Variety (June 1919)

^'5S^ JMk MOVING U R 73 NEWS OF THE FILM WORLD Harrr Leonhardt arrived In New York, May 28. ,W. C. Viebrook, for the past two rears traveling auditor for Select, has been ap- I i pointed assistant comptroller. Jane O'Neill baa been selected by Universal as leading woman In "The Broken Idol." a .new aerial. Jobn F, HoGowan is the director. > Lisle Leigh la appearing In a World picture with Dorothy Green and-Arthur Ashley. Prank Belcher Is directing. "Happiness a la Mode" la the title of Con- stance Talmadge's next Select It will be a .June release. , .'The United Motion Picture Theatres have added 88 theatres to their liat during the past week, bringing their total to 2,587. Florence Reed leaves for her summer home In Maine this week. She will remain there about two months. 7 % Nigel Barrle Is to be the leading man for Marguerite Clark in her next production, one of the stories of the "Bab" series, entitled "Widow by Proxy." 9. - '- "Trixie Prom Broadway" will be the Amer- 1 loan Films next offering starring Margarita Fisher. Emory Johnson Is the leading man. . The picture will be released June 15. American Filma next feature starring William Russell has been titled "A Sporting Chance" instead of "The Signet of Sheba" as originally announced. "v i Mitchell Lewis' forthcoming Select, "Jacques of the Silver North," completes the three at- tractions which the company has announced for this star for May. Work will start shortly at vita studio on 'The Gamblers," the late Charles Klein's play. Helen Ferguson will be the leading woman and will play opposite Harry Morey. t'Rubye de Remer has signed with World to star In a series of productions. Her Ini- tial picture will be "Dust of Desire," written by Forrest Halsey. A banquet will be tendered by the Picture Industry of the State of New York, June 18, at the Waldorf-Astoria, to Sydney Cohen, Charles L. O'Reilly and Samuel I. Berman. Oscar Apfel will for the next three years produce flvo reel features which will be known as Apfel Productions, distributed through World. Bessie Barrlscale's next picture will be based on "The Luck of Oeraldlne Laird," by Kathleen Norrls. This Is the fourth of the Norrla pictures.' 'The Famous Players' studio at Hollywood will be Increased to double the present output, with the result It will be able to handle ap- proximately a million feet of film a week. A new concern with the name of the Florida Film Corp., H- J. Kluthe, president, has es- tablished a studio at Jacksonville for two reel comedies. Bert Tracy and Olen Lam- bert are the directors. 11 B. 14th street, New York. Mr. Phlllpp has turned over nine of his plays to the com- pany, Including "The Midnight Girl," "The °!r, 1 W* 10 Smiles" and "Adele," all of which will be made Into photoplays. "The Lion's Den," by Frederick Orln Bart- lett, has been purchased by Metro and will be used ■ as the next screen vehicle for Bert Lytell, following "Blackle's Redemption." The story appeared In the Saturday Evening Post and was made Into scenario form by George D. Baker, who will also direct Lytell In the screen production. H. B. Hancock haa signed Pierre LeMay for the lead in the next two pictures he la to furnish the Bureau of Vocational Training. LeMay has returned after a year with the French before Verdun aa a lieutenant of the American Ambulance Corps. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Medal Mill- s' re ix 1H, Pl_ c ' u «» are to be made under the H. ft H. brand and to be released with special co-operation of the U. S. Government. Klotz ft Strelmer, Inc., picture producers, recovered pudgment for over $1,000 from the Foursquare Pictures' Corporation for unpaid payments for rentals of the plaintiff's pro- ducUon^lpcludlng the Thomas H. Ince fea- ture, "Whither Thou Goest." The defendant was granted certain exhibition rights to the New England, New Jersey and Canadian ter- ritory for the films involved, falling to make good their agreements. The plaintiff, acting through Jonas ft Neuberger, served a copy of the summons and complaint on George H. Backer, who at one time was in control of the defendant corporation. A short while before the action was begun, however, Backer stepped out of the firm. FANNIE WARD la Pictures BILLS NEXT WEEK7 'Patricia Palmer, who has been playing leads In recent Christie Comedies, has been loaned by that company to play the leading role In support of Mitchell Lewis, In a story being "■made at the Columbia River In Washington. B. A. Crane," the New York manager for the W. W. Hodkinson Corp., has been placed in charge of the reorganization of exchanges throughout the country. He left last week for Detroit. (Continued from page 23) Lang & Ward Julian Hall Kluting's Animals 2d half (Same aa Atlanta BOSTON Orpbeum Klnzo Jewett & Elgin Great Howard Alexander ft Fields Adelaide & Band i II "Billeted." the play by T. Jennyson-JeBee < and H. M. Harwood, which Frances Marlon 'adapted for Paramount presentation with 3111ie Burke as the star, has been retltled "The Misleading Widow." Thomas Melgban has "been engaged by Famous Players to play tho leading role In 'Teg O' My Heart/' the' Hartley Manners comedy, which Is being made under tbe direc- tion of William C. C. DeMIUe. Wanda Hawloy has the title role. '•1. ~""""~~* /Samuel Goldwyn and Rex Beach havo formed a corporation to be known as the Eminent Authors' Pictures, Inc., which will put on tbe screen the works of Mary Roberts Rlnehart, Basil King, Gouverneur Morris, Rupert Hughes, Gertrude Atherton, Leroy Scott. The Adolf Phlllpp Film Corp., recently or- ganised, have opened offices and a studio at JACK CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer Robert Brunton Studios, Los Angeles Recent Releases for Bsrrlscale, Keenan, Glaum and Kerrigan (One to fill) 2d half Adonis ft Co Lang ft Green 8 Rosellas Red Fox Trot Keegan ft O'Rourke 8 Black Dots CHICAGO McVIefcere Billy DeVere Hudler Stein ft Phil J O'Brien ft S Girls Ferna & Howell Chalfonte Sla (One to flll)_ FALL RIVER, MASS. BIJOU Adonis Co Lang ft Green Red Fox Trot Keegan ft O'Rourke 8 Rozellaa 2d half Kinzo Jewett ft Elgin Great Howard Alexander ft Fields Adelaide & Band HAMILTON, OAlf. Loew Burns ft Foran Jimmy Caason Co "In Wrong" Swarts ft Clifford Mori Bros HOBOKEN, N. J. Loew Gertrude Rose "For Instance" B ft B Wheeler Renellaa 2d half Storey ft Clarke Weber ft Elliott Dawson L ft C KANSAS CITY, MO. Empress Connolly ft Francis Frank ft Toby Donovan ft Lee Carl McCullough Leach LaQulnlan 3 2d half Francis ft Nord Ted Healy Haokett ft Francis S ft H Everett 8 Ambler Bros MEMPHIS Lyceum Frank Hartley Scott ft Chrystle Bernevicl Bros 2d half (Same aa Birming- ham 1st half) MONTREAL /Loew Bollinger Helen Morettl Quigley ft Fitzg'ld ,T Mlmlo World" NEW ORLEANS Orescent (Sunday opening) Allison Nixon ft Sana Girl from Starland Foley ft McGowan Montana 6 2d half (Same as Memphis lot half) NEW HOOHELLE, N. Y. * Loew Greno ft Piatt Maybelle Best Walter Baldwin Co 2d bait Flo Ring B Swede Hall Co PALISADE PARK, If. Y. Loew Ridge ft Glle Mtrano Bros 3 Lordena (One to fill) PITTSBURGH Lyceum Wllhat Troupe Wood Young ft Phil Bernard! Alt Grant "Help Police" Van ft Morris Merlin Oxford Trio 2d half (Same aa Kansas City 1st half) 80. BETHLEHEM, PA. Loew Storey ft Clarke Van ft Carrie Avery Weber ft Elliott Dawson L & C _ . 