The Billboard 1916-07-15: Vol 28 Iss 29 (1916-07-15)

JULY 15, 1916. The Billboard aa N. Y. Vaudeville Notes By VAL New York, July 7.—Lockett and Waldron, who have played forty-six weeks of U. B. o. Time, are going to Atlantic City to recuperate for the coming season. They will stay in the city by the sea until Auugst, when they will come to the Brighton Theater, opening at that house August 14, with a route of thirty-eight weeks following. ‘They are finishing their present route at Proctor’s Fifth Avenue, where they are a big hit. Louise Magnolia, the clever daughter of a clever father (Louis Magnolia), is preparing an entirely new act for next season, which will include many new and novel dance creations she is now working on. Louis himself, one of Rockaway’s prominent business men, can not forget his old love, the stage, and put on a big show at the Columbia Theater, July 6, for the Masonic Fraternity. He is one of the best poosters for the L. I. G. H. T. 8. (of which he is a member), and is leaving no stone unturned to make their show at the Star of the Sea Lyceum, July 8, a great big success. Marcelle Howard’s Bears and Dogs, closing the show at Proctor’s Fifth Avenue, are about as classy and clean an aggregation as any animal act in the business, The animals are bright, and seem to enjoy their work, and in their clever routines (showing. excellent training) they exhibit no fear of their trainers. The turn is laid out with good judgment, leading up to the wrestling finish, which is a sure-fire climax to this dandy act. They held the audience intact : Herman and Shirley, who have just returned to America after a successful tour of the world, at the Fifth. Avenue showed one of the most original novelties of the season. It is a decidedly clever arrangement of sketch foundation for the display of wonderful contortion and acrobatic dancing. It tells a story intelligently, and finishes logically, the dancing being introduced in the most natural manner. There is plenty of work for this clever couple. Evan-Burows Fontaine, the 16-year-old premiere dansuese at the Palace, is a big surprise on account of her youth. But she has always been a dancer, being considered a prodigy even as a child, when, as a guest with her mother on the private yacht of John D. Spreckels, the California multi-millionaire, the party laid up in Honolulu for some time, and the child Evan saw the native dances, She absorbed the ideas and later at the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco she was chosen as a representative American dancer to open several of the larger courts before a gathering of the elite of the Coast City. Soon after Miss Fontaine came to New‘ York, where she entertained soclety at Saratoga Springs. The Biltmore. Claridge'’s, and other resorts, At one of these the was seen by that past master of dancing. Ned Wayburn, who termed her ‘The California Gocless of Grace." He at once engaged her for his production at the Century, where she fully justified Mr. Wayburn’s judgment. Her beautiful scente production, with its accompany{ng classical and nove) dance solos and enfembles, is art and artistry combined, and tw» receiving endorsements as such from Palace Patrons at every performance, Miss Fontaine's classy offering looks like a permanent fixture in high-class vaudeville, Henry Frey, the clever German comedian, is Playing his Afth return date at the Fourteenth Street Theater within one year, which is some record, His original character, ‘The German Joyful Jag," is atill a strong number in his routine, and, as Henry puts it over, it is a Mkable character, free from any of the obJectionable features usually associated with the character, Henry is the headliner, and fully Justifes his billing and position. Tom Brown, who with his Six Brown Brothers, comedy musical act, .were featured with Charles Dillingham'’s Chin Chin (Montgomery and Stone the stars), have been reengaged and open with the show again carly in September at the Globe Theater, New York. Tom has put out three comedy musical acts wince the show cloned, and all are booked solid on the U. B. O. Time. Florence Gladioti, the charming singer of character songs, has been offered a part in s THE BOOTE ‘WOMAN’S Street, Evening and Stage Wear. Mail Orders Promptly Attended To. 1860 BROADWAY, N. Y. DOES YOUR ACT NEED FIXING? BILLY SHARP PRODUCER AND STAGE DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTIONS AND VAUDEVILLE ACTS Will produce and staze your act with orizinal ideas. Have novelties for productions. Call, write or telephone. Suite, 289 Strand Theatre Bldg., N. Y. Telephone, Home, 2816 Intervale. Office, 4649 Bryant. — CINCINNATI. OHIO. Prone Band, Orchestra Mandeha etc yh sit i) THE OTTO ZIMMERMAN & SON CO. 