The New York Clipper (November 1917)

November 14, 1917 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 17 JEAIf THOMAS haa joined "Very Good Eddie" on the road. ,,. - • '■ >± ; Stevens and Brunelle are' presenting a new turn over the Fox time. Clinton Moffitt is going on tour as man- ager of "Among Those Present" Lester Murray is managing the Harry Lauder tour for William Morris. Sarah Padden begins a return tour of the Orpheum Circuit, December 2. Harvey Green, of Allen. and Green, is spending the week at Atlantic City. John E. Haggerty has been engaged to manage the new Chauncey Olcott show. Wallace Ham leaves this week to go in advance of "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath." The Bell Trio played a return engage- ment at the Strand, Racine, last week. Elsie Jam's doubled this week, head- lining at both the Palace and the River- side. Edward Darney has been leading man with the J. W. Payton Stock Co. for two yeara. Eddie Dow ling is playing a return date at the Hudson Theatre, Union Hill, this week. E. M Crawford is back in his old posi- tion as treasurer of the Grand Theatre, Akron, O. Mae Page Taylor has a new novelty •ongalogue act completed. Jack Levy is booking it. Playman Ben Ali is the father of a boy, born last Thursday. Mother and child are -doing well. Aaron Epstein, head usher at the Folly, Brooklyn, has been rejected for the Na- tional Army. Max Halperin has been appointed treas- urer of Ben Kahn's new Follies Theatre in the Bronx. Frank Novak, song publisher, ad- dressed the Advertisers* Crub in Cincin- nati last week. Walter Knight has acquired the rights to "Alsace," a play by Gaston Leroux and Camilla Dreyfus. Donald Brian's name will stand out in electric lights all alone when "Her Regl- . merit" comes in. BUI Caress, formerly a clown with Kingling Brothers, has joined the cast of "Jack o' Lantern." Harry Clarke is being starred on the Coast in "The Third Party," taking Tay- lor Holmes' old role. Oliver Bailey, the playwright, has start- ed to do some special work for the Gold- wyn Film Corporation. Allen K. Foster is arranging the dances for "Over the Top," - which opens next Monday in New Haven. - John Willis has been exempted from the draft, and wUl continue on the road in his novelty wire act. Mabel Carruthers has been engaged by Lou-TeUegen to play with him in his new play by Wfflard Mack. Ben Atwell, smile and all, is back in New York, after having pfloted the Jol- -sott-show to the coast. Mike Bernard, after two years in the West, is back in New York and will soon be seen on United time. ABOUT YOU! AND YOU!! AND YOU!!! Monte Stuckey has replaced Wm. E. Mallette in the light comedy role in "Broadway After Dark." Harvey Watkins, of the United Book- ing Offices, waa at the Traymore, Atlantic City, for a rest last week. James C. Lane has been succeeded in the cast of "Tango Shoes" by Bert Cole, lane is now in New York. Walter Bosenberg has been engaged to manage the Broadway Theatre. He is to have a share in the profits. Walter Regan has joined the cast of "Madame Sand." He closed in -i'The Rescuing Angel," last week. George Audie, for many years treasurer at the Lyceum Theater, is now connected with McBride's Ticket Agency. Gns Rapier and Rita Renier have' been playing dates around Chicago since clos- ing in stock at Gary, TTiJinnp ^ Joe Miller, of the 101 Ranch Shows, is spending the Winter at Palm Beach, rest- ing from his season's activities. Horace Park will manage the Liberty Theatre, Akron, O., a new picture house to be opened about December 1. Jerry Flyan has left McBride's Ticket Agency to replace Allen Schnebbe aa treasurer at the Hudson Theatre. George Lovett and his Jazz Band have been routed over the Orpheum Circuit and opened' at Salt Lake last Monday. Nathan Franko, the musical director, hopes soon to receive a commission as lieutenant in the United States Navy. Jack Shilling, formerly chief electrician at the Folly, Brooklyn, is now the chief electrician at the Fox studios at Fort Lee. Arthur Mack, formerly of the Union Hill, N. J., stock company, is bugler of the 312th Infantry at Camp Dix, Atlanta, Ga. Mabel Webb, a new singer from Aus- tralia, has just arrived in this country for a tour. • She is being booked by Jack Levy. Helen Gladden, formerly of Billie Burke's vaudeville act, "Pinky," is at present a member of the Hippodrome cast. Lida Kane, formerly of the MaUey- Denison stock, has joined the "Stop, Look and Listen" Co. en route to the Pacific Coast. Ray Cumminga, of Cummings and Shelley, waa obliged to lay off two weeks on account of an injury done his arm last week. William Moensch, doorkeeper of the Orpheum Theatre of San Francisco for over thirty years,. resigned his post last week. Joe Vion has been engaged to go ahead of "Once Upon a Time, the new Chaun- cey Olcott play produced by Cohan and Harris. Julian Anhalt, manager of the Republic Theatre, left last Thursday for Chicago in the interest of the A. H. Woods at- tractions. Guy DTSnnery, a stock actor, has signed with May TuUy to appear in her sketch "Finders—Keepers" which is now touring the South. S. L. Kothapfel, manager of the Rialto, left last Thursday for a three weeks' trip to the Pacific Coast, combining business with pleasure. • ■ Suzanne MIchode, a South American beauty and singer, has just arrived here and placed herself under the management of Jack Levy. .