The New York Clipper (March 1919)

March 19, 1919"' Stt 3T! ; T l fE -NEW YORK CLIPPER 23 -TOM fFMALLEY has left the Colonial, * "Chicago. J -.- ■ -' * - ' ' Lyons and Yosco open on Ldew time on March 31. ■-. - '.- ABOUT YOU! AND YOU!! AND YOU!!! Richard Pyle has joined the "Leave It to Jane" company. Eva Shirley and jazz hand' axe now ap- pearing in a new act. • Made*tne Grey is doing the press work for the. Theatre Guild. '" : v David Idzal is back at his old position at the Princess, Chicago. Jack Mooney is managing, the .Blacky stone Theatre in Chicago.- '■■ z ~"N .-?"*■ ■ - : . J a ■=. ^ *£ •. a ' v Peggy Wood, of "Maytime," is reported to be engaged to a sailor. -.-■>-;■-•-•• Amelia Gardner has replaced Ida Dar- ling in "Please, Get Married." - ■ --. Paul Allen is back in Allen and Green's office, after a visit to the coast.' Frank J. Zimmerer, who has been Stuart Walker's scenic artist for the last three years, will spend the summer in Ireland. P. S. Carter has signed with the Shu- berta to be assistant manager' at the Forty-fourth Street and Korah Bayes theatres. .;,.-' "". -• ) i Peggy Wood, prim*..donna, of "May- time," is coauthor with Samuel Merwin of a play which has been accepted by the Shuberta.. r;.»r'- Granville Barker, the English play- wright, accompanied by his wife, arrived in New York last week. He returns here after a service of three years in the Brit- ish army. "„•" " '.'*; Frank Smi th son is staging Thomas W. Bioadhursfs new. drama, "The Golden - Fleece,'* to.be presented for the Actors' Fund <t the Broad hurst Theatre neat Sun- day night. * - • Fred Ackerman, In the box office, of the ^•"^^••fee. Chicago* haa" folly re- covered from ma attack of Spanish tofln- l n " ,, ,* nd J" •■«**»■ *>»«* at his oM post. Sua Braaaky officiated during Aekermea'a Bernard Metsger, who h^Pertoire with Marx Brothers ana With of^fe $^^lS near Ninth rehearsals. Hall, on Forty-seventh at e, used frequently avenue. Newman, Florence- | Dupont, Violet and Charles TTsssin have' been discharged, from-the American Hot- .. pital, Chicago. .-..'..: . . ....•'; ...L Charles Zemater, of Zemster and Smith, u.the proud father of a baby hoy. The new addition to the. family arrived last week -and is reported to be' doing splendidly. John Tain tor Foote, author of "Toby's Bow," is working oh a' new play.. • Ben Stern ' is'seriously ill with pneu- monia at Stern's Private Hospital. Charles Heed is now assistant to Ben Lewis at the Studebaker, Chicago. ■•. - . Frank,; Fairell celebrated, his fiftieth, anniversary as. a. stage .hand by seeing "Sometime" last week. He .is seventy- one years old. Sheila Terry and company filled in for Elsa Ryan and company, who left the bill at the-Lyric, in Hamilton, because of ill- ness last week.". Routan's Song Birds, who now include five-people instead of three, are doing-a new act.. It is hooked to play up-State, following which, engagement itwULcorae to New York. ' -v" The Capitol City Five will soon appear in vaudeville, managed by Billy Sharp. Ruth Gay was injured recently in Aber- deen, Wash., as she was leaving the theatre. Arthur Dunn, haa recovered from his recent illness and has left the hospital in Chicago. •-■ - Beatrice Lambert, who has just re- turned from the West, is presenting a hew act. Ned Finley, who tried to commit sui- ■ cide on -January- 10, -was discharged by Magistrate Nolan last week. He is still in Bellevue Hospital. Walter Gallagher, known-as Jazzbo, in the Cafe De Paris, Murray's, Churchill's, Healy's.and other cabarets, will soon .ap- pear in vaudeville. Marguerite DeVon- and Ben Mnlvey are featured in "Dance DTllusion," a new act produced by Barry- and Lohmuller, just opened on United time. William Marion Cook, conductor of the New York Syncopated. Orchestra, is writ- ing the music for a comedy to be.pro- duced by the Shuberta. Blanche Duffield was. rushed out to- Columbus, Ohio, last Monday to sing the' prima donna role in "Sari." She was sehtr to replace Norma Brown, taken.suddenly ill on Sunday. ' : •. } . , "Mrs. Abner "AH, wife of the "Chicago manager, who is visiting her family in Pittsburgh, Pa., haa been taken to a.hos- {>ital in that city, in order to recuperate isr failing health. ".,.