Variety (May 1919)

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MISSION.—Pictures. CLEMMER—Pictures. Senator John Kinney, of Montana, owns the big ranch where much of the action in "The Light of Western Stars," shown at the Little Theatre current week, was filmed. The Senator has a minor role In the picture. Ivan Fehnova was married here May 1 to Lorraln Treves. The groom was with the Pavlova Ballet Russe and the Imperial Grand Opera, Petrograd, prior to entering the Ameri- can Navy some time ago. He has Just been released. The bride was a member of the Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company and French operatic organizations prior to that Ruth St Denis at the Pantages here this week will complete her tour of that circuit at Los Angeles, and will say farewell to the vaudeville stage at that time. Retiring from the stage, she and her husband, Ted Shawn, will devote their entire time to Dentshawn, the danolng university established some three years ago. John McCormack will sing at the Arena ' here 26th under the auspices of the Ladles Musical Club at $2.60 top prices. SAM GRIFFIN'S Premier Minstrels (ALL WHITE) SEASON 1919-1920 Playing Recognised Theatres Only, Coast and Far West I WANT MINSTREL PEOPLE IN ALL LINES i A-l Advance Man; Comedians; Sole Singer* and Dancers; Strong Comedy Acta and a Dis- tinct Novelty; Barters, Solo Cornet, lead band; Cello, Doable Band; Violinist, leader; Doable Clarinet or Cornet, band; A-l Trap Drummer, fall line traps, including Tympanl; . Musicians, Double B and 0 Singers; Dancers, Chorui; Inside ends or dram corps. State all yon do. Who with last, age and lowest salary. I pay alL Character, ability, pleasing appearance, prime requisites. Address SAM GRIFFIN MINSTRELS, €05 Pin- j tages Building-, 935 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Alex Luce, former leading man with the Wilkes' Players here for a season prior to the war, is playing a short engagement In "Frisco while home on a furlough. A return of the "flu" epidemto In centra' Oregon has closed all theatres and other places of public assemblage in the vicinity of Burns and other interior towns of that section of the state. Sam W. B, Cohn, manager of the old Spokane Theatre, Spokane, for many years, and later manager of the Liberty in that city, has just been released from an officers' training camp In Arkansas. He has been appointed as man- ager of the Sunset In Portland. Cohn was a member of the repertorial staff of the Oregon Daily Journal when the writer was on that paper. Lee Ochs and wife are In the city on a short business trip. Mr. Ochs says things with the United is in tip top shape in the Northwest Captain J. W. Lathrop, Alaska, theatrical magnate, returned home Sunday after a month's visit here. The Consolidated Film Corp. leased the former home of the General Film Company. 2023 Third avenue, this week, and have moved into the new quarters. Marlon H. Cohn la president and D." J. Chatkin, secretary of the Consolidated. This exchange deals exclu- sively in "short-reel" material. John Splckett, accompanied by his wife and W. D. Gobs, Juneau, Alaska, film exhibitors, arrived here first of the week. They will make a short trip to California before returning to their home In the far north. The Exhibitors' Film Exchange, this City, has secured the handling of "The Unpardon- able Sin" feature film in the fourth North- western states—Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana Florence Kubey, Seattle vlollnlste, who filled In at the Moore owing to the illness of the Lambs, will complete the tour of the Orpheum circuit covered by the contract held by the team that was forced to cancel owing to an accident in Calgary. .8 to 16 Weeks firm. CONTRACTS FOR Nothing too FRANCE big!!! APPLY TO HUGHES RYNER Exclusive Booking Manager for CH. DEBRAY'S HALLS NOUVEAU CIRQUE, PARIS R. E. Charles, formerly with' the Select, has Just been released from Camp Lewis, and has accepted the position of booker with the Inde- pendent Sales Corporation, Seattle. "The Hidden Truth" film Is being booked in all towns covered by Anna Case in her concern Mr of the Northwest The prima donna starred In this picture. Walter Anthony, dramatic editor of the San Francisco Chronicle for several years, has re- placed Charles Eugene Banks in a similar position with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Banks will retire from active newspaper work and contribute to some of the leading maga- zines. He is an author of some repute as playwright Dell Bates, with the Monte Carter musical comedy organization at the Oak for some time this season, has returned to her home In San Franolsco for a short vacation. SYRACUSE, N. Y. Cliff Thompson and Nana Bryant, former stock stars here at the old Seattle theatre, will 'open at the Fulton, Oakland, latter part of this month. "An American Ace," a condensed version of Lincoln J. Carter's four-act melodrama, will be the topllne feature at the Moore next week. This will have a cast of 17 people, and is the most pretentious act to be seen on the Orpheum time this year. In the issue of the Vancouver "Sun" on May 11, "R. T.," the critic of that paper, gave prominence to S. Morgan Powell's "Open Letter to Variety," saying: "The story given In Variety anent Montreal created quite a furore in that city, and tbank heaven our good friend, Mr. Morgan Powell, the well known dramatic critic, took occasion to en- lighten the publishers of Variety as .to the real truth of the disturbing incident Mr. Morgan Powell hit'the nail squarely on the hoad when he said that we do -not want any more pf this eagle-screeching talk about America winning the war. He is right We have heard a little of this sort of bunk In Vancouver, but, happily, our local managers are Invariably on the watch for this nauseating By CHESTER B. BAHN. EMPIRE.