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

JUNE 14, 1924 The Billboard 31 ¢ PAUL MARTIN reports continued success for "Shs Harding & Kimling’s *‘Mama Dolls’’ Company 2 ‘mn stock at the Cozy Theater, Houston, Tex., eh for the Laskin Brothers. With the company are Morris Harding, “Skinny” Kimling, Uarry Rollins, Paul Martin, Tom Gordon, “Irish’’ Botvomer, Nellie Cooper, Grace Moreland, Babe a cei Dona Monroe, Charlotte Earl, Bill De(COMMUNICATIONS TO OUR CINCINNATI OFFICES) row, principals; Leta Ragsdale, Iris Ragsdale, Bobbie Metcalf, Ruth Stafford, Clarice Abrams, (HAS. LEVAN informs that he has accepted Wisconsin at Kew aunee, to be followed by enisc a a oo bay —-ne-ae-i June ragement as producer at the Savoy gagements in Minnesota and Northern Michigan. an re ne ee a Loulsville, Ky. The company is composed of Maurice J. Cash snot ate, Weeten Giitens, cheres, cee Chee FAGAN 1s resting at his home in manager aud geedecing comedian: Chua. aie Wilkerson, pianist. ter, Muss., for several weeks, following der, advance azent: Jack Daley, Irish Sinan OUTSIDE OF BEING a good Jewish comedian, week season with Ingalls’ “Checker the Sanford Fam‘ly: Miss Pelt kow, prima (has, Bengar's specialty is doing something Girls” mmpany, donna, and a ce! rus, kvod for the other fellow. Recently, after MUSICAL TABLOID will be the policy at the — CTIAS. MORTON'S “PLAPPERS OF 1924" are P!2ying a three-day engagement in Spencer, ‘ a House, St. John, N. B., commencing playing +: Spiegelberg Circuit, The pecscnnet W. Va., under auspices of Compahy M, NationJere 10 A new projec‘ion booth has been is practically the same as when the company al Guard, Mr. Bengar and his company put constructed and moving pictures will be shown opened last August with the exception of Homer on a performance for more than seven hundred at intervals, WALTER SEYMOUR, Follies’, a tal manager of the “Hong Kong jloid company playing the South, was a Billboard caller in New York while on a shopping tour for new Chinese ma‘erial. ELEANOR STEANTON, chorister with Hur“Jolly Follies Company, closed at the Dixie, Uniontown, Pa., recently an@ returned to her home in Cleveland, O., where she plans to enter summer stock, WATSON AND LEE assisting J. E. ley's have been in Cincinnat! McGeorge in the organization ef a tabloid company which has ‘been offered bookings on the Sun Circuit, opening at Akron, 0., this week. BERT AND NELDA LAMB will close with Blackie Blackburn's “Million Dollar Baby" Company June 14 and motor to Lebanon, Pa, where they will be joined by their children for a summer camping trip. WEST AND FIELDS, popular Coast artists, are taking their annual vacation in the East this year, After playing a week in Montreal, fan, ther plan a month's vacation in New York among friends, W. F. MARTIN, of the bome office of the Gus Sun Booking Exchange, Springfield, 0O., Indiana last week calling on various managers connected with the circuit to make arrangements for the coming season. TEW BREMS has replaced Lou Powers as chief comedian in ‘‘Frolics and Frills’’, and the Walters Amusement Agency announces that it putting this show into the Strand Theater, Halifax, N. S&, for a ran of four weeks THE NEW SUN THEATER, Springfield, 0., but which is playing dramatic stock for the summer season, will close June 28 for extensive leling, inside and out. The name will also be changed, probably to Sun's Bandbox. BERT HUMPHREYS and her ‘Dancing Buddies’ have just concluded = twenty-two months of consecutive bookings for Joe Spiegelberg and opened at the Palace Theater, arlerol, Pa., June 9, for ap indefinite star. LORETTA BARNES RUSSELL is visiting in Cincinnati, ©O., going there from Richmond, Va., where bef husband died May 20. Further was n house reme de'ails of the death are recorded in the Obituary Department. TABDOM is represented this season on the Gentry-Pat‘erson Circus by Lew Hershey, “The Frog Man", who is a prominent member of “clown alley", and Geo. Seymour, who !s also clowning, and his wife, Adele Davis, one of the prima donnas. JOE AND KATHRYN MURRAY have closed as straght man and prima donna with the “Ob Baby’’ Company and gone to their bome in Kalamazoo, Mich., to spend the summer They will probably be in burlesque next season HOMER NEER says some of the musical tab. shows playing the Sun Circuit are already refor the 1924-25 season. Many new attractions are being added by the various managers, he said, and contracts are being let for new wardrobes and scenery. BUDDY LEWIS recently wrote as follows: “Have been hiding in Canada for the past few months with Joe Mall's ‘Rose of Panama’ Com negotiating with Hal Bailey to resort revue next month the Mall Company with organizing pany and am pet out a summer Tune) will na Claire.”