The Billboard 1924-11-08: Vol 36 Iss 45 (1924-11-08)

NOVEMBER 8, 1924 ACTS DECLARE PROMOTERS HAD BILLED THEM WITHOUT CONSENT Sophie Tucker and Billy Van Among Those Not Consulted About Appearing at La Follette Show ew YORK, Nov. 1.—Promoters on the Progressive Party Entertainment ComN who evidently played both ends against the middle, were directly rensible for the La Follette Campaign Fund benefit performance fiasco last nd not the acts that failed to appear, according to those headliners, who say ; were never consulted in the matter altho they were billed to take part in the The show was given at the Sam Harris Theater on Sunday night of last \ when the management was for ed to refund the admission price to the patrons nonappearance of such stars as Madame Sophie Tucker, Billy B. Van, Jack Rose and others, \t the headquarters of the Progressive Part) following the bust, a statement ACTOR, 46 INCHES TALL, W given out by Philip A. Frear, he ad 1s SMALLEST CONSCRIPT of the La Follette finance division. In nuiinaibits the statement he said that many of the Paris, Nov. 1.—Pierre Verdan, othertars who had given their consent to apwise known as “Mister Koko”, a small r had been prevented from appearing yet cor andinge figure among French ‘respective managers for political Mmusic-h a performers, has attained the . Pre r also stated that George distinction of being this year’s smallest M . a performer, and R. J. Kelly, conscript of France. age Verdan, much to his regret, was re‘ rman of the La Follette Entertain , French Army Medical Committee, 1 ad mersonally checked Board when he appeared for examina+} acts scheduled to appear On tion on the ground that he was only dav night preceding the show three feet, ten inches tall. futation of the Frear state. On oe ine ere Madame NEW PHYSICAL CULTURE ACT S ker It v &. Van and others I rd fu be nefit’ perNew York, Nov -Helen MacFadden a few days before it was daughter of Bernarr MacFadden, the puba Van re ved a throw-away lisher, opened in vaudeville today at the t f ti act to take part State Theater, New Brunswick, N. J.. to ia letter thanking him whip into shape a physical cultur Soeiag to do a turn in it His ing in which she will be seen ‘in Kei ng those billed to appear. houses. Miss MacFadden is suppo — 4 t } first knew of by a bevy of athletic young wome n billed vhen a letter s the Phys 1 « ur Girls. Charles her for her kind Morrison and Ray don are tedtina m Th was Miss Macl ler tour \ r She requested s » find out what MARGARET YOUNG RETURNING t 1 he was d over would be called ret Young, ! r r, it no f her who temeved tl Progressive aze si iz t ries Me I nt to E. F. Albee Madame a season or so ago, will be heavily fe: iin part I was never aptured on the bill with Mme. Johanna apt rat ti ffair nd Gadski at Keith's Riverside Theater the f it. It seems unfair that week of November 17. ! 1 t wed to di t the -_~ — STAGE PARTNERS IN QUARREL 1 >» ay ir is y — ; and certainly not —s Ay Calgary, Alta., Oct. 29.—John Stanard, mat you have worked so hard to 1) artiste on the Pantages Circuit, is in a See the hospital here with four knife wounds in his body as a result of fighting with O'CONNOR MAY OPEN BRANCHES his stage ‘ partner, John Triplett, over one alleged blunders in their .act. Triplett is New York, Nov 3.—Eddie Hayden being held on a charge of stabbing. ( v da ‘ a ind his ” re gre ge ea By BOB YOSCO AS SINGLE t t P delphia this week to look — = ‘ the \v leville tuation and arNew York, Nov. 1.—Bob Yosco, who rang for the estab! ment. if it is two seasons ago teamed up as Lyons and ‘ brat ' there Next Yosco and at that time did a musical \ ! as i e journeying act, Lyons betng a violinist and Yosco t purpose 7 j 1 celRst is pening as a single Noexpects to go into the busivember 10 at Norristown, Pa., for a tour ne f ducing on a larger scale, but of Keith’s pop.-} ed houses. Lyons has ' to write vau ille material. been doing a single for some time. } ntations by O'Connor entitled Oh , Isabelle, ANOTHER BAND ACT ! \ Denver with i cast ! ! Mark Sullivan. He also exNew York, Nov. 3.—Moore. Miller and | t his hand in a measure Peterson, backed by Jack Linton's Cadets, e | t. field, having accepted a g band, opened last week at Fox's t play by Will H. Whalen called Audubon to break in for a Loew tour. ] + Mist, which will be produced This week the act started its Loew en gagement at the American It is under the direction of Harry Pincus. JAVANESE DANCERS TO HAVE OWN PLAYHOUSE New York, Nov. 1. FLYNN AND New York, Nov KANE OPEN Takka-Takka and 3—Flynn and Kane, \ Tat Javanese dancers, appearing formerly Ryan and Flynn and before that Hippodrome. have been offered by Morris and F lynn ms ned te day at Water‘ M er, former general manager town N. Y art 1 tour of the Keith M aco interests, a theater of Circuit, over whi +4 they have been booked n in the neighborhood of Greenthru Huches & Manwaring, their repre V ge and will accept it upon the Sentatives n of their big-time vaudeville t NEW SKETCH CALLED “THE HERO” SECOND “YARMARK” EDITION New York, Nov. 3.