New York Clipper (Mar 1923)

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28 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER March 14, 1923- WniEMAN BAND fOR SIEAMSMP Hng^ Enist, general manager of Paul Mniiteinaii; Inc, last week made irablic tiie plans of the office in regard to Whiteman bands on the U. S. Shipping Board boats. He first band of this kiiid in point of im- portance is to be known as the S. S. Levitt- than band and will be present when that ahip makes its maiden vojfage early in Jime. The personnel of the band has not yet been determined, but it will be composed entirdy of young college men, all native Americans, who can entertain as well as play dance rnnsic The Shipping Board has hit the idea of fnniishiog the passengers with a real entertainment every night and believes that a Whiteman or- chestra is in a position to do this. Besides the entertainment, both musical and vocal, to be fuTBuhed by the Leviathan orchestra, tfaoe will be np-to-date moving pictores and other star attractions on the nightly programs. The S. S. Leviathan orchestra will be composed of ten or twelve men and will play a ooiq>Ie of months in Keith vaude- ville before going on board, under the above name. The scenic effects used in the act will be jdanned by Ned Waybnm, who will stMe the act, and execnted by the Robert Law stodios, who made the scenery 'nsed by Wfajteman for his European ap- pearance. The same scenery and effects used hy the bond in vaudeville will be tdcen on board the Leviathan when the boat sails and will be used by the band there. PAUL sPECirrs home robbed Paul Speclit and his orchestra were re- called by popular demand to play a-return engagement at the Palace Hieatre, Newark, last week. Reports being received indicate that Spccht's Qeveland engagement, in which he received $2,500 for a single night's performance before 8,000 persons, estab-' fishes a new record for dance ordiestras. During Spccht's absoice in Wadiington die wedc before last, bis home at 318 West Fifty-first street was broken into and Specfat was robbed of a suit of ckithes, a vest 2 traveling bag which he had been presented hy tiie members of one of .his hands, and other items the total value be- ing aboot $300l Papers and letters wfaidh Spedt had lying about were strewn all over the floor as if the robber had hem in aearcb of some particular document and took the articles as a blind. 'The robbery was only repo rt ed late last week. MILLER BUYS OUT KLEIN 'Ray Miller, who recently opened the Paiadise Ball Room in Newark with Ar- thur iKlein of the Shubert offices, last week boogfat out his former partner and is now the sole proprietor of Paradise. Miller paid Klein $25,000 for Klein's interest, $12^500 in cash and the same amount in a note payable in thirty days. Newark people, as shown by the news- papers, regard the acquisition of the entire enterprise by Miller as a step in'advance and treated the_ item as of general news vahie, giving Miller a wonderful send-off. The place has been running only four weeks and each ni^t of tiie week is showing an improvement over the same night the pre- vious week, with the prospects pointing to an average nightly attendance of over 700. ORCHESTRA NEWS BUESCHER CO. CO-OPERATING The Buescher Band Instrument Company' are taking a fine step in their program of co-operation with the leading orchestras and the several musical acts in vaudeville. During the recent Whiteman tour the Buescher dealers along the route offered every co-operation, featuring the White- man Band in their windows and in their display advertising. The same methods are bung pursued in regards to the White- man foreign trip. Other show orchestras, sudi as Paul Specfat, Pat Rooney and his Kings of Harmony, the Oriole Terrace Or- chestra, the Pennsylvanians, Charles Stride- land and Arnold Johnson are also being featured by the Buescher people with lobby and window display cut-outs and newspaper advertising. The Buescher people bdieve that dance music is as fully music as the intricate discord played hy long-haired Europeans and to uis end th^_ advertise the dance musician and bring nim to national atten- tion. BOOKED FOR PELHAM HEATH The Versatile Sextette, now