New York Clipper (Feb 1923)

February 14, 1923 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 25 W Evcvybody s RunniiiWild V/^ '^'^TheTwoNewHitsfoiTheNewYear WANDA HAWLEY ASKS DIVORCE Los Anceles. Feb. 12.—Suit for divorce, charging desertion and cruelty, has been filed in the Superior Court by Wanda Hawley, motion picture star, against Albert Burton Hawley. The couple were married Sept. 18, 1916, and separated Oct. 13, 1922, according to the complaint. The papers were filed by an attorney. Miss Hawley is reported being !n Europe and her husband in New York City. AUractioDs at City Theatres BELASCO W. 44lll St. Vitt. Than , Svgm., I. &S>t. 8J0 2.20 DAVID BELAaOO PnuDls L^ore Ulric KKI A Charastv Stodr B. F. tiMU 'Bxotiinj mai 47th St. P Al ,A i.K 2S. so an/ TSe. ETery * A jj jj J, j,^ PRE-EMINENT DrreRNATIONAI. ENTERTAINMENT ALL STAR PROGRAMME OLYMPIC i^i-;:. MUTUAL CIRCUIT SHOWS Sweet Bay Bees Next Week—GIRLS-A-LA-CARTE BROOKLYN THEATRES Casino Theatre BIG JAMBOREE Next Week—ROCKETS Empire Theatre Ralph AiiiMi aai Bradwar KNICK KNACKS Next Wk.—Jimmy Cooper'a Beauty ReT. Sr-r^ a n Jar ar. FoIIdd St. Mat. 1 /\ t\, DbOt- T*L Triancla 497 JERSEY LILIES Next Week—SWEET BAY-BEES Gayety Theatre r^dt?y MERRY MAIDENS Next Week-^JINGLE BELLS ILL PERFORMERS NOT PAID ScRANTON, Pa., Feb. 10.—Almost a riot occurred back stage at the Majestic The- atre tonight when it was learned by the members of the "Town Follies" Company that Manager Lew Epstein had sent word to his representative at the theatre not to pay the people who had been ill for several days, during the engagement of that com- pany at his theatre. Several members ^f the company had been ill with the grippe for a few days during the latter part of the week, due, they say, to negligence. Tuesday night is fight night at the Ma- jestic. Last Tuesday night Kpstein booked eleven amateur fights. It seems that Ep- stein was called out of town on Sunday to visit the Al Tolson Show and left the management of the theatre'to a boy in the box office, Joe Lewis. On the nght night, Lewis found that he had twenty-two fighters, each fighter hav- ing a second and some a manager on his hands about the time the curtain rang'up. In his excitement he rushed them all back stage long before the first part of the show was over, crowding all but the fighters on one side of a not over large-sized stage. These men were wet from the big snow storm and it was not long before the floor and the runway from the dressing rooms was soaking wet. This made no difference to Lewis, although his attention had been called to the maimer in which things were running by the company manager. He claimed that it was the way they did things in his theatre. The next day one girl was out of the show sick and the rest of the company were just about able to go through the show. The following day two more chorus girls, also Emily Nice, the sou- brcttc, and Mike Murphy, the carpenter, were out, with heavy colds, finally Satur- - day another chorus girl had to give in. Everyone who was taken sick was at- tended by a doctor and looked after by the members of the company who were able to get around. When the company manager settled up the bo.x office representative Saturday, the money was deducted from the salaries for the time the sick members of the com- pany were away. Again the company man- ager protested, but of no avail, the box office man, Lewis, claimed that he had had Epstein on the phone and that Epstein had given him positive orders not to give up to those who were ill. The indignant members of the company wanted to get in touch with the District Attorney but it was too late when they were dismissed from the theatre, and the company leaves the first thing in the morn- ing for Philadelphia, but two members, a chorus girl and the carpenter, are too ill to move and will have to remain here until they are well enough to travel. It is said that not one member of the company escaped without a cold and sev- eral were just about able to get to the theatre and make the show. Some persons are under the impression that Epstein did not know anything about this trouble, as they claim that he has al- ways paid anyone taken ill a full week's salary, but think that the box office boy overstepped his authority and that when Epstein returns and learns of the condi- tions, he will send a check to the Mutual office to cover the salaries of those who were ill with the grippe, which will amount to $116.53. The show, although crippled as it was, played to one of the biggest week's busi- ness of the season, gettmg a little over .