Variety (December 1916)

46 VARIETY .. . 1 1 1 ■ i ii i, ,i i 'i i i i i i .I i , ' i i■■ ', 11„ ■ , n asaagcEsa BARIMUIVI MAD THE RIGHT ID ! »».. y* if (13) ii Next Week (Dec. 4) FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE New York City VARICATION" A new act written and staged by BERT BAKER Ask HARRY (13) FITZGERALD HARRY WEBER Present* w.o. Mc Watters and Melvin Mae IN THEIR COMEDY DRAMATIC NOVELETTE "THE WAR OF WITS" By HARRY L. NEWTON ^ At the Harlem Opera House the first half of this week (Nov. 27), AND A HIT. SCOLLAY OLYMPIA (James J. McGuln- ness, mgr.).—Pop. Satisfactory. GORDON'S OLYMPIA (Frank Hookallo, mgr.).—Pop. Good. PARK (Thomas D. Sorlero, mgr.).—Pic- tures Excellent. GLOBE (Frank Meagher, mgr.).—Picture*. "War Brides," with Naslmova on second week to poor business as compared with adver- tlslng outlay. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" next week looks good. MAJESTIC (B. D. Smith, mgr.).—Last week of Lew Fields in "Step this Way." Fair. Taylor Holmes in "Bunker Bean" opens Mon- day for a probable run. 8HUBERT (B. D. Smith, mgr.).—Last week of Al Jolson. Best business of the week. "You're in Lore" next week, being a metro- politan premiere. PLYMOUTH (B. D. Smith, mgr.).—"Very Good Eddie" on its 16th week, holding up wonderfully well. WILBUR (B. D. Smith, mgr.).—"The Cin- derella Man" on Its third week. Ideal pro- duction for an Intimate house. PARK SQUARE (Fred B. Wright, mgr.).— Leo Ditrlchsteln in 'The Oreat Lover" opened Monday night to a corking house and should be able to remain for a run. COLONIAL (Charles J. Rich, mgr.).—Fifth week of "Sybil." Falling off. HOLLIS (Charles J. Rich, mgr.).—Last NOTICE FOR EUROPE Flayers t» Ei hi VARIETY, as* visaing te tag* ef tka Prepaid Rata* alleared, the eases. If at the tfsaa ef amallaag lasr *reet te VARIETY, Now York, Ike assault la payment far It Is placed t* VARIETY'S credit at the PALL MALL DEPOSIT AND FORWARD- LNGCO., Carltoo St, Regent ft, S. W. Far uariferaetty fas enckeage, tke Pall Mall Caw wffl accept doreetta far VARIETY at <ewr okffllaga, twa pava, am tke dollar. all daager ef leas te the player la everted. VARIETY aeewaeeu full rlak aad eakaawt- adgae tke Pall Mall Ca.'a reeesnta aa Its tka Pall Matt te VAR1ETTS » week of Arnold Daly in "The Master." Poor. Metropolitan premiere of "Take Your Medi- cine" next Monday. TREMONT (John B. Schoeflel, mgr.).— Raymond Hitchcock in "Betty" opened Mon- day night. Good. BOSTON OPERA HOUSE (Lawrence Mc- carty, mgr.).—Hip Hip Hooray" picking up, business being nearly satisfactory. CASTLB SQUARB (John Craig, mgr.).— "Peg o' My Heart" may do record gross of International season at thla house. "Mrs. Murphy's Second Husband" next week. COPLEY (G. H. Pattee, mgr.).—"Anna and the Man," aa produced by Henry Jewett and hia English players one of the real dramatic surprises of the season. Next week, "The Ad- mirable Crichton" will be replayed by re- queat. CASINO (Charles Waldron, mgr.).—"Dave Marlon's Show." Excellent, HOWARD (George E. Lothrop, mgr.).— "The Tango Queens." Capacity. GAIETY (Charles Baicheller. mgr.).— "Irwin's Big Show." Good. JACs^ONVlLLL By F. D. kUOMARDSON. ORPHEUM (H. C. Fourton, mgr.; U. B. O.). —Current week. Staley and Berbeck Co., fea- tured; Fred Weber and Co., fair.; Heckman, Shaw and Campbell, applause hit; Brown and Jackson, laughs; Vivian and Araentan, pleased. Last half Includes Wlllard Slmms and Co., Minnie Allen, Kelly and Galvln, the Ishakawa Japaneae Troupe, the Aaana Con- certina Students. DUVAL (H. C. Fourton, mgr.).—Nov. 25-26, "The House of Glass," to good business. Nov. 30, May Irwin in "33 Washington Square." ABJCADE.—(Paramount features with one act. Mualc. REPUBLIC—Triangle features. Music. PRINCE.—Fox features. Music. succeeding Eddie Lowe, who want to New York. wired buck: "Can't send congratulation until there is a recount." Frank Dixon, lecturer, will appear at the Morrocco Temple Monday night under the auspices of the Morrocco Temple Band, being the third numbej* at their lyceum course. The Annual Duval County Fair opens here Dec. 4. Johnnie Jones' Carnival Co. will be one of the chief attractions. LOS ANGELES. *Scott Palmer, Pantagea manager In Ban Diego, was in town thla week. Grace Travers came out of retirement to play "Mrs. Temple's Telegram" at the Bur- bank, but Just for one week. B r . .'verai charity enterta stay here. '"""■'JBfA: entertainments during his Ines Plummer, who waa brought here aa leading woman for the Belaaoo, la now at the Burbank. Arthur Bernstein. Hip assistant is back from Now York. Melvin Bartleti Is around on crutch* broken ankle Is almost healed. His NEW ORLEANS. By O. M. SAMUELS. ORPHEUM, (Charles B. Bray, Southern Representative).