Variety (January 1919)

Uncle Sam Has Cancelled Me . After playing his entire circuit opening at ^tlamp Upton and appearing at Liverpool, Cherbourg, Metz and Brest. Honorably discharged from active service at Camp Taylor last week. I h^e played the biggest show in the WGirld with 15,000,000 players.. My role \sras delivered in Khaki! Dear Stage and Grease Paint; I hear you calling me and I am going to return. Managers who remember mc in ^Tip, Yip, YaphaiA" or of Fenton and Green may have a production to offer. '^ Would return to Vaudeville if I could secure a competent partner. /. WffiE OR WRITE AT ONCE— I HARRY C. GREEN (Formerly of Fenton and Green) x Friars Club, 110 West 48th Street, New York p. S.—"REEli GUYS" and "AUTO G]|ILS" botli acts written and staged by me, are playing and booked solid. I am now completing two new acts for the same producers and am writing material for standard vaudeville acts. WHO ELSE? '.■;■> ■i ■r/i ■■^ THE PAYNES Fuller Tour, Australia heard In tbeatrlcal circles during the. past week that^e latest house considered Is the Colonial, n^*-playing burlopque. James Bartley, who purchased the Scenic Theatre Building on Mathewson street re- cently, Is having plans drawn for the erection of a two-story fireproof store and office build- ing on the street front and plans to reconstruct thfr entire Interior of the theatre at an ap- pToxImate cost of $50,000. New ofBcers just elected and Installed by the Providence Moving Picture Machine Oper- ators' Union are as follows: President, Edwin W. Anthony; Vice-President, Robert B. Du- rante; Recording Secretary, Edward D. Ham- ■ llton; Financial Secretary and Treasurer, Sam- uel Taylor; Business Agent, Thomas E. Shan- non ; Sergeant-at-arms, James R. Straight; Delegate to I. A. T. S. E. and M. P. M. O. Convention, Thomas B. Shannon; delegates to Rhode Island State Branch, A. F. of L., Sam- uel Taylor, James A. Foley; delegates to Providence Central federated Union, Edwin W. Anthony, Lewis F. Butler. James A. Foley, Robert B. Durante, Samuel Taylor; delegates to Pairtucket Centraiv Trades'and Labor Union, Raymond Burke, Charles C. Hutchins. Edward D. Hamilton, James R. Straight, George WrlgDt; Press Secretary, Edward D. Hamil- ton; Executive Board: Edwin W. Anthony, Edward D. Hamilton. Samuel Taylor, Charles J. Duffy and George L. McGovern. It Is understood that the Newman, a hotel , long patronized by show folks, but recently closed following an investigation by federal authorlti^, is about to reopen. ■William M. Strong, connected with the Provi- dence Journal, has succeeded Edward A. Whe- lan ns press agent for the Shubert Majestic and the Opera House. Mr. Whelan and his wife both died two weeks ago. victims of Spanish Influenza and pneumonia. ROCHESTER, N. Y. By L. B. SKEFFINQTON. LYCEUM (M. E. Wolf, mgr.).—"The Rain- bow Girl," first half; Mrs; Piske in "Mis' Nelly of N' "Orleans," second half. GATBTY (Charles H. Yale, mgr.).—"The Social Maids." „. „ ' FAY'S (Fred J. Sarr, mur.).—"The Movie Phlends." The Swiss Song Birds, Hal Davis. Ruth Stevens, Frank and Klorenz in "From Broadway to Dixie." FAMILY (John H. H. Fennyvcssey, mgr.) .— Eddie NIner, Lydia Mllburn end Co. In musical comedy repertoire. A feature at the Family this week in addition to the regular bill Is slnginR motion- pictures. Caruso's voice being synchronized to the film. "My Cousin." L. G. Brady is now personal ly managing both the Regent nnd tho Strand In Geneva. At the former he is sbowlni; high class pictures, while the Strand plays throp nJRiits of legitimate and "thruo nights "of "VnudevlITc.- Mr. 'lira'dy ti&s ' Just returned from New York, where ho com- pleted negotiations for some of the big time stuff. A wild west drama not on the iirogrnm of the Family, at Albion, N. Y., occurred last Thursday nl^ht, with people on the seamy side of tlio curtain us victims. Scenery shlfl- ors working on the stage discovered a loaded revolver, only thoy did not know that it was loaded until too late. As Domlnlck Christopher ILLUSTRATED SONG SINGERS You will be in greater demand and your song will go over bigger when using our '"New Idea" Illustrated Slides. If you are a singer it will be to your advantage to writ€ us at once. STANDARD SLIDE CORP. '^J.r^lHii;:^ 213 West 48th,Slscct. New York picked it up he did the hold-up act and pulled tho trigger. Bruno Rutowskl, another stage hand, received a bullet in the left forearm, shattering the bone. A physician was called and the injured man was rushed to a hospital, where parts of the shattered bone were re- moved and the bullet extracted. The doctors soy the young man will recover tiut will prob- ably never regain the use of his arm. Manager Frank E. Solomon, of the Stratford Roller Rink, is staging the first championship skating contests Rochester has had in several years. excellent program. There are some good dancers and jazzy sinKcra in the show. The large number of negroes attending made the house a fair one. NEW STAR (A1. Q. Kelts, mgr.).