Variety (April 1917)

8 VARIETY ■ CABARE/TS The Winter Garden's, Chicago, new revue has made the biggest kind of a local impression. It bears a Western brand by way of production. It is about the snappiest and entertaining- est afterthcatre show in town. The revue is "The Winter Gardenettes/' by Bowers and Alford, staged by Al Laughlin, with a corking good bunch of principals. Heading the revue are Coral Mclnotte, Gladys Lanphere, Gil- more and Romanoff, Jack Kraft and Eddie Mortan. The music is under the direction of F. Wheeler Wads- worth and his gold saxophone. The "Gardenettes" include Misses Robb, Stanley, Nelson, Kalas, Allen, Meri- dcth, Mclntyre and Norvall. The cos- tuming is most attractive. Three shows a nipht are given, with a varia- tion in the numbers by the principals. Some novelty numbers have been de- vised that just fit into the Winter Garden space. This revue followed an eastern show in the Garden and there was some doubt as to its success, but returns went away beyond the most sanguine expectations. Miss Melnotte is not only sweet and attractive to look upon, but has comeliness and person- ality to help her become the biggest kind of a favorite imaginable. Miss Arms is another principal who dresses well and commedes in a manner the crowds around the tables like. She's young and full of pep. Perhaps no young woman in Chicago has come as rapidly to the front of late as has Miss Lanphere. She's of the beauti- ful blond type. She has an excel- lent voice, and dresses for each number in a distinctive and becoming style. Kraft and Mortan work very hard. Kraft's individual dancin" is a feature. Gilmore and Romanoff, fancy stage dances, their "Adagio" number being especially well received, with the woman dointr some splendid toe work. Miss Mclnotte's pink pajama number is very popular. Another surefire num- ber is "Good Old Songs of Other Days," led by Miss Lanphere, with the diners permitted to join in the choruses flashed on a screen on the stage. This is a copy of the Claudius and Scarlet act on the Amsterdam Roof, New York. The Egyptian Girl dance, led by Gilmore and Romanoff, is a novel- ty. For the first time this year F. W. Wadsworth takes the stage and leads a number with his saxophone. Danc- ing by patrons during intermissions. The revue is doing big business for the Garden, with the patronage away up during Lent. Healy's at Long Beach will have an ice rink for this summer. It will be a replica, perhaps larger, of the one at Hcaiy's Goluon Glades. An ice per- formance is to be given there on a par with that at the uptown Healy's, which jumped into popularity with a speed that stamped ice as about the real thing in a restaurant. Benny Ubcrall will again have charge of Healy's-at-thc-Sca. It will open short- ly before Decoration Day and will probably be the first. Long Beach re- sort to start the season. Healy's at Hartsdale (Westchester) opens May 1, with elaborately decorated grounds and several innovations completed that the first year of the Healy country place suggested. The Healy establish- ment in New York, including the Golden Glades and the Balconnadcs, will continue through the summer, ac- cording to "present plans, this calling for a double complement of profes- sional ice skaters to furnish the enter- tainment on both ice rinks. At Hcaiy's (C>()\]\ street) now is a new revue, "A Xi;Jit in America," with six or seven principals and eight chorus girls. It was put on by Joe Smith for the down- stairs dining room, also the Balcon- nades, giving three shows nightly, starting the last performance in the Balconnades at 12:30. It's a nifty little show, considering, and Mr. Smith has made it move along at a fast gait. The Swanson Sisters (Nettie and Let- tie) are easily the features of it. They do a lot with their nice appearance and get-over ways. The Swanson girls are new over here. They were of thje Rigoletto Troupe in England. Most of their time in the revue is coupled with Maxwell Dinus, the trio making a good looking three-act. Piatov and Lelland arc dancing, doing a fast Texas Tommy to insure applause. Helen Gardwick, Henrietta Wilson and Vin- cent Moore, with a couple of Spanish dancers, are also in it. There is a pa- triotic finale that gets something. After the revue are a couple of single women singers. One of these is alto- gether too flashy with her skirts for a cabaret stage. She should keep on rec- ollecting where she is now and also keep her skirts down. The new popular dance music of the Broadway cabarets for the past month as reported by Earl Fuller in Fuller's Orchestras, Rector's, is: FOX TROTS.—"I Love My Billy Sunday" "You Don't Have to Come from Ireland" (W. B. & S.), "Hawaii- an Butterfly," "Jazz Band" (Feist), "Dixie All the Time," "Black Eyed Susans" (Remick). "Indiana," "Asia Minor" (S. B. & Co.), "Sweet Hawaii- an Babies" (K. P. & A.), For You a Rose" (Edwards), "A Pal Like You." "Till the Clouds Roll By" .(Harms), "Cute Little Wiggling Dance," "Sun Goes Down in Dixie" (Broadway), "Slavery," "He Will Understand," "Only Dreaming" (Schirmer), "Kilalo" (Ricordi), "Don't Leave Me, Daddy," "The Camel Walk" (Triangle), "Some Where in Delaware," "Love Is a Won- derful Thing" (Stern). ONE-STEPS.—"Let's All Be Amer- icans Now" (W. B. & S.), "Oh, John- ny" (Forster), "Hong Kong" (Feist), "Pickens," "Bob" (Schirmer), "It Wasn't My Fault" "Honeymoon Inn" (Harms). "Back to Childhood" (Stan- sy), "Crossing the Bar" (Vander- sloot). WALTZES.