—Beat bill of the season. Marlon Morgan's *«"^«g interbade transcends all tka terpelehoreau efforts vaadevUle hae disclosed. Valentino and Ball started pro- ceedings brightly. Richards and Kyle elicited hearty appreciation. "Speaking te Father" remains a claaslo in vaudeville writing* Claire Rochester proved a triumph. Rockwall and Wood struck a responsive chord. Lohse and Sterling neat closing turn. •TULANB (T. C. Campbell, mgr.).—"Com- mon Clay." CRESCENT (T. C. Campbell, mgr.).—"Tha Old Homestead/' LYRIC (Lew Rose, mgr.).—Stock burlesque. LAFAYETTE (Lloyd Bpeacer, mgr.).—Vau- deville. ALAMO (Will Guerlnger, mgr.).—"Jlmmle Brown's Revue." Ballet Russe opened at the French opera house yesterday. Alseda, a hypnotist, Is appearing at the No Name. Ha Lb much funnier than the boys who assist him, but doesn't know it. Don Pnllllplnl will be at the head of the band of 35 pleoee which will grace the Strand, when the south's most pretentious picture the- atre opens in February. Sim Bordeaux Is the latest acquisition to the Lyric's burlesquers. Joslah Pearce is minus his car. stolen. It waa Pearce's Trianon broke all local picture rec- ords for 1016 with "The Little Girl Next Door," a "white alave" film. "The House of Glass" starts at the Tulane Sunday. "Which One Shall I Marry T" occu- pies the Crescent. Virginia Tyson, wife of L, B. Sawyer, the burlesque manager and formerly in charge of the MaJest!o here, is recovering from a severe Illness In a Philadelphia hosp ital. M iss two-act. Richard Dlx la leading man at the Morocco, Lucie Carter, Daven Mallen, Raymond Wylle and Marie Walsh will head Lee Herrick's re- vue when it opens at the St. Charles. Abe Kaufman says a relative wired Hughes he was the proud^ father of triplets. Hughes Dec. 16 with Law." Dlchtenberg's Globe opens Clara Kimball Young In TTka Jau Parade of tka local stage hands, whjch preceded their hall, served to kelp tka an- nual frolic break all records. Automobiles were loaned the participants by Charles B. Bray, Tom Campbell, Santos Shields, Hauaer, tke theatrical printer and writer. Ina Caldwell Is dancing at the Todo. Bfllle Madden left tka revue at the Alamo Sunday. philadIlphia, pa B. F. KEITHS (H. T. Jordan, mgr.).— There was entirely too much show for one's money at the Monday matinee, but after Manager Jordan got through blue-penciling tha only fault in the bill waa eliminated, and It averaged up well with the beat bills of tha saaaaa. The failure of Nora Bayes to appear made no difference, so far aa the show want, for Nora could not have registered a bigger hit than Dorothy Jardon did Monday. Miss Jardon looked like a million dollars in gorge- ous dothee and seemed to be in bettor voioe than usual. At least the audience felt that way, and after ska ksd finished her regular Kgram brought her back for an antra num- . Miss Jardon Is going after tka applause thing with a red-whlte-and-blue costume for a finish that tickled the patriotic ones, but she did not need the Sag-dress after her "Carmen" song. Lew Dockstader ought to hare bean "in soft" following the headllner. but after doing Just about enough of his "Political Boss" talk, closing with a big laugh, he made the mistake of coming back for about five more minutes and It was a bad five minutes for the veteran minstrel. He has about 18 minutes of great stuff and gets all there is out of It for big laughs. Beatrice Herford, held over for a second week, shared a liberal amount of the honors with three of her splendid stories. Morton and Moore worked a little too Ions with their tomfoolery, but Jimmy Morton looked as if he had been living the "laugh- and-grow-fat" Ufa and was trying to work some of It off. These boys are handing out mora of the "old jas" than ever, but got away with it in fine shape. Pllcer and Douglas got along Just fairly well until the burlesque on Harry Pllcer and Gaby Deslys, when they Jumped into the hit class at one leap. These young people have a good idea for their act, but Douglas needs to freshen up his comedy ind gags, some of it being in the aged class. Miss Pllcer makes a bright showing with a V»t Pi jflV**— *^djJwth_jBT^^#«alRont-r , *stt3Xfc* "The Squarer" Is not the beet Jaroee C. Nugent has written for vaudeville, but Nugent Is a clever artist and never does snythlng badly. In 'The Squarer" he works slower and at times the piece seems to drag, but there is an abundance of good material in it and It is given the benefit of careful and skilful playing, so that the sketch was a hit. Dorothy Granville d oes a very pleasing bit of character song