Variety 1917-10-26: Vol 48 Iss 9

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@ = Cs ve h- od ve —— ono I mmausinns VOL. XLVIII, No. 9 — = Te mane CAMP DEVENS’ (MASS.) STADIU GIVING ITS OWN VAUDEVILLE Entertainment for Soldiers Within Encampment Commenc- ing Next Monday. Vaudeville on Split Week Basis. One Show Nightly, Over by 9.10. Stadium Seats 3,000. 39,000 Soldiers at Camp. Net Pro- ceeds for Mess Funds. Ayer, Mass., Oct. 24. What is probably the first regularly booked and played theatrical entertain- ment, within the cantonment and under official auspices, will commence at Camp Devens, near here, next Monday. The show will be a vaudeville pro- gram, presented in the stadium erected by the soldiers. It is to be a split week bill, with five acts in each half. A few picture reels will fill in. The booking of the vaudeville is to come from the United Booking Offices, New York, and supervised in that agency by Harvey Watkins, who also books the Keith big time shows at Lowell and Portland. Major Barlowe will have charge of the camp’s theatre. The Stadium seats 3,000. At the camp are 39,000 soldiers. One perform- ance nightly, excepting Sunday, with a matinee Saturday are to be given. The night show must conclude by 9.10, owing to taps being sounded at 9.30. An admission is to be charged. It is understood the net proceeds after deducting all expenses including the salaries of the artists, will be devoted to the Mess Fund or funds of the can- tonment. Clifton D. Anthony has composed a marching song, “The Whole World Is Callirg You.” Capt. Hussey, of the 301st Engineers, has ordered the march pened Mr. Anthony is at the Camp. e was formerly musical director at Fay’s theatre, Providence. GARDEN’S $5 FLOP A SIGN. The failure of the Winter Garden to sell out its seats at $5 for the opening night of “Doing Our Bit” struck some Broadway folk as a possible sign of a close money market, individually. Others stated their opinion that the public didn’t believe a Winter Garden show was worth $5 at any time. Whatever the reason, the fact re- mained there were plenty of seats left last Thursday afternoon, for the open- ing that night. Shortly before cur- tain time a panic seemed to strike the Garden’s box office. The $5 seats were retailed at $2 and $2.50 each. Even af- ter the bargain sale rush stopped, there were several gaps in the rear of the orchestra, while one side of the bal- cony boxes looked deserted. 3,000-SEAT HOUSE ON 48TH ST? Preliminary plans are being drawn for the proposed erection of a theatre on 48th Street, with an entrance on Broadway, to seat about 3,000. A 12- story office building is designed to top the 35-foot entrance on Broadway. The plot of ground is 100 by 220 feet. If the deal goes through the purchase price will be in the neighborhood of $1,500,000. The syndicate negotiating for the property is closely allied with one of the vaudeville circuits, and there were indications this week the deal would be consummated. REBATE TICKETS UP TOWN. The increase in prices put in vogue in the Fox and Moss theatres in New York does not seem to be working out to the best advantage in the upper section of the city. Ac Fox’s Audubon and Moss’ Hamil- ton it has been found necessary to is- sue ten-cent rebate tickets to patrons who make application for them by mail, which reduces the 35-cent orchestra seats to the former price. “SICK ABED” K. & E.’s THIRD. Los Angeles, Oct. 24. Klaw & Erlanger are playing “Sick Abed” as the third production on their western stock circuit. It opened at Bakersfield Monday with Beatrice Nicholas in the leading role. The piece is a revised version of “Good Night Nurse,” which was pro- nounced a failure when produced some time ago outside New York. GREENROOW’S 21-STAR FLAG. A flag with 21 stars decorates the clubhouse of the Greenroom Club, tell- ing its. story of 21- members having joined the colors. The Greenroom Club will hold its first smoker shortly, in honor of the Metro film people. cn er weet RINGLING BROS.’ RAILROAD. Dayton, O., Oct. 24. According to Herbert Shaffer, who represents the Ringling Bros., the Delphose Division of the Baltimore and Ohie R. R.' has been purchased by the brothers at a cost of $275,000. The road extends from Dayton to Delphose, O. The Ringling-Brothers may be delv- ing into pictures sooner or later. One indication is the building of winter quarters at Oak Ridge, N. J., where the R. T. Richards Show will remain until next circus season opens. Charles Ringling has been in New York for the past week, giving his personal atten- tion to the building of the new quar- ters which wil! be enclosed in glass and so laid out that picture cameras can click without causing any incon- venience to the stock or wild animals. SEATTLE $7,500 WEEKLY. Seattle, Oct. 24. It is estimated the theatres of this city will turn over to the Government at the rate of $7,500 weekly under the War tax. The Wilkes has added five cents to the cost of its admission tickets. The Palace, Hip, Moore, Metropolitan, Clemmer, Strand, Rex, Mission and Lit- tie theatres have added 10 per cent. The Orpheum’s scale remains the same, with no announcement yet of any increase when the tax takes effect on Nov. 1 Five-cent picture houses are running admissions to 10 cents. The Liberty and Coliseum have also added 5 cents to the present scale. BARRYMORE AT $3,500. There is a strong probability Edison will engage John Barrymore as a pic- ture star for two years. The actor is asking $3,500 a week. Not so long ago Barrymore was willing to sign for $2,500, with no bidders, but with his big success in “Peter Ibbetson” he has raised the ante, with a likelihood Edison will meet the figure. Chicago Bank Offers to Build. Chicago, Oct. 24. The Hibernian Bank of Chicago has offered to build a vaudeville theatre for Alexander Pantages on Washing- ton street, which will occupy the same relative position on that street as Mc- Vicker’s has on Madison street, one block south. The only thing appearing to stand in the way ofan unmediate. deal is. that Pantages is extremely anxious to se- cure the American Express Company property opposite the Majestic on Monroe street, Se ee NEW YORK CITY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1917 seeiiiinnianatetneteepasement a ee rere PRICE TEN CENTS = nn ec RR “EVERYWOMAN” SEQUEL. Henry W. Savage has a sequel to “Everywoman” which may be named either “Every Girl” or “Any Girl.” The piece calls for a company of 65, all principals. At present the company that is on tour presenting “Everywoman” has the play in rehearsal. The production is being built and will be shipped to Boston, where “Everywoman” is to start a run November 5. The plan is to present four special perfurmances of the new play there as matinee attractions, starting November 6. Several principals are being engaged in New York and will be added to the show for the try-out. q GLOBE’S $23,000 RECORD. For the first full week of the new Fred Stone show “Jack o’ Lantern,” opening at the Globe last Thursday, the box office statements will show a gross around $23,000. This is a record for the theatre. It is also a record for any theatre in this country with the same seating capacity as the Globe has. The house under the $3 scale in vogue there for the six night performances of the week’s schedules at $2,987, the Saturday matinee at $2.50 scale is about 250 less and the Wednesday matinees at $2 top about $600 below the night figures. The house is getting $1 for the gallery and pulling business at all sections of the theatre. HALLOWE’EN EVENTS. The Harlem Opera House will stage a number of unique features during Hallowe’en week, among them contests in apple ducking, pie eating and a masked barn dance night. Prizes will be given nightly to the contest win- ners. Instead of the regular country store night with a variety of prizes, the prizes awarded will be quantities of sugar, pumpkins, etc. TWO MORE FOR A. & H. San Francisco, Oct. 24. Ackerman & Harris will have two new theatres to add to their fast growing Hippodrome Circuit. Sites have been secured in Vancouver and Seattle. = According to Sam Harris, building operations will commence immediately. LITTLE THEATRE ADDS BALCONY. A balcony is to be built in the Little theatre, the addition for some reason being an under cover matter. It may explain why Winthrop Ames sent “Sat- urday to Monday” into the Bijou in- stead of his own house. Linless there are sever..l rows re- moved from the floor of the theatre, the additional seat in the new balcony takes the Little out of the 299 seat class of theatres.

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an i A ig ee oa gence eee Pees ee ee ee ao RET SG navman + imeem eee 2 2 Sr re epRENNSE, pp ALLOA LIL IO oe fo el AE ANCA AI NO ORE Or met See RENTED Cr ves as ten RD Onan SST Ee 4 ' CABLES 2 IN PARIS By E. G. Kendrew. Paris, Oct. 5. Lucien L. Bonheur, manager of the French theatre in New York, is now in France recuperating from a serious iliness. He will not return in time to personally open his fifth season in New York. The revue season has started at the Ba-Ta-Clan, where Mme. Rasimi has mounted another show by Celval and Charley, which is remarkable for its costumes. The French Chevalier and Mistinguett are the billtoppers. The new revue at the Cigale is indifferent, the scenery and dresses being rem- nants of by-gone productions of the house. Oscar Drefrenne will give “The Belle of New York” at his new hall, Buuffes du Nord, when it is ready, shortly. Regine Flory finishes at the Vaude- ville Oct. 11, and Hilda May will re- place her, after less than a month’s engagement. Difference in salary prob- ably. This revue is still running smoothly, but no longer to capacity. There was a recent strike of stage hands at several Parisian theatres, the men claiming 1 fr. increase, which has been accorded at the majority of houses. At the Gaiete, now operated by the receiver, until a new tenant is named by the city authorities (it is a municipal building), the stage hands walked out on the rise of the curtain at the Sunday matinee, their claim not having been received by the manage- ment, and “Les Diamonds de la Cou- ronne” was played in one set, much to the consternation of the paying pub- lic. The Gaite has revived “Les Pe- tits Mousquetaires” (produced at the Follies Dramatiques in 1885) with Angele Gril in travesti. The operetta seems old. The theatre war taxes, created two years ago, may soon be collected on a percentage basis, instead of the pres- ent sliding scale, the rate by which the cheaper seats pay in proportion much higher than the expensive ones being recognized as unjust. The present poor rate of 10 per cent. also collected at all places of amusement, will probably be increased. The war tax, however, will not be the same for all resorts, the music halls and picture houses be- ing inflicted with the honor of paying more than the Opera, comedy and iyri- cal theatres. Some privilege must be shown to the legitimate, for the sake of art. The Grand Guignol has just changed its bill, the shocker being a new 3-act drama, “Grande Epouvante,” by Henri Bauche and A. de Lorde. Dr. Tani, who has furnished a cellar of his London home with the specialities of necro- mancy (such as a large bat, which lives on human blood, the tomb of a man hanged, and a coffin intended for his own use), is in love with Evelyn and entices her to his house. She repels his gallant advances, and Tani is shot by the brother of the young woman. While in his last agony the necroman- cer swears he will be more assident for her when dead than during his life time. His spirit apparently haunts the girl for at the end she returns to die on the very spot where Tani fell shot. Desfontaines, supported by Mile Maxe, ably play this lugubrious effort. A comic piece follows, “En Beaute,” by Maxime Carel and Lucien Mayrar- gue, portraying a woman’s jealousy, whereby we learn there are some ladies who would rather lend their husband than their lover to a rival. Two other farces are on the bill. In Paris Theatres—“Her Husband’s Wife” (Varietes); “System D” (Am- bigu); “Mon Oeceuvre” (Athenee); “Vous n’avez rien a declarer” (Renais- sance); “L’Illusioniste” (Bouffes) ; “Feu de Voisin and Jeune Fille au Bain” (Edouard VII); “Quinnies” (Gymnase); “Montmartre” (Porte St. Martin); “L’Affaire des Poisons” (Odeon); “Round the World in 80 Days” (Chatelet); “Madame et son Filleul” (Palais Royal); “Grande Epouvante,” etc. (Grand Guignoy); “Occupe toi d’Amelie” (Scala); “Sap- pho” (Femina); ‘“Vautrin” (Sarah Bernhardt) ; Comedie Francaise, Opera Comique; Gaite, Trianon repertoire; revues at Vaudeville; Rejane, Follies sergere, Michel, Cigale, Ba-Ta-Clan, Mayol, Gaite Rochechouart. LONDON LIKES “13TH CHAIR.” London, Oct. 24. “The Thirteenth Chair,” produced at the Duke of York’s last week, was accorded a most enthusiastic recep- tion. ; Mrs. Patrick Campbe!?! is splendid in the role created in America by Mar- garet Wycherly. She is well support- ed by Yorke Stephens, James Carew, Charles Rock and Hilda Bayley. BARRIE’S LATEST WEAK. : London, Oct. 24. J. M. Barrie’s “Dear Brutus” was pro- duced at Wyndham’s Oct. 17. It is a fantastic comedy and although contain- ing many witty lines and delicate fan- cies, lacks strength and reality. It has a strong company, but there are few acting opportunities. EIGHT PRETTY GIRLS. > London, Oct. 24. “Tableaux Vivants of Kirchner Girls,” consisting of eight pretty artists’ mod- els, opened at the Palace, Manchester, this week. ENGLAND’S INCREASED TAX. London, Oct. 24. The increased tax on theatre tickets included in the Finance Act of 1917 has gone into effect throughout Great Brit- tain, despite the protests of the man- agers, and it is the opinion generally that no relief can be looked for during the current year. A petition against the tax has been sent out by the Theatrical Managers’ Association and thousands of signa- tures have already been secured. The tax of tickets is graduated, depend- ent on the prices, as follows: For admission, not exceeding 4 cents, tax 1 cent; not exceeding 8 cents, Ic; 12c, 2c; 24c, 6c; 48c, 8c; 72c, 12c; $1.20, 18c; $1.75, 24c; $2.50, 36c; $3.75, 48c; $4.80, 60c; $5.00, 72c; $7.50, 96c; $9.60, $1.08; $10.00, $1.20; $12.50, $1.56; $15.00, $1.68; $20.00, $2.16; $25.00, $2.62, etc., at the rate of 48c for the first $3.75 and 12c for every $1.20 or part thereof over $3.75. Producing “Truth” in England. London, Oct. 24. Gilbert Miller today received cable advices from his wife, who is in New York, that she had arranged with Anderson & Weber for the right to produce “Nothing But the Truth” here. It is understood the agreement calls for an English presentation by December 1. A. E. Matthews is to play the lead- ing role. DAMES AT AMBASSADORS’. London, Oct. 24. “The Three Daughters of M. Du- pont” will be withdrawn from the Am- bassadors’ Oct. 27 and will be followed Oct. 30 by Maud Allen in classic dances, twice daily. Ethel Irving will also appear in a sketch. ARRANGED OVER 800 CONCERTS. London, Oct. 24. Isidor DeLara has arranged over 800 all British concerts since the war, pay- ing artists moderate fees in order to keep them going. Jimmy Glover in Musical Act. : London, Oct. 24. Jimmy Glover returns to the halls shortly in a new musical act, assisted by two celebrated pianists. JEAN MOORE LILLIAN GEORGE “The Versatile Girls in Songs Old and New” Miss Moore, a well-known single entertainer, has joined with Mi ’ ist = Li yet Pas. ans pe ent vaudeville Bm Bony ptaeahenc Aare rom the novel opening to the delightful finish there is not a dull moment. The cial scenery is by Law; the music is adapted by O. E. Herrmann, and the gowns (most exquisite) are by Madame Hammer. This act, embracing novelty, charm, versatility and beauty, is under the direction of NOW, 81ST STREET THEATRE (Oct. 29-31). ARTHUR KLEIN. ARTHUR PRINCE AT THE FRONT. Londen, Sept. 15. Arthur Prince, the famous English ventriloquist, is now lieutenant in the R. F. A. at Salonica. He recently spent two months in hospital suffering from “toxic arthritis.” To his manager, Louis Bauer, he writes: “I have been suffering from toxic arthritis. It sounds fine, but it is very painful. I cannot walk yet and have been in bed for over two weeks. It is only just lately that I can use my hand to write with. Every time I move my bones rattle. I think they ought to send all the soldiers home from here and burn up the country. But what a place for an entymologist —any insect you like. Those who can’t bite with one end can sting with the other. I have been Observation Officer, fought aeroplanes, and now trench mortars. Was five months in the front line. “Thanks be to HIM for bringing Mother and Daughter (Great Britain and United States) together in this great struggle.” NO TAX-OPPOSITION. London, Oct. 24. The Touring Managers’ Association has passed a resolution pledging its members not to lend or let plays for performances at camp theatres other than government, stock or professional touring companies. Many performances are given at camps, charging admission to soldiers and civilians, and paying no entertain- ment tax. This has become a serious opposition to touring companies, that with the increased tax, are doing poorly. MIGNON NEVADA SCORES. London, Oct. 24. At the Drury Lane Mignon Nevada scored a great success as Desdemona in Verdi’s “Othello,” her purity of voice and youthful charm accentuating the pathos of the role. (oR ete a Nene ate NEWNESS AT 300TH. London, Oct. 24. “The Maid of the Mountains” cele- brates its 300th performance at Daly’s tonight with new costumes, new songs and the distribution of souvenir pro- grams. It has houses. “CIRO’S FROLICS” NEW. London, Oct. 24. “Ciro’s Frolics,” a new show, opens Oct. 29 at the Hippodrome, Portsmouth. In the cast will be the Two Bobs, Odette Myrtil, Tubby Edlin. we is a well known restaurant ere. been playing to packed Miss Terry’s “Merry Wives” Selection. London, Oct. 24. Ellen Terry made her variety debut at the Coliseum with a selection from “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” SURATT-TELLEGEN, CO-STARS. Youngstown, O., Oct. 24. Valeska Suratt in her dramatic play- let will open the vaudeville tour at the local Hippodrome. It will be Miss Sur- att’s initial appearance as an emotional player on the speaking stage. Youngs- town was selected through it being but a short distance away from her home town. It is reliably reported Lou-Tellegen recently submitted a proposal to Miss Suratt that they co-star in a piece for the legitimate stage, written by Willard Mack. Other theatrical engagements, including picture making in the near future, prevented an acceptance. by Miss Suratt. Adgie and her lions recently re- turned from a circus tour of Mexico. While the animal act was working at Ft. Bliss, El Paso, a lioness gave birth to four cubs. } C= OD est bet oP or “cs a te) ~~ ee teed 4S =. at Eee bet om

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VAUDEVILLE $2,000 WEEKLY GAURANTEED FEATURE ACT BY B’WAY HOTEL Hotel Knickerbocker Playing Dolly Sisters on Percentage, Giving Turn Gross of All Coveur Charges at $1 Per Plate. Engagement Indefinite, Opening Oct. 29. Sisters Also Contracted to Appear in Theatres Meantime. The largest cabaret engagement, in point of salary for one turn, is the con- tract entered into between the Hotel Knickerbocker, New York, and the Dolly Sisters, whereby the two girls are guaranteed $2,000 weekly to appear in the hotel’s grill, they to receive all of the coveur charges of one dollar per plate that the hotel will collect dur- ing their appearances. The guarantee is that the Dollys shall not receive less than $2,000. The engagement is to open Oct. 29 and continue indefinitely, with the Dollys appearing in the restaurant nightly, at 11.30 and 12.30. There will be no other entertainers. For the week of Oct. 29, the Dolly Sisters are under contract to appear at Keith’s Riverside theatre at Broadway and 96th street, about two and one- half miles from the Knickerbocker, on the same thoroughfare, at their vaude- ville salary of $1,550. They have also an agreement to play in the new Ray- mond Hitchcock-Ray Goetz revue, to commence rehearsals in November. The Hotel Knickerbocker last win- ter featured a special attraction in the way of a vaudeville act now and then, seemingly preferring dancers, in which class the Dolly Sisters are cataloged. The first date set for the Knicker- becker engagement was Nov 5, but early this week it was changed to next Monday. With the change the fact of the Dollys’ Knickerbocker contract became known among local vaudeville circles. Wednesday it commenced to be reported that the big time vaude- ville managers might order the can- cellation of all the Lolly Sisters’ dates on their books, and at the same time give notification that would affect all possible cabaret acts now in vaude- ville or expecting to appear there. LOST FOR A DAY. Gus Lind of the Lind Trio was lo- cated Monday in a hotel on 38th street, suffering from aphasia. Sunday afternoon the act reported at the Columbia, New York, for the per- formances there that day. Gus Lind left a grip in the theatre and left it. He did not return. No traces could be found and the police were notified. When located the absent one had no recollection eof his wanderings. It caused the turn to also lose an engage- ment at the Davis, Pittsburgh, this week. NICK NORTON RETIRING. Mt. Clemens, Mich., Oct. 24. Nick Norton, the veteran showman, who makes this resort his vacation headquarters, has about decided to re- tire from the show business. He will remain here indefinitely. Mr. Norton has been booking houses in the United Booking Offices, New York. His show experience dates back many years. TRIES TO STOP SONG. Washington, Oct. 24. Reine Davies made a personal ap- peal to the copyright department Mon- day, seeking to have Dillingham and Ziegfeld restrained from producing a “farmerette” number in “Miss 1917.” Miss Davies claims all rights to a num- ber of this type in the matter of cos- tuming and business through having made a prior stage presentation ef a song by Jean Havez entitled “The Farmerette.” Miss Davies says she has informa- tion and belief to the effect the Cen- tury management is to present a num- ber which will be an infringement on her song and wants the Washington authorities to hand down a ruling on the matter. No result was known up to today. Accounts seem to agree it is a matter rather for the courts to settle. MAY GET EMPY. Following his present lecturing tour arrangements will probably be made for Sergeant Arthur Guy Empy, the New Jersey boy who served with the French troops and experienced a gen- uine “over the top” charge, wrote a book on it which has had a wonder- ful sale everywhere, to play some vuudeville dates. Empy has several subjects for his lecture tour, but his vaudeville turn would be a different routine, Empy telling in addition to his “over the top” thrill, a few war stories in his characteristic slang. Several Broadway agents expect to have him under some sort of a con- tract within the next few days. CENTURY OPENING NOV. 5. The opening of “Miss 1917” at the Century, scheduled to take place next Monday night, has been postponed until a week later—November 5. The first Sunday concert at the Century will take place November 11. The Cocoanut Grove to open about Thanks- giving. —See a . ~ —— Se = 0 Wee — ‘I eee \ vn WHATS THE FLOOD? VAN HOVENS ON THE BILL LAUDER’S $25,000 WEEK. This week, the first of what the William Morris: management an- nounces as the farewell tour of Harry Lauder over here, looked Wednesday as though it would result in a gross of $25,000 at the Lexington Avenue opera house, where Mr. Lauder opened Mon- day. Ten performances will have been given by Saturday night, the Scotch singer giving four matinees. The admission scale runs to $2, with the Saturday night show up to $2.50. At this scale the house can hold $32,000. Up to Monday, the advance sale was $7,000, treble what it was when Lauder opened at the 44th Street two years ago, he playing in that house then about $12,000 on the week. Upon arriving here last week Lauder became active immediately in behalf of the Liberty Loan issue, speaking often and attracting crowds, as well as atten- tion from the press. As Mr. Lauder lost his only son, a captain in the Brit- ish army, at the front, his comment on the war was received with wrapt at- tention. Monday night when Lauder opened, over 1,000 people were turned away from the Lexington. The house held complete capacity, even in the high- most tier of boxes. There was $3,200 in the theatre that evening, it was said. A line of advance buyers was strung out from the box office until after 9 Next week the Lauder show starts on a batch of one-nighters, in special cars. Lester W. Murray !s managing the show, Louis Stern is doing the press work, with Ivan Rudisill direct- ing the orchestra. Tom Vallance is stage manager. The stage crew has John Ormston, Geo. McLaughlin and Edward R. Bowers. An effort made to prolong the Lex- ington engagement for Lauder for an- other week or so failed of its accom- plishment, through the show’s out-of- town engagements having been billed. After a couple of the one-nighters next week, the Lauder company plays Phila-* delphia Thursday and Friday, with At- lantic City Saturday. George Nicolai, representing the Lexington, was extremely anxious to have Mr. Morris extend the Lauder engagement. Nicolai offered to share the expense that it would involve, but advance billing charges and advertising had sent the amount too high. In Philadelphia over $4,000 had been spent in the advance work up to Tues- day this week. SEBREES IN COURT. Chicago, Oct. 24. Grace J. Sebree last week filed a suit for separate maintenance against Roy S. Sebree, son of the former owner of the Saratoga Hotel here. The bill charges Sebree with infidelity, habit- ual drunkeness and non-support. It alleges that Sebree, who had been in the theatrical business and had angeled several productions and many individual chorus girls, had been in- discreet with two women of the pro- fession—Cleo Benoir and Florence Geneva. It also intimated Sebree was too friendly with one Viola Marsh. Sebree was recently awarded $85,- 000 from his father’s estate. MILITARY WEDDING. Ft. Du Pont, Del., Oct. 24. A military wedding occurred. here Oct. 17, with the entire post as wit- nesses. : The principals were Eva Lane of the Art Studio and Ed. Quigley of “Mother Goose.” The boys voted it “some wedding.” 3-ACT RELEASED. Norworth, Wells and Francis left the Loew time Saturday, after playing three weeks, although their contracts called for 10 or 12 weeks. The can- celling was mutually agreed on by Jake Lubin and Ned Norworth, the latter freely stating his admiration for the way in which the Loew booking manager gave the act a release. The turn drew attention from the V. M. P. A. several weeks ago, when there was a mix-up over contracts, Norworth desiring to play some U. B. O. time offered. The Loew theatres had been previously contracted for, and Pat Casey ordered the Loew con- tracts be played first. Last week Lubin called Norworth into his office, saying he did not care hold the act unless it was satis- ed. Norworth paired with Billy Gaston and they are shortly to offer a new act, with Evelyn Wells assisting. GIRL STAGING “QUEEN” NUMBERS “The Queen of the Movies,” with 12 girls, 4 boys and 8 principals, in two scenes, is expected to open shortly as condensed from the show of that name. It will run about 45 minutes. Dottie Quinette, one of the original “Powder Puff Girls” from the show, is staging the numbers. Some of the songs will be taken from the original. Felix Adler will be starred with the vaudeville production, and Harry Fitz- gerald will book ii. MANN ACT GOT HIM. Des Moines, Oct. 24. Jose De Borso, who appears as Ti Ling Sing, Chinese trick violinist, was arrested here last week for violation of the Mann Act. He will be returned to St. Paul for trial. The lady in the case charges De Borso enticed her to travel with him by promises of a brilliant career ter- minating on Broadway. But his warm Southern blood got the better of his judgment. He beat her once ox twice too often, shattering both her love and her desire for fame, hence her invoca- tion of the aid of federal authorities. They were registered at the hotel here as man and wife. Cunningham Cancellation Stands. Toronto, Oct. 24. The cancellation of her vaudeville en- gagement in the future by Cecil Cun- ningham stands as made, according to that young woman who is at Shea’s here this week. She was. persuaded to accept the two M. Shea weeks. Miss Cunningham will take a needed rest after attending court in New York next week, when her action for divorce against Jean Havez is expected to reach trial. Chicago, Ill., September 21, 1917. Dittenhoefer Tube & Rubber Co., Chicago, Illinois. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I, the undersigned, on the 19th of September witnessed a demon- stration of the Dittenhoefer Two-in-One Inner Tube, which consisted of driving two nails into the first compartment, inflation of the second cumpartment and driving away on same, and feel safe to say that the. Dittenhoefer Two-in-One Tube has eliminated the changing of tires on the road. C. S. HUMPHREY. (See Pages 38-39 in this issue) ae ght See mee 2 ee ° da Sie ape em PS, OA ee es enn oy | eens we rene te ‘

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Large Amount Gathered Within a Week Through Interest of E. F. Albee. Make Collections. Keith Theatres and U. B. O. Affiliations Check Turned Over to Army Girls’ Transport Tobacco Fund.

With the turning over by E. F. Al- bee to the Army Girls’ Transport To- bacco Fund a check for $85,141.16 this week there was made possible the ac- complishment of one of the most laud- able and helpful benefits to the “boys who are going across” since America entered the war. The check was the result of the “Sammies’” smokes fund drive which was on in every Keith house east of Cleveland for seven days, ending Sat- urday last. The effectiveness of the drive and the speed with which it was consummated compares most fav- orably with the Government’s Liberty Loan drive. About 100 Keith houses participated in the fund, which is being devoted to giving tobacco to every man who boards a transport for France. It was discovered that our soldiers were in many cases forced to go without smokes during the time they were aboard the transports, since they were unaware of the sailing time, and had no chance to purchase tobacco. On the way over they took to smoking ground coffee and it was a real hard- ship for men under the press of ex- citement attendant to the passage. This fact came out one night at dinner in the home of Colonel Car- son, who is in charge of the trans- port service. His daughter decided to attempt to raise funds so that every man would be provided with paper and tobacco as he stepped aboard ship. With that purpose in view she bor- rowed $5,000 from a banker, purchas- ing tobacco for that amount immed- iately, and trusting to collect that sum to repay her backer. But she found people interested in other funds and her efforts to repay seemed a failure. Through an officer Mr. Albee heard of the plucky girl’s purpose, and per- sonally volunteered to take over her collection work; quite remarkable re- sults as attested by the size of the check. Besides the theatres of the Keith circuit, on the list are the houses also booked through the United Booking Offices. Harry Daniels, supervised the col- lections, acting for Mr. Albee, and all directly remittances were made to him, in the U. B. O. suite, Palace building. The subscription list follows: PMs Bevo Mews 450 6) kas be bsdse cuss $5,922.14 eee Cm: DOMDONDs oveeccccsdoccses 4,105.55 INI: : SB Slincd od 48 5006 be we ene 64% 3,222.07 CONE © fn50Gh cobke ci cuss Newsies 3,131.69 PEON, NG Ules dice an chan sesh cans ah 2,925.00 Ormmewen.: TPGORIPE. 6 écccccscceseces 2,879.13 Bushwick, Brooklyn. .............-. 2,834.08 Syracuse (2 houses). .......ccccees 2 463.58 PRE. GA KM sb s:oed bane esdevene 2.9160.75 go SPP rerpererrr re rrr ro 1,940.02 IE Chai oie Va} 60088040468 88 1,939.63 ea oe re rrr Er rere i 1.98.81 PRONE * IES 6 in Wikia de boo atag eas 9 1,921.07 CE. 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POUIDNS ode coccscecceus 239.85 TN eg A a ere re Pre 189.24 IN, DEO, io h beet saiddedees 136.57 ES OR Gores bo oc Seo as canoe ecasd 72.10 Ce eM sos boca tees oeee gees 29.30 EL Mes a cb ane ob AEROS wh RO COS ».00 Dixon’s ‘“‘Review of 1918’.......... 10.00 A eR ere eer er 547.83 $85,141.16 INDEPENDENTS NOT RECOGNIZED. Chicago, Oct. 24. The organization of independent booking agents recently formed for mu- tual protection, among other things, faces immediate dissolution or will have an early opportunity to test its collec- tive strength. The Western Vaudeville Managers’ Association has issued an announce- ment it will not have any business deal- ing with the organization, and J. C. Matthews of the Pantages office and Frank O. Doyle, the local Jones, Linick & Schaeffer agent, has taken a similar stand. The trio of agencies which prac- tically supports independent “ten per centers” refuses to deal individually or collectively with the independent or- ganization, the only local booking cffice not taking a decided stand being the Affiliated Booking Corporation. “AGENT” FINED $50. As a result of the prosecution of al- leged violations of the Employment Agency Law by Attorney James S. Kleinman, the legal representative for the department handling such cases in the Commissioner of Licenses offices, William Thompson, the Broadway agent, upon making restitution as or- dered by the Court prior to imposing sentence, was fined $50, and released upon payment. Thompson had to pay back $100 to William Vanderprin (Apollo Trio) and $50 to Alfred Erlacker for having promised them contracts for certain work, accepting advance commissions and failing to make good his word. This total plus the $50 fine made $200 Thompson had to pay before the court proceedings were dismissed. While the sentence was regarded as a light one, Attorney Kleinman consid- ers the outcome a triumph for his de- partment and other cases will no doubt be conducted along similar lines, this being the first to go through the dif- ferent court procedures. ORPHEUM’S DENHAM, DENVER. Denver, Oct. 24. The Orpheum Circuit has taken over the Denham theatre. Martin Beck closed the deal. At present it is not known whether the house will be devoted to stock for the present or become part of the chain of popular priced houses which the Orpheum has announced it will run in conjunction with its present big time vaudeville circuit in the west. Trouble Reported in Cleveland. Reports reached New York this week that theatrical unions in Cleveland were still very much on the outs with the interests that control Keith’s Hip- podrome there, and that the matter might soon be turned over by the Cleveland locals to the International Alliance to settle. “EGO SELLER” FLIVS. The latest “wrinkle” of Harry Mountford through which that astute “convincer” endeavored to raise a new “sinking” fund with monies procured through a circular canvass of the act- ing profession, received due attention from the burlesque branch of the in- dustry when Sam A. Scribner, general manager of the Columbia Amusement Co., caused a letter to be sent to all road managers and show managers in which he dealt with the appeal of the agitating genius who so recently staged the historic White Rats strike “flivver.” It was generally believed burlesque would prove a profitable field for Mountford’s famous “ego _ sale,” but this proved all wrong. The letter was signed personally by Mr. Scribner, and follows: New York, Oct. 16, 1917. Dear Sir: My attention has just been called to a circular letter addressed to performers and signed Harry Mountford, Secretary, and James William Fitz Patrick, President. Nearly all of these letters that were sent out to vaudeville per- formers have been sent to the Vaudeville Managers’ Protective Association. want you to circulate among your peopie and find out if any of them have received this communi- cation, and if so impress the fact upon them that this letter is pure, unadulterated “bunk.” Mountford is resorting to this catch penny scheme in an effort to mulct actors out of enough money to enable him to pay his board this winter, and loaf around Broadway telling people what a great man he is, and how much ne could do or would do for actors if they would only “come across” with their dough and support him in idleness out of their hard-earned money. We have all had enough of this fellow—actors and managers alike —and I feel certain that you and your people will agree with me that his latest scheme should _ be promptly and effectually nipped in the bud. Yours truly, Sam A. Scribner. P. S—What he is Secretary of, or what Fitz Patrick is President of, the Lord only knows. However, be that as it may, any actor who fritters his coin away on cither of them is a “sucker” pure and simple. That the new levy fund, if it could be called that, is a decided “flop,” is an assured fact. Notwithstanding Mountford’s extreme secrecy, the Vaudeville Managers’ Protective As- sociation is in some manner checking up the answers, and as far as they can ascertain he has received but one or two returns, and those of ridicu- lously small sums.

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[iS (8 SS is ros FS ee OP eee ~ wren tF is ig ie S- 1g 1e i- WAR TAX TROUBLES MULTIPLY IN ALL AMUSEMENT ‘FIELDS Many So-Called “Official Rulings” from Various Sources Add to Jumbled Condition. Uniform Box Office Statement to Be Drafted. Picture Exhibitors Up in the Air on Question. Despite that those at the head of the various associations representing the legitimate and vaudeville managers and the picture exhibitors have been mak- ing all sorts of efforts during the past week to arrive at some sort of a def- inite arrangement with the Government officials regarding the admission tax, they are still pretty much up in the air at present. All sorts of eulings have been made by various branches of the Revenue and Customs service and while one branch may have one idea which they regard as strictly within the law, an- other may have a ruling from some source that is at direct variance with the first. The same condition prevails through- out the profession. But one thing cer- tain at present and that is that the tax becomes effective with the perform- ances at all theatres throughout the country Thursday next (Nov. 1) and that the amount of the tax is ten per cent. of every ten cents or fraction thereof. The legitimate managers have been trying to obtain a ruling from Wash- ington on the questions of tickets at an advance or on consignment to agencies and tickets at cut rates, but to date they have received no word. It is barely possible that Ligon Johnson, of the United Managers Protective As- sociation, who is due to return from Washington today will bring back some defiinite opinion on which the managers can act. Monday there was a meeting of all of the treasurers of the New York theatres with the local Collector of Cus- toms Eisner and his deputy, J. J. Co- hen, in an effort to devise a uniform box office statement which would be acceptable. After several hours they arrived at a conclusion that Washing- ton would have to be consulted before anything definite could be arrived at. Wednesday a special representative of ihe Treasury Department was in New York and brought with him a box office statement that was worked out by the efficiency experts of the Government at the Capital, but this was so involved and complex that there will be an effort made to modify it. This was one of the purposes of the conference held in Washington yesterday. Up to now all the theatres that have advance sales beyond the date that the tax becomes effective are collecting the tax from the public at the time of the sale and the treasurers in general siat= that they are rather surprised at the matter of fact manner in which the public has thus far accepted the tax. All the buyers seem to be fully in- formed regarding the tax and practical- ly no explanations are necessary on the part of the box office men. _In the United Booking Office houses (including all of the B. F. Keith thea- tres in Greater New York) placards have been posted regarding the tax and the amounts that are payable on the various priced seats, requesting the purchasers to have the necessary change in readiness for the amount of the tax. The Loew. Fox and Moss theatres are also posting signs in the majority of theatres of these circuits. The signs are printed in Yiddish and Italian in the districts where the popu- tion is largely made up of that race and nationality. At the Metropolitan opera house the Principal question is the collection of the tax on press seats. The critics of the operatic performances are given seats which sell at $6 each and they at- tend every performance given at the house. This brings the amount of the tax to them ig the neighborhood of more than $5 weekly. The concert field is also up in the air regarding the tax, for the greater number of concerts that are given in New York are usually to “paper” audi- ences and the pass tax would prove a considerable item. The majority of singers and musicians in the concert field appear in New York at a loss simp- ly for the prestige gained from the criticisms of a New York appearance. It is believed that their performances here will practically involve themselves into invitation affairs entirely without any sale of tickets. a series of meetings at which the tax In the picture field there have been questions have been discussed. The general conclusion that an unpreju- diced onlooker would form at any of the meetings held would be to the ef- fect that all of the exhibitors were crooked and that each other exhibiter knew it. VV :lliam .Fox called a meeting at the Hotel Astor last Friday afternoon and when all was said and done the only certain step taken was that the public would have to pay the tax, which the law also says. In the meantime the various ex- hibitors’ locals of their league have been hoiding meetings and the only one of the lot that achieved anything worth while was the Brooklyn local, which resolved that the tax would have to be charged in addition to the prices prevailing at present in the theatres in that borough and that no exhibitor was to be permitied to lower his price or Practice any other subterfuge that would lead the public to believe that the house was not charging the tax. To hold the exhibitors to the agree- ment a special committee was formed to act as policemen for the borough and they were to try to convince all exhibitors, even those who were not members of the organization, of the ad- visability of holding to a uniform prac- tice in the matter of the tax. Those who do not hold to the agreement are to be dealt with rather drastically from intimations that have been let fall. In New York the Rialto theatre is the only one that has made definite an- nouncement regarding its plans. The prices of admission have been raised in multiples of five so as to include the tax, as follows: Matinee admission 18 cents, tax 2 cents, total 20 cents, for balcony seats; admission 27 cents, tax cents, total, 30 cents for orchestra seats. The seats for the evening per- formances are raised in a like manner. The pass matter at this house is be- ing handled on a basis of 5 cents tax for each pass and strip tickets are sold in advance to cover the users of the passes, The Vaudeville Managers’ Protective Association sent out the following let- ter on the tax questions to all the members of the Association: October 18, 1917. Dear Str: The fcllowing ts a brief sytopsis of the War Tar on Admissions to Theatres as out- lined by the Treasury Department: 1. The war tax on admissions to places of amusement, including legitimate, motion pic- ture and all other theatres, provides that a tax of one cent for each ten cents or fraction thersof shall be paid dy the person paying VAUDEVILLE for such admission. This applies to all paid admissions except to.those places of amuse- ment- which have e mlaximum eduission charge of five ceuts an@”to admissions for children under twelve. years of age. in. the case of a child under.tweive, the admission tax is but one cent,-*fegardliess of the amount of admis- sion paid by, or for, such child. Where the masztmum admission charge is five cents no tax is levied. 2. Consequently the tax on a 10 cent ticket is 1 cent; on a 15 cent ticket, 2 cents; on a@ 20 cent ticket, 2 cents; on a 25 cent ticket, 8 cents; on a 30 cent ticket, 3 cents; on a 85 cent ticket, 4 cents; on a 50 cent ticket, 5 cents. 8. In case of children under twelve years of age the tax is one cent per person, regard- less of the admission paid. 4. PASSES—Persons using passes must pay the same tax that they would have paid if the admissions bad been paid for at the reguiar box office price. To illustrate: ‘ person occupying a 1» cent seat shall pay 2 cents; a person occupying a 25 cent seat shall pay 3 cents; a person occupying a 50 cent seat shall pay 5 cents. The pass tax applies to all free admissiuns ot the theatre except bona fide employees, municipal officers op official business (such as firemen and policemen) and children under twelve years of age. 5. Where any person has permanent use of a box or seats, or lease of same, he must pay a tax eacb time such box or seats are used or exclusively reserved and held for a performance equal to what he would have paid had he purchased same at regular box office prices for the performance. To illus- trate: Where a person has exclusive use or an annual lease on a box or seats, which box or seats are held exclusively for the use of such person, then a tax must be paid for each performance where such box or seats are 80 used or beld. Where, however, such person only has the exclusive right to such box or seats if called for before a performance, and if not so called for the theatre bas tke right to dispose of same, then the tax would only have to be paid each time such box or seats are actually used. 6. The duty of the collection of these taxes is placed upon the house management, 7. These taxes do not apply to admissions where all the proceeds insure exclusively to the benefit of reliyious, educutional or churit- able institutions, societies or organizations. They do apply to benefits for individuals and all benefits except those falling in the fore- going classification. 8. The admission tax becomes effective at such an early date that its collection can only be effected under box office statements. The house manager must collect the tax on all tickets sold and all passes used. Daily box office statements should be kept and signed by the treasurer and house manager. These statements should itemize the tickets sold, showing the number sold at each price. The number of passes must also be shown, together with the box office price of the seais occupied under such passes, so that the tax due under such passes will be specified, 9. Monthly tabulations of these statements must be made and furnished to the Govern- ment upon forms the Collector of Internal Revenue will supply the theatres. These statements must be sworn to by the house managers, and the daily box office statements must be reserved for inspection by the Govern- ment when desired. Settlement will be made in December fur the November tax, in January for the December tax, and so on. 10. The penalties for failure to observe the requirement of the collector's regulations will be noted on the forms, which will be sent out as soon as the Treasury Department can have them printed. On and after November first accurate record must be kept in accordance with these instructions. 11. So that the publie may fully realize that the admission tax is on the purchaser of the ticket it is suggested that, wherever prav- ticable, signs be displayed in the lobby or near the box office, notifying the public that the theatre is required by luw to collect from the purchaser a United States tax of ten per cent on the admission paid. 12. I am of the opinion that in the houses where the price of admission is what is known as “popular price” the best way to handle the proposition is for the treasurers to collect upon the selling of their tickets 11 cents for the 10 cent ticket, 17 cents for the 15 cent ticket and 28 cents for tne 25 cent ticket. And as the children’s ticket, under the law, only carries a tax of one cent, no matter what the original price of the ticket is, the best way to handle this would be to have separate rolis of 15 cent and 25 cent tickets of a different color from the adults’ tickets, to be sold for the admission of children only, at a one-cent advance in the original price. In this way a complete record could be kept of just how many children’s tickets and how many adults’ tickete were sold each day. 13. In houses where coupon tickets are used, and where prices vary from 25 cents to $1.00, it is then up to the treasurer to collect the tax above the face value of the ticket. And in the case of the admission of children the best possible way I can figure out is to use a rubber stamp, reading “Children's Ticket,” to be stamped upon each ticket sold for the admission of children, and then in the genera! count from the ticket boxes they would know just how many tickets should carry the full ten per cent tax and how many should earry whe other tax of one cent each This, of course, could be shown in their statement. 14. In the matter of exchanges it is up to the treasurer to collect the tax on same and as hard tickets are always used for these exchanges this will also show on the box office statement. 15. TAX ON PASSES—In the popular price houses, where reserved seats are 25 cents, x would suggest that a separate roll of tickets (the value of which would be 3 cents each} used for admittance in conjunction with the pass. Of course, in the houses where the admission egceeds 23 cents &@ sum egual to ten per cent of the value of the seat occupied by the holder of the pass must be charged. And in order to avoid any extra tickets it might be well to stamp the pass when the tax is paid, showing the value of the seat occupied by the holder of the pass, then in the count-up this would also show in the statement, Very truly yours, Vaudeville Manayers’ Protective Ass’n, Inc. The managers of the various houses controlled by the United Booking Ottices received a practical working out of questions regarding the tax which was worked out by Maurice Goodman, attorney for the U. B. and the V. M. P. A., which went into the question rather thoroughly. The letter follows: WAR TAX ON THEATRE ADMISSIONS. Dear Sir: in the following form I believe you will ind a aciution of all questions which may arise in connection with the law: First: Q.—When must the tax be collected ? A.—On all tickets sold for the watinee on Thursday, November 1, 1917, and every performance thereafter on advance sales made prior to November Ist, for performances after Novem- ber lst, the tax should also be collected at time of sale. : -—Who pays the tax? wien othe socchauat of the ticket or tickets. Third: Q.—When does the purchaser pay the tax? A.—AUt the time be purchases tie ticket, Fourth : Q.—Must holders of passes pay the tax? A.—Yes They pay the tax when the pass is presented and ex- changed for a ticket, but bona fide employees of the theatre, municipal officers on official business and children under 12 years of age, when entering on a pass, need not pay a tax. Fifth : Q.—What is the amount of tax? A.—iIt is not 10 per cent of the price of the ticket. It is one cent for each ten cents or a fraction of ten cents. In other words, it is: (a) 1 cent on a 10 cent ticket; (b) 2 cents on a 15 cent ticket; (c) 8 cents on a 25 cent ticket; (d) 4 cents on a 35 cents ticket; (e) 5 cents on a 50 cent ticket; (f) 8 cents on a 75 cents ticket, and 80 on. Where chiidren under 12 years of age are admitted, and their ticket paid for, the tax is one cent per ticket, re- gardiess of the price of the ticket. Sixth : Q.—If a purchaser buys two 75 cent tickets, the total price therefore being $1.50, does the purchaser pay 15 cents or 16 cents? A.—The purchaser pays 16 cents, The tax is on each ticket sep- arately and not on the aggre- gate amount paid by the pur- chaser. Seventh: Q.—What tax must the holder of a pass pay? A.—Under the law his tax is based upon the regular price of the ticket be receives if he were paying for it instead of gettin it for nothing. So that if he received a 4) cent ticket he would pay 3 cents; a 5U cent ticket, 5 cents; a $1.00 ticket, 10 cents, and so on. For the sake of convenience, to reduce labor and in the interest of the Government, I suggest that there be collected from every holder of a pass a tax, based upon the maximum price of ad- mission. In other words, if the top price of tickets in your house is $1.00, collect a tax of 10 cents on every pass, whether the accommodation given the pass holder is a $1.00 seat, a 50 cent seat or just standing room. For like convenience, even though the tax rate on a 75 cent ticket is 8 cents, if that is your top price, I would sug- gest the collection of 10 cents nevertheless on aii passes, Q.—On whom is the duty of col- lecting this tax? A.—'lhe person or corporation oper- ating the theatre. Ninth: Q.—Has the Government directed the theatres to adopt any special method for collecting the tax? A.—No. Q.—What method should the theatre employ to collect the tax? A.—In view of the fact that the burden of making the collec- tion of this tax is placed on. the theatre, and that the Govern- ment will not make any aliow- ance or permit any deduction for any expense to which the theatre may be put in collect- ing the tax, it seems to me the cheapest and simplest method (Continued on page 18) Eighth : Tenth:

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cess the second Liberty which ends tomorrow (Saturday the firm convidtion of the special mittee in char of the drive i theatres, which \work is regarged in Washington as ane of the mst im- portant influences\in floating The statement ‘was m VARIETY representative, not of obtaining any individdal glory, but as an expression of enthusiastic pride in the way the theatre and its people have unstintingly come to the support of the Government’ ever sirce Ameri- ca entered the war. When interviewed on the matter, John L. Golden, chair- man of the committee, made no at- tempt to disguise his admiration for the way the profession has come through in both the first and second loans. Said Mr. Golden: “The theatrical people are doing more for the bond issue’s’ success than any other class of people in the country, and there is no question about it. Not only are professionals buying bonds, but they are giving their ser- vices in support of the White House. “It isn’t a case of the profession doing its bit, but doing its bit over and over again. In the first loan drive $1,600,000 worth of bonds were sold to actors from the temporary office established here alone. I recall very vividly that after it was understood that people could subscribe for a $50 bond by paying $1 down, there were 300 such applications in one day, and many of these subscribers had far passed the prime of life, but they, too, wanted to do their bit. “This present drive has been con- ducted along somewhat different lines as far as the profession goes, but the men and women of the theatre ave in the work even more whole-heart- edly than in June.” The loyal response for speakers in . the final appeal through the theatres cannot find better example than that of Lillian Russell, who is speaking in five theatres every day, and who in addition handles the schedules, as- signing speakers to the various houses where it is not possible for a member of the cast to appear before the cur- tain. Miss Russell cancelled a Pitts- burgh date for Red Cross work be- cause she could reach more people through addresses to audiences here. Not alone have actors and actresses solidly supported the theatrical com- mittee, but they have gone outside the theatre to help in the bond work. A number of the biggest stores have been advertising the appearance of favorites in the current attractions on certain afternoons to talk on the Lib- erty Bond drive. It is pointed out that while the intent may be sincere, it was the professional who did the “giving,” far more than the merchant. Mr. Golden in speaking of the count- less benefits participated in for the service, especially commended Ray- mond Hitchcock, who on one Sunday appeared at five benefits. And as just one specific iristance of how the actor is giving from his pocket as well as his services and time, Mr. Golden told of the benefit at Fort Totten three weeks ago. The proceeds were for Christmas packages for soldiers. The benefit netted $3,000, enough to pro- vide packages for 1,500 men. At the close of the entertainment a soldier just back from France suggested the auctioning of a copy of the’ trench paper, “Le Poilu,” which held the first greeting to the American troops under the headline “Hurrah pour les Sam- mies.” The audience was largely made up of wealthy folk, but none of the latter bid over $10. When that figure was called the bids rapidly mounted, Cyril Scott, Leo Carrillo and others sending up the price, until Raymond Hitchcock obtained the paper at $225. PLEDGES $50,000. Exactiy 90 wires containing about 32 words explaining their mission were sent out Wednesday evening by the heads of the American Circuit to each burlesque house manager and produc- ing manager, urging them to imme- diately arrange to take what amount of Liberty Loan bonds they could, ar- ranging for the subscription through the Circuit as the Association wished to announce by Saturday that the cir- cuit was pledging itself to take $50,000 worth of bonds. | The Association will subscribe lib- erally but it remains for the theatre managers and producing managers to make up the remaining amount neces- sary to make the $50,000 a reality. RAFFLING BONDS. About $10,000 worth of Liberty Bonds were disposed of this week in the Palace theatre building through raf- fling the certificates. For the $50 bonds tickets were sold numtering from one to 100, with the exact amount paid that the ticket drawn called for. No. 50 was left out, $0 make the gross amount exactly Wednesday a $1,000 bond was raf- fled, won by Frank Vincent, with tick- et 315 ($3.15). The tickets sold ran from one to 447, with 128 left out. South African Man Coming East. San Francisco, Oct. 24. E. H. Wyrley Birch, special represen- tative of the International Variety and Theatrical Agency, Ltd., of Johannes- burg, South Africa, stopped over here en route to New York, where he will open offices for his company. Eugene Walter is rewriting James Montgomery’s play “Drafted,” which was tried out by H. H. Frazee up state a fortnight ago. IN THE SERVICE. Dar Dale, formerly stage manager of “Chin Chin,” and now with the Ist Ohio Inf., at Camp Sheridan, Mont- gomery, Ala., is in the St. Margaret’s Hospital, Montgomery, recovering from an operation for hernia. He ex- pects shortly to rejoin his regiment. Capt. Ray Hodgdon is spending a six-day furlough in town. He came in from:Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, where he has been studying trench warfare. Capt. Hodgdon leaves Saturday for Spar- tanburg, S. C., to join his regiment (71st) of which he is senior captain. Frank G. Lorraine is with the 13th Cavalry at Ft. Riley, Kans. He was with Lorraine dnd Cameron, a Scotch dancing act over here, also having appeared in England. Bennie Franklin, of Bennie and Mabel Franklin, sharpshooters, is now with the 7th Cavalry at Ft. Yellow- stone, Wyo. Russell J. Brown, formerly partner with Bert Wheeler in vaudeville, is attached to the 104th Machine Gun Battalion, Spartanburg, S. C. Wade L. Morton, the advertising agent, is now a sergeant with the 115th Inf. (29th Division) at Camp McClel- lan, Anniston, Ala. Dick Curtis, at one time with Dor- othy Wahl and the Curtis Boys, is a or segue stationed at Ft. Du Pont, el. Barnet Parker, an English actor, scored in “Mary’s Ankle,” has joined the English colors, going to the of- ficers’ training camp at Toronto. H. R. Glynn, in Shanley’s cabaret, applied for enlistment at the British Recruiting offices, but was rejected be- cause of physical incapability. Walter Hickman (Hickman, Shaw and Campbell) is now a sergeant in the Regimental Supply Co., 306th Inf., Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. I. James B. Hughes, last with “Sweet- hearts,” is of the Headquarters Troop, 19th Cavalry, Ft. Ethan Allen, Vt. David Gardiner, formerly appearing in England, is with Troop B of the 104th Mounted Rifles, Anniston, Ala. George Graham with “The 13th Chair,” enlisted in the Intelligence De- partment of the English army. Jack Conway (Variety) with the Na- val Reserve, Pelham Park, New York. C. Carrill Lucas is a corporal in the Q. M. Department at Paris Island, S. C. MORE SONG CONTESTS. The war song contest inaugurated in the Greater New York Keith theatres will be held at the Greenpoint, Brook- lyn, next week, after which it will be featured at Keith’s Bronx theatre. It was originally introduced at the Fifth Avenue two weeks ago and this week was staged at the Harlem O. H. At both theatres it drew unusually well. HENRY LUBELSKI’S DAUGHTER KILLED. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 24. Frances Kemball (Mrs. Charles Jor- dan in private life) was killed in an automobile accident in Los Angeles Monday. She is the daughter of Henry Lubel- = the theatrical manager residing ere. BOYLE WOOLFOLK INCORPORATED LARGEST PRODUCERS OF TABLOID MUSICAL COMEDIES IN THE UNITED STATES 10TH FLOOR, MAJESTIC THEATRE BLDG. Dittenhoefer Tube & Rubber Co., Chicago, Ill. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : CHICAGO, October 16, 1917. I personally witnessed the demonstration of the Dittenhoefer Two-in-One Inner Tube, which consisted of driving two nails into first compartment, inflation of the second compartment and driving away on same, and feel safe to say that the Dittenhoefer Two-in-One Tube has eliminated the changing of tires on the roed and is the first stepping stone of economy for automobile users. Boyle Woolfolk (See Pages 38-39 in this issue)

DRAFTED. Jake Sternad’s kid act, “The Nap- panees,” broken up by the draft, is being organized again. Harry Brown was drafted and went to Camp Logan, Houston. Sam Bachman reported at Camp Grant, Rockford, and Dan Myers at Camp Upton, Yaphank. The other two boys in the act, Fred Brown and Cliff Edwards, escaped the draft. Bach- man has been rejected at Rockford, and will rejoin. The other two vacan- cies will be filled next week. Coast members of the I. A. T. S. E., drafted and at Camp Lewis, are Charles Norton, Hal Dench and Mickey Hor- ner. Accepted and awaiting call are John Lee, Kenneth Sampson, Fred Meauman, of same organization. Lloyd Robinson, of the Famous Play- ers-Lasky publicity staff, has become a Chief Yeoman in the United States Navy. He will be stationed at the Bos- ton Navy Yard for the present. Lester Cuneo, accepted last week as he was beginning work in the Yorke- Metro feature “Love Me for Myself Alone.” Dick L’Estrange was engaged to replace him. Stanley V. Young, with “Age of Reason,” reported at Yaphank and se- cured a transfer to the camp near Louisville, his home town. Lawrence Steuart, formerly manager of the Old Mill, Dallas, is with Head- quarters Co., 359th Inf., Camp Travis, Tex. J. A. Walsh, with “The Fascinating Widows,” notified to report at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., granted two weeks’ leave before closing with act. Tom Carter, formerly with Klaw & Erlanger, is with the 305th Machine Gun Battalion at Camp Upton, Yap- hank, L. I. Erdeli Mutchler, musical director “20th Century Whirl” (tab), exempted after examination at St. Louis. John M. Kelly, known as “The Mayor a 38th Street,” is at Camp Mead, Md. Harry F. Feigley Jr., stage manager, is a member of Co. B, 115th U. S. Inf., at Camp McClennan, Anniston, Ala. Clyde Marsh of “Woman Proposes,” has joined Co. C, 34lst Inf., Camp Grant, Rockford. Harry C. Warden of Mantell and Warden, exemption claim allowed; de- pendent widowed mother. Waldek Zbyszko, wrestler, rejected, physical disability. Robert Schoencker, managing the Gayety, Chicago, has been called. Frank Dav:s cf Remick and Co. is at Yaphank. Ray Rodicker, with “Some Babies,” exempted in Detroit. NO CREW FOR CAMP. The International Alliance Theatri- cal Stage Employees of the U. S. and Canada has made one provision as a result of the different big theatrical companies going up to the Plattsburg camp, and giving the soldiers free per- formances which has prevented any contingency arising over the I. A. T. S. E. stipulation that a road crew must be employed when any show takes to the road. Shows going from New York to Plattsburg and thence right back to Broadway will not be forced to engage a special road crew, the house attaches being permitted to handle the show, resuming the same positions when the show returns to its former stand. However, should the show go to any other point from Plattsburg a “road crew” must be engaged. New Poli’s, New Haven, Opening. New Haven, Oct. 24. The new Poli local theatre, to be called Poli’s Palace, will-open: Now. 12 or 19. It will be the largest house in the city, seating 3,400. No policy has been set for it, although vaudeville may be the selection.

