New York Clipper (Jun 1923)

28 THE NEW YORK CLJPPER June 6, 1923 HARRY STODDARD ORCHESTRA KEITH'S PALACE THIS WEEK Direction ROSE AND CURTIS Personal Representative, JOS. B. FRANKLIN Stage ani Technical Director, LEO LE BLANC EXCLUSIVE EMERSON ARTIST ORCHESTRA NEWS DAVIS REPLACES ACT Meyer Davis put over a marvel of quick action recently in co-operating with Man- ager Roland S. Robbins of Keith's Theatre in Washington. One of the actors on the bill was taken sick and Robbins called up the'Davis office and asked if Davis' Lc Paradis Band could go in. This was at two o'clock, .\lthough the men were scattered in all parts of the city Davis had the band together and ready to go on at 3:10, in- cluding fifteen minutes that he spent.in rehearsing them in a few new nmnbers so that the routine would be different from that presented at their last appearance. The act went on and repeated prevknu successes at this house. The band is now playmg at the Le Paradis Roof Garden, in Washington un- der the leadership of W. Spencer Tupman. Davis has received several attractive offers for the combination to go into vaudeville but prefers, until the closing of the sum- mer season, to keep them at Le Paiadis Roof, which he owns. For the fall some- thing new and pretentious in the way of a vaudeville production is being planned arotmd the band. JOCXERS' SON INJURED ClifTord Jockers, son of Al Jockers, leader of the orchestra at the Woocbnan- sten Inn, was run over by a taxicab last Thursday and serioasly mjured. Young Jockers, who is ten years old, was on his way to school after the noon recess, when, on crossing the street at 174th street and Boston Road a Checkered Taxi Cab. pro- ceeding south along Boston Road, ran him down. The driver, in attempting to miss the child, ran his cab upon Uie curb and into a vacant lot, but the accident was unavoidable. Another caK coming bdiisd the first cab, stopped and the driver picked up the child and hurried him to Fordbam Hospital where eight stitdies were put in his head. The boy is now being held in the hospital -under observation to see if any further injuries develop. At last reports he was dorag nicely and was well on the road to re- covery. CELUST A SUICIDE BKATTLEBoao, Vt, June 4.—Carl W. Dodge, a cellist in the Metropolitan Opera was found dead on the grounds of the Brattleboro Retreat last wedc, with a bullet in his head and a revolver near by. He had apparently committed suicide, as he had left a note for his wife, a church singer in New York, stating that he was "going to cn4 it all." Dodge was formerly whh the Boston Opera Company, of which his father, W. G. Dodge of Brookline. Mass., was for- merly concertmaster and is now Chairman of the Boston Mnsician's Protective Unron. ROMANO AT ROADHOUSE Phil Rooiano and his orchestra, having put in a long season at the Grill in the Kenmore Hotel, .Albany, have been en- gaged by the hotel management to play -during the snmer at a new roadhoiisc on the Schenectady road, just outside of .-M- bany, that has been opened under the same management. fllVEN SIVEETCN and his Orchestra AMZBICAN THSA.TBB TO PLAY ON TRIAL TRIP An orchestra put out by the United Orchestra, Inc., under the leadership of James Lynch and of the same size as the S. S. Leviathan Orchestra now playing in vaudeville will be on board the giant Sbip- pmg Board liner when it makes its trial trip from' Boston on June 19. Another orchestra of fifteen pieces, under the lead- ership of Ernie Cutting will also be on board to play the concert music. Lyncb's orchestra will pla;^ for the dance music and furnish entertainment. PAUL SPECHT IN LONDON LoKOOK, June 4.—Paul Spccht and his Alamac Hotel orchestra opened here on Friday night at the "Corner House," the newest restaurant of the Lyons interests in London. The ''Comer House" has a seating capacity of 4,500 persons, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Specht's music was very well received and a tremendous crowd were on hand to wel- come the American leader. At the ex- clusion of his first number of Specht re- ceived an ovation. COLEMAN WITH VALENTINO Emil Coleman, besides having his own orchestra at the Club Montmartre, has placed his brother, Gregory Colemati, on tour with the Valentinos and placed a live-piece orchestra imdcr the direction of Monroe Goodman, in the . newly-opened Four Hundred Qub. Goodman, besides directing the orchestra at the Four Hun- dred Club, also directs the orchestra on the Waldorf Roof for Joseph Knecht. The Waldorf Roof will open on June 16. CHICAGO ORCHESTRA SAVED Chicago. June 4.—The Chicago Sym- phony Orchestra, which was in danger of being abolished or cut in half, has been saved in its entireity for two more seasons as a result of the new wage agreement reached between the Orchestral Associa- tion and the Chicago Federation of Musi- cians last week. The new agreement in- creases the wages of the men from $60 to $75 a week and adds $28,000 to an an- nual payroll of $182,000. PARKER AT STRAND ROOF Don Parker and the Vernon Country Qub orchestra, following their vaudeville engagement, opened last week at the Strand Roof in conjunction with Earl Lindsay's summer revue. Parker has nine men in his combination, playing both for the show and the dance music. For dance music the orchestra has several novel effects which they cmpk>y in the way of unusual instrumentation. FRED WARING MARRIED Sax pRANasco. June 4.