—Ruth Copley is breaking in a new sketch, called The New York. Nov. 2.—The second edition Hero. It is the work of Parker Hord, of ) tk’ M. Golden's Russian revue, Who wrote The Mir-Up for Marie Dress ’ Stepanoff is featured, opened ler, Which was pr duced by the Shuberts t the Franklin Theater to play an @ few seasons ago. ent for the Moss people, Follow date the act will be called The DIVERSEY TO" OPEN IN MARCH ! ! Lustman, violinist, director — . poser, who was musical director Chicago, Nov. ¥” —Jones, Linick & Nixon Company, Philadelphia, for gongefer re port that their palatial new 1, )oars, joined Yarmark last week when Piversey Theater is now w der roof and played P hilly CONLAN BACK Ware AILS will be ready to open some time in March. It will be one of the finest film palaces on the entire north side. igo, Nov. 1.—Paul L. Conlan, the LOEW SIGNS ARNAUT Meinal Dancing Drummer” has re ned Roscoe Alls on the Orpheum CirNew York, Nov. 3.—Nellie Arnaut and 't and is featuring his knee-drop Rrothers, who have been playing Keith nee in the All& Native Sons of SynTime mostly. showed their act last week “pation Orchestra. In addition to drumat the American Theater for the Loew o£ and dancing Paul is also doing people, and were signed for a regular auite a bit of comedy in the afterpiece. tour, opening November 24, The Billboard WILL SKYWRITE HIS SONG TITLES New York, Nov. airplane, which in the past has been limited to the advertising of motion picture titles and cigarets, will soon be the means of popularizing songs, according to J. Errol Boyd, local mus nang yl who intends to take advantage of this means of exploitation 3oyd was an aviator in the war, as a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, which he joined early in the conflict. He has received the necessary permit, he says, to skywrite and will soon write the titles of two of his latest releases in pale smoke across the noon-day heavens. CARSON AND D’ARVILLE MATERIAL New York, Nov. 3.—The vaudevi authoring team of Jules C&arson ee Robert D’Arville has turned out material for the following artistes: Bayley and sayley, who are playing New oe rk territory; Betty Miller, a new act written around the old character of Sis Hi »pkins : Betts and Irene, who are playing at present in Chicago; Hull and Ausbin, now touring the Southern States, and Adele Connor, Marion Lawrence and Kane and Kane, for whom special songs were written, LEGIT. PLAYERS TO VAUDE. New York, Nov. 3.— Mau de Fealy and Grace Valentine, well-known legitimate players, are rehearsing with ug nell a new light comedy sketch by Angie Breakspere — r the direction of Charles Lovenberg, head of the new Keith production departn ent. Following a_ brief eut-of-town break-in tour they will be seen in Keith houses here early in December, REVIVE MAY TULLY PIECE New York, Nov. 3.—John J. McNally, Jr., will present Helen Goodhue in a revival of the farce comedy, The Battle Cry of Freedom, which the late May Tully wrote and successfully appeared in for several seas ons. After a few preliminary — ige its in the provinces the offering ll be re neo for presentation in metre opolitan Keith houses late in Nove mber MACK AND ROSSITER JOIN FORCES New York, Nov. 3.—Joe Mack, who formerly worked with Nellie Breen, now in Hal Skelly’s act, has teamed with Gail Rossiter. They are opening this week on the Keith Time, —s a comedy singing and dancing act. Bentham is directing the vande. hae of the new combination. BENNY LEONARD AGAIN New York, Nov. 1.—Benny Leonard, lightweight champion, is slated to return to vaudeville within the next week or so. Recently he played the Orpheum Circuit and may take the same route upon his return. HUGHES ISSUES WARNING Chicago, Nov. —Jim Hughes, chief deputy organizer of Chicago and the West for the American Artistes’ Federation, has sent out a notice warning all members of the A. A. F. not to sign contracts with any fair booking agency outside of Chicago. “JUMPING JACKS” OPEN New York, Nov. 3.—Rose, Ellis and Rose, who bill themselves as “The Jumping Jacks” and do various hazardous feats as clowns, opened this week at the Greenpoint Theater to break in for a tour of the Keith Time. GUY MAGLEY RECOVERS New York, Nov. 3—Guy Magley, of Guy and Pearl Magley, has recovered from his illness of several months’ duration, and the act returned to the boards today, opening at Toledo, O., for the first half. MARY NASH IN “THE FEAR” New York, Nov. 3.