The New York Clipper (July 1919)

8 ■■tttii&E\&w&kw%Ki&*i0k ^S&Ji&Z, 1919 LIGHTS TO HOLD ELECTION ON SUNDAY FRANK TWNEY UP FOR ANGEL The fourth annual meeting and election of officers and governors of the Lights win be held in the dub boose at Freeport at 2 P. M. next Sunday. The nominating committee has submitted a list of candl- rates to whom it is anticipated there will be no opposition. TO replace Victor Moore aa angel Frank Tinney has been selected, and instead of George Whiting in the assistant berth Al • Von Tilzer is offered. Prank Kanfman is selected to hold down his old office of treasurer for another term and N. E. Manwaring will again carry on his secre- tarial duties. On the Board of Governors seven' new faces will be seen, including J. Francis Dooley, Billy Murray, Jack Welch, Harry Puck, W. M. Riordan, Sonny Barkus and S. M. Sommers. Those of the governors who have been selected to hold their office another term are Victor Moore, Barry Von Tilzer, Charles Middleton, Tom Duggan, George Barry, Beorge McKay, Bert Kalmer, J. B. Isaac, James Diamond, George Whiting and Lew Kelly. Secretary Manwaring suggests that the members get on the job and cast their ballot early in the afternoon so the election judges will not be compelled to spend the greater part of the day in deciding the returns and thus enable everyone to know the result before a late toor. SAYS SHE KEPT RING - Estelle Worth, who saya she is a vaude- ville actress and that her real name is_LU- lie Pincus, was arraigned in the Morrissa- nia Court last week charged with obtaining from Charles Newman, a Richmond, Vs~, clothing man, two diamond rings and a wrist watch, all valued at $510. Newman stated that on April 7, coming to New York on a business trip, he had visited Mrs. Dorothy Hauser, who resides in the Bronx, and had been introduced to the accused girl. She, he said, admired the rings and watch which he wore and asked bim to loan them to her. Newman com- plied with the request, but when he. had to go downtown, asked to have them returned. Miss Worth, Newman testified, said that since she was going downtown, she would accompany him and return them on the way. On their journey, she asked him to dine at her mother's house, and told him she would return the valuables upon meet- ing Uim there. He visited her mother's house but she was absent, and on another occasion, he again failed to locate her, finally finding it necessary to notify the police. Mrs. Hauser corroborated Newmans statement as to how her sister came into possession of the rings, stating that the girl later pawned them. The defendant denied asking for the rings. She stated that Newman placed one on her finger and remarked that it was somewhat small for an engagement ring, then placed the larger one on it and told her to regard that one aa such. •' ORPHEUM HOLDS CELEBRATION Los Arqelxs, CaL. June 30.—The an- nual anniversary week celebration of the Orpheum took place last week. The bill consisted of acts with Melly Mclntyre headlining. Bailey and Cowan, Harry Hol- mann, Edwin George, Ann. Gray, MiDicent Mower, "Birds of a Feather," Ford and Price and Patrieola and Meyer were the others on the bfll, the last two being hold- overs from last week. LAMONTS FRIEND FRIEND GONE Bert Lamont is seeking his erstwhile manager and friend, Bert Friend. In fact, Lamont says' that he asked the police of Buffalo to look for Friend. According to Lamont, Friend suddenly left Buffalo last week, where he was ap- pearing in arid managing Lament's musi- cal act called "Valley of the Moon," with (100, which had, been entrusted to him by Lamont for managerial emergency;' par- poses, $75 which ne drew from Manager AL Beckerich, of the Olympic Theatre, on account of the act's salary, and $30 which he borrowed from the Castle Inn, the hotel at which the members of the act stayed while in Buffalo. All told, there is a total of $205 with which Friend, according to Lamont, is alleged to have disappeared from Buffalo. Lamont says he is not so much con- cerned about his friend Friend not having strictly adhered to the well-known Ten Commandments, but he is nettled over the fact tbat friend Friend left him in such a sudden fashion, for, as a result, the act, which, is a comparatively new one, being but five months old, had to be brought back to New York, where William Jobe, recently discharged from the army, is re- hearsing in