New York Clipper (Jul 1915)

THE NEW YORK CLIPPER July 3 NOTES MARGOT WILLIAMS has signed with A. H. Woods for next season. ONE HUNDRED members of the graduat- ing class of Hunter's College attended the matinee performance of Louis Mann, in "The Bubble," at the Booth Theatre, June 23. Mr. Mann made an appropriate speech for the occasion. THE ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CLUB held a smoker in the Hotel McAlpin night of June 22, with Edward Gilman presiding over the forty members and guests present. THE UNITED CLOAK and Suit Designers held an exhibit of Summer and Fall styles at the Hotel McAlpin blue room, June 22. Man- nequins in the parade of gowns before the sev- eral hundred designers and manufacturers present, displayed a great profusion of effective creations in women's attire for the ball /oom, afternoon and street wear. PENDING the copipletion of the Rialto Theatre, S. L. Rothapfel is serving as business manager of the Academy of Music. RUTH HOLT BOUCICAULT, who played Olivia. Bianca and Celia in Margaret Anglin's comedy, has been engaged for the role of Cvtemnestra, in "Iphigcnia in Aulis," and in "Electra." and for the role of chorus leader in the "Medea," when those Euripidean tragedies are presented later in the Summer at the Uni- versity of California. VICTOR MOORE, in a film version of "Chimmie Fadden," is on the program at the Standard this week. THE ORIGINAL intention to halt the run of "Chin-Chin" at the Globe on July 3 has been given up, as the attendance has been so good. FRIARS' NIGHT occurred June 22 at the Astor Theatre, when members of that club at- tended the presentation of "The Alien," After the performance a dinner was given in George Beban's honor at the club house. LOUIS MANN is in his third month in "The Bubble" at the Booth Theatre, with every evidence of his holding his own against all counter attractions. - HAVING ALREADY broken some attend- ance records, "The Passing Show of 191 s" began its fifth week at the Winter Garden, June 28, with an unchanged cast. THE TIMES PRODUCING CORPORA- TION announces an important engagement of William Danforth for a prominent part in "Tht Girl Who Smiles." Mr. Danforth will be re- called for his splendid work in the musical comedy, "Adele." Another important engage- ment is that of Paul Hyde Davies, the noted tenor, who attracted such great attention when he sang last year at the Lambs' All Star Gam- boL "The Girl Who Smiles" goes into re- hearsal July I. It will be produced at the Lyric Theatre about Aug. 9. A COOL SPOT is the George M. Cohan Theatre, where special ventilating fans and a mammoth ice plant keep the temperature twenty per cent, cooler than it is on the street "It Pays to Advertise" will register its three hundred and fifty-first New York performance week ending July 3. "ON TRIAL" is in its last weeks at the Candler Theatre. Saturday, July 3, will mark the three hundred and seventy-fourth time of this great drama. HENRY FINK is now writing with Dick Howard, and have just finished what promise to be three big hits next season. GEORGE BROADHURST will have a new play for George Fawcett, to be produced early next season. "THE LAW OF THE LAND," with Julia Dean and Riley Hatch, will open for a road tour at Rochester, N. Y., Sept 2. ROCKCLIFFE FELLOWS, who succeeded William Courtenay as Steven Denby, in "Under Cover." at the Cort Theatre, did excellent work in the role, and in the strong scenes with Violet Heming both scored heavily. The show closed for the season June 26. "SHE'S IN AGAIN" will have several pro- ductions on the road next seasoiL THE ELINORE SISTERS figured in the real estate market last week through purchas- incr an $80,000 apartment house on the upper Westsidc. THE LONGACRE, New York, it is re- ported, will be taken over by A. H. Pincus on Stpt I. IAN MACLAREN, leading man with Gran- ville Barker's company, has been engaged by J. C. Williamson, Ltd., of Australia^ for a tour of the Antipodes, in a group of American plays including "On Trial" and "Inside the Lines," opening July 31 at Melbourne. Mr. Maclaren will sail on the Ventura from San Francisco, July (. His last engagement was in the Greek plays produced by Mr. Barker, hav- ing appeared during the entire season at Wal- lack's Theatre, and previously in the repertoire company at the Little Theatre, Philadelphia. He was leading man with Margaret Anglin, Viola Allen and George Arliss. JOHN C FLINN, for the last three years a dramatic critic on The New York Herald, hzs been engaged by the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company as promotion and publicity rep- resentative. Whitman Bennett, who has been in charge of the press work for the Lasky Company, remains in its employ in an executive capacity. "AN ARTIFICIALITY," from the French of Octave Feuillet, was the play given by the Washington Square Players m the grounds of Mrs. Benjamin Stern at Roslyn, L. I., Saturday afternoon, June 26. It was given for the bene- fit of the Roslyn District Nursing Association. SNOOKIE W. SNOOKIB BIBUUNU-BB (DAUGHTER) (MOTHER) Snookle W. -was bom at the New Shenoait Hotel, Cblcoso, Feb. 0. lt>15, and Is ttac property of Mr. and (Mrs. Johnnie Weber. BERTHA MANN, now leading woman