION OF THE MUSIC PUBLISHERS' BOARD OF 
TRADE. IT WORKS AGAINST THE PERFORMER, MORE SO THAN IT DOES AGAINST 
THE PUBLISHER, TO GET THE REPUTATION THAT THE PERFORMER IS BOUND TO 
ACQUIRE, WHEN HE IS RECEIVING A COMPENSATION FOR SINGING A SONG, IN ADDI- 
TION TO HIS REGULAR SALARY, AND IT IS UNIVERSALLY KNOWN THAT MANAGERS 
ALL OVER THE VARIOUS CIRCUITS THOROUGHLY DISAPPROVE OF THIS PRACTICE. 



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Comprising the conceded greatest chain of vaudeville theatres in the world, ex- 
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FIVE BIG FEMALE STARS 

SIGN FOR FEATURE FILMS 



Mary Garden, Jane Cowl, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Mabel and Edith 
Taliaferro Engaged for Pictures. Herbert Brenon (Di- 
recting Carter's "Heart of Maryland") Leaves Uni- 
versal. Miss Garden to Be "Salome"; Edith Tal- 
iaferro's First, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." 



A report is abroad an option has been 
given by Mary Garden to a New York 
syndicate to produce "Salome" as a 
feature film, with the diva the central 
figure. Behind the project is said to* 
be wealthy New York business men. 
Picture people have been negotiated 
with to make and market the film, im- 
mediately after a company has been 
formed for the venture. 

The Universal has lost its star di- 
rector, Herbert Brenon, who leaves 

there this week to join the Tiffany 
Feature Film Co., in which he has 
become interested. The first product 
of the new concern, that has as stock- 
holders, Jos. Engel and Lawrence Web- 
er, will be "The Heart of Maryland,", 
with Mrs. Leslie Carter. Mrs. Carter 
and Mr. Brenon expect to leave Sunday 
for the Pacific Coast, where the major 
portion of the feature will be taken. 

In the Brenon stock company as 
leading man will be William E. Shea, 
Mr. Brenon's lead when he produced 
the Annette Kellermann film for the 
U. Three other principals will be 
taken from New York to the Coast. 
Jimmy McKay continues as Brenon's 
assistant in directing. 

Mrs. Carter's previous feature film, 
"Du Barry," financed by George 
Kleine, who has $90,000 invested in it, 
according to report, has not yet been 
publicly shown through some legal en- 
tanglement. 

Another female star engaged for pic- 
ture plays this week was Edith Talia- 
ferro, sifc if d by the Jesse Lasky Co. 
Miss T;\!iaf i > leaves for Los Angeles 
next Tuesday. Tier first screen subject 
will be "Rebt a of Sunnybrook 



Farm." The engagement is by agree- 
ment with the Famous Players Co. to 
which Miss Taliaferro is under con- 
tract. 

B. A. Rolfe this week contracted 
with Mabel Taliaferro to appear in 
"The Three of Us," the Rachel Croth- 
ers play originally produced at the 
Madison Square theater. The Rolfe 
contract covers Miss Taliaferro's ap- 
pearance in other film plays. 

Jane Cowl, the original Mary Turner 
in "Within the Law," became a film 
star this week, when she signed for a 
series of appearances before the camera 
with the All Star Feature Corporation. 
The first release will be "The Easiest 
Way." 



LONDON BILLS REVISED 

(Bpecial Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 22. 

The list of London stage attractions 

undergoing changes shortly are: 
"Seven Keys to Baldpate" closing Oct. 
31, to be followed Nov. 4 by Charles 
Hawtrey's revival of "Never Say Die"; 

"The Chocolate Soldier" closes Sat- 
urday at the Lyric and "The New Shy- 
lock," an American drama, succeeds it 
next Wednesday; 

"The Earl and the Girl" comes to the 
Aldwych, taking the place of "The 
Belle of New York" on Nov. 4. 



FISKE PLAY CLOSES. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 22. 
"Lady Betty Martingale" in which 
Mrs. Fiskc is starring at the Broad, will 
he taken from the hoards on Satur- 
day night and shelved for the present 
at least. The comedy has had two 
weeks here. 



The OFFICI\L NEWS of the 

WHITE RATS ACTORS' UNION and 
ASSOCIATED ACTRESSES OF AMERICA, 



as formerly printed 
exclusively in 



fLMR 



appear on pages 14 and 15 of this issue. 



"COPY" CLAIMED. 

A "copy" existing within a few 
blocks of each other this week, is 
charged by Florenz Kolb and Adelaide 
Harland at Hammerstein's against 
Rosie Dolly and Martin Brown at the 
Palace. 

The allegation of piracy is over the 

cretonne collonial setting and dressing 

of the Dolly-Brown act. The latter 
make it their opening number. Kolb 
and Harland open in the set, going 
into "one" afterward and carrying out 
the idea to the end in another color. 

Those who have seen both turns 
pronounce them identical as far as the 
setting and dressing are concerned. 

On the record Kolb and Harland 
have used this opening for over a year. 
Dolly and Brown employed it for the 
first time Monday. 



KELLERMAN IN SHOW. 

Annette Kellermann has placed her- 
self under contract with Lew Wiswcll 
to go out in a musical revue, with the 
Kellermann diving act featured. 

It is said Miss Kellermann's contract 
reads for her to receive 11,000 weekly, 
guaranteed, and 25 per cent, of the net 
profits. 






HEARST THE BUYER? 

A rumor says William Randolph 
Hearst was the purchaser of the Swan- 
son-Engel Universal stock. 



FAMILY DEPT. SPLITTING. 

The Family Department (small time) 
of the United Booking Offices notified 
on Thursday the agents doing busi- 
ness through it that hereafter the 
agency will withhold one and one-half 
per cent of the five per cent commis- 
sion the agents charge acts. The full 
commission will be collected through 
the Vaudeville Collection Agency, 
which will render weekly accounts to 
the various agents. 

The same proceedure is followed in 
the bif? time department of the U. B. 
O., where the "split" between the 
agency and the agents is one-half. 



Inspector Dwyer Objects. 

Inspector Dwyer looked over the 
sketch, "Any Night" at Hammerstein's 
Thursday, suggesting to the manage- 
ment that the policeman employed in 
the opening scene to act as "puller-in" 
for a Raines Law hotel be dispensed 
with. This is the second and final 
week for the playlet in vaudeville. 



$1,500 FOR 8TALLINQS. 

The Palace, New York, salary for 
George T. Stallings beginning Mon- 
day for the week, is to be $1,500. If 
the manager of the Braves "gets 
over," he will secure nine more weeks 
on the United Booking Offices' circuit 
at the same figure, it is said. Tommy 
Fitzpatrick arranged the contract. 



Hot Weather in Chicago. 

Chicago. Oct. 23. 
The Imt weather this week has had 
its distinct effect upon the theatres, 



AMERICAN REOPENING. 

Chicago, Oct 21. 
The American Music Hall will re- 
open next Sunday with "The Revolt" 
starring Helen Ware, at popular 
prices. 



VARIETY 



SHARING PLAN FACES CRISIS 
FROM MANAGERS AND ARTISTS 



General Meeting of Variety Artists 9 Federation Sunday to 

Canvass Situation. Members in Provinces Holding 

Meetings. Artists Refusing to Sign Contracts 

After Nov. 7. Managers Threaten to Close 

Halls. English Agents Endeavoring 

to Hold Material at Home. 



(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 20. 

The co-operative playing plan will 
probably be either accepted by the 
artists or definitely rejected at a gen- 
eral Variety Artists' Federation meet- 
ing set for Sunday at the Trocadero 
restaurant here. 

Artists are meantime refusing to sign 
sharing contracts covering the period 
beyond Nov. 7, despite the assertion of 
the managers that unless they come 
to terms they will have no alternative 
but to close their halls. 

Numerous bodies of Federation mem- 
bers on the road are holding meetings 
and Friday night has been scheduled 
as the time for these get-together con- 
ferences in the provinces. 

Reports of the small assemblages 
will be forwarded to headquarters and 
the general situation canvassed at the 
meeting Sunday. With all the data at 
hand the executives of the order will 
attempt to arrive at a definite plan of 
campaign. 

The managers met privately today. 
Nothing of the conference was given 
out, but the Federation hopes to have 
a statement of the managers' position 
in time to present it to the Sunday 
conclave. 

Headliners are growing scarcer and 
scarcer. English agents are sending 
no more acts to America and are en- 
deavoring by every means they com- 
mand to secure American feature acts 
to play over here. 

The Middlesex is playing continuous 
vaudeville and pictures this week and 
the notice is up for closing Saturday. 



INA CLAIRE QUITS BENEFIT. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 20. 

Ina Claire didn't appear at the bene- 
fit for the Queen's Needlework Guild 
Sunday evening. When her music was 
handed to the orchestra at rehearsal, 
the leader declined to take it unless it 
was properly arranged as an imitation 
of Ethel Levey. The regulation re- 
quires such a designation to be set 
forth on a separate sheet. 

Miss Claire, accompanied by her 
mother, sails for New York on the 
Lusitania Saturday. 



GABT AND HER HARRY ROW. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 21. 

Gaby Deslys and Her Harry have 
quarreled and Pilcer threatens to re- 
turn to America, according to rumors 
in circulation this week. The disagree- 
ment in the partnership is said to have 
been caused by Gaby's friendliness with 
Basil Hallam, who is also playing at 
the Palace. 

Alfred Butt, director of the Palace. 



is said to have used his best efforts to 
effect a reconciliation between Gaby 
and Her Harry, but Harry is vurry, 
vurry angry and for the present de- 
clines to make up. 



"PEG" BUSINESS FALLS OFF. 

(Special cable f Varivtt.) 

London, Oct. 20. 

"Peg O My Heart," at the Comedy, 

is not drawing the business expected 

after Laurette Taylor's great personal 

triumph at the opening, and there is a 

report that the piece may close. 



EDWARDES ON WAY HOME. 
( Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 20. 

George Edwardes has left Badnau- 
heim, Germany, and is now in Holland 
on his way home. He is expected to 
reach London next Monday and busi- 
ness associates declare he is in excel- 
lent health and ready to resume act- 
ively. 



REMARKABLE PROPHECY. 

London, Oct. 10. 
In the October issue of the Occult 
Review, a monthly devoted to the dis- 
semination of the propaganda of oc- 
cultism, published in London, there ap- 
pears the reproduction of a prophecy 
made by a Portuguese priest named 

Dom Bosco, who died more than ten 
years ago. 

It (the prophecy) was originally pub- 
lished in the well-known French paper, 
Le Matin, in June, 1901, and runs as 
follows: 

"In 1913 or 1914 a great European 
war will break out. Germany will be 
completely torn to pieces, but not be- 
fore the Germans have penetrated into 
the heart of France, whence they will 
be forced back to the further banks of 
the Rhine. An arrogant man will see 
his family tree cut in splinters and 
trampled upon by all the world. Great 
battles will take place on August 15 
and September 15. At that time the 
Pope will die, and live again. Belgium 
will undergo fearful sufferings, but will 
rise again and become stronger than 
"vrr. Poland will get back her rights." 



Ben Greet Doing Police Duty. 

Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 21. 

Ben Greet, who at the close of his 
summer tour sailed for England, writes 
bis manager. L. M. Goodstadt, of his 
war experiences in his own village at 
Charlton. 

In addition to a daily four-hour po- 
lice patrol, Mr. Greet is assisting in 
the establishment and maintenance of a 
PielMian hospital at Charlton. 



ENGLISH ENLISTMENTS. 

London, Oct. 15. 
Additional enlistments of profession- 
als in the army, not previously report- 
ed in Vawbtt are: 

Bator F. Powls. 
Brandon, Ctaarlas. 
Borden, Bucena. 
Banka. LealTe J. 
Ball, H. Laalla. 
Bruca, Cyril. 
Brown, A. H. 
Buxton, A. O. 
Byrne, Bart. 
Courteney, Charles 

Linda. 
Crawford. W. M. 
Croaby, Bradford. 
Davenport, Arthur. 
Desmond, 8haun. 
Dulra, Frank. 
Freeman. H. A. 
Hamond, 8t John. 
Hill Eustace, 0. 
Hold, Nixon 
Horna, O. 

Hughes, Llewellyn ( 
Hutton, Ralph 
Knight, H. 8. 
Lauder, John. 
Laurie, Douglas 



Laws, A. Gordon. 
Martin. Leonard F. 
Marsden, Wilfred. 
Maxwell Ferrer, B. 
McCann. Joseph B. 
Miller, Thomas. 
Newman. Harry. 
Neale, William. 
Noble. Albert 
Paton, Chsrles B. 
Pawson. Oeorge. 
Ramball-Beara. 
Realm. Billy. 
Return, Will. 
Rogan, H. Mackenile. 
Rossborough, R. R. 
Rosslter, W. O. 
Sprotson. H. Edward. 
Struthera, Guy (Ouy 

and Orabame). 
Sutton-Vane, N. J. 
Sweetman, A. 
Thomas, Charles 
Woods, Tom H. 
Wrlatat, Fred. jr. 
Zeltlln. Frank. 



PARIS DREARY. 

Paris is a dreary city just now, says 
Charley Brown, the H. B. Marinelli rep- 
resentative, who arrived here Monday, 
having; come over on a French boat, to 
act as impresario for Quirago, the Span- 
ish violinist. 

Paris is dead by 9 every evening, said 
Mr. Brown. The streets are deserted, 
lights are out and there is no place 
to go. 



MORE CLOSINGS. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 20. 

Notice was posted Monday at the 

Criterion that unless business improved 

"Sir Richard's Biography" will come 

to an end with the current week. 



CHANGES AT ALLHAMBRA. 

(Special Cable to Varivtt.) 

London, Oct. 20. 

With many changes the Alhambra 
management bills the revue as contain- 
ing "everything new," but this is prob- 
ably an exaggeration of the innova- 
tions. 

A travesty dance has been put on. 
It is accompanied by a running fire of 
ancient talk and gags, entitled "The 
Marvelous Hoofers." tl was received 
seriously by the audience Monday eve- 
ning and in consequence, flopped. 



ETHEL LEVEY AT PALACE? 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London. Oct. 20. 

It is understood that Ethel Levey 
goes to the Palace during the Christ- 
mas holidays under a tentative under- 
standing with Alfred Butt, if Elsie 
Janis does not return. No contracts 
have been signed yet. however. 



CHINK ACT HELD UP. 

San Francisco, Oct. 21. 
Long Tack Sam's Shangtun Mys- 
tery, which arrived from Shanghai last 
Thursday and was carded as a feature 
for the Empress this week, was de- 
tained in quarantine and forced to post- 
pone its local debut until next week. 



Melville Gideon in War. 

(Special Cahlr to Varttttt ) 

London, Oct. 21. 
Melville Gideon, the American song 
writer who has been in England for 
several years, is driving a hospital car 
for the American Red Cross Associa- 
tion at the front. 



SAILINGS. 

Reported through Paul Tausig & 
Sons, 104 East 14th street, New York: 

Oct. 21, George R. Parry (Maure- 
tania). 



San Francisco, Oct 21. 
Arriving on the Sonoma from Aus- 
tralia Oct. 15 were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry 
Lauder, Mr. and Mrs. Van Buren, Mr. 
and Mrs. Goyt, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny 
Small and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Milo, 
Mr. and Mrs. T. Vallance, Mr. and 
Mrs. Sol Berns, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, 
Mr. and Mrs. Al Rover, Mr. and Mrs. 
Bersceny, Mr. and Mrs. Crooker, Mark 
Truescott, Brent Hayes, Horace Shel- 
don, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Cunning- 
ham, Jimmie Rose, E. Bowers, Mr. and 
Mrs. Weston, Bob Woolsey, Mrs. 
Helen White, Mr. Walters and Mr. 
La Verne. 



PROVINCIAL MANAGERS DICTATE. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct 21. 

The provincial managers are notify- 
ing artists that unless they accept a 
40 per cent, reduction in present sal- 
aries they will not make the scheduled 
holiday productions. 



EMPIRE SHOW GOOD. 
(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 21. 

The new Empire show "By Jingo If 

We Do," which opened here Oct. 19, 

is a combination of melodrama and 

topical revue. The show was not a 

sensation, but may be classified as 

good. 



TATE IN HIP REVUE. 
(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 21. 

Harry Tate has been added to the 
new Hippodrome Revue now in re- 
hearsal. 



GOING AFTER A PIRATE. 

Aaron Hoffman has started after a 
pirate in Chicago who makes a prac- 
tice of getting the best gags of acts 
that are playing in that city and pub- 
lishing them in book form. The pirate 
in question is Thomas W. Jackson, 
publisher of a popular type of book 
that is sold largely on trains. This 
week an act of Hoffman's sent the 
author seven of the various Jackson 
publications. They were "On a Fast 
Train," "From Rhode Island to Texas," 
"18M. from Texas," "Through Mis- 
souri on a Mule," "O. U. C. the United 
States with Jackson," "Don't Miss It" 
and "Catches a Fish and Tells About 
It." In all of the hooks there were 
passages that Hoffman has written 
from time to time and he has instruct- 
ed his attorney to start proceedings at 
once under the Copyright Law. 

Mr. Hoffman suggests that acts do- 
ing comedy talk read these books, and 
if they have copyrighted material that 
appears in the publications they can 
write him and he will assist in pro- 
tecting their rights. 



MILES DIVORCED. 

Detroit, Oct. 21. 
Mrs. C. H. Miles has just been 
awarded a decree of divorce here from 
her husband, president of the company 
which controls the Miles circuit of 
theatres, 



VARIETY 



RAILROADS TO COMPETE 

WITH EXPOSITION SHOWMEN 



The Santa Fe and Union Pacific Will Have Shows at 'Frisco 
Fair. 20 Shows and 10 Rides in "The Zone." 

150 Concessions in All. 



"The Zone," the amusement section 
of the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 
San Francisco, will have 20 different 
shows and 10 rides of various sorts. 
In addition there will be a number of 
smaller concessions that will bring the 
total number to 150. 

The three biggest attractions will be 
Frederic Thompson's "Toyland," "The 
Grand Canyon" and "Yellowstone 
Park." The two latter shows are con- 
ducted by the Santa Fe and Union 
Pacific railroads respectively. "Toy- 
land" will cost a million to prepare. 
"The Grand Canyon" is costing $350,- 
000 and "Yellowstone" will cost a like 
amount The railroads are entering in 
competition with the showmen and 
hope to make a profit on their attrac- 
tions as well as get an unusual amount 
of advertising. 

In "The Canyon" by means of con- 
cealed electrical and mechanical de- 
vices the illusion of great space is pro- 
duced. The entire canyon will be re- 
produced with its Indian villages of the 
Hopi, Zuni, Laguna and Pueblo tribes. 
A parlor car will be the method of see- 
ing the land. The car will be formed 
into a great observation platform which 
will be whirled around the brim of the 
canyon. The structure containing the 
show is 700x300 feet. 

Toyland is being built in sections 
and will be a sort of a Luna Park in- 
side of the "Zone" section. Yellow- 
stone Park will be shown practically 
by the same method as the canyon is 
shown. 

"Old Nuremberg" is another of the 
big attractions. It will be a miniature 
likeness of the famous city in Germany. 
"The Evolution of a Dreadnaught" will 
show the various types of fighting ships 
since the beginning of the navies of 
the ancients. "Creation," a former 
Coney Island attraction, will be anoth- 
er feature. "The Battle of Gettys- 
burg" will be one of the inclosed pano- 
rama attractions. "The Panama Canal" 
will be a working model of the big 
ditch as was shown at Coney Island 
two summers ago. 

Other shows include "The Incubat- 
ors," "'49 Camp," "Fool's Palace," 
"Mysterious Orient" and "Beautiful 
Japan." Of the various "villages" 
there will be the Shamrock Isle, Sa- 
moan Village, Australasian Village, and 
Tehauntapec Village. 

The rides will be a coaster, a scenic 
railroad, Miniature Railroad, Red Mill, 
Submarine Trip, Autodrome, Bowls of 
Joyride, Human Roulette Wheel, and 
Slide for Life. There will also be Os- 
trich and Alligator farms and a Nata- 
toriun which will have "Neptune's 
Daughter" and "Diving Girls" as an 
attraction. 



week, when the American Vaudeville 
Artists started, legally steered by Au- 
gust Dreyer. The charter members 
are Bert Leslie, James J. Morton, 
Frank Conroy, George Lemaire, Joe 
Welch, Bill Macart, Lew Hearn, John 
Gordon. 

The A. V. A. will supersede, it is 
said, the Jesters, recently formed for 
the purpose of protection of original 
material among members, but disrupt- 
ed, according to the story, when one 
member shortly afterward alleged an- 
other had taken his best "gag." 

The A. V. A. people also say that 
their society will practically become the 
successor to the former Vaudeville 
Comedy Club, pushing out of the way 
the attempted revival of that club. 

No officers of the A. V. A. had been 
selected nor quarters chosen up to 
Wednesday. 



BIG TIMERS WITH LOEW. 

Several big time acts signed Marcus 
Loew contracts within the week, with 
several others reported in negotiation 
with Joseph M. Schenck, the Loew gen- 
eral booking manager. 

Among those closed for are Owen 
McGiveney, Macart and Bradford, Mu- 
sical Cuttys, Belleclaire Brothers and 
Barnold's Dogs. Those reported ne- 
gotiating number acts that have re- 
ceived as high as $1,250 in vaudeville. 

It was reported Wednesday Sam and 
Kitty Morton were quite likely to go 
with the Loew Circuit. They left for 
Detroit, their home, early in the week. 

One story had it this week Irene 
Franklin and Burt Green were with 
Loew, and that they are billed at Grand 
Rapids for next week, in the Loew 
house there. Whatever may have been 
the basis for the story, Franklin and 
Green are due to play the Temple, 
Rochester, next week, a United-booked 
big time theater. 



WOULDNT STAND CUT. 

Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 21. 

Because of a $5 weekly cut in salary 
Billie Sandy and "Hodie" Wilcox, end 
men, have quit Primrose & Wilson 
Minstrels. 

Fourteen other members of the 
troupe are about to leave because of 
salary cuts, the two men say. 



A. V. A. ORGANIZED. 

Another organization of vaudeville 
artists sprang into existence late last 



LABOR STRIKE EXTENDING. 

Montreal. Oct. 23. 

The union troubles here have been 
extended to the Mark-Brock houses. 
Scala and Family, which have joined 
the Orpheum and Gayety against the 
stage and musicians' union. 

The officers of the Canadian The- 
atres Co., operating the latter two nam- 
ed theatres, called upon the Minister 
of Labor n*-.i In. miration, arr .fr'ng 
to have \me ican music! vf enter this 
country. Th *v wil p^v <t thr f'o.'s 
house at Ott; wa. 



NEW MATERIAL NECESSARY. 

London, Oct. 9. 

From time immemorial American ar- 
tists who came over here were wont to 
comment that local talent had a pretty 
easy thing of it, once they had estab- 
lished themselves in London. The rea- 
son therefore, was that having scored a 
success with any kind of an act they 
were never bothered thereafter by the 
necessity of securing new material. It 
was known that people sang the same 
songs, told the same jokes and did the 
same dances for more than twenty 
years at a stretch. 

All this has gone. It is now neces- 
sary to secure new material in London 
oftener than America. The necessity 
for this is not readily apparent, but it 
is a fact nevertheless. A most recent 
example is the case of Wilkie Bard, 
than whom there is probably no greater 
favorite on the London music hall 
stage. In the past two or three years 
Bard has presented no less than half a 
dozen new acts in the form of song 
scenes, all successful to a greater or 
lesser degree, but none lasting over a 
few months, before beginning to wane. 

Today Bard is confronted with the 
absence of anything new and finds that 
his audience know his material almost 
as well as he does himself. As a result 
he was compelled to curtail his stay at 
the Oxford, as cabled to V ambit, and 
he is not likely to be seen in London 
'again until after the Christmas panto- 
mime season. 

Bard is as popular as ever, but "he 
must have new material more often 
than a less idolized artist, for the rea- 
son that his clientele expects it of 
him — in fact demands it of him. 



SONG TROUBLE AT ORPHEUM. 

A song was partly the cause for a 
change in running order of the Or- 
pheum, Brooklyn, bill Tuesday matinee. 
At the Monday performance the Far- 
ber Girls were "No. 4" and Adele 
Ritchie, next to closing. Each turn had 
the same song. The Farbers sang it 
first. When Miss Ritchie reached the 
stage she found it difficult to get over. 
She and the sisters exchanged positions 
at the Tuesday matinee. What the 
Farbers thought of the exchange, after 
hearing Miss Ritchie rave About the 
conflict in number didn't develop im- 
mediately. 

On the same bill also is another con- 
flict in settings. Gallagher and Carlin 
"No. 3" use a battleship scene, as does 
Arthur Prince, the English ventrilo- 
quist, who is "No. 7." 

Last week while Miss Ritchie was at 
the Bushwick, Brooklyn, Ben Blatt, 
manager, was served with a City Court 
order to withhold $162 from her sal- 
ary, in satisfaction of a judgment ob- 
tained against Miss Ritchie June 22, 
1914, by Philip Manning, attorney, act- 
ing on behalf of Myles McKeon & 
Sons, undertakers. The matter was So 
come up in court this week. 



"Human Freight Car" Divorced. 

Syracuse, Oct. 21. 
Mrs. Agnes R. Dunkhorst has se- 
cured a divorce in Cleveland from Ed. 
Dunkhorst, known in vaudeville as the 
"human freight car," to whom she was 
married in 1901. The couple sepa- 
rated in 1910. 



BALL PLAYERS DON'T DRAW. 

Hammerstein's did not draw the 

crowd expected Monday matinee, with 

Gowdy and Rudolph, the stars of the 

world series. Rudolph, the pitcher, 

lives in the Bronx. Hammerstein's is 

paying the couple $1,750 for the week. 

With the extra expense it will stand 
the house $2,000. The engagement may 
involve Hammerstein's in a law suit 
To make a place for the couple in the 
current program and still hold the total 
cost of the program to a reasonable 
amount, Hammerstein's asked Sam and 
Kitty Morton, who were billed, to can- 
cel for this week, accepting next week 
instead. 

The Mortons refused to accede to the 
arrangement. They reported Monday 
morning for rehearsal, and notified the 
management they would look to it for 
this week's salary. 

A member of the house staff attrib- 
uted the drop in business to the pres- 
ence of the Princess theater former 
"warm" sketch, "Any Night," which 
has kept people out of the theater, 
according to him. 



PALACE ULPING 10TB WATS. 

Elmer F. Rogers, manager of the 
Palace, New York, is taking the audi- 
ences into his confidence, via the Pal- 
ace program. Mr. Rogers is of the 
opinion the patrons of the Palace know 

a bit about variety bills, and he is in- 
forming them as to "opening acts," to 
make the house more interested early, 
and give the first turns the full benefit 
thereby. 

The Palace program this week car- 
ries the following: 

Note. — The position which, an act is 
alloted on the program does not in 
the least affect its merit. When a 
bill is made up almost of headliners 
— a state of affairs not unusual at the 
Palace — every number is frequently 
worthy of the "star spot" on- ordinary 
vaudeville bills. It is only fair to 
the artist, therefore, to judge his 
work solely upon its merits. 



AGREE NOT TO TTR 

Two vaudeville producers agreed this, 
week not to tip stage hands In thea- 
tres where either of their acts pit? 
plsy. 

The producers are Jesse L. Lasky 
and B. A. Rolfe. The present condi- 
tions that have brought about a redtyc?. 
tion . in salary for vaudeville turns 
caused the two stagers to enter in^o 
the mutual agreement, they say. . 



DARE FOR DANCERS. " 

Florence and Mecherini, South Amer- 
ican dancers, who are scheduled to 
make their American debut at the 81st 
Street theater Nov. 2, are out with a 
challenge to American dancerC This 
is their dare: 

They will forfeit $500 to any Atner* 
ican society steppers who are able to/ 
reproduce their version of the tango 
Argentina and the Brazilian maxixe, 
hut. the visitors specify, "it must be 
authentic and with no immoral or -pop- 
ular dance motions." 

The pair will do a 20-minute specialty 
with six changes of scene and costurfte. 
They have appeared abroad. 



VARIETY 



VAUDEVILLE AGENTS BUMPED 
BY SAURY REDUCTION PLAN 



Big Time Commission Men in Quandary Oyer Future Pros- 
pects for Them. "Cut" Now in Effect. About Five Per 
Cent Absolute Refusals So Far to Accept Decreases. 



Booking agents doing business with 
the United Booking OtVici s will bear 
their share of the recent reduction in 
salaries brought about by the emer- 
gency of the war. Many of the acts 
affected by the cut have notified their 
agents payments for services will be 
revised to conform to the new sched- 
ule of salaries. 

One agent who books through the 
United and Orpheum circuits said this 
week his fellow commission men would 
have to reconcile themselves to a 
smaller income during the time the 
emergency scale is in effect. 

"There are 36 agents booking on the 
floor of the U. B. O. " said this agent 
to a Variett. reporter this week. "And 
they will have to be content for the 
present with a straight 2*4 percent. 



commission." 



A vaudeville actor affected by the 
cut took the same view. Said he: "So 
far as I am concerend, this cut is not 
a total loss to me. My agent will 
share it. He was instrumental is se- 
curing for me a better salary. When I 
received more money, I was willing to 
share with him. Now that the cut in 
salary has fixed my income, my agent 
must assume part of the burden. One 
of the biggest men in vaudeville, who 
drops into New York intermittently, 
and is not over welt versed in vaude- 
ville booking details, ^topped for a mo- 
ment one afternoon as he was pass- 
ing out of the Palace theatre build- 
ing to observe the crowd going in the 
theatre, according to a story in circula- 
tion this week. Standing with him was 
a member of the Palace theatre staff. 
The vaudeville magnate noticed a 
handsomely appointed automobile at 
the curb. He casually asked the 
Palace man who on the bill was "draw- 
ing automobiles." His companion re- 
plied no one in particular he could 
recall. "That car must have brought 
some very nice people," said the mag- 
nate. "Oh, that car," answered the 
Palace man. "Why, that belongs to 
Blank Blank." "An actor?" queried the 
other. "No, an agent," was the re- 
ply. "Booking with us?" asked the 
magnate (referring to the United). 
"Yes," said the Palace man. "So," 
commented the magnate; "well, that's 
a better car than any of us owns." 

Another auto incident happened in 
the U. B. O. A manager wanted to 
go to Jersey City one afternoon to 
see an act. He had no car of his own, 
and didn't care to take a slow route. 
Asking one of the office boys to find 
out if anybody around the offices had 
an auto he could loan for an hour or 
so, the boy returned with a long list 
of names, all agents, who were willing 
to place a machine at the manager's 
disposal. 

The salary cuts for big time acts 



went into effect last week, when deduc- 
tions were made in all theatres where 
cut-acts were playing, excepting 
those that had declined to accept. 
These amount to five per cent, of the 
whole, so far, according to accounts. 
Excepted are several turns on the 
Orpheum Circuit, now laying off 
through unexpected closings of Or- 
pheum theatres in the northwest and 
Canada, and some Orpheum acts play- 
ing the Orpheum time the cutting com- 
mittee had not reached on the list of 
reductions. 

Up to Wednesday the Orpheum re- 
ported the only absolute refusal of an 
acceptance to that day of Kate Eli- 
nore and Sam Williams. In accord- 
ance with the two weeks' notice given, 
Elinore and Williams will withdraw 
from the Orpheum time after playing 
Omaha next week. 

A rejection of the cut on the U. B. 
O. circuit was entered by Walter C. 
Kelly, "The Virginia Judge," who 
closes his United tour Oct. 31 at 
Louisville. 

Big time acts were still clamoring 
for "Routes" this week, with the 
agents saying they were making lit- 
tle better progress in obtaining them 
than before the cut occurred. The 
managers said this was due to the con- 
dition which would be speedily smooth- 
ed out, when bookings would become 
more regular. 

Several of the larger priced turns 
were reported negotiating with other 
circuits, but as far as could be learned, 
there was little truth in the stories ex- 
cepting in a few instances, where big 
time acts had applied through other 
agents than their own, to obtain a 
possible line on what they could se- 
cure elsewhere. 



FOY EXPLAINS SUIT. 

Baltimore, Oct. 22. 

Eddie Foy, at the Maryland, says 
the suit by his sister, Mrs. Mary J. 
Doyle, to recover $10,000 alleged to be 
due her for the education and mainte- 
nance of Catherine Stanley Titzgerald, 
Who, Mrs. Doyle says, is Foy's daugh- 
ter by his first wife, deceased. 

"This is an attempt to extort money 

from me," said the comedian. "The 
girl is not my daughter. Her real 
name is Cooley and she was adopted 
by my sister. I had no children by 
my first marriage. The girl is now 
22 years old and I have already given 
Mrs. Doyle $10,000 for her education." 



ENGAGED FOR PANTO. 
. (Special Cable to Variett.) 

London, Oct. 22. 

George Graves, Will F.vans, Stanley 
Lupino and Bertram Wallis have been 
engaged for the Drury Lane Christ- 
mas pantomime. 



ABOUT FISHER AND GREEN. 

Fisher and Green are two actors in 

vaudeville, on the big time, who play 

."The Partners," a sketch patterned 

after the "Potash and Perlmutter" 

play. 

When notification of the salary cut- 
ting by the big-time managers was 
sent out through the agents, Gene 
Hughes, as representative of Fisher 
and Green, received a reply from the 
team reproaching the managers for 
even consulting with them over the 

cut. That had been $100 from the 
regular Fisher and Green salary, it is 
said. 

Oct. 19 from St. Louis, they sent 
the following message to Joseph M. 
Schenck, general manager of the Loew 
Circuit. 
"Mr. Joe Schenck, 

Broadway and 43d street, 
New York. 
Can you offer us route commenc- 
ing about Nov. 9. Salary four hun- 
dred and fifty dollars. This week 
Columbia, St. Louis. Wire us. This 
is strictly confidential. Best wishes. 

(Signed) Fisher and Green." 
Mr. Schenck, who says he does not 
receive a "strict confidence" business 
wire any more than he would accept 
one "collect," has written the follow- 
ing letter: 

New York, Oct. 20. 
Editor Variety: 

Enclosed find telegram received 
from Fisher and Green. I read in 
Variety- last week that this act vol- 
unteered to cut their salary so as 
to enable the officers of the United 
Booking Offices and the owners of 
theaters connected with that insti- 
tution, to live in peace and com- 
fort. 

Though so generous with the 
United Booking Offices, Fisher and 
Green did not fail to open nego- 
tiations with me. In case I may 
see my way clear to overpay them 
$150 a week, they no doubt might 
retract their generous offer to 
the United Booking Offices and 
leave it in the lurch. 

After reading the telegram, kind- 
ly return it to me, for filing with 
other valuable correspondence, 
some of a similar nature. 

(Signed) Jos. M. Schenck. 



MILES' OPENING. 

Pittsburgh, Oct. 21. 

The opening of the Miles' (formerly 
the Pitt) was a gala occasion. The 
theater was sold out, there having 
been a waiting line long before the 
opening. 

Harry Woods was brought from New 
York to be manager. The house plays 
I-oew vaudeville at 10-20-30. 



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TRIES SUICIDE IN VAIN. 

Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 21. 
Mrs. Elsie Wilmer, of "The Love- 
makers," at the Bastable the first half 
f this week, is at St. Joseph's Hos- 
I'ital. recovering from bichloride mer- 
cury poisoning. She informed the po- 
lice the tablet had been taken by mis- 
take, after first saying she had attempt- 
ed suicide. Her husband ^ves in New 
York. 



MOSS * BRILL EXPANSION. 

The prospect of an immediate added 
ten weeks in split week combinations 
to the 18 weeks in half week portions, 
at present the total time the Amalga- 
mated Booking offices in the Columbia 
theatre building can offer artists, 
caused ripples during the week in the 
ranks of small timers. 

Seven theatres of the Mose Reis cir- 
cuit and about 18 houses affiliated with 
the Reis combination is the extension 
in negotiation. 

The formal retirement from the Moss 
& Brill firm of Sol Brill as an active 
element of the firm and the assumption 
of all the active direction of the M. & 
B. interests by B. S. Moss, the building 
of a theatre soon on one of the Jacob 
Wendell tracts in the Long Acre sec- 
tion by Mr. Moss to be run after the 
manner of the other houses in Manhat- 
tan under his direction are other an- 
gles of the Amalgamated's extension 
plans that Mr. Moss confirmed. 

A report the Moss houses might be 
booked elsewhere than under his direc- 
tion was laughed at by Mr. Moss. 



EPSTIN RESIGNS. 

Meyer S. Epstin has resigned from 
his position as New York representa- 
tive of the Mark-Brock Circuit so as 

to be able to devote all of his time to 
the direction of the Epstin-Allen book- 
ing agency. Mr. Epstin severed his 
connection with the vaudeville circuit? 
this week and immediately took active 
charge of the office in the Putnam 
Building. 



CHARGING FOR LIGHTS. 

The vaudeville agents in the Palace 
theater building thought they were get- 
ting away with something until this 
week, when meters for the electric 
light consumed were placed in each 
suite. 

Until then, no charge had been made 
for the current. 



$75,000 for Oscar's House. 

It was said this week pop vaudeville 
managers had received a proposition 
to take over the new Lexington opera 
houe, now running as a picture place 
by Oscar Hammerstein. 

The rental asked was $75,000 a year. 



Loew's Old Offices Rented. 

The suite of offices, taking in the en- 
tire first floor of the Heidelberg 
Building, formerly occupied by the 
Marcus Loew Circuit, has been taken 
by the Jesse L. Lasky Co. 



CHANGE AT MIDDLESEX. 

(Special Cable to Variett.) 

Londoh, Oct. 22. 

A continuous policy will be intro- 
duced at the Middlesex beginning 
next Monday. 



Sailings. 

(Special Cable to Variett.) 

Oct. 21, Mr. and Mrs. James Tradie 

(Ccdric) ; 

Oct. 24, Max Laube ai.J members of 
"Fanny's First Play" (St Louis). 



VARIETY 



WITH THE WOMEN 



Saturday afternoon the Princess the- 
atre Players presented five new one-act 
plays to an invited audience. The per- 
formance was enjoyable but for the fact 
that the waits between numbers were 
longer than the playlets. None of our 
relatives will blush at the Princess 
Players during the run of the present 
program. The first four sketches 
dragged out the time so far at the mat- 
inee that many left the theatre, not 
seeing what may have been the best 
playlet of the lot. 



Ruth Chatterton, more charming than 
ever, in "Daddy Long Legs," at the 
Gaiety, is wearing three pretty dresses. 
The first is a pale pink charmeuse. It 
has a long bodice of velvet in the same 
shade. For a country dress there is a 
simple white needle work frock. In 
the last act Miss Chatterton displays a 
black velvet suit trimmed in lynx with 
hat and muff. A dress worn by Cora 
Witherspoon in the third act was equal- 
ly attractive. It was pink voile made 
in long-waisted lines. 

The Winter Garden show always 
promises costumes out of the ordinary. 
In the present production ("Dancing 
Around") the costumes run riot. The 
principals are snowed under by the 
gorgeousness of the chorus. A dress 
parade not unlike the one at the Lon- 
don Opera House last year brought 
out distinct types of girls, in costumes 
suited to the individual. As each girl 
came down the runway one thought 
nothing could be more beautiful in 
clothes until the last girl appeared in a 
dress of solid jet, draped in sapphire 
blue tulle. This dress, worn by a beau- 
tiful brunette will be remembered after 
the others may have been forgotten. 
Lucy Weston was lovely in her differ- 
ent changes. A gold dress was gor- 
geous, and a gray satin, the skirt box 
pleated, had a velvet bodice that suited 
Lucy's style. The skirts were all very 
full around the feet. Cecil Cunningham 
wore one striking costume right out of 
Vogul. It was green velvet with a cape 
hanging at the back, from the neck to 
the heels, and trimmed in chinchilla 
squirrel. Every one has seemed in- 
clined to pan the current Winter Gar- 
den show, but I found it a good eve- 
ning's entertainment. 



The stage of the Winter Garden was 
transferred to the auditorium of the 
Palace Monday afternoon. Most of the 
principals occupied front row seats and 
applauded their former associates, Rose 
Dolly and Fannie Brice. Miss Dolly 
and Martin Brown have a nice dancing 
act, artistically set. When the purple 
velvet hangings are drawn aside Miss 
Dolly and Mr. Brown are seated in an 
alcove, draped in flowered cretonne. 
Miss Dolly's dress is hoop-skirted with 
lace pantaletts. A pink charmeuse 
caught up at the hips, showing an 
elaborate lace petticoat, is for the sec- 
ond dance. Mr. Brown wore white 
tights with blue satin coat. The tango 
was dressed rather daringly hy Mr. 
Brown. An orange jcrse" wilb bloom- 
er trousers of oranr*" aud purple 
stripes with purple su« m- 1 oots, snowed 
bare knees. Miss Doily appears wrap- 



ped in a cloak of solid sequins. Be- 
neath was a shawl dress with the 
usual fringe. Miss Dolly also wears 
purple boots and her legs are bare. 
This dance is rather irregularly done 
by the couple. Willa Holt Wakefield 
(Palace) looked a picture in a white 
satin trained gown, heavily trimmed in 
crystal. It was topped by a gold poke 
bonnet plumed in sapphire blue feath- 
ers and tied under the chin with coral 
colored velvet ribbons. The Great 
Fridkowsky troupe (Palace) are great 
in dressing as well as dancing. The 
troupe affects gold, purple and red. 
The men in purple trousers and red 
boots are splendid foils for the girls in 
their solid sequin dresses. 



Blanche Ring brought a wonderful 
assortment of clothes to the Colonial 
this week. On the road Miss Ring 
made her appearance dressed as a prin- 
cipal boy. It was too becoming to 
discard. Her first dress is a showy 
affair in flowered silk, with tunic of 
purple. A neglige was in white lace 
with broad belt of pink ribbon and a 
loose tunic belted at the hips with sil- 
ver braid. An evening gown of layers 
of silver cloth was stunning. Miss 
Ring is pounds lighter. Eveleen Dun- 
more (a good looking red head) sings 
her way into the graces of the 
audience. A yellow brocade chiffon 
velvet wrap is thrown aside by her, 
showing an evening gown of white net, 
edged in emerald green taffeta. -*-A 
white dress embroidered in crystal and 
turquoise was Miss Dunmore's sec- 
ond change. Ann Pettwood and Maude 
Durand (with the Emmet DeVoy 
sketch) wear pretty evening frocks of 
white. Mable Russell is wearing a sim- 
ple shortwaisted dress of white with 
ruffles of lace. Miss Russell and her 
partner (Eddie Leonard) have cut the 
mush — which is a blessing. Weber and 
Capitola De Wolf are using an ugly 
back drop. It is rusty brown cloth 
with gold cord draped to show a pur- 
ple center entrance. No gown could 
possibly look well before it. Miss De 
Wolf's first dress was a combination of 
yellow petticoat draped in pink chif- 
fon, a gold hip drapery and blue bod- 
ice. The second was prettier, a pink 
empire, with bonnet and scarf to match. 
The finale was dressed in white taf- 
feta edged in black. It was a flounce 
too short. 



Miss Wynn (of Faye and Wynn at 
the Lincoln Square the first half) looks 
well in a black accordeon pleated dress. 
Mary Carr on the same bill (playing 
in a sketch with Charles Deland) is a 
tall woman. She affects black velvet 
in coat, dress and hat. Miss Carr would 
look really well if she didn't stoop to 
meet her partner's height. Most of the 
dialog in this sketch is from Simons 
and Gardner's old "Coachman" act. 
Another well dressed woman on the 
bill was Marie Russell. Miss Russell 
uses a mulatto make-up. Her first 
appearance is in a wrap of white bead- 
ed cloth and pink meline hat. An eve- 
ning dress of white brocade had a tu- 
nic of tulle. Miss V.",sscll looked espe- 
cially well in a ''lo^n velvet tailored 
suit, all but the gold slippers. Frevoli 



at this theater, in his shadowgraph act, 
could easily discard the cigar episode. 
It is too disgusting. 



"The Prize Winners" at the Colum- 
bir has a chorus equal to any musical 
company on Broadway. The pony ballet 
especially contains twelve good looking 
young girls. The other twelve of a 
larger build are good types, who know 
how to carry their clothes. The girls 
all looked well in French student suits 
of black velvet. The opening chorus 
was done in pastel shades. A wedding 
number was very well staged, the en- 
tire company wearing white. Of the 
principals Edna Raymond was the best 
dressed. Miss Raymond's clothes 
weren't burlesque, they were evening 
dresses suitable to any drawing room. 
Belle Oliver wore one stunning gown. 
It was an American Beauty red, em- 
bossed in purple pansies and had hip 
drapery of silver lace. A black and 
white dress was also good looking. 
Clara Gibson spent the evening chang- 
ing her costumes. They were all dan- 
cing frocks and were neatly made. Sam 
Hyams is the image of Johnnie Hy- 
ams (Hyams and Mclntyre) and works 
like him. Don Barclay must be Eng- 
lish as he uses the messy make-up so 
much employed by English comedians. 
Nevertheless Mr. Barclay is funny and 
had the house convulsed all the eve- 
ning. The ventilation at the Columbia 
is very bad. Why can't all doors be 
thrown open for a few moments dur- 
ing intermission. 



Helen Clarke, a new dancer on the 
New York Roof, is a pretty little 
blonde who wears for her first dance a 
dress in two shades of green ruffles. 



"IN NORDLAND" TOO LONG. 

Providence, Oct. 21. 
"In Nordland," a condensed form of 
Lew Fields' old musical comedy, "It 
Happened in Nordland," had its tryout 
at Keith's Monday with William Bur- 
ress in Fields' part. Others in the 
company are Carrie Graham, George 
Betts, Ezra C. Walck, Charles Fulton, 
R. H. Greenlaw and Evelyn Stewart. 
Mr. Burrcss lias his happy moments 
but he is no Lew Fields, and his 
boiled-down version of the musical 
comedy is spotty in its present form. 
There are times when interest is en- 
tirely absent. 



"Shamrock Girls" Stranded. 

Pittsburgh, Oct. 21. 
Eight members of "The Shamrock 
Girls" are stranded here as a result of 
the sudden departure of the manager of 
the company for Chicago Sunday. 



Lowell Strike Over. 

Lowell, Mass., Oct. 21. 
Keith's theater orchestra returned to 
its post Monday, following an amicable 
agreement reached between the house 
management and the Lowell Musicians' 
Union. 



Full Act at Supper Show. 
Robert Roy, who opened Monday at 
the Broadway to show his act to sev- 
eral apents, left the bill after his sec- 
ond performance, following an argu- 
ment with the stage manager who 
would not allow Roy to cut off three 
minutes of his time at the supper show. 



SHOWING -'HYPOCRITES-" 

A Bosworth four-reel feature film, 
called "Hypocrites," may be shown as 
a special show in some Broadway the* 
atre yet to be selected. 

The film was recently exhibited for 
private opinion, which agreed the pic- 
ture was most beautifully designed and 
produced, but somewhat daring in 
theme, that included an undraped girl 
roaming about the woods, seeking 
truth. There is also a religious side to 
the picture, which has ben well done 
by its scenario writer and director, 
Lois Weber. 



TUITION BY BELASCO. 

An echo of the motion picture con- 
vention at Dayton last summer will be 
the arrival in New York this week of 
Blanche Austin, pronounced by the 
judges selected through the Dayton 
Herald as Dayton's most beautiful girl. 
She is 17 years of age. 

When Harry Reichenbach, publicity 
promoter for the Jesse Lasky Co., was 
in Dayton, he promoted the beauty 
contest, promising as a prize an en- 
gagement with a Lasky picture stock 
company, following four weeks of 
tuition by David Belasco, to the prize 
winner. Miss Austin will be assigned 
to one of the Lasky companies. 



COAST HIP MAN HERE. 

Charles Brown, interested in the 
Los Angeles Hippodrome, and also the 
proposed 3,500-seating capacity Hip to 
be erected in San Francisco, came to 
New York this week. 

Mr. Brown consulted with H. B. 
Marinelli Monday. He stopped off at 
Chicago on the way east, speaking to 
Fred Lincoln, of the newly formed 
Affiliated Booking Company. Through 
Brown, an alliance for bookings may 
be made that will take in the Western 
States Vaudeville Association of San 
Francisco, with the A. B. C. in Chi- 
cago, the latter agency already having 
formed a connection with Marinelli. 

The Western States books the Hip, 
Los Angeles. The same agency also 
supplied three San Francisco houses 
that could handle the eastern material. 



MELROSE IS PLAYING. 

Despite stories circulated that Bert 
Melrose had left the show business, 
the comedian opened Monday at 
Loew's Orpheum, and is due to play 
Loew's Shubert, Brooklyn, this last 
half. 



Booked For Australia. 

Chris O. Brown, acting for Hugh 
Mcintosh, of Australia, this week en- 
gaged Sydney Jarvis and Virginia 
Dare to tour the Kickards Circuit over 
there, sailing from this side next May. 



New Manager at St. Louis Hip. 

Chicago, Oct. 23. 
I). E. Russell will succeed Frank 
Talbot as manager of the St. Louis 
Hippodrome. 



Portland Reopening Nov. 8. 

Portland, Ore., Oct. 22. 
The new Orpheum theater will open 
with the regular Orpheum Circuit 
vaudeville shows Nov. 8. 



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VARIETY 



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CABARETS 



The Evelyn Nesbit and Jack Clifford 
dancing engagement on the New York 
Roof terminates Oct. 31. The couple 
will probably return to vaudeville. In 
their place the William Morris man- 
agement may install four or five sets 
of well known dancers, including some 
of those now there, and call it a "Dan- 
cing Carnival." The scarcity of a big 
drawing card will be responsible for 
the multitude, although each of the 
couples is expected to show some pow- 
er at the box office. Commencing this 
week Jimmy Europe's colored orches- 
tra of 17 pieces replaced Bryrrfm's col- 
ored orchestra there, the latter being 
obliged to leave after a long stay 
through the edict of the Musical Union, 
which ordered that if the theater be- 
low held a union lot of musicians, the 
Roof above would have to conform to 
the rules. 



Lord Grey, who received publicity in 
the New York dailies through his mar- 
riage to a young American girl, and 
his divorce, thinks he is well enough 
known now to play vaudeville or dance 
professionally with his partner, Miss 
Wilson, whom, it is reported. His Lud- 
ship will shortly marry. The English- 
man only asked $2,500 a week for 
vaudeville as his first figure. It is 
quite likely he will reduce it. if the 
stage bug sticks with him. 

The American Society of Authors, 
Composers and Publishers says it will 
be represented by counsel when the 
appeal in the matter of the Church Co. 
vs. Hotel Biltmore is argued before 
the United States Court. The Society 
intends making application to be rep- 
resented through the importance of the 
copyright question involved in the case, 
and upon which, through the favorable 
opinion to the publisher (Church Co.) 
the Society has collected a royalty 
from feederies employing orchestras, 
upon the use of copyrighted music. 

The professional dancing of the 
maxixc, tango, one-step and other of 
the "common" society dances has 
grown so sickening to those who must 
perforce watch it often, if they want to 
dance themselves, that this is holding 
a great many people out of the dancing 
places. So few professionals display 
any symptoms of originality. They see 
and they copy, and if they don't see 
anything new, they dance the old stuff. 
In a week's round of the dancing places 
not a professional was noted who did 
a step belonging to himself. Profes- 
sional dancers ought to be worth about 
$30 a dozen now, on the average, and 
then 90 per cent, would be overpaid. 

The near-professional dancer or the 
dancer who thinks he could have been 
a professional if he had tried for it, 
is the worst species extant just now. 
These fellows (and the fellows are 
worse than their partners) get out on 
the. floor, and go to it in an attempt 
to attract attention to themselves. It 
can't always be told whether this bunch 
is really looking for a job or merely 



happens to own a head, but the im- 
pression they leave, that they are "the" 
dancers can't be gotten away from. The 
other evening in one of the best known 
dancing cabarets on Broadway, of the 
14 couples on the floor in a public 
dance, 11 were "showing off." The 
floor managers might single out this 
crowd and tell them to move on. They 
interfere with the others and seldom 
buy. 



The Broadway Rose Gardens have 
undergone a change since Edward E. 
Pidgeon took over the active manage- 
ment. The Gardens are said to be 
about $150,000 behind since they were 
opened. This amount represents the 
money expended on the alterations nec- 
essary to transform the old skating 
rink in the theater and dance hall, said 
to have been $135,000. When the new 
manager took hold he discovered sev- 
eral hundred meals served daily gratis 
and that there was enough help in the 
kitchen to feed a regular army. Twen- 
ty-seven kitchen employes were there, 
principally to prepare meals for the 
rest of the help and friends of the 
management. In the first week of the 
new regime at the Gardens $2,000 was 
cut from the weekly pay roll and there 
are to be other changes in the various 
departments of the resort that will 
enable the establishment to be run at 
about $5,000 less weekly than the orig-* 
inal payroll. 



The Astor Hotel Tea and Evening 
Dances have been resumed, under the 
direction of Mrs. Hallam. Albert Van 
Sand and Harriet Cassebeer are in 
charge of the dancing. The Astor has 
a Saturday supper dance at $2.50. 



San Francisco, Oct. 21. 
The first cabaret in Australia was 
shown the natives Sept. 15, at the Ti- 
voli, Sydney, under the direction of 
Hugh Mcintosh. While visiting here 
Mr. Mcintosh spoke of his intentions 
to try out the cabaret idea, and from 
all accounts it proved te be such a suc- 
cess that every Tuesday and Friday af- 
ternoons are now set apart for the ca- 
baret entertainments. On these occa- 
sions luncheons are served. After a 
two weeks' experiment with a string or- 
chestra, during which time the vaude- 
ville portion of the cabaret at the-Por- 
tola-Luuvre was seriously handicapped, 
the management announces the return 
of the old orchestra next week. Amuse- 
ment Manager Walsh of the Odeon 
Cafe announces that he will discontinue 
the tabloid light operas, and inaugurate 
a regular cabaret entertainment. The 
Paris-Louvre is being remodeled and 
a new entrance built, which will be 
completed next week. This cafe, al- 
though on one of the choicest corners 
in the city, has been a losing proposi- 
tion for years, one of the reasons be- 
lieved to have been responsible for the 
poor business conditions was the in- 
convenience of the old entrance. A 
new cabaret policy is announced. 



STOCK 



STOCKS OPENING. 

Spokane, Oct 21. 
A contract for five years' continuous 
stock performances at the Auditorium 
has been signed between Dan L. 
Weaver, one of the owners of the 
house, and George L. Baker, of Port- 
land, according to Mr. Weaver. The 
company will start its engagement, it is 
given out, about Nov. 10. 



Topeka, Kan., Oct. 21. 

The Carter Robinson Stock Co. has 
taken a lease on the Orpheum and will 
present a repertoire of royalty plays 
during the winter. The Robinson or- 
ganization hails from the west, having 
played the last three years in Fort 
Worth and Wichita. The prices will 
be 10-20-30. 

The Orpheum has been in an uproar 
for some time, a tieup resulting two 
weeks ago when the stage hands and 
vaudeville actors went out on a strike. 
All trouble has been amicably settled. 



Omaha, Oct. 21. 
Eva Lang and O. D. Woodward, who 
recently parted company after many 
years of association in the theatrical 
world, both here and in Kansas City, 
are to become rivals in stock here. 
Woodward has a stock company and 
Miss Lang has announced that she will 
open with her own players in a very 
short time. 

Utica, N. Y., Oct. 21. 
Wilmer & Vincent will install a stock 
here early in November. Among those 
engaged is Harry Hayden, who has 
been playing in Reading, Pa. 



SHERMAN- FOWLER LEADS. 

Lowell Sherman and Gertrude Fow- 
ler will play leads for the new stock 
company that goes into the Bronx Oct 
26, the opening piece being "Bought 
and Paid For." 

Rowland Edwards is stage director. 



Schiller's New Leading Man. 
Ed. Schiller, running the Emma 
Bunting stock, Crescent, New Orleans, 
wired into New York Monday for a 
new leading man and by that after- 
noon Hayden Stevenson was on his 
way to assume the job. 



Crescent Return to Stock. 

After playing straight pictures for 
some time the Crescent, Brooklyn, is 
going to return to stock. J. J. Maloney 
announcing a new company will be in- 
stalled Nov. 2. 

William Masson is returning as stage 
director. Two other favorites, Charles 
Scofield and wife (Isadore Martin) are 
also under new contracts. 

Corliss Giles has been engaged as 
leading man. 



Bunting Stock Moving. 

New Orleans. Oct. 21. 
The Emma Bunting Stock Co> pany 
will end its engagement of seven veeks 
at the Crescent Oct. 24, opening for an 
indefinite stay at the Greenwall the next 
day. 



THREE CLEVELAND STOCKS. 

Cleveland, Oct. 21. 

The Grand opened Monday with 
stock, playing "Why Women Sin." It 
is the third stock organization here. 

Jack Halliday and May Buckley are 

heading at the Metropolitan. They 
opened Monday with "A Gentleman of 
Leisure." Mr. Halliday and Miss 
Buckley are in for a long run. These 
players are probably the most popu- 
lar stock stars Cleveland has patron- 
ized within the last few years. They 
have hundreds of personal friends in 
the city. Monday night the house was 
crowded, and the whole affair seemed 
to be a family get-together occasion. 

The performance of "A Gentleman 
of Leisure" was well done, Miss Buck- 
ley and Mr. Halliday both receiving 
praise from the critics for their work. 
Supporting members of the company, 
in nearly every part, were deeply ap- 
preciated. 

Archie Bell, Leader critic, predicted 
a splendid success for the company. 
Manager Fred Johnson declares there 
have been at least 800 seats reserved 
for every week until next March. 



PHILLY'S LITTLE STOCK. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 21. 

The Little Theater stock opened its 
season Monday night with Bernard 
Shaw's "Arms and the Man" before an 
audience which filled the house. B. 
Iden Payne, the new director, made a 
decided impression by the brilliant way 
in which the play was produced. 

The company is of a high order and 
gave a sparkling finish to the lines and 
business. Dallas Anderson was cast as 
Captain Bluntschli. Others were Ian 
Maclaren (Sergius), Whiteford Kane 
(Major Petkoflf), Wallis Clarke (Nico- 
la), Hilda Englund (Catherine Pethoff), 
Saxone Morland (Raina), Ida Hamilton 
(Louka). 



"SENSATIONAL MELODRAMAS." 

Philadelphia, Oct. 21. 

Martin J. Dixon has leased Hart's 
Family theater, in the Kensington mill 
district, for ten weeks and installed a 
stock company. It is billed as "the 
home of sensational melodramas." The 
opening, was Monday with "The Game 
of Life" in a prolog and four acts. 

In the cast were Richard La Stile, 
Maxwell Driscoll, William Kilbride, 
Franklin Hale, Bob Strauss, Warren 
Hill, Victor Stewart, Julia Nevill, Ethel 
Hemrick, Al Myles, and Darel Good- 
win. For next week "The Eleventh 
Hour" is billed. 



Maxwell Working on Five. 

Joe Maxwell is at work, producing 
five acts for the big time in vaudeville. 
The largest and newest of these, "The 
Book of Life," will be ready to show 
next week. 

Others are, "Happiness" (revived) 
with 14 people, "I've Got It," both 
nearly ready, besides "The Stool Pig- 
eon" and "The Little Stranger," pre- 
paring. 



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Vol, XXXVI. 



No. 8 



Billy Merson, the English singing 
comedienne, may come over to this 
side about Jan. 1. 

Will H. Stevens, at one time of 
Lowell, Mass., has been made perma- 
nent resident manager of the Temple, 
Hamilton, Can., by Clark Brown. 



Maude Gilbert, of 'The Yellow Tick- 
et", reached New York Tuesday. Her 
place was tilled this week at Memphis 
by Marion Hutchens. 



Harry McCormack, a Keith treasurer 
six years ago, is returning to the fold 
as pasteboard custodian of the new 
Crescent (Brooklyn) stock. 

Josie Brown, the office manager for 
Harry Piucus, is spending two weeks 
in Lakewood recuperating from an at- 
tack of illness. 

Charles Pitt succeeds William Mas- 
sen as stage director at the Hyperion, 
New Haven. Mr. Massen will go with 
the Keith people. 



Arthur Ritchie, formerly managing 
the Columbia, Washington, D. C, is 
now with the Clancy Players, Pater- 
son, N. J. 

Florence Nugent, now with Sam Ber- 
nard in "The Belle of Bond Street," is 
said to have received a proposition to 
play vaudeville. 



Phillip M. Stern, managing clerk in 
the office of Maurice Goodman, was 
married Monday night at Delmonico's, 
New York, to Estelle Guckenheimer. 

Gus Forbes has joined the road com- 
pany of "The Dummy," playing Brook- 
lyn this week. Forbes has been recog- 
nized as one of the best leading men 
in stock. 

Leo Weisberg, a nephew of A. H. 
Woods, has been appointed treasurer 
of the New York theater. His assist- 
ant is Ernest All-er.s, i : :> . the 
Republic. 



Jack Dempsey, whose real name is 
William Austin Dempsey, and Elsie 
Malone were married last March, but 
kept it secret until last week, when a 
delayed honeymoon was started. 

Rand's opera house, Troy, N. Y., will 
play pop vaudeville, commencing Nov. 
2, with bills booked by Freeman 
Bernstein. His brother, Sam, will 
manage the house. 



Isadore Kuhn, assistant manager of 
Loew's Greeley Square, has been ap- 
pointed manager of the Fulton, Brook- 
lyn, replacing Arthur Lighton, form- 
erly over there. 

Frank Moulan and May de Sousa 
have not left "The Queen of the 
Movies" as reported. Phil Ryley came 
within an ace of closing the show but 
decided to keep it out. 

Frances Pritchard, a dancer, has 
been engaged by the Shubcrts for the 
new Trentini show that started re- 
hearsals this week. The contract was 
made through Jule Delmar, and is for 
three years. 

Janet Dunbar, who was originally 
cast for one of the principal roles of 
"The Salamander," is to stick to the 
John Mason show at the New York. 
Her place with the Selwyn & Co. piece 
has been taken by Carroll McComas. 



"The Witness Chair" has been se- 
lected as the title of the new play in 
which Oliver Morosco plans to star 
Leo Carrillo. It is Morosco's intention 
to bring out this play in his Los An- 
geles theater within the next month. 

For years Bert Lytell and Ethel 
Vaughan have been heading stock com- 
panies, but they are again destined to 
shine in the legitimate limelight when 
the new Marie Dressier show ("Sub**) 
is presented on Broadway. 

Captain J. C. Wilson, Variety's Aus- 
tralian representative, has accepted a 
commission in the English army and is 
at the front. E. G. Knox, of "The 
Sunday Times," Sydney, is looking af- 
ter Variety's interests in Australia, 
pending Mr. Wilson's return. 

The Colonial, Harrisburg, a Wilmer 
& Vincent house, plays pop vaudeville, 
commencing this week. Four acts are 
booked by Arthur Blondell of the 
United's Fam. Dept. The house seats 
1,800. Admission, 5-10-15. W. & Vs. 
Orpheum in the same town continues 
with big time. 

Ed Blondell did not return from Aus- 
tralia this week as scheduled, having 
accepted a proposition offered by the 
Willourhbv Amusement Co., just be- 
fore lailin, tiniv, to appear in a pro- 
duct^ fc that firm in the Antipodes. 
Hlond 11 will be featured. His com- 
pany it.n-i < d over also. 



TOMMY'S TATTLES. 

By Thomaa J. Gray. 

The Indoor Vaudeville Baseball sea- 
son is now on in full blast. 

Titles That Denote Action. 
"Bunty Pulls the Strings." 
"Kick In." 
"Twin Beds." 
"The High Cost of Loving." 

Instead of a near-silver cup a New 
York Cabaret owner is going to give 
a bale of cotton as a dancing contest 
prize. As Rube Goldberg would say, 
"After you get it what are you gonna 
do with it?" 



If you don't like how much you weigh, 
Just try a week of four-a-day. 

If your act you would advance, 
Then cut out that old Tango dance. 

If you think that you can't be blue 
Why try and make good number two. 

For United, Fox or Marcus Loew 
Poor acrobats must close the show. 

Pray tell us what looks half as cute 
As that long sheet they call a "route." 

I always thought my clothes looked 

fine 
Until I piped off Arthur Kline. 

Never made a Gillette behave 
Till Sully's shop gave me a shave. 

Wonder if some of these poems 
Will remind you of Bill Jerome's? 

Freeport, Long Island, and Fair Ha- 
ven, New Jersey, arc said to be the 
principal towns in America that are 
suffering on account of the war. There's 
a reason. 



NEW ACTS. 

Frank Keenan will produce "Con- 
science" (sketch) when his present vau- 
deville tour is completed. 

H. Guy Woodward in "The Crisis" 
(three people) at Pantages, San Fran- 
cisco, week Oct. 11. 

Ethel Davis and Co., musical comedy 
skit, 14 people, in San Francisco, Oct 
18. 

Long Tack Sam's Shangtum Mystery 
(8 people), Loew's Empress, San Fran- 
cisco, week Oct. 18. 

Billy Watson, Joe Radcliffe and Nel- 
lie Watson, an act by Aaron Hoffman. 
Al Lewis producing the turn. 



"SIBYL" IS "SIBIL". 

When "Sibyl" was announced for 
production by Charles Frohman the 
report became current that this was, a 
new name for "The Song of Songs" 
which had been in rehearsal. 

Such is not the case. The latter 
opens next Thursday night in Atlantic 
City while the "Sibyl" show is under- 
lined for a lengthy engagement in Bos- 
ton. Among the "Song of Songs" 
principals is Irene Fenwick. 

No one around the Frohman offices 
this week appeared to know anything 
about the report that the new Otis 
Skinner show was coming into New 
York to replace "The Beautiful Ad- 
venture." 



BERNSTEIN IS DESPERATE. 

"Go away, son, and leave me alone, 
unless you know some good grave- 
yard gags," said Freeman Bernstein 
Tuesday as he undid a large roll of 
crepe. "No, nobody has died that I 
care anything about, but I am going 
into mourning because I ain't going to 
smile again. 

"Here for years, me, Freeman Bern- 
stein, that even the fly cops turn 
around to look at and the con men al- 
ways take to the other side of the 
street when they see me, who has al- 
ways gotten away with anything on 
a 90-10 break for myself, is hooked up 
with nothing but bad prospects, and 
all because 1 let some guys who bulled 
me rub it in at the finish. 

"I'm a pretty sad little guy, kid, and 
it hurts to think that I let them fel- 
lers get away with it. I could have 
double-crossed them, but no, says I, 
why take a chance, I'll stick a while 
longer then hand it to them right 
You know, I never guessed them for 
wise ones and just figured that before 
long I would be running the outfit, 
getting a royalty for each show, and 
burying my money on the left-hand 
corner of Mt. Vernon's loneliest street. 

"But they beat me to it, and if you 
know a Salvation Army branch that 
wants a real guy to come across with 
his experiences, telling how much the 
Army has done for him since joining, 
I'll take the job for 50 cents a night 
and cakes. I'll give the brethren a 
regular spiel, too. Tell 'em every- 
thing that's fit to print, and the story 
about my burlesque troubles will be a 
whole show right in itself. 

"It's no good kicking, though, is it, 
but I ain't used to getting the wrong 
end. I thought I had protected myself 
against that. Why, when I think what 
I did to the whole government down 
in Porto Rico, and then what I let this 
bunch do to me, I can't make it out 
Freeman, says I, are you getting to be 
a hop-head without knowing it? 

"Well, let's for.get that anyway. 
But it's tough. I aint done a decent 
bit of work since it happened. Just 
can't get together. A guy was in here 
yesterday with a $50 bill, but I 
couldn't pull my noodle over to think- 
ing how to get it. 

"Are things dull for you? Want to 
go as a team? 50-50, you handle the 
coin, and land the mark and I'll do the 
work. Ah, we can't flop. You steer 
them into me and I'll sell the Metro- 
politan opera house for anything they 
have got, but you must get next to 
the roll, and tip me off within $20. If 
they don't want the Metropolitan, we 
will sell them a collar factory in Troy, 
and throw in the gals. I'll get some 
dame to hang out here as a sample. 
Don't turn me, I've got to get hunk 
on the season. Make it 60-40 and you 
take the biR end. 70-30? You get 
everything over $100? Nothing do- 
ing? You're backing away from a for- 
tune, kid. I always worked this alone 
before. 

"Positively no, vU. Well, will >»i 
wind this crepe around my arm ,and 
teach me how to cry? I'm going dowa 
and sit in Mike Shecdy's office that 
way and till liim funny stories." 

Sitiit 



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VARIETY 



OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN EXPLAINS 
ANNOUNCED SALE OF HIS STOCK 



Dates Back to Affairs of Family. Foreclosure Proceedings 

Under $100 9 00* Mortgage Pending Against Victoria 

Theatre. U. B. O. Franchise Not Involved — 

Held Individually. 



A notification was mailed out Tues- 
day in New York, to the effect that 
Oct. 28, next, at the Exchange Sales- 
room, 14 Vesey street, through Adrian 
H. Muller & Co., auctioneers, 3998 
shares of the Hammerstein Amuse- 
ment Co. would be sold by the Equita- 
ble Trust Co. 

The notification contained the fol- 
lowing information: 

The Hammerstein Amusement Co. 
is a corporation organized under the 
laws of the State of New York, and 
the above mentioned shares include 
all but two of the shares of capital 
stock of the company. The Amuse- 
ment Company is the owner of the 
Victoria theatre with its equipment, 
at the northwest corner of 42d street 
and Seventh avenue, in the heart of 
the theatre district of New York 
City, standing on a plot 100x131 feet 
in size. The theatre stands on ground 
leased to the company for 21 years 
from May 1, 1903, or until May 1, 
1924, at an annual rental of $37,000, 
the lessee paying the taxes, which in 
1914 amounted to approximately $20,- 
000. The company also owns a fran- 
chise or contract with the United 
Booking Offices of America for the 
exclusive use of so-called "big time" 
vaudeville acts in the Times Square 
district. 

Oscar Hammerstein, when seen by a 
Variety representative, said the sale of 
the stock was an aftermath of an agree- 
ment entered into some time ago con- 
cerning members of his family. Mr. 
Hammerstein added he intended taking 
no steps to secure nor protect the 
stock, as foreclosure proceedings were 
now pending against the Victoria, he 
stated, to collect a mortgage for $100,- 
000 on the building. This mortgage is 
understood to be held directly or in- 
directly by Mr. Hammerstein. 

Oscar also called attention to the 
misstatement in the notification, which 
said the Hammerstein Co. owned the 
United Booking Offices franchise for 
the Victoria. This franchise, stated 
Mr. Hammerstein, is in the names of 
Oscar and William Hammerstein. 
Neither is it an exclusive franchise for 
the Times Square section, as an agree- 
ment was reached some time ago be- 
tween the United and the late William 
Hammerstein, which permitted the B. 
F. Keith Palace theatre to also play 
vaudeville from the U. B. O. 



CHANGES IN TOWN. 

"Evidence" closes at the Lyric 
Saturday night. "The Battle Cry," a 
play adapted from a novel of the same 
name by Augustus Thomas, will be 
the succeeding attraction. Early this 
week it was stated the Shuberts would 
send "Evidence" to Chicago. It was 
also stated that William A. Brady, 
who is a partner in the production, 



was in favor of doing the play in pic- 
tures immediately with the theatre 
cast. 

Nov. 2 is at present set for the date 
of the New York showing of Joseph 
Weber's production of "The Only 
Girl" by Victor Herbert and Henry 
Blossom, at the 39th Street, succeed- 
ing 'The Third Party." 

On the same evening Marie Tem- 
pest will begin her farewell tour at the 
Comedy, following "Consequences." 
Miss Tempest will be supported by her 
entire company from the Playhouse, 
London. 

"The Story of the Rosary" left the 
Manhattan opera house last Saturday 
and is at the Majestic, Brooklyn, this 
week. The Rosary show took to the 
road to give the new William A. Brady 
spectacle, "Life," the use of the stage 
for day and night rehearsals. 

In the new "Battle Cry" show head- 
ed for the Lyric will be William Far- 
num, Grace Elliston, Forest McCom- 
bcr, Harry Hadfield, Beatrice Allen and 
Donald Gallagher. 



TANK MANAGER HELD. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 23. 

The police of Lima, O., are detain- 
ing Ferdinand Grahmme, proprietor of 
the Grahmme Stock, a repertoire 
troupe, found wandering the streets of 
that city, barefooted, hatless and coat- 
less. 

According to the authorities the 
company disbanded at St. Marys, O., 
last week, following an alleged insult 
on the part of Grahmme toward one 
of the women in his company. Her 
husband shot at Grahmme in the midst 
of the play. The audience became 
panic stricken and fled. Grahmme was 
not hit, but he was still walking fast 
when the police discovered him. 

The Grahmme Company has been 
playing the gasoline circuit of Ohio, 
Indiana and Michigan, for the last IS 
years. 



NO MOROSCO DEAL. 

Pittsburgh, Oct. 21. 
While rumor persists that William 
Moore Patch is working on plans for 
a new stock theater here, he denies 
that Oliver Morosco and he are in- 
terested in a lease on the Duquesne. 
He would not answer an inquiry as to 
whether Morosco is interested in the 
new theater plan. 

The Morosco office in New York 
this week denied Mr. Morosco was in- 
terested with Mr. Patch in any enter- 
prise. 



"Miss Tabasco" Disbands. 

Pittsburgh, Oct. 21. 
Eva Tanguay disbands her company 
playing "Miss Tabasco" Saturday 
night. She will go to New York. 



ORDERED TIGHTS ON GIRLS. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 23. 

Police Lieut. Smiley attended by a 
bodyguard of plain clothes men and 
patrolmen visited the Lyric last night, 
stopping the performance of "The 
Passing Show of 1914." After a brief 
conference with the house and show 
manager, he ordered that the chorist- 
ers, who heretofore worked in skirts 
of flimsy material, to don tights in- 
stanter. They did. 

Smiley made a similar crusade on 
the Gaiety in the afternoon and all 
signs point to further activity in this 
direction. 



DANCERS ON ROOF. 

Commencing Nov. 2, Martin Brown 
and Rosie Polly, now at the Palace, 
will appear for four weeks on the 
New York Roof, supplanting Evelyn 
Nesbit and Jack Clifford as the prin- 
cipal dancing attraction up in the air. 
The latter's engagement ends Oct. 31. 

The Brown-Dolly dancing combina- 
tion is a new one. It is their joint 
debut at the Palace. Their Roof salary 
is reported at $500 weekly, although 
$700 is also mentioned. 



CALIFORNIA BAD SHOW. 

San Francisco, Oct. 21. 

"The Graven Image" lasted three 
nights at the Alcazar after its premiere 
Monday to a good-sized audience, un- 
doubtedly attracted by the "Made in 
California" slogan used to announce 
the play as the work of two local 
newspapermen. 

Tuesday the dailies stated with re- 
gret the piece lacked the necessary 
elements to insure its success. After 
the opening, business dropped and on 
Thursday night the play was shelved. 

"Bella Donna," the bill used the pre- 
ceding week, replaced it. 



TRENTINI SHOW PEOPLE. 

The Trentini show, which the Shu- 
berts are producing, started rehearsals 
this week, the number staging attend- 
ed to by Jack Mason. 

Clifton Crawford will be in the com- 
pany. Roy Atwell turned his part 
back as unsuitable to him, and Alice 
Hegeman also left for a "not the type" 
reason. 



Peacocke's Beauty Scenario. 
Capt. Leslie T. Peacocke, who wrote 
the scenario of "Neptune's Daughter," 
is engaged on a new seven-part fea- 
ture for the World Film Corporation, 
which now controls his services. No 
details of the new production have been 
announced, except that the film will 
call for the appearance of a prize 
beauty aggregation of 100 girls. 



English Company Coming Over. 

The entire company appearing at 
present at the Vaudeville theater, Lon- 
don, in "My Aunt," by Sidney Blow and 
Douglas Hoare, is to sail for this side 
shortly. The company will be man- 
aged by Walter Hast. 



Virginia Brooks in Concert 
Virginia Brooks, daughter of Jos. W. 
RTrooks, the theatrical producer, re- 
turned to New York Sunday after sev- 
eral years abroad. 

Miss Brooks will go on a concert 
tour, it is said, under the direction of 
R. E. Johnston. 



RUMSEY BUYS OUT SELWYNS. 

John W. Rumsey and Elizabeth 
Marbury announced Thursday they 
had decided to combine and had 
bought the play agency business of 
Selwyn & Co. and the interest of the 
latter firm in the American Play Co., 
which conducts a stock leasing busi- 
ness. Selwyn & Co. will in the future 
confine themselves entirely to the pro- 
duction end of theatricals. 

Miss Marbury and Mr. Rumsey will 
operate as the American Play Co., a 
corporation. Miss Marbury, who has 
been rn author's representative for 26 
years, will act in an advisory capacity. 
Mr. Rumsey is the president and gen- 
eral manager of the new corporation. 

Among the prominent authors whom 
the company will represent are Augus- 
tus Thomas, Charles Klein, George 
Broadhurst, Henry Arthur Jones, Ar- 
thur W. Pinero, J. Hartley Manners, 
George Bernard Shaw, Jerome K. Je- 
rome, Louis N. Parker, Edgar Selwyn, 
James Forbes, Bayard Veiller, Mar- 
garet Mayo, Eugene Walters, Thomp- 
son Buchanan, James Montgomery 
and a host of others. 

The policy of the new agency will 
be to devote all its time to the interests 
of authors and to take the initiative 
in legislation to protect their rights. 
One of the first and most important 
steps in this direction will be working 
in conjunction with the Authors' 
League, the American Society of 
Dramatists and Composers and Denis 
F. O'Brien in a campaign to secure an 
adequate copyright law in Canada. 



SELL OUT BEFORE OPENING. 

It was said along Broadway on 
Thursday that Comstock & Gest had 
sold their interest in the new play 
"Experience," which they held jointly 
with William Elliott, to the Shuberts 
and William A. Brady. The play is to 
open at the Booth Tuesday. 

Although "Experience" is a morality 
play, the management have refrained 
from mentioning this, as they do not 
wish to have the play compared with 
either "Everyman" or "Everywoman," 
morality plays of the past. 



STRIKE IN DALLAS. 

Dallas, Oct. 22. 
The stage hands at the Grand opera 

house went on strike last night and a 
non-union crew handled "Oh, Oh, Del- 
phine!" 

The regular men wanted the weekly 
scale of wages. Manager Sasseen de- 
clined to meet the demand, declaring 
his bookings were too uncertain to jus- 
tify a weekly scale. He stood ready 
to pay for the number of performances 
worked. 

The dispute will be taken up by the 
National body and may spread to the 
other Wcis circuit houses. 



W. & L. Apply for Discharge. 

Wcrba and Leuscher, through their 
attorneys, have applied for a discharge 
from bankruptcy and the court will 
hold a hearing on their brief the lat- 
ter part of this month. 



Robson Show to Reopen. 

May Robson in "Martha by the Day" 
is to reopen in Kalamazoo, Mich., Oct. 
26. The company will jump from New 
York direct. 



VARIETY 



11 



MANY SHOWS WILD-CATTING 

ON THE ONE NIGHT STANDS 



Reports from Road Disclose More Companies Are Switching 

Routes and Territory Than in Previous Seasons. 

Burlesque Troupes Also on the Trail. 



From many sections on the theatrical 
map come reports that legitimate com- 
panies galore are "wild-catting" in a 
frantic endeavor to recoup some of the 
losses suffered on regular time booked 
before the shows hit the one-night 
stand trail. 

Not only are some of the legits chang- 
ing the entire routes but burlesque 
shows left out by the recent Columbia 
Amusement Company's absorption of 
about a dozen of the Progressive cir- 
cuit's attractions, are "wild-catting." 

Poor business in many instances has 
brought about this territory switching, 
the road managers fully convinced that 
the "future time" will not develop any 
decided change and that trying new 
time may help the companies. 

Down in the south are several mu- 
sical shows that have been hard hit 
and they are making haste to jump into 
newly booked towns not originally 
scheduled when the companies set out 
from New York. 

In the middle west, southwest and 
sections of the middle east and New 
England are some traveling combina- 
tions playing around with no definite 
route beyond the next fortnight. 



WITH THE ONE NIGHTERS. 

Following this week's engagement at 
the Grand, "Damaged Goods," which 
Leffler-Bratton have taken over with 
permission to use Richard Bennett's 
name, will play one nighters through 
Pennsylvania. Heading are Howard 
Hall and John Birmingham, the latter 
handling the Bennett role. 

Hugo Koch, starring in "The Call of 
the Cumberlands," opened a road sea- 
son Oct. IS at Sterling, 111. Harry 
Rowe is manager, and George Gordon, 
the advance man. 

Another company of "Peck's Bad 
Boy" is getting ready for the road. 
Joe Cohen, of the Cowhal Amusement 
Co., is financing the new organization. 

"The Call of the West" has a Pacific 
Coast tour booked under Elwyn 
Strong's direction. Ray Manning will 
be seen in the principal male role. 

"To Die at Dawn," direction, Cap- 
tain McLean, featuring a band, strikes 
the one nighters about Nov. 1. 

"Little Miss Winsome" opened Oct. 
19 in Iowa. 

L. C. Bailey has taken out a roadster 
entitled "Satan," playing the middle- 
west. 



HOT TIMES IN BOSTON. 

Boston, Oct. 21. 

The Shuberts advertising of "The 
Passing Show of 1914," which opens 
next Monday, was premature and hurt 
"The Whirl of the World," which is 
ending its engagement this week. The 
two following on the heels of each 
other at the Shubert was unexpected, 
although in line with the avowed 



policy a year ago of the Shuberts to 
make this pet house the Boston Win- 
ter Garden. 

The real answer probably comes in 
the cross-booking of "The Whirl" and 
' The Follies" at the Colonial in which 
"The Follies" came out with flying 
colors financially. 

Then came the resolution by the 
Shuberts apparently to bring in anoth- 
er musical show during the last three 
weeks of the "Follies" engagement to 
do to "The Follies" what "The Follies" 
did to "The Whirl." 

Accordingly, last Sunday's papers 
had ads of the coming "Passing Show" 
of a size equal to the ads of "The 
Whirl" on its last week and it cut "The 
Whirl" receipts even deeper than had 
been feared. 

The Shuberts were incensed at the 
Boston Transcript review of "The 
Whirl" opening which panned the show 
to a fare-you-well. The Shubert ad- 
vertising was immediately withdrawn 
for all three houses, the Majestic, Wil- 
bur and Shubert. Last year the same 
sort of a wallop was handed to a simi- 
lar type of show and the withdrawal 
threat was made, but not carried out. 
The Transcript is a powerful theatrical 
advertising medium of small circula- 
tion in exclusive circles, but because 
of war times probably feels the Shu- 
bert withdrawal more than would have 
otherwise been the case. The Keith 
interests in Boston were at issue witn 
the Transcript for years before the 
matter was finally "arbitrated." 



LAMBS 9 ELECTION. 

The annual election of the Lambs 
resulted in the following officers for 
the ensuing year: Shepherd, William 
Courtleigh (re-elected); Boy, Dudley 
Field Malone (Collector of the Port of 
New York) ; corresponding secretary, 
Charles Emerson Cooke; recording sec- 
retary, George Fawcett; treasurer, 
Hartwig Nathaniel Baruch; librarian, 
Robert McKay. 

The financial statement of the Lambs 
for the year ending Sept. 30 was is- 
sued this week. It shows a surplus 
of $300,466.89. In the assets the club- 
house is valued at $453,503.57, and the 
furnishings at $30,911.05. The cash on 
hand and in bank was $38,421.08. An- 
other item in the assets was $27,932, 
due from members and guests for dues. 
room rents and house accounts. A 
first mortgage on the real estate of the 
club is I169.M00. listed among the lia- 
bilities. Liabilities for the Gambol last 
summer are set down as $39,523, and a 
notation at bottom of statement says 
the total surplus will be increased when 
the final figures of the Gambol are as- 
certained. 

The surplus this year is-$20,000 in 
round figures over that of the year 
previous. Th-- net profit for the fiscal 
year is giver .-» $27,406.48. 



31 VICTIMS SEEK REVENGE. 

Mrs. Virginia Williams of 110 East 
18th street, who has complained to the 
District Attorney of the operations of 
Robert Desmond a 42d street agent, in- 
structor and playwright, has collected 
the names and addresses of 31 self- 
styled victims of agent sharps. Mrs. 
Williams this week presented the list 
to the District Attorney in a second re- 
quest that he investigate the "schools of 
acting" and other concerns that adver- 
tise in the newspapers. 

Mrs. Williams' former visit to the 
District Attorney's office brought no 
action. She was told that the prosecu- 
tor would act only if she would pro- 
duce five witnesses. 

She thereupon advertised in a daily 
paper for persons who had been 
"stung in the stage aspirant game" and 
in a few days the total of her corre- 
spondence reached 31. 

Her complaint against Desmond is 
that she paid him $50 on account for 
the writing of a sketch and engagement 
to play it, and received nothing in re- 
turn. She says she received from him 
a receipt for her $50 bearing the note 
on its face "for instruction only." 



ROAD TOUR CALLED OFF. 

Los Angeles, Oct. 21. 

The road tour of "Let's Get Mar- 
ried?" now running at the Morosco, 
has been abandoned, temporarily at 
least. 

General Manager Tom O'Day de- 
cided the time was not ripe for a road 
engagement and says he will hold the 
play off until a date can be secured in 
Chicago. 



BESSIE ABOTT RETURNING. 

Bessie Abott, the former grand opera 
star, who was the head of the De Ko- 
ven Opera Company last season in 
"Robin Hood" and "Rob Roy," will ar- 
rive from abroad on the Carpathia Mon- 
day. Miss Abott has spent several 
months at Vallambrosa, Italy, with her 
husband, who is Julian Storey's brother. 



SERIOUS FRENCH PLAY. 

"Cheri Bibi," a serious French play, 
by Gaston Laroux, presented in three 
European theatres at one time before 
the war broke out, is being looked over 
by F. Ray Comstock with a view of a 
Broadway presentation. 

A. H. Woods has also requested Jos. 
W. Stern & Co. to let him have the 
book. In Paris the piece was in nine 
scenes but the English adaptation has 
it in prolog and three acts. 



FIELDS LEAVING (?). 

Although the Lew Fields people in 
"The High Cost of Loving" persist in 
denying the show will shortly leave the 
Republic theater, it is said that A. H. 
Woods is negotiating for another at- 
traction to succeed the Fields play 
within the next three weeks. 



ARTHUR PREPARING PIECE. 

Dan V. Arthur is reported preparing 
the musical comedy Marie Cahi41 will 
next be seen in. Another report says 
Richard Carle may play opposite Miss 
Cahill in it. Mr. Carle is at present 
under contract with Charles Frohman, 
but disengaged. 



SHOWS IN 'FRISCO. 

San Francisco, Oct. 21. 

George Arliss opened at the Colum- 
bia in "Disraeli" to good business. 

With Max Dill out of the cast 
of the Kolb and Dill show and busi- 
ness falling off at the Gaiety, "The 
Rollicking Girls" may not enjoy the 
long run anticipated. Dill is laid up by 
an injured ankle resulting from a fall 
the opening night. Bobby Vernon is 
handling his role. 

Business very light during the sec- 
ond week of the "Kitty MacKay" at 
the Cort. 



SHOWS IN NEW ORLEANS. 

New Orleans, Oct. 21. 

David Warfield drew over $12,000 at 
the Tulane last week. Emma Bunting 
Stock company in its last week at the 
Crescent enjoyed fair patronage. The 
Peruchi-Gypsene Players opened Mon- 
day to $841 at the Lyric and business 
continued good. 

The Greenwall, Dauphine and La- 
Fayette are dark. 



SHOWS IN LOS ANGELES. 

Loi Angeles, Oct. 21. 

"A Pair of Sixes" opened to big 
business at the Majestic and the out- 
look is for a banner week. Harry 
Lauder played four performances at 
the same house beginning last Friday 
and hung up a new record. Scats 
were placed on the stage and every 
corner of the house was occupied. At 
that, hundreds were turned away. 

"Fine Feathers" was given its first 
stock production here and drew well. 
Advance sale for the rest of the week 
is large. 



CANADA GETTING BETTER. 

Ed. V. Giroux says the northwest 
and Canada are picking up. Shows 
playing the houses controlled by the 
Northwest Theatres Association, book- 
ed by John Cort, are doing better 
through that section now. 

Mr. Giroux thinks with the weather 
more settled the road conditions will 
brace up. 



ARBUCKLE IN NEW PIECE. 

About Thanksgiving Selwyn & Co. 
will place in rehearsal Irvin Cobb's 
"Judge Priest" stories from the Satur- 
day Evening Post. Macklyn Arbuckle 
is to star in the play. 



ADELE BLOOD. 

A new star will twinkle among the 
white lights of Broadway when Adele 
Blood, the blonde beauty of California, 
will make her debut under the man- 
agement of I. W. Hope in the new play, 
"Milady's Boudoir," by J. C. Drum. 

Miss Blood is at present best known 
as "Everywoman." For the past three 
years she has been leading woman of 
Henry W. Savage's production of that 
great drama, and in the now historic 
roast-to-coast tour, reaching over nine- 
ty-five consecutive weeks, and showing 
a profit to Mr. Savage of $250,000, she 
has never missed a performance. Her 
youth and vitality born of the Califor- 
nia climate helped her to this remark- 
able record. She has made a host of 
friends by her loyal devotion to her 
professional duties and an avalanche of 
good wishes will accompany her debut. 



12 



VARIETY 






The decision arrived at by a large 
majority of burlesque managers at a 
meeting held in the Columbia Amuse- 
ment Company building to lay before 
their people a plan for the reduction 
of salaries, seems to be the only course 
that is left open to them to check the 
rapidly mounting losses of the present 
season, losses by the way, that if not 
stopped forthwith might imperil a con- 
tinuance of the season. In times of 
business depression such as at present 
exists, there are certain demands that 
must be met in order to promote the 
individual welfare of all classes and 
conditions of people. 

Scarcity of money, brought about by 
extraneous conditions, forces inactive 
trading with the result that retrench- 
ment in all expenditures is compulsory 
upon the part of all people whether 
they be of large, moderate or small 
incomes. 

Luxuries are quite naturally the first 
objects to be excluded, and as these 
include theatre-going, the effect of the 
times is undoubtedly being seriously 
felt right now in this branch of busi- 
ness. In no other way may the strik- 
ing apathy of the public toward the- 
atres be accounted for. Many produc- 
tions that would in normal times be 
drawing capacity audiences are playing 
to half houses everywhere, and man- 
agers who have large sums invested 
are losing money at a ruinous rate. 



This is a condition that must be 
handled in such a way that all con- 
cerned may be secured against loss 
that might be serious in its conse- 
quences. Big and little business con- 
cerns all over the country are cur- 
tailing in every direction, in many in- 
stances cutting their working forces 
to the minimum for their present re- 
quirements. 



The men in control of the big time 
vaudeville business have put into ef- 
fect a reduction of all salaries. 



If it is a wise precaution in vaude- 
ville, what about burlesque with its 
certainty of a long season if the man- 
agers are met half way and given a 
chance to avert heavy loss? Burlesque 
players are liberally paid and their sea- 
sons invariably long. Right now there 
are many hundreds of performers out 
of employment who would be glad to 
accept bare living remuneration. 

The outlook for increased receipts is 
far from encouraging. Submitting to 
a cut in salaries or being replaced by 
those who would welcome an oppor- 
tunity for consecutive engagements is 
apparently the problem that now con- 
fronts burlesque. Many persons do 
not realize the seriousness of general 
conditions throughout the country. I 
will cite several specific instances. 
Every year the Rome, Watertown and 
Ogdensburg Railroad gives what is 
called the Up-State Excursion. The 
average attendance has always been 
around 7,000 people, all farmers and 




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merchants and their families. Last 
year 7,460 was the number carried, 
this year, in the present month, with 
every favorable weather condition, only 
2,611 attended. One of the big life in- 
surance companies has loaned more 
money on policies since August 1 than 
in any six months of its existence. On 
its industrial business, which is the 
form of insurance on which small col- 
lections are made weekly, this same 
company has been obliged to cancel 
a greater number of policies, in the 
same period, on account of non-pay- 
ment, than in any entire year. A re- 
tail grocery concern that operates sixty 
stores in and around New York city 
has, within the past 30 days, discharged 
an average of two employees from 
each store. In August, 1913, one of the 
great railway companies of this coun- 
try employed 63,938 people. Last Au- 
gust the number was 53,007, a dif- 
ference of more than ten thousand 
employees and a decrease in the pay 
roll of approximately $500,000 a month. 

These conditions have direct bearing 
upon theatre attendance because they 
affect thousands of people, a large per- 
centage of whom it may safely be as- 
sumed are theatre-goers. And it may 
be assumed also that the same condi- 
tions prevail all over the country. The 
manager of a telegraph company's of- 
fice, located in the heart of the New 
York theatrical district, told me a few 
days ago that in all his experience he 
has never known anything like the vast 
numbers of telegrams sent to and re- 
ceived by theatrical people through his 
office urging the immediate transfer of 
money to relieve distress. 

These are the reasons why managers 
are at their wits' ends to tide over the 
serious crisis. 



Moore and Scanlon Maybe. 

It is understood the Moore and Scan- 
lon show, a Progressive organization 
that disbanded in Buffalo Saturday, 
Oct. 10, is being considered for the 
Columbia Extended Circuit. 

This show was one of the best on 
the Progressive, and if a permanent 
place can be found for it, the Colum- 
bia will take it over. The show has 
been given one week at the Murray 
Hill, commencing next Monday. It 
will go in under "The Cracker Jacks" 
title. No definite arrangements have 
been made for it after that. 



TRYING OUT ATLANTIC CITY. 

Experimentally, the shows of the Co- 
lumbia Extended Circuit will play the 
Nixon, Atlantic City, commencing 
Sunday night, Oct. 25. The plan will 
be tried for four weeks, the shows 
opening Sunday night and playing 
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday af- 
ternoon and night, following the Tro- 
cadero's. Philadelphia, week. 

If business justifies the permanency 
of this arrangement, it will be con- 
tinued throughout the season, leaving 
three days open before Binghamton. 
It is understood that if business war- 
rants, the entire week at Atlantic City 
will be played. 



progressives; situation. 

The present condition of the Pro- 
gressives appears to be that they still 
have the Academy, Pittsburgh; the 
Majestic, Indianapolis; Gayety, St. 
Louis, and the Club, Milwaukee. 

According to reports, their "Dark- 
town Follies" will close in Pittsburgh 
this week, and "The Dainty Maids" 
pass out of existence at the same house 
next week. 

This leaves "The Follies of 1914," 
Richy Craig and Jack Reid, still oper- 
ating. 

The fact that Tom Sullivan, who re- 
cently brought his show over from the 
Progressives to the Columbia, is figur- 
ing with Colonel Allen to keep the 
Academy, Pittsburgh, supplied with at- 
tractions after next week, and that the 
Crawfords will install stock burlesque 
at the Gayety, St. Louis, with Jack 
Reid in charge, commencing Oct. 26, 
and the report that stock burlesque will 
be inaugurated at the Majestic, In- 
dianapolis, Oct. 25, indicate the Pro- 
gressives will be out within the next 
fortnight. 



BARTON'S NEW VENTURE. 

What was left of the former Progres- 
sive Burlesque Circuit after the Colum- 
bia Amusement Co.'s recent raid, to- 
gether with a number of new theatres 
now being negotiated for, will be 
molded into the neucleus of a new 
circuit of burlesque houses according 
to the present plans and statements of 
James D. Barton. 

Mr. Barton spent the past week in 
the west completing arrangements for 
the capitalization of a new string to 
bear his name. Past experience has 
taught Barton the necessity of being 
a share owner in the shows as well as 
the theatres and his new idea embod- 
ies a scheme that will eliminate any 
possibility of a sell-out. He proposes 
to invest his own cash in every pro- 
duction that secures a franchise and 
will have each organization incorporat- 
ed. A plan of guarantee covering a 
period of five years goes along with 
the idea. 

Barton claims to hold options on a 
dozen houses and expects a string that 
will total 20 within the next ten days. 



GOING HOME IN STYLE. 

Milwaukee, Oct. 19. 

Sisters of the chorus may be interest- 
ed in learning that stranded girls in 
Milwaukee not only are provided with 
transportation back to Broadway, but 
are conveyed to their train in an auto- 
mobile and further, slipped a little 
spending money. 

