Variety (September 1922)

10 VAUDEVILLE Friday, September 22, 1922 CABARET SARANAC LAKE A speed boat or. Long Island Bound has been stirring the aching heart of Dinty Moore of the Cha- teau Laurier orchestra at the Cha- teau on City Island, which Bill Werner manages. A guest at the Chateau one evening informed Dinty his motor boat was anchored |«low the island, and Dinty, if he could make it run, could have some fun with it around the Sound. Dinty made it run, after much repair work by mechanics and purchasing new parts for the engine. The guest (layman) returned later. Dinty reported progress. As the owner of the boat had about the same time announced his wedding engagement, he felt chipper, the band played the "Wedding March," and during the evening the guest told Dinty, Dinty says, that if he wanted the boat for $75 it could he fixed that way. Dinty had hard work handling his drums the re- mainder of the evening. AH he saw were motor boats with his own near-gift in the lead. The next day Dinty went after it in earnest, but ftrst^had to settle a repair bill of $72, then some more parts. And in the excitement he forgot to forward the $73 requested with a bill bf sale to be secured in exchange. Dinty invoked the serv- ices of tho entire orchestra besides two more mechanics. When the boat started running without skip- ping it did 25 miles an hour with the indications the engine would move up to 30 under proper coax- ing. Carrying five passengers and doing 30, Dinty told the boys, meant he had picked up a regular cruiser. Dinty spoke to Bill Werner.about it. Bill said everything was fine— but—and Bill, the original chunk of Jce, informed Dinty it didn't look so good for tho bill of sale $75. Dinty's pressure dropped 30 points, to sub- normal, but he managed to gasp why. Bill, in, a cruel end-of-the- aeason-and-business-is-bad manner, informed his orchestra leader the guest had been up again, inquired about the boat, and when told the Impression was that he had given the boat to Dinty for $75, answered Dinty was q/f his nut or something to that effect—that he had told Dinty to sell the boat and he would split with him. The next morning Dinty started to train the magneto so it would follow him whenever he left the hoat, and he otherwise manipulated the going portion of the racer so that no one but with the Dinty secret method could operate it but Dinty himself and in person. In addition the dispirited musician called in three expert accountants to fra^ie a bill for services and re- pairs that would reach a larger amount than the fire insurance policy of the craft. At the last hearing Dinty was looking for a specialist to assert ownership of what Dinty says was conveyed to him by a verbal agree- ment in the presence of witnesses. The matter threatens to become a cause celebre at City Island and along the Long Island shore, where Dinty is muchly known through his working uniform, a pair of white soiled trousers and the gardener's blouse. Dinty claims he intended to use the speed boat for business purposes. Snyder had had some postcards printed for Dinty, ad- dressed "Dear Sweetie," and signed "Your Babe," advising recipients to hear Dinty Moore's orchestra play a Waterson, Berlin & Snyder song (that Ted wrote). Dinty's intention was to use the boat to place one of the cards on every other craft on the Sound. He started wljth two sail boats, but forgot about the wind which snatched the cards off the rails where Dinty had placed them. Dinty complained to Bill the atmos- phere was double crossing him ,but Bill sneeringly replied Dinty should stick to his sticks—to be either a sailor or a drummer. Local opinion is that Mr. Werner may be stalling under tho Idea that when Dinty leaves tho Chateau for the winter and the guest can't reach there through heavy snows, that Bill Werner might place the hoat in the Chateau's garage and in the Rpring present a bill for stor- age that will chase all claimants away. Bill intends being at the Chateau again next season. Dinty may think he will be there, too. Dinty Moore (no relative to Dinty Moore of the corn beef-nnd on West 40th street) is the original Lone; Island musician who first caught lobsters unawares. Dinty