The New York Clipper (July 1919)

<ju*j # 191& TJTTi l*Erw:' IF O R KV^CTIi IPPIE R 21 DALY SAWDERS is at"Atlantic City for" f a vacation. BUI Casey is on a fishing trip in New Hampshire. i . . .- > Irving Scott has been mustered out of' the service. Leilia Frost will be seen in "Wedding Bells" next season. Bruce Reynolds has had a new play ac- cepted -by the Shuberts. Master Gabriel has sold bis farm out- side of Providence, R. I. ■-Robert Ames has been signed to play opposite Louise Huff by the American Cinema Company. Ralph Ruffner has been appointed man- ager of the Rial to Theatre. He comes from Butte, Mont. Maude Fealy 'will return to the stage under thp management of John Cort in "The Fool's Game." Joe Michaels was at Saratoga Springs for several-days last week. Jack Ellis, and May Lyman became the parents of a boy last week. Eugene Ysajse, the concert violinist, sailed for. France last, week.' Arthur S. Lyons, the booking agent, was in Washington last week. John McKee is directing Henry W. Sav- age's production of "See Saw." Carl ttaaUO will put on the dance num- bers in a new John Cort production. Jim Doherty was married last'week to Edith Robertson, a non-professional. J. J. Rosenthal, manager of the A. H. Woods Theatre, Chicago, is in town. Lewis J. Rosenberg has returned from Trance, and will take up publicity work. Pauline Garon will be in the cast of "Buddie," a Selwyn production, next sea- son. Patton and Marks have been signed by Cohan and Harris to appear in a produc- tion. Fred Ardath returned from Toledo Mon- day after witnessing the Willard-Dempsey bout. Jennie Eustace has been engaged by Charles Emerson Cooke for "An Innocent Idea." The McKenna Sisters are appearing in the cabaret of the Marlborough Hotel, New York. Beth Franklyn opened in "The Brat" last week with the Garrick Players, Wash- ington. Cyril Keithley has returned to the cast of "A Little Journey," after a two weeks' absence. J. Fred Zimmerman is ill with neuritis, -contracted shortly-after a long visit on "the coast. , Thelma Carter has been engaged to ap- pear for six weeks at the Beaux Art, At- lantic City. Marie Fanldeild, of Bill Casey's office, is on a four weeks' vacation in the White Mountains. ;,. Nina Davis has returned East, after playing sixteen weeks on the coast for the w. vru. A. Gardner and Van have closed with De Rue''Brothers' Minstrels, and are now in vaudeville under the direction of Jack Linder. B. E. Mugridge, of Regina, Saskatche- wan, Canada, has accepted an offer to lead the orchestra of the Grand Theatre, Rut- land, Vt. Joe Le Fan, having been mustered out of the service, has joined the De Rue Brothers' Minstrels. Joe Flynn, who handB out news for the Arthur Hammerstein productions, is on a two weeks' vacation. Adeline Leitsbach has recovered from her illness and is working on the libretto of "The Perfect Man." A. E. Thomas has written a new play called "Poor Mother," which Charles Froh- man, Inc., will produce. Pierce and Bark replaced Stanley and Birnes at the Fifty-eighth Street during the last half of last week. Jack Hassard, of "La, La, Lufille," has purchased a home in the Great Neck the- atrical colony. Thomas Conkey has been re-engaged by John Cort for' the leading male role in -Tiddlers Three." WBl M. Creasy is taking the place ot Frank Bacon in "Lightnin'" while Bacon is having a rest. Julia Morgan, ingenue with the "Mis- chief Makers" next season, is at Lake Hopatcong for the summer. Rudolph Friml, having secured a di- vorce from Blanche Betters, is to marry Elsie Lawson, a chorus girl. Billy Wainwright closed his season with the B. F. Kahn Stock Company at the Union Square last Saturday. Julian Alfreds is