§5,100 on the week. JACK JOYCE HELD IN 92,500 BAIL Harry Hall, vaudeville performer who is billed as "Jack Joyce, the Man with the Smile," was held in $2,500 last Saturday for the Grand Jury on complaint of Miss Doris Reynolds, nineteen-year-old vaude- ville dancer. The examination of Hall took place before Magistrate Stanley H. Renaud. in the West Side Court, and Miss Reynolds, her mother, and other witnesses appeared in the girl's behalf. According to the story tt>Id by Miss Reyn- olds she had been appearing in song and dance acts with another girl, and they were known as the Leslie Twins. She was en- gaged to Hall, and was to have married him in March, the betrothal having been announced about a year ago, at Hall's apartment at the Duluth, 325 Central Park West. K social gathering was in progress at the time, and it was understood that the apartment was to be the home of Hall and Miss Reynolds when they were married. On Monday of last week Mrs. Reynolds and her husband went with her daughter to a theatre and later to a restaurant. As they were leaving the restaurant, according to Mrs. Reynolds, they saw Hall enter a ta.\icab with a young woman and drive away to his Central F^rk West apartment. The Jleynolds family followed in another cab and allege they found Hall and the unidentified womaji in the actor's rooms. Hall called a man friend on the telephone, and when he arrived he said that the woman with Hall was his iiancee, and that he had an appointment to meet her there. After they reached home, Mrs. Reynolds said, her daughter confessed relations with Hall on December 5th, 1922, on Hall's promise to marry her in St. Edward's the Martyr Protestant Episcopal Church, 109th street and Fifth avenue. Subsequently, on the strength of having found another woman in the apartment of Hall, Miss Reynolds and her mfither reported the situation to the police of the West lOOth street station. Joyce this week is booked in Oeveland. MAY YOHE COMING BACK May Yohe, one time footlight favorite of New York and London, and once Lady Francis Hope, owner of the famous Hope diamond, is preparing to stage another come-back to theatrical fame in a small theatre in Melrose, Mass. The name of her new vehicle, is "Simply May Yohe," which was well received at the opening performance last week. Miss Yohe said that it was not exactly a come- back, as she had never really been away. "SALOME" WITH COLORED CAST CiiiCACO, Feb. 12.—The Avenne theatre here known as the Negro Folk theatre had a most auspicious opening of a presenta- tion of the spoken version of Oscar WiWe's "Salome." This being the first time that the sp^en version of the Wilde play has been presented here since Jime, 1914, when Mimi Aguglia acted it in Ital- ian, the premiere was a social event both from the standpoint of the negroes as well as the white populace of this dty. There was a heavy attendance of the North Shore's elite on hand. The performance of Wilde's not alto- gether dramatic hut very thrilling one act of over-talkative mingling eroti- cism and biblical history, of realism and sarcasm, of wordy repose and silent activi- ty, heightens its climaxes lawfully and well. Evelyn Freer depicted the dancing, and demonstrative princess of Judea; and Sidney Kirkpatrick, who made a very vehement Herod, kept up the chief interplay of ex- citements, Laura Bowman at Herodias and Solomon Bruce the prophet abetting them. Prior to the presentation of "Salome," a racial comedy by Willis Richardson was staged. REVUE TO BURLESQUE RAIDS The recent raiding expositions that have been enlivening the night life of the Green- wich Village cabarets will be satirized in the forthcoming production of "Greenwich Village Scandals, the new revue by Frank Williams and George Kraus, which is to be sponsored by the Vagabonds, Inc Mr. Williams, who is writing the libretto, has become a dyed-in-the-wool "villager" and is making the tours of the night places in search of a thrill and at the same time getting local color for the new revue. The piece will go into rehearsal in two weeks and after an out-of-town opening will come to the Greenwich Village theatre for a run. The cast is now being engaged. The Caarditm of ti Good Complexion TheSta^ For The Boudoir^ STEINS MAKE UP For the Stage For the Boadoir