The Billboard 1924-06-14: Vol 36 Iss 24 (1924-06-14)

JUNE 14, 1924 ee The Bi lliboard 13 Palace, Cincinnati (Reviewed Monday Matinee, June 9) Cipcinnatl, O., asd Newport, Ky., are repre. gented on the current DIN by Wanda Ludlow and Flo and Jim Bogart, respectively. Rernt ind) «6Partner, contortionists, execnte their routine with grace and ease and considerable iuse climaxed every stunt and at the finish rhe girl is able to double her limber form in almost every conceivable manner from var ositions on the man’s body atop a glossy-surfa ed platform of abont a foot high. Seven minutes, Keller Sisters and Lynch feature yocalism. the three harmonizing “California, Here I Come"’, for an opening. One of the sisters Plays the piano accompaniment for the other's syncopated melody and hard-shoe dance, for which the male “tones in, to ose radio parlance, with the eax. It was a pleasure to observe Lynch's nat uralness and lack of ego at the piano during a well rendered and heartily applauded «ole. For an re there was 9 mixed dance, for which the man wore a mortar board and shell-rimmed glasses Fourteen minutes, three bows. Jim and Mo Bogart have an entert ne act Itho some of the comedy was« probably written \hen they were married about fourteen years ago, as they make reference. It not -o much what Jim, in sloppy dress, says—it's the way he says it. Plo captivated her andience with her oxnal charm. Roth are good yoeallets, the audience enjoying 1 losing Shoot Day’? number particularly wel Fifteen minutes, three bows, Wanda Ludlow bowed her acceptance of al plause on entering. While we have heard others praise her work when presenting her own rotury repertoire company in Cincinnati and subuchan theaters years ago, this is our first opportunity to pass comment. Miss Ludlow, partially, is what her former co-workers and theatergoers described her to be, tho we pictured her to be other than of the bobbed Dlack-hair @apper type. Her experience in repertoire serves ber well in ** 515", the locale of which is a hotel room. We are forced, however, to criticize her habitual gazing in the audience when reading her lines. She has @ capable partner in W_ R. Fredericks. Their vebicle is along a beaten path, tho it seems to serve its purpose as vandeville diversion in small-time honses, Sixteen minutes, two curtains, Wm. W. Jones and Al W. Rea were amusng. One impersonates a rural character and the other a hair-lipped city ‘‘feller’’. Some comedy not heard bere helped them a great dea! O getting over. The rube should not dispense with the ear-phone before their time has ex red. They also sing two duet nymbers, which are Liked because of thelr humor more than for ‘he masner ip which they are rendered. Tirteen minutes, A ‘wo-minute screen preface shows Mile. Ivy ‘eginn ng and ending a three-mile walk, io woich she is announced to have never touched ber beels to the ground. We followed the picture very closely, but, Uke others with keen sight were deceived by the speedy functioning of the camera and the break in the picture caused by the sub-titles, therefore are unable to confrm the truth of a boastful accomplishment. In justice to Mlle. Ivy we must admit she is a talented toe dancer, who is given ample scope to display ber ability in daucing and performing diMeult acrobatic stunts on her toes She is given recess while Jack DeWinter and Derrick “Wan, ome a dancer and the ether a piano ac mpanist, hold the boards, Twenty-two utes, full stage; three curtains. Stuart Barnes was not “caught” at this pere formance. JIMMIE LONG. Room m.O B. S. Moss’ Broadway, New York (Con‘inued from page 12) of the audience staged, and og of delicate beauty ree out gorgeously The act is most Edith's poutine is a thruont, achieving ber est bit im the shadewgrap) number. The ‘oys engaged in @ varie y of steps, a sort of “ige-podge of everything in vogue, when not Goubling with Mics Clasper, and the degree of vir efforts is high enough to pass muster. BEN BODEC. NOT MUCH DOING IN SUMMER AT AURORA (ILL.) THEATERS June 7.—Atrora will hate fewer amusement places open this summer ever its history. The Rialto showed its t picture this week and will be closed untill \ugust 31. The Fox discontinued vaudeville on Sundays during the summer and ‘‘Up the Stairs * was the last road show of the summer at the Strand. ACTOR AND SON VISITING Aurora, T11., than fore in Indianapolis, Ind., June 6.