The New York Clipper (January 1920)

January 14, 1920 TjHt NJEiW Y$j& K C-LIP PJRR.t 21 CLaire Siiatton lias been swarded a two-" year-contract with "The Little Whopper." Arthur Hold has been engaged by the Theatre Guild for "The Power of Dark- ness." •-'.'" i.->~: P. Richards, the cartoonist, was. mar ried recently,to Hedwig Eobilke at Berlin, Germany. \ :%..'*^ ".'.■' ':■*- m Dora Hilton and C. Leland Harsh were added to Herman Timberg's new comedy "Tick-Taek Toe." ■ Paul Gordon has been engaged by wu- uam A. Brady for the title role in "The Man Who Came Back." Steele Fendry, head.stage carpenter at the Winter Garden, celebrated nig seven- . tieth birthday last week. Cyril Keightley has been engaged by Lee Shnbert to play with Rachel Crothers in her play "He and She." Lola Leslie was married to Wayne Hal- sey on the stage of the Wigwam Theatre, San Francisco, on December 30. Mina Schall will be back on the Ameri- can Circuit again next season, with one of Herk, Kelly and Damsel's shows. ,, Natalie and Ferrari opened last week for an extended engaement at the Palais Roj-ale. Lou Shurr booked them. Kathlene Martyn, who recently arrived from England, made her American debut last week in the Ziegfield Midnight Frolic Idea Payne is directing the rehearsals of Arthur Bennett's play "Sacred and Profane Love" in which Elsie Ferguson is to star. Sam Freed has purchased the Grand Theatre at Scotia, N. Y. from Buhrmaster Brothers and will play vaudeville and bur- lesque there. Stuart Robson, Jr. was married last week to Yvette Ledoux of Boston, daugh- ter of the former United States Ambas- sador to Portugal. Engenia Blair, Minna Gale Balnea, Mi- rian Doyle and Cora Witherspoon have been engaged for the cast of "The Out- rageous Mrs. Palmer." Frank Kirk, the musical tramp with B. M. Harvey's Greater _ Minstrels, has - added - an imitation of a bagpipe to his coHeeiioirof freak -instrumenter~_^-- .-_•»_ Frank E. Forking, formerly one-fourth owner of the Hodkins circuit, and at one time owner and manager of the old Fifth Avenue Theatre in Nashville, Term., is now engaged in business in Chicago. . Helen Carr, aquatic star of "Happy Days" returned to the Hippodrome from the Knapp Memorial Hospital last week, where she went after having been injured in her 122-foot plunge. She will be per- manently blind in one eye. Robert Adams, Gregory Kelly, Byron Beasley, Grace Filkina Betty Murray, Bath Gordon .and Clara Blandick are in the second company of "Clarence," that opened at the Blackstone Theatre, Chi- ago hist week. ' Louise Willis, who has toured with com- binations, supported Say Raymond, Kilroy and Britten, and who has appeared In vaudeville, is now retired from the stage and in charge of the United Cigar Store opposite the State-Lake Theatre in Chi- cago. George* Plateau, Gail Kane, Frederick Graham, Gertrude Vanderbflt, Ernest Lambert, Edythe ABenby and Fannie Al- bright have been engaged-for the east of "The Great .illusion," Avery Hop wood's adaptation of Sacha Guitry's play. ABOUT YOU! AND YOU!! AND YOU!!! Buckley Geir and Bialand have joined the new Capitol show. Edgar - Allen and Katharine Murray were married on New Year's Day. C_ J. Fred Zimmerman, Jr., ' is in New York completely recovered from his recent illness. Martha Mansfield is back again in the "Midnight Frolic." j *? -*. ■ ■ v Ben Mulvely has been engaged by Matt Graw for a road company of "Flo-Flo." The Bell Sisters have split and announce their retirement from vaudeville. Lillian Claire has joined the cast of "Two Many Husbands" at the Wilbur, Boston. . _ ... Mrs. Chsrles W. Smith, of La Vine and Imnan, has recovered from a severe op- eration. . . D. P. Hobgood, manager of the Pastime, will build a vaudeville theatre in Pensa- cola, Fla. Al H. Knight has been added to the cast of Gus Hill's "Bringing Up Father." Charles Spink has been engaged as ad- vance agent for "The Revelations t>f a Wife." Josephine Taylor, a cabaret star, is pre- paring a big time vaudeville act with three people. Mayme Remington was successfully op- erated upon recently at the American Hospital, Chicago. Dayton Stoddard, formerly with Corn- stock and Gest, is now publicity man for Marc Klaw. « Mary Tompkins, with the ."Little Sim- plicity" company, is confined to her room with acute tonsilitis. Harry T; Morey expects to begin work on his new play "Detective Jim" at an early date. Ted and May Goodwin are still with the Pickert Stock Company, playing parts and doing feature vaudeville. Sidney Shields, with the Walker White- side company underwent a successful op- eration in Denver last week. Flanagan and Edwards, a vaudeville team win dissolve partnership shortly and appear separately, in pictures. Ed. E. De Camp, who was taken ill while on the road with "La, La Lucille," is recuperating at Saranac Lake. Helen Hayes of the "Clarence" cast will head her own company in a dramatisation of the "Baba" stories by Mary Roberta Rinehart. Ada Vivian, of Harry and Ada Vivian, is in a New Orleans hospital suffering from throat trouble and must undergo an operation. Bert Hanlon won the legal controversy which lasted for some time between him and Joe Laurie over the song "Patriotic Burlesque." Bobby Van Horn substituted for J. C Nugent last weekjrt Keith's, Cincinnati- Mr. Nugent was called home -by the ill- ness of his wife. Clarence Hyde, formerly with Moroseo, is now business manager for the new pro- ducing firm of Edgar MacGregor and Wil- liam Moore Patch. * red L. Wolfe is succeeding George Pel- ton as manager of the Burbank Theatre, Lob Angeles. Harry Fox