The Billboard 1924-01-05: Vol 36 Iss 1 (1924-01-05)

56 The Bi liboard JANUARY 6, 1924 T YEAR Billboard The lergest circulation of any theatrical paper in the world. Published every week By The Billboard Publishing Company, W. H. DONALDSON, President, In ite own plant at THE BILLBOARD BUILDING, 25-27 Opera Place, Cincinnati, Ohio, Phone, “Main "5306 U talk—practically none at this time— indicating a strike any time in the near future. This indicates that there will most likely be peace in other industrial lines during the year 1924. With practically every one who wants ork finding it at good wages and no nancial or other troubles in sight the people are happy and contented, and is this situation which tends to swell box-office receipts at various amusement places. Further, it is pointed out that the. is no great drive being made at this time for savings funds outside the cities showed the number of employed increased in November. The usual yearly increase in unemployment was hardly apparent this season and the increased cost of living has been more than offset by increases in Wages and overtime. The year 1924 is opening auspiciously for the show world. 0 EEMS TAYLOR of The New York World declares that ever since the end of the world war there have been signs of a gradual improvement in American musical taste— Cable and Telegraph Address, ‘‘Billyboy’’, Cincua] announcements made by sayings mark you—he says “signs of.” cinnati. . 7 — 1 » _ banks, hence the people generally will He also remarks that at first glance ——~_ not hesitate to spend liberally in the immense quantities of mediocre BRANCH OFFICES: amusements. music that is published today is rather appalling at in reality the situaNEW YORK . API alli as ae hs green tae — D, fers i s nt s bad as it looks—that Phone, Lackawanna 7180-1. HW YORK theatrical manage: miodbnedoretelone siecede . a 1493 Broadway. ire in marked public disfavor proportionate amo ints of good ant CHICAGO again owing to disclosures in the )ad musie written tt are about Phone, Central 8480 ticket speculator evil. ‘heatergoers What they always have been. Crilly Building, Monroe and Dearborn Streets. Know that there must be—-that there PHILADELPHIA undoubtedly is—collusion and they reHE Hearst-Zittel episode has set 908 W. ‘Sterucr St Street sent it deeply and biiterly. the theatrical world to speculatST Louis . When « man has called at the boxing most earnestly and assidn= alain, On office and been told all seats are sold, ously. hone, live 1733. ~ . . 2046 Railway Exchange Bldg., Locust Street, S0€CS tO @ specniator and pays $6 And Mr. Hearst has not fared at all between Sixth and Sevent ece for seats and then when he athadly in the discussions. BOSTON tends the show finds the house about Tt is due to his record. : = age — h 25 “~ Sienit one-third filled he realizes that he has His achievements when contrasted toum 30 wittie uilding, 80 Boylston Street. . . 1“ been gypped. with those of so many—so very many KANSAS CITY = . 7 : , Phone, Harrison 0741. = m 25 I Bidg., S. E. Cor enth and Main Sts. fF = ———= SSS LOS ANGELES ny Phone, 824-250. ” { Ror 734, Loew's State Bldg., Broadway and ? éé 9? i Seventh Street, yi LONDON, ENGLAND \ Phone, Regent 1775. se 18 Charing Cross Road, Ww. . 3. é<é HE MASK”, Gordon Craig’s magazine, published in Florence Cable and Telegraph Address, ‘Showorld’’, Italy, from 1909 to 1919, when it was discontinued owing t Ss ' } . l : ) cll’ sgt . ’ € as s nti € wing 0 Sydney, Australia, 114 Castlereagh Street } world war conditions, has reapneared a” SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES: ) This will prove glad tidings all over America, especially wherever Baltimore, Md. 219 E. gd St. the Little Theater movement has penetrated. Denver, Col 820-21 Symes Bld While always away in advance of “the procession”. this monthly Detroit, Mich., 67 “Woodstock Apte., 475 Peter. ; esi % “ee santa : . boro Street. was always stimulating, inspiring and overflowing with suggesNew Orleans, La., 2632 Dumaine St. tion, and bids fair to continue so. Omaha, Neb., 216 Brandeis Theater Bldg > > the . a . . ee San Francisco, Calif., 205 Pantages Theater The first number of the revived magazine contal is contributions Building, by G. B. Ambrose, Gordon Craig, George Jean Nathan, Felix Urban Washingion, D. C., 1724 Newton St., N. W. and other well-known protagonists and folk 2T's Craig’s theories. ADVERTISING RATES — Forty cents. per The volume offers readers a gla ata fe ie results reached line, agate measurement. Whole page, $280; in the last -entv veares t recorde nraote of : eae maggot: half page, $140; quarter page, $70. No advera a las Puce ond y pt thy ae : te sey — “* as Wwittisement measuring less than four lines acnessed in the International Theater Exhibition; it rec s the growcepted ing desire for research and information in re rd to rical matsaanat advertising form goes to press 12 M. ters, as manifested in the large output of books on the stage onday. = wet sr (ian ce debi ienais * II eae lai : — No telegraphed advertisements accepted unIn his foreword Mr. Craig says: “We are not to be organizers; less remittance is telegrapbed or mailed so as we are to be somethin more in the na of gar S: } to reach publication office before Monday noon. push and aplomb have nothing to do with our t . t pati , SUBSCRIPTION, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. and attention to our few small plants, our small p: h of ground and ( oO Y v, 38 2 woxeige our seeds (our own, not our neighbors) and cle: rm 1 about the ) Six Months +4 == winds and the rains and the forces outside ours lves and some conThree Months 1.00 1.25 sideration for our neighbor and his garden that we need \ Remittances should be made by post-office or “Those of you beginning as actor, actress, sce! man or stige ) expregs money order or registered letter, admanager must go slowly and learn what you have te give to fit vou ) at ae to create—if you can give nothing, you can decidedly count yourself |} The editor cannot undertake to return uaand your work ended before you even begin.’ solicited manuscripts. Correspondents should Copies may be had at Brentano’s and the Greenwich Village } keep copy. Bookshop, New York, or at Brentano's, Chicago. f If you find a misstatement or error in any ) copy of The Billboard, please notify the editor. ) The Billboard reserves the right to edit all } advertising copy. Sond When he again and again anda i rich men’s sons command great ana No. 1 Vol. XXXVI. JAN. 5. Editorial Comment HE outlook for renewed income to T amusement places generally in the Sta for the year 1924 ht. I er persons during the holidays has been the case in cording to official the United States Departent of Labor. In a ort just made public by the irtment it is stated that fewer 1 20,000 industrial workers are ow out of employment as a result of ! controversies, and there is. at tes ding! were out of st ending t many is exces v brig “ew work an years, re re sent no cloud on the industrial rizon which portends serious trouble the future. The fewest number of coal miners in the country’s history are now out of ‘ork and other lines there is employment for practically every one who wants it. Furthermore, so far as discontent among the miners is con prnod = id that there ic little re-encounters the experience the iron enters his soul. YRUS H. CURTIS, who recently toonchose pnd New York Evening Post, will not experiment with it nor adventure along n¢« He simply declares there is room ? worno ] es that he utenke in New York for a paper that will tell the daily news without prejudice and without fear of the truth. He is absolutely right. There is room anywhere for such a paper and the fact “is becoming more and more generally recognized Even Mr. Curtis may safely go to greater lengths in this direction without danger of being branded an fant terrible”. “en to The New York New York department store CCORDING Mail, sales for December, 1923, show an increase of six per cent over those for the same month in 1922—a re markable showing when account taken of the mild weather that has checked sales in furs, warm underclothing, heavy outer clothing, overcoats and wraps According to The Sun-Globe, New Vark is and twentry-for a + arce de admiration. With adm tion there alway oes a certain measure of comm tion and approval—and a disposition to make allowances, Rares wee] fourteen new proluctior heduled for opening on Broadway. Pity the reviewers. Yea—and of those who financed the offerings, With pract liv no “road” left and a steadily dwindling demand for pic ire rights it would 1 that the only way to account for the flood is upon the assumption that authors ay d producers are “living in hope”, tho confronted with the project of living on it. -—— The Christmas and holiday issues of the trade press bear eloquent witness of the annual raid on the vaudeville artistes. It is worthy of note that Equity members are not hijacked for . advertising. By the time this issue fg in the hands of most of our readers the yw Th? ine has "On . Pa, Year resolutions?” will be pertinent —or impertinent. . Meredith Nicholson in an article recently published in The Indianapolis Star seems to think that the styles of humor in America are not only changing but changing for the worse, and that we should look to the co!leges to supply recruits for humor of the better type. The New York Times inquires why not—why should humor, the flowering grace and crowning glory of the American national character, go untaught? “Ten Nights in a Barroom” last week got credit for bringing about prohibition. Palmer Canfield, federal prohibition director, credited the temperance drama with as great influence in securing the Volstead act as “Uncle Tom's Cabin” had exercised toward emancipating the Negro. that 2,500 fake (diplomaters) doctors are practicing in New York City has the authority of Augustus S. Downing of the State De The statement ,partment of Education. It has created all kinds of surprise —but not among showfolk. Altho Avery Hopwood'’s new comedy, “The Alarm Clock”, is adapted “from the French” and produced by \l Woods, it is thoroly clean and wholesome, but unfortunately only mildly amusing. It has been proposed as a measure of relief for the ever-growing matinee jam in New York’s theater district that the curtain be raised promptly at 2 o'clock at the afternoon performances, The congestion is terrible. Something will have to be done about it and soon. “La oulue”’, in the eighties, a dancer who had all Paris and several royal lovers at her feet, is now peddling vegetables from a wheelbarrow in Montmartre. John Erskine, professor of English at Columbia University, author, editor, chevalier of the Legion of Honor and one of the most distinguished fig ures in contemporary American literature, decries the sensual in modern plays and declares that present-day authors like to dwell upon sex as if they had just discovered it, and thereby offend good taste. Business at tels and re lieht Christm Eve the Times Square hotaurants was unusually Day and evening. e most popular ones like the Algonquin were affected. The clubs also were fairly tonesome. Players largely dined at home or in some home. Also the matinee fam in Times Square was twice as bad the day after as it was on Christmas Day. as n tl vu “ZUKOR AND LASKY PRESENT” New York, Dec, 20.—The three latest Parsmount Pictures released on Broadway lead ot with the caption, “Adolph Zukor and Jesse L, Tasky Present’, which points to the fact that two Famous Ptlavers-Lasky chiefs hare to a new understanding. For some tim there have heen rumors of discord between these two, {t being reported that Lasky resented Zukor's grabbing most of the anthority, Up un til now about two-thirds of the Paramount film the come were officially “‘presented”’ by Zukor, and the balance by Lasky. ‘The Ten Commandments” “Bie Brother’ and ‘Don't Call It Love’. re leased since Lasky made a short visit to New York to confer with Zukor, carry the new caption, A. L. Atkins and R. H. Reynolds, owners of the Lillian Theater, Martin, Tenn., have 4nnounced that they will move into a newer and better equipped building after the first of the year. No plans have been announced as to what disposition will be made of the Lillian