Variety (June 1923)

Thursday, June 7, 1023 VARIETY rc=? rNDON, CA*T Iasw •DeBourgh Si* jjippon Duo r»rdo A Noll M half Loun London Harry Mason Co Jimmy S*vo Co MEMPHIS state •Syneo • DHbridr* & <* yuinns' & Smith Ethel Davis Co Fori* & W«t 2d half O'NHU #t O'N'illl ■Whltin* * Dunn Adler &. Clark Band A Lloyd Jfoaa A Manning Sis MII.WALKfcK Miller folyanna t QuinnV A Pm.ih ■thel Davis Cm FOiis A W«ct OTTAWA. CAN. t . . >» Hoffman A Jessis Villon Sisters , Stolen SwttM Hqrhie Clark ■ •• <Jra««»r A I»aailor FAI.IMADISM IK f.uuls L*e « Atrial Stars, Trtlla Co PROVIDKNCE Eatery FWt.her Ot Pasa'ls t'hadwick A Taylor *B A N Walnvrrlght Senator Murphy Amaranth Sis Co (One to fill) 2d half Dreon Sisters Golden Bird DENTIST Prices within ressoa to ths profsssloa. Dr. M. Q. CARY N. W. Cor. State and Randolph fits. Second floor over Drug Sturs Entrance • W. Randolph St. % CHICAGO AGN — CHAS. FINLA Y and HILL in "Vodvil a la Mode" with E NRICO CARUSO SBORDI .• Ford A Goodrich Stars P.ecord Dew is A Rogers Lieut Thetlon Co MONTREAL Loew Mankin MHntyre A Halc'b Bob Ferns Co Mumford A Stanley Indian Reveries NEWARK, N. J. State Maxine A Hobby Lehr A Kennedy Jordan Saxton Co Harrison Moss Will Stantoa Co NEW ORLEANS Cresrcat - •Ella I.aVall •Rolley & Billy Fred Swartx Co •Bond Morse •Lytell Twins A S 2d half •Synco •Del bridge A G Geo Morton Hubert Dyer Co (Two to fill) SPRINGFIELD Broadway Hubert Dyer Co Geo Morton Golden Bird 2d h*if Chadwick A Tayl'r BAN Wainwrigbt Senator Murphy Amaranth Sis A Co (One to fill) TORONTO Younge St. Francis A Wilson A A L Wilson M Montgomery Co Lasar A Dal* Mrs. Eva Fay WASHINGTON Strand Holden & Graham Chas Martin Fay Rash 3 Wilson A Jerome Mammy 4b Gold D 1 GUS SUN CIRCUIT BUFFALO. Lafayette Rubini & Diana •Stone A Hallo Little Miss Nobody •Faber A Walters 4 Errottos CHICAGO Midway Australian Baltua Warden * Burt •3 Hoopnters E. LIVERPOOL, O. Strand Geo I."Shay Roof Garden 3 (Two to nil) FILTON, N. T. ' Quirk JACK POWELL SEXTETTE HEADLINING VANTAGES CIRCUIT Week of June 4. Winnipeg •Art—Adair •P A Reynolds Sis (Two to All) 2d half . •Blttner Brothers Mike Bernard (Three to OH) ' Mill I.ICOTHE. O. Majeetle • Dale A Toung •Tips A Tap* (One to All) CINCINNATI Cheater Park Howard & Louise Sam Lee Bernard A Erma •Herbert A Oersnon •Demure Null A V (OMMBI'S, O. Olentangy Park Genero Sisters Rossow Midgets •Ray Reid Garland A Smith CORTLAND. N. Y. Cortland Mr A Mrs S Darrow Grace Doro Morgan A Gray Mart el A Weat Dillon & Martin •Hardy Bros GARY, 1ND. Gary 2d half •Australian Ballut Burt Coleman •Eleanor* Bella Co Nelson A Nelson (Two to fill) JP.W CASTLE, IND. Grand •Prlmo Valley A D •Herbert A Binnett (One to All) NIAGARA EALLS Straad 1st half Barnes A Hamilton Knox A -McGowan (Two to fill) ROCHESTER, N. Y. Victoria Grace King Sherlocks' A Clint'n 2d halt Barnes A Hamilton Barto A Clark I'uur Tainakas (One i.. nil) MINNEAPOLIS • Hi Street Sigsbet-n Doim I^eonard A warnelt Ton* Da vies Co Desley Sisters Bender A Armetr'g Jimmy Dunn (One to Jill) ST. LOUS Grand Yost A Clody France St Jerome Stanley ft Wilsons' Gordon ft Day •Hick'y ft Hart Rev Nick Hufford Leona Hall ReV 3 Alex Knapp A Cornelia Kkydome •Jack Polk J A E Arnold Berger ft Seainon Arley A Gibson (Three to fill) SO. HEND, IND. Palace Sterling ft Uotd 6 Musical Nosses Delbel ft Waters (Two to fill) 2d half Clayton ft Lennle (Others to fill) TOPEKA. KAN. Novelty •Tom Brantford W ft M Siegfried (Two to fill) 2d half The Lampinis Anderson Young Co Mack ft Reading (One to fill) PANTAGES CIRCUIT MINNEAPOLIS Pontages •Solbina ft Nugfl Rendetta & Gray Ale k o Clark ft ONeli Canadian Band WINNIPEG Pantagee Prevost ft Goulet Cornell Leona ft Z Yvette) Co O ft H Ellsworth Cor'cida's Animals SASKATOON Pantagee (li-isy (Same bill plays ■ i i Frarikie ft Johnnie Callahan A Blisa SAN FRANCISCO Pantagee Castleton ft Mack Cronin ft Hart Speeders Walter Weems fcruiks of Araby OAKLAND, CAL. Pantagee Whirl