The New York Clipper (February 1919)

February 19, 1919 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 25 THOMAS J. KEOGH is-in tie cut of "ThA Tlamar " "The Dancer, Eoland West has purchased a $60,000 yacht named the Lavinien. Whitford Kane re-entered the cast of "Tiger Tiger" on Monday night. Priestley Morrison staged "The After- math" for William Moore Patch. Lonis Nethersol* sailed for London laat week to represent Charles Dillingham Mme, Samoya, a dancer, opened an en- gagement with Reisenweber's this week. Fred Nichols la one of the recent addi- tions to the cast of "A Sleepless Night" Carrie Reynolds and Juaaita Fletcher opened this week in "Leave It to Jane." Virginia Smith is appearing with Al Jolson in "Sinbad" at the 44th Street Theatre. Irene Franklin and Esther WalkeT ap- peared at the concert at the Norah Bayes Theatre last Sunday. Charles Irwin started a tour of the Or- phetun Circuit at the Orpheom Theatre, St. Louis, this week. Aflrieime BonneQ is in the east of "A Sleepless Night," which opened at the Bijou last Monday night. Kae Hartley, after being out of the cast of "Sinbad" for a number of weeks, re- entered the show Monday. James Shesgreen has been - appointed manager of Mabel Taliaferro, who is to be starred in "Luck iu Pawn." E. P. Temple will stage the new De Koven comjque opera, "Yesterday," which the Shoberts are to produce. Grace and Anna Efler, baring returned from a trip to the Pacific Coast, are now appearing in Chicago theatres. ABOUT YOU! AND YOU!! AND YOU!!! (Canrlmmt on pas* U) George M. Cohan was one of the speak- ers at the dinner tendered to Frank Bacon by the Friars' Club on Sunday. Lester Lonergan returned to the east of "East Is West" last Monday, after an absence of two weeks due to illness.. Paul Harvey will appear in the new "comedy by Frederic and Fanny Hatton which Oliver Morosco will soon produce. Dan S. Kussell is rehearsing two new acts in Chicago. One he calls "Number, Please," and tie other, "Chills and Fever." Oily Logsdoa has recovered from an at- tack of the Spanish influenza and will be back at her office in the Putnam building next Monday. Mme. CbJQaon Ohrman was divorced last week ' from Elmer H. Ohrman, a stock broker because of the failure of. the latter to support her. Shirley Sherman is leading the Jewel Ballet in "Monte Cristo" at the Winter Garden. Thomas Dixon, Jr., is the manager of the Harris Theatre, now under lease to his father. Frank Mclntyre is featured in "Thirty Days," a play by A. Thomas and Clayton Hamilton. H. H. Frazee is producing it. Dorothy Jordan will open with.the Chi- cago Opera Company on Friday in "Fedora* Harold.Crane will be seen in "Tester- day," Reginald De Koven'a new opera comique. Leo Dwyer and Betty Frank joined the "Charley's Aunt" Company last week at Allentown, Pa, Alexander and Fields, the tramp come- dians, are having a new act written by James Madison. Max Halperin, brother of Nan Halperin, has been engaged by the Billy Jackson Agency, Chicago.. Percy Mannont is out of the "Invisible Foe" because of Illness. Frank Stevens has taken his part. Alexander Sidney Rosenthal and Has Halperin have opened law offices in the Longacre Building. Bessie McCoy-Davis has been re-engaged by F. Ziegfeld, Jr., to appear exclusively in his attractions. Val and Ernie Stanton have been en- gaged by Max Hart to appear with May Irwin in a new show. Frank Stevens has replaced Percy Mar- mont in "The Invisible Foe," and will play the role of the latter until he recovers from an illness. Dorothy Brown, of the team of Brown and Eilgour, has gone to Atlantic-City to recuperate from a recent attack of influ- enza and pneumonia. Sam Keasier, formerly with his brother in the agency business, is now connected with Arthur Buckner. in producing a num- ber of musical tabloids. Garland Godea closed his tour of "The Very Idea" and arrived in New York hut week, going at once to his Long Island home for a spring rest. Donald GaUaher is the proud father of a boy born last Sunday. The mother, professionally known as