Variety (April 1915)

22 VARIETY The WILLIAM FOX Production WILLIAM FARNUM IN "THE NEW GOVERNOR w FOUNDED ON "THE NIGGER" By Edward !lilln, Played to 100,006 last week at THE NEW YORK HIPPODROME BETTY NANSEN "ANNA KARENINA" BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOI AND FIFTEEN OTHER MAGNIFICENT FEATUEES, NOW BOOKING. FOX FILM CORPORATION WILLIAM FOX, PRESIDENT. Home Offices, 130 West 46th Street BRANCHES IN PRINCIPAL CITIES. Y IR VAUDEVILLE'S SWEETEST TENOR BE CORRESPONDENCE UbIms otherwise Beted, the foDowinf reperts ere for the cmrreBt week. VARIETY'S CHICAGO OFFICE: CHICAGO MAJESTIC THEATRE BUILDING Twenty-Are musicians will piny the aooom- pnniment to the pictures st the Orchestrn Hnll when that place opens as s film house May 1. Prices. 10-60. Was" coupons wsre Issued whereby the hold* er could get two of the best seats for a quar- ter for that Monday night only. The coupons were Issued on Ssturdsy, possibly with a rlew to have an advertising audience to ensure bet- ter business during the week. Five shows open in Chicago next week. They are Robert B. Mantel In Shakespearean repertoire at the Oarrlck, "The Outcast," at Powers', "Lady We Love," Ls Salle, and "Keep Moving," st the Cort. •; The Casino under the msnagement of Blugh, Connors and Kaufman opened last Saturday. The house Is running six acta and changes the program three times a week, the Web- ster Vaudeville Circuit furnishing the acts. Mollis Williams, while playing the Star and Carter last week, contracted muscular rheu- matism and ls at present at the American Hospital. George De Munelo Is oenvaleslng at the same hospital. Arthur Stanley man- ager of the Stanley Stock Co., ls recovering from an operation at the American Hospital. Zella, the Oriental dancer, ls about to undergo an operation. Willy Regal, of the Four Kegels, ls 111 at the American Hospital with heart trouble. Roland Clifford, In conjunction with Gasols. Klimpt and Rlckson, are producing "To-Day to play the National, Crown, Imperial and Vic- toria starting Easter Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Readlck of the Readlck Plsyers will be featured. The Actor's Fund will be the beneflter of a ball that ls to be given at the Auditorium Hotel April 8 by some of the prominent stars playing around here at that time. The benefit which was staged a couple of weeks ago at the Auditorium netted $4600. The salary of Ober and Dupont was attached last Wednesday night at Saginaw where the act was sent to plsy by the Loew office here. The Western Vaudeville Managers' Associa- tion claimed that the act was supposed to have played Its house in Dsnvllle, 111., and the Ass'n did the attaching. In a small town not far from here there is a vaudeville theatre. In the theatre there Is an enterprising stage hand. This stage hand has the Job of pulling the curtain up and down. An actor made the said stage hand enterpris- ing. While playing the house this actor saw a good publicity idea In the curtain raiser. He asked the stage hand hew much a curtain he would charge for lifting the cloth a few extra times after the actor had stopped taking legiti- mate bows. The Price agreed upon was one dollar a curtain. Before the end of the week the actor made the house record look HI by taking 18 curtains. He paid the stage hand $12i0. After this the stage hand sold extra curtains to anyone he coukf hold up, but up to now he hasn't collected enough at one time to break the first actor's record Barnes snd Roblnsen. who threatened suit last week against the Avenue theatre, have evidently changed their minds, for Manager Weinberg has In his possession contracts re- turned to htm by the act. Mr. Weinberg claims the turn was closed upon their re- fusal to eliminate materiel. AUDITORIUM (Bernard Ulrlch, mgr.).— •Life," Wm. A. Brady'a spectacular melo- drama, opens Saturday night. BLACKSTONE (Edwin Wappler. mgr.).— "Orumpy," with Cyril Maude, doing nicely. CORT (U. J. Hermann, mgr.).—"The New Henrietta," final week of successful run. Le Ms I re and Dawson, who failed to appear when booked at the Chsmpslgn a few weeks ago, are paying their full salary to the man- agement of that house In $50 Installments. It ls apparent that the act will st least be busy until the debt Is paid. At the Crown last Monday night when Eugenie Blair was playing "A Fool There COHAN'S GRAND (Harry Ridings, mgr.).— "On Trial." still pulling a nloe business. COLUMBIA (William Roche, mgr.).—Star and Garter Show. CROWN (A. J. Kaufman, mgr.).—"Stop Thief." with Thomas Swift OARRICK (John J. Oarrlty, mgr.).—"The High Cost of Loving." with Lew Melds, clos- ing a profitable three weeks engagement ILLINOIS (Augustus Pltou. mgr.).—"The Oirl From Utah," with Julia Sanderson, Donald Brlsn snd Joseph Cawthorn, doing fair for holy week. The Orpheum, Green Bay, Wis., dosed its vaudeville season last week. Mrs. Gene Greene ls seriously 111 sfter an operation which was performed on her last week. At a meeting of the Old Friends Club last week It was decided by the members to change the name of ths club to The Strollers. The Bryn Mawr picture theatre In Edge- water will use two acts of vaudeville In ad- dition to the pictures starting wltb next week. "Mrs. Wlggs of the Cabbage Patch" com- pany, organised In Chicago, closed last Satur- day night at Peoria. M. H. Barnes, of the F. M. Barnes office, re- turned to Chicago last week from Arisona after a three months stay for his health. Jsck Lslt's production of "Help Wanted" will open at Kenosha, Wis., Easter Monday. The production will tour the Middle West "The Divorce Question" will be produced here for a three week run, playing Cincinnati and St. Louis first and then coming Into the National In this city. Hall and Thomas would not close the show at the Bijou In Battle Creek last Tuesday and left after working the full day Monday. Walter C. Kelly presided last week at a dinner given by some professionals to the democratic candidate for mayor, Robert M. Sweltzer. William J. Slattery, who managed the Aca- demy of Music before the fire, will manage the Oayety In South Chicago In future. YADDEYHIE ACTS TAKE NOTICE Let Us Product* YOUR ACTS In MOTION PICTURES We have a fully equipped studio at your dls- Tbe Jayanm Film Co., lately organized, hah taken over Sans Soucl Park to produce their films there. }The first feature will be a flve- reeler. Laboratory. Ill East 41th Streat utlva Os n ese , 1471 Broadway mrttuL u r. eo. * iiw you, 'let STRAND Broadway e\ 47th St, Noon to HJt P. M. Is, IS, S, Sec Strand Concert Orchestra end Soloists. HAZEL DAWN in NIOBE