New York Clipper (Jul 1923)

8 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER July 4. 1923 HEAVY ADVANCE BOOKINGS ON ORPHEUM 200 TO BE ROUTED BY AUGUST In addition to over thirty acts now playing the Orpbeiun circuit, whose con- tracts will carry them over for the entire commg season on that circuit, over fifty acts more were routed up to last week, some of these acts -beginning their tours this_ week, while other routes handed out begin on various dates from July to Janu- ary. By the time the month of August rolls around, over one hundred and fifty acts will have been routed over the circuit. The acts hoMing routes who have not opened prior to the current week and their openincr dates are as follows: Carl Emmy's Pets, November 12, Palace, Chicago; "The Awkward Age," September 9, Palace, Mil- waukee; BiUy Arlington & Co, August 19, Palace, Chicago; The Arleys. Novem- ber 11, Palace, Milwaukee; Lady Alice's Pets, September 16. Omaha; Ben Bemie's Band, July 1, Palace, Chicago; Rae Eleanor Ball and Brother, July 1, Palace, Chicago; Russell Carr, September 2, OrrAeimi, St Louis; Margie Coate, July 1, Palace, Chicago; Harry Cbnley & Co., August 19, Winnipeg; Frank De Voe, July 1, San Francisco; Demidoff and Gainsak- amdia, September 16, Palace, Chicago; Paul Decker & Co., July 2, Los Angeles; Dixie Fonr, August 26, Hennepin, Minne- apolis; Irving Fisher, August 12, San Francisco; Four Fayre Girls, January 20, Orpheum, Kansas City; Giis Fowler, July 22, Oakland; Jack George Duo, Octob^ 1, Winnipeg; Pepita Granados & Co., August 5, Sl Paul; The Hartwells, September 23. Sute-Lake. Chicago; Ernest Hiatt, Sep- teniber 2, Englewood, Chicago: Al Her- man, August 26, Sionx Cty; Hymack, August 26, Kansas Gty; Harry Jolson. September 30, Palace, St Paul; Jewell's M a imilrini , July 1, San Francisco; Three WUte Knhns, August 19, Salt Lake; Kovacs and Goldner, September 16, Palace, OucagD; Paul Kirkland, August 21, Win- nipeg; Dnd de Kerakjarto, August 5, San Francisco; Lahr and Mercedes, September 16, Palace, Milwaukee: M. E. G. Lime. Ai«nst 26^ Sioux Gty; McGood, Lenzin & Co, Aognst 26, Hennepin, Miimeapolis; Minstrel Monarchs, August 19, Sioux City; Jean Middleton, September 16, Davenport; Senator Murphy, August 19, Hemiepin, Minneapolis; Moian and Mack, November 11, Palace, Milwaukee; Harry Moore^ September 2. Palace, Chicago; the Remos, January 6, Palace, Chicago; Pearl Regay and Lester Sheehan, July 1, State- Lake, Chicago; Harry Rose, July I, San Francisco; W. and R. Roberts, November 4, Palace. Milwaukee; Willie Schenk & Co, August 26. Sioux Oty; Billy Sharp's Revne, July 8, Hennepin, Minneapolis: MacSovereign, October 8, Winnipeg; Katberine Sinclair, October 28, Hennepin, Minneapolis; Stanley and Bimes. August 12; State-Lake, Chicago; the Stanleys, August 26, Kansas City; Van Hwen, Angust 26, Des Moines; Jos. K. Watson, August 26, Rockford; Wilson-Aubrey Trio. November 19, Palace. Chicago; Zuhn and Dries, August 26. Madison; C^hill and Romaine. Miimespolis; Bessie Barriscale, September 9, Cedar Rapids; Three Melvin Brothers, January 7. Winnipeg: Ernest R. Ball, July 1. Minneapolis; and Victoria and Duprez, July I, Minneapolis. LOEW CLOSING TWO HOUSES Two more Loew houses will close for the summer at the end of this week, being the State in Qeveland and the Strand in Washington. Both hottses {day full week stands, under a policy of five acts and motion pictures. N. V. A. COMPLAINTS Ruth Roye has filed a complaint against Sally Beers, alleging infringement on practically her entire act. Miss Roye claims thit Miss Beers is doing all the business she does, and mentions in par- ticular the number "I Thought I'd Die," sajring that Miss Beers does every bit of business which she does in it She also states that Sally Beers is using several other songs whidb she is singing. Alfred and Muriel Barnes are complain- ing against the Lampinis, alleging infringe- ment on the "Doir trick. Hawthorne and Cook have brought a complaint against Olive Baze, claiming in- fringement on the "make me serious" bit, with the business of the "hand over the face." Benton Rcssler is complaining on -behalf of Mrs. Gene Hughes, against Maude Daniels, stating that the latter is infringing with the use of the title "Youth," which he says was copyrighted hy Mrs. Hughes in 1911. NEW CASTLE THEATRE OPENS The Castle Theatre, Long Beach, opened on Thursday night with eight acts of Keith vaudeville, llie new theatre, which was erected