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The New York Clipper (February 1919)

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February 12, 1919. THE NIW YORX CLIPPER U.M.P.A. HOLDS VAUDE. IS NOT A BUSINESS \ FILES ANSWER TO RATS' SUIT The B. F. Keith Vaudeville Exchange and the Vaudeville Managers' Protective Association, through EL F. Albee and Flat Casey, the respective heads of each organ- ization, filed an answer last week to the $378,000 damage suit started some time ago in the United States District Court by the Whtte Bate Realty Co., Inc., in which it was alleged that the above named defendants conspired to destroy the busi- ness of the latter. The. answer contends that the Vaude- ville Managers' Protective Association and The Keith Booking Exchange are engaged in an, amusement enterprise, and that vaudeville cannot be considered in the light of a business enterprise, within the meaning of the Sherman anti-trust law. The" defendants' answer goes on to state specifically that they are not engaged in business in New York City, as set forth in the complaint filed by the White Bate Realty Company, Inc. It is .also denied that the defendants conspired to destroy the businee of the White Bats Realty Company, Inc., or to procure the White Rats Clubhouse for the National Vaude- ville Artiste, Inc. The Mutual Bank and Robert Corcoran, named as co-defendants in the suit, last week interposed a demurrer, basing their contention on the ground the complaint does not set forth sufficient grounds for action. KEITH TO BUILD IN CLEVELAND Cleveland, 6., Feb. 8.—According to a statement issued here last week by John F. Royal, manager of the Hippodrome, the Keith interests intend to bund a new the- atre in Cleveland within the course of the next two yean. -The plans have already been drawn for the new house, it is said, and it will' be ready for occupancy by the Keith people before 1922, at which time the lease of the Hippodrome passes from the Keith interests to Walter Rosenberg, the New York picture man. Keith vaude- ville, according to Mr. Royal, will continue at the Hipp until the new house is built. ROCK A WHITE BACK IN VAUDE Rock and White will take a short flyer in vaudeville before departing for Europe, having accepted, a contract for five weeks in and around New York. The team will open at. the Colonial on February 17, which .engagement will.be followed by a week .each at the Orpheum, Riverside, Al- hambra ■ and Palace. L R. Samuels is understood to have been lsregly instru- mental in arranging the deal which brought them into vaudeville again. JULIA DEAN ENTERS VAUDE "Evil Eyes" is the title of a sketch In which Julia Dean, -who was featured in "The Woman on the Index" a short time ago, is now appearing in vaudeville. Louis- Casavant and Robert Kelley com- prise the rest of the cast. Philip Bartho- lomae is the author of the playlet, and Joseph Hart directed it. PUT OFF CLAYTON-HERMAN CASE A hearing of the complaint filed with the N. V. A. by "Mystic" Clayton, the mind reader, against Dr. Herman, was to have been held last week, but was post- poned because of the fact that Dr. Her- man is now playing in New England and eunld not conveniently be present. The case will come up far adjustment as soon as Dr. Herman plays out his New Eng- land time, which has about four weeks longer to run. FORM NEW VAUDE TEAM Florence Holbroot, formerly of Lean and Holbrook, and Ralph Whitehead have formed a vaudeville partneryhip and will be seen in the near future in a new musical playlet under the direction of Alt T. Wilton. . SAYS TOM BROWN LIFTED ACT » Chas. B. Maddock has filed a complaint ■with the N. V. A. against Tom Brown, alleging that Brown is now playing an act called "The Constebules," which is jtamed to be "an exact copy" of the Huidock production, "Crosby's Corners." The Complaint Bureau has asked both parties to present detailed evidence so that a decision may be reached in the matter. HYAMS & MclNTYRE ENLARGE ACT Hyams and Mclntyre will become* three-act shortly, the team having com- missioned Frank Stammers to write them a new vehicle that will serve to introduce their youhtful daughter, Leila, to vaude- ville