Variety (July 1922)

m f^y Tulv 14. im VARIETY kV ANOTHER <5l?E>Vll^|fQX TROT C V BENNY DAVIS If yo« VMt. r^ ByyCTHE- WRITERS !0F: ^rf-* .■> i r'.'■"■ «lo tk« heart OM ttat. on* can. It a * vakM. way, Of > t« • data. JO«l T«r takea. r. t SILVER ABNER Thtr«^ Wltk DO Itb veil vortb With loTc'a 4« . tfffftffff Say H whlla daB« in^ While fmmfrwffrn jroa axe s^'^c * la those eyea that yon 1 • 4o.1£m... TTT uuvufi i 'tffffmtrtfff f Oeat.ly holi har» B*.^ ■!•-ate y«M^^thold.er. Dane laff la . aplrea. LoitA aweet da . alraa. '*'"'' 'l' f If keep Ad - vaae.' la^, 8«y tt vhUe daae la^, Toi^ll via her heart* Copyright MCMZZII hy M.Wltmarkft Soaa^ kaart. DOUBLES i BOY & GIRL TWO BOYS & TWO GIRLS M. W^ITIVIARK «<: SONS HOS. J. QUIGLEY GaTicK Theatre Bidg. Chicago. I'l. JCS L. MANN •22-i Bart^" B'cck Qef-'^tr, Cole. , ED EDWARDS ; 35 So. 9th Stre»t Philadelphia, Pa. JACK'HURLE^ 508 P*nta^e» Eldg. San Francisco. Calif. JACK LAHEY 2."t Trtmont Street Bosicr, Mass. J. J. GERLACH 312 S;*voy Theatre Ridg Pittsburgh, Pa. JACK CRCWLEV '3 Beikr.^c Street Provioerce, R. I. N'ERRELL SCHWAR2 E;»5t 0.- S.reet C'nc 1 r:natI, Ohio AL COOK 1562 Broadway i..,, MOP"^ NATHAN 207 S^pe.-a T^e.ife Blag. Los Angeles, Cal.f. FRANK GIBNEY jCO Monteiius Bdg. Seattle, Wash. NEW YORK HAL KING Qa.et> Tneatre B'dg.. Kansas City. Mo. SYDNEY KLEIN 450 Kuster Terrac* Sait Lake C.ty. Utah AL HOWARD. ■'020 Randoip^^ Street, New Detroit 0. H.. Detrcit. Miciv rPANK FOSS 8t.'j Haniiiton Terracf. D«tt.rror-c. Vcl DENVER Denver has completed a weeV^ur- % which it went wild on amuae- enta. Most of the stores and Bees were closed Monday as well I Tuesday (July 4), and great owds went into the mountainj for ree or four days. It looked as if eryone had gone out of town and en all picture theatres dox«. ntown td the parks in the outskirts of e city we»e packed to capaijity I day long. There were free gutes several parks. The Denver 'ost" gave a free picnic at Elitch trdens and the "News and Times" kd an airplane stunt at Berkley, le of the city parks. After the big holiday there wa« a action and business was off for a y or two, but came back strong ward the end of the week. The ountaina are more opposition at Bok-ends in Denver than the ocean In seaboard towns and It is only e tourists that keep summer Sun- ■ys from being very dead. A.8 It Is, there is only one duwn- wn theatre (Donham) open with lything but films. The Elitch irdens theatr^n the suburbs gets good play during the week, but iver has a good house Sunday Sht. The Williams' Jubilee Singers will «e their seventh annual appear- 'C« at the Municipal auditorium. J««e colored entertainers have es- olished themselves through pa.'^t rfornaances and the advance sale wealed they played to a packed •ttsc. That means 3,500. The picture theatres are finding «er business In July than in ine. Several weeks were very *n and attendance was off at all ^atrea. Now there Is a decided iprovement generally. The Wilkes Players opened at the mnam Sunday In "Just Suppose." Sketch or SBTWaSS" ron KISH SINGING STAR (MAT.E) ^of Over Four People Address: Box 259, Variety. N. Y. Several changes in the line-up this season. Ivan Miller is the new leading man and made a good im- pression on the opening day au- dience. Oreta Porter remains as leading woman. The new members of the company are Howard Ruasel, Rex Cherryman and Ann Berry- man. The bill for the week opening Sunday, July 9. at Elitch Gardens is "The Boomerang." This is the first time the piece has ever been seen in Denver. An excellent perform- ance was givpn by the company and Hollo Lloyd, the director, is due for more praise from the Denver theatregoers. His company has made a decided hit. It opened in "Three Wise Fools" to a little less than $5,000, and came up (in spite of a lean house on the Fourth) to over $6,000 the second week with "The Man Who Came Back." The top at night Is $1.10. "The Boom- erang" Is a great bill in this spot. It is particularly well played by Ernest Glondinning, who has gone over big here, and Helen Menken. The leading woman was slow in starting, though she gave a beauti- ful performance, but has shown in- creasing popularity each week. Her emotional work Is the best that has been seen at the famous old theatre in years. DETROIT By JACOB SMITH Harry Scott has resigned as De- troit manager for First National, after four years, to take a rest. John H. Kunsky has closed the Columbia until August. It has been playing pop vaudeville. First time in seven years to close during sum- mer. Arnold Johnson and band repeat for two weeks at Capitol; $1,200 for act. ^ The son of Walter Shafer, man- ager of the Washington, was killed last week, having fallen out of the car while Mr. Shafer was on a re- turn motor trip to Detroit from In- diana. The Rroadwav-SXrand is playing "South of Suva" this week; Capitol, "The Dust Flower"; Fox-Washing- ton, latest Mix feature. David Nederlander will probably reopen the Shubert-Detroit several weeks before the oflUcial opening set for Sept. 17, as announced In Va- riety. This week playing "Wild Oats" and doing business. ROCHESTER, N. Y. By L. B. 8KEFFINGT0N LYCEUM—Lyceum Players "Going Up." TEMPLE—Manhattan Players in "The Nightcap." In The Lyceum Players finish their season this week and from now on the Manhattan Players will break the summer calm alone. Fred Sarr, for several ^ifears man- ager of Fay's, will next season man- age Fay's Boston house. SYRACUSE, N. Y. * By CHESTER B. BAHN B. F. KEITHS—Vaudeville. BAST ABLE—Professional Play- ers in "The Chimes of Normandy," featuring Jefferson De Angelis, Eva Ollvottl and Detmar Poppln. Next week, "The Royal Rogue." STRAND—"Sonny." EMPIRE^-"Perjury." SAVOY.