Variety (July 1923)

ursday, July 12. 1923 .- V ..)»■.'t-' ^■■J- 'r-^-V],r' t^ ^^, n -' *.i ^-* ■^•^ " iJ<Wi ■ •r^Tf^-'^TO^t.- V A R I E T T B^roa Bros C« rAIJSADB* PV S Plklrtli)*, (om to on)' jMk .•r«voiT C* FREDERICKS Sheika of Arabr^ COLO. 0PB1JIQ8 , %%itd I^AMO ^Wlth OvM Mwmrdolft*va« - goorrl* 8er«n«dero ^' ^ id h&If l,ocy Oii«tte Bidden VoJceB •H«»bert Denton Co t fltats * Bingham •>*5o« Tom Four I OTTAWA, CAN. i? Loew b; Wrominc D«o Vb»rt Carlton C * T Harvty f QUS SUN CIRCUIT Flo Rlnjr Poster Girl }d hAlf John Biondy A B •NAG Vorca (One to All) • TORONTO Toanff St. Monroe A Grant •Writ A WlM Unc A I>onr Mallon A M^Cabo Muale Mania Conroy A Howard BUFTAIX) Lafayette ": jteder A Dtan p^ AM Qarrf#»r. gf Valeatlae Ve« rjioee A Roma 2d Half Bl'chard A Biaaca (Three to All) mOCBBBTKR Tlctoria ^. •■•l«l ©•■tl»« t« th« N. V. A- K. • DR. JUUAN SIECEL V ■4 >8 B»w«y < r»ti laai Blds.» 13. t Bl'chard A Blanca Jennlnge A Dorney Id JIalf Billy Bmlth Birds of Paradise ^n All Batia Tab BIAOABA PAIX8 Strand ^VBirds ol Paradise '^iTbret to flil) P- PAlfTAGSS CIRCUIT r TORONTO '■^ Pantaces .. (14-19) f Olga A Nicholas MtXrylton 81s A Mnclc ' Monroe A Gladdon ; Joaie Heather - Ifilo ^-^aul Plass 3 : HAMILTON. CAN. Pantaves (14-19) Jones A Sylvester Latell A Vokes Jack Powell S Foley A Letu^e Roy A Arthur TACOMA Pnatages Pet rams Nanda Norralne LaFranc<» A Byron Casson A Klem Georgia Minstrels r«)>niY —!* VRA VAN and VERNON 'Bheik's Favorite CHICAGO i-i:.' - Chateaa *' (16-18) 'Gen Pikano 0> Conroy A O'Donnell Clark A Story Ruloft A Biton Co Bampton A Blake Bill's Circus MINNKAPOUS Paataffea <8unday Opening) Olntaro Barry Coleman Pein A Tennys'n Co LaPetht Revue Cordon A Healey. WINNIPKQ Pantacea The Cromwells Herman A Briscoe PORTLAIfD, ORi:. Paatagea Ulls A Clark Jack 8trouse Night In Spain , Tvette Co Jack Henley t ^ Travel Adonis A Dof CMeara A Landls Poole's Melody M Youth D'ning A O'Rourke LaFrance Bros SAN PRANCI8CO Fantacee (Sunday Opening) Lewis A Brdwn Knowles A -White Long Tack Sam Harry Downing Lee Qladdona <H-17) (Same bill pdara Pueblo la) WlUrl of World • OMAHA^ NKB. W4»rld (Saturday Opening) Allen A Taixi Sid Gold A Bro Honeymoon Ship Princeton A Vernon Nan Halpeiia Pasquall Broa KANSAS CITY Pantarea (Saturday Opening) I^ePeron Trio Cronin A Hart. Dnmmiea Carl MoCallooxh Horl Trio De Lyons Duo Burke A Betty Ned Norton Co Marriage va-Dlv'rc^ Regal A Moorr DKTROIT, • ' R«veni<^ ' LaDora A Beekman Rogers Roy A R Cave Man Love Bert Walton Mendeaaa• j Kiekev Broa LaVollas ' * Jack Do rah Oklahoma Four Little Cinderella Trangor A Band DBNTIST Prieea wlthla reaaoa to the profeeploa. ., * Or. M. 0. CARY M. W. Co'r State and Randolph Sta Second floor over Drug Store entrance I W. Randolph St. CHICAGO p«it. ^e^itsa^ Is .Vary fond of Buda* pest, «|id she iksi manly Xrienda litrs. It la. tharafora, that baaides Y4eiraa and New York, ^ud««peat ia the onl> city ah^ goes to In apite o| the brll- IkiDt offers . she waa made from Parte and Londbn. She only Sapi; twico.*^ Once 8h)e saas in Strauas' **ROft«nkava!!er."; and for the second tJme ahe sang "Todcii.* In spite that the B^atM -«rere extreme!v high (50,000 crowns, a box) th^ ticketa were booked ali in Advance^ 8he was ehthuatiii^ticaUy. ehoered.. pari- tlcularly.'wh^n singing "Toaca."- • WESTERN VAUDEVILLE CHICAGO LaVere A ColllM Flake A Fallon •D Darling A Boys CUyton A Lennia Georgalia Trio (Three to ftll) ADKRDEKN, k. D. Orpheunk (14-U) D A Leyanker Sia Karemer A Breen Burnum Three Ralphs DKS 1101NB8, IA. Bivervlew Park Gillette A Rita P A M Collins (Three to SlI) FARGO, N. D. CJrand (Three to ftll) Sd half Wagner A Lata S Roman Gypsies (Three to All) MILWAVKBK Majeptie Daahingt'n Animals VIsacr Co Damarel A Vail ' Warden A Burt C Musical Nossea Arthur Aagel 9 Regala (One to fill) . 