Variety (June 1924)

20c kI^-- y THEATRICALS PRICE 20c P«»llafc«4 Weekly at 114 W«M Mtb M.. N«w Tark. M. T, »r VwMtr. Ine- Aairakl ■ubaeripttoa IT. StasI* mvIm M cmU, BMand M OTC(Ui« alMB matlw Pf m » i M. IfM. M tk« pMt OMo* kt N«w Tark, M. T^ ■ndw tha Aot oC March S, 1ST*. LXXV. No. 3 NEW YORK CITY, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1924 48 PAGES ^sa RITICS' FINAL BOX SCORE 000 YEARLY RENTAL FOR POLra fASH. AND GOVT PAYING mOOO of Best Theatres Ootoide Largtet Cities at Bw^ gain Rate—Lease for 20 Years With $15,000 ,',* Annual Refund . ♦ >r' * J V Waabtnsion, Jun* t. |Whll» th« Oovernment la paying: irljr $600,000 rentals for its va- ta departmental office* tbrough- It the city, the most desirable Gov- nment owned office site is occu- by Poll's theatre, which is pay- a net rental of $5,000 a year. 11*011'* theatre Is at Pennsylvania 14th street, opposite the N»w Hard Hotel. It is one of the (Continued from Page 10) HCULOIfS POUCE WORI, SAD) MAYW rdered Picture Theatre Re- ' opened — Reformers Com- plained of "3 Weeks'' Indianapolis. June S. iCayor Shanic ordered President J. Kingston of the Safety Board call a special meeting to con- the closure of the &aith pic- tbeatre for an hour and a quar- ; characterising the move as "the lost ridiculous piece of police work hav* seea in my many years of contact with the police." Shanks directed that Lieutenant (Continued on page 44) SnUi THE ACTORS AS SALESMDI ON SIK Two Weeks' Trial with Ex- pense Account and Commission fix REPEAL BILL 8I0HED Washington, June S. The President yesterday signed he new revenue bill and it now be- law. To the picture theatre owners comes what Is believed will a great boon—the repeal of he admission tax up to and In- •Wling the 60-cent gate. A statement issued by the Bo'ard' m Directors of the M. P. T. O. A. Wsterday following the signing of »fce Admission Tax Repeal up to 60 eents by President Coolldge, In *l«lck they expressed how pleased ««y were at the action of the Presi- wnt They followed this with a re- '»o* of the activities of their or- Iknteatioh in the Admission Tax Re- JJ>*1 flght over the last year and "Wmed a goodly share of the credit J* the winning of the flght for wieniRelves. Soon You Will See TOTO AND HIS REVUE A LA MINUTE' Small time actors touring the In- dependents are doubling as travel- ing salaamen and raplonlalilng their summer bankrolls. , A few got in on tha Idea some time ago. They did so well the (Continued on pa^e 44) EQUITY'S l8t MONEY Actor With Job Must Pmy Large Bill to Ass'n Within 3 Weeks What the new agreement between Ekiuity and the Shubert managerial faction means to players In the matter of prompt payment of dues is demonstrated by a current In- stance. An actor who was out of employment for the better part of three years recently started playing with an independent company. He was far back in dues and provision was made that the amount be taken out of his salary at the rate of IK a week startlns the first week. Only under such an arrangement coald he take the lob, it Is aHeged. The delinquent must clean up all (Continued on page 44) ' NON-STOCK RECORD Nobody Wants "Deep Tangled Wild- wood^ Ge'orge S. Kaufman Is claiming unique rating for "The Deep Tan- gled Wlldwood," which he and Marc Connolly wrote and Oeorge Tyler produced. George says it holds the non-stock record of the season. "Wlldwood" lasted but a couple of weeks on Broadway. Like all other plays that see the light of day in Times Square, It was turned over to a play broker. None of the stock companies seem to want it. Kaufman admits maybe one or two stocks tried It, but not more. He and Marc are Interested as regular authors, getting 50 per cent of tha stock right*. FULL PEHCEIIM EMU WALLACE HOmR, 51, WU. m OF B WS Rathbiw ("Sun") LmJ* Re- viewers