—"A Wonderful Thing" (Remick). "Oriental Nights" (Harms), "You're Mine" (W. B. & S.), "Dodola" (Ricordi), "Moonlight Blues" (McKin- Icy). V. M. P. A. MEETING Tuesday was held the regular month- ly meeting of the Vaudeville Managers' Protective Association. As the-V. M. P. A. is practically operated by committees, nothing of general importance beyond routine matters came up. A letter received from Messrs. Shea and Weber of the I. A. T. S. E. and Musicians' Union, respectively, was re- ferred to a committee of six. It is re- ported the letter from the two leaders asked for a conference with the V. M. Pf A. The indications early in the week pointed to the association being in favor of granting the Shea and Weber request, through the friendly feeling entertained by the managers for the unions Messrs. Shea and Weber represent. "RATS," VERY COLD. Chicago, April 4. Up to yesterday there wasn't any in- terest in the Rats here and the subject has lost debative interest everywhere. About the only local interest was at- tached today to the scheduled trial by jury of the arrested pickets who were arrested prior to the issuance of Judge Baldwin's injunction. PICKETS DISCHARGED. Chicago, April 4. Today before Judge Trade 27 White Rat pickets arrested during the recent White Rats strike, and before Judge Baldwin issued his sweeping injunction against picketing in this city, were dis- charged. Harry Munns of the Lowenthal law firm represented the defendants. City Attorney Hammond prosecuted. The evidence came mostly from police of- ficers. The trial was reached at noon, though set for 10 a. m. The accused had asked for a jury trial, but later , waived it. Since the Rats started the local la- bor troubles 140 pickets have been ar- rested. The 27 pickets discharged to- day thought themselves fortunate to escape a fine. BIRTHS. Mr. and Mrs. Rose (Rose and Moon), in New York, March 12, daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Reynolds, in Chicago, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Lowe (Char- lotte Parry) March 22, son. All three are progressing favorably. MARRIAGES. Marie Warren Gore (Marie Warren), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph YV. Gore, of Philadelphia, and Carlton P. Foss, Jr., non-professional, were mar- ried recently at the home of the bride- groom's parents, in Methuen, Mass., by a woman Universalist minister. The bride is character woman with the Cecil Spooner Stock Co., which has just closed a season at Lawrence, Mass. Dixie Seifried (Dix and Dixie) was married in Portland, Ore., last week to Gerald B. Cheatem, non-professional. Miss Seifried will continue with her present partner. LATE BROOKLYN CLOSINGS. The Casino and Empire, Brooklyn, will close their seasons June 16, which in the latest date that either of these houses have remained open since bur- lesque was installed. The houses, will remain open five weeks over the regular Columbia wheel season; the shows for the additional time, all of which will be wheel attrac- tions, being booked by the houses themselves. N. V. A. NEWS. A golf tournament for the champion- i ship of the, N. V. A. is now beinp ar-j ranged by the club's golf enthusiasts. It looks like old timers' day at the club when Jim Mclntyre and Geo. Primrose start swapping yarns about the old days. The photos of the N. V. A. Club | which were recently taken are now on > view at the club rooms. Ivan Bankoff is going to fill up a few spare moments by producing several big dancing acts. A new mail department has been re- cently added to the offices, and mem- bers are requested to ask daily for mail. Emma Stevens recently entertained several friends at a club luncheon. Harry Wright, who hails from Chi- V cago, says: "The only thing the windy city lacks is an N. V. A. club room." The N. V. A.'s protected material department is proving one of the club's biggest features. Dave Nowlin drops in occasionally to give the boys a treat with some marvelous cue demonstrations. Robert T. Haines is among the club's constant visitors. When Clark and Verdi start a game of billiards they are always sure of a good sized audience. Julia Nash says that each Thursday night dance is better than the preced- ing one. When the new billiard parlor is opened it is suggested that one table be set aside for Johnny Ford and an- other for Willie Solar, the club's two most devoted billiardists. A committee is now handling the launching of the N. V. A. cigarette, which is to make its appearance on the market shortly. Porter J. White, one of the youngest of the club's old boys, is a regular at the Thursday dances. VERONICA Tli** Hawaiian classical dancer, now under engagement to Dillingham & ZicgfeM for the Century roof show, "DANTE AND GROW THIN." BARTON STOCK SOLD. The stock *of the late Charles Bar- ton, of the old burlesque firm of Rice and Rarton, who died Feb 22 at his home in Northport, L. I., in the Colum- bia Amusement Co. and the Casino, Boston, Gaycty, Baltimore and the Gay- cty, Cincinnati, was sold last Saturday at public auction for $20,000. a IN AND OUT. Viola Duval dropped out of the American bill the last half of last week owing to* a death in her family. Alice Hamilton secured the spot. When Ellis and Bordoni were obliged to leave the Palace, New York, program last Thursday, the Skating Venuses were substituted. Brown and McCormack, dancers, left the Rialto show, Chicago, March 29, owing to illness. A juggling act substituted. Carson and Earl were unable to open at Loew's Orpheum Monday as Miss Earl was ill. Forrest and Church re- placed them. Pisano and Bingham canceled the first half at the Delancey Street owing to Miss Bingham not having sufficient- ly recovered from her recent illness. Burns and Lynn secured the spot. Kennedy and DeFrance were placed at the Bijou, Brooklyn, the first half, replacing Greenly and Drayton, who were unable to appear. "The Very Naked Boy" did not ap- pear Monday at the Colonial, replaced by the Three Sullys. Kitty Watson has recovered from her illness, and_ the Watson Sisters have returned to their route, remaining until the middle of July. Long Island Manager*' Meeting. A meeting of the theatre managers of Long Island, outside of Brooklyn, will be held next Tuesday at the oflice of Fally Markus for the formation of protective association.