completing a ten weeks' engagement at the Cafe des Beaux Arts, Philadelphia, will open at the 'Pelham Heath Inn on April 1st for an en- gagement of ten months, the longest con- tract ever made with an orchestra at any roadhonse. The weekly salary for the six men is in excess of $1,000, which puts the engagement among the 'most profitable or- chestra engagements ever played. STODDARD RETURNING TO B^WAY Harry Stoddard and his ordiestra will pley a return engagement at the Broadway Theatre on March 26th, making a total of eleven weeks played by Stoddard at this house. The management wished to secure Stoddard for an additional week, but his engagement at the Royal interfered. The orchestra remains under the management of Joseph B. Franklin for outside work and is being booked for vaudeville by Rose St Curtis. EN SWEETEN and his Orchestra ally of tba ~~ THCATBC COLEMAN WITH VALENTINO Emil Coleman, who booked his brother and four other musicians to accompai^ Rodolf Valentino and his wife on their transcontinental dance tour, has found it necessary to supply Gregory Coleman, the brother, with four more men, making a nine-piece orchestra accompanying the dancing film stars. The Coleman orches- tra plays a five-minute overture before tiie dancing exhibition starts, and then, while Valentino is changing into his street clothes, plays for a dancing contest that is held for the general public, Valentino acting as judge and presenting a silver loving cup to the winner. Emil Coleman, after an illness of eight days, due to a severe attack of influenza, returned to the Monbaiartre late last week. ORCHESTRA LEADERS VISIT N. Y. New York last week was the Mecca for several dance leaders and musicians. Frank Maggio, one of the biggest orchestra man- agers of Pittsburgh, was in .town for a few days. Maggio has five orchestras working all the time in tiie Smoky City. Leo £rdody also came down from To- ronto, where he is directing a Paul Specht orchestra, to celebrate, with bis wife, the seventh anniversary of their wedding. James Strick^dden and George C^nfidd, • saxophonists, arrived in town from Cali- fornia to join Eddie Elkins, and Johnny Hamp also spent a few days in the dty. JOCKERS BOOKS HIRSCH Al Jockers, who has been up at the Woodmansten Inn for over a year and who is highly regarded by Joe Pani, proprietor of the Woodmansten Inn and Knicker- bocker Grill, has booked Bert Hirsch and his orchestra into the Km'ckerbocker to open on March 18. This is the first or- chestra booked in a Pani enterprise by Jockers, but an arrangement has been made whereby Pani will, in the future, co- operate with his orchestra leader in mat- ters of this kind. PITTMAN AT ROCHESTER Paul Whiteman, Inc., has booked Keith Pittman and an orchestra of six pieces to open at the new Sagamore Hotel in Roch- ester, the orchestra leaving Sunday night and opening on Monday. The orchestra is known as Whiteman's Piccadilly Orches- tra, the engagement being for several weeks. The Sagamore is Rochester's new- est and finest hotel, the backers being the Bausch & Lomb Com{»iiy, optical goods manufacturers of that rity. BELLHOPS AT HOTEL WINDSOR Yerkes' Six Bellhops last week replaced the Yerkes Orchestra that had been playing at the Windsor Hotel. .Montreal, Canada. Some trouble had developed between a member of the former band and the im- migration authorities and Yerkes deemed it advisable to replace the band with the Bellhops. KYLE AT PAVIUON ROYAL Kent Kvle is directing a Whiteman or- chestra of four pieces on Saturdays and Sundays at die Pavilion Royal, which, during this season of the jrear, is <Hily open on those days. Others in the ordiestra besides Kyle, who play drums, are Wayne Scott, violin; Harry Potter, piano, and Bill Waco, saxophone. EDDIE ELKINS CLOSING Eddie Elkins and his orchestra, after having played at the Knickerbocker Grill for several months, will dose iJiere on Saturday, March 17. EUcins is partially reorganizing his orchestra with the proba- ble intention of opening in vaudeville shortly. FRIEDMAN AT YEUNG'S Al Friedman's Orchestra, recently re- turned from Montreal, was booked by Jo- seph B. Franklin and opened last we«k at Joy Yeung's restaurant at die highest sal- ary ever