Variety (September 1918)

24 BUY BONDS ';.' ■■ - ■ r I ... C.--.:.. *••"- ik Valente Bros "An Artistic Treat" PALACE "I wva) Viola Knapp Co Gay & Ollroso Chief Little Elk Co Maybolle Phillips Ceclle Trio 2d balf Willing & Willing Owen A Moore •Eskimo & Seal (Two to fill) Salt Lake ORPHEUM (Sunday opening) Mile Darle Co Gilbert & Frledlander Kennedy A Rooney Mack & Williams Willie Lola Carl Jora , PANTAGE3 (p) Galottl's Babboons Dcnlsbawn Dancers Billy Elliott Reddlngton A Grant Talby & Harty Eastman Trio San Antonio, Tex. ROYAL (hp) Walsh & Bemtley Denny A Dunlgan Landers Stevens Co Simpson & Dean Herbert Lloyd Co San Ttttgo PANT AGES (P) Mahoney & Rogers Anderson & Rean "World in Harmony" "Ocean Bound" "Fashions de Vogne" Eddie Ross HIPP (sAh) Betty William Johnsons A Johnson Lalitts Davis StroU Trio Stanly Galllnl Co 2d half Peat & Stevens Alt Rlpon Roianna Fredericks ft Van Denny & Morrison Sam Francisco ORPHEDM (Sunday opening) Mack ft Lock-wood Fisher & Hairley Mellette Sisters Creole FaBhion Plate Heras ft Preston Julias Tannan Albert Verchamp PANTAGES (p) (Sunday opening) Kama 4 J Flynn Minstrels P Dassl Co Fennell ft Tyson Empire Comedy 4 CASINO (a&h) (Sunday opening) Enos Erasers Pickett ft Plunkett Tom ft Pearl Almond Moore ft Grey Ward Baker Co Burke ft Lee Lipton's Monks HIPP (afth) Voltaire Lloyd . Green ft Bailey Herbert ft Lee Bhaffer Leonard ft F The Zellnas Savannah, Go. BIJOU (ubo) (Jacksonville split) 1st balf Hawaiian Duo Florence Rayfleld "Between Trains" Howard ft Sadler Potter & Hartwell Schenectady, N. Y. PROCTOR'S (ubo) S Lachman Sis Flagler & Mails Louis Brocades Kaufman Brothers I Palfrey Hall ft B 2d half Adlon Co Kbarnum Bert Baker Co Wilton Sisters Eight Domlnos Scranton, Pa. POLTS (ubo) (WilkeB-Barre split) 1st half Tojettl ft Bennett Lohman & Galllnacamp To Fill Harmon ft O'Connor Johnnie Clark Co Seattle ORPHEDM (Sunday opening) A Rash Co Whipple ft Huston Lelgbtners ft Alex ■~~vv&m'tMW Rev Frank Gorman Aus Crclghtons Jas J Morton PANTAGES (p) Worden Bros "Retue Bouquet" T P Dunn Wm Flemen Co Holmes ft Le Vera "Barefoot Boy" Sioux City, la. ORPHEUM (wva) (Sunday opening) Time ft Tile Cahlll A Romalno 5 American Girls Jessie Hayward Co Marlon Weeks Jessie Hayward Co Marion Weeks Robt Everest 2d half Monroe ft Grant Tracey Palmer ft T Leigh DeLacey Co Johnson Doan Revue Page Hack ft Mack (One to fill) So. Bend. lad. ORPHEUM (wva) (Sunday opening) Carletta LaPearl ft Blondell •Lclia Shaw Co Jnrvls ft Harris "Colour Gems" 2d half Geo ft Mae LeFevre Hal Stephens Stone ft Hays Crewell Fanton Co Larry Comer So Bethlehem, Pa. LOEW (loew) Dartos Annete Dare R C Faulkner (One to fill) 2d half ' Kimball & Kenneth (Three to fill) PALACE (moss) Amanda Gilbert Lee ft Bennett Old Homestead 5 2d half Dunham ft O'Malley Grace De Winters Royal Gascolgnes _ Spartans burg, 8 C. HARRIS (ubo) Elklns Fay ft E (Four to fill) 2d half Rubin ft Carlotte Harry Bond Co Juliet Dika "Courting Days" (One to fill) Spokane PANTAGES (p) "Ob That Melody" Mr ft Mrs N Phillips Swarti ft Clifford Klruo Nan Gray Sprlna-neld, HL MAJESTIC (wva) (Sunday opening) Aerial Bartletts Ed Farrell Co 4 Buttercups Jas H Cuilen Great Golden Tr (One to fill) 2d half King ft Brown Wilson ft Van •Lawrence Grant Co Nick Hufford Samaroff ft Sonla (One to All) Springfield, Mas*. PALACE (Ubo) The Hennings Horn ft Ferris Mr & Mrs Sy Payne Gray ft Byron Lydia Barry Burns ft