The New York Clipper (August 1919)

August 6, 1919 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER WANTS THEATRE TAXES INC REASED 50 PER CENT Bill Introduced at Washington, However, Would Exempt All Outdoor Attractions Such as Play Parks from Any Impost Whatsoever '■jk bill designed to increase by fifty per cent the federal tax now levied on the price of admission to theatres and other places of amusement, while all perma- nently located outdoor recreation or Amusement places are to be exempted from federal admission tax of any kind, provided the maximum charge for admis- sion is not more than 25 cents, was intro- duced into Congress last week by Repre- sentative Timberlake. • The bill, which, it is claimed, is being fostered by the owners of Summer amuse- ment parks throughout the country, has aroused a great deal of indignation among theatrical owners and managers, the claim being that the legislation sought is bur- densome and discriminatory, to say the least. And at the headquarters of the United Managers' Protective Association it was intimated that more than passing recognition would be taken of Repre- sentative Timberlake's bill, which has. "been referred to the Ways and MeanB Committee of the Houbo of Representa- -tives and will soon be printed. The following is the bill, which provides for the amendment of the revenue act of 1918: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: "That section 800, sub-section 2, para- graph 8, of the revenue act of 1918, ap- proved February 24, 1919, be amended to read as follows: "6. A tax of 1% cents for each 10 cents or fraction thereof of the amount paid for admission to any public performance for profit at any roof garden, cabaret or other similar entertainment, .to which the charge for admission is wholly or in part included in the price paid for_ refresh- ments, service, or merchandise, the amount paid for such admission to be deemed to be 20 percentum of the amount paid for refreshment, service or merchan- dise; .such tax to be paid by the person paying for such refreshment, service or merchandise. "However, no tax shall be levied on any amount paid for admission to and within permanently located outdoor recreation amusement places, the maximum charge for which is 25 cents." DATES AHEAD •"The Bed Dawn"—Tbos. Dixon, opens 3»th ••^ThoseWho'waTk InDarkness"—Shuberfa. opens Stamford, Aug. 7. • "Nighty Night"—Adolph Klauber, opens Princess Theatre, Aug. 7. "Chu Chin Chow"—Comstock and Geat opens Century Theatre, Aug. 7. • -.'■ ^'Breakfast in Bed"—A. H. Woods, opens "T S £ mf MaV¥u B bk„ds»-A. H. WOOdS. opens Hudson Theatre, Aug. 11. "Nell O'Brien's Minstrels"—Opens Pough- keeDSle Aug 11. "She 'Would and She Did"—Grace George. opens Vanderbilt Theatre, Aug^ll. -A Pearl of Great Price"—A H. Woods. Stamford. Conn., Aug. 12. "Buddies"—Selwyn and Company, opens Boston. Aug. 12. _ . "A Regular Fellow"—Chaa. Emerson Cook. opens Cort Theatre, Aug. IS. "Hltchy-Koo"—Raymond Hitchcock, opens Atlantic City, Aug. 18. . _ . •"Adam and Eva"—Comstock and. Geat, opens Longacre, N. T., Aug. 1*. -"An Innocent Idea"—Chas. Emerson Cook. opens Asbury Park. Aug. 18. _ ... -"I Miles to Arden"—Moroseo, opens Grand Rapids. Mich.. Aug. 21. _ j . ft "Look Who's Here"—Max Spiegel, opens Washington, Aug. S4. . •"Mme. Sappho"—Oliver Moroseo, opens Olympic Theatre. Chicago, Aug. 24. : ' -"The BaBhful Hero"—A. H. Woods, opens Bijou Theatre, Aug. 26. "First Is Last"—Wm. Harris, opens Max- Ine Elliott Theatre, August 26. '-"Little Love Birds"—A H. Woods, opens Atlantic City. Aug. 25. ■"Just a Minute"—John Cort, opens Atlantic City. Aug. 28. _-.• • ■• __ "Lady Tony"—A. H. Woods, opens Stam- ford, Conn., Aug. 29. 'Barney Fagan Benefit—Manhattan Opera House. August 31. _ - •"Fifty-Fifty"—Sctbilia Theatrical Co.. opens Washington, Aug. 31. "My Lady Friend"—H. H. Frazee, opens Pittsburgh, Labor Day. Irlar'B Special Meeting—Sept. S. ■ ; •"The Girl in the Stage Box"—A H. Woods, - opens Washington. Sept. 1. •'The Little Blue Devil." Joe Weber, opens Detroit, Sept. 7. "Mommor"—Selwyn and Company, opens Asbury Park. Sept 8. ■•"The Great Illusion"—A. H. 'Woods, opens Booth Theatre. Sept. 8. *!The Little Whooper"—Abe Levy, opens Atlantic City. Sept. 15. •Robert Mantell opens in "Julius Caesar" at the Montauk, Brooklyn. - —Seven Miles to Arden"—Oliver Moroseo, ": opens Little Theatre, Oct. 1. So them and Marlowe opens In "Twelfth • Night,", at 44th Street Theatre, Oct 6. •"The Luck of the Navy"—Comstock and - Geat, opens Manhattan Opera House, Oct «. -"The Unknown Woman"--A. H. Wooda. opens Washington. Oct 6. Society of American Singers. William Wade Hinshaw, opens Park Theatre, Oct 13. "Aphrodite"—Comstock and Geat, opens Century Theatre, Nov. 1. Chicago Opera Company, opens Chicago, Nov. 18. "TOO MANY HUSBANDS" LIGHT Cot, N. X, Aug. 4.