Variety (July 1923)

Xhiffsday. Ji»ly^l». ^ft^^ VARIETY as -SkUhom* Four 2d H«lt Valaa Biatera Goddea Trl« ^ ^ ' ' Florence York fo Holland Jk Fit.t>*r Fid Gordon 2d Half 3 Dla« Slafora * ; Savoy A WHllama Hart A Ktarna B MorraU* •, , THE STYLSSH SIDE BY PAM .•» V' .. 1 (On* to mi) WESTEKN VAUDEVILLE CHICAGO IUj«*tl« ««sh'.ton's Anlinala lpiirord-Wa> ne Co Iftrthttr Angel Cfd'Ja Brax Clrcua Warden * Burt f^e Lelanda |Tw« to flU) .• MIUTAIEKB Bl»«b«e*« I>o»s Ar»o A Virginia P Darllnr & Beys Ollb«rt Wella Kent A Allen Wllliama A Clark Jlmmx Lyona ^r«e Alexa HO. BBND, IND. Slnger'a Mldgfta 8T. liOVIS Grand LAVere A Colli i>a Doree Slatcra Healy A Uacnella Lane A Harper Skipper K'n'dy A R •Hill A Cajneron Moro A Reckleaa 2 (Two to nil) gkydome •Cooper A Seaman Wagner A I^ta Roman Oypaiei The Ore gory a PANTAOES CIRtnriT fiAN rRAKiCISCO Pantos^' (Sunday Opening) Adoiiia A Dogs O'Moara A l^ndls Melody Maids Youth D'ning A O'RourUe I.aFrance Hr»>8 Grew A Bates A S Co TORONTO raiiUgee ^. (21-2<> V mil A Blond y ^ Ghan Moral I Co Carlson yia Kllecn Bert Walton Mendozaa MAMLTON. CAN, raatagea (;i-26) Olgai A NIoholH ■ Xrylton Hla A Mark Venroe A Crattop Josie Heather ? mio . „ Faul Blesfl 3 MINNEAPOUS Pantases L (Sunday Opening) |L General Pisano i Conroy A O'Donhell t Clark A Story '. Rttlott A Elton "' Hampton A BUke f:J|[IIl'a Orcua BDMONTOV. CAN. Pantacea OlBtaro 1- Barry Coleman Peln A Tennyson LaPetitt R#vuo Gordon A Healey Tarn Gibbons CAIXIART, CAN. Paiitar«a (t3.26) , The Cromwclls - Rerman A Briscoe balton A Craig L«a8 Oellls % Ben Barton Rcy MPOKANS Pantaffca ♦ Sunday Opening) Passing Parade ' ' 8K.4TTL1: h Paatagcs ■ Weber A Klllott Wilfred DuBgIs llpe<^tacular 7 KiCota , Pobbs Clark A D F B'way to Dixie ^'tANCOL'VEB, B.C. ^ Paatacea (ffUitbini A Nagle % Renxettl A Gray ; Aleko •; Dorothy Lewis Alexandria Opera Dorothy Nielson BELUNGHAM VaadevUle (22-23) ^^ Prevent A Goulet Cornell I^ona A 7. Romeo A Dolla Rinaldo torradini's Animals TACOMA '^Pantages WInton Bros Jones A Sylvester LaTeU A Yokes J Powell 6 Foley A Lature Roy A Arthur rOBT1.AND, ORR. PanCacca Petrams Nada NorraiiM WPrance A Byron Caasen A Klem Georgia Minstrels Travel (Open week) » nils & Clark Jack Strauss Night In Spain ,. Tvette Co Jack Hedley t LOR ANGELES Pantages T>ewie A Brown Knowlen A White Harry Downing Marion Claire ' Long Tack Sarii Lea Gladdens SAN DIEGO Pantages Peon A MltKle Purcella A KanMi-y Juliet DIka » Clay Croueh Co Kranx A White 3 Falcons Zlska IX>NG BRACII Hoyt McBanns Connelly A Frances Telephone Tangle (iRllarinl Sisters Warren A O'Brien Uautier's Shop SALT LAKE CITY Paatacea (26-31) Martinett Early A Lalght Klass A Brilliant Oeorge Mayo Francis Renault Dance Bvolutlons OGDEN. UTAH Orptienm (26-30) T^arie Devine Frankle A Johnny H Seymour Co Chuck iraas Callahan A Blie^ Whitehead A Band COLO. SPRINGS Bams (23-24) iSanie bill plays Pueblo 25) Castleton A Mack •Hertx A Frisco K Olga MIshka Speeders Walter Weems Sheik of Araby OMAHA. NEB. Worid (Saturday Opening) Whirl,of World KANSAS CITY Pantages (RAturday Opening) Allen A Taxi Sid Gold A Bro Honeymoon Ship Princeton A Vernon Pasqualll Bros MBMTHIS Pantages Deperon 3 Cronin A Hart Dummies Carl McCullough Hon I. . . . DETROIT Regent Rial A Lindstrom D^Pace Dewey A Rogers Chick Supreme Morrisey A Young Uuardechmidts Miles LaDora A Beckman Ilogers Roy A R Cave Man Love Hickey Bros Quite Uie prettiest picture in town this week Is Martha Morton (Doolcy and Morton) at the Palac?. Her beauty, pei-sonality and talent form a triumvirate that will take much compotitlon to beat. Martha's first dress was youthrul and 'savored of the tennis court. It Is a lifiht shade or French blue sweateif'with' a white pl*^led akirt. Sport shoes and .siocklnss of whlto concluded fhe outfit. The r.ext is a dancing frock of light sliver cloth maJe with a circular skirt, a tlosely cut waist and^in Inverted triangle of rhine stones at the hack. This dress~is the b*st niodel. bar