Variety (July 1923)

M V A RIET Y Thursday, July 86, 192S STYLISH SIDE Th« ' Continued from pa^e ID • ^ -■■' {Bw If he deliberately bought It or wa. it a Chrlstmai present? latter could be Ita only excuse. ^«.,i^ rticaa- Though the show !• not written by George Cohan, tfne could recog ^ |g^ H line of his here and there. '.■■. '^ : The zouave Jacket !3 making Its appearance as one of the suit models for fall wear. U U a -ad, but never.he.e« .n,^f.ot tM. ™o,t of JH^;^t.^',^«;» o( the »uit model, tar trom becoming to the plump NEW ACTS (trimming on most type- . ' «een freauently at the theatres Is the headdress of white '"^ttUnj,''^""^ lirfunS in ?urban falilon. It is very flattering and cool looklri?^ warm 0venings. T^^arc. mtmht^m are becoming popular. They are identical with those iro^ by kiSSfeV A m^e yoSthfu, aid cannot be found for the summer Ureas. The larger the bow the pr ettier the effect. It 1. noticeable a single string of beads or pearls '« ^'^Vl^nUoftJ'^*''* W more lavish Jewelry. This idea is att ractive through its simplicity. Heavily rouged lips are becoming more and more declasse. At the HiTes and the fashionable resorU the really smart woman has abandoned the Up stick or indulges very circumspectly. A great mistake for a girl on the stage Is to teU her age. even If iieductmg a few years. The public counts an actor or an actresses age by seasons. There are many seasons. Therefore, age should never be ^Inist to Illustrate, a movie director wanted a leading woman for a %>lcture. The name of a big star was submitted to him. The •tarin Question Is In her earty 30's. but on the stage a comparatively long time having made her debut when about 15. Her name was re ected en the ground she was too old. The director then said he would like to secure another woman woh la older and not as clever or well knoWn, but Umly in the profession about five years. Showing It is not how old you really are or look, but how long you have been In the limelight and how they count. . ., . ^, Moral: Don't mention your age honestly or dishonestly. > " ■ An ugly piece of paper Is the new 24-sheet stand for "Little Old Kew York." The first paper for this production was beautiful and at- Jtracted attention. This second stand looks like a commercial ad. When autographing photoa it Is in the poofest of form to write In French or any other language unleaa the recipient Is French or of other nationality. There are several In the profession who make a practise of airing their knowledge in this way. The "Folly of Being Qreat" Is that auccess uncovers enemies unknown land unthought of. The back of the evening dress la distinctly missing In the new models. Also the arm cut la deeper than ever. ——■'•'■'■'••■■' ■ "■".■.■'■■-•■•( A new felrdle on the market, dandy for the woman of generous propor- tions, Is called "Neverspread." It can be tightened as required, though It la a «nip-on. The price is rather ateep, $18. i A cunning tennis outflt has appeared; knickers with a one-piece dress over. The dress la open from the waist down, to insure freedom of action. • '.-..■ ■■'■^i ' J-..' ''./■^■■■''':■ ."^^. ' INSIDE VAUDEVILLE The silhouette pictures of the characters of the 'Tool" on the front of the Times square theatre are most attractive and a pleasing departure from the colored display. ^ Pure cream will lessen the pain of sunburn. Should the skin blister Into a break. Ari.stoa will quickly heal and can be had at any drug store. A new trimming for the gown fast becoming popular Is hand painting. This Is also an artistic way of trimming hats. It promises to be the very newest thing for fall hats. For rehearsing, the athletic combination makes the most comfortable underdresaing, more so If one has much dancing to do. George MacFarlane has the most artistic act he has yet presented to vauiloviUo, at the Palace this week. Ills voice la of the same sweet resonance and he looks fit In his court dress of th6 Victorian period. Margaret Walker dances nicely, looks pretty and wears a yellow and rhlnoston© costume very' weill, Mr. MacFarlane Is the getleraan to the letter In his attendance on Miss Walker, while she discards hat, cloak. etc. Breeding will tell. Irresistibly he sings "Ten Thousand Years from Now," and "Marqulta" still holds its popularity. An attractive model is the one worn by Miss Walker In the latter number. It is of a delicate rhade of cerise with silver Spanish toreador hat. that is exceedingly