caught them alive with his music- on a Violin and then killed them through playing the drums in their left ears. Evelyn M. Stuart is now the man- ager and boss of the Cafe La Vie on West 48th street. A revue, staged by Dan Dody, was scheduled to open yesterday (Thursday). It is titled "Sunshine and Smiles," with a cast of twenty, featuring Florence Dar- ley, Anna May Bell, Mildred Hewitt and Julia Garety. Mis.T Stuart is the only woman manager of a Times square district restaurant. She has had, however, previous restaurant directing experience. The La Vie is the cnbaret where recently a gangster was shot and killed. Joseph Redmond, one of the managers of tho place, surrendered to the police at the time of the shooting to prevent the police from taking into custody guests dining there. It was later charged Red- mond killed the gunman, who had started a disturbance and was shot as he was running out of the restau- rant. Redmond, it IsAinderstood, will deny he shot him and in proof call as a witness the patrolman on post, who was standing near on the street as the gangsters started the fight inside. Redmond asked the ropper to loan him his gun, which the pa- trolman refused to do. No one ac- tually saw the shooting, it is said. Last week attorneys for Redmond were granted an order to examine the minutes of the Grand Jury which Indicted Redmond. An ap- plication for bail may follow. It is generally believed Redmond will be acquitted. Whoever did shoot the gunman could easily plead self de- fense. Miss Stuart purchased the res- taurant following the trouble and will not change its name. The res- taurant has a seating capacity of about 300. It is just west of Broad- way on 48th street, downstairs. District Attorney Urbane C. Lyons of Broome county, New York, has declared war on proprietors of road houses in the vicinity of Bingham- ton. He has already 1 created a campaign against the establish- ments, by means of injunctions, which close the places for a period of one year. Mr. Lyons has drawn up a blanket injunction form which he is having printed. The district attorney believes the injunction method is the must effective nieam of closing up alleged liquor joints throughout the rural section. County Judge Benjamin Baker this week granted an injunction to close for one year the road house owned by James Shay in the town of Kirk wood, about three miles from Binghamton, which is conducted by Edward Brierly and Lottie Stone. The rood house can now only be used as a residence. Frank Saco, charged with possession of intoxi- cating liquors in violation of the Mullan-Gage state prohibition law, pleaded guilty to an indictment when arraigned yesterday before County Judge Baker. Saco was indicted with John Regon. The latter's case is still pending. Saco was fined $200 and was given until Nov. 1 to pay the fine. Saco and Rcgdn conducted an alleged "speak easy" establishment at 25 South street, Binghamton, which was raided Nov. 1, 1021, a half pint of whiskey being seized by two plainclothes men. Friars Inn, Chicago, operated by Miko Fritzel, has been one of the few cabarets able to breeze through the summer and maintain a show and entertainment out there. This summer has been ruinous for the majority of cabarets in Chicago, but the Friars Inn has withstood all the troublesome times and run alcng to good business. Its entertainment brigade consists of llerbie Vogel and Sid Erdman, two of Fritzel's old standbys, who are adept with novelty and comedy songs. Madge Keefer, the third of the regular entertainers here, croons scngs in a manner which provokes encore after encore. Mario Dasch, a local personage, and Roberta Brashler, who h:is most recently been working in clubs, complete the feminine list. This duo cover the field of BOngS and p i. i '< pood and powerful voices. Peterson and McCune are two whirlwind dancers. Miss Mc- Cune formerly worked in vaudeville with her sister, while this is prac- tically the Jirst season in the show business for Peterson. They are both young and lively stoppers. A ja/.z band keeps the patrons dancing win i the performers are not work- ing, and this band, of Fritzel's own (.Continued on page 36) By ROBERT R. MILL (Saranac Lake