The New York Clipper (February 1920)

February 4>- 1920 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 23 :Uoya"Harrison was last week presented wit* a baby girL i 1.*.;-.. ••—^_ J Gerald P. Bacon will, henceforth, man- ago Thirston HalL / k William Harridan has returned to his 1e in "The Acquittal." ■/■ -f , .-. *? m Tfllle Barton, wife of Jim Barton, ii laid up with pneumonia. Esther Ingram has been added to the revue at Reisenweber's. Hugh Herbert lost bis mother laat Fri- day, as-a result of the "flu." Eddie Lowry has been engaged by The Aboms for "Sweet Mamma." Beulah Livingstone has become con- nected with H. H. Wentworth. E. J. Abruns, the manager, has recov- ered from an attack of influenza. Clara Rose suffered the death of her brother, who died laat Tuesday. Dorothy C. Pryer ia to be seen in Joe Weber's new production shortly. Josie Flynn is having new material written for her "Fashion Minstrels." Joseph Lertora went into the cast of "The Sweetheart Shop" last week. i "Marjie" Caulfield has been made pri- vate secretary to William BrandeU. J. C Flippim has been engaged by Ar- thur Pearson for one of his attractions. 'Gitt Watson has been added to the re- vue at the Hotel Winton, Cleveland, Ohio. j Dixie Norton has a new. act in rehearsal, which is scheduled to open soon out of town. Frank V. Stons has given $1,000 to the building fund of the Trenton, N". J., Y. M. C. A. Louis Pincus was confined to his home with an attack of grippe for a few days last week. ; ' Mollie Mclntyre will shortly be seen in vaudeville under the direction of M. 8. Bentham. " ' ' Frankie Heath has returned to the east of the Winter Garden after an illness of two weeks. Harry Mack last week received news of the death of his father, Joseph March, in Philadelphia. Harry Moss, the dancer, arrived in New York last week, after a trip to the Ja- maica Islands. George Sofransld, the agent, has left for Atlantic City to recuperate from his recent illness. ABOUT YOU! AND YOU!! AND YOU!!! (Coattnnad on Peje. «*> AU-mtHttr Qaassssi will return .to the j stage in a number of special matinees of "The Tragedy of Nan." "-»£ $^g$a . Harry Clark, who has been down in the British West Indies for some time, set sail for home hut week. Marie Kendall, an English performer, ar- rived hut week in this country to make a vaudeville tour. Mrs. Minnie L. Camming*, formerly a well-known actress, is ill in the Mount Sinai Hospital. Carl Eckstrom has returned to the "Scandal" company at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre. " " .. * ■ John Barrymore has recovered from his attack of grip and is back in his role of Giannetto in "The Jest" 'Mr. and Mrs. Davey Jamieeon have a new member of their family in the person of an eight pound baby boy, who arrived last' 1 week. ~- Bert Leigh has been engaged by Henry W. Savage for the leading juvenile role in a new play in which Florence Naah will be starred. Bessie Dennison wants the whole world to know that she never led the chorus of : the Metropolitan Opera. Walter Keefe has been called to his home in Oshkosh, Wis., where his brother and sister are seriously ill. Judith Vosselli has been out of the cast of "Aphrodite'' for the past three weeks, ill with influenza. . -,• run Royal Charles Callahan baa been given a of the play contract for "The B Vagabond," now on tour. Virgil Bennett arrived in town last week and began work on casting his new Chi- cago Winter Garden revue. Hka Marie Deel is sailing for Australia on February 17th, to act the title role in "Tiger Hose," for the Taits. Ninita Guy Briatow has been engaged by Blaney Brothers as leading lady in their Yorkvffle Stock Theatre. Sidney Phillips will shortly leave vaude- ville .for a special engagement with 'Ed Wynn's Carnival. Frank Vincent, booking manager of the Orpheum Circuit, who had been ill. is back again at his desk.