by Mr. Frankel, owner of Castles by the Sea, and leased by B. S. Moss, has a seating capacity of 1,400, 1,100 of which is on the orchestra floor. Cliarles MacDonald is supervising manager and the house manager, temporarily, is Mr. Holloway of the Broadway theatre. L R. Samuels is booking the house tintil the return of Mr. Simmons. The stage is fully equipped with all the latest devices. Twelve dressing rooms, each capable of holding eight persons, are placed all on the stage floor, each equimed with windows, skylight and shower, llie color scheme is grey and blue relieved with occasional orange and gold. The stage oi>ening is 45 by 39 feet The music is provided by a fifteen-piece oichestra under the supervision of S. W. L^wton. Arthur Cleary has the box office and Walter Capp runs the stage. UGHT5 PREPARING CIRCUS The Lights' Club, on Long Island, have changed their plans in regard to not run- ning their annual dnnis, and have started work towards arranging for a bigger and better show than ever. Last year's ill-fated circus caused them to announce that no drcns would be attempted this year, but the presence of Fred Stone at the dub this year, has aroused a large amount of en- thusiam and confidence. Stone, Leo Car- rillo, Harry Sharrock and Harry Norwood arc members of the committee, who are now working on the circus, which will probably be sent out about he second week in August for a three weeks' tonr of Long Island and the suburbs of New York City, such as Larchmont, Portchester, and the like. The cruise will also be held this year, and will precede the drcus. Plans for the cruise are now under way and the opening dates of both cruise and drcus are to be set before the end of this week. KEITH LEXINGTON CORP. FORMED The Lexington Avenue Theatre and Realty Corporation is the name of a firm chartered under the laws of New York State at AHiany last week, which will be a Keith controlled corporation, formed for the purpose of building and operating the new Keith Yorkville Theatre, at Lexington avenue and Eighty-sixth street. The cor- poration is capitalized at $1,000,000, with the names of the incorporators given as A. L. Robertson, C. Monash and J. A. Hopkins. The attorney for the corporation is Maiirice Goodman, the Keith counsel. The new corporation will probably come under the jurisdiction of the Greater New York Vaudeville Theatres Corp., which is a holding corporation for the Keith and Moss theatres in Greater New York City. PAUCE TICKET SPECS BEATEN BYKQTH MORE AGENCIES CLOSE The campaign against Palace Theatre ticket speculators being waged under the direction of E. F. Albce, resulted in still another victory last week when the ticket agency near the Palace dosed its doors, following on the heeb of one or two others in the same locality. Ticket agencies still in the neighborhood refer patrons who want Palace tickets to the theatre box- ofiice and do not trade in that commodity any more. The battle has been going on for about two months during which time private de- tectives have been hired by the Keiths to watch the speculators and see what tickets they disposed of and then see that they were refused at the door. This service stood the Palace about $600 per week, ex- clusive of other precautions that were taken. The long talking enundator stat- ing that all tickets bought of speculators would be refused at the door will be con- tinued, and the policy of refusing tickets known to be bought of speculators will be made permanent. One of the chief reasons for stamping cut the speculating evil was the high cliarge made for tickets by the agencies on holidays and other good business days when the price would be boosted sky high often to several dollars more than the ticket was originally sold for at the box- office. WILMER AND VINCENT CHAIN Philadelphia, July 2.