none, that has been seen at the I'alace this summer, probably the fecret of the sm^cess of the costume is that it gives a generous view of Miss Morton's figure.' The baby Martha of the Morton family is by far the most beautiful, Including the in-laws. Her dancing Is original and shows practise. While her voice is not loud nor ^ulturcd, it \u>h a personality all its own. Martha can sing a song. -V Bckefi's Theatre Grotesque Is a riot of the major colors and* escapes violent contrasts. "Tchas-Toush-Ki," danced by Mme. Julie JUekefi, Gregory Dnelstroff and Fyodor Ramsh is a dainty and true replica of the peasant folk danot. I'his whole act has the local Russian atmos- phere. Lowell Sherrtian, in an ejiitomized version of "Lawful Larceny." has not the time to be as much as a devil as he was In the play, but he got results in the sketch. His eyes were made up too heavy. Very well turned out are the women of the cast. Nell Carrington wears a stunning modQl of closely set brilliants on chiffon over silver cloth. Miss Carring- ton Is the lightest of ash blonds. The lemon yellow with pink roses Olga Leo wears is fetching with her dal'k brown coloring. The girt of the Scanlon-Denno Bros, and Scanlon turn should not wear gold slippers with that black costume. This is a good dancing act. Fen- ton and Fields make the grade by their dancing. Three of their gags have been used in the Palace within the month. "Pinafore" is the "Piece de Resistance" by the Lopex band. It would seem by their interpretations that a lot of histrionic ability Is rampant in this orchestra. A new tableau Lopez Is giving this week. The White Sisters are delectable in their little white taffeta rompers edged with narrow blue ribbon. These infantile performers have an insidious something that the audience likes. Another model of lace over blue Is sweet and becoming. / . ■ ^ This week's show at the .Palace Is esentially a' "Donclng Bill." and all the dancing is par excellence. . . -. The low cut gym suits of Benson and Me'vino, at L.oew's American the first half, are the lowest cut sieen so far on an acrobat. The balancing stunt of this act Is a mar\'el of complexity. High Tower and Jones wear an \itterly new idea in silk hats. Thej' are excellent buck dancers. Tho-riding hlablt worn by the girl of .Schaffer, Wagner and Fowter is an atrocity. A dress of some kind would be a great Improvement. The riding habit is as much out of order as the riding boots of the man. There Is no reason for this equestrian touch, and plain walking trousers never have been the style, tucked into boots. h:ither riding trousers or nhoes must be substituted. The coffee yellow and «mauve dress the girl wears at the finish Is much better for her. For the acts carn-ing Victrolas, why not Improve the golden train ride by buying a lot of Berlitz language records, and gather a smattering of some foreign language. Time spent In this pursuit is much more profitable than knitting sweaters or making Christmas presents, on the long Jiunps. The portable Victrola costs about $15, and this. Including cost of records, I;: a good and cheap way to learn a language. .».«. An endless controversy Is one of the relative merits of rldinc: s'de- .saddle or astride. Of late years the greater percentage of women have adopted astride. Consequently, there are fewer good horse women. The structure of the female frame is not conducive to controlling a horse through the knee grip. That Is w)iy side-saddle was accepted In the first place, to assure a purchase for the frailer hold of the woman rider. .Slde-paddle riding became the vogue during the reign of a queen who had hip dlaease, and it was up.to the time of tTie world war, an art to master. ^ One to be a good rider and in fashion liud to do something mor* than hire a horse and groom and saunter, andlhey mostly do saunter forth. Frequently is heard that the Ride is a strained position. That is a por- tender It is becoming a lost art. The