New York Clipper (Jul 1923)

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8 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER July 11, 1923 BEACH HOUSES FAIL TO DRAW PATRONS SUMMER VAUDEVILLE A FAILURE Summer \'aiidevilfe in Ijoag Island sum- mer resorts and towns has proven a dis- astrous failure this season. Last Satur- day nigfat two bouses, one which opened two weeks ago and another which opened several months ago shut down for Jack of summer patronage: The former house, the Castle, located on the Boardwalk at Loo{[ Beach which was taken over by B. b. Moss and operated oo a weddy policy of four days vaudeville and three days jpictures each week failed to respond suSaently to warrant Moss keeping the house open for the balance of the summer. The other theatre which is located at Lynbrook ahoot nine miles from Long Beach is Wm. Fox's Lynbrook theatre which' is owned and operated by Fox and a few local bankers. This house when it first opened several months ago 'showed Eromise of being a good summer venture, owever. when the heated spell in June came along business began to fall away with the result that Fox has decided to close the house imtil September when it will resume for the regular winter season. The Castle theatre at Lone Beach has only played two vaudeville bills since it opened. The entertainment furnished con- sisted of standard vaudeville acts of which eight were used. The admission price was soled in the_ evenings at $2.20 top, with the shows being on a par with those pre- sented at the Kiverside and Royal theatres where the top price is $1,10. Patrons of the theatre, after the formal opening, -which was almost a ^ellont seemed to iaik at the $7.70 to^ price and fought shy of the box office with the result that at- tendance at the vatideviUe performances was far from what was exp e ct ed by the management. During the first half of the week when the picture policy prevailed and a 50 cent top was ejiac t ed for admission attendance was also negligible. The theatre is owned by a Long Beach real estate operator named Frankel and he is said to have leased the house which seats 1,500 to B. S. Moss at a rental of $7,000 for the first season. At the Keith office it is said that Moss w3I endeavor next season to again launch the house as a vaudeville theatre playiilg B. F. Kehb acts. It is quite likdy that arrangements may be made with several producing managers during August to have them break their shows in at this house. The house has.'a large and roomy sta^ and a big orchestra pit as well which will allow for the sta;g- ing of large dramatic and musical produc- tions. CHANGE IN SACRAMENTO HOUSE The Clunie Theatre, Sacramento, which makes up a split week with the White Theatre, Fresno on the Orpheum drcnit, has been dropped from the route, and the State theatre, m that city will be used for the Orpheum shows instead. The State will open on September Z splitting with the White. Fresno, which opens during the last half of that week. EVAN FONTAINE FOR EL CADIA Evan Burrows Fontaine has been booked to appear at the EI Cadia Gardens in At- lantic Gty for an indefinite run. She will open there on July 12. Roehms and Rich- ards booked her. FREY BOOKED €SH FOX TIME Fred Frey and his nine piece orchestra have been booked over the Fox time, opening the latter part of this week. KEITH VAUDE. "ELECTED" Keith Vaudeville was "elected" as the most perfect theatre service in the country as a result of a campaign conducted recently by the Dean of New York University's School of Business Research, to ascertain the most popular firm in various lines of business in New York. The dean has cir- culated, through the students, a batch of questionnaires, which sought to identify the favorite department stores, furniture houses, millineries, toodiste shops, and other branches of industry, including theatres. The questionnaire included six points in answer to the question, "Which is your favorite place of amusement, and why?" The items to be considered were: (1). quality of show; (,2) price of admission; (3) service; (4) attitude of attaches; (5) location; (6) comfort The answers were secured bjr students tlirough a house-to-house campaign. Out of 1,024 answers to the theatre question- naire, 885 persons named Keith vaudeville as their favorite place of amusement The New York Hippodrome came in second with 212 votes. Motion picture