Ask Florence and Frances Sharpe, 
the last two of the stranded "Interna- 
tional Girls" to leave the city. County 
Clerk "Louie" Widule's sympathetic 
heart prompted him to raise $50 with a 
subscription list. Then he induced 
Sheriff Lawrence McGreal to send over 
one of the county's cars in that depart- 
ment, and the two little ladies were con- 
veyed in style to the Union depot. 
"Louie" also induced the St. Ch- les 
hotel to contribute board whil ; ;ub- 
scription list was moving about. 





fcASINO, CHICAGO, OUT. 

The Casino, Chicago, will be dropped 
from the Columbia Extended Circuit 
this Saturday night, and its place will 
be taken by the Folly, beginning about 
Nov. IS, after extensive alterations in 
the house have been made. 

Meantime the shows that would have 
played the Casino will lay off. 



SHOWS MUST BE GOOD. 

Now that the theaters on the Main 
and the Extended Columbia Circuits 
are set for the remainder of the season, 
the directors of the Columbia Amuse- 
ment Company will turn their atten- 
tion to the quality of the shows given 
in the circuit's houses. 

Those not considered up to the de- 
sired standard will be eliminated, and 
their places taken by shows recently 
withdrawn, and that may be substituted, 
without delay because their equipments 
are immediately available. 



SOME SHOWS CLOSING. 

"The High Rollers" and "The Caba- 
ret Girls" close this Saturday. "The 
Columbia Burlesquers," on the main 
Circuit, will also close on account of 

switching the Corinthian, Rochester, 
to the Extended Circuit. In conse- 
quence of this, the shows will now go 
from Buffalo to Syracuse. 



REPLEVIN BEDIMS SHOW. 

Baltimore, Oct. 21. 

A writ of replevin for the scenery, 
costumes, properties and paraphernalia 
of the burlesque show, "Mischief Mak- 
ers," playing at the Gayety last week, 
was sued out of the City Court last 
Friday by James D. Barton, of New 
York. The replevin bond was for 
$2,000. The writ was directed against 
the Bedini Producing Co., W. H. 
Brace, Jean Bedini and J. C. Suther- 
land, manager of the Gayety. The prop- 
erty named in the writ, it was alleged, 
was stenciled "Property of James D. 
Barton, Times Building, New York 
City." 

A bill of sale attached to the writ 
showed that Barton got the property 
from Edward Beatty, of Chicago, tc 
whom it had been transferred Sept. 
2 by the Bedini Producing Co., of Buf- 
falo, N. Y., for $1,250. It was pro- 
vided in the bill of sale if the money 
was repaid in 30 days with interest, 
the property should revert to the com- 
pany. 

Saturday, Sheriff McNulty and as- 
sistants took an inventory of the prop- 
erty and Manager Sutherland took hold 
of all the box office receipts by or- 
der of the court. The girls and the 
other players were only given enough 
to pay bills here and transportation to 
Richmond, the next stop, Saturday 
night. The "trouble" is the outgrowth 
of the Progressive Circuit plans, the 
"Mischief Makers" having first played 
Progressive and recently ben taken 
over by the Columbia Circuit 



VARIETY 



13 



PRIZE WINNERS. 

Handicapped by a meaningless, un- 
attractive and inappropriate title, "The 
Prize Winners" appeared for the first 
time at the Columbia this week and 
scored one of the greatest hits ever 
registered at that house. 

It is pretty generally held a title is 
an asset to be considered in the ex- 
ploitation of a show, and when so 
good a production and performance as 
the one under notice is heralded by a 
name that suggests absolutely nothing, 
there is no reason why the public 
should be expected to evince any spe- 
cial curiosity to witness it. 

Attractive titles have frequently been 
credited with arousing so much interest 
in an entirely unknown production as 
to have direct influence on the box of- 
fice. While it is true a great per- 
formance will in time overcome the 
detrimental effect of a meaningless, 
puerile title, the wonder is that more 
careful consideration is not given to 
this important detail in order to se- 
cure all the advantages of attractive in- 
troduction. 

"The Prize Winners" will be a profit- 
able repeater because the unusual mer- 
its of the show will create a value 
for the name that it does not now pos- 
sess, and that cannot therefore be 
helpful to it on its first turn around 
the circuit. 

The first object that gives distinc- 
tion to this show is the perfection of 
its production. In every detail of the 
stage arrangements, in the direction 
that has been given to the principals 
and chorus, in the character and the 
prodigality of the costumes and in the 
beauty and completeness of its scenic 
accessories, it has the pronounced in- 
dividuality of a two-dollar show. These 
things would be apparent to the casual 
observer of burlesque performances 
even if it were not known that this 
production was first brought forward 
at Joseph E. Howard's Comedy theatre 
in Chicago less than a year ago, when 
it was given under the title, "A Broad- 
way Honeymoon." 

While the original book has been 
discarded, the musical numbers, com- 
posed by Mr. Howard, have been re- 
tained and six popular songs interpo- 
lated. These changes were made to 
get away from straight musical com- 
edy, and give the performance the 
necessary burlesque snap and the rear- 
rangement has been very skilfully ef- 
fected. The result is that the specta- 
tors are given a genuinely lively bur- 
lesque show set in high class musical 
comedy surroundings. Aside from the 
excellence of the work of two or three 
of the players, very much the best part 
of the show is its musical numbers. 
These are handsomely costumed and 
they reveal refreshingly new "business" 
while they are all delightfully melodi- 
ous and of the snappy kind of com- 
position that keeps the feet moving to 
its rhythm. 

Of the cast, Don. B. Barclay is the 
dominating member. This young man 
plays the principal comedy part in a 
manner that presages a remarkably suc- 
cessful future. He comes from the 
west and is now making his first bid 
for favor in New York. In appear- 
ance and method he closely resembles 



Frank Daniels when that present-day 
celebrity was winning his spurs in the 
Charles H. Hoyt farce-comedies. Mr. 
Barclay's comedy is spontaneous and 
genuinely funny and in everything that 
he does he is distinctly original. 

Although there is not much sub- 
stance in the part that he plays his 
individuality is so agreeably assertive 
that he grips his audience the moment 
he makes his first entrance and com- 
mands their interested attention until 
the finish of the performance. Bar- 
clay's peculiar mannerisms are obvi- 
ously unstudied, and his apparently 
natural idiosyncrasies are singularly 
refreshing in these days of monotonous 
sameness. He portrays a new type of 
simpleton and gives it a twist totally 
unlike any similar characterization that 
has been seen, certainly on the bur- 
lesque stage. 

Considering his youth and limited 
experience. Mr. Barclay may warrant- 
ably be regarded as "a find," and to 
whatever sphere his undoubted talents 
may lead him it is a safe prediction 
that he will achieve distinction among 
his contemporaries. There is a cranial 
condition that is known to have fol- 
lowed quickly upon the heels of an ex- 
ceptional stage success. If young Mr. 
Barclay is as succesful in steering clear 
of this as he has been in his first 
New York engagement he need not 
fear for the future. 

All the other members of the cast 
are new to the burlesque stage, and 
most may be sure of permanent and 
important popularity in burlesque, 
judging by their work in this perform- 
ance. These include Hal Skelley, who 
gives a capital performance of an ec- 
centric character part; Sam Hyams, a 
good looking, classy chap, who sings 
and does everything else unusually 
well; Leo Hoyt, who makes a distinct 
hit as the German; Clara Gibson, whose 
appearance, singing, dancing and all 
round cleverness make her soubret 
work delightful, and Edna Raymond, 
the prima donna, who sings uncom- 
monly well, and perfectly meets the 
exaction of her position. Belle Oliver 
looks and acts very well but her value 
to this performance ends here. Miss 
Oliver specializes in "coon shouting," 
and this feature of her work failed to 
receive the approbation of Columbia 
patrons. 

Credit is given on the program to 
Catherine Crawford, erstwhile principal 
beauty in Al Reeves' "Beauty Show," 
for the staging and costuming of the 
numbers. Miss Crawford has cer- 
tainly done her work exceedingly well. 
The only regret is that Miss Crawford 
has failed to find a place for the dis- 
play of her own charms in this array 
of female loveliness. 



CINCY OLYMPIC DARK. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 21. 

The Olympic, which has been play- 
ing the Progressive burlesque shows, 
is dark and rumor says it will not re- 
open. 

"The Girl with the Dreamy Eyes" 
was booked for this week and when no 
show appeared the matinee crowd was 
dismissed Monday. McMahon & 
Jackson, former managers, hold a twen- 
♦v-year lease on the theater. 



CANADA'S QUESTIONS. 

Syracuse, Oct. 21. 

Before the Robert Mantell Theatrical 
Co., which closes a week's engagement 
at the Wieting tomorrow, enters Can- 
ada every member of the troupe will 
be compelled to answer a set of ques- 
tions from the Canadian government. 
The war is the reason. 

Frank L. Clausman, manager of the 
troupe, is hard at work filling in the 
blanks for the company. Hitherto the- 
atrical troupes entering Canada merely 
had to swear to an inventory of their 
belongings, but more stringent orders 
have been issued since the outbreak of 
the war regarding strangers entering 
and leaving the Dominion. 

Manager Clausman will also be com- 
pelled to furnish a bond with the au- 
thorities insuring the return of all the 
members of his company to the United 
States after the engagement is closed. 

Some of the questions relate to stage 
names, age, country of birth, post office 
address, country of citizenship, name of 
nearest relatives and addresses. 



"PAPA'S DARLING" PRODUCED. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 21. 

Klaw & Erlanger produced "Papa's 
Darling" for the first time at the For- 
rest Monday night and an enthusiastic 
audience pronounced it a worthy suc- 
cessor to "The Pink Lady," "Oh, Oh, 
Delphine" and "The Little Cafe," the 
melodies of which were vritten by the 
same composer, Ivan Caryll. The book 
and lyrics are by Harry B. Smith. The 
play will stay here two weeks and will 
then go to the Amsterdam, New York. 

The story is adapted from a French 
farce, "Le Fils Surnatrel," by Grenet 
d'Ancourt and Maurice Vaucaire. It 
has to do with the invention by a model 
husband of a son in Paris and his visits 
to this imaginary son to have his occa- 
sional fling. The day of reckoning 
finally arrives and complications are in- 
troduced through muddled identities 
and misunderstandings. Although not 
hilarious, the play has many good com- 
edy situations and witty lines in song 
and dialog. 

In the cast are Frank Lalor, Octavia 
Broski, Alice Dovey, Fred Walton, 
Georgia Harvey, Dorothy Jardon, 
Frank Doane, Jack rlenderjon, Edna 
Hunter, Lucille Saunders and Horace 
G. Davenport. The chorus is attrac- 
tively dressed and well trained. Ivan 
Caryll personally conducted. 



MISS ROBERTS WITH CORT. 

Florence Roberts will return to the 
management of John Cort within the 
next fortnight after an absence of over 
four years. The star will be given the 
role of Mrs. Oliver, originally created 
by Alexandra Carlisle in "The Mar- 
riage Game" and the production will 
be sent directly west where Miss Rob- 
erts lias a strong following. 

Olive Tell, at present playing the 
part, will be taken over by Oliver Mo- 
rosco for a production he has in mind. 



NEW YORK AT $1. 

"John Mason at a dollar" looks big 
at the New York theater, where "Jim 
Garrity" opened last Friday night with 
Mr. Mason in the lead. It was said 
along Broadway that if Mason couldn't 
draw at the dollar-top scale, it wouldn't 
be much use for anyone to remain in 
show business. In addition to the 
Mason name, the piece was well liked 
and nicely reviewed. It opened to $1,- 
000, had a thousand-dollar matinee 
Saturday, did $1,500 (turnaway) at 
night, and hit $900 Monday evening, a 
very much off-night theatrically around 
New York. 

Tuesday "Garrity" seemed bound for 
a $10,000 week, and Jake Rosenthal, 
representing A. H. Woods on the show 
end, was correspondingly elated. Jake 
has been imbued with the $1 top thing 
for several seasons. He is the same 
Jake who put the new Gaiety, San 
Francisco, in the winning class in a 
hurry, to see his laymen-partners in 
that venture topple it over afterward 
through enforcing their inexperienced 
authority. 

Following the "Garrity" success, 
everything commenced to run to a dol- 
lar, in show shop talk. The Broadway, 
now playing 50-cent vaudeville, was 
often spoken of in connection with 
"dollar musical shows," but Jules Aron- 
son, manager of the house for the 
Mastbaum-Earle syndicate of Philadel- 
phia, stated the Philadelphiani were 
thoroughly satisfied with the venture 
and he did not believe they would en- 
tertain a proposal to change policy. 
The Lyric was another house men- 
tioned as possibly holding a dollar 
drama before long. A dramatic pro- 
duction recently withdrawn for revi- 
sion was spoken of as the dollar visitor 
at the Lyric for the try-out. 



BARE FEET THE ISSUE. 

Bare feet have become the issue in 

Broadway shows. In "Milady's 

Dress" they are now established and 

they will again be an important factor 

of the forthcoming revival of "Yose- 

mite" at Daly's the latter part of No- 
vember. 

Charles Taylor is recruiting the com- 
pany and Ralph Cummings is under 
contract to rehearse it. 

Marguerite Clark is being consid- 
ered for the former Laurette Taylor 
role. Alice Brady was also under dis- 
cussion, but she flatly refuses to ap- 
pear in her naked tootsie wootsies. 



FRITZI SCHEFF SHOW ENDING. 

Notice of closing Oct. 31 went up on 

the Casino board Monday night. The 

Oliver Morosco offices have decided 

not to send the "Pretty Mrs. Smith," 
with Fritzi Scheff, on the road, al- 
though arrangements may be made 
later for a one-night tour. 

Lew Field's "Susi" opens at the Ca- 
sino Nov. J. 



"STEP" OPENS IN PHILLY. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 21. 
The Charles B. Dillingham produc- 
tion of "Watch Your Step" will prob- 
ably open at the Forrest, this rity, Nov. 
12. to remain there two weeks. 



Pictures Flop at Crescent 
The Crescent in the Bronx, a Stair 
& Havlin house, lately turning into a 
picture policy, will go back to the 
S. & II. attractions commencing Oct. 
26. 



14 



VARIETY 



THE WHITE RATS' ATTITUDE REGARDING REDUCTION OF SALARIES IN VAUDEVILLE 



The one great subject under discussion at the present moment among the 
vaudeville players is the request of some managers for the reduction of salaries 
to meet what they claim a condition which has affected the business of the 
vaudeville theatres to such an extent that if salaries are not reduced they may 
have to close their theatres or adopt a different policy of entertainment. 

The White Rats representing the organized actor is deeply concerned re- 
garding this proposed reduction and is trying to determine through investiga- 
tion, the exact condition of the vaudeville business in general. To this end 
Mr. O'Brien, of O'Brien, Malevinsky St Driscoll, has had several meetings with 
Mr. Goodwin, who represents the United Booking Offices, and Mr. Fogarty, and 
in a personal interview with Mr. E. F. A lbee last week discussed the matter. 

Logically, the White Rats do not believe in the reduction of salaries. They 
do not think that under normal conditions the average actor or actress, playing 
in vaudeville, is overpaid, but they do want to co-operate temporarily with the 
manager if he is temporarily affected by a business condition, feeling that every- 
one interested should help. This includes the actor, the booking manager and 
the booking agent; in fact, every branch of the entertaining end of the theatre, 
it being unfair to ask the actor alone to stand a reduction in salary if every 
other person ccmcerned is eliminated in the matter of reduction of salaries. 

The parallel of the English artist co-operating with the English manager 
at this particular time is drawn to the attention of the American artist as a 
good reason why he should submit to a reduction of salary. It is quite true 
that the English artist has agreed to help the manager on a percentage basis, 
but it must be borne in mind that the present agreement in England is only a 
temporary one; that future bookings are not affected by this present arrange- 
ment as the English artist in his bookings has contracts for many years ahead, 
making it impossible for the English manager, if he so intended, to make a per- 
manent reduction in salaries. 

This is a salient point that the American artist must take into considera- 
tion when the proposed cut in his salary is put up to him by the American 
manager. As stated above, if the American manager operating vaudeville thea- 
tres throughout the United States and Canada, is in trouble, it is the duty of the 
artist to help him, the manager, in his efforts to keep the theatres open, but 
at the same time the American artist, if he decides to cut his salary, must as a 
business proposition arrange with the managers that this cut in salary is not to 



be permanent and his regular salary is to be restored to him when business con- 
ditions are different than they are now. 

It must also be taken into consideration when making comparisons between 
the American and English artist that the foreign artist is not subject to the 
tremendous expense of travelling, and in this connection it might be mentioned 
that there is a movement on foot among the American railroads for the in- 
crease of rates, which will affect the artist greatly. Furthermore, the artist 
must bear in mind when agreeing to help the manager, that he be given a route 
and a route that geographically will make it possible for him to help the man- 
ager; that is, the railroad fares not to exceed a certain amount; not to book 
an act for two weeks at a reduction of salary and lay off three weeks and then 
jump him from New York to Cincinnati. Such practice is a business waste 
and is not fair to the artist, and the artist cannot be blamed if he refuses to 
help the manager in his present predicament if confronted with such conditions. 

The White Rats realize the great growth of vaudeville in this country and 
they appreciate the fact that the standard of vaudeville has been helped mate- 
rially through the organized efforts of the vaudeville managers, with the co- 
operation of the progressive actor. They recognize in the vaudeville managers* 
associations bodies that are well organized and that have done great good 
for the uplift of the vaudeville business; but like all big businesses, abuses 
have crept in and these abuses have made the actor wary of the managers when 
doing business with them in matters like the present one. Believing, however, 
that the heads of these great vaudeville concerns are willing to play fair, we feel 
that in this present crisis they will show the artist that they are sincere and 
are only asking this reduction of salaries until the business conditions change 
and that every act with whom they do business will be given a bona fide route 
under such conditions that it will be reasonable for the artist to help the man- 
ager at this time when he needs their help. 

We have already mentioned that the request for a decrease in the salaries 
of the vaudeville actor and actress comes from the organization of vaudville 
managers, and we desire to point out that in order to restore conditions when 
the proper time comes it will be necessary for the vaudeville actor and actress 
to be represented by an Organization that is all inclusive, progressive and in a 
condition to enforce what is fair and equitable; hence we appeal to those who 
wish the Organization to help when the proper time comes that he and she 
must do his or her her respective part in that movement by being a part of the 
Organization that represents the vaudeville profession— namely, the White Rats. 



VARIETY 



15 

5* 



ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS 

Talk is considered cheap by a great many and while one is talking, the 
other fellow is generally working. Have you talked or have you really done 
some good work? How long have you been a member of this Organization? 
What have you done for the Organization since you have been a member? Have 
you paid your dues? Have you paid back what you owe the Organization, if 
you do owe? Have you paid for your ad. in The Player, if you owe for one? 
Have you brought in new members? Have you brought back the member who 
is behind in his dues? Have you taken out a life membership, if you can afford 
one? Have you bought a bond, if you can afford one? Have you donated to 
the Emergency Fund, if you can afford it? Have you attended meetings? 
Have you done anything that you can honestly say was of benefit to this Or- 
ganization? 

Think over the above questions and be honest when you ask yourself what 
have you done? So many talk, but do not act. If you have failed to be up 
and doing for this Organization in the past, start in now and bear in mind you 
will be doing something good for your profession. Do not stand on the corner 
and complain. Come up here and complain, if you have cause for complaint. 
You will not right any wrong in any Organization, if wrong does exist, by 
arguing the business of the Organization on corners. 

This Organization is for you. It is yours. So it is up to you to protect 
it and make it bigger and better. Give the interest here that should be here 
and you will see the desired results in the near future. What good can a man 
do for this Organization by criticising when his dues are not paid. If he is on 
the level why does he not pay his dues, then come in and criticise, if his criti- 
cism is just. Inside the Order is the place for just criticism. The same will 
have weight if it is for the good, and mistakes can be remedied. 

Why don't the chap who is paid up in his dues stop talking on the outside 
and make his talk valuable by talking within the Organization for anything 
that is good? Why does not the good fellow lend a hand by showing an interest 
and drive the bad fellow out, if the bad fellow is in here and cannot be made 
better? It is easy enough to say, "I have laid down my life for the Organiza- 
tion." If you have devoted your life to something good you should be happy 
in the knowledge that you at least did something big without any selfish motive 
in mind, and surely if a man does something worth while in life he cannot say 
his life was thrown away because he knows that he did something good for the 
great majority. If he knows that he did something good and then feels that 
his life was thrown away, he had a selfish motive in view when he started and 
because he was not repaid as an individual he feels that his life was thrown 
away. 

The average fellow who tells you that he gave up his life for this Organiza- 
tion is enjoying pretty good health today. He may not be as successful as he 
used to be, but that applies to a great many as age creeps on. Maybe he is 
not as spry as he used to be. Maybe he did not keep up with the times. Acts 
and plays that were a big success years ago are not big successes today. The 
public is different. The style of entertainment is different. 

If the fellow who found himself slipping, whether it was his own fault or 
the fault of others, realized that he was slipping (and surely he should know): 
turned his efforts in another direction instead of^ losing time where results were 
not coming, a different story might be told. The trouble with a great many of 
us is that we are too egotistical, and although results show us that we are not 
what we used to be, we refuse to admit it. I do not say that every man slipped, 
but I do say that it is hard to keep a good man down, and when he says he 
cannot get a living in one business he will try another business. He will not 
be whipped if he has that which is the greatest asset in life — health. 

Other men have laid down their lives for this Organization and other 
Organizations, but they never mention it, because they are real big men. They 
knew what they did was for the betterment of the great majority, and even if 
they failed to accomplish all that they would have liked to accomplish, they at 
least made a foundation to carry on the good work and they are happy in the 
knowledge that the Organization has done great good in the past and should 
do great good in the future. 

The real old members of this Organization are proud to see the Organiza- 
tion where it is today, because they know it is the only real Organization for 
the artist in the United States. Has their work gone for naught? No. The 
result is a living result. Men have given time, energy and money to this Or- 
ganization, but no one hears a kick or criticism from the majority of these 
men who did real work. The real kick comes from the fellow who owes this 
Organization money. We also get kicks from the fellow who pays his dues and 
never does anything else. He pays his dues for his own personal protection 
and the minute you do not grant him some selfish wish or the minute you lose a 
case for him, he* stops paying his dues and becomes a knocker. He is not man 
enough to pay his dues and then resign. 

He forgets the good you have done for the great majority. He forgets the 
number of cases this Organization has won, but it only proves that he never 
joined for the benefit of the great majority. He had one selfish motive in view 
when he joined. He thought of no one but himself. Isn't it a pity to know that 
this is true? Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to enjoy real happiness, please 
do not be selfish. Try and be a real open-hearted being. The good that you do 
unto others will come back double to you. If all of us thought only of our- 



selves, what would become of the poor? What would become of those less 
fortunate than we have been? 

This Organization is for the great majority. Join with us, ladies and gen- 
tlemen, and work for the great majority. Try it and sec if you will not be 
much happier than you are today. Do something worth while. Do it well. 
Do it now. We want to do big things. I ask you to spend more time in good 
work and less time in idle talk. Say you will do it and mean it. Prove to us 
what you say is true. 

How can you do it? Actions speak louder than words. 

Sincerely yours, 

FRANK FOGARTY. 



MEMBERSHIP. 

The following candidates were voted 
on for the first time, Oct. 20: Martin 
Conroy. Harold Dunne, Spader John- 
son, Chas. Gillette, Don M. Clark, 
William Meehan, John C. Wilhelmi, 
Steve F. Manning, Frank Terry, Tom 
Williams, Charles Hickey, Albert 
Wiser. 

The following applicants were duly 
elected to membership in the White 
Rats Tuesday, Oct. 20: Wm. V. Dun- 
ham, Theodore Tenny, Bernhard Loh- 
muller. Herbert Spencer, Frank De- 
Witt, Jack Lewis, William Mitchell, 
lack Allman, William Moran, Bert 
Melrose, Francis Lennic, Irwin Dash, 
I E. Sullivan, Jos. Schrode, Pat Strom- 
berg, Cecil Emmett, Leon Emmett, 
Paul Gorden, Arthur Hartley, Louis 
Foohoff, Tack Barnes, Bobby Mar. 



THURSDAY NIGHT SCAMPER, 

Sociability and brotherly spirit pre- 
vail at the weekly Good Fellowship 
Scampers held at eleven p. m. every 
Thursday. For these Scampers special 
arrangements are made and entertain- 
ment provided. Aside from the volun- 
tary entertainment supplied by mem- 
bers and guests the tango band pro- 
vides music for dancing in the billiard 
room. 

These Scampers will be held every 
Thursday night and all arc welcome. If 
you like an evening of sociability and 
good fellowship, it is suggested that 
you call at the White Rats Club Thurs- 
day nights. 



REGARDING ANIMALS. 

Members of the White Rats Actors' 
Union and Associated Actresses of 




(The matter on this page has been furnished VARIETY by the White Rats 
Actors* Union of America, and is vouched for by that organization. 
VARIETY, in its editorial policy, is not responsible for It.) 



If by chance you have failed to re- 
ceive official notification of your elec- 
tion, please write giving next week's 
address. Marie Russell has been add- 
ed to our list of life members in the 
Associated Actresses of America. Miss 
Russell is the third paid life member. 



MEETINGS. 

Meeting of the Ways and Means 
Committee takes place in the Board of 
Directors Room, White Rats Club, 
Oct. 27, 1914, at twelve noon sharp. 

Meeting of the House Committee 
takes place in the Board of Directors' 
Room. White Rats Club. Oct. 28, 1914, 
at twelve noon sharp. 



America, who have animal acts and 
have been compelled to get certificates 
from city veterinarics before leaving 
for their engagement, will kindly com- 
municate with the White Rats office, 
giving details and as to whether this 
procedure has in any way harassed or 
embarrassed them to the extent .jf r'.icii 
losing their engagement. 



Requested to Communicate. 

Ella Smythe is requested to commu- 
nicate with the office of the White Rats 
Actors' Union or the office of Lent & 
Humphrey, attorneys. Mills Building, 
San Francisco, Cal.. on a matter of im- 
portance concerning herself. 



Columbia Theatre Settles. 

The Columbia theatre, Detroit, has 
paid Attorney George W. Bates $71.45, 
including costs of an action brought in 
favor of Howard and Delores during 
April, 1913. 

The act is requested to communicate 
with the W. R. A. U. 



NEUTRALITY IN GYM. 

The clubhouse restaurant is taking on 

an atmosphere of friendliness and good 

cheer these days, which promises well 

for the long nights of the coming wint.r. 

Cozy little supper parties attended uy 

well known player folk is getting to be 
the rule. 

About the only place where the war 
spirit does not run rampant is in the 
"gym" of the White Rats Clubhouse. 
Here may be seen during practice hours 
German acrobats helping to lift the rig- 
ging of an English team, or a Russian 
dancer chatting with an Austrian animal 
trainer. 

The rule of the clubhouse is "Nix on 
the war stuff, if you must disagree, talk 
vaudeville." 



Information for Walter Carr. 

The address of Walter Carr is wanted 
by the White Rats Actors' Union, which 
has information of importance f<»r him. 



Associated Actors Company Notice. 

The present whereabouts of the fol- 
lowing stockholders of the Associated 
Actors Company is desired at the of- 
fice of the company, 227 West 46th 
street: Tom Almond, Jos. DeKoch, 
Victor Faust, Joseph Green, Lou Reals, 
Terry Sullivan. Eddie Silbon and Wal- 
ter Webb. 



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VARIETY 



NEW ACTS NEXT WEEK 



Initial Presentation, First As>p«* 
or Reappearaace In or Around 
Now York 



Paul Swan, Hammerstein's. 

Jack Lorimer (New Act), Hammer- 
steins. 

George T. Stallings, Palace. 

Louise Dresser and Co., Palace. 

Adeline Genee, Colonial. 

Moore and Yates, Colonial. 

Fritz and Lucy Bruch, Alhamhra. 

Norinne Coffey, Broadway. 

Regini Conelli and Co., Prospect, 
Brooklyn. 

Nan Halperin, Prospect. 

Tom Lewis and Co. (4). 
"Brother Fans" (Comedy Drama). 
16 Mins.; Five (Interior). 
Palace. 

Tom Lewis is presented by Jos. 
Hart in "Brother Fans," a comedy 
drama that is almost a farce in idea, 
but saved from disaster by Mr. Lewis 
and his co-players. At the Palace 
Monday evening, Mr. Lewis, probably 
to oblige the stage management, did a* 
bit in "one" following the finale of the 
sketch. Time was needed to strike 
the set for the full stage dancing act 
following. Mr. Lewis' monolog of 
broken-up dialog in this after-portion 
made the hit the sketch scored a 
Lewis-riot, for he actually stopped the 
show. After the lights had been 
flashed for the Brown-Dolly turn, the 
continued applause forced Mr. Lewis 
to return, and gauging from the recep- 
tion he personally received, Tom Lewis 
as a "single" would be equal to the 
full value he and his company may 
have, if not more. The playlet tells 
of the excitement caused among Amer- 
icans abroad by a baseball game 
played in London between the round- 
the-world Giants and White Sox. 
Lewis invites a couple of fans, met at 
the game, to a private dinner in the 
evening. One is a consumptive who 
came from Algiers solely to see the 
game. The other is the London cor- 
respondent for the Associated Press. 
The newspaper man recognizes the in- 
valid as a defaulter from America. The 
A. P. man insists he will turn the crim- 
inal over to Scotland Yard. With a few 
meller tricks, the correspondent 'phones 
the detective bureau. Lewis inter- 
venes for the consumptive, balks the 
detective when he arrives, and arranges 
to send the invalid back to Algiers, be- 
cause "he is the greatest fan in the 
world," and took a chance on his life 
and liberty to see one more ball game. 
During the little meal they are having 
and previous to the disclosure, a film 
shows scenes of a baseball diamond, as 
Lewis "recalls" to his companions the 
Polo Grounds. A phonograph also 
echoes part of a game. Some lines in 
the piece bring laughter, and many 
more lines which should be there (since 
Mr. Lewis so easily handles dialog of 
a certain character) are missing. At 
the opening when the talk becomes 
twisted over "Tell her that you saw 
me" and so on, it is remindful of a 
section of one of the Conroy and La- 
maire blackface sketches. But Mr. 
Lewis can put "Brother Fans" over, 
with all of its many shortcomings. He 
has a good company in support. 



Hank Gowdy and Dick Rudolph. 

Baseball Stars. 

11 Mins.; One. 

Hammerstein's. 

A difference between "putting 'em 

over" and "pulling 'em in." This was 

proven at Hammerstein's Monday 

night. Those who made the test were 

Hank Gowdy, the premier swatter of 

the World's Baseball Champions, and 

his side partner, the pitching marvel, 

Dick Rudolph. The team was en- 
gaged for Hammerstein's for the week 
at a big figure as a box office drawing 
card, but judging from the house, they 
are failures in this particular. Rube 
Marquard, who sat with his wife, Blos- 
som Seeley, in the fifth row, must have 
gloried in the fact that he knew just 
what his confreres were passing 
through; however, this noted vaude- 
villian was there with the "Iron Hand" 
when it came to applause for the new- 
comers. The turn was introduced by 
the "Only Loney" who turned loose his 
ready wit on the audience in an intro- 
ductory speech. He stated that when 
the battery was hired for vaudeville 
they confessed that they couldn't do a 
thing on the stage so Loney framed 
the act for them. It consisted of 
Gowdy showing signals used by him in 
coaching pitchers, and an explanation 
by Rudolph of the various styles he 
pitched in the Series. He then warmed 
up and lobbed a few over to Gowdy, 
which ended their part of the enter- 
tainment. The audience was generous 
in its applause for the stars of the dia- 
mond and gave them enough to war- 
rant a couple of bows, which they took 
good naturedly. 



Charlotte Leslay. 

Songs. 

9 Mint.; One. 

Hammerstein's. 

Charlotte Leslay is billed as being 
able to sing higher than Mme. Tetraz- 
zini. Well, Arthur Hammerstein 
should know, but as far as big time 
vaudeville is concerned, who cares? 
The young woman has a soprano voice 
of some range, but it is not a voice 
of any timbre or quality. The singer 
spoils whatever chance she may have 
had with such billing by opening with 
a rag. Her second number is also 
popular, a ballad following. At the 
finish she sang "Falling in Love with 
Someone" and "My Hero." The lat- 
ter is, without doubt, the American 
flag to all sopranos and tenors. Miss 
Leslay is a lyric soprano, and as long 
as she clings to operatic billing, might 
better confine her repertoire to clas- 
sical and semi-classical material. With 
an evening gown of dark material and 
a new selection of songs she should be 
a neat little single on small time. 



Austin, Hopkins and Austin. 
Piano Act. 
12 Mins.; One. 

This act may not claim to be the 
best, but it can travel along in any of 
the pop houses. Two young men and 
a young woman. The former dress like 
twins. One plays the piano and also 
chimes in on the choruses. Girl has 
neat appearance and makes one change. 
Hit in the 23d Street neighborhood. 



Blanche Ring and Co. (5). 
"Oh, Papa" (Comedy). 
Full Stage (Special Set). 
Colonial. 

Barring a very visible, and in this 
instance unnecessary slowness at the 
start, "Oh, Papa," a condensed version 
of "When Claudia Smiles," a former 
musical play, made over for vaudeville 
by Channing Pollock and Ren Wolf, 
looks suitable for Miss Ring's vaude- 
ville invasion. The scene shows a room 
in Claudia's (Miss Ring) apartment. 
Her maid (Nellie Filmore) is very 
active when "Johnny Rogers (Alfred 
Fisher), divorced husband of Claudia, 
arrives. A few minutes of conversa- 
tion reveals much of the plot, after 
which Rogers exits to allow Mr. Brook 
(Fred W. Strong) an opportunity to 
explain his connection. Frederick 
Walker (Chas. J. Winninger) comes 
next, completing the cast, a small bit 
being played by Jas.Duddy in the open- 
ing. Claudia, a musical comedy star, is 
in love with her ex-husband, but takes 
delight in coddling the two "old boys," 
married millionaires. A complication 
is neatly handled by Claudia's "Oh, 
Papa" line, when the two old men un- 
expectedly meet and take each other 
for the girl's dad. The finale shows 
the return of Rogers and the cheerless 
exit of the two old "chasers." Two 
numbers are employed in the piece 
proper, "It's a Long Way to Tipper- 
ary" and "Dear Old Pet." The former 
went exceptionally well. Winninger in 
a sort of polite German role monopoliz- 
es the comedy with a good character- 
ization and makes an excellent foil for 
the star. Miss Filmore as the colored 
maid provided some contrast for 
Miss Ring's appearance, filling in to 
satisfaction. Strong fits the type his 
role calls for and stops at that. Fisher 
had little to do, but did it well enough. 
With the skit over, Miss Ring appeared 
in "one," for some reason or other, to 
continue with songs with which she 
has become familiar in the past. This 
section could be comfortably shelved, 
except in cases where an encore is es- 
sential. And the opening should be 
penciled enough to allow for a brief 
introduction of the plot, although the 
costume changes should remain for the 
benefit of the women. Until Winnin- 
ger's entrance, the cast must depend 
upon light comedy, and light comedy 
in vaudeville is more luscious in small 
chunks. Miss Ring, as was expected, 
scored an individual hit, with her prin- 
cipal comic running a close second. 
With the necessary alteration "Oh, 
Papa" will fill all vaudeville wants. 

Wynn. 



NEW SHOWS NEXT WEEK 

Initial Premutation of Legitimate 
Attractions in Nsw York. 



Strauss and Becker. 

Music. 

14 Mins.; Three (Interior). 

Man and woman. Instruments range 
from cornet to bass viol. Good musi- 
cians. Opened with xylophone medley 
which brought forth a hearty encore. 
Man plays cornet well. His announce 

ments may be necessary in the pop 
houses. Woman scored with saxc 
phone, and man's bass fiddling of "The 
Rosary" also pleased. Brass finish- 
Splendid act for the pop circuits. 



"The Highway of Life," Wallack's 
(Oct. 26). 

"A Perfect Lady" (Rose Stahl), Hud- 
son (Oct. 28). 

"The Lilac Domino," 44th Street (Oct. 

28). 
"Milady's Boudoir" (Adele Blood), 

Garrick (Oct. 29). 
"The Battle Cry," Lyric (Oct. 29). 



Roszika Dolly and Martin Brown. 

"Danceland." 

11 Mins.; Full Stage (Curtains). 

Palace. 

After giving Rosie Dolly and Martin 
Brown credit for framing their act for 
a Palace audience, and knowing enough 
to get away from the hum-drummed 
"society dances," also noting that Mon- 
day evening at the Palace the somewhat 
light audience held a considerable por- 
tion of their friends, there isn't a great 
deal left to be said of this new danc- 
ing turn, excepting that i* is another 
instance exhibited where a vaudeville 
audience will fall easily, if the bunk 
is delivered right. Mr. Brown has 
come back from Europe with several 
ideas new to the American dancer. 
They are quickly recognized as be- 
longing to the French dancer. The 
Russian steps or style Brown affects 
he has more trouble with. And Brown 
often articulates "Voilal" after the 
manner of French acrobats, though 
confessing Mr. Brown's garbled ver 
sion of the French word nearly dis- 
guises it. Miss Dolly dances well 
enough with Brown-. She can do 
that with any £Ood leader. They 
do a waltz c«* two, doing their 
worst with a Spanish effort mainly con- 
sisting of foot stamping. The dress- 
ing for this is picturesque, what there 
is to it, but not much clothing is worn 
by either. Between changes of cos- 
tume a Pierrot sings the story of the 
next dance, before the curtain. Many 
flowers were showered upon the 
couple. Their friends came early, and 
remained to see Fanny Brice later on. 
But the house was not filled by quite a 
large margin (for the Palace) even 
with Houdini headlining. Dolly and 
Brown will gain a reputation for class 
with this turn, and maybe dancing also. 
Both are fair dancers in their line, 
which appears to be classical from this 
exposition, but when classical dancers 
are spoken of, there's a long list to be 
read off before Rosie Dolly and Martin 
Brown's names are reached. The 
American vaudeville audiences — which 
have stood and stands for so much 
in the dancing line that isn't — will be 
as easy as they are gullible for this 
team. Sime. 



Elsie White. 

Songs. 

12 Mins.; One. 

Shubert. 

Elsie White is a young woman with 
a big heavy voice not very musical but 
good for rag singing. Miss White has 
four songs all rag hits. One of the 
numbers could be omitted for age. A 
white accordeon pleated frock is a very 
dainty dress for this girl. Miss White 
should be able to get along. 



VARIETY 



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Weston and Leon, 
Songs and Piano. 
14 Mins.; One. 
Royal. 

Cccile Weston and Louise Leon are 
presenting an act that is patterned 
closely after that Weston and Bernard 
formerly gave. Miss Weston is Willie's 
sister, and almost as clever as her 
brother, working along the self-same 
lines as he follows. Miss Leon is 
billed as the champion girl ragtime 
player. She will have a time living 
up to this billing for there are girls 
about town in cabarets who will give 
her a run. The act as framed up at 
present does not start right. The idea 
of letting the pianist open with a se- 
lection before Miss Weston enters is 
poor showmanship. Miss Weston is 
the strong feature and should be there 
from the start. The singer is using 
four numbers. Three seem to be of 
the restricted type, and the fourth is 
"Poor Pauline," done as a double. The 
act was one of the hits of the first 
half of the Royal bill. When the 
routine is rearranged it should be 
ready to go in anywhere. 



Walton and Brandt, 
Songs and Talk. 
13 Mins.; One. 
Royal. 

Fritz Walton and Meta Brandt are 
offering the usual man and woman 
two-act with a couple of songs and a 
little talk. The turn will answer nice- 
ly in an early spot on the big time 
bills. They open with a song, follow- 
ing with some baseball talk, the comedy 
of which comes from the man, who 
claims to be an expert on the national 
sport, misnaming all of the prominent 
players in his endeavors to explain the 
game to the girl. For the finish an- 
other song is used with incidental busi- 
ness that is effective. Vaudeville is 
more or less a business of accidents, 
and during the playing of this act 
Tuesday night one happened that the 
team might well keep in, for it is sure 
fire for laughs. One of the chairs that 
are used for the seats in the baseball 
stand collapsed and the man of the 
couple was quick-witted enough to 
make the best of what might have been 
an awkward situation, to secure laughs. 



Louise Dresser. 

"A Turn of the Knob" (Farce Com- 
edy). 
16 Mins.; Full Stage (Interior). 
Keith's, Atlantic City. 

Atlantic City, Oct. 21. 
Louise Dresser is this week present- 
ing here for the first time in vaude- 
ville, Matthew White and May Tully's 
playlet "A Turn of the Knob," a high- 
ly amusing farce. The farcical action 
is built around the invasion by a woman 
life insurance agent of the apartment 
of a young man on the eve of his wed- 
ding. In attempting to hurry her from 
the room the young man jerks the 
knob from the door, which then can be 
opened only from the outside. Thus 
the situation is manufactured. In 
clearing up the complication the young 
man loses his bride but gains the in- 
surance agent (Miss Dresser). George 
W. llnw.irr* was the bridegroom and 
Ldward T.angford a third member of 
the company. 



Spinette Quintet. 

Novelty Acrobatic. 

12 Mins.; Full Stage. 

Palace Music Hall, Chicago. 

Chicago, Oct. 21. 
This act has many novel features 
and is one that affords much diversion. 
The paraphernalia used is out of the 
ordinary and the work of the five peo- 
ple is neat, natty and finished. They 
stand on their heads and dance against 
platforms. The act is startling in 
many respects. 



Florence Timponi. 

Songs. 

12 Mins.; One. 

23rd Street. 

Florence Timponi with fair person- 
ality and nice appearance, is following 
the beaten trail of singing single wom- 
en. She wears a white ruffled dress 
throughout, appearing first in black hat 
and gold cap that is very attractive. 
The songs are of the usual run, ex- 
cepting the last, a Hebrew comic, that 
should be dropped immediately. It is 
about "gin physics," etc., not nice 
enough for the girl. The other num- 
bers are handled acceptably. For the 
small time Miss Timponi should not 
mid the going hard. 



Bissett and Bestry. 

Dancing. 

11 Mins.; One. 

23rd Street. 

Uissett and Bestry. dancers, go 
through their allotted time without 
singing. The dancing at present is 
too similar. The solo dancing is the 
best. Some new steps would put these 
hoys along with the best of the danc- 
ing two-acts. 



Eveleen Dunmore. 

Songs. 

16 Mins.; One. 

Colonial. 

Sixteen minutes of straight songs in 
"one" is a bit too much time for even 
the best in modern vaudeville to con- 
sume, and Eveleen Dunmore, with due 
regard to her splendid high soprano, is 
hardly strong enough for that classi- 
fication. Three ballads and a medley 
of time-worn melodies, complete the 
repertoire, with three costumes worn. 
The opening should be altered to elim- 
inate the present conflict in num- 
bers, two ballads around a similar 
theme, showing poor judgment in se- 
lection. "Pick Me a Rose" and "Kil- 
larney Rose" follow in the order 
named, with "Long Way from Home" 
and the medley coming next. A bas- 
ket of flowers is distributed by the 
singer during the "Killarney Rose" 
r.umber, Miss Dunmore wearing an 
Irish costume for both this and the 
succeeding number. The medley is 
long and, while well pieced together, 
stands up only through the vocal ef- 
forts of the principal. One number 
should be dropped with the total time 
not exceeding 10 or 12 minutes. Miss 
Dunmore's voice is the sole attraction, 
her appearance running a distant sec- 
ond. She did qni'- v. ell at the Colonial, 
but would have j H shed much better 
had she curtailed I er offering to a 
reasonable length. Wynn. 



Daly and Healy. 
Songs and Dances. 
14 Mins.; One. 
Broadway. 

No excuse for these boys "dragging" 
out 14 minutes. They show bulldog 
tenacity in hanging on to comedy 
"bits" that avail nothing. They dance 
better than anything else although the 
straight is not a bad little vocalist. The 
team has versatility and willingness. 
Act rearranged, speed and more play 
on the stepping would help greatly. 



National Trio. 
Accordeon and Songs. 
20 Mins.; One. 
Broadway. 

Foreign male trio. Two sing while 
the third, the youngest, plays the ac- 
cordeon. Act was a hit at the Broad- 
way through the musician's work. He 
almost does a "single," is young, has 
a likeable personality and displayed 
sufficient versatility to frame up a "sin- 
gle" for the bigger houses. He is a 
good whistler and showed aptitude in 
dancing to instrumental music. He 
needs a little more pep and seasoning. 
The boy's pop medley was well re- 
ceived. The other men sing well and 
render a stereotyped routine with 
"Snooky Ookums" thrown in. 



Josie Flynn and Minstrel Misses (6). 

Songs and Jokes. 

30 Mins.; One (Special Drop) and Two 

(Semi-Circle). 
Broadway. 

Josie Flynn and Misses hail from 
Philadelphia. Miss Flynn and a woman 
of more corpulent proportions appear 
in blackface. The other girls fill in 
the semi-circle. There's the usual min- 
strel routine with individual song num- 
bers. The songs by two willowy 
blondes, one who showed "hoofing" 
ability, were heartily encored. Miss 
Flynn is the busy bee and she carries 
most of the act. Act pleasing with 
strength lying in the novelty of women 
working in blackface. Good closing act. 



Johnson and Deen. 
Songs and Dances. 
11 Mins.; One. 
Hammerstein's. 

This team of colored entertainers 
was one of the three real hits of the 
bill at Hammerstein's this week. John- 
son has a new woman partner, as far 
as America is concerned, in Josephine 
Deen. She makes a splendid stage ap- 
pearance and wears three gowns nicely. 
She is also possessed of a soprano 
voice that passes her in the single 
number she does. Using "Follow the 
Crowd" for an opening number starts 
the act nicely. "You're Here" and 
"Dancing Mad" also help along and 
give opportunity for dancing. John- 
son is doing his eccentric stepping as 
usual. 



Leonard and Haley. 

Songs. 

11 Mins.; One (Special Drop; Exterior) 

Grand O. H. (Oct. 18). 

Fairly good harmony. Opening char- 
acter song well received. Act diversi- 
fied with girl's whistling the closing 
number giving additional strength. 
Couple should thrive in the pop cir- 
cuits. 



Lillie Jewell's Manikins. 

Puppet Show. 

17 Mins.; Pull Suge. 

Loew's Empress, Chicago. 

Chicago, Oct. 21. 
This manikin act, often confused with 
another act, and reviewed erroneously 
as such, is brand new in every particu- 
lar, from the stage settings to the rou- 
tine, and from subject matter to ma- 
nipulation. The miniature theatre 
whereon the puppets dance, prance and 
• avort is handsomely set with a glitter- 
ing background and has rich plush cur- 
tains and proscenium decorations. The 
act opens with persons entering the 
stage boxes to witness the performance 
of the manikins. When the curtain 
goes up a boy announcer comes on, 
and after displaying a card, runs off 
kicking the card, a good laugh. Then 
follows a neat little travesty on the 
modern society dance, admirably exe- 
cuted. "Mutt and Jeff," next, alternate 
as tall and short men with ludicrous 
effect. Texas Nell, who performs af- 
ter the circus manner on a horse, and 
puts him through his paces with all the 
aplomb of the real thing, is another 
novel feature. The act closes with the 
"Baseball Rag," in which players rep- 
resenting famous teams come out for 
some very funny antics on the diamond. 
In this last bit the manikins are made 
to sing and talk, and this adds to the 
effectiveness. It is one of the neatest 
acts of its kind on the boards and is 
manipulated in a manner to please the 
most exacting. Closing the show at the 
impress, it held the audience to the 
close, and was especially pleasing to 
the children. 



Nowlin and St Clair. 

Burlesque Comic Opera. 

18 Mins.; One. 

American Roof. 

Dave Nowlin and Gertie St. Clair 
have a double that will prove a stand- 
ard turn on the small time. The open- 
ing is a bit of burlesque of light opera, 
patterned very much after the finish in 
"one" Willard Simms does. This runs 
about 10 minutes. For the finish Miss 
St. Clair has a song that permits of 
the interpolation of a number of barn- 
yard imitations by the man. It makes 
a strong comedy ending, and the turn 
gets over very big. 



Arthur Nicholson and Co. 

Musical. 

16 Mins.; Full Stage. 

Columbia (Oct 18). 

A three-man musical turn that leans 
strongly to brass and has comedy. A 
fat boy in an Eaton jacket leads in the 
comedy. He is assisted by a straight 
and a Scottish Highlander. The trio 
runs through a routine of playing that 
wins applause. Very good musical act 
for small time, with lots of ginger and 
laughs. 



Waldron and Rio. 
Burlesque Magic. 
11 Mins.; Three (Interior). 
Grand O. H. (Oct. 18). 

One man performs magic while the 
other as the assistant exposes the 
tricks. At the finish there are several 
that the legerdemain boy does which 

are not shown up by the helper. Good 
act for tlif pop houses. 



18 



VARIETY 



PALACE. 

One of the poorest night houses the 
Palace has had in months Monday 
evening didn't speak any too well for 
the drawing powers of cither Houdini, 
who headlined, or Rosie Dolly and 
Martin Brown, the latter couple mak- 
ing their vaudeville debut as a team. 
Houdini played Hammerstcin's for a 
month during the summer. It may 
have had its effect upon his powers of 
attractions so near by, although the 
truth probably remains Houdini's is not 
the sort of turn the Palace clientele 
prefers. It is not partial to freak acts. 

The Dolly-Brown turn drew a cer- 
tain percentage of the orchestra at- 
tendance. That could be observed at 
both performances Monday, from the 
familiar faces of those who travel in 
the Broadway clique. The program 
did but fairly well. It started nicely 
through a big flashy Russian dancing 
number, Great Fridowsky Troupe, that 
did the usual of its kind, although with- 
out as much speed as some of them. 
The opening position was against the 
act, of course, but they left the audi- 
ence wide awake, and were followed, 
"No. 2," by Hawthorne and Inglis, who 
try to be a couple of "nuts." They 
may make their billing in a different 
sort of a theatre than the Palace. The 
absence of class and the familiarity of 
what they do will let these boys know 
before the end of the week just how 
funny they are before a $1.50 audience. 
Included in their familiar matter is 
considerable of the musical business 
Bickel and Watson did ever so much 
better last week in the same theatre. 
Before a small time audience they 
probably would be a riot of laughter. 
On the big time they will have to watch 
and improve themselves, also their 
material. This "nutty stuff" is some- 
times very nutty, and it's not so easy 
to become accomplished fools before 
an accomplished crowd. The refine- 
ment and repose of Willa Holt Wake- 
field, who followed the wild act, were 
immediately appreciated. While Miss 
Wakefield was undoubtedly too early 
on the program, she restored the bill 
into the class division. New numbers 
at the piano, with Miss Wakefield's ap- 
pearance and manner left her a large 
success in a very hard position under 
the circumstances. Next was the Tom 
Lewis sketch (New Acts), the first 
part closing with Dolly and Brown 
(New Acts). 

Foster Ball and Ford West opened 
after intermission, the spot Hawthorne 
and Inglis had had at the Monday mat- 
inee. Mr. Ball cleaned up with his old 
soldier character, that is so well taken 
by him, and ably supported by the 
straight of Mr. West's. Houdini came 
next spot, doing the needle trick, and 
his escape while head downwards in a 
tank of water. Houdini also did his 
straight-jacket escape through the 
medium of a moving picture scene that 
is connected by a story. This film, 
opening the turn, was taken in Paris. 

Next to closing was Fanny Brice. 
who is fortunate in vaudeville she is 
not compelled to pay royalty. Miss 
Brice has lifted liberally, taking Harry 
Dclson as her principal model, but still 
she isn't using as much borrowed mate- 
rial as formerly, and has it almost 
blended past easy discovery. She did 



very well, having held in the crowd 
that came to see Rosie Dolly. Clos- 
ing the show were Eis and French, an- 
other freak dancing team. Sitiw. 



HAMMERSTEIN'S. 

Hank Gowdy and Dick Rudolph 
( New Acts) may have had a fielding 
and batting average of nearly a thou- 
sand in the big league, but as vaude- 
ville stars and a box-office attraction 
they were in a bush league as far as 
business was concerned Monday night. 
Hammerstein cheated on the whole bill 

because of the baseball stars, and the 
result was a poor vaudeville enter- 
tainment. 

The show started a few minutes be- 
fore 8.15 with the house less than one- 
quarter filled. This made it hard for 
the first four numbers. But the acts 
that showed later did not have a full 
house. The three opening turns 
worked in "one'' and started little. The 
first turn in full stage was that of 
Florenz Kolb and Adelaide Harland, 
who present a dainty bit entitled "Evo- 
lution 1860-1920" (New Acts). They 
managed to wake those present slight- 
ly. Harry Mayo and Harry Tally fol- 
lowed, and were the first to register 
anything that looked like a hit. This 
half of the old Empire City Quartet 
sang four numbers closing with "The 
Land of My Best Girl" and got over 
strongly. For a comedy bit at the 
close they are doing a prison lock-step 
gag that is a scream. It isn't the "gag" 
as much as the way that it is put over. 

Willard, The Man Who Grows, fol- 
lowed the singers and interested the 
audience mightily for eleven minutes. 
Willard is a showman. He brought 
a number of laughs with his talk and 
his growing mystified. Arthur Dunn 
and Mae Buntc followed the tall one 
and Dunn made the most of a bur- 
lesque bit of comparisons. 

Closing the first part the Four Bards 
with a hand-to-hand acrobatic routine 
filled in. The quartet of strong men 
worked very badly at the night show 
Monday, missing frequently and being 
unable to accomplish one of the stands 
after two attempts with several misses 
to each. The act was bady placed and 
consequently did very little in the ap- 
plause line. 

Four turns followed the intermission. 
Two registered nicely. Charles E. 
Johnson and a new woman partner, 
Josephine Deen (New Acts) started 
things moving in this section with as 
substantial a hit as any act scored 
during the evening. They were fol- 
lowed by Stepp, Goodrich and King, 
who were another clean-up. This trio 
is working far and away differently 
from the usual run of rathskeller acts 
and they deserved all that they got in 
the way of applause. Their closing 
number, "Salvation Nell," with its in- 
cidental business, is a big laugh from 
start to finish. In this number King 
does a "cissy" bit that entertains ami 
does not offend. That is a rarity. 

The baseball stars were next to clos- 
ing. "Any Night,'' with its attendant 
smoke (held over) was in the closing 
spot. 

Vincent Bach and Charlotte Leslay 
(New Acts). Hirskind. cartoonist, 
opened. 



AMERICAN. 

They're introducing Marshall P. 

Wilder around the Loew Circuit with 

a one-reel dramatic picture in which he 

played a principal role, preceding his 

stage entrance, a good sensible idea 

since the large majority of small time 

patrons are really in doubt as to wheth- 
er Marshall is a proper name or a 
phoney title (such is fame); at least 
so it seemed at the American, where 
the diminutive story salesman is head- 
lining for the full week. The film is 
labeled "The Greatest Thing in the 
World" (.not meaning Marsh) having 
a theme of its own wherein Wilder 
portrays a miserly old cobbler's role. 
The reel is good. So is Marsh's rou- 
tine in spots, so good that it earned 
him the second call of the bill and 
might have landed the evening's top 
honors had it not been for the pres- 
ence of Kelso and Leighton, who run 
lighter on reputation, but a bit heavier 
on vaudeville wealth. 

Wilder's ability to wield fiction has 
long since ceased to be emergency copy 
for the popular^ magazines, consequent- 
ly any comment would be superfluous. 
His current crop carries a few over- 
ripe puns, but the greater section is 
composed of solid laughs. His power 
to satisfy the three-a-day managers 
will evolve into a box office problem 
with his reputation and the circuit's 
press department as sole contenders. 
It should work out successfully on the 
road, but around the American theatre 
neighborhood Marshall P. Wilder runs 
a dead heat with Jonathan Smith for 
pulling powers. 

Kelso and Leighton have an entire- 
ly new combination of "bits" and gags. 
They work in full stage and depend 
solely upon light comedy material and 
their delivery to hold the time. Miss 
Leighton carries liberal avoirdupois 
with exceptional grace, looks good and 
has a likeable personality. She might 
dispense with some of the excess 
laughter during the "souse" period. 
While it's appropriate and fully with- 
in the characterization, too much is 
worse than none at all. The table 
scene is a bit overburdened with it. 
Mr. Kelso should pay strict attention 
to his dressing. The pair were a con- 
tinuous laugh and scored such a legit- 
imate hit one naturally wonders how 
they ever strayed away from the two- 
a-day circuits. 

Edith Clifford in next to closing spot 
and following Wilder, was another hit. 
Kdith is an attractive looking blonde 
with all the requirements for the pop 
houses, offering a routine of dialect 
numbers. A double dialect song Is the 
best of the lot, although her reper- 
toire in general shows careful selec- 
tion. 

Hamilton and Bean opened the show 
with a barrel, -jumping specialty, one 
that runs a little beyond the average. 
Their list of tricks is difficult and 
varied, the finish approaching the semi- 
sensational and might even surpass 
that classification could the principal 
alight within a barrel instead of on 
the mat. It might be done. 

Medlin, Clark and Townes have one 
of those familiar trio things without 
any semblance of novelty, unless it 
be in their opening when two of the 
three enter via the auditorium. The 



boys sing well, but the songs remain 
the principal redeeming feature. A 
good singing trio very seldom fails in 
a pop house. 

Potts Bros, and Co. offer a farce 
comedy skit built around their simi- 
larity in features. The men are twins 
which about sums up their vaudeville 
claims. The vehicle speaks wonders 
for the author (not programed), but 
carries signs of inferior stage direction. 
Two women are employed during the 
action, one handling a small part in 
the opening. The other spoils what 
might be a good appearance with too 
much facial makeup. The company 
run through their respective lines with- 
out any attempt at light and shade, 
resting the entire weight upon the 
dialog and situations. This throws the 
offering into a sort of low comedy 
groove where it stands up on its own 
foundation. For the pop audiences 
the act should prove a universal suc- 
cess, although it lacks the class and 
finish required in the better grade the- 
atres. 

Leo Beers who plays piano, whistles 
and renders song recitations with a 
certain degree of expertness, seemed 
to fit in nicely and earned for him- 
self a safe hit which entailed the em- 
ployment of one or two encores. 

The Three Jennetts have a good all 
around acrobatic-animal turn and one 
that should hold up as a closer in any 
of the small time houses. Greenlee and 
Drayton (colored) won out through 
their dancing, the singing section run- 
ning far below expectations. Both boys 
look well in evening clothes and can 
dance with the best. Wynn. 



CITY. 

Business at the William Fox City 
theatre, on 14th street, was pretty good 
Tuesday night. This house is not 
playing to the capacity audiences it 
did before the opening of Fox's Acad- 
emy, across the way, with vaudeville, 
but the slight drop in attendance is 
neither depressing nor alarming. 

The show ran with considerable 
snap, opening with the Cullen Broth- 
ers, who danced acceptably to pleas- 
ing returns. Gale Stewart (New Acts) 
appeared next. 

Burke and Harrison with comedy 
and singing took up too much time. 
The act has good spots, some hidden 
by rather useless matter. 

A back-stage skit, presented by Row- 
land and Farrell, pleased very well. 
The one man has a good voice and 
his song went over with a bang. The 
talk with a little hard luck story in- 
terwoven held up nicely. 

"Edelson and Burns" put over the 
hit of the night in the next to closing 
spot. The Hebrew comedian had the 
audience at his mercy and put over 
a round of laughs that were the big- 
gest in the show. These two were 
the hit of the evening, evidently play- 
ing under an assumed name. 

The Five Musical Byrons held sway 
in the first half, with music. The men 
have a good variety of instruments on 
which they play some attractive se- 
lections. The returns were not as good 
as expected for an act of this type. 

The show closed with the Kazawa 
Japs with their pole work and foof 
balancing. These little fellows held* 
the people for the late spot. 



VARIETY 



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COLONIAL 

A good vaudeville bill at the Colon- 
ial this week with comedy outdistanc- 
ing the other ingredients, and comedy 
seems to be the prevailing want in the 
Colonial section. Blanche Ring & Co., 
headline in "Oh, Papa" (New Acts), 
with Eddie Leonard and Mabel Rus- 
sell an added feature. The latter turn 
took away the applause honors Mon- 
day night, but this achievement 
can be safely credited to Leonard's 
showmanship rather than to the turn 
proper. And it remains a question if 
Leonard's deportment in staging his 
encore is good judgment. There is no 
question as to Leonard's individuality. 
He stands alone with a small army of 
imitators trailing. He can do more 
with a bunch of syncopation than 
Caruso can with high C. But the re- 
marks accompanying his rendition of 
the old melodies could be eliminated to 
general advantage. The couple can 
hardly fail anywhere and run among 
the front favorites for any bill's hon- 
ors, and this fact coupled with their 
ability, appearance and routine sug- 
gests more strongly that Leonard re- 
tain as much dignity as conditions 

permit. 

Weber and Capitola opened with a 
refined little song and dance skit in 
"one" before a special brown drop. 
Weber's footwork brought the team 
over safely, although Capitola's solo 
left the eventual result in doubt for 
awhile. They team together nicely 
and would probably register somewhat 
better in a lower spot. 

Hymack has' a novelty in his light- 
ning clothes changes with the general 
outline of the act running to a medio- 
cre bend. If Hymack could consist- 
ently present his specialty in "One," 
dropping much of the dialog and ac- 
companying "props," it would show 
up much better. 

Ed Vinton and "Buster" were well 
down on the bill, a fact which said 
sufficient in itself, considering Vinton's 
line of work, and Emmett Devoy and 
Co., in "His Wife's Mother" landed 
nicely with little effort. 

Brooks and Bowen, opening the sec- 
ond section with talk and songs, 
earned second honors, working to a 
continual line of laughs. Collins and 
Hart closed. "'*"'" 



23D STREET. 

\o complaint on the show at the 2.'W Street 
the last half of last week. The bill gave big 
satisfaction. 

Sylvester, one of the army of "nut ma- 
glcians, opened the show and pleased. Strauss 
und Becker (new acts) were followed by 
Wallace and Hatfield. Looks as though it 
would be better if the girl wore white harem 
pahtaloonlngs under that white outfit instead 
of black. At 23d Street they don't split their 
hands applauding the new-fangled dancing 
routine any more. 

Austin. Hopkins and Austin (new acts) 
were followed by the Proctor pictorial review 
fPathe) which ended up with war scenes. 
Harry Kennedy passed nicely, receiving the 
biggest on his dancing. Elizabeth Otto, the 
piano girl, scored with her musical "single." 
The house took very kindly to her "Musical 
Milestones. " in which Miss Otto showed how 
cleverly she can manipulate the keyboard. 

Olrard and Gardner were a laughing hit. 
The act has been changed around a bit. Ed- 
die Olrard as Dooley. the copper, throws the 
bis: foreigner out of the window without going 
through his former darkened stage maneuvers. 
It's Just as funny and quickens the pnee. 
IjcwIs and Davis were next to closing. This 
t^nm of male wingers and crossfire chaps fin- 
ished unusually strong on their "In the Army 
of (Treat Men" number. The reference to 
the w-ir und universal peace turned the trick. 
Mnrovs nici-hanical reproduction of the Ti- 
tanic disaster closed. It Is ingeniously con- 
reived. 



WINTER GARDEN. 

Sunday night the Winter Garden 
had the best show in a long while, 
given before a capacity audience. Ham- 
mer and Pritchard opened with a neat 
dancing turn. Miss Pritchard made 
three changes. Klass and Bernie, mu- 
sical, were second, and Kitty Doner, 
next, received applause after dancing. 

Burrill Barbaretto and Emelie Lea 
did a nice singing and dancing act. Mr. 
Barbaretto has a pleasing voice and 
Miss Lea showed some wonderful 
kicking in a taffeta dress of pale blue 
over pink. 

Artie Mehlinger scored witli three 
good songs. Doyle and Dixon, as us- 
ual, pleased with their dancing. Whit- 
ing and Burt depend on Miss Burt's 
ciemureness. Her first dress suggested 
a night gown, but the second was really 
pretty. The skirt was entirely of ruf- 
fles in salmon pink and the white bod- 
ice was belted with black velvet ribbon. 

Frank Carter, carrying the longest 
cigarette holder on record, scored with 
bis acrobatic dance. 

And then came Howard and Howard. 
who easily carried away the honors in 
the first half. 

Bankoff and Girlie, opening after in- 
termission, didn't do so well with their 
double, but in his own dance Bankoff 
showed up the entire Winter Garden 
bunch for acrobatic dancing. 

Barnard Granville discarded evening 
Clothes, much to his disadvantage. A 
rough tweed suit isn't quite the thing 
for a Sunday night concert. Mr. Gran- 
ville is much in need of new material. 

Trentini sang her song hits in her 
brilliant style, aided materially by Mel- 
ville Ellis at the piano and Rudolf 
Friml in the orchestra. Trentini 
stepped upon the stage from a box, and 
looked wonderfully girlish in a navy 
blue velvet dress, topped with a scarlet 
hat. 

Al Jolson seemed to fear following 
Trentini's tremendous success, but he 
needn't fear anybody. The Winter 
Garden may come and the Winter Gar- 
den may go, but Al Jolson will go on 
forever, it seems. Mr. Jolson has add- 
ed this one to his Ford collection 
(speaking to Oscar, the orchestra lead- 
er) : 

Do you know what day this is? 

Oscar — No. 

Al — I'm married ten years today, tin 
wedding, and what do you think the 
Shuberts gave me? 

Oscar— What? 

Al— A Ford. 



JEFFERSON. 



The Jefferson had a likeable show the last 
half of the past week with a couple of good 
a< ts that failed to mnke a big Impression. The 
audience last Thursday afternoon was a dense 
collection 

The best act the Jefferson has seen in some 
time Is what Innls and Ryan served up, but 
It was a bit over the heads of the people. 
Maud Ryan's clothes dazzled the 14th utreeters 
who are not used to such finery, on or off. 
Fair returns at. the finish but not what there 
should have been. 

"Guilty,'' a sketch miles over the headB of 
the audience, received little recognition. The 
sketch Is talky and about wife loving an- 
other man, etc The act carries its own set, 
better than the general run of small time set- 
tings. 

The show opened with Cadicux. with his 
u*ual work on the wire. A good opener for 
this house. ^»llie Fields followed. She work- 
ed hard and the audience took kindly to her. 

Meehan aiin' Morris followed a three-reel 
melodramatic pvrture that had thrills enough 
even to satisfy the Jeffersonlans. The two 
buys went rather well. White, Fells and 
White sang a bit and fooled around to good 
returns in the next to cloning position. The 
men should worl the parodies In earlier for 
that part Is the ict. Carson and Carson, two 
more men. close i with some work on th*» bar. 
The comedian gci a few laughs for his efforts. 



BROADWAY. 

They drop in late at the Broadway. 
The audience Monday night was very 
slow assembling, but once in the house 
was fairly well filled. No doubt "fifty 
cent" admission keeps away a box- 
office stampede at nights. Matinees are 
25 now. There was little enthusiasm. 
Now and then an act aroused the peo- 
ple and they applauded accordingly, 
but for the most part they remained 
quiet. 

The show in review ran along in a 
pop house groove although it picked 
up toward the close. 

Gavin-Platt and Co. opened the 
show. No spot by any means for an 
act of this calibre. The company in- 
cludes three other people, each playing 
a role. Gavin and Piatt did not en- 
ter vaudeville yesterday, but some of 
their support appeared new. A black 
wig made that young "son" appear old- 
er than either of the supposed "fath- 
ers." 

The Mimic Four is a new name for 
an act playing the pop houses here- 
abouts for some time. Farcical and 
nothing to the story. Crazyquilt affair 
at start with lively closing in "one." 
The finish is the best. Some of the 
former stage turmoil has been elimin- 
ated. 

Verna Mesereau and Co. has a young 
dancer with a wonderful pair of arms. 
She works hard. With a good show- 
man in charge she could scale loftier 
heights. 

The Steiner Trio is an old circus act. 
Three men swing around the horizon- 
tal bars in circus fashion. Act slow- 
ing up a bit. 

National Trio (New Acts) looked as 
though the war sent them here. 

Hickman Bros. & Co. in an old idea 
and long time between laughs. Com- 
edy hinges on mistake of props work- 
ing divers articles in dramatic act. 

Daly and Healy (New Acts) slipped 
up on the comedy. 

Billie Seaton, on at 10:27, never had 
a chance at that late hour. Miss Sea- 
ton is working along new lines. No 
longer skips in and out, making re- 
peated changes. Her song routine is 
also changed with one that had "blue" 
rings. One costume change. She 
would have been better off in an earlier 
spot. Josie Flynn and Minstrel Maids 
(New Acts) closed. 



AMERICAN ROOF. 

Mighty good small time bill at the American 
Roof last half last week. Nine acts contained 
everything that one could ask for In the way 
of variety and the show, as laid out. played 
nicely. An Illustrated song started the pro- 
ceedings, followed by Robin, the comedy Jug- 
gler. He got away nicely with the early ar- 
rivals. Drowning and Dean in their black- 
face comedy offering did 14 minutes with 
songs and talk. The boys could easily cut 
the singing, a* neither has sufficient voice 
and their duets were decidedly off. Bradley 
Martin and Edith Fabrlnl, dancers, were next, 
and did fairly well. The act Is pretty enough 
but It seems to be arranged badly. It has a 
big time Idea badly worked out. Next to clos- 
ing In the first part. Dave Noulln and Oertle 
St. Clair (new acts) did nicely. The Bernlvlel 
Brothers with their double viollon routine 
were one of the bin hits, closing the first 
portion. 

Margaret Farrell opened the second part. She 
Is presenting a repertoire rather cosmopolitan. 
Opens with an Irish number, dressed in a 
pretty little frock of white and green. and starts 
her turn nicely Next a soubret bit. partly 
I'rcnch. Her third, an English bit. Dressed 
In a crinoline, she sings 'The Dress My 
Mother Wore." putting the number over nlcHy. 
Her cIosIuk number Is one thnt was popular 
some month-; ago. However, slw has t little 
twist at the close of the song that, leu her 
over with It nicely. John T. Kelly nnd Co.. 
In "A fJame of Hon," got a number of laughs. 
The act Is good for small time. Murray Ben- 
nett, next to closing, got lauirhs The' Hess- 
m.ins closed tho vaudeville heel ion nicely. ,\ 
Keystone comedy finished. 



PROSPECT. 

Very big house. Acoustics very 
good. Kach scat downstairs has good 
view of the stage. Outside the side- 
walk is wide and lighted after a boule- 
vard fashion. Lobby wide. Two tick- 
et booths make entrance much easier. 
Prices within the Brooklyn laboring 
man's reach. A $2 seat for 75c. is 
building up a clientele in the Prospect 
Park neighborhood that spells pros- 
perity for the Prospect. 

The folks were in great humor Tues- 
day night. Business was Al. And the 
house sure howled at anything in the 
comedy line, and that part of the 
entertainment was well taken care of 
by several acts constructed for that 
purpose. 

The show ran late but not a person 
quit until the pictures. The Six Navi- 
gators opened with acrobatics. Sue 
Smith followed with her singing single 
and pleased. Then the Three Keatons 
appeared and from that time on the 
audience was deluged with comedy. 

Buster Keaton and Papa Joe now 
look alike as peas, the former having 
grown so that if he keeps on he will 
be head and shoulders above his dad 
in another year. The Keatons are 
working closely along their former 
lines with a few new ways of doing 
some of their "bits." They were a 
laughing hit. The trio omitted the 



• • 



singing "encore" in "one." 

Mullen and Coogan kept up the com- 
edy. They are now displaying accor- 
deons instead of violins at the close. 
The Alan Brooks act turned on more 
laughter. Brooks' funny work on the 
spiral staircase holding up the turn. 
The rain did not have the effect as in 
other houses, the light appearing too 
strong for the "shower" to show prop- 
erly. 

After intermission "Jasper," the 
thinking dog, bow-wowed all right, but 
he is tantalizingly slow in movement. 
Nothing but electricity might make 
him get a hustle. 

James and Bonnie Thornton were 
big favorites. Jim's monolog had 'em 
roaring and they worked about a half 
hour without much effort. One would 
have thought that there wasn't a laugh 
left when Willard Simms and Co. ap- 
peared. But those Brooklyn folks 
know a thing or two about enjoying 
stage fun. Simms' paperhanging ab- 
surdity may be as old as the hills, but 
it appears to grow funnier every day. 

Newhouse, Snyder and Co. (New 
Acts) closed the show at 11.23. 



SHUBERT. 

The Rhubert Is easily one of the biggest 
money wakers for Ma rum Loew on the other 
Hide of the bridge. The house has as its op- 
position the Bushwlck. but fifty paces away 
Last Thursday night, a disagreeable evening! 
the Shubert was filled to over capacity at 
eight o'clock. William Sheehey, the manager. 
Is one of the foremost of the I,oew house men! 
having been assigned to several of the new 
Loew theatres to get things In running order 
before the plating of the regular resident 
manager. 

The bill of seven acts had two headllners 
"When Women Hub- 1 ' und Mrlere and King. 
Moth scored heavily. The suffragette sketch 
was the biggest kind of a laugh for the Hush- 
wlck section. The Hrlcre and King turn l» 
a clever little bit of nrms nse that pleased 
greatly. Mlaa King's "I'aullne" number was 
one of the big things In the net. The couple 
pleaded throughout their allotted time. 

Another big laugh In the performance was 
the blnck-f;ne nkit or Wllllard and Ilond. 
The net Is pretty old. but seemed new to the 
Urooklynltes. Conrad und Mareeno put over 
some good <omedv. 

Deltorelll ii lid r.lhpando closed. Klsle White 
(new acts) opined. 



20 



VARIETY 





MANUFAClUKtflS M££T. 

The lirst meeting oi tne Motion l'ic- 
lure iraues Association was held at 
the Hotel Wellington Tuesday night. 
Two dozen ol tne largest manulactur- 
ers in tne trade were represented. The 
Association was lirsl lormed at the 
July exposition iieid in Uaylon. Its 
purpose is lor tne mauulacturers to 
control tne next ^National Imposition 
ol tne moving picture industry, to be 
held 111 i\ew iork next spring. 

At tne time ol the lormation oi the 
association in Dayton general dissatis- 
laction was expressed by the manutac- 
turers present over the lack oi attend- 
ance, space rates and the utter lailure 
that attended both the Toronto and 
Wilkes-barre expositions. They also 
lelt that in the case ol the expositions 
that had been held in New York that 
tney had been overcharged for space. 

Inquiry developed that other indus- 
tries, notably the automobile and elec- 
trical trades, conducted expositions 
wholly under the supervision of the 
manutacturers in those trades and that 
since the manufacturers had taken over 
the show proposition, rlor rentals had 
been cut in two. The committee on 
organization then consulted Job. £. 
Hedges, who had successfully orga- 
nized the Automobile Dealers' Associa- 
tion, and on his advice applied for a 
charter under the state laws of New 
York. The name Motion Picture 
Trades Association was decided upon 
and a charter secured. At the time 
nothing further was done in the mat- 
ter and the meeting last Tuesday was 
the first definite step since toward en- 
rolling the members of the trade in the 
association. At the meeting were the 
following: 

Wlllam Wright Kalem Co. 

Eugene F. Llcome. . .Kulodph Wurlltcer Go. 

Arthur James vlutual Film Co. 

R. C. Decker Kobblns A Myers Co. 

Adolph Zukor famous Players Film Co- 
Jacob William binder National Board of Cen- 
sorship. 
Samuel Goldfish '^asky Feature Play Co. 

B. A. Proctor \lnokon Apparatus Corp. 

Tom Moore Vlco. 

Jesse Lasky Lasky Feature Play Co. 

Carl Anderson Lasky Feature Play Co. 

Wm. A. Johnson Motion Picture News. 

Wm. C. Smith Xlcholas Power Co. 

J. F. Alexander Wagner Electric Mfg. Co. 

J. F. Confal Novelty Slide Co. 

C E. Davidson Strauss A Co. 

Wm. W. Hodkinson . . . 1'aramount Pictures Cor- 
poration. 

Ernst Olantzberg Typhoon Fan Co. 

j. F. Stuart ltobblns A Myers Co. 

Harry Scott Sterling Camera A Film 

Co. 

A. E. Klrschner Slocum Avram & Slocum 

J. L. Hoff Moving Picture World. 

C. R. Balrd Ilalrd Motion Picture 

Mch. Co. 
Richard Pollard Mausch & Lomb Optical 

Co. 
GuBtave Schroeder. . ..Schroeder Art Flower 

Mfg. Co. 

Merrltt Crawford Mutual Film Co. 

Joe Farnham Ml Star Film Co. 

F. J. Rembusdi Mirror Screen Co. 

A. H. Byrd Wyanoak Publishing Co. 

S. M. Spedon Vlta«raph Co. 

Speeches were made by a number of 

the manufacturers and all were heartily 
in favor of the movement. Temporary 
Secretary A. H. Bird stated briefly just 
what the association proposed doing. 
The general idea is to divide pro rata 
the profits of the show' among the 
manufacturers who exhibit and thus re- 
duce the floor rentals. 

The next meeting of the association 
is called for Nov. 17 at the Wellington. 



MELIES HORSLEY FILMS. 

The Melies' license in the Motion 
Picture Patents Co. will hereafter cover 
the exhibition in the General Film Co. 
program of three films weekly, manu- 
factured by David Horsley and former- 
ly exhibited as part of the Universal 
release list. 

Horsley does not, under this arrange- 
ment, become a factor in the M. P. 
Co., but merely sells his product to 
Melies. No information was forthcom- 
ing this week as to the brand the new 
films will bear. 

The explanation of the transaction 
is that Melies has discontinued his 
agreement with certain manufacturers 
who have been supplying the Melies 
office and the Horsley films were con- 
tracted for to supplant those of the dis- 
carded makers. 

Horsley recently announced that he 
would manufacture seven comedy reels 
a week, lining up 29 exchanges of his 
own to handle them in the United 
States and abroad. The announcement 
of the General connection does not ex- 
plain what Horsley will do with the 
out turn of his Bayonne, N. J., plant 
in excess of the Melies releases. 



EASY IN COLLEGE TOWNS. 

College towns are becoming the prey 
of the picture makers. Studio directors 
and field marshals of the camera forces 
find it to great advantage to work in 
the places where colleges and univer- 
sities abound as the students prove very 
apt supers. 

College towns produce all sorts of 
male types and with the boys hailing 
from all over the globe. 



Allow Motor Driven Machines. 

Spokane, Oct. 21. 
Over the protest of eight managers, 
the city council has passed an ordi- 
nance, permitting the use of motor 
driven picture machines in certain 
houses and for the registration of op- 
erators. No operator under 18 may be 
employes, with the exception that ap- 
prentices may be 16 years old. 




DYER IN WORLD FILM. 

Frank L. Dyer, former president of 
the General Film Co.; J. Parker Read, 
Jr., and J. Searle Dawley, formerly of 
the Famous Players, have contracted 
with the World Film Corporation ex- 
clusively to distribute the output of 
the Dyreda Art Film Corporation. The 
first release under the new agreement 
will be Laura Sawyer in "One of Mil- 
lions," announced for release Nov. 16. 

The arrangement was made late last 
week between Mr. Dyer and Lewis J. 
Selznick, vice-president and general 
manager of the World Corp. 



KINETOPHOTE BOOKING. 

The K. C. Booking Co., Inc., the 
distributing branch of the Kinetophote 
corporation, opened this week in the 
Leavitt building, where the parent con- 
cern has its home. Its organization 
has as its head Ira H. Simmons, who 
retires fi*om the Montgomery-Sim- 
mons Film Service, Inc., of which he 
was the executive. 

The bureau is handling the Ambrosio 
spectacle, "Markia," the American 
rights of which the Kinetophote Cor- 
poration owns. Other releases an- 
nounced for the near future by the 
Kinetophote Co. "The Coming Pow- 
er," a tale of political intrigue, by 
Catherine Carr from a script by R. C. 
Hill. Edith Luckett, Chauncey Ol- 
cott's leading woman, heads the cast. 
Another is "The Little Jewess" with 
Anna Rose leading. Both are directed 
by Edward Mackay. 



Chas, Pathe Comes in. 
Charles Pathe, of the Pathe Freres, 
Paris, the large French picture con- 
cern, slipped quietly into New York 
Sunday, and may remain here for some 
time. 



Didn't Buy Pathe Studio. 

A report that William Fox and the 
Box Office Attractions Co. had pur- 
chased the Pathe Studios in Jersey 
City was officially denied by Winnie 
Sheehan, president of the Box Office 
Attractions Co. 

Having given up purchasing foreign 
features, the B. O. A. Co. temporarily 
rented the .Pathe studios to manufac- 
ture American film, while its own 
studios are being built. The location 
of the new studios was not divulged. 



Women Cranking Cameras. 

Incident to the denial made by Pathe 
Freres this week they had sold out 
to William Fox, an officer of the con- 
cern said that the foreign plants of 
the concern were still in operation, but 
most of the parts were being taken by 
women, owing to the fact that most of 
the men players were with the French 
colors. 



ANNA ROSE. 

A youriR film star, who la having hut-cons in 
bis features put out by tho Kinetophote Cor- 
poration. Miss Rose has Just finished working 
in the star part in a November release of the 
Kinetophote. "The Little Jewess." 



Lasky Signs Thorn son. 
Frederick Thompson, \ itagraph di- 
rector, was signed by the Lasky Fea- 
ture company this week and will pro- 
ceed to Los Angeles t( take up his 
work with the feature concern. 



FAMOUS PLAYERS' COURTESY. 

Famous Players' activities of the 
week include the announcement of 
Mary Pickford's next feature as "Be- 
hind the Scenes"; the release of John 
Barrymore in "The Man from Mexico" 
Nov. 2, and the loan to the Lasky Co., 
associated with the Famous Players 
through the Paramount program, of 
Marguerite Clark, said to be the first 
time rival feature film concerns have 
exchanged such courtesies. 



"CAPT. JINKS" FOR FOX. 

William Fox has arranged to produce 
"Capt. Jinks" as a five-reel feature. The 
play was a success at the Empire, New 
York, a number of years ago. Lloyd 
B. Carleton will be the director. 

"Idols" is another piece that is 
scheduled for production by the Fox 
concern. 



BOOKING FOR ROAD. 

The World Film Corporation has or- 
ganized a separate department to take 
advantage of the failure of the legiti- 
mate managers to supply attractions for 
the combination houses out of New 
York. 

Jacob Wilk and E. Davidow are in 
charge of the bureau which will keep 
track of the road houses, note when 
they are not supplied with attractions 
and generally carry on a campaign to 
supply "them with feature film service 
both in emergencies, created by the 
sudden failure of scheduled attractions 
to appear, and to fill in with feature 
pictures the gaps in their ordinary 
bookings, using for the purpose mul- 
tiple-reel features in which figure im- 
portant dramatic stars in roles which 
have made successes on Broadway. 



Sea Writer Picturizing. 

Morgan Robertson, a recognized 
writer of sea stories, has entered into 
contract with the Vitagraph for the 
proposed picturizing of his stories. One 
of the first to be done by the Vita will 
be "The Closing of the Circuit" with 
the second likely "Primordial." 

In the next issue of the Marine Jour- 
nal there will appear an advertisement 
(the Vita's) calling for a full-rigged 
ship which is to be used in one of the 
Robertson stories. 



Organized in New Orleans. 

New Orleans, Oct. 21. 

The Coquille Film Co., a $50,000 
corporation, was launched here this 
week. The concern has started build- 
ing a studio, and will turn out only two 
and three-reel dramas. Rene Plaissety, 
until recently with Pathe, in France, 
will direct the company. 

J. F. Carter is president of the new 
corporation. 



New Orleans, Oct. 21. 
K. A. Schiller has taken a lease of 
the Greenwall and will install the 
Emma Bunting stock at the house, 
commencing Sunday. Miss Bunting 
has been at the Crescent for seven 
weeks. The name of the Greenwall 
lias been changed to the "Bunting." 



VARIETY 



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EJLM FLASHES 



Delia Connor, formerly with the Pathe 
stock for more than a year, haa been placed 
under contract by George Klelne. 

Alice Maud Edwards, picture actress, was 
granted an Interlocutory decree of divorce 
from Frank Evans, on the grounds of non- 
support, by Judge Dunne in Ban Francisco, 
Oct 16. The couple were married in ItHNi and 
have no children. 



Fred Dahnken. Jr., a member of Turner ft 
Dahnken, exhibitors, is about haying fully 
recovered from his Illness. 



Joe Brandt, who has taken the place of 
J. C. Oraham, has not as yet relinquished 
his duties as general advertising and pub- 
licity man for the Universal, with the result 
that Joe may be seen in his office during the 
wee small hours of the morning. 

Edward Bernard!, a pioneer picture man of 
Cincinnati, has disposed of his theatre in- 
terests in that city to his partner, Tom Kellly. 
After Jan. 1 Bernardi goes to San Francisco, 
where he will have some exposition exhibits. 



Exclusive Features, Inc., enters a denial 
that their film 'Europe at War" was barred 
by the authorities from exhibition In New 
York as being against American neutrality. 
The subject was submitted to the New York 
Commissioner of Licenses in scenario form 
and received his sanction. 



Frank Q. Zabrlskie, manager of the old 
Paterson Opera House, has gone into the mov- 
ing picture business with a bouse in that city, 
where he has long been Identified with the- 
atricals. 



The Cosmos Feature Film Corporation this 
week sent out a warning that the Exhibitors' 
All Feature Co. of Albany has no rlgnt to 
book the film version of "Lena Rivers" with 
Beulah Poynter, as it announces in a circular. 
The Cosmos Corp. controls the Poynter fea- 
ture and denies that the Exclusive holds the 
New York state rights to It. 



Tom Terris asks that denial be made of a 
rumor that he is allied with the GFlbralta 
Films. Inc. He is associated only with the 
World Film Corporation. 

Mothers were admitted free to the Empress, 
Spokane, Washington, on mother's day, when 
the World Film Corp.'s feature "Mother," 
with Emma Dunn, was shown. 



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The New Willis Wood theatre, Kansas City, 
has signed contracts with the World Film 
Corp. for a year's supply of Shubert and W. 
A. Brady film productions under a first run 
agreement 

Nat I. Brown, Alco Film Corporation repre- 
sentative, has just returned from a trip through 
the south. 



"The Man from Mexico," with John Barri- 
more, is the Paramount release for Nov. 2. 
It is in five parts. 

Lloyd E. Carleton will start work on the 
film production of "The Idler" at the Pathe 
studio in Jersey City on Thursday next, for 
the Fox Company. 

Charles Hayden has Joined the Hollywood 
studios of the Oz. 



"Rip Van Winkle" will be released Nov. 
as a part of the Alco program, with Thomas 
Jefferson featured. This is a B. A. Rolfe 
feature. 

The Alco Film Corporation of Texas, in 
Dallas, has been added to the list of Alco 
film exchanges. It will serve the territory 
of Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona, with Alco 
moving picture supplies as well as feature 
films. 



Syd Chaplin, brother of Charles Chaplin, the 
Keystone comedian, has signed with that 
organization. 

"Keystone Mabel" Norman is spending a 
vacation in New York. 



Stanley Twist, who has charge of the tgil- 
versal's Booking Exchange, is in Flower Hos- 
pital suffering from nervous prostration. He 
was removed to the institution from the Elks' 
Club last Friday. 

Owen Davis is batting high In the dramatic 
league Besides his play, "Big Jim Qarrity," 
at the New York, he has three moving pic- 
ture features in process of preparation in the 
Fort Lee studios of the World Film Corpora- 
tion : "The Marked Woman," with Barbara 
Tennant; "Lola," with Clara Kimball Young, 
and "The Wishing Ring," with Vivian Martin. 

Wilton Lackaye makes hla early morning 
rendezvous with the Camera Man in the World 
studios tn Fort Lee, where he is putting on 
"The Pit," but at terrific cost. At 8 o'clock 
(a. m.) the light Is Just right in Fort Lee and 
Lackaye has to be there. His regular bedtime 
Is 3 a. m. That's why the commuters from 
the Jersey side think he's a sleep walker. 

Hal August has Joined the forces of the 
Eaco Flln Company, of which his brother 
iJdwln Is director. 



is released for general exhibition. The Hotel 
Astor ballroom will probably be the place. 

James Klrkwood Is still being congratulated 
upon his selection as the chief executive of 
the Screen Club. 



THOMAS OUT OF ALL-STAR? 

Augustus Thomas is no longer con- 
nected with the All-Star Feature Film 
Co., according to report in the picture 
trade, which says the eminent play- 
wright severed his connection with the 
film concern through becoming dissat- 
isfied with the quality of the product 
the Al-Star has turned out on the aver- 
age so far. 



Velma Stock, of the Kolb and Dill forces, Is 
a picture actress, with the Sterling Co. 

"Galahad of Twilight" will be released Oct 
26, with William Garwood playing the lead 
In a suit of armor. 



John Emerson, who produced and appeared 
In "The Conspiracy" in New York, Is going 
to do his play In pictures, through the Famous 
Players. 

"The Last Egyptian," a romantic drama, Is 
the latest work of Frank J. Baum, who has 
been turning out the Os pictures. It will like- 
ly be brought out around the holidays. 

One of John Cort's former stage pieces, "The 
Truth Wagon," has been obtained by the 
Masterpiece Film Co. It will fill five reels, the 
picture version to be written by M. De La- 
Parelle, who will also direct 

Frank Walton has almost recovered from the 
effects of a recent studio explosion. 

"Money," a feature film which James Keane 
of the United Keanograph Co. Is personally 

6 reducing, Is ready for a New York showing, 
[eane's wife, Charlotte de Felice, Is threaten- 
ed with appendicitis. 

"The Next In Command" will be a release 
of the Picture Playhouse Co. It's a three- 
part military tale of the Soudan. 



|2 REELS BRING RUSH. 

Since the General Film Co. has in- 
augurated its $2.00 per reel feature serv- 
ice, its quarters have been inadequate 
to cope with the crowd. It has been 
necessary for some exhibitors to wait 
from three to four hours to get a 
chance to book. 

This prevails throughout the entire 
departments, including the poster and 
reel room. 



A number of New York photoplaylng celebs 
are making arrangements to attend the Hal- 
lowe'en ball and reception to be given In 
Washington under the auspices of the M. P. 
Picture Exhibitors' League of the District of 
Columbia. The league affair will be held In 
convention hall. 



KINGSTON WITH FOX. 

Sam Kingston, who has been man- 
aging the Amsterdam Theater Roof 
over the summer, has gone back to 
William Fox. He will be in charge of 
the two Fox picture stock companies. 
One of these is to be headed by Wil- 
ton Lackaye, the other by Edmund 
Breese. 



Walter B. Perkins' next picture will be 
"Who Goes There?" for Edison. 



The Excelsior Is making a feature film of 
"The Path Forbidden" from the book, featur- 
ing Octavla Handworth In the dual role of the 
twin sisters. Another book piece. "When 
Fate Leads Trumps," Is also to be done later 
by this concern. 



Flora Finch Headlining. 

The Halsey, Brooklyn, last week had 
as its leading feature Flora Finch, of 
the Vitagraph forces. 

The house has made a practise of 
securing big picture people in person 
when possible for the headline spot on 
the vaudeville bill. • 



RELEASED NEXT WEEK (Not. 2 to Nw. 9, inc.) 

MANUFACTURERS INDICATED BY ABBREVIATIONS, VI2.I 



GENERAL 

Vitagraph V 

Biograph B 

Kalem K 

Lubin L 

Pathe .-. Pthe 

Selig S 

Edison E 

Essanay S-A 

Kleine Kl 

Melies Mel 

Ambrosio Amb 

Columbus Col 



UNIVERSAL 

Imp I 

Bison B101 

Chrystal C 

Nestor N 

Powers P 

Eclair Eclr 

Rex Rx 

Frontier Frnt 

Victor Vic 

Gold Seal G S 

{oker J 
Universal Ike U I 

Sterling Ster 



MUTUAL 

Gaumont G 

American A 

Keystone Key 

Reliance Rcl 

Majestic Maj 

Thsnhouser T 

Kay-Bee K B 

Domino Dom 

Mutual M 

Princess Pr 

Komic Ko 

Beauty Be 

Apollo Apo 

Royal R 

Lion Ln 

Hepworth H 



The subject is in one reel of about 1,000 feet unless otherwise noted. 



"The 8>at? of the Mighty" will bo given a 
private < ihlhltton by the World Film Cor- 
poration 'or the benefit of the trade before It 



OCTOBER 2t_M0NDAY. 

MUTUAL— Sir Galahad of the Twilight, 2- 
reel dr, A ; Shot ln the Excitement, com, Key ; 
Our Mutual Girl, No. 41, Rel. 

GENERAL F— The Squashvllle School and 
The Villainous Uncle, split-reel com, B; The 
Lynbrook Tragedy, 2-reel dr, K • Playing With 
Fire, 2-reel dr, 8: The Cave Dwellers, com, 
V; Wood B Wedd and the Microbes, Series 
No. 11 (Wood Be Wedd 'a Sentimental Experi- 
ences), com, E; Rivalry and War, com, 8-A ; 
The Holdup, Series No. 7 (The Beloved Adven- 
turer), dr, L; Hearst-Sellg News Pictorial, No. 
69, S. 

UNIVERSAL— Mary's Patients and Educa- 
tional, split-reel com, I ; Snookee's Day Off. 
com Ster; The Lass O'KIUlkrankle, 2-reel 
com-dr, Vic. 

OCTOBER 27— TUESDAY. 

MUTUAL — A Madonna of the Poor, 2-reel 
dr, T ; A Mother's Influences, dr, Maj ; A Rude 
Awakening, com, Be. 

GENERAL F— The Mystery of the Sealed 
Art Gallery. No. 12 (The Chronicles of Cleek), 
dr. E ; An Unplanned Elopement, dr, S-A : 
Why the Sheriff Is a Bachelor, dr, S; The 
Rutterfly 2-reel com-dr, V; Love and Title 
and She Married for Love, split-reel com, L ; 
Mulligan's Ghost, com, Col ; The No-Account 
Count, com, K; The Ticket of Leave Man, 2- 
rcpl dr, B. 

UNIVERSAL— Persistent Lovers, com, C ; 
Tho Trey o* Heart*, Series No. 13 (The Jaws 
of Death), 2-reel dr: O S; Mr. Noad's Adless 
Day, com. J. 

OCTOBER 28— WEDNESDAY. 

MUTUAL -The Golden Goose. 2-reol dr, Br: 
Sweet and Low, dr, A ; Sheriff for an Hour, 
dr. Rel. 

GENERAL F— The Lost Melody, dr, E ; The 
Mennre of Fate. 2-reel dr. K ; The Fable of 
"Tho Peoples Choice Who Answered the Call 
nf Dufv and Took Seltzer," com. S-A : W111- 
Inm Henry Jones' CourtRhlp. com. V; The 
Wnsp, dr. S: The Mountain Law, 2-reel dr, L 



UNIVERSAL— The Mystery of Grayson Hall, 
2-reel dr, Eclr; Mr. Noad's Adless Day, com. 
J ; Animated Weekly, U. 

OCTOBER 29— THURSDAY. 

MUTUAL— Eric the Red Wooing, 2-reel dr, 
Dom ; Keystone title not announced ; Mutual 
Weekly, No. 96, M. 

GENERAL F— The Wife's Stratagem, dr, n ; 
Snakeville and the Corset Demonstrator, w- 
com, S-A ; The Wolf's Daughter. 2-reel dr, 
L; Kidding the Boss, com, V; Hearst-Sellg 
New Pictorial, No. 70, S.. 

UNIVERSAL— In Self Defense, 2-reel dr. T ; 
White Roses, dr, L ; Rx ; A Race for a Bride, 
com, Ster. 

OCTOBER 30— FRIDAY. 

MUTUAL— The Worth of a Life, 2-reel dr. 
K B; The Dead Line, com, Pr ; The Availing 
Prayer, dr, Rcl. 

GENERAL F— The Midnight Ride of Paul 
Revere, 2-reel dr, E ; Whatsoever a Woman 
Sowetb, 2-reel dr. S-A ; Ham and tho Villain 
Factory, com, K ; The Orate Impeeryul Slrkun 
com. S ; Bunny Blarkslldes, com, V ; Thumb 
Prints and Diamonds, dr, L ; The Tides of 
Sorrow, dr, B. 

UNIVERSAL— When Boas Got in Wrong 
com, N ; The Senator's Lady, dr, P ; The Witch 
Girl, 2-reel dr, Vic. 

OCTOBER 31— SATURDAY. 

MUTUAL— The Wrong Prescription, 2-reel 
melo-dr. Rel ; Keystone title not announced ; 
Phll'H Vacation, com, R. 

