Variety (April 1920)

BERTHS FOR CHORUS GIRLS TO a)St MAMGER S 20% MORE PaOman Company Announces Increase for May 1. P. M. A. Membenr Afi:reed with Kquity to Supply Sleepier '} Accommodations for Choristers. Will Hit .. VandeTiUians Hard Also. Higher Rate /-( .'•■■'•. ■•^,' ■ v,Z': ■ 'Ofif-Oct si. ■• . \':-j\''':'J .■■^ i I: Begiiminer May 1 and extending'until Oct. 31, Fultman.fares on every.rail- road in the United State? will be in- creased 20 per cent. A notification tc that effect has been.sent oiit tbr the I^illinan Co. "Legitimate nunagers operating mu- sical shows this summer on^ the road will be particularly hard hit, through having to provide sleeping car. accon^- modations for the m.embera of the chorus in accordance with the terms of the Equity peace pact sisned*Wthe conclusion of the strike. The extra charge incurred by individual vaude- ville artists will total a considerable amount also for the, five months' pe- riod. . As an illustration of how the new arrangement will work, a vaudeville ar- . had Just given birth to a'child and to straighten things out the best they could for\ the profession, but .despite this many slip-ups occurred. KEITH PIANS DRASTIC ACTION. As a result of the cancellation of Kerth vaudeville bookings and the ffc- ceotance of a roAte from the Loew office by the sataie act, isome drastic action against Keith agents who are booking with outside circuits is looked for;^ ■ "■■•:•■- - Morey,'Senna and Lee were.forjmer- ly an Arthur Klein act.^ When Klejn was suspended they lArere transferred to the list of another big time agent in the' Keith Exchange. KCorey . accepted the Metropolitan Loew houses last week at a $iOO ad- vance over his Keith sa,lary. and with return engagements optional. Morey's explanation for this was that his wife WETS APPROACH BERT LEVY. Bert Levy was approached last week b) a man who described' hln^self as a representative of the wet interests, and teh<}ci-ed a proposition whereby'he was to draw the'picture of Governor Ed- wards of New Jersey with a caption stating, "our next president" during the-course of his act at-the Hippo-^ dtome. The bffer included a weekly salary cunsiderajjtiy in excess of the Hippo- jlrome stipend. Levy took the propi^ osition to the Hip management,, exp plaining how they could save his (Levy's) salary each week. The-Hip people turned down the proposal, how- ever, declaring theihselves as opposed to any, form of propaganda. tist making a sleeper JumL York ot Buffalo or Rochester, now paying $2 for a lower berth, after May 1 will pay $240 for the accommodation, plus the 8 per cent, war tax. Another change effective May 1 will be a mini- mum fare of 50 cents for parlor car seats. Heretofore on certain short distance hauls the parlor car seat rate has been as low as 25 cents. The reason for the advance, accord- ing to a well posted railroad, is be- cause of a shortage of 5,000 Pullman cars at present, occasioned by the wear and tear on this class of rolling stock throughout the war. The Full-' man Co., it seems, is desirous of dis- couraging travel in the summer in order td repair the large number/of cars that have been incapacitated for service. The tourist rate for a sleeper from C-faicago to the coast, now $7, under the increased PulMan rate wilt be $8.40 plus the war tax. The new rate will eifect travelers leaving New York for Canada, or leaving any point in Canada booked through to the U. S., but will not effect persons traveling from a given point in Canada to an- other in-the Dom|nlon. . The burlesque managers are to be hardest hit by the new rates.; They all have attractions leaving for the road before the rtvocation of the ad"- vance win become active on Oct. 31, and as they are all paying for the sleepers for their choruses on the jumps, thc! raise,will hit home. The new Daylight Saving Time in New York was the cause of many un- pleasant hours spent by vaudeville per- formers in railroad terminals around New York this week. The general mixup was caused by setting the clocks in New York ahead one hour at two a. m. last Sunday. The railroads, with the exception ofuhe New York Central and the New York, New Haven And Hartford, adopted the new time for their local schedules but on all other trains the Standard Eastern Time re- mained effective. The result was that actors would be informed that' a train left at 4 p. m. Standard Eastern Time, would dash into the stations by their New York Daylight time watches and then have to hang around for an hour before their train left. All of the Eastern and City passenger agents in New York handhiig theatrical business tried CABLE NEWS Sam Hodgdon in an effort to ascer- tain why the office lost the ac^,~ was told by th^ agent that as he couldn't keep the act in town and that they didn't want to leave the city, so he booked them with the Fox ofBce, for whith no contracts vrere issued follow- ing which they accepted the Loew time. The act was requested to write out their reason .for accepting the Loew circuit which they did. Then they were offered the Orpheum Circuit which they turned down claimitfg' to be