Variety (May 1917)

' ,VT*». ? ^.* • '■'«?»>»"' '\ 'STv,? :r 7;.w V-v. 28 VARIETY r'v-w- '^ THE REAL RESTAURANTS AND CABARETS We Have Moved Opposite ALEX SCHWARTZ UTTLE HUNGARIAN RESTAURANT Now at 115 N. DEARBORN ST. (Acr*M trmm tha Cmrt ThMtr») Drop in for a Real Home-G>oked Meal Open from 11 a. m. to 1 a. m. CHICAGO GLANTZ Famous Hungarian Dmner Horn* C«okUic<—Exc«U«Dt S«nrlc« DiBBcr—4Sc. Lunch—M c . W* cator to tk« profession. 102.104 W. 45th St. Phono—Bryant S7M CHICAGO VARIETY'S CHICAGO OFHCE, MajesUc Theatre Bldg. Harry Klrscbbaum, former Wtatcrn road repret>eututive lor vvaterboii, Deniu ft Suy- der, Is DOW road manager for Will Rosslter. Cook, and "Th« Pot Boiler/ by Alice Qersten- berg. Marty Forkins returned from a week's tIsU to the race meet at Louisville and smilingly admitted that be bad bad a "most satisfac- tory" sessioQ viewing tbe thoroughbreds. General Plsano Is planning a return to vaudeville with a shooting act more preten- tious than Ills former ofTerlng. It Is under- stood that he will sever his booking connec- tion with Lew Earl. Earl and Charles Lot, who are building a new family hotel on Lincoln tiarkwuy. have turned over two hotels controlled by them, In ordor to swing the new d«al. They were the Raleigh and the St. Regis. J. B. Kelly, former U. of P. athlete and champion single sculler of the Vesper Club, Philadelphia, has Joined the aviation corps at Esslngton. Just outside that rity. He is* younger brother of Walter C. Kelly. Fred Stone and Frank Haughton passed through on their way to the ranch of Am- brose Means, situated near the Grand Canyon in Arizona. They will rope brown bear and mountain ^'f>r>^ and then take motion pictures of the animals. ad Capt. P. R. Davidson, attached to the chief recruiting forre hrre sni w"il Vnown «mon^ theatrical folk, baa been assigned to General Pershing's staff, wbl h will reach France in advance of tbe first division of American troops. American hospital bulletin: MaryKremer, of the "Million DoH-r Doll^." Floren"** Wll- son, former vaudevllUan, and Dot Darnett, of the "Cabaret Girls" (burlesque), retov- ering from operations. Edward Descbamps, who is with Happy Harrison's animal act. Is a patient, sufrering from a fractured leg, probably sustained by a kick from the mule "Dynamite," used in the act. Victor Erne is recovering. The "Players Workshop," an or^anlrallon somewhat along the ■•■>.-» of the Washington Square Players, Is celebrating its first anni- versary this week by repeating four of their most successful plays. They ar "The Myth of Mirror," a Japanese pantomime adapted by Gretchen Rlggs; "How Very Shocking." by Julian Thomp««on: "No Sabe. by EMsha GEO. LOVETT Offers "I> I'm An Irish American CONCENTRATION PUB. CO. 14M Majestic Theatre Building, Chicago Mr. and Mrs. William O'Clalre. who walked out of a Loew house in New York during the recent White Rat strike, were found at the Great Northern Hippodrome last week in the act known «a "A Night with the Poets," the couple using another name. All further time for the act was cancelled, the acts man- PHONE BRYANT IMl CLAIRE IMPORTERS OF GOWNS AND MILLINERY Advance Sprina Modtis being shown at Specially Reduced Prices 130 West 45th Street, New York lO-Room House t-i^tru «t Rockaway Park,U. 17 W«tt End ATenue Half block from octan Wni be rented for the gummer season or soTJ at e berff«iii. Apply W. A. FarrcU. 140 Nassau St.. New Vork City. Winter Garden Restaurant MOY SPOT OF THE LOOP" , Where the big vaudeville successes always are shown first. It adds to the reputation of an artist to open at the Winter Garden in Chicago. Talent with open dates should write at onct, sending description of act and photograph, to the v WINTER GARDEN, 214 South State St., Chicago THE BEST ITALIAN DINNER IN THE CITY Lindi50Ceili^T^\W TfVI^VDiuicr 75 Cents WUh Wlrn* ■ ■■■■ ■■■■ Wkh WImt GIOLITO I08-I1IW.4MSL \3M, Vf MJML M \/ NEW TOU CITY "THE RENDEZVOUS OF THEATRICAL'S BEST" agement being requested to fill the place of tbe blacklisted pair if further dates were ex- pected. The O'Clairea are said to have left the act Saturday. AUDITORIUM.—Dark, saTO for Yfaye. the Belgian ▼Icllniat. Thursday. BLACKSTO.NE.—Dark. COHAN'S GRAND fHarrrJ. Ridings, mgr). —"Turn to the Right" (Ifith week). CORT (U. J. Hermann, mgr.).—"SeTon Chances." opened well Sunday. CHIOAGO.—Dark. COLUMBIA.—Dark. COLONIAL (Norman Fields, mgr.).—"The Barrier" (film). CRC^WN—"Birtn of a Nation" (lllm). ENGELWOOD.—Dark. GARRICK (Sam Gerson, mgr.).—"Very Good Eddie." Doraldina featured (10th week, nfth in tbia bouse). GWETY.—Dark. HAYMARKET (Art H. Moeller. mgr.).— "Midnight Follies," stock burlesque (Oppen- helmer's show from Milwaukee). ILLINOIS (Rolls Timponl. mgr.).—"The Love Mill" (3d week). IMPERIAL (Will Spink. mgr.).~"It Paya to Advertise" (International). OLYMPIC (George Warren, bgr.).—"Th« Bird of Paradise" (5th week). POWBHIS (Harry Powers, mgr.).—"Th* Boomerang" (2Sth and final week). PRINCESS (Will Singer, mgr.).—"Getting Married" (.3d. final week). Frank Keenan Ib "The Pawn" Sunday. • VICTORIA.—"Common Clay" International). STAR AND GARTER.—Dark. NATIONAL (John Barrett, mgr.).—"Pot- ash a Perlmutter" (International). MAJESTIC (Fred EberU, mgr.; agent. Or- pheum).—A very satisfactory entertainment thia week, brilliant at times and a strain of comedy that brought laurbs freely right up to the Gertrude Hoffman Revue, which dosed the show. Both Monday houaea were big. The Palace is out of the vaudeville running for the summer, and the weather was wet. The Hoffman act ran 43 minutea. 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