Variety 1923-05-10: Vol 70 Iss 12

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EIR PIU Ht } : + tee PEE : rst i Hor = —s ; ah 63) 0j01] Bisnis eho Er eit TYOL. LXX. LXX. No. 12 Published Weekly at 154 West 46th St., New York, N. ¥., by Variety, Inc. Entered as second class matter December 22, 1905, at the Post Office at New beans Pee N. Y¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Annual subscription $7. Single copies 20 cents, NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1923 SS + JOHN E. KELLERD ENCOUNTERS | ‘OPPOSTION OF EQUITY - = Organization Informs Members—Kellerd Due Next Week in Detroit—Planned to Open His Season at the Detroit Opera House : + 4 _ Bquity is informing members who have been engaged by John E. Kel- jlerd for his Shakespearean reper- toire organization that the asso- ciation will not sanction the con- tracts they have entered into with the road star. . Kellerd had planned to open his Beason at the Detroit opera house Monday next, presenting Shake- @pearean repertoire for the first three weeks and following that to present modern plays in the usual Btock method. Kellerd for years has been one Of the touring actor-managers and has season afier season taken to (Continued on page. 28) OLDEST HORSE LIVING “Clover” is 52 Years Old—Wili Die in Pasture Harrisburg, Pa., May 9. “Clover the famous old horse Owned by Dr. U. Myers, of Cata- ‘Wissa, will spend the rest of his days in the pasture instead of be- coming a cirtus freak. “Clover’s age is put at 62 years, and the @quine is said to be the oldest horse living, older than any other one on record. His unequaled age has at- tracted much attention throughout thé country. Many carnivals and fairs have sought to obtain posses- gion of the animal. Dr, Myers says the steed will live hig remaining days in peace. The changeable weather and jumps of a circus, Myers, would pr: too much for the ized animal. Savs Dr ove PEGGY HOPKINS- RICHMAN ACT | Peggy Hopkins and Harry Rich = man wer offered to the Loew (J ] . . = wokers { week as a two-act als Richmar rece! \ rejo ed Mae BA West, th tur playing vera zte weeks for the ith Cire ale The Richman-Hopkins combina = tion was said to be too high pri : stam fOr the Loew people for summer ; Vaudevtille booki 25s. eS Se TE G* See = MURRY'S | ‘GINGHAM GIRL”’ = Jules Murry, the Shubert's legit ats booker, has secured “The Gingham ale Girl” for the one and two night ale Stand territcry for next season. = 3 hata sald -The week Operated bs the will be Schwab stand company producers, & Kussel. Murry has been operating a com- pany of “Tangerine” on the one highters this vear and will continue ® With it next season in addition to ARBUCKLE WILL DANCE IN CHICAGO CABARET Fat Comedian, Now Carrying Overweight, Says Offer Has Been Accepted Los Angeles, May 9, Fatty Arbuckle says he has en- gaged to be a dancing attraction at the Marigold Gardens. (restaurant), Chicago, appearing there in June. Fatty has taken on weight and now sends the scales up to around 300. He has not disclosed who will be his dancing partner. The Marigold Gardens did wire an offer to Arbuckle; that is known. Arbuckle has been doing but litt!e (Continued on page 28) —_—————_— —— HARP MARATHON Roxy La Rocca Playing in Shop Window With the marathon craze in vogue, Roxy La Rocca, “the wizard of the harp,” started on a 24-hour continuous playing marathon on the harp Wednesday morning at 8.30 a. m. in the window of Eddie Mack's clothes shop at 1582 Broadway. While obviously a great publicity stunt for Eddie, the contest was a serious endeavor by the harpist to renga the record established in 20 by Enrico Amato, of Florence, i who played the harp continu- }ously for 56 hours and 55 minutes it the expense of badly bruised and blee¢ digits. W I ) lasting the fu i hour I R 1 doubled Amat " p 10 t s co io ed to j because of wea ‘ 10 want of nourishment The crowds were | Wednesday rdered La :arathon ona iccordingly van (still Mack's street, just off at 6:35 in the news photo- co large Broadway afternoon that Rocea to continue his n side street. He was transported in an open strumming the harp) to store on West 46th Broadway, concluding evening. A number of an office eraphers “shot” the harpist at work. The only casualties was a general | tiredness of the bands and temnpo- rary paralysis. La Rocca posted $590 against $3,000 by the Lyon & Healy musical instrument manufacturing firm of Chicago that he could break the hew piece. record. | | the 48 PAGES IEQUITY IN FOR TWO BATTLES oe VAUDE. BRANGI ALLEGE DUPLICITY Veiled Threat from Mount- ford if Equity Persists in Obtaining Vaudeville Control—The Vaudeville Branch People Spreading Many Reports — Assert Equity Officials Secretly Dealing with A. F. of L. Men to Break Equity‘ Vaudeville Branch Agree- ment—Equity Said to Be Following the Advice of Labor Leaders—Talk of “Skeleton Organizations” —Four A’s Meeting To- day Important CREDIT FOR ’19 STRIKE? have grown clamorous the Equity Sunday that Equity executives secretly fh conference with some officers of the American Federation of Labor These meet- ings, it is claimed been held Reports following meeting have met oven have in New York City. Their purport has been, the Mountford adherents charge, to discover a way to v itiate the agreement entered into by Equity with Harry Mountford and James W. Fitzpatrick, when, under (Continued on 23) page OIL WELL CRAZE IS FAD AMONG FILM STARS! Lo A r] Lid if | i ( i ) iv } t } aiter tnem Jackie Coogan was th f t o to have a gusher come it ind while the Jackie Coogan No. 1 was spurt- ing, the Jackie Coogan No. 2 came in with a rush A well named for Claire Windsor star is said to have came in a week 01 very well in which this a third interest, and is doing The iatest well to come in Buster Keaton No. 1. Drilling o7 Buster Keator No. 2 and the 3Zuster Keaton No. &, with the same people interested, starts Oil and real estate investments are discussed more frequently and with SO ago, ic the next week or a murder more fervor on the Coast at present than motion pictures BULL FIGHTS IN AT MAD. SO. OR OUTDOORS NEW YORK; Tex Rickard Arranging with Spaniards—No Brutal Features—Blunt Swords Instead of Darts— Spanish Capitai Behind Project IRENE FENWICK GIVEN DIVORCE DECREE Jay O’Brien Her Husband— Miss Fenwick Last with Lionel Barrymore Hiding behind the court record of a divorce proceeding by Irene O’Brien vs. James O’Brien, no one has gotten wise to the identity of the plaintiff as being that of Irene Fenwick, last with Lionel Barry- more in “The Claw” (two seasons The papers file, other- sealed to the and only open to the attorneys actively in- terested, also painstakingly eschew all references to Mrs, O’Brien (Miss Fenwick) as being a met! the profession Meyer M. Friend, at- torney, of 120 Broadway, who was appointed re to take testimony in the divorce proceedings, will probably not learn of Mrs. O’Brien’s identity unless he reads this James O’Brien is better known 1long Broadway as O’Brien Miss Fenwick, who was repre sented by Philip Wittenberg, of Bickerton, Wittenberg & Fleisher, sets forth that she first learned of her spouse’s infidelity when he started remaining out nights and when a jewelry bill for some fem- inine baubles which she never the recipient of came into her session That created the first ago), on wise press nber ol feree Jay ee mat FREE DURING SUMMER Unemployed Actors Can Work on Hodge’s Farm Henry Hodge closed a season on the Keith time April 28, and opened for the Loew Circuit May 3 at the Metropolitan Brooklyn. Robert He will be back on the Keith time with a new act next season Hodge has a 150-acre dairy farm in Kingston, N. Y., and offers free quarters for the summer to unem- ployed actors who can milk or pitch hay Asked about social conditions in Freeport, L. L., where he lives, said there has not been a scandal there in three weeks he r’ . Was | « The detailg for the preséntation of bull fights in Madison Square Garden, New York, in the fall were being worked out this week by Tex Rickard and a representative of Spanish interests who came to New York especialty to launch the pro- ject. In order that the contents be presented in this country, may all of the brutal portions will be elimin- ated, especially the killing of the animals, The matter has been discussed with representatives of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It is reported that society is not opposed to the conducted on a humane bacis the plans are laid at Spanish interests will eight of the best known toreadors and other men to work in the including five matadors. In pla of attacking the animals with darta the toreadors will use blunt with the contest to be cont. cts if As the bring over present Arena swords over when the bull has been exhausted With the brutal aspects of the bull fights eliminated the pageant end will be has alw favor of increased. This portion proved a big factor in the contests in Spain and Mexico. The Spanish interests will import all of the necessary equip- ment and personnel for the and will handle the arena them- elves, | The v i Sr panis th « ipital = | ompany over with | | | ays work ked * ¥ bring the ird to ar- either in the n ‘nture is being ba which will tick for the contests Square or if le d earl er, in an put rar itter door BEHIND ‘ ‘PUSSY WILL OW” A ai ite of 9 SEA SOI the wor if composer of the Trail’ number, The show is ” way ¢€ ris Zo Elliott, “Long Long now in Paris. tively titled The libretto is by Kate Horton; lyries by COSTUMES Who will make your next ones? Those who have bought from us say— BROOKS-MAHIEU 1437 B’way Tel. 5580 Penn. N. Y. City 5 we!1,000 Costumes for Rental famous who is tenta- “Pussywillow.” Milt Hagen and Mr. Hagen.

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London, May 9. | Indignation % £4gradually'§ ap- proaching boiling point here against the methods of some pro- ducers and agents. Some of the oldest and -best known producers are going out to make what is caliead the “eonfidential’ copy of a film in‘ which art is killed by nasti- ness, as instance a picture made in Germany some weeks ago and pri- vately shown here before an au- dience of buyers, actors and ac- tresses, in which a very well-known leading lady was stripped. bone naked to the waist by an equally well-known “heavy” man. The heavy man is very sick about it, but the woman has not been seen since, and the producer declares he is surprised at the reception of his art—he had no other thought but “art” when he: produced his “great rape scene.” Another thing which is infuriating the player is the “graft” between player, agent and producer. Unfor- tunately there is no substantial evi- denee on this score, as, although the players talk loudly enough, they will not agree to swear to their statements when brought to the scratch. They are frightened of becoming marked men and being black-listed. At the taking of a the- atre scene recently at the Aldwych inducements were held out by the agents, so that the supers brought a stage-struck friend with them

who got no money, although the agents doubtless charged it up. An- other stunt which is causing annoy- | | | ' ance is the engagement of supers | who ate “types.” When these ar- | rive at the studio they are asked | to play parts because they happen | to look them. When they go to the | pay table they are given their sup- |! per money. An exceptionally bad | case of this kind occurred the other | day when an old musician called Waters, a man with long whit hair and a patriar¢ hal face, was en- | gaged as an “extra.” On eras | at the Cutts pi he was asked “to the part of studio to supe Graham Woman,” play con- in the ture, “Woman to oblige” to an old artist. He sented and quickly discovered part was an import he eet was hhi« f super pa Oo! comm lor ol one pound, jes: ages s i0 per cent. The cinema artists’ agency busi ness in this country is practically a monopoly, the business being done by two people, one of ihem a vaudeville agent who was once a small time juggler, the other | aman who until he saw money in his present graft was the official in charge of the gentlemen’s lavatories at a third rate music hall. There are others equally ur th, but b oO meal now ful. J the |} t- ] 1 fiin I lé Tyit € ( oO ai n ] r final ! hi give a recital here Thursday (May 14),

BAD SCANDAL IMPENDS Theatrical Agents Involved— Paris, May 9. When the French version of the Channing Pollock American play, “The Sign on the Door,”*was pre- sented last week at the Renaissance some of the critics wrote discon- tentedly of the piece. It was very nicely appreciated by the first night audience and a good run is anticipated. Baro: Henri de Rothschild, under his own pen name, Andre Picard, made the French adaptation. Its title over here is “Signe sur la Porte,” in four acts and splendidly RIGHT IN LONDONTOWN Suggested Friends Pre- vent Break London, May 9. Tnless al utward signs fail, : . Unhe 4 all © ; — played, the latter contributing in no there will burst: upon the local little measure to its .success. theatrical firmament a domestic Alcover plays Regan, and Charles scandal that will do fhe amusement | Boyer is Derevaux, with Cazeaux : ; Y , - industry no good. For the good of the police meg Te Also a ee : : are G. Leclercq, Pierre Garnier, the theatre, friends should inter-| prautefeuille, Mercier, with Mme. vene to prevent an open break. iof “enticing” i

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7 Husband” i |rical man is too often seen in the ee ea er scypnt idl ee leompany of another agent — a VIENNA TAXES REDUCED London, May 9. iyounger, unmarried man, despite Vienna, May 9. “Her Temporary Husband,” | the objection of the husband. At The Vienna municipality has opening last night at the Duke of | one time recently, matters went SC) peen forced to restrict the heavy | York’s, was most heartily received. |far the mother of the younger ,"ten | taxation of foreign visitors in order It looks good for a run. percenter” openly accused the wife |to foster the season and encourage her son. |foreigners to the city. The reduc- Those omits to be “in the/tion includes 20 pér cent. of the tax ” , 4 b6, = 5 as P , . | know” deciare the. “affaii is @/)on price of rooms, from 30 to 50 per j armiess oné—that the wife iS!cent. on entertainments. CONNIE EDISS’ WEAK SKETCH London, May 9, London, May 9, A weak indifferent piayiet badly Ella Shields, charging cruelty and jayed ha ‘onnie Ediss in the |St#tutory misconduct, has _ beer ] ‘ hac j 2) in thn Palladium Mon- |&'anted a divorce day. i ay Stanley Lupino’s Accident London, May 9. centre of it at the Only her former Miss sal awitas popularity Ediss bei pre-

vented iF booed, IRENE CASTLE IN LONDON y Stanley elbow. It Lupino has may delay the opening a ELLA SHIELDS HAS DIVORCE | broken his Thursday, May 10, 1999 ARCH SELWYN TAKES EVERYTHING BUT K Municipa Council has - : rneichor —— . : “ a ~ 4 ll go OV n e 1} Y ; om ‘ mth, am de-| her te rpsichorean cayalier, |Hotel managers complained their} will ge tthe in the fi uM SOR lak si cided to allow Maurice Bernhardt | . oe : . le : presenting four playlets nightly ; ‘ ‘ | Bri nae a places were almost empty, owing to/|2 2 Say : ‘ six months’ grace before vacating | RON 2 ee : 7 from its repertoire of over 300 play= i on : ~ MUSIC MEN ABROAD heavy taxes on foreigners imposed | d ap : = | the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt | ie } : lets, changing the program weeklyy tha =: : T 6 iby the present Austrian govern- | ; Paris managers have signs a a pe-} London, May 9. | ene | Walter Wanger is said to be ins | tition suggesting a longer time be! American music men must be | iz ; terested in the Charlot-Selwyn deal Yr ther ? rt , , "unning out on tl 1 trade condi- | ees granted thereby, supporting Bern- ru g out on the bac i ndi- |} on harat’s contention it will take two} C10! Ss now existing in the States. | REVIVING “THEODORE ef vears to settle his mother’s affairs,| Over here now are aves Berlin Paris, May 9. SAILINGS 1% , . 7 + ~ Sy) Iorncte} riners ¢ aniilar Sarne “ . ‘ zs and he should retain the theatre for and Saul Born: Ree. SESE - Os A jitter? iad 0 LP sheodors et; May 29.—(From San Francised that length of time at least. Berlin, Inc., while Child of the Vic- | OM PAEHLO, created in 1906 at the | ¢o. syaney), Ruby Norton, Clarenc@ The coun ippears determined | tor is due in on the Aquitania and | gid Theatre des Nouveautes, NOW| senna (Ventura). to « t Ullmar ‘ é iy q-|Jack Mills will leave New York | disappears d, is being revived at} May 23 (London for New York); tor ( he f ( M rice May 15 on the Be rengaria. the Folic = Dramatiques W hich | Arn: aut Brothe rs (M ije stic) { > rou rs whe i ° Bernhardt after six m« ; and Jack Robbins of the Richmond- | ancient house has again changed its | May 15 New York for London), i lease the house to a-new tena who | Robbi Company is due here in policy and ill present comedy in- | Jack Mills (Berengaria) c + aap 2 + Aim CAS AA . A A , t } eret 7 ‘ a | ha yet to be appointed, July. : stead of ae eretta duri ing the sum May 12 (London to New York), Serlin and Bernstein can ver to | mer, it. ni ee | Berlin and Bernstein came over to | ir" he bill : Channing Pollock (Aquitania). DANCER GIVEN ONE MONTH | *¢e the “Music Box Kevue’ openin&:| sy, Lurville, ‘Pr ellng = seccngerice May 12 (New York to Londén)j Paris Mis iy pet ‘thas 4€, ATEVIUR, AUMCS, 4al- | George McClellan (Rotterdam). celle Monthi en trey The- - Ph te Caroline Pavlista, a pro DANCER IN MARIGNY REVUE elle Montnil, Denise Grey,: “Th May 12 (New York for London) ) re a | ‘ ad ) Va = aa a dat er, Wa e] enced to one mont! A Paris Miayv a | ae mr +7 eee L. Aege Jascha Heifit Z (Majestic ). guide oDagsegr yb? euil’s “Pour Avoir lrienne rhich , imprisonment at Prague for stealing} Florence Walton, American dancer, | haa pee af sa he ; { ne w — May 9 (London to New York)y | ren F l, 4 rica al ’ lat pen r ive 1Ore Ys ynnth . a $5,000 brooch, the property of Mrs |v N be jn the east of the summer! A 1 revive ere or a mol ‘| Harry Green (Olympic). aieaianiapatienadiaate ; 7 Lewis Einstein, wife of the Ameri- | revus at the Marignv Champs |} May 9 (London to New York); 9 A L til i i vt ai i 4 alixii ; hci ll ) 9 T -) i en » can minister in that city. The jews Elvsee which will aise ontain | PARIS’ LITTLE THEATRE 1}Arch Seiwyn (Olympic). were stolen « hic le Armande C: e. Y¥ve Chazel | Paris, May 9. May 9 (New York to London} ind were n ‘ ‘ d nd a local et ic Milto1 raston bi establishel the Bar-|Edward Tait (President Val Bue L jeweler re e bros - Bataille Henri, listed-as one of | #aue Chimere on the Boulevard St. | ren). Se iad bought it from a weman!the authors, is now reported out of Germain May 3 for performances of May 8 New York for Lendon)} inswering the 4d des ption | the ning Henri is taking over | the Chimere Dramatic Society. } Kenneth Hunter (Mauretania}, whe 1imec ‘ le the Cigale musie hall here from The*booth constructed is intended { May 8 (Same), Mile. ‘Trim rres ollow Flateau for the summer season, | fOr a permanent theatre with a ca- |4{Mauretania). commencing Jun¢ &, and wil] | pacity of 500. The project is elicit- | May 8 (New York for Le nie 4 T . . Te — . . ba ins josity _ a -. | “Chauve-Souris” Co. (Mauretaniah a] naturally roduce one f his*own |ing curiosity, but the present pro } | CLEMENCEAU AS STAGER [naturally 1 ' ma eurteniins Se the Geena See | SSeS ee Soci ae Lea Paris. May 9 revues ere Bie 15 UNSALISIAGCLOPY, It consists! o. a i a ag A | George Clemenceau’s and Charles of Denys Amiel’s one-act comedy, | Marjori ie Rambeau, Felix Ay } as . au all sictl i “To —- — ——- " : } mh ana PRourbon Py Pons’ lyrical comedy “Voile du Bon- “LOTAGE” BROUGHT BACK Le Voyageur,” and Lucien Ber-|H. G. Stoker, Diana Bourbon, (ie , i nards’ threes t comedy le Venx | tor Tandy, Mary Forbes, MI an ie I was revived this wee at the Danie M “ ] \ u sd at ( ( ; ; R } dis Mrs Lawrence Hanray Erne pera omiaue The ‘ ¢ f és rh ' . are pie of 1] Hast, Tex O'Rourke (Homeric). € j ¢ ¢ €« re ( aude L’O rer wer fe P . 7 7 , L ¥ May 5 (New York for Londom) inenianiie: tne: Klimmienes ; ‘ i MA leith ive ee DEATH S ABROAD = ait peices mada , + C3 : Ma } 2e0O WwWCLLY ( rbita) x if ) h; ed ‘ ‘ ‘ } y a vimonm Max, Recia " x with he ha ne ai P< les Prom . ‘ Mav 5 (New York to Londomh ears the n l me ae I 1) <6 ec WK } ‘ ‘ na V hie ¢ ed n be ot : 5 é ai : Marjorie Rambeau (Home ) him a remarkable produce | l de O« t é “ h On ope dex I a - s nnd a goo eceptir } P I s He w the ot . = ee TTT » } S ri ( rd P TOREADOR BADLY INJURED | public « wy fe THE TILLER SCHOOLS OF DANCING 143 Charing Cross Road . i LONDON “a Director, JOHN TILLER, “RHINESTONES. t THE LITTLEJOHNS

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luction hat. the 1 Paris weekg; nightly, 0 play= weekly, be ine: n deal ancisco larencé York), mndon), York), a). ondon)y in). yndon), York) York); ondon) in Bue ( ndon), . “Trint ( ndon) etaniah ondon)y Aylmer, n, Vit ir. and Ernest iC}. ndon)s A ndon)y Thursday, May 10, 1923 GOOD BUYING CHECKS DROP ~ IN AMUSEMENT STOCK GROUP \ Famous Players Held Steady After Dip Near 1923 Bottom—Loew Makes Good Showing After Dis- counting Adverse Action on Dividend 4 * The amusement stocks gave a fairly good account of themselves under severe test. Famous Players eased off to within a,fraction of its lowest price for the year, but when surrounding conditions im- proved Tuesday it rallied vigorously and was firm at 84 yesterday. Mar- ket observers who make the amuse- ments a special study declare that the issue is in strong position in- _.ternally and once the Federal Trade inquiry is out of the way it will be taken in. hand and worked up. Trading in all the amusements ws moderate and the tendency ap- peared to be to slacken in volume on setbacks. Compared to other classes of stocks such as the motor accessory issues the theatre stocks did well enough to encourage their following. In the case of Famous Players the weak holdings appeared to be pretty well cleaned up on the bad break of iast week. The sup- posed clique apparently used the weakness of the whole list to pro- mote an orderly decline for pur- poses of accumulation. It has been noted right along that the trading level is around 82 at which price it is understood the pool did a great part of its buying in the movement of a year ago. It would have surprised no one if Loew had gotten into new low ground, since it is suffering from the fact that the directors will pass the June dividend and would have been especialy vulnerable to bear attack. The fact that its movements were orderly and obviously well in hand argues pretty strong control at around 17. Nothing new has come out abcut Orpheum. Apparently Chicago in- terests are FPatisfied with the de- monstration recently made in run- ning the price up from below 18 to better than 21 and for the time be- ing is standing aside. The curb stocks were quiet with further im- provement noted in Griffith presum- ably representing hopes for the new picture which will be marketed in the fall. There were a variety of explana- tions for the sharp decli-e that carried almost the whole list into new bottoms for the year. Chief among them were the usual theories of professional raids and banking maneuvers to suit the purpose of big financial interests. One view from the inside was that the mar- ket was disturbed by a stock ex- change questionmaire conducted two weeks ago and checking up the brokers on their margin accounts. The exchange governors are said to have warned members that margins must be maintained adequately and houses with weak accounts had-to liquidate. The process hit certain Speculative stocks hard, but the amusements were comparatively Steady. Yesterday Famous Players held around 84, off about 5 points from its levels of the past few months. The summary of transactions May 3 to 9 inclusive: STOCK EXCHANGE 4 DIRECTOR’S PRESTIGE HURT BY COMEDY ACT Edwin August Closed “Taking Movies” Through Criticism— Reopening for Loew Circuit The “Taking Movies” act evolved by Edwin August for the Loew vaudeville houses will be revived by the picture director. He will open with the turn under Loew's book- ings at Baltimore, May 21, contin- uing on Loew's Southern time. When August first produced the act for Loew’s at the Metropolitan, Brooklyn, N. Y., he did not like the tone of Variety’s criticism on it. The Variety reviewer, taking the act in the manner it was accepted, for comedy, by the audience, op- pressed August, a well-known di- rector of pictures and one of the earliest among the megaphone men.’ The plan of the act is to have members of the audience, by invl- tation, come upon the stage to,com- plete a moving picture of brief length but of full story. It is melo- dramatic in theme. Each perform- ance the process is repeated. The following week at the same theatre (after the act has left) the com- pleted film is thrown upon the screen at every show for the bene- fit of the amateurs who partici- pated, their relatives, friends or neighbors. In big cities it is looked upon as a “neighborhood stunt” for the box office and in the smaller cities draws from all over. Through the employment of ama- teurs, August claims, a finished product was as impossible as it would appear to be. The attempt by the amateurs upon the stage in the first place brought laughter from the observers and the “acting” on the screen when later shown did the same thing. When Variety’s reviewer, seeing the finished picture on the succeed- ing week, he stated in his notice that as a picture August had turned out a film of inferior quality. August notified the Loew office he intended abandoning the act. Au- gust explained it would hurt his prestige as a director in pictures to continue in vaudeville if the trade critics accepted the comedy output in that manner. It also failed, said August, to establish him as a pic- ture director among the vaudeville managers he playei for with the act, The Loew people agreed with August on the theory that Variety’s notices are read alike by exhibitors and vaudeville managers besides picture producers and others Au- gust comes into contact with pro- fessionally. Whereupon August withdrew the turn after it had com- pleted its final Loew’s engagement, the act meantime having appeared in Keith-booked houses around New York. Se , € \, ¥ foe ees cK 4 faces. Chg. | Last week the Icew office sent 5s t 4 Sas - 2 s * a... Miles cs tad 200 92% 9214 92% & | for August, requesting him to re- pee ag MOS fon var he 2 % | vive the turn to play its out-of- Orpheum ...."° 200 19% 194% 19% *\ town theatres. August dissented Soston sold 160 Orpheum at 19% | bute later agreed if the Loew people Fridaq— | , : 1 Fam. Play-L 400 81% 81 81% would find a way to remov the De... nld...i... 100 92% 92% O2% .| impression the picture he made in Gold , ; re Gol gle eeceses & ane Rib, » oeae the comedy ict Was a serious at- v, { nent > ' Orpheum ote 100 19%, Ny 9 . tempt or a possibility as such. The aggag ) Loew people suggested August call (ola ane Ls Land S 8 on Variety and hav Variety make awyn See ¥) , 2 | e , . ’ Loew, Inc... 600 ; 17% } this explanation in order that Vrpbeum ie vO 10% 19% «19% :| August might proceed in his vaude- eg Rip i ville work with the trade wunder- Fam, Play-L... 2600 82 SOt% 81 Pe ie fs ; 7 ‘ ’ Oe. aaa 100 92% 92% 92y 1, {| standing the inside of it. Goldwyn ....... ri er’ % 43 a: | Loew, In« 4500 17% 17 17 | eS BUNK Se St ae OE T Orpheum 400 19144 18% 18% 1 erecce t . A ey — Tuesday— J HARRY FOX ALONE Fam. Play-L. 190 rt are > 4) 2 . . 200.. pid... .. ee oy 92% 01. 41% fentrice Curtis (Aers. Harry Fox) Paws aba 17Oo Ot 7 *, .l|was r@hearsing this week to join ew. IRC... 5. 1300 17 172 17% I sons ‘ 145.999 cae Orpheum ’ “300 19 18%a 19 s | he Gingham Girl’ at the Central foston sod 150 Orpheum at 1a@ 19 lin the role created by Helen Ferd _Wednesday— | Wox is doing his act alone in v iude- Tam Piay-L... 2900 4! gs g i t Cioldwyn Goo 3 nly 4 Lite Twe Vv, Ince MK) oT 17 1 a he | Sr Sr ee ae — on Orpheum ‘ye put | . OO a : *!| The Armory Theatre, Keyport, N THE CURB iJ., is now under the management Grittiin oe Sales.High. Low.Last. Chg. of Burns & Schaeffer, who are show - SUEMEGM weceicse > Hs 0 of, hy . : , Frid pit Alec lilng ie Sjire@ four vaudeville acts on Wed- day— : SER OEE svcuccs 100 5% 5% 3% +% Nesdays and Fridays WILL MAHONEY Where He Will Be Noxt Season: July Ea « ornary Des Moines —Orpheum, Paul — 3—Orpheum nneapo! Ni 30—Palace, Milwaukee 6—Palace, Chicago 13—Main Street, Fonmne City 20—State-Lake, Chicago 27—Keith's, Columbus 38—Palace, Cleveland 10—Keith’s, Cincinnati 17—Keith's, Indianayolis 24—105th St., Cleveland 1—Colonial, Erie 8—Keith’s, Toledo 15—Keith’s, Grand Rapids 22—Temple, Detroit 29--Temple, Rochester 5—Shea's, Buffalo 12—Shea's, Toronto 19—Princess, Montrea 26—Amsterdam and EER . 8—Keith’s, Syracuse 10—Albany and. Troy 17—Alhambra, New York 24—Riverside, New York 31—Royah New York 7—Orpheum, New York 14—Keith's, Boston Aug. Sept. ‘* 21—Keith's, Lowell » “ 2g—Keith’s, Portland Feb. “4—Albee, Providence * 11—Palace, New York “ 4$—Bushwick, New York “ 25—Colonial, New York Mar. 3—Flatbush, New York * 10—Franklyn and Rockaway * 47—8Ist Street, New York “ 24—Keith’'s, Philadelphia “ 3 31—Keith's, Washington Apr. 7—Maryland, Baltimore * 14—Davis, Pittsburgh “ 21—Grand, Philadelphia * 23—Orpheum, Germantowon May 6—Wm. Penn and Plainfield ‘** 12—Jefferson and Hamilton * 19—Proctor’s, Newark “ 26—Regent and Rivera June 2—58th Street and 6th Avenue §—Coliseum and Fordham 16—Mt. Vernon and Prospect 23—Broadway, New York 30—Greenpoint and Yonkers DIRECTION RALPH G. FARNUM (Edw. 8. Keller Office) NEW WJZ STATION On Fop of Aeolian—Newark Station Uitimately Abandoned — To further facilitate co-operation for broadcasting, the Radio Corpor- ation of America will formally open a new broadcasting station (WJZ) atop the Aeolian building on West 42nd street, New York, May 15. The Newark WJZ station operated by Westinghouse, affiliated with the Radio Corporation, will be aban- doned in time, The station has broadcasted the following Broadway productions, either wholly or in part, the past few months: “The Fool,” “The Old Soak,” “As You Like It,” “Romeo and Juliet” (Jane Cowl); “Caro- line,” the Winter Garden Revue, Theatre Guild’s productions, “School for Scandal,” “Go Go” and “The Laughing Lady,” as a result of which legit managers report an in- crease in business. Hugh Grady, acting for Arthur Hammerstein, is arranging for some of the “Wild- flower” people to render some of the show’s numbers, and “Sally, Irene and Mary” is on the tapis for other reproduction. The new WJZ station will operate from the start on two wave lengths: 155 for classical programs and 405 for popular, with both programs to be broadcast simultaneously. It has been decided that popular dance music is a necessity to the modern radio program, and arrange- ments for the broadcasting of such entertainment are being made. COLOR-LINE DRAWN Newark, N. J., May 9. The color. question came up igain last week here. J. Rosamond Johnson, the colored lead in a com- pany playing Loew's State, had Samuel Tress, manager of the seechnut Cafeteria in Market reet, arrested because, as John- =on alleged, the manager refused to erve him and Eloise Bennett, his leading woman. Tress stated that the proprietors had given him orders not to serve colored people. Tress was held in $300 bail. SAYS LAIT TO KELLY— Hon. (7) Walter’ Kelly, Judge of the Circuit (Orpheum) Court: Sir—A professional wit who can’t hold up his end in an academic de- bate without indulging in racial prejudices; without resorting to billingsgate indigenous to the black- and-tan eoanbatle whence he draws his humor; who would rather pour poisonous wood alcohol on an ad- versary than admit like a gentleman when he's Ilcked and produce a flask of respectable western bour- bon, should be left to the contempt of: the gallery without benefit of clergy to reap the stigma of the de- liberately foul fighter. But every square battler, when he is hit below the belt and the referee awards him the negative victory, weeps and writhes and _ cries: “Never mind the decision—let’ me get at him.” We have gone several rounds fn the* presence of a bigger audience than can crowd into Madison Square jarden, Every time I socked you on the button you poked me on the shield. I started far out- weighed at the ta» of the bell, for you were a famous metropolitan humorist and I was only an aspiring tyro from the sticks. The crowd was all with you—naturally; you were an N. V., A. in good standing and I was a critic of no standing. Before that gang you were Demp- sey and I was Abe Attell. 3ut—now! Even in New York there is such a thing as sporting ~plood. Your rabbit punches anent the flo,.s I had written, your butting in a clinch regarding my private life in the west and in the past, and at last, your wallop beneath the belt when you cheered Henry Ford —the crowd that had been all your way switched. Not only am I rabid to pick myself up and painfully, but manfully, go at you again, but your own gang is sereaming to me to knock :our block off. And I’m the kid that can do it. I, however, will fight fair. I will not enter into your persona! life. The isstie still is: Are you greater than the west? In order to clearly bring out that issue and yet remain a fair fighter, I ask you to answer the following questions or any of them: 1. Who was the W. Kelly paroled from Dannemora on Dec. 18, 19027 2. Who was the “stout, bald man resembling Irvin Cobb” mentioned in the Tex Rickard trial? 3. Which Kelly was penciled ia for a Shubert unit? 4. What was the name of the male single, billed as the “Virginia Judge," closed in Tulsa? §. What is the number of your White Rate card? 6. Why did you leave Sait Lake City in a hurry? 7. Why did you refuse to follow one of my acts in Kansas City? %. Who was the woman with a child in her arms that you refused to see at the stage door in Pitts- burgh? 9. How old are you? 10. What is your waist measure? 11. What is your racke:? 12. What do you slip your agent? 13. What does your agent slip the bookers? 14. What is your next open date? 15. Where do you get the “at- mosphere” for your Lenox avenue gags? 16. Why don’t you call Jack Pulaski “the man with the iron mask” to his face? 17. Why does Sime print your let- ters when you never advertise? 18. Why are you the only single man who gets routes like single women? 19. Who writes your material’ These questions wili de for the present. I have a follow-up set when you have _ satisfactorily answered the above. I don’t fancy they will be necessary. I will give you a reasonable time in which to reply, and if you do not, I will. Yours until Freeman Bernstein hits the trail. Jack Lait. IN LONDON London, May 1. Marie Tempest, who revived “The Marriage of Kitty” after the failure of “Good Gracious; Annabelle,” terminated her season at the Duke of York’s April 28. The Shakespeare memorial week is being widely celebrated through- out London and the provinces. Sir F. R. Benson opens a season at the King’s, Hammersmith, with “Tue Merchant of Venice’; Ben Greet's players open at the Alexandra Pal- ace with “Henry V”; the “Old Vic” starts a series of excerpts from the Bard with “all-star” casts; Plymouth starts on a Shakespearean repertory season, and Bridge Adams will be at the Stratford-on-Avon memorial theatre. ‘ Following the collapse of “Angelo” at Drury Lane after a brief run of a month, Maurice Moscovitch went holiday making to Italy. On his re- turn he will be seen as King Lear. Both the big drama houses, the Lane and the Lyceum, have begun the year badly. “The Lady of the Rose” closes down at Daly’s May 12, after 516 performances. It will be followed by the revival of “The Merry Widow” which has been doing big business in the provinces. In this George Graves plays his original part, and that of Lily Elsie is played by Evelyn Laye, Others in the cast are Carl Brisson, Derek Oldham, Ivy Tresmond and Nancy Lovat. After a run of a week “Tres- passes,” the new Edward Percy play, has been withdrawn at the Ambassadors, Percy made an initial success with “If Four Walls Told,” which, however, judging from a statement made in hie bankruptcy examination by P. C. Townsend, One of the producers, cannot have been exactly a financiai suCCéSS. Following their season in London, Marie Tempesti and Grahame Browne will proceed on a lengthy provincial tour. They will play “The Marriasg of Kitty.” While away they will produce two new plays one by Paul Kester and revivals of “Becky Sharpe” and a Somerset Maugham play are also contem- plated. Tom It. Davis's lease of the Apollo ends May 12, which may necessitate the run of “A Root and Four Walls” coming to an end If this is so Piyllis Neilson Terry will tour the play, but not until the late summer. Gadi Trearle will in all probabil- ity become the next tenant of the Apollo Herbe Ii, Baines. composer of “fhe Cuich of the Season,” “The Peauty of Bath,” “The Talk of the Town" 1d other musical comedies, | died here April 23, aged 43. EQUITY’S SUNDAY CLAUSE Two: Days’ Pay On Sunday—Will Ask P. M. A. To Accept it The Kquity Council is drafting a new clause which it will ask to be incorporated in the P, M. A.-Equity contract. It calla for a sixty-day contract, with Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday specified, It also provides that if at any time or place the actor is called upon to work on Sunday, he must be paid double salary pro rata for the day’s work; two days’ pay for one day’s work. JOYCE’S MARRIAGE The marriage of Jack Joyce (monopedic dancer, vaudeville) .and Doris Leslie Reynolds (Leslie Sis- ters) occurred April 27 in. the Church of Steward the Martyr, the Rev. Percival Pyle officiating. It was previously reported as the St. Edmund's Church, April 19 in Part VII of the Court of General Sessions, New York, a charge preferred against Joyce, in private life Harry Hall, was dis- missed. Mrs, Frederick Reynolds was the complainant. To Ppp - how good a cigarette really can be made you must try 1841 Broadway |, NORTHWEST COR. 60th ST. —

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oo. es EE CR NCP gM 227 gaia as Te Sd pe a Mee LODE IIE BERS EAR Pola tant Peete wed a nd. jhe a 2S PRT Berges sy Se & SS ; we ‘pate ote . REMI O80 Se ee PRECEDENT FOR SHOW KELLEY’S BRIEF ON GOOD WILL VAUDEVILL ES BUSINESS ———— ————— Ringling Attorney Assembles Data in Substantiation That Man, Not Name, Counts in Amusements—Matter of the Estate of Alf T. Ringling—Variety Printing Brief Serially for Preservation and Reference 7% ¥ [The argument set up by John M. Kelley before ihe Board of Ap- peals and Review of the Inherit- unce Tax Division, U. 8. Treas- ury, in the case of the Estate of Henry and Alf. T. Ringling and in which a decision is looked for within a fortnight is the most complete set of facts ever assem- bled on the subject maiter in question, ; The entire brief will be pub- liched serially by Variety for ref- wrence by attorneys and others.) The first installment follows :— Mr. Kelley makes the principal point that for inheritance tax transfer purposes circus good will (and the good will of any other amusement institution) may be enormously valuable during the life of the owner, but it is of only nominal value for transfer, and its value is not ascertainable for tax purposes. Such qualities are per- sonal to the owner or builder of such enterprise. Mr. Kelley has assembled: vast data to support his contention, going years back in circus history to prove it was the men in charge of the circus and not the inherited or established name that drew the public; that time after time suc- cessful properties have failed after being transferred from one man- agement to another irrespective of the good will of the names they bore, This valuable data never have been made available before. In ad- dition to the material hereafter presented, Mr. Kelley placed in support of his formal brief af- fidavits secured from most of the showmen now operating in the United States. The argument attacks the custom of assessing amusement properties in the same manner as other busi- nesses. The rule has been to con- sider “good will’ a fagtor in de- termining values based primarily upon income, capital and other considerations. It is Mr. Kelley’s argument that the rule should apply to amusement enterprises a number of reasons, the ab- sence of _§ intrinsic transferable value in good will and the high business risk inherent in the form of business. The first follows:— (The brief has been copyrighted, 1923, by John M. Kelley. Permis- sion to print or reproduce herefrom must be not installment of the brief obtained from Mr. Keliey, office address Palace Theatre ] lilding New York City ) Taxable Value of Circus Good Will This deals only with taxable good will value of the cir- eus interests held by said decedents at the time of their death; papers and affidavits in connection with the taxable value of other property be- ing filed separately. brief the The taxpayer taxes the position tl the good will interest (frac- ional) of the estates in the circus of Ringling BRros, co-partnership is of no more than nominal value and from the peculiar nature of the business is difficult of determina- tion. Henry Ringling died intestate. a citizen of Fiorida, October lit 1918. Alf. T. Ringling died testate, a citizen of New Jersey, October 2\st, 1919. Henry Ringling upon the date of his death held a one-fourth interest in the eco-partnership property of the following circuses— Ringing Brothers World’s Great- est Shows. Barrum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Adam Worepaugh 20d Sels Bros. Enormous Shows United. Alfred T. Ringling at the date of his death held a one-third interest in said circus properties. Agreeabie to the department the circus interests of boil estates are together considered, Upon the date of the death of Henry Ringling the statute (Act of Sept, 8, 1916, as amended) provided « higher rate of tax than applied under the amended act (Revenue Act of 1918—title IV, effective Feb- ruary 25, 1919) in effect at the date of death of said Alfred T. Ringling. Argument Argument is based upon the fol- lowing points:— 1. (a) Surviving partners have the right to continue same business under the same name. (b) What is the transferable cir- cus interest of the estate? . (a) To what does ciréus good will attach? : (b) The rule or place of locality. 3. Successful operation of the cir- cus depends upon profes- sional skill and personal qualifications of pattners. cireus is an extraordinary hazard and_is speculative. POINT 1}. Surviving partners have the right to continue’ same business under the same name. Mason vy. Dawson, 37 N. Y. 90,91; Scudder v, Ames, 43 S. W. 659, 671; Blake v. Barnes, 12 N. Y. S. 69; 2 Bates on Partnership, 605, 667, 673; 2 Lindley on Partnership, 652; Moore y. Rawson, 199 Mass. 493, 497; Douthart v. Logan, 60 N, E. 507; Rowell v. Rowell, 122 Wis. 1, 18, 19; Hutchinson v. Nay, 187 Mass. 262; 68 L, R. A. 186. What is the transferable circus interest of the estate? “The tax is not laid upon the prop- erty, but upon its transfer from the decedent to others.” U. S. Regulations, 37, Art. 1. In instances where surviving partners continue the business in which the deceased partner held an interest, they may be forced to ac- count only for that which a court or hostile administrator could have sold to a stranger without the con- sent of the surviving partners and in hostility to their legal rights. Rowell v. Rowell, 122 Wis. 1, 17. What could the executor of the Ringling estate sell? Certainly not to 4. The the exclusive right to conduct the circus under the name Ringling Bros. Neither would the executor have the right to sell a right or in- terest as “successor” to Ringling Bros. The surviving brothers are entitled to use their own names and the partnership name in the busi- ness. This is true in law. It has been true in fact. But two brothers out of five now survive. The sur- viving brothers have continued in the exclusive use of the partnership name. If the executor is thus limited there is little good will interest of the decedent of value capable of sale or transfer. There is authority for the prop- Osition that the only kind of good will which may be transferred is that which connotes the exclusive right to carry on the old name, Lobeck . : oHusiness Ve Lee. 23 I R \ 95 POINT Il. To what does circus good will at- tach? The circus ] sells nothing It parts With nothing. It exhibits Good wiil is not necessarily an in- cident of every business. Met. Nat. Bank v. St. Louis Dis- patch, 149 U. S. 436, 446; Scudder v. Ames, 43 S. W. 659. 671. The only theory upon which good will value may be established is that it applies to the name and reputa- tion of Ringling Bros. It couid not apply to any particular place. The circus is not a leasehold. The cir- Cus passes completely out of exist- ence as far as place or locality is concerned when it move the lot Good will could not attach to the tangible property of the circus, It is merely an incident in move- ment of the circus. The principal income of the cir- cus (held at Madison Square Gar- den, N. Y., and the Coliseum, Chi- cago) is derived from exhibitions given without either tents, wagons, railroad cars or other pronerties brought into use solely for trans- portation. Good will cannot uttach to a ,er- formance because a circus program not only must vary but must un- dergo complete change in direci contrast to the establishment of good will that attaches to a busi- ness dealing in commodities and articles of trade. The matter of good will being so limited in its entirety, what value would there be to the fractional in- s off the (Continued on page §) HART CASE APPEAL BEFORE U. S. COURT Decision by June 14 or Fall— Chief Justice Taft Asked Question Washington, May 9.. The hearing on appea: before the U. S. Supreme Court was ended May 3 in the action of Max Hart against big time vaudeville,. Counsel for either side consumed the 45 minutés allowed each. Martin W. Littleton made the argument-for Hart, break- ing his time in halves, with one end on the opposite sides of the address made by U. 8S, Senator Pepper of Penn., for the defense. A question asked by Chief Justice Taft. from the bench during the argument of Senator Pepper com- manded instant attention. The Chief Justice inquired if it were not a fact that vaudeville actors when travelling transport scene?y or prop- erties with them for use in their acts. Senator Pepper replied such a fact was not alleged in the Hart com- plaint. When Mr. Littleton resumed his argument the first thin; he did was to read that allegation from the Hart complaint. If a decision is not handed down by the time the high court adjourns for the summer, June 14, it is not expected before the court reconvenes in October. Maurice Goodman was the asso- ciate counsel with Senator Pepper for the big time that includes the Keith Circuit, while Eppstein & Axman are associated with Mr. Littleton. The point on appeal mainly was whether vaudeville comes under the classification of interstate commerce. Judge Julian Mack in New York when the action came before him on trial decided it did not and dis- missed Hart’s complaint, asking for triple damages. From that decision an appeal was taken, Attorneys for Max Hart in his ac- tion against the vaudeville interests, said, following Judge Mack’s con- clusion of the trial action of the case, that they had tacitly consent- ed to the dismissal as an expense saving. The attorneys stated that they had contested the interstate commerce point and then appealed, the cost of securing the record of the action would have reached $10,000. As they had accepted an appeal | would be taken by the other side, they were agreeable the decision | should go against Hart merely on an argument in the U.S. District Court, which it did, permitting Hart t« appeal at a cost of not over $500. What the Hart counsel thought |}was an important move was the elision of Hart as an agent who had been deprived of his franchise by the Keith office and to present him to the court as a producer deprived of his actors by the big time’s bar- ring edict, leaving Hart with pro- ductions but with no people or places to play them. This was in iine upjiolding the claim attesting that a vaudeville act is a commodity through the commodities necessary to complete it without the personal- ity or personal service of the actor. The defense claimed that all a vaudeville performance was com- posed of is personal service by the actor. Senator Pepper invited Mr. Littleton to go with him to Keith's (Washington) and see the vaudeville show there to be convinced of it. With the interstate art commerce ELEANOR PAINTER If) Eleanor Painter from musical comedy has been booked for a tour of the Keith houses starting May 26 at the Palace, New York. Miss Painter will appear in a series of scenes from musical shows and operas she has played in, in- cluding a scene from ‘‘Thais.” M. S. Bentham office arranged the hooking. E _-EDDY’S HALF MILLION Half of Estate Goes te Second Wife, Remainder te Son Ezra B. Eddy, former advertising man and vaudeville actor, who died last July, left half of his estate to his second wife, described in™ his will as his friend, Caroline Mar- garet McGuire, and the remaining half to a 12-year old son by his first marriage. His executor, George ©. Howard, was directed last week by Surrogate Foley of New York to file an in- ventory of the estate. with the court before May 22, or to show cause why he should not be punished for con- tempt of court. This action was based upon 2 petition fled by John Imrie, an unpaid creditor of the estate, for nearly $2,500. Eddy, who_was reported t® have inherited half a million from his grandfather, a wealthy Canadian match manufacturer, was divorced by his first wife in October, 1921. She charged misconduct with Ruth Elaine and Carlo Pageno, both ac- tresses, and with a Mrs. Inez Kelley, a divorcee, who aided Mrs. Eddy in her suit by Claiming Eddy had de- ceived her. SHUBERTS AND K. C. Figuring Next Year for Two Houses —Unit Killed One Kansas City, May 9. Otis Skinner in “Mister Antonio” was the closing attraction at the Shubert, which ended its rather spotted season Saturday night. Starting early last fall the house had four weeks of Shubert units, which proved the worst flop the theatre had ever experienced. With the failure of the units to receive support the Shuberts sent a number of their best available at- tractions here and most all were given good business. Just what the next season will bring is a problem. The Shuberts now have two houses here; the Shu- bert and the rebuilt and remodeled Century, which has been completed for a number of weeks, but never opened, Junius Allen Sues for Divorce Junius Allen is suing Jeanette Allen for divorce in the New York Supreme Court. The defendant is a colored performer. Eli Johnson is the complainant’s Not Certain Larry’ Semon Slipp ’ Him Champagne ~s In “The Reminder,” a monthip issue written and edited by Jz Osterman (no, not his father, Jack) for publicity purposes, is gn. observation by Frisco that hap pened out on the coast. ts “Young Jack tells it this way: | “Frisco and myself went out Larry Semon’s house one evenijp We had a fine dinner with some wine. a “Later, went back to the theatre and Fisco was telling about it, : said: ‘Larry opened champagne like water; it tasted that way anyhowts# Speaking of the N. V. A. benefif publication says: 2 “Vriday night thére was a man in the audience (Orpheum theat who gave a big donation with great) modesty. He was discovered, hows ever, and announced. Never in @ tion as was given this man. The" reception lasted fully five minutes sat in his seat and stared, but it) his eyes. The man was Roscoe™ Arbuckle.” the announcing fer the N. V. A,” drive. While talking he was inter-3 rupted by someone in the rear who Arbuckle, who sat in an aisle seat © down front. Fatty motioned Jack — to come down to him. He said to mention my name.” this winter Arbuckle had been out- returned to the stage,held up his hand and said: “Ladies and Gentlemen: I want to inform you that $100 has been donated by a man in this audience who has made millions laugh, but was the victim of a circumstance that any one of those millions might have encountered just the same. It was a misfortune—for the millions and for the victim, Mr. Roscoe Arbuckle.” The tumult started and it was re- ported nothing like the reception given Arbuckle ever has been heard attorney. in a theatre. What the Pittsburgh “Times” sa are ceived a whirlwind of applause. the favorites of the bill.” Shea’s Toronto, this week (May “While the Wilton Sisters have been seen in Pittsburgh before, and real favorites as youthful entertainers took nothing away from their laurels on the opening night, for they re- From that standpoint alone they were BOOKED SOLID B. F. KEITH VAUDEVILLE EXCHANGE MAE and ROSE WILTON “FAVORITES” id: and harmony singers, that 7). —,, Al and Fanny Stedman Separating Al and Fanny Stedman intend to separate at the end of the season, Fanny being due to appear in a production and Al to team with his wife, Rita Stedman, formerly Rita Shirley of the Shirley Sisters. The Stedmans (brother and sis- ter) have appeared together in Sousionaldiaaipeomeepiien —-— ee Miss Sanderson With Crumit Julia Sanderson and Frank Crum it are due to appear in vaudeville shortly, both as a team and a single turn by Crumit. Negotiations are on for the two acts for an early tour of the Keith houses through the Harry Weber office. a Both are playing in “Tangerin€ vaudeville for 11 years. which the Garrick, closes at held in Los Angeles, the Ostermam >» + } theatre have I heard such an oyasel He would not get up and bow, just™ could be seen there were tears in” The whole story of the Arbuckle i incident is that Osterman was doing shoutef he would double every dol-.7 lar donated that evening. — ‘¥ Osterman had caught the eye of = the young man: “Jack, I'll start this — off with $100 if you promise not to — It was 6ne of the very few times — side his home. Young Osterman saw “7 a chance to test public opinion. He’ ~ at ing tl Edwa ' Plimr about ward: nored Edy for fc office, The Bdwa office five I tini. ceive week Lat sent neces ward each ward to ag over 10 pe lowir act t celed Ed callec agen: cance mana the « the ° Edw: Th mem agers issui: vaud gene! away is th carry ager after Ma Ville Maxi form haul over

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ermans 7 ma’ %, eatre} creat. how-) ' in ga | ovas™ The nutes. | - just but it} ars in Loscoe © ouckis doing = Vv. Aan inter- = r who = a y dol-.5 ye of = > seat © Jack — aid to — rt this not to | times 1 out- n saw | n. He’ ae ip his want been dience h, but stance illions :t the or the » Mr as re- eption heard ——— umit - Crum udevillé a single ons are — n early ; through gerineg,” hh Garrick, i wards, > Bob Martini of the William J. ; Plimmer vaudeville agency (book- ' Plimmer stating he had » about “the trouble” and asking Ed- wards to call. =} _ Thursday, May 10, 1923 ALLEGING AGENT VAUDEVILLE ARTIST SLAMS HIM TRYING GRAFT, - Edwards and Edwards Aggrieved at Bob Martini— Claims Cancellation Threatened After First Ask- ing $15 Weekly Above \ + ¥ ae Commission of 10% ‘A member of Edwards and Ed- sharpshooters, “slammed” ing theatres) Tuesday. Wednesday Edwards received a letter from “heard The letter was ig- nored. Edwards had been given contracts for four weeks out of the Plimmer office, arranged through Martini. The understanding had _ been, said Bdwards, that he pay the Plimmer office five per cent. and send another five per cent. of his salary to Mar- tini. This he agreed to and re- ceived the contracts with the first week to have started Monday. Later Edwards states Martini sent for him, saying it would be necefsary for Edwards and Ed- wards to forward him $15 extra each week if playing the time. Ed- wards replied he would be unable to agree as that extra would total over 17 per cent. (including the 10 per cent.) commission. The fol- lowing day Martini informed the act the four weeks had been con- celed. Edwards, after thinking it over, called Tuesday at the Plimmer agency, asking Martini about the cancellation. Martini replied the managers had wired in cancelling the dates. Edwards asked to see the wires. When Martini refused Edwards “slammed” him. The Plimmer agency is not a Member of the Vaudeville Man- agers’ Protective Association. It is issuing the form of contract for vaudeville theatres that has been generally condemned and done away with by the best agencies. It fis the “one performance contract,” carrying a clause giving the man- ager the right to cancel the act after the first performance, Martini was formerly a vaude- Ville performer, of Martini and Maximilian, magic act. With reference to the Edwards- Martini rumpus, Walter J. Plimmer said Martini was a booking agent supplying the shows for some houses around greater New York, and an artist’s representative as well, Martini has desk room in the Plimmer offices, Plimmer said, and booked acts with Plimmer, but did mot work for the Plimmer agency as an employe. Plimmer said as he understood it, Martini had asked Edwards for $15, because Martini had lost the book- ing of an act on which he (Martin!) would have made $15 commission | through the Edwards booking re- placing tie act. It seems according to Plimmer, Martini had booked an act for the} Auditorium, Montreal, with the Plimmer agency. Plimmer informed Martini later he was going to re- place the first act with Edwards and Edwards. Martini took the attitude that he (Martini) was losing the commis- sion of $15 that he would have made had the original booking not been cancelled through the Edwards’ re- placement. Consequently Martini decided the Edwards act should reimburse him (Martini) for the lost amount, and it was shortly after Martini so in- formed Edwards, that the latter hauled off and hit Martini a wallop over the eye. BEERS’ CONCERT TOUR Pianist-Monologist, with Claudia Coleman and Musicians Arrangements are being made for a concert tour in the fall for Leo Beers, the vaudeville pianolog- ist. Claudia Coleman will be on the Dregram, also a pianist and ‘cellist. Jennie Jacobs is representing the artists, who anticipate. starting early in July at Atlantic City. Charles Goodman has leased the Majestic theatre and Airdrome in Atlantic Highlands, N. J., for several years. Vaudeville, pictures and sum- TRIPLE BENEFIT SUNDAY FOR N. V. A.SICK FUND Expect $100,000 Will Be Real- ized—Stone and Rogers at Each House The triple benefit performancés for the N.V.A. Sick and Relief Fund at the Hippodrome, Metropolitan and Manhattan Opera House next Sun- day (May 13) is expected to realize close to $100,000 from ticket and program sales. Fred Stone, president of the N.V. A., will appear at all three houses. The Stone show “Tip Top” will be in Detroit this Saturday but Stone will jump to New York immediate- ly following the Saturday night rer- formance. Will Rogers will also ap- pear at all three benefit perform- ances, Last minute additions to the pro- grams include George White, Gilda Gray, Nancy Welford, Anr Pen- nington, Lou Tellegen, Donald Brian, John Steel and Julian Eltinge. Pat Casey will run the stage at the Metropolitan, Johnny Collins at the Hippodrome, and Jules Delmar at the Manhattan. Bill Quaid will be out front at the Manhattan; W. Dayton Wegefarth at the Hippo- drome, and Fred Jordan at the Met- ropolitan. The advance sale assures a ca- pacity attendance at all three per- formances with the gross increased largely by the auctioning of the boxes. The souvenir programs will sell for 50 cents, ’ BARBARA LaMARR WEDS EX-HUBBY GOES TO JAIL Los Angeles, May 9. Almost on the day that Barbara LaMarr married Jack Dougherty out here, her former husband, Phil Ainsworth, a vaudeville and musical comedy actor, was sentenced from one to ten years for forging checks. Mrs. Dougherty divorced Ains- worth some years ago. Ainsworth was arrested in San Francisco and brought here for trial. Miss LaMarr has announced she is going to sue for damages Oscar Maryatt of Chicago. Mrs, Maryatt, in a divorce action, charged that her husband had tnformed her Miss LaMarr was infatuated with him. STABBED “PLAYFULLY” Cincinnati, May 9. Mrs. Marie Rosener Pruett, 25, pianist for the Beebe Musical Com- edy Co., was stabbed by her hus- band, George Pruett, barber, 3086 Henshaw avenue, Cincinnati, at the Rialto Theatre, Covington, Ky. Mrs. Pruett had just finished her act and taken a seat near the front of the house, Her husband, who had been sit- ting in the rear, arose and sat next to his wife. A few minutes later the woman screamed and ran upon the stage and into the wings, fol- lowed by Pruett. Again she screamed anc Pruett ran into the street. Harry J. Meyers, proprietor of the theatre, learned that she had been stabbed in the arm, four stitches being required to close the wound, Pruett, after his arrest on a charge of felonious assault, said he and his wife had got into a “playful scuffle.” She refused to appear in court against him today, but Meyers declared he would pros- ecute. Pruett was released on $1,000 bond. PETROVA, CASTLE AND OTHERS Among the names big time vaude- ville expects to use in the East this VAUD CHARLES ALTHOFF with an offering suitable for the better motion picture theatres that are now playing vaudeVille head- liners, This week (May 7) Miles, Detroit. Next week (May 14) Pantages, Toronto. Week of May 21, Pantages, Ham- ilton. . Week of May 28, Orpheum, Detroit. Address care EDW. 8S. KELLER, Palace Theatre Bldg. New York. TWO DIVORCES Ferrari Wants One—Fred Kincaide Also Natalie Chicago, May 9. Natalie. Ferrari (Sascha Platov and Natalie, vaudeville) has started divorce proceedings against Martin Ferrari on ground of desertion. William F. Ader represents the de- fendant. A separation spit between the same litigants is pending in New York. Ferrari has been or- dered served by publication. Mr. Ader is also acting-for Fred Kincaide (Kincaide’s Ladies’ Jazz Band with the Columbia burlesque show “Giggles”) against his wife, in a divorce action. Desertion is charged. The couple have been liv- ing apart for four years. Mrs. Kin- caide is Flossie Fields, profesion- ally. CONDUCT OF ATTORNEY CAUSES A MISTRIAL Timberg’s Lawyer, Morgan- lander, Misbehaved and “Talked Back” to Court Were it not for the professional misconduct of Emanuel Morgan- lander, an attorney associated with Harry Saks Hechheimer, who was defending Herman Timberg in a suit by Nat Nazzarro for $1,200, the action would not have been termed a “mistrial” by Judge Morris Eder in the Third District Municipal Court, before whom the action came up Wednesday. Morganlander, de- spite the jurist’s warning on how to conduct his case and plead for his client, repeatedly misbehaved and “talked back” to Judge Eder. Ordinarily this constitutes a con- tempt of court punishable by a fine or otherwise. Judge Eder merely called it a mistrial and adjourned the case. This may or may not have had some bearing on Timberg suddenly becoming ill in court. Nazzarro claims $1,200 as a week’s salary with Timberg’s “Frolics of 1922,” Shubert unit. LEGAL POINT Oral Modification Does Not Stand Against Written Agreement A novel point of theatrical law was decided when Gene Barnes was awarded a directed verdict for $1,000 against Joseph M. Gaites be- fore Judge Davies and a jury in the Third District Municipal Court Wednesday. Barnes claimed there was $2,226 due him under his con- tract for the run-of-the-unit with the “Gimme a Thrill’ company, whereby he was to receive $300 weekly. Barnes only sued for $1,000 through Kendler & Goldstein, waiv- ing the balance, so as to come within the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court. Gaites’ contention was that the entire company, including Barnes, had agreed to a cut, Barnes’ deduc- tion being $50 weekly. The judge sustained Julius Kendler, Barnes’ attorney, that this testimony should be excluded, because the alleged modification of the contract was oral, whereas the contract sued upon is a written one, and if any modifications were to be recognized they should have been duly set on paper. This may result {n a number of summer are Mme. Petrova and mer stock wili be played. The open- j irene Castle. complications in numeroug tbeat- EVILLE HORWITZ RECEIVER HOLDS OFF OPERATION OF BOOKING AGENCY Loew Agent Claims Agency Property of Corpora- Attorney Threatens Contempt tion— Wife's Proceedings—Horwitz Defaulted on Alimony JESSIE REED’S ACTION NAMES DOROTHY BLAKE Sues Lew Reed for Divorce— Earl Hampton and Hampton and Blake in Another Case Jessie Herzberg, professienally Jessie Reed (single, vaudeville), bas instituted absolute divorce pro- ceedings in the New York Supreme Court against Lew Reed (formerly of Reed and Tucker, and currently of Tremene and Reed), in which Dorothy Blake (Hampton and Blake) is named co-respondent. The Hotel Broadway-Claridge, New York, and Room 403, on April’ 12 last, are named specifically with other infidelities allegedly occurring “at various times and in various cities of the United States, and dur- ing the’ months of November and December, 1922, and January, Feb- ruary, March and April, 1923,” in all of which Miss Blake (Mrs. Hampton) is mentioned. The lat- ter has a suit for divorce pending in Brooklyn, N. Y., against Earl Hampton, also based on statutory grounds. Miss *Réed is asking for $150 weekly alimony and $1,000 counsel fees, alleging that Reed, when in partnership with Al Tucker, made $350, and that she earns an average of $100 to $250 a week, A suit for separation, started last July, found Miss Reed unsuccessful when it was shown she earned more than her husband, The affidavits and the complaint set forth that Mrs. Herzburg is 25 years old and he 28. They were married June 10, 1914, in New York, when she was a member of a sister team (Hayward Sisters) and he a musician and leader in a summer resort orchestra, allegedly earning $100 a week. Miss Reed complains, through 8S. Earl Levene, as attorney, that her husband’s cruelty necessi- tated intermittent separations. The complainant states that she first heard of Dorothy Blake’s re- lations with Lew Reed in. Chicago last January, when mutual friends advised her of a recent celebration of the marriage of Reed and Miss Blake. She states the couple have lived at the Hotel Drake, Chicago, as Mr:and Mrs. Lew Reed. Through investigations, it is set forth, Miss Reed trailed Reed when he met Miss Blake at the Pennsyl- vania station in New York April 12 last at 12:25 midnight and regis- tered at the Broadway-Claridge as Mr. and Mrs. Lew Blake. The de- tective employed by Miss Reed in his affidavit quotes Miss Blake as saying: “No, he is not her husband; he is my husband, and I havé been living with him for over a year, and he is the man I have been living with.” The sleuth further quoted the corespondent as saying to him: “She (Miss Reed) did not have to go to this extreme, for | was per- fectly willing .o giv? her evidence for a divorce providing she made no application for alimony. I was per- fectly willing to pay whatever coun- sel fees would be necessary upon condition that she would not men- tion the said Dorothy Blake ag co- respondent.” The motion for alimony and counsel fees was to have been argued last week, but adjourned on consent of Mr. Levene and Kendler & Goldstein, who have filed a notice of appearance for Reed, A short time ago Hampton and Blake had to reimburse the theatre by order of the Keith office on a play-or-pay contract for walking out of the bill of a Southern vaude- ville theatre early in the week. The reason, therefore, was reported be- eause of Hampton's return after the show and discovering the pres- ence of nother member of the bill with his wife at the late hour. The man was of a two-act, but not otherwise identified. William F. Ader, the Chicago theatrical attorney, is in New York rical contracts. this week on business. s .- Although Justice Newburger in the New York~Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed Max Altmeyer, of 290 Broadway, New York, a metropolitan attorney, receiver of Arthur J. Horwitz’s property, the receiver has elected not to exercise his powers. He appeared at Hor- witz’s office in the Loew Annex Building on West 46th street late Wednesday (yesterday) afternoon for the purpose of taking possession of the premises and the assets and continuing the business of booking Horwitz’s acts, but decided to take no definite action. The receivor- ship is a result of the Loew book- ing agent’s default of his alimony obligations to Mrs. Edith Living- ston-Horwitz who has a divorce suit pending. The receiver and Benjamin F. Spellman, Mrs. Horwitz’s attorney, were greeted Wednesday by Hor- witz who protested that the office was not his, but that of the Arthur J. Horwitz Vaudeville Artists, Inc., pointing to the corporate appendix in small, and faintly painted letters on the windows under his own name in large, bold type. The agent was taken aback when the at- torneys expressed their willingness to believe his statements. They queried him what connection he had with the corporation. After first denying any, he admitted own- ing 560 per cent. of the company and drawing $100 a week. Mr. Spellman took this with a grain of salt in view of Horwitz’s personal affi- davits that last year he earned a net income of $27,400 and in the months of January and February last earned $4,600 net. These affi- davits are court records in con- junction with Mrs. Horwitz’s di- vorce suit, Instead, the. receiver (Attorney Altmeyer) will file his report today (Thursday) anent the non-discoy- ery of Horwitz’s personal property. Mr. Spellman will make a motion to punish Horwitz for contempt of court for failure to pay his alimony regulayiy. After promising to continue his alimony obligation, Horwitz paid $1,125 down but defaulted on the balance, now totalling around $1,500. Mrs. Horwitz’-attorney entered the sequestration order, previously granted him but which he held off filing pending an agreement where- by the Loew booker had agreed to pay all of his alimony. Mr. Spellman states that the de- fendant faces a series of jail com- mitments for six month periods each, as long as he remains within the jurisdiction of: the local courts, Horwitz was only recently released from ‘the Ludlow street “alimony club” and another incarceration is imminent if the receiver so recom- mends. Aithough ordered by court to pay $200 weekly and $1,000 counsel fees, an agreement was subsequent- ly effected whereby Horwitz need only pay $125 a week regularly and $75 a week for the 12 sutimer weeks, but he is obligated to make up the difference between $75 and $125 in the subsequent 24 payments at the rate of $150 a week. The summer rider is permitted the agent on the plea of slack season during the warm months. The order for the appointment of Mr. Altmeyer as receiver was entered Tuesday. The attorney the same day posted the $1,000 bond required by Justice Newburger. Horwitz has had no less than six lawyers since his legal imbroglio with his better half, starting with the firm of Olcott, Bonynge, Mc- Manus & Ernst, with Jerome H. Jacobs reported as the last legal standby. In between were included Harry H. Oshrin, Frederick E., Goldsmith, and an attorney from New Jersey. If Horwitz continues defaulting in his payments, he is subject to arrest for contempt of court and jail for six months with similar pe- riods renewable at the previous haif year’s expiration until he decides to comply with the court order, Jack Gardner, former vaudevillian, now an agent with a W. V. M. A. franchise, is in New York looking over material for next season in the West.

