New York Clipper (Jun 1923)

June 6, 1923 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 15 Matt Woodward will sail on June 9th. for England, on'the Adriatic. Jimmy Shea has been engaged to ap- pear at Perry's,' in Coney Island. Bums and Allen are playing inde- pendent dates throughout New England. Bert Lohr and Mercedes have been routed over the Keith time in a new act. Sharkey, Roth and Hewitt have been given a full route over the Loew Cir- cuit. Eddie Clifford has signed to do re- cording work for the Vocalion Com- pany. Zez Confrey and his orchestra are this week playing at Rhodes in Prov- idence. Margery Card is understudying the feminine roles in "You and I" at the Belmont. B. S. Moss returned last Monday from a two weeks' sojourn at French Lick Springs, Ind. Matty White, formerly of White and Beck is doing a new act with Al. Ross at the piano. The Littlejohns will open a tour of the Orpheum Circuit in San Francisco on June 10th. Muriel Rogers and Lew Brown opened on the Loew Circuit in a new act last week. Neil Pratt has replaced Charles Dow Clark in the role of Daniel Drum in "Give and Take." Henry Ainley heads the cast of Drink- water's "Oliver Cromwell." produced in London last week. Nat Kalcheim. of the Chicago Or- pheum junior booking office, visited New York last week. Phoebe Whiteside is appearing with Harry Yorke's Bell Hop Sextette, now playing a Keith route. Bob Linkers and Marion Berry are to be featured in a new comedy, en- titled "Help Yourself." Markell and Gay will close their season in Atlantic City on July 29th and rest up during the summer. Margie Norman, formerly with Hurtig and Seamen's "Rockets," is rehearsing with a new vaudeville revue. Fanny Brice has completed her tour of the Orpheum coast houses and is now returning to New York. Zaza and Adele returned to New York last week after touring the Middle West with their dance offering. Josephine Harmon .and Georgia Sandes have combined in a new sister act in which they will open shortly. Helen Moretti returned to New York last week and will open for a tour of the Keith Metropolitan houses this week. Howard J. Green, the vaudeville au- thor, has returned from his honeymoon and is trying to concentrate on work. Eddie HeSeman has been signed for the juvenile role in Earl Lindsay's new revue at the Slrand Roof, New York. Jack and Fanny Williams are break- ing in a new act, "Cry Baby," which will shortly be seen in the local houses. Fred Lightner and Sadie Banks have formed a vaudeville alliance and will shortly show their act on the Prpctor ABOUT YOU! AND YOU!! AND ^OU!!! Earl Larrimore has succeeded Hum- phrey Bogart In the latter's role in "Steve," at the Princess Theatre, Chi- cago. Lizzie B. Raymond has joined Cliff Dean's act, entitled "The Unfair Sex," which opened at Newark,' N. J., this week. Jack Waverly and Robert Robson have been added to the cast of Louise Carter and Co., now appearing in vau- deville. Dorothy Duncan has been signed to head one of the road companies to present "Polly Preferred" on tour next season. Leo Henning is framing a new "three act".for vaudeville in which he will be assisted by Ruby Howard and Fred Farber. The Four Ortons have completed their long engagement with the Pan- tages Circuit and have opened on the Poli time. Betty Byrne, who was in the cast of "The D erai-Virgin," has signed a three year contract with the Universal Film company. Charley Rogers and Company have concluded a season's tour over the Loew Circuit in their comedietta, "The Ice Man." Charles Winninger and George Bickd have been engaged to play in the Wood's show "Light Wines and Beer," in Chicago. Ethel Gray, formerly of Page and Gray,, and Ula Mack, formerly of Mack and Dean, have joined hands in a new vaudeville act. Pauline Frederick, now in Los An- geles, is preparing to leave for Europe shortly. She is under contract to make pictures abroad. Fritz Lieber will have the leading role in Arthur Hopkins London presen- tation of "The Fountain," a new play by Eugene O'Neill. ' Tommy Bloom, secretary to Sam H. Harris, has' been confined to his home for the past week as the result of a minor operation. Channing Pollock, author of "The Fool," has been elected a member of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers of France. Jay Elwood has been en^ged to play the principal comedy role in Bide Dud- ley's musical play, "Sue Dear," which goes on tour next season. Fred and Adele Astaire have, accord- ing to cable reports, scored a big hit in "Flirting," a new revue which re- cently opened in London. Garry Owen, recently with the vau- devillq playlet, ."Compliments of the Season," has been engaged for Earl Carroll's "Vanities of 1923." Sam Bernard, who has been spend- ing several weeks at Mt. Clemens re- cuperating from the effects of a severe operation is back on Broadway. Marion Raymond, who was featured in a road company of "Pretty Peggy," will shortly make her initial appearance in vaudeville in a new singing act. Mamie and Willie Rolls will sail for New York from England on July 14th and will open for T ul^JJiuiOL^AbCut?