The New York Clipper (May 1919)

THE NEW YaRK CLIPPER May 28, 1919 SCORES OF PERFORMERS HELP SAL VATION ARMY DRIVE Theatre*, Headed by Palace, Collect $200,000 Toward $13,000,- 000 Fund, of Which New York's Share b $1,000,000— E. F. Albee Directing Campaign. The invaluable aid given by performers and those connected with the theatrical profession to the Salvation Army's drive for funds was dearly evidenced early this week when the Theatrical and Motion Pic- tow. Committee of,.which B. P. Albee is cbairmail, announced that it .had thus faz collected $200,000 of the $1,000,000 quota aHote£ to New York Jn the drive for $13,000,000} The drivd has been' extended three days, ending on [Wednesday night of this week, and General Cornelias VanderbUt, chair- man of the New Tork City Committee of the Salvation Army Home Service Fond Campaign announced Monday night that New York's quota was bnt $165,000 short of the $1,OMO,000 mark. Of the -theatres that have had daily collections taken up daring performances, the Palace leads the list, its patrons hav- ing contributed $18,000 up to Monday of this week. The guests at the Friara Dinner to the Stage Women's War Belief at the Hotel Aster last Sunday night contributed $5,000 to the fun' 1 , this amount being turned over to. Julia Arthur, who took it over to the Hippodrome, where she appeared at the benefit performance which netted the Home Service Pond $30,\*X>. This amount in- cluded Mr. Albee'g personal donation of $5,000. The girla appearing in the show at the Century Boot made a canvas on Monday Of the men's dobs throughout the city and collected a sum which gave toe fond a substantial boost. _ .. The performers who appeared at the big benefit performance at the Hippodrome last Sunday night, were: Ed. Wynn, Julia Ar- thur, Van and Schenck, Joseph Santley, Ann Orr, Nonette, Duncan Sisters, Ivy Sawyer, Scott Welsh, Minerva Coverdal, Frank Gerard, Bert William*, Lillian Lorraine, Will Sogers, Johnny Dooley, Elizabeth Brice, Win Morrisey, Hyson and Dixon, Mollie and Charles King, Doyle and Dixon, Sam Bernard, Clayton and White, 1 J alius Tannen, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, George M. Cohan, Frank Tinney, Harry Fox, Henry Lewis, Harry Watson, Jr., Pat Booney, William and Gordon Dooley, Clark and Bergman, Nan Halperin, Blanche Ring, Sophie Tucker and her band, Adele Bow- land, Four Mortons, Wellington Cross, Ai Herman, Mehlinger and Meyer, Howard and Clark, Juliet, Ivan Bankoff and Company, Florence Stern, the Cansinos, Esther Walker, Lou Holtz, Jimmey Barry, George F. Brown, Nitta-Jo, the Pcny Ballet, Ade- laide and Hughes and Ford Sisters. Other performers who helped the Salva- tion Army included: Madame Cisneros, Blanche Bates, Fay Bainter, Ruth Sbep- ley, Louise Dresser, Evelyn Herbert, Sirs, Otis Skinner, Jean Shelby, Peggy O'Nefl, Jeanette Bageard, Corinne Barker, Alice Elliott, Mrs. Wilson Blackwell, Rose Win- ter, Julia Dean, Bijou Fernandez, Louise Kelly, Viola Heming, John Drew, Henri- etta Grossman, Isabel Irving, Elsie Fergu- son, Max Rosen, Cecil Arden, Hans Kron- old. Will Bogers, Ferdinand Wachsman, Eddie Cantor, Van and Schenck, Mile. Ni'ta- Jo, Alice Joyce, Mile. Juliet, Mollie King, Doyle and Dixon, Mehlinger and Meyer, Bee Palmer, Julia B«B , Leah Baird, Bert Williams, Arthur Albro, Lambert and Ball, Irving Berlin, Ann Orr, Margaret Law- rence, Frederick Perry, Arthur Byron, Julia Arthur, Julius Tannen, Adele Bow- land, Ivy Sawyer, Florence Bruce, Marion Tiffany, Mrs. Stanhope, and W. A. Nixon. C ARNTVAL EMPLOYEES HELD Gloucester Crrr, ,N. J., May. ZL—An argument pver a card game in_a tent here, between man with the Pan-American Expo- sition Carnival, resulted in two of them being Injured and two more being forcibly Quelled by" the police. The two who re- sisted, WHIiam H. Goodrich and.Edward Hogan, in. addition to William Nichols, of Baltimore, charged with stabbing William Cooper, chief electrician of the show, were committed f i to jail accused of aggravated assault and riot When Policeman Blackburn arrived Goodrich booted him and the officer was obliged to shoot him in the hand. Officer Jenning, who then arrived upon the scene, was fait by Hogan bnt he promptly sub- dued the young man with a «^-p of -his blackjack. MUSICALLZTNG CLARK PIECE "Not With My Money," the faree com- edy written by Eddie Clark and produced by **"» lafct Fall, is to be adapted for a musical play, it was learned last week. Clark has entered into an agreement with the Jnusic publishing firm of Joseph W. Steraf* Co., by the terms of which the Stem 'firm will appoint a composer to furnish a score for the musical adapta- tion made by Clark. NEWttAN BACKS WRESTLER Leo Newman, the theatre ticket broker, l e cal red. a profit of $5,000 from Jack Cor- by last week, that amount being New- man's share of the money earned by Wladick Zybisko this season in his wrest- ling engagements. Curley and Newman financed the Polish wrestler, the latter re- ceiving 25 per cent of the profits. EMMA HA1G HAS NEW PARTNER Emma Haig, who split with Loo Lockett last week, has joined with Eddie Waldron and .will.break in a new act at Hender- son's next week. f "SCANDALS OF 1919" WONT DO Washington, D. O., May 28.