The Billboard 1923-09-01: Vol 35 Iss 1 (1923-09-01)

Kl tn 4h _ ~ SEPTEMBER 5 1923 . a . s e « "7 flome of the Late Senator McCormack Some Dandy ....................-. Thaddius Drayton 103 Rodney Sheppard secoscccececsceee Benham weeks Later. Evening. Act Ill.—Home of The Sheriff ................cce. Will A. Cook WEEE nnnnnceonnedssssaaéunaeds Charles Dowd Robert Duncan — = oe tee Cream Charife ......cccce. Irvin C. Miller BIJOU SYNOPSIS: “Act L—Living Room in the Staged by Oscar Eagle aoa -y Me ..Emmett Anthony Cavender Home. Evening in August. Act II. CLOSED NOVEMBER 25, 1922 Ot DOD dedbdeccdvewas we Billy” Mills Commencing Monday Evening. December 4, 1922 —Rodney Sheppard's Stody. yt on in 12 Performances John Jones ...... waters Doe Doe Green MILTON PRODUCTIONS cember. Act Ill.—Same as Act I. Afternoon er iabvetshaded ; Elizabeth Terrill —Presents— in March. andy . jesteeugseinicaksne ee een Place—A New England City. xtme—Present. S7 EMPIRE Harry Davis eeennnnnepeda -—* Magen LISTENING IN Staged by David G Fisch Oe eepeeoy Donald Fields A Emotional Comedy in a Prolog and Three CLOSBD DECEMBER 9, 1922 Commencing Monday ryeniag, November 20, !rown-Skin Vamps, Jimtowa Flappers, Dancing caut ow — 7 orues 5 Performances Honey Girls, Struttin’ Dandies | . CHARLES FROHMAN _ SYNOPSIB: Act 1 —Scone 1—In Proms of — soaltyse Ont eag ee, MPOmaMan) an 107 a New © ly B con +y Pose :* nee ber sh 2—Town Jail Mr. Morrison veccceces +s GlORESO Majeroni COMEDY ' ew Come cene 3—Sam Sykes’ arber Sho Scene 4— _ ari . > =XAS. N IGHTINGALE A st reet n Jimtown. . Sce . On the joerg ay ool D ie a iat -Mir ms | bell Commencing Thumséay sreneng, ber 14, THE TE Levi e." Aet Il Seene 1 Ji oseten Square John Coomber ........ Ei rhe st Glendinning = Re eo Di Street in Jimtowr Scene 3—Jim Harry Van Sloan ............ Harry Stubbs GUTHRIE McCLINTIC JOBYNA HOWLAND fown Graveyard. Scene 4—Street in Jimtown. 1—William Archer .......... Wijiiam “Keighley Presents— And Company, Including 6the Sano = mtown Ball Room. Scene hy -. (Bach ROME s 3635 Frank A ) aoe GRI NGO oom Jd9 s CROESBOD .nccceces ° rar r CYRIL K EIGHTLEY Time—Summer Time NA Wen nncuccdudaass George Gaston A New Play of Mexican Life by Sophie CAST OF CHARACTERS Place—Jimtown, South Carolina BRE avcucacdrsceccccesences Herbert Farjeon readwell In the Order of Their Appearance) Entire Production Staged by Walter Brooks Mrs. Grace Pp m erton Margaret Linden —W ith— onus — Moved te Nora Bayes Theater, March 12, 1923 Reginald Pemberton ...... Wiliam Davidson JOSE RUBEN r n " eee i eighties q 9 ‘ Geoffrey dacccaseceeacerees G St :) Walter Preseet® ..ccccsceccsoccl Perce Benton CLOSED APRIL 31. 1908 + a ny, EE ws Frm topp CAST OF CHARACTERS Hrasa CAM@YM@ «2... ceceeeeerees Jobyna Howland sas —— SYNOPSIS: Prolog—Living Room in Bleeker So Sn 098 Appensance) Ravyt 1 Tillerton, ....+.+++..Perey Helton Ha Curtain will be lowered f or three minree ag Bm ot ee ne n Saes’ meen INEZ ..--serevereersorece . Beth Varden utes to denote a lapse of three weeks.) Act + See + =< S04 Se ae L nee — Sascha Bloch er eeeee Georges Renavent 101 I Scene 1—Living Room in‘ Bleeker Hall. More I ; ht Rt ee ee niet 0: Edne. Walt e Count He idony! Bloch ... Paul Poreasi ‘(Curtain will be lowered for one minute to Chive caer ene e san eanra reine: Fred rick Pp ~~ SYNOPSIS: Act I.