letchi.ifr on her blond curls. Tlie Palace bill this week Is s-low and boring, eit her thr ough lack of cornedV or proper running order. ; < r Berk and .Saim havfe a snappy little danclhg act. Juanlte of the team Is a deliKhtfuUy sh.ipely girl, ahd dances with a degree of abandon that Is arti.stic. as well as refreshing. The Impression carried from the *' (theatre no matter what costume Miss Saun wears is black silk tights and ♦ ft capable pair of le«s therein. The Runaway Four looked clean cut and 1 atmospheric In U. S. sailor salts. Just when we were about to declare r Ithem a good singing quartet they turned out to be acrobats, and very ' rlever acrobats, too. Thf^y have a lethargic member, who If developed will ' attni'i an important place among the voiceless comics. ' Vincent Lopez Is still holding over to good results, and In the Important • apot of the first half. Mr. Lopez discarded his white trousers in favor ■ lof a regulation "Tux." He was correctly dressed and showed to dls- ' advantage liis men, who persist In wearing the white waistcoat with the dinner Jacket. A now drop is introduced this week to Illustrate the ?'Llttlo Gray Home In the West" The drop is a silent witness that its acuMio artist has never bopn very far west. The "Bridal" tableau Is pretty, but no one ever saw r groom kneeling and kissing the hand of his bride after innrriaire. Replacing the Pennsylvania Hotel drop Is a drop of the front of the Palace theatre. "The writing on the wall." Vera Michclcna has succeeded In retaining all her beauty. An ultra- xnodern gown of roman striped silk terminating at the waist, skipping a foot or so and then passing the center of a jeweled brassiere, defies the moat dubious as to how much she weighs. A white shawl Is becom- ing, but is v.nt draped to the best of its advantage. Really lovely are " the Birds of r.iradlsc f.ur adorn Mlsa Mirhnlena's headdress. This at- tractive diva also has all of her beauty of form and voice, and she affectively explodes th. theory that one must take on fat and three or four chins to reach E ?bove C Fred IllUebrand, Miss MIchclena's partner. Is a likable youn^ comedian, tond seems to have one ainr In his performance; working up applause for Vera lie is qu te truo t"i the billing "All for Vera." Marlon Day. as the wfo of the brakeman in the Hilligan sketch, looks «ool and wholesome In '. blue checked gingham. "Topi<'s <*r the Day" is ffOltlng desperate In Un effort to he wJffy— for In.'^fane. "What do you think pf h^r execution r Good; whoa does it ♦ccur?" T.jtnrny Or ly w)uldnt even claim. Huit. Morley SUtera h&va aeparated and Alice Morler will do a alngle act Dorothy Morler will appaar with her husband, Al Anger. Anna Kneibel (Kneibel and Lang) and Sammy Smith, two-act Arthur Young and Co.. four peo- ple, dramatie playlet Julie Fields and Co.. three people, skit. Bill Dooley (Dooley and Storey). Harry Mason (Blason and Clare) and Florence Henderson. Grace Caasidy and Co.. "The Flirt." three peopl^ comedy "kit. Charlea Deland and Katherlne BlaUr. Arch Hendricks (I^ndricks and Stone) and Oena Barnes (Barnes and McGulre). "The Gilded Cage." featuring Betty Booth. Breitbart. Eiiropeaa strong man. "Crooks' Carnival," with William St. James, Jack Smith. Marie Bright and Rhea Bacon^ Olga Steck. with the Milburn Country Club Orchestra. ..^ George Lyons (Lyons and Yosco), single. "A Little Girl's Fantasy." by Arthur A. Selffert. produced by Seif- fert and Adolph Blome. Lee Carter featured. Orville Stamm in a new act with four girls. Cleo (Cleo and Thomas) and Joe Miners (formerly with Ona Mun- son) are doing a double on West- ern Vaudeville Managers' associa- tion time. Harry Lewis and Frederick Sis- ters, three-act. Brooks and Lawrence, two-acL Max Ford Revue, dancing, with Bert White and four girls. Garry Garret and Co., in dramatic playlet; five people. Enid Markey. film actress, in sketch with Dorothy Cox. Ralph Murphy and Leo Chaxal In the cast. "House Hunting," elaboration of scene In the first "Music Box Re- vue," with a cast of five. Including Kate Elinore and Sam Williams. Worth, Willing and Gessner, two men and a woman, in a comedy "High School Harry," by Philip Barthalamae, featuring Billy Col- lins, assisted by Dorothy Qulnnett, Jean Elliot and William Leonard. "Smarty," by George Kelly, four people sketch. Morrison (formerly Whipple and Houston Co.) and Helner (formerly Golden Gate Trio), musical. Milton Berle (Kennedy and Berle), single turn. "Syncopated Toes," with three people. Nine Crazy Kids, schoolroom skit, featuring Howaf^ and Lewis. Gene Barnes and Archie Hend- ricks, two act. Joe Weston and Grace Ely, two- act. .. .