routed over the Fantag^s,.Circuit for next season at $450. BUT ORPHEUM SITE IN L /L Los Angeles, March 31. Martin Beck and Mort Singer con- summated a deal for the soythwest corner of Eighth and Hill streets, 99- year lease, to bi^ild a.. 12-story office building and theatre seating 4,000. Con- tinuous performance 11 to 11. Popular prices, no reserved seat, many acts playing both Orpheum houses as in Chicago. Meyerfeld, Beck, and Singer represented circuit! W. M. Garland and W. W. Mines, local realtors, repre- sented owners. Deal involved about four millions. APPEAL ZOBRIST PROBATE. '■'■■' Geneva, N. Y., March 31. Notice-of an appeal has. befcn filed today in the matter of the probate of the alleged last will and testament of Henry A. Zobrist, an old time show- man, late of Geneva, from the-decree of the Ontario County Surrogates Court, denyifu: the probate of the in- strument which was executed by Zobrist in November, 1918, shortly before his death and' which left the bulk of his $60,000 estate to the Geneva City Hospital. Last summer, on'a second'trial, ah' Ontario county jury found that Zobrist was of unsound wind when he executed the instrument. Later Justice Sawyer denied a motion for. a new trial made on the minutes and the attorneys agreed upon the decree to be entered by the Surrogate. As a result of these decisions the appeal to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court now,is taken from the decree. NOT ANTI AMERICAN. «. London, March 31. Reports spreading in America that "Tea for Three" wis forced out by. anti-American feeling are unfounded. The play was hot well cast and the British public is tired of the eternal triangle. This,is one failure as against many American successes here. - . "Carnival" is doing capacity business. Th* Withers act in "Whirligig," ''Lord Richard in the Pantry" '^me Out of the Kitchen" and "Blossoms" ar^ packing the Alhambra, one of the big- gest houses in the Vilest End three times daily. ' .^ As Witltam A. Brady, now here on a visit, says, those interested: in the theatre here fear an American invasion and the press is full of stories-about American here to buv heavily.' The real'tru'th is the British refuse to "be buncoed into seeing what they don't like regardless of whether its.origin is American or British. PICK Sutler as a/w^t. ' •: -.Dick Butler is goin^r to run for Con- '. gress. He is going to campaign for the seat in Washington in the 16th Congressional District on an 'Inde- Sendent-Democratic ticket, making his ght against the regular Tammany man - in the district on an out and out "yrct" platform. He has taken James F^nni- more Lee as his campaign manager and publicity representative and Lee is al- ready announcing that his man is '.'in." Butler is known to the Broadway theatrical set having made his head- quarters at the Astor for some time. ■ He is the constant associate of Chief Flynn, of the U. S. Secret Service. But- ler says that if h6 is .elected he is going^ to start a. fight against «the 18tn Amendment so that "Broadway can get an even break." _N ■_ I: .. J I • PRICES UP PAY DOWN. ^; ? ... V,. "' , London, March 31.7.•; West End pfices are goin^ up g<n-' erally. The Gaiety, galjery is having an increase to two shillings. > Everything in theatrical production and films n^w costs two to 300 per cent, "more. , - Salaries'.are falling, however. :•:.;■.....•.•. GEORGE GROSSMITH CHANGES^ V '' London, March 31.) Geotge Grossmith leave -hissing Time" at the WinterGarden to play in "Le. Rbi," the show .rechristened rrhe Royal Visitor." , -. ^ ,y; ^"■•■•;v •;. sTOLL's cnXRitY..- ■",( ■ London, March 311. ' Sir Oswald Stoll has aoandon'ed his theatre site in the suburbs and will de- vote it to the extension of an ex-so)dier and sailors home instead. ■.•/•«w.; .; , *JUST FANCY" GOOD. -: ■;- London, March 31.. ' The new vaudeville revue, "Just Fancy," is a big success'and will run long. ./-•-. Anouier Ainley {SnecMs. ' , .' , -London, March 31v" Henry Ainley's production of 'lUncle Ned" at the Savoy is an instantaneous success. ' •. ■ ■'(?■ ■'im AIh«nhr«« El Pato, Fan W«iA. Los Angeles, March 31. <; The Alhambra, El Paso, Pantages , booking, under the management of S. ; V. Fulkerson. commencing' the latter part of April will have a full week, ' opening Fridays, three shows daily,y -^ four on Saturdays and continuous Sun-/' days. Same arranged to follow Pueblo, : Colo., jumping from El Paso to San, Antonio. After Texas bookings. New \ Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago, ten eastern cities booking to New York. ": Tbe THE MEW ORPHEUM JR. CIRCUIT HOUSE Kansas City, Mo. Architects: C. 'W. ft Geo. L. Rapp, Chicago . Who also designed the Stote-Lake Theatre. Orphcam Circuit's Immense popular-price theatre at the southwest comer of 14th SDd Main Sts. will have its principal froijt on 14Ui St., with an ornate ' "^ ' " Immediate comer. There wIU be some space leased to shops on the M akelcb Istadapted from the preliminary plan* prepared by Rapp & Bapp, of Chlcag<L S^lii«.«Ul!!be faced in stone.. .. 'f ' *^ : ^ This The THfi Qfitil>y KIDS OP S^arish andS^eru) i !