The New York Clipper (January 1920)

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THE NEW YORK CLIPPER January 14, 1920 jf^r LOEW TO START NEW SYSTEM FEBJTH . WILL OPEN AT ATLANTA The new system of booking an entire show from Jiouse to house on the Loew cir- cuit, will be started on February 8th. This method,of sending a number of acts to- gether in one show, to the different towns, is simitar to that which has-been used on the Pantages and Orpheum circuits for some years. Acts which are routed over the Loew circuit win open in Atlanta, Georgia. From there, they will be snipped all through the South up to the Middle West After play- ing through that territory they will be booked with San Francisco as their ulti- mate destination, from where they will be brought back to New York. In some towns where there are bosses which play vaudeville for only one half week, and legitimate attractions the other half, a representative of the Loew offices wfll see ot it that the show is kept work- ing for the half of the week which is open. / Tn this manner, Loew will be able to keep his acts, which are playing over the South, Middle 'West and Western circuits working all the time. COMPLAINS OF EX-PARTNER Complaint has been' filed with the N. V. A. by Dorothy Doyle against, her for- mer partner, Charles Millard. She says that Millard, having become dissatisfied with her as a partner, split their act and secured the services of Minnie Marlin, but continued, to present the offering under the billing of Millard and Doyle. She fur- ther alleges that Millard is indebted to her for a half share in the properties, amounting to approximately $500. SUED FOR ROYALTY Jean Vernon, the actress, is being sued by Allen Spencer Tenney, in the Third Municipal Court to recover $125 in back royalty, alleged to be due him. He wrote an act for her some time ago and recent- ly, he says, she ceased paying royalties and he instituted suit through Alexander R. Tendler. PUTTING IN SUNDAY VAUDE Montreal. Can., Jan. 11.—The Gayety Theatre win soon start a policy of vaude- ville concerts on Sunday afternoons and evenings,' under the management of John T. Fiddes. The acts will be booked in New York by Walter J. Plimmer, the prices ranging from 15 to 75 cents. SIMMONS AND SIMMONS SPLIT The team of Simmons and Simmons has split. The male member of the act is working as a '•single" hereabouts. Mrs. Simmons has retired to private life in Minneapolis. WASHINGTON GETS NEW HOUSE Washington. D. C. .Tan. 9.—Nixon and Nirdlinger announced yesterday, through their. representative here, the erection of another nop vaudeville house to cost $1,- 000,000. It vvill be located on 13th and E Streets. GOING TO SO. AMERICA Henry Bach, who represents the Sequin Tours in this country, has booked three more acts for the South American tours. The three are "The Mysterious Black- smiths,** Winston's Water Lions, and Le- Roy, Talma and Bosco. They will leave with one of the Companies sailing from here for South America every month. NEW ACTS Lewis and Gordon have put intcj re- hearsal a new farce in one act by LtRoy Clemens, entitled "A Touch In Time."]The cast is headed by Oliver Smith, supported by Elsie Rizer, Marshall Vincent and Regi- nald Paget. Lynn Overman is staging'the playlet. Selig and Lee opened at the Lyric Thea- tre, Newark, N. J., the last half of last week in a new comedy talking and singing act. A. S. Tenney wrote it. 1 Gotty and Towns will open shortly in 'a new comedy act being written for them by A. a Tenney. Billy and Nellie St. Clair, formerly of "A Lonely Romeo," wfll open shortly in vaudeville with a dancing act. Zara and Adele, last seen in vaudteville with Billy Sharp's "Broadway Echoes," will appear in their own dance routine in vaudeville. "And Son," a sketch produced by Lewis and Gordon, is now breaking in on the Inter-State time and has been routed over the Orpheum Circuit. "Thunder Mountain," written and pre- sented by Langdon McCormack, will open shortly. It is a scenic melodrama, in one act, the cast featuring Charles Bartling and El wyn Harris, with Walter S. Neeland, Frank