New York Clipper (Apr 1923)

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30 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER April 25, 1923 DEATHS MRS. WNNIE WALSH TOWME. Riind u jucci I smser, died on Uoaday of last week, at her home, 25 Pcnn Atrect, Bmoklyn. As M^ie Walsh the sane in leading diniches in Manhattan and BrooklTO in later yean. Miss Walsh came into fame carlj in hcr carecr when a nmnlMT of the chores of Gilbert and SalliTan's **Piratcs of Pcnxaacc" at the old Fifth ATcnne Theatre, New York. The prima became til and the chores singer took her part, p e i foi m ing with unusual ar- tistiy. She went on tonr for two years m the same T^e and later toored both Canada and the United States with Fjwma Jnch in concert. She is BorviTed by two brothers and a sister. JAILED FOR CHEATING AUTOMAT Sigbund Stem, an actor who had small parts in "Bine Paradise," "The Passmg Show of 1915," and the Hippodrome, but who has not been connected with any the- atrical enterprise- for several years, was arrested oa Monday and in Special Ses- sions before Justices Herbert, Salmen and Voorbies, sentenced to 30 days in the work- house for attempting to cheat the Auto- mat. . Stem, who had failed as actor and had lost a good deal of money around the race-track, had made the. acquaintance of a sailor on a German ship and from him purchased several dollars' worth of Ger- man pfemiigs. This coin, although worth only about four one-thousandths of a cent, is stboot the size and shape of an American nickel and Stem used the pfamigs in the Antomat slot instead of the American coin, imtit detectives, on the watch for the one who was doing this particular form of cfaeatiiig, caught him in the act. Stem had figured that, taking the rate of ex- change into consideration, $1 worth of pfennigs would feed him for over a month. BIG CELEBRATION FOR LINICKS Chicago, April 21.—Many prominent theatrical and society people gathered in the Tiger Room of the Sherman Hotel last Sunday evening to celebrate the sil- ver wedding arniivcrsary of Mr. and Mrs. .^dolph T imrlf Mr. Ltnick is a member of the firm of Jones, Linick and Schaefcr, pioneer theatre owners of Chicago. ' Among the prominent guests present were: Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Schaefer, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Zukor, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Loew. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Ascher, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Jooes, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Newfaouse, Judge and Mrs. Joseirii Sabath, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schweitzer. Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Wade. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard H. Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph T. Kettering. Mr. and Mrs. Darid Braham, Mr. and Mrs. Norman £. Field and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Weisman. There were 170 guests there for the dinner at 6 P. M. which was followed by dancing and a cotillion. It was one of the nwst elaborate parties given in Chicago in many months. "THE APACHE" COMING IN "The Apache," a new play in a prologue and three acts by Josephine Turck Baker, will-open at the Punch and Judy Theatre on Monday evening. >May 7. The play has a subtitle. "Thoughts .\re Things." which sheds no light on its nature. .REYNOLDS GOES TO EUROPE James Reynolds, creator of scenic inves- tures was dispatched to Europe la^ Satur- day by Florenz Ziegfekl, Jr., for the pur- pose of obtaining novehies for the next Ziegfeld Follies which will be produced this Summer. MUSICIANS' TROUU.ES STILL ON A heated discussion took place at the meeting of Mutual Musical Protective Union, formerly local 310 of the Ameri- can Federation of Musicians which began at midnight Tuesday and continued until early this morning over the stand which the organization would take on the dis- charge of Abe Nussbaum, secretary of the organization, from the orchestra of Ac Astor theatre last week. The night of ' Nnssbaimi's discharge the other men in the orchestra walked out with him and Weiner Jannsen, composer of "Lady Butterfly" played the musical accompani- aent for Oe attraction on the piano. The next day all of the men but Nussbaum and the dmmiiier returned. Nussbaum was eliminated from the orchestra when he resigned his membership