—Augustus Phillips, Picture actor, and his son, Charles, ate visiting in Kensseleer, Ind., the former Phillips home. The pair are en route from California to New York. Mrs. Phillips, known to the screen as Mildred Mannering, remained in California to complete a picture and will join her husband and son in a few weeks, Grand O. H., St. Louis | (Reviewed Sunday Matinee, June 8) The Grand Opera House will remain open durng the entire summer. continuing its present policy of photoplays and nine vaudeville acts One of beet acts that has played this house thus far this year is the elaborate ‘Carnival of Venice’’ Company. Seven Italians, splendidly garbed, have a corking half-hour rontine of singing and dancing. Foll in which the carnival spirit of Venice is portrayed in excellent fashion, they “mop up” er variegated individual and complishments, Mile.” Donatelle is featured and onably queen of layers in this pressed for top youthful the powerful musle, Wing a clever opening in one, nroceed to with ensemble acshe is unquest the country honors, tambourine haré wonderful sings well today. She is tho, by the female impersonator, who plays the piano and does a jazz toe dance that 8 a knockout A lady dancer is good in her two specialties, and a trio of snappy accordioniste make their instruments hum. A selo on a reed by another of the members was also a treat. Practically every known instrument is brought into play @uring the act and each is well handled. Every moment ix fast and entertaining and they just naturally stopped the show, Two encores and curtains aplenty in seventh position H. J. Lans’ Wonder Birds opened the vaudeville following an hour of photeplays, Under the direction of an white cockatoos elderly trainer a half-dozen go thru their Nine minutes, special in three; series of stunts n smooth two curtains, Stuart Girls im kid makeup sang, poked one another in the ribs. style. danced and Their soft voices harmouize well and they were well received. Nine minutes, in one; two bows. Rialto and Lamont, two men, one straight, the other a comic, entertained well with va ifeats of juggling by the straight done mostly atop a ladder, with bits of fun furnished by his partner. Ten minutes, in one and three; two Halliday and Willette, an attractive woman and a man in police uniform, in ‘Detailed’, have only a fair line of criss-cross comedy putter, interspersed with several songs. Thirteen minutes, special in one; two bows. Nanson and Burton Sisters combine to make a good two-a-day offering. The Burton Sisters are a winsome pair who can sing and dance, and Hanson has a good line of magic, best being his bird and watch trick and several cabinet stunts. His gorgeous flag finish is a whiz. His efforts at comedy at the start of the act, however, ought to be “dispensed with. Seventeen minutes, special in four; three bows. Ned Nestor and Olive Green, with Francis Rice, were about the weakest spot on the bill. Their comedy falls absolutely flat and there ien’t anything really meritorious about the act with the possible exception of Nestor’s singing. The stiffness and awkwardness is very notice ous ows able thruout the offering. Fourteen minutes, special in one; two bows Walter Weems was text, opening with his “toeofer Dust> song, then gave his auditors @ description of the ‘‘womyan” and finally put his scenario stuff over with the aid of the orchestra. Thirteen minutes, in one; three bows. Kafka and Stanley, two men, after some furious iron-jaw spinning, performed difficult toe and hbeel-catching feats on the swinging bar, of which the final one was a hair-raiser. The one amazed with his repeated one-arm pull-up dislocation stunt. Nine minutes, full stage: two bows. F. B. JOERLING,. Fox’s Audubon, N. Y. (Reviewed Thursday Evening, June 5) Dan Caslar and his orchestra of thru the to repeated cascades ef applause, It the top-notch act of the eve ning and gave Gypsy Rhouma an opportunity to ten jazzed classics was regale the folks with a choice assortment of aesthetic kicKerles A tall, lithe lass, Gypsy punted her way to solid hands with front and back kicking, an Oriental beauty and an exhib tion of ver of sinuous modern sensational nun acrobatics On the first grand recall of Caslar’s orchestra, Sid Marion of the preceding tura tuml!ed his way thra a series of nifty steps that served to swell the applause to the The orchestra's bursting pont cluding a delightful repertoire, in saxophonic variation of the theme of the “‘Miserere’’ from ‘Il Trovatore’’, was replete with diversified melody. Caslar's solo on the plano showed him to be an ivory filliper of genuine ability. The comedy of the evening was divided between the team of Sid Marion and Ann Ardsley and Frank Gaby, the clever ventriloquist, first place going to the latter turn. For some indefinable reason Marion's comic stuff failed to register as solidly as it did when last covered by the Sid get eneugh laughs for his turn to