The New York Clipper (September 1919)

September 3, : 1919 jyMji MSmS&ES&MSSEP LOEW OPENS TWO NEW HOUSES PUSHING PANTAGES FIGHT Another step in his fight against Pan- tages was taken by Marcus Loew Mon- day when he opened two of his newly ac- quired houses. These, the Liberty, Cleve- land, and Colonial, Detroit, will furnish opposition to the two Miles theatres in those cities. The Miles theatres are af- filiated with' Pantages, and Pantages vaudeville is used; so that Loew's open- ing houses in Cleveland and Detroit con- stitutes an indirect blow at the Greek vaudeville magnate. At the Colonial, where the matinee prices are $.15 and $.23 at matinees and $.25, $.35 and $.50 at evening perform- ances, the personal appearance of Taylor Holmes is advertised, in conjunction with the showing of his picture, "Upside Down." Murray Leslie and Raymond Oswald, Ed Phillips, Carson and . Willard, Duffy and Montague, the Feraros, and a playlet en- titled "Just for Instance" constitute the vaudeville part of the programme. F. A. Russo is the new director of the orches- tra, and Wendell Phillips plays the pipe organ. Clark and McCullough, 'who were to have appeared with a legitimate produc- tion, are the featured performers at the Liberty. The actors' strike has necessi-' tated their going into vaudeville. "Sum- mer Girls and Fall Guys," a musical tab- loid presented by Marty Brooks of the Putnam Building, with Cliff Dixon and William Barrows featured; Richard Mil- loy, Nora Allen,- Harrison and Halloway and Jimmie Cole complete the vaudeville bill there. Enid Bennett in "Stepping Out" is the feature photoplay attraction. The prices, at the Liberty are $.10 and $.15 at matinee performances and on evenings, Sundays and holidays are $.25 and $.35. Frank Goodale, himself known as a performer, is the new manager of the house, which has been remodeled and re- decorated during the off season. Loew is conducting a campaign for pat- ronage in these cities, and his efforts are likely to be met with a counter attack for Pantages resents Loew's pushing westward. NEW ACTS "The Ballad of Redding Jail" is the title of a new act which J. Ellis Kirkham wrote, and is producing. It is a satire on the poem of that name and will be pro- grammed as a "Satire a la Vaudeville" by Kirkham. The cast follows: Lola Jenkins, Florence Brewer, Susan Stowell, June Francis and Mary Conklin. Francis and De Marr are having a new act written 'by William Russell Meyers, entitled "Air-O-Plain." Sam and Harry Lewis win be seen in the near future in a new act which Will- iam Russell Meyers is writing for them. One of the boys will work in blackface and the other in white. , Pratt and Sheils, man and woman, will be presented in a new act under the direc- tion of Tom Jones. .:,:• Reulah Kennedy, who was formerly with the act "The Girl in the Air,' is preparing to appear in a novelty two-a- day act with a new partner. Johnnie Robinson, the tenor, will open shortly on Keith' time in Hoboken with a new single. "The Ancient Rug With the Spirit of Buddha," is the title of a new act which Sheik Hadji Tahar is producing. The offering, in rehearsal at Unity Hall, was written by Tahar and Adolpti Adams. Kibel and Pauline will open on the Western Vaudeville time shortly with a new act. ' MAX HART STARTS NEW AGENCY Max Hart has started a new agency business which is to be operated sepa- rately from his vaudeville enterprises, and is now looking about for suitable of- fices. In it he is to make a specialty of musical comedy and light opera artists and has already under contract over a dozen of the best known comedians in this line. Hart has in the past" handled the busi- ness of a number of the big vaudeville comedians who have gone into .musical comedy and this field has increased so rapidly during the past year or so that he is planning to make a separate enter- prise of it. Associated with him will be John Johnson, who will be in charge of the new office to be opened as soon as an available location can be found. EDDIE KANE TROUBLE SETTLED Eddie Kane, of Kane and Herman, and his