Ardlne 2d half W Hale ft Bro Brown ft Demont Byron Totten Co Ferraro ft Tabbo Harry Breen ' Tom Brown's Review BROADWAY (loew) Morton Bros McDonald ft Cleveland Cblsbolm ft Breen Chin Sin Loo (One to fill) 2d half 5 Manning Sis Arthur DeVoy Co Fluke ft Fallon Nat Carr (One to fill) Springfield, O. 6UN (sun) Oliver Severn 3 Manning & Hall Dunbar's Darkles 2d ball Dixie Serenader Wood Young ft P Knight's Roosters Stockton ORPHEUM (30-1) (Same bill plays Sac- ramento 2-3; Fresno 4-0) "Where Tbfnps Hap". A ftfoskova BaWer Shaw ft Campbell Morris ft Campbell Wilfred Clarke Co Eddy Duo Lou HoKz HIPP (afth) Rose ft RoBanna Rae ft Faulkner Reckless Duo (Two to fill) 2d balf (Same as Sacramento 1st half) Syracuse, N. Y. TEMPLE (ubo) Cycling Brunettes Edna Luby The Belldays Reed & Wright Girls Elgbt Domlnos (One to come) 2d half J Singer & Dolls Flagla ft Malla Edward Esmonds Co Kaufman Brothers. Clara Howard Delmore ft Kole CRESCENT (Ubo) McCarthy ft Levering Olatbe Miller Co Green ft Parker 4 Fujiyama Japs (Two to All) 2d balf The SbeldonB Olga ft Jack Woods Geo Leonard Co Conrad ft Mayo (Two to fill) Terre Haute, Ind. HIPP (wva) (Evansvllle split) 1st halt The Florenze Zeno ft Mandel "The Lemon" Trovato •Cbing Ling Toye Co Toledo, O. KEITH'S (ubo) 3 Maxims Alex McFayden Coakley ft Dunlevy Rajah Harry Green Co H ft A Seymour 3 Do Ouzos (One to All) Toronto, Can. SHEA'S (ubo) "Suffragette Revue" Loney Haskell Ethel Hopkins Al ft F Steadman Moss & Frye 3 Kanes Ramsdell ft Deyer HIP (ubo) Swift ft Daly Bob H Hodge Co Alice Manning La Follette Jones ft Johnson (One to fill) YOUNGE (loew) •"Birds in Dreamld" Belle Oliver "Largay ft Snee "Sherman was Wrong" •Weir ft Temple •G ft M LeFevre Trenton, If. J. TAYLOR (ubo) 2d half (26-28) Beth Challls Stork ft Link McCormack ft Wall T Moore ft Co Bowers Walters ft C STATE ST (moss) Harding ft Co Lucky ft Burns Dunham ft O'Malley Peter Platinoff Co 2d balf Bartello ft Co Knowles ft Hurst Maurice Samuels Co Troy, If. y. PROCTOR'S (ubo) McRae ft Slegg McLoughlin ft Evans Clayton Macklyn Co Wilton Sisters Eddie. Borden Co Stella Mayhew 2d halt 3 Lacbman Sis Harvey De Vora 3 The Belldays Edna Luby Louis Brocades Burns ft Frablto Palfrey Hall ft B Union Hill, K. J. LINCOLN (ubo) _ 2d half (26-28) Stan Stanley 3 Greenlee ft Will "Blow Your Horn" Wallace ft Holl - Lawrence Bros ft T Utlea, M, Y. COLONIAL (ubo) The Sbeldons Paramo Ed Esmond Co Kilkenny Duo Clara Howard Ford ft Urma (One to fill) Harrison ft Burr "Love Farm" Darrell ft Edwards Cycling Brunettes (Three to fill) Vancouver, B, O, ORPHEUM "On High Seas" MIsbos Campbell Al Herman Smith ft Austin Holmes ft Wells Georgallls Trio Jack Alfred Co PANTAGES (p) "Oh Charmed" Bailey ft Austin Sherman Van ft H Regal ft Mack Hill Tivoli ft Hill Washington, D. ti. KEITH'S (Ubo) Van ft Schenck . Joe Howard P.ovne Oliver ft Opp Elinors ft Williams Leo Beers Stan Stanley 3 Mitchel ft King (One to fill) COSMOS (moss) Piccolo Midgets Tyler ft Crollus Oallerina Sisters Lane A Plant Bon Bons Waterboxy. Conn. POLTS (ubo) W Hale ft Bro Brown & Demont Byron Totten Co Harry Breen Louis Hart 2d half Gerbme ft Allbright Nash ft O'Donnell V ft E Stanton Ward ft Pryor Three Mori Bros (One ta fill) Waterloo, la., MAJESTIC (wva) (Sunday opening) Monroe ft Grant Frances Dyer Mayor ft Manicure Bill Robinson . Viol-Inn ■ 2d balf Nelusco ft Herley Nadell ft Follette - Tate's Motoring Jno Gelger