houses, in- dependent theatres, and dramatic houses re- ceived scattering votes. Some excelled in one point, and some in others, but it was on the entire average that decisions were based. N. V. A. TEAM MAKES MONEY Twelve dates have been played by the National Vaudeville Artists' Baseball Out) and Touring Show up to this week, which have resulted in securing approxi- mately $2,000 for the N. V. A. This sum wipes practically the entire debit of the team and show, for the amount expended in _ apparatus, costumes, props, and pub- licity, and leaves the remainder of the sea- son, consisting of almost thirty dates to brmg clear profit to the Side and Charity Fund of the N. V. A. The only expense which will be incurred during the rest of the season, will consist of traveling ex- penses, and as this, amount is neghgible, (most of the tourists possessing their own cars), it is expected that the N. V: A. will benefit to the extent of $5,000 on the tour by the end of the season. On July 12th, the ball team and show .will leave for their out-of-town tour, open- ing in Poaghkcepsic and playing upper New York State for the following two weeks. They will return to New York during the last wedc in July and begin a series of return dates in and around New York. AGENTS MUST BE GENTLE Artists' representatives booking in the Kdth Vaudeville Exchange, will have to use a little more refinement and courted in thnr dealings with bookers in the future, according to a bulletin posted last week by W. Dayton Wegefarth. general bt)oIdng manager. The bulletin is to the following effect: "Some of the booking men have com- plained that agents are retoming to their old methods of discourtesy in offering their acts. . One trys to crowd the other out, both physically and vocally. "The bookers' nerves are badly strained during the hot weather and the agents should realize this. Even without this reason, they shouM con- sider how gentlemanly business men act. I hope we will not have any more of such complaints." "LOVERS LANE" FOR VAUDE "Lovers Lane," an abbreviated comedy- drama by Harry C Greene, will shortly be produced for vaudeville by Messrs. Greene and Ma^gard. The _ piece will cany a cast of six and is said to point to a moral not entirely dissimilar to that utilized in "Turn to the Right" NEW SHOW FOR ROSE'S MIDGETS Ike Rose's Royal Midgets are rehearsing a new show for next season. It wiU open at Patchogue early next month. ONE HUNDRED ACTS GET LONG ROUTES BOOKING MORE ACTIVE THAN EVER Over thirty acts which were routed with the Keith Circuit for a period of two years, are finishing the last few weeks of their long routes with the tail-end of this sea- son, and the major portion of these have been re-signed under new long-term con- tracts by the Keith office, in addition to about seventy-five other acts which have been routed over the drcuit for the com- ing two seasons. Contrary to the published report last week, that Keith bookings were very slow, and that few routes were being given out, more acts have been routed for the coming season than have been in past years at this time of the year. It is estimated that with the number of acts holding two year contracts, acts routed for the coming season only, acts holding joint Kdth-Orpheum routes, and the large number of foreign acts signed by Harry Mundorf to appear in Kdth vaudeville during the coining season, that over one hundred different acts are holding routes for forty weeks and more over the Keith Circuit This list, exclusive of the major portion of foreign acts, and acts for which routes are now bdng laid out for, includes the following: Trixie Friganza, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Barry, Patricola, Bill Robinson, Rae Samuels, Sybil Vane, Florence Brady, Brown and Whittakcr, Clayton and Ed- wards, Margie Coates, Will Mahoney. Howard and Qark, Richard Keane, Cressy and Dayne, D. D. H., Senator Ford. Freda and Anthony, Al K. Hall, Anatol Fried- land Revue, Gus Edwards, Rooney and Bent Duci de Kerakjarto, Moore and Freed, Al Wohlman, Murray and Alan, Jean Adair, Grette Ardine, Crafts and Ardine, Crafts and Haley, Rastelli, Capt. Bruce Baimsfather, Tex McLeod, Alba Tiberio, Georges Du Franne, Walsh and Ellis, Hackett and Delmar, Mel Klee, Dixie Four, Watts and Hawley, Bob Hall, Hall and Dexter, Lloyd-Ibach's Entertainers, Dixie Hamilton, Bernard and Garry, Ray- mond Bond, Pierce