the part left vacant by friend Friend. The hitter's disappearance also broke up the five weeks' solid booking which the act had following its Buffalo engagement. And the matter . of $375 weekly which the act loses while laying off is something else again -which Lamont and the players sadly deplore. In addition to the monetary losses thus far sustained by Lamont through the dis- appearance of friend "Friend, the former says that early last week he furnished transportation money to Friend's wife and baby, so that these latter might reach Knoxville, Tenn., where Mrs. Friend's parents reside. Mrs. Friend is also un- aware of the present whereabouts of her ■ husband, Lamont says. Friend has been associated with Lamont for the last three years, managing and playing in the acts he managed. "The Valley of the Moon" is scheduled to con- tinue its interrupted vaudeville tour this week, opening at the Harris Theatre, Pittsburgh. CHARLES KING ACT READY "Bream Stars," written and produced by Hassard Short .and presented at -the Lambs* Gambol, opens on the Keith time next Monday at one of the out-of-town houses, coming into the Riverside on the following Monday. Charles Sing, .Una Fleming, loleen Foe and Marie Ilalloway are included in the cast. ACTS GET FOX TIME Edgar Allen has booked the following Abe Feinberg acts for a tour of the Fox Circuit commencing this week: "Jim the Jazz King," a novelty bear act, Mildred Rogers, Dixie Norton and Company, Feiber and Small, Grindell and Esther, Alberta Trio and the Dreamland Fantasies. PLAYING THE CANTONMENTS Alexander O'Neil, formerly of (XNeil and Sexton, and Al. Fitch, late of the Al. G. Field's Minstrels, are appearing on the can- tonment circuit in a new black-face com- edy act. The turn' is booked by Abe Feinberg. SHURR BOOKING ALONE Lon Shurr, formerly associated with Ar- thur Lyons, in the Putnam Building, is now booking acts on his own hook through the Mandel and Rose office in the same building. Shurr intends to produce as well as book next season. BENNY DAVIS OPENS ACT Chicago, 111., June 28.—Benny Davis, formerly with Blossom Seeley, will shortly enter vaudeville with his own act, which' will be composed of Davis, Vernon and Garrett. The act opened at the Green Mill Gardens for the entire summer months. N.V.A.T0HAVE QUARTERS IN CHICAGO LEASE IN STATE-LAKE, IS REPORT Chic ago, June 80.—A report is current about the theatrical district that the Na- tional Vaudeville Artists have leased quarters in the State-Lake Theatre Build- ing for the nse of resident and traveling members. This was cheering to those members of the organization who do not play dates east of this city and have as yet not bad the opportunity to benefit from N. V. A. hospitality. No word could be gleaned when the new dttb rooms would be opened, as no repre- sentative of the organization has' as yet arrived to take charge of the furnishing of the place. Henry Chesterfield, when informed of the Chicago' report early this week, said the matter was all news to him, as he knew of no one having been deputed for the open- ing of Chicago quarters as yet He said the matter has been discussed frequently of late, bnt to his knowledge no measures had been taken to establish the Chicago branch. NEW ACTS ' Jack McCIellan, of the Thor office, is working on two new acts which he in- tends to pnt into rehearsal within a fort- night. One of them is an Egyptian act with ten people, of whom six will be in the chorus. The other is a rural act with nine people, six of them in the chorus. Titles for the acts have not, as yet, been selected. - Mack and Lee are having a new act written by George Barry. It will be a song and talk act, entitled "At the Busy Bee." B. LohmuUer win put into rehearsal shortly a singing act to be known as the N. O. Four. The feature of the offer- ing is to be a mechanical aeroplane effect, which will swing the four people in the act over the heads of the audience as in several others of Ms offerings. The act will open the latter part of July on Keith time. Sol.Shaw and Theodore Metz are re- hearsing a new piece at Unity Hall en- titled "Tip Top.'' ghaw wrote the book and lyrics and Metz the music In addi- tion to a. chorus of eight, the company includes Sbaw, Eddie Kantor, Al Stokes, Minnie Walter, Florence MacFadden and Elsa -Hanson. Frank J. Millard is the manager and Robert Kane the advance agent of the company, which opens at the Duchess, Poughkeepsie. LOEW GETS INDIANAPOLIS SITE Indianapolis, Ind., June 28.