will hercajtcr ap- pear under Correspondence in Ya- ricty through Robert R. Mill, who is connected with the Saranac Lake "Enterprise." The correspondence will cover the Adirondack region, where many professionals reside, temporarily or pei-mancntly. While there is but little theatrically doing in that section, the correspondence will be published lo inform friends how their acquaintances, who have gone to the mountains, are getting along and where they arc.) Saranac Lake, N. Y., Sept. 20. Jack Lait, Con Conrad, David Warfield, William Morris, Jr., and other membc»„ of the theatrical colony here contributed their ser- vices to stage an all-amateur per- formance known as "Wow," given for the benefit of the combined American Legion posts in Saranac Lake. The book, music and lyrics were written by the above, with the as- sistance of Ruth Morris, daughter of William Morris, who starred in the performance, while the production was staged by William Morris, Jr., with the assistance of Mr. Warfield. "The Santa Clauses of Saranac Lake'' was the tribute paid to the theatrical profession and the Morris family in a speech of thanks made by the Legion commander. MUSIC MEN Harry Greb, light-heavyweight champion of the world, joined the ranks of the theatrical colony here by the purchase of a permanent home. Greb left for New York to prepare for his bout with Bob Mar- tin, A. E. F. champion, which will be held at Madison Square Garden in the near future. Then he faces Chuck Fisher, who recently won from Jimmy Darcy. Captain Bob Roper is another opponent Greb will fight before his trip to the coast late in October to fill a vaudeville engagement. "Give me a -Jlght with Georges Carpentier, and then I am through with the ring," Greb told Variety's correspondent before his departure, adding that after the Carpentier fight he intended to make the show- business his only business. William Morris, manager of Sir Harry Lauder, is hard at work on the details of a benefit performance he will hold at the Lexington opera house Oct. 8 for the Saranac Lake Day Nursery, the pet charity of the theatrical people in Saranac Lake. Herbert Brenon, Fox director, in charge of the company in which George Kline and Jack Bergen were working just before the shooting, advanced the belief during a visit here collecting evidence that Klein will never be convicted on the mur- der charge. Brenon says it is his belief tha* the charge, during the course of Klein's trial, will be charged to manslaughter and that Klein will plead guilty and serve the sentence. Mr. Brenon has cast his lot with the colony here and on his present visit bought a lot with the idea of building in the spring. This is his second purchase. His house on Lake Flower avenue is occupied by his brother, Chandos Brenon, for- merly prominent in the theatrical and newspaper world. A. L. Johnson, husband of Peggy Marsh, who was wounded at the Adirondack camp of Jack Clifford, is now out of danger, according to a statement of hospital authorities at Plattsburg today. The investi- gation, based on the suspicion that Johnson was wounded in a drunken quarrel in which a woman was said to have figured, has been dropped. The authorities say they are cer- tain the wound was accidentally self-inflicted while cleaning a rifle, the original story told by Johnson and Miss Marsh. ENGAGEMENTS Miller and Mack (vaudeville) have been engaged by Charles Dil- lingham for j^ new musical comedy to be produced this fall. Capt. Geo. Smithfleld, Harry Hol- man's "The Failure" (vaudeville). J. 'Frances Hanie and Ruthie Morgan, "Spice of 1922." JUDGMENTS Wm. N. Hcchheimer; M. K. L. dorp.; $J.j. Hall Benedict Studios, Inc.; Craftsmen Film Labs, inc.; $156.61. Francis X. Bushman; S. E. Fink; $4,047.26. Perry Bradford; Columbia Cas- ualty Co.; $6,000. According to a schedule filed with George J. H. Crowe, U. S. referee in bankruptcy at Binghamton, N. Y., this week, the liabilities of tho Stewart Phonograph Co. are $294,- $570.27 and its assets $1,050,881.81, of which amount $950,000 is claimed by the company as the value of its copyrights and patents from the United States government. On the petition of three creditors the Stewart company was adjudi- cated bankrupt Aug. 29. The peti- tioners were Frank A. Loomis, Leo J. Buckley and the Rover-Taft Electrical Appliances Co., Inc. Included in the a: sets of the com- pany as filed in the schedule is the value of the properly it owns, minus mortgages and other incumbrances, $32,299.