New York Clipper (Mar 1923)

March 14, 1923 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 23 IM HONA/ OPEN TAMAQUA, PENNA., SATURDAY, APRIL 28th, 1923 UNDER AUSPICES OF THE TAMAQUA A. A. INC. Wanted, a Feature Show. Will Furnish Top and Outfit for Same Hdp for Cook House, Addreu WM. ALDEN, Luzeme, Penna. Help for Rides, Address H. N. ENDY, Pottstown, Penna. H. M. ENDY, Mgr., 228 High St, Pottstown, Penna. STEPHEN WOODS DEAD With the death of Stephen Woods last week at Atlanta, Ga.,_the Exposition folks have lost one of their best friends. Mr. Woods was the highest salaried General Agent in the Outdoor Show World. Start- ing as a young man in the Circus, he soon turned to Exposition Shows and for sev- eral seasons piloted the Nat Reis Shows and in the same capacity with the C W. Parker Shows for a long time, was a partner of Bill Kice when they had the Almo Show after which he was General Agent of the C A. Wortham Interest and for the past two seasons with the Rubin and Cherry Shows. Mr. Woods owned considerable interest in and around Cali- fornia in land, vineyards, etc. His wife, who makes her home in Chicago, was with him when he died and the remains were brought on to Chicago and the funeral was held Friday, March 9, 1923. SHEESLEY SHOWS OPEN IN APRIL R. A. (Whitey) Josselyn, general agent ■ of the Greater Sheesley Shows was in New York last week. Mr. Josselyn has his show contracted with several fairs in the Fast and South. The show will open about' the middle of April nearby the winter quarters at West Allis, Wis. The show will feature a big trained wild animal show this season and Mr. Josselyn has been looking over several animals to take the place of the animal show that Mr. Sheesley sold to the Howe's London Show last year. CONEY ISLAND OPENS Promise for a successful summer sea- son was given last Sunday when more Aan 150,009 people took advantage of the mild weather and thronged Coney Island, the few concessionaires who were open reaping a harvest from the promenaders on the streets and the new boardwalk- About 250 men and women flirted with pneumonia and went in swimming, while three men took their lives in their hands by wearing straw hats. BIG PRIZES FOR FAIR AuRObA, III, March 12.—The members of the Amusement Committee expect to be able, within the next few weeks, to an- nounce the complete program for the night show and free acts at tiie fair. The Fair Association, who have fixed on August 17A as the date for the annual eveot here Ms year, -will hang up $135,000 in prizes, pre- miums and attractions, which !s $10,000 more than last year. KILPATRICK IN HOSPFTAL Oiarles Kirkpatrick, the insurance agent and formerly the one legged bicycle rider was taken irom the Planters Hotel, Chi- cago, to the American Theatrical Hospital, Chicago to undergo treatment for the leg which was recently operated on and having caught cold in it, is in a rather serious condttioD. E. J. Kilpatrick his brother of Chicago and London is now in Chicago. RILEY AT WINTER QUARTERS Matthew J. Riley, Manager of the Mat- thew J. Riley Shows has left New York where he has been spending the winter for Trenton, N. J., where his Winter Quarters are located. The Show will open about the Middle of April and will carry several new novelties. P. M. A. AND EQUITY CConttmud from page 3) abroad. There are several other managers who have the same feeling as this one. They say that in case the door of the "American theatre" is locked they ivill seek other fields to do their chosen work in. It ■ms expected that at the meeting of the Equity organization which -was held last Sunday in the Equity-48th Street The- atre that the proposed conference would be mentioned to the 1,500 members who attended.. However, there was no refer- ence made to the matter and the entire time of the meeting was taken up in dis- cussing Sunday performances in the legiti- mate theatre and a discussion regarding the nomination and election of ofScers for the ensuing year. The meeting placed itself on record against being opposed to Sunday perform- ances by members of the organization in cities where these performances are not permitted by law. President Emerson presided at the meet- ing and he with Gilmore and Grant Stew- art voiced the sentiment of the organization upon the matter. A number of members occupied the floor at different times and agreed with their officers in the condemna- tion of Sunday performances. After the discussion a resolution which read as follows was adopted: "We give the council our strongest sup- port in their recent action in requesting members of this organization not to play on Sunday, and we request our council in all cases in territories where it is not at present already legal and customary, to forbid us to play on Sunday, except for bona fide benefits." William .