-. '. ■ Jack Austin and the Misses Cavanaugh and Ballrfn are soon to appear in a series of ball-room, jazz and novelty dances. Preisler's Jazz Band' will be the musical adjunct to the act. .. ;., •, Vera Myers, daughter' of Jacob "Myers, head bill-poster for rvlaw and Erianger, will sing at the Annual Social Day of the Theatre Assembly, to' be held at the Hotel Astor on March 21. Jane Evans will rejoin "Very Good Eddie," on tour next' week, to play her original role. Corinse Sales, of Dooley and Sales, is mourning the loss of her brother, who died at Louisville. George Marion has signed with John Williams to produce and stage all of the hitter's plays. '._".. . B. McDaniel is reported to be doing splendidly, following an operation at the American Hospital, Chicago. , Eleanor Henry "replaced Audrey Maple last Monday in the cast of "Monte Criato, ■Jr.," at the Winter Garden- . Daisy DeWitt is now in the ^Century Midnight Whirl." She made her debut at the roof last Saturday night. -. Duke Muller and Harry Lindau are in Billy Sharp's revue, which opened at the ; ' Marlborough Sunday evening. Iretta, appearing in ^he'Esbt in yaade- v ville, has been made an offer for a long tour of the English music halls. Charles Tanhausen has recovered suf- ficiently from an' attack of influenza to. be back at the Garrick, Chicago. Win St. John Finch is the father of a babv girl born last week at his home on Hillorest Farm, New Franklin, Mo. : Nellie Breen, in "The Lampland Ballet," was one of the added features at thrHip- poaroine on Monday,. StC-Pateick's'Day. "> Selma Braatz substituted .for . Lew Welch and company fat the Royal last • week, because of the illness of the latter. Mildred Morris is in France at present with one-of the units of the Y. M. C. A., furnishing entertainment for the soldiers. The Worth Way tern Quartette will open on March 24 in Baltimore on a vaudeville route.:< Two of the boys have just been released from the army. Frank Henderson, manager of the Ma- jestic, Jersey City, gave a luncheon to the members of the Rotary. Club at the Union League Club last week. Johnny Singer and. His Dancing Dolls are working some new steps into their dancing act. They- rehearsed the material at Bryant Hall last week. Hugh S. Fullerton, publicity man for ' The 'Greater Theatres Corporation, in Seattle, has given up his position and is now writing for magazines. Fay Warren, soubrette with Mat Relb's "Darlings of Paris," has been successfully operated upon in Chicago, and is reported to be making a rapid recovery. Esther Walker has returned to the cast of "Monte Cristo, Jr.," from which she haa been absent since the opening night, •owing to illness with pneumonia. Edward F. McArdle, a property man of -the New York-Hippodrome,- and Florence (Bobbie) Kearns, a chorus girl in "Every- thing," were-married on. March 4. •' Mary Garden will be seen at the Met- ropolitan Opera House on March 25 in a big benefit performance for the deva- stated regions of the. Somme in France. Hoadley and La Sue, playing, in an act called "Dominie", until one year ago, are now rehearsing the-act again-and will be seen in it shortly. ■'. They are'assisted by Florence Crowley. Tessa Kosta, now with - "The- Royal Vagabond," -sang two original songs for the soldiers and sailors at a tea given at' the K. of C. hut on Broadway and Forty-. sixth street last week. David Schooler, at present with the Marmein Sisters, will scon appear in a new vaudeville musical comedy called "Too Many Wives." Ethel Corcoran and Neil Moore will be featured i. Jimmy Daly, who, befor*aaj<^ the SsMffS 1 *. <Jr »»t I*kes Naval'i« l^^h^^^hi.