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VAUDEVILLE

V.M. P. A. COMPLAINT DEPT. NOW IN FULL WORKING ORDER

Pat Casey Enters Decisions in Three Cases. One “Copy Act” Ruled Out of V. M. P. A. Houses. Paid Contract Evasions. Attention Being V. M. P. A. and N. V. A. Co-operating.

That the Vaudeville Managers’ Pro- tective Association does not propose to countenance any contractual in- fringments was evidenced this week by the prompt decision of Pat Casey in the case of Jones and Johnson (col- ored), who jumped a B. S. Moss con- tract to aceept an engagement through the United Booking Offices. The turn was booked by Dan Sim- mons of the Moss office to appear at the Jefferson, New York, for a_ four- day term commencing last Thursday (Oct. 18). Wednesday the team noti- fied Simmons they could not appear because of illness. Simmons eventual- ly learned the “illness” did not pre- vent them from appearing at Keith’s, Jersey City, and subsequently noticed the act billed for Proctor’s 125th st. theatre. When the affair was called to Mr. Casey’s attention he instructed’ the Proctor management to close the act and ordered it to report at the Jef- ferson. Meanwhile Tate’s “Motoring” was deputized to fill the breach and Brown and McCormack were engaged to hold the Jefferson bill intact pend- ing the arrival of the colored artists. When they appiied for their salary they were advised to procure it from the V. M. P. A. office. There the team were notified they would have to stand the expense of Tate’s “Motoring,” as well as that incurred through the Brown and McCormack engagement. Another instance exhibiting the vigilance of the organization concerns the action of Archer and Belford, who wired Jules Delmar of the United Booking Offices they could not appear at Jacksonville last week because of an attack of malaria fever. Mr. Del- mar promptly wired back volunteer- ing assistance, financial and otherwise. A wire from Casey to Jacksonville scouted the fever story, his answer indicating the team were well and healthy. Mr. Casey accordingly noti- fied all members of the organization not to accept the act for booking un- til they fulfilled the Jacksonville con- tract. The case of Clayton, the Mystic, against Axiom, the Mystic, has been settled in the former’s favor, and man- agers have been notified not to con- sider Axiom for routing until he satis- factorily proves prior right to his specialty. According te Clayton, Ax- iom is a former employee who bodily “lifted” his specialty, billing matter and press notices. A pamphlet issued by both bears out Clayton’s claims, Axiom simply deleting Clayton’s name and inserting his own on the pam- phlet. The complaint department of the organization is paying particular no- tice to contract evasions, and its present method promises to eventual- ly eradicate this most insidious evil, the V. M. P. A. through co-operation with the National Vaudeville Artists being in a position to protect both the artist and manager. NEW SONG WINS IN HARLEM. The war song contest staged by the management of the Harlem opera house during the past week closed Tuesday night with the audience se- lecting “Dixie Volunteers” (Waterson, Berlin & Snyder) as the most popular patriotic melody. It is a new war song, very recently written. The Harlem contest aroused quite as much, if not more, enthusiasm than the one held at the Fifth Avenue theatre a fortnight back, Tuesday night finding the house with a capacity attendance. Genuine interest in the contenders was apparently instilled by the nip and tuck efforts of the various entries to be listed in the finals. But four houses were represented in Tuesday’s contest, those being se- lected through the elimination system, having won the individual night hon- ors last week. They were Chas. K. Harris (“Just Break the News to Mother”), A. J. Stanny (“When Yan- kee Doodle Learns to Parle Voux Francais”), Al. Piantadosi (“There’s a Green Hill Out in Flanders”), and the winning number from Waterson, Ber- lin & Snyder’s catalog. Edward McNamee staged the contest, giving a decidedly serious talk on the importance of picking the proper win- ner, having asked several prominent business men to gauge the applause in the event it was close. The winner was announced without delay, imme- diately after the last number had been staged. The winning song was written by Edgar Leslie and Harry Ruby, the lat- - ter a new addition to the firm’s staff. The 5th Avenue contest was won by Harris’ “Break the News to Mother,” with “Joan of Arc” topping the balance of new numbers in second place. EMILY HOWARD INJURED. Emily Howard of the western “sis- ter” team of Howard and Sadler was knocked down by a motor car Sunday, sustaining internal injuries, and is con- fined to bed suffering severe pain, two doctors having been called. The accident occurred as she alighted from a car at Broadway and Throop avenue, Brooklyn, the girls being on their way to the Star theatre for re- hearsal, they having been booked to appear there in the Sunday show. The auto, driven in violation of traf- fic regulations by Iseey Rubin, failed to stop when the trolley did. When Miss Howard st-pped to the street Rubin’s machine knocked her to the ground, the front wheels running over her left thigh and stomach. Rubin was arrested and fined $25 for traffic violation. BOND BUYERS. Norton and Nicholson, who recently returned to New York from the Coast, purchased $12,000 worth of Liberty bonds this week, through their Flush- ing, L. L, Bank. Davenport, Ia., Oct. 24. Liberty Bond salesmen at the Co- lumbia theatre here have sold bonds to every man connected with the house, including the engineer,and also to some of the acts appearing there. One China- man, in Long Tack Sam’s turn, bought a $500 bond. BIRTHS. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Chick (Chick and Chicklet), at Chick’s Inn, Brookhaven, L. I., a son. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hanson (Mys- tic Handon Trio), san, Basten,-Oct. 23. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Anderson (Beeman and Anderson) at University Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 19, daughter. INVESTIGATION STARTS TODAY. The investigation of White Rats af- fairs will not begin until Friday (to- day). Alvin Sapinsky, who is pressing the investigation for the complainant, Goldie Pemberton, secured a postpor *- ment because of the absence of Ha Mountford, who is in Washington. Sapinsky proposes to call Mount- ford as his first witness and expects his examination of the ex-executive will run several days. CAMP’S OWN SHOW. The first of the company theatres at Camp Upton is to be opened tonight (Friday) in the barracks of Battery F of the 306th Field Artillery. The men have been building their own stage in the recreation room of the barracks and the show will be pre- sented by members of the Battery. All were connected with the theatre prior to joining the army. The show, under the direction of George Pantzer, will open with a min- strel first part, all of the numbers se- lected from the war songs of the day. On the bill will also be Yorkisch, vio- linist; McElroy, songs; Greenbaum, Yiddish and Italian monolog; Sam Fine, violinist; Sol Wolff, comedy songs and monolog; Smith and Wake- man, talking; Seller, ballad singer; Tenzer, popular songs; Eineman and Pantzer, comedy acrobats. Two boxing bouts will follow wih Pete Dallicker_and Frank Lebonette in the 145-pound class and George Kerns and Kid Walters at 118 pounds. A burlesque bout between Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle, imperson- ated by members of the company, will close the show. MARRIAGES. Gloria Goodwin of “Love O’ Mike” to Foye Fossett Staniford, a chief en- gineer in the Naval Reserves at New London, Conn., July 24. The wedding was kept secret until last week. Beatrice Drew, late of Crawford’s “Fashion Show,” to Howard H. Shafer, mechanical engineer for the U. S. Gov- ernment, Oct. 7, at Union Church, Bal- boa, Canal Zone. Billy Gaston to Mildred Holliday in Winter Garden show (“Doing Our Bit”) two weeks ago. Frank P. Decker, of “The Dream Girl,” last week at Chicago to Nina Raiola of the Morrison Hotel Chicago Revue. Billy Adams (formerly of Adams and Peters) to Maud Wilson, non-profes- sional, Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 8 Mr. Adams met his wife, while on the way from. New Orleans to New York by boat, and was married upon his ar- rival in the latter city. Aagie D<:.berton and Al. H .Knight, with “Night On Broadway,” last week in Manchester, N. H. FAVORING JUDGE CORRIGAN. The theatrical profession is paying more than usual attention to the forth- coming election in so far as the candi- dates for the office of District Attorney is concerned, the feeling in and about the show business seeming to lean toward Judge Joseph E. Corrigan. Corrigan has a particularly large following throughout the business branches of the profession, in which he is widely known. Judge Corrigan is a student of the stage and known to hundreds of active artists embracing every branch of the profession. He established his headquarters in the heart of the theatrical section, at the corner of 43d Street and Broad- way. Among the many who registered for his nomination were numerous professionals, while many volunteered to actively work for his election.

GGVERNMENT NEEDS HELP. — The Quartermaster’s Reserve Corps, with headquarters at 357 Broadway, New York City, will enlist men into the army where they can follow their respective trades, for duty in this country and abroad. The men particularly needed at this time are electricians, tinsmiths, iron workers, carpenters, plumbers, auto- mobile and general mechanics, masons, bricklayers, farriers, horse-shoers, sad- dlers, blacksmiths, teamsters, cooks, chauffeurs, stenographers, and wagon- makers. Enlistment is open to citizens of the United States, naturalized or who have declared their intention of be- coming citizens, between the ages of 18 and 45, and with no one dependent upen them for support. Asslicants will be examined physi- cally and be given a week or more time in which to attend to their private affairs before called for ser- vice. The Quartermaster’s Corps is for qualified men, and military train- ing as a soldier is not required. There is no drilling with rifles, guard duty nor any other military duty, except in cases of emergency. Men drafted may be enlisted up to the time a notice appears for them to report for ex- oeeeenye under the selective dract aw. IN AND OUT. Illness prevented Mr. and Mrs. Sco- fieli opening at Keith’s, Providence, this week. Violet Beeson and Co. sub- stituted. Due to the death of Miss Barry’s mother, Allen Clifford and Barry re- tired from the first half bill (this week) at the Broadway, Springfield, Mass. The Flying Kellers substituted. Lloyd and Britt are held over at the Orpheum, Winnipeg, for this week, through being held back for this week’s bill, which will travel over the cir- cuit, They started the Orpheum’s bookings with the bill headed by Sophie Tucker, with her husband, Frank Westphal, also on it. In the Lloyd and Britt place in the Tucker show are the Harold DuKane Trio. Roberta and Varrerra replaced the Lind Trio at the Davis, Pittsburgh, this week. “Creation” could not open at the Colonial, New York, Monday, through delay in scenery arriving. McLellan and Carson substituted. Marguerite (Sterling and Marguerite), acrobats, at Shea’s, Buffalo, this wee toward the latter part of the act Mon- day evening appeared ill. She stuck through the act, however, until almost the end, when she did a whirling turn with her partner. At the end of this the woman slipped the door in a collapse. Her paitner picked her up and hurried her to the wings. There was a quick curtain. The theatre management re- ported the illness as not serious. It is expected the act will be continued the remainder of the week. Mabel Russell retired from the Co- lonial bill Tuesday night, having been bitten by a dog before the evening show. She was replaced by Gertrude Graves, called from the Harlem opera house. Joe Welch and Co. were cancelled after the first show Monday at the City, and Grace Hazard substituted for the remainder of the first half. Although the Campbell Sisters were named in the advance booking and billing for the Colonial this week, ee and Adelphia appeared in- stead. Grace Haley, of the Four Haley Sis- ters, retired’ from the bill at Youngs- town, O., due to a relapse of pneu- monia. The sisters will continue as a trio until Grace is able to leave her home in the middle west.

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Jennings returned to New York from Pittsburgh Saturday, while Baker jour- neyed on from the Smoky City to Niag- ara Falls to look over the new “Gay Morning Glories” and see if any fur- ther changes were necessary in its Of all the shows seen, none in any stand a chance of forfeiting wheel franchises although a few were in- structed by the Circuit to make some alterations and changes. The show reviewed by the Jennings- Baker committee were “Darlings of Paris” at Hamilton, Can.; “The Tempt- ers” at Toronto; “Speedway Girls” at Detroit; “The Aviators” at Gayety, Chi- cago; “Whirly Girly Girls” at Engle- wood, Chicago; “Forty Thieves,” first at the Empire, Chicago, and later in Indianapolis; “The Lid Lifters” at Mil- waukee; “Grown Up Babies” at Minne- apolis; Pat White Show at St. Paul; “Biff, Bing, Bang” at Kansas City; “Military Maids” at Si. Louis; “Lady Buccaneers” at Englewood, Chicago; “Jolly Girls” at Columbus, O.; “Re- view of 1918” at Cleveland; “Auto Girls” at Youngstown, O.; “Mile-a-Minute Girls” at Akron, O.; “The Pacemakers” at Pittsburgh. In the “Forty Thieves” show, the re- port was made some weeks ago the performance was not up to standard, the costuming not being of excellence desired and the comedy material not as good as wished by the circuit. Jen- nings and Baker saw it in Chicago, where much improvement had been made, and then again in Indianapolis, where a change in the cast had added materially to its benefit. “Biff, Bing, Bang,” reported as below par for the circuit earlier in the sea- son, had made noticeable improvement, according to the censors. While the costumes and scenery were O. K., the cast was considered weak. George Belfrage, the owner, has made three changes in principals and the show is now marked up to the American stand- ard. Laura Bennett is a recent acqui- sition to the Belfrage company. The “Mile a Minute Girls” also has endeavored to improve its performance and when the show was at Akron, Billy K. Weils, from the Blutch Cooper offices, New York, went on there to make a number of changes in the cast. “The Aviators,” with a new Hebrew comedian, added since the show left the makeup shop, is reported as show- ing improvement. The censors reported good business all along the line and say managers look for the biggest season they have ever recorded in burlesque. TRENTON SPLIT. President George Peck of the Ameri- can Burlesque Association had practi- cally decided Wednesday afternoon that hereafter the circuit house at Trenton, now trying a full week policy cast. and which has not resulted as desired for that length of a company stand, would get the American shows, for three days only. The Association has also decided to take in the new house at Sunbury, Penn., and the new Tren- ton arrangement will now enable the shows to play Monday at Sunbury, Tuesday at Shenandoah, Wednesday at Pottstown, with the remaining three days at’ Trenton. Starting Nov. 5 the new Sunbury date will get under way, next week being the last Trenton gets the Am- erican shows for a full week. Sadie ‘Burt, reported to have killed herself, is not the Sadie Burt of Whit- ing and Burt. HARRY W. BURLESQUE’S “SMOKE WEEK.” The Columbia Amusement Co. issued a circular letter to its road and house managers this week dedicating the week of Nov. 12'as “Smoke Week,” when an effort will be made through- out the circuit to raise a monster fund to procure tobacco for the troops abroad. The Columbia Co. contributed $100 to start the fund with Henry P. Dixon starting the outside contributors with $5. Each theatre will be asked to add $100 to the fund irrespective of the amount collected during the week. The plan is to have a member of each company make the appeal from the stage after which a soldier and sailor from the audience will be com- missioned to count the receipts so that an announcement can be made before the conclusion of the performance. Contributions from individuals play- ing on the circuit will be accepted at the offices of the Columbia Amuse- ment Co., and subsequently acknowl- edged in VARIETY, The burlesque theatres. collected over $30,000 for the Actor’s Fund in a similar manner and hope to pass this figure for the smoke fund. Phil White, unable to obtain any big time bookings for his vaudeville act, has disbanded it. SPINGOLD Producer and Manager of Standard Vaudeville Attractions 22 WEST MONROE STREET Dittenhoefer Tube & Rubber Co., 29 So. LaSalle St., Chicago. Dear Sirs: After watching a demonstration of the DITTENHOEFER TWO-IN-ONE INNER TUBE, I take great pleasure in recommending them to anyone. CHICAGO, October 5, 1917. I really believe that you have overcome the great trouble in motoring—that of changing tires on the road, which has always taken away the pleasure of the trip. The demonstration I witnessed consisted of driving two nails into the first compartment, puncturing same, inflating the second compartment in two minutes, and driving away. I heartily recommend this inner tube to everyone. Yours very truly, HARRY W. SPINGOLD. (See Pages 38-39 in this issue) $ ele se » ale pita : ere ere. =. © 25 BaSeh G6" 35, FERRE £26, Os, le aT > Dele tn Wy te, ** pac stig, lg. a « FLORENZ TEMPEST America’s Most Formerly of Tempest and Sunshine, appearing this week (Oct. 22) at the Riverside The- atre, New York, in a delightful single with George M. Harriss at the piano. The entire idea, songs, costumes and effects were conceived by Miss Tempest, although the gowns (most adorable) were executed by Madam Hammer, and the scenery by Robert H. Law. The “Broadway” and “The Lily Tempest’s sister, Marion Sunshine. Direction, MAX HART. and the Male apparel by Lynam. Lovable Boy—Vaudeville’s Daintiest Girl. Rose” numbers were written by Miss RECORD BREAKERS. Allowing Jack Reid the benefit of the doubt as to rt cleanliness of his ‘‘Record Break- ers,” this week’s attraction at the Olympic, it, nevertheless, is impossible to overicok tha inconsistent attempt for comedy, which never arrives. According to the program, Mr. Reid is supposed to handle this end and tries to get away with it himself, but to little results. The first part contained at least six laughs, not one a hearty outburst. Towards closing Reid started to resort to some low comedy. The bit was the one bad spot of the show. It was a family argument with the wife retaliat- ing on hubby. Reid was the husband. What the wife did to him was a shame. Both ap- peared to like the melee, and it seemed as though they were at it for at least ten min- utes. Finally they kicked each other. It was the comedy hit in that section. “The Record Breakers” in its present con- ditton is shy comedy with oodles of other de- fects and seems racing for the lowest possible standing on the American wheel. From the running, a “giri show” was in mind at all times. The plain tight thing is heavily played and several other dressed numbers looked like a collection of second- hand costumes. teally nothing commendable about the or- ganization excepting Mildred Howell, a win- some blonde, with a fetching personality, who easily was the bright spot of the evening. However, she foolishly endeavored to become too familiar with the audience during her specialty, when she was very disappointing. She used a few suggestive numbers. If com- pelled to, there’s an excuse; if her own selec- tion, she used poor judgement. The show is in two parts with a few spe- cialties intermingled. An acute hearing by the orchestra leader helped out the running time. Still the applause that greeted some of the numbers was of greater volume than the snickers bestowed upon the near-comedy. The opening is entitled ‘Looney Park,” with a spieler introducing some specialties. The first part was all numbers. The second section was “In Gay New York” in six scenes. Individually, the latter sections proved more amusing than the entire first part. It con- tained nothing but various burlesque bits, with Reid doing a “dope” that could stand cutting. In the first part he did a nonde- script character . It was impossible to detect the character played by Bob Startzman, Reid's chief as- sistant, in the opening. He used practically every dialect imaginable. Once dressed in a Scotch outfit, he spoke with quite a broad German accent. In the second half he was in blackface, and did better. A Bonham Bell leads a couple of numbers in strictly legiti- mate fashion. He practically did all the sing- ing for the male division. Jack Dempsey and Joseph Bartlett, Jr., handled minor parts. Ella Reid Gilbert and Norman Jerome wore a number of passe gowns, and had little to do besides parading in tights. Lucille Ames was quite prominent, looking good in a num- ber of freakish creations. Theresa Kemp was given the bulk of numbers and did well enough in that respect, but could be more tasty in her dressing. The short skirt effects are not becoming. She also did a specialty with one of the girls in the chorus. This happened near the finale, and was the first popular number of the evening. They aided considerably in putting something real into the performance . “The Record Breakers,” as a title, runs two ways for this show—the producer’s idea and the public’s, with the- betting odds on the public’s is right. DOWNTOWN MUSICAL STOCK. Arrangements have been made for a musical stock show to go into the Win- ter Garden (downtown) next Monday, Manager Minsky signing up new people this week, among them being Mabelle Coutney (prima donna) and ge West. Roehm & Richards placed them. WEINGA'’TEN SUES. I. Weingarten, whose “September Morning Glories” was disenfranchised several weeks ago, has started an ac- tion against the American Burlesque Association, asking $25,000 damages. “MORNING GLORIES” CLOSED. When its American Circuit fran- chise was revoked recently, “Sept. Morning Glories,” owned by I. Wein- garden of Chicago, went on an_ in- dependent tour. Business was not en- couraging, and the show closed Satur- day in Uniontown, Pa. WALKED OUT ON “WIZARD.” Reading, Pa., Oct. 24. Oct. 17 Reading was regaled with a performance presented by William Wamsher and featuring Karl Bowers. It was called the “musial comedy of the hour,” otherwise “The Wizard of Wise- land Abroad,” and held forth at the Rajah. 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| ee ee ae | VARIETY AARIETY Trade Mark Registered Published Weekly by Sime Silverman, President Times Square New York Advertising copy for current issue will be accepted at the New York office up to Wednes- day night. : Advertisements sent by mail should be ac- companied by remittance. SUBSCRIPTION AMRURT. i. coscsonesss $4 Foreiga.....ccocsveve $5 Single copies, 10 cents. Entered as second-class matter December 22, 1905, at the post office at New York, New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Vol. XLVIII. No. 9 When Reno appeared at the 8lst street theatre recently he was billed only with a question mark. The pro- gram space allotted him carried a ¢ with no other billing. Variety’s re- viewer at the show thought Reno was Joe Jackson, when ? appeared. His review of the performance said so, al- though Variety’s Bills Next Week of the Friday before had carried Reno’s name on the 8ist street’s list for the coming week. Tim O’Donnell, who rep- resents Reno, mentioned he was thor- oughly satisfied, however, as Variety mistaking Reno for Jackson brought Reno eight weeks’ work immediately. Mr. O’Donnell expressed the wish Va- riety would make another and similar mistake before the eight weeks were up. Joe Jackson in a letter published in Variety last week denied he had appeared at the 8lst street theatre. The theatre appears to have attempted to relieve itself of the charge of playing a “copy” through the billing, although the question mark used on the pro- gram might well cover the whole af- fair, including Variety’s reviewer, whose only excuse could have been that he was on the Coast s_ long he might have forgotten many of the several Joe Jackson imitators. John E. Friedman, manager of var- ious Chinese troupes, started suit last week in Davenport, Ia., against Long Tack Sam, for $1,000. The suit is based on a contract alleged to have been made between the two last April, which was in the nature of a part- nership agreement. At that time, ac- cording to Friedman, a clause was in- serted whereby each of the parties to the contract agreed to pay $1,000 liqui- dated damages in event the other failed to live up to the terms of the contract. Both parties declare the other violated the terms of the agree- ment. Freeman Bernstein and Jack Gold- berg were jointly interested in one show of the Italian war pictures, sent out by Goldberg, who has the films, in- to territory suggested by Bernstein. It was in New England, according to the story. Goldberg and Bernstein were to be 50-50 on the net, with Goldberg placing the staff for the show, especial- ly the treasurer. After the picture show was out a day Bernstein, says the tale, joined it, dismissed the treasurer, declared himself directing manager of the outfit, and is now con- tinuing with the ‘war film, without for- warding his route to his partner. Hazel Eden, prima donna, formerly with the Boston Englksh Opera Co., figures in a peculiar suit for slander in Chicago, Miss Eden charging Dr. Samuel K. Loder, of the Windy City, with having used her name in a cir- cular that reflected on her to the ex- tent of $50,000 worth of damages. Ac- cording to her allegation the doctor in his pamphlet asserted he had per- formed an operation on her mouth wherein he did some norcelain inlaid and bridge work which Hazel declares is very much untrue, as she has a perfect set of teeth. The divorce action of Morris Kis- sen (Burns and Kissen) against Ma- belle Kissen is soon due for trial in the Supreme Court of New York. The action was brought on _ statutory grounds, although ne co-respondent is mentioned. The wife, who is receiv- ing $12 weekly alimony, has brought a counter action, on similar grounds, and she too fails to name a co-respon- dent. The couple were married in Cleveland in 1909. There is a six-year- old son. Herman L. Roth is acting for the plaintif. When the new French theatre com- pany project is launched at the re- modeled Garrick on West 35th street, Nov. 20, the production end of each piece in the repertoire, now selected, will be personally handled by Jacques Copeau. The general publicity is be- ing looked after by Courtney Lemon, a New Yorker, while the company management is in charge of (Miss) D H. Andrews. For the French play tenancy the Garrick wil! kereafter be known as the Theatre Du Vieux Col- ombier. A double suit on behalf of Muriel Window for damages amounting to $4.000 against the Century Amusement Co., alleging a breach of contract en- tered into in 1916 for the Century and Cocoanut Grove respectively, the form- er at $125 weekly and the latter $150, came up before Judge McAvoy in the urer, has been off duty part of the time owing to an injured nose. Mrs. Barney Bernard is in the Wom- en’s Hospital suffering from peritonitis. An operation will be performed as soon as her condition warrants. Hugo Reisenfeild, lead orchestra, underwent a nasal cperation last week, returning to the theatre Sunday. Samuel Rothapfel conducted in his absence. Edgar Atchison-Ely was operated on for abscesses in both ears last week. David Henderson, advertising man- ager of McClure’s, is back at his desk following illness caused by overwork. The female member of the Stadium Trio is confined at the Seattle, Wash., General Hospital. The act is continu- ing as a duo for the present. Jay Benton, a_ Boston theatrical writer and press agent, is undergoing treatment in a Boston hospital for fail- ing eyesight. Betty Sands, a member of the “Oh You Devil” act, playing the Pantages circuit, who was operated on for ap pendicitis at Spokane, has fully re- covered and returned to the cast at Portland last week. Al Gilbert (Al Gilbert and Co.) is confined to Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Albert E. Bray, musical director, Or- pheum, Montreal, is ill in that city with pneumonia. Following an accident in which he er of the Rialto sent care VARIETY. VARIETY FREE TO THEATRICAL MEN IN THE SERVICE While the war continues VARIETY will be sent com- plimentary to any theatrical man in the U. S. Service Name, with address, should be forwarded and proper mailing address sent at once if ordered elsewhere. The list will be maintained also for re-mailing letters City Court Tuesday. A settlement of $1,000 was agreed upon. The plaintiff retained Frederick and Henry J. Gold- smith as her attorneys. Eddie Weber (Weber and Ridnour) heard last week that his brother, Os- car Davis (the name given for enlist- ment) was the first American seaman to lose his life in the present war, the latter drowning while aboard the U. S. S. “Jarvis,” Oct. 8. The deceased seaman was serving his second enlist- ment. The Webers live at 820 Eighth Street, Philadelphia. At the convention of the Illinois State Federation of Labor last week at Joliet, efforts were made by Presi- dent John Fitzpatrick and Secretary Ed. Nockels to get legislation doing away with the labor picket injunction. In their speeches on the subject, par- ticular stress was laid on the recent strike of the White Rats in Chicago. Alleging he was discharged without notice and that he was entitled to being paid accordingly on his contract, R. F. Trevellick of the F. M. Barnes, Inc., has brought suit for $1,000 against the Western Vaudeville Managers’ As- sociation. Sy Goodfriend has gone on the road ahead of “Good Night Paul.” Dwight Pepple, the Chicago producer, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The Queen, Dallas, recently destroy- ed by fire, is being rebuilt. ILL AND INJURED. Joe Kane, laid up for some time as the result of a recent accident, is out and around again. Harry Leavitt, under a doctor’s care since last August, expects to return to the road this month sometime. Eddie Plohn, the Broadway treas- suffered internal injuries and because of subsequent illness for 17 weeks, Di- mitri Stephen, who announced early in June he would direct the New York subscription series of concerts and first American tour of Sasha Votichenko owing to his inability to direct his im- mediate tours. Mr. Votichenko will hereafter appear under the manage- ment of Katherine Bammam. Walter Whipple fell from the train while en route to Reno, Nev., with the members of “A Mix Up,” and broke his eollar bone. Sam Meyers, manager of the Sander- son-Cawthorne show, who was ill for five weeks with pneumonia, attended by Dr. Louis Stern, was sufficiently recovered this week to venture out. George Anderson with “Furs and Frills” broke two ribs while ‘riding Tuesday, but appeared in the show af- ter having received medical attention. NEW ACTS. Philip De Voe has obtained the vaudeville rights to Wilfred Clarke’s former vehicle, “Who Owns “the Flat” and will produce it, with Milton Boyle handling the former Clarke role, Dora 300th will be his principal support. “A Day in Kidland,” with 7 people, 3 girls and 4 boys. Charlotte Whiting and Joie Stool f: Others, Mar- garet Mason, Jit Videa, Herman Fea, Jeanette Mcitowell and Fred Bachman, who produced it (Chicago). Allan Campbell (formerly with the New York’ Comedy Four) has organ- ized a quartet composed of men six feet in height or over. The others are Charles Bliss, Fred Walcott and Chas. Slattery. limmie. Smith. (formerly. Smith and Kaufman), Charles Senna, and Stanley McAvoy in the “Three Painters” (the Fred Ardath turn recently at the Win- ter Garden). “Broadway Boys and Girls,” with 8 people; Gates and Finely. Three Syn- copated Girls (Kaufman and Hyde, Inc.) Len Cooper, with Ruth Howell, will break in his act, “Seventy Cents,” out of town. Frank Tinney is doing the same turn in the Winter Garden show. “Freedom of the Seas,” the naval ef- fect from The Follies, has been post- poned until Oct. 29. Al Mayer, once an agent in vaude- ville, is now commencing to produce “girl acts.” “The Clock Shop,” formerly played by Chip and Marble, reproduced with new company. Olga Vicare, Belgian prima donna in a song and dance act, staged by Raymond B. Perez. “Signa, The Girl from Norway,” new single, carrying special scenery. (Form- erly of Andres Sisters.) Eugene Emmett and Bungalow Maids, nine people (Norman Jefferson) TOMMY’S TATTLES. By Thomas J. Gray. When one reads about the various “Buys” of the ticket speculators, they can’t help but admit that the funniest thing ever written for the theatre is that well known, useless sign—“Tickets Purchased from the Speculators Will Positively Be Refused at the Door.” . A few more useless signs might be added to that list— “Acts are not allowed to stand in the entrance. This means you.” “Acts are allowed to take only two bows.” “Turn out your lights when leaving the dressing room.” “You must be in the theatre, and made up one-half hour before your act goes on.” “Theatrical Boarding House. Home Cooking.” “Performers not allowed in front of the theatre.” “Special rates to the profession.” “No smoking.” “Silence.” Postal rates have gone up—it will soon cost three cents to write your agent and ask him where you go next week. However, it still costs him noth- ing to wire the answer to you—collect. Experts say very good gun cotton can be made out of picture fims. Fine! If our government needs it we hope they use some of those pictures that were “Going to Stop the War,” or would those films claim exemption? —_——— Papers say the government uses birds to carry messages at the front. Looks like a great chance for magi- cians to enlist those doves that would hide in the high hats, also the pigeons that came out of those double bot- tomed tin pans after the “professor” dropped in two broken eggs. Artists appearing, in cabarets know every time the high cost of living goes higher. Every time food and drink go up the applause falls off. War taxes not worrying managers. Mr. and Mrs. John Public will be in- vited to kick in. Line forms on the right. -_—_—— Government could make a lot of money if they put a tax on imitations of Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin. It’s harder to imitate Douglas Fair- banks. A lot of actors try to fix the smile with grease paint, but they haven’t the teeth. We heard of one actor who had two dentists working on him. What can be funnier than a healthy than or military age singing a “war song? Buy a Liberty Bond! a en arte —— J. pena s | | I i f —

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Se ne gs SOR aan Spare gaeneren aren AN NMI I ann gery ate $4} — poten ad rs ae a a pr LEGITIMATE BALLYHOOING INTO BIGGEST ADVANCE SALE EVER KNOWN Over $250,000 Already in Chicago Grand Opera Treasury. Will Reach $300,000 Before Curtain Goes up. “Meal Tickets” Issued. Nothing in Ballyhoo Line Over- looked. Ticket Specs’ Harvest, Without Risk. Chicago, Oct. 24. Every ballyhoo known to circus days has been employed to pile up an advance sale for the Chicago Grand Opera Company season, opening next week at the Auditorium, even to the introduction of what are now known as “meal tickets.” The proposition is to sell trade-tickets for $9, good for $10 at the box office, to be used at the will of the holder at any time during the opera season. The scalpers are investing heavily in these tickets, as they mean a cold return of 11 per cent on their money in four months, or 33 per cent interest, with little risk. The public, too, is devouring the scheme. The result of this and the unique advertising cam- paign, in which page after page was used to boost advance sales and season subscriptions for seats, including even gallery chairs, has piled up about $250,- 000 in the treasury. with prospects of not less than $300,000 when the cur- tain rises, probably the greatest ad- vance sale in the history of the world. Show people here anticipate the opening of the opera with fear and quaking. That it will take the edge off other theatricals at the start is certain, and that it will hurt harder and more steadily this year than in any previous season within the memory of the present generation of showmen is regarded as foregone. The ticket vokers, who reflect the spirit at such times, are taking the opera with deep seriousness, hoping to make up through it what they are certain to lose because of it through falling off elsewhere. SUNDAY AT IT AGAIN. Now that Billy Sunday is in Los Angeles and *thinking perhaps that he is far enough away from New York to start roasting the stage without being attacked, he begins again with the fol- lowing: “If you want obscenity, you will find it in the theatre. Your show has to be tainted to gather in the coin. The capacity for amusing people along de- cent lines seems to have passed.” Raymond Hitchcock Wednesday told a VARIETY representative Mr. Sunday had given him his promise to cease his attacks upon the theatre. Mr. Hitch- cock said, “I also asked him to avoid slang, but if he’d do that he’d lose his jo Rad In Los Angeles his abuse runs along in the following “sermon”: “You avoid the pest house and lepers and yet night after night you will rush to the theatre to enjoy this procession of moral lepers, exposed upon the stage for the plaudits of the public. “If you want to see character de- stroyed you will find it in both be- hind and before the footlights. I do not mean to say that all plays and all actors are rotten. But you will have to hunt pretty hard to find those that are not. It is almost impossible to find in the theatre decency and purity.” In Los Angeles Sunday was attacked for his “sermon” by Lester J. Fountain, manager of the Hippodrome, in the Los Angeles “Record.” In kis reply to Mr. Sunday, Fountain states “Two deduc- tions may be made from Mr. Sunday’s remarks. First, if Mr. Sunday is sin- cere in this belief, then the reason for his suggestive methods of preaching is apparent. Secondly, if such is the case, then Los Angeles is in a very, very bad way for it has the reputation of possessing one of the largest and best theatre-going publics in the United States. In other words, it has a most profitable and dependable clientele for the rot, filth and rubbish that is spewed out over the stage.” “Religion we must and should have, looking to that Almighty Power for our strength ind understanding, and no matter what our faith or belief, Jew, Gentile or heathen, as long as we are sincere and abide by its doctrines, I see no reason why any legitimate vocation in the various walks of life should in- terfere with our hopes of salvation.” DOING A “COME-BACK.” Chicago, Oct. 24. “Honolulu Lou,” a musical comedy, with tunes by Ben Jerome and lyrics by Charles Adelman (collaborators years ago on the successful show, “The Voyagers”), opened on the: one- nighters and scored. A second company was immediately put in rehearsal for the International Circuit, and several publishers are rivals for the numbers, which are said to have the old Jerome tang to them. Jerome in past years was one of the sure-fires of shows produced in this region, and if this indicates a return of his activities of grade equal to those of a decade ago, it means much to the trade. Jerome is conducting “Oh, Boy,” and Adelman is now advertising manager of a Chicago daily. They are negotiat- ing with a local writer of note for a Chicago-made musical show, and have a tentative producer interested. BACK ON THE STAGE. Marie Doro in “Barbara,” opens at the Plymouth, Nov. 5, succeeding Will- iam Gillette in “A Successful Calamity.” It will be her first appearance on the legitimate stage in five years. Another return to the legitimate from filmdom is Ann Murdock, who opens her new show in Detroit next Monday night, under the management of Charles Frohman, Inc. MANHATTAN’S BIG BUSINESS. “Chu Chin Chow” gives every indi- cation of breaking the house record at the Manhattan O. H. this, it’s first week at the house. The show got $2,986 at $1 top on Wednesday afternoon and almost $4,500 that night. The gross on the week may go to $36,000, which will mean topping the record of “The Whip” by $12,000. MYSTERY PLAY CLOSING. “The Barton Mystery” at the Com- edy will breathe its last Saturday. The piece is being sent to the storehouse. A. E. Anson was placed under con- tract Tuesday by George Tyler as lead- ing man for Laurette Taylor in “The Wooing of Eve.” Theresa Maxwell Conover and Earl Brown were also engaged for the same company. JERE COHAN MEMORIAL MEETING. The opening meeting of the Catholic Actors’ Guild of America scheduled for Oct. 30, at 2 p. m., to be held at the Hotel Astor, will be in memory of the late Jere Cohan, president of the so- ciety. NEW YORKERS AFTER CHICAGO. There is no doubt but that one of the larger theatre ticket agency firms now operating in New York is to in- vade Chicago shortly. The plans are fully laid for the general attack by the New Yorkers on the agencies now operating in Chicago. The report several weeks ago from Chicago that Mrs. Jessie Couthoui, who controls a number of stands in the principal Chicago hotels and clubs, was offered $100,000 for her holdings was verified in New York this week. The offer came from the firm that has the biggest string of hotel stands in New York. W. J. Fallon, who is at the head of the Tyson Company’s holdings in New York, made the offer for the Chicago string. The refusal of the Chicago broker to part with her business is not going to deter the New Yorkers from invading the west. Their plan of cam- paign as at present outlined contem- plates the extinction of the present Chicago brokers. In New York the Tyson Company, in association and working in conjunc- tion with the McBride Company, are about the biggest theatrical ticket brokers in the field. Their only big opposition is the United Theatre Ticket Agencies, of which Dave Marks is the head. This company is virtually an association of all the independent men in New York outside of the two big companies. Mr. Fallon, as general manager of the Tyson Company, figures that the New York connections will be strong enough lever to bring the managers to his way of thinking in the matter of Chicago buys. The plan is that whenever a buy is nego- tiated for a production in New York it will carry with it an option for the best seats, to the number of 300 a per- formance, for the run of the piece in Chicago. By this means the New Yorkers would freeze out Chicago brokers, who would only be able to get the seats at the rear of the house, and the New York operated agencies would attract all the business. At present there is a_ possibility Tyson & Company will put through a deal with Ernie Young, who -operates the ticket agency at the Union Hotel, Chicago (which adjoins the Olympic theatre). There have been several telegraph conferences between Young and Fallon, and the latter has made one trip west for the purpose of go- ing over the field there. NO. 2 CLOSING. The No. 2 company of “Good Grac- ious Annabelle,” playing the one night stands under the management of A. B. Stern, will close next Tuesday. Bartholomae-Tours Collaboration. Philip Bartholomae has written the book of a play, to which Frank Tours has set the music. It will be placed in ee shortly by Elizabeth Mar- ury. TYLER BROOKE Exclusively managed by CHAMBERLAIN BROWN and now juvenile in Oliver Morosco’s “SO LONG LETTY.” PENNY PANIC. Chicago, Oct. 24. America is in the grip of a penny famine. It hits everybody, but prob- ably will affect the picture and minor vaudeville houses most. A thorough investigation into the situation was this week made by Joseph Hopp, president of the Motion Picture Exhibitors’ League of Amer- ica, and Adolph Linick, of Jones, Linick & Schaeffer. They toured the leading banks and visited the sub-treasury in connection with the war tax on theatres, which goes into effect November 1. ; In Chicago, after an exhaustive search, it was discovered there was not a bag of pennies available. Federal investigation disclosed that the largest amount of pennies was on hand at New Orleans—$200 worth. A compilation of the number of theatres and picture fans in Chicago alone disclosed the fact that after November 1 about $400,000 worth of pennies a day must change hands. The serious effect of the shortage is apparent. It has been said that the famine is caused by German agents buying up the pennies for the copper. This is being investigated. In the meantime, in addition to the theatrical require- ments, newspapers here sell for two cents a copy, five-cent cigarettes and cigars are selling at six cents, extra penny charges are being made for bread and butter, the cafeterias are doing a large penny business, and unless there is a relief there will be chaos among the small money- changers. Manager Fred Eberts of the Majestic, anticipating the shortage, instructed all employees, including the members of his orchestra, to get as many pennies as they can. The help visited their banks and brought in about $60 worth last week. It was impossible to secure pennies at local banks in amounts of more than $5 without an order from the cashier. With the inaugurztion of the war tax on theatres only a week off a number of the managers of the popular priced theatres and vaudeville houses started on a still hunt for pennies with which to make change. They first made in- quiries at the sub-treasury and were informed there that there were no pennies to be had. Subsequent inquir- ies at several banks with which they were doing business brought almost a like answer. The Ward and Gow people who have all the slot machine concessions in the subway and on elevated stations were next appealed to. They stated all the pennies from their machines were de- posited at the sub-treasury. At several of the New York theatres this week automatic change making machines were installed to facilitate the handling of the tax. “OVER THE TOP” HELD UP. The opening date of “Over the Top,” the revue in which Justine Johnstone is to appear on the roof of the 44th Street, is decidedly indefinite at pres- ent. Some say that it will be Dec. 1 before the show will open. This week Lee Shubert turned the details of the production over to J. J. Shubert and he is now trying to whip things into shape. All work on the scenic cnd of the production was called off two weeks ago and orders had not been given to resume. It will take at least three weeks to turn out the scenic end of the show alone, and the theatre itself atop of the 44th is still far from completion at present. Nellie Revell-May Tully Play. May Tully -has—a play written by Nellie Reveil some time ago. It may be shortly produced. The story is of a newspaper woman with ambition, and is said to have been written with Ida M. Tarbell in mind. sho ren con wh: not ma tio! gua sho —-_— —_ etic Mm oth * wee

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With the road full of shows anxious to come in, they are not having any trouble in finding bidders for a chance on Broadway. “De Luxe Annie,” the Arthur Ham- merstein production which opened at the Booth and was switched to the 39th Street two weeks ago to make room for “The Masquerader,” is go- ing to move to the Cort tomorrow night, guaranteeing the house $3,000 weekly for its share, for five weeks, at least. “Romance and Arabella,” which opened at the Harris last week, is in the house at $2,500 guarantee for four weeks, and if the show catches on, for a longer stay. The list of shows closing and head- ing for the moth balls and camphor this week include “The Claim,” which finishes at the Fulton to make way for “Broken Threads,” also in on a $2,500 guarantee for four weeks; “The Barton Mystery” at the Comedy, to be fol- lowed by the regular season at the house of the Washington Square Play- ers beginning next week; “Furs and Frills” at the Casino, which goes to the storehouse, and “The Land of the Free” at the 48th Street. “Peter Ibbetson” moves into the latter house from the Republic to make way for “On With the Dance,” a new A. H. Woods pro- duction which has been playing out of town for a fortnight. William Faversham in “The Old Country” is the production due at the 39th Street Monday night. In its orig- inal form in London the piece was con- sidered a hit. Faversham re-wrote the play prior to calling rehearsals and at the last minute had to call in a well- known playwright to assist him in fix- ing the play. The piece deals with the return of an Englishman to his home after after having “made good” in America and the resultant complica- tions that arise because of his having absorbed too many American sms. To add to the long list of shows al- ready marking time at the outer por- tals of New York, the Selwyns will add three during the coming week, and “Under Pressure,” the K. & E.-Edgar McGregor production will close in Cleveland tomorrow night until a Broadway house can be secured to ac- commodate it. This piece was origin- ally to have come into the Fulton, but the guarantee of “Broken Threads” took that house away. It is understood Mrs. Harris is look- ing for another woman to replace Flor- ence Roberts in the leading role of “The Claim,” the part not being suited to Miss Roberts. If she succeeds in finding one, the piece will be sent to Chicago for presentation there. RIGHTS FOR ALL CANADA. With the idea of incorporating a new er2 of amusements in Canada, the United Producing Co. of Canada, which company practically controls’ the theatres of the Dominion, has opened offices in New York. The primary idea is the buying of Montreal and Toronto rights for all Broadway successes, and the presentation of them in Canada concurrent with the runs here. Here- tofore American producers have sold Canadian rights for plays, but have held out the two principal cities. In such cases where rights other than Montreal and Toronto have been ob- tained, the people in the smaller towns have seen the show before the New York companies reached that country. Immediately play is deemed a suc- cess the United will seek an option on the Canadian rights, and will as quickly as possible cffer the show, with either Montreal or Tvuronto as the first point, although there will probably be a few try out dates, as is the case in this country. All productions are to be built here and the casts made up in New York, since it is realized that it would be dificult to supplant a member un- fitted after the show had opened in Canada. The first play secured is “The Brat” and with Rea Martin in the title role it is in rehearsal in New Ycrk. Its opening Canadian date is Oct. 25. A. J. Edwards, who has staged stock in Hamilton, Ont., has been engaged as stage director for the United’s new activities. Wm. B. Naylor who has been on the staff of the Montreal “Sun,” is general advance agent. The purchase of the Canadian rights in- clude the whole of the Dominion, and not only the large cities. One night companies will be formed when neces- sary. SPANISH RIVALRY. It looks as though this is going to be a season of castanets, judging from the rivalry brewing between the pub- licity men handling the affairs of the various steppers from the land of bull fights. This week the Century management announced the arrival of the greatest of all Spanish dancers, Tortola de Va- lencia, Bill Sill raving over her charms and ability. On top of that E. A. Weil issued a statement that the only dyed in the wool one best bet in Spanish dancers is Doloretes Yborra, who is coming to the Park theatre next week with the Spanish light opera company presenting “The Land of Joy.” Edward Bernays, who is handling the affairs for La Argentina, is about to come out with a challenge to both of these ladies. STELLA MAYHEW’S NEXT. San Francisco, Oct. 24. Stella Mayhew will be starred in the initial cost production of “Broadway and Buttermilk,” the Willard Mack play, which will be staged at the Al- cazar next month by George Ebey. Harry Clarke will play opposite Miss Mayhew. The cast includes Marie Cur- tis, Robert Hyman, Sarah McVickar, and Virginia Mann. Big Productions Paralleling Time. Through certain southern territory, two shows, each heavy in scenic equip- ment and depending on its big clim- axes for the box office “draw,” have been paralleling time with both shows reported doing splendidly, all things considered. The productions are “The Garden of Allah” and “Ben Hur.” The’ respective managements have all they can do to convince the public, prior to the stand dates, that neither of the big shows is a picture. PHILLY’S THEATRICAL CHANGES. Philadelphia, Oct. 24. It has been officially announced that the new theatre now being erected on South Broad street directly opposite the Syndicate’s Broad, has been leased by the Shuberts. The theatre will be known as the Sam S., Shubert Me- morial Theatre. The old Chestnut Street opera house has also been taken over by the same firm and work on improving the house has already be- un. It is reported, although not confirm- ed, that when these houses are ready for use, the Lyric and Adelphi, the Shubert houses located on North Broad street, are to be torn down to make room for a big office building. The two theatres are understood to have turned a loss for the firm during the period they have been open. When Nixon & Zimmerman operated the Chestnut Street Opera House the big- gest musical plays were always booked in this house and tne Shuberts intend to return to the original policy. Work of razing the old Chestnut Street theatre, above 12th street, has been started. The house formerly op- erated by Nixon & Zimmerman played many of-the greatest attractions ever produced and was once famous for its stock company. The house was closed by the Fire Commissioners several years ago and has remained idle ever since. AGENCIES’ “BLUE” MONDAY. Monday was the worst night thus far of the theatrical season as far as the theatre ticket agencies were con- cerned. Almost every one of the agencies were “stuck” that night with seats for practically every show in town on which they are carrying out- right buys. The one exception was “Jack o’Lantern,” at the Globe. The fact that business was off was most apparent because, for the first time since the opening of the run of “Business Before Pleasure,” a couple of seats were turned back to the Eltinge by the outside men. The reason for the “flop” that eve- ning could not be explained as the weather was clear and there was no event of unusual importance on. All the houses suffered equally. DOROTHY DONNELLY PRODUCING. Dorothy Donnelly is entering the producing field this season. In asso- ciation with the Shuberts she is staging a comedy called “Six Months’ Option,” adapted from the French. Stanley C. Ridges, from stock, will have the leading role. The new piece will have an out of town premiere in about three weeks. MANAGING STUDEBAKER. Claude S. Greneker, for a number of years connected with the Shuberts, with the press agenting of Winter Garden shows especially, has been appointed manager of the Studebaker, Chicago. The house reopens with a return to the legitimate policy (Shu- bert’s) November 5, with William Gil- lette in “A Successful Calamity.” Orpheum, Newark, Resumiag Stock. Stock is going into the Orpheum, Newark, shortly but not under Joe Wood’s, as he had hoped. In some manner Joe let the lease get away and another party is now organ- izing a company to stay there all win- ter if the trick can be turned. It is the house Jay Packard formerly operated with stock. He is now hand- ling another company in Jersey City. Marriage Surprises Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Oct. 24. The marriage in New York of Lu- cretia Del Valle, leading woman of California’s mission play, to Harry F. Grady, professor at Columbia, caused a big surprise here. It is probable Miss Del Valle will quit the stage. LOBBY TOO PROPHETIC. Chicago, Oct. 24. The Shuberts, who will open the Studebaker Theatre with William Gillette in “A Successful Calam- ity,” as their newest playhouse, Nov. 5, were unsuccessful in an effort to have a famous “hoodoo” removed. Over the door entering into the Stude- baker lobby is the significant quota- tion ,in raised lettering: “All Passes —Art Alone Endures.” But the sign was placed above that door when the house was first dedi- cated as a monument to Clem Stude- baker, who, having made his money manufacturing farmers’ wagons, want- ed to endow an asylum for the endur- ing arts. Rae. any a manager of many a losing show has gazed vengefully at the too true sign. Now that the Shuberts pro- pose to give the house a thorough busi- ness administration, they want it re- moved, but the building management refuses to alter or permit to be altered the traditional markings of the lobby, which is famous, also, as one theatre foyer where no dosters can be set up. ROAD SHOW EXPENSE. With the added cost of paper, the tax on railroad fares, increase of adver- tising and other fixed charges on the weekly statement, some managers claim the increase in cost of operat- ing a road show this season figures as much as 20 per cent. on some items. Investigation of newspaper rates in the larger Eastern cities, however, shows the total expenditure for dis- play is about the same. In Boston rates on several dailies have gone up, but with the suspension of the Bos- ton “Journal,” about four weeks ago, the total weekly advertising bill re- mains the same. This is true of New York, where advertising rates have been boosted, equalized last season by the suspension of the Press. “GRASS WIDOWS” COMING. Philadelphia, Oct. 24. “The Grass Widows,” by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf, recently opened and now playing here, will go back to New York after Saturday, there to be fixed up before reopening in Boston Nov. 5. _ Before “The Grass Widows” opens in Boston there will be three changes in the cast, Emma Janvier, Robert Emmett Kean and W. J. Ferguson being the new comers. There will also be two new sets built for the show. Those used for the first and second ‘acts in Philadelphia v.ill be discarded and the last act set will be repainted. “UNDER PRESSURE” STOPS. Cleveland, Oct. 24. “Under Pressure,” originally pro- duced by Cohan & Harris, but later taken over by Klaw & Erlanger, stops here Saturday, after being out for three weeks. _ Fred Niblo, with a strong support- ing cast, appeared in the play. It is said the show stopped but temporarily, awaiting a New York booking. “MIKE” OUT AGAIN. Leffler & Bratton are sending “The Love o’ Mike” on tour again. They have been rehearsing a new cast for the production in New York this week. The “Mike” company that closed was not controlled by these managers, but they purchased the equipment for the show from the Shuberts and Elizabeth Marbury. 7th Ave. Drawing. _ Loew's 7th Avenue. theatre, Harlem, in the second week of its new combin- ation policy, with “The Knife” as the attraction, did between $8,000 and $9,000. This week “The Thirteenth Chair” is at the house. It had an advance of $2,000 up to Monday morning, which indicated a large gross for the week’s engagement.

