New York Clipper (Apr 1923)

April 11, 1923 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER IS Ryan and Inness are now playing the Keith Canadian time. . Grace Edler and her revue opened in New York last week. Harry Downing opened for a repeat tour of the Pantages Circuit last week. ■ Carroll and Gorman have re-united and will open on the Foil time shortly. Pat Moriarty arrived in New York last week after touring the Middle West. ' Cardo and Noll opened in the South last week for a tour of the Loew Cir- cuit. Arthur Shields is back in New York, having completed a tour of the Pantages .Circuit. Frank and Kthel Caimca are mourn- ing the loss of their mother who died last week. Olive Hill has been engaged to ap- pear in. a Chicago cabaret revue' for four weeks. Maty Brandon Kline and Sammy Jr., will sail April 14 on the Homeric for a pleasure tour. Wyrley Byrch has been signed for the Dayton Stock Company which opens next week. Mnlroy, McNeece and Sidee have joined the cast of - Irene Castle s Fash- ion Show. Tommy Gordon is to be seen in the juvenile role of a Broadway produc- tion shortly. Taylor, Macy and Hawks are playing the first run motion picture houses in the Middle West. Shep Waldman will be seen in a new act . shortly, his brother Ted having re- joined Eva Tanguay. Challls and Lambert are now appear- ing at the Pekin Cafe, in Philadelphia, where they are featured. Bert Gordon and Gene Ford have combined their act again, after being split for several weeks. Eddie Russell has been engaged for "The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly," the new George M. Cohan show. Solly Joyce, Fred Hayden and Jack Holt have combined in a new act called "The Three Senators." Sophie Miller, songstress, opened vinth the new revue at the Moulin Rouge, Chicago, last week. Bud Bernie will open with an or- chestra this week, presented under the direction of his brother Ben. ABOUT TOU! AND TOU!! AND TOU!!! Collette Blein has been added to the cast of the vaudeville act, "Shadows," having joined it at the Jefferson this week. . Hoffman Sisters, formerly of vaude- ville, have been added to Harry Walk- er's Revue at the Beaux Arts, Atlantic City. Dave Thnrsdy will sail for England on May 15th, by which time he will have completed a tour of the Loew Cir- cuit, Florence Vexdon is appearing in Gor- don Walton's new production act, which has been routed over the Loew time. Lnolle Monroe is reviving her former "Cranberries" vehicle, and has already engaged Ed Race as a member of the cast Maijorie Logan has replaced Helen .Devlin in the linginue role of "Green- wich Village Scandals," now in re- ' hearsal. ■ Thomas Butler and Frances Atwell, both attached to B. S. Moss's Franklin Theatre staff, were married last Monday, April 3. May Yohe gave a luncheon party at the National Vaudeville Artists Club last week in .honor of her return to vaudeville. Billy Arnold is preparing a new spring edition of "So This Is Paris," for the Moulin Rouge, New York. It will open in two weeks. Thelma Carleton has just closed a four weeks' engagement at the Palais Royal, Buffalo, where she was booked by Billy Curtis. \ Noodles -Fagan has recovered from the bronchial attack which kept him confined to his bed in San Francisco for three weeks. Arthur Houston has been signed for a prominent role in "The Lure," which' is being revived for the road. Eddie O'RooHce and Dan Downing have been routed over the Pantaget Circuit and will open on Aprif 9th. Ann Robinson has joined the cast of "Go-Go," the John Cort musical show at Daly's Sixty-third Street Theatre. Hairy L. Cooper, who is assisted in his act by Rae Chandler and Fred Picker has been routed over the Keith New England time. Abe Biin, Eastern press representa- tive for the Orpheum Circuit, was con- fined to his home with an attack of grippe last week. Marion' Sunshine has been engaged for the cast of "Lily of the Valley," which Arthur Hammerstein will place in rehearsal July 26. Mildred HoUiday, the Stewart Sisters and Andre and Armande have been added to Harry Walker's unit at Bon- giovanni's, Pittsburgh. The Marvelous Millers - have Just closed a four weeks' engagement at the Nixon Cafe, Pittsburgh, where they were booked by Billy Curtis. Helen Devlin has withdrawn from the cast of "Greenwich Village Scan- dals" and is planning to return to vaude- ville in a new production act Abe Levy, general manager for the' Sam H.' Hams interests returned last week from an eleven-week sojourn at Palm Springs, Cal., where he went for recuperation purposes. Corinne Mner, formerly in vaudeville with Frank Gillen, is preparing a new singing act which she will do as a single, opening in a week or two. Lew Fitzgibbons, brother of Bert, and Joe Daniels, actor and coliminist, have written a new song called "Why Must My Pal Grow Old?" which is being featured by several acts. Johnny Collins, Keith booker, and assistant to W. Dayton Wegerarth, was confined to his home for several days last week with an attack of "flu." Whitford Kane has succeeded Louis Calvert in "R. U. R.," which Hairy Frazee has taken over from the Theatre Guild and is now offering on tour. 'Victor Saville, pre'sident of the Sa- ville Producing Company of England was in New York last week to pur- chase moving picture stars for his com- pany's next production. Dora Dnby, whose dancing has pro- vided the necessary "kick" for more than one vaudeville "flash," is now the featured dancer in the revue at the Beaux Arts, Philadelphia. "Babe** Nasworthy has closed an en- figement of twenty' weeks at the eaux Arts, New York, and has opened with the Harry Walker unit at the Richmond, Richmond, Va. May Hendetson and Kuby Kramer have fonned a vaudeville alliance and are rehearsinj^ a new act, entitled "The Tryout," which they will shortly re- veal in the Proctor houses. Eula Condon, wife of Glenn Condon, editor of the Vaudeville News, returned to New York after visiting her folks in Oklahoma for the past few months. Shdla Teiry and her husband, Roy Sedley, will begin a tour of the Keith eastern houses in their little produc- tion, "May and December," this week. Billy- Koad is assembling a new revue for The Mill, Greenwich Village.. The piece is called "Good Times" and wOI be mterpreted. by six principals and °a ' cherns pf_twelye srirls...'