\. Brady who, as the result of the attitude of the Equity, postponed what he described as a sacred and educational concert which he was to give at the Play- house last Sunday night, was to have ap- peared and addressed the council and the members on the matter, did not attend. Slips that were sent out early in the week requesting members to pledge theih- selves not to sign contracts which ex- tended beyond June 1. 1924, were handed in to the recording secretary by members during the meeting. SELZNICK REORGANIZING James N. Rosenberg, counsel for Lewis J. Selznick, president of Selznick Pictures Corporation, now a defendant in bank- ruptcy proceedings, has submitted to Fed- eral Judge A. N. Hand a plan for the reorganization of the Selznick enterprises. It was not made public because it was explained that there were some points of difference to be adjusted. The matter came before the court as part of a proceeding instituted by Jacob Weener, a creditor of the T. & T. Pictures Corporation, a Selznick subsidiary, for a writ of replevin to get possession of prints of pictures of Norma and Constance Tal- madge. The application for the writ was denira. An application by creditors of the Select Pictures Corporation, another Selz- nick subsidiary, to obtain control «f the assets of the corporation, also was denied. F. A. ROimNS IN NEW YORK Frank A. Robbins now connected with an Exposition Show in Canada was in New York last week on business for his shows. CHANGES IN "GO GO" CAST Santley and Norton and Frank Doane were added to the cast of John Cort's new ■ musical comedy, "Go Go," when it opened at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre on Monday night. They were booked by Harry Rich- ards, of Hoehm & Richards. Doane re- places Billy VSingie" aiflford, while Sant- ley and Norton are added to the present ast. BROADWAY SHOW WEEK DULL Rusiness at the Broadway theatres last . week had the majority of the producers of attractions digging into their reserves to meet expenditures. The week started off very badly on Monday and Tuesday the gross m most theatres hardly passed that of the preceding evening, in the ma- jority of the houses. The only theatres \yhich could boast of liberal patronage on those evenmgs were the Maxine Elliott with Ram;" the Cort with "Merton of the Movies;" the Booth with "The .^^''m''?,-"'^^^' '^^ Lil«rty with "Lit- tle Nellie Kelly;" the New Amsterdam h ^'^K^"** tJ« Shubcrt with The Greenwich Follies" in their linal week; tlie Gaiety with "Loyalties" in Times Square with "The FooL" All of the other attractions were way off on these days for corresponding days of previous weeks. Wednesday matinee, with tne avalanche of suburbanites was the first sign of life during the week with business evening picking op considerably o\cr that of the previous evenings of the week. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, however, took a turn for the better with biismess commg in very heavy and en- aliling the attractions to make a fair show- ing on the week. A good many of them, however, were unable to overcome the W start oi the first half of the week wiS he result that quite a number feU below tlieir guaranteed gross to the house. . The Le Blane ticket offices were used m good stead during the entire week bv attractions directly and by the ticket brok- ers who were stuck on their buy for at- tractions not listed at the &iporimn. which were readily disposed of. ^r^ the fir.<t part of the week, tickets werf supplied the, agency direct for twenty- prices ^°rty-two throu^ the dumping f which had its name changed from "Alister Malatesta" proved a sur- ?o n".I5'c?*!^^°° "^^'P^ had gotten off to a bad start the previous week at the 1 rincess began to show signs of life early in the week and managed to wind the Ch„ ^ showing a scant profit. "Sun ,M^!