—George White has revived the old Zeigfield idea of basing a colorful extravaganza on a series of topical travesties, which burlesque current events of the past and present year, but the manner in which he has carried out his idea indicates that "Scandals of 1919," his production, must be literally torn apart from beginning to end and made over. The book by White and Arthur Jackson is trivial, and failed to equal even the standard of the current musical comedy book, in cleverness, or novelty. The music by Richard Whiting and Herbert Spencer is mostly conventional and of the incidental variety, though two songs "Girls Are Like the Weather to Me" and "I'll Be There," may attain popularity. The comedy portions of the bill are con- spicuously vulgar and without even sex appeal in spots. A large number of the gags are utterly lacking in novelty and, in fine. White seems to have attempted to motivate his piece with hokum of the Spanish war Yin- tage. George Bickel, upon whom rested the chief portion of the comedy, collapsed from the strain of rehearsal, prior to the open- ing and the action was somewhat thrown out of true form. White, the producer, does some acceptable dancing, and the rtsiwfag of La Sylphe was also excellent. Ann Pennington dancea very little and drew most of her encores on her personality. "Yvetbs Bagel went over big with some sang cumbers and Ed Lee Wrothe and Lester Allen had the male portion of the burlesque. Others whose names appear in the east/ but who are-not given out- standing parts are. Mabel Withee, Ethel Del mar. Dorothy St. Clair, Louis Leigh, Osa Mtmaon, Al Sexton, Bennet and Rich- ards, Lowell Drew snd James Miller. - ARRESTED Di THEFT CASE Two performers and two girl stenogra- phers were arrested last week on a charge of burglary 'preferred against them by Mrs. Mabel Pollock, -who rents furnished rooms at 300 West Forty-ninth street. The men are Harry Bernstein, who, the police say, ia Harry Brown, a performer, ' and Al Both, of the Eva Shirley act, who was arrested by Detective Sergeant Charles Flaherty, of the West Forty-seventh street Station, at Poll's Palace Theatre, New Haven, where he was playing with Miss Shirley. The girls are Abigail Lewin, 18, of 870 Manlda street, Bronx, and Gertrude Levy, 18, who recently left the employ, of Max Bogers, the booking agent, and went to work for Sol Unger in the Strand The- atre Building, where she wss arrested last Thursday. All four are charged with having stolen $150 worth of jewelry belonging to Mrs. Pollock, the alleged theft occurring on May 7 while Mrs. Pollock was away from home, afterwards pawning the jewelry, most of which, .the police say, has now been re- covered. How the quartette got into Mrs. Pollock's boarding house and how they are alleged to have ransacked the owner's" private apart- ment was revealed last week in the West Fifty-fourth street Magistrate's Court where they were arraigned following their arrest by Detective Sergeants Flaherty, Maney and McGann. Franklin Boyer, the black-face comedian, lives in the Pollock apartment and was de- sirous of selling a trunk. So when he met Al Both he offered to sell it to him. Both wanted to get a look at the trunk, so Boyer sugegsted that he take his key and go up to his room. Roth took the key, but instead of going up to the room alone be brought along with him Bernstein (Brown) ''and the two girls. After going to the room, where they visualized the trunk, it was testified that they entered the apartment occupied by Mrs. Pollock and took the jewelry they found there. Later, Mrs. Pollock returned home and discovered the loss of her jewelry, which she reported to the police immediately. Boyer gave the detectives the clew which led them to round up the quartette. And when the police got to Max Rogers' of- fice, Rogers reported that the Levy girl "bad left his employ that day, but, previous to going, had dropped a pawn ticket for a pearl necklace which was afterward picked up by Rogers and turned over to a dealer in pawn tickets in the Candler Build- ing. The police visited the dealer and re- covered the ticket. The necklace had been pawned for $25 in the name of Green, After hearing the testimony, .which in- cluded, the police say, a confession by Both,' Magistrate Corrigan changed the charge from burglary to grand larceny and held all fonr in $500 ban each to await the ac- tion of the Grand Jury. All of them are now out on bail, $2,000 worth of Liberty Bonds having been deposited in the Magis- trate's Court to insure their appearance. 'DATES AHEAD ' .