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and Indianapolis. Thursday, May 10, 1923 HERK NOW IN POSITION

[0 DICTATE TO MUTUAL, Report Says So—Meeting to Be Held This Week in Cleveland Five houses of the Mutua! Circuit controlled by J. J. McGrath have been purchased by interests repre- senting I. H. Herk. John Jermon, secretary. of the Mutuai, has been ordered to turn over the stock and holdings of McGrath to a firm of at- torneys representing a man who is gaid to be acting for Herk. he houses are stands in Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Louisville This and the stock held by McGrath are believgd to place Herk in a position where he can force the Mutual to take him into the circuit, when, it is expected, he will be the next president. With the five and. nouses in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Lou- isville, Kansas City and Omaha pledged to Herk, subject to his fu- ture plans, it is said Herk will be in a position to dictate terms to the Mutual which, if not acceptable, will eventually mean an opposition circuit built around the houses men- tioned in the deal. McGrath has been regarded as the financial backbone of the Mutual. He is known as the largest single concessionaire in this country and

is independently wealthy, with an{Dumont’'s income in no way dependent upon theatricals. He is a shrewd show- man and has long been in favor of & progressive policy for the Mu- tual, believed to be the reason he threw his support and holdings to Herk. When the Affiliated Circuit (Shu- bert units), of which Herk was president, dissolved, Herk was thrown into bankruptcy. He tried to buy inte the Mutual, but was un- successful, due to Columbia Circuit opposition as represented by Jer- mon and interests friendly to the Columbia, it is said. Nothing daunt- ed, Herk was determined to return to burlesque, a field in which he amassed a fortune before the dis- astrous Shubert Vaudeville Circuit materialized. Herk was president of the American Burlesque Circuit, working his way Yo control of that organization against decided oppo- sition from the Columbia people and through much the same method with which his latest maneuver por- tends. A conference hetween Herk, E. Thos. Beatty, McGrath and the Mu- tual officials is set for the latter part of this week in Cleveland. NO DELAY FROM FIRE

Gayety, St. Louis, Suffers $2,500 Damage—Dane’s Fast Work f

St. Louis, May $. The Gayety gave its matinee Fri- day, barely making it after a fire at the conclusion of the performance the evening before, which damaged the house to the extent of $2,500. The night watchman discovered the blaze. He summoned the fire managers and Oscar Dane, the the- atre’s manager. With the fire out at 2.30, burning from 12.10, it was a thousand to nothing the house would be closed for the remainder of the week. Even at that hour Dane dug up four men somewhere, two of them carpenters, borrowed the necessary tools from hotels, and all of them worked until nearly curtain time, when the house opened. On top of that Dane managed to induce the dailies not to mention the fire DISPUTE “TUL” TITLE Jim McWilliams, vaudeville piano- logist proposes to star in a new musical show called “Tut Tut.” Billy McKenna wrote the book and lyrics, and McWilliams the music. It’s in three acts, and calls for a chorus of ten girls. The show is scheduled to open May 22, at one of the shore resorts, probably B. S. Moss's Columbia, Far Rockaway. Clark and MeCullough have also announced they will call their next season's Columbia wheel burlesque show “Tut Tut,” and a conflict overt the use of the title is on the cards,

KRAUS’ EQUITABLE CIRCUIT The new popular priced booking circuit which Dave Kraus and sev- eral other burlesque people have organized will be known as the Equitable Legitimate Theatre Cir- cuit, Ine. Application for incorpora- tion thereunder hae heen made. DOUBLE “NAMES” — Mollie Williams May Go in Marion Show for Week

A deal was under way this week whereby Mollie Williams will go into the Dave Marion show for a .} week, probably May 14. Final de- tails were to be settled today (Thursday). The plan calls for Miss Williams to appear in the course of the Marion show_in one or more comedy bits with Marion, and to present a specialty or two. With the booking of Miss Williams as an added attraction with the Marion show, tie billing will be the “Marion Show”’—Mollie Williams week, or something on that order. If the plan goes over Marion may add a Columbia wheel favorite dur- ing the run of the show weekly. The Williams booking, if consum- mated, would mark the first in- stance of one Columbia star engag- ing another to appear in a show. The idea in general resembles the visiting star plan as practiced in dramatic stock houses for years,

PHILL~’S SEASON OVER Philadelphia, May 9. Aithough all indications point to an unusually late legitimate season here, many of the smaller houses have begun to shut up shop. The Casino and the Trocadero, buriesque, closed a week ago, and GMinstrels) closes this All three had successful seasons, the first-named the best, especially in the fall. The only burlesque house still open is the Bijou, which, since the closing of the Troc and the Casino, has been advertising in the papers to a greater extent than all year. The management hopes during this pe- riod of non-opposition to get bur- lesque patrons coming to this house. This week's attraction is Harry Field’s “Hello Jake” show. The opening of the parks (Wood- side last Saturday and Wiilow Grove this Saturday) is expected to influence the closing of many of the smaller houses. Saturday.

SHOOTING LICENSE The shooting of revolvers in bur- lesque shows the past season was decidedly less than in former years. It seems the insurance companies that insure the troupes in accord- ance with the compensation in- surance law in New York and other states are stricter than in former years, insisting that a permit be secured in each local stand. This usualty costs about $2 a week. With 40 weeks playing that means $80 extra expense for a show. Most of the shows didn’t think the shooting was worth the expense attached to it. There has always been a fire- arms license fee in most states, but it was not strictiy enforced with the burlesque shows, until a couple of years ago, when a accident in a vaudeville theatre in Chicago, called the attention of the insurance com- panies to the revolver play in gen- eral, As a result the burlesque bad man from the west with his noisy six shooter has been side tracked to a great extent, HAINES HEADING STOCK CO. Nat (Chick) Haines will head a burlesque stock company which will alternate between the Lincoln, Union Hill, Roosevelt and West Hoboken, New Jersey. Haines will produce the shows as well as ap- pearing as principal comic. The burlesque: stock will be at the Lin-

ecoln the first half, and Roosevelt the second. The houses will play vaudevilie and pictures as usual the half of the week they are not occupied with the stock. The policy is for the summer, Haines who was featured comed ian with Jacobs’ & Jerman’s “Good Times” (Columbia) show iast sea- son has been re-engaged for next vear in,a similar capacity. SUMMER STOCK AT OLYMPIC The Olympic on 14th street, New York, finished its season with the Mutual wheel shows Saturday, and started with burlesque stoc! Mon- day. Stock ill be the policy until about the middle of August, when the Olympic begins playing the Mu tual shows again. John and Charlie mond Palace” fame in burlesque are turke, of “Dia- producing and appearing the Olympic stock shows, The Burke Brothers are listed for a Mutual

wheel show next season, — a a Tere ee &! BURLESQUE

-- ee COLUMB The Marion show which started at the Columbia Monday as the 14th summer run attraction is a good show; very good in the way of pro- duction, entertaining throughout and possessing in generous measure that all-important ingredient of any sort of musical entertainment— comedy that gets the laughs. It’s almost an entirely new show from the one that played the Columbia in January. The former Marion show incidentally was a decidedly satis- fying burlesque entertainment, but the new one lays over it like Ring- lings’ big top over the three rings and four platforms. The chief fault of the old show has been corrected; that was the weakness of the cast. The new cast retains the best of the old, including Marion with his Snuffy characteri- zation; Walter J. McManus, comic; Gordon Bennett, singing juvenile; Mae Marvin, prima, with a real voice; John Willard, straight, and Delmar’s Fighting Lions. The addi- tions are an old-timers’ trio, Eddie Girard, Josephine Sabel and Chariie Diamond; the Six Steppers, a fe- male dancing sextet, working after the fashion of the English Tiler girls; George and May Le Fevre, dancing team; Six Jolly Jesters, musical act (male); wearing clown garb, one working in blackface, the general effect suggesting the Tom Brown musical sextet; Three Voices, male harmonists; Agnes Hunter, toe dancer; Three O’Connor Sisters; the Petite Six, dancers; Bryson and Thomas, colored team; Vinnie Phil. ips, soubret, and Will H. Ward. comedian. These additions suppty the neces- sary speciaities that keep the show moving along at a rapid gait. it was a great show in the matter of production and lighting when at the Columbia before. It’s still great in that respect. In fact, in the matter of lighting the Marion show might stand as a model for most of the other Columbia wheel shows to fol- low. There’s special lighting from the foots, side lighting and top light- ing, and it’s all splendidly handled. Scenically the show radiates class. It should, being the 1922 Ziegfeld production. The chcrus is better than ever. There are many musica! interpolations, considerable of it composed especially for the Marion show by lTarl Bronson. Marion wrote the book and lyrics. The Delmar Lions remain a ster- |

Marvin's vocalizing likewise’ tops most of the specialties. Marion is doing the best comedy work of his long career in this show. He has} spent a barrel of rioney to bring his | attraction up to a high average. The Columbia patrons ought to| favor this summer show. igre | { ling feature for the show, and May | | } something in it to please every class of burlesque theatregoer. The old timers, for instance, who were a wow Monday night should attract the older generation, and there's plenty to please the younger ones. Bell.

PEARSON MANAGING Arthur Pearson is company man- |} ager of “Barnum Was Right,” hav- ing taken charge of the Louis F. Werba attraction this week when it moved from the Frazee to the Cohan. Pearson wags one of the best known Columbia Wheel bur- lesque producers. He switched to

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Shubert unit vaudeville this sea- son. His “Zig-Zag” show, like most other units, was a big loser withdrawn early in the winter. and }

LOTHROP HEADS MUTUAL George EB. Lothrop, Jr., of Boston, will serve as acting president of the Mutual in place of Dave Kraus, re- | signed, until June 15. On that date the Mutual will hold its annual meeting, and election of officers, and | a permanent successor to Kraus will) be selected. Mr. Lothrop controls the Howard, Boston. | | | |

COLLINS AND PILLARD SIGNED Marty Collins and Jack Pillard last season featured comics witl the Fred Clark Columbia show “Let’s Go have been Hurtig & Seamon for next - 2 of the H which signed by S@Aasor & S one has weril WY tat aahoeaha SEES hey Columbia troupes; not been decided. Jack Singer’s Burlesque Tab Show Jack Singer is organizing a bu! lesque tab show to play during the summer in the houses adjacent to New York. Singer will manage the Chas. H. Waldron Columbia wheel show next season, The title of Waldron’s show will be changed from the Frank Finney Revue as Finney will not be with the next season, the first in 16 years. The former title, “Troca- ’ may be revived. show deros “Maids of America” Title Changing J. Herbert Mack's “Maids of America” will rotate around Columbia wheel next season under a new title. The present name has been in use for 15 years. The new the

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NO CANDY GAMBLE 25¢e for Candy Package, Not Issued By Geo. Washington Chicago, May 9. “If you don't find something be- sides the candy don’t. hesitate to return it,” is the promise frequently emphasized in connection with the sale of “Smiles and Kisses” at 25c per at the Empress. This state- ment is made after a display of articles of good value and is truth veiled in such a way as to be mis- leading. “All guess work—no telling what the packages contain” said the Selier Whose name certainly cannot be George Washington. “It is no gamble,” he said at another time, which, with marked packages that the candy boys can easily identify, is business candor. The patronage at the Empress, now in its fourth week of stock burlesque, has been fairly good in spite of the sale of “Smiles and Kisses.” The 25¢ guessing contest might bring the house more money if its patrons were allowed to keep their money for return visits, without as much. of a gamble through leaving it in the box office,

EMPRESS STOCK, CHICAGO < Chicago, May 9. The stock burlesque company at the Empress opened April 15, and so far business has keen about $5,000 per week. The company is under the supervision of J. W. Whitehead. It consists of 24 chorus girls, six chorus ~men and ten principals. As the Engelwood, just around the corner (Orpheum vaudeville), is to-close and the National, across the street (recently a failure with Hyatt tabloids), is dark, it leaves the Em- press with the only picture house opposition in its immediate section. The satisfaction last week's show appeared to give to a good-sized audience Thursday night indicates | the proposition is going to be suc- cessful, The Whitehead show last week was called “The Devil’s Garden,” | produced by Whitehead and George | FH. (“Bum”) Slocum, with musica! numbers arranged by Eleanor Tay- Scenery and wardrobe were could be. desired, and a runway into the audience gave op- portunity for close inspection of the girls, who look good—both face and figure. The principals, with the ex- ception of the straight man, are Satisfactory for such an organiza- tion, and the chorus girls, while not dancing as much as they might, sing fairly well and weac numbers on their legs throughout the entire show (there are no bare legs}, which enables a favorite to be identified in succeeding numbers. There were two vaudeville acts. though possibly they were framed in connection with the performance and not regular acts, for Bud Mc- Intyre did a single and then ap- peared in a quartet composed of Bob Girard, Hyland Thompson, Bert Barry and McIntyre. McIn tyre is an important feature of the early part, doing his single and ap- pearing with Flo Tanner, prima donna, singing “The Gypsy Love Song.” The show has George H. (“Bum”) Slocum as principal comic, who is clever; Jimmie Barrett, as second comedian, doing a rotund boob type that is entertaining, and Jimmie Parelle, who is only fair as a Jew comedian. Bob Girard plays char- acter roles very well, makine@an Italian bit stand out. Bert Barry, engaged for bits, is doing straight, succeeding Laurence O'Sullivan, who could not be satisfied with the conduct of the show. Florence Tan- ner not only makes a popular prima donna, but she does one of the most effective comedy bits in the show in conjunction with Jimmie Barrett, in intoxication pretenss “Looking for Someone,” probably the biggest number in the show, with the com- ics in the with lanterns and bird housing candles, was probably Miss Tanner's greatest ap- plause number all that sh did was well liked. Olive Christian aisies, cages though ingenue, led numbers which were encored and registered a strong per- yal succes Carrie Pinelle, sou- est iblished herself in the running mightily in “Hunky Dory,’ in which she kidded the six chorus men, bringing them out for stunts. Anna Rose also led some numbers successfully. At one point in the performance Mr. Whitehead came down from the front of the house and took Slocum to task, questioning the character of a joke he seemed about to spring. This strange misunder- standing fooled most of the people until the argument had been con- cluded, when it was made. evident that it was part of the entertain- ment. The show is not without some of the things associated with bur- lesque, but there is nothing that regular patrons of that form of en- tertainment will call objectionable. Loop. =. ——————T——*q—_E=&[V[=—=—_=—=— MUSICIANS’ CONVENTION In St. Louis Next Week—310 Wants To Get Back

The annual convention of the American Federation of Starts Monday, May 14, at the Hote! Chase, -St. Louis, Mo. Executive committee meetings have been pro- ceeding in St. Louis this week. The chief interest aside from the regular election of officers’ will be the efforts of the delegation ap- rointed by the Mutual Musical Pro- tective Union, to get its plea for reinstatement in the A. F. of M. ve- fore the convention for considera- tion, The M. M. P. U., formerly No. $29, New York local of the A. F. of M. and ousted from the parent bedy three years ago, has tried at two preceding A. F. of M. conventions to secure reinstatement without success. Indications point to the reelection of Joseph N. Weber to the presi- dency of the A. F. of M. as well as the Weber adherents. It is also very likely the A. F. of M. will adopt resolutions calling for a 10 to 20 per cent jncrease in the wage scale of road musicians. The local scales are not handled by the A. F. of M. convention, fixing of wages being left to the various local unions in the A.-F. of M, Musicians

SUMMER SHOWS Two Started This Week—Cooper’s Did $10,200 Last Week In Boston

‘Three Columbia circuit summer run shows were playing this week; the Jimmie Cooper “Beauty Revue” having started last week, at the Casino, Boston; Dave Marion show starting at the Columbia, New York, Monday, and Barney Gerard's “Follies of the Day” beginning Monday also at the Gaiety, Boston. The Cooper show (Casino, Bos- ton) did $10,200 last week, a mid- night show Wednesday adding about $1,200 to the gross, This week the Cooper show started off Monday with about $900 on the day. The Marion show at the Col- umbia did about $1,300 on the two opening performances Monday. Monday: night the Burlesque Club of America had a delegation of about 125 present. There were «a numberof vacant seats in the rear of the house Monday night, The Gerard show started Mondays with $1,000 on the day at the Gay- ety, Roston. Cool weather was ex- pected to help the shows the early part of the week, both in Boston and New York. The matinees at New York were light up to nesday. the Columbia, W ed-

LYRIC, NEWARK, STOCK The Lyric, Newark, N. J. Mutual wheel house in the regular season will house a burlesque stock to be under the direction of Dr. Tunison and Al Singer. I. B. Hamp will pro- duce the shows. The stock pouiicy will obtain throughout the summer, following which the Lyric returns to the Mutual wheel bookings NEW ACTS Billy Mack and Margatet Hast- ings, Benny Bernard in “Ankles,” 4 women, 3 men, miniature musical comedy Stanford and fiamp comed;, ict Dave Genaro and Ann Gold have decided to dissolve their stage part- Miss Gold will do a sing will take a pat ner for a two-man characte turn written by James Madison Jack Walsh (Jack Walsh and Co.) } } ner p act, while Genaro comed has discarded hig old act, and ¥ be seen in a new a eir by Johnny Hymar Auriole Craver violin Felix Rice, pianis revu f cago). Billy Brown and Daughter (Chi- cago). It is Billy’s own daugiter Virginia. Redmond and Leona in “The Party Wire.” Inez Courtney with Sid Keyes and Starke Patteson in “A Personal Appearance” by Arthur Swanstrom and Carey Morgan, musical skit. Helen Ware, presented by Mack Hilliard in “Her Dearest Friend.” from a scene in “Within Four Walls.” In support, Ann Morriso: Sherman Wade, Gene McGrege Nancy Lee. Charles (Chicago). Marsh and Kd Shubert

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AQNBe ture ee + Ne Re fee eT Tene ate MEI OBRAD FAR See) Rt BE SERIO: ORI Aa Ha hk, er ee wileas tales ear Hab y oe ane any + ANE A eh tH > ered P “OMG cc add eae a Oe, ee att ohne oe cn dete, tied bs Wnaeede ee a ee wie COD ae OUTDOOR AMUSEMENTS eee 0 Thursday, May 10, 19 , EASTERN PARKS FOLLOW LUNA’S LEAD WITH PAID CIRCUSES Dr. De Walthoff to Elaborate Shows and Introduce Gate Fee—Wirth Framing Park Circuit—Ring and Platform Show at +. vv Dreamland, Newark Coney Island’s outdoor show busi- platform and grandstand with a paid gate appears to be on the eve of a general vogue in the eastern parks, following the lead of Luna Park, Coney Island, where the ground plan of the resort has been changed to permit of a grandstand to hold 1,500. The idea appears to be to gradually build up the paid shows and have them replace as much as possible the old free show idea, ro:a data gathered from the park and fair agents this week, half a dozen of the leading eastern resorts are going in for the new plan, prin- cipal among them Luna. Inquiry for attractions is active among all the park managers, and the tend- ency appears to be toward building up this feature. One manager, Dr. De Walthoff, with three parks at Hartford, New Haven and Water- bury, as undertaken a campaign to enlarge his free shows, providing seats for spectators, but securing revenue at the park gate, The De Walthoff parks have always been operated with a free gate, but with the elaborated free shows an admis- sion will be set. The Wirth booking office will piace the shows for the summer under contracts already signed, Luna opens Saturday (May 12), and will make a leading feature of its open air circus resembling the permanent circuses in Europe. The big space to the left of the Shoot the Chutes has been cleared, and grandstands holding 1,500 have been built. There will be room also for persons to stand without payment within sight of the shoy., but the principal viewpoint will be from the stands, Herbert Evans has booked Victor’s band and Mulford’s Orches- tra, and the show, supplied by Wirth, will have Robinson’s Elephants, Riding Waltons, Swan Ringan, woman diver, who dives 75 feet, or 25 feet more than any of the women in that display; Clements Belling and Thurber and Thurber among others. Dreamland, Newark, under the management of Orestes De Vanney, will have a ring and platform, and the show will be assembled before each of the three daily shows for a Grand Entry circus fashion, plan is to work two acts at a time on the platform with a single dis- play for the ring acts. Crowley at Hillside, near Newark, has made it a custom to werk a Wild West show during the Su. mer as a free attraction, but this season is considering a scheme to cut down somewhat on the wild and woolly f tures and build up the circus dis- play. The show is visible from the free spaces of the park, but there also igs a grandstand with a gate. P Dreamland, Coney Island, also operates the same idea, the free show being available without ad- missiop fee, and from a paid grand- stand. Frank Wirth is developing a plan to book a series of summer parks on the circuit plan. Those already lined up for the season make it pos- sible to start acts at the De Wal- thoff parks—New Haven, Hartford and Waterbury—for three weeks, and going thence to Mid-City Park, Albany; Sea Breeze. Williamsport, N. Y., Carlin’s, Balti- more, and Rendezvous, Atlantic City. Other points are in negotia- tion to extend the plan. Rochester; ———— ROCKAWAY’S BOARDWALK First Section Opening May 19— Walk Ready Saturday, May 19, has been set upon as a general holiday by the folks at Far Rockaway, to celebrate the opening of the New Boardwalk from Beach 109th street to Beach 126th street, the first section. The entire boardwalk will open next summer, and take in the water front of the Rockaways. When completed it will have a total length of eight miles, with all of the shows, attractions, conces- sion, privileges, hotels, stores, etc., usual to seaside promenades, {Syracuse and Rochester, but The | Claridge, SELLS-FLOTO NOT EAGER FOR SHOW OPPOSITION Jumping Into Brooklyn May 21 —May Indicate New M.-B.- B. Playing Policy Sells-Flcto is dated for Brooklyn May 21, playing on the old circus lot at Fifth avenue and Third street used for time immemorial by the Barnum & Bailey circus and by the Ringlings but scratched this season because building opegsations have reduced the area to a point where it was too small for the Barnum show of around 100 cars. Sells-Floto comes into Brooklyn on the Lackwanna from Bingham- ton, making it an over-Sunday jump and taking the lighterage ser- vice of the Bush terminal service from Hoboken. The Binghamton stand is on Saturday, May 19. This statement of the route may indicate a new policy of routing the Muggivan-Ballard properties in re- lation to opposition with the Ring- ling Bros. Last season the Frénch Licks outfit appeared to be entirely willing to invite opposition. been understood before the Brook- lyn stand became known that the Sells-Floto people would play the northern tier of New York counties along the Central railroad including the usual Barnum stands of Buffalo, the Binghamton-to-Hoboken jump changes this schedule and avoids a clash. The Sells headed back tops are said to be into the middle west promptly after the Brooklyn en- gagement, passing up Boston for this. season. The show made the Boston stop last year. It was the first appearance in the Hub and was reported to be only fair on the gate. In the middle west the show is strong and apparently the pres- ent intention of General Agent Harvey is to make that territory as promptly as may be. Mr. Harvey was registered at the New York, this week jframing for the Brooklyn stand. Some circus men were of the opinion that the switch of the Sells route to Brooklyn and out of North- ern New York did not argue a tacit understanding to avoid a clash with the Barnum show. The view was that Brooklyn presented‘ a good prospect, particularly if the show could get in and away before the really warm weather, when the Brooklynites turn to the beaches and ignore home amusements. That consideration may have had some weight in hurrying the show into @ooklyn, but there is a well de- fined idea in New York that some pretty definite policy has developed within the Sells-Floto management to lay off battles with the big show. The Sells outfit has been cut down to about 380 cars, instead of the 48 it carried at one time, and that would argue that it was not mak- ing ready for opposition fighting. It has been commented upon by cir- cus men that Jerry Muggivan has carried the art of economical man- agement to a fine point. Even those on the inside express amazement that the show can make such a big | splash on the lot with the amount | Of equipment carried in 30 cars. OKLAHOMA IN PAGEANT Kansas City, May 9. The little Oklahoma city of Miami is making extensive preparations for celebration of “Imaim Amohalko” week starting today, when music and pageantry will have full sway. A great parade, with floats showing the history of Oklahoma, will be the first day feature. The crowning of King .Amohalko and Queen Imaim is another event. Bands from all parts of the state will be present and street dancing and musical en- tertainments frequent. The rail- roads have granted special rates for the affair and the greatest crowd ever in the city is expected. It had- TOO MUCH NOISE Resident Near Park Objects to Scenic Railway Kansas City, May 9. G. H. Foster, who resides in the vicinity of the new Fairyland Park, now being constructed, brought suit this week against the Fairyland Amusement Co., Ingersoll Co. and H. S. Smith for $30,000 damages, and to enjoin the further construc- tion of a scenic railway known as the Skyrocket. The Ingersoll company is in charge of the construction and Smith is superintending the work. An excerpt from the brief in the case says: “The scenic railway is so constructed that the said cars thereon will run with a rumbling, a rolling and a deafening noise; that the pleasure seekers on said ears while taking an incline or a dip will scream and screech and make the night and day hideous and that by reason of such construction the said scenic railway may pro- duce excitement and loud and boist- rous noises.” BULL VS. FORD Elephant Wins Contest ? Tractor with a Kansas City, May 9. An act not on the bills was pulled off by an elephant with a small circus at Lancaster, Missouri, last week. The circus, a wagon show, had started to leave town, when “Tex,” an Indian elephant, balked, and efforts of the circus people failed to get him started. A Ford tractor was hitched, by a chain, to his fore feet, the engine started and the fun commenced. “Tex” headed in ancther direc- tion, walking away with the tractor as though it was a toy. The driver jumped in time to escape injuries. When the “bull” was stopped the tractor was out of c.mmission. About this time the elephant’s trainer was brought from a_ sick bed, directed the chaining of the rebel between two other elephants and it was led away. CIVIC GAIN ON CARNIVAL — et Mayor Willing to Give Month’s Pay to Keep Legion Show Oswego, N. Y., May 9. The matter of holding street carnivals in this city has become the topic of the day as a result of the common council ignoring protest of the ministers in granting disabled veterans of American Le- gion permission to bring a carnival here next month. , Expressing his opposition to street carnivals Mayor Neal said he stands willing to give a month’s salary as mayor to start a fund to make up what the veterans would lose in the event the carnival is not permitted to come here, He says he knows of other men willing to make substantial dona- tions to the same fund. Aldermen threaten to grant the license over the mayor’s veto. CHILDREN PLEAD Ask Editor to Remember When He Was a Kid Waterbury, Conn., May 9. Following the announcement of Ringling Brothers’ advance agent that the circus will not come to Waterbury because of the $300 license fee, children in the city have signed a petition to the city admin- istration. It says they want the circus and concludes by asking the editor of the newspaper in which it was pub- lished this question: “Did they make the circus pay $300 when you were a boy, Mr. Editor?” MAIN HEADED WEST With nearly all the other shows flirting around the east and appar- ently headed into New England ter- ritory, the Walter L. Main outfit has turned from the crowded territory and is headed toward the Ohio field. The new section of the route sheet takes the Downey tops out «f Penn- Sylvania and into New York as far as Ithaca and Auburn. It is ex- pected it will continue westward. BIG PARK REVUE Kansas City, May 9. Roy Mack, who has produced the Electric Park Follies, for the past two seasons, arrived this week from Chicago, and rehearsals for the 1923 show will start at once. The revues this year will be on a bigger scale t'an ever. The park will open May 19. CONEY ISLAND'S EARLY START Concessionaires Report Profit Before Regular Sez . Starts—The Caterpillar Best on Island—$1,009 Daily on Week Ends—Dodg’Em Doing Well fi MONTANA BELLE WAS . “QUICKER ON DRAW” Pleads She Killed Jordan Murphy, Circus Rider, in Self-Defense Kansas City, May 9. Mrs. Effie B. Griffey, known as “Montana Belle,” shot and instantly killed Jordan Murphy, a rider with the circus with which they were traveling, at Kennett, Mo., last Fri- day. According to reports, the shooting occurred about five miles outside the town. The woman is the owner of the small show. The slain man, who was also known as Jimmy Valen- tine, Was a stunt rider. After the shooting Mrs. Griffey, still in costume, rode on her broncho to Kennett, where she surrendered to the officials. She pleaded self- defense, but was held for the action of the coroner. She told the sheriff she and her husband had reared the slain man; that he threatened to kill her, but she was quicker “on the draw.” fs CIRCUS LABOR TROUBLES Crews Desert to Grab New Jobs and Strikers Fill Their Places The circuses are having their an- nual troubles with labor. In some formers and turned their hands to getting the tops up and down at times. Small factory strikes appear to nish a remedy. A sample is_ the case of the Al G. Barnes outfit. It started from around Dallas with a large assortment o* negro workers to handle equipment. All went well enough through Texas, but when the show got further north the ne- groes quit to grab themselves bet- ter jobs when they struck places with a factory shortage and a dearth of common labor. Stands in towns where minor strikes were on helped, for the strikers were glad of a chance to sign on for the double reason that, the circus would get them away from strike territory and probably into districts where they could get other employment if they tired of the tops. So far they’ve stuck. The Main show has been in a con- stant state of emergency. They got away from Havre de Grace with a mixed crew of blacks and whites, but the men fell away when other work offered and the performets and others have had to help out at times, Circus men say the situation is worse than usual, due principally to a labor shortage all over the coun- try. However, they’re reconciled because labor shortage means gen- eral prosperity and _ prosperity means high wages and money at the gate, CIRCUS ROUTES Ringling Brothers-B. & B. May 7-12, Philadelphia; 14, Wil- mington; 15, Trenton; 16:17, New- ark, N. J.;. 18, Easton, Pa.; 19, Scranton. Sells-Floto May 10, Camden, N. J.; 11, Bridge- ton; 12, Atlantic City; 14, New Brunswick; 15, Perth Amboy; 16, Elizabeth; 17, Allentown, Pa.; 18, Wilkes-Barre; 19, Binghamton; 21, week, Brooklyn. Walter L. Main May 10, Pottsville, Pa.; 11, Tama- qua; 12, Ashland; 14, Pittston; 15, Towanda; 16, Sayre; 17, Ithaca; 18, Cortland; 19, Auburn. =—+ cases the available supply of work- | men has been so small that per- | show employes have ' both intensify the shortage and fur- | Coney Island outdoor show by ness is almost in full season swing According to the concessionaires the — summer is Various ride and show operators ¥@ port that they are from $1,000 $3,000 ahead already as compare@ pan the same dates last season, “# The reason therefore, unanimoy ly, is ascribed to ‘the attraction @ the new boardwalk. The showr state that people have been af tracted so early and in such lar numbers chiefly because they want to see what the new walk lool like, S Favorable weather breaks figure to some extent, counted mostly in favor of the walk, The Coney Island concessionaireg that other show people, who seldom” if ever see the resort, have be ‘4b, attracted by the boardwalk, just now is a new ride, the Cate pillar, operated by the Armstron who have had the “House of a 1,4 Laughs” or Surf avenue for years. The Caters pillar is a ride charging 20 cents fare or 40 cents a couple with @ $10 intake per ride, which consumes actually about two minutes. The ride on the Bowery is said to have= grossed over $1,000 a d.y Saturda and Sundays, and the same rid , to be doing even better. | strong people were threatened with» a revocation of their boardwalk license because of the crowd, noticed as early visitors, confessedly) The biggest thing on the island decidedly optimistig J” - but that is digo? further attest to this by the facta” “Over the Falls” onm o, erating on the Boardwalk, is said — The Arm= = too = much even for the very wide walk, @ but that has been straightened out@ The concession license for the ridé, ' exclusive to Armstrong within a 30« {costs Armstrong $75,000 for the sea- | | son. ‘ Another popular ride on Bowery is Kibel’s Dodg’Em, a 10¢ ride, unique in its steady clientele. several times a night and from week Jules Kibel is of Kibel= to week, the = mile radius of. Greater New York, @ ,and Kane, and was formerly an ins § | Sepenigant Vaudeville producer, the Otis L. Smith Shows, now play- booker and | \a OUTDOOR ITEMS {| Edward Thomas, an employe of 4 ing Yorkville, is under treatment at = ; | St. Luke’s Hospital, Utica, for ine juries received when he plunged | 'from a Ferris wheel. Lakeside ‘park, Denver's whit® city, opened Saturday, May 5, for the season. Nothing special was ads The opening day was cool and somewhat threatening, with occa- sional light sprinkles of rain. Busi- ness fair. Captain Godfrey R. Rodri_ues, iformerty of the Holand army, brought here by the Kansas City Star to interest its readers in fresh 7 air and health walking, has been engaged to show his travel pictures at the Newman week of May 13, and the following week, where he will |conduct a reducing contest and let- iture on swimming and _ health topics, Advance agents for the circuses describe a gradual change of atti- tude on the part of city officials toward the big tops. Where the advance agent used to be greeted jovially, and the whole office called together to josh and argue fo tickets, the advance man is now met with cautious formality, and The big top men attribute the new atmesphere to the trouble the ale thorities have had with fly by night casnival troupes which have left @ trail of difficulties for public officials and brought on a distinct prejudice against all outdoor amusement ¢f* terprises, ; Barnes’ New Memphis Quarters Memphis, May % The Al G. Barnes Circus when playing here officially declared Memphis as the next winter quar ters for the circus, a Pere a vertised in the way of attractions. | will also appear at Electric park © the — visit is on a strictly formal basis @ A ~~» —oe seaso! _purpo coast ~ idea . ment from #: I plant: “earni' reyen , For t giving for ct from EP inces. the n becau reare Brun: one p Atlan Georg picric Alt orpha elor, tertai orpha penny barre pack: _ script child nuts. To man, quote from of St crean was tribu' bill f clinec pany place spite nell t have to se pay t John went for $: turne Q'Co! to pa come pany the « made other it curre $2,00¢ has ¢ Ther mari not ! enter ten y orph: EAS’ Nir prize $12,0 prem offer posit: Mo pend expos Lack Afi coun alitie city barre withi curre F Th perm tent meet and Mayc woul while

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York, he seas 7 m the= aN a 106mm lientele | n week | - Kibel == an in= 7 and Al iS oye of y play- nent at #¥ for ine lunged white 5, for vas ade ictions. ol and occa- Busi- lri_ ues, army, is City n fresh 7 s been pictures 13, and c park he will nd lec- health -ircuses of atti- officials ere the greeted > called rue for ow met nd the — 1 basis. he new the alu- yy night > left @ - A officials — rejudice ent ene arters lay 9. 3 when ieclared r quar pleasing mainly coast from Georgia te Canada. ‘idea is to provide free’ entertaia- _ ment for children, especially orphans “earnival scripts in a “ey Bee hogy RN aaa Thursday, May 10, 1923 ONE CLEAN CARNIVAL ASSURED BY CUBAN SUGAR PLANTER J.D. O'Connell, “the Orphans’ Friend,” Finds New Way to Please Children—Spends $50,000 Yearly Amusing Kids i St. John, N. B., May 9. A small carnival show containing animai acts, clowns, freaks and acts to children, the show being minus wheels, games, ete., may be leased for the summer season bya sugar planter for the purpose of touring the Atlantic The from the institutions in many cities. J. D. O'Connell, owner of a sugar plantation in Cuba, may acquire a operate it without about three months. For the ten years he giving picnics and entertainments for children, his activities extending from Georgia to the maritime prov- inces.’ H® concentrates: iargely in the maritime provinees and Maine because of havirg been_ bora and reared in the ‘province of New Brunswick. He has heid at ieast one picnic in every State alons the and revenue for past has been Atlantic seaboard as far south as Georgia. He has also held many picnics in Cuba. Although particularly favoring orphans, O'Connell, who is a bach- elor, invites all children to his en- tertainments and picnics. To each orphan he gives a 25c. script and a penny. He transport the pennies in and. the scripts in large packages. At times he has 15,000 storage. He gives to all children candy, ice cream and pea- nuts. To illustrate the principle of the man, the following incident is quoted: O’Connell ordered ice cream from the Purity Ice Cream Company of St. John, N. B. When the ice cream arrived, O’Connell found it was impure and refused to dis- tribute it to his guests. When the bill for $46 was presented he de- clined to pay. The ice cream com- pany ordered his arrest. He was placed in the jail in St. John. De- spite the explicit orders of O’Con- nell to his friends not to attempt to have him released, he being eager to serve the jail term rather than pay the bill, the manager of the St. John hotel at which he was a guest went on the philanthropist’s bond for $46. Accordingly, O’Connell was turned out of jail against his will. O'Connell has consistently refused to pay the bill and the case has not come to trial, The ice cream com- pany is said to be responsible for the delay. Complaints have been made of impure ice cream by many others and investigations demanded. it has been no uncommon oc- currence for O'Connell to spend $2,000 on one of hig picnics, and he has given as many as 25 in a year. There are a dozen cities in the maritime provinces wherein he has not missed at least one picnic or entertainment per year for the past ten years. He is now known as “the orphans’ friend.” EASTERN STATES EXPO PRIZES Springfield, Mass, May 9- Ninety-three thousand dollars in prize offerings, an increase of $12,000 over 1922 and the largest premium list in its history, will be offered at the Eastern States Ex- position in Springfield Sept. 16-22 More than $200,000 will be ex- pended this year in putting on the exposition, Lackawanna, N. Y., Bars Carnivals Buffalo, May 9. After a protracted fight in its council chambers, in which person- alities were freely indulged in, the city of Lackawanna has officially barred carnivals from showing Within its city limits during the Current season. Fulton, N, Y., Bars Carnivals Fulton, N. Y., May 9: There will be no street carnivals permitted in Fulton this year. The tent shows were denounced at a meeting of the Common Council and brought the statement by Mayor John W. Stevenson. that he would permit no street carnivals BARNES COMING EAST Dated For Brooklyn and Boston in June—Moving out of Ohio. The Al G. Barnes Circus is com- ing into Atlantic Seaboard territory this séason. Bill Haines, general agent, was in New York late last week, preparing for a stand in Brooklyn in early June and it was understood he would go on to pave the way for the show's entrance’ into Boston. All the independent shows appear to like ‘he Brooklyn stand this year. The fact that the Ringling Bros. passed up the “Baby Borough” ap- pears to be an _ invitation to the rest of the tops. Aithough the am- nouncement has not been made, it is understood the Bafnes show will edge inte Brooklyn through New Jersey following its Phiiadelphia engagement and take in a series of New England industrial towns on the way to Boston. Observers of cireus routing meth- ods note a peculiar condition this season. Industrial centers are gen- erally disturbed by reports of im- pending strikes, such as that ru- mored in the woolen trades. The theory appears to be the same in the circus fleld as in the stock mar- ket—that strikes are an index of the per capita distribution of money and general prosperity. Ex- pressed another way, the workers are well supplied with funds when they begin to talk strikes, and that is a godd time to get on the ground with a circus. That situation ap- pears to be the answer to the al- most unanimous desire of the out- door showmen to get into industrial New England and the New York territory where building trades strikes are apparently impending. ILL AND INJURED Joe Rowley of Rowley and Leard, playing the Golden Gate was strjck- en suddenly last week with hernia, and had to be operated upon at the St. Francis Hospital, San Francisco. a operation was performed by Dr, Reinstein Paul St. Clair is in the Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Maud Elliot, an aerial pearing at Loew’s, act ap- Baltimore, last Baltimore, suffering from a frac- tured leg sustained when the girl fell off a trapeze. The Wyoming Duo took the vacancy. C. M. Blanchard has left St. Luke’s hospital, where he recently under- went an operation and is convalese- ing at his home. Princess Winonah, Indian singer, was rushed to the French Hospital, New York, Sunday (May 6), where it was found an immediate opera- tion for appendicitis and adhesions was necessary. Winonah is still in a serious condition. (Miss) Bobbie Lowe (Bobbie appendicitis at the French Hospital, New York, May 2. She expects to be out again within 10 days. week, is in the University Hospital, Lowe's Revue) was operated on for OUTDOOR AMUSEMENTS OKLA. FAIRS GROUPED Kansas City, May 9%. Tentative plans have been made for the grouping of a number of the county fairs in the northeastern part of the state as a matter of mu- tual protection of both the fair pro- moters and the exhibitors. It is claimed the opportunity for breeders to be able to show at sev- eral fairs succession with no diffi- culty from conflicting dates, as well as the addition of the greatly re- duced overhead expenses of the county association will work bene- fits to all concerned. : Counties Hélding membership in the newly organized association are Tulsa, Ottawa, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner, Cherokee, Adair, Sequoyah, Muskogee, McIntosh, Okmulgee, Creek, Lincoln, Payne, Pawnee, “Osage, Washington, No- wata, Rogers, Kay and Noble. It is stated the dates for the various will be announced at an early meet- ing. SPARKS UPSTATE The Sparks outfit goes into up- state New York territory after the Plainfield, N. J., stand, set for May 17. There had beer. some question whether it would play the Lorg Island schedule. Following the Plainfieéd engage- ment will come Newburgh, N.: Yi, taken aS an indication the Ringling 3ros.-Barnum & Bailey show will eliminate that town from its route. If the Big Show intended playing Newburgh as usual, it is regarded as unlikely the Sparks people would invade the river town, T. W. Ballinger, general agent for Sparks, and his assistant, F. W. Frink, were in New York this week. ENC AGEMENTS Johnny Dooley, White's “Scan- dais. Isabelle D’Armond, Crescent, Brooklyn, N, Y., (stock). Tom Lewis, “Helen of Troy, N. Charles Lawrence for Troy.” Olive-Vaughn and Marion Court- ney, for Geofge White's “Scandals.” Clayton White, Cora Williams, Lee Patrick, Frank Allsworth, James Seeley, Jack Raffael, and Lila Frost for “Rolling Home.” Winnie Lightner, “Scandals.” Olga Lee, Halifax summer stock. Leslie Howard, “Aren’t We All?” Ann Mason, Katherine Gladys Bennett, “Bombo.” McKay Morris, “The Point.” b Poe “Helen of and Breaking IN AND OUT Belle Baker was unable to open at Moss’ Franklin, New York, this week, due to illness. Hampton and Blake substituted. Bryant and Stewart were out of the Proctor’s 58th street program, the first half, owing to sickness. Billy Beard left the bill at Proc- tor’s 125th St. Monday. Mohr and Eldridge filled in. Morrison’s, Rockaway Beach, has been leased for the summer by Morris & Bernard, and Billy Par- nao. The policy will be a musical comedy revue, with the opening set for June 16, The Trix sisters expect to sail OBITUARY SADIE MARTINOT Sadic Martinet died from heart disease May 7 in the St. Lawrence State Hospital, Ogdensburg, New York. She was 61 years oid and mentally ailing since 1918. Miss Martinot, who was a famous ac- tress of the period extending from 1880 to 1905, or thereabouts, committed to the Manhattan State Hospital for the Insane in the spring of 1918, but under another name. She was transferred to the St, Lawrence State institution at Ogdensburg, in December, 1918, and registered there under the name of Nethersole. Miss Martinot was the wife of Louis Nethersole, brother of Olga Nethersole. A visitor to_the institution recog- nized Miss Martinot three years after her arrival at Ogdensburg and informed the hospital authorities of her identity. Miss Martinot was born in Ja- maica, Long Island, in 1861. She entered the theatrical profession in 1876 in “Ixion,” an extravaganza. Subsequently she appeared in “Across the Continent” and “H. M. S. Pinafore” at. the Boston Museum. tn Lendon Miss Martinot made her initial appearance at the Alhambra in 1880 in “Mephistoles the ~ 2d.” Among her famous parts were Ka- was trina in “Rip Van Winkle.” She became one of the most popular light- opera stars of the day in “Nanon,” which had a long run at the Star, New York, in 1883. She appeared in more than 200 plays during her career. FRANK FINLEY MACKAY Frank Finley Mackay, 92, died of pneumonia May 5 at Coytesville, N. J. Mr. Mackay, despite his ad- vanced years, was active until with- in a short time of his last illness. Starting as a teacher of elocu- tion in Baltimore, he became a pub- lic reader in 1851. He returned to teaching as an instructor in’ the public schools of Madison, Wis., re- maining in that occupation until 1863, when he entered the profes- sion. In 1865 he was with the cele- brated company of Mrs. John Drew at the Arch Street, Philadelphia, with which he ‘continued until 1869. Other companies with which Mr. Mackay was identified were the Boston Globe stock, A. M. Palmer's Union Square stock, New York, and the “Two Orphans.” He man- Philadelphia in 1876. Among stars he appeared with in his earlier career were De Wolf Hopper and Wm, H. Crane. He founded the National gress of Dramatic Art, Mackay was a director of Actors’ Fund of America and active Con- Mr. in its councils for years. His son, Wm. A, Mackay, the artist, sur- vives. “Oh Boy,” (Wodehouse-Holton) is to be staged by the members of the Mutual Welfare League of Auburn Prison, May 21, 23. A cast of 40 of the league’s members will have some of the old timers taking part. The dance numbers are being staged by Charlie Thatcher, late of “Hitchy- Koo.” from New York May 30, for Paris. Josephine Lenhardt, known as Kay Nieland, a single act in vaude- ville, injured in an auto accident and hospital, New York, Tuesday suffer- ing with stomach trouble. an effort to diagnose the ailment. The wife of Augustus Thomas was operated on at St. Barthol- omew’'s hospital, New York, Tues- day. She is the s.ster of Bainbridge Colby, former Secretary of State. BIRTHS Mrs. Arthur West. their home in New York City, ny 5, daughter. The father is the vaudeville and musical comedy Mr. and while he held the reins. comedian was taken to the Columbus Me- morial Hospital, Chicago. Mary Daniel, leading woman of | the Proctor Players, Albany, was | operated upon for appendicitis on | May 5 at the Albany City Hospital. She is reported to be resting com- fortably. Mary Hay entered—the Roosevelt An } ' X-ray examination is to be made in | 7 aa MISSOURI FAIR DATES Secretary Jewell Mayes, of the Missouri state board of agriculture, to- day announced the roster of the 1923 fair dates, as reported by the various organizations, as follows: Name Secretary. Location Date North Missour! Fair.......+-«+- W. T. Lingle... . Bethan ¥. eee Sept, 4-8 Polk County Fair...s.scsceseseces P. L. Templeton... Bolivar.....sceecess Aug. 28-Sept. 1 Callao Fair . POPPE Te a oe» Callacd.. escese Sept. 4-6 Southwest Missour FPair.«ceos: -Emma R,. Kell..... Carthage.....sccers Aug. 7-11 | Pemiscot County Fair...ceccees.- H, C. Dunn .. Caruthers lO. cclece - - Clarksville Fair. baebeegeoeseodes E. Martindale Clarkeville..cececere: Oct. 18-20 Boone County Fair...ccecsesssss --—_— ... Columbla..cecececesss a Crawford County Fair...cccseres¢ J. M. Cape..... »--Cuba.. eesocesses Sept, 4-7 De Soto Fair Association....+++- Cc. J. Davidson..... DeSotc....cceesses- Sept. 18-21 Buchanan County Fair.....+.«+. H. B. Iba .- Maston i Forest Green Fair. ..ceceeseeess Henry Rohwer Forest G Green City Fair......ccccsees A. } Johr Green Cit : North Missouri Fair......++ one W. K. Hov 1 Ham " l | Randolph County Fair....+e+s. 5. I brow! Ja miville | Clark County Falir...cccsecscsss P. I. Wils I a | Knox Gity Fair.....cscccccss ..J, KE. McRenoid Kn City ..ccoevees Osage County Fair..csccceeseres H. M. Lueckenho!l Lint Pe Dade County Fair... ..seeseess R. A. Pry@.ccess LOCK WOOd ..cecesess Lupus Fair ..i...sccsesecvestes A. CC. TRPUGC so c00 ce LUPUS...+. Macon County Fair....-e.-ce+e> W. R. Baker....... Macon..... Nodaway County Fair....cee+ss G. V. DeBord..... Maitiland.... } Wright County Fair............ ae ee Oe TA Mansfield... | Lawrence Ccunty Fair..... i, Wr mee cctsewes Mi. Vernot.. . Newton County Harvest... L. J. Wormington..Neosho..... > | Vernon County Fair...... @. A. COR kc cese Nevad@.....>. 4 ‘ -§ New Cambria Fair.... L. E. Reedy....... New Cambriia.......Sept. 11-13 Marion County Fair... 3. F. Culler. ces cave PalMyra....eee: oes Sept. 12-15 Monroe County Fair.... G. M. Ragedale.....Paris.....ccecessees Aug. 14-17 Prairie Hill Fair Association....J. H. Harlin «Prairie Hill....eees: Aug. 23-2) { Clover Leaf Fair Association.... O. H. Belsho ...... Richland. 6aode 2-15 i P helps County Fair......+-+..-: o W. DT. ERGO 002 PRA 0 ¢aae +69 odaa ee Aug. 28-31 | Salisbury Fair Association .».d0nn Node......... Salisbury..ccscocece Ist week Sept | Andrew County Fair.....:......3. M. McDaniel....-Savannah..........Aug. 27-Sept. 1 Shelby County FPair.....,.++++-- W. K. Lasiley.... Shelbina....-escses Sept. 11-14 Southeast Missouri Fair........ Cc. Li. Biantor MiRON sce ckcopedees Sept. 12-15 | Grundy County FPair......6+.++. 2 Barnes;......TremtOn,....eed.ee% Aug. | 2%-31 Lincolm County f@ir.....cesescece Py Fa | ee lroy... »- Aug, 28-31 1 St. Louis County Fair..........G. B. Bowles....... Upper Creve Coeur at : Lake Parli;.J...2 J Aug: 80-Sept. 3 Missouri State Fair......+..++- W’..D, Smith. «0s Sedalia... + 00d coen Aug, 18-25 t American Royal Live Stock ShowF. H. Servatius...:. Kansas City....../.Nov, 17-24 Springfield Ozark Stock Show....H. K Ne Ison. . Springfheld........5 - S@pt.” 27-22 Several of the fairs in last year’s list have been discontinued, and there are several which will probably announce dates later, WILLIAM J. COUNIHAN William J. Counihan died May 4 in Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. Death resulted from tumors pneumonia six months ago. Mr. Counihan never recovered com- pletely from the pneumonia attack and entered Mount Sinai about two months ago to undergo an opera- tion. The deceased was 51 years old and born in Ireland. He came to America at the age of 10 and started in show business as an er- rand boy in a theatrical office in Chicago. Later he developed into an advance agent and manager of shows. With Michael Shannon, Mr. Counihan formed the firm of Coun- ihan & Shannon, some 30 years ago. IN LOVING MEMORY of my dear brother ‘ALBERT INNIS who passed away in body May 14th, 1922, but whose spirit still lives with me on the stage of life and make oe“ FRANK. INNIS They operated road and wheel bur- lesque shows. About 20 vears ago the firm took over the ownership of the Majestic, Perth Amboy, N. J. and years later secured the Strand, Plainfield, N. J. A wife, two daughters and three sisters survive. ELBERT ANDERSON HEBBARD {Doc Armstrong—not Dee (Wili) Armstrong) Will Armstrong, former vaude- ville and burlesque player and now an agent furnishing people for pic- tures, states that the death of Will (Doc) Armstrong in the obituary columns of last week's issue was an error. The death according to him should have been reported as that of Elbert Anderson Hebbard, professionally known as Doc Arm- strong...Ths tws wers partners for 15 years in the act’ known as the Three Famous Armstrongs. Wilt Armstrong says that he in- formed the N. V. A. that the dead man was in reality E. A. Hebbard and that he had a brother living in the northern part of New York whose name was William Hebbarda. BILLY ALLEN Carroll A. Allen, known profes- sionally as Billy Allen, appearing in vaudeville with his wife, Belle Montrose, died April 18 in the Da- aged the Chestnut Street theatre in| the | the | IN LOVING MEMORY of my dear husband i] CARROLL A. ALLEN | Died April 18th, 192%. His Sorrowing Wife vis Fisher Hospital, Atlanta, fol- lowing an operation for appendi- citis. Allen and Montrose had just completed their route on the Gr pheum circuit in New Orleans and were about to.open for Loew shen Allen was suddenly stricken and removed to the hospital, where he died shortly after the operation. EDWARD SPALDING Edward Spalding, last seen in “Hail and Farewell,” in Flower Hospital, New York, after a brief illness. He was born in Wisconsin 38 years ago and had died May 8 played stock and vaudeville in Chicago before coming to New York. WELLS HASTINGS Wells Hastings, scenario writer and novelist, dropped dead at his home in Hollywood Tuesday. He was a pioneer in the film industry, IN MEMORIAM } JULIA TORREY Who passed away May 3, 1923 Her children, MARION LANGDON and ROY TORREY having been associated in the early days with D. W. Griffith and more recently Famous Players- Lasky. The father of Eli Dawson, for many years in vaudeville and now of the producing firm of Dawson & livier, died in-New York May 8 in his 69th year. The mother of Maxim Langdon (vaudeville) and Roy Torrey (Tor- | rey and McGowan) died May 3 at her home in Sheepshead. Bay, Brooklyn,.N. Y. The mother of Yack Wilson died last week in Chicago. on the lungs, following an attack of, 15 4, ! ae P: P ToS apna bebe t

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The complaint against Dan Cum- mings of the Palace, New York, staff, came up in the West 64th Street Court, and was dismissed when the complainant failed to appear. Cummings was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct pre- ferred by the speculator next door to the Keith’s Palace, New York, who alleged Cummings was interfer- ing with him by warning away pros- pective purchasers of the _ spec tickets. The Palace has been con- ducting a war against the specs by posting signs of warning and keep- ing “spotters” on duty to warn pa- trons tickets not purchased at the box office will be refused at the door. The English.company of “Loyal- ties” left for home last Saturday on the “Homeric” with Ernest Hast just making the boat after having been fined $5 in the West Side Court for breaking in the door of his own apartment at 3 a. m. Saturday, Hast wanted to take his Pom along and had lost the keys to the apartment. The dog caught the boat with him, through the goodness of Police Of- ficer John Mahoney who cashed Hast's check for $10, after the Court had refused to accept Hast’s check for $5 to pay the fine. George Leonard, who sustained injuries when bowled over by a mo- tor oar at 72nd street and Broad- way some weeks ago, has been dis- charged from the hospital. He has started suit against David Benetar and Harry Steiner, asking for $10,- 000 damages through his attorney, Emanuel Schwartz. The ligaments in Leonard’s foot were torn. He alleges he was unable to accept _ several offers of engagements be- cause of the injury. Surf Avenue, Coney Island, is now a one way street for vehicular traffie, a new ruling having become effect- ive dirceting the traffic down Suri avenue from the Ocean Parkway toward Sea Gate. Returning vehicles come back to the Parkway via Nep- tune avenue, which runs paralte) with Surf avenue, about a 2,000-foot block away. The one way regula- tions, though only starting recently, have proved decidedly effective in easing traffic for avenue, autos on The opening of the evening shows * booked by the Loew office in Braves Field, Boston, the home of the Bos- ton Nationa] League baseball club, has been postponed from May 28 until June 24. The amount of elec- trical work necessary to present the programs, which will include bands, pictures and special name attrac- tions, after dark, caused the post- ponement. The entire grandstand is to be wired for electric prior to the opening. lighis The New Brighton Theatre opens | Robin- | Cantor, Kate Elinor and Sam Williams, Lou Tel- legen, Pat Rooney and Marion Bent, Monday. Among Manager son's bookings are Eddie Eddie Buzzell, William Kent, Surf Mr.