0T. LOUIS :r>.' Qnuid Oh San A Bro . Jimmy Dunn Wilson Aubrey t Ramadell A Dcyo Brown A LaVelie HENRI MARGO , assisted by MARGARITA MARGO. ARDATH OK 8ALRS and HBLENB BETH Direction EAGLE * OOLD8M1TB •D A Layanker Sis Burnum Kraemer A Breen 3 Ralphs 2d half Myers A Sterling (Three to fill) KANSAS CITT Globe Sweet A Hill Falrman A P^rman Gilbert Wells Bchos of Scotland Browning A Rob'rts 8kydome Weber A O'Brien Coulter A Rose Marie Corelll Co (One to fill) Sd half Lee Hing Chin •Grace Manlove Co Sweet A Hill (One to fill) Shakespearean 8eriea A scri«H of Shakespeare playg is opening at the National, Budapest, at the end of the season, including "Hamlet." "Othello," "King Lear," "Romeo and Juliet," "Merchant of Venice" and "Midsummer Niiht's Dream." The production and Acting of the Shakespearean plays at the National are excellent and quite modern. At the last performance of "King Jpear" they tried to indicate staging with magic lantern slides. The best Hun- garian Shakespearean performers are Oacar Beregl, Arpad Odry, Imre Pethes and Julius - Gal. ' Our best Shakespearean actor (.nd prod^icer, Jeno Ivanfy. died last year. It la rather Interesting to note that Shakespearean plays form the greater part of the National Thea- tres annulii repertory. There is also a Shakespearean Society in Buda- pest. ,...-: ^. .,'.'-. The theatre world of Budapest Just celebrated the twenty-flfth ' anni-* vet-ary of Laszlo Bcothy, one of tHe most popular producers here. Beothy is the director of the "Union Trust,'* and is in charge of several theatres^ He began his career as Journalist, but when. - 23 years of «ge, and be- came director of the National the- atre. (National and the Oper{( house are under government direc- tion). I w I '» m LONDON v?,V: •-""•k4: *Ar« "Toil a Mason?* seems lllcely to becoma aabl^r a stayer as "Char- ley's Aunt"-or ^Tho'Prlvate Seere- tary." Three companies are to go on the road immediately with the faroe. ■'• • u *• •'« '^ ^ •••■ i..ii;..j.A y'-i. • *.. '.^ir**.*'' AGNES— —CHA8. FINLAY and HILL in *<Vodvil s la Mode" with ENRICO CARUSO SBORDI Dalton A Craig lies Geliis S Ben Barton Revue BDMONTON. CAN. . Paataffca Massing Parade Fred Ardath •• Betty Byron ? Little Toshl "^ Burton 81a : OALGAKY, CAN. Pantagea (ie-i8> Wilfred DuBols Frances A Day Alexandria Opera C I>obbs Clark A D B'way to DIaleland Xeno Four BPOKANK Pantacea (Sunday Opening) Marion Claire liOfl ANGKLE8 Pantagea Leon M.ttxi Pur^ella A R'msey Juliet Dlka Clay Crouch C!o Krana A White Three Falcone Zlaka BAN DllfiOO Pantagrc* McBanns Connolly A Francis Telephone Tangle GallcrinI Sla Warren A O'Brien Gautler's Toy Shop LONG BBACn Hoyt . Martinet EDDIE BORDEN Tom Milla Weber A Elliott Spectacular 7 Rinaldo SEATTLE PanUgea ta^Selblnl A Nagel _ RenaettI A Orny C'lark A ONeil • Canadian Band VANCOUVER, B.C. Pantages V Prcvost A Cloulet Cornell Leona A Z Alcko Grew A Pates ' orraUlnl's Animals Romeo A Dolls BRLT.ING1IAM Vandevllle <1&-16) Win loo Broa Early A I^iffht Klass A Brilliant Oeo Mayo Francis Renault Dance Evolutions SALT LAKE CITY ■ PnntxMres (lS-24) I^urie Devine Frankle A Jo^nny Harry Beyntour Co Chuck IIoAS Callahan A Blt1<n Whitehead A Band OGDRN, UTAH Orpheam (19-23) Castleton A Mt.ck llartz Krisfo Kldd n OiKa Mlnhka fipeedcrw Walter Weema BUDAPEST mPORTAHT (Continued from page 8> the Lyceum, New York, in Septem- ber. Mr. Miller plans to perform Molnar's play. "The Swan." with Eva le Oalienne. At the beginning of the season Russell Janney is going to produce Lengyel's famous "Kingdom of San- cho Pansa," a new play by the au- thor of "The Typhoon," and the "Czarina." The comic hero Saneho Pansa is well known, out of Cervan- tes' "Don Quixote." This play was produced at the National. Budapest, with the famous actor, Kalman Rozsahegyl, in the lead. Another play of Lengyel's is going to be produced In New York called 'Madame Lara," with a big dramatic Viennese shows are running on all operetta stages of Budapest. (This is quite natural considering Vienna is Ave hours* distance from Budt^- pest). TWO Lahar Shows were opened lately, "Yellow Coat" at tiie King's and "The Three Graces," ai the Operetta. "Yellow Coat" was a failure but the "Three Graces" Was I successful. The "Xl)ree Graces" Wa^ originally caUed "LlbeUentansl" It