Howard, Robert Ross and William Moon. Maxims International Dancers, with two men and four girls, will open next week, handled by Paul Durand. Faber, Martin and Douglas, three men, two in black-face, will open shortly in a singing comedy act. Mack Schaffler will start rehearsals soon in a new dramatic sketch written for him by William Anthony McGuire, in which he wfll be supported, by two people. SAILING FOR ENGLAND Crook will not sail on Jan. 29, as pre- viously arranged, but will leave on Jan. 20 with a number of other English theatrical people on board the Lapland. Lee Ephraim, of Tearle, McLeod and Ephraim, who pro- duced "Carnival," and Percy Reiss will be on the same ship. Godfrey Tearle, brother of Conway, win. leave for England the fol- lowing week, Jan. 29, on the Mauretania. HART AND GUIRE SPLIT The dancing team of Charles Hart and Beatrice Guire have split their act, owing to differences. Hart wfll do a new comedy act with Frank Strong. HYMER TO PLAY ORPHEUM AGAIN John B. Hymer wfll open for another tour over the Orpheum Circuit of Febru-. ary 8, in Duluth, having been booked solid. He wfll appear in the same ve- hicle. "Come On Red!" OUT OF PALACE BILL Allan Rogers, the tenor, who was to have been on the Palace bill this week, was taken ill shortly before the afternoon show and Frank Hurst was put on in his place. ELLA SHIELDS SAILING Ella Shields, who came over here from England several weeks ago and worked several houses on the Keith time, is sched- uled to sail back* on January 29th. rRlSCO REHEARSING NEW ACT Frisco is rehearsing a new dancing act for presentation in vaudeville at Reisen- weber*s. In the new act, a young lady by the name of Pauline Chambers wfll step into the part taken by Loretta Mc- Dermott in Frisco's, first and most suc- cessful act. Nick Bucker will also be in it and, of course, a jazz band. HOLD HOFFMAN ACT OVER Los Angeles, Jan. 9.—Gertrude Hoff- mann is now in her second week at the'Or- pheum Theatre here. She was held over after a special arrangement had been made'. GERMAN ARTISTS EXECUTE NEW CONTRACT v> — \ MANY DRASTIC CHANGES - That German vaudeville performers have adopted the most exacting contract ever issued between variety actor and manager, became known in this country last week, when reports to this effect were received at the Wirth-Blumenfeld office in this city. The new contract is known as the Tarif Contract and is patterned after the former German play or pay agreement. This contract, which has been sanctioned by the present German government, was introduced by William Berol Konorah, an American vaudeville performer, who, it is reported, has become a German citizen since the war between this country and Germany. Konorah is head of the Interna- tional Artists' Lodge and has been respon- sible for many reforms brought about in the German theatrical world during the past ten years. Although all the clauses of the new con- tract are not as yet known, some idea of the weight it carries is made evident by the statement that under this agree- ment German managers must pay all the performers' railroad expenses, including baggage rates. It further provides that an act, once engaged for one of the larger houses, mut remain there for the period of one month, with but one performance a day and one matinee on Sundays. However, there is one clause that gives the German manager a power never before attained. This provides that if any per- former fails to make his appearance in his allotted spot on the program, the manager may subtract one-half of his salary for that performance. It further states that if a performer fails to make an appearance when billed to do so, the manager may subtract one or two days' salary as he pleases. This contract, it is said, places the Ger- man manager more in the power of the performer than ever before. There being no central booking office in that country and the fact that the German manager is not organized gives the organized per- former the upper hand and with tbe gov- ernment sanctioning every move, the per- former has gradually come to take a dic- tatorial stand. VALESKA