The New York Clipper (April 1919)

April 30, 1919 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER :2l Luis Alberni has purchased a home in FtaTbuah, v :;-y-5 : ^'v /■«> - Marum. Davies spent the week end at Atlantic City. . .-;'■;.•. "....-,,• Jeannette Dupres left. ' Mueh ^Married" recently. the act "Too. Harry Yost is doing the presa work for D. W. Griffith*' "Hearts of the World,"- now playing Southern cities. Hoibrook Blinn has signed with the Sel- Cl&rke "arid Summer,:* 1 Mp* | opened at Cong Brancbjfegl week. Jo sepn C. Drum will again direct' ' tie publicity a£ Luna* Park this season Zoe MH orosco-.j^or "J ctitfg.nHta Zoe Barrett has been Moroscojfpr "Smith, Jonea by Oliver - "Brown." i rectiag .1 I ion, osV'Tob taging'of *~ Victor Baxavalle has signed to act as musical director for "Among the Girls," ■Hflth Brown, who in private life is Mrs. Art Edmonds, became the mother of a 'nine-pound baby girl last week. Walter Morrison-is to head, his own stock company this summer. He opens with a. new production in the fall. The Dolly Sisters are to remain another season in "Oh, Look," under, the manage- ment of Elliott, Comstock and Gest.. Linton and Lamar, have taken over two airdromes ; inj Jersey City, and will -conduct pictures and vaudeville in them, opening about May 18. Jack Nor* ortfi has preparation. HeVa* to in February; out decid. for theaurnnier. s ' . J. D. Tapper, who has been Test for Three," ia a Selwyn, intends to produce *! Ho has already accepted for productkuTa new farce, for .which he Is selecting a cast.-: >'--""?' ... . -.,- ..',-;, ■ • •'; Chief Oc-Ko-Moa opens at Rockwell Ter- race, Brooklyn, next Monday. Margaret Severn opened this week at the Palais Royale. George Read started Monday at Violet Barney has returned from the : coast and will make her home in New ; Yorkv -.'-'. -. %:*-Jy£- K Harry Watson has been engaged for. a role in Jack Norworth'e forthcoming re- i view. '"■'- "• .~. - " Nace Bonville, has signed with Lew : Fields as stage manager for.The Lonely : Romeo." ■' ' ',".'-! """ " '. -•' i t >—*■>-:.--»■'• »"" -. « - -'' ■« ■ ■ ; .-; .*, :- .'■"•':■'*■ - Bud "Irwin, of the B. S. Moss" Booking •Officerlast week' became" the~father ofTC '.baby girt ££"?ri .'.:■ , ~ . 'Z .'£" & &.?*¥ ZZ. Ill ."'.. .'.: .1. . — Mrs. Jacques Martin has withdrawn from the cast of "Claudia,'' John Cort's production. 7 _ ; ; BiBy Gtaipn filled in for Bert Swor at : Proctor's, Albany, last week, owing to •Swors illness. -'.■ la Brothers, who were with the s Big Show at the Columbia last' week, are to go into musical comedy. • Emmanuel A. Turner has signed a eon- ' tract to act as engaging and casting director for the Max Rogers agency. . Helen Ford has returned to the cast of "Some Time" at the Casino, after an ab- sence of several weeks, due to illness. Mary McAllister, the *!r>ddje" film star; is playing with" the Wilkes Players in stock at Salt Lake City, starring m The Little Princess." ■ ■>. J? M M " .— ,"■ w -i". S Griamer and* Linder have split partner; ship. Mark Linder, the junior member of 'the 'concern, retains' the present office in the Putnam Building. , . _:' Julia Kelet/, ^tooIs atfir appearing'wii "Come Along" at the Nora Bayes Theatre, is rehearsing with "I Love a Lassie," the new Clifton Crawford show. —pm Bdraa, formerly s ., of the "HtfeBy-Koo''- eh©* ia* pointedstaKfeadagerrorZiegfeld'i night-Frolfe,* assuming his duti«, week and taking the place of W Torpj^, who resigned.. _. * Irene Fen wick, Mary Shaw, Arthur '-Shaw, William Harrigan, George W. WO- son, Consuelo Bailey, Edward O'Connor, »** George Hcnahall is again the press rep- resentative for Palisades Amusement Park this year. ; ' i Edward Bennett, formerly with Abe r Feinberg, is now connected with the Joe Michaels' office. ■■••'■ : Jack Mason has signed with Lew Fields to stage the dance- numbers of "The Lonely Romeo." i t Arthur Bodansky has accepted the invi- tation of the New Symphony Orchestra to be its conductor. — Charles Wilson, of. Gus Hill's office, lost hia Boston texrier in. Brooklyn,. ^Sunday. He has offered a- reward' for its return. . Sadie Banks has the leading role in "Something for "Nothing," written "by Aaron Ross. The turn is breaking in. : "■"""" t. , li?; '.