side-saddle rider should sit just as even with the horses ears aa a man does astride. Out of the many on the bridle path there i$ one woman in 200 who sits correctly cross- saddle. They were not born for it. The chances of a woman on a nmaway horse, side-saddle, is about four times as favorable as the one astride. Besides, it Is prettier. . •ncheg. aUtched horizontally around. It glte» an E^ffypUam effect that bids fair to be popular this coming season, lif treatad <?onservatlvely.' When buying your make-up packet be certalVi the pOwder and rouga will not resist all rubbing of the puff. Some of the powder disks refuse to jleld any powder, and after purchasing you have nothing'but the powder puff and the box. New stuff! It may be seen in TImca aquara or on Fifth avenue and probably also in Harlem, wh^re the chances are It originated If It didn't start In the CO's. It's the flapper walking along swinging h«r iiat in her hand. Just why the hat arid not her shoes?., Certainly if the flapping ftops want the men to get them quick, what better way than barefooted on Broadway? And the chances are the men would believe they had more sense In their bare feet than In their bare head so they might be more respectful toward the tootsies. The cause for the flapping flops to carry their headgear Instead of wear- ing it seems to be by unanimous agreement that the girls now have all on their minds they can carry. •- ,...-.■, The female contingent of Gerard's "Folllea of the Day" at the Columbia must have promised their mothers to wear red shoes, no th<ittcr what the costume. They certainly have kept their word. The dressing of the entire production with one or two exceptions among the principals la ordinary, and in one or two numbers decidedly "tacky." The best dress of the show Is the one Gertrude Hayes, Jr., wears, Of geranium red velvet encrusted witU rhinestone. Tbi» cojnbloatton en- hances Miss H^iyes' beauty. ^ " , i '. : . . .> :. The lingerie can't be the sensation "of the summer because ft Is 80 circumspect. It was so Innocent it disappointed the habitue of the uii- dressed show. The thrill should be gone for this kind of display in tho theatre for the male faction. A short walk down any street in New Xork will leave the stronger sex utterly devoid of curiosity as to the un<i derdressing of the weaker. A new interpretation of a panto clown Is given by Bozo Snyder. >l^ and his straipht man, Sam Green, have an adroit way of cleaning up naughty stories before they offer them for public consumption. . Mr. Green's make-up might be studied advantageously by all legits conr lemplating playing Bill Sykes. -^ A fleeting satire on "Experience" Is useful to present clothes. Tht yellow and white gown worn by "Poverty" is the beat of tnla cluster. The girl who wears it, Beatrice Tnaey. gives It all possible advantage. No Ziegfeld girl can carry a costume better than Miss Tracy of an ©jd Zlegfeld "Follies,", The scenery by Joseph Urban la very artistic. Ot course this artist never disappoints us. The two bunch lights sat'-.at either side of one, f.icing the scenery would be better camouflaged, a7i<3 Mr. Urban would advise this because of the unfinlahed impresalon the present arrangement gives. All the dresses look aa though they were dyed and all are too deep for the shade they were meant to be. All floral offerings chould be held until the end of opening perform- ances. Tt Is taking an unfair advantage of fellow performers to pass them over the footlights after any number, no matter how good the num* ber ia. Farrell and Taylor a'. Loew'a State are alao using the cigar lighting bit used by Snyder and Green. Who created the Idea? Likewise the bear tit out of a glass—years old In biirtcsque. The quartet look snappy In their sumnner togs, but patent leather atrof a rre wrong with white trouaera. White, or a wlUte and black or tan leatH^r combination Is correct. Maybe the boys won't believe it. , The program statea that Miners make-up Is used exclusively. Can tha management guarantee that every girl In the company uses MIner'aT. •:• ^ Sally McNlsh as a nume looks pretty and Indlqatea that ahe could do rome good'worh If given the opportunity. It's nice to see the Columbia open again if only to get a glinipM of tfenlal Fred McCloy. ,. [i, ./,,:.,..