«T9; machinery and tools, $21,722.39, and other property and assets to the value of nearly $40,000. Another item on the list of assets is $8,ti96.30 in outstanding bills owed tho company. There .are 1,617 creditors, to whom the company owes $294,570.27. Nearly 1,500 of these represent per- sons who paid a dollar down for a phonograph which the eompany ac- cepted on order but failed to exe- cute. The largest single creditor is A. W. Lueke of Cleveland, who has $4,911.91 in secured claims against the company and $106,658.16 in un- secured claims, representing' loans. The company owes _the United States government $6,591.21 in in- ternal revenue taxes, the Tax Com- mission of New York State $1,555.70 and the city of Binghamton, for taxes. $439.20. There are many creditors of the company In Binghamton and vicin- ity, many of the shoe workers at Endicott and Johnson City being investors in the Stewart phono- graph. NEWS OF THE DAILIES All that now remains of the $11,- 723.63 estate left by Richard Ep- stein, the celebrated pianist, mem- ber of the famous Elshucco Trio, and well known as a pedagogue both in Europe and this country, who died Aug. 1, 1919. is $9,445.14, ac- cording to an accounting of his property, made by Thomas F. Smith, public administrator, filed this week in the Surrogate's Court, New York. Mr. Epstein, who had been ill but a short time, lived at 32 Fast 58th street, New York, but died without leaving a will, at the Lenox Hill Hospital. Although born in 1869. he was a citizen of Austria. Trained in music by his father, Julius Epstein, he made himself one of the foremost authorities on the art of the piano. A native of Vienna, where he was educated, he played with the Vienna Philhar- monic Orchestra and several quar- tets, and also with such an organ- ization as the Elchueeo Trio. At his funeral services, conducted Aug. 4* 191 *», Richard Msltland, tho Ener lish baritone, sang an aria by Bach Reuben Goldmark. vice-president o€ tho Bohemians, then delivered an address of eulogy in the course of which he referred to the distin- guished career of the decedent in Europe and this country. Because of his failure to leave a will his widow, Elizabeth Epstein, together with his two children, Johann and Julius Epstein, all three of Vienna IV. Gusshausstras.se. Austria, arc entitled to share in his property. In all seriousness It is reported the United Zither Players' Associa- tion of America at Its annual con- vention in Minneapolis Oct. 11-14 will formally protest against the popular music publishers and com- posers ignoring their wants in the way of zither music. Only imported music from Switzerland and Bavaria is to be had by the zither musicians, because American popular airs are not being orchestrated for this par- ticular instrument. There are 1,200 members of the organization. The piano is blamed for displac- ing the zither in popularity, once the most popular of instruments and the oldest in the history of music, with the harp, dating from Creation. "Sue Dear" moved $o the Bijou, New York, this week from ths Times Square. Virginia O'Brien has assumed the title role. Walter Hampden will revive Philip Massingefs comedy, "A New Way to Pay Old Debts," last seen in New York in 1874, with E. L. Davenport in the leading role. "Greatness," by Zoe Atkins, has been placed in rehearsal by Gilbert Miller. Jobyna Howland will be the featured member, supported by Georges Renavent, Beth Varden, Paul Porcasl, Russell Sedgwick] Stanley Howlett and Cecil Butler. Charles Dillingham has changed the date for opening John Galswor- thy's "Loyalties," at the Gaiety the- atre, New Yosk, from Sept. 25 to 27. Nance O'Neill announces that she will produce at least three plays by Jacinto Benaven'te, author of "The Passion Flower," in which she starred from three seasons. She opens her season in Syracuse on Oct. 16 in "Field of Ermine," the first of the three plays under the direction of