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STAMPS, PLEASE. ; big production about to be rehearsed, but will not be able to accept, as she has a dandy vaudeville route for next season. This clever little artiste will be heard from later. Ziska, one of the most entertaining of the many comedy magicians, as well as being a crackerjack showman, has decidedly original ideas, and is putting over some clever illusions with the assistance of his company. As an innovation which should be of value Ziska and Company do the entire act in one. ACTORS’ CHARTER REQUEST REACHES LABOR OFFICIALS (Continued from page 4) inent labor leaders had assured him that such a plan would be followed, and further evidence was had a few weeks ago in an oficial admission from Hugh A. Frayne, general organizet of the A. F. of L., that President Gompers and the labor officials would proceed along this line, There is a big possibility that in the event that the Actors’ International Union fails to come to terms with the White Rats, which latter organization is and has been for some time under investigation by the A. F. of L., that the labor body will decide to go to the extent of issuing a branch charter to the A. I. U., exclusive of one which may or may not be issued to the Rats. It is well known that the Actors’ International Union, better known as the Insurgents, haa the sound backing of organized labor, something the White Rats have not, and it is only natural that recognition of them should be taken. WELLS HAWKS (Continued from page 5) lovable ‘Big Tim’ Sullivan, what a treat to sit around the table with the big fellow. Just as an instance of his great heart and his cleverness with it, I must tell this one: It was rough and snowing outside. We were around the table and ‘Big Tim’ was there. The telephone rang, and there was a call for ‘Big Tim.’ When he returned I remarked, ‘They never will let you alone, will they?’ ‘ ** Oh, Just the club house,’ he answered; ‘they want five tons of coal for some of the poor folks in the morning.’ . And they always come to you, the Samaritan, don’t they?” ‘Well,’ said ‘Big Tim,’ ‘I guess they do. I charged one ton to myself, one to you, George Considine; one to you, John Kelly,’ and so on around the table. And not a soul said a word, : “Why, the act is over,"’ said one of the gossips, ‘“‘and it was the last one, too.” “We haven't missed much," said the Oracle, “Just an untangling of all the difficulties in the preceding acts and a happy ending.” He arose, and as he was putting on bis overcoat the artist, who was always on the line at the Academy, remarked: “It would be appropriate to go over to the Metropole, and have a night-cap, if we could.” “Well, it’s gone,” eaid the Oracle, “but I know where to find George Considine.”’ eee No woman with a badge'on and a long face asked me to print the following: I don’t know anything about its financial condition or the passing of its palm, but its appeal, as I caught it half awake in the Subway the other morning, just braced up my tired self—for I do just love a dog. Read this: “A band of women, with kindness in their hearts and with love in thelr souls, are caring for and nursing back to health lost and abandoned dogs and cats at the Bide-a-Wee Home, East 38th street.’’ Isn't that tender, so motherlike, so full of memories of the old school days, and the lane down to the run and across the meadows and the dinner born at noon, the long afternoon in the harvest field, the trip to the store for city butter and the mail, and then suiet evening-tide slipping in before the stars came out and then the night silence and be waa still there, faithful old Duke—be never faltered, there was always the love in his eye and the what-do-you-want, master? And that sign and its sweet caring for something in the world just dimmed my eyes, and 1 went to sleep, feeling just a little bit more comfortable, for 1 was dreaming that Duke was lying alongside of the bed and maybe, too, he was thinking, in his kind, dog way, of his old pal, Dixie, who went away off from home and died. Just afraid he would hurt somebody's feelings, so he crept ‘way off when death called him. And Little Midget, gentle little mother bull, giving up her precious life for an unopenedeyed stranger that some brute stole from my own office before the pup could walk. I don't know; 4 oughtn't to love dogs, for it cuts in too deep when they go ‘way and don't come back. And so I just felt my heart's windows opening and a glow coming out for those good people who just wanted to take care of @ homeless dog or a cat. Say, I'd like to have that written against my name on the docket when they have the stand-up at Judgment Day. eee Drury Underwood, newspaper man and wag, writes me a long and interesting letter from Chicago (anything from Chicago is long and interesting), to which he adds a new yarn as a postscript. This is it: The director of a moving picture studio met a friend of the old days, who was looking a bit seedy and showed the signs of no engagement in many moons. The actor asked him for a place in the company, to which the director replied: “Fix yourself up a little, come around to the studio and we'll take care of you."’ Several days later the director inquired of the stage manager if the man had called, and asked how he was looking. “Ob, he looked fine,"’ #aid the stage manager; “his clothes were all pressed, he had on a new bat and a first-run collar." s ¢¢ Speaking from a standpoint of side-street attractiveness and window-box coloring it does make one feel a bit comfortingly rural to see s real, modern hotel down Greenwich villageway with the chairs out on the street in the evening so one can sit with his feet up in the air and tilted back do some genuinely pleasant talking. Ten to twelve years ago, when the old Ashland House etill stood at Twenty-fourth street and Fourth avenue, this placing the chairs on the edge of the street nearing the curbing was a feature, and it was always the event of the day when the genial mine host of the old school, the late Horace Brockway, used to promenade among his guests and just gossip on what was going on here and about. eee There is a hotel proprietor on Kentucky avenue fa Atlantic City who likes versatility and va riety. Ten days ago his house was filled with preachers, while the next week he had twenty of the Ziegfeld Follies girls. But there was one consolation—‘‘they ain’t home much.”’ ss 6 I’ve got to hand it to my father. About once a year he just scatters himself around his scattered family and makes all of us sorter glad that we picked him out for tbe head of the household. Story telling is his regular business—and down South they call him ‘“Sunshine Hawks.” I tried to manage him a long time ago, but he went up in the air on the first printing I got out and we gave it up. He couldn’t see it all with a 28-sheet stand reading ‘‘Wells Hawks Presents His Father,’’ or “Sunshine Hawks, Managed by His Son.” 1 tried to tell him a few yarns, sitting up nearly to morning matching ’em as fast as he could, but be pulled this one on me and then we went to bed. There was a colored man living in Alabama named Washington and he named his three sons George, Booker and Spok I tried to put it over that he might have had a daughter called Walla Walla, but I didn’t get away with it. Up at the New York Central offices I hear that Eddie Riggs, the publicity man, has a new scheme for advertising. He plans to utilize the spare space in day coaches for display cards as are now used in the street cars and subway. Some idea and if it carries through it ought to bring Eddie a pile of gold as big as some of those he used to write about when he was doing Wall street for The New York Sun. see Will my friend Luke McLuke, of The Cincinnati Enquirer, please note the following proposals for the ‘‘Name Cilub."’ A facial artist on West Thirty-third street named Muggesser and a dentist on West Forty-fourth street answering to the cognomen of Odontunder, Pretty nifty nomenclature, Luke, and the pro posals are seconded by Ben Powell and J. Herman Thuman. ses ‘They tell me down at Atlantic City that the center shot was not hit at all by William Harris, Jr.’s production of a play in which everybody blacked up and played the parts straight. They say the play read wonderfully, it rehearsed well, but just as soon as they put on the cork the audience would not stand for it. Maybe they forgot leaving the hotel at 11 and the parade. How about it, Uncle Al and Stanley Dawson? I'm betting that Colonel Jim Decker would have left his Jersey farm and caught the first Fort Lee boat to go ahead of that show gratuitously. *e 8 Leon Victor has had to give up his office at the corner of Forty-second street and Broadway, being dispossessed by Inspector Daly's ‘move on” order. He was aq little “het up’’ at first, but Charlie Bradford invited him motor boating on the wild waters of Great South Bay and now he is content. Just to keep in the atmosphere they named the craft ‘‘The Cut Trunk,”’ and used all of their unpublished and left-over electros of last season for ballast. eee In many restless hours, when on the road, I have laid awake in my $1.60 upper drawing room and wondered who was the man that picked out the names fgr the Pullman cars. *e @ I'm waiting for an invitation to the first malligan of the Ringling Show. The taste of that food conglomerate stil! Mogers on my palate, eee Let me here acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to be present at the annual lawn fete and strawberry festival of the Young Ladies’ Aid Society of the Unitarian Church of Broken Bow, Neb. 1 appreciate the honor, as I am the only circus agent that ever made the town in person. STANDARD THE WORLD OVER MADISON'S BUDGET No. 16 ail gone N ation price of No. 15 and No. it — MADISON, 1052 Third Ave former BUDGET _ (entirely FUNNYBONE No. monol