2d half Bolger Bros Gertrude Rose B ft B Wheeler Renellaa SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Broadway A Onrl ft Dolly Beck ft Stone PROVIDENCE, R. L Holmes ft LeVere Emery Arnoldoa McCann ft Robles Bert Walton Anderson ft Rean Lyons ft Yoaco 2d half Onrl & Dolly Earl Rlokart Holmes A LeVere Lyons ft Yoaco Brlndamour ST. LOUIS Gaxrlck Lang ft Shaw Goetz ft Duffy Earl Rlckart Brlndamour 2d half . - Arnoldos McCann ft Robles Anderson ft Rean Bert Walton Rose Revue TORONTO Towage Cavana Duo Edah Deldridge 8 Jack Goldle ■ LaHoen ft DuPreece Brady ft Mahoney Herbert'a Dogs PANTAGES CIRCUIT .' New York and BCTTE, MONT. Pantages (81-8) (Same bill playa Anaconda 4; Mia- soula 6) Kelly Field Players Joe Darcy 4 Renneea 8 ft A Beverly Monroe & Grant CALGARY Paataarea Amoros & Obey Song ft Dance Rev Bert Melrose Meyers ft Weaner Betty Brooks "Lota ft Lots" DENVER Pantages o Spanish Dancers Barnes ft Freeman Aleko Panthea ft P Fritchle Phil LaToska Ulmark Brink ft H EDMONTON, CAN. Primrose Minstrels "Revue De Luxe" Lawrence ft Edws Booth ft Leander Florence Rayfleld LeRoy & Dresner GREAT FALLS, MONT. Paataarea (8-4T (Same bill plays _ Helena 5) Empire Quartet Cliff Clark Nadell ft Follette Diaz Monks The Leoras LOS ANSELES ^ . Pantages "Miss 1920"^ "Who la He?" Irene Trevette MpLellan & Carson Weston Bis .OAKLAND Pontages (Sunday opening) Bullet Proof Lads Beth Challla * Raush ft Lavelle Colinls Dancers Chaa F 8 em on 4 Danubes OGDBN Pantages 4Bard. <6 ™ Trovato "Fireside Reverie" Lillian Watson Pedrinl's Monks Dancing Cronlns PORTLAND, ORB. _ . Paatagea Denlshawn Dancers Raines ft Goodrich Chicago Office* REGINA, CAN. Paatagea (Same bill plays Saskatoon 6-7) Novelty Minstrela The Cromwella "Submarine F7" Argo ft V Sis Juliet DIka SALT LAKE Paatagea "Aeroplane Girls" J ft M Gray Aator 4 Ilka Marie Deel Arthur Barrett "Million Dot DollB" SAN DIEGO Paatagea Mile Bianca Co Valentine Vox Tuscano Broa 8 Maesses J Gilford Mel Klee R Whlttaker Co SAN FRANCISCO Paatagea (Sunday opening) Gautler's Toyahop Fox ft Brltt Willard'B Fantaay Rookie Lewis Harry Tsuda J ft R May SEATTLE Andereon'sKevue Kaliyama F ft J Smith Helen Jackley Hager ft Goodwin-' Rhooda A Crampton SPOKANE _ . Paatagea Schepp's Circus Samaroff Trio Tetter Sextet Cook ft Lorenz Arthur Lloyd Josephine Davis TACOMA _ „ Paatagea Caltes Broa Race & Edge Ruth St Denla Co Joe Reed Alice Teddy Co Abrams ft John VANCOUVER, D. O. Will ffifa— Victoria 4 Malde DeLong Stever ft Lovejoy Harris ft Mannlon "Some Baby" VICTORIA, B. O. Paatagea Lucy Valmont Co -eke jax'l Oar Modern Mftbodt and Equipment X.R&y make all wort AbtoisMy Paiolou. ExtrtotlMi i Drs. M.P. Chodos &L.Glucksman | i PUTNAM BUILDING 1453 BROADWAY SUITE 3II-3IIB NEW YORK Rwaovabl* BridlMrork Horn: 10*0 to S-J0 aed Nawjata Work by SwcUl Anointment. Hodkina-Pantaget Bookings Gordon ft Day "Stampede Rid Eddie Ross Ruckerft winfred Martha Ruasell Co Tom Kelly Cap Dick Jazz Band Hall ft Gullda WINNIPEG _ ' Pantages Brosiua ft Brown