from Local 802 and was ordered to flay $49 to the organiza- tion or be barred from playing. Nussbaum claimed he had a transfer card from the Chicago local of the musician's union and that this would permit him to play. "The local union 802 mied differently and he re- fused to pay the amount. Nussbaum with a score of men implored the meeting to take some action on the matter, claiming that unless something was done the cause of 310 would be lost. SAVES MONEY OS MUSICIANS Louis Werba has taken dollars and cents into the production of "Adrienne," the new musical comedy which he will present at the Garrick Theatre Ma^ 14. Werba found that in taldng musicians from New York to Philadelphia, he would save money. The scale for men in Philadelphia being $75 a week, while men could be gotten from New York to tour with the company for $65 a week. Werba figured not onl^ would he have a saving but the musicians that he would take along with him to Philadelphia would be utilized for the production when it had its premiere in New York. As a result, twenty-four New YoHc men will be car- ried with the troupe and at the same time Werba will be $240 in pocket. MUSICAL STOCK FOR DALLAS A musical stock company that will jH-e- sent light opera and well known musical comedy successes, has been o'tganized for the Interstate Amusement Company's Majestic 'Theatre, at Dallas, Texas, by Milton Abom. The coinpany under the management of H. H. Winchell, will open there on April 29, and is composed of forty singers including principals and chorus. 'The engagement at the Majestic is for fifteen weeks with the possibility of other theatres of the Interstate chain in the south being played later. The first three shows to be preii-nted vfill be "The Firefly," "Going-Up" and "Sweetheart," with other similar type plays to follow. The list of principals in- clude: Maude Gray, Virginia Watson. Edith Bradford. Irene Gatell Beatrice Moore, George Shields, Lee Daly. Rex Carter, Dan Marble and Frederick Rogers. Clarence West will be musical director, and Augustus Buell stage director. Three carloads of special scenery is leaving with the company this week, the whole enter- prise bemg mostly responsible to the ef- forts of Karl Hoblitzelle. president of the Interstate Amusement Company. TRY OUT FOR "MARY AND JOHN" "Mary and John." a new comedy by Maravene Thompson, will be tried out in stock by the Forsythe Players of Atlanta. Ga. on May 12. Enid Bennett, moving picture actress, has been engaged for the leading feminine role, and several New York managers will visit Atlanta to look over the production, which opens on May 12. EQUITY PARTY ON MAY 12 An Equity May Party will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Astor on Saturday evening. May 12. The direc- tion of the affair will be in charge of George Le Guere, who is assembling com- mittees of prominent stage folk who will combine forces in making the forthcoming event both an artistic and financial suc- cess. The May Party will be given in lieu of the usual anniul Equity show and the proceeds will be devoted to Equity's "stranded fund," which forwards expense money and transportation to members of ill-fated productions, which otherwise would be left stranded. The ballroom will be decorated to rep- resem a flower garden in May and there will be a May Carnival Pageant, in which several hundred prominent stage favorites will participate. In addition there will be a cabaret entertainment that will have as many stellar turns as a three-ring circus.' LETTER LIST BERNARD MARRIAGE ANNULLED Supreme Court Justice Cohalan, last week dismissed the divorce suit brought by actor Nat Bernard against Adah Bern- ard, and granted to Mrs. Bernard an an- nulment decree on her plea that Bernard was a resident of New York when he was divorced in Califomia in 1911, by Rosalind Pomeroy Bernard, who was wedded to him in CHclahoma in 1907. For that reason the Justice held that the Califomia divorce was not valid in New York because service of the papers was not made as required by the New York laws, and the marriage of Bernard to the de- fendant in the present case was not valid. Concerning the decision, the Court said: "Adah Bernard claims here that believing him (Bernard) to have been legally di- vorced, she married him in New York in 1912, lived with him until November, 1919, and divorced him in Pennsylvania in De- cember, 1921. She married