■_-.j : ^-":. Richard Stern, son of the late Ben Stern, has succeeded the[^ latter as man- ager of Loew's Seventh AVenue Theatre. Chailey Fisher is featured in a new act by Aaron Ross entitled "Friendly Neigh- bors." The offering is now in rehearsal. Andrew Mack was a purchaser at-the sale of Prince MinskofTs collection of curios and house furnishings last week. De Noyer and Danie are now doing the .act. formerly presented by Richards and Kyle, called "bS-60."' *- ' ~ Sam Ash, Frank Fay, Harry Kelley, Lew Cooper and.Sam J. Curtis hare been .en- gaged for the new cast of "Oh, Uncle!" * Nat Golden arrived in New York early last week to engage chorus girls for the Dave Marion Show, at Albany .this. week. ; . :i •'—-—-. -" ' ; The Barrick Brothers have been booked by Allen and Green over the Loew time. They open on May -1 at South Bethlehem, Pa..' . ... ..-,^ . .- - .... Georgie O'Ramey, in fThe Velvet Lady," is the Victory Loan speaker at the New Amsterdam Theatre. . The Gillis Trio, after, rehearsing at Unity Hall has been routed over the Loew Circuit for eight weeks. Percy Ha swell has been engaged for a role in "Through the Ages," which opens May'5 In Buffalo, N. Y. •-. " ' Martha Mayo, of "East Ia West," spent Sunday entertaining the soldiers at the Lakewood Base Hospital. -'■ John Kirkpatrick, stage manager for "39-East," at the Broadhurst Theatre, baa written a three-act play. _ _ '- ;" Adele Ritchie has been 'entertaining wounded soldiers at the Khaki and Blue QllK Grant. Park, Chieago. ' Helen-Knight, formerly in the 'Indies— First" show s has joined the George White "Scandal of 1919" company. . ..j^-y r'.'..^- Pearl PainkHh and EHa W.i Peattle- S have had a play accepted by Winehell Smith and John L. Golden. reSsi-i Eileen Van Biene has been engaged to appear in *T Love a Lassie," in which Clifton Crawford is to play the stellar role. ' ' \ . t ',. ,. ".."•' Charles Miles, of the Miles Circuit, who went to Chicago for a conference with Alexander Pantages, has returned to De- troit. * • Richard Pyle closed- hist week with "Leave It To Jane," and started Tuesday . on rehearsals for a. new play under the direction of Edgar MacGregor. Madeline Delmar lias been engaged for "Miss Nelly of N'Orleans/' and j wfll take Irene Haisman's" rol6 for the rest of the ' ' season, owing to the bitter's illness. Johnny "Weber has been'working the last two months with Danny Morgan ar- ranging" boxing matches at the base hos- pitals in the East for the Loyalty League. ' I .'■ . * * - » ." E. Dick Rider has closed a successful season ahead of the "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" company,- and left New York April v 29 to visit his mother in Portland, Oregon. lEarl Metcalfe made his initial' vaude- ville appearance last Sunday at the-Pas- time Theatre, Union HUL N. J., in The Metal Mitt," under the direction of Joseph Hart, -^—«» * Danny .Goodman,: -after .serving in France for a year, was discharged from the army -last week. He has 'been sta- tioned at Leavenworth the .last three months. E. C. R. Foster,' American representa- tive of Oswald Stall and Grossmith and Lourrilard, now located at the Lotos Club,, ."will' shortly take "offices, .in "the" Longacre district. Jack Loeb general manager for William Fox, is conducting the rehearsals of "West Is East" a play presented by the Martinique A. and S. Club at Hunt's Point Palace. - ' . - Fannie Brice was one' of 'those" who bought some of the objects in the collec- tion of Prince MinskofT at the sale' last" week. ... • - Flore Revallea, in "Monte Crist©, Jr." has'been presented with a medal by the Serbian and Montenegrin Red Cross. Queen Milena, of -Montenegro, conferred the honor upon her. . ■ - Maryon Vadie, the dancer, and Ota Gygi, the violinist, are rehearsing a new act in which they