£!t' 'and: 0^^)hetltIl^■^^i;clJ~ "SmilinK" Billy Maaon and Alice For- rest returned from Europe lest week and opened for a tour of the Keith time at the Prospect Theatre on Monday. Charles Limn and Merrill Metheny have shelved their vaudeville . act, "Cheating the Law," and are filling a stock engagement in Columbus, Ohio. Yvette Rugel. Vaudeville singer, sailed for England on the White Star Liner Majestic on Saturday. She will sing in the London halls this summer. Avon Comedy Four and Arthur Field . and Harry Goodman, opened Monday for' the Keiths in Newark where they are doing a version of the old act. George Barnes has completed his en- gagement with a stock organization in Denver and has opened with the Presi- dent Players, Washington, playing the juvenile role in "Abie's Irish Rose." Charles Winningcr and George Bickel have been signed by A. H. Woods to head the cast of the New York presen- tation of "Light Wines and Beer," which will open at the Eltinge Theatre in August.. John Steel is leaving the cast of "The Music Box Revue" in order to fulfill: picture house engagements. Wynne Bullock is replacing Steele in the cast. Harry Lenetika. formerly in the Or- pheum circuit's booking office, and more recently with Floyd Stoker, joined the staff of H. B. Marinelli's office this week. Grant Mitchell has been engaged for the stellar role in "The Whole Town's Talking," an adaptation by John Em- erson and Anita Loos of a Continental comedy. Harry Steppe, has been engaged as principal comedian for Cain & Daven- port's "Mimic Show." which will have the new name next season of "Dancing Around." Regina Wallace has been signed for a prominent role in "The Breaking Point," the new Mary Roberts Rine- hart play to be produced by Wakenalls and Kemper. Arthur Fields, the phonograph singer, last in vaudeville with Jack and Irving Kaufman, is entering vaudeville with a single act. Fields owns a phonograph store in Harlem. Louise Closser Hale and Charles Wal- dron have been signed by A. H. Woods for prominent roles in "The Next Cor- ner," which will be given a New York showing in August. A. H. Woods has engaged Grant Mitchell for the stellar role of "The Whole Town's Talking," an adaptation by John Emerson and Anita Loos from a continental success. Philip Goodman, interested in "The Old Soak" with .Arthur Hopkins, is going into the producing business busi- ness on his own hook and will have a show out by August. Anna Fitziu, the opera singer, -who had been stricken with bronchial pneu- monia, has recovered and will shortly leave for the country to recuperate from the effects of the illness. Florence Kelly and Jean Ennor, who recently returned from a four months' tour of the M. L. Kclley Circuit in Panama, will shortly return to vau- deville in a new singing act. Chauncey Olcott, closed in "The Heart of Paddy Whack." which he was touring in under the direction of the Sclwyns. The same vehicle will be used by Olcott next season. Sylvia Field, who scored quite a hit in "The Cat and The Canary," will have the leading role in "Connie Goes Home," a new comedy to be brought out next season by Kilbourne Gordon, Inc. Hosoutra, the Oriental dancer who has been appearing^ with Ed Wynn in "A Perfect Fool," will return to vau- deville for the summer and will return to the Wynn show this Autumn. Gremaine Hitty, French danseuse and her husband and dancing partner, Eu- gene Tillo, will sail for France on July 4th, the former wishing to visit her grandma who has expressed a desire to see her at once. Margaret Lawrence, who recently closed in "Secrets," at the Fulton, will spend her holiday abroad and will re- turn the latter part of August tc appear on tour in the same pla^ under the di- rection of Sam H. Harris. FertuneUo and CiriUino, who were featured in last year's edition of "Green- wich Village Follies." will spend the Summer in vaudeville, having been given a Keith route. 'They will rejoin the "Follies" in the Autumn. Dorothy Manning, formerly of Man- ning and Hall, has retired from the show_ business to take up housekeeping in Richmond, Va., where she was mar- ried two weeks ago to William Darden, a non-professional of that city. James W. Cody, who has been asso- ciated with a number of Shnbert musi- cal shows, has been signed by Earl Carroll as stage manager for "Vanities of 1923," which opens at the CarroJI Theatre the latter part of June Joe Cook, known in vaudeville as "the one man vaudeville show." has been. signed fpr Earl Carroll's forth- coming summer revue, "Vanities of 1923." which will open at the Earl Car- roll Theatre the latter part of the month. John Charles Thomas and William Powell were injured last week when the auto in which they were riding slipped over an embankment. Both are working on a new Cosmopolitan film which IS being held up on account of-their injuries. Robert Ames has been engaged and will be featured by the Bohemians, Inc, in a new comedy without music by Ed- ward Laska which they will present early this summer. Ames is at present playing the role of the hero in "Ice- bound' and formerly appeared in "It's a Boy" and also with Henry Miller. Grace AtweU Mordant, Gilda Grey, Blanche Hehaffey, Shirley Vemoo, Constance McLaughlin, Marcel Hiller. Helen Lee Worthing, Hazel Jenmngs and Edna Wheaton have been added to the cast of those who are to appear at the Lamb's Gambol on June 3, at the Earl Carroll Theatre. Victor Oliver and Eli Dawson have formed a partnership to produce vaude- ville acts and cabaret revues. Their first offering. "The Jazz Craze of 1923," opened on the Fox time last week. The cast includes Alice Turner, Sam Aero, the Frederick Twins and the Seven Dixie Boys. Christine Winthrop, who recently completed her work m the screen ver- sion of "Little Old New York," which is to be Marion Davies' next release, is taking a much needed rest in Atlan- tic City. prior_tq_beginning rchfMwls Ibe