Variety (October 1919)

» CAPITOL SHOW TO GET mm mm if ;■ feijriw^: Bwntf Ciitwn-g Most Unfayoisable Comment^Miuic t !IVM> Heavy^-^Hctiira Phnliicers Wailing Becauie Their peaturea Are Shown Too Late^The Taking Last Saturday Was $18,640—'The Braf^ Goes in for Two Weeks—Mae West Throui^—r ! JotfJadaon Negptfatwd Fte » K M WO .| ThM« iB Bttll ^considerable turmoU »t .liie Capitol, princlj^ir teck Btac«b iMiMtt there teems to be aiiora ' oCflieiMljillMiflNtir. AltMr-iw p«r> w wtUnc anni "tlife''. '-pev* ftnianee started. HonAayi- irtiin' Ned ^ITaybuni had bla first ikiek at the iboiw .'jtrom the front of the house. 'Fuore general 4IssaUB(tM:tlon Is ex-, pressed against the Pi:^r Band tfaaik jujy other feature of the shew. The jMtnd seems to be generally out of place In the bill and the selections It is play- ing are of a too heavy a nature to please' Itlie public. ThisMtm§itinmt,UcMi^*' ^^tlng several M1il» ¥tSmM '«t the cast : nim was a gepinral wail from the lileture produeera Hcttrdlng the maniwr : ta which' the OhpIIoI Bwiiagement wu iilaelnc tte.iaatnrvllnfcti^^ IVir fMvibrit faw vmtimM^^ JWrbanks picture did itot set «b fhf lereen irntu U p. m. With the . ahoiR, 'eiit down 11 wmt oa nearly as 1m»#- :*irller. ^The regular show was not ottered on Ihinday, more of »<nuidevlUe hill being Irtaged with', tto :tm|fe*mi||mb«ni H .«m gj/jv "Tho Undercurrent," » Select picture, j^' has been booked to go Into the Capitol > and (0 play the Fox houvBs afterwards, tlie Capitol adMdc for n one<^eek pm>- l^ ii!'lection olausa ea jsll <C the prodnotton* ibat It MWks, ^ Th* tali* OB Baiuiday was tl8,«40. ihe «mmt«iip laptias until after t In, tto aMhtfas b«|Wa tba Ibd jirere arrived at*,- oricinally the potior «m ^ nuf _ .. ; itetes In the tbeatro for.j)^|ionod 0C ««ro weeks and ohango ib». *Miim ovary Ua . . :ireeks. Tuesday it waa ' deoided to tor* JDlnate the run of the JPatTbankal' fOSr ; ; jhire, "His Majesty the American," this IT 'Saturday and install the Naxhnova fea* V tonii The Brat," Sunday. This ple- ■y- pu* may be retained for two weeks. ; Tuesday it was announced Mae West tr iraa absent from the show through i inaallltls. It was learned the manage- ^v,i: bent were not pleased with the. notices <^v^ ' in 1^ West in the daUies and that > '11^ wiMiU not jretora to the eaqt. Mlaa f ;. .Waot raoel'nd 1100 a week. ; ,1 ^ MMOMt Qbanga Mriob was also made ; vHM tbo vlaolng Of Bobart Berentam. liiHdstaat oasaaM; M iMganlat «4 it* iSmoit MNfl,/.ors«iaat, . kl| ' aa!- ststant. • • >. > The dlieotim have "Sioided tbafc aa long as the public are coming in to see the place and the patronage keeps np Ihey 'Will not divert from the present policy. But If the eurioslty rush la over a different sty^.of antortalmnant aaaar Ike installed. : Figuring rent, production expenses, .employees* salaries and advertialng. <40,0(|0 Is expended oteh wodc la opoiato •ing the Capitol. : Di^nty Marie will be added to the ;ieaat of tbo Denl*XuNo Bevuo at ^be iCapltol VbeaCra on Novaubor a Ko- 'ootiaUonr ata on now .between tbo ^nanagemont and Joe Aufkaoa to iMi^ ::aa ongagement there to Jaimanrv (parish and Peru jotaied the abow Thursday. \^-.- . There la more than a likelihOodi it;' 2, li- fe^: la e^amttted that w<oric wfll be ' 'thiBatve'' oa':io»' -iho II k »laiiiied 06 haVb ttt roof ^laybouse present an entertain- ment wholly apart fkom the downstsSn^ Show «Dd airangementa are aireaidy vnder imy inr .a summer review, to la tiie late aprlng; ZASS SUES TBIANOLE EEUIS. Justice lieonard A. Olegerlch In Part I, Special Term of the Supreme Court. Tuesday, set down for argument on Nov. 0 the matteriot the application of Felix BL Kahn of No. 140 W. 67 th street for a ■reatialning order against the Triangle Waam» Srlang{e PiatrlbuUng Corpom- tion, FUaa DIatributbiir