and Ryan, Hugh Her- bert Moran and Mack, "Blondes," "China Blue Plate," Russell Carr, Runaway Four, Paul Decker, Joe Fejer and Hungarian Or- chestra, Three Fleming Sisters, Fleurette Joeffrie, Howard Kyle, Montana, Willie Solar, "World of Make Believe," and Yorke and King. "HOUSE THAT LOVE BUILT" REVUE "The House That Love Built" the new musical revue by Ted Reily and Frank Gillen, which has been running for sev- eral weeks at the Monte Carlo, will also play several weeks of vaudeville and thus acme additional revenue for its producers. Die piece carries right principals and twelve girls. Listed among the prindpals are Cbrine Muer, Gordon Bennett, Henry Strcmel. Charles McAvoy, Jocclyn de Velhauf and Hazel Gladstone. THOR DOING NEW ACTS M. Thor, the vaudeville producer, is foregoing his annual holiday to prepare a number of new acts for metropolitan per- usal. The first will be a farce called "Married Again," in which Hobey Cavan- augh will be featured. "SINGDANCE" A NEW REVUE Vera Blossom, formerly of the Blossom Sisters, and Helen Higgins, who recently dissolved her vaudeville partnership with Natalie Bates, have formed a new alli- ance and will revive the dance revue, "Singdance," for vaudeville. V. A. F. ACCEPTS ALBEE CHECK E. F. Albee has again sent a check to the English Variety Artists' Federation for the amount of $3,000, this time making the check payable to the Variety Artists' Bene- volent Fund, who have accepted the check with thanks. Mr. Albee had previously sent that organization a check for the same amount made out to the order of the Variety Artists' Federation. It was re- turned regretfully by Albert Voyce, who stated that the constitution of their organi- zation forbade the acceptance of outside do- nations, but that if the check were pay- able to the Benevolent Fimd, it would be accepted. Mr. Albce's letter follows: "My Dear Mr. Marlow:—I am enclos- ing herewith check for $5,000. It is a great pleasure to be able, on account of the large amount of money we recdved from our benefits, to send you this. You are continually doing something for American artists over there, and this consideration from the National Vaudeville Artists' Inc., is a desire on their part to help yon in your good work. Very faithfully yours, (signed) E. F. Albee." MCGIVENEVS TRIAL POSTPONED The trial of Owen McGiveney, who was arrested at Keith's Orpheum theatre on Sunday, July 1, charged with violating Sec. 2152 of the Penal Code, in regard to changing clothes while giving a theatrical performance on the Sabbath, was post- poned until July 17, when the case came to trial in the Flatbush court last Tues- day. The complaint is made by Comdius P. McNerney, a private detective, who is said to be employed by the Lord's Day Alliance. The name of the latter organi- zation does not appear in the affidavit. MAY YOKE OPENS ROAD HOUSE May Yohe, who recently closed an en- gagement in vaudeville, has deserted the stage and with her husband Captain John Smutz, opened a tea room on the highway to the White Mountains. It is no palatial affair, but is neat and well-kept and is designed to furnish auto- ists with luncheon and a short rest while on the way to tlie mountains. The inn is called "Blue Diamond." PAGE BOY IS CONCERT PIANIST Benjamin Ratner, formerly a page boy in Keith's Washington Theatre, is a feature on the bill in that house this week. Ratner was found to have wonderful possibilities as a concert pianist some time ago, by John Robbins, manager of the house, and the latter secured an opportunity for the boy to study. THE LEE KIDS IN LONDON Jane and Katherine Lee, the motion pic- ture kids, who recently completed a tour of the Kdth and Orpheum Circuits in their newest comedy skit, "The New Di- rector," sailed for London last week, to open on the Moss-Empires Circuit the lat- ter part of the month. EDNA MAY SPOONER IN ACT Edna May Spooncr, Brooklyn stock fa- vorite, returned to vaudeville thb week in a new playlet "Man and Wife," in which she is being supported by Maurice Costclto. The act is showing this week at the Halsey Theatre, Brooklyn, prior to beginning a Keith route. SAMUELS POSTPONES SAILING I. R. Samueb, Keith booker, will net sail for Europe on July 28th, as he was reported to, and will remain here during the absence of Eddie Darling and Danny Simmons, who are now abroad. On their return, Samuels may take a short trip to Europe.