Aeroplane Girls Wflkea-Barre, Pa. POLI'B (ubo) (Scranton split) let balf Frawley ft West Sydney ft Townley Lawrence ft Edwards Belle Montrose Winnipeg ORPHEUM Eva Tanguay Jas C Morton Co Vokes ft Don Amoros & Jeanette Friscoe Helen Gleason Co Secnoreff Duo PANTAGES (P) B ft H Gordon Jue (Juon Tal ' Barney Williams Co Navasser Girls Selina's Circus Worcester, Mass. POLI'S (Ubo) Hector Eddie Healy Josephine ft Brooks V ft E Stanton Scamp ft Scamp 2d bait McRae ft Clegs Barry Girls „ . . McDonald ft Rowland Lydia Barry Grey ft Old Rose PLAZA (ubo) Canada ft Cleo Barrett ft White Bessie Mack Co Ferraro ft Tabbo Four Mosconls 2d balf Dancing Cronlns Horn ft Ferris Mr ft Mrs Sy Payne Wood ft Wyde Yonkers, N. Y. PROCTOR'S (ubo) Bob Tate Co Billy Kelgard Jolly Wild ft Dunn (One to fill) 2d halt Belle Sisters Bennington ft Scott Inman ft Lyons "Mr Proxy" •7 Glaspow Maida York, Pa. OPERA HOUSE (ubo) Wilson ft Moore Honeyboy Minstrels Nelson ft Castle Eddy 3 (One to fill) 2d half Lawrence Bros ft Th O'Brien ft South Girls Lloyd ft Whltehouse Rialto Hsvue•■••■— -■--• (One to OH) Yonnastown, O. HIP (ubo) Bert Wheeler Co Olga LaRoy Lyton Co Maurice Burkhard Mazle King Co Adele Rowland Co Leo Zarrell Co (One to fill) OBITUARY. William Morse, known as "Black- face Billy Morse," died of pneumonia Sept. 23 at Stern's Sanatarium, New York, after an illness of only a week. The deceased had been with "A Night in the Trenches." He was 31 years of age. About three weeks ago Mr. Morse was mistaken by a New York police officer for someone the officer was looking for. Before..explanations could be made Morse had been roughly handled. This, however, it is stated, had no bearing on his illness, con- tracted later. Marie Sorino, a Spanish girl of con- siderable beauty, and one of the best side-show freaks because she was arm- less, died at Coney Island ten days IN FOND REMEMBRANCE MR. BROWN Father of Clark Brown Who passed away 8ept 18th, 1918. Princess Theatre Staff ^^^^^^^(Hgntresl)^^^^^^ ago of pneumonia. She was 30 years of age, and was appearing at the Island in Sam Gumpertz's show. She was formerly with the Barnum & Bailey Circus. In addition to her arm- less condition and good looks she drew .attention by her ability to write with her feet. Alfred D. Holman, aged 65, died Sept. 21 at his home, 572 Talbot street, London, Ont., following a lingering illness, coupled with a stroke of paralysis last week. Mr. Holman was a member for years of the Holman Opera Company, organized by his father, deceased, and had appeared in many operas over the U. S. and Can- ada. He is survived by one son, Arthur A. Holman, now in Chicago, and con- nected with theatricals. Thomas R. Prior, prominent western showman, died at Venice, Cal., last week. The deceased for several years managed the big beach amusements around Los Angeles and had control of the Ferris Wheel at the Columbia Exposition. The wife of Verne Hardin Porter died last week in Los Angeles after a lingering illness. Verne Hardin for many years was associate editor of the "Green Book" magazine. The mother of Frances McGrath died IN LOVING MEMORY of My Deroted Hatband and Pal FRANK E. BAMBARD Who passed away Sept. 27th, 1917. May his soul rest In peace. His Wife MAMIE V. BAMBARD of a paralytic stroke while with her daughter in St. Paul. The deceased was 63 years of age and lived in Hobo- ken, where funeral services were held. Ida Shell, wife of Bobby Ryles of the Will King musical comedy company, San Francisco, died in that city Sept. 22. The mother of Bernard Wheeler (Wheeler and Potter) died at her home 925 Robinson street, Danville, 111., Sept 6Y~-- ^ *■*« js«.