- - ' .» ' . Ray Kosaare, who recently dosed in "Monte Cristo," opened at Heary'a Golden Glades but week. Edward F. Bostick is out of "The Sign On tne Door" at the Republic. He has been replaced by Paul Everton. Carlton Macey, of Lydell and Macey,* is confined to his bed with the "flu." He was stricken while in St. Louis. Emmett Callahan is back in New York after a three weeks' stay in Chicago on business for Chamberlin Brown. Alfred E. Henderson is to deliver a lec- ture on the drama on Friday next before the Verdi Club at the Waldorf. G. P. Huntley, the English comedian, his wife and son, arrived last week on the Mauretania for a year's rest here. Mae Russell has been appointed book- ing representative for the Liberty and Red Cross Theatres in damp Dbc Marie GoS, who has had a cold, has suf- ficiently recovered to take her former role in "At 9:45" at the Plymouth, Boston. Dorothy South is singing Wilda Ben- nett's role in "Apple Blossoms," due to the absence of the latter because of illness. Rollo Lloyd has resigned .from the- Blaney Yorkville Players to accept a role in "The Purple Mask" at the Booth Thea- tre. Frank Conroy, the original promoter of the Greenwich Village Theatre, is report- ed planning to build another house in that district. Barbara Gordon filled in for Mary Thorne in the role of Molly Cary in "Sin- ners" at the Wilkes Theatre, Seattle, hut week. Hairy Coleman, the burlesque comedian with the "Roseland Girls," has purchased a ten-room house at. Barnegat Bay for his mother. . ... — • -—• - - a and Moore had their dressing; room While playing tha Lincoln Theatre Owen i robbed on 130th Strait," during tha first half of laat week. The loss amounted to about $100. Lane and Momn went out of the Al- hambx* bill last week owing to Illness which overtook George Lane. Lloyd add Christie filled In for the remainder of the week. - \ f *•* Isabel Rhys, understudy to.the prima donna in "Monsieur Beaucatre," was mar- ried last week to Robert Parker, also in the cast- Heal Hamilton, formerly leading man in pictures, is now connected with Cham- berlin Brown's office as one of the casting 'directors.'..', s. ;■"--" " "•'- " -"*t>;" Isabel (KMadigan returned to the cast of "Scandal" at the Thirty-ninth Street i Theatre last Friday,- after an illness of ten days. Yorke Averill, press representative for the Canadian Victory Shows for three years, is now affiliated with Gilbert and Friedland, Inc. Stanley Dale, Bertha Nirandei and Flor- ence Guies have been engaged by Matt Graw for the "Million Dollar Doll," bur- lesque company. Lucille and Clifford Sbirpser, a juvenile singing and dancing team, went into the San Francisco Casino bill last week as an added attraction. IMssJej Faasett has left the cast of "Scandal" to take the leading male role in Clyde MacArdle's Stock Company at Somerville, Mass. Rosamond Thompson, in private life Mrs. Charles Richards, and her daughter, sailed on January 27th, aboard the Cedric, for England. Hal and Frances Usher, mind readers and magicians, announce that their latest production is "A Pair of Twins," called Frances and Carolyn. ■ jim McCauley has started his annual raffle for the St. •ftJi«'Ti ff <.1« Orphan Home, at Green. Bidge, States Island. He is holding the raffle in his office, back stage of the Olympic Theatre. Frank Martens jumped into the ranks of the Somerville, Mass., stock company for three days but week., due to the 01- nesifpf one of the principalis. Jack Coatello, formerly press agent for the Western Vaudeville Managers Associa- tion, is running a dance carnival at Madi- son Square Garden, this week. Ted W. Gibson, with "His .Honor Abe Potash," is confined to his home in Brook- lyn with a broken arm, sustained when he was thrown from a trolley car. Clyde E. Anderson, owner and manager of "Ten Nights