The New York Clipper (April 1919)

April 16, 1919 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 21 Frank Worth is now with Boyle Wool- fOlk. ...... John Riley hag a new juggling act in rehearsal. Mae Nelson is mourning the death of her father. Earl Pingree has signed for the "Unmar- ried Mother" company. Charles Reid has a new piano act in re- hearsal at Unity HalL Blanche Haxelton has been engaged for the Valerie Bergere act. • Evelyn MseVay has succeeded Helen Clarke in "Oh, My Dear." Mildred BrowneU intends to return to musical comedy next season. — Angela Ogden has been added to the cast of "The Little Journey." N. C. Waters has sold the Rex Theatre in Purcell, Okla., to Hugh Smith. Will F. Crocket and Sex Wilson a*« with the Sherman Kelly Flayers. Hughie Thompson will soon play vaude- Tille .in a new act, "Who's Who." Harold Whales has signed with Will- iam Elliot for the coming season. Abraham Goodside has- re-opened the Jefferson Theatre in Portland, Me. Lieut Wells Hawks, U. S. N., formerly publicity man, is back in New York. Hamilton Christy and Celette Scndder have signed for "The Dangerous Age." '. William Small has been engaged as bus* in ess manager "for the Spanish Theatre. The Miller Sisters have been engaged ^for one of the "Better 'Ole" companies. Merle Stephens arrived in New York last week after a vacation in Los Angeles. The Magleya, a man and woman, have a new dance act in rehearsal at Unity HalL Charles Brooks and company have in rehearsal a new act called "Country Min- strels." Ed. Aiken, Dolly Day and Una Carpen- ter have signed for "The Naughty Bride" company. Percy Benton has signed with Barry MacConnick for a seven-week tour in "Macushla." ■ ~'~ Sergt, Jack Aldrich has been mustered out and is back as property man with the Winter Garden. Jack Marvin has left stock and is now with Alan Brooks' vaudevile skit, ^Dol- lars and Sense." Joseph Santley and his wife, Ivy Sawyer, will be with Charles B. Dilling- ham next season. Marjorie Ram beau win be starred . in "The Pearl of Great Price," next season, by A. H. Woods. . ABOUT YOU! AND YOU!! AND YOU!!! Violet Vance, who has been seriously 111 at her home in Brooklyn, is now on the road to recovery. Alice May played the part of "Anne" in "A Little Journey" last week on only three hours' study. Doris Moore took Irene Haisman's role in "Miss Nelly of HP Orleans" last week, due to the bitter's illness. George Reed, a young juvenile from the West, will open with the new show at the Palais Royal next Monday. Hoyt's Musical and Military Review opened at the,Hamilton last Monday. It is a new instrumental act. F. R. Mullin, bill poster, has been dis- charged from the American Theatrical Hospital, Chicago. James J. Confrey has been engaged for GaakeB and McVitty by Bennett's Ex- change in Chicago. Richard Carryle and Mabel Hart were signed last week for the "Honeymoon limited'' company. Louise Dunbar, Anna Hamilton and Marie Marion were engaged for George Gatta* new show, last week. Mrs. Fred S. Rounds is mourning the SEss of her only sister, Mrs. Richard ■ Vaughn, who died last week. :*f B. McDanieL a popular Chicago mu- sician, has been discharged from the American Theatrical Hospital. J. M. Van Zant ' has been engaged to compose several new musical numbers for the musical act "Going Some." Mollie King has left the Century roof and will shortly reappear in motion pic- tures, heading her own company. E. W. Byington was engaged by Ben- nett's exchange last week for Raymond Bodd's vaudeville act "Remnants." Joseph E. Shea, the booking agent, is doing jury duty in the Supreme Court. He finishes on Friday of this week. Henry Hull has been engaged to appear with Margaret Anglin in a special per- formance of "Electra" and "Medea." John Spaxgur, musician and conductor, will have charge of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for the coming three years. Sidney Schallmann, former Chicago vaudeville agent, has formed a partner- ship with Louis Pincns in New York. Marjorie Pringle entered "Come Along" last Monday night in the role of Barbara Benton. She is a soprano-comedienne. Earl Benham and Penman Maley have signed- with the Selwyns to appear in the new musical play "Among the Girls." - The Zicglcr Slaters have been signed for ten consecutive weeks over the Loew Cir- cuit. Sam Fallow handles the booking. Elisabeth Marbury directed a vaudeville entertainment at the K. C. Longacre Square hut last week for the soldiers and sailors. Earl and Wilson have a new sketch in "One" called "Waiting at the Pier." The turn will open this we!: in Philadelphia- ~ L. C. Scott and J. C. Kerhl have pur- chased the Electric Theatre in Dflworth, Okla., and have installed new equipment. Frank A. Gladden, Chicago agent, who has been in the American Theatrical Hos- pital for some time, is recovering rapidly. Arthur Deagon's. bookings will be han- dled, hereafter, by Harry Weber. He was formerly booked through the Casey office. The Sherlock Sisters sailed for London last week, where they will fill an engage- ment with a new review opening May 1. Abe Cohen, manager of the Midway Theatre, Chicago, is r ec upera ting at the Wesley Hospital, Chicago, where.he re- cently underwent a serious operation. George Vivian has been appointed stag* manager of the "Good Morning Judge" show at the? Shubert Theatre, where he last week succeeded Cecil Govelley. Louis Hallett baa taken over the build- ing at No. 110 West Forty-ninth Street, and after alterations are made will have several rehearsal studios for artists. Albert Fritche, acrobat, in vaudeville with The Flitches, is recovering from an operation in the American Theatrical Hospital. Cathleen Nesbit has been engaged for a role in the new Bhip man-W ilde comedy, "Dark Horses," which William Harris la producing. «_ Florence Macbeth sou J-ujpea* T. Powers were signed last week by Director Wm. G. Stewart for the Commonwealth Opera Association. Lillian Morton, formerly in "Pom Pom," has been placed under contract by Evan- geline Weed for a new musical production next season. Bflly Sharp is getting ready to put on a new revue at Healy'a Restaurant, which is scheduled to open the first week in May. Dave Walton and Beatrice Turner will open with a new act April 21. The torn win be in "one" and is titled "Yes, She Did.