«^«,«.r«.-, The father of Arthur Frazer (Frazer, Bunce and Harding) died in Brooklyn Sept. 17. , ■ • The mother of Lou Payton (Payton and Hickey) died suddenly in New York last week. NEW ACTS. Billy Hart and His Circus Girls. Jack Boyle and Kitty Bryan, two-act. Serg. Christman, regularly enlisted in the Service, novelty act. Chalmers and the De Ross Sisters, piano and singing (Charles Pierce). Fay Bainter is planning a vaudeville plunge, 'tis reported. Fred Fenton (Fenton and Green) with Sammy Fields in blackface. "Perhaps You're Right," ten people (Greorge Choos). "Lay On MacBluff," by James Horan, three people (Lewis Leslie). "Love and Kisses," nine people (Marty Brooks). "Oddities in Minstrely," girl act, with seven girls and two men. Davis and Fitzgibbons (Lew Fitz- gibbons), two-act. Monte and Avis (formely Monte and Ridnor). Lew West (formerly Lambert and West) and Rita Mack. Leon J. Bamberger (Fox Film Corp.) left Sept. 23 for Camp Greene, N. C. Raymond and Roberts (formerly with Finley Roberts and Hill), two act. "The Century Revue," with four men and four women ([Harry Weber). Larry Comer, single, at the Ameri- can, Chicago, this week. Webb Sisters (with the "Darlings of Paris" last season) in vaudeville as a "sister act" "The Submarine Spy," with three people, produced by Max Spiegel (Arthur Klein). "Monday Morning," with eight peo- ple. Hal Newport is featured (Bert La Mont). Gus Edwards with four girls, includ- ing the Furness Sisters, opening in October <Harry Weber). Ben Deeley with Barbara La Marr and Joe King in revival of Deeley's bell-boy act (M. S. Bentham). Martha Russell in "Junetime." Three people. Flo and Edna, new sister team (Roehm & Richards). Ben Walton (Walter and the Evans Girls) now with May Francis, (for- merly Kelso and Francis). George Spink and Ellen Tate (Mrs. Spink) reappearing in act called "Songs Now and Then." Joe Webb (Webb and Burns) and Tony Martin (formerly with Al Shayne), two-act. VOLUNTEER SHOWS. (Continued from.page 8.) Booth, of the company, opened the performance by singing the national anthem. U. S. Army General Hospital, No. 1, New York City, Sept. 20: Solly Cohn and Joe Santley, Dunham and Ed- wards, Vivian Holt and Lillian Rose- dale, Harris and Morey, Dorothy Toye, Jimmy Lucas with Billie Frisch, Polly Moran, Prince and Butt, Halsey Mohr and May Field. Ellis Island, Sept. 21: Rae Mann, Bradley and Brown Duo, Jimmy Clark and Co. U. S. General Hospital, Fox Hills, S. I., Sept. 23: Halsey Mohr and May Field, Toby Claude, William Smythe, Dottie Dimples and Baby Beban, Maude Raymond, Rae Mann, Polly Moran, Astor Sisters, Willie Weston. U. S. A. Embarkation Hospital, No. 3, Hoffman Island, Sept. 23: Bill same given same day at the U. S. General Hospital. U. S. Army Debarkation Hospital, Ellis Island, Sept. 24: Con Conrad, . Mrs, Tom Lewis, Dottle. Dimples: and Baby Beban, Jack and Dora Crisp, Polly Moran, Lillian Bradley, Musette, Halsey Mohr and May Field. U. S. Army Embarkation Hospital, No. 1, Hookben, N. J.; Katherine Bradley and Adele Brown, Eugene Klausman, Bernard Trio. George Nagel, "Pay As You Enter" Co., Mabel Rivers Schuler, Paisley Noon with Eddie Moran.