Variety (November 1918)

16 Variety i I If v I: •J. 4. pp-. m. OBITUARY Mary Tammany died Oct. 31 at the West Side Hospital, *New York, after a long illness. She was 63 years old and lived at 313 West 46th street. The deceased had been on the stage over 40 years.> During her career she had tnpported, among others, Kiralfy, Branden Tynan, William Harris, Henry Miller in "The Only Way," and Lew Fitlds in "The Never Homes"—her last IMliBHHHliMHH^HHI J m IN MEMORY or •f Oar D«ar FrUnd A. PAUL KEITH Wk* paM*d away October 30th, 191S JOSEPH E. HOWARD and ETHELYN CLARE ) engagement. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Louise Hosmer. The body was taken to CanripbeU's Funeral Church where the funeral, under the auspices of the Actors' Fund, was held Oct 2. f jIUiiumr Cain* (in private life Mrs. Khltih Sweeney) died of influenza in New York Oct. 31, her husband passing away with the -same disease four hours later. A six weeks' old infant sur- ■innFond memory of Oar Aaitrallan Pal C5HAS. W, TAYLOR Wh* died in New York. Oeteber 27th, 1»18. ' •>■{, kat Mt forgotten MARTYN and FLORENCE 'vives. Miss Caine was the daughter ■*ff John Caine fCaine and NewcombX and the granddaughter of Bobby Oiine, the one time noted blackface comedian. She had appeared in "Bring- ing Up Father' 'and "The Only Girt" 'Husband and wife were buried in Woodlawn. 'Liieita Hedges, age 31, died Nov. 5 St this Hotel Victoria, New York, of influenza. She was of tlft vaudeville 't(!aita of Hiedges and Hedges and .had IN FOND MEMORY of Onr life-Lens Trlend Ae PAUL KEITH Wko paiaed away October 80th, i«18 KATE ELINORE and SAM WILLIAMS tllso appieared as a vaudeville piano- logiste. Born in Elko, Nev., the de- ceased had been on the stage since six years of age. Her husband, father and inoth(ir survive. Services were held at Campbell's Funeral Church Wednesday afternoon. Gerald Eldrid, aged 19, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Eldrid, died at Cornell (Ithaca, N. Y.,) Oct. 29 of IN LOVING MEMORY of My Dear Departed Friend JIMMIE ALLEN Who paiied away November and, 1918. EMILY EARLE pneumonia after a fortnight's illness. He enlisted in the navy and was lo- cated at the training camp at Cornell 'when he was seized. He was buried with military honors at the Brooklyn •SBval cemetery. MaisB K. Kimura, age 28, a Japanese player who had been in vaudevillfe and pictures, died Nov. 2 at. his home, 337 West 45th street. New York, of influ- enza. He had lived in New York for six years. Services were held Tuesday at the Campbell Funeral Church, Broadway and 66th street. William Salts, about 75, retired stage carpenter, at one time at the old ^WoND MEMORY •t My Dear Priencd and Manager A PAUL KEITH May hit toul rat lo jeue. BILLY VAN Wkea A. Piol Kiltli altkRwaMl "Tko imtett jeviBllt ttaM aad torMi ab Lyceum, 23d street and Fourth avenue, died the latter part of .October, infirmi- ties of old age causing his death. Salts was buried under the auspices of New York Theatrical Protective , Union No. 1. G. v. Riggens, carpenter, aged about 21 years, who worked at the 48th Street, New York Sunday week, died at his home in Rutherford Monday, IN MEMOBT OP HELEN GRABAM BeloTed Wife of MAXWELL HOLDEN Who died la London, England, NoTenber }at, ISIS. influenza-pneumonia causing his de- mise. Riggens was a son of Jay Rig- .gens, well known in theatrical vl/cles. ' Margaret Cleary, assistant treasurer of Keiths' Orpheum, Brooklyn, resid- ing at 3t8 Parkville avenue, was killed IN FOND MEMOBY •f Onr Good Friend and Pal JOE GALVIN DONALD KERR and EFFIE WESTON in the wreck of the Brighton Beach train in Brooklyn Nov. 1. She was ac- companied by her sister, who was mortally injured. Helen Graham, wife of Maxwell Hol- den, died «f influenza in London, Eng., on Nov. 1. They appeared in vaude- DI MEMOBY JOE GALVIN CHARLES CUNNINGHAM May tMeIr Male rett la letee. JIMMY HANLON 810 Fwattwo ville together under the team name of Holden and Graham, offering a shad- owgraph and dancing turn. Then went abroad early this year. * Charlei T. Hart, well and favorably known in the west as a player, died in Chicago, Nov. 1, of pneumonia. He •was a member of the Great Northern IN LOVING MEMOBY HAL GODFREY Who pauttf Into Eternity November 11th, 1911 Never to t* forgotten. JENIE JACOBS stock company during the past sum- mer season. His last engagement was with the Flora De Voss company. Mr*. John Barclay, wife of John Bar- clay of "Somewhere In France" sketch (in vaudeville), died at her home in Buffalo Oct. 31. Pneumonia developed after an attack of influenza. The de- ceased was 26 years old a^^ was ill but ten days. Mrs. J. Fred Zimmeman, Sr., died at her home in Philadelphia Oct. 30, ^fter two years' illness. The deceased was 48 years old and the wife of the theatrical manager. Interment was in Philadelphia. '• w IN LOVING AND PBOUD MEMOBY of Our BtlovMI SON Austin Carlton Kyle "JOHN AUSTIN". . Sfartli Brlfidi. CaaitfUa FUld Artllleiy Killed la astlea eo the Seame Iraat, November XOth, ItlS. "We ate the deiit. ibort d«yi age We llMd, l*lt dawn, uw tuiMt'e flew, U«MI aad mre loved-^ad bow we lie la Flander* fields." GEO. W. and MARGARET „ CARLTON KYLE Harriet Emily Rankin, mother