New York Clipper (Aug 1915)

August 14 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 29 TENNEV A WJUTBtt KBOWn.BT TBS BCCOSBSBS BES.WBITBS. U Tea Wm« a Good Act, Staetcb or JOoaolos I Oaa Be of J>A.nWBTH ti Aaslataac« to TToo. AlAKW HPBHCEB TBHSET, IftOa Broadway^frew Toitf. HEW VAUDEVILLE ACTS Hbrry Sykea - (Uonoloslai and Slaser). 12 SiiH., IN Oub. Harlem O. H. (Aug. 5).—A slnglTig comedian,, tvlth voice and personality, and ability enoasb to canr Iilm on to tbe big stuIT, alter redresslos blm- seU. Syices worked liere In a: neat checked/ eolt. He Is up abreast o{ many a "single \iUh a piano accompanist," but doesn't carry one. He nas a good line of goes, and possesses proper Irisb. Hebreir and a few otber dialects for different stories.. Opening wia "Midnight Cabcwalk Ball'.' he followed with a gOod Impersonation of Bert Williams singing "Woodmap. Spare that Tree," and after some funny dialogue,, a "special" medle/ of songs, and encored with a comic one, "I. Can't' Give Her Up." Ue was a huge success here. TOO, Iivne Comeron and Fowler Boys (Acrobato ICOf Sliieflns and Danclns); 11 MiNu OUB AMD Two. Harlem O. H. (Aug. 4.) —The net In Its orescnt shape Is slipshod, the two men merely fllllng In between Miss Cameron's songs with some acrobatic etunta. After she opens, In one, with an English number In drees snlt, cape, alU: bat, etc, the men have a. minute of card ploying, In two. one rest- ins la a forearm, stand. Then, a Frenchy number by Miss Cameron, then some stonta, and so on until the woman carries one of the Fowlers In a handstand on her shoulders and drags tbe other off on a. two-wheeled 'wagon, factened oboot her "wolst, f6r exit. Needs flsmg all tbe way to "make It poslble" for any but the small towoers. Tod. Jean Frailer and Company (Sketch). 10 MiM., INTEBIOB, Harlem O. H. (Aug. 5)—Jean FrazloA fooled moat' of s- packed house bere with his clever fe— male makeup, and with a sketch, called "Tbe 'Watch Dog,' a second surprise comes when a .vouDg girl, supposedly watcudoj^ng In tbe resi- dence tne female crook (Prazler) has "cleaned." holds "her" up ond strips "bcr" of all the gema, and as a cllTnax calls In an accomplice, a man. who has been laying watch outside. The situa- tion and climax of tbe turn Is strong and holds In- terest tbronghout, while Frailer an(l tbe girl mem- ber do exceptionally good work. Aa a female Im- personator Frazler lands above most on the small tiine. Toa; Eoseale La Blade (SInslnff and Danclaff). 10 UiN., IN. One. Harlem O. II. (i.Xug. 4).—A youthful singing romedlenne who Is a clever clog dancer and. capable, of putting a song over. After opening In a neat gray outfit abe made three change«, the first two to "tut gal" characters, and. a final one to a harem affair of yellow pantaloons and black velvet bodice, to finish with a good routine of. cIogElog and some Busslan steps, applanse breaking In all through It. She should replace her \3iir€ rig so' It would not follow tbe same aa her second "tuf" OQp. The changes are made In full' view of the audience, all underdressed. TM: Goelet, Harrla and Horey (Sonsa), 10 MiM., IN Onz. American,—^Three boys who open by- elnglnS- some popular songs nnd accoaiimnylng themselves on string Ir.stmmcmts. Their harmony Is very- good and they are good' singers. The banJ9^ and piano ployers were very good. The bthef rtiap h.iA a good rag voice. "Aey have a very, clever act and sbould have no trouble In getting, booked. Tbcy sang: '•Venetian Rose," "My lilf tie Girl." "Put Me to Sleep With an Old Fosli- loned Melody." '•ItHgtlme Melody Band." "Ken- lucky Hoiae," "Teach Mo the Way to Make Love" and for an encore, "In Idaho." Six bows and Bu Jfylcs. "Dasan's Money" (Comedy Sketob), 15 iliS; IN Three. American.