New York Clipper (May 1923)

20 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER May 16, 1923 SOPHIE TUCKER Is a Riot in 'THE PEPPER BOX REVUE" with HARRY VON TILZER'S Sensational Show-Stopping Comedy Song Willi ibe grcmlMt comedj lyric BILLY JEROME has 9wer wrillBii* Gremt for Male, Female, Doubles, Trios and Qnartela. Can be mod as a Hebrew, Italian, Dutch or Rube souk- It will follow any *onc in your act and stop the show. EVERYBODY IS KING TUTTING—TUT TUT YOURSELF. I^rite today for This Great Song — Lots of Extra Choruses HARRY VON TILZER MUSIC PUB. CO. New Address: 719 Seventh Ave., Cor. 48th St., New York City CLIPPING STARTS DIVORCE SUIT A dippioff in a N«v York daily paper aonoundiig that an actor was beiog sued for divtirce and his partner named as co- respondent two years ago, put Hugo Mark- owitz, a faeul aiMl novelty mannfactnrer, on the trail of his wife whom he alleges deserted him seven years ago and resulted in his filing an actico for absolute di- vorce against her in the New York County Soprane Court and naming her partner as corcspoudcst. AcGordiog to the summons and com- plaint filed by Attorney Samuel M. New- nnn, of No. 55 John street, Markowitz after peraisteiiilv courting the girl of his dreams married Johanna Mancowitz on October IS, 1915. The couple were getting along mcay mitil the early port of 1916 when his wife informed him that she had discovered she had a voice and was going to capitalize it. In April of that year Markowitz retmned home to find a note from his wife saying she felt that they should port, as she fdt he could not sup- port her the way she wanted to be. She said Tenaining with him only made her miserable so die was leaving and that by the time he received the message she would be several l ui ud i e j miles xmy on her way to make her fortune as an actress. The lette- was signed "Honey." After she left home Markowitz learned that she had formed the acquaintance of an actor 'r!>ir,»A Ralph Vi'm who is pro- fessionally known as George M. Fisher aad that they fonned the vaudeville team of Fisher and Hurst, wbidi was recently dis- solved OD account of the illness of (he woman. Two years ago Markowitz read that Mrs. Eisen had brought suit against her husband and named his partner "Honey Hurst" as the corespcodent charging statutory offenses. He remembered that be had called his wife Honey and then decided that he would make the inquiries as to the identity of the corespondent He consulted Newman and the latter placed detectives on the trail of the couple and confirmed their identity. According to the comj^aint, Fisher and bis partner lived for some time at the Hotel Markwell, New York and in other cities about the country as man and wife. On May 1, last papers in a suit for absolute divorce were served on Mrs. Markowitz at the home of her parents, 286 Fort Washington avenue, which named her partner as corespondenL Both the suits of Mrs. Eisen and Mark- owitz are scheduled for trial in the New York Supreme Court early in June. Markowitz antidsates bringing suit against Fisher for alienating the aitectioas. of his wife in addition to the divorce action. A. E. A. CONTRACT FOR TAB SHOWS Fraidc Dare and Tom Hanlon, Chicago representatives of the Actors' Equity As- . sociation, were in town last wedc confer- ring with Ae Equity council on a proposed cootiact covering tab shows. The cotmdl are drafting a contract to cover this branch of the show business and e*p e cl to have it ready for adoption within the next few weeks. LARRIMORE TRIAL SUSTAINED The Appellate Division denied the mo- tion made by Samuel Untermyer, attorney for Geraldine Farrar, to have the court strike from the record all allusions to Stella Larrimore and to permit the referee, Thomas H. Mahoney, to proceed with the Teltegen-Farrar divorce tnal without men- tioning her name. The motion, made by counsel for Miss Farrar, was due to the decisioG last week of the Appellate Divi- sioi^ which granted Miss Larrimore a trial by jury s« that she might clear her name as co-respondent in the case. If the Unter- myer motion had been granted, it would have deprived Miss Larrimore of the op- porttmity to appear before a panel and an- swer the charges. Miss Lairimore's attorney, L. B. Brod- sl^, insisted that to strike his client's name from the record would only work an in- rnstice to her, because whether or not it remains on record, the charges have been made and must be answered. Miss Farrar made it clear that she did not want Miss Larrimore, who is known in private life as Stella Adler, to be further mentioned in the proceedings, nor have wtiat has already been put on record remain. FONTAINE AGAIN INDICTED From all accounts Evan Burrowes Fon- taine, tiie dancer who figured prominently in a million-dollar breach of pronuse suit against Cornelius Vaoderbilt Whitney, has not entirely cleared her skirts of the per- jury diarge^ which automatically nolle pressed the civil action. The Whitney lawyers disclosed prior to trial that Miss Fontaine was the wife of Stanley Adair at the time she is supposed to have pledged herself to young Whitney. Evan and bei* mother were indicted by the Mardi Grand Jury in Rockland County, but Jtistice Seeger threw the case out be- cause of the failure of two important wit- nesses to testify before the Grand Jury. The case was resubmitted to the May Grand Jury and an indictment was lodged against the dancer and her mother. Both appeared to answer tiie charge and were admitted to bail. McKAY SUED BY GERBER STUDIO George McKay, of McKay and Ardine, was sued last week in the Municipal Court by the Hugo Gerber Studio, Inc. for the sum of ^1.60. In the complaint filed through its at- torney, the plaintiff alleges that McKay to6lc over the indd>tedness of B. M. Ruben, which amounted to $590.00. Part of the obligation was paid by McKay ac- cordmg to the complamt, but the balance due is sum being sued for. ANITA STEWART TO SUE Los Angeles. May 14.