_————SS Seer P. M. A. DOMINATION Is Augustus Thomas or Lee Shubert running the Producing Managers Association? It’s not only a query, but a problem. Or do all of the producing managers of that organization have their sey-eo, and if 0, when do they say-so-outside of the meetings? iH Ss

The Shubert-Erlanger combination controls about 22 New York the- atres represented in the P. M. A.; the “independents” have around 28 in New York. For the Shubert-Erlanger combo it sounds as though one man is spokesman and director—Lee Shubert, your old friend Lee from vaudeville—Shubert vaudeville (sh! he'li hear you). Whfle the P. M. A. may have 16, 18 or 20 managers amongst them and no a “independents” spokesman.

Perhaps Augustus Thomas is the speaker for ali; he certainly is the letter writer, Mr, Thomas doesn’t appear to be the official spokesman at the P. M. A. meetings. If he is, then Lee is trying to cop his fran- chise. For often Lee listens a while, then says, as though renting a theatre: “Well, boys, let's settle this; do as I say or I'll resign.” Is that nice?

It looks as if Lee is running the association, meanwhile trying to make the boys believe he isn’t and the next day at lunch telling Erlanger what he did. Which gets it down to cases. How long can the P. M. A. plod along under the one-man domination, though that one does represent the Shuberts and Erlanger, Dillingham & Ziegfeld, or Erlanger, Ziegfeld & Dillingham? That’s getting mighty ticklish, too, how you use names first now in the show business; whether E. F, Albee and Lee Shubert or Lee Shubert and E. F. Albee; A. L. Erlanger and Mare Klaw or Mare Klaw and A. L. Erlanger; Charles Dillingham and FYo Ziegfeld or Flo Ziegfeld and Charles Dillingham; B. S. Moss and William Fox or William Fox and B. S. Moss; all good fellows, swearing with and at each other. ; The P. M. A. if it is ever going to stick, should stick now. Théy should work together (almos* said hang together), for there's Equity, and since Equity has hooked up with the reformers on “Sundays,” the managers may have a chance. They might try anyway, Lee especially. Lee should acknowledge he is only one man in the P, M. A.; his theatres won't run anyway while he’s doing it and you may depend upon Lee to see that none of the 22 is left out; there always will be 22 splits for Lee of any- thing that shows up. Here’s something for Mr. Thomas. It’s about time we commenced tip- EDITORIALS

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TWO-FOR-ONE PLAN EXPANDING; . SEVERAL PLAYS ADOPT IT LEGITIMATE

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The “two for one” system of ticket distribution has grown to enormous proportions. With . the eeason nearly over and no new de- sirable productions in sight nearly ,a@ dozen attractions are prolonging their Broadway engagements by that method. The results are not always successful, any more than the recognized cut rates in forcing patronage to a show not wanted. Distributors of the . two-for-one slips are willing to guarantee from $2,000 to $3,000 gross for the first week of distribution. _It is not unusual for 250,000 cards weekly being sent out through mail- ing lists for one attraction during the week. The highest mumber of two-for-ones sent out was for “The Lady in Ermine” when at the Century. The expectation is about one per cent. of the tickets sent out are turned into purchases at the box offices, but the returns were not anyway near that percentage in the latter case. There are seyeral methods of dis- tributing two-for-ones. The sim- plest is via mailing lists with the envelopes containing a number of cards, so that the recipient may further distribute. Another entails permission from a big mercantile establishment or other institution to distribute cards to employees. The ecards in that case are printed so that the. firm’s name is carried in

bold faced type, giving the impres-* sion that the cheap rate is a special arrangemerrt for that particular es- tablishment, but as many cards are to be had as desired. Cards are also given tO small merchants and cigar stores, placed on the counter and welcome to anyone wishing to take them. There are two systems operating cut rate distribution. One is. an office working on a basis of 10 per cent. of the each attraction, with the profit pos- Sibilities limited to the number of attractions. A producing firm which has used the system exte asively has adopted their own system, with salaried employees instead of pay- ing a percentage on the returns. Houses of exceptionally large capacity have found the two-for- one idea a life-saver in keeping open, the Century in particular using the system for all attractions there this season for at least the latter part of the engagement. At- ‘tractions in houses of average size have frequently pulled $1,000 on Friday nights via two-for-ones, while Saturday matinee the attend- ance is comparatively slender, though bargain tickets in the cut Pate agencies are generally plenti- ful at this time of the season for all performances. Attractions using two-for-ones also employ the cut rate agencies though a majority of shows in the bargain offices do not use the two- for-one ticket distribution. That is explained by the fact that most tickets in the cut rate agencies are balcony locations, whereas two-for- ones are supposed to be good for all sections of the theatre. The cards distributed carry the prices the prospective patron is to pay for amount attracted to}l, one ticket, that being one half of the box office scale with war tax to be added Current Broadway attractions using the two for one system are “The Adding Machine” (Comedy), “Lady Butterfly” (Astor), “Up She Goes” (Playhouse), “Cat and Ca- nary” (National), “Whispering | Wires” (Broadhurst) “The En- | chanted -Cottage”’ (Ritz), “Papa Joe” (Lyric), Sally, Irene and Mary” (Century), “Go Go” (Daly's), “Peer Gynt.” The number is about one-third of that in the cut rate agencies. Sev- eral of last week's departures were among the two-for-one attractions. MISS WHITFORD EAST The former “Follies” beauty and star, Annabelle Whitford, now Mrs. | E. J. Buchan, has been called east by the serious illness of her mother. Miss Whitford is withgher mother, apprehensive of the result of her Hinmess, at 160 Congress street,

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BiG REAL ESTATE DEAL TAKES IN TWO HOUSES Lyric and Adelphi in Wana- maker Estate Properties ——$500,000 Difference

Philadelphia, May 9. This, city may lose two of its eight legitimate houses if a certain realty deal goes through. A syndi- eate has offered the estate of Thomas B,. Wanamaker $1,250,000 for the properties now occupied by the Lyric and Adelphi theatres, adjoining Shubert houses on Broad street, above Arch. It is understood that the owners have made a counter démand of $1,750°000 and that negotiations are under way. The Shubérts have been given to understand the transaction will not affect their leases, which still have a couple of years to run. If the deal goes through and_the two theatres are eventually torn down, a big office building will be erected on this site. This would mean the passing of the final legit theatres north of Market street, the rialto being circled around Broad and Chestnut or Walnut. Recently the Shuberis secured a permit to build a new the- atre on Cherry street, just off Broad street, and in back of the Lyric. Just what effect the new realty deal will have on this proposition is not known,

MALLOM SECRET SERVICE PASSED UP BY SHUBERTS Ben F. Mallom Resigns, in Effect July 1— Managers Protested—Cost $50,000 Ben F.°*Mallom has tendered his resignation to the Shuberts, effec- tive July 1. Although he may be retained by the managers, it is be- lieved the extensive espionage sys- tem that covered Shubert houses and attractions in New York and out of town will be discontinued. For the past two. seasons the “system’ was at its “peak’ and is reported having cost the managers upwards of $50,000 a. year without showing results to justify the ex- penditure. The sudden appearance of men from Malliom’s department in out- of-town theatres, where they would take charge of the ticket boxes and count-up, caused ill-feeling among house managers and against the firm. It is known also to have resulted in a number of reliable company “managers, with proven ability to handle the major attractions, withdrawing, The sal- aries and transportation of the spe- cia! “secret service” auditors were no inconsiderable part of the de- partment’s expenditure. The system includes a_ general count-up of tickets from all Shu- bert theatres, the work being done in the 44th Street Theatre building’ Ticket boxes from Broadway houses are nightly collected and opened up the next morning, the count being made against:the treasurer's state- ment. While this still obtains for New York, the checking up of the dead-wood from out-of-town Shu- bert houses has been discontinued. Recently the outside theatres were instructed no longer to send in the dead-wood which was shipped in bundles. Orders now are to destroy dead-wood after holding it one week. Long report sheets which ac- companied the tickets from out-of-

CUT OUT $1,700 “Jack and Jill” Moving to Harris | June 4

By means of changes in the cast of “Jack and Jill” the John Murray Anderson musical at the Globe re- duced operating expenses $1,700 last week. The attraction with a gross of about $16,000 turned a profit, although lost the week pre- vious with the same takings. Don- ald MacDonald, Nancy Gibbs and ing held some weeks ago, with Lee Shubert presiding. Petty complaints about details in theatres filed by men from Mallom’s department and resulting in letters from the office of the general manager were men- tioned by some of the out-spoken louse managers. A letter stating that velopes were seen in the orchestra and lobby at 8.35 was termed “asinine,” since it was but five minutes past curtain time. ticket en- the rear of

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P.M. A.CALLS OFF PARLEYS: PREPARES FOR EQUITY ROW

* Declined Steering Committee to Handle Campaign Appointed at Annual Meeting—Concessions Offered and

MISS FREDERICK WILL SELL HER HOME IN CAL. May Go to Europe or Ask for Divorce—Possibly Resuming “Guilty One” Tour in Fall

After playing two weeks more in the west in “The Gutity One” for A. H. Woods, Pauline Frederick will, according to report, return to Los, Angeles, when she will dispose of her home there. Miss Frederick, according to re- port, will seek a divorcee from the New York north country physician she married a year or so ago as the culmination of a childish romance. The couple have been lately in- volved in separation proceedings. Following the settlement of her affairs Miss Frederick may take a trip abroad, remaining on the other side or returning in the autumn to resume her tour in “The Guilty One” piece. Although the play was looked upon as a failure when Miss Frederick appeared in it in New York, she had made $70,000 in profits on the road up until that time. $25 OPENING SEATS White Declares, But Doesn't Announce It

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miere of the new “Scandals” at the Globe, early in June, will be the last word in fancy prices if George White proceeds with his present It calls for seats in the first two rows to cost $25 each, with the next two rows at $15 apiece and $10 for the balance of the floor. White is said to be sincere in his proposed sky-limit first night scale, ficuring it out that ticket specu- lators would ask as much or more for tickets falling into their hands. The highest first night price at the box office rate heretofore is $10 plus $1 tax, that attaining for Ziegfeld’s

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The annual meeting of the Pro- ducing Managers’ Association last Friday declared conferences with Equity aimed to extend the present agreement guaranteeing open shop beyond June 1924 at an end. Rec- ognition that a conflict between the managers and actors next year was acknowledged by the appointment of a steering committee which is charged with preparing for a strike. The. managers state. they offered surprising concessions in. the con- ferences to test their suspicion, Equity was determined. to attempt a closed shop. Among the proposed concessions was the offer. not-to em- ploy any member of Equity who was suspended for failure to pay dues, would have virtually made the P. M. A. a collection agency for Equity. Solid managerial opposi- tion to closed shop was registered. Producers say the example of, the conditions in the Yiddish theatre is such that closed shop conditions would be impossible on Broadway. The annual session was confined to the re-election of its officers and directors, then turned to the Equity situation, the steering committee be- ing named to handle the managers- actors controversy, Following opposition to details of the central ticket agency plan ex- pressed at a Producing Managers’ Association meeting, the P.M, A. ticket committee, empowered to de- vise the method of operating the proposed big agency, met last Fri- day. No further progress Was re- ported nor expected since the ulti- mate plan must be submitted and approved by the association. Opinion whether the central office would be tried is divided, The ticket matter did not come up for consideration at the P, M, A. annual meeting, but the ticket com- mittee gathered in the evening at the offices of Lee Shubert, its chair- man, ‘ABIE,’ 8TH WEEK, TAKES PITTSBUKGH RECORD May Go Six Weeks More— Reaching $12,000 Weekly

Pittsburgh, May 9 “Able’s Irish Rose,” at the Pitt, held up to capacity its seventh week and grossed $12,000. Opening Mon- day on its eighth week, “Abie” broke all records for a run in Pittsburgh, last was seven weeks, held by “Johnny Get Your Gun.” Novel and original advertising has the whole town talking, and “Abie” looks z00d for abuut six more weeks at least. The Gayety held up last week with Bozo Snyder, and did a little over $7,000. The Lyceum closed Saturday with “Piantation Day,”’ nd did around

Nyoka-Nyoka are out of the show. “Follies,” “The Music Box Revue,” Choristers replaced the first .two FIDELITY LEAGUE ELECTION Winter Garden premieres, “Green- named, while the East Indian The Actors’ Fidelity League will|wich Village Follies” and “Scan- dancer’s bit was dropped. hold it annual meeting and elec-|dals.” During the last season there The attraction is due to move to|tion of officers at the League’s|/has been a tendency away .from the Sam H. Harris June 4, at which rooms, 71 East 45th street, Tues-|lofty first night scales. Along time it wiil succeed “Icebound.” |] day, May 29. Broadway it is predicted that White The Globe will get George White's The official ticket is president,] will weaken before ordering open- new “Scandals” as the summer] Henry Miller; vice-presidents, ing night tickets stamped at the show. George M. Cohan, and Louis Mann; | prices he has fixed, and some quar- It is claimed “Jack and Jill” can | secretary, Howard Kyle; treasurer,|ters believe the scheme may be break even at a little over $15,000] Ruth Chatterton. part of a publicity stunt, although gross. Although the salary list was Board of Directors, Fay Bainter, ]it has not been announced. increased when Lew Fields, Lulu} Holbrook Blinn, Lionel Braham, Ina “Scandals” will have three stren- McConnell and Charles Judels]| Claire, Curtis Cooksey, Mrs, Fiske, |uous comedians this season. Lester joined shortly after the opening,} Frances Starr, Lenore Ulric, David|Allen will again figure, having as recent cutting has equalized the in- | Warfield, Marjorie Wood, Olive|team-mates Johnny Dooley and crease, Wyndham Patricola, 7 S22 e ] THEATRE #ist Street : Campbell, Metzger & Jacobson 5am om y Eve. 8:30. Mat.2:30, E.of Bway. Obtain this stub. mam NA S28 ; M. T. W. T. at.° 2 | ) gop boy Sa hg MAY 7 89 10 ais: > iggy ; * @ te & For (1) Person or (Couple) : 4 $1.25 ao. To the Theatre Guild’s 5th Super Production this Season 4a) >a ~ 538 THE ADDING MACHINE Bebe & a -: Sen In Seven Monumental Scenes eons ee = gjc es ess By ELMER L. RICE tH lo® Sete sis] | 91-00 276] With DUDLEY DIGGES, MARGARET WYCHERLY ; 99 el208 56) | — capaemnitees SI and the Select Theatre Gulid’s All Star Cast of 20. Criti-; 3 ajae3*s Ix @ cized by the N. Y. Times, Herald, World, Telegraph, (oni .s| p| 7Se aa Comedy, Farce, th ame produc ed in years Pia oom 9 Oo} 4 = we , ey . ali az ST lemma o> Campbell, ee & ‘Jacobson ;#} & =| im) @ th This ticket presented at the theatre w to Orchestra 50 ’ J 8.2 or Balcony $2.50 2 i 0. $I mats at half box office price PLUS, ty m | 50c ess war tax Chiidren not .dmitted a - ' S 2 ey 3.2 $1.25, ($1.00, (75c|_—(|50c | DATE aoe CaS : , 4 TWO-FOR-ONE TICKET COUPON Style of coupon issued by Shubert theatres in their plan of selling two theatre tickets for the price of one. The coupon above is complete excepting date to best: amped for use and punched for price selected. In the particular coupon issued as reproduced coupon ts good for the first four days of thia wee k, starting Monday, or for Thursday and Saturday matinee, and was espevialiy issued fi the soci rvees of Campbell, Metzger & Jacobson, importers, with offices at 952 Bro idway, New York Cit; | The two-for-one ticket plan differs from the cut rates through the two-for ones being actually half the box office scale plus war tax, and disposed of through arrangement with the buyers, while the cut rates are sold over the counter of an agency established for that purpose not operated by the theatres, and with a vary- ing price scheduled, not always one-haif of ihe box office rates . Also while the two-for-ones admit bearer of coupon to location designaced by price cut rates frequently » limited to the baicony of a theatre $4,000. The light grossed day- and Academy, considering saving, did good business about $4,000 on the week eee CENSOR PASSES “APE” Tuesday experience him, are “Majestic,” from London The high points of his over-seas as expressed by that: Kugene O'Neil is established n England, Pauline Lord has caught the al tention of the British. public. Arthur Hopkins’ name as American producer is known in the British Empire. On the basis of this showing Hop- kins proposes to introduce to Eng- land “The Hairy Ape.” The script has been presented to the British censor with certain eliminations—particularly with ref- erence to the spoken werd, “bloody’ -and the script has been O.K.’ed Pingland. Creorge Bernard in London some the wor his comedies mn for started a years ago used Shaw row Was wher Saine one of

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i Hegegic I lish, in an ad dress at the I versity of Chicago predicted that there will be an tors’ strike this year, and regretted that théatregoers encourage com- lism in the ing a play by the duction instead of by the quality of the acting. “Unfair cenditions in mercia leatre by judg cost of the pro the theatri- cal profession probably will about a general strike of the ac- tors,” he said, “Playgoers of this country seem to appreciate and value more highly, imported produc- tions, while they are letting equally meritorious plays of local origin go unpat_ onized,” bring “LAST WARNING” CLOSING ‘The Last Warning” at the Klaw, New York, will close its run on Sat- urday. The Mingold production has been at the house for 29 weeks, counting thit, its final week. Two weeks ago the show slid under the the closing limit Sof $6,000, and given s top notice was

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It will cost $96,000 a son during the grand opera period, Cost increases and some salaries of leading artists, which automatically increase through tracts, account for an advancement of about 16 per cent in the weekly expenditures, Met. receipts are quoted a little under $106,000 weekly, | more than the cost of operatio Although the directors’ have ney publicly announced the Metropolie 4 tan's financial standing, it is cladimeqd ~ that little or no profit is made. The approximate receipts from opera. or. the season are.set at $2,500,000, According to the reputed schedule for next season the expenditure will be about a quarter million less, One week will be added to the season starting next fall, for a total of 24 weeks. The opening date will be fixed one week earlier in No« vember than usual, with the closing date in late April remaining the same. It is believed opera will eventually be played Tuesday night, because of the increased public demand for tickets. ‘Heretofore that night has been devoted to concerts, with Mon- day the big night of the week in opera. By adding Tuesdays a better allotment of choice seats may be spread among patrons who are dis« satisfied. The prices will remain the same, with the scale for $7.70 and subscription tickets again at $6.50. The last seven weeks of this season found attendance and demand off, dating from the de« parture of Jeritza. The sale of upper floor seats, however, was une diminished, including the side sece tions of the family circle. Tickets for those sections are Stamped across the face that only a portion of the stage can be seen. Plans to reseat the Met’s lower floor may be carried out during the summer, MAYOR KEEPING STOCK San Francisco ‘Cémmitias for Hart« man-Steindorf San Francisco, May 9. Mayor Rolph is determined to put and make permanent the Ferris Hartman-Paul Steindorf light opera company now housed in, the Rivoli. He is desirous of mak« ing it a permanent San Francisco institution. For this purpose the mayor called a meeting to initiate campaign The campaign will

over performance for Hart- man and Steindorff. For a long time there has been agitation in San Francisco for the establishment of a permanent mu- nicipal grand opera company. The first tangible steps towards a real- ization of the plan are now under way with the organization of the San Francisco Municipal Opera Company, The project is under the direction of Gaetano Merola who for some weeks past has been trying out voices of local singers. A meeting was held in Merola’s actual forma- was begun with singers to studio at which the tion of the company 100 local] huge chorus. KLEIN’S “FIXED IDEA” produced A mystery drama to be next fall by Arthur Klein is ene titled “The Fixed Idea” by Charlee W. Goddard and William Pinkham. Mr. Klein may have the play pre- sented by a steck company during the summer to obtain a iine on it. Klein, who is the vaudeville book- ing manager for the Shuberts, is recent produc- Atlantic City, not interested in a tion of “Maggie” at as neported. : “MR. BLIMP” J AT Y MOROSCO “Mr, Blimp,” on tour for a time and se.eral weeks in Chicago, will open at the Morosco, New York, a 21, succeeding “Pride.’’ The lat- ter Sattraction, which opened last week, is due to withdraw Saturday. TayloF Holmes will join “Mr. Blimp,” and will be featured. The chow wos produce ad bv John Henry Mears,

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“Helen of Troy, N. Y¥.,” will debut at Fairmount, W. Va., June 4, where it will open the new theatre now being completed and sponsored by local capitalists. The LeMaire- Jessel musical was originally slated to open at Atlantic City. The Fairmount engagement guarantees “Helen” $9,000 for the week, but the house management has the privilege of playing the show three days at Fairmount and three days at a nearby stand, transportation to be paid to other stand. The new house will play pictures after the “Helen” premiere, but will book attractions starting next fall,

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. FOUR A’S MEETING Gathering—Discussing Equity and Vaudeville The annua meeting of the four A’= the internatitona: or governing body of the theatrik il unions, is said to be held today (May 10) at the eadquarters of the Equit; Peprest tive fron Equity 4 , | (vaude branch, Chorus Unio Hebrew Actors’ Union, etc., attend aay tachigie ubjects will be gone which will question the to project itself into situation A TAFT IW LEAD via Field, the lead in “The Cat and Canary” since its reopening, as retired from the cast. The role Emily Taft, inte, one of quity the vaudeville ries of F Syi is now being played by who went in Monday Miss Taft is a daughter of Laredo Taft, the sculptor, and a niece of Chief Justice William H. Taft. With ability, appearance and te back her, Miss Taft will “uve. prestige indouhtedly art

WELLS HAWKS IS GOING WITH ELLIS GIMBEL Navy’s Press Agent Leaving Sam H. Harris—Other Com- mercial Publicists

Wells Hawks, who has tendered his resignation as publicity director for Sam H. Harris’ attractions, is understood ito have accepted an in- vitation to act as personal represen- tative for Ellis Gimbel, of the firm of Gimbel Brothers, whd re- cently announced affiliating with Saks & Company. According to in- side sources Hawks’ new aassign-~ ment will in no way be connected with the business of the big de- partment store, but will be in the nature of personal exploitation, The appointment of Hawks is the first from theatricals by big busi- ness, although many famous indus- tries have exploitation experts. J. I, C. Clarke, of the Standard Oil, whose history he compiled, is one of the leading exponents of that art. Clarke was one time managing editor of the New York “Herald,” 5 feature story writer of promience, and he also dipped into playwriting - ing. Ivy Lee, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, attracted more attention than any publicity director in a decade, springing into prominence during a strike and throughout the war. Hawks was recently elected presi- dent of the newly formed Theatrical, Press Agents’ Association, which aims to include road men. During the war he entered the navy and gained the rank of lieutenant -com - mander, assigned to the Intelligence Department, It is understood he still retains connections with the Navy Department at Washington. It was announced Hawks would ex- ploit Luna Park this summer, and that private publicity work would engage his time thereafter.

MISS RAMBEAU’S SAILING Left Hurriedly from Hotel—Hus- band in Home Marjorie Rambeau departed in such haste Saturday on the Homericsshe had not time to secure a passpért. One will be forwarded her in London. Miss Rambeau will return to this side,in time to re- hearse with the new A, H. Woods play, "The Road Together,” °by George Middleton. It will open in the fall. Miss Rambeau was living in a hotel when deciding to sail, whiie her husband, Hugh Dillmar, continued to occupy their New York home, It is said the actress was enabled to board the boat without a passport upon the strength of an affidavit she had lost the one issued to her “BUGS” OVER- EXERCISED

Living in Brooklyn Against Him, Too Arthur “Bugs” Baer, after an iill- ness of several months, is again writing witticisms for the New York “American,” although he is not covering sporting events The humorist has been suffering with intestinal poisoning, as the result of his stomach dropping. “Bugs” was one of the best handball play- ers in the city and his condition is blamed on too violent exercise by physicians. “Bugs” made his first appearance since winter at the Friars last Sat- urday. Though still weak his fun streak was Visibie. He explained that living in Brooklyn “back-fired on me.” “HELP YOURSELF” IN FALL “Help Yourself,” the three-act comedy put on as a try out at the Bronx Women's Club recently, ! scheduled for production in August The piece was written by Katherine trowning Miller, co-author of Jus Boys.” The comedy will have a brief road triai coming olis about Sept. 1. into the metrop- tob Lankers and Marion Berry have been engaged for principat roles.

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CUT RATES AS “BLOCK PARTIES” CREEPING INTO CHICAGO’S LOOP as Five Houses Last Week Despite Efforts to Stop It—Howard Brothers’ Wallop in Face of Record Slump

Chicago, May §&. Figuring that nary a dramatic show in town reached the $10,000 mark last week, it continues easy to note the nakedness of loop trade. If it hadn’t been for Saturday mat- inee and night “Sally” would have been far outstripped by Howard's “Passing Show” for the musical play lead of the town, As it was, the Howard Brothers business was a trifle better than “Sally's.” the lat- ter’s gross being deceptively high only through the fact of the $4.40 price compiling it. Checking up the business was a secondary matter of surprise as to how unexplainably why the sats populace is remaining away from the loop theatres. The main topic of finding was the teasing the op- portunities of cut-rate tickets are offering to the house managers. Hidden behind Veiled procedure, cut rates were used during the week at the Playhouse, Central, Princess, Great Northern and Olympic. “Block party tickets” may have been the nom de plume for the cut rates, but the established fact is that there were bargains offered and the tic- kets procured by playgoers who have become acquainted with’ cut rates. A later report will relate in- cidents prevailing that will force the establishing of a cut-rate office in the loop, regardless of the present stand of the managers or the feel- ings of “Sport” Hermann. At pres- ent there are those who are inclined to dea] in cut rates under the dis- guise of “block party tickets,” but the bargain ticket hunters in the wholesale houses care not under what title they draw the tickets just so long as the} secure them. Because of the fate of “Why Not?” at the Powers, it’s more probable than ever that May 19 will find all of the so-called “syndicate” houses closed. The Colonial dark Saturday with the farewell of o 7] BOC S “Sally.” Both the Blackstone and Illinois are now dark, and with no reasons to believe tre current Pow- ers theatre attraction will continue for more than a fortnight, despite profit possibilities on $6,000 gross, tha predicted situation promises to come to pass, On the other side of the fence the ey , $ > ¢, ? y } } + hye PhuLr tS are ivreea tU necp Uatin tii Garrick for one week, crediting the situation to the big flop of “Tan- serine,” saturda

Used Business Expedient ihe biz list of convention Gelegatcs headed this way for the last week in May and the whole. of June. While not high, “Light Wines and Beer” had the best call ofthe week at the hotel stands among the dramatic shows. “Passing Show” held ' the lead call at the hotels for the mu- sical attractions. Not able to book an attraction now that “Peter and Paula’ has waned close to the red ink, .the management of the Playhouse in- tends to hold ©. P. Heggie and others, with a view of producing its own shows. The first will be a play called “Chains,” which will have a premiere May 20. . It’s the first inde- pendent move made by any local house owner, but the biggest encour- agement for the idea probably comes from the actors themselves. Lester Bryant has become so desperate in trying to keep his house open that he sanctions any idea, chiefly this one because of the boosting it is re- ceiving to make a Chicago favorite of Helen Gahagan, who is included in the Heggie cast. How much longer “Up the Ladder” will stick at the Central depends upon the wording of the contract which gave the theatre to the back- ers of the independent booking. One of the hotel specs is known to be “plugging” “Up: the Ladder” hard, giving the inference that the Cen- tral proposition draws financial backing from at least four outside partieS, making the split of the losses and profits so small that the piece can be kept here without harm administered to anyone. Carl Reed and James Shesgren turned over their new play, “Rolling Hlome” to the Twin Theatres, draw- ing the Harris for a premiere May 20, with the departure of “Peter | Weston.” If the new play fails t hit, the Harris will be forced dark as it is said Sam Harris intends to,; hold all his real hits until the new season rather than run the risk of the present hour here. At the Sel- wyn “Light Wines and Beer” ‘will probably continue through some ar- $9,000, - figuring $1,000 drop over previous week. Goes out May 19, with “Rolling Home” Donald Brian) to follow night after. “Light Wines and Beer” (Selwyn, 7th week): Held around $8,000, re- sult of cancelling Thursday matinee and small Saturday matinee gross. If house can keep open with other theatres going dark, good chance for improvement, “Tangerine” (Garrick, week}. Summer plans compietely aliered, with engagement closing Saturday. Add this .one..to the real flops of year. Did. around. $11,000. Ray- mond Hitchcock opens in “Hitehy- Koo” May I9, giving house one week ‘of darkness, “Hurricane” (Olympic, 5th week in Chicago). Goes to storehouse again making dark this theatre. Checked around. $4,000. e “Blossom Time” (Great Northern, 8th week in Chicago). In much doubt as to what to do. Failed to better $11,500. Shuberts desirous of holding show in town because of forecast few houses will be opened by June 1. “For All of Us” (Studebaker, 25th week). Edge completely worked off. Slated for® May 26 departure. Grossed reh. suas

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= mediocrity or loss. play is also considered.

Figures estimated and comment point to some attractions being successful, while the same gross accredited to others might suggest The variance is explained in the difference in house capacities, with the varying overhead. Also the size of cast, with consequent difference in necessary gross for profit. in business necessary for musical attraction as agginst dramatic ? ariance

“Abie’s Irish Rose,” Republic (51st week). Holding remarkable gait for this stage of run, with takings $12,000 and better. “Barnum Was Right,” Cohan (9th week). Moved Monday ‘rom Frazee. Business under $6,605 last several weeks, but cui-rating expected to help here, also. better house location, Net longer than three or four weeks more. “Caroline,” Ambassador (15th week). May attempt to prolong run with two-for-ones, but doubt about operetta surviving far into June. Still claimed to: be making little money, with last week bet- tering $8,000. “Cat and Canary,” National (34 week). Application of two-for- one tickets only chance for second engagement of mystery play. Heid over from last season at National, making run of 43 weeks, and tak- ing to road early last December. $6,000 last week; claimed satis- factory. “Follies,” (49th New Amsterdam

END OF LEGIT SEASON IN BOSTON: MITZI DID $20,000 LAST WEEK'

“Minnie and Me” Proves Star’s Strength—Jolson Holding Around $30,000—Moscow Art.Opens at $5 Top—To Practically Capacity

Boston May 9. The end is plainly in sight for the egitimate theatres ‘in this city for the present season By the end of May, at any rate, unless there is a decided change, the attractions play- ing the houses here will be limited to probably two musical shows. Out-

rangements between A. H. Woods and the Selwyns. If the Woods piece | is withdrawn the Selwyn will be compelled to go dark because of lack of attractions. With the theatres closing in the number they will be aft t owners can the turn of matters. he house oniv sit bac and await Last week's estimates:

er this week fopening night, ~}/ the side of the Cohan show, which will hold on until October, there is noth- ing in sight for a: summer run. This week the feature of the local field was the opening of the Moscéw Art Theatre at the Majestic. On the as could be foreseen, house was practicaily capacity. | What vacancies did exist could more than likely be traced to seats-in the

Which = ck + Why Not? Powers, Ist week). | hands of speculators who got caught Raymond Hitchcock is hurviedly re I ess some sort of co-operative | short As a general thing Bos- , nsing et, : ; ' d a Ss very |tonians do not fall very hard for the i Is OF or Ui . cdubious, piece will join bunch of de- icket speculator and are liable to will } a | ha % , . i } 1 WHICh Wi BS Uae Ete parting iows May 19. Gross for| whip him’ whenever possible. making it a Saturday premiere tor premiere week figured close to $6,000 The Russian players got away to Hitchcock. The LaSalle also goes “ haw?? lla. 9 aa | _ihe Russian players got away to Aante Sh a pangs th “Cat and Ca-/y tage ye rer (Ape sae 2d W “K)-) the usual fine start. They are in for lark Saturda se ot Es olds goo $2,200 average for gTOSS/q stay of two weeks, and unless they nary ae Fare OL Fit ton at on apparently oll-nights, SWinging |have a different fate from that which t kets ¢ lespite a very OW OYD-=- Il hie 7 art . ead ar Pea « a dilterent fate fro! tnat I p ne , oe finding the wha a hen nee ene irday Sunday t0}has befallen other high-brow attrac- her : = Sige ohe tt a ’ $25,000. Howard Brothers never|tions playing this city in the past gaft f 1eager business together f worl. wie. ¢ oatne 03 ‘ WE fs ar ‘ : o's xe eyes - m4 oe ~~ Se tt « aa’ vorked racer (to sain UCnicaso ri- | few seasons the time announced Wiii too much, There isn a qué oO umph (which the lave dene). En be sufficient. With a house scaled of doubt but what Salle will|gagement limited to four weeks! at = 4 Ras ee a ae a he lv reopen. but with the New}, re , i _ $5 top there is of nec¢ iby - - 7 ee a R a ae | ee jlimited following, and many of those Aiden Age: + nabs all Bay ene aten “Sally (Colonial, 17th week).|that would attend. a show of this It must be a surprise booking if on: Finishes big finans engagement | sort it its scale saw it in New York is made for the LaSalle. ecord } of $4.40 to} Satur- | The other opening Monday was a ] T } ‘ ] ‘ } : , Wl ¢ the How i ad Bre ? h } Yr oO} ‘ ] \I i mus 1] show. a repeat. Molly , 7 aE dh are'ns Spaniel oe ‘ before dist a ( f Darling’ returned to the Tremont the Apollo oO ( for | son Estimated ‘ ound $23 | for two weeks to pick up some of worry by the de Ove MS 1) 000 the coin left behind when it was house. it must be grat ing tothe) “Steve” (Princess, 3d week). Hit|forced out of the same house earlier Hfowards to realize that ‘ e} da for bales t le es tion}in the season while traveling at an eome to Chicago at the f tr ¢ r é vn. Tr this |} especially speedy gait. the record slump and m: tain the ‘ “ ‘ ow i piece The last three weeks are héing an- trade pace they are now doing. It’s! will be kept. Slipped littl nde nounced for “Lightnin’,” ts the the best compliment the local pub- i $8 000 Hollis ee scune ane inn oe . ' Last =a . | Vills. 4% 144 vy ali tVyy SvUTI. 4aASec lic should possibly offer to these “Cat and Canary” (LaSalle, 35th| week this show dropped to $9,000— popular stocks, everything consid- | week). Closes long engagement | not even fair. It is believed that ered be | Saturday, finding it impossible to{}with the last weekS announced the Br n t the (;reat Northern } keep alive without help from it ishow will pick up somewhat, but still : — omplishlns jrates, which were tabooed fort be a long way off from the previous . e é € )é i or I etween $6 H00 9) a $7 000 ood fizures lTr doubte ily the mHnube ! . “Up the Ladder” (Central, i been held here over the as . né Ls : a ls - week). Didn't reach figvurs of pre n le o« + in conditions isti- any If * or Nady | ous week through fai e of hots d—but it was broug) 1 to take OO1E rid eile - ; call Saturday. Cut té field I he i ce of the on’ time Studebaker, the I } hanvnbend’ twits ms e nd ouse . house would have i er. Failed to hit $7.000 ‘ yr the fir pa of M would al xr “Biossom Tims | ‘a , “strain ea a9 “the : Cail for I> it ( : ; } ' Two Fellows and Girl (Coh i quite S kings Ac the summer run. A transtf¢ ( I - ¢ ; te : show has broken the house record pm v3 1 to the rar 1debaker n i Vee@K ). is as on2e as l Ww he (Cl iil i i . som ime uC ee ; . ful. — ade nrevents loss regardless of for length of stay, and up to tne tr : rr aecen | tee at toh 7 He ze of profit, engagement will con-|time when the weakness deve lope d ae * per ine iy os get Dietitians. inue, Doubtful, however, if Cohan}|had turned in some mighty fine Eine eisewnere tor an oe. “atx, | Will hold piece longer than June 1.|grosses for a dramatic production. attraction because of the Way For Figured around £9.000 Jo) } finisl t the Shubert . e: 35 + f } aroune 9.0 Jolson als ishes at the & jy All of Us” has slipped. It is the “Peter and Paula” (Playhouse, 5t] as a i if nia 4 k Still ave) Studeboker’s plans to keep open this eure elayhouse, oth jat the end of this week, Still trave % ummer. and the tentative arrange- | Week). Last two weeks announced, | ing strong, but with the end in sight. uMminer, an We tentath atl ANIES 2 ae ameomant Aactaine te rit ! uctions, ing a gros > neig hoc ) side appear there in repertoire, xperiment he n. own pro ct oO! S, ng 1 & ose in tht . gn 01 1006 ( starting around June 3 holding O. P. Heggie as star of new | $30,000 while playing the house, and J ea ‘ oT ‘ ° m aYU © ’ ‘ ‘ . fav t is ra a t 2 s} ss With Hurricane eaving the play, called Chains, to open May ~~ . = 3 p i. gitar i tg Olympic, the loop will have five }<%- Current presentation did $6.500 1¢ las Gone a ot er seasons V 1én darkened houses at the close of Sat- | ]ast_week. here. “Lady Butterfly,” the Morosco urday business, Attractions which “R. U. R.” (Cort, 3d week). De-|musieal show, is booked to follow for possibly can stick it out will natu- | SI ite gross of little unde r $8,000, an inde finite engagement, depending rally gain a point because of the house, with small operating ex- greatly on weather and drawing limited area of theatresefo which the | penses, made profit. Manage ment | ability. visitors in town can g& Its because j; still unable to book attraction that There is some talk of an attempt of this situation that “Light Wines will be necessary to keep house, being made to run “The Fool” and Beer” will probably bé Kept at {opened this summer. through the summer at,the Selwyn, the Selwyn. The Woods show should “Peter Weston” (Harris, 10th|but local theatrical. men Jook upon be an appropriate eniertafmment to!week). Tabbed between $8,000 and it as unsafe. The show is of the peculiar heavy type, and would have to ge very strong to draw paying audiences for a summer season in this city. Those who claim to be in a position to Know look for a closing early in June, despite no announce- ment has been made. One of the features of the past week was the manner in which Mitzi held up at the Colonial. Bucking real opposition with a show which is admittedly weaker than most of those she has appeared in here, Mitzi got away with $20,000 iast week. This shows a very strong undercurrent, with a big draw com- ing from out of town and with the women going big for the matinees and the evening performances, In the final week “Six Cylinder Love” did $18,000 at the Tremont, coming back strong on the last week really turning out to be somewhat of a surprise. and Daylight saving and weather con- ditions that remind one of the sum- mer that Bostonians hope to be not far off have combined to cut into the theatre here. Both were expect and business condi- have been discounted by local managers. The summer parks and beaches wil] be in full swing within a couple of weeks, and then the final blow will fall. U all signs fail Cohan’s musical show will then hold the town This season he has pro- ter himself, according to local report, by leasing the house from May 15 to Oct. 15, and this saves him from begging time after Labor Day, aS was the case the last two seasons. tions ed nless alone. t | ed Estimates for last week: “Lightnir# ” (Hollis, 20th week). Last three weeks announced. Slipped off to $9,000 last week, first week figure been -touched, and off $2,000 from business of week before. “Minnie and Me” (Colonial. 4th week) Strong all the time and. de- spite handicap of daylight saving and stiff opposition, did $20,000 last WEeCK, “Molly Darling” (Tremont ist week). Opened to capacity Monday. Return. , “The Fool” (Selwyn, 12th week) Dropped off some with others in town, due to conditions. Credited with bit better than $9,000. “Surt Showers” (Wilbur, 2d week). Opened fairly in face of general de- cline which started last week. Al Jolson (“Bombo”), (Shubert, 4th week). Returns to Broadway next week after averaging $30,000 first two weeks, Business not so good last week, “The Monster” (Plymouth, 2d week).

$11,000, WHITESIDE, FRISCO San Francisco, May 9. Walker Whiteside in “The Hindu” piled up a gross of $11,000 during his second and final week at the Curran. Current at the Curran are Mc- Intyre and Heath, to be followed by

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week), Flo Ziegfeld intends make = ing second edition of revue, listed for all summer. New production insertion date for early June, Business last week little better than $30,000, , “For Value Received,”. Longasre ~ (ist week). Succeeded “Laughing = New show independent, Monday when five premieres op-« posed each other. . a3 “Give and Take,” week). pace jately off like. most..of. list, Excellent chances for making money on tour next season. Gross 49th St. Q%th_ last much longer. : This musical touted for summer continuance. Good draw of about $12,000 and same ownership of house and show - gives it ‘good chanee to last. Cut rating aiding materially. ‘ “How Come?” Apollo (4th week), Colored show slightly better last week~-over third week’s business, but pace. still under figure neces- sary for even break. Was to have been succeeded next week, but management has arranged for continuance. Guarantee of $4,000 likely modified. Gross last week about $5,000. “Icebound,” Sam Harris (13th week). Around $6,500 last week, may mean even breas: Two or three ‘weeks more probably,.with “Jack and Jill” due to move here from Globe. “Jack and Jill,” Globe (8th week), Reduction in operating costs via cast changes lately, with claim show now can break even at $15,< 000. About $1,000 more last week, with small profit claimed. “Lady Butterfly,” Astor (16th week). Final week.. Two-for-one tickets kept this musical going. Cast changes made permit even break, but last week the gross of $7,500 was hardly a profit. “Dew Drop In” succeeds Menday. “Last Warning,” Klaw (29th week). Final week for mystery . piece, which for major part of run topped shows of kind in takings. Under stop limit lately, between $5,000 and $6,000. “Little Nellie Kelly,” Liberty (26th week). Agency call. reported among best and gross of about $21,500 places Cohan musical within reach of best marks. Counted on for summer going. “Mary the Third,” 3S9ih St. (14th week). Expectation is for cone tinuance into summer. With “Rain” quartered on same street near by and “Wildflower” across at Casino and also doing great business, “Mary” should get share of trade. $7,500 recently and claimed profitable. “Merton of the Movies,” Cort (26th week). This summer candidate among solid hits of season. Get« ting between $14,000 and $15,000 now and should have little troublé keeping on right of ledger during hot season. “Morphia,” Eltinge (6th week). Ore dinarily this house must draw bigger business than “Morphia’s,” but show has small east and, with nearly done, can make money. Just $6,000 last Show to subway cre House will go dark, “Music Box Revue,” Music Box (29th week). Monday and mati< nee trade off last week, but total of over $24,000 means show still among best money getters on groadway. Looks easy for sum-« mer. “My Aunt from Ypsilanti,” Bari Carroll. Lasted one week with takings about $2,000, not much more than list. Houses dark. Summer next month. “Papa Joe,” Lyric (11th week). Mys- tery how this one keeps gomég. Takings via two for ones M- creased 50 per with total @ little over $3,000 t week, “Peer Gynt,” Shubert (14th week). Not setting but doing well enough time of sea- son until week, when gross dropped to $8,500. House will probably get a musical for sume mer. “Polly week). cellent side season little week. cuit Monday. “oO BOC salary revue ‘ + cent street afire, ior this last Little (17th Regarded as having €%- chance to stick through summer. Business close to capac- itv, while most of list dropped. Has bettered $11,000 for last month and agency call among first four. “Pride,” Morosco (2d week), Stops Saturday. Sentimental drama entered late and rated having no chance. Expected to establish Broadway showing for value to pictures. Opened Wednesday last week. “Rain,” Maxine Elliott (27th week). Preferred,”

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hiladelphia, May 9. Business s off almost all along the line last week, but the losses were pretty evenly divided, so that no show, except the departing “Blos- ‘som Time,” can be credited with a real bad gross. Local managers are ‘80 optimistic there is. every indica- tion that six out of the eight legit- imate houses will be open close up to June, There were two returning shows, in addition to two new presentations ‘by the Moscow Art Theatre, to en- liven the situation last week. Prob- ably the biggest surprise was the fine business achieved by “Make It Snappy,” at the Chestnut.* This Eddie Cantor revue played to good business at the Shubert. last, year, and last week, the first of its re- turn engagement, the gross went to over $15,500 at $1.50 top, unusually good.. It was one show which didn’t feel the effects of the daylight saving. Monday night, when the real mix-up occurred, there was virtual capacity, the last minute demand at the box office offsetting the cancellations sent in during the day. The Chest- nut’s come-back after the disastrous period devoted to Shubert vaudeville is the talk of the city. “Spice” started the ball rolling, and “Make It Snappy” seems to be out to beat “Spice’s” record. The Cantor show started off this week in fine style, and is more than likely to stay four instead of three weeks, as planned. The Lyric, while feeling the Mon- day drop because of time change, showed a substantial gain with the Moscow Art over its first week. “The Cherry Orchard” and “The Three Sisters,” the two plays given by the Russians during their final week, appeared to be more popular than either “Tsar Fyodor” or ‘The Lower Depths” here, unless it was that the first two mentioned were given only three performances each, while the other two had six each. Some claim it was a case of con- centrated trade that resulted in the big houses at “The Cherry Oréhard” and “The Three Sisters.” Whatever the reason, the second week's gross jumped nearly $4,000 over the first week’s, the figure be- ing reported at $35,500. ‘Capacity was the rule’ upstairs nearly all week, the downstairs weaknesses being prominent Monday and Tues- day and ata couple of the matinees. The high scale of prices held the business down to almost entirely the loca! Russian element. “Captain Applejack,” “The Green- wich Village Follies,” and “The Changelings” took normal drops with the advent of the first real summer weather, but all turned in grosses well up on the profit side. “Applejack,” in its sixth and final week, held to around $11,000, a loss of less than a thousand over the pre- ceding week. If it had not been for the light saving mix-up early it would have shown a definite gain. “The Changelings”. was also hit by the light saving jumble, but held up well throughout its third and last week at the Broad. Capacity no longer ruled (as it did the second week), but a gross of about $17,000 was reported, big money for this medium capacity house at this sea- son. The grosses established by the Miller all-star show closed the Broad in a blaze of glory after:a rather uneven year. “The Greenwich Village Follies,” off the first week, and coming back strong its second, did not continue to gain as expected. A drop of from $2,000 to $3,000 was recorded last week, with present indications that this week will find the revue down close tq $20,000. Nevertheless, it has been definitely decided to keep the “Follies” in for a fifth week, with the possibility of a sixth unless the bottom drops completely out. Busi- ness has been below expectations, but so much better than the Shubert has done most of the season that it is considered worth keeping the re- vue in for an engagement. “Blossom Time” continued to drop so badly last week the announce- ment Sunday of the final week was not in the least a surprise. The Schubert operetta did nothing at the Adelphi, where it was transferred when the Russians took possession of the Lyric, its gross hitting some- where between $6,000 and $5,250. With this week it will have com- pleted 29 consecutive weeks in Philadelphia. Three openings this week, and all Show promise. The newly organized Philadelphia Theatre Guild gave its first performance at the Lyric, “A Successful Calamity,” with William Gillette and Lola Fisher. The gross for the first night was rcported ata few dollars short of $700, which at the low scale ($1.50 top) is consid- rand 7.30, ered a good beginning. There was a rather distinguished audience with a number of society parties and University peopie. Most of the notices were full of praise. It is considered that if anything can make this new movement withstand the summer heat its start Monday will do the trick. At the last moment, instead of having the Garrick dark this week before the opening of “Adrienne,” it was decided to book “The Bal Tab- arin” in for the single week, in it- self an unusual arrangement here. This is also unusual in view of the fact that ‘The Bal Tabarin” is a Shubert show, and the Garrick a syndicate (Erlanger) house. Sec- ond time this year this has occurred, the first, “Spice of Life,” booked in at the Forrest in the fall. The open- ing of “The Bal Tabarin” was. well papered, but there was some real money in, too, The notices were none too good, however. “Shuffle Along” had close to ca- pacity at the Forrest, with little pa- per out. It drew good notices all along the line, and the advance sale is good, but the management is ad- mittedly worried about its ability to complete a long stay. Emphasis is placed on the words “limited en- gagement” in ads and publicity with no hint to the general public that the colored revue hopes for a sum- mer continuance, Next Monday there will be two openings, the second presentation of the new Theatre Guild, “Winnie and the Wolves,” starring Lola Fisher, and “Adrienne” at the Garrick. The first-named might stay two weeks if business warrants, as the Guild, while adhering generally to ‘single week stays, is not definitely com- mitted to that policy. “Adrienne” Will stay only two instead of three weeks as first reported. With the Broad closed and the Adelphi closing, Saturday, there will be six houses open next week, pro- vided the Walnut decides to switch ‘Bal Tabarin” over there as ex- pected. This would be for only a week or two, as the management wants a week to renovate the the- atre before the beginning of the summer revue on June 4. The Gar- rick will have a month of pictures following “Adrienne.” A final switch has solved the daylight saving situation here to the satisfaction, at least, of the theatre managers. The Shubert aud syndicate houses advertise standard time, with shows starting at 2.30 The Walnut, however, sticks to its determination (taken directly after the Monday confusion) to run on daylight saving time. Estimate for last week: “Greenwich Village Fellies” (Shu- bert, 4th week). Dropped consid- erably, very, very weak at Wednes- day matinee. Gross reported at slightly over $24,000. Another week definitely and possibiy more. “Shuffle Along” (Torrest, ist week). Big opening night business, but much doubt expressed as to ability of colored revue to last sum- mer as hoped. “Hunting Big Game” held up nicely in final week. “Bal Tabarin” (Garrick, Ist week). Shubert booking in a _ syndicate house for a single week’s stay. Some notices unflattering. Mond fairly good. “Adrienne” Monday. In final week. “Captain Applejack” hit around $11,000, completing a very profitable stay here. “Make it Snappy” (Chestnut, 2d week). Caught on with bang on second visit, grossing $15,500 at $1.50 top. Stays three weeks and possi- bly ~more. Hasn’t been decided whether house will have successor to “Make It Snappy” or not. “Kempy” (Walnut, 24 week). Hit by’ daylight saving mixup last Mon- day, but showed promising climb, and started this week well, Gross reported at $7,100. “Successful Calamity” (Lyric, 1st week). First of newly organized PhiladelLhia Theatre Guild shows, planning single week engagements. Onened with real promise and or- ganization hoves to ride through summer. Moscow Art Theatre in second and last week climbed, showing gross of considerably over $35,000. “Blossom Time” “Adelphi, 3d week). Twenty-ninth and final week in city, recent slump showing no signs of abutement leading to Ce- cision to end record run. Last week's gross little over $6,060. The Broad is closed for the sea- son except for amateur perform- ances. This week the Savoy com- pany, lecal Gilbert and Sulliven or ganization, presents “Pirates ol Penzance,” 10-12. “The Change- iings” completed three weeks of fine

business, with gross of over $17,000 last week. LEGITIMATE

LEGIT ITEMS —— Col. George F. Hinton, who han- died the publicity for the Charies Dillingham organization for the last season and also managed “Loyal- ties” will sail for Europe next Wed- nesday. Hig objective is Paris and London. In the latter city he will visit his daughter, Margaret Sousa, appearing at the Alhambra in “You'd Be Surprised.” In France Col. Hinton will revisit the scenes he became familiar with while over- seas with the New York Regiment of colored troops, which he assisted Col. Haywood in organizing.

Chicago Association of Commerce | is utilizing the theatrical field in the new members drive now being functioned. For the months of June and July the local association of commerce has arrayed the biggest number of conventions ever sched- uled for the town. The way book- ings now shape up it doesn’t look as if the visitors to the city will have a varied list of attractions to select from. Shows in town at the time will reap the harvest.

Clara Young, star of the Yiddish company presenting “Ida in Sev- enth Heaven,” has promised to drop the use of the “Seventh Heaven” part of the title foflowing an inves- tigation by the Piracy Committee of the Producing Managers’ Asso- ciation. While Miss Young's pro- duction, a musical, does not in- fringe on John Golden's play, the title is confusing and the change was decided upon following an in- vestigation.

J. Lynn Yeagle, for 15 years with the Washington “Pest” and for the past two years head of the dra- matic section picture and musical departments of the publication, has left the paper. Prior to going with the “Post” Yeagle was connected with the Washington t of the|

The dramatic department of the paper is now practically function- ing with but one man, G. E. Glen- non, transferred from the city room of the paper.

Harry A. Henkel has gone from Ford’s, Baltimore, to Hagerstown, Md., representing the Nixon-Nird- linger interests there, and having Walter W. Artz as assistant. N-N is embroiled in legal proceedings with the Washington Street Amuse- ment Co., of Hagerstown, over the possession of Nixon’s ..:ademy in that town,

Si Goodfriend has left the De Wolf Hopper comic opera company, which he agented this season. The attraction opens at Fountain Ferry Park, Louisville, Monday and will repeat at Carlin’s Park, Baltimore, for the summer. No agent is em- ployed for ‘either park date. El- liott Foreman remdins as company manager.

Out in Chicago where “Why Not?” is playing at the Powers it appears that this is going to be the final week of the show. Last week the gross that the attraction got was $3,839. The show went into the town without advance work. a ‘Trene” will be sent to the road again next'season, the show’s fifth year. It will open August 21 at Oklahoma City and goes to the coast after playing Texas territory. There were two “Irenes” out this season.

Wagenals & Kemper are engaging the cast for “The Breaking Point,” a new play by Mary Roberts Rine- hart, to open at Atlantic City July 2. McKay Morris will play the lead.

Jane Taylor is appearing in “Sally, Irene and Mary” at the Cen- tury, though the program in error last week listed Ruth Zender in- stead.

Ned Nye, known in vaudeville for a quarter of a century, has written a three act comedy which may be sponsored by McBride,) the ticket broker,

George Lederer’s activities for next season include the new musical comedy, “Suzette,” and a revival of “Peaches.”

Mutual burlesque, at the Lyric, Newark N. J., this week, is followed by “Follow Me,” a colored show.

Tlenry J. Sayers will be the com-

pany manager for the Eert Swor

minstrels.

INSIDE STUFF : ON LEGIT ina ——

Conversation among groups of actors along Broadway during the past week has mostly run to Equity and Sunday closing. Following is one sample which may be the general trend of all. A group of six (evidently all Equity membe?fs) discussed freely. One fairly well known Englishman, a rabid Equity-ite, used up the stock explanations of those in favor of the Sunday proposition. Aside from his positiveness that Equity would be successful, his only new piece of information was that the Chicago representative of Equity has been in- structed to propagandize that city with actors, unions and legislators, influence the sentiment of all in favor of closing the theatres on Sunday, or failing in that, one other day in the week, - Arguments were many. One chap put up a logical reply to the one quoted. He said, “I don't think the attitude of the council is consistent. In the first place, they claim they want’ the theatres closed because the actor needs a day of rest and yet they tell us we can work benefits on Sundays. That is, we may not work for pay, but we may work for nothing on ‘our day of rest.’ I don’t want any day of rest. I get plenty of them and I'll probably get three months’ ‘rest’ this summer. Thet’s vacation enough for me. A day of rest for workers who work 52 weeks a year is necessary. They are lucky if they get two weeks’ vacation, but what actor does not get at least three months’ layoff in a year? “Still, if the majority vote for closed Sunday theatres, ’'ll go the same route, but they must be closed tight, with none opened, even for benefits. If they want a day of rest let it be a day of rest. Playing benefits for nothing is just as much work as playing for pay, and playing benefits will not help tu pay the rent or butcher’s bill. ‘ ws “T don’t believe the closea Sunday is for the actors’ good, except maybe the stars and the actors who do not have to figure close on the dollars and dimes. They get. value for their services through advertising and social intercourse, which overlooks the little fellow like you and me. “Ah, to hell with reformers anyway! If an actor needs the money and can get a job he should be allowed to accept the chance Sunday, Monday or any other d:xy.” ; And nearly all of the others seemed to agree with him, x A certain management quite well-known as hospitabie hosts under certain conditions is lately reported to have entertained a group of bankers at a very private party in a very private apartment in one of its own theatre buildings. Deducing as they say when speaking of bankers or judges, a party is a party with always an object and often a resuit.

“Partners Again,” with Barney Bernard and Atex Carr, ended its season Saturday,-whicr concluded a two-week engagement in the subway house. Business was much under expectations, the takings for the first week being a bit under $9,000. The P. & P. show was regarded as sure of big returns jn that section of the city. Bernard and Carr will leave for the coast to appear in the first filming of “Potash and Perlmutter.” “Partners Again” is routed for 40 weeks next season, regardless of reports they would appear in a new P. & P, show in the fall,

The announcements for “The Boule Cabinet,” a melodrama being pro- duced by Winthrop Ames and Guthrie McClintic, will carry the authors’ names as Eleanor Robson-Belmont and Harriet Ford. The former, Miss Robson, _is the wife of August Belmont, but it was believed her profes- sional name would be used in billing the play. It is the first time the Belmont name has been legitimately used in theatricals,

Josephine Turck Baker, the Chicago editress of “Correct English,” was not in the cast of “The Apache,” which she wrote and produced. It opened at the Punch and Judy Monday. The house was rented for two weeks at $1,500 a week, but the house management is said to have insisted a professional appear in the role Miss Baker had selected, She appears to have fallen for the dictation. It is understood the Punch and Judy desired a regular cast play the piece, on an outside chance it might land for a run,

Harold Burg, formerly identified with the defunct Affiliated Theatres Corporation, which operated the Shubert vaudeville circuit, debutted this week as a legitimate producer. He ig managing director of the corpora- tion which produced Ethel Clifton'’s “For Value Received.” The show opened at the Longacre Monday.

