New York Clipper (Feb 1923)

February 7, 1923 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 15 Jean Granese & Comiwiiy, who are now playing the Loew circuit, will re- turn to the Keith time on April 2nd. Ann Nichols has completed a new comedy, which is without title and which she will produce in the early spring. The new piece is destined to follow "Abie's Irish Rose into the Re- public when that piece takes to the road. ABOUT YOU! AND TOU!! AND TOU!!! Hcnxy Bellitt will launch bis new vaudeville tabloid, "So This is Broad- way." by Sidney Lazarus, the latter part of this week in an out of town vaude- ville house. Pam Travers is featured in the act, which also includes Angelo Romeo, Fred Martell and James Coyle. Frances White, James Barton & Co- Ray Miller and Band, Kramer and Boyle, Phil Baker, Frank Fay & Co., Townes and Franklin and the Pederson Bros, comprised the bill at the Winter Garden when Sunday night concerts were resumed there last week. Sam Harrison, manager of "Ziegfeld's Follies" at the New Amsterdam Thea- tre^ was missing from his post several days last week on account of an attack of the grippe and Sam Kingston, gen- eral manager of the Ziegteld enter- prises, took charge of the attraction. Reed and Blake are doing a new comedy act and now are playing on the Sablosky time. Marion Sunshine l;ft for a four week stay in Miami, Jfla., last Friday. Upon her. return Miss Sunshine will appear in a new Broadway production which is to start rehearsal about March 1st. Pauline Dempsey, a negress, broke her leg while coasting down a hill at Tarrytown, on a sled before the camera in a picture starring Francis X. Bush- man and Beverly Bayne. She is now in St. Joseph's Hospital, Yonkers. Lillian Watson, formerly of Princeton and Watson, broke in a new single act last week, and will be seen in the New York Keith houses shortly. Bemice Speer and Company will open in a new act under the direction of Pat Casey this week. Rae Siegel, secretary to Henry Chesterfield at the National Vaudeville Artists club, has recovered from a bad cold. Harold Lloyd, the film star, and Mil- dred Davis, his former leading lady, are . engaged to be married. According to.' Joe Roddy, his personal representative, the wedding will take place this week.' Pansy Adams, chorister with Frank Finney s Rcvuc, left that company in Buffalo to join her husband, Ed. Dailey, who is in a commercial biisiness in Reading. George Renevant has been added to the cast of "The Crooked Square," the new play by Samuel Shipman, in which Constance Binney is to be featured by Mrs. Henry B. Harris. Raymond Shubert. who created the role of "Abie" in the original Pacific Coast presentation of "Abie's Irish Rose," will play this role next week in the stock presentation of the Ann Nichols comedy, now being offered at the Academy of Music, Baltimore. Charles Angelo is playing a principal role in the Chicago company of "The Last Warning," which opened in Ro- chester last week.' Blanche LateQ, who scored an indi- yidnal hit in the preliminary showing of "The Blackmailers," will be featured in the rewritten version of the piece which is scheduled for another try the latter part of this month. Blanche Haghcs will be seen with a new song and dance offering shortly. Joseph Ross and Company are re- hearsing a new dramatic playlet, "The Coward," which will shortly be revealed in the local vaudeville houses. Marjerie Nolan, who has been sing- ing for the records, is planning to in- vade vaudeville with a production act. She will be assisted by two male dancers and a jazz band. Boms' and Singer are rehearsing a new. Dutch comedy act and will open with it on the Sablotsky time next week. Willie Hardv and Hden Beecher, the former a well-known dancer and the latter an instructress at Roseland, are rehearsing a number of dances and 'will open shortly with one of the better known orchestra acts in 'vaudeville. Harry Akst and Benny Davis opened at the Palace Theatre, Chicago, in a new act Monday. Ethel Sweet, diminutive prima donna, opened at the Palais Royal, Atlantic City, last Friday night, for a two week's engagement. Yvonne George, the French chanteuse appearing in "The Greenwich 'Village Follies," at the Shubert Theatre, is now singing her first song in English, '^oa Ought to Know," by Rudolph FrimL Irene Bordoni will wind up her sea- son in "The French Doll" in Boston on Saturday evening, February 17. She will play several weeks in vaudeville pending the completion of a new starring vehicle. May Wirth, equestrienne star, who has been appearing in Keith vaudeville with Phil and family, underwent an operation for the removal of her tonsils last week and has recovered. She will resume her vaudeville tour in two weeks and remain in the two-a-day until called upon to fulfill her circus contract in the early spring. Knapp and ComaHa will shortly be seen in a new comedy act, which is beincr prepared for them by James Madison. Grace Hawkins and Company are re- hearsing a new playlet called My Gal Sal," which will shortly open on the Amalgamated time. Dolly Connelly, who with Percy Wenrich headlined the bill at Loew's State Theatre, N. Y., is this week with Shubert vaudeville at the Majestic, Bos- ton. Harry Green, formerly in vaudeville, and more recently in legitimate produc- tions in England, sailed for Enrope last week after acquiring the English rights to "Give and Take.