GENERAL F— The Hand of Iron, dr E ■ 
Rronoho Billy's Mother, w-dr, S-A ; The Sou- 
brette and the Simp, and An Interrupted Nap 
spllt-rrel com, L; Within an Ace. 2-reol dr 
V; The Vengeance of Winona, dr. K; Hearts 
of Cold, dr, B ; At the Transfer Cornrr, com- 
dr. S. 

UNIVERSAL— The Blacknmlth'H DniiKhtrr 
mm. Frnt; When Their Wlvea Joined th»- 
Force, com, J ; A Rod Skin Reckoning, 2-rcel 
dr, B101. 



PRESIDENT PEARCE HERE. 

National President Pearce of the 
M. P. E. L. of A. came to New York 
last Friday to assist in the installation 
of the newly elected officers of the City 
Local. 

During the meeting Mr. Pearce sug- 
gested several ways of amalgamating 
the two local State bodies, which did 
not meet with the approval of some 
of the members. 

It is very likely the two bodies will 
be together after Dec. 1. 

Mr. Pearce urged the amalgamation 
proposition in emphatic terms. 

"I really thought this would be ef- 
fected almost as soon as the Dayton 
convention was over," he told the meet- 
ing. "I realize the obstacles to the 
amalgamation, but I am convinced that 
it will be brought about within a few 
weeks. I have just had the pleasing 
assurances of Mr. Samuel Trigger, who 
recently returned from a trip up state, 
that the exhibitors in that territory 
are ready for amalgamation. 



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Washington, Oct. 21. 

The emergency war tax bill, as 
amended, passed the Senate Saturday 
evening, carrying the graduated tax 
against moving picture theaters, ad- 
vocated by the Motion Picture Exhibit- 
ors' League of America. It is said to 
be likely that this Senate measure will 
probably be substituted for the bill 
passed by the House of Representa- 
tives, in which case a joint conference 
between the two branches of Congress 
will not be necessary. 

President M. S. Pearce, of the Ex- 
hibitors' League, who has led in the 
fight for an equitable distribution of 
the tax, expressed himself as satisfied 
with the disposal of the bill by the 
Senate, but called upon the members 
of the league to continue their repre- 
sentations to their Congressmen. 

"The success attained in this fight 
against an impossible measure," said 
Mr. Pearce, "only brings home to every 
member of the league the absolute need 
of better, stronger, more complete or- 
ganization. 

"It's a big success — easily the biggest 
the league has ever accomplished. I 
hope this incident will prove such a 
lesson to every exhibitor in the United 
States, in favor of organization, sys- 
tematic, concerted action, and similar 
beneficial features, as will make every 
theatre owner and operator who is not 
a member send in his application." 



NO DISCRIMINATION. 

Many exhibitors arc complaining of 
prices as asked for standard features 
of the larger producing companies are 
entirely out of proportion to the seat- 
ing capacity of the theatres booking 
them. 

An instance was revealed where the 
Odeon, with 1,200 seats (on Clinton 
street) booked "My Official Wife" from 
the G. F., paying $50 for rental. The 
Union, on Grand street, with a seating 
capacity of 274 (two blocks from the 
Odeon) was asked the same price. 

There has been some talk among the 
smaller exhibitors of cutting out these 
features entirely, unless the prices can 
be adjusted to the seating capacity. 



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VARIETY 



Mutual Girl *o. 40. 

Fair installment of this unendinic aerial. 
Clothe* principally shown. 

Country Innocence. 

Two reels. Drama. Nothing exceptional. 
Story time worn. Not worth two rrels. 
The Rice Industry of the I . S. 

Educational. Interesting und instructive 

Carmen's Washday. 

.Juvenile comedy. Capable kid romirs 
More laughs than usual. 

Dash, Love and ftplaMh. 

Comedy. Half reel. Little new comedv 
matter. 

Hants Catallna and Her Marine Garden*. 

Educational. Interesting nccneH. Photogra- 
phy good. 

Adventure of the Stolen Diamonds 

Drama. Plcturlzed from story. Mildly in- 
teresting. Characters fit. 

Their Soldier Boy. 

Drama. Mother and sweetheart grieving 
over beloved one. Not well worked out. 
Cheaply made. 

Hearst Sella: News Pictorial. 

Review. Interesting scenes of World "s 
Series. Camera man poorly located. War 
scpnes remain about the same. 

Blue Flame. 

Two-reel drama. Fairly interesting crook 
story. Stella Razeto. leading, does well. Not 
produced well enough for two-reeler. 

I'ader False Color*. 

Comedy. Most refreshing and good. 

Rajah's Vacation. 

Comedy. Elephant gets many lnughs. Gen- 
uinely funny. 

Two's Company. 

Comedy. Trials of loving couple. Good 
Juveniles. Fair reel. 

In the Open. 

Drama. Good scenery. Picture interesting. 

Shorty nnd Sherlock Holmen. 
Two reels. Cowboy comedy drama. I'n- 
expected developments. Fair picture. 
Out of the Deputy'* Hand*. 
Drama. Several exciting Instances. Well 
taken. 

Secret Servlee Malta. 
Comedy. Western made. I'nlnteresting. 

The Violinist. 
Two reels. Drama. Story of musician and 
heiress. Fair. 

Old Jackson'a Daughter. 
Two reels. Drama. Myre Hall does good 
work. Picture taken in east, without real 
western atmosphere. Medium. 

Dad and the ttlrln. 
Comedy. Few laughs. Mediocre. 

Environment. 
Melodrama. Some scenes exciting. Picture 
cheap, but has thrills. 

The Countless Count. 
Comedy. Much old material. Fair. 

The Chinese Mystery. 
No. 4 of the Universal Kid series Ordinary. 

Mother ©' Dreamn. 
Drama. Good and stirs. 

The Man In the Dark. 
Drama. Pathetic story well enacted. Good. 

Such a Mess. 
Comedy. Decidedly poor. Half reel. 

Only Skin Deep. 
Comedy. Few laughs far between. Poor 
scenario. 

Hlajh Spots on Broadway. 
Comedy, Usual slapstick. Few real laughs. 
Fair. 

Jimmy. 
Two reels Drama. Gripping story well 
worked out. Strong picture. 

The Futility of Revenge. 
Crook drama with Alex Gaden. Some good 
points In fair picture. 

Her Life's Story. 
Drama. Pauline Bush featured. Religious 
subject. Not over good. 

The Funny Mr. Dingle. 
Comedy. Lovers' tangle. Laugh maker and 
good. 

His Dominant Passion. 
Drama. Leah Balrd leading. Gripping and 
well directed. 

SnakevHle'a Pencemaker. 
Comedy, Rube comedians with Victor Potel. 
Many laughs. 

The First La*. 
Drama. Interesting. 

On the Isle of Same. 
English comedy-dramn. Pretty sea exteriors. 
Action forced. Story, deception. Picture or- 
dinary. 

The Man Hunter. 
Comedy. Old-fashioned by-play. Fat boy 
nauseating. Intermittent laughter. 
Fatty's Sweetheart. 
Comedy. Hughle Mack featured. Fatty cap- 
tures real burglar. Amusing finale. 
The Lone? Lane. 
Drama. Old story. Not plausible. Princi- 
pals ordinary. 

Bark to the Kitchen. 
Comedy-drama. Rural exteriors. Consider- 
able horseplay. Good photography. 
Across the Court. 
Comedy. Dutchman's love affair. Stereo- 
typed funmaking. Mildly amusing. 
The Word of His People. 
Two reels. Drama. Military. Old soldier's 
ward loves young lieutenant. Old man's son 
sacrifices life. Indian fort attack off color. 
Quagmire finale well staged. 

The Padrone's Ward. 
Two reels. Dramatic. Black hand Rtorv. Ex- 
cellently threaded. Leads O. K. Edna Malsnn 
featured. 

The Imposter. 
Two reels. Drama. Story of English nobil- 
ity, well acted and with fine interior. 
The Tonch of a Little Hand. 
Drama. Splendidly conceived. Mostlv In- 
teriors. Story well connected. Heart interest 
strong. Principals good. 

Midst Woodland Shadow*. 
Forest, fantasy with Anita Stewart outdoing 
Mary Piekford as a woodland nymph. Picture 
vastly different from usual run. T/ove story 
involved. 



DAILY RELEASE REVIEWS 

Rsvlows of Aim rslssssd dally. Pictures of over one rati an 



Kid Reagan's Hands. 

Two reels. Good fistic encounter. Charac- 
ters fit well. I^ead fights better than acts. 
Interesting. 

For Her Father's Sins. 
Two reels. Drama. Strong moral. Keeps 
audience interested. 

Left in the Train. 
Drama. Good picture. 

Dlasy Joe's Cnreer. 
Comedy. Laughs, but cheap picture. 

In the Hollow of the Oak. 
Drama. Western. Cheap picture and com- 
pany with good photoplay and natural scenes. 
The Woman of It. 
Drama. A nonsensical scenario. Kathlyn 
Williams shows her form neath a nightgown. 
Bronco Billy Rewarded. 
Anderson as bum rewarded for capturing 
crook. Makers try for comedy with several 
Keystone falls. But fair picture for this star. 
Seed and the Harvest. 
Two reels. Drama. Text, drug selling. 
Subject too well thrashed out in features. 
The Black Hand. 
Comedy with Louis Simon. Good story. 
Legitimate laughs. Idea could have been 
carried further. 



The Revenue Officer's Deputy. 

Two reels. Moonshiner story. Nothing 
novel. Ordinary. 

Monsieur Blueheard. 

Two reels. Third of Bluebeard series. Un- 
interesting unless previous parts seen. 
The Girl In the Cnse. 
Two reels. Drama. Interesting story. Well 
produced. 

Zip the Dodger. 
Keystone comedy. Well produced. Hokum. 
Main pal idea good, but not well enough work- 
ed out. 

The Smu**;ler*s Daughter. 
Comedy, with usual Lubln police depart- 
ment. Scenario better than usual run. A 
laugh getter. 

Meeting- Mr. Jones. 
China smashing gun-flring comedy. Doesn't 
get very far. Well enough produced with 
much slapstick. 

Our Home Mnde Army. 

Hokum comedy. All outdoors. Laughs 
through burlesquing war stuff. 

The Case of the Vsnlshed Bonds. 

Part of series from "Below the Deadline'' 
stories. Interesting detective tale. 



BEST REELS OF THE WEEK 

(Selections made by Variety's revlewere dally, up to Wednesday, of the heat Aim 



The Fnlse Guardian. 

Two reelB. Drama. Good dramatic with Startling climaxes. Characters well played. Auto 
accident realistic. 

Daylight. 
Two reels. Drama. Composer becoming blind, does best work while afflicted. Acting 
by two leads good. Photography high class. 

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THREADS OF DESTINY. 

The new five-part Lubln feature Introducing 
Evelyn Nesbit to the screen was released 
Monday by the Exclusive Service branch of 
the General Film Co. It discloses an excel- 
lent dramatic story, well contrived by Will- 
iam H. Clifford and satisfactorily played un- 
der Director Smiley. Miss Nesbit does ex- 
ceedingly well In her Initial effort before the 
camera. She has struck a happy medium of 
emphasis, giving proper values to the minor 
Incidents and holding in reserve for the Im- 
portant emotional scenes a really surprising 
force. Tnat the feature Is rich In possibilities 
for billing and advertising, goes without say- 
ing. It will draw patronage, especially out 
of New York, and should be a particularly 
strong attraction In the smaller communities. 
The name will draw and the film will deliver 
full value of entertainment. The producer, 
scenario writer and Miss Nesbit all do their 
share to this end. The story has to do with 
a young Jewess. Miriam Grunsteln, whose 
mother has been killed In a massacre and 
her father exiled to Siberia, a political pris- 
oner, through the machinations of Ivan Ro- 
manoff, chief of the Russian secret service, 
who has designs on the girl. She is brought 
up In a convent to maturity, then summoned 
to Ivan's chateau, suspecting nothing of the 
plot against her honor. Her father, dying In 
Siberia, sends her a warning, and she calls 
upon the Hebrews of the city to rescue her 
Here follow a series of excellently devised 
mob and battle scenes, in which Marlam's 
escape is managed. She and her friends take 
ship for America. A period of eight years 
elapse and Mariam Is happily married to an 
Arizona rancher, a once wealthy Russian 
They have a child (played by Russell Thaw 
Mrs. Thaws son). The Czar's business brings 
Ivan to the United States. He visits Marlam's 
husband. Lpon discovering the Identity of 
his hosts wife, his old passion awakes and 
he threatens to tell of their former relations 
unless she elopes. Meanwhile the colony of 
Russians learns of Ivan's presence, and. sus- 
pecting that he Is spying on them, plot to 
assassinate him. He has forced Mariam to 
'S,^ * meeting in a deserted cabin. Tho 
hi™L ,8U lf arn .? f tne rendezvous and plant a 
bomb under the cabin, arranging to keen 
Mariam away from the spot. The climax come? 
with the explosion that brings Ivan to his doom 
""I 8 k VC 5 Mariam for a life of happiness 
with husband and child. The story work! 
out consistently, and there are several good 
bits of sustained tension, notublv the Inci- 
dents leading up to the bomb explosion, itself 
well worked to create the Illusion. 

"THE ORDEAL." 

The pShS 1 William H. Tooker 

1™%*.?.?""" *™ thrnn • • • "™ £«#"» 

l ? is iKS;; Margot Williams 

. s T Mot 5" • ; •„• Mrs. Balfour 

♦ i t\\ 0rd i cal - " five- part war drama, by 
the Life Photo Film Co.. against which the 
German Chamber of Commerce and repre- 
sentatives of the Knlser have lodged a pro- 
test with the authorities at Washington, was 
Klven private exhibition before a large audl- 
.-n.-e of Invited spectators in the American 
theatre Tuesday morning. In view of the 
objections made by the Germans in this coun- 
try against so-railed "colored news" of the 
war. it is easily to he understood on what 

?h« U S?m $1 ba f" d tnHr ™ m P'nlnt against 
ho film. The bl* scenes of the screen play 
have to do with the brutal execution of the 
hero s mother, sister and sweetheart by order 
or a German general in order to force the 
h.Tn, a French officer to disclose the hiding 



place of his men. The producers' attempt to 
soften the horror of the picture by having 
the action take place during a dream, but the 
artifice is s long way from satisfactory- The 
artistic quality of the picture Is uncommonly 
good. The opening shows a peaceful rural 
community In France the simple natives car- 
rying on their humble affairs undisturbed. It 
Is a pretty picture of peace and content, until 
war stirs the countryside. Jean, a farmer's 
son, Is restrained from enlisting by his un- 
willingness to leave his sweetheart, Helene. 
His father, a veteran of other wars, tells him of 
his own deeds of valor in action. The boy then 
falls asleep and the rest of the drama takes 
place aa a dream. Jean goes off to the front 
as an officer. His village Is taken by the Ger- 
mans, but he leads his own men into hiding 
and then himself is captured. He refutes to 
betray their asylum. The German general 
(who la made up to present a striking like- 
ness to Emperor Wllhelm) seeks to drag the 
secret from him, but unsuccessfully. One after 
the other Jean's mother, sister and sweetheart 
are led out and shot before his eyes. Jean 
Is thrown Into prison and there killed when 
a German shell destroys the building. Then 
cornea the awakening and Jean finds himself 
safe with his family. The picture does not 
carry the story further to show whether Jean 
enlists or not. There are many views of large 
bodies of horsemen and foot soldiers In action 
and the battle scenes are extraordinarily well 
done. A battle picture, brought in as part of 
Jean's father's recital, is one of the best action 
views ever done for the screen. It would be 
a pity to have so excellent a mechanical and 
artistic film go to waste, but at the same time, 
German patriots, under the circumstances, 
seem to be entirely Justified In the position 
they have taken. The fate of the property la 
an open question. The invited audience at the 
American was enthusiastic in its approval. 

THE SQUARE TRIANGLE. 

Edward Treavor Joe Singleton 

Clarence Burton Henry Stanley 

Prof. John Buckley Cyrus Smith 

Arthur Bennett Bert Bracken 

Nan Bennett Harriet Jensen 

.Tackle Bennett, the girl Jackie Saunders 

flruce Lennox Fred Whitman 

I^aBelle Helene Madge Pardee 

Monte LoPez Francals MacDonald 

The story has been told In stage form in a 
different way and under another title, but 
that doesn't hinder the Balboa from using 
the Idea for a three-part feature. "The 
Square Triangle" is being film marketed by 
the Box Office Attractions Co., and exhibitors 
can play this film without bringing down the 
Ire of their patrons upon their backs. It may 
not establish any boxofflce records, but it will 
give satisfaction In nine out of every ten pho- 
to play theatres. A modern story, told In 
American fashion and acted by Americans, 
produced In California. The photography for 
the most part is excellent and some of the 
scenes approach camera perfection. Three 
men are guarding the rights and cares of a 
young woman, whose father was their bosom 
friend and lifelong companion until a skirmish 
with the Mexicans cut him down. Jackie Is 
engaged to wed, but the young man of her 
choice becomes infatuated with a cabaret but- 
terfly and Jackie Is heartbroken until her 
"guardies" take a hand. One, Edward Trev- 
or enacts a strategic role, shows the other 
girl up. enables Jackie's fiance to "see the 
light" and In the end reveals his heart to 
Jackie. Trevor and Jackie then become en- 
gaged. The picture is fairly well staged and 
the exteriors are a valuable asset to the story 
It is one of the best the Balboa has yet turned 
out The principal women display a nice 
wardrobe. Miss Saunders Is practically pleas- 
ing as Jackie. ' 



COUNTY CHAIRMAN. 

The Honorable Jim Haekler. .Maclyn Arbuckle 

Saasafras Livingston Willis P. Sweatman 

Tillford Wheeler Harold Lockwood 

Lucy Rlgby Daisy Robinson 

Ellas Rfgby William Lloyd 

Mrs. Rlgby Helen Aubrey 

Lorena Watklns Mabel Wllber 

Chick Amy Summers 

Jos. Whlttaker Wellington A. Playter 

Carrying all the essentials of a high-class 
comedy feature, the screen production of this 
former/legitimate success, produced by the 
Famous Players (Paramount release), will 
please wherever shown. For its narrative it 
offers a combination of love and politics dealt 
out In a rural background that allows un- 
limited scope for picture points, the majority 
of which have been skillfully bandied by an 
exceptionally good cast. The theme is of the 
county chairman who nominates his Junior 
law partner for the district attorneyship. His 
competitor for the office happens to be the 
father of his sweetheart The campaign is 
productive of the main section of the film with 
the finale bringing defeat for the girl's father 
and the ensuing adjustment of all minor com- 
plications. A comparatively light story for 
a big feature, still the producer has found it 
possible of wonderful expansion. The prin- 
cipal scenes are exteriors showing the main 
"stem" of the homely little village where 
Shackler reigns aa political king. But one In- 
terior appears, this the law office of the same 
Shackler, a sort of loft affair. Mr. Arbuckle, 
In his familiar character, la a bit ahead of 
the average picture star, his expressions, 
facial contortions and general deportment 
running right close to perfection for this 
brand of work. He shares the center with 
William Lloyd, Harold Lockwood and Willis 
P. Sweatman, each of the trio earning indi- 
vidual honors. Sweatman 's portrayal of the 
village "Handy Andy" was a treat In burnt 
cork. Daisy Robinson, while not a picture 
star of first magnitude, seemed to strike the 
type requirement of her role and handled her- 
self quite well throughout. The stump 
speeches, open meetings and the numerous 
comic situations arising from the campaign 
duel gives the reel a great comedy margin, 
while the little love tale, running between as 
It does, keeps the Interest up to the average. 
It's a great comedy reel and should figure 
with the best sellers. Wynn. 

WHEN BROADWAY^ WAS A TRAIL 

Prlscllla Elliott Barbara Tennant 

Henry Minuet O. A. C. Lund 

Peter Minuet Edward Roseman 

Salvation Klbbens Lindsay J. Hall 

Standlsh Hope, Mayor Alec B. Francis 

Mistress Hlbbens Mary Nevarro 

The five-part Shubert feature film "When 
Broadway Was a Trail," scheduled for re- 
lease next Monday by the World Film Cor- 
poration, is a charming romance of Dutch 
colonial Manhattan, splendidly staged and 
played with extraordinary excellence by Bar- 
bara Tennant and a large cast. Miss Ten- 
nant has been moat happily fitted with the 
role of a demure Puritan maid, a character 
which she draws to the very life. No small 
pa . l i t »°'. t 116 8tory, s appeal comes through her 
delightful handling of Its principal personage 
O. A. C. Lund makes a highly satisfactory 
swash-buckling Dutch soldier, Together they 
tell in almost flawless manner, a love story 
which women audiences are bound to designate 
as "Sweet." The scenic beauty of the wild 
woods In which much of the action takes 

?♦«£*. add » 8 to & e charm of tne ^le- The 
story: Harry Minuet, eon of Peter Minuet, 
governor of New Amsterdam, sets out to Dan- 
vers (the colonial name of what Is now Salem. 

Sl^Ji.JE 06 party ,s »"acked ^ Indians, 
out Harry escapes, wounded, and. reaching 
Danvers. is nursed back to health by Prlscl la 

«?„ °Jtt an *cc«" ed of witchcraft. The pair" 
are thrown into prison. They escape bit 

fI ar iK- ,8 / eC f pt . ured ' wh,,e Prlscllla goes on 
Q-iiif^ Amsterdam. When the governor of 
Salem learns who his prisoner is Harry Is s« 

£ e in P v l8C,,,a "•"J*"* has weariedTf wa |* 
ing in New Amsterdam, and sets out to find 

day silhouetted against a background if tL- 

wortff 1 ? 1, - nd at the sa ™e S cleverl? 
m?rh? d JS/ efleCt the ap,r,t of the story They 
uSf of flEfnrV m °.1 eI for thl8 Important d? 
which' nseds P ^»ir a P0,nt ' * «" "J, 

SHOREACRES. 

Martin! ". '.'.'.'.'.'.". C lft!!; A ^ ll steve . n8 <>» 

Helen Wm ;, R,,ev Hatch 

Sam .' A V,oIet H °ra« 

Biake.'.:.::::: &*v j * Tea r ,e 

Capt. Ben ,?•;?• Co""*"* 

Ann ;v, Harry Knowles 

"Shore Appm"»" ' JA' k " " " v 01 *^ Fairbanks 
Star Feature Co in thl 'I e 1 ,ea9ed b 7 the All 
adeaup tU n r , e m ^versUV nV^S" of' 1 the" 

ove; tjar r^war. ~H 

at sea, always a hazardous underta?lng befon- 
the camera, in this case the plcti re « fii ?« 
show the violence of wind and wa»«r -S #i 
Illusion of the climax Is injured Thus ftS 
melodramatic features are not force™? ' BuT 

n!lfen7?o P c t a h r^y ,C ,t aPPPft, ° f ^ 8 <°" '« "■'- 



VARIETY 



23 



BILLS NEXT WEEK (October 26) 

la Vaudeville Tkeatraa, Playing Thraa or Last Shows Daily 

(All houses open for the week with Monday matinees, when not otherwise indicated.) 
Theatres listed as "Orpheum" without any further distinguishing description are on the 
Orpheum Circuit. Theatres with "Loew" following name are on the Loew Circuit. 

Agencies booking the houses are noted by single name or initials, such as "Orph," Orpheum 
Circuit- °U. B. 0., ,r United Booking Offices-"W. V. A.," Western Vaudeville Managers' Ad- 
dition (Chicago)— "P," Pantages Circuit— "Inter," Interstate Circuit (booking through W. V. A.) 
""" James C Matthews (Chicago). 



-"M/ 



New York 

ALHAMBRA (ubo) 
Valerie Bergere Co 
Jack E Gardner Co 
Ruth Roye 
Cross A Josephine 
Courtney Sisters 
Joe Jackson 
Hawthorne A Inglls 
Darrell A Conway 
■Gliding O'Mearas 
Carbrey Bros 
Edgar Berger 

ROYAL (ubo) 
Jas a Bon Thornton 
Florence Tempest Co 
Emmet De Voy Co 
"Edge of World" 
Stepp Good a King 
Grace De Mar 
Mullen a Coogan 
Lucy Gillette 
Coakley Hanvey A D 
Maxine Bros 
Skaters BIJouve 
Frits a Lucy Bruch 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Adeline Genee 
Brlce a King 
WhlUng a Burt 
Franklyn Ardell Co 
Weston a Leon 
Moore a Tatee 
Tuscano Bros 
(Others to fill) 

HAMMERSTEINS 
Fox a Dolly 
Paul Swan 
Jack Lorlmer 
Lambert a Ball 
S Miller Kent Co 
Truly Sbattuck 
Reynolds a Donegan 
Sherman DeForest Co 
Helen Triz 
Van Hoven 
Auremla 
Jack Nelson 
(Others to fill) 

PALACE (orph) 
George T Stallings 
Louise Dresser Co 
Dolly a Brown 
De Havens 
Primrose Four 
Dooley a Sales 
(Three to fill) 

PROCTOR'S 1&5TH 
Langalow Co 
John Phllbrlck 
Eckert a Berg 
Chevalier Marshall Co 
Waiman 

Dawson a GUette 
Tip Top Four 
Mitchell a Lelchtner 
The Vanderloors 

2d half 
Paynton a Green 
Evelyn Ware 
Harry English Co 
Saxaphone Quintet 
"Choo Choo Girls" 
George Murphy 
Irene D'Arville Co 
Cushman a Sunderland 
Leon Sisters Co 

PROCTOR'S 23D 
"Japanese Dolls" 
Cushman a Sunderland 
"Black Sheep" 
Santrey a Sherwood S 
Saxaphone Quintet 
Juliet Dlka 
Mr a Mrs Allison 
Dugan a Raymond 
Leon Sisters Co 

2d half 
Aeroplane Girls 
Hettle Urma 
Louise Eschell Co 
John Phllbrlck 
Dawson A Gllette 
Waiman 

"Old New York" 
Mitchell a Lelchtner 
Montague's Cockatoos 

PROCTOR'S 58TH 
The Pelots 
Evelyn Ware 
Louise Eschell Co 
Tyson A Barbour 
"Old New York" 
Temple Quartet 
Montague's Cockatoos 

2d half 
Tate A Tate 
Undine Andrews 
Pescl A Termini 
Burt Melburn 
"Black Sheep" 
Dugan A Raymond 
The Vanderkoors 

AMERICAN (loew) 
Leonard A Dempsey 
Dancing Mars 
Chas Kenna 
Owen McGlvney 
Niblo A Riley 
Old Soldier Fiddlers 
Hussey A Boyle 
John Troupe 
(One to All) 

2d half 
Eddie Foyer 
Howard's Bears 
Manhattsn Trio 



Bryant Summers Co 
Williams A Slegel 
Owen McGlvney 
Geo Armstrong 
Reddington A Grant 
(One to fill) 

GREELEY (loew) 
Elinore Fisher 
Craig A Williams 
Barnold's Dogs 
Faye A Minn 
"College Life" 
Tabor A Green 
4 Readings 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Harry Cutler 
Howard A Field Minn 
Eert Melrose 
Connolly Sisters 
Dancing Mars 
(Three to fill) 

NATIONAL (loew) 
Arthur A Grace Terry 
Harry Cutler 
Klass A Bernle 
Macart A Bradford 
Connolly Sisters 

2 Hamlltons 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Edith Raymond Co 
Brooks A Harris 
Elsie White 
Macart A Bradford 
Clayton A Lennle 

3 Bennett Sisters 
(One to fill) 

LINCOLN (loew) 
Marcou 

Schrodes A Chappelle 
Rockwell A Wood 
Grade Emmett Co 
Goelette Storke A Laf 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Coy DeTrlckey 
Morris Golden 
Japanese Prince 
Von Hampton A J 
John Troupe 
(One to fill) 
BOULEVARD (loew) 
Usher Trio 
Anthony A Adelle 
Japanese Prince 
Browning A Dean 
Blanche Sloane 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Medlln Clarke A T 
Thornton A Corlew 
Oscar Lorraine 
Jim Rosen Co 
LeMalre A Dawson 
Aerial La Vail 8 

DELANCEY (loew) 
Charlotte Lesley 
Clarence Wilbur 
Howard's Bears 
Clayton A Lennle 
"The Elopement" 
Manhattan Trio 
3 Bennett Sisters 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Williams A Rankin 
Ray Snow 
Fanton's Athletes 
Lyrlca 

Sam Mann Players 
Lee A Noble 
(Two to fill) 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Brooks A Harris 
Elsie Gilbert Girls 
Morris Golden 
Bryant Summers Co 
LeMalre A Dawson 
Bean A Hamilton 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Anthony A Adelle 
Greenley A Drayton 
Inez McGauley Co 
Chas Kenna 
"Night In Park" 
Hager A Goodwin 
Carl Damann Troupe 

7TH AVE (loew) 
Leonard A Alvln 
Harry Rose 
"10 Dark Knights" 
Elsie White 
Potts Bros Co 
Brown Harris A B 
Revell A Deery 

2d half 
Niblo A Riley 
Barnold's Dogs 
3 Keltons 

"When Women Rule" 
Hussey A Boyle 
Marcou 
(One to fill) 

Brooklyn 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Blanche Ring Co 
Julius Steger Co 
Morton A Glass 
Pekln Mysterlea 
Mullen A Stanley 
Vinton A Buster 
Collins A Hart 
Brooks A Bowen 
The Magleys 



PROSPECT (ubo) 
Amelia Bingham Co 
Leonard A Russell 
Gallager A Carlln 
Reglna Conelli Co 
Sylvia Loyal 
Adler A Arllne 
Nan Halperin 
Burks A Lorraine 
The Lelands 

BUSHWICK (ubo) 
Eddie Foy 
Belle Baker 
Harry Beresford Co 
Hymack 
Farber Girls 
Edwin George 
Gleeson A Houlihan 
Newhouse Snyder Co 
Vandinoff A Louie 
FLATBUSH (loew) 
Reddington A Grant 
Flavla Acaro 
Eddie Foyer 
"When Women Rule" 
Thornton A Corlew 
Evelyn's Animals 
Telegraph 4 
Bobker's Arabs 

2d half 
Wolgas A Girlie 
Weston A Young 
Harry Temple 
That Sextette 
Edith Clifford 
Potts Bros Co 
Tower A Darrell 
4 Readings 

WARWICK (loew) 
Von Cello 

Williams A Rankin 
Ray Snow 
Chas Deland Co 
Brooklyn Comedy 4 
Stewart A Dakln 

2d half 
Schrodes A Chappelle 
Holmes A Holllston 
Clarence Wilbur 
Klass A Bernle 
Saona 
(One to fill) . 

SHU EERT (loew) 
Von Hampton A J 
Bert Melrose 
Holmes A Holllston 
Edith Clifford 
That Sextette 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Leonard A Alvln 
Gertrude Cogert 
"The Elopement" 
Craig A Williams 
Old Soldier Fiddlers 
American Comedy 4 
Arthur A Grace Terry 

BIJOU (loew) 
Greenley A Drayton 
Hager A Goodwin 
"The Pardon" 
Joe Welch 
Fanton's Athletes 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Chas Deland Co 
Viola Duval 
Joe Welch 
Bean A Hamilton 
(Three to fill) 
COLUMBIA (loew) 
Lawton 

Coy DeTrlckey 
Oscar Lorraine 
American Comedy 4 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Stewart A Dakln 
Sid Rose 
Bessie LeCount 
Barnes A Robinson 
Conrad A Mareena 
Revell A Deery 

FULTON* (loew) 
Aerial LaVails 
Edmonds A Basil 
Viola Duval 
Sam Mann Players 
3 Keltons 

2d half 
Blanche Sloane 
Leonard A Dempsey 
Rockwell A Wood 
Graclu Emmett Co 
Elinore Fisher 
"10 Dark Knights" 
LIBERTY (loew) 
Rose A Buddy Ellis 
Sid Rose 

Weston A Young 
Mounding Pattersons 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Charlotte Leslay 
"The Tangle" 
Lawton 
(Two to fill) 

Albany, N. Y. 

PROCTORS 
Pa re foot Boy 
Elinore & Franklns 
Oraham A Randall 
Virginia Clrls 
Lulgi Bros 
Caison A Calson 
Equestrian Lion 



Flo Irwin Co 

2d half 
Morrlssey A Hackett 
Eldon A Clifton 
Weber A Elliott 
7 Genoos 
Zeno 

Versatile 3 
Fitch B Cooper 
McCarthy Sisters 

Atlanta, On. 

FORSYTH (ubo) 
Great Howard 
"Telephone Tangle" 
I A B Smith 
Gould A Ashlyn 
Cuzson Sisters 
(Others to fill) 

Asa Arbor, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
3 Mlllards 
Rice A Morgan 
Chas Wayne Co 
Grace Cameron 
Harvey 3 

2d half 
"Dream Girl" 

Baltimore 

MARYLAND (ubo) 
"Bride Shop" 
Brltt Wood 
Hope Vernon 
Van A Schenck 
Abou Hamad Troupe 
6 Brown Bros 
Stewart Barnes 

Battle Creek. Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Judson Cole 
Dynes A Van Epps 
"When Love Is Young" 
Bensee A Balrd 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
"Little Modiste" 

Bay City, Mica. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Les Cougets 
Billy A Edith Adams 
J C Nugent Co 
Capitol City 4 
Morallss Bros 

2d half 
Sam Kaonl 
Madame Marion 
Joe Daniels 
"Kid Kabaret" 

Bllllaas, Moat. 

BABCOCK (loew) 
(27-28) 
Amoros A Mulvey 
Meredith A Snoozer 
Plsano A Bingham 
"Sidelights" 
Cabaret Trio 
Alvln A Kenny 

Blrntlnahnaa 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Pletro 

McDevItt Kelly A L 
Woodchoppers 
Fred J Ardath Co 
Mack A Sangster 
Wm Penn 
Marshall Montgomery 

Boatoa 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
The Langdons 
Von Tllzer A Nord 
Henrietta DeSerrls Co 
Prince 

Bond A CasBon 
Girl from Milwaukee 

ST JAMES (loew) 
Kelt A DeMont 
Lyrlca 

Kelso A Lelghton 
"Dairy Maids" 
Doe Will Davis 
Saona 

2d half 
"Spider A Fly" 
Nowlln A St Claire 
Duffy Gelsler A L 
The Hassmans 
(Two to fill) 

GLOBE (loew) 
Gypsy Countess 
Geo H Reno Co 
Sandy Shaw 
Frey Twins A Frey 
(Four to fill) 

2d half 
Hrowninft A Dean 
Dancing Kennedys 
KHbo A Leighton 
"Vaurie In Monkey- 
land" 
Marie Russell 
(Three to fill) 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
"Spider A Fly- 
Duffy Geislnr A L 
Nowlln A St Claire 
The Ha*smnns 
<Fa\ir to fill) 

2d half 
Arthur A Emma Codv 
Dor Will Davis 
Dairy Maids 
Morris A Allen 
.". Kelora 
(Thre»» to fill) 



BaJTale 

SHEA'S (ubo) 
Alice Lloyd 
Howard A Syman 
Billy Rogers 
The Gaudsmldta 
Felix A Barry Girls 
(Others to All) 

Calgary 

PANTAGE8 (m) 
Dancing Nereids 
"Strenuous Daisy" 
Laurie Ordway 
Davis A Walker 
DeWltt Young A Sis 

Butte 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Golden A West 
Sallie Stembler A R 
Holmes A Riley 
Cameron DeVltt Co 
Wilson Bros 
Slayman All's Arabs 

Okarlestoa, 8. C. 

VICTORIA (ubo) 
(last half) 
(Same as at Savannah 
first half this Issue) 

Chicago. 

MAJESTIC (orph) 
Ethel Barrymore Co 
Maryon Vadle Co 
Raymond A Caverly 
Kramer A Morton 
Hess Sisters 
Marvelous Danubes 
Ernie A Ernie 
(Others to fill) 

PALACE (orph) 
Trlxie Frlganza 
Avon Comedy 4 
Mabel Berra 
Zertho's Dogs 
Jack Wilson Co 
Santly A Norton 
Albert Perry Co 
Chas Weber 
(Others to fill) 
WIL80N AVE (wva) 
Carson A Wlllard 
Harlan Knight Co 
Park Rome A Francis 
•J Emersons 
Do 1 ley A Evelyn 

2d half 
Kennedy No A Piatt 
Rhode A Crampton 
Libonatl 
Burns A Klssen 
Ambler Bros 

ACADEMY (wva) 
Maxwell Holden 
Earl A Edwards 
Berry A Berry 
Holden A Herron 
Shaw's Circus 

2d half 
George Dixon 
Rooney A Bowman 
Brown Fletcher 3 
Claude Tracey 
The Q lockers 

COLONIAL (loew) 
Grudeller's Dogs 
O'Connor Sisters 
The Thereses 
Lelchtl Quartet 
Guy Baldwin 3 
"Between Trains" 
Sophie Tucker 
Garry O'Reilly 
3 Ameres 

2d half 
Carlta Day 

McDermott A Wallace 
Nip A Tuck 
"Bower of Melody" 
Frank Morrell 
Eldrldge A Barlow 
Sophie Tucker 
Schreck A Percival 
Morris A Parks 
Marguerite's Lions 
EMPRESS (loew) 

Halsted St 
(Open Sun Mat) 
El Clive 
Joyce A West 
"When It Strikes 

Home" 
Melnotte Twins 
rt Olivers 
Bush A Shapiro 

2d half 
Summers A Gonzales 
Mello A Jones 
Mr A Mrs McCann Co 
Dunlap A Virden 
Gene A Kathryn King 
Colonial Montrose Tr 
McVICKER'S (loew) 
Arno A Stlckney 
Sampson A Douglas 
Ward Sisters 
Russell's Minstrels 
Jas Grady Co 
Lea Casadoa 

2d hair 
Asakl 

Paul & Azella 
"The Criminal" 
Bnron Llehter 
Great Richards 
FltzslmnioiiB & Son 

AMERICAN (loew) 
Summers & Gonzales 
Belle A Jonea 
Mr A Mrs McCann Co 
Dunlap A Virden 
Gene A Kathryn King 
Colonial Montrose Tr 

2d half 
El Cllve 
Jfivce A West 

"When It strikes 

Home" 
Melmtte Twins 
i: Olivers 
Bush A Shapiro 



WILLARD (loew) 
Paul Stephens 
Lee Tung Foo 
Chaa Terrla Co 
McDermott A Wallace 
Schreck A Percival 

2d half 
Dunvette Troupe 
Morris a Parks 
Princeton A Yale 
Patricola 
LaVlera 

STAR HIP (loew) 
Marguerite's Lions 
Johnson A Johnson 
Carlta Day 

2d half 
Thereses 

Lesslck Anita Co 
Jordon A 8tanley 

LYCEUM (loew) 
Jean McElroy 
(Others to fill) 

2d half 
O H Cushlng 
The Overtone 
(Others to fill) 



Brown A Moulton 
Glrard a Gardner 
Burt Melburn 
Altus Bros 

2d halt 
Sylvester 
Kukl Jap Dolls 
Adele Oswold Co 
Mldgely A Elton 
George Roesner 
international 6 

Brie, Pa. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Schooler a Dickinson 
Bison City 4 
Jarvla a Harrison 
Leon Co 
(Others to nil) 



Claeflaaatl 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Cheebert'a Troupe 
Colonial Days 
Gen'l Ed Laveen 
Hoey A Lee 
Remple Slaters Co 
Cardo a Noll 
Sam Barton 

Clewelaael 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
McLellan A Carson 
Cecelia Wright 
Pantier Duo 
Harry Breen 
"Song Revue" 
(Others to fill) 

Celanebas 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Juliet 

JAW Hennlnga 
Wills A Hassan 
Parillo A Frablto 
(Others to fill) 

Daveapert, la. 

COLUMBIA (ubo) 
Metropolitan Minstrels 
Koners Bros 
Ash A Shaw 
Lillian Watson 
Keno Welsh A Mel 

2d halt 
Day Co 

Gordon Highlanders 
4 Mllos 

Hurst Watts A Hunt 
Heras A Preston 



ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
D 8herman A Belles 
Merrill A Otto 
Francis McGinn Co 
O'Brien Havel Co 
Blnns A Bert 
Finn A Finn 
Kramer A Patterson 
EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Jeter A Rogers 
Billy Inman Co 
Christen son 
Slgsbee Dogs 
Krazy Kids 
(One to till) 

Dee Moines 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Aileen Stanley 
John Gelger 
Alexander Bros 
MacKay A Ardine 
Mile Osorla Co 
John Higglns 
Thomas A Hall 

Detroit 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Chretlenne A Lout set 
•Julia Curtis 
Bert Fltzglbbons 
Glrard A West 
Allen Dlnehirt Co 
"Lonesome Lassies" 
Penderson Bros 

FAMILY (ubo) 
Al Ramo Co 
James Heston Co 
Nash A Evans 
Luce A Luce 
Pat A May Tourney 
Harry Sauber 
Bright A Merry 

ORPHEUM (m) 
Desmond Gallagher Co 
Pearl A Roth 
.*> Yoscarys 
Novelty Hardts 
Wright A Lane 
Schaefer A Waller 
Allno v~~*|tt 

Dnlnth 

ORPHEFM 
(Open Sum Mat) 
Anna Held's Daughter 
I-ewls & Russell 
Williams A Wolfus 
Grover A Richards 
Brown A Rocbelle 
Fremont Benton Co 
Bertie Ford 

Bf eneatoa. Cm. 

PANTAOES (m) 
Walter S Howe Co 
Wayne 3 
Larry Comer 
Bonamor Arabs 
Bcltrah A Beltrah 

Elisabeth. N. J. 

PROCTOR'S 
Lambertl 
Marlon Kay 



Pall River, 1 

ACADEMY (loew) 
Mario A Trevette 
Florensl 
"Honey Girls" 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Ward A Gray 
Wm O'Clare Girls 
Frey Twins A Frey 
(Two to nil) 

Flint, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Wentworth Vesta A T 
Hal A Francis 
Leila Davis Co 
Lew Wells 

2d half 
Kalton A Kllfford 
Welsser A Relsser 
Carroll A Plerlott 
3 Majesties 
Zeno Jordon A Zeno 



TEMPLE (ubo) 
Carlisle A Romer 
Little Miss Jean 
Burns A Klssen 
Emmett's Dogs 
2d half 
Frawley A Hunt 
Massey A Hunt 
Carlos Crasoro 
(Two to fill) 
Graad Rapid*, Mick 

COLUMBIA (ubo) 
Flanagan a Edwards 
The Frescotts 
Meyakos Trio 
Moshor Hayes A M 
(Others to fill) 

Hanalltea, Caa. 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Nellie Nichols 
McMahon DlamondsAC 
Flying Henrys 
Roaoh McCurdy 
(Others to nil) 

Hekekea, If. J. 

LYRIC (loew) 
Frevoll 

Keefe A Suber 
"The Tangle" 
Tower A Darrell 
USA Boys 

2d half 
Rose A Buddy Ellis 
"Woman Haters" 
Tabor A Green 
Bounding Pattersons 
(One to fill) 

Indianapolis 

LYRIC (ubo) 
Aerial Eddys 
G ruber a Kew 
Davit A Dlvall 
4 Society Girls 
2d half 
Mlzpah Selblm Co 
Majorle Lake 
Wm Morrow Co 
Jim A Betty Morgan 
Diaz's Monks 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Chas Grapewln Co 
Angelo Patricola 
Ray Samuels 
Boyle A Brazil 
La Toy Bros 
Horlick Family 

Jaekson, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
"Dream Girl" 
2d half 
3 Mlllards 
Rice A Morgan 
Chas Wayne Co 
Grace Cameron 
Harvey 3 

Jacksonville 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Raymond A Bain 
Marie King Scott 
.lulletlna's Dogs 
Stevens A Falk 
Fern Blgelow A M 

Kalaaaasee, Mlek. 

MAJESTIC (ubo) 
"Little Modiste" 

2d half 
Judson Cole 
Dvnes A Van Epps 
"When Love Is Young" 
Menace A Balrd 
(One to All) 

Kaasss City 

ORPHEUM 

TranH Atlantic 3 
.Josephine Dunfee 
MrRae A Clegg 
Natalie A Ferrari 
Romeo the Great 
Will Rogers 
(Other* to All) 

EMPRRS8 (loew) 
The Valdos 
Stewart A Hall 
Yvonne 
Murray Livingston Co 



Lafayette, lad. 

FAMILY (ubo) 
Blverton 

Calloway a Roberta 
Pipes. A Pans 
Floyd Mack 
Frawley a Hunt 

2d half 
Seabury a Price 
Howe A Howe 
"Superstition" 
Johnny O'Connor Co 
Mile Martha Co 
Jones A Johnson 
Buch Bros 

Laaslaa, Mlek. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Karlton A Kllfford 
Welaaer A Relaser 
Carroll A Plerlott 
3 Majesties 
Zeno Jordon A Zeno 

2 half 
Wentworth Vesta A T 
Hal A Francis 
Leila Davies Co 
Low Wells 

Llaeela, Nek. 

ORPHEUM 
Byrd Frost Crowe 11 
Hlckey Bros 
"Matinee Girls" 
Frank Wilson 
Hlnes A Fox 
Chas McGooda Co 
Grant A Hoag 
(Others to fill) 

Loaaasaert, lad. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Geo Fredo 
Anita Primrose 
Harvey DeVora 3 

2d half 
Wilson A Aubrey 
Ruth Roden 
Harrison A Dynamite 

Lea Aaaelea 

ORPHEUM 
Chaa Ahearn Co 
Mack A Walker 
Stan Stanley 8 
Lea Salvaggis 
Hana Kronold 
HermJne Shone Co 
6 American Dancers 
Alexander A Scott 

EMPRESS (loaw) 
Theo Bamberg 
Jolly A Wild 
Allen Miller Co 
Roae A Moon 
Alloa Hsnson 

3 Mori Bros 
PANTAOES (m) 

Ethel Davis Dolls 
King Thornton Co 
Taylor A Arnold 
Chester Kingston 
Miller Packer A Sels 

LealsTtlle 

KEITHS (ubo) 
Hopkins Sisters 
Ryan A Lee 

4 Roeders 

"Fixing the Furnace" 
Walter C Kelly 
"Eloping" 
Keno A Green 
Burdella Patterson 



LOWell. hm-mm. 

KBITH'B (ubo) 
Crouch A Richards 
Routlnl A Crotelll 
Mr A Mrs M Mnrphy 
Cotter A Bolden 
r» Annapolis Boys 
Toney A Norman 
Mang A Snyder 

Memphis 

ORPHEUM 
Mme Yorska Co 
Odlva 

"The Volunteers" 
Fisher A Green 
Gardiner 3 
Lee Berth 
Lightner A Jordan 

MUwaakee 

MAJESTIC (orph) 
"Woman Proposes" 
Mr A Mrs D Crane 
Rlso Ruegger 
Mr A Mrs J Barry 
Tate's Motoring 
Nelusco A Herley 
(Others to fill) 

Mlaaeapolln 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Ward Bell A Ward 
hums A Fulton 
Lai Mon Kim 
Duffy A Lorenz 
Bertha Kalloh Co 
Kverest's Mon key h 
(Others to fill) 

Montreal 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
The Seebacks 
Orr A De Costa 
Fields A Lewis 
Hrnnson A Baldwin 
Willie Weston 
Newark, ft. .1. 
LYRIC (pr) 
Sylvester 
Boston Vons Co 
Reed A Tuttle 
Little Nap 
Adele Oswold Co 
"Shirt Waist Faetory" 
George Roesner Co 
Tate A Tate 

2d half 
Lambertl 

Pearson A Garfield 
Marlon Kay 



24 



VARIETY 



Mr * Mr* Allison 
Oeo Nagsl Go 
Wtlsy A Tsn Eye* 
Pop Ward 
S V Lereene Go 

W twfcttg Ej If* T. 
COHEN O H (lofw) 
Williams A 8l«gol 
Howard A Fisld Mine 
Wolgaa A GFlrlto 
(Two to ail) 

2d half 
Frsroli ^ M 

Edmonds A Basil 
"The Pardon" 
Bills Gilbert Girls 
(Ons to ail) 
Now Have*. Cemnw 
POLTS (ubo) 
(1st half) m 
"Aurora of Light" 
Tena Ralno 
(Others to ail) 

Haw Orloaao 

ORPHEUM 
Salon Singers 
Bell Family 
Anna Chandler 
Chas Y«la Co 
La Franos A Brnos 
Cameron Bisters 
Merle's Cockatoos 

Bow mo ofc o U oj B. Y. 

LOBW 
1st half 
Barnes A Robinson 
Ex-Mayor Shank 
(One to 811) 

Norfolk, rtu 
COLONIAL (ubo) 
(1st half) ^ w 
Norcross A Holdsworth 
Willie Bros 
Qrlff A Dietrich 
Plerlot A Sooaeld 
(2d halt) 
Edwin George 
Btunelle Slstsrs 
(Others to ail) 
Oaltlamd 
ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Morris Cronln Co 
Fredericks Slemons Go 
Kslmer A Brown 
Chief Caupollcaa 
Rube Dickinson 
Lydell Rogers A L 
Locketi A Waldron 
Adair A Adair 
PANTAGB8 (») 
(Open Bun Mat) 
"Kingdom of Dreams" 
Acms 4 

Cornell Corley Go 
Early A Lalght 
Kelley A CaUln 
Gray A Peters 



Tm N. Y. 

PROCTOR'S 
Ben Lewln Co 
Harold Kennedy 
Riverside 4 
Black Bros 
Caryl Randall 
2d half 
Lewis A Davis 
Girard A Gardner 
Bud Snyder Co 
Aubrey A Rlche 
Great Karrell 

Portland* Ore. 

BMPRB88 (loew) 
Geo A \A\ Garden 
Bogart A Nelson 
Hlppodroms 4 
Eugerfe Emmett Co 
The Stantons 
Wormwood's Anlmsls 

PANTAGE8 (m) 
Teddy McNamara Co 
TlUnlo 

Rosdell Singers 
Lockarte A Leddy 
Saunders A Von Kunts 



jntoo. B. I* 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Sutton Mclntyre A 8 
Boothby A Brerdeen 
Blckel A Watson 
Roxy La Rooca 
Maris Fltsglbbon 
Lawandio Co 
Frances A Ross 

WESTMINISTER 
(loew) 
Dancing Kennedys 
Morris A Allen 
Ines McCanley Co 
Marls Russell 
"Vsnd In Monkeyland" 

2d half 
Gypsy Countess 
Jones A Rose 
Geo B Reno Co 
Sandy Shaw 
(One to ail) 



BJehnsond, Vs. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Edwin George 
Brunelle Sisters 
(Others to Bin 
(2d half) 
Norcrono A Holdsworth 
WUUs Bros 
Griff A Dietrich 
Plerlot A Scofleld 



ORPHEUM 
(Open Bun Mat) 
Wharry Lewis Quintet 
Elinors A Williams 
Chlnko 

DeHaren A Nlos 
Jones A Sylvester 
Minnie Kaufman 
(Others to AH) 
Oejdeaw UtsA 
ORPHBUM (loew) 
(28-81) 
Laypo A Benjamin 
ETa Prout 
Mr A Mrs D Blwyn 
Irwin A Hersog 
Sen Francis Murphy 
Deane's Fantoms 



Ottai.- 

DOMINION (Ubo) 
Mack A Qrth 
Gere A Delaney 
Hilda Hawthorne 
Lambert! 
Sully Family 
BUI Pruett 
Olympic 8 

Philadelphia 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Weber A Capltola 
Creasy A Dayns 
Claire Rochester 
Robbie Gordone 
James Cullen 
Aerial Buds 
Sylvester Schaffer 
KNICKERBOCKER 
(loew) 
Conrad A Mareena 
Wlllard A Bond 
Bessie LeCount 
Carl Damann Troupe 
(Two to nil) 

2d half 
Goclette Storke A L 
"College Life" 
Brown Harris A B 
Von Cello 
(Two to ail) 

Plttnftjwnjk 

GRAND (Ubo) 
Ed Morton 
3 Lyres 

Empire Comedy 4 
Pernlkoff A Rose 
(Others to fill) 

PlalnJeld, N. J. 

PROCTOR'S 
Nardlnl 
Soott A Marke 
Morrissey A Haokett 
Lewis A Darls 
"Georgia Campers" 
2d hslf 

Aold Kennedy 

.a Dlcka 
P.iverntde 4 
Black Bros 
"Shirt Waist Factory" 



r» N» »• 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Ellis A Bills 
Jane Connelly Co 
Doc O'Nell 
Lee A Cranston 
Wemer-Amoros Tr 
Comfort A King 
Franklin A Green 
Belleclalre Bros 
Saerasneate) 
ORPHBUM 
(26-27) 
Claude GUUngwatar Co 
White A Jason 
Ashley A Canfleld 
B Mstxsttls 
Joe A Lew Cooper 
Harry De Coe 
Cleo Gascolgne 

EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Murphy A Foley 
Shiiner A Richards 
Roman A Orr 
"Thro Skylight" 
Nell McKlnley 
McClure A Dolly 

Sawflaaw, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Sam Kaonl 
Madame Marlon 
Joe Daniels 
"Kid Kabaret" 
2d half 
Lee Cougets 
Billy A Edith Adams 
J C Nugent Co 
Capitol City 4 
Moralist Bros 

Bait Lake 

ORPHEUM 
(Opsn Bun Mat) 
Arnftld Daly Co 
Relsner A Gores 
Bofand A Holts 
Cole A Denahy 
Burkebart A White 
Carlos Bros 
Ths Orassrs 

BMPRBB8 (loew) 
Swan 

Laurie A Aleen 
Miller Moore A O 
Arthur DeVoy Co 
Arellng A Lloyd 
Neptune's Garden 
PANT AGES (m) 
(Open Wed Mat) 
"Night Hawks" 
Wood's Anlmsls 
Rosella A Rozella 
Palfrey Barton A B 
Qulnlan A Richards 

8aa Diego 

SPRECKELS (orph) 
(Open Bun Mat) 
'The Beauties" 
Act Beautiful 
Ismed 

Harry Tauda 
Weston A Clare 
Kathryh Durkln 

PANTAQEB (m) 
Pony Moore Co 
WlDBch A Poore 
Coogan A Cox 
Gilbert & Girard 
Love ft Wilbur 



ORPHBUM 
(Open Bun Mat) 

Joa Jefferson Co 

Theo Bendlx Players 

Burnbsm A Irwin 

3 Types 

Claude Golden 

Ida DlTlnoff 

Moore Littlefleld Co 

Frsnk North Co 
BMPRB88 (loew) 
(Open Bun Mst) 

Montrose A Bydell 

Celts Bros 

Wilson A Wilson 

Morris Beasley 

Oddone 

Kitty Francis Co 
PANTAOE8 (m) 
(Opsn Bun Mat) 

Musical Juveniles 

William Shilling Co 

SUber A North 

Slivers Oakley 

Belle Trio 

Baa Jeee, CaL 

VICTORY (orph) 
(90-81) 
(Same as at Sacra- 
mento 26-27, this Is- 
sue) 

Bawaaaaa, Ga. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
lat half 
Connolly A Wenrlch 
Madison A James 
Lawrence A Edwards 

Schenectady. N, Y. 

PROCTOR'S 
Costs Keene A J 
Titanic Disaster 
Dsnclng Franks 
Schrelber Bros 
Dare Austin Go 
Bud Marlow 
7 Genoos 
Zeno 

2d half 
Dr Herman 
Barefoot Boy 
Florence Tlmnonl 
Calson A Calson 
Flo Irwin Co 
Robblns A Lyons 
Mms Deplnna 
Billy Jones 

Seraatoa, Pa, 

POU'8 (ubo) 
Marie Dorr 
Bruce Duffett Co 
"Society Buds" 
Johnson A Dean 
(Others to ail) 

Seattle 

ORPHBUM 

iOpen Sun Mat) 
ertrude Hoffman Co 
Billy Swede Hall 
Martin Van Bergen 
Hunting A Francis 
Llbby A Barton 

BMPRB8B (losw) 
Canarls A Cleo 
BUI Robinson 
Bobbe A Dale 
Svengall 

Haydn Burton A H 
Black A White 

PANTAOE8 (m) 
Claire Rawson Co- 
Creole Orchestra 
McConnell A Nlemeyer 
Arthur Whltlaw 
Great Harraha 

Sloan City 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Bun Mat) 
Gonnley A Caffrey 
Fred Kornau 
Hayward Stafford Co 
Leo Zarrell 8 
Cantwell A Walker 
Marie A Billy Hart 
Miller A Lyles 

Boata Chicago 

GAIETY (wvs) 
DeComa A Thompson 
Gus Andrews 
Hsrry Ellsworth Co 
Ouerro A Carmen 
Mile Martha A Sis 

2d half 
Fred A May Waddell 
LaMar A Lawrence 
Dotson A Gordon 
Shaw's Circus 
(One to ail) 

So. Norwalk, Conn. 
LOEWS 

Smith A Farmer 
Jlmmle Rosen Co 
Reckless Trio 
(Two to All) 

2d half 
Usher Trio 
Harry Rose 
"Honey Girls" 
(Two to Bll) 

Spokane 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Davla A Matthewa 
Hoyt A Warden 
Mcintosh A Maids 
Bernard A Harrington 
Fred Hlllebrand 
Nichols Nelson Tr 
PANTAQEB (m) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Staley Blrbeck Co 
Edgar A Ely Co 
Qulnn ft Mitchell 
Joe Lanlgan 
.'{ K ray tons 



Snrtagrftela; 1 

POU'8 (ubo) 
(last half) 
(Sams as at New 
Haven first half, this 
Issue) 

St. Lealn 

COLUMBIA (orph) 
Robert Edeson Co 
Schwars Bros 
Althoff Sisters 
John A Mae Burke 
Rae B Ball 
Le Orohs 

Smith Cook A Bran 
(Others to fill) 

St. PaaL Minn. 

ORPHBUM 
(Open 8un Mst) 
Clark A Verdi 
Ed Hsyes Co 
Pierre Pel letter Co 
The Gouldings 
PsUenberg's Bears 
Woodmsn A Livingston 
Princes Rajah 

Stockton, CnL 

Y0SEM1TB (.orph) 
(28-29) 
(Same as at Sacra- 
mento 26-27, this ls- 
sus) 

Syraenne* N. Y. 

GRAND (ubo) 
Arnaut Bros 
Moran A Wlaer 
Conlln Steel 8 
Leo Carrlllo 
"School Playgrodnda" 



EMPRESS (loew) 
Ethel A Lucy Baker 
Leigh ton A Robinson 
Grace DeWlnters 
Rysn Richfield Co 
Harry Thomson 
Cycling McNutts 

PANTAOES (m) 
Minstrel Maids 
Isabel Fletcher Co 
Hugo Lutgena 
El wood A Snow 
Leon A Adeline Sis 

Terre Haate* lad. 

VARIETIES (ubo) 
Bsby Helen 
Gorman B A Leopold 
Paul Levan A Dobbs 
Schrode A Mulvey 
Lamb A Bckoff 
2d half 
Exposition 4 
Bob Hall 

Wm Armstrong Co 
Lucas A Fields 
Ths Bnrkes 

Toledo, O. 

Jsrrow 

Cordalnl's Animals 
Heath A Millersblp 
Phillips A White 
Geo Brown Co 
"Neptune's Garden** 
(Others to fill) 

Toronto 

SHEA'S (ubo) 
Boganny Troupe 
Cowboy Minstrels 
Max A Mabel Ford 
Tracer Stone A S 
C A F Usher 

YONOE ST (loew) 
The Valdoa 
David Kallkoa 
Marshall P Wilder 
"Gray of Dawn" 
Hartley A Pecan 
(Three to flir) 

Troy, N. Y. 

PROCTOR'S 
William Cahlll 
Aeroplane Girl 
Dr Herman 
Florence Timpohl 
Eldon A Clifton 
George Murphy 

2d half 
Coate Keene A J 
Ellnore A Franklins 
Graham A Randall 
Virginia Glrla 
Dare Austin Co 
Equestrian Lion 
Bud Marlow 

Union HIIL N. J. 

HUDSON (ubo) 
Imperial Fantouches 
Gerard A West 
Doc Campbell Trio 
Howard A McCane 
Harriet Burt 
Taylor Granville Co 
Diamond A Brennan 
The Balllots 

Utftca, N. Y. 

SHUBERT (ubo) 
Dooley A Rugel 
"Girl in Moon" 
Levering Co 
(Others to fill) 

Vancouver, B. C 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Blanche Leslie 
Patrlcola A Myers 
Polsin Bros 
Earl A Curtis 
Gray A Graham 
"School Days" 

PANTAGES (m) 
Terry A Fiji Sis 
Gardner A Revere 
LaTourralne 4 
Juggling Mowatts 
2 Kerns 



B. C. 

PANTAGES (m) 
Lander Stevens Co 
Bruce Richardson Co 
York 8 

Prince A Deerte 
Togsn A Geneva 



Waaal 



v. 



naalaatoa, D. 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Dainty Marie 
Nat Wills 
Adelaide A Hughes 
Morton A Austin 
Allen Brooks Co 
Evelyn Dunmore 
Kaiser's Dogs 

Watorhary, Conn. 

LOEWS 
Ward A Gray 
Godfrey Henderson Co 



3 Kelors 
(Three to fill) 

2d half 
Florensl 

Godfrey Henderson Co 
(Four to fill) 

Wlaalnesj, Can. 

ORPHBUM 
Imhoff Conn A C 
Alfred Bergsn 
El Roy Bisters 
Barry A Wolford 
Genevieve Warner 
Johnny Johnston Co 
PANTAGES (m) 
Imperial Opera Co 
Sherbourne A Mont- 
gomery 
Shear A Herman 
Haley A Haley 

4 DeKock Bros 



SHOWS NEXT WEEK. 

NEW YORK. 

"A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS"— Little 
(2d week). 

"A PERFECT LADY" (Rose Stahl)— Hudson 
(Oct. 28). 

"BIG JIM GARRITY" (John Mason)— New 
York (3d week). 

"CHIN-CHIN" (Montgomery and Stone)— 
Globe (2d week). 

"DADDY LONG LEGS"— Gaiety (6th week). 

"DANCING AROUND" (Al J olson)— Winter 
Garden (3d week). 

"DIPLOMACY"— Empire (2d week). 

"CONSEQUENCES"— Comedy (5th week). 

GRAND OPERA— Century (7th week). 

"HE COMB8 UP SMILING" (Douglas Fair- 
banks)— Liberty (7th week). 

"INNOCENT"— ElUnge (8th week). 

"IT PAYS ; TO ADVERTISE"— Cohan (8th 
week). 

"KICK IN"— Long acre (3d week). 

"UFE"— ManhaUn O. H. (2d week). 

"MILADY'8 BOUDOIR" (Adele Blood).— Gar- 
rick (Oct. 29). 

"MY LADY'S DRESS"— Playhouse (3d week). 

"MR. WU" (Walker Whiteside)— Marine El- 
liott (3d week). 

"ON TRIAL"— Candler (11th week). 

PRINCESS PLAYERS— Princess (2d week). 

"PYGMALION" (Mrs. Campbell)— Park (3d 
week). 

"PRETTY MISS 8MITH" (FriUl Schefl)— 
Casino (6th week). 

"THE BATTLE CRY"— Lyric (Oct 29). 

•THE HIGHWAY OF UFE"— Wallack's (Oct 
28). 

"THE SALAMANDER"— Harris (2d week). 

"THE BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE"— Lyceum 
(8th week). 

"THE GIRL FROM UTAH"— Knickerbocker 
(9th week). 

"THE HIGH COST OF LOVING"— Republic 
(10th week). 

"THE MIRACLE MAN"— Astor (6th week). 

"THE HAWK" (Wm. Faversham)— Shubert 
(4th week). 

"THE LILAC DOMINO"— 44th Street (Oct. 
28). 

"THE LAW OF THE LAND"— 48th Street 
(5th week). 

"THE PHANTOM RIVAL "— Belaaco (4th 
week). 

"THE THIRD PARTY""— 30th Street (13th 
week). 

"TWIN BEDS"— Fulton (12th week). 

"UNDER COVER"— Cort (10th week). 

"WARS OF THE WORLD "—Hippodrome (8th 
week). 

CHICAGO. 

"WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS'— Auditorium 
(1st week). 

"A PAIR OF SIXES'— Cort (12th week). 

"PEG O' MY HEART"— Garrlck (19th week). 

"LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN— Illinois (2d 
week). 

"ONE GIRL IN A MILLION"— La Salle (8th 
week). 

"POTASH A PERLMUTER""— Olympic (10th 
week). 

"THE YELLOW TICKET"— Powers' (8th 
week). 

"TODAY"— Princess (5th week). 

FORBES- ROBERTSON — Blackstone (4th 
week). 

LONDON. 

"BELLE OF NEW YORK"— Aldwych. 
"BLUFF KINO HAL"— Garrick. 
"CHOCOLATE SOLDIER"— Lyric. 
"DRAKE"— His Majesty's. 
"FORGET MB NOT"— Little. 
"GRUMPY"— —New. 
"GREAT ADVENTURE"— Kingsway. 
"HIS HOUSE IN ORDER"— St James". 
"IMPOSSIBLE WOMAN"— Haymarket. 
"LITTLE MINISTER"— Duke of York's. 
" MAMEENA"— Globe. 

MY LADY'S DRESS"— Doyalty. 
"MR. WU"— Savoy. 
"OUTCAST"— Wyndham's. 
"PET O* MY HEART"— Comedy. 
"POTASH A PERLMUTTER"— Queen's. 
"SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE"— Apollo. 
"SIR RICHARD'S BIOGRAPHY"— Criterion. 
"SILVER KING"— Strand. 
"TOMMY ATKINS"— Lyceum. 
"WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD'— Prince of 
Wales. 



0BITUA1Y. 

Peter McGann, special officer at the 
Bedford, Brooklyn, died Oct. 14 with- 
in 10 minutes after suffering a stroke 
of apoplexy while on duty. 

Salem, Mass., Oct. 21. 
Elmer K. Moulton, theatrical man- 
ager, proprietor of the Salem Bay 
Transportation Co., and son of the late 
John W. Moulton, died in Lynn, Mass., 
last week. He formerly managed the 
Lynn theatre. 



Ralph C. Marthy, aged 36 years, for 
some time in vaudeville, died Oct 16 
in St. Louis, following an operation. 
A widow, Katherine Sheldon Marthy 
("Mutt and Jeff" Co.) survives. 

Lulu Greenglade, wife of Ernie Green- 
slade, stage manager of B. F. Keith's 
Hippodrome, Cleveland, died in that 
city Oct. 12 after a long illness. Be- 
sides the husband, a 14-year-old daugh- 
ter survives. 

Baltimore, Oct. 21. 
George H. Houck, the veteran the- 
atrical man, died Monday night at his 
home in Catonsville, of the infirmities 
of age. He was 86 years old. Mr. 
Houck was well known in the theatri- 
cal world as one of the proprietors of 
the old Holliday Street Theatre. Near- 
ly a quarter of a century ago he and 
George W. Rife bought the playhouse 
and actively managed it until a few 
years ago. They also organized the 
bill-posting firm of Rife & Houck, 
which grew into one of the largest 
concerns of its kind. Surviving are 
two sons, one daughter, one brother 
and a sister. 



A. M. Lawson, vaudeville actor, of 
Cincinnati, committed suicide at Buena 
Vista, Ga. He was found hanging in a 
room at his hotel. 




Richard W. Garnella, "Little Disk" 
of the original Garnella Bros., died 
Sept. 22 of cancer of stomach in the 
Allegheny General Hospital, Alleghe- 
ny, Pa. He was born in Baltimore 
April 18, 1864. A widow and two 
daughters, Grace and Marie, survive. 

Horatio N. Berry, one of the Berry 
Brothers, famous as bell ringers in 
former years, died at the age of 73 in 
his home in Great Valley, N. Y., Oct. 
13. Of late he has been engaged in 
the moving picture industry. He was 
uncle of Frank W. Berry, of the vaude- 
ville team of Berry and Berry. 



James H. Powers of the Three Pow- 
ers Bros., died Sept. 29 at his home in 
Providence, R. I. 

Cleveland, Oct. 21. 
William Russell died last week. For 
30 vears he was at the Opera House. 



VARIETY 



25 



OTHELLO. 

Five reels of the George Klelne feature, 
'Othello," ere about three reels too many. 
La the picture now runs, the only and most 
aluable place for It would be a table d'hote 
estaurant, where It could be used as a chaser 
or the usual long-distance diners. Uptown 
where "Othello" was seen the other evening, 
he audiences rushed the wrong way, going out 
n squads. Hardly anyone remained at the 
est show to witness the finish, which con- 
ained the single kick of the five parts, and 
hat kick wasn't over strong, also somewhat 
gruesome, as Othello cut his throat upon 
earning he had unjustly accused Desdemona, 
ifter strangling her. Iago Is there, also 
:as8io. and the other prominent personages 
hat should surround the Moor. In a kingly 
icene a large assemblage of bewhlskered pa- 
triarchs looked like a reunion of Civil war 
reterans. The feature Is processional mostly, 
ts figures come and flit away, with the dark- 
iklnned Othello always around. Whoever play- 
jd this black-face role resembled Lew Dock- 
stader under the cork. Opportunities to give 
grandeur and volume to "Othello" were passed 
>ver, probably to save additional expense. As 
>roduced. for five reels, "Othello" didn't cost 
nuch, with the odds that even the costuming 
vas not manufactured especially for this 
>roduction. When the fleet of warships of 
>lden times left for Cyprus, It recalled that 
>ther war fleet In another Klelne film, "Antony 
ind Cleopatra." These foreign makers either 
ry to fool themselves or their public. Their 
imall time wars are very funny. Mr. Klelne 
las a "bloomer" In "Othello." If he can cut 
t down to two reels, It might get over as a 
meller through the wife murder and the sul- 
fide, but they may walk out even before the 
lnish arrives. This film was never put on 
with America In mind. Sime. 

BORN AGAIN. 

Dorothy Grey Beulah Poynter 

Feff Marsh John Burroughs 

Krs. Marsh Mrs. E. Walton 

3eorge Dunbar Octav Luzon 

Dr. Morrow George Middleton 

Theatrical Manager William Rising 

Jutler Wilbur Hudson 

Beulah Poynter is the star of the five-reel 
'eature "Born Again" (Hector). The photo- 
Irama Is based on the adventuree of Dorothy 
Trey, who leaves home to escape a step- 
mother, achieves success on the stage, but 
lults the footlights' glare to marry a mil- 
lionaire, whom she i leaves on the wedding 
light after she has been struck on tbe head 
by her husband during a quarrel which fol- 
lows an alcoholic debauch. Tbe blow caused 
Ei loss of memory and she wanders Into a 
farm house where she is taken in by the wid- 
ow and her son who live there. Dorothy Is 
placed In bed and a physician called. He ex- 

Slalns that the loss of memory Is due to the 
low. Tbe girl recovers and begins to develop 
tier mind, but recalls nothing of her past life, 
ind when, sometime later, the widow's son 



proposes to her, she accepts and they are mar- 
ried. A year passes and a child blesses the 
union. With the birth of the little one the 
wife's memory returns, and she Is frightened 
because of the fact that she realizes that she 
has unconsciously bound herself to two men. 
She confessee to the doctor, who, In turn, tells 
her that her first husband was killed In an 
auto accident Just 90 minutes before she wed- 
ded the young son of the soil. The same doc- 
tor was called to attend the victim of the 
accident. The wife, then happy in the love 
of her husband and child, silently rejoices. 
The story Is one of homely Interest and the 
feature will appeal to tbe picture fans who 
delight In the super-sentimental story. The 

flaying oast is nicely balanced and Miss 
oynter comes In for a special share of praise. 
She Is a very talented young woman, and her 
facial expressions register exceedingly well in 
pictures. The direction of the picture was 
capable and the automobile accident has a 
thrill that satisfies. 




THE JUDGE'S WIFE. 

A White Star three-reeler sent out through 
the Box Office Attractions Co. The film fea- 
tures Neva Gerber. It is devoid of much 
action, and runs slowly because of that The 
two principal scenes are the lover (with a 
mustache) rescuing his fiancee from an at- 
tempted abduction, and also the same lover's 
discovery of the judges wife robbing the safe 
in her own home. She wanted money to pay 
her debts. The Judge was about three times 
her age, very wealthy, but shy on handing 
out coin to the family. His young and sec- 
ond wife was a rapid shopper. She bought 
half a department store from appearances, 
before the engine of the auto could cool off 
while It stood outside. But the thing that 
seemed to bother wifle most was $107 she 
lost at bridge whist one afternoon. Shortly 
after the game was over, one of the 
judge's real estate agents called to hand him 
"several thousands of dollars," collected af- 
ter banking hours. The Judge accepted the 
money as though It were a cigar, and jammed 
it in the safe. When the house was dark, the 
wife returned to the parlor, and unlocked the 
safe (although the manner in which the knob 
pointed showed the safe had not been locked). 
The mustached lover heard her descend the 
staircase, followed, threw on the lights, saw 
his employer's wife, but she turned the tables 
by grabbing his revolver and holding him at 
bay, after he had taken the money from her. 
Then the wife screamed for help, proclaiming 
the lover (the Judge's secretary as well) as 
the thief. He stood for it, and went up stairs 
to pack. The wife repented, confessed, and 
everything was lovely. Probably also the 
judge loosened up when he heard of that one- 
ninety-seven. A couple of other mustaches 
were in this three reeler. It would seem that 
the White Star, with the exception of Miss 
Gerber and one or two others of the principals, 
needs a new stock company, for appearances, 
if nothing else. "The Judge's Wife." as a 



ADDRESS DEPARTMEMT 

Where Players May Be Located 
Next Week (October 26) 

Players may be listed in this depsrtment weekly, either at the theatres they are 
appearing in or at a permanent or temporary address (which will be inserted when route 
is not received) for $5 yearly, or if name is in bold type, $10 yearly. All arc eligible to 
this department. 




Abdes Edward Variety, N Y 
Adams Rex ft Co Variety N Y 
Adler ft Arline Variety N Y 



EDYTHE and EDDIE ADAIR 



Orphean 



Direction, 
JOHN C. PEEK 
1MZ Palace Theatre 



Adair & Adair Orpheum Oakland 
Alexander Bros Orpheum Des Moines 
Alexander & Scott Orpheum Los Angeles 
Althoff Sisters Columbia St Louis 
Arnaut Bros Grand Syracuse 
Asoria Mile Co Orpheum Des Moines 
Avon Comedy 4 Orpheum Minneapolis 



feature, wasn't worth while, on its scenario, 
in tbe first place. Bias*. 



Franklyn Ardell 

la THE SUFFRAGETTE" 
Direction HARRY FITZGERALD 

VAUDEVILLE 



THE KEY TO YESTERDAY. 

The first feature of the new Alliance Pro- 
gram is the Favorite Players Film Co.'s, with 
Carlyle Blackwell, called "The Key to Yes- 
terday." In four parts. It was made for 
the screen by Robert A. Dillon from the 
novel by Charles Neville Buck. It is a 
good picture, a very good one, with a 
few buts. The first point that strikes 
the watcher of it, after the film has run a 
short while, Is that this picture originally 
ran beyond four reels, but has been trimmed 
down. If so, the trimming could not be 
said to have been expertly done, since there 
are voids In the story that the lack of cap- 
tions does not permit the audience to pick 
up. Often the tale becomes vague, excepting 
of course, that a reviewer may be "thick" 
and not quick enough to get an involved 
story, such as this is. Mr. Blackwell plays 
a dual role. He start* at a rapid pace, through 
a daring escape he makes when taken as a 
spy by Mexicans, during a revolution. The 
scene shifts to an artist's studio. The artist 
suffers a loss of memory. He wanders around 



B 

Barnes A Crawford Variety N Y 
Barnold's Doc A Monkey Variety N Y 
Barnum Duchess Variety N Y 



the world, carrying only the key to his apart- 
ment la Paris. During his travels he is 
shorn of his moustache and goatee. Without 
them he resembles the escaped spy, and is 
mistaken for him, this leading to complica- 
tions. A brief view of fighting during a 
revolution is seen, and onto the battlefield 
enters the artist. He is wounded although 
somewhat behind the firing line. He continues 
to wander, trying all the front iron gates of 
Paris eventually, until he finds a lock his 
key will fit. Entrance Into his old quarters 
and among acquaintances restores his mem- 
ory. His wife dies as he reaches home, but 
he return* to America, to the girl he loved 
when memory lapsed. With Its defects though, 
"The Key to Yesterday" will do especially 
with Mr. Blackwell's playing, besides his pop- 
ularity on the screen. The photography is 
a mark*of merit as well to this film, that 
could easily have stood five reels, and 
might have sufficient of the film cast away 
restored to reach that number. More cap- 
tions are required. The matter of captions 
Is often in question nowadays. Either they are 
too few or too many, too long or too small 
In print If this Is Mr. Blackwell's own 
effort as a picture producer on his own, un- 
der the title of the Favorite Players Co. as 
maker, he has done extremely well. Sime. 





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TOLD IN FIVE WONDERFUL REELS 




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Dramatic Tale of 

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FRANK L. DYER (Former President, General Film Company) 
President 



J. PARKER READ, JR. (Producer of the photoplays, "The Garden of Allah" and "Victory") 
Vice President 

J. SEARLE DAWLEY (The man who made the Famous Players famous) and "The Charge of the Light Brigade." 

Director General 

HAVE JOINED FORCES IN ORGANIZING THE 
to produce the most artistic motion pictures yet undertaken. The culminating step in the ir making that work possible has come in their securing the 

IL-IVI CORPORATION 

to become their exclusive distributors, because the World Film Corporation is the only high grade feature film distributors who can properly market the Dyreda's artistic product. 
The first feature to be released through the World Film Corporation from the Dyreda's Studios is 





IONS" 



in "ONE OF" IVII 

The most impressive, dynamic indictment of the evils of war ever conceived. 

pari FASF. DATE— NOV 16 The next DYREDA release is LAURA SAWYER and ROBERT BRODERICK in "IN THE NAME OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE." Release date on this 
fc *" fc * fc ■"*■**• *mvw* *•• feature will be announced later. For bookings on these and all future Dyreda features, communicate at once with the nearest exchange of the 



LEWIS J. SELZNICK 
Vice President and General Manager 



WORLD FILM CORPORATION, 130 W. 46th St., New York 



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Bowers Fred V 4k Co Variety N Y 

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Melbourne Aus 
Bracks Seven care Tausig 104 E 14th St N Y C 
Brady 4k Mahoney Empress St Paul 



MAURICE GRACE 

BRIERRE and KING 



In Vaudeville 
Direction, IRVING COOPER. 




Bronson 4k Baldwin Variety N Y 

Brooks Wallie Variety N Y 

Bruce & Calvert Loew Agency Chicago 

Buch Bros Empress Kansas City 

Busse Miss care Cooper 1416 Bway NYC 



CARL 



DORA 



BYALandLARLY 



Direction, M. S. BENTHAM. 




Cameron Sisters Orpheum New Orleans 
Carlos Bros Orpheum Salt Leka 
Carr Nat 10 Wellington Sq London Eng 
Ce Dorm 9 Riverside Ave Newark N J 
Claudius ft Scarlet Variety N Y 
Chandler Ann Orpheum New Orleans 



SAM MARY 

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la "THE LAND OF DYKES'* 

JOHN W. DUNNE, Mgr. 



Cole & Denahy Orpheum Salt Lake 

Colvin William Burbank Los Angeles 

Conroy 4k LeMaire care Shuberts 

Cook Joe Variety N Y 

Corradini F care Tausig 104 E 14th St N Y C 

Cronin Morris Co Orpheum Oakland 

Cross & Josephine Variety N Y 



D'Arville Jeanette Montreal Indef 

Daly Arnold Co Orpheum Salt Lake 

l)e Felice Carlotta Variety San Francisco 

De Long Maidie Variety N Y 

Devine 4k Williams Broadway Philadelphia 



JIM SYBIL 

DIAMOND and BRENNAN 

'"Nifty nonsense" 
Next Week (Oct. 26). Hudson, Union Hill, N. J. 



Dickinson Rube Orpheum Oakland 
Divinoff Ida Orpheum San Francisco 
Dorr Marie Poll's Scranton 



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Elisabeth Mary Variety London 
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Emmett Mr 4k Mrs Hugh 227 W 46th St N Y 
Elinore & Williams Orpheum Omaha 
Empire Comedy 4 Grand Pittsburgh 




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ANOTHER LONESOME PINE" BY THE SAME WRITERS 



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ON OF THE Yl 



COMIC SONG 



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Field! Teddy Variety N Y 



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IN VAUDEVILLE 



Frank J Herbert Vitagraph Studio Bklyn 
Frey Henry 1777 Madison Ave N Y C 



JACK E. GARDNER 

In -CURSE YOU, JACK DALTOM" 

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Geiger John Orpheum Dei Moines 

Gibson Hardy Variety N Y 

Glenn Carrie Variety N Y 

Godfrey A Henderson Variety N Y 

Golden Clande Orpheum San Francisco 

Gordon Jim ft Elgin Girls Variety N Y 

Graters The Orpheum Salt Lake 

Gray Trio Variety N Y 

Groan Ethel Variety N Y 

Grees Karl 3 Marianilf Str Bingen-Rhein Germ 

Grover A Richards Orpheum Duluth 

Guerlte Laura Variety London 

Gygl Ota Variety N Y 



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Hagans 4 Australian Variety N Y 
Hamilton Jean Touring England 
Harrah Great Pantages Seattle 
Havllana Tho Variety N Y 



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TWO NEW FACES IN VAUDEVILLE 

Presenting a Satirical NOVELTY IN "ONE.** THIS WEEK (Oct. 19) 

HAMMERSTEIN'S. Booked Solid. 

Direction GENE HUGHES 



Alan Brooks 



Presenting His Blgaest Comedy Success 

"STRAIGHTENED OUT" 

Tie a Thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever" 

Originated; Written and Produced 

By ALAN BROOKS 

Direction, MAX HART. 



PUBLIC AUCTION OF THEATRES 
SCRANTON AND WILKES-BARRE 

THE MAJESTIC (Columbia) Theatre, SCRANTON, will be sold at pubUc auction on 
the premises, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1114, at It o'clock A. M. THE MAJESTIC 
(Luxerne) Theatre, WILKES-BARRE, PA, will be sold at public auction on NOVEMBER 9. 
1114, at If A. M., at the office of Atty Slattery, Wilkes-Barre. 

Both these theatres formerly played Western Wheel Burlesque. The properties will be 
sacrificed. An exceptional chance for showmen to own theatres in these thriving cities 
for less than usual rent charges. 

For particulars as to title, terms, etc., address F. P. SLATTERY, 21 Simon Long 
Building. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 



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Hayama 4 Variety N Y 

Hay ward Stafford A Co Orpheum Sioux City 
Haywards The White Rats N Y 
Hermann Adelaide Pierpont Hotel NYC 



Howland and Leach 

DANCERS 
a. Haw York. 



Inge Clara Variety N Y 
Ismed Spreckles San Diego 



Jarrow Keith's Toledo 
Jefferson Jos Co Orpheum San Francisco 
Johnstons Musical Empire Cardiff London 
Johnston Johnny Co Orpheum Winnipeg 
Jones ft Sylvester Orpheum Omaha 
Jordan A Doherty Majestic Little Rock 



Kalich Bertha Orpheum Minneapolis 
Kalmer ft Brown Orpheum Oakland 
Kammerer ft Howland Rehoboth Mass 
Kaufman Minnie Orpheum Omaha 
Kelly Walter C Keith's Louisville 
Keno ft Mayne Keith's Louisville 
Keuling Edgar Louis Variety N Y 
Kramer ft Paterson Orpheum Denver 
Kronold Hans Orpheum Los Angeles 



La Count Bessie care Bohm 1547 Bway NYC 
La Croix Paul Fountaine Pk Louisville 
La France & Bruce Orpheum New Orleans 
Langdons Tho Keith's Boston 



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RIOT AT MAJESTIC, CHICAGO, 



This Week (Oct. 19) 



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GREAT BIG SONG NOVELTIES 

BY AMERICA'S GREATEST SONG WRITERS 





HAVE A HEART-HAVE MINE 



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By That Dean of American Song Writers 



GEORGE IM. COHAN 



A wonderful song— a Cohan song— a singable song. It was with great difficulty we induced Mr. Cohan to give us this song for publication— the first since "That Haunting Melody.** Don't miss 

a great opportunity. Get it. 



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DOWN IN WATERLOO 



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By ALFRED BRYAN, the HIT WRITER Music by ALBERT GUMBLE and JACK WELLS 

• CHORUS 

I went down from Brussels town to Waterloo, And there I met a pretty Belgian maid, with eyes of blue. It's one of those 

This Song will surprise Waterloo, Sweet eyes of blue, "things." 

you. I >ew where the bullets flew at Waterloo, I stopped a while to listen to her "parlesveus," A timely, beautiful, 

Call or send at once for Waterloo, And hissed her, too, applause- getting 

a copy. 1 stood where Napoleon his sword he drew, And like the great Napoleon, What did I do. Ballad. 



To do or die or fly from Waterloo. What did 

I met my fate way down in Waterloo. 

(Copyright JEROME H. REMICK & CO., 1914.) 



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CHINATOWN, MY CHINATOWN 



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By WM. JEROME and JEAN SCHWARTZ 

A quaint, dreamy Oriental ditty by two of the best song writers In America 



"NO PLACE LIKE THE U. S. A." 



By CLARE KUMMER 



The sunny Rhine Is ^mry fine. But east and west you'll agree with me, 

CHORUS Apple blossom time In Normandy Is sweet. This season there's a reason 

I love you, France, land of romance. Why there's no place like home; 

Dear old England, toe, Is pretty hard to beat, I say, no place like the U. S. A. 

(Copyright, 1914, JEROME H. REMICK & CO.) 





"WHEN IT'S NIGHT TIIVTE DOAA/N IN BURGUNDY" 

By PALEY AND BRYAN 

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By BROWN AND GUMBLE 

"I WANT TO LINGER 

By MURPHY AND MARSHALL 

"THE DRESS IVIY MOTHER XA/ORE" 

By MARION SUNSHINE AND H. 1. MARSHALL 

BACK TO DIXIELAND" 

By JACK YELLEN 

WAY DOWN ON TAMPA BAY" 

By BROWN AND VAN ALSTYNE 
READY LEAD SHEETS PROFESSIONAL COPIES ORCHESTRATIONS READY 

JEROME H. REMICK & CO. 

NEW YORK BOSTON DETROIT SAN FRANCISCO CHICAGO 

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REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS AND COMPANIES IN BURLESQUE 



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PRINCIPAL COMEDIAN "THE PRIZE WINNERS"— An Absolute Sensation on the Columbia Circuit 

ORIGINALITY DID IT ! 
P. s. New York apparently likes me— I certainly like New York I Management, A. K 



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LEW KELLY 



"PROF. DOPE 



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Johnnie Jess 

Featured With 
BILLY WATSON'S "BIG SHOW." 



Lillian Fitzgerald 

Featured with 

"ROSELAND GIRLS" 

Management James E. ("Blutcb") 



Francis Elliott 

la M A NOVEL CREATION** 
-AUTO GIRLS"-1I14-1S 



Harry Seymour 

NOT A STAR- A COMET! 
-AUTO GIRLS"-ltl4-lS 



Gladys Sears 



"TANGO GIRLS" CO. 



FRANK LE DENT 

NOV. 2. HIPPODROME, BRISTOL, ENG. 

Lee & Cranston Temple Rochester 
Leslie Bert A Co Variety N Y 

Blanche Leslie 

Next Week (Oct. 2s), Orpheum, Vancouver 



L-EVt/IS 

Original "Rathskeller Trio** 
Care VARIETY, New York 



Libby & Barton Orpheum Seattle 

Littlcjohns The Variety N Y 

Ix)ckett & Walrlron Orpheum Oakland 

!/)wes Two Variety N Y 

Lydell Rogers & Lydell Orpheum Oakland 



MATT KENNEDY 



tf.° "LIBERTY GIRLS 

T. W. DINKINS 



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JACK CONWAY 

Featured with "Star and Garter" 

Direction, Pfafl B. Isaac 



TAMES (Bhitch) 

COOPER 

Presents 
Four Shows that Have Gone Over 

••GYPSY MAIDS** -ROSELAND GIRLS** 
"GLOBE TROTTERS'* 
"BEAUTY, YOUTH AND FOLLY- 
COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 
Room 415 Columbia Theatre Bid*., 
New York 






FANNIE VEDDER 

Management, JACOBS A JERMON. 



INGENUE, "The Broadway Girls* 



1114- IS 



LON HASCALL 

SIMON LEGREE (Stage Manager) 
"BEHMAN SHOW 



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ROSITA 



Abe Reynolds 



AND 



Florence Mills 

FEATURED IN 

THE COLLEGE GIRLS" 

Direction, Mas Splegoi 



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Mayo Louisa Variety N Y 



Assisted by C BALFOUR LLOYD 
DANCING ATOP THE STRAND— Ith i 



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Manny & Roberts Variety London 
Maya A Addle Variety N Y 



Harry Weber Presents 

3 MARCONI BROS. 

The Wireless Orchestra 



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Send name and address, permanent, route or where playing, 
with remittance, to VARIETY, New York. 
(If route, permanent address will be inserted during any open time) 



JOSIE 



LEO STEVENS 



Helen Jessie Moore 



Versatile Leading W 



Direction HURTIG * SEAMON 



JACK SINGER P: 



LEW KELLY 



And the 



ff 



"Behman Show 

With 

LON HASCALL JAMES TENBROOKE 

MACK and IRWIN 

VAN and PYNES 
CORINNE FORD and the • College Boys 

MARTELLE 

Where managers como to purloin actors, 
and actors to Pilfer Material 



BOB 



MATTHEWS SHAYNE 

And Company 
In "DREAMLAND" 



McCree Junle Columbia Theatre Bldg N Y 
Meredith Sisters 330 W 51 st St N Y C 

Middleton & Spellmeyer Freeport L I 

Morris & Beasley Loew Circuit 

Morrissey & Hackett Hughes Palace BMr N Y 



7MYSTIC BIRD? 

Playing U. B. O. Orpheum 
Direction, HARRY WEBER 



N 



Natalie & Ferrari Orpheum Kansas City 

Nelusco & Hcrley Majestic Milwaukee 

Nestor & Dclberg Loew Circuit 

Niblo A Spenser 363 12th St Bklyn 

Nichol Sisters care Delmar 1493 Bway NYC 

Nichols Nellie Temple Hamilton 



MISS PAUL 

NORTON - NICHOLSON 

En Route 

"A PAIR OF SIXES" CO. 

Coddles. T. BOGGS JOHNS 



T^T \7 r ^T"^^ At tne Broadway Theatre, 



Doing Nicely. Booked Solid 



New York,This Week ( „*•) 



MINSTREL 



VARIETY 



31 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS AND COMPANIES IN BURLESQUE 



JACOBS & JERMON'S 



IM 

Columbia Theatre Building, 



I 

Broadway and 47th Street, New York 





TW BILLY WATSON 



TRUST BEAUTIES" watsoms "ORIENTALS" 

WANT OOOP-LOOKINO OIHU ALWAYt 



COLUMBIA AMUSEMENT 
CO.'S HOUSES 



SAMMY WRIGHT 



Got me in the "Burly -Cue P 
Management AL REEVES 



F-R A IM K:F INNEY 

Management, CHARLES H. WALDRON 



THE GREATEST 
DANCER OF 
THEM ALL I 



Chooceeta 



AT LIBERTY 
Address 227 W. 4sth St. 
New York 



Charles Robinson 



AND Hit 

"Carnation Beauties" 

SEASON 1914-1915 



HarryCoope r 



FEATURED WITH 

"CRACKER JACKS" 

Direction. 
COLUMBIA AMUSEMENT CO. 



GEO. H. WARD 



Featured Character Comedian 

WITH BERNARD A ZEISLER'S 

"FRENCH MODELS" 

Season 1914-15 



\1 [T T X TP f~\ *V Foaturod Comedian 

W lJLf JLdf rUA "Gay New Yorkers" 



Joe MORRIS and CAMPBELL Flossie 



With "BROADWAY GIRLS" 



1914-11. 



Sam Micals 



WITH "BOWERYS" 

Management, 
HURTIG * SEAMON 



North Frank Co Orpheum San Francisco 
Nosses Musical 5 Hippodrome Chicago 



O'Brien Havel Co Orpheum Denver 
Odiva Orpheum Memphis 



Pallenberg's Bears Orpheum St Paul 
Parillo & Frabito Keith's Columbus 
Patricola Angelo Keith's Indianapolis 
Perry Albert Co Palace Chicago 



Harry Weber Presents 

ILTON POLLOCK 

la Geo. Ada's Comedy. 
"SPEAKING TO FATHER" 



Reeves Billy Variety London 
Reilly Charlie Variety San Francisco 
Renards 3 Variety N Y 
Reynolds Carrie Variety N Y 



W. E. Ritchie and Co 

TM^WjaiNAL TRAMP CYCLIST 
CENTRAL, DRESDEN, GERMANY 

1 ■ ■ ■■■■ ■■ i 1 



Rice Harel 236 W 50th St M Y 
Richardini Michael 10 Leicester Sq London 



WM. 



MAUD 

ROCK and FULTON 

Featured in "The Candy Shop** 
EN ROUTE 



Roehm's Athletic Girls Variety Chicago 
Ronair & Ward Variety N Y 



Sheen Al Variety N Y 
Sherman & De Forest Hammerstein's N Y 
Stafford & Stone Echo Farm Nauriet N Y 
Stanley Alleen Variety N Y 



Dave Gordon 



SIMMONDS, STEWART and LAKE'S 

"AUTOGIRLS" CO. Offer 

HARRY M. STEWART FRANCIS ELLIOTT MADELINE WEBB 
JAS. J. LAKE CAROL SCHRODER BILLY HALLMAN 

HARRY SEYMOUR SALLY STEWART TEDDY SIMMONDS 

COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, UM-1S 



SOMETHING NEW 



GERARD'S "FOLLIES THE DAY" 

With SAM SIDMAN, GERTRUDE HAYES, and aa All-Star Caat 

BIGGEST HIT IN BURLESQUE SINCE "WINE, WOMAN AND SONG** 

NEXT WEEK (Oct. II), GAYETY THEATRE, OMAHA, NEB. 



Steve GORDON and MURPHY Fnnk 



PREMIER ACROBATIC DANCERS with "BON-TON GIRLS 



" 



Babe La Tour 



With "GOLDEN CROOK" 

Management, 
JACOBS & JERMON 



HARRY [Hickey] LE VAN 

CLAIRE DE VINE 



NOW AND ALWAYS 
Personal Direction, 

Henry R Dlioti 
"REVIEW OF ltll" 

(Columbia Circuit) 



Leading Woman 
Dixon's "Review of 1915" 



Anna-ARMSTRONG and ODELL-Tommy 

With DAVE MARION'S OWN CO. Season 14-15. 



HENRY 




Presents "THE BIG REVIEW OF 1915" 



MARGIE CATLIN 



ALWAYt WORKING 



MANAGEMENT, 
FENNESSY A HERK 

-Happy Widows" 



Stanley Forrest Burbank Lot Angeles 

Staatea Walter Variety N Y 

St Elmo Carlotta Variety N Y 

Stspheas Leona 1213 Elder Ave N Y 

Sutton Melatyre A Sutton Keith's Providence 



"The Pumpkin Girls" Keith's Providence 
Texico Variety N Y 
Thomas A Hall Orpheum Des Moines 
Tracey Stone & Spink Shea's Toronto 
Trans Atlantic 3 Orpheum Kansas City 
Tsuda Harry Spreckles San Diego 



Valli Muriel & Arthur Variety N Y 
Van Billy B Van Harbor N H 
Vloliasky Orpheum Sioux City 

THE VIVIANS 

THE SHARPSHOOTERS 
Now In London 
Address care of VARIETY, 11 Charing Cross 
Road, London. 



ALBERT 



DOROTHY 



VON TILZER and NORD 

Next Week (Oct. 2s). Keith's, Boston 
Direction, MAX HART 

W 

Walton A Vivian White Rats N Y 

Ward Bell & Ward Orpheum Minneapolis 

Weber & Capitola Keith's Philadelphia 

Weber Chas Palace Chicago 

WestonJ^ CJareSoredclesSanDiego^^^^^ 

WILLIE WESTON 

IN VAUDEVILLE 
Beaked Solid. Direction, MORRIS A FBIL 



Wills Nat Keith's Washington 
Williams & Wolfus Orpheum Duluth 
Wilson Frank Orpheum Lincoln 
Woodman A Livingston Orpheum St Paul 

Y 
Yule Chas Co Orpheum New Orleans 
Yvette Orpheum Harrisburg 



HIIMIIIIIMIMmMlimillllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIMI.il. HIIM 

1 Opened Season at B. F. Keith's COLONIAL THIS WEEK (Oct. 19) | 

I EVELEEN DUNMORE SEISES I 



I BOOKED SOLID 



Direction, EDW. S. KELLER | 



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VARIETY 



Ronaee' Horn* for 

Professionals. 