The New York State Assembly adjourned last week without voting on the bill framed to permit Sunday night legitimate performances, The bill was fought in committee, but passed the upper house, It was con- ceded by the sponsors that if put to a vote in the lower house it wouid probably have been defeated by a small vote, but showmen who backed the proposed law declare it is not a closed issue, It is their intention of =~ pushing the bill when the assembly convenes in December, and point out its passage in the upper branch proves it has a strong chance to eveni- ually become a law. Teddie Gerard did not play to the satisfaction of the Shuberts when “The Bal Tabarin” opened at Atlantic City last week. A substitution for the Gerard role is to be made. Miss Gerard came over here from England evidently on speculation, as she held no contract with the Shuberts and walked into the “Tabarin” production accidentally. Another miscast in the same piece is said to have been Bob Nelson as a light juvenite. Miss Gerard and Mr. Nelson were saddled with roles something foreign to both. Irving Fishsr may although Pisher had prepared to re-enter vaudeville this week. succeed Nelson,

The race between Dillingham and Ziegfeld to secure Eddie Cantor as a star was not so much of a struggle as might have been supposed from the first report, saying Dillingham lost Cantor by 24 hours. As a matter of fact, Dillingham had Cantor by several months, reaching the matter of a signed contract last fall. Cantor's agreement with the Shuberts and his present season under their management in “Make it Snappy” inter- yened with Dillingham and Cantor, permitting their first signed con- tract to Japse. For some purpose last week Ziegfeld denied he had Cantor under contract nor would be admit he intends building a theatre of his own with Edward Margolies (the Shubert builder) as the con-

tractor. It is reported as a small theatre without all details cleaned up. Eddie Dunn returned from a trip to Paris several weeks ago. He said he had a nice quiet time, explaining that by stating his trip to Paree was 30 years too late. When Edward battled for George M. Cohan in the tres planting exercises On Patriotic Day in Boston, he had just stepped off the boat, beautified by a light gray Fedora and spats to match. Mayor Curley cffered to hold the hat, but not the spats, while young Dunn shoveled earth onto the tree’s roots.

Phoebe Lee is no longer with the “Follies.” When Phoebe returned from Palm Beach she did not appear at the theatre except to visit there one evening behind the scenes. Seemingly the row between Phoebe and Ilelen Lee Worthing has not been patched up and as far as Miss Worthing is concerned it won't be. It all started over the fact that Miss Worthing while at Palm Beach with Miss Lee introduced the latter to a very wealthy Philadelphian, and Miss Lee immediately annexed him for luncheon, leaving Miss Worthing flat on the sands. Later the same afternoon Miss Lee left the hotel where she and Miss Worthirg were stopping and that was the last seen of Miss Lee until she visited back stage the other evening and displayed considerable jewelry and 10 one- thousand-doilar bills, stating she wasn't worrying about working for the time being anyhow. s YF 7 Sree Ro an ae

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AMBITIOUS PROGRAM OF PHILLY’S GUILD Newly Organized Stock Opens Well—Stars and New Pia@s for Future Bills Philadelphia, May 9. The newly-organized Philadelphia Theatre Guild, under the manage- merit of Milton Shubert, gave its first performance Monday to a packed house, of which a good pro- portion represented real money, The play was Clare Kummer’s comedy, “A Successful Calamity,” with William Gillette in his origi- nal role of the millionaire, anxious to get a night of rest at home. la Fisher, previously associated with Miss Kummer’s plays, was also imported for the leading fem- inine role. The rounded performance and won the praise ef the critics. In the com- pany are: Ann Winslow, a cute, bobbed-hair ingenue; Alan Bunce, a clever youngster of the Hunter- Albert Hackett type, doing the son; Edward Douglas and Robert Ren- del, both of whom gave ,capital characterizations as the daughter's fiances; Patricia Morris, in =a small role; Frederic Karr, who made the butler stand out vividly, and C. Henry Gordon, Arthur Barry, Margaret Borough and Richard Spencer. A smoother performance could not very well have been given if the company had been together on Broadway for a year. The single stage setting was unusually attrac- tive and in good taste. The expert stage direction of William H. Gil- mofe was often in evidence. The second attraction of the Theatre Guild will be a brand new play, dramatized by William Gil- lette from the “Winnie O’Wynn” stories in the “Saturday Evening ron” be calle “Winnie and the Wolves” and will feature Miss Fisher. The third play will in all probability be “Captain Brassbound’s Conversion,” with Grace George, to be followed by Langdon Mitchell’s “New York Idea,” with the same star. William Collier and Francine Larrimore in comedies, Nance O'Neill in a new play, Lionel Bar- rymore as a_ possibility in dramatization of Maugham’s “Moon and Sixpence” and Ben Ami are other prospects. The scale of prices 50 cents, cents, $1.00 and $1.50 evenings (except Saturday) and $1 at mati- ” worm wu company will is wr ia nees. Every effort is being made to push the subscription sale, and an encouraging response on _ the part of society people and teachers has been found. Matinees' are given Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Waters, INTERCHANGE STARS Milton Shubert and Robert Mc- Laughlin Reach Understanding A workin: agreement has n made betwee Milton Shubert and Robert McLaughlin whereby they! will interchange stars for their re- spective stocks in Philadelphia and Cleveland. Under the plan a star may be engaged for four weeks, playing two weeks in each city, al- though the dual engagement will only apply when both managers are able to use the same players. Francine Larrimore and Gregory Kelly Ruth have been engaged for both stocks William Gillette and Lola Fisher, who opened a two weeks’ engagement in Philadelphia Monday, will not appear, however for McLaughlin. Milton Shubert’s Philadelphia Theatre Guild is his own project. He has leased the Lyric froin the Shuberts, under a “four walls” rental.

“CHIMES OF NORMANDY” Baltimore, May 9. Claiming their theatre is the first to produce a condensed comie opera with a troupe of any standing in connection with a regular motion picture bill, the Century this week offers the old Planqueite work, “Chimes of Normandy.” J. Humbird Duffy, tenor, and Alice Mackenzie, soprano, are the leading singers in the organization, which numbers 12. It lines up as an ex- pensive proposition. Mr. Duffy and Miss Mackenzie sang in Baltimore last season, during the ten weeks’ season which DeWolf Hopper played gave a splendidly |

| Morrison | been at Carlin’s Arena, and they became extremely popular. Others in the cast include Sadie Hochmann, Francis ‘Tyler, and Leode Hieropolis. The chorus has students from the local Peabody Conservatory. » “Chimes of Normandy” is a good bill for condensation. Its beauty lies in the tuneful music rather than in an unusual story, and with the songs, “Billow Rocking,” admirably sung by Duffy; “Legend of the Bell,” just as well sung by Miss Macken- zie, and the ever popular, “Look at That and Look at This,” following in quick succession,the effect is good backed up by adequate special scenery, and the flash it makes in a city where special presentations have practically been limited to gaudy and pointless prologs, can readily be imagined. Its effect Monday night was to pack the Century as it has not been packed for some weeks. It went over to big applause, and in- terruption during the action was frequent. It is a notable experiment and one which seems likely to suc- ceed. To one who has never seen the original work no idea of its appeal will be given by the conden- sation. In this it is faulty. In its presentation here the stage could stand a little more light, as it is hard to distingtish features from the rear of the house. Just why the spots were thrown on when the artists were taking their calls and why they were kept darkened while the work was on is a matter of stage management. Sisk. WOODWARD PLAYERS (“Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”) St. Louis, May 9. Before an audience that filled every seat in the Empress, the Woodward Players put over “Re- becca of Sunnybrook Farm” (Wig- gin) with exceptional ability. The players opened at the Gar- rick early in the season but deserted it and leased the Empress for the remainder of this season after the Shubert units closed there. They now have about 32 weeks to their credit. The personnel of the or- ganization remains as when first organized. Hazel Whitmore and John Warner are the leads. 2 Miss Whitmore as Rebecca gave a performance of detailed finish and study. It is the best role Miss Whit- more has had since coming to St. Louis. Mr. Warner did exception- ally as Adam Ladd. Warner is the most popular of the male members and is adored by the fair sex, and also recognized for his ability as an actor. George Doan Borup gave an ex- cellent performance as Abner Simp- son. Margaret Spooner was equally as good as Mrs. Simpson. Caroline and Kitty Rose gave a creditable performance as Miranda and Jane Sawyer. Raymond Brown as Jeremiah Cobb accomplished a characterization of the highest order. Laura Lovett got the most lout of a very small part. Virginia Springer’s characterization of the loquacious Mrs. Perkins not only kept the audience in _ hilarious laughter but was a remarkable bit of stagecraft.

| Others in the cast were Bobby | Reed, Marjorie Fulton, Marian | Shilling, Maud Fulton and Helen | Hotselow. O. D. Woodward, the veteran di- rector, is -receiving enthusiastic | praise for giving St. Louis a stock }company of the highest class. ae. Ross. The musical stocks which the Shuberts will establish in Newark (Shubert) and Brooklyn (Majestic) for the summer are expected to be a transition between road shows and usual stock organizations. The | principals for the Newark company | which debuts at the Shubert May }21 are James Stevens, Ralph Er- role, Elise Thiede, Louis Cassa- vant, Car] Stall, Elmira Lane and Mildred Rogers. Lew Morton will | be the director and Ross Moberly will the ‘chestra. A chorus of is scheduls conduct 35 The Bonstelle Players open at the Garrick, Detroit, next week with “The Goldfish.” In the company lare Jessie Bonstelle (reported), Gil- berta Faust, Katherine Alexander, Richard Stevenson, Neil Martin, William Crimans, Millard Vincent, | Minor Watson, Douglas Dumbrille, iKrederick Kaufman. Tie Vaughan Glaser stock opens in Detroit in June at Orchestra hall, with Frank Morgan leading man. F. James Carroll, with stock companies in St. John, N. B.; Hal- ifax, Nova Scotia, and Bangor, Me., will open another company May 19 in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Marjorie Foster and Arthur Chat- terton are the leads of the Poli stock at the Court Square, Springfield, Mass. The company opened Mon- day with “East Is West.” Others

ARLINGTON PLAYERS — CHARGE CONSPIRACY Lease of Auditorium, Lynn, Mass. Lynn, Mass., May 9. Declaring that the court action brought against him by A. Guy Caldwell of Lynn, is part of a gen- era] conspiracy to prevent a renewal of his lease of the Auditorium, Lynn, Actor-Manager Charles A. Bickford of the Arlington Players, has issued a statement giving his side of the case. He alleges the bili in equity filed in Superior Court, contains misstatement of fact. The bill states that on May 29, 1922, the parties formed a partner- ship to operate a stock company at the Auditorium, plaintiff putting in $1,000 to secure a year’s lease and has advanced $1,900 to finance the venture, besides loaning the de- fendant $500; that the venture has been very profitable but that Bick- ford has put relatives in various positions at excessive salaries and has made many needless expendi- tures from the partnership funds; that the first profits were to be used to repay his advances, but he has received nothing and cannot get an accounting. He asks that the court order an accounting; that the partnership be dissolved and that a receiver be appointed to wind up its affair and that Bickford be re- strained from issuing checks or in- curring expenses in the name of the partnership. In reference to the allegation that he was to receive $125 a week, but got much more and discharged the leading woman and substituted his wife, paying her an exorbitant sal- ary, Mr. Bickford stated that the facts are that the leading woman resigned and that as a result he al- lowed his wife to take the lead, she receiving much less than the other actress, although fully maintaining the standard set by any leading woman that ever played in the theatre. : Regarding the rent issue, Mr. Bickford said the rent is paid in advance and that the year does not ‘expire until July 1, 1923. Mr. Bickford asserts that Mr. Caldwell attempted to act as stage manager and finally gave it up and consented not to take any part or do anything further in any capacity, although at times he did take sub- ordinate parts, The statement that he had de- posited funds of the partnership in accounts other than the partnership fund account was termed “without foundation” by Bickford. Mrs. Sadie J. Barry of Salem has been appointed receiver to conduct the affairs of the Arlington Players Company until the case has been disposed of in court. The order is returnable June 4.

are Frank Camp, Rogers Barker, Thomas Shearer, Felicia Drevenia, Mary Robinson, Jane Tarr; Jack McGrath, Arthur Holman, director; Edward Howard, stage manager, and Maurice Tuttle, scenic ‘artist.

Stuart Walker. opened in In- dianapolis for his seventh season at the Murat May 2. Members of the company in “Rollo’s Wild Oat,”

opening, were Tom Powers, Spring | Byington, L’Estrange Millman, Lu- |cile Nokilas, Boyd j Florio does not look for .himself,. | but vows that his love is of the soul. . and not of the flesh, and, exiting, : blinds himself so that he may for-* — ever visualize the beautiful girl that *’ 9 was, and never see the ugly woman * _ he has been led to believe she is. : Exceedingly well played by the! 4% whole company. : ;

~ The Trysting Place Booth Tarkington’s. comedy of adolescent youth, as sparkling in miniature as his “Seventeen.’’ Produced by the Wayside Players, of Scarsdale. ee Lancelot.......:- Cerveevcsses Roy Durstine , — a RIE FOOD Eleanor Besse pe POF eer +.++-Margaret M. Conwell me Dire. « WLIGGSs 00 sss cvterd<ece Clara Pleuthner ; — lg eseceees Chester Van Tassel © © Mr. Ingoldsby....: .+et..Hobart B. Upjohn : — The action is in a room just off: ~ the lounge in a fashionable hotel, : ~ Lancelot. (Roy Durstine), in his. ‘teens, is enamored of Mrs. Curtis, - a widow, . Lancelot has followed the widow to this supposedly secluded spot, with the latter doing her hardest to get rid of the persistent adolescent lover, she having ar- ranged a tryst with somebody else in this nook also. Similarly, Lance- pe lot’s sister, Jessie, has arranged to os meet her Rupert, and both Jessie = and Lancelot’s widowed mother, Mrs. Briggs, has dated Mr. Ingolas- by for the same place. Consider- able comedy is @erived from each trying to shew the other elsewhere, & Mr. Durstine’s creation of Lance- lot is well-nigh perfect... The cast<’° ing is equally high grade through- out, summing up as the most en- joyable of Monday evening's pro<- gram.

Tuesday’s program and audience contrasted with the previous even- ing’s in its general metropolitan ap- pearance. Outside of the first, a Trenton, N. J., offering, the other three companies hail from within the confines of Greater New York, with the concluding “Thursday Evening” playlet by Christopher Morley, 2 metropolitan newspaper “colyumist.” the happiest offering of the evening and a likely con- tender for final honors. The evening's program opened with: Under Conviction Offered by the Trenton Players’ Guild of Trenton; written and directed by Milnor Dorey. Scene: A Pennsylvania miller'# kitchen; time, early morning in March. John Delker........+e+e+.+-dJames Fitzcharles BBG DSM. ci cdccessessebeces Ellen O' Tocie Bi Fry Per ees © Otto Fischer Mag Metzger........ese++.+-Marion George A straitlaced Methodist mother, forever spouting religion, refuses supposedly becomes involved in scrape with the town’s “bad gir Mag, and drives the latter from her doorstep despite the girl’s serious condition and her offspring’s con- cern in the matter. Asa result Mag; always in mortal fear of her “pap,” seeks recourse to the millrace. The mother is confronted with the body of the dead girl and Sam renounces his parent as wholly responsible, vowing he is “going straight to the devil.” P The morbid theme would try vet+ eran actors and was a little too much for the company, although they managed passably wel). a } iy

A Thousand Generations and One The Great Neck Players of Great Neck, L. I., present Ethelyn E. Keays’ theme of Japanese life set in the home of Nishi- gawa in Tol Directed by E. P. Gaff- néy. Nishi-gawa Petcoct eseoeseeedOhn Muller i Oneis wh bade eccnt Elizabeth Macdonald BONG. 60040 ..Clara Vaughan Gaffney Nishi-gawa is a modern oriental of Harvard education and a polit- ical figure in his home country, still clinging to the kimono in defer- ence to his country’s customs and habits, but wholly given to the ways of the western world, including the manner of worship. He therefore is unyielding to his deyoted wifes religious homage to the idol, as 2 result of which she decides to return to the home of her father. How- — ever, his love for his mate makes him bow down in deference to the gilded images and pray with his wife that they be blessed with @ successor to the house of Nishi- gawa, : Elizaheth Macdonald as Kan, the Wife, managed exceedingly well and

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Cohen and other national officers, have been at headquarters during the greater part of the week, putting the finishing touches on tke con- vention arrangements. There will be a meeting of the National Board of Directors and National Executive Committee in Chicago May 19 be- fore the convention, at which mat- ters appertain'‘ng to the convention will be determined. The convention program will in- volve the opening of the convention by National President or one of the National Vice-Presidents on Mon- day, May 21, at 11 a. m., and then the address of welcome by the repre- sentative of the Chicago and Illinois Motion Picture Theatre Owners, fol- lowed by an official address of wel- come by Mayor William Dever of Chicago. There will be a response to this on behalf of the National Organiza- tion, after which the convention will be declared in session and commit- tees named. Then will follow a report on the Motion Picture Places of Progress or Exposition previous to the noon recesses. The first business of the after- noon session will be the reading of the report of the National President. Mr. Cohen will give a review of the three years in which he has been fhational president and will such sug- gestions for the future development of the organization. During Monday afternoon, ad- @resses will be delivered by trade paper editors. Others wiil also dis- cuss details of picture presentation and the exploitation from the Thea- tre Owner’s standpoint will be handled by leading exhibitors from different parts of the country, rep- resenting varied types of theatres and committees, The representatives of the De- partments of Agriculture, Post Of- fice, Labor, Commerce; and Interior of the United States Government having exhibits at the Motion Pic- ture of Progress, will also address the convention Monday afternoon on matters pertaining to their Govern- ment displays, and point out the lines of co-operation between these Gepartment activities and the Thea- tre Owners. On Tuesday the convention will open at 10:30:'a. m Reports will be received from the committee on credentials, rules and other com- mittees, ready at that time to pre- sent their reports.. This will be fol- lowed by the report of the national treasurer, John T. Collins of Ruther- ford, N. J. A complete presentation of the . Music License question will be made at this session and addresses on that subject will be delivered by Attor- ney George F. Aarons of Philadel- phia, and Attorney S. A. Hanly/of Kansas City, Missouri, and others from various parts of the country. These men will handle the legal details and the other phases of it will be presented to the convention by Sydney S. Cohen. and others. Tuesday afternoon, Gov. J. A. C. Preus of Minnesota, who will soon be the United States Senator from that state, will discuss “Theatre Insurance.” The governor is an in- Surance expert and previous to be- coming governor, was insurance commissioner in his state. Following Gov. Preus in this dis- cussion, Bruce Dodson of Kansas City, Mo., a specialist in “group in- Surance,” who has demonstrated in many instances the great utility of that plan, will carry the subject into minor details. Another insurance expert from Michigan and others from Pennsylvania and clsewhere, will also discuss insurance after which theatre owner delegates will complete the consideration of the subject. It is likely that this matter will then be referred to a committee with instructions to report definiteiy at a later session of the convention. So complete has been the consid- (Continued on page 46) _4 MINISTER BOYCOTTS NEW CHEVY CHASE Objects to oanies Perform- ances—Regular Black- list Declared Washington May 9%. The new Chevy Chase Theatre, but recently opened in the fashion- able suburban district from which the theatre is named, is being boy- cotted in an effort to force the house to cease the giving of Sun- day shows. Blacklisting the house was sug- gested in the sermon, Sunday, ot the Rev. J. C. Nickolson, Wesiey M. E. Church. He said the theatre was originally built under an agree- ment that no Sunday shows woulc be given. A fight to the finish has beer commenced, according to the mem- bers of this particular church, who have been joined by other churches and civic clubs of the section. Tw local men, W. E. Stringer jand J M. Betts, have been appointed head of a committee to make the fight. They state the desire to close the theatre Sunday is not because of fanaticism, but that Chevy Chase has been developed and built up for but one purpose, that of giving its residents the privacy and quietness of the suburbs. J. L. & S. ADMISSION “Stage Portion Quite as Important” —To Have “Name” Acts Chicago, May 9. Aaron J. Jones is in New York arranging for “name” acts for Mc- Vicker’s theatre, which he is book- ing “independently,” according to announcements from the Jones, Linick & Schaefer press depart- ment, In connection with “presenta- tions” at McVicker’s the press an- nouncements says the “stage por- tion of the entertainment is be- coming quite as important as the cinema.” FITZMAURICE WALKED OUT Los Angeles, May 9. George Fitzmaurice, the director who is to handle “The Eternal City” for Sam Goldwyn, will start shoot- ing in Rome about June 1. He is said to have “pulled a von Stroheim” on the Pamous Players by walking off the lot in the midst of a production of “The Cheat” he was directing. The picture was about 50 per cent, finished and Frank O’Connor is finishing it. Richard Bennett, who has been signed for “Eternal City” sails for Italy Saturday. Barbara LaMarr is also under contract for the produc- tion. BALABAN & KATZ’S PLAN BECOMES BOOMERANG Effort to ae & Chicago Kicks Back — Develoned by “Pilgrim” Chicago, May 9%. The effort of Balaban & Katz to link up loop theatres in such a shape as to have the producers at their mercy has turned into a boomerang, the rush of which is speeded along by every independent producer loyal to his associates. The inside facts developed-in con- nection with the presentation of Chaplin's “Pilgrim” at the Roose- velt. The tale starts way back, when Aaron Jones of Jones, Linick & Schaefer put over the Randolph the- atre deal, and at the same time rid his firm of several small photoplay houses on Madison street. It is said Jones’ talks with influential friends led him to conclude that there was no use bothering with vaudeville at the new McVicker’s theatre, which was then supposed to be continuing a vaudeville policy, and letting go of other the- atres appeared to be the proper procedure. Journeying to New York, Jones turned over the Randolph to the Universal, receiving $1,000 a week profit on the deal, even Though he held juicy contracts with producers for big pictures then under process of making. When this deal was consummated there was no thought but what the new McVicker’s would play vaudeville, so Balaban & Katz took over the Roosevelt from the Ascher Brothers with a view of shutting out opportunity for big producers to dispose of films for first runs in Chicago, excepting to Balaban & Katz. There had been some active com- petition for big pictures between Balaban & Katz at the Chicago and “Ascher Brothers at the Roosevelt. Often this opposition bidding ran prices beyond reason. “Beyond the Rocks,” which could ordinarily have been purchased for Chicago for $5,000, was started at $4,000 and {bid up to $7,500. Balaban & Katz }are said to have figured that the firm could stand to lose several thousand dollars a week on the Roosevelt rather than to have the intolerable conditions existing at that time continue and so arranged for taking over the house, The deal called for better than $200,000 (which means a profit to Ascher Bros.) a year rent and specified that after rent and expenses were paid 50 per cent, of the profits were to go to Ascher Brothers and the residue te the operators. This clause is said to have been agreed to with the certainty that profits would never amount to any great sum, But this deal was no more than closed than it came out that Jones had a deal with Paramount by which Jones, Linick & Schaefer’s all Famous Players’ pictures were to be shown and a little “later it developed that the new McVicker’s was to be a picture house and not play vaudeville as a policy. Then came the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of B. & K. The Roosevelt has a weekly ex- pense of $11,000 and after this is met the profits, if any, are divided 50-50 between the present lessees and the former lessees. As the house could not get Paramount pic- tures the independent producers BEATTY AND SHIRK OUT Los Angeles, May 9. Jerome Beatty and Adam Hull Shirk are no longer to be connected with the Famous Players-Lasky or- ganization on the West Coast after this week. r Jerome Beatty was formerly di- rector of publicity and advertising in the home office, leaving for Los Angeles about a year age to be- come the studio representative of the distributing department, Shirk was chief of the publicity staff on the lot. He is succeeded by Arch Reeve, who has been his assistant for a number of years. OPERATION ON POLA NEGRI Los Angeles, May 9. Pola Negri, bethrothed to Charles Chaplin, was operated on last Fri- day. No news leaked of it until today when it was stated she is reccver- ing from a throat infection. Chaplin was the only one per- mitted to see her, saw that to place their output in the (Continued on page 46) SORE AT SHEIK Valentino Wouldn't Donate to the Legion Waterbury, Conn., May 9. According to a Waterbury news- paper, no star of the screen ever re- ceived the panning and knocks that were handed out last week, follow- ing the appearance of Rodolph Val- entino, and, in fact, before he had left town after his engagement with his dancing show. The kicks at the Sheik are due to his refusal to con- tribute to a fund being raised by Waterbury post of the American Legion, saying that he was “up against it financially.” He de- clined to contribute or sign a piedge card and was reported as not being in the position to do so and with refusing to give the sum of $1. It was understood that he received $1,000 for his engagement—appear- ing less than a half hour in his dancing act with his wife. Binnie NATIONAL RATE MAY END MUSIC TAX CONTROVERSY SEEK TO SHOW ZUKOR WANTED FIRST NAT'L Walter Irwin and J. D. Williams on Stand in Federal Trade Inquiry os Two witnesses, Walter Irwin, formerly general manager of V. L. Ss. and later head of Famous Players theatre department, and J. D. Williams, former general man- ager of First National occupied the three days of the proceedings up te Wednesday in the Federal Trade Commission's inquiry into charges of unfair practices by Famous Players. x From both men the Government sought to show that Adolph Zukor had attempted to get. control of First National and the cooperative franchise concern was forced to re- organize to prevent the carrying out of this design. Stock held by sub-franchise men was converted into a voting trust.so that it could not be transferred, it was testified. Counsel for Famous Players tried to offset Williams’ testimony by having the fjwitness admit that he negotiated ith various Famous Players stars and directors includ- ing Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Thomas Meighan in what he admitted was a plan to control as many of the biggest stars and di- rectors as possible by First Na- tional. There were several hot clashes between Robert T. Swaine for the respondents and Mr. Williams over some of his testimony and it was brought out that Williams favored an alliance with Zukor, but the scheme,was defeated because some of the original franchise holders de- clined to enter into such an arrange- ment, All the history of the Hulsey deal in Texas by which Famous Players and Lynch acquired tue Texas in- terests was gone over and an effort was made to show that Hulsey was forced out throv~h an atiack upon his banking backers by Lynch and Famous Players. Williams told how Zukor negotiated with him 2 leave First National and take over a new enterprise as a salary of $100,000 a year, the concern to handle a group of foreign features. Williams de- clared his object in making offers to Famous Players stars and direc- tors was to get them to do their own producing under guarantees from First National, a system which he believed put the product in the hands of the exhibitors at a lower cost because when stars produced their own pictures there was no “soldiering” and the negative cost in the long run was lower. We have a lst of payments by First Nationa’ for productions by Chaplin, Miss Pickford, D. W. Grif- fith, Charles Ray and others, stating that the guarantee for “The Kid” was $800,000 and the picture had (Continued on page 46) LESSER HEADS COMBINATION Los Angeles, May 9. A new combination of independent distributors has been formed here with Sol Lesser as the head. It includes organizations covering the entire country and includes Balaban & Katz, Chicago; Abe Blank, Des Moines; Stanley Co., Philadelphia; Finklestein & Rubin, Minneapolis; Nathan Gordon, Bos- ton and R. D. Craver representing the southern states territory. All are affiliated with Lesser in the First National as franchise holders in that organization, but the only formed combination is to work separately from the F. N. RENEE ADOREE’S KLEIG EYES Los Angeles, May 9. tenee Adoree was forced to quit work at the Mayer studios because she suffered from Kielg eyes. It will be several days before she, will be back on the set. Propose to Try Minnesota Plan as Nation-Wide Measure—Discussing Refund of 25% to Theatre Owners, Representing Thousands of Dollars r If present plans materialize, the music tax question, long since a Subject of contention between the exhibitors and the music men, may be cleared up during the convention of the Theatre Owners the week of May 21 in Chicago. Sydney Ss. Cohen, the M. P. T. O. A.’s presi- dent, may invite J. Cc. Rosenthal, general manager of the American Society of Composers, Authors ‘and Publishers to present his organiza- tion’s side of the subject. Consid- eration of the step was prompted in @® measure by W. A. Steffes, the president of the Minnesota division of the M. P. T. O. A. who com- municated with the soclety on the subject of effecting of a combined rate for all the Minnesota members for the privilege of performing copyrighted music in conjunction with film programs. This led to the suggestion of a national rate. The present license fee is ten cents per seat per year, but Mr. Rosenthal states that some rebate may be effected to include the national body. A 25 per cent. re- -bate—not be termed a reduction—te assist the theatre owners in their other legislative campaigns js a ten- tative likelihood. If such understanding is arrived at in the course of the exhibitors’ convention it will mean a saving of thousands of dollars to either fac- tion in legal expenses alone, al- though the theatre owner has in- variably been the loser in the court decisions to pay $250 damages (the minimum allowed under the copy- right law) plus $100 counsel fees and $10 court costs. Steffes has asked the A. S.C. A. P. to hold off filing a number of copy- right infringement sults against various Minnesota exhibitors until after the Chicago conference which request the American Society has complied with. “WRECKED LIVES” ON B’WAY “Wrecked Lives,” the dope pic- ture, said to be based on the late Wally Reid’s struggle with the nar- cotic demon, with Mrs, Wally Reid (Dorothy Davenport), may come into a Broadway house shortly. The plan calls for Mrs. Reid’s ap- pearance in person, Negotiations for the Earl Carroll were on for the picture and Mrs. Reid, put were called off through the Carroll setting $4,000 as the rental figure for the house, Los Angeles, May 9. The dope picture that was made on the Thomas Ince lot by Mrs. Wallace Reid is to be released through the F. B. O. The wife of the late screen idol, accompanied by Adela St. John Rogers, went to Washington last week for the con- vention on the narcotic question. HAS WRIGHT STORIES The Principal Pictures Corp. has secured the rights to screen a num- ber of the works of Harold Bell Wright. The first of these will be “The Winning of Barbara Worth,” which will be put in work late this month. The author is at present in Los Angeles conferring with Sol. Lesser and Michael Rosenberg of the P. P. organization. Other Wright stories to be filmed by the organiza- tion are “The Calling of Dan Matthews,” “The Re-Creation of Brian Kent,” “When a Man’s a Man,” “Their Yesterdays” and “The Uncrowned King.” GOODMAN’S SENSATIONAL FILM Daniel Carson Goodman is at pres- ent screening a picture at the Tech Art Studios, New York, said to be of a sensational nature. In the cast are Mary Carr, Mil- dred Harris, Charles Emmet Mack, Tyrone Fower, Clara Bow, Joe King, Skeets Gallagher Joe De Pew, Helen Rowland, Sam Sidman and Jack Richardson, Kenneth Webb ts the director and J. O. Taylor cameraman, WELLS HASTINGS DROPS DEAD Los Angeles, May 9. Wells Hastings, author and screen writer, dropped dead hera today.

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Philadelphia, May 9. The best spring business of a mumber of years is the way the Stanley company characterizes the downtown film house situation. This applies to the four big houses—Stan- ley, Stanton, Karlton and Aldine— and to the East Market street houses, where a drop-in trade is re- lied upon, the admission scale being from 35 cents down. - In regard to the “Big Four,” busi- ness was reported as unusually big last week, with the Stanley and Karlton again getting the cream. An unusually big sum of money was expended in putting across “Brass” at the Stanley, and the feature finally responded to the campaign after a rather slow start. The no- tices were inclined to be lukewarm, but that the novel from which the picture was made has been running in one of the dailies here helped boom trade. A Ben Alj Haggin tab- leau, “Du Barry,” was an added feature, heavily advertised at the Stanley and heiped lift the gross. The Karlton had a second bang- up big week with the whaling pic- ture, “Down to the Sea in Ships.” Word of mouth has boomed this one, and last week’s gross was bigger than that of the preceding week. It has been held over this week, the first time this house has had a pic- ture for three weeks this winter. Business is holding up so very well there is a possibility of still another prolongation of the run. This pic- ture is attracting a clientele the Karlton has never had before, and may be a big thing in a business way for this shopping district house. The Stanton, with “Bella Donna,” had a money-making week, but this much-touted feature by no means touched the marks set by “Man- slaughter,” “Robin Hood” and “Adam’s Rib,” at the same house. It was not helped any by some caus- tic notices and was hit a rather se- vere bump at fhe start by bad weather. Business began to pick up during the week, and there was never any doubt about its being held over for a second week, but the pos- sibility of a third is more or less remote. “The Ne’er-Do-Well” is prominently billed as the successor to the Pola Negri feature. Present indications are that, un- less some such features as “The Covered Wagon” or “Enemies of Women” is booked into the Stanton with a big advertising splurge, the

house will revert to shorter runs, probably not to exceed two weeks, whereas engagements of four and five have been the rule all winter, with “Robin Hood” staying months. Then, too, it is considered more than likely that this house will be one of the few of the Stanley chain to close during the summer. It did last. year, after a bad season, ind came back with a bang in the 4 } © two The Aldine, with ‘Where Pavement Ends,” shared less than any of the Big Four in business last week despite some eulogistice notices the especially laudatory on the subject of Ramon Novyarro, the lead, Strangely enough, despite his pres- ence in the cast, it was the matinee trade that was off. On the whole, | however “Where the Pavement Kinds” did a better week’s business at the Aldine than any feature at this house since midwinter. “Jazzmania” didn’t do the busi it was given a second run. When shown at the Stanley a few weeks ago this Mae Murray picture pulled a big gross, but for some reason it wasn’t so enthusiastically received at this East Market street house as some of the star’s previous pictures. “Bull Dog Drummond” week at the Victoria: Alice “The Snow Bride” nad an average week at the Arcadia, and “Mr. Billings Spends His Dime” turned in a fair gross at the Capitol. Only two important pictures ®pened here this week, the first be- ing “Souls for Sale,” at the Stanley, and the second, “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” at the Aldine. The first-named is being pushed in big style here, with Eleanor Boardman heavily billed, because Philly is her native city. “Glimpses of the Moon” is the Palace feature, with “The iVillage Blacksmith” at the Victoria and “Money, Money, Money” at the Arcadia. It is understood that the Stanley tompany is planning to put pictures into the Garrick during the latter part of May, though no official state- ment has been made and the names of the pictures have not been di- vulged. The Martin Johnson jungle pictures are also reported as due for a showing in a downtown ‘house, probably one of the legit theatres after its regular season, Estimates for last week: had a fine srady in above- Stanley—"Brass” (Warner). Ex-': ‘ Surprise ZUKOR PAYS $17,000 Reported Abrams’ Suit for $25,000, Settled A suit for $25,000 started last February by Hiram Abrams against Adolph Zukor has been settled out of court with the settlement figure reported at $17,000. Zukor was served just before he sailed Feb- ruary, the action, brought in the New York Supreme Court, dating back to 1917. The complaint set forth that in 1917 in Boston Zukor was the sub- ject of a number of demands for money payments of several hun- dreds of thousand dollars and that Abrams and Walter E. Greene were approached to advance $25,000 each to help Zukor. They refused but, when the defendant represented he had just bought a large block of stttk from Hodkinson at $61 a share which he agreed to sell in order to raise the amounts of their loans when necessary, they ac- quiesced, . Abrams’ complaint was that when the stock had reached a high enough margin to enable Zukor to sell and get back his purchase price and have enough to pay the $50,000, Zukor refused. Abrams asked for his $25,000 plus interest at six per cent. from June, 1917.

} | CENSOR AND NEWS REELS | Albany, May 9. | In a decision handed down yes- | terday the court of appeals, the highest tribunal in the state, de- | cided that news reels are subject ! to censorship, thus confirming the | lower courts. The ruling is the out- growth of the fight made by the |direct the Pathe company, after part of one of their news reels was ordered stricken out by the Motion Picture | Film Censorship Commissian. The news reel in question was a movie of a bathing beach, in which | it was claimed by the censorship board that several girls wearing too scant attire were included in | the scenes. here, as it eral belief that the would uphold the their findings in the GOLDWYN AND ALMA RUBENS was the gen- highest lower ones case. Alma Rubens, the production. no deal had been closed. Harry Reichenbach is to handle publicity for Goldwyn, which prac- tically brings Harry back to where he started, for Jesse Lasky and Goldwyn were partners when Reich- worked for them in the pre- Famous Players-Lasky days. e leading role in

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pensively exploited, and finally re- sponded after rather discouraging start. Business above average for this big house, with gross reported at $25,000. No doubt but that Ben Ali Haggin tableau helped some. “Souls for Sale,” “Safety Last,” of June. (Capacity, 4,000; scale, 50 75 evenings.) Stanton—‘Bella Donna” (Para- mount). Business good, but not of such a nature as-to warrant booking of over a couple of weeks unless sudden spurt occurs. Reported at around $12,000, and probably slight- ly under. (Capacity, 1,700; scale, 50-75 evenings.) Aldine—“‘Where the Pavement Ends” (Metro). Happy ending used here panned by critics. Business improved during week, with gross about average for house at $7,500. (Capacity, 1,500; scale, 50 straight.) “Down to the Sea in Ships” (Hod- kinson}. Another very big week for this whaling picture, which has proved sensation downtown. Gross went to nearly $10,500—big -figure for this none-too-large house. Stays third week, and if boom con-

tinues may be kept fourth, some- thing Karlton hasn’t: had since Peter Ibbetson” and “Fool’s Para- dise.” (Capacity, 1,100; scale, 50 firaigci ) } The decision caused no |} court | Sam Goldwyn has come to the decision that he will film “The Eternal City’ in Rome, and early this week he was in negotiation with | a Cosmopolitan featured player, 7 v | Up to Wednesday “Rustle of Silk” and “The Famous Mrs. Fair” are prospective pictures | at this house, in order named. Re- | ported booked solidly up to middle

DENVER HOLDS UP Weather Helps in Improvement of Business Denver, May 9%. A general pickup in business all over the city was reported last week. The weather, always a big factor in Denver, was conducive to down- town crowds, and most films drew passably well, with no records broken. Gioria Swanson and Theodore Roberts probably pulled nearest to capacity at the Rialto (Paramount), while a return showing of Harold Lioyd in “Safety Last” at the Prin- cess proved strong. Douglas Mac- Lean in “The Sunshine Trail,” at the Colorado (Bishop-Cass) drew well, it having been noised abroad that Rex Cherryman, former juve- nile with the Wilkes Players here, was appéaring in it. Estimates for last week: Rialto (Paramount). Seats 1,050. Price, night, 40. Gloria Swanson and Theodore Roberts in “Prodigal

Daughters.” Neal Burns in Chris- tie comedy, “Be Yourself.” Pathe News. Grossed $7,400. Princess (Paramount). Seats 1,250. Price, nights, 40. Harold Lloyd in return showing of “Safety Last.” Gross close to $7,000. Colorado (Bishop-Cass). Seats 2,447. Price, nights, 40. Douglas MacLean in “The Sunshine Trail.” Comedy, “Fair Enough.” Fun from the Press. Lloyd Foutz and Ohio State Jazz Band, extra attraction. Special act idea_is building up busi- ness at this house, Grossed around $5,700. America (Bishop-Cass). Seats 1,530. Price, nights, 40. Fred Nib- lo’s “The Famous Mrs. Fair,” with Myrtie Stedman and Cullin Landis. Internatidhal News and special or- oo and organ program. About 4,369, isis (Fox). Seats 1,776. Price, nights, 35. “Secrets of Paris” and “The Land of Tut-ankh-amen.” PICTURES | PHILLY’S BEST SPRING BUSINESS: |..2™" £95 00 FOR “BRASS” AT STANLEY Needed, However—‘“Bella Donna” Only Fair—“Down to Sea,” Held Over,

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San Francisco, May 9. Universal is to build its own theatre in San Francisco. This company has maintained a lease on the Frolic theatre here for some years, It expired this month. Carol A, Nathan, local U branch, announces his concern has acquired the property on which the Frolic stands and will demolish it to make way for a modern theatre. The Frolic is small, seating but 1,000, and is built much on the old nickel- odeon style. The work of razing the Frolic is to begin at once,

MAX MILDER MARRIED Max Milder, who recently with- drew as representative for Louis Selznick in Pennsylvania, was mar- ried to Madeline Sternberg in Phil- adelphia last week. He has joined the William Fox film forces in the sales department .

COAST FILM NEWS By EDWARD G. KRIEG .

Los Angeles, May 9. Tom Moore, film star, will desert California this summer to engage in 2 New Yoftk state production titled “Dust of Erin.” Jack Dillon has been engaged to Warner Fabian novel, “Flaming Youth.”

well under The making of the historical film, | “Abraham Lincoln,” is way.

Virginia Pearson, former Fox star, is to be featured in a production to | be made at the United Studios.

Irene Rich has been picked to play | the role of Queen in Mary Pickford’s |forthcoming film of the nineteenth century in Spain.

Goldwyn Rictures Corporation will release 49 pictures during the year 1923. Of these Goldwyn will produce 24, Cosmopolitan 15, Distinctive Pic- tures Corporation 8 and two other 'independent producers are aso on ischedule. | Rush Hughes, son of Rupert Hughes, is paying a small part in Fred Niblo’s “Captain Applejack.” ' Harry Tighe, former vaudevillian, who is now being co-starred with Ned Banks in comedies, Roscoe | Arbuckle directing, was arrested for ;speeding. The picture was held up |while Tighe said “Good morning, judge,” and paid a fine.

Louis B. Mayer, the producer, has returned from a.month’s vacation in New York.

| Irving Cummings has launched his third independent production. The picture is to be titled “Broken Hearts of Broadway,” and these will be in the cast: Colleen Moore, | Johnny Walker, Alice Lake, Kate | Price, Irving Cummings and Creigh-

ton Haile, ' ee Cliff Robertson, well known agent and casting director, for a long time connected with Goldwyn, was tripped up by a speed cop and the judge sentenced him to two days in jail, which he served. He was also fined $1,000 for having liquor—a small flask—in his possession. | } ; Trim and suave as ever, Theda Bara, of vampire fame, stepped off the train in Los Angeles and was received with open arms by her hus- band, ‘Charles Brabin, Goldwyn di- rector.

For the third time in that many years Mrs. Marcella Lederman, wife of De Ross Lederman, film director, set aside her decree of divorce, claiming a reconciliation. The pair, according to reports, have made up and requested the court to dismiss the interlocutory decree granted six months ago to the wife. : ,

The Forrest Film*Company is the latest to enter the picture field, It is said to have the backihe ‘of ‘rich eastern capitalists. Martin J. Heyl

is here organizing talent for pro- duction.

Mae Murray and her director hus- band, Robert Z, Leonard, have gone to New York for the sole purpose’ of closing their apartment and settling some business deals. Then they will return to California to live. Fred Elles and Edward Chandler have been added to the already long list of aids to Cecil B. De Mille preparatory to filming “The Ten Commandments.” Elles is the son of Harry A. Elles, president and managing director of the Ritz-Carl- ton chain of hotels in Europe, while Chandler has been in motion pic- tures for the past twelve years.

Another comedy ingenue has been promoted to the dramatic heights. She is Charlotte Stevens, who has been playing leads in Christie come- dies. Louis B. Mayer has engaged her for a principal role in John M.

Stahl’s “The Wanters.” Virginia Lee Corbin, youthful movie starlet, is seriously ill with appendicitis. Charles J. Hall, producer has filed suit against Mrs. James, actress, for $7,092. He claims Mrs. James quit a picture before it was finished. Maurice Cononage, French actor, who came to America to play an important role in Tully’s “Trilby,” decided that his name was too hard for the American public to pro- nounce, so he changed it to Cannon.

Edwin Carewe has finished work on “The Girl of the Golden West.” It is expected that the film will be ready for release in May. Lloyd Bacon, son of the late Frank Bacon, has been engaged by Universal to direct a series of one- reel comedies. Charles Ray will leave for Chicago in May. He will attend the Theatre Owners’ convention. King Baggot, of Universal, direct Baby Peggy.

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“Harbor Bar,” one of Peter B. Kyne’s stories, is being adapted to the screen by Thompson Buchanan of the Associated Authors’ Trio. Frank Lloyd, director for Norma Talmadge, is to start production on his own pictures shortly. They will be released by Associated First National. Benjamin B. Hampton says he is through with the motion picture game for good. In the future he will devote all his time to literary work. Helen Jerome Eddy has been Signed to a three year contract by J. L, Frothingham. Thomas H. Ince will start work shortly on Longfellow’s “Evange- line.” "s

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Kansas City, May 9. It cost the Universal something — like $7,000 to show the Snow “Hunts. ing Big Game in Africa” picture f two weeks at the Orpheum. promoters leased the house for th weeks, but two were only nece to convince them Kansas City not eare much for it. There There seems to be an indifference on the part of the picture loyers toa- ward any film offered at a regular theatre. This was shown when “Way Down East” and the “Four Horsemen” were tried at the Shu« bert and failed to draw. When the Snow pictures were announced for. the Johnson “African” animal films in and ran them in connection with @ seven-act vaudeville bill, which hurt the Snow entertainment. The Johnson films were also secured and ond week of the Orpheum’s date. At the Royal “Robin Hood,” in itg and “Safety Last” held up remark- ably well in its third and last week at the Liberty. theatre is exploiting the Hodkinson billed and advertised like a circus and with the prices dropped back to children, while the Liberty will fol< low the Lloyd comedy with “Brass” at the same prices. At the Newman the offering is “Grumpy,” held back for some time, the management wanting to follow Theodore Roberts’ personal appeare- ance at the Mainstreet, but the plans were changed and the picture went on Sunday. The house is also continuing its “discovery concerts,” presenting them at its opening pera formances Sundays only. As with the first series, these shows consist of 10 amateur acts, selected from hundreds of volunteers who have been given the once over at previ- ous tryouts. Last week's estimates: Newman—‘“You Can’t Fool Your Wife” (Paramount). Seats, 1,980; scale, nights, 50-75. Leatriee Joy and Lewis Stone,. Added features, Critics praised picture, compliment<« ing Miss Joy, whose costumes were rich and striking. Business disap< pointing, around $11,000. Royal—“Robin Hood.” Fourth week, Seats, 890; special prices, 55-75. Gross close to $12,000. Liberty — “Safety Last.” Third week. Eight shows. daily. Seats, 1,000; regular scale maintained, 35-50. Near $9,000. Twelfth Street — “The Tiger’s Claw” (Paramount). Seats, 1,100} scale, 30-10. Jack Holt. Sennett

comedy and westerner gave run for ;30 cents. Around $2,000. Opposition feature offerings at the | vaudeville houses were “White | Shoulders,” Pantages; “The Bishop of the Ozarks,” Globe, and “The Vils¢ lage Biacksmith,’” Mainstreet. ONE ACT WEEKLY

Loew’s Palace, Memphis, Adding To Picture Bill : Memphis, May 9%. Loew's Palace here is harking back to the original policy of the then small Loew Circuit when it added an act to its picture bill of those times. The Palace, after | stage, has commenced to ;act weekly to — its straight pictures. 1924 CENSOR REPEAL Albany, N. Y., May 9. The repeal of the picture censor- ship law was defeated in the closing hours of the New York State Legis- altering its add one program of

lature. Better results are hoped for at the next session of the legis< lature. So far as the Capitol dis- trict is concerned, which is the headquarters of the commission, the law has become a joke, exhititors showing about what they please. One of the most active workers for the defeat of the repeal of the cen- sorship law was ex-Secretary of State Francis M. Hugo, now chief censor of certain educational and religious films. OPERATOR BUYS THEATRE Shady Side, O., May 9% The Ohio theatre here has been purchased by Home J. Graybill, formerly electrician and operator at the Family, Bridgeport, Ohio.

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NOTHING STARTLING LAST WEEK IN FILM HOUSES ON BROADWAY

Capitol Did $40,000°Despite Panned Feature—Strand Got Call, with “Within the Law,” $39,000— “Enemies” Next Week at Rivoli

No: startling turnovers in busi- ness along Broadway last week. The start Sunday was off because of the daylight saving rule effective that day, and served to knock the matinee business in all of the houses. Two pictures on the street attracted business above the usual average of the houses they were at. They were “Within the Law” at the Strand and “The Ne’er Do Well” at the Rivoli. The Rialto had “Bella Donna,” which played its third week on Broadway at that house after having had two weeks at the Rivoli, and the returns for the week were rather healthy in view of it. The Capitol, with “BacKbone,” a rather mediocre picture rather gen- erally panned by the daily papers, finished the week with almost $40,- 000 to its credit, drawn principally by the strength of the program sur- rounding the feature. At the Cameo this week is the final of “Down to thg Sea in Ships,” which has a total of 12 weeks there to its credit, and every week was anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000 above. the average business the lit- tle theatre usually does. Next week Broadway is to be treated to a freak in that “Enemies of Women,” Cosmopolitan, released by Goldwyn. is to play the Rivoli instead of the Capitol, The book- ing was closed after the Hearst or- ganization had a row with Goldwyn regarding the dates offered it at the Capitol. The matter was finally adjusted, and the picture will get the two weeks at the Rivoli, with the possibility a third week at the Rialto will follow. Estimates for last week: Cameo— “Down to the Sea in Ships” (Hodkinson). (Seats 539; scale 55-85; 12th week). Final week of whale picture at this house; $7,719 last week. Capitol — “Backbone” (Goldwyn). (Seats 65,300; scale 55-85-$1.10.) Weak sister as far as picture con- cerned, but house attracted $39,950 on week. Criterion—"The Covered Wagon” (Famous). (Seats 608; scale, mats. $1 top, eves. $1.50.) (7th week.) Business up about $100 last week over previous one through standing room sold. Almost $10,900. Rialto—“Bella Donna” (Famous), (Seats 1,960; scale 55-85-95.) Third week at this house to gross of $17,000. Rivoli—‘The Ne’er-Do-Well” (Fa- mous). (Seats 2,200; scale 55-35-99.) Thomas Meighan’s personal popu- larity got. good week's business; $24,000. Stfand—“Within the Law” (First National). (Seats 2,900; scale 35- 50-85.) Opened somewhat off Sun- day afternoon, but by evening crowds so strong had to stop selling at 9:30. Almost $39,000. TWO FAIL Washington Had Off Week—Two Others Did Well

Washington, May 9. The skidding of two films presented locally was the greatest topic of dis- cussion during the past week. They both ran along about same to equal grosses last week and regis- tered the lowest marks yet. They both seemingly had some chances of getting business, but failed, however, to attract from the very outset, and the slump continued throughout the week. Alice Brady in “The Leopard- ess” should have done better on the Strength of the star herself; the other picture, “Sure-Fire Flint,” had little if any chance from the start. the Its title practically meant nothing, and although the advertising did much to create interest it seemingly failed to convince those that make up the lines in front of the box offices Fear of the coming of hot weather and the announcement of two strong pictures at the opposition houses caused the holding of Gloria Swan- son in “Prodigal Daughters” at the Columbia but for one week, although this Star ran up a very likely gross. Souls for Sale,” Goldwyn’s, did very well at the Rialto. Estimates for last week: Loew's Columbia—(Seats 1,200; 35-50 nights). Gloria Swanson in Prodigal Daughters” (Paramount). Above $14,000. _Moore’s Rialto—(Seats nights). “Souls for Sale” Wyn). Little below $14,000. Loew's Palace—(Seats 2,500; 35- 1,900; 50 (Gold- 50 nighis). Alice Brady in “The Leopardess” (Paramount). Dropped below usual gross of house, with total under $7,000. Crandall’s Metropolitan —(Seats 1,- 0; 35-50 nights). “Sure-Fire Flint.” Did but little. Just above $6,500. +4

BUFFALO SURVIVED COMBINED OPPOSITION Last Week Unusual Combina- tion Against Theatres— “Within the Law” Led

Buffalo, May 9. Business at local picture houses held up remarkably well last week in the face of An unusual combina- tion of bad conditions. Daylight saving went into effect Sunday, the baseball. season opened Wednesday and a week of perfect spring weather proved a combination which should have dealt knockout biows te the box-offices but which only dropped the grosses for small losses, Daylight saving was figured by the managers to prove a heavy obstacie but so far it seems to have had but smal effect upon business. The heevy feature programs offered at the downtown houses are hold- ing business close to*the mark and all the theatres are heading neck and neck for the summer season with full steam ahead, “Within the Law’ proved an ex- cellent attraction for the Hippo- drome, the picture being held for the entire week. Business was con- sistent and reports ad pictures meeting favorable comment and good returns all week. As during the preceding week, the musical at- tractions played a heavy part in the pregram. It is apparent this house is going in for special fea- tures. Bushman and Bayne are booked for ‘a personal appearance next week (May 14). The closing of the Criterion, as predictéd, was the other outstand- ing feature of the week. This one has been hanging on by the thinnest thread for some time past. It is reported that since the opening, Holy Week, the house has not had one winning week, business peter- ing out to a few hundred dollars toward the end of the period. Last week’s estimates: Loew's State—“The Nth Com- mandment” and Wm. Morrisey (vaudeville). (Capacity 3,400; scale, nights, 30-50.) Strong all week and mixed bill business getter on both ends. Picture favorably received, while Morrisey’s movie stars (vaudeville act) drew down plenty of publicity during their stay. A numbe» of persona! appearances at various business piaces, together with newspaper tie-ups, kept the theatre in the foreground all week. About $14,000. Hippodrome—“Within the Law,” “The BaHoonatic” and musical fea- tures. (Capacity, 2,400; scale, nights, 35-50.) Talmadge feature drew attention whole week and sat- isfactory as house has had for some time. Said to have done better business than any previous Tal- madge feature. Around $15,000. Lafayette Square—“Romeo His Dancing Girls” and “Heroes and Husbands.” (Capacity, 3,400; scale, nights, 35-55.) Bill kept house among leaders, although business very much off for matinees.” Night shows still well attended, with standin& room during greater part of week. Estimated between $13,000 and $14,000. Olympic—“The Abysmal Brute.” (Capacity, 1,500; scale, nights, 20- 25.) Exploited by considerable ad- ditional outside advertising. Ran t fairly good business and kept house at around usual average. About $3,000. Criterion—“‘Adam and Eva.” (Ca- pacity, 900; scale, nights, 20-40.) Died natural death Saturday and closed indefinitely. Business drib bled off with local theatredom won dering how policy existed as long as it did. Probably got under $500 for fina: seven days. KIRKWOOD AS BEN-HUR It seems to have been definitely settled that the title role in the screen production of “Ben-Hur,” which is to be made by the Goldwyn Corp., is to be played by James Kirkwood. Practically every lead- ing man in filmdom has been men- tioned at one time and another for the “Ben-Hur” role, from Rudolph Valentino down the line. Kirkwood and Bert Lytell have been promi- nent. The director question is still to be settled, as is also the advis- ability of making the picture in this country or abroad.

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LOS ANGELES BIZ Last Week Found Receipts Dropping All Over Town

Los Angeles, May 9. Whether it was the advent, of spriug—California has its spring just iike any other state; s¢nera! presumption to the contrary not- withstanding—with the customary trout season opening or just plain ordinary bad business nobody seems willing to say, but the film show shops had an off week and the man- agers make no bones about it. Grauman’s Hollywood with “The Covered Wagon” retained its box office lead by a good margin, with “Main Street” at the Mission and “Enemies of Women” at the Riaito running close seconds. There was no sensational features, except pos-. sibly Loew’s State added attrac- tion, a dance act staged by Ernest Relcher, which saved that theatre from utter bankruptcy, the film at- traction, “Singed Wings,” proving a poor draw after the critics got through splashing it with their vitrol pens. The receipts approximately looked like this: Califorria — “Backbone” (Gold- wyn). Seats, 2,000; 25-55. Alfred Lunt and Edith Roberis featured. Kellum talking pictures also head- lined, with Elinor’s exceptionally fine music an italicized number on the program. Grossed $9,500. Kinema—‘The Isle of Lost Ships” {A. F. N.) Seats, 1,800; 25-55. A Maurice Tourneur production spon- sored by M. C. Levee. Jack White White Mermaid comedy also listed. Got $12,000. Grauman’s—“The Abysmal Brute” (Universal). Seats, 2,200; 25-35. Regimald Denny featured in Jack London story, with Mabei Julienne Scott in second type. Waring's Pennsylvanians, Reginald Denny, star of picture, in a personal ap- pearance (the actor sings pleas- ingly) and a somewhat spectacular. prolog of Sid Grauman manufacture among the added attractions. Re- ceipts, $11,208. Metropolitan—‘The Trail of the Lonesome, Pine” (Paramoctnt). Seats, 5,700; 35-50. Mary ~~ ‘iles Minter, Antonio Moreno and Ernest Torrence given equal play in b--ing. Herman Heller, imported from San Francisco, made debut as orchestra conductor. Theatre grabbed lot of space on him, which helped busi- ness. The Moscow Artists, Easter Hezelton and Henry Murtagh, Draw ap- and organist, used as fillers. proximately $23,000. Grauman’s Rialto— “Enemies of Women” (Cosmo). Seats, 800; 35-85. Still going strong, evenings holding up, with slight fall-off at matinees. Grossed $8,850. Grauman’s Hollywood—"The Cov- ered Wagon” (Paramount). Seats, 1,800; 50-$150. Seats selling severa! days ahead, with big matinees. Big patronage from children. Slogan is “try and get a seat at night.” Pre- dicted will outrun “Robin Hood.” Clocked about $21,780. Missior-—‘“Main Street” (Warner Bros.). Seats, 900; 35-$1.10. Sec- ond week picked up over opener, with prospects for a good run. Film cut considerably since premiere, with resultant shorter performance. No special features. Grabbed $9,992. Loew’s State—‘Singed Wings” (Paramount). Seats, 2,400; 25-55. Bebe Daniels starred, with Conrad Nagel and Ernest Torrence co-fea- tured. Film a fourth-rate draw. Ernest Belcher staged dance act, “From Stone Age to Jazz,” easily got the call. Takings, $12,240. BOSTON OFF

tions Boston, May 9. In company with the legitimate the picture houses last week felt the advent of daylight saving. The warm weather which pre- vailed early this week also had de- pressing effect, and it was figured that business would be rather below normal for this week, although not down to the summer line as yet. Estimates for last week: State (capacity, 2,400; scale 5 50)—Agnes Ayres in “Racing Hearts.” Added attractions. Park (capacity, 1,100; scale 40-60) “The Affairs of Lady Hamilto: 2d week Modern (capacity, 800; scale, 30 40). The Custard Cup Beacon (capacity, scale and traction, same as Modern)

E. K. LINCOLN ae ee “The Right of the Strongest” A GREAT Picture with a GREAT Cast

NEW TALMADGE FILM GOT $44800. LAST WEEK AT CHICAGO THEATRE

Specials Keep Up Gait—Two Animal Pictures Con- fuse—Barbee Loop Theatre Closed—Lubliner & Trinz Lease Windsor

Chicago, May 9. The opening of the baseball sea- son and other forms of amusement, which might be expected to cut into the business of the picture houses, had their effect on loop theatres last week, but the photo- plays for runs did not feel the ap- proach of nice weather to any great extent, permitting the biow to fali on the houses which change films weekly. “The Covered Wagon” continues to please, and there is extensive ad- vertising that the film will not be seen at smaller prices this season. “Enemies of Women” continues to big business at the Roosevelt, due in part to the widespread publicity given by the two Hearst papers and to the popularity of the Ibanez name through “The Four Horsemen” and “Blood and Sand.” There are no presentation features excepting the singing of a mixed quartet in the wings and organ solos by Helen Anderson. The picture stands up for the publicity, and it draws long waiting lines in front of the the- atre, which is the picture man’s thermometer. Its actual figure when breaking the record at the Roosevelt was $26,200. “Hunting Big Game in Africa” has caused so much favorable talk at the Randolph that a show is an- nounced starting at 10:30 at night, and the Johnson film has been brought to the Castle in an effort to cash in on the publicity cam- paign of the other. It is easy to confuse the two pictures. The bad business which might be expected to accompany the ap- proach of spring closed the Bar- bee Loop Theatre, which has been going along all season with check- ered success. The Chicago Theatre had Norma Talmadge in “Within the Law” last week, and a big presentation feature in which Bartram and Saxton and Fowler and Tamara appeared. The feature held up very well, dnd the show around it made the program as a whole a little stronger than usual. MecVicker’s had “The Go- Getter” and Larry Semon in “No Wedding Bells,” and, with presen- tation features, has a highly pleas- ing show. Mstimates for iast week: Chicago— Norma Talmadge in “Within the Law” (First National) (seats 4,200; nights 55); $44,800. McVicker’s — “The Go - Getter” (Paramount) (seats 2,500; nights 59); $27,500. Randolph — “Hunting Big Game”

(Universal) $13,800. Rooseveit—"Enemies of Women” (Cosmopolitan) (seats 3,275; 55): $20,000. Weod’s— “The Covered Wagon” (Paramount) (mat. $1.10; nighis $1.65), $12,500. Syncopation Week holds forth at the Broadway Strand, where Kari Fuller and band are the big fea- ture, and at the Marshall Square, where “Monarchs of Syncopation Land” are billed, “The Little Girl Next Door” continues at the Or- pheum; “The Famous Mrs. Fair” is at the Chicago; Thomas Meighan, (seats 686; 50 cents): in “The Ne’er Do Well,” at McVick-_ er’s. Lubliner & Trinz, who operate a string of theatres in Chicago, have secured the lease of the Windsor Theatre on the North Side, less than two miles from the loop. DETROIT CAPITOL, $23.000 “Prodigal Daughters” Did it Last Week—*“Souls” $20,000 in 2 Weeks

Detroit, May 9. Business was extremely good at the first run houses last wee, especially in the evenings. a The two best were “Prodigal Daughters” at the Capitol and “You Can’t Fool Your Wife” at the Madi- son, although “Souls for Sale’ at the Broadway-Strand pulled almost as good its second week ae first. Estimates for last week: Adams—“Nth Commandment.” Just fair. About $9,000. Madison—"“You Can't Wife.” Close to $13,000. Capito! — “Prodigal Around $23,000, Broadway-Strand — “Souls for Sale,” 2d week. Approximately $9,000, making $20,000 for the twe weeks. Washington—‘Birth of a Natton.” Didn’t pull as expected. Slightly over $6,000. Fool Your Daughters.” Shubert-Detroit—‘Fabiola,” spe- cial at $2 top, 24 week. Did little. Price prevented business in legit house. BEATTY AND SHIRK OUT Beatty is joining the Al Lichtman organization and Shirk is asso- ciating himself with the Grand studios here.