patrons. The new act will be along the lines of Hyams' and Mclntyre's for- mer vehicles, being a singing and dancing skit, with a slight story interwoven. "'•". SHARIFF CASE SETTLED ' The complaint of Mohammed Houssan, representing Absolam Shariff, now in Europe with the 308th Infantry, wherein it was charged, that another Arab troupe was wrorg-fully using Shariff s name, was satisfactory settled by the N. V. A. last week, the defendants agreeging to cut out the billing objected to. ' "BLUCH" AND SNYDER AT ODDS "Bluch" Landry, the Hippodrome co- mique, registered a complaint against Bud Snyder last week with the N. V. A., which in effect states that Snyder is using Lan- dry's photographs for lobby display pur- poses, without permission. The case will come up for investigation shortly. HERRICK A ALFRED PRODUCING Lee Herrick and Julian Alfred are joint- ly producing a new one-act musical com- edy for vaudeville entitled "Good Night Teacher." The act will have a cast of nine, and will be ready in a week or so. Stoker and Bierbauer are handling the booking arrangements. ; LA MONT LAUNCHES TWO ACTS Bert La Mont added two new produc- tions' to his list this week, both opening for a break-in in Fox houses. The first is entitled "The Club House Revue/' a musical skit with a east of seven, and the second is " Turkish Bath Frolics," con-. taining eight people. DENNY A BOYLE TEAM UP Jack Denny, formerly of Brown and Denny, has formed a vaudeville partner- ship with Ellen Boyle. The team broke in a new act at Peterson last week, which will come into New York shortly. Max Hart's office is lmtifllwig it. COOPER A BROWN DOUBLE UP Lew Cooper, until recently' playing a part in "Ladies First,'' a Norah Bayes* show has framed up a double blackface singing and talking specialty,, with Lew Brown handling the straight end of the combination. . BANKOFF CANCELS RIVERSIDE Ivan Bankoff, the Russian, dancer, was forced to cancel the Riverside this week as the result-of an attack of influenza, which started last Monday, and-which de- veloped into pneumonia later in the week. WOULD UTILIZE LEGIT HOUSES ON OFF DAYS PROMOTER HAS NEW SCHEME A plan whereby several of the legitimate theatres in and around New York might be utilised during the afternoons on which no matinees are given was put up to the powers that be this week by a promoter who believes that he has hit upon an idea that contains endless money-making pos- sibilities. The promoter, "who has sponsored nu- merous . big attractions in his time, pro- poses to organize fifteen or twenty vaude- ville shows and send them around the cir- cuit intact. The shows, according to the plan which is still in embryo, would open on Monday afternoon and play Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. If agreeable to the concerns operating the legitimate theatres under consideration, the vaude shows will also play Sunday matinee and night engagements, making six performances a week in all. The man behind the scheme, in advanc- ing arguments as- to the practicability, of the utilization of the legit houses on the odd days, contends that show business was never better than at the present time, and that the public demand for vaude is far from being filled by the theatre* devoted to that branch of entertainment. - He is willing to lease or play the houses on a sharing basis, and is understood to have ample financial barking to carry out his miniature road show scheme. Whether the legit managers can be convinced of the feasibility of the idea remains to be GET PAN ROUTE BOOKING - The Naesse Trio, consisting of Alfred Naesse and two women, ice-skaters from Scandinavia, have been booked by Richard Pitrot for the whole Pantages Circuit. On the completion of their tour they will open in Paris at the Folies Bergere, from where they will go to the Circus Parish in Madrid, Spain. Monsieur Adolphns, assisted by two premier dancers, will play the route. RUSH PROVIDENCE HOUSE Providence, It. I., Feb. 10.