^m' /'•*'u^n°'"' '"" helped «,n- siderably durmg the last half of £e week Tc/-if office and the two for Me d stribu |on with the result that the house was sold completely for the last three of the week. The show netted a .ttle short of $eW00 on the week: "Had '^f ?fc the first part of the week it undoubtedly would have shown a profit to both house and "Rita Coventry" at the Bijou fhi r^lJli,'?^^'*' •'"^'55 *P with the resultthat il was withdrawn on Satur- night "Hail and Farewell" w^Si Florence Reed at the Morosco did not oome up to Its guarantee on the week and win depart from that house on March "The God of Vengeance," at the Apollo, after word came out that the management' Md actors had been indfcted attract^a most , curious and eager audience-for the lirf^c«! ™^if PJ^ent week got off to a bad start on Monday night with business being re- ported as the worst "Monday night" bu""- ness of the season. The cirt rate shops had a most liberal supply of tickets from the theatres and were also well supplied by the brokers who wanted to get out "from under." but the demand was not anywhere near as big as the supply. There were three open- ings on Monday night. Louis Werba pre- sented "Barnum Was Right" at the Fra- zee and had a packed house on hand to welcome the attraction; Henry Miller made his debut in "Pastenr." at the Em- pire Theatre under the Frohnan manage- ment and John Cort' presented a new mu- sical comedy, "Go Go," with a white east at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre, which took the place of "Liza," the negro show which moved to the Nora Bayes Theatre. NEW POUCY FOR CENTURY San Francisod. March 12.—Ackepnan & Harris, lessees of the Centniy Tlcatre, will make this house a prodncmg boose, and have engaged the services ofFanchon & Marco to stage all the coming prodsc- tions. The success of offering "Stmttin' Along," which was staged by Fancbon & Marco under the dircctioo of Adkoman & Harris, is the reason for this new policy. The present show, which is play- ing to $1.50 top with war tax added is proving a big money getter, for the first week's receipts was upward of $12;0X>. with an increase of $2,000 for the Mcood week making it $14,000^ and the diird weA has_ already run up to fully $14,000, with a big advance for the loailh week, and it looks as if the show will nm over six weeks. The revue to follow will be en- tirely composed of a white caist, and win include some well known "-^'in l as well as vaudeville names,- and rehearsals are already begun, and Ackerman & Harris Will spare no expense for scenery, ward- robe and salaries, for they never do thiiHs by half. NEW NAME FOR PARK THEATKE The Park Theatre, which William Ran- dolph Hearst has taken over for the pur- pose of presenting motion pictures andre- , named the Cosmopolitan Theatre, a auler- f22l?w^'**!S*'0"' which will cost about $500,000. The enbrc interior of the theatre has been ripped out, including the boxes, and in the future will be a two-floor the- atre ioifead of a three-floor house The stage is being fixed over and its depth being cut off. Throurii these al teialiiM. the seating capacity of the house wiU be mcreased from 1,600 to 2,000. It was ex- pected to have the theatre ready for use April 30th, but it is said that the altera- tions will not be completed until June 1st, when the first productico, a Cbsnwotditan. entitled, 'Xittle Old New Yoric,'^WilS Maries Davies starred, will be shown. "HOW COME" WANTS B'WAY HOUSE "How Come," the negro *1 c om e d y which is in its seventh week at the Dunbar Theatre, miadelphia. is angUng for a New York house to bring it into at the conclusion of its present run. The iffo- duction is being_ sponsored by Messrs. Gris- man and Harris. Grisman had been ne- gotiating for the Bayes Theatre but Tiza,'" another negro musical show beat him to the date. BROADWAY'S STRANGE SEASON (Contimted from fage 7) in "The Humming Bird" at the Ritz. Bertha Kalish in "Jitta's Atonemoit" at the Comedy. "The Square Peg" at the Punch and Judy, "Extra" from the Long- acre, and "Rita Coventry* at the Bijoa. Those attractions which opened since that time and are scheduled to ck>sc this month are: Mme. Nazimova in "Dag- mar" at the Selwyn, "Sun Showers" at the Astor, "Hail and Farewell* at the Morosco. and Emily Stevens in "The Sporting Thing to Do" at the Ritz.