The Billboard 1922-06-03: Vol 34 Iss 22 (1922-06-03)

y y O5] v ceccccvoceseres: tf) DECORUM DI GNITY » DECENCY [i lisstisihay Mbibis the sy / y} (Copyright 1922, by The Billboard Publishing Company.) z Uy 1.500 AT ANNUAL A. E. A. MEETING Old Officers Re-Elected—Actors’ Theater Movement Receives Strong Support New York, May 27.—The annual meeting and election of officers of the Actors’ Equity Association was held yesterday afternoon in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Astor. About 1,500 members were present, and irant Mitchell, acting president, took the chair. A cablegram of greetings from the absent president, John Emerson, was read to the meeting. A count of the ballot showed that practically the same officers were reelected for the coming term. On the Council to serve three years was named: George Arliss, Harry C. Browne, Berton Churchill, Augustin Duncan, Gilbert Emery, Ernest Glendinning. Frank McGlynn, Helen MacKellar, Marion, Edith Wynne Matthison, Lynne Overman, Laurette Tavlor, Walker Whiteside, John Willard, Fritz Williams, Peggy Wood, and to serve until the annual election, Wm. C. Fields, The meeting passed a vote endorsing the Council in its plea to members not to sign valid contracts beyond June 1, 1924, when the Equity’s Basic Agreement with the Producing Managers’ Association expires. This is in no way a provocative measure, Mr. Gillmore explained, but rather a common sense (Continued on page 106) SIXTEEN PEOPLE 1S TO BE TAB. MINIMUM On Hyatt Wheel—P ublic Demands Better Shows, Says Larry Hyatt George Chicago, May 28.—The Hyatt Booking Exchange, scientific experimenters, critical observers and long-time laborers in the vineyard of tabloid, makes an important announcement this week to that very extensive element of managers and actors who make their living in that arm of the profession conveniently called the “Tab. Field”. First, the smallest shows to be booked over the big Hyatt Tabloid Wheel the coming season will have sixteen people, no less, and some of them eighteen and twenty people. Larry Hyatt told The Billboard some of the reasons for the above limit in heome. He said that after exhaustive study and testing he has found that a ‘tabloid show must be big enough in fast to put on any script bill or condensed version of the musical comedies. The sixteen-people casts will have ‘even principals, eight choristers and * pianist. An organization this size fan give a performance such as indi‘ated above. A smaller number can not. Mr. Hyatt gave it as his emphate opinion that the day of the ten (Continued on page 107) A. E. A. EXECUTIVES The annual meeting of the Actors’ Equity Association, held last week at the Hotel Astor, New York, resulted in the election of the following executives: John Emerson............President. Ethel Barrymore.....1st Vice-Pres. Frank Bacon.........2d Vice-Pres. Grant Stewart..-..Recording Secy. Frank Gillmore........... Treasurer. I. A. T. S. E. OFFICERS The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada, in convention last week at Cincinnati, elected the following officers for a two-year term: Charles C. Shay.........President. Wm. F. Canavan....1st Vice-Pres. Richard J. Green.....2d Vice-Pres. Fred J. Dempsey.....3d Vice-Pres. Wm. P. Colbert......4th Vice-Pres. E. J. Tinney.........5th Vice-Pres. F. G. LeMaster........Secy.-Treas. WORTHAM’S WORLD'S BEST IN ST. LOUIS Two Weeks’ Engagement Starts With Business Fully Up to Expectations St. Louis, May 25—Clarence A. Wortham’'s Wold’s Best Shows are now making their first stand at St. Louis. They arrived early Monday morning and before daylight the tent city was on its way to Vandeventer and Laclede avenues. On the imm@gnse. circus grounds the lot was lai out “L” shape, to make everything roomy. When the lights went on Monday évening at 8 o’clock the “Show-Me” clan took off its glasses and admitted that it had been shown. The layout of the midway is said by many to be the most pleasing ever seen with the World’s Best Shows. Entrance jis thru a handsome arch (Continued on page 106) LYRIC, CINCINNATI, SOLD FOR $850,000 Former Legit. Theater, Now Running Pictures, Bought by Fox Film Corp. The Fox Film Corporation of New York bought