Variety (September 1919)

10 'l-W- : ;.. /,.. -.■'■. '■ \ . *•.'. ■. V■■■■■' . - * ;%^jss .-....:■.,„. 1 ■■■-.• ■'. ■ ,'-■.■ -.-■-.• ' -, ''*'-'.■■.■■■ AT E ; .i, * m TAX ON INCOME MANAGER SAYS IS MODERATE l&rtitts Who Would Otherwise Visit the Antipodes Have Been Frightened by False Reports. Managing Director of Tivoli Theatres Writes the Exact Facts. Declares Climatic Conditions Are Exceptionally Inviting. f|p$Iugh_p. Mcintosh, governing direc- formerly a quaint old church, in Bush Wlpt of Harry Rickards' Tivoli Theatres, street. It is being remodeled and is "Ltd., has sent from his headquarters in scheduled to open the first week in vSydney, Australia, the following com- October with "Hamlet," with William munication which aims to clear up the S. Rainey as Hamlet. . , ' 'Jsunderstanding existing in New The board of directors, includes Reg- tj&rk regarding the tax on the sal- ir-ald Travers, director; James K. Fisk, JS of artists playing engagements president; William H. Leahy and Wil- that commonwealth: liam S. Rainey. 'It has come under our notice that artists The theatre will be rented to attrac- '^^^S5.«tr^VS. ^ns when the club is not using % iftged"extraordinarily high income Tax pay- *■' '.- " -..- - . .■.'■■? ' ite on their earnings In the Commonwealth ADVERTISING A. E. A. . Australia. Where this report originated It ■would be hard to conjecture, but in order to Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 3. < ""ay the tears on this score of artists con- Roland West author of "The Un- .Jptattng a visit, we give herein details of -KOiano west, autnor oi ine un llWtoral Income Tax payable: known Purple,' which opened the J?Sncon» earned from personal exertion Wietihgi season Monday, was in Syra- gg£,«ja.-stipend, salary, or wages, say 20 _„_- f or the final rehearsals and ore- **:/wests at £20 per week .....£400 cu . se I( i T ^ ne nn , a ' renearsa, s ana pre "Deductions allowed: rnier of the road company. Apart from '3&Uta insurance premiums on self and the regular Wieting house space in the ^^^h e ^ftde^bVaVe-oVm== local papers, West used display ad-" General exemption fclW vertisements announcing that he has ... " 7ZT* "given every member of the cast an ^A^l^^aT^re^e^o^-ded^ Actors! Equity Association contract and Jons other than the general exemption of that the engagement at the Wieting %tt3B9, Income Tax would be payable on £244 j s w j t {, the endorsement of the Amer- ftflttt of an actual earning of £400. The rat* jean'Federation of Labor " charged, 8.153d. in the £, would make the ican reqeration oi A,aDor. ^toUl amount of Income Tax £3-4-1. This is The Empire advertisements for &bo means an excessive charge, and is con- "Nothing. But Lies," under Howard ."There ITS*? £J&V*5BN ?«™ey's management, also proclaimed sit to Australia which will assuredly ap- in heavy type that the cast was all »-to artists, and that is, living conditions members Actors' Equity Association." lower than in any other part of the world. • _matic condltons are delightfully pleasant.* awrcirc TDV /1ITT (Figure the English pound for convenience LVs ANuHLLo IKI UUI. mM. *m«ta».) Lo»An g elei,Sept.3. JBRLESQUE AND PROVIDENCE. j Ai ££££*< Jg2»S*y gffi «/■ ,j Providence, Sept 3. drama, will take place. The piece is by S; Tor-the first time in years burlesque Bayard Veiller who is supervising the was lacking here Labor Day. The old rehearsals. Lewis S. Stone will take Colonial having been leased by Er- the ste llar ro i C) that of a district at- jger and no other house selected for ^torney. ^JJesque. . » Thomas Wilkes has secured the play. As far as can be ascertained no btir- A jj. Woods has the New York rights lesque house is being built or n'ego- w } t j, stone in the cast, its Broadway "Mted for. It looks now as if bur- production' to be made conditional „sque interests were simply waiting to upon t h e settlement of the strike. H ^whether or not three legitimate _ — luses will "make a go of it" here. "ORPHEUS" PRESENTED. We never was more than one until San Frandsc0 S ept 3. ^mm, when two found it hard work paul Steindorff prese nted the Gluck &|o.reap any golden harvest. "Orpheus," Saturday