—^The Stanley Company of America holds a financial in- terest in several theatres in the chain of the Wilmer and Vincent Company, of New York, Walter Vincent part owner of the latter concern, testified last week before the Federal Trade Commission. The hear- ing is a resumption of an investigation be- gun in New York several weelu ago of charges that the Stanley Company, the Famous Players-Lasky Corporations and other large companies were sedcing to monopolize the motion picture business. "The Wibner and Vincent Theatre Com- pany," said Mr. Vincent "is the parent con4>any of twenty-four other corporations. We book through the Stanley Booking Company. The_ Stanley Company of America owns dghteen per cent interest in theatres in Aflentown, Pa., and one- third of our Harrisburg theatres. TO DISSOLVE "THE WAGER;' "The Wager," the afterpiece burlesque on Owen McGiveny's protean offering, "Bill Sykes," which has been done by Bert and Betty Wheeler, Willie and Noe Mandell, Dotson and McGiveny on the same Keith bills for the past season, will be dissolved at the end of the New Brighton engagement of this_ act two week's hence. The routes of this act then expire, and they are to be booked separate- ly beginning next season. _ It is being planned to use the afterpiece on the Orpheum circuit for next season, with a new cast, the acts to be picked from those booked on the tour with McGiveny, who's act is essential for the burlesque. TIE IN GOLF TOURNAMENT The third annual golf tournament of the National Vaudeville Artists' Qub was beki at the Salisbury Club's links in Garden City, L, I, last week, on June 26 and 27, and resulted in a tie for first place, between Don Barday and Hal Forde, and several new faces \xing placed among the winners of the othe;- divisions. Barday and Hal Forde played out their tie on Tuesday, July 3, the day after The Cuffeb went to press, and the result will be announced in next week's issue. The winner of the con- test is to receive the first prize of the Mar- cus Loew trophy. The runner-up will receive the Pantages trophy. The other winners and their prizes, were as follows:—First division—consolation prize. Jack Kennedy, Colonial Theatre, Eric, ra,, Qock. Second division—H. Turpin, B. S. Moss trophy; runner-up, Frances X. Donegan, F. F. Proctor trophy; consolation, Dave Thursby, Mike Shea cup. Third division—Jack Fulton, E. F. Albee cup; runner-up, Percy Oakes, Wil- mer and Vincent cup; consolation. Will Cook, Grey and Old Rose prize. Fourth division—^J. Alexander. Marcus Heiman trophy; runner-up, E. F. Forde, Canadian circuit prize. The qualifying rounds were won by Hal Forde, with a low score of 80, thus secur- ing permanent possession of the Tom Nawn Trophy, which Forde had a leg on from last year's tournament. Spedal events winners were Hal Forde, of the approach and putting contest; J. Fulton of the niblick contest; F. Britton of the Chesterfield Cup with a low score pt 78. The ladies' contest resulted in Miss Bobbie Folsom winning with Mrs. Sum- mers as runner-up. and Mrs. Chisholm getting the consolation prize. BRAVES FIELD DOES $50,000 Boston-, July 2.—The Boston Brave's Field, which opened last Monday night under the direction of Marcus Loew, pla}red to over 90,000 patrons during the entire week, doing a total of almost $50,000 on the week, at a general admission of fifty cents per person. About 25,000 attended on , the opening night and an average of 15,000 was hit for the remainder of the week. The programme is divided as fol- lows : Dandng for one hour, fireworks for three-quarters of an hour and a feature motion picture for an hour and a quarter. Alex Hyde and his orchestra of fifty pieces are the big permanent attraction. The salary of Hyde's orchestra is $50,000 for ten weeks, or $5,000 a week. ACT ON AUTO TRIP TO COAST Chicago, June 30.—Miners and Balcom arc playing their way to the Pacific coast combining business with pleasure and mak- ing the jumps by auto with Cleo Balcom at the wheel. They left Chicago on Thurs- day of last week for Janesville, Wis., where they played Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the Western Vaudeville Managers' As- sociation. The next stand was Freeport III., where they were booked July 4 at the Dittman-Lindo Thcatt-c by the OtroU agency. LOPEZ IS POLICE LIEUT. Vincent Lopez was made an honorary member of the New York Police Depart- ment, last week, and has 'been presented with a Police lieutenant's badge. This honor has been conferred on Lopez by the Police in recognition and gratitude for the many favors he has rendered them at their various affairs and benefits. BEN BERNIE ON ORPHEUM TOUR Ben Bemie and his orchestra opened for a tour of the Orpheum circuit on Sunday. July 1, at the Palace, Chica^. The act has been routed over the entire circuit REGAY AND SHEEHAN RE-UNITED Pearl Regay and Lester Sheehan have re-united in their vaudeville dance offering after a separation of four years. They have been routed over the Orpheum drcuit and opened in the State-Lake Theatre, Chicago, on Sunday, July 1. Hal FindJay is appearing at the luano in the act