Variety (August 1924)

w '" - " •■"' • I Wc -leiday. Augurt 6. 1924 BURLESQUE VARIETY 39 § Columbia Rosters Hurtle * BMBUM •tftrted four of ,^lan Hall. l»6th •tre.t and Madl- 'Sn^avenu*. Bliow. and p«r.<mn«l **!«M«llywo«d rolllaa-J Collins and S^k^ety Kan« City, Aug. 10. •^*w^f»i.. of 1W6"« Danny Murphy, ^WU? H ward. Charll« Chaae Jack ■C^yle Violet McKee. Mildred Camp- E?ii Murohy and Adam». Lillian &*June Bobble and Her Prairie £nd Bd Edmondaon (manager). 2rd"''Hu^o conn rnu.ltMl J^r^ior. ■ Tkrunii &t NewaFk, N. J.. Aug. ii. v*^8te* On If: Nlblo and Spencer > wJty Semon. Callfomla TrloJLIoyd '^^ Ardell Mabel Best. Prankle SorrU I^u Slark (manager), and ? McCluekle, mu.lcal d»'«ctor. Jhow open, at Oayety theatre, St. "^-JrJmptftion. of 1«>aS": >ion-l. and •^-vJw Irving Brooks, Marty Barrett, f^r Cohan" Mabel White. Kitty Olasco. vera Trevor, Flo BadcllfTe^ w H Trueheart (manager), and Wklter yewdall. «"-«?»' ^if^J"'- Onens at Paterson. N. J-.^Augl 18. Dave Marion's Ow. Showt 6ave fc Marlon, owner and star; Parish and ; Peru Frank retell. Rlchy Covey. Josephine Sabel. Charles McNally. M Begley. Abe Gore. WIUU Clifton. Belle Sherman. Bobby Taylor, Jr.. IHve Burt. Frank Hlldebrandt. A-'Bmanuel Kramer. I. Groda (man- ager). Baron Golden (agent), and L Tom Bryan, musical director. Opens, r at Buffalo. Aug. 18. \ Ed. E. Daly took his three com- Mnles to Indianapolis fot, rehear- gals leaving New York Sunday 00 a special train. There were 148 I people In the party. Lena Daley's Own Show opens at the Capitol. Indianapolis, Aug. 10 with the following personnel. Lena Daly (herself), Eddie Shu fcert. Billy "Bumps" Mack. Sid Gold, '<^Mrles V. Markert. Rita and Doris, Martha' White. Grace Ftilrchlld. Oee Hamilton. Mile Tyana. Managerial staff; manager not yet named: agent. IxfkHs Chapman; carpenter. Irving Barker; elec- trklan, Earl Bell; assistant elec- '.trician. George Ware. ••Running Wild," Billy Foster. Hbim Mlcals, Jolin O. Grant. Bemte Green. Babe Healy, Mildred I Holmes. Bdythe Bates, Audrey Mc- Vay, (Ansell White Revua (10 people), and James Oalltvan. Staff — Louis Oberworth, man- ager; George Glass, musical dl- rsctor; John O. Grant, stage »nan- Bger; Gall Ferris, carpenter; 'Tommy Seymour, proi)erty man; '■Aow opens at Olymplo thaatre, Cincinnati/ Ohio, August 10. "Fast Steppars," Harry Svanstbn Columbia Shows and Managers The Columbia Amusement Company completed the Issuing of franchises thia week and the engagement of road managers. Aft ImiKirtant concession made by the circuit to the Columbia pro- ducers concerns the circuit maintaining an electrician out front In each Columbia Theatre and stage lighting that will relieve the pro- ducers of the necessity of carrying special lighting paraphernalia. Heretofore the producer had to pay the salary of the operator and carry him with the show. The new scheme means a saving of some $3,000 a season to the producers. A list of the Columbia shows, franchise-holders and road man- agers to date is appended. The list includes the full 8< shows: PEEK-A-BOO Shows Dave Marlon Own Show I "Silk Stocking Revue" "Go to It" "Fast Steppers" "Broadiray By Night" "Runnin' Wild" "Come Along" "Wine, Woman ft Song" Red Pepper Revue Ilihmie Cooper Revu« Mollle Williams' Revue - "Take a Liook" "Happy Momenta" "Follies of the Day" "Good Little Devils" "Happy Go Lucky"" "Talk of the Town" - "Town Scandals" Barney Gerard's Show "Record Breakers" "Let's Go" "Bathing Beauties" Sliding Billy Watson "Monkey Shines" "Best Show in Town" "Hlpplty Hop" Harry Steppe's Own Show Lena Daley—Miss Tabasco "Peek-a-Boo" "Nifties of 1924" "Temptations 1924" "Hollywood FellieB" ^ -' "Step on It" "Step This Way" •Stop and Go" ■Golden Crooks" Owner Dave Marion Harsy Hasting Wm. S. .