Variety (September 1918)

■ ■:■'-•' ^ 8 AUDEVILLE g & 1 ; i'i ill? IN THE SERVICE [77m Department has been carried weekly in Variety since we declared war. It has noted a list of theatrical men in the Service that seldom ran less than] two columns, and more often much beyond that.] CASUALTIES. William F. Fountain, who died in ac- tion in France (A. E. F.) was the brother to Adeline Carr ("The Little Colleen"). Lou Goldberg was wounded in action in France, according to a cable re- ceived by his brother, Jack Goldberg, in New York. Another brother is Bert, also in vaudeville (booking and pro- ducing). The nature of Mr. Goldberg's injuries was not mentioned. Capt. James H. Morrison has been invalided home from Italy and will re- turn to "The 13th Chair" until suffi- ciently recovered to return to the front: Capt. Morrison came back from Italy, where he foughwon the Piave front and was decorated t>y the King of Italy. The^'Pth Chair" company, of which Capt. Morrison is a member, has pledged itself to give one benefit per- formance weekly this season while qn the road, for the Stage Women's War Relief. Cash Slippery, from the legitimate, was killed in action in France Aug. 26, shortly after he had arrived over there with the Eighth Canadian Battalion, called "The Little Black Devils." His home was in Rochester, N. Y. The Canadian War Office at Ottawa sent word there. In 1917 when playing in the west Mr.. Slippery applied for en- listment in the U. S. Army. Having but recently recovered at that time from pneumonia, he was rejected and two months after, while playing in Winni- peg, enlisted with.the Canadian Army. Mr Slippery left for France early in August last. Elmer L. Bedford (Liberty Four), Medical Corps, Camp Greenleaf, Ga. Joseph Rinehart (Mutual Films), or- dered to Camp Dix, N. J. James Hanley (song writer), with the A. E. F., promoted to lieutenant. H. R. Beatty (manager Proctor's 23rd St.) has joined the Canadian army. Cliff Hess (composer), ordered Sept. 18 to Camp Upton, L. I. Diero, the accordionist, ordered Sept. 9 to Camp Gordon, Ga., rejected Scot. 14, flat feet. Clarence Hibbard (blackface come- dian), has joined the Merchant Mar- ine. Al. Hamilton (manager, Palace, S. Norwalk), ordered to the Radio School, Pelham Bay, N. Y. Hal Berg, Co. 7, Detention Camp, Camp Kearney, Cal. Frank Funda (Allan Francis), or- dered to Camp Gordon, Ga. Will Rockwell ("You're in Love"), Co. 18, Batl IS, Camp Greenleaf, Ga. R. G. Burnett ("Kinkaid Kilties"), at- tached to the R. A. M. C. Frank Davis (Jerome H. Remick forces), at Camp Syracuse, N. Y. M. N. Bunker, Hospital Train, No. 3, Newport News, Va. Jimmy Sheer (Sheer and Darling), Camp Greenleaf, Ga. Charles A. Bittighofer, Mine Sweep- ing Dtv., Tompkinsville, S. I. Joe Kennedy (La France and Ken- nedy), rejected, defective hearing. Palmer Hines has been inducted into the military Service, unassigned as yet. Bert Lewis (Lewis and Leopold), or- dered to Camp Grant, 111. E. Benmosche (Roland West Prodts.), Camp Jackson, S. C, appointed ser- geant. Salvatore Scalia (Doherty and Scalia), ordered to report at Camp Grant. Ray Dean (Ray and Emma Dean), or- dered to report to camp at Syracuse, N. Y. Martin R. Kennedy, Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C, promoted to top ser- geant. Bert Rooney (picture juvenile has joined the army, and is in camp in the Pocono Mountains. Rube Benson, who went to Chicago with the "Hearts of the World," or- dered to Camp Devens. Chauncey Monroe, Field Artillery, transferred to the Officers' Training School, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky. Emil Smith, a dancer, was ordered to Camp Dix, N. J., for limited service. He had been rejected previously. Charles Leonard Fletcher sails short- ly for France as hut secretary to the Y. M. C A. William P. Connery, Jr., former man- ager of the Empire, Salem, Mass., gassed and a victim of trench fever, at a base hospital. ■. , Captain K. I. Conover, M. O., son of H. W. Conover, manager of the Im- perial, Montreal, 'is with the Forty Garry Horse. Lynn E. Miller (son of Harry Mil- ler, booking manager of the Acker- man-Harris tour), reported at Camp Grant. A. Juskowitz (manager, Columbia, Far Rockaway, L. I.) ordered to the Limited Service Training Camp, Syra- cuse, N. Y. William Gaxton (right name Arthur Gaxiola) enlisted in the naval reserve some time ago and has been called to Pelham Bay. Paul Perry (cameraman and John Browne (assistant director( have left the Lasky west coast studio to take up war work. Jos. Hiller (Phila. representative, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder), ordered to Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 111. George Sheer (former moving picture agent and producer, and brother of William A. Sheer, has joined the army and is in camp at Fort Hancock, Ga. I. Halperin (formerly in Variety's Chicago office) has been ordered to the officers' training school, Camp Grant, Rockford, 111. Captain William Roddy, of the 301st Stevedores, now in France, is back with his company, after an extended furlough. Vance McManus. brother of Carrie McManus, of "Head Over Heels," is. in the navy, and is bandmaster of one of the bands at the station at Goat Isl- and, Cal. v Alfred F. Smith, 21st Co., 6th Train Batl., 157 Depot Brigade, Camp Gor- don, Ga., would like to hear from his brother, James J. Smith, who has been for some time in vaudeville (Smith and Kaufman). Rube Marquard, at present aboard a mine sweeper which docks at Sjaten Island, has been appointed to the en- signs engineering school at Stevens Institute. Marquard is a thorough mechanic and is also a steam engineer. Clarence Hibbard (known as "The Blackface Sunbeam" in minstrelsy) has enlisted in the Merchant Marine. (The Merchant Marine is under the direc- tion of the Coast Guard and is con- cerned with the transport service.) James Loughborough (formerly of the Metro's publicity corps), who went overseas with the 305th Infantry as a lieutenant, has been promoted to a captaincy. Loughborough was with Pershing's troops on their recent ad- vance on the Vesle river in France. L. M. O'Connor and Edward Mor- rison (Lasky camerman at Holly- wood) have completed a course at the •Schoolof Aero Photography in New York at Columbia and received com- missions in the photographic division of the army. Lieut. C. F. Mayer ("Chuck" Frank- lyn-Franklyn and Jones) has been VOLUNTEER CAMP SHOWS At Pelham Bay Naval Training Sta- tion, Sept. 11 (U. B. 0.): Gorman Brothers, Mason and Gwynn, Kirk- smith Sisters, Olsen and Johnson, Flor- ence Rayfield, Al and Fanny Stedman, Harry Breen, George Primrose Min- strels. Thomas Egan, General Director- of War Camp Entertainments, has organ- ized- a second Catholic Actors' Guild Unit which appeared for the first time at Fort Slocum, N. Y., Sept. 12, under the auspices of 4he K of C The men at the American Naval Sta- tion, Halifax, N. S., are making an ap- peal for entertainers to visit them on Sundays, particularly those who play the Strand, Halifax. A show was held at the station September 8 with Barlow and Flynn, Albert Peck and Joe Ma- guire. Acts wishing to give their ser- vices should, communicate with Joseph Daniels, American Naval Station, Hali- fax, N. S. At the Y; M. C. A. Hut, Montreal, Sept. 12 and 14: Diane and Rubini, John Nestor, Mr. and Mrs. O'Coare, Morton Bros. Under the auspices of the Navy and Marine Recreation Centre, Philadel- phia, of which David R. Sablosky,. for- mer manager of the Globe Theatre, is recreation aide, the soldiers and sailors stationed at the Navy Yard and other camps in the vicinity have been enter- tained nightly with vaudeville shows, all the artists playing the city giving their services. Under the auspices of the Stage Women's War Relief entertainments were held at the following places dur- ing the past week: U. S. S. Arizona, Sept. 13. Mrs. Wal- ter Vincent, Captain. Gas Defence, Astoria, Sept. 13. George Spink, Captain 1 . Reconstruction Hospital, Colonia, N. J., Sept. 15. Lucille La Verne, Captain. U. S. S. Arizona, Sept. 15. Alma Clay- burgh sang at Sunday service. Camp Dix, Sept. 16. Three-day tour of hospitals. Alma Clayburgh and Miriam Nielke. Mineola Hospital, Sept. 15. Mrs. Walter Vincent, Captain. Camp Raritan, N. J., Sept. 17. Mrs. Minnie McConnell, Captain. Army and Navy Club, Long Branch, Sept. 