of World LOS ANGELES Puntugrs Phil La Tosca Bid Gold A Bro Honeymoon Ship Sensational Head-Balancing Fqu Hbrltts THE ORIGINAL FOUR PHILLIPS 4June 1) Keith's Palace. New York Management: MAX liflLLIF Regina 14-16) Minton Bros Jones ft Sylvester La Tell ft Yokes Jack Powell I Foley ft La Tour. Roy A Arthur EDMONTON Pantagee Petrams •Nay Bros Casson & Clem Georgia Minstrels * Travel Ziska Ulis ft Clark Spanish Dancers Jack St rouse Redley Trio SPOKANE Pantagee Lewis ft Brown Knowles ft White H Downing Co. Marlon Clair Long Tack Sam SEATTLE Pantagee Adonia ft Dog O'Meara ft Landis Carl Mc-Cullough Alexander. SAN DIEGO Pantagrs Allen A Taxie Pr'ncTn A Vernon Dummies Nan Halpcrin Pasquallo Bros LONG BEACH Pantagee D Lyons Duo Reno Sis ft Allen Burke ft Betty Ned Norton Co Regal & Moore Hori Trio SALT LAKE Pantagee ' Five Chaplns La Pine ft Emery Marriage-Divorce Flnlay ft 11.11 Willie Bros OGDEN. t'TAII Pantagee (11-13) Equilli Bros Chick Supreme WALTER ETHEL .WARD and DOOLEY BOB MURPHY "and" suggests for your gummer vacation Bingham Beach, South RoyaltoB. It. Fred Grey Co DETROIT Colombia Stanleys Leonard A Germ'ne •Cuttner ft Hoffm'n Stanley Doyle A R •Alice Remsrn K'lahuhi Hawaiian* SPRINGFIELD, O. Regent Dublin Trio „ Talsa Sisters Roof Garden 3 (One to 111!) 2d half Geo LaShay •Welton & Marsnall I Blue Devils (One to fill) WESTERN VAUDEVILLE CHICAGO Majestic Trcnelle Trio Morgan ft Ray Lee ft Cranston Valand Gamble Rubini Sisters Gene Greene 2d half Rodford ft Madden Harry Rappl John Alden Co R'NSAS CITY, MO. Globe •Woodland Trio JACK CLIFF THOMAS and HAYMAN ECCENTRIC DANCERS Have, signed for New York production, (H AMIIER LA1N BKOWN Office "... LK '- — )g| Arnold Watson Ac St Alva Cannon Stater* 2d half Tom Brantford W A M Siegfried • Two to fin) MIIWM *#EK Majestic n< rg a English Williams & Ho* .."1 Gallets Monks M. «lbury A. Bltil Stanley & Mi-Come Johnson A Baker (One to fill) ABERDEN, S. D. Orpheum (15-16) V & M Collins •Mowatt & Mullen 'Milton ft Lehman FARGO, N. D. (•rand F A XI Collins •Mowatt A Mullen •Millon A Lehman Pole's M'ldy Maids Youth D'wn'g A O'Rourke La France Bros VANCOUVER Pantagee. The McBanns C'n'olly A Francis Telephone Tangle GaDeri hi Sisters. . Warren A O'Brien Les Gladdons BELLINGHAM Pantagee Leon ft Mitsie Purcella ft Ramsey Juliet Dike Clay Crouch Tares Falcons TACOMA Pantagee Fsrly ft Laight H Seymour Co Kranz ft White Gautler's Toy Shop Ross A Roma Lewis A Norton Hob La Salle Joe Jackson DENVER Pantagee Hope Vernon Dewey A Rogere Cave Man Love Davla A McCoy, . Harvard Holt A K COLO. SPRINGS Pantagee (11-13) (Same bill plays Pueblo H-l«) Schepp'a Clrous Lillian B'khart Co Chas Howard Co Hubbells Band Toney and George OMAHA, NEB. Pantagee Sheik's Favorite OBITUARY • CARL W. DODGE cast of "1492," which had a sensa- Carl \\. Dodge, one of the leading cellists of the Metropolitan opera house in New York City, was found shot to »1< ath last Friday morning near Brattleboro, Vt. The authori- ties stated the case as one of suicide. Dodge disappeared from Law ton Hall of the Brattleboro. Retreat last Wednesday. He had been at the .Retreat lo receive treatment for a nervous breakdown. No news of the tional run at the Casino in 1893. He had been in pictures for the last ten years or so. His wife, profes- sionally known as Mary Malatesta, survives. Interment was In Chi- cago, IN LOVING MEMORY of our dearly beloved and devoted Mother LEAH MANDEL who passed away June 3d, 1923 The Memory of her goodness still ever remain as a shining light and a living monument to her heartbroken children. EVA, SADIE, FANNY, DORA. missing man was given out until the arrival of his brother, William F. Dodge, leader of the Hotel Tou- raine orchestra, of Boston. When found the body of Dodge was about a mile from Law ton Hall. His straw hat and a revolver lay near his body. There was a ballot wound in his head. Burial was in Natick, Mass. CHARLE8 F. PIDGIN Charles