Variety (April 1920)

im.. " p.- t SHOWS IN NEW YORK AND COMMENT mi I tm' t f ■ . I "Abrnbam MnovtB." Cort (16th week). It Is only -natural that tbla attraction should be a bigger aiiccess here than In London. On Us Indicated strength thU9 far "Lincoln" should become a play classic. Drew 116,400 laitt weok^ <'Adam and Bva," Longacre (29th week). Again beat {9,000. Attraction haa been aided through cut rates tor tome time and with that help will run for bal- .ance of the aeason. «A« Yon Were," Central (10th week). Consistently hitting capacity pace with Wednesday matinees the excep- tions. Over 118,800 for last week again. Should not drop materially this week (Holy Week). "Aphrodite," Century (l8th Week). FInA week. Show lays oR until the fall with 'the Auditorium. Chicago, named as the next stand. "Floradora" revival the incoming attraction next week. Over- shadows in interest the other Easter offerings. •<Apple BlosMnM/* cilobe (26th week). Pace too strong for this, attraction to leave for some time. Seats ate on sale until Mtty 10. Is doing around .|1S>000 ' weekly. MBeyond the HorUon.'* Little (9th week). Still drawing attention and now play- ing to heavy.patronage. Last^week the pace went to slightly more than flO,- OOOT which iB not much under adlual capacity. ' ^Blde Flame." Shubert (3d week). Died down quickly as far as big business goes. Brokers' buy the mainstay. Plenty of empty seats last week. «Breaktast In Bed." Eltlnge (9th week). Original arrangement called foe 12 weeks with Florence ifooro for Broad- way. Not Bur6 whether another attrac- . tion will come in. '/ . (•BaddieB,** Selwyn (23d week). Is the only attraction listed for dally mat- ' Inees Easter week. Its business -' jumped again last-week, with nearly 114,600 in. xciarcBce," Hudson (29th week). Looks sure for Jhis attraction to round oat a full season to smart business. Box of- fice perked up last week with nearly llO.OOg attained. «DcelBS«ee,» Empire (26th week). Star, Bthel Barrymore, ill with cold* for first half of last week with no performances until Thursday night. CtrosB for the ' four performances given was |6,7uO, making the weekly pace around $12,600. .. ' <«Ea«t la West,** Aator (67th week). Beat 318,000 by several hundred last week. Show can run until July.. but may close earlier because Fay Dalntor, the star, is anxious for rest. MFamona Ktm, Fair," Miller (16th week). No doubt this one continuing until hot weather. Would have stood fine chance for full season's run with an earlier start. «Gold Diggers," Lyceum (27th week). Has been a sell-out since opening, and if any of the non-mualcal shows are to make a summer run of it this one stands the brightest chance. Drew $16,700. last week, equaling the at- traction's best figures - for a normal MHappy* Days," Hippodrome (33d week). . Played to 161,800 last week, which is but $1,000 under the previous week. wHla Honor, Abe Potasb," Lyric (26th week). Moved over from the Bijou Monday. With scale lowered this at- traction should continue for the rest of the season. Business markedly im- proved Monday night over the Bijou pace, "Hole In tbe Wall." Punch and Judy (2d week). Opened Friday night of last week. Sudden entrance due to similar- ity of topic to Woods's "The OuIJa Board" (renamed from "The Unseen Hand"). Drew good notices, MJane Clegg," Garrick (6th week). While not playing to big business, this looks like the strongest attraction of- fered this season by the Theatre Guild. Is regarded as an excellent '«*lrene> Vanderbllt (20th week). Per- formance with Adele Rowland featured claimed better than ever and heavy demand showg no slackeninp. "Irene," "The Night Boat" and "As You Were" are the musical leaders. ."Letter of the Law." Criterion (6th week). Prophecy that this attraction would not score a popular success sub- stantiated. Show playing to fair busi- ness only. «Little Whopper," Casino (25th week). Concludes