—Fred M. War- ing, director of Waring's Pennsylvanians, was married on May 17th to Miss Dorothy McAteer, of Pittsburg^i. The orchestra just closed a twelve-week engagement in Los Angeles and are now playing the California Theatre here with sensational success. HINES BROS. AT LITTLE CLUB Hines Bros. Orchestra, a versatile si.x- piccc combination with a good middle-west reputation, has been booked by Paul Specht for an extended engagement at F. A. San- der's "Little aub" of Pittsburgh, Pa. LOPEZ BAND FOR ORPHEUM The number two Vincent Lopez orches- tra act will open at the Palace Theatre, Chicago, next Sunday and will then con- tinue over the Orpheum time out to the Coast and back. This act was formerly billed under the direction of Del Lampe but Lampe is no longer with the act, Bemie Dolen doing the same work with the or- chestra. The act has been materially reconstruc- ted and many of the effects and settings used by Lopez in his own act will be used in the No. 2 act. The scenic feature of the act will be "On a Moonlight Night," Wolfe Gilbert's waltz success. Harry Weber is booking the act REHEARSE IN HOTEL Harry Stoddard, whose "Streets of New York" Orchestra is plnying the Pal- ace this week, tried out something new in the way of rehearsing last week. • Stoddard has a big three room suite in one of the Broadway hotels, in the living room of which he has installed a grand piano. In order to keep his men together and com- fortable, he called a rehearsal for his apartment, the men putting in three hours there. The plan worked so well that he continued to rehearse in his rooms all week. VERSA'nLE OPENS AT NIGHTINGALE The Versatile Quintette, under the direc- tion of Carl Berger, opened on Saturday night at the Nightingale Restaurant. 48th street and Broadway for a sumvmer en- gagement. This combination sing; and dance besides playing the dance music, and are well adapted to a cabaret of this kind. STALLWERS LEAVES RINK Fred Stallwcrs closed his engagement at the St. Nicholas Rink last week, his place being taken by Baron Van Shillagh and an orchestra of nine men. Dan Gregory and his orchestra continue at the Dancing Carnival, the name given to the dance place at the St. Nicholas rink. GREEN AT DEAUVILLE Jacques Green, formerly director of the Biltmore Hotel Orchestra and more re- cently leader of the Manhattan Society Orchestra in vaudeville is now directing a conrt>ination of eight pieces at the Club Dcauville. Pcrc>' Elkeles is managing the club. HIRSCH CONTRACT EXTENDED Bert Hirsch and his orchestra, booked by Al Jockers at the Knickerbocker Grill, have had their contract there extended indefinitely. "The orchestra is playing only for dinner now as the supper session has been discontinued for the summer. REVELERS CLOSE YEAR RUN Fred Starwers Revelers, nine piece or- chestra, that closed recently at the St. Nicholas rink after a run of a year opened May 27th. at the Palais Royal, Hartford, Coiin.. for an indefinite period, under the direction of Bert Jonas. FREY AT STEEPLECHASE Fred L. Frey and His Orchestra opened last week at the . Steeple Chase. Atlantic Gty,- where he will play a summer en- gagement. Ray Martin has booked the or- chestra for the resort. PAUL SPECHT SUES GOLDEN Paul L. Specht, instituted another action against Ernie Golden, last week when he- filed suit in the Muniapal Court against him for $1,000 damages for breach of contract. In his complaint filed through his at- torney, Specht alleges that he had a con- tract with Golden whereby he was to get 10 per cent, of the money the Golden orchestra earned as his manager's fee for handling the orchestra for vaudeville. Due to his efforts Specht sets forth, the Golden, orchestra was booked for seventeen weeks, in vaudeville and earned a total salary thereby of $13,750. The contract in question, was signed last December and since April 16th, Specht. complains, he has tried to collect the money due him, and also since that day Golden has refused to allow him to continue as manager of the orchestra or perform any : such duties. Specht, who is now in England, recently filed suit for $1,000 against Golden for breach of contract in connection with or- chestra arrangements Golden was to make for Specht. Golden, contends that he was never under the management of Paul Specht. FERDINANDO RETURNS TO VAUDE* Lieutenant Felix Ferdinando, who played in vaudeville in New York with his Ha- vana orchestra about a month ago and who retired from the stage to manage his en- terprises in Manchester, N. H., will re- turn to vaudeville with a new orchestra production early in the fall after his sum- mer season is over. Ferdinando is lessee and general man- ager of Pine Island Park, New Hamp- shire, and runs the spacious dance floor, Venetian Gardens, which is a part of the park. Venetian Gardens was opened for the summer recently, Ferdinando incorpor- ating several novel lighting effects devised for the purpose by Leo. J. LeBlanc. On the first warm Saturday, which fell last week, S,(XX) people were on the floor. Fer- dinando also runs Le Chateau in Man- chester. VETERAN CORNETIST IN SAN DIEGO San Dieco. June 4.—Although it was forty years ago yesterday (June 3, 1883), when A. H. Knoll won the championship in a cornet solo contest held in Detroit in the Whitney Opera House, the virtuoso still enjoying the best of health is willing to take on all comers in a similar contest, his friends assuring him that he plays as well now as ever. The veteran comctist's home is in Erie, Pa., but he is stopping here temporarily, and he is also connected with the U. S. School of Music in New York. In the Detroit contest when Knoll won his honors, he scored 387 out of a possible 4O0 points, leading all competitors t>y 67 points. .A gold medal and a prize of ^00 in gold went to the victor. ORCHESTRA MEN AT CONVENTION Lester Stanley. .\hc Holzmann and other band and orchestra men of local publishers returned on Monday from the annual con- vention of the .\merican Federation of Musicians, held last week in St. Lom's. STORE or LOFT TO RENT AT 144 WEST 46th STREET Marie Concern Preferred. CALL BRYANT 3726.