Hamdaosnoly Furnished 

Steam Heated Rooms 

Bath and every 

convenience 



ft 



THE ST. HILDA 



ff 



'Phone 7117 Bryant 
Acknowledged as the bast 
place to stop at la New 
York City. 

One block from Booking 
Office, and VARIETY. 



Row at 67 W. 44th Street 



PAULINE COOKE, Sole Proprietress 




Hotel Plymouth 

38th St. (Between Broadway and Mb Ave.), N. Y. City 



New Fireproof Building. 



A Stone'* Throw from Broadway 



$1 



o o ONE IN 

DAY ROOM 



$1 



5 TWO IN 

T A 

DAY ROOM 



Biff Reduction* to Weekly Gueete 

Every room has hot and cold running water, electric light and 
long distance telephone. 

Phono 152t Greeley EUROPEAN PLAN T. SINNOTT. Manager 



CLEANEST IN TOWN 



150 Furnished Apartments 

Steam Heated, Centrally Located in the Theatrical District in tko City a* 
NEW YORK. For the Comfort and Convenience ef the Profession. 



HENRI COURT 

lit IM ■■• til W. 4tth ST. 

Tel. Bryant 8560-1561 
New fireproof building, 
just completed, with hand- 
somely famished three and 
four-room apartments com- 
plete for housekeeping. Pri- 
vate bath, telephone, elec- 
tricity. 
RATES: $13 UP WEEKLY 



THE ANNEX 

7S4 ltd 7S4 «■ AVE.. sMTrtSt 

Tel. Bryant 3431 

Decidedly clean, four and 
five-room apartment* with 
private baths, carefully fur- 
nished. 

lls.Ce up 



THE CLAMAN 

SlSieitSIW 41.17 
Tel. Bryant 42» «M 

Comfortable and excep- 
tionally clean three and 
four -room apartments, thor- 
oughly furnished for house- 
keeping. Private baths. 

$8.00 UP WEEKLY 



UNDER MANAGEMENT OP THE OWNER 




ARTHUR 



252-254 West 38th St., off 7th Avenue, NEW YORK 

$2.51 to $5.00 Weekly 

IN rooms, scrupulously clean, baths on every floor, steam heat, electric light and gas 
Telephone 41SS Greeley MUSIC ROOM FOR USE OF GUESTS 



Columbus 449 



POSTAL GARAGE 

222-24 W. diet St.. New York 

A THEATRICAL OARAGE 
LIMOUSINES TO HIRE by hour, day or 



Zasell H M Co Orpheum Circuit 

ZooUer Edward care Cooper 1416 Bway NYC 



BURLESQUE ROUTES 



NEW YORK 



Tel. 1890 Bryant 

2M W. 41ST STREET 

A Hotel for Gentlemen $2 up 
1 Minute West of Broadway 

The Rendezvous for Bohemians and Pr e f ee- 
sional Folk Generally. Chile Concarne, Hot 
Tamales and Mexican Dishes a Specialty. 

Rehearsal Rooms, $1.54 for 3 hours. 



Telephone Bryant 3387 

FuniUhed ApoUtjnenU 
and Rooms 

Three and Four Room Apartments $8 to $8 
Largo r ooms $4J8 and up 

COMPLETE HOUSEKEEPING 

310 W. 48TH ST., NEW YORK 



(Week Oct. 26 and Nov. 2.) 

American Beauties 26 Empire Brooklyn 2 L 
O 9 Westminster Providence. 

Auto Olrls 26 Grand Boston 2-4 Grand Pltts- 
fleld 5-7 Empire Holyoke. 

Beauty Parade 26 L O 2 Empire Newark 

Beauty Youth 4 Folly 26 Victoria Pittsburgh 2 
Penn Circuit 

Behman Show 26-28 Empire Albany 29-31 
Grand Hartford 2 Gayety Boston 

Ben Welch 8how 26 Gayety Kansas City 2 
Gayety Omaha. 

Big Jubilee 26 Star ft Garter Chicago 2 Prin- 
cess St Louis 

Big Revue 26-28 Grand PlttHfleld 29-31 Em- 
pire Holyoke 2 Murray Hill New York 



Big Sensation 26 Casino Chicago 2 Columbia 
Indianapolis. 

Bohemians 26 L O 2 Caiiino Chicago 

Bon Tons 26-28 Bastable Syracuse 29-81 Lam- 
berg Utica 2 Gaiety Montreal 

Bowery Burlesquers 26 Princess 8t Louis 2 
Gayety Kansas City. 

Broadway Girls 26-28 Broadway Atlantic City 
2-4 Stone O H BInghamton 5-7 Van Culler 
O H Schenectady 

Charming Widows 26 Penn Circuit 2 Olympic 
New York. 

Cherry Blossoms 26 Gayety Brooklyn 2-4 
Jacques O H Waterbury 5-7 Gil more Spring- 
field. 

City Belles 26 Standard Cincinnati 2 Empire 
Cleveland. 




AN ITALIAN DINNER YOU WON'T FORGET 
Ill-Ill West 49th St AlAI |JA Near 6th Ave. 

Lunch 4le. lej 1 1 1 1 II II »"""»- *••* ■•»•• **> 

With Wise 111 II LI I U — •; ( ;- h 7*— • 

THE RENDEZVOUS OF "THEATRICALS BEST" 
EAT IN THE OPEN IN OUR SUMMER GARDEN 



HOTEL LYNWOOD 

102 WEST 44TH STREET NEW YORK 

Single Rooms, $S par week; Double, $7, with Bath, If; Parlor Bedroom and 
Bath, 114. Elevator, Electric Light, Telephone in every room. Telephone SIM 
Bryant. 



I 



IVIEN 

245 WEST 51st STREET 

• JUST WEST Or BROADWAY 

2, 3 AND 4 ROOMS 
Modern Fireproof Elevator Building 

RENTS $45 UP. 

References required. Apply on premises. 



City 8ports 26-28 Jacques O H Waterbury 29- 
31 Gil more Springfield 2 Howard Boston 

College Girls 26 Columbia New York 2 Casino 
Brooklyn. 

Crackerjacks 26 Murray Hill New York 2 Star 
Brooklyn. 

Dreamlands 26 Empire Toledo 2 Star A Gar- 
ter Cblcago. 



Eva Mull's Show 26 Gayety Baltimore 2 Bijou 
Richmond. 

Fay Foster Co 26 Trocadero Philadelphia 1-4 
Broadway Atlantic City 

Follies of the Day 26 Gayety Omaha 2LOB 
Gayety Minneapolis 

Follies of Pleasure 26 Cadillac Detroit 2 Hay- 
market Chicago. 



ARNINfl? CAUTION! NOTICE! 

sTiilllll ^ VJ O VAN NtVEH. the Dippy Msd Msgldao. wabss ts tell 



W: 
M _ bis Men* that be retaras to Nsaasnsfsi's, 

WITH SOME NEW MATEBIAL. Also want to sty thst some friends of mine wanted to know what tb* 
iffiBMit vss that I bed with AL J0L80N la San rrandsoo. Dssr Mod friends. It was do Mlieist 
AL J0L80N used tome of my material. Ws met in the lobby of tb* Continental Hotel. B» at first 
was s trifle LOUD. But I guest be knew by the tone of my voice thst I don't lias Issd people. Bo be 
leaae down to earth end ssld be would cut tbe GAG out Cbas. Nevlns was a witness. 

There wss NO ABGUMENT. Even four yean ego when I was stopping in dollar-a-day board and room placet and 
was skinny and unhealthy I would not allow any one to ABGUE with me, so what chance b there now when I am In 
regular hotels end get meet twice s dsy snd got s room with a bath? 

I also wbb to deny that while playing Hammmtein's recently that I made the following remark from the stage: 
DO YOU KNOW THE REASON THEY DON'T HAVE MATINEES DAILY AT THE WINTEB OABDEN. MR. MATT WILL. 
P. 8.— Began* to Stanley snd rumba and thanks to tb* Continental bunch for helping to make my THIRD week at Orpbsua. Ban Francisco, a SUCCESS. 



THE REASON THEY DON'T 18 TO GIVE THE COMEDIANS UP THERE A CHANCE TO GO ABOUND AND GET MATEBIAL 
FOB THEIR ACTS FOB SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERTS. 

Tbe above remark was not made by me. Some people say. "Van, you bete nerve all right to talk to Jolson like 
that" WHO 18 JOLSON OB ANY STAB that has a right to use my material? It's mine, I own It— I *arn my bread 
and butter with It. and JOLSON nor any one else (they all look alike to me) can use It I'm going to protect my rights. 
I always have and always will snd any man that doesn't protect bis rights Is s C0WABD. Tbe reason I'm putting 
this sd In is because I want everyone who sees me In New York to know my act Is mine. Whst I didn't write I paid 
for wltb HONEST, HARD-EARNED MONEY. I want to be successful, but if I can't be that way and be on the level I 
don't want SUCCESS. When some parties read this they will say: "He's a BUG." Yes. I'm a BUG. tbe BUG that you 
don't like became I made certain people respect ME, and when a man stoops so low ss to respect a BUG he's worse than 
tbe bug. VAN HOVEN 

Tbe Dippy Mad Magadan. DIPPY ENOUGH TO WBTTE MY OWN MATEBIAL AND MAD ENOUGH TO 
PROTECT IT Now a regular actor — no longer fighting preliminary bouts st five snd ten s night No more big nose and 
Just a real, nice, good, Mad, honest actor. VAN HOVEN. 



VARIETY 



33 



HOTEL VAN CORTLANDT 



142-146 W. 49th STREET 
JUST CAST OF BROADWAY 



NEW YORK 



Centrally located, good service, absolutely fireproof. A home-like transient and family 

hotel. Telephone in every room. 

Restaurant end Grill equal to any Moderate Prlcee 

Rooms large, light, airy end well furnished. 

Rooms with use of bath $1.50 and up. Rooms with bath $2 and up, 
Parlor bedroom and bath $3 and up, for one or two persons. 

SPECIAL RATES TO THE PROFESSION. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS 



IM 

114-116 WEST 47TH STREET, NEW YORK 

(Just off Broadway) 
Bast location in town. 

Kitchenette apartments; Single and doublo rooms, with bath. Attractive 

prices to tho profession. 



Telephone Bryant 4SS1 




IN/IOIM 




104-106 W. 40TH ST., NEW YORK, Between Broadway and Sixth Ave. 

Europea n Plan, rooms $2.5S up per week. Double rooms, $4.Sf up. Housekeeping rooms, gfJt 
»k. Steam Heat. Baths on every floor. 

JIMSEY JORDAN, Mgr. 

Bryant 1*44 









end Airy 
Rath, S-4 



FURNISHED APARTMENTS 

323 West 43rd Street, NEW YORK CITY 

Catering to the comfort end convenience of the 

its ir.se op. 



When Playing Atlantic City Stop At 

HOTEL G00DFELL0W 

Maryland Ave. end Boardwalk 

rhree minutes from New Nixon end Keith's 
"heetres. Eight minutes from Apollo Theatre 

StttJal Rites tt the Profession 

CHAS. J. GOODFELLOW, Prop. 
Ate of Chestnut Street Opera House, Phila. 

lOTEL BROADWAY, DETROIT 

42-44 BROADWAY 
rheatrical hotel within three minutes' walk 
Tom ell Theatres. Price, $J.5t up, elaglei 
S.M up, double. 

Yench Models 26 Savoy Hamilton Oaa 2 Ca- 
dillac Detroit 

ralety Girls 26 Oayety Toronto 2 CFayety Buf- 
falo 

farden Girls 26 Haymarket Chicago 2 Stan- 
dard St Louis 

(ay Morning Glories 26 Garden Buffalo 2 Star 
Toronto 

lay New Yorkers 26 Westminster Providence 
2 Casino Boston 

lay White Way 26 Oayety Boston 2-4 Wor- 
cester Worcester 5-7 Park Bridgeport 

fay Widows 26-28 Stone O H Blnghamton 29- 
81 Van Culler O H Schenectady 2 Corin- 
thian Rochester 

linger Girls 26 Oayety Buffalo 2-4 Beatable 
Syracuse 5-7 Lumber* Utlca 

flrls from Happyland 26 Oayety Milwaukee 
2 Columbia Chicago 

Hrla from Joy land 26 Orpheum Peterson 2 L 
O Oayety Baltimore 

llrls from Follies 26 Oayety Philadelphia 
5-7 Orand Trenton 

llrls of Moulin Rouge 26 L O 2 Oayety Min- 
neapolis 

flobe Trotters 26 Casino Boston 2-4 Grand 
Hartford 5-7 Empire Albany 

lolden Crook 26 Miner's Bronx New York 
2 L O Empire Newark 

fypny Ms Ids 26 Palace Baltimore 2 Oayety 
Washington 

lappy Widows 26 Oayety Pittsburgh 2 Star 
Clevelsnd 

footing's Big Show 26 Star St Paul 2 Oayety 
Milwaukee 

lello Paris 26 Star Brooklyn 2 Trocadero 
Philadelphia 

leart Charmers 26 Corinthian Rochester 2 
Garden Buffalo 



MRS. REN SHIELDS, ™5& S J 3 ED 

The Veil Alen. 1S4 Weet 45th St. 

STEAM HEAT AND HOT WATER 

Phone 11*1 Bryant. All Modern Improvements 
Msud Fsuvette, "The Tango Chamber Maid" 

Catering to Vaudeville's Blue List 

SCHILLING HOUSE 

l*7-ist West 4tth Street 

NEW YORK 

American plan. MEAL SERVICE AT ALL 
HOURS. Private Baths. Music Room for 

Rehearsals. 'Phone 1S5S Bryant 



Phone Greeley 3444 

FURNISHED ROOMS 

240 West »th St. 

New York City 

sable Rates Light Housekeeping 

MR. AND MRS. ED KENNARD. 



High Life Girls 26 Standard St Louis 2 Cen- 
tury Kansas City 

Honeymoon Girls 26 Oayety Minneapolis 2 
Star 8t Paul 

Liberty Girls 26 Oayety Washington 2 Oayety 
Pittsburgh 

Lovetnakers 26 Oayety Montreal 2-4 Empire 
Albany 5-7 Orand Hartford 

Marlon's Own Show 26 Music Hall New York 
2 Casino Philadelphia 

Million Dollar Dolls 26 Bnglewood Chicago 2 
Oayety Detroit 

Mischief Makers 26 Academy of Music Nor- 
folk 2 Oayety Philadelphia 

Monte Carlo Girls 26 L O 2 Oayety Baltimore 

Orientals 26 Columbia Indianapolis 2 Bucking- 
ham Louisville 

Prlte Winners 26 Casino Brooklyn 2 Music 
Hall New York 

Passing Review of 1014 26 Bijou Richmond 2 
Academy of Muslo Norfolk 

Reeve's Beauty Show 26-28 Orand Hartford 29- 
31 Empire Albany 2 Miner's Bronx, New 
York 

Rice's 8am DaffydlU Olrls 26 Buckingham 
Louisville 2 Standard Cincinnati 

Robinson's Carnation Beauties 26 Oayety De- 
troit 2 Oayety Toronto 

Roseland Girls 26 Oayety Cincinnati 2 Empire 
Toledo 



am 



COME AND SEE ME. 



PUT THIS IN YOUR DATS BOOK 



BILLY "Swede" HALL 

CLARIDGE APARTMENTS, 
226 WEST 50TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY 



Big Time Food, Big Time Service, Small Time Prices at the 

French- American Bakery-Restaurant 



154 WEST 44TH ST.— NEXT TO THE CLARIDGE HOTEL, 
POPULAR PRICES. GEO. F1SCH, PROP. 



NEW YORK 

ALWAYS OPEN. 



ROOMS WITH PRIVATE BATH $7 °° WEEK 



IN THE 



FIRE PROOF 



LVIAIM 



417-19 SOUTH WABASH AVENUE 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



WITHIN 



BLOCKS 



TEN LARGEST DOWN-TOWN THEATRES 



ACTS COMING TO CHICAGO STOP AT 

HOTJLL CARLE/TON 

STATE, ARCHER AND 20TH STREETS 

Stogie or Double, and get showin g et Alhsn.br. Hlppserssss. 
Theatre and Hotel Under 



SAN FRANCISCO 



LANKERSHIM HOTEL 

Absolutely Fireproof; New end Modern; JSt Rooms 
Fifth Street, opposite U. S. Minti half block from Pan teres and Empress, and Near All Theatres. 

SPECIAL RATES TO THE PROFESSION 

Single Room, $4 per week; Double, $4Je; with Privete Bath, $5 and 91. Take any Taxi, our Expense. 



Dad's Theatrical Hotel 

PHILADELPHIA 

WELLINGTON HOTEL 

Wsbash Ave. and Jackson Blvd. 

CHICAGO 
Rstea To The Profession 

J. A. KILEY. M»n» 

ST. LOUIS, MO 

REGENT HOTEL, IM N. 14TH 

NEW REGENT HOTEL, 1S1 N. 14TH 

METROPOLE HOTEL, Bet N. 12TH ST 

E. E. CAMPBELL, Prop, and Mgr. 

Thcatricsl Headquarters 
Tern Minutes' Walk to All Theatres 



Rosey Posey Olrls 26 Star Cleveland 2 Oayety 
Cincinnati 

September Morning dories 26 Garden Buffalo 
2 Star Toronto 

Social Malda 26 Columbia Chicago 2 Bngle- 
wood Chicago 

8tar A Oarter 26 L O 2 Westminster Provi- 
dence 

Sydell's London Belles 26-28 Worcester Wor- 
cester 20-31 Park Bridgeport 2 Columbia 
New Tork 

Tango Olrls 26 Century Kansas City 2 L O 
Casino Chicago 

Tango Queens 26 Howard Boston 2 Orand Bos- 
ton 

Taxi Olrls 26 Star Toronto 2 Savoy Hamilton 
Can 

Tempters 20-31 Orand Trenton 2 Oayety 
Brooklyn 

Trocaderos 26 Casino Philadelphia 2 Empire 
Hoboken 

Watson Sisters 26 Empire Newark 2 Empire 
Philadelphia 

Watson's Big Show 26 Empire Hoboken 2 Em- 
pire Brooklyn 

Winning Widows 26 Empire Philadelphia 2 
Palace Baltimore 

Zallah's Own Show 26 Olympic New Tork 2 
Orpheum Peterson 



SHERMAN'S HOTEL 

Formerly COOKE'S HOTEL 

"A Theatrical Hotel of the Better Cleee" 

Walnut Street, above Eighth 

Opposite Casino Theatre Philadelphia 

CAFE CABARET EVERY NIGHT 



:rif III -.Mr f " T 'if P 

MM f NIC t M.MT flfC THK IAN 

<• > . MOT ' COI l» -»" - 



LETTERS 

Where C follows name, letter is in 
Variety's Chicago office. 

Where S F follows name, letter is in 
Variety's San Francisco office. 

Advertising or circular letters will 
not be listed. 

P following name indicates postal, 
advertised once only. 



Abbott Billy 
Abels Neal (C) 
Adams Oee 
Adgie Princess 
Alscon Leonle 
Alexander Chas C) 
Alexander Russell 
Allen Mrs Searle 
Alton Ethel (0) 
Andra Bess 
Armento Angelo (C) 
Arthur Ous 
Avery Van A Carrie 

B 
Babette 6 Evans 
Baker Lotta 
Halls Ous (C) 
Balto Harvey 
Ranjophlends 
Barlow Hattle 
Barnes Edward 



Harnett Jack 
Barnold Jack 
Barry Walter (C) 
Barry ft Nelson 
Bart Charlie 
Bartlett Mildred 
Beach Geo F (C) 
Bell Peggy 
Bell & Richard* 
Bellen Lillian 
Belmont Pauline 
Berliner Ed 
Bergere Ondla 
Berry Rose (C) 
Berzac Cliff 
Black Vera 
Blake Sinters 
Blondy H Mr* 
Mloom E 
Boley May 
Ronner Alf 
Boonsettl Paul 



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34 



VARIETY 









. 






The Virginia Judge 



Will withdraw from the Keith Tour Oct. 31st, at Louisville, Ky., and will 

be at liberty for a short season of 12 to 14 weeks thereafter. 

An International Headliner for Public or Private Functions 

All Communications 



►■ 






Hotel Flanders, West 47th Street, New York 



Boulton E 
Boyle Jack 
Brltton Cbu 
Brooks Harry 
Bucher Marie 
Burns Harry 
Burke B 
Burton R 
nushell May 
Pusley Jessie 



Calhoun Julia 
Campbell John 
Cane Joe (C) 
Carle Orace 
Carlln ft Waters 
Carloss Mrs 
Carlray Douglas 
Carlyle Elsie 
Carr Blanche 
Carroll Emma 
Castellano P 
Cate Frank 
Cathperts The 
Chrlldroy Richard 
Christian Julia 
Churchill Estelle 
Clarendon Trlxle 
Clark Ed 
Clark Herbert 
Clark & Temple 
niayton Zella 
Clelghbough Lucky 
Clemens Catherine 



Cleve Henry 
Cleveland Harry 
riifton Helen (SF) 
Cohn 6 Hlrscb 
Cole Judson (C) 
Colleges Viola 
Collier Ruby 
Cooley Hollls 
Cooper Texas 
Copeland Les 
Crelghton Susie 
Croudln RAH 
Crowley J 
Cuff John 
Curwen P J 
Curzon J W 



Dahlberg May 
Dakota Jack 
Dalr Tx>retta 
Dale May 
Dandy Ned 
Darrell Jack 
De Alam Oeorge 
De Armo Billy (C) 
De Felire Carletta(SP) 
De Forest Gladys 
Dr Grant Oliver 
DeFraft Stewart I 
Dclaney Frances 
Delmore Chas A (P) 
Dixon Harry (P) 
Donnellyn 4 
Dal Prima Mr* 



PLAYING RETURN ENGAGEMENTS in all LOEW HOUSES— 
Also Showing New Wardrobe and Singing New Songs 

MARGUERITE FARRELL 



Direction ALLEN-EPSTIN 



DeVere M 
Doucet Theodore 
Drlscoll Hall Co 
Duffy Richard (C) 
Duffy Mrs 
Dupree G*eo 
Dupree Kate 
DuPell Walter 
Dushan Maymc 

E 
Kckenrode Hebe 
Edge J F 

Eckhardt Clyde W 
Edmonds & La Velle 
Kdwards Mrs (C) 
Kley Helen 



Emerald £ 
Evans Ray 
Evans J E 



Fagan Noodles (C) 
Falls Agnes 
Farnum & Delmar 
Ferris Wm H 
Fields Harry W 
Fields Sallle 
Flottl 

Flyn Joseph 
Follette ft Wicks 
Foster Allan K 
Fowler Bertlf 



Foy & Clark 
Francis Milton 
Frowlne Lora 

O 

Gaffney Mr 
Galloway Lillian 
Gait Robert 
Gardiner Harry 
Garden ft Elgin 81s 
Gardner Mr & Mrs H 
Oarfleld Frank 
Georgalahs Bros 
Germalne Florence(C) 
GUmore ft Castle 
Godfrey Phil (C) 
Golding & Kcating(C) 



Goldlnlo Spanish (8F) 
Goodwins Fred 
Goodwin Suse 
Gordon Blanche 
Gordon Belle 
Gordon Eldrld Co 
Gordon James 
Gorman & Bell 
Graham Mr 
Grant Rose 
Gray Elaine 
Gray Julia 
Greene Mrs B 
Griffin Gerald (C) 
Griffith Fred (C) 
■« Guise Johnnie 
Oygl Ota 



Hagan Martyn 
Haggerty 6 Hobbs 
Haines Robt 
Harcourt Jean 
Harding Richard 
Hardy Adele (C) 
Harlan 3 E 
Harold Smuger (C) 
Harrington Ray 
Harrison Claire 
Harrison Happy (C) 
Hartman Maiie 
Harvey W 8 Co 
Hayes Helen 
Haynes Ovlle (C) 
Hazard Grace 
Hagon Jack 
Hearn Julia 
Hcarn Lew 
Heath Frankie 
Heather Josle 
Held Frlda 
Henderson Frank E 
Herman Dr 
Herbert Carl (C) 
Herbst L (C) 
Herman The Great 

(SF) 
Hallard Wm (C) 
Hoffman Gertrude 
Hopkins Mr 
Holley G A (C) 
Horeliok Family (C) 
Howard Jos (C) 



Howe Warren 
H uber Virginia 
Humphrey John 
Hunter Harry 
Huxtablc Fred 



Imhoff Roger (P) 
Imhoff Roger (C) 
Inge Clara 
Irwin Merrick (C) 
Irving A (C) 



Jackson Leo 
Janett F J 
Johnson Honev 
Jones Ethel (SF) 
Jordon I^eslle (Cl 
Jordon R 



Lee Jose 
L»» Roy Frances 
Leslie Bert 
Lester Hueh 
lister Bert 
l^evey Ethel <C) 
Lewis James R 
Lewis Harry 
Lewis Sidney (C) 
Llbonatl Jess 
Llnd Homer & Co 
Livingston Grace 



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ORPHEUM, BROOKLYN, NEXT WEEK, 



Oct. 26 



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A BIG HIT 



IN AMERI 

PALACE, CHICAGO, THIS WEEK (Oct. 19) 



Lockett Lou (C) 
Lockwood H 
London Louis 
Love Eddie 
Lowe Walter 
Luby Edna 
Lyle C 
Lytle Angus 



Mac Clennan K 
Mucin Ulan Stella 
Mathlnson M 
Magulre H 
Malle Ed 
Mallla Harry 
McNamara J 
Mansfield Dick 
Morgon W 
Marquem Pearl 
Martha Mile (C) 
Martin Frank (C) 
Maynard Harry (C) 
Martini Trolse (C) 
McConnell ft Slmson 

(C) 
McCoy Geo 
Melchert B 
Mercer V 
Meyers Charlotte 
Meyers Mamie 
Mllllsa Arthur 
Mohamad Ben 
Montgomery Ray 
Moore ft Qlbson 
Moran Esthey 
Moran Hazel 
Moran Pauline 
Morse Billy 
Mueller M 
Muller Oene 
Murphy Theo 

N 

Nadel Leo 
Nelson Ethle 
Netchman Bern'd XC) 
Newman W (SP) 
Nolan Andy (C) 
Nolan Louis 
Norton ft Lee (C) 
Norton Dixie 
Norton Ned 
Noyes Fred 
Nugent Arthur 



O'Brien Jeannette 
Okabe Family 
O'Neill Oaye 
Opp Joe 
Orth Frank 
Owens Mildred 



Page A McQrath 
Paka July 
Paka Toots 
Palmer Philip 
Pare Stanley 
Parker Florence 
Pantzer Ernest 
Pearson Harry 
Perry Harry 
Plsano General 
Pitson Mrs 
Pltson ft Daye 
Powers Mr A Mrs (C) 
Pressler Dolly 
Prior Ernest 
Pruitt BUI (C) 

Q 

Quirk Billy 

R 
Rafael Dave 
Ray ft HI I Hard 
Mand ft Reynolds 
Rhea Mme (C) 
Richards M 
Richards Wm 
Richardson Leander 
Richmond Dorothy 
Ring Trio 
Ritchie Billy 
Robeal Dave (C) 
Roberts J B 
Roberts (C) 
Rogers John 
Rogues Alphonse (C) 
Rogues A Floee (C) 
Rooney Julia 
Rose C M (C) 
Royal Jack 
Ryan Alice 



B 
Sampson ft Sampson 

(C) 
Samules Maurice 
Sanford Myrtle 
Saparo Henry 
Saunders Alex 
Sharp Lew 
Shaw Winn (C) 
Sheehan Lester 
Sikes Jane 
Sigler R C 
Simmons James 
Slevin James 
Sm II lata Sisters 
Smith CI ay to 
Smith Tonnle 
Smythe William 
Snyder Bud 
Spears Ama 
Spooner El 
Stefano (C) 
St George Jenny 
Stixk Clifford 
Stoddard ft Hynes 
Stover Glen (C) 
Stuart Marie 
Suits Anna (C) 
Syman Stanley 



Tallman L 
Tenneys Ernest 
Tennle Francis 
Terry ft Elmer (C) 
Thatcher Bob 
Thomas Billy 
Thompson Ray 
Thriller Harry 
Tiffany Maud 
Todd Jlmmie (C) 
Townshend Bee 
Trevor Ted 
Turner ft Grace 
Tyrrell J (SF) 

V 

Van Arthur 
Van Chas (C) 
Van Dell Harry 
Vsn Nally Elsie 
Vennette Leara (C) 
Vldorg William 

W 

Walby Louise 
Waldo Grace 
Wall Jimmy 
Wallace Jack (C) 
Wallace Vesta 
Wallner Earl 
Walls J (C) 
Walters Am Co (C) 
Walters A Murray (C) 
Wardell E 
Washburn Howard 
Weathford Tas 
Weber A Burns 
Werle Amil (C) 
Weston 
Wheeler Bun 
Wheeler Elsie (C) 
Wheeler Ed (C) 
Wheeler H 
White Gussie 
Wblteinan Edna 
Whlteck F 
Whitney F 
Wlggln Bert (C) 
Wilbur Clarence 
Wlllard Allle 
Wlllcox George 
Williams Lottie 
Will A Kemp 
Williamson Douglas 
Willis May 
Winner A Quirk 
Wllsh A Francis 
Wilson Virginia 
Wood Nellie (C) 
World Kingston 
Wright Nirk 
Wynne Manna 



Yarrick (C) 
Yates Betty 
Youir Mae 
Yoste Clifton (C) 
Yrebor 



Zimmerman A 
Zinn A (C) 
Zushell May 



(C) 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

Unlett otherwise noted, the f oDowmg report! are for the current week. 
W. REED DUMMY CHICAGO variety's Chicago office, 

In Char • ^ i ***^ a ^ mvr ^ r MAJESTIC THEATRE BUILDING 



Tiie Liittie theatre opened its doors Tues- 
day (or the season. 

Mme. Oadskl appeared In concert at the 
Illinois last Sunday. 



Watsons "Orientals" is the attraction this 
week at the Casino, on the north side. 

Lysle Moredlck is organizing a new act at 
Grant Park, 111., which will Boon be on the 
road. 



Mary Manning Nelson, assisted by Mary 
Hansen, will give a lecture recital In the Cax- 
ton Club rooms In the Fine Arts Building 
Saturday night, Oct. 24. 

Mrs. George Ade Davis is suing for a divorce 
and Is asking alimony and a division of prop- 
erty. Mr. Davis is a nephew of George Ade, 
the writer. 



A large party of agents, managers and 
others went to Champaign, 111., Monday to 
attend the opening 6f the new Orpheum, book- 
ed out of the "Association," by Sam Kahl. 

John and Mae Burke have purchased the old 
Judge George Gutries road house In the Flat- 
bush section of Brooklyn and will go Into 
business after the end of the present season. 

Rumors are rife that a new show will be 
offered in Chicago soon, to be called the "1914 
Revue of Chicago." The people who had 
"The Elopers" out are said to be the pro- 
prietors. 

Grace Kimball and Dick Arnold were mar- 
ried Oct. 10. Earl Taylor and Dick Arnold, 
after being apart two years, have joined 
hands once more and will go to Australia In 
March. 

Sir Johnstone Forbes- Robertson will start 
his farewell tour out of Chicago, Nov. 2, 
opening In Indianapolis. He will go to the 
Pacific Coast and after playing In Canada, 
will end his trip In Albany, N. Y., the latter 
part of Aprll._^_ 

AUDITORIUM (Bernard Ulrlch, mgr.).— 
John Bunny In "Funnyland" opened to good 



house last Saturday night. 

BLACKSTONE (Augustus Pitou, mgr.).— 
Sir Johnstone Forbes- Robertson In repertoire. 

COHAN'S (Harry Ridings, mgr.).— "Under 
Cover," meeting with popular favor. 

COLUMBIA (William Roche, mgr.).— Joe 
Hurtlg's "Bowery Burlesquers" opened Sun- 
day. 

CORT (U. J. Herrmann, mgr.).— "A Pair 
of Sizes," still a 1>lg magnet. 

CROWN (A. J. Kaufman, mgr.).— "The 
Winning of Barbara Worth." 

GARRICK (John J. Garrlty. mgr.).— "Peg o' 
My Heart," playing to good houses. 

ILLINOIS (Will J. Davis, Jr., mgr.).— 
"Lady Windermere's Fan," with Margaret 
Anglin, opened Monday night. 

IMPERIAL (Joe Pilgrim, mgr.).— "Fine 
Feathers " 

LA SALLE (Joseph Bransky, mgr.).— "One 
Girl in a Million," playing to good houses. 

NATIONAL (John P. Barrett, mgr.).— 
"Annie Laurie." 

OLYMPIC (George C. Warren, mgr.). — 
"Potash A Perlmutter," getting the biggest re- 
sults In town. 

POWER8' (Harry J. Powers, mgr.).— "The 
Yellow Ticket," with a second company near- 
ing the end of Its engagement. 

PRINCESS (Sam. P. Gerson, mgr.).— "To- 
day," getting better returns every week. 

STAR A GARTER (Paul Roberts, mgr.).— 
Burlesque. 

VICTORIA (Howard Brolaskl, mgr.).— "One 
Day." 

LITTLE THEATRE ( Maurice Browne, mgr. ) . 
"Sundry Lovers," opened Tuesday. 

COLONIAL (George Harrison, Marcus 
Loew) — Paul Stevens, a man with one leg, 
does a balancing act to open show. He gets 
over nicely. George Randall and Co., next, 
pleased. Harry and Anna Seymour have a 
neat singing and dancing act. Miss Seymour 
does a faithful imitation of Anna Held, and 
her soft shoe dancing is diverting. The act 
was one of the big nits of the show. Mad 
Miller, billed as the handcuff king, does some 
verj neat work. Miller went over fair. Archer 
and Carr, singing and talking, need new 
songs. The Ladrone Trio, skaters, do some 
fancy skating and pass easily. Gene Greene, 
headlined, and more than made good. He 



WARNING ! 

GEORGE H ARCOURT, GEORGE HARCOURT AND CO., or 
any combination with which GEORGE HARCOURT is connected, 
has forfeited all rights to present in vaudeville or elsewhere the 
one-act slang comedy 

"A MIDNIGHT APPEAL" 

By J. J. O'CONNOR 
Now being played at the 

HARLEM OPERA HOUSE (Oct. 22-23-24-25) 

By Mark Sullivan - Wm. Keough and Co. 

This act is copyrighted and any infringement will be legally 

prosecuted. 

{Mr. Ilarcourt has been formally notified that his right to present this sketch has been 

revoked by the owner of the copyright.) 



sang nine songs and was given a great re- 
ception. He hits home with "Poor Pauline," 
which he delivered with a great deal of 
unction. Beatrice McKenzie and Co. appeared 
in "The Anti-Climax." a comedy In which 
there are a few good laughs. Menetti and 
Sigelll, two ludicrous acrobats, funny. They 
i loaed the show and went over nicely. 

PALACE MUSIC HALL (Harry Singer, 
mgr.). — Corking good comedy bill with con- 
siderable class here and there, especially with 
Lina Abarbanell in headline position. Miss 
Abarbanell, who at one time was a grand 
opera star, still retains her style and Is thor- 
oughly interesting. The Le Grohs open with 
their European novelty. The act is unuusal 
in many respects. All three are acrobats, and 
they also have much comic ability. They 
started the bill with class and made a splen- 
did Impression. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Barry, 
in "The Rube," did not have a hard time to 
get into the good graces of the audience. 
Dunbar's Nine White Hussars, next, gave good 
satisfaction. Lew Hawkins, in blackface, had 
some new stuff and got the audience with 
him In no time. John and Mae Burke, hit It 
off big. This act always gathers a big har- 
vest of laughs. "Woman Proposes," the Paul 
Armstrong act seen here last summer, was 
much better In every way than formerly. The 
Spinette Quintet, billed as a novelty In black 
and white, offers many new features. The 
act Is well dressed and has a good draw. It 
is handicapped in closing position, after Llna 
Abarbanell works about 35 minutes. 



SAN FRANCISCO 

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SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE 

PANTAGES' THEATRE BLDG. 
Phone, Douglass 2213 

JACK JOSEPHS in charge. 



San Francisco, Oct. 21. 

ORPHEUM.— The Victor Moore-Emma Llt- 
tlefleld Co., appreciated ; Frank North and Co., 
big; Fredrlka Slemmons and Co., pleased; 
Lydell, Rogers and Lydell, well liked ; Rube 
Dickinson, well received. Of the holdovers, 
Kalmar and Brown opened, and with Chief- 
tain Caupollcan and the Morris Cronln act 
repeated successfully. 

EMPRESS.— Long Tack Sam's Shangtun 
mystery, delayed by quarantine, unable to 
open this week; Nell McKlnley, big hit; Dolly 
Richards and Joseph Sbriner, went well ; 
"Through the Skylight," well presented ; Mur- 
phy and Foley, opened the show acceptably ; 
Romaine and Orr, pleasing ; McClure and 
Dolly, closed successfully ; the Rondas Trio, 
cyclists, did nicely. 

PANTAGES.— The Ethel Davis Co. disclosed 
some ordinary numbers offered by the princi- 
pals and eight girls. There Is singing and 
talking throughout, but the turn develops no 
novelty Lolo. successful. Harry Cornell and 
Co. presented a 20-minute sketch, "The 
Crooks," with possibilities but showed lack 
of preparation. Gray and Peters, opening, dis- 
played cleverness. The Acme Four, good. 
Kelly and Catlln. pleased. The Alto Duo did 
not appear and in its stead appeared Early 
and Laight, with an entertaining line of songs 
and talk. 

CORT (Homer F. Curran, mgr.).— "Kitty 
MacKay" (second week). 

COLUMBIA (Oottlob, Marx ft Co., mgrs.).— 
George Arllss In "Disraeli" (first week). 

ALCAZAR (Belasco ft Mayer, mgrs.). — 
Stock. 

GAIETY (Tom O'Day. mgr.).— Kolb and 
Dill In "The Rollicking Girl" (second week). 

WIGWA»M (Joe. Bauer, mgr.).— Monte Car- 
ter Co. and vaudeville. 

PRINCESS (Bert Levey, leasee and mgr.; 
agt, Levey). — Vaudeville. 

REPUBLIC (Ward Morris, mgr.; agt, W. 8. 
V. A.).— Vaudeville 



Jerome and Carson, who are at present 
playing Rlckards' Circuit In Australia, fin- 
ish their tour and sail for home Nov. 24. 



Florence Mllone has been secured to suc- 
ceed Alice Fleming as leading woman at the 
Alcazar, opening her engagement Oct. 21. 

Maud Gray, who has been playing soubret 
roles with Kolb and Dill shows at the Gaiety, 
withdraws from the company this week. 



JIMMIES 



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season will begin on the afternoon of Oct 
23 at the Cort. 

"Chimmle" McFadden, known the world 
over as "The Big Noise" among newsboys, 
is laying plans to enter vaudeville this sea- 
son. 



The Industrial Fair opened at the Coliseum 
Oct 17. John Joy Robinson, assisted by 
Thalia Weed Newcomb, is one of the amuse- 
ment features. 



The W. S. V. A. has transferred the Abram- 
Johns Co. from the Hippodrome in Los An- 
geles to the Republic in this city. The ag- 
gregation play dramatic tabs. 



A three-act drama, entitled "The Voice 
Within," written by Herbert Bashford, will 
be produced In the near future by A. H. Mac- 
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Phil Hastings, the well known press agent, 
who went to the country some time ago to 
ward off a threatened attack of bronchitis, is 
back In town apparently In good health. 

"The Gods of the Mountains," a three-act 
symbolic play by Lord Dunsany, was pre- 
sented here at the Paul Elder Art Gallery 
Oct. 13, under the direction of Clara Alex- 
ander. 



Wl'l H. Cross of Cross and Darragh waa 
stricken with an attack of Hrlght's disease 
while playing in La Grande, Ore., on Oct. 4. 
At the time it was thought advisable to send 
for his sister, who lives In Chicago. It is be- 
lieved that Cross will return east with his 
Bister for a brief visit. 



Louis Dennlson, who was Richard Bennett's 
principal support in "Damaged Goods," but 
now a member of the Alcazar Stock, an- 
nounced that he will organize a western com- 
pany to play the Rrieux piece over the one 
night stands which were not touched by the 
original company In Its coast tour. 



"The Graven Image," a three-act drama, 
from the Joint pens of Adraln Matzger and 
Walter A. Rivers, had its first production on 
any stage at the Alcazar here Oct. 12. The 
play lacked the necessary requirements to put 
It over in the winning column. 



In order to urouse and maintain Interest, 
the P. P. I. E. Bureau of Exploitation pre- 
vailed upon the Italian Hemont to hold their 
annual Columbus Day festivities on the fair 
site, Sunday, Oct. 11. The program consisted 
af athletics, aquatic sports and n hugp page- 
ant depicting the landing of Columbus. .Vi.000 
people were attracted to the grounds during 
the day. 



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NIXON (Hurry lirown, mgr.) . --"Chocolate 
Soldier" (pictures). 

KEITH'S (('ha 1 -. O. Anderson, mgr.; U. P. 
O.).— Louise l>resser and Co. (new not), "A 
Turn of the Knob," Jos. E. Howard & Mabel 
McCane, went well ; Van and Sehenck, good ; 



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Edwin George, clever; Elsie Fay Trio, scored; 
Ford & DeWltt, went well at closing; Woods 
& Wyde, weak ; Alice De Oarmo, opened show. 
Savoy has closed for rehabilitation. 

Nixon will run, beginning Oct. 24, Columbia 
Burlesque attractions four days each week, 
beginning Sunday. 



Marie Dressier will open In her new show 
entitled "A Mix Up," Oct. 2«, at the Apollo. 

After the poor business at the beginning of 
last week for the legitimate theatres, due to 
the repeat attractions, the attendance at "Kick 
In" took a leap after the succes of the 
premiere performance. 



Keith's is rapidly becoming known as try- 
out house for new vaudeville acts. Over a 
half dozen have bad their premieres there In 
the past two months. 



Over five millions of dollars are being spent 
on new hotels In the resort, now under course 
of construction and reconstruction. Two new 
boulevards that will connect New York and 
Philadelphia with more direct routes than they 
now possess will add greatly to the touring 
car contingent that makes Atlantic City the 
week-end point of vantage. 

The Morris Guards, a crack military organ- 
ization of the resort, returned from their an- 
nual encampment Oct. 18. They are planning 
a theatrical production for the fall season. 

The old-fashioned dances look to be be due 
for a return. These dances which are held 
as part of the evening feature on one of the 

Biers are rapidly gaining favor. The Boston 
Ip Is a much-requested number. 

ATUNTA. 

By R. H. McCAW. 

FORSYTH (Hugh Cardoza, mgr.; agent, U. 
If. O.). — Winona Winter, scores; "Lawn 
Party," hit; Diamond & Virginia, go well; 
Fred Sosman, big ; Penderson Bros., good ; 
Hoen & Dupreece, applause ; Lawrence A Ed- 
wards, please. 

ATLANTA (Homer George, mgr.).— "The 
Midnight Girl," fair business. 

BIJOU (Jake Wells, mgr.).— Jewell Kelley 
Stock. 

COLUMBIA (James Roberts, mgr.). — Nat 
Haynes" Burlesquers. 

GRAND (Harry Hearn, mgr.; agent, U B 
O. ). — Feature films. 



The Jewell Kelley Stock company at the 
Bijou again threatens to close unless business 
Improves. 



May Lee of tho "Mutt and Jeff" (southern) 
and Ernest Dnnd of New York were married 
at Hendersonvllle, N. C. 



With tho death of Columbia Extended bur- 
lesque at the Lyric, local promoters have re- 
opened the Columbia with stock burlesque. 
The Columbia formerly played such nttriie- 
tlons but dwindled away. 

AUSTRALIA. 

Dy E. G. KMOX. 

Sydney. Sept 2fl. 
For some months now, Australia has been 
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BALTIMORE. 

By J. K. DOOLEY. 

MARYLAND (F. C. Schanberger, mgr.; 
agt., U. B. O.).— Eddie Foy and little Foys. 
Foy droll as usual but children hare Improved 
wonderfully ; Canter and Lee, much laughter ; 
Reglna Connelli and Co., clean comedy ; Melo- 
dious Chaps, real ability ; Bond and Carson, 
applause ; Eddie Howard, good ; Vera Berliner, 
selections do not appeal ; Crouch and Welch, 
fairly ; Aerial Budds, astound. 

VICTORIA (Pearce ft Scheck, mgrs. ; agts., 
N.-N). — Valerl Troupe, sensational; Lady 
Sem Nel, pleases ; Vlctorsen and Forrest, hit ; 
Kelly and Qalvln, funny ; Crepe and Co., en- 
joyed. 

NEW (George Schneider, mgr. ; agt., Ind.). 
—Dainty Diving Nymphs, pretty and shapely ; 
Sulltvan-Pasquillno Company, score ; Joe 
Brennan, humorous ; Verno and Castello, per- 
fect ease and grace ; Zella Morton, winsome ; 
Belzac and Baker, fair. 

FORD'S O. H. (Charles E. Ford, mgr.).— 
"Seven Keys to Baldpate." Flourishing busi- 
ness at beginning of week. 

ACADEMY OF MUSIC (Tunis F. Dean, 
mgr.).— Otis Skinner in "The Silent Voice." 
Excellent houses. 

AUDITORIUM (Wedgewood No we 11, mgr.). 
—Poll Players make good In "The Rose of the 
Rancho." Miss Grace Huff again wins laurels 
In the leading role. Business the same as 
ever. 

COLONIAL (C. F. Lawrence, mgr.). — 
"Bought and Paid For," draws large atten- 
dances. 

GAYETY (J. C. Sutherland, mgr.).— "Moor- 
ish Maids," has almost capacity houses at 
each performance. 

PALACE (W. L. Ballauf, mgr.).— Matt Ken- 
nedy and "The Liberty Girls." Receipts 
pretty large. 

HOLLIDAY STREET (Martin J. Dixon, 
mgr.). — "The Female Swindler." Has the 
usual fair-sized crowd. 



Anniversary week Is being celebrated at the 
Poll's Auditorium. The stock company has 
completed Its first year. 



The Palais de Dance, a new addition to 
the Suburban Winter Gardens, was opened 
Wednesday. Admission free. 



The Lincoln, which Is to be built shortly 
by the Mutual Amusement Co. on the site of 
the old African Methodist Episcopal Zlon 
Church, Pennsylvania avenue, between Hoff- 
man and Dolphin streets, will be equipped 
to furnish vaudeville ana pictures for col- 
ored people. It will have a seating capacity 
of 1.300. 



Joseph Bushee, a professional acrobat, was 
arrested last Friday charged with disorderly 
conduct The prisoner said he had arrived 
here from Havre de Grace, Md., where a cir- 
cus with which he was connected had dis- 
banded, and had met some friends with whom 
he had a few drinks. He was found asleep 
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BOSTON. 

By J. GOOLTZ. 

KEITHS (Robert G. Larson, mgr.; agt. 
U. B. O.). — Amelia Bingham carried the 
bouse by storm. The scenic Investiture was 
the subject of favorable comment Ma-Belle 
and her Ballet of eight did not go over espe- 
cially well. Jack Gardner went big. Llpin- 
sky's Dogs closed and went big, the shift 
from second from close being possibly ill- 
advised, and the audience had more than half- 
emptied a well filled Monday night house 
before It was appreciated that the act had 
unusual merit The remainder of the bill 
comprised Kingston and Ebner, going big; 
Ryan and Tlerney, a good act; Edward Par- 
rel and Co., fair farce seen here before; 
Shannon and Annls, and the Celtic Trio. 

LOEW'S GLOBE (Frank Meagher, mgr.; 
agt, Loew). — Receipts not up to the Loew 
standard but Is cutting into the Olympla and 
one or the other should have the capacity 
crowds within a month when the Bostonians 
make up their minds. 

LOEWS ST. JAMES (William Lovey, mgr.; 
agt, Loew). — House playing capacity and 
turning away big crowds week ends. 

LOEWS ORPHEUM (V. J. Morris, mgr.; 
agt. Loew). — Capacity and steady business. 
This is the fourth anniversary week and the 
house is splitting an especially good Loew- 
type bill with the St. James. 

NATIONAL (Charles Harris, mgr.).— "Ire- 
land : The Nation." Opened Monday night on 
a long chance with good crowds which may 
hold up. 

BIJOU (Harry Gustln, mgr.; agt, U. B. O.). 
— Pop vaudeville and reels. Corking busi- 
ness. 

PARK (dark). — Opens In a fortnight with 
pictures. 

BOWDOIN (Al Somerbee, mgr.; agt., U. B. 
O. ). — Small time vaudeville with big-time ad- 
vertising. Idea is effective and business 
great 

HOLLIS (Charles J. Rich, mgr.).— Frances 
Starr in "The Secret" Play knocked by 
critics roundly. Will do good business, 
nevertheless. 

COLONIAL (Charles J. Rich, mgr.).— Zleg- 
feld's "Follies" starting on last three weeks 
to biggest receipts in town. 

MAJESTIC (E. D. Smith, mgr.).— "To-day" 
on Its second week. Fair business and rated 
as "pretty good" show along the street 

WILBUR (E. D. Smith, mgr.).— William 
Hodge in "The Road to Happiness." Good. 

TREMONT (John B. Schoeffel, mgr.).— 
"Potash and Perlmutter." Holding up ex- 
ceptionally. 

BOSTON (William H. Leahy, mgr.).— 
Italian opera venture now looks like a good 
proposition, It being officially announced this 
week that there will be no Boston opera 
season. Newspapers have all flopped to 
Leahy's aid, as the performance is unusual 
at a $2.50 top. 

PLYMOUTH (Fred Wright mgr.).— 
"Wanted: $22,000" still picking up steadily 
and will probably prove a consistent winner. 

CORT (John E. Cort, mgr.).— "Peg" in 
for a run. 

CASTLE SQUARE (John Craig, mgr.).— 
Stock. "The Ne'er Do Well" this week to a 
rousing business, never having shown here. 

GRAND (George E. Lothrop, mgr.).— "Re- 
view of 1915." Fair. 

HOWARD (George E. Lothrop, mgr.).— 
The "A-uto Girl's" company. House bill 
headed by Irene West and her Hawaiian 
troupe. Capacity. 



CASINO (Charles Waldron, mgr.). — Rose 
Sydell's "London Belles." Good. 

GAIETY (George Batcheller, mgr.).— Al 
Reeve's "Beauty Show." Excellent 

The Loew houses found shortly after the 
opening of the Globe that there was a general 
opinion that the downtown houses were play- 
ing split weeks, and as a result some well- 
timed advertising was done explaining that 
the Loew houses near each other never played 
splits and that the public can go from one 
to the other In a single week and not only 
evade repeats but see acts new to Boston. 



The second annual ball of the Motion Pic- 
ture Exhibitors' League of Massachusetts is 
scheduled for the Boston Arena on the night 
of Nov. 18. The program la In charge of 
President Ernest H. Horstman assisted by 
Samuel Grant. The motion picture actors 
which proved the main drawing oard and 
money-making feature last year are being 
sought with even more vigor this year. 

BUFFALO. 

By CLYDB F. RBX. 

STAR (P. C. Cornell, mgr.).— Hazel Dawn 
makes her first bid for stellar honors in 
Buffalo, offering "The Debutante," a delight- 
ful new musical comedy. Although the young 
prima donna's role In this new play Is de- 
cidedly different from that in which she was 
last seen, her success was instant and the 
play greatly appreciated by Buffalo. Next: 
Lydla Lopokova, with Imperial Russian ballet, 
full week. 

TECK (John R. Olsher, mgr.).— Beautifully 
staged and featuring an all-star cast, "The 
Only Girl," first appearance here, la another 
of this week's attractions enjoying great pat- 
ronage. The production pleased beyond a 
doubt 26, "Pinafore," heavily advertised. 

SHEAS (Henry J. Carr, mgr.; agt, U. B. 
O). — Frank Fogarty, after an absence of sev- 
eral seasons, scored big hit; Bert Lamont 
and his Cowboys, did well ; Odlva, liked ; 
Tracey, Stone and Spink, clever; Max and 
Mabel Ford, entertained ; Claud and Fannie 
Usher, big ; Dunedln Duo, pleased ; DeWltt, 
Burns and Torrance, laughter ; "The County 
Chairman," 5 reels, concluded. 

LYRIC (O. S. Schlesinger, mgr.).— The 
Brownell-Stork stock, becoming more popular ; 
this week, In "The Woman In the Case," 
capacity business. Next "The Third De- 
gree." 

OLYMPIC (Charles W. Denzinger, mgr.; 
agt., Sun).— Edward de Corsia and Co., head- 
line, big ; Four Luclers, spectacular musical ; 
Downs and Gomez, classy ; Stewart Sisters, 
novelty; Dell and Dell, fair; "Million Dollar 
Mystery," feature film. 

GARDEN (W. F. Graham, mgr.).— "Taxi 
Girls," opened to packed house. Management 
greatly pleased with new attractions, which 
has again placed the house in its proper class. 

ACADEMY (Jules Michaels, mgr.; agt, 
Loew).— "The Line Up," in picture feature. 
Eight acts follow : Mabel, Florence and Beres- 
ford Lovltt, headlining; Taz Weatherford, 
good; Apollo and Polo, gymnastic novelty; 
Tyrolean Troubadours, please ; Ledegar, usual • 
Romaine, clever; Amy Fitzgerald, charming; 
La Rex and LaRex, good. 

GAYETY (J. M. Ward, mgr.).— "Columbia 
Burlesquers" opened well. Good show. 

MAJESTIC (John Laughlin, mgr.).— "The 
Blindness of Virtue." popular prices, good 
business. Next, "The Tenderfoot." 

REGENT (M. B. Schlesinger, mgr.).— Fea- 
ture pictures. 

PLAZA (Slotkln, Rosing ft Michaels, mgrs.; 
agts., McMahon ft Dee). — Whalen and West 



Trio, good; Whitney and Beyer, pleased; 

Field's and LaAdella, scored ; Five Musical 

Pikes, featured ; Williams and Ford, fair ; 

"Lemons," clever, and pictures. 

STRAND (Harold Edel. mgr.).— Pictures. 

Following "The Third Degree." week Oct 
20, the Brownell-Stork stock company, at the 
Lyric, announces that they will. Jump into 
musical comedy, first offering "Forty-five 
Minutes From Broadway." 



The new Mitchell H. Mark theatre, Victoria, 
one of the largest movie houses In the city) 
is nearing completion. Seating capacity, 2,- 
500. 



William Holmes, South Buffalo, Is erecting 
a picture theatre at Smith and Elk streets 
costing approximate $23,000 and seating 800! 

Sunday concerts, pictures, are proving suc- 
cessful at a number of theatres. No objec- 
tion yet by city officials. 



CLEVELAND. 

BY CLYDB B. ELLIOTT. 

COLONIAL (Robert McLaughlin, mgr.).- 
GYace George in "The Truth." Good business 

OPERA HOUSE (George Gardiner mgr ) — 
"The Little Cafe." Fair business only. Sho* 
not good. 

HIPPODROME (Harry Daniels, mrg.).- 
Headed by Neptune's Garden of Living Sta- 
tues. Fred J. Ardath A Co.. good; Meyako 
Girls, first time here, fair; Aranaut Brothers, 
good ; Ed. Morton, entertaining ; Conlin Steele 
Trio, fair; Klutlng's animals, some enjoy it 

MILES (Charles Dempsey, mgr.). — Robin- 
son's elephants, head pleasing bill ; J. K. Em- 
met- Viola Crance ft Co., hit; Gasch Sisters, 
fair ; Richmond ft Mann, very good ; Trovello 
fair; Parisee. clever entertainer. 

PRISCILLA (Proctor Seas, mgr.).— Billy 
Wyse and Co., good; Mayme Remington and 
Picks, fair; Uoyd Sabine and Co., good; 
Ursone and De Osta, applause; Welcome and 
Raven, strong; Marc Dale, fair. 

GORDON SQUARE.— Capt Tiebor's Seals, 
ordinary ; Moran-Gonsales Co.. good. 

METROPOLITAN (Fred Johnson mgr.).— 
Buckley and Halllday in "A Gentleman of 
Leisure." Big business and show hit 

PROSPECT.— "Maggie Pepper," good busi- 
ness. 

GRAND.— "Why Women Sin," opening week 
of new stock. Fair business. 

CLEVELAND.— Holden Players In "Beware 
of Men." Good business. 

™ S , TAR K. (C -v J \ KltU ' m 8 r -)— "The Roseland 
Girls," big business. 

EMPIRE (Bert McPhall, mgr.).— "Beautv 
Youth and Folly." Good business. 

DUCHESS (Al Comey, mgr.).— Pictures. Big 
business. " 



CINCINNATI. 

EMPRESS (George A. Movyer, mgr.; 
Loew).— Rose Troupe, Mellen ft De Paula, 
Purcella Brothers, Joe Kelsey, Brown A Jack- 
son, "Love In a Sanitarium." Pictures. 

KEITH'S (John F. Royal, mgr. ; U. B O ). 
— Pernlkoff ft Rose, fair reception ; Pealson ft 
Goldle, very large; The Three Lyres, big; 
Orapewin ft Chance, fine; Ryan ft Lee, good; 
Conroys Diving Models, well liked; Ray Sam- 
uels, popular; Roeder's Invention, first class. 

GRAND (Havlland ft Aylard, mgrs.- K t 
E).— "The Dummy," welcome. 25, "Queen of 
the Movies." 

LYRIC (D. C. Hubert Heuck, mgr.- Shu- 
bert).-"The Midnight Girl'; 25, "Kitty Mac- 
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WALNUT (Ben Probst, mgr. ; S-H.).— 
The Tenderfoot" ; 25, "Maggie Pepper." 

GERMAN (Amandus Horn, director; stock). 
-"Talfun" (Typhoon). 

GAYETY (Willis P. Jackson, mgr.).— 
Dreamland Burlesquers" ; 25, "Roaeland 
Iris." 

STANDARD (Charles Arnold, mgr.).— "day 
lornlng Glories" ; 25, "City Belles." 

OLYMPIC (Tom McCready. mgr. ; Progres- 
Ive). — "Darktown Burlesquers." held oyer 
unday. Rest of week, "Girls with the 
>reamy Eyes." 

John Bunny Is booked for two per- 
srmances, Sunday, Nov. 1. at the Grand, to 
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DETROIT. 

By JACOB SMITH. 

TEMPLE (C. G. Williams, mgr.; U. B. O.) 
-Irene Franklin & Burt Green, stellar hon- 
rs ; Jane Connelly & Co.. pleasing sketch 
lomfort & King, well liked ; Werner-Amoros 
b., diversified: Doc O'Neil, laughs; Lee ft 
ranston, excellent ; Bellclair Bros., splendid 
thietes ; Three Stddons, opened. 

MILES (C. W. Porter, mgr.; agent, Loew). 
A Night in Loveland," good tabloid ; Roy ft 
rthur, comedy jugglers Clark ft Rose, 
lever ; Mile. Canaille's Dogs, good ; Valentine 
'ox, ventriloquist. 

ORPHEUM (H. P. Williamson, mgr.; agent, 
antages). — Dunlap 6 Verdln, big; Quinn 
Yos. ft Drake, excellent dancers ; Five O'Con- 
ior Sisters, refined singers ; "Stage-Struck 
[ids," gingery ; Alpha Troupe, skillful hoop- 
oilers : Malumby ft Musette, pleased ; Zampa 

Zampa, musical. 

FAMILY (J. H. McCarron, mgr.; U. B. O.). 

Bob Warren, good monologist ; Kane ft 
[ane. acrobats ; Martini ft Troise. character 
rtists ; George Richards ft Co., comedy 
tetch ; Babv Zelda. clever imitations ; Adeline 
>»»ntt Trio, "good : Tanean ft Claxton, novelty 
luslclans ; Two Franks, good balancers. 



COLUMBIA (M. W. Schoenherr. mgr.; 
agent, Sun). — Alice Day, pleased; Sauls ft 
Rockwood, talented; Minstrel Billy Clark, 
Rood ; "Fun on the Playground," excellent ; 
Hague ft Bennett, good ; Abe ft Marks A Co., 
splendid ; Dexler-Fox Trio, good ; Luola Blais- 
dell ft Co., novelty. 

NATIONAL (C. R. Hagedorn, mgr.; agent, 
Doyle).— Arthur Angel A Co., in musical tab- 
loid, "The Trlflers," replaces six acts of vau- 
deville, was a big bit and has been retained 
for another week with change of comedy and 
songs Fitzslmmons ft Cameron, hit ; Stroud 
Trio, applause ; Loftus A Loftus, comedy 
sketch ; Gene A Katheryne King, excellent 
Two Georges, comedy acrobats ; Marie Dreams, 
popular. 

PALACE (C. A. Hoffman, mgr. ; Ind.). — 
Grace Wasson. contortionist ; George A Ves- 
tino, clever ; Alma Russell, strong sketch ; 
Berri A Wilhelml, hit ; Cofarth A Doyle, good ; 
La Volos, pleased ; Bombay Deer Foot, well 
liked ; Sadie Whiting, pleased ; The Ainsleys, 
.novelty; Sidney Shepherd A Co.. good sketch; 
Milton Trio, good ; George A George, pleased. 

(JARRICK (Richard H. Lawrence, mgr.).— 
Sam Bernard in "The Belle of Bond Street. 
Big business. Next, "The Midnight Girl." 

DETROIT (Harry Parent, mgr.).— Miss Bll- 
lie Burke in "Jerry." Next week, "The Little 
Cafe." 

GAYETY (James Rhodes, mgr.).— "Oayety 
Girls." 

CADILLAC (Sam Levey, mgr.).— "The 
Garden of Girls." 

FOLLY (Hugh Shutt. mgr.).— Stock bur- 
lesque. 

BROADWAY (Bert St. John, mgr.).— 
"Sapho." Next week, "Whose Baby Are You?" 

LYCEUM (A. R. Warner, mgr.).— "Help 
Wanted." Next week, "The Blindness of Vir- 
tue. 



Eddie Murphy, assistant manager of the 
Columbia, will leave Nov. 1 to assume the 
management of the Majestic theatre, Saginaw, 
owned by Col. Butterfleld. 



It is reported Jess Dandy will again be 

starred by Henry W. Savage. The comedian 

is slated, it is said, to appear In a new play 
late in the season. 



LOS ANGELES 

VARIETY'S 
LOS ANGELES OFFICE 

3M MASON OPERA HOUSE BLDC. 

GUY PRICE, Correspondent 



Lucretla Del Valle Is again star in the Mis- 
sion Play, "California's Oberamergau." 



Harry Overton, former well known theatrical 
man. Is here for the winter. 



Jack Lalt. here last week "ahead of Harry 
Lauder." will return In five weeks to direct 
the production of his new play, "The Bo- 
hemian," which will fly the Morosco banner 



Sam Rork, local Gaiety manager, Is back 
from New York. He brought a new cast to 
go Into the Morosco for "The Red Widow." 



Frank Wolf and Shirley Lewis, heading an 
organisation of players, are playing at San 
Luia Oplspo. In the aggregation are Allyn 
Lewis, Jamea F. Abbott, Billy Bevana, Frank 
Budd, J. Lola Norris, Fay Lewis and ten 
chorua girls. 

Harry Jamea la directing the musical re- 
hearsals for the new Gaiety production, "The 
Red Widow." 



Raoul Laparra. a French composer, is here 
writing an opera. 



Thomas Jones Is down from the Tivoli In 
San Francisco to direct for the Gaiety com- 
pany. 



Bert Levey, down from San Francisco for a 
few days, 1b instituting a new policy at the 
Republic. Motion pictures will be a feature 
with vaudeville, the two probably splitting the 
program fifty- fifty. 



Myrtle Dingwall Is to appear aa prima donna 
in a coming Morosco production. 



Morgan Wallace and wife have gone to New 
York. Wallace recently resigned from the 
Keystone. He Is well known as an actor on 
the "leglt" stage. 



Marguerite Clark will be starred here by 
Morosco. 



William Morris leaves Monday for New 
York. 






Eddie Wheeler. Jacob Ashby, Joe Quakers 

and Dan Akers have formed a quartette and 
are at the Hotel Grlswold. 

In the failure of an automobile accessory 
store on Woodward avenue, May Irwin Is listed 
as one of the creditors, at $675. 



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Miles Overholt has written a sketch, "The 
Empress of the Elements," for Madame Lora 
Bena, for Pantages circuit. 



William H. Clifford, author of "Mr. Alla- 
dln" and other plays, and Billy I^oralne, com- 
poser of "Peggy from Paris," have formed 
an alliance to produce several musical come- 
dies. 

ORPHEUM (Clarence Drown, mgr. ; U. B. 
0.). — Arnold Daly and Co., well received; 
"Lasky's Beauties," went big ; Flavllle, pleas- 
ing ; Burkhart and White, pleasing ; lamed, 
exceptionally good ; Boland and Holtz, enter- 
taining ; Cole and Denahy, artistic ; Reisner 
and Gores, clever act. 

EMPRESS (George Pish. mgr. ; Loew). — 
Neptune's Nymph's, cleverly done ; Avellng 
and Lloyd, big laugh ; Devey and Faber, very 
good ; Sawn, fair ; Laurie and Aleen, enter- 
taining; Miller, Moore and Gardner, pleasing. 

PANTAOE8 (Carl Walker, mgr. ; Pantages). 
— "The Night Hawks," scored ; Palfrey, Bar- 
ton and Brown, clever trio ; Meryl and Reba, 
entertaining; Dave Woods' Animals, amuse 
everybody ; Quintan and Richards, pleasing. 

REPUBLIC (Al. Watson, mgr.- Levey).— 
Dixie Southern, fine ; A. Fred Roberts, pass- 
able ; Fernandez and May. mediocre ; Du Bell 
and Van, pleasing ; Pearson and Illmer, pass- 
able. 

HIPPODROME (Lester Fountain, mgr.; 
Western States). Webb's Seals, Interesting; 
Casting Lameys, clever; Frankle Murphy, • 
well received ; Abram and John, very good ; 
Maley and Mack, fair ; Parson and Parson, 
mediocre ; Russell and lone, fair. 

CENTURY (A. and M. Loewen. mgrs.). — 
Musical burlesque and vaudeville. 



Received a letter from Mr. HershAeld, of the New York Evening Journal, asking me to 
apologise for the advertisement in "Variety** of October ltth, stating that I did not have 
his permission In writing or verbal promise regarding the use of the title of "Abie the 
Agent** in any form of advertising whatsoever. Mr. Hershfteld came to see me twice during 
my engagement on the Loew Circuit and complimented me very highly on my impersona- 
tion ©I "Able the Agent** character, and even suggested waya of Improving same. We even 
had a talk regarding a possible future show. 

Through a misunderstanding, however, I used the title of the character "Abie the 
Agent" in my advertiaing. Aa yet I have no rights to the same in any form, and hereby 
wish to apologia* to the Evening Journal and Mr. Herahfield. 



(Signed) JOS. K. WATSON 



ing ; Gray ft Wilson, good ; Lessle ft Anita, 
clever. 

DAVIDSON (Sherman Brown, mgr.; agent 
Ind.).— "Within the Law," first half, to good 
business. Flske O'Hara follows Thursday. 

SHUBERT (C A. Niggemeyer. mgr.). — Bhu- 
bert Theatre Stock In "Madame Sherry" to big 
houses. 

OAYETY (J. W. Whitehead, mgr- agent, 
East). — Geo. Stone and "Social Maids. ' Busi- 
ness good. 

CLUB (Rod Waggoner, mgr.; agent. Prog.) 
—Harry Fields and "Moulin Rouge Girls.' 
Capacity opening. 

NEW ORLEANS. 



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Care of VARIETY, Htw York 



By O. M. SAMUELS. 

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MAJESTIC (James A. Hlgler, mgr.; agent. 
Orph.). — 'The Green Beetle." fine; Harry 
Breen. big: 'The Broken Mirror." excellent; 
Grace Ln Rue. Immense hit : Mile. Mary on 
Vadle, pleased ; Santley * Norton, registered 



Passeri's Band 



Greatest eccen- 
tric vaudeville 
director. 

Open Fox Circuit Oct. 26 



Assisted by LILY SHEAFFER In popular songs 



TULANE (T. C. Campbell, mgr.).— DavW 
Warfleld In "The Auctioneer." 

CRESCENT (T. C. Campbell, mgr.). — Emma 
Bunting in "Girls." 

LYRIC (C. D. Peruchi. mgr.).— Peruchi- 
Gypcene Players ln "Arizona." 

HIPPODROME (Jake Miller, mgr.).— Vau- 
deville. 

ALAMO (Will Guerlnger, mgr.).— Vaude- 
ville 

Albert L. Sands, manager of Barnes' Circus 
was fined $50 for violating the Child Laboi 
Law, which does not permit of youngster* 
engaging professionally ln acrobatics. 

Local alrdomes will use wind shields ovei 
the winter. 



Maurice Barr Is the literary falwifler at the 
Bunting. 



easily; Australian McLeans, fair; "Evolution 
of Europe," opened. 

CRYSTAL (William Gray, mgr.; agent, 
Loew). — Lida McMillan, excellent; Bessie's 
Cockatoos, interesting ; Alma Grace, fine ; Ed- 



wards Bros., comedy honors ; Three Lorettas, 
big. 

ORPHEUM (T. H. Ealand, mgr.; agent, 
Loew). — Thomas Brantford, fine; Penn City 
Trio, appreciated ; Alvorado's Goats, interest- 



Pi-rcy Barbat. who has been peeved be- 
cause of Inability to find out Othello's lasl 
name, Is going to "shake" 8hakespeare an<! 
take stock engagements. 

Joe Alloy, property man at the Orpheum 
was married last week. 



Tony Kennedy, EUwood Benton, Mae Clark 
Beulah Benton and other members of tin 



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Manager, Promoter and Producer of Voudovlllo Acts 
fta Floor, PUTNAM BUILDING, NEW YORK 

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"Glue Ribbon Belles," which closed recently, 
are presenting stock burlesque at the Orand, 
Birmingham, with success. As a concession 
to the I. A. T. S. B. and Musical Federation, 
the choristers will wear union suits. 



"The Midnight Girl" comes to the Tulane 
next week, at which time "Too Many Cooks" 
starts the Crescent's regular theatrical term. 



May Harvey and Rose Qulnn Joined the 
"Tango Queens" here. 



Apprised that the price of carbon had risen, 
Herman Flchtenberg, the picture magnate, 
said : "I should worry. No new-fangled ideas 
in my office. I've always stuck to the old 
letter press." 

ORPHEUM (Arthur White, mgr. ) .—York's 
Canines delightful opener ; Lancton, Lucier 
Co. and Chadwick Trio proved obstreperously 
amusing ; Klmberly & Mohr, did nicely ; 
Mercedes, tremendously successful ; Laddie 
Cliff, engaging ; Australian Woodchoppers, 
splendidly received. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 

By JOHN J. BURNBS. 

KEITHS (Harry T. Jordan, mgr.; agent. 
U. B. O.) — The bill Monday night moved 
smoothly, being well balanced, with comedy 
predominating. Headlined was Adeline Oenee 
who registered a hit with her classic dances. 
The Kramers, opening, showed nothing new 
and their efforts were unsuccessful. Harry 
B. Lester, Impersonating stage celebrities, was 
slow In starting, but well received at close. 
The comedy was started by Frank Milton and 
De Long Sisters. Roxy La Rocca, harpist, 
popular. Edwin Stevens and Tina Marshall 
got over big. Bronson and Baldwin, one of 
the hits in songs and dances, followed by 
Genee, who was assisted by Serge Lltavkin 
and Vera Vanonl. Character songs by Willie 
Weston won applause and the Gaudsmidts also 
did well. 

GLOBE (Willie Orelner, mgr.; agent, U. B. 
O.). — Billed as a surprise act, a comedy song 
and dance team, stout man and a slim girl, 
who were recognized as a big time act. cleaned 
up all the honors on the bill at the Globe 
Monday afternoon. The house was good. 
Hovt's "A Dream of the Orient" with Madame 
Makarenko featured also went big. High 
Lloyd and Co . rope walker, opened and was 
liked ; Hong Fong. Chinese comedian, received 
applause : Warren and Francis, hit : Guy 
Bartlett Trio, singers, well received ; and Pot- 
ter Hartwell and Co., closing, drew laughs 
with scnsntlnnal comedy acrobatics. 

KEYSTONE (M. W. Taylor, mgr. ; agt. U. 
B. O.). — Frank Bush had the audience In hys- 
terics Tuesday afternoon. He carried away 
both laugh and applause honors with ease. 
Henrietta Wilson, rifle shot, opened, and 
pleased with her markmanship although her 
comedy did not have much effect. Baby Ann, 
Juvenile character singer, big. Evans and 
Vldoc. comedians, were appreciated. Hoey 
and Mozart, well liked. Gordan and Rica, 
cyclist, eloslnsr. scored big. 

WILLIAM PENN.— Felix and Barry Girls; 
Whitfield and Ireland: Alexander Kids; Val- 
eno and La More: Amoras Sisters. 

BROADWAY.— Chung Hwa Comedy Four; 
Harry Brook and Co. ; Spencer and Williams ; 
Dolly and Mack; the Mosconys ; Rex Comedy 
Circus. 

NIXON. — "The Buyer From Pittsburgh ;" 
the Boutons ; Merano Brothers: Maglln, Eddy 
and Roy ; Bill Foster ; Bert and Mack. 



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GRAND — Barney Ollmore; Tlerney Four; 
William E. Bence and Co. ; La Salle and Ray- 
monde ; the Great La Keillors ; Seymour's 
Happy Family. 

COLONIAL.— First half: "Woman's Jus- 
tice;" Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thomas; Amedlo; 
Owley Randall; Green and Parker; second 
half : Mme. Hermann ; Joseph Kettler and 
Co. ; Kennedy and Hart ; the Wheelers ; James 
J. O'Brien. 

KNICKERBOCKER— First half: Sam Mann 
Players ; Heramer and Prltchard ; Lester Trio ; 
Sabrey Dorsell ; the Aerial Vails ; Harry 
Temple ; second half : Eddie Foley ; American 
Comedy Four ; Gertrude Cogert ; Wolgaat and 
Girlie; Carter and Brazdan. 

FORREST.— Premiere of "Papa's Darling" 
Monday night. Capacity house. Will stay 
here two weeks. 

ADELPHI— "A Pair of Sixes," capacity 
Monday night at opening here and enthusi- 
astically received. 

BROAD— Mrs. Fiske in "Lady Betty Mar- 
tingale, or the Adventures of a Lively Hussy," 
began Its second week and has aroused only 
a little interest. Oct. 26, Fannie Ward in 
"Madame President" for one week. 

OARRICK— Second week of "The Yellow 
Ticket" began Monday to fair house. 

LYRIC. — "The Passing Show" has been 
cleaning up and Is in Its final week here. Oct 
2rt. "Whirl of the World." 

LITTLE. — Opened for the season Monday 
with "Arms and the Man" for two weeks with 
resident company. Capacity house. 

WALNUT.— "Way Down East" was greeted 
by a good house Monday, opening for the week 
it popular prices. Oct. 26, Eugenie Blair In 
"A Fool There Was" 

LIBERTY.— "Love's Model" began Monday 
night for the week with revised prices for 
the house, at 50 cents top. Business here 
has been off lately. Oct. 26, "Rebecca of 
Sunnybrook Farm." 

ORPHEUM.— Capacity Monday night with 
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ; for the week 
Oct. 26. "Bringing Up Father." 

EMPIRE— Billy Watson and his "Big 
Show." opened well. Oct. 26, "The Winning 
Widows." 

TROCADERO.— "The Broadway Girls" drew 
well Monday afternoon. Oct. 26, "Fay Foster 
Company." 

GAYETY. — "The Tempters," average house 
at opening Monday afternoon. Charles Baker, 
yodler. "The Girl In Scarlet," added at- 
traction. Oct. 26, "Girls From the Follies." 

CASINO— "The Gypsy Maids." opened Mon- 
day to good house. Oct. 26, "Town Ta tiers." 



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AMERICAN.— Stock company in "The Melt- 
ing Pot.*' Oct. 20. "Why Women Sin." 

DUM0NT8. -Stock minstrels In topical bur- 
lesques. 

Fred G. .Nlxon-Nlrdllnger figured In the real 
estate news last week through the purchase as 
a resldenre of a large house at 320 South 
Forty-sixth street. 



The Blue Bird, an attraotlvely designed pic- 
ture house, situated In a fine residential dis- 
trict at Broad street snd Susquehsnns ave- 
nue, opened Friday afternoon with "The Man 
of the Hour." 



The Windsor, a picture house, at Kensing- 
ton avenue. Womrath street and Frankford 
avenue, with a seating capacity of 1,100 has 
heed sold by the Windsor Theatre Co. to 
John J. McGurk and Abe and Louis Bablosky. 
The price, subject to a mortgage of $20,000. 
was not disclosed The building Is assessed 
at $30,000. 

Work has been started on a $20,000 picture 
house at Allegheny avenue east of Front 
Ktreet for Jacob Rldgeway. The building Is to 
he 00 by 114 feet on a lot with a 70-foot front. 



Joseph C. Engel, of the Philadelphia- 
Chicago Opera Co., will stage the production 
of "Carmen," to be given by the Philadel- 
phia Operatic Society, an amateur organisa- 
tion at the Academy of Music Oct. 28. 



David Levlnson, of the Yiddish company 
playing at the Arch street theatre, was 
trimmed for $17.% Monday night In the Ten- 
derloin. He caused the arrest of a girl, who 
was held under ball. 



Paramount pictures have replaced one vau- 
deville act on the bill at the William Penn. 
The house Is now playing five and Is billing 
the pictures heavily. 



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In the past several weeks a number of so-called "original" comic cyclists have boon advertising ridiculous claims as to the "originality" of their respec- 
tive offerings, particularly one PALFREY, BARTON and BROWN, at present working out west. 

In order to eliminate the possibility of any misunderstanding as to who really originnted the material referred to, it might be consistent to record 
the following facts: 

In 1900THE GREAT JOE BARTON originated the comedy cycling routine with Frank Armstrong (now Chick of Chick and Chicklets). This routine 
has been copied, stolen, imitated and attempted by a large number of comedy cycling acts now in vaudeville. Furthermore, a great many cyclists have 
adopted the name of BARTON, which adds to the confusion now prevailing. 

There is only ONE ORIGINAL BARTON. 

That is THE GREAT JOE BARTON, now working alone, all other "Bartons" notwithstanding. 



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GRAND (Harry Davis, mgr.; agent, U. B. 
O.).— Bickel A Watson, hit; Courtney Sisters, 
scored ; "Colonial Days," excellent ; La Toy 
Brothers, good openers ; Devine A Williams, 
funny; Allan Dinehart & Co., clever; Five 
Manchurians, good ; Three Leightons, good ; 
McLellan ft Carson, class. 

MILES (Harry Woods, mgr. ; Loew). — 
(Opening week.) — Royal Pekinese Troupe, 
headline, hit; James J. Morton, big laugh; 
Howard's Animals, good ; Bell Boy Trio, excel- 
lent ; Ogden Quartet, scored Frank Stafford 
ft Co., pretty. 

HARRIS (C. R. Buchhelt, mgr.; U. B. O.). — 
Dr. McDonald, headline, scream ; "Candy Store 
Girls," good ; Mitchell Trio, clever ; Leonard 
A Haley, neat ; The Touheys, scored ; Musical 
Chef, fair ; Moore ft Jenkins, laugh. 

SHERIDAN SQUARE (Frank H. Tooker, 
mgr.; agent, U. B. O). — Hardeen, headline, 
bit; Jane Heston ft Co., scored; Bauer Trio, 
excellent ; William Mackay ft Co., laugh ; 
Frank Gabay, good ; Luce ft Luce, novelty. 

NIXON (Thos. Kirk, Jr., mgr.).— Eva 
Tanguay drew full house and was applauded. 
26. "The Misleading Lady." 

ALVIN (J. P. Reynolds, mgr.).— "High 
Jinks" filled the house. 26, Grace George in 
"The Truth." 

LYCEUM (Chas. Wilson, mgr.).— "The Call- 
ing of Dan Matthews," drew big. 26, "Bought 
and Paid For." 

8CHENLEY (Harry Davis, mgr.; stock).— 



Nance O'Neil scored in "Magda." 26, "The 
Lily." 

GAYETY (Henry Kurtzman, mgflr.).— 
"Rosey Posey Girls" drew big house. 26, 
"Happy Widows." 

VICTORIA (George Gallagher, mgr.). — 
'The Charming Widows" charmed a full 
house. 26. "Beauty, Youth and Folly." 

ACADEMY (Harry J. Smith, mgr.).— 
"Darktown Follies" drew big bouse. 

The automobile show in Motor Square Gar- 
den opened Saturday and is drawing thousands 
daily. 



PORTLAND, ORE. 

RY It B. ANION. 

HEIL1G (W T Pangle. mgr.).— Week 11, 
De Wolf Hopper and the Gilbert and Sullivan 
Opera Co. 

BAKER (Geo. L. Baker, mgr.).— Week 11. 
"Paid in Full." Next, "Broadway Jones." 

PANTAGES (J. A. Johnson, mgr.). — Week 
12, Frank "Slivers' Oakley, opened; SUber 
and North, laughs : Wm. Shilling ft Co., well 
acted ; Bell Trio, fine ; Webber's Juvenile Or- 
chestra, hit. 

EMPRESS (W. H. Plerong, mgr.; Loews). 
— Week 12, Caits Bros., good ; Wilson and 
Wilson, laughs ; Morris and Beasley, pleased ; 
Oddone, hit ; Kitty Francis and her "Widow's 
League," hit; Montrose and Sydell, very good. 
Good business. 

LYRIC (Dan Flood, mgr.).— Week 11, "Lit- 
tle Miss Wise." 



SPOKANE. 

BY JAMBS ■. ROTOE 

AUDITORIUM (Charles York. mgr. ; agent, 
N. W. T. A.)— 7-21, pictures; 5-6, De Wolf 
Hopper. 

LOEWS (Joseph Muller, mgr.; agent, di- 
rect).— Week 11, Blanche Leslie, delighted; 
Patricola ft Myer, counted ; Polzln Bros., got 
little; Wheeler and Curtis, distinct hit; Gray 
and Graham, pleased ; "School Days," still a 
winner. 

PANTAGES (E. Clarke, mgr.; agent, direct). 
—Week 11, Two Kerns, good ; Walter Terry 
and Girls, popular ; La Touralne Four, good ; 
Laraway and Moore, local and big reception ; 
Gardner and Revere, comedy hit ; Five Mo- 
watts, whirlwind. 

SPOKANE (Sam. W. B. Conn, mgr.; agent, 
Fisher).— Week 11, Miller and Walker. Rus- 
sell and Russell. Colonel Seymour ; 2d half, 
Smith's Barnyard Circus, Arthur Lynn, Miller 
and Walker. 



The loss of $110 in cash and her wedding 
ring from a dressing room at Loew's was re- 
ported to the police by Mrs. Roy Mack (Dor- 
othy Aubrey), one of the performers In Gus 
Edwards' "School Days." 

WANTED — Young, good-looking male dancer, 

with first-class engagement as partner for 
young lady, 5 ft. 4 in. Experienced society, 
whirlwind and ballet dancer. Attractive ab- 
earance, personality am. wardrobe. Address, 
rofessional, VARIETY, New York. 



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TORONTO. 

By HARTLEY. 

ROYAL ALEXANDRA (L. Soloman, mgr. 

"Pinafore" opened to capacity audience 24 
Sam Bernard. 

PRINCESS (O. B. Sheppard, mgr.).— Mau 
"The Legend of Lenora," score 
well with large attendance. 

GRAND (A. J. Small, mgr.).— "Mutt an 
Jeff in Mexico. 26, Thurston. 

SHEAS (J. Shea, mgr.; agent, U. B. O.).- 
Fox ft Dolly, went strong ; Grace DeMai 
fetching ; Boganny's Lunatic Bakers, scream 
Nick's Roller Skating Girls novel ; Joe Cook 
entertaining ; La Crandall, pleased ; Grea 
Golden Troupe, a success ; De Micnele Bros 
well received ; Haviland ft Thornton, clever. 

LOEWS YONGE STREET (J. Bernsteir 
mgr.; agent, Loew).— "Ye Old Tyme Hal 
loween," hit ; Crawford ft Broderlck, ver; 
good ; Stuart Black ft Co., winner ; Dolce Sis 
ters, pleased ; Juggling De Lisle, novel ; D 
Witt & Stewart, good ; Barnes ft Barron, in 
terested ; Daisy Darts, good. 

SHEA'S HIPPODROME (A. C. McArdU 
mgr.; agent, U. B. O.).— Arthur Huston ft Co. 
success ; Tbe Prescotts, fine ; Rose ft Seven 
pleased ; King ft King, clever ; Dlnyle ft Cor 
coran entertaining ; Jack Kennedy ft Co 
scored ; Pierce ft Roslyn, good. 

GAYETY (T. R. Henry, mgr.; Columbi 
No. 1).— "Ginger Girls." 

STAR ( Dan F. Pierce, mgr. ; Columbia Nc 
2) —"The French Models." 



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LEXINGTON AVE. OPERA HOUSE 
GOING INTO POP. VAUDEVILLE 



Frank A. Keeney and Walter Rosenberg Forming Corporation 

to Take Over Property from Oscar Hammerstein. If 

Closed, Possession Passes Immediately. 

House Seats 2,700. 



Oscar Hammerstein's Lexington 
Avenue opera house may shortly shift 
its policy from the present feature 
film performance, to pop vaudeville, 
i f the plans of Frank A. Keeney and 
Walter Rosenberg are brought to a 
successful consummation. 

Messrs. Keeney and Rosenberg were 
on the verge yesterday of taking over 
the opera house, forming a corpora- 
tion to operate it, and taking posses- 
sion at once, placing a vaudeville show, 
Looked through Harry A. Shea, in the 
Hammerstein property by Nov. 9. 

The opera house seats 2,700. It is 
located at Lexington avenue and 50th 
rtrcct. From a vaudeville standpoint, 
ii would be opposition to the Plaza 
(Moss & Brill) at Madison avenue and 
59th street, and Protcor's 58th Street 
house. 

Mr. Shea is at present booking the 
Keeney and Rosenberg out of town 
theatres playing vaudeville. 

Mr. Hammerstein recently stated he 
wanted $75,000 annual rental for the 
Lexington avenue edifice, built orig- 
inally for grand opera. It has done 
a fair business with a picture show 
since opening late in August. 



VERDICT KILLED IT. 

The jury who disagreed as to the 

guilt of Mrs. Florence Carman, tried 

in Nassau County last week for the 

murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey, came 

perilously near providing Loney Has- 

call with a sensational headliner for 

Hammerstein's. 

Just previous to the announcement 
of their verdict arrangements had been 
settled for Mrs. Carman's appearance 
at Hammerstein's. When the jury 
disagreed, Mrs. Carman's family called 
the proposition off. 



Placing "Watch Your Step." 

The Charles B. Dillingham show, 

"Watch Your Step," when completed, 

may find a New York home at the 

Knickerbocker theatre. It depends 

upon the success of "Papa's Darling" 

at the Amsterdam. Provided that fails 
to get over, "The Girl from Utah" may 
be removed from the Knickerbocker to 
the Amsterdam, though there is a 
chance Dillingham's newest show may 
go direct to the Amsterdam. 



REMICK RESIGNS. 

.1. II. Remick. representing his firm 
v f J. H. Remick 8r Co., the music pub- 
lishers, resigned Thursday from the 
American Society of Authors. Com- 
posers and Publishers. 

It is the society that recently noti- 
fied restaurants and cabarets in New 
York and vicinity they could not play 
copyrighted music published by mem- 
1 ers, without paying royalty to the 
society. 

Remick & Co. is also of the Music 
Publishers' Board of Trade, a separate 
organization. 



WEBER CASE SETTLED. 

The suit against the Columbia 
Amusement Co., brought by L. Law- 
rence Weber for an alleged breach of 

contract by the company at Schenec- 
tady, N. Y., was settled out of court 
Wednesday. 



"COUNTRY GIRL" REVIVED. 

(Special CabU to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 29. 
* revival of "The Country Girl" was 
staged at Daly's y. sterday (Oct. 28). 
The piece went ovei successfully. 



The OFFICIAL NEWS of the 

WHITE RATS ACTORS' UNION and 
ASSOCIATED ACTRESSES OF AMERICA, 



as formerly printed 
exclusively in 

appears on page 8 of this issue. 



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TANGUAY WITH UNITED. 

Eva Tanguay, whose "Miss Tabasco" 
piece closed last week after a short sea- 
son, has adjusted her differences with 
the United Booking Offices and will 
open at Keith's, Boston, Nov. 9, for a 
tour of the circuit. 

It is the first U. B. O. date for Miss 
Tanguay since she left the big time two 
seasons ago to promote her own vau- 
deville road show. 

Johnny Ford will open a producing 
office in New York and proposes to 
launch a number of girl acts now in 
preparation. 



"MR. WIT DISAPPOINTS. 

"Mr. Wu,"" the piece in which Walk- 
er Whiteside is starring at the Elliott 
and which was expected to prove a 
sensational drawing attraction, has 
proven a disappointment for its pro- 
ducers. 

The receipts last week were in the 
neighborhood of $4,200, the average 
nightly business running around $600 
with Saturday pulling over the total. 

Henry Savage, Walter Floyd and 
Mr. Whiteside each have a third in- 
terest in the attraction. 



MARINELLI BACK TO U. B. 0. 

The action for damages against the 
United Booking Offices and others, 
instituted a year or more ago in the 
U. S. court by H. B. Marinelli, was 
discontinued Wednesday, when Mari- 
nelli again commenced booking with 
the agency. 

It is said that in the settlement un- 
derstanding with the United, Mari- 
i-elli is to have the exclusive repre- 
sentation of the U. B. O. and Orpheum 
Circuits for international turns. 

In pursuance of this arrangement, 
according to report, Marinelli will 
reach an agreement with W. Passpart, 
who has been the Orpheum Circuit's 
ioreign agent for some years. 



"TIPPERARY" SELLING. 

The English war song, "Tipperary," 
is having a strong sale over here at 
the present time. The New York pub- 
lisher handling the number is forcing 
a retail charge of 30 cents a copy for 
the song, with a probable sale of 1,000,- 
000 copies in sight. 



DROPPING OUT TACOMA. 

Tacoma, Oct. 28. 

Within the next two weeks the Mar- 
cus Loew Circuit will drop the Em- 
press here from its route sheet as a 
vaudeville theatre. The house will 
probably continue with a picture pol- 
icy. 

The local Empress hasn't seemed 
able to get started with a profitable 
patronage and the Loew people have 
concluded to close it rather than to 
force an inevitable loss weekly. 

The line of Loew travel will be 
changed by the shift from Vancouver 
to Portland. 

The Empress has been leased for 
dramatic stock. 



Wayburn Act at Hammerstein's. 

Toward the middle of November a 
large-sized production, staged by Ned 
Wayburn, will open at Hammerstein's 
r or a run of two weeks. 



IRENE FRANKLIN HEADING. 

Through uncertainty whether she 
would be prepared to open at the Pal- 
ace Monday, Valcska Stiratt withdrew 
from that engagement Thursday. 
Irene Franklin and Hurt Green were 
substituted to bead the bill. 



VARIETY 



GERMANY'S THEATRES RESUME; 
LONG DARKENED BY THE WAR 



Wintergarten Reopens and War-Ridden Populace 
Ruth to Playhouses to Lighten Gloom. Reawaken- 
ing Spreads to Many Cities. 



(Special Cable to Vabiwtt.) 

London, Oct. 27. 

According to returning travellers 
who reached London this week from 
the Continent, Germany is awakening 
from the stupor into which it was 
thrown by the outbreak of the war. 
Many of the amusement places which 
have been closed since the beginning 
of hostilities have reopened within the 
last few days, and the populace is 
grasping the opportunity to escape 
from the general feeling of depression. 

The Wintergarten is open, as is also 
Luna Park, although part of it is used 
by the Red Cross service. 

Others among the houses thrown 
open recently are Benz in Munchen, 
Schuman cabaret, Frankfort; Central, 
in Stettin; Victoria Salon, Dresden; 
Hansa, Lubeck; Eden Nauke and all 
the halls on the Spielbuden Platz in 
Hamburg as well as the Mellini, Han- 
over. 

There are, however, still some thea- 
tres dark. Among them is the Vogel- 
weiss, Dresden, and Hansa, Hamburg. 



KAISER FIXES ALIBI. 

According to a statement issued this 
week by the New York Pathe office, 
Emperor William is using one of that 
firm's European camera • men to alibi 
the German army on the charges of 
atrocities which have been made wide- 

ly. 

The camera man is permitted to 
"shoot" scenes of actual battle as well 
as to accompany the German troops 
upon their entry into captured cities 
and take pictures of the proceedings. 
The views will probably be exhibited 
in the United States in the Kaiser's ef- 
forts to retain the good opinion of this 
government and people. 



MUSIC PLATES FOR BULLETS. 

Paris, Oct. 19. 

If reports which have reached us 
here are true, the Germans are going 
to suffer for want of sheet music 
shortly. Paris hears that the German 
government has used up all its lead 
and in search of new supplies has 
requisitioned the music plates of that 
metal — that is, the printing plates from 
which the music is made. They all go 
into the melting pot to be made into 
missiles. 

Although there is still some fear that 
Paris may be besieged by the Ger- 
mans, commerce goes on. VxRiETr is 
regularly received and its sale at the 
street kiosk stands has been uninter- 
tupted. 



GOING AFTER KIPLING. 

(8*eetai OaUe to Vautbtt.) 

London, Oct. 28. 

The war must have g'otten to a 

vaudeville agent here, who wrote a 

proposal to Rudyard Kipling to accept 

a theatrical engagement in America. A 

lecture tour was likely suggested, but 



vaudeville over there was in the agent's 
mind, he having been impelled to waste 
bis time through the intimation of a 
New York vaudeville broker. 

The London agent was gratified at 
receiving a reply to his missive, Mr. 
Kipling answering through his secre- 
tary, acknowledging its receipt. 



NO RELIEF FOR ACTORS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 28. 

Stage folk have been declared inelig- 
ible to application for participation in 
the war relief funds being raised all 
over the world. 

The ruling has been the cause of bit- 
ter feeling, since the players have been 
the biggest contributors to the fund 
through their stage benefits. 



CREATORE CAUSED ROW. 

The Victoria theatre was without an 
orchestra for the three acts Sunday, 
owing to a dispute with the musicians' 
union over the engagement of Creatore 
and his band at Hammerstein's Lex- 
ington Avenue opera house for an ex- 
tended engagement 

When the union learned Creatore had 
been engaged for the Hammerstein 
establishment, its executives served an 
ultimatum on Hammerstein, no Cre- 
atore at the opera house or no union 
orchestra at the Victoria. Hammer- 
stein declined to accept the terms. 
George May's musicians walked out of 
the vaudeville theatre and the show 
progressed to its third number without 
an orchestra. Then Hammerstein an- 
nounced that he had reconsidered. 

The orchestra went back to work 
and the Creatore engagement was call- 
ed off. 



AGENCY FRANCHISE REVOKED. 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 
Mrs. Nellis Pearl, one of the many 
ten percenters operating on the 11th 
and 12th floors of the Majestic thea- 
tre building, has had her franchise 
with the United Booking Offices and 
the Western Vaudeville Managers' As- 
sociation cancelled for booking her at- 
tractions with opposition agencies in 
town. 



"MISS HOOK" REVIVED. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London Oct. 28. 

"Miss^Hook of Holland" was revived 
yesterday at the Prince of Wales thea- 
tre. 



"NO. 2" "ON TRIAL." 

The "No. 2" "On Trial" production 
will start rehearsing, according to re- 
port, upon the first waning signs of 
the drawing powers of "Under Cover" 
at Cohan's Grand, Chicago The sec- 
ond show of the Candler theatre sue 
cess will succeed the Chicago attrac- 
tion. 



FEATURES SCARCE ABROAD. 

(Special Cable to Varxity.) 

London, Oct. 27. 