a creditable run this week. Will be succeeded Monday by "My Golden Girl," which moves over from the Bayes. . . _^ «LlRhtnln>" Gaiety (Slst week). The run leader still shows a healthy de- mand. Will probably run well into May. ■ MLonk Wbo'a Here." 44th Street Theatre (5th week). Holding on a $16,000 pace ' and should continue until May or longer. Shubert's "Gaieties of 1920" the next attraction. ' ■ waiMiuBli'a A4alr/> Fultoq <(lUhv W«OV^). Will move out after next week, "The Bonehead" succeeding April 12. "Mamma's Affair," while senerally praised, has not held up to big tak- ings. House guarantee not contttiued, -which allowed another attraction to get house. "Bloaalear BeaaealM." Amsterdam (17th week). Final week, having continued As. ^SS^ business during last weeka. "jBd Wynn'a Carnival" the nextattrac- 'tlon, openlhg Monday. May remain until the new f'FoIlies" (a ready, "Mra. JImnle Thompson," Frlnceas (1st week). First attraction from the Klaw office to come- into New York this aeas'on. Opened Monday night. Little favorable mention. «afT Lady Frlenda," Comedy (18th week). Business has been consistently heavy here. Star out of cast, several days last week, but no Intereference in business. ' "My Golden Girl," Bayes (9th week). Moveft to the Casino next week. Change from roof house to regular theatre should lift the gross consid- erably. ' «1TIbU Boat/' Uberty <9th week). la beating the other musical auccesses by about $4,000 weekly, probably because of larger house capacity. Went to nearly $23,000 last. week. «OaIJa Board," BIJou (Ist week). Opsnad Monday night Drew excellent notices. "PaRMlBK Show of 1«1»," Winter Garden (24th week). Indications are that this attraction will continue until new Gar- den show i# ready next month. Sev- eral cast changes in "Passing Show." «Rlehard m," Plymouth (6th week). Thursday matinees eliminated starting last week, but* gross waa over |17,B0O, which gave the show a pace of nearly $20.00a «RiiddlBore," Park (11th week). H^ been traveling along between $10,000 and $11,000 weekly. Succeeding attrac- tion may not be pi^t on until late Api'll. "Sacred and Profane Love," Uorosco (6th week). Demand continues good. Drew around $13,000 last week, which is heavy business for this site house. «Scandal/' 89th Street Theatre (29th week). Che of the leading successes among the comedy dramas. Looks good until hot weather. "ShavlBsa,^ Knickerbocker (7th week). Takings show a ateady increase al- most nightly. Gross last week went to nearly $14,000 and Indications are that $16,000 will be drawn next week. Figures as a type-comedy success. • «<SopUe." Greenwich Village (6th week). Getting most of Its draw fronv car- «9lgn oa the Door," Republic (16th Week). Entrance of Marjorle Ram- beau and colitcident leap In business no fluke. Takings grossed $10,781 last week. Attraction should- last until middle of May. "Smilln' Throagb," Broadhurst (17th Wj9ek). Strong pace demonstrated last week with jump In takings to better than $18,000. Is one of the season's surprise successes. "Son-Dangbtcr." Belasco (20th week). Played to around $18,000 last week and show Is figured to continue, until June. Places with the best of the dramas. «The Acqalttal," Cohan & Harris (13th week). Pace not .so strong last week, with gross around flO.OOO. "My Honey Girl" a spring possibility for this house. -- "Tbe Hottentot," Cohan (6th week). Seems to be leading the light comedies In a'ctjidl' takings. Pace last week again close to $17,000. Business la record-breaking for this class of at- trictlon. "The PaaaloB ' Flower," ■ Belmont (12th week). Last week was best since mov- ing uptown, with gross 17,600. Very good for this small house (about 600). Attraction should hold on until mid- dle of May. • "The Pnrple Mask," Booth (18th week). Continues to do fairly strong busl- ■ nesB. Figures to run until well into May. "The Storm." 