wiU return to vaudeville at the Alhambra, January 10 with a single singing specialty. GoS Phillips, black-face comedian, has left the theatrical profession to enter the clothing business. Elioner Sutter has been Matt Graw revue at the wald, New Orleans. for the tel Grune- Ethel Remey left the "Woman In Brown" company last week for a role in a Broadway production. Max Figman and his wife, Lolita Rob- ertson, are returning to America after an extended stay in Australia. May Bates, understudy for Peggy Wood and featured in road attractions, is seek- ing a divorce from Harry L Bates, lawyer. George Trabert sings "My Golden Girl." the song hit in the. play of that name, not Misses Arnold and Bolton. James Devine, with John Barrymore in "The Jest," is also playing the comedy role in the photoplay "The Adventure" with Wm. Faxnum. - Jose Ruben and Vincent Serrano have been engaged for roles in "Sacred and Profane Love," by Arnold" Bennett. " Chas P 11 " 1 "™^ and his hoops, sailed f ur t he - West-4ndies .and South America, Jan. 0th, booked'for twenty-four weeks. Mine, Mi mi AgngUa, the Italian actress who recently retired from the cast of The Whirlwind," wfli appear in motion pictures. Ed. White, manager of the Dorina Fife and Drum Corps, a circus aggregation, has joined the' Cole and Gibney company, as advance man. Edward Forbes, last seen in New York in "Tillie" with Patricia Collinge, has joined the "Rainbow Girl" company, re- placing Harry Benbam. Lightner Sisters and Alexander, billed to open at the Orpheum, Sioux City, last week, disappointed on account of the illness of Winnie Lightner. Wilson and Van filled the vacancy. Henry Bergman and his wife, Gladys Clark, will leave New York Thursday for the Coast, where they will make a series of two-reel comedies for the Cohen brothers. Bert Hanlon filled in for Lew Dock- stadter at Washington last week, the minstrel having had to quit the bill owing to the death of his wife. Earl Taylor and Ethel Arnold, a vaude- ville'act, have announced their retirement. Taylor goes to San Francisco as manager for Irving Berlin and Miss Arnold will go into musical stock on the coast. Georges Baklaaoff, a Russian baritone with the Chicago Opera Company, was ar- rested last week and held in $1,000 bail to face deportation proceedings. "Doc" CNefl, who gave np the prac- tice of medicine ten" years ago to enter vaudeville, has announced that he is through and will re-open his office in Chicago. " Jaek Rett gave a Christmas dinner to his company at the Jermyn Hotel; Scran ton. Pa., a New Year's Eve supper in Bing- hampton, N. Y, an 4 a New Year's dinner In Niagara Falls. Ernest DeKalb is earnestly requested to communicate with his mother. . Doll L Farlardean, the old maid clown, is working up State for Walter Plimmer. Rosalie Stewart left for Chicago last week, and from there will go to St. Louis, -. .. -v ,;. v*8* John Mfltern has been engaged to' play ... opposite Grace George in "The Ruined Lady*** *jE — Helen Curry has been engaged for "The Los<n8buT* in which Theda Sara will bo starred. Lee Knua, of Borwits and Kraus, has returned to Chicago to handle his busi- ness there. Douglas MscPherson has been engaged for Henry W. Savage's production of "Shavings." lone Bright has been added to the oast of "Every Little Thing," the new fsree by Wilson CoUison. Edith Rose, who handles the motion picture work of the ChamberUa Brown of- fice, is ill with tonsilitis. Emirr. .Callaway, dramatic actress, is engaged to be married to Dr. Wesley M. Hunt, a throat specialist. Arthur Lyons is taking a business trip through New England, touching Boston, Providence and other towns. Bessie McCoy Davis hss quit the "Greenwich Village Follies," the same tak- ing effect at the end of next week. EstsDe KreSman is now private secre- tary to .Charles WBihin and Hed Dandy, succeeding EsteDe Schwarts, who recently married. Jess Martin, the' black-face comedian formerly of the team of Carson and Mar- tin, has retired from the stage to go into business. Claybnrgh, concert soprano, brought suit last week against her hus- band, Albert Claybnrgh, from whom she is separated, for $10,320, which she claims is back allowances due her. Jack Clifford, formerly d» n "1 ng partner of Evelyn Neshit has teamed up with Irene Wallace and will go into vaude- ville again. Georgia Gardner, scheduled to be Hat Goodwin's sixth wife at the time of his death;' ia ill at the Hotel Pennsylvania with pneumonia. Josephine Teller Lambart, an actress, married fin* two months to Major Ernest Oliver J^mbart, an actor, filed suit for separation last week. Curtis Cookeey and Wilson Reynolds have been engaged by William A. Brady for the; company which supports Italy Hash and Hofbrook Blinn in "Man and Woman." * AmeHta Galli-Cnrd, grand opera singer, last Thursday took out her first Ameri- can citizenship papers. This was her first public set after having been granted a divorce from Luigi C. CurcL Adele Pembroke, who for the last seven months has been a nrosieal director and entertainer with the Knights of Columbus and who resigned from that position two Weeks ago, is rehearsing a new pianologue, written for her by Allen Spencer Tenney. She opens in two weeks. Orth and Coleman's Gsyety Girls Com- pany are now on their twenty-second week on the Sun time. The company is made up of Russ Forth, comic and pro- < dueer; Charles Ferrest, second comic and spechtltfes; Dot and Vehna EmHne, straight and specialties: Dews Forth, socbrette, Leone- Vsunett, leads and specialties, and "Smiting" 8am rillSSHs. ' managta*. - • ~ "'>■&*_