* INIE SEXTON ts comedienne with ten other can artists In a revue at the New La leave Opera Cafe, Tampico, Mex., ber eight-week niract there terminating June 25. Miss Sexton will return to her bome in Fort Worth, Tex., for the with an established traveling this country, LILLAAN SLATER, soubret with Samuel Shuman's ‘‘Bostonia Musical Comedy”, who Is to be married after the show closes next month, was given a surprise shower by the cirls of the company while playing in Mansfield, l'a., recently, Mise Slater received many fine cifts from her fellow players, and her ‘ance, Harry Gross, motored in from Philadelphia to help make the party a completely enjoyable affair, MAURICE J. CASH’S “Frisco Frolics’’ Company (motorized) opened its summer tour of summer, opening in September organization in inmates at the Spencer State Hospital. Those participa’ing besides Mr. Bengar were Harry (Katz) Fields, Edith Carson, Helen Engle and others. Mr. Bengar plans to keep his company out until fall, when he opens with Ed Rush's show on the Mutual Circuit as Jewish comedian. TED (PEP) KELLY reports the termination of a successful vaudeville season and the organization of a tabloid company called ‘‘Youtbful Follies’. Harry and Grace Ornoud, formerly with ‘‘Watch Your Step", featuring Vernon Meachum, who joined s0n WAS Over. after the minstrel seaThe members travel by auto. Following ig the roster: Chas, Morton, Eddie Trout, Homer Meachum, Flo Clark, Eva Gibson, Adele Meachum, Helen Dean, Delia Wallace, Lucile Stone and Jimmie Richards, JACK LaRUE left the School for the Blind, Nebraska City, Neb.. June 11, as the regular term closed Jone 10. ‘‘My stay was a pleasant one, considering the fact that I do not see ut all," Jack wrote, “but I have learned several things that will be of great value to (Castle, are straight man and prima donna; me in the near future. I will take a short Jack Kenny, dancer, violinist and juvenile; rest at Hastings, Neb., and then play indeJimmie Slattery, comedian; gators O'Neil, spependent vaudeville the balance of the summer. cialty dancer: Juliet Burns, vubret, and six Perhaps 1 will return to the school for another ‘ponies’. The company wae portend New Eng tember."’ —The GRACE RICHARDS Exchange 205 Delaware Building, CHICAGO, ILL. 36 West Randolph Street, Booking Musical Tabloids of all descriptions. House Managers advise your open time. Wanted for Billy Maine Company STOCK. LA FAYETTE, IND., OPENING JULY 7th. People, all lines; ten Chorus Girls, Salary $30. Producer and Chorus Producer. MILTON SCHUSTER, 205 Delaware Bidg., 36 W. Randolph St., CHICAGO. THE GUS SUN BOOKING EXCHANGE CO. New Regent Theatre Building, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. Five to Thirty Weeks for Standard Vaudeville Acts. Season Contract for High-class Tabloid Musical Shows. term in Se] land parks this summer and go South for the WANTED WANTED MANHEIM PRODUCTIONS, Inc. (Mutual Wheel Attractions) “LAFFIN’ THRU” :-: “BANDBOX REVUE” Now engaging people in all lines for our Shows. Soubrettes, Ingenues, Dancing Juveniles, Straight Men, Comedians with Specialties, young good-looking Chorus Girls. Preference given to those who can double Musieal Acts or other strong Specialties. Salaries according to your ability. Also want Road Crews and Violin Leaders. Great opportunity for clever Tab. Performers to secure a New York showing. Rehearsals start July 15th. Write, with full particulars. Enclose photos if possible. Address all correspondence MANHEIM PRODUCTIONS, Inc. BERT TODD, Gen. Mgr., Bandbox Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio. pooooes PPS SSSSSSSSSSSSSESSS SSS SSSSSSOSSOO OSS OOS HOO HOOOS LOOK 35 555555555454544555555545555555O $O0OOO3ns2525 LOOK ‘‘He Who Hesitates Is Lost’’ WANTED FOR SEASONS (924-'25, FOR vad, one. MORTON