Variety (June 1924)

Wednesday, June 85, 1884 VARIETY 39 / RETURN TO VAUDEVILLE AMELIA BINGHAM/x° CO. Presenting "BIG MOMENTS FROM GREAT/PLAYS" This Week (June 23), B. F. Keith's Bushwick, Brooklyn BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON TO FOLLOW MISS BINGHAM Hat Ju»t Produced "THE ENTANGLEMENT," with MARGOT KELLY, NORMAN HACKETT, KATHELYN BELDON and JOHN BOWIE, Alto Playing KEITH CIRCUIT 1 U/ye lOc WEEKLY about ' CARNIVALS CIRCUSES ALL OUTDOORS MUSIC RADIO DISKS BANDS ORCHESTRAS NEWS OF THE DAILIES (Continued from Page 8) bonus application blanks all over the country began last Friday, accord- ing to an announcement from AdJ, Gen. Davis, In Washington. Presi- dent Coolldge has ordered this work to go forward as rapidly as possible, despite the fact that h^vctoed the bonus bill. George L. ("Tex") Rlckard, sports promoter, has commissioned Thomas B. LAmb, theatre architect, to pre- pare plans for the mammoth arena and auditorium to be built on the old car barn site at Eighth-Ninth avenue8-49th-50th streets, to seat 26,000. Tlie cost will approximate $3,000,000. Several additional properties in this zone have been purchased in the last few days. As it now stands, there is a frontage of 200 feet on Klghth avenue, BOO feet on 49tb street and 525 feet on 50th street. NEWS and REVIEWS F 72nd Year America** Oldest Amose- meni Paper The on]J paper In the world de- I, voted exclusively to Outdoor Amuee- inents. OUT WEEKLY, Iflc Supreme Court Justice Wagner, in awarding an interlocutory decree of divorce to Jack Clifford from Evelyn Nesblt, decreed that Miss Nesbit may not marry again in New York State during the lifetime of Clifford without special permission from the court. The decree becomes final in three months. Clifford is the stage name of Vir- gil James Montani. He was his wife's dancing partner. Dustin Farnum is a resident of Reno, Nev., having filed suit for di- vorce last week, charging his wife. f^ootliqht > Jootwearf THE LATEST VOGUE IN WHITE KID _ AND WHITE BUCK SLIPPERS A Variety of Stylrg CAPEZIO 1634 Broadway winter Garden Bldg. NeMT SOth Street KSTABLIBHED 1U7 WHEN VISITING LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA YoM Are Cordially Invited to Visit the PLANTATION CAFE WHERE SCREENLAND LUMINARIES FROLIC WITH THEIR STAGE BRETHREN A Nice Drive Out Waehington Blvd. to Culver City Mary Elizabeth Connell, with de- sertion. Dr. Glen L. Williams, wealthy in- ventor and president of the Aero Metals Corporation, will marry Leora Webster, late of "Vanities of 1923," within a month, according to reports from Detroit. Williams re- cently accepted |1 as settlement in his suit to recover heart balm when he named the co-respondent in thie case of his first wife from whom Williams was divorced. The latter has promised to pay his first wife's honeymoon expenses with the co- res poiflent. Burglars got away with Jewelry valued, the police say, at $100,000 while Mr. and Mrs. Edsal Ford were away from their Detroit home. The automobile manufacturer's son and daughter-in-law were in New York. Hope Hampton, screen star, talked and sang for listeners in on the WJZ program last week. Miss Hampton will be featured in a musicnl comedy in the fall. A group of San .Francisco dele- gates to the convention fell victims to the bus gougers at Coney Island last Sunday, when for nearly four hours all rail transportation to and from the Island was shut off as a re- sult of the blowing out of a fuse in the main power house. The usual Sunday rates by bus is 75 cents. The gougers charged |2 to Brooklyn and $3 to Manhattan. Many delegates elected to remain until nightfall, when trafllc was re- sumed. The management of Luna Park said they would protest to the state licensing ofDclals against the bus price gougers. ^'ri•' ENGLISH CRITICS BOX SCORE PERCENTAGE 1000 "A REAL NOVELTT WITH A STRONG AMERICAN FLAVOR WE DO NOT MAKE THIS COMMENT DISRESPECTFULLY. MR. KIMBERLY WOULD GO FAR IN BRITISH MUSICAL COMEDY, AND HELEN PAGE WENT FAR IN THE GOOD OPINION OF THE AUDI- ENCE LAST NIGHT, FOR HER MANY SUBTLETIES WERE CLEV£m AND WELL WORKED." BRISTOL "ECHO" "HELEN PAGE IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEVBR COMEDIBNKB WITH A CLEIARLY DEFINED STYLE OF HER OWN." "ENCORE/* LONDON '' "KIMBERLY AND PAGE}—TWO ARTISTS THESE; WHO DB- SERVE TO STAR ON aJjY PROGRAM." SWANSEA "DAILY LEADER'* "Tall, slim, beautiful and with large eyes like two starry pools" is the newspaper description of Mrs. Edith Lewis of "427 Park avenue, New York, described as the lady on whom Harry Kendall Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, is now calling. Vincent Lopez will direct a 40- plece Jazz band (equal to a 150- piece brass band) in Washington Square tomorrow night for the con- vention crowds. The hotel men of New York have Issued a statement to the effect that the arrival of the Democratic na- tional convention delegates has not exhausted the available supply of rooms in the big hotels. John A. Harries, special deputy police commissioner, has made pub- lic his plan for ending the automo- bile tralflc Jam in New York City. He proposes fliling in the EUist River from Delancey street to 110th street. With two levels, the boulevard to be built on the river site would have a width of 500 feet, with space for sub- ways, tunnels for vehicular traffic, vast parking areas and hundreds of buildings, with space at 69th street for the new city government build- ings. The plan calls for Ave roadways on the upper level of the boulevard, two roads for northbound local and ex- press, two for southbound traffic and a middle boulevard would serve as a parade course and pedestrian prome- "TYPICALLY YANKEE,' LEON KIMBERLY AND HEXEN PAOB ARE NOTHING IF NOT ORIGINAL. THEY MADE A HIT." BIRMINGHAM ''GAZETTE" f "LEON KIMBERLY AND HEILEN PAGE WERE P08ITIVEX.T INFECTIOUS." CARDIFF "NEWS" nade. A canal from Jamaica to Flushing bays would supplant the East River as a water course be- tween the ocean and the Sound In the Harriss plan. "Shooting Shadows," by Henry Ffsk Carlton and William Ford Man- ley, will open at the Rits tomorrow. The producer la Mary Forrest, the well-known play broker. Spanish Dancing Stndio Teache* all kUub of BpanUb Danaca, AlMt DM of Caataacts. AURORA ARRIAZA 037 Hadlmn Are., ear. 6*th St., PIssa XIM NEW VO&K CITT roR SALE: Fall Un« of 8paBl(h ghawli, Comb*, CactancU, Bt«. ESMONDE COSTUME COMPANY Specialist* in Oriental, Jazz and Waltz Costumes OUR PRICES WILL SURPRISE' YOU REHEARSAL TOGS of a DIFFERENT KINIV-MADE TO ORDER 108 W. 44TH ST., Opposite ^^^ N. Y. CITY B. F. KEITH'S PAUCE THIS WEEK, JUNE 23 [ VAUDEVILLE DEBUT of the DISTINGUISHED DRAMATIC STAR ROBERT WARWICK in a New Playlet by ALAN BROOKS Entitled "BONDS THAT SEPARATE"