Variety (September 1921)

Friday. September 2, 1921 VARIETY TT INSIDE STUFF ON VAUDEVILLE Several professional women recently sub-lot an apartment close to la.theatre district for the summer, but it was not long before the liar tenants were complaining about the noisie let loose by the 'iewcomors. The climax came about ten days ago when two of the twoxnen ^leclded.to get even with a male caller by attempting to throw flUsi out of the seventh story window. It looked like a sure murder ERr a time, and, an it was, the man only got off after being severely !H|»ten. This row led to the building superintendent giving the irpmen the air. Among mem was a vaudevllllan who is suing for divorce. - A small-time actor not working this week was walking along Ran- ' dolph street, Chicago, when he met a team playing at one of the four- n^ay houses. Stopping them, he remarked: *'You ought to see 'The Golem.' " " 'Goalem,' did you say," repeated the male member of the working team, "why you should of seen our second show tonight and jrou would know what 'Goal'em* means," and then the couple walked haugtii onward, leaving the questioner stand to argue with himself «ff to just what he did mean. 8HUBERT8' ONLY SPLIT N«w Bethlehem House Playing Shu- bert Vautfoville Twice Weekly CIRCUS CUTS TEXAS Ringlings. to Cross the Oarolinas to Avoid Cotton Belt ' TIip Lorenze, Bethlehem, Pa., open- W Monday as a Shubcrt-booked iraudeville house is the first Shubert ifiudeville opening. The house, re- cently completed, is owned by H. Hei- ^l^rger, who has entered into a book- Jbs arranf^ement with the Shuberts for bills, the latter having no interest ia the theatre. The Bethlehem house will not play the full Shubert vaudeville shows, the hills being made up from the smaller' turns on the agency's books, with the ahows to be played on a split week. It will be the only split on the Shu- bert route. It is planned to use the Pennsylva- nia bouse to a certain extent as a break-iu point. N. V. A. COMPLAINTS '. The following complaints have been lied with the National Vaudeville Ar- tists' Complaint Bureau: L Oertrudo Vanderbilt against Ford ind (loodridge. infringement claimed ij Miss Vandorbilt on song, "You Can't Believe Them." F. Cordini OKainst nnoMior Cordini, of Stoi'l and Cordini, alleging Infriuge- Beat on name. Lew TiOslie. agent, against "Mam- ■y," Leslie acting for '*Aunt Jpmima" .and alleging "Mammy" is a copy of "Aunt .Temima." Infringement, ac- cording to Leslie, consists of style of delivery in songs, make up, manner- nm, etc. The Bingling circus will avoid Texas and Oklahoma this season, coming east across the Oarolinas in order to avoid a trip through the cotton belt which is reported in poor linancial condition owing to the low price of raw cotton and the high cost of farm labor. The route will thread through these sections where cotton cultivation has been reduced by the boll weevil and dairy farming substituted. The tour will probably end somewhere in Vir- ginia Oct. 22. The new Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey route card just out brings the show into Omaha Labor Day and car- ries it to St. Louis for the three-day stand Sept. 17-19. From Omaha the tour goes: Sept. 6, Jefferson, la.; 7, Des Moines; 8, Mason City; 1), Water- loo; 10, Cedar llapid; 12, Freeport; 1.1, Bloomington, 111.; 14. Champlain; 15,. Matoon; 10, Decatur and St. Louis. The Andy Downey circus will stop Oct. 11 in the south, making an early ending for it. Downey has booked his elephants for fairs ait $1,000 weekly. Several of his acts have left and the circus is running short in turns. Basil Lynn against P. O'Malley .Ten- ■ing.s and Wiiliani Ilowland, alleging Jlifritis:""i(>"f on fmi^h of act no'w be- ing done by Lynn and before that done "bg^ Lynn and'Howlaud. I .'Eddie Powell'against Fe<lrow and fteulter, tnfringeihent on "Yankee Doodle" bit. ^ •Harry Colo!y»a)(»(Ortlemon and Ray> 'igainstW«H^'nBin(J'Walters, second 'eoniplQfnt on ^ight.