Variety 1925-06-03: Vol 79 Iss 3

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VOL. LXXIX. No. 3 ' NEW YORK CITY, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1925 56 PAGES

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FINAL CRITICAL BOX SCORE | Season of '24-'25 ba The key to the abbreviations is: SR (shows reviewed); R (right); W (wrong); O (no opinion expressed); Pct. (percentage). SCORE AS OF MAY 30 SR. R. Ww. o. Pct. POLLOCK (Brooklyn “Eagle”) ...... 97 33 24 7 753 GABRIEL (“Mail-Telegram”) ........ 111 79 24 8 721 ANDERSON (“Post”) ......... cocomm Oe 64 27 1 .696 HAMMOND (“Herald Tribune”)...... 90 60 22 8 666 BROUN (“World”)...........- hein. a: 2 5 .662 . OSBORN (“Evening World’) ........ 125 78 mY z -642 WOOLLCOTT (“Sun-Giobs”) ........ 105 67 26 12 638 MANTLE (“News”) ......... omeccces ae 838 57 4 590 YOUNG (“Times”) .......... eonccess OO 50 24 11 588 RATHBUN (“Sun-Globe”) .......... 49 27 20 2 561 DALE (“American”) .......... caeetes wee 87 52 21 344 GRAPHIC (Public Opinion) ......... 151 66 71 14 A37 VARIETY’S OWN SCORE 2 SR. R. Ww. oO. Pct. VARIETY (Combined) ............. . 179 «9154 24 1 860 PULASKI (Ibee) .......... ééctvdotae OF - 4 sale 923 GREEN (Abel) ...... Cee étese iis. Oi 4 ob 871 NRE RI GRE oS secktegiviupen ON 4 871 BARRY (Edba) ..... cpeveadauaven 446 ae 1 2 1 833 SCNADER (Fred) ....ccesssceccveese 11 2 Se 818 SS 5 gilaare CA Abas Wares bet veeb Ose Cadeless tg” Oe 4 35 777 CONWAY (Con) ........ ‘ errs 5 4 ae 555 . aaa

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S.L.C. PRESIDENT ARRESTED WITH 11 OTHERS Harry G. Melville of the Reiss Show Allowed Gambling? Huntington, W. Va., June 2. Harry G. Melville, owner of the Nat Reiss carnival and president of the Showmen’s Legislative Commit- tee, was arrested here with 11 con- cessionaires, charged with operat- ing gambling devices on the local lot. The S. L. C. was organized to prevent undesirable practices by its (Continued en page 11)

Ad as Birthday Present In this issue of Variety is a two- page advertisement in behalf of Ted Lewis. The advertisement was in- Serted by Mrs. Lewis as a birthday Surprise for her husband. The jazz- playing-comedian-bandmaster will be 32 Saturday (June 6). This week the Lewis act, with Ted Lewis heading it, is at the Palace, Chicago, Mr. Lewis shortly sails for the other side, under engagement to ‘ppear in London. | Hylar | the City WHITEMAN PARK CONCERTS

Series ee in Central Park—Open } Air Performances Paul |: Whiteman will donate a series @f concerts to the public of New rk in July. These will be open air performances in Central Park |from the Naumberg (E. Naumierg & Co., bankers) band- stand jn the park. Becdquse of Whiteman’s accept- ance pf further Keith booking, a dinneg date with Mayor and Mrs. which Philip Berolzheimer, Chamberlain, arranged for the aldorf-Astaria on June 8, will havefito be passed up. on ajMonday when Whiteman plays the Albee, Brooklyn ’ | A | ast Ashes on Water