Oorpora- tloiip^^Bmy^n. ^ttklalaaanwlsbt donaid, p t o v o ati ai lbat ~ ' rylng out^ a/ooatiao) tween theBBsalvaai" The (SbntraMi mOIo fiir flM-leaalBg^b^ the Trjaagle iMstribuUng CorppcajUan of '^e asseta^iind property tO tiM K^ Film Distributing Corporation, together with the rights to exploit negaltives, eto." Kahh Is a stockholder and at one timo was a director In the Triangle Films and , claims that the leasing of the assets of the corporation, was brought about by Wall street interests and Is to the detri- ment of the Triangle Film Corporation. AiiuL ■:. fl^praeaao, N. T.» Oat. sa Thurston, the ifagtciaa,! latenOa tam- ing Into a fltan. He was playing here last, week and said that a scenario prepared uyihim will bo produced under I'a direction. . Tlieatro ffer Bvansviiie SvanaviUe, Ind., Oot 30. ::A :#6al was completed this week for' a j»Ow theatre m. Ham street. Tbo ^theatre and atoio roooMr will ooat |IMi» 000. pad |]|a1i«asa-win seat S,000.. V - TElM MoNlbaaiis lad Batikers TbOatrO CtoaibMir^ oi^ UllaaavoUak P. K dhuie- biarr. PNoUoat, nado a 00 year lease. Hairy CoHen Qeing to Australia Harry J. Cohen, Mgr. Metro's Foreign Sept., wOl sell for Melboumcb Australia, Deo. 1. Cohen will spend three months in the Antipodes investigating the film dbs- 'T^^l»r.ilnOOIi^Ooti;%y baa been aneated for falUag to torn in a gever n iaoat tax reiHMrt POE "BOOZE." Willis & Inglis, the coast picture em- ploymont agents, have inserted a new/. clause in their contracts, calling upon all persons engaged through them tO' nfraln from the use of Intoxlcanta;. while playing in a picture. The cojil-);^ tract provides for the forfeiture of M0^^#^1 by the picture player breaking the pro<>y*'' '' Uliltlon clause^ It sueh'player reoeiveiv a aaiaft oC leaa than list a we*^ iaf :^tlioVoailii 0( 9iayeM reoelvtng >ver fUO^ ' flr a fe t ut to y the "fire water, provlilohf;ii|k^:i^^^^ ponaltir .Of .denUe the mamaoi et'-' eiM^^>^'^'M; . Week's salary Is ptiovlded. ftn "^ '-'-A'^^fSW. = v^be'naaon fc* laaerting the prohlbti?.^- *'" * tion clause was through aeveral b^r^^;; 'productions stopped recently.,while one!j^i;^i:^^;;3 or more of. the players wen| xeoovei^ti^iv;||^^ from thei effects of »'bo6sei" ' . ■ A pecnliar phase is that the condl-Jij tion has become greatly aggravated since the advent of prohibition, and hallfSS^^I^ grown so bad In the past two monthi^^f?! '^'* the coast prodnoera, through .WilUs a''-? : ^:^'^^ -■^„toke.-pr^-vV^i^P '-'—— ' ' ■ /■jft'^ " CAIIS DONM© CBBP CEUEL tioe Angeles, Oct."29,'. -' -y-'-. Donald Crisp played tbe iwrt of the ^ pugilist who beat Ibis daughter to death In "Broken Blossom b." His wife, Mrs.; a'-^^ Marie . Crisp, has begun actlpn fae^^:'^i; divorce, charging him with niggardllnedaf r^l'k and cruelty. -^'W She asks $0,000 a month aUmoay^v^ ' ^''^ SOXEAPICt'S HEW VEKTUBX Iios Angeles, Oct. J>. SaawMI L. lle^iapCal viU tal^ «hai«^ of m " " " naatt week. Crisp la said to be getting 1800 a we^ Of eowmualtr property aaid to K# worth mMMOt Obo aoka bait So^-'wltbottf '.OtottMO'-auiil-aaMeteA a week for Ltbartir be a week honaekeeplnff anowaaeau tributlng situation additional exol Metro yrpdueti and larranjgtng for ihaagaa' •■t^.'/feail|a'..;'..-ttie Williams in 'H'he Fortune Hunter.* Earle Williams is in New Tork will start work al once on the screen version of Winohell Smith's play, *The Fortune Hunter," with a aa pp prtlB f eaajt headed by jobn Paige. ^ Whole Fleer for Qoldwyn> The Ooldwyn Pictures Corp.-' baOJl leased the entire fifth floor of the huVitt' f' ing they now occupy at Forty-flnit i street and Fifth,avenu^ aad.the B«bn|»^%-c<-i'^~;^i';'^ tty department'wm'M^i^et^iSii^^ law^iii^ii^oiii^ va war khawn;>y ^^^^ p. presents Blanche in James Willaxd's celdBirated drama of Directed by Wallace Worsley 7 Part PAT H E Distributors