Variety (July 1924)

W«dnMday, July 9, 1924 VARIETY 31 (4 n- THE WAGER REPEATING ITS AMERICAN SUCCESS IN (XEAT BRITAIN ^ # OWEN McGIVENEY presente HIS WELL KNOWN PROTEAN ACT, WHICH IS FOLLOWED BY THL BURLESQUE FEATURING V DOTSON, the Dusky Dancer, as ''r gin" BILLY BENNETT, "Almost a Gentleman, as "Nancy" CLEANING UP ON THE MOSS TOUR* 'fi COMMUNICATIONS EN ROUTE i. <KM)><M><^<><MM^^<NMJ>^><M^^^ ATLANTIC CITY '7 Another musical at the Apollo r thlB week, "Margie Daw." The show ^ had Its premier last week. Re- ^ ported from Lobg Branch needed fjlDts of fixing. r ' ■ 1' Globe and Hippodrome at the E Million Dollar Pier have Keith f- vaudeville. B>va Tanguay headlining |: *t the Globe. No Sunday afternoon f ihow at the Globe. Frank Wolf of the Stanley office ^ tt booking Sunday night concerts r At the Apollo. Dolly Kay at the Folles Bergere (cabaret) has opened up a chop house opposite the cabaret. She ■ells both ways, In songs and getting the patrons to visit the food place. The four week run of the "Powder River," a war film was cut short at the Savoy after two weeks. The picture could not draw with all of the [taper and tie-ups with the local r Veterans of Foreign Wars. "Dorothy 29 SPECIALIST IN DRESSE& West 50th St., "N. Y, CIRCLE 6871 DISCOUNT TO THE PBOFE8RIOM Vernon of Haddon Hall" filling in the two weeks. "Tljief of Bagdad" opens July 28. "The Ten Commandments," Gar- den Pier, 3d week. The force in charge has J. M. Stout as company manager;' Phil de Angeles, general ad agent; Tony Zito, advance; Fred Arundel, musical director. The Fourth brought the greatest crowd In the history to the resort. Last year's records according to re- ports were broken by at least 12 percent. The Pennsylvania and P. & K. railroads figures showed 214,000 persons at the Atlantic City station. It is said that more than 10,000 motor cars came Into town. office record last week. This week, new numbers have been introduced Dewitt Newing pressing the ushers, the staj^e hands and even the colored porter into service for dance and song bits. Up in the North Country, Klijah Cobb, father of ex-Senator George H. Cobb, chief state movie censor, is doing his own haying. Cobb Is 91 years old, but that's not stopping him from driving a mowing machine and pitching, too. "The Office," the open air pavil- lion opposite the Apollo theatre was busy last week. Among the new arrivals were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scott of lyexington, Ky.. Johfi R. Rogers out here to celebrate his 16th birthday; Lew Fields, Sammy White, Eva Puck, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Wolf E. Gilbert, Saul Born- stein, Irving Mills and Charles Lang. SYRACUSE. N. Y. By CHESTER B. BAHN WIETING—Wilcox Stock. "Tan- gerine:" STRAND—"Enchanted Cottage." EMPIRE—"His Forgotten Wife." ROBBINS-ECKEL—;'The Break- ing Point." CRESCENT -• "Poisoned Para- dise." , ., „ SAVOY—"Ride for Your Life." REGENT—"Twenty-one." For the first time In local stock history, a stock Is holding over a play this week, the Wieting retain- ing "Tangerine" for a second week. The company rolled up a new box Opportunity for Musical Director R«quirfmfcnts: Past vaudeville cxperiencr, indiiding the flnnilling of all managerial duties of company, travelling dttailH, ftc. APPLY AT ONCE TO LEO MORRISON, Booking Mgr. NED WAYBURN OFFICE, Inc. 1841 Broadway (entrance on 60th St.). New York City Telephone COLUMBUS 3500 I ''^^^ George C. Mayen, Jr., director of the orchestra in the Temple theatre, Dion, was married Sunday to Leia Beatrice Ross of that town. One man was overcome and an- other badly burned when fire brok? out In the. Palace theatre, Tupper Iiake, during'a matinee performance. The blaze had its origin in the pro- jecting booth. Charles Ricketts. operator, was painfully burned about the hands. BUirl Vosburg, po- liceman, who rushed to