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porcelains, plaques, in all 190 items, which ANTHONY IN WONDERLAND. a | brought $12,400, making a total cf $17,252 A comedy in three acts and five acon eTill . for 423 items in two sessions, Ina Claire, Monckton Hoffe. Produced by Henry er Re the mother of the Dolly sisters, Sam Schepps, at the Criterion, Oct. 23. M NEWS ' ROM | HE DATI A} Ss Mrs. Emil Winters and a great many more In a neat curtain speech Mr. eines tae f people prominent in the theatrical profession that for his part he liked the play. _% it ( were in attendance at the auction. audience the only ning ee Mlle ee I" / - ra . ede ; , a a * . ike > rie scene and Mr. Millers - (Below is news matter not collected by VaRiETy but rewritten in —— a —Times. a * 5 . , . . a . . . The musical comedy at the La Salle, Chi- The ay is stifled by its second fo a . i eal . . ‘ = = “ oles " a : yf L a SE ’ The play is quite justiflec y . | ee conde nSeé d form from the tté mS Te lating to the at? icals ap pe aring in the i be has - re ag . lot Se in the act. What precedes it has all the eee ‘a pee y q * seamless _ oF a ae is Py ee l aprerv’c pe, licago papers, but last week a little drama of dullness, crudeness and longwindedness. vi . New York daily Ne ws pape rs between the dates of VARIETY 'S weé kly was enacted im the office of Nat Royster, man- But the information it conveys is necessary tl . ager of he theatre, which made the front for an understanding of what is to follow. a a) lay issues.) page of the Chicago daiiies. : — World. ct i : : appears that Joe Daly, the property man, —— A had made several complaints of the theft of it tf aah = * 2 os property, roses and other artificial flowers JUDGMENTS. R st oe. “The Claim at the Fulton closes this “Aida” will open the opera season at the used in one of the sets of “Oh, Boy!” Roys- Judgments filed in the County Clerk’s office. t i} = week. Metropolitan Nov. 12, with Claudia Muzio, ter treated the complaints lightly, but when The first name is that of the judgment c it F pony ae ’ Margarete Matzennauer, Marie Sundelius, Daly pointed out that the pilferings were de btor, the second the judgment creditor, and u | oe “On With the Dance” opens at the Republic Enrico Caruso, Pasquale Amato, Jose Mar- being done by somebody employed at the the- the amount of judgment. ¥ ee Oct. 29 under the direction of A. H. Woods. dones and Basil Ruysdael. The ballet will be atre, who probably had access to the dressing Lee Ave. Exhibiton Co., Inc.—Jacob Berg ‘4 i . eatery , led by Rosina Galli, and the new Italian con- rooms, he decided to put an end to it. & Morris Goldman, $219.80. te : | 6 Alexander Umansky for Adolpf Bolm’s ductor, Roberto Moranzoni, will direct the per- He got three men from the detective bu- Bee Kay Amus. Co., Inc.—J. T. Leighton, in i 3 ballet at the Century. formance. nm ene, ther worked on the case a couple se -cer ie Mle: Publishing Co. Ine-—-W n ee is para Kt prea = _ oernens of days. They located the culprit, and caught sernar ranvilie Fublishin 0x5 sti Anke e : Cliffy,” one of the dogs of Cliff Arnold's Clifford Taylor, known to the profession as her with the goods. She was Mrs. Sophie J. Vanderveer, $324.46. : ; ’ act, died recently at the age of 17. lohn BD. Kelly. was sentenced at Los Angeles Korab, a scrubwoman of the theatre. Mildred West, principal, and Kate Terker, D if ; “orto! ralencis rri Sund t : nt Ta term of from one year to life when Royster attempted to scold the woman, when surety—People, &¢., $500 Carmen Tortote veces Final ved —— = he pleaded guilty to a charge of slaying his he broke down and told her story. Her baby ASSIGNMENTS. n oa yy take part in the new Century show wif Blanch April 6 After a quarrel be- john, had died a couple of we ks before and Allan-Allen, Inc., has assigned for the bene- f Pe oe ey ye tween them, her body was found with a silk she had been stealing the flowers ! } 2 fit of creditors to Albert F. Dexter. it i! Harry Davidson is going out in advance of stocking around her neck which had been grave of the child. Pt eee eh go se eae ; a i “Mother Carey's Chickens” for John Cort. used to choke her. May Dowling, the press representative of SHOWS IN CHICAGO. 8 : i vere } i g , ae the show, blew out and ecnme bac ri E m1: ; ij Toighbo . i . " at . af es 8. ss hal a 7 verse oo Panel Stamm ncggahy syed Londoe. Ihe war San taken al) he pretty “For John,” she said. The general slump caused by the i tf atre Saturday nigh _ presen ig ) ays. and shapely 8 ris to the front as Red ( ross Royster took up a collection among the the- combination of Liberty Bonds, war F . ' : am af nurses and for work in ammunition plants atre employes, and turned over $60 to the ; os : 3 o 2nts OeS y John Parrot, dancer, was paroled after and, as a result, all the second raters are left womhn. : “— * ~—s tax, dratting and huge patriotic railies : — three and one-half months in the in the choruses. However, certain camouflage Fees has hit the downtown houses hard, ‘ workhouse. mubinations have formed pretty curves and . . i Hy ies — nee hase acecieale Waabe Wale. feaeaa CRITICISMS. and the outlying vaudeville theatres ( zines vere re USI) Li ¥ =] ie. : : QD ie f Re wt c ° 7 George Wotherspon has been engaged by — ROMANCE AND ARABELLA, harder. Business has been off for r Arthur Hammerstein as publicity promoter Suing for $100,000 for the alienation of the A comedy in four acts by William Hurlburt several weeks at the small - time s “oT : a .. o8 ey ; “yt ita . ‘ Sh one inca ASSN 0fek AIEEE ACisS ¥istialii uriv . . 4. ee kee ee ee ye gg Pie gi Shy ate Clara Tee —- Produced by Joseph Ritter at Harris theatre, theatres outside the loop, the Wilson ( enemas scKel, (bas » CcKeil testifiec iat viTs Oct. 17. ° A : a f . , ee ] “A Successful Calamity will end its en- Eckel was induced to leave him by Max Hart, And yet was this Arabella preposterous, and Avenue being —" notable erate | gagement at the Plymouth, New York, Nov. the booking agent, who is defending the ac- a bore. If only some one ‘had seen to it that In the loop such a sure hit as | 3, and will go to the Studebaker, Chicago. tion According > See 7”, bgt en- the audience should feel for her one-tenth “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath,’ at the | E . ey es , ticed from him in November, 1014, by prom- of the adoration that cast and management re) i jee 5 Oscar Shaw, appearing in Leave a - ises of gifts and presents. On Dec. 12, 1915, alike so prodigally lavished upon her! ‘ta oe ph pares ve Reiween oes eae ik Jane,” will also appear nightly in the ‘‘Mid- Mrs. Eckel died } ‘ ae $2000 less last week than the week night Frolic — sree , before. The end of the run is not yet | M nd Florence Walton returned last cme Os ~y av nite - a. a ny Beg One could not avoid the feeling that the in sight, but it is said “Peter Ibbet- , aurice and yrence alte d las ts name if James J. Storrow, the Ne eng- we ‘ eg si? Boe . . oe : ss . an: . ad sgn os seen al Sone th ee wer bs in Fr: : ae Meal ministrator, has his way and de- fun was forced and the mechanism of the piece son will succeed it. “Miss Spring- week after spending three months in rance. land Fu Administrator, ha lis way anc t was clogged with dust It was not an out-and- } a ; . ° ° +4 They open at the Palace next week. cides to eliminate night advertising signs and out failure. this affair at the Harris but a time, though a rousing hit, is leaving : { ——_ cut off the current of many powerfnl street i ce that is not Stentor te) etter tn . oe , a ap just bi enough between its Lith “The Melting of Molly,” which the Shu- lamps Although no orders have been issued Ses alent. Norwegls ancer, ar- be irtalle ! xtravaganz ; . > ate tepublic s elected S):enherd There P > three *k- in v3 * . . ¢ . “ ’ “oT . , . { $e 27 ie hg the ‘8th street theatre for two oan bande tet ver 'D welt Ye pers 1 = And . the “en ‘Gai on I I Oh, Boy” and “The Man Who Came [TEE = be owe = _— Tenn et Gee y terisme ve ! pper an¢ And yet the Yinter Garden show this year lanl”? ct: aa . « o ae cae igs Hl weeks. Nat Goodwin Mr. Goodwin withdrew. Other runs rather to chorus. Moreover, tke chorus sack stand 7 5° the sturdiest hits Hee —_—— members elected were: Boy, Fred Niblo; Corr. has taken to cover. It is on the order of a Of the season, both saddled with the " i} A. W. Herman, formerly with the Cohan & Secy.: Geo. V Hol rt; Ree. Soe, R. H. popular magazine cover—or it would be if burden of “bringing back” theatres iti z Harris manageria! staff, is now with “The Burnside; Treas., lenry Smith; -ibrarian, popular magazine covers had a little more . } 2e : - : »vIONE 4+ Birth of a Nation.” foams Stewart ae ened af Siirestere "has Sisthes en. Taill. fer the Wistar Garden. 2 to that had been unfortunate in prev tous tgae —— the names of A. O. Brown, Arthur Hurley, cover. In brief, though the show lacks princi- bookings. fhe Thirteenth Chair” is [ ‘2 “The Barton Mystery’’ closes at the Comedy Joseph H. Buhler, Albert J. Simmons, Mal- pals, it is something unprecedented in clothes. still doing profitable business, but has i faa is week Jashing Square P Ts > con filliams add it. ste P i i : Gas pen a are one eee anes ee nigh ‘ F . why The Winter Garden's new autumn pos a skidded to ateund the $8,000 figure, a . . 7 “A if } rt ons yr é - 7 ; ; ; i - — _ Ruth Andrews, a professional, charged John tion to New York's gay, glad life, which last with ° change for the Garrick oe + ted : Russ Whytal will be in the cast of “The Keith, another pro, with sealing a Liberty night was undraped, so to speak, under the /N about four weeks. “The Willow I: He Old Country” when it opens at the 39th Street Lee on a tae ene a Pre ag lh oy tee eT ery title, “Deing Our Bit,” will Tree” opened at the forbidding Black- i Eee Oct. 29. ita, , sac a8 re Siy known, lave to depend upon its spectacular effects . 4 eens a ’ i ‘ nd emeccneneges -— peg ans At be a agg | pee and massed scenes if it hopes to make much get ee eee Ya yeaa 3 " - She then accepted an invitation of a frien headway even among those who are content 6 “5 Mil Marie Doro will return to the stage Nov. 5, t. dance and asked Keith to mind her hand- with the easy standard of f hich it 1 it is t k fits i h - i bi a the Plymouth theatre in a new play ; oe y standard of fun which it long it 1s to make any profits in the re aii at e >lymo , bag. Immediately after she returned Keith ago set for itself.— World. mote location 1: brie Barbara. excused himself and she charged that he took RR SAE “8 aes , , tiis wa , *” ‘ i the handbag with him. Keith was held in een : : The pop” grand opera in English 1 bi The Friar’s Frolic” is to be revived in @ +).. West Side court Monday in $1,000 bail for CHU CHIN CHOW. at the Strand is doing what for that 1; $ab new edition in the War Garden at the Army and harge of . 4 ‘ ; ” ti Bat papa Jag 5 : the grand jury on a charge of grand larceny. A spectacle in three acts and 13 scenes. h 1 att t r b lled 11 $8 and Navy Bazaar, which cpens Saturday at Written by Oscar Asche; music by Frederick Ouse and attraction may be calle : 7 = , . - sce As ‘ s J c 24 bd ow ete Grand Central Palace and will run nine days. Michael Welsch, ticket broker, was con- Norton. Produced by Messrs. Elliott, Com- phenomenal business. “Canary Cot- n poe Rika ricted of disorderly conduct and remanded for stock ¢ es e F age” cS $ i Maxine Ellict made her first appearance on victed of ¢ ders d remanded fo stock and Gest at the Manhattan 0. H. Oct. tage looks good for about $7,000 this ~ sentence Oct. 22. Young women in New York 22 reek: is inti “ i re ¥ ; > , ite : P coo ; sap . Ss the stage in five years at the Metropolitan O. and neighboring cities and towns called at the It cannot be said that, as a whole, the pro- week; deappenting Upstairs and s 2 . as 2 ” ™ he . H. Thursday night, in the Red Cross pageant, office of Chas. Dillingham, announcing that duction has novelty or any rare distinction, Down keeps up, but the capacity pa- The Drawing of the Sword. Mr. Dillingham’s manager had engaged them but it has all the qualities to which the great tronage is a past memory. Leo Dit- Rane ote cept (he eh rene aiaethaahee eaves t aati aine a Sa Na . seinen dart i for one of his musical comedies. Welsch ymublic instinctively sponds. ichstein, in “T % , Clarence H. Mackay, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn and represented himself as Mr. Dillingham. A Houbt that the great pe oy eaeen all +4 Ss, af te e gem ger « : Frederic R. _Coudert have been added to the girl of the Hippodrome “‘Cheer Up” was used repeated here—perhaps surpassed.—Timesg. a allure, nishec with ox omce ; Board of Directors of the Theatre de Vieux as a lecoy to capture him. He made an ap- Summed up, this spectacle at the Manhattan penury. : i Colombier. pointment bc wv and — ate by = Opera House— within the limitations of spec- Burlesque 1s doing remarkably well, ‘ a tectives. wo other giris appeared agains tacle, of evurse—is the theatre’s superlative ‘ ; : , 7 : Active work on the Miller theatre, Los him. achievement in New York. To more than _— the two big vaudeville houses are Angeles, has been started. The theatre will —— J suggest its intoxicating loveliness is impos- cleaning up, due to shows that ausrage : seat 3,500 people, will have four small store At the salesroom of the American Art As- sible. It must be seen to be understood—it far better than they did last season, { rooms and a broad entrance to the audi- sociation at its second session of the auction must be seen again and again if one is to for some cause j torium and gallery. of the household effects of the iate James grasp the full beauty of its glowing pictures :

_ Buchanan Brady, the day’s offerings included and swirling multitudes— and every one who Otis Skinner, in “Mister Antonio,” {) Frank Ferguson has been engaged as man- 25 pertraits of actresses’ painted on Ivory, in is interested in the stage at ali will want to and the Stewart Walker Players, in ; aging director for the Institute Players, addition to a miscellany of carved ivories, see it. —World. “Seventeen,” both Booth Tarkington Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The first performance of the season will be given plays, are amazingly successful. For Nov. 2 in the Brooklyn Music Hall, Brooklyn the first time in the history of the Academy of Music. The Ditienhoefer Tube & Rubber Co., Chicago, October 7, 1917. Playhouse (Fine Arts theatre), except The cast of George V. Hobart’s farce, 29 So. La Salle St., for a week or two during the run of “What's Your Husband Doing?” to be pro- Chicago, II. “Hindle Wakes,” years ago, brokers duced in one of the Shubert houses by the Hobart-Jordan Co., includes Hale Hamilton, Gentlemen :— I have had a great deal of experience in the automobile game and have had my share of tire trouble, and after witnessing a demonstra- tion of your two-in-one inner tube which consisted of driving a good are having calls :or seats t this toy house, which has taken its place with the big ones in the display ad columns and, in spite of small capacity, in the gross receipts. Virginia Hammond, Charlotte Ives, Jane Cooper, Alice Lloyd, Jed Prouty, Clara Mackin, Joseph Conyers, Gus Hegge, Thomas Clark. George V. Hobart will direct rehearsals of sized nail anc screw iver i ; wis how dared. eee tha seceemeliee oF the 1 a secre driver into the first compartment, then i Business at pictur ous - staging as well as the writing of the piece inflating the second compartment or second tube and driving away ally .is feparted sda on” "Whether ; wri oh A — say, gentlemen, that you have solved one of the the film as an attraction is dying out ».The cast which will surround, | Eleanor great drawbacks to motoring—that of changing tires on the road. Rly gon hes a product at aimter in Richard Lambert's pro mn of TE ceep pace wi 1e growing critica ee oe ee Se eae | art, Cecil Yapp Katharine Stewart and Mar- (See Pages 38-39 in this issue) that almost every picture house in this tin Hayden. The company is now rehearsing town has slipped from the high peak under the direction of Clifford Brooke. of a year of two ago

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DOING OUR BIT. When the dress-suited ‘‘first nighters’” who parted with a $5 note for their seats at the Winter Garden iast Thursday night took the “air” with the others who paid $2 at 8 o’clock (for $5 seats) one of the latter was heard to exclaim : “That’s the best burlesque show I’ve ever seen.”” The opinion was, of course, a trifle far-fetched, but it gives considerable food for thought. “Doing Our Bit’ came to Broadway with ad- vance reports crediting it as the best show the Winter Garden ever housed. It’s just a big girl production, lavishly dressed and carrying just sufficient comedy to edse it over. And the dressing suggests the burlesque style indirectly. The trunkless tights displayed in several numbers bore a striking resemblance to the burly-que wardrobe of today, and the costumes in the “Nothing on Today’ song might have been plucked from a Columbia wheel production. The show is given in two acts, the first carrying somewhat of a light theme deal- ing with aphasia. It was sufficiently well con- nected to provide a few comedy situations for Frank Tinney, James J. Corbett, and the accompanying support. The second act had no theme whatever, the individual scenes standing on their own basis, running in the ‘bit’ and number system. Of the two, the first section was far the best, although in the second half Tinney and Corbett, with their scene in “one,’’ introduced the single comedy section of the show that stood out. These Winter Garden shows, insofar as the profession is directly concerned, carry little interest other than that centered around the success or failure of the individual principals. A Winter Garden prod::ction is generally con- ceded a box office winner regardless of gen- eral merit, for the Winter Garden has be- come a sort of habit with the transient visitor. The Winter Garden, to the transient, is included in the list carrying the Aquarium, the Obelisk, and Grant's Tomb. Conse- quently a weak show matters little at present, although eventually the incoming buyers, etc., may transfer their affections to the opposition. But now it’ the Winter Garden girls who carry the show notwithstand- ing the abundance or reputation of principals. “Doing Our Bit’’ introduces several new faces to the house, the presence of Frank Tinney, Jim Corbett, Henry Lewis, Leah Nora, Chilson Ohrman and others providing the in- terest through their debuts. Tinney and Cor- bett work practically as a team, Tinney gathering many laughs through what is staged as impromptu kidding of Corbett. The routine has been cleverly constructed, and leading to their final scene near the close of the second act it sufficed to insure their success. Corbett provided a pleasant surprise in the “straight’’ role, getting away with that rather important and difficult part with apparent ease. Tinney was funny to a degree, but might have been far more entertaining with better material. Henry Lewis was not properly ‘‘prepped” for this event. He made his initial entrance well down in the second act with practically nothing to follow, and looked like a _ sure- thing to those familiar with his work, but Henry's material was poorly arranged. He offered three numbers, some talk and a short routine of the typical Lewis patter, one song suggesting “‘Lily of the Valley’ so much it sounded like a “lift... Lewis was on too long and worked too slow. He scored several healthy laughs, but the intervening periods gave his specialty that ‘“‘draggy” tone that dis- colored his total efforts. Leah Nora led the female contingent in the vocal division. Displaying a string of stun- ning gowns, she carried several songs to the encore poini, and did much for the appearance Dercentage of the show. Her best score was attained in the “Fine Feathers” song, wherein she led an octet of choristers arrayed in vari- colored gowns topped off with ostrich plumes. It was the most pretentious of the many num- bers, was staged in good taste, and fully ap- preciated. In this respect it vied with the Jewel number, staged similarly and led by Sam Ash. Miss Nora worked well throughout the show, an opposite role being shouldered by Chilson Ohrman, who was added to the cast after its out-of-town opening. Miss Ohrman, considering circumstances, can be safely credited with her share of the honors. She sports a well cultured soprano voice, and except in one scene made a smart appearance. In this she wore a blue outfit that looked all wrong. It came in the registra- tion station scene. She earned the highest mark in the rendition of “Sally,” aided by Frank Carter. This was easily one of the two or three best songs of the evening. Ed. Wynn dashed on and off occasionally, filling in generally in “one” for full stage sets. He was semi-funny in spots, unfunny in others, and in his single full stage effort he fear- lessly threw off the cloak of decency and gave about the most daring exhibition of indecent acting ever credited to a Winter Garden principal. This pictured a _ hotel room (gaudily and cheaply set) in which the em- ployees were all girls. The room was dressed in nude statuary around which Wynn con- structed his ‘“‘comedy.”” If this scene were ever staged in a burlesque house the police would close it up. It should be thrown bodily out of the Winter Garden production, for it gives an otherwise clean show a theatrical black eye. Charles Judels was conspicuous among the male column, handled his part satisfactorily, and aided the numbers. He had one rather important scene with Ada Lewis. wherein the couple staged a trio of travesties on “metllers” of the past. This whole portion could be con- sistently deleted. The final “hit” was a fla- grant copy of the Arnaut Bros.’ bird imitation done about as well as a copyist could arrange it. Miss Lewis had little or nothing to do. Her’s is a comedy role, but it was laughless throughout. Two of the men principals familiar to Winter Garden patrons were Frank Carter and Sam Ash, both sterling entertainers and cap- able of guiding any role to success. Carter pulled the musical hit of the evening with “Festa,”’ a first act number in which his danc- ing efforts earned a trio of encores. He stands with few equals in the juvenile contingent of musical comedy artists. Ash and his voice are an asset to any production. Herman Timberg is also present, his best efforts being projected in a violin number in which a score of the girls accompanied him on similar instruments. They may be a groupe of violin acts assembled for this show, at least they are all musically capable. Tim- berg’s dance for the finish compelled a re- call. The number is stretched out to an un- reasonable length, the earlier portion being entirely superfluous . Beatrice Dakin is leading one or two num- bers this season, having been elevated from the chorus ranks to the principal division. Miss Dakin shows possibilities, scoring the best mark in the Egyptian number in which James Clemens accompanies her. (Dooley and Rugel may be interested in this number). The Duncan Sisters Virginia and Rosetta), plucked from the cabarets, flashed past safely with the “Old Fashioned Girls’ number, the encore, a harmonic arrangement, as done at Henderson’s restaurant revue of last summer, gathering the best returns. Sylvia Jason in male garb for the opener was a poor selection for the role. In the second act she did better as herself, leading a single number that entertained mildly, but failed to arouse any noticeable enthusiasm. The Cansinos danced. They added variety to the routine, doing nothing new, and their vaudeville repertoire seemed a familiar affair to the first-nighters. The finale of the first act was staged in spectacle fashion, showing the landing of U. 8. troops in France. It was credited to Lincoln J. Carter. A colored drop preceded the actual scene, which carried a groupe of uniformed “supers” folfswed by dummy soldiers, and backed by the wall drop picturing the trans- ports and the water color view of troops. It lacked a “punch.” George Cohan’s “Over There” gave it a patriotic “kick,” but the effect proper was decidedly weak for a Winter Garden spectacle. Summing up the musical program, “Sally” stands alone in one’s memory as the singing hit. The tunes fail to linger. Perhaps it lacks singing hits. The production and wardrobe are pretentious, but that is naturally demanded of a Broadway show. One might justly ask for more comedy, and one could be justly disappointed at the crying lack of novelty. The Winter Garden girls are there, resplend- ent in all their beauty, etc., but for $5, no! It’s just a fair show for popular musical comedy prices, and nothing more. It prompted one auditor to ask, “When will Jolson be back?” The question was entirely timely and proper, and one might be inclined to answer, “The sooner the better.” Wynn. HARRY LAUDER SHOW. It’s ten years since Harry Lauder first came to America, appearing at the New York theatre during the first (and last) sea- son of Kiaw & Erlanger’s “Advanced Vaude- ville.” After these ten years, and on what fs now announced as Lauder’s “Farewell Ameri- can Tour,” the chances are that this trip will find Harry Lauder more popular than ever over here. William Morris is again the manager of the Lauder engagement, opening at the. Lexing- ton, New York, Monday night. Although among New York theatres the Lexington is supposed to be a secret (Lexington avenue and 50th street), that house drew full ca- pacity. with a big advance, surprising every- one connected with the managements, show and theatre. Mr. Lauder has received much publicity since reaching New York. He at once made himself active at patriotic meet- ings. One covld almost marvel at Lauder’s per- Aonality, for when he’s singing, you want him to sing, and when he’s talking, you want him to talk. He can do either with equal facility. His remarks on the war were all to the point. “Every line a punch” goes for Lauder when he’s talking. He told of the war, of his observations while at the French front, where he entertained the soldiers, and his opinion of the duration. “It’s going to be a long war,” said Mr. Lauder. “Don’t believe anything else. Pre- pare for it.” The patriotic speech by Lauder in the first instance was brought about through flowers presented to him, after the first song. Mr. Lauder looked at them, and turning to the audience, said: “They are beautiful. There is nothing more beautiful than flowers. I know it, for when I went to France to en- tertain the soldiers and visited the grave of my son (Capt. John Lauder—killed in action) flowers covered it.” Tt was difficult to reconcile the presence of this comedian singing comic songs and speaking of the war simultaneously, that must always bring a twitch to what ts doubtless already a broken heart through the sad loss of his only son, given to his country. Mr. Lauder remarked that he didn’t think the house cared for any more singing, but they did and called out the names of many of the Lauder song hits of the past. When semeone yelled, “Wee House Among the Heather.” Mr. Lauder held up his hand. “That isn’t a song any more,” he said, “that’s a hymn.” It was very quiet then and to the many Seotch people in the house this remark must have been a bolt of remembrance. “When I was in France,”” added Mr. Lauder, “TI stood before 15,000 Scotch troops, in a horseshoe

LEGITIMATE before me. One of the boys called for ‘Wee House Among the Heather.’ I told them it Wasn't a song any more, but I sang it for them—” and without further speech or or- chestral accompaniment, Mr. Lauder sang to the Lexington Avenue audience that song. Following was a brief wait while the New York Scottish Regiment marched upon the stage, headed by their Colonel, Walter Scott, and received a large Union Jack, presented to the regiment by the Scotch comedian. More speech making, with Col. Scott closing the evening at 11.15, just 80 minutes after Mr. Lauder walked upon the stage. It’s quite unlikely the Lauder Show will have its performances interrupted while on the road, but Mr. Lauder in his war talks is going to be very interesting. He makes a plea to buy Liberty Bonds, also tells of a fund he is raising of $3,000,000 for the aid of maimed Scots atfer they return from the war. During his comment on the need of supporting the Government, Mr. Lauder said that England offered a bond sale of three billion dollars and had $4,500,000,000 sub- scribed within five days. The new songs sung by him were “T’m Going to Marry ‘Arry in Jan-u-ary,” “I Love to Be a Sailor,” “The Waggle o’ the Kilt,” “We a’ Go Hame the Same Way” and “The Lads Who Fought and Won,” sung in that order, with Mr. Lauder in character for each, with his comedy comment between verses. “I’m Going to Marry ‘Arry’ ‘is a real comic, while “The Lads Who Fought and Won” is a war number, which, as sung by this singer, could clean up in any war song contest. Lauder is still singing as ever, to charm those who hear him. His power was per- haps best described Menday night by Pat Casey, who, pointing’ to two elderly people (probably man and wife) sitting to the for- ward of the same box, said: ‘There you are. Lauder drew them. He draws people who never go to the theatre at any other time, ex- cepting perhaps to ses ‘Uncie Tom’s Cabin.’”’ Mr. Morris has given tke Lauder Show for this season the best program surrounding the star it has ever had. The feature, after the star, is the Arnaud Brothers, who have added some new bits to their “burd” imitation. Others are Francis Renault, the impersonator, who had no difficulty in deceiving the house with his female impersonation, and scored accordingly; Cleo Cascoigne sang quite capti- vatingly right after intermission, and pre- ceding Mr. Lauder’s appearance; Belle and Grazer, the dancers, No. 2, were very well liked, and the big flash Jap act of the Five Kitamuras stamped the show as a big one im- mediately upon opening the sages me.

SHOWS IN PHILLY. Philadelphia, Oct. 24. All the shows this week held over. Business took a drop in several of the houses for no apparent reason, ex- cept that the people of this city are so engrossed in the Liberty Loan movement that they have no time to give their attention to the theatres. “The Wanderer,” playing its last two weeks is still holding on through lib- eral advertising, the bargain matinees at the Metropolitan with the best seats at $1 getting a strong play. “The Grass Widow” at the Forrest is doing fairly well. The piece has un- dergone considerable revision since it opened here, but the impression still remains that it will not survive un- less the book is completely rewritten. “The Follies” comes in Oct. 29. “Cheating Cheaters” at the Garrick is also drawing fair business in its fast week. “The Boomerang” comes next week. Maude Adams in “A Kiss for Cin- derella” is putting good business at the Broad, a strong personal hit heing reg- istered by the star. Ruth Chatterton in “Come Out of the Kitchen” here next week. Business at the Lyric, where Maude Fulton is appearing in her own play, “The Brat,” dropped off heavily this week, while “Mary’s Ankle” at the Adelphi, next door, is getting a good run. May Tully’s play has made a firm comedy hit here with no successor mentioned. “Eileen” follows the “Brat” next week. Margaret Anglin began a series of short plays at the Little theatre the middle of last week, opening with the comedy, “Lonely Soldiers.” The play and production was warmly praised by the critics. Thomas Martelle and Eddie Garvie are at the Walnut with “The Fascinat- ing Widow.” Business fair. “So Long Letty” next week. “Bringing Up Father” is at the Orpheum and the Em- ily Smiley Players are doing “The For- tune Hunter” in stock at the Knicker- bocker. “DANCE” PLAY—STRONG DRAMA. Atlantic City, Oct. 24, “On With the Dance,” the new four- act drama by Michael Morton, staged by George Marion, with A. H. Woods the producer, played to capacity houses at each of its performances at the Apollo for threé days, starting Oct. 18. The play follows the fortunes of Nina Lawrence, a dance-mad girl, married to a man who wants a home and children. She becomes innocently intrigued with Billy Sutherland, a wealthy roue, who holds out to her attractions of luxury, social proclivities and—the dance, Lawrence, following his wife to a dance-house, to which she had gone with Sutherland in defiance of her husband's orders, attempts to win back her affections by bringing to their table one, Fay Esmond, a cast-off favorite of Sutheriand’s, who there relates her story of temptation, downfall and deg- radation. But the story leaves Nina apparently unmoved and Lawrence desperate in the realization that he has failed, kills Sutherland with the lat- ter’s gun, which had been taken away from Fay to prevent her from slaying the man who has brought her to the gutter. The husband makes his escape before the arrival on the scene of the excited guests, who find Sutherland prone on the dance floor with his revolver at his side. This tragic end to the merry even- ing impresses Nina with the truth of the cabaret’s dancer’s story and she rushes home to her huband’s arms. “On With the Dance” is a smashing denunciation of the dance craze. It is an epigrammatic arraignment of its evils. It uses plain, unvarnished lan- guage and its message is really “off with the dance.” “Respectability has built it up and respsctability must pull it down” say the lines. The first act is satirical comedy up to the entrance of Sutherland—enter the villain—when it becomes drama The second act continues in this vein and at the close leaves the audience ig a state of tense expectation. The third act, however, which should be the strongest, lacks conviction. The idea of having Lawrence retain his over- coat throughout the entire scene is ri- diculous. The final act is satisfactory. William Morris was excellent as the outraged husband, and in this he was ably assisted by Eileen Huban, who, as Nina, won the hearts of the audience with her sympathetic interpretation. John Mason, as Billy Sutherland, while giving a performance much above the average and one worthy of his reputation, failed somehow to invest his lines with the suggestion of re- pressed lust and concealed passion for which the character called, devotin himelf entirely to the expression o crafty machination and subtle lure. In the cabaret scene, however, he was a huge improvement, and saved the third act. Julia Dean made a convincing dance woman, and was the medium of expres- sion for the author’s tirade against the dance. Her telling of the story in the third act was exceedingly well done and made a decided impression. Edward Abeles, as Hugh Frazer, sup- plied the comedy element and earned generous applause. Mercita Esmonde, Martha Mansfield, Eugene Redding, James Spottswood, Corinne Barker, Robert Schable, who also acted in the capacity of stage manager; Edwin Walker and Claude Cooper acquitted themselves quite fa- vorably in the minor roles. The show was well acted and mag- nificently staged. There is an abun- dance of action on the brand of “stuff” that pleases Broadway. Pitt’s All English Company. Pitisburgh, Oct. 24. The Pitt opened here with its new policy presenting “The Man Who Stayed at Home,” with an all English company to a crowded house last week. The house has been redecorated.

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Bay City, Mich. BIJOU (ubo) (Saginaw split) lst half Paul Kliest Co Zeno & Mandell “Fashion Shop” BILLS NEXT WEEK (OCTOBER 29) crete HOTEL APPLETON In Vaudeville Theatres Brenck’s Horee Colonial Maids SAN FRANCISCO (4.11 houses open for‘the week with Monday matinee, when not otherwise indicated.) LYRIC (sun) Angell Sisters (Next to Aleazar Theatre) Gates & Finlay oe Walter Hayes The new home of the

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New York PALACE (orph) Maurice & Walton Blossom Seeley Marquard & Dooley Cressy & Dayne Milt Collins Penn 3 Holmes & Buchanan Drew & Wallace “Courting Days’ Swor & Avery Will J Ward Co “Creation” Hallen & Hunter J & E Connolly Lyons & Yosca 4 Nightons RIVERSIDE (ubo) Nora Bayes Sallie Fisher Co Warner & Astor Peggy Brooks “When Women Rule” Nat Carr Ruth Howell Trio DELANCEY (loew) Howard & Simmons NATIONAL (loew) Dorothy H & M Gilbert Billy DeVere “Children of France” Weber & Elliott 2d half Ovandos Rae & Wynn Willa H Wakefield C & M Cleveland Prevost & Goeiet ORPHEUM (loew) 2 Walters 3 tive importance of acts nor their program positions. PALACH Belle Onri Chalis & Lambert “Oa Edge of Things” Eddie Foyer “Boys in Blue” 2d half (loew) Middleton Spellmeyer Dyer & Perkhoff 8 Peronees

WARWICK “Vanity Fair” Hermab & Henley Bruce Duffett Co he Leightons (foew) 2d half Vespo Duo Randalls Holden & Herron Manning & Hall Phunphiends Warren & First Thomas & Hall Bert Kenny THE FIRE

Mario’s Orchestra GRAND (loew) Z Jordan & Zeno Clarence Wilbur “Milday's Gown” Byrd & Harvey Eastman & Moore Capt Kidder Jr Dan Ahern Van Baldwin Trio (4-3) Buster & Eddy Frank & Waters Thornton & Thornton Gordon & Gordon Adeline Lowe Co Harris & Lyman Wm Schilling Co Leonore Simonson d half Brana@t & Aubrey Alvin & Kenny Andrew Kelly Howard & Ross Maidie DeLong Bioomtngton, lil. MAJESTIC (wva) Jack & Kitty Demaco Frank Bush McDermott & Wallace “Revue de Vogue” Martyn & Florence PEOPLES HIPP (ah-wva) (28-30) (Same Dill playing Blue Bird, Anaconda, Burt Johnston Co Harold Dukane Co Skating Bear German Film PANTAGES (p) Zira’s Leopards Joe K Watson Mumford & Thompson Johnson Dean Rev Herbert Brooks Co 4 Readings Camden, N. J. TOWER'S (ubo) 2d half (25-27) Heras & Preston (Three to fill) AVENUE (wva) Jack Dresdner Otto Koerner Co Yammamota Bros Connelly & Case (Two to fill) 2d half Sol & Leslie Berns 6 Musical Nosses (One to fill) 2d half Folly & Massimo Jack Dresdner Tom Davis Co Zertho’s Novelty (One to fill) WILSON (wva) Ed & trene Lowrey “Spooks” Bobby & Nelson Degnon & Cliftin FOR ae mty Rng as “Orpheum” without any further distinguishing description are on the Mae Curtis Jessie Bell Co Leipzig MILES (loew) eum Circuit, 7 s Maria ‘ “ ; a Agencies booking the houses are noted by single name or initials, such as “Orph,” Orpheum scart aicig Chase & Latour aER Arte (wva) eur’ Voluntesrs ie} Circuit; “U B O, United Booking Offices; “W V M A,” Western Vaudeville Managers’ Asso- Billings, Mont. Babbys & Clark Bijou “Minstr 1 Misses The Kueh : : ciation (Chicago); “P,” Pantages Circuit; “Loew,” Marcus Loew Circuit; “Inter,” Interstate BABCOCK (ah-wva) (Five t All) } aa 6 M "Pp Fish : ne tircuit (booking through W. V. M. A.); “Sun,” Sun Circuit; “A H,” Ackerman & Harris (1) Butte, Mont. Oa h ye MeL, ‘si tt plete | ee (San Francisco). (Same show playing PANTAGES (p) Greater “Clty 4 , = oe < 1 ee SPECIAL NOTICE—The manner in which these bills are printed does not indicate the rela- Judith, Lewiston, 2) (2-7) , Miller & Perch ll PRISCILLA (sun) me. Fisher’s Circus “Hong Hong Mys” The Giunta ne Novelty Clintons steads Sena & Webber Pierce & Burke Primrose Trio Jack Dresdner Sextet DeLuxe Columbia, 8S. C. PASTIME (ubo) (Charleston split) Fox & Ward McGee & Anita Ann Harbor, Mich. . - “Honolulu Girl” Ist half Phina & Picks ee Josephine Leonhardt © MAJESTIC (ubo) —Corty Sisters at; Orehe 2) 8? = KEDZIE (wa) -—-Virginia Rankin (One to fill) Smith & Troy Bertha Creighton Co (Jackson split) Fred Rogers Fiving La Mare Retter Bros McCloud & Carp COLONIAL (ubo) “When Women Rule” The Leightons Ist half S Rianos Waneee & Whiting Force & Williams Alice Nelsoa Co “Forest Fire” C & M Cleveland College Quintet Lew Hoffman Birmingham, Ala. Grace Linden The Langdons Wood Mel & Phillips Chas Grapewin Co 8 Peronees FULTON (loew) 3 Weston Girls 7 LYRIC (ubo) Best Morton @ Kerr Hampton & Shriner Cummin & Seaham Gilbert & Friedland od half Helen Jackley Fascinating Flirts (Atlanta split) Van & Yorke La Graciosa Columbus A & F Stedman Franklyn Duo Warner & Astor Morley & McCarthys Ist half 6 Moorish Arabs 2d half KEITH'S (ubo) ij Mignon Gertrude Cogert Billy Hall Co Mareeno & Delton Dell & Gliss Nip & Tuck Burns & Bent Rudinoff Yorke’s Dogs McGowan & Gordon Atlanta, Ga Willing & Elaine Calgary i sa Briere & King 6 Am Dancers Billy Small Willa H Wakefield LYRIC (ubo) Howard & White ORPHEUM. Stiendel Bros “Cranberries” * Roberta & Veverra Edward Farrell Co 24a half (Birmingham split) Victoria 3 E A Weilman Co (Two to fill) “Tango Shoes” aii: ALHAMBRA (ubo) Weber & Elliott Piquo Ist half “Shrapnel Dodgers” Arthur Deagoa Cater scan ® = Adelaide Boothby a i: (Anniversary week) Harry LaVail & Sis Dorothy Roy Casting Campbells BIJOU (loew) Cooper & Ricardo nae i Galen Olga Mishka Co Walter Kelly Ideal Dallas MAJESTIC (inter) J & C Williams L & M Hunting Eadie & Ramsden Horn & Ferris 4 Marx Brothers Bowman Bros German Film Danville, Til. PALACE (ubo)

Cameron Sisters YA (One to fill) Dunn Sisters Countess Verona (O j Connors unt ‘ ed ne to fill) W S Harvey Co Boganny Troupe para ere | 2d half Millie Olive Burke & Burke Siler Peotigy i ie: om 2d halt Tabor & Green Milt yey 3 Moriarty Sisters Eileen Poe u 2d half Dunlay & Merrill Tecaten ; “ Frank Ward Al White Co Billy Gou 4 Middleton Spellmeyer Billy Hall Co Zanaro (One to fill) Lucille & “Cockie”’ Orth & Cody Mankichi oo Dyer & Perkhoff Ben & Hazel Mann Lou & Grace Harvey 2d half Cedar Rapids, Ia.. Ward & Raymond American Girl Rev Al Rober & a Ed @ Lottie Ford (Two to fill) W E Whittle Belle Oliver MAJESTIC (wva) Ragapation 6 2d half BOT AL (ubo) od balt Albany. N. Y. Schwartz & Clifford Frank Gabby Co Orville Stamm (One to fill) Jack & Kitty Demaco Belle Ba - - Harvey DeVora Trio PROCTOR’S (ubo) (One to fill) Empire Comedy 4 Waiman & Berry GRT. NO. HIPP Gus Erdman Beery’ McGarr Thorndyke & Barnes (Troy split) Augusta, Ga “Echoes of Biway” oi a nd aaa (wva) me Blengen Co Pilcer & Douglas McGowan & Gordon All Girl Show GRAND (ubo) te este Geulaee” So pte BIE nm aaa Busnett @ Richards Ryan & Richfield ist halt Paula Boston (one to atly es Be Bsn seemeatbe + Jne to eresford Co Demarest & Doll Evelyn & Dolly Evelyn Cunningham KEITH'S (ubo) Sranterd & Broderick Helen Jackley 4 Chicks “Movie Girl” Evelyn Nesbit Co ee. oe HOWATSON and SWAYBELL Caits Bros Co Gray & Byron BOULEVARD (loew) The Shattucks Maleta Bouconi Jose Flynn Co Fred Weber Co Clown Seal Whiting & Burt Dugan & Raymond Schooler & Dickenson Duval & Simmonds “A Case of Pickles” LAUGH BROKERS

Shattuck & O'Neill 2d half Lohse & Sterling Peggy Brooks z Lew Madden Co Richards & Kyle Lennet Sturm . LaVeen & Cross Edward Farrell Co ~— 3 Cun hese Rd & Lou Miller Otto Koerner Co Anthony “s Valentines COLUMBIA (wa) 81ST ST (ubo) Fenton & Green Alexandria, Miss. ; ums Walter Weems Toots Paka Wolf & Stewart 3 Stewart Sis Coleman Goetz Maud Durand Co Newbold & Gribben Edwards Bros 2d haif Shepherd & Ray Moore & George Marguerite Edws Co Diamond & Brennan (One to fill) AMERICAN Ovandos Long & Green Prevost & Goelet Laurie Ordway Schrode & Beaum’s Gertrude Cogert Gordon Eldred Co Cook & Stevens Helene Trio 2d half Adams & Mangle Clark & Wood (loew) Marie & Billy Hart 2d half The Brissons Savannah & Georgia Rosalie DeVeau Co Lee & Bennett “Heir for Night” AVE B (loew) McGee & Anita Eileen Poe Sam Liebert Co (Two to fill) 2d half Chalis & Lambert Townsend Wilbur Co Eddie Foyer “Boys in Blue” (One to fill) Brooklyn ORPHEUM (ubo) Adelaide & Hughes Conroy & LeMaire Morton & Glass Sarah Padden Co RAPIDS (ubo) The Faynes Harry Hirdis Devoin & Barlow Hippert & Nugent Reynolds & Donegan 2d half Marvelous Deonzes Klass Cameron DeVitt Co Gertrude Van Dyke Co LaToy Bros Marston & Mauley Hershoff Troupe (One to fill) MODJESKA (loew) Schwartz & Clifford W E Whittle Lou & Grace Harvey Zanaro (One to fill) 2d half Gray & Granville Julian Rose

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Atientown, Pa. ORPHEUM (ubo) Ward & Useless Kate & Wiley (Two to fill) Aurora, TI.

Bernard Vaughan Seabury & Shaw Packey Hall & B COLUMBIA (loew) Concertos Fisher & Gilmore Crawford Smith M d half Selle & Allman Bud & Nellie Heim ORPHEUM (loew) Lillian’s Dogs Murphy & Klein Adelie Oswald Lulu’s Friend Tommy Hayden Co Amer Minstrel Maids 2d half B & V Morrissey Frear Baggett Frear Belle & Mayo Maude Leone Co Geo M Rosener (Two to fill) Champaign, Til. OPPHEUM (wva) DeRorre Sisters Billv Kelgard Fd F. Revnard Co Fields & Wells Mile Bianca Co 2d half Curtiss Canines Valvda Braz Nuts Vernon 5 Orth & Cody Arco Bros Charleston, 8S. C. ACADEMY fubo) (Columbia split) Tet half G & L Garden Lewis & Norton Johnson & Johnson Armanda Gray & Boys Chariotte, N. C. MAJESTIC (ub) (Greenville split) Morris & Allan “Inspiration “iris” Fied’s Pigs Mabelle Parks Pisano & Bingham Hipp 4 “A Real Pal” Harvey Trio LINCOLN (wva) The Olmsteads Miller & Perchell Nelson Bann & D Greater City 4 (One to fill) 2d half 4 Musical Lunds (Four to fill) McVICKERS (loew) Electrical Venus John & Mae Burke Ben Smith “Bride Shop” Gilmore & Brown Hooper & Burkhardt (Sunday opening) Rekoma Anderson & Goines Herbert Clifton Roth & Roberts Geo Damarel Co 2d half Van Camps Mack & Maybelle Black & White Rev Harry Rose Laskys 83 Types Dayton, O. KEITH'S (ubo) Juno Saimo Clark's Hawalians Clark & Lavier Miller & Lyle Alfred Bergen E DeVoy Co Leavitt & Lockwood Vallecita’s Leopards Decatur, Il. EMPRESS (wva) (Sunday opening) Howard & Hurst Robt Emmett Keane Conley & Webb FOX (wva) ST JAMES (loew) Vincent & Maxixe urtiss Can! Corcoran & Mack | = Benny & Woods ee See. 2d halt McGinnis Bros sess tna Samoya Sap & Reems Deon “Holiday in Dixie 7 Vie Midnight Rollickers” yarqon & Per Hal Stephens Co P - N & 8S Kellog ° ; ack La r (One to fill) Ty Caharet Deluxe Booth & Leand Lonoa’s Hawalians — Sleuth” Howard's Ponies od halt “The Corner Store” Sadie Sherman Elliott & Moran ae — Fay Cooleys & Fay Billy Elliott BUSHWICK (ubo) Hendricks & Paudula Danny Simmons Great Santell Selbini & Grovint Chico, Cal, Myr! & Delmar 3 Walters (Anniversary Week) «enn-~) Per Year” Retter Bros (One to, 8") = Chattanonen. Tenn. MAJESTIC (ah-wva) 4 half ICTORIA (loew) APpollo 3 Wheeler & Moran aus. 99 8) : RIALTO (uba) (30) Debourg Sisters Vv Rome & Cox “g land” Bakersfield, Cal The Parshleys K 1 lit) (Same show playing Veterans Alexander & Swain Thos Swift Co — HIPP (a&h) — Nelson & Castle . tee baer” Empress, Sacramento Fields & Wells Harvey severe, © Yvette & Saranoff Altaawa. Pa. (28-30) Jack Kennedy C6 Mr & we Allison : * 80 ~ Degnon & Clifton ae awit oe enry Walter Brower week Wena Reiff & Murray y+ bet gh 3 Steve Freda Gallon Hope Vernon na ght noone S aroe Bernard & Licyée Eugene Page Players 3 Gowe ros Jonia Hawaltans Clayton Drew Play Denver Mangean Troupe J -& M Harkins Loney Haskell Elva Bridgeport. Com, Corb Shep & Don Baxley & Porter ORPHEUM 24 half Jas Watts Co 6 Virginia Steppers Baltimore POLI'S (ubo) Vim _Reanty & Health ma & 4 Ison Theo Kosloff Co Breakaway Barlows = Wellington Cross (One to fill) MARYLAND (ubo) Orbasany Cockatoo LYRIC (loew) or oo Benree & Baird Vess Ossman Sig Franz Co 24 half Eddie Leonard Co Lemont & Wright Randalls Carson Trio Wright & Deitrich H & M Gilbert _ BIIOU ‘(loew) Betly Mayo “Futuristic Revue” Eddie Dawling Holden & Herron Cincinnati Alf Grant “The Neglect” Franklyn Duo “Mammy’s Dream” H Shone Co 6 Imps & Girl Phunphiends KEITH'S (ubo) Archie Onri & Dolly Leader Bree lenal a tec O'Neal & Walmsley — Sylvia Clark 2d half Manning & Hall Ferry 5 Nelsons Arturo Bernardi Marcella Johnson Co Nanotenn & Hip © 8S Manion a ate = On” 1 Doren we 4 Goa LINCOLN (loew) Ryan & Richfleld Burnham Q Alle Minit on half Porter White Co Moran & Weiser Guatawer Baress aits Sita E. HEMMENDINGER ® J04" STREET = “<Clock Shop” i jordan B tee Senn ag to une (men Seveane hevheld Jolly a eA Zones Tel. john 971 Jewelers to the Profession » ed Valdternt Clarence Wilbur Mile Cronin Novelty “New Producer” a a : “Mildav's Gown” J ‘Uurz Sist — or — hy Anaconda, Mont. Conrad & Conrad Samat a eee Dunn Sisters el ty Aviows & tose are } (One to fill) ne Se BLUE BIRD (ah-wva) Russel Ward Co Hayes & Neal Chicago ag EMPRESS (abe) Des Moines vd halt (28) Fields & Holliday MAJESTIC (orph) Fe-Mail Clerks ORPHEI™ Howard & Simmons Schrode & Beaumonts Techow'e Cats (Same bill plaving Hipp Spokane 31-3) HIP (loew) Burns & Foran “Liberty Belles” 2d half Carus & Comer Cecil Cunningham Raynor & Bell Lew Ward (Sunday opening) McIntyre & Heath Connors & Edna (One to fill) Dolce Sisters Lee Kohm ols ' y. ar Co Santucci & Paresi J & B Morgan + cage - DEKALB (loew) Selita a rants Leonard & Dempsey gy og BA Fanchon & Marco Co Nona Sullivan Co Chas Olcott Children 0 rance’ Piquo “Girls from Holland” Stuart Barnes Cain & OAem Dorothy Rrenner Smith & Troy Jolly Johnny Jones GREELEY (loew) F & O Walters J&A Francis Bertha Creighton Co Sigmund & Manning “Riv Country” Fiddler & Cole 2 Carltons T & S Moore Kramer & Cross Battle Creek, Mich. “Hogan's Alley” (One to fill) Buffalo Joste Heather Co Married Via Wireless Kauffman Bros Cleveland HIP (whe) Aki Kuma Ca Ree Ho Grav Co Darto & Rialto Punbear’s Sineers Adame & Mangle Lee & Bennett PIVOT Cubos SHFA‘'S (wha) Notan & Nolan Reed & Wright Girls Detroit Potted & White College Quintet Anniston, Ala, (Kalamazoo split) Joe Howard's Rev PALACE (orph) Rert Lesile Co TEMPLE (ubo) Ethel Costello da half NOBLE (toew) Ist half Smith & Austin Elsie Jants Lew Hawkins 3 Escardos Rosalie DeVeau Co Dorothy Alvin & Kenny Kremka Bros Frank Commit Avon Comedy 4 Doree’s Celebrities 2 Bernard & Scarth “Heir for Night” (One to fill) 2d half Alexander & Swain 8 Moriarty Sisters Skipper & Castrup Thos Swift Co Marie & Billy Hart Andrew Kelly Howard & Ross Maidie DeLong Brandt & Aubrey June Mills Co Little Elk Co Archie Nichoison & Robinson's Elephants Mr & Mrs G Wilde Lorraine & Eagles Kennedy & Burt 4 Kings

Harry Carroll Santos & Hayes Raymond Bond Co Selma Braatz Fern & Davis Louls Mann Co Watson Sisters _ Diana’s Models Moore & Gerald Alf De Manby Co Broning & Denn (Two to fill)

