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

4 QE eee The Billboard JUNE 14, 1924 ee ae — BEN COHEN CLOCK DEPT. [THE BIG COHEN CLOCK SPECIAL! Marbelized Wood. 8 Day. Assortment of Six Styles. $4.50 Each ong TE ASSORTMENT: $27.00 Balanee C. O. D. S. Money Order or American Railway Express Checks. Goods positively shipped the same day Order is received. SEND FOR OUR CATALOGUE 86 Bowery, New York No. 55—Mantel Clocks. TERMS: Remittance 7 v. 9 Cash with order. L! Half Hour Strike. F. 0. B. New York We recommend ALIS ALTER EGO “Punch and Judy” is coming back in England look for the revival in America next year—altho the right kind of a marionet show would get money right now. The abominable weather has been very hard on the carnivals, Several of the smaller shows aud even one or two of the majors under duress have been impelled to slip in a little grift— just te ‘‘tide over’ the tough going. Chafing under the poor financial support he has received The Commissioner is reported to be making dire threats of wholesale suspensions. Old Man Alibi (an@ his name is legion) says: “Il was forced in.”* Altho we wish he was, Mr. Charles Ringling is not financially imterested in The Billbeard as the rumormongers are sedulously asserting. The members of the Legislative Committee might not be averse to accepting advice from an executive, and qa member of their own profession, and they might not even be averse to having hard words handed from the one who understands them and their trials. SOLDIERS-SAILORS’ REUNION American Legion Sponsor of Event at Columbus, Kan. Columbus, Kan., June 6.—The annual Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Reunion will be held here the week of July 14. The John Francis Shows have contracted to furnish the amusements and indications point to a big week. This reunion, which has grown in the last five years to be one of the largest affairs of its kind in the State, is conducted by the American Legion. The rapid growth of the reunion made it necessary for the legionnaires to purchase a 28-acre park adjoining the seven-acre city park upon which the celebration has been held the past thirty years. ’NEW TURNS AND RETURNS ‘ (Continued from page 17) of which be never finishes because the lights go out on him when he reaches a certain stage, a warning which he said the manager of the house had given him in case he tried to “tell tbat or2’’, There is nothing funny in the stunt and Dooley would be none the loser if he threw it out of his act. With the exception of this gag, the material packs many good laughs, tho it harps perilously on the suggestive, especially the talk about ‘‘woman's clothes’’. With crack material—tho the present is by no means bad—Dooley probably would be an immense go, for he has whatever it is that is requisite to the springing of gags “nd making them hit the mark. He wisds up his offering with “Home in Pasadena” and “‘Why Did I Kiss That Girl?’ When reviewed, Dooley was accorded a fair **miitt’*. R. C. GILDA GRAY Reviewed M mnday Matinee, June 2, at Keith's Hippodrome, New York. Style—Singing ond dancing. te in ae Full stage (special). Time—Eig 1 minutes. Miss Gray is fresh from her successes in the “Ziegfeld Follies’’, and also holds forth at the Rendezvous, cabaret and supper club, where she is the favorite of many society patrons. In her present vehicle she does three of her best numbers done during the pa-t two years in the “Follies’’. The scenery and ba kground of Hippedrome girls further give strength to the turn, and an unbilled toe dancer fills in the interval before the final number by Miss Gray. Opening sopg and novelty dance number was “Tt’s Getting Darker on Old Broadway’. This ig done in abbreviated costume, made with luminous paint. Toward the close the stage is dark in order to show up the radium gowns. % ~~ ONSTER CELEBRATION AND MARDI GRAS Benefit of 13TH WARD FIELD CLUB, INC., NEWARK, N. J. To be held June 23rd to Jufne 28th, inclusive, on own grounds, situated directly adjoining Newark Velodrome, So. Orange Ave., Newark, N. J. Thirteen Acres with a drawing population of over 600,000. This will be the BIGGEST and FINEST affair ever held in Newark. We have booked Tom Mills’ “Bestyet Shows” and will book other Riding Devices and Shows of Merit. WANTED—Whip, Caterpillar, Aeroplane Carousselle, Legitimate Concessions and Grind Stores. We cannot