Variety (May 1923)

TtoffdwKw Vhbim ■ ■ - * .... j. i ; . » , ... • ... ...... . • .: Wherever there are show people, there is Variety; no matter where; no horizon to Variety's circulation." • . . .. . • ■ ALEXIS > * • • JOAN * Martin Beck says he bought Variety in Cairo; the tame w others bought it in London, Paris, Sydney; all oyer and wherever the show business in English is talked over. , i*: . itf***; And as widely where it is not. Variety has as yearly subscribers the leading picture and showmen of all nations, whether Holland or South America, New Zealand or South Africa. They subscribe because they want it weekly, every issue, as the news medium for the theatre 9 of the world. V v • - / ' • r fc. ■ * *** * * -■ **- n 0 That is universally placed publicity besides the conceded pub- licity Variety gives at home, to any form of professional amusement on the stage or. screen or in the ring or on the lot. *■ . r The show business is an open field for talent and 'showmanship • —let the show business know you are in it. t-* • . y*. •■ — There is but one accepted theatrical paper that starts every week to go around the world—it's Variety. . ■ ■ - "All of the News • I . ■ ' • • ■ tfte Time" . r musical shows hold the edge as money-betters here this'season. in TERPSICHOREAN ARTISTRY' Just finished a 32-week tour, as headliners, for the B. F. Keith Circuit. Direction MARTY FORKINS BUFFALO By 8IDNEY BURTON With the closing of the Teck and Oayety Saturday night Buffalo is left without major attractions for the balance of the season. Pauline Frederick's "The Guilty One" showed at the Teck for the final week to middling business. The local re- viewers handled the show with fa- vor, stating that it was far from being as bad as reported from New York. In vaudeville the advent and egress of Shuberts occasioned scarcely a ripple. The •Criterion, which housed the new time here, is a hoodoo, and was acknowledged beforehand to be a loser even at capacity. The Crl closed its doors when Spiegel blew. Shea's con- tinued serenely on its way and has had an unquestionably .profitable season, with no summer closing plans yet announced. A bird's-eye of the season just MINERS MAKE UP Est. Henry C. Miner, Inc. past reveals a landscape of peaks and valleys. In the legitimate it is doubtful if either the Majestic or the Tack has made much real money. The former was saddled with a dozen premiers of unknown quan- tity, all of which, with the excep- tion of "Jack and Jill," failed to see money. Few of the tryouts lasted longer than a fortnight on the road. For the rest, the house had several musical shows which drew well and one or two proven New York comedy successes which kept the box office busy. The Teck ran to about the* same form with the premiere feature absent. A number of strong attractions within the past two months helped swell the year's gross. Jolson hung up the season's record for the house, and other musical attractions ran close seconds. It would appear that In burlesque the Garden (Mutual) was turned from a tombstone into a mint mostly through the efforts of Harry Abbott. Business has been strong enough to warrant summer burlesque stock, an unthought-of thing for the town and particularly the house befose now. The Gaycty (Columbia) closes a lucrative sea- son, continuing among the leaders of the wheel. more, Jeanltte .Connor, and Lew Harris. Williams Amsdetl will be the stage, manager and Jack. Ed- wards will direct. — DETROIT BASSIL LIBERMAN Why don't you write to New York? "LAND OF TANGO" BOOSTERS 9 CLUB B008T NO. 2 * "LAND OF TANfiO" is a classy sure-fire act which audience tikes, has plenty of laughs and close* to a great hand. —N. K. MILLER, Pantage* Theatre, Toronto. Boris Thomashefsky appeared at the Teck Sunday, May 13, supported by Mme. Pola Katrazanski, in "Lively and' Happy," before the largest Yiddish audtence of the sea- son. The performance went to overflow, grossing $1,300. ALBANY, N. Y. By THOMAS BURKE "Lightnlo"* has been booked for the matinee and night on Friday, May 25. Milton Nobles heads the company. By JACOB SMITH SHUBERT - DETROIT — "The Dancing Girl.*' The best Shubert musical show visiting Detroit this season. Prices, $3 top. Will stay two weeks. Every daily praised it. Next, Mclntyre & Heath. NEW DETROIT—John E. Kellerd in Shakespearean repertoire. This week, "Merchant of Venice"; next, "Romeo and Juliet." MAJESTIC—"My Lady Friends." Next, "Listening In." This house is now in its seventieth week of stock GAYETY— ,3 knick Knacks" (bur- lesque). GARRICK—Bonstelle Co., open- ing week of summer engagement, "The Goldfish." Next, "Little Old New York." ORPHEUM- Lee Kids; Eight Blue Devils; Belmonts Canary Op- era; Fred and Margie Dale; Fox & Burns; Murdock & Kennedy; Lea & Perrln & Larry Reilly. PHOTOPLAYS—-"Hunting Wild Game", hejd over for second weel at Broadway; "The Ne'er Do Well" at the Caj>itol; "Bella Donna" Adams; "A Woman's Woman" Madison; "The World's a Stage' Fox-Washington. W. S. Butterfleld has leased the Ramona Park Theatre at Grand Rapids for the summer and will show tabs and vaudeville, two changes weekly. . In the past ten days three De- troit theatres have been robbed—* the Rialto, Garden and Forest. At the Rialto the yeggs held up ths president of the company, J. C. Rlt* ter, and the treasurer, Edward Rey- nolds, escaping with $711). The safes) of the other theatres were blown some time after the last show Sun* day night. WANTED—By north hotel, high - class dancing number, two or more per* sons, for summer months. Address Box 141, Cars Variety State Lake Theatre Bldg., Chicago Edward M. Hart, general repre- sentative for F. F. ProctOr here, has reorganized the Proctor Player*, which opens for a summer's run of stock at Proctor's New theatre In Troy May 28, coming to Harmanus Bleecker Hall in Albany on L.abor Day. The opening play will be "Why Men Leave Home." Ruth Rickaby and Russell Hicks are the leads. Others who will be in the new company are Virginia Holland, Dillon Deasy, Harrison Hoy, Mns- sena Clark, Lola Maye, Harry Gil- FURNISHED COTTAGES AT SHERMAN LAKE 2,000 Feet Above Sea Level in Catskilt 2 Room Cottafce, Furnished, $10 Week 3 Room Cottage, Furnished, $15 Week 4 Room Cottage, Furnished, $18 Week DAN SHERMAN Davenport Center, N. Y. j*. JAMES B. DONOVAN and MARIE LEE I i i,» , I Sailing on the CELTIC Saturday, May 19th, noon, with George M. Cohan and His Entire "Little Nellie Kelly" Co. The King of Ireland will visit the King of England and report later. ■ Au Revoir to All Our Good Friends and Our Very Best Wishes to You AIL Also Many Thanks to the B. F. Keith Circuit tor a Succession of Successful Seasons.