Ricketts' aid, was overcome by smoke. The audience filed out without any sign of panic. Loss about $2,000. Syracuse theatrical musicians have drafted their new wage de- mands, and, like the st.tge hands, wart an advance. The present scale is $52 and $80—the latter for the leaders. The asked new scale cal'p for $50 for six days, with $10 for Sundays, with a $90 rate for the leaders. Thealricail men will battle it. Variety-Clipper Bureau, WASHINGTON, D. C. Evans BIo'b- New York Ave. By HARDIE MEAKIN With two of the legit houses now "ftiiictioninK" and the movies going full blast, Washington has taken on the appe.Trance of the regular theat- rical sefiHon. I)e Wolf Hopper is doing splendidly at I'oli's while the nfw Fowler org.anlzation prfHontinp stofk at the Rpl.THcn rcreivcd won- derful notices from the ioc.-il d.'iilios and there seems to be a likelihood that the company will land. Francis X. Hennessy rSISH PIPtB—SCOTCH PIPER VInllnIM IMunlrlanl. Irlab Stcc »n<l Srolrh Illfhltnd Dinrti Pli; p»rt«. T«ii<t»»lllf WouM loin Mualril Art Bur- Iwiw. Irtab tmiMlka, w l»dr Hlntn. r>rtnrt. A6CNTS. Km* •■> A«4r«M. Varl«t>. N«* Y«rk. Hopper Is doing "Krminie" for the current week, the fifth of his season here. "Wang" is ' underscored for the week of the 14th with "Sweet- hearts" <o follow. The stock at the Belasco were set to do "The Deep Tangled Wildwood" this week but have thrown this back to continue "In Love with Love" for a second week. Harold Phillips, dramatic man on Hearst's evening daily, "The Times," started his month sojourn among his relatives in Minnesota, or some- where near there, on Saturday last. During the absence of Leonard Hall, of the "News," Ralph D. Pal- mer is holding ends up in splendid shape from all reports. Donald Gallagher did wonders laAt week in getting up in "In Love with Love." Did in It 24 hours and didn't miss an "if, and or a but." Picture houses:—Columbia, "The Chechahcos"; Pal;ice, "Half-a-DoI- lar Bill"; Rialto, "Another Scandal"; Metropolitan, Colleen Moore in "The Perfect Flapper"; Tivoll, Madge Kennedy in "Three Miles Out." Attesting to the popularity of Sam Stelnberger'e Hotel Arlington, prac- tically every professional now in Washington is living there. Thia in- cludes De Wolf Hopper's company at Poll's and the stock at the Belas- co. Leo Leavltt, manager of Poll's, and Mrs. Leavitt have resided there throughout their entire stay ,ln Washington, some three years now. Washington theatre-goera back to the time when the now Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, owned the "Heralt^" and Dorsey's theatrical section was one of the big main- stays of the paper. L Stoddard Taylor, manager of the Belasco la "on the job" with the stock at his hou^e as is W. L. Flem- ing, the treasurer. Both were con- templating long vacationa but the advent of the stock changed all such plana. The Columbia ' Amusement Co., operating the Gayeti* here, ie mak- ing "hay while the sun ahinea." The^ house ia closed for the summer hvAT In the meantime the lobby has been, rented to a dispenser of some,sort of orange beverage. « DILLINGHAM'S OPINION (Continued from page 2) the voyage acroaa la Frederlcli Londsale, who is writing a new play for Dillingham. The producer may stage It at the Gaiety, New York, In the early fall. Now that the two Hearst publica- tions, "Herald" and "Times" are separate units the name of Earle Dorsey Is once more appearing at the head of much of the theatrical news In the "Herald." This takes SOPHIE TUCKER While recently playins In San Francisco, had Jamaa Madiaen write her a lot of excluaiva ma- terial. Result—entire aatiafae- tion. Until further notice vaude- ville artitta can get in touch with me regarding new acta or miscellaneoua -comedy material at Hotel Granada, Sutter and Hyde Streets, San Franciaco. 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