Variety (March 1924)

Wednesday, March 6. 1924 VARIETY 35 GARRICK THEATRE ST. LOUIS' MOST POPUUR BURLESQUE THEATRE They All Said It Was a Dead One, but With V im, Push and New Ideas, It Developed Into the Sensation of the Show World -^ 1923 Week of Sept. Week of Sept. Week of Sept. Week of Oct. Week of Oct. Week of Oct. Week of Oct. Week of Nov. Week of Nov. Week of Nov. Week of Nov. Week of Dec. 15—LAFFIN'THRU $2,8U.89 23—JOY RIDERS 3,105.81 30—AROUND THE TOWN.. 3,858.77 7—STEP ALONG 3,874.22 14—SASSY BITS 4,489.39 21—MAKE IT PEPPY 4,968.53 28—HELTER SKELTER... 5,741-55 4—FRENCH MODELS..-- 6,156.29 11—FLIRTS AND SKIRTS- 6,326.19 18—MISS VENUS 6,421.76 25—STEP LIVELY GIRLS-. 8,070.69 2—MOONLIGHT MAIDS.. 8,162.21 RESULTS Week of Dec. Week of Dec. Week of Dec. Week of Dec. 1924 Week of Jan. Week of Jan. Week of Jan. Week of Jan. Week of Feb. Week of Feb. Week of Feb. 9—FOLLY TOWN 7,631.22 16—OH JOY 6,018.23 23—HELLO JAKE GIRLS. ..7,977.83 29—LONDON GAIETY GIRLS, 10,002.04 5—SNAPPY SNAPS 8,968.27 12—BROADWAY BELLES.. 8,024.32 19—DANCING FOOLS 8,116.28 26—BITS OF HITS 8,251.96 2—GEORGIA PEACHES--. 8,538.21 9—FADS AND FOLLIES.. 8,238.85 16—BAND BOX REVUE... 8,268.27 WITH TOP PRICES -\T MATINEES. 75c.: NIGHTS, $1.10 AND A SEATING CAPACITY OF 1.100 AS THE GREAT DANE ONCE SAID: "Alas, Poor YORICK, They Gave Me Hell" OAKLAND By W. 8LOANES LTUIK—David Waifipld. KliyroN-^-Tlie Hreakitif^ oPinl." CKNTL'KY—Musical conudy. Business In Oakland is quiet, witli tlie l>;ame laid to the Hne weather and Ihe income tax. Kdward Everett Horton has been •uceeded at the Fulton by Clyde Fill- more. Ruth Renlok, whose marital difliculties occupied front page .•^pare for some time, has been re-engaged as leading woman. Bin n.ivica. for 17 years motion picttne operator and spolliKlit man at the Orpheum theatre, died sud- denly last week fo'iowing a hemor- rhage. Gavica was 42, and is sur- vived by a widow and a married daughter. f^ootliqht i Jooiwear! CAPEZIO Amertc.T'.^ Master Makfr of TfKMlrifal Foolwoar to niftny wtlUknown Stapp Celebrities, hiis consoliilnted his 129 W. <UIh St. shop with his new letall «hop for Btreet. eve- iilnft, thiatrlinl and tallet fut>twcar, now located at 1C3« nroadwaj, at 50tb 8t. Wisttr Garde* BuiUlai Jarkie Rrunea, prima donna af the Century theatre, has left the organi- zation for a rest. Kolb and Dill did not play to great huniiK'?s with "The Big Hewurd'' at the Lurie. The return engagement of "The Covered Wagon" at the I.iirie did not prove record breaking. David Warfield opens in "The Mer- pliant of Venice," with "Lightnin'" due to follow Marcli 9. ESTABLISHED 1887 THE LITTLEJOHNS RHINESTONES'" 226 West 46th Street, New York KANSAS CITY By WILL R. HUGHES G.^YKTY— "Hollywood Follie."," burlesque. OKl'HKI'M—Vaudeville. rANT.\(;KS -Vaudf ville MAIXSTllKKT—Vaudeville. OI-OBK—Vaudeville. NEWMAN—"Song of I.,ove," pic- ture. KOYATi—"I>nn," picture. I,1BKI;TY — "Sporting Youth," picture. The Shubert and S!nibert-Mis- souri are dark this week, and the riayety (Coluinlii.i burlesque) is the only hou.se In town holding a trav- eling ((imldnation, the "Hollywood Follies" show. week at $4.40, and the Missouri will hold "The Cat and the Canary." This will be the second api>ear.ance this sijipon for- the "Cat." Follow- ing the "Follies" will come AI Jol- sun. Starting M.irch 9, the Shul)ert will have the "Ziegteld F<illie.>-'' for a DIXONS' Hairdressing Parlor 2626 Broadway, New York Belwij'n 99Ih and 100th H'reeti Phone 7464 niv<rpld» Tlirittriial Wins for Siitc or lllr» EL.C ANO I'OMTIVKI.Y A H I It K WAY TO \ «i<»01) SKIN flf«ii»r, Hnd tloM-K liirico p<»rp«; llfl« out lliw". bluoklirudn anil wliiti-lif.id. ; l.r.|i» • lie shin ilivir, smooth ami Hrm y For infoMmitlon « AM. Kl.OSS Oltni. ••'.10 HKV \NT 8«>1<I hy STERN IlltOS. II. Al.TMAN * «■<> IIARI.OWK & LVTIIKK, 4«th SCreH at Mrort<l«i4.», .