was entirely rewritten for the Buda- pest stage by Haraanyi who made an ostentatious American sort of a show out of it. Irene Biller, the soubret, had a brilliant success in it Wilhe l^elsten onderyent his pufolie eidlmination «ln t^ankfuplcy Jun«4!7. Ha stated he faiied .U 1912 as' a variety ag^t and went' to America in 1314. After 1920 he was engaged in producing plays here. Ho -producei^ "The Charm School" at the Comedy and "Polly With a Past' at the St. James. His losses c^n these two plays were £7,000. His state- ment of affairs showed unsecured liabilities £3.658 and assets nlL . J. R Vedrenne will produce "May and September," the new piece by Horace Hodges, author of "Grumpy," either to follow "Secrets" at, rhe Comedy or at the Royalty in the autonin. This comedy waa recently tried out in the provincesi * ;- ':% The authorities are still t^usy weeding out the bogus and undesir- able agents; Jean Straker has juft had his license revoked by the Lor^- don County (Council follbWing a' con- viction for selling intoxicants in pro- hibited hou^s. It .appears, he. hod also been ^sing his agency offices Improperly as a club. His police court appertranCe" had "^prevlotisly cost him £191. .;,#;':•?>•' ■' ' ' ■■ ' :'; A man called William Thompson, with an alias, described as a theat- rical agent, Was lirought up in the Shomeld Poliqe Cdur( charged with obtaining money tr<Ati revue gtrfs. His method was to engage them and then get 19 shilMngs from each for their fares to fiie^opening town-^ Southampton. Inquiries proved f)o such show had been booked there nOr had rehearsals been arranged for. When "arrested scores ot addrssM^ were found on him and Jie had svi* deatly been doing well. He waa re* mamded ^ custody, .■■ << «■»■■♦•^,,.. Out .of the <lO-odd mnsle halls la J/>ndon only, eight are runninir vaudeville, whils Manchester, hasn't any At .all'. .The > conditions are very much the same throughout tbs country. -^r;r Nan Marriott-Watson, who sprang into sudden Xame when Sir Alfred Butt discovered her playing in her own piece, "Lass o* Laughter,'* in the provincea, has written a new play, entitled "Before Sunset" This will be produced at Brighton July t, and Will be toured. The cast wlU in- clude Sam. Uvteey, Drew Maolntoali. Frederic Leister, Joan Barry and tte authoress. Plades of entertainment are 'stm closed in Dublin owing to the aoaa- agerial dispute with the employes. Conferences tal(e> place daily in the hope of settlement meanwhile l,Mf people ajr^ .<|iut of work. Paul Davidson will produce a ver- sion of Lord Disraeli's novel. "Tan- cred.'^ at the Klngsway July le. Ths play la in prolog and three acta. The prolog is set in White's Club, and ths remainder of the piece takes place in Jerusalem. Davidson was the man- ager Hrho ran an ambitious bat' short-lived season of Yiddish lAiys at the Scala some time ago. He also spoke of running an Bngllsh season of Yiddish plays in the West Bnd, but the project failed to materiallsa. "Aren't We Alir finishes at ths Globe July 14. After a rest Maria Ix)hr will go on tour with "Tha Laughinc Lad3N" "Reckless Reggie** will be produced at the Globe July II with a cast including Eric Lewls^ John Deverell and Austin Melford* j,>. quated State Opcrahouse. ■*: All in all, quite a mix-up. but a healthy one for the Berlin opera life. the coming men here, turned down role for a great actress, like that diJ-the proposition. Then they' tAed "Madame X.