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There are two songs rendered by Bartram and Saxton—‘“Tea Leaves” and “Cherry Blossoms”—and in both selections the big round baritone of one singer and the high tenor of the other are employed for harmony in a most effective manner. There is a dance by Fowler and Tamara which combines classical and society steps with Chinese touches, done ina highly artistic manner. The setting displays a large black drop with a circle in the centre in which there is a scrimmed dragon, while gigantic papier mache winged serpents, such as are told of in the literature of the Middle Ages, are on each side of the circle. There is a small tabie, and at the ring of the curtain Bartram and Saxton are disclosed playing chess. The song is started with them seated, but they rise at the conclusioa of the verse and come down front for the chorus. When this song ‘s con- cluded the curtain at the back of the occupied stage parts and the dragon is made to ascend, exhibiting a Chinese couple, with the man smoking a long pipe. They come front and present one of the best dances that Fowler and Tamara have presented at the Chicago. They exit in the wings, and Bartram and Saxton sing their second song. They return and the girl-steps in the cir- |.000,00000- TO LOAN AGAINST COMPLETED MOTION PICTURE NEGATIVES. RELEASE PRINTS FINANCED. COMMERCIAL TRADERS CINEMA CORP. 128 west 52”° StT., New YORK asc 10 Mins. (Drapes) Capitol, New York. Mile. Gambarelli as Day and | Alexander Oumansky as Night | backed by eight of the members of | the Capitol’s ballet corps presented PICTURES cle space and the dancer bows to her with the singers in respectful attitude for the final curtain. The dressing is a special feature of this act. The gaily colored cos- tumes of Bartram and Saxton are rivalled by the two scts of beauti- ful costumés displayed by Fowler and Tamara. The chances are that some effort has been required to se- cure these Chinese clothes, which are important in the detail that makes the Chicago Theatre presen- tations notabie. Loop. “RIGOLETTO” impressions 17 Mins. (Three Sets) Capitol, New York. With an orchestral minuet with eight dancers, and three vocal selections, “Cara Nome,” “La Donna e’ Mobile” and the Quartet, S. L. Rothafel managed to present a really interesting se- ries of impressions of “Rigoletto” at the Capitol this week. He is utilizing five of the soloists, eight of his ballet corps and presents the whole in three sets of scenes. The first is in the interior of the palace where the minuet is presented and the following two sets are both ex- teriors. The first is but a piece of garden wall with a bench, while the final set for the Quartet, has a small set house suggested at one side with a wall coming down the stage center. It was this and the other fea- tures of the entertainment staged by Rothafel this week that saved the show, for the feature picture, “Vanity Fair,” brought many re- marks of displeasure from the+ Sunday night audience at the last show. Fred. — DENNIS SISTERS, (3) Harmony Singers 5 Mins. (Garden Set- Spécial) Grand Central, St. Louis St. Louis, May 9. A gorgeous set put the Dennis sisters over at the Grand Central— not their harmony singing. Ralph Nicholls, director of art and pro- duction, is worthy of enthysiastic praise. If the girls are harmony singers —as the program reads—they cer- tainly have no volume. Seated in the rear of house it was difficult to hear them singing at all. The management would have done much better had they. allowed the audience once to feast on the exceptional set, hear Gene Rode- mich’s splendid orchestra play a selection, then have Ralph Nicholls enter and take a bow. Ross. prelude, a “DANCE OF THE HOURS” (From “La Giaconda”) a really delightful interlude in this offering. In lighting and costuming the ballet number was perfect and to Oumansky goes credit for the fact the setting. that the dancing kept pace with =—_— Fred. Thursday, May -10, 1923 ~ ee INSIDE STUFF 4 O¥ PICTURES snl Portending changes in an influential bank on the ccast may have ap a effect upon the picture people doing business with it. The incoming per« sonnel ig not credited with the knowledge of tle industry its present ofie _ cers have secured. Some of the bank’s present officers have been ree the tatters film projects. It is rumored the engagement of a film comedy star to a foreign lumin.« ary of the cinema drama may soon be Off. At a party given in Hollywood recently, the dramatic young woman became temperamental, scratching the comedian’s face; and the comedian, not to be outdone, patted the lady gently with the harder part of his fists under both of her eyes, This caused the iady to be absent from her studio for several days, and rather verified the rumor that all was not going so well with them, ported as quite heavily interested with certain picture men out there, in The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Kansas are unanimous in thelr. a Ef opinion that most of feature pictures now being produced are too long, | | and prove tiresome to the spectators, The members claim ‘the long films are made to enable the distributors to charge a higher rental, but that” they are not satisfactory from the exhibitors’ standpoint, A resolution favoring six or seven reels, and the shortening of longer productions to é that length has been adopted and a copy sent to Will Hays. The hearings in New York before the Federat Trade Commission in its investigation against Famous Players and its business methods will last about another week in New York. They will continue throughout the key cities of the country, starting in Philadelphia after New York, going to Atlanta, New-~ Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc. The attorneys for the commission are reported satisfied with results obtained so far, the testimony having been of a technical nature. The dailies have dropped ihe hearings, excepting for casual] mention, not securing the kind of sensational evidence expected. The dailies thought the hearings might bring out Hollywood and salary stuff, It is generally known on the coast that the husband of a picture star, who is suing her for divorce, changed his mind when terms were made to him by the organization with which his wife is under contract. This concern suggested he “forget’’? the evidence he was to put in which would have included six people, It is said the agreement calls for a payment of from $125,000 to $150,000 to the husband. The divorce-seek- ing husband may have besides a heavy interest in the last picture made by the star for the concern she is with. This was probably done to keep him from forgetting his promise, as the impending publicity would not help the sale of the star’s aforementioned picture, or those of hers in the future, if she would have had a future after the trial, Illustrating how soft ‘t is to do publicity work for big people, Milto 3 Wright who had charge of a campaign for $600,000 for the Englewoo N. J. hospital, which culminated a fortnight ago, induced two partners in J. P. Morgan & Co. to pose for the picture camera, and besides got Fa- mous Players to engage a scenario writer and furnish the production for nothing on the strength ‘of the banker-cast, Wright learned that Thomas W. Lamont and Dwight W. Morrow, of the Morgan firm, and Seward Prosser chairman of the Bankers’ Trust Co. board were on the hospital fund committee. On the strength of those names he approached Will H. Hays. Hays introduced him to. Adolph Zukor and Famous Players cheer- fully undertook to furnish the pictures for the charity drive, The drive brought in move money than it started out for, and on the Englewood showing, Wright has secured the job of handling another drive for the New Rochelle hospital. Warner Bros. will make a two-reeler for this event. The inside story of why the repeal of the New York state’s censor law did not go through at Albany, according to schedule, places the blame right on the picture business, Intervention by an archbishop of the Catholic diocese in New York City had been procured by Catholics in favor of the repeal, The endorsement of the archbishop was accepted as being sufficient to overcome any opposition in Albany against the bill, as Governor Smith, also Senator Jimmy Walker are Catholics, Just as everything had been about set out came a moving picture show- ing a nun with a dual nature jazz dancing in a cabaret, while a lithoe graph issued by the picture’s maker had the nun in her convent costume lighting a cigaret with a candle from the altar. The lithograph was placed before the archbishop and the story of the picture told to him with the concluding remark: “This is why pictures must be censored, and it’s only one of the reasons.” sé. - —— PROVES TREMENDOUS Motion Picture Theatre Single Attraction Miss FRANCES WHITE Direction WILLIAM MORRIS f t i. It 4)

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Notice on 100-Minute Radio Delivery by S. L. Roth- afel at Capitol Theatre, New York City, Sunday Evening, May 6—Mainly for Exhibitors’ Benefit ~

“OUT OF THE ETHER” (This is the first occasion om which a review of a complete radio program has been attempted. Bhe purpose of the, review is to give such exhibitors who are conducting large houses of the calibre of the Capitol a line on the manner in which S.*%.. Rothafel is broadcasting and utilizing the radio as a. busi- ness getter for the Capitol, New}, York. At this house there is a micro- phone arranged to catch the orches- tral’ music, as well as ‘the vocal numbers given on-the stage of the _ Capitol, including the overture and ballet music, the... accompaniment for. the news weekly, and, finally, the tabloid impressions of the vari- ous ‘operatic and light operatic pres- entatiors. ; While the feature nicture is being shown the program is continued from the radio broadcasting studio which operates through the WEAF station. » ; The program is given only on Sunday evenings of each week. The. program herewith . reviewed was presented Sunday night, May 6, beginning at 7.20 and concluding at 9.) os S. L. Rothafel “signs on” with a talk that reminds one somewhat of Will Rogers. It is away from the stereotyped style of the average ra- dio announcer, ahd “Roxy” informs those who are listening in that “This is the Capitol Theatre of New York, which_is about toe broadcast its regular musical program that is being presented for the week, and there will. be other features.” He then gives a brief sketch of what the regular musical program of the house is, also informing them as to the scenes in the weekly news, so that they can visualize in their minds the screen scenes according to the tempo of the accompaniment. All this is done in breezy fashion, with an occasional gag for a laugh. The introduction of the artists who are to contribute to the program is included in this talk. Then in a wait for the hook-up between the studio and the stage for the opening of the orchestral overture the manager devotes his time to answering some of thoss who have written in to the Capitol management after listening to the concerts, This consumed exactly eight minutes. The overture, “The Dance of the Hours,” from “La Gioconda,” opened — the program at 7.31, and, together with the ballet presented, ran 10 minutes; the news weekly followed, consuming 13 minutes, and then came the “Impressions of ‘Rigo- letto,’” running from 7.53 to 8.09. The “impressions” included three vocal selections, which came across the ether in splendid manner. This is especially so of the two solos given, the first, “Caro Nome,” sung by Editha fFieischer, followed by “La Donna e Mobile,” in which

caramel ie & hat pro- “Enemies of Women” has ] interrupted by a voice that pro- been playing against the % } a ; claimed itself “the censor” and or- Scenario by John Lynch strongest opposition Dic- ; oz e dered it out, the routine concluding : ture in the field today! All Exhibitors with “The Olden Days,” and the Settings by Joseph Urban st. so taeaeet Seale . . . signing off by “Roxy” coming at sat in Michigan sharp. Fred. e year’s box office sensat - OSMOPOLITAN PRODUCTION Read our magazine published every David J. Adams, manager of the A \ Tuesday Auditorium Theatre in Concord, N. . 4 w ee want to reach this clientele | +7 has-been elected president of the Distributed by Goldwyn-Cosmopolitan where is no better medium. New Hampshire Moving Picture ; igs Rates very low Managers’ Association. He suc- MICHIGAN FILM REVIEW ceeds Charles H. Bean of Franklin, JACOB SMITH, Publisher who recently was appointed post- 415 Free Press Bidg. DETROIT master of that town. = —_—— noe ern = = = Frederick Jagel and Max Brefel al- from the opera was lcss clear, due, no doubt, because the players were that it was the Capitol Theatre, New ternate as the Duke. The quartet forced through the action of the business to turn from direct line with the receiving instrument. This concluded ‘the regular program from the house bill,-and thereafter the special contributions from the stu- dio were offered. “Roxy,” after again announcing York, through WEAP, informed the listeners there: were a number of distinguished personages present to witness the broadcasting. He intro- duced several, including a radio in- spector, Mr. Bachelder, who is a bachelor. The initial offering in the studio’ was the “Romanza,” by Rubinstein. played-by the ‘cello, violin, piano and Italian whistles by four mem- bers of the Capitol’s orchestra. It was followed by Douglas Stanbury, who’ sang “Duna.” At 8.19 Edna Baldrich of Cleveland, a pianist, did a classical selection, followed by a rag arrangement of “When Will I Know?” which Roxy used for an- other laugh, replying, “God only knows.” Three minutes of cross+ fire ad lib between Roxy and sey- eral of the artists followed. It finally terminated in “Betsy” singing “The Rosary.” “Betsy” and “Louise” is the man- ner in which “Roxy” speaks of two of the girl artists of the bill, and this gives a sort of informal jn- timacy to the broadcasting relished by the listening-in fans, for it is away from anything else they get on their machines, “There Is No Death,” sung by a male member of the Capitol force, scored, followed by a ’cello solo, “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling,” and, in turn, a song, “Two Eyes of Gray,” sung by “Evelyn.” It was then 8.40. With 20 minutes to go the pro- gram continued with the concert meister of the Capitol orchestra, Eugene Dormonde Blau, offering a solo, followed by a duet, “The Flat- ter,” sung by Betsy and Louise, one of the most pleasing numbers of the evening. Following, “Betsy” sang “Cheyenne” (to prove that she came from Texas). At 8.50 “Roxy” made an announce- ment regarding “Vanity Fair,” the current week’s feature at the house, and that Charles Ray in “The Girl I Love” is to be presented next week. The final number of the program was offered by the Capitol’s mixed vocal quartet, running through a chorus medley of old-time favorites, beginning with “Auld Lang Syne,” and then, ‘n order, “Ta Ra Ra Ra Boom -de-aye,” “The Bowery,” “Sidewaiks of New York,” “Rosie O’Grady,” “Bicycle Built for Two,” “Comrades,” “She May Have Seen Better Days,” “While the Band Played On” and “Down Where the which

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VANITY FAIR Hugo Ballin production of Thackeray's “Vanity Fair’ with Mabel Ballin as etar. Directed by Hugo Ballin. Released by Goldwyn. At the Capitol, New Yovk, week May 6, 1923. Time, 78 minutes. : Sharp... cccocseess++..-Mabel Ballin Marquis of Steyne........Hobart Bosworth Rawdon Crawiey...ccesce+e. Georges Walsh George Osborne.....+++++e++»Hatrison Ford Capt. William Dobbin...........Earie Fox Amelia Sedley.......-...-Bleanor Boardman J h Sedley...ccccccsecseses+ Wihard Louls Sir Pitt Crawley. .secseeses++- Robert Mack

If ever the screen presented a most consummate piece of butchery of a masterpiece of literature in an effort on the part of a director to make a complete series of close- ups of his star-wife, this is the instance. This feature should not have been titled “Vanity Fair.” That is a re- flection on Thackeray. It should have been entitled “A’ continuous close-up of Mabel Ballin in many reels.” ° , Never im several years at. the Capitol has the writer ever heard so great a volume of voiced condemna- tion come from an audience during the screening of a picture and on the way Out of the house as was listened to last Sunday evening at the last performance. Several women earlier in the evening wanted to know how any one could tell what the picture was all about. It is certain that if even Thackeray Saw it he wouldn't know, for he

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wouldn’t recognize his brain child in the film footage that Hugo Ballin turned out with the label of Thack- eray’s story on it. The Capitol management Itself cannot be blamed for running the picture, for it is a Goldwyn release. But if the business starts falling off there, there is one thing to be blamed and that is the type of fea- tures that have been shown at the theatre for the last two weeks. No house can stand up under this type of entertainment for its patrons and continue to hold patronage. The Goldwyn people should be the first to realize that pictures of this type and calibre are going to do ines- timable harm to their brand name, if they continue to foist them on Broadway audiences at the biggest theatre of its kind in the werld. The picture has a cast of names in support of Mabel Bailin, but they can’t do anything to counteract the interminable close-ups of the star. Miss Ballin, however, isn't bad to look upon, and if given a chance to have played Becky Sharp she might have done so, but that would have meant the director woutd have had to have shot something that might have resembled a_ continuity of story, which would. have spoiled his close-up gorging. ‘Vanity Fair” is too replete with faults to go into them in detaii. It isn’t “Vanity Fair,” and not only

that, it isn’t even a fair picture of ordinary program quality. Fred.

THE DEATH LEAP London, April 24. This Astoria picture is frankly sensational rubbish and is funnier than any comedy. Re-subtitled from the proper angle, it would be worth a fortune to a showman who had an intelligent public. The story is sheer tripe, badly told and without. any continuity, the only idea of the producer being to make his “star’ accomplish weird stunts every other minute. These stunts are put in haphazardly and have nothing to do with the story, Neither is there any excuse for the title. The little Princess Renee has been abducted by the Grand Duke and is being held a prisoner in the slums, where she is compelled to beg. A rich engineer rescues her and is aided by Albertini, “the strongest man in the works.” The engineer's daughter falls in love with this uncouth laborer, but he has little time for romance. His occupation consists of jumping onto express trains, climbing high stee- ples, chimneys, diving into rivers, fighting as many men as the pro<- ducer can afford and generally be- having in a manner which no man ever has done, not even in a night- mare. In the end the little Princess sits upon the throne and Albertini wins the love of the wealthy en-

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“Enemies of Women” has Ff broken all records at the Roosevelt Theatre in Chi- cago. In ite first week it did $26,189. It is still doing record busi- ness at Grauman’s Rialto, Los Angeles. In New York it broke all records for the Central Theatre at Two-dollar top, and will open for an en- the Rivoli, starting next Sunday, May 13th. In all of these cities,

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While this story sounds original in its subject as far as known, un- fortunately it has been too familiarly set. And then again it is a little too much of a narrative and too little of a picture. Intertwined, though. with the tale are some bits of action, the best a couple of fist fights, and there is a forest fire fairly well done. But in totai “Scars of Jealousy” hardly reaches beyond an average weekly release for the better houses, and in some of the better houses may not reach that high. One bad setback, becoming more evident as the film proceeds, is that there is scarce conjunction between the title and the eubject. Scars of jealousy is accepted as meaning of the heart rather than the face, if one facial scar ieft remaining from a fist fight is accountable for the title. Otherwise there seems 10 reason for the present name of the picture. This will disappoint all of those whom the title may attract. It starts with a sort of .prolog in the days of Louis XIV of France tel- ling how the king chased one of his nobles off the lot into New France as then known, now called Anrerica by the drys (only). The new sect appeared to settle in the meonshine country among the hills of Mary- land, Virginia, Tennessee or Ken- tucky, wherever they have hills and mooneshiners. According to this acript, moonshining is an aged business. / The new. settlers, called the

Cajons, stood 60 well no one both- ered them and everyone thought less than that of them. On the other side of the hill and not so far away was an old Colonel of the “yes, suh” brand, with a dissolute son. Skipping the detail, the father threw the son right out of his house and family, and, to make }!* harder, lured a crude youth of th) Cajons to his home, builded him up into new clothes and intelligen'te, then lest him when the Cajon difcovered he was only subbing. After that the story winds In ani out on the thread with the fights and the forest fire, and the Cajon going back after making a man out of the son, and incidentally copping the son's girl. The sub and the son put up a dandy fight, two of them, either much better than the captions, for the captions in many spots were little short of terribly conventional. Frank Keenan has the star part but isn’t the star. Maybe that hurts too, Lloyd Hughes as the Cajon youth runs away with the film, with Sdward Burns as the son close up, while Marguerite de la Motte as the ingenue is or isn't, according to the way you see and like her. That also covers the general opinion this picture will create— some will and some won't like it. Many will get in and uné@er its story, liking that in preference to its film manner of working out, and then again most of the picture fans will take it as it is superficially pre- sented, an ordinary film meller. Sime. Clem Dunway, age 37, who for seven years has been the head of the scenic department at the Lasky studio, Los Angeles, was found- dead in his office there. The death was caused by asphxiation.

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THE LITTLE GIRL NEXT DOOR a ag te Bialr Coan. Made in Chi- a plect. Dinected by . 8. oe a pene reels. First shown * Orpheum, Chi cago. Mary SlOCUM....secceseee>-Tauuns Starke Jim yo epg eee Morrison Milly AMOSY . «cccescccceess: .Cramel Myers Tug W100. oe ccccccceses++- Mitchel Lewis Hank Haill......++-+e0..-mdWward Kennedy Fifty cents top for this picture requires some nerve. The emphasis in the billing that it is an expose of spiritualistic tricks may justify the high price, which at the Orpheum and under the circumstances suggests something exceptionally notable in film productions. “The Little Girl Next Door” is very ardi- nary. There is no one in the cast who commands special attention and nothing in the acting or story to stand out. The strong: point of the photoplay is the expose of spiritualistic tricks, only incidental. his is a revamping of a white slavery film made when Barrett O’Hara was conducting a campaign in Chicago. Instead of that theme dope has been substituted. The picture has a young man fall into evil instead of the girl, as in the original picture, but he is rescued through the inborn virtue of the girl, who is wise beyond any rea- sonable expectatione. The fact that the picture was made in Chicago had little value here, as it was difficult to recognize the scenes. There ts a fight which may carry some appeal to lovers of blood and thunder, but this is over- balanced by the opposition that the film may create on the part of those who think pictures have a greater purpose than to portray the evil cf great cities. Pauline Starke plays the country

girl very well. James Morrison is a nice looking leading man, though his work is not always convincing. Carmel Myers is the female heavy and puts beauty on the side of Satan. Mitchel , Fee is the male heavy and al] that the term means, —_— SPAWN OF THE DESERT Ben Wilson production starring William Fairbanks. Written by William Tuttle, directed by Ben Wilson. Shown at Loew's Circle, double feature bill, April 9, 1923. Time, 54 minutes. Duke Steele....... eseees William Fairbanks Sam Le Saint..i.cecsccsccssessices Hart Silver press =: eoese oseccceses PEE Tablor Luck Sleed. . Florence Gilbert

A western with all the usual stuff. A cheap western without much of a story that would keep an audience other than those of the smaller houses at all interested. The opening has a wagon train (2 wagons). Perhaps that-is going to be the regular thing in all westerns now that “The Covered Wagon” has caught on. From that point on the story has an association between an old desert wanderer and a young guide. The elder man has been searching for 18 years for his wife and daughter, stolen from him by his partner. The younger man accompanies him on his search be- cause the elder’s trusty rifle saved his life with a timely shot at the hands of the old man. They wander into a mining camp where Silver Sleed is the boss. He runs the gambling house and the town. The old wanderer recognizes him as his quarry, and the gir] falls in love with the young man. From that point, all apple sauce. Same old stuff done in the same o!d way

Thursday, May 10, 1923 ——3 with the villian finally disposed ot * and the father of the girl also dying, leaving the young hero to tear up an I. O. U, for $47,000 he won from. the heavy at stud poker, so that the’ girl will have small change enough to go to school with. Here is one thing that this type. — ef picture does and that is help the There igs poor shirt makers along. a fight between the hero and the heavy and the usual shirt tearing ig done to perfection. The boys simply: must bare their manly chests to thrill the film flappers it seems, ang the shirt manufacturérs are the gainers by their vanity. In detail the picture, even as bad as it is, leaves much to be desired, The day of crepe hair is past as far as appearing before the camera with it is concerned, but one wouldn’t think that to look at this produce... aL tion. The made to order whiskers stick out all over, it. That goes for story as well as characters. Fred. +.

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Thursday, May 10, 1923 SHOWS IN NEW YORE (Continued from page 14) . pnly one not-under marks of win- and spring. Always over $15,- ‘$00 weekly and standees all per- + formaces. #Romeo and Juliet,” “Henry -Miller (46th week). Opinion Jane Cowl’s Juliet’ was characterization of @ecade borne out by sustained good business. Expected. to re- main until May, but now has chance to run through June. $11,000 and over. #Sally, Irerre and Mary,” Century ; (36th week). Moved here espe- cially for cut rating. Two-for- ones at end of week attract most of business now. May stay three or four weeks. Between $10,000 and $11,000. Ma ” Frazee (ist week). ep are first colored dramatic organization. Drew attention out of town and entered here under guarantee arrangement. Opened * Monday. Scale, $2.50 top, Secrets,” Fulton (20th week). An- other weelt to go. Bright English piece has been under stop limit ately, s7with takings last week about $8,500. “Cold Feet” suc- ceeds May 21. — > *Seventh Heaven,” “Booth (28th week). Approximates demand of “Rain,” rating next in dramatic strength, also in business, .al- though ‘this one has been giving ra matinee ~ weekly. Over See ieitg-Londast” sTidson<g7th *So This. fs London!” Hudson. : eo Cohan’s comedy, virtually completed. season on Broadway and good chance of running well into summer. Around $12,000 .now. *The Adding Machine,” Comedy (8th week). Heavily two-for-oned, but business ordinary, takings last week little under. $5,000. Theatre Guild show not considered having much chance. ’ *The Apache,” Punch & Judy (ist week). New author and producer selected this tiny house for Broad- way try this late in season. Opened against other new tries Monday, with comment ‘holding little promise. “The Clinging Vine,” Knickerbocker (20th week). Another three weeks may see end of season for Sav- age’s successful musical. Last week little better than previous, with about $11,000 claimed.’ he Comedian,” Belasco (9th week). Moved Monday from Lyceum, and expected to last» another’ three weeks or so. “Business. fair.for this Belasco show. Arourd $10,000. - he Dancing Girl,” Winter Garden (16th week)... Final week... In-re- modeled Garden started excellent- ly, but ‘tapered off soon. Al Jol- son in “Bombo” - succeeds. next week until Garden's summer show ready next month, *The Devil’s Disciple,” Garrick (3d week). .. Not -much: expected . of Shaw revival which Theatre Guild put on. Fairly good trade indi- cated, however, with some call in . agencies. The Enchanted Cottage,” Ritz (6th week). Might have had. chance for run if put on earlier.. Business now under $6,500, with that claimed satisfactory to house and . show. tthe Fool,” Times Square (29th week), Dropped off recently and extra matinee eliminated. Last week takings were $12,000, which still keeps drama in running. Ought to grab considerable trade from summer visitors. iThe Gingham Girl,” Central (37th week). Moved over from Carroll last week, when business bettered previous week at Earl Carroli by about $1,400 for total of little over ‘& $10,000. That profitable now, The Love Habit,” Princess (9th week). One of low gross attrac- tions. Cast changes have reduced Operating expense, but there is » little chance of building. “The Mountebank,” Lyceum (ist week). Late entrant of the Froh- man office. Opened Monday with Norman Trevor featured. Show had drawn well out of town, which encouraged management into bringing it in at this time. Opin- « ion here is for moderate showing. “The Old Soak,” Plymouth (38th week). Hanging around $7,500, which ought to afford *margin 2f profit. At present gait can ride i until hot weather. The Wasp,” Selwyn (7th week). Moved two weeks ago from Mo- rosco. Business about same, $6,- 000, but better attendance claimed this week. House due for sum- « mer musical some time in June. “Up She Goes,” Playhouse (27th week). Will make good predic- tion of lasting through season. Takings now under $7,500, but Ought ‘to break even with house and show pooled (under same management). Uptown West,” Bijou (3d week). Getting about $4,500, which for show of the kind may supply nar- row margin of profit, with house satisfied to make anything over @€xpenses nows Company on co- Operative basis. “Whispering Wires,” Broadhurst (38th week). Cut-rating, particu- larly two-for-ones, has kept mys- tery piece going lately. Approxi- mately $5,000. Like other attrac- tions playing to smmll grosses this one may make little money. Wildflower,” Casino (14th week). Arthur Hammerstein’s most suc- cessful musicai in several years ‘ & ‘ “ LEGITIMATE to grow stronger weekly and at $2.50 top is capacity. “You and 1,” Belmont (12th week). Management has nominated this comedy for summer continuance and looks like best draw house ever had. Businéss quoted at nearly $9,000, big for small theatre. “Zander the Great,” Empire (5th week). Frohman production highly regarded. Last wéek got $11,000, ‘though rating deserves bigger draw. Has good summer chance. - “The Rivals” at 48th St.; one week only. “The God of Vengeance” reopened at-.the” Greenwich Vil-’ lage theatre Monday.

BROADWAY STORY “Continued from page 13) and the second night's business was under $300. “The Apache” entered the Punch and Judy as an unknown with indications it will not extend beyond two weeks for which time the house was rented. The colored “Salome” at the Frazee may get a little “business. Against the - field the Little Theatre Tournament opened at the Bayes, but.it was apparent the players drew their own audiences. “Pride,” which opened last week at the Morosco, will stop Saturday, the house going back for one week, “The Blimp” succeeding May 21. “My Aunt From Ypsiler.ti” was called off at the Earl Carroll, when salaries were not paid at the end of its first week, the house also. going dark. “The Dancing Girl’ will leave the Winter Garden for the road, with Al Jolson in “Bambo,” succeeding Monday. “Lady Butterfly” also goes on tour Saturday wit “Dew Drop. Inn” (“In the Moonlight’), tie -suc- cessor. “Morphia” - will try “the subway circuit, starting Monday, leaving the Eltinge without an at- traction, and “The Last Warning” will end its season at the Klaw, that house also‘being blank. . In addition to “The Blimp” there will be at least three other arrivals May 21. “Secrets” will close at the Fulton, to be succeeded by “Cold Feet;” “Aren’t We All” relights the Gaiety which went dark last Sat- urday when “If Winter Comes” was taken off, and the Moscow Art Theatre will try: a_second engage- ment of. two weeks at Jolson’s 59th Street... The house is dark at pres- ent. “A Night of Love,” a medley of Russian. operas; succumbed after one week, although supposed to “The God of Vengeance’ is in again, having returned to the Green- wich Village Theatre after trying the Bronx. “Blossom Time,’’ repeating around the subway eircuit, topped the busi- ness in the outlying houses, getting $14,400 at the Majestic, Brooklyn. “The Green Goddess” grossed $7,200 at the Bronx Opera House; “The Guilty One” played to nearly $8,500 at the Broad Street, Newark, the takings beating the show’s Broad- way figures; “It Is the Law” drew under $5,000 at the Montauk, Cut Rates Still Strong This week the cut rate market stil stodbd with 31. attractions offered at reduced prices. The shows in the “buy” class are: “Caroline” (Ambassador), “The Comedian” (Belasco), “Wildflower” (Casino), “Merton of the Movies” (Cort), “Rain” (Elliott), “Zander the Great” (Empire), “Jack and Jill” (Globe), “So This Is London” (Hudson), “Little Nellie* Kelly” (ldberty), “Polly Preferred” (Lit- tle), “Music Box Revue” (Music Box), “Ziegfekd Follies” (Amster- dam), “Mary the 3d” (39th Street), “The Fool” (Rimes Square), and “The Dancing Girl’ (Winter Gar- den). , In the cut rates the shows on sale were: “Caroline” (Ambassador), “How Come?” (Apollo), “Lady But- terfly” (Astor), “You and I” (Bel- mont), “Uptown West” (Bijou), “Whispering Wires” (Broadhurst), “Sally, Irene and Mary” (Century), “Barnum Was Right” (Cohan), “The Adding Machine” (Comedy), “Go Go” (Daly’s), “Morphia” (El- tinge), “God of Vengeance” (Green- wich Village), “Salome” (Frazee), “Secrets” (Fulton), “Tcebound”’ (Harris), “Jack and Jill” (Globe), “The Last Warning” (Klaw), “Clinging Vine” (Knickerbocker), “For Value Received” (Longacre), “Papa Joe” (Lyric), “Pride” (Mo- rosco), “Cat and the Canary” (Na- tional), “Up She Goes” (Playhouse), “The Old Soak” (Plymouth), “The Love Habit” (Princess), “The Apache” (Punch and Judy), “The Enchanted Cottage” (Ritz), “The Wasp” (Selwyn), “Peer Gynt’ (Shu- bert), “Mary the 3d” (39th Street), and “The Dancing Girl” (Winter Garden). The advance agency this week so that there buys dropped were only

Climbed from $14,000 to nearly $19,500 gross last week. Appears 16 attractions, STOCKS (Continued from page 16) Edith Potter, Ed Sorogan and Walter Plimmer Jr.. Louis Leon Hall who recently closed with the Fritz Lieber Shakesperean company will direct.

Conrad Seidemann, formerly man- ager of the Guman stock, a Ger- man organization which held forth at the Victoria, Chicago, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabili- ties of $15,718.80 and assets of $23,- 605 are listed. The salaries of 40 actors constitute the major part of the liabilities, and the assets con- sist of scenery and properties.

Goldstein Brothers install stock in the Colonial, Pittsfield, Mass., May 21, the company organized by Pauline Boyle including Ruth antos and Walter N. Greaza, leads; Lil- lian Niederauer, Jane Manners, Edith Bowers, Phil Quinn, Bob Mc- Clung and Deaver Storer. Carroll Daley will direct.

Following the closing last week of the Proctor Players, who held forth at Harmanus Bleecker hall in Albany for a period of two years, Mary «Daniel, who was leading woman at the hall for the last sev- eral months, underwent an operation for appendicitis at an Albany hos- pital.

Maude Feeley, who is playing a stock season at the City theatre in the Roseville section of Newark, N. J., with her “Maude Feeley Play- ers,” produced ‘“Quicksands,” y Jean Archibald, author of: “Call the Doctor,” week 07 April 30°for a try- out. David Belasco and Al -H. Woods saw the play.

Gertrude Vanderbilt has been en- gaged as Visiting star for two weeks in* the Cleveland Stock Co., one with Broadway possibilities. The other week will see Miss Vander- bilt.in the star part of “The Gold Diggers.”

— 7 Thomas Wilkes is due in New York this week. ‘Wilkes’ visit is re- ported for the purpose of securing plays: for his “western stocks, also scripts of new pieces Broadway pro- ducers are holding for the fall which they might want to first have a stock try out, Olga Leee has been engaged to play leads with the Halifax Stock Co., Halifax, Nova Scotia, and sailed Saturday on the steamer “Rosalind,” to open May 12 at the Majestic.

The Mae Desmond Players, ap- pearing at the Desmond, Philadel- phia, for several ‘months, will be transferred to the Cross Keys in the same city, May 28, for a summer engagement,

The Jack Ball Players, who have been playing repertoire in Ports- mouth, Ohio, all season, are going to fill a stock season in Lima, Ohio, opening Sunday, May i5. Corse Payton has been engaged for a one week stock starring en- gagement with the Blanche Pickert stock, playing one night stands on Long Island,

A drama or comedy is being tried every other week or so by the stock at the Lyceum, Memphis. Previously only musical pieces were done,

James Thatcher, general manager of the Poli stock theatres has re- turned to his office having been successfully operated upon .for an ear affliction.

taymond Capp replaces Kendall Weston as directer of the Leonard Wood Jr. Players at the Palace, White Plains, N. Y. The Keeney Players at the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, close their season Saturday night with “Uncle Tom's Cabin” as the final produciion, The Leonard Wood Jr., Players close at the Palace, White Plains, N. Y., May 12, completing five weeks

at the house. Proctor’s, Elizabeth, N. J., began stock Monday. The house has dis- continued the Keith vaudeville bills for the summer. A mus il stock company of 25 people wiilplay- the Summer at Okla homa City, opening May 27 “ s The Blaney Players at the Gotham, Brooklyn, close Saturday of theatrical, bars Equity from engaging in the supervision of the vaudeville act- ing stage without the consent of the Vaudeville Branch. week to be devoted to a new play | 23

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EQUITY’S BATTLES (Contineed from page 1) the White Rats’ A, F. of L. charter, Zquity was given a union charter for the legitimate acting branch The agreement de- Strong and threatening talk has been percolating through certain vaudeville circles since Equity inti- mated it intended to invade vaude- ville, after the Equity Sunday meeting at the Hotel Plaza,.Aprii 29, when The talk started immediately that intimation was announced from the platform. Charges and claims are reported, all circulated by vaudevillians known to be on friendly terms with Mountford and Fitzpatrick, the heads of the vaudeville branch and of the Four A’s international union body fer the actors’ unions. Labor Men Advising Equity ‘One report ascribes Equity’s pres- ent course on the vaudeville ques- ‘tion to the advice of high labor men. While it is said the old guard of the A. F of L. continue to regard Mountford and Fitzpatrick with some lukewarmness, those two men are aces with the radical element in the A, F. of L. In labor circles it is conceded it is not alwavs the largest body which is the stronger. As showing the depth of the feel- ing rampant at present between the Vaudeville Branch and Equity, it is said the Mountford-Pitzpatrick ensemble is openly making a_be- lated claim that Mountford and Fitzpatrick, alone and without Equity advice, engineered and di- rected the successful Equity: strike of 1919. ; One of” the Vaudeville Branch members who» made that statement added: ' : “This is going to be a shock to several Equity officers who have been livi®g in halo of glory through taking faise credit for the success of Equity’s -strike. -Neither ' Fitz- patrick nor Mountford put in any claim for distinction or credit over that victory and none of us would have mentioned it if Equity had continued to be on the level with us.” The veiled threat that into’. the trouble between the two actors’ unions -is being ecireulated in this form of remark by people very. Close ‘to Mountford: . “It seéms the only way the in- terestedofficers of the A, F. of L. find to possibly over-fide the agree- ment the only loophole on a charge the Vaudeville» Branch. is only a skeleton organization, and to call for an examination of its books and membership. lists with the object of proving that to be a fact. “The scheme is foredoomed to failure through a clause in the agreement which admitted Equity into the A. F. of L. as Gilmore and Francis Wilson, who both signed it, must know. That clause grants absolute autonomy to every branch or local union in the 4 A’s, prevent- ing interference with any one of the branches, by any or all of the others, under any circumstances, “As Mountford himself drew up both the agreement and the by-laws and constitution of the 4 A’s, it is ridiculous to suppose anyone knows more about them than he, nor what provisions the clauses contain, Equity Skeleton Too? if the skeleton has crent is eT Further, organ- ization alibi is pushed and Equity officials with their labor connections want a fight, they will probably get all they want. Besides being sec- retary of the -Vaudeville Branch, Mountford js also secretary of the 4 A’s. All correspondence of that body, includimg the per capita state- ments and payments to the A. F. of L., have to go through his hands. “If, as has been often stated, Equity is also a skeleton organiza- tion, Mountford must know it, and he would not hesitate to slam this back at Equity if goaded to it.¥ The stories bruited around on be- half of the Vaudeville. Branch’s effort to protect and maintain it- self are of such a peculiar tenor they seem to be inspired for the ex- press intent of giving Equity notice it is walking into a battle with one

of officera of the Four A’s will be held today (Thursday) at 2 p. m. at Equity headquarters, As there is no opposition, John Emerson has a walkover for the presidency. The first blow in the battle to decide the jurisdictional question may be struck as the position of execulive secretary of the Four A’s, now held by Mountford, will be con- tested for. Frank Gillmore is siated for the position. Equity controls the majority of votes ard Gillmore may land. The only plausible rea- son for Gillmore running is to put the skids under Mountford. Giil- more is already treasurer of the Four A's, in addition to being exec- utive secretary of Equity. Gillmore was also president of the Green Room Club until he quit. The duties of secretary of the Four A’s is mainly to act as buffer between the different factions and branches, patch up peace between rival Jewish locals, settle differences in the German, Austrian and Polish branches and attend to all corre+ spondence between the Four A’s and the A. F. of L., including per capita payments and assessment lists, — In case Mountford gets angry over his defeat, he can be depended upon ' to throw a few wrenches into the works. “Fitzpatrick resigned from the vice-presidency of the Four A's over a year ago, owing to differ- ences affecting the policies with Mountford out. Equity by power of numbers will wholly control the International Four A's, although Equity is also a locai or branch of that international union. While a- peculiar situation it is not unique in labor annals. Gillmore Chief Plotter | The Mountford crowd’ point to Frank Gillmore as the chief plotter against their independence in unfen - ism. Rumors have often linked the names of Mountford and Gilmore as both desirous of becoming the union leader of all American ac- tors, Clashes between them have been frequently reported and with this hope the unspoken goal lead- ing to the disruptions. | Mountford and Fitzpatrick are looked upon as skilful and well-in- formed union men. Necessity forced a great deal of unlon information and. politics upon them. -In their dealings with Equity when Francis Wilson was its president and when Fquity wanted its union conuection, it .was ~reported the . Vaudeville Branch upon the compositfon ofthe Four A’s had secured itself*a con- tract in perpetuity that’ would pre- veht Equity from exercising the least jurisdiction in vaudeville. Mountford later made this plain when it became known he had obliged Equity to tirn over to the Vaudeville Branch all of the un- earned dues paid to Equity by its members who had passed from the legitimate or returned to vaudevilie. That settlement in connection with a wrangle over it resulted there- after in Equity advising its mem- bers in vaudeville to pay dues to the Vaudeville Branch. Their names were transferred from Equity’s rolls to those of the Vaudeville Branch pwhile they re- mained in vaudeville. Poor Generalship The tingent also allege poor generalship on the part of Equity leaders to at- tempt their Valideviile ‘“ideai’ at this time and giving publicity to their vaudeville intenticn, also in the Equity executives practicatly commiting themselves to a_ strike against the legit managers in 1924, Mountford-Fitzpatrick con-

illowing the managers’ organiza- tion (P. M. A.) such generous no- tice and through their vaudeville anouncements perhaps cause the vaudeville forces of the Vaudeville Managers’ Protective Association led by E. F. Albee to league them- selvés with the legit -managerial end. The Mountford people admit the Albee forces are implacable fighters that have yet to know defeat, while they say at the same time the Equity has picked on Mountford

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of its own before reaching the vaudeville inside, if it persists in attempting to deal for vaudeville without conference, consent or with the heads of that union division. The open statement has been made that neither the Equity execu- tives nor qu Council can plead in enorance of the agreement ex ing between Eaquits and the; Vaudeville Branch, as it was signed by them. Skids for Mounitford The annual meeting and election Kitzpatrick for another battle within its own ranks. Among union men the Mouniford-Fitzpatrick duo is no puny combination. On the strength of the facts about the conditions Equity has wilfully brought about without apparent or due mature deliberation, the Mount- ford people have a most re- markable assertion, that would re- quire substaattiation for publica- ion. It affects and reflects on the executives. The Mountford crowd claim it js the only explana- ion to aseribe for Equity’s actions im tnese made - matters, es at ee ee oe

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“THE TORCH-BEARERS” (9) Satirical Comedy 26 Mins.; Full Stage (Special) Palace Pawmle ae slow to warm up, but the jask-m appeal got to them and there were- #% three genuine encores before they i = were allowed to get awnhy. ist Summing it up the Manhattan ba outfit measures up as an ideal num- — ber where the musical goods are ” demanded and price precludes an’ organization with an _ expensive name,

Rush, 2 WALTER PERCIVAL and Co. (2) “Stranded” (Comedy Sketch) : 18 Mins.; Full Stage (Special) State “Stranded” was formerly called “Egg in the Bag.” ‘ It's a comedy sketch away from the usual run of playlets in that it is distinctly human in its story. None of the conventional running in and out of ~ nonsensical situations or prepos-— terous comedy. business that as a rule marks the garden variety of vaudeville sketch. Any traveling man can vouch for the authenticity of the sentimental chambermaid who falls in love with the “ham” actor; and the ham actor inci- dentally is remarkably well char-« acterized by Walter Percival. The chambermaid is also a legitimately conceived type. Neither is over- done and both are played in an easy, reposeful fashion. A slice of life, the tale moves with the precision of an adding machine. The stage setting, too, carries a sense of reality that is seldom™ achieved in vaudeville and it’s all done with simple effects. Skill< fully interwoven with the comedy yee there’s a note of pathos that gets over, A welcome addition is + “Stranded” and should keep busy. Walter Percival does the best work of a long vaudeville career in it and his support is fiawiess.

Bell. HELLER SISTERS Songs. Dance. Music 14 Mins.; One 23rd St. Two girls of refined appearance open with an introductory song, following which one goes to the harp to accompany for vocal duet of old song favorites. Another duet to orchestra accom< paniment had a bit of a dance. After a change one gir] in abbre- viated costume of skirt and breast- plates returns for a short classical dance, while the other changes to a gold evening dress for a harp solo, which is the high light of the turn, The dancer in white costumé joins the harpist for another bit of vocalizing. The harpist hag personality and the voice necessary for this type of turn. The other girl's alto sounded consistently flat. Both try for the popular delivery on Several songs, but lack the ease of experience for it. The act is routined intelligently, but the talents of the girls as @ team don’t quite measure up as re- gards the singing. For vaudeville they should improve with experi- ence, when they may advance. Just now the turn is a light No. 2 for the intermediate bills. They went very well in that spot at this house. Con. TO TO HAMMER and co. (1) Contortionists 10 Min.; Full Stage (Special Set) City Man and woman, both capable benders. The male member does the major portion of the work with his partner sufficiently capable to han- dle her own portion. The greatest amount of work is done on a small platform in the center.of the stage. using this type of act it will fill the

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Thursday, May 10, 1923 97 = a il TO NT Ss AA = FURMAN and EVANS oe de Tig RUTH and GENE FIFER PALACE — much more becoming frock at the,“Change Your Act." Ted Healey ! By Songs at Piano One St. Pens may be the Furman formerly with Nash, now of Nash and Smith. His partner is a woman, the couple entering harmonizing with a Ken- tucky number. The balance of the routine is at the piano, he playing and Miss Evans up front, exiting for one costume change, during She got the most applause with a new rag number, its greatest ap- being in its nuance, which should be the tip-off for their keep- ing their routine fresh. In marked contrast, a comedy song just pre- ceding flivved because of its fa- received. Both finished with a pop y medley, a quite overdone written in this instance, They ac- eepted one encore. The Furman and Nash combo (if same Furman) were members of the Van and Schenck approach to, the originals in song delivery. The present act’s billing ‘suggests the V-S “pennant win- ning battery of songland” phrase. with this line, “Scoring a Touch- down on the gridiron of song.” / E Abel. “THE VOICE OUTSIDE” (3) Dramatic Playlet 24 Mins.; Interior Giobe, London London, April 28. With the changing of the clocks for the inauguration .of “summer time” here, the managers have found it difficult te get their patrons into the theatres on schedule. (Marie Lohr, to overcom: this, preceded her delightful comedy, “Aren't We All?” with acurtain-raiser this afternoon, a dramalet in one act, entitled “The Dancing 10 Mins.; Full Stage (Cyclorama) Riverside Youthful appearing boy and girl formerly of the Three Fifers, and evidently brother. and sister.. The turn as routined carries consider- able production in costume changes for the girl who makes a sweet appearance in her abbreviated cos- tumes, The act opens with a double dance in Russian costume for spins and kicks. This is followed by a solo of Russian steps by the boy containing hock steps and spin which fails to arouse anything due to stereotyped routine. A toe solo by the girl in ballet costume is graceful and neat but not sensa- tional, her back kicks getting most. In evening clothes the boy next after some dreary near-acrobatics and pantomine of business of a drunk trying to pick up a glove, blends Into an eccentric that passes. The girl is discovered on back stage when the drapes part. She is in attractive short white dress and costume for a double that concludes a mildy registéring opening turn due to the conventional routine of the dances and individual limita- tions of the-duo. A punchy novelty |is needed to move them down the | bills, . Con, AUSTRALIAN DELSOS Song, Dance, Trapeze & Mins.; One (2) Fuli Stage (6) Fifth Ave. Man and woman aerial duo with attempt at novelty opening when girl opens in “one’ with song and dance. The dance portion is o. k., but the lyrics of the introductory Composed of standard rather than eensational or flash turns, the cur- rent show is a high-scoring average Palace bill. Monday night, with at- tendance virtually capacity when the lower floor finally filled up, 50 per cent. of the trys went cver for hits. Two feminine song singles, both with piano accompanists, were spotted in the later section. Luckily it made no difference, though it would have bten safer to have the acts farther apart. It was about as late as she ever was asked to appear... Blessed with ma- terial very much in her line, Miss Samuels tossed off no fewer than four encores before her “thank you.” The lyrical comedienne, with “See America First,” a ditty that warned against the gyping Americans have to stand for abroad, got into real stride. She held the comedy strain with a lyric, “One of those old fel- lows that were put out of business by the radiophone,” and who sold his cow and got a wife. She called it a performance with a new and raggy number. Miss Samuels’ num- bers were supplied by Billy Tracey and Halsy Mohr. /+ the piano for her was Miss B. Walker, a Wobbed- haired little blonde. On just ahead was “The Torch- Bearers” (New Acts), which under the same name was a Broadway show this season. Everyone con- nected with the comedy playlet ex- cept the players is of vaudeville. Rosalie Stewart and Bert French present it and George Kelly wrote it. The satire on the little theatre movement was originally intended for vaudeville and was shown for a time out of town before it was made into a three-act comedy. Hariand Dixon, Marie Callahan and the 16 Sunshine Girls, held over from last week, delivered a wallop, closing intermission. It is under- stood that Charles Dillingham ar-

song need attention. The turn goes to full stage for some double trapeze work, both al- ternating as supporters for work be- low. The teeth holds are featured.

Voice Outside.” It is in direct con- trast with the breeziness of the comedy, being a gloomy, super- natural “thriller,” by Gertrude Jen- nings. A widow is seated in her country | home on the night before she is to)! marry a man who has led a rather “wild” life._ her not to do so, saying she doesn’t like the man—just an instinctive aversion. The widow replies, now that her nine-year-old son is dead, shc feels lonesome, coupled with the maternal desire to lelp the man to jJead a better life. The sister leaves and the man enters, full of brutal desire to embrace the woman he is to marry the next day. The door swings open slowly and mysterious- ly. The man closes it, thinking he hadn't shut it after him and once more eagerly embraces the widow. Once more-the door swings open, and thfs time the man bolts it, in the belief something is wrong with the latch. For the third time the door opens and through the dark- ness is heard the voice of a child wailing piteously: “Mother, let me in.” The widow recognizes it as her own offspring and holds converse with the voice, though the man cannot hear the “voice” and is under the impression the widow is overwrought and is talking to her- self. The “voice”. relates how the man had drowned the child, as the widow had refused to marry him, to devote her life to her son. The child moans he is lonesome and un- happy and the mother cries she will s00n be with him, falling forward dead at the feet of the man. Miss Lohr plays the widow, Susan Claughton, the sister, and Herbert Marshall, the man. They enact it with dignity and impressiveness, but it is all so “creepy” that, in the hands of less competent artists, the repeated opening of the door would be laughable, as was often the case with the playlet written by Tom Barry with a similar bit of “business,” produced in New York a few séasons ago. Jolo. KOVACS and GOLDNER Piane and Viclin 13 Mins.; One (Special Drop) 23rd Street Two girl musicians, apparently of European origin, dividing their ef- forts between piano and violin. Both are accomplished musicians with the pianist displaying the greater flash. The routine is made up en- tirely of standard selections includ- ing compositions by Kreisler, Lizst and Hejre Kati. The playing in every instance is up to a high standard.. The selections are rather heavy for vaudeville with no great variation displayed. The act is a bit too much on the concert order to Prove a good buy for all vaudeville houses. Where music of the elassi- eal order is a big factor it will meet requirements easily. Kart. Her sister. pleads with j in vaudeville | ranged the Keith booking, as he did two years ago when “Tip Top” laid off for the summer, after Fred Stone broke a bone in his foot and after Dixon split from Doyle to take Stone’s role. Then the English step-

| The girl makes a corking appear- |ance in her gymnastic fleshings, The flash tricks were a spin by the girk her neck encircled in a loop supported by the man in a teeth hold while hanging head downward. A similar support had her working pers were called the “Palace Girls.” |The. Tiller girls’ costumes are the same as in “Dearie,” and the duds | didn't look as nice as they might, but their dancing drew a torrent of plaudits. There is certainly nothing like that stepping in vaudeville. Miss Callahan is an acquisition—perhaps

on a trapeze below. The finish, which is preceded by an announcement, which labels it the “slide of death,” or something similar, is a flash, but doesn’t live up to its billing. The announcement could be dropped and the trick get just as much. On a rope, which he twines around his body for support, he holds the girl in a teeth grip | while the pair of them swing across | the stage aloft. | It’s a corking opening act for any | bill and with slight rearrangement | should be in demand. Con,

HAROLD KENNEDY Song and Dance 15 Mins.; One 58th St. Harold Kennedy enters “stooge” with a bunch of flowers, stuttering that he has purchased the floral offering of chrysanthemums for his wife’s birthday, but, fearing that when she hears him pronounce it she will get wise he has been cele- brating in advance and has there- fore hit on the happy idea of get- ting watercress instead. Kennedy is in alpaca tux and straw hat. He goes into a series of stories, more or less sure-fire and more or less familiar, includ- ing the one about having a case of laryngitis, but the boys insisted he bring it along—they drink anything —which is a polite version of the not so polite original. A “moon- shine” number let into a dance in which he featured some perpen- dicular hopping that told. The en- core consisted, of two dance im- pressions; that of a lame man with one leg short and stiff dancing and a “nance” number. Sent off strong No. 2 at the 58th St Abel. woke

‘FAY RASH TRIO Comedy and Singing 116 Mins.; One (Special Drop) | American Roof. The main appeal of the Fay Rash Trio is their concerted singing, the robust high baritone of one of the men holding this up. There is a back drop of a race track, which looks good, but is cheapened by the hanging of two popular song adver- tisements on it, and what makes the “ad” so apparent is the fact that neither of the songs are used in the act. The characters are @ (Hebrew) jockey, & bookmaker and a girl sport, while the dialogue for the most part is very familiar. The drop and comedy are really excess baggage. The singing department can be developed and just as good results obtained, even better, as far as entertainment value goes. As

now laid out the act is smali time. the cutest hoofing trick on the stage. Her routines with Dixon are the prettiest, particularly the number , dance d to the tune of “Blue Danube 'Blues.” Dixon had a tough song number, which may have been “Danny the Dancer” changed to “Annie,” and one of Benny Ryan's pets. Ruby Norton opened intermission, her first Palace date since’a trip abroad. . She depended on o!d favor- ites and made them almost as well liked as the current. Clarence Senna, at the piano, worked in mention of the foreign appearances by ciaiming Miss Norton‘s warbling of “Sunshine Alley” to have been just as popular in London as here, although it is an American number. He explained it by saying London’s East End is quite like our East Side. Senna’s specialty was a sort of expose of the making of popular songs, “proving” that several sprang from the “Merry Widow Waltz,” and inferring that melody originated from “How Dry I Am.” Miss Norton finaled with “Some of These Days,” and its probable current counterpart. Deagon and Mack were fourth. As in other houses, Miss Deagon’s first infantile chirp started the laughter, and the split-bit put the house into an uproar. She used a different and

GRACE LEIGH and DAVID JONES Talk and Songs 15 Mins.; One Broadway Grace Leigh ls a veteran of sketch and cross talk turns. Dave Jones is a nephew of Sam Bernard and does what amounts to a direct impersonation of the German comedian. He has Bernard’s rich dialect and something of his man- ner of delivering lines and numbers. The present vehicle looks like a contender for the better interme- diate bills. The talk has fair com- edy points and several songs and by both are interpolated with con- siderable comedy*force. Jones does a dapper character, addressed by the woman who is seeking to capture him as “Baron” until it develops in the dialog he is a masquerading barber. That's about the extent of the plot, but it serves to support amusing cross- talk, and both characterizations are neatly drawn. Played No. 4 at the Broadway and were liked. a Rush. MOSCOW SINGERS (4) 12 Mins.; One (Specia!) State. The four men appear in Russian peasant garb and the first two numbers are in that language. A duet in English and some ex- cellent ensemble singing of standard compositions follow. All four have good voices, The turn makes a good number for the pop ~~ en.

