The New York Clipper (January 1920)

Copyrighted, 1919. and published weekly by the Clipper Corporation. 1(04 Broadway. N«W York. Entered at Ola Fost-Offlee at Hew York. mall matter wider Act ot March S, 1879 Founded by FRANK QUEEN. UN NEW YORK. JANUARY 14. 1920 Price, VOLUME PCVII-NO. 49 FUteen Cents, $5X0 a Year "WAYFARER," RELIGIOUS PAGEANT, HAS PLAY ED TO O VER $340,000 During Five Weeks at Madison Square Garden Big Spectacle Has Been Seen By 204,000 Persons, From Eastern Part of Country With the unprecedented box-office record -of a $340,000 gross, representing, at a con- servative estimate, more than 204,000 paid admissions, "The Wayfarer," the Inter- Church World Movement pageant-spectacle, closes its five week run at the Madison Square Garden to-night (Wednesday). According to Inter-Church officials, gate receipts for each of the thirty-four per- formances, given daring the pageant's en- gagement here amounted to approximately $10,000. Last Saturday's gross was more than $22,000 for two performances, break- ing all previous records. More than seventy-five per cent of the persons who have witnessed the pageant have been ont of town patrons, drawn from the fifteen hundred or so parishes of the Inter-Church, fully half of that number having come from the districts about Phila- delphia, Boston, Baltimore and Washing- ton, it was stated. Following to-night's performance, all the scenery will be dismantled, and together with costumes and other stage accessories will be placed in the store-house, where they will remain until arrangements for the pageant's presentation in either Chicago or Boston have been perfected. WAYBURN IS OUT Ned Wayburn is out of the Capitol, where he has been ever since the opening of the house under a one year contract that called for his retention as producing direc- tor. The fact that such a contract is in existence may lead to the matter coming to the attention of the courts, for Way- burn is not at ail convinced that he shouldn't still be directing the production numbers at the big house. As a matter of fact, though, the revues put on by Wayburn have not been over- burdened with originality or brilliance. In the first show, one of the big features was a spiral tower which was announced on the program as having been "invented by Ned Wayburn" when, as a matter of fact, it had been used since Rip Van Winkle went to sleep. In die present show, there is a number said to be a favorite of Waybum'a, where a buck dance is done with the heels of the dancer's slippers lighted. The years that this feature has been used would he difficult to count. The management of the house is now thinking seriously of devoting _ it more extensively to productions, in which case a successor to Wayburn will have to be . chosen. Who it will be has not been di- vulged. This, however, will not be done at the expense of the motion picture program. AMERICAN ACTS COMING OVER London, Bug., Jan. IO-ttsTwo American acts are dne to open here early in Febru- ary for an extended tour of the Moss Vari- ety Theatres, Limited, time. They are To- gan and Geneva, who open here February 8th at the New Cross Empire, and Mang and Snyder, who open, on the 16th at the Birmingham Empire. Both were booked hen by J. D. Elms. MILLER OPENS JULIUS CAESAR London, Eng., Jan. 12 (Special). Gil- bert Miller, who returned recently from New York, where he produced Monsieur Beaucalre in conjunction with A. L. Er- langer, produced "Jnlius Caesar" here Sat- urday night and, from all indications, the piece will have an exceptionally long ran. Henry Ainley, well known in America, played the part of Mare Antony. MRS. VANDERB1LT BACKING SHOW When "Nightie Night" leaves the Prin- cess Theatre Saturday for the road, the house will be taken over by the Extension Fund Committee of the Girls' Protective League and the New York Prohibition and Protective Association, who will present "What Next," a musical comedy by Deans Taylor, for a five weeks' run. Comstock and Gest will stage the piece. The show is said to have the backing of Mrs. Cornelius Yanderbilt. BENEFIT FOR OPERA FOLKS NEW O bleaks, Jan. 14.—In view of the loss of costumes and street wardrobe main- tained by Mile. Margot Ladd and Mile. Fanny Begin, leading members of the local Grand Opera company, when the New Or- leans Opera House was recently destroyed by fire, a benefit performance win be given at the Lafayette Theatre on January 24. LOOT THEATRE OF S2.000 Robbers entered and obtained $2,000 loot from the safe of the Clarmont Theatre on upper Broadway early Monday morn- ing, twenty-four hours after an all-night guard, maintained by the management, had been discontinued. Police arrived on the scene just as the thieves were making good their get-away and a livery chase followed, resulting in the arrest of two men, after a score or more shots were fired. About a month ago Manager Dolliver received information that an attempt/ was to be made to rob the theatre. He noti- fied the police and, in addition, maintained a guard in the building. The guard was removed last Saturday night. It was the usual thing, Dolliver told the police, to have from $2,000 to $3,000 in the safe over Sunday. These facts lead the police to believe the robbery to have been an "in- side job." The robbers entered the building through a three-foot square window in the oper- ating booth and reached the first floor, where the safe was located, by sliding; down a rope. The men arrested described themselves as John J. Naughton and Wil- liam McCarthy. A similar robbery took place a year ago in the Clarendon Theatre, located in the same building. CITY AIDS STOCK COMPANY Portland, Ore., Jan. 10.