in charge of the danc- ing of Henry W. Savage's new production, "See Saw," now in rehearsal. Edna Chase is appearing with Lew Fields' "Lonely Romeo," after an absence of two years from the stage. Laurette Taylor and. her husband, J. Hartley Manners, sailed for- London, Eng., last week, on the Aquitanta. Billy Wilson, comedian, and I&abelle Jason have been booked by Billy Curtis for the Winter Garden, Chicago. Bernard Metsger has quit as manager of Unity Hall, frequently used for rehear- sals. Sam Robinson succeeds him. Margaret HJM • m e m b er -of the "Bringing Up Father" company, is re- covering after an operation at the . ican Theatrical Hospital, Chicago. ' Berths Katx, of the Fox Vaudeville Booking Offices, is spending a two-week vacation in the Berkshire Mountains. Harold Goldberg is acting as aide to Edgar Ethan Allen in her stead. Helen Coyne, dancer with the Gua Ed- wards Revue, has been engaged by the Shuberts to be featured in one of their musical shows next season. She formerly appeared with Law Brice in vaudeville. "The Great Weber" was rescued from drowning last week by Buck Leahy and Harry Kasermann, of De Rue Brothers' Minstrels. Trixie Hicks, Edith Dohman, Peg Healy and the O'Brien Brothers, will appear for two weeks' at the Hotel Martinique, At- lantic City. Lon Lessor returned to New York last week after spending the winter in Flor- ida. He will manage a burlesque show next season. Dave Manning arrived in New York last week from France. While there he put on "Tout Sweet" and "Who Can Tell" with soldiers. The McCarty Sisters, formerly of the McCarty Sisters and Morley, have signed with Max Spiegel for his Cecil Lean-Cleo Mayfield show. . •..-.. Yerkea Jazzarimba Orchestra has been engaged for "Hello, Alexander," the Mc- Intyre and Heath show which comes to New. York shortly. Joe Weber, Mrs. Weber, Sam Bernard, Mrs. Bernard, Abner DisstflUtor and Mrs. Disstillator started for the Thousand Islands last week by auto. Walters and Walker win open soon with a trench act. They have just returned from overseas where tbey have been for some time with the A. E. F. ' Reginald Denny and Betty Murray-have been engaged by Walter Hast for" leading roles with one of the four "Scandal" com- panies he win Bend out next season. Marion Coakley and Forrest Winant have signed with Walter Hast for leading roles in two new plays by Cosmo Hamil- ton which will soon start rehearsals. Minnie L. Cummins, an old-time Shake- spearean actress, was given a banquet and benefit last week by several friends. ; Lawrence Gordon and Alice Jolice will do a new act called "Won by a Whisker," by Qrrin Breiby and Clarence Oliver. Flo ZiegfeU, Sam Harris, Frank McKee and;Fred Block all went to Toledo last week to see the Willard-Dempsey scrap. - Tom Wise has been. loaned to Oliver Morosco by A. H.' Woods for" another sea- son, and will be seen in "Cappy Ricks." Luella Arnold is resting at her father's bungalow in the suburbs of New Bruns- wick, after a successful season in stock. ' Ray Miner's Black and White Melody Boys are having a vacation, and will be seen in a musical production next season. Tommy Haydn and Carmen Ercell have been booked by J. C Peebles to play all of the Orpheum time. They open Aug. 4. Herman and Shirley are to play all of the Eastern Keith time, opening at Port- land Sept. 1. J. C Peebles is handling the act. Sgt Weston Burtis has been discharged after one year's service in the army and returned to the stage at the opening of grand opera at Ravina Park, in Chicago. Ray. Jones, of Granville, N. Y., a win- ner in a recent beauty contest, has been made a picture star by The Diamond Film Corporation. Joe Gilbert is general