—Ste ven Tillerton's ApartGLOBE denote a lapse of twelve hours.) Scene 2—The Tito, el aieeeee er ecereccocseces re —_ Fst nt on Gramercy Park. Act Il.—Madame Same. Act I1.—Secene 1—Same as Act I. Ten b OL TUerto ..cee eeee serene . Conava’s House. Uptown. Two Weeks Later. Commeneing eae” = vening, November 28, Days Later. (Curtain will be lowered to deoe oA ae aati ei wr tnoay | Ghert Act UW Steven Tillerton’s Apartment. Six note a lapse of five hours.) Scene 2—The Same. =, , *g RS _ e. ertsom veeks Later Five Hours Later. Act II].—The Same. Five sAPatn: 7 Vv s Lat a CHARLES DILLINGHAM Minutes Later. SYNOPSIS: Act I.—At the entrance of the bie , a —PRESENTS— Genin ” Esperanza Mine. Afternoon. Act Il.—The same. Locality—New York City Steged by Ira Hards Er T oe bee. Ge idiots & Produced under the stage direction of David The Annual Globe — eb Ac oye SS irton CLOSED DECEMBER 16, 32 Performances 1922 GARRICK a November 20, THE THEATER GUILD —Y RESENTS— THE LUCKY ONE 98 Commencing Monday Comedy in er Acts By A..A. CAST OF CHARAC TERS Tommy Todd . PTT TTT Romney Brent Henry Wentworth eouseneessane Harry Ashford Gerald Parring@om ......sseses:: Dennis King Mise Farripgdom .....seeeees:Helen Westley Letty Herbert eeceseses Gwynedd Vernon La ParsiaGGD occcccvcsceces Grace Elliston Sir James Farringdon ......... Robert Ayrton Palmela Carey .ccctcesccccccs Vielet Heming Bob Farringdog ......cccescees Perey Waram FORGE occ casscctcnsevceaecnas Nannie Griffen SYNOPSIS y* t I.—At Sir James Farringdons in the Country. Act I1.—A Private Hotel in Dover Street Two Months Later. Act Il At Sir James Farringdon’s Again, Three Months Later. Directed by Theodore Komisarjevsky CLOSED DECEMBER 16, 1922 32 Performances Commencing Monday Evening, November 27, MADISON” COREY —PRESENTS— (In Association with Charles Capehart) Timely Comedy THE BOOTLEGGERS Ry William A. Page CAST OF CHARA( TERS William T. Rossmore .. Robert Conness Nina Rossmore ..........: x. atberine Dale Owen Lane Aubrey Beattie Arthur Laceby George P. Collins Rev. Thomas Laceby ..Ernest Howard Lar BD eovescececcoesectcesese leighton Stark Creighte® coceccccccceessctsece Edwin Evans Mor D undue nha vtendquas ..s-.. John Lyons BOGUS nckktenkesscvihaseesa ‘Albert Hyde \ RM pcccecewtes coenaase Barry Townsley Tor ere Autosio Salerno Jud RG ceosaccastue Jobn M. Sullivan WO ovacécédieeeessdeuneene Oliver Putnam WOM sscecoubabes siuseawee Hugh Ch Ivers OO CE EOE ° . Lou Polan Wolf ais) dlls th insee ales Josey h Burton Emmaline Elton .......... as ..Joyee Fair Bu DP « ne .Bryce Kennedy J Phil Sheridan “Dandy Phil” Casimir J. Montayne Vandergrift et Vendome = Berr! Collins Cleo De Courcelle Dorinda Adams Rosa Venturin Lenore Masso Percy Hetherington Chartes Haskine “Pinkte Dument Norma Lelie “T Montmerency Kathryn MacDonald n Maginnis Iiarry Cowler lr Dawson, P.D, Walter Lawrence Sergeant Walker, P. D. ........ Evan Edwards Mulligan ..seeees John Lyons S Girls, Patrons of the Cafe de Blanc, ete NOUSIS Act L—Home of William T. re on the Upper West Side. New York; Afternoon in Autumn Act 11.