—Marcus Loew has leased a proposed theatre site in this city, said to involve an investment of S4.786.000. He has acquired a ninety-nlne- year- lease on the site and will erect an immense vaudeville theatre. The transac- tion is said to be the largest real estate deal: ever consummated in the .State of Indiana. — ., The property has a frontage of ninety- three feet on Pennsylvania 'street, a depth of 202% feet on Court street and extends in the shape of an L on Market street, where it has a frontage of sixty-five feet. LEWIS TO SAIL SATURDAY Al Lewis, of Lewis and Gordon, win sail for Europe on Saturday of this week. Hie is going direct to London, where lie will supervise the staging of several of the play- lets recently acquired from. his firm by Andre Chariot. ' He will be away six weeks. " N. V. A. TEAM WINS John Liddy's N. V. A. ban team 'mopped up" the. Van and Schenck-dele- gation of ball tosscvg by a score of 8 to 8 in a ten-inning game played at Hollis, long Island, last Sunday morning. Much suspicion is cast upon the outcome of the game by the V. & S. team, due to the fact, that their bosses, Gus and Joe, deserted their ranks and were in the N. V. A. line-up. Gus was on. the receiving end and Joe played first base for the Forty-sixth street crowd. The N. V. Aj. bunch, in the first, scored one run and -thev V. tc S. boys closed the stanza with two. runs. No rune were scored in the second or third innings.by the N. V. A- boys and . the V. & S. gang were "skunked" in the second, but pnt one over the plate in the third. In the next inning both teams scored a run apiece. There was no scoring in the fifth stanza. In the sixth a. zero mark was credited to the N. V. A. team and the V. & S. boys again corraled another run. In the seventh the N. V. A. team put two over the plate and the V. & S. held their pivot. Then, in the eighth, the score was tied by the Liddy ' crowd and the Van & Schenck bunch could gain no lead, again not being able to score. In the ninth each side scored a run and an extra inning was necessary. In their half the N. V. A. boys scored two runs, while their opponents could not get around the sacks. "Worth, of the N. V. A., was the fielding star of the game and made some very sen- sational catches in the left field:' He also put over a two-base bit, aa did Sbepard, B'rennan and Stanton. Three base hits were made by Brown and Mnser. The N: V. A. line-up included: Batro. C. F.; Thorn, 2nd B.; Schenck, 1st B.; Sbepard, P.; Van, C f - Brown, 3rd . B.; Stanton, R. F. Pitson, S. Si; Worth, L. F.; Brennan, 2nd B.; Lane, S. S.; Hall en, L. P. Those on the Van and Schenck team 1 and the positions they played were: Mnser, S. S.; Linderman, P.; Jud, 1st B.; Spring- man, 2nd B.; Doddy, L. F.; McQuigley, R. F.; Dushon.'O. F.; Delist, C.; Debach, 3rd B.; Little, F. "■ '.* HANDCUFF KING HEADS GREETERS CHICAGO, 111., June 28.—Leonard Hicks. formerly a well known handkuff king and at present proprietor of the Hotel Grant, the leading Chicago theatrical 'hotel, was unanimously elected "president of the Hotel Greeters* Association at. the recent annua] convention of the association held in Portland, Ore. Hicks was active in the recent fight for the passage of the boxing.bfll in the State Legislature of Illinois and is also amriaring- in the organization of a national athletes' association, fostered by prominent athletes recently returned from service overseas. LOSES LIBERTY BONDS Anne Ford, one of the girls in Bert Lamont's musical act, "The Valley of the Moon," reported to Lamont last week that. she had failed to receive two $50 Liberty bonds forwarded to her in a letter addressed to the Olympic .Theatre, Buffalo, where the act last played. She had pre- viously reported her loss to the Buffalo postal authorities. •-.'.• ACTS SCORE AT CARNIVAL • . Havekstkaw, New York. June 28.—The Victory Carnival here is a success. ' The two biggest features of the show are the high diving of Charles Bigney, and the jailbreaking and handcuff stunts of the Harmori Brothers, both of whom are being booked by Capt. Perry. BOOKED FOR CELEBRATION Poughkeefsie, N. Y., June 30.—There will be a' Victory celebration and carnival at this city during the ten days of July 10- 20. The Endy "Shows have contracted for all concessions, and wHl be' the feature of the event.