* Harry Santley has been restored to privileges recently taken away from him as a Chicago booker for the Loew houses in that city. Sam Scribner, burlesque man, is rest- ing at Palm Beach where he expects to remain for several weeks before coming north to resnme active duties. Haiy Haynes is recovering at a local hospital from an attack of the "flu," whcih forced her to cancel an engagement at the Colonial last week. Fred Ca4yhas replaced Eddie (Bozo) Fox in the "Beauty Review," a Colom- bia wheel show. i. ■. Max Ree. representative for Max ' Reinhardt, and scenic artist and cos- tume designer, is now in New York, acting as advance man for the theatri- cal producer who is expected to come here also shortly. Gallagher and Shean have been signed by George White who will star them in a new production next season. Montagne I<ove^ motion picture actor, is ill at the Lexington Hospital, where he was removed last Thursday, snffer- ing from a nervous breakdown. De Lyie, Alda ft Company, Gus Ed- ward's Revae^ .Clark ft Bergman, Dud De Kerdjarto, Leavltt ft Lockwood, Rockewell ft Fox, Du For Boys, The Paynes and JalinB Lcnsbog'a Baimon- ists, appeared on the bill at the New Amsterdam Theatre Sunday Concert. Dolly Moxrisey, formerly of the Mor- risey Sisters, who closed recently in a Shubert Vaudeville unit, opened as a single last week in Loew's, Providence, and has been routed over the Loew circuit. Wilton and Lede opened last week at Loew's American m a new hand- balancing act, booked by Bert Jonas. Joe Lannlgan, of Lannigan and Ha- ney, is mourning the loss -of his brother who died in Philadelphia last week. Cyiil Boganny and His ComedianB, a company of eight people, opened for a tour of the Keith drcuit at Proctor^s Mt. Vernon Theatre this week. Betty Washington opened for a toor of the Delmar time this week. WiUiam Le Malre and W. C. Hazes have opened with a new blackface comedy act in one. Florence Norcress singing co'itiedi- enne, opened at the Red Mill cabaret, Brooklyn, last week. The Daugherty Sisters have been added to the revue at - Bongiovanni's, Pittsburgh. They opened there this week. Jack Libasco, well known as a pro- ducer of girl acts, has sold out his in-' terest in the Green Fan cabaret, Green- -wich 'Vniage, and will hereafter confine his activities to producing acts. He has several new tabloids under consid- eration for early production. Flo Durand, formerly of the 'vaude- ville team of Denning and Durand, is being featured in the new "Revue In- time" at the Jolly Friars Inn, Green- 'wich Village. Johimy Lntz, wop comic, is also one of the features of the show. Tom Bnrke, Lou Holtz. Ben Bard and Jack Pearl, Kramer and Boyle, James C. Morton and Company, I^rank Burt and Miss Rosedal^ Janet Adair, Leonard and E^dy and Richard Wally appeared in the concert bill at the Winter Garden last Sunday evening. RoA Saville has rejoined the Colonial players at the Colonial Theatre, Pitta* field, Mass. She opened with the com- pany last week. Frank McCoy, who had been manag- io{^ the sta^e for BDlie Bnrke in "Rose Bnar," resigned - last week to beccrfne g«neral stage tnanager for Cemstock and Gesti .Lonla Kalisky, formerly connected with the Max Flohn attractions, has been appointed assistant to Jack Welch, general manager for Selwyn and Co. Muy Ann Dentler and Artfanr de Lord are playing leads with Al Lutt- ringer's stock company, which opened at the Lowell Opera House, Lowell, Mass., last week. The O'Connor Twins have replaced Francis Williams and Mile. Varessi in the new revue at the Palais Royal, Chi- cago. Fnnkie Meadows and Kadwihw Adolph have be6i signed for sixteen weeks by Harry Walker, to appear in his new revue at the Moolin Ronge^ Chicago. • Thomas Kanc^ head of the Centory Play Company, left Saturday for a two weelci' sojourn at Piudiim^ N. C James Thatcher will function in hia stead during his absence. Helen Carr, who is doing a single bl vaudeville, has been featuring "Mother's Lnllaby" at the State Theatre, Brook- lyn. ToTCat, with his sixty trained roosters is appearing at the big Mimicipal Casino Theatre at Tunis, Algeria. Gertmde Bemice, Viola Savoy, Vcn Bradley and Ldia Riley sailed for Pan- ama this week to appear in Hany Walker's new revue, which opens at Kelley's Jardine, in Colon, m '— weeks. Edward B. Lewis, manager of B. F. Keith's 81st Street Theatre, retnmed from a week's 'vacation in the Adiron- dacks last week and is back in harness again. Daring his absence, his ..assist- ant, Ben Hilbert, managed the theatre. Pozwottii and Ftancc% now playins the Pantages time are not man and wife as pnblished but are simply vau- deville partners. Dalley Brethera have engaged Eddie Hayden O'Connor to 'write them new talk for their act. They are playing the Loew time. Eddie Hayden O'Caanor is writing a new monologue for Lew Rice for a toor of the. B. F. Keith Theatres. He ia also writins for Anna B. Hays who will tour the Oipheum Circnit Ben Meroff, assisted by his new or- chestra, will be held over for two weeks at the Nixon Grand Theatre^ Philadel- phia. ■ ' ' PRIZES.FOR AMATEURS A new angle on "neighborhcod folUo" shows will be introduced at Proctor's Fifty- eighth Street, the week of Febmary O, when the feature of the bill wiU be "Fmo- tor's 58th Street FoUies." Tweoty-fifO local girls will compete 'with a like num- ber from Queensboro and the four adjnged the most talented of the lot will re tdv e handsome prizes. The Linton Brothers, who arc profDotios this local FolUes, are at the theatre thii week conscripting the cast from nei^bor* hood ioSk and ruearsing them. Heretofore the girls appearing in these "Folh'es" have been compentaM and the 'winner was awarded a route in the small- time houses. This new system a an in- expensrve one and the prizes are said to he greater bait for the stage-stmdc sentiT than the promise of bookhis. - From afi acco unts these *teig^iborhood diowi^ axe great business builders. FLORENCE SHIRLEY IN STOCK Ftorence Shlrl^, last seen on Braadwv In "Why Men Leave HaneT at the Morae- oo theatre, is now plaviag t l s itiu g. leads in slodc ^memeatSL .last wedc:ihe f a.luui'-weck engagement with tKe en St the .Up Towatteatre in Temto.