The New York Clipper (September 1919)

September 3, .1919 fHt-HEW- YORK 'CiilfcWER 21 Vera Michelina has been engaged .'for '& 'Once in a While." ,f wr: Joe Drum is doing the publicity work for the/'Greenwich Village Follies." . Ross Sobel, pianist, is.back in New York after spending four years in Europe. A10UT YOU! AND YOU!! AND YOU!!! E. a Bickford, welfcknown in stock,-has been married to Grace Eileen Cooper. Fred Find is at the switchboard of the Majestic, Jersey City, again this season. Percy .Martin is planning to put out a few new tabloid «howa early in ^November. I Billy McCoy has returned from France and has been mustered out of the service. George Beane returned to Chicago re- cently after a season of vaudeville in the east. . "v :•■.'"..."' ,', - ■ ' Ruth Budd has been hooked by. Paul Durand to play the Keith time for thirty weeks. £j&- Pete Griffin has signed with McOart add" Brandon -and is appearing in their . new" act: ■:-..v •-".■ "V"■;'.->"■•■:"'/■..'- :: »--*. . i-".-' McGreevy and Doyle have a new vaude- ville act which they are presenting in Chicago. _ ;.:'■';„:•.: La Temple Company, two men and two . women, have a new act called "Plate Glass Illusions." George Gregory's six year old son died last week. Gregory is well known in the two-a-day. Barton and Ashley sailed for England last week, to tour the British Isles for two years. Joe Mack is at the New York Hospital where he underwent a serious operation for hernia. Harry Richards, after a short illness, is back at his desk in the Boehm and Rich- ards office. >•■ - . Anna Browning has been engaged for the Pauline McLean Co. now at James- town, N. J. The Seven Honey Boys opened on the Orpheum circuit last week, booked by Tom Fitzpatrick. -• Jennie McLoughlin underwent an opera- tion ^on her throat recently at;the Episco- pal Hospital. - '•"■ Paul Sahn » n d CoUette Southern are presenting a new act in the Chicago va- riety houses. Teddy Evans, wop comedian, is with a new three act which- recently .broke in out of town. -' • Carlson and Weiss have a new vaudeville act which they will present on the Keith time shortly. General Pisano, seen in vaudeville in his siarp-shooting act is recovering from a slight illness. ™-' - George Buck, assistant manager at the Harlem Opera House, is laid up with an attack of grip. Paul Meacher, assistant manager of the Bedford Theatre, Brooklyn, is the father of a baby boy. Capt. Paul Gordon will close as leading man for Jessie Bonstclle's repertory com- pany in Buffalo. • Mile. Fanshonette, who appeared with Anna Held in "Follow Me" is now in the ChurchiU cabaret. "in. H. Pnrro opened his season of stock at the Lyceum Theatre, Troy, N. T., on September 1st. Billy Boston and Minnie Vaughn have returned from France where they enter- tained the soldiers. . - jsjjfc jigfe Richard Wallace and John Hamilton had been engaged for "Luemore," before it was closed by: the strike. •/■ s? * ■■' Vera Meyiera-nee'been engaged by Stewart -and Morrison for-an important role in a new musical production. Frank Cork has been pronounced out of danger after an operation for appendi- citis at Lloyd's Sanitarium. Elizabeth Thomas, of the Mighty Doris Shows, and F. Snedecker, a snare drum- mer, were married recently. Lillian Foster is to appear with the Carroll and Forbes Stock Company at the Warburton Theatre, Yonkers. Frank.Harding,, an actor,' was arrested last week on a charge of assaulting the superintendent of his apartment house. *r Oliver Eckhardt will play the Northwest territory - in "A Naughty Bride." He opened at Saskatoon, Canada, on Labor Day- - ■■■■>'•• '■"=•"'.. ' Will Marion Cook has arranged to pro- duce a new opera in London, where he has been a'big hit with his negro jazz or- chestra. F." H. Livingstone is director of the com- pany at the Auditorium Theatre, Lynn, Mass., where the Hefferon Players are ap- pearing. Bert Hanlon, who walked out; of "Scan- dals of 1919," the George White show; has opened on the Loew time in a vaude- ville act; ''''"'- "... • - k Eddie Goggin of the Seven Goggins, now playing on the Orpheum circuit, has been mustered out of the army and will rejoin the family. Gene Winchester and Charles WOlrina will be seen in a new act called "The Land Rowdies" shortly. Max'Hart is handling it. William Reck is staging the musical numbers and: dances for the production of "What's the Odds," to be produced by Sam Shannon. - - Hairy Lansing-has been engaged as sub- marine traffic cop-for the-Neptune'scene in "Happy Davs" at the Hippodrome, New York.. :- ■.-. ;.- Kane, Kearney and Moore could not ap- pear at the Orpheum, St. Paul, last Week, due to an accident. Reo and Helmar went on instead of them. C. Hubert Neuck, manager of the Lyric, Cincinnati, is 'back at his desk, following the reopening of,"the theatre. " Jimmie Kelly, the comedian, has entered politics and is a candidate for alderman in the eighth ward, Brooklyn. .