Variety (May 1923)

Wednesday, May 30, 1923 VARIETY 39 IN LONDON (Continued from page I) already and the Princesses Victoria nod Maud have also visited the Palace. In the program of the Hotel Met- rocele cabaret on behalf of the Jtfewspaper Press Fund, as well as the "Metropole Follies," will be George Robey, Carl Hyson, who produces the show; five bands, in- cluding Jack Howard's "Midnight Follies,' Colombo's and Paul "Whiteman's. Many stars will ap- pear during the evening, and the tickets are being sold at three guineas. The Prince of Wales is the Chief supporter of the fund. Bernard Rishln win produce i new play by an Australian author, T Henry Walter, entitled "Shad •* of the Mighty," in the province* with a view to bringing it to the West End in due course. The sec- ond act is laid in Madame Tus- saud's Exhibition. C. B Cochran's new Ouitrj season opens at the Oxford June 4 with "Comment en Escrit Histoire." The Luwe season follows and will prob- ably open with a new Italian play by Tomasco Seotti entitled "Costa SsoV' which is merely "Amen" when translated into English. Despite the alienee of Sybil Arundale, who could not appear owing to chicken-pox, the Bert Coote revue, "Here We Are," has been a big success in the bigger provincial cities, and will probably be seen at the Ambassadors in Sep- tember Negotiations to that effect are now in progress. Had his revue not been successful, Coote would have returned to America in the ItutlUM) with his sketches. The Italian Marionettes at the Sea la are doing better than either acts of the flesh and blood or cellu- loid varieties have succeeded in do- Ing for a long time. They have just presented a new program consisting of Rossini's "The Magpie" and "Puss in Boots." Breaking away from the ban of the managers against broad- • asting, the managers have had ap- paratus fixed in the house, and the music of the show will be casted nightly. broad- Sixty gallery first nighters having petitioned C. B. Cochran, the prices for admission to the gallery of the Palaoe on the opening night will be greatly reduced. It Is not known whether these petitioners are mem- bers of the club which is such a thorn in managerial sides, the Gal- lery First Nighters, a coterie of men and women who are responsible for mot.t of the "mixed" first-night receptions and who always protest that their perpetual attempts to ruin shows and showmen are as much 1n the interests of high art as in their demand for free programs, free- cloak rooms and fairly well free every thin?.'. With the production of "The Pic- cadilly Puritan" Dorothy Miuto be- comes the third • --manageress in the W« st End. There are also at the inotnent three actor-managers. Sir Gerald du Marnier, Matheson Lang and JacU Eta hanan. Only a few years ago practically every West End house of note had its actor-manager. Now they don't possess permanent financial heads. On its original production at Daly's "The Merry Widow" ran for 778 performances, being beaten by "The Boy," with 801; "The Arca- dians." 809; "Dorothy," 931; "A Chi- nese Honeymoon," 1.073; "The Maid of the Mountains," 1,192. All these will probably be badly beaten by "The Beggars' Opera* **hicb is still running and shows no sign of los- ing in popularity. For one day only, June 6, Barthol- omew's Fair is to be revived with nil its crew of actors, tumblers, con- jurers, soothsayers and wizards. The show will be oiganized by the med- ical students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital and will be held on the original ground at Smithlield. Ar- thur Bourehier will appear in pageant as Henry VIII. Sir Squire Bancroft was 92 May 14. Simultaneously with the produc- tion of Dr. Ethel Smith's new opera by Barry Jackson in Birmingham, the work will be performed by the British National Opera Company at Covent Garden. Barry Jackson is a millionaire "up-lifter" of the stage, NEW YORK THEATRES 8AM H. HARRIS Attractions SAM. II • 42d St., W. of B'way. 11 flamS Evening at 8:20 "■*■■■« Mat». Wed.-Sat. 4:20. OWEN DAVIN' Wnrm-IIeurlrd Play ICEBOUND The 1923 TUMTZER TRIZE Play n MUSIC BOX THEATRE West 45th St. Evi. 8:15. Mat*. Wed.