Beatrice Noyce, and baby are doing well. s Lieutenant Bernard Granville has recov- ered from the wound he sustained at the front, and has returned here to be mus- tered out of military service. EsteOe Winwood, Forrest Robinson, Sid- ney Herbert, Henry Miller, Blanche Bates and Holbrook Blinn will appear In Philip Moeller'a new play, "Mollere." William Carleton has replaced De Wolf Hopper in "Everything" at the Hippo- drome, Hopper having withdrawn to begin rehearsals in "The Better Ole." Ida-May and Joe Chadwick, the latter known in vaudeville as "Dad," have been signed for "rube" roles in a new musical comedy by Arthur Hammerstein. Mrs. BiOy Hall has resumed her work, with'the Billy Hall musical comedy com- pany after being forced to -lay off for three months because of influenza. Mina SchaH has been signed to open in London with a new revue by Hughes and Masei. The revue is called "Good-bye Alexander," and will start in June. Morris Gest hut week purchased the studio of the late Raphael Kirschner in the Century Theatre Building. The studio will be open to patrons of the Century. John Galsworthy will deliver, on March 2, a lecture before the New York Drama League. The theatre in which he will speak has not, as yet, been selected. Bert Feibelman is business representa- tive of The Royal Vagabond," a Cohan A Harris attraction which opened at the Cohan & Harris Theatre hut Monday. Jimmie Colvin, formerly of the team of Emmons and Colvin, has recovered from an attack of Spanish influenza and is in Chicago preparing a new act for vaude- ville. Victor Herbert will be the guest-con- ductor at the opening of the eighteenth annual program of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on February 21 and 22 in Chi- cago. Dodson Mitchel, Millie Bntterfield, Frank McComack and Lynn Overman have signed to appear in "Come On Charlie," George Hobart's new farce, now .in re- hearsal. Bert and Wheeler have been Betty booked on the Keith time in a new act by James Madison entitled "Me and Mamie.* The turn includes, eccentric comedy and singing. Charles Previn, musical director of "The Girl Behind the Gun," has written the music for a musical comedy to be produced by Klaw and' Erlanger < and Edgar Mec- Gregor. De Lyle Aide, the Chicago soprano, who has been appearing in Ziegf eld's "Midnight Frolic" and "Nine O'clock Revue," was hut week signed for another year by Flo Ziegfeld, Jr. Philander Johnson, dramatic editor of the Washington Star, has written the book and lyrics for a musical comedy to be produced by Klaw and Erlanger in the near future. - Edward W. Dunn has recovered from his recent attack of pneumonia and re- turned to his desk in the Cohan & Harris offices last Monday. Dunn was taken ill six weeks ago. Captain Max Montesole will direct and stage "A Burgomaster of Berlin," which will open at the Belaseo Theatre in Wash- ington on March 10 with E. Lyall Swete in the leading role. Louis Hast is at present managing "The Little Brother," at the Belmont, due to the fact that Walter Hast, his Brother, is occupied in Providence with "The Scan- dal," his new play. , Grace Cariyle, Rose Coghlan, Moan Kingsley, Malcolm Faaset, Richard Gor- don and Malcom Duncan will appear in "The Aftermath," being produced by William Moore Patch. Rose Coghlan, Grace Carnal*, Mona Kingsley, Malcolm Duncan and Richard Gordon will appear in a new play which will soon be produced by William Mare Patch, to be called "The Aftermath.'' Irene Franklin, Barton Green, William and Gordon Dooley, Watson Sisters, Ade- laide and Hughes, Ralph Hers, Chic Sale*, Sans Ash, Fred and Adele Aetata*, and the Farber Sisters were on the program at the Winter Garden last Sunday evening. Jack Moore, partner of Nettie Carrol, of the Nettle Carrol troupe, for the last eight years, is to be discharged from the naval aviation forces in the near future, and will put on a new act, entitled Jack Moore and His Girl Speedsters. Eda Farmer who will appear In Maurice '. Ythe Maeterlinck's new play, tar of Belgium," in the role of the „.