Variety (March 1921)

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PRICE 20 CENTS ■ Published Week!? at 164 West 46th St., New York, N. T.. by Variety. Inc. Annual subscription $7. 8lntie noplea, It cent*. Hntered aa second class matter December 21. 1»05, at the Post Office at New York* N. T., under the Act of March I, UTf. VOL LXII. No. 3 NEW YORK CITY, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1921 40 PAGES M COUNTRY CLUB FOR N. V. A. PLACING SAFES BACK-STAGE FOR ARTISTS' PROTECTION Keith Office Issues Order—Back-Doormen Respon- sible—Required to File Bond of $1,000—Numer- ous Dressing Room Robberies Lately. Following* numerous robberies of dressing rooms, and to prevent a repetition of the same, the Keith office this week ordered the installa- tion of safes, back stage, in all of their houses. u The safe is under the care of the stage door man. who is bonded for $1,000, beginning immediately. The artists are notified by conspicuous signs posted back stage that the doorman will store their valuables In the safe, thereby making the theatre responsible and protecting the artist while absent from the dressing loom. The doormen are being bonded as fast as possible and are taking charge of valuables until the safes have been installed. HOPPER'S VIGOROUS PLEA CANCELS MEET DAVIS SUES MISS STARR Summons in $10,000 Suit Served, Without Complaint. Frances Starr this week was served with a summons in a $10,000 damage suit begun in the Supreme Court "by Edwards Davis. No complaint was attached to the summons and neither of the princi- pals* attorneys would vouchsafe any Information anent the particulars for the action. Davis is president of the National Vaudeville Artists. He is also an actor and previous to adopting the stage as a profession was a min- ister. 18-YEAR OLD DIRECTOR Young Author Will Put First Story on Screen. Mayor of Phila. Swayed Anti- German Argument. Philadelphia, March t. De Wolf Hopper, here in "Er- minie" at the Forrest, attracted con- siderable attention by a vigorous speech delivered at a meeting of the Poor Richard Club In the Ritz- Carlton Hotel, in which ho warned Philadelphia against allowing the projected mass meeting of Germans to protest the occupation of the Rhine valley by French colonial trjoops. All the papers gave extended space to Hopper's talk, which re- ceived an ovation from the several hundred diners. The comedian fol- lowed Mayor J. Hampton Moore, whose subject was the proposed World's Fair here. Hopper, after a few humorous remarks along this line, jumped into the German mass meeting business. "Propaganda" was his description of the proposed meeting in tne local Metropolitan opera house, and he spared no words in condemning the plan. When he finished Mayor Moore arose again with the an- nouncement that the decision had been reached to refuse permission for the meeting. -HIE TRACT IN WESTCHESTER Nine and 18-Hole Golf Courses Complete—Club- house Secured Likely to Be Used as Permanent Retreat for Needy Mem- bers—To Be Self-support- ing Institution — Every- thing Paid on Book-Ticket System. 95 MARCUS LOEW THEATRES OPERATING NEXT SEASON Will Include 27 New Loew Houses Built Within Two Years—Loew's State, New York, Opening About June 15—State's Policy Undecided. Brewster Morse, age 18. author of "His Brother's Keeper," "The Crim- son Cross," and other screen pro- ductions, is to become a director. He is working on the script of an original story entitled "Domestic Relations," and will personally direct his story for a new company now being formed for the purpose. SHOW STOPS IN CANADA "Good Morning Judge" Winds Up at Hamilton Because of poor rosd business in Canada. "Good Morning Judge." control],a i, v Banger a Jordan. closed in Hamilton, Ontario Sat- urday. I he ptoce toured Canada under u « London litis "The Bovs." LEASE MaclNTOSH HOUSES Report in Frisco They Have Been Taken for Picturet. San Francisco, March 9. Late advices from Australia tell of a big theatrical deal In which all the Tivoll theatres under the Hugh D. Macintosh directorship have been leased by a syndicate, with Harry Musgrove at the head, for the presentation of First Na- tional attractions. 4 THEATRES IN M0NTCLAIR Montclair. N. J., looked upon as a suburb of Newark, which at present has but one theatre, will have four before the current year expires. The present amusement house is a picture theatre. On completion of thS others it will be closed for re- pairs, after which it will reopen *3 a li<»m»- for legitimate stags prcjdUie- tions. OPEN YEAR 'ROUND A tract of 800 acres in Westches- ter County, New York, has been secured for the National Vaudeville Artists. It will be laid out for golf for the N. V. A. membership. Two courses of IS and 7 holes are planned. On the course will be a clubhouse that in reality will be the long-cherished home of the vaude- ville artists, to be operated in a somewhatVdifferent manner from the customary home of this character. There isn't much doubt, /Uthough no direct announcement has been made to that effect, that E. F. Albee has taken the site