*'« Billy Carney, of the Barnum ana Btailey Show, is now in New York,'-Jooking over the management of a rooming house which he owns... 0 ■ \ Patrick Woods, manager of theatres in Rhode Island, has been appointed assist- ant to Eddie Darling, booking manager of Keith's Circuit. BuahneU Dimond, dramatic critic of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, has been drafted into the national army, and is at Camp Meade, Md. Arthur Torelli, Jones and Rosa and Grace Dickson, with Doctor Herman, are the acts now on tour with the Sylvester Scbaeffer road show. , Eth«l Albertini, who was operated on- in St. Vincent's Hospital, has recovered ' and plans to resume her vaudeville book- ings early in December. Nat A. Magner, touring the Orient in the interests of several motion picture companies, cabled from Yokohama of his arrival several days "ago. Joseph Riter has his fill of the product ing business for a while. "Romance ami. Arabella" is going to the store house and he is going to take a rest. Cyril Scott won the Errol Cup, com*- peted for by members of the Lambs' Golf Club at the links of the North Shore Country Club, last Sunday. Marion Lee, of the Charles Robinson shows, has applied for separate mainte- nance against her husband, David Peys- ner, of the Tempters show. Vinton Friedley, who managed the Toy Theatre in Boston and the Little Theatre in Philadelphia, has joined the Grace George company as juvenile. Peggy Marsh, the motion picture ac- tress, was fined $3 in the Traffic Court last week for abandonment of her auto- mobile on East Thirty-fifth Street. Marie Baer, of the Cincinnati Players, has announced her engagement to Robert Emmons Rogers, playwright and pro- fessor of English at Boston Tech. Hector Fuller, the dramatic critic, waa in New York last week with Thomas Shipp, in charge of the national publicity for the $35,000,000 Y. M. C. A. drive. J. Ellis Kirkman, who used to appear at Keith's Union Hill, has ended hia en- gagement at Lowell, Mass., and returned to Union Hill to appear in a Paths film. Harold West, lilliputian member of the "Jack o' Lantern" company, has pur- chased a prize Pomeranian, and is seen daily parading Broadway in its company. Maud Grey has retired from the cast of the Aborn opera stock company in. Pitts- burgh and win take a long rest. Her place has been filled by Florence Mackey. Robert Hyman and Virginia Mann, play- ing leads with the Alcazar-Stock in San Francisco, left the company' last week and are now at liberty for stock engage- ments. Charles H. Stevens, leading, man with "After Office* Hours," while playing Dea Moines, la., last week, waa the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Selmer Jackson at a dinner party. Ann WardeU, an actress, caused the arrest,last week of Peter W. Olsen, whom she charged with annoying her. Magis- trate Koenig sentenced Olsen to two days in jail. George Vivian has been engaged aa stage director for the Kobart-Jordan Cor- poration to look after the production of George V. Hobart's farce ''What's Your Husband Doing!" . C. W. Morgan, manager of the Fair- mount, W. Va., Opera House, has placed the booking for his house with F. E. Johnson, manager of the Court Theatre, Wheeling, W. Va. Jim Donovan has started working with his new partner, Jim Harrington, while Miss Lee, his former partner, and Mrs. Donovan in private life, is expecting * visit from the stork. Fay Marbe, appearing in "Oh Boy" at the Princess Theatre, this eity, has signed a contract with the Vitagraph Company by the terms of which she is soon to ap- pear in a photoplay with Earl Williams. Charles Schofield, of the old team that played "Roses," rejoined his partner, Isa- dora Martin, at Keith's Providence, last week, after an illness. They now have a new act called "King Fun." George Marion, the stage director, re- turned to his earlier occupation of acting, last week, when be appeared at the Park Theatre, Boston, as Anatole Pivert, a French restaurateur, in "The Grass Widow." Samuel Baerwitz, agent in the Putnam Building, has been absent from his office during the past week on account of ill- ness. An operation on his ear was per- formed Saturday, and be expects to be in later this week. Mrs. Raymond Mettler, wife of R S. Mettler, band leader last season with Steve T. Mulcahy's National Exposition Shows, last week underwent an operation for appendicitis in the Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati. Walter Hogan, of the Manhattan Opera House; Allen Schnebbe, of the Hudson, and Arthur Wright, of the Winter Gar- den, were guests of honor of the Theatri- cal Treasurer's Club at a banquet given last week at.-Castle Cave. Major G. A. Gagg, secretary-treasurer of the Hagenbeck-WaUace Circus, who was operated on November 0 at Eastman Private Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind., is re- ported to be improving and is expected to be out in about two weeks. Dorothy Dale, the motion picture ac- tress, was upheld in her suit for $1,068.90 against the Mirror Films, Inc., by the Ap- pellate division of the Supreme Court, last week. _ Miss Dale claims that she was not paid for nineteen weeks of her icrntract. F. E. Johnson, manager of the Court Theatre, Wheeling, W. Va, is now booking for Wheeling^ Fairmont, Parkersburg, Huntington, Clarksburg and Charleston, W., Va.; and Zanesvifle and Lancaster, Ohio. More theatres are being added to taejlist. Evelyn Hesbit, last Wednesday, under- went an operation for the removal of a "steel splinter from the pupil of her right ' eye. The operation was successful and "wittrthe aid of cocaine on" the injured eye thaw dancer was enabled to continue her appearances at the Palace.