* O'Nell Sisters, sister act Tom Ross, tenor, with accom- panist. Beth Tate, single, with special songs by Blanche Merrill. Ackland and Mack, two-act ■ r- ■ .« (Continued from paga 11) -^ on a drug carrying charge, that Bryan did not receive all of the atteotiia he should have had before his convicMbn. The auppositiot appears to be erroneouf. Reporta froon the coast sty there was nothing left undone on behalf of Bryan. It la expected o«k there that within a couple or months or so a petition will be circulatfi for his release. „r - * No question is raised as to the evidence against Bryan.-*-' A. couple ^ police officers approached him. and one of them made a drug purcluua using marked money, •» -V ^. ; c Blanche Merrill appears to have again taken to vaudeville as the soli market for her writings. Whether, however, she could be induced te do production work isn't known, since the foregoing Is a surmise base! on what Is known of Miss Merrill's activities thus far for next season. Among the vaudeville acts Miss Merrill is furnishing material for act Belle Baker. Mary Haynes. Fannie Brice (for the Zlegfeld-Brlce show. "Laughing Lena"), Sylvia Clark, Beth Tate, Rita Gould, Lillian Shaw anl Hughle Clark. > » "Clipper" carried a story last week that Walter Reade, the theatrical manager with theatres of his own on the Atlantic Coast, besides being associated with the Keith ofl^ce in the operation of other houses; hig started a reform campaign against, the gamblers of Long Branch and Asbury Park. ' • Reade, before changing his name, was Walter Rosenberg. He gained recognition as a picture and vaudeville manager. Securing an option on the lease of .the Clevelahd Hippodrome, then occupied by Keith's and the option following Keith's expiration. Reade lat^r made a deal with (;; Keith's to operate the Hip in association, while tCeith's also took \i$ the booking of some 'o! the Reade Jersey theatres, principally at New Brunswick. There is some angle to the Sunday question concerned In the Read* reform wave against Jersey coast gambling, an institution there that ruoi;, back to the days of the Dalys at Long Branch, for summer time and indoor sport. Whatever the cause and it would be surmised that Reads must have believed he had great reason before starting out as a reformer, the fact remains this theatrical manager Inserted advertisements In the local paper calling the attention of the sheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey, to the gambling and demandlrtg he suppress it. Reade has become a spectacular figure in each city he has operated ia with apparent unconcern Just whom he antagonized or how. With an ex- plosive manner of expressing himself, for publication %r otherwise, Walter usually impressed his individuality upon the community. Whether it worked for his best interests or not It created comment for him and lie certainly has developed in the theatrical lino. But reforming is an altogether new role for him. It can not be from any personal d-fitaste of gambling since he never haa been adverse to it before, for personal contact or operation by others, while on the other hand it Is asserted Reade Is quite friendly with Frank Farrell and Far- rell's friend, Henry Tobln. with all of them having been operating la Atlantic City for some time. ■♦ Showmen, however, calling on civic authorities and agitating against anything that might have a kick-back against them8>lves or other theatre managers, seldom receive the sympathy of other showmen. A wealthy woman was telling Ted Healy and a friend of his about a vaudeville bill she had 'seen. "It's wonderful," she exclaimed, "to notioe how much better public taste is getting. Vaudeville is really very much uplifted when a concert violinist like Kerarkjarto i> appreciated to the extent that he was when I saw him.** "Yeh?" answered the friend, "how did Dotson go?