-Sat. SAM II. HARRIS Pretcnu IRVING BERLIN'S 'MUSIC BOX REVUE' Staged bj BASSARD SHORT. WITH A GREAT OAST I CYRIL MAUDE "AREN'T WE ALL?" My FREDERIC K LONSDALE THE GAIETY THEATRE {■ »*a«n headtjnarters for laughter. Broadway & 46th Ht. Eves. 8:30. Mats. Wed. A Sat., 2 30 PORT THEATRE. W. 48th 8t. Eva 8:16 IvUnl Mats. Wed. and 8at. at 2:16. MERTON OF THE MOVIES toiih Glenn Hunter—Florei ce Nash Harry Leon Wilnon'a story dramatized by Geo. S. Kaufinun and Maro Connelly GLOBE JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON'S Newest Musical Comedy "JACK and JILL" with l«-\v Field*. Ann Pennington. Clif- ton Wehb. < 11iirIf * .hi'lch and I nlii MrC'onnell 1 1TTI F Thea.. <V. 44th St. Eva, 8:30 *-' 1 * * ■-'J-' Matinees Wed. & Sat. 2:30 F. Ray Comstock & Morris Gest present POLLY PREFERRED with GENEVIEVE TOBIN Staffed by W1NCRBLL SMITH HENRY MILLER'S KltVL^i THE M,l.\n\N Present as 'JULIET" THE GREATEST TRIUMPH OF HER C AKEEU. N,»i,i- H «■<■ ii, |0ifc» i t fcwi*. M. J2.00 West 44th St. Eva, 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30. HUDSON GEORGE M. COHAN Presents the Hit of tbe Town "SO THIS IS LONDON!" "A HOWLING BLXCE8S."—Eve. Post. I IRFRTY THEATRE. W. 42d St. LilOCilV X I Matm> Wed- A g a(# "Best American Musical Play in the Whole Wide World" GEORGE M. COHAN S COMEDIANS In the New Sons; and Dance Show "LITTLE NELLIE KELLY" New AmMerdnm Theatre—W. 42d 8treet Rvuliifi | ]5. rOPUl.AR MAT. .WEDNESDAY. HEOlLAIt MATINEE SATUIWAT. A National Institution Z1EGFELD FOLLIES TIMPQ OH Theatre. W. 42d St. Eves h :>0. 1EO OU. Mats. \\<<1. and Bat. THE SELWYNi Prevent < HANNINCJ miXOCK'S THE OOL The Play That Succeeded in Spits tt the Devil. RFPIIRIIP 43d St.. W. oJ Bway. iVLl1 VUIjIV. EVENINOS at i:30 Mats. Wednesday and Saturday at 2:30. ANNE NICHOLS' New Comedy "ABIE'S IRISH ROSE" -THE ri.Al THAT TUTS 'IT IN HUMOR" WILLIAM A. BRADY'S MUSICAL COMEDT TRIUM1 H "UP SHE GOES" PLAYHOUSE W. 4«th M. Bvs *:"W. Maty W< •! ASal 2 ol> s MARK TRAM Hroadwny and 47th Street "A NATIONAL INSTITUTION* Direction .loeeph lMunkett THUS. II. INf'E rre*eiit« "A Man of Action" vnth nnroi.A* MaeLRAN NTRAMI SYMPHONY OltCIIKSTKY i'AHI- BDOL r ARDB.... CoaOuttoi and the smallncss of his Birming- ham house makes It impossible even for his productions to pay ex- penses. It was Jackson who was responsible for the production of 'The Immortal Hour" at the Regent, a production which was studiously bolstered into success. Despite the enthusiasm of the fn.st-night audience and the press "Xed Kean of Old Drury'' appears to be on its last legs at Drury Lane. .. . ' *. •r ... > fn»n »• csart is about to start on his own wjth a company which will be known as the Mozartians. This will be ;i small show run on the lines of the "Co-Optimists." Fepita Bobadilla, widow of Had- don Chambers, the playwright, is engaged to marry Cant. S. O, lteilly, recently a member of the Royal Air Force. She married Chambers while playing in a Drury Lane,melodrama in 1921. He died two months later, leaving behind him an uncompleted play, 'The Card Players," which the widow finished,and produced at the Savoy, where it Was not a big SUCCCSS. The latest addition to the list of British playwrights is Constance, Duchess of Westminster. She has submitted a sketch to Morris Harvey at the Little. Being a duchess it will probably be produced. IRVING— —MARY DUNNE and DAYE "FRECKLES and BESSIE" PLAYING B. F. KEITH CIRCUIT Direction I. KAUFMAN ' Plus Fours" will be followed at the St. James' by the Leon M. Lton production of "The Outsider," by Dorothy Brandon. The cast will in- clude Les'ie Faber, Dawson Milward, I.yall Swete, Stella Rho and lsobel F.lsom. A T)c\v producing company, to be known as the Fellowship of Flayers, will commence operations at the Strand with a special performance of Shakespeare's 'Comedy of Errors." Leslie Henson will play one of tbe male leading parts and Margaret Bannerman, Beatrice Wil- son, Ethel Harper, Mary Barton, Tonie Bruce and Andrew Leigh. Billy Merson has been out of the cast of 'Brighter London - ' owing to an attack of ptomaine poisoning. His condition is not serious and he is expected back in the cast within a few days. Sir Alfred Butt's production, re- cently tried out in Liverpool, of •Stop Flirting" will be seen at the Shaftsbury May 30 Kate Bishop, mother Lohr, is seriously ill. of Marie 05WALU WOODSIDE KENNELS WOODSIDE LL After spending some time in this country Lloyd Osbourne and his wife are returning to