Aclrreiy Writiiic to Season'* End—^mig** PercentAffe as of Jan. 23, When Stoppinc, StOl Hifk for Men of Dailies—Dale ("Anerican") Slopped Feb. 15 Throagh Illness and Rates Second on En- tire List — Maatre ("New.") Caught Urgeit Number (136) of New Plays—WooUcott ("Son") Bottoms List 170 OPENINGS Confusion tc soma extent has marked the newspaper way of tho New York dalMea la asaooiaUon wltlk thetr theatrical departments this show season. Througli the changes coming about by mergers or lifted ownerships of the papers^ Variety's box score of percentages does not hold a firm - or complete complement of reviewers, with an absentee through the illness of AUn Dale. Of the critics continuously criti- cizing for their papers to the sea- son's end, Stephen Rathbun of "The (Continued oa Page 12) NOT DIVORCE HANPSQMEST MAN 1^-^ Miss Hbpper^s Preu-AgeHted Age of €4 and "Eng- lish Army Of^cer" Marriage Ffartt Aids for Momi»p-for-Woinett Only TAHMANr'OFFKUL SONG AND MELOBT Vwiting Delegates Will B« Greeted by it—Lopez' Band at Both Convention Tha Hippodrome, New York, Is dickering with tha Vincent Lopez Band to be its headline the week (Jtma 2S) of tho Democratic con- vention at Madison Square Oarden. Lopes has baen engagad by tha conmlttaa to make a special ar- rangement of "Tammany," which wdl be the offlclal song and tune at the conven^on. It will be usM to wel- come all visiting delegates. Lopes' band will play at,the Democratic convention and tho'Repabllcan con- vention at Cleveland. Lopes has bean bookaS for <a summer run at tba Palaea. Naw York. ALL-DTDIAK JAZZ BAED A new act for vaudeville has Chief As-Komon and all Indian braves as the personnel of an In- dian musical and singing turn. The members are all American Indian. FINAL CRmCAL BOX SCORE Season of "23-'24 The key to tlia abbreviation* ia: 8R (shows reviewed); R (right); W (wrong); O (no opinion expressed); Pet. (pareantaga). \ _ SCORE A8 OF MAY 31 6R. R. W. O. Pet. CRAIQ ("Mail") 78 53 1» • .877 DALE ("American") 103 67 30 6 .055 RATHBUN ("SurtV) 84 61 30 3 .660 BROUN ("World") 89 55 28 6 .573 MANTLE ("Newe") 136 76 51 9 .559 CORBIN ("Times") .....100 52 40 8 .510 HAMMOND ("Tribune") 105 54 38 13 310 WOOLLCOTT ("Sun") 114 67 47 tt JOO VARIETY'S OWN SCORE SR. R. W. 6. Pet. VARIETY (Combined) 155 124 28 3 .800 PULASKI (Ibee) 39 36 3 .923 8CHADER (Fred) 11 10 1 .909 GREEN (Abel) 21 16 5 .702 LAIT 54 38 15 1 .704 Kdna Wallaoa Hoppar, who la tourlac la tba wa«t undar tha baaaer of rerlrea youth tn womaa. wtU aat dlTorea-A. O. (Bert) Browa, tlM poy- ula» maaager of tha Playhouae and the shepherd of tha Lambs. An tha talk of lldna catttag: ready to wed aa Kngltah army offlear, raal or fictional, la preaa work. Tlioaa stories reach print on tha assump- tion Mlsa Hoppar la dl\t>raad aad (Coatlauad oa paca 44>' SENATE aNHEE NAT WITHHOLD REPORTS Senator Brandegee's Opinion Accepted as Sense of Sen- ^ atoriai Committee Variaty-Clippar Bureau, Kvana Btdg., WaaMitgton, June t. Senator Richard P. Brnst (R.), of Kentucky, chairmaa of the Senate Patents Comftiittee, would not di»- euaa any probaMa aeUon of hlf committee in reference to their ac- tion on the several bills proposing (Continued on page 44) 1i if' ft I GOLDErS "PIGS" OPEHtS Accepted as Indicating Equity' Only Forcing Off New York Show* AUantio City, June 3. It w«s accepted that Equity doea not intend to force shows oil in other cltioa, through the open- in here last night of the John OoMen production, "Pigs." Qolden'a "Seventh Heaven," in New York, w«a marked off and closed by ESquity Saturday. Prank Craven staged "PlgSk" by Patterson McNott and Ann* Mor- rison (of "The World"). COSTUMCS: Who will maka your text onaaT Those who have bought from ua say— BROOKS-MAHIEU 1137 ir.tiiT T«l, (ito Pesn. M.t.a^ .^11,000 Costumes for °—*-' *