-^' tn walking doll tJsed by Walters and Walters. ''Tlie complaint of-James Francis BnlHvan against Henry P.-Dixon, in whieh-Sullivan claimed Dixon failed to>five>hiM>'fotiriweolis' notice, in ac- coivliHice wi*U>hifl ^Sullivan's) agree- ment witlkj^^i^^n^ hl^^bPOn settled by Dixon paying Sullivan'a sum of money (anionfit nAt'givVn)"ln settlement of contract claiMsV" ; 1 -■■... >lUNKiaW«.EtftST. SHOW B. «i 'Molts'..saw Franklin, IGlst street andi Proapeot 4iv«nue, opens La- bor Day with the following bill: .Tim- »By iMioas and Prancene. Dave Harris •nd band, C«?rs Bros., Jack Trainor & tb.. Uoyal <laseioignes and Wells, Vir- fiaia and Wnst^vDaahy Simmons will book the house through the Keith *Jfice. in <y>nj>inctkMl with others of «»^ MoHs-Keith Jltriag. The policy ^"11 he pop vaudeville and pictures, .1«t« HhowH dwly, with a hi weekly «*»nm-' of bill. ^The Franklin seats ."^.fjOO and cost *^the noiR|,|,orh«iod. ©f $.1,000,000. ^t N. V. House Playing Split Week .^be Hupkin^hn. "KiiHt New York, ^f>lvl.v.'i. xvln '(oi'iimcncc a pop ■▼"udovillo policy •T:iuirs(lay of thil ^2?«k. four' (u'ts ' on a .spliL week .^«*«1 !)>' .T:,,l; Xin.lcr. .The li.Mi<<.. own»<d*by S.imuM ^,o\^^ ''<'1J. loitiH.ily tHjiV^I piflUlCS. NEW ACTS Ci»nisy Itciiiii^^t*in of the old Mines ^■^ Jiwiiiulitoir,*cnm is making a TS?7'J)^.(Jumn Uiv.k, this fall in a 'r7''V."<n|eu,.liy Uugii U.^buruo, the HOUSES OPENING Sablosky & MctJurk expect to have eighteen houses open by Labor Day, including three new ones. The Allegheny is slated to reopen Sept. 25 and on Labor- Day the Broadway. Cross-Keys, - Norristoivn, South Bethlehem, Camden and the Alham- bra arc due to resume activities. The (ilobe, PhMadeli)hia, and the Siiblosky houses in Trenton, WJ^^4»inBton, Bal-, tiinore and Wilkosburre were run- ning all summer. ()ri)hcum,'(iaiesburg. 111., (vaiide-, villcK reopened Aug. 'SI. • I'hnpress, Danhury, Conn., reopens with vaudrvillo Se[)t. .1. The Alhambra, Brooklyn, reopen?* lifthor Day. playing six acts. Strand, White IMnins. N. Y., plays vaudeville c»)mmencing Labor Day. .Ucausc of lhc,.sfato convention of the Knijjhts of Pythias an<l increased patronage, martagrnicnt of the four Oil City, I'a., local theatre havr agreed to reopen Monday. Opera House, St.. John's, N. B., Aug. 22: StraiKl, Halifax. N. S., Aug. 22; Music Hall, I>ewiston. Me.. Sept. 7i\ Bijou, Bangor, Me,, Scjit. 5; Al- (oona. Harrisburg, York, lOaston, Al- lentown. Beading, Pa., and Utica, N. Y., Aug. 20; Proctor's. Albany and Troy, Sept. .'i; Keystone. William Pcnu and ticrard, Philade'phia, Sept. 5. TiOow's. Kansas City, opens Sunday for the season with the regular Loew western shows. The Pagola theatre, Allenfown. Pa.. owned by I). K. Knorr. will install a vplit week vaudeville policy bepinnin;* Labor Day. The lioiisc liiis liereto- fore playc;! strMiglit pichir<s. a st.'ige having recently been installed. LICENSE REFUSED Here I Am ANNE KENT Playing for Mr. IjOCW. Horwita & Kraus say the reports are okay. I'v^ got my health and an offer to go back to Australia. Not too bad. eh? TORONTO FAIR COSTS $750,000 TO OPEN Big Two - Week Event Draws From Theatres, Just Opening Toronto, Aug. 3L The Canadian National Exposition, better known as the Toronto Fair, Monday officially opened the fair season, which permits consecutive bookings of fifteen or more weeka. Though the fir.st to get under way the Toronto Fair is the btggCKt thia side of the water. Its fine perma- nent exhibition buildings make it the biggest in the world. Last year the fair drew 1,250,000 paid admissions. That is over one-sixth of the Do- minion's population and is ruauing two weeks. The theatrical season is under way this week, but the fair is sapping almost all trade starting' this season. All events go as schediiled, rain or shine. lioew's Yong*' Street usuaUy has standing room wUh a long line by 1 o'clock, but Monday at that time only a haridful was in line. The size of th^'fbir is measured by the rost of opening it. This year's figure is $7.'