> » ,Vvh ■•<••.'r Wilson CoMiaon, playwright, has turned magazine writer and is now "grinding" out a series of detective stories for Muna^y's Magazine. George Quinn is booking "Your theatre," ' HIcksvllle, L. I., which plays five acts and pictures on split Week baais. 1 Henry B. Toomer, vaudeville actor. *as held In $1.5^0 ball for exami- nation Friday in the Yorkville Court ^t week on the charge of running down an aged man with his automo- bile at 58th street and Second ave- nue on July 6. Toomer, who was Playing at the Broadway theatre on that date, wa.s driving toward his home In Ivong Island when the man stepped In front of the machine and '^as knocked down, sustaining in- iuries to his head and body. In th» Pathe News reel they are giving a few feet of scenes of the Actors' Home and its environs. It resembles a comfortabJe countrj- estate. There is one actress In the group who hasn't forgotten her ideas by any means. Many an interpreter of "Queen Mother," "Consort" and •Dowager Empress" has been taken on the screen to much less ad- vantage than this dignitary does an exiled artiste. .,. . .• There is a drop at the 38th extremely grotesque. It's an interior and evidently Intended for a "Tudor" room. The least of this room's troubles is a m.n.ntel that Is one-third too high, LnFIeur and Portia are ah ill-named ect, as both names are feminine In their respective languages, and the two people are a man and woman. Portia in Italian ia something similar to the American Oeorgie.^But as it has been Identified with the female character In Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," one is apt to look upon V as a girl's name. La Pleur, from the French, means a flower. The man does a good bit of mouth-hold "wlrrling." When almost finished revolving, he suddenly picks up momentum and closes in a maze of whirls. They dress the act tastefully, the man departing from the ever- rastlng thing in fleshinps. Still unreadable are the signs at this tTieutre. So Prlncpsa B'.ona ajxl Sister Sierra may be the act. Tiie Princess weara a dandy Navajo blanket. The Spanish shawl is lovely, but is draped too long when she sings "Mon Homme." a la Indienne. "Let the Public Decide* Is nicely costumed, though both women in it should reduce. If they look so well in their clothes now, how much better tho result were they several pouihN lighter. The older memh'r wears a velvet and brocade gown with panelled skirt faultlessly. Why. now that Bert .Savoy is dead, dots every comic think he l» *^aiitl<^.l to "crib" some line or even many linos from the act of Savoy and I.;rennan? If the public is a "decide" at the invitation of the title, urani- mously they will decide to take out tlic .Savoy line. Dixie Hamilton. In a delicate shade of blue taffeta trimmed with rrru lace looks well and is biassed with a koo,i hhare of magnet ism. Her four or live songs left the audience wnntiig more. She was the hit of the l.ilJ. and It was nice to see how piens«-d her father was. (He was in l>»e .ludlonccr) ' ' ■ ' ■ ' ■ CABARETS ,1 -.yvv 'fL----\ •„^i-,i:j-j3_v i. ■4.jJ.'{'. Onlv four countr;. s have a national ;;i.me: United Statea. basrhal). Fnjr'ind rrirkpt-. Spain. buH fighting, and Cuba. Jal Alal. This Waves all the other countries >vithout a national v.^^^^^ .Mki-ing in Switzeiland is not V national game in tho tr^e sense, but d^no only Tor the visitor. Tho ,>.,,,•- ^st nnnroarh Germanv has made to a.quirir.K a sporting tradr-mark m bowling, and that in (■:-rmany is about .nuivalent to billiards h^re. The advance xno.lH as foretold by lo.id.n- rerislan modlstrs Ik th.; rleated dress .with wide bandi of er,)V:o:.lrrj at jUerv.