—The Chamber of Commerce, to aid the Alcuwir Theatre stock company, under the direction of C. V. Everett, conducted a week's campaign to sell season tickets. Six hundred tickets, at $25 each, were sold, and the sum raised amounted to $15,000. BRAMHALL TO DO IBSEN Butler Davenport, of the Bramhall Play- house, will present "A Friend of the Peo- ple,"' by Ibsen, at his theatre on East Twenty-seventh Street within a few weeks. This will be the first performance in America of this particular Ibsen play, according to Davenport. STAGE MANAGER ROBBED New Obxk&hs, Jan. 12.—Constant Ra- beaux, stage manager of the New Orleans Grand Opera, this week reported to the local authorities the theft of 1,140 francs (about $200). Rabeaux said the money was stolen from his room at the theatre. HOPKINS "PROPS" STOLEN Arthur Hopkins lost several thousand dollars' worth of property last week when the costuming establishment of E 8. Frel- singer, at 244 West Forty-second street, was broken into and robbed. A large num- ber of art tapestries and a supply of an- cient armor that had been brought from England, for Hopkins, by Robert B. Jones, were stolen. The properties had been kept at the Plymouth Theatre until recently, when they were removed and placed on display at the costume house. They were to be used in the production of Richard Third, which Hopkins is planning, with John Barry- more in the featured role. NEGROES TO FIGHT CASE Montreal, Can., Jan. 13.—Following the recent judgment in the Court of Ap- peals to the effect that theatres may draw the color line when they wish, a mass meeting, attended by a large number, of colored citizens, was held here last week for the purpose of raising money to de- fray the expenses of the case of Dodson against Loew's Theatre. Another mass meeting will be held this week in an effort to institute another case, and plans are under way to raise a large sum so that the case may be introduced before the P ri v y Council. ACADEMY GIVES SHOW FRIDAY "Betty; Comes Back," a new three-act comedy by Emilia Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe, and "Circles," a new one-act play by George Mlddleton, will be pre- sented by the American Academy of Dra- matic Arts at its first matinee of the sea- son in the Lyceum Theatre next Friday afternoon. GATTS WANTS ANOTHER SHOW Announcement was made this week that George M. Gatta will shortly present an- other "Katienjammer Kids" company, to play the DIVORCE CANCELLED ENGAGEMENT Mnonara, Tenn., Jan. 9.—Mme. - Ame- nta Gani-Curct was scheduled to sing in Memphis this week on the day her divorce proceedings came np in Chicago. The date for appearance here has been changed to April 8, as she csaessW St BOSTON THEATRE CELEBRATES Boston, Jan. 12.—With a score or mora of old-time stage folk gathere round, the Boston Theatre today held appropriate cer- emonies in celebration of its sixty-sixth anniversary. Heading a committee Of re- ception was Charles Harris, manager of the Boston Theatre, R. G. Larsen, General- Manager of the Keith Interests and Bart Grady. After the reception, Qulncy Kilby made a speech, which was listened to by such old-timers as Harrell J. Willis, 00 years old, now cashier of the Milton National Bank, who played at the Boston Theatre as J. Scott in 1864; Mrs. Rachel France, known as Rachel Noah, when she played at the Boston Theatre in 1804; Alfred Becks, who played at the Boston in 1864, and now is in the Wldener Library, Cam- bridge; W. J. Moorhead, who wag a stage hand at the theatre fifty-two years ago; Quincy Kilby, treasurer of the theatre for twenty-five yeais; Raymond Flnley, who played in "Jalma" and other spectacu- lar dramas in the Boston Theatre in the early '80s; Frank Moulton, trapese per- former at the theatre In 1878; Stuart Clark, who played Alfred Mann in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," in 1865, at the Boston, and Mrs. James T. Ball, who was May Mer- rick and played in "A Run of Luck" at the Boston thirty years ago. SALE OUSTS TAYLOR SHOW "One Night in Rome." with Lauretta Taylor, will vacate the Criterion at the close of this week and complete its New York run at the George M. Cohan Theatre. The removal is made necessary by the change of ownership of the New York theatre block, which win be taken over by the Famous-Players Lasky Corporation, who purchased it. Another reason for the removal is that Otis Skinner will open next week at the Criterion in "Pietro.'^ Why Laurette Taylor's play should be made to vacate so as to make room for Otis Skinner is explained by the fact that "One Night in Rome" is under the direc- tion of George O. Tyler, while "Pietro" is being presented under the management of Charles Frohman, Inc.. the general man- ager of which, Alf. Hayman, is connected with the Famous-Players Lasky Corpora- tion. ^__^^___^ "DERE MABEL" OPENS FEB. 2 "Dere Mabel," being produced by Marts Klaw, will have its premiere on February 2 at the Academy of Music, Baltimore. It will play there for one week, with Phua- \ delphia to follow. On leaving the Quaker City, it will come to either New York or Chicago for a run. In the cast are Louis Bennison, .Battle Burke, Elizabeth nines, Jeanette Barton, Eva WaUerstein, Robert Woolsey, Alfred Kappeler, Jack Baffael, George Cukor, Carl Hammer and Walter Gallagher. WILLIAMS TRYING OUT PLAY John D. William* will put on his new Lionel B ar ry m ore play, "The Letter of the Law," by Eugene Brienx, at the Werbur- ton Theatre, Yonkers, this (Wednesday) afternoon for but one performance. It win then be subjected to any changes deemed necessary, after which it wflf open ont of town and then come into New York. STANTON GOES WITH HOPKINS fiandford E. Stanton, former p res s rep- resentative for Selwyn and Company, baa been engaged by Arthur Hopkins far his executive staff.