man- ager. Rosetta Burrows, now on the Keith time with "Rutan and His Song Bird," in which she is the song bird, is having her act re- written by her brother, A. Spencer Bur- rows. Jake Kennedy and Bonnie Lloyd (Mrs. Kennedy) left New York Monday for Keansburgh, where they will be at their bungalow' until starting rehearsals in August. Orrin Breiby has written a comedy play- let called "Even Steven," in collaboration with Elizabeth Kennedy, which is now in rehearsal. Max Hart will handle the booking. Freddie Beeque, with the American forces in France aa a member of the band of the 32d Division 319 F. A. "H.." has .been mustered out and will soon resume his stage work. Ben Joss, a member of the California Trio, who has been in France the last year, was discharged from the army June 29, and win be with the "Rosebud Girls" when rehearsals start. Lillian Lorraine, the six Brown Broth- ers, AUyn King, W. C. Fields, Oscar Shaw and Savoy and Brennan have signed for the new Ziegfeld "Midnight Frolic" which wUl receive its premiere a week from next Monday. W. H. Smith, who produced the num- bers of "Yip, Yip Yaphank," has been en- gaged by John Cort to stage the dance ifumbera and ensembles of the new Eddie Leonard snow, "Holy, Boley Eyes," now in rehearsal It win open out of town Sept. 8. Arthur L. Lines and Beulah Baker, who recently closed with Gatts. Rowland and Clifford's "Should There Be Children t" company, have decided to go. into bur- lesque. They have signed with Billy Watson's "Parisian Whirl," opening in Buffalo Aug. 10. The Fontaine Sisters, Billy Cloonan, Rogers' Jass Band and Kelsey and Spragne sailed last week for the Canal Zone on the et S. "Panama." The last named team is booked for the Hotel Metropole, Panama. The others are to appear at the American Hotel in the same city. Selma Braatx, the Kitamura Japs, the Slayman Oli Troupe of Arabs, the Marvel- ous Millers and Maxine Brothers and Bobbe comprised the vaudeville bill at the annual convention and dinner of the Thomas A. Edison phonograph dealers at the Pennsylvania Hotel. Frank Fay, Jessica Brown and Joe Nei- meyer, Ralph Hen, Sam Ash, the Gardiner Trio, Julia Kelety, Dorothy Toga, Grace Cameron, the Roth Brothers, Mile. Mar- guerite Holt and Rosedale, Marguerite Calvert were among those on the bill at the Winter Garden on Sunday night. Dazi MacBoyle, the song writer and musical playlet author, was the winner of a Weber upright piano raffled off in the Geneva Club on West Forty-third street last Monday night just before "the kick" was taken out of America. The instru- ment cost MacBoyle twenty-five cents. The concert at the Winter Garden last Sunday included the names of Frank Fay, Jessica Brown and Joe Neimeyer, Ralph Herz, Sam Ash, Gardiner Trio, Julia Kel- ety, Dorothy Toye, Grace Cameron, Holt and Rosedale, Lew Cooper, Rath Brothers, Mile. Marguerite and Marguerite Calvert. Seymour Felix, formerly of Felix and Claire, and Mrs. Felix, celebrated the first anniversary of their marriage at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Schreiber in Bradley Beach, N. J., recently. Among those who attended the dinner were Mrs. L Simons, Miss A. Bickel and "Baby" Flor- ence. ^^^^^^ George Wilson, Jimmy Wall, Jack Ken- nedy, William H. Hallett, Eddie Gallagher, Johnny Buckley, Marty Fletcher, Simon Denys, Ellie Rowland, Three Musical Cstes, Herbert Williaon, Max Maxon, James Brady, George Reeves, Jack Rich, George Burton, Bob Weston, Joe HiD, George Phillippe, Harry Harvey, Frank Op- pie, Jimmie Ormsby, Max Braun, Fred Smith, Saxo Five, Billy Markwith, Lee Edmonds have been engaged for Gus Hill's Minstrels. {Continued on page 29) (FAtt Sftft ITUt it tut a Pmee Pamieri