New York Clipper (Jun 1923)

June 27, 1923 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER ,15 ABOUT YOU! AND YOU!! AND YOU!!! Bobby Higgins replaced Olin How- Und in "WildBower" Monday. Irving Clark has withdrawn from the "Loveland Revue." Gilbert and Kinney have opened oh the Pantages time in their new singing act. F. C. Owens has replaced Carlton Brickert in "Uptown West," at the Bi- jou. . WiUard Dashiel replaced Harry An- drews as director of the Forsyth Play- ers. Heniy Stremmell, tenor, has been en- gaged for Billy Gallagher's Monte Carlo. Olive Blackeney is now playing leads with the Albee Stock Company, Prov- idence. George Willing has been engaged to ilay leads for Ruth Robinson in Wilkes- iarre. Tom Spencer of the Ziegfeld "Follies" will be seen in a new act in vaudeville shortly. Church and White are being featured in the new revue at the Palais Royal, Newark. MiUer and Mack, the "Bing Boys" will open in a big revue of their own next month! Ruth Birch has been added to the beauty ensemble of "Dew Drop Inn" at the A'stor. Rnth Mero has been engaged by the Forsyth Players of Atlanta, Ga., for ingenue roles, Eckart and Frances have been routed over the Keith Western and Orphetmi junior circuits. Yvctte Rugel will appear this summer with the Royal Italian Opera Company in Milan, Italy. ' Venita De Soria has replaced Zoe Bamett in the Chicago company of "Blossom Time." Otille Corday has replaced Lora Son- derson in "Go-Go" at Daly's Sixty-third Street Music Hall. Dale Winter will head the cast-' of "Irenev when that piece is se^ ^>tour again next season. ^ Billy Arnold has staged a new revue, "Springtime Girls," at the Moulin Rouge, New York. Florenpe Reed has been signed to ap- pear under the Dillingham management for the next five years. Ben Lyon has been engaged for a leading role in "The Crooked Square," to open in September. Enid Markey is entering vaudeville in a playlet called "A Mis-Understanding," written by John Russell. Bert Gordon and Harry Gordon have reunited after four years and will be seen shortly as a new act Ted Lewis returned to Keith vaude- ville on Monday, opening at the Bush- wick Theatre in Brooklyn. George McQuanie will support Helen MacKellar during her starring stock en- gagements in San Francisco. Sylvia Wallack, secretary to Harry Walker,, left last week for two weeks' vacation in the Adirondacks. Grayce Franklin will shortly open her tour over the Proctor Circuit in her new dramatic playlet, ''Ingratitude." Marion Werth, blues singer, has been engaged for a role in Will Morrisey's new show, "The Newcomers." Lester Lane has quit rehearsing with Earl Carroll's "Vanities of 1923" and will shortly return to vaudeville. Florence Walton is fulfilling an en- gagement as featured dancer with the new revue at the Mangny, Paris. John Stokes and Leonard Doyle have been added to the cast of "Chains," the new William A. Brady production. Christine Winthrop has returned from her sojourn in Atlantic City and will shortly begin rehearsals for a new play. Ray Green, singing ingenue, has been added to the cast of the new revue at Jimmy Kelly's Allegria, Greenwich Vil- lage. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Masters have been signed for George M. Cohan's London company of "Little Nelly Kelly." Mr. and Mrs. Norman PhiUips are being featured in S. Jay Kaufman's latest "vaude-comedy," "A Lesson for Wives." Arthur Albertson has been engaged as leading man at the Crescent Theatre, Brooklyn. Ninita Lane is the leading woman. Florence Gast, last with "Little Drift- wood," has teamed up with Joe Dono- hue, formerly in "Lady Butterfly" in a new act. Frances Baum, of the Keith press de- partment, was engaged on Sunday, June 24th, to wed Paul Libowitz, a non-pro- fessional. John Craig has been signed for a prominent role in A. H. Woods' forth- coming production of "The Jury Woman." Martha Hendrickson has been signed for "The Crimson Glow," a new melo- drama scheduled for production in the early autumn. . Bemice Hart; formerly of the Hart Sisters, was married last week to Charles Bridgeman of Flint, Mich., a college student Lillian Lorraine and Helen Cakes have_ been added to the cast of "Ted LewisI Frolics," which goes into re- hearsal this week. Ted. Bonnell will leave for Los An- geles next month prior to starting on a tour of the South Sea Islands and then around the world. Adele Goldberg, secretary to Rosalie Stewart and Eddie Katz of the contract department of the Orpheum circuit were married last week. Blanche Ring, who was featured this season in one of the Shubert unit shows, will return to the legit next season in a non-musical piece. Cyril Scott is now playing the role of the doctor in "Rain," having suc- ceeded Fritz Williams, who withdrew on account of illness. Jean La Crosse, prima donna, has been routed over the Keith circuit for 12 weeks, and opened Monday in Toledo in a new singing act. Ben Bemie and Phil Baker will shortly open a cabaret in the Times Square section to be known as Bemie and Baker's Bungalow. Corine Muer, recently of vaudeville, has the prima donna role in "The House That Love Built," which opened at the Monte Carlo last week. Hasoutra, oriental dancer, who was featured in last year's edition of "Scan- dals," will shortly return to vaudeville in a new production act. Clara Blandick and Thomas Donnelly have been added to the cast of "Connie Goes Home," which will be brought