Alfred Hickman. John Garrett Underhill has made the translation. "Malvaloca," the first show to be produced by the Equity Players, will play at the Auditorium. Baltimore, before opening in New York Oct. 2. David Wallace will present "The Ever Green Lady," by Abby Mer- chant, at the Punch and Judy thea- tre, New York, Oct. 9. The cast is headed by Beryl Marcer and the play will be directed by J. M. Ker- rigan, who also will act a role. The E. B. Marks Music Co. press agent sends the following informa- tion: Parade of the Wooden Sol- diers has proven so popular as a recording on the disks that various dealers are offering the Marks Co. a bonus of $5 for any and all lots of 100 records the publishers could have shipped to them. Tho p. a. continues that the Victor Co. is to repress and relist the composition, its original edition having run out. T.ee David has signed with M. Witmark &. Sons. Witmarks have the publication rights to four pro- ductions David composed the music for (including an operetta with Samuel Shipman). although songs David wrote and originally ex- ploited for another publisher have been taken over by Forstor. Harms and Berlin, as well as two others by Witmark. = Mabel Normand, picture star, is being sued by her former press agent, Perry M. Charles, for $2,940. Charles claims that he was retained to go abroad and do advance pub- licity for her. A writ was served last week on the manager of the Hotel Ambassador, where she is stopping, attaching her gowns and jewels. The Chicago Chamber Opera Co. plans to' produce six American operas this winter. The new com- pany is an outgrowth of efforts to promote opera in English and to en- courage American musicians and composers, as advocated by the Opera in Our Language Foundation and the David Bispham Memorial Fund. Julia Sanderson denies the report she has been served with papers in absolute divorce proceedings by her husband. Lieut. Bradford Barnetts, U. S. N. Frank Crumit's nam© figured as co-respondent. Crumit is Miss Sanderson's leading man in "Tangerine," now in Boston. James Young, picture director, (.Continued on page 39) NEW ACTS Bridal Sweet, Inc., has been in- corporated for $5,000 to reproduce the former Herman Timberg act. Lewis A. Wolfson and Sam Klap- holz, Timberg's brother-in-law, are interested In it. I Blanche Franklyn (Vincent and Franklyn) and Her Band-its, eight people musical skit. Aunt Jemima, late feature of . White's "Scandals," will enter vaudeville with a band of nine pieces. Willie Cohan, formerly of Watson and Cohan, is to be featured in a vaudeville act by Barney Gerard. Nellie King and Tommy Gordon. "Mr. Nobody from Everywhere," with Ted Morris featured. Ben Bernie, formerly teamed with Phil Baker, and who has been ap- pearing as a single, will shortly have a band turn. Bernie will lead the aggregation and between num- bers insert comedy bits. Fortunello and Circillino. the Ital- ian comedy acrobatic act with the new "Greenwich Village Follies," at the Shubert, New York, have but a four-week contract with the pro- duction. After it runs off, the turn is expected on the Keith time. New Waybum's Dancing Dozen, reproduced from a production of - last fleason, for vaudeville. Lew Clayton and Ukelali "Ike" Edwards have reunited for vaude- ville. Herbert M irple has resigned as professional manager for Sherman, Clay & CO., |n San Francisco, and will be succeeded by Carl Lamont, formerly with the Fox Publishing Co. Marple says he will open a song shop of his own in Los Angeles. Jack P.rcgman, of the Ri-hmond- Robbins Co., has returned from his maiden talcs .trip, a Southern tour. MARRIAGES Dr. Suss, dentist, and Adelaide Ilensley were married in the New York City Hall Sept. 12. The for- mer Miss Hensley has played in cabaret and vaudeville. Eleanor Young, song writer, to Harry D. Squires, staff writer of the Jr.o Morris Music Co., Sept. :v The Squires are at home at the Florence Court Apartments, Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn! N. Y. 8ept. K), at the home of th» bride. 3064 Bailey avenue, New York City. Mae Kesler to Edward Dana Co«\ Leo Fridkin, 2T», and his vaude- ville partner, Rhoda, 21, elassi>' dancers, were married Sept. 19 at Cincinnati.