The New York Clipper (July 1917)

It THE NEW YORK CLIPPER July 18, 1917 LONDON PARIS FOREIGN MEWS PETROGRAD SYDNEY Loudon, Bug., July 7. Sophie Forest has met with success in her new act Carlton Brongh is playing a return en- gagement over the Gulliver Tour. The directors of Gravesend Grand The- atre Co. have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. The Torquay Theatre Company at its recent meeting declared a dividend of 5 per cent. Next Friday at His Majesty's "Chn Chin Chow" will celebrate its 400th per- formance. Nina Boucicault is meeting with suc- cess in the music halls in her sketch "When the Clock Strikes Nine." Mary Law, who is being heartily re- ceived since her return from Sooth Africa, was this week at the Palladium, Southport. Hilda Stewart, who, owing to ill health, was obliged to cancel several dates, is recuperating at Soutbsea, bnt will presently resume her work. Francis and Alfred, Hartley Carlyon and Bright Brightly have sailed for South Africa to play the halls of the African Theatres Trust, Ltd. Harry C. Thorburn, late manager with the revne "An Bevoir, Paris," has secured the producing rights to "Oh! Lawsy Me," a comedy sketch by Thos. King Moylan. Wallace Bice, who controls the Im- perial, Canning Town, has secured the Tivoli, formerly the Palace, at Bow and has decorated the house throughout. Frank Mundill is house manager. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Manning, who are again presenting their comedy sketch, "Their Wedding Anniversary," close to- night a good week at the Palace, Leicester. They presently play the Stoll Tour. Ernest Gates has transferred his lease of the Grand Theatre, Brighton, to Mrs. Kimberly, the well-known playwright and lessee of the Palace Theatre, Bordesley, and the Theatre Royal, Wolverhampton. Charles B. Williams, of Olive Dene and Chas. B. Williams Comedy Duo, recently underwent a surgical operation for loss of speech. His friends are encouraged by the report of his condition and look forward to his complete recovery. "The Pacifist: A Parable in a Farce," Henry Arthur Jones' latest play, is a satire written on happenings in the town of Market Pewbury when its citizens un- dertook to pursue in their municipal and domestic affairs the principle of pence at any price. At the meeting last week of the Touring Managers' Association the question was raised as to why the association is not represented on the Entertainments Indus- try Committee, considering that the mem- bers of the T. M. A. employ the majority of touring players. Aside from the management of the Shaftesbury Theatre and the productions at that house Messrs. Grossmith and Laurillard have mapped ont a busy season for 1917-18. Among their earliest Fall productions will be "Tilly of Bloomsbury," a dramatisation of Ian Hay's novel "Happy-Go-Lucky," and a musical comedy by H. M. Harwood, with music by Ivor Novello. Lily Layton goes to Falkirk next week. Elven Hedges has returned to his single act at the piano. J. B. Strain will be at the Tivoli. New Brighton, next week. Bruce Green has started a fourteen weeks' provincial tour. The Carlton Mascots will be at the Palace, Malton, next week. The Four LVOrmondes are at the Hip- podrome, Aldershot, next week. Olive Xoung is no longer connected with the act known as "Those 4 Elds." The A-Ta-Me Japanese troupe send word of their success at the Alhambra, Paris. Miss Teddie Le Roy plays the Moss Empire, Birmingham, week of July 16. Margotte and Aubert are booked for the Hippodrome, Colchester, week of July 16. London has put the stamp of approval on Griff and Maurice, the Welsh vocalists. Ben Taylor and Bonny Browning are booked for the Tivoli, Hull, week after next. May Starr, at the Empire, Sunderland, next week, goes to the Palace, Hull, the week following. Wolfe Land, having concluded his revne engagements, is back in the halls doing his single act. Bay Pever has made her music hall de- but in a male impersonation act, doing songs and dances. A. Scranton, the Manchester agent, who was recently ill, has recovered and has resumed his activities. John T. Douglass, well known as a playwright, was recently killed in one of the air raids over London. Sam Barton, who played the Hippo- drome, Devonport, will be at the Hippo- drome, Portsmouth, next week. "Frills and Fancies," at the Hippodrome, Norwich, next week, will play the Hip- podrome, Ipswich, week of July 16. Eric Porter, youngest son of John Porter of the Hippodrome, Lancaster, has joined the Motor Section of the A. S. C. Charles E. Smith, deputy musical direc- tor of the Kemble Theatre, Hereford, has resigned his position and joined the colors. The shareholders of the Coliseum The- atre, Dublin, recently voted to wind up the affairs of the company. J. A. Johnston was appointed liquidator. The twenty-one-year-old son of Rolando Martin, who joined the service a few weeks after the outbreak of the war. has spent more than two years in the trenches in France. Messrs. Grossmith and Laurillard have began preparations for their first Shaftes- bury Theatre production, a comic opera in three acts entitled "Arlette"; adapted by Cosmo Gordon Lennox and Jose Levy from the French of Claude Roland and L Bouret, with music by Jane Vieu. Re- hearsals are about to start and the open- ing date will be about the middle of September. H. B. Irving will produce "Victory" in September. Wilkie Bard has been indisposed for a week or so. "The Man Who Stayed at Home" has been revived by E. Taylor Piatt's Co. The Fete