—Al Atlantic Woods to-night presented a new comedy by Somerset Maugham entitled "Too Many Husbands," and it must be recorded for the first time in many years that Mr. Maugham has missed his objective. For one thing, there is hardly enough story to deserve the name of plot, and for the second, this slenderness of fable was accentuated by a paucity of comedy. The action might be described as a mono- tone of scenes, with nothing but the dia- logue to differentiate them. There is no rise to a climax and hardly any decline toward the denouement. In truth, it has the stamp of the phlegmatic English so- ciety play, scant of the usual Maugham brilliance of satire, though in all justice there was a flash of that well known per- tinence in the first act The story concerns a girl whose hus- band has been reported killed in the war, and who marries a friend of the deceased. Her husband returns, and, of course, she finds herself with one too' many on her hands. She solves her problem by deciding to chuck both and marry a third. The cast is a finished one, and includes Estelle Win wood, Beatrice Miller, Caro- lyn Darling, Marguerite St John, Barry Baxter, Ernest Lawford, Kenneth Douglas, Marion Bnckler, H. Cooper. Cliffe, Florence Edney and Richard Gray. Kenneth Douglas, in the part of Major Cardew, is fresh from England, to-night being.his first appearance on an American stage. Mr. Woods also induced Clifford Brooks to come back with him from abroad for the express purpose of staging the play- STRIKE CLOSES FILM HOUSES Elgin, Aug. 5.—On account of the strike of the employees of the Aurora, Elgin, and Chicago street railways, which company furnishes electrical power to the "movie" houses here, the four picture houses are in darkness, as well as the whole' town, except those fortunate enough to have gas installed. Settlement of the difficulty has not yet been consummated. JOSIE COLLINS MAY RETURN . Josie Collins, it is reported, is likely to return in the near future from London, where she is appearing 'with success at Daly's Theatre. She may bring a produc- tion with her for a short run here. FRIARS HOLD THEIR OUTING It took something more than the 2.75 stuff that the American drinking flesh has fallen heir to since July 1 to "dampen" the spirits of the Friars, who frolicked and f roliquored in the open at Glen wood, L. I., a week ago Tuesday. In fact, the heavily percentaged stuff that these gen- try from the elan Friars on West Forty- eighth Street imbibed on outing "Sort of Tuck," as the saying goes. . They started with water, this same be- ing the H,0 that flows 'neath the bridges yclept Brooklyn, Williamsburgh and Queensborough, whose steel spans spread gracefully over the River East, up which the Friars sailed on the good ship Pontiae. For was this not the first outdoor out- ing that the Friars have indulged in since the war? Yea, boat it was. And if a good time wasn't had by all the Friars it was only because all the Friars were not there, numerically, that is. With fifty crippled soldiers from Hos- pital No. 1 on Gun Hill Road, as their guests, the Friars landed at Glenwood and began to outdoor immediately their dry (not throats) feet touched the earth from which worms are dug for fishing pur- poses. First there was a baseball game be- tween the N. V. A. and the Friars. While it was not played exactly according to the Hoyle of this game, it was played accord- ing to both of the Haigs that used to fig- ure so prominently in our national life. The N. V. A. won and, according to the whaling they handed the Friarn, the score would have to be reckoned in logarithms. Bob Cannefax, who is wont to poke a tapering oak stick at an ivory ball rolling o'er green cloth, umpired the game and his decisions were entirely satisfactory— to the winners. And even if he wasn't so fair, nobody seemed to mind it very much except the losers, these same being his own people. There were races here, divided about equally as follows: Of the Jewish and of the Irish; and of the running it suffices to say that Eddie Auerbach won the fat man's, Fred Bloch's lolling tongue touch- ing the tape a dose (for it was hot) sec- ond, these twain being the only ones to come in ahead of Mannie Tannenbanm. The race for the Rotary cup was won by Ray Schlndler, and not far behind him in the order named came Boo Hatch and J. J. Goldman. But all of them being close friends. Judge Jim Corbett took it upon himself to declare the race a draw, feeling, probably, that nobody would be hurt by his decision except the winner. S. J. Kaufman was starter, and his de- cisions were fair and beyond reproach. Jack Gleason hung around the.field in his captain's uniform, caparisoned in a straw lid that seemed to bring out all the lines in his stunning figure—most stunning if it happened to land on one in a football scrimmage. . Trouble must have