night in J^It is rumored that if it "found £ Greek Theatre on a scale that fcfcere is room for but two legitimate H d any prev i 0U s production of louses, one of the three houses will t e he p work J tnis C oast. gppturned over to burl esque. Lydia sturtevant sang Orpheus; Ina XILLS' teARRilfli ANNULLED. g u ^ gjj^ Eurydkc ' and » ••■:/""■"""• San Francisco, Sept. 3. "a feature was the dance and ballet JagiV-The marriage of Norbert Cills, for- interpolations, with Eugenia Vande- pinerly of the Marjorie Rambeau Com- veer as premiere danseuse and Anita If pany, and Mrs. Maisa Cills, was an- Wright's dancing girls for the en- r nulled last week upon testimony that sembles. l'Cill8 had not obtained a final decree of The music was played by an orches- feidiyorce frorn his first wife when the tra ^of sixty, with Guilio Minetti in is marriage was performed. . charge. ' . ;• MP-& Cills and his wife parted and each Unmarried again in the belief no legal 122-FOOT DIVE AT HIP. ^ -action was necessary. A son ten years a new diving star was uncovered at jgpild by their marriage lives with his the Hippodrome last week prior to mother. Cills said he was unable to the interruption of the strike. It was , i pay anything for the support of the , Helen Carr who performed the plunge | 'i? child, because he is put of work and f rom the roof in place of Mac Eccles- &&l;now has another wife and child to ton who was ill. Jll^support. Miss Carr it was afterwards learned fffekfv The court's decision on Mrs. Cills' performed at the San Francisco Fair Misapplication f° r a weekly allowance for but had never dived from a height of g^^Mie.boy's support will be given later. ove r 65 feet. The drop in "Happy ^hara, l Days" is said to be 122 feet. Ifeor OLD CHURCH CONVERTED. §" *£"' San Francisco, Sept. 3. Peple Play Coming. p Owing to increased patronage, the Edward Peple's latest play, "The j a Players T Club has moved from its small Birthright," is scheduled for late fall v' Quarters and has leased a 'building, production by Edgar Macgregor. ONE ENGLISHMAN TO ANOTHER (In the form of an Open Letter, written by Lawrence Grant and addressed to Lyall Swete.) New York, Aug. 31. Dear Mr. Lyall Swete, I listened to your' speech on Satur- day night at the Biltmore, I was present in the offices of the Fidelity League when your subscription was brought in, and I heard the message which came with it; that you had never signed a cheque with greater pleasure; and I know the history of your correspondence with A. E. Anson in the matter of your notorious cable to the Actor's Association at home. I, too, am an Englishman, but I claim in this letter to represent no man's views but my own—though as a matter of fact I know that all those Britishers who, I am glad to say, are displaying the quality for which our race is famous—loyalty—share my opinion of you, and those very few, who are in your camp. There were many of these Britishers near me last night during your speech, and we all regretted that we were un- able to make a verbatim copy of it; we noticed, however, that you had it in your pocket, and I challenge you to publish in full in the English theatri- cal papers that scurrilous, unjust, un- patriotic and disgraceful attack upon those British actors, who are not only following the dictates of their con- sciences, but are remembering that they, like you, are "guests in the house" but, unlike you, know what is^ expected of guests, and are standing solidly behind their hosts—the Ameri- can actors—and are not with that heterogeneous collection of managers, pseudo-managers, near managers, managers' silent partners, vaudeville booking agents, theatrical agents, office boys, and various malcontents and failures, who ([with the powerful aid and vast experience of the most brilliant managerial organizer this or any other country has ever produced, who having no direct interest in our branch of the profession, has placed his genius at the disposal of legiti- mate producers) are trying to destroy forever the one—the great—perhaps the last opportunity the actor will ever have of coming out of the condi- tion of a "child" into