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VARIETY ORPHEUM (ioew) Storm & Marsden Fox & Cross Bert Howard Katherine Miley Billy King Comedy Co Eskimo & Seal REGENT (loew) “Bachelor Dinner” Big Four Lew Wilson Resista Osaki Duo Mack & Lee MILES (abc) Tetsuwari Japs Nixon & Sans Stroud Trio Larry Simpson Co University 4 (One to fill) Fall River, Mass, ACADEMY (loew) B & V Morrissey Belle & Mayo Maude Lone Co Geo M Rosener Frear Baggett Frear 2d half Lillian’s Dogs Adele Oswald “Lulu’s Friend” Tommy Hayden Co Amer Minstrel Maids Fargo, N. D. “Hong Kong Girls” Marjorie Burnum Arling & Mack (One to fill) 2d half Friend & Downing Willie Hale & Bro See Pages 38 and 39. Dubuque, Ia. MAJESTIC (wva) Violet & Charles Kenny & LaFrance Lew Welch Co Harry Rose Ragapation 6 2d b alf Lonzo Cox Claire Hanson 4 Herchell Hendler Rucker & Winifred Prince Kar-Mi Duluth ORPHEUM (Sunday opening) “Rubeville” “Hit the Trail’ Rath Bros. Williams & Wolfus Hazel Moran Willie Weston Winona Winters GRAND (wva) (Same ist haif show playing Orpbeum Ft. Williams Can. 2-3) Valentine & Bell Tiller Sisters Mack & Velmar Frank Gardner Co 24 half Dolly Bennet & Y Cameron Tufford Co Long Tack Sam (One to fill) Hazel Leona 3 Keltons Flint, Mich. MAJECTIC (ubdo) (Lansing split) Ist half “Paradise Valley” Ft. Wayne, Ind. PALACE (ubo) Max Bloom Co Vardon & Perry 2d half Hector & Pals Walsh & Bentley Wm Morrell Co American Rev Pat Barrett The Langdons Ft. William, Can. ORPHEUM (wva) (29-30) Ling & Long Lanigan & Tucker Pearl & Burns Jack Gardner Co Ft. Worth, Tex. MAJESTIC (inter) Weber Girls Bernie & Baker Baker & Girls Doc O'Neil “Peacock Alley” Medlin Watts & T German film Don’t Overlook Pages 38 and 39. E. Liverpool, O. AMERICAN (sun) Nippo Duo Tom Kyle Co Daisy Harcourt “Dream Garden” 2d half Prelles Circus Viola Lewis Co Sam Harris Co Folsom & Brown Five Florimonds Easton, Pa. ABLE O H (ubo) Rogers & Wood “$5,000 Per Year” Hendricks & Paudula “Storyland” Ward & Useless 2d half Barnes & Robinson Florence Randall Co Harry Bolger “Dream Fantasies” (One to fill) East St. Louis, Mo. ERBERS (wva) “Honor Thy Children” Billy Broad Lazier Worth Co (One to fill) 2d half) Hampton & Shriner Zig-Zag Revue (Two to fill) Edmonton, Can. PANTAGES (p) Bill Pruitt “Cycle of Mirth” Naynon’'s Birds Donals Sisters Van & Carrie Avery Byal & Early Galveston, Tex. MAJESTIC (inter) 8-29 (28-2 (Same bill playing Beaumont 30-31 Au- stin 2-3). Jed & E Dooley Harry & Etta Conly Bernard & Janis Vanity Fair Stewart & Donohue German film Grand Forks, N. D. GRAND (wva) Wm Trainer Co Cosica & Verdi “The Pool-Room” Grand Rapids, Mich. EMPRESS (ubo) Hill & Sylvany Lewis & White Oliver & Opp Alfred Latell Co “Fantasia” Lew Dockstader Hanlon & Clifton Great Falls, Mont. (Same bill playing Anaconda 1) Honey Bees West & Hale Maurice Samuels Co Ryan & Riggs Mile Therege Co PALACE (ah-wva) (27-28) (Same bill playing Hipp, Butte, 31-3) Hannah & Pardner McCormack & Shannon Have You Read Pages 38 and 39. Erie, Pa. COLONIAL (ubo) Lamb & Morton ¥d Morton Dorothy Regal Co Hawthorne & Anthony Van & Belle (One to fill) Evernsrviite, Ind. GRAND (wva) (Terre Haute split) Ist half Del Baity & Jap Earl & Sunshine “The Slacker” Demarest & Collette 1917 Revue GRAND (abc) 5 Young Americans Geo Evers Aerial Bartletis Carle & Inez Green Bay, Wis, ORPHEUM (wva) 2d half The Bimbos Owen & Moore Claudia Tracey Haviland Thornton Co Greenville, &. C. GRAND (ubo) (Charlotte split) Ist half John Stone Nellie Allen Montana 5 Klien Bros Cowley Wms & Daisy Hamilton, Can, TEMPLE (ubo) Louis Stone E & C Barry DeMauby Derkin Co “Overtones” Jimmie Lucas Co Sully Rogers & 8 (One to fill) Hamilton, O. GRAND (sun) Rothrock & McGrade Russell Quintet Miller Scott & Fuller Daring Sisters 2d half “20th Century Revue” Harrisburg, Pa. MAJESTIC (ubo) Barnes & Robinson Doree's Singers O'Neal & Walmsley Napoleon & Hip 2d half Rogers & Wood “Art Studio” Mewhoff & Phelps (One to fill) Hartford, Conn. POLI'S (ubo) Bill Bell Marks & Montgomery “Clock Shop” Van Bros Gorgallis Trio 2d half Adel & Eve Taylor & Howard Carrie De Mar Co Texas Four Trennel! Trio PALACE (ubo) ua Tovo Gilmore & LeMoyne Frank Carpenter Co Chadwick Duo Eugene Emmett & G 2d half Duveas Lamont & Wright Hill Tivolis & H Fields & Holliday Barney Williams Co Hattteahurg, Miss. STRAND (uhbo) (Meridian split) Ist half Verci & Verci Murray K Hill Eckoff & Gordon Sherman Can & Hy Dancing Kennedys CANTONMENT (loew) Osborne’s Pets Rose Berry Holmes & Hollister I & D Carbrey Leonard & Ward d half Alexandria Ward & Curren W & M Rogers Lianne Carrera Co Hoboken, N,. J. LYRIC (loew) Eddy Sisters Dow & Doll Frank Whittier Co Harry LaVail & Sis (One to fill) 2d halt Dorothy Sothern 8 Herman & Henley “Vampire Woman” Maud Tiffany Ruth Howell 3 Houston, Tex. MAJESTIC (inter) ‘Five of Clubs” Scarpioff & Vavara Beaumont & Arnold Stoner & Hayes Alan Brooks Co Grace Demar German fiim Huntinecton, W. Va. ORPHEUM (abc) Riobe Hadi Sambalo Beatrice McKenzie Co (One to fill) 24 half Fred & Rees Lucier Litt & Nolan (Two to fill) Indianapolis LYRIC (ubo) Chyo & Chyo Silver & Duval Wm Armstrong Co Lewis & Leopold Sone & Dance Rev Jackson, Mich, ORPHEUM (uho) (Ann Arbor split) Ist half Lockhart & Laddie Frazer Bunce & H Melody 6 Yates & Reed Emmvs Pets BIJOU (abc) Norton Dennis & Gib (Three tr Ally 2A half DeCoursey & Rubes Detzel & Carroll Geo Pan! Co Phillins & Mack (One to filly Indianapolia KEITH'S (ubo) Thomas Trio Norton & Melnotte Bonita & Hearn Hans Kronold Sam ‘Mann Co Burns & Kissen Gautier's Toyshop Jacksonville, Fla. ARCADE (ube) (Savannah split) lst half Adriot Bros Coakley & Dunievy Princess Maxilla Ce Noodles Fagan Co Frawley & West Joliet, TL ORPHEUM (wva) 2d half Cliff Bailey Duo Ed & Irene Lowry Monalus Sextet Moore Gardner & R The Seebacks Johnatown, Pa. MAJESTIC (ubo) (Pittsburgh split) Ist half The Nellos Joe Daniels Schwarz Bros Co Kramer & Kent Duffin Redcay Tr Kalamazoo, Mich. MAJESTIC (ubo) (Battle Creek split) st half Sigbee’s Dogs Holliday & Willette Hawalian Serenaders Arthur Rigby Buch Bros Kanaan City, Mo. ORPHEUM (Sunday opening) “Holliday's Dream” Spencer & Williams Joe Towle Eva Taylor Co Milton & DeLongs Three Bobs German Film PANTAGES (p) (Sunday opening) The Lampinis Smith & McGuire ‘Mimic World” Joe Roberts Abrams & Johns Knoxville, Tenn. BIJOU (ubo) (Chattanooga split) let half Steveis & Fatk Mr & Mrs Allison “Little Miss Flirt” Embs & Alton 4 Boises Lafayette, Ind, FAMILY (ubo) The Ratis C & M lenbhar “The Cruise of 4 “Pantages Circuit ’ Stiendel Bros J & W Hennings “Corner Store” 2a half Eiler’s Novelty Force & Williams Al White Co Tabor & Green Linne’s Dancers Lancaster, Pa. COLONIAL (ubo) 2d half (25-27) Kitty Flynn Brown's Highianders Duquesne Comedy 4 The Ferrarcs Lansing, Mich. BIIOU (ubo) (Flint split) Ist haif DeLuxe Trio Johnson & Wells “Lincoln of U S A” Madison & Winchester Ellis Nolan Tr Lima, 0. ORPHEUM (sun) “Naughty Princess’ 2a half Abbott & White Russel! Quintet C Belmont & Creighton Monarch Dancing 4 Lincoln, Neb, ORPHEUM Billle Reeves Co D'Avignean's Duo Clara Howard Isabel D'Armond Co Fritz & Lucy Bruch German Film little Rock, Ark. MAJESTIC (inter) Havatake Pros Haley & Haley Edwin Arden Co Conway & Field Welch's Minstrels 24 half Fern Richlieu Fern Fred Kornau “For Pity’s Sake” Hudler Stein Phillips Maria Lo Co Livingstor, Mont. STRAND (ah-wva) (30) (Same bill playing Palace, et Falls ) Artane Garnella Duo Foster & Foster Ten Dark Knights Frish Howard & T Randow Trio Los Angeles ORPHEUM (Sunday opening) Marck's Lions Chas Howard Co Norwood & Hall Frank Hartley “Prosperity” Marie Stoddard Jessie Busiey Co PANTAGES (p) “Girl from Starland” Chester Gruber “Every Man's Sister” DeMichelle Bros “Miss America” HIPP (a&b) ‘When We Grow Up” Princeton Five Ebner & Reusch Fairman & Patrick (two to fill) Loutaville KEITH'S (ubo) (Nashville split) Ist haif Gaylord & Lancton Lee's Symphony Girls Bert Levy McCormick & Irving Alex Bros & Evelyn Lowell, Maas. KEITH'S (ubo) Joyce West & § Herman & Shirley Juliet Dika Perevia Sextet Lydell @ Higgins (One to fill) Lyouchburge Academy (ubo) (Roanoke split) lst half Pope & Uno Jennie Middleton Leonard & Whitney Francis & Ross Fred LaReine Co Macon, Ga. GRAND (ubto) Volton & Siegal 8 Chums Marston & Mauley Hershoff Troupe (One to fill) 2d half Lillian Fred Weber Co BRADY and MAHONEY the Doughnut” TOM JONES Evelyn Cunningham “Movie Girl” Meroff & Sonia Madison, Wis. ORPHEUM (wva) Frank Ward Haviland Thornton Co Al Shayne “Oh Piease Mr Detec” (One to fill) 2d half Woods Cannines Anderson & Goines Hans Roberts Co Stevens & Hollister 5 Violin Beauties Manchester, N. H. PALACE (ubo) B & L Walton Brown & Darrows Evans Lioyd Co Bison City 4 Wormwood's Animals 2d half Joe Barton Conley & O'Donnell Violet Beeson Co H & G Elsworth “Masqueraders” Marshalltown, Ia, CASINO (abc) 2d half Bert Wiggins Alvaretta Rego & § Slauson & Tyson Southern Serenaders Mason City, Ia. CECIL (abc) Biiile Rill & Bro Francis Murphy Oliver Severn Trio 2d half James & West Harris @ Variety 4 (Qne_to fill) MeKeeaport, Pa. WHITE O H (ubo) let halt F & A Pelot LaFrances & Kenn Frank Rae Co Rev Frank Gorman Models DeLuxe Memphis ORPHEUM Miss Whiffen Co Anna Chandler Ed Lee Wrothe Co Bert Swor Leon & Davies Hubert Dyer The Gaudsmidts LYCEUM (loew) Evans & Newton tioward Sisters “Apple Blossom Time” Dave Thursby Derenzo & Ladue 2d half Leonore Simonson Ww Schilling Co Harris & Lyman Adeline Lowe Co Meridian, Mass. PRINCESS (ubo) (Hattiesburg split) Ist half DeWitt Young Sis Leona Gumey Frank Stafford Co Kuter K & Kuter DePinna Milwaukee MAJESTIC (ubo) G Hoffman Co Stan Stanley 3 Comfort & King Clifford & Wills 3 Vagrants The Gladiators PALACE (wva) (Sunday opening) Herbert's Seals Owen & Moore Vernon 5 Claudia Tracey Stevens & Hollister Ambler Bros 2d half Waiman & Berry Roth & Roberts “Ob Please Mr. Detec’”’ O’Connor & Dixon Casting Lamys (One to fill) Minneapolis ORPHEUM “America First” Hamilton & Barnes “The Headliners” Bert Melrose Hufford & Chain ElCleve & O'Connor German Film PANTAGES (p) (Sunday opening) Primrose Minstrels Barton & Hill Well Well Well Marlette’s Marionettes Alice Hamilton Jan Rubini GRAND (wva) Stuart & Rathburn Gibson & Hall 4 American Reauties Daniels & Walters Carson & Forum PALACE (wva) Espe & Dutton Mudge Morton Trio Cliff Dean Players Hiatt & Geer Palais Royal Revue Moline, Ill. PALACE (wha) Paul Petching Co Barber & Jackson Hanson & Vill 4 Dave Manley Toots Paka Co 24 half Balancing Stevens Mitchell & Mitch Burke & Burke Curley & Welch “The Smart Shop” Montreal ORPHEUM (ubo) Morin Sis “Love in Suburbs” Helen Tuk & Sis Chas Kenna Trix & Josephine Primrose 4 Winston's Seals (Two to fill) FRANCAIS (ubo) (Ottawa asaplit) Ist half Cheater Johnson Co Locaste &@ Clifton Jennings & Mock White's Circus (One to fill) Mt. Vernon, N. Y. PROCTOR'S (ubo) 2d half (25-27) Roonev & Pent Stine Van & L Hedges & Hedges Muekecon, Mich, REGENT (ubo) Hector & Pals Rice Rros Wm Morrow Co Pat Barrett Iternational Revue °d half “Nauchty Princess” Nashville, lent. PRINCESS (ubo) (Louteville split) leat half Chuck Haas Curtis & Gilhert Frank & Toby B & H Gordon “Hello Japan” Newark, N. J. PALACE (ubo) 2d half (25-28) Paul Burns Co Rilton Co Willing & Jordon Farber Girls Swor & Avery MAJESTIC (loew) B & A White Vess Ossman Thorndyke & Barnes “The Neglect” Skipper & Castrup Yorke’s Dogs 2d half Leddy & Leddy Curry & Graham Marcella Johnson Co Gordon Eldred Co Cook & Stevens Ed & Lottie Ford New Haven, Conn. BIJOU (ubo) Lawton Bayard & Inman 4 Dancing Demons Heath's 1¥17 Revue 2d half Orbasany Cockatoos Hayes & Neal Walters & Walters Eugene Emmett & G New Orleans ORPHEUM Robt Edeson Co Claire Rochester Marsuali Montgomery Elsie Ruegger Gould & Lewis Paul Levan & Dobbs German Film PALACKHE (ubo) (Montgomery spiit) ist half A Meyakos Wm Sisto Kirksmith Sisters Clover Leaf & Roy & Arthur CRESCENT (loew) Alexandria Ward & Curran Lianne Carrera W & M Kogers Del Grado Four 2d baif Bvans & Newton Howard Sisters “Apple Blossom Time” Dave Thursby Derenzo & Ladue Gordon a Goruun New Rochelle, N. Y. LOEW (loew) Dorothy Sothern 3 Josephine Leonhardt Townsend Wilbur Co 2d halt Toby Claude Bruce Duffett Co (One ty fill) No. Yakima, Wash. EMPIRE (ah-wva) (Same bill playing Regent, Tacoma, 1-3) Twirling Talbuts Roberts & Roden Howard Moor & C Marimba Band Ross & Wise Leon Sisters Co Oakland, Cal. ORPHEUM (Sunday opening) “Bandbox Revue” Santley & Norton Saunder's Birds Al Herman Fern Bigelow & M Frankie Heath German Film PANTAGES (p) (Sunday opening) Dumitresu Dunham Tr Lane & Harper “Friendly Call” Neal McKinley “Oh You Devil” HIPP (ah-wva) (28-30) A Valli & Sister Willie Smith Chas Wilson Zermaine & Zermaine Powell's Minstrels Davis & Kitty Ogden, Utah PANTAGES (p) (1-3) Venetian Gypsies Edna Kelly Co Clare & Atwood O'Connor & Dixon Frank Morell . Omaha ORPHEUM (Sunday opening) Leona LaMar Harry Girard Co Rice & Werner Alex Kids Kathryn Murray Lovenberg Sis Co German Film Ottawn, Can. DOMINION (ubo) (Moovtrea! aplit) let haif H Goodwin Co Travilla (Three to fill) Pasanic, N. J. PLAYHOUSE (ubo) 2d half (25-27) The Balaguers “At Cigar Counter” Paterson, N. J. MAJESTIC (ubo} 2d half (25-27) Bonzeni Monkeys Marx Bros & Girlie American Minstrels Lamb & Morton ORPHEUM (wva) The Seebacks Valyda & Braz Nuts Geo Roland Co Ward & Kaymond “The Smart Shop” Everrett's Monks Countess Verona “Honor Thy Cnhildren’’ Duniay & Merrill Philadelphia KEITH'S (ubo) “Girl on Mag Cover” Percy Haswell Co Moore & Whitehead Margaret Pursell “Race of Man” Carlisle & Roma Linton & Lawrence Patter & Hartwell The Stampede GRAND (ubo) Arnold & Florence Mary Dorn @ Chas Nichols Cummings & Shelley Beeman & Anderson German War Film KEYSTONE (ubo) 2d half (25-27) Handrix & Padula Baker & Rogers H Alfred & Co DAVi8 (ubo) Violet McMillan Galdo Nendegger Haley Sisters Paul Dickey Co Montgomery & Perry Prevost & Brown SHERIDAN 8Q (ubo) (Johnstown split) Denegan & Curtis J K Bmmett Co Lottie Grooper B Bouncer Co OAKLAND (ubo) Lalor & Geer ‘The Merchant Prince’ Dancing Kenne Emily Darrell Thalerous Circus Portland, Me. asters (ubo) Mason & Gwynne ‘Somewhere in France’ Gallerini Sisters Brendel & Bert Portiand, Ore. (Sunday open Trixie Me a Arthur Havel Co Wood & Wyde PANTAGES (p) Earle Georgia Howard Tom Edwards Co Aleen Stanley “Count & Maid” (Same show playin Redding, a ) Marr & Evans Fiddes & Swaine Williams @ Culver 4 Southern Girls Peerless Trio Providence, R. L KEITH'S (ubo) Ford Sis & Marshall Wilfred Clark Co Mr & Mrs J Barry Joe Browning Minnie Harrison 83 Herbert Sts Lazar & Dale Gen Pisano Co Garcinetti Bros EMERY (loew) The Parshleys Nelson & Castle Jack Kennedy Co Raymond & Caverly Edah Delridge McGinnis Bros Murphy & Klein Sadie Sherman Hal Stephens Co Raymond & Caverly Great Santelli (Continued on page 18) ool tinecaeacenisebeantaesebtnen staan snaps) SiS ho kd gh he anil oen pal — " - aon men owas 2 nie

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a ee meee mee ARLEN NTE IS TANS | RE TAX TROUBLES MULTIPLY. (Continued from page 7) Bleventh: Q.—What hoeatre A.—Theatres Twelfth: A. is for the man in the box office to thoroughly familiarize him- self with the amount of the tax, based on his scale of ad- missions, and to collect the tax when he sells the ticket, so that when selling a 15 cent ticket the purchaser pays and the box office man collects 1% cents, as though 17 cents were the price of the ticket, and so on, according to the price of the ticket and the tax based thereon. There is no necessity for adopting the following sug- gestion, but if it is thought that it will help the box office man or avoid disputes with the pur- chaser, I suggest that the coupan of every ticket contain a statement of the price of the ticket, the amount of war tax and the total. For example, as follows: Right E, 10—orches- tra, 75 cents; war tax, 8 cents; total, 83 cents. While this method may result in a little confusion for the first three or four weeks, I believe it will, after that time, work out to a more general. satisfaction than the confusion resulting from the sale of tickets at one box office and the sale of war stamps or war tax coupons at another box office, to say noth- ing of the expense attached for additional help. Where strip tickets are used the same plan can be adopted, and the amount of the tax can be stamped or printed on the ticket, as convenience suggests, or it may be omitted from the ticket entirely. theatres are exempted from. collecting the tax? whose highest admis- sion or top price is 5 cents. This does not mean theatres which have a 5 cent admission in their scale, but means theatres where the maximum charge is 5 cents. When all the proceeds of the theatre innure exclusively to the benefit of re- ligious. educational or charit- able purposes the admission is tax exempt. Q.—What records must the theatre keep regarding the tax? ~The law does not require any special bookkeeping. Your usual daily and weekly state- ments, however, should clearly show the number of tickets sold of the various prices; also the number of passes exchanged for tickets. and if you are only go- ing to collect the tax based upon the price of the ticket given and exchanged for the pass you will have to separate your list of passes, showing the box office price of the seats given for each ass. Peon the other hand, if you adopt the suggestion of exact- ing a tax based upon the top price of your tickets then you can lump the number of passes together. Your statements and books will have to be shown to the Government whenever an inspec- tion is requested. Thirteenth: Q.—When must the theatre make a report te the Government? A.—On December 1, 1917, a report must be made for the preced- ing month and every month thereafter. The reports must be in duplicate, on forms to be furnished by the Government. Fourteenth: Q.—When must the tax collected A.—At I suggest that you be turned over to the Govern- ment? the same time when you make your monthly report to the Government. place in your lobby at once a sign containing a scale of the admis- sion tax and a statement that the tax is to be paid by the purchaser of tickets on each ticket, and as well as that for the convenience of the public the management patrons are re- quested when the amount of tax ready purchasing tickets to have in change. Also have a similar statement printed in all future programs, commencing next week. I shall be pleased to answer any further questions that may suggest themselves to you by wire or letter. Very truly yours, MAURICE GOODMAN. The foregoing was reproduced by William Fox and handed out at a meet- ine of the exhibitors of greater Mew York which was held in the 48th Street theatre Monday afternoon. This meet- ing in general lasted for several hours and there was little more done there than at the Fox meeting Saturday. It was suggested, meeting be held at which however, that a further representa- tives of all of the manufacturers and producers as well as every exhibitor in Greater New York he present and at that meeting a working azieecimnent be arrived at among them. The plan of the Brocklyn focal was discussed and it was suggested that the manvfac- turers should pledge themselve to sup- port the exhibitors in the matter of such exhibitors who would violate the final agreement that the body might arrive at in regard to the tax. The punishment would take the form of a refusal of service There were several to the offcnders. manufacturers present at the meeting and they voiced statements that they were wiliing to assist the exhibitors in this regard pro- viding the officials at Washington could be reached and the question of liability under the Sherman Anti-Trust law set- tled in such manner that the n.anu- facturers would not become liable un- der the law in refusing service. BILLS. (Continued from page 17.) Qutney, Til. ORPHFEI™M (wva) “Honolutn Girl” 24 half Rev & Emma Dean Lomo’s Hawatians Billv Kelgard (Two to fill) Rendinge. Pa. HIP (fubo) Alex McFayden Florence Randall Co Wheeler & Moran “Nream Fantasies” Flying Russells 24 half Morris & Campbell “Midnight Rollickers” {Three to fill) Richmond LYRIC fubs) (Norfolk split) ist half LaViva Alex & Fields “nine Up” Dickineon & Deagon Dunedin Duo Roanoke ROANOKE (ubo) Ist half Elliott & Weet Adams & CriMfith Conton & Glass Proewn Herris & B Wheeler Trio Rockford, Ti. PATACE (wva) (Sunday opening) Tha PRimboe Mitehell & Mitch Hone Roherte Co Pi-hrrde A Werle 5 Violen Reanties 2A halt Rerrick & Hart Co WMueteal \iaeceg Herbert Clifton Al Shayne (One ta Ally Ro-bhester, N. Y. TFMPTE (unbo) The T.ittlefohns MeMahon N & C Kenny & Hollis Ridine School Rae F Rall MeConnell & Simpson Randel! & Myers German films Rock telawd. Tl, Tittnotes fahey Ferenaon # Sunderland J Ryron Tetten Co Tevy & Cooper Etretford 4 (One to #1) 2A half Murnhy & Rarryv Marta Ootman Co Anne Kent Keolma (One to Ally Snera me ante. ORPUTI™M (22-29) Same nin niaving Stockton 29-21 and Freeng 1-9) "The Nicht Roat’’ Tillian Fiterverald Co Gonrne & Alberts Jerdon Girls wm Fhe Co Tiemond & Granddane Kitner Howktsley & Mo German Film ' FYPRESS (ah-wva) Aerial Butlers Cooner Simon & W Vivian & Farl “Fountain of Love” Tamev & Persons Tossing Avstins 2d half Galton Frencis & Wilson Careon Trio Clayton Drew Players Raview & Porter Uyriine MeWNutte Snerinaw. Mich. JEFFR‘S-STR (bo) (Bav Citv enlit) Ist half Three Lordons Tuckie & Yost McCormack & Wallace Hahn Weller & Martz Sherman’s J Circus Cal. Salt Lake ORPHEI™ (Open Wed Night) (31-8) Mack & Walker Mrs G Hughes Co Kerr & Ensign David Saperstein Mang & Snyder Princess Kalma Co PANTAGES (p) Bert Wheeler John Smal! & Sis Al Wohtmap “Oh Doctor” Paula Myrtal Vane Co San Antonio MAJESTIC (inter) Tyler & St Clair Nevins & Erwood George Kelly Co Mack & Earl Dancing Girl of Delhi James Cullen Apdale’s Circus San Dierwo PANTAGES (p Maxine Parrish Four Roses McCormick & Swor O Handeworth Co Herry Breen “Miss Up to Date” H'PP (a&h) Jugeling Normans Watson & Little Milo Vagge Co Kruger & Kine (One to fill) 2d half Simms & Warfield Engene Page Players Matilda & Corpos Reiff & Murray La Petite Elva San Francteco ORPHEUM (Sunday onening) “Submarine F 7” Brown & Snencer Georgia Earle Co Nina Payne Co Gallarher & Martin Foy Family Libonati Jugcline Nelson F Aaa aa (p) Sunday openin 3 Mort Sree” sid fh Sullwe Lacv Shannon & D wees Dogs nter Garden R Willie Solar — CASINO (aé&h) {Sundev onening) Lovett Consentration Charlie Wilson Zemain & Zemain Wrieht & Walker Orpheus Comedy 4 Swain's Pets HIPP (a&h) (Sunday opening) Arthur Valli & Sis Davis & Kitty Willie Smith 8 Dixie Gris Little Caruso Co Aerial Eddies San Jose, Cal. VICTORY (ah-wva) 28-30) (Same show plaving Hip, Oakland, 31-3) Swains Petr Wricht & Walker 8 Dixie Giris Little Caruso Co Orpheus Comedy 4 Aeral Eddies Santa Barbara, Cal. PORTOLA (a&h) (31-2) Watson & Tittle Lovd & Rheim Saskatoon, Can. EMPIRE (wva) 9-27) {Same f bill Diaving regina, we Can., -R) Fields & LaAdelia McGrath & Yeoman Marcou Variety Dancers Savannah, Ga. BIJOU (ubo) (Jacksonville split) ist half VARIETY == lll Lola Selbini. Co Chas Gibbs Ford & Goodrich Mullen & Rogers “Garden Belles” St. Louis, Mo. ORPHEUM “Naughty Princess” Rae Samuels Lambert & Ball Harry Holman Co Asahi Tr Edwin George Aus McLeans GRAND (wva) Sperry & Ray Aerial Mitchells Granville & Mack “What Man Needs” Fox & Mayo “Dairy Maids” Electrical Venus PARK (wva) Pat & Peggy Houlton Hopkins & Axtell Moore Gardner & R Hubert Dver Co 4 24 half Hayatake Bros Jacnuette & Almond Lawrence & Edwards Fav Conleys & Fay Jolly Tars FMPRESS (wva) Musical Lunds Cecil & Mack Orr & Hagen Emntre Comedy 4 Royal Kimiwa Tr 2d half Fd Reynard Co Ino FErkert Co Mime Bianca (Two to filly St. Paul ORPHEUM (Sunday opening) Wm Gaxton Co Brice & Rarr Twins Ren Deely Co “Tennessee Ten” Rita Boland Ray Snow German Film PALACE (wva) Mile Aerria Co Tottie Willisms Co Cameron-Tu*ford Co Leng Teck Sam Co Dolly Rennett & Y (One to #11) 2a half Swain’s Cockatoos Kenny & T.aFrance Fiarry Mason Co The Breds (One to Ally BIPP faze) Grindell & Fether Frvinits of Africa Willie Hale & Bros James & West (One to filly 2d half Seamn & Seamn T.e Grande Sicters Jessie Sutherland Yank & Nixie “Hone Kone Girls” Schenectady, N. YV. PROCTOR'S (who) (Syraense enplit) Ist half Eimmons & Bradley Weher & Rednor Howard & Fields Co Puffy & Inelis Ralph Bovle Co Scranton, Pa. POLT’S fubo) (Wilkes-Barre split) Ist half Celina’s Circens Wood & Lawson “Tale of a Coat” Clayton & Lennie Aeroplane Girls Senttle ORPHEI™ (Sundav onening) Nan Halperin Jeon Adair Co Tetro Kovns Sisters McCarthy & Faye Act Beautiful German Film PANTAGES (p) Larson & Wilson Rieoletto Rros & Serenaders Ach & Shaw Riggs & Ryan PAIL.AC®.HIPP (ahwva) (2R-81) (Same bill plaving Hipp. Portland, 1-3) The Hatkines Hunter & Shaw Perev Worth James Carroll Co. Kennedv & Fitzpatrick 6 Cornalls Stonx City, Ia. ORPHEUM (wva) “Good-Bye B'way”’ 24 half The Lamninis Wilton Sisters “Flirtation” Schoen & Walton Orville Stamm So. Rend, Ind. ORPHFEUM (wva) (Sunday Opening) Foley & Massimo Jas A Dunn Dorothy DeSchelle Co Cooper & Robinsoa “Whirl of Girls” 2d half Florenze Duo Al Abbott International Rev (Two to fill) Spokane, Wash. PANTAGES (p) Doris Lester 3 Pedrini’s Monks Gilrain Dancers 4 Casters Strand Trio Harry Jolson HIPP (ah-wva) (28-30) (Same bill playing Libertv, Walla-Walla, Wash, 2-3) Hyde & Hart Wright & Farl Jerge & Hamilton Fietchtel’s Troub’drs Wellineton Trio Kine Rros Sprinefield, Til. MAJESTIC (wva) (Sunday opening) Bertie Ford Al Abbott Faw Riondell Co Ed & Jack Smith “Temptation” Hope Vernon 2d half W S Harvey Co Pet & Pee Houlton Raines & Goodrich Geo Rolland Co Hilton & Lazar Mer! & Ne'mar Sprinecfield, Mass. PALACE ({ubo) Emmett’s Canines Knowles & White Mr & Mrs Victrola Geo Armstrong Barnet Williams Co ; 2d half Lawton Brown & Tavior “Tfhertv Belles” Chadwick Duo Novelty Minstrels Monroe Bros BWAY (loew) Selig & Allman Rnd & Nellie Heim The Freceotts Tender Pres Lowande’s Circus 2d half Rrown & Carstens Fisher & Gilmore The Fresentts Crewford Smith & M (One to fill) Sprincfield, O. STN (sun) Latovs Models C Relmont & Creighton “The Cure” Abbott & White Monarch Dancing 4 2d half Rothrock & McGrade Corse Payton Co Big City Four Daring Sisters Stamford, Conn. STAMFORD (loew) 2d half Flo & Ollie Walters Concertos (Three to fill) Steckton, Cal, HITPP (a&h) Sam K Otto Van Horn & Ammer Lyceum Four J Fdmund Davis Co Krantz & a Salle The Fountains 24 half Tossine Austins Aerial Rutlers Cooner Simon & W Vivon & Earl “Fountain of Love” Lamev & Pearscons Suvnerior, Wis, PALACE (wva) (Same first half show playine Lvrie. Virginia Minn. 2-4) Lorraine & Mitchell 2 Melody Girls Mershall & Covert (One to fill) 24 half Link & Robinson Tottie Williams Co Foley & O'Neil 8 Kanes Svrarnsae, N. Y. TEMPLE (uho) (Schenectady split) lst half Queenlfe Dunedin Statzer & Scott Venita Gould Mary Marble Co Rockwell & Wood Marcella’s Birds Tacoma, Wash. PANTAGES (p) Goldberg & Wayne Mercedes 4 Uolleowars Cook & Lorenz Van Cello Julia Curtis REGENT (ah-wva) (28-31) (Same _ bill plaving Palace-Hinn, Seattle, Allen & Allen Denni & Perri Williams & Williams Omega Trio Victoria 4 Appolo Trio Terre Haute, Ind. HIPP (wva) (Evansville split) Ist half “All Girl Revue” Toledo KEITH'S (ubo) Devoe & Stager Edna Chowalter Ed Esmond Co Renee Horigny Andy Rice Gyes & Vadi Clyore & Weis Le Roy Talma & B Jas J Morton PALACE (sun) Zelda Santley Willie Missem Co Forrester & Lloyd Brighton Trio Toronto SHEA’S (ubo) Morgan Dancers Bailey & Cowan Maurice Burkhart Scofield & Martin Ann Suter Sterling & Marguerite (One to fill) YONGE ST Novelty Pikes Overholt & Young Rawles & VonKauf’n Beaux & Belles Bevan & Flint (Two to fill) Trenton, N. J. TAYLOR O H (ubo) 2d half (25-27) La Catoa & Clifton Ethel McDonald Barry & Wolford Obrassny’s Cockatoos Troy, N. Y. PROCTOR’S (ubo) (Albany split) 1st half Frank Carmen Foster & Ferguson Webb & Burns John B Hymer Co Lightners & Alex Jack Alfred Co Utica, N. Y. COLONIAL (ubo) Alanson Cahill & Romaine Chas Sweet Louis Simon Co “Color Gems” German Film 2d half J C Nugent Co Trovato (Four to fill) Vancouver. B. C. ORPHEUM Sophie Tucker Co Frank Westphal Lloyd & Britt Tower & Darrell Bert Raker Co Louis Hart German Film PANTAGES (p) Parson & Irwin “Fireside Reverie” (loew) _Lioyd & Fuller Buehla Pearl Ecuestrian Lion Wilson Bros Victoria, B. C. PANTAGES (p) “Dream of Orient” Knight & Carlisle The Youngers Hoey & Lee Julia Curtis “All Wrong” Waco, Tex. MAJESTIC (inter) (28-29) Fred Kornau Holt & Rosedale Maria Lo Co Four Swores “For Pity’s Sake” Hudler Stein & P Fern Richlieu Fern Washinton, D. C, KEITH'S (ubo) Sam Bernard Lucille Cavanaugh Co Nonette “Mr. Inquisitive” MeMahon & Chappelle Olga Boris Three Johns The Duttons Waterbury, Conn. POLI’S (ubo) The Du Veas Brown & Taylor Burnham & Allen Carrie De Mar Co Texas Four Monroe Bros 2d half Berk & Broderick Ernest Dupille Gilmore & Lemoyne Heath’s 1917 Revue Fddte Borden Co Gorgallis Trio ™N LEE MEMORIAM HARRISON i Waterioo, Ia. MAJESTIC (wva) (Sunday opening) The Brads Hirchel!l Hendler “Flirtation” Schcer & Walton Prince Kar-Mi 2d half Violet & Charles “Back to Elmira’ Barber & Jackson Geo Demarel Co {One to fl)) Wheeling, W. Va. VICTORIA (sun) Prelles Circus Viola Lewis Co Sam Harris Co Folsom & Brown Five Florimonds 2d half Nippon Duo “Dream Garden” Jack George Camille's Birds Lohse & Sterling Wilkes-Barre, Pa. POLI’S (ubo) (Scranton split) ist half Yaratsky Duo Marie Sparrow Knapp & Cornella Stein Van & Lewis “Out & In Again” Wilmington, Del. DOCKSTODER’S (ubo) Duquene 4 Tyler & Coolins “Modiste Shop” Fred Bowers Co Sylvia Loyal Holmen Bros (Two to fill) Winnipeg, Can. ORPHEUUM “Four Husbands” Raymond Wilbert Allen & Francis Patricola & Myers Golet Harris & Morey Mr & Mrs Melbourne Bert Hughes Co PANTAGES (p) Hill & Ackerman Marie Lavarre Burns & Lynn Chauncy Monroe Co Jackson & Wahl “Courtroom Girls” STRAND (wva) Spanish Goldins Cosica & Verdi Wm Trainer Co “The Pool-Room” 2d half (Same show playing Ft. William, 29-30) Worcester, Mass. POLI’S (ubo) Berk & Broderick Walters & Walters Hill Tivolis & H Eddie Borden Co “Hogan’s Alley” 2d half Craddock & Lamount Knowles & White Mr & Mrs Victrola Von Bros 6 Imps & Girl PLAZA (ubo) Adel & Eva Ernest Du Pille Taylor & Howard Clark & Verdi Trennell Trio 2d half Emmett’s Canines Bayard & Inman Frank Carpenter Co Eddie Dawling Makers of History York, Pa. OPERA HOUSE (ubo) Flying Russells Beth Mayo “Mammy’s Dream” Morris & Campbell 2d half Nestor & Vincent Bernard & Lloyde Conley & Webb Loney Haskell 6 Virginia Steppers Youngstown KEITH’S (ubo) Jackie & Billie Farrell Taylor Co Wheeler & Dolan Dooley & Sales Imhoff Conn & C Eva Tanguay Swan & Swan Paris ALHAMBRA 4 Black Diamonds Bel Air trio Fillis Banola Minstrels Parisiens 4 D’Ormonds Great Weiland Aime Simon - Gerard and Yvonne Reynolds {i sketch Les Videos Died Oct. 29th, 1916—Gone But Not Forgotten From his lifelong WILL H. COHAN

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VARIETY Advice to Artists | On account of the congestion of traffic on all railroads throughout the United States, and the uncertainty of railroad trains reaching their destinations on time, Artists are advised not to take chances on their baggage But to put all the wardrobe necessary for their first aopearance. also their music, in a dress suit case, and take it with them. 7 Please don’t ignore this advice. VAUDEVILLE MANAGERS’ PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION

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OEM RRO Tet 7 RR BBE PURSE BAY RENN PE HS Ta SER vs NEW ACTS THIS WEEK = = NEW ACTS NEXT WEEK \nitial Presentation, First Appearance or Reappearance in or Around New York Al Rober and Sister, Riverside. —————— Evelyn Nesbit and Bobbie O’Neill. “A Roseland Fantasy.” . 17 Mins., One and Full Stage (Special Set). Riverside. The new Evelyn Nesbit specialty car- ries an air of progressiveness for which the principal deserves due credit, for it has some sense of construction, and while but an arrangement of song and dance, tells a story, is nicely pieced and well staged. It lacks the essential punch though and needs something lyrically stronger than what it now carries. The offering opens in “one,” with Bobbie O'Neill introducing the principal with a specially written num- ber which also closes the skit. Miss Nesbit appears from “two” coming from behind a set “hedge,” where she is concealed in the petals of a prop rose. The rose number is appropriate, but the second chorus is superfluous. O’Neill’s solo dance follows. It’s a good effort, but hardly shows O’Neill’s real capabilities. He can dance much better and should. Then follows a number, opened by Miss Nesbit, who toys with two mannikins, the title robably being “Bunty Pulls the Strings.” For the choruses O'Neill and Nesbit characterize in costume, the mannikins offering a rather dainty little descriptive dance to the words. The number is lyrically weak. The idea is great. Miss Nesbit’s solo num- ber follows and this too could be bet- ter selected. Then comes the finale wherein she returns to the rose, etc. Charles McCarren arranged the spe- cialty. He has provided a genuinely good idea, but it needs nourishing. As it stands the idea is far above the material and the contrast hinders the act. With a good body, this should develop into the best vehicle ever staged by the principal. The produc- tion end is perfect. An attractive drop of filmy material was conspicuous for its elegance and Miss Nesbit displayed some costumes that made the women murmur. Wynn. Ryan and Lee. “Hats and Shoes” (Skit). 19 Mins.; One. Royal. Ben Ryan and Harriette Lee follow- ing their familiar, comic style, have built a new first section, consuming two thirds of the pee time of the present act. For a finish they are using a part of the sure-fire stunts of the old routine. This includes the dia- log on the “britch” (bridge). At the start Miss Lee musses Mr. Ryan all up, breaking his hat and the like, then discovering she had picked on the wrong man. So she goes out to get another hat and returns with a dozen assorted kinds of straw lids, taken from a cafe down the street and the barber shop adjoining. Ryan a bit later discovering that Miss Lee’s shoe is torn, hies himself to a Turkish bath and comes back laden with footwear. A man assistant is used to get rid of the stuff and adds a laugh or two. “Hats and Shoes” is just Ryan and Lee, which means it’s as amusing as their former vehicle. Ibee. Herman and Henley. Songs and Piano. iS Mins.; One. A boy and girl team in numbers, the man taking care of the vocal end to the greater extent, also some old gags and some piano playing. The two open- ing numbers lean rather to the blue. A small time act for an early spot. Fred. Nonette. Musical. 24 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Set). Palace. It ir the mounting of Nonette’s new act that marks it. While the setting is odd in the impression it seeks to cre- ate, that of a gypsy wagon or camp in the woods, there is no gainsaying it is attractive, tasteful and expensive. It looks the expense part. The stage is hung with drapes, curtains ind leg drops (four of the latter cut on the bias for some reason, throwing the align- ment out of gear). The drapes box in the set from the front. To the rear of the stage is a set Gypsy touring wagon. Before it and in the semblance of a wooded open space is a concert grand piano (and an accompanist— Jerry Jarnagin), besides a parlor set- tee with a parlor lamp, which has a parlor lamp shade on it. But even so, the effect is not injured, for besides all this, there is Nonette, a girl of musical accomplishments, of much personality, of wholesome appearance, who can play a violin better than she can sing, but is talented, instrumentally and vo- cally. Nonette on the stage is a pleas- ing sight. She can’t be caiied a vision, for there is more than that of her, but she’s nice to look at, with men and women of an audience making a fa- vorite of her. So there’s small chance of Nonette ever falling down in vaude- ville. Her present new act is simply a matter of progression for a “single turn” of this grade, who could get over in “one” with the orchestra at any time without any trouble, but she wishes to promote herself. In so do- ing she is advancing vaudeville for her class and will cause others similarly situated some thought how to keep abreast of the profession Nonette is leading. Technically the Nonette new act is full of music, but a bit slow, especially at the opening, and this is not livened up any by Mr. Jarnagin’s piano solo medley. Nonette might se- lect faster numbers or some of them. She closed to an ercore with “Break the News to Mother” on her violin. It’s nice to remember but it’s old— and Nonette is young, so her numbers should always be fresh, also youth- ful, with pep, which is vaudeville, like Nonette is. So much vaudeville is Nonette that she shouldn’t forget it and give them what they want, not what she wants, although aft r all it’s just Nonette they want the most. And if the managers'do not recognize Non- ette’s progressiveness as exhibited by her investment and her courage and her desire, then they are not cncour- aging an uplift of the higher calibre that benefits good vaudeville. Sime. “Spades and Trumps” (3). Comedy Drama. 17, Mins.; Full Stage. A light southern theme woven around the present enlisting campaign and the rounding up of slackers. Rather well done and played, but just about suited for the smaller houses, through it not containing any bright particular spot. It is a pleasing skit that will satisfy. The three characters are an officer, a southern mammy (blackface) and her son (blackface). The latter brings sufficient washing home to keep his mother busy. He has just returned from the recruiting station, after wait- ing some time. There he overheard a conversation anent the rounding up of the colored slackers and decided he would not enlist. An officer enters, in- tent on knowing the reason he has not enlisted. It is explained, whereupon the officer derides the colored race, when in steps mammy and explains how she lost her hubby, when he enlisted in the Spanish-American war. After hearing it, son decides to enlist, and he is draped with the flag his father re- turned with years ago. William Price, former stage manager at Loew’s Seventh Avenue, who was switched to the new Victoria when it opened, is back at his old duties at the former house. Florence Tempest. Songs. . 21 Mins.; One. Riverside. For her new single turn Florence Tempest has collected a string of well written numbers, cleverly arranged to exploit her versatility. She is accom- panied by a pianist who solos and aids in the rendition of the closing number which carries a likeable double ver- sion. Miss Tempest opens with a song in boy’s costume and continues in the same natty white suit for the second number. These two conflict in a way. They are both rendered in the first person but are descriptive of two dif- ferent styles of fellows. Given in the one character they “bump.” The rose and lily number is a gem, excellently delivered and sure fire anywhere. The soldier song is likewise good and in uniform Miss Tempest locks fine. Her girl number was attractively gowned and the contrast, as always, is a valu- able asset. Considering the length of the act and the enthusiasm with which it was accepted, there was little doubt left as to the principal’s ability. It takes a clever artiste to entertain ’em for 21 minutes and exit to solid ap- plause. Florence Tempest did, inci- dentally taking down a goodly share of the program’s honors. Vaudeville can use her, alone, nicely. Wynn. Gertrude Graves. Songs. 12 Mins.; One. Harlem O. H. Gertrude Graves is a soprano with the conventional routine, opening with an operatic selection and proceeding through a trio of numbers to a patriotic song for a finale. She has a splendid voice and is particularly gcod on high notes, looks attractive, makes three exceptionally quick changes between numbers, but lacks somewhat in per- sonality angles. Notwithstanding this, she could qualify for an early spot on big time programs. She made good easily in a late position at the Har- lem house. Wynn. Macart and Bradford. “Love, Honor and Obey” (Farce). 18 Mins.; Full Stage. Fifth Ave. William Macart and Ethel Brad- ford in their newest playlet are as apt as ever in creating comic situations. It is as a “Henry” that Mr. Macart makes his entrance. He has on an apron and is heiping with the dinner, they being unable to snare a cook. Wife makes him “kick in” with the weekly salary, also one dollar he is trying to hold out on her. The husband manages to get out for a few minutes to the corner saloon, which gives him a chance upon his return in quest of funds to deliver some of his well known “bourbon con- versation.” In his absence a burglar has entered and taken the bankroll from wife’s bag. Enter husband to catch burglar, who is sent by a friend to afford him a chance to go to the club. And so the pair exit, ostensibly for the “hoosegow,” but really bent on joining the “boys.” The new vehicle should answer its laughing purpose. Ibee. LeMaire and Gallager. “The Battle of Whatstheuse” (Trav- esty). 17 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Set). Fifth Ave. William LeMaire (formerly of Le- Maire and Dawson), now with Ed Gal- lager (once of Shean and Gallager) and “The Battle of Whatstheuse,” is along the line of the latter team’s “Battle of Too Soon.” Modern touches have been added such as the supposed field wireless used at the opening and the officer’s kahki dressing of Gaila- ger’s. The slender William LeMaire does blackface, playing a private in a colored regiment. There may be one or two old bits used from “Too Soon.” A new finish would help. Otherwise the act pars with “Too Soon.” [bee. NEW SHOWS NEXT WEEK “The Land of Joy,” Park, Oct. 29th. “The Old Country,” 39th st., Oct. 29th. “The Bonfire of Old Empires” (4). Dramatic. 31 Mins.; Full Stage (Library) with film. Palace. “An Interpretation and a Prophecy” is the program’s description of this dramatic playlet by Marion Craig Wentworth, who wrote “War Brides” for Nazimova. Miss Wentworth pre- sents this sketch. That she authored “War Brides” is starred above the title. It might be prima facie evidence “Old Empires” as a war playlet by Miss Wentworth could, would or should give its noted vaudeville predecessor a run for war sketch honors. But it doesn’t. “Old Empires” hasn't a kick and a kick is what it needs, but there is no place to put it in. The kick was kicked out in the writing, provided of course that it be possibly admitted Miss Went- worth has written over the vaudeville head. This piece may have been writ- ten before the Russian revolution. The Russian revolution is suggested, by situation and banner. The playlet is allegorical, aside from its story that only prolongs the underlying thought, of the freedom of the world. A mov- ing picture film is the allegorical sec- tion, a rather long run of film for a vaudeville act, with the Spirit of Free- dom arousing the worid and the ond of Peace pacifying it, with Father Time perhaps, from on high, or The Father, directing both Spirits. A dream breaks into the sketch’s plot, and the story is continued from the ending of the pic- ture. His dream converts a captain in his Emperor’s army to those seeking the freedom of a small and acquired portion of the Empire. There’s enough thought in “Old Empires,” but is there anything that can suggest or bring about more thought than this awful war itself? George Webb as the captain is in the lead and gives a sturdy performance., when not hindered by necessary interferences. Frances Mc- Henry is a small girl in a big role, not made big enough by her work, although that won’t be noticed overmuchly by the vaudeville patrons. The others are Joseph Mason and William Mack, the latter with a haunting laugh that might have been written in. But the vaudeville patrons won’t care espe- cially for Miss Wentworth’s latest. They prefer another “War Brides.” If Miss Wentworth ever analyzed her “War. Brides,” she must have discov- ered for herself what there was in that playlet which drew money to the box office. It wasn’t Nazimova only, for the No. 2 company repeated. If the authoress has located the secret of her first war playlet, she can duplicate the success of it by following the same plan for another. Not alone Miss Went- worth, but any author who is aware of it. Sime. Tanean Bros. (2). Musical, Singing and Talking. 14 Mins.; One. The Tanean Bros. in blackface are presenting a suitable turn with comedy, wherein its greatest value lies. Both have a pleasing method of working, never forcing themselves and gaining laughs from a different style that proved amusing. They were welcomed throughout, and could have departed in better style if they had continued their soft playing instead of bursting cut. near the finish. The comedian, dur- ing the playing of the xylophones, gains a number of well earned laughs, with the remainder of the turn looming up well enough to continue wherever a comedy pair on this order are needed. The straight likewise is smooth in his many bits. ™ & — nm aa fm 60 oo0 be a ee aoe: as mes Os wo kOe he Oo OD oO an teeth. ieee Ee ee

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NEW ACTS THIS WEEK Cressy and Dayne Co. (3). “A City Case” (Comedy). 19 Mins., Full Stage. Riverside. It seems along time since Cressy and Dayne exhibited one of their home- made sketches around New York, a long, long time. Perhaps it seems much longer than it really is. This, however, can be easily accounted for through the fact that vaudeville has leaped away ahead of the Cressy- Dayne type of playlet,.a long way ahead. Vaudeville has progressed but Cressy and Dayne have stood still. Their return to New York ushers in the typical Cressy handiwork, i. e., the rural comedy-drama in one act. This particular one has little to recommend it either in construction or delivery. It deals with a theme that seems imprac- tical on its surface and has but a few short-arm laughs as its only redeeming feature. William Cressy assumes the role of a New England lawyer. He has been commissioned by a wealthy client who hails from his town, to close up her late husband’s estate and probate a will left by her father some years before. She proposes to dispossess her stepmother. Cressy talks her out of it. A few slides are projected on a win- dow curtain from a stereopticon lamp, proving up the theme. Blandy Dayne is acceptable as the widow of two hus- bands. She feeds Cressy well, as she always did. Marion Hodges as the secretary is not a good type selection. Her speaking voice is faulty. The skit failed to enthuse, gathering but a stray laugh here and there with little ap- plause for the curtain. It is programed as the 142d one-act play from Cressy’s pen. He might shelve it for New York and try anv one of the other 141. The program also says Cressy and Dayne are laughed at from Maine to Califor- nia. The program man can safely make it Sioux City instead of Maine for this act, for Cressy and Dayne came too far east in 1917 to connect with a sketch of an 1890 vintage. Wynn. “Liberty Belles.” Musical Comedy. 24 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Setting). Hurtig and Seamon’s (Oct. 21). A “girl act.” Six choristers who make the usual changes for numbers, led by three principals, two men and an ingenue. One number showed the girls at their best, although none over- worked. Some sort of a plot that hinges on the escape of a lunatic. The straight is called Jack, while the com- edy is handled by “Dr. Dippy.” The principal woman is styled Kate. There are sO many meetings between the principals the audience becomes dippy trying to keep track df them. Comedy “bits,” effective in the main, were “lifted” from shows going back some ages and also “borrowed” when needed. Several good numbers. Act is for the smaller houses, where a turn of this make looms up big on numbers, and is there as a time filler. Mark. Thorndike and Barnes. “The Recruiting Station.” 16 Mins.; Three. The interior of a naval recruiting of- fice is the set. One of the two men is in the uniform of a lieutenant of the U. S. N. on recruiting day. His part- ner wanders on as a piano mover and is prevailed to enter the service. There isn’t much story and what there is serves but as an excuse for a two-man singing act. There is a recitation at the opening and the lieutenant offers a patriotic number immediately after it. The piano mover changing to a sea- man’s uniform, sings “Any Old Port in a Storm” in a very good basso. There is a break in the song routine for the introduction of comedy in the form of questions put to the applicant by the officer. The gags are rather aged. A double number and a couple of paro- dies finish. It is sure fire for small time during the war period. Fred Carson and Willard. “In 1947” (Comedy). 18 Mins.; One and Full Stage (Special). Jefferson. It’s the same old Carson and Willard minus the Dutchy comedy patter. The pair deserve to be complimented for the effort made to bring their turn right up to the minute. They open in “one,” each dressed “straight.” There is some try for “nattiness” insofar as they can display it sans the chin pieces and the chopped-up English. After a few kidding thrusts at the act ahead they jump into a few verses of “Then I’ll Come Back to You” (resultant from the war), and talk about 30 years from now and how old New York will look, etc. Then they exit, the curtain in “one”’ arising and showing a specially- contrived set as Broadway may look in 1947. There are numerous signs each for a laugh on reading. In the background is an aero tube and a mov- ing platform that connects New York and Philadelphia. The Woolworth tower looks like an ant hill compared to some of the newer skyscrapers. On one side of the stage is the Askmore Hotel, where “they” have vaudeville on the 217th floor and a picture theatre on the 4llth, with the place supposed to have automatic waiters. It advertises a novelty luncheon without music. There is a “Seeing America” car sign upstage. On the other side is the en- trance to the Pneumatic Aero Tube communicating in jig time with Pitts- burgh, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit and suburban points. Other adjacent build- ings are the Dove’s Nest Apartment and the Mormon’s Temple. The come- dians meet after the 30 years dressed up in the style of men’s wear (ex- aggerated and of military design) that might be in vogue then and there is talk of the big changes that have come to pass. They carry instantaneous hand ’phones, with one comedian tell- his wife in Chicago he is in New York, but can’t ‘find any of the Palm Beach tablets that she craves. He hears she is going to jump down to Cincinnati for the night and return an hour later to Chicago. It is a big play for the imag- ination and as such proves a novelty. The patter isn’t as strong as Carson and Willard have had in other seasons, but may prove a substitute during these strenuous war times. There are possibilities and, by working, certain lines can be improved in more ways than one. The men use “100 Years From Now” at the close. Mark. Bert and Hazel Skatelle. Skating, Songs and Dances. 11 Mins.; Two. Columbia (Oct. 21). The Skatelles will have to smooth down many of the rough edges from the new offering to maintain their present vaudeville standing. The turn consists of songs, dances on skates and some waltzing on the rollers. The opening number is light, but the fol- lowing waltz earned them good ap- plause. The Irish number by Miss Skatelle and the man’s number imme- diately following measure up the best of the entire repertoire. The finale needs strengthening. It’s away from the conventional, but needs work and a little speed to qualify. Wynn. Cameron Sisters. Dance. 10 Mins.; Full Stage. Fifth Ave. Always classy, Dorothy and Made- line Cameron will not disappoint ad- mirers with their new turn. Because of their corking appearance Oliver Morosco used them to good advantage in “So Long Letty” last season and for the same reason they will be cordially welcome to vaudeville this season, espe- cially because sister acts are not over abundant. The girls are offering three dance numbers, using their own orches- tra on the stage, the latter being billed as Wallace’s “Syncopated Sextette,” a jazz bunch. But it isn’t the dancing so much as the dressing that counts with the Camerons and their costumes may be described as gorgeous. For the first number they wear suits of blue enriched with deeply edged fur at the hem and cuffs. The dance itself is called “Nar- cissus.” Their second change brings them out in harem costumes of gold cloth, their shoulders and back being generously displayed and they dance the “Egyptienne Waltz.” Their last number is the “Cameron Fox Trot,” done partly on the toes. Here the cos- tumes are odd in design. For stage dressing blue plush hangings are em- ployed. The Camerons have as classy a turn of the kind as has been seen this season. lbee. Bennington and Scott. Songs and Dances. 13 Mins.; One. This act makes an appeai to smail time audiences because the man is a cripple, having but one leg, and his dancing is pretty nearly as good as that of a great many small time hoof- ers with two legs. The team opens with a song, each dressed in white, fin- ishing with stepping when it becomes apparent that the man has a peg-ieg. Stepping by the man follows and he wins quantities of applause. Then the girl offers some ordinary soft shoe work. Several feats of jumping by the man and the kicking of a piece of card board held nine feet above the stage sends the duo away to big apotenes. red. Gaines and Brown. Songs and Talk. 12 Mins.; One. American Roof. Two boys with but a fair act, There are no real songs or comedy and they’re pretty lucky to pass at all. The boys seem to be able but haven’t mate- rial. Three Mountaineers. Comedy Acrobats. 8 Mins.; Full Stage. City. Three men dressed as Swiss moun- taineers—that is two of them and the third as a woman, with red noses and other visible signs they are foreign “eccentriques.” Husky looking chaps. Do good tumbling, handsprings, somer- saults, “porpoises,” etc., but their com- edy is woefully old-fashioned. Smali time opening turn. Jolo. It is suggested all letters in VARIETY of Feb. 4, 1916. MARCUS LOEW CMCUiIT (Jos. M. Schenck) FOX CIRCUIT (Edgar Allen) MILES CIRCUIT (Walter F. Keefe) FINN-HEIMAN CIRCUIT (Sam Kahl) PROTECTED MATERIAL VARIETY’S Protected Material Department will receive and file all letters addressed to it. The envelopes are to be sealed upon the back in a manner to prevent opening without detection, unless by permission of the owner of the letter. e registered, addressed to Protected Material, VARIETY, New York, and receipt requested. VARIETY will acknowledge each letter received. Full particulars of the “Protected Material Department” were published on Page 5 The following circuits, managements and agencies have signified a willingness to adopt such means as may be within their power to eliminate “lifted material” from their theatres, when informed of the result of an investigation conducted by VARIETY: BERT LEVEY CIRCUIT (Bert Levey) SHEA CIRCUIT (Harry A. Shea) FEIBER-SHEA CIRCUIT (Richard Kearney) ALOZ CIRCUIT (J. H. Aloz) PANTAGES CIRCUIT (Walter F. Keefe) B. S. MOSS CIRCUIT / (B. S. Moss) GUS SUN CIRCUIT (Gus Sun) MICHIGAN VAUD. CIRCUIT (W. S. Butterfield) Bruce Duffett and Co. (2). “A Corner in Wireless.” 23 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Set). One of the solid hits of the bill down stairs and on the roof at the American the last half last week. Thursday night the house down stairs just about “ate up” the laugh lines and the roof audi- ence was not far behind them. “A Cor- ner in Wireless” looks like an act orig- inally written without a table bit in it, then found to be rather short and to pad it out for further laughs, a scene with the cooking of ham and eggs was added.’ The scene is atop of a 45-story building where Bruce Duffett has his wireless station. The sister of his col- lege chum and her father call on him. The boy and girl are in love with each other and father has te be convinced the boy is right. The father gives his consent contingent upon the boy being able to. show $50,000 in @ year. The door leading from the roof to the build- ing locks from the inside and there is no way off the roof. The boy seizes the opportunity and shakes the old man down for $30,000 for a wireless message to Pittsburgh. Then he starts piking by charging $500 for the food, after which he comes right back for $19,500 to climb down a fire ladder to the 40th floor to get into the building and open the door. After he has the necessary $50,000 he grabs the girl and the old man admits the boy was too smart for him, It is a big laugh for the small time and can fit on the small big time bills. Fred, Moore and George. Songs. 16 Mins.; One. Fifth Ave. A new sister turn with several cos- tume changes, offering a song routine. They open with a duet, each girl there- after doing a solo, one reciting a war verse, “You Shall Not Pass,” announced as Anna Held’s. There are two “good- bye” numbers, one Tosti’s, Perhaps a re-arrangement of numbers would be more effective. However the act should do well on small time and may go high- er in light of the claimed shortage of sister turns this season. Some changes should be made. The violin bit is of little value. What looked the best number came as an encore, not exactly earned. It was called “If I Should Plant a Seed in the Garden of Your Heart.” lbee. Warner and Aster. Dancing. 8 Mins.; One. American Roof. A good dancing turn this, with both boys doing nice stepping. The act opened after intermission with the people coming in all the time, but they did well notwithstanding. They’ve two or three steps from Doyle and Dixon, but so have most of the hoofers, so there isn’t much harm in that. The turn is running just eight minutes, and that’s decidedly in its favor. If the boys keep it down to that time they'll have something, but if they run over and the act starts to drag, they’re through. Gerald Griffen. Songs. 13 Mins., One. Columbia (Oct. 21). _ A neat appearing young man dressed in the typical Irish costume of olden days, knickerbockers, ruffled sleeves, etc., offering Irish melodies. Griffen has a splendid tenor voice, clear and musical, and handles his top register nicely in a modulated tone. He might eliminate “A Little Bit of Heaven” from the routine proper, retaining it for an encore call instead of the one now used. He shouid aiso drop the gestures, at present overworked. Mr. Griffen has a good singing “single” with the Irish atmosphere aiding its value somewhat. They forced him to offer two extra numbers at the Colum- bia Sunday. Wynn.

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According to Mr. Ber- naru, *agin choked Dimseil lo death instead. lt may be historically or Charies vickensaily correct. it wouid have been interesting at least to nave seeu Fagin die if 80 many ahead ot nim ou the same bill bad not done the same thing. it Mr. Bernard i8 going to choke Fagin twice daily, he should do it with a straight Kuglish or Hebrew accent, to be con- Vincing. Utuerwise Sam did weil enough in the panic, aithough be did much better with much of the same talking material when at Century last season. oo a, B two bright spots on the pro- gram, both comedy. Une was Jobn B. Hymer, with bis “Tom Walker in Vixie, closing the show and playing a return date in the house. It wasut necessary to wait to find out what that act did to them, for it was certain. The other comedy turn was Brendel and Bert, boy and girl, in the No. 4 position. They enter immediately among the best of vaudeville’s mixed comedy two-acts. Brendel does a Swede character in his own way, bas every- thing new, from dialog to business and dress- ing, and with bis partner, Flo bert, can 60 againot any two-act that can get a date. Miss Bert as a singer of songs is going to attract a lot of attention. She bas the knack of put- ting them over, and dresscs well resides, al- though ber biue or green riding habit at the opening would never prove that. it was the other gown that set her off. Mr. Brendel has two bits of business he should protect at any cost. One is his finish, the other is the kissing. There are really two good “singles” in this double turn, and two good singles as a rule should make a good two-act. Brendel and Bert are better than that. They are Phila- delphians and were in a vaudeville produc- tion starting out from there some time ago. Around the Palace it was said the turn was @ Bart McHugb act. Another turn new to the Palace was a sketch, “Bonfire of Old Empires’ (New Acts), intended for a war playlet, but being too indefinite, dragging along for 3U minutes or so, wearing out the audience's patience. It will hardly do for any big time. Opening the performance the Boyarr Com- pany of Russian singers and dancers seemed to be liked, from the closing applause, and then came Lockett and Brown, who also sing and dance, much as Waldron and Young do. These two two-acts were formerly two-acts also, but with the men and women of each together. Now they are “mixed” in persons, but not in acts, for the two turns appear to be the same. They should do differently by mutual agreement, if they can't do it other- wise. Mr. Lockett sang “Mason and Dixon Line” Tuesday night. He did it Monday af- ternoon also, and at that time Miss Bert, two numbers ahead of him, repeated the song, but by Tuesday night she must have heard about Lockett using the same number. She omitted it. Lockett and Brown are doing a fair double, just about passable enough to make the No. 2 spot at the Palace before an or- dinary audience. They didn't do well at all before the Tuesday evening assemblage, but that was nothing particularly against them, as they only started tho: rush. Nonette, next (New Acts), got a little some- thing but fell away toward the finish, partly because of the number played then and the gradual slowness in tempo all through the turn. Opening after intermission would have been better for the show and Nonette, but the bill eould not stand that arrangement. paivu vs After intermission came Marie Nordstrom, with her old routine, perhaps one pew number, opening, in ‘““The Love of the Hook and Hye.’ Miss Nordstrom spoils one of her best bits now, as she always has, the phone bit, by sticking on sob stuif at the finale of it. No one but Miss Nordstrom ever seemed to care for that. Her “Suffrage” finish got some laughs. There seems to be a new boy in it who doesn’t compare with another Miss Nord- strom had at one time. Following the Lib- erty Loan display, not too much could have been looked for by Miss Nordstrom, but she kept on looking for applause through bows, “stealing” all of them, which meant about three. The second one seemed as though she had lost her way to the dressing room and walked on the stage by mistake, while, when jumping out for the third, it may have been Miss Nordstrom was prompted by curiosity to see if the audience was still there. ai ime.