" Los Angeles, June 2. Tyrone Power and his wife, ccompanied by the Rev. E. B. ackus of this city, journeyed & a spot some distance off atalina Island here, and, fol- owing a short funeral sermon, catter-~ the ashes of three imembers of their family upon the water. The ceremony was among the strangest of the kind on record in the West. The ashes | were those of William H. i] Knight, writer on _ scientific 'l subjects, his wife and their son, Irving, all of whom died within the last two years. Mrs. Power is a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Knight

cnITICS SCORES FOR 9 SEASONS IMPROVE 192 New Plays This Season with 138 Failures — 54 Successes — 170 New Shows Last Season, with 114 Failures—Arthur Pol- lock of Brooklyn “Eagle” Leads Critical Percentages of Rights and Wrongs with -753 — Percy Hammond Leader of Reviewers on Morning Papers in New York — Burns Mantle’s Most Rights, 88 — Jack Pulaski Again Tops Variety’s Own Critical Staff with Exact Percentage of Last Year, .923 CRITICS WITH EDGE Variety's the New York professional critics’ right and wrong opinions during the season of 1924-25 of the dramatic critics of New York’s dailies is compiled in this issue, covering the period from Aug. 11 last to May 28. Compart- check-up of son may be made with the data of last year, when the box score innovation was started. Froduc- tions during June and July are not

That falls | included because of the absence of (Continued on page 16) | | i = | Ralph Pulitzer Marrying Claire Sheridan, Writer Ralph Pulitzer, of the New York “World,” is reported about to marry Claire Sheridan, special writer and authoress. The nuptials will occur abroad, according to the report. 30th have been married before. Miss Sheri- dan has two children. Her hus- band was killed in action in Flan- ders. The former Mrs. Pulitzer ob- tained a Paris decree about a year ago. Miss Sheridan has been writing special stories for “The World,”’ mostly about European economic and political conditions. NIGHT CLUB’S $8,000 PROFIT A night club in the Times square district is said by restaurateurs to be netting a weekly of $8,000

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BROAD SCOPE OUTLINED FOR - BOSTON’S NEW JEWETT THEATRE

Holds Commonwealth Charter—Henry Jewett Not Directly Interested—Acting as Advisor—Neo “Commercialism” in New Theatre

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— Teaching “Charleston” —_— Several stagers of musical shows are cashing in on the current “Charleston” craze through forming special classes for summer when their regular line is figured dull. The girls are given the en- tire course for $20 and are sold on the idea since many of the producers are incorporating the “Charleston” steps in their chorus routines for musical comedy and with the previous instruction course the girls have a better idea of the dance. Aside from the choristers others are attending the classes figuring the lessons are helpful to acquire graceful carriage and limbering up. FREE LUNCH IS BACK! Heated competition among the uptown “speak-easfes” and an at- tempt to rehabilitate the afternoon business has prompted several to resurrect the free lunch idea of pre- prohibish days to the

In addition usual cold cuts these places are offering a hot lunch daily, demonstrating its magnetism the customers |Flapper Hostesses Out For Lark and No Salary Voluntary “flappers hostesses” are fast displacing professional host- esses in the night places of Green- wich Village. These places had pre- viously engaged girls at $25 a week and commission to mingle with pa- trons and run up high checks. The flappers have accepted the assignment as a lark. They figure it a good angle for free entertain- ment, although some of the places are giving the girls a commission on checks but no salary. The volunteer hostesses are a wel- come summer feature, inasmuch as it is inexpensive and helps to keep the nut déwn for the cabaret men. Places that had previously four or five girls on salary now have double the number without excepting what they can induce the Johns to spend while entertaining them Boston, June 2. In a statement the trustees of the Jewett Repertory Theatre Fund, Jnc., announced that the new thfta- tre in Huntington avenue, to be the permanent hame of the civic reper- tory movement in Boston will be ready for occupancy next October. The new theatre is being built by a corporation which organized in 1920. The new theatre will not be operated as a commercial proposi- (Continued on page T) ee en ES 2D WILD WEST FORMING FOR ROAD TRAVEL ! Circus Group~+- Using Young Buffalo Bill for Title af Chicago, June 2 The American Circus Corporation, operating the John Robinson, Sells- Floto and Hagenbeck-Wallace cir- cuses, is reported about to launch a new wild west show under the titled “Young Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.” The 32 cars the corpora- (Continued on page 7) +] 7 e i e Foy’s Kids Without Eddie Eddie Foy’s children, two of the boys and the two girls, have framed an act of their own and left Eddie out of it. It is called the Four Foys and is sublined “Chips of the Old Block.” It opens on Keith-Albee time this week.

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