-ls ef abput ^ix The New York "Times" printed last Sunday as the first of a aeries of articles on the operation of the Volstead Act, a chapter devoted to the vain attempts of bottleggers to bribe dry agents. True or not It will fall to hit a responsive chord among the common herd. Whether in the city, town or pn the farm, the comiponers have heard too much about the graft in liquor. The 'Times" story went Into de- tail about a 1800,000 bribe offer with a thou.sand-dollar bill to light a cigar for the introduction, while an- other section of the same tale told how a bribe of $30,000 was crosaed against tho giver. The story alto- gether dealt In beer so maybe those entrusted with hunting down beer are the honest ones. ^ From 1300,000 In a bunch to the $2 and |5 a case felldws may be too long a leap for % series of articles to bother with, but 'the boys" who gathor In their $25, |60 and $100 weekly abound ao greatly In the majority that some comment on them would get much more, quickly to the people who know. y^gaiUKt the gont. whoever he may have been, that sidestepped $3OO,OC0 should bo paralleled another, and not only one. either, who told a place that didn't soil the place had better put him and his ofllAil pal on the pay roll at $50 a week, to save the business. "Though you might not be selling," said the sleuth who had b?en unsuccesilful in obtaining any evld*'nce of liquor In the restaurant, "we can hang out here ^sv^ry night and so annoy jou that you will be Brlad to pay more before we're through with yoii." The restaurant put tJiem on Its pay roll. That is the real and lowest type of grafting on booze sales. Next low* st Is the fellow who takes the M;..t<inent of a friend to make an aMidHNit for a search warrant when the seller refused to give up. And the others are the grafters of tho nsua! way, not the $300,000 or $30,000 follows, just the plain so much per case and the gimme-ihe- ooir-werKly guys. • elegance. I>ooked upon even In (ha restaurants aa lowly, along came the New York *'World* Mast Sunday with a cute little atory of how Bu- gene Cornuche, from diahwanhing at the Cascade .restaurant In Paris many years ago. developed witli fi couple of others in minor joba a!tthe same place, to the management of Maxim's, Paris, then on to Trouvllle where Cornuche quit after trouble with locnl authorities, and then to Deauvllle, which Cornuche. with the aid of a French master of ()nance. created ,to the extent he had no trouble In Inveigling (be King of Spain there last season. A line on Comuche's Inherent in.- stlnct aa the director of a I'arislan cabaret may be gleaned from the story which «ays the first thing he did when opening MaJcIm'a waa to Place about 30 girla on the free Iiat for meals, knowing they would brlnfj along the Johni at other tlmea. ' Tt'a a syatem that haa not been wholly confined to i'arla. Another M.^xItB'a, peculiarly or not, sent another dishwashing lad to fame, Rudolph Valentino, When he flrst'landed In New York or shortly after, became diahwasher at M**- im'4. New York. Vahntino first ap- peared about the time quite a >;unch of foreign dancing boys showed .In the New York places. It was In tho days of tho Tango and Maxixe dance rage. Home of the /cUows caught on right aWay, others had to get a job and slowly work In. All appear to have landed In one way or another with Valentino to the greatest fame and money over here, although one of them, who possibly might liave been at the top, met death through jilness a few years ago. BanJoa Wallace and bs 1€- pleco orrhosira aie at the Mar- tinique, AI Ian tic City. DttHwa.shinQ in a reptHurant is ft 'airing sonie prominence if n«| The Club Gallant, another of the .SaMn pla'-e«», tliat hold high sway in Greenwioh Village, New York City, over the winter, iu^s been closed for a <ouple of months. It is ft»pe-i.ed to reopen \n the fall. Joe Panl is reported con<'erned in tContiOu^d on i-nge a.; ^^