Novelties for the music hall stage 

are growing daily scarcer, with no re- 
lief in sight. One important circuit 
here has notified the agents it must 
have new faces and urged them to be- 
stir themselves. 



CUTTING IN AUSTRALIA. 

Sydney, Oct. 1. 
The depressing effect of the war on 
show business has sent some man- 
agers to extremes for economy. The 
J. C. Williamson firm has cut salaries 
of its principals in productions from 
20 to 40 per cent., and it has also re- 
duced its official staff. 



PAT CASEY BITTEN. 

Pat Casey has taken a vow never to 
p,o out of his way again to assist any- 
one. Last week Pat had to make good 
$1,500 to the Customs authorities, 
through having given a bond for 
Louise Agnes and Her Irish Colleens, 
for entrance at Boston. Mr. Casey 
happened to be in Boston at the time 
the act entered that port, and was 
called upon to assist them. 

To release the bond it was only 
recessary the Agnes act should ac- 
count to the Customs for the property 
bonded, before it was removed from 
this country. This the woman from 
Ireland refused to do, without giving 
any reason, leaving America for her 
home and leaving Mr. Casey to pay the 
bond. 



CHESTER FOX RETIRES. 

(Special Cable *« v*Rnrrr> 

London, Oct. 28. 

Chester Fox, for eight years the Eu- 
ropean press representative for Charles 
Frohman, announced last Saturday 
that he had retired from that post. 

Frohman has cancelled the provin- 
cial tours during the war and there re- 
mains nothing for Mr. Fox to do. 



FOLLOW LONDON'S LEAD. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 27. 

Brighton and the other seashore re- 
sorts have followed London's example 
in revising their shows to the daily 
matinee and no night performances. 



ACT HELD AT HOME. 

(Bpecial Cable to VAmrwrr.) 

London, Oct. 28. 
The engagement of Bert Coote and 
Co. for an American vaudeville has 
been called off, through the English 
managers having Mr. Coote under con- 
tract declining to release him at this 
time. 



AFFILIATED IN CANADA. 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 
The Affiliated Booking Co. has com- 
pleted arrangements to supply the 
Walker Circuit in western Canada with 
its bills commencing Nov. 9. 



South American Circus. 

Caesar Guiletti, who represents 
South American banking interests, is 
organizing a wild west and circus to 
invade that count, y in December. 

The Guiletti < itfit sails Nov. 2L 



SAILINGS. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 28. 

Oct. 28, Cyril Maude and his com- 
pany (Celtic); 

Oct. 31, Seeley West, Pipifax Panlo 
(St. Paul); 

Nov. 4, Rosie Lloyd (Baltic); 

Nov. 7, Okabe Troupe (New York). 

San Francisco, Oct. 28. 
Oct. 27 (For Australia), Noble and 
Brooks, Aerial Lesters, Frank Coffee, 
Lester Brown (Sonoma). * 

Reported through Paul Tausig & 
Sons, 104 East 14th street, New York: 

Oct. 27, The Rodriguez (Britannia). 

Oct. 28, H. Bento, Charles A. Clarke 
(Adriatic); The Apollos (Europe). 

Oct. 31, Camillo Vermet (Chicago). 



HARRY WANTS HIS. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 28. 

It now transpires that all that stands 
between Gaby Deslys and reconciliation 
with Her Harry is a matter of $100 a 
week. Pilcer demands an increase of 
$150 in his salary; Gaby is willing to 
boost $50. Harry says he'll quit if the 
$150 is not forthcoming. 

Gaby counters with the threat that 
she will replace Harry with Morosoff, 
a Russian dancer, formerly with Pav- 
lowa, next week, if Harry does not ac- 
cept her terms. 



MORE ENLIST. 

London, Oct. 19. 

Names of players continue to appear 
in the lists of men in the ranks of the 
British army. Additional enlistments 
this week include: 

Malcolm Blakeway, Nixon Held, 
John Lauder, Marcus Williams, A. Mil- 
ler, Peter Rock, E. C. H. Rowland, A. 
Edward Sproston and Tom Taylor- 
Vinson. 



GERMAN SPY COMING. 

Armgaard Karl Graves, whose un- 
canny predictions as to the present 
European conflict earned him the title 
of "The Super Spy," will deliver a lec- 
ture at Carnegie Hall, Wednesday, 
Nov. 4, on "War and the Why." 

The outcome of this event may result 
in Graves either entering vaudeville 
for a series of lectures or continuing 
on a lecturing tour over the one- 
nighters. 

The Carnegie Hall engagement is 
being handled by John Iris. Graves 
was formerly a member of the Ger- 
man Secret Service. 



Musicians in the Army. 

London, Oct. 20. 
List of musicians now serving in the 
English army: 

Butterworth Oeorge Mason, Edward 

Coates, John Sbarplngton. Douglus 

Hamilton, Rowan A. J. Teve. Geoffrey 

Harrison, C. A. Wilson, F. B. 

Read, Jervls H. V. Wynne, Warren 
Lambert, Frank 



AGENCY AGREEMENT OFF. 

The agency agreement existing be- 
tween M. S. Bentham, of New York, 
and Will Collins, of London, for mu- 
tual booking interchange, will termi- 
nal with the new year. 

It is said Mr. Bentham has already 
closed for another London agency to 
succeed Mr. Collins, as his foreign rep- 
resentative. 



VARIETY 



aa 



PLAYERS DEMAND FULL PAY 

EXCEPT IN LONDON HALLS 



Declare Business is Normal in Provinces and Turn Down 

Managers 9 Proposals for Sliding Scale. Reductions 

Based on Salary. Agree to Cut in Capital, 

Where Business is Bad. 



(Speoial CabU to Vabibtt.) 

London, Oct. 28. 

The artists have received the propo- 
sition of the managers for the sharing 
plan on a sliding scale basis and have 
made a return proposal of fifty-fifty co- 
operation in the London halls and full 
salary in the provinces. The artists 
are now awaiting the managers' reply. 

At the Variety Artists' Federation 
meeting Sunday the managers' proposal 
was submitted as follows: 

The 50-50 split shall continue where 
the gross is more than $1,750; 

From $1,250 to $1,750 the managers 
shall take 55 per cent, and the actors 
45 per cent.; 

Where the gross is less than $1,250 
the split shall be 60-40. 

James Tate suggested the managers 
be approached with this counter pro- 
position: 

No reduction where the salary is less 
than $50; 

Five per cent, reduction in salaries 
from $50 to $100; 

Ten per cent, reduction in salaries 
from $100 to $150; 

Fifteen per cent, reduction in sala- 
ries from $150 to $200; 

Twenty per cent, reduction in sala- 
ries from $200 to $250; 

And 25 per cent, reduction in salaries 
of more than $250. 

All salary reductions to remain in 
effect only during the continuance of 
the war. 

The discussion became general fol- 
lowing Tate's remarks. It was pointed 
out business is normal in the provinces 
and the depression is pronounced only 
in London. This phase of the situation 
was gone into thoroughly and the final 
sense of the meeting was that it rep- 
resented the important point in exist- 
ing conditions. 

It was finally decided to put another 
counter proposition to the manager* on 
the 50-50-London and straight-salary- 
in-tho-provinces basis. The Federation 
will make a stand if the proposal is 
turned down by the managers, it is de- 
clared. 

It is worthy of note that within the 
last few days the English agents have 
changed their tone as to the need of 
new material. Probably inspired by 
the managers, they are now voicing 
the view that there is abundance of 
material available. 

Members of the Federation believe 
the threat of the managers to close 
their halls if the performers decline to 
accept the co-operative salary dictum is 
an empty one. 

It is pointed out that should the halls 
close, it is Very likely their liquor 
licenses would lapse automatically. 



time this week at Cincinnati, had to 
cancel when Kittie Morton suffered an 
attack of neuralgia. They were about 
to sign with the Loew Circuit last 
week, it is said, when the U. B. O. 
compromised with them on the "salary 
cut." They will play Indianapolis next 
week, booked by the U. B. O. 

Another act, Irene Franklin and 
Burt Green, reported close to signing 
with Loew, stopped negotiating the 
latter end of last week, and this Mon- 
day opened at the Temple, Rochester 
(U. B. O.). 

Bart McHugh's "Lawn Party," a 
"kid act," is said to have been with- 
drawn from the road through being 
unable to travel with profit at the sal- 
ary offered. 

Clark and Hamilton, the English 
turn, is reported about to become part 
of a road show through having been 
given a cut in salary from $800 to $500. 

Cincinnati, Oct. 28. 

Just before the matinee yesterday at 
Keith's, Carl. Byal received a wire of 
his mother's death at Findlay, O. He 
gave his performance, then broke down 
in the dressing room and left for home. 

Charles Howard and Co., on the 
Orpheum Circuit, closed at Winnipeg 
last Saturday, declining to accept the 
cut in salary made for the act. 



MORTONS PLAYING UNITED. 

Sam and Kitty Morton, schedule! to 
reopen on the United Booking O' rc- 



JUDGMENT AGAINST AGENT. 

In the case of Barney Fagan vs. 
Louis Pincus, the New York represent- 
ative for the Pantages Circuit, follow- 
ing August Dreyer's motion to have 
the verdict of a jury for $2,614.78 on 
alleged contract violation in favor of 
the plaintiff set aside, Justice Newbur- 
ger reserved decision and named a date 
for the attorneys on both sides to file 
briefs. 

Fagan, through O'Brien, Malevinsky 
& Driscoll, brought suit, claiming Pin- 
cus agreed by wire to give Fagan 20 
weeks on the vaudeville circuit. Pin- 
cus sent contracts for eleven but Fagan 
declined them and then sued for the 
agreed twenty weeks at $300 per. 

Pincus at the trial contended he was 
only an agent and that Fagan would 
have to look to Pantages for his money. 

Attorney Ryan, of Seattle, informed 
Fagan's attorneys the Pantages Circuit 
of Vaudeville Theatres, Inc., did not 
legally exist in a former suit that 
the O'Brien, Malevinsky & Driscoll 
firm instituted for Amann-Hartlcy 
against Pantages some time ago. Aware 
of this the lawyers held Pincus person- 
anly responsible. 

The main point arising is whether the 

cr^p should have been against the 

a- • it. If the judge decides that Pin- 

. is liable, a precedent will have been 

^i-blished. 



TWO SUDDEN DEATHS. 

Two deaths among the profession 
early Monday morning at Bcllevue 
Hospital resulted in the Coronor hold- 
ing inquiries to ascertain their real 
causes. They were that of James Cal- 
lahan, formerly of Callahan and Mack 
and late of Callahan and Daly (Ber- 
nard), who died at 1 a. m. Oct. 26, and 
Harry Clinton Sawyer, whose demise 
came at 7.05 on the morning of the 
same date. 

Callahan, a few days ago, was re- 
moved to one of the Bellevue wards 
to recuperate, his heart and stomach 
having failed to work perfectly of late. 

Sawyer, formerly of musical com- 
edy, where he acquired considerable 
fame, later a "single" in vaudeville and 
recently connected with several pop 
circuit vaudeville agencies as an assist- 
ant booker, was reported as being 
with a party of friends the night be- 
fore he became ill at his room in the 
Hotel Taft. 

Sawyer was found unconscious in his 
room and shortly after removed to 
Bellevue died without regaining a nor- 
mal condition. 

As Sawyer had been despondent of 
late suicide was hinted at and the Cor- 
oner was notified to ascertain if pos- 
sible by autopsy whether there was 
poison in his stomach. 

Detectives are working on the case 
in an effort to find out Sawyer's move- 
ments prior to his death. 

Sawyer was unmarried but has an 
aged mother living in a small town in 
Oregon to which the body is to be 
sent for interment. 



LOEW BILL IN PROVIDENCE. 

Providence, Oct. 28. 

One policeman knocked out and two 
others roughed up will testify to the 
size of the crowd trying to get into 
the Emery theatre at its opening Mon- 
day night. 

It is estimated at least 3,000 people 
thronged the street in front and pushed 
and shoved and fought to get inside 
where there is room for only 1,800. 

Manager Martin Toohey opened the 
theater in behalf of the Emery broth- 
ers, and. after lugging away about two 
tons of flowers, called on Mayor Gainer 
for a speech. The Mayor replied and 
then the show began. The friendly 
audience liked the opening vaudeville 
bill, which was diversified and pleas- 
ing. The Emery will play Marcus 
Loew acts only and will change the bill 
twice a week. There will also be three 
or four pictures a night. 

The Emery is the most modern thea- 
tre in the city, and one of the best 
equipped. It is well situated and 
should he popular. 



JACK HENRY SETTLES. 

Jack Henry and August Dreyer. his 
attorney, split up $350 of David Kess- 
lcr's money this week, when Mr. Drey- 
er settled Mr. Henry's suit for $10,000 
damages against Mr. Kessler. 

Jack thought he was hurt $10,000 
worth in an automobile accident some 
time ago. Tt was Kesslcr's car and 
Kesslcr's driver. Henry's injuries, ac- 
cording to him, were bruises on the 
shoulder and an impediment in his 
left car hearing, causing him to lose 
much business with managers who 
didn't book on the right side. 



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SAM THALL'S "TAB" WHEEL 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 

Sam Thall, of the tabloid department 
of the "Association," has organized his 
department on the order of a burlesque 
wheel, and committees are sent on to 
see the shows in the same manner. 

The following is a list of the shows 
Thall is booking: Jack Trainor in 
"Watch Your Step"; Hal Johnson, in 
"Little Modiste"; Dewey & Rogers in 
"Safety First" and "This Is the Life, 
all Halton Powell shows. Max Bloom 
in "The Sunny Side of Broadway" 
"Dream Girl," "My Cinderella Girl" 
and "Whose Little Girl Are You?" 
Boyle Woolfolk's shows. "Fillies of 
Broadway" and "Adams & Guhl," 
owned by Dwight Pepple; "The Mas- 
queraders," owned by Johnny Galvin; 
"The Isle of Smiles" owned by New 
Alvord; "Fascinating Flora " owned by 
Minnie Palmer; and Edde De Noyer 
and Rose Danie in "It's Up to You." 

Hodges & Tynes, who are out in "A 
Night on a New York Roof Garden," 
have broken all records in the south 
and are playing repeats. Robert Sher- 
man has three dramatic tabloids out, 
consisting of the following: "Bought 
and Paid For," "Way Down East" and 
"The Squaw Man." Several other tabs 
are now in preparation which will be 
ready to open in December. They are 
being arranged by Woolfolk, Powell 
and Galvin. 



LOEW IN PORTLAND? 

Portland, Me., Oct. 28. 

It is understood Marcus Loew has 
made definite arrangements to bring 
his vaudeville into a new Portland thea- 
tre. The site named is that now occu- 
pied by the O. S. Furniture Co., on Con- 
gress street, almost opposite the en- 
trance to Keith's. 

A new house in Lewiston, Me., with 
which the Portland Loew theatre will 
split, is nearing completion. 



MANAGER ESCAPES THUQ8. 

San Francisco, Oct. 28. 
Jack Cluxton, manager of Pantages 
theatre, figured in an attempted hold- 
up that bordered on the sensational 
Monday night. Two thugs went after 
Cluxton as he was on the way to the 
bank with the day's receipts. Cluxton 
escaped injury and also saved the 
money. One of the stick-up men was 
arrested. 



85% ACCEPT CUT. 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 
About eighty-five per cent, of the 
acts have acquiesced in the cut made 
recently by the United Booking Offices 
(Chicago) and the "Association." 

A few acts have gone away from 
their agents and are booking direct. 



BARRYMORE'S RECORD. 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 
Ethel Barrymore is promising to 
wreck the season's record at the Ma- 
jestic, where she is appearing this week 
as headliner. Business has been capac- 
ity during the week. 



With the return to health of Anna 
Arline (Adler and Arline) who was 
recently operated on for appendicitis, 
the couple will play the time they were 
forced to cancel through Miss Arline't 
illness. 



VARIETY 



FROM NEW YORK TO AUSTRALIA 

IN 44 WEEKS IS NEW OFFER 



Chicago Connections now Assured. Brennan Fuller Circuit Has 
Consecutive Time Arranged From Broadway to the An- 
tipodes Via Chicago and the Coast. 



Chicago, Oct. 28. 
The Affiliated Booking Co. complet- 
ed arrangements this week to act as 
American representatives for the Bren- 
nan-Fuller Circuit in Australia, Paul 
Goudron being delegated to look after 
the interests of the Australian string. 
Ben Fuller, general manager of the 
circuit, is expected to visit the United 
States shortly and make a tour of the 
country accompanied by Goudron. 

The Australian connection makes it 
possible for the A. B. C. to route an 
act from New York to the coast and 
thence to Australia, having made prev- 
ious affiliations with Moss & Brill of 
New York, Casper, Todd & Shaffer of 
Pittsburgh and the Levy and Fisher 
time in the west and northwest. The 
string permits the issuance of a blanket 
contract calling for 44 weeks in all. 



COMEDY CLUB'S ELECTION. 

Temporary officers were elected at 
the meeting of the new Comedy Club 
Wednesday evening at its quarters 
next door to the Palace theatre. 

Bert Leslie is president; Frank Con- 
roy, vice-president; August Dreyer, 
treasurer, and Bill Wolfenden, secre- 
tary. '. n 

The Comedy Club succeeds the late 
Vaudeville Comedy Club. 



KID BROAD JEALOUS. 

Even of more importance than Paul 
Swan's faint at Hammerstein's Mon- 
day afternoon was the wire sent by 
Kid Broad to Loney Haskell. Mr. 
Swan, an asthetic dancer of the bare 
flesh type, was billed as "The Most 
Beautiful Man in the World." Mr. 
Broad naturally concluded this allud- 
ed to Swan's face, and telegraphed 
Mr. Haskell Paul was stealing his bill- 
ing. 

The faint Monday afternoon by the 
dancer was not on the cards. Some 
thought it a part of Mr. Swan's act, 
but the house attaches pleaded not 
guilty. Mr. Swan fainted so hard, an- 
other act stepped quickly into the 
breach, giving the danseuse time to 
recover when he finished his turn. 
Nervousness and the smoke in the 
theater are said to have overcome Paul. 

Wednesday night Mr. Swan stepped 
down to the footlights and rebuked the 
h«nisc for snickering. He stated he 
was giving an exposition of art. and 
risked whether they wanted it or not. 
The house told liini to -keep it up. By 
Thursday Mr. Swan seemed to be a 
drawing card. Hammerstein's this 
week will have » a good-sized gross. 
The male dancer is accepted more 
seriously at the matinees than at night. 

Tuesday Loney Haskell, general 
lactotum at Hammerstein's, received 
this wire: "Your headliner (Paul 



Swan) may not appear tonight. He 
was just seen staggering out of Huy- 
ler's. Tommy Gray." 



"HOMESTEAD" FOR SCREEN. 

The Famous Players announces it 
has secured the screen rights to Den- 
man Thompson's "The Old Home- 
stead." 

The Frohman organization has com- 
1 leted preparations to invade a New 
Hampshire village to pose for the film 
version. 

The transaction was executed 
through Frank Thompson, son and heir 
of Denman Thompson, C. P. Rytten- 
herg's agency acting for the owner. 
For many years the elder Tompson 
declined to permit the filming of the 
famous piece. 



CLOSING PARIS THEATRES. 

(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 29. 

It was learned here today that the 

Moulin Rouge cinema performances in 

Paris were ordered discontinued by 

the French government and now only 

a few picture theatres are operating. 



ARMY REJECTS ONE. 
(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 29. 

Andre Chariot and his brother pre- 
sented themselves to the French em- 
bassy today for a medical examination 
to determine the possibility of immedi- 
ately joining the French army. Andre 
was rejected because of his recent ill- 
ness, but his brother was accepted for 
i he commissariat. 

The Chariot Fund benefit has been 
postponed until Nov. 24. 



Maskelyne St Devant Closing. 
(Special Cable to Variety.) 

London, Oct. 29. 

Mascalyne & Devant will close at 

St. George's Hall shortly because of 

poor business. The closing date has 

not been set, but it is not far off. 



FISHER AND GREEN AGAIN. 

It was reported this week the United 
Booking Offices managers were con- 
templating cancelling the route given 
Fisher and Green in "The Partners." 
The team had wired the U. B. O. agree- 
ing to the eut, and made the message 
very friejrdly. Afterward the partners 
telegrapned the Loew Circuit asking 
for time. 

Fisher and Green will probably be 
railed upon for a satisfactory explana- 
tion of the Loew wire by the United, 
if they wish to hold their route. 




Rita Gould on Loew Time. 

Rita Gould will return to vaudeville 
next week, at Loew's National, in the 
Bronx. She will be billed as "Direct 
from Ziegfeld's 'Follies.' " 



There is no business where adver- 
tising is as necessary as in vaudeville. 

If you have an act you have a busi- 
ness — and if your business is to thrive 
you must advertise your wares. And 
until you do advertise you are not get- 
ting all out of your business you can. 
In every trade, profession or calling 
there is one medium that is recognized 
as the best. Ask a doctor what is the 
best medium in his profession and he 
will tell you the A. M. A. Journal — A 
stenographer will tell you "The Short- 
hand Writer." And so on in every call- 
ing. Expert advertisers consider three 
things in determining the value of a 
publication, the reliability of the news 
columns, the circulation and the class 
of the circulation. The wise vaudeville 
advertisers should consider these 
points. 

Variety's news is recognized as relia- 
ble. Managers know criticisms are not 
* tempered by the advertising columns. 
Many of the world's largest vaudeville 
buyers keep a file of Variety to use In 
fixing the value of material submitted 
to them. 

Variety's circulation is larger than 
all other theatrical trade papers com- 
bined. Thousands of copies of Variety 
go abroad each week. You will find 
Variety on file in all agencies in Eng- 
land, Germany, France, Austria, South 
Africa and New Zealand. In fact 

wherever you find vaudeville you'll find 
Variety 

• 

The ideas some people have regard- 
ing advertising are amusing. I was in- 
troduced to an actor the other day. He 
said "Marshall? Oh, yes, you're the 
chap who has that funny little ad in 
Variety." (T' m getting used to that 
now). We got to talking about adver- 
tising. He told me he was figuring on 
putting in a page advertisement in 
Variety's Christmas issue. "I had a 
big page ad last Christmas," he said. 

This fellow must figure Santa Claus 
brings contracts. I don't want to in- 
fer that big ads in special issues are 
not great investments by any means. 
They are gilt-edge. A Christmas issue 
is seldom thrown aside. Many people 
keep them for reference. But the point 
I want to make is the continuous ad is 
the big thing. Suppose the late C. W. 
Post, of Battle Creek, had confined his 
advertising to Christmas editions. 
Where would Grape Nuts be? Post's 
millions were made by the incessant 
campaign of daily copy and by dou- 
bling up in the big Sunday and special 
editions of periodicals. If you can only 
afford an inch single column why grab 
it, and it won't be long until you'll find 
things coming your way enough to 
warrant a larger space. 

The constant keepfing of your name 
before the public is the thing. 

You will never appreciate the value 
of incessant advertising until you've 
tried it a while. 

I know what it's worth. 

A little over a year ago I was a very 
small time proposition. 

Then T broke into New York. T lit- 



erally broke in through Variety*! ad- 
vertising columns. I couldn't afford a 
big space so I took a small one. I 
changed my ad each week. After it had 
run a short while Ernie Williams gave 
me a job. I didn't get much money but 
I swallowed my pride and went to it. 

I went without things I needed to 
keep that little ad in Variety. 

Soon I got letters from other agents 
and my salary went up. 

Then I got a twenty-four weeks' 
contract and left Broadway — but I sent 
my ad back each week. Managers all 
along the line knew me by my ad. 
Many's the time I could thank that ad 
for a good spot on the bill and good 
billing. 

In my travels I met a Chinaman with 
a troupe. I induced him to put an ad 
in Variety. He got lots of answers to 
it. I know because he couldn't read 
English and I read them to him. This 
was over six months ago and his ad is 
still in Variety. Chinese are noted for 
being shrewd buyers and this Chink 
knows he's getting his money's worth. 
Recently he put a half page ad in 
Variety in addition to his regular ad. 
It doesn't take a Chinaman long to 
dope out how to get ahead. 

When I played my 24 weeks I went 
to London. After 1 had given West- 
minister Abbey, Buckingham Palace, 
The Towers of London and other 
points of interest the "once over" I de- 
cided to call upon the agents. 

I dropped into the outer office of an 
agent who never sees anyone except by 
appointment. I didn't know this at the 
time, however. I told his "dark" my 
name or rather handed him my card 
and he stepped into the inner shrine to 
make an appointment for me. The 
agent called out for me to come right 
in. He leaned back in his chair and 
sized me up from head to foot. 

"So you're Edward Marshall, are 
you?" he asked. 

"Yes. Heard of me?" I asked. 

"Not exactly," said he, "but I've read 
your little ad in Variety every week." 

I had a contract for my London 
opening when I left that office and 
when the issue of Variety arrived con- 
taining my first London ad I was flood- 
ed with offers. I have 40 weeks booked 
over there and I may never have got an 
opening but for my continuous ad in 
Variety. 

This season I am playing the Keith 
circuit, and getting regular money. 



New Building Collapses. 

Youngstown, O., Oct. 28. 

Four men were killed and several in- 
jured when the third floor of the Hip- 
podrome building, under construction, 
collapsed and buried them under tons 
of concrete and steel Monday after- 
noon. Firemen, police and scores of 
citizens helped in the work of rescue. 

It is the theatre C. H. Miles is in- 
terested in. 



Tampa Starts One. 

Tampa, Fla., Oct. 28. 
The Tampa theatre began playing 
vaudeville Oct. 26, five acts, booked 
through Harry Mundorf in the United 
Rrw inar Offices. New York. 



VARIETY 



TWICE DAILY FOR HEADLINERS 
IN LOEWS NEW YORK HOUSES 



Not Changing Policy, but Making it Easy for Feature Turns 
Wherever Possible in East, Says General Booking Mana- 
ger. Western Time Remains as Before. No Idea 
of Ultimate Change in Daily Shows. 



Reports of some headline acts on the 

Loew Circuit in New York playing but 

twice daily in a few metropolitan 

houses led to a story the Loew Circuit 

contemplated an ultimate change of 
policy in the number of shows given, 
from three as at present, to two a day. 

Joseph M. Schenck, general book- 
ing manager, for the circuit, when 
asked regarding this, said: "It is not 
our intention to alter the present pol- 
icy in any way, but in a few of our 
eastern houses we are determining the 
value of the third performance or 
supper show' as it is called. This is 
the performance between five in the 
afternoon and the commencement of 
the regular night program. Its only 
value in some of the houses is to make 
the performance continuous. 

"The current influx of big attrac- 
tions to our circuit is another consid- 
eration. My experience has been that 
the average artist who figures his pro- 
fession from a business angle is begin- 
ning to realize his relative value, and 
gauging his salary accordingly, is mak- 
ing it possible for our circuit, at its 
small and limited admission scale, to 
stretch the quality of our bills to a 
point that has hitherto been said could 
not be done. We do not wish to use- 
lessly waste the services of our head- 
line acts, and whenever it is conven- 
ient to relieve them from the third 
show in New York we are doing so, 
although this is a single instan^ in 
each case and does not affect the play- 
ing policy of any theatre. 

"In the middle west and west the 
three shows daily is a fixture, accept- 
ed by the public and the custom there 
could not be changed under any cir- 
cumstances." 

Mr. Schenck would not admit nor 
discuss the possibility of the Loew 
Circuit gradually taking on a two-a- 
day policy. "That is foreign to our 
thoughts just now" he answered, "and 
is quite too unlikely to talk about".. 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 

War on ten per cent, agents, which 
has threatened for some time, has at 
last been declared by Aaron J. Jones, 
general manager of the Marcus Loew 
office in Chicago. Mr. Jones has is- 
sued orders that all bookings must be 
done directly with the artist in the 
future. 

"We have eliminated the ten per 
center from our offices bag and bag- 
gage," said Mr. Jones, "and they are 
locked out for good. About 15 have 
been doing business here, but we have 
decided they neither do the artist, the 
theatre or the office any good, and for 
that reason they have been eliminated. 
Very few are capable, and there are 
very, very few who are able to book 
theatres. We are through with ^iem. 
We do : ~>t ^;m«- to cut any of our acts, 



and we want them to get all the money 
that is coming to them in these stress- 
ful times." 

At the New York offices of the Loew 
Circuit, Jos. M. Schenck said the or- 
der isued by Mr. Jones here only af- 
fected the Chicago office. 

"We will do business here with any 
agent who is on the level" said Mr. 
Schenck, "but he must be on the level, 
strictly, in every way, which means 
as well that he cannot charge an act 
over five per cent." 



SONG RESTRICTION. 

A vaudeville act has had a song re- 
stricted to it, without requesting the 
publisher of the number to do so. It 
is "The War in Snider's Grocery 
Store" (Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.), and 
the act is Cross and Josephine. 

Wellington Cross has scored dis- 
tinctly with the comic song since using 
it. The United Booking Offices people 
evidently saw an opportunity to aid Mr. 
Cross' turn by giving him a clear field 
ahead with this number. According to 
report, orchestra leaders in the Keith 
New York houses were instructed not 
to rehearse "Snider's" for any turn that 
might be using it ahead of the Cross 
and Josephine appearance in the thea- 
tre. 

The order is said to have remained 
in effect until Monday, when George 
Whiting and Sadie Burt rehearsed at 
the Colonial. In Mr. Whiting's reper- 
toire of songs was "Snider's." He is 
reported to have been informed of the 
conditions and replied by insisting he 
would sing the song, and was allowed 
to do so. 



OLD TIMERS SEPARATE. 

Williams, Thompson and Copeland, 
presenting old "nigger" acts around 
the middle west for many years, have 
dissolved partnership, deciding it was 
impossible to continue because of a 
salary cut enforced by prevailing con- 
ditions. 

"Fat" Thompson is in New York 
preparing a new act. 



"SPECIAL NIGHTS" HELP 

Waterbury, Conn., Oct. 28. 
The Loew vaudeville theatre here 
commenced giving a "special night" 
every evening last week, in opposi- 
tion to the Poli theatre, which doe* 
the same. The Loew receipts were 
more than doubled by the expedient 
It will be continued at both theatres. 
Prior to the installation of the spe 
cials, Loew's did but a mild business. 



Another Baseball Act. 

Atlantic City, Oct. 28. 
Hughey Jennings and Ben Smith 
opened a vaudeville tour at Keith'i 
Monday. 



MANAGERS WONT CLOSE. 

(Special Cable to Varibtt.) 

London, Oct. 29. 

The managers held a meeting here 

yesterday to discuss the Federation's 

vote to discontinue the co-operative 

plan with the hall proprietors, and 

while nothing definite was decided 

upon, the general opinion seems to be 

that the halls will remain open. 



CARLE TRYING SKETCH. 

Richard Carle is playing next week 
at the Savoy, Asbury Park, N. J., in 
a new sketch. If the three-day trial 
shows the vehicle in a promising light 
Carle may remain for a while in vaude- 
ville. 

The comedian's plans, however, are 
somewhat uncertain. Charles Froh- 
man is understood to be getting a farce 
ready to exploit Carle, jointly with 
Hattie Williams. 



DIRECTOR COULDN'T LEAD. 

Florence and Mecherini did not show 
at the 81st Street Monday night. This 
new dancing act from South America 
lefused to appear without their mu- 
sical director who was branded "non- 
union" by the theatre musicians. The 
orchestra men would not agree to play 
with him directing. 

The act declined the direction of a 
pianist. 



EDDIE FOY'S STATEMENT. 

Cleveland, Oct. 28. 

The newspapers of this city, and 
Cincinnati, also, it is said, have receiv- 
ed a statement from Eddie Foy, saying 
he has noted that in the newspaper ad- 
vertisements and the Loew theaters' 
programs, it is announced that the 
Foy Family will appear in the Loew 
houses. 

Mr. Foy adds he has had a contract 
with the Keith theatres all over the 
country since the early summer, and 
that he will not play in any Cleveland 
or Cincinnati house excepting Keith's. 

An attempt to mislead the public 
is Mr. Foy's claim in connection with 
the Loew announcements regarding 
him. 



CORSE MOVES OVER. 

Corse Payton leaves the Lee Ave- 
nue Academy, Brooklyn, this week. 
opening at the Fox's Acedamy of Mu- 
sic, New York, Monday, in a sketch as 
a part of the vaudeville show. 

Payton returned to the Lee Ave- 
nue with a stock company, but failed 
to come back in the house where he 
had become so popular at one time, his 
weekly profit seldom failed to register 
below $1,000. 



FIRST AMERICAN REPEATER. 

The Primrose Four, playing the Pal- 
ace this week, will sail for Australia 
next April to play a return tour of the 
Rickards circuit in that country. The 
quartet claims to be the first American 
act engaged for a return tour of the 
Rkkards time since Hugh Mcintosh 
1 ecame its governing director. 



Ada Lewis in Chicago Show. 

Chicago, Oct. 29. 
Ada Lewis arrived in Chicago this 
week to join the cast of "One Girl in 
a Million" now playing at the La 
Salle. 



IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE 

One of the most singular and con* 
vincing arguments in favor of sensible 
vaudeville advertising is contained in 
the experience of Minnie Palmer, a 
progressive produceress of Chicago 
who is presenting her four sons (The 
Four Marx Bros, and Co.) in a $1,500 
(weekly salary) production called 
"Home Again." 

The act was first produced in the 
south several weeks ago where it evi- 
dently lived up to expectations, and 
its sponsor visited New York in an 
effort to place the turn on the big 
time. 

The piece was called to the atten- 
tion of the managers through a full 
page advertisement printed in a recent 
issue of Varibtt and was immediately 
routed over the Keith time. 

As far as is known, this is the first 
instance of an act of this proportion 
being booked as a regular feature over 
the U. B. O. circuits without first being 
shown in the east. 



"101" ONLY TOP SHOW OUT. 

With the Barnum & Bailey circus 
and the Hagenbeck-Wallace shows 
closing Monday and the Ringling 
Brothers ending their season last 
Saturday, the 101 Ranch is the only 
big "white top" to remain out. 

The 101 show plays Atlanta next 
Monday and Tuesday, Birmingham 
Nov. 12, and closes in Hot Springs, 
Nov. 18. By wintering at the Arkan- 
sas resort the 101 will be able to take 
up early spring time in that section. 



GOLF! 

Dull times brings its recompense, at 
least to the vaudeville people and a 
few legits who have been able to buy 
machines. 

The recompense is golf. To play it 
properly, according to those who claim 
they do, it is necessary to own an au- 
tomobile. 

Everybody is doing it nowadays, or 
everybody who can snatch the time 
away from business, now that the base- 
ball season is over and money is too 
tight to shoot craps. 

The Broadway information is that 
they locate golf links in far remote 
sections, away from street car lines, 
which keeps the game exclusive, unless 
the common players start to walk to 
the links midnight of the day before. 

Each perfectly adjusted golf aggre- 
gation has a club house and each club 
house has a bar. To become popular 
in golf, good playing or drinking of 
Scotch whiskey is absolutely essential, 
although a bright caddie has been 
known to lie a lot for little money. 



FILMING LOEW STARS. 

The press department of the Loew 
Circuit is billing its stars one week 
ahead on the western time through a 
moving picture, running about 100 feet, 
giving a few personal incidents. The 
pictures are made in New York and 
directed by A. T. Granlund, the gen- 
eral press representative. It is thrown 
upon the sheet at each performance for 
the week prior to the act's appearance. 



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BIG MINSTREL SHOW. 

The annual minstrel show of the 
White Rats is now a thing of the past. 
The show held Thursday, (Jet. II, was 
the third minstrel show given by the 
Organization and it excelled by far 
the two others. 

Much credit must be given to Jo- 
seph 1 J . Mack, who worked hard and 
conscientiously for us success. Joe 
certainly put one over. iNut only tiie 
minstrel show, but the oifo that he 
provided following the minstrel show, 
was superb. The singing chorus oi 
the minstrel show stood out as one 
of the features and reflected great 
credit on George iiotsiord, whose 
painstaking rehearsal made the sing- 
ing harmonious and pleasing to lis- 
ten to. 

The following acts in conjunction 
with the minstrel show appeared: 
Irving Berlin, Doyle and Dixon, Pearl 
Brothers and Burns, Belle Baker, 
Wohlman and Abrahama, Six Brown 
Brothers and LeMaire, Inglis and 
Lewis. One of the real hits of the 
evening was the act produced by 
George LeMaire and acted by Mr. Le- 
Maire, Tom Lewis and Jack Inglis. 
Everyone around the Club House is 
talking about it. It typifies a type in 
show business that we meet every day 
and the manner in which George Le- 
Maire, Jack Inglis and Tom Lewis por- 
trayed it made it a classic. 

The cut-up on the ends were George 
Mullen, Walter Weems, Harry Fern, 
Harry Kelly, Bob Dailey and Matt 
Keefe, and these boys told some rid- 
dles that made the house weak with 
laughter. 

During the evening Honorable Bar- 
tow S. Weeks, Justice of the Supreme 
Court, who was the guest of honor, 
made a few remarks which were re- 
ceived in a very friendly spirit and 
the Judge on leaving stated that he 
had never enjoyed himself at any af- 
fair as much as at the one held that 
night. 



WILD WEST BLOWS UP. 

Barboursville, Ky., Oct. 28. 

Kit Carson's Wild West show blew 
up here this week, leaving 150 mem- 
bers, performers, riders and laborers 
stranded without a cent. The outfit 
was hurriedly loaded on the cars and 
pulled out without the crowd before 
attachment papers sued out by work- 
men could be served. A desperate at- 
tempt was made to catch the show and 
serve the legal notice tying it up be- 
fore it got over the Kentucky line. 
The show people have not yet learned 
whether the attempt has been suc- 
cessful. 

The Kit Carson outfit has been in 
financial difficulties for some time. 
The embarrassment followed the pay- 
ment of a large verdict for damages 
for the death of a Cossack and injury 
of another performer by a bear. 

The stranded company is helpless 
and the authorities will probably be 
appealed to to give them employment 
until they have earned money enough 
to get them away. The corn husking 
season is at its height and they may 
earn their transportation in that labor. 



MEMBERS ON THE ROAD. 

In order to further the good fellow- 
ship spirit which prevails in and around 
New York as evidenced by the weekly 
Scampers on Thursday evenings, per- 
mission to hold Scampers in various 
cities in which members may desire to 

do this, will be given any member in 
good standing upon application to the 
Secretary-Treasurer, Will j. Cooke. 

If you desire to hold a Scamper, wire 
us collect, when and where you desire 
to hold the Scamper. It is of course 
an important item that these Scampers 
be held in a place which will do credit 
to the Organization and also that these 
Scampers shall be self-supporting. 

Many members will undoubtedly be 
;>leased to learn that this privilege will 
be granted upon application, inasmuch 
as it will assure them of many sociable 
and entertaining evenings which other- 
wise would not be possible. 

Be a booster and organize a Scamper 
wherever possible. Send in an account 
of the Scamper so that it may be pub- 
lished and if you are in a city or town 
where a Scamper is held, go to it. 

Any information regarding what the 
organization is doing and any items of 
interest will be sent you so that they 
may be discussed and you may know 
at all times just what is going on. 

If, while on the road you hear some- 
one complaining about the White Rats, 



HAVE YOU PAID DUES? 

On another page of Variety a notice 
appears stating that all members of 
the White Rats Actors' Union and 
Associated Actresses of America who 
have failed to pay their dues to April 
1, 1915, are out of benefit. 

Have you paid your dues or are you 
out of benefit? If you have not paid 
your dues what is your excuse? If 
your excuse is that you are not able 
to, then write in to Secretary-Treas- 
urer Will J. Cooke and get an exten- 
sion until you are able to pay. If you 
have money, you have no excuse; so 
pay your dues and do not become out 
of benefit. 

When you joined this Organization 
you obligated yourself to pay your 
dues and until you resign dues are 
charged against you. When you work 
for a manager you want your salary 
that the manager contracted to give 
you. You as a member of the W. R. 
A. U. and A. A. A. contracted with the 
Organization to pay so much money 
a year for dues. It is up to you to live 
up to your contract. What you expect 
from the manager, live up to with 
your Organization. 

Do not argue with yourself that you 
do not need this Organization. Per- 
haps right now you may not need it, 
but there will come a time some day 
when you will need it and need it very 




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write us the particulars, and we will let 
you have our side of the story. It may 
be that we can give you information 
that will enlighten you regarding that 
particular matter, and it may also be 
that the complainant owes money to 
the White Rats. 



TIM O'DONNELL NEUTRAL. 

Ching Ling Foo, piloted by Timothy 
O'Donnell, came into New York Sun- 
day on the Philadelphia, the Chinese 
troupe bonded for entry into the Port 
of New York by Pat Casey. 

Ching will open at Hammerstein's 
Nov. 9, to remain two weeks. 

Mr. O'Donnell went over to the oth- 
er side about three months ago. He 
watched the progress of the war, and 
incidentally looked after Ching. Upon 
liearing the Chinaman was marooned in 
Antwerp and the Germans were about 
to bombard, Timmy went over to the 
Helgian town, smuggled his charges out 
along with other refugees leaving, sail- 
ing with them for this side. 

Outside of remarking that the Kaiser 
seemed to be some guy, Mr. O'Donnell 
remained neutral in his war talk, al- 
though he did mention that while in 
Paris, several of the young women he 
met there told him they expected to be 
in New York shortly. 



badly. Bear in mind that this is an 
age of Organization. The manager in 
every branch of the theatrical business 
is organized. So is every part of the 
theatre employe. So is the author and 
the producer and so is the actor and 
if you do not belong to the actors" 
organization, the White Rats, or you 
are a member and you let your dues 
lapse, you are making a big mistake. 
A word to the wise is sufficient. 
Sincerely yours, 

FRANK FOGARTY. 



NOT A VICTORIA BID. 

When the 3,998 shares of the Ham- 

merstein Amusement Co. stock was 

offered at auction in the Exchange 

Salesroom at 39 Vesey street by 

Adrain H. Muller Wednesday there 
wasn't one bid offered. 

Oscar Hammerstein when seen late 
Wednesday afternoon and asked why 
he did not bid the stock in, stated: 
"Why should I? I have enough 
money in Cypress Hills and Green- 
wood; why invest in any other ceme- 
teries?" 



SUING JOSE COLLINS. 

Suit has been brought against Jose 
Collins, through Maurice Goodman, 
representing M. S. Bentham, to re- 
cover $500 Bentham alleges is due him 
tc date for managing Miss Collins, and 
placing her with various attractions. 



A. V. A. F. WRITES. 

AUSTRALIAN VAUDEVILLE 
ARTISTS' FEDERATION. 

Registered Trade Union 
No. 466. 

Registered under Industrial Arbitra- 
tion Act. 1912. Affiliated World's 
League of Artists' Organizations com- 
prising V. A. F. (England), I. A. L. 
(Europe), White Rats' Actors' Union 
(America), U. S. A. L. (France), also 
P. L. L. Labor Council and Australian 
Grand Council of Theatrical Industries. 

P. CLARENCE, 
General Secretary. 

'Phone City 4964. 

Head Office, 200 Castlereagh Street. 

Melbourne Office, 189 Lonsdale Street. 

Sydney, August 13, 1914. 

In reply we quote No. 3000. 

To the Secretary, 

White Rats' Actors' Union, 

America. 

Dear Sir and Brother: — I have the 
honor to report that the matter of 
Bates vs. Brennans Amphitheatres, 
Ltd., when finally called upon, result- 
ed in the defendants offering a settle- 
ment and same was accepted by Bates. 

In another matter in which a mem- 
ber of yours was concerned (clipping 
inclosed) we were also successful as 
well as in a matter the same week on 
behalf of V. A. F. members, to wit, the 
Carpos Bros. The V. A. F. have given 
me executive power to take legal action 
for protecting any of its members with- 
out having to wait for report being 
sent and consent given; as this means 
a great saving of time to your members 
I will be pleased to receive authority 
from your organization authorizing the 
A. V. A. F. to proceed with any legal 
matter on behalf of members of the 
White Rats that may be deemed neces- 
sary and I can assure that no case 
will be taken in hand unless justifi- 
cation exists and that legal expenses 
will be kept down. 

Please forward supply of necessary 
material to enable this office to collect 
subscriptions and secure new members 
for your organization together with full 
instructions re same. As I am now 
acting for V. A. F., England, in that 
capacity, I can assist your organiza- 
tion similarly. 

Best wishes. 

Yours fraternally, 

P. CLARENCE. 



NOTICE. 

On account of Tuesday, Novem- 
ber 3rd, being 

ELECTION DAY, 
there will be 
No Meeting of the White Rets 
Actors' Union of America. 
The next regular meeting will 
be held 

Tuesday, November 17th, 
1914, at 11.30 P. M. sharp. 



Drop In at Chicago Office. 

Cut this out and paste it in your 
book and when in Chicago call and see 
our rew suite of offices, 411 Tacome 
Buil^ng, Corner LaSslle and Madison 
streets. 



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Alice Gale has opened a dramatic 
school in Chicago. 



The Rigoletto Brothers open on the 
Urpheum Circuit Nov. 2. 

Ina Claire is due to arrive in New 
York the end of this week. 

Abner Greenberg, the attorney (who 
has also written several songs), is now 
located at 299 Broadway. 

Eddie Small is placing the bills for 
the Mark-Brock houses, in the Loew 
office. 

Paul Nicholson and Miss Norton 
are with "A Pair of Sixes," playing the 
principal roles. 

Keeney's, Newark, has its first anni- 
versary next week. A special bill is 
being prepared by Harry Shea. 

The F. F. Proctor theatre, Rich- 
mond avenue, Port Richmond, Staten 
Island, is expected to open around 
Thanksgiving. 

The Savoy, Fall River, Mass., and 
the opera house, Newport, R. I., are 
being booked by the M. R. Sheedy 
agency. 



Madame O thick, widely known 
through the northwest, was married 
Oct. 14 to Roy P. Madden, a film dis- 
tributor, in Salk Lake City. 



The Family, Lebanon, Pa., is 
liooked by Arthur Blondell in the Fam. 
Dept. of the U. B. O. Billy Delaney, 
in the same agency, is now taking care 
of the Temple, Syracuse. 



Mr. Tausky, who represents Henry 
VV. Savage on the other side, also the 
Wintergarten, Berlin, and Wilner Burg 
theater, Vienna, arrived in New York 
this week. 



The Jack Shea Vaudeville Road 
Show got under way Thursday with 
three days booked in Cortland, Geneva, 
Ithaca, Little Falls, Fulton and Glov- 
ersville, N. Y. Five acts are carried. 
Shea is personally managing. 

Gerta J. Southerland has started 
suit, through her attorneys, Eppstein 
& Rosenberg, against Clayton and 
Drew, for royalty claimed on the 
sketch "Othello Outdone." The act 
has been forced to cancel its time on 
account of the suit. 

William Woodin, manager of the 
Majestic, Towanda, N. Y., has leased 
the Keystone opera house and has sev- 
ered his connection with the Majestic. 
Lester C. Gillette, former manager of 
the Keystone, retires, while A. M. Slo- 
com succeeds Mr. Woodin. 



Robert Warwick has signed a con- 
tract with the World Film Corp., by 
which he will give that company his 
services exclusively for two years. He 
will continue to play on the legitimate 
stage during this period. 



Edna May Spooner may not return 
to stage this season as reported. She 
is at Lawrence, Mass., with her hus- 
band, who is leading man with the 
Malley-Denison stock company there. 
Her sister, Cecil Spooner, is also rest- 
ing after engaging in some strenuous 
picture work. 

"What Is Love?", the George Scar- 
borough piece which had short life at 
the Maxine Elliott theatre, is to be re- 
vived, according to new plans, and sent 
on tour through the popular-priced 
houses. Another piece which may go 
out within a few weeks is "The Ar- 
rival of Kitty." Negotiations are on 
for Robert Millikin to play his old 
tole. 



Sade de Waltoff has taken over the 
former William Fox theatre, at New 
Haven, and recalling it WaltofFs 
Grand, opened it Monday with pop 
vaudeville, six acts booked by Phil 
Taylor, New York. 



Arthur Goldsmith works while Mike 
Bentham polishes up the brass on his 
yacht. When Vinton and Buster 
dropped out of the Bushwick bill this 
week, through Mr. Vinton's illness, 
Arthur was there with Johnson and 
Wells as substitute, and when the 
Mortons could not make Cincinnati, 
Arthur was there again, with Byal and 
Early. Now you understand how Mike 
was able to take that European trip. 

Harry Swift, manager of the Har- 
lem opera house, pulled real circus 
stuff to draw business for his house 
this week. This is Carnival Week in 
Harlem and as a counter attraction 
Swift installed a 19-piece orchestra for 
lobby concerts in the afternoon. A 
special stunt is the sending out of 
three automobiles through the Har- 
lem and Washington Heights sections 
with moving cameras to take pictures 
of pedestrians. These pictures are 
shown the following day, in addition 
to a monster carnival vaudeville bill. 

To Lester Whitlock came a down- 
and-out actor a day or two ago, and 
lcquested a "breakfast loan." "I'm IS 
cents strong myself," counted Whit- 
lock, "and I've got to lunch yet." Then 
he had an idea. "Tell you what," he 
volunteered, "I'll send you to Corona, 
Long Island, for the day." "Fine!" 
chirruped the actor. "How much?" 
"One dollar," said Whitlock. "Can't be 
done," refused the other. "But this 
is NET," urged the agent. "Oh, all 
right, you're on," sighed the actor. 
Whitlock calls the transaction "Doing 
a Sheedy/ 1 



Gaston Palmer received a letter last 
week stating another cousin had been 
killed near Verdun Aug. 9. He left for 
the front without bidding his folks 
good-bye. It is the second cousin of 
Mr. Palmer who has been killed in the 
war. He has six others with the 
French and Belgian armies. 

Mabel Wilbur seems to have set St. 
Louis by the ears. The prima donna 
made her debut with the Park Opera 
Company in that city in "Mile. Mod- 
iste" and the critics liked her better in 
the role than Madam Scheff, and in 
comparing the two in the papers give 
Miss Wilbur the best of it 



TOMMY'S TATTLES. 

By Thomas J. Gray. 
New Broadway show carries 400 peo- 
ple — good idea — when business is bad 
half the cast can go out and sit in the 
audience. 

This is the three hundredth birthday 
of New York, and they are still telling 
some of the jokes told on its first birth- 
day. 

It's really heart-breaking to hear the 
acts returning from Europe tell about 
all the time they had to cancel. 

What the Choosers Say. 

"Why I've been doing that gag for 
five years." 

"A fellow I worked on the bill with 
gave it to me. He said he owned it." 

"The manager in Bunktown put that 
in our act." 

"Say, we did that at Pastor's 15 years 
ago and we just put it back in the act." 

"Your stuff? You didn't copyright 
the English language, did you?" 

"I got that out of a newspaper in 
Yonkers." 

"How is it the same? You say, 'Me 
for Nellie,' and we say, 'Me for Jen- 



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me. 

"We put it in one night by accident 
and it just seemed to fit" 

"The fellow who wrote the show put 
that gag in, not me." 

I was as happy as could be 
Until Mose Gumble smiled at me. 

A little dance, a little gag, 

A little song, a great big flag. 

• 
If you want to cop some dames 
Have a talk with Walter James. 

What can be worse, tell the truth, 
Than laying off, out in Duluth? 

Think of the days of long ago 
When imitations got the dough. 



Now that the musie publishers still 
insist they are not paying acts and the 
cabarets have to pay for singing songs, 
the song writers are liable to get some 
money. (Notice "liable.") 



BERNSTEIN'S CREDITORS. 

"Let nobody in. Tell 'em 1 diea 
yesterday or the day before and that 
1 can't see anybody now' shouted 
Freeman Bernstein, as he entered his 
olhce from the fire escape. 

"I can't stand this much longer," 
continued Mr. Bernstein, peeking 
through the ' keyhole into the hall. 
"Those fellows out there who say I 
owe them money are interfering with 
my business. My customers can't get 
through the crowd. 1 never seen such 
a bunch of guys. All they think 1 do 
is worry about paying them. 

"Here's a little inside stuff about 
how I stand. You know my rep. I 
can dodge more summonses than any 
man in the world. Have held the rec- 
ord for 15 years, and dodged as many 
as three a day without stopping busi- 
ness, but it's getting so now 1 can't 
walk on the main streets. They're 
everywhere. Did you notice me trip 
into you yesterday? Had to do it 
There was a guy right behind you that 
was looking at me too close. Free- 
man, says 1, hide that face or another 
judgment, so 1 tripped. 

"Oh, that's an old one. I could tell 
you a hundred stories about little 
things like that, but 1 never seen a 
season before like this for debts. I 
ain't met nobody in a week who didn't 
have a bill against me. It got so bad 
in the outside office I says to Sam, 
'Sam, you will have to ease up that 
crowd and cut down the jam. Get 
some money, hold it in a roll and ask 
if anyone has a five hundred dollar bill 
for small change. Maybe they will 
think we are all right and vamp.' 

"I felt sorry for Sam afterward. 
They almost killed him in the rush 
before finding it was stage money. 
When we pulled Sam out from under, 
the floor was an inch thick with state- 
ments the mob had dropped. 

"What's a guy to do with them fel- 
lows? They keep saying I've got to 
give them something and I keep giv- 
ing them a stall. If I had money do 
them guys think I would be here every 
morning at 8 to get to the mail first? 

"One day the crowd was so thick I 
called them all in. 'Gentlemen/ says 
I, 'times are very bad and I am afraid 
I must confess that I am involved (I 
heard a lawyer pull that once). I aint 
going to let no one lose one dollar by 
me, and if you say I owe you, that 
goes, but I don't want you to sue and 
send good money after bad. If you 
want your accounts settled that way, I 
will confess judgment to all of you 
right away, if you draw up the papers/ 

"Wasn't that liberal enough? And 
what do you think the rummies said 
to me? Come over here and I'll whis- 
per it. That's a new girl outside. 
But it kept them away for a day, then 
they came back and said they would 
take the judgments, as after looking 
me up they thought they would be 
lucky to get anything. By that time 
though I was sore, so to get even, I 
worked up a new line of creditors and 
they are the bunch outside. 

"As you go out draw your handker- 
chief across your face and say loud, so 
they all can hear it, 'Well, they caa 
talk about Freeman Bernstein, but it's 
too bad he had to go.' Maybe that 
will give me a chance to go out for 
lunch. Phone me if you get it over. 

BUM. 



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SYNDICATING "TRY OUT" HOUSE 
FOR FIVE N EW YOR K MANAGERS 

Adolf Phillip Theatre on 57th Street Reported as Limited 

Proposition for New Productions. Each Manager 

Allowed Four New Shows Yearly, Before Invited 

Audience that Will Be Pledged Not to Divulge 

Character of Play in Advance of 

Regular Presentation. 



It is said there is a movement on 
foot in which at least five producing 
managers are interested that may cul- 
minate in a syndicate taking over the 
Adolf Phillip theatre in East 57th 
street and using it as a tryout house 
tor productions intended for Broad- 
way. 

The managers mentioned refused to 
either confirm or deny the story. 

The source of information stated it 
was the purpose of the managers to 
produce plays and bar the general pub- 
lic and the critics of the daily papers. 
Five managers were to deposit $1,000 
each and each was to be permitted to 
try out four productions annually at the 
theatre. The managers in addition to 
posting the $1,000 would have to guar- 
antee the sale of a certain number of 
seats to each of his productions and 
also further guarantee that they would 
be placed in the hands of "reliable 
friends" who would not generally di- 
vulge the character of the entertain- 
ment witnessed. 



DRESSING ROOM RUN. 

Charles Cherry is changing com- 
panies but not theatres. He has been 
one of the principals with "The Beau- 
tiful Adventure." When that show 
withdraws for the road Saturday night 
Cherry retains his dressing room as 
he has been cast for an original role 
in the "Outcast" new Elsie Fergu- 
son show which opens there Nov. 2. 

Cherry has been showing from time 
to time at the Lyceum, but yet has to 
hit a play to enjoy a long run at that 
house. 



ARTHUR CASHES IN. 

Two companies playing "High 
Jinks" last week turned in a net profit 
of $6,500 to Arthur Hammerstein, own- 
er of the property. 

The No. 1 organization with Stella 
Mayhew and Billee Taylor did $14,000 
tfross at the Alvin, Pittsburgh. It was 
the capacity of the house. 



KOLKER IN "HIS SON." 

Los Angeles, Oct. 28. 

Henry Kolker has been withdrawn 
from the original "Help Wanted" to 
appear in reproduction of "His Son" 
by Louis Anspacher. 

The play was produced here several 
weeks ago during Oliver Morosco's 
eastern visit. 



ARBUCKLE SHOW OFF. 

The dramatized version of the "Judge 
Priest" stories which was prepared by 
Bayard Veillicr and Irwin Cobb and 
intended by Selwyn & Co., as a starring 
vehicle for Macklyn Arbuckle will not 
be put into rehearsal this month, as 
originally planned. 

Arbuckle has been placed under con- 



tract by Joseph Brooks for the revival 
of "The New Henrietta" which is to 
open in the middle west shortly. 
Others in the cast will be Mable Tali- 
ferro, Thomas Ross, W. H. Crane and 
Amelia Bingham. 



BENNETT LEAVES MUTUAL. 

H. Whitman Bennett, who left the 
general press agency of the Shuberts 
enterprise eight months ago to join 
the Mutual Film Corporation staff, in 
charge of the Continental (feature) 
branch, resigned this week. 

Mr. Bennett has several plans afoot 
he will likely work out on his own 
account. 



IRWIN SHOW NAMED. 

Rehearsals are expected to start Nov. 
15 for the new May Irwin show, "The 
Crimson Rambler," which is the joint 
work of Grant Stewart and Robert 
Baker. 

In addition to the Irwin piece, the 
Liebler Co. plans to bring out "Polly- 
anna" and "The Philosopher" after the 
first of the year. 



Redressing "The Only GirL" 
The company to appear in the new 
Joseph Weber production, "The Only 
Girl," opening at the 39th Street theatre 
next week, have been laying off in New 
York. The company ended its read 
tour in Buffalo Saturday. 

The reason for the week's layoff was 
to give the producer an opportunity to 
have new scenery and costumes pre- 
pared for the New York opening. 



COLLIER THANKSGIVING. 

The Cohan & Harris office say the 
yet unnamed farce in which they are to 
star William Collier will be ready to 
open Thanksgiving week. In the cast 
will be the comedian's wife, son Buster, 
Louise Dresser and James Bradbury. 



SECOND BEST ADVANCE. 

Los Angeles, Oct. 28. 
The second best advance sale of the 
season (Harry Lauder holds the rec- 
ord) greeted the return to this city of 
Oliver fcjprosco's "The Bird of Para- 
dise" this week, the affair being made 
a sort of home-coming event for the 
show and five of the cast. Bill Des- 
mond, David M. Hartford, David Lan- 
dau, Robert Morris and John Burton 
are all former local people who left 
here with the original company. 



Ann Swinburne Featured. 

Ann Swinburne is to be featured in 
a new play which Henry Blossom and 
Victor Herbert are writing. It's the 
second musical show these men have 
collaborated upon for production this 
season. 



OWNER-PLAYWRIGHT-ACTOR. 

When the new Punch and Judy thea- 
tre, on West 49th street, opens Nov. 
12, Charles Hopkins, owner-play- 
wright-actor, will have realized one of 
his long-cherished ambitions. Hop 

kins not only constructed the littlt 
house, but will direct the plays and 
play principal male roles. 

After his first two productions have 
been made Hopkins will then present 
his own piece "How Much Is a Mil- 
lion?" which he brought out at the 
Fine Arts theatre, Chicago, two sea- 
sons ago. 

Hopkins' wife is also a member of 
the company as are Herbert Yost, 
Louise Closser Hale and Lionel Bar- 
rymore. The manager and press pub- 
licist is Claxton Wilstach. 



MOROSCO'S NEW PLAYS. 

Los Angeles, Oct. 21. 

Oliver Morosco's next production 

will be "The Right of the Seigneur," a 

western drama from the pen of Thom- 
as Bradhurst. The coast producer has 
also accepted two plays from Alfred 
H. Brown called "Overland Red" and 
"The Lady of the Index." Both will 
have early productions. 



LEAVES WITH RECORD. 

Robert Graves, Jr., who organized 
the Robert Graves, Jr., Co., and pro- 
duced "The Reformer" out of town, 

has backed out of producing and is 
now exploiting an auto shock absorber 
for a New York concern. 

He's understood to be the first .man- 
ager who ever raised a company's sal- 
ary list at a dress rehearsal. 



New Producing Company. 

A new producing company has sev- 
eral productions planned for the ensu- 
ing season. Heading the new con- 
cern is J. Clyde Rigby, of the erst- 
while Mackay Productions Co., which 
brought out "The Red Canary." 

It's the Academic Production Co. 
(Inc.), officered by Jos. Riter, presi- 
dent; G. W. MacNamara, secretary- 
treasurer, with Rigby, general man- 
ager. 



No Play Conflict 

There is said to be no connection in 

"The Perfect Lady," with Rose Stahl, 

that opened at the Hudson Wednes- 
day, and "A Mix Up" that has Marie 
Dressier. 

The authors of the Stahl show 
looked over the manuscript of the 
Dressier piece. Both plays have a 
woman from burlesque in them. Miss 
Dressier opened last Saturday at 
Stamford, Conn. 



Another "Twin Beds" Co. 

Selwyn & Co. have placed a second 
"Twin Beds" company in rehearsal. 
The second company is intended for a 
road tour, while the original show 
remains at the Fulton. 



Joe Totten, Picture Director. 

Joseph Byron Totten left Sunday for 
Chicago where he joins the Essanay 
Co. as picture director. 



OPENINGS. 

Six new shows were shown to New 
Yorkers for the first time this week 
and six others are to be produced 
next week. Monday night saw 
"Experience" at the Booth and "The 
Highway of Life" at Wallack's. The 
former was unfavorably compared 
with "Everywoman" by the critics. 
"The Highway of Life" may prove a 
draw with a certain element who are 
lovers of Dickens' writings. 

Wednesday night Rose Stahl appeared 
in "A Perfect Lady" at the Hudson. The 
critics praised the star but regretted 
she did not have a better^vehicle. The 
same evening at the 44th Street An- 
dreas Dippel presented "The Lilac 
Domino." The score was pronounced 
delightful, but the book, adapted by 
Harry B. and Robert B. Smith, was 
taken to task for its weakness. 

Thursday night Adele Blood made 
her debut in New York as a star in 
"Milady's Boudoir" at the Garrick. It 
was said by the papers the play will 
not achieve extraordinary success. 

Tonight at the Lyric "The Battle 
Cry" will be shown for the first time 
in town. 

The openings for next week include 
three musical pieces. Two of them, 
"Papa's Darling" and "The Only Girl," 
will be given Monday night. On the 
same evening Marie Tempest will open 
in repertoire and Elsie Ferguson will 
appear in "Outcast." There has been 
an advance for latter piece since the 
sale opened Thursday. 

"Suzi," the Lew Fields production, 
is to be shown for the first time in 
New York at the Casino Tuesday 
night, and Madam Nazimova in "That 
Sort" is to follow "The Salamander" 
into the Harris Friday night. 

There is also to be a special open- 
ing Monday night at the Broadway 
Rose Gardens under the management 
of Ed. E. Pidgeon. 

Monday a week Mrs. Patrick Camp- 
bell in "Pygmalion" will move from 
the Park to the Liberty, succeeding 
Douglas Fairbanks in "He Comes Up 
Smiling" at the latter house. "The 
Garden of Paradise," another Liebler 
production, is booked for the Park. 



Managers Moving. About. 

Chicago, Oct. 29. 

Jones, Linick & Schaeffer has shifted 
their managers around, dropping 
George Harrison from the Colonial 
staff and moving Norman Field of the 
Willard to the "loop" theatre. Ches- 
ter Amberg will manage the Willard 

Harrison came over with the Chi- 
cago firm when they purchased the 
American Music Hall. 



"SEPT. MORN" ORGANIZING. 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 

A new "September Moin" is being 
prepared to tour the west to the coast, 
scheduled for a Nov. 15 opening. 



Manager Can't be Found. 

Spring Valley, 111., Oct. 21. 
Traveling combinations playing 
Spring Valley had sent on paper and 
billing matter only to have the show 
arrive and find the stuff in the freight- 
house. 



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ACTORS-MANAGERS' MEETING 

TO ASSURE FAIR CONTRACT 



With Both the Managers 9 Producing Association and the Act- 
ors 9 Equity Association Willing to get Together on Uni- 
form Agreement* Important Session Pending. 



With a view to reaching a mutual 
agreement by the parties interested a 
meeting will be held within the next 
fortnight between committees repre- 
senting the Actors' Equity Association 
and the Managers' Producing Associa- 
tion wherein a uniform equitable con- 
tract will be submitted. 

The managers have been sounded by 
the actors and at the forthcoming 
meeting all the salient points pro and 
con will be carefully gone over. 

As contracts now stand one manager 
may give two weeks' notice, another 
one week, a third 6ve days and still 
another three days, etc. This is ex- 
pected to be changed by a stipulated 
time for all players in the new con- 
tract. Furthermore, the actors would 
like to have two weeks' work guaran- 
teed if they are given four weeks' re- 
hearsal. 

The Equity Association enters a de- 
nial to the report it is shortly to oper- 
ate an employment bureau in connec- 
tion with its present offices. 



Included in the -cast are Thomas V. 
Emory, Aldrich Bowker, Malcolm 
Duncan, France Bendtsen, Arvid Paul- 
son, William B. Moore, Morton Will- 
iams, Gregory Kelly, Eleanor Gordon, 
Olive Temple, Kate Mahew, Aletha 
Walters, Alice Madison. 



ON THE ONE NIGHT TRAIL 

That some parts of the road are 
played to death is best illustrated at 
Cumberland, Md., where last week were 
10 performances by more than half a 
dozen different traveling combinations 
at the Maryland theatre. 

"Ma's New Husband" has hit the 
North Dakota trails under a Mr. 
Crow's direction. 

"On the Frontier" is the roadster 
which Tom Casey is piloting through 
Iowa and the middle west. 

"Henpecked Henry" i» a new Halton 
Powell attraction which Harry Rice is 
blazing the trail for in the west 



"DELPHINE," $12,000 LOSER. 

Savannah, Oct. 29. 
Klaw & Erlanger's production of 
"Oh, Oh Delphipe," closed here to- 
night after a tour lasting eight weeks. 
The musical comedy is reported as 
$12,000 behind since leaving New York. 



DELEGATES SELECTED. 

Local Union No. 2, Billposters of 
New York, affiliated with the Inter- 
national Billposters' Alliance, held an 
important meeting Sunday afternoon. 

The following delegates to the In- 
ternational meeting in Scranton, Pa., 
starting Dec. 5, were elected: William 
McCarthy, John Busby, Henry Gal- 
lagher, Harry Regansburg. 



JOS. BROOKS' "CHICKENS." 
"Mother Carey's Chickens" is being 
dramatized by Rachel Crothers and is 
reported as a January production by 
Joseph Brooks, with Edith Taliaferro 
in the leading feminine role. 



5-HOUR "MERCEDES." 

Boston, Oct 28. 
Julia Arthur (Mrs. Benjamin P. Che- 
ney, Jr.) is to return to the stage, after 
retiring a number of years ago. She 
will give one performance, the pro- 
ceeds to be given in aid of the Euro- 
pean Actors' Relief Fund and the 
American Red Cross Fund to be sent 
to Paris. Rehearsals have been in 
progress at the Plymouth for two weeks 
and it was intended to produce the 
Bailey Aldrich masterpiece "Mercedes" 
at this house Friday afternoon, Nov. 6. 
The advance sale has been so heavy 
it was announced the performance will 
be shifted to the Boston theater, which 
has a seating capacity of 4,300. The 
cast will also include Ernest Glendin- 
ning, William Courtleigh, Forrest Rob- 
inson and Madame Mathilde Cottrelly. 



NEW PLAY COMBINATION. 

Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 28. 

A star who has never before ap- 
peared in spoken drama, in a play 
never before exhibited, by a play- 
wright who has never before been 
known as such, formed a novel com- 
bination at the Empire Thursday 
night. 

The combination was Mme. Lopo- 
kova in "The Young Idea," by Ethel 
Watts Mumford, and produced by 
Harrison Grey Fiske. 

The play is a comedy based on the 
conflict of the iu w ideas of democracy, 
the rights of labor and the sphere of 
woman on the one side, against the 
oppression of capital, wealth and so- 
cial position on the other. The play 
Hid a good business for three nights. 



RAMBEAU DIVORCING MACK. 

Marjorie Rambeau is preparing a 
suit for divorce against Willard Mack, 
and has instructed her attorney to file 
papers as a result of the discord which 
has disturbed their marital happiness 
for several years. A separation was 
threatened a year ago, but through the 
kindly offices of a mutual friend the 
pair were reconciled. Miss Rambeau 
is quoted as saying this action will be 
final. 

Mack is the author of "Kick In," at 
the Longacre theatre, New York. It 
was elaborated from a vaudeville 
sketch, once played on the circuits by 
Mr. Mack and Miss Rambeau. 



Another Mack Play Rehearsing. 

Helen Lowell has started rehearsals 
of a new play by Willard Mack, the 
author of "Kick In." In the cast there 
will be Charles Crompton, Katherine 
Belknap, Pell Trenton and Frances 
Carson. 



HIGH PRICES FOR GLOBE TICKETS 

The high price obtained by the 
speculators for tickets to the Mont- 
gomery and Stone show at the Globe 
gave no signs of falling off this week. 
Nearly the entire orchestra has been 
placed "outside" with McBride report- 
ed to have secured the majority of the 
coupons for each evening. 

From $6 to $7 and $8 a pair have 
teen obtained for front seats. Not- 
withstanding the speculator sale, the 
Globe since the "Chin Chin" opening 
has seriously cut into the receipts at 
the Knickerbocker ("Girl from Utah") 
and the Winter Garden ("Dancing 
Around"). The Knickerbocker's gross 
each evening last week averaged $700 
less than for the same day the week 
before, and the Garden, always good 
for 10 weeks of solid business with a 
new attraction, felt the immediate ef- 
fect of the opposition. 



"SALAMANDER" CLOSING. 

"The Salamander," the dramatiza- 
tion of Owen Johnson's novel which 
Selwyn & Co. presented at the Harris 
theatre last week will breathe its last 
Wednesday next. Until Monday the 
Selwyns had made up their mind to 
"plug" the show, but on that day they 
cancelled $3,000 worth of newspaper 
advertising laid out. 

Nazimova ; n "That Sort" will be the 
attraction to follow -nto the Harris. 
The opening date is set as Nov. 6. 



STAIR & HAVLIN WITHDRAW. 

Altoona, Pa., Oct. 28. 

All Stair & Havlin bookings for the 
Mishler theatre, this city, have been 
cancelled, as well as at the Cambria, 
Johnstown, owing to dull business. At- 
tractions appearing at the local theatre 
the first half of the week and at Johns- 
town the latter half failed to draw at 
popular prices. 

Burlesque and such shows as are ob- 
tainable will appear at the local house 
the remainder of the season. 



ROAD BILLING COMPETITION. 

When Phil de Angelis started out a 
number of bill posting outfits over 
land he did not know he started 
something. Nevertheless, sending one 
outfit to Bridgeport billing every foot 
of the Boston Post Road; another to 
Poughkeepsie, via the Albany State 
Road, and a third to Long Island, re- 
sulted in the Shuberts sending out road 
crews, with A. H. Woods following it 
up last week. 



PATTI TROUPE SOUTH. 

"Lucky Sam from Alabam" is the 
title adopted by the Black Patti troupe 
for its three-act musical show which 
has been given a southern tour. 



BRANDON TYNAN SPRING STAR 
It's Broadway talk Brandon Tynan, 
now with "Joseph and His Brethren" 
is to appear as a star in a new Irish 
piece early in the spring under the 
direction of Liebler & Co. 



Line on Stock Play. 

"The Woman on the Wall," a new 
play which may hit the road later, was 
given a stock production last week by 
the Ewald Co., Akron, O. 



STRICT ORDERS IN BOSTON. 

Boston, Oct. 28. 

Bare legs, aisle parading, and the 

use of the runway by the chorus were 

officially taken up by Mayor Curley at 

the petition of the Watch and Ward 
Society and Police Commissioner 
O'Meara after the first performance 
here of "The Passing Show of 1914." 

£. D. Smith, manager of the three 
Shubert Rouses, was called Tuesday 
afternoon to City Hall and after the 
conference it was announced that for 
the next three and a half years, which 
is the length of time the present mayor 
has to serve, there will be no more 
mingling of players with the audience 
in any Boston theater. Bareness is 
forbidden hereafter. 

"The Passing Show" when it reached 
the Shubert theatre carried knee 
trunks, tight fitting, that had been 
found necessary in Philadelphia and it 
was the Philadelphia agitation that 
started the storm here. 

The previous week Al Reeves at the 
Gaiety sent his girls down through the 
audience without any objection by the 
"purity squad" which has kept Boston 
managers on their ears ever since "The 
Easiest Way" was barred from every 
Boston theatre. 

"Nudity or a draped form is no more 
art at the Old Howard in a burlesque 
show than it would be at the Boston 
opera house," said Mayor Curley em- 
phatically. "But it is not any less art, 
either." Tuesday afternoon the mayor 
positively stopped the use of even the 
runway on the backs of the orchestra 
chairs which dates back to "Sumurun" 
in this city. Later he changed this 
for a "trial week" on condition that the 
chorus cover their thighs and not kick 
footballs or display their legs unneces- 
sarily. 

Keith's this week is showing Hen- 
riette De Serris and her IS models in 
living reproductions of famous works 
of art, but no objection was raised. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 28. 

Director of Police Porter has an- 
nounced that hereafter chorus girls in 
burlesque and musical companies must 
not appear in bare legs. A censor- 
ship has been established and plain 
clothes men will attend first night per- 
formances to prevent undraped dis- 
plays. 

The police decided, according to one 
wag, that "a knee is a joint and not 
an entertainment," and have put the 
ban on for good. 



"Blindness" on a 8hoestring. 

Ed. "Cosey" Dolan and Frank Barry 
(the latter formerly of the A. H. 
Woods office) are going to put out 
"The Blindness of Virtue" for a con- 
templated tour of the one-nighters on 
a shoestring. The "firm" has exactly 
$60 which they are willing to spend on 
the production. 

None of the members of the com- 
pany is permitted an advance. 

The production is to open in Som- 
merville, N. J., with two dress re- 
hearsals, matinee and night. Saturday 
two additional dress rehearsals are to 
be given in another town. 

The "firm" hopes to get a little fall 
money for the troupe in this way. 



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VARIETY 



ROAD "FIRST NIGHT" VERDICTS 
AUGUR WELL FOR NEW SHOWS 



"Suzi" Well Liked. Marie Dressier'* Latest a Hit. Nazimova 
"Over" in "That Sort." "Outcast" Bully. O'Dare 



Clever. Other Reports. 



Providence, Oct. 28. 

Not in several seasons has a mu- 
sical piece received a more rousing re- 
ception in this town than did "Suzi" 
at the opera house Monday night. It 
is the unanimous opinion here that in 
the operetta Lew Fields has a genuinely 
valuable bit of property. Mr. Fields 
himself came on Sunday night for a 
dress rehearsal to which most of the 
newspaper folk of the city were in- 
vited. When the final curtain rang 
down, the audience cheered Mr. Fields 
and his entertainment 

The music of "Suzi," by Aladar Renyi, 
is brilliant and sparkling; the adapted 
book by Otto Hauerbach is the best 
thing he has done in moons; and the 
settings are superb. Jose Collins as 
Suzi won many admirers by her intel- 
ligent and sympathetic portrayal. Tom 
MacNaughton has a good comedy part, 
which will improve with playing. 
Others who made Jaughing hits were 
Connie Ediss, Fritzi von Busing and 
Lew Hearn. With a week's tuning up 
here "Suzi" will be right for its New 
York opening next Tuesday. 

While in the city Mr. Fields spoke 
up bravely for Providence as a know- 
ing "dog" town against the attacks of 
A. E. Thomas and others recently. 

When Lew Fields attended the dress 
rehearsal of "Suzi" in Providence last 
Sunday night he was so dissatisfied 
with the two sets he immediately sent 
to New York for John Young and 
Robert Law to design and paint a new 
production. Young and Law, accom- 
panied by William Kellam and Robt. 
Williams, went to Providence Monday 
and looked over the production, and 
Wednesday delivered new scene models 
to the Fields office which were accept- 
ed. 

The new sets will be ready for the 
opening of the show Tuesday night. 



Atlantic City, Oct. 28. 

Mme. Alia Nazimova's new play 
"That Sort" was shown for the first 
time at the Apollo late last week. 
Basil McDonald Hastings is the au- 
thor. The play is built on the theme 
of mother-love, the principal character 
being Diana Laska, a woman of the 
streets, redeemed by her love of a 
daughter. The story has several mo- 
ments that will probably be called dis- 
agreeable. 

Diana is cast off by her husband for 
unfaithfulness and sinks to degrada- 
tion, but always remembers her child. 
The play begins with her attempt at 
suicide. She recovers and by the in- 
•fluence of a kindly doctor is introduced 
.into the household of her former hus- 
lband and their daughter, now grown 
tto young womanhood. 

The girl is engaged to a man with 



whom the mother had lived as mis- 
tress. The mother protests against 
the match and threatens to make dis- 
closures. The man thereupon offers 
the mother terms. He will give up the 
girl if she (Diana) will return to her 
old relations with him. Otherwise he 
will tell the girl her mother's history. 
There the play ends. The cast in- 
cludes Vincent Serrano, David Glass- 
ford, Beatrice Prentice, Charles Brown, 
Jessie Abbot, Carrie Merriless, Mildred 
Seagram. Clifford Brooks produced 
the piece for the Liebler Co. 

Atlantic City, Oct. 28. 

Under the title of "A Mix-Up" the 
new Marie Dressier piece was present- 
ed here Monday night at the Apollo 
and hailed as one of the funniest farces 
the season so far has disclosed. The 
premiere was one continuous laugh. 
There were those among the first-night 
audience — most of them having jour- 
neyed from New York — who declared 
the super-dreadnought comedienne had 
never been funnier. 

The farce deals with the familiar 
theme of an innocent husband convict- 
ed of impropriety on circumstantial 
evidence. A strange woman invades 
his apartment, just in time to be 
caught by his puritanical uncle. Hus- 
band is forced to introduce her as his 
wife. Wife returns and there you are! 
Miss Dressier sings one song, a 
tongue tangler called "Sister Susie 
Subtly Sews Sailors' Soft Shirts." 
Bert Lytell is seen to advantage as the 
husband.' Others in the cast are Nellie 
DeCrasse, Evelyn Vaughn, Helen 
Beaumont, Robert Ober, John P. 
Dougherty. 

Parker A. Hord wrote the play. It 
was staged by J. C. Huffman. 



Baltimore, Oct. 28. 
Francis O'Dare, the Irish romantic 
actor, made his first American appear- 
ance Monday night at the Colonial the- 
atre in the patriotic drama, "Rollick- 
ing Shannon." It was the first big pre- 
miere for the playhouse. The play 
seems certain to make good if the en- 
cores on the opening night can be ac- 
cepted fof anything. 

The drama scintillates with Irish 
wit, although it has also many strong 
dramatic situations. Mr. O'Dare sings 
a number of Ireland's patriotic songs 
in a pleasing voice and his acting is 
clever. He is fully capable of portray- 
ing the Celtic types. 

The supporting company is excep- 
tionally strong. Dan Morris Sullivan 
as Darby McCabe, an innkeeper, is a 
genuine Irishman, whose ready wit and 
repartee won quick appreciation. 
Others are Leo C. Bell, William 
O'Leary, Scott Moore, Scott Roberts, 



Nora Kavanaugh, Jeanette Mansfield, 
Cora Elvira, Margaret Gallagher. 

Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 28. 
The percentage is with "The Out- 
cast" (Elsie Ferguson), opening here 
at the Empire Monday. Miss Fergu- 
son gave a bully performance. The 
show's first three acts are very good, 
with a very bad fourth act. 

"REVOLT" IN CHICAGO. 

Helen Ware opened Sunday night 
at the American Music Hall in "The 
Revolt," the Edward Locke problem 
play first shown in Philadelphia and 
then switched by its producer, I. Flue- 
gelman, to the road. •» 

The attraction rededicated the Music 
Hall to the legitimate. The usual $2 
scale is shaded so that most of the 
seats bring $1. A packed house was 
present at the premiere here. 



BAD MONDAY NIGHT. 

Monday night, normally not unusual- 
ly good for theatricals, was abnormal- 
ly bad this week. Everything around 
town felt the slump. The biggest hits 
failed to sell out, and for the first time 
since opening, the hotels had "Chin 
Chin" tickets left on their hands. 

Monday evening turned chilly and 
was fine show weather. No explana- 
tion was given for the falling off that 
night, excepting New York theatres are 
suffering just now from the rmall 
number of transients in town. 



SHOWS IN FRISCO. 

San Francisco, Oct. 28. 

George Arliss in "Disraeli" register- 
ed over $8,000 on his first week at the 
Columbia. Indications point to an in- 
crease on this week's business. 

"The Whip" opened to capacity at 
the Cort Sunday. 

Business is light at the Alcazar, with 
stock. 



SHOWS IN NEW ORLEANS. 

New Orleans, Oct. 28. 

Emma Bunting's stock company Is 
outdrawing every legitimate attrac- 
tion in New Orleans in its first week's 
occupancy of its own theatre. 

"Too Many Cooks" at the Crescent 
is doing better business than "The 
Midnight Girl," a mediocre attraction 
at the Tulane. 

Receipts have slumped with the Beru- 
clie-Gypzene Players at the Lyric. 
South Pole pictures draws fair patron- 
age at the LaFayette. 



SCHEFF SHOW ON ROAD. 

The Fritzi Scheff ("Pretty Mrs. 

Smith") show, which closes its Casino 

engagement tonight, will lay off next 

week and on Nov. 9 will play a week 

of one nighters through New England 
to follow with a week's engagement at 
the Majestic, Brooklyn. The road trip 
has been arranged by George Ander- 
son, Miss Scheff's husband, who has 
taken the show over from Oliver Mo- 
rosco. 

Charlotte Greenwood and Sidney 
Grant will remain with the company. 

A complete route is to be laid out 
through the Shubert houses before the 
Brooklyn engagement is at an end. 



SHOWS CLOSING. 

O. E. Wee closed the western "The 
Girl He Couldn't Buy" at Harvard, 
111., Oct. 2a 

"The Marriage Game" closed Satur- 
day night in Jersey City. It is the John 
Cort show which had Olive Tell in the 
former Alexandra Carlisle role. Just 
when it had been set for Florence 
Roberts to head the road tour the 
management called the whole thing off. 



KOLB AND PILL SHOW OFF. 

San^rancisco, Oct. 28. 

As a result of ^Ax Dill fracturing 

his ankle the opening night of "The 

Rollicking Girl" at the Gaiety, it has 
been decided by the management to 
temporarily close the show Nov. 1 and 
keep it idle until Dill's condition per- 
mits his return to the cast. The notice- 
able effect of Dill's absence on the box 
office receipts led to this decision. 

"Let's Get Married," scheduled to 
tour the interior one-nighters, has been 
secured to replace the Kolb and Dill 
show, opening Nov. 2. 



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•RED WIDOW," FAIRLY. 

Los Angeles, Oct 28. 
"The Red Widow," given at the Mo- 
rosco by a cast secured in New York, 
was fairly well done, with Harry Grib- 
bon playing the role created by Ray- 
mond Hitchcock. Grace Edmond was 
prima donna. Others included Edwin 
Wilson, Bessie Devoie, Jack Pollard 
and May Emory. 



BOTH PLAYING "GOODS." 

There are two productions of "Dam- 
aged Goods" in Newark this week. The 
Richard Bennett Co-Workers are at the 

Newark theatre with one production, 
while the Forsberg Players are at the 
Orpheum playing the same piece in 
stock. 

Manager Forsberg said Monday he 
was willing to gamble his organization 
would play to four times as much as 
the Bennett organization. When asked 
the reason he said his goods were 
more damaged than the regular at- 
traction. 



ROSENBERGS ARE IN. 

Walter and Jerome Rosenberg have 
an interest in the Daly Theatre Co., 
the Charles Taylor enterprise schedul- 
ed to begin at the long dark Daly's 
theatre Nov. 23 with a revival of 
' Yosemite." 

Taylor is understood to have inter- 
ested others in the project to the ex- 
tent of investments totaling $11,000 in 
stock. 



BRIGHTER IN SOUTH. 

Norfolk, Oct. 28. 
Business in local theaters is better 
this week and the managers express 
themselves as much encouraged. The 
Wells theaters are hampered by notices 
of many cancellations. 

Princess Theatre Sketch Out 

"Phipps," one of the sketches at the 
Princess theatre, may be removed from 
the repertoire this week. There is a 
possibility "The Outcry," by Henry 
Kitchell Webster, will replace it. 



VARIETY 



13 



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will be promptly forwarded. 



WITH THE WOMEN 



London, Oct. 16. 

Although London has been operating 
under half lights at night for some 
time past the Secretary of State for 
the Home Department, under regula- 
tions for the defence of the realm, has 
issued additional strictures on the sub- 
ject and the town will be still further 
subdued in the matter of illumination. 
From now on, all sky signs, illuminated 
lettering and powerful lights of all de- 
scriptions used for outside advertising 
or for illumination of shop fronts must 
be entirely extinguished. The effect is 
anything but conducive to the gaiety 
of the city and this, added to the clos- 
ing of all saloons at 11 o'clock, gives 
one small opportunity for late festivi- 
ties. The early closing regulations ap- 
ply to the numerous supper clubs which 
have sprung up in the past two or three 
years so that now it is impossible to 
secure liquid refreshment anywhere but 
in the legitimate clubs and one's own 
domicile after the stipulated closing 
hour. It is no uncommon sight to see 
a bevy of visitors to a music hall turned 
out of the bars promptly at 11 o'clock 
with the show still in progress. 



Two signs constantly appear before 
one's view throughout the United King- 
dom at the present time, to the exclu- 
sion of almost all others. One reads 
"A call to Arms. Your King and your 
Country need you" and the other is 
"Funds urgently needed." 

At one of the suburban parks, which 
maintains a public tennis court, there 
were a number of young chaps engaged 
in tennis when a grizzled old war vet- 
eran, much the worse for alcoholic in- 
dulgence passed. He stood for a mo- 
ment and watched the chaps, when sud- 
denly his stentorian voice was heard 
crying: "Change your racket for a 
rifle." It was a rather impressive mo- 
ment. Everyone stopped and the 
youths dropped their tennis rackets, 
rolled down their sleeves, donned their 
coats and slipped away more or less 
shamefacedly. It is a rather remarka- 
ble thing though, that the English chap- 
pies have enlisted with such uniform- 
ity. It is safe to say that you could 
traverse London from one end to the 
other and not find a single monocled 
gentleman of eligible ape who is not 
wearing the uniform. 



Chappell & Co., the English music 
publishers, conducting a large concert 
agency in connection with their busi- 
ness, have issued a notice that they 
will not be in a position to offer artists 
dates who sing at charity concerts "got 
up by irresponsible people to advertise 
themselves." This is construed by some 
to mean that they prefer that the ar- 
tists shall not give their services for 
any of the numerous relief funds, ex- 
cepting those that they may organize, 



or which will interfere with their reg- 
ular business. It has called forth a 
large amount of adverse criticism for 
the concern. 



A number of the German people who 
have become citizens of England have 
been compelled to register as alien ene- 
mies and are proscribed from travelling 
further than five miles from their dom- 
iciles. At a recent jury trial counsel 
for the defendant objected to a German 
serving as a juryman in his case on the 
ground that he might be unduly preju- 
diced. 

The new production "Business as 
Usual," at the Hippodrome, shortly 
due, has been secured for America. 
For this reason all the musical num- 
bers will be of native origin. The 
book is by Albert de Courville and F. 
W. Mark (the latter being Lucas, the 
well-known writer for Punch). The 
music is by James Glover. 



At one of the west end halls last 
week, out of twelve turns, eleven came 
on singing patriotic songs. The clos- 
ing number was an acrobat and the 
audience felt that, at last, they would 
escape another outburst. But at the 
close of his performance he waved a 
huge Union Jack. 



All the old Boer war jokes are being 
brought up to date and gags that were 
told a few years ago about Buller, De 
Wet, etc., slightly altered and the 
names of French, Jelicoe and the 
Kaiser substituted. 



George Robey entered the Cavour 
the other day with an envelope ad- 
dressed to the Crown Prince of Ger- 
many and directed from an English 
firm. It had been returned to sender 
hearing the endorsement from the 
English Post Office as follows: "Ndt 
known, return to sender." Robey is 
keeping it as a souvenir of the present 
European upheaval. 



A story they are telling is about an 
Trish regiment secreted in ambush in 
France and waiting for some Germans 
to pass. The enemy, according to in- 
formation, is due in about 20 minutes. 
With gun in hand the Celts wait pa- 
tiently for over two hours and then 
when they fail to put in an appearance 
the Captain, unable to control himself 
any longer, finally jumps up and yells 
to his men: "I hope nothing has hap- 
pened to them." 



Bert FcMman, the London music 
publisher, is said to be the financial 
sponsor behind Goldston's Magical 
Parlour which is being opened on 
Green street, Leicester Square. 



At the Eltinge theatre "Innocent" 
has Pauline Frederick. A better selec- 
tion couldn't have been made. Miss 

Frederick is superb in her role. The 
part calls for much dressing. Miss 
Frederick's house gown of white satin 
with pink bodice was enveloped on a 
mantel of fine white lace (act three). 
In act four Miss Frederick appears in 
a cloak of tan brocade with martin col- 
lar and cuffs. An evening gown un- 
derneath was wonderful. The founda- 
tion was Nile green over which was a 
robe of emerald green in chenille dots 
outlined with brilliants. The bodice 
was merely diamond straps. Another 
gown was of three flounces of gold 
lace. The waist in straight lines was 
in blue and gold design, laced at the 
sides with gold cord and tassels. A 
flat black hat, edged in feathers, was 
worn with this dress. 



Miss Mone at the Broadway Kos« 
Gardens, is wearing a stunning danc- 
ing frock. The straight waist of gold 
cloth has a skirt of red accordion 
plaitings. A gold and red cap, with 
much fringe is employed, adding to the 
striking costume. 



"Under Cover" at the Cort is very 
interesting, but it doesn't become so 
until the first act is nearly ended. The 
play calls for well-dressed women, 
and with Lucille Watson in the cast 
one expects good clothes. Miss Wat- 
son lived up to expectations. The 
one evening gown worn by her was 
very beautiful, black satin combined 
with jet and tulle. Lola Fisher looked 
sweetly girlish in a pink and gold 
frock. Lily Cahill in the first act wore 
a good-looking tailored dress of black 
broadcloth with pointed flounces and 
patent belt. An evening dress follow- 
ing Grecian lines was of white satin 
with girdle of gold. Miss Cahill dia 
considerable work in a neglige of white 
and pale blue. Rae Selwyn looked 
very pretty in a striking costume of 
coral cloth. 



Bert Baker and "The Bon Ton Girls" 
at the Bastable, Syracuse, the first half 
of this week, had good looking girls, 
and they played to an entire gum-chew- 
ing audience. That's about all they 
have to do in Syracuse after supper, 
chew gum or go to the theatre, and 
the Bastable bunch does both. I sup- 
pose in these hard times, the Syracus- 
ans are cutting off the dessert for the 
evening meal, substituting the penny- 
in-the-slot luxury. The first part of the 
Baker show is a quarrel between two 
married couples. It wasn't funny and 
made almost as much noise as the gum 
ch ewers. Midgie Miller was the single 
bright spot in it. She was a picture in 
blue tights and white jersey. Mr. 
Baker is so prominent in the perform- 
ance he must confess to himself the 
show is suffering from too much Baker. 
For the opening chorus the girls wore 
shirt waist costumes of different colors 
with hats and parasols of the same 
shades. Miss Miller first entered in a 
grey taffeta with jacket trimmed in 
black and white stripes, with a pink 



belt. She is a pretty blonde, some- 
what resembling Mary Pickford. Mer- 
cedes Alvin, a brunette, was unusual in 
a black and white checked tailor made. 
For her specialty Miss Alvin wore a 
striking dress. The skirt was figured 
satin in purple, yellow and green. The 
bodice was plain purple. Miss Alvin 
encountered some trouble through a 
few "Johns" seated down front, but 
she handled them properly. It's just as 
well, too, for any "John" in Syracuse 
who was ever wealthy enough to buy 
a regular meal has gone broke, leav- 
ing only the beer-and-pipe college boys 
to pose around. Lucille Manion, rath- 
er stout, wore a blue crepe de chine 
tor her first. She changed to a flow- 
ered dress of three flounces, and then 
to green and white. One tight number 
was well dressed. The girls look nice 
in evening clothes, made along up-to- 
date lines. Miss Manion's evening 
gown of black with white bodice was 
very becoming. A soubret dress of 
black velvet with diamond top was 
worn by Miss Miller, and Miss Alvin 
also had a smart appearance in a coral 
skirted dress with white waist and black 
belt. During the action of the show a 
rapid transformation is executed, the 
scene going from a dive to a ballroom. 
"The Bon Tons" did fairly in Syra- 
cuse. 



"LADY LUXURY" CHANGES HANDS. 

It is understood along Broadway 
that when "Lady Luxury" is finally 
produced in New York it will be un- 
der a management other than the one 
originally sponsoring the production. 

The piece is at present in rehearsal 
after having been recasted. 

Fred C. Whitney was the first man- 
ager. The piece opened in Detroit 
several weeks ago and later went to 
His Majesty's theatre, Montreal, for 
two weeks. All the reports from the 
road that reached New York regard- 
ing the production seemed to indicate 
that it was a big hit. 

Several of the theatres in New York 
were mentioned as likely to house the 
attraction. Suddenly it was reported 
that the show would close and come 
to New York to be recasted. Two 
weeks ago the company came in and 
since it has been rehearsing under the 
direction of Ben Teal. Early this 
week came rumors of trouble in the 
ranks of those behind the production 
and that the monied men were dissat- 
isfied. On top of this there came a 
report the rights of the piece were to 
be taken by another manager, and that 
it would be brought into New York 
shortly. 

All efforts to obtain any informa- 
tion at the Whitney office proved 
fruitless. The authoress, Rida John- 
son Young, could not be reached at her 

hotel. 

Charles B. Dillingham is the man- 
ager most mentioned as the one likely 
to steer the destinies of the produc- 
tion when it is finally launched again. 



14 



VARIETY 







M. Mf CLOY 







We have all heard of the fellow who 
plays a "conservative" game of poker. 
He never "stays" on less than two 
pairs, and he wouldn't open a jackpot 
with less than threes unless it was his 
last say and everybody else had passed. 
When the time set for quitting ar- 
rives, he usually insists upon sticking 
to the arrangement if he is winner, and 
if he is loser, urges an hour's exten- 
sion. If everybody stays and raises 
and hopes it will go round once or 
twice more and he is last man, you 
may be certain he will call, even if he 
holds a straight flush up to a king, 
because, he figures, someone may have 
a straight flush up to an ace. You will 
see him covertly scrutinizing the backs 
and the edges of the cards, because 
the "conservative" player is also a 
suspicious man and nobody is going 
to put anything over on him. You 
couldn't get him into a table-stakes 
game. A stiff raise, such as he might 
go up against with no limit, would 

give him heart disease unless he held 
a royal flush and knew that the other 
three aces were in the discard! 

It is wrong to call this fellow a 
"conservative player." The fact is, he 
is a piker. The wonder is that he 
would sit in a game at all. And there 
are a lot of this kind of "conserva- 
tives" in the theatrical game. In 
planning a production their one ab- 
sorbing idea is how cheaply they can 
get it together. They are not prompt- 
ed by the "go after it" spirit. They 
are cheaters and they are not broad- 
minded enough to see that in the end 
they simply cheat themselves. 

As Jack Haverly used to say, "some 
fellows heads go this way, some fel- 
lows heads go that way," illustrating 
the comparison with his hands indi- 
cating the tapering of a cone. You 
will observe that the "big fellows" that 
sit in the theatrical game go the limit 
in all circumstances. If they stand 
pat they "play it to the ceiling." When 
they draw and "help," you couldn't 
drive them out. If they fail to im- 
prove on the draw they will take a 
chance and stick. I remember the 
very first production Klaw & Erlan- 
ger made. It was a big melodrama 
for those days called "The Great Me- 
tropolis." They believed they held a 
good hand on the go-in. That was the 
manuscript. In the draw they "helped" 
with a cast and a perfect scenic investi- 
ture and there was no limit to the ad- 
vertising equipment. The order to the 
advance man was, "cut loose. Don't 
be a piker!" The money that was 
spent ahead of the show, or the bets 
that were made as we may call them, 
would have frightened your "conserva- 
tive" player into a fit. The "cash in" 
when that "play" was over in the 
spring provided Klaw £ Erlanger with 



a bank roll that enabled them to ham- 
mer the game without let-up and al- 
ways along the same lines, and they 
have stuck to the same system ever 
since. 



