Variety (July 1924)

T •«ifi^"w.T^iss'» rT"' "■" y I t i. i ■ ^TTv.xv^iipiiri^T^T":" ss ■fi'^H^jj^iTF^-^ jMfi»:"**^/'ffif ^ V «•»'» ii. I .'• \* 40 V ASIBTT Wednesday, July 2,1984 T LANDRY'S BAND NOW PLAYING SPECIAL LIMITED ENUGEHEin AS A FEATUKED STAGE ATHtACilON AT T. & D. THEATRE, OAKLAND, CAL. Repeating Our San Friuicisco Success Band Undtr Parional Manasamant of FRED MEGSON ATLANTIC CITY After hSTinc mualcala for the past thra* WMlca. th« Apollo opened Monday with WlllUm A. Brady's "Tha Sabla Coat." TtM war film "Powder River." at tha Saroy, ia not getting much of a brealc Though tha town ia billed haavUr, there is no draw. The bouse had been guaranteed by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post for a fjur-weeii run. "Thief of Bagdad" opens Juljr SI. ' The Pavlllion office has had many new visitors this past weelc. George W. Hausher, Bertha Bryant and Mrs. K. Coleman of Cleveland put In their appearance. Doc Cor- nell, fath'^r of Katherlne Cornell and manager of the Majestic, BufFalo, Is here for a stay. Gus Salzer and Wife (Anna Wilkes) are with the orowd. Will Cohan played host to the crowd and took them to George Monroe's estate at Somers Point last Thursday. With the summer rates for board SAVELI Hairdresser to LEONORE HUGHES, ULLIAN TASH- MAN, ALMA RUBENS and CONSTANCE BINNEY A SpmatduH in Permanent Wave SAVEU 17 West 48th Street, New Yorl< Biyaat 4tSt FamouM iqmd Powder tJAMES ■old at IjmMtm ThMttrleal Dn* Stoi Now Ownad by OstlTlo Slatora. going into effect, the office will soon be emptying. Joe Vion Is making ready to leave for a farm up in Con- necticut on July 6. Joe's rates at the hotel jumped from IS to $14 per weelc The Steel Pier will have Bernaar Macfadden in person July 4-5. The hen It'- lectures have been getting a share o' business since here. The George White "ScandaU" kept the photographers busy while they were here. A share of atten- tion was given to the youthful Cos- tello girls, Dolores and Lillian, both daughters A the movie actor, Mau- rice Costello. The girls are having their first chance before the foot- lights. Heretofore they have been doing pictures. A pair of former footlight per- formers are now together at the Jerome hotel. One of them is Vic TorrI, a hoofer, formerly of the Two Torries. Ed Dungan is the other. Both boys are t>ehind the desk and greeting many of the performers who come to town. INDIANAPOLIS By VOLNEY B. t^OWLER MURAT—"Kempy." Murat Play- ers. ENGLISH'S- Berkell Players. CAPITOL—'Abie's -"The Old Soak," Irish Rose.' This may be the last week of "Abie's Irish Rose" at the Capitol for four weeks. A month's run was the minimum expected. Whether the play remains another week de- pended upon demand this week. Circle theatre, continuing the one- name act a week policy to augment movie program, held Alfred Evan's University Orchestra over for a sec- ond week this week. The orchestra is working its way west. Julia Cobb and Genevieve Addle- man of the Murat Players have taken a bungalow at Noblesville, Ind., on White river, for the rest of the summer. UTTLEJOHNS RHINESTONES" 2S4 West 46th Street. New York George Gaul will oipen his first summer stock appearance in two years in Indianapolis—his summer home for several seasons with Stuart Walker—when he appears with the Murat Players at the Mu- rat the week of July 7. He arrived this week for rehearsals. SAN FRANCISCO Charles M. (General) Jackson, columnist on the San Francisco "Bulletin." who for years has been contributing a daily feature entitled "For Instance." has turned poet and written a volume called "Homely Verse by a Homely Man," published here by Frank S. Thayer. "General" Jackson's "For In- stance" column has been noted for Its dry humor, James Whitcomb Rliey-llke verse and a humorous slant on life In general that has been compared frequently in style to that of Mark Twain. Suit to recover $172 alleged to have been i>aid to the Belasco Stu- dios, a school of acting conducted by Frank and Earl MacQuarrie, was dismissed here last weelc when Judge Trabucco decided against the p'aintitr, Mrs. Ella B. BoWera. Mrs. Bowers alleged that the school heads had guaranteed to have the girl ready for studio work at the end of eight months, but after 13 months she was still unprepared. The MacQuaivles entered a general deniaL Dan Totheroh, author of "Wild Birds," a play that caused some- thing of a moral storm here several years ago when produced at the Plaza, has comjileted a new piece, "The Princess Salome." which Ed- ward O. Kuster has accepted tor production In his new "Theatre of the Golden Bough." at Carmel, Cal. Kuster will compose the incidental music and Totheroh Is to direct the performance. SYRACUSE, N. Y. By CHESTER B. BAHN WIETINO—Wilcox stock, "Tan- gerine." B. F. KEITH'S—Dar*c. TflMPLE^-Dark. Strand— "The woman on the Jury." ROBINS-ECKEL—"Bluff." EMPIRES—"Between Friends." CRESCENT—"Woman to Woman" and vaudeville. REGENT-"This Freedom." SAVOY—"Girl Shy." RIVOLI—"Mile-a-Mlnute Romeo." Ai White of Kranz and White, on the bill at the Palace last week, used to carry the