—Mary Nash, the legit. star, opened today at Keith's Hamilton Theater to show the sketch in which she is appearing It is by Elaine Sterne and called The Fear. Howard Lindsay staged the piece and Lewis & Gordon have produced it. RYDEEN ON A. & H. TIME Chicago, Nov. 1—Gordon Rydeen writes that he is back in vaudeville again with the Silver City Trio on the Ackerman & Harris Circuit. MINERS AND BALCON OPEN New York, Nov. 3.—Miners and Balcon opened this week at the Nixon Theater, Philadelphia, in a new act which has been routed for the balance of the season in Keith houses 13 Alhambra and Royal Drop Hipp. Policy Return to Program of Regular Keith Acts Expected To Prove More Successful New York, Oct. 30.—The Alhambra and Royal theate rs, Keith houses, the former in Hark and the latter in the Bronx, both of which opened this season under the so-called Hippodrome policy, making a specialty of foreign and built-up novel ties, reverted to the old policy today, playing regular Keith acts as they have The two houses have never shown’ encouraging results for some reason or other. The Alhambra tried stock at times, but not with a large degree of ess. Season before last an effort f up-town stands out of their ape rent inerita and a _ splitweek policy was inaugurated. This did I se 1 to help much, so the Alhambra nd I 1 went dark for tl summer Whi they were closed tl Keith Cir euit had them re deled, redecorated and otherwise fixed up for this season, when Mark Luescher took them under his wing nd made a valiant effort to put them on paying basis. He pent considerable money in Luescher fashion, putting in expensi\ shows, inaugurating permanent gi rl ensembles, using costly billing ! lobby displays, etc. Even this exploitation has failed to make the Alhambra and Royal paying propositions, thus the reversion to the old policy, which is less expensive in the operation of the theaters. This change in policy, it is said, does not reflect in any way on Luescher’s failure to establish the Alhambra and Royal as money getters. Present-day developments prove the houses badly situated, with other forms of entertainment having more of a chance of prosperi i ie vaudeville. the pudding concerning agement of the two houses olicy inaugurated is the fine business that has been built up at Keith’s right ; Th ‘r since he took patronage at re, however, is of a much different class than at the Alhambra and Royal, consequently the shows have a better chance. John Schulz, who books the Hippodrome. Eighty-First Street, and has handled the Alhambra and Royal since they underwent the Hipp. policy, will continue to supply the acts for the lat ter two h es ‘ording to the Luescher office. With the dancing girls removed -from the Alhambra and Reyal, the shows booked into these theaters will consist of nine acts handled from the sixth-floor department of the Keith exchange. While it is quite indefinite as to whether any other houses of the Keith chain will try the so-called Hippodrome policy, it is certain that none in New York will do so. ALBEE IS LARGEST DONOR TO ST. ST TEPHEN’S COLLEGE New York, Nov. 2._ ird F. Albee, head of the Keith Circu was the largest contributor to St. Step moat College, which last week aanour d thru its president, Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, that gifts of bestowed upon it. Mr. Albee gave $50,000 f current expenses and $12,000 to be use d in building a new faculty house. RENO MAY APPEAR IN CHICAGO Ne w York. Nov. 3.—Reno, the clown, who appeared at the Hippodrome several seasons, will probably appear early in December in a new show to open at the Marigold Gara ns, Chicago, but has not definitely decided on this engagement be use of an offer to ike a tour of the Mo sss houses in England ALICE DE GARMO RETURNS New York, Nov. 3.— Alice pe Garmo, aerial artiste, who hasn't worked on t Keith Time since 4 Boe teenoor via t Poli Circuit, opening at Bridg Cc nn, November 17, for a skip around that hain prior to appearing in the regular Keith stands. CULLEN’S FITTING POSITION New York, Nov. 3.—Jim c ullen, assistant manag of He s y Island, and erstwhile e Bill Brennan, has_ hi b of keeping John W. s, I ic president ne candidate, in phy al condi tion du his campaign SKATING ACT GETS KEITH ROUTE New York, Nov. 5 Norval Babtie ind Gladys Lamb, today at Canton, © ng turn which has ‘ the Keith Time. Next \ } t goes into the 105th Street T ter, Cleveland. q 7 4 4 ? Bi % 4 4