The New York Clipper (December 1919)

Decernbpr &4tiS93tl TiW HEW :T?OK« NCErPRBRT 2t~ Margot —Kelly is supporting Godfrey Tearfe in VCarnival.'' Susan Given ' is undergtudy irg all fe- male roles in "Scandal." :■.'.:■■? ,"•.'••■!.> F* »"• V^ " '''.'■' Claim Moore will appear in the role of Ruth Armstrong in "Shavings." Errett Bigelow, of the Bigelow Theatri- cal'Agency, Chicago, ia ill in that city. Crystal Blake, the ingenue, is now with Percy Marten's "World of Pleasure" jirls. Ben Ami is to appear in and produce slows in the English language next Sep- tember. Connoly and Travis have formed a new Sol linger is now. booking the Palais act. Royale. Mason and Bailey, two men, have formed a new act. Stuart Sage has been added to the cast of "Shavings." HMHMM Delmar, now with "De- classe," has been signed for "The Way to Heaven." Clarence Hibbard will open soon with a new "tramp" monologue. McCarthy and Lovering, two women, have formed a new singing act. Molly Fuller & Company is the name of a new sketch produced by Joe Bart. Professor M. H. Norwood, the hypno- tist, is ill in Denver with knee trouble. George Yeoman has been routed over the Keith circuit. The Wflle Brothers have been booked into the Palais Royale. Frank Gaby, the ventriloquist, ia hav- ing a new act written. George MacFarlane and Viola Gillette, comic opera stare, have taken but a license to wed. -" ;.' ' . - -- Margaret Greene is now playing the part formerly played by Madeline Delmar in "Declasse*." Aunt Jemina and her Five Bakers of ~ Syncopation have- joined in a new act. Joseph Donahue and Gerald 0. Dell have teamed up for a tour of vaudeville. , Kerr and Ensign, man and woman, have joined together in a new musical" act. Norman Peel is now doing the press i work for Corey and Stark. Both Williamson, a chorus girl in "The Rose of China," has been made under- study for Jane Richardson. Maude Drury, formerly with the Gus Edwards' revue, has replaced Zella Ram- beau in the Rooney and Bent act. f**" 1 " Gotthold, last seen in "One of Us," has been engaged for the "Mood of the Moon." --. „, -^.'... ..; Mrs. Daisy Horton has been appointed assistant manager of the' Hippodrome, San Francisco. Fred Huff, has been engaged as musical director for "Nothing but Love." i -" j ■ ■ i. ' Affie McVicker has resigned as- booking manager" for* Selwyh" and Company. " ' * -Leonard (Happy) Meehan will produce "Little -Mose," a musical comedy,- with eight girls, r* ••' Charlotte Allen,.Joan Wright and Jess Lueindi have been' engaged for "Watch Your'Step." •*" ' .— EalphrXong> who-recently left the Shu- ■berts, has -succeeded- -James Mathews as manager of the Globe. T*ini ii j) rtoaHiin. the opera singer, is be- ing sued for the. payment ot & lease on apartment* at 94 Riverside Drive. Frank Timiey, starring in "Some Time" en the roid; has been placed under a five- year contract by Arthur Hammer stein.. i * — 'Anna Wheaton and Harry Carroll will play six weeks of Orpheum time and then start for California. .- — '-- Mrs. and Mrs. Fox Ludlow, circus per- . formers, received a baby boy from the stork last week. Helen MacKellar, appearing in "The Storm" had her name put out in electric lights in front of the theatre last week. "Poodles" Hanneford and the Hanne- ford Family have been given a contract for 19-20-1921 by Charles Dillingham. ■ Frances White left the Ziegfeld Frolic . last'week after a disagreement between Ziegfeld- and herself John Westley has been engaged by Arthur Klein to play the lead in a farce ■ —by-Wilson CoIHson.