** The play Is very in teresting from the point of view that besides the chief part there is an- other one of a young girl who is dumb until the last scene. Theatres Lively in June In Budapest theatrical life is In- tensive in June. There are many openings and foreign shows. In the jComedy, owned by the American, Ben blumenthal, Lakatos' play, "The •Four Evening Dresses," has opened. The story of this interesting play is that a woman has four admirers. Her husband wants proof of her lovers. He sends an expensive jewel to his wife. The woman tries to find out the sender of the Jewel. Bach of the admirers says he sent it. The jewel turns out to have been stolen, and the police are looking for it. The lovers withdraw, of course, and the woman goes back to her husband, who arranged the whole affair. The play is a success. Orbok's play, "The Fanthom," was less successful at the Ren.iiBsance. It is of a young girl who makes a splendid career on the stage on ac- count of a reporter's Idle rumor that she was the mistress of the king. Two American Plays Two American plnys will open next H€a«on in Budapest theatres. One Is "The Great Lover." Ditrlch- stein and nation's play. Arthur Scmlay, the excellent Hungarian ac- tor, will appear in the chief role. The other is O'Noll's "Anna Chri.stic." Both adapted l,y Mekhoir Lengyel. This is the first play of O'NeilH on a llunrarlan Btage. ' , Caba'ret life is gay and very ac- tive in Budapest. Cabaret llttera- tiu-e ia of a very high standard and here the short and partly comical plays of the best authors are per- formed. Social and political ques- tions are treated here in a strong satyrical way. Beverut. TBEMENEOTJS STIR-TJP * (Continued from page 8) Leo Blech, general musical director of the State Operahouse, and he ac- cepted the position, a very power- ful one. This left the State Operahouse. formerly the leading one in Ger- many, in the position of being with- out a single first rate conductor, and they have been trying feveri.«ihly ever since to get somebody. They also tried to entice Klemperer, but he demanded among other things a ten years' contract, to be guaranteed against a change of government. (Just how he thought such a guar- antee could be given by the govern- ment, which might itself be changed, Is not known.) So that put him out of the question, and at present the situation is rather hopeless. Another burning question Is that of the Kroll Operahouse, which be- fore the war was used for perform- ances, but has been In a dilapidated condition for years. This was sup- posed to be taken over by the Volks- oper (people's opera), but It ap- pears that the leaders of the Volks- buehne (People's Organization), which was supporting the Volks- oper, quarreled with that organiza- tion and now are giving their sup- port to - the Staatsoper. So the Staatsoper Intends to take Kroll away from the Voil<80per. This would lenve the VolHkopcr witiiout a home, u» the Theater dcs We.«ten«, in which they arc now playing, Is talten over in 1924* by the Rotter Brothers. All the Berlin musical critics have taken sldrg again-^t the Stattsopci* and for (ho V,oll<Kopor, be- ca«.^c in one y^'ar thi« new organiza- tion ha,u built up an excellent en- scmljle and it is boUcvevl. ih/ey will In the bogmning of June, Jerllza bo .able to do much more with th*- played at the opera houKC of Buda- Kroll theatre than with the anti- something New Berthold Viertel has gotten to- gether an organization which he calls "Die Truppe" (The Troop), and which, is really something hew in the theatrical line. The members have bound themselves during the winter months to take on no film engage- metits but merely to Work in the theatre, and in the summer the or- ganization will make its own films. They have already* made a con- nection with Director Heinz Salten- burg, from whom they have rented the Lustsplelhaus from the 15th of September to the 81st of December. The object of this troop is to get together a real ensemble which will wbrk sincerely together towards the end of an all-around performance. Already many excellent actors have been engaged, among whom should be named Sibllle Binder, of Muenchen; Johanna Hpfer, of Ber- lin; Fritz Kortner, Frigga Braut of Hamburg, and Lothar Muethel, of Berlin.. The Idea Is an excellent one, but it seems doubtful whether they will be able successfully to carry it through, as Viertel, the director, has not as yet shown himself a strong enough personality for such an en- terprise. The festivals in Munich, which take place as they did last year In August and September under the di- rection of Carl Muck, will