. _^ week at the Little Church Aronnd the Comer. Both are appearing in the pic- ture "Down to the Sea in Ships." Lynne Overman and Le Roy Clcm- mens have completed a new comedy, "After the Rain," which is to be tried out by the Marshall Players at the Lyceum Theatre, Baltimore, next month. Remo, who closed last weeic in "The Dancing Girl" at the Winter. Garden, and Mary Washburn, are rehearsing; a new sinnng act for vaudeville in which they wirr open on the Keith time shortly. The act is being staged in nolvelty style. Murray Bennett has replaced'-Tom Douglas in the Lewis and Gordon vaudeville act, "When Love Is Young," the latter having departed for London to play the title role in the London production of "Merton of the Movies." Rose Addle, who has been appearing in the Willard Mack playlet, "The Bear Cat," being presented in vaudeville by Fred C Hagan and Company, fell and broke her arm last week and- is con- fined to iier room in the Hotel JudsoOL William Fox and Jack W. Loeb, his biisiness' associate and general manager of . the Fox Vaudeville Bookini^ ofi&ces, returned from a six weeks' sojourn at Augusta, Georgia, last Monday. Benny Leonard, champion light- weight who has left the cast of "The Dancing Girl," iat- the Winter Garden is next season to s'tar in a pugilistic comedy< drama called "The Champ." Bessie Banriscale has interrupted her vaudeville tour to begin rehearsals for a new comedy, without title, by Howard Hickman. The piece will have a pre- liminary Spring, showing in New Or- leans. Arthur Byron .has been added to the cast which will appear in support of Irene Fenwick in "Chivalry," which is being produced by Joseph Shea and which is scheduled to open in Atlantic City, April 23. Arvid Paulson will shortly be seen in "The. Law of Love," an American .translation of the Swedish play, "A Mother," which is to be done for a series of matinee performances at the Morosco Theatre. Elizabeth Brown and Paul Yocmn. have supplanted Cortez and Peggy in the dance episode of "The Masked Woman," now on tour, the latter pre- ferring to remain in town with "Wild- flower," at the Casino. Grace Anderson, who has been iden- tified with a number of successful mo- tion picture enterprises, has joined forces with Chamberlain Brown and will handle all of the motion picture casting out of that office. Wmiam Faveraham is busying him- self with the completion . of plans for several productions he is to make next season. He has opened a New York . ofiice and has engaged Edward Vroom as his general manager. Flank S. Richardson has been ap- pointed auditor for the Melboume-Ar- den Productions, Inc. Richardson has been connected with the stage'for ^sev- eral years bnt never in the business branch of the profession. Eldoa. Raymond McKee^ known in .pictures as' Raionbnd McKee, and:Miss Mar^erite. C^vrtot were married. laM- Grace .Arlington, who appeared on tour in .the prima donna role. of the musical play, "Little Miss Daisy," has effected an arrangement whereby she has acquired the rights of the piece and will condense it Tor vaudeville pur- poses. James D. Barton,, who exchanges American artists for Oriental artists and vice versa, has- jiist returned from the Orient with a' group of playlets. The playlets will ■. .be adapted - and offered here for a series of special matinees. Alexander Omnanifar has been ibaned by Messmore Kendall. of the Capitol Theatre to the -American National Theatre for the purpose of staging the dances in "As Yon %Skt It, which opens .at Poll's TUea&Q,' Washington next Monday. * Frank Martens retLmed from Easton, Pa., last week and .was more than sangnine over th'e prospects, of his new play, "Gabette." wnich jnade its initial bow there last Monday night Martens wrote the piece in ..collaboration with Sidney Lazarus. Walter Brooks, who staged the dances in "Go-Go" and "Elsie," has been se- lected to stage the numbers for "My Gal Sal," a summer .song show an- nounced for next month by the Mel- boume-Arden Productions, Inc. He is now at work on "How Come." Edward Jnstns Mayer has resigned the position of general publicity rep- resentative for the Arthur Hopkins en- terprises to take over the publicity reina for Mack Hilliard, Inc. Dave Wallace, assistant to Mayer was promoted to his position in the Hopkins office. Hugh Grady, general manager of the Arthur Hammerstein attractions, who was recently operated upon at the Lenox Hill hospital, for an attack of appendicitis left the institution for At- lantic Cty last Friday, where he will spend the next fonr wedca recnperatingr. Margnerita Sylva. well known in ' musical comedy and the concert stage, is planning to return to Broadway next, season in a new comedy, with songs.' This will be Miss Sylva s first appear- ance on the_ legitimate stage in 'several months, daring which time she has been on a concert tour. H. M. Arden, iMnagiwy doector of the Melbonme-Arden Prometkms, Inc., spent the week-end htdiday in Atlantic City last week, dividing his time be- tween promenading the boardwalk and digesting the revised script of "In the Balancer which is t« be the first pro- duction 'ef ' the firm. He retaraea on Monday, and t>e(an sel^tinv the caat^