in a Barroom," last week lost his mother, who died at the Crosse ' . Irving Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y. Marie V. FUsgeraU, author of the com- edy "Without a Name," returned laat week to this country on the Mauretania, after spending six years abroad. Loraine Lincoln, Jeanne Marry, Elsie Thomas, Eric Block, George AverUl and Phuket and Sates, have been engaged by Matt Graw for "Come Along Mary." Frank Gardner was forced to cancel the route of his act because the male member of his company was taken ill and is now in a hospital w ith pneumonia. Louis Schnitxer, general manager of the Jewish Art Theatre, sailed last week for France on the S. S. Mauretania, possibly to bring back a foreign Jewish star. Joe Dolan, formerly with "The Girls FromrJoyland," but now in "Tumble In," was given a theatre party in Lawrence, Mass., headed by the mayor of the city. ^George Lane, of Lane and Moran, was suddenly taken 01 laat weak while riding up to the Alhambra in tin Subway. The act was —ntaflad for the rest of the week. David Catiin, formerly with the 8fau- bert s; nas been appointed musical director of thai new Utica Theatre, Edward Spie- Sil's" 1600-seat motion picture house in rooklyn. Vera Leonard, playing the High Priest- ess id' "Aphrodite," is 01 with influenza and is being replaced by Louiae Blanid, a gsaSusHe of the American Academy of Dramatic Art. HeOie Beaumont, wife of Billy B. Van and formerly a member of The Beaumont SUters act, has gone into motion pictures, her .first being with Madge Kennedy in "Trimmed in Scarlet." Ed. Lalor and Marion Grey opened on Fe.* 2 with the Kempner Theatre com- pany. Little Rock, Ark. They have just completed twenty-seven weeks at The Gem, In the same city. Fred and Peggy Pymm are te be fea- tured in a new act called "Who Shoots" which Ned Dandy is producing. Alios Gershunberg wrote it and Charles Wil- shin will handle it. Saul Abraham, treasurer of the Nora Bayes Theatre, is 'recovering from an at- tack of influenza, and when well will go on the road as manager of "The Green- wich Village Follies." " AL Price, of the law department of tha Loew offices, Is leaving to enter vaude- ville. He will do a comedy singing act with Vera PearasO, which is being written by Allan Spencer Tenney. Mike Waylon, of McNulty and Waylon, who has been at his home in Pittsburgh suffering from a nervous breakdown, has recovered and will sail on February 25th for London, where the team has contracts. Carl Huaon last week bad a judgment amounting to $1,199.17 rendered against hint is the City Court, where John H. Henrick had sued him giahntpa; son-pay- ment of an $1,150 promissory note made hut August.' »* ' " Blossom Baird, Barbara Bertrand, Dor- othy Burton, EQa Cameron, Bessie Eyton, Antoinette Roche, John A. Butler, Edouard D'Oire, C. Nick Stark and Frank Ford have been engaged by Harry Clay Blaney for the Yorkville and Prospect Theatre Stock Companies. Blanche Bates, Adolf Bohm, Irene Bar- doni, Gits Rice, B. C. Hfilurm, Party Wenrich, Dorothy Connelly, Pearl White. Frank Tianey, Wallace MeCutcheon and Charles J udlee, are among those who wUl appear, Sunday night at the Lexington Theatre to aid the After-Care House for Crippled Children. Samuel A. Weiss, several of whose paintings adorn the walls of the Friars' Club, and who abandoned the stage many 2MX ago to pursue his art studies abroad, holding an exhibition of his paintings at the Arlington GaJleriee, where a lunen- eon j to theatrical folk was served last- Saturday afternoon. -Ethan Allen has-been signed try the Taits for twenty-eight weeks, with an option of an .. additional twenty-sight should they desire it, to go to Australia and play the WUlard Mack part in "Tiger •p in *• tt- - Rose'." Ho sails, with Ufa Peal, tha only other member going over, aboard the Ventura on Feb. 17.