Variety (July 1923)

tv 10 V r a 5C A / V A R I B T y ''l>^rT ■•-"'■'..'y' '-P^i ». ,<• •^ TiMiriday, Jul^ U, 1923 ■•J The Season's Greatest Novelty D. APOLLON AND CO. in '*BI-BA.BO^ ; ONE OF THE MANY FAVORABLE PRESS COMENTS , World's Foremost Mandolinwt "^^*^ 3079 B. F. KEITH'S NEW BRIGHTON TRACK •; Entire Act Conceived and Staged by D. APOLLON WINNERS AT A GLANCE 1—( Roon.y A B.nt) tD. Apolion 5 DMd H«at But, if Rooncy waH a knockout at this track lust Monday night. D. AiMillon,' described on the program as the mandolin wizard, was Just ai« much a rift in his own act. Apollon. however, is more than a man<?ollM wizard, although he plays that instrument as American audiences have never heard It played beforehand, probably, will never hear it played again. He is a piano wizard and, above all. he Is a wizard of the Russian tlance. Surijounded by a company of three, he has concocted an act that is the epitome of everything that real high-class vaudeville calls for. At the'curtain of this turn, the applauae was amazing. And every bit of It was richly deserved, Apollon has one of the flnest acts now playing on the American vaudeville stage. ■•■,- /■• . -.' ■*, WUh MISS ROMONA, VIRGINIA BACON and PAVLOV STARTING ORPHEUM TOUR at ORPHEUM, MINNEAPOLIS (July 22), Thanks to JOE SULLIVAN BALTIMORE By ROBERT F. 8i8K ARK.VA—'Pinafore." CENl'URY—"Children of Jazz." NEW—"The Ragged Kdge.*' , PARKWAY — *Mary of the Movies." WIZARD—"Mary of the Movies." f;ARI)l':X—Pop vaudeville and •Boston Blackie." HIPPODROMR—Pop vaudeville and ' .Mice Adame." Buaino.ss for the opening week Of the Hopper company at Carlln's Park started off/airly with a reoeti- tion of "The Mikado" thls^ week. •Pinafore" also got off to a mild start, but as 'Mikado" picked up nicely the latter part, "Pinafore" is JAMES MADISON says j The older we get the sharper I we become. And why not? I Isn't life a continual grind? | { VERSATILITY is a requisite in modern nuthor- .ship. I write anything that calls for a laugh, be It vaudeville, muaical comedy, burlesque or moving pictures. My Mirth Laboratory is at 1493 Broadway, New York. JFOR TOP-NOTCHERS ONLY I i.'^.siK' monthly 'a COMliDYj .Sl»:il\ ICH. con.-^i.stiniy: of really new and original yionologue ahd gagging nmtcrlal. Small in size but supreme in qual- ity: II numbers ready. Will send for $12. or any 4 for J5. Single numbers %2. Toatly $15 (twelve numbers). ezpdi*ted to do the s-ime. while "Ro^in Hood" *nr>xt week is looked upon to r<»pe.it its success of last year. A-swimmlnR pool has been opened under tlje Maryland iheatre for the benefit of the Keiih artists playing the house. The pool is of fair depth. 5*1: feet at the deep end. and permits a good dhf and a few- strokes to the far end. It is part of a Turkish bath unit which has been out of use for some years. .^. Law- rence Sehinl)er;;tr. manager of the Maryland, is responsible for Us re- opening. BOSTON By LEN LIBBEY A cancelled headliner in a .July bin doesn't make a house nianagor particularly gleeful. Tom Buike. heavily exploited as a phenom tenor from London nnd headlined, failed to show, sending In.Htead a most elo- quent telegram filled with heartfelt regrets conrorning an attack of laryngitis. This was pasted In the Keith lobby simultaneously with large "No Money HeCunded" signs in the box offlce. Joe Fejer's Hunyarian Orchestra was jumped in from New York and filled the gap in the bill, but it couldn't fill the rap In the house. Charley Irwin in his single lamped with an imusual hold due to clean showmanship rcUJier than stunts. the house Monday night and pro- ceeded to ad lib about "these must be the open spaces we should seilc In the summer." At that, it was more than haK a house, and it v.as a glorious sunshhiy day ouisiUv at 8.30 at night. ^ Palermo's Canines opened a lute running bill, playing against a stia^'- gllng bunched front orche>tra. whl?h was st^ll filtering in at almost nine o'clock all through MarRaret MoKee. billed as the California Mocking Bird and getting away with a straight whistling and bird mim- icry routine devoid of any oripcinal- Ity. The hand she received was n surprise, but generosity, «<»ntinued all through the evening, a i»ort of sympathetic camaraderie sprii!s»in;,' up between the acts and the audi- I \ new organiaation comprisiim ence, something unusual for Bo.