ATTRACTIONS, THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE in all lines, for MinAYER that can sing; people Eddie Trout, and VAUDE LADY MUSICIANS, CHORUS GIRLS THAT CAN SING. MINSTREI strel Show managed by Homer Meachum. HAWAIIAN STEEL GUITAR PL Show manaced by that do strong specialities and play small parts for Tab. VILLE PROPLE that can do three or more changes; Chorus Girls and Tabloid People im all lines; also real ECCENTRIC COMEDIAN to produce, for show managed by Chas. Morton. State everything in first letter, with lowest salary. Rehearsals in August, CHAS. MORTON, Sot Flatiron Building, Atianta, Georgia. CAN USE two Chorus Girls immediately. BERT HUMPHREYS’ DANCING BUDDIES INVITE OFFERS FOR SUMMER STOCK Now playing indefinite engagement for Harry Barnhardt, Palace Theater, Charleroi, Pa. Wire or write MISS BERT HUMPHREYS, winter, opening on the Spiegelberg Circuit early in the fall. GEORGE CLIFFORD’S “Pep and Ginger Revue’? has begun a summer stock engagement at Four Mile Creek Park, Erie, Pa. This is an eighteen-people show, Marion Mason is said to be a big hit with her singing voice Tommy Burns, principal comic, has a contract with Mr. Clifford for three years. Harry Pierce is doing a dancing specialty with his partner, Jean McNorton. The “Three Sincing Fools” are also favorites. Mr. Clifford says he has ten of the fastest dancing “‘ponies” in the business. Every member of the company is said to have a cottage on Lake Erie and all are having the time of their lives, CURLY BURNS and “His Cute Little Devils” Company, now in their third week at the Lyceum Theater, Canton, 0., are breaking all house records, it is reported. Altho a new policy, business Decoration Day and the weekend was a sellout at all performances, accord (Continued on page 176) WANTED Musical Tab. People IN ALL LINES Also want A-1 Producer and Comics. Must be thoroughly experienced. No others need apply. Write or wire, G. C. CHRISTMANN, Manager, New Twelfth Street Theatre, Kansas City, Mo. QANANOOUUOQOUOOOEESEQQQ00LLUUNEREOLUYNOQSDOUUA EARLS eS WANTED TO JOIN ON WIRE Fast Stepping, Singing and Dancing Soubrette; Musical Act; Man, Parts; Wife, Chorus, and Specialty People. Address KEWPIE CHANDLER KEWPIES, Gaffney, S. C., this week. SHUM VNNNTTTNNTTUNGTUUUNGNAUUNSNAAOOEQIYOGEY!UUOSOOUCOSLYEOSOUGEREITGENGUOEEESTOOALT OE ONS iS Wanted Performers = = = S2U)VUUADUNVUUOUGATUUEU UA = == = = All lines. Musical Comedy, Dramatic, Specialty People for tent shows, Chorus Girls, Teams that double Piano. Good salary for Specialty People that change. Want four Musical Tabs., eight weeks. Open June 16. CENTRAL AMUSEMENT EXCHANGE, Bedford, Virginia. THE STARNES STOCK CO. (Under canvas.) WANTS Chorus Girl and Trap Drummer. Annabelle Collins, wire. George B, Adams, wire. Glenn of here. ALEX STARNES, Bedford, Indiana. PLL WRITE IT FOR YOU YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT. me me your ideas, I'll write the gag. song, act or bill. Originality my motto. Several original tah bills en hand, also speci tal openings, numbers, lyrics and music. Send for Ask Sid Stuart, Brown and Wheeler, Burt Leslie, ete. CARL F. GRAFF, 706 W. North Ave.. N. S., PITTSBURGH, PENNA. Wanted For HIGH-CLASS Musical Tabloid People in all lines. Especially want Blackface Comeng enough to feature. Also Teal Character Man. Must have good wice. CAN USD real Choristers at ] imes. Skinny Kimbling, Al Russel, Joe a. Je ssie an . Iona Bush, wire me quick. Show booked solid. Address all communica Manag ser Honeymoon Ex 13 and 14; Gilbert week. Pay your tions to RAY L. ROWLEY. press Co., York, Neb., Jur 12 Theatre, Beatrice, Neb., following wires: I do the same NOTICE to Shows in Anderese. S Cc. Territery— Have 700 seating capacity eatre in growing town of 20,000 people Only vau ideville house. Open for Tab. Shows, hich-class Rep with Band and Ballys. Minstrels, Hypnotic Attract ons and small Stock com Panies on a = AO bas is for a three days of week. Shows open July 3. i » your open time at once JAMES LAS AE “83814 orth St., Birmingham, Ala WANTED Tab. Show or good Vaudeville, with exclusive Girl Chorus, ten or twelve people in troupe. TCHULA THEATRE COMPANY, Tehula, Mississippl THE RICTON SHOW The greatest amd most successful Little Show on the road. Third week Frankfort, Kentucky. rom, pte pigs et ie f