The Billboard 1923-09-29: Vol 35 Iss 5 (1923-09-29)

ee : : J SEPTEMBER 29, 1923 PRINCE HALL MASONS HELP JAPANESE SUFFERS One of the moet emphatic demonstrations of tue progress of the Negro, of the continued nse of sympathy of the race and of the G blending of the age-old spirit of he fulness with the more modern aMuence of the cul d people i* provided by the prompt t of | aw rker, the Most Worshipful ‘ 7 ter of the A ent and Honor e Fra‘ y of Free and Accepted fasons (Prince si who called upon every unit of the craft ated higher brer es, to come to the relief of the Japanese eartt ke eufferer The procler 0 seved by the Grandmaster er by A. A. Schomberg, gr nd secret r) ds n part: Freer mry te ‘ ue ¢ eve the efthese goodly sume There » no doubt that every lodge and ct j a@ like response and that the Red Cross funds will be corre increased by a donation that will set the Negro before the world in a new light. enonding!ly pondingly A SHOWMAN’S HOTEL The following the house maintains the letter tells its own story. If announced standard of service we shell be justified in whatever benefit may rue to it jis publicity. We want fo see e profs comfortably domiciled, whoever ay progt. Lear Page—After a short but euccessful venture int w business, during which I was connected with such popular companies as J e & Bruce, Quintard Miller, and also some vaude e, I retired temp< with the inn of preparing myself to offer something ile. I have succeeded as but not in the exact channel rarily nt and worth w expected, j out Now I am able to boast of my ying and answering for Cleveland r rticle of September 1, 1923, entitled e Hotel Thoughts’’. Cleveland, my wife aud myself are offering ‘to the traveling man n_d the profession an up-to-date race hotel. Ninety good rooma, beds, steam heat, au Clase cafe and all hotel ice. Five walk to all special rates to those of the profession. Teli the gang about it and kindly forward to me your best rates on an ad in the index for one week to one year. When in our city we will be glad to have you as a caller, if not a guest. We invite inspection. No questionable characters tolerated, This week we have as our guest the ‘Follow Me’? Company, a wonderful bunch of people, and they are all very much pleased with the plave. Such a bunch ix welcome at all times. Reservations have already been made for the entire ‘‘Shuffle Along’ Company, due here September 17. Please print y-five baths, good clean ymatic fire firstand serv doors, conveniences minutes’ race theaters, public this letter and oblige. Yours very truly, DAVID HAWKINS, Mgr. Lincoln Hotel, Cleveland, O. BiG BUSINESS AT THE GLOBE “For four nights our house, has dreds, with ‘Follow Me’, positive ly indication that it now playing turned away bun every will continue for the week,’’ writes M. B. Horowitz, owner of the Globe Theater in Cleveland. This is confirmed by a letter from Max Michaels, the manager of the show, who not only writes of Cleveland, but of Columbus and Youngstown, bere the show played to white audiences at itisfactory dates, All of which sort of shows that Ohio is a food place for a good show, no matter about the ace of the audience The Globe seems to established as a profitable date biggest of our shows. FELTS KEEPS BUSY writes from Smithers, W. Va., that he has completely recovered cident and has bandling a ating rink in the caters three group. The traveling dance orchestra. Masters and have On September 10 } nger, was good e back on the vinter. In all Billy been that race town week to e@ach place featuring the Cha Timmons’ Jazz ereign Synecopators Ferguson's recent atSmith, a Special flash been Maude presented. business, road ahead of a probability he will Arnte or Ned Young's I IN THE INTEREST OF THE COLORED ACTOR, ACTRESS AND MUSICIAN OF AMERICA COMMUNICATIONS TO OT “NORTH AIN'T SOUTH” Tutt & Whitney's latest edition of ‘The Smarter Bet”’ now in rehearsal at Lafayette Iall, New York, and will be ready for an pening early in October The first stand has Ha yet been mentioned for pubis tior (Charles faynard, of the Klaw & Erlanger office a he ting of the r ductior John T. G ¢ Philadelphia ter owner, i« the financial ker of the enterprise Jesse 8) of Wil * ( ne and Walker fame, is a partner in the * Contract has been made with