—Work en the new Albee Theatre having started again and with everything in full swing once more, the house win probably be completed in March. Restrictions placed on labor and material by the Government caused a pause in the work, but with nothing to binder it, now the new theatre is rapidly nearing completion. REHEARSING GIRL ACT N. 8. Feldman has put into rehearsal a new girl act entitled "A Cold Million." It is a miniature musical comedy with ten people, four principals and a chorus of six. The offering will be booked by Sam Morris and is being staged under his personal direction. OPENS ON KEITH TIME FEB. 17 Kathryn Dahl and Her Melody Girls open next Monday at Keith's, Jersey City, N. J. Miss Dahl's company includes Selma Marion, Estelle. Mount, Maude Hutton and Maurice Bernard, pianist. She will carry special scenery. MIDGETS FLAYING FULL WEEK The 8inger Midgets are playing full week engagements' over the Loew Circuit. They started last week at the Metropolitan, Brooklyn, and are this week at the Vic- toria, New York. PETROVA GETS SIX WEEKS Mme. Olga Petrova, erstwhile movie star, who opened last Monday at the Chase- Theatre, Washington, doing a single ting- ing act, has been booked by H K Man- neili for a six weeks' tour of the Keith Circuit at a reported salary of $2,000 a weak.. Following the Washington engagement, Mme. Petrova is booked for The Orpheum, Brooklyn, the week of February 17. Feb- ruary 24th she comes to the Riverside; March 3 in Baltimore, March 10, Philadel- phia, and her tour ends in Boston, where she is booked for the week of March 17. Should her six weeks' tour prove success- ful, Marinelli will arrange a tour for her over the entire Keith Circuit. Had not the "flu" in Australia at the present time prevented Mme. Petrova from playing there, it was learned last week that she would have accepted the offer recently made to. her by Hugh Mcintosh, the Antipodean manager and producer, the latter having offered Mme. Petrova J2.2C0 a week and all her expenses paid to ap- pear in Australia. NEW THEATRE FOR BROOKLYN The Kings Highway Real Estate Com- pany will commence building operations on a new two thousand seat vaudeville theatre on March 1, that the concern will erect' on the corner of East 12th street and Avenue Q, Brooklyn. The location is a particularly good one, being midway be- tween Coney Island and Church avenue, tapping a section of upper Flatbush con- taining a population of approximately 100,000 suburbanites, who. have, hereto- fore, had no other source of theatrical amusement available other than pictures. The house will be modern in every respect. No booking affiliations have been made as yet, nor has a name been chosen for the new house. The sponsors of the new the- atre expect to have the place in readiness to give a show by the 1st of October. RUSH LING VERSUS CHBfG LING George B. Reuschling, who asserts that he has appeared for twelve years under the professional name of "Bush Ling Toy," has filed a complaint with the N. V; A, against a performer whom he designates as "WHson," in which it is alleged that said "Wilson" is using the billing of "Ching ling Toy." ■ Reuschling declares in his letter to the N. V. A-that "Wilson's" billing is far too similar to Ms, and requests the or- ganisation to ask "Wilson" to refrain from the use,of such hereafter. Reusch- ling also asks the N. V. A. to use its good offices in having "Wilson" quit using the programme underline "China's Greatest Mystiner," as the complainant contends that it is his exclusive property. APOLLO-GOLDEN CASE POSTPONED The case of the Apollo Trio versus the Three Golden Brothers, which was to have come up for a hearing before the Com- plaint Bureau of the N. V. A. thio week, has been postponed for the present. The trio, which charged that the Three Golden Brothers were infringing on their act, were requested to furnish more informa- tion and details regarding the matter. WOULD COLLECT FROM POSTAL Mask and Vincent have requested the N. V. A to collect a half week's salary .from the Postal Telegraph Company, which the team allege they lost through the delayed delivery of a telegram, re- cently, said delay, the act assert, being due to negligence, on the part of the • pany. NAME UFTEDi ACT Chad wick Huber, of Stetson and ' wrote in from Serttle last week and re- quested the N. V. A. to iak* artkm on an act that is alleged to be wrongfully using the team name.