In contrast with this are the little 
fellows that play their cards close to 
their chests and make bets that even 
if they win keep them in the piker 
class. Real showmen, the kind that 
achieve and are entitled to think pret- 
ty well of themselves, do not go 
around whimpering and looking for 
spots to cut. They know how to 
dodge false economy and they devote 
their knowledge of the business and 
their intelligence to discover where 
they can build up and improve rather 
than retrench and cheapen. Having 
the goods to deliver, they go after 
business by the only method that gets 
business, and that is reaching the pub- 
lic with attractive advertising and lots 

of it. 

In three different divisions of man- 
agement in this town are to be found 
real showmanship. There are others, 
but these will serve to illustrate the 
point. From the moment you look 
into the lobby of the Manhattan opera 
house, the Palace theatre and the 
Strand, until you emerge after the per- 
formances, you are impressed by the 
evidences and the results of sagacious 
management. The entrances are beau- 
tiful and there is a display of expen- 
sive, attractive announcements that 
create a distinctly favorable and invit- 
ing impression. Inside there is refined 
splendor at every turn, and the feeling 
of elegance and comfort is so irresisti- 
ble that you are glad to be there. The 
attaches look right and the orchestra 
gets you into the proper mood to en- 
joy the show. The detail of the get- 
up and appearance of the house pro- 
pram, small as this detail may be, con- 
tributes to the generally favorable im- 
pression of all the rest of it. From 
the moment the curtain goes up until 
the last word is spoken, it is all on-the- 
level entertainment. No cheating. 
No attempt to "get by" with a four- 
flush. It is playing cards without a 
sign of cold feet. The house is packed, 
of course. 

And when you get outside you see 
conspicuous advertising everywhere. 
But you had seen that before you 
bought your tickets, and you had read 
all about the show in large display 
advertising* in the newspapers. If it 
had not been for this advertising, you 
would not have gone in the first place. 
And when the manager succeeded in 
getting you into the house he sur- 
rounded you in such a way and gave 
you such perfect entertainment, you 
kept on going and told all your friends 
about it. "Conservative" showmen 
don't play this system. They lay 
down. They don't go after it. They 
are pikers. There are some burlesque 
managers that might think this over. 



PROGRESSIVE ATTACHMENTS. 

Since the Board of Directors Of the 
Progressive Circuit appointed James 
D. Barton, the Circuit's representative 
to clean up its affairs, Mr. Barton has 
been an extremely busy man with the 
lawyers. 

Last week on behalf of the Progres- 
sive he attached five companies. One 
was Sim Williams, reported elsewhere. 
Another was Joe Oppenheimer's "Fay 
Foster" show, attached at the Gaiety, 
Brooklyn, last Saturday for $860. A 
cash bond was given to cover the 
claim, alleged to be for $500 money 
loaned and booking fees. Strouse & 
Franklin's "Girls of the Follies" was 
attached for $400, unpaid rental and 
fees; Frank Calder's "High Life Girls" 
at the Haymarket, Chicago, found 
a claim lodged against it of $478; Issy 
Wiengarten's "Sept. Morning Glories" 
settled a Progressive claim of $75 at 
Rochester, for booking fees. 

Other actions started are a $5,000 
damage suit against L. M. Crawford, 
of St. Louis, for breach of contract; 
for $9,750 against the Cleveland Em- 
pire Co., same cause of action; an- 
other suit for $3,000, liquidated dam- 
ages, against the Progressive Amuse- 
ment Co., of Detroit, operating the 
Cadillac in that city. 

The replevin brought against the 
Bedini "Mischief Makers" show in 
Baltimore last week was settled 
Wednesday in that city, when the 
show paid to Mr. Barton's attorney, I. 
B. Brodie, $1,352, the amount of the 
claim. 



CO-OPERATIVE WHEEL 

Sam Ross, of the Odeon theatre, 
Newark, N. J., and Jeannette Dupre 
are principals in the organization of a 
new burlesque circuit, not affiliated 
with the former Progressive Wheel or 
the Columbia Aumsement Co., prelimi- 
nary announcement of which was made 
this week. 

The concern's prospectus declares 
that it has no connection with any of 
the interests identified with either cir- 
cuit. Advertisements arc being printed 
calling upon theatre managers to enlist 
in the venture on a co-operative basis. 

The concern has offices in the Gaiety 
theatre building. 

, I 

SUING SIM WILLIAMS. 

Baltimore, Oct. 28. 

An attachment for $346.10 was taken 
out in the Court of Common Pleas here 
last Saturday by the Progressive Cir- 
cuit, Incorporated, of New York, 
against Sim Williams and the Sim Wil- 
liams Theatrical Enterprises, Incor- 
porated. The claim is for booking fees, 
rent and telephone calls between April 
4 and Oct. 10. The attachment was 
laid against theatrical properties at the 
Gayety theatre, said to belong to Wil- 
liams. "The Moorish Maids" was the 
attraction. 

The Progressive Circuit also brought 
suit for $5,000 damages in the same 
court against Williams for alleged 
breach of a contract. 



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PROGRESSIVE "INSIDE STUFF." 

Charles E. Franklin, former treas- 
urer of the Progressive Wheel, and at 
present affiliated with the Columbia 
Amusement Co., indulged in some per- 
tinent comments a few nights ago in 
discussing recent happenings in the 
burlesque field. Mr. Franklin said: 
"There never was a chance for the 
Progressives after the organization of 
the Columbia Extended Circuit. Last 
spring, with several men of financial 
responsibility and a thorough knowl- 
edge of the business, it looked better 
than merely encouraging for the future 
of the Progressive. But when the Co- 
lumbia, with its immense capital and 
great resources trained its guns on us, 
the death knell sounded. 

"The result was financial disaster, 
not only to many of the individual 
producers, but to the owners of thea- 
tres on the Progressive Circuit as well 
as to outside business men who had 
invested or advanced money to foster 
the undertaking. 

"It does not signify anything that we 
men are referred to, as we have been 
recently, as having a 'yellow streak/ 
There was no alternative left us b;it 

to go out of the burlesque business or 
seek affiliation with the Columbia. 
And absolute knowledge of all pre- 
vailing conditions, both as to individ- 
uals and the general theatrical situa- 
tions, decisively prove the utter futility 
of any effort to create an additional 
burlesque circuit. Even so great a 
sum as one million dollars actual cash 
in hand might be lost in any such un- 
dertaking. 

"The country is overshowed now, 
generally, and the burlesque business 
in particular. 



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MASONS AGAINST BURLESQUE. 

Louisville, Oct. 28. 

It is doubtful whether or not the 
Masonic theatre can be used for bur- 
lesque attractions in Louisville by the 
proposed Barton Burlesque Circuit 
while the house remains the property 
of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky Ma- 
sons. 

At the closing session last week, the 
Grand Lodge unanimously adopted a 
tesolution recommending the trustees 
of the building take such legal steps 
as will compel the lessees to comply 
with the terms of their contract in the 
character of shows given, seeking in- 
junction relief if possible, and if nec- 
essary cancel the lease. 

A resolution adopted recommends 
that as soon as possible the Grand 
Lodge "go out of the theatrical busi- 
ness by selling the propertv." 

The Masonic has been dark for^hree 
weeks since the collapse of the Pro- 
pressive Wheel, but Manager Edward 
F. Galligan has stated he expects an 
attraction of the new P>arton circuit 
to show in this city about Nov. 15. 



VARIITY 



15 








BY FREDERICK M.MSCLOY 



THE COLLEGE GIRLS. 

What a serene condition of mind a 
producer must have when really be- 
lieving he can go on year in and year 
out attracting the public to the same 
showl It doesn't make any difference 

how good the show is. It cannot be 
done. This applies with special force 
to a show that plays the same circuit 
every year. 

The longevity of "Ben Hur," 'Way 
Down East" and a few other excep- 
tional successes, is due to the fact that 
they are moved from one territory to 
another and to theaters of differing 
scales of prices, thus constantly appeal- 
ing to different classes of people. With 
burlesque shows, however, the same 
cities and the same theaters are reached 
every season and practically the same 
patronage is appealed to because every 
house on the circuit has a large regu- 
lar clientele. 

If there is justification for the belief 
that the same burlesque show can draw 
money every year in these circum- 
stances why should Charles B. Dilling- 
ham, for instance, make a new and ex- 
pensive production for Montgomery 
and Stone so often? It would be weak 
argument to assert Montgomery and 
Stone get double the prices charged at 
burlesque houses and can, therefore, 
afford to make new productions. 

Burlesque producers can afford to do 
anything that producers of two-dollar 
shows can afford to do. If their prices 
are one-half, their investment and ex- 
penses are less than one-half. It is 
all right to repeat a show once or twice, 
but it is only natural that regular pa- 
trons of burlesque theaters should balk 
when they are asked to patronize the 
same show half a dozen times. 

The present engagement of "The 
College Girls" at the Columbia marks 
the ninth week of the show at that 
house. Excepting in its musical num- 
bers and scenery, no changes have been 
made. It is the same brilliant perfor- 
mance that always has been given by 
the Max Spiegel organization, and to 
those who see it for the first time, it 
appeals as strongly as any show on the 
circuit. A new second act scene that 
is very beautiful, and the musical fea- 
tures are practically new and distinctly 
effective. The costuming has under- 
gone noticeable changes, and this im- 
portant detail of the production is fully 
up to the Spiegel standard, which 
means that for the display of taste, 
richness and originality of design, the 
wardrobe compares favorably with that 
of any two-dollar production of musi- 
cal comedy. 

It is in these particulars of sartorial 
embellishment that Max Spiegel excels 
and that give distinction to his produc- 
tions. In spite of its frequent repeti- 
tion, "The College Girls" performance 
keeps the ^spectators in a happy frame 
of mind from beginning to end and 
the snap and vigor of its musical num- 
bers evoke the vociferous applause that 
rlcuotcs thorough enjoyment. 

Abe Keypolds continues at the htad 



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of the company. He plays Jacob Ro- 
senbloom with the delightful finish and 
unctuous humor that has always char- 
acterized his work. Mr. Reynolds has 
been so long identified with this part, 
it may be said that he has made it a 
characterization all his own. Mr. Rey- 
nolds is a skillful, painstaking actor, and 
his methods are admirable because they 
conceal artificiality and because there 
is never a suggestion of the conven- 
tional trickery, that is so persistently 
resorted to by many comedians in their 
efforts to create laughter. 

Florence Mills, the beautiful and ac- 
complished leading woman, repeats her 
brilliant performance of the fascinat- 
ing young widow. By her exceptionally 
charming personality, her bewitching 
grace, her melodious voice and her in- 
telligent portrayal of the imposing and 
well-drawn character, Miss Mills is the 
embodiment of all that goes to consti- 
tute the ideal prima donna. Her ward- 
robe is prodigal in richness and good 
taste and she wears the many superb 
creations of the modiste's art with 
wholly charming, unaffected ease. 

Several individual hits are registered 
by others in the cast. Nona Forbes is 
a dainty and thoroughly capable sou- 
bret; Molly Wood Stanford gives a 
good performance of the ingenue role 
in addition to contributing a very ef- 
fective violin and dancing specialty, and 
Johnny Berkes and Frank Grace ap- 
pear as the two sons with desirable re- 
sults, besides displaying remarkable 
skill as dancers. 

Charles Moran, as the Irishman, is 
an acceptable running mate for Mr. 
Reynolds, and Lew Christy succeeds 
perfectly as the professor in the first 
part and the Frenchman in the last, 
while Edith Parfrey is radiantly beau- 
tiful and becomingly French as Fifi. 
The "Dances of Today," at the opening 
of the second act, is a welcome and 
skillfully arranged novelty. 

All of the current popular dances 
are performed by different members of 
the company, and they receive merit- 
ed applause. It it here that the 
Messrs. Berkes and Grace do their spe- 
cialty which is the best of its kind 
that has ever been given on the Co- 
lumbia Theater stage. 

There is typical Spiegel chorus of 
uncommonly pretty, graceful and viva- 
cious girls constituting an aggregation 
whose selection and manner of utiliza- 
tion entitles Max Spiegel to preferment 
in the Ziegfeld category. 



ACADEMY, J. C, GOES IN. 

The Academy of Music, Jersey City, 
will be permanently added to the Co- 
lumbia Extended commencing Mon- 
day, Nov. 2, with "The Gay Widows" 
as the attraction. This addition will 
fill the open week between Paterson 
and Baltimore, although there will still 
he a lay-off after Jersey City on ac- 
count of reinstating "The High Roll- 
ers," one of the shows eliminated when 
the big changes were made two or 
three weeks ago. 



ZALLAH'S OWN CO. 

It's as foolish as it is impossible to 

dodge the returns or the facts. That is 

a prelude to the announcement that 
while "Zallah's Own Co." at the 
Olympic this week, is a fair show for 
the Extended Circuit, it is a decidedly 
off-color performance Zallah and her 
troupe are giving. 

The alibi may be pressed that this 
occurred at the Olympic, where so 
much has happened this season that 
was missing elsewhere on the Colum- 
bia turn-table, but even so, that could 
hardly be sanely accepted as an excuse 
for the "wiggling" executed by Zallah 
at the ending of the second part. This 
surely was never pronounced in ac- 
cordance with the Columbia's stand- 
ards by its Board of Censors. Sever- 
al sagacious remarks during the dialog 
were unnecessary and probably not in 
the original manuscript, if the show 
had such a thing. In leniency it might 
be said that some of these blue re- 
marks were inserted for the Olympic 
engagement. The "Juliet" number is 
also full of off-color lines. If the the- 
atre is responsible, its punishment may 
be reflected for the future in the com- 
plexion of the Tuesday matinee au- 
dience, almost entirely "stag," with the 
few women present secreting them- 
selves as best they could in the boxes. 

The Zallah show may have been 
built for the Extended Circuit. It was 
a recognized attraction of a certain 
sort when on the Western Wheel. 
With its advancement to the Columbia 
ranks, and the prestige that goes with 
that, it certainly behooves someone to 
give a bit more of intelligent thought 
to the companion shows on the same 
time, and attempt to make the Zallah 
performance attractive at the box office 
by half-way legitimate methods at 
least. 

The male principals, headed by 
Dewy Cambell and Manny Koler, 
work hard with little material. Cam- 
bell, as a tramp, secures laughs, and 
Koler wears neither beard nor whisk- 
ers. He plays an Englishman without 
much English. Joe Rose's contribu- 
tion is a "slide," now so familiarly used 
by so many who didn't originate it. 
Rose in Dutch plays opposite Walter 
Parker's Irish character. Mr. Parker 
won laughs throughout. 

Vera McKenna is the hardest work- 
er among the women. This little girl 
dressed nicely, but appears to be un- 
fortunately saddled with numbers that 
won't go over. The other women 
might accept Miss McKenna as a 
model for their roles. Nola Rignold 
(with the Fields and Fields Progres- 
sive show at the opening of the sea- 
son) has a large wardrobe, with a voice 
that was not running properly Tues- 
day. Monta Parker happened in the 
action often enough to wear two 
dresses. 

Two girls entitled to credit are 
Edith Lcfler and Margie Martin, who 
led numbers. They look alike in 
blonde wigs and their liveliness covers 
up their vocal shortcomings. 

The show girls are not extravagant- 





ly dressed. Their costumes in the first 
part seemed old. A much better 
clothes condition prevailed in the bur- 
lesque. Several of the changes ran to 
Oriental or harem costumes. 

The Zallah show could be called 
fair if cleaned up. It certainly needs 
that. 

For the honor of the Columbia 
Amusement Company, the only alter- 
native is to close it up. 



SHOWS MUST CLEAN UP. 

Recent reports that have come to 
the directors of the Columbia to the 
effect that there are still some shows 
on the Main Circuit disregarding the 
edict for clean performances, has re- 
sulted in a letter signed by President 
J. Herbert Mack demanding in no un- 
certain terms the instant and complete 
elimination of anything that is not in 
strict conformity to the idea of clean 
burlesque. 

Copies of the letter have been sent 
to house managers in advance of the 
offending shows with peremptory or- 
ders to closely scrutinize the perform- 
ances specified and report at once to 
the main office. 

It is the determination of the di- 
rectors to send an official censor to in- 
spect any show complained of, and em- 
powering him to proceed forthwith to 
make the desired changes. 



BARTON 18 OPTIMISTIC. 

James D. Barton, who has been on 
the road exploiting the new Barton 
Burlesque Circuit, announced upon his 
return Wednesday afternoon he had 
tacked on theatres in Detroit and Co- 
lumbus, O., to his list, the names of 
which he promises to divulge later 
when more theatres are lined up. 

The Barton Circuit will get under way 
for its regular season Thanksgiving. 
Barton said the Circuit, complete, 
would be in full operation around the 

first or second week in December. 

Barton went to Baltimore Thursday 
to settle up the Club Theatre affairs 
there and expected by Friday night to 
have disposed of the entire theatre 
holdings to new parties. The Progres- 
sive shows played the Club, the Pro- 
gressive having an interest in the house 
with Barton the heaviest stockholder. 
Barton said he did not intend to buy 
back the house, having decided to pass 
Baltimore up as a spoke in his new cir- 
cuit for the present. 

He emphatically denied the story 
from Rochester, N. Y., to the effect 
that the J. Leubrie Hill show, "Dark- 
town Follies," had been attached and 
was unable to play its engagement 
there. 

Barton has been given an option on 
the Arch Street theatre, Philadelphia, 
and on his way back from his Baltimore 
trip, intends to stop off in Quakertown 
and give the proposition there closer 
inspection. 



16 



VARIETY 



BILLS NEXT WEEK (November 2) 

In Vaudeville Theatres, Playing Three or Lett Shows Daily 

(All houses open for the week with Monday matinees, when not otherwise indicated.) 
Theatres tinted as "Orpheum" without any further distinguishing description are on the 
Orpheum Circuit. Theatres with "Lotw" following name arc on the Iah w Circuit. 

Agencies booking the houses are noted by single name or initials, such as "Orph," Orpheum 
Circuit-"U. B. O., United Booking Offices— "W. V. A.," Western Vaudeville Managers' Asso- 
ciation (Chicago)— "P." Pantagcs Circuit— "Inter," Interstate Circuit (booking through W. V. A.). 
— "M," James C. Matthews (Chicago). -"B B O," Broadway Booking Office— "Pr," Proctor Circuit. 



New York 

PALACE (orph) 
Valeska Suratt 
Murray A Jarrott 
Henry B. Dlzey 
Creasy A Day no 
Oould A Ashlyn 
"Forest Fires" 
Mullen ft Coogsn 
Bill Prultt 
Newhouse Snyder Co 
HAMMERSTEIN'S 
(ubo) 
Singer's Midgets 
Howard ft McCans 
Jack Lorimer 
Dainty Marie 
Norcross ft Holdsworth 
Harriet Burt 
Claudius ft Scarlet 
Robt L Dalley Co 
Brown ft Newman 
Mile Delnert 
Orvllle ft Frank 
ALHAMBRA (ubo) 
Leonard ft Russell 
"Bride Shop" 
Valerie Bergere Co 
Claire Rochester 
Fred Bosnian 
Lane ft O'Donoell 
Mme Doris's Dogs 
Frank Whitman 
The Lelanda 

ROYAL (ubo) 
Mr A MrsC DeHaven 
Bessie Wynn 
Claud ft Fanny Usher 
Brooks ft Bowen 
Joe Cook 

Gleeson ft Houlihan 
Vandinoff ft Louie 
Alpine Troupe 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Kitty Gordon Co 
Adelaide ft Hughes 
Jas ft Bon Thornton 
Cross ft Josephine 
Laddie Cliff 
Arnaut Bros 
Skaters BIJouve 
Cooper ft Smith 

BROADWAY (ubo) 
Harry Bulger 
Bernard ft Butler 
Fagan ft Byron 
Burke LaForge A B 
Duffy Redcay Troupe 
Ouy Bartlett 8 
Ah Ling Foo 
The Klooffs 
Capt Kid Jr 
Carlotts St Elmo 
FIFTH AVE 
Devaro A Zenatto 
Evelyn Ware 
Geo Mnrphy 
Dare Austin Co 
Luckstone ft Campbell 
Qulgg ft Nlckerson 
John Phil brick 
Bud Snyder 

2d half 
Stevens ft Stevens 
Aubrle ft Ritchie 
Barefoot Boy 
Clarice Vance 
Carlson ft Carlson 
Billy Boyd Co 
"Isaac You Tell Her" 
PROCTOR'S 125TH 
Zeno 

Laraont ft Mllham 
Knight ft Raymond 
Geo Allen Co 
Nice Twins 
Clarice Vance Co 
"In Old New York" 
Bernard A Flnnerty 
Count Beaumont 

2d half 
Dancing Franks 
Ellnore A Francklns 
Carl Statzer Co 
Wahl ft Abbott 
Equestrian Lion 
Searl Allen Co 
Mimic Four 
Wm Cablll 

PROCTOR'S 23D 
Tate ft Tate 
Fern ft Zcll 
Mr A Mrs Frlel 
Adele Oswold Co 
Markee Bros 
George Roesner 
Equestrian Lion 
The Vanderkoors 
Searl Allen Co 

2d half 
Nash A Evans 
Nice Twins 
Lewis A Chapln 
Searl Allen Co 
Burt Melburn 
Langslow Co 

PROCTOR'S fWTH 
Dancing Franks 
Florence Tlmponi 
Reed A Tuttle 
Wm Cahlll 
Carl Statzer Co 
Black Bros 
Paynton A Green 

2d half 
Hayes A Wynne 
Graham A Randall 
International 8 



Adele Oswold Co 
Dare Austin Co 
George Roesner 
Count Beaumont 

AMERICAN (loew) 
Cbas Ledsgar 
"Juatlce" 
Boyle A Brazil 
10 Dark Knights 
Sid Rose 

Macart A Bradford 
Hager A Goodwin 
Tozettl A Bernett 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Mario A Trevette 
"Ko Ko Carnival" 
Harry Temple 
Ventura A Picks 
Hallen A Hayes 
Macart A Bradford 
Corrigan A Vivian 
(Two to fill) 

7TH AVE (loew) 
Harrison A Klein 
Viola Duval 
Owen McGlveney 
Fanton's Athletes 
(Three to fill) 

2d half 
Medlln Clarke A T 
Owen McGlveney 
3 Bennett Sisters 
(Four to fill) 

LINCOLN (loew) 
Mario A Trevette 
"Ko Ko Carnival" 
Bryan Sumner Co 
American Comedy 4 
3 Bennett Slaters 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Manhattan 3 
Eddie Foyer 
The Naess's 
(Three to fill) 
DELANCEY (loew) 
Schrodes A Chappelle 
Inez McCauley Co 
De ma rest A Chabot 
Richard the Great 
(Four to fill) 

2d half 
Clarence Wilbur 
Equlllo Bros 
Harrison A Klein 
"Birthday Party" 
(Four to fill) 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Arthur A Grace Terry 
Usher Trio 
Old Soldier Fiddlers 
Edith Clifford 
John Troupe 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Ward A Gray 
"The Elopement" 
Ellnore Fisher 
Barnold's Dogs 
American Comedy 4 
Carl Dtmann Tr 
(One to fill) 
NATIONAL (loew) 
Frevoli 

Musical Bryons 
Harry Temple 
"When Women Rule" 
Rita Gould 
Equlllo Bros 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Leonard A Alvln 
Bryan Sumner Co 
Old Soldier Fiddlers 
Geo Armstrong 
Edith Raymond Co 
(Two to fill) 
BOULEVARD (loew) 
Carrie Reynolds 
"The Pardon" 
Faye A Minn 
The Naess's 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Von Hampton A J 
2 Bohemians 
"Justice" 
Sandy Shaw 
Reddlngton A Grant 
(One to fill) 

GREELEY (loew) 
Ward A Gray 
Ventura A Picks 
Lee A Noble 
Oracle Emmett Co 
Geo Armstrong 
Frey Twins A Frey 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Frevoli 

Leonard A Dempsey 
Howard'a Bears 
"Night In Park" 
Tozettl A Burnett 
(Three to fill) 

Brooklyn 

PROSPECT (ubo) 
Houdlnl 
Farber Girls 
"Edge Of World" 
Harry Beresford Co 
Leo Carrillo 
Van Hoven 
Eveleen Dunmore 
The Brunnells 
Alice's Pets 



BUSHWICK (ubo) 
Julius Steger Co 
Ruth Roye 
Llpinsky's Dogs 
Stepp Good A King 
Franklyn Ardell Co 
Hanlon Bros 
Robins 

Weber A Capltola 
Lucy Oillett 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Adeline Qenee 
Lew Dockatader 
Courtney Sisters 
Joe Jackson 
Alan Brooks Co 
Willie Weston 
Nonette 

Maxlne A Bobby 
Azard Bros 

FLATBUSH (loew) 
Seymour A Dupree 
2 Bohemians 
Schrodes A Mulvey 
Von Hampton A J 
Henry Horton Co 
Manhattan Trio 
Corrigan A Vivian 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Rena Santos 
Waterbury B A Tenny 
Boyle A Brazil 
Percy Warcm Co 
Muller A Stanley 
Prince Karmi 
(Two to nil) 

LIBERTY (loew) 
Anthony A Adelle 
Ray Snow 
"Woman Haters" 
Bessie LeCount 
Robin 

2d half 
The Frasers 
Belle Dixon 
Schrodes A Chappelle 
LeMalre A Dawson 
Von Cello 

COLUMBIA (loew) 
Saona 

Eddie Foyer 
"The Tangle" 
Golet Storkes A Lafay 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Made A Plngree 
Ray Snow 
"Woman Haters" 
Edith Clifford 
Aerial LaVails 
(One to fill) 

BIJOU (loew) 
Belle Dixon 
Barnold's Dogs 
Clarence Wilbur 
Holmes A Holllston 
Hallen A Hayes 
Carl Damann Tr 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Oracle Emmett Co 
Demarest A Chabot 
Rita Gould 
John Troupe 
(Three to fill) 

WARWICK (loew) 
Medlln Clarke A T 
* LeMalre A Dawson 
Prince Karmi 
Ellnore Fisher 
Hart A Crawford 
Aerial LaVails 

2d half 
Greenley A Drayton 
Brlerre A King 
Henry Frey 
Murray Bennett 
Chas Ledegar 
(One to fill) 

SHUBERT (loew) 
Weston A Averson 
"Night in Park" 
Reddlngton A Grant 
(Four to fill) 

2d half 
Arthur A Grace Terrv 
Faye A Minn 
Musical Byrons 
Brown Harris A B 
Frey Twins A Frey 
(Two to fill) 

FULTON (luev ) 
Greenley ft Drayton 
Oscar Lorraine 
"The Elopetnent" 
Rockwell A Wood 
Howard's Bears 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Walsh A Bentlcy 
Tabor A Green 
Usher Trio 
"The Pardon" 
Hart A Crawford 
Richard the Great 
Albany, N. 1. 
PROCTOR'S 
Coates Keene A J 
Temple 4 
Dr Herman 
Undine Andrews 
Billy Morse 
"The Tamer" 
The Doherty's 
Mme De Pinna 

2d half 
Hetty Urma 



Eckert A Berg 
4 Readings 
Bernard A Flnnerty 
Jewell Van Buren Co 
Julia Rooney 
Little Nap 
Roblnette 

Ann Arbor, Bfleb. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Carlton A CllfforJ 
Weisser A Relsser 
"I Died" 

3 Majesties 
Zeno Jordan A Z 

2d half 
Wentworth Vesta A T 
Hal A Francis 
Leila Davis Co 
Lew Wells 

Atlanta 

FORSYTH (ubo) 
Pietro 

McDevitt Kelly A L 
Australia Choppers 
F J Ardath Co 
Vanderbllt A demons 

4 Anaranths 
(Others to All) 

Baltimore 

MARYLAND (ubo) 
"Lawn Party" 
Harris A Manyon 
Oakland Sisters 
Bill Prultt 
Steffy Berko 
Jack Gardner 
Nora Bayes 
Mario A Duffy 

Battle Creek, Mlcb. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
2 Zyls 

The McFarlands 
Walsh Lynch Co 
Weber Dolan A F 
Lea Dlodattis 

2d half 
Maxwell Holden 
Sharp A Wilkes 
Leonard Anderson Co 
Baby Helen 
2 Carletona 

Bar City. Mlcb. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
"Little Modiste" 

2d half 
Judson Cole 
Dynes A Van Epps 
When Love Is Young 
Bensee A Balrd 
Marriott Troupe 

Billing**, Mont. 

BABCOCK (loew) 
Dixon A Dixon 
Meller A DePaula 
Chas L Fletcher 
"Wide" 

Nichols Sisters 
Wanda 

Blrmlnsjbasn, Ala. 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Edwin George 
Cameron Sisters 
The Westmans 
Curzon Sisters 
Rooney A Bent 
(Others to fill) 

Boston 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Madden A Fitzpatrlck 
Pereira 6 
Dooley A Rugel 
Roxy LaRocca 
Sylvester Schaeffer 

GLOBE (loew) 
Stewart A Dakln 
Klass A Bernle 
Chas Deland Co 
Joe Welch 
Edith Raymond Co 
(Three to fill) 

2d half 
Sid Rose 

Holmes A Holllston 
Edna Whistler 
Joe Welch 
Bean A Hamilton 
(Three to fill) 
ST. JAMES (loew) 
Arthur A Emma Cody 
Rena Santos 
Geo B Reno Co 
Nlblo A Riley 
Bean A Hamilton 
(One to All) 

2d half 
Elsie White 
Gypsy Countess 
Willard A Bond 
Carroll-Gillette 4 
(Two to fill) 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Harry Cutler 
Elsie White 
Wlllard A Bond 
Tom Linton Girls 
Carroll-Gillette 4 
(Three to fill) 

2d half 
Pert Melrose 
Nlblo A Rllay 
Clnyton A Lennle 
(Five to fill) 



BnCale 

SHEA'S (ubo) 
Hymack 
Chip A Marble 
Treat's Seals 
Empire Comedy 4 
Josephine Davies 
(Others to fill) 

Bntte 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Amoros A Mulvey 
Meredith A Snoozer 
l J lsano A Bingham 
-Sidelights" 
Cabaret 3 
Alvln A Kenny 

Calaary 

PANTAGES (m) 
Walter S Howe Co 
Larry Comer 
Wayne 3 
Ten Bonomors 
Beltrah A Beltrah 

Charleston, S. C. 

VICTORIA (ubo) 
2d hair 
Lyons & Yosco 
Great Howard 
Irene A Bob Smith 
Joe Kramer Co 
(Others to fill) 

Chicago 

MAJESTIC (orph) 
Tom Lewis Co 
Anna Held's Daughter 
W C Fields 
Chas Grapewln Co 
Elsie Ruegger 
Three Lelghtons 
Cummins A Gladdlngs 
Maeykos Troupe 
Pallenberg's Bears 
PALACE (orph) 
Bickel A Watson 
Mme Jeanne Jomelli 
Ed Stevens Co 
Wharry Lewis Co 
Chick Sale 
Mr A Mrs Sebastian 
Chadwick Trio 
Jones A Sylvester 
Rebla 

ACADEMY (wva) 
DeComa A Thompson 
LaMar A Lawrenze 
Chas L MacDonald 
Gus Andrews 
Johnston Howard A L 

2d half 
Stuart Sisters 
Lane A Lynch 
Foster A Foster 
Christy Kennedy A S 
Cycling Brunnettes 
McVICKERS (loew) 
Purcella Bros 
Rose Troupe 
Joe Kelcey 
"Love In Sanitarium" 
Armstrong A Ford 
Wilbur Harrington A C 
Hermany's Animals 
Dreyer A Dreyer 
Evans & Sister 
Tom Nawn Co 
Burns ft Acker 
Captain Anson 

NORTHERN HIP 
(wva) 
Fair Co-eds 
Marconi 3 
Florenz Family 
Jennings A Dorman 
3 Jordan Girls 
Manon Opera Co 
Bert No A Booth 
Blake's Circus 
Chas A Annie Glocker 
LaVlne Cimeron 3 
(Others to fill) 
AMERICAN (loew) 
Fred Duprez 
Wm A Weston Co 
Church City 4 
Kalaluhl Hawailans 
Theo Tenny 
Y Hackenschmldt Co 

2d half 
Arno A Stlckney 
Sampson A Douglas 
Ward Sisters 
RussHI Sisters 
Jas Grady Co 
Les Casados 

COLONIAL (loew) 
Patrlrola 
The Bromens 
Estelle Rose 
Visions De Art 
Bel Canto 4 
8 Zanzebnrs 

Jd half 
Melnotte Twins 
Orphea 
Patrlcola 

Armstrong A Ford 
Eddie Howard Co 
fl Olivers 
Garclnottl Bros 
Gllmnre A Romano.7 

WILLARD (loew) 
Bessie Kaplan 
Great Rlrharls 
Eddie Howard Co 
2 Georges 

2d half 
El Clive 

Bush A Shapiro 
"When It Strikes H' 
Bessie Kaplan 
Joyr< A West 

EMPRESS (loew* 

Halsted St 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Les Casados 
Ward Sisters 
Arno A Stlckney 
James Grady Co 
Sampson A Douglas 



Russell's Minstrels 

2d half 
Fred Dupres 
Wm A Weston Co - 
Church City 4 
Kalaluhl Hawailans 
Theo Tenny 
Y Hackenschmldt Co 

STAR HIP (loew) 
Gilraore A Romanoff 
Geo Yeoman 
Garclnetti Bros 

2d half 
Guy Baldwin 3 
Gene A Kathryn King 
II Brownies 
Godfrey A Henderson 

Clndnnntl 

KEITHS (ubo) 
Hopkins Sisters 
Angelo Patrlcola 
McLellan A Carson 
The Hcnnlngs 
Keno A Mayne 
Wills A Hassan 
Cams A Randall 
(One to fill) 

EMPRESS (loew) 

3 Donals 
Clark A Rose 
Valentine Vox 

J K Emmett Co 
Roy A Arthur 
Ogden Quartet 

Cleveland 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Jarrow 

Choebert's Troupe 
Milton A DeLong Sis 
The Stanleys 
Raymond & Caverly 
(Others to 1111) 

MILES (loew) 
Juggling DcLlale 
Cora Greve 

Crawford A Broderlck 
Sherman Van A Hy 
Ergottl's Lilliputians 
(One to fill) 

Colnutbos 

KEITHS (ubo) 
Ed Morton 

4 Roeders 
Geo N Brown 
"Song Revue" 
LoRoy Lytton Co 
(Others to till) 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Scbrcck A Perclval 
Kitty Flynn 
Ross Fenton Players 
Tom Maboney 
Brown A Jackson 
Pekinese Troupe 

Davenport, la. 

COLUMBIA (ubo) 
Smillette A Norah 
Lamte Co 

Schooler A Dickinson 
Grace Cameron 
6 Russian Dancers 

2d half 
Loul Chink 
The Mozarts 
Gertrude Barnes 
4 Vanla 
(One to fill) 

Denver 

ORPHEUM 
Cole A Denahy 
Burkchart A White 
The Orazera 
Boland A Holts 
Kclsner ft Gores 
Carlos Bros 
Arnold Daly Co 

EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
"Fun In Baths" 
Pick DeLoris 
Burton Hahn A L 
Wanzer A Palmer 
Neal A Earl 
Winning Widows" 

Des Molne* 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Costa Troupe 
Josephine Dunfee 
Trans Atlantic 3 
Hayward Stafford Co 
MeRae A Clegg 
'Wallensteln A Freeboy 
Marie A Mllly Hart 
(One to fill) 

Detroit 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Cowboy Minstrels 
Grace La Rue 
Cecilia Wright 
Lambertl 

Baptiste A Franconl 
Corodinl's Animals 
Eva Taylor Co 
Frank Fogarty 

FAMILY (ubo) 
Fuller Rose Co 
Leon's Models 
Tliree Girls 
Clifford & Douglas 
Fay O Nell 
Henry A Adelaide 
Harry Harvey 

MILES (loew) 
Reckless Trio 
David Pallkos 
Hartley & Pecan 
"Grey of Dawn" 
Gene Greene 
Kerslakes Pigs 

ORPHEUM (m) 
"Motor Madness' 
Dave Walters Co 
4 Slickers 
T'.rlle A Jones 
CooDcr A Eshell 
Todd Nards 
Argo 



Dnlntb 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
The Oould Ings 
Ed Hayes Co 
Clark A Verdi 
Burns A Fulton 
Duffy A Lorenz 
Ward Bell A Ward 
(Others to fill) 

Bf tnontoa. Can. 

PANTAGES (m) 
Imperial Opera Co 
Sherbourne A Mont 
Sheer A Herman 
Haley A Haley 
Fraxes DeKock 

Ellanbetb, N. J. 

PROCTOR'S 
Pearson A Oerfleld 
Louise Eschell Co 
Wahl A Abbott 
(Jen Lewin Co 
Pop Ward 
Titanic Disaster 

2d half 
Montague's Cockatoos 
Virginia Girls 
Mercedes Bock Co 
Carrie Reynolds 
Dugan A Reynolds 
S V Leveene Co 

Brie. Pa. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Patsy Doyle 
Red ford A Winchester 
The Armenlaus 
Ehel McDonough 
Crouch A- Welch 
Venetian 4 

Evans villi-. Ind. 

NEW GRAND (ubo) 
Nick's Skating Girls 
"Who's Girl Are You" 
Vann Bros 
Claudle Tracey 
King A Brown 
2d half 
Wm Weston Co 
Olive Vail Co 
Qulnlan A Richards 
Leonard A Whitney 
Bush A Engle 

Fall River. >!■««. 

ACADEMY (loew) 
Marie Russell 
"Spider A Fly" 
Sandy Shaw 
3 Kelors 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Arthur A Emma Cody 
Harry Cutler 
"Dairy Maids" 
The Hassmans 
(One to fill) 

Flint, Mlcb. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Les Cougets 
Bill A Edith Adams 
J C Nugent Co 
Capitol City 8 
Morellls Bros 

2d half 
Kaonl 

Madame Marion 
Joe Daniels 
"Kid Kabaret" 

Fort Wayne, Ind. 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Unada A Irving 
Majorle Lake 
Wm Morrow Co 
Howe A Howe 
Jungman Family 

2d half 
Ernest Yerxa 
Mills A Williams 
"Marked Money" 
Goldsmith A Pinard 
Ernie A Ernie 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Parise 
Trovollo 

Richmond A Mann 
Moore A Elliott 
Bell Boy 3 
Gasch Sisters 

2d half 
Paul Stephens 
Elks 3 

'Between Trains" 
McDerraott A Wallace 
(Two to fill) 

Grand Rapid*, Mlcb 

COLUMBIA (UDO) 
Williams Thompson Co 
Harry Breen 
Margaret De LaRosa 
(Others to fill) 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Paul Stephens 
Elks Trio 
"Between Trains" 
McDermott A Wallace 
(Two to fill) 

2d half 
Parise 
Trovollo 

Richmond A Mann 
Moore A Elliott 
Bell Boy 3 
Gasch Sisters 

Hamilton, Ont. 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Moran A Wiser 
Mac' ft Orth 
Sull> Fnmlly 
Gr-ro A Delnney 
West >n A Leon 
(Others to fill) 

Harrlnbiira*, Pa. 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Kingston A Ebner 
The I,angdons 
(Others to fill) 



Hartford* Coma. 

POLI'8 (ubo) 
Hawthorne 4 Ingllas 
(Others to fill) 

Hobeken, Iff. J. 

LYRIC (loew) 
The Frasers 
Larkins A Pearl 
Jlmmle Rosen Co 
Henry Frey 
Walsh A Bentley 

2d half 
Robin 

"The Striker" 
Weston A Young 
Anthony A Adele 
(One to fill) 

Indianapolis. 

LYRIC (ubo) 
Elverton 

Mills A Williams 
Carlisle A Romer 
4 Juvenile Rings 
Billy Bouncers Circus 

2d half 
3 Millards 
Rice A Morgan 
Humbro 
Gen Plsano 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Juliet 

"Colonial Days" 
The Bllforda 
Bert Errol 
Remple Sisters Co 
Parlllo A Frablto 
(Othera to fill) 

Jackson, Mlcb. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Wentworth Vesta A T 
Hal A Francis 
Leila Davis Co 
Lew Wells 

2d half 
Carleton A Clifford 
Weisser A Relsser 
•I Died" 
3 Majesties 
Zeno Jordan A Z 

Jacksonville 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Harry Bachelor 
Winona Winters 
Esau 

Diamond A Virginia 
(Others to fill) 



Kalanaaaoe, Mlek. 

MAJESTIC (ubo) 
Maxwell Holden 
Sharp A Wilkes 
Leonard Anderson Co 
Baby Helen 
2 Carletons 

2d half 
2 Zyls 

The McFarlands 
Walsh Lynch Co 
Weber Dolan A F 
Les Dlodattis 

Kansas City 

ORPHEUM 
Eleanor Haber Co 
Chas McGoods Co 
"Matinee Girls" 
Frank Wilson 
Alexander A Scott 
Grant A Hoag 
Byrd Frost Crowell 
(One to fill) 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Chrlstenson 
SI ghee's Dogs 
Sophie Tucker 
Nine Krazy Kids 
(Three to fill) 

Lafayette. Ind. 

FAMILY (ubo) 
Tossing A Austins 
Massey A Bolton 
Beau A Evelyn 
Robt Hall 
Paul Lavan Dobbs 

2d half 
Zlska Co 
Parke Rome A F 
Brandon Hurst Co 
Jordon A Doherty 
Robbie Gordone 

Lanalna;, Mlek. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Kaonl 

Madame Marlon 
Joe Daniels 
"Kid Kabaret" 
2d half 
Les Cougets 
Bill A Edith Adams 
J C Nugent Co 
Capitol City 4 
Morrellis Bros 

Lincoln 

ORPHEUM 
Kramer A Patterson 
Finn A Finn 
Francis McGinn Co 
Binns A Bert 
Merrill A Otto 
Oormley A Caffery 
O'Brien Havel Co 
(One to fill) 

Loaransport, Ind. 

COLONIAL (ubo) 
Musical Geralds 
Floyd Mack 
4 Society Girls 
2d half 
Peau A Evelyn 
Florence Barr 
Mlzpah Selblm 

Los Angeles 

ORPHEUM 
Claude Gllllngwater 
Ashley A Canfleld 
!> Metzettls 
Joe A Lew Cooper 
Harry De Coe 
Ahearn Troupe 



VARIETY 



17 



Stan Stanley 8 
Mack ft Walker 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Murphy ft Foley 
Shrlner ft Richards 
Romaln A Orr 
•Thro Skylight" 
Nell McKlnley 
McCluro A Dolly 

PANTAQE8 (m) 
"Kingdom of Dream* ' 
Cornell Corley Co 
Acme 4 

Early A Lalght 
Grey A Peters 
Kelfey A Catlin 

LMlBYllle 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Horllck Family 
Tango Chief 
Hoey A Lee 
Woods Woods 3 
"Eloping" 
(Others to fill) 
Memphis 
ORPHEUM 
Homer Llnd Co 
Schwars Bros 
Lee A Cranston 
John A Mae Burke 
Rae Samuels 
Le Gfrohs 
Althoff Sisters 
(Others to fill) 

Milwaakee 

MAJESTIC (orph) 
Robert Edeson Co 
Jack Wilson 
Mabel Berra 
3 Alvarettas 
Rae E Ball 
Zertho's Dogs 
Fred Bowers Co 
John Hlgglns 

CRYSTAL (loew) 
Nip A Tuck 
Princeton A Tale 
Chas A Sallle Dunbar 
"Power of Melody" 
(One to fill) 

Minneapolis 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Mile Asorla Co 
Billy B Van Co 
White Hussars 
Brown A Rochello 
Cantwell A Walker 
De Haven A Nice 
(One to fill) 

UNIQUE (loew) 
Landry Bros 
Rouble Sims 
Delmore A Light 
E E Cllye Co 
The Clevelands 
Ford's Review 

Montreal 

ORPHEUM (ubo) 
Rlggs A Wltchie ' 
Rice A Cohen 
DeMlchelle Bros 

3 Keatons 
Comfort A King 
(Others to fill) 

IfaskTfll*. Tea a. 

PRINCESS (ubo) 

4 Marx Bros 

Newark, N. J. 

LYRIC (pr) 
Langslow Co 
Harold Kennedy 
Eldon ft Clifton 
Mimic Four 
Queen* of Diamonds 
Weston A Young 
4 Reenes 
Montague's Cockatoos 

2d half 
Daynton A Greene 
Wright A Rich 
Qulgg A Nlckerson 
Evelyn Ware 
Skating Bear 
Harry Sullivan Co 
George Murphy 
Dr Herman 

Wewwarsrh, If. T. 
COHEN OH (loew) 
Leonard A Alvln 
Leonard A Dempsey 
"Birthday Party" 
Harry Rose 
Blanche Sloane 
2d half 
Saona 

Lerner A Ward 
Viola Duval 
Tnes McCauley Co 
Rockwell A Wood 
Fanton's Athletes 

New Orleans 

ORPHEUM 
Mme Yorska Co 
Odlva 

The Volunteers 
Fisher A Green 
Gardiner 3 
I>ee Barth 
LlRhtner ft Jordan 
(One to fill) 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 

LOEW 
Tabor ft Green 
Elsie Gilbert Co 
(One to fill) 

2d half 

Harry Rose 

"The Tangle" 

"Vaude In Monkland" 

Norfolk, Va^ 

COLONIAL (ubo) 

1st half 
Lottie Collins 
Kelly A Galvln 
(Others to fill) 

2d half 
Raymonds 



3 Marconi Bros 
Misses Campbell 
(Others to fill) 

Oakland 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Moore Ltttlefleld Co 
Marie Fenton 
Three Types 
Alco Trio 
Ida Dlvlnoff 
Lydell Rogers A L 
Rube Dickinson 
Adair A Adair 

Oadea, Utah 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Theo Bamberg 
Jolly A Wild 
Allen Miller Co 
Rose A Moon 
Alice Hanson 
:\ Mori Bros 

Omsk* 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Fred Kornau 
Australian McLeans 
John A Emm Ray 
Alleen Stanley 
Leo Zarrell Co 
Miller A Lyles 
Hines A Fox 
(One to fill) 

Ottawa 

DOMINION (Ubo) 
Dunedln Duo 
Orr A De Costa 
Marlon Murray Co 
Eddie Ross 
Bronson A Baldwin 
(Others to fill) 

Peoria, III. 

HIPPODROME (loew) 

Joyce A West 

El Cleve 

Bush A Shapiro 

When It Strikes Home 

Melnotte Twins 

6 Olivers 

2d half 
Juggling Normans 
Carlta Day 
Murry Livingston Co 
Yvvone 

Jones A Johnson 
Ruch Bros 

Philadelphia 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
nrltt Wood 
Fritz A Lucy Bruch 
Sylvia Loyal 
Van A Schenck 
Gallager A Carlln 
Kramka Bros 
Adele Ritchie 
Blanche Ring Co 

BROADWAY (ubo) 
Jardin de Danse 
Newhoff A Phelps 
Geo Nagel Co 
Tracey Stone A 8 
Doc O'Neill 
(One to fill) 

GRAND (ubo) 
Alonzo Cox 
Boothby A Leberden 
Rose A Gates 
Maldie De Long 
Whitfield A Ireland 
Capt Sorrho's Divers 

KEYSTONE (ubo) 
The Marshes 
Minola Hunt 
Tom Williams Co 
Nina Payne 
Melodv Trio 
"Dormitory Girls" 

WM PENN (ubo) 
The Dillons 
Devlne ft Williams 
Milton Pollock Co 
Aiken Pagan A Duffy 
Feature film 
(One to fill) 

GLOBE (ubo) 
Burton A Parker 
Crelghton Sisters 
Dean A Fay 
Frank Bush 
"Fashion Shop" 
Chung Wha Four 
Seymour's Dogs 

PALACE (ubo) 
The Ferraros 
Martlne A Trolse 
Annette Walker 
Devon Sisters 
Newsky Troupe 

KNICKERBOCKER 
(loew) 
Brlerre A King 
Waterbury B A Tenny 
Percy Warem Co 
Brown Harris A B 
"Vaude In Monkland" 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Planrhe Sloane 
Kelso A Lelghton 
Haeer ft Goodwin 
"When Women Rule" 
Lee ft Noble 
10 Pnrk Knights 

ALHAMBRA (loew) 
Evelyn Cunningham 
Kelso ft Lelghton 
Thnt Sextette 
Lerner A Ward 
Von Cello 

2d half 
Deblna 

Norton ft Sweethearts 
- Polly Prim 
Clemecco Bros 
(One to fill) 

Plttnhiirirh 

GRAND (ubo) 
NeHle NlehnN 
Ryan' ft Lee ' 



Ethel Barrymore 
Willie Bros 
Marzella's Birds 
Conlln Steele 3 
(Others to fill) 

HARRIS (ubo) 
Lc Patlte Review 
"Tho Last Laugh" 
The Bl aches 
Delea ft Arma 
The Holdsworths 
Turner A Grace 
(One to All) 
SHERIDAN SQ (ubo) 
Abou Hamad Arabs 
Romera Troupe 
Hayes A Alpolnt 
Taylor Sisters 
Symonds A Weston 
Maley A Woods 

MILES (loew) 
Geo M Daley Co 
Phi la La Toska 
Stuart Black Co 
Klnkald Kilties 
Marshall P Wilder 
(One to fill) 

Plalnaeld. N. J. 

PROCTOR'S 
Mary Donoghue 
S V Leveene Co 
Mr A Mrs Allison 
International 6 
Burt Melburn 

2d half 
Harry Victor 
"He— She A Piano" 
The Vanderkoors 
Titanic • Disaster 
Louise Echell Co 
Porteheeter, N. Y. 

PROCTOR'S 
Harry Victor 
"Ho— She A Piano" 
Dolly Coleman 
"Shirt Waist Factory" 
Waiman 

2d half 
Mary Donoghue 
Irene A Walter Henney 
Pearson A Garfield 
Mr A Mrs Allison 
Aeroplane Girls 

Portland, Ore. 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Ethel A Lucy Baker 
Lelghton A Robinson 
Grace DeWlnters 
Ryan Richfield Co 
Harry Thomson 
Cycling McNutts 

PANTAOES (m) 
11 Minstrel Maids 
Isabel Fletcher Co 
Hugo Lutgen 
Elwood A Snow 
Leon A Adellbe Sis 

Providence, R. I. 

3 Keltons 
Lewis A Norton 
Polly Prim 
Bert Melrose 
(One to fill) 

2d half 
Stewart ft Dakln 
Nowlln ft St Claire 
Chas Delnnd Co 
Klass ft Bernle 
Caeser Rivoll 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Wiley ft Ten Eyck 
Belle Baker 
Wm Lytell Co 
A Prince 
Alf Holt 
7 Bracks 
Moore A Yates 
Johnson A Wells 
Bond ft Cassen 

Roeheater, IV. Y. 

TEMPLE (ubo) 
Chretlenne ft Loulset 
Julia Curtis 
Chas Thomson 
Bert Fltzglbbons 
Manny A Roberts 
Allen Dlnehart Co 
"Lonesome Lassies" 
Pederson Bros 



Mr A Mrs D Elwyn 
Irwin A Hersog 
Senator Murphy 
Deane's Fantoms 

PANTAGES (M) 
(Open Wed Mat) 
Pony Moore Co 
Wlnsch A Poore 
Cnogan A Cox 
Gilbert A Gerard 
Love A Wilbur 

San Dleajo 

SPRECKEL (orph) 
1st half 
Hans Kronold 
Hermlne Shone Co 
American Dancers 
Alexander A Scott 
Cleo GTascoigne 
Les Salvaggls 
(One to fill) 

PANTAGES (m) 
Ethel Davis Co 
King Thornton Co 
Miller Packer A Selz 
Taylor A Arnold 
Chester Kingston 



8a«*raasento 

ORPHEUM 
(2-8) 
Morris Cronln Co 
Frank North Co 
Fredericks Slemons C 
Kalmar A Brown 
Miller A Vincent 
Chief Caupollcan 
Lockett ft Waldron 
EMPRESS (loew) 
(Open 8un Mat) 
Montrose A Sydell 
Calts Bros 
Wilson A Wilson 
Morris A Beasley 
Odrtone 
Kitty Francis Co 

Sasrlnnw, Mich. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
Judson Cole 
Dvnes ft Van Epps 
When Love Is Young 
Benaee ft Balrd 
Marriott. Troune 
2d half 
"Dittle Modiste" 

Suit Luke 

OttPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Tamed 

Waldemor Young & I 
"The Tiojiutlcfl" 
Hnrrv Tiuda 
Weston ft Clsre 
Ernie Potts Co 
Kathrv. Durkln 

EMI'URSS Mnew) 
Tjivpn ft Benl&roln 
Eva Prout 



Saa Fraa«*r- 



«••» 



ORPHEUM 

(Open Sun Mat) 

White A Jason 

Gertrude Coghlan Co 

Swor A Mack 

Meehan's Doge 

Jos Jefferson Co 

Bendlx Players 

Burnham A Irwin 

Claude Golden 
EMPRESS (loew) 

Juggling Nelson 

Burke A Harris 

Musical Avollos 

Wm H St James Co 

Anderson A Got nee 

Stewart Sis A Escorts 
PANTAGES (m) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Allsky's Hawallans 

William Shilling Co 

Sllber A North 

Belle Trio 

Slivers Oakley 
San Jose, Cal. 
VICTORY (orph) 
(6-7) 

(Same bill as at Sac- 
ramento this Issue) 

Savannah. Gs. 

BIJOU (ubo) 
1st half 
Lyons A Yosco 
Great Howard 
Irene A Bob Smith 
Joe Kramer Co 

Seheneetady. If, Y. 

PROCTOR'S 
"Making the Movies" 
Ellnore A Francklns 
Graham A Randall 
Virginia Girls 
Versatile Trio 
Fitch B Cooner 
Julia Rooney 

2d half 
"In Old New York" 
Temple 4 
Undine Andrews 
Markee Eros 
Bud Snyder Co 
McCarthy Sisters 
Daly A Gallagher 

geraatoa, Pa. 

POLT'S (ubo) 
"Aurora of Light" 
Flying H« , »»— s 
McCormlck A Irving 
Lambert A Ball 
"Honey Girls" 
Great Leon Co 
(Others to fill) 

Seattle 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Ward A Cullen 

Trovato 

"Red Heads" 

Eugene Trio 

Cartmell A Harris 

Asahl Quintet 

Corbett Sheppard A D 

EMPRESS (loew) 

(Open Sun Mat) 

Davis A Matthews 

Hoyt A Wardell 

Mcintosh A Maids 

Bernard ft Harrington 

Fred Hlllebrand 

Nichols Nelson Tr 
PANTAGES (m) 

Staley Dlrbock Co 

Edgar Atchison Ely 

Qulnn A Mitchell 

Joe Lanlgan 

3 Kratons 

■lonv City 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sun Mat) 
Ellnore ft Williams 
3 Hlckey Rros 
Natalie ft Ferrari 
McKay ft Ardlne 
Will Ropers 
Vlollnsky 
(Others to All) 

South ChloiiKo 

GAIETY (wva) 
"i ream Girl" 
2d half 
"hr Engcfords 
Hnrrls West 3 
• •■ -tor J White Co 
'.illlan Wntson 
Martin ft Maxmllllnn 

So. Wornalk, Conn. 

HOYT'S (loew) 
I.awton 

Joe F Sullivan C.n 
We«ti?D ft Young 



(Two to fill) 
2d half 
Barnes A Robinson 
Elsie Gilbert Girls 
(Three to fill) 

Spnkaae 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
. (Open Sun Mat) 

Golden A West 

Sallle Stembler 

Holmes A Riley 

Cameron DeVItt Co 

Wilson Bros 

Slayman All Arabs 
PANTAGES (m) 
(Open Sun Mat) 

Maurice Samuels Co 

Oxford 3 

Nadcll A Kane 

Agnes VanBracht 

Dunlay A Merrill 

Rood's Terriers 

St. Lonls 

COLUMBIA (orph) 
Trizle Frlganza 
Mile Mary on Vadle ., 
"Telephone Tangle" - 
Mr A Mrs J. Barry 
Santly A Norton 
Chas Weber 
Max Yorke's Dogs 
Billy McDermott 

St. Peal. MIbb. 

ORPHEUM 
(Open Sua Mat) 

Lai Mon Kim 

John Geiger 

Mildred G rover Co 

Chlnko 

Minnie Kaufman 

Bertha Kalich Co 

(One to fill) 

EMPRESS (loew) 

Bessie's Cockatoos 

Dolce Sisters 

3 Lorettas 

Llda McMillan Co 

Brady A Mahoney 

Edwards Bros 

Stockton 

YOSBMITB (orph) 
(4-5) 
(Same bill as at Sac- 
remento this Issue) 

Syraenae, N. Y. 

GRAND (ubo) 
Mabelle A Ballet 
Geo Brown Co 
Corel 11 A Gillette 
3 Lyres 

Louise Galloway Co 
Girl from Milwaukee 
Barton A Lovera 
Eddie Foy Family 



Taeoi 

EMPRESS (loew) 
Blanrhe Leslie 
Patrlcola A Myers 
Polsln Bros 
Earl A Curtis 
Gray A Graham 
"School Days" 

PANTAGES (m) 
Bruce Richardson Co 
Lander Stevens Co 
Prince A Deerle 
York Trio 
Togan A Geneva 

Torre ffante. fnd. 

< VARIETIES (ubo* 
Wm Weston Co 
Olive Vail Co 
Qulnland A Richards 
Leonard A Whitney 
Bush A Engle 
2d half 
Nick's Skating Girls 
Van Bros 
Claude Tracey 
King A Brown 
"Who's Girl Are You" 

Ta!*4a. O. 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Flanagan A Edwards 
"School Playground" 
Mosher Hayes A M 
Nelusco A Hurley 
(Others to fill) 

Toronto 

SHEA'S (ubo) 
Alice Lloyd 
Howard A Symans 
Billy Rogers 
The Gaudsmldts 
Felix A Barry Sis 



Julia Gonzales 
Bertha Crelghton Co 
(One to fill) 

YONGE ST (loew) 
Gravotte Lavondre Co 
Paul Bownes 
Phllllpl 4 
Smith A Farmer 
Ex-Mayor Shank 
Frank Stafford Co 
Morris A Allen 
Wolgas A Girlie 

Troy, N. Y. 

PROCTOR S 
Little Nap 
Hetty Urma 
Barefoot Boy 
Bckert A Berg 
Calson A Calson 
4 Readings 
Jewell Van Buren Co 

2d half 
"Making the Movies" 
Billy Morse 
Versatile Trio 
Fitch B Cooper 
The Doherty s 
"The Tamer" 

Union Hill. W. J 

HUDSON (ubo) 
Turelly 

Ott Cox A Jardin 
Henshaw A Avery 
Reglna Conelll Co 
Wills Holt Wakefield 
Hanlon Bros 
Nat Wills 
Tye Avaras 

tTtlon. W. V. 
SHUBERT (ubo) 
Bison City 4 
Mendelson 4 
Marie Fltzglbbons 
Fountain Nymphs 
(Others to fill) 

Vnneonver, R. C. 

ORPHEUM (loew) 
Canarls A Cleo 
Bill Robinson 
Bobbe A Dale 
Svengall 

Haydn Burton A H 
Black A White 

PANTAGES (m) 
Claire Rawson Co 
Creole's Orchestra 
McConnell A Nlemeyer 
Arthur Whltlaw 
Great Harrahs 

Vlotorta. B. r. 

PANTAOES (m) 
Walter Terry Girls 
Gardner A Revere 
Juggling Mowatts 
LaTourralne 4 

2 Kerns 

Washington. D. V. 

KEITH'S (ubo) 
Doley A Bales 
Pekln Mysteries 
Arthur Barrett 
Henrietta Crossman Co 
Adler A Arllne 
Ryan A Tlerney 
Claire Rochester 
"Society Buds" 

Waterhnry, Conn. 

LOEW 

The Hasnmsns 
Edna Whistler 
Clayton A Lennle 
"Dairy Maids" 
Nowlln A 8t Clnlre 
Gypsy Countess 
2d half 

3 Keltons 
Lewis A Norton 
"Spider A Fly" 
Oeo B Reno Co 
(Two to fill) 

Wlanlpea. fas. 
ORPHEUM 
1/awIb A Russell 
Williams A Wolfus 
Woodman A Livingston 
Everest's Monkeys 
Princess Radjah 
Bertie Ford 
Fremont Benton Co 
(One to fill) 

PANTAGES (m) 
James J Corbett 
ft DeLuxe Girls 
Skipper Kennedy A R 
Trnnsfleld Sisters 
3 Baltus 



SHOWS NEXT WEEK. 

NEW YORK. 

"A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS"— Little 
(3d week). 

"A PERFECT LADY" (Rose Stahl)— Hudson 
(2d week). 

"BIG JIM OARRITY" (John Mason)— New 
York (4th week). 

"CHIN-CHIN" (Montgomery and Stone)— 
Globe (Sd week). 

"DADDY LONG LEGS"— Gaiety (flth week). 

"DANCING AROUND" (Al Jolson)— Winter 
Garden (4th week). 

"DIPLOMACY"— Empire (3d week). 

GRAND OPERA — Centurv (8th week). 

"HE COMES UP SMTL'NO" (Douglas Fair- 
banks)— Llbertv («th week). 

"INNOCENT" --Eltlnae (IHh week). 

"IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE"— Cohan (Oth 
week). 

"KICK IN"— Longacre (4th week). 

"LIFE" — Mnnhattnn O. H. (3d week). 

MARIE TEMPEST CO. (Repertoire)— Comedy 
(Nov. 2). 

"MILADY'S BOUDOIR" (Adele Mood)— Oar- 
rlck (2d week). 

•MY LADY'S DRESS" Playhouse (2d week). 

"MR. WU f> (Walker Whiteside)— Maxlne El- 
liott (4th week). 



"OUTCAST" (Elsie Ferguson )— Lyceum 

(Nov. 2). 
"ON TRIAL"— Candler (12th week). 
PRINCESS PLAYERS -Princess (3d week). 
"PYGMALION" (Mrs. Campbell)— Park 4th 

week). 
"PAPA'S DARLING"— Amsterdam (Nov. 2). 
"SUZ1"— Casino (Nov. 3). 
"THAT SORT" (Nazimova)— Harris (Nov. 

6). 

THE BATTLE CRY"— Lyric (2d week). 
"THE HIOHWAY OF LIFE "— Wallack's (2d 

week). 
"THE GIRL FROM UTAH"— Knickerbocker 

(10th week). 
"THE HIGH COST OF LOVING"— Republic 

(11th week). 
"THE MIRACLE MAN"— Astor (7th week). 
"THE HAWK" (Wm. Faversham)— Shubert 

(5th week). 
"THE LILAC DOMINO"— 44th Street (2d 

week). 
"THE LAW OF THE LAND"— 48th Street 

(6th week). 
"THE PHANTOM RIVAL"— Belasco (5th 

week). 
"THE ONLY GIRL"— 30th Street (Nov. 2). 
"TWIN BEDS"— Fulton (18th week). 
"UNDER COVER"— Cort (11th week). 
"WARS OF THE WORLD' '—Hippodrome (Oth 

week). i-nj 

gUTOago. 

"THE REVOLT"— American (2d week). 
"WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS"— Auditorium 

(2d week). 
"THE TRUTH"— BIsckstone (1st week). 
"A PAIR OF SIXES"— Cort (13th week). 
"CONSEQUENCES"— Fine Arts (1st week). 
"PEG O' MY HEART"— Garrlck (20th week). 
"THE LITTLE CAFE "—Illinois (1st week). 
"ONE GIRL IN A MILLION"— La Salle (Oth 

week). 
"POTASH A PERLMUTTER"— Olympic (lltb 

week). 
"THE YELLOW TICKET"— Powers (Oth 

week). 
"TODAY"— Princess (6th week). 
"UNDER COVER "—Cohan's. 



AMERICAN ROOF. 

Diversified hill to a pleasing extent at the 
American the last half of last week. Business 
of about the same proportions as during the 
summer. 

Marcou opened, with shadowgraphlng. His 
silhouette routine Is not extraordinary but is 
deftly executed. Msrcou appeared to out his 
act A stronger closing Is needed. The two 
Bohemians scored substantially. One man 
does the vocal work and does It well for those 
who like the classical stuff In foreign tongues. 
Ths other chap manipulates an accordion. 
The medley and whistling accompaniment put 
the turn In big favor. One advantage these 
foreign combinations have Is that they oan 
change their names to suit any house. 

The Harrison Armstrong Players offered 
"Squaring Accounts," two chsractsrs. Ons Is 
an old skinflint who revels In squeeslng his 
tenants. The other a ragged tatterdemalion, 
barefooted dispenser of the news with a pen- 
chant for shooting crsps. Some slang shooter 
slso. Teaches old guy the dice game. Act 
ends with the old boy giving news Isd a re- 
ceipt for rent In full, the latter and his mother 
being one of the renters. Story o'erdrawn 
but has heart appeal. The person doing the 
newsboy looked as though "he" were a woman. 

Marshall P. Wilder, playing a full week, 
got a good gangway with the Vltagraph pic- 
ture In which he "posed" the central char- 
acter. WIlder'H routlno of lokes about the 
same as other years. The Ellis Nowlan Troupo 
filled the stage. Handicapped by lack of room 
upstairs. Acrobatic pleased while the prop 
stage horse was a comedy scream. 

Lee and Noble opened the second part. 
Former Dorothy and Verdi art. About only 
change Is name. Percy Waram and Co., seen 
hereabouts several times. Skit moves along In 
an excellent comedy groove. Farcical, of the 
boisterous, robust type that hits 'em hard In 
the pop circuits. 

Rene Santos wan next to closing. She did 
nicely. No denying the voice. Sings naturally, 
easily snd her range Is not forced. She has 
a pleasant manner. Aerial La Vails (Nsw 
Acts) closed. 



UNION SQUARE. 

They sre turning them sway. But s short 
time ago the Union Squsre with Ite big time 
policy was playing to empty benches. Pop 
vaudeville and the pictures are turning the 
trick, aided bv strenuous management and an 
electrical ballyhoo outside. The Hants In the 
house have been decorated with globes repre- 
senting flowers, and all the curtained hangings 
around the boxes have been removed. This Is 
one of the best things the Square ever did, 
as those former affair* were an abomination. 
Girl ushers have replaced those sleepy looking 
bo vs. 

The bill opened with a two reeler. "T^ove and 
Base Ball" (Film Reviews), which was fol- 
lowed by a Neuter comedv. After the Dorothy 
Hunter- Jack McEnnes (New Acts) dancing 
came a lecture on "Life In .Toilet Prison," with 
still picture accompaniment. Twelve minutes. 
Talk dry but pood ptufT for a quiet Sunday. 
Pictures could have been plainer. 

Sawyer-Tnnnor ( \'ew Acts) preceded an- 
other comedv picture. "No Show for the 
Chauffeur," hsdlv concplved snd overdrawn. 
The Oliver White no. offered n dramatic sketch 
that piled up several "surprise" situations. 
Act held blR Intercut until the clo'-e. when It 
lost Its sped. Three men speak their lines 
'very well snd not a word was lost. 

Bennett ami Hawlcy are using the old Mat- 
fhews-Ashlev Ch Inn town set In "one." Very 
little deviation from the old turn. 

"The Law and the Man" (New Acts) and a 
picture "repeater" were next. Fred B. Hall 
(New Acts) was lust ahead of the closing 
turn. "In StagHnnd," a noisy art with little 
talent. 



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NEW ACTS NEXT WEEK 

Initial PmraUtloa, First Ap*** 
•r R«*pp«araac« la or Arwmmd 
N«w York 



Singer's Midgets, Hammerstein's. 

"Forest Fires," Palace. 

Mae Murray and Jack Jarrott, Palace. 

Bill Pruitt, Palace. 

-Justice/' American (1st Half). 

Ko-Ko Carnival Co., American (2d 

Half). 
Alfred and Siegfried Naess, Boulevard 

(1st Half). 
"The Woman Haters," Columbia, 

Brooklyn, (2d Half). 

Adeline Genee. 

Danseuse. 

22 Mins.; Full Stage. 

Colonial. 

The daintiest of dancers, Adeline 
Genee is again with us. The little 
Danish woman has lost none of her 
exquisite charm since she was last seen 
in this country and still thrills with 
her terpsichorean art. Genee is a key- 
word for all that is delightful in danc- 
ing, and as she floated before the 
Colonial audience Monday night she 
received an ovation that must have 
gladdened her heart. The artiste is 
doing four dances from her repertoire, 
ably assisted by Serges Litavkin. For 
the waits between there is a little 
sprite who weaves her way about the 
stage in graceful manner. The pro- 
gram names Mile. Vanoni, who shows 
she has long followed the steps of the 
only Genee. The opening number is 
"Pierrot et Pierrette," a neat exposi- 
tion, and heartily applauded. This was 
followed by another double number, a 
waltz, also pleasing. Then Genee ap- 
peared in the ballet costume in which 
ihe audience remembered her, and the 
dancer's mere appearance in this cos- 
tume was received with applause. Fol- 
lowing Mons. Litavkin offered his con- 
ception of "The Warrior Dance," clad 
in a costume that must have been de- 
signed by Paul Iribe, for it is as mod- 
ern and colorful as anything Reinhardt 
has brought to this country. As a male 
dancer, Mons. Litavkin reminds one 
very much of Nijinski. He is fully as 
graceful and equally as clever a dancer 
in the little that he shows in this 
movement. For the closing number 
Genee does her Hunting Dance Gal- 
lop and at its conclusion two encores 
were demanded. Two beautiful floral 
offerings found their way across the 
iootlights to the dancer as she bowed 
her thanks. In accepting the flowers 
the dancer showed she was also a cap- 
able actress and comedienne and with 
several little tricks managed to cap- 
ture a neat little laugh from the house. 



Wilton Sisters. 

Music. 

12 Mins.; One. 

81st Street 

Two little misses. Appearance de- 
cidedly sistcrish. One girl plays the 
piano and the other the violin. Both 
sing with piano girl displaying better 
voice. Typical kid act Popular num- 
bers got the usual results although the 
applause at the finish gave evidence ot 
Lome sympathy. Precocity of youth, 
ever a jewel, valuable asset with the 
Wiltons. 



Louise Dresser and Co. (2). 
M A Turn of the Knob" (Comedy). 
19 Mins.; Full Stage, 
Palace. 

For Louise Dresser's return to 
vaudeville she has selected an enter- 
taining little comedy skit with a splen- 
did idea and a fine line of dialog and 
one that should keep her continually 
playing, for Louise Dresser is popular 
wherever she is known. The story is 
cf a prominent city investigator (Geo. 
W. Howard) who is due to play a prin- 
cipal role in a wedding 15 minutes af- 
ter the rise of the curtain. The scene 
is his apartment on the 10th floor of 
a hotel. His future brother-in-law 
(Edward Langford) rushes out for the 
ring and during his absence an in- 
surance solicitor (Miss Dresser) gains 
entrance through a ruse and proceeds 
to talk the bridegroom into a policy. 
Having just completed a searching in- 
vestigation of the local insurance com- 
panies, his name to a policy would be 
a valuable asset to any Arm, and the 
solicitor is anxious. In his attempt 
to escape the door-knob becomes loose 
and is pried off, leaving them maroon- 
ed. Immediately afterward, while en- 
deavoring to reach the office via the 
'phone, he breaks the telephone wire. 
To be brief, the girl finally secures 
his promise to the application just as 
the other chap returns. Finding the 
couple alone in the room the visitor 
demands an explanation and, although 
unaware of the promise or its mean- 
ing, insists it be fulfilled. Incidentally 
the brother-in-law recognizes the girl as 
his ideal of a wife and upon the men's 
exit, locks her in to await his return 
when he proposes to resume his in- 
terrupted business of making love. 
Langford is a bit weak for his par- 
ticular role, his enunciation falling 
short, although as the part is of minor 
importance he passes muster. Miss 
Dresser looks better in this role than in 
any previous vaudeville effort and 
scored an individual hit. Mr. Howard 
fills his role nicely. The piece works 
jerky in sections, but should eventually 
develop speed and accumulate strength 
with playing. It pulled one of the hits 
at the Palace and well deserved to. 

Wynn 



Jack Lorimer and Co. 

"The Wedding in Old Tomoon" 

(Songs). 
14 Mins.; One (6); Full Stage (8). 
Hammerstein's. 

Jack Lorimer returns to this side 
with what the program says is a "song 
scena," "The Wedding in Old To- 
moon." A song scena on the other 
side is presumed over here to be a 
"song production." Mr. Lorimer had the 
song, singing it in a full bare stage 
woodland scene, assisted by Stella 
Stahl, but that was all it amounted to. 
just a song and dance. His first song in 
"one" was "Doing the Seaside" with 
several familiar Scotch melodies inter- 
twined. His next was a Spanish num- 
ber, costumed. It has a bit of humor in 
flic idea, a Scotch Spanish dancer. Miss 
Stahl did not appear until the "song 
scena." Mr. Lorimer has hardly a turn 
r.f strength, as it plaved Monday at 
Hammerstein's 81ms. 



Paul Swan. 

Classic Dancer. 

14 Mins.; Full Stage (Curtain). 

Hammerstein's. 

New York men haven't been educat- 
ed up to classical dancers of the Paul 
Swan type. He is wholly classical. 
The women may like him. The older 
the women the more they will like 
to see him float about the stage, with 
his arms moving snakewise, and his 
body twisting, almost squirming. But 
the men over here don't understand it. 
Art isn't held very high at Hammer- 
stein's, and Mr. Swan got more snick- 
ers than applause, but the horrid men 
were responsible, the brutes! Mr. 
Swan danced three times, each time in 
? different costume, but never at any 
time wearing enough clothes to cover 
him up. He was almost as naked as 
some of the women who have danced 
around for different reasons. Mr. 
Swan wore some silken drapes for 
covering. They exposed his bare arms 
and his bare legs and his bare back 
and his bare chest. The program said 
he is "The Most Beautiful Man in the 
Worlp\" but Mr. Swan ducked this 
way and then ducked that way, and 
he would never stand still long enough 
to let the house see his face. Of Mr. 
Swan's three dances, the first, second 
and third seemed to be over the heads 
of the audience. He died in the final 
dance, and it's tough to die at Ham- 
merstein's. Rime. 



NEW SHOWS NEXT WEEK 

Initial Presentation of Legitimate 
Attractions in Now York. 



"Rabbit" Maranville. 

Baseball. 

15 Mins.; One. 

Keith's, Boston, 

Boston, Oct. 28. 
Another baseball star shot into vau- 
deville from the Braves after winning 
the World's Series. Maranville played 
last year and has a little merit. His 
demonstration of coaching tricks which 
includes his indescribable antics in the 
limited space that won him the name 
of "Rabbit" long before he became the 
Braves' shortstop brought down the 
house. Monday afternoon, with Eddie 
MacHugh as a partner, Maranville 
scored three hits and one error, the 
error coming in his forgetting the lines 
of "Playland," a ballad that he had 
done well with in rehearsals. It is an 
act, like all the others, that will have 
but a short life, but Maranville puts 
more ginger into his turn than is the 
custom. Anywhere in New England 
he will pack a house. Whether he will 
play New York and Philadelphia de- 
pends on how those managers dope 
i he prospects. 



Fred Weber. 
Ventriloquist 
15 Mins.; One 
Jefferson. 

Fred Weber is offering a very ordi- 
nary ventriloquial turn that will pass 
on the small time and that is all. He 
opens with the boy dummy and runs 
through usual routine. His best bit is 
with "the crying baby." which he 
thinks so much of that he repeats it 
until it loses all value, becoming tire- 
some. With his cry-baby and a good 
routine he could work out s comedy 
act that would take him along^nicely. 
An idea is all he needs and this seems 
rn be lacking at present 



Marie Tempest Co. (repertoire), 
Comedy (Nov. 2). 

"Papa's Darling," New Amsterdam 
(Nov. 2). 

"Outcast" (Elsie Ferguson), Lyceum 
(Nov. 2). 

"The Only Girl," 39th Street (Nov. 2) 

"That Sort" (Nazimova), Harris 
(Nov. 6). 

"Suzi," Casino (Nov. 3). 



George T. Stallings. 
Monologist 
22 Mins.; One. 
Palace. 

George T. Stallings, the miracle man 
of baseball, came to bat at the Palace 
Monday night with nothing but a pray- 
er and a few pieces of note paper. The 
marvellous smile, of which page after 
page has been written, was left in the 
dressing room. George was a very 
rervous person when he appeared be- 
fore the Palace audience, so nervous 
a mere sneeze from the orchestra or 
a wheeze from the gallery would have 
sent him right through the roof. But 
nobody sneezed and nobody wheezed 
and George went right through his lit- 
tle task of earning that $1,500 like a 
major, once he wound up, and finished 
the expected hit amid loving cups, floral 
pieces, and the usual introductions 
that go along with the engagement. 
Stallings formally apologized for his 
presence and after announcing he was 
totally unprepared for the ordeal, pro- 
ceeded to tell of his troubles with the 
Boston Braves and his fun with the 
Athletics. He delivered his little talk 
in a nice even tone, continually pacing 
up and down the stage. A fine looking 
type of athlete, he is brimful of per- 
sonality and with a few more shows 
should overcome the nervousness and 
proceed to develop into an attraction, 
always remaining, of course, in the 
classification of freak acts. Occasion- 
ally he provoked a rousing hand dur 
ing his little spiel, but threw a damp 
chill over the assembled fans when 
he rebuked them for their fickleness. 
Needless to say the house was packed 
to the rafters. Johnny Evers, the 
utility man for vaudevilling baseball 
players, was introduced, and at the 
finale, Bozeman Bulger presented 
Stallings with a loving cup. Stallings 
makes a good pulling card and while 
he is a bit wild in control just now he 
will undoubtedly become accustomed 
to the glare of the footlights and soon 
be able to get them over the plate 
quite as well as Mike Donlin, Rube 
Marquard or even "King" Cole. 

Wf/nn 



Morris and Clay. 
"A $2,500 Bet" (Comedy) 
12 Mins.; Two (Interior). 
81st Street. 

Man loses $2,500 on a horse named 
'Birdie White." Usual complications. 



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Ethel Barrymore and Co. (2). 
"Drifted Apart" (Dramatic). 
22 Mint.; Full Stage. 
Majestic, Chicago. 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 
This sketch was performed for the 
first time in 1882. It is old-fashioned, 
artificial at times, and the trick by 
which tears are wrung from the most 
hardened is as palpable as the players 
themselves, and yet it strikes home. 
It is a domestic tragedy showing how 
husband and wife, who still love each 
other, unconsciously drift apart, each 
one thinking the other careless and cal- 
lous. Lady Gwendoline Bloomfield 
(Ethel Barrymore), after the loss of 
her child, turns to frivolous society for 
comfort, dawdling about with one Sir 
Anthony. Sir Geoffrey Bloomfield 
(Charles Dalton) is following in the 
wake of some Duchess or other. Hus- 
band and wife seldom meet and a bar- 
rier seems to have grown up between 
them. They bicker and quarrel, when 
they do meet, and the house divided 
seems ready to fall. The woman, who 
has steeled her heart, and is ready to 
break the marriage tie to free herself 
from the mockery, is touched when 
she finds her husband has been sleep- 
ing in the nursery, which long since 
has been deserted by their only child. 
Coming from the opera, she decides to 
have a talk with Sir Geoffrey and asks 
him to get her some needlework that 
she may work for the Red Cross. By 
a mistake, while rummaging among 
parcels, he finds one containing two 
little silk shoes. And, herein are the 
tears. In the midst of a high quarrel, 
the woman undoes the parcel, and, there 
before her eyes, are the shoes worn 
by the little feet that "have found the 
path to heaven." In the playing of 
this scene Miss Barrymore has per- 
haps never reached a higher mark. It 
hits the heart a blow that is irresist- 
ible. Mr. Dalton is effective as the 
husband, giving a fine, clean-cut per- 
formance. 



The Krusadas (2). 

Musical. 

12 Mins.; Two. 

Majestic, Chicago. 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 
These musical entertainers have some 
new ideas. Act opens with girl coming 
on for song and little dance. Man fol- 
lows with violin and girl dances more. 
Then girl goes to piano and man offers 
some good numbers. Man has solo, 
playing Irish airs, and girl comes out 
as boy in green plush for an Irish 
dance. Next, some Scottish music and 
girl in kilts, closing with American 
patrol with girl in brown plush Cstill 
as boy) in Colonial regalia. Act needs 
speeding up. Lacks ginger. Not 
enough red fire at close. 



Tom Williams and Co. (3) 

Comedy Sketch. 

Full Stage. 

12 Mine.; Full Stage (Library). 

Columbia (Oct. 25). 

A farcical playlet with mistaken 
identity for the foundation. When you 
can get four people at a limited price, 
too much is not to be looked for, and 
if you don't look for too much in this 
"farce," you won't be disappointed, 
either in the playlet cr the players. 
Otherwise it's s bau boy. ftimt. 



Helen Trix. 

"Piano Songuluslerese." 

12 Mins.; One. 

Hammerstein's. 

Helen Trix put over the surprise of 
the evening Monday night at Ham- 
merstein's. She did a clean-cut single 
that carries with it more legitimate 
versatility than has been witnessed in 
a similar turn in ever so long. The 
result was that Miss Trix scored one 
of the biggest hits on the program, 
and left the regulars around the back 
rail, wondering why she hasn't been 
playing in the New York big time 
houses before this. Opening in a 
modish wrap and hat, Miss Trix sang 
"I Don't Care What Becomes of Me" 
(rather light), and then sat herself 
before a concert grand, having remov- 
ed the wrap and coat, revealing her- 
self as a handsome girl in full evening 
dress. At the piano Miss Trix used 
"The Land of Coocooco," not a bad 
rag, and followed this by a quick 
change off stage to a very agreeable 
boy, returning to the stage singing a 
pretty melody, and closed this part, 
still at the piano with "I've Joined the 
Squirrel Family," a comedy number 
that got right over. After that Miss 
Trix accompanied herself while whist- 
ling pleasantly, and for a final encore, 
sang "Ragpicker," the only published 
number in her repertoire. When it 
may be said that Miss Trix looked as 
nice as a girl as she did as a boy, and 
vice versa, besides putting over every- 
thing of the many things she did in a 
first-class workmanlike shape. Helen 
Trix turned out a turn that can go on 
any bill, and she made her record Mon- 
day night, notwithstanding^ poor po- 
sition, "No. 9," following much sing- 
ing, including another singing woman 
single, but a couple of turns ahead of 
her. Miss Trix is proving herself a 
perfect little artiste this week, and 
compared with the many others, she 
is entitled to that word, clever. 

Sime. 



Bob Fitzsimmons and Son. 
Talk and Fight. 
14 Mins.; One and Full Stage. 
McVicker's, Chicago. 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 
Bob Fitzsimmons comes on for a 
monolog of the flowery type, telling 
of his early life, and some of the high 
lights in his history. Talk delivered 
with clenched fists. Tells how a foot- 
ball player smashed him in the nose 
early in life, and how, after that, he 
took a blacksmith apron and made 
trloves with which he learned to fipht. 
He then hikes to the wings. At Mc- 
Vicker's, Baron Richter, on the pro- 
gram, stepped out to announce a three- 
round boxing bout between Bob and 
his son. Curtain goes up, Richter take? 
his place as timekeeper and out comes 
Young Fitzsimmons, pink and big and 
a fine figure of a man in the palest 
of blue tights. On comes Bob in laven- 
der and they go to it for three rounds, 
with some vigor, landing on each other 
with right good will. Bob is always 
a drawing card, and curiosity to sec 
his son, who is booked as the one who 
is ^oing to come forward later and 
step Jack Johnson, should make the 
act magnet. On in closing spot at 
t' . first show Monday night, it packed 
'he house. 



Lipinsld's Dog Comedians. 

Canine Pantomime. 

15 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Setting 

and Effects). 
Alhambra. 

Here's a foreign dog act that is tak- 
ing three or four curtains every night 
at the Alhambra. And it is not only 
giving unbounded satisfaction as a dis- 
play of unusual canine sagacity and 
intelligence, but is opening the second 
part and more than holding up its posi- 
tion. At the Alhambra Tuesday night 
the act elicited hearty laughter and 
at the close the house burst forth into 
unrestrained applause. Lipinski has 
gone a little further than the other 
trainers. More attention has been given 
to the stage setting of a miniature 
town and the electrical effects show- 
ing the passing of day into night are 
worked to an advantage. The pro- 
gram says there are 40 dogs. At any 
rate there are enough to "act" as 
school "kids," teacher, minister, police, 
townspeople, etc. The clock strikes 
twelve (noon), school is out and the 
"kids" dance to hand-organ airs. 
There's the crowded bus, ambulance, 
cycling dogs, auto smoking and chased 
by policeman, and the fire at the close 
with the auto truck and automatic 
ladder. The feature of the act is the 
work of a "drunk," this dog showing 
wonderful training. The act is an in- 
stantaneous hit. Worth while any- 
where. First appearance on this side. 



Moore and Yates. 
Comedy Impersonators. 
14 Mins.; One. 
Colonial. 

George Moore and Francis Yates 
are offering a real comedy novelty in 
"one" in the dual female impersona- 
tion act. At the opening one fears 
it is just going to be of the ordinary 
type of two-acts; then one guesses 
as to whether one of the team is a 
female impersonator, and having set- 
tled that point, again settles back, pre- 
pared for the worst. Suddenly there 
comes a change and the act has you 
applauding. At least this was the case 
with the majority of the audience at 
the Colonial Monday night. At the 
opening the larger of the two men 
essays the female impersonation, carry- 
ing it through straight until the finish 
of the second number. The smaller 
in the meanwhile seems to be trying 
for comedy. At the finish of the sec- 
ond number the impersonator cuts 
loose a note in a male voice that wins 
the house. The smaller then offers 
a single number that gives his part- 
ner an opportunity to change to male 
attire. The order of things is revers- 
ed and the smaller changes to draperies 
and offers a burlesque impersonation 
that is a scream. The act will be a wel- 
come comedy addition to any big time 
hill in any spot, even next to closing. 



Lear and Fields. 
Songs and Talk. 
15 Mins.; One. 

Fields betakes himself somewhat after 
the manner of Jim Diamond. He and 
his woman partner help themselves 
t<> a potpourri of gags that have been 
culled from different acts. Some old. 
some new. Aeroplane talk well con- 
nected. Act can make good in the pop 
houses. 



Regina Conelli and Co. 
"Ihe Lollard" (Comedy). 
20 Mins.; Full Stage. 
Prospect, Brooklyn. 

The theme of this new Edgar Allan 
Woolf sketch is that a man does not 
look as well in a night shirt with his 
hair disturbed as he does all dolled up. 
That is why Miss Conelli as the newly 
wedded wife claims her husband to be 
a lollard. The scene is in the apart- 
ment of an old maid dressmaker. The 
wife rushes into the apartment of the 
maiden lady in her nightie and wakes 
her. The wife tells how she was fooled 
in her husband and that she is going 
to leave him then and there. The old 
maid agrees with her that all men are 
scoundrels. The wife objects to this, 
saying her husband is a fine man, but 
that his hair does not stay the way he 
plasters it. The old maid has a male 
boarder (to make both ends meet), 
and he appears at this moment, in the 
wee small hours. The newly wedded 
wife spies him, all primped up, and de- 
cides he is the man meant for her. 
They begin a love match right away, 
but he is hustled off to bed by the 
housekeeper. The husband comes thun- 
dering at the door and is admitted by 
the proprietor, who hides his wife in 
the other room (not with the board- 
er). The husband looks very ungainly 
in his bathrobe, with his hair mussed 
and his feet in huge slippers. The old 
maid tells him to go up to his apart- 
ment and put on his uniform, in which 
he appeared when he won his wife, and 
she would see that he got her back all 
right. The man does so. He returns 
and the housekeeper yells fire. The 
boarder makes his appearance in a 
night shirt, and the woman, catching 
the drift, flops in her husband's arms. 
The sketch is well played. Miss Co- 
nelli as the fickle young wife is very 
amusing. The old maid as played by 
Harriett Marlotte could not be better. 
The male members have little to do. It 
is a good amusing sketch. 



Norine Coffey. 

Songs. 

IS Mins.; One. 

Broadway. 

Norine Coffey is a single with ap- 
pearance and a sweet, powerful voice 
which she uses to good advantage. 
Her present routine consists of four 
published numbers. A little song story 
is interwoven, and makes a good bit 
in the act. The first number, quiet, it 
followed by "Victrola" which Norine 
ruts over with the necessary vim to 
get some very good returns. After 
that an operatic selection is used which 
shows Miss Coffey's voice off to good 
advantage and the ballad encore fits 
in nicely although it is not very new. 
The dress worn is a stunner and it is 
no wonder she clings to it during the 
entire act. As a single woman Miss 
Coffey was a mile ahead of the Broad- 
way and should not have been "No. 2." 



Eckert and Francis. 
Crossfire and Songs. 
16 Mins.; One. 

A hit at the Grand Sunday. The 
men get splendid harmony. Exchange 
of patter with one man affecting Ger- 
man dialect got many laughs. Excel- 
lent "two man" team for the "thfc a 
day." 



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Four Rube*. 

Talk and Songs. 

16 Mins.; Two (Special Drop). 

Columbia (Oct 25). 

Two views could be taken of the 
Four Rubes, a comedy quartet. It 
would depend where they were seen 
and in a way, exemplify the difference 
between big time and the smaller 
small time. The views might run like 
these: 



Small Time. 
The Four Rubes 
could be called 
The Rube Min- 
strels, as it is a 
minstrel idea, fash- 
i o n e d somehow 
after the Crane 
Brothers and Bel- 
mont turn. Each 
of the men is in ec- 
centric rural dress 
and make-up, go- 
ing in somewhat 
for rough comedy, 
having plenty o f 
jokes, and singing 
during the turn, 
which concludes 
with one of t h e 
men yodeling that 
gets over very big, 
earning an easy en- 
core. The comedy 
talk and the char- 
acters will please 
in certain of t h e 
smaller houses. 



Big Time. 
The Four Rubes 
g o t an idea and 
then ran away 
from it It's a 
rube quartet with 
"gags," some of 
the oldest and the 
poorest that could 
be gotten for noth- 
ing. When the act 
thins down at any 
time and a laugh is 
needed, slapstick is 
indulged in by one 
o f t h e farmerish 
men jumping a t 
another's throat. 
All are grotesque- 
ly made up, have 
little natural hu- 
mor, sing badly in 
the barber - shop 
way, and the finish, 
a yodel, sounds 
like a weak imita- 
t i o n of a steam 
caliope. For b i g 
time the turn never 
had a chance. 
There is a big 
time act known as 
The Three Rubes. 
Sime. 



Fred B. Hall. 

Imitations. 

11 Mins.; One. 

Union Square (Oct. 25). 

Imitations are best listed in Fred B. 
Hall's inventory. Good whistler. He 
is in serio-comic makeup, with a de- 
cidedly German accent. A lot of fol 
de rol which foreign music hall "sin- 
gles" revel in. For small time this 
monkeyshine making will hit, but Hall 
in trying to get higher had best con- 
tinue his attention to a whistling-imi- 
tation single. Some of his imitations 
were off color and some very good. 



Francis and Rose. 

Dancers, 

9 Mins.; One. 

Hammerstein's. 

Two boys, one taller than the other, 
both dressed in black cutaway suits, 
wearing silk hats and black gloves. 
They try eccentric dancing, something 
after the style of many better-known 
dancers. The opening is different and 
odd, but not well worked out. Position 
was against them. 



Aerial La Vails. 

Bars and Rings. 

10 Mins.; Four (Exterior; Special). 

Rigging and setting brand new. 
Man and slender legged boy. Admit- 
tedly circusy, but good act for the pop 
houses. Man wcrks for comedy that 
will be effective on the small time. 
Closing trick flashy. 



"The Law and the Man" Co. (5). 

Dramatic. 

14 Mins.; Three (Interior). 

Union Square (Oct 25). 

Strong play for melodramatic thrill. 
Miner escapes from prison where he 
was doing a life term for murder. He 
gets with Bud, a friend, who tells him 
to beat it to the Mexican border. Jim 
from Death Valley says "No." He 
wants a song, a smile from a woman's 
lips and a moment's dream of what a 
life might have been. Jim gets it and 
with it the sheriff's hand shackles. 
But Jim puts one over and makes the 
officer captive. As he starts with him 
tor the border, General Creighton, 
whose daughter loves Jim (none other 
than Harry Wayne who killed one 
Trenton, crazed with drink, who 
threatened a woman's life and reputa- 
tion), says the Gov of California is an 
old friend of his and that Jim should 
write the General to get the boy a par- 
don. There's a vaudeville thriller for 
you.. Fine pickings for the novel- 
reading kids. 



The Mirth Makers (10). 
Tabloid Musical Comedy. 
24 Mint,; Full Stage (Exterior). 
Bronx Opera House (Oct 25). 

The Mirth Makers are presenting a 
tebloid musical comedy with four prin- 
cipals, three men and one woman and 
.1 chorus of six girls. There is a thread 
of a story that is constantly shoved 
into the background to permit the in- 
troduction of numbers and comedy. 
The act will be a big flash for the 
small time providing it can get along 
on a small time salary. There are a 
pair of comedians in the cast that are 
fair for small time and the chorus is 
the next best thing in the act. Popu- 
lar numbers get the act over. 



Dorothy Hunter and Jack McEnness. 

Dances. 

12 Mine.; Three (Interior). 

Union Square (Oct. 25). 

If this pair had displayed their 
dancing wares a year ago they might 
have started something. It looks now 
as though the pardon came too late. 
The Fox Trot was the closer and the 
best of the lot. The team let loose 
here and the woman actually smiled, 
thereby relieving the mechanical ani- 
mation of the preceding numbers. The 
dancers work very well together. 



Ramsey and Hartla. 
Modern Dances. 
6 Mins.; Full Stage. 
Bronx O. H. (Oct 25). 

One of the usual modern dancing 
turns, although in this case the girl is 
a much better dancer than the custom- 
ary run of steppers in acts of this type 
on the small time. 



Max Rossi. 

Songs and Talk. 

13 Mins.; One. 

Bronx O. H. (Oct 25). 

Ordinary single for small time is 
Max Rossi. He opens with a fast 
t. umber and then goes into talk that 
seems to have all of the "old boys" in 
show business. He also has a song 
for his closing number, on a par with 
his opening bit. 



Nan Halperin. 

Songs. 

16 Min.; One. 

Prospect 

Nan Halperin is different and at the 
Prospect she was very well liked. With- 
out music Miss Halperin walks on the 
stage and tells the leader that she does 
not know a soul in the house. She 
also informs the audience she has a 
fair amount of personality and with 
that will try to please them. .The girl 
shows in two numbers that she has 
entire act of her own without imitat- 
thing has been done to death and there 
is enough to Nan Halperin to give an 
entire act of her own without imitat- 
ing soubrets and prima donnas. Miss 
Halperin has personality and a way of 
putting over her songs that is also 
pleasing. 



Geo. Hibbard and Lila Lucile. 
"The Girl, the Boy and the Piano." 
15 Mins.; One. 
Majestic, Milwaukee. 

Milwaukee, Oct. 28. 
Brother and sister (Lila Hibbard), 
who have been entertaining Milwaukee 
since they were youngsters, with nat- 
ural talent. Both have stage presence 
and personality, particularly the young 
woman. She is vivacious and attrac- 
tive. Both are of good voice, using 
original songs. In next to closing, 
after Lina Abarbanell and other strong 
acts, they made good outside of native 
element consideration. Considered by 
management as easily qualified for big 
time. 



"The Wrong Bird." 
Tab. Musical Comedy. 
Full Stage (Special Set). 

Salt Lake, Oct. 26. 
Margaret Whitney is listed as au- 
thor of this musical bit in which are 
featured Morse Moon and Mignon 
Heywood, supported by a chorus of 
eight pretty girls. The scene is laid 
in a taxidermist's shop. The affair has 
attractive mounting, costuming and 
tuneful music and the comedy gets 
over nicely. It scored at Pantages 
last week. 