RIVERSIDE. The Riverside bill experienced a severe shaking up aiter the initial performance Mon- day, the night show carrying a brand-new rulning order for the acts scheduled witn one missing entirely through scenery delay. This, ‘“‘Creation,” was scheduled to close the show, but McLallan and Carson appeared in that spot. The shift brought Cressy and Dayne (New Acts) up to an early position in the first part trom a late one in the second and gave Robert Emmett Keane tke arducus task of opening after intermission. The re- arrangement was of some benefit apparentiy for the show, while somewhat light. in com- parison with others, played reasonably well and seemed to thoroughly satisfy the gath- ering. Following the Pathe pictorial, the Gliding O’Mearas danced through a routine that en- tailed some corking whirls, a neatly executed waltz and a speedy dance that evoked ap- plause. They might procure something new in the way of orchestrations, particularly tor the closing number, the one now utilized being a bit old for this section. They gave the piii a@ speedy start and retired a safe hit. The Three O’Gorman Girls are pretty and talented musically to a degree, but their pres ent oilering will get them but little attention as big time candidates. The affair is poorly arranged, the singie “‘bit’ bow used carrying any value being the trombone duet. A neat drop is carried and the girls sparkle with personality, but they need a routine. The mmediey of patriotic airs, used for an encore, Sent them over the line. Duffy and Inglis took their bows at the Riverside, quite a few. They were grested with a reception and found the going easy. The instrumental bits cinched their Lit and they were entitied to a fair division of the comedy spoils at the finish. Mr. Keane, opening the second part, was a valuable acquisition to the program. His English stories went over with a resounding bang. (The two oldest gathered the most laughs.) He tells the one about the King diving for gold coins and tke other anent the baseball score which impressed the Eng- lishman as being up in the millions. Those two were long since “released” through age and use, but there seems no reason why Keane should eliminate them if they connect everywhere as they did at the Riverside. His rendition of “Blighty” and “The British Sol- dier” ensured his success. We still maintain, however, ‘‘Blighty’” is a poor selection for Stage use, although Keane explains it well. Brendel and Burt ,next to closing spot, tied the show up in a knot with their comic specialty and cornered the honors of the evening with Little or no competition. Bren- del has a unique style of characterizing a funny-Swede and introduc.s several novel Sits of business. The finale is sure fire anywhere. Miss Burt’s solo singing provides the con- — and her numbers show good musical aste. Florence Tempest and Evelyn Nesbit and Co. (New Acts) while McLalien and Carson, skaters, closed the bill. Wynn.

COLONIAL. The Colonial was turned over to Liberty Loan solicitors Monday night with the Misses Meinken and Gordon from the Wilfred Clarke act assisting in getting bond signers. An- nouncement was later made the evening’s work had netted $19,000, $10,000 being offered by a certain person if the audience raised a similar amount. The loan appeal caused the show to run later than usual, and saturated it with con- siderable talk, as there were a number of sketches, The bill was given a nice start by the Sylvia Loyal act with the trained dog and pigeons. Mable Russell and Marty Ward Co. were No. 2, doing fairly well, bat needin material. Miss Russell looked well an worked hard, but several of her numbers with the boys weren’t productive of the applause expected. After the Wilfred Clarke (New Acts) sketch appeared Hallen and Hunter. The opening could be discarded, as it slows up the act more than giving them a good open- ing. Hallen was at his best on Irish dialect Stories or least that part obtained the big- gest laughter at the Colonial. Hallen hews closely to stage mannerisms familiar to some of our best-known stage comics and really doesn’t need to, as he shows a natural apti- tude for comedy that should win on merits alone. Miss Hunter doesn't do much, but is a comely girl end handles the “straight” work as a filler. The act runs largely to Hallen’s Dutticisms. He's droll, unctuous type and on drollery best adapted to his style should hitch his waewe. At the Colonial they got over nicely. The Eddie Leonard minstrel turn closed the first part. As Eddie is some favorite in the neighborhood, there never was any doubt as to the returns. Jack LaVier never had a tougher spot, fol- lowing the Liberty Loan appeal, the solicitors still being down in the audience coilecting bond signatures when he started his quiet opening. LaVier has worked his trapeze turn up to a valuable bit of stage property and as it now unfolds plus the accompanying taik makes him the Bert Melrose of the trapeze bar. His hit was unquestioned. Two of his tricks are corkers. Janet Adair is a light-haired comedienne who depends more on the recitative style and change of delivery for her vaudeville suc- cess than anything else and at the Colonial she was noticeably successful. Miss Adair is capably assisted by a nice-looking young woman at the piano (Miss Adelphi), who knows how to dress and fix her hair to catch the boys out in front. Miss Adair has sev- eral numbers that outshine the remainder of her routine. “Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide” was capitally enacted and surelire. Miss Adair seems to grow on an audi*nce the longer she stays on view and that characte'- istic “‘bit’’ (with feeling) of the old friends staying pals unto death was well received. Following Miss Adair appeared Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Barry (New Acts) with ‘‘Makers of History” closing the show. The idea of this posing act held everybody in and it hoids interest in the Manner in which the pedestal ‘‘figures’’ are presented. Mark. BUSHWICK. Reported dissatisfaction among several acts caused considerable switching, in fact there was posilion changing up to and including Tuesday night. On that evening Sarah Pad- den was changed irom No. 5 to third, Joseph E. Bernard was sent from No. 3 to seventh, and the Doliliy Sisters (headiining) were moved up trom seventh to ciosing intermis- sion. ‘Luesday night found the house in early with a sell-out claimed at eight o'clock. Yet Seats were to be had, even with the fumb- ling at the box office, and there was room in the boxes unsold ior the night. In spite of the early crowd the final cur- tain did not tall until almost 11.20, the cause of the lengthy show being the iailure to get the news fiim started until 8.15. ‘lhe Liberty Loan speaker hurdiy figured in the lengthy show, tor his detiniteiy brief re- MmurKs consumed but five minutes. The first part of the bill (up to intermis- sion) seemed possessed of speed and the house was incilned to be enthusiastic. Evelyn and Dolly with their pleasant show of versatile stunts won good appiause, the bike work be- ing taken to especially. Eddie and Lou Miiler followed, Soth in exXcelient voice, 2nd they waiked off with an easy bit. Miss Pad- den with “The Ciod’’ turnished amusement for the Brookiynites. They laughed at lines, which in other piaces only lent color to her characterization of the tarm drudge. The act, therefore, lost some of its dramatic power, but that was counterbalanced by the manner of its acceptance. Lyons and Yosco, the reunited ‘“‘wop’’ duo, succeeded in making themselves favorites, getting fine returns, with “Macarroni Joe,” a comic war lyric, used as an encore. The Doliy sisters wound up intermission, right up in the van for re- turns, The after intermission portion of the bill failed to hold the speed of the earlier sec- tion, for the first two turns aud the Liberty Loan speaker took up almost 5U minutes. Charlotte Parry (New Acts) opened the in- termission. Following was Beruard’s turn, “Who is She?” by Willard Mack. Here is one of the best acted of tarce comedies. There is a deal of action, many bright and some fumny lines and the playing is top class. Bernard is assisted by Niuita Lristow, whose work as the very jealous “hot and cold” bride surely earns her the honor of equal billing. Al and Fanny Steadman with their peppery Capers showed next to closing, going tor a bit, though it was five minutes past eleven when they were doing their on and off finish. Howard's Animals succeeded in holding the house, comparatively few walking. lbee. 4 ROYAL. It was several minutes past eleven when Belle Baker appeared to close the show Mon- day night and it was 16 minutes past the hour when she finished her encore with her only pub- lished number, “Joan of Are.” Being a prime Bronx favorite, Miss Baker bad no trouble in holding the fairly good house intact. The show was very slow in starting, and the first section (up to intermission) never did hit its proper stride. This may have partly been due to the Liberty Loan speech, delivered by a local orator after the fourth turn and consuming about 15 minutes. At in- tervals during the war all entertainments are bound to be interrupted on matters of na- tional import, since public gathering places furnish a medium of direct appeal. Still, time allotted to such addresses might be standardized. There were several other favorites an the bi. The De Wolf Giris,° who really fur- nished tbe only bright diversion before inter- mission, were one, and L. Wolfe Gilbert and Anatol Friedland, who opened after Inter- mission, were another. It was after intermission that whatever punch the show had was delivered. The composers offered three war numbers for a Starter, with “After the Boys Come March-

ing Home” the applause getter. Pianted in a box a girl with an exceilent voice helped considerably here. A medley of their form- er compositions followed and won for them the applause honors of the evening. Ben Ryan and Harriette Lee (New Acts) were seventh, with “Hats and Shoes,” Dorothy and Madeline Cameron with their new danc- ing act, were next to closing. This made two classy sister turns on the program (De Wolfs), both scoring strongly. The Cameron girls have some wonderful wordrobe, but they, too, show something in the dancing line, es- pecially at the finish, with the sisters doing toe work. The news film was switched from last to first and was followed by Burdella Patterson, who, with her illuminated posings, held the quiet pace. Frank and Garcia De Mont won little for their efforts in second spot even though the man’s dancing gave promise of starting something. On third the youthful Ve Wolf girls in their dainty, clever offering, “Clothes, Clothes, Clothes,"”’ went over very nicely. Rather a nifty idea of Marion Sunshine, who is re- sponsible for the turn. The settings are in excellent taste. After each costume change the girls sing a chorus about “Clothes make girls beautiful,”’ and then a bit of neat step- ping. Harry Cooper, assisted by Jim Reaney, was fourth, getting fair laughter, the illustrated comic husband bit going over best. More singing was looked for from Cooper, but he may be saving his voice. After the Liberty Loan address, Fred J. Ardath and Co. closed the first half with ‘“‘The Decorator.’’ Looks like a minute or two had been cut from the running time and, if so, some of the paste slinging was eliminated. However, the act suited the Royalites, for they laughed quite some. AMERICAN ROOF. Mabel Normand started the show on the American Roof Monday night with ea plea for the purchase of Liberty Bonds. Miss Normand looked exceptionally well upon the stage, but it was impossible to hear her*in the rear of the house. Belle Onri commenced the show with her aerial act and did nicely. Miss Onri is going through her routine in seven minutes and je- serves credit for her haste. It’s a good open- ing turn. Gaines and Brown (New Acts) were No, 2, The Gordon Highlanders pleased with music and made it easy for Weber and Elliot, who followed. The two boys hept the house laugh- ing for 15 minutes and were called back after the lights had been turned out. The come- dian is doing some straight singing that is hurting the act more than aiding it. He tries to warble with “feeling” instead of singing ie a something that may be learned by study. Willa Hott Wakeficid received a reception and after doing five numbers, it was evident the audience was pelased to see her back on the Roof. Miss Wakefield announced that it was her first time there in two years. Warner and Aster (New Acts) opened after intermission with the Ryan-Richfleld Co. coming after. Thomas J. Ryan is still as funny as he ever was. This act is “there” on any bill it plays. They’ll laugh at the sketch as long as Mr. Ryan is with it. Demarest and Doll got away nicely, with the boy act. This lad certainly can make a piano talk and he might do better as a single. As a comedian he isn’t so good, but on the music box—he's there a mile Leddy and Leddy closed. One of the bors is doing some falls that are beauts. It’s one of the best closing acts around in some time. It was a good bill at the Roof the first half, much better than the previous week. HARLEM 0. H. Despite its increased capacity the Harlem house was taxed to capacity Tuesday night, with the war song contest the special event of the evening. This affair apparently pulled business, for by ‘the number of walkouts after the contest it was evident many had come for this particular number alone. It was staged in a central spot and gave a little tone of variety to an otherwise slow running pro- gram, Ollie Young and April opened, following a run of pictures, and with their dainty little offering gave the bill a nifty start. It’s a cleverly constructed turn, somewhat differ- ent, and entertaining throughout, making an especial appeal to the women and children. Joe and Vera White (New Acts) followed, after which came John T. Ray and Co. in a rather weak skit in “two.” It is built around a good theme, showing a coat room scene in a cabaret, but the dialog and vocal depart- ment is somewhat light. The two numbers could be improved upon lyrically, the present pair dragging the affair out to a dangerous point. The encore dance earned some ap- plause, but the act is badly in need of im- mediate doctoring. Hallen and Fuller with their “Corridor of Time” earned a popular hit, although few, if any, of the Harlem patrons could remember sufficiently far back to connect them with theatricals during their heyday. The vehicle carries a touch of sentiment that practically forces them over, with the entertulning feu- tures gathering sufficient returns to warrant the billing and spot. After the song contest came Leroy, Lytton and Co. with their comedy sketch, followed by Gertrude Graves (New Acts) and Margaret Edwards and Co., who closed the vaudeville section. A Chaplin feature was listed as an added attraction with several comedy and dramatic films added as fillers. Wynn.

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the lea iss the ‘in ler ng le- n- s) sic ler ie- ee ae MOVING PICTURES AMALGAMATING ALL EXHIBITORS INTO ONE LARGE ASSOCIATION Possible Merger of Present Two Leading Picture Exhibitors’ Societies. Won’t Stand for Ochs in Reorganization. American Association, Younger of Two, Claims 3,000 Members. Plan May Be in Force by Holidays. For several days has sped the report there would be a merger of the two leading picture exhibitors’ organiza- tions, and it may be that the heads of the picture industry may be able to bring it about if such a thing is to be consummated. This much is definite. In the pro- posed reunion of the American Ex- hibitors’ Association and the Motion Picture Exhibitors’ League of Ameri- ca Lee Ochs, president of the latter body, and his slated “machine con- freres” would have to step down and out as directing the affairs of the rejoined organization, while the pre- siding heads of the American would have to do the same with their or- ganization. The American Association claims over 3,000 members, and says its de- fection from the League ranks in Chi- cago was due solely to Ochs and his steam roller methods. The Exhibitors’ Association in con- sidering the proposed return to the League fold would not think of the reunion if Ochs were to have any part of it or were to operate the “Trade Review,” while acting as an of- ficial or exhibitor. When there was talk the amalgam- ized league would have to take care of C. C. Pettijohn, executive secretary and gereral manager of the Associa- tion, in some manner, that his salary had been guaranteed by the American members for one year, Pettijohn went on record as saying that he would tear his contract up if the new amal- gamation meant the withdrawal of the Ochs machinery. Pettijolin is a law- yer, and has a practice in In _iana. It is believed he would return west and devote all of his time to it plus his activity as an exhibitor in his re- spective territory. If Ochs agrees to a proposition for cementing the two organizations un- der one branch as indicated by the new arrangement it is thought he may con- tinue the “Trade Review” as an out- side proposition. Hawever, the heads of the industry which means the per- sonal efforts of William A. Brady as president of the Industry Association will have to insure pertcct harmony to both the League and Association before the final merger could be con- firmed. It is said efforts are under way to bring the two bodies together, but there has been no official activity that would permit any official to make a statement at this time. Something may develop between now and the holi- days. AMERICAN’S “COMPLAINT” DEPT. _The American Exhibitors’ Associa- tion is out with a campaign to sound all of the exhibitors on their feeling as they stand to day on all matters, big and little, pertaining to the film industry and its exhibition insofar as the exhibitor is personally concerned. A circularized statement is going out this week and the association expects to secure well defined “complaints” in the course of a few weeks, The Association announces the com- plaint registar is not to be confined to its members, the circular stating any exhibitor, attached or not, will be welcome to submit a report. The only requirement is that facts are given in detail. The Association promises to make an investigation via its New York of- fices and promises a full statement of any developments will be issued over the general manager’s signature to every trade pubication. The Association intends to issue bul- letins on these complaints each week. A meeting of the Board of Directors and members of the American Ex- hibitors’ Association will be held at the Astor Hotel, New York, Nov. 13. The Association expects to make pub- lic some special announcements at that time. GUARANTEEING COMEDIES. Those in charge of the Sunshine Comedies in the William Fox film of- fices are making a strong bid for book- ing in vaudeville houses throughout the country, trying to persuade man- agers to book them in place of comedy acts, offering to guarantee the films will create more laughs than any act. The first Sunshine comedy release will be Nov. 1l. They run from 1,700 to 1.900 feet. UNION DEAD LOCK. In some sections there is still a deadicck in the controversy between the union picture operators of Local 306 and certain theatres over the re- fusal of the latter to sign the new scale agreement that the M. P. O. voted must hereafter be in force. Lee Ochs and what house managers are allied with him are still at “outs” with the union, and for the present all negotiations for a settlement have been calied off, the theatres of the former interests being designated as “unfair to organized labor.” A new phase to the trouble arose in Brooklyn, where union operators avow that a number of managers are holding that the supper hour clause in the agreement is too long. One operator says that they (referring to the managers making the contention) want them to eat sandwiches in the booths and continue operating mean- while. CAN’T LAND STONE. So far all efforts to land Fred Stone in the picture net have failed. With Stone the biggest kind of a hit at the Globe in the new Charles Dillingham production, “Jack O’ Lantern,” there is little evidence so far Stone will work in pictures this winter any way. Stone has received numerous film offers that would run into fancy figures if made public. Not “Serial” Mollie King. Los Angeles, Uct. 24. Mollie King, an actress, was fatally injured in an auto crash here in which two others were killed. . This is not the Mollie King of film serial fame. “Whip” for England, $125,000. Paris, Oct. 24. It is reported here the English rights for the film, “The Whip,” have been purchased by the Mundas film people tor $125,000, . FRIEDA HEMPEL SIGNED? Frieda Hempel, the dramatic opera song-bird, wlio returns from a concert tour next week to begin her fifth sea- son with the Metropolitan opera, may become a picture star, she having re- ceived attractive offers, both from Paramount and Goldwyn. Attention was drawn to Mme. Hempel because of the dramatic ability she has dis- played in handling her operatic roles here. It is understood the song-bird has made no final decision, and it may be she will accept a third proposition —that of forming her own picture company. That Mme. Hempel’s picture offer en- tails a large salary is indicated from the fact she is paid $2,000 per night by the Metropolitan and appears on an average of 29 nights each season. Mme. Hempel is expected to be able to start her picture work this fall. Niagara Falls for a “Location.” Earle Fox has been signed as lead- ing man for the new Constance Tal- madge picture, “The Honeymoon.” The story is being filmed with Niag- ara Falis as a background. It is under the direction of Charles Giblyn. MATINEE BUSINESS MAKER. Providence, R. I., Oct. 24. At the Modern this week littie Em- my Gordon (who was in the film, “The Little Mother”) appeared in person. Each afternoon during the week the little film star presented to the two best dressed children in the audience $2.50 gold pieces. The prize winners were selected by herself. She made a decided hit and proved an added at- traction which drew hundreds of school children to the matinees after school hours. The picture was filmed in this city and at Narragansett Pier. U. B. O. AFTER CHAPLINS. A deai was in process of consumma- tion this week whereby the United Booking Office vaudeville house would enter into a contract with the First National Exhibitors’ Circuit, whereby the entire series of Charles Chaplin pictures—eight in all—wiil be played in the vaudeville houses during the ensuing year. The Chaplins consist of two parts each, with the running time of about 25 minutes per installment, and the United Booking Office will so arrange it, if the deal goes through, to make the film a part of its vaudeville pro- gram and not force the present shows to run any longer than usual. The F. N. E. circuit now handles the new Chaplin series, and although they will be shown first to the public at the Rialto, that stand is not expected to make any difference with their ex- pected showing in other parts of the city where United Booking Office houses plan to use the Chaplin as a side feature. PETROVA’S SECOND CAST. The cast for Madame Petrova’s second production under her own man- agement includes Thomas_ Holding, Lumsden. Hare, Clarence Hermitage, Fred. Jones, Evelyn Dummo, Freddie Verdi. The feature is entitled Daughter of Destiny” and was written by Mrs. L Case Russell. Larry Trimble will di- rect, Philip Rosen will be cameraman and Henry Meurmessier technical di- rector. Leonhardt Goes Back to Fox. Harry Leonhardt, who resigned from the Fox sales forces to join Goldwyn, will return to Fox and become western sales manager. Released FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN and BEVERLY BAYNE in a Metro Star Series PRODUCTION DE LUXE Six Acts of Intense and Vital Drama “The Adopted Son” From the story by Max Brand in the “All Story Weekly” Directed by CHARLES BRABIN for ae é Lwww jw Aw a G . Ta CA Ce ta te CA GY x,A™

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be om hire NON See ae ee ~ " eo a ~ — eas MeN + 4 RUNNER tS > ? aan ee eee 1S ORD a aaa ee as ae a ee ee ae an ' zi ya amt -. st: eee re ee ee : " . en eT ae ade ere ee oe Sawreee t eee ae eee ire achat cin. Mer oe et | = = igre 8 EE Se Ca Rs SS MOVING PICTURES PICTURES UNEVENLY TAXED PRESENT BELIEF OF FILM MAKERS In Fixing Revenue Schedule Congress Made Levy on Less Expensive and Shorter-Reeled Subjects the Same as the More Costly and Multi-Footed Celluloid Produc- tions. Some Figures Explain Themselves. Following the Universal’s decision to cut the number of one-reel releases about fifty per cent., because of the tax, investigation showed that other film concerns had cut down the number of short reel pictures. The General has reduced its one reelers to about four per week and the Mutual also did sim- ilarly. This was done before the tax question arose and is indicative of the fact that there is small profit in short reel pictures. A reason for this is found in the ac- tive competition with feature films, which, when six months old, sell for about the same price charged for a new short reel picture. In the smaller houses, managers can hardly withstand the temptation of booking the fea- ture, even though the film’s condition by that time may be bad for screen- in Kt the Universal offices a concrete explanation of what is considered an unfair apportionment of the tax was made. The Universal’s attorneys after examining the text of the law, report- ed there was no loop hole frcr the fact that the short reel pictures are taxed as highly as are features. In icture circles this is considered mani- Festly unfair since the revenue from a five-reel feature is much greater than that possible from five ordinary single reels. The tax on raw stock and finished film of all kinds runs about three- quarters of a cent per foot. The Uni- versal claims that many of its one reelers are produced on a half of a cent per foot profit and hence the tax would not only wipe out the profit mar- gin but incur a loss. There are 71 exchanges operated by Universal and the tax becomes a very big item. From the angle of cost of produc- tion the unfairness of the tax is made more evident. A single reel picture of the ordinary sort costs between $900 and $1,000, while the cost of a feature runs usually from $20,000 to $30,000. That both sort of films were placed on the same basis in the schedule by the framers of the tax bill shows an unfamiliarity with the subject. The cutting down in the short reel picture orders does not so much affect the comedies, news films and specials, as in the case of nature studies and the like. Films of that class are bet- ter revenue producers than the one and two-reel dramas. It is stated an effort will be made upon the convening of Congress Dec. 4, to effect a modification or equaliza- tion of the tax. WILLIAM five acts. Sr Produced by AMERICAN FILM COMPANY, INC. SAMUEL 8. HUTCHINSON, President SAMUEL S. HUTCHINSON, President AMERICAN FILM COMPANY, INC. Presents SEA MASTER” By Charles T. and Frank Dazey. In '! Directed by Edward Sloman. Released the week of October 22nd. The salt tang of the sea pervades every foot of this unusual production. life and denicts the joys and sorrows, the brutal rages and mighty passions of a grim old sea-dog—a real master of men. able now at all Mutual Exchanges. RUSSELL It throbs with Ayail- vy i, EX ‘is 2A eis Le Seat rut Distributed by MUTUAL FILM CORPORATION JOHN R. FREULER, President oe EXPO HANDLERS INCORPORATE. Handling the two big film exposi- tions that will be held in the east in 1918, the first to be held in New York in February and the other in Boston during the annual convention of the Motion Picture Exhibitors’ League, is an incorporated body of film men who filed articles for that especial purpose in Albany last week. The incorporators were: Arthur S. Friend (F.-P.-Lasky), Gabriel L. Ross (Goldwyn), Frederick H. Elliott (ex- ecutive secretary National Association of the M. P. Industry). There are 14 directors, with the fol- lowing selected from the industry: W. A. Brady, Arthur E. Friend, J. E. Brul- atour, Wm. L. Sherrill, J. A. Berst, G. L. Ross, W W. Irwin, Pat A. Powers, J. H. Hallberg, with Lee Ochs, Ernest H. Horstman, Alfred S. Black, ip ators at (representing the M. P. E. eague). CLAREMONT’S ANNIVERSARY. F. J. Dollinger, manager of the Clare- mont, is celebrating this week the third anniversary of the house, by giving his patrons an augmented show. He calls upon his patrons, in a program note, to come to him at all times with sug- gestions for the betterment of his en- tertainment and says he is always glad to hear from them on any subject. The Claremont has inaugurated a plan of selling “Evening Books,” which contain $1.80 worth of tickets for $1.50. FARRELL SUCCEEDS MAYER. Metro has engaged Edward J. Far- rell, former manager of the Pathe Boston exchange, as general manager of its New England territory, succeed- ing Louis B. Mayer, who, as announced last week, resigned to become New England manager for Select Picture Corporation. VITA GRANTED INJUNCTION. Supreme Court Justice Whitaker granted the injunction applied for by the Vitagraph Company of America to restrain Anita Stewart from acting in pictures for Louis B. Mayer, or any other company other than the plaintiff. The injunction continues until the trial of the action. Vitagraph alleges Miss Stewart is un- der contract to it until Jan. 31, 1918, at a salary of $1,000 a week and 10 per cent. of the profits, with a guarantee her share shall not be less than $127,- 000 per annum. The impression was created, at the time it was announced Miss Stewart had signed with Mayer, that she was to join the Metro forces. This was brought about through the fact that Mayer was, at the time, the New Eng- land manager for Metro. He has since resigned and Richard A. Rowland, president of Metro, is out with an an- nouncement Metro at no time sought Miss Stewart’s services and objects to the linking of Metro’s name with any attempt to secure the services of art- ists under contract to other picture companies. RIVOLI OPENING NEXT MONTH. The Rivoli, at Broadway and 49th Street, under the management of Samuel Rothapfel, is scheduled to open about December 15. It will seat approximately 2,500. METRO TAKES “DAYBREAK.” Metro has acquired the photoplay rights of “Daybreak,” written by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin, and will star Emily Stevens in it. The play had a Broadway engagement earlier in the season. Albert Capellani will direct the feature. ViTAGRAPI man) Part Blue Ribbon Feature | ALBERT E:SMITH presents ALICE JOYCE in . The Fettered Woman’ From the Popular Novel ‘Anne's Bridge i, Robert W.Chambers Directed by Tom Terriss QO eet yt ee ee OO ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ae, | «) Be ee. ee ee. De ee ee emabnnen Sea SA

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fe tt erw W ef ‘(io = wr 1 —. S- OS w FF ~~ Ww ew sé eae MOVING P ICTU RK ES 2 EXHIBITORS’ BOOKING CONCERN. A million dollar company, newly in- co-porated under the name of U. S. Ex- hibitors’ Booking Corporation, will be launched next month. The founders have been preparing for many months. It is headed by Frank Hall, president and general manager. Twelve special productions are plan- ned for distribution. the first year, the selection being entrusted to a com- mittee on which exhibitors and ex- change men are equally represented. The pictures considered by this “Com- mittee on Selection” will not only num- ber all productions that appear on the state rights market, but will include special efforts of well known directors who contract in advance to make ex- ceptional features for outright sale to the organization. Discussing his plans, Mr. Hail said: “Realizing the necessity of construc™ ing a solid foundation upon which to build the framework of an organiza- tion as efficient as the U. S. Exhibitors’ Booking Corporation must be ‘to achieve its object—the purchasing of special state right pictures and their distribution to éxhibitors at prices that represent only an equitable pro- fit to producers and distributors—my associates and myself have given many weeks to the working out of extensive plans for the successful operation of a company working along new lines. We believe that an organization founded to buy big features for cash with the sole idea of renting them to exhibitors at prices that represent only a fair interest on the investment is sure of immediate and lasting success if hon- estly and efficiently managed. We are now ready for business. “Our first picture is the Thomas H. Ince spectacle, “The Zeppelin’s’ Last Raid,’ the second a Bessie Barriscale production, and we shall make another important announcement in the near future. The M. H. Hoffman Four- square exchanges will handle our pic- tures in the territories which they cover, and other territories will be taken care of by exchanges to be an- nounced shortly.” WHAT’S KENNEDY’S SECRET? For the past six months A. M. Ken- nedy, one of the factors in the Goldwyn Corporation, has had a depressing ef- fect upon his friends.* His worried, sleepless expression has tended to the belief the organization of a new pro- ducing force for as ambitious an organi- zation as Goldwyn has not been a sine- cure. Recently a smile of contentment has overspread his features. There has been much talk of late in film circles of combinations and amal- gamations. The satisfied grin on Ken- nedy’s face would lead one to assume he has been picked out as the nucleus of another big project. However, Mr. Kennedy, with his usual reticence, says nothing—and smiles. SERIAL ANTICIPATED INVENTION. Just about the time Paramount re- leased its serial, “Who is ‘Number One’?” Simon Lake, a Bridgeport in- ventor, announced he had invented a boat that crawls on the bottom of the sea, equipped with an apparatus so divers can leave and enter the boat while it is under water. The third episode of the serial contains just such an invention. The picture was com- pleted months ago. A large percentage of exhibitors booking the serial are taking advan- tage of Paramount’s discount plan offered to those who pay in advance for the entire 15-week run. FOUR. COMING GOLDWYNS. The next four Goldwyn releases, all six-reelers, are Mae Marsh in “Sun- shine Alley” (Nov. 4); Madge Kennedy in “Nearly Married” (Nov. 18); Mabel Normand in “Joan of Flatbush” (Dec. 2); Maxine Elliott in “The Eternal Magdalene” (Dec. 16). ESCAPES FROM CHICAGO. Chicago, Oct. 24. With joy and thanksgiving Bryant Washburn, Essanay star, blew Chi- cago last week for Los Angeles. With him were Mrs. Bryant Washburn, Bryant Washburn IV and Bryant Washburn Kewpie, the Washburn pup. They joined with Bryant in paeons of praise at the exodus. Washburn has quit Essanay and joined the Pathe fold, where he is to be featured at an an- nounced salary of $1,000 a week. He was born in Chicago and made his reputation in Chicago; was drafted for the army in Chicago and claimed exemption because of a dependent wife in Chicago. The result was that the Chicago papers panned Mr. Washburn with signal persistency and aplomb, and “rode” him for weeks. As a parting shot one of the papers said that in view of his latest con- nection, with the obese pay envelope attached thereto, the Government would probably watch Mr. Washburn’s escapades on the film and off, and at such .time when Mr. Washburn had sufficient money to take care of his family for a while he would be collared into the larger service. Washburn began his career in Chi- cago under George K. Spoor, who then paid him $45 a week. Before that he had been a clerk. Washburn grew with the Essanay, and the company raised him to $200 weekly and made him profitable for itself, too. Spoor had planned to meet the offer of $800 a week which Pathe recently made him, but the adverse publicity and the reports that Washburn’s pictures were hissed in several local theatres because of it made Spoor willing to cancel the remainder of his contract with Wash- burn when Pathe raised its price to $1,000. OFFICIAL ONE-REEL FEATURE. “Who Leads the National Army” is the title of a one-reel -picture to be distributed broadcast and presented in the film theatres of the country. It is designed to show the public a good deal of the training and general wel- fare of the national army. The picture was produced under the supervision of the Military Training Camps Association of Washington, New York and Baltimore and will be distributed by the Triangle Distribut- ing Corporation without any payment. The same condition applies to Metro, which has turned over its publicity de- partment to take care of the newspa- per and trade paper publicity. The picture, authorized by the War Department, was taken at six training camps and in the office of the Secretary of War. It shows the mental and phy- sical examinations, arrival at camp, camp-setting up, exercises, manual of arms, signal practice, bayonet charges, maneuvers, trench construction, gre- nade throwing, attacking trenches, going “over the top,” and finally well trained and ready to lead national army. Besides the Military Training Camps Ass’n, every large patriotic organiza- tion is booming the picture and calling upon theatre managers requesting them to book the picture for a short time in place of some other one-reel subject. FARNHAM SCREEN CLUB PRES. Joe Farnham has been elected presi- dent of the Screen Club, succeeding William Quirk, the present incumbent. The Screen Club anticipates an active winter season, and there has been a revival of spirit that has put new life into the membership. Farnham’s friends worked for his election. PRODUCERS GETTING TOGETHER. Activities in New York within the past week point to the establishment of closer relations between the Pro- ducers’ Committee of the N. A. of the M. P. Industry, now representing 47 companies, and the M. P. Producers’ Association of Los Angeles. Evidence of this phase of picture progress be- came noted !ocally by the presence here of Walter J. Reynolds, secretary, of the Los Angeles organization, who held several conferences with the ex- ecutives of the industry. Reynolds made it a personal matter to see some of the New York officers of the coast producing companies and interested them in his organization. Some time ago the Coast organiza- tion established a Cinema Exchange and the feeling between the eastern and western organization is expected to help the film interests in several ways. As a result of some suggestions by Reynolds while here the Service Bur- eau Committee may bring about noticeable uniformity in the applica- tion forms and registration cards of the bureau which has established head- quarters in the Longacre building, with Wales Winter as its manager. Building New House in Tacoma. Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 24. W. T. Moore, owner of the Colonial, has given a contract for the construc- tion of a new $100,000 picture house here, to seat 1, Berman, Sales Agent for Brenon. Sol Berman, manager of the New York exchange for Select, has tendered his resignation, to take effect at the end of next week. He will become sales manager for the Brenon Distributing Corporation. No Serial Can be qood without a qood story The SEVEN PEARLS ond CREIGHTON HALE —— has one Giatieutideee ate is celebrated as a novel- ist and playwright ee Charles W. Goddard's ploy It is the Pathé policy tohave writers of note as the authors of Pathé serials. Amonq them.. have been Mabel Herbert Urner, Gilson Willets, Wm. Hamilton Osborne and Arthur B. Reeve. Ss ore famous. Among them have been,“The Ghost Breaker,““ The last Leugh."" The Man from the Sea,“* Miss information®” and” The Misleading months at the Fulton Theater in New York ond for oo a year at the Playhouse ,” which ran for sever +> in Lon “The SEVEN PEARLS” is cromned full of romance and adventure. tt will hold your audiences . ponent Aare Sorts pate to perpen tt freee

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3 fst a, Serpe enemies RMI’ ——s WS a4 selina aE ih Dick ae CCB ee erie eee Pra sea compere | te recee. ncn tahctnt Han eC eas one tot =e cmerere Sip Sign ar pagratel so eens ae ae MOVING PICTURES AUTHORS’ HARVEST DAYS. These appear harvest days for the writers of noie, with film companies making all sorts of fanciful offers for their past works and their future novels for film production. Previously few authors and novel- ists lack some sort of a film connec- tion nowadays, and many of the stories that are yet to appear in mag- azine and novel form have been given screen “options.” Charles Kenyon, who wrote “Kind- ling,” is now regularly attached to the Universal’s scenario department. One of his newest subjects is “The Wolves of the North,” on which work started Oct. 11, with Louise Lovely and Hart Hoxie as the principals. E. J. Le Saint is producing. It will be a Bluebird. Another big film will be made for the Jewel Productions, Inc., of Mary Roberts Rhinehart’s “K,” to be releas- ed about Dec. 15, with Mildred Harry and True Boardman featured. The Vitagraph is crowing over acquiring film rights to O. Henry's works, the “Wolfville” series that Al- fred Henry Lewis wrote, different novels by Robert W. Chambers, Fred- erick Upham Adams’ novels and Cyrus Townsend Brady’s works. The next of the O. Henry stories, “Municipal! Re- port,” entitled “I Will Repay,” by Vita, with Corinne Griffith featured, will be released. The next of the “Wolfville” stories will be “The Ten- derfoot,” directed by William Duncan, with Duncan ard Carol Holloway play- ing the leads. It will be released December 3. The Robert Chambers’ story, “Anne’s Bridge,” renamed “The Fettered Wo- man, will be released by the Vita Nov. 5, with Alice Joyce in the title role. Another Chambers’ story, “Who Goes There?” with Harry Morey, Corinne Griffith and Mother Maurice, is scheduled for release Nov. 26. Cyrus Townsend Brady’s “An In- vestment in Petticoats,” released Dec. 10, will have Mildred Manning and Wallace MacDonald as the co-stars. The Vita is making a feature out of “Between Friends” by Chambers, which is titled “A Woman Between Friends,” will be released Dec. 17, while a play adapted from Adams’ “John Burt” will be released Dec. 24, with Alfred Whitman and Mary An- derson jointly featured. Sam Merwin’s stories have been con- tracted for by several firms, with the Universal obtaining some of his latest. His “Anthony the Absolute” is to be made into a Bluebird, with Rupert Julian directing, and the leads played by Monroe Salisbury and Ruth Clif- ford. This is the same Salisbury who played one of the leads in “Ramona.” Rex Beach, at the head of his own company as far as the organization is concerned, and the production of his novels and magazine stories go, is go- ing to release them all through Gold- wyn. Beach is a stockholder in the Goldwyn corporation. Beach and his company go west about Nov. 15 where they will take the main scenes of his “The Heart of Sunset,” the scenario being done by Frederick Chapin, much of the locale being in California. Edwin Carewe will direct. Beach's “Goirg Some” is also slated for a winter make as well as his “The Silver Horde” and any number of short stories. Writes Film Book. Elizabeth Risden, the star. of “Mother” (the George Loane Tucker feature) has written a book on “Photo- play Makeup and Character Study,” which is expected to be off the press next week. MOBBED UNPATRIOTIC MANAGER. Cincinnati. Oct. 24. M. Lipschitz, manager of the Strand picture theatre in Covington, Ky., across the river from Cincinnati, was mobbed by a crowd outside that theatre on the night of October 20 because of his alleged statements criti- cising the Liberty Loan. The climax of ill feeling toward Lip- schitz came while Attorney Stephen Blakeley, one of the “four minute” men, was delivering a speech in the Strand, and publicly denounced him. Men and women seized and dragged the manager to the street, where he was handled roughly. He was then taken inside his theatre, put on the stage and ordered to make a state- ment concerning his alleged inter- ferences with the Liberty Loan cam- paign. Lipschitz declared he would buy a Liberty Bond immediately, would let loan speakers ue his theatres for addresses and would decorate his play- house with American flags. In spite of this another crowd, formed outside the building, made loud threats against him. A riot cell was sent in and the police scattered the throngs. On advice of the police Lipschitz closed the house. CONSIDINE’S DAUGHTER EDITING. Mildred Considine, a daughter of John W. Considine, has been engaged as continuity editor for the Norma Talmadge Film Corp. She began her film business career as a scenario edi- tor and is the author of a number of scrips, among them “Easy Money,” for Triangle. Miss Considine played the lead in three George Ade comedies produced by Essanay. She has also written a novel, which will shortly be published. EXHIBITORS NAME PETROVA FILM. After putting it up to the individual members of the First National Exhibit- ors’ Association what title would please their fancy for the first of the Petrova releases through the N. E. A. the vote resulted in “A Daughter of D«stiny” being chosen. The Petrova date, first announced as Oct. 22, by McClure’s, has been changed and the film will not be shown until sometime in November, the first public exhibition taking place at the Rialto, New York. Meanwhile McClure’s is having Pe- trova start the second of her eight features at the Biograph studio up- town, with a plan afoot in the McClure shop to have a permanent studio and very likely a brand new one along the most approved lines to be built as soon as possible. McClure’s now is devoting a lot of attention to the Petrova pictures, not only giving it wide publicity through its own magazine publications, but also spending outside advertising appro- priations. Incidentally the individual exhibit- ors on the National Circuit will also spend time and money in helping “draw” business when the Petrova pic- tures are shown in his respective thea- tres. “MAGDA” O. K.'D. In spite of the fact that the Chicago Board of Censors passed Clara Kimbhal Young's “Magda” production without a single elimination, rumors were cir- culated ia Chciago and telegraphed from there that “Magda” had been mutilated by the Chicago Censor Board. Tiie «eport is without foundation as a white permit, the highest form of sanction issued, was given to “Magda.” “THE MAN HATER” A threefold appeal—a remarkable story from the “Saturday Eve- ning Post,” a winning star and o ever-delighting Triangle kid- es. Released October 28 Vay » eA “THE STAINLESS BARRIER” Which is more sacred, a man’s life or a woman's honor? Advertise this play and let your audience de- cide. Released October 28 _ Pe ae ey costae TT ~~ ~~

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LM. lual bit- ‘ase ova rote ny” | as ged ntil blic Ito, Pe- ght up- ure and the on of not igh Iso ro- rit- Iso ing ic- pa- go val put ir- ed en or on to MOVING PICTURES na | | NEWS OF THE FILM WORLD | Pathe bas already started operations in the Sanger studio. Charlie Chaplin returned from Honolulu Tuesday on the “Matsonia.” Director Jose, who has been directing at the Paragon studios, Fort Lee, has gone to the Biograph studio for Famous, The Strand bas donated its theatre Friday morning, Nov. 13, for a benefit for the Sea- side Home for Crip »led Children. Mutual announces “The Planter,” a seven- part drama, featuring Tyrone Power, as its first special feature of the season. Vivian Martin, Famous Players, will be seen shortly in “Molly Entangled,” an Irish ro- mance, with Harrison Ford in support. Director Ashley is now working on a forth- coming Goldwyn two-reel comedy release “Be Careful, Mary,” in the Fort Lee studios. “Jules of the Strongheart” will be George Beban’s next Paramount picture with the “Land of the Free” following. Melbourne MacDowell has been signed by Thomas H. Ince and will be in the company supporting Dorothy Dalton. The newest of the Williem S. Hart features directed by Thomas H. Ince Is entitled “The Silent Man,” written by Charles Kenyon. It is said the Advance M. P. Co. have taken over the old Harlem Sporting Club (125th street and St. Nicholas) and intend remodel- ing it into a studio. Upon conclusion of “Reaching for the Moon” Douglas Fairbanks begun a coast to coast tour in the interests of the second Liberty Loan. The first of J. Stuart Blackton’s produc- tions of Gilbert Parker’s novels is “‘The Judg- ment House,” and will be released by Para- mount Nov. 19. The Society Players Film Company of Bos- ton is making an independent picture feature entitled “The First Law of Nature,” written by David G. Fischer, who is directing it. It was rumored early this wee: that Jim Vincent intended to leave the Pathe forces, — — over the direction of “The Hidden and.” Edna Goodrich, in “A Daughter of Mary- land,” and Mary Miles Minter, in “Peggy Leads the Way,” botb five reelers, top Mu- tual’s schedule for the week of Oct. 20. Lionel Belmore, who was Sir Henry Irv- inc’s stage director for 15 years, is directing the World Film feature starring Kitty Gor- don, which is titled “The Wasp.” The first of Pathe’s Russian Art Films is “The Painted Doll” and will be followed on Nov. 18 by ‘“‘The Queen of Spades,” again fea- turing Ivan Mozuk. The next Carlyle Blackwell-Evelyn Greeley picture play to be produced by the World is called “The Good for Nothing,” at present, but the title may be changed. Abraham Carlos, general representative of the Fox Film Corp., left Monday for e trip to the coast, where he went to “clean up” a number of matters requiring special attention. Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne will begin immediate roduction of “Red, White and Blue Blood,” by Shannon Fife, under the direction of Charles J. Brabin. “Believe Me, Xantippe”” John Frederick Ballard’s Harvard University prize play. is to be screened by Paramount with Wallace Reid in the leading part. Pathe’s Harold Lloyd comedies for the week of Nov. 11 and 18 are: On the first date “The Flirt,” one reel, and on the later, Lonesome Luke in “Clubs Are Trumps,” two reels. Pete Schmid, publicity representative for Artcraft, is traveling with the Fairbanks Lib- erty Loan Committee, sending an advance publicity and working up interest in the meetings, Howard Hall has been engaged to play the leading role opposite Emily Stevens in the forthcoming Metro production, “Alias Mrs. Jessup,” adapted from the story of Blair Hall and directed by William 8. Davis. Under the title of “Under the Stars and Stripes in France,” Pathe has just released @ two-ree!l picture of timeliness and interest. It shows the soldiers of Uncle Sam now on French soil. Nov. 11 Pathe will release a five-reel drama, “France in Arms.” It was taken by the cine- matographic section of the Freach Army illustrates the effort that France bas made to thrust the invader from her soil. The next Norma Taimadge feature, “The Secret of the Storm Country.” will be gener ally released Nov. 5, although the film will show next week at Loew's, New Rochelle, | ee 2 Joseph K. Gorham, of the Photoville Picture Corp., pleaded not guilty to the indictment charging him with embezzling $4,000 from Marie Hansen, an aspirant to fame as a pic- ture actress. The trial is set for Dec. 6. The Union Pacific Railroad is about to re- lease a two-reeler taken this summer by oper- ators from the Rethacker Film Co., showing scenes in Estes and Rocky Mountain Na- tional Parks, Colorado. At a conference between Frederick L. Col- lins, president of the Petrova Pictures Corp., and the officers of the First National Ex- hibitors Circuit, arrangements were completed for a national advertising campaign. Mae Murray’s second fitm feature for Blue- bird will come out sometime in January. It is to be directed by Robert Leonard, with the title “Face Value.’" Miss Murray's first Blue- bird, “‘Princess Virtue,’ is released Nov. 13. Charies H. France, president of France Films, Inc., has opened offices in the Candler Building and will conduct a producing or- ganization to make three or four features a year. Billy West and company of 22. who have been making King-Bee comedies at Bayonne, departed Tuesday for California, where they will work future West subjects at the Christie studio (Universal) until the new hiug-Bee studio has been completed. The problem of a young woman thrown upon her resources in N. Y seeking a_ livelihood coupled with a mystery of the Orient forms the genera) theme of ‘“‘The Price Mark,” in which Porothy Dalton will appear for Para- mount, Oct. 28. Lewis Newman, manager of the Pittsburch Exchange of the Fort Pitt Theatre Co., left the N. Y. office of that organization for a country wide trip in the interests of the Royal Italian Governments’ official war pic- tures. Work was temporarily suspended at the Metro studio the other day while the studio working force presented Viola Dana with a silver foving cup as a tribute of esteem. The presentation occurred just prior to the little star’s departure for California. Herbert Rawlinson, who has starred in Uni- versal features and was the principal male figure in “Come Through,” is reported as not having consummated a contract renewal) with the U, Rawlinson and the film heads failing to come to an agreement on salary terms. Edith Johnson, away from the Bluebird for a year and a half, has started working with the Franklin Farnum company on “The Scar- let Car,” adapted from a story by the late Richard Harding Davis, with Joseph de Grasse directing. William Oldknow, a well-known Southern distributor, Ix associated with Frank Hall! in the management of U. S. Exhibitors’ Booking Corporation and will locate in New York in future to devote his entire time and energy to the advancement of the new organiaztion. Goldwyn Picturee Corp. was the first pic- ture concern to answer the call of the gov- ernment voiced through a special committee of the National Association of the Motion Pic- ture Industry, with a subscription of $100,000 for Liberty Loan bonds. Ernest Shipman has established New York headquarters at 17- West 44th street, where the needs of independent producers will be looked after and their oictures exninited to huvers of the United States and Canada. The foreign sales will be handled by Chester Beecroft. Goldwyn Pictures Corp. is on record as officially promising that its productions of “Thais,” with Mary Garden. wil! be booked with all tt» clients at no advance in price above what they pay for all other Goldwyn pictures. Olive Tell has a duel role in “Her Sister,” produced by the Empire Al! Star Corp. One as an American girl and the other as Isis, an Egyptian Priestess. In the caxt are David Powell, Eileen Dennes, Antte. Rothe,. Mate- ieine -mMeredith, Charles Edwards, Herbert Evans and Eleanor Seybolt. Jack Roberts Revue, which ft¢ playing an tn- definite engagement at the Paris-Louvre Cafe, San Francisco, enacted the cufe scenes be- fore the camera that will be used in the “Finger ‘of Justice” picture, which the Rev. Paul Smith is sponsoring and will use in his vice crusade. The General Film Co. is devoting mucb time to the program distribution of one aud two- reeled subjects, with the comedies the greatest in favor, according to an official of the con- cern. The Genera) claims there has been a noticeable increase for the funny subjects over the sbhurter-reeled dramatics. William Roehm, representing Lillian Walker, has placed her under further contract with the Ogden Picture Corporation, Miss Walker recently finishing “The Lust of Ages,” which liarry Revere directed and which story Aaron Hoffman wrote. Miss Walker is to start a new feature shortly for the Ogden people. Gus Inglis has gone back to the Pacific Coast after tarrying on Broadway. He transacted considerable business for the Inglis & Willis picture firm of Los Angeles, and established an eastern connection here with Roebn @& Richards, while they in turn will represent R. & R. on the Coast. Jeanne Eagels, with George Arliss in “Hamilton,” now at the Knickerbocker, has been signed by World Film Corp., and will be co-starred witb Montague Love in a feature to be screened, whiie Miss Eagels is pluying her New York dramatic engagement with the Arliss company. The State Rights Feature Co. of Knoxville, Tenn., bas purchased, through Hiller & Wiik “Fighting in France’ for Georgia, Florida, Alabama, North and South Carolina. Hiller & Wilk also disposed of the eastern Pennsyl- vania and southern New Jersey rights to “The Gold Deck” to J. J. Goodstein. Wally Van is still on Broadway, but at present “unattached.” He may hook onto an- otber Vita contract, and again he may uot, although he plans to go to the Pacific Coast shortiy—coutract or no contract. Of late Van has been making some special Van comedies independently of the bigger concerns. A crowd of New York and Chicago film stars, as well as some picture makers und exhibitors, made a special trip to Indianapolis last week, where they took part in a big entertainment and dance given for the benefit of the Red Cross and the food conservation publicity plan to help the Liberty Loan drive as well Clara Kimball Young has just completed her second picture, “Shirley Kaye.” In the cast are Corliss Giles (his initial appearance on tse screen, George Fawcett, George Backus, John Sunderland, Claire Whitney, Nellie Lindrich, Frank Otto, F. O. Wintbrope. Miss Young begins work at once on “The Mariouettes.” Director Frank Crane, who had everything in preparation for a number of exteriors on a forthcoming Goldwyn “Thais.” was some- what, disappointed Tuesday when the storm threw over all the exteriors especiully built. The storm also piayed havoc with a string of 20 buildings that Fox had constructed along the Jersey Heights. Polly Moran, Ben Turpin, Slim Summer- ville. Ethel Teare and others of the Para- mount-Mack Sennett fun mukers, will be seen in the next comedy, “Roping Her Romeo,” re- leased Oct, 21, followed Nov. 4, by “The Pull- man Bride.” with Chester Conklin. Later “Are Waitresses Safe?” with Louise Fa- zenda, Ben Turpin, Slim Summerville will be presented. The Crystal Photoplay Corporation § an- nounced last week that the Illinois, Indiana and Southern Wisconsin rights to the seven- reel “Mother Love and the Law,” featuring Dolly Ledgerwood Matters, had been sold to Greiver & Herz, Chicago. The deal was put over some time ago, but news withheld be- cause of an auxiliary deal whereby the pic- ture was shown in Chicago loop house for a limited run, Late contracts via Roehm & Richards, 10w representing the Willis & Inglis Co., of Los Angeles, in New York, have William Huin- phries, a New Yorker, placed with Goldwyn to take personal direction charge of the new Mabel Normand film; William Worthington, who has been directing for different companies on the Coast, as a new Goldwyn director, as well as Dan Whitcomb, scenario writer, added to the Goldwyn’s writing staff. Listed for trial in a New York municipal court is an action begun by Lawrence Mc- Gill, a picture director, who asks for judg- ment of $1,200 against Charles C. Field. Me- Gill alleges a verbal agreement entered into in 1914 at which time Field engaged the plain- tiff for six weeks ait $200 weekly. At that time Field had a studio in Florida and it is understood that he was connected with the Prismatic Film Co, Herman L. Roth is acting for McGill, Walter W. Irwin, general manager of Vita- graph Distributing organization, announces the completed posting of 12,00 additional 24 sheets on “The Fighting Trail,” their melo- dramatic serial featuring William Duncan and Carol Holloway. This is the third stage of Vita's drive in connection with the promotion campeign for its serial tt te understood Vita is planning an even larger billboard campaign for “Vengeance and the Woman,” their new serial, of which Albert E. Smith and Cyrus Townsend Brady are the authors. The board of directors of Associated The- atres, Inc., held a three days’ session ta Minneapolis and elected the following officers to serve @) days until the fir«t general meeting of stockholders, December 17. President, Tl. L. Hartman, of the New Palace theatre, Mandan, N. 0.; vice-president, W. 3. Smith, of the Orpheum anJ Grand theatres, Menominee, Wis., treasurer, Henry P. Greene, Lake. “ew Lake, and East Lake theatres, Minneapolis, and Hamline theatre, St. Paul; chairman of board, Chas. W. Gates, Bijou theatre, Aberdeen, S. L.; secretary and gen- eral manager, T. J. Hamiin. All the moneys already received from exhibitors for stock was turned over to the Bankers’ Trust and Savings Co., Minneapolis, and the benk is pledged to return SU per cent. of this money to the individual! exhibitors if the organization is not completed with GW theatres by Feb. 28, 11s. It was «decided, wherever possible to do so, to organize each town solidly and attempt by the advanced simplified plan of marketing aud distributing to save euch ex- hibitor a big percentage on his present day expenses. The vew corporation will try aud save money for the exhibtors by having shorter express hauls througb installing vari- ous sub-inspection and shipping stations throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota. COAST PICTURE NEWS. BY GUY PRICE, Los Angeles, Oct. 24. Hayden Talbot has sued Paralto Studio for $21,700.50 damuges, claiming it failed to live up to a contract employing him as a scenario writer at’'a salary of $150 a week. The scenario writers released by Universal in the recent shake-up of comedy companies were C. B. (Pop) Hoadley, Capt. Leslie T. Peacock, Hurry Wulze, William Parker, Ed- ward Hungeriord, Arthur Statter, J. G. Alex- ander, R. W. Dillon, Shelly Sutton, A. Fer- naudez and King Victor. Wallie Reid may have to go on the oper- ating table for “dislocated verterbrae.” Reid is planuing « Christmas trip to New York. Hank Mann is rushing with all speed Film- cityward. liank, according to letters from him, isn't crazy about Lroadway. Lottie Pickford was bostess to a number of film stars who sold tickets for the benefit given fur the Children's Home Society of California. “Camouflage,” says the extra man as the new leading lady with the too rosy complex- ion and ico guiden aif passea fim Up GF the big stuge. The property which Charlie Chaplin will use for his new studio was purchased from the R. B. McClellan estate in Hollywood, The entire investment, it is said, will reach $100,000. Dan Whitcomb has gone east to write sce- narios for Goldwyn. Christmas will find Jack Pickford at the other end of moviedom. Mr. Lasky has prom- ised Mary's little brother a vacation and Jack says he will be satisfied if be can have a taste of New York's Christmas turkey. The stage is all set for D. W. Griffith’s re- turn here. The director has had men making the lot where “Intolerunce’’ was made, ready for him. He will finish up the pictures he started in Europe. Griffith, accompanied by the Gish girls, Robert Harron and Camera- panel Billy Bitzer, are due in Los Angeles this week. Mitchell Lewis has come here at a big leading man salary to work in picturss. Reaves Eason has taken his compiry to pao 4 Valley for scenes in “The Little Rough- neck.”’ A. C. Jones, for years arsociated with Oliver Morosco, is now secretary and t*eas- urer of the Northwoods Production Co. John Fairbanks has already collected more than $200,000 for the second Liberty Loan. Of course, this includes Bro, Doug's. contribution. President Bernstein of the King-Bee Film Co. is due to arrive here this week. He will bring several new players with him. Scott Sidney has been at the sea shore the past week filming scenes for the National's production, “Tarzan of the Alps.” Some honor, indeed! Amy Jerome has had an apartment house named for her. W. A, Woodward. brether of Guy Wood- ward, the actor, is doing some special pub- licity campaign work for W. tl. Clune, along with his other duties. Tod Browning, directing FAlth Storey at Metro, has returned to San Pedro where he staged a spectacular water scene. Virginia Chester has organized an ice skat- ing club. A “stepping-put” party was staged early this week by Alfred Whitman, Vitagraph lead- ing man, Nine directors are now at work at the Triangle Culver City plent. John Emerson, director, and Anita Loos, scenario expert, of the Douglas Fairbanks’ Organization, left Tuesday for New York.