^ampbell J. Herbert Mack (Thas. H. Waldron Sam. A. Scrlbner Sam. A. Scrlbner H. K. Hynlcka R. K. Hynlcka Jimmie Coo|>er George Rife Empire Circui^ Sim WilUams Miner Xlstate Miner Estate Herman Fehn Herman Fehn • Warren B. Irons Barney Gerard Jack Held Fred Clark Rube Bernstein Billy Watson Clark A McCullouglj Arthur Harris Travers & Brandell Bob Travers Manager Isay Grotx Eddie Shafer Frank Lanning Fred Sears Chas. Edwards Lou Oberworth M. Walnstock Lew Talbot Louis Gilbert John Goldsmidt Lon Ditmas H. C. Diehl Sim WillUms Dave Posner Harry Shapiero Hughie' Benard Harry'Strouse Dick Zeisler C^harles Foreman Chas. Donogue Fred Cla/'k Irving Becker Jack McNamara FRANK FINNEY'S STOCK ll Peck A Kolb Cain^fr Davenport Ed Daley Jean Bedini Hurtig & Seamon Gus Hill Hurtig & Seamon nus Itlll Jacobs, & Jermon Jacobs & Jermon Martell Estate Chaa Burns Ed Daley Lew Sl<lman EA Edmonston Frank Livingston Lew Stark Ben Harris Ira Miller James F'ulton advance, Harry Abbott, 8r.; mus- ical director, Joe Paulson; special nusnbers by Melville Morris; elec- trician, Herman Koch; carpenter, Billy Bennington; property man, Fred Nolan. Show opens at Detroit, Aug. 10. Peck and Kolb'« "Hippity Hep"— Abe Reynolds with the foltowing support: Grace Cameron, Kay Nor- man, Duke Rogers. Halg Priests, Lou Lewis, Lul Ring. Lora Carol. The Izganes. Thelma Leonard. MIckle Leemtng. and 18 girls. Staff—Manager. Charles Bftrns; agent Walter Berger;. musical di- rector, Thomas Cooper; carpenter, Roy Cahlll; electrician, M. B. Chal- pain; property man. Lew Boman. Show opens at Pittsburgh, Pa., Mae Dlz, Jules Howard, ^'ay Tunis, I Aug. 18. H. £. WZEK FILLEI>-IH The Columbia Burlesque Cir- cuit has filled In the open week In New England. The Columbia shows will play the Holyoke, Holyoke, the first two days of the week and thew State, Springfield', the last four days. The three open days before Bridgeport have been partially filled, the shows playing Poll's, Meriden, Mondoy, wl^h two more one-day stands still open. . l«w Denny, Grace Wallace. <}ordon Bennett. Buddie Cort. Ollle Debrow, Dotson and Mc<3onn, and Weldanos fiensatl6n. Staff—Fred Sears, manager: J. • Theo Murphy I property man; Fred Lynch, electrician; Henry Neubauer, . musical director; Jaraes B. Stanton to produce t?i« numbers for all three . ^owfl. Open* at Oayety theatre, Dayton, Ohio. Aug. 10. Uwls Talbot's, "Wins. Woman and Bono." featuring Bert Bertrand, ' supported by Gertrude Ralston. Hairy 8. I.«Van, Nate Busby. Ken Christy, Cbarlis Cole, Dotty Bates. ' AUce Smith. B5dgar Rand. Will Balney, San Oelford. and 24 chorus iWs. Staff—I^wl* Talbot, owner and manager; Chris Newman advance; X.eo Zom. musical director; Barney Smith, carpenter; Ralph Pepper. ' slectriclan. and Frank Callen. prop- erty man. Show plays preliminary week between Wheeling, W. Va.. and Canton. Ohio, week of Au^. 11. Opens regular season week of Aug. 17. in Cleveland, Ohio. Jimmie Coopar** Ravua, features Jiramle Copper supported by Jack Ready. Delph Singer, Harry Myer«< Marion De Larkey. Jean "Vernon, Betty Delmonte, Midgle Olbbons, Helen Davis and 18 girls, Julian Arthui's Band (10), Jazs Ups Richardson, Man Tan Moreland. Bessie De Sola. Octavia Sumler. ^- Bight Pashas. Elharfs Elephants, and Sam Cross. Manager John Goldsmith; ad- • Tanee, Sheriff Jack Levy; musical director. Rocco Colloma. Show opens at Olympic theatre, Chicago, Aug. l*. Harrv Hasting's "dilk Stocking Rsvue,* features Frank X. Silk, sup- ported by Ruth Olbbs, Helen Ken- nedy, Carney and Carr. Frank Mar- tin, Amand Monte. VIviana and Jackson, Mary Shaw, Paul Orth. Kerwin and Ix>ck. and the Busch Sisters. Stsft —Manager. Eddie Shafer; agent. Sam 8. Clark; musical dl- Jfctor. Matt Mannix; carpenter. William Howard; property man, William Belden; electrician, Joe Hill, assistant electrician. Charles Beldln. Show opens at Kmplne the- atre. Providence. R. I.. Aug. 11. "Sliding" Billy Watson's Show; "Sliding" Billy, who has in his sup- port Frans Marie Texas. Little Anna Propp. Mile Babette. Marie Vernon. Claire Evans. Murry Harris, Paul H. West, Frank Malahan, Oliver De Grant, Creedon and Taye. Three Eddies. Klncaid Ladies Band (B) Jais Stroupe and 18 girls. Staff—Manager. Jack McNamara; Mollle Williams Show—Mollis Wil- liams, Freddy