^ Laurence- Schwab is to present "Ta« Rainbow Cjckua/- ? musical «t !JrrttUu by Hassard. Short for a Iambs' Gambol :ja vaudeyiUe. Walter l*wren« will- be featured, and theact U scheduled tooDen , at.tho Royal April 14. - " ^* * J°,lW£ S^.KMn,; nmnsger of the djour- teentli Street. Theatre, invitedraOOwfund- ed soldiers from the base--hospital. ' ated in Ithe Greenhut MRbp matinee performance of •-•"Of there last Wednesday. Boeetta. and Vivian Duncan have-bean g5S5 £>5£ route by, the. B. E Kaith Vaudeville Exchange, coiumenelng' altar the termination of their engagement with Charles Dillingham for hfiifor^mm. musical comedy production. 2? ■WalUee- Mackay sailed last week-for *«* nc « *s an entertainer for the Over- seas Theatre League under a six moirths' i engagement Mackay .win probably plsiy the English music halls after the termina- tion ot his present contract. Averil Harris, William Holden, Ethel Brandon and Madehna Marshal haVe been engaged to appear in "Susan Lennox's Pilgrimage," George :Y. Hobaifa drama, adapted from D,5. EhUlips' jwvel «T»e Bise and Fall of Susan Lennox." % C. Leonard, formerly a newspaper man in Chicago and more reeently r nub. hcity^man for the ballet connected with the Chicago Grand Opera Company, has neea appointed business manager of Shn- .berts newest musical production, "Ob, Uncle!" ..! ,"> _''•;• . T7 Victor Heraa and Ben Preston have jn- jomed and are offering their old act here- abouts for the Western Vaudeville Man, agera'. Association. Heras hag just re- turned from France, where he saw active service with the American Expeditionary Frances White, of the team of Rock and White, did not appear with' the. act at the Thursday matinee and evening jer-. formances last week because of a~hea.vy cold. Rock went on alone. Cyril Keightley and Ethel Dane have signed'^for a number of Tears with the Shuberts, They; have the leading roles m "A Little Journey,"*",now at the yander- bilt. v.v..—.yj <.:.-U*,' : . -'■ - Emma Cams, Yvette Rugel and the Ponticelli Sistera entertained at a. ban- quet of the Friendly Sons of St^ Patrick at the Pennsylvania Hotel-last:Saturday night. Anna Regan, Edna Lee, Winnie Cannon, Mabel Lee, Kiss N. Meyers, Adele Fergu- son, v AL Wagner, Herbert Trustee and Leo PeRetir are appearing in Chas. Cor- nell's revue at Gallagher's. Dan Dix, of Dan Dix .and Virgo, has fully .recovered from.his .recent illness, and he and his partner opened this, week at t be Pan (ages Theatre,. Minneapolis, for a tour, of the Pant ages Circuit. : ..« t..; •' ' Vivian Huxlock, of PeppU and Green- Wald's "Hello People, Hello," was "taken suddenly ill on Friday and. was.forced to undergo an immediate-operation at the American-Theatrical Hospital, Chicago. . Dora Gibson, a,dramatic soprano, sailed for England last week on the Mauretania to fill an engagement.at.Covent Garden, London, and to claim"a 1 'share of the estate left" by her "father." The latter did not leave her any of the estate because she decided to go- on 1 the stage, but she maintains that she haa hereditary rights and intends to fight for them. Charles Ravel, one of the old Ravel Family of pantomimists, celebrated his .sixty-ninth birthday anniversary last Monday at-the Hippodrome, where he is acting the role of Old King Cole in the "Toylandr scene. His fellow clowns gave him a dinner. . ." ■•>.■■ Philip Braunatein fs now enroute-for France with tlw Entertainment Division of the Jewish Welfare Boiara, to provide entertainment for the soldiers. Braun- stem was a member of the Educational " P Jj yer * ' W,M> -Produced, some-time age, "The Prince and the Pauper." . J Ivy Marshal has sighed to play, the part of the Mlighter of the burgemsiter -hv-^The Burgomaster of Belgium." She has been seen in "The Elder Son," "Stolen .Orders," "The Happy Ending" and "The" Gay Lofd <&ex7 f haMng ap- peared with -^ohn "DreV in the lafte'r/' ^ Marios. Cook and the New York Synco- "22ST ??*!?*'""'**• Wataeav-Staters, "Chie"*Sa»sr StnrTteh; the-*6BIerlhi' Sla- ters, the Rath Brothers and'the Cameron Sisters were-en the bill at'the concert -given at Jthe Winter Garden last Sunday night. *