wife Maude, who have disagreed re- cently to the point' where the latter brought an action for a divorce through Harry Saks Hechheimer, have got together and settled their differences so completely that the court action has been discon- tinued. Kane, whose right name is Gold- man, is now with the "Hip Hip Hooray Girls," a burlesque show. ,-. - * SAYS ARNOLD IS COPYING George L. Pelletier has asked the X. V. A. to settle differences.between him and the. team of Jack and Eva Arnold, claim- ing that Arnold is doing a' character bit that he has been portraying for twelve years. Pelletier was first a member of the team of Miller and Pelletier and, in January 1918, was one of the Arnold trio. Since leaving the trio, he says he has heard the Arnold Trio using his old rou- tine word for word. PHIL. HOUSE OPENS WITH VAUDE. Philadelphia, Sept. 1.—According to announcement made by George W. Metzel today, manager of the Old Girard Avenue Theatre, Girard Avenue and Seventh Street, that house will re-open tomorrow afternoon presenting high class vaudeville booked through the B. F. Keith popular exchange. . . PERFORMERS MARRY Chicago, Aug. 31.—Marie Donahue, who is appearing here on Orpheum time with "Not Yet Marie," was quietly mar- ried to Charles .Olcott here early this week. Olcott has been doing "A Comic Opera in Ten Minutes" in vaudeville. A. & H. BUILDING NEW HOUSE Modesto, Cal„ Aug. 3L—Ackerman and Harris will add another theatre to their chain of hippodromes, when the $75,000 theatre here is completed and ready for oc- cupancy in December. A L. SHAYNE STARTS BUSINESS Al Shayne .has opened a millinery shop on Broadway at Ninety-second street. His wife has the active management of the place, called the Rosella Shop. THE FLATBUSH REOPENS The B. S. Moss Flatbush Theatre, Brooklyn, has reopened its season with vaudeville and pictures. Edwin F. Reilly is again manager. ASHLEY HAS NEW PARTNER Dietrich in the act that formerly played under the team name of Skipper and Ashley. THELMA CARLTON RECOVERING Thelma Carlton is recovering from an attack of Bore throat and expects to re- open this week. BOOKERS HAND OUT SEASON ROUTES ACITVE AS SEASON OPENS The last week has been one of unusual activity as far as vaudeville bookings are concerned, many of which were held up awaiting Eddie Darling's return from overseas. When he did get back last week things began to move. Practically all big time houses now have acts on their bills that have just been given routes, among them being. The Runaway Girls, playing this week at the Palace; Korr and Weston, Jazzland Navy Eight, Davis and Darnell, Walter Brower, Emerson and Baldwin, Shaw aud Camp- bell, Jack Inglis, Sinclair and Gasper, Diamond and Uremia", Bordoni and Gitz Rice, DeWolf Girls, The Magic Glasses, Wheaton and Carroll, Cameron Sisters, Sissell and Blake, Lee Kohlman and com- pany, Marino and Malley, Lida McMillan, and company, Arthur Havell and com- pany, Gus Edwards, Jim the Jazz King, Langford and Fredericks, Lew Dockstader, Craig Campbell, Dooley and Sales, Leon Varvara, Sallie Fisher and • Company, Hugh Herbert and Company, Nat Xazarro, and band, Allan Rogers, and many others. Booking activities on the Orpheum Cir- cuit also are lively, and among the acts that have most recently been booked are the Seven Honey Boys, Mart ell e, Lambert and Ball, The Man Hunt, George Price, Bryant and Broderick, Ames and Win- throp, Fiank Crummit, Dunbar's Tennes- see Ten, Bert Fitzgibbons, Gallagher and Martin, Gertrude HolTman, and Indoor Sports. ' The next week promises to become even more active so far as booking is con- cerned and it will be at least a month be- fore the booking situation settles down to normal again. ARDATH ACTS GET 20 WEEKS ••The Finani ieru" is the title of a new act which Fred Ardath has just put out. It was written by Ardath and the cast includes Matt Weill, Mike Alv in, Harry Johnson, Henri Legendre and Jack Ro- land. The turn has been given twenty weeks booking by the Keith office. "The Melody Shop" is another Ardath -act which Tom Fitzpatrick is booking. The cast includes