ter. His charming partner's voice contained that lovable dramatic timbre in all her singing, moving the folks to a rousing hand by her effective rendition of “I Wonder Who's Dancing With You Tonight"’. Frank Gaby kept them in a steady stream of chuckles and frequent guffaws with his more reviewer! sul pass mu Keith’s Hamilton, N.Y. B. S. Moss’ Regent, N. Y. Reviewed Thursday Evening, June 5) (Reviewed Thursday Evening, June 5) Tro beat the daylight saving law now in The high spot on this bill is the black-face effect the vaudeville program goes on fortycomedy act done by William Gilbert and Comfive minutes later than heretofore bas been the pany. As funny and entertaining an offering case, the first act appearing at 9 o'clock. The contention by the Keith people that daylightsaving schedules work some havoc boxOffice is Justified to a certain extent, the demand for seats being greater than previously. of its kind that ever played vaudeville. The new nine o'clock start for the vaudeville end of the bill inaugurated last Monday is proving an effective way of offsetting the daylight saving time inconvenience to the patrons, which on the A feature of the show this week is what is was also resulting in rather poor business fo: known as the Hamilton Bathing Peauty Rethe box-office. vue, produced and staged by the B. S. Moss Emma Frabell and Brother opened in their Production Department, under the direetion of novelty wire performance, doing their original Hlarry Shav rhe supplies *«lghborh “a. —_ : Shaw, who suppli neizht ood theapriseo and Russian dancing on the wire, as s with amateur contestants every week. It wen as other clever feats was particularly easy to glean from the : y 4 2 fo amateurish performance given vy the company Du For Brothers offered their singing and of fifteen that they hail from non-professicasl dancing in the second spot te excellent re eonki: ‘Thy seven: @ 1t ‘mes called that, Sts. The boys are an above-the-average duo wever, serves two purposes. It fills the and step thru a neat routine. closing spot of an otherwise expensive bill and Frederic Santley, in “How Do You Do”, gives advertisement to a knitting mills of Brooklyn, which furnished the bathing apparel worn by the girls, few of w with Marion Simpson, fine tenor voice in a dancing production. displayed an wnusually well-staged singing and The set and place drop hom do justice to the appellation ‘‘Bathing Beauties’. Margaret is attractive and works in well with the and Celeste Buseh, sister team, featured in the routine. The dances are varied and done in revue were perhaps the easiest to receive in a pleasing style light of entertainment, their singing and dancWm. Gilbert and Company, doing a blacking ‘‘getting by’. <As far as the others are face comedy skit, all but had ’em rolling out concerned, their work, even the displaying of of their seats. The three characters were bathing suits in fashion-show style, made boring typical Southern types of Negro, and the en ettainment haunted house stulf is done better and funnier The regular acts of the Dill, headed by Miss tham any colored or black-face outfit we can Juliet, ran the gamut of highly entertaining think of at the present time. No end of eundeville. The Three Arnauts started the eep-seated laughs are worked up in perfect shew off with a bang. Talented violinists. the St¥le, and few such offerings can maintain Arnauts, the elder of the trio being perhaps the fast tempo and laugh-provoking comedy most finished artiste on the fiddle. The done by this quartet. For additional review novel execut’on of “The Glow Worm", with See “New Turns”. e violin bows held between the knees and Claude and Marion in “Still Arguing’ were the fiddies themselves manipulated by the OM next to closing, the team having no soft hands, bore striking evidence of the versatility berth im following the comedy turn mentioned of these artistes. Acrobatics and dancing are above. Nevertheless the singing and comedy of judiciously intertwined in ‘he ensemble and Marion, aided by her partner doing straight. solo numbers, the entire offering proving a got over nicely for all that. At times it delight from the barrier to the finish. seems that of the routine might be Nelson Waring followed in his novel piano strengthened with some more substantial ma offering, touched off by a bit of talk and some terial, as it lags a little now and then. singing. The latter is negligible as compared Ben Meroff and His Symphonic Band, with with Waring’s ivory tickling. The writer is not Frank and Milt Britton, do some tall clowning an authority on the piano, but it is easy to thruout the turu aud end up a sure-enough perceive