include among others the following works: Pfitzners "Palaestina," Richard Strauss' "Elektra," "Salome," "Ari- adne" and "Rosenkavaller," and Mozart's "Zauberfloete." No Young Qirl in Theatre An amusing incident occurred a short time ago at the Wiener Burg- theater, the famous old theatre, which is celebrated the world over for Its .exquisite performances of the society drama. A famous dra- matist was staying In Vienna and it was planned to give him a dinner at which should be present the young- est and most beautiful actresses of the Burgtheater. (The dramatist wanted to select one of these girls for the leading role in a new play.) But when they came to actually carry the thing out, they found that there existed at the present time not a single young girl In the Burg- theater. There was, for example, Lllll Marberg, whose chief forte was playing women of 40; Maria Meier, excellent In the role of an old spin- ster; Mr«. Wilflbramlt U a grnnt- grandmother, while the other women Levinsky, Dcvrlent-Reinhold and •Anna Kallino, all have grown-up chlTdrf n, and M.irle M^yen and Alma Scidl«r, the youngest, have already both been niarried over five years. Th^, of cpuiTHC, seems even stranger to us AmorlcanH, who «oe in the P«»rs#ft9 of Marg.Tle <Jr»lmoro and Jeanne Eagels our coming stars. Max Reinhardt's Oifficufty Although Max Relnhardt has stated that he is to go to America In the fall and that he will prob- ably stage there the "Miracle,** Strindberg's "Drenmplay," and, per- haps. "Danton's Death," by Oeorv Buchner. yet at the. same time has entered into a contract to taks ovsr a new thi^atre on Kurfurstendamm, which is to be built for his benefit His brother is taking ohargs of thsi business for him. This new theatrs is to ^ a i'eaction from his last eixperimeni liers, the Crosse Schau" spielhaus. which seated S.OOO; ths present theatre is to hava only lOOt seats, all comfortable arm ehalrs; and tha floors covered with thick carpet. There is to be no balcony, merely a few boxes, and the lobty is to be in the form of an elegant salon in which the public may walk or lounge during the Intermission. Ths stage itself will be large in propor- tion to the size of the auditorium a^ will he fitted with all modern technical devices. An interesting point that has now come up is a lawsuit against Reln- hardt by Director Eugen Robert* who owns the theatre which stands next door to the lot on which Reln- hardt ia to build the Theater am Kurfuretendamm. The two lots are owned by the same company and Robert is suing on the ground they have no right to rent the second lot to a business which would bs such strong opposition for him. " Foor Vsriety Bills '^^ The strike of the vaudeville per- formers, which apparently ended last week, does not really seem to bs all over, as many in the prov- inces are not satisfied with the re- sults reached here. Manager Klein, the head of the Managers' Associa- tion, has made a statement that ths minimum salary (800,00^ marks a month, or, in other words, $2) is not meant to be the lowest living wage^ as none of the performers receive as low an amount as this, while ths normal is between four and ten times the lowest and many acts re- ceive as high as SO times. Ths Performers' Association will taks some stand on the matter this weelu An interesting example of the In- efficiency of some German laws Is the case of Eugen d'Albert, the fa- mous composer and solo pianist Before the war he made a Lontract with the "Qrelmaskcn" publishing houRo for them to control his next two works on a royalty basis and to pay him a lump surt of 60,000 marks besides this. A.<» this now reprcacnta only the sum of &0 cen^ d'Alb^rti n«tiirally asked for an equivalent of the pre-war value. This the "Dreimaskcn" Publishing House refused and the case would probably havo gono to court and havo been lost l.y d'Albert, but at the last moment a settlement was made between the two attomeyi employed In the ease. When are th( Germans going to make a senslbK ruling In this matter? % 4 ik