Edward Menlove, Cole Carroll, Myra Kelley, Louise Beedles and Charles Clark. It opened Monday, in Hazeltown, Pa. SIDNEY PHILLIPS COMPLAINS Sidney Phillips has complained to the X. V. A. against an actor who calls him- self Ed Phillips, claiming that the latter is using a considerable portion of his rou- tine. Ed was playing McVickers in Chi- cago while Sidney was playing the State- lake, and it is claimed by the latter that both are using much the same material although it belongs to him. It is said that Ed once told the Kauffman Brothers that he was a brother of Sidney and that Sid- ney had given him permission to do the act. ROONEY PRODUCING ACTS Pat Rooney has decided to take another chance at the producing game, but having learned a lesson from his experience last year, is going about it in a different man- ner. This time he has written a number of musical acts,, all of which are now in rehearsal. But they are in the bands'of various producers. The first of these, "The Two Song- Books," a girl act with ten people, will be produced by Irwin Rosen, who pre« sented, "Kiss Me." In addition, Rooney is rehearsing a new playlet written for him by Edgar Allan Woolf, in which he, Marion Bent his wife, and four other women, totaling a cast of seven principals, will appear. This play- let has for its theme, Pat's well-known Bong, '/The Daughter of Rosie 0*Grady," and will be presented by a cast of four- teen, with a special orchestra. The of- fering is booked to open on the Keith time on September 22. The theatre has not yet been decided upon. This offering, according to Rooney, costs $15,000 to put on. SEA BURY & SHAW TO PRODUCE William Seabury and Billie Shaw are planning to produce a Broadway show in which they will star themselves. Miss Shaw is writing the book, lyrics and mnsic, finding time to do this although her vaudeville engagements keep her busy. SULLY AND WELLER TEAM-UP Joe Sully, formerly of the Al Shayne act, and Charles Weller, last with Al Herman, have teamed up and will do a comedy "wop" and "straight" act. Sally will play the "wop" part in the new act. WILL AID ACTOR'S FUND Daniel Frohman, president of the Ac- tors' Fund, announced early this week that William H. Taft, Charles E. Hughes, Charles H. Sabin, president, of the Guar- anty Trust Company; Henry P. Davidson, of J. P. Morgan Company, aud George T. Wilson, vice-president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, have agreed to serve on. the executive committee of the Actors' National Memorial Fund. SAUBER HAS NEW ACTS Harry Sauber has the following new acts ready for the season's opening: "League of Nations," a minstrel act, which opens at the Palace, Staten Island, on the 28th, and "The Xew Model," a comedy fashion show, which opens Sept. 1st at the Playhouse, Passaic, X. J. HOCHENBERG RETURNS TO JOB Milton Hochenberg, who was connected with the publicity department of the Orpheum Circuit in the Palace Theatre Building before joining the colors, has been discharged from the military service and resumed his former duties. WALTERS OPENS OWN OFFICE Boston, Sept. 1.—Louis E. Walters, formerly booking manager of the John Quigley circuit of theatres, has opened his own booking office at 180 Treinont street under the name of Louis E. Walters Amusement Co. ORPHEUM SIGNS OVERSEAS REVUE The Overseas' Revue, with Elizabeth Brice, Will Murrisey and a small company, has been booked to tour the Orpheum Circuit this season as a headline attrac- tion. N. V. A.. GETS MORE LIGHTS There is now more light on the subject at the N. V. A. That, is, the club has im- proved its lighting system, adding a num- ber of new electric fixtures on the mez- zanine floor and dining room. HARMON AMD O'CONNOR REUNITE Harmon and O'Connor, who split some months ago, have reunited again and are around New York breaking in a new act. MLNNET Jl AND SIDELU SAIL Minnetti art Sidelli sailed on Saturday for London, where they start a fifteen weeks' tour of the English variety houses. GET ORPHEUM ROUTE The team <Jf Hyama and Mclntyre hare been booked for tour over the Orpheum Circuit.