and Fair at the Springfield Hospital, Tooting, opens next Wednesday. Gilbert Smith has succeeded H E. Har- ris as musical director of the Grand, Clapham. Chris Van Bern's new monologue "Well! I Am Surprised!" is from the pen of C. Fred Wilson. Mrs. Clavell Tripp, sister-in-law of Tripp Edgar, was a recent victim of an air raid over London. Clair Colwyn, of Colwyn and Irving, who , is suffering from eye trouble, has been ordered to take a rest. Hyde and Hilton, burlesque comedians, have signed with G. Bryden Phillips for his next season's pantomime. Edward Crosland and his Melody Mak- ers are hack in England, returned from a successful South African trip. Maudie and Syd McLloyd are playing the halls until their "Dick Whittington" pantomime engagement begins. The Great Raymond was chairman at the recent Ladies' Night of the Magicians' Club, held at Hasluck's Bijou Theatre. Bert D'Arcy's Savoy Quartet has met with such success at the Oxford that it will remain at that house for some time. -Edmund Waller and wife (nee Pea- cock) are making the most of the Summer season and are honeymooning in the provinces. With the end of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.'s engagement at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith, last week that house closed for the Summer. Max Jerome, who recently assumed the management of the Playhouse, Liverpool, is presenting comedies. "Saturday to Monday" was this week's bHL Shirley Kellogg, who has been out of the cast of "Zig Zag" at the Hippodrome for some time owing to illness, returned to her old role in the show last Monday. The Empire, Mile End, which has been given np to pictures exclusively for several years is now breaking into vaude- ville with three music hall acts on the night bill. Fisher and Lea, whirlwind dancers, played the Pavilion, Southport, this week, and come to town next week. This is their first appearance outside of revue in three years. Leigh Lovel and Octavia Kenmere have been endeavoring to Djsenize Liverpool this week by presenting "ghost" at the Shake- speare. Latest reports are to the effect that the Norwegian dramatist is more popular than ever in that city. "The Better 'Ole," the new musical farce by Cant. Baimsfather and Capt- Arthnr Elliott, with music by Herman Darewski, will shortly be produced by C. B. Cochran, with Arthur Bourchier in the role of Ole Bill. It will open August 4. TO USE FILM IN DIVORCE SUIT Pasts, Fr., July 7.—A motion picture film is soon to be used in the local courts as evidence in a divorce case. The plain- tiff in the action saw on a screen on the boulevards pictures of the procession of Italian delegates through the boulevards to the Place de la Concorde to lay a wreath upon the Strasbourg monument. The procession was followed by a taxicab in which, to his astonishment, the specta- tor saw his wife seated with a stranger. He bought the film to be used as tbe basis of his action for divorce. NOTED BARITONE DIES LONDON. Eng.. July 10.—News has just reached here of the death, in Buenos Aires, of Max Eugene, the famous baritone of the Carl Boss Opera Co., when that com- pany was under the direction of its founder. Eugene settled in Buenos Aires a number of years ago under the name of E. Stephen. His death occurred April 23, hut TO PRESENT JONES PLAY SEPT. 4 London, Eng., July 12.—Henry Arthur Jones latest play, "The Pacifists," which will be presented September 4 at the St. James, goes in rehearsal presently. Messrs. Hutchinson & Jay have secured a strong company including Ellis Jeffreys, Lennox Pawle, O. B. Clarence and Charles Glenney. RUSSIA WANTS COPYRIGHT LAW Peteoorad, Russia.—The Minister of Justice has prepared a bill authorizing the arrangement of a copyright conven- tion with the United States. It will be for the protection of literature, music and the drama and at an early date win be submitted to the Provisional Government for approval "WHAT A CATCH" REHEARSING London, Eng., July 16.—"What a Catch," a new farcical comedy by J. H. Damley, which is now rehearsing will be produced by Gideon Warren at the Duke of York's on Wednesday of next week. Lnpino Lane, Rnby Miller, Perdval Keltley and Eric Howard are in the cast ACTOR KNIGHTS ARE INDISPOSED London, Eng., July 11.—Following the death last week of Sir Herbert Tree comes the announcement of the severe indisposi- tion of three actor-knights—Wyndham, Forbes-Robertson and Alexander—none of whom are likely to make public appear- ances for some time. ( WANTS TO SING TO SOLDIERS Pabis. Ft., July 1L—The Government Press Department Headquarters are in re- ceipt of many odd requests to be allowed to go with the troops. One was received from an actress who asked that she be permitted to go that she might sing to the soldiers. ALEXANDER GETS "L'ELEVATION" London, Eng., July 11.—Sir George Alexander has secured the F!ngH«h produc- tion rights to "L'Elevation," Henri Bern- stein's recent success at the Theatre Francais, Paris. Negotiations for the American rights are pending. LYN HARDING IS IN LONDON London, Eng., July 10.—Lyn Harding, who has arrived here from the United States, announces his intention to remain here for some time. He will appear in an early fall London production. POSTPONE TAX INCREASE London, Eng., July 14.—Tbe increase of the Entertainment Tax has been post- poned. The date fixed for its taking ef- fect is now set as Oct L ENDS 9TH MONTH AT GAIETY London, Eng., July 16.—"Theodore & Co.." at the Gaiety, begins its tenth month next Thursday night