New York Clipper (Mar 1923)

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March 14, 1923 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 15 The Misical Hebcrts have closed with Dan Sherman's show. Roth Thomas opened with the Poli Players, New Haveo, 1st week. Harrison and Moss have opened a tour of the Keith Southern time. Sir James Dwyer has teamed up with Grace Onna, in a new comedy act. Jesse L. Lasky is leaving New York next week oh his return trip to Holly- wood. Joe Yonng, the composer, will sail for a three months' vacation in Europe early in April. Otis Thome is now stage manager for ^Abif's Irish Rose" at the Republic Theatre..-; Hihbert and Barlow, minstrel comics, are framing a new-blackface act for vaudeville. • Pat Patterson opened at the Pleasure Park, in Evansville, Ind, this week for an indefinite run. Dave Wallace is handling special ex- ploitation for Ethel Barrymore in "The Laughing Lady." Hazzard Short sailed Saturday on the Majestic to stage the new "Music Box Revue" in London. Marie Smith has been added to the cast of the new revue at the Peck-Inn cabaret. New York. Jane Saliabuiy and Answorth Axn^ will join the Academy Players, Rich- mond, Va., this week. Thomas and Hayman and the Coort- ney SistetB, dancers, have joined the cast of the Connor Revue. Panl Ryner has returned to show business after a retirement of two years spent in commercial lines. Will Rodmi. of Roehm and Richards, has recovered from his recent iUness and is back on the job again. Nan Halpeiin has been routed over the Pantages Circuit. She opened last week, offering a new song cycle. Rosa, singing violinist, formerly of • Rubini Rosa, played the Rialto Theatre, Chicago, for a full week, (March 5-10). William Hally and Arthnr Prince will sail for London' in June, where they will produce several, vaudeville acts. Clarence Hibbard, minstrel comedian and tenor, will leave for the road shortly to play a route of small towns up state. Joe Batmi returned to New York last week after touring the West with Billy "Swede" Hall for the past few months. Edgar Stehll. Irving Dillon and Helen WesUiey will appear m support of Dud- ley Digges in "The Adding Machine." Norman Trevor has been signed for a prominent role in "The Mountebank," to be produced by Charles Frohman, Inc. Demarest and Collette opened in Philadelphia on Monday, and will play about six weeks in that city and its vi- cinity. Golden and Lewis will open Thursday in New Bedford, Mass., where they are beginning a tour of the New Enj;land . houses. Montagu Love is working again in the film production of "Little Old New York," having recovered from an attack of the grippe. ABOUT YOU! AND TOU!! AND TOU!!^ Williams and Howard are rehearsing a new comedy act, "Money Men," which they will shortly offer in the local vau- deville houses. Maiy Dawn will leave for Los An- geles on Thursday, where she will ap- pear in Mae Murray's new motion pic- ture production. Frank Conroy has been added to the cast of "Sold," the new Porter Emerson Browne play, which Mr. Browne is pre- senting on tour. Robert Warwick and Hazel Dawn will try out "Guilty," with the Marshall Players at the Lyceum Theatre, Balti- more,- next week. Ruth Thomas has joined the Poli Stock in New Haven, Conn., as ingenue, to fill the place of Georgianna Hewitt, who died recently. Be^ny Barton and his company of ten people opened for a tour of the Keith Circuit at the Eighty-first Street Theatre on Monday. Charles Bartholomew has replaced Charles Knight in "The Last Warning," at the Klaw Theatre, placed through ue Murray Phillips office. Harold Kennedy, the stock actor,>,lias returned to vaudeville and is appearing in a new single, "The Lost Art," at Proctor's, Troy, this week. Theodore Adolphns and his company will play six weeks in the Loew Pacific Coast nouses; three in San Francisco and three in Los Angeles. Estelle Beno, assistant to Danny Simmons, the Keith booker, was con- fined to her home for several days last week, with throat trouble. Grace Clarkson has been added to the cast of "The Broadway Bathing Beauties," a new girl act Harry Walker is preparing for vaudeville. - Julia Arthur presented Nemo, the ele- phant which E. F. Albee purchased for $5,000 from Singer's Midgets, to the city of Cleveland last week. Billy Holly has severed connections' with the Harry Weber agency to enter vaudeville as a member of the act known as "Dancing Ala Carte." PhU Dwyer and Dorothy Raymond are in Philadelphia this week breaking in a new act. Miss Raymond was for- merly with Jule and Raymond. J. Clifford, hypnotist, is requested to communicate with. Henry Chesterfield, secretary of the National Vaudeville Ar- tists, on a matter of importance. Raymond Hackett, who recently closed with "Glory," has been signed by George M. Cohan for the London com- pany of "So This Is London." Jack Richardson, the motion picture actor, has come on from California to appear with Dorothy Dalton in her next screen production, "Fog Bound." Syl\tla Clark opened this week at Kan- sas City, on the Orpheum Circuit, after a-sojourn in a Shubert Vaudeville Unit which closed several weeks ago. Dan Downing and Eddie O'Ronrke have formed a vaudeville allhnce and are appearing in the current revue at the Green Mill Gardens, Chicago. _ William McDonald, who had been as- sistant manager of the Hippodrome, Baltimore, is now connected with the chief booking office of the Loew Gr- cnit. Harold Seton is returning to the stage this week in Belasco's "Comedian." While temporarily out of the profession Seton contributed to various publica- tions. Virsfaiia Howell has been engaged by Margaret Anglin to appear -with ner in "The Woman of Bronze," which she is