>0,000. Nunirrons bands entail an expenditure" of $40,000 'alone. Thd fair ground.^; extend a mile and a quarter along Lake Ontario. The grandstand hold.s 72.000. The ca- pacity will be doubled next reason. The ??how is-iiow playing capacity. It is arranged in chcus style. May, Wirth and Family are the headliners, getting ^5.000 on engjKgement. Others are Zeno. Moll and Carl: Poodles and Dottei; Sully, Iloger and Sully; Re- gals Martels \'intour; Trick House, Leuiarts. Four Oitons. UonahU. Mar- garet Hill, Icelanders, Coglen and Comedy.Itnckleys. Atteno. Hardy. In- ternational Nine, Despite enormotis crowds there is not a sheet of paper in Toronto. Mi(kvay concession.«T Are free of pad- dle wheels. One sectiou is allotted to the Wortham Shows, which are giving .^r> per cent gross to the fair- nianageiucnt. Orren and Vicky. Dav- enport have .settled their differences and their riding act <ontin>ies inta(l. The wife withdrew <livorce action started in Chicago recently. IN AND OUT ■ Kaufman Hros. left the bill at the r>ri<;hton Peach Music Hall Aug. 2S <»n a<(Oiint of illness. .Monday (liey r.-iti.cl.-d the Palace New York. Frank Van Ilovcn lot»k tlw vacancy. H'ness of one of the members of the Texas Comedy I-'our caused the act to droi) out of flic bill at the l-'iil- ton. lirooklyn. the last half of last wi-ek. (;illen and Mu'caliy snhsilhitod. Cilleu prior to entering vaiid.'ville was the orchestra leader at the I'ul- \on for seveial years. ENGAGEMENTS Lillian King, 'Tickle Me." .loliu Mcrkyl. '"JMie Six Fifty" (Ku- gel). Malcolm Fas.ett, "The Silver TcacocU' (Solwyu.) . , ILL AND INJURED Oswold (>/. (Tolly and Ozl wa.s op- crated on this'week at a local hospital for ai)pendicitis. The Kt'ivh route of the act has been put hack t'iree weeks on account of his illnes . Oz (Polly and Oz) was operated on A.;?r. 24 for appendicitis ind peri- tonitis by Dr. .lerome Wagner, at St. I'aitliolomew llosjtifal. lie is recov- ering. .\nna I'lmer of the Lopw publicity oflice sustained a fractured arm last week while on her vac;ilion iti Thom- aston. Conn. It was necessary to lake .Miss CJmer lo (he ^Vate^l)urv. Conn.. lir)spi(al. where it is exiiected sli'e will he confined for yhoiit two wci'k.-v lliipli L. ( 'onn (Iinliof. t'nn.i .'ind Cmiine) lias liecn t.ik'-n to the IIa.\s V.i-others H()si)itMl. at I{nclie -t cr. Minn., for a major op i at ion. .Icrr.v If. Ilcr/ell is taking Lis ] l!".< c diiiiir.^ his al»sencc. M.ihel T. Sampson of Sninp^on awA PfMii^las is at her home in .\sli(il;:in it; r»vei irig from a ni;ij<tr operation performed in Chicago Kansas City Will Not Allow Clrcvt to Show Qfk Labor Day Kansas City, Aug. .'il. At the request of the Ceniral I^- bor Union of this city. Mayor Cow- gill has instructed the city license de- partment to refuse to issue n license to the liingling circus to show here Labor Day. There is a local ordi- nance, passed a couple of years ago, prohibiting circuses from exhibiting here on the Fourth of July, Labor Day or Christmas. It was passed at the re<niest of the labor leader* who feared the parades would in- terfere with their demonstrations. This year's recpiest to the mayor seems precautionary as the lUng- ling shows are not billed here for that date. Some opposition [uiper was put up several weeks ago when Sells-Floto was here but it was not dated. BALLARD-MUGGIVAN SHOWS REFORMING Report Circus Men Order Cleanup of Lot for 1932 Season MATRIMONY, ETC. Troy, N. Y., Aug. 31. Charles A. Prew is a good lion tamer and a pretty fair woman tamer, but be can't conquer the law. Laat week's experience taught him this. He arrived in this city with Mary A. Granville, 19, and Mary Brown, 18, both of whom had hoofed it all* the way from Lebanon, N. IL, where the