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THE ADVENTURER. and Rev. Hugh (George Fischer) from the man who takes his loves lightly. He decides at the finish he is both butler and boss of establishment. But it could be overlooked to go off for awhile, telling Paula that if he the works. Especially so when he finds out From the standpoint of laughs this two- through the splendid work by the director. ever returns it will be to ask her to be his it was a daughter Denbeigh had wronged. reel Chaplin-Mutual {fs about the funniest It’s practically a fighting film throughout. wife. He does return, but a little happening Rather a mixed assortment of things. The turned out by the new Mutual during the Mr, Russell punches his way to victory at makes him suspicious, which ieads him to direction is gooa in spots, but the photog- entire time the comedian has been with it. all times, and the feature should be able like- “free” Paula. In his absence Paula has won raphy is clear, Ibee. It Re a ee sy all the ee on wise to do the same thing. It is one of those the love of a young physician in whose charit- Ie PARES, getters that Chaplin has ever used wit a sea-going stories well told in picture form, able work she has become interested and so couple of added starters for good measure. and carries sufficient suspense to keep the she goes to him and they are wed, even NEW INCORPORATIONS. But it sure is a picture that will bring the average fan on edge. Bull Dorgen (Mr. Rus- though she had warned him of the shadow. Oro Pictures, Inc., Manhattan, $25,000; laughs so fast one must figure what there sell) rescues Emily after a hard struggle The doctor is an old friend of Powell and J. J. Ring, C. H. Hunter, W. G. Miller, is for Chaplin to follow it with. Chaplin from a cafe and carries her to his vessel for had saved his life in Egypt years before. In Jr., 92 William street. starts out as an escaped convict, oppor the night. Bull suddenly has a notion he the land of the Nile, Powell had won the International Film Service Co., Man- tunity for chase stuff, and there are a few desires Emily’s company always and forces hatred of a rug merchant, whose sister he had hattan, H. Michael, A. C. Keough, G. BE. new wrinkles in the hunt along the beach her into marriage. Thereafter, according to defiled. This Egyptian had followed Powell Tierney, 101 East 116th street by the prison guards. The up and down the the photographer, they live unhappily. Oc- and was even then in his service, waiting for Hopkins Plymouth Co., Manhattan, path chase, the climb up the side of a cliff casionally Bull fights his chief assistant, who revenge. This he wreaks by stabbing Powell $45,000; A. F. Hopkims, D. F. O’Brien, L. and the trapping of Chaplin in a cave and appeared to become a bit sweet on Emily. as the latter is about to divulge to the doctor Shubert, 225 West 44th street. his escape all brought laughs, but it was Bull gave him a sound whipping in a cork- the illicit relation with Paula. The photog- Helene Price, Inc., Manhattan, $56,000; not until he ingratiated himself into the ing fight. Not content with that the assist. raphy is clear and expert. Further credit Morris Rothstein, Sidney A. Horwitt, family of the Judge that sent him away, gathers the crew together for mutiny. Bull goes for the titles, which are brightly framed Helene Price, 220 West 42d street. by rescuing the. wife and daughter from a was unable to battle his way through that and clearly worded. Ibee. Trinity Trading Corp., Pelham Manor, watery grave, attended by the usual comedy mob, so the assist. finally gets hold of Emily. ———- N. Y., $50,000; Charles F. Pope, Bleanor stunts, that the real laughs began. The However, the chief aid comes to the rescue, THE HEART OF EZRA GREER Q’Keefe, Edgar C. Beecroft, 601 Fifth big scream occurs when Chaplin spilis a and Bull chases assist, around the boat 7 avenue. dish of ice cream into the front of his and up the masts, where another fight is A Thanhouser feature (Pathe Gold Rooster) Special Features Corp., Manhattan, $1,- trousers while sitting on the balcony of the staged. After winning that affair, Bull de- With @ story, not experily sustained in in- 500; F. W. Gaffney, Thomas A. Barrett, Judge’s home with the latter’s daughter (the cides it is no place for Emily and the baby ‘erest and with situations that are incon- A, Higgins, 301 West 17th street. other guests being seated below). Chaplin born meantime, so he decides to ship them graces, if eek | Gngrenadie. Esra Greer Gotham Productions Co. Manhattan, in shaking the cream down his trouser’s with the minister on a return trip aboard a (Frederick Warde, featured) is a_ butler $20,000; July Murry, Nat Roth, Frederic leg let it fall through a space in the floor supply ship AS they are about to depart whowe daughter ” working her way through McK: ay, 223 West 42 ed street. nd onto the back of one of the grande dames Emily changes her mind and remain: rhe weg were of co-ed school, Certainly 2% of The Joan bors. Suwyer, ©. Journal, J. in a gown very much decollete, As the ice photog zraphy, especially the night scenes, are pa " standard kind. ~She bas fallen in love hattan vv ON J. Sawyer, "sy Journal, J. lips down her back and disappears into the ances Sy It is a feature that attains a posi- with Denbeigh, & Box tae = —" and ot Grandon, 61 Chambers street. folds of her dress the audience almost tion amongst the good p! program releases Re aes. Se eee, ee, ee ears RheR rE bursts with laughter There are the usual . gether. After a spell Denbeigh quits the to pag tengo : by an girl to go to New York, ostensibly to obtain “BABY SUNSHINE” KILLED. ot ge or ag hy THE PRICE MARK. alee A ily i

is : ian. The i arsuades D $ le ct. 24. chase when the prison guards discover their Paula Lee.... ee -Dorothy Dalton eo neath Ne ea ticks and to . — — 7 6 ; man is at the Judge’s house. Chaplin makes Fielding Powell. .......cs0s: . William Conklin get marriage for the present. Soon he falls “Baby Sunshine,” otherwise Pauline excel se I é sce si 288 j l ‘Ss ] ; : , avi i i ic- in this picture. His shoes are not the usual tured with the Triangle pictures but lately room 7 find out if a young woman go had had been playing in Universal pic Chaplin footgear, and the cane is also miss- she has come under the Paramount ~ banner, just died, is his daughter. Coming away he tures. " but Chaplin without them is ged Paramount made an excellent selection in brings along a. child, who otherwise would than ever. red. picking “The Price Mark,” done by Thomas have ili ) Se co ak ave gone to a foundling home. WBzra finds H. — as the first of their releases of Miss a new berth, the summer cottage of young NARROW ESCAPE. THE SEA MASTER. oo ee ~ . if pet “? — be onggay i i j I “The Sea Master” is a five-part American a fresh face to the program, and hers is an that the child will obtain the rightful care imprisoned in a limousine when production featuring William Russell. It attractive, expressive one. Not a lot of from its father. As Ezra also has his found- WS pitched into the water of Los deals with a story along those lines, well told action in “The Price Mark,” but a story of ling child with him, the developed situation. has Angeles harbor as the result of r in a number of spectacular incidents with sustained interest, splendidly directed an two children in Denbeigh’s home originally 2 with : ; generally a fight the finale of each. These excellently acted. Miss Dalton plays Paula designed for occasional parties with the collision with a touring car, Joseph are splendidly produced, with considerable Lee, not long away from the country, who is vamp, Denbeigh orders the latest kid ad- McDonough and Edwin Tacoma, film rr ye onacee the — =e an ~ —_ roms by . wealthy abet Fielding tee litio. to his establishment sent to a found- heavies, who cannot swim, narrowly might have been tamed a trifle. t hardly to become his mistress. As suc e sets her ling home, but Ezra points out that as it is > ; ‘ ; seemed possible anyone could escape the mob up in a luxuriant apartment. It does not his child, his duty was clear, that of caring et , death ~ unpremeditated attacking the three who endeavored to safely take Powell long to find that Paula is of the for the kid and finding the mother, to make thriller during the making of a pic- carry Emily Gordon (Francelia Billington) finer sort, in spite of the fact that he is a reparation. Ezra does other things, in fact ture.

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“ | ibers¢ ra m thi ossib nd th pro VARIETY 31 SE. W HERE. different styles, from which you can select enough ngs, novelty numbers and prize winning patriotic ogue without fear of confliction, and the grade of of failure. This is a list of encore winners, every plect those you wish. Write, wire or call, but don’t pngs when you can procure them all under one roof. “MY SWEETIE” (IRVING BERLIN) The “knockout” of the day. Once you try it you'll keep it on. Get it now while the public-are clamoring for it. It will guarantee that hit. “IN SAN DOMINGO” (SNYDER-YOUNG-LEWIS) Not a Hawaiian song, but better than the best of that classification. It’s one of our star numbers and has brought back the best reports of anything of its kind we ever published. “MR. JAZZ HIMSELF” (IRVING BERLIN) Berlin has taken the “Jazz” idea for a marvelous song. It’s one of those numbers that will fit the “Jazz” singer like a glove. Get it. “EVERYBODY TOOK A KICK AT NICHOLAS” (HESS-LEWIS-YOUNG) The comedy song about the Russian revolution. A scream in every line. “HOW CAN I FORGET (WHEN THERE’S SO MUCH TO REMEMBER”) (IRVING BERLIN) Berlin startled the world with “When I Lost You” and “When I Leave the World Behind,” but this number easily is the best of that style he has ever written. “?M FROM CHICAGO” (MERRILL-EDWARDS) Acts headed west, don’t go without “Chicago.” This is a sure thing for the central west. It’s the best “town” song ever written. ERLIN & SNYDER sag TON . DW NEW YORK MAX WINSLOW, Manager DON RAMSAY

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THE FLAMING OMEN. cava Alfred Whitman Mary Anderson Blanca Otto Lederer Lord Haviland Natche Coya. A. de Segurola is the author and William Wolbert the director of “The Flaming Omen,” the Oct. 29 release for Vitagraph under the Blue Ribbon brand. While suggesting ‘The Squaw Man,” it in no way resembles the Ed- win Milton Royle play. If any fault be found with the story it is in the fact there is alto- gether too much of it, which makes it a trifle involved aud hard to follow. But once it gets going it is all right. Dorian is the son of an Englishman who was in Peru and an Inca woman. Lord Haviland, travelling in Peru, comes upon the body of a native woman who had killed herself at the foot <. an image. It is the mother of the Dorian, who had been deserted by the Englishman. Lord Haviland adopts the child. Dorian succeeds to his fos- ter-father’s riches and title, while his real father, unknowing, had married an English woman and has a beautiful daughter, Violet. Dorian and Violet, unaware of their close blood relationship, fall in love. It ail cul- minates in most sanguinary results, Dorian’s father going crazy with drink, Violet being mortally shot and several others in the cast biting the dust. In the end Dorian marries Blanca, an Inca girl, who loves him, and it is to be assumed he finally is made happy. Unusually effective photography and good de- tail. The feature would come under the gen- eral description of ‘‘a western’’. Jolo. THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH. Steilia Vorhis...... cocene edhe crore Christopher Foy........... Monroe Salisbury CPOE | VON MEE kd ctcckcccsons W. H. Bainbridge John Wesley Pringle Julian SE - Meson cosedoeeee seat? Milton Brown Dick Marr Sears This Bluebird feature is entirely mislead- ing as to title. Who would suspect a western story to be lurking under the title of ‘“‘The Desire of the Moth.” The suggestion is rather that of bright lights, gilded palaces of mirth, foolish country girls lured by the gold and glitter of the big city. But no, such is not the case in this instance. It is a wild and woolly tale of a bold, bad horsethief and a gang of western schemers who try to ditch him after he has reformed. In its original form, under another title, the story appeared in one of the popular fiction magazines and it was a corking tale, but as a picture—well it’s just a western. The fault lies entirely with the picture people, for the story had more than the ordinary share of suspense and was replete with thrills. In the feature there is no reason for the twists and turns which should have been clarified with titles. Then there is also the matter of acting and direction, extremely faulty in spots. All tend to make an ordinary feature of what might have been a picture worthy of Broadway consideration. Rupert Julian directed and en- acted one of the important roles, the star is Ruth Clifford, with Monroe Salisbury as the leading man. The story was originally by Eugene M. Rhodes and adapted for the screen by Elliott J. Clawson. Miss Clifford is in- teresting but hardly starring material at present. Fr THE BEAUTIFUL ADVENTUPE. As the title suggests, this is a filming of the legitimate production presented some seasons ago by Charles Frohman at the Em- pire, New York, and is a current release, the picture being one of the Empire All Star Frohmans (Mutual). As a show it was first done in French, Mr. Frohman having used an English adaptation. Always a charming story on the stage, that also goes for it as a picture feature, for it tells of two lovers whose road to happiness is not smcoth but who finally are enabled to em- bark on “the beautiful adventure” together —that is, to marry. Ann Murdock as Helene presents a very girlish role to the camera with David Powell quite nicely fitting as Andre. Del Henderson, who directed the picture, has done excellent work. He prob- ably employed some of the beautiful estates on Long Island to obtain the atmosphere of the action supposed to take place in France. If so the illusion is cleverly carried out. Al- most entirely the sub-titles are taken from speeches in the play, and there are there- fore some bright lines to help out the action. Credit to the book is indicated by the titles being in quotations. Ibee. THE FIBBERS. “The Fibbers” is a five-part Essanay, writ- ten by James Adams and starring Bryant Washburn and Virginia Valli. Conventional basic plot of husband and wife suspecting each other of unfaithfulness, with both inno- cent and becoming reconciled at the finish. A “tramp” is injured in a railroad accident and is taken into their home. He is a drug fiend and they try to reform him. Husband becomes jealous of wife’s attentions to the man. In reality he was once a prominent playwright and bis constant association with the wife is caused by his revising of a play she had written. A woman comes to the hus- band’s office, which the wife regards as sus- picious. She turns out to be the daughter of the playwright and is giving him an order to draw plans for a house, husband being an architect by profession. Well acted and di- rected, with good photographic effects. <A popular-priced feature. Jolo. THE STAINLESS BARRIER. Betsy Shelton Calvin Stone Roger Enderleigh Richard Shelto Thos. Crosby Wilbur Gray Wailace Mammy Williams A story of Irene Hurt: Jack Livingston H. A. Barrows n Rowland Lee 8. Guise T. Barney Sherry John Lince Kate Bruce Lena Harris James G. Farley supreme sisterly sacrifice is picturized in this Triangle feature—that of an innocent girl young attorney. engaged to wed a promising confessing on the witness stand she had been wronged by a financial villian, the latter having been oo by the brother. This te save the brother from pos~ sible contact with the hangman’s noose. Thus is justification for the crime shown to the folk of a small southern town. But the situa- tions are far fetched. In the light of events, the brother could have easily proven self- defense. Of course it isn’t true, this supposed improper relation, conceived by the morally degenerate brother, but it serves to create the “stainless barrier’ between the girl and her flancee. Still it is plain Perjury. Rich- ard Shelton, the brother, has gone to New York and there becomes enmeshed in the fraudulent stock schemes of one Enderleigh. When the postal inspectors get too close, WILLIAM A.BRADY. 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“Madge Evans is charming.” Enderleigh decides on a final clean-up in weak-kneed Shelton’s home town, threatening the youth should he fail te geo through with the plan. Shelton’s “blue blood’ ancestry gives the schemers easy entrance into the con- fidence of the town folk, who liberally sub- scribed to stock for a supposed munitions plant. Enderleigh gets tipped the postal sleuths are on the way and he withdraws all the money subscribed. Young Shelton makes a feeble effort at stopping the departure of the crook, and when knocked down by Ender- leigh, shoots the fleeing confidence man. A trial for murder results, ending with the sis- ter’s admission of having been ruined. Sis- ter’s flancee finally discovers the truth. The unusual twist is the story’s value. Tbee. Ca rol

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MOVING PICTURES _ WHO IS “NUMBER ONE?” THE MAN HATER. the father, a confirmed lover of red- like a pin he soon hankers for some sign of Phemie Sanders -seeeessWinifred Allen eye. Phemie is of marriageable age, but affection from his bride. It ien't strange J ali ' - . % ! ’ jctnianai ta. cemmiaaiir aiken tn Sa ie Joe Stull pias : Jack Meredith there are several! smalier childrén, their rate Bn» Weng Beg dE bit a fun. He main essential to melodrama, and a large anes - * Shirley number to be increased by one, but the who has just returned from the cy, oP hemie Lucy Conyer Marguerite Gale mother dies in childbirth. Because of her tries not to notice Joe’s innocent straying srcentage of s cess f he success- gonna Aina Bogpe Rgeroeamen Short “Waaaaeas tS pa ‘ Vian father’s devotion to booze, Phemie has be- but in the end she comes to life, with a real- ' aes ee he ache oe Sliema hemie’s Little Anna Lehr come a man hater. She turned down Joe — she loves her man too well to have 318e 4 oss e 8 ‘ YT} ° P nara ce gp i Wale Ga — man hating” is confined to a set gtull’s offer of marriage “under any con- roy i gts gay A Tikectle “nae aus ale sodes, it cannct be truthfully charged it lacks fe omales who might come under high ditions.” Joe is the youthful village black- oft pictured poverty in the earlier reels. 8 brow classification, but here is a story of , The children’s antics are amusing, especial! in suspensive interest. One would naturally 1 b smith. After her mother’s demise, Phemie for the younger and the f &, esp y aad eth Oo atame a A etek Sarre eee eee hater, rather quietly but eaves her father, saying a neighbor would an audience. The story hes gong F ee naa . He : rete dig reget goal . cules effectively done by Winifred Allen as Phemie look after the rest of the brood, and appears Pulver and ‘originally cosearek a e —— weil. past-mistress in bow: a hs Sanders. Phemie is the eldest daughter in at Joe’s smithy for immediate marriage— day Evening Post. The direction was by writing in the days when To be Continued a household unrelieved by squalor, which psa pee ~ coneitionn, which gare that Albert Parker, the photography by Roy ’ ere is no love on her part. tolid Joe Vaughn and the whole supervised by Alian in Our Next’ was the prevailing method of publishing mystery novels before releasing condition is supposed to attain because of takes a chance, and though his home is kept Owan. Idee. them in complete book form. Mrs. Green ap- pears to have done the same thing with “Who Is Number One?” for pictures as she was wont to do for the family story papers. The producers have admirably visualized her work with a magnificent production, sumptu- ous in the extreme, and gone to no end of expense in the building and inventing of prop- erties. Estimating the gross cost of proGuc- tion by the first four epi each two reels in length the ggregate doubtedly totals well into ix figures. Kathleen Clifford is the star and has a role that is adapted to her individuality. She plays Aimee Villon, ward of Graham Hale. At the opening she comes from abroad to take up her home with the Hales. There are five other principal roles. There is Graham Hale, financial giant and famous inventor, who, for some reasons unknown to him, is being attacked by crr- spirators of unlimited power and wealth, who seek his ruin, and threaten his life, constantly sending him “black hand’’ messages. He has a 50n, Tommy, 2 brave youth, who is also “marked” by the conspirators, who seek to injure Graham Hale in a manner to hurt him IHE STUPEN DOUS most—the life of his son. Next comes Camille THOS. H.INCE ~ SPECTACULAR DRAMA {Episodes 1, 2. 3, 4) ow BOOKING — be a woman § gd,” and hence bent on vengeance. It is indicated by flashbacks that years before she had been loved by Hale and cast aside. The two others are Thornton Rayne, a trusted friend of Hale, secretly in league with the conspirators, and Hugo Wald, Aimee’s tutor, in love with Aimee. EPISODE ONE. The plotters against Graham Hale send him a warning, signed “T-T-T,” that after 18 years “Number One” is determined upon revenge. Hale cannot imagine who it is or why anybody seeks to be revenged upon him. Aimee Villon, his ward, arrives in ber new home at this time. That night the doors of the steel vault in the basement of Hale’s home are melted away by the employment of a strange invention and Aimee’s securities and Hale’s submarine plans are stolen. Hale and his son Tommy, in a battle with the rob- bers, rescue Aimee, who has been kidnap-_ed. When the struggle is over Tommy finds that he, like his father, has been marked by the “T-T-T” for a victim of ‘Number One.” EPISODE 2. The mystery deepens. The thieves are es- caping in a railroad engine. The Hales, ac- companied by Aimee, use a “flying fortress,” a sort of railway military “tank” to pursue. Treachery within the ranks of the Hales makes gunfire futile. The fugitives are over- hauled and stopped by grappling irons, but escape after a hand-to-hand encounter. Wi1ITH sain gSisil “ae ae, cael ENID MARKEY AND HOWARD HICKMAN. cA STARTLING PORTRAYAL OF THE TRIUMPH OF DEMOCRACY OVER KAISERISM. SURPASSING treasure: ship‘ which the ‘T-T-T people. dyne- JIN TREMENDOUS INCE By a miracle cans, tanto from the blast : EFFECTS ANYTHING EVER and is picked up from a. fioating log by his ATTEMPTED BY THIS 7 eyealn le PRODUCER OF MAMMOTH SPECTACLES sunken treasure. The enemy seize his sub- marine and start to capture the prize. He starts in pursuit with a super-submarine. Arriving at the location Tommy and his men don diving suits and descend to the bot- tom of the sea. In a desperate under water battle he is captured and imprisoned in the father and Aimee. The submarine and super- submarine have a battle. The T-T-T gang send a torpedo which blows up the Hale vessel and the Hale party are compelled to dive over- board to save their lives. Aimee and the crew are picked up and captured, but Hale es- capes. Imprisoned in an old warehouse Aimee throws a message out of the window, which is picked up by a child. The detail in the serial is wonderfully worked out and gives evidence of careful and painstaking figuring. If the remainder of TT EF 0) 7, S i ee JHE biRST OF PECIAL Propuctions A YEAR oubted success. olo. secrete BOOKED DIRECT To ExuiBiTors UNDER THE Laws GOVERNING THE William Duncan S. 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THE SAVAGE. Marie on ERY TER TS a2 Fegrary mace Ruth Clifford OT Pe A es See ial Colieen Moore Julio Sandoval............. Monroe Salisbury Captain McKeever................Allen Sears Micheal Montague.......... W. H. Bainbridge OU ONIN aids elieeccinnee dl Arthur Tavares Batiste :cahees ch wee de aibhen tek t Geo. Franklin le ne, Ee OORT EES Oe FR IEE: Duke Lee Just another of those stories of the great northwest, same set of characters, same sort of plot and if anything the acting in this case Is just a little worse than the usual run, the only exception being Ruth Clifford, who plays the lead in the picture, and she passes principally on the strength of her blonde beauty. The picture ts a Bluebird with Ruth Ciiferd and Monroe Satisbury featured, - Fhe story was written by Elliott J. Clawson, and for some reason or other the production is billed as “Another Rupert Julian Produc- tion.” Marie Louise (Ruth Clifford) is the daughter of the factor of a trading post. She is engaged to marry Capt. McKeever (Allen Sears) of the Northwest Mounted Police. The savage is Julio Sandoval (Monroe Salis- bury), a half-breed with an indiun mother and a French father. He is living with a half- breed girl when Marie Louise returns from school in Montreal. She, with der golden curls, makes an appeal to the animal nature of the “savage” and he plans to carry ber off to the mountains, He is successful, but at the last minute weakens in his plans and she re- turns: safely to ber home. Her aflienced one in the meantime has gone into the hills to capture a band of tough characters who ia turn take him prisoner. It is the “savage” who at the leading of the girl effects a rescue, although he loses his life in so doing, and the girl and the captain spend their honey- moon in the cabin where the “savage” held her a prisoner. The last sub-title is to the effect she cannot help but think of the man who died to give them their huppiness. This thought in the cabin that was almost the scene of the great tragedy of ber life. One wonder what her thought really were. Just an ordinary program feature. Fred, Jesse L. Lasky presents Cecil B. DeMille’s Production eraldine Farrar in - “The Woman God Forgot” By JEANIE MACPHERSON Featuring a woman of international fame; pro- duced by a directorial genius, with a supporting cast that includes Wallace Reid, Nobart Bosworth and a host of others, and staged with a spiendor * that has heretofore been considered beyond the horizon of human ingenuity. it deserves, as far as any production deserves, a special presentation. Special Presentation Feature A Vaudeville Theatre Opportunity In foregoing the privilege of special presenta- tion, Artcraft offers you an unequaled opportunity to boost your lvcal prestige, since productions of such gigantic size have hitherto always had spe- cial presentations. The man who first shows this picture in your locality will naturally be looked up to as the most up-to-date and livest exhibitor. — An Artcraft Picture

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THE SPREADING DAWN. Patricia. .Merrer. Vanderpyl,.-...--Jane Cowl Anthony Vanderpyl........-- Orme Caitdara Bentley Vanderpy!.......... Harry Springer Mrs. Cornelia LeRoy...... Florence Billings SOD. Nic Sek s8 Ck a Deven ee Henry Stephenson Mrs, MerceP...ccccscccccesccce Alice Chapiao Yormm Lilszle....cccccvccccscees Helen Blair Oak “EMG. che ccctdccécevesevevses Cecil Owen Georgina Vanderpyl..........-- Mabel Ballin Capt. Lewis Nugent.......-.- Edmund Lowe Ol EGSSIO.. cc ccccccnses Mrs. Edith McAlpina The fourth Goldwyn release, starring June Cow!, is wu six-reel production, “The Spread- ing Dawn,” adapted from a story by Basil King, directed by Larry Trimble, photo- graphed by Philip E, Rosen. It is one of the classiest features ever turned out, with no attempt at sensationalism but withal breath- ing a munificence of expenditure, all of which was invested with rare good taste. The story liself is about ladies aod gentie- men of the better class—American society eople, who resided for several generations n Washington Syuuare. The major portion of the picture is laid in the crinoline period and the producers must have gone to @ world of trouble and expense to secure not only costuming, but the proper interior set- tings and exterior locations. The atmos- phere thereby created weuld seem to be proof ageinst criticism, even by a student of that period. There could be no question of the accuracy of the costuming, furuiture and all other accessories. The story is a simple one, but told with a dignity that briugs charm to it that it might not other- wise possess. Georgina Vanderpy! is de- sirous of <cu:rying ber lover, who is called to France to fight. Her aunt (Miss Cowl) is an elderly woman who ruled society in Washington Square for three geuerutionus and who, bavibg been disuppuiuied in ivve, 5aysS there is po sucb thing as love. The girl Chuilenges this statement, whereupon the aunt brings forth her diary for the girl to read, aud which is visuulized-as (the pages @re turned. Ly this mesus the star is seen first as a gray-huired oid lady. ‘tbe diary relates bow Patricia Mercer married ber soidier lover just about the vutbreak of the Civil War. He returus ou furlough, visits a married woman in the interests of bis younger brother, the husband wistakes the visit and shouts bim, and Patricia, believing bim faithless, closes ber beart up to the time ber nwiece is ubuut to place berself iv a simi- lar situation. Before dying the young bus- band writes Patricia, explaining everything and saying it is better that bis de..b Le set Gown as suicide. Putricia bas never opened this letter, which says be will be waiting tor her in tbe Spreading Dawn. The young Diece opens the letter aud compels auntie to reud it. Reulizing ber lifeluug error, she calis to ber Anthony that she is coming te him and falls across the table dead. The above brief synopsis gives one a very pour idea of the stor; as revealed in the Gash- buck. Some conception wight be bad of it when the stalement cun truthfully be made that the photography is probably the finest work ever duue upon a feature. Jolo, THE UNKNOWN. “The Unknown” is av italian picture shortly to be offered for the American warket. It tells the story of a rich and impressionable young mau who comes buck iruw a long voyuge bringing a beautiful unknown with whom be is desperately in love—as she is with bim. They live together in ecstasy un- tii the young mun'’s pussion begws to Wane and he eplers upon a MWirtation with the wife of a celebrated doctor. The phy- sician, it appears, is inattentive to bis spouse In the mutter of “the pleasures of youth”— to quote from her farewell ietter—and she goes forthwith to the home of the other girl's lover. This “other girl,” evercome by excess of sentiment at the neglect of her male companion, has fallen senseless in the Street, where some Strungers find her and take her to the hospital of which the cele- brated doctor is the bead. She is thought to be deud, but just as the surgeon is about to use the supposed cuduver as an iliustra- tion in surgery in a clinic, the young woman revives, but with a totul loss of memory. The doctor takes his patient into bis tome for observation, and falls in love with her; so that we have his wife living witb his friend and his friend's tate mistress living under the former roof of the woman who bas supplanted ber. The physician's patient Qow proceeds to undergo a series of abbera- tions, in one of which she returns to the abode of her paramour, who, as soon as he perceives she is not a ghost, orders her away. Thereupon she goes back to the bome of the doctor and chokes him to death. ‘The last we see of this interesting young woman she is running like mad down a straight and apparently endless row of trees. indicat- ing that, like “The Brook” of Lord Alfred Tennyson, she is going to “run on forever.” This picture is beautifully done in photog- raphy and direction, but the story is entirely too florid for acceptance in the United States. Ip easy-going sexuality it bas not been ex- celled recently, aud would never get past the censor. Jolo.

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AMONG THE WOMEN BY ‘“‘PATSY” SMITH A bill of exceptional novelties makes every woman on the Palace program this week stand out as a type. Tall, blonde Jessica Brown in fresh, girlish dancing frocks (but still kicking like the average chorus girl) and little Olive Wright (in the John Hymer act) with her long, fair curls, making her look just what she is supposed to be, a simple, trusting “rich little poor girl,” stand for the youth in the bill. The three athletic nurses (excess bag- gage in “The Battle of Wit”) and the .hree women-in the Boyarr danc- ing troupe are the vigorous female exhibits, and Nonette, with her artis- tic setting and gypsy atmosphere, the vital Bohemian girl. Frances McHenry as Carina Rai (in “The Bonfire of Old Empires”) is the palpitating woman patriot; Marie Nordstrom, the airy, frivolous “pretend” woman (and the type is not so scarce in real life either), and Flo Bert, the rotund, good natured “pal” woman. Miss Brown looked smart in old china blue georgette skirt, sleeves and bertha, a black panne velvet bodice with full poplum finisa, and a black hat. Miss Nordstrom’s opening frock was quite too youthful for her, being made of wide ruffles of plaited white net—the baby waist held in with a blue satin sash. Miss McHenry’s c s- tume was a safe blending of the Rus- sian blouse and Austrian zouave, in brick terra cotta cloth, trimmed with braid. Miss Bert's b.se velvet suit corded with black and fur trimmed had good lines for her height, but the iast dress could be improved upon greatly. Mabel Normand, the film comedian, opened the bill on the American Roof Monday night with a purported two- minute talk on Liberty Bonds. It was all to the point, however, of convinc- ing the audience that she had never been on a stage before. Miss Nor- mand will neither sell bonds nor ad- vertise her firm advantageously by her speeches. She wore a_ simple black velvet dress, white lace collar and cuffs, brown fur stole and Na- poleon hat trimmed with a gray os- trich feather. With four double male turns on the regular program all of the draft age it didn't look as if Uncle Sam were robbing the stage of the male element. Willa Holt Wakefield’s smile radiat- ed through six numbers, and she looked “every inch a lady” in yards and yards of gold velvet and lace draped on her figure in princess lines. Belle Onri, no frail professional sister either, was conscious of her earrings and should discard them during her act. While the Gordon Highlanders were doing their finish, someone in the audience, undoubtedly peeved at their attempts at comedy,.shouted “Hang that /.meri- can flag up right.” Despite the rejoinder of one of the men in act that the dis- turber “was cock-eyed,” the fact re- mained it was hanging, in the centre of our allies’ flags, upsidedown, and the patriotic young interrupter should have been complimented on his keen observation. Miss Richfield (in the _ old Ryan and Richfield act) looked dig- nified in a simple pink georgette frock, and the geod Iicoking little blende in the Demarest and Doll act wore a cornflower net and gold lace dress that hung badly and a georgette that was perhaps white once, brightened up with bands of brilliant silver trim- ming. There are no frail little misses on the Alhambra bill this week. None who look as if they cared a fig about an extra pound or two of real flesh. Marie Fitzgibbons, the “great big story teller,” in a becoming white satin costume, and her fair locks in an old fashioned coif- fure, wore gray shoes and stockings. Sibyl Brennan wore her stunning gold cloth bustle gown, the first of the bus- tle variety to be revived in vaudeville, and Ottie Ardine, quite sylph like, made a particularly dainty picture against the green and white trellis conservatory drop, in her white satin dancing frock appliqued with forget-me-nots. Plump Ruth Tompkins still wears her girdle fastened too high in front and Sylvia Bidwell, who plays Jean Hadley in “The Forest Fire,” makes herself look an unattractive heroine with her flat wiglike hair arrangement. Lily Cox (Rome and Cox), a new vaudeville com- bination, does some eccentric stepping of surpassing merit for a woman. white satin skirt worn with a black vel- vet jacket is much too short in the back. With a white satin belted in chemise blouse, she wore leg o’ mutton trousers smartly trimmed with buttons. There are a couple of regular vaude- ville artists in town who do not use an amber spot light! It was a relief to watch them. They are also one of the best singing duos in the two-a-day, Newhoff and Phelps, at the Fifth Ave- nue the first half. Dode Phelps is look- ing ten years younger than last season and is wearing the prettiest and most graceful gown. It’s white lace splashed with silver and brilliants and has a straight natural waist line. -The shirt has side cascades of coral net and back drapery of white net, a narrow blue rib- bon runs across the front and falls in long ends from the waist line. One of the women in the John W. Gordon Co. wore lavender georgette and an imita- tion ermine cape collar and the other a belted in nile green silk which fell from a straight yoke like an old fashioned mother hubbard. The titian haired as- sistant in De Bar’s act wears a brown net short dress spangled with golden brown sequins, a long lace ruffled frock and a Japanese kimona in blue and gold for the Ten Iche stunt they do. Two good old timers drew the Har- lemites to the opera house this week— Hallen and Fuller and LeRoy and Lyt- ton. Mollie Fuller’s white tights cov- ered just as attractive limbs as in the days of “Evangeline,” if we are to judge by the life size picture of her as “Gabriel” on their drop. She made a quick change while the spot light man switched the light to another part of the stage—turning back her black jet trimmed skirt, disclosing a white satin lining and making the whole fall in a drapery at back like long coattails. A little less expectancy on Haller.'s part for kind applause throughout the act would materially help it. LeRoy and Lytton charmed in the same old way with their sunset romance. Emily Lytton looked ideal in a light blue dinner dress with deep flounces from just below the hips to the hem. The top of bodice and sleeves were of sheer lace and a beading of black ribbon showed at the neck and wrists. The “Company” with Margaret Edwards and Co. deserves special mention if only from her lack of ostentation. Most women go into an orchestra pit to divert the audience’s attention from the stage. This woman looks attrac- tive in white satin and gold braid, leads orchestra, plays the cornet and bugle—doing all well, yet makes no bid tor applause. If its only to learn the exercises that will keep you from becoming flat footed in these days of high heels and archiess arches, all women should see Margaret Edwards. The woman in the John T. Ray skit wears the same gray satin dress and scarlet coat reviewed in a previous issue, AMONG THE WOMEN BY THE SKIRT The rain Wednesday didn’t fright- en upper New Yorkers if the size of the Riverside audience told anything. The huge house filled up early and all stayed late. Evelyn Nesbit now dancing and singing with Bobbie O’- Niell is showing as in other seasons a wardrobe worthy of notice. A silver brocaded on chiffon was made with a puff at the hips and narrow panels. The waist line was held by green and mauve ribbons. A Bunty song was done in hoopskirts of mauve satin ruf- fled and combined with pale blue. The handsome gold and black brocade cloak of last season is again shown. For a society dance Miss Nesbit wears a black velvet made with a plain bodice and the skirt slashed revealing a white and silver foundation. The three O'Gor- man Sisters dress nicely and wear their hair in long curls. A drummer miss wore a white satin dress of a Viviendiere. A mantle of blue was lined with red and white stripes. An aviator suit was extravagantly done in silver cloth. For the finale short blue bodices had white satin skirts plaited, Florenze Tempest, after two boy’s costumes, was dressed in white chiffon. A poke bonnet was of pink worsted knitted. A silver and lynx cloak still forms part of Miss Tem- pest’s outfit. Miss Dayne in a tire- some sketch with her husband, Will Cressy, wears a black net over white ani trimmed with blue passementrie. Marion Hodges in the same act has a natural ability to act, but is unfortu- nate in the quality of her voice. Her dress was rather tacky in grey and rose taffeta. Flo Bert (with El Bren- del) appears in a tailored dress of pea- cock blue cloth. A silk top hat, al- theugh low of crown, made _ her look hard. The woman of the Gliding O’- Mearas has good looking, but still last season's, second dress. Her first gown isn’t there. The burlesque show at the Columbia this week has Edmond Hayes in big type, but it is Thomas Snyder who carries the show. Marie Jansen is the principal woman. She faiis in looks and voice. Her one number, a Red Cross song, isn’t heard beyond the footlights. Neither does Miss Jansen wear clothes befitting the part. Her first costume is a brown velvet coat and large sailor hat. A second dress is of the school girl type in white mulle. A black lace dress with gold edges was also worn. The soubret was well done by Juanita Sawn. Her grey satin maid's dress was pretty, while a dancing dress of silver cloth was heavily beaded and combined with old blue. The chorus consisted of a lot of hard working girls. One num- ber was done in good looking taffeta dresses of all the pale shades. Made over lace petticoats the .skirts were prettily draped. The rest of the cos- tumes ran to the fantastic designs. One set was of yellow trunks with light blue bodices coming to a point to the knees. The tops were of pink while green chiffon scarfs hung from one shoulder to the wrist. A_ black and white suit for another number was slashed to represent daisies. Red socks added just enough color. In a Toddle song the girls wore biack fringe over a tight lining of orange. Morris Gest has brought to New York (Manhattan Opera House) the stupendous production “Chu Chin Chow.” With a two years’ run in London it may please this city for a longer time. No production has ever been put on with more lavish- ness. The costumes take one’s breath away by their extravagance. Florence Reed as a slave is the one artiste among the women. The singing of Tessa Kosta became boresome after a while, due probably to the monotony of the score. Illenury Dixey also was nerve racking when he attempted to sing. Tyrone Power's performance was a delight. Several of the many costumes stand out prominently. A ballet was done in full red skirts girdled in gold with head dresses of blue. The solo dancer wore gold. Needless to say, there were but straps covering the busts. Another dance was done in long pants of green with panels for both legs of blue. These were embossed in every color of the rainbow. A manaquin number couldn't be described. It received an ovation. “Chu Chin Chow” is a great kiddie show. “Doing Our Bit,” the latest Winter Garden production, won't set New York afire by its brilliancy. A large and indifferent looking chorus of girls occupy the stage most of the time. In dressing there was but one set of gowns drawing attention. Worn by the show girls, they were of gold aad silver cloth. Decorated with green and red stones were feathers to match, Feathers seem to play a most promi- nent part in the performance. Costumes representing the most precious of jewels were done in tights with heavy draperies of brocade, with head gears of plumes. The dressing of most of the numbers was done in tights a la Columbia burlesque. A candy number suffered in comparison with the Fred Stone show. Of the women, Chilson Ohrman wore the best looking dresses. An evening gown was in black and silver brocade. A green velvet suit was trinimed in squirrel. Ada Lewis’ costumes were heavily constructed, running mostly to velvet. Sylvia Ja- son (who seems lost without Harry Tighe) wears the short dresses she al- ways affects. The one number that stood out was a violin arrangement with Herman Timberg and 22 misses in hoopskirts of yellow and purple. Leach Nora, one of the woman princi- pals, looked well in several costumes. At the Broadway Ruth Clifford in a stirring picture of the west called “The Savage,” isn’t given an oppor- tunity to wear clothes, but is seen most of the time in a riding habit, most becoming. ‘ The Rialto and Strand are both showing pictures this week that are really splendid. Dorothy Dalton in “The Price Mark” at the Rialto does finely as a ruined lady. Opening in an Egyptian setting Miss Dalton wears the Oriental dress of that country. What follows takes place in New York with Miss Dalton first as an artist's model. Deceived by the artist, Miss Dalton continues to live with him and is given opportunity to wear a beau- tiful wardrobe. An evening gown of ravishing beauty is of an iridescent material. A street dress of a light- colored material is made in one long line. There were many more dresses equally handsome. The entire current program at the Rialto is a joy. The huge orchestra played Liszt's “Second Hungarian Rhapsody” in stirring man- ner, Alberto Bachman of the Rialto orchestra beautifully played Saint- Saéns Havanaise, Opus 83. Charlie Chaplin in his newest picture “The Ad- venturer” had the audience in screams, At the Strand Jane Cowl conclusively set forth that she is as beautiful on the screen as on the speaking stage. “Spreading Dawn,” her feature, is a story of the éarly 66's, and the cos- tuming is of the hoopskirt type. The captions are amusing, inasmuch as they refer to “Long Acre Farms” and “a summer home on Riverside Drive.” Miss Cowl has brought her feading man of the stage with her into pic- tures. The choice isn't a happy one. Orme Caldara isn't a film type

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AT LIBERTY—Experienced straight man; also play some characters; baritone voice; up in harmony; open for singing act or anything that is steady. Sober and reliable. Address Box 21, c/o Variety. AT LIBERTY—A union pianist, experienced, orchestra, or as accompanist to vocalist. Last engagement, Catskill Mt. House, N. Y. Will travel if necessary. Address W. G. Schwarz, Ardsley, N. Y., Box 110. BANJORINE PLAYER DESIRES ENGAGE- MENT, CABARET OR VAUDEVILLE ACT. CAN READ LINES. ADDRESS BOX 20, VARIETY, NEW YORK. BEAUTIFUL PHONOGRAPH—MAHOGANY CABINET WITH RECORDS. LATEST EDI- TIONS. WILL SELL CHEAP. EDISON, c/o VARIETY, NEW YORK. BOAT SET, GARDEN WALL; Jap set that folds in trunk; bill trunk full of paper; two lobby display folding frames; 1 musket; 4 swords; scripts; Jap and blonde wigs; sewing machine; 5 sets of wardrobe, 6 to a set. Jean- nette Shop, 124 W. 45th St., New York. *Phone 840 Bryart. Tarai pecan mille ; tort hes . BOOKING FIRST CLASS ACTS for cabarets in South America. Want a musical act for Seuth America; also classical we act for Havana, Cuba, and 100 chorus girls. Billy rue Gaiety Theatre Bldg., Room 601, New ork. DROPS—VELVET, VELOUR, SILK, SATIN; BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS. MADE TO ORDER. LOWEST PRICES IN CITY. GRAINGER, 321 PUTNAM BLDG., NEW YORK. ECCENTRIC SINGING AND DANCING COMEDIAN for vaudeville act; must have a strong solo dance. Can also use good sister act with ability. Kaufman & Hyde Producing Co., Broadway Theatre Building, New York. “FOR SALE—CRIMSON PLUSH DROP, ® x 4#: ALMOST NEW; CENTER OPENING RINGS, LINES. BARGAIN QUICK BUYER. ADDRESS CRIMSON, VARIETY, NEW YORK, GOOD BLACK FACED ACT. SHARP BERNARD, 321 STRAND BLDG., NEW YORK. PRIMA _DONNA—DRAMATIC _ SOPRANO; ALSO 2 CHORUS GIRLS WITH VOICES. M- THOR. 508 PUTNAM BUILDING, NEW YO PRODUCERS—i write the “real goods” in musical tabloids and girl acts. My stuff lands. Try it. AL JOHNSTON, 270 West llth St., New York. SEVERAL BANJOS, in very good order; will sell reasonably. Have been used in a vaudeville = - a short while. Banjo, c/o Variety, New ork. ECCENTRIC TEAM WANTED TO WORK IN RECOGNIZED JAUDEVILLE ACT. SEE ALLEN SPENCER ENNEY, PUTNAM BUILDING, 1493 BROAD- WAY, NEW YORK. UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER, OLD MODEL. VERY GOOD CONDITION. CAN BE SEEN BY Slate GORDON, VARIETY, NEW VICTROLA AND RECOR LARGE OAK CABINET, WILL SELL AT ONCE. PARTY LEAVING TOWN. CANNOT CARRY SAME. ela OFFER. JEAN, VARIETY, NEW VIRGINIA B. NICHOLS writes exciusive ma- terial for vaudeville artists. Two-acts a spe- cialty; different lyrics; unusual melodies. Suite 321, Strand Theatre Building, New York. Phone 4649 Bryant. WANTED—A lady who can get up in a tra- peze and do a back ending contortion. Height about 5 ft. to 5 ft. 4. eight about 115 Ibe. Steady work with standard recognized act. No time lost in practice. Apply to 2 C. Gard- ner, c/o Broderick, 201 est 38th St., New York City. Phone Greeley 5977. WANTED—Comedian for recognized comedy skit. 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“COME ON RED” “COME ON RED” JOHN B. HYMER in “Tom Walker in Dixie” Return engagement this week (Oct. 22), Palace Theatre, New York, after the first performance moved to the clos- ing position. THE ONLY SKETCH EVER CONSIDERED STRONG ENOUGH TO CLOSE THE SHOW AT THE PALACE THEATRE, NEW YORK. Direction, LEWIS & GORDON “COME ON RED” Harlan Kenneth (Reg) Harper Mabel (OC) Harris Dave Harris Elenor (C) Harris Frank C Harris Hazel Harris Lillian Hart Hazel (P) Hatings Etta Harvel & Francis Harvey Edith (C) Hasson Leslie A (C) Hayden Tommy Headder Jack (CG) Hearn Frank Hearn Miss J Hedge Wm Henderson Clarrie (C) Henderson V L (C) Hendricks Herman Herman & Hanly Hermann Helen Hicks Joe (C) Hill Emma Hilliard Marion Hilton Dora (C) Hinton Al Hipp Cunrad Hoffman Frances Holbrook Florence Holman Harry Holton Miss M Homburg Bob Homer Eva Hough Mrs H W Howard Sisters Hoyt’s Minstrels Hoyt Hal Hughes Walter W Hume Harry (C) Hume Geo Hunter Mrs Kenneth Huston Nora (P)} Hyman John J Jameson Howard (C) Jarrett G L Jennings Miss Billy Jett Chas (P) Je--i1 Ben (C) Johnson & Arthur (C) Johnson Norman Johnson P T Jones Edith L Jones Virginia Jordan Anna NOTICE TO PRODUCERS ldaMayChadwick WELL KNOWN DANCING COMEDIENNE WILL APPEAR AT THE COLUMBIA THEATRE THIS SUNDAY (October 28) AVAILABLE FOR A PRODUCTION ADDRESS—130 WEST 47TH ST., NEW YORK CITY Judge Patsy Julyette Elaine Kaha Pete Kane Joe (C) Kaufman Emmie (C) Kays Flying (C) Keate E Harrison Keech Kelvin Keeley’s Three Keeley Lillian Kellogg Sidney Kelley Claude Kelley Florence H Kelly Effie (C) Kelly Mabel Kelting Geo T Kema Re Kemp Roger Kennedy & Kramer Kewl EB F King Billy ar. Hume & Thomas King Jane Kiralfy Mr Kirkwood Billie Knapp Al Knight Harian

Knower Ruth Knowles Lillian Kramer David Kramp Ben J (GC) Kreiner Wm 8 Kress Rose (C) Kruger Louis 8 Kuter Thos Lambert Billie La Mert Low Lammert Den H La Mon Thelma Lane Harry J Lanigan Pat La Pine Lyle (P) La Rue Eva La Toy Harry Laumar Billie Laurie Rose La Velle Harry La Vier Trapeze Lawrence T Lawton Jerry L LaCarre Marie La Grange & Gordon La Marche Mabelle Lamar Flossie Lambert & Terry “COME ON RED” Law Mrs. Walter Lay Jack (C) Lease Mrs M (P) Lee Benny Le Gendre Gene Leighton Chas (SF) Lelands The Leonard Albert (C) Le Roy D F Le Roy Jack Le Vere & Palmer Levitt Abe LeViva Miss (C) Lewis Andrew Lewis Sam Leyle Wm (C0) Lidelli Jack Lidelli Jack (C) Lieb Happy Lindbloom Lillian Lind ‘Lillie Linn A M (C) Livingston Mrs J B Livingston Lee Lockhart Roma M (C) Loftus Mr & Mrs L P (C) Lohse & Sterling Longfeaiher Joe (C) Loretta Gertrude (C) Lubin Lew (C) Lucey Alice Luley Frank Lydston & Emerson Lyle Gedes Lyon Mrs Dave (C) Lynch Trio Lynch Ed Lyons Jessie M Mable & Malfe (C) Mac Cauley Wm - Mack Dorothy Maiims (4) Irene B Cc) Maitland Madge (C) Major Carrick Ma Gowvern Edythe Mallory Burton Mangeon Grace Mariott Trou Marshal! @ Greene Marshall Dorothy Marshall Jane Marsh Helene Marteile Tommy ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY!

Masonri Miss B (C) Matthews Mrs D D (Reg) Mayer Harry (P) Mayer Lita Mayer Lita (0) Mayhew Alice Mec Ban Andy Mc Cloud Jack Me Cree Sallie McGreer Robt (SF) Mc Intyres The Mc Intyre Mrs H C McKay's Review McKeand Eva Mc Laughlin & Evans Mec Nally Miss F Mc Namara Meltonio Doroth Melvern Babe (C) Merle’s Cockatoos Miller & Leondar Miller Miss B Miller Mrs B Milton & Gilmour Mitchell Russell (CG) Mizzie Miss (C) Moe Freeman (C) Moore Lucille R (SF) Mondereau Harvey Moorehead B C Morrison James Morton Lewis Moyer Dorothy (P) Murphy & Klein Munson Marion Murray Amos J (C) Myling Bee N Nagle Geo Neale Arthur Neal Estella M Neison Thos H Neus Jim Newlyn Victoria Newman Birdie (P) Newman Lou & J (Cc) Newman Mrs Will (C) _<ewton Miss Bille Nicolai Rudolph Neack A Nokes Frank Noon Parsiey Nolan Mildred (C) Norton Ned “Clothes”

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ieee rs ee ee 1 + sek palais . ; : Ea ss prety $0 va eee one prerenr- > ees eee er RAE WEA SER 2ST RATER SO ly Se apo pa a ao 2s names : we RACE NINN cE LARC ONE 1 EE EDIE ~ eect genemipeaeniemeenamemenees at - tetatee oe rg ; : oa Pe oe nena VARIETY The character of this enterprise is such as to inspire confidence. The tube intself is a wonder and efiectual- ly problem. —Bankers’ Journal. HELL VIORE GHA A VOLLEY OF FACTS oe There Are Over Four Million Cars in the United States Today, requiring Sixteen Million Tubes The Goodrich Tire Company alone, which is only one of the big tire companies, with the keenest of competition, turns out 10,000 tires every day. The demand in the United States is over 100,000 tires a day. The DITTENHOEFER 2-in-1 Inner Tube is the only successful solution of tire trouble. The demand for the DITTENHOEFER 2-in-1 Inner Tube is bound to be greater than for any one other accessory in the motor world. The only trouble will be to manufacture them fast enough to supply the demand. IT MAKES MOTORING A REAL PLEASURE—no more wor- rying about changing tires on the road. Once used, always used. IT IS WITHOUT COMPETITION: THE PATENTS ARE BROAD AND BASIC. THE PERSONNEL of its officers and directors guarantees capable management. company is assure enormous, The future of the UNTIL OUR OWN PLANT HAS BEEN ERECTED IN CHI- THE DITTENHOEFER TWO- IN-ONE INNER TUBE. The Bankers Journal has been called upon to give an estimate of the Dittenhoefer Tube & Rubber Company, whose executive offices are located in the Conway Building, Chicago, dealing with the merits of its product, the character of its per- sonnel and the possibilities for safe and profitable investment offered by its stock. In order that the informa- tion here presented might be of a reliable character, a representative was detailed to make a personal in- vestigation, and it is believed that the statements cuntained in the fol- lowing ar- ticle are solves a_ serious —Bankers’ Journal. spine ee pempreemenenntt et: che seemgnmneepererse reliable. In fact, the character of this enterprise is such as to inspire confidence right from the start and the information obtained leaves no room for doubt as to the intentions of those who have the business in charge. It is a clean-cut proposi- tion, legitimate and above reproach in every way. The stock is being disposed of by the company itself, without the aid of brokers, and an unusually small percent is being used for promotion purposes. This fact alone should go a long way with investors who may contemplate becoming interested in this enter- prise, as the real test of any invest- ment is to be found in the final dis- position of the funds. In this case it may be truthfully stated that aside ry THE CAGO, OUR TUBES WILL BE MADE for us under contract by The CENTURY RUBBER COMPANY OF CHICAGO. Deliveries to start on or about November 20th, 1917. CAPITAL STOCK $1,000,000 ; (Par Value $5.00 per Share) All Common Stock Fully Paid and Non-Assess- able—No Bonds—No Preferred Stock A limited amount of this stock is offered at par, $5.00 per share (price subject to increase without notice). THE TIME TO INVEST IS NOW. THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR LARGE PROFITS FROM a small investment has never been equaled. Protect your future by buying all of this stock BUY IT NOW!! DON’T RENT YOUR MONEY—INVEST IT Next allotment of stock will be $20 a share; price subject to you can, but change without notice. COMMERCIAL AND BANK REFERENCES LITERATURE SENT ON REQUEST Dittenhoefer Tube and Rubber Company SUITE 538, NATIONAL LIFE BUILDING, CHICAGO The Following Article is Taken from The Bankers’ Journal of August-10, 1917 from the small amount above spoken of the entire sum realized on the sale of the stock will be used to place the Dittenhoefer Two-in-One Inner Tube on the market, which will require only a very short time. The tube itself is a wonder and ef- fectually solves a serious problem. It is so constructed that a puncture does not make necessary a change of tire, but only requires reinflation, and the journey can be resumed. At present the shares are selling for $5, and as soon as the product is placed on the market it is con- fidently expected that they will at once advance to $100. The cfficers and directors of the company are high-class business men with records above reproach. Jerome J. Dittenhoefer, a young man of exceptional mechanical genius, is the inventor of the Two-in-One In- ner Tube, and is at the head of the enterprise. He has associated with him men of high standing, and through their combined efforts the company is destined to meet with huge success. It is the opinion of The Bankers Journal, after a close investigation, that an investment in the stock of the Dittenhoefer Tube & Rubber Company should prove highly prof- itable, and those who have made inquiry relative to the same are advised to give the matter their most serious consideration. oT}

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er Y = to ne th 1d 1e th rs of or le re ir VARIETY Makes the automobile 100 percent efficient. Cink Humphreys In order thai the faferidwes* resented might be of a reliable character, @ representative was de- tailed to make a personal investigation, and that the BANKERS’ JOURNAL. tion here statements in the follow- ing article are reliable. 4 The following have witnessed Actual Demonstrations of DITTENHOEFER TWO-IN-ONE INNER TUBES, which consisted of driving nails, glass and other sharp instruments into first compartment, inflating second Worth mortgaging your home to invest in this. Rocco Vorco Vv Vv There’s no use trying to beat it. It can’t be done. Barry Spingold The greatest hoodoo of the auto- ist put out of business. Harry Fox Its simplicity is startling. Its ef- ficiency amazing. Bovle Woolfolk The greatest individual improve- ment in the history of autos. Joe Erber $100 invested in GOODRICH RUBBER earned $69,600.00 Each one of these had keenest of — competition. What would $100 THE DITTENHOEFER TUBE & RUBBER COMPANY Fully paid and non-assessable. The receipt of this subscription at the home office will ' be acknowledged by mail by the Treasurer of the Company. If such acknowledgment is not received within 3 days, please notify office of date and number of subscription. Bound to sell itself on sight to every automobilist. Hubert Dwver troubles—hello Good-bye tire economy! Sroving Newhoff Removes the last argument against auto practicality. This doesn’t need salesmen—just demonstrators. 3. Balperin I said it couldn’t be done—till they showed me. Grant Simpson Wonderful! Made for the boys from Missouri. DJack Fox compartment and driving away. Vv Will reduce auto overhead 1,000 percent a season. Frank Westphal Makes the tire as safe on the road as the speedometer. Armen VY. Wright The age of miracles is not over B yet. his is a miracle. Tlilliam Mpedick One of those things you can’t be- lieve until you see. LZ. €. Teed FISKE RUBBER COMPANY @tto Johnson One Well-Placed Investment Means — Financial Independence for Life $100 invested in DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY earned $25,000.00 $100 invested in CO. DIAMOND RUBBER COMPANY earned $14,720.00 invested in DIT- TEN HOEFER RUBBER & TIRE COM- PANY, that is without compe- $100 invested in $100 invested in GOODYEAR RUBBER CO. earned $12,400.00 earned $25,000.00 No. NATIONAL LIFE BUILDING ORIGINAL tition and is an Ss I ee ee a i es 1917. article that is in iveiasase hereby subscribe for ....................-..+++++...+.+Shares of the Treasury Stock of THE DITTENHOEFER demand by over TUBE & RUBBER COMPANY (at the par value of $5.00 per share), for which I agree to pay to your order, at the above office, 4,000,000 auto- Pe GA OE Ginn ctesdcccescnsscccecsacbees CBT - Gain dctee’ sv ceaidde edince Gahan receipt of which is hereby acknowledged; ists in U. S. A. «i Wererrryrrrrrrrir reir eee OTD Was ce cescdtscces day of every month thereafter without interest until fully paid. today? Upon payment being made, a Certificate of Stock is to be issued for ..................... shares in It is a clear cut prop- SOD pccaud poses 6 eames canees aden Gabon ee osition, legitimate and above reproach in SE 05 Wis FAK EE APENS 6 WS NEN 8a Ota TE e ER Rae every way. —Bankers’ Journal. 40% and 20% monthly.