the Lyric Theater Building, Cincinnati, last week for $850,000. An additional $350,000 will be expended for alterations to the auditorium part of the structure, which has a seating capacity of 1,500. The remodeling will begin at once and it is expected to reopen the house October 1 on the same plane that the Fox picture theaters are operated in New York. William Fox closed the (Continued on page 107) [.A.T.S. E. AFFIRMS VELLOW CARD SYSTEM C. C. Shay Again President of Organization—Report of Convention —_—— The establishment of the yellow card system to the place it held before the controversy last summer between stage hands and burlesque producers was adopted by the twenty-sixth convention of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada last week in Cincinnati. The element which favored this movement also was successful in electing Charles C. Shay, of New York, to the presidency of the organization over James Lemke, of Troy, N. Y., who filled the office since the biennial meeting in Cleveland, O., in 1920. Official results gave Shay 357 votes and Lemke 175. Dissatisfection with Lemke’s method of settling the 1921 burlesque strike, when the yellow card system was abolished for three months, is said to have been the principal cause of opposition. The total delegate vote of 532 is the largest to attend an I. A. T. S. E. convention. Beginning May 22 the convention continued for five days. At the outset it was freely evidenced that Shay would again be made president, he having retired from the office on ace (Continued on page 102) RENDEZVOUS PARK ENTERTAINS THRONG Cannons Roar Salute to Mayor as Popular Amusement Resort Opens Atlantic City, N. J.. May 27.—Three cannons heralded the opening this evening of Rendezvous Park, Atlantic City’s only amusement park, to the accompaniment of the cheers of a large crowd. At seven o’clock the doors were thrown wide open and the people began to stream in. The new management of the park, headed by George Jabour, acted as a welcoming committee. At nine o’clock Mayor Edward L. Bader entered Rendezvous and was greeted with twenty-one salutes from the big guns. After the International Fireworks Company of New York set off its gorgeous display the Mayor was tendered a golden:key to the park. An added surprise of the evening was the stunt antics of .P. H. Paulinetti, who climbed around like a big monkey, sealing walls and roofs and doing other seemingly impossible feats. The entire first week admission to the park will be free. This “free week” is expected to build up a faith with the public that will insure crowds for the entire season. : The attractions in (Continued on page 107) MARTIN G. SMITH President of the Motion Picture Theater Owners of Ohio. NO REDUCTION IN PASSENGER RATES But Shows Moving in Freight Service May Benefit, According to I. C. C. Report Washington, May 26—The official finding of the Interstate Commerce Commission in connection with the petitions for and against a reduction of freight rates and passenger transportation rates, which has just been issued, is of much interest to the amusement world. The question of passenger transportation is taken up, and reasons why changes were not made are given, together with the opinion of those members of the Commission who dissented. A careful perusal of some 80 pages of the report discloses (Continued on page 107) 60,000 AT OPENING OF LAKEWOOD PARK Second Season of Waterbury Amusement Resort Is Full of Promise Waterbury, Conn., May 28.—Lakewood Park opened for the season yesterday, and the second year of this park's existence under the DeWaltoff management promises to be most successful. Thousands of people from cities and towns for miles around crowded the grounds from noon until midnight, and every ride was running capacity despite cool weather. Captain E. Armstrong, of the American Legion, officially opened the park (Continued on page 107) last Week's Issue of The Billboard Contained 1,262 Classified Ads, Totaling 6,790 Lines, and 890 Display Ads, Totaling 34,117 Lines; 2,142 Ads, Occupying 40,997 Pines Im All The Edition of This Issue of The Billboard Is 69,800 seni nclimnskisinietansiasitiiaaa aia j ef +r alte aah SPS te ee ene a eae en oe