at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, in Toronto, will close her engagement with that company next month to appear in the Selwyn production of "Rolling Stones," which is to open the season at the Harris Theatre on Aug. 16. Miss Mann was leading woman in "To-day," playing in Chicago and San Francisco last season. JUDGE IRVING LEHMAN, of the New York Supreme Court, recently granted an in- terlocutory decree of divorce in favor of Minnie Raddiffe Williams from her husband, Malcolm F. Williams, the well known actor. They were married in St. Louis in 1898, and have been separated for the past nine years. Mist Williams played leading characters with Joseph Jefferson, Sol Smith Russell and Elinore Rob- son, and lately played vaudeville in the sketch, "Flashlight Cragin." Mr. Williams played lead- ing characters in "Polly of the Circus," "Mas- ter of the House," "The Typhoon" and "Ma- dame X," and lately appeared in moving pictures. Attorney M. Strassman represented Miss_ Williams upon the trial, Mr. Williams offering no defense. The decree will be made final in three months. FELIX KREMBS has been engaged for a part in Roi Cooper Megrue's new play, "Under Fire," which will be produced in the Hudson Theatre early in September. V. A. WARREN has leased the Opera House at Massena, N. Y., for the coming season. He will play one or. two legitimate attractions a month. ILLUSTRATIONS HAi,F TONB PIOTURBtl In the rcadlnc pavea of THB CUPPER TrlU be Inaerted at theae prlecai D«able Celamn BUkOO ■iBsIa Oolum THE IRISH THEATRE OF AMERICA, directed by John P. Campbell and Whitford Kane, announce a season of twenty-six weeks, commencing in October at a theatre not yet selected. Among the plays announced for pro- duction is "John Bull's Other Island," by George Bernard Shaw. MABEL WILBER closed in St Louis June 26, and is resting. RALPH C HERZ has entered suit for di- vorce against Leah Herz, the former wife ot Jas. Harden, who was divorced by him. EDMUND BREESE and a company of seven leave this week for Alaska to produce h new picture, "The Spell of the Yukon." "TflE BIRTH OF A NATION" will be shown at the Brighton Beach Music Hall, Coney Island, commencing July 3. "THE GIRL," vrith Wm, H. Thompson, Arthur Lewis, Lowell Sherman, John Milterii and Leonora Ulrich, opens at Atlantic City, N. J., this week. THE REPUBLICAN National Convention will be held at Chicago in 1916. MARGARET ANDERSON goes wi.li "Common Qay." _ WEBER and FIELDS may be seen in vaude- ville at the Palace, New York, before the/ leave for the Coast. THE ELKS' new home at Bra2il, Ind., was dedicated June 28. ' BEN TEAL will rehearse "The Girl Who Smiles." "THE ALIEN" film continues at the Astor this week without George Bcban. THE PACKARD STOCK CO. has closed at the Standard. New York. FORBES-ROBEHTSOHr TOUR EXTENDED. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, the famous English actor, who for the past two years has been saying his farewell to the leading Ameri- can cities, will return to this country next ' October to make a tour of those cities he was unable to visit during his previous tour in this country. He will positively not be seen in any of the cities he has already said "farewell" to, but so great has been the demand that he in- clude those places he has not played, that he has decided to do so. He will have his own private car and will limit his stay in each city to a few days. The Forbes-Robertson repertoire will in- clude "Hamlet," "The Light That Failed" and "Passing of the Third Floor Back," the three plays in which he appeared during the past season on his coast-to-coast tour. He will be ■ supported by practically the ^me company, and his season will open in Richmond, Va., after which he will go through the South* and , Southwest, returning through the Middle West and East Percy Burton, who has been his general man- ager_ during^ the past seven or eight years, will continue with him in the same capacity, in addition his association as partner with Gran- ville Barker and Lillah McCarthy. LAJaBS* MORTGAGE, William Courtleigh, Shepherd, and Dudley Field Malone, Boy of the Lambs, have ob- tained permission from Supreme Court Justice Sheam to mortgage their club house on West Forty-fourth Street for $450,000, to be used in paying oS outstanding encumbrances and in furnishing and equipping the new club house addition. On a first mortgage the Lambs will borrow $300,000 from the Dime Savings Bank, of Brooklyn, at six per cent The other $150,000 will be raised through a bond issue. $145,000 of which is expected to be disposed of to mem- bers, as $111,745 in subscriptions has been paid in. The cost of the new building is $235,000. FISKE*()*SAkA, The well known Irish-American tenor, whose likeness appears on this issue's cover, made his vaudeville debut recently at the Palace Thea- tre, New York, the public and critics agreeins that he had one of the finest singing voices of any .single artist ever appearing at this house. His rendition of the beautiful Irish ballad, "When It's_ Moonlight in Mayo," made a pro- nounced hit and easily won honors over his other selections. Mr. O'Hara was induced to take a flyer vaudeville owinc to his remarkable success iii his latest play, "Jack's Romance."