Variety (May 1914)

8 VARIETY MAYOR M1TCHEL WILL 6PEN WHIT E RATS ACTORS' FAIR Program of First Evening's Events, Now Announced, Promises Plenty of Action by Plethora of Players. "101 Ranch" and "High Jinks" Company Contribute to Entertainment. Shortest "Silent Drama" Ever Played. "The Shadow," a pantomime tragedy told in a flash of stage lightning, was yesterday voted the briefest silent drama ever written by the Plans Com- mittee of the Actors' Fair, which the White Rats arc to hold in their club- house for eight days, commencing Saturday evening, May 16. "The Shadow," by Otto Hauerbach, was ac- cepted by the committee for presenta- tion in the series of mute tabloids which is to be a feature of the main stage during the exposition. "New York, 1914," another silent tab, is told in the brief period required for two people to walk side by side across the stage. Junie McCree sub- mitted this tidbit. More than a score of pantomime tabloids meeting the committee's rule that no piece submitted should require more than three minutes for presenta- tion have been received from play- wrights throughout the country since details of the conditions governing submissions were published in last week's issue of Variety. Frankie Bailey is the latest of the well-known Broadway favorites to turn NOTICE! MEETING OF THE LADIES' COMMITTEE OF THE ACTORS' FAIR Will be held Tuesday afternoon, May 5, At 2:30 in the Ladies' Room at the Club House. All members are requested to attend. Lilliam McNeill, Chairman. in her name as a volunteer. Miss Bailey will bring a school of juvenile Annette Kellcrmanns to the afternoon and evening Diving Nymphs divertisse- ment to be held in the club's plunge during the Fair. Elizabeth Murray was another volunteer for participation in the jinks planned for the platform being built for the main hall. Arthur Hammerstcin agreed to send over at least a dozen members of his "High Jinks" company at the Casino to pose for models on the ballyh< o stands outside the Oriental Dance tent, and Edward Arlington, of the "101 Ranch" and "Wild West," agreed to turn in all his Indian and cowboy ex- hibits for the rehearsal of the Fair to be held May 7. Besides Frances Starr, Louise Dres- ser, Olga Pctrova and other feminine Broadway favorites who have consent- ed to participate actively in the pro- gram for the booths and stage perform- ances, the committee yesterday received the consent of a number of the prin- cipals of the companies now playing locally under the management of Henry W. Savage, A. H. Woods, W. A. Brady and the Messrs. Shubert. Volunteers for all departments of the festival are piling into the com- mittee by every mail. The Strobridge, Miner, Morgan, Metropolitan, Tooker, Carey, Otis Courier and National are among litho- graphic firms which have contributed largely to the collection of old-time lithographs of present and bygone stars to be shown on a mammoth "Who's Who in Stageland" cyclonic drop to encircle the main enclosure. Among new old-time programs re- ceived for the souvenir program booth 8:31—Three-minute introductory ad- dress by Junie McCree, president of the White Rats. 8:34-8:37—Inaugural by Mayor Mit- chel. 8:37-8:47—March of club members in make-ups of all the popular figures of the footlights from Hamlet down to Cyril Maude's "Grumpy." 8:48—Prize maxixe contest on main platform. 8:48—Aerial feats on trapeze by club members. 8:48— First show of "Uncle Tom" tab in town hall; Corse Payton as Simon Legree, Charles Ross as Tom, George Munroe as Tops. 8:48—First show of Oriental danc- ers in sideshow tent. 8:48—First show of Crackenback's Wild Animal Tamers. 8:48—First performance of Diving Nymphs. 8:48—First performance of "The Shadow" pantomime. 8:48—First turn on in roof cabaret. 9:00—Lightning cartoon sketch con- test on main platform. 