—Another one of those matrimonial squabble sketches, and the audience liked It. Sketch opens with an argnment between busband and' 'nlfe about ancestors. Husband reads of death of only uncle; who Is a mlllllonalre. \7lte plans what she Is going to do with tbe money. He receives some "broken" telegrams, each one telling a little hit of- the will. The Income Is valued at $90,000. and wife Imicedlatcly assails the character. Last tele- gram soys uncle Is well and alive. Hnsbond Is a very good light comedian. Wife Is a good, feeder, only a Uttle dramatic at times. Telegraph boy snp^ piles tbe reel '.omcdy. Four bows. llvlta. Lew UoItB. 12 Mix., ih One. American.—Lew Holtz has a very good blaek face act. He know* bow to put over bis material; which is very clever, even If some of It Is not' of newest vintage, lie possesses a-good deal of. ns^etlsm and personality. He will'make a good art for the big small time. He has a good'sln^n?- voice, and sang ".Midnight Cakcwnlk BalV "'way. rtown Yonder." "When I Get Bftck to Home la- Teancsseo." Five bows. Uyltai Arnold and 'White fSIneera and' Slualclana). 12'MlN., .IN Oke. Harlem O. H. (Ang. r;>.—A two-man, "black ond tan" turn, working In dress salts all the way, rtlTer a good routine of mu«lcnl numbers on comet and trombone, after opening with a double song and ilance, followed by a vlolln solo by White, who wor'ns "tan." Thev shape up as good for the best .«man time, and with better patter for comedy should get to the two a days. *" UlUan Be 'Vere (SonB>)« 10 Mix-,, IS Osb. .\in«rteaii.^—r.Hltaa Dc Vere \t a-typlcarsmall time singer. She has the cabaret style of singing.- rifrr songs are 'well sclecteA. Her-ennnclotroj Is' poor. She sanr; "Why Not Sing Wearing of the Oreen." ".Ilahama Jubilee^'' "i:d Love Hir. Some More," "Dublin Bay." HSr. atl'eltfpfs' as tf (Mflfe- dlenne ate amateurish. Two bows. Uvlfs- BOSS GEORGE WDX DIRECT PUY- HOUSEi According .to the- announcement Just Issued front 'Oie olUces of Wm. A. Brady, 0race George <Mr*'. Wm. A. Brady) 'will assume direction of the Play- house thIS' season. begUmlng iiezt month, and wf:l Install a permanent company there, which It la expected 'wlll be augmented from-time tu time by •KW known, stars, wbea oppottnnltles permit o*. such, a combination. She will put. Into fctcc her own policy, select her own olays, choose tho ploy- ers--with: whom .she Is to be associated, and make all the productions under her own personal direc- tion. In aiL-lntervletv on. the subject Mr. Brady said: "When I built the Playhouse I had In mind tbo formation of a permanent acting company upou the lines adopted by the lato AugustlL. Daly In Daly's Theatre, and subsequently by Daniel Frob- man In the old. Lyceum. This organization was to have been led by Miss George. Indeed, thla was the. chief animating purpose that carried the Playhonsa to completion, and It may be recalled that a tentative announcement In this direction was Issued. at the time of the opening. But while the: plan was developing 'Bought and Paid For*, was produced with such, auccras that to have . withdrawn; It would , have been an act of business madness, and following this play 'Little Women!, carried tbe theatre to tbeend of. Its ecc- ond-'. year. comDelling. tbo- temporary abandonment of .the. project. "This outcome, however, .jas Its. coDipeasating. featace.-since It hns enabled .the final placing of the- undertaking. upon a foundatloa or. flnaoclal seconty; enabUng.' Miss Georgo to have ftecdom.. from eny. possible fetters In the fulfillment of her artistic alma "A-nnmber. of plays already have been selected- fop. the. season's series, or these several arc new; while'.the.program Is to-embrace a number of re- vivals- One point ot s.'gnlficance. Is that-no-pro- duction wlll receive more than four weeks of con- secutive-performonces. oUhough' those most'In de- mand, will be-repi!ated on .single nigbts dnrlng the eeas'JiL: "The offerings decided upon.at this tlme lnclnde a UoHere-comedy, a play by Jobn .Galsworthy, an- other by George Bcrosrd Shaw, a comedy by .PInero, "Th* New-York :Idea,'V by LOngdon Mitchell: "The LlaisJ" by Henry Atthnr Jones; "The School for- Scandal.;' two-recent successes from tbe Comodte- FrancnlB,-.and one rl.isslcal play, in addition^ to- two. new' works by American authors. "I'be choosing of a time like thls fon.an.enter- Erlse snch as the one cutllncd,. shows.that wc sUll ave.some st.irs'who are able not alone to resist, tbe .lnre of the. moving picture magnatRs. but to |-ut:the test foot forwnI'd In onothrr.ond opnoilns oitecthin. MIs.i Gcocgc has received a. number, oi. propositions tempor.irlly to transfer her. person-, allty to'tbo camcm drama, bat she electa to malr.r tain her allegiance to. tbo speaking stage.