Variety (July 1922)

Friday, July 14^1*^ VARIETY 33 'THE FIND OE THE SEASON" PREMIERE DANSEUSE B. F. Keith's Palace, New York, Next Week (July 17) B. F. Keith's Riverside; July 24 h. Direction SMITH & FORKINS ■V Prohibitionists and all sorts of ••antls" urc at work, and there is •very sign of a religious revival on a large scale. Already the anti- Sunday amusement agitation people have got busy and have succeeded in stopping the band which played during the Sunday baseball matches at Stanford Bridge. Vaudeville houses and suburban theatres are not affected by the complete rupture which has broken down all negotiations between the West End Managers' Association and the Musicians' Union. They may strike in »ympathy, Lut such a course would be suicidal as thii^gs •re. I Hugh J. Ward is here looking for plays and stars for his Australian circuit, which controls 22 theatres in Australia and New Zealand. These are run in conjunction with • Sir Benjamin Fuller's enterpriseu. Among the plays he has already acquired are "Tons of Money," "The Wheel." "Bulldog Drummond,** "The Safety Match" and "The Faithful Heart." He has also arranged Antipodean tours for Cyril Maude and MaAe Tempest. Not very long ago a first-class provincial management put on a line revival of "Maria Martin; or. The Murder In the Red Bam." The production and acting were excel- lent and the show coined money. Now it is said that Arthur Bour- ehier contemplates reviving such •T)lood and thunder" masterpieces of Jong ago as "Sweeny Todd, the £emon Barber of Fleet Street," and •The Bleeding Nun -of Nurcmburg," ithlch was originally produced at the Haymarket in 1797. There is considerable disappoint- ujent over Charles B. Cochran's de- cision not to prolong his vaudeville »^«on at the Pavilion Vyond the original four -veeks. Variety artists had hoped he would be able to re- ••tablish the house ar a West Bhfid JJ««ic hall, but, unfortunately, he aid not give vaudeville sufficient trial for properly creating a paying Clientele. His night business is ex- cellent, but In the brief space of lour weeks he was unable to get paying audiences for the matinees. "»« expenses are altogether too yeavy. as he selected his entire bill irom acts that headlined in the pro- vincial houses, and which cost him a gross of £900 per week. He pays a rental of £500 per week for the house, and with his extensive ad- vertising and executive staff his gross running expenses are close to £2,000 per week. It is felt here that these expenses could have been cut materially until such time as he had established a paying vaude- ville patronage. H. V. Ncilson is rehearsing a new play by Brandon Fleming, author of "The Eleventh Commandment." Thie is entitled "Down and Out." The leading man will be Dennis Neilson Terry, the leading woman, Mary Glynn. A company of 24 will travel. Arthur Bourchier and the "Old Vic" company are both contemplat- ing productions of "New Way to Pay Old Debts" by Massinger. It Is hoped Russell Thorndyke will be able to play in the "Old Vic." pro- duction. EDWARD CROPPER, Inc. THEATRICAL WARDROBE TRUNKS HOTEL !VORMA?fDII£ BLDO.. • B • cor :t8tb * D*wny. M. ¥. C PnOlMR, PITZROY :I84H The forthcoming production by Arthur Bourchier of Baron Henri de Rothschild's "La Caducee" at the Strand is arousing a good deal of antagonism in some medical quar- ters. The doctors do not relish see- ing one of their calling featured publicly as a criminal. Few doc- tors in this country have been crim- inals, but when they have been they have out-Heroded Herod. Neil Cream, who was hanged at New- gate in 1892. was an American, but his trade in murder collapsed here. Palmer, the f taftordshire physician and race track owner, with poison a» a side line, ,was another, and Chapman, whose^ real name %as Klosowski had thrown up medicine for the public house trade. Having spread a trail of murder through- out Europe he settled down as land- lord of the St. George's distille y in the borough. There he made a specialty of flrst ruining his bar- maids and then poisoning them, did It once too often, was caught and hanged. Dr. Crippen was an Amcr 1 an dentist married to a once well- known English music hall star. He was captured on a liner when about tw land in Canada, brought back and also hanged. When doctors go In for murder they do their job very thoroughly. The careers o' any of the above would provide material for half-a-dozen melodramas much more thrilling than anything the Melville.i ever wrote and produced. The author of "La Caducee" is also a doctor, so it can be taken for granted he knows what he is writ- ing about. The fir«?t production at the Apollo under the Aaronsohn managfmcnt will bo a new mupiral play "Listen- ing In," with Herman Darcwski as one of the stars. It will be followed in the autumn by a new production with Maurice Moscovitch. Prices are cominr; down at the Savoy where "If Four Walls Told" reached the total of 75 performances June 19. On this occasion the gal- lery was reduced to one shilling and threepence and the pit to three