She, He and the Piano. 
Piano Act 
11 Mine.; One. 
Bronx O. H. (Oct 25). 

She and He are doing a mighty inter- 
esting little turn that will answer for 
an early spot on any small time show 
with the present material. The man 
has a fair voice and both he and the 
woman are nifty steppers. The num- 
bers the team are using at present 
seem to have been written by one or 
perhaps both members of the act. 
They are not of the quality that will 
make it go forward. With a couple of 
teal songs the turn might double in 
value. The woman has a pleasing 
personality and her comedy number is 
very well put over. 



Debello. 

Operatic. 

12 Mins.; One. 

Bronx O. H. (Oct. 25). 

A soprano, tenor and baritone make 
a combination that will do nicely on 
the small time. Act is costumed nice- 
ly and was a hit with the Bronx audi- 
ence. 



Jack Ellis and Co. (2). 
Dramatic Sketch. 
19 Mins.; Full Stage (Interior). 
Bronx O. H. (Oct 25). 

The sketch offered by Jack Ellis 
and Co. cannot be designated as either 
fish or fowl. It isn't dramatic nor is 
it burlesque nor a dramatic sketch. It 
just between and not enough of either. 
Its theme seems to have been taken 
from "The Man of the Hour." There 
is the young and honest mayor who is 
beset by the Boss who wants him to 
sign a bill behind which there is un- 
limited opportunity for graft. The 
young man playing the mayor passes 
by nicely, but the boss is as fine a 
burlesque character as ever seen. The 
third character, the boss' daughter, in 
love with the mayor, is poorly played. 
Mr. Ellis will have to make up his 
mind one way or the other regarding 
the offering. It must either be played 
straight, without trying after comedy, 
cr burlesque throughout. It seems as 
though there would he room for the 
sketch on the small time as a straight 
dramatic, with another woman in the 
role of the daughter. 



Hallen and Hunter. 
Comedy and Music. 
11 Mins.; One. 
Columbia (Oct 25). 

A young girl and man, the former 
playing the violin, also acting as 
straight for her partner's foolishness. 
That consists of a James J. Morton- 
Frank Tinney-Harry Fox routine that 
shows a nice discrimination by this 
budding comedian. The "copy stuff" 
seemed to do at the Columbia Sunday 
afternoon. The girl plays fairly, but 
looks really well. No visible reason 
why she should use the violin at all in 
this act, excepting it sends the young 
copyist off the stage now and then to 
permit her to do so. The point of 
merit about the turn for consideration 
is that it has new jokes, or at least not 
any heard on the stage to date. That 
is something, really a great deal, and it 
might induce the man of the team to 
evidence originality as well in other 
directions. 8im€. 



Sawyer and Tanner. 
Novelty Sketching. 
13 Mins.; Curtained Easel. 
Union Square (Oct 25). 

The man does the painting. The 
woman, wearing wigs to correspond 
with type of nationality drawn, inserts 
her head in opening in frame. Each 
figure head offered is preceded by an 
announcement by artist. At the fin- 
ish, the woman comes down front and 
sings while a man's head appears in 
the easel opening, a comedy picture 
being the result. Proved a novelty at 
the Union Square Sunday. 



Newsky Troupe (7). 
Russian Dancers. 
8 Mins.; Full Stage. 
Columbia (Oct 25). 

Three women and four men, all 
Russian dancers, open in the usual pic- 
turesque costume, playing string in- 
struments while bunched together for 
a "sight." Later they dance, with one 
of the men featured for this portion. 
The girls dance also, to the customary 
fast closing routine. N<- ♦. a bad act of 
its sort. Sime. 



VARIETY 



21 



HAMMERSTEIN'S. 

Hammerstein's, Monday, held two 
good houses. The matinee was over ca- 
pacity, and the night show very big. 
The center of attraction at both per- 
formances appeared to be Paul Swan 
(New Acts), billed as "The Most Beau- 
tiful Man in the World." Mr. Swan ap- 
peared near the finale of the show, and 
stealing some of Wynn's stuff, it may 
be mentioned he weakened the second 
half. 

The feature came forth in Harry Fox 
and Jennie Dolly, closing the first half. 
They sang and danced, also kidded 
with their "cissy" stagehands at the 
finish, to much laughter. Van Hoven, 
opening the second part, was another 
success. Van Hoven almost ran into 
a snarl Monday evening, when calling 
for boys. A strange kid went on tne 
stage, but the crew coaxed him into 
the wings and sent him away. Van 
Hoven had some new talk, and he got 
enough laughs to suit anyone, but 
should drop the "dirty neck" dialog. 
A revival of a playlet was made by 
S. Miller Kent in "Just Dorothy," It 
is very talky and hardly fitted into the 
Hammerstein atmosphere, although 
holding attention. Truly Shattuck pre- 
ceded the sketch, having been moved 
from "8" to "6" before the matinee. 
Helen Trix (New Acts) originally 
billed "6" was "9", causing her to fol- 
low as well the singing number by 
Jack Lorimer (New Acts) just ahead. 
Miss Trix left a most excellent impres- 
sion and really started off a show 
that picked up quite some speed from 
her appearance until Swan swamped 
it for a few minutes. 

Jack Nelson, a singing and talking 
cartoonist, opened. Mr. Nelson's idea 
of humor may be contained In one of 
his announcements that said: "I will 
now give you an imitation of a Swede 
singing an Irish song in front of a 
butcher shop, for a peanut." His car- 
toons were better. 

Auremia was "No. 2," a position like- 
ly assigned for this quick return date 
to keep him far away from the Swan 
act. Auremia showed some more 
clothes. He is a modiste shop in his 
wardrobe, and can create talk through 
his dresses alone. He's rather remark- 
able and stands alone for female im- 
personation on the clothes thing. Fran- 
cis and Rose (New Acts), a couple of 
dancers, did little, with Sherman and 
DeForrest in "A Jay Circus," appear- 
ing "No. 5." It's a long time since 
Dan Sherman played in Times Square, 
but he's been working steadily, never- 
theless, and showed the booking bunch 
why toward the finish when he had 
the audience laughing its heads off. 
There's a bit of slapstick in the turn, 
but it's within the characters, and Mr. 
Sherman, together with his company 
of four or five people, go in for comedy 
only. Miss Shattuck did very well and 
had a brand new song, "Tippcrary 
Mary" for decided assistance. 

Maud Lambert and Ernest Ball had 
to follow the classical dancers near 
the finish. Reynolds and Donegan 
closed the bill. 

There is nothing this week in the 
show for Loney Haskell to talk about 
—on the stage— but he and others 
could find plenty for outside converse. 
The Monday matinee audierce afforded 
enough for a week's topic. All of our 
set were there. Sime - 



PALACE. 

There is a little too much vaudeville 
to the Palace bill this week with nine 
acts bringing the final curtain down 
around midnight, the Agoust 1'amily 
closing to a continual walkout, made 
cloubly difficult for the act through the 
presence of a necessary stage delay 
previous to their opening. Of the en- 
tire combination, two are new, George 
Stallings (New Acts) opening for his 
short vaudeville tour with a routine of 
'Gray matter" that should carry him 
through nicely once he becomes ac- 
customed to his surroundings. Louise 
Dresser and Co. (New Acts) are show- 
ing a new sketch, both getting away 
with big hits, although Stallings' 
measure was of a sentimental grade. 

The running brought Mr. and Mrs. 
Carter De Haven on in next to clos- 
ing spot around 11.15, and while the 
audience remained for the finish, con- 
ditions were not favorable to the turn. 
The De Havens have a rather enjoy- 
able novelty for this engagement, a 
sort of musical comedy sketch in three 
scenes with Carter wading through in 
one evening dress, contrary to his 
usual series of changes. It carried in- 
terest throughout, particularly the 
finale in "one" with its accompanying 
light effects and novel set. Although 
the couple did not arouse any signs 
of over-enthusiasm, they managed to 
keep the packed house seated at the 
late hour, quite an accomplishment, 
considering everything. 

Emma Carus and Carl Randall were 
one of the big hits, although the first 
section of the turn slipped by rather 
slowly, due to the handicap in spot. 
Miss Carus would do well to eliminate 
one verse of her numbers, if such a 
thing would permit Randall sufficient 
time for costume changes, particularly 
with such a slow running fire. The 
dancing brought the couple the even- 
ing's legitimate honors. Randall's 
agility in this department is surpris- 
ing, but not half as much as that of 
Miss Carus who is rapidly reducing 
to normal weight. It's easily the best 
vehicle the popular comedienne has 
ever staged and should keep her in the 
lights for a long time to come. 

The Primrose Four were another 
semi-sensational hit, holding down the 
second spot. With good straight 
quartets at a premium, this combina- 
tion seems in a class of its own. 
In fact it would not seem an exag- 
gerated assumption to declare them the 
best all around singing group that 
vaudeville has as yet unearthed. 

Dolly and Brown opened intermis- 
sion with their collection of ancient 
and modern dances. Unless it be in 
the costuming, one is led to wonder 
just where the value of the turn exists. 
Miss Dolly is talented to a degree and 
makes a stunning appearance, but why 
all the excess fuss over Martin Brown? 
After watching the long procession of 
modern dancers who have come before 
Brown, one is led to believe the busy 
little press agent has been at it again. 
Carl Randall seems able to dance rings 
around Brbwn, and while one can make 
agreeable allowances for his graceful- 
ness and ideas (and these are quoted 
as copied) it's a hard task to swallow 
the advance dope after reviewing an 
actual performance. If individual 
opinions are as worthless as claimed, 



AMERICAN ROOF. 

Not enough people on the American 
Roof Tuesday night to call them a 
crowd. The acts were left stranded 
as far as applause was concerned. Not 
any did their full turn, including en- 
cores, probably (and justly so), con- 
sidering extra effort would be lost. The 
first cool weather may have kept people 
away upstairs. The theatre below held 
capacity, although Tuesday night in 

the theatres around Times Square was 
as poor in attendance as Monday. 

Lew Palmore opened the Roof pro- 
gram. He is a juggler with a couple 
of new ideas, doing especially well in 
his different way of handling the bound- 
ing hats, but the only time Mr. Pal- 
more smiled was when taking a bow. 
He should loosen up, and aid his com- 
edy. There are many laughs in the 
hat work if he goes after them prop- 
erly. Not a bad opening turn, with 
too much time taken up in "one." 

Next were Grace Leonard and Tom 
Dempsey, who seem to have changed 
the turn about some, to its advantage. 
More of the cross fire talk on family 
relations has been put in, and the act 
runs more smoothly. Miss Leonard 
makes but one change, to man's eve- 
ning dress, and remains in it to the 
finish. After them came The Danc- 
ing Mars, three — a woman, boy and 
girl. They dance and seem to be 
working out a story in the steps, but 
it is vague at best, and two youths of 
this couple's seemingly limited experi- 
ence are attempting a great deal when 
trying for pantomime. The woman's 
solo dance is wholly wasted. A trans- 
parency is employed as a special drop, 
and though something might be made 
of this, it amounts to little as now 
used. The trio needs staging unless 
it is decided for the youngsters to con- 
tinue as a two-act They can only 
flounder about without advancement 
as at present framed. 

One song used by Polly Prim, 
"There's a Fellow I Can Never For- 
get," did enough to bring her over. 
It's a sort of character number, de- 
scribing different lovers and permits 
of a poor imitation of George M. Co- 
han. Miss Prim also sang a "Rainy 
Day" number in a rubber raincoat, re- 
taining it to recite Frank Fogarty's (an- 
nounced) "It's Great to Live and 
Learn," which she did fairly well, get- 
ting the points over well enough for 
the small timers in front. Waterbury 
Bros, and Tenney closed the first half. 

Niblo and Riley opened after inter- 
mission. This Roof intermission, by 
the way, is too long to have the sec- 
ond part start off well. Following the 
team came Owen McGiveney, the head- 
line, in his protean turn, "Bill Sykes." 
Mr. McGiveney was cramped in 
a small spare on the roof stage for 
his rapid work, but interested the house 
with the story and mystified them with 
his lightning changes. Bigelow, Camp- 
bell and Radyn, and The John Troupe 
were the two finishing turns (New 
Acts). Sim*. 

it will do no harm to register this one 
— very average, yea bo, very. 

Derkin's Animals opened the show 
with the entire turn revolving around 
the antics of the drunken dog. Wy/m. 



MtOADWAY. 

The Broadway did not have good 
business Monday night. ' At eight 
o'clock down stairs held but a few peo- 
ple. They straggled in up to 9.30. Those 
there saw a good show that contained 
big and small time acts. 

The biggest name the show had was 
Norine Coffey (New Acts) put into 
the second spot, much* to her disad- 
vantage. If Miss Coffey were capable 
of headlining a show at the Brighton 
Beach Music Hall last summer there 
is no reason why she should be forced 
into the second spot at the Broadway. 
Had she been placed in the last half 
or any later position Miss Coffey 
would undoubtedly have been one of 
the biggest hits of the bill; as it was 
there was applause enough to warrant 
an encore. 

The Scotch Players with their sketch 
"My Wife from London," put over a 
nice hit. The Scotch people have a 
vehicle that contains many laughable 
instances. It is exceedingly refresh- 
ing after the usual run of dwarf plays. 
Willie, the actor-son, should primp up 
a bit on his appearance. A London 
music hall artist would not wear 
clothes Willie wears. The entire cast 
did some good acting that was well 
liked. The Haberdashery" with Har- 
tington Reynolds and Co. (New Acts) 

was another of the popular turns. 

Keene and Sharp, under the name of 
Fox and Witt (or vice versa) played 
the piano and sang some character 
bongs that pleased to some extent. 
The man who handles the songs is the 
real worker, his partner posing con- 
tinually at the piano. The baseball 
number holds up as the best and puts 
the two over at the finish with a bang. 

The well-known back-stage skit pre- 
sented by John Delmore and Co. 
scored nicely toward the finish. The 
first part dragged somewhat. The 
four Chinese boys consisting of the 
Chung Wah Comedy Four, had the 
next to closing spot and did some 
good harmonizing. The heavy fellow 
seems to be aching for a chance to get 
in comedy, but fails to get an oppor- 
tunity until the last, a Scotch number, 
in which he uses a comedy make-up 
that is old but good for a few laughs. 
Surprisingly good harmony from these 
four. 

The Littlejohns closed with club 
swinging and balancing. The spin- 
ning of the three dishes on sticks 
placed in her mouth while balancing 
on a large ball and juggling knives is 
the best the girl does. A good closing 
turn the sparkling "toss abouts" being 
a novelty. 

The two remaining turns under New 
Acts were Andre, M'lle Sherri and 
Florence Doyle in modern dances and 
Cervo, an accordionist. The two acts 
fared moderately. 

Evidently some of the acts were 
there to show as there were a number 
of watchers, the left hand side of the 
balcony resembling back of third base 
at the Polo Grounds during the sum- 
mer with the agents present. 



22 



VARIETY 



STANDARD. 

Last Sunday's vaudeville concert at 
the Standard (Broadway and 90th 
street) was one of the best, if not the 
best in the entire city for that par- 
ticular day, ten good acts comprising 
an exceptionally entertaining bill 
throughout. Considering all circum- 
stances, business was fully up to ex- 
pectations with a rather enthusiastic 
bunch present, a fair percentage of 
representative managers and agents in- 
cluded. 

The Brightons opened with a nov- 
elty in rags, a turn that is both good 
and different. Following came Harry 
Rose with a good repertoire of comic 
songs. Rose was unfortunately handi- 
capped with a small stage wait previ- 
ous to his entrance, but accumulated 
sufficient speed as he progressed to 
close a big hit, and had he appeared a 
bit later might have taken away the 
afternoon honors. His appearance 
could stand some attention, but 
otherwise Rose measures up with some 
of the better small time singles. 

Camille Personi and Co. added a lit- 
tle dignity to the gathering with their 
musical comedy character skit, the 
general dressing pulling appreciative 
applause with the curtain's ascension. 
They seemed especially pleased with 
this turn at the Standard, a suggestion 
in itself, and while the piece is not 
strange to vaudeville, it carries all the 
essentials of a standard vehicle and 
should keep continually busy. 

John T. Doyle and Co. were another 
sketch to register with emphasis, the 
comedy running close to perfection. 
The set provided by the house was in 
itself noteworthy of comment and went 
some way to help in the eventual re- 
sult. The principals work together 
well and unite in bringing a good cli- 
max to interesting summit. 

El Cota with his xylophone was 
probably the best individual number 
and took away the applause honors. 
He is now playing with two sticks in 
either hand, somewhat of an accom- 
plishment, as he does it, adding har- 
mony to the music and a little novelty 
to the specialty. 

The Dancing Mars have as yet ne- 
glected to pare their offering down to 
a reasonable length. The boy is ex- 
tremely clever in a dancing way, works 
continually and keeps the turn in ac- 
tion, but it runs a bit long without the 
necessary accompanying kick to war- 
rant the time. 

Walsh and Bentley's acrobatic spe- 
cialty in "one" was a diversion and 
kept things moving nicely. Walters 
rind Lane, also working before the 
apron, scored a decided hit, although 
the man's ^stage deportment is a bit 
suggestive 'of the unprepared. More 
repose would help. The woman, with 
?. splendid appearance, good voice and 
well-selected routine, held up the spe- 
cialty and deserves whatever it gained. 

Lew Shank, in vaudeville by virtue 
of his recent administration as Mayor 
of Indianapolis, presented his views on 
the current problem, offered his idea 
of a possible solution and explained 
the journey of a Hoosier egg to a 
hieh-brow audience who probably 
never took the trouble to learn whether 
nn epg is a vegetable or a nut. 
Whether educational, comical or 
freak Shank is here, probably to stay 



as long as there are a few towns left. 
How he ever landed the mayorality of 
Indianapolis is problematical, • but 
since he did, he's very foolish to leave 
politics for vaudeville. 

Lawrence Crane and Co. closed 
without a walkout, a fact which speaks 
equally well for the Irish magic man 
and Harry Shea who compiles the 
Standard Sunday programs and who 
by this experiment proves that he 
knows just a little more about his par- 
ticular business than a large majority 
who list themselves as showmen, with 
all the accompanying billing that goes 
with that title. Wynn. 



JEFFERSON. 

The cold wave that struck the town 
Tuesday seemed to have scared the in- 
habitants of the lower East Side into 
their burrows, for there were hardly a 
handful present in the Jefferson on that 
evening at 8.30 when the last show of 
the evening started. The house itse'f 
could have stood for a little heat for 
an overcoat was as comfortable in- 
doors as out. The house was less than 
one-half filled at the early hour and 
as the evening went along it thinned 
out continually until there were hardly 
fifty persons on the lower floor when 
the last act went on. The low tem- 
perature inside the theatre killed any 
chance of the audience growing en- 
thusiastic. A bill of eight acts, split 
in the centre by a two-reel Imp picture 
furnished the entertainment which ran 
until eleven. 

The bill wasn't one that would have 
gotten over in any small time house. 
The material wasn't there and that on 
hand badly laid out. Opening with 
Lucille Tilton (billed as Frederica 
York), a female baritone, working in 
"one," the show ran along throughout 
the evening without a real hit show- 
ing until Hamad's Arabs appeared, 
closing the bill. This troupe was the 
one act on the program that appeared 
to be to the liking of those in front. 

A sketch entitled "Check-mated" 
(New Acts) presented by Tom Davies 
and Co., under the billing of Harold 
Lindsay and Co., held down the second 
spot and just managed to pass. Frank- 
lin and Franklin did nicely with their 
dancing. The talk the team indulged 
in is a bit wearying and should be 
freshened up. The Miller Brothers 
(Santey Bros.) (New Acts) closed the 
first part of the show, with King Bag- 
got in the Imp two reeler, "Silent Val- 
ley," released about a month ago, fill- 
ing in in lieu of intermission. 

Fred Weber (New Acts) a ventrilo- 
quist opened the second part and did 
fairly well. Margaret Knowlson (Nan 
Hewin) and Co. presented the old 
Toomer-rjewin comedy sketch "It 
Happened in Lonelyville." The act^ is 
too long and rather dragged. At the 
finish the laughs that should have been 
were not present. The man in the act 
did not get his lines over at all and 
could not be heard back of the tenth 
row. 

Kollins and Ross (Daly and Healy). 
two boys who worked over the Fox 
time last summer, were down next to 
closing and with an ordinary singing 
and dancing act that was not strong 
enough for the position. Hamad's 
Arabs in the closing spot with a 
Hearst-Selig Weekly as the finisher. 



FIFTH AVENUE. 

The new policy in vogue at Proctor's 
Fifth avenue, under the management 
of Harry Leonhart, is apparently meet- 
ing with gratifying success, although 
still in its infancy, but at that business 
could stand some improvement, not- 
withstanding the many and various 
brands of vaudeville opposition there- 
abouts. The show proper starts around 
8.45, with eight acts and a film of 
weekly events making up the total. 

"Pop" Ward is the feature for the 
first section of the current week, pre- 
senting a routine of comedy talk with 
a special drop in "one." Despite his 
many years, "Pop" still steps around 
with the agility of a young gazelle. His 
material is excellently suited for "pop" 
audiences and combined with his 
prominence should make the turn a 
standard offering. Well down on the 
program he registered an emphatic 
hit. "Pop" (formerly of Ward and 
Curran) is now doing a single. 

The Novelty Alroses opened with a 
series of contortion stunts, the cast 
carrying two men and a woman, one 
of the former merely filling in. The 
man is an accomplished bender and 
executes a rather sensational leap at 
the finale. The act lacks the required 
class to carry it beyond the small time, 
but otherwise is a good opening turn. 

A dramatic-comedy was handled by 
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Evans. It's one 
of those melodramatic affairs with a 
complicated plot that is handled rather 
roughly by the principals. The finish 
wherein the comedy is uncovered pro- 
voked some results, but otherwise the 
vehicle ran a trifle slow. It dosn't look 
promising for present-day vaudeville, 
and since the principals seem capable 
to some extent, they might provide 
themselves with a suitable offering. 

Weilly and Ten Eyck helped some- 
what with their dances. Unless it be 
indifferent management, there seems no 
visible reason why this couple should 
continue on the smaller circuits. They 
have something away from the stereo- 
typed specialty of their kind and can 
hardly fail anywhere. 

Undine Andrews tells kid character 
yarns with a fair share of success and 
looks sufficiently good to keep con- 
tinually busy. Fitch Cooper needs new 
material to support his imitations. He 
did nicely in spots, but exhausted his 
welcome with superfluous encores. 

Brown and Brown marked up a safe 
hit with some songs and a little comedy 
and Payton and Green, who closed, 
look considerably better than a large 
majority of similar acts now traveling 
the big circuits. The falls are excel- 
lently done and with some sort of nov- 
elty to dress their abilities, the men 
should attract attention. Wynn- 



SOMEONE FOOLED. 

When "The Dainty Maids" company 
boarded the train at Toledo after the 
performance Saturday night, the mem- 
bers fully believed they would wake up 
in Pittsburgh Sunday morning. Instead 
they discovered later they were speed- 
ing far away from the Smoky City in 
the direction of the Great Metropolis. 

This was Tom Sullivan's method of 
putting one over on a certain party 
who was awaiting his arrival at Colonel 
Allen's old burlesque stand on Liberty 
street, not far from the scenes of An- 
drew Carnegie's early activities. 



COLONIAL 

Business took a big jump at the 
Colonial Monday over the first night 
of the week previous. Both the lower 
floor and the balcony held almost cap- 
acity. It was about a $l,000-dollar 
house, and that kind has not been fre- 
quent Monday nights in the Colonial 
neighborhood so far this season. 

The show was as good a vaudeville 
entertainment as has been seen here- 
abouts in some time. With Adeline 
Genee (New Acts) as the headliner the 
bill stood out as an extraordinary 
show, and there wasn't a slow spot 
anywhere. 

Arthur Barat (New Acts) started the 
audience applauding. It is an ideal 
opening act. Cecile Weston and Louise 
Leon held down the second spot and 
were a small riot. Miss Weston is 
doing a Hebrew comedy number that 
gets better each time heard. There is. 
however, still that dull opening. 

Franklyn Ardell and Co. are still 
presenting "The Suffragette" and the 
travesty is still making them laugh. 
That is all the act is intended for. 
Next to closing the first part George 
Moore and Francis Yates (New Acts) 
have a comedy novelty. 

Elizabeth Brice and Charles King 
closed the first part, with a man at 
the piano. The act was the hit of 
its section. Opening the second part 
Joe Cook had the audience laughing 
from the start and the "Extra" bit at 
the finish had the house guessing and 
helped him to finish a strong favorite. 
Adeline Genee, assisted by Serge Litav- 
kin and Mile. Vanoni, second, after the 
intermission, scored successfully. 

Next to closing George Whiting and 
Sadie Burt shared the hit honors of the 
evening with the Danish dansuese. The 
question number with which they open 
is delightfully suited to little Miss 
Burt's personality and it .got over 
strongly. Her single number, "Treat 
Her Like a Baby," which follows, was 
rendered with finesse and won ap- 
plause. George Whiting has cut his 
"Cook" number and is singing "The 
War in Snider's Grocery Store," which 
is a good number as George puts it 
over. The double version of "I'm 
Going to Make You Love Me" is used 
to close the act. 

Closing the show the Tuscano Broth- 
ers gave an interesting exhibition of 
battle-axe juggling that held the house 
in nicely. 



23D STREET. 

The bookings at Proctor's the last hair must 
hate been altered to some extent, for the at- 
tractive program Grant Lnferty makes up 
held the names of four acts that did not put 
In an appearance, but their places were 
capably filled by others. 

The show was devoid of comedy and con- 
tained a great quantity of music and sing- 
ing. Five acts put over nice hits. The first 
were Faye O'Neill, who sang and changed 
costumes. The Scotch number at the finish 
put this little girl over nicely, the published 
numbers not helping any too well. Robert Kov 
(New Acts) added more singing, and was one 
of the hits. 

The dramatic sketch with Harry Sullivan 
and Co., entitled "Back to Newburg," pleased. 
The audience liked It Immensely. Eckert and 
Tlerg sang and danced in Oriental costume. 
Eckert goes well with his work on the piano. 

Reed and Tuttle, another singing two-act. 
had a late spot next to closing, but put over 
a substantial bit. If the girl would eliminate 
some of the whitewash effect from her face 
she would look much more attractive. The 
International Sextet preceded this couple and 
found their muslcnl abilltv more than appre- 
clnted. One of the most liked on the bill. 

Devaro ai<d Zemnter on the double bars 
closed the snow In good stvle. The perform- 
snop ntnrtet with the Hnlklngs. who shadow- 
graphed. 8plegel and Jones, next, did better 
with songs than talk. The fellow, who does 
the. Impersonation Isn't fooling anyone. 



VARIETY 



23 




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STOCK 



The "contest" affair in the dancing 
cabaret is descending to a pretty low 
level, on a par with that of the "ama- 
teur night" in a burlesque house. One 
dancing place on Broadway runs a 
"contest" along to the finale, when an 
announcement is made the judges are 
unable to decide. The contest is then 
stretched out for another trial of the 
principal contending couples, when the 
announcer states a decision is still un- 
reached, it will be left to the audience's 
applause, the dancers going on the 
floor in pairs, with the most applause 
giving the decision. Thus the specta- 
cle is seen of people in evening clothes 
standing motionless on the dancing 
floor, while the audience : 'auds or 
doesn't applaud. Of all . . hick 
sights under the sun, this .» the real 
thing. At the Broadway place in ques- 
tion the evening they turned off this 
stunt, one of the contestants was a 
professional dancer out of work. He 
stood on the floor with his partner, and 
found himself defeated in the end by 
a couple of amateurs, who had no more 
class than himself, but more friends in 
the house. 

The one o'clock closing order that 
recently went out, compelling all places 
not operating under an all-night li- 
cense to close promptly, has brought 
Maxim's, on 38th street, into conflict 
with the polite twice within as many 
week's. Maxim's has been running for 
years without interference, but with 
the attention of the cops focused upon 
it, the place will probably adhere 
strictly to the ground rules. 

The Broadway Rose Gardens will 
have Lew Quinn as principal profes- 
sional dancer among the men very 
shortly. Mr. Quinn may dance there 
with (Miss) Billie Allen. A report 
late last week said the Rose Gardens 
dance place had been purchased by 
Johnny Hoagland, but there was noth- 
ing in the story. The formal opening 
of the Gardens under the direction of 
Eddie Pidgeon has been set. 

So far the afternoon dances have 
drawn but little patronage, excepting in 
one Broadway dancing-cabaret. With a 
change in the weather, more business 
is looked for at "thes dansants." Sat- 
urday afternoon in a well-known ball- 
room, opened for matinees under the 
patronage of a popular young woman 
professional, but three parties were in 
the place. Each of the parties was 
being entertained by a professional 
dancer, either connected with the cab- 
aret, or who wanted to be. 

An odd circumstance presents itself 
by the two dancing places under one 
roof, in the Winter Garden building. 
Joan Sawyer remained over this sea- 
son as the hostess of "The Persian 
Room" on the top floor. About two 
weeks ago Maurice and Walton as- 
sumed charge of the room just be- 
i;eath, formerly the dancing cabaret 
and in vhich Miss Sawyer had no con- 
cern. Vith the entrance of Maurice 



and Florence Walton to their new 
abode (calling it "Chez Maurice"), the 
' Persian Room" attendance flopped 
dreadfully, the Maurice room ap- 
parently getting all the call. This 
is said to have discouraged Miss Saw- 
yer to the point of inactivity, while 
the reverse happened with Maurice 
and Miss Walton. They are here, there 
and everywhere about the room, danc- 
ing together professionally and with 
all of the guests who wish to dance 
with them individually. Maurice is a 
natural showman anyway. The reward 
cf his efforts comes through the bar, 
which has been doing about $1,200 a 
night in the "Chez" room, while Miss 
Sawyer has seen the bar receipts of 
the "Persian Room" fall to about $500 
an evening. Both rooms are said to 
have the same arrangement with the 
Shuberts, the principal dancers in each 
receiving a percentage of the gross re- 
ceipts for their share. The exart per- 
rentage is said to be 25 per dent., which 
obliged a volume of bhsiness in order 
that the house management sec h re any 
profits after cost of refreshments and 
operation is settled for. With Maurice 
drawing a wine trade though that pays 
around $7.50 a quart, there is still con- 
siderable of. the gross left after all de- 
ductions. 

Rector's is doing as large a gross 
bar business as Maurice's room, 
though getting the money in smaller 
lots. Rector's, as so expertly directed 
by Paul Salvain, is drawing from open- 
ing until the closing hour. It is packed 
at all times. Monday night Rector's 
turned them out at 2.10, Mr. Salvain 
saying it was necessary in order to 
observe the "gentleman's agreement" 
entered into between the restaurant 
men and the Mayor on the all-night 
license that calls for closing at two. 
Mr. Salvain has an unique position as 
a restaurateur. Almost next door to 
Rector's (at Broadway and 50th 
street) he also manages the Garden 
cabaret, quite as successful in its own 
way as its more classy competitor. 
$39,000 was spent by Mr. Salvain re- 
modeling the Rector ballroom. In ad- 
dition to this Max Marx, the tailor, 
who surrendered much of his space 
for that purpose, received $12,500 for 
loing so, Rector's and the landlord 
equally sharing on that amount. Next 
Monday Rector's Pompeian Room 
opens. It is on the ground floor, fac- 
ing Broadway and adjoining the pres- 
ent restaurant. The Pompeian Room 
will be for diners only. It will give 
Rector's a total seating capacity of 
1,400. 



Beer has climbed to 15c a pint, the 
five-cent raise going into effect gen- 
erally around town Monday. 



STOCKS OPENING. 

Perth Amboy, N. J., Oct. 28. 

James Moore, with Keith's stock, 

Portland, Me., for several seasons, has 

taken hold of the Auditorium here and 
opened Monday night with W. J. Stev- 
enson and Marie Pavey as leads. 

Akron, O., Oct. 28. 
"A Woman's Way" was the opening 
bill of the new Feiber-Shea stock at 
the Grand last week. 

E. J. Hall, of Steubenville, O., where 
he has a stock Co., is in New York 
organizing two companies, one to open 
at Braddock and the other Allegheny, 
Pa., Nov. 2. Braddock will play two 
bills weekly. 

Nathan Appell is also recruiting a 
new company to open Nov. 9 at Mai- 
den, Mass. 



Utica, N. Y., Oct. 28. 

Winter stock for the first time in 
this city will be inaugurated at the 
Majestic Nov. 2. William Jeffrey will 
play the leads, with Eva Marsh. Other 
members of the company are Harry 
Hayden, Augusta Durgeon, Donah 
Benrimo, J. C. Matthews, Ernest 
Rand, John McKenna, Frank Kirk, 
Patricia Baker. Joseph W. Walsh is 
stage director. 

"Broadway Jones" will be the first. 

New Orleans, Oct. 28. 
The Gagnon-Pollock stock opens an 
indefinite engagement at Ehrlich's 
opera house, Shreveport, La., this 
week. The company has been playing 
in Houston. 



STOCKS CLOSING. 

Gertrude Ewing and Co. have closed 
i ntil business conditions on the road 
become more encouraging. She may 
take up a tour in "Camille" later in the 
year. 

Edmonton, Oct. 26. 

The Players Stock, 16 in number, 
headed by Theodore Johnstone, a 
western producer, last week shook Ed- 
monton, after playing 12 weeks of 
what was intended to be an indefinite 
engagement at the Empire. 

War conditions and the higher ad- 
mission charged in comparison with 
another stock house almost across the 
street are the reasons. 



Howard Turner is conducting the 
dances at the Hotel Montague, Brook- 
lyn. 



Daisy Hoffman and Jacques Stone 
are Pricing at Raub's, Brooklyn. 



RECORD CHANGING DEALS. 

Newark, N. J., Oct. 28. 

The Orpheum is making a record on 
changing loading women. The stock 
here has had four within seven weeks 
and another is headed this way. First 
Frances McHenry played two weeks, 
then came Florence Gear for a fort- 
night and she was followed by Ottola 
Nesmith, of "The Vanishing Bride." 

Frances Ncilsen replaced Miss 
Nesmith and now Miss Neilscn has 
gone to head the new descent stock, 
Erooklyn. 



STOCKS EXPANDING. 

Despite the wail that "show busi- 
ness is shot to pieces" and there 
is no money in producing this season, 
stock managers are going right ahead, 
confident profits await them in the end. 

Not only are many stocks bobbing 
up throughout the United States but 
men having stocks in operation are 
now organizing new companies to open 
elsewhere. This is further refutation 
that the stock thing means suicide for 
any of the managers attempting this 
season. 

Reports from several districts have 
the stocks making money. Others 
indicate an increase and better pros- 
pects, while some are wobbling along 
in the hope of business becoming 
better. 

In New York conditions appear to 
be getting rosier. For the hrst time 
this season capacity was registered at 
the Wadsworth last week where "The 
Ghost Breaker" was on view. The B. 
F. Keith interests (via J. J. Maloney) 
are putting in new stocks at the Cres- 
cent, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, up- 
town. 

Of the managers having two or more 
companies the list takes in Monte 
Thompson, who has organizations at 
Waliham and Lowell, Mass; Opera 
House, St. John, B. C, and plans to in- 
stall another shortly in Hathaway's, 
Brocton. Mass. The Poli Circuit has 
companies in Waterbury, Baltimore, 
Scranton, Washington, New Haven 
and Worcester. The Malley-Dcnison 
Co. has stccks in Lawrence and Taun- 
ton, Mass., and is lining up several 
new ones for other New England 
points. 

The Wilmer & Vincent Co., operat- 
ing in Reading, Pa., is organizing a 
new company for Utica, N. Y. 

O. D. Woodward, managing the 
Denham, Denver, opened a new one 
at the American, Omaha, Monday, 
starting with "Ready Money." Feiber 
& Shea, in addition to their stock at 
the Canton, O., opened another at the 
Grand, Akron, O., last week. 

James Moore, with Keith's, Port- 
land, Me., house for Edward Fors- 
berg, now has two companies, one in 
Lancaster, Pa., and the other in New- 
ark. 

There are numerous traveling stocks 
and many of them are now invading 
eastern territory. Most of these so 
far are ahead on the season and have 
boxoffice statements to prove it. 

Lester Lonergan is running two 
stocks, one at Salem, opening last 
week, and the other at Lynn. E. J. 
Hall will have three companies going 
by Nov. 2, at Steubenville, O.: Brad- 
dock and Allegheny, Pa. 



COMPANY TO REORGANIZE. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 28. 
Satisfied his stock company isn't 
strong enough W. W. Miller contem- 
plates a complete reorganization. 



24 



VARIETY 



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FILM FLASHES 



H. E. Bobbins, rector of St. Jumes Church 
and secretary of the Commlbsiuii ou Social 
Service of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecti- 
cut, had taken over the active management of 
the Star, llartlord. Conn. The house shows 
pictures exclusively. It cost $100,000. 

Thirty Herman police dogs are being used 
in the Thunhouaer studios iu New Rochclle as 
part of the him "The Center of the Web." 
The press matter preserves neutrality by stat- 
ing that though the animals were trained to 
commuuds In German, they will also obey or- 
ders couched In French or English. 



Clyde Fitch's "The Straight Road" will be 
released Nov. 12 by the Famous Players. 
Oladys Hanson plays Moll O'Hara, the girl of 
the slums. 



The Clnlma Exhibitors' Club of the Bronx 
will hold its annual entertainment and ball at 
Hunts Point Palace, lftid street and Southern 
Boulevard, tonight (Saturday). 

"The Book of Nature." Dr. Raymond L. 
Dltmars dims of Insect and animal life, was 
shown Monday at the Brooklyn Academy of 
Music. Dr. Dltmars, who Is director of the 
Bronx soo, spent two years taking the pic- 
tures, and the receipts will be devoted to se- 
curing exhibits for the coo. The Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Science Is sponsor for the 
film. 



Sidney Bracey and Frank Barrington, the 
butler and the conspirator In "The $1,000,000 
Mystery." are appearing for a week In the 
Loew theatres. 



The moving picture operators of Rochester 
have submitted a grievance to be arbitrated In 
conformity with their pledge to submit ,o 
mediation before declaring a strike. They de- 
mand an Increase of pay to $20 per week In 
downtown theatres where there are two oper- 
ators and $17 a week uptown where only one 
Is employed. This Is an increase of $2 a 
week. 



Work has been started on a picture house 
on Lafayette street, Utlca, N. T., by the 
American Motion Picture Co. 



The Star, Elmlra, N. T., was opened Sunday 
by a religious meeting presided over by the 
Rev. Arthur Crane. Monday the theatre 
started with picture*. 



A private showing of Sir Gilbert Parker's 
"The Highway of Life" on the screen will 
be given this Saturday by the World Film 
Corporation In the Hotel Astor. 

Employees of the Alco Film Corporation 
this week filed Into General Manager Wal- 
ter Hoff Seely's private office and declared they 
were about to strike. But It was only a match 
on a sliver match holder they were to present 
to the chief. 



The paintings which figure In the Alco's re- 
lease of "Rip Van Winkle" (Nov. 9) are 
the work of the late Joseph Jefferson's brush 
and are recognizable as his work by those 
familiar with the actor's canvases. Some of 
the youngsters In the film live so far back In 
the Catsklll mountains they are said never 
to have seen a railroad train. 



The Alco this week Invaded Canada. It 
has now 17 exchanges on this side of the 
Dominion line, all opened since August. A. 
C. Langan Is now In Canada contracting for 
the Alco service. 



Henry P. Rhlnock, brether of Joseph Rhln- 
ock. the theatrical magnate, has Joined the 
World Film Corporation's selling force In 
Cincinnati. 



The Saxe circuit In Wisconsin has signed 
for the World Film Corp. releases of Shu- 
bert and W. A. Erady features. Harry Weiss 
of the Chicago branch closed the deal this 
week. 



Lewis J. Selznlck, general manager of the 
World Film Corporation, Is away on a tour 
of Insnectlon. taking In Pittsburgh. Chicago, 
Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis. Indian- 
apolis, Detroit. Cincinnati. Cleveland and 
Buffalo. He will be back next week. 



George Beban. accompanied by J. Frank 
Burke. Walter Belasro and Reginald Parker 
of Los Angeles, ore In San Francisco photo- 
graphing the final scenes of the film version 
of "The Sign of the Rose." The first port of 
the film was made In Santa Monica. Cal. 

The Nat A. Magner Company. Inc. of San 
Francisco, hns been appointed distributors of 
Reliance Features in California, Arizona and 
Nevada. 



Frank C. Payne Is general manager of the 
Submarine Film Corporation. 

Harry Grcenway, formerly with the George 
Klelne Co.. Is now located ot Jacksonville, 
Fir... promoting aviation meets in that sec- 
tion. 

Mrs Stephen Morris, n well-known society 
woman of Phlladlcphla. who hns been Identi- 
fied with amateur thrr.trlr.nlr. there, will be 
«uen In the sen-en version of "The College 
Widow." 



The Stenographers' Protective Society of 
Los Angeles has addressed a comunlcatlon to 
Frank M. Wiltermood, Balboa scenario editor, 
and other picture men, asking their aid in a 
crusade to prevent "the further unjust char- 
acterization In Alms of stenographers as silly, 
gum-chewing, overdressed, unmoral girls, who 
permit their employers to fondle them." 



"Big Ben" Abrams, well-known film sales- 
man. Is carrying the K. C. Booking Co. ban- 
ner through the west, contracting for the re- 
leases of the Kinetophoto Corporation. 



Commenting on an article recently printed 
in Variety concerning the Influence of plctur- 
Ized plays on the stock presentation In the 
same community. Neal Harper, of the Or- 
pheum, Reading, has this to say : "My experi- 
ence has been that when the picture of a play 
has been particularly good as to photography, 
clarity of plot and not stretched over an In- 
terminable number of scenes for the sake of 
the lengthened reels, the play when offered In 
stock Is benefited. However, should the pic- 
ture prove tiresome. It will create contempt 
for the pictures and foster a desire not to be 
bored by seeing the play. A popular picture 
star tends much to enhance the value of plays 
for the following of the screen stars Is great." 

Mrs. Thomas Whlffen, who has been on the 
American stage for 46 years, and Is now play- 
ing In "The Beautiful Adventure." has the 
principal role In "Hearts and Flowers" sche- 
duled for early release In the Cosmos pro- 
gram. 



FOX SIGNING 'EM UP. 

William Fox has completed arrange- 
ments with Sanger & Jordan, play 
brokers, for the picture reproduction of" 
"The Idler/' Haddon Chambers' play, 
with Charles Richmond featured. It 
will be released by the Box Office At- 
tractions Co. "A Fool There Was" 
and "The Girl I Left Behind Me" 
(with Robt. Edeson) are other acqui- 
sitions of the Fox feature film con- 
cern, in addition to "Children of the 
Ghetto," "The Thief," "Samson" and 
"Israel," previously announced. 

Mr. Fox has also signed contracts 
with Roy McCardell, humorist; Max 
Marcin, contributor to the Saturday 
Evening Post: Anthony P. Kelly, scen- 
ario adapter of "The Man of the 
Hour" and other dramatic works, and 
this important trio will write the 
scenarios for all the Box Office Attrac- 
tions Co. features. 



Screen Club Ball at Astor. 

The Screen Club ball Thanksgiving 
eve will be held in the gold room of 
the Hotel Astor. 



Wdli May Play Picture* 

Jake Wells has not fully decided as 
to what policy some of his southern 
theatres will offer for the winter since 
the recent invasion of burlesque 
petered out down that way. He is 
thinking seriously of trying feature 
films for awhile. 



Hammerstein's New Policy. 
Three shows a day with the program 
changed twice weekly is the new or- 
der which has been decided upon for 
the picture policy of the Lexington 
opera house by Oscar Hammerstein. 
Since the house opened it has been 
playing the same feature film for a full 
week and two shows a day. 



RELEASED NEXT WEEK (Not. 9 Is Not. 16, inc.) 

MANUFACTURERS INDICATED BY ABBREVIATIONS, VIZ.! 



GENERAL 

Vitagraph t V 

Biograph B 

Kalem K 

Lubin L 

Pathe Pthe 

Seltf S 

Edison E 

Essanay S-A 

Kleine Kl 

Melies Mel 

Ambrosio Amb 

Columbus Col 



UNIVERSAL 

Imp I 

Bison B10I 

Chrystal C 

Nestor N 

Powers P 

Eclair Eclr 

Rex Rx 

Frontier Frnt 

Victor Vic 

Gold Seal O 8 

Joker J 

Universal Ike U I 

Sterling Ster 



MUTUAL 

Gaumont G 

American A 

Keystone Key 

Refisnce Rel 

Majestic Mai 

Thanhouser T 

Kay-Bee K B 

Domino Dom 

Mutual M 

Princess Pr 

Komic Ko 

Beauty Be 

Apollo Apo 

Royal R 

Lion Ln 

Hepworth H 



The subject is in one'reel of about 1,000 feet unless otherwise noted. 



NOVEMBER 2— MONDAY. 

MUTUAL— The Ruin of Manley, 2-reel dr, 
A ; Lover's Post Office, com, Key ; Our Mutual 
Girl. No. 42, M. 

GENERAL F— All for Business, dr. B; His 
Inspiration, 2-reel dr, K ; A Partner to Provi- 
dence, dr (Eighth of "The Deloved Adven- 
turer" Series), L; Rosemary, That's for Re- 
membrance, 2-reel dr, Doc Yak's Cats, com, 
Hearst-Sellg News Pictorial No. 711, S; The 
Mystery of Bayton Court, dr, V ; The New 
Partner, dr, E ; The Landress, com. S-A. 

UNIVERSAL— The Turn of the Tide. 2-reel 
dr, I ; The Wall Between, com. Ster ; His Big 
Chance, dr. Vic. 

NOVEMBER 3— WESDAY. 

MUTUAL— The Turning of the Road, 2-reel 
dr, T ; False Pride, dr, MaJ ; The Tightwad, 
com, Be. 

GENERAL F— Masks and Faces, 2-reel dr, 
B ; Lizzie, >oe Life Saver, com, K ; A Boom- 
erang Swindle, com, L; Hearst-Sellg News 
Pictorial, No. 71. S; On the Stroke of Five. 
2-reel dr, V ; Short, dr, E ; Fires of Fate, dr, 
S-A ; A Twisted AfTalr, com. Col. 

UNIVERSAL- They Didn't Know, com, C : 
The Trey O'Hearts, Series No. 14 (title not 
announced), 2-reel dr. O 8; The Star Gazer, 
dr, N. 

NOVEMBER 4— WEDNESDAY. 

MUTUAL — The Desperado, 2-reel dr. Br; 
When the Road Parts, dr. L ; The Miner's 
Peril, dr. Rel. 

GENERAL F—Tho Prison Stain. 2-recl dr, 
K: The Sorceress. 2- reel dr, L; "C D," dr, S; 
The Evolution of Perclval, com. V ; .Tenks 
and tho Janitor, split-reel mm, E ; The Fable 
of "How Uncle RYewster Was Too Shifty for 
th" Tempter," com, S-A. 

I'NIVEHSAL -Animated Weekly, U. The 
Return. 2-reel dr, Eclr; The Hoodoo, com, J. 



NOVEMBER 5— THURSDAY. 

MUTUAL— In Old Italy, 2-reel dr, Dom ; 
Keystone title not announced ; Mutual Weekly, 
No. 97, M. 

GENERAL F— Butterflies and Orange Blos- 
soms, com-dr, B ; The Stolen Yacht, 2-reel dr, 
L ; Hearst Scllg News Pictorial, No. 72, S ; 
The Choice, dr, V ; Slippery Slim and the Im- 
personator, com, S-A. 

UNIVERSAL— The Universal Boy ln "The 
Mystery of the New York Docks," dr, I ; Let 
Us Have Peace, 2-reel com-dr, Rx ; Dot's 
Chaperone, com, Ster. 

NOVEMBER 6— FRIDAY. 

MUTUAL— In the Clutches of the Gangsters, 
2-reel dr, KB ; When Vice Shatters, com-dr, 
Pr; The Chasm, dr, T. 

GENERAL FA Regular Rip and Getting 
the Sack, split-reel com, B ; The Indian Suf- 
fragettes, com, K; Love Triumphs, dr, L; No 
Wedding Bells for Her, com. S ; Thanks for 
the Lobster, com, V ; The Pines of Lorey, 2- 
reel dr, E ; His Dearest Foes. 2-reel dr, S-A. 

UNIVERSAL— Those Were the Happy Days, 
2-reel com, N; Nan of the Hills, dr, P; Tale 
of a Lonesome Dog, com-dr, Vic. 

NOVEMBER 7— SATURDAY. 

MUTUAL — A Woman Scorned, 2-reel dr, 
Rel ; Keystone title not announced, Max's 
Money, com, Ko. 

GENERAL F— The Dole of Destiny, dr, B: 
The Man In the Vault, dr, K ; Kidnapping the 
Kid and the Honor of the Force, split-reel 
com, L; The Losing Fight, dr. S; In the Lend 
of Arcadia. 2-recl dr, V ; Getting to the Ball 
Game, com, E ; Broncho Billy's Mission, dr, 
S-A. 

UNIVERSAL — Tbo Girl from T*»xas. dr, 
Frnt; The Jungle Master. 2-reel dr, 101B; 
Two Pals and a Gal, com, J. 



"ORDEAL" K'D. 

The State Department of the U. S. 

government has declined to interfere 

with the public presentation of "The 

Ordeal," the picture feature exhibited 

privately last week in New York, 

against which the New York German 

Chamber of Commerce and other 
Teutonic bodies protested. 

Jesse L. Goldberg, executive man- 
ager of the Life Photo Film Co., con- 
ferred late last week with Robert 
Lansing, acting secretary of State and 
the third assistant secretary. He pre- 
sented the him concern's contention 
that the film did not purport to present 
any true state of affairs, but was mere- 
ly a poetic conception and is in real- 
ity an argument for universal peace. 
At the same time Mr. Goldberg laid 
before the department the endorse- 
ment of clergymen and other public 
men. 

Mr. Lansing studied the facts of the 
case and then announced that the 
state department would not entertain 
any protest against the exhibition of 
the subject. 



INDIAN DRAMA ON FILM. 

Edward S. Curtis, an authority on 
the North American Indian, is to en- 
ter the picture field, backed by a num- 
ber of wealthy friends in New York 
and Seattle. The friends have financed 
a three years' stay among the Indians 
of the North Pacific, during which 
time Mr. Curtis secured enough ma- 
terial for a four-reel feature. "The 
Land of the Head Hunters" is the 
title that has been bestowed upon this 
Indian epic-drama, and it is soon to 
be shown at one of the Shubert thea- 
tres, New York. 

All of the actors in the photo-play 
are primitive Indians and all the action 
is true to native life, withal those that 
have viewed the film privately have 
pronounced it a thriller. A successful 
whale hunt and raids on the sea-lion 
rookeries far out to sea off the coast of 
Alaska are features. 




MARGUERITE CLARK 

Who will appear in the La sky picture pro 
tion of the Licblcr Co. success, "MER 
MARY ANN/' by arrangement with the Far 
Players. Miss Clark is under contract to 
Famous Players. 

Wm. C. DcMillc will write the . creen ve 
of the nlav, and Cecil De Mille is to direct it. 
Wilfred Auckland will act as art.«tic director 
for the production. 



VARIETY 



25 





PATHE IN MUTUAL? 

A rumor has it that Charles Pathe, 
who arrived in this country last week, 
came here to conclude negotiations to 
place the Pathe output with the Mutual 
program. Since leaving the General 
Film, Pathe has been releasing through 
the Eclectic, but the sales of film there 
have only been a very small percent- 
age of the business done with the Gen- 
eral Film. 

If this deal goes through it will 
mean an added release of seven reels 
weekly, making a total of 35 on the 
Mutual program. 



ITALA'S TWO SERIALS. 

The Itala Co. is to release two 
serials in the near future. The prin- 
cipal characters are Maciste, the giant 
in "Cabiria," and Tigris, the Super- 
Criminal. Work on both of the series 
has been in progress for more than a 
year. 



"RED SEAL'* BRAND APPEARS. 

The release of David Horsley com- 
edy films as part of the General Film 
Co. program will begin within ten 
days. They will be marketed under 
the Patents Co. license owned by 
Melies and will be designated as the 
"Red Seal" brand. 



FILMING "OLD DUTCH." 

By arrangement with Louis J. Selz- 
nick, Lew Fields has agreed to give his 
services to the World Film Corporation 
in a screen version of "Old Dutch" as 
the first of a series of moving picture 
productions. 

Vivian Martin will support the come- 
dian-manager in this piece and George 
Hassel, the character actor, late of the 
Castle Square Opera Co., of Boston, 
will also be of the company. 



LASKY PLAYERS OFF. 

The Lasky Feature Play Co. this 
week sent the largest delegation of film 
players to the Pacific coast ever dis- 
patched by a moving picture concern. 
Tn the party were Jesse L. Lasky, pres- 
ident of the company, Edith Taliaferro, 
Marguerite Clark, Frederick Thomson, 
Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston 
two camera men, Mrs. Frances Arnold 
an expert in period costumes and sev 
eral minor actors. 



ANOTHER PROGRAM? 

There is talk going on of the forma- 
tion of still another program. The 
backers of this new proposition are 
very loathe to make their plans public, 
but announce that when completed it 
will be one of the biggest surprises of 
the film world. 



TCinetopliote in Southwest. 

Thi K. C. Hooking Co., which con- 
tr.-V the distribution of the Kineto- 
r *t pr"«lucv this weel* signed con- 
's with t!.? Dallas (l-v Film Co. 
+\ v. the entire list <f releases of 
i n:ir"c-snrrrr. tor rentier in Texas. 
r >kl- '•' Arkansas and Louisiana. 



SAY FILMS INFRINGE 

House, Grossman & Vorhaus have 
been retained by a coterie of song 
writers to bring an action against cer- 
tain film manufacturers on charges of 
a new sort of copyright infringement. 
William Grossman, of the law firm, 
will have charge of the writers' suit 
which is based on the use of a set of 
lyrics as the basis of a film story. 

The song writers point to several 
recent screen features which have 
taken their theme from published song 
titles and lyrics. 

Mr. Grossman was chosen to handle 
the litigation because of his successful 
conduct of the legal proceedings which 
resulted in the Judge Lacombe decision 
in favor of the song publishers. The 
case was an action brought by the 
Church Music Publishing Co. against 
the Hotel Vanderbilt alleging infringe- 
ment of a song's copyright. 

An appeal from the Lacombe decision 
is due to be argued in November be- 
fore the United States Circuit Court 
of Appeals and from there it will prob- 
ably go before the United States Su- 
preme Court. A final decision is look- 
ed for within a year. George Camp is 
attorney for the City Hotel men's as- 
sociation, which is behind the Vander- 
bilt in the appeal. 



SELECTING PLATERS. 

Lionel Barrymore has been signed 
by the World Film Corporation to 
play as joint star with Clara Kimball 
Young in its forthcoming feature, 
"Lola." 

Confirmation is secured of the en- 
gagement by the Famous Players of 
Pauline Frederick to pose as star of 
Henri Bernstein's emotional drama 
"Sold." She will later be seen with the 
same organization in "The Eternal 
City," which was produced in Italy last 
summer with Miss Frederick. 

Milton Sills, now with "The Law of 
the Land," will support Wilton Lack- 
aye in "The Pit" (World Film Corp.). 
Gail Kane will be Lackaye's leading 
woman. 

Robert Warwick has drawn the title 
part in the World Film Corporation's 
feature "Alias Jimmie Valentine." This 
was one of Paul Armstrong's condi- 
tions to the sale of the play's picture 
rights. 



BIG SCORE FOR PICTURES. 

Brooklyn reports a decrease of 63 
liquor licenses for this year. 

The falling off is attributed by the 
officials to the large number of picture 
theatres in that borough. 



ENFORCING CENSORSHIP. 

Philadelphia, Oct. 28. 

John Sproat, manager of Bert's thea- 
tre, and Manager Madden, of the Re- 
gent, were fined $50 and costs by Mag- 
istrate Hogg last Saturday, charged 
with exhibiting pictures which had not 
received the sanction of the state 
board of censors. 

Prosecution was brought by the 
board through its head, J. Louis Brcit- 
enger. 



MUTUAL CHANGES. 

Important changes are understood 
to be impending in the executive de- 
partment of the Mutual Film Corpora- 
tion, but just what nature is unknown. 
Some minor developments have be- 
come public, however. 

One of these is said to be the ex- 
tension of the powers of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the Board of Di- 
rectors, made up of three members. 
These are Harry Aitken, president and 
general manager of the corporation; 
Crawford Livingston, of the N. Y. 
Moving Picture Corp., and a Than- 
houser official who succeeded the late 
Charles Hite. 

It is understood that the powers 
and command of the executive com- 
mittee has been given larger powers 
in the direction of the concern than it 
formely exercised, but whether its 
powers supersede those of the presi- 
dent is not taken. 

Mr. Aitken himself declined through 
his secretary to comment on the mat- 
ter. 



PASS UP THE EXPO. 

Four of the largest picture manufac- 
turing exchanges in the east have been 
offered the exclusive rights to take pic- 
tures at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 
but all turned down the proposition. 
None of the concerns approached 
would accept, as they did not see 
wherein the Exposition authorities 
could give them a guarantee that their 
rights would be exclusive and that the 
authorities could maintain a sufficient 
force of men to enforce the right. 



KYNB TALES IN FILMS. 

San Francisco, Oct. 28. 

The Monarch Film Producing Co.. 
of Alameda, has reincorporated under 
the name of the Famous Authors Films 
Co. with headquarters and studio in 
Alameda. i > 

The concern will make from three to 
seven-reelers out of the successful 
stories from the pens of Peter B. Kyne 
and Oliver Curwood. It is understood 
that the new company is negotiating to 
secure Leo Vosburg of the Vitagraph 
Co. to play the leads. 



SAMPLE WAR LOSS. 

The European whirlpool, that has 
cost American show business so much 
so far in every way, has been a catas- 
trophe almost to the picture makers, 
who consider Europe "velvet." 

The Famous Players as a sample 
has its foreign sales lessened $50,000 
monthly, or at the rate of $600,000 
yearly, by the war. 



MECHANICAL TICKET SELLER. 
Springfield, Mass., Oct. 28. 
A new mechanical ticket seller, be- 
ing marketed by a cash register manu- 
facturer, is being tried here for a pre- 
liminary test. It prints the tickets, 
registers the sale and keeps an account 
of receipts by pressure on keys re- 
sembling those of a cash register. 



BOSTON'S 75c. SHOW. 

Boston, Oct. 28. 

The big Boston opera house will not 
be dark through the abandonment of 
the Boston Opera Company's season. 
W. R. McDonald, the manager of the 
house, has formed The Allied Arts As- 
sociation. One of the most novel en- 
tertainment ventures in the history of 
the city is being tried out. 

The price scale is 75 cents, top, and 
the performances are given only in the 
evening, with a Saturday matinee. Re- 
finement and exclusiveness are the pass- 
words. 

It is McDonald's intention to get the 
best eight-reelers on the market at any 
price. This week he is using "Antony 
and Cleopatra." The remainder of the 
bill consists of the famous Symphony 
Orchestra, one classic dancing special- 
ty, one modern dancing specialty, a 
straight vocal single of exceptional 
merit as regards voice, and one con- 
densed act of grand opera. 



UNION (.OSES POINT. 

Syracuse, N. Y,, Oct. 2a 
Organized labor through the state 
has lost its fight to have a union stage 
hand employed in all picture theatres, 
having a curtain, to raise and lower it 
twice a day. 

The matter was brought to the at- 
tention of the local trades assembly 
and a special committee appointed to 
investigate. Theatre managers and 
owners united in a strenuous protest 
with the result tha,t the committee re- 
ported against the plan. 



200 NATIVE FEATURES. 

There are about 200 "Made in 
America" feature film productions 
available from the various picture 
sources for the exhibitors of the coun- 
try. And the list is growing. 

At the rate the features are being 
turned out some film makers are go- 
ing to have their toes pinched before 
the lapse of another year. 

Too many "features" are going to hit 

the picture exchanges a body blow if 

some of the makers persist in cutting 

rental rates following a "first show- 
in** »• 
ing. 

One of the feature film program cor- 
porations has laid down the law as to 
the daily and weekly release and from 
that stand of prices does not intend 
to budge a single inch. 



PAYING FOR BAD FILM. 

Film has been returned in such very 
bad condition lately by the exhibitors 
to the exchanges that a movement has 
been inaugurated by Harry Buxbaum, 
branch manager of the 4th avenue 
General Film Exchange, to make ex- 
hibitors pay for film ruined. 

Despite a system of inspection main- 
tained, many of the picture theatre 
owners permit their machines to be- 
come so depreciated that it is extreme- 
ly hazardous to run any kind of film 
through them. 

Mr. Buxbaum has received assurances 
of co-operation from other branch 
managers with the same trouble. 



26 



VARIETY 

BSSSSSBSaSBBBS 



JACKIES UNFAIRLY TREATED. 

Boston, Oct. 28. 
A decision by State Attorney Gen- 
eral Boynton has been made public 
and sent to every theatre manager as 

the result of complaints received from 
the navy yard that United States tail- 
ors in uniform have been barred at 
some of the box offices when trying to 
purchase tickets either alone or accom- 
panied by young women 

Hereafter any theatre in Massachu- 
setts that bars a sailor, soldier or artil- 
leryman in uniform without sufficient 
reason that would be consistent with 
the treatment generally accorded civil- 
ians will be liable to prosecution. The 
attorney general has enlisted himsell 
to aid the uniformed ranks who have 
complained that the theatres that have 
been barrir them or treating them un- 
fairly have been steadily increasing in 
numbers. 



CASINO DRAWS $644. 

With the price reduced to 15 cents 
all over the house, the Casino (which 
formerly played Sunday pictures to 
a top price of 75 cents) drew $644 last 
Sunday. The attraction was "The 
Threads of Destiny," featuring Evelyn 
Nesbit. 

The Sunday-only picture policy at 
i he Casino has been doing between 
$300 and $400 with the high prices. 
Last Sunday's performance ran from 
I to 11 o'clock with seven or eight 
shows. 

The success with pictures Sunday 
nights the Casino, as managed for that 
day by Mr. Rosenberg, it is said to 
have impressed him with the thought 
of other Broadway houses for the 
Sabbath, with the stme policy. Nego- 
tiations are reported on between Ro- 
senberg for the Astor (Cohan & Har- 
ris) and the Globe (Chas. B. Dilling- 
ham). Either theatre would likely be 
supported Sunday evening by the turn- 
away from the Strand, if not drawing 
on its own. 

The New York theatre, which plays 
a legitimate attraction now during the 
week is giving a pop vaudeville show 
Sunday. 



PLAYGOERS CO. LOSES. 

Nathan Burkan, attorney for John 
E. Kellerd, obtained judgment against 
the Playgoers Film Co. in the Supreme 
Court Tuesday for $775, the jury hold- 
ing that Yonkers was just as good as 
Paris for the taking of pictures. 

Kellerd was engaged by Daniel V. 
Arthur on March 21 to appear with 
Lina Cavalieri in "Manon Lescaut." 
The engagement was for three weeks 
and the price agreed upon was $1,000. 

After ten days the management gave 
the actor $250, informing him the pic- 
ture would have to be taken in Paris 
and that his services would be dis- 
pensed with. The actor sued for the 
balance of the contract price 



Admission Going Up. 

Baltimore, Oct. 28. 
A raise in the price of admission to 
the leading downtown picture theatres 
only Saturdays was started last Sat- 
urday. Instead of five cents, a dime 
is charged 



NEFFS PAPER REPUDIATED. 

Cleveland, Oct. 28. 

M. A. Neff, president of the Ohio di- 
vision of the Motion Picture Exhibit- 
ors' League of America, Robert F. 
Wilson and Harry Vestal, members of 
the Ohio Board of Censors, were se- 
verely rebuked by the local exhibitors' 
organization for their activity in estab- 
lishing a trade magazine. 

The local exhibitors drafted reso- 
lutions calling upon these men to re- 
sign from the company engaged in pro- 
moting the magazine or to sever all 
connections with the union. These 
resolutions were sent to manufacturers 
of films, projecting machines and thea- 
tre accessories, as proof that Mr. NerT's 
paper has no official sanction and is 
not the official organ of the Ohio ex- 
hibitors. 



GETTING FILM CHEAPER. 

The newly organized association 
known as the Leading Photo-Play Ex- 
hibitors, Inc., have moved into larger 
quarters in the World Tower. 

The primary purpose of this organi- 
zation is the mutual booking of film, 
and with a 50-day contract of consec- 
utive booking, they have been able to 
get many of the big features at re- 
ductions in price. Lee S. Ochs is pres- 
ident of this new organization. 



FEIST SUCCEEDS HAMBERGER. 

Chicago, Oct. 28. 

Felix Feist has succeeded Alfred 
Hamberger as president of the Cele- 
brated Players Film Co., of this city, 
having bought Hamberger's interest in 
the concern and then sold him back 
some of his own stock. Hamberger 
temains as a director, but will take 
very little active interest in the run- 
ning of the business. Hamberger still 
retains control of his several Chicago 
theatres, however, the sale only af- 
fecting the film company. 

Immediately after assuming charge 
Mr. Feist made arrangements to handle 
the weekly program of the Alliance 
Film Corp., calling for one future 
weekly for the next year. 



SAVED FROM FIRE. 

Los Angeles, Oct. 28. 
The prompt and efficient work of 
actors and cowboys saved the home of 
the Thomas Ince Motion Picture Co. 
from complete destruction by a fire 
which started in the projection room 
through the carelessness of an automo- 
bilist who threw a lighted cigaret near 
the building. 



Litho Ordinance Up Again. 
The ordinance against the extensive 
use of mounted lithographs in front of 
picture theatres, killed in committee 
some time ago, has been revived in a 
different form and will be presented to 
the Board of Aldermen shortly. 

The Golden Goose. 

Two reels. Drama. Story of gold fllelde 
Good child character. Good picture. 
Walter No. A. 
Drama. Old Plrkford reprint. 
The Lout Melody. 
Drama. Old fanhloned Rtory. Wall made 
picture. 

Selare of Antwerp. 

Historical. Weekly give enough war detail 
to make it necessary for other* 




The Tragedy That Lived. 

Drama. Rather stupid story with Kathlyn 
Williams leading. Fair. 

Mickey Flyan's Escaande. 

Comedy. Number of taugha and a couple of 
serious Instances. Interesting and amusing. 

Love and Bnrajery. 

Two reels. Comedy. Tiresome first reel and 
corking second. Many good comedy blta, but 
picture too long. 

The Deetalen. 

Comedy. Laugh getter without slapstick 



Drama. 



The Gates off Liberty. 

Picture interesting. 



A Fllejat for a Forti 

Drama. With a punch. 

Mary's Patients. 
Comedy. Reprint with Pick ford and Baggot 
sharing honors. Too old. 

Broncho Billy's Favorite. 
Drama. Interest in Western pictures seem» 
falling off. Medium. 

The Face at the Window. 
Crook drama. Dress suit hero foils sutc 
bandits and wins girl. Action fast and plen- 
tiful. 

Spark Eternal. 
Two reels. Drama. Reclamation of slum 
gang leader by his "gal." Sentiment snd 
action good. 

The Final Impulse. 
Two- reel drsms. Wonderful scenic settings, 
smashing sctlon, but climax falls. 

The Bride of Marhlehend. 
Two reels. Drama. 8hlp burna and blows 
up for "punch." Marine scenic splendid. 
Story faila to score. 

Girl In the Tenement. 
Daughter of drunkard saves millionaire's 
child from kidnapper. Commercial product. 
With the Enemy's Help. 
Plckford reprint. 

A Coatnme Piece. 
Comedy. Strained effort Girl elopes from 
masquerade with real tramp Instead of dis- 
guised lover. 

The Toasorlal Leopard Tamer. 
Roy McCardell scenario. Fair blackface 
comedy. Boms thrill with real leopards. 
The Private Officer. 
Two reels. Drama. Francis X. Bushman, in 
double role. Interesting trick photography. 
Story fairly Interesting. 

Harold's Tonpee. 
Comedy. Hair tonic for laughs. Louis 
Simon, principal, not at his best. Fair pic- 
ture. 

Sasall Pox on the Circle U. 
Comedy. Western. From magazine atory 
Well produced, with s few laugha. 
A Blotter Pasje. 
Two reela. Drama. Well produced and 
nicely played. Unsatisfactory ending. 

Tnnofe u^POuBsntaa 

Comedy. Regular cast. Usual hokum. 
Bnater Brown end His Uncle. 

Split reel with s question of clothes. 

A Qaeetleu of Clothes. 
Reel split with foregoing. Comedy of errors. 
Got laugha. 

Geed-By Snmmer. 
Two reels. Morbid drama. Photography 
good. 

The Broken Rose. 
Drams. Love as theme. Well played. In- 
teresting. 

The Demon of The Ralls. 
Drama. Interesting story of railroad. 
Capable cast Fight with Insane engineer 
real thriller. 

The Mill of Life. 
Drama. Cheap picture, with Maurice Cos- 
tello star. Fair. 

Cnpld Polls a Tooth. 
Comedy. Irritable father hinders daugh- 
ter's courtship. Fairly smuslng. 
Mutunl Weekly. 
Review. Events pictured by other weeklte* 
released before this. Nothing new. 



The Love Thief. 

Comedy. Big laugh getter. 

Her Mother Waa a Lady. 

Two reels. Drama. Fair atory, but not par- 
ticularly well made. 

Power of the Ansjelus. 

Two reels. Drama. Over- religious. Good 
natural scenes. 

They Called It "Bahy." 

Half reel. Comedy. Clever burlesque. 

Hla Loving; Sponse. 

Half reel. Comedy. Few laughs scattered. 

Saoonee's Day OaT. 

Comedy. Shapely misses on the beach cause 
husband trouble. Only fair. 

The Lass o» Kllllkrankle. 

Two reels. Drsms. Story of Highlander!, 
with good comedy parts. Well taken. Inter- 
esting. 

The Persistent Lovers. 

Comedy. Nothing new. Fslr film. 

Onr Mutnal Girl No. 41. 

Golf snd clothes make up ordinary serial 
Instalment. 

The Lynhrook Trapjedy. 

Two reels. Drsms. Weekly two-reeler with 
Alice Joyce. Several damatlc elements do 
nicely. Good picture. 

Shot In the Excitement. 

Comedy. Cannon ball one big comedy bit 

Hearst-Sells; News Pictorial. 

Review. Gridiron and battlefield clashes. 
Interesting. \ + 

WiNid B. Wedd and the Microbes, 
Comedy. Amusing episode dealing with 
present day fads. Funny. 

The Squaahvllle School. 
Comedy. Moat burlesquey, even resorting to 
inflated bladder. Too much like usual soaool 
acts. 

The Villainous Uncle. 
Comedy. Many laugha In cheap picture 

A Mother's Influence. 
Drama. Plenty of action. Well made. 

A Mode Awakening;. 
Comedy. Husbaud-at-club-wltb-wife-st-bome. 
Big scenes misses through cheapneas. Medium. 
A Madoann of the Poor. 
Two reels. Drama. Artist falls for model, 
sn Italian's wife. Good settings and photog- 
raphy. 

A Girl from the Sky. 
Comedy. Picture by new company. It stands 
up well. Interesting. 

Wall of Flame. 
Drama. Story of the ranges with necessary 
action. Good. 

Mystery of Sealed Art Gallery. 
Drama. Cleek the sleuth solves mytery 
Trivial. 

Unplanned Elopement. 
Comedy-drama from roagaslne atory. Tale 
neatly devised, but transparent urtlflce at end. 
Love and Title. 
Split reel comedy. Raw slapstick. 
She Married for Love. 
Comedy. Divides reel with above. Girl ac- 
robat brings laughs In rough comedy ss tom- 
boy. Above average. 

The Monataln Law. 
Two reela. Drama. Interesting story of 
mountaineers' feuds.. Fine natural scenery. 
The Wasp. 
Drama. Political picture with sordid story. 
Fair. 

Anlmnted Weekly. 
Review. War scenes more realistic than 
usual. Medlumly Interesting. 

Mystery of Grayson Hall. 
Two reels. Drams. Detective story well 
worked out. Not well pieced. Fairly Inter- 
esting. 

Race for a Bride. 
Comedy. Cheapest kind of picture. Poor. 



BEST REELS OF THE WEEK 



by Variety's r svlsws r s dally, up to Wednesday, of the host Aim 



The Mysterious Head. 

Three reels. Thriller. Crime and detectives. Interesting story well produced with 
capable cast. 



Suspended Sentence. 

Two reels. Novel comedy with exquisite scenic settings. Mother punishes mischievous 
baby. Dreama children bring parents before Court of Kiddles for trial. Lovely mammaa In 
bewitching robes ds nuit wander through Maxfleld Parrlsh gardens, seeking lost children. 

Olaf Erlcson Boss. 

Two reels. Drama. Story of the big woods with Robert Leonard and Ells Hall, leading. 
Good, interesting picture. 



The Hopeless Game. 

Two reelH. Drama. Rosemary Theby plays lead with feeling. Interesting 



Two reels, 
a long while. 



Donah and Dynamite. 

Comedy. Biggest kind of laugh maker. Best comedy put out by thin firm in 
Two leading comedians show Rome work that brings howls. 



"The Butterfly." 

Two reels. Dramatic. Apparent theft of 9100,000 pearl necklace savea financier from 
ruin. Comedy noblemen worsted In suit for girl! Suspense well handled. 



Comedy, 
acted. 



William Henry Jones' Courtship. 

Amualng, with novelty flniaa. Complicated love affair. 



Picture well directed and 



VARIETY 



V 



FLORA FOUR FLUSH. 

Exhibited as part of the bi-weekly change 
of bill at the Vltagraph theatre, "The Fates 
and Flora Fourflush" Is a frenzied effort 
on somebody's part to be funny In a travesty 
on moving picture melodrama. It was prob- 
ably conceived by the person who first laughed 

at the banana-peel joke. The fun Is about 
as subtle as a meat axe. 'The Fates," etc., 
is described as "The Vitagraph's Ten Bil- 
lion Dollar Mystery," and Is an open Josh 
on the successful serial of a competitor. 
If the Vltagraph directors had commandod 
a tithe of the cleverness that has gone Into 
the making of the melodrama, they cou'd 
have devised a screaming faiue, instead of 
turning themselves loose In a carnival 01 un- 
couth buffoonery. The whole thing Is char- 
acterized by cheap wit, If anything so crude 
could be called wit. Clara Kimball Young is 
Floru, a millionaire heroine ; Charles brown, 
an "honest White Wings hero." L. Roger 
Lytton Is the black-hearted villain. All three 
luuor — gosh, how they labor — to coax the elu- 
sive laugh. There are three reels. At the 
• nd the audience wuh exhausted. But not 
irom laughing. 



FEATURE FILM REVIEWS 



SYLVIA GRAY. 

The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray," Is the 
full title. Strange Is right. One might even 
call It most remarkuble. The cream of the 
new Vltagraph show Is that the first feature 
reel is a travesty on "The Million Dollar 
MyBtcry," made by one of the Vitagraph's 
rivals in the film business. No wild melo- 
drama could lend Itself so perfectly to 
travesty as this "psychic drama" about Syl- 
via." There were moments when the drama 
Itself won an uninvited giggle. For example 
when the callow youth, who had won the 
heart of the married lady and lured her from 
a happy home, tired of her and cast her aside, 
the orchestra walled, "You Ma-a-ade Me What 
I Am To-day." Of course the audience chor- 
tled. In another incident a play broker eats 
a cigar and at the same time buys a play for 
"$.*>,000 to use on the one- night stands." The 
one-night stands are specified In the printed 
Inset. There are other absurdities, not the 
least of which Is the lovemaklng of the cal- 
low youth, who lures the plump lady to her 
ruin. The story : Henry Cray and hlB wife, 
Sylvia, are reduced to poverty (although they 
still keep a nurse for the baby), and all 
depends upon the sale of Henry's play. When 
a manager's letter of rejection arrived, Syl- 
via, tired of poverty, elopes with Mr. Len- 
nox, a wealthy clubman, who smokes cigar- 
ettes and keeps his hat on In the house. Sub- 
sequently another manager, the cigar-chewing 
one, arrives and pays $5,000 for the play as 
related. Henry hides the $3,000 (In five bills) 
In the wall. Then he learns of the elope- 
ment, goes out of his mind and vanishes, 
while the nurse girl takes charge of the 
baby. Sylvia learns that Lennox Is about to 
wed Lucy Renolds and promptly stabs him 
to death. Twenty years elapse in two flick- 
ers and a light-flash, and behold the Gray 
baby has grown up and Is working as an 
artist's model, in love with her boss. But 
she becomes Involved with a hypnotist work- 
ing the small time. By a curious coincidence 
Sylvia and Henry return home from tbelr 
wanderings, Sylvia having beaten the murder 
case (you are permitted to fill In this detail 
from Imagination). By another striking Illus- 
tration of the fact that the world Is a small 
ft lace, their child, now grown, visits the vll- 
age and her hypnotist learns of that $5,000 
In the wall, forgotten- by Henry, who Is lucid 
at Intervals, but remembers nothing. So the 
hypnotist sends the girl under bis mesmerls- 
mlc Influence to get the roll, handing her a 
large dirk to work with. In the nick cf 
time the hypnotist's Jealous wife appears on 
the scene and stabs him In the back so that 
his psychic power over the girl goes flop and 
she doesn't use the dirk on her father. The 
artist an Ives on the scene to fold the girl 
In his arms and all Is well. "Strange" Is a 
mild way to describe the story of Sylvia 
Gray. 

'THE WISHING RING." 

Sally Vivian Martin 

Earl of Bateson Alec B. Francis 

Giles, his son Chester Barnett 

The Parson Simeon Wlltsle 

Mr. Annesley Walter Morton 

"Costume pieces" seem to be In the air. 
Leading producers have recently been quoted 
In interviews as declaring that that style of 
production Is a coming vogue. "The Wishing 
Ring," a five-port comedy by Owen Davis, Is 
the second "costume piece" the World Film 
Corp. has exhibited In as many weeks. "An 
Idyll of Old England" is the captioned de- 
scription. Charming might have been added 
In all Justice. Lovely settings have been 
chosen for a pretty little romance played by 
a bewitching maid and a hnndsome Ind. Which 
group of gushy adjectives tells the tale. There 
Isn't a dromatle moment In the story (as 
moving picture directors regard wrama). There 
Isn't a murder or a fight from first to last, 
but there arc delightful love passages, bits of 
most attractive play of humor and a constant 
succession of lovely, demure, pouting or bub- 
hllng crinoline maids. The whole atmosphere 
of the tale Is light nnd as graceful as a 
minuet and colored with the nicety of a pas- 
tel. The story has to do with the mischievous 
Giles, son of the Earl of Flateson. expelled 
from college and sent as punishment to earn 
a half-crown before he Is received bsck Into 
his father's good graces. He becomes gardener 
of a neighbor nnd meets Sally, daughter of the 
country minister. Sally seeks to njfr-oncP • 
father and son. and In the process wins the 
gouty (and grouchy) Earl's afiVMou Thui 
all comes well with the youngsters' lov? affair 



SALOMY JANE. 

"Salomy Jane," a film version of Bret 
Harte's tale or '40 by Paul Armstrong, done 
by the California Motion Picture Co. In five 
parts for release In the Alco program, Is a 
three times' winner. Here Is a western drama 
at Its best. No higher commendation could 
be given the scenario maker, director and 
players than the statement that their com- 
bined work yields .much of the same roman- 
tic charm that the reading of the story gives. 
The scenario Is a model of clarity, despite 
its emphasis upon swift and frequent Inci- 
dent. To bring this about Armstrong has 
taken some minor liberties with the original, 
but the end Justifies the means. It Is all 
action, action and again action, with a thrill 
for every second flicker and an amazing 
amount of sensational western horseback rid- 
ing. This company takes the frosted wed- 
ding cake for daring. One of the men does 
a fall from a horse and a twisting, whirl- 
ing plunge down a steep cliff during a thief 
chase that brought a gasp from the Invited 
audience at the Broadway. Before that sen- 
sation had faded another fugitive submitted 
to being dragged through water four feet 
deep by a rider mounted on a bucking horse. 
A program note should give full credit to 
the company that writes the accident Insur- 
ance of this troupe. The film story begins 
with the arrival of Madison Clay and Salomy 
In Hangvllle on the '40 trail. The opening 
of the feud with Lara bee, stage robbery by 
Red Pete and his pal, killing of Baldwin by 
the Man, and then the characters are In full 
stride of thief-chasing, to the climax In the 
Man's escape and the love affair of the Man 
and Salomy. The '40ers all carry at their hips 
.44s (except Jack and frock-coated gambler, 
who wears his derringer In his waistcoat 
pocket), and they are constantly leaping into 
service to make the thrills. It would aever 
do to leave the bare-band fight between ;'»e 
Man and Baldwin unmentloned. That alone 
Is worth the price of admission. As to the 
other factors that go to make up a good pic- 
ture, the actors without exception (the minor 
ones as well as Beatrls Mlchelena and House 
Peters, who play Salomy and the Man), give 
their work every touch to strengthen the 
Illusion of reality ; the California scenery Is 
always a Joy and the story Is understandable 
without effort. And of course there Is an im- 
mense delight In visualizing the familiar 
characters of Harte's creation. Starbottle, the 
bibulous ancient beau, supplies the comedy 
relief, together with Yuba BUI of dear 
memory. 



LOVE AND BASE BALL 

A two-reeler manufactured by the 101 
Bison and a feature through Christopher Mat- 
hewson as Its star player. "Love and 
Base Ball" stands more as a popular testi- 
monial to Matty's greatness In a field of sport 
loved by the eternal youth of Uncle Sam's 
domain. This personal reputation will help 
make Matty the kind of a film hero the young 
folk worship nowadays. Ordinary story. 
Everything centered on Matty. He Is a poor, 

young man who spends his spare time In play- 
ing one o' cat on the town lot and pitching the 
boys some wide curves and lnshoots. There's 
a girl and she loves Christy, but there's an- 
other man who plays second fiddle when Matty 
Is being considered. Why the managers sign- 
ing Christy dragged him Into a cheap look- 
ing barroom to close the deal Is beyond belief. 
Matty Is later shown in uniform at the Polo 
Grounds, warming up, goes In to pitch and 
doffs his cap sweetly to the girl In the grand- 
stand, and then strikes 'em out. Each ball 
and strike Is recorded by the scoring board at 
the Polo Grounds, which has been taken by the 
camera. . In the game Matty makes a home 
run, and Chicago Is beaten 5-4. This picture 
was taken during different games, several 
views when there were no games, and the 
others during exhibitions. Too much dimness 
to the film and the photography Is not the 
best. There are some dandy close views of 
Matty, however, and that helps bis part, which 
Is the whole works. The picture will only 
make good by reason of Mathewson's con- 
nection. 



WHEN WE WERE YOUNG. 

Made by the Miller Bros. "101 Ranch" out- 
fit and released In the Warner's Features pro- 
gram, this three-reel drama Is a stirring pic- 
ture of Indian warfare In the early days of the 
western plains. Dustln Farnutn is credited 
with the work of directing. He had the Mil- 
ler people to work with and used them to build 
a fine picture of action. There Is a story, but 
it serves only to string together the episodes 
of hair-raising horsemanship and the pop- 
poping of firearms. There are half a dozen 
pitched battles between miners and Indians, 
IT. S. troops and Indlsns and scouting skirm- 
ishes. The screen Is never Idle for a moment 
and the action gets something of that whoop 
hurrah that pulls the wild-west audiences 
'rom their seats when the- bluejacket line 
sweeps Into the arena to route the redskins. 
The placing of these scenes in the appropriate 
"tting of the wide -prairies gives them added 
Hi.ienf'i. M!K«r's horsenuv. -ippear to accept 
loi hi. en as part of the day'-- work. One 

of i j 'w boys did a fall that tnvitvi n broken 
nt l PU'i another dropped his mount \r. a mid- 



riding, which Is the feature of the film under 
discussion. The proceedings begin with an 
old man and his gray-haired wife looking 
across a river to a spot where a granite monu- 
ment rises. A dissolving view brings the hus- 
band back to his youth when he took part in 
the Indian lighting commemorated by the stone 
shaft. The wife figures incidentally In the 
narrative. The love story la a su do ruinate 
part or the tale, but serves nicely to give it 
the romantic touch. The result Is first rate 
picture entertainment. 



BEHIND THE SCENES. 

The Famous flayers production of "Behind 
the Scenes," by Margaret Mayo, for the screen 
Is a fine exposition of Mary Plckford's charm, 
and as sucn fully serves its purpose. In this 
feature Miss Pickford is seen from every angle 
in ail of Uer camera moous, ami to uiose wuo 
are Pickford fans It will be a feast. It 1b 
not at all unlikely the Famous Players In cast- 
ing Miss Pickford for this iive-reeler saw the 
opportunity. The story Is conventional of its 
kind, but plcturlzed, swerves out of the rut 
because "the old farm" the stage struck girl 
finally gave up the glare of the footlights for 
Is showu in action, with the mowing of the 
hay, the monotonous llic of the laruier-hus- 
band, and his sleepy existence after the day's 
work is finished. The sleepiness sent the girl 
(Miss Pickford) back to the White Lights, and 
especially as she had received an offer to star 
In a new prouuctlon. Previously she was a 
chorus girl in a musical comedy, from appear- 
ances. As the premiere of the new play, she 
scored. The company came Into her dress- 
ing room to congratulate her. Last of all 
entered the manager, a heavily set black mus- 
tached fellow, who besides offering congratu- 
lations, must hsve Insulted her with his love- 
making. The husband, urged to see hie wife 
as a star, reached the theatre and the dressing 
room from the farm Just as his wife was re- 
pulsing her manager. It all ended by the 
wife throwing up her engagement and retiring 
to the chickens and early hours. Only In 
Action would this have happened on a first 
night in a metropolis. Still It gave Miss Pick- 
ford another chance, but she Is always best 
In a lighter vein. The cuteness of Mary Pick- 
ford Is proverbial. She alone can carry this 
picture, and that she will to big returns goes 
without saying, for besides Pickford It has 
"the stage" from the Inside. James Kirk wood 
played the husband. A peculiar Item that can 
not be overlooked is that while the husband, 
after losing the fortune he had when marry- 
gallop as though It had been shot. That 
crowd has the world beaten for sensational 
lng worried over the future, he allowed his 
wife to continue to be part of the chorus, he 
did not apparently look for work himself, until 
left a farm and money by an uncle who had 
disowned him upon the marriage. Lowell 
Sherman as a friend of the family stood out 
beyond the other male principals. Mr. Sher- 
man gave plenty of character to his role. As 
a "Pickford feature," "Behind the Scenes" Is 
all that anyone could ask for. Bime. 



MIDST WOODLAND SHADOWS. 

A single reel Vltagraph subject released as 
part of the new bill at the Vltagraph. It is 
altogether delightful, an exquisitely done 
poetic Idyl. The simple little story takes 
place entirely In the open woods on the mar- 
gin of a quiet lake, where Anita of the Woods 
lives the Innocent life of the open, singing 
with the birds and dancing In the sunlight 
Come two men campers. Both fall In love 
with the woodland nymph, one with a worldly 
love, the other with a more spiritual regard. 
The latter wins the battle for her hand and 
gives up fortune to dwell In the forest with 
his nymph. The scenic beauty of the set- 
tings matches the pretty sentiment of the lit- 
tle story perfectly, the whole working out Into 
an extremely Interesting film. 



THE WAR IN EUROPE. 

A three-reeler. "The War In Europe" (Saw- 
yer Features,) about to be placed on the mar- 
ket Is a revamp of the "Balkan War" pic- 
tures shown around New York and Chicago 
after the recent Dalkan troubles. These reels 
have been taken In band by someone who Is a 
clever assembler and an entirely new set of 
titles Inserted. The pictures, as they stsnd 
st present, purport to show the opening of the 
Servian campaign against Austria ; fighting 
between the Servian and Austrian armies; 
Russian troops ; a battle scene between Rus- 
sians and Germans; the bombardment of an 
Austrian seaport by a fleet of French and 
English warships; and also the Greek mobili- 
zation. The person who wrote the csptlons 
has kept abreast of the times as regards the 
affairs In Europe and from newspaper In- 
formation he has written a set brimful of 
dstes and unpronounceable names. The pic- 
tures shown are actual war scenes with plenty 
of action, says the film and this Is played up 
as a sort of nn apology for bad photogrnphy 
While "The War In Europe" Is In a sense a 
"fuked" picture, the fake Is one that Is bet- 
ter than If war pictures were made In New 
Jersey. Hut a "fake" is a fake, and exhibit- 
ors should seriously consider whether to risk 
It, especially as the "Halkan War" film was 
pretty well exhibited all over, and there re- 
mains tbe danger of having scenes recognized 
by patrons as formerly shown In the same city 
or town. 



POPE PIUS X AND THE VATICAN. 

In the six reels of motion pictures taken 
by James Slevln of Pope Plus.X, the Vatican 
and Rome itself, the intimacy of the film 
with its subjects is best brought out In the 
last reel, when the late Pope Plus X It seen 
walking down a flowered lane In one of the 
Vatican's gardens. Mr. Slevin's camera man 
"got" the Pope at close range here, also at 
other times, but not quite so closely. In the 
ceremonials of the Vatican. Among these 
views were the ordination of 13 cardinals. In- 
cluding Carulnal Uiobons of Baltimore, Car- 
dinal O'Connell of Boaton, and Cardinal Far- 
ley of New York, also Pope Benedict (among 
those then ordained). Pope Benedict as a 
cardinal is indicated specifically by a cap- 
tion, Mr. Slevin having been In Rome and 
the pictures were taken before the election 
of Pope benedict. Thus the Pope Plus X 
pictures have the living, moving likenesses 
of two Popes and many cardinals, besides 
Merry Del Val, Papal Secretary of Slate. 
One entire reel Is devoted to Merry Del Val. 
It Is also Intimate, showing the Pope's right 
hand giving his attention to the athletlo exer- 
cises of the children of the Vatican. In 
fact, all the views are Intimate, excepting 
the panoramic pictures of Rome that take up 
the first two reels. These are Interesting In 
their ways, the object apparently having been 
to bring to the screen the several styles) of 
architecture of olden times, for which Rome 
is Justly famed. Some of the structures 
brought close to ibe camera date back to 26 
AD. A series of historical study that will 
universally Interest Is the Interior of the 81s- 
tlne Chapel (In the Vatican J . with Its mural 
paintings by Michael Angelo. Mr. Slevln 
himself appears In several of the pictures, 
"posing" the various dignitaries of the Ro- 
man Church (but not the Pope). This was 
essential for the purpose of the picture, to 
reproduce for the unlimited mass that have 
never seen Rome, the Vatican or a Pope, the 
innermost portions of the Papal quarters of 
State. It will be of general Interest to 
those of any religion, for the Imposing cere- 
monials alone will furnish this. One scene 
Is that of the Pope giving his blessing 

to the multitude. It Is mentioned by 
caption that Harry Revere presents It, 
for the Historic Film Co. Little pub- 
licity was given the first showing. The 
Hippodrome snowing was a secret almost as 
far as the public was concerned. During the 
running of the film, Stephen Bush, from the 
large Hip stage, clearly explained between 
each reel what the next series would con- 
tain, and a choral number from the ourrent 
Hippodrome attraction waa utilised for detail 
snd stmosphere, It fitting nicely. The defi- 
nite alms of the Pope Plus X feature may 
only be guessed st, but if they are wholly 
commercial, the film might be properly plaoed 
and heralded. Ae a commercial proposition 
It must hold much value, and as a aim, the 
picture Is well made with unusual photog- 
raphy, all things considered. Though running 
six short reels without a story. It does not tire. 
The first two drag somewhat and should be 
condensed Into one. making the entire picture 
five reels. The lnter-reel lecture Is super- 
fluous, unless a history of the Church could 
be told In this way (to lengthen the running 
time, Mr. Slevln spent a considerable time 
securing these views, and his time appears to 
have been well spent. It's an epoch -tor the 
picture screen, when It can bring the Pope 
and the Vatican to publlo exhibition. Bim§. 

UNDER THE BLACK ROBE. 

Plain murder Is used In thle wild and lurid 
meller by the Crescent players to fill In the 
quiet ictervsls. The climaxes call upon pla- 
toons of crooks and police for revolver bat- 
tles in which the victims fall by the dosen. 
Nick Carter and Hawkshaw In their wildest 
delirium never eessyed such exploits ss this 
film presented to the Fourteenth street audi- 
ences Sunday. One Incident will Indicate the 
class of the story. The hero Is oaptursd by 
the blackhand and cast Into a dungeon deep. 
He gets hold of several sticks of dynamite 
and blasts his way to freedom. Dangerous 
for him? Not at all. He finds a wloksrwork 
bssket In his dungeon and holds It before his 
face when the explosion goes off. It tsars 
out tbe two- root wall, but never penetrates 
tne basket. The crooks are ten strong and 
the hero Is chained hand and foot, but every 
time a crook approaches within reach he 
draws a large shiny revolver and "covers" 
the 'ero. it's a great travesty two-reeler gone 
wrong. 



THE TEST OF MANHOOD. 

The Balboa people crowded much action Into 
this three-reeler let by tbe Box Office Attrac- 
tions Co. It Is action all the way, and action 
is allowed through a scenario-made feature. 
One of the best scenes In the meller Is that 
aboard ship, with a ruffianly officer, not unlike 
Wolf Larsen or Jack London's "Sea Wolf." 
Thin officer In the "Manhood" film knocks his 
men about like nlne-plns, three of them escap- 
ing, Including the son of a ranch owner who 
was sent away on his own wish to become a 
man, and took to sea. In the ship scene one 
of the seamen climbs up the rigging end ap- 
parently makes a long Jump to the ocean from 
a mast, as he Is close pressed by pursuers. 
While the Jump Is not wholly seen, It's good 
enough, and there's a thrill to this. Several 
threads carried through the reels are nicely 
worked out nnd brought together. One Of the 
best staged bits showed bow the Innocents duped 
the villain, and recovered money from him 
through gambling, to repay tbe amount of the 
mortgage the villain held on the ranch. Borne 
of the ship's views fall to convince through 
the ship lying at anchor, or because tbey were 
of the studio, nnd others of the studio were 
not well produced, but "The Test of Man- 
hood" as a melodrama In three reels Is ex- 
cellent for a melodrama release feature, even 
If the title might have happened after the plo- 
ture ended. 



28 



VARIETY 



NEW ACTS 



W. H. Murphy, Plancke Nichols and 
Co., new sketch "A Quiet Room." 

"Mutterzoll an* Son/' by D. Darby 
Aaronson and Walter £. Colby. 

Percy Haawell, just closed stock 
engagement in Toronto, will enter vau- 
deville (Alf. T. Wilton). 

Ben Bamett'i "The Black Sheep," 
melodramatic, has been rehearsed for 
the pop houses. 

E. V. Culberson has organized the 
Cathedral Band, 25 musicians. 

Ethel Barrymore and Co., reviving 
'Drifting Apart," at Majestic, Chicago, 
this week.* 

"Faust," condensed version, with 
Ed. Manchester as Faust and Louette 
Jane Babcock as Marguerite. 

George J. Floeck, just returned from 
Germany, where he was held in cap- 
tivity for one month with his trained 
troupe of monkeys, is arranging a new 
act 

Jeanette Louden will revive "A 
Fourth Ward Romance." Fred Arm- 
strong and Margaret Birtch engaged. 

Jack Hawkins has gone back to his 
old act, "His Sister." 

James E. Ryan will revive "The 
Country Editor" at the Palais Royal in 
Detroit, next week. 

Wilton Lackaye, with four people in 
a sketch, opening end of November; 
Mike Bernard and Amy Butler, re- 
united; John E. Henshaw and Grace 
Avery, new act (Wm. L. Lykens). 

Blossom Seeley will join her hus- 
band, Rube Marquard, and his partner, 
Larry McLean, in a baseball sketch. 

Nellie McCoy is preparing for a 
vaudeville debut within a fortnight. 

Roy and English, dancing, opening 
Nov. 9 (M. S. Bentham). 

Rawaon and Clare, new act by Ed- 
win Arden. 14 people and 4 musicians. 

Clara Palmer, new act. 

Priacella Knowles in a sketch by 
Marion Short called "Easy Money," 
with Louis Leon Hall as leading man. 

Mercedes Clark, new act. 

Homer Mason and Marguerite Keel- 
er, in sketch by Porter Emerson 
Brown. Rose Coghlan in sketch by 
Edgar Allan Woolf (M. S. Bentham). 