- ■— '-- Bill Botch is the new manager of the Chicago Palace Theatre, succeeding Earl Stewart, who resigned. Cy Compton's wild west show, from the Bingling Brothers, Barnum-Bailey; cir- cus, has been made-into-an act. jMa James K. Hackett is planning to give Benjamin Franklin a chance on the stage in the form of a play. Lew Price's Four American Beauties are now playing the Poli Time under of Ike K* direction of turfman. . Billy Bittner, formerly with Jimmy Huseey's "Move On," has joined Marie La - Mar's new vaudeville art. — - Burt Hires was last week removed to a' private hospital on E. 86th street, suffering from acute stomach trouble. Abner Kline, manager of the Patterson and Kline shows, was injured in a wreck and is in the Frisco Hospital in St. Louis. , '. . ■? *-*■'"* Tl ." Miriam. Bettista and Paula. Shay are appearing in "The Whirlwind," which opened last week at the Standard Thea- tre. Harrison Swing sailed this week with the Fenn Dal ton Musical Entertainers- for a tour of Florida and Cuba. ' - A. H. Woods has arranged.with Edgar Selwyn -to-direct the-production of Avery Hop-wood's new comedy, '"Hie Great Hlu- ». — . m ■ Charles Bartholomew',' with "Oh, Lady, tadV'jm the road, and Clare Freeman, of the same company, were married in Pitts- burg on December 15 . Pearl'Recsy fractured fcer -nose a* ?a result of a collision with, a piece of scen- ery at the Capitol Theatre last week, where she is the-premier dan sense. Albert Barrett, last seen in-Robert B. M&ntell'fl Company,' will support Elsie Ferguson in "Lady Rose's Daughter," a Famous-Players motion picture. Jean St. Cyr, who was recently operat- ed .on for gangrene appendicitis at- Dr. Lockwood's Sanitarium, East Fifty-second Street, is still in a critical condition. fl am: SUatlon —is replacing Janet "Mc- Gregor in "The Little Whopper," and Jess Uendelson, a whirlwind dancer, has been added to the cast of the same show. Fad and Fancy/ a man and woman in Ames and Winthrop's former "Caught in i a Jamb," will soon be eeen.iaa new act.' Titta Buffo, the". . baritone, relumed last week from Italy to fill an engage- ment with the* Chicago Opera Company. Helen Mariotte left the cast of "Mrs. Wellington's Surprise" at the Orpheum, on the close of last week's engagement, i . Mark Luescber will not leave the Hip- : podrome to be assistant to Martin Beck in managing the Orpheum Circuit until next May. . V Bryant and Stewart, who have bees .appearing afk the Chicago Winter Garden, start a ' tour of the Western \ Vaudeville time_this L week._ _ ,; .. Mildred Tiburski will play the role of Roth in .the. American Passion Hay ? I "Veronica's -'Veil,"-Which,starts its sixth' season in February. "Elly," the girl' juggler, sustained a scalp wound as a result of a heavy table, which-she was juggling, falling on her head while she was-playing'Keith's Cin- cinnati, last week. Kathleen Martyn, an English musical comedy girl, has been signed for the "Miss 1920" show- by Fkrem Ziegfeld. E. W. Wolf, formerly of Philadelphia, ia now affiliated with Floyd Stoker in the Palace Building, in the production of acta. Grace and Ruth Stuart have been added to the cast of "The Little Whopper" .under a three-year contract with Abe Levy. Charlotte Ives and Eugenie Blair have been engaged to support Mrs. Patrick Cam p bell,- in "The Outrageous Mrs. Palmer." - Pat Geron, manager of <t& Strand Theatre, Hayonne, resigned that position last week. A new manager has not yet been installed. Marie SeweU, the red-headed girl in "Miss Millions" has been selected to understudy her sister; Waste, irf the cast of the same play. Mr. and Mrs. George J. Franz have an- nounced the birth of a daughter on Dec 20- Franz was formerly, musical director with the "MiHion'Dollar DollSJ" .' " Gran viHe Barker, William Butler Yeats and St. John Ervine, the British drama- tists, will lecture