F. Pidgin, author. stat Jstician and playwright, died June 4 at his home in Melrose. Mass., aged 78. At first a Journalist, he later made an intensive study into the field of statistics, becoming one of the most expert men in the coun- try in that line. This apparently dry occupation did :.ot prevent him Lady Elizabeth Robinson Greet] the beloved mother of MAURICE GREET (tor many years associated with Mr. Krlanger and Mr. Klaw) passed peacefully away on May 30, 1923, after a long Illness, at Souths.;*, England. ? from writing all sorts of imagina- tive things on the side. He wrote many novels, poems, short stories and special articles, as well as sev- eral songs and the libretti for operas, cantatas and musical come- dies. His best known novel was "Quiney Adams Sawyer." He was married three times, his first two wives dying many years ago. MRS. ANNETTE O. DE BONDY Mrs. Annette Olivier DeBondy, or- ganist of SL Jean Baptiste Church, Lynn, Mass., and widow of Prof. Joseph O. D. De Bondy, well known organist, died at her home In that city May 31, age 4 !! 69. Lwsa She was director of dramatics in the parochial schools of the city. She had been in poor health since the deu'h of her husband, several POTTER and GAMBLE B. F. KEITH CIRCUIT Direction: THOS. J. riTXPATHIOK PORTLAND, ORE. Pantagee Msrtin«-tte Conn A Alhert Klass A Mrllliant Framis Renault <;« <> Mayo Dance Evolutions Travel (Open week) Chuck Haas Whitehead A- Band Laurie De Vine KANHAS CITS Pant age* Rial A T.indstrom Little Cinderella Fernando Page Morrissey & Young Uuardnmith Rros MEMPHIS Pantnges I,a Dora A U'kman Hurt Walton Virginia Helles Rok' rs Ray & R Mendozas IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR DEPARTED MOTHER Who Passe J From Life's Stage June tth. 1922. DOROTHY RUSSELL WILLIAM WOR8LEY Wiiliam Worsley died of pneu- monia May 31 at Roanoke, Va., where Worsley and Hillard were phiying an engagement at the Keith house. The deceased was formerly with Jimmy Hussey, also with Hus- sey in "The Shimmey Police Sta- tion." Worsley has been with Hil- lard for about a year. They were playing the Keith southern houses when Worsley was taken ill and re- moved to a hospital in Roanoke. He died after a few days' illness. MRS. DALE SHANNON Mrs. Dale Shannon, stage and screen actress, died June 1 at her home in New York City after a Abort illness. She was for many years a principal with the Fore- paugh Stock of Cincinnati, and later played Lubin Films. She wus one of the leading pctresses of the Catholic Actors' QuQd and three yeirs ago played Jonn ot Arc in a benefit given by that organization at Fordham Uni- versity LIZZIE KENDAL Lizzie Kendal, in private life Mrs. James R. McCann, died May 30 at her home in Coytesville, X. J., from paralysis. The deceased was §7 :> I'iii-s of age and headed her own repertory company through the middle west during the '80's. Sub- IN MEMORY of my' beloved huabanU WEST AVEY Who passed away February «\ 1922. A Pal whose memory will live in my heart forever. LUCILLE. soqucntly Miss Kendal appeared In support of Kate Claxton, Adelaide Thurston and Kate Putnam. Inter- ment was in Brooksldc Cemetery, Englewood, X. J. Mr. McCann sur- vives. MRS. J. A. DOBSON Mrs. J. A. Dobson, aged 84, died May 29, at her home, 15 West 108th st*eet, Xew York. The deceased was a newspaper woman, and had made many translations for the IN MEMORIAM William Henry Beasley Devoted husband of Jetly and father Of the Beasley Twins. May his dear soul rest In peace. stage. She was .the mother of Mrs. Helen Avery Hardy, and the grand- mother of Dorlg Hardy. LEO FRANKEL Leo Frankel, legitimate actor, last with Lew Fields' "Snaoshots of 1922," died at Bellevue Hospital, New York, of septicamia. May 29. His death is also reported In the news columns of this issue, on page 1. • ADAM WOOD Adam Wood, 38 years old, of the former Wood Brothers' 'Vim, Beauty and Health" revue, died, after a long Illness, at