been anticipated, at least it seemed so by the number of police guests that tbe Friars invited. There was Capt. John L. Falconer, who won a num- ber of races; Capt Charles A. Zanes, Capt William Davis, Lieut Stephen Rudd and Lieut William Brennan. And anyhow, it was a good thing that the police were there, for some of them sang and contributed more than a guest- like share to the gayety of the occasion. Major J. D. Leggett accompanied the crippled soldiers in ambulances to the out- ing. The nurses were: Mrs. I*. Altars, Miss Charlotte Droogan, Mrs. A. L. Mont- gomery and Miss L. E. NeUe. There was a race for nurses, L e., tbe men didn't really run after them, which was won by Miss Charlotte Droogan. She was a pretty good runner. Dick Webster, registrar of Brooklyn, came across the bridge to attend the out- ing. Herbert Webb, recently come from Shanghai, China, represented the Oriental race that he's almost beginning to look like from intimate association. Elliott Nugent was first in the 10O-yard dash for actors. Tyler Brooke and "Bngs" Baer also being in the race. The crutch race for soldiers was won by one-legged Private Earle. There was a horse race for cartoonists,'* who were mounted on hobby horses, which was won by either Ripley, Hoban, "Bugs" Baer, Tom McNamara or Fred Bloch. Jess Dandy and Mannie Tannenbaum won the baldheaded men's race, and at least one of them received a comb aad brush with which to sweep his hirsute adornment There was a shore dinner that simply spoiled everybody's appetite. They just et and et and et S. Jay Kaufman was toast- master, which means that he had to rush through bis meal more quickly than, the rest Former Deputy Police Commissioner George Dougherty said some nice thing* and Lew Brice danced, Jess Dandy grim- aced and Eddie Miller, of the Shnbert of- fice, sang. There were a number of empty bottles floatin'. down the River Bast after the outingers bad left tbe Poniioo moored to the dock at the foot of Forty-seventh street which means, and is a fact that the Friars and their guests had a wonderful time. Motion pictures of the outing will be displayed on the screen in the Great Hall of the Monastery, Thursday, August 7, at 8:30 P. M. The prises will also be distributed to the fortunate winners of the athletic games. NEW ACTS "Cairo" is the title of a new girl act which Jack McClellan will soon have ready. It' is from his pen and will have ten people in the cast. A new act to be called Automat Dolls is being put into shape by A. Behrens. In- cluded in the cast will be Billy Burt, Bob- bie Lucky, Gertrude Bartram and Behrens. Behrens wrote the act, and it will be ready for an opening within two weeks. Frank Townsend and Thad Wilber, who, for the last two seasons, have been pre- senting "The Smart' Alec" in vaudeville, have a new act in preparation called "Hot Mince Pie," written by Townsend, him- self. They will show it some time during the month. May West, last season with tbe Arthur Hammerstein production, "Sometime," is going into vaudeville for a few weeks C" >r to joining a new musical show. She a new act assisted by a pianist and two or three orchestral players. Belle Fromme, formerly of Mayo and Fromme, is rehearsing a new single act which she plana to break in within the next week or so. Larry Reilly will produce a new act in vaudeville next season. Elba - Robeson has been re-engaged for it. Charles Bartholomew will open in a new act at the Halsey, Brooklyn, on August 7. Frank Hale, formerly of Hale and Pat- terson, is putting out a new act in three scenes with the following people in the cast: Margaret Severin, Dixie ONefl, Peggy Carter, Babette, Eddie Edwards and Jazz Band, and two Chinese girls. The turn will carry two special settings. ATHLETICS On Saturday the Lights ball team win play the Beach Hurst A. C, and on Son- day they will cross bats with the repre- . sebtatives of "Tbe Gaieties of 1019." Both games will be played at Light's Field, Freeport. The Loew-Variety baseball team defeat- ed the Lights by a score of 1 to 0 at Lights Field, Freeport, last Sunday afternoon. This was one of tbe most sensational games of the season and the winning run was scored in the ninth inning. The Lights lay their downfall to their pitcher, Dowd. In that inning, Harvey bnnted toward first base, Dowd fielded the ball and threw it over the head of Joe Schents, who was covering first base, al- lowing the runner to make It safely. Then he made a wild throw to catch Harvey off of first base and the latter reached second on this error. CROMWELL WEDS MARIE GOFF Marie Goff, the young, leading woman who was handled so roughly in "At 9.45" by John Cromwell, playing the detective chief, that emotional peonle in the au- dience sometimes shouted "Let her alone," has become the bride of Mr. CromwelL They were married on Sunday at Union Hill, N. J.