reviving for an extended tour. The play win tour the South en route to the Pa- cific CoasL Blackface Eddie Green was added to the cast of "Liza" when the colored re- -vue moved into the Baycs Theatre from Daly's 63rd Street Theatre last Monday night. Robert Strange has joined the cast of "Sold," the new Porter Emerson Browne play which is being presented on tour prior to coming to a New York playhouse. Jack Kramer, formerly of Kramer and Johnson, and Jean Breen of the "Love Shop" have formed a partnership and will be seen in a^new act over the Keith and Orpheum time. Francis Renanlt is closing his Shubert vaudeville engagement in a week or so and his act is being considered for featuring in a number of the big mid- -west picture houses. The Wataon Siaten are now appear- ' ing in motion picture houses, having played the James, Columbns. Ohio, last week and schednled for the Lafayette, Buffalo, this week. Ruth Robinson has been signed for the ingenue role in William Haw- thorne's musical comedy, "Daisy Won't Tell," which takes to the road the latter part of this month. Ruth Carson and Frank Ferris have been added to the cast of "Daisy Won't Tell," the new musical comedy which Billy Hawthorne is grooming for a tonr of the one-nighters. Dorothy Faye, who was absent from the cast of "The Gingham Girl." at the Earl Carroll Theatre for more than a week on account of illness returned to her part last Thursday night. Lillian Taiz, of the "God of Ven- geance" company, is planning a vocal concert tour, and will make her debut at Aeolian Hall shortly. Her role in the play permits of some singing. Thomas Mitchell, who plays Adolphe in "Kiki," is directing the productioi^ of "Sandro Botticelli," opening at the Provincetown Theatre on March 25, with Eva Le Gallienne in the stellar role. Mrs. Sidney Harris, wife of the man- ager of the George M. Cohan Theatre became the mother of an eig^ht-pound daughter at Stem's Sanitarium last week. Mother and daughter are doing well. Edna Hibbard, appearing in "The Rear Car," at the Cort Theatre, Chi- cago, has tendered her notice and is awaiting the arrival of a successor to leave the company and retnm to New York. Irene Castle will head a road com- pany of her own, opening for a four weeks' tour on April 2. She will be assisted by William Reardon, the Duke Wellman Orchestra and her Fashion Revue. Violet Palmer, the motion picture star who will be seen in vaudeville with an act of her own shortly, will render a piano recital for radio broadcasting next Tuesday, from station W. O. R, In Newark. Sargent and Marvin have been routed over the Orpheum-Circuit and opened at Winnipeg on Sunday, March 11th, ap- pearing on the same bills with the Fonr Camerons, with whom they will do an afterpiece. Mary Washburn, pianist and dancer, and Mary Lawlor, singer and dancer, both graduates of the "Ziegfeld Follies," -will open in vaudeville shortly in an act in' which Ned Waybum is said to have an interest. ■■ Bernard and Garry were compelled' to cancel this week's engagement at Keith's Palace, New York, owing to an' attack of "flu" which confined Sid Garry to his bed. They will appear there in ' two weeks instead. Hdhce and Lee Sierack have returned from Australia and have opened for a tour of the Ackerman and Harris thea- tres with a new act called "The Miracle Girl," in which they will be seen in New York in a few months. Jack Franks joined the cast of "Abie's Irish Rose" this week, replacing B<^- nard Gorcey, who handed in his notice to go with "Wildflower."; Franks played in the show when it. had a 40 weeks' run on the Coast Michael MIndUn. producer of "The Last Warning," became the father of a seven and one half pound son at the family residence in Far Rockaway last Sunday. The youngster will be named Michael McHngh Mindlin. George Banes is now playing leads with the President Players, Henry Daf- fy's ' Stock company at the Prcaldent's 'Theatre. Washmgton. He jwned this week playing the Cohan role in "The Meanest Man in the Worid." Edward CUlda Carpenter, playwright and president of the American Drama- tists Society, sailed for London last week. While abroad he will divide hi* time between a holiday and pnttinff the' finishing touches to a new play. Eddie Mdsher, Lester Swadev Hcaiy Thorae^ Charles McNeill, Jack Stevens and George Fitzgerald are appearing at the Strand Theatre, New York, this week in a burlesque' danting act called "Lilies of the Field," produced by Walt Kuhn. Tom Donglaa. who is being featured in "When Love Is Young," the Lewia and Gordon vaudeville act, has been signed by George C Tyler to play the role of Merton in the forthcoming Lon- don production of "Merton of the Movies." Sam Rose; who was seen with Hngfa Herbert for seven years, the last time being with "Mind Your Business," is now doing hi» own act, ha-ving com- bined with Laura Ljrman in an offering written by Searly Allen, called "The Love Law." Kathiyn Sheehan, who has been one of the treasurers at the Strand Theatre since that house opened has resigned her position and will enter the milli- nery business on March 15th. Miss Sheehan will, conduct the "Kathryn" shop at 161 West 44th Street. George Barnes, who has been leading man in the Wilkes Stock companies in Los Angeles and Seattle made his East- em debnt last Monday by appearing in the leading role of "The Meanest Man in the World," with the stock company at the President Theatre. Washington. Sylvia Wallach; who has been secre- tary to Harry Walker for several years, has been promoted and hereafter will route the tabloid rcvnes. which are to be sent over the newly formed 'cabaret circuit" which will be officially launched by the Walker office the btter part of this month.