„ master's daughter, arrived in this city laat week from Liverpool, via TTalifa^ Bart Green, George MaeFarlana, Emmet Corrigan, Harland Dixon, Bert Williams, Stan Stanley and Horace GoMin ere per- formers who provided entertainment at a dinner given to Frank Bacon, co-author and star of "Llghtnin"' at the Friars* Club. Roland Young has been engaged by Ed- ward Robins to bo Mabel Taliaferro's lead- ing man in "Luck in Pawn." Ann War- rington, Robert Adams, Harry Aahford, Edna Renard, Bejpamin Kauser, Florence Short, Robert C Fisher, Rena Carnthers and Malcon Bradley will be In the sup- port. Gertrude linnell has been engaged by Frank McEntee to assist him as stage manager in the artistic direction of the Shakespeare Playhouse productions, now appearing at the Plymouth. C. G. Warriman, owner of the Royal The- atre at Enid, Okla., will erect a.STAjOOO theatre. -Work on the building-will be.be- gun in about a month, three lota having already been bought for the site. Marie Pasty, the Oriental dancer in the "Sinbad" show, signed a contract ]ast week to interpret some Oriental- dance numbers in the latest picture being pro- duced by the Famous Players-Leaky Com- pany featuring Elsie Ferguson. —^—~ Istdor Bouamtt, a Yiddish actor and playwright, who was charged by his wife with abandonment, was-sent to jail by Magistrate Gray last week in the Court of Domestic Relations in default of the payment of a bond for $1,040. Thomas A. Wise received an amethyst - scarf pin from the children In the Bowery last week for his part in the recent benefit performance held at the Hippodrome. Father McGean, of the Church of St. James, presented the pin to him Ampari t* Faxxar, the soprano, was cut by flying glass last week in aa automobile accident, the machine crashing into a trol- ley car. By .bending forward quickly, she was able to protect the lower part of her face, and the injuries . suf fe r ed will not prevent her from going; through with concert Stuart Walker will deliver a speech at the Church of Messiah on Thursday eve- ning on his production of "The Book of Job." The Biblical text has been followed literally in the play which will be the fea- ture attraction at the Punch and Judy Theatre when the next blQ is inea tilted there. Albert Mason, a'cabaret entertainer, was charged with felonious assault last week, having been accused of inflicting a wound In the side of one of the residents of the house in which he.lives. The ease came up in the Heights Court before Magistrate Groehl. Frank L Pierce and Rome Fenton are re- hearsing a new act-written by Sam Mor- ris, and entitled Two Counts of No Ac- count." Pierce was formerly with Fierce and Maxie and Fenton was with several operatic productions and with Sarah Bem- hardf a show. Gertrude Vanderbflt, Cedl Cunningham, Belle Baker, Rath Brothers, Couattnce Binney, Ivy Sawyer and the chorus from "Oh, My Dear," Hale and Patterson and the Dixie bad Jass Band appeared at the vaudeville performance for.men in uniform given by the War Camp Coram unity Service last Sunday. . . Joseph Wilkes, an instructor in the St. Nicholas Skating Rink, waa arretted and locked up last week on the alleged charge of stabbing Howard Aldridge in tfie sto- mach with a knife. The alleged knifing took place during a fight outside of the rink; Wilkes is twenty •seven years old and Aldridge eighteen. The wound Is Marie Dressier. Fannie Brioa, Mrs. Irene Castle, George M. Cohan, WOHam Cottier, Anna Firara, CUfton Webb and Ada May Weeks, Ctrl Hyson and Dorothy Dickson wiH appear at the Seventeenth Annual Charity Ball of the Knights of Columbus which will take place at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 24. Arthur W. Brittoa, Samuel B. Howard and Paul S. White, all of 05 Cedar street, New York, last week incorporated a film company, to be known as Paragon, Inc. The new Arm has a capital of $150,000, divided into 1,600 shares, worth $100 each. The Firm.Holding Company was incorpo- rated by the same three men, also with $150,000 capital. The charters were taken in Trenton, N. J.