Rae Samueis, romping on ai 16.55, ,Stories—one a funny colored soldier streaked her way to premiere honors. -+-yarn and the jazz trombone imita- opening than when lately caught elsewhere. Miss Deagon’s baby talk and nonsense are sure-fire, and the act was greeted so cordially there can be no doubt as to its complete success. “World of Make Believe’ (New Acts) was third, coming after Bill Robinson’s whale of a score on sec- ond. The colored stepper has been west for a season, returning with as excellent a dance routine 7, offered by a single this year. All t!+ :is left of his monologistic materia! Are two tiom. As a clog and hard-shoe tap dancer he is of the very best. The precision of his tapping won rounds of applause, with business up and down a flight of steps winning the house solidly. Robinson landed so weil that be tied anything in the show. ‘ The Whirlwinds are well named. A trio of youths with a skating act bordering on the sensational, they sent the show off to a wow start. The Juggling Nelsons closed, but, despite their clever hoop manipula- tion and diabolo work, most of the routine was given to the backs of the retreating patrons, lbee. RIVERSIDE The trials and tribulations of big time vaudeville booking men were never more aptly illustrated than at the Riverside this week. The first half of the bill on paper looked like a great lay-out with ‘lo Lewis and Ben Welch as the comedy entries, but it isn't. Miss Lewis, third, ie doing a new turn which carries oceans of pro- duction, an eye-smacking drop, beautiful costumes and_= special songs by Eddie Moran and Jesse Greer, her pianist. It is with the latter the weakness of the turn lies, Miss Lewis’ opening song about her ambition to star on Broadway has no merit as a comedy lyric and, gives her a tough start, which her next number, “Giving Kisses Away,” only partly alleviates. A pianolog by Greer, who looks a pocket edi- tion of Harold Lloyd, meant noth- ing, leaving the score 0—0, A fem- inist character song held a couple of laughs. The turn was saved by a flapper number which got over in “one” due to the kidding with Greer of Miss Lewis, two prop dolls and a finale hopper head on/shoul- der dance, When Miss Lewis builds up the earlier portion she will be set for spots on the two-a-day bills. The finish is sure-fire. The “inti- mate” kidding with Greer before the finale hopper song and dance also runs for the end book. Just ahead in the deuce spot Vin- eent O'Donnell had whammed them with four songs of the pop. type. The kid tenor has a sympathetic sob in his voice, an appealing per- sonality and youth. In addition, he is a distinct novelty, being one of the few straight singers of this type of song who can still erioy a game of marbles. They ate him up at the Riverside, where he _ scored solidly despite the walk-ins. Ben Welch, assisted by Frank P. Murphy, followed Flo Lewis, and deserves credit for picking up the comedy .burden. Welch’s Hebrew character and Murphy's excellent foiling were liked. The routine re- mains the same as heard around the metropolitan houses, with one or two new gags Interspersed. The

did the gagging in the turn, walk- ing for “I was afraid he would take offense.” Maurice Elliott as ‘prop scored as usual. The turn is a comedy classic and a vaudeville standard seemingly unfollowable. Ruth and Gene Fifer (New Acts) epened the bill, About half of the lower floor was filled Monday night. Con,

JEFFERSON The warm weather, the appeal of outdoors, and neighborhood op- position have no harmful effect on the attendance at this house, which is packing them in, and if the Jefferson regulars did not flock to see this show they would be hard to please, indeed. A word of the Jefferson, from manager to girl ushers, is in order, if only to Jet them know that their obliging cheerfulness is appreciated and noticed. Noel Lester and company, a comedy magician, with a girl as- sistant, who does good straight for him in exposing his tricks, opened. The act is sure-fire for small time, }but better showmanship will be to graduate necessary in order from that class. Charles Root's Steppers (New Acts) were followed by Sally Beers, singing comedienne, who has a style and stage presence pe- culiar to herself. With no great voice, beauty or costume, she sang four songs and clicked with each, wisely leaving them wanting. With constant playing to rub off the rough edges, this girl should be heard from, probably in production. “Blonées,” a comedy sketch with two men and two women with a novel theme, is full of bright com- edy iines and situations. Block and Dunlop, a mixed sing- ing, talking and dancing act, are a classy young couple with a neat idea away from the usual team acts in one. They have a plot into which _ the specialtjes dovetail nicely. The only fault to be found we ee, —_ —_ a little experience e e - bilities for the big A ni ore Vincent Lopez and his orchestra topped and cleaned up. Jans and Whalen only miss a perfect score through over-staying their welcome. Their cross-fire and dancing finish for their first exit had the audience howling from start to finish, and that is where the boys should have left them. The Kitaros, two men and a@ woman assistant, a typical Japanese act, is perfect in eyery detail, Wel! Staged, immaculate and _ skillful both in the foot juggling with bar- rels and the excellent risley work. The concluding trick is sensational. The small man on top of three stools balanced on the other’s feet, is caught and whirled like a human top. It is a finished performance and can ciose any bill. AMERICAN ROOF The attendance Was very light Monday, probably due to the warm weather, which is the usual. state of affairs about this time each year. The show as a whole was also a listless layout. Frank Shields opened with nov- elty lasso twirling. Besides the usual routines of jumping through, dancing and knot tying, Shields does

pair now acknowledge applause while seated upon the bénch. It is a corking idea, hides Welch's af- fliction and puts the turn over solely on its merits. John Guiran and .Marguerite closed the first half following dancing in the opening act and No. 3, but going as strongly as ever in their classy routine of adagio and solo ‘stepping. Marguerite’e toe dancing and Guiran’s Russian solo bang over. A new double, an Apache with a twist into a novelty waltz, closed them big, the curtain finding them in a wrist and ankle swing. Guiran has more person- ality than the average dancer, and it matches his dexterity. His part- ner is grace personified. Fulsome applause rewarded their efforts at conclusion. Topics and intermission went Fables after The culled Aesop's well. gags had a perfect average for new- ness, not conflicting with any of the Jatest crop heard around. .The ereator of the Fables has evidently run out of fables and is now using current slang. The cartoons are now titled after completion and not drawn to conform with an Aesop tale as before. Ted and jetty Healey walked away with the comedy hit. The man is a natural light comedian with a facile delivery and a per- sonality that grows. Miss Healey is a vision of blonde loveliness and an excellent dancer. The act is ehuck full of entertainment all through. They galloped in. Van and Schenck doubling from the Palace were the hit of the bill, following. The two with ever fresh songs just eased their way to their usual monotonous hit—monotonous for them—not the house, Joe cooed a ballad aimed at the upper shelf in his lyric tenor delivery, while doubles and solos followed with the finish eans piano and Joe down in the pit. Victor Moore and Emma Little- field were a yelling success, closing the show with the perennially new

the same stunts on a rolling giobe, finishing with a full back somer- sault through the loop, landing with the lasso B&till twirling. Using an extremely long lariat while manipu- lating a rocking’ ladder with his feet and legs, he finishes neatly with a fall with the ladder. of the patter, in which he seems to lack confidence, will improve the act and speed it up. Delbridge and Gremmer, a classy looking couple with better than average voices, put materials and accessories can hold down this spot on any bill. The au- dience liked the team immensely. Antrim and Vale, another mixed team with rougher methods, opened with some snappy dialogue, The man followed with a rag number, the woman a song and dance, and Antrim, on her exit, pulled a mono- logue. Their cat duet finish is clever and amusing without being offen- Bive. Evelyn Philips and Co; a woman and iour men in a singing and dancing act, need the services of a stage manager. While Miss Phil-

ips is capable and the boys good dancers (their ensemble dancing could be better, and only practice will fix this), opening with medley of songs from productions might be eliminated without hurting the act. Miss Philips alone might be a bet- ter act than her present vehicle, as she puts her numbers over well and is a really good dancer. Tuck and Clare are the bright spot on this bill. One of the men open with yodeling, self-accompa- nied on a steel guitar, done so well that it is quite a surprise to dis- cover the team are acrobats, and good ones at that. The smaller one’s routine of walkover forwards and walkover backs, the most dif- ficult and effective of gymnastic gyrations, and the contortion feats of the taller one, with their unob- trusive comedy methods, are of the first grade. The act belongs on the

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Singer's Midgets. Making good No. 6 with a turn of this sort is the acid test. It goes to prove the an- cient contention that real humor must hold in it some quality of truth. Clifford's ancient “rube” does that. It is the character to the life, as faithful a picture as the late Joe Welch's melancholy Hebrew, which was one of the funniest and truest things on the specialty stage. Wilkins and Hughes closed. This young pair have a neat arrange- ment of dancing numbers, but they make one serious error in their lay- out for the finale of a bill. That is the interpolation of a long solo by their piano accompanist. This fol- lows their spirited stepping num- bers and precedes the finish, a novel manikin dance in Chinese cos- tume. The dance itself is well worth waiting for, but the break of the solo gaye the crowd a hint to start for the exits and most of them missed the finish, which is the best thing, for picturesquenss and- nov- elty, in the layout, The arrange- ment as it stands is all right for an earlier position, but when they are called on to ‘close a bill it might be worth experimenting with a re- arrangement to. get the Chinese dance before the full audience. Rush. Fay Rash Trio (New Acts) followed. i Lioyd and Goods, two men in blackface, have an act almost ver- batim the same as that of Harris and Holly, two colored boys seen at this house a short time ago. There is the cumedy crap game (done bet- ter by the colored team) and the misused -long- word explanation, with slight variations. Either may be working under license. The act got plenty of laughs. Stanley and Elna, a drunk on a slack wire with a neat woman as- sistant (who also did a soft shoe dance in an interval), after a short pantomime bit, did some clever stunts on the wire, stripping to tights for his finish.

_—— STATE “The Four Horsemen” picture re- vival did business for the State Tuesday. The five-act show the first half was a pleasing arrange- ment ‘playing smoothly enough and building nicely as it roiled aiong. The Kerville ‘ Family, opening, added a touch of novelty to that usually. conventional spot. It's a turn that hasn’t been around so often in the last three or four years. The manipulation of the pool bails is ‘ remarkable. An ss interesting exhibition that is as entertaining as it is scientific. Moscow Singers, mate quartet, No.2 (New Acts). 23rd STREET This downtown Proctor house dis- carded the professional try-outs se ; " sketch, held ; : : cui tees” Bi nage ge De Monday for the first time in several Newhoff and Phelps were next to| Weeks. Their Dryness failed BP ew closing with a splendidly routined make any radical difference in the singi turn’ that radiated class,| Show, with the regular vaudeville ’ The couple do double songs of the | bill coming up to the usual good conyersational type and sell them/ Standard. [It was apparent, in taking the financial outlay for the first half into consideration, that the greater portion of the amount was given over to the vaudeville portion with a moderate priced feature having the picture assignment. Sherwin Kelly, singing and dancing in conjunction with cycle work, opened, Miss Kelly met with returns as she went along. Farrell and Hatch, two-man colored team, whanged over several telling num- bers, specializing in southern selec- tions. The boys lengthened the spot to 16 minutes and. entertained throughout. Their comedy was sure-fire and more numbers of that perfectly. Clear enunciation made every syllable distinct in the big State auditorium. The house couldn’t get enough of the conver- sational ditties. A standard act of its type. It registered heavily here. Walter Manthey and company closed with a flash dancing turn. The turn has a shapely girl toe dancer who Stands out. The song done by the pianiste should be eliminated. The vocalist is a good “looker,” but her voice lacks tunefulness. Manthey is a good dancer with whirling and pirouetting his forte. Turn aver-

ages with pop house flash turns in| order could be introduced to ad- the way of entertainment. Bell. vantage earlier in the routine. This combination gave the deuce spot more action than it has had at this house in some time. Kovacs and Goldner (New Acts) also used a piano No. 3. Le Hoen and Dupreece, with their full stage comedy and sharpshoot- ing, were placed in the body of the bill. The shooting was effective, with the comedy coming in for fair returns. Jimmy Lucas and Co., fot- lowing, took the comedy honors of the evening. Lucas played to the audience with ease, piling up laugh after iaugh with his nuit work. i young woman partner appeared [9 advantage in several flashy cos- tumes and proved a good foil for comedy type that the run of smali| the kidding. Lucas delivered the timers like, and the flash is there | necessary comedy punch. Mme. in a@ subdued way. It is hard to| Doree’s Operalogue closed the show. express the distinction, but it ig | The Speraud organization, employ~- there. The house was |ing several standard selections, held close to} : ’ capacity Monday at 8:15, plainly an| UP strongly. The members are all BROADWAY At the scale the Broadway enter- tainment can't be beaten in New York. It is easy to understand how the clientele has been built up on these offerings. The bill has the atmosphere of wise picking for a particular sort of patronage, part drop in and part neighborhood char- acter. The offerings get away from Times square competition, both of the high and of the smali time va-! riety. The frameup has plenty of | comedy and a bit of* “flash,” but | both are distinctive. ‘The coareey 1 }

Tlie iis is vigorous but not of the loud low accustomed condition. vocally proficient, giving the turn Margaret Taylor, single woman} Considerable merit for three-a-day wire act with singing and dancing bills. Hart. incidentals, opened handily, . Mc- Grath and Dees, two men singers and comedians, broke the evening's ice with a vengeance No. 2, and set the bill for the rest cf the evening. This pair have a routine quite their own. There is a small, plump FIFTH AVE. A sweet show at the Fifth Ave. this week, the line-up of seven acts being one short of the usual to allow for clowning ‘in the Ernie Golden

comedian with a kind of falsetto | 3and, which closed the show and The band banged over of | scored twice. with their own specialty, which in- quiet straight man who is as tall as| cludes a couple of new “effects,” his partner is short, and who hasj|then @ bass voice that is most agreeable | Tom to listen to on its merits. tenor and a knockabout style clowning working in contrast to a Patricola, Donald accompanied the clowning of Kerr and gets most of his fun out of playing “siesy” and there re times when he overdoes it a little, but it is up- roariously funny in a “nut” way, such as the business of impersonat- ing a and coddling the straight man. It’s rough fun but it “got” the Broad- way crowd and the pair stopped the show in no unmistakable way. Ray Raymond and _ Dorothy Mackaye have a manner and ve- hicle that are rather more legiti- | Dolls, Ward did well second, cutting mate, but also effective in a milder way. Raymond works in a way to suggest the late Clifton Crawford. doing an inebriated man-about-! town smoothly and sense of comedy. with a good ful in the feeding department. A third person, @ young man, makes up the company. The sketch is merely @& loose excuse for wise cross-talk and the dialog could stand strengthening. It is lacking in comedy business, as is usually the case of sketches that take the place of specialty. Leigh and Jones (New Acts). The Manhattan So- ciety Orchestra (New Acts) didn’t promise much on the billing, but proved the second show stoppers by virtue of a clean-cut cycle of rag music, Jack (“Rube”) Clifford in his countryman characterization held the next-to-closing position, It may have been something of an experi- ment to put him in that spot, for it ealis for a good deal for a single comedian with Clifford’s peculiar quiet and dry style of comedy. He held down the spot with a score that would have done credit to Miss Mackaye is} a piquant sort of young person use- | The comic jIrene Ricardo and an unprogrammed | male who did an operatic travesty } bookers and should develop into a standard single, if she cares to, Kerr and Weston followed and mopped up with their dancing. Kerr is a marvelous dancer of his style. Miss Weston, besides looking like a million berries at ali times; Is one of the best kickers and smoothest opposites in vaudeville. The cake- eater and flapper finale double of acrobatic and flat footed stepping was a panic. This was good for a speech by Kerr in “one.” Tom Patricola, assisted by Har- rietta Towne, followed and they were another sensation. Patricola and the turn ahead of him work as hard as day laborers, but the results were commensurate, Miss Towne, a cute brunette flapper, was rough-housed for comedy by Patricola, aiso scor- ing individually with her blues song and dance. Patricola nutted his way to safety and a beg off with his eccentric clowning. The mandolin playing and dance that accompanied it went bigger than anything in the turn. The act was one of the sea- son's hits at this usually undemon- strative house. Ernie Golden’s Band closed. A special effect of a race track is used to accompany the song “Barney Google,” which the musicians sing. The band spotted at the end of this show couldn’t fail and when the three favorites walked On for their ad libbing, it was in the bag. A jammed-house attended. Con, INCORPORATIONS Texas Charters North Houston Amusement Co., Fort Worth. Capital, $25,000. In- corporators, E. G. Wallace, H. W.

Greeriway, O. H. Atkinson and others, all of Fort Worth. Ingersoll Co., Galveston. Capital, 75,000. Incorporators, A. Ingersoll, Mrs. Katherine Ingersoll and G. P’ Prendergast. Purposes playground amusements. American Releasing Corporation of Dallas. Capital, $5,000. Incor- porators, J. C. Shannon, J. C. Fran- cis and J. F. Willingham, all of Dal- las. Filming the History of Texas As- sociation. No capital stock. In- corporators, C. B. Shumway, G. W. Shumway and J. P. Desmond. Mount Pleasant Athletic Associa- tion, Mount Pleasant. Capital, $5,000. Incorporators, T. Guice, R. F. Lindsey and E. M. Lide, all of Mount Pleasant. Conn. Charters : Community Theatre, Inc.,- Fair- field; capital, $30,000; incorporators, Joseph Saperstein, Isador J. Gold- man, Benjamin B. Steiber. Pleasure Beach Park Co., Bridge- port; capital, $100,000; incorpora- tors, F. W. Pearce, of Detroit, Mich.; S. N. #chnee, of Bridgeport, and William E. Nevard, of Strat- ford.

Oklahoma Charters Tulsa Music Shop, Tulsa. Capital $25,000. Incorporators, H. P. Downs, R. A. Irvin and P. R. Chapman, all of Tulsa, Vinita Amusement Co., Vinita. Capital $1,000. Incorporators, Karl H. Lee, Ernest Pitchlunn and I. C. McCoy, New Hampshire Charters Theatre Realty Corporation, Man- chester, Capita! $350,000. Will buy, lease and operate places of amuse- ment. W. Va. Charters Via-Ken Amusement Co., Hunt- ington; capital, $15,000; incorpora- tors, H. O. Via, H. E. Kennedy, M. Kennedy, Claude Davis, J. L. Van Verth, all of Huntington. Maine Charters Astir Co., Lewiston, theatres; cap- ital, $10,000; president and treasurer, William P, Gray; clerk, Dennis A. O’Brien.

attired in “dame” regalia. The Capital 1 clowning strung the turn out about apita recrease 20 minutes and was hot stuff. The Goldwyn Pictures Corp., New | trio stuff as much as the house, The bill was a perfect blend, with ad libbed like a flock of parlor nagging wife and bullying; entertainers, seemingly enjoying the York, 1,000,000 shares without nomi- nal or par value, or from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 for taxation purposes. Archie Comedies, Manhattan, 500 every act getting over from start to’ Shares preferred stock, $100 each; finish. Act), an aerial pair, opened thrill- | ingly, followed by Frank Ward and jhis finger dancing | down to the meat. dolls portion His dance with | the big doll is a real novelty. With a little more variety added Ward | will be set for an early spot on the bie hills. Faber and McGowan, a corking blonde straight ingenue and a smooth glib wise-cracking straight with oceans Of snappy material, thiréed and landed. The cracks are new and up to the minute. The turn as handled, novel and entertaining. early spot on the big time. has the basis of a big time turn Miss comedy song, brew character “Whoa Pagliacci’

The Australian Delsos (New is one of those “flirtation” ideas, but This act can make the grade in an Irene Ricardo, singling, due to the ilinesg of her partner, Max Cooper, Ricardo can use one more Her policewoman He- song is a good opener with comedy lyrics and the burlesque vocalizing next: is blamed on a fitting lyric. The travestied flute obbligato and pop. song in this number all fitted and were well delivered. She did but two numbers with patter preceding the opening song. Another comedy 1,000 common, no par value. JUDGMENTS Loch Sheldrake Amusement Co., Inc.; Philip Berman, Morris Saper-

stein, Hyman Green, Abraham Minkoff and Elsworth Baker: J. serman; $3,173.80. Lionel Barrymore; FP. Blass; $30.60. Florence Tempest; Paw! Arling- ton, Inc.; $146.22. Seymour Felix: F. treasurer; $2,339.73. Hamilton Fiffh Corp’n; A. Jasons; $8,444.75. Satisfied Judgments Gustav Gennert; A. Samuels; *1$358.56; Dec. 20, 1919. Wladek Zbyszko; S. E. G. Garage $90; Jan. 10, 1923. Gilmore, as »| Inc.

The Hebrew Actors’ Union, No. 1, moved into its new clubhouse, 31 East 7th street, May 1. The officers are’ Reuben Guskin,, Abe Sincoff, Charles Weinblot: and Jean Green- field. There are about 300 members.

punch is needed when Miss Ricardo 4 house warming is to be held in will attract the attention of the the near future.

‘ , v—— r Be. | B ee ma) Pi pe wa By NELLIE REVELL ss Deticiously-prepared squab, nice fresh strawberries, brought by a friend; ~ fe age and a Congressman tucking the napkin under one’s chin and doing the — Ma carving and serving doesn’t sound much like a hospital story, but it hap. le pened’ in my room itast Sunday. It was after Election Day, too, sof ure. J know that the august legislator wasn’t just after my vote. The head. Tims waiter at this gastronomic function was Congressman Sol Bloom, and he was assisted in his duties by Mrs, Bloom and their daughter Vera. Be os regor gee’ the repast Sol and I burst into song, more or less sweet and low, Mary ‘ and whatever the neighbors may have thought, our enjoyment was com stock : ae tha If you were given the privilege of choosing as the keystone of a meal any et cen delicacy you could possibly think of, any sort of fish, fowl, meat, anything porar} in the vegetable or animal kingdom, what would you select? That was . és once ¢ the nature of the question put to me recently by a friend who has a ‘Sang wonderful French chef and who asa hostess is famous for her dinners, When No -matter what you guess to my reply, from truffles to capon, from. has b wine sauces to the most delicious endive salad, you will probably be * Grego wrong. For, just to show.what a contrary individual I am, I told my _ marri: caller that I wanted: some calves’ liver and bacon, prepared ‘hy. herself, ae I fancy I can hear Trixie Friganza say, “Now, isn’t that just like her!” oe. lg A caller last week, in referring to the grouch column T ran several sunee weeks ago, inquired if the hospital authorities ever saw the occasional defen¢ printed kicks I. registered. I told him most emphatically that they did will y and that if I thought they did not I would stop writing them. Whatever engag' my faults—and I have enough Of them—saying things behind people's coe a back isn't among them. Variety is popular at Twelfth street and Seventh But avenue and everyone reads it here. An interne told me that his attention tered had been called to my column of blues by a nun. [ hope that after this * and ¢€ no one will think that I am any freer with my complaints in my column ~ with than’in my hospital, wishe: Ses A lations i : playin One of my pet nurses, Katherine Crowe—the one whom [I wrote about exact] when she left last January—has returned from her three months’ training agreec period at the Lying-In Hospital, and the other afternoon we spent a other delightful half hour “just visiting.” Both of us are interested in knowl- that | edge, just for knowledge’s sake, and whenever together we are roaming a hither and yon through the fields of literature, history, art, science, poli- oa tics and baseball. On this occasion we happened to pick on Socrates and e; there I had Miss Crowe. She had forgotten how it was that he had hearte passed on, The “I know,” she said after much cogitation, “they made him drink wins the ai throp.” 7 Mollie. “Zero,” I told her, “Winthrop was a blué-law governor of the Massa- eens chusetts colony. Blue-iaws killed a lot of people in those days, but know Socrates wasn’t among them.” ot anguis Just at that moment Miss Counihan, another of my favorites, poked her womer head in the door. it wit! “Quick, Counie,” said I, “what did Socrates die of?” timate “What ward was he in?” asked Miss Counihan, peewee ers \ terms Some weeks ago I wrote in McColtum of the snapshot of me that went coldly around the world and my wish that I had thought to make the backdrop Meany a trifle more artistic That photo can be retired from circulation, forI ~~ lover have had a new picture made. The artist who made the sketch is Leo Mollie Kober,.a recen* arriva! in this country, and his advent was very oppor- ga tune. The committee in charge of the N. V. A. benefit had asked me for shouts a picture for use in the forthcoming benefit program, and the only one I taken | had available was taken in the days when ratted hair, the feather boa bringi: and the leg o’ mutton sleeve were nothing else than fashionable. A cut In th had already been prepared from the anciént photograph when Mr. Kober’s her sis drawing was made, but due to Mark Luescher’s kindness and customary = eficiency, it became possible to make the substitution. So the picture in iat the pr ill be that by Mr. Kobe program w y M ober. and co Apart from the fact that one doesn’t like to appear before one’s friends riage, dressed right up to the fashion of 15 years ago, I am glad that it has is to all turned out so well, for an artist can be so much more stingy as to them 1 chins, and other touchy points than can the camera, ome ch During the course of the sitting Mr. Kober let fall the remark that ao after, finishing my picture he was going to Washington to paint President and sa Harding. I didn’t know how much to feel flattered, though, for he didn't Mollie teli me whether he was complimenting me by giving me precedence planne over Mr. Harding or whether he was just getting his hand on me for the her to job of painting the Chief Executive of these more or less United States. hoe Fe The town of St, Petersburg, Fla,, is improving. When they first started. Mt gee A in their campaign against the girls appearing on the streets in their The th one-piece bathing suits they would just arrest them, take them before and tl Judge Lane and he would fine them. But I see now that he is holding wholes them for further examination. easily I wonder if that’s why Will Cressy built a home down there! a. wld given ARBUCKLE IN CABARET ~ the matter cannot be foreseen. aie o : e rumor of the engagement se- agains (Continued from page 1) cured first page ade the “Tri- them | of late. He is reported flat broke, | bune,” but it is speculation how the strong) through his trials in the Virginia} Press will view the proposition in cate) Rappe matter, costing himi every|the face of complaints from civic Sret y: dollar he owned or could borrow.|Cclubs and women reform organiza ° and so The former film funnfaker also has] tions of vrious sorts. Chicago is a sympa been much secluded since his screen | hotbed of such clubs. of the return was yoted down. He is in- Not a manager of a picture the- iantly, frequently seen upon the streets and |atre in Chicago attempted to show turned seldom, if at all, at a place oi|an Arbuckle picture following the oo gathering or in the hotels. scandal in which his name was heres | The Arbuckle come-back at the | prominent. Next restaurant will determine jf he shall Miss / return to the screen, regardless of two st any expression of opinion by re- KELLERD AND EQUITY it into formers. (Centinued from page 1) comed; Arbuckle will motor to Chicago | tt “Of -j e nor, Se age 1e¢ road with Shakespearean reper both gs from here. He is to receive $2,500] toire. Until this last season he held There weekly, guaranteed, against a per-|the record in New York for hav- where centage of the gate. ing presented a consecutive num- poison. All over $500 weekly Fatty earns| ber of performances of “Hamlet.” a he will have to turn over to the|He also held the record for the oe government on account of a back | lowest receipts ever obtained for With | due income tax liability for $30,000. | «tramlet” in New York when on @ servan Perry Kelly wiil personally man- Saturday evening at the Garden tor’) t age and represent Arbuckle. theatre the gross was less than $11. in spc ont Last season he made a tour of the perhap : Chicago, May 9. Pacific Coast with his organization least i ‘Fatty” Arbuckle will appear at jana failed to make the grade, the ged the Marigold Garden for four weeks tour bringing a. loss. lighted starting June 4. It is said Mari- eS ee ee terfug gold Garden has lost quite a bit of but a money recently and that Ernie Fred Hubner has temporarily gumen Young is risking all oh a possible |given up the management of thin, a favorable fling of fortune with the |Keeney's Brooklyn, to spend the out ft reinstatement in the amusement |Summer on his farm in Nyack, N. Y.- humor world of Arbuckle. Johnny Jacques, his assistant, wili ae The course of Chicago newspapera.! handle the house during his absenge. nie

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o=- QUICKSANDS Newark, N. J., May 4.: act comedy drama by Jean Archi- bald, produced oe cock: Apel 8.” ’s stock, ‘ oy Deane tnd -+e+--Arline McMahon John Jeffries......Elizabeth Rathburn Jenn Jeffries....+seeeeeeeee-G@ Lester Paul Lillian Jeffries. ....++e++++-Blizabeth Wells Jack Hanno.,..-+++++s+ee+++-Kenneth Lane Mollie Hanno......++++++++++-Maude Fealy Gregory Martin. ..essseseeeess Milton Byron Mary Gillis.....++++. eeeee Lillian Concord

This play, by the author of “Call the Doctor,” was written for David Belasco and tried out in the local stock at his suggestion. Ht is report- ed that he thinks highly of the play’s possibilities. The title is a tem- porary one. Didn’t Wright Lorimer once do a play similarly named? Its thesis is the inferiority of a free union as compared to marriage. When the play opens Mollie Jeffries has been living for some time with Gregory Martin without pretense of marriage. Her parents. visit her in gome perturbation over the situation and learn that the worst they fear is true. She argues for her ideals of independence from the shackles of custom, while her father and mother defend the old order. Neither side will yield. Lillian, Mollie’s sister, engaged to Jack Hanno, overhearing some of Mollie’s arguments, decides ghe will follow Mollie’s example. But Mollie has her illusions shat- tered when Gregory comes to her and explains that, in accordance with the compact they made, he wishes to say good-bye and their re- Jations. She accuses him of not playing fair, but he retorts that is exactly what he is doing, as they agreed that either could leave the other whenever desired. He argues that if they’ had been married it could not have happened, but now, since he has fallen in love with an- other, he is free to marry his new flame; and he leaves her, broken hearted. The second act repeats many of the arguments pro and con. But Mollie, crushed though she is, puts. on a bold front and stands her ground, determined her parents shal) know nothing of her situation. Her anguish is heightened when a Women comes to her home, looks at it with a view to renting it, and in- timates she is to be married to Gregory the next day. When he en- ters Mollie wildly attacks him in terms quite mid-Victorian, but he coldly replies she is a poor sport. Meanwhile Lillian leaves with her lover and .sends a message to Mollie she is following in her foot- steps. Wildly anxious to save her sister from her own fate, Mollie shouts that she will have the couple taken from the train and rushes out, bringing down the second curtain. In the third act Mollie has brought her sister back safe but quite unre- pentant, and she tries to make her see her mistake. Then to Mollie’s great chagrin, her parents come in and congratulate her upon her mar- riage, as they have heard Gregory is to be married today. She tells them the truth, even as she hears the chimes ringing for her lover’s wedding. Then comes the surprise of the play, when Gregory enters and says the chimes are ringing for Mollie and himself, as he had planned the whole scheme to force her to marry him. And, overcome with joy, Mollie renounces all fur- ther ideas of independence. The play is sincere and thought- ful, and has much to com:.cnd it. The theme is interesting and vital, and the atmosphere is thoroughly wholesome, where the play might easily have pandered the morbid. Several decided faults may be rec- tified. Miss Archibald has not given the supporters of free union @® square deal. A dramatist may take sides and even load the dice against opponents, but should allow them present their case fairly and strongly. Even though the:*argu- ments for marriage are not always logically convincing, from the very first you feel Mollie is in the wrong, and so stupidly wrong you lose all Sympathy with her in the early part of the first act. She argues val- lantly, but her every statement is turned against her, and marriage wins after victory. Expecting a run for our money, we find one horse left at the post. Next, in developing ‘the theme, Miss Archibald has fallen between two stools. She could have written it into a problem play or a farce comedy (and the latter is patently her forte), but in trying to write both she has succeeded in neither. There is even a gesture of tragedy where Molie considers taking poison. The ending is purely far- cical. Most surprising is the failure to /characterize the persons of the play. With the exception of the amusing Servant (lifted from “Call the Doc- tor’) the characters are human only in spots. The surprise ending is perhaps legitimate, but should be at least indirectly planted. If Gregory were alive and attractive, one would pained at his defection and de- lighted at the revelation of his sub- terfuge, but. as it is, he is nothing but a colorless bit of animated ar- gumentation. The play is somewhat thin, as it has but one idea worked out twice seriously, and once humorously with the servant. The main theme needs elaboration. The

~~ a drama also lacks the kle ex- pected from the author of “Call the Doctor.” act is ing exception to this stricture. “ Despite all this triticism a play is there if Miss Archibald or Belasco will unravel its tangled skeins and work anew the real pat- tern. It was received with great enthusiasm. The Fealy company did well with it, notwithstanding they apparently rewrote the third act during the performance. ~ Maude Fealy was de- cidedly effective and looked rather darling. She had a charm an in- genue might envy. Milton Byron did as well as possible with a hope- less part, while Miss Rathburn and Lester Paul played the parents with dignity and the unconstious humor demanded. Elizabeth Wells -de- lighted with a vivid interpretation of Lillian, and Arline McMahon al- most stepped the show with her clever delineation of the servant. Without detracting from her splen- did work, it might be said she had the advantage of enacting the only real character in the piece. The premiere was somewhat of a gala occasion, as Miss Archibald when called upon for a speech was almost buried in roses, and Belasco, in response to the cheers of the house, took a number of bows from his seat in the orchestra, The cast took endless curtain calls. COLD FEET - Atlantic City, May 9. “Cold Feet,” a farce with May Vokes, is with us this week at the Apollo. From managerial sources it is inferred that Broadway is the next stop. If the last act pace could be main- tained through the whole play “Cold Feet” could be voted a clever series of bright lines with many laughs, but as it stands some of the action in the second act is rather répeti- tious. The third act provides the real situations for humor and the lines that go with them. ; The story concerns the aftermath of a wedding, the fainting of the bride in the arms of a former lover, his mistaken administration of a sleeping powder for a restorative, and the later necessity of giving most of the cast a similar dose to gain quiet. The situations savor of the bed- room farce, but never reach any height that strains credulity. Ten years ago “Cold Feet” might have been whisked off the stage as im- moral. Now we are not even shocked. There is no cleverer actress. of the uncomprehending than May Vokes, who usually finds such parts with the title “maid” attached. Such has been her plucking in this play, where she secures impossible sums of money from the cast for yery trifling reasons, How she does it and what she makes of a rather foolish part are the component rea- sons for saying “Cold Feet” is a play of farcical promise, Fred Jackson and Pierre Gendron appear as the authors. Glenn An- ders has the lead, with Catherine Doucet and Beth Martin ag the leading feminine people in the cast. Scheuer. THE WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING Washington, D. C., May 9. This farce, which some time ago had a try-out, was again brought to light Sunday and has many of the components necessary to make a success. There is much in its pres- ent state to be remedied, but the groundwork is there and when the holes are filled in, the biggest fault, that of the auditor being always ahead of the author, will undoubt- edly be done away with. It was slow in geting started, the first act being particularly so; it was plant, plant, plant for what was to come, and it really wasn’t until the middle of the second act the fun really etarted, The laughs came from that point on, though, one on top of the other, and it is all done without the aid of a bed or a lady’s boudoir. John Emerson and Anita Loos are r.sponsible for the piece and it is full of sparkling lines. Althouzh the story they have to tell isn’t new by any means, after it is fairly under way it is told well enough. A. H. Woods ie trying the piece out with the Marshall stock at the Garrick, Woods sent down John Cumberland, for whom the piece is intended for the coming season, and Eileen Wilson. ‘The balance of the cast is made up of the members 5i the local company. They all do rer.arkably well; some miscasting, but, of course, allowances must be made for this. Cumberland has just such a-part that has brought to him a niche in the world of the theatre all his own. He was splendidly funny and will undovbtedly find in the part another to add to his al- ready lengthy list of successes. Eileen Wilson couldn’t help but be good, but after “The Lady of the Lamp” and her “Buddies” here with the other stock organization it seems a waste of her time and ability to do just the conventional ingenue, as is this part she is playing. As for the piece, it tells the story The opening of the second”

of a plodding bookkeeper whom ‘father has made his partner and whom father also decides he would like to have for a son-in-law, and when daughter bring home a man ‘| of the world from Chicago and car- ries in her head advanced ideas as to what her husband must have been and seen and done before she becomes his wife, father proceeds to, build up a past for his book- keeper-partner. They select a prominent film estar for a two-week affair in the past. The whole town talks about the affair and forces the man from obscurity into promi- nence over night and brings the girl into his arms, Complications arrive when the local picture house manager brings the film star in question to town for a personal appearance, she trail- ing along her director-fiance. Father likes to get out in taxis with the Jadies, and as mother had grown dubious of these business appoint- ments at night he picks a name at random from the town's best hotel register. This random guess hap- pens to be the director, and when mother calls the hotel to verify the story of the appointment, the di- rector, after being informed of the call, comes to the house. He sees the picture of the movie star, his jealousy is aroused and then com- plications start in a bunch. Gerald Oliver Smith is miscast as the man of the world, but he has a method all his own, is very popu- lar here and‘ went over big. Meakin. THE WHITE WAY (Reprinted by permission from the notice in the Cleveland “Times” by J. Wilson Roy, dramatic editor of that paper.) Cleveland, May 9. “The White Way,” a new comedy by Margaret Mayo and Aubrey Ken- nedy, was given its premiere per- formance at the Ohio theatre Mon- day night, with Francine Larrimore in the leading role. First nights in the theatre are rarely satisfactory, and Monday night was no exception. Several things stood in the way,of a genuine test of either play or players, and to nervousness must be credited the principal cause of any shortcoming in the production. Such a condition is not only usual, but it must be taken into account that it was the first time any of the new company of McLaughlin players had played as an organization. When these matters are given consideration, it should be recorded that there is good material on which to build a worthy repertoire company. “The White Way” will prove good entertainment eventually, but we doubt not that the “play doctor” will get on the job right early and diag- nose the seat of the trouble. There is nothing seriously wrong with the new comedy, but at present it needs a tonic to its vi*« lity. “The White Way” narrows down to two real characters, both well drawn and of sufficient contrast to hold the interest of playgoers. Tem- peramentality is pitted strongly against staidness, and the working out of two such opposite natures gives the theme to this new play. This is well done, although at times it is slightly overdrawn and on other occasions the delineation is inclined to weaken. We believe, however, that the latter may largely be over- come when the cast becomes better acquainted with each. other and their respective roles. The story concerns Dolly Lane, a struggling actress-who has married a western ranchman, whose affairs have become entangled with the government in a land deal. He owns several thousand head of cat- tle, and simultaneously with Dolly’s “big chance” before the footlights comes the news that Steve—her husband—has won his case against Uncle Sam, and all is well finan- cially. Dolly makes her appearance for her “big chance”; she breaks down in her opening number, but comes back with a vengeance, and five curtain calls are the result. Doily has won success! She is now a star! Steve is forces his dismissed; the “angel” attention on his newly fouad star; Doliy’e better naturé rebels at the suggestion or thought of his proposition. He locks the door, but by a subterfuge Dolly escape: from his clutehes. Then once more Steve stalks into the dressing room and discovers the of the “angel” and man- horsewhip the rascalits ager: threatens to fellow, but Dolly interferes and justifies; the manager by the re- mark that he has been drinking. Love wins the day—Dolly and Steve link hearts as the curtain falls! While the first and second acis are inclined to drag at times, the punch in the third stanza makes an excellent antidote, Francine Larrimore fulfilled all expectations—she was leader in all that pertained to success in this in‘tial venture of “The White Way.” At'times she gave evidence of ner- vousness, but actresses are human and critics are charitable under such circumstances. Joseph Sweeney was good as Steve, a trifie awkward at the start, but he improved as the evening wore on. William David cleverly portrayed the “angel” and manager, ’

BROADWAY REVIEWS

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The opening of a Frohman play in such a house as the Lyceum in May is an unusual event, and only such a combination of circumstances as the premature ending of the run of “Kiki,” suggesting the transpiant- ing of “The Comedian” to the Belasco, could bring about the need of a stop-gap at this stately and splendid playhouse. Whether or not “The Mountebank” was advisedly designed as an inter-regnum, that is what it will probably be. It has merit, but not enough for an ex- tended stay at’so desirable a theatre. It is, again, the dramatization of a great English nove] making a fair play. “The Mountebank,” by W. J. Locke, had a vogue almost in the class of “If Winter Comes,” and by many critics regarded as of a plane of literature beyond Hutchinson's countless seller. As the other was a story of war and society, this is a story of war and the theatre. The mountebank is a clown; he is, as nearly as an American trade-paper critic can classify him (the play makes his exact status and exact work nebulous), a small-time open- ing act. Yet he seems to have some standing in his profession in France, and probably owns a_ vaudeville troupe playing the music halls. .. At any rate he is a sawdust-born nobody, but'a cultured and forceful man with the diction of a gentleman in the tights of a contortionist and the clown-white, red-nosed, eccen- tric-wigged get-up of a buffoon. He is working with a dog, which is killed; at the height of his sorrow there comes into his dressing room an inconsequential woman per- former, out of luck, who has be- friended him professionally years back. He takes her on in place of the dog—as a partner. We find them next living together. She is a sloppy, slovenly, shop- talking female ham. He is itching to get to the front. He bolts at last and enlists. The next act sees him a general. (That sound abrupt and plays that way; in the book the transition is gradual] and logical. Stranger things happened in the big war, and this is no essential incon- gruity.) As a general, a hero, he is taken up by good péople. He falls in love with a young noblewoman, who is also a hearty war-worker. Five

ard Grace Filkins made a splendid mother to Dolly. The new roster of McLaughlin players looks promising, and with a few more experiences.as an organ- ization should meet the require- ments intended. The stage settings were praise- worthy. WIT OUTWITTED Newark, N. J., May 9. This is the first of Hurtig & Sea- mon’s new plays which they are try- ing out in stock here. It ‘is a crook- detective melodrama of much inter- est. Three crooks have robbed a post office of $2,000,000 in bonds. They have arranged that Hogan, who has planted the bonds, should tell the hiding place in such a way that neither of,the others can get the stuff without the other. The ringleader, “The Duke,” shoots Ho- gan, leaving only himself and Charlie Moran to divide. Moran, angered at this, refuses to aid “The Duke.” The play opens with an extracr- dinarily fine scene between Charlie and Mabel, who is living in a hotel with him and is in reality a tool of The Duke. They have fallen in love, and as Charlie insists upon marry- ing her, he tells her his secret against her protests. He is at once shot and Marie, the maid, steals part of the code from his pocket. In the last act, which is laid at the | place where the bonds are secreted after severa) thrills The Duke is brought to justice, Gillespie’s iden- tity is revealed, and the whole tangle is unraveled without stretching the probabilities too far. The play reflects credit upon the author, whose identity is not def- initely revealed. Both characteriza- tions and construction are generally good. _Notwithstanding minor criticisms, “Wit Outwitted” is in good shape. It deserves to sueceed; whether it will or not depends upon whether the public will accept another mys- tery play. The company gave a fine per- formance. Mabel Brownell was an admirable Marie, convulsing the house with her low comedy work. William Shelley also did well, while Helen Stewart won the sympathies by hef charming impersonation of Mabel. “The Duke” was played flawlessly by Edward Keane, while George Barbier did such excellent acting it hurt to see him killed. The stage settings were surprising- ly good. Austin. years have elapsed. The mounte« bank has faded away under the rise of the soldier and commander. Then the armistice, demobilization, thou- sands of others like himself ‘sud- denly plunged back into civilian life—officers back to their humdrum tasks; he with no other trade except the séldier—no longer needed—and the mountebank. Also he feels that despite everything he owes it to hig partner and paramour to return to his old life, He does it. It is horrible to him, Moreover, he has lost his “nersonal- ity.” The general who has com- manded divisions can no longer hold a ten-cent vaudeville audience. He is between the horror of go- ing down, back to the circuses as a clown, and trying to engage in some business about which he knows nothing, when he gets an offer from an old buddy to go to the Solomon Islands and mine _ copper. His music-hall partner balks; no savage life for her, At about the same time the noblewoman turns up on a legite imate enough mission, his partner is taken off his hands by an old friend of backstage affiliation, and the clinch is there at the final curtain. A very excellent story, and, in the book, a very powerful one. In the dramatization by Locke and Ernest Denny it is pretty talky, but that is not its main fault, It lacks drama all the way, somehow. Trevor is too superior as a clown to make the later metamorphosis striking. He is a general in his dog act, or else he is a dog-actor as a general; any- way, he plays them both the same— and they are both written in the same tempo, register and mood. The fault is probably more in the script than in the interpretation. It wouldn't be plausible to have him do it any other, way than he now does, unless the authors had broad- ened him a bit. in the first two acts so that he would have something to be refined into for the last two. He is mismated with his partner before he becomes a general, and ways quite human (or even quite sympathetic) sense of loyalty seems to be the link between him and his miscast life even before the war, Trevor recites his role in about one key, never relieved by a laugh, never less than a leading man, al- most a Hamlet throughout. Len- nox Pawle, though he faltered in some of his lines, stole the perform- ance as the friend of this unusual person, and Nora Swinburne, in a British flapper part, took what was left. Nothing in “The Mountebank” really adds anything to the profes- sional careers of any save Miss Swinburne, who is so young that she has had no career hitherto, probably. : The direction in the main ig wooden. The play needs lighter shadings, especially in the first two acts. It starts with the tragedy of the dog and is more or less of a tragedy ever afterward. Gabrielle Ravine, with a natural French ac- cent, missed from almost her first entrance as the partner, and became rasping and grinding as she went along, time after time hitting the same ‘notes—some of them pretty blue. That is life, all right; mon- otones and stupid progressions form most of our existence. But drame- atists select the unusuai, not the commonplace, for the stuff that makes plays—entertainment. The unusual may be told with realism, but gheer realism without point or flavor isn’t art, The strong story, even though not strongly played or projected, can- not fail to carry out of the theatre. This, with the position of the Ly- ceum as a theatre of dignity and solidity, the standard names asso-<- ciated with the presentation, and the great popularity of. the novel, will save “The MounteBank” from ig- nominious failure. But it is beyond restoration, apparently, as a success to take its place beside the ranks of the Frohman color-bearers.

Latt. ETHIOPIAN ART THEATRE” | Inauguration of a repertory season by | colored players at the Frazee theatre, New | York, May 6, 1923, under the direction of Raymond O'Ne#l, Presenting a one-act | dramatic skit of colored life, entitled ‘The | Chip Woman's Fortune,’ by Willis Rich- ardson, and Oscar Wilde's ‘‘Salome.’’ “THE CHIP WOMAN’S FORTUNE” LABR. cccocedocccecebambesecnes Evelyn Preer WIG eccsmoeked cul eseeeBydney Kirkpatrick BEINMA.. oc ccsccces ee PEP ry . rion Taylor Aunt Nancy....ceecss Docccss laura Bowman . eS ees, eeksinese Solomen Kruce A Man... ccc ss vaemeteeeeerernes Arthur Ray “SALOME” Young Syrian:..«.#% PA: errr Arthur Ray Page of Herodias.. esuste-+- Lione) Monageas First Soldier...e- ecccessss Lewis Alexander Second Soldier. .ccceececess Coy Applewhite CAppAdOcian. .ceseseececes .---Charies Olden JoKanaan...seese soecesavcces Solomon Bruce BAIOMC. .cssceccccseseeecersr? Evelyn Preer Hetod. «.cicesvs seesess-ByGney Kirkpatrick HeTOdias. seccccevvses erccses Laura Bowman First Jew... cesses Ooeeeessece: Charies Olden Second Jew....seceseseeess George Jackson Third Jew...66. Cbbbbsbooccecs Walter White Tigelhinus....... seoeeee- Arthur Thompson Slave of Herodia’,...,...+++- Marion Taylor New York has had the Moscow Art Theatre, the Jewish Art Thea- tre and for a brief week the National Theatre. This week there arrived on Broadway, by the way of the Lafayette, in Harlem's black belt, at the Frazee the Ethiopian Art

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Huston Ray ae: Bale Luster Bros ke = & La _ La . “it « j 4 Gn ’ W RS ‘ ' Mason & Shaw Lyric McKay & Ardine Roma Duo i D ANDREA and WALTE Three poet ‘n D-H? (New Orleans split)! Venita Gould Leon & Dawn WATERT’WN N. Y. | *e anc cirkille ee * whee - : S +t E ate Ww AYS Jones & Ray ~ tie tg eg 5 O—_—_—= wae Bensee Sesame Olympic Wit! ‘ § “ ” “The Merry Widow,” “Up in | Ergotti & Herman | (Two to fill) Fols’m a Artie Mehlinger Co ij : i the Civeds, " “Spige of 1922,” and others. ee F -Iee is PAYTON (One to pen saspiee a — ‘ ——— reed Harrison (Co . a Be — : ACUSE iers ene _ on (Qne +t fill) eens : ——— K. F. Keith's “4 ” WILTON s¥R ea halt Ernie & Ernie (Qne to ig Bert Fitzgibbons Yes Means No a RY rE. N.J. Rusecii & Bierce DR. ALF I, B. ly cay Paul Brady 2d half RICHMOND, IND, th ‘Si. LaToy's Models Seed & ustin iain Sireet Nellie | avi i Matinda & ade Hodge zawel Monte & Lyons Murra n : . Be ‘he Nagtys Venita Gould Edith Lamont Pie ny 5 a satag a ms Jean Sothern Lee & Mann Elinore Pearce Co | yinore Sites Co Alth =e & (One to fill) Gene Morgan Lewis & Dody (Ot ssi . fill) Prescription McFarl'd & Palace | Teddy Claire Co Fred Hagan Co *Clara Campbell De } : Se Keith’s Colonial (Others te fill} G & P Magiey . ee Rryan & Broderick | (One to fill) (One to fill) Tambert & Fish on | - * 14-16) (One to fill) oS & ? eee Zuhn & Dries ; . ; : : : ¢ ; Gordon & Ford sae bn ye gat 2d haif Aoron & Kelly Stars of Future WHITE PLAINS INDIANAPOLIS Class Psneenys & CG M | tte Mary Haynes 5 Just Out Knickers | Walthour & P Miiticent Mower abitestn Lynn Patane 2d half iz | is Leavitt & Lockw od Lahr & Mercedes Municipal Four it & A Seymo ar all 3 eggs 2a half (10-13) helene Alle Ce Brod’k Wynn Co i Bi Lexey & O'Connor fi others to fil’) Francis Arms Ht Santrey & Band Sreteer ere Adela & Gaut Ails & Pullman *Hill & Cameron «Sun ithe Fe. wPoxer & Fesey 2a half (17-2) (One to fill) Santrey & Seymour Stasenes aD Chic Sale 2 Weber Girls Morton Jewell Co : 3 i” 4 ascents The Storm me ATLANTA DETROIT T ICE cctheen to fill) Elim City 4 (Others to fili) Jean Middleton = ne! PS if 2d ha ) > ‘ é : ; 1g : ces (6 soeeee ee 2 Lyric Temple WwW ed halt Elsa Ryan Co KOKOMO, IND. | TERRE HAUTE Harry Fox ¢ "s 2 e r Danse De Authentic Owe! iz H Martha Pryor Proctor’s 23d St. | (Birmingham split) | Baader Lavetie Tr DAILY Vee & Tully errs & Billie Strand Liberty ete e | McGrath & Deeds 2d haif (10-13) Ist haif tose Selden & ag (Others to fill) Ist half (14-15) Rose Valayda Sully Rogers & 8 The | a Ss Se re ghee Night | The Scebacks ey 4 =i ala TOLEDO QD Cameron Co Brod’ck Wynn Co] Orren & oe Four Be : Travers & Douglas | Frost & Morrison *Dayton & Palmer | Bi Ba Bo — pees pags r Keattn Weeat Kent: & Allen ; wi .¢ Yerke’'s Happy Six] Paul Nolan Co Bert Levy Walsh & Bilis iN “TOYTOWN TOPICS” B. F. Keith’s marry tame ati Arar a eas ee Simpeon & Deas _ MI if | Moss’ Broadway Ted Lorraine Co Pinto & Boyle Georges Dul ranne A & © Brabetie pn ae a ER aa bait ea haif 5 oF ; Babcock & Dolly Stranded Davis & Darnell FOR KEITH and ORPHEUM Aaron & Kelly od half (17-20) Kent & Alleu Veronica Co (Sun. x Mel Kice , Ist half (14-16) iRVPp.y wv Clyde Doerr Orch Millicent Mower Jean LaCrosse Orren & Drew Stanley Wilson Sis : Seed & Austin Burke Barton & B | AUINEN, N. ¥. | Rome & Gaut WEEK *HOUSES AND Ii & A Seymour Totnes ta Sit} Four Tamakis Serzac’s Circus 2% : ~~ & i. % Montana ‘ gr EASTON. PA Santrey & Band ¢ (One to fill) (One to fill = Hartley & Patt'rson| wiaherty & Stoni'g| Vee & Tull oO a is Santrey & Seymour WILMINGTON cw BE *Sun Bonnetts Dunedin & Play Syncopat a 7 : Abie 0. ii. TIRED AUDIENCES Sa half Aldine BOSTON KEITH CIRCUIT (Others to fill) (One to fill) (Two to fili) E& L Tindell USED BY MANY Harry Watkins rail BR ee Mazik a Moss’ Coliseum 2d half (17-20) 2d ha'¢ Tivoli & LaVer: Cock & Oatmen jllian ernar¢ BOSTON °d half oc c Three Kitaros Pisano & Landauer} Armstrong & D'ncy]| Around the Cerne: Alle & Pullman Br'km'n Howard R : : y : Whit, he $ fill) Ann Meyers Bway Kiddie Rev Billy Beard PRAISED BY ALL Alls & Band Kelso Bros Boston Valentine & Bell hone tvs Sa wait Slatko’s Revus (Two to fil) Ideal ® Weber Girls DeLisle Wilfred Du Bois Kennedy & Kramer — *Blonde = She f ; Rose 2d half ‘ . 4 2 ft Barrett & Farnum] 3 Black Diamonds Inks : Blondes Sherman & Rose BALTIMO (One to fill) 2d hal er . ] oe CR ie eet a ALTIMORE LaFleur & Portia Russell & Marconi |R & E Dean Jarvis & Harrison Maxi: ion GEHTRU Dr Maryland Smythe & James = TORONTO Bertha Kramer Perrone & Oliver Poily & Oz Delbr i E) ricer Poa : a nae . I. . ih’t ist half Cressy & Dayne Shea’s The Gellis ——_— F & j . ‘rankiyn as CO Elaine & Marshall | gan Araki 3 Geofiry & OHara |Stanley & Burns (One to fi (Two | EARLE and RIAL REVUE) bemscss: S'co0% | race 3 a , oe E. HEMMENDINGER, Inc. ; = pig > 2g Ph =e Jos Diskay Emilie Lea Bailey & Cowan YONKERS, N. Y¥ | +o a oe ELIZABETH, N. J. Goons Moonen ag Co Mee: han's Dogs Homer — ‘ Senbiniee ‘ : JEWELERS } Lillia i HEADLINING Zeck & Randolph Proctor's Yar Siaueete ye eee Mabel Ford Co 2d half (10-13) 83 West 46th Street New York Besto . LA FEE 4 5B. ¥. Keith (Western) Claudia Coleman 2d half (10-1: ig c y 3 Keystone Olcott & Mary Ann] *Nearly Married Telephone Bryant 1543 Maley i] yee eit %, Pee” ~ | Harland Dixon Cc [Hampton & Blake MONTREAL Saneie te vl Saltese Teanen Sylvia Brann Co ; —= Walt eavitt ockw’o o Sil : . | Ann Meyers argie Coates Pour Philli Jack Li e ; Abbot t (Others to fill) 7 oe Columbia ‘Gardner's Bulldogs | pay Decker Co a Sens TRENTON, N. J. | Holly & Lee Gordon’s Oiympia FITCHBURG Eltiot a Kelth’s Fordham Columbia (Shreveport split) | Henry & Adelaide Fiske & Lloyd Southiand Enter Capitol ist half (14-16) (Scollay Sq.) Cummings (One Rae Samuels 2a h: Ist half hs Ist half (14-16) Gibson & Price Wm. Penn Salle & Robles Julie Gerrity These herkete Helen Vincent % *Blondes Rae Samueis ( ornell Leona & 7 Bessie Rempel Co Chief Caupolican Russell & Marconi Ferry Corwey (Others to fill) Coleman Sisters Innis & Ryan Gray Pe Dave Roth Claude & Marion Dixis Hamilton — ry oe” Melroy Sis H I. Cooper Co Redmond & Wells 2d half (17-20) Roland & Ray Emma Raymond 8 Smit t Claude & Marion Burke & Durkin + gd Co ae Pgh -mes Bony Watts & Hawiey Fields & Fink Pantheon Singers London Steppers Alice Hamiites (Two to fill) —— 1 (Two to fill) (Others to fill) peat he gy age Gola & wawarde Princess Btcphers & Lavejoy Pritchard & Rock (Others to fil!) Leraine Serenaders 2a half Vi € é - : 6 “ é : e a th W Schencle { wee eusehs oenteg Onesies) | "20 Ratt a DENTIST Gordon's Olympia | Mi eine & Martin (| wcnenck Co ith’ ick oS ans i iat ecoaraa on Osi — | Rich Hayes alia Sree 2 g d 2 a ai Keith’s Bushwick . ; * Ferry Corwey (Washington St.) Carr & Brey a oe L My a Gus Edwards COUNT TRIX ee Dance Gambol Prices within reason to the profession. | oi ca & Nicholas (Two to fill) Th ; I é ; a Meiannee Mi oc a) , ossi ee M a (Others to fill) i. ae deent ce PERRONE and OLIVER Jack Norton Co teers ry Dr. M. G. CARY Honey Jarvis Co LEWISTON, ME, Moss’ Franklin Walters ; “6 9 Juliet we" ericl N. W. Cor. State and Randolph Sta Zarrett & Cuneen ‘tf Rooney & Bent a apg tad ima Song Symphony Bevan & Flint _ Cwl'd & Brod rick Seecad Sour eves Soak ts pont ea neues Mall TS R i€ Davis & Pelle Barrys & Woilfords ORPHEUM CIRC ib eon £ Wylie PITTSBURGH Entrance 6 W. Randolph St.. CHICAGO ‘CKT’N, MASS. | Peggy Brooks Kirks (Others te Si) Kenny & Hollis ———— 4 Herber are Davis - ' n’s «=—Ststé‘(L M's & fal’ Orc 9 ‘ : ® . a e nN cau Sarees Gq | Steele Treat RIRMINGHAM 2a half (17-20) MT. VERNON | Pibonatl nod, halt YORK, PA. PE gy Bobbie Carbone Co Rober AW wo7mon ' fill ; rs & R ooley Sale Stephers & Love ; , : Marion & Mack po a Betty Lyric oa Bas ae : Procter’s Craven > ahekon te irs og 4 Fn sof Opera House «:. | Stenard’s Midgets | Carr & Pete Jenni Mah tina Taman Keith’s Orpheum ‘ddan mahib > ulia ins o °a half (10-13) ratts & Hailes Abi wl May McKay & Sis Two to fiii) : 2d hal Johnn Bight Blue I ions , Eltinge (Atlanta The Sterlings qa Langford & F Fiashes Siok & Sans Wilson & Keppel (One (Others to fill) Julian al 1s Ist half (Others to fill) Herron & Gaylord Pob Albright (Two to fill) ee eG a $4 half hn. ge ag gy ) Keith’s Hamilton | Fenton & Fields Bernt & Partner D DeKerekjardté 31 AINFIE Sharkey Roth & H| Ross & Ludovic ‘ : Geo McFarlane Co. | ifving Fisher Douglas & Eat ERIE, PA. Jans & Whalen BLAINFIELD, N.J. TROY, N. Y. Sharkey Beth & Brats “antnaets LYNN, MASS Fran say Meg ye tent oe rhe Gellis , Dave Harris Co ; : (Others to fill) Plainfield Proctor’s (One te- fll) (Two to fill) — ol ja Ba Soe ow Harriet Remvel CO | spay & Hillard Colonial Ist half (14-16) ! Howard & Lyons ‘ 24 half . ymp Nevin: 24a ey aindginot Rhodes & Watson | po vces Celetritics | McRae & Clese Sankus & Silvers] Earl & Mathews Strand *Ross & Ludovic Senat Tae ne #8 Tout Al Striker Pr ka eee O'Donnell & Blair — ———— : = Carter & C cornish Ona Munson Co Daun & Scott han | Marino & Martin ion (Two to fill) World Make Be'l've BOSTON Murray & Oakland EVE LYNN CLYDE DILSON re Mack & Deagon Harris & Vaugh ‘ Tou Tellegen Co - en t i . tgs Pe ery “ou ‘asti » Stars i er e telforc . Th —— ‘2 R (One » Hii? B. F. Keith's Rupy Norton Co 1] Bg hog "a — bag ee tes (One to fill - Star Tac Rube C ord Moss’ Flatbush jinns & Gr (Two to fill) ana a . : . I isa & Sh'ff'ng 6 2d ha Fisher Davie & P Siask* & Bereman Belen 4g ro GERWNT'WN, PA. — ville’s" Music Comi cies “Ses POLI CIRCUIT 2d half toyal Gascoines . he (Others to Moody & Duncar ood & vd ‘Th A k d A Wilbert & Dawson Willie Solar McCoy Keith’s 3 Merson j Hartiey Powers Co| Bill Robinsor Parte @ AWkWar ge BRIDGEPORT NEW HAVEN Wyeth & Wynne Paul Hill Co Dance Santos & Ha Ruby Norton Co ? ts - ;- i B ! He rh rts oe with Poli’s Palace O'Donnell & Blair (One to fill) Ties + tree He VESRS as Oo , Harvey & Leighton | Trella Co a ——— Margu = ERBERT San ae ~ sthlng gine LILLIAN LEE ANDERSON | kipcon’& sices Wopler.@ Davia | ll . Fisher é . yimes & Ina *y igle B ralow We a be ; Poa ini’ ’ Mars HUGH H caene. tee aoe KEITH'S, PHILADELPHIA, Now | (2u2s!, Buneaiow |ricurette@ 7” | mm sn TR ie oes 223 LEFFERTS AVENUE, Shea’s ee KEITH’S RIVERSIDE, N. Y. |! Mayo jen Meroff Co | ad KEW GARDENS, L. L Bryant & stews GREENVILLE . ; 2d halt 2a half Lillian Phone Richmond Hill 9683 Ruth Roye Grand ©. Ki. Next Week Great Johnson | Chong & Moey Worth : — Jessie Busicy Co (W’st’n-Sal’m split) |“The act had novelty and charm.” » & rat: naga Telask & Dean —— Mare M st Co | Al Shayne Dooley & Merion Ist halt —PHILADELPHIA “RECORD” | 7° Comeback 6 Anderson Sis ———————EESESESEeEeE Sart E ‘Babco & 1 (One to Pagan’s Band Cavin & OOoOneS: [> = — : ‘One to fill) , se 4 & JIEES Reaser & trwin MANCHESTER, sss oa ue Dela Keith’s Prospect ee ae London Stepper Frances Arms Sahive Sad ; - of Girls Elkins Fay & E Palace melee (Two to thar Wilbert & Dawson Overt 2d ha Pe ag - tale Williams & Cla Others to fil) (One to fill) Meredith & Sn'oz'r | SCRANTON, PA. CAMBRIDGE Wyeth & Wynne Overh Rubin & H Rul & ; “4 6 5 ees 2d half (17-20 2d half : a a "C — Poli’s Central Sq. Jarvis & Harrison Smith Besazian & \ Roth & Mul ’ hes HARRISBURG, PA, | Out of Knicks oa i Madcaype (W'lk's-B're Split) | Ed Kane aes ey 2 A&HES . ‘ Broo ( Fo Pranik V a0 . W & G Aheari I vis & Dod 3 sien A i (s aa, . . Paul Hill Co Dr - Lomas Troupe oa Snow & Nor > Majestic Murray & A j G&PmM ‘ (On to fill) Ist half Elkins Fa & ; E °4 half Drec n - AY » ; : Sarl & 3 et a on. mic ; 2; if ellis Valentine & sell “> . ‘ larsto (Two to fill) - : Fave © Don I 1 & tath (Others to fill) ‘One ba. 4 ) 2a hal Bellis Duo i a. Daun & Sco — ae OT . Ca n& F Ona Munson Co Gordi & Sisto Mildred Parker (Two to fill) taaae Broo! Senato _ wes Gennes tore D Byton R Mack & Deag NASHVILLE PORTLAND hoy as a i Mille & é i Murray & I . me a la i = —- - 5 : —— _~_— mt . ose tien Jack Rube Clifford (Others to fiil) Princess B. F; Keith's ) + wa behead Ment Harris & Vaughan t (Others to fili) 2d haif (17-20) és 9? Chas Ledeger For Pity Sake W ILLIAM if Ps ADER M tent k a Hal'dy Liza & Shuffii: b | oe | bay er halite BOB MURPHY d Brown & Lavell Se eee Ce Theatrical Attorn Archer & Beiford | NEW BEDFORD - Gordon & Ford Julia Gerrity an Browning & Davis] Elly N in N * Howard & Lind Olympia : Gordon & F (Others to fill) suggests for your summer vacation | Embs & Alton Harry Jolson Co ow in ew York (One to fill) Ring Tangle 4 (Others to fiil) Moss’ Rivera D Davis Revue K & E Kuehn ASTOR HOTEL Dixie Four s Keith’s 81st St Berks &*Durite Bingham Beach, South Reyalten, Vt. ed hail Force & Williams — FALL RIVER eo > . a . ° - “ ~ - — ~ 7 > > ns . 4 4 bab Sevke Jacl fitean Co T & es, - w i , (Two an ait ili x j - c e il row siris 4 ; npr a ales Setty "ashi ¢ 2« a ' McLaugh! n & B Marion & Mack Adgrement (One to fill) Tw to fill) (Norfolk spli:) Kelso & De Monde Carson Revue te * ashiggt yn 1s “Weshingto® b Nihla (Two to fill) Will Morris 2d hair salma ist half (One to ail) Saves Wt haan Eee Tollegeh Co "he Thraa ys . = ae 7 ‘ 5 : 21g Ee - tu : yD ellege BE Chuage Whe Thret 2d haif The Gellis May McKay S's NEWARK Sterling 4 HARTFORD SP'Gr'LD, MASS. O'Donnell e Blair Burns & Lynn is ibach’s Enter Ethel McDonough | crawford & Rroak | Nixon & Sens - nto 58-9 . onnell Blair Mary 5 - t ) aditi , - Christ! Proctor's Aatrico.a . Palac Jack Wilson Co Van Cello & 25th St.}| (Others to fill i 923 Joyle & Christie “hee alace ; ; od Proctor’s 1°51 . Oddities of 1923 Do} : : Others to fijl) Capitol . . » fill) 2 -13 a , foth & tt] Jimmy Shear Co ers a a Van Cello & Mary (One to fil 2d heilf (10-13) ALBANY (One to fill) Sharkey f { é ae i Jas an Wood & White : W Fishter Co Pa eae 2a half (One to fill) Chie Sale ROANOKE, VA Chony & Moe; Cols . THe 4 Doree’s Operalogue Proctor’s Fields & Fink The Vanderbilts R k b&b & H Carlton oe & DeMonde ORPHEUM CIRCUIT ' = pty fare elds & Mink ‘ : Tey: we oanoke eo ae ; Gold & Sunshine Ee Xovacs & Goldner Roma Duo Xclso Bros INDIANAPOLIS Aile n Stanl ‘ rath: Bros a sivine en ve Great Sebnsen CHICAGO Alex & J Smith i2 f MecLinn & Sully Kennedy & Davies Brockmane& HWow'd Palace (Others to fii!) Na xy Pie Ape igg ble Pin Sadie 1 of Girl: Love Sisters i” : Bryant & Stewart Folsom Denny & BI] DeLisle s? Harry Watkins NEW BRUNSWICK Maxfield & Go! pon M&M J. Barry — airs Dinteiee iy = toes Be: ai : Ist Walf (14-16) Bob Hall (One to fill) Cook & Oatman ’ . Anderson & Gra ; °d halt 2d halt me ; take . ie *Grace Haslam Co | The Gildcd Cage Ails & Puliman State Joe Laurie we . (Sunday Opening) State-lak ~ +2 Pisano & Alax'nde: 2d half | CINCINNATI Ailg & Bana Walthour & P (One to fill) DeWitt & Meyers | Stanley Galini Co | Frank Tinney (Sunday Opening) i@ Pia Fe = - — to fill) May & Pinto Co 2d haif Meredith & Sno’z'r| Kerr & Ensign Joe Cook Houdini 1B Ann Meyers Cliff Jordon Palace (Two to ; “ e “ ay Hee 4 Slatko's Tevue Carter & Cornish filler Packer & S fd haift Naureen Englin Murray & Garrish Fleurette & J Married Again Rogers & Allen Johnny Burke : '} Ryan Wever & R Henry & Moore Cayton & perl Wills & Robbins Flashes Kennedy & Pooney | B’kridge Casey Co] Southern 4 Williams & Vanessi | Tempest & Dick’sn |. fae ~ Sterlings a Wiltor Bletere Pair of Seal bon Mahoney & Cecil Mack & Stanton Eddie Nelson Yates & Carson 4 Orions H J Connelly Dolly Kay