his home, 3107 Xorth Front street, Phila- delphia. June 1. THOMA8 COGSWELL Thomas Cogswell, for ten years associated with the Nellie Gil) play- ers, died June 2 in the Heaton hos-* - pital, Montpelier, Vt, following an operation. Mr. Cogswell graduated from Dartmouth college in 1899. He belonged to the Odd Fellows lodge at Gilmanton Iron Works, X. H.. and the Wyoming lodge. No. 80. F. & A. M., at North Montpelier. The funeral and burial was held June 6 at Gilmanton Iron Works, N. H. ABRAHAM PHILIPS Abraham Philips, known to scores of theatrical people as. "Pop," died June 9, at his New York City h me, after a prolonged attack of dla* etes, ag^d 72. He was one «.! the pioneers of the theatre ticket business, and in recent years condu ed the first agency to be established next to Keiths Talace. After retiring from the wholesale firework business many .ears ago, he opened a ticket bureau next to the old Hay- market theatre on Sixth avenue. He was instr.mental in giving a start to Joe Leblang, who owned a small cigar « - • * opposite him. lie leaves a son, who is manager Of n 42nd street film theatre, a'nd two daugh- ters, one of whom is the wife of Mitch Marks of the E. B. Marks Musir Publishing Co. Camillo Chevillard, the leading brchestra conductor of France, died recently in Paris, age'd 64. The de r ceased was president of various French musical societies, a chevalier of the Legon of Honor and a pro- fessor of music at the Conservatory. He was also a composer of note and * a publicist with considerable pres- tlce Ths mother of Fred and Ernest-•• De Bondy died May' 31 at' Lyhn, ' Massachusetts. She is survived by a sister and two sons. Fred De Bondy is associated With the Mari- nelli Afcency Keith agents. • ..' . The mother of Samuel Schwrirtg- herg, theatrical attorney, died, on May 29. .. ■• The father of Betty Blossom, a dancer with "The Pepper Box Be- vUe," died in San Francisco on Mon- day, June 4. The mother of Winfleld Sheehan v led at her home in Buffalo, June 4. The musical stock company at the Crphcum, Oklahoma City, opened Sunday for a summer repertoire of about 26 weeks. The open in at- traction is "A Reckless Eve." The company totals 27, and Includes Madeline Randall, Tom Rofs, Jane Haxelton, Jack West, Jack Collins, Leo Lewis, Nell English. Edgar Smith, Miriam Conway, Max Ford, and 32 choristers. Jim Buckley Is the manager. months ago. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Annette Connery. formerly on the stage, wife of Con- gressman William P. Connery, Jr. The Castle, Lonp Beach, Long Island, recently taken over by the Greater Xew York Theatres Corp. (the Keith-B. S. Moss group in the Keith offices), starts with a com- bination policy of pop vaudeville and pictures Juno 15. Danny Sim- mons will book the vaudeville. The 1'ills for the summer at least will hold live acts. EDWIN B. JACK Edwin B. Jack, theatrical man- ager and agent, died suddenly May 31, In the Lambs' Club, of Xew York city. He was 61.and for many years had been associated with his cousin, Roland Reed. He was born in Phila- delphia, the son of John Jack, a* Shakespearean actor with a <iis- ttaguished n cord as an oftVer in the Civil War. The deceased began his career SS ,i reporter. He served during i he World War with the Oversea*! Theatre League GUS PIXLEY 'Ins I'ixley, prominent as a come- dian and a musical comedy favorite from 1*90 to 1910, died at Baranae Lake June 2. He arrived at the health resort nine days before his death. Tin deceased, about Bf, was a brother of Annie Plxl* y, and came of a theatrical family. He entered the show business as a youth. Dur- ing hs career he played In prac- tical!] « • i > branch of .amusements. Jl» wn,.« a member of the original MtRRfU &RfmS&iRRfUHm 1 THE HELD HAS BROADENED i I i 1 I o o SHOW BUSINESS EVERYWHERE NO MORE "PICTURES" ONLY NO MORE "SMALL TIME" XORE "BIG TIME" NOTHING BUT SHOW BUSINESS aagfigfaaaaag • . . ■ , u