Stewart & Olive « He . n< L S2°P ,e H «"»" Ball & West Richard the Great Dorothy Lewis ILKA MARIE DEEL In "TEARS" Featured on Pantages Circuit DALLAS, TEX. Jefferson LaToya Dogs LaPetlte Elva Burke & Burke Zuhn ft Drela "Tallyho Girls!' HOUSTON, TEX. Pxiace Murphy ft Klein Regal A Moore 4 Meyakos Sen Francis Murph Colonial 6 MUSKOGEE, OKLA. _ . Bro ad w a y Daleton Mareeno ft D Jazz Mack ft Almea "Golden Bird" ACKERMAN & HARRIS CIRCUIT San Francisco Dixie 4 "World Wide Rev;* OKLA CITY, OKLA Liberty J Deeley ft Sla . > Paul Moher McConnell A Simpson Van ft Vernon "Magazine Glrla" SAN ANTONIO* TEX. Royal. ~_. - X— The Mozarta ■-," Weir ft Temple -■-.. McLean ft Co Joe Roberts Pekinese Tr •-# BAKERS FIELD Hippodrome O-i) Zellner ft Hollaway 3 Wallflowers Aerial Snella ft Casey Cutler _ Fred ft Peggy F ft B Hymm FRESNO Hit ArtoiB Bros B Kelly Forreat Haddon & Norman (Others to fill) 2d half Snow Sigworth ft S Howard Moore ft C Zellner ft Hollaway Polly Oz ft Chick 4 Pierrots LONG BEACH Hippodrome The Heyns Wlnnlfred Stewart E Wurdette Co Morrison ft Carter Covan ft Helene Prelle's Circus 2d half Billy Doss Clevel'd ft Trelease Wolf ft Wilton (Others to fill) LOS ANGELES Clone's Audi Alco Trio Frances & Hume Jambone Quartet Tom Mahoney Roy Clair Co AMtin^R^Bsell "Cycle of Mirth"' , (Others to fill) . 2d half Aerial Snells "Cycle of Mirth" (OtherB to fill) SACRAMENTO Hippodrome B Morefte Sextet Kline ft Kllfton Delmore Fisher ft D Jimmy Lyons Belmont Sisters Chase ft LaTour „ „ 2d half M ft c Estey Mabel Kllleen Delmore ft Moore Yprke ft Marks Wyoming Trio SAN DIEGO Hippodrome 2 Edwards Wolf ft Wlltoa . Geo Lovett Billy Doaa "Hello Toklo" 2d half Covan ft Helena , Austin ft Russell Estelle Wurdette Co Clevel'd ft Tteleaso Prelles Circus ■ k 8AN FRANCISCO Casino (Sunday opening) The Crawforda » .?■— Propeller Trio Infield ft Noble J C Mack 3 Helene Trio ■ Hippodrome (Sunday opening) Wheelock ft Hay Appier ft Appier , Dougherty ft Bcalia Jimmle Gallon Lamey ft Pearson Johnson Dean Rev Lillian DeVere BAN JOSE _ Hippodrome Gertrude Graves George White Co ': (Others to fill) 2d half Morelle Sextet B Kelly Forrest Haddon ft Norman' White Co """"V (Two to fill) .' SANTA BARBARA Fortola 2d half --v:'X Winnlfred Stewart Manafleld ft Riddle (Others to fill) ; stookton •"- ■'■';': Hippodrome Snow Sigworth ft 8 Polly Oz ft Chick (Othera to fill) __, 2d half Kline ft Kllfton ■Delmore Fisher Jimmy Lyons - v^-= Belmont Sisters Chase ft LaTour :*'• TAFT "--r^ Hippodrome . Toin Mahoney i: Jambone Quartet ■.'■- Cutler & Casey J" & P Hymm ' 3 Wallflowers .- : -^ - v 1 - ' •' '- INTERSTATE CIRCUIT Palace Theatre Balldliig, New York CKy AUSTIN, TEX. Majestic B ft L Walton Marsh Montgomery "Oh Auntie" Sam Hearn Barr Twins Swor ft Avey Delano ft Pike DALLAS, TEX. . _ Majestic LaFrance Bros Daniels ft Walters "Only Girl" Restivo R Everests Co • (One to fill) FT. WORTH, TEX. Majeatle Kate & Wiley Kennedy ft Rooney Kathryn Murray Mosconi Bros Geo A Moore 6 Klrksmith Sis (One to fill) HOUSTON, TEX. Majestto Los Rodrlquez Gallerlnl Sisters Adair ft Adelphl Anthony ft Rogers "Current of Fun" Jack Norworth 3 Bennett Sis LITTLE ROOK, ARK. i NajesfJe Time ft Tyle I ft B Smith Spencer ft Wilson Hodge Podge 6 2d half B ft L Walton San Hearn Barr Twins Swor & Avey Delano ft Pike SAN ANTONIO, TEX. Majeatle J & K Demaco Pauline Haggard Henry B Toomer Co Man Off Wagon "Puppy Love" J ft M Harkins Wyatt's Lada ft Lass ';«# ; 5a .