expect to open next week.". ' O. • •"".;:"'■ ' Edward Clark, who wrote "You're in Love" and "De Luxe Annie," has been en- gaged by the Shuberta to--stage "0a, TJncle." -.' Gentle Wife, Moffat Yard Ushers. - ,- ' The Vanfields have been engaged for forty-two w.eeks next_season, with.one of the leading burlesque 'shows. has.had her play, i 1 lubBued in book form. Company are-the pubvv Frances Cameron, "Harry Clarke,' Wtnaf *" Solar, Jeannette Cook and Gladys Lang ; have been engaged -for - The Lonely omeo." Mrs. Bollinger, of Bollinger and Rey- nolds, a wire-walking act, ia the mother of a baby boy, born last .week in Chicago. The stork's visit forced the team to cancel a tour of the Orpheum Circuit. . Helen Borden, of the "Velvet Lady" company, -was the winner of'the" beaded mesh bag, valued at 9176, raffled off by Mrs. Edgar MacGregor in the New Amster- dam Theatre last Wednesday night. .. Corporal Ralph. Proctor, formerly in the -cast^of T .VEy 6 i 3 rihing'* at tte.Hippodrome, returned from France last week- - He is to be re-admitted into the cast as soon, as he is'mustered, out of the service. ' *, : ■-'•'X'^ '-^.^—r— i'- 1 "."^ ; • CUit and Kramer, who .for the, last fif- teen weeks were appearing in stock in the .Qrpbeqm -Theatre, Seattle, Wash., hav er returne d to vaudeville. The act b^e\FaFtSi'-"Scademy Th«tr e ; Chicago." T.-Daniel Frawley last week'returned to New York after a tour. of. the worjd with a dramatic stock company. He 4s planning another tour, opening in July in Honolulu and including stops in Japan, China and the rest of the Orient. ■ ,* Vyette Rugel, Bert Williams, Ha* Davenport, Fuller Melliah, George Bebs*. Julia Kelety, Jane Oaker, Jnlitts Tanaifc and Jessica Brown are sponsoring the ute which win be paid the Salvation at the .Metropolitan Opera House May 11. ,. a IzefEa, who was forced. to cancel bar tour in the East, due to the illness if - her mother, will shortly open for a totr of the Western Vaudeville Managers' As- sociation. Following this tour she has been givi ptj ati early opening idate! on the Paa- uges. Circuit. ;, •.''■.;.^ Ethel Arden, a vaudeville actress, last week had Jean Tabachini, a milliner, sum- moned to court on the charge of -unlaw* fully withholding^.her .hat. Misa Taba- chini' proved - the hat was -not in her store, and as Miss Arden had. lost her ticket for it the case was dismissed. Fred O. Harris, 3rd United States Pio- neer Infantry Band, is still in France, and would like to hear from h is fr iends. He has written-and produced "What Do We See Now," a. playlet with which he and the band are entertaining the boys "over there" in the different camps. . Grace Hope, who headed a company for . a.. sl}ort season on .the. pne.-night. stands, -gave a farewell party to the members of ■ of the' organization last week at the Hal- lett Rehearsal Studios. She will tour the West with another company next season under the management of Frank Folsom. Henry Hull, John Sainpolis, Olive May, Susans Westford, Madge Edison, Cather- ine Calhoun Doueet, Mrs. Theodosiua Stevens, Paul Doueet, Barlow Borland, Clara Brscy, Hilda Spang, Loma Volar* and Virginia Forman will be seen in "Mrs. Drummond's War Relief," a comedy by Nina.Larrey Durye*.''" " r. William and Gordon Dooley, the Cam- eron Sisters, JuUa Kelety, Sam Ash, Wfl- lie Solar, De Haven and Hue, Cunning- ham and Clements, Bert JssJnssa, Carl Me- CtiUongh, Stan Stanley, the Brown. Sister*, Lew Cooper and the Benlsetta Troops were, included, on the bill at the Winter Garden concert last-Sunday night. .. .Three Kitaro Brothers, Don and Kara- n a n g h, George E. Reed,. Alma Adair, Three Bartoa, Marie Burke, Musette, Kitty Mc- Langhlin and Arthur Xugaro, Ayra Hadja, Chris tine and Mignon, **«*gt McCarthy, Madlm Smiti, Jean Voltaire, Billy Sheri- dan, Doris Msrquetnnr, Annie - Adrian, Lucille Gordon, Helen Payne, Aia Martin, Chnbby 'Ward, Ernie* Haddoni, DeBy Dempsey, Cecil Harrington and Ruth Townsead are appearing in "Paprika," "lBe"lrew "revue at the Cafe de Paris.'--*■ •—