use you if you do not comply with Showmen’s Legislative Committee of America rules and regulations, so why waste your time? No Gypsies or Girl Shows. Others of that caliber stay away. Write, wire or phone P. NEWMAN, 784 Broad St., NEWARK, N. J. (Phone, Market 0827.) SS wagon for money-getting attraction. OIE -Doe. McKay Wants Bae | ~ C. D. SCOTT'S SHOWS Want Wild West at Once Have beautiful new wagon front, 100-foot canopy, seats, lights and side wall and stable tent. All new this season. To organize company will furnish the above, including fully equipped stock car. Will offer special inducements. Jim Eskew, wire. Also want first-class Hawaiian Show. Have swell outfit for same. Will furnish platform Want any new Ride that don't conflict with what I have. Will furnish wagons for Caterpillar. Concessions of all kinds that are legitimate. No exclusive. Chillicothe, Ohio, this week; Newark, week June 16th. TALL PREPOSSESSING YOUNG LADY Flectrie Act. Steady Sew ’ we Ch Los Angeles, Calif. experience required sa ¥ oR rs c. McKAY, eocamiant. ‘oth one Surt, ‘Ave. Coney Island, N. Y. Vesti 1000000000 000000 tt ttt tld ttt b 00000001010 000001 11 This had a Broadway drop in the ba kground * aud the dance included the St. Vitus movements. Second Was a South Sea Isle number to the tune of “Ty-Tee’’, wit! 1 a native islander beatng a drum of his own brand Gilda does her best stuff in this set, and she sure can do a hula-hula. The costume she wore, and those of the ensemble, were appropriate A toe dancer of unusual charm did a solo and at this performance to outshine the star insofar as concerned, and grace threatened applause was Closing, Miss Gray did “Beale Street Blues’, which was followed by a shimmy dance, greatly aided by a gold-fringed gown. M. H. &. STEPHENS AND BRUNELLE Reviewed Monday afternoon, June 2. at Loew's State Theater, New York Stvle—Singing. Setting—Special dd) au ie. Time—Tx clive minutes. Stephens and Brunelle’s act bas its ups and downs, some portions of the routine being exceptionally pleasing, other parts of it suffe ring from monotony and boredom. This could easily be remedied by the injection of sure-fire numbers, gags, etc., in “the spots where the material pow being used misses its mark Bo h Stephens and Brunelle have good voices, the woman a pleasing soprano which she dis Plays to fine advantage in her rendition of “Kiss Me Again’’. The man’s voice is also pleasing to the ear in the numbers he does, but probably would be more sure-fire im otber songs than he now uses. Stephens and Brunelle’s finish, when “Queen ef the Argentine’, a melodic number, is dope, seat the offering over to a pretty fair hand. The gags used In the act lack punch and the first step in the rearrangement of the routine and the injection of new material is to secure new stuff in this line, As the act now stends it is of distinctly medium-time caliber. THREE MEYAKOS Reviewed Monday afternoon, June 2, at Locus State Theater, New York Style—Revue, Setting—Specials, ful! stage. Time—Twelve minutes Japanese artistes, man and two women, wh offer an entertaining turn in which violin playing and dancing are the outstanding features An introductory number, parodied tc “Linger Awhile’, serves to open, and before an © drop in two the Meyakos follow with a musica! bit, the man playing the violin, the girls playing guitars. All are talented artistes, have in Kratiating personalties and do their stuff with an ease that is pleasing. The women execu a pretty minuet, which is topped off by 4 violin solo of a classical air, and also de various acrobatic and ballet specialties. Man does a song, followed by a soft-sboe dance, and the girls come on to sing ‘What Does th Pussy Cat Mean When She Says Meow?”. On the close Meyako joins the sisters ip this number, drawing the routine to 4 conclusion with fast buck-and-wing stepping. The act is beautifully dressed and ti costumes a delight to the eye. R. © SUUUEUUTTDEEEUT EEE AT LIBERTY— PoR FAIRS, PARKS AND CELEPRATIONS THE SENSATIONAL DE PEUGH “That Knife-Skating Free Act.” Address: CARE BILLBOARD, KANSAS CITY, MO. 2 (.F.Zeiger United Shows Wanl One more Show. Will furnish out!!! Want Colored Minstrel talent, Colored Musicians, Cornet and Trombone. W)!! Ticket Sellers. All useful Carniy il People, write. A few Wheels ope! New Rockford, N. Dak., this week; Rugby, N. Dak., next; all Fairs. JUNE