—*-Tbe Social Follies." ST. PAUL By ARTHUR SHBBKMAN. METROPOLITAN (Ed Tunstall, mgr.).— "The Smarter Set" (colored entertainers), an Spring weather brought capacity houses to St Paul theatres this week. The Orpbeum was packed almost all week while the other shows, Includlag the movies, followed closely with big receipts. The proposed new burlesque theatre will soon be a reality; a site is being selected. I. L. Herz will manage It The . Shubert Theatre, dark (or several months, save for the holiday programs put World's Largest Theatrical Baggage Deal WARDROBE -^ TRUNKS «'Hartmann" EVERY "Murphy" EVERY MAKE "Taylor" SIZE MY GUARANTEE PBOTECTS YOUR PURCHASE FOR FIVE YEARS An Enormous Selection of LEATHER GOODS AND TRAVELERS' OUTFITS HALF REGULAR PRICES | Note These Remarkable Vsloet: $18 Hotel Stffel Clad Trunk 925 FIbn Thea- tre Trunk... S35 TMii.. W.ard.-.. robe trunk.. S40 Full Size The- atre Wardrjbt Trunk $9.75 $14.50 $24.75 XX Fibre fl»»>7 KA $60 Guaranteed $0/1 RA $75 Dreadnought <iiO (id WanlnriM... ^*A.VV EDWARD CROPPER, 208 W. 42d St. tPHONE: BRYANT 8678 NEW YORK cm at <■ m on by Charles Llndholm and Earl Lee, will be opened again with a stock company in a tew.;, weeks by tho Otis Oliver playera SYRACUSE, N. Y. By CHESTER D. BAHN. EMrmm (M. E. Woltr. mgr.; Francis Pi Martin, rep.).—First half, Mrs. Flsk^ In "lUs* Nelly of N'Orleans." Last halt, "The! Rainbow Girl." WIBTINO (George Barnes, mgr.).—All week, "Take It from Me," return cngagemsat. This play shows great improvement over the performances given here on' tho first visit some nine weeks ago. Then the production was only a week old. It has developed rapidly In speed and stands out among tho musical comedies that Syracuse has seen this aoaeon as one of tho best BASTABLE (Stephen Baetable, mgr.).— First half, "The Merry Roundors." While tho Max Spiegel show still uas Its old wardrobe and scenic effects, there's a brand now book written by Abe Leavitt It's called "The Smug- glers," and the plot hinges about the smug- gling, of a necklace Into tho United States, Abe Reynolds ia the featured funmaker with John Qulgg In blackface and C. tctwood Faber as a rube for foils. Florence Mills, Eva Suede and Mildred Tyson are the women principals, The show is for from the usual run of bur- lesque, and Is well worth while. Quigg's musical specialties score strong. Miss Suede Is stunning la both her black and white tl^bts. MIbs Tyson Is one of the liveliest chorus lead- ers to como hero this aeaaoD. TEMPLE (Albert A. Van Auken. mgr.).— All the week, vaudeville. CRESCENT (William Brown, mgr.)w—AU tho week, vaudeville. \ . . " 4 J ■4 Florence Mills, featured with "The Merrr Roundors." will fill a fllm engagement with Qoidwyn at the close of the present burleeaue Beason. "The Merty Rounders." now at the Bastabie hero, broke the house records at th» Corinthian, Rochester^ last week. «,,oinil'*' »f 8.40O signed petitions protesting^ Sn'tafur'^rtay^ll^bt*'"''""' *" '" "''*'='^ """"^ Syracuse has a brand new minstrel organi- •nivil ^^'T^f"^"'""'^' '^°<' onintour talent, M^i .'^IJ.l®'''?""^''''' formed under the direct nSli'n^ ^•'a't'Sf W°''' ^0 entertain at the Onondnun Soldiers' ond Sailors' Club. The ^roupe IB i.'i Rtrong nnd Is composed exclusively or volunteers. - ■3! ■i Morton Adklns. In Franco with America's Oyer There Theatre League, writes that "ris out on a BiJt weokB* area circuit, with head? quarters at St. Nazaire, iiour Bordeaux. Ad- Vf'in, n"i' 1^? ''"?."'" [ili'Tbo Troubadours," and after nnlshing Its pi-Jibnt route will return to Fans for a new oasignmont, ^ The Isadora Duncim Dancers and Ooorgo Copeand. tho pianist, will All a date at the Empiro horo on Jan. 2I>. Mies Flora Voor- hoes, who la horo in advance,- la a doBcoDdont of Jamop I,. Voorhoes. who helped to make tho history of Syrncuao In tho early days. Miss Voorhoes herBelf Is a native of Auburn. The RIchardfloo, Oswego, had the Thoda ynrn. Ojin,. "g.oul xif .Bu<Jdhn,"..oii..Mflnd«y. and. Tuesday; rii6 liux't booking ia "Swco'thonrts." tho Victor Herbert opora. on Friday. "Peck's Bad Uoy" is slated Saturday. PvL Bunt Cohn, ncCor nnd soldier, who re- cently married Miss RosbIu Henderfion, of Os- wego, hnH rooclvod word tliut bis share of his father's estate is .$SO,0OO. Cobn's father died In Sun Francisco. Coha. who was the first American soldier to escape from a German prison camp, has boon a patient at Fort On- tario, Oswego, since his return from "over