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bisa » ot. esate ee ee ROE MEN B28 Ae re panes | or EI 1 abialana Frida ers eed on 4 eonmiperpene " AG ALLELE LOL LE LADLE HES seek fF eet peeepenem a ee eR tie tee HN ese ahaha Ms Mi. \W/ITM CHICAGO | tek-pge), | Schiller Building 218 Tremont TOM QUIGLEY Made the biggest hit of her career when she app y songs) at the PALACE THEATRE, NEW YORK. As usual she captivated her audience by her exquisite violin playing and delightful singing of her various numbers, among which were SUKI YOU’LL REGRET THE PROFESSIONAL COPIES AND ORCHESTRATIONS NOW READY e first time with an entire new act (production and (WHERE THE CHERRY 33 mOh~ 10) \ eee FEATURE SONG SAN AND HER BIG oe on Written expressly for her by her accompanist, JERRY JARNAGAN Uptown Prof. Rooms, AL. COOK, Manager 1562 Broadway, NEXT TO PALACE THEATRE PROVIDENCE, R. 1}. PHILADELPHIA - BALTIMORE | New Reilly Hotel F. HARRISON SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES Pantages Bullding St Continental Hotel 18 Belknap &t. 35 South 9th St. J. CROWLEY ED. 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Very & Muskrat) oceasions, made of Also some very Special Attractions in all the leading styles of Foxes and Wolves, made ia the oew animal all, Barrel Scarfs from.......$19.50 up Sets from.........$37.50 up and Canteen shape bargains in separate Special Discount te the Profession AMSON'S, tre. 44 West 34th Street Adjoining Hotel McAlpin—One Flight Up _~ Stewart Billy Turcott Bert Stewart Jean Stewart Margaret Stirk Cliff (C) Story R Stroud Trio (C) Sumika Takaori Sunderland May (C) Sykes Carrie Uv Usher Claude & F Vv Vaiete Costa (REG) (Cc) Vallie Muriel (C) Vance Clarice Van Arthur Vaughn Dorothy (C) Velie Julius Verger Nick Vernon Ralph E Vervalin T Talford Ruth Tam O'Shanter Tararia Virginia (C) Tavares Virginia (P) Teal Raymond Texico & Co Thibault Thos Thompson J Forrest Thurber Lena Tombes Helen H So eoaeas (Gov't) ) ( Toppan Teddy Toune Edna Transfield Sisters s Ww Wade Jobn P Wagner Chas D Wakerfield Wanda (C) Wallace Miss (TEL) (Cc) Walters Selma Walton Elsie Ward Al (C) Ward Arthur F Williams C A Warren Ethel Williams Charlie (P) Warren Ruth Wiliiams Garnet Washington Betty Williamson Bob (SF) Webb Dolly Willard's Temple Webb Tecdy Wilson Lew (C) Wison & Mack Wilson Miss Billie Wilson Billy Wilson Miss Frankie Wilson Frank Wilson Jessie Weldon Francis Wellington Dave Weils Corrine Wilson Lew Wells Corr'=e (C) Woods Fart Mrs Western Helen Woods T E Weston Trie (C) Worden Mr & Mrs H Wheeier Hert Wright Earl White Bros White & Brown (C) White Danny (C) White Joe & Vera (C) Whiteside Fib Wilbur Frank (C) Wilkie Susie Willard Dot Willard Janet Y Yates & Wheeler Yonsen Bettina Young @& April Young & Waldron (C) 4 Zygmunt Peter 8 CHICAGO VARIETY’S CHICAGO OFFICE, Majestic Theatre Bldg. “Our Betters” at the Blackstone, which quit Saturday, is booked for the storehouse. Frederick Freer, the operatic comedian, was in Chicago last week. Milo Bennett has leased “Hello Bill,” tab- loid, to Boyle Woolfolk. Glenn Beveridge and William Wamsher were in Chicago last wrek recruiting mem- bers for a new musica\ comedy. Primrose & McGillen’s week stand, “One Girl’s Experience,” opened at Milwaukee last week to good business. Jake Sternad, the-:rical agent, was oper- ated on last week for gallstones. He is con- valescent. Robert Sherman has purchased a new home in Ravenswood, and has moved there witb his family. “The Frame-Up,” Milo Bennet’s meller, opened: Oct. 17 to good business. The play will run a dozen one night stands in Indiana and Illinois. “Henpecked Henry,’’ Marton and Gaskell’s musical comedy which has been playing in Canada, has closed. The show is being re- written and reorganized. CORRESPONDENCE Unless otherwise noted, the following reports are for the current week. Rowland & Howard are reo company for “The Marriage book is being rewritten. nizing a new uestion.” The Sam Forest, who staged the scenically beautifully “Judge of Zalamea,” is rehearsing Ditrichstein’s new vehicle, “The King.” Clem Yore, a former Chicago reporter, now state poet of Colorado, is coming here to open a lecture tour. Anna Harrah has started divorce proceed- ings in the circult court against Roy Harrah. The pair did a roller skating turn. Boyle Woolfolk has gone to New York to a om, heretofore booked by Loew, to the U. B. O. John C. Davies, father-in-law of Tink Humphreys, is seriously il) here of hem- orrhage of the brain. . Ray Lopes, who was co-composer with Alcide Nunez of “Livery Stable Blues,” is composer of “Undertakers’ Blues,” a new one just put out by Roger Graham. The Chicago “Daily News” has instituted a suit against Alfred Hamburger and the Grant Park Theatre Company (Fine Arts Theatre) for $3,500 for advertising. Charles Anderson, whose musical reviews have been running during the season at the Green Mill Gardens and the North American cabaret, is putting out a No. 2 edition of his review for smaliter cities. Elste Janis, whose imitations were a hit at the Majestic, did one thing that was all her own—she hung up the record for the season to date at the money-box, and left Gertrude Hoffman a high one to kick at. P. T. Powers’ Kilties Band jumped last week .from Kankakee to Baltimore to play at the Liberty Loan rally there. They received §$1,- 700 and their transportation from the gov- ernment for the date. Will Deming has demonstrated that he is a “line tamer” of renown. He committed to memory 77 sides within 36 hours after he ar- rived in Chicago to take Lowell Sherman’s part in “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath.” The five ponies being used for advertising purposes at the Star and Garter wil! form the nucleus of a dog and pony circus that William Roche, manager of the theatre, will put out next summer. Yee Siam San, head of a Chinese troupe which recently closed with the Sells-Floto circus, left Chicago last week to go to San Francisco, where he will meet several other troupes to be booked on Orpheum and W. V. M. A. time. Jack Fox, local ten per cent. agent, has brought suit against the Hotel Sherman for $200. Three suits of clothes, an overcoat and two pair of shoes disappeared from Fox’s room in the Sherman and he could get no satisfaction from the management. Holland, Dockrill & Co., equestrian act, had to cancel fair bookings at Eastman, Ga., Meri- dian, Miss., and New Orleans on account of the scarcity of baggage cars which held up the act. The outfit is laying off in Chicago waiting for the baggage situation to loosen. The Style Show of the Fashion Art League of America opened at the Coliseum Oct. 18. The show will run till Oct. 31. On Pyiday and Saturday the proceeds of a speciai ex- hibit, with many show people as guests, were turned over to the Navy Relief Society. Weiss’ Restaurant, in iis new location next decor to the Palace Msuic Hall, has engaged a living three-sheet who stands outside the entrance in a_i scariet uniform. Weiss, catering to professionals, now iists his menu like a vaudeville bill. This week’s headliner is “Kreploch Bouillon.” A local theatrical producer paid a visit to Fort Sheridan last week, and in ten minutes encountered the following at the officers’ training camp: Vic Crane, of Jones and Crane; Orville Bunneli, of the National Printing Co.; James B. McKowen, the book- ing agent, and Koger Murrell, of Rowland- Clifford. Among recent cases at the American The- atrical hospital are the following: Edna Snow, daughter of Annie Carroll, bareback rider, operated on for ulcerated stomach; Kittie Jensen, wife of H. M. Jensen, appendicitis ; Frankie Darling, of Milton Schuster com- pany, tumor; Eddie De Champ, animal trainer, fractured leg; Wanda Royell, Royell sisters, ruptured appendix. In Robert Sherman’s “The Girl Without a Chance” there is an underworld character programed as “Dago Jue.” The show got to a town in New Mexico and Fred A. Mor- gan, ahead of the show, tried to arrange for a date at the Opera House there. The next day Sherman got a wire from Morgan: “The owner of the opera house here is a guy by the name of Dago Joe. He owns the red light district and says nothing doing on The Girl Without a Chance.’ ” The office of S. L. & Fred Lowenthal, the- atrical lawyers, has been denuded of much talent. Asher J. Goldfine of the firm, put over a $300,000 deal for the mail order house of Riley, Shubert & Grossman. They offered him the vice-presidency of the firm, and he accepted. Others in the office have been drafted. Edward W. Weiss and Dan J. O’Con- nell have reported at Rockford, and Charles

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_ VARIETY | | ce -FAREWELL TOUR | DIRECTION ’ WM. MORRIS -. Louis Ster N, Business Manager d Lester W. Murray, Martin W. Wagner, : General Manager Secretary ACTS EXTRAORDINARY : | Supporting the Famous Comedian EN TOUR “THE LOVING BIRDS” : FIVE KITAMURA JAPS ARNAUT BROTHERS t ADELAIDE M. ARNOLD | : FRANCIS RENAULT 3 | BELL GRAZER “Parisienne Fashion Plate” : Little NOW at si CLEO GASGOINE Lexington Opera House \e- “A Big Surprise” 51st St. and Lexington Ave.

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NOVELTY _SOUTHERN_SONG ea 4 ee <7 YOCK-A-HILO TOWN THE LYRIC BY MONTE BRICE JUST BREATHES THE CHINESE ATMOSPHERE AND DONALDSON HAS WRITTEN ONE OF THOSE WONDERFUL MELODIES FOR WHICH HE IS SO WELL KNOWN. HIS OTHER THE NICEST LITTLE HOME IN DIX TE IS GAINING BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS AND BIDS FAIR TO BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL HIS SOUTHERN SONG SUCCESSES. PROFESSIONAL COPIES AND ORCHESTRATIONS ARE NOW READY. CHICAGO BOSTON | PROVIDENCE, R. 6. | PHILADELPHIA | Schiller Buliding - 218 Tremont St. 18 Belknap 8t $5 South 9th St MANAGERS, BALTIMORE New Rellly Hotet F. HARRISON - AL. . SAN age) eel eile) @ J JACK LAHEY J. CROWLEY ED. EDWARDS J. Martin, Arthur E. Church and Walter Sweitzer are at Camp Logan, Houston. Arthur Magnussen of the firm is with the hospital corps and will leave for France Dec. 1 AGENTS, PRODUCERS NOTICE Our First New York Showing BILLY TUBBIE RELLY“ BOYD In Their Unique Comedy Offering entitled ‘“‘A LESSON IN HISTORY’’ Interspersed with New Songs and Nobby Dances Proctor’s 23d St. NOW Personal Direction LEE MUCKENFUSS TiLtTolnN ADDED ATTRACTION WITH “THE BEHMAN SHOW,” 1917-1918 NEXT WEEK (Oct. 29)—COLUMBIA, NEW YORK

Roland Crane, an actor, was arrested in his room in a loop hotel last week with a 20- year-old girl named Grace Allen. At de- tective bureau the girl testified she met Crane in the loop, and that he told her she was cute looking and that he could make a leading lady of her. “He asked me to coms up to his room,”’ she said. “‘He said he wanted to teach me some steps.”” She went, and Crane was teaching the steps when the detectives entered. Crane is married and has three children.

A most elastic organization is the “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" at the Colonial. Last Moanuay John Cumberland was indisposed. J. A. Curtis, the stage manager, who has been playing the roie of Carroii, the hotelkeeper, immediately jumped into Cumberiand’s role. The hoteikeeper part, a not inconsequential one, was thereby left without an actor. Wiill- iam C. Miiier, the chief electrician, filled the breach. The show went on and nobody seemed to know the diilerence.

Boyle Woolfolk jumped into New York from Chicago for the week end to fix up the Or- pheum towa for his “Vanity Fair’ tabioid, now piaying Association time in the west, the tab as ap act starting Jan. 6 at Minneapolis and winding up at the Majestic, Caicago, May lv. it will be necessary, however, tor Sam hahi, Chicago, to reiease the tab from some of its dates in order to fuifill the Or- Pbheum tour. Jack irainor and Vig de Baugh will be cojointiy featured When tue new tour opens. Having exhausted ali of the Associa- tion time, Woollioik’s “Six Little Wives,” a former tab, now an act, started a tour of Jones-Linick-Schaeler’s houses in Chicago this week, piuyiug the Riaijo as a starter The act is slated for a Paa tour. AUDITORIUM (H. M. Johnson, “Stop, Look and Listen,” Policemen'’s Fund (2d week). week. Extra matinees this week,

CROWN (Ed. J. Rowland, Jt, mgr.) .— Stock. “Little Peggy O’Moore ENGLEWOOD (J. D. Whitehead, mgr.) .— American Burlesque—“Biff, Bing, Bang! mgr.).—Columbia Wheel Burlesque—Rose Sy- dell’s “London Belles.” MAJESTIC (Fred C. Eberts, mgr., Orpheum ; rehearsal 9:30). The Majestic did not do its mgr.).— apoual benetit for Closes next and though

not favoravly received by critics is doing EMPIRB (Art Moeller, megr.).—American ¢UStmary business Monday matinee (nousy = ow =. largely ° ee ue v—— Rick (Wm, “Curr a5 ee can one ask for 50 cents top than Gertrude ging o @ policemen. rand opera W ™. urrie, mgr.).—‘The follow. 18th Chair,” with Annie Russell (th week), mann and the biggest and most artistic BLACKSTONE (Ed. Wappler, mgr.).— doing over $10,000. “The Willow Tree’ with Fay Bainter (list GAIETY (Robert Schoenecker, megr.).— Uptown Prof. ‘Rooms, AL COOK, 1562 Broadway, NEXT TO PALACE THEATRE Pantages Bullding

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. aa Sep RRNEREMCSERE! 8) OC en ee AONE i } Paka’ aot : t | = ‘ Le eet week), succeeding “Our Betters,” which went to the storehouse. COHAN'S GRAND (Harry J. Ridings, mgr.).—Leo Ditrichstein in “The Judge of “Why Marry?” with Zaiamea”™ (4th week). Goodwin and Edmund Arnold Daly, Nat Breese opens Nov. 5. COLONIAL (Norman Field, mgr.).—‘Par- lor, Bedroom and Bath” with Florence Moore still filling the house at $1.50 top (9th week). COLUMBIA (F. A. Perry, mgr.).—Colum- bia Wheel Burlesque—‘Hello America.” CORT (U. J. Herman, mgr.).—‘Upstairs and Down” (9th week). ee pemateerenneens American Burlesque—‘Darlings of Paris.” ILLINOIS (R. Timponi, mgr.).—‘Miss Springtime,” assured hit (2d week). IMPERIAL (Will Spink, mgr.).—‘The Lit- tle Girl that God Forgot.” 2 LA a —. sepeter. ae Seg oy!" w osep antley, sett © pace for the other shows (10th week). ue NATIONAL (John Barrett, mer.).—“After MOLYMPIC (Abe A Jacobs, mer.) —“‘Cana Cottage” (4th week). Fair business. ad PLAYHOUSE.—Stewart Walker’s company in Y \aemanedl one of the season's hits (4th week PRINCESS (Will Singer, Man Who Came Back,” with very strong (5th week). POWERS (Harry Powers Skinner in “Mr Antonio,” maker (7th week). STAR AND GARTER megr.).—“The Mary Nash, ’ mer. ) .— Otis steady money- (William Roche, THE DE BARS et BOTH CAN ALSO BE USED MOST EFFECTIVELY FOR DOUBLES. Manager LOS ANGELES Continents’ rue. @ HACAN, FRANCISCO BROWNE

act in vaudeville, Ray Samuels, besides Joe Jackson, Doily Connolly and a standard sup- rting bill? When one sees what Gertrude offmann gives to vaudeville—and what she ets back—one may weil ask whether it pars. East week Bisie Janie, alone, in a skit similar to Miss Hoffman's snecialty, which is about five per cent. of her revue, drew capacity and scored more ringingly, if applause is to be believed. For some reason the house was frapped. Everyone was sitting on his hands or biow- ing on hig fingers. A wise critic hesitates to quarrel with audiences, as audiences are the ultimate critics. But in this instance the chill cannot be charged against the show, for it is a cycle of diversified and brilliant elements. Miss Hoffmann, the most daring producer for any branch of the American stage, and one of the most prodigal and picturesque, brought a revue of dancers, singers, acrobats, diving girls and barbarians in a melange of aimost every known manner of dancing, be- sides 2 kaleidoscopic production that made the observing eye dizzy. In tableaux, en- semble, solo and varying formations the com- pany moved swiftly through 55 minutes of stunning vaudevilic, such as would hafe brought an audience in London or Paris te ts feet. Fully 50 people walked out during the progress of the entertainment in Chicago. It was enough to break the heart of a woman less resolute than Miss Hoffmann, who has held her blonde head up against many a the- atrical tornado, and who, bless her, still tries. She could do a successful single at a large salary, fully as large as her profits on this trying and, apparently, unappreciated crea- tion, evidencing untold thought, effort and am- bition. But she is a glutton for art—and she pays for her passion. Ray Samuels woke them up with character songs. In aoaee voice, this Chicago product of the old frolic-every-half-hour es got snappily away with broad Rube and Hebrew songs. It appears to be the present tendency for feminine comediennes to sidle away from character and seek to become divas. But Miss Samuels stands by her heaviest guns and brings down the friendly enemies in front. * ne Boy” is her finish and biggest “go.” Dolly nnolly, whose melodious contraite vibates like a silver bell, had as much fun as the audience at least doing her little bit with Percy Wenrich. Her poise an enviable. She wears tasty lingerie clothes in drawing-

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Sept esa cin ailin bolnte et L reoinl preaeuNtes 2e aati wt ae’: VARIETY its IRs on Rete D2 A Cheer Up, Broadway I’ll Be With You Soon FRANCES KENNEDY The Cheeriest Comedienne, in Exclusive Songs. Wil- liam B. Friedlander and Herbert Moore. Booked solid, Harry Weber east, Simon’s Agency west. room fashion, and she slides along sweetly. She sang “Come Along,” “Crying Blues (the hit of her act), and several speciaiiy pum- bers, of which she might do well to eliminate the lengthy and pointless screed about mans rib. Following Ruth Lockwood, appearing with Abe Leavitt, and singing several songs, not without grace and talent, Miss Connolly would have done well to escape with her life before that frost-bitten audience; but she won out. That hokum still waves was never more strikingly illustrated than when the back drop for Whitfield and Ireland's bucolic farce stuff was revealed and ‘wo minutes of solid laugh- ter held up the show while the people shrieked at such signs as “Ketchum & Cheatum, Law- yers,” “Next Week, ‘East Lynne,,”” ‘Insect Inn,” “Lick Your Own Stamps,” “Judge Oat- cakes” and “Dr. Quack.’’ The act is quite palatable, and the eccentric dancing of the principals is applause-worthy and is not over- looked. Jackson, as compared with his usual clamor of appreciation in Chicago, went mildly. There were laughs—nobody can help iaughing at Jackson. But there were not the screams that he bas drawn before aad thai be aiways earns. He came back iater in the silhouetts undress- ing scene of Miss Hoffmann's act and got a few giggles. The show was almost beyond criticism, from Hanlon and Clifton, who opened it, to the Hoffmann Revue, which closed it with the shapely maidens diving, leaping, sliding and tumbling into the splosby tank. But the old copy-book philosopher who said that nothing but merit counts should have had a seat down- stairs—there were plenty “open.” The show went stronger at the evening per- formance, Jackson getting his customary vol- ume of acknowledgment and Miss Hoffman holding them in. Ray Samuels was the hit of the night show. Lait. PALACE (Earl T. Steward, megr., Orpheum). —Bessie Clayton, with a new company, more tasty and less boisterous than her _ instru- mental minstrel show of last season, drew an ovation. Her toe jigging went right over the top and stormed the house, and the Mosconi Brothers, extremely eccentric dancers, drew ecannonades of explosive applause. Miss Clay- ton has a place all her own, has the snap required for vaudeville and the artistry for the best vaudeville, and is a decisive and unequivocal triumph. Her production is ade- quate and costly. The full-stage work is done in a center-split cyciorama backed by a gor geous lamp. She has, in addition to the mar- velous Mosconis, Paisley Noon, who sings her “sub titles’ and dances a few, and a pianist. Maud Lambert and Ernest Ball ran second only to the headliner following her. Miss Lambert, fetchingly attired in scarlet Velvet trimmed with sable and wearing a sable tam, came in after Ball's friendly-like introduction, and the two sang “All the World Will Be Jealous,” “At the Station,” “Everybody Took a Kick at Nicholas,” “Somewhere in Ireland,” “The Girl I Left Behind,” and “I'll Find a Bit of Heaven in Your Irish Heart of Love.” Miss Lambert looks youthful, made two changes with always striking and becoming effect, and sang like a bird. Ball—well, a song writer who knows enough to sing songs written by rivals because he is taking vaude- ville’s money and wants to give the best value for it, that sori sof a fellow couldn't be less than big even if he lacked Ernie’# lovable personality and palatable “‘pipes."’ The Asahi Troupe, with the old thumb trick and the paraphernalia illusions, closed and held the bouse fn. It bad been a swift show and no ons was dispesed to be impatient. Stan Stan- ley, the comical bounder, cleaned up with his aisle comedy and his stage patter and foolish- ness. Clifford and Wills opened a little slow, but Clifford had the audience between his thumb and finger as he went through the lenethy but tense cocaine-field scene The act finished strong. Marion Harris, a post-graduate of the local cabarets, featuring her shape, which is as skinny and tall as Charlotte Greenwood's, and much more contortionable, grew a bit wearisome through four songs, all of them to two verses and repeat choruses, with almost unvaried gestures of those willowy arms and flexible hands. ..She. sings well and {snot hard to take, but lacks variety. What she needs. is a partner to break up the sameness of her execution. Dorothy Regel and her company got all there was in “Playing the Game” out of it. The star is better than her book, which is melodrama-farce of exotic order with confu- sion as to just what it is about murking the clarity of the goings-on. Miss Regel was light and refreshing, and looked like a Vassar belle. The act came down to creditable applause in No. 3 position. Giuran and Newell, opening, stallee through about eight minutes of ex- tremely inefficient comedy, especially so since the house was being seated and even good comedy wouldn't have gone there in talk; then there was some inconsequential dancing and back-and-forth fire that meant nothing. Fi- nally we learned that they were horizontal bar performers, and good ones. The act should do four minutes of its bar stuff and find some other way to fill in the rest of the period now allotted it. Miller and Lyles got plenty of laughs in sidewalk come-backs, then finished with a comedy boxing dance, holding number 2 neatly. Lait, HIPPODROMBE (Andy Talbot, mgr.; agent, W. V. M. A.).—A little too much “dumb” stuff resulted in a somewhat tedious bill for the first half. Johnston and Hardy, assisted by a pretty girl, gave their plotiess sketch, which has plenty of wholesome humor and makes a very pleasant impression. Lou Reed ani the Wright Girls bill their act as “Lots of Class"; Lou wears evening clothes and the girls flash plenty of rhinestones on their cos- tumes, so they are entitled to the billing. They sing and dance, and Lou plays the vio- lin. Every canine in the world is represented in Zertha’s Novelty, an act with a special drop and bedroom set. Zertho wakes up and* gets out of bed, and. about twenty pups leap out with him. The act pieases. Yamamoto Brothers, Japanese slack wire and perch per- formers, startle with some difficult stunts. It FRANCES KENNEDY, an exceptionally clever girl, with a smile that is infectious and with a lot of good material, kept the sudience in fine humor all the time she was on the stage. —Youngstown Telegram, Oct. 9, 1917. FRANCES KENNEDY is a charming young woman, and a hard worker. She has some dandy songs and puts them over in a way that makes her one of the favorites of the whole show. —Youngstown Daily Vindicator, Oct. 9, 1917. is a clean, swift act, one of the best of its kind. The team is distinguished for the busi- nesslike way in which they perform their tricks. Ed and Irene Lowry, ever-popular with Chicago audiences, got plenty of applause. They are nifty dancers and their youthfulness helps. The standard Musical Nosses delivered, as usual. Nip anu Tuck, an acrobat and a contortionist, closed the show. They are both extremely capable in their specialties. The body-bending stunts of the contortionist are made unusually acceptable by some comedy speeches. McVICKER’'S (J. Burch, megr.; agent Loew). —The bill this week was way below standard. The management has educated its patrons to expect high-grade entertaftament. They come every week, and they were ere this week, but they were disappointed. The bill was opened by Katherine Miley, who sings and causes great uneasiness by her comedy efforts. Miss Miley admits that vaudeville is not her forte. Pulling the I'll-be-frank-with-you stuff, she says to the audience, “I'd rather be home washing the dishes than doing this.” The responses from the audience indicates that this sentiment goes double. Joe Mack & Co., com- pany consisting of two girls, have an indif- ferent sketch which pulls out of utter medi- ocrity by a punch finish when the scene-shift- ers pull the set away in the middle of a sob passage. In “one” the three members of the company then appear and kid themselves and the audience, in the manner which ts so mad- dingly overtone at pop houses of fete. In the eourse of time performers will learn (and they will pay for the edueation) that audi- ences want to be entertained, not kidded. When the practice originated, the element of novelty furnished the entertainment. Now it is passe. The Bie Four, a quartet of large men. sang and wore Tuxedo coats. Menetti and Sedelli introduced a breath of life into the dying bill with their acrobatic act. The stunt. where six large tables are piled up, with a chair on top, and the clown in the act on the chair, the tacular. Yammota A REAL CASING THEATRE HIT JOSEPH H. NIEMEYER with Mr. Arthur Hammerstein’s production “FURS AND FRILLS” REMARKS, Oct. 10th: New York “Journal of Commerce”: A feature of the evening was the dancing of Joseph Niemeyer, who a peared with Miss Allen and also dla an acrobatic dance alone. Fred, VARIETY: There was real applause for the dance specialty at the opening of the second act with Beatrice Allen and Joseph Nie- mever—the solo by the man acoring wonderfully. New York “Journal”: There are many good dancers all the way through, the best being a spe- cialty by, Beatrice Ailien and Joseph Niemeyer. New York “American”: Joseph Niemeyer does some remark- ably clever dancing. New York “World”: The dancing specialty by Beatrice Allen and Joseph Niemeyer was most acceptable. F. F. S., on Cincinnati “Enquirer”: "The second act introduces a sensa- tional acrobatic dancer, Joseph Nie- meycr, which was one of the best fea- tures of the performance. Direction, Mr. ANTON SCIBILIA Knickerbocker Theatre Bldg. Also featured in the New REISENWEBER REVUE whole swaying precariously and then toppling, never ioses its novelty or hair-raising quali- ties. Eskimo and seal juggled balis, both with discretion and finesse, and Tom Kelly finished the show with some very funny Irish stories and a couple of songs. KEDZIE (A. Bunge, megr.; agent, W. V. M. A.).—The second half bill was smooth run- ning and + apc gl but in no sense spec- rothers, Japanese perch act, opened the bill. Some of the balancing stunts brought gasps from the house. They were followed by Ed and Irene Lowry, who call their act “Jests and Jigs.’”’ They do what hundreds of other similar acts do—crack a joke, sing a song, step around a bit—but they do it better than mest. A good lonking couple, with iots of personality and pleasant mannerisms. Irene comes out as a boy, and everybody in the audience says m-n-n-n, meaning “How nice!" Easily the best act on the bill. Dae and Neville in a sketch called “Any Couple,” using full stage in- FRANCES KENNEDY is the most relishing and zestful single entertainer who has come to Keith’s Theatre. She is a hapny comedienne whose methods are subtle, whore manners are refined, whose rersonal- ity is refreshing. She pos- much beanty. Tler songs are esne- clally written for her and are distinctive. She finishes with an Irish Honoluin song that she carries out in true burlesque style. —The Danton Daily News, Oct. 16, 1917. FRANCES KENNEDY. one of the very prettiest women on the stage. has a twinkle In her eve. a delicions cadenced voice, gowns herself heantifullv. sings ditto, chatters amusingly, her Irish trav- esty given with candor —Dayton Journal, Oct... 16, 1917. ‘ FRANCES KENNEDY, @ comedienne that docs not tire. gives the audience the pleasure of several of these songs. and her attractive voice and original manner of presenting them makes her the suc- cess of Monday night . —Dayton Evening Herald, Oct. 16, 1917. terior, get over in fine shape. It is a good lit- tle domestic sketch, with both parts properly interpreted. O'Connor and Dixon have a crazy quilt sort of act, taking over bits of acts which have played Previously in the house. They are able performers, but there is a& great deal of resentment at pilfered ma- terial, and the men really should get some- thing of their own. The bill was closed by the Six Musical Nosses, recently off the big time, and went over big. The costumes are very pretty, and the four girls in the act are very pretty, and the scenery is very pretty and the act is very pretty. ; SAN FRANCISCO VARIETY’S SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE PANTAGES THEATRE BLDG. Phone, Douglass 2213 LAT. ORPHEUM (Fred Henderson en. rep.; agent, direct).--The Orpheum this week ts housing an average show with business up to the standard. Eddie Foy and his seven young- sters are headlining in their musical Produc- tion, “The Old Woman in the Shoe,” written by George V. Hobart and William Jerome. Its originality proved both refreshing and enjoy- able, and at the conclusion of the 6ffering Mr. Foy was forced to a speech. They were also recipients of many floral Pieces which completely filled the lobby. Lillian Fitzger- ald, with her imitations, started away rather quietly, but gradually gained her laughing results, with the outcome being a gond stand- ing in the general running. Al Herman with his blackface monoloy proved a good repeat. Santly and Norton (holdovers) are also doub- ling in Oakland, replacing Ella Erwing (lo- cal), who was compelled to withdraw. Will- iam Ebbs proved rather surprising with a live dummy, and ensily recorded a big seore. Lib- onati was forced to open, and although on unusually early pulled down tremendous ap- plause. Fern Riglow and Mehan, in the clos- ing spot, did well enough with their gymnas- tic feats. Another holdover. Gus Bdwards Bandbox Revue,” ecsily repeated their prev- lous week's success. PANTAGES.—A pleasing show this week, with business good. “Oh, You Devil,” enon- sored. by Herman Becker, te the featured «t- traction, and somewhat fulfilled its advance billing. Clay Crouch is a clever blackface who easily predominates throughout: other- wise the production is a neat affair, though rather listless at times. Neil McKinley. after an absence of some time. returned with his “nut” ensmedy and proved the hit of the eve- ning. Charles Mack and Co. In “A Friendly Call,” were well liked. The Dumitrescu-Ren Dunham Troupe proved an excellent addition to the program with their routine of gym- Hredwdaeeas ot 0] wu tl tec a ako a2np ad wp wo a Gd 220] 2Q FP

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d lit- perly ve a its of ere is | ma- some- ed by e big S are ct are pretty, rep. ; eek is up to roung- roduc- vritten e. Its enjoy- ffering / were which itzger- rather ughing stand- 1 with repeat. doub- gE (lo- Will- a live Lib- gh on is ap- » clog- mnas- lwards prev- week, epon- eG at- lvance ckface other- hough after th his Pp eve- fendly u-Ren dition sym- VARIETY 45 SOLE COMPOSER OF P. 8—NORMA GREGG WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS NORMA GRAY, OF GRAY TRIO. nastic work. The closing bar werk is rather weak in its present condition and could be somewhat strengthened. Lane and Harper are an attractive couple, and scored big resuits with their acceptable song and dance offering ; Maxine Parrish, a female “nut,” rather over- worked her comedy, and might hereafter con- fine her efforts more strictly to a more legiti- mate Hine of comedy. HIPPODROME.—The current Hippodrome outlay is above the average, with business as usual—immerse. Salseman and Models opened proceedings fairly well, while Frick and Adair, with corking voices, easily marked up a passing score. Lindsay and “Bugs is a neat “girl act’ in big form, and pleased throughout. Wells and Rose, straight and blackface comic, found a place amongst the top-notchers and easily scored a hit. Walsh and Sullivan replaced the Robinson Duo, and pleased with their singing numbers. Van Horn and Ammer Skaters closed the bill suc- cessfully. ALCAZAR (Geo. Davis, mer.).—Richard Carle in “Nobody Home.” (24 week.) CORT (Homer F. Curran, mgr.).—La Scala Grand Opera Co. (ist week.) COLUMBIA (Gottlob & Marx, mgs. ).—Henri- etta Crosman in “Erstwhile Susan.” (24 week) CASINO (Robt. Drady, mgr.).—A. & H.-W. V. A. Vaudeville. WIGWAM (Jos. F. Bauer, mgr.).—A. & H.- WwW. V. A. Vaudeville. PRINCESS (Rert Levey, lessee & megr.).— Bert Levey. Vaudeville. ALHAMRRA (Wm. Finck, mgr.).—Kellie- Burns. Vaudeville. CASINO.—The featured attraction iast week was a local product written by the house manager, Robert G. Drady. Pretentiously staged, it required 15 people, mostly girls, who cavort around the stage, doing nothing in particular, but in their scant attire look attractive and are proving a good card, in fact so good that the act remains for another week. The production is called ‘“‘The Water Sprites,” or the “Adventures in Fairyland,” and is in five scenes. The feature are the diving girls, who perform the usual divine stunts into a big tank which has been installed for the oc- easion. The honors of the diving contest go to Little Maxwell Leach, youngster about ten years of age, and considered the champion diver of the Pacific Coast. Others worthy of mention is Miss Gloria Lanedon, as “Queen Gloria,” the fairy, who displavs a nifty figure, exrosing as much as nossible, wearing just a little more than a veil. Little Carrie Elleworth. a mere slip of a child, is the “Dream Child,” around which the fairy story revolves. Of the dancine efforts little Carrie far svrnasses the other much older girls. As a vaudeville act, it is not there. Vireil and La Blanche open the show with some balanc- ing containing some novelty, thonueh most of the work being done on a revolving lamp. The Hughes Sisters offer a neat musical turn, playing the harp and violin, closing their offering with one of the girls singing a coon song in an appropriate manner, accompanied by the other girl on the harp. They were liked. La Petite Elva, although only about twelve years voung, is a real little singing comedienne with a strong voice and knows how to put over a song, also nossessing quite some showmanship. Her imitation of Harry Lauder was cleverly executed. She was the hit of the show bv a big marcin. Eddie Tan- ner and Co., in “When We Grow Up,” a vil- lage school playlet. was good for many laughs. Sam K. Otto, billed as “The Hebrew Soldier,” was next to closing. He works in an army uniform, holding a small rifle throughout his Mmonolog. which contains talk mostly about the army, which got over very well, but he spoiis the good impression by remaining too long for the material at hand. and naturally resorts to talk gathered from various sources. It seems to be the rule with many acts play- ing the small time out here to use any one’s material, being under the impression that it does not conflict with the rightful owners playing the better grade theatres. The Forster Music Co. has notified its San - WRITER OF EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL EVA ‘TANQGUAY’'S “PLEASE DON’T FORGET ME WHEN IM GONE” HAVE ALSO WRITTEN FOR MANY OTHER PROMINENT ARTISTS Francisco representative, Eddie McGill, it will discontinue the office temporarily, and las instrueted him to close it Oct. 28. Allen Doone, recently returned here from New York, will in all probability open at the Alcazar in December, where he will present a repertoire of Irish plays. His opening piece will be “Lucky O’Shay,” which he presented at the 39th Street theatre in New York City. Homer F. Curran, in New York for sev- eral weeks lining up attractions for the Cort theatre, has returned and states that he se- cured bookings for the entire season. Among the attractions are “Show of Wonders,” Harry Lauder, Boston Grand Opera Company, “The Passing Show.” Morton Harris arrived here last week to take charge of Waterson, Berlin & Snyder's San Francisco office, succeeding Harry Pooley. Lillian Snyder (a sister of Ted) is expected here next week, and according to report will become a bride of Mr. Harris. The Valencia will play four acts of Kellie- Burns vaudeville Fridays and Sundays in con- junction with pictures to which the house fs devoted the balance of the week. The Kellie-Burns office is supplying some of the acts at the Strand, Portland, and Or- pheum, Seattle. The houses are booked by the Fisher agency of Seattle, the latter agency, accoring to reports, has been unable to supply the full show. There is a possi- bility that the Kellie-Burns agency will eventually add the theatres to their books, placing the enitre programs. The Twelve Water Sprites, who headlined the Casino bill last week, are again the fea- tured attraction this week. It is the first act heid over for two weeks at this house. The Three Le Grohe arrived from Australia on the “Sierra” last week. The Allen Sisters returned from New York where they were members of the Charlie Refill oo Bessie Allen will shortly be married. The Hippodrome, Fresno, will open Nov. 20, playing six acts on a split week policy. The Alhambra, recently installing vaudeville policy of five acts weekly, will commence next week to only play three acts in conjunction with the Willis West Musical comedy stock company, whieh has been engaged for an in- definite stay. John Considine left for the east last week. A new theatre designed to house pictures and possidly vaudeville, is to be constructed by A. J. Rich & Co. on the south side of Market, between Fifth and Sixth streets. The exact site is withheld. Plans provide for a seating capacity of 2.500, with 1,200 seats on the lower floor. The stage will be 25 feet wide and designed to take care of vaudeville acts in case the policy of the owners should be changed from that now in mind. Oct. 15 was Harry Cornell night at the Or- pheum, Oakland, The Oakland merchants at- tended the theatre en masse that night {a honor of the new house manager. While no special arrangements have been made by the local theatre managers to handle the war tax on admissions, the consensus of epinion is-that they wilt add the tax to the price of the tickets. While there has been some talk some of the theatres would change the admission scale, nothing definite along those lines has been decided. The Cort has eliminated the 25 and 75-cent seats, making it 50 cents, $1 and $2 straight, which does away with the fractions and facilitates mat- ters at the box-office. Another method con- sidered by the legitimate theatres was the reduction of the prices to make the total cost, including the war tax, to conform with the present prices. It is quite likely the latter ayatem will he adopted at least in two of the theatres here, should the war tax have any tendency to hurt business. Up to the present time no changes in prices have been an- nounced at any of the vaudeville theatres. Crane Wilbur, who has apepared before the camera continually for the past seven years, will a a stage engagement at the Bishop, Oakland, next week, having joined the Bishop Stock Players, and will co-star with Jane O’Roark. The first play for Mr. Crane will be “The Hawk.” C. HB. Christie, formerly of Christie and Griffen (Griffen having been accepted for the draft), who replaced Maclin Megley with “Miss America” during Mr. Megiey's injury, leaves the act at Oakland this week to return east to seek a partner for his former vaude- ville turn. The question of the advisability of attempt- ing to get the proposition of the closing of picture theatres Sundays on the ballot at the November elections at Riverside, Cal., has been decided in the negative by the church federation. ATLANTIC CITY. BY JO SHINN. Organizing to promote their common inter- ests in order that the resort's amusements may be maintained on the highest ethical level, substantial business men of the city, repre- senting every branch of amusements here, have formed the Atlantic City Amusement Association. Formal] organization was effected at a meeting held this week on the Steel Pier. Fred BE. Moore, veteran manager cf the Apollo, is the first president of the new body, which elected other officers as follows: First vice president, Herbert J. Biliot, Bijou; sec- ond vice president, Joseph Snellenberg, Vir- ginia; treasurer, Jacob Bothwell, Steel Plier; secretary, William Fennan, Steeplechase Pier ; board of directors: 8. W. Megili, Garden Pier; M. H. Russell, Colonial; M. A. Williams, Cafe Martinique; Bdward J. O'Keefe, City Square and Cort. Charles Scheuer, of the Boardwalk News Bureau, is an ex-officio member and will handle the publicity. An effort was made some time ago to get \ae amusement men together in order that they might present a united front in dealing with governmental measures and in boosting various campaigns to assist the government in its war aims and promote the general interests of Atlantic City on a concerted pro- gramme. One of the first matters to receive the at- tention of the organization was the new federal war tax of ten per cent., which is to be placed on the gross receipts of all amuse- ment places commencing Nov. 1. It places a serious problem before the amusement men and the association named a committee to raha the best methods to cope with the ques- on. The organization of the amusement men is epochal in the business histgry of the resort. As the “Nation's Playground,” Atlantic's amusements are second only in importance to the hotels in the prosperity of the city, and the birth of the Amusement Association paves the way for the development of the amuse- ment industry in a way that will greatly improve the facilities for the entertainment of the millions of visitors who annually come to the shore. Not the least of the results of the organiza- tion will be the establishment of a censorship on amusements. The association will also combine the amusement men in providing divertisements for conventions and other large visiting delegations. Headquarters of the association have been secured at the offices of the Boardwalk News Bureau, under the Bothwell Hotel, 178-180 South Virginia Avenue. Various suggestions have been made as to how best ‘handle the war-tax proposition. 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a ianaeanenanee tine t} j - , " Te 1 = i ¢ cas ngae eth anon ites beter Rees eR Eder Go es VARIETY eith’s Circuit United Booking Oitices (Agency) A. PAUL KEITH, President E. F. ALBEE, Vice-President and General Manager FOR BOOKING ADDRESS S. K. HODGDON Palace Theatre Building New York City Feiber & Shea 1493 Broadway (Putnam Building) New York City SERT LEVEY INDEPENDENT Ccimnmnc WU 1° vaupevie im the Par West. Steady Socgeentee Werk fer Nevelty Feature Acts. OPFICES—ALCAZAR THEATRE BLDG., SAN FRAN Gan arrange from three te Gve weeks between a oy of beats for Australia fer all first- class ects. Gommenicate by wire or letter. Harry Rickard’s Tivoli Theatres, sustrauu And AFFILIATED Gecerte, INDIA and AFRICA HUGH D Registered Cable Address Be: palngges nena Sec eT OMece, TIVOLI! THEATRE, Sydney, Austraita arcus Loew’s Enterprises General Executive Offices Putnam Building Times Square | New York JOSEPH M. SCHENCK General Manager J. H. LUBIN Booking Manager Mr. Lubin Personally Interviews Artists Daily Between 11 and 1 Acts laying off in Southern territory wire this office. Chicago Office: North American Building FRANK Q. DOYLE, in charge VAUDEVILLE AGENCY 5s. s. Moss President General Executive Offices: 729 SEVENTH AVE., at Forty-ninth St. M. D. SIMMONS General Booking Manager ARTISTS can secure long engagements by booking direct with us FULLER’S VAUDEVILLE AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND Managing Director, BEN. J. FULLER All acts contemplating playing for Mr. Ben. J. Fuller mast have their birth certificates in erder te secure passports. Can give the right acts from yn to ene hundred weeks and break the jump clear to sailing point. Acts personally interviewed between 9 and 11:30 A. M. American Booking Manager, ROY D. MURPHY BEN. J. FULLER’S CHICAGO BOOKING DEPT. WESTERN VAUDEVILLE MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION, 11TH FLOOR, CHICAGO, ILL. Real Estate Trust Bidg., Phitadetphia patrons, but as he must first secure the sanc- tion of the city commissioners, all of whom Amevtsse ‘loeeahienitinn ‘NORMAN J JEFFERIES do not favor his proposition, there is but VAUDEVILLE ACTS little doubt that the playgoers must foot the aPesee.eeey4 “sain +. It is reported the Million Dollar Pier is to lose for several months shortly. This will BOOKING AGENCY be the & rst winter that the big concrete struc- Orpheum Theatre Bids.. Mestreal, Can. ture on the lower Boardwalk has shut its B. 3. KEELLERT. Manacer doore since it was built some twelve years ago. The Garden Pier is to keep its dancing and Harry Lauder will formally open the Nixon skating halls open throughout the winter, ac- Nov. 3. The house has been dark since the cording to annuuncement just made by Man- real summer season. Lauder will show there ager Megill. for a week. The Steel Pier is to continue its programmes Resort film-fans had their first glimpse of for some time into the winter. “We Should Worry” is the timely title of FACES InN THE FIRE a musical comedy that began its career at the Apollo Oct. 25. Its producers are Elisa- beth Marbury and Frederick M

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yixon + tne there se of VARIETY New Orleans “Daily States” March 27, 1917 DAINTY FOREIGNER STARS AT ORPHEUM Josie Heather Rivals, If Not Surpasses, Her Rich Gowns Josie Heather, dainty English comedienne, is the real headliner, though photograph in large and small sizes adorns the Orpheum entrance, as this week's new Dill. Assisted by William Casey, Jr., and Bobby Heather, Miss Heather appears in a series of songs and dances that won over a rather chilly Monday night audience. She is pretty, knows how to sing and has clever songs. Besides, the fellow at the piano knows “regular music.” New Orleans “Item” October 16, 1917 Josie Heather is always charming, but this year she appears more winsome than ever. Her song characterizations will rest among the most pleasant memories of the season. She is assisted by Bobbie Heather, who has a surprise in store for you, and by William Casey, Jr., who sings “Any Place Is Heaven” with feeling and tender- ness. JOSIE HEATHER With WILLIAM CASEY, JR., and BOBBIE HEATHER Playing RETURN DATES, MEMPHIS, NEW ORLEANS and CHICAGO, within six months Next Week (Oct. 29)—MAJESTIC, Chicago Nov. 5—MAJESTIC, Milwaukee Nov. 12—-PALACE, Chicago Direction, M. S. BENTHAM “Commercial Appeal,” Memphis _ October, 9. 1917 | Josie Heather, piquant and pretty is quite the most refreshing little artist that we have had in many, many weeks. She is dainty and as delicate in her personality as a bit of Dresden china. She is typically English, as picturesque as a rare painting. In fact, she is everything that is calculated to please the eye. Perfectly easy in the knowledge that she is all in a class by herself, Miss Heather captivates the audience with sureness and certainty. She is assisted by William Casey, Jr., and Bobbie Heather. _— St. Louis “Republic” October 2, 1917 By BEN GREEN. COMEDIENNE MAKES HIT Josie Heather, English comedienne, cap- tivated all by the winsomeness of her smile, the light humors of her topical songs, the grace of her carriage and the daintiness of her gowns. In one of her songs many thought she had in her the makings of a woman Harry Lauder. She surprised all when her little “hrother.” programmed as Bobby Heather, turned out to be her Little sister. New Orleans October 16, 1917 Josie Heather is still her usual bewitch- ing self, with blue, blue eyes that twinkle, dimples that come and go, and a smile that pouts and beams by turns. She wears beautiful costumes, and, what is more, she wears them with a knowledge cf how to display them to best advantage. 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Dustin Farum, in “The Spy,” was liberally patronized at the Colonial at every showing. The Colonial is now the only film house in the resort under the direction of the Stanley Company, of Philadelphia. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, Sept. 25. TIVOLI (Ricard).—Ruth Budd heads a bill including the following American acts: Camille Trio, Edna Foster and Co., Reynolds and White, Lylian and Boggs, Joe Reed, Creole Fashion Plate, Nelusco and Huriey and Thurber and Thurber to capacity busi- ness. NATIONAL (Fuller) .—Musical Bentleys head a nearly all-American bill at this popu- lar house. Ted MacLean and Genevieve are on their second week, as are Rio and Heimar. Denny and Donigan are on their third week and Conners and Witt their tenth. The Bert Le Blanc Musical Comedy Co. is closing a 20 weeks’ run. The company is headed by Bert Le Blanc, Jack Mack and Carlton Chase. The following acts sailed last week for home: Willard and Wilson, Aif Grant, Archie Onwie and Duranto. Musical Bentleys, who have plaved over 30 weeks here for Ben Fuller, safl next week for New Zealand. Reynolds and White were forced to leave the Tivoli bill on account of illness. The mother of Ruth Budd has also been very ill but is recovering. Edna Foster, the 16-year-old American girl, is a great favorite over here. She sails for home soon. Ben Fuller is to star Genevieve Lee in a big dramatic show. J. ©. Mack and Kelly and Drake are play- ing the Tivoli, Melbourne. BOSTON. BY LEN LIBBEY. KEITH'S (Robert G. Larsen, mgr.; agent, U. B. O.).—Another variety bill with not much variety to it. With the exception of Conroy and Le Maire in their old skit every act on the bill was either singing or dancing, thus enabling this cross-fire blackface team to carry off first bonors without a contest. The bill for previous week was equally lacking in variety, which means that for two weeks this house, Boston's only big timer, has not used an animal, a bicycle, a juggler, an athlete, an acrobat, a “‘plant,”’ a song-writer, a cartoonist, a prestidigitator, a “nut,” a novelty, an im- personator,a virtuoso, a circus act, a “‘hoofer,” a “tab,” a wire act, a trapese act, a scenic spectacle, or an instrumental number. In fact, except for the over-worked plano for accompaniments, the only musical instrument seen for two weeks are some especially sour ukeleles. These were in the closing number of this week's bill, “The Garden of Aloha,” an ‘act that drags in its revised shape, and worked to a heavy walk-out Monday night. The nearest approach to a novetly was furnished ‘SAILING EDN A FOSTER cad CO. DIRECTION FOR AMERICA SOON THE SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN GIRL Closing Successful Tour Australia RICKARD TIME NORMAN JEFFERIES Pred Pees >

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Poli’s Theatre, to blackface, after which he was a riot. In opening he worked like a song-plugger and the women in the audience seemed to be most interested in wondering whether he was a natural blonde. His woman partner (un- billed) came as a surprise, and neither helped nor hurt the act materially. The heavy sing- ing number, billed as a “Futuristic Revue and European Musical Review,” and consisting of eight Italians with grand opera training, went big. The violinist in this act would go much better if she would learn to smile. Truly Shattuck and Emma O’Neil did big. Follow- ing Conroy and Le Maire came Lydia Barry in a tough spot. She was the third piano act on the bill and her ‘“‘Widow” specialty did not seem to appeal to the conservative Boston audience. During her change, instead of her accompanist holding the epot, the house was darkened and the choruses of three pop- ular songs were thrown on the screen. it was the first time in years that these “plug- ging slides’’ have got by the management at this big-time house, especially with the pub- lisher’s advertisement carried 6n them. BOSTON (Charles Harris, mgr.; agent, U. B. O.).—The Chaplin “Adventurer” and Jane Cowl in “The Spreading Dawn” films dom- inated the vaudeville this week, although the acts were exceptional for a “pop’’ house. Eddie Carr and Co. topped the variety bill, which comprised the Herbert Sisters, the Fen- wick Girls, “The Girl from Harmony Bay,” Four Lukens, and Kimberly and Arnold. BIJOU (Ralph Gilman, megr.; agent, U. B. O.).—Second run pictures, with house carry- ing no newspaper advertising. Fair. BOWDOIN (Al Somerbee, mgr., agent, U. B. O.).—**The Spy,” originally offered here as a screen attraction at a $1 top, drew big Mon-

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The film bill includes Charlie Chaplin in “The Adven- turer,” and “The Man from Painted Post.” GLOBE (Frank Meagher, megr.; agent, Loew).—‘‘The Wolf,” in stock, drawing better than previous attractions. “A Pair of Silk Stockings” underlined. ORPHEUM (Victor J. Morris, mgr.; agent, Loew).—Raymond and Caverly, full week, made good. Their new act, “The Submarin- ers,” is now running smoothly and with con- siderable new stuff. The remainder of the bill TRIC MODISTE TO THE PROFESSION 36 W. Randolph Street Phone Randolph 1720 Central 6581 | Chicago, [il. =DTHE includes Hal Stephens, Edah Delbridge Trio, Sadie Sherman, Great Santell, McGinnis Brothers. Feature films include the new Chap- lin release and ““‘The Son of His Father.” SCOLLAY OLYMPIA (James J. McGuin- ness, mgr.).—Exceptionally bright pop bill, topped by the Old Soldier Fiddlers. Other acts comprise Carlyn and Flynn, Four Dan- ubes, Charles A. 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Rich, mgr.).—Last week of Ziegfeld’s “Follies,” still playing to capacity evenings and proving conclusively that Boston can handle two big girlie shows. PLYMOUTH (EB. D. Smith, mer.).—‘Oh Boy” is still going big and is a puzzler to the profession, because its cast could never be called the best possible. The fact remains that its 100th performance in Boston occurred Wednesday night, with the advance sale run- ning as far ahead as Christmas. WILBUR (EB. D. Smith, megr.).—‘‘Love o’ Mike” on its second week, running strong. PARK SQUARE (Fred E. Wright, mgr.).— “Capt. Kidd, Jr.” opened Monday night to an =" business. Should clean up during its TREMONT (John B. Schoeffel, megr.).— Eighth week of “Turn to the Right,” holding up well and good for several weeks more. HOLLIS (Charles J. Rich, mer.).—Last week of Ruth Chatterton in “Come Out of the Kitchen.” Fair business. John Drew and Margaret Illington in “The Gay Lord Quex” next week. BOSTON OPERA HOUSE (Lawrence Mc- Carty, mgr.).—Andrew Mack in “Molly Dear” opened Monday to a corking house and will probably do the best week of the season at this house CASTLE SQUARE se ae Craig, megr.).— Opens next week ot pict COPLEY (H. W. Pattee, "mar.).—20th week FACES IN THE FIRE of “The Mar Who Stayed at Home” still run- ning strong and holding the record for a stock performance in length of consecutive run through a full summer. CASINO (Charles Waldron, mgr.).—‘‘The Bon Ton Girls.”’” Good. GAYETY (Thomas H. Henry, mgr.).—“The Behman Show.” Excellent. HOWARD (George E. Lothrop, megr.).— “Innocent Maids,” with the Texas Comedy Four, heading the house bill. The Park Square obtained some excellent press copy as the result of the war tax, Joe De Pisa, the press agent, sending out a photo- graph of the first woman to pay the tax in Boston, having been purchasing seats two weeks in advance for “Capt. Kidd, Jr.” The Beacon, Boston, St. James, Orpheum, Gordon’s Olympia and the Scollay Olympia all featured the Chaplin “Adventurer” release heavily in their Sunda ro advertising, with Doug- las Fairbanks in he Man from Painted be ot also used by more than half a dozen ouses. John Luce, general publicity man for ali the Shubert interests in Boston, was the host of the “Oh Boy” company Tuesday evening, taking a large party in a dozen touring cars to his summer home and “gentleman's farm” in Southboro for an old-fashioned husking bee and barn dance. The Plymouth theatre plays its matinee Thursday, as the party did not start until after midnight and did not termi- nate for a few minutes, to put it mildly. BUFFALO. By A. J. SHARICK. TECK (John R. Oishei, mgr.).—William Collier in “Nothing But the Truth.” Big business. STAR (Peter C. Cornell, mer.).—‘The Boomerang,” with Arthur Byron, Wallace Eddinger, Virginia Xeiva and others. Looks like a good box office production. GAYETY (burlesque) .—Biily Watson, a of the Beef Trust, offers “A New Ar- rival.”’ SHEA’S (Henry Carr, mer.).—The Morgan Dancers, Avon Comedy Four, Claude and Fanny Usher, Bailey and Cowan, Ann Sutor, Maurice Burkhart, Sterling and Marguerite, American War News weekly. SHEA’S HIPPODROME (H. B, Franklin, mer.).—Pictures. MAJESTIC (Millard Cornwall, megr.).— “The Millionaire’s Son and the Shop Girl.” GARDEN (William Graham, megr.).—Bur- lesque, “The Gay Morning Glories.” ACADEMY (Jules Michaels, mgr.).—Vau- deville and pictures. OLYMPIC.—Vaudeville and pictures. LYRIC.—Vaudeville and pictures. A verdict of $3,000 was awarded Miss Jen- nie B. Milliman, known to the stage as Vir- ginia Miliiman, who sued the Erie and the Pullman for injuries sustained several years ago when she was hit on the head by a head- piece falling from the Pullman berth she occupied on a trip from New Jersey to her home in Alden, N. Y. Miss Milliman’s suit was tried in this city. In a report made yesterday to the local Liberty Loan committee, the theatres com- mittee, John R. Oishei of the Teck theatre, showed what has been done by the various theatres. The committee commented as fol- lows: “The co-operation of Buffalo theatre managers has been unusually hearty and has been a source of great satisfact to us. The management of the Star and Teck theatres have erected large signs on their main stage curtains advertising the loan and have also placed electric signs at prominent places near the theatre entrances and exits giving publicity to the loan. Shea’s theatre, the Olympic, Lyric and Majestic are dis- playing on the main drop curtain large Lib- erty Loan advertisements. They have also contributed several electric -. about the theatre and on the outside. H. B. Franalin of Shea’s Hippodrome, beside erecting a stagé setting at this theatre, has been sivieg much time to the working out of details of the re- plies of the United States treasury build- ing which has been erected in the main city square.” CINCINNATI. BY HARRY V. MARTIN. Mildred Buschle, a moncerenaer. was bound over to the grand pr", 9, on @ charge of shooting to kil yD ao city sales manager for a picture supply concern and for- mer dramatic teacher. “Der Froschkoenig,” a comedy written by Henry F. Urban, journalist, was given its first presentation on any stage at the German the- ater, Sunday night. Urban attended the per- formance. The story, while conventional, is interesting. A young German lieutenant in Prussia, heavily in debt, and compelled by the code of his caste to commit suicide, cheats death by coming to America and working in a shoe factory, in the last act marrying his employer’s daughter. Ludwig Kreiss, director of the Milwaukee German theatre, as guest plaver, enacted the rele of the omployer. The play was written so as to avoid the criticism of Americans. So as not to conflict with the new Art theatre, Mrs. Schuster-Martin has decided to charge no admission to performances at her Little theatre. Shaw’s “Candida” was given at the new Art theatre, Wednesday, October 24 and “The Dark Lady of the Sonnets” on the’ following day. Health Officer J. H. Landis has issued s 23 +f] c; 4 7

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Mme. Kahn Again Regis- ters a Hit in Clothes with New Winter Garden Show. “Doing Our Bit.” All Modern Gowns Worn by the Principals were made exclusively by Mme. Kahn. Below is an excerpt from the New York “‘Times”’ The New Pork Times FRIDAY, OCT. 19, 1917 TIA WINTER GARDEN TAKES TO COVER A Sumptuous and Splendid Production That Empha- sizes Clothes. It is something unprecedented in clothes. It is rather difficult to describe those clothes. Some are winter evening clothes that (owing, no doubt, to the wartime shortage of material) run very scant about the back. That is what is meant, per- haps, by “Doing Our Bit.” Others seem to be rather September Morning ciothes. But they are always clothes. And they are always as splendid and varied in coior- ing as they are audacious, indeed revolu- tionary, in cut. Incidentally, the young women who wear them are of a quite surprising shapeliness, youth and good looks. It is really admir- able, the di&cretion exhibited in selecting them, costuming them, and deploying them in dance and song. One squad was of violin girls, who played quite charmingly as they danced. The leader, probably named Marian Glover, had very unusual beauty, grace and temperament. This again proves that Smart Apparel is the Dominant Feature of this establishment. _ Mme. Kahn is now displaying advanced models in Gowns, Suitsona Wraps for the discriminating professional at very at- tractive prices. Suggest an early visit as our showing is limited. Mme. Kahn has outfitted the following produc- tions: Our Roster of Profes- sionals: Trixie Fraganza (New Vaudeville Wardrobe) Fanny Ward Hazel Dawn Belle Baker Irene Franklin Irene Bordoni Peggy Wood Mrs. Carter De Haven Anna Lehr Ivy Sawyer SI PORTER 148 W. 44th Street “Doing Our Bit” “Maytime” “The Torches” “The Barton Mystery” “We Should Worry” New York City

warning to theatregoers inst the use of “second-hand” programs. atrons of amuse- ment places have been requested to tear up ~ \heir programs, ~it-is cirarged that certaia~ ‘theatre managers redistribute programs which are picked up from the floor after every performance. Many diseases, according to Dr. Landis, are spread by this careless attempt at economy on the part of the managers. The Palace Amusement Company, on Oct. 20, was granted permission by Building Com- missioner Rendigs to tear down the buildings at 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 East Sixth street, comprising the site for the proposed Palace vaudeville theatre to be erected by the B. F. Keith theatrical interests. Two other build- ings included in the site will be torn down later. Work of razing the condemned struc- tures will be started immediately. DETROIT. BY JACOB SMITH, TEMPLE (C. G. Williams, megr.).—Randall and Myers; Nellie Nichols; “Riding School” ; McConnell and Simpson; McMahon, Diamond and Chaplow; Kenney and Hollis; The Little Johns; Rae Eleanor Ball. MILES (Jim Rutherford, mer.).——Capt. Sorchs; Nettie DeCoursey and Rubes; Arthur Barrett; LaVonna Trio; Walsh & Rand; New- port and Stirk. ORPHEUM (Rod Waggoner, mer.).—‘Miss Hamlet”; Helen Page and Co.; Bert Howard; Jarvis and Harrison; Ward and Shubert. Regent (Tom Ealand, mgr.).—Lottie Mayer; John and Mae Burke; Mr. and Mrs. Perkins; Marie Russell; Howard’s Bears; Three Kuebns. COLONIAL.—Gus Thalero’s Circus; Mike Bernard; Clarke and Chappelle; Wille Bros. ; Jolly, Tars: Tom Davies & Co. OPERA HOUSE.—“Pals First.” GARRICK —William Hadge LYCEUM.—“Come Back to Erin.” ADAMS.—’"Miss Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” (stock). BROADWAY-STRAND.—“Magda” (film). REGENT.—“Stranded in Arcady” (film). MADISON —The Sunset Trail’ (film) WASHINGTON.—‘“Ten of Diamonds” (film). MAJESTIC.—“Bab’s Diary” (film). The Detroit Theatre Managers’ Association met Oct. 19 to discuss the new war tax on ad- missions. Frank R. Dentz, with offices at 118 Owen avenue, Detroit, and representing the Ameri- ean Society of Composers, Authors and Pub- lishers, is serding out notices to every ex- hibitor in Detroit calling attention to the re- cent Supreme Court ruling relative to copy- righted music, and urging that they immedi- ately apply for a license—otherwise to refrain from using copyrighted music. The picture exhibitors are refusing to become licensed. DES MOINES. By E. S, CONDON. ORPHEUM.—Wnm. Gaxton, Larry Girard and Co., Rita Boland, The Alexander Kids, Hut- ford and Chain, Cole and Denahy. EMPRESS.—“Senator” Francis Murphy and four other standard vaudeville acts. BERCHEL.—First half: “The Sightseers”’ (burlesque). PRINCESS.—“Broadway and Buttermilk” (stock). COLISEUM.—Madame Louise Homer. Business capacity at practically every per- formance at all the houses. Des Moines’ grand opera season opened (and closed) last week with two perform- ances of the Chicago Grand Opera Co. The patrons were treated to the customary bitter disappointment—this time because of Mme. Melba’s indisposition and failure to appear. Her role in “Faust” was sung by Miss Christian (understudy) very acceptably, but it wasn’t Melba, hence the disappointment. Business was good; at any rate as good as grand opera business ever is in this com- munity. Alfce Clements, leading lady with the Princess Players since the opening of the season, severed her connection with that or- ganization last week. Her place will be filled B poate Randall, recently in stock in St. aul. Tom Kruger, juvenile, is another new face in the Princess line up this week, Arthur De Lord, whom he replaces, having left for a wider field of endeavor. Preliminary work on Des Moines’ new $100,000 playhouse has been delayed, and it is feared will not be started this season. Scarcity of labor and the uncertainty of de- livery of building materials is given as the cause. The proximity of Camp Dodge, with its 40,000 soldiers, is proving a happy circum- stance for the managements of all the amuse- ment houses. At every performance, no mat- ter what its nature or its merits, the color scheme from pit to gallery is decidedly khaki in tone. Before the season is half over Des Moines will be acclaimed a first- class show town—which will be a consider- able change of opinion. Placards conspicuously displayed at the several ticket windows announce the im- pounding of the federal tax of 10 per cent. on all amusement tickets sold after Nov. 1. The attitude of the general public towards this method of taxation is best expressed by this remark, overheard in the foyer of the Princess last night, “I don’t care what ‘t —_ it only the boys bring home the con.”