Percy Plunkett and Co. in "Dad's 
Visit" with Helen Davis and Elsie 
Thomas. 



NEW BUILDINGS. 

Not. 20 is set as the date of the opening 
of the opera house. Le Seur Center, Minn. 
Seats 1,000. 

The new Royal, Pullerton, Neh., L. B. 
Rolph, owner, has been completed. It will 
play vaudeville this winter. 

MAY WARD DIDN'T SHOW. 

May Ward and her "Dresden Dolls" 
did not open at Frank Gersten's Pros- 
pect, Bronx, Monday. The company 
appearing there this week under the 
Ward paper and billing is said to have 
been "The Cabaret Girls" that closed at 
the Murray Hill Saturday. 

Freeman Bernstein agreed with Ger- 
sten to play Miss Ward for four weeks, 
changing shows weekly, and starting 
with "The Dresden Dolls" that opened 
the season as a Progressive Wheel at- 
traction. The contract between the 
two men is said to have been for a 50- 
50 split of the gross, with a forfeiture 
clause of $500 weekly for default. Un- 



der this provision Gersten is reported 
to have started suit against Miss Ward 
and Bernstein Tuesday, to recover the 
full amount of liquidated damages, $2,- 
000. 

No one appeared to know why the 
Ward show did not go in the Prospect 
Unbilled and advertised. Gersten was 
reported unaware of the change, up to 
last Saturday. The Prospect with 
burlesque would be in opposition to 
Miner's Bronx, playing the Columbia 
Amusement Co. shows. Bernstein 
places the Sunday vaudeville concerts 
at two of the Miner theatres. 

It was said later in the week that the 
May Ward show might find its way to 
the main circuit of the Columbia Co. 

The Jeanette Dupre burlesque show 
is said to be next week's attraction at 
Gersten's house. ( i 



JACK SINOBR MAROONED. 
Montreal, Oct 26. 

Jack Singer, owner of "The B eh man 
Show," spent last week, marooned in 
his hotel, in order to avoid breaking 
a stage hands' union order. 

Singer holds a union card in the In- 
ternational Association of Theatrical 
Stage Employees, and when he reached 
this town found a strike was on, in- 
cluding the burlesque house, and the 
stages being run by non-union stage 
hands. 

The union order forbade the pres- 
ence of union men in the banned the- 
atres, so Singer decided to stick to his 
hotel rather than run risk of having his 
card called into question on complaint 
of the Montreal local. 



NORFOLK O. K.'S BEDINI. 

Norfolk, Oct. 28. 

After witnessing "The Mischief Mak- 
ers" this week, Norfolk puts down the 
arrest of its manager in Richmond last 
week to the narrow minded puritanism 
of that city, and absolves the Jean Be- 
dini aggregation of giving an offensive 
show. 

Last week members of the company 
were haled before Justice John Crutch- 
field (who is said to have been the 
model of W. C. Kelly's "Virginia 
Judge") on a charge of presenting an 
improper performance. Richmond's 
last spasm of virtue was the stopping 
of "The Easiest Way." "Before and 
After" also shocked the town. 

Here the Bedini show is looked upon 
as one of the best the circuit has so 
far sent to the Academy. It has plenty 
of ginger and snap and a lively chorus. 
Its principals are good and its comedy 
clean. The manager declares it has 
not been censored since it left Rich- 
mond, except that the specialty, "The 
Girl in the Muff," has been trimmed 
slightly and certain restrictions placed 
on a "hula" dance. 

The publicity attendant upon the 
Richmond affair resulted in boosting lo- 
cal business. 



LEWIS WITH MARION. 

Wednesday Andy Lewis signed a 
contract to be featured in v Dave Mar- 
ion's "Dreamland" show. 

Mr. Lewis recently returned to New 
York from his Progressive Wheel tour 
with "The International Girls." 



OBITUARY. 

Roy Keyser, for many years prop- 
erty man at the Academy of Music, 
Atlantic City, died there last week. 
He had long been a sufferer from lung 
trouble. 



Binghamton, N. Y., Oct. 28. 
Lucius B. Cofferty, one of the best- 
known hotel clerks in the United 
States, died Saturday. 



Lynchburg, Va., Oct 2a 

James Barrett, known professional- 
ly as Walter Flaxton, dropped 3,000 
feet to his death when his parachute 
failed to work while he was making an 
ascension at the county fair held at 
Fincastle, near Lynchburg, afternoon 
of Oct. 22. He attempted to make a 
triple parachute drop. The first para- 
chute did not open and prevented the 
others from serving their purpose. 
His remains were shipped to his home 
in Gloucester, N. J. 



Aaron Feist, brother of Leo Feist, 
the music publisher, with whom he 
was associated in business, died Oct. 
22 at the age of 55. 



The mother of Major Smith (Major 
Smith and Mae) died at her home in 
Corning, N. Y., Oct. 22, at the age of 
78. 



Buffalo, Oct. 28. 

William W. Pierce, treasurer of the 
Shea Amusement Co., and one of the 
leading stockholders of the Shea enter- 
prise, died at his home, 575 West Dela- 
van avenue, Monday night. He had 
been in ill health for years and was 
confined in his home since February, 
with a complication of diseases. Mr. 
Pierce was sixty-seven years of age, 
born, raised and educated in this city. 
His chosen profession was that of 
structural engineer. 



Thomas F. Dunn, old time comedian, 
dropped dead in Lynn, Mass., Oct. 27, 
while out walking. Dunn was one of 
the original cast of "The World" dur- 
ing the run of that play and it was 
he who spoke the tag line that brought 
down the curtain for the last time at 
the old St. James theatre in Boston. 

Milwaukee, Oct. 28. 

"Alfred Freeman," pianist in the Al- 
hambra, the picture house of the Saxe 
Amusement Enterprises, failed to ap- 
pear for work a few days ago and his 
place in the orchestra was filled. His 
body, identified as Selden Miller, of a 
prominent Philadelphia family (who 
disappeared from his home there, 312 
South Tenth street, Nov. 23, 1912), has 
been disinterred from the potter's field 
at Kenosha and sent east. It was 
found in the Pike river. Miller was 
a remarkable linguist, a wonderful mu- 
sician, but a hard drinker. He was an 
Englishman. His mother, who married 
into nobility, died near Florence, Italy, 
two weeks ago, broken hearted after 
two years' search for her son. A 
brother came to Kenosha and identi- 
fied the body, and every possible means 
were used to keep the details of the 
case secret 



ON THE BATTLE LINE. 

"A contemporary military feature, direct 
from Europe. A thriling, exciting drama, pro- 
duced under actual war conditions," is the 
program matter for this Kleine-Clnes three- 
reeler. The only truth told in the billing 1b 
"direct from Europe." An exhibitor can ex- 
pect little confidence from his patrons after 
showing this film aa a "war picture." The 
nearest to "war" it gets is for about 400 feet 
in the second reel, when a handful of Eng- 
lish soldiers in the Soudan ride out to meet 
about 20 Arabs, who had attacked a small de- 
tachment in the desert. The staging of this 
tight Is silly, and looks to have been done In 
or about a studio. An English capltaln is shot 
to death while behind a natural breastwork. 
According to his contortions he was shot near 
the heart. That would have been necessary 
for the bullet to penetrate about 10 feet of 
earth, as only his head was exposed. The 
remainder of the "war" scene is about as 
logical. The scenario is of an Englishman, 
ostracised from his "set" in London on a 
charge of cowardice. He goes to Africa, meets 
the army people. Is with the detachment when 
it is attacked, and is rewarded by the shotted 
Captain Just before death for remaining with 
them under fire. Returning to England with 
an adopted daughter, she falls in love with 
the son of the Captain. Tbe son is a lieu- 
tenant in the English army. A friend of his 
father informs him the foster father of his 
fiancee was^shunned for showing a cowardly 
streak. Then everybody mourned, the girl, 
the father and the lover. It dragged out the 
third reel, until it grew as funny as it was 
tiresome. The film appears to have had 
some matter cut out of the last part, which 
was disconnected. But the only hope of "On 
the Battle Line" is its "war" title and con- 
nection, which should never have been in 
the first place. In these days of real war. 
the title and the billing can only be stamped 
as phony. On its merits as a feature, besides 
that, the film barely passes. 8ime. 

THE ADVENTURESOF KITTY COBB. 

A four- reel feature (Warner), written 
around James Montgomery Flagg's artistic 
creation that appeared in the Sunday World 
and syndicated throughout the country. This 
should have a box office value for those who 
were Interested in the girl as drawn by the ar- 
tist will want to see her in pictures. However, 
the story of the photoplay is entirely different 
from the Kitty as she is recalled in the draw- 
ing, but Interesting nevertheless. Kitty is first 
shown on Long Island as a simple country 
maiden, who after hearing tales of New York 
from the lips of a young Inventor whom she 
secretly loves, decides to come to the big city. 
She arrives and goes to an actor's boarding 
house, looks for employment and falls, ana ia 
about to be thrown out of her home when a 
good angel in the form of a fellow lodger 
takes her to the theatre, where Kitty secures 
employment as an usher. One night her lover 
attends tbe play accompanied by his mother. 
He sees Kitty and recognises her. Kitty is 
persuaded to take employment In the in- 
ventor's family as the mother's secretary. The 
inventor has evolved a new form of defense 
for the United States government which a 
foreign power is desirous of learning either 
by hook or crook. Kitty foils the plot and is 
kidnapped by the agents of the enemy. She is 
later rescued by her lover and a friend from 
"down home," and all ends happily with Kitty 
and the inventor in each other's arms. It is 
a commonplace story which while very well 
produced will not send an audience out of the 
theatre raving. There are a number of thrills 
throughout the film play and a fight In the 
kidnappers' den is very well done. Marian 
Swayne as Kitty Cobb Is most charming in 
appearance and most satisfactory as an act- 
ress. Jack Hopkins as the Inventor and How- 
ard Miasimer as The Spy render excellent sup- 
port to the little lady star. The picture is one 
that will get money in the smaller houses 
through its title. 

WHEN HIS SHIP CAME IN. 

A sea drama by Sellg in two parts in 
which Bessie Eyton and Thomas Santschi are 
featured, it is melodramatic and has sev- 
eral stirring scenes, one in particular where 
Neptuna is in the hold of a ship laden with 
gunpowder, which Is on fire, and the crew, 
not knowing she Is aboard, have deserted. The 
story concerns Neptuna, the granddaughter of 
Captain Melody, who has left the sea to mend 
nets. The girl is loved by Josh Rawlins, a 
sailor In humble circumstances, but whose 
uncle is owner of a ship. Neptuna tires of the 
humble life, her humble lover, and says she 
will go away. She finds money on the beach 
and runs away to the city, where she finds 
work in a laundry, but is discharged and left 
penniless. In the meantime Josh Rawlins has 
heard of the death of his uncle, who has left 
him the ship. The ship, the "Maid of the 
Mist, ' is loaded with gunpowder, and Is about 
to sail, when rats begin to leave it, and the 
crew refuse to sail. While they are arguing 
with Steuben, the captain, Neptuna wanders 
down to the wharf and goes aboard. She 
climbs down Into the hold and falls asleep. 
The crew finally comes aboard and all sails 
are set Tire is discovered later, the crew 
goes away In boats and there is a big scene 
in which Neptuna is hemmed in by fire and 
smoke. A wave dashes over and puts out the 
flames. Being acquainted with sea craft the 
young girl begins to steer the ship to Home 
Port. Before she arrives sailors tell of tbe 
supposed destruction of the ship. After 
twenty-four hours at the helm, the girl faints 
and the schooner drifts Ir to port. The action 
's good, tbe photography excellent and the 
nelodramatlc features well wrought out Miss 
Eyton is especially effective as Neptuna and 
Santschi is forceful In the character of the 
sailor. The picture will be released Nov. 9. 



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GENERAL MANAGER LEWIS J. SELZNICK CONCLUDES AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE 

LIEBLER COMPANY !§8 WORLD FILM CORPORATION 

The World Film Corporation has effected another pace making combination and has star tad work at Its Fort Lao studios on the following successful plays that It has secured from the 
internationally famous firm of theatrical producers 

THE LIEBLER COMPANY 

That wars written by that most resourceful American dramatist 

PAUL ARMSTRONG 

"ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE" "THE RENEGADE" .m "THE DEEP PURPLE" 

In addition to starting work on thoso plays, preparations are under way to present in photoplay form tho greatest spe c ta c le ovor shown on the American stags, Pierre Loti's Chinese romance 

"A DAUGHTER OF HEAVEN" 




Which was presented by tho Uoblor Company at tho Century Theatre at a cost of $201,000.00, with Viola Allan starring in tho title role. 
Thoso features are to bo released soon by tho World Film Corporation. It behooves everyone interested In showing 

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JEFFERSON. 

With three man-and-woman song and dance 
teams in an eight-act show at the Jefferson 
the last half of last week, It was rather a 
draggy bill. Too much sameness has this 
effect on any show. The house was fairly well 
filled, especially in the cheaper priced seats. 

William 0111 and Co., In "Birds of a Feather" 
(Eddie Herron's old act), were featured. Much 
In this turn naturally appealing to the rougher 
element of the Jefferson's audience, and It got 
over nicely. 

The Gabbert Duo, man and woman, did 
acrobatics In the opening spot. They were fol- 
lowed by John Dunn (formerly Spiegle and 
Dunn), a blackface comic. His talk answers 
nicely for the small time and, with a song at 
the finish, he closed strong. 

Hallen and Burt (under the name of Swan 
and Leeds) were the first of the singing and 
dancing mixed doubles to show. They need 
to rearrange the routine, for In Its present 
shape there Isn't enough up. ed. J^ewls and 
Chapln were another two act. immediately 



after. The girl in the turn, a "nut," repeats 
too much. 

Tom and Stacla Moore were next to closing, 
billed as English and Stanley. They have a 
nice little routine worked out that gives Miss 
Moore a chance to parade with seven changes 
of costume. The talk is a little weak and the 
act does not get started until about half over. 
Three or four minutes could be cut to ad- 
vantage. 

Lawson and Namon finished the vaudeville 
section of the bill. "The Prince of India," a 
feature picture, completed off the show. 



HARLEM OPERA HOUSE. 

The Harlem ©. H. Is doing business with 
Its three-a-day vaudeville. It was filled to 
capacity last Friday night, with a fringe of 
standees. 

The show was a good all around entertain- 
ment for the money. Two sketches, both deal- 
ing with politics, bad conspicuous places on 
the bill. The first, "Washington School 



House," was good for a number of laughs. 
The long, lanky Individual who Impersonates 
John D. gets laughs on his site and general 
behavior. The man playing the part of "Com- 
mon People" works hard. The sketch is 
rather silly but around election time it can 
be used. 

The other sketch. "A Midnight Appeal," 
made a good Impression. The new name for 
this act is Sullivan-Keogh and Co. ; It was 
formerly played by George Harcourt and Co. 
The audience liked the sketch. 

The two-act of Bernard and Searth was well 

liked. The man has some good comedy that 

went over nicely, but a couple of lines such as 

"Sausages are hamburgers in tights" and 
"Tour father must have Invented Moxio" 
have seen better days. The girl does realistic 
laughing at some of her partner's "gags," but 
spoils the good work by repeating it too often. 



The Musical Fores scored the biggest ap- 
plause hit. The little boy is a regular musi- 
cian with his handling of the accordion and 
cornet At first the impression Is that this 
little fellow is doing little of the work, but 
later he fools every one by playing on both 
instruments with considerable skill. The man 
has such a pained expression on his face dur- 
ing the turn that audience* are apt to let 
them go off lightly. 

The male duo, Subers and Keefe, provoked 
considerable merriment. Subers' "Jttula hula" 
did uproariously. Rather late In the bill, 
but good returns. 

Lala Sflblnl rode around the stage in a 
union suit on a bicycle. The "nut" comedy 
tried for by this young woman's assistant 
does not hold water and could be eliminated. 
A pretty heavy spot for sn act of this grade. 

Annie Abbott, with her mysterious weight, 
closed the show. The supers tried for comedy 
and flopped. A Treble Clef plcturlsed song 
went very well. 

Manager Swift gave his Harlem people their 
money's worth with that last half bill. 



CHICAGO'S FAVORITE PRIMA DONNA 

BESSIE KAPLAN 

In response to popular demand 
will open nn engagement MONDAY, NOV. 9, of FOUR CONSECUTIVE 

WEEKS IN CHICAGO 
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Next Week (November 2) 

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Featuring MAX FIGMAN and 

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N. Y. City, featuring CARLYLE BLACK WELL. 

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N. Y. City, featuring OCTAVIA HANDWORTH. 

SELECT PHOTOPLAY PRODUCING CO., 110 W. 40th St., N. Y. City, 
featuring original stars in plays. 

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Featuring HARRY CAREY. 

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"THE KEY TO YESTERDAY" 

Released Oct. 12 by Favorite Players Film Co., from book by Chas. Neville Buck. 
with Carlyle Blackwcll in leading role. 

"THE PATH FORBIDDEN" 

Released Oct. It by Excelsior Feature Film Co., from book by John B. Hymer. with 
Octavia Handworth playing the dual role of the twin sisters. 

"AT THE OLD CROSS ROADS" 

Released Oct. 2* by Select Photoplay Producing Co. Arthur C. Alston's famous play, 
with Estha Williams, the original star, in the leading part. 

"McVEAGH OF THE SOUTH SEAS" 

Released Nov. 2 by Progressive Motion Picture Co. A story of daring and action, 
featuring Harry Carey. 

"THE HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER" 

Released Nov. t by Masterpiece Film Mfg. Co. Featuring Max Flgman and Lolita 
Robertson in Edward Eggleston's immortal story. 

"THE MAN WHO COULD NOT LOSE" 

Released Nov. If by Favorite Players Film Co. From book by Richard Harding Davis. 
Featuring Carlyle Blackwell. 

"WHEN FATE LEADS TRUMP" 

Released Nov. 23 by Excelsior Feature Film Co. From book by John B. Hymer, with 
Octavia Handworth in leading role. 



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The Grand Old Lady of 
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Now scoring a Tremendous Success 
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IN A FIVE-PART PHOTOPLAY 

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A Thrilling Drama of Love and 
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Adapted by and Produced under 
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The Year's Greatest Success 

KELCEY and SHANNON 

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IN IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIII 

AFTER THE BALL 

Taken from Chat. K. Harris 9 World's Greatest Song 
Pictured and Produced by Pierce Kingsley 



WHAT MANAGERS SAY: 



Eastern Theatre Managers' Association. 
Chas. W. Eayer, Secretary, 
Hageratown, Md., Sept. 2S, 1114. 
Photo Drama Co., 

Candler Building, New York City. 
Gentlemen: I want to say this regarding 
the picture, AFTER THE BALL— It waa a 
big hit, and notwithatandine a heavy rain 
turned people away the night I played it. 
I also want to go upon record aa aaying 
that In every respect It la the beat handled 
feature I have ever played. The poetert 
are varied and beautiful, the big eight- 
sheets (type) very ahowy. The heralda 
fine, the frame of photoa the finest I have 
ever used, the slides pretty. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) CHAS. W. BOYER. 

Lyceum Theatre, 
Elmlra, N. Y., Oct. S. 1114. 
Photo Drama Co, 

No. 229 West 42d St., N. Y. City. 
Gentlemen: Just a word to congratulate 
you on the excellent picture you eent mo 
this time. I refer to the HERBERT 
KELCEY and EFF1E SHANNON In AF- 
TER THE BALL. It waa very clear and 
a beautiful piece of work. It la the kind 
of picture to get the money. 
With best wishes, I remain 
Very truly yours, 
(Signed) LEE NORTON. 



Hippodrome Theatre, 
•4 Ford St. 
Ogdensburg, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1914. 
Photo Drama Co, 

229 W. 42d St~ New York City. 

Gentlemen: I desire to aay that the 

feature AFTER THE BALL waa the boat 

ever shown in thia theatre. We ran It 

two day a, and played to over capacity 



Fine and Kramer, 
Amuaemcnt Enterprises 

Meadville, Pa, Oct. 5. 1914. 
The Photo Drama Co., 

Z2t West 42d St, New York City. 

Gentlemen: Want to. aay that AFTER 

THE BALL picture gave excellent eatle- 

faction to our patrons. Personally wo can 

recommend the feature very highly and 

would like to play a return date for same. 

Respectfully youra, 

(Signed) FINE AND KRAMER. 

Per M. S. F. 



Samuels Opera House, 
Jamestown, N. Y, Oct. 3, 1914. 
Photo Drama Co, 

229 W. 42d St, New York City. 
Gentlemen: AFTER THE BALL. I wiah 
to state that thla feature, with HERBERT 
KELCEY and EFFIE SHANNON gave en- 
tire satisfaction to all of thoae who had 
the pleasure of seeing It In my theatre. 

If you have any more feature* on a 
standard with AFTER THE BALL I will 
be very glad to give you a data in Jamea- 
town. 

Vmrr truly youra, 
(Signed) ED. CONNELLY, Can. Mgr. 




The Baker Theatre, 

Dover, N. J, Oct. 9, 1914. 
Photo Drama Co, Inc, 

Candler Building, New York City. 
Gentlemen: Congratulations are surely 
due to you for your wonderful screen pro- 
duction, AFTER THE BALL. 

AFTER THE BALL waa projected at 
thla thoatre Saturday matinee and even- 
ing, September 29, and, In point of num- 
here, establiahed a new record, and the 
writer can heartily recommend It* ster- 
ling qualiflcationa to all lovera of pure 
picture drama. 

Respectfully yours, 
(Signed) R. F. WOODHULL, Mgr. 

Welting Opera House, 
Syracuse. N. Y, Oct. S, 1914. 
The Photo Drama Co, 

229 Woat 42d St, New York City. 
Gentlemen: I conalder KELCEY and 
SHANNON in AFTER THE BALL the 
boat feature photo-play that thla house 
ha* ever shown; its drawing power was 
wonderful, and 1 would be pleased to have 
the attraction for a return date. 
Very truly yours. 
(Signed) WEITING OPERA HOUSE. 
By F. P. Martin, Business Manager. 

Bradford Theatre, 

Bradford, Pa, Oct. J. 1914. 
The Photo Drama Co, 
New York City, N. Y. 
Gentlemen: On Sept. 9 and 10 of this 
year I played AFTER THE BALL to very 
excellent receipts at tne above theatre. I 
am again playing it on tills dale, Oct. 3, 
for a special return engagement. 

It la a "thriller" In many ways, yet is 
logical withal, and the photography as a 
whole la certainly very clear, while the 
entire production from the scenario to 
the screen shows a master hand all the 
way through. 

Tours very truly, 
(Signed) BRADFORD THEATRE. 
C. W. Lawford, Manager. 



going away without 
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houses, 

seeing it at both days of exhibition on ac- 
count of we not even having standing 



I can aay that any theatre who will 
book and bill thia feature need not worry 
about the house being Ailed for two or 
three daya— don't matter a* to th* 
weather. 

V*ry truly. 
(Signed) HIPPODROME THEATRE, 
W. B. Stoenberge, Mgr. 



Rets Circuit Co. 

October 2, 1914. 
The Photo Drama Co, 

Candler Building, New York, N. Y. 
Gentlemen: Your feature photo-play of 
KELCEY and SHANNON In AFTER THE 
BALL gives me pleasure of recommend- 
ing It aa a first-class feature, and which 
played to capacity business at Rand'a 
Opera House, Troy, New York. 
Sincerely, 
(Signed) O. H. STACY, Mgr. 



PHOTO DRAMA COMPANY. Inc. 



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THE FUNNIEST COMIC SONG PUBLISHED. 



The War in Snyder's Grocery 



>S< 'III! (' 



jjfh in r\ ltv line 



i< >r it sell. 




MACDONALD AND CARROLL'S ONE GREAT ENCORE GETTER 

'THE FATHERLAND, THE MOTHERLAND, 

THE LAND OF MY BEST GIRL" 






GUS EDWARDS AND BLANCHE MERRILL'S MASTERPIECE 



JUST AROUND THE F ffi NER BROADWAY 



•nl\ ic'tl wall/ iiuihIh'i hi iIk 1 iiKirkci \\\-< reli'.'i 



HALSEY MOHR'S SMASHING SUCCESS. 









THE TANGO 






THE SKY 



One of the most original novelties of the year. 



SHAPIRO, BERNSTEIN & CO., 224 west 47th street, new york 



George Edwin Orpheum Birmingham 

Gere & Delaney Temple Hamilton 

Gibson Hardy Variety N Y 

Glenn Carrie Variety N Y 

Godfrey ft Henderson Variety N Y 

Gordon Jim ft Elgin Girls Variety N Y 

Gouldings The Orpheum Duluth 

Grant & Hoag Orpheum Kansas City 

Gray Trio Variety N Y 

Graters The Orpheum Denver 

Gre*n Ethel Variety N Y 

Grees Karl 3 Mariahilf Str Blngen-Rhein Germ 

Guerito Laura Variety London 

Gygi Ota Variety N Y 



agans 4 Australian Variety N Y 

amilton Jean Touring England 

arrah Great 1026 Consumers BIdg Chicago 

avilane Tho Variety N Y 

ayama 4 Variety N Y 

lay ward Stafford ft Co Orpheum Des Moines 

aywards The White Rats N Y 

annum Adelaide Pierpont Hotel NYC 



aperial Opera Co Pa itages Edr 
ige Clara Variety N V 
med Orpheum Salt 



Tarrow Keith's Cleveland 
Johnson ft Wells Keith's Providence 
Johnstons Musical Empire Newport Eng 
Jordan A Doherty Grand St Paul 
Tuggling DeLisle Miles Cleveland 
Tuggling Mowatts Pantages Victoria B C 

uggling Nelsons Empress San Francisco 

ufiet Keith's Indianapolis 



Kammerer ft Howland Rehoboth Mass 
Kelley ft Catlin Pantages Los Angeles 
Keno ft Mayne Keith's Cincinnati 
Keuling Edgar Louis Variety N Y 
Kingston ft Ebner Orpheum Harrisburg 
Kornau Fred Orpheum Omaha 
Kramer Joe ft Co Victoria Charleston S 
Kramka Bros Keith's Philadelphia 
Kratons Toe Pantages Seattle 
Kronold Hans Spreckle San Diego 



La Count Basal* care Bohm 1547 Bway NYC 
La Croix Paul Fountaine Pk Louisville 
Lamberti Temple Rochester 
Langdona Tho Orpheum Harri«V;rg 
La Rue Grace Temple Roche «*cr 
Leon's Models Family Detroit 



FRANK LE DENT 

NOV. t, ARDWICK EMPIRE, MANCHESTER. 



Le Roy Lytton ft Co Keith's Columbus 
Laalle Bart 4k Co Variety N Y 



Blanche Leslie 

N*Kt Weak (Nov. 2), Empress, Tacoma 



\aVI 

Original "Rathskeller Trio" 
Car* VARIETY. Now York 



Lightner ft Jordon Orpheum New Orleans 

Lind Homer & Co Orpheum Harrisburg 

Littlejohns The Variety N Y 

Lowes Two Variety N Y 

Lyons ft Yosco Victoria Charleston 

M 

Manny ft Roberts Variety London 
Maya ft Addle Variety NY 
Mayo Lousoa Variety N Y 



ROSITA 



Assisted by C. BALFOUR LLOYD 
4CINO ATOP THE STRAND- 4th M< 

Harry Weber Presents 

3 MARCONI BROS. 

Tha Wireless Orchestra 
BOB 

MATTHEWS SHAY* 

And Company 
U "DR EAM 

McCree Junta Columbia Theatre BIdg N Y 
Meredith Sisters 330 W 51st St N Y C 
Middleton & Spellmeyer Freeport L I 
Morris ft Beasley Loew Circuit 
Morrissey ft Hackett Hughes Palace BIdg N Y 

?MYSTIC BIRD? 

Playing U. B. O. Orpheeim 
Direction, HARRY WEBFS 



34 



VARIETY 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS AND COMPANIES IN BURLESQUE 



LEW KELLY 

"PROF. DOPE" 



MATT KENNEDY 



MP "LIBERTY GIRLS 



MIS 



f» 



T. W. DINKINS 



Johnnie Jess 

Featured With 
BILLY WATSON'S "BIG SHOW." 



JACK CONWAY 

Featured with "Star and Garter" 

Direction, Phil B. Isaac 



TAMES (Tflotcb") 
COOPER 



Four Shows that Have 

"GYPSY MAIDS'* "ROSELAND GIRLS" 

"GLOBE TROTTERS'* 

"BEAUTY, YOUTH AND FOLLY* 

COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 

Room 411 Colombia Theatre Bid*., 

Now Ynr% 



LEO STEVENS 



Helen Jessie Moore 



itllo 



Wi 



Direction HURTIG * 3EAMON 



J 



Lillian Fitzgerald 

Featured wltk 

"ROSELAND GIRLS" 

it Jaasee E. (**Blatah*») 



FANNIE VEDDER 



L-Ulwl 



INGENUE, "The Broadway Girls" 

Management Theatrical Operating Co. 

Season 1I14-1S 



Francis Elliott 

la "A NOVEL CREATION" 
"AUTO GIRLft"-IU4-l» 



LON HASCALL 

SIMON LEGREE (Stage Manager) 
"BEHMAN SHOW" 



Harry Seymour 

NOT A STAR- A COMET I 
"AUTO GIRLS"— lflo-U 



LEO HOYT 

German Comedian, "Prise Winners" Co. 



Abe Reynolds 



Florence Mills 

FEATURED IN 

THE COLLEGE GIRLS" 



JACK SINGER Presents 

LEW KELLY 



And the 



•> 



"Behman Show 

With 

LON HASCALL JAMES TENBROOKE 

MACK and IRWIN 

VAN and PYNES 

CORINNE FORD and the I College Boys 

MARTELLE 



Where managers come to purloin actors, 
and actors to Pilfer Material 



Gladys Sears 



a 



TANGO GIRLS" CO. 



edna Raymond 

Prima Donna, "Prise Winners" Co. 



Pietro Forsythe Atlanta 
Pruit Bill Maryland Balti 



more 



ReUly Char 



Renards 3 Vsrietj 



Vsriety San Francisco 



NELLIE FLOREDE 

"GOLDEN CROOK" CO. 



Reeves Billy Vsriety London 
rue " ■ " ~ 
Vs 

Reynolds Carrie V sriety NY 



Nadell & Kane Fantages Spokane 

Neluico & Hurley Keith's Toledo 

Nestor & Delberg Loew Circuit 

Nlblo A Spenser 363 12th St Bklyn 

Nlchol Sisters care Delmar 1493 Bwsy NYC 

Nichols Nellie Grand Pittsburgh 



MISS PAUL 

NORTON - NICHOLSON 

En Route 

"A PAIR OF SIXES" CO. 

Coddles. T. BOGGS JOHNS 



Nip & Tuck Crystal Milwaukee 
Nosses Musical 5 Grand O H St Louis 



Oakland Sisters Maryland Baltimore 
O'Brien Havel Co Orpheum Lincoln 
Odiva Orpheum New Orleans 
Orr De Costa Dominion Ottawa 
Orville & Frank Hnmmerstein's NYC 



Parille & Frabite Keith's Indianapolis 
Patricola Angelo Keith's Cincinnati 
Pederson Bros Temple Rochester 
Pereira 6 Keith's Boston 



Harry Wsher Presents 

ILTON POLLOCK 

In Goo. Ada's Co m edy. 
"SPEAKING TO FATHER" 

Next Week (Nov. 2), Win. Penn, Philadelphia 



W. E. Ritchie and Co 

THE ORIGINAL TRAMP CYCLIST 
TICHY'S. PRAG, AUSTRIA 



Rice Hazel 226 W 50th St N Y 
Richardini Michael 10 Leicester Sq London 

WM. MAUD 

ROCK and FULTON 

Featured In "The Candy Shop" 

EN ROUTE 

Roehm's Athletic Girls Vsriety Chicsgo 
Ronair 8c Ward Variety N Y 



Shean Al Variety N Y 

Sherman & De Forest Variety N Y 

Stafford & Stone Echo Farm Nauriet N Y 

Stanley Aileon Variety N Y 

Stanley Forrest Burbank Los Angeles 

Stanton Walter Variety N Y 

St Elmo Carlotta Variety N Y 



Stephens Leona 1213 Elder Ave N Y 
Sutton Mclntyre a Sutton Variety N Y 



'The Pumpkin Girl" Variety N Y 

Taylor Eva & Co Temple Detroit 

Texico Variety N Y 

Todd Nards Orpheum Detroit 

Trans Atlantic Trio Orpheum Des Moines 

Treat's Seals Shea's Buffalo 

Trovollo Empress Fort Wayne 

Turner & Grace Harris Pittsburgh 



Valli Muriel & Arthur Vsriety N Y 
Van Billy B Van Harbor N H 
Violinsky Orpheum St Psul 



THE VIVIANS 

THE SHARPSHOOTERS 
Now In London 
Address care of VARIETY, II Charing Cross 
Road. " 



DOROTHY 



ALBERT 



VON TILZER and NORD 

Direction, MAX HART 



W 

Walton & Vivian White Rats N Y 
Weston & Clare Orpheum Salt Lake 
Weston & Leon Temple Hamilton 
Wiley & Ten Eyck Keith's Providence 
Willis Bros Grand Pittsburgh 



Members of the 

White Rats Actors' Union 

OF AMERICA 

and 

ASSOCIATED ACTRESSES OF AMERICA 

UNDER THE BY-LAWS unless your dues are paid TO 

IL- I 

You are now Out of Benefit 






VARIETY 



REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS AND COMPANIES IN BURLESQUE 



JACOBS & JERMON'S 



Columbia Theatre Building, 



I 

Broadway and 47th Street, New York 




TttST BILLY WATSON 



GIRLIE SHOW" WATSON*! "ORIENTALS' 9 

WAMT OOOP-LOOKIMO OIWLS ALWAYS 



COLUMBIA AMUSEMENT 
CO.'S HOUSES 



SAMMY WRIGHT 



Gat me in the "Burly -Cue V 
Management AL REEVES 



AIM K 



I IM IM E Y 



Management. CHARLES H. WALDRON 



THE GREATEST 
DANCER OF 
THEM ALL I 



Chooceeta 



AT LIBERTY 
Address 227 W. eSth St. 

New York 



Charles Robinson 



AND HIS 

"Carnation Beauties 9 ' 

SEASON 1914-1915 



HarryCooper 



FEATURED WITH 

"CRACKER JACKS" 

Direction. 
COLUMBIA AMUSEMENT CO. 



GEO. H. WARD 



Featured Character Comedian 
WITH BERNARD A ZEISLER'S 

"FRENCH MODELS" 

Season 1914-15 



WILL FOX 



Featured Comedian 

"Gay New Yorkers 



•• 



Joe MORRIS and CAMPBEXL. Flossie 



With "BROADWAY GIRLS" Season 1914-15. 



Sam Micals 



WITH "BOWERYS" 

Management, 
HURTIG & SEAMON 



WILLIE WESTON 

IN VAUDEVILLE 
Booked SoUd. Direction, MORRIS s\ FETL 

Wilson Jack Majestic Milwaukee 
Winters Winona Orpheum Jacksonville 
Wood Britt Keith's Philadelphia 
Woods Woods Trio Keith's Louisville 

Z 
Zazell H M Co Orpheum Circuit 
Zosllsr Edward care Cooper 1416 Bway NYC 



BURLESQUE ROUTES 



!»■■»-. 



(Week Nov. 2 and Nov. 0.) 

Al Reeves' Beauty Show 2 Miner's Bronx New 
York 9 L O 16 Empire Newark. 

American Beauties 2LO0 Westminster Provi- 
dence. 

Auto Girls 2-4 Grand Plttsfleld 5-7 Empire 
Holyoke Olympic New York. 

Beauty Parade 2 Empire Newark Casino 
Philadelphia. 

Beauty Youth A Folly 2 Penn Circuit 9 Mur- 
ray Hill New York. 

Behman Show 2 Casino Boston 9-11 Worcester 
Worcester 12-14 Park Bridgeport. 



Ben Welch Show 2 Gayety Omaha 9 L O 16 
Gayety Minneapolis. 

Big Jubilee 2 Princess St Louis 9 Gayety Kan- 
sas City. 

Big Revue 2 Olympic New York 9 Star Brook- 
lyn. 

Big Sensation 2 Columbia Indianapolis 9 
Buckingham Louisville. 

Bohemians 2 L O 9 Columbia Indianapolis. 

Bon Tons 2 Gayety Montreal 9-11 Empire Al- 
bany 12-14 Grand Hartford. 

Bowery Burlesquers 2 Gayety Kansas City 9 
Gayety Omaha. 

Broadway Girls 2-4 Stone O H Binghamton 5-7 
Van Culler O H Schenectady 9 Corinthian 
Rochester. 

Charming Widows 2 Murray Hill New York 9 
Trocadero Philadelphia. 

Cherry Blossoms 2-4 Jacques O H Waterbury 
R-7 Gllmore Springfield 9 Howard Boston. 

City Belles 2 Empire Cleveland 9 Victoria 
Pittsburgh. 

City Sports 2 Howard Boston 9 Grand Boston. 

College Girls 2 Casino Brooklyn 9 Music Hall 
New York. 

Crackerjacks 2 Star Brooklyn 9 Orpheum Pat- 
erson. 

Dreamlands 2 Columbia Chicago 9 Princess St 
Louis. 

Eva Mull's Show 2 Bijou Richmond 9 Academy 
of Music Norfolk. 

Fay Foster Co 1-4 New Nixon Atlantic City 9- 
11 Stone O H Binghamton 12-14 Van Culler 
O H Schenectady. 



A RIOT IN BURLESQUE 



DON B. BARCLAY 

"Mr. Barclay's comedy is spontaneous and genuinely funny, and in everything that 
he does he U distinctly ori»inal."-Frederick M. McCloy in VARIETY. 



Dave Gordon 

Presents "GIRLS OF THE GAY WHITE WAY" 



SIMMONDS, STEWART and LAKE'S 

"AUTOGIRLS" CO. Offer 

HARRY M. STEWART FRANCIS ELLIOTT MADELINE WEBB 
JAS. J. LAKE CAROL SCHRODER BILLY HALLMAN 

HARRY SEYMOUR SALLY STEWART TEDDY SIMMONDS 

COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, 1914-1S 



SOMETHING NEW 



WZ&a "FOLLIES i°„ f e DAT 

With SAM SIDMAN, GERTRUDE HAYES, and aa All-Star Cast 
BIGGEST HIT IN BURLESQUE SINCE "WINE, WOMAN AND SONG** 
NOV. 8, GAYETY THEATRE, MINNEAPOLIS 



Steve GORDON and MURPHY Frank 



PREMIER ACROBATIC DANCERS with "BON-TON GIRLS 



»» 



Babe La Tour 



With -GOLDEN CROOK" 

Management, 
JACOBS & JERMON 



HARRY Hickeyj LE VAN 
CLAIRE DE VINE 



NOW AND ALWAYS 
Personal Direction. 

Henry P Dixon 
"REVIEW OP ISIS" 

(Colttmbis Circuit) 



Leading Woman 
Dixon's "Review of 1915" 



Anna-ARMSTRONG and ODELL-Tommy 

With DAVE MARION'S OWN CO. Season 14-15. 



HENRY 




Presents "THE BIG REVIEW OF 1915" 



MARGIE CATLIN 



ALWAYS WORKING 



MANAGEMENT. 
PENNESSY A NERK 

-Happy Widows" 



MAUDIE M EI A 

"AMERICAN BEAUTIES" CO. 

"Queen Rose of the osebud Garden of Girls."— McCloy in Variety. 



Follies of Day 2 L O 9 Oayety Minneapolis. 
Follies of Pleasure 2 Haymarket Chicago 9 

Standard St Louis. 
French Models 2 Cadillac Detroit 9 Haymarket 

Chicago. 
Gaiety Girls 2 Gayety Buffalo 9 L O 16-18 

Bastable Syracuse 19-21 Lumberg Utlca. 
Garden of Girls 2 Standard St. Louis 9 Cen- 
tury Kansas City. 
Gay Morning Glories 2 Victoria Pittsburgh 9 

Penn Circuit. 
Gay New Yorkers 2 Gaiety Boston 9-11 Grand 

Hartford 12-14 Empire Albany. 
Gay White Way 2-4 Worcester Worcester 5-7 

Park Bridgeport 9 Columbia New York. 



Gay Widows 2 Corinthian Rochester 9 Gardes 
Buffalo. 

Ginger Olrls 2 L O 9-11 Bastable Syracuse 12- 
14 Lumbers; Utlca. 

Girls from Happyland 2 Star a Garter Chi- 
cago 9 Englewood Chicago. 

Girls from Joyland 2 L O 9 Gayety Balti- 
more. 

Girls from Follies 5-7 Grand Trenton 9 Oay- 
ety Brooklyn. 

Olrls of Moulin Rouge 2 Gayety Minneapolis 9 
Star St Paul. 

Globe Trotters 2-4 Grand Hartford 5-7 Empire 
Albany 9 Miner's nronx New York. 

Golden Crook 2 L O 9 Empire Newark. 



OWNERS OF SHOWS AND THEATRES WHO ARE LOOKING FOR BOOKING FOR BALANCE OF SEASON AND WANT QUICK ACTION COMMUNICATE 

MUTUAL CIRCUIT and AMUSEMENT COMPANY, Gaiety Theatre Bldg., Broadway and 46th St., New York City 



Ask the Progressive Circuit, Inc.. why a 
large number of shows were closed out and 
what they will give them for their stock in 
the company, and whether the representa- 
tions made at the time it was purchased 
were true? 



MUTUAL CIRCUIT AND AMUSEMENT COMPANY, incorporated under the Laws of the State of New York, 
with a capitalization of $75,000.00. 

• New Circuit has heen formed. A majority of the Board of Directors arc owners of theatres and shows and it is 
not controlled by Theatrical Promoters. You are not required to buy stock upon fraudulent misrepresentations or m**-tU th>» •'• ««t inrm#.,l 
id afterwards sold out and your shows left Stranded an. I theatres darkened. i ireutt mat is not lormen 



otherwise an«i aiierwaras sold out ami you 

No one affiliated with the Progressive Circuit, Inc., is connected with this company 



Do your booking with 

ircuit that is not form 

for the purpose of selling 



Your attention is called to an article in the New York Telegraph of October 6th, 1914, entitled "BURLESQUE out and a few insiders 

WHEEL GETS INTO COURT." whereby it appeared that an application for the appointment of a Receiver ofthe .--i,-, - uhhm •» mm* m 

"PROGRESSIVE CIRCUIT, INC.," was made to the Supreme Court in the City of New York. malcc a triune at your ex- 
ACT QUICK. SEND IN YOUR OPEN TIME. WE HAVE THE HOUSES AND THE SHOWS 



pense. 



36 



VARIETY 



Refined Hoi 

Professionals. 

Handsomely Furnished 

Steam Heated Room* 

Bath and ovary 

convenience 



for 



*t 



THE ST. HILDA 



•J 



'Phone 71*7 Bryant 
Acknowledged as the host 

tlaco to stop at in New 
ork City. 

One block from Booking 
Office, and VARIETY 



Row at 67 W. 44th Street 



PAULINE COOKE, Sole Proprietress 




Hotel Plymouth 

38th St. (Between Broadway and Sth Ave.), N. Y. City 



Now Fireproof Building-. 



$1 



ONE IN 
TT A 

DAY ROOM 



A Stone's Throw from Broadway 



$1 



TWO IN 
A 
DAY ROOM 



Big Reductions to Weekly Guests 

Ever/ room has hot snd cold running water, electric light and 
long distance telephone. 

Phono 1521 Greeley EUROPEAN PLAN T. SINNOTT, Manager 



CLEANEST IN TOWN 



150 Furnished Apartments 

Steam Heated, Centrally Located in the Theatrical District in the City of 

NEW YORK* For the Comfort and Convenience of the Profession. 



HENRI COURT 

tit IH and 111 W. 41th ST. 
Tel. Bryant 8560 8561 

New fireproof building, 
just completed, with hand- 
somely furnished three and 
four-room apartments com- 
plete for housekeeping. Pri- 
vate bath, telephone, elec- 
tricity. 
RATES: $12 UP WEEKLY 



THE ANNEX 

7S4 and 7SI Ith AVE . at 47th St. 

Tel. Bryant 3431 

Decidedly clean, four and 
five-room apartments with 
private baths, carefully fur- 
nished. 

$10.0» up 



THE CLAMAN 

IIS and 331 W 44. ST. 

Tel. Bryant 4293-6131 

Comfortable and excep- 
tionally clean three and 
four-room apartments, thor- 
oughly furnished for house- 
keeping. Private baths. 

$3.00 UP WEEKLY 



UNDER MANAGEMENT OF THE OWNER 




ARTHUR 



252-254 West 38th St, off 7th Avenue, NEW YORK 

$2.50 to $5.00 Weekly 



100 rooms, scrupulously 
Telep h one 4155 Greeley 



hatha on every floor, steam heat, electric Ught and * as 

MUSIC ROOM FOR USE OF GUESTS 



SPECIAL PROFESSIONAL RATES 

El- MARKW 

220 WEST 49TH ST., NEW YORK 

Rooms for 2 persons, $1.00. With Private Bath, $1.50. 
Parlor Bedroom and Bath, $2.50 



Qypsy Maids 2 Qsyety Washington 9 Qayety 
Pittsburgh. 

Happy Widows 2 Star Cleveland Gayety Cin- 
cinnati. 

Hasting's Big Show 2 Qayety Milwaukee 9 
Star e Garter Chicago. 

Hello Paris 2 Orpheum Paterson 0-11 New 
Nixon Atlantic City. 

Heart Charmers 2 Garden Buffalo Star To- 
ronto. 

High Life Girls 2 Century Kansas City L O 
16 L O 23 Columbia Indianapolis. 

Honeymoon Girls 2 Star St Paul Gayety Mil- 
waukee. 

Liberty Girls 2 Gayety Pittsburgh Star 
Cleveland. 



Lovemakers 2-4 Empire Albany 5-7 Grand 
Hartford Caalno Boston. 

Marlon's Own Show 2 Empire Philadelphia 
Empire Hoboken. 

Million Dollar Dolls 2 Gayety Detroit Gay- 
ety Toronto. 

Mischief Makers 2 Gayety Philadelphia 12-14 
Grand Trenton. 

Monte Carlo Girls 2 Gayety Baltimore Bijou 
Richmond. 

Orientals 2 Buckingham Louisville 9 Standard 
Cincinnati. 

Passing Review of 1014 2 Academy of Music 
Norfolk 9 Gayety Philadelphia. 

Prize Winners 2 Music Hall New York 9 Em- 
pire Philadelphia. 



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| THEATRIC AL FOLKS-A TTENTION | 

E An Electrical Lamp for theatrical people. Can be attached = 

5 on — Mirror, Bed, Chair, Door — in fact, anywhere. Indispensable = 

= on mirror in dressing room for making up; has cord attachment; E 

E can be made shorter or longer automatically; can be concealed in E 

E five inches of space in traveling bag ; must be seen to be appreciated. | 

E Regular price, $5.00; our special professional price, $3.00 for short | 

E period only. Money refunded if not satisfactory. Call, write, or | 

E send money order. E 

§ UNIVERSAL SYNDICATE [ 

| Suite 916, 1482 Broadway. | 
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554 

Tel. Bryant ; 555 
7SS3 



The Edmonds 



ONE BLOCK 
TO TIMES SO. 



Furnished Apartments 

EDWARD E. BURTIS, Mgr. 

CATERING EXCLUSIVELY TO THE PROFESSION 

776-78-80 EIGHTH AVENUE 



Between 47th and 48th Streets 



NEW YORK 



Private Bath and Phone in 
Each Apartment 



Office 
77$ EIGHTH AVENUE 



AN ITALIAN DINNER YOU WONT FORGET 

108-110 West 40th St. f|| A| ITfl Mear 6th *"' 
Lunch 40c. Mm 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 dinner. w«k d**. •©* 

With Wine UIUL.I I U H -" d "'V, B T d „w,;T' ,fc 

THE RENDEZVOUS OF "THEATRICALS BEST" 
TURNING THEM AWAY NIGHTLY 

HOTEL LYNWOOD 



102 WEST 44TH STREET 



NEW YORK 



Single Rooms, $5 par week; Double, $7; with Bath, $tt Parlor Bedroom mmi 
Bath, $14. Elevator, Electric Light, Telephone In owory room. Telephone 8131 
Bryant. 



Columbus 44* 



POSTAL GARAGE 

222-24 W. 5Ut St.. Now York 

A THEATRICAL OARAGE 
LIMOUSINES TO HIRE by haav, day or 



Rice's Sam Daffydtll Girls 2 Standard Cin- 
cinnati 9 Empire Cleveland. 

Robinson's Carnation Beauties 2 GTayety To- 
ronto Gayety Buffalo. 

Roseland Girls 2 Empire Toledo 9 Columbia 
Chicago. 

Rosey Posey Girls 2 Gayety Cincinnati 9 Em- 
pire Toledo. 

Septemper Morning Glories 2 Star Toronto 9 
Savoy Hamilton Can. 

Social Maids 2 Englewood Chicago 9 Gayety 
Detroit. 

Star & Garter 2 Westminster Providence 9 
Gaiety Boston. 

Sydell's London Belles 2 Columbia New York 
9 Casino Brooklyn. 

Tango Girls 2 L O 9 L O 16 Columbia In- 
dianapolis. 

Tango Queens 2 Grand Boston 9-11 Grand 
Plttsfleld 12-14 Empire Holyoke. 

Taxi Girls 2 Savoy Hamilton Can 9 Cadillac 
Detroit. 

Tempters 2 Gayety Brooklyn 9-11 Jacques O 
H Waterbury 12-14 Gllmore Springfield. 

Trocaderos 2 Empire Hoboken 9 Empire Brook- 
lyn. 

Watson Sisters 2 Casino Philadelphia 9 Palace 
Baltimore. 

Watson's Big Show 2 Empire Brooklyn 9 L O 
16 Westminster Providence. 

Winning- Widows 2 Palace Baltimore 9 Gayety 
Washington. 

Zallah's Own Show 2 Trocadero Philadelphia 
L 16 Gayety Baltimore. 



NEW YORK 



Tel. 1890 Bryant 

2M W. 41ST STREET 

A Hotel for Gentlemen — $2 up 
1 Minute West of Broadway 

The Rendezvous for Bohemians and Proles* 
slonal . Folk Generally. Chile Concarae, Hot 
Tamales and Mexican Dishee a Specialty. 

Rehearsal Rooms, |LM for 1 hours. 



Telephone Bryant 2M7 

Famished Apartments 
and Rooms 

Three and Four Room Apartments $• to R 
Largo rooms $4Jt and up 

COMPLETE HOUSEKEEPING 

310 W. 4&TH ST., NEW YORK 



LETTERS 



in 



Where C follows name, letter is 
Variety's Chicago office. 

Where S F follows nanfe, letter is in 
Variety's San Francisco office. 

Advertising or circular letters will 
not be. listed. 

P following name indicates postal, 
advertised once only. 



Abels Neal (C) 
Adams Geo 
Adams Marie 
Adgln Princess 
Aiscon Leenl 
Alexander Chas 



(O 



Ambrose C 
Andra Bess 
Anger Donald 
Armento Angelo (C) 
Ayers Ada 

B 
Babette A Evans 



VARIETY 



37 



HOTEL VAN CORTLANDT 



142-146 W. 49th STREET 
)(j*T EAST OF BROADWAY* 



NEW 



Centrally located, good service, absolutely fireproof. A homelike transient and family 

hotel. Telephone in every room. 



Restaurant and Grill equal to 



Moderate Prices 



Rooms large, light, airy and wail furnished. 

Rooms with uso of bath $139 and up. Rooms with bath $2 and up. 
Parlor bedroom and bath $3 and up, for ono or two parsons. 

SPECIAL RATES TO THE PROFESSION. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS 



IN 

114-116 WEST 47TH STREET. NEW YORK 

(Just off Broadway) 
Bast location in town. 

Kitchenette apartments; Single and double rooms* with bath. Attractive 

prices to tha profession. 




THE IN/IOIM 

104-106 W. 40TH ST., NEW YORK, Between Broadway and Sixth Ave. 

European Plan, rnsnii ELM up per week. Double rooms, $4Jt up. Housekeeping rooms, f7.ee 
par weak. Steam Heat. Baths on every floor. 

JIMSEY JORDAN, Mgr. 



Bryant 1M4 



Geo. P. Schneider, Prop. 







FURNISHED APARTMENTS 

CMn cS^l^A^T^* 323 West 43rd Street, NEW YORK CITY 

Private Bath. 3-4 rooms. Catering to the comfort and convenience of the profession 

Steam Heat It Up 



When Playing Atlantic City Stop At 

HOTEL G00DFELL0W 

Maryland Ave. and Boardwalk 
Three minutes from New Nixon and Keith's 
Theatres. Eight minutes from Apollo Theatre 

Spatial Rites tt tha Profession 

CHAS. J. GOODFELLOW, Prop. 
Late of Chestnut Street Opera House. Phila. 



HOTEL BROADWAY, DETROIT 

42-44 BROADWAY 
Theatrical hotel within three minutes' walk 
from all Theatres. Price, $3.SS up, single; 
$S.S0 up, double. 



Bsker Cbas 
Baldwin Mrs 
Banjoph lends 
Bsrlow H 
Barnes T 
Bsrnold D 
Barnold J 
Barry A Nelson 
Bart Chss 
Barton 8am 
Bay State Trio 
Beahl Jessie 
Bell P 

Bell and Richards 
Bellow L 
Belmont P 
Bennett M 
Bennett Pierce a A 
Bergere O 
Berllnger E 
Bernard M 



Berry Rose (C) 
Bird Margaret 
Black V 
Blake Sisters 
Blondy (C) 
Bloom L 
Boardman L 
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Field O (C) 
Fields W 
Figg Chas 
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Flynn J 

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Frances E 
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nibboni Edith 
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"Difference Between Man and Maid" 

By Charley Brown 



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"Medley" 

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By May Newman 



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Sam P. Gerson is to remain as manager of 
the Princess. 



Isabella Patrlcola Is to make a tour of the 
Jones, Llnlck A Schaefer theatres. 



Ihe Butterfleld offices hare been moved 
from Battle Creek, Mich., to Chicago. 

Jack Lait's "Help Wanted" is scheduled to 
play the National next week. 



Mark Lachmann Is the new assistant to 
Dan Cotter In the box office at the Oarrlok. 



Frank Readick, Jr., has joined one of the 
Halton Powell shows to play a Juvenile role. 



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Monday Night, (Election Eve) November 2nd 

MARKING THE PREMIERE OF 

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Mi». HORTENSE 2ARO SSHS"™ 

TABLE RESERVATIONS NOW 



"A Pair of Sixes," has passed Its 100th 
performance at the Cort. 

E. M. Newman will begin his travel lectures 
at Orchestra Hall Nov. 18. 



Dee Loretta. prima donna with the Monte 
Carter Co., now playing at the Wigwam, Is 
convalescing from an operation for appendi- 
citis which she underwent last week at the 
St. Luke's hospital. 



Fay Tunis, wife of Big. Bosley, has Joined 
the cast of "Under Cover," and will remain 
with the show until It leaves for New York. 



"On Trial," with a special cast, will come 
to Cohan's Grand after "Under Cover" haa 
ceased to draw sufficiently. 



Instead of opening at the Alcaxar as lead- 
ing woman Oct 26, as originally scheduled, 
Florence Malone opeced a week earlier. This 
was caused by Irene Outrlm being suddenly 
taken HI. 



Ed Gray sauntered Into town this week 
still Wearing traces of Muskegon tan, after 
playing some Michigan towns. 

O'Neill and Dixon, a singing act on one 
of the Loew road shows, has been called 
back to New York. 



The managers of all the San Francisco 
theatres where "movies" are shown will give 
a big ball to-night (Saturday). Bid. Grau- 
man, manager of Loew's Empress, Is chair- 
man of the committee of arrangements. 



Biggest business In two the past week or 
so has been done by "Potash and Perlmutter" 
and Sir Johnstone Forbes- Robertson. 



Les Copeland and Lou Davis, who were 
prominent In the Ethel Davis "tab" when 
it opened at the Pantages last week, hsve 
withdrawn from the offering and are rehears- 
ing a double act to use during the present 
season. 



MISSION 



At the 

SAVOY THEATRE 

West 34th Street 

On 



MONDAY and TUESDAY 

To professionals who may wish to see all of the 

INDEPENDENT 
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(This invitation applies only to the moving picture 
industry. Identification by card.) 



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"I Write Acta that Gat the BmUm« n 
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The Coicago Steward!' association of ho- 
tel men have bought out the entire house at 
Cohan's Grand for Nov. 2 for "Under Cover" 
ajd will sell the seats for a benefit to Frank 
Lothwell, formerly of the Grand Pacific Ho- 
tel, who Is seriously ill. v 

There was some talk of closing the Casino 
on the north side to put pictures back, but 
burlesque will be offered there for at least 
two weeks, and if the present growth in busi- 
ness keeps up the house will offer that sort 
of amusement all season. 

Harold Heaton Is now directing plays for 
the Chicago Dramatic Society. He will play 
the leading role in "The Builder of Bridges,' 
which is scheduled for production at Rosalie 
Hall, Oct. 30. This society Is offering plays 
in various parts of the city. 

Bmma Goldman, who has been connected 
with anarchistic events in the past, la con- 
ducting a series of lectures on "The Modern 
Drama," In the Fine Arts Assembly hall. She 
will continue the lecture sover a period of 
three weeks. 

William Schmltter, partner of Carlos Cae- 
saro, while performing a difficult trick at the 
Great Northern Hip. last week, was thrown 
from his apparatus and injured. He was 
rushed to a hospital, where it was discov- 
ered that he had suffered a fracture-dislo- 
cation of the right arm and an Injury to the 
Jaw. 



Face Imperfections Corrected 

DR. PRATT j 



1122 Broadway 

NEW YORK 
Call or Write. 



Cool weather gave business a nice boost 
along all theatrical lines last Saturday and 
Sunday. Legitimate, vaudeville and pictures 
all felt the results. The Perdue-Maroon foot- 
ball game on Saturday brought '2,600 people 
from LaFayette alone, and all these rushed 
into the "loop" theatres at night, overcrowd- 
ing them. 

Joe Hurtlg ban been In town supervising 
changes in Bomo of his shows. The Bowery 
Uurleaquers, which appeared at the Colum- 
bia this week, was replaced by the old show, 
"Madame, Excuse Me," and the only one.* In 
the cast retained were Fitzgerald and Qulnn. 
The cast of "The Transatlantics" was brought 
In for the new show, and the cast of the 
bowery Burlesquers went to 'The Moulin 
Kouge " company. 

Tuesday, Oct. 27, was set aside by mom- 
be rs of the Old Friends' Club of America as 
a special social session day. Refreshments 
were nerved and the Old Friends' Orchestra 
appeared. The following were chairmen oi 
committees : Reception, Harry J. Ridings ; 
press, Frederick Hatton ; amusement, C. S. 
Humphrey ; house, Henry Myers, James 
Browne and E. H. Wood. Ben M. Jerome 
directed the orchestra. 



Koee Muurer of tho Klnkuid Kilties Las 
been discharged from the American hospital, 
after an operation on her foot. Miss Ruby 
Norton, at the same Institution, 1b convales- 
cing. Mrs. Margaret Raymond, mother of the 
"Raymond Midgets," is recovering from an 
operation for appendicitis, and Miss Belmont 
of the Lewis and Dody show has been under 
treatment for ptomaine poisoning by Dr. Max 
rhorek. 



"While the City Sleeps," a new play by E. 
E. Rose, produced by Messrs. Rowland & 
Clifford. Is being offered at the Auditorium for 
the Policemen's Benevolent fund. The show 
opened Sunday night to an audience that com 
fortably filled the house. Among the players 
of prominence In the cast are: Frank Sheri- 
dan, Rodney Ranous, Walter F. Jones and 
Jessie Glendennlng. A large number of the 
loeal polios are used In the cast. The show 
Is In four acts and tells the story of good and 
bad pollcemea, and ban several love stories. 



A Strong REMOVAL 



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Our strongest act is making 
good if anything goes wrong. 

Though Naturally we're 
I mighty strong for having 
everything right in the first 
(place. 

We are tailors, not brokers 
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re-tailers of other people's. 

Suits $1&50 to $45 

| Overcoats $1&50 to $65 

Ready for service 



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far nasto by aalaf X. BASIN Denflatory 
row daw. Von oaa do It easOy and ejuokbr at 
home. Tboronfhly callable. WBIaot tajare 
the moet dattcate skin. Nearty 60 yeare of 
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Address ALSOM, care Wilss, 121 Washington 
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Professionals instructed in acquiring art anl 
grace in Stage Deportment and perfected in 
the movements and details of Pantomime, 
Classical, Ballet and Toe Dancing. 

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PARODIES 

FOUR SPECIAL PARODIES on any songs 
or subjects you name, $1.M. HAROLD HEC- 
TOR, at W. Stth St- New York. 

YOUNG MAN would like to JOIN 
PARTNER. 

Can do black face or straight. Formerly of 
well-known act. Just returned from Europe. 
Addreee Blackface, VARIE TY. New York. 

SEASIDE BUNGALOW COLONY 

Sella California style bungalow. $42S, conaieting 
of living room, two bedrooms, Idtchen and 
bathroom; cosy and homelike; roomy porch; 
shingled overhang roof, etc. Fully Improved 

C°£?' * 17 ? up / *** r "»nthly payments. Sandy 
ithlng beach, natural harbor for pleasure 
boats | famous Ashing grounds; superb marine 
view; seashore and country combined. Ad- 
dreee M. BACHE, gt Broadway, New York. 

Plana have been made to give a big benefit 
for Col. BUI Thompson, formerly manager of 
the American Music Hall, who Is sick and 
in destitute circumstances. Col. Thompson 1p 
now at the American Hospital, where Dr. Max 
Thorek performed a remarkable operation for 
cancer. The operation consisted In forming 
new lower lips and chin from flesh taken from 
other parts of the patient's body. The benefit 
will be given at the Cort theatre Nov. Vj 
and committees have been appointed to work 
up Interest and sell tickets for the occasion. 

Joseph K. Sullivan, 17 East Grand avenue, 
who advertised that he was the sole owner 
and proprietor of "Ole Olson and the Chicago 
Show Girls, was taken into custody by the 
federal authorities last week. Applicanta who 
came to ask for Jobs were advised that he 
wanted ticket sellers, and as he averred his 
former ticket seller had eloped with his lead- 
lag lady, he asked a deposit of $75. He was 
arrested on a charge of using the malls to de- 
fraud, and has been held over to the grand 
Jury. 



AMERICAN MUSIC HALL (John J. Gar- 
rlty, mgr.) — Helen Ware In "The Revolt" 
opened Sunday. 

..™SP IT .2 RI ^ M ( Dern *rd Ulrlch, mgr.).- 

B^ACK^rn^ ? 1 l eP8 '". ^r 1 Sunday.' 
BLACKSTONB (Augustus Pltou, mgr ) — 

Last week of Johnston Forbes-Robertson In 

repertoire. 

COHANS GRAND (Harry Ridings, mgr.)-- 

COLUMBIA (William Roche, mgr.).— The 
£i?t, Maids In "Busy Little Cupid." 

si2« » Jm J- " errmann . mgr.).— "A Pair of 
o'^e?. still making good after n run. 

Feathers/' (A ' J Kaufman - mgr.).— "Fine 
OARRICK (John J. Garrity, mgr.).— "Pee 
0' My Heart," getting good returns after a 
long run. 

An^ IN . 01 ^ (Wm J - DavlB ' m^r.). -Margaret 
Anglln in last week of "Lady Windermere's 

IMPERIAL (Joe Pilgrim, mgr.).— "Damaged 
Goods,' opened Sunday. B u 

LA SALLE (Joseph Bransky, mgr.) —"One 
Saw-. * M,I,Ion '" made over ln *° a better 

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VICTORIA (Howard Brolaski, mgr.).— "The 
Typhoon." 

GERMANIA (William Arena, mgr.). — "Der 
Obersteiger." 

GREAT NORTHERN HIP. (Fred Eberts, 
mgr.; agt., W. M. V. A.).— Bill not up to 
usual standard on day shift, although very 
good in spots. Nevlns and Erwood, black- 
face, cleaned up. The Musical Nosses, a showy 
act, had fifth spot, where they had the pleas- 
ure of getting the only encore of the show. 
Dippy Diers and Flo Bennett opened the show. 
They do comedy acrobatics, the woman feed- 



exploded his jokes to a fast diminishing house. 
By the time the Danube Quartet was ready to 
display its casting marvels, the house was 
pretty slim, but this did not prevent them 
from going through an astonishing routine. 
An unusual audience was present, and one 
difficult to please, but even at that the bill 
was successful. 

PALACE (Harry Singer, mgr.; agent, Or- 
pheum). — A simon-pure comedy bill, the equal 
of which is seen very seldom. Charles Weber 
did well. Charles F. Semon went over nicely 
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ing and the man closing with a standing fall 
from four tables. The act is all well enough 
with the exception of some cat imitations that 
do not belong In houses where children are 
patrons. The Le Brun Duo, on In second 
place, had a small and cold audience to work 
to and the result was not of much moment. 
Rice, Elmer and Tom, who do bounding and 
bar work, got applause during the run of 
their act They have some really clever stuff, 
work fast and have considerable comedy. 
Evans and Wilson afforded some fun with 
their odd bit of entertaining. The man wheels 
a perambulator on the stage, which later Is 
found to contain the woman partner in the 
sketch. Several songs and some bright chat- 
ter follow. The Jackson Family, a staple 
bike act, had closing spot, where it made 
good. The morning audience was of capacity 
proportions by the time the first intermission 
sign was flashed. 

MAJESTIC (Lyman B. Glover, mgr.; agent, 
Orpheum). — Program opened with the clatter 
of wooden shoes followed by the stump of a 
crutch, but before the final curtain fell there 
were tears and Sobs In the house, for even the 
blase Majestic audience was unable to with- 
stand the poignant acting of Ethel Barrymore 
in an antiquated but mightily effective playlet 
called "Drifted Apart" (New Acts). The 
clatter was made by Ernie and Ernie. The 
act combines singing, dancing and acrobatic 
work, the latter done by a man with one leg, 
who is agile, energetic and Indomitable. Gen- 
uine applause followed the efforts of the pair. 
The Krusadas (New Acts) offered violin 
music and songs In costume rather effectively. 
The Hess Sisters, in their own distinctive 
style entertained In "D" spot, singing a good 
line of songs. Kramer and Norton, who fol- 
lowed, came near disrupting proceedings. They 
offered a whole smear of jokes, dances and 
rapid fire chatter that awoke the house, and 
stirred the most dignified to laughter. Fol 



funny one-act comedy presented by Albert 
Perry and Co. Perry Is at ease and delight- 
fully natural throughout the act and Maude 
Hanford Is an Ideal partner. Mabel Berra 
created the first real big hit. A repertoire of 
exclusive songs fits her admirably. Santley 
and Norton, two boys at the North American 
cabaret here last season, split the honors. 
Trixle Frlgansa has much new and spicy ma- 
terial. The Avon Comedy Four had a hard 
spot and It required several minutes to clinch 
things, but they wound up with their usual 
number of encores and bows. Owing to the 
length of the bill, Zertho's Dogs of All Na- 
tions played to an almost empty house. Those 
who left missed a very entertaining novelty. 

LOEWS EMPRESS (Harry Mitchell, mgr.; 
Marcus Loew). — Neat bill, well put together, 
running smoothly. Joyce and West open with 
modern dances, offering one or two numbers 
out of the beaten track. Bush and Shapiro 
followed and went over big at the last show 
Monday night. El Cleve, a xylophone player, 
who affects the Scottish attire, has a way of 
his own with his Instrument and Is sure of 
winning any audience. He registered soundly. 
"When It Strikes Home" Is a sketch of the 
police and the newspapers well played. Fol- 
lowing this little sordid picture of life the 
dainty Melnotte Twins trip on for their songs. 
They have an excellent routine and make a 
big nit. The act left a decidedly fine impres- 
sion. The Six Olivers, sturdy, well-muscled 
young men, have an interesting program of 
acrobatic feats, interspersed with good comedy, 
which Is away from the usual line. Act Is 
neat and goes swiftly. 

McVICKER'S (J. C. Burch, mgr; Marcus 
Loew). — Show on night shift headlined by Bob 
Fltzsimmons and Son (New Acts). Paul and 
Azella, shadowgraphists, open with neat act. 
Asakl, a Jap skater, who has a bag full of 
good tricks, In second spot, where he got by 
easily. Ronalr and Ward, who sing and talk, 
do so quietly and are polite and well behaved. 



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six girls. Mile. Vadle was soloslt. The dan- 
cers were dressed In excellent taste, the music 
was directed In a masterly manner by Hans. 8. 
Llnne, and the effect of the number was like 
that of a pastel painting. This act made an 
Instantaneous hit. Raymond and Caverley 
were on next to many laughs. Following the 
Barrymore sketch Billy McDermott was called 
upon to wipe away the tears, but he found 
it a difficult task. A good many of the people 
present on Monday afternoon had come there 
for the express purpose of seeing Miss Barry- 
more, and when that had been accomplished, 
they were ready to go, so the tramp comedian 



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Linder does some good protean work, running 
the gamut from an old-fashioned newspaper 
man to a distorted criminal, and from a news- 
boy to a pawnbroker. Baron Rlchter, who 
plays the piano and sings variously, was the 
hit of the hill. The Great Richards, female 
impersonator, has a good wardrobe and dances 
well 

ACADEMY (William Slattery. mgr.; W. M. 
V. A.). — Holden and Herron, talking and sing- 
ing act, hit of the hill. Max Holden, shadow- 
graphlst, with original Ideas, opened. His 
act Is out of the beaten rut and one of the best 
of Its kind. Earl and Edwards have a good 
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audience right between the eye*, and Tommy 
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ORPHEUM.— Joseph Jefferson, Blanche Ben- 
der and Co. in "Poor Old Jim," laughing re- 
sults. Theodore Bendlx and Symphony Play- 
ers, well applauded. Eunice Burnham and 
Charles Irwin, passed nicely. Three Beautiful 
Types held audience in for the closing. Claude 
Golden, dexterous. Ida Devinoff, opening, 
passed. Frank North (holdover) and Co., pre- 



sented a new act, "The Unwelcome Visitor," 
and the playlet was well received*; The Victor 
Moore-Emma Llttlefleld Co., also repeated suc- 
cessfully. 

EMPRESS.— Kitty Francis and Girls, went 
big. Long Tack Sam's Shangtun Mystery, re- 
viewed next week under New Acts. Jessie 
Morris and Jack Beasley, pleased. J. Alfred 
and John F. Wilson, funny. Calts Bros., well 
liked. Montrode and Sardell, splendid In open- 
ing spot 

PANTAGTSS. — An orange packing contest, 
interesting and educational. In the closing 
position Webber's Juvenile Musicians gave 
satisfaction. William Shilling and Co. in 
"Destiny," moderately received. Silvers Oak- 
ley, got applause. Sllber and North, enjoy- 
able. Lyons and Cullom, good openers. Ex- 
position Jubilee Four, passed. 

CORT (Homer F. Curran, mgr.).— "The 
Whip" (first week). 

COLUMBIA (Oottlob, Marx & Co., nigra.).— 
George Arllss In "Disraeli" (second week). 

GAIETY (Tom O'Day, mgr.).— Kolb and 
Dill in "The Rollicking Girl" (third week). 

ALCAZAR (Belasco A- Mayers, nigra.). — 
Stock. 



WIGWAM (Jos. Bauer, mgr.).— Monte Car- 
ter Co. and vaudeville. 

PRINCESS (Bert Levey, lessee and mgr.; 
agent Levey). — Vaudeville. 

REPUBLIC (Ward Morris, mgr. ; agent, W. 
S. V. A. ) .—Vaudeville. 



Assistant Treasurer Frank Hill 
Gaiety has resigned this week. 



of the 



While convalescing at the hospital, Max Dill 
listened to "The Rollicking Girl" show at the 
Gaiety over the telephone. 

Alice Fleming closed her season as leading 
woman at the Alcazar last week, and imme- 
diately left for Denver, where she will ap- 
pear in stock. 



The Masqueria Sisters open at the Odeon 
Cafe next week. 



A report reached here to the effect that 
Effle Fay la seriously HI in far-off India. No 
particulars can be learned. 

William Ely, manager of the Opera House 
In Bakersfleld, spent a couple of days here 
on his way to one of the spring resorts. 

Gerald E. Griffin, who was with the Dillon 
and King Musical Stock In Oakland, has con- 
tracted to appear In vaudeville, doing a single. 



Out of the many candidates aspiring to rule 
the Industrial Fair, now In full sway at the 
Coliseum, Dolly Burton, at present cabaretlng 
at the Odeon Cafe, was chosen Queen. 



The Webb Players, a dramatic company 
which recently closed Its season in Sacra- 
mento, Is being reorganized prior to opening' 
in Eureka (Cal.) for an Indefinite season. 



After a brief tour of the interior, the Ed. 
Gage musical comedy company closed at 
Sonoma last week. 



The Lester S. George Musical Comedy 
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prior to going on tour by playing one of 
the local small houses. 



Bothwell Browne, who retired from the 



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FEATURING THE BEAR BAND AND TANGO DANCING BEARS Direction, S. BAERWITZ. 




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Jack London has been commissioned by the 
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ORIGINAL SOUTH AMERICAN DANCERS. The International Characteristic Transforma- 
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at Buenos Ayres, where we won 
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Under the Direction of ANTONIO BAGAROZY, 219 W. 48th St., New York City 



noticed at Shea's also, all matinee seats sell- 
ing for 25 cents, except Saturday. 



"The Prince of Pilsen," 'Potash * Perlmut- 
ter," ."The LltUe Cafe,'' "The Misleading 
Lady" "The Yellow Ticket," Julian Eltlnge 
in his new play, "The Crinoline Girl," and 
"Seven Keys to Baldpate," are among the com- 
ing attractions booked at the Star. 

"Bought and Paid For," "One Day," "The 
Rosary," "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," 
"September Morn." "Flske O'Hara." "Little 
!<ost Sister" are coming attractions for the 
Majestic. 



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John Philip Sousa and his band will render 
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■y HARRY V. MARTIN. 

KEITH'S (John Royal, mgr, ; agt.. U. H. <>. ). 
Lauder talking pictures, well liked ; Sura 
Barton, laughs ; Byal and Early, tip-top greet- 
ing^ Bryand'a Cheerborts, very good ; Cardo 
and Noll, sky-high hand ; Bessie and Harriet 
Rempel and Co., good ; Kddte Ross, good : 
Rolfe a "Colonial Day," excellent ; Hoey and 
Lee. fair: "Tango Chief." the same. 

EMPRESS (George A. Povyer. mgr. : agt., 
Loew). — Praise; Moore and Elliott: Bell Boy 
Trio: Richmond and Mann; Trovello ; Ciasch 
Sisters. 

QRAND (John Havlin and Then. Aylwanl. 
mgrs.). — "The Queen of the Movies;"" 1, 
Margaret Anglin. 

LYRIC (C. Hubert Heuek. mgr). "Kitty 
Mackay ;" 1. San Carlo Cmnd Opera Co. 

WALNUT (Ben Probst, mgr.; agt.. S.-H.l. 
"Maggie Pepper:" I, "Girl of My Dreams." 

OAYETY (Willis F. Jackson, mgr.). -V Hose- 
land Girls." 

STANDARD (Charles It Arnold, nmr.i. 
•City Belles." 

LYCEUM. Stoek. 

OLYMPIC. Dark. 

GERMAN (AmundUH Horn ingr. ; ^tot k > 

Die Thuer Ins Frele" (Th<> Door to Fr 

dom>. Sunday night only. 

HEL'CKS. Pictures and v;iud. v.ll.- 



The roller skutlng rink opens «.ct. .".1. ;ijnl 
dancing Is planned for Liter In the siuson. 
E. B. Moour, manager. 

(ieorge Schatzman. proprietor of a moving 
picture theatre In Bcllevue, Ky.. was arrested 
on a charge of manslaughter, after his auto- 
mobile had killed a little girl. Witnesses say 
the accident whs unavoidable and the machine 
was going slowly. 

CLEVELAND. 

RY CI-VDF3 B. Rl-MOTT. 

COLONIAL (Robert McLaughlin, mgr.).— 
"High Jinks," which opened here last sea- 
son. Is back. Better show and better busl- 
nett*. 




OPERA HOUSE (George Gardiner, mgr.).— 
John Drew in "The Prodigal Husband;" busi- 
ness poor. 

HIPPODROME (Harry Daniels, mgr.).--The 
bill is good only In ono spot— Gas Edwards' 
song act. Pantzer Duo, little applause: Ce- 
celia Wright, audience cold ; Walter Le Roy 
and Co., thin sketch ; Harry Breen. get 
loughs ; Coradlnl's Animals, some merit ; Can- 
ter and Lee, weak. 

MILES (Charles Dempsey, mgr). — Just fair 
bill. Jas. J. Morton, laughs; Edward Clark 
and Clarissa Rose, good ; Frank Stafford and 
Co., industrious act : Stuart Black and Co., 
could be Improved; Ogden Quartet, fair; Mile 
Camllle and her poodles, good for children. 

PRISCILLA (Proctor Seas, mgr.).— Another 
fair bill. "School Days," headllner. enter- 
taining ; "Theo," some applause ; Four Musi- 
cal Luclers, encores ; Minstrel Billy Clark, 
not strong ; Gardner and Tunis, goes well ; 
Sauls and Rockwell, pretentious. 

GORDON SQUARE.— Fair bill. Hernando's 
Circus, good headllner; Norrlne Sisters, ap- 
plause ; Guy M. Crane, funny ; Hazev and 
Lovel, applause. 

PROSPECT.— "Little Lost Sister." Good 
business. 

METROPOLITAN (Fred Johnson, mgr.).— 
Metropolitan players In "Sham/' Packed 
houses. 

CLEVELAND (Harry Zuzker, mgr.).— "Un- 
cle Tom's Cabin." Good business. 

GRAND.— Grand Stock Company in "The 
Fatal Wedding." Good business. 

STAR (C. J. Kltts, mgr.).— "The Rosey 
Posey Girls." Good burlesque. 

EMPIRE (Bert McPhall. mgr.).— "Gay 
Morning Glories." Drawing crowds. 

DUCHESS (Al Comey, mgr.).- -Pictures. 
Big business. 



Helen Carew, leading woman with the Hold- 
en Players nt the Cleveland, will retire at the 
close of the week, and will be succeeded by 
Margaret Neville, who last season was the 
leading woman. Frank Dne will become a 
member of (he company. Arling Alelne will 
continue as leading man. 



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DETROIT. 

Ily JACOB SMITH. 

TEMPLE (C. G. Williams, mgr.; U. B. O.). 
-Allen Dlnehart ft Co., excellent ; Bert Fltz 
gibbon, big ; Julia Curtis, good ; "The Lone- 
some Lassies," satisfied ; Manny ft Roberts, 
good ; Pederson Bros., excellent ; Charles 
Thompson, fair. 

MILES (C. W. Porter, mgr.; Loew, agent). 
— Juggling De Lisle, opened ; Cora Greve, fair • 
Tom Mahoney, Irish humor ; Davis' Klncala 
Kilties, big ; Sherman, Van ft Hyman, very 
good ; Ergottl and Lilliputians, good. 

ORPHEUM (H. P. Williamson, Mgr.; Pan- 
tages, agent). — Desmond Gallagher Players In 
good sketch ; Schaefer A Waller, hit ; Colum- 
bine ft Four Harlequins, novel ; Novelty 



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Hardts. good : Payne ft Neebltt, pleased ; Peart 
ft Roth, very good; Five Yoacarrya, good 
balancer*. ..--»% 

FAMILY (J. H. McCarron, mgr.; U. B. O.). 
—Luce ft Luce, good ; Volght ft Volght, good ; 
Harry Bauber, very good ; Jane Heston ft Co., 
pleased ; The Touheys, good ; Nash ft Brant, 
excellent; Bright ft Merry, fair; Al Raymo ft 
Co., many laughta. 

COLUMBIA (M. W. Schoenherr, mgr.; Sun 
agent).— Zenlda, good; Springer ft Church, 
laughs; Melvln ft Gates, good; The Minstrel 
Kiddles, good ; Smith ft Edwards, fair ; Rlehl 
Opera Co., excellent; Cane ft Alma, good; 
Flavlo Bros., very good. 

NATIONAL (C. R. Hagedorn. mgr. ; Doyle, 
ag en t)_ "Ship Ahoy." musical tabloid, second 
week : Ryan Bros., Bert Davles, Maye ft Ad- 
dis, Church City Four, Paul Banwens, Barnett 
ft Moverlck ft Co. 

PALACE (C. A. Hoffman, mgr.; Ind.). — 
De Oourney ft Christy, Johnnie Bell, Oordon 
ft Norton, Three Saxons, Jessica Duo, La- 
Belle Clark ft Grand Duke, Skipper, Anita ft 
Skipper, Three Belaguera, Aubrey Yatee, Rlsal 
6 Atlma, Lucille Dexter. McGreevey ft Devere. 

GARRICK (Richard H. Lawrence, mgr.).— 
•The Midnight Girl," comedy. Next, "High 
Jinks." 

DETROIT (Harry Parent, mgr.).— "The Lit- 
tle Cafe." Next, Maude Adams. 

LYCEUM (A. R. Warner, mgr.).— "The 
Blindness of Virtue." Next, "Mutt and Jeff 
In Mexico." 

BROADWAY (Bert St. John, mgr.).— 
"Whose Baby Are You?" Next. "James Boys 
In Missouri." From now on this house will 
play the real old-fashioned melodrama. 

AVENUE (Frank Drew, mgr.).— "The Perils 
of Pauline." Next, "The Factory Girl." 

OAYETY (James Rhodes, max ) .— ''Carna- 
tlon Girls." Next, "Million Dollar Dolls." 

CADILLAC (Sam Levey, mgr.).— "Follies 
of Pleasure." next, "French Models." 

Minerva Coverdale joined the Sam Bernard 
show. "The Belle of Bond Street," last week 
at the Garrlck. 



Carl Allor has been appointed assistant 
manager of the Columbia. 

T. D. Moule of the Liberty will manage the 
new Alhambra which opens the first week In 
November. The Alhambra will play pictures; 
house seats 1,600. 

KANSAS CITY. 

By RUSSELL. M. CHOUSE. 

ORPHEUM (Martin Lehman, mgr.).— Na- 
talie ft Ferrari, headline ; Will Rogers, promi- 
nent hit ; Josephine Dunfce, attracts ; Trans- 
Atlantic Trio, went over solidly ; Romeo the 
Great, clever monk ; McRae ft Clegg, bicycle 
riders ; Rose Valerlo Sextette, wire walker*. 

EMPRESS (Cy. Jacobs, mgr.).— Marry Liv- 
ingston, very big; Stewart ft Hall, did well; 
Valdo A Co., mysterious ; Yvonne, hit ; Jones 
ft Johnson, clever pair; Five Juggling Nor- 
mans, fine ; Buch Bros., good. 

HIPPODROME (Ben Starr, mgr.). — Collins 
IVArt Girls, tab; Five Novelty Minstrels, big; 
Hutchinson ft Hoyt, laughs; Fitzgerald ft 
Ashton, excellent ; Les Monforts, good ; Rod- 
way A Murray, pleased ; Kennedy ft Mack, ap- 
plause ; Scott A Wallace, fine ; Clalrmont Bros., 
good. 

GLOBE (W. V. Newklrk, mgr.).— Abel A 
Emmons, Bolld hit; Mr. A Mrs. Robyns, strong 
sketch ; Nona Thompson, goes big ; Hayashl 
Japs, strong ; Lee Chandlel Co., pleased ; Carl's 
Dogs, good animal act 

SAM 8. SHUBERT (Earl Steward, mgr.).— 
Raymond Hitchcock in "The Beauty Shop." 
2d half. "Hanky Panky." 

GRAND (A. Judah, mgr.).— "The Little- 
Shepherd of Bargain Row." Good houses. 

AUDITORIUM (Miss Meta Miller, mgr.).— 
Stock. 

OAYETY (Matt Smith, mgr.).— Ben Welch's 
Show. 

CENTURY (Joe Donegan, mgr.).— "The 
Tango Girls." 



LOS ANGELES 

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ORPHEUM (Clarence Drown, mgr.; U. B. 
O.). — Alexander ft Scott, well received; Hans 
Kronold, good ; Harry Tsuda, clever ; Ameri- 
can Dancers, artistic ; Hermlne Shone A Co., 
fair ; Wm. Egderette, pleasing ; The Beauties, 
good. 

EMPRESS (George Fish, mgr. ; Locw).— Eva 
Prout, good ; Fancy Fantoms, entertaining ; 
Senator Francis Murphy, laugh ; Lapo ft Ben- 
jamin, clever ; Irwin A Hcrzog, fair ; Mr. and 
Mrs. Elwyn. pleasing. 

PANTAOES (Carl Walker, mgr.; Pant- 
ages). — Eddie Love and Jeannette Wilbur, 
"lever ; Bennett ft Adams, entertaining ; 
"The Village Priest." mediocre ; Coogan A 
Cox. well received ; Louis J. Winch A Jose- 
phine Poo re, good. 

HIPPODROME (Lester Fountain, mgr.; 
Western 8tates). — Charlie Rellly A Co., good; 
Bond Morse, mediocre ; Marguerite A Co., 
pleasing; Becorrllls, fair; Seals, pleasing. 



I to? WEEKS 

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PETE MACK 



of Vaudeville 



AETlflrrS DESIRING New Yerh or Chicago 

PALACE THEATRE BUILDING 

(United Booking Offices) 

NEW YORK CITY 

REPUBLIC (Al. Watson, mgr.; Levey). — 
Joe Lee, mediocre ; Roselle, good ; De Costa 
Duo, fair; Deane, Dove A Beane, entertain- 
ing ; Ford A Cody, pleasing ; "America," mov- 
ing picture spectacle, big hit 

CENTURY (A. and M. Loewen, mgra.). — 
Musical burlesque and vaudeville. 

MASON.— Dark. 

MAJESTIC— "Pair of Sixes." 

BURBANK— "Fine Feathers" (with Forreat 
Stanley). 

MOROSCO.— "Lets Get Married" (last 
week ) . 

TRINITY AUDITORIUM.— OlWe Fremstad 
In concert. 



A big reception was given to Bill Desmond, 
Dave Hartford, John Buron and William Mor- 
ris, local favorites, upon their return In "The 
Bird of Paradise." 



Morosco will do "It Pays to Advertise" 
here. 



Isabelle Lowe, now starring In "The Trail 
of the Lonesome Pine," may be under Morosco 
management next season. The manager and 
the actress had a conference here last week. 
Nothing definite was announced. 



Glenn Anders, local boy, broke Into vaude- 
ville at the Orpbeum, In support of Hermlne 
Shone. 



Al Watson Is back as manager of the Re- 
public. 



"The Rose Maid" and "Louisiana Lou" will 
be done shortly at the Morosco. 



Ursulu March has quit the "Let's Get Mar- 
ried" cast. 



Grace Edmonds, who came here to play In 
"The Red Widow," Is ill. 

Manager O'Day of the Gaiety decided at the 
last minute to cancel the one-night stand 
bookings for "Let's Get Married." and It will 
open In San Francisco on Nov. 2. 



Fred Folletto of New York Is manager of 
the Empress, vice George F. Fish, who re- 
turns East. 



Ben Deeley. well-known actor, sustained a 
broken noBe when he mixed In a family dis- 
pute at Long Beach. 



M. Meyerfelt was here for three days last 
week conferring with local Orpheum manager, 
Clarence Drown. 



MILWAUKEE. 

By P. O. MORGAN. 

MAJESTIC (James A. Hlgler. mgr. ; agt., 
Orph.). — Llna Abarbanell. fine; Mr. and Mrs. 
Jimmy Barry, comedy honors ; George Hib- 
bard and Llla Luclle (New Acts), immense: 
"Woman Proposes." enviable ; Tate's "Motor- 
ing." good ; Elsa Ruegger. pleased ; Nelusko 
and Herley. entertaining; Mr. and Mrs. 
Dourln* Crane, fair. 

CRYSTAL (William Gray. mgr. : agt.. 
Loew). — "One Good Turn," registered heavily: 
Edwin Ford and Co., excellent: Claude and 
Merlon Clevclsnd. fine; Delmoro and Light, 
entertaining : Landry Bros., please. 

ORPHEUM (Tom Saxe, temp. na«r. : agt., 
Loew). — Phil LaTo«ca. good ; Oarnlcettl Tiros., 
comedy honors ; Four Shannons, excellent : 
Kaufman and Lillian, fair; Godfrey and 
Woodruff, please. 

DAVIDSON (Sherman Brown, mgr.: agt.. 
Tnd.).— "Joseph and His Prethren." to big 
business. May Robson and "Adele" split fol- 
lowing week. 

SHUBERT (C. A. Nlggomeycr. mgr). Shu- 
bert Stock company In "The Only Son" to 
continued fine houses. "Stop Thief." next. 

GAYETY (J. W. Whitehead, mgr.: agt.. 
East.). — Leo Stevens and "Girls from ILappy- 
land." Good business. 

CLUB (Rod Waggoner, mgr. ; agt.. Prog). - 
Rlchy W. Craig and Merry Burlesqucrs com- 
pany. Fair business. 



T. H. Ealand, who has been managing the 
Orpheum. the continuous vaudeville house of 
the Saxe people, has left them to go Into 
booking In Chicago. He already has throe 





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CHICAGO Salt* 9 1M North La Salle St. JENNY WEBSTER, Prop. 

AJUIatod with EDWARD J. FISHER, INC, Seattlef BERT LEVY CIRCUIT, Sea Fraaclaco 

GEORGE H. WEBSTER, General M anager 

LTD., 

AUSTRALIA 
Capital tlJUm 



Harry Rickard's Tivoli Theatres 

And AFFILIATED CIRCUITS. INDIA and AFRICA 
Combined Capital, !MM,aaf 

HUGH McINTOSH, Governing Director 



Registered Cable Addreaat "HUGHMAC," Sydney 
id offleet TIVOLI THEATRE. SYDNEY— AUSTRALIA 
NEW YORK OFFICES, III Strand Theatre Bldg. 



FULLER-BRENNAN Vaofcrille Cirail 

(AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND) 
BEN J. FULLER, Gorernint; Director 



All cerreaooadeaee to National Amphitheatre, Sydney. American Booking Omoe Tern* 
porarily Cloned, owing to War Condltioae. 



jpnw mm. #*/ of allperformers going to Europe make their steamship arrangements through 
UC *%) us. The following have: 

ekdr^mW ' Cook and Mii " Rothbert, Juan Caicedo, Anna Chandler, Laddie Cliff, Carter 

and Bluford. Dave Carter, Chinko. Bert Coote and Co., Clarkonians, Colonial 
Septet, Jean Clermont, Cornelia and Eddy, Five Clittons, Eddie Clark, Curxon Sisters. 

PAUL TAUS1G A SON, IN E. 14th Si, New York CItr 
Gorman Savmge Beak Bldg. Telephoao Stnyvaaaat 13W 

AMALGAMATED Vaudeville Agency 

B. S. MOSS, Preeldeat and General Manager 
XING MOSS A BRILL CIRCUIT PRUDENTIAL CIRCUIT 



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Phones: 80S, 809 Bryant. 



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Good acta wasting Woatera RepraoantafJaa 
Write ua. Booking everywhere. 
Coaeumere Bsdldmg, Chicago, I1L 



taba of his own on the road, and expects to 
lncreaae the number to ten. Manager Brad- 
dock of the Theatorlum has been eent up to 
Mlnneapolla to handle the new Saxe theatre. 



After this and next week'a Progressive showa 
at the Club there will be three weeks of stock 
burlesque before the Barton shows come In. 

The Little theatre haa secured the second 
floor of the Goldsmith building as a perma- 
nent home. Seating capacity will be 1(5. 

MINNEAPOLIS. 

By O. W. MILES. 

ORPHEUM (O. A. Raymond, mgr.).— 
Bertha Relish In "Mariana," magnificently 
played and well received ; Bvorett'a Monkey 
Circus, excellent ; Burns A Fulton, good ; Duffy 
A Lorense, hit of the bill ; Prince Lai Mon 
Kim, good tenor ; Vlollnsky. good ; Ward, Bell 
ft Ward, acrobats, good opener. 

UNIQUE (Jack Elliott, mgr.; Loew).— Llda 
McMillan, In "The Saleslady." headllner ; 
Three Dolce Sisters, Bcsse's Cockatoos, Ed- 
wards Brothers, Dunbars, animal funology, 
Three Loretta, comedy musicians. 

NEW GRAND (Wm. H. Koch, mgr.; W. V. 
A.). — Rapoll A Co.. heavyweight Juggling; Pal- 
ace Quartet, Harrison Wost Trio, Eckhoff A 
Gordon. 

NEW PALACE (Roy C. Jones, mgr.; W. V 
A.). — Seven nraekR. Four Seasons, Danny 
Slmmono, Field, Wlnehall ft Greon, Dennis 
Brothers. 

METROPOLITAN (R. N. Scott, mgr.). 
Charlotte Walker In "The Better Way." 
Eugene Walter's latest play. Beautifully staged 
and well acted. Byron Beanley, a former stock 
favorite here with Dick Ferris. Is Miss Walk- 
er's leading man 

SHUBERT (Wright Huntington, mgr.).— 
Huntington Players In "nought and Paid For." 
Excellent performance. "Baby Mlno" follows. 

BA1NBRIDOE (A. O. Ralnbrldge. mgr). 
Balnbrldge Players In "A Feol There Wan." 
Henry Hall and Florence Ctone have leading 
roles. Good Bupport from Karl Rltter, Ix>ulse 
Farnum, Roy Lovd, Leslie King and the otherp. 

OAYETY (William Koenlg, mgr.).— Phil Ott 
In "The Honeymoon Girls." with Alice Lazur. 

Saxe, Lyric, Miles, Crystal. Isls, Princess. 
Seville — pictures. 



Earl Lee, Louise Gerard and Dancan Pen- 
warden were loaned from the Wright Hunting- 
ton company In St Paul to appear In "Bought 
and Paid For" at the Shubert In Mlnneapolla. 

A temperamental outburst during the allow- 
ing of "The Better Way" In St. Paul lead to 
the replacing of Virginia Pearson by Gertrude 
Dallas as the siren. However, Miss Dallas 
played only a few performancea and departed, 
after which Miss Pearson returned to the east, 
the trouble apparently having been adjusted. 
In advance announcements for Minneapolis 
George Bancroft's name was subetltuted for 
Byron Beasley as leading man, but Beanley, 
nevertheless, played the role here. Bancroft 
was Miss Walker's leading man In "The Trail 
of the Lonesome Pine." 



NEW ORLEANS. 

By O. M. SAMUEL. 

TULANE (T. C. Campbell, mgr.).— "The 
Midnight Girl." 

CRESCENT (T. C. Campbell, mgr.).— "Too 
Many Cooks." 

BUNTINO (E. A. Schiller, mgr.).— Emma 
Bunting In "Pretty Peggy." 

LYRIC (C. D. Peruchl, mgr.). Porucbl- 
Oypzene Players In "How Baxter Butted In." 

ALAMO (Will Gueringer, nigr.).- --Vaude- 
ville. 



Falrmun and Ferman art; at the Alamo. 



Raymond Whlttaker has loft the Emma 
Hunting Stock. 

If. V. Hreunan and Frank Davis arc going 
to open Hhortly the largest picture theotrp In 
the south. Beating over l».0f)O. 'Twill be called 
the "Magic." To add variety, vaudeville acts 
will be Inserted between the reels. 



"Today" comes to the Tulanc next week. 



Victor Meyer Is the Bunting's treasurer. 



Roy Loyd, who was In the Metropolitan's box 
office for four years, and who since has been 
on the stage. h;\n returned to the city and Is 
playing In stock at the Bnlnhrldge. 



Stock burlesque In scheduled for the Dau- 
phlne. cnmrmmclng Nov. 8. Rids will be re- 
eelved up to that date for furnishing the fol- 
lowing supplier: Four bales of stage money: 
HfvcBtet'n crutches (to be used In Dr. Dippy"); 
nine bladders (for "The Terrible Judge"); 
nlnety-thrVc rubber balls (far climax In "Bat- 
tlo of Cow's Run") ; thirty slapsticks, twelve 
Mow-guns (school room burletta) ; ten dozen 
menu cards, seventy loaves of bread (table 
"cene«0 ; four rtoiiMi bandanas, thirteen whips 



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