—"Fifty Candles." ROBBINS-ECKEL—"The Crim- son Challenge." The Syracuse theatrical map un- derwt^nt neW modifications this week with the Westchester Play- ers giving up at the Wieting and Keith's turning to a "2 in 1" pol- icy, with a radical reduction In the admission scale. ARE YOU GOING TO EUROPE? Jji*"***'"* arcommodatlona «rr«tiaed on all LInea. nt Main Ollle* *■• "onta are aoliiR wrj follt arranae early, Foreign Money boQKht and aold. Liberty Bonds booabt and auld. PAUL TAC9IO A SOW. 104 Eaa< 14th St., New York. e Phone 1 StayrcaaBt 6130-6137. The Professional Players at the Bastable ran into storm clouds last week. R. R. Edwards, one of the organizers and assistant manager, posted a not-ice Saturday that the chorus would be paid Tuosday. The notice wa.s .so worded misconstruc- tion was possihl*'. and the chorus members interpreted it as moaning there were no fiinds available to meet salarlos. Thore was a rumpus back Htapo imnH<liately, but the management linally reassured the choru.'^, all local people, and they Went on for the .«<econd and third acts. Meantime the board of di- rectors' executive coiiiniitt<^o had words with Edwards, and the lat- ter rfslKned on the Nl>ot. Edwards, who was busin*'ss manager of the "THE HAS BEEN" Toorlng the I (m'W Circuit b^iclnnlnir Jaly 31 old Syracuse Opera Association, claims that he was Insulted and that others were attempting to use him as a "goat." The costumes and ef- fects for "The Chimes of Norman- dy," this week's show, were delayed in transit from New York, and the company could not open Monday. The audience took It good natured- ly, however, and the opera was presented Tuesday night. The board of directors, at a special meeting Monday, turned over the entire business managenrtant back stage to Nace Bonvllle. *» by Nate Robblns, died July 8, after a surgical operation at the Syracuse Memorial Hospital. Funeral serv^i ices were held on Monday. The Symphony, Binghamton, cut its scale this week, with "School Days" as the offering. The mat- inee price was dropped to 10 cents and the night price to 15, a shaving of a nickel. Andrew H. Goettel, of this city, for several seasons orchestra leader at the Crescent and Savoy h«'re, has accepted a contract as director of the Avon theafre .orchestra at Watertown. He replaces Ray La Bounty. Oeor^ie Nt-yenhouse is also out of the Avon orchestra, going to the I'lattsburg theatre orchestra. Neyenhouse handles the drums and traps. The theatrical slump In the 19 up-state counties forming the Syra- cuse Internal Revenue district dur- ing the fiscal year ending June 30, is evidenced by t^e drop in theatre and amusement tax receipts on the report Just completed by Cashier Earl Nortnal, of the local revenue headquart<'rs. For the fie al year ending June 30, 1921, the theatre and amusement taxes netted $999,- 033.81 In central, southern and northern New York. For the year Just closed the figures were $762,- 630.47. > Petor Eckel, founder of the Eckel- Nye Steel Company, and builder of the Eckel theatre here, now owned The curtain dropped on the sum- mer dramatic stock season of the Westchester Players at the Wietingr Opera House here on Saturday, the company closing after a run of five or Rix weeks. The troupe, con- trolled by B. L. Fcinblatt, was brought here from the Westchester theatre at Mount Vernon. The clos- ing notice went up at the end of the firt-t week, but Felnblatt con- tinued to run. For one w^ek, toward the close of the run, the company played for half salaries. Poor buMinesn management ap- parently entered Into the company'.*! failure to win success. Syracuse is a stock town that demands the fea- turing of the leading man. The Players tried the opposite. Scrimp- ing as regards production also was a factor In the failure to get patron- age. Syracuse for five years ham been taught to expect stock staging that approximated road outfits. The final blow was the with- drawal of Leslie Adams, leading man, who claimed grievances cov- ering months. When a local pap«fr "broke" the story, Keinblatt with- drew his advertising. This hurt, for Syr.'icuHo theatregoers closely follows the local dramatic columns. Amusements at Eldridge I^irk, Elmira's recreation center, wer<t or- dered closed by Mayor Wood when liability insurance was refused. • COUPON: bookTtrip: WELDON.WIllIAMS&LICKi FORT SMITH. AKK. H'M PROFESSIONAL TRUNKS Prices Reduced, $55 Up Mail Orders Filled F. O. 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