manhood's es- tate of dignity and freedom. You announced that you had pur- posely remained absent from previous 'meetings because you thought a "guest" had no right to "butt in" dar- ing the birth of a new American Society. I Why did you not display the same delicacy of feeling some weeks ago, and refrain from "butting in" in an endeavor to encompass the death of an old society, one that has, admit- tedly, wrought many services for the actor during the past six years? If, as was your right, you held an opinion that the strike was ill-advised, why did you not then remember as ycu did last night that "Manners maketh man" and also take to heart the equally familiar illustration which accompanies that motto, the Arms of the College of Winchester—which rep- resents a certain domestic animal— with a padlock on his mouth? You quoted Hanley in an impas- sioned appeal for applause: "England! My England 1" Why did you not give the first line?— "What have I done for th.ee?" What have you done, Mr. Lyall Swete? You have failed from the first up till now to do the right thing and come direct to your Association for correct details of the situation. You were not afraid to "butt in" and cable home the most mischievous mis-statements, using what you hoped would be the prestige of your name, and so wording your cable as to give • the idea that you voiced the opinion of a majority of us here. - You did not hesitate, whenr it suited you, to forget you were a guest over here. ■ m ,- If "Manners maketh man" you did not hesitate to proclaim yourself as no man, and certainly no gentleman, when you chose not only to publish a private letter from a friend, A. E. An- son, but allowed it to go through managerial channels, where it was so edited and cut as to convey a meaning the reverse of that intended by the writer. You allowed that, letter to go un- corrected and made no effort to have it's real meaning made clear. You begged your audience to believe that you, and your British minority, of j whom ONLY SIX can be definitely counted, are representative of British probity, justice and right dealing, and you asked them to regard the others of your countrymen, of whom there are hundreds and hundreds registered, at the Actor's Equity Association, as unreliable, unBritish, unrepresenta- . tive, worthless, and as you actually . said, "of a Prussian morality," and like- ly to treat all contracts as "scraps of j paper." You have chosen, in an alien coun- try, you and your half dozen, to vili- fy about 500 men and women, who, however they may differ from you, are your fellow citizens, forgetting an- other old English motto: "It is an ill bird that fouls it's own nest" Lastly. What have yon done for yourself? You have gained temporary notoriety and some applause. When this strike is over—and WON —do -you think you will have the re- •; spect of your present friends? No, Mr. Lyall Swete. If "All the world loves a Lover" all Americans love a clean fighter, and.) they have no use for anyone who is | rot true to his class, his country or |: his kind. ■■ I . Yours very truly, Lawrence Grant,-, "COME ALONG," 100 PER CENT. Dolle Gray, after two days' rehear- sal, assumed the ingenue lead in "Come Along," H. H. Moss* production now heading West. Miss Gray was to A. C. Aiston's stock Auditorium, Kansas company was broken "Come Along" is Equity. have been with company at the City, but that up. 100 per cent. GLICKMAN GETS PALACE. Chicago, Sept. 3. Ellis Glickman, local impressario of the Yiddish drama, has taken the. man- agement of the Palace at Twelfth street and Blue Island avenue. The house opened this week with Max Gobel's four-act pllay, "A Girl's Dream." Joseph Kessler heads the "company, which includes David Levin- son, Mina Axelrod, Betty Frank and Anna Melzcr. . PERCY HAMMOND HERE. . Percy Hammond, the dramatic critic of the Chicago Tribune, arrived in New York yesterday. Mr. Hammond stated that this, was his annual trip and that he had just finished a vaca- tion on the lakes. He will report the strike for the Chicago Tribune. "New Acts and Show Reviews" will * be found on pages 36 and 37 of this 1 issue. a V ' I