Harper, Bobby Wilson. Bebe Almond. Ray King, Morton and Mayo, John Mack. Lillian Pearl. Ella Corbett, Arthur White. Lon D'tmas, manager; Harry Williams, advance agent. Show opens Aug. 17, Oayety, Montreal. Que. "Take a Look"—Cy Plunkett, Bvy- leen Ramsey, George Schreck, Jean Vernon, Charley Harris, Perry and Perry, Salvatore Zlto, Helen Mason, Evylln Whitney. Peggry Van Camp. Harry Delhi, manager; Chas. A. Foley, advance agent Opens Aug. 18, Casino, Brooklyn, N. T. 110.000 AT COUIMBIA Jean Bedinl's "Peek-a-Boo" in Its second week at the Columbia, New York, grossed $10,000 last week, considered lyiusual business for hot weather. l^ATIOHAt, CHI, OPENS AUG. 10 Chicago, Aug. B. The National will open with Mutual burlesque, Aug. 10, under the supervision of K. Thomas Beatty. NIGHT FOB CHEE8ER8 T.he Cheese Clulvmembers will be the guests of the Columbia- tomor- row (Thursday) ntgbt upon the in- vitation of Fred McCloy, the "Colum- bia's manager. The Cheesers will ,see "Peok-a- Boo." To make the evening perfoce for the newspaper boys McCloy will have the company do a bit here and there from the Cheese Club's own acknowledged flop, "One Heluva Night." that lived up to Its title on 42d street not so long ago. BTAN AND LEE BOOKED EAST Ryan and IjM are at Keith's, Cleveland, this week, the start of a Keith's route for the act. It Is the first time in five years Ryan and Lee have played in a Keith-booked theatre, although last season they were on the Orpheum circuit. Charlie Morrison got the Keith's route for the turn. • MABRIAGES Harry Clarke, actor, and Mildred McCloud, recently with "Tarnish," were married secretly three months ago. ' has been 'evealed. Clartte Is a former hUbband of ITora Bayes.. Josef Swickard, motion picture actor, to Margaret Campbell, pic- ture actress, employed by Universal at Santa Ana. CaJ.. July 27. Emily Barry (Barry Family) to Dick Lancaster (Barn' and Lancas- ter). Aug. 4, at St Malachi's, Naw York, by Rev. Fr. Leonard. ENGAGEMENTS Ernest Glendennlng, "Top Hole." Ernest Treux, Zlegfeld b BlUle Burke show. Kramer and Griffin End Team Kramer and Griffin dissolved part- nership last Sunday at I/oew's, Ave- nue B. New York. Ed Griffin Is go- ing with Fields and West Mutual Wheel show, and Kramer will shortly open an act with a new partner. ^ Clyde Cook for Four Weeks Los Angeles, Aug. i. Clyde Cook, the comedaln, will re- turn to Orpheum vaudeville for four weeks, opening Sunday. He will play the two coast big timers before re-entering upon a picture engagement. Baseball Scores Draw Washington, Aug. 6. Something has been finally found to draw at the President, formerly Lyceum. An automatir baseball scoreboard has bekn In- stalled, and during the absence of the "Senators" will l>e in operation during each game that is played. With a 60c. top, the houses have run close to ca- pacity. Jack Garrison, formerly han- dling the President but now at the Mutual, which is to house that wheel's burlesque attrac- tions, opening this month, in- stalled a board in his new house. With the some scale. Garrison draws capacity every afternoon. Washington's getting near the top of the American Jjengve helped two of its theatres, any- how. A season's record was created by Jean Bedinl's "Peek-a-Boo," being the third stimmer wheel attraction to appear at the Columbia. New "fork. Whereas the Columbia re- ceives a rotating show each week in season, in the summer tlnk« and in the past it has held but one show. This summer "Let's Go" started, followed by "Hollywood Follies," and now "Peek-a-Boo," which will re- main through the week ot Aug. 18, the regular season's openli.T« on the Columbia, the Bedlnl show having received that week on Broadway as Its regular wheel opening stand. "Peek-a-Boo" came into the Co- lumbia after a week's layoff follow- ing a short summer run in Boston. The value of its title may be re- corded through the fact that last week, the hottest of the summer, "Peek-a-Boo" did over $10,000 at the Columbia. It must have b«ep the title, for