—(ffice of t Prohibition Commissioner, New York City, Next Da Act Ill.—The Chub de Bianc, on a Side Street Near Broadway, About 1 A. M. Next Morning Act IV.—Rosemore’s Home, Neat Day. Staged by Frank McCormack CLOSED DECEMBER 28, 1922 32 Performances 100 DALY'S Commencing Mon@ay Evening, November 27, 1922 AL DAVIS —PRESENTS— Book by Irvin C Miller; Lyrics and Music by Maceo Pinkard: Special Lyrics by Nat Vincent CAST OF CTIARACTRRS (In the Order of Their Appearance) Squire Norris . . .Alonzo Fenderson ! 1 Norrla Margaret Simms "OUR neancadscoueés uaeewee Gertrude Saunders Uncle Pete ...... w Simms Person Jordan Jodge Plommer Ras Jobnson mintard Miller die Greenlee eee eee eee eee She THE BUNCH AND JUDY Musical Entertainment Music by Jerome Kern: Lyrics by Anne Caldwell; Book by Anne Caldwell and Hugh Ford CAST OF CHARACTERS (In the Order of Their Appearance) ee ee ee Lydia Scott be dc waianne abawees Eugene Revere Messenger : Roger Davis Haze] Kirkwood ; atrice Clark Marguerite De Belmont ~.-Lilian White Angustus de Forrest : Augustus Minton Foxhall Davidson .... -.T. Wigney Percrva! Lady Janet : Roberta Beatty Lord Kinlock Philip Tong Call Boy Al 0 q Otto Steger Johnny | Jack Jessop elano Georgia McNamora Hi n El Ro Gladys Geldwin ‘ air al Estelle , Viola Esmond t Mrs. Jordana lley Robin wade Ef Dallas Ff : ! Gerald Lan ..Freq Astaire Judy Jorda: Adele Astaire Earl of Torwoud T. Wigney Pereyval (J. M. McKenzie PU its ica ccincvucen teases { R. H. Wilder | W. McLellan Station Master ...... a R. H. Wilder Horace Speivin ...... Eugene Revere IN THE CAB. \RET SCENE: Miss Grace Hayes Six Brown Brothers Helen Allen, Marie Brady, Gertrude Feeley, Carol Flower, Marjorie Flynn. Marie Francis, Doris Landy, I . Louise Powell, Lydia Scott, Mildred Sinclair, Billie Wilcox, Ursula Dale, tt) line, Lola Curtis, Hazel Donnelly, Ona Han n, Eleanor Ladd, Edna Locke, Midd at Lee Patrick, Mary Pearce, aide Robinson, Bita Royce, Jet Stanley, » an ger Davis, Manurice Chapm amery, Jack Hughes, Clifferd St e, Chester Grady, Edward Graham, George 7 sarton, Ke th Munro,« Charies Roberts, ~~Ja-—" Daly. mal fred Watson, Jr. SYNOPSIS —Scene —aas ore the Operetta ie 2 The Operetta ene 3— After the Performance Act ~deens 1— Torwoed Castile, Scotland. Scene 2—Torwood Railway Station. Scene 3—The Cafe Russe. CLOSED JANUARY 20, 1923 65 Performances 102 RITZ Commencing Weteesty _Bvening. November 29, I922 SAMUEL WAL —Presents— LACH IT IS THE LAW —Preseats— A Melodrama by Elmer L. Rice (From Hayden Talbot's Story) Directed by Lester Lonpergaa CAST OF CHARACTERS (In the Order of Their Appearance) | SPP TC TTT Tee Cc. W. Goodrich aaa Richard Stevenson OO Ee Charles P. Bates WC cecccsces John F. Roche WE eeeccdeureuseseeuceaeseees John Burr POMBO cccccccceccceccesvescvevegs Jack’ Thorne RUMSSR cccccccesese . James Linhart spy eéeeenconees esate, de Stefani PD cecccccsceseooes ... Thomas Hood Wil tiem RROD Sc dacckxes ‘A. H. Van Buren Gordoa Travers ...-Hans Robert Roth . Alma Tell Justin Victor ........ -Ralpb Kella Lillian anenevatewnuces Rose Burdick Theodore Commings Wiliam Lnagersol! Albert Woodruff . Arthur Hebi *“Gnifer Bvane’® .....ccsccseed Alexander Onslow James Dolan . eueet Walter Walker Edward Harley ........eeeesFrank Westertos Ellen euee Valerie Valarie SYNOPSs!S Seene 1—Card Rem of the Gotham Clob, 10 pm. October, 19°2. Scene 2 —Drawirg Ro m of Theodore Commons H me. 1918 S-ne 3—Albert Wo ar f« Apartment. March, 1914 Interval 1, Min-te. Showing a Lapse of 24 Hours. S ene 4—Same as Scene 3. s ‘~The Warden's Office fn Sine Sane 1922. Scene 6—Drawing Room of Theo dore Cummings, Octoder, 19°22 Scene 7T—Some as Seene 1, 10:30 p.m., October 192". Moved to Nora Rayes Theater, Jannary 15, 19238, CLOSED MARCH 10, 1923 121 Performances 1— William Keigh ey replaced by Bruce El more, December, 1922 c LOSED FE BRU ARY 17, 1923 91 Performances 104 BAYES Commencing Monday Evening. December 4. 1922 HAYSEED PRODUCTIONS, INC., (Ed Davidow and Rufus LeMaire, Direstere) —Present— OUR NELL A Musical Mellowdrayma Pvok and Lyrics by A. E. Thomas and Brian Hooker; Music by George Gershwin and lliam Daly “CH. ARACTERS Order of Their Appearance) CAST OF In the ‘ —— e Barry 7 ..-John Merkyi Peleg Deolittle ...cceccccceccces Ji ~) Barry Jo Frank Mayne I .Thomas Conkey Ik Guy Nichols I ae eeecescas Eva Clar ke Ar De WOGHS scccnncaeedseanss Emma Haig ‘ © DemIMS ccccscccece eeseeaas O.in Howland M iogers btheqeeenenuaeanet hee Sonderson Rustic Ma dens, Farm Boys OUR NELL CHORUS—Molly Murphy, _Shirley Lewis, Alice Wood, Mary Maxwell, ‘Laci le Darng. Elinore Tiermey. Kathieen McLanchiin, Emme Tatte rsall, He ay Tattersall, Blancie Merton, Winthrop Wa OUR NELL FARM *BOYS—Ral: h Bond, Don Gauthier. George Griffin, Ted Wheeler, John McCulloch, J. Donald Heebner SYNOPSIS Act IL.—Joshua Holcombe’s Farm in Old New England. Afternoon. Act II.—Inside the Barn. The Wedding Night. Staged by H. Gilmore and Edgar MacGrecor Ensembles by Julian Mitchell CLOSED JANUARY 6, 1923 40 Performances NATIONAL Commencing Tuesday Evening, December 5. 922 MAURICE S. REVNES Presents— “FASHIONS FOR MEN A Comedy in Three Acts by Ferenc Molnar; English Text br Reniamin G.azer CAST OF CHARACTERS (In the Order of Their Appearance) Peter Juhasz X FP eggie Adele Beth Merrill The Aristocratic Lady .Edythe Tressider Serre Clarke Silvernail The Unassuming Lady ....... Frances Goodrich PRED 00denqsedges cceesieuseecess Frank Peters The Young Gentk man eeekseud Fairfax Burgher ED. ic 0bnndssantceeenceonsas -He.en Gabagan (By ‘arrangement with Wm. A. Brady) RR ee George Frenger vewedqes Edwin Nicander aade bee James Hagen Geerge Frenger -Fairfax Bourgher John Rx — Sedan] E! The Thorough Young ronnte Kathe rine “Ha on The Dissatistied Lady..... .«.Frances Goodrich The Nervous Gentleman ...... ° .Jobn Rogers The Old Gentleman ...........+. James Hagen The Patient Lady ..cccccccecccece Sedonia Elin The Cebman George Frenger SYNOPSIS Act L—A Shop in Budapest. Act 11. —The Administration Building at Gerelypuszta. Act I11.—The Shop Acain. The Play Staged by Moved te the Belmont. January 1, 192%. "Title Changed to “Passions for Men” vary, 1923. CLOSED FEBRTARY 17, 1923 89 Performances Benjamin Glazer Jan PUNCH AND JUDY Commencing eee | Evening, December 7, EDWARD WHITESIDE —Presents— THE DOORMAT A Comedy Drama in shaes Acts by H. 8S. Sheldon CAST OF CHARACTERS (In the Order of Their Appearance) GD kcavetedveqencucsqucsces Grace MacGowan Jerome Baldwin ........