The Billboard 1924-12-27: Vol 36 Iss 52 (1924-12-27)

trea = DECEMBER 27, 1924 The Billboard Wishing You All A HAPPY YULETIDE AND PROSPEROUS NINETEEN-TWENTY-FIVE POWER’S NEW YORK HIPPODROME DANCING ELEPHANTS. s my veneer TvvTrT Mc CL VAUDEVILLE NOTES ——— WENTY-TWO years of headlining in T vaudeville has just been celebrated by WILL CRESSY and BLANCHE DAYNE, Keith entertainers. GILDA GRAY, who o opens New Year's Day at the Hollywood Golf Club In Florida, has been playing a few dates for the Loew Circuit, breaking house records. MARIE DRESSLER is hankering for a return to the stage via vaudeville. She is negotiating with the Keith Circuit for an appearance at the Palace Theater, New York, at an early date. JEAN GRANESE, the songstress, is scheduled to open an Interstate Circuit tour at New Orleans January 11 in her offering, assisted by Brother and Fiore. JANET of France, in private life JANET MARTINE, is conside ringa fling in the movie kinedom, and will decide definitely upon reaching Los Angeles soon, when her Loew Circuit tour is Sean Grenese completed. VERA KER ENSKA has been signed by the [nterstate Circuit for a tour. She opens December 28 at Tulsa, Ok. T IS reported that ELAINE STERNE has completed a one-act playlet for JUSTINE JOHNSTONE'S _ proposed vaudeville engagement. MISS JOHNSTONE will return to the two-a-day following completion of picture work in Hollywood, where she is appearing for Famous Players. ROBERT BENCHLEY, dramatic critic of Life, who is making his debut in vaudeville this wee kK at the Palace Theater, New York, has been induced to play a route of six weeks for the Keith Circuit. MARGARET SEVERN, who. took MARYON VADIE’S place in the big dancing act in which OTA GYGI is cofeatured, upon the sudden illness of MISS V ADILE, is to play the part for the balance of the tour. MISS VADIE in the Meantime is ree cuperating. BERT EVY, artist-ente robe returns to the tWwo-a-day fold January 4 at the Golden Gate heater, San Francisco, for the. rpheum Cireuit. He has been playan Australia Bert Levy TOMMY DUGAN is opening soon for a ee THEATRICAL | = SHOES Short Vamps for Stage and Street. Malian Toe Dancing Shppers Opera Hore and Tights CLOGS, SANDALS, ETC. Send for Price List. aye TP EeT MSA tour of the South tn his old act, The Ace in the Hole. DUGAN and RAYMOND formerly did the act; now it's TOMMY DUGAN and Company. TEX McLEOD, “The Texas Cowboy”, recently returned from Australia, is making a tour of the e Orpheum Time. HE CONNOR 1 Twins, who recently showed their act in the East, have been booked for a tour of the Or=e Time. They opened last week at Vinnipeg, Canada. * SUSAN TOMPKINS, sVtatiniate, formerly soloist with SOUSA'S Band, is returning to vaudeville with MONS. EDMOND, French pianist, in an offering of classic , = lodies, opening this week at Lancaster, a. LUCY GILLETT an and Company, formerly LUCY and BOB GILLETT, inaugurates a tour of the Orpheum Circuit at St. Paul, Minn. this week, having been off the big time since September. The LOMAS Troupe of acrobats are said to have broken up. They completed Keith dates but a few weeks back. FRANCES ARMS, § singer, opened an Orpheum Circuit en agement at the ’alace Theater, Milwaukee, Sunday. She is to make a tour of the time. RAY and EMMA DEAN are continuing their act and no splitup in a professional way Frances Arms imminent. EMILE BOREO, who first appeared here in Chauve-Souris and since has been entertaining at the Piccadilly Cafe, New York, is reported signed for another vaudeville engagement. No dates have been arranged as yet, but it is expected BOREO will appear at the Palace Thea~ ter, New York, soon. ESISTA, “private life JEANNE WARD Bou HER, is working her way east on the Orpheum Time and will play Keith following, making an early appearance at the Hippodrome, New York. LIONEL ATWILL returns to vaudeville at St. Louis December 28 in The Outsider, a vehicle taken from the play of the same name in which he starred. VAUGHN COMFORT, American tenor, often referred to as “vaudeville’s JOHN McCORM AC K”, is opening a tour of the two-a-day at the Grand Opera House, P hiladel!phia, next week, in a vocal offering, assisted by JIMMIE JONES. AL MOORE and His U. S. Jazz Band . to the Keith Circuit next week at the Regent Theater, New York, after a considerable absence. DER MATTI, new to Keith vaudeville, opened at New Britain, Conn., for a tour of the Poli Time this week. Vaughn Comfort WARDELL and LA COSTA are coming back to the two-a-day in their old act at the Davis Theater, Pittsburgh, Pa., December 29. They have been absent from the Keith boards since April, 1923. EDDIE LEWIS is assuming charge of MONDORF’S desk during the latter's globe-girdling tour of Europe in quest of novelties for next season. LEWIS was MONDORF’S assistant prior to his recent departure. HELTON BROOKS is wending his yey back to the vaudeville fold shortly, it is said, and will appear in an act with OLLIE POWERS. The QUIXEY Four have just begun making records for the Victor Phonograph Company. TRID JASON has just become a new partner of JOSEPH E. BERN ARD in the comedy playlet by WILLARD MACK, _ entitled Who Is_ She?, now makin a tour of the Keith Circuit. HARRY WEBB and Company, new band act, which recently of paged in the was rabbed up by e Orpheum Cir. a s it, which . opened the offer ing this week at Madison, Wis., for a tour. SIGSBIE’S Acrobatic Dogs, a new offering, made its bow at the Hamilton Theater, New York, this week. 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