shillings, tax included. "If Four Walls Told" was ^threatened with extinction, but was reprieved owing to a sudden l^opeful jump in the takings. Having suffered from a break- down, Teddie Gerrard is out of "A. lo Z.." at the Prince of Wales and is recuperating on the coast. years. Dillingham has also en- gaged Felix Aylmer. Frank Van Hoven is In more or less of a "mess" with respect to his English bookings, which he failed to fulfill for the past year. It is claimed he failed to notify the man- agement that he intended to remain in America. If this be so, he is liable for the face value cf the con- tracts as liquidated damages. Van's defense is understood to be that his health wouldn't permit of his return this year. It .is said Mrs. Patrick Camp- bell contemplatee producing a new play by an American author en- titled "Voodoo." This deals with Haitian rites and superstitions and there will be a dream scene going back 2,000 years. Mrs. Campbell will play the vhite owner of a Lou- isiana plantation and also the chief- tainess of a savage African tribe. As Norman Macdermott's name is associated with hers in the rumors, the Everyman (Hampstead) seems to be the house. Either fortunately or unfortunately the stage at this "toy" theatre is scarcely adapted for any great realism. Oscar Asche is leaving for Aus- tralia to present "Cairo" and a re- vival of "Chu Chin Chow" as well as one or two Shakespearian com- edies. He will take several mem- bers of the original casts with him and will be absent for about a year. Asche is a native-born Australian and has a very big following "down under." Walter Wanger is rapidly turn- ing his big Whitechapel (East End) kinema into a West End resort. At the moment he is staging a revue, "Rivoli Varieties." which holds a full company of 22 on the stage and a beauty choru.^. Sam Wilson, an "East Side" New York negro, who sings rag-time melodies in Yiddish, is a big attrac- tion and will probably be snapped up for the West End unless Wanger keeps a tight hold on him for the Whitechapel district. His costumes for this revue are from the "Mid- night Follies" at the Metropole, and his beauty chorus consists of im- ported West Epd theatre "front row" girls. PARIS After a great deal of advance publicity "Babs" of Beattie and Babs has been married to R. O. Henley. Beattie was married some time ago to Colonel Tickler. s 9i. nj/t] SAo/> H. HICKS & SON 675 Fifth Avenue, at 53cl Street Have a little fruit delivered to your home or your friends-take it to your week-end outing Victor Tandy, a Weflt End charac- ter man, sails on the "Adriatic." September 2, to play in the New York production of "LoyaltloH" un- der Charles Dillingham's manage- ment. His contract covers three Plateau having sublet the Cigale for a summer lease the new people revived an operatic farce by R. Dieudonneand Rip. music by Claude Terrasse, entitled "Le Cochon qui Sommellle." The paying public did not bite, and the theatre suddenly closed last week, one of the am- ateur directors having skipped and left the troupe awaiting settlement, with the Syndicate watching the performers' interests. duce a revue by Henry Moreau, "Veux tu monter?" Camille Corney will give a short season at the Oeuvre, flrst present- ing "Le Retour d'lvering" by Rosa Holt. The Vleux Colomblcr closes for the season July 8. "La Mome" is being withdrawn from the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt Sunday. July 2, after a short run. "La F^mille Benoiton" replaces "Arsene Lupin" at the Ambigu next week. The Porte St. Martin la re- viving "The Lyons Mall." HEWS OF THE DAILIES (Continued from page 10) at the same house it closed, Colo- nl.il, Boston. Billie Burke (Mrs. Florenx Zleg- feld, Jr.) and her daughter Patricia left for York Harbor. Me., where they will spend the balance of the summer. Mr. Ziegfeld'^will join them when he returns from Europe. The Selwyns will open their new thefitre in Chicago Sept. 15, which they have named Selwyn, with John Drew and Mrs. LchIIc Carter in "The Circle." "Greenwich Village Snapshots," by Paul Dupont and Ar(hur Gut- man, will open at the Greenwich Village theatre. New York, on Aug. 1. Mary Hay. wife of Richard Bar- thelmcHs, was operated on the early part of the week at the Roosevelt Hospital. New York. The nature of her ailment waa not disclosed. Another summer show is rehears- ing under the management of V. Dantu and A. Auer. Biscot, a local comic, has assumed the direction for the summer of the Gaite Rochechouart, and will pro- Rlchard Carle will be featured in 'The Blue Kitten" when it starts its tour, Aug. 28. at \hc Court. Spring- field, Mass. RAYMOND MATTHEWS COMPOSER and ARRANGER 413C. 1658 Broadway. New York City X ' WE DID ALL WE PROMISED Came over for ten'weeks, we are playing it with reasonable success, and sail for home August 3 on the S. S. **Carmania." Some day we shall return to England when conditions arc better, and, in the meantime, wish to thank the managers fof their kind treatment. Gratefully, WHITE, BLACK and^ USELESS (FORMERLY WHITE'S CIRCUS)