«+. Henry Mowbray Judge Cavender ...........Howard Nugent Dick Cavender ......-Theodore Westman. Jr Lacey Cavender ......... : -Leis Roiton Adele Cavender ........Lolita Anna Westman Josephine Sheppard ...........Margaret Nugent ning. Scene 2—Midnight. Act I1l.—Open country in the mountains. A week later. The action of the play takes place im the far mountains of Mexico at the present time, Staged by Guthrie MeClintic. CLOSED JANUARY 6, 29 Performances 107-A PROVINCETOWN Commencing Wetnests 2 es December 20, THE PLAYERS’ COMPANY, INC., © RUDOLPH ‘SCHILDKRAUT THE PLAYERS’ 3° COMPANY THE GOD OF VENGEANCE Drama in Three pas By Sholom Ase Translated From the Yfddish oy Isaac Goldberg CAST OF CHARACTEKS (In the Order vad Their Appearance) — eeheenens ee .. Virginia Mac Fadyen soccccccceosecooesecess< Esther Stockton Tene! Shepshoviteh vee eBudolph Schildkraut A Poor Woman .....++++++++-Marjorie Stewart Shloyme eccccece ececceececeseess+-Lou Sorin OO EE Saiaieaane Berland Reb Alf ..... ° ece .. Sam Jaffe -Morris Carnovsky «+++--Dorothee Nolan -+-Aldeah Wise Saint 10canevancceceecdeaneeuakee Reb ececceccescencscose ENE Semnel Selden Boland Twombly Roth Mahrer Eleanor Rowe Bess Goodman SYNOPSIS: Act I.—The Private Dwelling of Yekej Shepshovitch. An Afternoon in eee Spring. Act 1I.—In the Cellar of Yekel’s Dwe ing. A Night in Spring. Act Il.—Same &s Act I. At Dawn the Next Day. Time—The Present Poor Men and Women of the Neighborhood Place-——One of the Larger Towns of a Polish Province Staged Under the Personal Direction of Rudolph Schildkrant. With the Assistance of Selden Bennett Moved to Greenwich Village Theater February 2, 1923. 1 * Moved to Apollo Theater February 19, 1923. Moved to Greenwich Village Theater May 7, 1923 CLOSED MAY 1, 1923 137 Performances 107-B GREENWICH VILLAGE Commencing wenn Evening, December 20, HENRY "BARON —Presen THE RED POPPY Andre Ricard and Francis Careo CAST OF CHARACTERS Prince Sergius Saratof. .. .. Arthur Metcalfe errr rrr er Leon Gordon OE cncccccenvsnse chesaqucueganede J. J. Greer Claire ... ... Estelle Winwood Liane .. ..Betty Ross Clark Mme. Val ..Grace Griswold BND oo. ccavcecqeeuneesesQeuenel Byron Russell DE van ccccvcceeseasueconesanl Gerald Hamer PUOMGEM® 2 oc. cc ccceccccessseneses Joan Twain WeeCMOR ..ccccccccgeacoecdescess Paul Broderick Wetqeette 2... cc cccencese: -Frances Eldridge WED @0een+«6ccecnceneae George A. Lawrence Madame Boule ecqpecccesceees Clara T. Bracy Babe MeGO <cccccscccecsocsnsecs William Paul LMM encececcssccqcoeqaceseceses Blanche RBoizon Madame Sorel ......<..ccees -Lerna Elliott CS EEE > John Hi. Brewer WUE. Se ccscccccccnae «ee++eee--Herbert Ashton be WROD kcdwcc cessed: “enteton Bradley Ren tiides Seeetsegucecaune Elizabeth North WHE Sees ccediccscucdunecanase ...Mareco Mora BD, BR saeuctacecccccencecceuneee jrace Gordon SS a ...Ruby Gordon A GOURD cc ccccccccesucecécaes Kay McKay BD, TRA cn cacscacccecuccccggesas Paul Broderick Another Tough ............ Hubbard Kirkpatrick Sergeant de Ville ............-J. J. Greer An Accordion Player . Rosario Bogina CLOSED DECEMBER 30, 1922 14 Performences ' , A Sa tee eee ; i ry | Wi om th : | (ER