hero was playing with a circus, and was immediately arrested under the Mann White Slave Act, and arraigned before a United States Commissioner. The Commissioner decided not to hold Prew and he was then picked up by the police on a charge of vagrancy. Meanwhile, the Salvation Army be- came interented in the case of the girls The word was circulate<l in New York this week that the Hallard-Mug- givan circus group had been instructed to clean up the lot for the balance of the current season, and plans had been laid out for conducting next sea- son's tour on a strictly business basis, minus any sort of loose practice around the half dozen shows they operate The inspirati(^, so it is said, for this move lies in the fact that the statement for the tops out this year to date make an un.satisfactory show- ing. The Sells-Flolo property is un- derstood to stand pPTilou.sly cloae to a deficit. estimate<l nt between $75,000 and $1(X).()00. wbi e none of the oth- ers—Yankee Robinson, John Robin- sou and Wallace—is returning any staggering profit. The Sells-Floto show was not allowtnl to open in Newark, N. J., for the surface reason that there had been some jam In the license ollice. The same thing hap- pened in Albany immediately after, the reason in the latter case appar- ently being the transit strike. These experiencea are said to have been very expensive, and the suspi- cion prevailed that the reputation ol the show as it came arroaa New York state from the middle west htfd had something to do with the *\infor- tunate" occurrences In the two cities. Muggivan and Hallard are not hj Trudie Charles RECKLESS and ARLEY Who arc presenting their sensational novelty for the" 00th o6nsec;itive on the Loew Circuit under thq direction of ^ABE^'^^lflE^RG. and learned that the Jion l;iiner was willing t) marry Mihs (Iranville and vice ver.MM. Tdlicc .Ii»slice llyron dropped the vunrnTM y ehnrge. and unit- ed the coup e in v.cdiock. Aft .' tin* fatal worVis had bicn proiK/iiiu cd; Prew reiiKMiihered tlirit he lux) once married a womnn from wImmm lie Imd not Neen divorrcd. and he wlis , ac- C'li-dinijly nrre.,t<Ml as a bitjiimist. II'' now wislies that he had .sfiuk lo his lions :ind left Hie woinim :i!omc. The iiniuial Ir.iiiier is oidy twenty one years old. LUNA QUITS EARLY Elephants Out—Frco Acts Wi'.h- drawn on Labor Day Tlie f!('^aiit display in lama I'Mrk (li-paijr.l last Saturday and nil free 1(1. < \\;ll he witlidrawn ik-iI Monday. 'I'lic^-' f<Miiires and the .\rtliur |'i\or hai.d !in\<' heeli (lie et'ciise for ! (h<- 'J'» <i'iit v'lnii-<ion at the ^'ali'. I ,\ftir l!ie (I!-!:- f''atnr<-- eml the i i;,ll,. \\ ill he r,ii;l ilMK'd. I'at 1 "Ma^e 1-. Slid t't li;i\ <• Ii ''11 lii^ht d II lit'.,' Ill" ; (Old .\iiuu : ;<n'I Hi'- < nt i:i ••xinn ic corne.s .s.'vii,;! u.t'L.i t'uilier than I |isi<''>l any means through with the circus business. It is underslood (hat the plaiHH-for next season (oi'itculplate u considcrahlo 'outl.'iy in crjui'piuebt, dnd the personnel of the troui) wi 1 be on about the lOlil .seale. - The Ifanneford I'amily has been signed again as feature display. The rint; turn will not play the Ili|)po- droiue this season. It.has been booked for Sluibert vaiideville. World's Champ Swimmer and Act Duke I*. Kalianamoku, world's swimming champion, is to enter yaiideville. Duke, whr) i.s now in I lonoliilii. lias l.K'ori in < (»rresjM»iid«>nee w*t,li the local Irii; lime office.s nnd will itrodnce a ImtiI: a't. lie w:ll I»i* assisted \)\ !ii ; hiotlicr mid sister who sMij; and play na'iv" iiistni- nieiit >. 1 I Song Canncrs Booked j Wdn'.der Wad.-wi.rt h, \'i-tnr .\( ker I nnd (icoi'^i- ll.innllon, ( MinMr'.,. n (be 'All St.ii- 'J'li.. ..f 111.' \;cN»r 'I'alldnR !\Ia< liiiif rciMid iiia!i'i;i: -talf, li.ave hri'ii huuked f >r '.aidi'ville in th€ l\";fh liniisr-;, with ,i:i i>;"'''""J ^llortly, hv Cliarlie M<>i i ison, u£ the Uaij I Ilud|;dijU olh< 0.