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Steam Heat and "Hieetrie PAE cchecepesccees GO UE Telephone: Bryant 2367 Furnished Apartments ees ea ga and Rooms Baths and Continuous Hot weter Large Rooms, $4 and 2 and 3 Seon Apartments, $7 to $8.50 COMPLETE HOUSEKEEPING EVER 1, 2 and 3 Reoms, with Kitchenette 126 West 49th Street Tel. Bryant 6138 310 W. 48th St., New York —— THE CAMBRIA — 347-355 WEST 55TH ST. 2 Rooms, Bath AND KITCHENETTE West of Broadway—Strictly Fireproof At Very Attractive Rentals PHONE—8466 COLUMBUS tages).—“‘A Breath of Virginia,” good, en- tertaining skit by Holmes and Le Vere. Four Gillespie Girls, good. Burr and Lea, liked. Other numbers and picture. ua (Tom Taaffe, mgr.).—‘‘Gayety ris.”’ GAYETY (George W. Gallagher, mgr.).— Ben Welch show. GRAND (Maurice Dubinsky, mgr.; Du- binsky Brothers Stock Company).—The play- ers of the stock company were offered the first opportunity of the season to show what they really could do, when “Within the Law” was selected. Irene Daniels took the leading feminine role and did it well. The rest of the cast played with remarkable ability. GARDEN (W. H. Quigley, mgr.).—‘The White Slave,” a six act play treating with the real incidents of slavery days, was offered to a fair house. The members of the cast did well but undoubtedly far from the way the Dac intended the play to be pre- sented. KANSAS CITY. SHUBERT (John B. Fitzpatrick, mgr.).— “The Flame” opened Sunday night to large audience. Not received favorably. ORPHEBUM (Lawrence Lehman, megr.).— Frederic Santley with Florrie Millership, featured. Leona LaMar, mystified. Kathe- rine Murray and Murray Rubens, pleasing bit, George Rolland and Co, amusing. Lovenberg Sisters and Neary’ Brothers, liked. Darto and Rialto, good balancing act. GLOBE (Cyrus Jacobs, megr.).—Opened with William Hanlon and Co. headlining. A clever bit of travesty on pictures put on well by Charles Rogers and Co. Hugo Lut- gens, good. Musical Hunters, liked. Kelly LOS ANGELES. BY GUY PRICE. Julius Frankenberg has gone into the sketch writing on the wholesale scale. The first of these was produced at Clune’s Auditorium last week ond is entitled “From Darkness to Light.” The cast included Florence Beil, who for a long time was a leading woman in Seattle; Frank Saffrey, Jack Belgrave, Edith Timmeswood, Pauline Whitlow and Frank Buttholph. Frankenberger associated and Davis, Laypo and Benjamin. EMPRESS (W. J. Timmons, mgr.; Pan- Private Bath and Phone in “Each Apartment Telephone 1862 Bryant NEW BUILDING ALL MODERN _JMPROVEMENTS szco W b-4 BATES PRICES $3.50, $4.00, RESTAURANT himself with Marquis Ellis and Madam Matili- dita. Richard Spier, of the Morosco publicity staff, had a sad awakening the other morting. sneak-thief had entered his apartment and stolen his overcoat and toothbrush. Fred Woodward, whose “Hank the Mule” in the “Tik Tok Man ef Oz,” will be remem- bered as one of ihe bright spois of that ill- timed musical piay, has been doing cabaret work here, but leaves next week for New York to frame up a vaudeville act. Charley Barton, boy actor, is here from Oakland. He will appear shortly at the Mo- rosco. Douglas MacLean, juvenile at the Morosco theatre, is eating regularly again. He suf- fered a bad attack of e poisoning last week. The Modern Drama Players will tovn in- augurate a series of performances at Y. W. C. A.’s in Southern California. Butler E. Powers is the director and H. R. Shaw odusi- ness manager. Los Angeles Aeri No. 201, Fraternal Order of Eagles, among whose membership are many local actors, have subscribed several thousands of dollars to the Liberty Loan. Manager I. M. Cohen, of the Burbank, is no longer a bachelor; his wife and family have arrived here. Vernon 2 Goodwin r the Alex- andria, has chairman of th local food A. een appolates charm The season of We, Los Angeles Center of the Drama League of America upened furm- ally last week, when the officers and board >f directors held a reception at the Friday Morning Club House. Members of the Mo- rosco Stock Co., regs Betty Brice, Doug- las MacLean, Richard Dix and General Man- ager Donald Boles, were guests of honor. Charles Fischer, who, for 25 years, was the chief musical director of the Orpheum Cir- cuit, has been engaged to direct at Clune’s Auditorium. Dorothy Crosby, the girl who was arrested in a recent ho py od game case in Chicagu, hailed from Angeles. She was a mem- ber of the az. So “So Long Letty” chorus. MILWAUKEE. P. G. MORGAN, DAVIDSON ” (ioseman Brown, mgr.).—‘Yes or No?” to good opening. 28, gs 9 O'Hara in ue. Man from Wicklow”; Nov. 1, “So Long, t MAJESTIC (William G. Tisdale, 3 agent, Orph.).—Harry Fox, “Fantasia Lu- minare,” Harry Carroll, “The Spirit of '76,” Santos & Hayes, Kaufman _ Bros., Selma Braatz, Herbert’s Animals. Good. PALACE (Harry E. Billings, mgr.; agent, Ww. \V. M. A.).—Prince Kar-mi, ‘eMelody Land,” Rained & Goodrich, William Morrow & Co., ‘the Bimbdos, Frank Ward; iast hailf— Geo. Primrose . Co., Five Violin Beauties, Richards & Kyle, Hans Robert & Co., Lew Wells, Chief Little Elk & Co.; excellent. MILLER (Jack Yeo, mgr.; agent, Loew).— Al Golem ere | “Women, Prank Rogers, Rollins & West, P. George, Bob & Peggy Val- entine, Harrison "West Trio, Riva Larsen Troupe; fine. rome The Edmonds 1555, TO TIMES SQ. Furnished Apartments CATERING EXCLUSIVELY TO THE PROFESSION 776-78-80 EIGHTH AVENUE Between 47th and 48th Streets NEW YORK DANIEL’S HOTEL FOR GENTLEMEN Northwest Cornef 42d Street and Ninth Avenue TWO BLOCKS WEST OF BROADWAY S84 ROORAS With Hot and Cold Running Water $4.50 and $5.00 WEEKLY ONE BLOCK Office—778 EIGHTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF TELEPHONE IN EVERY ROOM EVERY TERING » * A £2 ERATE avant A CALL WILL CONVINCE YOU SHUBERT (B. Niggemeyer, mgr.; agent, International).—“‘The Heart of Wetona,” opening good; 28, “The Little Girl That God Forgot.”’ GAYETY (Charles J. Fox, mst. agent, American) .—‘“Speedway Girls”; 28 i ‘par ings of Paris.” EMPRESS (Henry Goldenberg, mer.).— Stock burlesque. Business uniformly good. PABST (Ludwig Kreiss, mgr.).—Pabst Ger- man Stock company in “Beckers Geschichte,” “Lottchens Geburtstag” and “Die Wilde Toni’; 24, “Ihr Zweiter Mann.” The Monday evening performance of “Pals First,” which opens for a week at the Davidson Nov. 14, will be the annual benefit for the Milwaukee Press Club, with cus- tomary distribution to patrons of “Once-a- Year,” the annual magazine written by mem- bers of the organization, which always keeps Variety in the reading room. The Alhambra, the bix Saxe picture house, staged a style show in conjunction with Petrova’s film, “The Law of the Land,” the last half of the week with highly satisfactory gate results, the displays having been fur- nished by dealers for what advertising they might derive. A runway was built from the stage for a considerable distance out into the auditorium for living models’ parade. MONTREAL. BY ARTHUR SCHALEK. a MAJESTY’S (Edwards and Driscoll, megrs.).—“‘Experience,” very large advance =o the week. Next, “Show of Won- ers. ORPHEUM (Fred Crow, megr.; agent, U. B. 0O.).—“Overtones” Trovato, Alfred De Munby and Lillian Durkin, Jimmie Lucas and Co., Barry Sisters, J. C. Nugent and Co., Louis Stone and Sully, Rogers and Sully. GAYETY (Tom Conway, mgr.).—‘‘O, Girl.” Show good, business big. Next, “Hip, Hip Hurray Girls.” FRANCAIS (Phil. Godel, megr.).—First half, “Soloman,” Delando and Pike, Maude Rockwell, Naimo, Four Kings; 2d half, Sally’s Visit, Riley and Lester, Saxton and Farrell, Scott and Carroll, Mere, Less and More. Business good. MAPLE LEAF (E. Misering).—Tizoune’s and Mack Whirlwing Girls. Second season and still going big. IMPERIAL (H. W. Conover, mer.).— Douglas Fairbanks, ‘“‘The Man from Painted Post”’ (film) and Willis Flanagan. NEW GRAND (Geo. Rodsky, megr.).—“‘On Trial” (films). The Empire, on Stanley street, has been leased by Paul Cazeneuve, who will open it Nov. 15 with a permanent stock company at popular prices. Loew’s, now building, 1 No is. g, is announced to open “Everywoman,” which played at His Majesty’s theatre last week its third local engagement, got $12,000. The Rialto has changed hands. Gladianos and Paulos of the Midway theatre have leased the Rialto for a term of five years. WIGS SSS

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SMITE “Fhe Hotel of Perfect Service” li orn em fae THE BEST ITALIAN DINNER IN THE CITY Lunch 55 Cents Dinner 85 Cents core I OLIT Oa “THe RENDEZV GPS GF THEATRICAL'S BEST” When [In rod Bhoy-\creo) Visit EISS’ RESTAURANT Where the Profession Congregate (Formerly 55 W. Randolph St. 123 N. Clark, Next duor to Cohan’s Grand , Theater. Chicago, 1! NEW ORLEANS. By 0. M. SAMUEL. ORPHEUM (Arthur White, mgr.).—Present program gains momentum as it proceeds. Regal and Bender, opening, adept acrobats. Connelli and Craven, lack histrionic ability. Haruko on Uki, did very well. Pistel and Cushing, not over engaging with aged humor. “Liberty Aflame,” with Gladys Hanson read- ing the lines in impressive manner, swept the audience with its patriotic fervor. Ruth Roye, warmly welcomed. Big time needs artists of her calibre. Herbert Lioyd pro- voked unrestrained laughter with his clever buffoonery. PALACE (Walter Kattman, megr.).—Best bill of the season. For first half, The Haynes, novel offering, highly commendatory. Bert and Harry Gordon, tremendous favorites. Frank Stafford and Marie Stone, hearty ap- probation. Sherman, Van and Hyman, ova- tion. Jonia and Hawaiians, excellent clos- ing number. CRESCENT (Ferd Turner, mgr.).—Mabel Harper captured the applause honors at the Crescent Sunday afternoon, Booth and Leander, liked in acrobatics and cycling. Mack and Josephine, elicited appreciation. Leighton and Kennedy, danced well. Five Melanis, registered, concluding program. PALACE (Walter Kattman, megr.).—The last haif show last week held little novelty, descending somewhat below the standard main- tained. Klass, an accordionist, started the show with zest. He never varies from the conventional but the audience seemed highly pleased with his offering. Elaine and Willing employ the more sure-fire of the quips that have come to be associated with blackface delineation, eliciting commendation thereby. Chisolm and Breen unearthed burlesque melo- Grama that has lain dormant for some time. The Palace crowd, in their apparent exuber- ance, were seemingly countenancing it for the first time, the duo registering immeasurably. Corbett, Sheppard and Donovan gave satisfac- tion also. The tenor of the trio possesses a voice worthy of operatic development. “A Night in a Gypsy Camp” made a colorful clos- ing number. CRESCENT (Fred Turner, mgr.).—The Electrical Venus proved a potential feature attraction at the Crescent the latter part of last week, evincing unrestrained enjoyment coupled with a deal of curiosity. The real surprise of the bill, however, was one Ben Smith, a corpulent comedian who encases his facial lines and outlines in cork. From the comic end Ben won't stop traffic, but he has stored within a voice that aroused the patrons to a crescendo of enthusiasm. Ben's singing easily placed the applause trophy in his lap. Dix and Dixie gave animation to the spening spot, with a pot-pourri of juggling and acro- batics. The turn is helped considerably by the radiant, unaffected smile of the girl. In measure, it gives one a mental bath, a bene- ficial psychic immersion, so to speak. Hooper and Burkhardt submitted a nice little act that would be much nicer if they eliminated the Hawaiian “grass” reference, and that about the doctor. The Paynes vary from the code in interpreting their sketch. They express anger, hatred, surprise, jollity, ambiguity and stupe- faction in manner different from the gener- ally accredited elocutionary lines, but the spectators liked them very, very much. ‘ STRAND (D. L. Cornelius, mer.).—Pic- ures. ALAMO (Frank Sanders, megr.).—McCor- mick and Winehill’s Revue. —— Nov. 11 is the date set for the annual in- duction of burlesque at the Dauphine. Lew Rose, wuo is to direct and again acquaint the patrons witi the wiles and wanderings of the Terrible Judge, Krausmeyer, of alley fame; INERS AKE -UP Est. HENRY ©. MINER, Inc Dr. Dippy, and contemporaneous characters, bordering on and adjacent to travesty of an obstreperous trend, left this city last week, check-book in hand, for New York, prepared to do or be done. A perorative assurance was given by Rose before departing. He said the tights would be in the pink of condi- plied: “Admit two.” tica PHILADELPHIA. By JUVENILS. the pass word. Fo Attractions appearing here next week in- clude Mizzi Hajos in “Pom Pom,” at the Tu- lane; Field's Minstrels, at the Lafayette, and the Chicago Grand Opera Co., at the French opera house . J. Schreyer, who has been in N:w Orleans for several weeks in the interest of his firm, Wm. 8S. Emery and Co., left for New York with the ostensible purpose of embarking on the sea of matrimony. It’s Schreyer’s second offense. He stood the first test 25 years. His bride-to-be has not heretofore been lured by Muse Thespia. ee eee re Zelda Dunn returned to the local Rialto Sunday morning, after a sojourn of three months in Detroit. Archie Lloyd, a brother of Tab (Tabitha) Lloyd, the comedienne, is here in the interest of a music publishing firm. Another visitor on a similar mission is Harry Prescott. Nazimova dedicated the new Liberty by breaking a bottle of champagne on one of the beams. In the southern dry states, they dedi- cate buildings by breaking a bottle of milk. bill is strong on girls, head New York’s Largest Cut Price Dealer in WARDROBE TRUNKS AN ENORMOUS SELECTION OF Trunks, Bags & Cases New, Slightly Seiled and Second Hand 80 to 50% off regular prices! Howard Gale, long connected in a man- agerial capacity in New Orieans, is handling “The Carden of Allah” in film form for Michigan. Homer George, press agent of the Tulane and Crescent for several years, and later manager of Atlanta’s legit house, has left theatricals to exploit auto races and racers. Frank Tate, the St. Louis theatrical man- ager, was here for several weeks with his son, Lee Tate, who is stationed at the local Navy Yard. Young Tate donated kis $20,090 yacht to the Government for coast defense purpeses, and it was accepted. $56.60 Guaranteed lndestructs Special $29.75 Baggage Bought, Geld, Repaired and Exchanged EDWARD GROPPER 208 West 42nd St., New York Near 7th Ave. Phone Bryant 967s One of the two seals of Kimi, the Faqui- maux playing the Loew time, died at the Crescent here. B. F. Brennan sold his Iberville theatre some time ago for $4,500. He bought it back the other day for $100. Santos Shields, treasurer of the Orpheum the past three years, is in the service. Re- turning to camp recently, he was told to give himself for a few moments, during which time his mind wandered back to show business, Shields re- KEITH’S (H. T. Jordan, be A vex ¢@ honors ing a a 1 areas hem 3 Ls beree:

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divided by two well-known stars of the two-a- day, while the female sex draws better than an even break in distributing the honors of the rest of the show. Blossom Seeley and her “jazz band” ripped things open with her syncopated numbers. Miss Seeley is doing one or two of the songs she did last season here, but getting more out of them with the as- sistance of the boys, whose close harmony made a big hit with the audience. Special mention must be made of the cornetist of the troupe, who works in the pit instead of on the stage. The boy is there with the “blue” notes and slurs, and when Miss Seeley hits the big finish the little hornblower comes in for his share. The girl injects plenty of “pep” into her work, and wears several cos- tumes which make you take a couple of extra looks. In this respect Miss Seeley is run- ning Lucille Cavanagh, who is here for a sec- ond week, a neck-and-neck race, both ladies adding lots of color to their offerings by their dressing, with a liberal display of form. Miss Cavanagh made only one change in her act, substituting an Indian number for the Rus- sian dance, and she scored just as strong as last week. One of the real big applause bits of the show went to the credit of Crawford and Broderick through a clever handling of the comedy by the girl. Working quietly and with a fixed expression, the girl makes every one of her lines and points hit the mark, and with the assistance of some excellent ‘“feed- ing’ by her partner the couple carried off a good-sized hit, being forced to come back for several extra bows. Olga Boris, said to have been a Court musician in Russia prior to the abdication of Czar Nicholas, made ber first ap- pearance here. ‘The woman. is an excellent musician and her playing was warmly appre- ciated. One of her numbers was “Annie Laurie,” played with the left hand only and displaying a fine bit of fingering. What Miss Boris needs .mostly now is for someone to teach her how to get her act over in vaude- ville. She lacks the stage presence needed in the two-a-day and shows plainly the at- mosphere of the concert stage. Music lovers will like Miss Boris, for she is unquestion-

ably a fine musician and they will like her much better when she moves into the vaude- ville atmosphere. Lester, the ventriloquist, had rather a hard spot for his voice-juggling, and his quiet method of working did not help him any. He has a couple of catch expres- sions which he uses over and over and finally gets laughs with them. The buazing sound while drinking and smoking brought him a warm hand. Kennedy and Burt did very well with a singing and taiking skit which they handled skillfully. They use a couple of pretty drops and a special setting for a “kid” number, Kennedy alsa working from the au- dience in his finishing song. Charles and Adelaide Wilkens were another mixed-team act which started slowly and finished in good shape. The man does some clever eccentric stepping and the two finish with a sort of a lesson in tango dancing, both of which got re- ward, but they have a bad few minutes at the Start, where the fellow perpetrates a couple of Joe Millers that suggests he must have been working in the wilds not to have known they had died iong ago. A couple of up-to-date gags for the opening minutes wil! fix this act into a first-rate number for about the spot they are holding this week. The Cyciing Brunettes gave the bill a nice start with their comedy cycling turn and the Three Jahns showed something different than the ordinary perch tricks which took them off to a good hand, despite the handicap of having to close _ show, a hard spot on Monday afternoon ere. ALLEGHENY (Joseph Cohen, mer.).—With Olga Petrova in “Exile” as the film feature, supported hy a strong vaudeville bill, this week's program is one of unusual merit. The vaudeville acts include Ad. Hoyt's Minstrels; “Out and In Again,” a tabloid musical com- edy; Billy McDermott; MacLaren & Evans and the Three Bartos. BROADWAY (Joseph Cohen, mer.).—First half—‘‘The Sidewaik Cabaret,” with Heider & Packer featured as the headliner. Others, Olson & Johnson; Lawrence Grand &@ Co.; Roberts & Fulton; Kershalake’s Pigs and the

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VARIETY Buy as many as you Can. SBSUY A BOND Arrange to pay for them by the week, if you prefer to save money in that way. Take all you can get at such terms of payment as are most convenient to you. This issue of Liberty Bonds will return you four per cent. annually—meore than most savings banks allow. The Bonds are like bank notes. They can be cashed at any time. Any one will take them in payment. There is nothingmore secure in the whole U. S. Don’t carry around postal orders when you can have Liberty Bonds for the same money. If you are working, let your money work also. Have it draw interest while you sleep—always working, and for you. be a bloomer. film feature, Madge Kennedy in “Baby Mine.” Last hbalf—‘“‘The Follies of Broadway,” with a company of sixteen, heads the vaudeville bill and the film feature Marguerite Clark in “Dad's Diary.” COLONIAL (H. A. Smith, mer.).—The vaudeville bill this week is headed by Charles Nichols & Co., in “Preparedness.” Others, Leonard & Williard in “At the Inn”; Three Rozettes; John Clarke & Co.; Boyle & Brown; Josie Flynn and her Female Minstrels, and the film feature, Douglas Fairbanks in “The Man from Painted Post.” CROSS KEYS (Sabloskey & McGurk, megrs.). —First half—‘‘The Follies of Broadway”: Lots & Lots: Greater City Four; Brennan & O'Neil: Williams & Blaney and pictures. Last half—Phil Morris’ “Betting Bettys’ and five other acts, EMPRESS (Sabloskey & McGurk, mers.). —First half—“The Petticoat Minstrels’; The Hall Players; Walton & Bowers and Ed. Gin- gress, heavyweteht jugeler. Last half— “Nearly a Detective,” a tabloid comedy, and five other acts. ' NIXON’S GRAND OPERA HOUSE (W. D. Weeefarth. megr.).—The Fririen war pietures showing “The Retreat of the Germais at the Rattle of Arras,.”” which have inst heen re- leased to the “pop” houses, are shown this week with the following vandeville ects: Farrell- Tavior Trio: Wilson Aubrey Trio; Arnold & Tavior and The Glockers. GLORE (Sabloskey & McGurk, mers.).— “The New Buyer.” a tabloid nroduection with a mediev of sones, dances and comedv, henad- lines. Others, Al Fields & Co. in “The Mvs- terv of a Hansom Cab”: Amnoros & Janette; Willard Hutchinson & Con.: Rice & Francis: Weher & Redford: Rice, Filmer & Tom: “Five Musical Jacks and a Queen”: Quaker City Trin and Newman, Anger & Newman. KEYSTONE (M. W. Taylor. mer.) —Kana- zawa Jans: Cooney Sicters; Ficher, Howlev & Co.: Hendricks & Padula: Raker & Rogers: Tack Alfred & Cn. and motion nictures. NTXON (F. G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, megr.).— George Rarhfer and Carrte Thatcher, ponular stock favorites, supported bv an excellent comnanv head. this week’s bill In a nlaylet called “The Wav Out.” Others, Summines & Shellv; Mary Dorr and sister In character sones: Tohse & Sterling; Six Franz Troupe and motion pietyres, WILLTAM PENN (G. W. Metzel. mer.).— Firet half—“Too Many Sweethearte”’: Hoerry Sterlire ard the film feature fe Marder Ken- nedy In “Rohv Mine.” Tuast hatf—Hneo Jan- sen fn “Fachions a In Carte”: Stenns & Conn- er: The Gvwnsy Sonesters and two film fea- tures. Charife Chanlin !n “The Adventurer,” and Emily Stevens tn “The Slacker.” A sertes of concerts bv the Stanley theatre orchestra is meetine with much favor by the patrons of this screen theatre. Tt was announced this week that ‘“Polly- anna,” with virtually the same big cast, will aw wT a Money orders may be lost. Diamonds m Stocks may drop down or blow up— But Liberty Bonds will never change. Liberty Bonds should be the professional’s one best bet for an investment. It will be like finding money, when they can some day place their hands upon Liberty Bonds owned by them, and know it is CASH! Buy a Bond for your own good as well as for your Government’s. + TDiamandsc mav danracriata i ae Mw 4 ww see ew a THE 12th Anniversary Number of will be issued in December Early reservation of space is suggested, to secure most favorable position. Ad- vertising rates for the special number remain unchanged. play a return engagement at the Broad before the end of the year. Forty-one pictures exhibitors, representing Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, met at an informa) luncheon at the Hotel Walton last week and organized the United Exhibitors’ Association, The purpose of the organization is mainly social. The members of “The Wanderer” will give a Hallowe’en ball on the stage of the Metro- olitan opera house Tuesday, Oct. 30. The allet and ensemble of the company wiii ap- pear in the costumes they wear in the second act. The members ef all other companies on fe in Philadelphia at the time will be nvited. Frank Abbott has been succeeded as man- ager of the People’s by George A. Chenet. It fs understood there was quite a controversy over the sudden change of managers at this house, and Abbott is reported to have entered suit for money due him on his fuil season's con- tract. Yvette Guilbert is announced to give a cial song recital at the Bellevue-Stratford Nov. i, the proceeds to go to the French War Relief Committee of the Emergency Aid. PROVIDENCE. BY A. H. CROWELL. OPERA HOUSE (Felix R. Wendleschafer, mer.).—Henry W. Savage's “Have a Heart” playing to usual big Opera House patronage. Chorus especially good; voices fine. Good as some previous attractions. KEITH'S (Charles Lovenberg, mgr.).—Big 19th anniversary bill, on whole very fair, al- though two changes became wr on 4 at last moment. Headed by Stone and lisz in “Ma'mzelle Caprice” went good; Fox and Ward, celebrating their golden anniversary as partners, took well; Winston’s Water Lions, Misses Lightner and Newton Alexander, Val and Ernie Stanton, Violet Besson and Com- pany, West and Moran, Penn Trio, British war film. COLONIAL (William 8. Canning, mer.).— Fred Irwin's new burlesque show, “Bill,” best seen at this burlesque house in several weeks. Large number of principals. Best singing and dancing chorus seen this season. In fact, show is more like vaudeville show than any- thing ever put. on at burlesque house in city, FAY’S (Edward M. Fay, mgr.).—Vaudeville bill, headed by Francesco Colasante and band: Marga Dahi well received; James Morrison and Co., Alice Rector, Ward and Wilson, om Comedy Four, Brown and Harris, Pic- ure. EMERY (Martin Toohey, megr.).—“Shore Acres” put over fairly well to good audi- ences. MAJESTIC (Martin Toohey, mgr.).—‘Lin- coln of the U. 8S. A.” and Lowande’s Circus

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athe ea ee ee en renee ern FROM HEADLINING COAST TO COAST IN “SONGS AS YOU LIKE THEM” HARRY LINDEN at Piano FROM OAKLAND “TRIBUNE” STAR FAT AND FUNNY Somewhat plump, a good mixer and always humorous form three real reasons why Al Wohlman is successful in his funmaking efforts before Pantages audiences this week. Nobody may fat man but everyone seems to appreciate Wohlman’s curves— everyone of which are continually crooking with laughter. This lit- tle fellow talks about nothing in particular; sings popular songs, makes a face or two and gathers like a in the harvest. The audience hungered for more of him. P.DODD ACKERMAN SCENIC STUDIOS, Inc. 140 West 39th Street New York City Stage Decorations for Productions and Vaudeville Acts “THE MODERNISTIC STUDIO” Phene Greeley 3060 to choose between as the headliner, first Bait each going big; Jo Chong and Role Moy, innovation; Bud and Nellie Heim, Lander Brothers, The Concertos, pleased. Last half: Five Williams, Crawford, Smith and Martel, Lloyd and Whitehouse, Fisher and Gilmore. STRAND (Arthur B. Williams, mgr.).—Pic- tures. Geraldine Farrar in “The Woman God Forgot,” proving good drawing card. MODERN (David E. Dow, mgr.).—Pictures. Emmy Gorman in “The Little Mother,” with little &lm star appearing in person, drew well. Special matiness for children resulted suc- cessfully. GAIETY (Jacob Conn, mgr.).—Pictures. BiJOU (Sol. Braunig, mgr.}.—Pictures. ROYAL (J. Fred Lovett, mgr.).—Pictures. PALACE.—Pictures. AUBURN.—Pictures. ae Charles Schofield, of Isadore Martin and Schofield, booked to appear at Keith's this week in a new sketch, “King Full,” is se- riously ill end the team was replaced by Vio- ict Besson and Co. Miss Martin and Mr. Scho- field were members of the Albee Stock Com- pany which played at Keith’s last summer. They had been on the road with their «ketch in vaudeville for less than a month. Plans are being made for the Biily Sun- day campaign in this city. No date for the appearance of the evangelist in Providence has been set. The Children’s theatre, under the auspices of the Rhode Island Congress of Mothers, be- ins next Saturday morning at the Strand. ours 10 to 11.30; prices 5 and 10. Mary Pickford in “Poor Little Rich Girl,” feature. William Place, Jr., of the William Place, (DON’T ) STOP! (DON’T ) LOOK! LISTEN! WE CONQUERED JIMMY O’NEAL and FRANK | WALMSLEY “THE TWO LIGHTNING BUGS” PRODUCTS OF THE | “STOCKYARDS,” CHICAGO “NO BULL” Best wishes to all the “Gang” in Chicago. We certainly miss you. 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ORPHEUM (Martin Beck, gen. mgr.; E C. Burroughs, res. mgr.).—‘‘America First’ is the big act on this week’s bills, and en- thusiastically received. Williams and Wol- fus, pleasing; Bert Melrose, good; Allen and Francis, well liked; George and Dick Rath, liked; Hamilton and Barnes, also liked. PALACE (Harry Micks, res. megr.).— Palaise Royal Revue, feature, roundly ap- plauded; “Inside Outside Inn,” pleasing; Edmund and Louise, please; Mudge Morton Trio, good; Hiat and Geer, good; Buster and Eddy, acceptable. HIPPODROME (Geo. Bovyer, res. mgr.).— Three Lochman Sisters, Detzel and Carrol, Wilhelmy and Shereaux, Sterling Rose Trio, Murphy and Barry, pictures. MBTROPOLITAN (L. N. Scott, mgr.).— Following “So Long Letty” comes another musical comedy in “Miss Springtime,” pleas- ing and many well knowns. The opening night's audience clearly showed its appre- ciation. SHUBERT (Frank Priest, res. mer.).— “Bought and Paid For,” Shubert Stock Co. — Robinson replaces Isabel Randolph in ead. STAR (John P. Kirk, megr.).—‘“Lid Lift- ers,” liked. SEATTLE. BY WALTER KEK. BURTON. METROPOLITAN (George T. Hood, mer.). TIZOUNE EFFIE MACK WHIRLWIND GIRLS COMEDIAN SOUBRETTE Always Working—OFFERS INVITED FOR BURLESQUE Address TIZOUNE and MACK, 588 Chateaubriand St., Montreal — “Potash & Perlmutter in Society” opened week engagement here 14, presented by a capable company; 24-27, “The Knife,” with Norman Hackett; 28-Nov. 10, K. & EB. Stock productions. MOORE (Carl Reiter, mgr.).—Packed houses greeted a well-balanced Orpheum vau- deville show. Nelson held opening spot with an eccentric juggling turn that proved hila- rious. George Earle and Co. present a pleas- ing rural sketch. The Leach Sisters vocal- ied in a way that brought them several en- cores. Brown and Spencer have a splendid offering. Gallagher and Martin won favor with lively patter. Nina Payne, a Seattle girl, headlines the bill with a terpischorean offering that charmed the ticketholders. A melodramatic turn captioned “Submarine F-7” closed the bill. Orpheum Travel Weekly and Burnett’s Concert Orchestral program complete. WILKES’ (Dean B. Worley, megr.).—15, “He Comes Up Smiling” is cleverly enacted by the Wilkes’ Players and is adequately staged by Director Pitt. Ivan Miller and George Rand have the principal “hobo” parts and provide the comedy. Capacity business opening performances. ORPHEUM (Jay Haas, megr.).—Vaudeville and photoplays. LYRIC.—Burlesque to fair business. TIVOLI.—Dark. ARENA,.—14-16, Kleinschmitt Arctic Hunt Pictures; Alaska’s scenic wonders and illus- trated lecture. J. Mortimer Slocum is at the head of the show. PANTAGES (Edgar G. Milne, mgr.).—15, Mme. Jeanne Jomeiii, operatic singer, headed the new show. A dancing spectacle, “The Dream of the Orient,’’ feature attraction. Hoey and Lee, clever. The Youngers, posing act of merit. Knight and Carlyle, pleasing. “The Fighting Trail’ serial, interesting. Ca- pacity business as usual. . PALACE HIP (Joseph A. Muller, mgr.).— 14, Aerial Eddys open show with Startling trapeze feats. Wright and Walker sing and AND THEIR WE ARE NOT ARCHITECTS BUT WE DRAW HOUSES TI concer MIS‘ —Har! CLE “Rede! son, | winner gram LIB Olga F Libert; Statior other Queen Yesler. Dave Breme Williai ' tour of made. Williatr Woodr Annie The

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lo a VARIETY a MANAGERS and AGENTS—Take Notice MAT 'T TWO YAMADA JO= Original Japanese Piano and Singing Offering THE ONLY JAPANESE ACT OF ITS KIND IN THE WHOLE U. S. A. SOMETHING NE WILL BE EAST SOON Watch For Us Permanent Address, N. V. A. CLUB, New York City EDDIE BURCH Musical Director Loew’s American Music Hall dance and proved one of the best acts of this kind seen here for months. Orpheus Comedy Four, hit. Three Dixie girls sing weil. Lit- tle Caruso and Co., stellar attraction, pleas- ing turn. Swain’s Pets performed well and were liked. Gladys Hulette in “The Last of the Carnabys” completed program. Capacity business. COLISEUM (E. D. Tate, mer.).—Billy Burke in “Arms and the Girl” is drawing well. i REX (John Hamrick, mgr.).—‘‘Who’s Your Neighbor” film is packing them in at 25c. ad- mission. STRAND (William H. Smythe, mgr.).— Hall Caine’s “The Manx Man,” in an eight- reel picturization of this stirring story; Cherniavsky Symphony Orchestra in daily concerts. MISSION (Jensen and Von Herberg, mgrs.). —Harry Carey in “‘The Secret Man.’ CLEMMER (James Q. Clemmer, mer.).— “Redemption,” with Evelyn Nesbit and her son, Russell Thaw, is proving a box office winner; Gutterson Russian orchestral pro- gram is splendid. LIBERTY (John Von Herberg, megr.).— Olga Petrova in “The Law of the Land.”’ Star Liberty Weekly shows the Naval Training Station at the University of Washington and other local news. COLONIAL (John Danz, mgr.).—George Waish in “Some Boy.” MAJESTIC (Walter Kastner, megr.).—‘The Land of Long Shadows,” with Jack Gradner in the stellar role. . OLYMPUS.—Bessie Barriscale in ‘The narl.”’ SOCIETY. — Bight-reel picturization of “Polly of the Circus.”’ CIRCUIT, Alki, Boston, Bison, Jackson, Busch, Bungalow, Broadway, Class A. Cowan Park, Dream, Good Luck, Green Wood, Green Lake, High Class, Home, Regent, Imperial, Isis, Palace, Fremont, Ballard, Princess, Queen Anne, Society, Union, Washington, Yesler.—Films only. Dave Williams and Co. opened at the Eagle, Bremerton, 15, in “Ole, the Swede,” with Williams in the principal comedy role. A tour of the Pacific Northwest territory will be made. In the cast are Dave Williams, Mrs. Williams, Carl Caldwell, Bob Hamilton, Frank Woodruff, James Dorsey, Etta Farnsworth, Annie Childs and Jane Dorsey. The Strand inaugurated a new picture policy MORETTE SISTERS SINGING, DANCING AND MUSICAL SPECIALTY Ingenue and Soubrette with “THE ALL GIRL REVUE” Permanent Address, VARIETY, Chicago MY SUCCESS—YOUR SUCCESS FRANK DOBSON Booked Solid U. B. &. Direction, MAX HAYES JUGGLING eo HENNINGS " REFINED NOVELTY COMEDY OFFERING FEATURING THE BEST LITTLE LADY JUGGLER 17 with Earle Williams in “The Love Doc- tor.” Vitagraph pictures will be shown here- after, according to Manager Smythe. Alma Gluck will sing to 40,000 men of the 91st National Army division at Camp Lewis (American Lake, Wash.), Slst, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. of Tacoma. The concert will be in the open air and will be free to the soldiers. Klaw & Erlanger have notified Major David L. Stone, construction quartermaster at Camp Lewis, that they have placed orders for the immediate erection of a theatre building at the camp to cost $27,000 and with a seating ca- pacity of 3,000. All K. & E. productions will be shown there. This verifies the time in last week's Variety relative to theatrical move- ments at this cantonment. W. B. Armstrong has succeeded James Pierong as manager of tbe Strand theatre, in Portland. Larry Keating, manager of the Lyric the- atre, Portland, was a business cailer Motrday. Nora Burger, a photoplay actress, is spend- ing her vacation with relatives in Seattle. Tom Magrath is again on the Pantages pay- roll as outer guard in the general offices here. Through Manager Carl Reiter, Ruth Os- born, a local harpist, has secured an engage- ment of 18 weeks over the Orpheum circuit. The Wenatchee theatre, Wenatchee (Wash.), is using the Kellie-Burns Tour B bookings. F. L. Standard, manager of the Gem, that city, recently bought the Wenatchee from J. E. Fergerson. Traveling shows will also be taken care of at the Wenatchee, as heretofore. Ceio Milier, of Wichita, Kan., spent the past week here. Mr. Miller was aseatiy im- pressed with theatrical conditions and may locate here next year. Dr. J. Mortimer Slocum is making a tour of the Pacific Northwest with the Kleinechmitt Arctic Hunt Pictures, together with several thousand feet of the scenic marvels of Alaska. The pictures were shown at the Arena here, 14-16, and proved a drawing card. John Hamrick’s new Pike street theatre, the Regent, opened 21 with Triangle pictures at 15c. tariff. The house is very favorably lo- cated and is attractive in appearance both in- side and out. Fred C. Quimby has resigned as mana the local Pathe office to assume the melnes: ment of the Exhibitors’ Film Exchange, Ine. with offices at 1200 Fourth avenue, this city. This exchange has the exclusive rights of dis- tributing all releases of the First National Ex- hibitors’ Circuit, of which it is a franchise member. It controls the territory comprising ocr 5 5 ets nN Prese. { ane ys at hve Cea 6 para mre enrans a ms

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ine LO OEE Se 0 ARNE NOR MCE ee ow } ” 7 bremens zh VARIETY PRINCE | nuecs ue 55 KAR-MII PLAYING FOR U. B. O. »w W.V. M.A. and HEADLINING All Bills i ee (Address VARIETY, New York) DIRECTION, SIMON AGENCY _ADROIT BROS. » “VERSATILE VARIETY OFFERING PLAYING U. B. 0. TIME Direction, JACK FLYNN Ww derstand a certain act is using our two closing tricks and the name a Aiea oles ae in VARIETY’S Pretected Material Department. Our advice to them is to discontinue their use. Clarice Vance ADDRESS “VARIETY,” NEW YORE ED. F. REYNARD Mile. BIANCA The Classic Daneer with a Preductien MLLE. BIANCA ED. F.REYNARD The Ventriloquist with a Preductier EDDIE BORDEN Supperted by. “SIR” JAS. DWYER KEENE: WILLIAMS WITH You NOW SE A eee EE il ¥harN. COLLEGE QUINTETTE Presenting a Nifty Musical Absurdity “A Fraternity Rehearsal” Booked Solid Jack Terry (Fermerly Terry and Lambert) PHILOSOPHY CORNER He who has neither friend nor enemy is without talents, powers or Ror, Friars’ Club will always reach me. A RATTLING CGMEDY HIT FRED & ANNA PELOT JACK FLYNN, Pilot oO nom BARE eovyvn A Direction, BARA: SULA. Ste GRSWS 2 in “NEGLECi1. ond Edition of ‘THE 4&4 MORTONS Sam, Kitty, orthe and soe PEGGY BROOKS The International Comedienne. Headlining Leew Cireuft WALSH, FRITZ -- INGRAHAM SONGS AND TALK PATTER Direction, MAX GORDON All “N. V. A.’s” H. BART McHUGH Presents EL. BRENBEL and FLO BERT “Waiting for Her” FeeD THE BRADS wa Marinelli Ageney, 1465 Greadway, NW. Y. 6. THES FAYNIES THE ARTISTS WITH A SUPREME OFFERING Representative, JACK FLYNN Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. “On Trial” was the first picture re- leased through this exchange. Alma Gluck will appear at the Metropolitan 23. in concert. Brummell and Davee, late ef the musical comedy company at the Tiroli, are playing the Fisher circuit in a vaudeville act. Cornelia Glass leaves the Wilkes’ Players Featared by eee * Saree w AL's Persenal — . ALD this week to join the a — in Salt Lake City as second lead Ed Cohn greets the caller in the outer offices of the Fisher circuit in the suite of rooms formerly occupied by the old Sullivan & Con- sidine concern in the Orpheum building. James Barrie Norton, well known in local stock circles, is now with the Empress Stoek Cempany in Vancouver, B. C. SHEER and DARLING in “W/OP-OLOOY” Three Dashing Young Maids and Real Comedian. BROWN AND CARSTENS Singing, Dancing, Comedy Sensational Xy WITZ Cycling. Working fer pte HOR ‘s eas vere ana. A The Orpheum is advertising its new Trans- asst, A. D0 San tinental Road Shows which are to “ oboken ; , there 21. This is the recently formed A. DIRECTION C.-Levy-Fisher-Levy-Cohbn- on affiliation setth a string of houses from Chicago to the Pacifie eoast and down the coast to lower California. LOUIS BRUCE WESLEY °° DUFFUS 1493 B’way, N. Y. Henry Lubeleki has forsaken theatricals, at least for the present, and is now managing ®& furniture store on Pike street. TANEAN BROS. ‘Direction, NAT SOBEL PLAYING U. B. 0. TIME ARTHUR R. EDWARDS 33 = “a = tat bet Ge = 3F - | 3 ~~. 1 2.) a 1) eas a.

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me rice aaa — ee MES ont | ee VARIETY ; TWO NEW STARS. IN THE E VAUDEVILLE HEAVENS on Sinecren - FRANK EVANS This Week (Oct. hones Canton, Ohio Next Week (Oct. 20)—Lyceum, Canton, Ohio FRANCES CORNELL “SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT” SONGS Direction, CHAS. BORNHAUPT An attachment for a typewriter's a little thing; and yet seme- BEARD “The Party from the South” Principal Comedian e. G. view Minstrels. Eastern Rep., @ PETE MACK Western Rep., SIMON AGENCY met it taweot: ae KNAPP and CORMALLA: Dear Seb and Chrie-- Your last werk’s ec. cure handed Blech and 5 miysell a gocd “idiighi. ” it’a posted in’ the scrap hook already. We are anxiously waiting to see picture of the limousine. Ed Morton goes to Erie and we xo to New York, and we sure do hate to see him leave, for we have hed eight pleasant weeks together and certainiy will miss him when he’s gene. Good luck to you, Ed, and give our best to Bill Rooker in Erte. We will never forget last week. Exidie came out to watch us play golf. and fell so bard for it that he bought a bag, sticks, balls, sweater and golf shoes. No more pinochie for him. All he can say is FORE. Jim and Marion HARKINS Next Week (Oct. 29)—Bushwick, Brookiya, N. Y. Direction, NORMAN JEFFERIES Good luck to Jack Mills, now professional manager of McCarthy & Fisher Music Co—A good man. Paul and Mae Nolan Going right along, eh! That’s good. This Week—‘Oct. 22)—Empress, Grand Rapids, Mich. Booked Solid U. B. O. Direction. NORMAN JEFFERIER Alee “Butch” Hanlon, the “Venus DePutnam,” is a Magician HE MAKES steaks disappear. Also Sidney Drew—took a Pencil and Paper— Sidney Drew. Sidney Drew—went into a Bank— Sidney Deposited. LANDER BROS. “The Sure-Fire Boys” Loew Cireuit Direction MARK LEVY > ne » Oswald Care Rawson and _ Claire, Auburndale, L. B “The Pint Size Pair” LAURIE and BRONSON in “LET’ERGO” DID YOU KNOW THAT Jack Mills is with’ Fisher & McCarthy Pub. Co.? He is a ‘Regular’ and will treat you right? Hugo _—— was in my corner Tuesday ($10 worth)? Paul Nolan, the renowned Swedish juggler, must beat better men than Stan Stanley to be able to compete with me? Try Johnny O'Connor! Fenton and Green have somcbody’s uumber? re ®t Irving Fisher and Harry Akst are at the Orphcum? Rockwell and Wood are ‘‘Vodiriing it’ yet? Coleman Getz looks at if he “‘Tiomeward Bound”? Bil Hi Halligan is also routed that way? Ed. Miller eats deasert only—on my check? the best act they McKay and Ardine are doing the did? AND IF YOU DD, ' $0 WELL? A Loan for Liberty For Liberty Alone Still time to arrange for a Bond. Space donated by EDWARD MARSHALL Booked Solid W. V. M. A. Direction, YATES & EARL “SLIVY” Lady Auburn Queen Bony-Part Direction, MARK LEVY - The Only Way To STOP tz WAR is te Command all Vaudeville Agents te SEND to the KAISER —COLLECT TELEGRAMS— Till He Yelps For Help! FORREST and CHURCH “Melody Maniacs” Leew Circuit Dir.—MARK LEVY Pests. No 2 “Ah tell uh Buddy! 1 Yh clowns dat va boddie EVVUH could grab mah Sweetie bron her NICE. Fappah”! “The Bread easy | Soon than nar, Whe gt his dialeck in Wel pins, wait. wheats Nex? wak Kaiths Besten Doing our bit. We have bought Liberty Bonds. Have You? Siumming at Ded'’s, in Piggy i Hy These 1- known agiete : ae Grapewin, Clark and Verdi, and Frank Tu A Symphony of Fresh Roasted Peanuts and Tew **Draw-One- Eddie.” We had one thousand laughs: count ‘em inexpensively. No covert charge at Dad's. Sunrise 5:26. Home, James. Next Week (Oct. 29). ng Wlikes-Barre and ROSE ry ‘CURTIS Knapp and Cornalla FRED DUPREZ SAYS Impulsive people gencrally have black eyes. If they haven't, they’ll get them soon- er or later if they get too impulsive. Representative AM BAERWITZ ‘new von” THAT’S ENOUGH FENTON «“oGREEN PAULINE SAXON SAYS I'll just accept the facts of life And never weep or rave; For, if I ean't be al- ways glad, I can, at least, be brave. EDDIE ROSS “DUNN | DOLLY BERT GREY § BYRON Request the Pleasure of Your Company at the Royal Theatre WEEK OF OCT. 29, ‘17 where oer will show an up-to-date line of Laughs, Songs and Chatter NERO as he played at the burning of Rome prob- ably soliloquized “IT ALL COMES UNDER THE HEADING OF AMUSEMENTS” MORRIS GOLDEN the well-known ceil- bate, philosophizes similarly as he plays “The Hours I Spent with Thee,’’ ‘*Good- Kye Forever,”’ ‘‘There’s a Little Bit of Bad in Every ood =e Littl ; e Girl 6 "My )=—« Wiife’a | 2 Gone to the Country,”’ \ ad lib. Care of EDW. 8. KELLER, Palace Theatre Bidg.. New York City. BLACKFACE Featured Neil O’Brien Minstrels 2--White Steppers--2 td in White Direction, CHAS. FITZPATRICK JUST WATCH THIS ERGY GROW POLDI LONG The Celestial Wonder Workers Booked Solid Versariisy Direction, pest NORMAN JEFFERIES RAY: EMMA DEAN “Leave Me Aione DARN YOU” Ww. Vv. M. A. U. B. O. BEEHLER & JACOBS JACK COWELL ¢ CO. WILLIAM E. MICK “THE SLACKER” WYMA By HORACE 3. LINNEY UBO Direction, HARRY SPINGOLD BLANCHE ALFRED and her SYMPHONY GIRLS assisted by “GERANT,” Conductor Featuring the RAINBOW GIRL In Noveliy Dances ADAMS and GRIFFITH Direction, C. W. NELSON Ww. V. M. A. SAM “A MUSIC LESSON” Director, FRANK EVANS

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Cini . ay ‘ - ——————— v Se) Ses NE link | hee engee eee ees ery A taraal : - 2 suites be i ie lines ~ Pee rt ee or ae } ee 5 ip Ses 4ir Ca ee ear oar | i 7 if . ge : Pie 2 Wa a sit : bie ie pr er i e ere ‘ ve fa Mine ROI Seng , a" - a ee Lee te EST ore eae ‘ 4 I - hcaabe a " “5 Sie trey , t : | Lee ede ; MRE ea ond a Fare - a el 5 ‘SIX BROWN BROTHERS | VARIETY : i{ FOURTH SUCCESSFUL SEASON UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF CHARLES B. DILLINGHAM Now with The FRED STONE SHOW “JACK O’ LANTERN” Globe Theatre, Naw York City, Indefinitely Direction, PAT CASEY TOM BROWN, nenenarer TOM BROWN’S OTHER ATTRACTIONS TOM BROWN’S Clown Band in “CHIN CHIN” (Direction, TOM BROWN) TOM BROWN’S “Blackface Revue,” Piaying Interstate Time (Direction, HOLMES & DUDLEY) TOM BROWN’S Six Musical Harvards, Playing Interstate Time (Direction, HOLMES & DUDLEY) TOM BROWN’S Princeton Five, Playing W. V. A. (Direction, CHAS. S. WILSHIN) TOM BROWN’S Seven Musical Highlanders, Playing U. B. O. (Direction, CHAS. S. WILSHIN) For information regarding these acts communicate with TOM BROWN Suite 318 Strand Theatre Building, New York City CAN ALWAYS USE HIGH-CLASS SINGERS AND INSTRUMENTALISTS