Variety (January 1919)

VARIBTY 37 jvlil-l-rl' i3 WASHINGTON LAST WEEK. (Jan.13) B. and L. WALTON ~ HELEN ELEY STEPHENS and HOLUSTEB JIM and BON. THORNTON GERTRUDE HOFFMAN ENTEBHISSION BEN BERNIE EDHOND. HAYES and CO. OLSON AND JOHNSON In this position, closing the show, following the best in vaudeville, we STOPPED THE SHOWS!! I 5th AVENUE, PROCTOR'S, NEW YORK THIS WEEK (Jan. 20-22) HEADUNING 3rd eagagement at 5th Ave. Proctoi's thU Beason—«nd then Jan. 27—ShM'f, Buffalo ", Feb. Sr-BIi«fk'a, Toronto Fob. l(I^BlTer■ld^ New York li Feb. 17—Orphetini', Brooklyn Feb. 24—K^th'*. BAton and then eontlnalns nntll we grtot oar Bomo-Town frlendi at • MAJESTIC, CHICAGO May 19 "OLE" OLSON AND "CHIC" DIRECTION H. BART McHUGH LORIN HOWARD SYNDICATE PROMOTERS OF THEATRICAL ENTERPRISES Organized for the purpose of Representing Manareia and Prodncera in securing New material for the beat tbeatrea. Road, Stock, Vaudeville and Motion Pictures. BfANAGBRSi Our Play Acency and Pro- daction Department is at your disposal —will be pleased to represent you in every way. AUTHOBSi Will be pleased to act as your Personal HepreaentatlTe. ARTISTS: Plays, sketches, aenfs. or spe- cial material, secured, written, staced and prodnced. Sole RepresentatlTe "WHICH ONE SHALL I ttABBYr' and Other Plays NOTICE Have purchased all rights of the following: Dramatic Prodnettona: "A DAUGHTER OP THE SUN" (Western rights leased) '^HE MARRUGE QUESTION" (All territory available) Vaadeviile Prodnetlona: '•The Smart Shop" "The Movie Girl" , 'Vonwmoon Isla" f'The Elopers" «8IB" Will lease for road or stock, includliig com- plete scenic equipment, or will sell equip- ments separately. Am In the market at all times for Material of Exceptional Merit. Address L.OBIN HOWARD, 20 East Jackson Bowlevard. Chlcaao, III. DumoDt's Minstrels are enjoying the beet business done In five years at 9th and Arch streets. The usual burlesque and minstrel first part Is the weekly program. In the play ot that name, are Included In the collection. Mrs. Mansfield gave the rest of her husband's wardrobe to the Smithsonian Institute, at Washington, D. 0. The feature film at the Colonial next week will be what Is advertised as the first showing anywhere of Qaby Deslys in "Infatuation." Bobby Heath and Sammy Qold have formed the Bobby Heath Music Co., Inc., with offices in the B. F. Keith Theatre Bldg. Gold has been local manager (or McCarthy & Kiaher. Heath has been playing vaudeville. Irving Mills replaces Gold in the McCarthy & Fisher office. "Chu Chin Chow" continues to draw im- meose audiences to th<) Alvin, where It is In Its second week and breaking all local box ofllce records. It would seem that It could easily double its time here, but the manage- ment states this la the laet week for it. J. J. Shubert came over to Philadelphia on Saturday and put the Mclntyre A Heath show through a complete rehearsal, beginning at midnight, in the Chestnut Street Opera House. The show picked up strongly the last three days at the Shubert. Carl McCullough Is still with the show. "The Birth of a Race," the photoplay at- traction In the Pitt, opened Its second week yesterday to (air business. As one would think, by the title, the play begins In the Garden of Elden and continues up through Biblical and historical periods and is founded on a war theme. The picture is to continue Indeflnltely. "Twin Beds" opened at the Duqnesne Mon- day for two weeks. Lola Bolton Is still in the leading role and Is ably supported by the rest of the company. Although its third time here, it was well received by a large and appreciative audience. The Harry Von Tllzer Music Co. has taken ofllces in the Keith Theatre Bulldhig, with Harry Link in charge. Guy Rawson and Frances Clare were to have played Norrlstown the first half of this week, but their baggage went to Bast Liberty, and Guy Induced Frances to come to Pbila- delphla and get Insured. He says he is not sure he will collect, but It Is worth taking the chance, and Fj^oes is a nice girl and if- deserves it "Fiddlers Three," a John Cort musical com- edy, opened last night at the Nixon Theatre for a week's engagement Leading the oast is Tavie Beige, and'the rest of the company are the same as when presented In New York. With such opposition as "Chu Chin Ohow" the show opened to very nice business. Ted Sb&wn, who is still In the service, la on furlough this week and spent the week here with bis wife, Ruth St Denis, who is head* lining at Keith's Theatre. STANLEY.—William Favorsham. in "The Sliver King," is the featured picture this week and opened to packed houses on Monday, Jan. 27. D.- F. QrUBth's "A Romance ot Happy Valley." FAXACB.—First halt: "Wilson or the Kaiser." Last half: Mae Marsh,.In the first showing hero of "The Racing Strain." VICTOIIIA.—Annette Kellerman, in "Queen ot the Seas." ARCADIA.—"Little Women." REGBNT.—Viola Dana, In "The Gold Cure"; fourth episode of Houdini picture. "The Master Mystery." Last halt: Lila Lee, in "The Se- cret Garden." „ Nellie Booth Stock Players are in their IStb week at the Kenyon and played to three crowded bouses on Monday. They have the same capable oast with the exception that Miss Bootb, through lllaese, was unable to appear this week, and her place was filled by Miss Sally Ford. This company has been singularly successful PinSBURGH, PA. By GEO. R. MILLER. The widow ot the late Richard Hansfleld, the actor, has JuA sent from her home In/ New London, Conn., to the drama department ot the Carnogte Institute of Technology a trunkful of coBtumes that her noted husDand wore In some of bis best-knovn plays. Her gift came as' a tribute to her son, Richard Mansfield, II., who died last autumn at a Texas flying field, and who enlisted before completing his drama course at "Tech." He was 10 years old. The wardrobe will be dis- played in the museum adjoining the depart- ment. Costumes that Mansfield wore as Peer Oynt, in Ibsen's play; Beau Brununel, in Irvlng's sketch; Robert Louis Stevenson's "Macare"; Rostand's "Cyrano do Bergerac," and Shake- speare's Shylook, In the "Merchant of Venice"; Brutus, in "Julius Caesar," and Richard III., vahxdu Oriental Song In-termezzo ro One Step TB.Harms 6Ffv3ncis,Day<^Hunfer Neiw York. 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