s in the City to provide the show investiture. J e Frank Mont Quaker elaborate scenic in ostumes. {ne Dink Stewart, etello and Ada Sampson. ece to be Julian offered is "R NEW YORK OFFICES) MASON AND HENDERSON Manager Snyder started the Lincoln Theater of with ae 1 tart for the winter season when he installed Mason and Henderson for the first thrae weeks of September These clever nediar came cross with a w full of i pair of girls working under k asugme i the two principe! work very eff ve Gilad Mitche and Rightson, both of whom e in fr t Island make a competent team of fu sters, and they mean «tens, too. and Blanche Thompson were the leads and these two delivered ord. te the fact that Mr. Richard ime undergoing throat treat rufin was the other prin these a couple of good bors od that remarkabiy looking chorus tevue at Connie's talented and unusually from the Harper & Blanks Inn and yon cap picture CLARENCE WILLIAMS AND EVA TAYLOR (MRS. WILLIAMS) 3] Mr. Williams is the widely known music publisher, whose catalog has a world-wide distribution, and his wife is a clever vaudeville star, virtually all of the mechanicals. who has recorded his numbers on Both aro famous—but you should see six-month-old Junior. Both words and music are by Tutt and Whitney, who will of course play the principal parts, JENKINS’ BAND The widely known Jenkins Orphanage School Band of Charleston, S. C., four units of which have been traveling in the interest of the school during the vacation season, has been issembled into a group of sixty youngsters, all the units coming into New York prior to the return to school on October 1 The jazz kids have been the pets of Harlem for several weeks. On October 4 the combined bands will appear in a concert at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. tesides financing the school they attend the organization has furnished very many recruits to our professional bands and orchestras. Were it not our present-day musical cotton pickers. for Jenkins a lot of stars might still be THE NEW ROOSEVELT FIGURES The Cincinnati Union voted much of its front of September 15 depage to descriptive matter concerning the new Roosevelt Theater, recently opened in that city. The house and Lew Henry, its manager, are pictured. Lew’s life history is given, with deducted not too many years From The Union we learn that the honse seats 950 at a YO, 30 and 40-cent seale; that it «ost large enough to accommodate any size that may play the town, and has a rest room for patrons, and is the last word in comfort for performers. S167), is show what the Lincoln patrons kept crowding the house for. They got their money's worth, too. The show should be a riot on any circuit presenting tabloid musical comedy. “HOW HIGH IS UP?” “How high is up?’’ and Frye, the into a national is an expression that Moss vaude have made by word finally de clever illians These boys termined to ascertain for themselves just ‘“‘how high IS up’ and a two-ree] comedy of their efforts with an airplane has been made at the Lincoln Studios in Morsemere, N. J The film was made under the direction of Chatty Graham, who has directed for many of the bigger concerns, and laboratories at Ft More was finished in the Tee. hundred and Peter Jones than a fifty peonle were used in the picture, with Richard B. Harrison, one of the Denman Thompson type of character actors, doing the male leads, and Corrine Smith, a new face in the pictures, in the leading female part The picture was filmed for one of the big distributors as a general field It will be the esented Its pioneer in the first Negro offerproduction, which was done to insure having the correct Negro atmos ing so pr phere by the of als of the Seminole Company, a Negro concern, working for the bigger people, will mark a new epoch in colored pic. tures, The film version of the Moss and rye comedy is reported to be even more funny than their verbal ponderings over the much discussed question of ‘‘How that he vaudeville cir will be an high is up?’ laughs on the Plans for the nounced very soon. ™m ide “> many cuits, big-time distribution HOW “SHUFFLE ALONG” HIT IN CANADA Robert P. Edwards. Canadian representat!ve of the Associated Negro Press, sent a description of the reception P roe t riginal te ne Alumg Cor ny