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- ‘ Bb ie 2 # ¢ 3. pat ng Ga vA Fa aH ees Raa arta ae 7 — = ; a A : ~ a , a Thursday, May 10, 1923 VARIETY - 31 4 i Taylor 8 | Gautiers Brkdteyers Palace i eo — —————— ay ene Amoros baer Ireland 3 Anrims (Tt : Pa com arenes — Gould & Le Roy (One to fill) (One to fill) T ¥ . win George Jean r Jean Boydell NIAGARA FALIS CABARE . Whiteman'’s Band | Gene Green Hughes & Pam Sam © Mana Ruth Howell 2 Cataract on agape repflape ' Pe *Benson Newhoff & Phelps | Laurie Ordway Co | macs Manni ta Mu Novelty DuBall & M’Kenzile (Continued from page 10) DENVER Sheldon B & H Rose Revue Leach LaQuinian 3 | C'#89 Manning & C K DeMarco Lottie Atherton Copel’'ad & Brayton Orpheum (Two to fill) Root Garden % Cooper & Lacey Wallace & Clyde F DeMar & B which during the polic tivi 88, Orpheum .g)| OAKLAND, OAL. 2a half (Two to fill) W D Pollard Four Songsters Frank Farros cabaret iieean cael es Land of vesteey Gyhem De Thus — E"3) LONDON, m- Star Bart rg Re ng Austin & Delaney ' Harmonyland as m ’ ne AES STUNG: DEN ave ursby > al ‘ any as three policemen in i Gibson & Connelli B Loew Toothpicks € uni- sy Jack Boney = en (two to an) Prevost & Goelet Wow at | ye &F paren & front PANTAGES CIRCUIT eed gir og Bay one time; one cop Moore Leon Vavara Warwi St Laurel aes Caréen. 8 R &R ni iN on the main foor, another upstai ; ck evens & ure oma omane NN } N Nor mine? pstairs * Karl Emmys Pets) Chas Irwin rn | “Merritt & Coughlin | ‘TW® to fll) Mazie-Helen & D MIRNEAPOLLS «| Ned Merton Co and the third in the kitchen. tog Brava M’ch’no & T) yo & Adams Hazzard & Spellm’n 2a half Pantages Regal & Moore ge hates 4 Co | Dorethy Doyie Co 2a half F & F Hatch ROCHESTER =| *Ziska Hori Trio In another restaurant a detailed g D INES cLean am B Mann Artist’s Dream Victoria Ulis & Clark “LAN policeman said: “They think I’ (Two to fill) LeVan & Bol OAKLAND, CAL m © v . a ges ) PORTLAND, ORE. oa bait a Wesues oles (Three to fill) Lady Oga Towaga ee Dancers Salenes mug, eh? Well, I'll bust up this = (Sunday ning Orpheum Elks Glee Club ac trouse - 3 Lady Tsen M ite i LeVeaux (One to fill) DETROIT oa halt Hedley Trio Sensational Togo business.” His method of “bust- pare ta Sagten saint Columbia Cooper & Lacey ing” it up was to frequently walk cY SHarricon Orchg | Fireside Reveries ARTHUR SILBER Ba Ey eye & Bare Sensational Head-Balancing Equilibriste |°°'°"* ‘he dancing floor while the . ’ : Mantell’s Manikine| J & 1 Comitman BOOKING EXCLUSIVELY WITH |*Xylo Co pir — a Pgag THE ORIGINAL pecs Peal = Sage oe eee KAN Boreo Collins & Dunbar ‘olum otion. e “busted” it. ra pay gig | PANTAGES CIRCUIT |$2)'3h°2"Siae| nome" tree, | FOUR PHILLIPS | [Some ot the cops were so accus: 1 ee Trene roms na| SAN FRANCISCO |€0¢ FITZGERALD BLDG., NEW YORK en gf ot Co} (one to fi) Next Week (May 14), Shea's, Toronto. | tomed to their detail jobs they grew 4 a 7: pera . ote on enn hahe-ene (One to fill) 24 half Management: MAX PHILLIP careless who they slapped around Bo Snow Combs & H| Gelden — ae GARY, IND YD Sotiere - the hips when looking for flasks, 7 ie Cross & merce ng eee Opsaing) Toft ar inthis PHIS Ge ? (Two to fill) WINNIPEG Five Chapins men or women, Te ‘o | Hal Ske ° m eyers MEM ry : La Pine & | Chas —— oes. Bee? dann Wanane ae mohas = ae e Howard W & B Irving Ed vards e Purcella & R'm'sy : “@ ee at wa Winsor McCay W E Ritchie Co Duponts CHICAGO Sortie Attiteton Juliet Dika Morin Sisters t Based upon a recent decision of a : Geo Moore Co Fllis & Parsons Englewood allace Clyde Clay Crouch SALT LAKE ederal judge in Californi Pro- B & B Wheeler : BALTIMORE Barry Mayo & R Ist half Four Songsters Callahan & Bliss hibition Director Palmer . this 2 W & J Mandell ST. PAUL Hippodrome Emily Darre}l B & S$ Kelton Austin & Delaney | Three Falcons Pantages Owen McGiveney eel Conroy & Howard | Dolly's Dreain (Others to fill) LINCOLN, NEB SPOKANE Sheik’s Favorite —_— nae aaarene oo of oy > E Music Mania " , . o return se cars owned 8 The Wager Berg & English Mallon & McCabe NEW ORLEANS OE a 9g Liberty Pantages OGDEN, UTAH a natthe. 2 th tl y Four Fords Dooley & Storey Monroe & Grant Crescent (Others te fill) Bell & Eva Laurie De Vine Pantages Pp s than e bootleggers ‘ MINNEAPOLIS | MTS F Valentino (One to fill) Wilton & Lelo half Frank Farron Frankie & Johnnie and which had been used for the . Myers & Hanford : G Delmar & Band| Early & Laight (17-19) transportation of liquor without t° Hennepin Polly Moran Bs it praaner |G & P Hickman |H Seymour Co Riah & Lindstrom Le Foe acrstepsanoie (Sunday Opening) | Howard & Clark KETCH an d WILM A ; ache : my Page Hack & M ner ae knowledge of the owner. Heretofore, Sis 8 to ) 2a half — -|where the driver of the machine LOEW CIRCUIT “VOCAL V ARIETY”’ MAJESTIC serene 3 France D ARL M BOYLE alone was guilty the car has been NEW YORK CITY 2a half PRESS COMMENT: ae naa. | Grace Ayers & Bro} (Three to fill) ac returned to the person claiming it. s Artie Nolan “Do you know what to do for a bad-| Rose & Thorne *, Mazie Lonetts Overhoit & Young looking threat?” “No,” replies the pretty |*Gibson Sis & G MILWAUKEE Exclusive Material of Mvery Description. The rum runners were not slow in O'Connor & Clifton| Bayes & Smith girl.” “Go wash your neck,” says the / stanley Chapman Majestic ON HAND OR TO ORDER, finding a way, to take advantage of 7 White Black & U | Fern Bigelow & K | “dummy,” and the house newie., Lp | Seattle H’m'y K’'gs 116 W. 49th St. N. ¥. City: Bryamt 2464 this practice, Cars were purchased ites & i (One to fill) —LOS ANGELES “EVENING HERALD" | Nea Nestor Co Hughes Musical 2 : ats SS aren aoe on a conditional sale contract with nds Kirkemith sis Orph Playing Keith Circuit Chandon Trio Wilson Aubrey 3 1 vom nde irksmith Sis eum : fare 24 half *P ying (One to fill) Healy & Garnella | Kranz & White Rogers Roy & R Galy 5 REMES POTMAAL Cowm: ae Maxine & Bobby Matwbtee Duo anenbuet a. & Farnell & Florence | Gautiers Toy Shop| Little Cinderella title remained in the seller, who Delbridge & G ee BIRMINGHAM , Morey & Corbin : “EN, S. D.| Hickey & H Revue éeaeram Fernando Page was supposed not to know that the —— F & T Hayden Fr ae dee ae + A Chapman & Ring Orpheum 2a half : _— Morrissey & Young | machi bei ed f h : > & T Hayden Bijou —— . (18-19) Pi . “ ne was Ddelng use or the runé iC. (Two to fill) haat ae mant : Hayes & Lloyd : Pierce & Ryan Pantages Guardsmith Bros : Will Stanton Co ¢Daltus Duo Piato Natalie | *Louis Love Co Australian Axmen /| Martinette ning of booze, As a matter of fact, American °a half iatov & . 7 DENVE Lillian’s Dogs Molden & Graham | -Heban & Green 2a half Comite Tae LenS ee See = he frequently was a partner, in the Han’s eg ide & Grana; Bh ‘nad . Kine ar i Tw ‘ar ‘llian P 4 ork entod & “+ aA EES Restaff & Meesenzer| Stevens & King Diaz Monkeys . e Trio (Two to fill) a, tons: me Pantages enterprise, it is charged. The ma- Maley & Singer Let's Go ty Sha Wyeth & LaRue BL'MINGT'N, ILL.| MINNEAPOLIS | 6.6 Mayo” = La Dora & B'km'n| jority of the cars seized were said net Montper Sturt Geet Ce A ese et Tae ination th Bt tein rg no me, A Dance Evolutions |9Xlahoma Four | to have been gold in this way. The . > Pan . 7 ; ressi allas a r : v Al Lester Co Boulevard pad tas ye Boe *Harry Abrams CO| Wart Wagner & E]| Gaffney & Walton VANCOUVER Burt Walton California decision upsets this ; waiiatt & Latour Holden & Graham | c & " Harvey OTTAWA, CAN. | (One to fil), macmene Bond Co prantages Virginia Belles 9 gps of protection by holding that @ te . Yreon Sisters Matthews & Ayres Soulter ose De Peron . : the owner can not escape forfeitvre " 2d. halt Robert If Hodge Co| Larry Harkins Co | zara hanes 3 BREE tracey Royal Venetian 6 | Chuck Haas ee er even though he rehatase title on a Gray & Granville Harry Rose es B«é L Walton Thelma Moore & Kendall Cronin & Hart Pantages & 2 a3 Smith & Nash Samerof & Sonia BOSTON — ee Yip Yaphankers Melvin Bros tene Sis & Allen (14-16) conditional sale agreement and had poe _ Orpheum Harrison Moss a rs (Same bill. plays | 20 knowledge of its use for unlawful 7 Fi amend Tarzan NOMcial Dentist to the N. V. A. BELLINGHAM Pueblo 17-19) purposes, his remedy being againct ia CHESTER FREDERICKS Herbert Ashley Co | PROVIDENCE Pantages La Volla the violator of the law. This ruling ; Prank Fay Emery DR. JULIAN SIEGEL Castleton & Mack |Stephens & H’l’ster | will be followed by the prohibition The Featured Juvenile Dancer and Homer Girls Co Louis Leo Olga acy oe Co Sag mah 5. “sone department in New York state unt't } : “'? > » Ct ’ > ) , T elleclaire r iF, Third Season with Randow ‘trie awe . Pe be 1493 B’way (Putnam Bldg.) Ne ¥. ene FS eee G & BE Parks se there is a decision to the contrary Gus Edwards Revue BUFFALO - oe pws per nd Sa RE Mae Se Gta ane a Sheiks of Araby Jan Rubini by a higher court. oR ‘ Pin) BS. Gee State ar ng ——— FARGO, N. D. NORFOLK, NEB. atonal heater = OMAHA, NEB re gne NB ra Kir] smith Sis 2d half Beil & Eva 2a half Grand Auditorium TACOMA poe «SNe ce O'Connor & Clifford | Melnotte Duo Norton & Wilson The Newmans *Louis Love Co (18) . os * Pantages The Maryland Band has replaced » Ce Robert H Hodze Co | tlerman Berrens Nancy Boyer Co Mabel Drew °H & K Sutton Jerome & France Pantages Santiago Trio Harry McDonald's aggregation with Jennings & Dorney | Jordan Saxton Co Thos Potter Dunne | Bvans & Wilson Camille Trio G & P Hickman Whirl of World white 4 Diente Clinton and Rooney, vaudeville Johnny Mark Co Cliften & DeRex Edw Stanisloff Co Hyde’s Band 2d half Page Hack & M > 1, 7 . ei A reap : y ; ; el (Oka ta an iiften & Denex “ e335 Hart & Helene a PORTLAND, ORE, | Maude Leone Co —aae fill) Dance Varieties CITIICAGO (One to Hii) + lg Page ag 17-18) Pant: Vardon & Perry | eae ee Avenue B ce sprincrietp | ‘7° *° 81) Berger & Seamon | ppiy La Tosca Hannaford Family| Jules Herbuveaux and his Guy- . Ata ag aare TeVeaux em rg Broadway GALESBURG, ILL. Leona Hall’s Rev ad Gold & Bro RANSAS CiTY on’s Paradise Orchestra of Chicago Nevins & Geréen ps shh. Famenge McIntyre & Halc’b | The Newmans ese Orpheum QUINCY, ILL. Honey mieee whip Pantages recently made a flying trip to New c 2 ie ray Ci 7 . : re "Malle J fil Ce McCull 4 ° ; - Senator Murphy ce nthenyg Ailigaa oe tage ng RR aaa gi ERR Ca ao lk. Gephewie -.: bis The Lumars York to record some foreign num- rg araath Sis (One to fill) ca alam mewesied Moss & Frye C’th’ne Sincl’r Co os a ae Travel Untah Masterman |bers for the Okeh Phonograph Co. St 2a halt 2a half wine % Regal Entertainers 2a half a half (Open Week) Ruth Buda indestiliecaial Siekee’ at a Hazzard & Spellm'n CLEVELAND 2a halt Bender & Arm'’sts| o-Malley & Mzx'fi'ld| Allen & Taxie TRIE Bowe f gem : a piaher- & Sheppard | Wasser’ & Bpelim’n State Louis Leo (Two to fill) Fisher & @limore |-Practn & Vernon veers, eeneras | = Tne Sarvine prapose to. Sante McCoy & Walton Eekhoff “& Gordon Victoria & Dupre Ruth & Clifford GD ISLAND, NEB.| C’thr’ne Sincl'r Co Dummies -_ cial oi eps Tut Reins A : hen 9 Dance DeLuxe Clark & O'Neill Majestic ST. JOE, MO ep I ago MEMPHIS where is unknown, It’s to be strict- . UT h8 ea - : s E ek. a» . Pasquale Bro : Tincoln Square mtr ae SU HENRI MARGO (Sunday Opening) Electric ’ vs me 3 Pantages ly on the club idea, a scheme now a eg fi BROOKLYN assisted by a i Cannon Sisters SAN FRANCISCO | fora & Truly gaining favor, and will be stronger * nelly, heppard Metropolitan | MARGARITA MARGO, ARDATH DE|G Delmar & Band P DeMar & B “ Bi emeay Krylton & De Voe |around New York with the repeal "ern Bigelow & K SALES and HELENE BET “18 e Lyons Jos : Lope sd anley |r Bigel a 3 i NE BETH (16-18) C*p’Ind & Brayton e Lyons Duo Josie Heather of the Mullan-Gage act that clamps ex Connors Rev |'roomer & Day Direction EAGLE & GOLDSMITH at. Four of Us Jim & Jack Palo & Palet biniant Balt Chas Ahearn Co ————- Mason & Seott eT. LOUIS Burke & Betty Kate & Wiley down on the municipal police thing. Villian’s Dogs (Two to fill) . JOLIET, ILL. pis pal » MO. The club plan is to have registered Worth & Willing McNaughtons Chas L Fletcher Grand INTERSTATE CIRCUIT F - Miller & Bradford 2a half ir’nwich Villagers | Lehr & Kennedy _ _ Orpheum Trenelie Trice members only admitted. It allows a — Bert Hanlon Margaret & gehen Jean Granese Co Billy Gerber Rev rhelma Fries & Wilson LITTLE ROCK McCormick & W check up on those present, R, Pederson Bros Pog tore A, ayior grown Gardner & B TORONTO 7. Prenere Romano Sisters Majestic Schioctl’s Manikins ’ Greeley Square Klein Bros DAYTON Yonge &t ; 2a half Robinson & Pierce| Mattylee Lippard (One to fill) . iia Pederson Bros Walter Manthey Co Vs emge Ht. 1 &@ J Gibson Rubini Sisters Rubeville TULSA, OKLA The long and short of the Mullan- 1 Overholt & Young - Felten ee Dayton ee S Hart Wagner & KE a k George Duo | Laura Pierpont Co iran Gage repealer is that there won’t be " Smith & —" Stanley & Alva Hoffman & Jessie Cardo & Noll (One to all) Silver, Duval & i toes te > - (Okla “ity Spit) |80 Many for the sellers to give up 2a halt Chadwick & Taylor} Villon Sisters Lean ante Tr KAN. CITY, KAN.| The Florinis od half _ Ist half to with the cops eliminated from Dre n Sisters Artie Nolan e mo Ag ae Son . Electric } Rialto clair & Gray nvay BB Duo ithe active enforcement forces. Gematae wae — Teh Grazer & Lawlor WASHINGTON Two Earls {way to Bowery “aplsage A _~ > i Mack & Velmar Whether the federal men will make Co —_—_—_— : —=! HOBOKEN, N. J. psitoama a Wheeler Trio a ggg saci the sellers give up more on the plea an Al REFEREE IDC | Ford & Goodrich 0 ER d GAMBLE (One to fill) ee ar’s’n CO} there are more among them to split | Bh SHEAN and PHILLIPS <a ; pene es P Tl an rr. SMITH, ARK,.| WICHITA, KAN. |it with is a question. If the sellers R Grey & ean sewis & ogers lestic ist half , ¢ ,. 72 vs cky Featured with ONA MUNSON | 4! Rickara ene Savane © B. F. KEITH CIRCUIT 2d half Canova Dut th eeaiaeaaie will be satiafic 1 2 al é i ie rest: § ; IC Bi ~A , . Matiylee Lippard tayle Playing B, F, Keith Circuit GUS SUN CIRCUIT Direction: THOS, J. FITZPATRICK aden pteeeeat Ca ae Pan SE to get the annoying cops and their s — ———— = Nubeville Chamberlin & Ear) | uniforms out of sight of their places ine ~ BL’MING’N, IND.]| Stone & Hallo . : — the voy ‘ 9 7 Amaranth Sis Co 2a half Grand Rernivici Bros DuBall & M’Kenzie *Fox & Allyn OKLA. CITY ower egg of business. When there are any Delancey Street Frank Shields *George La Shay ee Bell Pg Og FodsetHaaiens Orpheum 4 Singing Ushers number of staffs, from headquarters ton Bicko & Keo Stevens & Brunelle Lyons & Wake'ld | SO CHICAGO, ILL. G & P Hickman (Two to fill) (Tulsa Split) Carter & Powers down to precincts, aad all wise o Herman Berrens omer © Day L & U Wesley Calumet w , 2a half A seeutt halt Billy Miller Co enough to know where to go for fary para Fantas “Dancers 2d half *Franklyn & Lee KAN. CITY, MO. | voland & Gamble ‘ania & Ghons : ee yg to what they want, the seller's ex- Collins & Pillard nrasy Raymond & Pike Class Manning & C Globe (Others to fill) Sone. 9 ower Birds of Paradise iotne ts ms ty — “ Dance DeLuxe Gates Gould & Le Roy | Jackson Co The Norvelles SO. BEND, IND — vot istence is just one worry on top of Slevevier renes ~, | Leach LaQuinian 3] Almond & Hazel Paul Shine Co Gordon & Spain Bey Pal gate Joe Tenner (late of Mike Bernard |® touch. The repealer is tough on Maley & Sinwog | Stevens & Brunelle BUFFALO (One to fill) Birds of Parad : oe and Joe Tenner) has engaged fo- |the cops, the worst break the cops " *Fay Rahs Ake 1 Bae rly Lafayette *May3 Road ‘eo thir : aia AAs ty sy Mur td ‘& Cl k his Century Roc producti n in Bal have had since they got former : a £ l e May ile lii ps al Murp 7 lark er iy . ) it Cuo sain a “ ae ‘7co Morton nape Gleahs Co Hardy Bros Pearce & Scott Lottie Atherton R Roberts & Orch n » which hi ’ runnine with |G4eV Miller's fool idea In their Samaroff & Sonia BAraden Goons Murray Girls (Three to fill) Wallace & Clyde Sammy Duncan . ~ ‘ole ees I a : yar » McIntyre} ee eae 7 acd Whaineariean: ZZy feingarten, the Mowing: [4"¢s. ing) me National 2a dalé oo fennens . eae 34 CHICAGO Four Songsters Four aaneetee a Bee = ve - - a — yo’ Delbriage eas Marjorie ‘Darton Bile Anem Midway pa Es oe J & N Ohms Wallace sradley ‘and ‘Maris Hawn. The Century Sérenaders open at k'sn Let's Go Will Stanton Co CORTLAND, N. Y.| *nenning Sisters L'WNW'TH, KAN. | simpson & Dean . dhiee site hhe “Glen monet tie ee paso Stings: - Lynn & Wockwood| Bernard & Townes Cortland Weiton & Marsha Orpheum P & S Kelton rie 10rus aso mang een engaged. a \ idnite Frolics, Chicago, May Golden Bird Selma Braatz Stanley Doyie & R (Sunday Opening) ‘Hurst & Vogt The show opens May 14. zi, for six weeks. eects

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VARIETY Thursday, May 10, 1923 ~~

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The Majestic show for this week is @ good one, though not to be classed among the Lest that have been seen at that theatre under its resent policy. Two acts—Guy oyer in “Marry Me” and Jack Roshier and Muffs—came directly from the State-Lake, and Frank Devoe came direct from the Palace, where he substituted the last few days of last week for Tempest and Dickinson. The bill was not_per- fected until Saturday iast, when Tuscano Brothers were substituted for another act billed, and on the day previous Williams and Howard were placed in the bill when an- other act fell out. Roshier and Muffs opened the show Monday and gave the program an excelient start. The contortion dog is quite a novelty and an aston- ishing accomplishment for. the trainer. Otto and Hammer in “The Duck Hunters” contribute some good laughs, giving a comedy talk- ing act-a novel atmosphere. Wilson Aubrey Trio do some bar stunts, in which the work of a fellow old enough to have earned a bald head stands out. They finish in “one” with .a burlesque wrestling stunt; laughable. Broderick, Wynn and Co. (New Acts) provide a dandy dancing revue. Williams and How- ard stop the show with comedy talk which looks like both “choosing and resurrecting” and with paro- dies. Guy Voyer in “Marry Me,” the feature act, is classy entertainment of the giri act variety. Voyer is one of the best of the musical comedy light comedians and has splendid opportunity in this part. He is as- Bisted by a capable company, an the offering is notable from both a scenery and costume standpoint. Frank De Voe registers a very big hit. He is a clever comedian, sings and dances well, and has an at- tractive way of working.

GUARANTEED STORAGE Fully Insured FREE As an accommodation atricai profession you can furs with us FREE OF CHARGE You are under no obligation Our recommendations are many hun- dreds of theatrical patrons Blumenfield’s Fur Shop 204 State-Lake Bldg. CHICAGO Phone DEARBORN 1258 WORK CALLED FOR Our References Anyone in Show Business The Tuscano Brothers close the bill with a flashy axe-throwing dis- play. Barrick and Hart, who open in one, and after doing a creditable singing agd talking number, go into full stage, and derive great comedy throughout. The act is new out this way. Leonard and Barnett (New Acts) and Barrick and Hart were extra acts on the Sunday bill.

“The Cat and the Canary” leaves the La Salle at the end of this week, after eight months, or 328 perform- ances, in Chicago. It is likely that a photoplay will follow it. “Sally,” which has had a successful run here, though not as long as ex- pected at one time, goes to Milwau- kee next week. Olga Petrova is withdrawi g¢ “Hurricane” from the Olympic, and the chances are that that theatre will be dark. “Tan- gerine” is giving way to Raymond Hitchcock in “Hitchy Koo,” which opens Saturday. Willam Hodge n “Jor All of Us,” will end its long and successful stay at the Stude- baker shortly.

The Palace bills have been so well arranged this season the pro- grams for last week and this have h:ld interest in the fact that they did nut measure up to those seen at that house since last Augusts The bill this week-is interesting and it is a better show than last week, but it is not as good ir its entirety as the Palace maintained until recently. The trouble with this week’s show is that there are too many talking acts. With the exception of some- thing like a song rendered by Aaron and Kelley, second, there is not a song until Irene Franklin comes on next to closing. There are four straight talking acts right together, etarting with No. 4. They are: D:-vis and Darnell; Mr. Hy- mack in “At Bogcey Villa”; Carle, Francis and Claire, and Wellington Cross and Co. in “Wives.” ‘There is not a song, not a speck of music, in these four acts, and while Mr. Hymack offers novelty, there is a running line of talk through it, and his English dialect contributes toward mokine this talking siege tiresome. These four acts slow up the shoyv-; to such an extent that Trene Franklirm cannot make as good so cha wanld iS 6ne@ Wouigc EUGENE COX SCENERY 1734 Ogden Avenue @ CHICAGO otherwise

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somehow caught this largely stag audience to great advantage. Law- rence and Berman have a two-man talking act which just misses being big time, and which it is possible to strengthen. The straight is nice looking, and the comedian funny. Freddy. Silver and Fuller are a three-man combination, with a blackface doing the principal com- edy, who score at this house. Hughie Clark is the hit and spiendidly quali- fied for vaudeville success. Blaise and Blaise, who formerly were known as the Pantzer Duo, do some interesting contortion feats. Hoff- man and Jessie contribute an inter- esting number.

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Carroll and Syrell. There is a di- rect conflict in the work of Renee Roberts, dancer with the band, and the last act. The same style of dancing is done in both acts. The program would be difficult to rearrange. “The Bricklayers” would close the show better than Babb, Carroll and Syrell, but there is a big set to make and no act in “one” occupying long enough period for this to be done. As it is, there are stage waits, brief, but they affect the general result of the perform- ance. The fact that Frank Davis has two of these acts and works in both further involves the rearrange- ment of the bill. There is an an- nouncement made that one man of Carle, Francis and Claire is ill and that Mr. Davis will substitute. There was applause at the Sunday mati- nee when Davis took a bow alone for this supposedly impromptu per- formance. Three acts made sufficient hit to come out for speeches Sunday afternoon. The Renee Roberts and tiers-Dorf combination, for which a young man clarinetist was spokes- man, Wellington Cross and irene Franklin. Miss Franklin is singing the same songs she did when at the Palace some time ago and was forced to withdraw from the bill. She has Jerry Jarnigan at the piano. The idea is the same as Paul Arm- strone’s “Woman Proposes,” and, like that act, is a hit at the females, but so ingenuously clothed that they like it. Babb, Carroll and Syrell have a dancing act which is too rood to close a bill. Aaron and Kelly did very well on second.

The Rialto show for this week is not so good as usual. Seeing a single performance here is never a fair test, however, for there is a constant changing of the order in which the acts appear. “Stolen Sweets” is a girl act bet- ter than the ordinary feature of this kind sent out by the Loew circuit. It has the usual scenic equipment and costumes and the usual chorus girls, but the construction is a point in its favor, and everything moves along so rapidly it is highly pleas- ing entertainment. Grazier and Lawler have another rather pretentious offering from a scenic and arrangement standpoint, and it is Mr. Grazier does some toe dancing which is very good, and throughout the terpsichorean effort is worthy. Villon Sisters, who wear the gaily colored’ costumes of gyp- sies, and entertain with violin and piano, made a bigger hit at the show witnessed than would ordinarily be expected. They play very well but

is to be married June 24 to Sally Green, non-professional,

John Balaban, of Balaban & Katz, was driving an auto which figured in a collision in which J. E. Wendt, an engineer, who sat by his side, was seriously injured.

Riverview park opened its season Wednesday.

Lester, costumer, has moved across the street from the State Lake theatre building into a build- ing of his own. The Lester building is 18 West Lake street.

The Western Vaudeville Man- agers’ Association and the Orpheum circuit have Minneapolis pretty well to themselves, booking the Henne- pin-Orpheum, Seventh Street and Finkelstein & Rubin’s Palace, as well as having one booked providing talent for a big cafe and -another providing the presentation acta for Finkelstein & Rubin's picture thea- tres,

Frank BE. Sayles, organizer of the American Amusement Co.,, was

“ELI,” the Jeweler TO THE PROFESSION Special Discount to Performer 8 WHEN IN CHICAGO State-Lake Theatre Bidg., Ground Fioor CUT RATES. R. R. TICKETS Bought and Sold. DAVID LYONS Licensed R. R. Ticket Broker. Telephone Harrison 8978 311 S. CLARK ST. CHICAGO

cleared of charges of fraud by an order of the Circuit Court, but the affairs of the company were ordered closed. The Muskezon Trust Co. is receiver and the decree provides for a division of assets between stock<« holders and creditors. The third Weber & -Friediander unit show to make a tour of the Pantages show starts the circuit prop.r May 27 at Minneapolis. I¢ will have Doraldina, Fred Ardath and others—40 people in all. The show will be at the Chateau, Chi« cago, four days, opening May 20,

John J. Jones, eldest son of Aaron J. Jones, of Jones, Linick & Schaefer, has been elected a second vice-president of the organization. By Geo. R. Miller PITT—“Abie’s Irish Rose.” DAVIS—Keith vaudeville. ACADEMY—Stock burlesque, GRAND—“Brass,” film.

Pittsburgh's theatrical district is nearly all dark with the closing of two more houses last week, the Gayety and Lyceym. The Gayety is booked to reopen the first week in August with Columbia circuit bur- lesque, while the Lyceum will open Labor Day with popular-priced shows, $1 top.

“The Three Dreamers” and Jim- mie Commoroda,: featured at the Hotel George cabaret, were added ee at the Academy last week,

“Powder River,” the United States Government’s own film of the World War, will play a return engagement, this time at the Nixon, opening last week in May.

——— NEWS TOPICS from the Studio of James Hargis Connelly Chicago

Miss Stella Mayhew spent a day last week at the Connelly Studio posing for photographs on her way from New York to Denver. Plans are- under way for the opening of a New York Connelly Studio this fall Announcement will be made later. Those desiring to be photographed would do well to send their names and addresses to the Chicago Studio, 508 Fine Arts you an announcement of his arrival.

A very pretentious lobby display will be made by ‘the Connelly Studio for the stock company or- ganizing for the Davidson Theatre,

Milwaukee, for the purpose of pho- tographing the entire company.

cabaret. _ VILLANI BROS. VALENTINO INN The Loop’s' Coziest Cafe, 22 East Adams Street Eight-course Italian table d’hote dinner, Tea dances from 3 p. m. to 6 LEW KANE TO GREET You —_———_—_—_—_— $1.25. Music, daneing and high-class Pp. m, Phone Dearborn 2568.

MILLION DOLLAR RAINBO ROOM Clark Street, at Lawrence Avenue, CHICAGO j MR. FRED MANN Presents EDWARD BECK!S ENTIRELY NEW GORGEOUS PRODUCTION “IN RAINBO LAND” Company of forty people with the most wonderful chorus ever seen on a floor and FRANK WESTPHAL and His RAINBO ORCHESTRA FAMOUS DINNERS AND A LA CARTE SERVICE

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10, 1923

BESTB (N VAUDEVILLE Today 2:15—Tonight 8:15

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WINNIE ldwi Heather Baldwin Present Singing «VISIONS OF 39¢69”| Séveral Songs MALETA. BONCONI LIBBY & NELSON ‘ ED AND BIRDIE CONRAD jin “HONEY SONGS* > iT. N HARRY ROSE Julia--NASH-O DONNELL-C.H. “THREE G, M.” ‘s The senson’s Comedy De Luxe KINOGRAMS—TOPICS of the DAY

&irlLaxe CITY THE DESERET NEWS

Orpheum Re-opens. After several weexs of Bummer vaudeville and pictures, and two ‘weeks of darkness, the Orpheum opened last night L vaudevillé season. An unusually en- tertaining Dill wag chosen for the opening week.

Delightful Josie

America's Fines!

KYRLTON SISTERS & MACK

;, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928. SEATTLE DAILY TIMES SINGING COMEDIENNE WINS SEATTLE PANTAGES AUDIENCE

Josie Heather, English singing comeditnne, whose piquancy and charm have madé her a favorite with American vaudeville audiences, adds distinction to this week's bill at The ‘Pantages. She is the headliner by right of personality and artistic merit. Miss Heather contributes a uumber of clever songs and has the assistance of her elster; Bobby, as a Scotch laddie, and McLaughlin at the Piano. She won a fine reception from the opening audience yesterday after- Makland Cribune MARCH 6, 1923

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JOSIE HEATHER AT PANTAGES IS. SVEN OVATION Josie Meather returned again with Bobby Heather and John Me. Laughlin, and charmed with her nicely-arranged repertoire of ex- clusive songs, Miss Heather is not only a hard worker; but she has.a showman-like routine and a mag- netic pergonality. Her ovation was

noon, and after an encore returned gain to tél} an amusing Scotch story OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, ¢ Classy interpretations are rendered by Josie Heather, aided by MacLaugh- lin, pianist superb, and Bobby Heather. Mies Heather comes to the Pantages with a long string of accomplishments before the crowned heads of Europe. ~ Her vivacious smile, dancipg eyes and exquisite gowns, enhance her act. She makes a hit. impersonating society danfes’ ‘chatter hefore a divoree tri- bunal and a young woman traveler, who fusses around ia the Pullman seat arranging , her ‘hair, etc, 2nd sings catchy songs. .-MacLaughiin plays the Tiosary on the piano. .

for the regular.’ | TUESDAY, JANUARY _16, 1923_ Hesthé? comeSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER—

{Msh< comedienne, topping thie, lst. Josie Heather is a‘name that is {known from one end of England to honestly earned and heartil by the mysic lovers, Pore

PORTLAND, OREGON. MORNING OREGONIAN, FEBRUARY 13, 1923 | At the Theaters.

Pantages. N unusually worth-while dill is current at Pantages, w'th chic and,charming Josie Heather, Eng- another, and since Alice Lioyd’s success in America no English come- dienne is so beloved as is the lovely

back again and at once wins her way into the hearts of ati with her per- ame her charm and her clever rendition of topical an treat.and will a charactertis- tie songs. Incidentally, she is most at- ned. Miss Heather is @ tractively SOW + Meme ge ‘welcomed. McLaughlin; an accom even Fy accompanies her, and young —J MISS HEATHER HEADS GOOD. BILL ber.

MINNEAPOLIS DAILY NEWS. ‘Josie Heather—An English come- dienne -of .merit,. who sings most charmingly a growp of songs.. Incl- dentally, Miss Heather is the best groomed woman -who has -appeared this yedr on the Orpheum stage, wear- ing the most artistically selected gowns of- the season. She is given g00d assistance by her sister Bobby. and John McLaughlin. pianist.

1 (DANTAGES TODAY—ALL WEEK Mat. Dally 2:30, Eve, 7 and @. The Fameus English Comediennt, JOSIE HEATHER in m delightfal repertoire of ¢X- clusive songs, assisied by John McLaughlin and Bobby Heather: KATE AND WILEY fn “Watch Your stp.” __ BOBBY COHAN " “Dancing Impressions. ELSIE CLARE Okey Phonograph Artist, with Nelson Story at piano. PALO AND PALET “Lee Beuffens Musical.” eee pan soacencrs 2 ote

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~~ April 30, 1923, Omaha Daily News- ENGLISH STAR HEADS WORLD PROGRAM _ Miss Josié Heather, vivacious star of English concert halls, headlines a dill of wide variety at the World theater this week. Miss Heather's song offerings differ pleasantly from those of the average comedienne with their absence of blues, yearn- ings for Dixie, and sweet ‘mammas. Her characterization of a society gossip in divorce court is decidedly jamusing. -

Josie. She is petite and beautiful, with a vivacity that animates every word she says or sings. The little Heathers act consists of her own songs, written for her exclusive use, and each telle a story. Her voice is sweet an? melodious. For each song Josie Gons a new frock. ~A likeabie chap, McLaughlin, is at the piano and plays a lively air or eo between Josie’s songs. Her little sister, Bob-

Bobbie Heather assists with one Sum-~ OSIB HEATHER, whose voice and smile are sure to captivate every audience, heads an unusually good bill at the Pantages this week with an unusually good act. Her songs and comedy patter aro excel- lent and she is ably supported by McLoughlin and Bobby Heather. There are no dull moments in their

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offering. San. Diego, Cal., Tuesday, March 20 ‘EVENING. TRIBUNE ~ropping the new bill is. Josie Heather, one of the best known and most popular singers.and com- ediennes on the vaudeville stage. Josie js demonstrating that she fe. just ‘as clever-as at any time n her career, and is scoring her usu a] big hit with*her late songs and original stories. Assisting at t e piano and doing some choice play- ing is John McLaughlin, while an- other member of the company. 15 Bobbie Heather, sister of Josie. and hersel¥ an artist of ability.

FEBRUARY 26, 1926 Pantages Opens With London Star Headlining

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Josie Heather London serio-comic singer, and a great favorite all over England, heads the new bili at the! Pantages Theater. Miss Heather | has“all the “pep” and style that} made Alice -Lioyd Bo popular, and she combines them. with a petite prettiness that wins the love cf her |} audiences ag seoh as she appears Her songs are al) exclusive, writ- ten for ber use, and each tells 2 story. She wears handsome cos- tumea, and is assisted by ner sister, Pobby Heather, in songs and danccé John MéLaughlin is at the piano.

bie Heather, appears in a Scotch song characterization and dances gaily. The Heather act is. further enhanced by a few studies in char- acter presented by the versatile ana talented Josic. Of these a study of @ woman visitor in a courtroom where a divorce suit ts being tried finds especial favor with the audi- q ence.

‘ SAN FRANCISCO. EXAMINER

Cain THE BARK

THE BEST 4 TWINS In a New loterlude of Seng and Dance

IN VAUDEVILLE RAUL ) VV Ovsheum Cri | ori kX

JOSIE | HEATHER With John MeLayghling ther and Bobbie H Singing Several Songs

SANDY SHAW Scotch Comedian

Harrison Katherine GREEN and PARKER in “AT THE DEPOT” By James J, Morton

HERMAN'& SHIRLEY Present “THE MYSTERIOUS , MASQUERADER’ Walter Ethel WARD & DOOLEY “What We Can Do”

BERT BAKER & CO- “PREVARICATION”

KANSAS CITY POST

OrpheumeVandeville, Josie Heather, a clever little come- ~ dienne, stepped into the Orphum bill almost unannounced yesterday and car- ried away honors of the feature act of a rather interesting program. Miss Heather, who is familiar to vaudeville audiertes in Kansas City, having ap peared at the old Orpheum theater on Ninth street and several times at the

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1923

PANTAGES HEADLINER

~ COMEDIENNE | Josis Heather, the English sing- néw house, has a personality that is dit- ferent. Her act savors of the old quality of vaudeville, when individuality and talent were tho necessary requisites of performers. Assisting her this week is Jobn McLaughlin, pianist-

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Haye you! noticed. the solemnity of ‘Imect vaudeville performers? ‘Their lips part in set smile, but the face remains grave. Even the professional humor- ist’s face is clouded with sadness. *'Be- ing funny is serious business,” he might jwell.say aloud, - You learn to distrust the vaixleville sniile. It. is only. when someone like’ Josie Héather breezes through a little round of songs that you believe in it—and therein les’ the trick of the -successful-artist. Miss Heather hag learned. to take you'intg her ap- parently ‘carefree. mood, whether she is singing a Scotch tune or telling the tale of ‘Sarah, whose eye twitched in. unfor- tunate manner. Each season marks ad- vancemént

CHROMICLE, ing comedienne, .tops the show at the Pantages. She js petite and peautiful, wiih vivacity that anl- mates every word she says oF sings. Her act consists of her own gongs, written for her exclusive use,.and each: song tells a story. Miss- Heather is assisted by John McLaughlin at the piano and her sister Bobby in songs and dances, | JOSIE HEATHER A WINSOME MISS ORPHEUM Josie Heather—how delightfully her name fits her personality! She is fresh @8 a peach, as ruddy as a cherry and possessing, withal, a charming naivete as she carols through a series of sonrs in a bewildering number of smart frocks and bonnets. Her voice is not that of a siren, wooing mariners upor rocky isles, but it is: wonderfully un- affected and spirited. She was given a hearty elcome esterday and re- sponded with a saucy ditty teliing al} about-a Quaker lassie with a wink in her eye.

SEASON... . \V2LOTSA. OB PHEUM CiRGuUNT, a fA DA Ad CK jeu

STARTING MATINEE TOMORROW for -‘this’ capital singer, whose appearance at*the Orpheum this week brings her ih the best act she has shown.us: John McLaughlin, an able pianist, and & bbie Heather assist her.

The Charming and Winsome Little Singing Comedienne, JOSIE. HEATHER Acsisted by John McLaughlin an@ Bobby Heather in o Delightful Beperteire ef Bxclusive Songs.

Have Yeu Met The 4 of Us oe eee A Quartette ef Distinction. acterts “THE VILLAGE NUT EDDIE BLACK and CLAIRE O'DONNELL

LILIAN SASSY GONNE in “Merry Christmas”

THE PRETTOS Snappy Aerialists

Ep ERNEST EDELSTEN, WYTAGES CIKCONT, 5. LISLE STREET. Soviove wi Suns. LONDON. W.E.=.- ENGLAND.

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i ene eee oe VARIETY There is but one accepted theatrical paper that starts every week to go around the world—it’s Variety. - =. Wherever there are show people, there is Variety; no mat- ter where; no horizon to Variety’s circulation. Martin Beck says he bought Variety in Cairo; the same week others bought it in London, Paris,” Sydney; all over and wherever the show business in English is talked over. And as widely where it is not. Variety has as yearly subscribers the leading picture and showmen of all nations, whether Holland or South America, New Zealand or South They subscribe because they want it weekly, every issue, as the news medium for the theatre of the world. Africa. That is universally placed publicity besides the conceded publicity Variety gives at home, to any form of professional amusement on the stage or screen or in the ring or on the lot. The show business is an open field for talent and showman- ship—let the show business know you are in it. Advertise in THE INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL MEDIUM “All of the News All of the Time” By HARDIE MEAKIN Summer, theatrically, is earlier than ever in Washington. Poli's with a suddenness that was star- tling, joined the National and closed Saturday, although another attrac- tion was booked in for the current week. This leaves the local the- atre-goers with but stock compa- nies, in legit. True, these stock companies are doing splendid things, giving us plays that in most instances haven’t as yet appeared here, and presenting them in a man- SUPERFLUOUS HAIR PERMANENTLY REMOVED From face, neck and arms by the only successful method in the world POSITIVE AND PAINLESS. NO NEEDLES OR CHEMICALS USED. Has no ill effects on the skin or health and is particularly effective in stub- born cases where other methods failed Physicians’ investigations soNcited. Free booklet. N. Y. Cosmo-Plastic 347 Fifth Ave. Opp. Waldorf, Suite 804, Ashland 6174 Physicians in attendance. Inst., ner that does credit to.the plays offered. George Marshall, with his season of repertoire at the Belasco, is care rying a heavy salary list, and this week is the second for “Bluebeard's Eighth Wife.” The business, from all reports, doesn’t equal that of “The Demi-Virgin,” but there is evi- dently little room for complaint, and last night’s opening of the Gar- rick company, another Marshall venture, with A. H. Woods’ new “The Whole Town’s Talking,” plece found the little theatre filled. Terry Duffy and Arthur Smith thing to be thankful for at the President. “The Gold Dig- gers” is doing great. True, it isn’t equalling “Abie’s Irish Rose” on the gross receipts, but then, again, will any piece do it? They have gath- ered together a cast that would do Belasco credit, and their second week, from box office indications, will undoubtedly go over the figures of the first. The closing of Poli’s was mighty have every ibrupt. James Barton didn’t do a Francis X. Hennessy P IRISH PIPER—SCOTCH PIPER (7% Violinist (Musician), Irish Step —, ¥ +4 and Scotch Highland Dancer. Play fo etamess" parts. Vaudeville. Would join Musical Act. Bur- lesque, Irish comedian, or Lady Singer. Partner. AGENTS, Keep My Address, Variety, New York. ARE YOU GOING TO EUROPE? Steamship accommodations arranged on all Lines, at Main Office thing last week in the new “In the Moonlight.” It is wondered if he ever will with the piece in any the- atre, and it was this that evidently caused the Shuberts to write “finis” on the season 1922-23 for the house. A concert attraction comes in the latter part of this week. Manager R. S. Leavitt is undecided as to his summer plans. He has made a host of friends here during his stay, and it is hoped he will be at the theatre again the coming season. Paul Gardner Tchernikoff, ballet master of the Washington Opera Company, is appearing in a recital of dances with Elizabeth Gardiner at the President, May 18. Another dancing feature will hold forth in this house, presented by Smith & Duffy, in a dance revue presented by Stamford Pemberton. He ap- pears with his pupils. Miss Hawke's dancing school pupils also deported themselves at this house Wednes- day (9th). - The Cosmos has another of the big time headliners this week in 30bby Higgins, the balance of the bill consisting of Rives and Arnold, Cantwell and Walker, “Dreams,” Frankie Richardson, Harry Bentel. GAYETY—"“wet’s Go.” Thé picture houses are offering the following: Rialto, “Racing Hearts”; Palace, “The Ne’er Do Well’; Metropolitan, “Within the Law”; Columbia, “You Can’t Fool Your Wife.” Glen Echo, Washington summer tivoli theatre LEGAL ITEMS Cecile Weston was served last week at Loew’s American, New York, in a suit for $238.75 for royali- ties due Andy Rice, her author, Rice should have received 10 per cent. of her salary which she said was $275. Davis-& Davis, the author’s counsel, allege it exceeded that amount. ——E Charles H. Peddrick, Jr., has filed a $3,095 attachment in the New York Supreme Court against the Triumph Pictures Corp., claiming a balance due for salary at the rate of $583.34 for services as general man- ager. Engaged April, 1922, his serv- ices were dispensed with October, 1922, with the understanding, it is alleged, that he was to be paid up to Dec. 31, 1922. The Doubleday Producing Co. in Chicago has obtained judgment for $54,000 for breach of contract against the Russell Producing Co., in which W. D. Russeii and Bernard Russell were prominent. They operated a picture exchange and were to handle Fritzi Ridgway and Lester Cuneo in midwest territory. A series of 26 individual suits for copyright infringements’ by various picture theatre owners was filed last week in the U. S. District Court by different music publishers. Included among the defendants is the Sydco Photoplay Corp. and other holding companies controlled by Sydney S. Cohen, president of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America, who recently notified the American Society of Composers. no longer pay music tax for the prigilege of performing the society’s copyrighted catalog. The infringe- ments in Cohen’s theatres were spotted a few days after this noti- fication. The publisher-plaintiffs are: Wit- mark, five suits; Harms, five ac- tions; Feist, six; Remick, two: Stark & Cowan, one; Shapiro- Bernstein, two; Jack Mills, one: COVERS FOR ORCHESTRATIONS AND LEATHER SRIEF CASES. * ART BOOKBINDING CO. 119 WEST 424 STREET NEW YORK CITY bartram and saxton are to special programs in de luxe picture houses. how vaudeville bookers ever allowed this two-men team to escape will always remain a mystery. . , , Authors and Publishers he would. , variety [loop] ellen & Born- Music Co., one. Forster, one; Ager, stein, two; McKinle Laura D. Wilck effected the sale of Donn Byrne’s_“Foolish Matrons” story for pictures to Maurice Tour- neur for $10,000 last year. As a re- sult the playbroker ha_ filed an $300 attachment against the English author. Miss Wilck claims this as a balance due for commissions. Byrne 1s said to be touring Ireland now. A letter on file in the New York Supreme Court written’ by Byrne expresses the author’s anger at the agent not receiving $15,000 for the story, which value he orig- inally placed on it. Harry J. Doering, a transporta- tion agent, is suing Lew Fields in the City Court to recover $1,475.10 advanced the defenda~t Dec. 9, 1922, to transport the “Ritz Girls” (Shu- bert unit) from New York to Chi- cago. Doering sets forth Fiélds agreed the company was to return the money at the rate of $250 weekly, starting Dec. 12. Fields did not appear in the show. JAMES MADISON says Recently a couple, after dan- cing 72 hours without stop- ping, went crazy. They proved it by getting married. ar IT iS EASY to get good material that is not new and new material that is not good, but the material I write is both new and good. 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ne ee er ey 7 — + oe Andree , ? . Las ae BE an i ee eS a a ee ene a Eee fe lihamavhisuhiehie oud i ae ee ee fs og eerie? men en yen Ce ee VARIETY. Pole at the THE INTUITION OF TOM DOUGLAS “'Merton’ should be a success through the genius of Tom Douglas. Genius is the only word that fits him. This shy brilliance of a lad of 19. By some strange intuition he shows with an extraordinary delicacy of touch; the pathos that lurks behind youth's I should not be surprised to find him one ‘really serious stuff’ of which he DISPATCH.” comedies. day playing the dreams.” —“WEEKLY “This is Tom Douglas’ first long part. He plays with ingenious pathos..-When he kneeled to pray, the L thor- Comedy struck a note of reverent sincerity. oughly enjoyed myself with the charm, the natural- ness, and the pathos of this young actor (who cannot have reached his majority).”"—‘THE TIMES.” *That boy, Tom Douglas, is the embodiment of American Youth with its boyish ideats."—‘DAILY GRAPHIC.” “Tom Douglas is beautifully simple and sincere. Certainly worth importing.” —‘SUNDAY PICTORIAL.” “As ‘Merton,’ Tom Douglas was splendid. He was ‘Merton’ to a miracle. Were [I not a hardened goer, I could not believe that such divine could be assumed’’—‘LLOYD’S SUNDAY NEWS.” , pl Ly- innocence The Critics continue to praise TOM DOUGLAS in ‘MERTON OF THE MOVIES” A LONDON SENSATION! SHAFTSBURY THEATRE; LONDON “The special novelty, not to say charm, of ‘Mertan,” is that through it runms—better say glides—a delight- ful hero, delightfully played, Tom Dougias, this.new and very young American, gives a most attractive and an altogether remarkable performance. He is indeed, a most welcome comedian and proves his real worth by scoring highly. ‘Merton’ is well worth see- ing if only to see young Tom’ Douglas.” —‘THE REFEREE.” YOUNG AMERICAN ACTOR'S SUCCESS “Another great American acting discovery was made last night. He has personality and engaging charm, His acting is admirable.” —‘MANCHESTER DISPATCH.” “Since Tom Dougtas is an actor of such exceptional charm, ‘Merton’ may repeat its American success in London, Scenes that could so easily be made ridicu- lous bring tears as played by Tom Douglas. There is pienty of splendid acting in the play. But everything else is eclipsed by Mr. Tom Douglas as ‘Merton’. He plays with touching sincerity, winning simplicity, and lovely patheticness. Also he is so nice to look at with his fair hair and his wonderful smile.’—“‘H & M.” Douglas is sure of popular success.” —“SUNDAY CHRONICLE.” Tom “Tom Douglas, still in his teens, is so natural, it is difficult to believe he is acting, but he is, and it was a wonderful performance.”—‘ENCORE,” “Tom Douglas is the most charming thing that has crossed the Atlantic. We do not-recali acting quite so sincere and natural. Mr. Douglas has, in a supreme degree, the art which conceals art. He is at once a simple! lovable boy, and a born actor.”’—-“ERA.” ‘Merton’ introduces to the London stage an actor of great naturalness and charm, Mr. Tom Douglas. The ‘clou of the evening was Tom Douglas. An ideal- istic, charming, tactiess, nice, young boy has never been put more appealingly on the London stage.” —‘GLASGOW TIMES.” NOTABLE ACTING BY YOUNG AMERICAN “Tom Douglas must feel very happy over his first experience with a London audience. They were im- pressed by his absolute naturalness and the charm ef his personality and his success from now onwards is assured.’"—“NEWS OF THE WORLD.” “Mr. Tom Douglas is the most beautiful, the most touching thing that has occurred since Miss Wina May appeared here in 1898."—‘THE POST.” gy» ty Bed ste | BUFFALO mentioned as a prebability for mid-¢the folks to drop in and see him in|[last week in a specially-staged,;Graumar theatres. He is theatre summet: costume at Shea's during the week. |] “western” act at Grauman’s Million |manager for Universal, a new de- By SIDNEY BURTON : —- Norman's graciousness to the rather | Dollar. partment instituted by Eugene Ed Wynn closed the season at*the Betty Koenig and Co. (Yiddish) | small crowd was noteworthy fol- —— Roth, recently engaged by Carl zx showed at the Teck Sunday night] lowing his recent Cleveland expe- aemmile, to keep an eye on the ajestic last week to good business “2g eo spn ane So ee ben PeVCEAT xf ed Se — ae oe » € . ye ne 3 top, gen rally considered | it “My Mother's Beau,” a musical *nee Frank McDonald, one-time owner]|presentation of “U” features ia too high tee here this time of year comedy Despite opposition gross elena of 9 hatt dozen jitney picture cokst playhouses, Present plans have the weuse Garni tense $1,000. Boris Thomashevsky Last Saturday marked the close theatres, ran for Cong ess at the for summ - althaneh several stock booked for one performance at Teck ]of the regular Mutual burlesque ee ae : rer) here fast week, but | ————— — BURSTS, SSS! St eT ed Sund {May 13} i: Livel: ndisesson at the Garder Stock bt was defeatec a bian ng nd Jess R siieal Ile is sunday (aay i iti aor yes “wii s3asor ae ere f-ardaen SlocKk yur- are Hidt so Happy L1omashevsk irst ap-|lesque inaugurated this week, set — I C } ———_—xax——=—a——Ee—OO——— = pearance in PUTESA 3 ime ~horus of 24 girls and change of - eS. ~ 1919 principals week! Mike Newman has resigned as THE STANDARD ENGRAVING CO. Inc a * * x* be - . ; —--- zeneral production mahager of the 225 West 39 St. NEW YORK. ysTAGEN scdllidden Karyl Norman appeared as star Walter Hampden, at the Teck last oS feature of Anti-Prohibition I gue | we played to as small audiences | ~ - — —— = —_— “Sat 8 ing Norman show i san ) The Black Flag A E. Thomas’ ¥ 6o_ tume lid several songs, proved e | new ynedy, first half, and “The P~ NS hit of the ”v nd displayed >|Ring of Truth,” dramatized from knack of shown ip whe »| Browning's “Ring and the Book,” made a neat little speech inviting AS Th Harmile Saturda; se nce ee ene s eenennneeenanneeneeeeemesen tt nnn ne first two are men- , t 1E* g ‘'t of the nden-Na- The World 3 largest e tior é d as part of the Hampd n Na nique om y ional Theatre repertoire for New manufacturers of the- York next season. “The Black Flag” ° was particularly well received by atrical footwear. We Sketch Woman the reviewers, being. pronounced a . . veritable “Treasure Island fit entire companies, AND MAN FEED. Pe ees Any . a For ; : ral deli thor also individual orders. ror rignts, apply Sneddon, vuth LOS ANGELES NEW YORK—1554 B’way at 46th St. | q uze oP: 176 West 94th Street, By ED KRIEG CHICAGO—State and Monroe Sta. New York City; Tel. 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Heralded by all critics as a Dancing Wonder ZIT’S 4 “He's a male Pavlowa, the NEW YORK “GLOBE” “Young Frank Bernard accom- plishes some of the strangest, most dif- ficult and most in- teresting manei- vers yet dignihed with the name of dancing.” PHILADELPHIA “PUBLIC LEDGER” “Bombo has several excellent dancers, young Frank Bernard be- ing the best and limberest eccentric That boy’s legs suggest nothing so much stepper we have seen in years. as cooked macaroni. He can send any part of each one flying in any direction, and do it gracefully and 9 with artistry, too. FRANK | BERNARD Sensational Dancer in AL JOLSON’S “BOMBO”

VARIETY **He’s a master of the split; a sen- sational wonder,” CHICAGO — “JOURNAL” “A youth named Frank Bernard, as tall as the Wrig- ley tower, steps about, and with the longest legs known to man, ac- the highest kicks complished

known to anyone.” COMING TO THE WINTER GARDEN NEW YORK MAY 15th

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would realize her dream of a home in the country, ete. John’s business of a professional beggar is idealized by Mary as that of being an actor from morning till night—acting as a blind man on the sympathies of passers-by. John enters, admitting | he has played his last role tonight and that his many years’ hoard shall serve in good stead in his part of a gentleman, calmly confessing the acquisition of a new paramour and “airing” Mary. However, he orders her to make up an eye lotion for him before saying goodnight and goodby, the dazed Mary confuses the bottles with a strong acid forgotten the neighboring Mrs. Smith. becomes truly blind, which is too good for the 30-minute egg, and Mary decides to travel the by John hattan Directed by Murray Phillips, aj/river route. — of the cast Who did both jobs Niee, cheerful theme that, but ex- M ary .. covencccsccocscece Leuche Arnold cellently. played by Murray Phillips Mrs. Smit! Miriam Ravitch} and Lucile Arnold, with Miriam “Acto JONN weceesesess Murray Phillips| Ravitch as comedy relief in the Mary and “Actor” John have been | neighbor part. living together 14 years, Mary hav- ing run away with her lover at 18 when he left their home town to accept a small engagement with a minor theatrical troupe. Mary has borne his cruelties and insults for many years in the hope John these

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CABARET FOR RENT at White Lake, Sullivan County, N. Y. FOR SUMMER SEASON Consists of 12 livine rooms bal bar, two iccomMmmodating kitchens, and ith 600 guests Ssitage W two Apply GEORGE J. GUNSHOR 8678 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y. Also Picture Theatre for —— rent, eating Phone Bensonhurst 0513J 300, fully equipped, no opposition | | | 4 Thursday Evening Brooklyn Institute Players of Brook ! N Y., present Christopher Morley playlet, directed by Bennett Kilpack. Scene | The s the kitchen in the suburban home of the Gordon Johns. Gordon Johns.....+..-++++..-Bennett Kilpack TMU woes csccocccccemsscecos Esther Davis Mrs. Sheffield....... Effie Lawrence Palmer Mra. JONRNS. .ccccrcccccccces Rose Blanchfield “Thursday Evening” is a minia- ture “First Year,” with all the ap- peal of the Broadway success. It | is cook’s night off, and Gordon Johns | is washing the dishes while his wife, them, Gordon is .or left-overs and Laura is not. That starts a domestic battle, with the husband raving about economy, and ends with a tiff. Mrs. Sheffield, Laura’s mother, and Mrs Laura, dries saving the Johns, the husband’s mater, are present that evening, and having overheard, decide to show up the young folks’ foolishness. That’s a reverse on a usual mother-in-law angle, both being sympathetically drawn, They frame a phony verbal debate between themselves for the benefit of the young couple who can- not help overhearing, beIng in ad- joining -quarters, with the _ result Laura and Gordon are shamed into making up. The skeleton is padded out with truly humorous lines and business. The cast on the whole their assignments superbly, . Abel. handled The Cathedral Players of Albany, N. Y., will present the Hamilton- La Rue piece, “Dear Me,” in that city May 21, 22 and 323. The Cathedral Players are being di- rected by Walter Doyle, with Frank Moran acting as stage manager. In the cast are J. Emmett Wall, Ray-

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quest. igs expected, when the house will probably go dark, which’ wil! leave nothing but the three pop vaude- ville houses and the picture places to furnish the downtown amuse- ment.