for the N. V. A. (Continued on page 6.) DRY CLEANING "GERTIE" FOR BOSTON SHOWING First Performance Causes Talk—Pruning Follows. TANGUAY SIGNS FOR N. Y« SUNDAY SHOWS Week End and Cabaret Dates Net $3,500 a Week. Eva Tanguay will make her debut for the Shuberts next Sunday at the Central and Century, Shubert Sun- day concerts, doubling the two houses. Beginning Monday Miss Tanguay will begin a week's engagement at the Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, at a reported salary of $2,500 weekly, under an arrangement which allows her to play Sunday concerts for the Shuberts in between. The following week she will play the Blackstone, Atlantic City, on the same arrangement. Her Sun- day concerts will net her $500 a per- formance or $1,000 for the day, which, added to her Hotel Walton salary, brings the figure up to $3,- 500 for the week. Following the announcement that Tanguay would! consider cabaret of- fers, the Marigold Gardens. Chicago, offered her an eight weeks' engage- ment, beginning April 1, at $2,500 weekly. Barring one digression, where she took out a road show following a salary dispute with the Keith people, this is the first time she has ap- peared outside of the Keith houses in years. Boston. March 9. ' A. H. Woods and Avery Hopwood had a conference Tuesday afternoon in regard to "Gertie's Garter," the new Woods Vhow whfch is playing at the Plymouth. It was decided at this conference that some lines would be cut out of the show but that it would not be pruned to any great extent. One of the lines ex- tracted was the big laugh getter at the Monday night performance. The town was buzzing today with the story of the opening perform- ance. 8< lling the house out to the Bank Officers' Association was a wise move, as it pave him plenty of fid vert ising for the show in the right quarter. It played to a turn- away affain Tuesday night. John Casey saw the show Tues- day night, but did not innounct Immediately after the performance what, if anything, he found of an objecttonabte nature. The J»e>t play (h( show ras get now is for him to ask for s<»ms more trimming. "SALLY'S" LONG RUN Going Out of Amsterdam into Lib- erty. Then Back "Sally's" success Is considered so solid, booking plans have been made for it following the annual advent of Zeigfeld's "Follies" at the New Amsterdam. The Liberty will likely be assigned for "Sally" dur- ing the "Follies'" run and it is be- lieved that "Sally" will again be put back into the New Amsterdam in the fall. V. Ziegfeld. Jr., and his Wife, Bil- lie Burke, are still at Palm Beach, this being their longest slay in the southern resort. Marilynn Miller, co-starring with Leon KfOH Ui "Sally," has taken a house in Great Neck, L. I., for the summer, in anticipation of the show's continuance in New York. Mr. Ziegfeld will leave for New Vol k late this week and is due back Monday. ■» By Sept. 1 next, the Marcus T.oew Circuit will be operating 95 popular* a priced vaudeville theatres. Of this number 27 will be Loew theatres erected and opened within two* years. The building of so many new houses almost simultaneously, and the rapidity of their opening, Is a phenomenal theatrical feat, never approached in the past. The single exception to the Loew building schedule is the proposed new Loew theatre for St. Louis, where site difficulties have inter- fered with progress. The star Loew house, the new State theatre, at Broadway and 45th street, is expected to be in readiness around June 15. Its policy has not been set. Mr. Loew this week stated he had not given the matter his at- tention as yet. He refused to inti- mate the possible State's policy, say- ing as it was undetermined it was impossible to forecast. There is a report circulating among picture people that the plain of the Famous Players concerning the New York theatre building have undergone a change of late, and that the Famous Players has proposed that Marcus Loew continue the present daily change picture enter- tainment at the New York until such time as Loew and the F. I*. mutually agree to discontinue it. This, says the report, may account for the delay in fixing the policy for the new State. Loew's State is a daily topio among all show people. Unlimited curiosity is expressed In repeated questioning of showmen as to the nature of the entertainment Mr. Loew Intends placing in the State. First reports said the New York's policy would be removed to the State, through F. P. having con- cluded to reconstruct the New York Into one mammoth theatre. The later stories of the altered F. P. plan and the Loew retention of the New York further complicates the haz- ards of those who venture to say what the State will play. In the new Loew's State office building portion of the structure, to- gether with the 46th street office annex, teems certain to open May 1. All of the buildings on the Loew Broadway-45th street site have beeit closed Jn through extraordinary rapid work, and the office building on the Broadway side presents about the most attractive and Imposing -ront. of any office building uptown*