9:00—Prize hat throwing contest, main hall. (The matter en this page has been furnished VARIETY by the White Rats Actors* Union of America, and Is vouched for by that organization. VARIETY, In Its editorial policy. Is not responsible for it.) during the week was one of Jake Berry's opera house, and another of the Grand Duke theatre in the old Five Points district that saw the debut before the war of Tony Pastor. A Weber & Fields program of the old Fourth street and the Bowery Turn- vcrein days was another relic exhumed; also one announcing G. L. Fox in "Humpty Dumpty." Mayor Mitchel has consented to open the Fair, aided by a coterie of City Hall colleagues of both political tactions. The preliminary schedule of the Fair for the opening night (May 16) as threshed out yesterday, subject to changes before the opening, included the following scheduled items: 8:15-8:30—Orchestra overture, med- ley of old-time classics, including all the popular favorites of the theatre of America back to 1830. 9:00—'Wayback Minstrels, main stage; old-time songs and dances. 9:00—First appearance in crowd of W. R. Feminine Corsairs. 9:00—Ballyhoo contest in front of all booths. 9:10—Auction of wives from band- stand; issuance of mock marriage licenses, divorce blanks and bail bonds. 9:10—Band selections from main stage. 9:10—Song and dance, main stage, a la Delehanty & Hengler. SPECIAL NOTICE. The regular monthly meeting of the White Rats Actors' Union will be held Tuesday, May 5, in the White Rats' Building, 227 West 46th Street, New York City, at 11 P. M. sharp. IMPORTANT Meeting of Actors' Fair Committees at White Rats Club MONDAY, MAY 4th At 2.30 P.M. (Board of Directors' Room) All Committees are earnestly requested to attend JOS. 0. MACK, Chairman 9:10—"Making a Movie"; satire by members, main platform. 9:10—"The Medicine Show," main platform. 9.10—"Introduction of Oldest Living Vaudevillian." 9:10—Ditto, the youngest. 9:15—Auction of old-time souvenir programs. 9:15—Auction of photos of old-time players. 9:30—"East Lynne" tab in town hall; Junie McCree as Sir Francis Levison; Olga Petrova as Isabel Vane, and Johnnie Gilroy as Archibald. 9:30—Recast of Oriental Harem Favorites on ballyhoo stand inside tent; favorites of the Sultan, Eddie Garvie, James J. Corbett, Robert L. Dailey, Tim McMahon, Fred Stone, Dave Montgomery. 9:30—Roof one—Horsetown cabaret; Joseph P. Mack, baritone; Chas. Wayne, tenor; Clyde Powers, second tenor; Frank Rae, bass; tangoists: Will Cooke, Emmett Corrigan, Tim Cronin; maxixe demonstrators: Add- line Francis, Kitty Morton, Frankie Bailey, Lillian McNeill, Mayme Rem- ington. 9:30—Wild Animal Show's second performance: Hassan Ben Ali as the man-eating lion; Joseph Callahan as the South American leopard; Lon Haskall as the Terrible Grizzly; Frank Herbert, Mike Kelly, Johnnie Ray, W. W. Waters as "Terrible Tommy," the Bostock man-eating elephant. 9:30—Second Diving Nymphs' show: Ollie Young, Otto Arthur, V. P. Wormwood, Ed. Lee Wrothe, Sam Williams, Chas. Van, Julius Tannen as Life Savers for 10 "High Jinks" Beauty Divers. 9:30—Motion picture reproduction of old-time theatres of New York back to 1835. 9:30—Presentation on main platform of characters in plays seen in theatres pictorially reproduced. 9:30—Surprise chorus by club mem- bers, including the animated country p. o., owl lunch wagon, country R. R. station. The second section of the program will carry the "doings" to 11 o'clock, following which a third section will fol- low, each division being marked, in the designs, by the same extension for su- preme novelty and varied interest. In these succeeding divisions will be special features of wide range, con- tributed in part by members and by visitors, a body of the Lambs adding a stage tidbit Monday evening, the Vaudeville Comedy Club contributing Tuesday night, the Friars' Wednesday, the Screen Club Thursday, the Dra- matists' Club Friday and the Elks Sat- urday (the closing night). Thursday the program will be a specially devised one, that evening being Society Night. The afternoon sessions will also have special programs of their own, with some of the features that obtain in the evning, and new diversions conceived and in part interpreted by about a score of the principal professional women's clubs of Manhattan and the Boroughs, assisted by club members and volun- teers from the ranks of Broadway showdom. It is the present plan of the booths' committee to carry no trinkets nor other salable articles over night.