one Skblny in this city on Christmas Day, 1921. Nat Bernard in March, 1922, began this action a^inst her for divorce, and she then sued him for an annulment of marriae^ Nat Bernard claims that he did not live in New York in the periods of 1910 and 1911, dur- ing which Rosalind Pomeroy Bernard was suing him for divorce, but that he lived in the State of Illinois, where «he require- ments as to a foreicn divorce are different from those of our State. "I am satisfied from a careful exam- ination of the record and from fair consid- eration of the probabilities that he moved to the city when he was entering his 'teens' and has concededly lived here during most of his life. To be sure, he says that for some time before March, 1911, he resided in Chicago, but I am satisfied that his stay there was casual and only in the line of convenience in hisr calling as an actor, and that all the time he not alone was, but al- ways claimed to'be, a resident of New York. "This is home out by a fair reading of the last testimony given by him and by his declarations that it was an advantage for one earning a living in his line to register as from New York. If this were so, as testified to by him, in the case of one who actually resided at some other place, how mudb more likely is it that he would act- ually retain his residence here rather than transfer it while he was for a short time elsewhere to that place." Justice Cohalan's ruling validates the de- fendant's marriage to her present hnsband, Skolny, which was made the basis of the divorce action, on the ground that her Pennsylvania divorce from Bernard was not binding in New York: UOlU Bsllcy, His. E. BskEr, Ewljn UoitaT, DoUr BcnutD', Dolly BoMAe, Jme BooUi, Bdm, BnndoD. Bdls BmHD. Ksthlm Braoks, Usui* Nina BunDllb. BllUs Bldi. Ids. BOBllO, ElSlfl p. Bmak, Un. B. Sheppui), Mil. Uuy Soisrt, Helen SImrt, EleuDr suae. Anlla Osos, M. Cos, imr ClwinlnshsBL nuusm E. Dsyloo, Vie Fsvomsffl. Ckntflr, I^nii dsik. Nellls Cwnell, FlsBcei Diwui, PrlncoM Fai, Oice C HsiTls, PbdUm HsnteB. i,iHtL> KKltf. Osce KcUcT, P. Ls lluto. Hein Htrki. His. Los Kay, Pesri Wetila. Use WUU. Uibtl nuis. Mis. UuUkw Weofleld. Emu ^OljsiBi, EsUuyii CEITUHEI ' BcU, Jotasnls Bertnnd, Fruk BlaoB, Hsny E. Bnnt. E. M. Bohlcr, BUI Flna, JsBS J. Fraikr, Fata OUletu. Bobtir Usnhsll. a 6. UeOlfm, Flask Mlllir, Won Ullii, Dh Poms. loo Udell, Cbm. EL ' Van. Jo* Vllluaaa, Jdu E. Vital*. D. Wslowriakt, Wm. Wdli, OUBt nuu, Bm WllllsBi, Bob wink. Geov !>• ROSENTHAL AT CONVENTION J. C. Rosenthal, general manager of the American Society of Composers, Au- thors and Publishers, left for Chicago^ Tuesday, in connection with the radio broadcasting situation. On Wednesday of this week he will talk before the people assembled at the National Radio Broadcasters' Convention, being held at.the Drake HoteL and will in the course of his address tell the side of the composers, authors and publishers in the radio license controversy. The following day, on Thursday, Mr. Rotenthal will call a meeting of the branch managers of the publisher members of the society, for the imrpose of explaining to them the policy of the publishers and the attitude of the home omce of the respec- tive representatives in regard to the broad- casting of copyrighted music for profit. The policy of the publishers, he will ex- plain, is not to do anything that will hinder the progress of the A. S. C. A. & P. SHERMAN TO STAR IN "CASANOVA" Al. H. Woods and Gilbert Miller on Monday signed an agreement whereby Lowdl Shemann will ancar under their joint management at the Eltinge Thea^e, early in August in "Casanova," a Spanish play. The translation of the play was made by Margaret Miller with the adap- tation being handled by Sidney Howard. GOLDREYER HAS A SON Michael Goldreyer, of Mindlin and Goldreyer, producers of "The Last Warn- ing." did not let his_ partner get much the best of him in adding to the populace of the city for on Sunday he announced that Mrs. Goldreyer became the mother of an eight pound son at the Brooklyn Methodist hospital. Michael, Jr., as the youngster will be known and his mother arc enjoying good health at the institution. MOROSCO GETS MUSICAL PLAY "Believe Me," a new musical comedy by William Morris, has been added to the roster of new plays which Oliver Morosco will try out with his stock company in Los Angeles this Summer. 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