-. "Miss GcocgQ already has engaged- certain, ."nem- bers.of:her assisting company, whose names wlll. be annotmced as .soon as tb> roster Is roRp'.etc. TUlB'ivilL Include .Identities well ):nowD In Londcrn as well.as New York, and,- further.. I:may s^v that' negotiations' are^ rendln; under which . It Is Lcped:t}lat several well established starn 'uny be at&oeintcd-.wlth'Ml!,'9 Georgo In. plays: of the re- ptrtoltc which provide' opportnn'tlcs fo- such a (cmbination. Each of .tbcr>e sipcciai enAKcmehts 'Will be for a limited- number of performances.^ "When . the . program, for. tbe season has becni ccmitlctcljt prepared subscription blanks will be USQCd,' In . order that persons Interested. In the movement may have an opportunity to subscribe In ndv.ince fo6 tbe whole or a portloja .of the Kprlc-s of prudnctlans. .as was done by many sup-; porters of . the Now Theatre movement. The two movements differ—first, in the. fact that.no. out- side caplnl will, be enlisted In Miss George's venr ture, and, second; for the reason-that as her de- cision-In all matters will be final tL-ere can arise no -dlhcncsions or clashes of anthorlty." GERfRDDE EOFFMAM AT 1!1EV7 BRIGETOS. Monday^ Aug. 16,-the New Brighton - Thea- tre will stage for the-first time. Gertrude Hoffmann and'her company of some sixty players, in. "Sum- unm," a wordless piny. KOTcUles. galore are announced .l>y MIeb HoS-- mann. . and .expecting a large advance sale the box offlce 'wUI be open at 10.30 each morning 3fr. Bernstein, .who Is the press representative for;tbe hotuie. Jm. putting over same ezoelUnt prev work for. Miss Hoffman in the Brooklyn dallies. CL1UIII9 FLE3TrTO-g(Jc'S ■wlttr 'Tiro IS Com'- pany," AUGUSTUS THOflAS' PUR FOR IN- CREASING OUTPUT OF ABERICAN PLAYS. ^-jE, It has developed that a major port at the atnr-- thoatre policy so far thought out by Augustur Thomas, who has lately accepted the art dlrectoi- ship at tho Charles Frobman Co., is a ploytrrUht'S plan for Increasing the oatpnt of Amertcon fflade plajs. "Since last August playwrltlng has been ex- tlngnlahed. In seven nation?," said Mr. Thomas, in an. Interview, In explanation of hia new plan. "The theatres of ^fx countries ate closed, novlona. to lost August sixty per cent, of the dramas, comedies and operettas shown on ths .\.'merlean staso came from Europe and England. America, which has always r;ade tho greatest de- mand of all conntnes for tbeatre- entcrtnlnmcmt; must, hereafter, produce Ita onvn. supply.. Play- wrltlng Is paralyzed tbrou^bout I;hirope for five or ten years to come. Except the plays we have from Maugbiim,. Barrle, Plue'.'u. Beslcr. Chambers and. Morton; no plays wlll even come out of EhkS-*J land for years to come. < , "But in this fact Is the American playwright s golden' Opportunity-,- Not since tho night; ttte flnt theatre In America threw open Its doors have tbe writers of -American comedies, satires, farces and musical operettas been ylvldca such an absolutely c:«ar Qetd' A r;atton or a hundred mllllooK. fflu<<t hereafter look exclusively t.> Its own writer-* for I'm theatre entertainment. As the art directing head of the hugh Frobman Institution, I am forced to realize that for many years to come there Is an end to the practices of mnn.igcrs seeklnc plays abroad. Thw, therefore, enforces the pnllcy of hastening tbe development of home products. "The total paralysis of playwrltlng In Europe Is one reason twbicd my plan lor stimulation Amer- ican playwrltlng, but It Is only one reoson." Mr. Thomas continued. "I ham long held and frequently expre.