by the Canad a he the eon pany 1 the ty during e week of the great | ‘ } r iH tors w! went ¢t over a } trod , ers, i in part. as follows “ joe Sima enng i y¥ ee Mever Peer by a Er b Y Never Been Vamp ut Al Y the fret night w Shu@Mfe A ne’ tarring Ficesle ard BP opened at tft Roya Alexandra Canada's premier fieater re ths he sang # parable. For e id t wn-skinned flexible-voiced singers and versatile dancers mn GOTECOUS coOst * set o the r at lavish and or ginal menery that ever graced a Canadian stage “> completely vamped the exacting patrons of th ; s famous pla that hundreds were turned and various movements were persuade the manarement to stay As it was, the usually ns were so enthusiastic that they gnored all the time limits to curtain calle and held the «> ‘ 111 ) night **Needless to say that the welled chests (and head too), glaring eyes and «smiling faces of the sons and daughters of Ham bespoke their pride in the performers whose skin and hair were like ours And the elites (as Rert Williams used to say) hurriedly wended their way to the Royal Alexandra to make inroads on the box-office and get second d third glimpses of these annihilators of the Klux “Euble Biake was recognized early, and, despite his coolness and calmue~s, the audience became hilarious, as, wielding his baton with one hand and tickling the ivories with the other, he brought forth mus well, such music —and from SOME ORCHESTRA. Noble Sissle, who tried to hide behind a minor part, was compelled to come out, and he came few local etunts giving a closing with a recitation en “The Bors in the Trenches’, and the audience went wild. Elections are where Canadians shine, and the show struck home at once is ft humorous campaign between Jenkins and Peck (alias Payton nd Sims), partners in t Jimtown Grocery Store, was carried on before their eyes from Jim W ms’ Hotel to Possum Lane, Calico Corners and Spencer's Lane to the Maror’s office. “Everybody who comes on in hit, as Toronto journalism this big Dixie describes it, is unsparing in his or her efforts to add something to the «um total of vigor in the piece girls re led to numerous curtair alls they « in't appease the Ca ks’ desire more Miss Spencer and Mr. Browning s to soothe the audience with ‘Love Will was remarkably Days’ the wily rendered; ‘Bandanna Canuck was carried away by the jazziest offering that ever crossed the lakes. “The syncopated stenos. are typists, and many a staid Man expressed a desire to speed was added to the »«} the jazziest of Canadian business swipe them. Extra w by the lightningfooted Traffic Cop of Jimtown. “When the ell for left the exacting Toronto s«« for more. Said The the last time it ety folk asking Africanadian: ‘If you've never been vamped by brownskins’— ‘You needn't finish!’ replied the Caucanadian. ‘I have and am.’ ”’ ROBERT P. EDWARDS. MONTGOMERY MAKING RECORD Frank Montgomery, who early in the year launched out as a producing director, has made a most enviable record since early spring. He has not only placed Florence McClain, his wife. out in big-time vaudeville hit, but has the fdllowing achievements to his credit. His of dances, producer of ‘doctor of burlesque hits’* has established companies of Cartoon Amusement song of his own and most of an act that is a I instructor numbers and been definitely He has helped stage “Barney Go . three = “ Co. He put on a the dance numbers for Cain & Davenport's “Dancing Around" He did Lew Talbot's “Wine, Woman and Song", Lew Bernstein's “Bathing Beauties’ and Max Fields’ ‘Fashion Columbia burlesque productions ally nterested in producing ‘The sybodies"’, a fast-moving vaude v t Nat Sobel is Lis parfner in this act. Frank's first step Into fame in the big pro d ng field was made when he supervised the res on of dance numbers in Ben Harris’ “How Come?', in which Eddie Hunter is starring to immense success, THE TRUXTON FAIR J. C. Johnson, president of the Truxton Fair at Portsmouth, Va., hax demonstrated that he knows the value of publicity and advertising He has advertised in trade and local papers, lining up both attractions and good patronage for hia date, September 18-21 Four famous speakers were programmed with parades, drills, baby show, fraternal drills and horse racing under Judge W. H. Lands’ supervision, uf re