Variety (February 1922)

PRICE 20 CENTS v.-i ffi I h yOL. LXV. No. 11 PubliRhM \\eekly dt 154 West 46th St..-N«w Tork. N. T.. br Variety. Inc. Annual subscription |7. Single copief. 20 cents. Entered as second class matter December 22. 1905, at the Post OfUce at New York. N. T.. under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK CITY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1922 48 PAGES EGIT BOO KIN G COMBINE KANSAS OTY ORPHEUnrS 24TH i ANNIVERSARY BILL NEXT WEEK BRIGHT BANDITS ENLIVENING v! UPSTATE BOOTLEGGER BAHLE Show Imagination of Scenario Writers and Execution of Captains of Industry—Fake U. S. Commis- sioner Figures in Latest "Rum Seizure" Troy, N. Y., Feb. 1. ^© Ingenuity and audacity of booze robbers who prey on -'legitimate" VMtleggers is a cause of never ending wonderment to newspapermen and Qthera on the Inside of the prohibition enforcement attempts. The robbers itow an imagination worthy of a trlclc scenario writer and an execution worthy of a captain of Industry. . V , An up-State bootlegger can attest to this. He had been in hard luck > lirevloua to his encounter with the booze bandits, having been arrested 1^, prohibition agents, fined, lost his carj and lost $2,000 worth of liquor ^ (the latter stolen from his home). His latest misfortune occurred while . ie was driving a load through the city of Poughkeepsie. Heavy traffic ■ M a busy corner forced the bootlegger to slow down. Just then a man iumpcd on the running board of the car, flashed a badge, proclaimed lUmself a Federal officer and ordered the driver to proceed to the United ' States Commissioner's office, pointing out the way. The rum runner was arraigned before the United States^ Commissioner in a large office building; the car and ita cargo were tffeclared confiscated, and the rurt^ Mr was ordered to return to his home immodiately, there to await a •ummons to appear. No bail was ^ked. . A few days later the bootlcpgcr ,, received a telegram informing him I? Where his car might bo found. Ihcn - It dawned upon him that ho had ^ been hoaxed, but to this minute he W pondering over the question: Was the seller of the liquor In league with the fake prohibition •«ent and the fake United States (Continued on page 11) PICTURE ADVERTISING GROSS WAY OVER LEGIT 'Qency Has Done as High as ■ $36,000 in One Week The advertising uKeniy of J .P. Muller & Co., which hand'-cw most of Joe copy for thu llua lln.'alrt'H ui4a |ne IcKilimato houses whore pict- tures iuo b( ing exploited, has done J* hiph as $30,000 in one week with ^nla clans of advertising in the met- ropolitan dallies. Tho j,,'i'OKs Hpont by all the loffltl- [i JJjato and vaudeville houses in New *ork isnt a "patch" by comparison. The husino.ps office-^ of tho New ^ork uailio.s are watrliing these llg- 'ros with Interest of late. IT WORDS IN SONG TITTE M. Witmark & Sons announce the acquisition of *'The Little White House with the Little Red Roof Tucked Away in tho Heart of the ^ills." It was written by the vaudeville team of Horace Wright and Rene Dietrich. mm] NEXT SEASON Means Most Powerful The- atrical Organization Ever Known Here—Deny An- tagonism Toward Anyone •^-Gloomy Forecast The Show in 1^98 and Now — Martin Lehman, Father of Present Manager, Called Personally on Patrons to Interest Them in Vaudwille When It Was New INDEPENDENT'S STAND A. L. Erlanger and Lee Shubert, the heads of two major legitimate producing and booking combina- tions on this side of the water, ap- pear convinced that there will not be enough attractions to fill the requirements of road bookings next season. The theatrical chieftains have virtually agreed that not only will the Interests of the two offices be pooled and bookings accom- plished in accord, but that the coming season will find but one booking system, effective for all stands excepting New York City. If that Is accomplished It will (Continued on uage 17) FIVE-FOOT lONG DEPOSIT SI >P FOR MUSIC BOX'S ADVANCE SALE "MELODY" SONGS PASSING-LYRICS NOW 260 Checks Deposited in One Day for Sales for Third Week in March—Scale Dropping to $4.40 Top in May A rccoMl deposit nlip is cKiimod l.y the Music Dox for < hcrks and t-.oney ordcr'=» F<nt in f r ;i<Iv;hh c ticket.M foi- tho 'Music ll.'X Hrvuc" Last Frklay the house tit ;isur<r d. posited 200 Fuch checks, all call- ing' for tickets for the third w. fk in March. The d. i-osit slip when turru-d into the bank wa^ live U-<1 long, It boin?, r\rrnsMry to paste a (Continued on pbgo 15) $1,000.00 A WEEK CHEAPER TO MARRY Vaudcvillian Saya That Preferred to Paying Judgment Chicago, Feb. 1. Ifrf clicapor to marry than to pay a judgment, says Jack K )S>e, in ex- planation of ilia intention to wed Jeanellc Odette, who recently f^ued him for breach of promise. Mr. Hose Is now [il.'iy'nK at the Slate-Lake and he will marry Miss Odette during the week. Jazz Tunes All Beginning to Sound Alike—Evils Crept In—Prefer Stage Medium • The music publishers are fairly well decided that the orchestra song is now a thing of the past. ii!]ach publisher is now turning his attention to lyric songs for ex- ploitation through the medium of the stage, not the Jazz band or cafe orchestra. For the past two ycara "melody" .songs held sway until, as one phonograph recording manager ex- pressed It, "they were so full of melody they all got to sound alike." Tho music men employed special emissaries to "ealve" the various orchestra leaders with cigars, fees (Continued on page 7) NEW YORK FROM SEATTLE The company which opened Momliy at tho rrovincetowh thea- tre, New York, in "Mr. I'aust," w.is brought directly fium Sialtle to New York. Tho company is romi»rN<'d of amateurs of means whi» liiianccil the coast to coast ir p t'mrnselves and arc playing on a co-operative ba.«5is at tho downtown house Kansas City, Feb. 1. The Orpheum will celebrate Ita 24th anniversary next week, ^t will bring back memories of Martin Lehman, father of Lawrence Li-h-* man, present manager. It will al-so (Continued on page 6) "STARS OF YESTERDAY" HAS FOUR OLI>-TIMERS Corinne Among Them—Au- thor of "Where Did You Get That Hat" Another *'Stars of Yesterday," a new act, will present four old-timers in the persons of Corrine, onc« a famous child actress, Barney Fagan, tlio minstrel, Tony Williams, who.sie acting debut dates back beyond tho Ilarrigan and Hurt days, and Joe Sullivan,. famed as the author of the pop song, "Where Did You (Jet That Hat?" Tho old timers* turn opens thia wcolc. DONALD BRIAN llie Biil^nrlwn »c»rmmciit> mtllttrr • nU.i'lic Mt tlifl Ontiiry Thitatrv m ^ nn.irtly iinirormnl hy us. In nunly "Our IlfTo" of Th« <"li(.<xj!iile BoMl.r • Evcrythinfj in Attire for the Theatre 113 W<Ht iOtti 8tre«t, New I'ork City . Brooklet No. J7