Variety (October 1924)

% l^?; VOL. LXXVL No. 7 NEW YORK Cmr, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1924 88 PAGES r::^- WALK OUT ON HIGH SCALES 11 DISABLED VFIERANSM CAST OF "WHAT PRICE GLDRYT Hullabaloo Orer War Drama, but Bring* Out Identi- ties of Several Player*—^Help to Make Play V More Realistic jtf I' W1 ■'■•■'■--'•.. •■ >.- ' TT'l Th« hutlalMtloo »bout "What Prtca ^:'I. } ^loryT', the drtuitatic amash at the 'h. > Pljrmouth, New York, brought to '-' !; j U(ht an adroit caatlnar Item credited '"' J Arthur Hopkina, who produced the >.■■..' ^ play. Thera are 11 ex-service men ' In the show, aeven wounded In ao- . tlon. These men help make the ' show the more realistic and their presence aroused resentment over >; " the sestures of Interference. < { ' _ The casualties in \be cast were n [: ; 'ielected from the list 6t men bf all '!,' branches of the service at the ' ftut, 18 East 68th street, an,o; « ' (Continued on pace 48) 1!» .at K. IK. CLUB HOUSE IN WASH. National Headquarters in Disguise—Fiery Cross ^ Over Door f^ |i Washington, Sept. SO. The Ku Klux KUn is to have a national headquarters, and right In Washington. It will take the form of a clubhouse and Is to be '-f • national 8co];>e, although oper- ated by Klan members In tixe capital. A flery cross, according to the present plan, will blaTs over the doorway. No location has been settled upon ■r yet, but early setlji is being urged, It Is said, because of the Klon's present. Inadeinate quartern. Another Mrs. Dan Caswell After Heavy Cabaret Jack k Ii The second of Dan Caswell's romances with "Follies" girls tn» gone democratic. The latest smash has come to light through a vaqde- vllle agent In New York receiving a tetter from the present Mrs. Dan, Who was June Castleton of the "Fol- lies," in which she says she wants a vaudeville or cabaret engaRement Dan personally tried a vaudeville stunt of his own a couple of years ngo, playing one consecutive week in Newark, N. J. Mrs. Dan may have heard about the heavy dough some of the host- esses In New York places are grab- bing off, and she must be flgurlng that she might Just as well have aome of that soft Jack. MRS. MINNIE CHAPLIN IS DISFIGURED Syd Chaplin's Wife Sues *'Beauty" Surgeon for $100,000 - I<o« Ang«le«, Sept M. Denying that he was responsible for disfiguring the nose of Mrs. Mln^ nie Chaplin, wife of Syd Chaplin, Dr. Robert anfflth, a local beauty surgeon, haa fl^ed answer to the $100,000 •damage^' suit she instituted against h4m In the Superior Court. The answer relates that three op- erations were performed on the nose in an attempt to get It Just the way Mrs. Chaplin wanted it. and that (Continued on page At) NOT EVEN BARE LEG IN JOISON'S 'VK BOr Mostly Pathos and Horses, Says Comedian—Ra(^ track Setting AtlanUc City, Sept. SO. "They tu-e using awful foul lan- guage in drama nowadays, but I guess it's all In the name of art," (Continued on page 6>) Sauerkraut Day ' Lisbon, la., Sept. tO. Approximately 10,000 persons gathered here from eastern Iowa to attend "Sauerkraut Day," formerly an annual event, but abadoned dur- ing the war. The crowd ate 120 gallons of kraut, 250 pounds of wieners, and 75 pounds of crackers for lunch, and about the same for cupper. PLAY WITH LECTUEE Pittsburgh, Sept. 30. "Discarded Wives," a four-act drama. Is at the. Alvin this week, billed as new and "a woman's play." Matinees are for women only, with a lecture following the drama. At night shows all over 16 are admitted. m.SITOPFOR Mimr SHOWS OKBW Saturday Nichf • Advance Rejected hy ^f ency Buy- er*—Big Grossee Tumble After First Week-HeaTy Competitkm Betweea Ex- p e a s i ▼ e Prednctio m Dramas Rnnuiug Well with $21,B00 as Startling Week's Takings for **¥nutt Price Glory?" WM.FAVERSHAM BEFORE EQUin ON CONTRAO^ALARY CLAIM Brock Pen^berton Recuses Arbitration Suffgested jon "Mask and Face" ' Co n t ro v e r s y — Manager Charges Star Gave Inferior Performance •~t- HITS AT $7.70 Reaction t* the ooncurrent pre- sentation of an unprecedented num- l>er of high scaled attraoUons was evidenced in the comparative taper- ing on in busineaa last week. The opening pace of several revues