*» A vaudeville single's (not prominent) partiality to narcotics, as well ai that of her pianist, has been more or less known among her acquaintaaoea An idea of how It has grown on her may be gathered from a layman's recent inquiry after seeing the songstress perform, as to whether or not she was an addict. Asked why he waa prompted to such a question bs answered: "Her glazed eyes somehow give her away." ENGAGEMENTS Edith Sheppard for "Greenwich Village FolUca." Jack Bell, stage manager, has Joined "The Passing Show" (Howard Bros.). Clarence Derwent, "Help Your- self." Doris MarqueUe, "We've Got to Have Moftey." Walter Brooks, director, "That's" That." Mazlo Ward. "Greenwich Village Snapshots" (vaude.) Bert Bergen, "Meet the Wife' (vaude). Frank Cummlngs, "The Crimson Glow." Babe O'Connor, "Daisy Won't Tell." Arthur M. Burckly, "Perfect Fool." Ethel Pike, Benny Marks revue. Tom Wilson. "Man to Man." Jean Lamar, "Greenwich Village Follies." Billy Chase and Grace La Tour. "Greenwich Village Follies." Ruth Mero, Jane Stuart. Wllllard Dashiel, director, Forsyth stock, At- lanta. Harry Andrews, director. Malcolm Fassett stock, Louisville. Ky. Reglna Wallace, "The Breaking Point" Donald Gregory for Baldw!n stock as stage manager at St Charles, Now Orl'^ans. Jjouis Abbion, for For«y»he Slock, Atlanta. Jack Squires with "Battling Butler." Frank and Milt Rritton. "NlftU^ of 1923" (burlesque.) Annie I'ritchard for "Artists and Models." John D. O'Hara, replaced Louis Calvert, who died last week as 4ho Judge In "CluKlren qf tlio Moon," when,the play opened at the Pal- Percy Williams, In the eyes of the show business, haia been a pioneer oC big salary for vaudeville acts. He forced recognition from the publie through engagements of weW-known "names," for which he paid what A^aa then looked upon as "big money," and also imported many foreign acta of ropikatlon abroad that he secured through offering them muoh mo/e for an American engagement than they could secure at home. P. G. established a big name for himself among the vaudeville artiste of his day. They looked upon him as a benefactor. Always a "mixer," P. G. was besides a delightful host and built up an enormous good wif among the artists, natlvo and foreign. That the "Williams houses" paid the highest salary was not the leas! interesting to the vaudeville artists. P. G. would "set" a salary that others might quibble over. He was enabled to do this In a way through, virtually operating a corporation, in which the Huber brewing interests $M well afl himself and others were Interested. Whereas the theatre man- agers of those times, especially in vaudeville, were mostly Indlvldusl owners and looked for profits corresponding to their Investment and labor, the Huber people thought P. G. Williams a wizard of finance through receiving a healthy dividend upon the amount of capital stock their investment represented. When Williams sold to Keith's for $5,000,000 over 10 years ago. It wM said at the tlm3 the Williams Interests had received more than expected for the properties. While It was thought Williams would never soil out his Now York vaudeville properties, a pet saying of his, that came trus^ had been, "I nlll sell anything I own excepting my family." A good {ihowman and a good fellow, that "P. O." always will bo revered by the vaudevillians and others of the Percy Williams show days. Anna Chandler sent out a statement this week reciting her re'Iatlone with .Sydney Langfeld. The statement delved Into her business and personal acquaintance with* him. Miss Chandler described her opinion of Lanfffeld at length, mentioning she had spent the lost $33,000 os Langfeld before he became a .«)lngle act In vaudeville. The statemeat mentioned ho was receiving $20 weekly In a music publisher's plac* when she "disc^jvered" him. ' ace. White Plains, N. Y., Tuesday night West Sisters for Victor NInns and Co., vaudeville. Ann Wln.slow for Majestic Play- ers (.stork), irtlca. N. Y,, replacing Valerie Hickorsoii. For "The Cra»;>/' Charlow Rieha f d . Katie Kmmett, l.«<ahel McMinn. John Helgrave, Florence Bell, Au>:ru.siu.s Neville find Eernest F. Hawkins. Marion Chambers. "Poppy " Ktnily FitzRcri'd. Jean Palmer. "Little Nellie Kelly" (road). Molvln rilaters. "I'll Say She Does." Martha Bryan Allen for "Mag- nolia.** Con.itance Kvans. (Janccr, Morris- sey's, "N'ewoomers.j'*, ,, j ' . i Ann Anderson, dancer, "Up She Goes." Ben Lewin for "Casanova." Florence Mason, "The Streak.* Eleanor CJrimth, "The Flrit Tiirill." ^ Uoworm Hi^terM. "I'll Say She I* and f:crtrud«» liurKioi Arnold and CJeorj new i:rady productlofl Hornard "Poppy." Edward Paunccfort, (unnamed). Bon TaKJTurk. "il«t" (Western). Will Corbelt for "Steve." ^ Flo Pendleton, ' Tvveodloa." Doris Under«vood and Franli Charlton for Woodward Playeri A ■ ! ■ (stock), r^cjtroit.