Indianapolis "News" here. Some of the carriers and the Newsboys' Band wore guests of White at a performance. White also used to toot a B-rtat tuba in the kids' band. ARE YOU GniNG TO EUROPE? Stosmshlp •ceomraodations arrmnsed on bII Line* at Mala OBIr^ Prle«a. Boot* are coins Terr fall; armnce wirly. Vorelsa Monej boacbt nad Hold. LIlMrty Bond* tioosht and oold. PACL TACBIO • SON. IM EaM I4tli St.. Nnr Xork Phone Starvwaai I>|S«-<1S7 As exclusively predicted In last week's Variety, B. F. Keith's closed for the summer Sunday night, the closing orders coming after the bill- ing haul been placed for this week's show. It is the first time that the local big-time house has failed to weather the summer period since it opened. Three factors entered into the busi- ness slump at Keith's after the summer policy o€ film and vaude- ville was inaugurated. They were: Real opposition in the shape of the Wieting stock, a regular gold mine; poor quality of the vaudeville bills (included acts which have fre- quently played the pop house. Temple); general industrial slump. While the house is closed It is slated for renovation and refurnish- ing, it is announced. says the Columbia would like the Temple for the first half of each week, expresses confidence it would be a moneymaker, but says that so far John H. Cahill (sUte fair cotii- missioner and theatre operator, among other things) hasn't shown any great anxiety to lease the play- house. Cahill owns the Temple and has operated It as a pop vaudeville theatre sinca its erection. It is lo- cated almost next door to Keith's on South Saiina streeL K. A. Van Auken is the active manager. Local theatre operators and the stagehands are engaged in the an- nual grapple. The union's new con- tract, submitted to the managers this week to become effective on Sept. 1, calls for increases which would hit the- Shubcrt house here for about $3,000 a year alone. The average wage increase sought ia $7 per v/eek for the regular season and $5 per week for the stock period. Extra hands would get $4 a per- formance, an advance of 75 :ent8. The average wage now paid back- stage is )42.S0 a week. The ad- vance would mean a $50 average, if granted. The biggest jump is in the wage of the a-ssistant property man. He now gets $22.50. The union wants $47.60. Theatre managers here declare they won't sigrn up and the usual offer and counter offer will be the rule for several weeks, it is ex- pected. The musicians' union has not yet submitted its new contract. The music scale is now $52 a week, with leaders getting $80. The moving picture operators' contract will hold over a year. The scale ia $47 and $44. Busby Berkeley came bere from New York to direct the Frank Wil- cox company's "Tangerine" this week. It marks the first musical of the local dramatic stock. There's an unusually heavy advance, and De Witt Newlng. manager, is con- templating "Irene" and "Going Up." A local chorus of 12 for the show and Ix>retta Rogers, local soprano, is also in the cast. Al Bobbins, assistant manager of the Robbins-Eckel, and brother of Nate, of Robbins Enterprises, is a proud father. It's a glrL The Syracuse Opera Association, at the annual meeting, elected Frank C. Love as president and named these others: Mrs. George H. McGuire, first vice-president: Prof. Lockwood N. Street, second vice-president; Nina B.' Whitne]*. secretary, and Bruce S. King, treasurer. Department heads for the coming year are: Study. Misa Louis^ Boedtker; business, Calvin Gates; production, Harrie W. Southwick; social, Mrs. Gard Foster. Marietta B. Gaiihorn. young Syrat. cuse girl, went to the Pacific coast to visit relatives. The Coogans and Walter Hiers, with local connec- tions, showed her the studios. She was invited to enter the movies by Metro. She has and makes her boW in "The Valley of Ghosts." Mies Sydney Shields, who sailed for Europe last Saturday, will re- turn in the fall to appear in sup- port of Walker Whiteside in "The Desert Man." The Guardian of a Good Complexion ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED HoUh the Centre of the j..;-.; Stage II WANTED MMEDIAmY GOOD BAR PERFORMER FOR STANDARD ACT Address J. W,, Variety, New York Columbia Amusement Company ofncials are angling for the Temple here for next season. This report was confirmed by Sam Scrlbner In a letter to the dramatic editor of the "Telegram-American." Scrlbner "T-V^l '-5"^ ^f.- > THE COLUMBIA, NEW YORK, Brings Forth a NEW PRODUCER with ORIGINAL IDEAS and PERSEVERANCE LE,ONARD HARPER Staged the Whole of 'THE HOLLYWOOD FOLLIES" at the Columbia, New York, NOW Showered with the praise of the New York dailies, the girls, drilled by Leonard Harper irt his own conception of THE CHARLESTOWN BUZZ and THE BLACK BOTTOM, were a sensation. ^-— — LEONARD HARPER at Room 309, Navex Building, 22S West 46th Street, New York, adjoining N. V. A,, is prepared to instruct A LIMITED NUMBER OF PUPILS in CHARLESTOWN BUZZ, BLACK BOTTOM, BUCK AND WING. SOFT SHOE, WALTZ, CLOG or A SHOW. WHO'S NEXT? V LECWARD HARPER, of Harper and Blanks ■...■^-.■^^.....^-■.•.■^•■r-