—AH week Knickerbocker Players in "A Pair of Queens." Captured full house Monday and played the deuce with risibilities. This was the first time that Syracuse saw Otto Hauerbach'B farce, and the first-nighters apparently found It enjoyable, while the critics said Tuesday It was the funniest ''night off" comedy since "What Happened to Jones." Honors went to Mabel Colcord as Martha, the maid with a system, and Hal Salter, who essayed Peter Cranby and donned short pants. Minna Oombel, the leading woman, rests on paBt laurels, for the role of Polly Webb offers little opportunity, Monday's performance was a benefit for- the Junior Auxiliary of the House of Providence and netted over $1,500. WIETINO.—19-20, Tambourine and Bones, Syracuse University's musical society. In "Take a Tip," an original musical comedy written by Sylvan Baruch and Lawrence Kunst- ler, with music by Dewey Rllsh and Milllcent Cowes, all of the Varsity. "Take a Tip" Is a worthy successor to the musical shows pro- duced by T. A B. ip other years. It boasts of as much of a mystery plot as the ordinary play of its type on the professional stage and has some worth-while musical numbers which, if 'published, would have an even break for popularity. As produced on Monday night the enow made a satisfactory flash, and the cast was adequate, considering that it was limited strictly to the sterner sex. The gallery gods claimed their time-honored privilege of "kid- ding" the cast, and there was a more or Usb continuous, bombardment of pennies and peanuts. The "girls" were a riot but they : declined to get fussed. BASTABLE.—All week, "Open Tour Eyes." film, produced for the U. 8. Public Health Service. With the regular burlesque season over and the summer policy still unsettled, the Bastable this week made a try at pic- tures. Judging from the patronage Monday, the attempt will be highly successful from the box office standpoint "Open Your Byes" Is aimed to mitigate the social evil and is the third of the films so Intended by the P. H. S. It is better than Its predecessors seen here in that it lacks the ghastly clinical cases shown in "The End of the Road" and has more of a story than "Fit to Fight" Hal Brown, formerly of the Knickerbocker Play- ers here, enacts the role of Dr. Randolph Bennett and is_ supported by an excellent cast The entire house Is selling at 26 cents, and with an aggressive advertising campaign. and the low figure there is no doubt but that- the Bastable will make a clean-up. The plc- tur J?~r.J,lSL rob ? bIy be held °w for next week. TEMPLE.—Vaudeville. CRESCENT.—Vaudeville. STRAND.—All week, "The Red Lantern,". Jim, with Nazlmova. Opened on Sunday to . excellent business. Picture, for lavishness. , reminds of "Chu Chin Chow." Director Albert v/' Capanelll, however, despite his apparent effort r to give true locale, has made one fatal slip. - Although the period Is 1889-1900, Darrell Foss is permitted to wear a-1919 tailored suit soft collar and tie. — *.*?• - „ 1 ^2 le «£ err ! n A. a SyTac »we girl, appeared with the Demi Tasse Revue" at'the Temple the first half of the week. *«"v« ? The Strand will make another attempt to ; show "The Botter 'Ole" the first half of next--S week. The film was scheduled some weeks ago. but was lost In transit ^^ ^ "M Petitions bearing 2,200 names opposing Sun-"^ day films were presented to the Watertown = Common Council, 20. The petitions were cir- culated In every Protestant church in the city i Sunday. <■ 'yapping,' and so we are not annoyed so very much; In fact, it amuses us. But it may be Just as well to state that vaudeville artists from across the line coming to Canada should be given to understand that they must exer- cise tact when they are dealing with the question as to 'who won the war.' Canadians would not be so silly as to get up and yell from the house-tops that they won the war, but they would be perfectly Justified in main- taining that they had a great deal to say In the clean up. However, there Is no use arguing over the matter. Mr. Morgan Powell's letter to Variety: speaks for Itself. With its sentiments we are in full accord." i. a- May Irwin Is rapMly regaining her health Z% r~ at her summer home near Clayton. At present !i Y she is entertaining her sister, Flo Irwin. s The Pierce. Oswego, in addition to movies . tniB week, is offering "Wanda," the woman of S mystery, a mind-reading act £-. The Turn Hall, located In the Syracuse Turn Verelns clubhouse, which was badly damaged by the fire that swept the building some weeks I ago, reopened on Saturday. The picture policy = will be maintained. * Members of the Barca Philathea Union of Broome County will boycott all Blnghamton and Broome County movie houses which open on Sunday. The boycotting resolution was" unanimously adopted at the meeting of the union last week. The union also launched a movement for a new picture house or at least a new management for one which will agree to keep dark on Sundays. The union members pledged themselves to patronize only such a theatre In the future. The Billy Allen Musical Co. is filling the week at the City Opera House, Watertown; The Temple, located In Odd Fellows Temple ' 1 at Painted Post, will be moved from the third to the first floor. The change Is made neces- sary by the fact that the Ingersoll-Rand Com- pany has leased the Temple and will occupy the second and third floors. | 9 Work on the construction of the new Strand on Chenango street, Blnghamton, started this week. The contract has been awarded to A. E. Badgely, and calls for the completion of the house by January 1. The theatre will have \i a seating capacity of 2,000, and will be modeled :-'; after the Strand In this city. Syracuse will see Its second circus on Juneipr 4, when the combined Rlngllngs-Barnum and&'n Bailey's shows will hold forth on the S. Sallna^-' street circus grounds. The first circus, their Sells-Floto aggregation, visited Syracuse lastly Wednesday. The action of John White, of Qaleton, Pa.,. against the Onondaga County Savings Bank of this city, was postponed for a third time' < '■\ : . .'; ■■-. -. &&M \ I . ..;..•