Variety (February 1918)

I VARIITY 37 Winding up our tour of all B. F. KEITH'S NEW YORK THEATRES at the • PALACE, NEW YORK, NEXT WEEK DOOLEY NELSON • THIS WEEK (Feb. 11) Booked solid until March, 1919 AND KEITH'S RIVERSIDE, New York Direction, ROSE & CURTIS second, did fairly. Rodriquez opened success- fully. HIPPODROME.—Show above average. Jess and Dell were missing and In their plaoe ap- peared Van Camp and pig. Man •offered sleight^of hand routine that scored. Downs and Oomez, artistic and pleasing. Charles T. Del Vecchio and Co., headlining, In sketch bubbling with cleverness, well played. Stan- ley and Oold, hit of show. Honk Kong Troupe, good In closing spot. LeRoy and Paul, open- ing, proved fair entertainers. ALCAZAR (Geo. Davis, mgr.).—Charles Ruggles In "Pals First." CASINO.—3, "Improvement" seems to be the watchword at this house and with a bet- . tor program, a decided increase in business lay apparent. The week's bill was headed by* Minerva Courtney, assisted by Harry Irwin and OUie Mack (formerly Murray and Mack), In "Heart o' the Canyon," a western comedy sketch received very favorably. The special net Is notable. Applause honors went to Valle, French accordionist, who, though on second, held attention for more than his allotted time. "VlBlons of Art," excel lent opening turn. "The Casino Follies," held over and Improved, got moat of the laughs. De Forest Bros, and Falk, three men In a miniature minstrel first part, did fairly well, but could freshen their "gags." Their harmony and soft shoe danc- ing were very good. Dedlc Velde ft Co., man end two girls, present "Charlie Chaplin's Com- edy Capers," a camouflage billing for light acrobatics. Mr. Velde's Impersonation of the millionaire comedian, however. Is very realis- tic and clever. "Boots and Saddles/' a pic- ture by Eugene Walters, concludes. CORT (Homer F. Curran, mgr.).—Theda Bara in "Cleopatra" (film). COLUMBIA (Oottlob ft Marx, mgrs.).—Boa- ton English Opera Co. (1st week). CASINO (Lester Fountain, mgr.).—A-H ft W. V. A. vaudeville. PRINCESS (Bert Levey, lessee A mgr.).— Bert Levey vaudeville. Savoy (Harry Davis, mgr.).—Will King Musical Comedy Stock (8th week). WIQWAM (Jos. F. Bauer, mgr.).—A-H ft W. V. A. vaudeville. Besides his whole troupe of Wild West riders, Douglas Fairbanks had the assistance of William H. Crane, Duetin Farnum and Frank Campeau In his rodeo hero last week. Prominent "busters" In the aggregation were "Prairie Rose," Eva Fox, "Shorty" Kelso and Tommy Crimes. Edward B. Lada, first violinist of the Or- pheum orchestra, was granted an interlocu- tory decree of divorce by Judge Morgan last week from Mrs. Viola M. Leach-Lada, for- merly of the Alcazar 8tock and at present said to be playing In New York. The divorce was given on the ground of desertion. L. W. Churchhouso Is organising a com- pany to play "Ten Nights in a Barroom" in the tanks hereabouts. Ackerman A Harris Journeyed to Sacra- mento last week to aupervlse the remodeling of their Hippodrome. While there they looked over and approved the plans drawn by Archi- tect King for the Modesto house. Reports are current the Bob Marks Co., pre- senting circuit dramatic stock In Monterey, Santa Cms and Watsonville, la meeting with success. Frederick O. Schiller, conductor of the Mu- nicipal orchestra, threatened to resign last week because a press agent had been appoint- ed by the orchestra committee at 926 a week, while Mrs. Schiller had been acting In the same capacity for a year without compensa- tion. Schiller intimated that the only way his services could be saved to the city would be to pay his wife compensation for her work In the last twelve months. "The Casino Weekly" is Lester Fountain's newest wrinkle a* the Casino. It is a very snappy Journal telling about the next week's attractions. have started the "epidemic of coughing" which frequently interrupted Harry Lauder's patriotic speech at the Municipal auditorium. The coughing invariably started when Lauder spoke of German atrocities. Pro-German sympathisers are believed to Mort Harris, local representative of Water- son. Berlin ft Snyder, proved a very accept- able added attraction at the Savoy this Week, doing a semi-nut turn. Incidentally he put over three of his firm's songs In nice shape. Mrs. Betty Qerke Irving, wife of Lieut. Livingston Irving, and formerly in vaude- ville, Is said to be on her way from New York to fight divorce proceedings Instituted by her husband's parents some time ago. A wire from New York reports Mrs. Irving will testify in court she was paid by emissaries of her father-in-law to leave California and al- low her husband to receive an Interlocutory decree of divorce from her by default. Mrs. Drady, wife of Robert Drady, who ro- cently resigned as manager of the Casino, was taken to the Fairmont Hospital here last week, suffering from typhoid fever. Upon leaving the Casino Mr. Drady took his wife, who had been ailing for some time, to Byron Hot Springs, thinking that the change would Improve her condition, but had to return al- most Immediately when she began to show signs of becoming worse. THE TEMPLE QUARTETTE Featured with BARNEY GERARD'S FO LLIES OF THE DAY . Are scoring a wonderful hit with "SWEET LITTLE BUTTERCUP By BRYAN— PaLEY JEROME H. RE MICK & CO. 219 WEST 46th STREET NEW Y0RK Majestic Theatre Bids:.. Chicago 228 Tremont St., Boston 137 Wast Fort St., Detroit 906 Market St., San Francisco