><■» 1 ork The Sothern-AIarlowe company, at the Shubert la.st week, grossed close to )1»,000. SYRACUSE, N. Y. By CHESTER B. BAHN WHCTINC—First half, "Up She Gobk"; last half, dark. STRAND—"The Fighting Blade." KMPIRK -"Yesterdays Wife.' ROBBINS-ECKKL,— The Call of the Canyon.'' F.IVOI.I -"The Silent Command." CRIOSCH.NT- "Woman-Proof." • RKGKNT—"Tiger Rose." The WIeting, after "Up She Goes," which closes Wednesday, haa no bookjng In sight until March 24, when "Helen of Troy" Ih penciled in. Lauder follows. March 27. The f1r?t Frohman show to play the Witting (Shubert) In ninny moons is "Zander the Great," datcil April 3. The Strand will glart "S<-ara- mouclie" Saturday. The afternoon top will bo BO cents and the night high 75. "The White Sister" J:^ booked later at the panie Bcale. Bernice McAlli.ster. usher at B. F. Keitlis, skipped out during the niai - Inee and married Clarence Minik- heim. The Keitli orchestra, tipped off, greeted her with the wedding march when she returned. The M.inliatlan Quartet Is filling a week's eng.igenient at the Empire this week. Skull and Biii]o<!. senior aoelety of the .Syracuse Jioys" Club, Is present- ing "Trc,isure Island" at the rluli- honse eacli night this week. Fred- erli k K. Zirbe made t)ie •pedal adaitatJcn of the book that Is used, while Carlton 1„. Mommel, of the ,'Jyr<i( u.^e iJraina League, directed the ptoductioii. "Evi !yn," a two-act operetta. w;i« picsent(d 'l■ue^^(l,ty night In .MuJ^ic Hall bj' a c;«Kt seleited from Inrnatc.s of the N'w York Htrite School foi .Mental Def(c||ve» hue. Viriety-Clipper Bureau WASHINGTON, D. C. Evans, BIdg., New York Ave. By HARDIE MEAKIN A late booking brought a picture Into the National for the current week, the first this ln)use hiis played since it re-opened last fall. The lllin is "The White Sister," and the town was clrcused to m.-ike up for the rather late announcement. "Chains," with Helen Cahag.in, next week. Pcpli's lias "fireeiiwich Milage Fol- lies' this week. "Blossom Time' next week. ln;i Claiie is a W.ishlngton girl. She was heie Just a few weeks ago. and now returns in a new piece, "('■rounds for DIvnrie," hy 'luy Bol- ton, ,in(l this fact may Ik ip to till the hole kicked in the leciipts of the Belasco for the past two weeks where two new plays did pr.ictieally nolhiiig. Another new one comes to tie Belasco next week, "Kelly's \a- cation," with Hubert Ames. "The Bat" at the (Tarrlck se<-ond week. With the showing of "The Huneh- bnck ' t'rancl.ail h.is done away with the short films for the week and also has no .special oi'chestra featured. Leonard Wood, Jr., Is trying out another new one at the President with his stock company. This time it is 'Wlinse Hahy Arc You." by Ar- line Luilu\'ii III wifi! of an ll.'ilian govei nnienial oftVial. Thiee local girls went trouping with "Vanities" when the show lefi here. Iiorolhy Han is, Agres Hill and Belly f'li.'oe Tucker have thus Joined their "fellow Washingtonian, ' Peggy Joyce. before seen in this city," to quote Nelson Bell, Crandall's dispenser of publicity. Crandall has an angle in this house, though, that rather lifts It out of the neighborhood cla«s. as 14lh street is now |>ractically a main business artery of Washington, with the inter.section at Park road, whi re Ihe theatre la located, as busy as .my downtown corner. I/awrenee Beatus, manager of the Loew house, the Palace, was one of the Judges In the "Vanities" seler-- lion of local girls. Beatus chose Agnes Hill, and Agnes goes with tlie show. SAN FRANCISCO Kugene Nesbit, house m.inagrr of the Imperial, has resigned, and his position Is being lllled by S<il Pjn- euH, formerly at the Capitol when that house was under tVie Hothsclilld Knierlainment, Inc., miinageinent. A CHOP HOUSE ir.airy Crandall Is sinking a lot money in bin new neighborhood house, the Tivoll. The latest expen- ditiiri' is Ihe jil icemr-iil of cunlracl'-- f'lr dinp'li'S 'of ,) ell il. icier ne\ei , OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT 156-8 WEST 48TH STREET East of Bioadwa/ ■ KENNARD'S SUPPORTERS Itl « . «(<l St.. N. V. I'hoiir 4UliU t ol. B»n<) foi (a ;.: t'c OEUS One Moitienl West of Broadway at 4Ut Street V\*f ll«*tttt<*/ii)M« i\l f h'- I fiMt^ii;: I i:t.«»- ttt l,It ♦•f Mt iirf hikI Mir StHS^. I h*- It'-ot I tnul 'fiwl I .|T> rl t i-'i-i T<l >n Nfv. \ur\i. Mnvlo lintl Duth inr- %\ Ou» Sptcial; A Snlon Steak and Potatoei (Any Styl«) $1 If. the GRiLt Aith bPEClAl RT SER VATIONS fcr LADIES