—Following die declaration of Anita Stewart, motion pic- ture star, two monBis ago, that she and her husband, Rudolph Cameron, film actor and director, had agreed to disagree, came the announcement last week that she would file suit for divorce. The Camerons were married in 1918, after an eli^iemenL At the time. Miss Stewart was twenty-one. LOOKING FOR MALE VOICES Earl Carroll is combing the music studios of tiie city for sixteen male singers to appear in the chorus of his forthcoming levue, "Vanities of 1923," which is being readied for a summer run at tiie Earl Car- roll Theatre. . In this respect Carroll is following the lead set by Henry W. Savage, who upset tradition by demanding real voices for the chorus of "The Clinging Vine." Cairoll is evidently of a mind th^ there is little excuse for a male chorister unless they really possess a ^ood singing voice. Prominent music schools of the city are co-operating with Carroll and have lined up over a hundred applicants who will be tried out this wedc From tiie lot Carroll will selta. the best sixteen voices. MONTAGUE GLASS IN HOSPITAL Montague Glass, creator of "Potash and Perlmutter," was operated on for appen- dicitis late Sunday night at the Roosevelt Hosfrital but had spent several quiet nights at the time this issue went to press and was reported on the road to recovery al- though his condition was still serious. Mr. Glass was at his home, 601 West 113th street, on Sunday morning when he was suddenly taken ill. Dr. Thomas H. Russell, who was called, diagnosed the case as acute appendicitis and ordered Glass to be taken to the hospital and the operation performed. WELLS HAWKS IN NEW JOB Wells Hawks abdicated as press rep- resentative of the Sam H. Harris enter- prises to launch into a new publicity enterprise. Hawks will handle the per- sonal publicity for Baron Collier and Luna Park, also some special publicity matters for Ellis Gimble as well as several exploitation features for the American Legion and the United States Navy. Hawks who entered^ the Navy as an Ensign at the beginning of the World War is now a Lieutenant Com- mander in the Naval Reserve. CENSORSHIP LAW STANDS The Moving Picture Censorship Law will remain on the statute books. The Walker bill to repeal the law was lost in the Assembly by ai vote of 71 to 74, five short of the number needed.^ It was a surprise to friends of the bilL The Democrats expected most of the up-State Republicans would vote with them. In- stead they got three of the six Republican votes from New York City and two from Monroe County and lost three Democrats, Livingston, Columbia; Kahler, Chemung, and Cross, Sullivan. "HOW COME" CLOSING "How Come" will conclude its engage- ment at the Apollo Theatre on Saturday night. The negro show will probably go to Chicagpp for a run at the Olympic Thea- tre upon its departure. The Apollo has no attraction scheduled to succeed "How Come" IRENE FENWICK DIVORCED An interlocutory decree of divorce was granted Irene Fcnwick, actress, recently by Supreme Court Justice Leonard A. Gie- grich from James Jay O'Brien. No defense was offered by O'Brien in the trial, which was held at secret sessions before referee Meyer M. Friend, upon whose recommendations the interlocutory decree was granted by Justice Giegrich. Miss Fenwick testiiSed at the trial that she had received bills from a jeweler for goods which she had not jpurchased or au- thorized. She put detectives on her hus- band's trail then and they traced him to an apartment in West 104th street, where they found a woman whose identity was not disdosed. THE CORNELLS SUED Olive Comdl and her husband Charles Cbmdl recently won a verlict of several last week for $280.00 by H. Mahieu & Company, Inc., in the Third District Municipal Court The action is to recover the above men- tioned sum as balance due on a bill for costumes bought in January, 1920. Olive Cornell, recently won a verdict of several thousand dollars from Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., for breach of contract alleging that she was hired for one of the "Follies" as a prima donna. Her husband is a well- known producer of cabaret and similar type shows. HAMMERSTEIN DEFERS TRIP Arthur Hammerstein has deferred his annual trip to Europe this summer. He was to have sailed on May 12, but due to the fact that he will have five attractions playing early in the season decided to post- pone the trip. He will send on tour three companies of "Wildflower," which is now plajnng at the Casino and will produce early in Au- gust "Lily o' the Valley" and "Plain Jane," both of which shows will have early New York engagements. ETHIOPIAN ART CO. CLOSES The Ethiopian Art Theatre gave up thdr endeavor to acclimate Broadway to Ethi- opian drama when they closed the engage- ment of tiieir company at the Frazee, Sat- urday night, after a one-wedc try. The company presented Oscar Wilde's "Sa- lome" and another short play. It is said the company's backers did not feel that they would be justified from a financial standpoint in keeping them at the Frazee for any lengthy period. U. S. ACTORS TO PLAY IN PARIS An Afncncau company of actors who speak French will present a repertory of American pla^s in Paris this Prior to sailmg the company will give three matinees at the Sdwyn Theatre, May 29 and 30 and June 1, of "Officer .66(y* in French, wiA Peggy Wood, Bev- erly Sitgreavea, Kay Lanrdl, Hden "Til- den, Louis AHicrm and Qarke Sitvemail, director of the organization, in the cast.