Variety (March 1921)

VARIETY Friday, March 4, 1921 aai . PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE BEST ARTISTS IN THE AMUSEMENT PROFESSION HANDLING STARS IN ALL BRANCHES ! MUSICAL COMEDY MOTION PICTURES LEGITIMATE VAUDEVILLE ) .*,«•*. Also the highest type of authors, buying and selling plays for stage and screen. I wish to thank Mr. A. L. Erlanger for his good wishes and the prediction for my success. Also other producing managers who are kind enough to hope I will succeed and have so unquali- fiedly expressed themselves. • 114 West 44th Street My new address is PHONE 2062 BRYANT NEW YORK CITY] on the Orpheum bill this week. Daisy Cordier Nell is, pianist, fea- tured, is a native girl, as is Lulu Wells, of the George Jessel "Trou- bles of 1521/' Reports from Joseph B. Click's oil holdings in Oklahoma show that the well brought in a couple of weeks ago is producing in paying quantities. The gentlemen inter- ested with Mr. Gllck are arranging to sink another hole" in the near future. Toscanini and his La Scala Or- chestra appeared In Convention Hall Sunday to an audience of over 10,000, breaking all concert records for this city and the biggest crowd the organization has appeared be- fore since coming to this country. At the conclusion of the concert the conductor was presented with a sil- ver loving cup by the Italian Colo- nial Committee, representing 25 Italian societies of this city. LOUISVILLE. By JOHN M. FRANCIS. MACAULEYS. — "Centur; Mid- night Whirl" with Blanche Ring last half; dark first half Otis Skinner In his new play, "At Villa Rose" next. ( learning {.ream i\<r 'Beauty's sake, use "afngelus 1 PICTURES.—Majestic, Ina Claire in "Polly With a Past"; Alamo, "Godless Men," and Jack Pickford in "Just Out of College," last half; Strand, Mr. and Mrs. Carter de Haven in "Twin Beds," and Lionel Barrymore in "Devil's Garden" last half. . "Cenlury Midnight Whirl" at $2 top Is the lowest-priced offering at Macauley's for some time. In the last five weeks prices have reached as high as $3.85, including tax. This week's show is advertised at "bar- gain prices." "Ye Song Shop" headed by War- ren Jackson and Howard Whalen heads a well-balanced bill at the Mary Ann this week. A decided in- novation is the two huge books from which the girls trip. As the name indicates it embraces songs of the past and present. Although ventrlloquial acts have been on the bill three weeks in suc- cession, Emily and Walter Walters get by with their bit fairly well. The act is above the ordinary. A racy dialog number is offered by Maybelle Palmer and Arthur Wan- zer. While the last act was in prog- ress smoke began pouring from the gallery last Thursday night. Man- ager George F. Simpson walked onto MAKE CERTAIN OF RECEIVING VARIETY SUBSCRIBE FOR the stage after the act was about half over and requested the patrons not to be alarmed. They filed out In excellent order. The small fire was discovered to be In a conduit shaft. NEW ORLEANS. By O. M. 8AMUEL. TULANE.—"Turn to the Right." ST. CHARLES.—Sherman Stock in "Which One Shall I Marry?" LISTEN! NEVER BEFORE KIETY . Through Variety now getting out earlier than formerly, Variety by mail through subscription is reaching earlier and more regularly its subscribers, often reaching them before appearing upon the newsstands. To those desirous of Variety each week at the quit! est possible moment, a subscription is suggested. Constant complaint of inability to secure Variety on a newsstand, through supply having been exhausted may be obviated through a stand- ing subscription. • Subscription, $7 yearly. Canada and foreign countries, $8. in the history of Vaudeville has it been done! J. C. NUGENT The Author Comedian - ■ Originator of the Two-People Mono-Playlot, after eighteen years of con- stant playing of same in American Big Time, leaped to fame as a first- class monologist at once, with A NEW IDEA After an original sixteen minute comedy routine, which gained such notices as these: New'York GuSP*'*' *' ,h * ^ * lac,> • ,a ( " iual to * ny Sonologist in Vaudeville."— Lo«!7«I^I>im^it. th9 bMt ° f lhf Vau<,evi,! * Monoloei..,. barring none." -St. "4. 0, NI'f.KNT took the honor* of the b.t!."- New Or Iran* ricayane. He, four week* ago, originated an encore idea of talking for two minutes on tWS subjects, one minute on each, taking any subject whatever suggested by anyone la the audience, thus covering twenty-eight subjects each week, ranging from dough- nute to the League of Nations, and immpdiately gaining such notices as these: s«.r"i J hlF;^ ,C,KNT .* lc ^ rv .7. » I orl «l of credit for the most original vaudeville idea nrard hero in year*."— Seattle l>e*«. i»o«Jil I „ 1 ii ,, i WP 'i ,, i CU /l 0 . ma / y «. t0 ^ ,,n<l out " (,ou, » A* Cabinet Member*, as is done la Baseball, PresJdent-K.lect Harding should send for J. <:. NrCiKNT. the wise fun- 5-if: JT; l °, scl|,t,n » te * on this weeks Ornh«Mim Kill. Ho li the ncme of everything J IKi » , J ,|H \* k 1 ? on " ny *« h J*«' t *"g«r'Rlcd right off th* reel; wuh amazing com- jysna or English and an analytic:.! B ift of lightcning-liUe clarity." — Fort I a ad "J. C. K I'd F NT'S «'i is a delight, it create* tli* netlea thnt nil the rest of the K^fifi« ,tM I? ?. K H ." MuM , li '' r / ,i,e for » ttme and gu undar ht* instruction."—San rraiKisco itaily Journal of Commerce. The attention of the V. M. P. A. and the N. V. A. and the Profession generally, is called to the fact that this idea hclongs to ins and will be strictly protected. BOOKED SOLID