car- ried them to big grosses the first week, then came a perceptible slow- ing down. The pressure Saturday night brought to light the pulse of patron- (Continued on p«g« S) SKEEI^ GALUCm GOT FLASH AT TOLUES" .. Skeets.aallagbar wlU leave "Mar- Jorta" at the 44th Street. Satur- day, replaced by Richard Keen. No- tice was given Qallagher last week, when it la claimed he left the thea- tre to watch a scene In the "Y^reen- . (Continued on page St) Fiendisli Rerenge A Broadway Showman, with his whole being wra{>ped up in his young and only son, was nearly shocked into insanity when a long dlst&nce phone and a woman's voice informed him his boy had died that morning. Suffering great mental agony It was two hours before the Showman could reach some one on the phone, who had seen hU boy. When he did the showman was Informed his boy was then playing Imme- diately In front of the house he was phoning to. The showman had gone out of New York to look over a new production he had pre- pared, leaving his boy in the city. The father was about 100 miles away when the false phone rail reached him. It Is reportod the showman has not yet recovered from the shock. ORMINC BOOT AT NEW PLAITS REHEARSAL Explaining Why "Made for Each Other" Was Postponed "Made for XIach Other," to have started at the 62nd Street last Wednesday night, did not open un- til last Monday night. Hal Crane, pressed into service to supplant Upson Rose In the male lead opposite Lillian Walker, walked out of the piece Wednesday night after the premier had been post- I>oned until Friday. He announced to the management that the show mm far from ready, and that he 41d (Continued on page 42) LOPEZ IN 2 THEATRES; SUIT FOIIOWS Piccadilly Theatre Notified by Show's Management—Dif- erent Bands, However Al Jones, as president of The Bo- hemian*, Inc., has served notice on the next Piccadilly (pictures) theatre and also on Vincent Lopes and his orchestra by registered mall t^t they will seek to restrain Lopes from appearing personally at the new picture theatre because of bis appearances in the "Qreenwich VII- Uge Follies" at the Shubert, New York. It's the first time a stellar band (Continued on page 46) DAILY SUMMABT NIOHTLT A new feature by the Manhattan Little Theatre Club, under Walter Hartwig's direction, will be the reading nightly of a dally summary of theatrical doings on Broadway. It will be a sort of miniature typed newspaper to be read for 10 minutes from the stage. Opinions on new plays by five rep- resentative critics of the press and from the trade angle (quoting V'a-/ rlety) will be read. Following tin etoolnc by Brttek Pemberton oC "The lla«k and th* Face" at tho BUoa. New Tortt. after presenting K a WMk itaA a half, WiUiam Fareraham. (eaW^d, entered a olaJm on his ooatmct which guaranteed him a oMrtala number of weeks. Pemberton claims that Faversham'a faUore to become familiar with hia Unat re- sulted In an unsatlsfaotory parfwm- ance and la responsible for ttaa play falling. The matter was placed bafora (Continued on page M> VAJDAMAY HE HOPWOOD Hungarian Author Has Chance for Fire Sim- ultaneous Plays Equalling the Hopwood record' ot a few yeara ago when the lingerie farce author haS flva shews on Broadway will be tha Chrlatraaa record of Ernest Vajda. The reaord is dependent upon tha (^Continued on page 42) , JACK DEMPSEY'S GEB-QEES Champion Part Owner in llaeins •tabla—ki Vaudavill* . Besidaa hla moving p{ctura> and fighHng activities. Jack Detnpaty U now part owner of a stble ot race- horses. This was learned whaii the champ greeted "Sunny Jhn" Cof- froth. famous fight promoter and racing man. when the latter arrived In New Tork Sunday. Don Chafin, sheriff of Logan c^nty, Logan, W, Va., a couain of Dempsey's, is the "silent partner." When the racing season begins at Tla Juana the heavyweight tclng will be on hand to watch hla gee- gees perform. Jack Dempsey may leap into vaudeville. It U believed Eatelle Taylor, his reported fiance, will be In a sicit written for him. COSTUMES Who will make your next ones? Those who havv ,- bought from us say-r ; BROOKS-MAHIEU I4J7 BnUint T*L US* fm: M. V.'cHi _11,000 Costumes for «»«"*-'