America on the "Aqultania" to take up residence on their California ranch. "While here they superintended the production of "Treasure Island" and the screen version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." The failure of "Merton of the Movies" at the Shaftesbury is un- doubtedly due to the almost complete absence of the "movie fan" in this country. Such fans as there are be- long to the working class, and would scarcely think of going to a West End house. In any case they lose their enthusiasm with maturity and look upon the kinema as an enter- tainment pure and simple. The en- tiro country can support only two "fan" magazines—one a crude and cheap weekly, the other a more or- nate monthly—while the ordinary papers carry only scanty "dope" from the renters and occasional re- views. It is doubtful whether out- side the show world any member of the public knows half a dozen names of "stare," and no one outside the profession would understand the humor of "Mertfm." let alone the technical words and the characteri- zation. • NOLLIE WILLIAMS SIDNEY HOTEL 65th Street and Columbus Ave. New York City Care of HARRY WIIXIAMM Tlionc t'olumboa 1620 STOCKS (Continued from Tagc 16) doing two plays a week at the Or- pheum, Teoria, 111., after having closed a 36-week run at the Grand, Evansville. Ind. Five members of the original cast of "What Every Woman Knows" will be in the Vedrenne revival: Hilda Trevelyan, Lady Tree, Madre Mur- ray, Henry Vibart and John Kelt. Subscribe for Whei; the Maude Fealy Stock opens June 11, with "Up In Mabel'i Boom" at Proctor's, Elizabeth, N. J., it will mark the first stock there since 1912. The Ed Clark Lillcy stock with Pauline McLean as leading woman closed Saturday in Canton, Ohio, re- opening Monday in Akron. new second act for "Johannes Krelsler" *nd lost both ways. Minna (Jombell will play leads with the McLaughlin stock at the Ohio, Cleveland, <i><ning in "Law- ful Larceny." "Th<- Exciter" and The Unknown Purple" are the latest stock release) by the American I'lay Co. That is the certain way to receive it regularly each week Annual subscription $7 Foreign (incl. Canada) $8 ADDRESS Variety, New York ill/ l&l 7iTu Ii£ *i5i Tiiw i&L'&u i The Waldorf. Walt bam, Mass, goes Into stock June 4 for th« sum- ni» r. Tit* Clyde McArdle stock In Bom* ervllle, Mass., closes Saturday. SPORTS i Coni inu< d from page 10) Crow men aft-r seeing ihcm work with the college t«arn. Burke Is a'senior, Regan a Junior, and Mc- Blabon .1 frcshn Ti ■ •' Flier, the thoroughbn «i Jointly owned by Ham 11. rlnrri- and Arch Selwyn last season, has 1 •. • placed In tbe stud. The l>- made an excellent record, m't the showmen i< *t Interest when the on ♦ nd< d, although Harris is reported buying several yearlings. Selwyn told his it terest in True Filer. P la *• d he traded It for a Kid Lewis, Hartford bantam, was awarded Referee Frankie (Jlennon's decision^ over Jabcz White. Albany battler, * at the end of their 12 rounds of fighting In the star bout of a bill In Hartford, Conn., last Monday night. Hartford sporting editors agreed the fight wan the most spectacular leather-pushing exchange seen in a Hartford ring In many years. Lewis was the ag- gressor throughout. The two were willing to give and take and ea< h took many a hard sock during the course of their 12-round Journey. The Southern California Jockey Club, promoted by Dick Ftrrin will break ground nrxt week near Cul- ver City for a new track to cost $240,000. Its first meeting is <x- pected 11• be h'ld in December. Louis Alberti, a 500-pound saxo- phone player, who at one time h.'"l charge of the prcbestra department of the W r . V. M. A. and who hai lately been orchestra leader at the Palmer House, Chicago, has con- 1 d to reporters that be is in love with a Palmer house manicure as well as With his Wife. "This I* noth- ing to i>* ■•named of," he is quoted as saying. ,f Bverybody in Chicago is in tbe same boat, but this boat hap- pened t«, leak." The h.ik was when ■joih' ' "hm i imk a sh o t ft th e mani-— curist, who was In an .o'tw of a traveling man, of whom Alberti h jealous. An earlier wife of Alberti is not reticent about talking ami told reporters: "Hi« present wife is getting just what «i < >. inded rnc. I had Lp make her have my hu«- bnnd albnc at that tint."