that Waring’s technique is of the prowow. ‘“‘The Brown Derby’? end of the comedy uny, and the band is not its open brass, of which As a comedy outfit, how bits was always f so particular about there is considerable. class. f<sorial day night show. Waring encored at the Thurs Miss Juliet, im what she calls the “One-Girl ‘ Revue” held the ae for an intermiaahly ever, the members walk away from the average mice time—so long. in fact, that her charorchestra attempting such stuff, for they have likable personalities and hand out no end of acterizations became monotonous to a certain delenghe. s. H. MYER. gree. She imitates almost everyone of note you could think of, from Mme. Petrova to Gallagher and Shean, doing some of them exceptionally well, others more or less amateurishly. She makes a very pecuiliar-looking Grace La Rue, for instance, and a very comic Sir Harry Lauder. Miss Juliet spoke many of ber lines in a low voice hardly audible beyond the first few rows of the orchestra. She was well received, bowever, but not as enthusiastically as the act that followed ber, Crafts and Hanley. These boys stopped the show legitimately ia their offering of nonsense, and comedy. Jack Hanley did the comic stutf to perfection, putting over laugh-getting gags to his partner's feeding at a fast pace. Charlie Crafts entertained the audience between barrages of crossfire with vocal selections. He has a very pleasing voice) and makes a decidedly fine straight man of good appearance and personality. The boys took in the biggest hand of the evening. ROY CHARTIER. possibly FERDINANDO’S THIRD SEASON Manchester, N. H., June 7.—Lieut. Felix Ferdinando and His Havana Orchestra received an unusually fine reception on the occasion of the opening of their third season Saturday at Ferdinando’s Venetian Gardens, Pine Island Park. Close to five thousand crowded into the large ballroom, the most popular in this vicinity. The lieutenant is using the same fourteenpiece combination with which he appeared in big-time vaudeville for twenty-one weeks preceding his present engagement. The orchestra, whose many novelty effects make it a favorite as either a concert or dance outfit, will close here on Labor Day, when it will return to vaudeville via the Poli Time thru New England to New York, where it will have a Palace Theater showing before again going over the Keith Circuit. song CONDEMN SUNDAY SHOWS IN RICHMOND, IND. than entertaining routine of ventriloquistic illu old-fashioned Ven sions. His impression of an triloquist working with a bey dummy even to fpdianapolis, Ind.. June 7.—“‘Commercialized the bit of smoking a cigaret while the dummy giusements”, especially Sunday movies, are nasaled away in song was gorgeous. The dumcondemned in a report of a committee on my's singing of “That Old Gang of Mine” got ,oicion and reform to the General Assembly a rattling hand. Again, Gaby’s impression of | + the United Presbyterian churches in Rich a tired business man spending an evening with mond, Ind. Since the first of the year, church his two children brought t humor of his rou| ices and professional reformers have been tine to the overboiling point of the gags extremely active in Indiana against Sunday <a a See _ shows. In Kokomo, Richmond and other smaller an > Sarena cities of the State ineffectual action has been Adolphus and Eastman presented a ballet turm gayen by these reformers to close the play tainer got @ of some rhythmic beauty latter being at he?) juceg, best in pure toe-dancing and the young man revealing his real worth in the cuts Their Slavie number seemed to lack fire. Adolphus FILM STAR VISITS FENGLER did famously in his suppert of his partner in her curious mixture of ballet acrobatics. Their accompanist offered a pleasing clas-icized improvisation on the theme of ‘‘What'll I Do” at the piano. The act scored high with the audience, BEN BODEC. Indianapolis, Ind. June 5.—Shirley Mason, film actress, arrived here today from California unheralded tod pay a visit to Harlan Fengler, automobile race driver. who was injured in the 500-mile race Memorial Day. Altho it is perfectly evident that Miss Mason and Mr. Fengler are much interested in each ether, neither would admit they were engaged. Each said: ‘“‘We are merely old-time friends.” Miss Mason would not discuss her future plans, WANT SUNDAY SHOWS BACK Sterling, Ul., June 7.—Out of 3,816 votes cast, a majority of 276 voters Tuesday expressed themselves for a change in the city ordinance to permit Sunday shows. A majority of 48S against Sunday shows was returned five years ago. Look thra the Hotel Directory in this issue. Just the kind ef a hotel you want may be listed, o