of Billy Rankin, died in Liverpool, Eng., Oct. 13. His father, Edmond John Rankin, was killed in a Zep. raid last January. Roy Phillips died in the Base Hos- pital, Lowell, Mass., Oct. 28, from in- fluenza. The deceased, who was 28 years of age, was a member of the Emerson Players, Lawrence, Mass. The father (Jacob Zabinski) of IN MEMORY at MY PAL IRVING SANDS Who paaaed away Oeteber 25th, 1918, while in aerTiee at Fort Slocam. Never te ke fergettin by hit itl. IRVING BLOOM Clark Ross died at his desk in the U. S. Custom House, New'York, Nov. 1, from heart disease. Mrs. Ruth WoKord, wife of Prof. Wolford (Wolford's Dogs), died at'her home in New York, Oct. 31. The deceased was 23 years of age. George Dugaa, formerly one of the Landry Brothers in vaudeville, died at his home, 18 West 69th street, Nov. 2. H^ was ill a week with influenza. Th« notbar of Jack Reddy died Aug. 20 in New York. Mr. Reddy is with the A. E. F. in France. PRODUCTION ENGAGEMENTS. Roy CumnAings and Dorothy Fer- moyle, Dave Furgeson, Tom Lawson, "Passing Show of 1918." "Pop" Ward, George Archer, Lulu Beeson, Mclntyre and Heath show (through Rufus Le- maire, Inc.). Bobbie Watson, Arthur Cunningham and P. A. Leonard have been added to the company of "Going Up," routed for the central west. Al. Sterling, "Gates to' Paradise," vaudeville. Some of the small time vaudeville houses on Long Island playing one, two .and three days' shows booked by some of the New York independent agencies closed by the epidemic will not reopen until next spring or later. As mQst. depend on summer business the 'shutdownWould Kiv^e bitii" made; for the winter anyway. In the towns adjacent to the army camps, especially those visited by the boys at Mineola and Hempstead, the pop , vaudeville houses had been doing a thriving busi- ness up to the time the epidemic bit Long Island. NOTES. Richard Dix, >uvenile in the Morosco . stock. cQQ'P'^ny io Los Aiigeles for the past three years, has arrived in New York to accept an engagement in a new play to be produced by the Selwyns. Not one free ticket, other thati the opening night seats to the newspapers, has been issued for "The Unknbwn Purple" since it opened, nor will one be, under the terms of an agreement between the Shuberts and Roland West, 'i Either party to the contract can give away as many as they please, provided, they pay for them. Liberty Bond holders are advised by the Treasury Department to hold their bonds and not sell them. The depart- ment points out that the income from the Fourth Liberty Bonds and the twb previous loans exempt the income of these bonds from revenue t^ax, if the bonds remain in possession, of their purchaser up to tiie time their income tax statement is filed. An action for $1,000 damages, brought by her attorney, Jacob Stiefel, has been commenced by May Irwin, formerly of the "Cheer Up Girls," against Edward Larfday, for injuries received by Miss Irwin (not the well known May) when struck by Landay's auto in front of Macy's, Oct. 18. The machine dragged her 50 feet and she is still utider the care of Dr. Moore. William H. Ackemtan's suit for,$1,000 against James (Gordon Dooley, charg- ing that the careless driving of the de- fendant's car by the defendant, col- lided with and caused damage to his auto to the Extent of the amount named, was settled out of court by Dooley's attorney, Harry Saks Hech- heimer, last week. The settlement is said to have been $100. / William Carpenter Camp, whose smiling face was for years as much a part of the Lambs Club as the front door, is in town for a few days con- sulting his lawyers, who expects soon to begin to pay alimony for him to his wife, Elita Proctor Otis^who has en- tered a .divorce action against him. Camp now owns a 3,000-acre ranch in Oregon and last month took $30,000 off it—in prunes. In the suit Cleaves Kinkead, of Louisville, instigated against A. H. ■ Woods recently for an accounting of the royaltier^he producer filed an answer denying the author's allega- tions, and stated all royalties had been paid in full. Woods, through his at- torney, Alfred Beekman, of House, Grossman & Vorhaus, secured an order from the court compelling Kinkead to file security to insure the payment of the costs of the action. The Helen Gilmore-Bert Baker liti- gation, wherein the former claimed $257 as back pay for her services in a vaudeville sketch sponsored by Baker, with the defendant, in turn, entering a counter suit for $101.50, came up for trial Oct. 31 in the Third District Municipal Court before Justice Noo- man. Henry J. Goldsmith, of Henry J. & Frederick E. Goldsmith, counsel for the defense, secured a verdict for Baker, the court dismissing the action. Mrs. B. Ferdinand, of 206 West 121st direct, New York City, has written to the N. V. A. she is desirous of locat- ing Catherine Ferdinand, 17 years old, weighing 108 pounds, dark, with bobbed hair, and rssembiing Mrs. Vernon Cas- tle: "When lasf seett = She was dressed-■■ in a blue serge dress, panel back and front, with blue pale trimmings at Ihe bottom of the panels. She wore dark brown shoes with cloth tops. She has been in the company of a couple of men who claimed they were members of the N. V. A.