48th Street Theatre (27th week). Holding on strongly with around $9,700 last week. Business this week started off better than last, an exceptional fact for Holy Week. "Tbe Wonderfnl Thing," Playhouse (7th week).-' Attracting attention and a fair share of bustnnqn. Gross last week a little over $7,600. ■ "Wedding Bells," Harris (Slst week). Starts over subway circuit Monday with plans for jump to coast later. "3 Showers" the succeeding attraction. "What'H In a Nnme," Elliott (3d week). Excellence, of this oroductlon one fiic- tor In an exceptional draw. Oddly named piece played to big business last week. Entire lower floor scaled at $3.50. Zeltcfeld AbowK. New msAterdam Roof 4th week). The two revues attracted a gross of $18,000 last week with the restaurant recelpta around Ill.OOO, SHOWS m BOSTON. Boston, March 31. The onfy new attraction this week was "The Midnight Whirl," which opened at the Shubert. All the houses were open Holy Week, as was planned, but. it was announced at one time dur- ing the. week that the Tremont, where "Dere Mable," a new musical show is . being shown, would be dark. This idea was abandoned, giving "Dere Mable" another week here at least. This show did not draw very well from the' start, although it deserved more than passing notice. The city just now has a surfeit of, musical plays, as out of the nine legiti- mate houses. in town six of them are showing;^ miisical productt6ns. This probably explains why some of them al-e not drawing a? W6ll as they might.. "Honey (Jirl" is still being worked on by Sam Harris, who feels sure that he has a winner. It's the big musical hit here now. Last two weeks in Bos- ton, according to the- dope. The "Whirl7will stay for only two weeks, and when "Dere Mable" leaves, "Mon- sieur Beaucaire," another musical show, will come into the Tremont 'Marie Dressier will open at tbe Bos- ton Opera House next Monday with "Tillie's Nightmare." She was last seen here with her husband in vaude- ville. "The Girl in the Limousine" {lulls out in two weeks for Chicago, t is the Wood's production running at the Plymouth. "The Magic Melody" is also allowed two more weeks at the Majestic. The coming attractions for these houses are up in the air, with "Not So Long Ago" due for the Ply- mouth, possibly.. Fred Stone comes into the Colonial next week, with "Jack O' Lantern." "Civilian Clothes" is due at the Park Square when "Hon^y Girl" leaves. ^ SHOWS CLOSING. Hart and Maddox, "You're in Love," Toledo, Ohio, March 27. Dolly Sisters, "Oh Look," Wilkes- barre, Pa., March 27. —, -v "Oh, My Dear" closes in Montreal April 3. ' ... "Always You," Pittsburgh, March 27. "Dere Mable," Boston, March 27. "Little Whopper," Casino^ New York, April 3. .' .. . "Nothing But Love," the Maddock- Hart production, Toledo, April 3. "Aphrodite," Century, New York, April 3. ^. Walker Whiteside closed with "The Master of Ballantrae" at Des Moines, Iowa, March 2)^. SHOWS OPENINd Coutts & Tennis are again sending out "The Kiss Burglar." The show stopped and was called in after toiiring the south, owing to "flu" conditions. It reopens in Plamfield, N. J., April S. STOCKS OPENING. Howard Rumsey will reopen his stock season as usual at the Empire, Syracuse, and the Lyceum, Rochester. Mrs. Rucey (Minna (ktmbel), this sea- son in "On the Hiring Line," will again appear as the leading woman at Syracuse. s Louise Muldener has been en|;aged by the Yonkers stock for her original part in "The Melting Pot," . Fred Bishop, the stage director, is^to offer a musical stock at Akron, (Vin association with Frank Shea, who has been on the road in several Raymond Hitchcock roles. The stock will open lijay 3 and will probably move to one of the out-of-door theatres during the summer. STOCKS CLOSING. The Nathan Appel stock at Reading. Pa., had to.stop after playing success- fully, owing to losing the lease of the Orpheum, that city. The company move* to mrrisbarg. MILTON AND HERRICK