SURATT OPENS 19TH Valeska Suratt, assisted by Eugene- Strong and Walter C. PercivaL win open next week. January 19th. at the Riverside- Theatre, In an act called "Scarlet," an adaptation from Jack Lait's show "One of Us," which she has been playing on the road under the title of "Scarlet and White." The act is to receive, according to reports, $2,750 a week. ELMS SAILING FOR ENGLAND J. D. Elms, the international vaudeville agent, has booked passage and sails for England early &r February. He will be gone six weeks and" while on the other side 'win arrange for the booking of acts and and exchange between here and England. FOX PEOPLE CHANGING A number of changes were made last week in the Fox houses. Louis Cohen, manager of the Ridgewood Theatre; Ernest P. .Torres, organist at the Washington Theatre; John Wez, of the Academy of Music; Dave Brown, orchestra leader at the Audubon; are air going to Denver, where Fox has four houses. They will be placed in the different houses controlled by Fox there. Joseph Levy, manager of the Crotons, resigned to go> info a commercial' business. INDIAN PRINCESS OPENS ACT Princess Wah-Letka, the Indian Seress, opened at the Strand Theatre, White Plains, last Monday for a full week. She is billed as "The Human Ex-Ray" and answers questions and tells names while being blind-folded without the aid of the person saying a word to the assistant Wah-Letka is a genuine Indian Princess and the daughter of Chief Spy-Buck, of the Cherokee Indiana. She acquired her wonderful powers from her father. The act broke all past records of the house.- Henry Bellit is responsible for her vaudeville debtft. * »< SUE FOR COST OF DROP Leonard and Willard some time ago or- dered a drop from the Golding Scenic Studios, paying $235 for it. When it was delivered they say it was unsatisfactory and returned it, asking- for their money back. This was refused, and they have instituted suit through their lawyer, Alexander R. Tendler, for the recovery of the money. HILL AND ACKERMAN SAO, Hill and Ackerman, the comedy acro- batic act, sailed for England on Saturday. They have been given twelve weeks on the Moss time by Willie Edelsten. MOSS ibmm DYCKMAN B. S. Moss has taken a fifteen year lease on the Dyckman Theatre, at 207th Street and-Broadway, from John Jermon. He took possession Monday and closed the place. It wfll re-open about March 1 with pictures and vaudeville. ELEANOR GREY IN NEW ACT Eleanor Grey, the soprano, is about to return to vaudeville in a new act in which she wfll sing a repertoire of Harry De Costa songs. Mr. De Costa wfll appear in the'act, furni?hing the accompaniments. TAKE OVER JERSEY THEATRE The Plaza Amusement Company has taken over-the. Keystone Theatre, West Hoboken, and will, after re-painting and re-decorating the house, open it on Jan- uary 19 as a vaudeville theatre. The exact policy hasr not yet been decided. DeONSONNE AND BAKER SPLIT Nellie DeOnsonne and Edythe Baker, who did. an act in vaudeville known as DeOnsonne and Baker, have severed' part- nership. Miss Baker wfll either do a single or an act with Harry Fox. Hiss DeOnsonne has not announced what she wfll do. HOBOKEN HOUSE TO RE-OPEN The Strand Theatre, Hoboken, at pres- ent being re-decorated and re-painted, wflT re-open January 19 as a vaudeville house under the management of I. Klein. The house will run a split week policy of five acts and features, booked by Fally Marcus. GET AUSTRALIAN TIME San Fkakcisco, Jan. 9.—Ward and Sherman, a comedy, singing and talking act, has signed for a twenty weeks' route over the Fuller Australian circuit, and will sail on the steamer "Sonora" Jan. 13. The team has just completed a tour of the Ackerman and Harris time. CLARK AND BERGMAN ENTER FILMS' Gladys Clark and Henry Bergman have been engaged by Jack and Harry Cohen, of 1600 Broadway, to appear in a series of new two-reel comedy features. GET THIRTY -WEEK CONTRACT Frank and Mazie Hughes, dancing act, and-Brewster, an educated dog, have been Touted over the Loew time for thirty -weeks each. Abe I. Feinberg secured the- ■bookings-for them. They opened this weefc.