in Atlanta, Ga., during the coming year, under-tire auspices of the Atlanta Drama League. ' MargaretS Greene nasi .'succeeded' line Delmar in "Declasse." Frank White, dramatic critic for the Denver Pott, Was in town last week. 1 !i Ted Hammerstein has been added to the staff of the Ohamtxirlin Brown office. ' N. L. Granlund, of the Loew ofitoes, was away on a five-day vacation over the holi- days. ■:~<s n Allan Dtnehart win be featured in a,' new play recently accepted by the Sel- wyna. ■ Frank Naldy, formerly of the team of Naldy and Naldy, is now appearing ia a new single. ___ Fally Marcus is now booking the Taylor Opera House ia Trenton, N. X, under the- direction of the U. B. O. Glen Tucker closed in Milton, Mass., re- , cently and will J re-open with a monologue . early in February in Buffalo. . . {' W. J. Ferguson, of "The Little Whop-;- j per," wss the guest of honor at a dinner ' of the Greenroom Club last Sunday night! Ted Lewis, of the Greenwich Village 1 Follies has closed a contract for the Bo- 1 - lies Marigny, in Para, to begin early In: June. ____ . ; Sandy Shaw, the Scotch comedian, has', been routed over the Orpheum Circuit for' • twenty-two weeks. He will open on- Feb. 6. \\ Maria Zoeker, formerly with the Pack- ard Theatrical Exchange, ia now with the' ' casting department of the ~ Famous ■ Players. - 5 -'- I| •'. Soahanara, assist ed by a number of her pupils, will "give a danee concert at the Greenwich Village Theatre on Sunday evening. -- Everett ButterfieM, who, - upon return* ing from overseas, -resumed his part in i "A Regular Feller," will shortly go into the automobile business. AL Weeks, dramatic critic of the De- I troit Netcs, has been signed by Nora " Bayea.to write a play for her. Seymour Simons will write the music Phoebe Whiteside, appearing with "Ana- tol Friedland'a "Musldand." leaves the set at the end of its Philadelphia engagement. She. is rehearsing in a new vaudeville production. Hattie Towns was selected by Charles Dillingham to impersonate' "Cupid," the Lekp Year sprite, in a new interlude to be introduced in "Sappy Days" next week at the Hippodrome. Godfry Matthews, Burt Sabourin, Ben- nett Fhnn, Florence Fields, Jean McAl- pine, C. C Spink and W. F.'Conlon have been engaged by-George- M. Gatts far his eastern company of "The'Revelationr'of' a Wife." George Stacy, Harry C. Browne and the Stuart Sisters, of, "The Little Whop- per" company, were the guests at a din- ner of the Pfcidea Club last Sunday night. Frances Halliday, of the "Miss Millions" company, will marry Lester L. Whltloek, ; who served for many months in France ■ with the 2nd Field Artillery, 8th Division. Mirs. B. Andrews, of 1136 Barry avenue, ; Chicago, is searching for Grace Doyle, of ' the same address,, who disappeared on Dec. 6 and is thought to' have joined a ' girl show. . a, , ' . WiHie and Eugene Howard, who have been out of New York for two years, touring with-the "Passing Show of 1918,- appeared at the-Winter Garden on '~ day evening. ''' Henry Marcoa, reoently returned _ . overseas, where he, jaeaded an entertain- ment unit, has ween engaged to write a musical comedy for the James T. Bergen' Post, of the American' Legion at Amrter- - dam, N. Y. H. Granville Barker, playright, and wife, Hand ATJen, 'the dancer; Maggie Teyte, a singer, and Howard Lang, Eng- lish tenor, were among the passengers to arrive in this country. last week-on the 8. B. AirittHf. —' — - King and Mclnnls, Jack Barry, 8teve Paul and Sube Nelson and the Vaemsnien Trio, under the direction of Charles Fin- bore;, of the Grand Theatre, Hartford, staged a performance for the - t r—trim of the'Connecticut State Prison'on Christmas J*I: * .... .. —.-