^sed the opinion that tbe potential dramatist Is flrst a newv paper man- because the newspaper man ba<i that Inalspensable training, not elsewhere found. In dla- lugnc ln cbaracter study and has the flare for the dramatic I bellove thnt the future of tbe -Amer- ican drama has Its finest promise In such products- as shall come directly from the soli, such storloe as shall de Indigenous to the communities which they express. Our country Is so large that wa may never pioduce what may be dcQollely called 'The Oreat American Play,' but tbe great sc<'tlon» are so distinctive and Individual that many great sectional playa will be e'volvcd, "The 4naterta1 for these plays now lies In the' mtnds and.moybe on the tables of many ambitions young men.In the local rooms of tbe ncwspapctr, and if a.nethod,, however Imperfect, can be devised for calling this, material into 'obspo' the theatre and the nation will be the galCers. "Allow* me to lllimtrate my theory by czamnlf; During tbe past Winter, after lecturing bnoie Prof. Baker's class In dramas at Harvard, I. made a second visit to the University, for tbe parpo.se of working la collaboration with, the students; We groceedcd on the assnmptlon. that a definltr older ad been received from a manager for a play. Then the class addressed lteel(< to tbe task, dacid- rd upon the actor or actress for whom- the pilay was to be-written, started, wltb either a suggeatloix or an Idea and built a worklog scenario leadinc from tbat Idea. "The -^xperlmcat was successful, and Id two n.oming sessions of three hours each, Prof. Baket's class of tbUty-dve produced what can be recorded OS an..excellent story for a play. "Tbe story was left In the custody of tbe dasa which , was to appoint a small committee for Its amplification Into a proper play, "Tbe- reported result of the experiment wa* so heartily received by the Society of American Dra* matl.sts. that the society voted to try almllM'- ex- periments among Its own members, and for several consecutive Saturday nights during the scaean tbbse members met and. worked after the- same fashion, first under my leadership and-then under others. In tbia work two stories were evolved and' given-, to committees for their developmefit lalo plays. "These dcamatlst pot-boilers have not yet made their appearance,-and-tho committees of dramatists appointed ito work: upon them were not always In agreement, but something n:^rc valuable thon.the prodnctlon.of. pot-bollGrs rcoulted: from tbo cotlo- boraQon. aomo members of the committee decided to .'worft-on their oiya account oo the stories pre- ' -seated; others began to work In pairs, which In perbops- tho most satisfactory allotmeoc for eolla- boratlon, but tbe 'n-holc sorli^ty was.eoerRlsed by ' the-Idea, and- Its . various mrmbers went to work with renewed vigor. "llic success of :thn experiment at Harvard'and In the. Dramntlst.V Society, and' especially- thb' nroctlcablUty of work in . tbat manner Indicate tbat If In center.; of tbe great sections, let us say, I'bllndclphla. Seattle, San. Franclscoi Lo.i Angeles, St. Paul, Chicago. Xow Orleans. Boston. St. Lonls. Detroit and other cltle;), n euOlctcnt number of newspaper men could bp found to form- a little working coterlo to which company I or others might- come who are familiar with the work: snch a company of writers could Huccessfnlly collaborate upon, a play. I do not think tbat thin play would neces.sarlly be great or even snccesnful, but I do believe that after it was prodnced the men who had bccD Instructed bv lt» production would em- ploy ttre name methods to make'playn of their ■ own snbjects about which they no doubt feel deeply and ore thoroughly Informed." d ■ » 'W.tXTER Ci KBl.I/V CUT. la as oigurauit an-l 9tmgirl<> bctwwn Walter C. KeUr and -Bebsrt A. Purberton. at Atlantic Citf, N. J. Kelly, ivas badl^ slastioi} and taicm to toa City tloypltai. Furbenon was arrested. T/ODIS M-\N\ celebrates bU 15th perfermaiiea of "Tbe Bcbble" at the Booth Theatre Aug, IX.