18. Beverly Sitgreaves and Tom Lewis. Under the auspices of the Stage Women's War Relief "Penrod" will be given at the Globe Theatre Sunday night, Sept 22, free for soldiers and sailors. Grace George will be chair- man of the occasion: At the U. S. Government Hospital, Washington, Sept 10: Edwin George, Jack + , Wyatt and Scotch Lads and Lassie*, Jimmy Lucas & Co. The following are expected to enter the Liberty Loan Drive in behalf of Pelham Bay Training Camp: Jimmy Mack (Mack and Mack), Dell Chain (Hufford and Chain), Violini, Brazil, Harry Partle, Johnny Golden and George Schlottleer, the two last being pianists. A. J> Parkin, a song leader who is visiting the Army and Navy training camps in the interest of the Committee on Training Camp Activities of Wash- ington, conducted the boys in singing at the Naval Air. Station, Cape May, N. J., Monday afternoon. These affairs will henceforth be held three times weekly. Raymond J. Fuller, machinist's mate, first class, and John Mahaffey, gunner's mate, third class, attached to the Naval Air Station, Cape May, N. J., will sing for the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign in the Fourth District, which com- prises Philadelphia and vicinity. Following is the list of volunteers for the War Hospital Entertainment Association for the past week. U. S. Marine Hospital, Staten Island, N. Y., Sept. 12: Cony Barker, Byron and Vincent, Bettie Eldert, Lewis and Ives, Bert Hanlon, Prince and Butt U. S. Army Base Hospital, Camp Merritt, N. J., Sept. 12: Max Stanford, Baby Gladys, Dunnunger, Musette, Mack and Lynn, Rae Mann. U. S. A. Embarkation Hospital, No. 3, Hoffman Island, Sept. 16: Wallace Bradley, Larry Meehan, Pelham Four —Weise, Levy, Feldman and Squires, Raymond Herman, Foy, Brazil and Adams, Jack Keller, Dell Chain, Wil- liam Ahearn, Downing and Violini, Mack and Lynn, Sidney Phillips, Jim- mie Fox and George Wulfing. The same bill being given intact on the same day at U. S.~ General Hospital, Fox Hills, S. I. Pelham Bay Training Station, N. Y., Sept. 16: Agnes Smith, Rae Mann, Baby Gladys, Betty Eldert, Mabel Bar- dino and Co., Musette, Jack and Dora Crisp, Willie Weston. U. S. Embarkation Hospital, No. 1, Hoboken, N. J., Sept. 17: Fern Hollis, Alfred Jackson Dates and Finley Helen Lederer, Nora Allen and Co., Madam Van de Zante, Mabel and Johnnie Dove. Aviation Field, Sept 18: Lillian Bradley, Halsey Mohr and May Fields, Victor Moore, Dunham and Edwards, Beatrice Kay, Sergeant Aylen, Ethel Broaker, Polly Moran. EMPET A PRIVATE IN TANK CORPS. Arthur Guy Empey is back in New York. Empey, who won his sergeantcy with the Canadian troops, was commis- sioned a captain in the U. S. army, but President Wilson a few days after re- voked the commission through a new ruling that had become effective. Em- pey, it was stated, cast reflection upon the newly drafted members of the army in a curtain speech in a Washington theatre. This Empey denied. Empey is going back to the trenches as a private in the U. S. Motor Tanks Corps. Empey and one of the motor tanks will take an active part in the forth- coming Liberty Loan "drive." PELHAM THEATRE HELD BACK. Plans for the theatre for the Pelham Bay Naval Training Station have not yet been decided on. The blue jackets cleaned up $40,000 with their show "Biff Bang" at the Century for the purpose, but the lowest estimate they have se- cured for the building of a theatre is $60,000. It is now being considered to build a stage with complete equipment at one end of the indoor drill building. Prac- tically the only work necessary would be from the proscenium arch back- wards, but that will cost $30,000. That plan has not been definitely accepted because of the possibility of bad acoustics. ANOTHER SAILORS' SHOW. Chicago, Sept. 18. Sailors of Great Lakes Training Sta- tion will stage another show, "The Great Lakes Revue." The book is by Dave Wolff and the lyrics by James O'Keefe, U. S. N. These are the authors of "Leave it to the Sailors," which recently played to a big success at Chicago. "The Great Lakes Revue" will be produced at the Auditorium Sept 30. for the benefit of the Navy Relief So- ciety and the hospital at Great Lakes.