PARTNERS. Robert Milton and Lea >IIerrtck formed a producing partnership last week, it being understood that Milton will severe his relations with Corn- stock and Gest as stage director. Both members. of the new legitinaate firm are readying productions though it.is Swan will be tried out soon. Preistly Morrison is staging it. Milton's first piece on his own, is "The Charm School." . . CRITICISM. •a '■ ■. Vbe Hole ta the Wall. A play in three acts and .four aoenea by Fred Jackaon, produced at Punch and Judv Theatre, March 26. This is a seance play by Fred JaoksOn. He has turned out a rather surprisingly naive and unsophisticated melo^rftma which managed somehow tchold the u- terest throughout and which achieVM as . the climax of Its second act a ac6n'a itf genuine and mounting .excitement..;-In Itn language rather than In Its soh^ine "The Hole in thf Wall" is aometlnMB. Quite as unintentionally Comic as ;*Tqe Blue Flame," but a little wise cUttltaB would turn It into the sort of thrlUer that our town enjoya. "^^'^ A very entertaining, if not exaetlrcd^- grossing, play it proved to be, with t^ttv- mlnga of fake splrltlam to keep It atnUt- ly up to date, and Martha Hedman,.,the attractive Danlah actress, to InsuriS'the proper sympathetic appeal of Its herOlne role. - ' F^'^:', Tbe Onlia B«av& . - . ''iv:|; MelodrAma In three acta, by Ci^ne Wilbur. BlJou, March 29. ■'■! u ' The most Important fact which should ^ be recorded is that the author haar'ae- vised a hair-raising second act..')!jt makes no difference that the Incldaiita of which-It is comnosed have no reIat|Q|) to life or probability. To say that 1VV» merely founded on a good trick does liQt do away with the fact that It is lAtOT- estlng and, more than that, thrtlllng.vn Fulfllllng the predictions of the Btoadr way wiseacres. It nrovedto be atrlkihgly similar to "The Hole In the Wall." the other -haunted play which had raced it to town. The piece at the BIJou is rather the better of the two, boasting be- tween seven and eight thrills to the other's one. Timet. . ^ Mrs. Jimmie Tbompaon. ' v Farce in three acts and four scenes, by Norman ,S. Rose and Edith Sills. Princess, March 29. "Mrs. Jimmie Thompson" is an excep- tionally thin but quite often amusing farcical comedv. For two of three acta • It Is slow moving in tho extreme, but In a double-Jointed final act It bursts the bonds of polite comedy to becotbe fairly robust farce. Time*. Homelv comedy well played. "Mrs. Jimmie Thompson" has timely hints foF young marrlfld . couples. Sun-Herald THE JUDGMENT RECORD. The following Is a list of the ]ildg- ments filed In the County Clerk's office. The first name Is that of the Judgment debtor; the second the Judgment cred- itor, the amount of the Judgment: Broadway Brevities. Inc.. and Stephen O, Clow; A. W. Brenner: ^943.18'. IjCw Brown: H. Sorkln; $112.20. Fulton Producing Co.. Inc., Daniel V. Arthur and Marie Cahlll Arthur; V. B. Reed; $8,806.81. Harry Oro.Bsman; Phoenix Feature Film Corp.: $9,349.36. « Oliver Productions, Inc.; J. W. Ford et al.; 1330.08. Bohba<;Merrtll Co.; Sanger A Jordan; $1,(578.93. , Flo Let^ls; Dramatic Mirror Co.; $136.20. Percy Adamson: Pre-Catelan, Inc.; $1,919.76. ♦ Andrew Mack; v. Belleux; $178.95. Madison Corey, Thomas Stark and Corey & Stark, Inc.; Netherland Bank of N. Y,; $1,048.86. Mallory S. Fenton; United Theatre Ticket Co.; $67,89. Harry Fox: Campbell Photo Co.; $41.20. Betty Bond; Le Lash Studloai $107.01.. Oliver Productions, Inc.; Albert Fix- ture Co.;>414.72. DoWs Woolrldge; P. F. Shea; costs, $438.92. Minnie Scheff, also known as Marjorle Blaine; Qlmbel Bros.; $711.61. Murray W. Garrson: R. Slla; $1,046.47. Criterion Thpatre Co., Inc.; Nat. Dis- trict Tel. Co.: $174.37. Hugh C. Weir; S. Efrua; $1,888,78. Charles Emerson Cook; Harry Collins. Inc.; $2,827.60. -^ Harry Grossman; Piedmont Pictures Corp.; $180.06^ Doris Woolrldge; C. Perusina et al; .»t«0.a4.