Gardner’s New Orleans Jazz Or- chestra will furnish the music for

the “Board Walk” in Electric Park this season. The Kaneéas City. Grand Opera Co. will be seen at the Grand thea- tre again this season for a week starting May r Five operas will be presented, opening with “Madama Butterfly.” The others are “Faust,” “Mignon,’” “Il Trova- tore” and “The Bohemian Girl.” Ernest. Davis has been engaged to sing the role of Pinkerton in “But- terfly” and the tenor roles in some of the other bills. The parts of Butterfly and Sharpless will be in WANTED---Park Managers until fall in Chicago and outside for Crystal Maize Apply CHARLES BROWNING

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EDDIE MACK TALKS: CLARENCE SENNA pappearing with Miss Ruby Norton at Keith’s Palace, New York, this week, is one of vaudeville’s best Pianists and Mr. Senna is a nifty dresser and a very His wardrobe by Eddie Mack will last him MACK’S CLOTHES SHOP MACK BUILDING Just a step East of Broadway on 46th Street 1 BERT IS AT THE 46th STREET STORE No. 133 she leaves for a tour of Australia

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Kansas City Elks, which lodge numbers many professionals among its members, are to have a new home which will rank toward the top of Elk clubhouses throughout the country. The new building, the site of which has not been an- nounced, will cost approximately $1,000,000.

The Pantages theatre did its bit toward making “Boys’ Week” a real success by admitting any boy free to the house all day Friday, the only provision to the offer being that the boy must be accompanied by “Dad.”

DETROIT By JACOB SMITH SHUBERT-DETROIT — 2 week of “Fabiola.” Business poor. Next, “Dancing Girl.” Due to stay two weeks. NEW DETROIT—Fred Stone in “Tip Top.” Probably remain second week, GARRICK-—Chauncey Olcott. Next, Bonstelle Players. MAJESTIC—“East Is West.” Next, “My Lady Friends.” COLONIAL—wNora and Kellogg; Lamey & Pearson, and Girlie; Brown, Gardner garrett; Green and Burnett. Sidney Maurice and

Sid Lawrence has been appointed manager of the New Regent theatre, Grand Rapids, acheduled to open June 15. ROCHESTER, N. Y. By L. B. SKEFFINGTON LYCEUM—“The Perfect Fool.”

FAY’S—Dobbs, Clarke and Dare; Charles Ser 1; Merritt and Cough- ‘lin; Mulro: McNeese and Ridge; iCalvert and Shayne; Kinsella and Bell; “Driven,” film. EASTMAN—‘Bella Donna,” film feature; Eastman Orchestra; Geof- frey O’Hara, composer; Vladimir Dubinski, cellist; Eastman theatre ballet. Pictures—Bebe Daniels in “The World’s Applause,” Piceadilly; Doug- las MacLean in “Bell Boy i3” and Leatrice Joy in “Java Head,” Re- gent; Buck Jones in “West of Chi- cago” and Earle Williams in “You Never Know.”

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anniversary of the first stmging of “Home, Sweet Home” in the Covent Garden theatre, London, May 8, 1823, the Eastman orchestra is featuring that composition this week. The original manuscript of the opera of which the song was a part was re- cently purchased by Hiram W. Sib- ley of Rochester and presented to the Sibley Musical Library of the] ored curtains have been hung, and University of Rochester, which he | by changing the light combinations founded years ago. The library has | weekly setting will be seen a famous collection of rare musical | weekly. The change was made at manuscripts. Payne’s original script | the suggestion of Samuel Rothafel is on exhibition this week in the}and was executed under the direc- library, housed in the Eastmanj|tion of his art director at the Schoo! of Music, adjoining the East- | Capitol. man theatre. liminary. work had been done. so that a large force succeeded in plac- ing a new set overnight. The pon- derous Italian -garden setting ~is gone, the screen is eight feet nearer the audienee, the” orchestra is re- arranged, and in place of the built- up setting is one which depends eh- tirely on light effects. Neutral coi- a hew

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Manager Frank Priestland of His Majesty’s is now negotiating for the Matthews-Cameron Players, an Eng- lish stock organization. If the deal materializes the stock company will open after the close of the regular season for a ten week’s engagement. SAN FRANCISCO Bert Levey has added two more houses to his circuit in California. The big picture houses in Eureka and in Ukiah contrelled by George Mann are to plav Levey vaudeville in conjunction with its screen fea- tures.

Will T. Goodwin, stage manager for the “Pepper Box Revue,” is leav- ing that-production. He has been engaged to go to the Tremont, Bos- ton, to stage manage the “Little Nellie Kelly” show in that house. Goodwin leaves here July 27. ser, who take Foster & K lei ¢ FOR SALE fancy interior of model shop, front drop, backing, two borders, leg drop, and ground cloth. Very beautiful. Cheap for cash. New setting used by Genaro & Gold To Be Seen at Beaumont’s Studio, 225 West 46th Street, New York care

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Caroline Schrieber is a patient in the tubercular ward at the Califor- nia Sanitorium, near Belmont, Success In managing a _ theatre does not always mean success as 2 producer, according to a suit on file in the courts here against the Cos- mopolitan Producing Company, Fred A. Geisea, W. A. Rusco, Max Hasse and T. C. Reavis. ' The action is for back salaries amounting to $1,743.15, claimed by members of the erstwhile “The Girl and the Tramp” road show. The complainants filed the suit through Equity with Attorney The- odore Hale appearing for the plain- tiffs. Hale also is the Equity rep- resentative in San Francisco. Chief among complainants is Ivy Merton. She says she was starred in “The Girl and the Tramp” for a Pacific Coast road tour and that the company stranded St. Patrick's Day in Red Bluff. Dick Wilbur, manager of the company, is aHeged to have failed to pay salaries when l'the production closed and that the | Actors’ Equity advanced money to |

bring the troupers home. The Kenmat Productions, Inc., a picture corporation composed of a few San Franciscans and headed by | Harry A. McKenzie, a lawyer and clubman, has finished its first film, “Crossed Wires,” and has sent it on ito New York. In the cast are | Bileen Percy, Jack Mulhall and Wal- jace Beery. Waring’s Pennsylvanians, an or-

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be é SPOKANE, WASH. By E. J. CROSBY Manager Oppenheimer, in dis- missing the union men from. the Hip, included two union operators. One non-union operator was en- gaged. - Manager Oppenheimer recently started his summer schedule, drop- ping the Ackerman & Harris acts.

He will stage four Levy acts week- ly, with a picture completing the bill. He denies his reducing was influenced by the Miller affair of last week. jert CC, Miller, or- chestra clarinetist, was previous- ly discharged by Oppenheimer be- cause, the manager said, Miller blew sweet notes into his instru- ment and they came out sour. The orchestra then walked out and called “Chuck” Whitehéad’s orches- tra, a local union organization, off the program. Oppenheimer patched up the affair and Miller returned. Late last week Miller voluntarily left the orchestra and filed suit against Oppenheimer for $7,500 damages because of the manager’s remarks about him, That Manager Oppenheimer’s lit-

tle plan for help-saving at the Hip- podrome Theatre is going to en- counter some difficulty is evidenced eee by the moves of the local theatrical | unions At a closed meeting here! it was plianned by represe ntatives | of the ians, stage hands and musit

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operators’ unions to effect a fed« erated council. The representatives deny that they have thoughts of boycott for the Hippodronte, The local untons have mot yet asked their internationals te rate the Hippodromie as an “unfair” house, This appeal is expected ere the new moon, Walter Wells and four musicians who formerly constituted the or< chestra at the Olympic, Seattle, are in the Hippodrome pit as a non< union organization. The barometer is falling vicinity of the Hippodrome. in the “Chuck” Whitehead’s jazz orchestra, of Whitehead’s Dancing Palace here, began a six weeks’ tour of the Pantages Cir- cuit, opening at the locai house this week, Whitehead’s gang have stopped the show at every perform- ance here with their classy act. A feature of their number is the stunt whereby all of the musicians play at all the instruments. The playing of the blues is enhanced by a neat novelty stunt. nine-piece Elsie Ferguson at Auditorium May 11-12 in “Wheel of Life.”

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F BS Sig os a Thursday, May 10, 1993 ARCHIE BELL __ The CLEVELAND “NEWs” May 1, 1923 KEITH’S PALACE BILL The management announces three headliners at Keith’s Palace Theatre; the audience adds another. Perhaps you never heard of him before; [

feel quite certain that I never dia At least, the name of Frank Dixon doesn’t come to memory. But one will not be likely to forget him after seeing him in his out-of-town news. stand skit called “Lonesome Manor.” It is a smartly written trifle on quite the old lines of “Why, howdy do! You from Kokomo and me from Kokomo. Both of us in New York city. Let’s get married.” But the exceedingly clever manner in which this young Mr. Dixon puts the whole business over the footlights and the rounds of applause that greeted him yesterday afternoon raises him aiso to headline position along with the galaxy.

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BOSTON “The Storm” nearly wrecked the nine-act Keith bill, and only heroie efforts and a new lay-out kept the show from being one of those things As originally laid out, the Langdon McCormick spectacie was spotted i. seventh place, and when the cum- bersome vehicle was jumped to closing spot, where'it properly be- longed, and the smoke cleared away. Sybil Vane found herself dropped from sixth position into the deuce spot. The original bill was laid out thus: Mary Gautier and Co., Harry Jolson, Jack Henry and Bdythe Maye, Wayne and Warren, O’Don- nell and Blair,. Sybil Vane, “The Storm,” sert Gordon.and Cene Ford and Irving Goslar and Rhea Lusby. Monday night it played: Mary Gautier and Co., Sybil Vane, Jack Henry and Edythe Maye, Harry Jolson, O'Donnell and Blair, Wayne and Warren, Gosglar and Lusby, Gordon and Ford, and “The Storm.” The change put a little more pacé in the show, but the bill still creaked and stage waits still ex- isted. The house was nearly tight at the night show, despite a real summery day and daylight saving. Sybil Vane’s accompanist, Leor Domaue, received the loudest hand of the entire bill. Miss Vane was in good voice, but has not the type of.numbers she needs to offset her lack of aggressiveness of person- ality. The George Choos comedy tab with music, “A Ring Tangle,” fea- turing Jack Henry and Edythe Maye, was a bit moist and dragged a bit during the final five minutes. Harry Jolson made a slow start and a fine finish, which is always good showmanship. He needs ma- terial tc speed up his upward climb. His girl partner (not billed) is a valuable adjunct to his act, being an unusually wholesome type. is also using a song plugger from the orchestra pit instead of a seat to get around the local censorsh’p restrictions, and this singer, who blended well with Jolscn, did much toward putting the act over strong. Al Jolson is playing the Shubert a few biocks away, which helped Harry considerably as a draw. O'Donnell and Blair woke the house up with a crash, and Wayne Jolson —— snappy. Goslar and Lusby slowed down the bill back to normalcy, and Gerdon and Ford, in next to closing, while going big, had an unnecessar amount of close-to-the-indigo stu thai wculd be a how! in an average house, but didn’t go quite so well with a family house. SYRACUSE, N. Y. By Chester B. Bahn TEMPLE—Vaudeville. WIETING—Dark. STRAND—“Safety Last.” EMPIRE—“Fourth Musketeer.” ROBBINS-ECKEL—"Christian.” CRESCENT—“Knighthood.”

Syracuse “got back to normalcy” this week with full vaudeville pro- grams at the Temple and Keith’s. The latter house last week was forced to split between the annual Music Festival and regular vaude- vile. The Festival was not a big financial success this year, the~as- sociation probably. breaking even or making a slight profit. Monday and Wednesday nighis coneert drew good houses, but the matinees on Tuesday and Wednesday and the night concert on Tuesday were minus capacity houses. ~ The Grand, Auburn, may be sold by the Burtis estate to outside in- terests, according to the Auburn tialto. The block is held at $100,000. The Colonial, Utica, will play pic- tures during the summer. ° William: Berestien, of Albany, will erect a theatre in Little Falls, N. Y., ground being scheduled to be broken late in the month. The house, to occupy the did Kehoe site, will have a seating capacity of 1,300. Attrac- tions and vaudeville. After some weeks as booking agent for the Bob Finlay troupe, Lester Sparks, of Little Falls, N. Y., is back in his home town as man- ager of the Hippodrome, just taken over by the Gateway Theatre Co. from the Linton interests. The Cameo, the remodeled St. Johnsville (N. Y.) playhouse, re- opened this week. Smith MacGregor will manage the house. Presence of mind of Cleveland Rock, picture operator at the Pal- ace, Watertown, averted a bad fire. INERS MAKE UP

Est. Henry C. Miner, Inc. ——— Surrounded by flames, and with his hands and face blistered by the blaze which started in the projection booth, Rock grabbed a container of films and rushed out, closing the fireproof door that blocked the spread of the flames. Loss about $1,500.

FRED RENOFF and LEE Sensational Original Novelty “The great big electrifying moment of- LORIS the performance, however, is provided in the splendid and unusual dancing of Fred Renoft and Loris Lee. The g_ri is a Pavilowa in perfection of technique, making astonishing rises and falls and balancings on her toes, but her acrobatic leapings and pirouettings fairly sent the audience into sustained applause and left us-thrilled and interested. Miss Lee is a@ phenomenal dancer, of amazing grace and ingenuity, and, insofar as the audience wa concerned, she was the Star of ithe ‘Merry Widow.’ ”’ “Ons of the outstanding features of the production is the specialty dancing of Miss Loris Lee an@ Fred Renoft. ‘Adagio” in the last act may, without exaggeration, be classed as one of the most brilliant efforts in this direction ever seen.” “There is a dancing specialty by Fred Renoff and Lorig Lee which was re- warded with thunderous applause and is one of the big features of the show. One wonders how it can be carried out without an accident; but it is all done minus a mishap.” That’s What Critics Say. ARTHUR HAMMERSTEIN and HENRY W. SAVAGE Can Tell You More. Address, care of M. Ferrari Studios, 1658 Broadway, New’ York

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ee ee ee ee er > > ~ ae ie a 9 : ee eee ea ees VARIETY Thursday, May 10, 1923 King Herod. The audience was p = 44 m3 an x gee a pia : ing Waltz | i 3 lig or 3 tio 4 col Fox Trot : ol ous 4 ! she Sensation! _— 2 s Ne - po} We Originated the Song Title; “GRANDADDY” ; 2 % 'e to e ad : wil rea ‘ ” vc "9 i ces y £ on) 3 tio! Fox Trot ms Fox Trot r 4 ed} P : the éé 9 ZX , \ @ civ a f to : ie wh: -— Waltz or Fox Trot | Dpto voz T Pre ew or I ‘4 Mon SIXTH FLOOR, ee Bpbpasteny ea Mict Will Bett Billy —_—_—_— + = Bem ome en ETHIOPIAN AR lome” by colored players was played)to follow the enforced layoff Silas ;endowed by her with seductive al- {pulled many a better man than he Mme 0 T 29 up with no reference made to a|is trying to think of ways and means |lurement in the passages that found |from his throne. r (Continued from page 29) playlet of colored life, also to be| whereby he may keep his menage/her trying to secure Jokanaan, As King Herod, Sydney Kirkpat- " Theatre, a company of colored play-|-iven. However, that little playlet|afloat. He informs his wife he is | played by Solomon Bruce, and with |rick was a marvel of endurance in Pun reg presenting their artistry under!) ved to be the highlight of the|certain that Aunt Nancy, who has|real dramatic force in her speeches |the terrific long speeches he has in day direction of Raymond Ay ie. evening. Without it there would|been living with them and nursing | with her stepfather-uncle, the King. reac wih the program states, “has had/have been a tendency to look upon | Liza, has a secret hoard. He knows|And when Miss Preer danced she - of ears of experience with the| tne ¢Salome” effort with a tolerance|she has been getting money from | dispensed with six of the seven veils | KENNARD’S Bak stage, th in America and phan that they would have bestowed on | passers-by on the street while wan- |that Salome was supposed to have, | sypPORTERS of F The initial presentation on ith children striving to mimic their | dering about picking up bits of woodjand slipped over a real thrilling 249 W. 88th 8t.. N. ¥ atte occurred before a mixed house, The elders, but “The Chip Woman's For- | and chunks of coal to keep the house | semi-cooth, concluding it with a] Biooe sits Roy 0344 Her soolety—near ane A pon a os tune,” typical of the negro as it was, | fire going during the odd moments | fall before the King that would have Send for Catalogue have like the real = a ke of hia | Placed the atfdience in a mood to re-|she wasn’t nursing Liza, who was an jor ag Ht ee blnne elbows | ceive “Saiome” in the light of a real | ailing, and he is going to insist that by pes 4 z pec ae | ye a a Stee effort on the part of the players. the old lady pay board. ee permitted to sit in the orchestra] “The Chip Woman's Fortune” was| At this point Emma, the daughter Waa eu “a Or a section of the house. And then, too, | Played in “one” before three rather|of the house, enters, and mntakes ‘v1 VER) AS iss frat there was the intelligentsia of the|Soiled drapes, that gave the sug- | known the old lady has some money, He Si NL th gs ae, disp theatre, represented by long-haired j sestion of an interior of a slovenly | put she is saving it against the day The men and short-haired women, who| colored home. There was a picturé|that her son shall be released from at bubbled over effusively with com-|°f Booker T. Washington, or p0S-/prison. Later, when the old lady is ment. Im all @ decidedly mixed |sibly Marcus Garvey, pinned to pne | summoned and asked for a loan, she a audience side and a religious picture on thé | refuses to give up any of her money a. In the advance advertising “Sa-|other. There were three chairs, a | until the son shall appear, following cai table with an onyx clock and a Vic-| this with the reason for his arrest tees, — trola utilized as the props. and imprisonment, which is more or tevin At the opening the Vic is jazzing |jess of an object-lesson as applied rare and Liza is seated before it. Her/|to some of the boys of color, a weird oo. husband enters, and, to the question |tale of a good boy and a wrong on “furloughed” from his job for three | had beaten up a hypocritical but in- ae days because of his failure to keep | gquential member of the community. vine up the installment payments on the | Tater learning of the true character os music box. Behind his tale is the| of the woman he also beat her up, Ee thought that the whites stick to- and for this was sent away. Later Gr gether and punish the blacks for |on the arrival of the installment man Val Inc their shortcomings in meeting their]/and the released boy almost simul- cap 28 West. Stree obligations. For, as he explains it,|taneously, the secret hoard is un- mpers C the music man was a friend of his | covered, the collector staved off, the 2 boss, and that merning the, music| Victrola retained and all five play- pee ~ . ers of the cast gleefully shimmying At Exceptionally he was sweeping off the walk in|to the jazzy strains of the music box oe front of his place of employment, as the curtain descends. roa Fi | and then went indoors. A few min- h ne utes after he left Silas (the colored The one outstanding bit of work Apac boy) was summoned by his employer | was Liza, by Evelyn Preer. Liza, a outla Summer Furs and told to lay off for three days |Slovenly wench in soiled wrapper, of aries without pay, this sentence being fol- |@ high yaller complexion, handled both * lowed with a speech that it might be | her lines of this character role with ing | ata savings of “a lesson to pay your debts.” all the consummate artistry of a piece of With the possible loss of the job | Seasoned veteran of the stage. Syd- appa over 0% ney Kirkpatrick as Silas also con- ice. tributed sufficiently as the husband. goid Marion Taylor as the daughter, gran Laura Bowman as old Aunt Nancy, man a little overdone in brown make-up, Th Special Discount to and Solomon Bruce as her son, also Photo by Campbell the fes lent color. This was all pure negro, : F Proffession ~« and as such highly enjoyed by the “It seems as if Mineralava Beauty Clay and urs Repaired and pepo fk deh daieeih a ee Face Finlsh must have been made for my- pars 4 3 8si0on 21ere ce Remodeled. i to the Sroerass showed the ph ticular skin. The results have been 80 remarks 2 Liza of the sche, peat was to be able. Mineralava Is my most cherished habit.” j a enn | the Salome o 1e big production mmf ARS AM q ee eee and that Kirkpatrick was cast for ORIH R BHA ‘ MAX HASE Famous SHIRT HOSPITAL BHIRTS, UNDERWEAR AND PAJAMAS MADE TO ORDER EXPERT REFITTING AND REPAIRING SPECIAL RATES TO PROFESSION 142 Mason Street, SAN FRANCISCO speculating as to just what these two would do in serious work after their portrayal of a sketch of negro life, and it brought more careful consideration of “Salome.” For the Wilde tragedy there was but a single set, somewhat Urbanish in effect, with a cyc of blue at the back and sides and a huge column VANITY FAIR WISH TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE MOVED OUR WORKROOMS TO LARGER QUARTERS AND NOW HAVE BETTER FACILITIES FOR MANUFACTURING THEATRICAL COSTUMES FOR THE SEASON OF 1923-1924. COSTUMES, Inc. WILLIAM ADLER SHOW ROOM 217 WEST 47th STREET WORK ROOM 853 WEST 48th STREET in the center. It was a whale of a “Salome” presented. The lightings were so handled that the players, especially the women, appeared practically as whites, and one had but to close his eyes to imagine it was presented by white players as for diction. Yet there were occa- sional lapses into the dialect of the negro, but they were far between. The Salome of Evelyn Preer was Marjorie Rambeau {s a striking exampl of American beauty. Her features are perfec -—her complexion exquisite, Of course— she uses Mineralava For sale at your dependable Drug & Dept. Store. PARIS VIVADOU NEW YORE Distributor | | | } | | Ss a (ineralava' 7) Che Beauty Clay BRODERICK. and WYN YOUTHFUL PERSONALITIES BURDET SOWLE assisting at the piano—Presenting unusual and original dance offerings. GREENWALD & ANDERSON present JACK M. A., B. F, Keith (western) and Orpheum, Jr., circuits, ROSE Headlined and featured over the W. V. Direction HALPERIN-SHAPIRO AGENCY Plans Se

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eae ae 4 4 =. V. " ” ort wn «gh Thursday, May 10, 1 ‘the role. His business as the sodden and sensuous monarch is well worth geeing and marking. Laura Bowman plays Herodias, the queen, display- ing that earlier in the evening there was much make-up, for under the lighting as employed in this produc- tion she seems remarkably light in coloring. * . The production as a whole is thor- eughly interesting, and as such should attract patronage. It cannot be expected the negro element of New York, even though the colored population is large, is going to sup- port the company. They will have to rely on the whites and a vogue will have to be created among the really smart society set to make the Ethiopian repertory season a suc- eess. The chances are that that only may be done by certain restric- tions as to where those of color who attend shal) sit. The negro undoubt- edly will be interested in seeing that this. venture proves successful for the fellow members of his race, and he should be willing to waive such _civil-rights as the courts give him to sit in any part of the theatre for which he cares to buy a seat, Ail that the project needs is ex- ploitation of the proper sort in the right social channels to make its vogue last for several weeks at least. That Salome wiggle of Evelyn Prerr’s should help a lot in thte diree- tion of the box office. Fred. THE APACHE Mons. Le Von->(The Apache) Juan De La Cruz Mme. Viennese. .......0+-++- Thais Magrane WMicMelets. oss ccc cctossescas Goldwyn Patten William Voke@S.sccceereess Willard Dashiell Betty Summers. .7......4.- Mary Ellen Ryan Billy. Clarke. ....cccevedess Barry ToWfisiey Frau Fri z Schnitzier......... Ida Fitzhugh Signor LazZzZari........eeeeeees Luis Alberni Mme. Beaucaire....ceeseneeas Marie Bonsall “The Apache”, opened cold at the Punch and Judy Monday. By Tues- day th? piece wae. well chilled and ready for cold storage by the end of the week. Josephine Turck Baker, the authoress, is a product of Evanston, Ill., this being her first attemp: as a Broadway producer. Her efforts in Evanston are said to have been of a literary nature with an interest in theatricals acquired by association with Little Theatre movements. The selection of “The Apache” for a Broadway debut was not a wise move. It is said when first placed in rehearsal the “piece displayed little chance of success. The authoress, having supplied the capital herself, insisted the preduc- tion be put on. It apparently has no chance. The plot runs from farce comedy to melodrama. It is crudely con- structed and talky. The cast has a eosmopolitan appearance, with sev- eral nationalities introduced. The comedy portion is derived from these characters. The dramatic por- tion is devoted to the life of a jeal- ous husband and his artiste wife, a eoncert pianiste. The entire action of the two acts proves to be a dream. It is slipshod in every way: Gregcry, who did the staging, dis- plays little in that direction. For- meriy «w stock manager in the east, he has recently been associated with repertoire shows in the middle west. He shows no marked ability’ with this production as a stager of Broadway productions. The cost of producing “The Apache” called for no great financial Outlay except for the players’ 6al- aries and the rent of the theatre, both of which are reported as hav- ing been put up in advance, The piece calls for one set, the one used @pparently having seen much serv- ice. With the exception of some goid furniture, which included a grand piano, little else was de- manded. The members of the ast played 156-8 WEST 48TH STREET East of Broadway A CHOP HOUSE G.’ EXCEPTIONAL MERIT non-resident, of the company. ment was placed on a bank account | Fortune Ryan, by Muriel l!annuity of $500 a month. i was accompanied by an application denies some of the a THE VARIETY a Se A Leonard GRAN Special Rates to the Profession Hicks, Pioneers of Housekeeping Furnished (of the better kind—within Apartments means of economical folks) THE DUPLEX 330 West 43d Street Longacre 7132 Three and four rooms with bath Modern in every particular. Accommodate three or more adults $12.00 UP WEEKLY YANDIS COURT 241-247 West 43d Street | Bryant 7912 One, three and four room apartments with kitchenettes, private bath and telephone. Square. Room arrangement Directly west of Times creates utmost privacy. RATES: $17.00 UP WEEKLY Refer communications to M. CLAMAN, 241 West 43d St. ———$ listlesely. A bright bit of character work here and there helped some. The performance was ragged in many instances, with cues missed’ en numerous eccasions. The per- formance in general would suggest a seconé rate stock organization. “The Apache” should pass on within a week. From appearances there were but two paid admissions Tuesday night. Hart. NEWS OF THE DAILIES Ben Bard of Bard and Pearl, in “The Dancing Girl” at the Winter Garden, New York, inherited a leg- acy of $50,000 last week from the estate of his foster mother, ‘Mrs. Nora L. Ward, who died recently. The deceased was well known on the stage several years ago as a coon shouter. Deputy Sheriff Patrick J. Conlin served an attachment on Nikita F. Balieff of the “Chauve-Souris,” at the Century, New York, last Friday, the day before the show closed, in a suit brought by Oscar M. Carter, who demands $14,000 for alleged breach of contract. Carter contends he introduced Balieff to Morris Gest, who brought the Russian company ‘go this country. Balieff being a an attachment was placed on the costumes and scenery Another attach- held by Balieff in the Guaranty Trust Co. In case there is sufficient money in the bank account, the attachment on the scenery and cos- tumes will be released, or a bond may be given to cover the amount of the claim. Stella Larrimore, a éo-respondent in the Farrar-Tallegen divorce suit, obtained the right for a trial by jury, to clear her name of the charges made against her, by a de- ctsion handed down laet Friday by the Appellate Division of the Su- preme Court. The court unani- mously reversed Supreme Court | Justice O’Malley’s decision denying her the right of a jury trial. A reply to the suit brought against Clendennin J. Ryan, son of Thomas Sharp, a former chorus girl and model, in Nassau county, was filed last Friday in Brooklyn, The plaintiff alleges breach of contract to pay her a life The reply for a postponement, a hearing hav- ing been set for Monday. 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NEW YORK CITY STEAM HEAT AND ELECTRIC LIGHT - = «© «s « $15.00 UP THE ADELAIDE 754-756 EIGHTH AVENUE | Between 46th and 47th Streets Th -Room -Clase ished Apartme: Strictiv Pe an Bhd OO nS GhOnOe eee Fors ae Bey West Side Court by Magistrate Oberwager Friday, charged with the grand Jarceny of Irene Castle’s (Tremaine’s) jewels. Cooper is al- leged to have converted a $9,000 necklace belonging to Miss Castle for his own use by pawning it for $1,452. Cooper was entrusted with the necklace for the purpose of ef- fecting its sale, according to Wil- liam Klein, counsel for the com- plainant. The Earl of Northesk, who is to marry Jessica Brown, was unable to get leave from his regiment in time to catch the “Berengaria” on May 5. He probably sailed from Liverpool May 9 on the “Olympic.” Clark Silvernail has announced that he will take an American reper- toire company to Paris to present American plays in French. He ex- pects to open with “Officer 666” at the Femina theatre about June 20. The company will include Kay Lau- rel, Beverly Sitgreaves, Helen Til- den, Floyd Murray, William Will- iams, Paul Porcasy and Alberny. Louis Mrs. Elena Frisch, formerly an actress in Budapest, was shot twice in the left breast on May 5 by = ty i Adolph Schoenfeld, who claimed | °*°Y 0%: that the woman had spurned him Sex a ee i ; after he had spent all his savings of $ With nis ly yah saga driving an $3,500 on her. The shooting followed | 2U°° ahead of him, and with his an all-night argument at her apart- | J@W8 firmly g-ipped around a con- ment on West 100th street. The| 2@cting strap, Alfred Hatos, who woman is in the hospital and is ex- | f0rmer!y did a “teeth act” in vaude- pected to live, while Schoenfeld is | Ville, was dragged by his molars being held without bail in the West | from New York to Philadelphia Side Court on a charge of felonious | While seated in the _sidecar of a assault. ; motorc) cle. Hatos, who is 56, trav- ‘ eled the 90 miles this wav o see if Ernest Hast, a British actor re- | he stih h re dental ability and | cently ‘Loyalties,” barely escaped | ®trengt! to return to the stage. He missing the “Caronia” Saturday, | Seemed unable to decide at Trenton, when he was taken to court on a/| 69 miles from New York, charge of disorderly conduct just be- fore sailing time. Hast had become a little too “happy” after a farewell party Friday night, and he was fined $5 by Magistrate Ryttenberg the | next day. have missed the boat had not a cop | named Mahoney cashed a $i check j; for him Marjorie Rambeau apparent] ' tempted to make a secret getaway from this country on the “Homeric” her health was impaired | after ‘too much Shakespeare.” She will return soon to star in George Middieton’s “The Road Together.” “Chains,” a new play by Jules Eckert Goodman, will be presented by William A. Brady at the Play- house in Chicago May 20, with O. P. Heggie and Helen Gahagan as the leads, rest, as He had no cash and would The Federal Trade Soe | has issued an order that requires the Signet Films, Inc., of New York ' city, to stop distributing motion pic- tures under different names from | those used in the original exploita- | tion of the photoplays. * | An International Congress on Mo- One Block West of ARISTO HOTEL 101 West 44th St.. New York in the heart of the Agents’ district FOR THEATRICAL FOLKS Rooms with bath $16 week up Telephone 1197-1198 Bryant tion Picture Arts will be held in New York on June 7-8 under the auspices of the Authors’ League of America. This was suggested by Adolph Zukor, who wants the league to co-operate with him in a move- ment to better the artistic side of photoplays. A rare honor was conferred on the entire theatrical profession when in a nation-wide canvass to determine the 12 living women who had contributed most to the art, virtue and progress of the United States, an actress, Minnie Maddern Fiske, was of the small number se- lected. Mrs. Fiske, who is 58 years old, has been on the stage since three. 3orn in New Orleans, Mrs. Fiske married Harrison Grey Fiske in the early ’90@s. Mrs. Fiske recently adopted a An Erglish actress, Mabel Russell, has become a candidate for the House of Commons from one of the conservative districts of London. Her husband, Captain Hilton Philiv- son, recently lost his seat because (of irregularities by his election |} agent ind Miss Russell wishes to take Evan Burrowes Fontaine and her mother Mrs Florence Fontaine have been freed of the perjury |charge that followed the dancer's 1 $1,000,000 breach of promise suit | againet So , Whitney Justice | Seeger ag the Supreme Court at i Newburg, N. Y., granted the mo- tion of Edward J. Collins, attorney for the defense, dismissing the charges because of insufficient evi- dence. The latest English nobleman to appear in the films is Lord Pat Gie rawly of Annesley, whose first part is in the picture version of Elinor Glyn’s “Six Days.” The Palace motion picture the- atre, Port Jervis, N. Y., was de- stroved by fire May 7 with a loss of about $20,000. The flames started in the film booth just as the audi- ence was leaving after the first show in the evening. Arthur Levy of New York city has been choeen successor to Joseph HOTEL HUDSON $8 and Up Single $12 and Up Double Hot and Cold Water an@ Telephone in Bach Room. 102 WEST 44th STREET 2 NEW YORK CITY Phone: BRYANT 7228-29 HOTEL FULTON (in the Heart of New York) $8 and Up Single $14 and Up Double Shower Baths, Het and Coid Water and Telephone. 264-268 WEST 46th STREET NEW YORK CITY Phone: Bryant 0393-0394 Opposite N. V. A, Levinsor on the State Motion Pic- ture Commission. Mr, Levy is well known as a philanthropist and has done considerable probation work in the criminal courts of the city. John Dooley, a circus lion trainer, is in serious condition in St. Luke’s Hospital, Philadelphia, after having been attacked on May 7 by.a lion that he was feeding. Mrs. Evelyn Carter Carrington | Short has brought a $50,000 aliena- tion of affections suit against Mrs, Alice Henley and her husband, fenley. She charges that of her husband, Reginald Carrington Short, and that Henley, when asked why not object to his wife’s al- leged conduct, replied: “I like a woman with a little devil in her.” All the persons involved are in the theatrical profession. Mrs. Short was known on the stage as Evelyn | David Mre. Henley won the love he did | | Carrington. , pROtE? j ' | | Dr. Frank E, Miller, a threat spe- cialist of New York city, has writ- ten a play entitied “The Goal” that will be produced on Broadway next season by George H. Brennan. General Malleterre, French war asked the judges of the 'First Paris Tribunal to prohibit the imarriage of his son, Captain Jacques Malleterre and Lionelle Zuber, a Parisian dancer, He claima that the woman, who is young and beautiful, but socially inferior, would ruin his son's army career. hero, has Sam Bernard and William Collier will present “The Nifties of 1923” at the Fulton, New York, in September. The book is by Collier and Glen MacDonough and the music by Jerome Kern, The cast will in lude Ray Dooley, Van and Schenck, Cortez and Peggy, Frank Crumit and 16 Tiher Lon- don Dancing Girls, with other “names” t. be added later. Harry Watson, actress was Mildred WHarris, picture — and former wife of Chap!in, “Se

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ed from bankruptcy in the Angeles May petition last chiefly discharg Federal Court of Los 8. When she filed her October she owne” $°1,481, for cl ing and jewelry.

Mrs. Olive Cornel' was awarded $7,280 in a suit for $25,000 against Flo Ziegfeld, who, she _ claimed, had discharged her from the “Fol- lies of 1920” after she had been given a contract for $200 a week be- cause he said that her enunciation was not ciear. Ziegfeid argued in court that she was only an inter- preter of melody, and a poor one at that, and that the words of her gongs were absolutely untintelligible. A. lL, Erlanger and Gene Buck, lyric writer, testified for him Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., arrived in New Work on the Majestic May 8 with his mother, Mrs. James Evans. He will go,to Hollywood to foliow his father’s -footsteps as a picture actor.

Magistrate Corrigan of New York city discharged 196 persons May 8 who had been arrested in a raid on a hall on East 86th street the day before for watching a supposedly in- decent exhibition by two women. He said the spectators might have committed a morai wrong but not a legal one. The women were held in $500 bail for the grand jury. Notwithstanding this ruling, the po- lice raided the Turn Verein hall, 85th street and Lexington avenue, the next night and arrested 207 men and five women at a stag affair given by the Pythagorean Brother- hood, SEEK TO SHOW ZUKOR (Continued from page 17) grossed up to the time he left First National $1,400,000, including foreign rights. The advance to Chaplin for eight pictures was $1,075,000, paid in June, 1917; eight Petrova picture were taken at $70,000 and pertent- ages; Anita Stewart delivered six pictures on an $80,000 and percent- age basis and an option was held for aix more at $100,000 and per- Three Griffith pictures were set down at $285,000 each, while Norma Talmage contracted for eight pictures at $160,000 each, an out- right buy. A second contract in 1920 called for 12 pictures at $350,000 each, starring Normae Talmadge, while Constance Talmadge contract- ed for 12 features at $300,000. it was testified that Mary Pick- ford had received $10,000 a week from Famous Players and had told Williams that she got more money under that arrangement than when she produced her ow: pictures fr First National release. Tt: is estimated the hearings in New York will continue for two more weeks, when the Goverrment representatives will move on’ to Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans and Los Angeles. eentages.

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POINT FOR FAMOUS Famous Players-Lasky point in its court battle with Ro- dolph Valentino when New York Supreme Court Justice O’Malley ruled that certain defenses inter- posed by the “sheik” should be stricken out. F. P.’s motion was for the striking out of the whole defense The decision practically interpreted allows Valentino to file an amended answer and re-word his allegations. gained a

| ANITA STEWART FOR DIVORCE May 9. Anita Stewart has made a state- ment here she is about to divorce Rudolpk Cameron, formerly a news- paperman and actor, who, in addi- tion to being the star’s husband, has also been her business manager. She is to leave for abroad shortly and Cameron is not to accompany fer. The pair have been separated for some time. Los Angeles,

“DU BARRY” AT RIVOLI The week of May 20 at the Rivoli, New York, will mark the first time that house has staged an outside presentation upon its stage. It will be the Wayburn “DuBarry” tableaux with its motive taken from the Ben Ali Haggin pictures produced by that artist in “The Follies.” The t&rn for picture houses runs 14 minutes and has 18 people. It is in Philadelphia this week.

‘BALABAN & KATZ’S PLAN (Continued from page 17) Roosevelt for three or four weeks gave them a better chance than to play them a single week at the Chicago and then in outlying houses and so bids for pictures for the Chicago were not considered. An example of this is “Enemies of Women,” which was booked at the Roosevelt under a percentage ar- rangement is pat for the producer antee of not less than $4,000 a week for the picture. This ar- rangement is phat for the producer and good for the but nat- urally unsatisfactory to Balaban & Katz, inasmuch as when the picture plays to from $22,000 to $24,000 a week, the profits must be split with Ascher Brothers. The presentation of the choice films either at Me- Vicker's or the Roosevelt has left the Chicago Theatre without choice material, which is naturally a source of annoyance to Balaban & Katz, especially since its receipts under favorable circumstances may be enormous; it is known that Feb- ruary receipts, one of the _ best months of this season, totaled enough to make an average of $42,000 a week. The deal by which “The Pil- grim” passed to the Roosevelt has other inside details. Jones, Linick & Schaefer had it under contract, but when it was needed for the Roosevelt, Adron Jenes said that all he wanted was the expense he nad been put to and that he would release the film. Under this under- theatre,

(Continued from page 17) eration of this subject by the na- saving of upwards of 25 per cent on all insurance premiums can be ef- fected. The next subject considered will be that of »rotecting the public motion picture industry in and out of the business have been — victimized by sharp practices along: these lines. This discussion will be led by a member of Congress. The other phase of this discus- sion of protecting the public wil! be handled by William J. Burns, chief~ of the United States Secret Service, who will point out the methods by and through which the theatre owners and others may co-operated with the federal government in af- fording the public complete.rrotec= tion along this line. Cooperative banking will be the next subject discussed and will be handled in the convention by Peter Brady, of New York City, chairman of the educational department of the American Federation of Labor, and president of the Allied Printing Trades of New York City. This subject will be handled at the bane quet Wednesday evening by Warren Stone of Cleveland, Ohio, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Loco= motive Engineers, who is also the head of the cooperative banks es- tablished in Cleveland and elsewhersé by that organization. On Tuesday, W. D. Burford of Chicago, national director of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners” of America, and chairman of the come mittee that framed the equitable contract form submitted by the a= tional organization to Will H. Hays, will make a report on “uniform and equitable contract.” This will take into account all phases of negotia- tions with Mr. Hays. cation through “the motion picture theatre,” will be reported on by M J. O’Toole of Scranton, Pa., chait- man of the National Public Servit@ Committee of the Motion Picture Owners of America. If the time of Tuesday wil: not permit of the entire program @ outlined, the discussions will be @X- tended into the Wednesday sesion, with such additional business on Wednesday as may develop from reports of committees, or will be introduced on the floor of different delegates. George East 1an of Rochester, N. Y., will address the convention on Tuesday aftersoon, is well as a number of other not- ables from different parts ~f the country. : \ednesday evening, the convem- tion banquet wili be held in Hotel Sherman. It is expected that at least from be present. ED

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| COWL _Thureday, May 10, 1923 ENGLAND'S 1 IST QUARTER SAW MANY FAILURES “if Winter Comes” Biggest and “Angelo” Most Painful Vode Houses in Drama

London, May 9. The first quarter of the new year has proved a bad one for London managers. Thousands of pounds have been wasted on unworthy pro- ductions of every kind and the bankruptcy roll is expected to -be exceptionally heavy. Among the most painful collapses can be mentioned the Krei ler play ;renamed “Angelo” at Drury Lane. ‘This play and its machinery had an enormous amount of prior preduc-} ~tion boosting but. ‘the first night * performance knoeked. the bottom out of its sucéess an it Has closed ingloriously after’ only a month’s run. “The Orphans,” which opened the } Lyceum dramatic season, - W4S, ‘an- ; Other bad failure although it‘ did register 52 performances. This is one of the very few failures the + Meivilles have ever produced. The east was big and important, but the atmosphere of the old play was i Missing, an unfortunate defect in ~ oe "8 font

NEW YORK

SAM H. HARRIS Attractions SAM. ° 424 St., W. of B’way. H. Evenings At 8:20. arris Mats. Wed.-Sat. 2:20. OWEN DAVIS’ New Play ICEBOUND’ NEW YORK’S NEWEST TRIUMPH FULTON Theatre, W. 43 St. Evs, 8:20. Mats. Wed. and Sat., 2:20. LAST WEEK The Sweetest Leve Story Ever Told SAM H, HARRIS Presents MARGARET LAWRENCE In the New York and London Success, “SECRETS” By Rudolf Besier & May Edington Staged by SAM FORREST MUSIC BOX THEATRE West 45th St. Evs. 8:15. Mats: Wed.-Sat. SAM H. HARRIS Presents IRVING BERLIN’S ‘MUSIC BOX REVUE Staged by HASSARD SHORT. WITH A GREAT CAST !

CORT THEATRE, W. 48th St. Evs, 8:15 Mats. Wed. and Sat. at 2:15. MERTON OF THE MOVIES with Glenn Hunter—Florerce Nash Marry Leon Wilson’s story dramatized by Geo. 8S. Kaufman and Mare Connelly

46th St. Eves. GLOBE ! 0. Mats, Wed. & Sat., 2:30 JOHN MUR tRAY ANDER wre Newest Mus al Comec “JACK and JILL” with Lew Fields, Ann Petinington, Clif- ton Webb, Charles Judels and Lulu MeConnell rr orm i4th St.. nr. B'ways Eves. 8:20. BELASCOx; inees Thurs. & Sat. at. 2:20. Moves to BELASCO Thea., MON., May 7 A HIT, A PALPABLE HIT?’ DAVID BELASCO Presents LIONEL ATWILL in THE COMEDIAN By SACHA GUITRY, Adapted by Mr. > W. 8:3 eet ILE x ers cs wo. ite. ine Broadway &

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a plece so well known to melodrama lovers. Having reverted to its special type of blooded drama in a “Night of Temptation” the old Lyceum is more like itself. ' Among the other “flops” must be mentioned’ the Isabel Jay play ‘The Inevitable” at the St. James’ which only survived five shows; “Good Gracious Annabelle,” which brought Marie Tempest back to London after her long absence but only got 15 performances at the Duke o? York’s; “Marriage by Instalments” at the Ambassadors reached 19; “Three's a Crowd did better with 31 at the Court, After that things improved a little. “Hawleys of the High Street” did 37 at the Apollo; the revival: of the wartime success “A Little Bit of Fiuff’ failed to repeat its record but hung on for 39 performances at the Ambassa- dors; the “Love Habit” at. the Roy- alty managed 53. “Tf Winter Comes” was probably the biggest. shock of ail. The provinces had been enthusiastic,’ it rhad Owen Narés, who is sbodéked behind, but the. West End turned it down after 53 shows at the St. James’; “The Young Idea” was hailed by. the critics &s the godds but it only saw 60 at the Savoy, while “The Great Well” at the New, despite Alfred Sutro’s fame as an author and Matheson Lang's follow- ing, only got 70. A. A. Milne’s, “The Great Brax-

) “THE ISLE OF LOST SHIPS” 1 | STRAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA opp” was another bad collapse and ce a eee ee eee ee IF VT OI THEATRES h : 7 LYCEUM ghee’ WA St "Sate 2:30

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A U DS ON West 44th St. Evs. 8:30. Mats, Wed. & Sat. 2:30. GEORGE M. COHAN Presents the Hit of the Town © “SO THIS IS LONDON!” “A HOWLING SUCCESS.”—Eve. THEATRE, W. 42a St. LIBER Mats. Wed. & Sat, “Best American. Musical Play in the Whole Wide World” GEORGE M. COHAN’S : COMEDIANS in the New Song and Dance Show “LITTLE NELLIE KELLY” Theatre, W. 42d St. Eves. 8:50 TIMES $Q. Mats. Thurs, and Sat. THE SELWYNS Present CHANNING POLLOCK’S Foo The Play That Succeeded In Spite of the Devil. . Bway & 38th St. Eves. 8:30 Knickerbocker Pop, ats, Wwedl-set’ 2.30 HENRY W. SAVAGE Offers A NEW COMEDY—WITH MUSIC THE CLINGING VINE with PEGGY WOOD Entire Orch., $2.50; entire first Bale., $1.50; en- tire 2d Balc 50c—every night. including holi- days and Sats. For Mat.—All Oreh., $2; all Balc., $i. Best Seats NOW at Box Office. REPUBLIC Mats. Wednesday and Saturday at 2:30. ANNE NICHOLS’ New Comedy “ABIE’S IRISH ROSE” “THE PLAY TFAT PUTS ‘tL’ IN HUMOR” Post.

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WILLIAM A. BRADY'S MUSICAL : \deaaer Edward Percy’s “Trespasses” ran from a Monday to Saturday at the Ambassadors. Several other productions de- spite boosting and heroic attempts to coax into success are aiso on anything but stable ground. The vaudeville managers have begun their now yearly game of fighting any of their cwn particular of the summer sever over to drama. Among those in London doing this are the Grand, Clapham, Kilburn Empire, Putney Hippodrome, Woolwich Hippo- drome, Poplar Hippodrome, Cam- berwell Palace, Islington Empire, and the Shoreditch Olympia. The last two named were famous drama houses .before the boom in vaude- ville. As an extra inducement the London County Council] will allow these music halls to sell ‘alcoholic al are turning they are used_as theatres proper. AMERICAN FILM FIRMS After London’s New House —<£50,000 Asked

London, May 9. The new Tivoli is apt to be under the management of either Goldwyn Tor Famous Playérs when it’ opens during the summer. James White, <4 its proprietor, has’ set a pricé of £50.09 for the house, with Goldwyn having offered £40,000,. while Fa- -;mous Players may: secure the prop- | erty, as F. P. seems more ugreeable he the White figure.. It's _reported here ‘that Frank acctmpanied “by ~ Nathan Burkan, the Goldwyn counsel, will sail from New York May 12 to be here for further negotiations,

is on the hall. The new Tivoli; London, site of the former Tivoli music It seats 2,400. JANIS FOR NEW YORK Ecridan, Overtures have beén made. for Elsie Janis to* join “The Rainbow Revue” at the Empire. Th little chance sinee Miss Jan‘. is re- ported having been engaged to open with a Broadway Jun», The Empire may get Tubby Edlin. INSECT PLAY INTERESTING London, May 9. Capek’s insect play was put on May 5 at the Regent under the title of “And So Ad Infinitum.” Well enough received but garded as likely, commercially Considered an. interesting freak. Some slight booing at the premiere. LORD NORESK SAILING May § 9. May 9. London, It’s reported Lord Nores ing to-day on the “Olympic,” but there is no positiveness to the re- port. He is engaged to marry Jessica Brown, the American dancer, now at her home in Buffalo, N. Y., await- ing his arrival. ‘The marriage S expected to follow aimost imme diately after, Lord Noresk expected to leave last week on the “Berengaria,” but did not secure leave of absence from his regiment in sufficient time to cateh the boat. 4 IRENE FENWICK DIVORCE

PLAYHOUSE sis wes esac: 2°20" New Amsterdam Theatre—W. 42d Street Erenings 8:15. POPULAR MAT. WEDNESDAY

REGULAR MATINEE SATURDAY. A National Institution ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

MARK STRAND) Broadway and 47th Street “A NATIONAL INSTITUTION” Directiom , ¢. 6.095 «és oes Joseph Piunkett THOS, INCE Presents MAURICE TOURNEUR’S “UP SHE GOES” ( 1 from } ” ss = defe O'! n, me er De { ie He McAl i f r er W ] Dp t 1 W 141 reet Nev Yor} v é botn wel é r c t 1 t | {) } 1S 9. Justice Leonard A. Giegeritch of the New York Supreme Court con- firmed the referee’s report granting Miss Fenwick an interlocutory cree of divorce which becomes final three months from April 10, 1923. de- Miss Fenwick did not enter any motion for alimony or counsel fee, expressly waiving this. It is un- derstood that no private under- standing for her support was ef- fected either An action recently was com- menced against Lionel Barrymore for divorce by his wife, Doris Ran- kin. The suit is pending. Parry- more has been of late intermingling

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CARL EDOUARDE,.. stage with picture appearances. type of show and with the coming | refreshment during such tline as|! : BIDDING FOR TIVOLI Goldwyn and Famous Players ere is} production in| not re- | k is sail- | 47

WILLIE ayo EUGENE HOWARD STARRING IN ‘PASSING SHOW OF 1922”’ Direction MESSRS. SHUBERT

CHRIS MANN

AND HIS ORCHESTRA PALAIS ROYAL, SAN FRANCISCO, INDEFINITELY

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KENNELS at HOT WEATHER PANIC Hot Spell, as Usual, Works Theatrical Havoc—Terrific Heat in Paris = Londen, May 9. | ~The first hot spell of the season, las usual, worked havoe in the the- atres, particularly the legit houses of the West End. And also, as usual, the managers immediately went, Into a panic.

*Paris, May 9. | There is terrific heat at present in | Paris, affecting all theatre business. JERITZA IMPROVED with State Vienna. Reappears Opera in Paris, May 9. Marie Jeritza reappeared with the State Op«ra in Vienna May 5, ling “La Tosca” to tremendous ap- sing- pli 1use, Leade of the | and local criti | voice has improved during her re- |cent American tour. ax = | REVIVING American ¢ olony s declare the singer’s OLD PLAY London, May 9. Mar er J. E. Vedrenne will re- |vive May 24 at the Apollo. Sir James M. Barrie’s “What Every | Woman Knows.” | “Goodness Sake” Is “Stop Flirting” London, May 9%. | The American piece, “For Good- ness Sake,” produced last week in Liverpool, as reported, is playing : ere re a ate. Stop Thomas Travelog Moves Londol May 9. j ( ( j n i eis n mo Hall rom I n nas elog’s Paris Wine Tasting Department Paris, May 9 The Paris Commercial Fair opened today (Wednesday) and in- cludes two innovations, a gpoters salon and wine tasting department Lupino Lane is the latest recruit to the ranks of management. His first venture, a comedy entitled “Richard, How Could You?” is un- dergoi: . provincial tryout. If its reception justifies the move it will be brought to the West End. Leslie. Henson is to. appear in Shakespeare. He will play Dromio in “A Comedy of Errors” May 27. The producer will be Robert Aitkins of the “Old Vic.”

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IN LONDON AND PARIS —MARY DUNNE a and d DAYE “FRECKLES and HIS PAL” PLAYING B. F. KEITH CIRCUIT Direction I. KAUFMAN, LOTS OF SMOKE But where there's fire. nna MERO there's EVANS. and EVANS are the boys that make things hot when they cireulate around. the Orpheum, Jr. Direction JESSE FREEMAN

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WHITEMAN ENGAGED FOR NEW “FOLLIES” Opening in New York With It On Labor Day—Returning to London Next March Lor don, May 9. Paul Whiteman and his orchestra will return to New York during the summer, opening with Ziegfeld’s new “Follies” (1923) on Labor Day. The Whiteman Band will remain with “Brighter London” at the Hip- podrome until the end of July, re- turning here next March for a new produc tion at the Hippod ome TWO NEW ONES LEASED Benrimo and Cues Likely to Get New Theatres on Devonshire Site

London, Ma 9. Two new theatres to be « ed on the site of Devor a4 are quite probabl de the manageme eS 4 bo Curzon, on Ci Benrimo is backed by Archibald Eentilefold for tis new theatre, SPECHT’S BAND IN LONDON London, May 9. Paul Specht and 11 musicians will open May 28 at Lyons’ new Corner House in Pic- cadiily. restaurant Maggie Albanesi Is slowly recov- ering from her illness, but {t will be some time before she is able to play in Clemence Dane’s new piece, which Basil Dean should have done at the St. Martins, but which had to.be postponed owing to. the. leading lady’s health breaking down. The title of the ndw piece.is ‘The Way Things Happen.” It is a comedy,

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