paid an orchestra in that cafe. Friedman has six pieces in his combination. HAMP AT WALTON ROOF Johnny Hamp is the leader of the Ken- tucky Serenaders, now playing at the Wal- ton Roof, Philadelphia. The orchestra will continue here until May 1st, when it will ■ go into the Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City, for the entire summer. PHILLIPS AT ROYAL GRILL Barney Phillips and his orchestra dosed their engagement at Danceland, Jamaica, and are now playing at the Royal Grill, Phil- lips having changed the name of the five- piece combination to Phillips' Royal Grill Ordiestra. CLOVER GARDENS FILES ANSWER Clover Gardens, Inc, last week filed its answer to the suit brought by Duilio Cher- bo in December in which the ordiestra leader sought to compel the dance hall pro- prietors to fuUiU the terms of its contract with him or to pay him damages. In his complaint Sherbo alleged that he had agreed, in March, 1922, to furnish the Ctover Gardens with a twenty-piece orchestra beginning on June 1, at a salary of $2,800 a week, this sum to include $600- a week for Bert Ambrose. That the orchestra performed faithfully untH pre- vented from doing so by the defendant on Decenlber 2, 1922. In their answer Clover Gardens, Inc., claim that Sherbo agreed to furnish theuK with nineteen high class union musicians for seven nights and one matinee a wedc^ with Ambrose as director at $500 and was to get 10 fcr cent of the orchestra's pay- roll for his services. The management claims that the ordiestra did not perform between June 1 and June 15 but that Sherbo- collected $5,fi00 on the claim that the orchestra would have to be paid, but that he did not turn over the money to the musicians. They further allege that be- tween June and December of 1922 Sherbo "padded" the orchestral account to the amount of approximately $5,000. In their answer the restaurant company also avers that Sherbo permitted "lack of discipline" among the musicians, who smoked, reported long after the time for performances and absented themselves and that he placed inferior men in the orchestra. WHITEMAN APPEALS TO PRINCE Tbe Cliffeb, several months ago, car- ried a story concerning agitation against .American musicians in England, emphasiz- ing the fact, as expressed by London cafe, hold and cabaret proprietors that thc European musician was absolutely unable to cope with the subtleties of American dance music, good saxophone players in particular, being scarce. At that time it was pointed out that the British Musi- dans' Union, finding it impossible to com- pete with the Americans, were using every effort to force restrictive legislation. So strong has the sentiment against Americans become that Paul Whiteman. before getting the labor permits neces- sary to allow him to make a profitable trip over, had to resort to intervention by the Prince of Wales. ISHAM JONES WRITES SONG Idiam Jones is the composer of a new song, "Swinging Down the Lane," which is now being featured in Chicago and which has been accepted by Feist for immediate release. Gus Kahn collaborated with Jones on the number. LOPEZ RETURNS TO PALACE MAY 7 Vincent Lopez and his Hotd Pennsyl- vania Orchestra have been booked into the Palace for return dates for three weeks, beginning May 7th. Lopez hasn't booked any time beyond the third week at the Pal- ace, and it is more than probable that they will be held over for quite some tnne. Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra Hi«tint priced Orclvstn in tfa« World. Paid S2S.00e.<l0 (or zix ni«lita In Obicua. Make Victor Recortls that oheo nach a millioB in sols. Open Manh ISIh at tits London (England) Hippodrome. THEY ALL PLAY TRUC.TQNC . Till* britfat, (Uttnins (alazy wiH ahov Lnndoo bow to make it Momppr \ a la Aamficaine. Tlu nnuic of tiia "••paaaled U. S. A. wlD be die talk of Mcnto g-tl-~t wfafla WUte- ^ to tlierel Tlier UM Va jMM Hw 111 Bondicr Inatovnentfc AD and Saxophones the fTMt orcliefttru Is vaudbrOIe and fifty of the finest buds on tfa* pboooffniiha nee BiMKho* lufau- nrents exclualvcly. For pricea, euy tvmu ud fine co lored plctime ri the creetest mitifraT star* of todaF* write and ASK FOR CATALOG P. 1^ BUESCHER BAND INSTRUMENT COMPANY, ClUiart, ladUna