out by Kilbourn Gordon, Inc. Harold Foster, formerly of "Taps and Tunes," and Grace Carlisle, also of vaudeville, were married at the City Hall, Brooklyn, last week. , ^ Bert Evans and Grade Corcoran have completed a season in burlesque and will shortly return to vaudeville in a new act called "Flapperitis." Barrett-Clayton and Company have been given a route over the Proctor time. They opened at Proctor's Twenty-third Street last week. Florence Btiddey and Arthur Johns have formed a vaudeville alliance and will shortly open on the' Loew time in a new singing and dancing act Martha Hethetington and Flo Ross, harmony singers, have been added to the new Harry Walker Revue at The House That Jack Built, Chicago. Eddie BuzzelL recently closed with "The Gingham Girl," has been engaged to star in a series of three special com- edies to be made in eastern studios. Sam B. Hardy, who recently closed in "Kiki," has entered the moving pic- ture field for the summer but will turn to the cast of "Kiki" in the falL Milton Davis, musical director of the Meyer Davis orchestra at the Powhat- tan Roof was married last week and is spending his honeymoon in New York. Williams and Smith will have the chief comedy roles in "Lonesome Town," a new nine people tabloid being produced for the small time by Wallace Abrams. Mangan and Cross, harmony singers, have been added to the cast of "Yon Tell Her," a new vaudeville revue, which opens next week on the Sab- lotsky time. Evelyn Faber, appearing in "Mother's Diary," on the Keith time is confined to the hospital in Syracuse suffering with appendicitis following a collapse on the stage. The Wood Sisters have been added to the cast of "The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly," the new George M. Cohan summer song show which is standing 'em up at the Tremont Boston. Jack Smith, the singing juvenile, who appeared earlier in the season in one of the Shubert unit shows, is being fea- tured in the new revue at Jimmy Kelly's, Greenwich Village. Geneva Mitchell, who last season was with "Sally," is spending the summer at her home with her mother in Chi- cago. She will be seen next season with "Sally" again. Marie De Voe will shortly return to vaudeville as the featured member of a musical tabloid, "Flirtatious ■ Flora," which is to be produced by Messrs. Green and Altman. Bertha Brown, formerly of the Strand Roof revue, has jomed forces with Sammy Smith and both are re- hearsing a new "two act" for an ear^ showing in vaudeville. Hilda Moreno^ "Ziegfeld Follies" chorister, who recently underwent an operation for appendieitis, has come through all right and is-recuperating at St. Bartholomew's Hos^tal, John Byron, of Mark Luescher's special promotion department with the Keith circuit, is to spend his vacation, beginning next Monday, by hiking to Indianapolis and back to.New York. ——^ *' '.'i^"- Norman . Harrington, who had the juvenile role in one of the road com- .panies of "Irene," has been added to the cast of "Frocks and Frills," a new revue being produced for "Vandeville. Tom Wise has been "acting out" as guest star with the Orphet.nl Flayers, Duluth. Last week he <LpjS^ei in a revival of "Three Wise Fools." and tlM week he is appearing in "Pads First" James Knpatrick has been added to the cast of "Brains, Int," the new play by Edward Laska, which is to be given an early production by The Bohemians, Inc.. producers of "Greenwich Village Follies." Kometh Donglas has been signed by the Selwyns to create one of the prin- cipal roles in Somerset Mangnam's new comedy, "The Camel's Back." which that firm will prodace in llie early autumn. The Dolly Sisters have been signed to appear in the Oscar Dufrennes pr«>- duction in the fall and will remain in Paris six months from their closing date in August in the summer revue ''Paris sans Voiles." Ftankie Hunter is being featured with the Morris and Bernard musical stock company at Morrison's Theatre, Rocka- way. The house opened last week, of- fering "Hello, Miss Rockaway," as the opening bill. "^appy" Benway, Sonny D&ddoa. Rusty Widener, Dolly La Banc, Clare Lewis, Art Kitnling and Airie Lewis will be seen in a new act next season caUed "The North and South Revue," under the direction of Harry Weber. Harry Snpplee and Joe WHUamsoa have joined and are to do a dancing turn during the coming season. Sopplee has played in several musi^ comedies while Williamson has been with several minstrel shows'and is a female imper- sonator of ability. Tom Nesbitt; who was leading mfn with Margaret Lawrence in "Secrets* at the Fulton Theatre this seasaa« sailed last Saturday for a cation in England. He will retnm to tne cast of "Secrets"' when it goes oa tour in September. Irene Castl^ who is now dancing at the Embassy Club, London, will return to America in the late Auttmin to be- gin rehearsals for the Andre Chariot London Revue, which will be produced here by Chariot, in conjunction with Selwyn and Company. Boris Petro£f, Ballet Master at Mc- Vickers Theatre, Chicago, left for a month's vacation in California, return- ing to McVickers on July 1: He has been re-engaged for next season. So has Marjorie Linken, the premiere dancer of the ballet Marion Davie^ who recently sailed for England to assist in a publicity cam- paign m behalf of the Cosmopolitan picture, "When Knighthood Wta In Flower," and "Little Old New York," in which she was starred, will retnm to New York on Jtily 2.