- - / - ^___^— Harry Houdini is appearing in person in conjunction?with the showing of "The Grim (Ja me" at the Broadway. Harry Thomas and Chick Hunt have completed rehearsing their new song and dance act, and- are breaking it in. Daisy Cailton, star of "An Irish Cind- erella," is visiting her sister Hazel, with the Charles K. Champlin Players. Ivan D. Anderson is the father of an eight-pound baby girl. Both father and mother are members of the Anderson- Gunn -Stock Company. Blanche Seymour and Ida Brooks ar- rived in New York last week after spend- ing a long time in France with the Over There Theatre League." Alma Cluck and Efrin Zimbalist ate to give a-joint recital for the benefit'of the Palestine Restoration Fund on November 30 at the Hippodrome. Dorothy Clay, who is one of the models in the "Greenwich Village Follies," won two prizes at the Fashion Show at the Bitz Carlton last week. Pete Mack ' celebrated his eighteenth wedding anniversary recently and many of his friends on Broadway attended. Danny , Reed, ' stage director and actor, has been married, to Isadora Bennett. The ceremony, took place in Chicago- Joe P. Hamilton is now Joe F. Will- ard's team-mate in the vaudeville act, "Africa." :';BCttrry Weber is bundling it. Harry Haley, formerly of Haley and Mcintosh, has returned from France where he was with a Y. M. C. A. unit. Mabel Burke, who sings the animated song'numbers'at the Fifth Avenue, re- turned to that house after a vacation of six weeks, last Monday. * v Boahanara .has returned to New York, after making her debut on the speaking stage in "Kismet" in Indianapolis, with the ' Stewart Walker. Players. Louis Weslyn is writing the music for "Baseball to Boches," originally written as a farce by H. C. Witwer. It wiU be produced as a musical show. Marc Lobell and Emma Campbell' have been engaged for the Keith Players at Union-Hill, New Jersey. They opened with, the company this week. Gertrude Lesemann will be featured in a new act called "The Dream GirL" Eight people will be seen in the offering. Joseph Plimpton Horner wrote it. Lois" Chaifont, Laura Carpenter, Ida Brooks Hunt, Blanche Seymour, Elbert and Huntington and Mr. and Mrs. William O'Claire have returned from overseas. John 0. Grant, who was to have gone out this season with the "Oh My Dear" Company, is with Barney Gerard's "Some Show," on the American Burlesque Cir- cuit. J. Clarence Hyde and Ed Jack arrived back in New York last week, the former after an absence in the West of three months, and the latter after eight months' in France. . ' Frank Wirth, of the well known eques- trian family, is en route for America, by way of Marseilles. He has been appearing in England.'-- ... ''.-.•% Harry Stone, Bessie BerteH and'Florence Hughes will support Dermic Mullen in "The Man from Denver," which he is now rehearsing. Lucille Gevaaaugh was married in New York recently to Walter H. Leinert, a wealthy realty operator and financier of Oakland, California^. The bride will retire from the stage. . Edith HaBoT is to be starred in a film version of, "The Blue Peari,". which has be en. put into scenario form by Anthony' Paul Kelly. L. Lawrence Weber is to pro- duce the picture- Jack Haskell, formerly with "Four Jacks -and a Queen" in vaudeville and Marty Bloom, formerly with "Sailor" Eeilfy, have formed a partnership and will appear in a new vaudeville act. Jack Marrinyajnaeph Stanhope, Mrs. Thomas Eeeney and Hroy IBdns have been placed with Loren J. Howard's stock com- pany through the Bennett Dramatic Ex- change of Chicago. Mabel Keithley, who was to have gone on a trip to Detroit in. the interests of i Geo. W. Winnett, has&been forced to postpone the trip indefinitely, due to Win- nett s recent illness. H, S. Logan, manager of the Orpheum Theatre of Clinton, Illinois, was in Chicago recently on his way home from Indiana, where he spent his vacation. Logan made the'trip by automobile. Will Lea, who, several years ago, play on with the Three Lucifers, and who is the father of Emily Lea,- hss returned from France where he served for nine months as a Y. M. C. A. Entertainer. Walter McManus, who.was in France with the 77th Division and was a member of the Argonne Players, is back in the . United States and will shortly present a new two-act in vaudeville. ... * Paul Henry Wettphal in "A Peace Con- ference" will be seen on the Keith time shortly. Westphal resembles the Presi- dent and will impersonate the chief exe- cutive of the land in his new act. * < James Terry and Florence Searlea'-have been married. Terry has a number of con- cessions on the Harry K. Main shows. The bride is also in the .carnival business. Fred St. Ooge, while making a. fall from his bicycle at Keith's Boston Thea- tre, recently, gashed his leg, and is at the home of his parents at Boston. His in- jury compelled him to cancel a date at Manchester. Jim Powers, manager of the Majestic, Jersey City, has the following staff this season: Murray Seamon, treasurer, Morris .Levy, assistant treasurer, WQlism Morris advertising agent, and Earl Lscobris, chief usher. Madam Bartholdi, who has conducted the Bartholdi Inn st Briadway and Forty- fifth street for several years, is suffering from a stroke of paralysis which has af- fected her left side. She was at Weirs, N. II., when she suffered the stroke. Frederick John Balshofer and Dorothy Cashimir Segal have been married. • Bal- shofer is a motion picture director.. The bride was divorced twice, first from Louis Winch, a vaudeville performer, and then from John J. Collins, of the Keith office. Belle Bennett has signed for two years with David Belasco.' She will be starred by him in one of his productions. Miss Bennett was the leading woman with the Alcazar Flayers at San Francisco for nine months prior to her signing with Belasco. Sergt Charles W. Hamp arrived from France on. Jury 15th, joined "Janet of France" in "vaudeville on' August 4th and was married on August 20th to Miss Eliza- beth Kephart, a teacher in the public schools of Altoons, Pa. Hamp will con- tinue in the act.. » Wallace Mackay, who has been in France during the last six months will sail for America in September. Mackay, who i played the part of the 'down in "The Witch's Forest" for John Wanamaker for two seasons, was made several offers to ' remain in France, but, since the salary he wanted-was not forthcoming, be decided to return to America. pm (TMj it X* Few Prwdtr)