this show doesn't rate with the "Peek-a-Boo" of the Clark and McCuUough Cays, after dis- counting the appearance of Clark and McCullough. Yet "Peck-a-Boo" will hold up to its title on the wheel's Jour. Jean Bedlnl, who produced, oper- ates and talks the show, brought over 18 English chorus girls. They ar* worth the importation. But few lookers, but they all have feet and their feet can be easily looked at. Besides, they are like the other Eng- lish dancing groups who can dance. There is a novelty production bit in a black and white effect, almost an Amakon march in design, if not maneuveirs, and again the English second week, seems to have been borrowed, for an Old Girls' Brigade, a grotesque number, capable of being developed. Bedini hews to the burlesque limit line in "Such Is Life in Fouf Pro- verbs," four scene bits played rapidly and adapted from more or less known stories. Thert is comedy In each bit, and Jt is burlesque, also quite the best of all the "improb- able" scenes the musicals have aped one another with, without any of the musicals hitting upon the. Be- dini and much better scheme. Some of ttie "Peck-a-Boo" comedy seems dragged out. It lacks spon- taneity, a lack that appears to like- wise lie with thg principal comedian, Harry Lander. Borrowing from old stories Is often seen and heard. Perhaps the old- est la the "imaginary line across the equator" with "a couple of camels on It" Who In burlesque could have thought to have recalled that In thlsdttv"/ • A draggy scene Is^he "camel" bit In the first part and the Pullman car bit In the second part could stand speeding up. The "camel" scene could stand going out. Tet Friday night the show rang up at 8:30 and down H}. 10:40. Mr. Bedini will eithy have to pad out his performance or allow more en- cores. Bedini is a bear for.^ speed, which Is all rlghtf If the show^sn't short; this performance can't stand the pace that kills off legit encores. The phone rnd dramatic bits In the first part are a couple other slow spots. Notwltlvstandlng. however, the first BO, minutes of the aecqnd act Is all show and makes up for a lot. In production "Peek-a-Boo" hasj been held muchly to drops and drapei4, but the girls are dressed up often. The better they are aressed the better they look. Their bare- leggedness of the first part doesn^t hurt their appearance. Harry Lander's opposite Is his brother, Willie. Other principals appear frequently and nicely, but without undue note. The song num- bers are middling, and the best numbers are those the chorus girls appear alone In. These chorus girls are a large part of the Bedini show. They have three Individual opportunities col- lectively, and Improve upon each one. While the program says they are stag* directed by Allan Foster, and without stealing credit from Mr. Foster, the girls must have brought some of their dancing stuff with them from • England. Among the specialties are Gordon and Germain on trampoline net, ex- j cellent. Carr's Jazz Kings are seven boys forming a band. While too noisy to be Jazz kings, they seem good enough to back up Harry Peterson as a singer, who sings often. Mr. Peterson is the centre of the red fire stage picture for the finale of the first part. Just what his cal- isthenlc scheme Is there Isn't an- nounced by Mr. Bedini in person, who is otherwise on the stage nearly all of the time. Bedini tells what Is going to happen, and it usually happens, although not with the liv- ing pictures. As the audience right there wanted to see living pictures that Incident In the first part should be made burlesque or nothing. Mr. Bedini, with his gray hair and Continental manners, performed tba announcing role quite satisf.ic- torily, became an excited French- man In the Pullman car bit and did some magic with the Landers In an- other scene In "one," the latter for comedy. Nineteen scenes are programmed for the two acts. They seemed td be as prdgrammed. This made contld- erable work for the I>andcrs as prin- cipals and more for the ..'horlHtcre. Figuring "Peok-a-Bo6'* Is now In its second week of a fot r-week run in New Vori« and in fairly gooJ Opening at Luris, Oakland, Aug. 16 for Rwn Oakland, Cal., Aug. 5. The Lurie reopens Aug. 16 with Frank Finney's "Forty Funlanders," recently of Spokane, and :f business holds up the road shows will be di;opped in favor of the musical "tab" shows, according to Eddie Brehany, manager of the bouse. Finney Is a former Oaklander who has been In eastern burlesque for some time. The show is the property of Finney and Charles W. York, formerly a John Cort manager In Los Angeles, and for the last IS years a partner In George Hood's enterprises In the northwest. In the troupe will be Ruby Lang as prima donna, Martha Biehl as soubret Jack Meeker, leading man, and ESd Mprris, second comic. There will be 24 girls in the line, but no run-Way .will b« used. The plan is to give three a day, with four on Sunday with pictures to fill ths time ' requirements. The scale will b« 2E for matinees and BO for nights. The Lurle started a« a road at- traction house; but had Indifferent success due to tba Infraquency of top notch shows and booking condi- tions. Its last venture In stock wag with Myrtle Dingwall and Ferris Hartman doing light, opera. This flopped and was withdrawn after the : DAXSKLL'S TWV OFEHISGS The Frank Dameell Mutual ^tour- lesque s^Bjr, "Make It Peppy." featuring Frances Farr as the star and Al Hillier aa principal come- dian, opens Saturday afternoon, Aug. 23, at the Olynsplc. New York. The Damsell troupe followa the "Snap It Up," which had ^ prelim- inary week, starting Saturday night, Aug. 16, but Jumpe to the .Star, Brooklyn, where It opens Its regu- lar season on the night of Aug. 2$. This arrangement gives Damsell two* Saturdays at the Olympic In addition to Miss Farr, Mr. Damsell. Mr. Hillier, the "Mak^ . It Peppy" roster includes Al. Watson, Eiddie M. Lloyd, Gene Evans and Evelyn W. Fields ILL AND IN JUBED Runs Keliy, end man With the Emmett Welch Minstrels, playing at Young's Pier. Atlantic City, is at the Hotel Spratt ArkansHs ave- nue. Atlantic City. He is a brother ■1)f Billy Richie. Harry Quealy and Lauro De J6aus are both 'at the Metropolitan hospital. Welfare' Island, N. Y. Quealy is reported suffering from a Stroke of paralysis. Peggy Dale Whlffen recovered from an operation performed at Mqi^tvale, Va., has returned to New York. Wayne Christy' 6'f the Keith booking forces, Waii on the Long Island train wrecked at Woodslde, Queens, July 81, and painfully' In- jured. Christy is living at Bee- churst, and was traveling on the I'brt Washington ^al out of the Penn Station. A switch was thrown" open by i trainman's carelessness and thie train crashed into an elec- tric locomotive, tt was a nine- car tr/iin, with the seventh car de- molished by the crash. After the coUllon Christy made his way fo safety somewhat dazed and shocked, but the real effects of his 'njurles wort not kown until later when examination revealed Internal Injuries, a probable frac- tured rib and strained ligaments In his wrist and arm. He also had bruises about his head. Freda A. Marcus, of the Jans Film Co., has recovered from a re- cent operation for appendicitis, and Is back at her desk again. Mrs. Bella Doyle Goforth (Goforth and Doyle) underwent another se- rious -operation Aug. 1 at the Memo- rial Hospital. Bloomlngton, 111. This Is Mrs. Goforth's third operation within foul* months NEW AC!TS Helen Jerome Eddy, from pictures. In sketch. Anna Chandler, new act. Lou Tellegen will reopen for Keith next season In a new act by Arvld Paulson. The action of the piece is supposed t otake place some- where In Scandinavia. Jimmy Duffy and Jack Allnien, two-act Gilbert Wells and Florence Brady, two-act. Frank and May Luce (The Mu- sical Hunters), new musical turn. Joe Fields (Fields and WooUoy) and Sam Rose (Hugh Herbert and Co.), two-aCct. Moirlw and Townee are to be the principals In a new revue act to be pre."»nted by *"ior»'nx Anu,* (Dooley .ind Ames).