-Jion ! Hori) L. Weil. (IJoim 0»-<)ss and Har- DETROIT By JACOB.SMITH PhotoplayF»-"Chiidren of Jazz." Capitol; "Scars . of .Jealousy," .Vdam.**; "Thf^ J^hock." Broadway- Strand; The (.Jreatcst Menace. Fox- ^Vilshing^u^l. , A new song 'Rain^' written by Seymour Simons is being heanl for tlie first time this week at the Cap- itol, wheie it s having a special preset^tatlon by 11 nward O. I'ierce. Jorome H. Reniick wllT publish it. Simons is a l^etioitcr whti has writ- ten mahy hits. ,-J . v ; <; * Cady, I^anslng. and W, S. McLaren of .larkson, has taken over the New Desmond at Port Huron, which Herb Weil will continue to manage. These nun already control tht-aiies In Michigan an«; it is very likely that they wil' exfiand Iheii iioMings during the coming .\ear, I'recl S5obei\ie Is boolcing five acts weekly at the Colonial. ■-•,<. CHARLES HORWITZ Author of hun<lr<dM of f.ainous Bkctchm. •oiiRH, nionuloKUfs and other material. Exrlu9lv«> arts to onler. Some exCtMl»«nt ■••tipffi on hand. Ask Fred Bower*. Al. U. Wllion/ Bobhy Barry, Hap* Robert and «'o.. Oracle PJtntnett ami Co.. l<«onard and ■Whlin«.v. Waltor LoKoy, Julian Rose, Hen Welt h, S.mi Sidinun. A (Ml •*«.«» C ilAHI.KH lIOnWlTZ I'J^S Ka.-it K.th St •. 'Brooklyn N T. Tol'-phL-rK' Mnlwood lOOiiT EDDIE MACK TALKS: ^o. 142 Hawthorne and Cook, a couple of comics making them laugh at Keith's Palace* New York, this week, credit part of their success to the clever comedy wardrobe from Eddie Mack. Realis* ing they should bi^ck up their material with good comedy clothes, they visHed the foremost theatrical tailor and were just as pleased with their stage attire as they have been in the past with their nifty up-to-the-minute street and social outfits. MACK'S CLOTHES SHOP MACK BUILDING Just a atep Bast of Broadways oo 4Ath Street BERT 18 AT THE 46th STREET STORE and apparently inspired b.v tlie knowledge that things were runniua: raf?{;^ed backatage. Joe Bennett and Kdward Hich;ud<. iiriing the dark stage and meii>il»"a- matic shot to open their blaclvi'.ice act, need material and need it at oiue. On«' of the boys Is a r«^a! stepper and put the ac^ ovit, l)Ut with .snappy material. regar|llo.>:.s of age, they would have a real a( t. Pepita Granados. flanked by Marian Dale and Grace Muroft'. in Spanish and Oriental dancing, and Frances Wrager. a violinist. stti«p«'d the bill Into high. Bare-le?ri?fd to the clout, they apparently got by the city censor on the ground they wcr',- clu.^slc daneer.s. aud quite properly so. A ccn.sor who could find offriise in their act could find aigrettes on a herring. Charles Irwin, a delightful .'^ii.'.;!.^ that is a sort of'a hybrid batsM^ii .Julius Tanuen and the late Clifton Crawford, ran things his own w.iy with little exertion and with i]\o type of monologue that can rot urn the summer and draw real shckel.s into lonesome box offices. Hf^ was a totigh si>ot for McKay and At dine to follow, and McKay knWv It. Miss Ardlne's first dance is unwisely cos- tumed for a performer not Inclinf^d to slcnderne.ss, and her later ap- pearance in black did herself jus- tice, and the team closed with the'r normal bang. It was unwise lay- out to stick M<^Kay in directly after Irwin.* Joe Fejer's Hungarian Orchestra, with no novelty other than the zymbol, had to make Itself known, but these seven musicians, working only on stringed instruments, prob- ably found easier going in Boston than the>^ would have encountered in the a\-,.?e city. Most of their numbers w..re classical and off-stage arguments marred one muted violin solo, an incident without precedent in this model house. The "WTiite Sl.sters in next to clos- ing pulled the noisiest hand of the night, actually stopping the-show, due mainly to pep and personality rather than to material. The slen- der sister is developing her clown-. I ing and shoulrf keep It up. I The Harvard - Tj^nfred - B r \) c o aerial ring trio closed an earlv bill vey I..i|)p of Cvmi iluion; Claiido SUMMER SHOES White, colors and cliic coni- biiiatioiis in daintv for all occas^ions. designs ANDREW GELLER 1656 Broadway NEW YORK CITY At 6l«t Street NOW ON DISPLAY A WONUKKFl'L COLLECTION OF MID-SUMMER- . HATS Something Different. 160 W. 45th St., New York City Two Doors East of Broadway* 10% 0«M«Mi1 t* M. V. A.'t lr«M aa N. V. X. ALSO TO PROFRSSIONAL8 ^^ -.1 ■><• i 'i — J-i- NELSON CHAS. AND ^■% ANNOUNCE THEIR NEW DANCING STAR m