* - William H. Whitton has been engaged as agent of the Bates-Allen Wagon Show after an absence of three years, from the circus game. Nan Gray, a Scotch character enter- tainer, opens for a.showing at the Fifth Avenue this week. Morris and Feil have the bookings. Loretta Eglin, A. M. Zinn, LeCompte and Fleaher have been engaged for "My Mili- tary Girl" company through Bennett's Chi- cago Exchange. Arthur Byron, Frederick Perry and Margaret Lawrence have been engaged by the Selwyns to appear indefinitely in "Tea for Three." The Burlington Four have closed their act for a week in order to enlarge it. ' A chorus of ten girls will be added. It wfll reopen April 21. Susanne Morgan, formerly , in "Here Comes the Bride," has been engaged for a part in "Nightie Night," Adolph Klauber*e forthcoming production. Frances Earl and Ed. Mullen are re- hearsing a new singing and dancing act, which opened on Monday in Syracuse, playing the Keith time. Catherine Proctor is again playing the leading feminine roles in "The Marquis de Priola" and "The Matinee Hero," op- posite Leo Ditrichstein. Johan Cohan, fifteen years old, won the silver loving cup offered last Tuesday night by Sophie Tucker at Reisenweber's for the best imitation of herself. Eduardo Aroxamena has come to the United States from Mexico to conduct the rehearsals of the Spanish opera, "Manna," which opens at the Park, Saturday. Jassbo, who has been appearing in cabarets, has a new vaudeville act, con- sisting of a hand and himself, in which he is scheduled to open in vaudeville April 27. Lewis Seymour, an English singing comedian of the George Lashwood type, made his initial appearance on this side of the water, at the Halsey in Brooklyn, last week. Ernest Lansing has been engaged as manager of the Colonial Theatre, Akron, Ohio. C Glasgow is the new treasurer and C M. Wflland the assistant treasurer. The Perkins de Fishers, who have been appearing in the sketch called "The Half Way House" for the last fifteen yean, an headed for New York, after a two years* absence. M. S. Epatitt, the Putnam Building agent, fell from a Fifth Avenue 'bus re- cently and- sprained his wrist and was otherwise shaken up. He is around his office again. Private Eddie Rickart, of the 27th Di- vision, was the winner of the silver lov- ing cup presented by Sophie Tucker at Reisenweber's last week for the best imi- tation of Al Jolson. Nathan Burkan, th.i theatrical lawyer, returned from Canada last week, where he went to urge the passage.of a reciprocal copyright law affecting American songs used for mechanical purposes. Charles King has joined the Actor's Colony at Great Neck, L. L, and Snap Camp, who plays with him in "Good Morning, Judge," has purchased the W. P. Allen residence at Rye, N. Y. Peggy Barnstead, John A. Murphy, Will- iam T. Ryan, William Street, Paul War- ren, Roy R. Buckley and William M. Swayne have joined the Co-operative Players for the Julius Hopp dramas. Dolly Gray, the soubrette with Frank Folsom's musical comedy sketch "Going Some," has been confined to her noma with influenza. She is now recovering and will rejoin the act after Easter. Marguerite DeVon and Ban Mulvey opened last week with a new act at New- ark. It is a singing and danring turn and wUl .begin a tour over the camp cir- cuit this week, starting -at Camp Merritt. Harry McNaughton has been appointed to succeed Richard Temple as "Bert" in "The Better "Ole," Chicago company. He is a cousin of Charles McNaughton, play- ing the same role in the New York com- pany. • Mabel Livingston-Frank, the press agent, has written the lyrics to a book of songs composed by Mana Zucca, the soprano- composer. The book is called "A Child's Night in Song," and is published by Scbircner. - Boris Thomashevsky will give a testi- monial benefit at his National Theatre, April 23, to Harry Kaufman and Sam Levy, treasurers at the theatre. Bessie Thomashefsky will appear in "The Green Milionaire." E. A. Turner, formerly in vandevflle with the "Young Mrs. Stanford" act, has been appointed manager of the dramatic and musical department of Evangeline Weed, Inc. Sophy Tucker, Honette, the Watson Slaters, William and Gordon Dooley, Esther Walker, Ralph Hen, Crmirhiflurm and Clements, De Haven and Nice, PHI Baker, Rev. Frank Gorman and Donald Roberts appeared at the Winter Garden last Sunday night. Arthur Burgess, Hal Churchill, John H, Elliot, Edith Facett, Ray Clemens, Bob King, Chick and Lloyd. Thnrman and Charles Wittaker have been engaged for Princess Theatre Opera Company in San Antonio, Texas. Pliny Rntledge is now preparing the set in which he appeared hereabouts five years ago for a revival. In the cast of "The Fatted Calf," which is the title of the offering, are Marie Aymea and R. A. Dowse. Edward A. Weitzel is the author. Mary Garden, Estelle Win wood, Frances Starr, Ethel Stanaaru, Margaret Law- rence, Violet Heming, Mahal Taliaferro, Janet Beecher, Juliet Day, Florence Nash, Mary Nash, Ana Case, Blanche Bates, Alice Brady, Jane Cowl and Marjorie Rambeau will assist as saleswomen during the coming two. weeks at the Red Cross Shop - • .