- i. - •' :' ■ ' . i\ F in a nci al Meeting—Brooklyn -. Academy of ' Music, June 2. Sothern and Marlowe—Open In "Twelfth Night" — Porty-f oorth Street Theatre. October 5. Burlesque Club Outing, June 29. "Who Did Itr"—Andrews and Lawrence— Opens Belmont Theatre. May 29. "The Scarlet Mask"—Winthrop Ames- Opens Atlantic City, June 2. Part Theatre—Opened by Frank BaU, with Rotbapfel Unit Program, May 28. N. T. A. Benefit—Hippodrome, June 1. Lambs' Gambol—Manhattan Opera Hon», June 8. '• - Directors' Meeting — American Burlesque Association, June 6. "FolliMT—New York, Jone 9; Atlantic City, June' 2. • - • ... "Scandals of 1919"—Geo. White—Liberty Theatre, New York June 2. "The Lonely Borneo"—(Lew Fields Show) — OyenB Atlantic City, May 80. "There and Back"—George Anderson— Opens Washington, D. C, June 1. "While Yon Walt"—Keller A Bo*twick— Opens New Haven. June 2. "Follies?., (new edition)—Floreni -Ziegfeia. Jr.—-Opens Atlantic City, June 2. "On the Firing Line"—-George C. Tyler— Opens Washington, June 2. "Honeymoon Town" — Boyle Woolfolk — Opens Chicago. June 8. "Curiosity"—J. S. Tepper—Long Branch, N. J, June 23. • '^i Nell O'Brien's Minstrels — Poughkeepsle, August 11. "A Pearl of Great Price"—A H. Woods- Stamford, Conn.. August 12. HAMMERSTEIN WANTS HIS BIT Arthur Hammers tain has retained thi law firm of House, Grossman and Vorhaui to bring an action in his behalf against the American Society of Authors, Com- posers and Publishers. Hammerstein, according to his attor- neys, ia seeking an accounting from the society. The attorneys say that he wants the latter to turn over to him part of the moneys collected from orchestras in res- taurants and various other places which have been playing tunes from some of the shows produced by him during the last few years. , Although Hammerstein is not a mem- ber of the society, his attorneys say he is entitled to a share of the moneys that will eventually be divided among authors, composers and publishers, among whom are included the authors and com- posers of the Hammerstein musical shows. And. it is further claimed by ■ Hammerstein's attorneys that he ia en- titled to a share of the money by virtue of the fact that he has a financial inter* eat in some of the music of the shows he has produced. STOP SHOWS FOR SOLDIERS The War Camp Community Service will stop the giving of free entertainments for soldiers, sailors and marines next Sun- day, June 1, at the Casino Theatre. This will be the seventy-sixth week, since the war started, that the committee, with the aid of Mabel R. Beardsley, has given the boys free vaudeville Shows under the slogan of "your uniform is your pass," The entertainments would have been con- tinued, but it was decided that, as Sum- mer is frnming on, the boys will prefer baseball and other outdoor pleasures to sitting in a theatre on a Sunday after- noon. "YOU'LL LUCE IT" FLOPS Chicago, May 23.—"You'll Like It," called an all-Chicago revue, was given its first performance last night at the Play- bouse and proved to be one of the least entertaining shows this city has ever seen. It is, in fact, the weakest thing put on the Chicago stage since "When the Booster Crowed,'' with which it vies for first place in the unentertaining class. The piece is the work of Joseph Bur- rowes and Al W. Brown who, in lien of anything like a book, have strung together brief travesties of successful stage works, including "Chu Chin Chow," The Riddle: Woman," "Scandal" and "The Masque- rader." ■ Between these burlesques, sosgi and dances were given by Irene Williams, Bobbie Folsom, Valerie Walker, Paul Rahn, Miss Fong Gne and Harry Haw. Among the others in the show were Al Fields, who worked hard with his material Bnt even his cleverness availed little. Lydia -Barry and Morton and Moore, were in the same boat as Fields. "DOC" ADAMS RELEASED Louis R. "Doc" Adams, erstwhile bur- lesque man, who has spent the last six months -of his troubled matrimonial ex- istence in the Ludlow Street jail, was released last Wednesday from durance vile and is now oat inhaling the well known ozone along Broadway. Adams' incarceration six months ago was the-result of'his failure to pay ali- mony to his wife. Now he still owes her the alimony, but she can't jafl him any more for failing to pay it. "WEDDing BELLS" GETS OVER Washtmoton, J>. O, May 27.—Salisbury Field has utterly eclipsed hla writing ef- forts in "Twin Beds" by the type of bril- liant comedy he has written into "Wedding Bells," which had its premiers at the Gar- rick here last night. . The production is by far one of the most splendid comedies of the season, and Wallace Eddinger and Margaret Lawrence scored personal tri- umphs in the leading roles. The come dy is of the Tea for Three" type and .takes equal rank with that pro- duction on tb« basis of "play acting and staging. Excellent performances were also given by Reginald Mason, Roland Young and John Harwood.